Normally, when you suffer from a pulmonary embolism?a blood clot blocking the flow to your lungs or heart?you've only have two options; undergo chest-cracking open-heart surgery, or die. But thanks to an ingenious new blood filter system, doctors will be able to save lives without destroying sternums or requiring weeks of recovery.
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Washington (AFP) - As the US government careened toward a potentially devastating shutdown, President Barack Obama urged intransigent lawmakers to end their brinkmanship and pass a spending bill.
But with barely 72 hours before agencies are forced to close their doors Tuesday and more than a million US troops remain on duty without pay, Congress appeared no closer to resolution of a fiscal crisis that looms over Washington and the nation.
And Republicans driving the agenda in the House of Representatives, which will hold an emergency session Saturday to consider legislation to keep the government open, appeared to struggle over the way forward.
The president hailed the Senate for clearing a stopgap federal funding measure Friday that knocked the ball into the House's court, where a diehard conservative faction is bent on thwarting Obama's health care law.
The Republican-led lower chamber will likely tweak the bill and send it back to the Senate, which could leave insufficient time for the legislation to pass both chambers before a fiscal year-end deadline of midnight Monday.
"Over the next three days, House Republicans will have to decide whether to join the Senate and keep the government open or shut it down because they can't get their way," Obama said.
Republicans, overwhelmingly opposed to so-called Obamacare, inserted a provision in the House measure that strips funding for the health care law, but the Democratic-led Senate removed it and sent the bill back.
Some Republicans would now like to see the health care law fight shift to the next fiscal battle -- over the debt ceiling.
The Treasury says it will reach its $16.7 trillion borrowing cap by October 17, and if Congress does not raise it the country will default on its debts for the first time in history.
The president said a default "would have a profound destabilizing effect on the entire economy -- on the world economy."
"We've got to break this cycle," Obama added. "My message to Congress is this: do not shut down the government. Do not shut down the economy. Pass a budget on time. Pay our bills on time."
With the mere threat of a shutdown likely having "a dampening effect on the economy," Obama suggested it was time for House Speaker John Boehner to isolate the "extremists" who are holding the Republican Party captive.
But that had yet to happen. The leadership of the House was crafting a bill that would raise the debt limit, delay the health care law's implementation by one year, greenlight the controversial Keystone oil pipeline and lower taxes for the wealthy.
Obama said he is willing to negotiate on such issues, "but we're not going to do this under the threat of blowing up the entire economy."
"Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions," Obama said.
House leaders insist they do not want a shutdown or a default, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said his chamber's bill was the only one that could prevent a shutdown.
"This is it. Time is gone," Reid said after the Senate voted along strict party lines to approve federal funding until November 15.
The Democrat also challenged Boehner to schedule a House vote on the stripped-down budget bill, saying it would pass "overwhelmingly if the speaker had the courage to bring it to the floor."
"I think they should think very carefully about their next step," Reid added.
Some Republicans have spoken out about their conservative colleagues' strategy, warning of a backlash should government shut down.
"If anybody creates a process where our military doesn't get paid, and their families, they're going to make an enemy ... of me for life," Senator Lindsey Graham fumed to Roll Call.
As the clock ticks down, Republicans stressed that Obama was merely commenting from the sidelines, not meeting with or even calling Boehner this week to thrash out a compromise.
"Grandstanding from the president, who refuses to even be a part of the process, won't bring Congress any closer to a resolution," Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said.
With Congress and the White House feuding, the Pentagon announced worrying details of how a stoppage would effect the department.
It said the military's 1.4 million troops will remain on duty in the event of a shutdown, but not get paid until Congress appropriated funds to compensate them.
And if government agencies close, half the Defense Department's nearly 800,000 civilian workers would be ordered to stay home.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-statement-amid-fiscal-crisis-192241197.html
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Beirut (AFP) - The head of the key Syrian opposition National Coalition, Ahmad Jarba, has denounced extremists he said were trying to "steal our revolution", and blamed the regime for supporting them.
He made the comments in an address in New York to representatives from the Friends of Syria -- international backers of the rebels seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.
"The Syrian people support peace and moderation, tolerance and coexistence," Jarba said.
"The phenomenon of extremism appeared with the support and planning of the regime, which has gambled on the transformation of a revolution for freedom into a civil and sectarian war," he added.
The Syrian regime "created and armed numerous terrorist organisations and left them a place in the regions from which it has been removed," he said.
"Other groups have come across the borders to steal our revolution."
An unknown number of foreign fighters has streamed into Syria to join jihadist rebel groups such as the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
They include fighters from Europe, the Middle East and Chechnya.
Rebels initially welcomed the jihadist groups and the foreign fighters who joined them, eager for weapons and battle experience.
But in recent months, relations have been tense, particularly between ISIL and non-jihadist rebel factions, which have clashed on occasion.
This week, some of the biggest non-jihadist battalions formed an alliance that includes Al-Nusra, and announced their rejection of the Coalition that Jarba heads.
He told the meeting, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, that extremism "has increased because of the indifference of the international community, which has failed in its duties to the Syrian people".
The opposition has repeatedly called on its international backers to provide it with weapons, but the West has been reluctant to do so for fear of the arms falling into the hands of groups such as Al-Nusra, which is listed as a "terrorist" organisation by much of the West.
Despite setbacks, Jarba insisted that the only solution to the conflict would be Assad's departure.
"There is no horizon for the Syrians before the fall of the regime," he said.
