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Monday, March 25, 2013
Winning $338M Powerball jackpot ticket sold in NJ
FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a Powerball form and purchased ticket are on the counter at the Jayhawk Food Mart in Lawrence, Kan. A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in the Saturday night, March 23, 2013 drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a Powerball form and purchased ticket are on the counter at the Jayhawk Food Mart in Lawrence, Kan. A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in the Saturday night, March 23, 2013 drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. It was the 13th drawing held in the days since a Virginia man won a $217 million jackpot Feb. 6.
Thirteen other tickets worth $1 million each matched all but the final Powerball number on Saturday night. Those tickets were sold in New Jersey and 10 other states. Lottery officials said there was also one Power Play Match 5 winner in Iowa.
The New Jersey Lottery said Sunday that details about the winning ticket would be released Monday, declining to reveal where it had been purchased and whether anyone had immediately come forward. Lottery officials say it was the fourth largest jackpot in Powerball history.
The numbers drawn were 17, 29, 31, 52, 53 and Powerball 31. A lump sum payout would be $221 million.
Lottery officials said the 13 tickets worth $1 million apiece ? matching the first five numbers but missing the Powerball ? were sold in Arizona, Florida (2), Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina and Virginia.
Powerball said on its website that the grand prize jackpot has now been reset to an estimated $40 million or a lump sum cash amount estimated at $25 million for Wednesday's next drawing.
No one had won the Powerball jackpot since early February, when Dave Honeywell in Virginia bought the winning ticket and elected a cash lump sum for his $217 million jackpot.
The largest Powerball jackpot ever came in at $587.5 million in November. The winning numbers were picked on two different tickets ? one by a couple in Missouri and the other by an Arizona man ? and the jackpot was split.
Nebraska still holds the record for the largest Powerball jackpot won on a single ticket ? $365 million. That jackpot was won by eight workers at a Lincoln, Neb., meatpacking plant in February 2006.
Powerball is played in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The chance of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is about 1 in 175 million.
Powerball said on its website that the game is played every Wednesday and Saturday night when five white balls are drawn from a drum of 59 balls and one red ball is picked from a drum with 35 red balls. It added that winners of the Powerball jackpot can elect to be paid out over 29 years at a percentage set by the game's rules ? or in a lump sum cash payment.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Zimbabweans vote in favor of new constitution
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ? Zimbabwe's electoral body said Tuesday that 94.5 percent of voters cast a ballot in favor of a new constitution that calls for a strengthening of human rights and a curb on presidential powers after a decade of political and economic turmoil in the southern African nation.
But as the results were announced African and international law organizations expressed outrage at the jailing for a third night of prominent rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa on charges that she allegedly obstructed justice.
"Her arrest is not just an attack on her profession but on the people of Zimbabwe who have just voted yes to a new constitution that enshrines fundamental human rights," said her lawyer, Thabani Mpofu.
A new constitution was a key demand of regional mediators who forged a shaky and acrimonious coalition between Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and the former opposition leader, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, after the last violent and disputed national polls in 2008.
All main political parties had called for a "Yes" vote in the referendum.
Judge Rita Makarau, head of the state electoral commission, said Tuesday that just over 3 million Zimbabweans voted for the draft constitution and 170,489 voted against. Spoiled ballot papers were not factored in to the final results of votes cast by less than 50 percent of those eligible to vote in the referendum.
The 170-page draft constitution has now to be submitted to the Zimbabwe parliament for approval, a procedural formality, before President Mugabe is asked to sign it into law.
The draft limits the future presidential office to two five-year terms, a clause that is not retrospective. Mugabe, 89, who led the nation to independence in 1980, can rule for another two terms if his party wins upcoming five-yearly parliamentary and presidential polls.
The proposed constitution sets up the first Constitutional Court on citizens' grievances and a Peace and Reconciliation Commission to investigate political violence and human rights abuses blamed mainly on Mugabe's ZANU-PF party over the past decade of troubled polling and alleged vote-rigging.
Regional observers of Saturday's referendum said voting was free of violence except for minor scuffles between rival youth groups. The outcome of voting was seen as "credible" and reflecting the free will of electors.
But independent local monitoring groups reported that Mugabe party loyalists had taken down the names of voters emerging from some polling stations, a possible ploy used to threaten them in the crucial full scale elections.
Human rights groups say the new constitution does not immediately scrap sweeping media and security laws enforced by state institutions loyal to Mugabe, and that can only be done by a the next elected parliament.
The independent Research and Advocacy Unit said in its latest bulletin that reforms proposed in the new constitution "will clearly take a much more energetic parliament than the one we have currently" if they are to be implemented. The group said, "Constitutions are not the panacea for all ills."
The continued jailing of rights lawyer Mtetwa highlights how Mugabe's police and judicial system needs thorough reform, said lawyers.
Police brought her to court Tuesday after ignoring a judge's order to release her Monday.
Mtetwa, arrested Sunday while representing four officials of the prime minister's party who were being searched by police, arrived at the Harare magistrate's court in an open-back police truck. She greeted colleagues and activists with a spirited wave but was not allowed to speak to reporters.
Mtetwa's arrest was a ploy to stop her from defending officials of Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change party, her attorney argued in court Tuesday.
State prosecutors objected to bail for Mtetwa and the four MDC officials and court was adjourned to Wednesday.
Mtetwa was abused by the police in "the high-handed manner in which they treated her by handcuffing her and throwing her into the back of an open truck as if she was a threat to police and national security," said her lawyer, Mpofu.
While in custody, police confiscated her mobile phone and went through it in breach of norms of attorney-client confidentiality, he said. He said when locked in a cell two male police officers at around midnight even tried to remove prison-issue blankets from her.
To the charge she shouted at police officers and attempted to prevent them from doing their duty, Mtetwa, in her written testimony, said she told the police she wanted to see their search warrants but was ignored.
"What you are doing is unlawful, unconstitutional and undemocratic," she told the officers, Mpofu said.
The police response was to arrest her, he said.
The refusal of police to obey a court order to release Mtetwa showed that Zimbabwe "is a state that is prepared to act like an outlaw," Mpofu told the court.
Obstructing justice carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison.
