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Monday, 31 October 2011
Apocalypse Never
?For the first time in history,? said the president, ?our country?s AAA credit rating would be downgraded, leaving investors around the world to wonder whether the United States is still a good bet. Interest rates would skyrocket on credit cards, mortgages, and car loans, which amounts to a huge tax hike on the American people.?
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Sunday, 30 October 2011
Folate receptors may serve as a front door to ovarian cancer treatment
ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2011) ? A new strategy that takes advantage of ovarian cancer's reliance on folate appears to give relapse patients extra months of life with few side effects, researchers say.
The therapy uses the folate receptors on cancer cells as a sort of front door by pairing a substance attracted to the receptors with a chemotherapeutic agent too toxic to be given systemically, said Dr. Sharad Ghamande, Chief of the Section of Gynecologic Oncology at Georgia Health Sciences University.
Large numbers of folate receptors typically indicate the most aggressive ovarian cancers, as well as a variety of other cancers such as breast, lung and kidney.
The combination, called EC145, delivers a Vinca alkaloid directly inside cancer cells, improving effectiveness while reducing side effects particularly in women who overexpress folate receptors. A similar approach of pairing the folate ligand, which is attracted to the receptor, with a drug that makes those receptors glow, enables physicians to see how many folate receptors are present and who would be the best candidates for this treatment.
"We think this offers women with platinum-resistant disease a well-tolerated, effective treatment at a time when other drugs have failed them," Ghamande said. "We hope it will give them more quality time to meet important milestones, such as seeing a grandson graduate from high school." He noted that the strategy likely could enable targeted delivery of other drugs.
Ghamande is presenting findings of the phase 2 clinical trial at an Oct. 27-29 meeting in Brussels of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer-National Cancer Institute-American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting on Molecular Markers in Cancer. The study enrolled 149 patients at 65 centers in North America and Poland; GHSU was among the top enrollers.
Platinum-based drugs are the standard of care for ovarian cancer, which is typically diagnosed in the late stages because there is no good screening test, such as the Pap smear for cervical cancer. After surgery and a round of chemotherapy, most women go into remission, but it's usually short-lived: about 70 percent of patients relapse within two years, Ghamande said. Physicians today often pair chemotherapeutic agents with biologic agents that bolster the immune response to try to improve outcomes. When women relapse or, inevitably, become platinum-resistant, they receive the chemotherapeutic agent Doxil.
The study compared, women receiving Doxil to those receiving Doxil as well as EC145. They found those with the most folate receptors on their cancer cells benefited the most from the new therapy: their progression-free survival went from 6.6 to 24 weeks, a 72 percent improvement from the standard therapy. "There is a proof of concept because the more folate receptors you overexpress, the better you do," Ghamande said.
Folate, or folic acid, is a B vitamin that is a basic component of cell metabolism and DNA synthesis and repair. Cancer cells, which are constantly multiplying and adapting, need more of it than healthy cells.
A larger Phase 3 study is underway internationally. The research was funded by Endocyte, Inc.
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Saturday, 29 October 2011
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Boys Should Get HPV Vaccine, Too, CDC Says
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A vaccine originally intended to prevent cervical cancer in girls should be given to boys as well, an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today (Oct. 25).
The panel voted to recommend the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine be given to boys ages 11 to 12. The vaccine is already recommended for girls of this age.
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Friday, 28 October 2011
Who Cares What Jimmy Carter Thinks (ContributorNetwork)
COMMENTARY | Former President Jimmy Carter says former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney would be the best choice for Republicans to nominate to challenge Barack Obama in next year's presidential election.
Really?
Honestly, who cares what Jimmy Carter thinks when it comes to Republican candidates? I doubt there is a single Republican that does, and I suppose few Democrats care which Republican ultimately wins the nomination. That didn't stop Carter from making the statement on MSNBC last week, although he quickly added he still hoped Obama would win another term in the White House. Always the loyal Democrat to the end.