"When it goes, Syrians will regain their freedom and civil peace and harmony will be restored."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syria-rebel-chief-extremists-stealing-revolution-103752863.html
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A woman was killed in a fire which broke out at a residence in Daluwawella, Puttalam this morning. Police said the fire had erupted at around 1.30am today and that residents in the area had discovered the ...
The report paints a grim picture of the country: The military is dominating Sri Lanka's life in many areas; critics of the government are abused, silenced or killed; and minorities such as Buddhists, Christians and Muslims are attacked, the report stated. All under the watch of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was elected in 2005 and re-elected by his people three years ago - a man who is ...
The Chairman of the TNA controlled Verugal Pradeshiya Sabha, who was arrested in connection with a financial fraud, has been released on bail by the Muthur ...
Four Sri Lankan men have appeared in court in connection with a series of cash machine scams around Gloucestershire, England.Basheer Mustafa Ebrahim, 21, and Ashok Balasubramanian, 22; Thanfavel Vilvanadham, 50, all of South End Road in Croydon, London; and Kusalakumar Sithambarapillai, 48, of Barnard Gardens in Hayes, Middlesex were arrested on the M25 in Surrey on Monday, September 23.The Sri ...
Avast area in southeast India - 200,000 sq km - could contain diamond-bearing rocks, says a report published in the August issue of ...
Sri Lanka received strong cross-regional support in the Human Rights Council from countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America on Thursday ( 26 September 2013) which uniformly welcomed and commended the ...
Chief Minister-elect for Sri Lanka's northern provincial government, retired Supreme Court Justice C.V. Wigneswaran flashes a victory sign following a media briefing in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. The Tamil National Alliance, a former political proxy for Sri Lanka's defeated Tamil Tiger rebels swept the country's northern provincial election, according to results ...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A study which gauges the value for money factor of tourist resorts, has seen the Indonesian island of Bali toppling Sri Lanka from the once held top spot as the 'best value' long-haul travel option in a new list of popular holiday destinations, the Daily Mail reported. The latest Post Office Travel Money Long Haul Report - which gauges the countries that offer the ...
When countries are eyed to serve the self-interests of a handful of 'civilized' nations they know the perfect medicine to ensure these targeted nations are brought to their knees. The break-up of Yugoslavia serves as a catalyst for why Sri Lanka needs to be alert at all times. Yugoslav Federation comprised Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and ...
The case against Colombo district MP Duminda Silva and 10 others taken into custody in connection with the assassination of former Colombo District MP Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra was put off for October 11, 2013 by Colombo Additional Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage yesterday. At the outset, President's Counsel Hemantha Warnakulasuriya, senior counsel for MP Silva submitted a medical ...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay visited Sri Lanka and issued an "unusually blunt" account of her findings in northeastern Sri Lanka. Tamils for Obama praise Ms. Pillay for her straight forward account and express hope that she will continue with ...
A Malaysian protester of Tamil ethnicity holds a flag of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during a demonstration in this 2009 file photo. (AP Photo/Lai Seng ...
Two to three hour power cuts will be imposed on staggered basis from 8.00am tomorrow to 8.00am Monday (Sep 30) in Colombo Fort and Pettah areas, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) ...
Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka, delivers his speech at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. In an interview later at his hotel, he deflected criticism of his government?s rights record and said the U.N. and Western powers seemed bent on harassing Sri ...
A businessman was shot and killed on Bloemendhal Road in Kotahena today by unidentified gunmen who had arrived in a car, police said. The shooting was carried out at around 4.10pm today by a group of unidentified men who managed to escape in a car following the shooting, Police Spokesman SP Buddhika Siriwardena said. The victim was admitted to the Colombo National Hospital with gunshot wounds, ...
The Kataragama Devalaya will be closed for the public from 10.30am tomorrow (28) to 6.30pm on October 2 due to the demise of the Chief Incumbent of the Kiriwehera Temple.The Most Venerable Dr. Aluthwewa Soratha Nayaka Thero, chief incumbent of the Kataragama Kiriwehera Temple and Chancellor of the Uva Wellassa University, passed away today at the age of 70.The Thero passed away while receiving ...
COLOMBO, Sept 27 | Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:59am EDT COLOMBO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee ended weaker on Friday on importer dollar demand, while the central bank's direction not to trade above 132.00 per dollar made dealers trade in the forward market, dealers said. The rupee spot quoted at 131.90/132.10, compared with Thursday's close of 131.90/132.00. The rupee spot ...
Former Chief Minister of the North Central Province Berty Premalal Dissanayake has passed away at the age of 59. He was receiving treatment for a lengthy illness at a private hospital in Colombo when he passed away, a relative of the veteran politician said.Dissanayake was the chief Minister of the North Central Province of Sri Lanka from June 1999 to 2012.His son, MP Duminda Dissanayake is the ...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Two international human rights groups urged a Commonwealth advisory group to prioritize human rights in Sri Lanka, where the group is holding a heads of state meeting in November, saying the island nation has failed to properly probe alleged war-time ...
Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe says the Tamil National ...
Most Venerable Dr Aluthwewa Soratha Nayaka Thero, the chief incumbent of the Kataragama Kiriwehera Temple and Chancellor of the Uva Wellassa University, has passed away at the age of 70. The Thero was receiving treatment at a private hospital in Colombo when he passed away today, a spokesman said.Born on April 04, 1943, Dr. Aluthweva Soratha Thero was also the Chief Sanganayaka of Ruhuna ...
Sri Lanka has rejected United Nations Rights Chief Navi Pillay?s call for an international probe if it fails to show clear progress by next March in probing alleged war crimes during the three-decade long conflict with ...