Mtetwa has represented Tsvangirai and several of his top aides in past cases brought against them. She has also defended human rights defenders and journalists. She holds an array of international awards, including those from the American Bar Association and the main European Bar Human Rights body.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zimbabweans-vote-favor-constitution-172223998.html
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MRI may predict adverse tissue reaction in metal-on-metal hip replacement patients
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CHICAGO Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can detect a failing, or potentially failing, metal-on-metal hip implant (MoM) early on, according to a new study presented today at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). Early detection can result in timely revision surgery, decreasing the risk for further tissue damage and pain.
Researchers reviewed the MRI images of 70 patients who ultimately underwent revision surgery for a failed MoM implant. The images were assessed for the presence of tissue damage, swelling and other characteristics.
The study found that an MRI is highly sensitive and specific to identifying tissue damage in MoM total hip replacement (THR) patients. Early identification of at-risk patients can result in timely revision surgery, when necessary, decreasing pain and future damage to surrounding hip tissue.
Also today at the 2013 AAOS Annual meeting, the educational session "Optimizing Management of Patients with Metal-on-metal Hips," featured seven orthopaedic experts discussing the identification and treatment of MoM hip failure.
In December 2012, the Academy issued an Information Statement on Metal-on-metal Hip Arthroplasty (replacement) recommending a "low threshold" for commencing the evaluation of a patient with an MoM hip replacement, as "early recognition and diagnosis will facilitate the initiation of appropriate treatment prior to significant adverse biological reactions." The statement also provides a detailed overview of various diagnostic and treatment methods to limit patient discomfort, and outlines when to quickly initiate treatment, and if necessary revision.
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CHICAGO Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can detect a failing, or potentially failing, metal-on-metal hip implant (MoM) early on, according to a new study presented today at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). Early detection can result in timely revision surgery, decreasing the risk for further tissue damage and pain.
Researchers reviewed the MRI images of 70 patients who ultimately underwent revision surgery for a failed MoM implant. The images were assessed for the presence of tissue damage, swelling and other characteristics.
The study found that an MRI is highly sensitive and specific to identifying tissue damage in MoM total hip replacement (THR) patients. Early identification of at-risk patients can result in timely revision surgery, when necessary, decreasing pain and future damage to surrounding hip tissue.
Also today at the 2013 AAOS Annual meeting, the educational session "Optimizing Management of Patients with Metal-on-metal Hips," featured seven orthopaedic experts discussing the identification and treatment of MoM hip failure.
In December 2012, the Academy issued an Information Statement on Metal-on-metal Hip Arthroplasty (replacement) recommending a "low threshold" for commencing the evaluation of a patient with an MoM hip replacement, as "early recognition and diagnosis will facilitate the initiation of appropriate treatment prior to significant adverse biological reactions." The statement also provides a detailed overview of various diagnostic and treatment methods to limit patient discomfort, and outlines when to quickly initiate treatment, and if necessary revision.
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Read more about AAOS: http://www.aaos.org
Follow us on Facebook.com/AAOS1 and Twitter.com/AAOS1
A Nation in Motion
More than one in four Americans have bone or joint health problems, making them the greatest cause of lost work days in the U.S. When orthopaedic surgeons restore mobility and reduce pain, they help people get back to work and to independent, productive lives. Orthopaedic surgeons provide a great value, in both human and economic terms; and access to high-quality orthopaedic care keeps this "Nation in Motion." To learn more, to read hundreds of patient stories or to submit your own story, visit ANationinMotion.org.
For more information on bone and joint health, visit Orthoinfo.org.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Gantz brothers discuss 'American Winter' documentary
Premiering on HBO on March 18, 2013, AMERICAN WINTER is a powerful and timely documentary that follows the stories of eight families struggling to survive in the aftermath of the Great Recession, and reveals the impact of rising economic inequality, cuts to social services, and the fracturing of the American Dream.
By Barbara Raab, Senior Producer, NBC News
??Forget the dreams, how do we make it to tomorrow?? asks Ben, ?a husband and father who?s been laid off from his job at the credit branch of a car company, has fallen behind on the mortgage and is struggling to provide the basics for his family.
Ben is one of the distressed Americans trying to keep his head above water in ?American Winter,? a documentary produced by Emmy award-winning filmmakers Joe and Harry Gantz, and debuting tonight on Monday, March 18th on HBO. It tells the story of the worst recession of our lifetime through the eyes of eight families in Portland, Oregon during one winter.
Working with the nonprofit organization 211info in Portland, the Gantz?s were given full access to monitor and record calls from families calling the emergency hotline for help. They followed some of these callers over the next several months.
NBC News talked with Joe and Harry Gantz about their film, and about what they hope to achieve with their firsthand view of the struggle millions of Americans are experiencing.
NBC News: The tag line to the film is ?a documentary about a country in search of its promise. ? What do you mean by that?
Joe Gantz: The promise is that America is the land of opportunity. The American dream is that anybody can make it in this country, ?that we?re all having equal opportunity, and if you try hard, you work hard, and you?re talented, you can achieve a comfortable life. I think that is slipping away in a lot of respects. It?s becoming harder and harder for somebody to raise a family. The wages for many Americans even if they?re working fulltime and overtime,? they?re working at very low paid jobs and they?re not able to support a family.? The families we followed in this film were comfortable three or four years ago, many of them were solidly middle class, they never envisioned being in this situation. As [Portland Commissioner] Nick Fish says in the film, we?re in a ?one strike and you?re out? economy, and so these families find themselves falling over the cliff, struggling in ways they never envisioned.
NBC News: Were you shocked at what you found when you really got into their homes and their lives and their stories?
Harry Gantz: I wouldn?t say we were shocked, but it certainly affected us to see the level of desperation and how it affects everybody emotionally. It?s not just trying to find a job, or trying to navigate the social services. That?s a full time job in itself. But it?s the emotional impact. Hearing these kids feel like they don?t know what their futures are going to be. This is the first generation of families that feels like it?s not going to get better. And because of the lack of decent social services and decent paying jobs, people feel like, the American dream, as one of the subjects in our film says, is [just] turning the heat on, turning the lights on.
Joe: ?We could listen to all the [211info] calls coming in. And there are hundreds of calls every day. ?And that is overwhelming. You?re just inundated by the level of desperation in this country. The people who aren?t in that situation often don?t know what 211is and don?t know what it?s like for the people who are in that situation. But you listen to those phone calls, ?how do I get my heat on??, ?how do I get help for getting my electricity turned off??, ?how do I get help with my rent? , ?how do I get food?? It?s just call after call after call.