Source: http://www.srilankannews.net/index.php/sid/217382911/scat/119937e494dd663e
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Like the plastic caps at the end of shoelaces, telomeres protect in their case the interior-gene containing parts of chromosomes that carry a cell's instructional material. Cancer cells are known to have short telomeres, but just how short they are from cancer cell to cancer cell may be a determining factor in a prostate cancer patient's prognosis, according to a study led by Johns Hopkins scientists.
"Doctors are looking for new ways to accurately predict prostate cancer patients' prognoses, because the current methods that use disease stage, Gleason score, and PSA are not perfect," says Alan Meeker, Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Kimmel Cancer Center. "Telomere shortening is common in cancer, but the degree of shortening varies from one cancer cell to another within each patient, and this variability may give us a better idea of how prostate cancers behave."
In the study, described in the October issue of Cancer Discovery, the scientists studied tissue samples from 596 men surgically treated for prostate cancer thought to be confined to the prostate and who were participants in a long-term follow-up study on men's health. Then, they used images of prostate cancer cells and nearby cells called stroma, which include smooth muscle and fibroblast cells, taken from surgery-tissue samples of each patient.
Meeker and his team used a technique they developed called telomere-specific fluorescent in situ hybridization (TELI-FISH) to measure telomere length in cancer and stromal cells. The technique uses fluorescent-labeled probes specific for particular locations in DNA, and is commonly used to detect or confirm gene or chromosome abnormalities. In the new study, a fluorescent probe specific for telomere regions was added to the cells, enabling the scientists to identify these specific chromosomal locations under a microscope and measure the level of fluorescence that corresponds to telomere length.
After determining telomere length for more than 40,000 cells among the samples, disease-pattern experts at Johns Hopkins then correlated telomere length measurements in the cancer and stromal cells with each patient's survival.
"Men who had a combination of more variable telomere length among cancer cells and shorter telomere length in stromal cells were more likely to develop metastatic disease and die sooner from their prostate cancer than other men," says Elizabeth Platz, Sc.D., M.P.H., professor of epidemiology at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Martin D. Abeloff Scholar in Cancer Prevention at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
In the group of 98 men with more variable telomere length in cancer cells and shorter telomeres in stromal cells, 20 died of their prostate cancer an average of 8.4 years after diagnosis. Accounting for standard prognostic factors, these men were 14 times more likely to die of their prostate cancer compared with another group of 98 men whose telomeres had less variable length among cancer cells and were longer in stromal cells. In this group, only one man died, and that was after 16.5 years.
"Our studies strongly suggest that the combination of telomere length in stromal cells and its variability among prostate cancer cells could be a marker for prostate cancer prognosis," says Platz.
Meeker and Platz are continuing to study additional groups of patients and are now using an automated fluorescence microscope and computer software to speed the collection of tissue images and extract telomere data.
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Funding for the study was provided by the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute (CA58236, CA55075, CA72036, CA133891, CA141298) and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL35464), the Seraph Foundation, and the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
Tissue samples used for the study were taken from men enrolled in Harvard's Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.
Scientists contributing to the research include Christopher M. Heaphy, Ghil Suk Yoon, Sarah B. Peskoe, Corinne E. Joshu, Thomas K. Lee, Jessica L. Hicks, and Angelo M. De Marzo at Johns Hopkins; and Edward Giovannucci, Stacey A. Kenfield, Lorelei A. Mucci, and Meir J. Stampfer at Harvard School of Public Health.
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE
Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM), headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is a $6.7 billion integrated global health enterprise and one of the leading health care systems in the United States. JHM unites physicians and scientists of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with the organizations, health professionals and facilities of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System. JHM's mission is to improve the health of the community and the world by setting the standard of excellence in medical education, research and clinical care. Diverse and inclusive, JHM educates medical students, scientists, health care professionals and the public; conducts biomedical research; and provides patient-centered medicine to prevent, diagnose and treat human illness. JHM operates six academic and community hospitals, four suburban health care and surgery centers, more than 38 primary health care outpatient sites and other businesses that care for national and international patients and activities. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, opened in 1889, was ranked number one in the nation for 21 years by U.S. News & World Report.
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wasta@jhmi.edu
410-614-2916
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Like the plastic caps at the end of shoelaces, telomeres protect in their case the interior-gene containing parts of chromosomes that carry a cell's instructional material. Cancer cells are known to have short telomeres, but just how short they are from cancer cell to cancer cell may be a determining factor in a prostate cancer patient's prognosis, according to a study led by Johns Hopkins scientists.
"Doctors are looking for new ways to accurately predict prostate cancer patients' prognoses, because the current methods that use disease stage, Gleason score, and PSA are not perfect," says Alan Meeker, Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Kimmel Cancer Center. "Telomere shortening is common in cancer, but the degree of shortening varies from one cancer cell to another within each patient, and this variability may give us a better idea of how prostate cancers behave."
In the study, described in the October issue of Cancer Discovery, the scientists studied tissue samples from 596 men surgically treated for prostate cancer thought to be confined to the prostate and who were participants in a long-term follow-up study on men's health. Then, they used images of prostate cancer cells and nearby cells called stroma, which include smooth muscle and fibroblast cells, taken from surgery-tissue samples of each patient.
Meeker and his team used a technique they developed called telomere-specific fluorescent in situ hybridization (TELI-FISH) to measure telomere length in cancer and stromal cells. The technique uses fluorescent-labeled probes specific for particular locations in DNA, and is commonly used to detect or confirm gene or chromosome abnormalities. In the new study, a fluorescent probe specific for telomere regions was added to the cells, enabling the scientists to identify these specific chromosomal locations under a microscope and measure the level of fluorescence that corresponds to telomere length.