NBC News: In some ways, the people you got to know are in plain sight. And yet, people who are not in that situation don?t seem to be aware of them.
Joe: There may be a bit of willful ignorance, on the one hand, by the people who are making it. But on the other hand, the people who are struggling are so ashamed. Our society says if you work hard and you?re talented, you push and go by the rules, you will succeed. And they?re not succeeding, they?re struggling mightily, so they are ashamed. They don?t tell people. We were working with families, and the children?s friends would come over, and I?d meet the family of that child that was visiting, and I?d explain what we were working on, and they?d say, ?We?re in the same boat.? But they wouldn?t talk to each other because the parents had so much shame, they wouldn?t want to tell what was going on in their households. The shame keeps everyone extremely isolated.
Harry: The fear of destitution is inherent in everybody. So it?s in everybody?s best interests in this country to have a strong middle class, and to help people ascend from poverty.
Joe: The way people ignore this vast chunk of America that is falling off the financial cliff is by using these derogatory stereotypes about people who need help. They say they?re lazy, they made their own mistakes, if they were capable they would be succeeding, they should pull themselves up on their own. But when you follow these families as we did, over months, and you live with them and walk in their shoes and see what they?re dealing with, these families are all extremely hard-working, they?re loving families, and they want nothing more than to get back on their feet and be a contributing member of society.
NBC News: When you talk about help, what is your answer? Is it to put more money into the traditional safety net, or something else?
Harry: Whether it?s from taxpayers, or secular social services, or religious social services, it takes all of those three in order to deal with this problem. That?s the short term solution. Of course the longer term solution is a living wage job and a safety net that if you have a bump in the road and your kid gets sick or you lose your job, that there?s a net that society provides to help you get back on your feet.
Joe: And not just a net that helps you barely survive, not just a safety net that allows you not to starve. But a safety net that really helps you get back to where you once were so you can contribute once again.
Harry: There?s such a backlash right now about anything the government is doing.? [Poor people] have been demonized to the point where it?s better just to cut government spending and ?good luck, we?re all on our own, we?ll make it that way, leave me alone.? There are people in our film who felt that, and then found themselves in this situation and suddenly they had so much more insight and compassion for people in this position. What I learned is that no parent is perfect ? most of these people got in this situation through no fault of their own. But even if it was their fault, and they made a bad decision ? do the children deserve to suffer? No.
Joe: When the children suffer, the repercussions last for 20 or 30 years. They don?t graduate from high school, they don?t get a good job, they can wind up in prison ? and the repercussions and costs for those kids go on and on.
NBC News: Do you feel after doing this project that there?s some takeaway that?s optimistic or some reason for hope?
Joe: What?s not depressing is spending time with these families. And seeing how their backs are against the wall, and seeing how these families come together because they have no one else to rely on. Most of these families don?t have financial help through their circle of friends or family. They have this core of love for each other and they?re determined to get through it. When you?re in a low paying job that takes a tremendous amount of your time, it takes a tremendous amount of time to track down social services, they don?t just come to your door and hand it to you. You spend so much time just calling and going to places and seeing what you can get, so it?s difficult. The difficulties of being on the financial edge are unimaginable if you haven?t been there. And yet these families have this much love for each other and this much struggle to keep going and be positive and keep their hopes up. The human spirit is something I?m optimistic about on an individual basis.
Harry: I feel the same way as the families do. If you?re not at least optimistic, what are your children going to say? They?re going to feel like they?re doomed. Part of the American spirit is to be optimistic and if you?re not optimistic, it?s hard to get up in the morning and go on in that situation. This film is advocating for not cutting social services. The system can?t take any more.
Joe: Demonstrations are good too! People have to get together and show, this is the majority of this country.? And if by putting these faces in front of the public rids the shame that?s associated with being poor, ?that might empower more poor people to advocate for themselves.
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Moments later, while Morales waited for her flight to Las Vegas, Abdul-Jabbar came and tapped her on the shoulder. ?I think he thought I needed help,? says Morales, who was in fact struggling with some deep issues at the time. ?Somehow he could tell. He definitely intervened and saved me from some very distressing things going on in my life. He?s very spiritual and sensitive.?
?Being that tall,? she laughs, ?is like being a giraffe in the jungle warning the other animals of oncoming danger. Because they can see and hear more than the other animals.?
Abdul-Jabbar can?t remember where he was headed that day. In a seemingly random and fairy godfather sort of way, he became Morales?s ?knight in rusty armor.? The term comes from a book, with the same title, about a knight who cares so much about the plights of those he protects that he neglects his own armor till it rusts. That is Abdul-Jabbar in a nutshell, Morales says. The giant cares more about the people around him than himself, she says, which is likely what brought him to center court in the social justice arena.
The hoops legend has experienced a fair share of unkindness over the years
?Being black, a Muslim, and 7?2? tall is the hat trick of prejudice,? says Abdul-Jabbar. ?My decision to become a political activist at the height of my basketball career created another prejudice among sports fans who prefer their players to just grin and play.?
Morales and Abdul-Jabbar spent the next few years developing their friendship. Fibromyalgia left Morales bedridden for two years.
?I wanted to die. But Kareem wouldn?t let me,? she says.
Abdul-Jabbar brought her books like Man?s Search for Meaning and The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People to read, and films like Sea Biscuit to watch. He surrounded her with positive imagery to help her deal with her struggle. Then one day, with no heralding, an idea came to Morales, riding atop a malapropism. Watching Alan Greenspan on TV, searching for purpose, she said, ?Why can?t I be like Alan Greenspan? Why can?t I be an iconomist??
The word she had been searching for was, of course, economist. But the misspeak changed her life. She went to Abdul-Jabbar with the idea that she, with a background in motivational speaking and sales and an inherent desire to help people, would help him achieve his goals. She would take him, as her slogan promises, from success to significance. Morales became Abdul-Jabbar?s greatest ally.
Which is not to say life suddenly became easy for Morales?a Jewish woman daring to step into a man?s role in the talent management industry.
?Because I had to be a strong-minded woman in an uphill battle in a male-dominated environment, it was like being against a wall in the most vicious game of dodge ball ever,? she says. ?Assertiveness is called bitchiness. Reasonable negotiation is called stubbornness. And so forth. So the success of our partnership has been very fulfilling.?
Abdul-Jabbar says his friendship and business partnership with Morales ?is kind of a bubble that is impervious? to external influences such as concern within the Jewish community about the relationship between Barack Obama, the first black president, and Israel.