After determining telomere length for more than 40,000 cells among the samples, disease-pattern experts at Johns Hopkins then correlated telomere length measurements in the cancer and stromal cells with each patient's survival.
"Men who had a combination of more variable telomere length among cancer cells and shorter telomere length in stromal cells were more likely to develop metastatic disease and die sooner from their prostate cancer than other men," says Elizabeth Platz, Sc.D., M.P.H., professor of epidemiology at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Martin D. Abeloff Scholar in Cancer Prevention at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
In the group of 98 men with more variable telomere length in cancer cells and shorter telomeres in stromal cells, 20 died of their prostate cancer an average of 8.4 years after diagnosis. Accounting for standard prognostic factors, these men were 14 times more likely to die of their prostate cancer compared with another group of 98 men whose telomeres had less variable length among cancer cells and were longer in stromal cells. In this group, only one man died, and that was after 16.5 years.
"Our studies strongly suggest that the combination of telomere length in stromal cells and its variability among prostate cancer cells could be a marker for prostate cancer prognosis," says Platz.
Meeker and Platz are continuing to study additional groups of patients and are now using an automated fluorescence microscope and computer software to speed the collection of tissue images and extract telomere data.
###
Funding for the study was provided by the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute (CA58236, CA55075, CA72036, CA133891, CA141298) and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL35464), the Seraph Foundation, and the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
Tissue samples used for the study were taken from men enrolled in Harvard's Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.
Scientists contributing to the research include Christopher M. Heaphy, Ghil Suk Yoon, Sarah B. Peskoe, Corinne E. Joshu, Thomas K. Lee, Jessica L. Hicks, and Angelo M. De Marzo at Johns Hopkins; and Edward Giovannucci, Stacey A. Kenfield, Lorelei A. Mucci, and Meir J. Stampfer at Harvard School of Public Health.
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE
Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM), headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is a $6.7 billion integrated global health enterprise and one of the leading health care systems in the United States. JHM unites physicians and scientists of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with the organizations, health professionals and facilities of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System. JHM's mission is to improve the health of the community and the world by setting the standard of excellence in medical education, research and clinical care. Diverse and inclusive, JHM educates medical students, scientists, health care professionals and the public; conducts biomedical research; and provides patient-centered medicine to prevent, diagnose and treat human illness. JHM operates six academic and community hospitals, four suburban health care and surgery centers, more than 38 primary health care outpatient sites and other businesses that care for national and international patients and activities. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, opened in 1889, was ranked number one in the nation for 21 years by U.S. News & World Report.
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center
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Now, TMZ is reporting that Joe is sorry he lashed out at the famous reality family and said they were ?wonderful.? Earlier, however, he had said, ?They don?t give a f--k about my son.? He told the news site that a segment on ?The Wendy Williams Show? is was set him off because one of the guests said he was a heroin addict. But Joe told TMZ he has been clean for 30 years, adding, ?Nobody?s perfect.?
His prompt change in heart could have been when his son took to his Twitter account, for the first time in more than two months. First, Odom tweeted with a succinct, ?Seeing the snakes,? and then went on to condemn his father?s comments and defend the Kardashian family that has ?loved him" in an extended post.?
Odom never directly addressed Joe as his father, or by his name, and didn?t specifically write ?Kardashian? anywhere in his post, but instead referred to them as ?family.?
?He wasn't there 2 raise me. He was absent ALL of my life due to his own demons,? Odom wrote. He said his mother and grandmother raised them, but then praised the family he ?married into.?
?He disrespecting the ONLY FAMILY that has loved me without expecting anything in return. They are the ONLY ones that have been here consistently 4 me during this dark time,? he wrote about the Kardashians.
Khloe Kardashian and Odom have been at the center of controversy ever since rumors began to swirl that the former Los Angeles Lakers star cheated on her with multiple women and was abusing hard drugs. The reality star recently dropped ?Odom? from her social media profiles changed her picture so Odom was no longer in it.?
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will delay online Obamacare enrollment for small businesses in federally operated healthcare exchanges until November 1, marking a one-month delay in the roll-out, an administration official said on Thursday.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that small businesses that want to purchase healthcare coverage for their employers would still be able to enroll beginning October 1 through paper applications, in-person meetings or over the phone to a federal call center.
(Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-delays-online-enrollment-small-business-exchanges-161642161.html
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CHICAGO (AP) ? The old man couldn't control his diabetes, no matter how closely he followed his doctor's instructions. A nurse visited him to find out why the insulin wasn't working, only to watch the nearly blind man inadvertently inject himself with a syringe filled with nothing but air.
It sounds simple to track a patient outside of office visits. But the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation found the idea genius.
Jeffrey Brenner, a doctor and founder of the organization that dispatches medical professionals to the doors of the desperately poor residents of Camden, N.J., was named Wednesday as one of 24 to receive a $625,000 "genius grant" from the foundation.
"This is an acknowledgment that we are headed in the right direction," Brenner said.
The 44-year-old created the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers as a means to find and track the poorest patients with the most complex medical issues. Those patients are visited wherever they are ? at home, in shelters ? and escorted to doctor's appointments.
"We cut, scan, zap and hospitalize (patients)," said Brenner, whose group is now working with 10 communities to develop similar systems. "But we forget we need to take care of them."
The eclectic group of grant recipients includes scientists, artists, historians, writers, a lawyer, a statistician and a photographer. They can spend the money however they like, for seeing things others haven't, asking questions others haven't asked and finding new solutions to old problems.
The awards, given annually since 1981, are doled out over a five-year period. This year's class brings the number of recipients to nearly 900, and also will be given the largest amount ever ? $125,000 more than last year. Shrouded in secrecy, the selection process involves anonymous nominators and selectors who make final recommendations to the foundation's Board of Directors.
A National Public Radio report about the Library of Congress worrying about damaging old recordings just by playing them sparked the imagination of Carl Haber, a 54-year-old experimental physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
He began to think how one could use precision optical measuring techniques employed in particle research to try to pull sounds from fragile or crumbling cylinders as well as discs and tinfoil.
"Using scientific cameras and measurement tools that just use light, we create essentially a picture ... and then write a program where the computer analyzes the image and calculates mathematically how the needle would move rather than use the needle," he said.
The result: Bringing alive the voices of the dead, from Alexander Graham Bell's voice from the 1800s to a Native American language that fell silent with the last of its possessors. The thousands of recordings from bygone eras around the world are of "great value to anthropologists, the study of folklore, national culture," he said.
But there's more to it, as Haber found out when he heard Bell respond to a small mistake made during the recording.
"To hear someone caught off guard, you are actually seeing the humanity of these people," Haber said.
Robin Fleming's work has been to show the humanity of nations passed over in history books. A Medieval historian at Boston College, she has focused on Great Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire, starting in the 5th century, by analyzing things like coins, pots and even tooth enamel found in settlements and cemeteries to create a picture of their lives.
What she discovered was the people of the time were so determined to carry on the ways of those who came before, they went to cemeteries to dig up artifacts that would help them do that ? including containers that held cremated remains.
"They knock(ed) the ash out, give them a wash and put them on the table," Fleming, 57, said.
With an eye to a more contemporary, but just as forgotten, issue, attorney Margaret Stock focuses on military personnel and their families who she says are victimized by the nation's immigration laws.
After Sept. 11, as politicians asked the nation to take care of those fighting for their country, Stock was getting call after call, hearing things like a soldier begging her to stop immigration officials from deporting his wife to Mexico.
"He's on the tarmac ... about to be deployed and says his wife took a wrong turn into a construction zone, was picked up by immigration, they had her in jail and were trying to deport her." said Stock, who lives in Anchorage, Alaska. "The pain that's being caused right now is tremendous."
To help, Stock created the American Immigration Lawyers Association Military Assistance Program, which puts volunteer attorneys across the nation with military families that need help.
Recipients of the grants say the money will only aid their work, giving them time to research and time off from figuring out how to pay for it.
Fiction writer Karen Russell worked at a veterinarian clinic part-time while writing the acclaimed novel "Swamplandia." Her grant money buys her time.
"Just the idea of having a stretch of time where you can commit your time wholeheartedly to a project, nobody gets that," the New York City resident said.
For Stock, her thousands of dollars will mean one thing: People will be seeing more of her.
"This is going to let me advocate more," she said.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/2013-macarthur-genius-grant-winners-unveiled-040415091.html
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America's Cup:?Twice down by seven races, defending champions Oracle no doubt have Emirates Team New Zealand on edge.
Emirates Team New Zealand (l.) and Oracle Team USA sail near Alcatraz Island during race 15 of the 34th America's Cup yacht sailing race in San Francisco, California Sept. 22.
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EnlargeThis has become the?America's?Cup?that just won't go away, thanks to fickle wind and Oracle Team USA's remarkable resurgence.
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Twice down by seven races, the defending champions no doubt have Emirates Team New Zealand on edge.
Skipper Jimmy Spithill and his mates with Oracle Team USA were masterful in light air Sunday on San Francisco Bay, winning Races 14 and 15 to cut the Kiwis' lead to 8-5.
Spithill steered his 72-foot catamaran to huge leads in both races and has won four straight since the Kiwis reached match point on Wednesday.
Docked two points in the biggest cheating scandal in the 162-year history of the?America's?Cup, Oracle needs four more wins to keep the oldest trophy in international sports.
Oracle won Race 14 by 23 seconds and then took Race 15 by 37 seconds.
After the regatta was slowed by too much wind, too little wind and then wind from the wrong direction, Spithill and the Oracle boys have made it a contest.
Oracle has won six of the last eight races and six of 10 since Spithill replaced American tactician John Kostecki with British Olympic star Ben Ainslie, who had been the helmsman of the backup boat.
Race 16 and Race 17, if necessary, are scheduled for Monday.
Oracle Team USA, owned by software billionaire Larry Ellison, has made changes to its catamaran every night at its base on Pier 10. Whatever it did after Saturday's race was postponed made the cat look like a rocket ship sailing downwind on its hydrofoils, its hulls completely out of the water.
The American boat even foiled sailing upwind on the third leg of Race 15 at about 35 mph.
Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker was slightly ahead at the start but had a little skid heading across the wind, which helped allow Spithill to reach the first mark first and round with a 3-second lead. Sailing downwind, Oracle opened a lead of some 765 yards.
There was a heart-stopping moment when Oracle sailed into a wind shadow and slowed dramatically as it passed Alcatraz Island and approached the top mark. The Kiwis closed to about 100 yards, but then they lost their wind and Spithill surged around the fourth mark and sped across the wind on its foils to the finish line just off?America's?Cup?Park on Pier 27-29.
There was a close call during the prestart when Oracle tacked quickly on favored starboard tack and the Kiwis crossed just ahead on port. Spithill protested but it was waved off.
The fickle conditions on San Francisco Bay have already cost the Kiwis the chance to clinch the?Cup. On Friday, Race 13 was abandoned because of the 40-minute time limit with the Kiwis well ahead on the fourth leg in light breeze. When the wind rose and the race was re-sailed, Oracle won to stay alive.