?External events do not have any effect on our working relationship, but what it does have an effect on is our ability to accept certain engagements at certain times,? Morales says. ?For example, Kareem is Muslim and therefore we cannot accept any liquor endorsements because of religious beliefs. We argue over other small things, like the time I introduced him to the owner of a large pretzel chain and the first thing he said upon meeting the gentleman was, ?I really hate pretzels.? Of course the man was taken back. Not knowing what to do, he offered Kareem a free card to go and try one of his world-class pretzels.?
?Small dislikes that are unknown to each other play into our business relationship and sometimes cause conflicts,? she added. ?We differ in our political and religious beliefs, but overall we get along and look for the common ground.?
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Friday, March 15, 2013
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Stock market is betting economy is getting stronger
It took a lot longer than anyone would have liked, but the recovery from the Great Recession is now firmly in place. At least, that's what investors in the stock market seem to believe.
The markets powered ahead again Thursday for the 10th straight day, the longest streak of winning days in more than 16 years, after another round of data pointed to continued improvement in the job market.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 83.86 points, or 0.58 percent, to end at 14,539.14. Hewlett-Packard and IBM led the gainers, logging its first 10th-consecutive winning streak for the first time since November 1996. The S&P 500 rose 8.71 points, or 0.56 percent, to close at 1,563.23 -- just short of its all-time closing high set in 2007. The Nasdaq gained 13.81 points, or 0.43 percent, to finish at 3,258.93.
The government reported that workers filed fewer new unemployment claims than they have in five years, echoing last week?s data showing that employers added a surprising 256,000 new workers to payrolls in February.
The improved outlook has been taking hold since the beginning of the year, when Congress and the White House averted a massive tax hike that threatened to snuff out an already-feeble recovery. Since then, a string of reports ? from strong retail sales to a convincing pickup in the housing market ? has prompted forecasters to boost their expectations for the overall pace of growth.
?We?ve grown for 14 straight quarters now,? said Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust Advisors. ?If you look at (these reports) they all show a picture that the economy in 2013 is stronger than it was in 2012.?
Other economic forecasters agree. JPMorgan analysts this week raised their forecast for this year?s growth in gross domestic product to 2.3 percent, up by eight-tenths of a percentage point. Goldman Sachs raised its forecast by three-tenths of a point to 2.9 percent.
Bill Gross, the influential co-chief investment officer of bond-giant Pimco, doubled his estimate to 3 percent in 2013.
Corporate CEOs also are feeling a lot better about the prospects for the new year. A survey this week by the Business Roundtable, whose members are senior managers of large U.S. companies, found that 72 percent of them expect sales to rise in the next six months, up from 58 percent who felt that way in December. Some 38 percent plan to boost capital spending on new plant and equipment, which will help boost sales for their suppliers.
Stock market investors are betting that those higher sales will fuel higher profits later this year, further boosting stock prices. Since last June, stock prices have surged by nearly 30 percent. And, like any extended run-up, gains like those tend to feed on themselves as investors on the sidelines become convinced the rally will continue.
The stock market?s panic button is at its lowest level in six years. The so-called VIX index, which measures investor's expecations about the market's volatility, has fallen to the lowest level since March, 2007, shortly before the Great Recession took hold.
There?s also plenty of money ready to invest. Americans are better able to put money in the stock market than they have been since the twin collapse of the stock and housing markets five years ago wiped out $16 trillion in household wealth. That financial hole has largely been filled in, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve.
Households have also substantially paid down debt, which puts them in better shape to support continued growth in consumer spending, which accounts for more than two thirds of U.S. GDP.
But with memories still fresh of the massive, late-2000s debt hangover, and unemployment still at painfully high levels, no one is predicting a consumer-fueled boom just yet. Even as their finances have improved, consumers have kept a tight lid on new debt.
?Consumers are going through a lot right now,? said Dean Maki, chief U.S. economist at Barclays Capital. "We just had the tax increases which we think have not fully affected spending yet, and they faced large gas price increases in February. We think the consumer spending numbers - while they?ve been strong so far - are likely to soften a bit over the next few months.?
Government spending is also on track to soften later this year as the $85 billion in ?sequester? budget cuts begins to take hold. A slowdown in government spending, which makes up roughly a fifth of GDP, is expected to hold back overall growth later this year.
Much depends on whether Congress and the White House can reach a deal to minimize the impact. Most forecasters expect the budget cuts to trim growth by as much as a full percentage point in the second half of this year.
Some investment advisers caution that the renewed optimism may be overdone, and that the stock market rally has gotten ahead of itself.
While stock market bulls argue that the U.S. economy is in better shape than most people believe, some bears point to a global economy that may be weaker than widely understood. Though Europe seems to have avoided the painful break-up of its common currency, it remains locked in a stubborn recession.
?I don't believe the U.S., in this global economy, can effectively go it alone,? said Steven C. Cortes, founder of Veracruz, a research firm.?That's what the stock market has said so far, but I don't think it's sustainable. ?
Despite recent upbeat signs in the U.S., the economy remains weaker than in past recoveries. Employers are adding jobs at the rate of about 200,000 a month, a pace that will only gradually make a dent in the current 7.7 percent jobless rate. Until the jobless rate falls below 6.5 percent, growth in the overall economy is expected to remain in the ?slow, steady? range.
That 6.5 percent rate is also the employment level Fed officials are targeting for their ?exit? from the biggest easy-money stimulus in the central bank?s 100-year-history. The current stock market rally has been fueled by record low interest rates, which virtually eliminate the return on safer investments like government bonds. Low rates have also encouraged businesses to invest and consumers to borrow to buy homes and cars.
The hope is that when the Fed eases off its easy-money policy and rates begin to rise, the underlying economy will be strong enough to weather the dampening effect of rising rates. That day is not expected to arrive until next year at the earliest.
If it comes any sooner, stock investors could be in for rude shock.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economywatch/stock-market-betting-economy-getting-stronger-1C8865667
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
2013 CNY Home Expo
New York Sash is excited to be a participant of the 2013 CNY Home Expo at Sangertown Square Mall!
Fri. March 22: 5pm-9pm
Sat. March 23: 10am -7pm
Sun. March 24: 11am-5pm
Exhibitors include the latest in new technologies from home builders and developers, remodeling and home improvement contractors and building material suppliers. No matter how big or small your project is, the 2013 Home Expo is sure to help you find the answers you need. Whether you want to remodel your bathroom, build a tree house, landscape your yard or create your own personal castle, the Home Expo is the place to find the most qualified experts in the field of home building and remodeling!
We?d love to meet with you and help you start planning that next home improvement project!
Source: http://www.newyorksash.com/2013-cny-home-expo/
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Mars rover shows planet could have supported life
This image released by NASA shows the Curiosity rover holding a scoop of powdered rock on Mars. The rover recently drilled into a Martian rock for the first time and transferred a pinch of powder to its instruments to analyze the chemical makeup. (AP Photo/NASA)
This image released by NASA shows the Curiosity rover holding a scoop of powdered rock on Mars. The rover recently drilled into a Martian rock for the first time and transferred a pinch of powder to its instruments to analyze the chemical makeup. (AP Photo/NASA)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Drilling into a rock near its landing site, the Curiosity rover has answered a key question about Mars: The red planet long ago harbored some of the ingredients needed for primitive life to thrive.
Topping the list is evidence of water and basic elements that teeny organisms could feed on, scientists said Tuesday.
"We have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life that probably if this water was around and you had been on the planet, you would have been able to drink it," said chief scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology.
The discovery comes seven months after Curiosity touched down in an ancient crater. Last month, it flexed its robotic arm to drill into a fine-grained, veiny rock and then tested the powder in its onboard labs.
Curiosity is the first spacecraft sent to Mars that could collect a sample from deep inside a rock, and scientist said they hit pay dirt with that first rock.
Mars today is a frigid desert, constantly bombarded by radiation. Previous missions have found that the planet was more tropical billions of years ago. And now scientists have their first evidence of a habitable spot outside of Earth.
This was an environment where microbes "could have lived in and maybe even prospered in," Grotzinger said.
The car-size rover made a dramatic "seven-minutes-of-terror" landing last August near the planet's equator. As high-tech as Curiosity is, it lacks the tools to detect actual microbes, living or extinct. It can only use its chemistry lab to examine Martian rocks to determine the kind of environment they might have lived in.
The analysis revealed the rock that Curiosity bore into contained a chemical soup of sulfur, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus and simple carbon ? essential chemical ingredients for life. Also present were clay and sulfate minerals, signs that the rock formed in a watery environment.
NASA rovers Opportunity and Spirit ? before it fell silent ? also uncovered evidence of a wet Martian past elsewhere on the planet, but scientists think the water would have been too acidic for microbes.
The ancient water at Curiosity's pit stop appears to be neutral and not too salty. It previously found a hint of the site's watery past ? an old streambed that the six-wheel rover crossed to get to the flat bedrock.
Curiosity has yet to turn up evidence of complex carbon compounds, fundamental to all living things. Scientists said a priority is to search for a place where organics might be preserved.
The drilled rock isn't far from Curiosity's landing spot in Gale Crater; the rover is ultimately headed to a mountain in the crater's middle. Images from space spied signs of clay layers at the base of the mountain ? a good spot to hunt for the elusive organics.
It has been slow going as engineers learn to handle the rover, which is far more tech-savvy than anything that has landed before on Earth's planetary neighbor.
Over the years, Mars spacecraft in orbit and on the surface have beamed back a wealth of information about the planet's geology. Scientists have also been able to study rocks from Mars that have occasionally landed on Earth.
The latest news comes during a lull in the two-year mission. Curiosity has been prevented from doing science experiments as engineers troubleshoot a computer problem.
Scientists still plan to drive toward the mountain but not until Curiosity drills into another rock at its current location. Since flight controllers on Earth will be out of touch with Mars spacecraft for most of next month due to a planetary alignment, the second drilling won't get under way until May.
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20+: Building Walls
?????????? I recently experienced a loss of a friend after 9 years of knowing him. The good news is that he has not passed away but the bad news is that our relationship reached a place where it was decided he no longer wanted be friends. I know we had a disagreement but not one that would end a friendship. It ended by way of Facebook which is now the tool people use to end relationships. Unlike days past where matters were discussed to resolve conflicts or misunderstandings, it?s now a simple click of the ?unfriend? button and relationship is over. In this age of online friends where we can have 2,000 friends on Facebook in truth one has only a handful of people in our ?real? life we can truly call friend. The loss of a friend can be hard as living with HIV he was someone I could count on to be part of my support system. So what does one do when a person you value enough to share your status and your life decides to part ways? And when it comes to health how important is a support system?
??????????? I know for myself as a sense of pride I made the claim that it didn?t matter we were no longer friends. Besides I can always make new ones and with my personality it wouldn?t be that difficult. I also didn?t want to have the feeling that he ended it and in essence won, so to counter that perception I told myself it was mutual. In that time since our friendship ended I have met some great people yet right away I noticed a difference in the new relationships I was forming. I noticed that much of my interactions were guarded. I wasn?t sharing as much and was providing only a surface look at who I was. My reasons was not that I thought I would be hurt again but it was more of a feeling of why bother. Why make another investment where you felt that the return was going to be null and void after a few years. Why be an open book and have someone decided they had enough and close the book and move on. And if a relationship can end suddenly after nine years with no warning why go through that situation again?
??????????? Building walls is what I started to do. It was a wall to keep and control what and who came into my life. I think that after living with HIV for so many years you become a master builder at building such walls as you live a life where rejection unfortunately comes with the virus. I?m not saying that was the reason for my previous friend ending the friendship but past rejections steels you from being hurt once more. For me it was drawing on past relationships that ended suddenly because of my disclosure of status or the feeling of abandonment of family. So when it came to someone giving rejection, one ?find yourself falling back into the role of placing those brick into place and making a motto to yourself formed of two words that sounds so familiar, ?never again?
??????????? There is a price for such action though and I call it the cousin of rejection, its called isolation. The truth is when you build walls although you?re protected from others you also create a scenario where you?re behind those walls alone. Your day to day is one of simply staying to yourself. I admit I was guilty of this. It worked for me and I figured this way I don?t have to go through all the work of maintaining a friendship or relationship. Isolation is a great thing at first as you can decide where to go without negotiating with anyone. It was handy if I decided to eat at a particular restaurant with no care how others felt or go to an event that others may not like. You?re in that great space where you don?t have to negotiate and coordinate times or dietary restrictions. Yet by making friends with isolation you realize that even that comes with a price.