In Race 14, Spithill controlled the start and kept his black cat ahead the whole race, sometimes leading by well more than 300 yards.
Race 14 started in about 14 knots of breeze, which dropped as the boats circled the five-leg course between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Embarcadero.
The Kiwis closed to within about 30 yards when the boats crossed on the windward third leg as they zigzagged toward the Golden Gate Bridge.
Oracle made an extra tack at the top of the leg in order to make a left turn at the third gate mark and go farther offshore. Leading by 15 seconds at the mark, the American-backed boat ? which has only one American on its 11-man crew ? again opened a lead of more than 300 yards.
New Zealand closed again, but then sailed into a lighter breeze and Spithill raced ahead.
This?America's?Cup?is tied with the 2003 regatta in Auckland as the longest ever, at 16 days. That best-of-nine series was plagued by a nine-day stretch with no racing due to wind that was too strong or too light. When Race 4 finally was sailed, Team New Zealand's mast cracked in two and tumbled into the Hauraki Gulf. Barker and the Kiwis were swept in five races by Alinghi of Switzerland, whose skipper, Russell Coutts, is now CEO of Oracle Team USA.
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Rarely does anyone want the last slice found at the bottom of a bag of bread. But instead of just tossing it on the ground for birds and squirrels to fight over, Israeli-based designer Nitsan Hoorgin has created a simple feeder that lets birds perch and nibble on that last slice.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/an-old-clipboard-makes-for-a-brilliantly-simple-bird-fe-1377993888
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Once you get past the silly name, Verykool actually has a pretty commendable mission?to provide low-cost, unlocked cell phones to a U.S. market that's sorely missing affordable unsubsidized options. The RS90 Vortex ($279.99 direct) is a rugged, Android-powered smartphone that's compatible with GSM networks like AT&T or T-Mobile. It's a decent performer and a good value for adrenaline junkies who need a phone that can take some abuse, but it makes some significant sacrifices to reach that low price.
Design and Features
At 5.67 by 2.98 by 0.48 inches (HWD) and 7.1 ounces, the RS90 has the unmistakable chunkiness of a rugged device. That's heavier and thicker than the Galaxy Note II, and nearly as wide at 5.95 by 3.17 by 0.37 inches and 6.34 ounces. This is no phablet, though; it's packing a relatively modest 4.5-inch screen. All that heft ostensibly helps the RS90 achieve its IP67 rating, which means it's fully dustproof and waterproof to one meter for up to 30 minutes. There's a Power button the left side and Volume controls on the right, with a micro USB port on the bottom and flap covering a 3.5mm headphone jack on the top. Above the display is the VGA-quality front-facing camera and notification light, with capacitive Menu, Home, and Back keys below. I prefer the standard software Android Back, Home, and Recent Apps button arrangement, since the Menu function is typically built into apps. Holding the Home button brings up the list of recent apps.
There's a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera around back, and the textured plastic back panel slides off to reveal the 1,800mAh battery and SIM and microSD card slots. The RS90 comes in a single 2GB model, so that last slot is important if you want to store anything locally on the phone. Our 32 and 64GB SanDisk microSD cards worked fine during testing.
The RS90 is unlocked and compatible with GSM networks like AT&T or T-Mobile supporting HSPA 7.2 data on the 850 and 1900MHz bands, and 2G on 850/900/1800/1900MHz bands. Also on board are 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (2.4GHz band), Bluetooth 2.1, and GPS. There's no LTE and no higher-speed HSPA+ either?in our tests, the RS90 averaged 1.63Mbps down and 1.82Mbps up. T-Mobile's faster HSPA+ 42 network averaged 8.5Mbps down and 1.46Mbps up in our Fastest Mobile Networks?test, so you're missing out on significant speed if you opt for the RS90.?
The 1,800mAh battery is rated for 9 hours of talk time. Our test was interrupted, but the RS90 turned in 12 hours of 3G talk time with 44 percent battery life remaining. This phone should have no problem lasting all day.
Call Quality and Ruggedness
We tested the RS90 on T-Mobile's network in New York City. Call quality was decent, with clear voices coming through the earpiece and enough volume to overcome loud environments. The speakerphone is a bit too weak, however, and it was hard to hear outdoors. Calls made with the RS90 sound full with a bit of a digitized tone to voices that can make them sound a bit harsh, and I noticed a slight, but persistent background hiss. Noise cancellation is disappointing, as loud construction outside the PCMag office came through clear during my test calls. The RS90 paired easily with my Jawbone Era headset , and calls sounded good over Bluetooth.
The RS90 is fully waterproof and dust-proof, but not drop-proof. I tested the waterproof rating by submerging the RS90 in a bucket of water. At first it seemed like moisture was penetrating the case. Upon closer inspection, you'll notice that the back panel isn't actually sealed, but there's another sealed panel underneath that covers the battery and microSD card slot. After 30 minutes the RS90 emerged fully functional.
Hardware Performance and Android
The RS90 is powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8625 with 1GB RAM. It's a modest CPU, and benchmarks were expectedly low across the board. It was handily beaten by the unlocked Google Nexus 4?in nearly every category, scoring 8,107 in the Antutu overall system test to the Nexus 4's 10,489. The phone notched just 13.85 frames per second to the Nexus 4's 55.89 in the Taiji graphics test. The RS90 balked at some of the more taxing tests, completely crashing and requiring a hard reset during the GLBenchmark graphics test. Real world performance was also a mixed bag: Apps generally launched swiftly, and the RS90 had no problem switching back and forth between multiple running apps. The Chrome browser crashed a few times with multimedia heavy sites, and there was the occasional force close during testing. None of these were frequent or replicable enough to be a major cause of concern though.