??????????? The truth is that isolation and the concept of holding yourself from others hurts not only your spirit but also your physical being especially when it comes to HIV status. The trickle down effect of isolation is that it has a string to depression which as we all know can have a negative effect of your health. It?s been shown that depression has a link to your immune system and with an existing compromised immune system it doesn?t help matters. Also depression has that funny way of making you revisit bad habits that you have been able to overcome. Bad habits in the way of unhealthy/excessive eating, substance use of drugs/alcohol and for some unhealthy sexual practices which can affect your health long term.
??????????? Yet as someone in my forties I have come to that conclusion that the older you are the harder it is to make true friends. I think that?s the wicked draw of Facebook as in the space of being connected in truth you?re becoming disconnected to the true social of in person interaction. True friends are again not the thousands you have on your social media site but the ones you can knock on the door or call and just know that they have the time for you. So what I have done is look at the friends I have and rather than look at the absence instead look at the greatness of those who call me friend. The loss of my previous friend has to be looked as an action of not taking away something but giving space for others to come into my life. Yet I know that they?ll never get in if I continue to make it difficult for them to do so and scaling walls I?ve built will make that task harder.
??????????? I have allowed myself to cry and not pretend the loss of the relationship doesn?t hurt. The sad truth is that from the day we set our feet on this earth and until our last steps we?re going to be hurt and disappointed by others. The true testimony is what we do with our steps while we?re here. I find comfort in the fact that friends are here to travel with us until we come to a certain road in our journey upon which we find others who walk with us for the other leg of our travels. And at least I have the memories of past enjoyment so I can reflect on what makes a true friend for those days when it seems the clouds want to take over.
??????????? So I step back into the game of life and not simply as a calculated way to manage my HIV status but to recognize that life is more fulfilling when you have others to share in that joy. For my brethren especially those with HIV who live behind the walls you?ve created simply ask is it working for me. Am I finding the joy I was seeking or is it a false promise? Is living in isolation creating for me a healthy perspective of life or is it affecting my health and overall well-being? Am I truly safe? I had to ask myself the same questions and know that I will start dismantling my wall and to those I?ve been holding at arms length, welcome them in. I find comfort that this is moment in my life where I?ll look back and remember this sad instant and celebrate how I was able to walk into a brighter light. So here we go again, walls down and arms are open, I?m ready for love! ???
Source: http://aundarayat20.blogspot.com/2013/03/building-walls.html
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Grave mistake: Mortuary admits burying wrong woman
By Angie Crouch and Yvonne Beltzer, NBCLosAngeles.com
A California mortuary has admitted that it put a woman in the wrong casket.
A spokesman made the admission Monday, several days after Evans Davidson, 73, complained that the woman in the casket at the viewing?wasn't?his wife.
"I was pretty certain it?wasn't?my wife ? unless she did some awful changing," he said.
Officials at Simpson?s Mortuary, in Inglewood, claimed that it was indeed Darlene Davidson, his wife of 51 years, but that she looked different because she was embalmed.
"It wasn?t my wife and I knew it," Davidson said.
A few days after the funeral, he received a call from the mortuary. An employee told him he might have been right after all because another family was now claiming a "body switch," and his wife's body was still at the mortuary.
"I didn?t know what to think," he said. "Why am I going to ID a body when my wife?s supposed to be buried already?"
Davidson said workers at the mortuary told him they had a lady "jumping up and down saying this is not her mother."
Dr. Reginald Black, a spokesman for Simpson?s Mortuary, said they buried the wrong woman in Darlene Davidson?s grave.
The mortuary offered to exhume the body and pay all expenses for both families to have proper funeral services.
"We have standards and systems in place to ensure as much as we can that these type of things don?t happen; however, we are human beings and we can make mistakes," Black said.
Davidson?s attorney has asked the state Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to investigate.
"They need to listen to family members who know best when they spot something and do a due?diligence?investigation," said Brian Witzer, Davidson?s attorney.
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Alien life may be rare across universe
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About 17 percent of the stars surveyed by NASA's Kepler space telescope have Earth-sized worlds in orbit, underlining the preponderance of small exoplanets in our galaxy.
By Miriam Kramer
Space.com
When it comes to life across the cosmos, the universe might just be an "awful waste of space" after all.
A new theory presented at a conference this week would confirm the worry of Ellie Arroway, Jodie Foster's character in the film "Contact," that life might not exist on other worlds.
Some scientists think that just because exoplanets could have habitable environments, that does not mean that life evolved there.
"The pervasive nature of life on Earth is leading us to make this assumption," Charles Cockell, the director of the U.K. Center for Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh, said in a statement."On our planet, carbon leaches into most habitat space and provides energy for microorganisms to live. There are only a few vacant habitats that may persist for any length of time on Earth, but we cannot assume that this is the case on other planets."
Cockell's hypothesis states that, although habitable alien planets might abound in solar systems around the universe, it does not mean these locales harbor extraterrestrial life.
"It is dangerous to assume life is common across the universe. It encourages people to think that not finding signs of life is a 'failure,' when in fact it would tell us a lot about the origins of life," added Cockell.
It is also possible that scientists will not be able to detect alien signs of life, even if it exists, Cockell said. Life might be markedly dissimilar from planet to planet, making it unlikely that astronomers on Earth will see recognizable signatures of life. But not all hope is lost.
"Professor Cockell explains that in coming decades, increasingly powerful telescopes and developments in spectroscopy may allow us to look for the signals of life on planets beyond our solar system," officials from the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science, said in a statement."However, regardless of this, our view is still going to be heavily influenced by our knowledge of life on Earth."
Cockell presented his theory at a conference sponsored by the Royal Society.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Patent ?Trolls? are Bad. Patents are Worse.
While global biotechnology firm Monsanto battled a farmer over soybean patents in the US Supreme Court, a District Court in eastern Texas heard a similar case: Personal Audio, an alleged ?patent troll,? filed suit against Adam Carolla?s Ace Broadcasting network for patent infringement.
The patent allegedly infringed? ?System For Disseminating Media Content Representing Episodes In A Serialized Sequence.? In other words, podcasting.
Personal Audio has been around since the mid-1990s, and credits itself with inventing the ?Personal Audio Player,? a device similar to the iPod and the source of many of the company?s patents, including this one.