Android 4.0.4 "Ice Cream Sandwich," which is now three versions behind the current version of Android (4.3) is installed. That means Google Now, Project Butter, and other recent Android improvements are missing here. You still get access to the more than 800,000 apps in Google Play, most of which should work fine on the RS90. It's also a stock version of Android, so there's no sign of skins like with Samsung or HTC devices. There's no carrier bloatware, but there are a few removable preloaded apps, which are mostly useful, including Kingsoft Office and a File Explorer app. You also get all the usual Android perks, like a fast Web browser, excellent email support, and voice-enabled, turn-by-turn GPS directions via Google Maps.
Multimedia, Camera, and Conclusions
Media support is solid. The phone played all of our test audio files and video files without issue. Sound quality is good through wired headphones, but the single rear-facing speaker sounds pretty anemic. Video played back at resolutions up to 1080p with no audio sync issues.
The 5-megapixel, rear-facing camera is pretty mediocre. There are a number of issues holding it back, but the most egregious are its long shutter delay and poor exposure. It can take nearly a second between pressing the on-screen shutter and capturing a photo, which is entirely too long to be reliable. The RS90 struggled with proper exposure and dynamic range, exhibiting blown highlights and underexposed shadows in virtually every outdoor test shot. Indoors, under low light, images looked grainy and a bit soft. Video tops out at 480p and looks pretty awful. Frame rates hover around 15fps in low light and detail is washed away by excessive image noise. The front-facing 0.3-megapixel camera suffices for the occasional video chat, but not much more.
When compared with your typical carrier options, the Verykool RS90 is an underachiever. But this isn't your typical carrier phone?few unlocked phones can match this low price. The Nexus 4 represents a far better combination of features and performance for the price, but with the Nexus 5 on the horizon, it's sold out and may not be coming back. The RS90 isn't cutting edge in any way, but it does offer freedom from contracts, a reasonable set of features, serviceable performance, and a waterproof design for an incredibly low price.?
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FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, file photo, a sales person pulls out an iPhone 5s for a customer during the opening day of sales of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5C, in Hialeah, Fla. Apple says Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, that shoppers snapped up 9 million of its newest iPhones since the devices were launched Friday, and that demand is exceeding supply. Its shares jumped 6 percent in premarket trading. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, file photo, a sales person pulls out an iPhone 5s for a customer during the opening day of sales of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5C, in Hialeah, Fla. Apple says Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, that shoppers snapped up 9 million of its newest iPhones since the devices were launched Friday, and that demand is exceeding supply. Its shares jumped 6 percent in premarket trading. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Gadget lovers still can't resist the iPhone's seductive call, even amid a bevy of enticing lower-priced alternatives that offer similar features.
In a Monday announcement, Apple Inc. said it sold 9 million units of its top-of-the-line iPhone 5S and less-expensive iPhone 5C during their first three days on sale. That trounced the performance of last year's model, the iPhone 5, which sold 5 million units in its opening weekend.
The initial sales figures for Apple's latest iPhone models provided the latest testament to the product's enduring appeal more than six years after the debut of the first iPhone triggered a mobile computing revolution.
The iPhone 5S and 5C's quick start also surpassed analyst forecasts that predicted Apple would sell somewhere from 6 million to 8 million models during the first weekend.
"The demand for the new iPhones has been incredible," Apple CEO Tim Cook crowed in a statement. As part of the company's effort to drum up interest in its most profitable product, Cook made an early-morning appearance at an Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif. on Friday when the new iPhones first went on sale.
Monday's positive news helped generate more interest in Apple's stock. The shares gained $23.23, or 5 percent, to close at $490.64.
Despite that rally, Apple's stock price remains slightly below where it stood before the Cupertino, Calif. company's Sept. 10 unveiling of its latest iPhones.
The downturn reflects concerns that the new phones won't be enough to reverse a slowdown in Apple's revenue growth that has been brought on by tougher competition from Samsung Electronics and others. Apple's rivals have been gaining market share by selling less expensive phones running on Google Inc.'s free Android software. Those nagging worries are the main reason that Apple's market value has sagged by about 30 percent, or $200 billion, since last year's release of the iPhone 5.
Part of this weekend's higher iPhone sales volume stemmed from Apple's decision to make the latest models available on a broader scale than in past years. For instance, this marked the first time that a new iPhone has gone on sale in China at the same time that the product also launched in the U.S.
But the opening sales numbers also served as "a powerful reminder of the strength of (Apple's) iPhone franchise," ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall wrote in a Monday research note.
In another sign of the intense interest in anything new from Apple, the company also said more than 200 million devices have already switched to its latest mobile operating system. The software, called iOS 7, is the most radical makeover of Apple's mobile operating system since the iPhone came out in 2007. Apple released iOS 7 as a free update last Wednesday for iPhone models dating back to 2010, iPads dating back to 2011 and the last iPod Touch that came out last year.
The downloads of iOS 7 during the first five days of the software's release roughly doubled the amount of installations after Apple release iOS 6 last year.
Apple could have sold even more iPhones during the opening weekend if the company had been able to deliver more of the 5S model, which sells for $199 with a two-year wireless contract. A new gold-colored model introduced with the 5S line was in extremely short supply, much to the frustration of many shoppers who waited in long lines Friday to buy one.
"We appreciate everyone's patience and are working hard to build enough new iPhones for everyone," Cook assured consumers in his Monday statement.