?[Personal Audio CEO James Logan] is a small businessman, an entrepreneur, who invested a ton of his money into a startup, who still owns the patent, and is just trying to get compensation for his hard work as an inventor,? the company?s vice president of licensing, Richard Baker, said. ?This is what the patent system is for.? According to Baker, Personal Audio is also trying to sell its podcast license to several major and influential podcasts and providers.
?I will say that we?re certainly looking to license this patent beyond those three (companies they?re suing),? he said. ?We?ve sent letters to a number of companies that we hope will come to a license with us amicably, without having to resort to litigation.?
The prospect of this licensing scheme spreading across the entire medium has spooked many podcasters, including WTF Show host Marc Maron and Majority Report host Sam Seder. Both have received letters from Personal Audio ?inviting? them to purchase licenses, and both have used their voices to back a recently introduced piece of legislation called the SHIELD Act.
Supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, SHIELD aims to make it prohibitively risky for alleged patent trolls to sue; according to the act, if a patent troll loses, they have to pay the other side?s legal fees and costs.
While this bill might be a minute step in a better direction, it isn?t even a bandage on the problem of corporation-favoring patent law. The SHIELD Act, if passed, might prevent companies like Personal Audio from shaking people down, but it won?t prevent companies like Monsanto, with ?legitimate? patents on genetically modified and enhanced seeds, from suing farmers and forcing them to burn their crops when they find their seeds on the latter?s land or Apple from making the smartphone and tablet markets expensively litigious.
Libertarian intellectual property lawyer and self-described IP abolitionist Stephan Kinsella brought up an interesting point in a recent interview that seems to get lost in the general discussion surrounding patent trolls, patent law and intellectual property more broadly: as bad as patent trolls are ? according to Kinsella they cost the US economy somewhere around $500 billion ? legitimate patent holders, companies like Monsanto and Apple, can be ? and often are ? worse.
Speaking of Apple, imagine a scenario where the company going after Adam Carolla and the rest of the podcasting world wasn?t some tiny dot-com-era relic in Texas, but the multi-billion dollar corporation from Cupertino, Calif.
In this hypothetical situation, who would have the money or power to fight against Apple? How could a DIY podcast held together with string and some spit defend against Apple if it held the ?podcasting patent? and wanted money for its license?
Millions of people subscribe and listen to podcasts through Apple?s distribution and cataloging software, iTunes. Currently, it costs nothing to add your own podcast to the iTunes directory; all that is necessary to do so is being able to link to a podcast RSS feed. If Apple owned the patent on podcasting and forced all new podcasts to purchase this license, it might, as EFF activist Adi Kamdar suggested in reference to Personal Audio, create a ?chilling effect? on the medium.
It?s possible, if the cost was high enough, that podcasting would meet the same fate as other forms of media and find itself subject to a ?walled garden? model of organization. Only people with the means to do so would podcast. Vital voices and perspectives would be cut off.
Patent legitimacy as it is currently presented seems to be based more on perception than any objective standards of law. With Personal Audio, we question the legitimacy of their podcasting patent in a way we may not have done if another company with more buying power had reached it first. Therefore, the solution to the problem of patent trolling is not to ?regulate? it with faulty measures and half-steps in the ?right direction.?
The patent system itself must be abolished.
Trevor Hultner is an independent journalist and Internet content creator. He is the host and producer of Smash Walls Radio, a weekly news and politics podcast, as well as the host of a YouTube series aimed at spreading Absurdist philosophy. Follow him on Twitter: @SmashWalls.Source: http://c4ss.org/content/17605
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Capriles, Maduro at each other's throats in Venezuela election
By Andrew Cawthorne and Mario Naranjo
CARACAS (Reuters) - Presidential candidates Nicolas Maduro and Henrique Capriles have begun Venezuela's election race with scathing personal attacks even as mourners still file past Hugo Chavez's coffin.
Maduro, who was sworn in as acting president after Chavez died of cancer last week, is seen as favorite to win the April 14 election, bolstered by an oil-financed state apparatus and a wave of public sympathy over Chavez's death.
"I am not Chavez, but I am his son," Maduro told thousands of cheering, red-clad supporters as he formally presented his candidacy to the election board on Monday.
"I am you, a worker. You and I are Chavez, workers and soldiers of the fatherland," the former bus driver and union activist added after the crowd's emotions were whipped up by recordings of Chavez singing the national anthem.
Thumbing his nose at detractors who scoff at his qualifications, Maduro arrived driving a white bus, waving to supporters. His rally congested downtown, and Capriles sent aides to present his papers rather than going personally.
Chavez made clear before his fourth and last cancer operation in December that he wanted Maduro, his vice president and former foreign minister, to be his Socialist Party's candidate to succeed him if he died.
Maduro has vowed to continue the radical policies of Chavez's 14-year rule in the South American OPEC nation, including the popular use of vast oil revenues for social programs. But Capriles is promising a tough fight.
"Nicolas, I'm not going to give you a free passage ... you are not Chavez," Capriles said in a combative speech late on Sunday. He also accused Maduro of lying to minimize Chavez's medical condition while he prepared his candidacy.
"Nicolas lied to this country for months," Capriles said. "You are exploiting someone who is no longer here because you have nothing else to offer the country ... I don't play with death, I don't play with suffering, like that."
At stake in the election is not only the future of Chavez's leftist "revolution," but the continuation of Venezuelan oil subsidies and other aid crucial to the economies of left-wing allies around Latin America, from Cuba to Bolivia.
Venezuela boasts the world's largest oil reserves.
Government officials said Capriles was playing with fire, offending Chavez's family and risking legal action by criticizing the handling of his illness and death.
"You can see the disgusting face of the fascist that he is," a visibly furious Maduro said, alleging that the opposition was hoping to stir up violence.
SLURS
Capriles, a descendant of Polish Jews on his mother's side, was a victim of racist and homophobic slurs from Chavez supporters last year. Maduro appeared to allude to his rival's sexuality during Monday's rally.
"I do have a wife, you know? I do like women!" he told the crowd with his wife Cilia Flores at his side, who has served as attorney general but is stepping down to join her husband's campaign.
Though single, Capriles has had various high-profile girlfriends in the past. He scoffs at the personal insults, saying they illustrate the government's aggressive mindset.
Shaken by Chavez's death and now immersed in an ugly election campaign, Venezuelans saw some semblance of normality return on Monday as most schools and shops reopened after being closed for most of last week.
Chavez's many local detractors are keeping a low profile.