Apple didn't provide individual sales figures for the 5C and 5S, but figures released by a mobile research and marketing firm indicated the more expensive model has been far more popular. Within the first two days of sales, Localytics found three times more 5S models were being activated than the 5C.
The new features in the 5S include a sensor that allows people to use fingerprints instead of a numeric code to secure their iPhone and a quicker processor. The iPhone 5C is nearly identical to last year's iPhone 5 except the new model comes in a variety of bright colors with a plastic casing instead of aluminum. The 5C sells for $99 with a two-year wireless contract, Apple's lowest price yet for a new iPhone.
An update to Apple's financial projections for its current quarter suggested that the higher-priced iPhone is accounting for most of the early sales. The company said it expects its revenue for the quarter ending this month to be about $37 billion. Management had previously predicted its revenue could be as low as $34 billion. Apple anticipates its profit margins be at the top end of earlier forecasts.
Apple rarely provides more insight about its quarter this late into the three-month reporting period, according to Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes. He interpreted the departure from company protocol as a sign that Apple is confident it will prove its skeptics wrong.
"It implies a message from management that the company is back on track," Reitzes wrote in a Monday research note.
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First, in January 2013 with Republicans in charge of the House, they allowed a $1B tax hike on the American people, the biggest in American history. Then ObamaCare. Then Amnesty. Then Boehner refuses to establish a special investigation committee for Benghazi. Now? taxing you on the internet. How much more do you need to kick their asses in 2014?
Via Breitbart.
So it should come as no surprise that the Establishment Party is looking to pass a bill that would allow the 9,600+ different state and local governments to tax the Internet.
Behold the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA).
Current law dictates that a state can only require a business to collect its sales tax if it is physically present within its boundaries?.
(The MFA) would countenance an enormous expansion in state tax collection authority by wiping away the ?physical presence standard,? a baseline protection that shields taxpayers from harassment by out of state collectors?.
Dismantling this protection for remote retail sales would create a very slippery slope for states to attempt collection of business or even income taxes from out of state entities?.(The MFA will) forc(e) online retailers to calculate and remit to more than 9,600 distinct taxing jurisdictions.
As per usual, when someone in DC says ?fairness? ? grab your wallet, because they are about to do so. The MFA is a gi-normous, omni-directional, multitudinous-government tax and power grab ? and a colossal compliance headache for just about every U.S. business.
It on May 6 passed the Senate ? with twenty-one Republican votes. And now, even more inexplicably, House Republicans are taking the lead on ramming it through.
H.R.684 ? Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013
Sponsor: Rep. Steve Womack (Republican-AR)
Co-Sponsors: 66 ? 24 of whom are Republicans.
(Republican) Rep. Bob Goodlatte To Move Forward With Online Sales Tax Bill
House GOP Takes Step on Internet Sales Tax LegislationYet another example of Republican anti-Conservative ideological muddle. Is it any wonder the Party brand is so horrendously damaged?
Source: http://tammybruce.com/2013/09/republicans-now-leading-the-push-to-tax-the-internet.html
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addresses the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addresses the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during the 68th session of the General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during the 68th United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday Sept. 24, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo/Andrew Burton,Pool)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, speaks during the 68th session of the General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during the 68th session of the General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged world leaders on Tuesday to stop fueling the bloodshed in Syria with weapons and get both sides to the negotiating table to end the "biggest challenge to peace and security in the world."
In his state of the world address to open the annual gathering of presidents, prime ministers and monarchs at the U.N. General Assembly, the U.N. chief said the international response to last month's "heinous use of chemical weapons" in Syria "has created diplomatic momentum ? the first signs of unity in far too long."
He called on the U.N. Security Council to adopt an "enforceable" resolution on a U.S.-Russian agreement to put Syria's chemical weapons under international control for future destruction and bring to justice the perpetrators of the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack outside Damascus to justice "either through referral to the International Criminal Court or by other means consistent with international law."
U.N. diplomats say differences between the U.S. and Russia on how a resolution should be enforced have held up action in the Security Council. Russia is opposed to any mention of Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which includes military and non-military actions to promote peace and security.
The secretary-general stressed that the international community "can hardly be satisfied with destroying chemical weapons while the wider war is still destroying Syria."
"The vast majority of the killing and atrocities have been carried out with conventional weapons," Ban said. "I appeal to all states to stop fueling the bloodshed and to end the arms flows to all parties."
The fighting in Syria has left more than 100,000 dead.
Ban called on the Syrian government and opposition to "lift all obstacles" to access for humanitarian workers and release "the thousands of men, women and children whose detention has no basis in international law."
Beyond Syria, the secretary-general said, "we can see tremendous stress and upheaval across the region."
Without naming any countries, he noted that "historic transitions have stumbled or slowed. Springs of inspiration are giving way to winters of disillusionment."
He added, "The challenges are immense: building democracy and pluralistic dialogue; dousing the flames of sectarianism; filling the security vacuum after the iron grip of dictators is gone."
The secretary-general urged world leaders to do their utmost to help reforms succeed.
Elsewhere in the world, he welcomed the revival of direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and Africa's new "dynamism, democracy and sustained, impressive economic growth."
The secretary-general called this "an era of wondrous opportunity" and called the year 2015 "a historic opportunity."
That is the year that world leaders have pledged to achieve anti-poverty U.N. Millennium Development Goals, the year a new development agenda will be adopted and the year that leaders have pledged to complete "a global legal agreement on climate change."
Ban announced that the U.N. will hold a climate summit next September in New York and challenged leaders to bring "bold pledges" to close the emissions gap.
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