But they say his memory is being burnished to forget less savory parts of his rule like the bullying of opponents and stifling of private businesses with nationalizations.
"The government wants to make Venezuelans think it is impossible (for the opposition) to win this election ... but we can if we come out and vote," said prominent opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, rallying supporters.
"Mr. Maduro, use and abuse all the power you want ... we will not go down on our knees."
The official mourning period for Chavez ends on Tuesday. However the government extended a temporary ban on alcohol and carrying firearms through March 16.
Several million have paid their respects at his coffin at a military academy in a dramatic outpouring of grief.
Though criticized by many for his authoritarian tendencies and handling of the economy, Chavez was loved by millions, especially the poor, because of his own humble background, plain language and attacks on global "imperialists" and the domestic "elite," as well as his welfare policies in Venezuela's slums.
In death, he is earning a near-religious status among supporters, perhaps akin to that of Argentina's former populist ruler Juan Peron and his deeply loved wife Eva Peron.
State television has been playing speeches and appearances by Chavez over and over, next to a banner saying "Chavez lives forever."
OPPOSITION'S UPHILL STRUGGLE
Though there are hopes for a post-Chavez rapprochement between ideological foes Venezuela and the United States, a diplomatic spat worsened on Monday when Washington expelled two Venezuelan diplomats in a tit-for-tat retaliation.
Two U.S. military attaches were ordered out last week, on the day of Chavez's death, for allegedly conspiring with locals against the government.
Venezuelan opposition TV channel Globovision, which tussled with Chavez's government, said on Monday it had received a "formal buyout offer" and described it as "an attempted forced sale." It did not publicly name the potential buyer.
Globovision said its directors would provide more details in the coming hours. A Globovision employee who declined to be named said management described the business as "economically, legally and politically inviable".
Capriles, a 40-year-old centrist governor who describes himself as a "progressive" and an admirer of Brazil's model, ran in the last presidential election in October, taking 44 percent of the votes, but was unable to prevent Chavez's re-election.
While attacking Maduro's handling of the crisis over Chavez's cancer, Capriles will try to turn the focus of the month-long election campaign to the many day-to-day problems afflicting Venezuelans, from electricity cuts to crime and an inflation rate that is among the world's highest.
Maduro, 50, who echoes Chavez's anti-imperialist rhetoric, is sure to make his former boss the centerpiece of his campaign while casting himself as the only heir.
On Monday, though, he did promise a new anti-crime drive, and to deepen Chavez's social programs, known as "missions," in the slums. He also sought to blame sky high crime levels, which worsened dramatically during Chavez's years in power, on Venezuela's wealthy, saying they had ignored festering social problems and turned their back on the poor.
Two opinion polls before Chavez's death gave Maduro a lead of more than 10 percentage points.
"This is going to be a really tough campaign for us, we know," said an aide at Capriles' office in Caracas.
"It's hard to get everyone enthused and pumped again. We've only got a month, and we're fighting Chavez's ghost, not Maduro. But believe me, we'll give it our best."
(Additional reporting by Simon Gardner, Terry Wade, Ana Isabel Martinez, Marianna Parraga and Mario Naranjo; Editing by Kieran Murray, Daniel Wallis, Sandra Maler and Lisa Shumaker)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-opposition-leader-joins-presidential-race-004657986.html
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Biological tooth replacement -- a step closer
Monday, March 11, 2013
Scientists have developed a new method of replacing missing teeth with a bioengineered material generated from a person's own gum cells. Current implant-based methods of whole tooth replacement fail to reproduce a natural root structure and as a consequence of the friction from eating and other jaw movement, loss of jaw bone can occur around the implant. The research is led by Professor Paul Sharpe, an expert in craniofacial development and stem cell biology at King's College London and published in the Journal of Dental Research.
Research towards achieving the aim of producing bioengineered teeth ? bioteeth ? has largely focussed on the generation of immature teeth (teeth primordia) that mimic those in the embryo that can be transplanted as small cell 'pellets' into the adult jaw to develop into functional teeth.
Remarkably, despite the very different environments, embryonic teeth primordia can develop normally in the adult mouth and thus if suitable cells can be identified that can be combined in such a way to produce an immature tooth, there is a realistic prospect bioteeth can become a clinical reality. Subsequent studies have largely focussed on the use of embryonic cells and although it is clear that embryonic tooth primordia cells can readily form immature teeth following dissociation into single cell populations and subsequent recombination, such cell sources are impractical to use in a general therapy.
Professor Sharpe says: 'What is required is the identification of adult sources of human epithelial and mesenchymal cells that can be obtained in sufficient numbers to make biotooth formation a viable alternative to dental implants.'
In this new work, the researchers isolated adult human gum tissue from patients at the Dental Institute at King's College London, grew more of it in the lab, and then combined it with the cells of mice that form teeth. By transplanting this combination of cells into mice the researchers were able to grow hybrid human/mouse teeth containing dentine and enamel, as well as viable roots.
Professor Sharpe concludes: 'Epithelial cells derived from adult human gum tissue are capable of responding to tooth inducing signals from embryonic tooth mesenchyme in an appropriate way to contribute to tooth crown and root formation and give rise to relevant differentiated cell types, following in vitro culture.
'These easily accessible epithelial cells are thus a realistic source for consideration in human biotooth formation. The next major challenge is to identify a way to culture adult human mesenchymal cells to be tooth-inducing, as at the moment we can only make embryonic mesenchymal cells do this.'
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Great Coffee App adds prep video for your caffeine fixes
The Great Coffee App launched a while back with great design, gorgeous music, but limited content. Now that they've presumably knocked back a dozen or more twenty-shots, developers Baglan Dosmagambetov and Alexander Nogay are back for a second cup, and it's filled to the brim with video.
That's right, the Great Coffee App has now added videos to show you how each and every one of the coffee-based beverages are prepared. If you're curious, that's Espresso, Espresso Ristretto, Espresso Lungo, Espresso Macchiato, Espresso Con Panna, Espresso Romano, Espresso Doppio, Latte, Americano, Cappuccino, Marocchino, Latte Macchiato, Caffe Mocha, Irish coffee, Cafeccino, Vienna coffee.
There's a huge intersection of geeks who love gadgets, geeks who love apps, and geeks who love coffee, so if you're one of us, and you're looking for a way to learn and enjoy more about coffee on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, check out the Great Coffee App. Now with video.
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