There is little surprise here. Obama has been about as successful as Carter was in his nightmare single term in office in the late 1970s. It seems only logical that Carter would see Obama worthy of a second term. But, unlike Carter -- who was a micro-managing chief executive -- Obama has a significantly more detached approach to governing. His first three years in office have been a hodge podge of mixed priorities that always seemed to be just a little too late and out of step with the public need at the time.
Where Carter was constantly portrayed as an American president who struggled over making a decision during the Iran hostage crisis, the current president is seen as one who is unable to decide what is important public policy until his advisers let him know.
Carter deserves serious accolades for his post-presidency performance though. He transformed from a do-nothing president to a widely sought after international statesman. For decades, he avoided sticking his nose into public policy affecting the sitting president, and focused on helping people through his involvement in Habitat for Humanity and serving democracy around the globe as a consultant and election observer. He wrote books, made speeches and -- to some extent -- tried to improve his legacy. He's been a model former president -- for the most part.
Whoever the Republicans ultimately nominate to challenge Obama is yet to be determined, but will likely be either Texas Gov. Rick Perry or Romney. Either would be a considerably more qualified man to replace Obama, who's lack of executive experience has so miserably hindered his administration.
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Thursday, 27 October 2011
To diagnose heart disease, visualization experts recommend a simpler approach
ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2011) ? A team of computer scientists, physicists, and physicians at Harvard has developed a simple yet powerful method of visualizing human arteries that may result in more accurate diagnoses of atherosclerosis and heart disease.
The prototype tool, called "HemoVis," creates a 2D diagram of arteries that performs better than the traditional 3D, rainbow-colored model. In a clinical setting, the tool has been shown to increase diagnostic accuracy from 39% to 91%.
Presented Oct. 27 at the IEEE Information Visualization Conference(InfoVis 2011), the new visualization methodoffers insight to clinicians, imaging specialists, engineers, and others in a wide range of fields who need to explore and evaluate complex, branching structures.
"Our goal was to design a visual representation of the data that was as accurate and efficient for patient diagnosis as possible," says lead author Michelle Borkin, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). "What we found is that the prettiest, most popular visualization is not always the most effective."
HemoVis takes data from patient-specific blood flow simulations, combined with traditional imaging data, and visually displays a tree diagram of the arteries with areas of disease highlighted to assist in diagnosis.
Tools for artery visualization in both clinical and research settings commonly use 3D models that portray the shape and spatial arrangement of vessels of interest. These complex tools require users to rotate the models to get a complete perspective of spatial orientation.
By contrast, the new visualization requires no such rotation or interaction. The tool utilizes 2D, circumference-adjusted cylindrical cross sections arranged in tree diagrams.
Though this visualization method may seem less high-tech, the team demonstrated through quantitative evaluation with medical experts that the 2D model is actually more accurate and efficient for patient diagnosis.
"In the 3D case, the more complex and branched the arteries were, the longer it took to complete the patient diagnosis, and the lower the accuracy was," Borkin reflects. "In the 2D representation, it didn't matter how many branches we had or how complex they were -- we got consistently fast, accurate results. We weren't expecting that."
Tree diagrams are hardly new, as evolutionary biologists will attest, but scientists in many fields are using them to solve a range of very modern and complex problems. In fact, Borkin applied her own experience in astronomy and physics to transform the concept of visualization for SEAS' Multiscale Hemodynamics research group. In prior work, she had used a very similar type of tree diagram to determine the structure of nebulae in outer space.
"With the consultation and cooperation of clinicians, we were able to draw on fairly well known visualization techniques and principles from computer science to solve a practical clinical problem," says Hanspeter Pfister, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at SEAS.
Borkin, Pfister, and their colleagues relied on the input of physicians and others with clinical or laboratory imaging experience throughout the process. Through extensive surveys and interviews, they identified the most popular options for display, accurate layout, and coloring of these arterial projections.
However, Borkin drew on well supported research that is less well known outside the visualization community:
"For years, visualization, computer science, and psychology researchers have identified that color is critical for conveying the value of data, but that the rainbow coloring is not well-attuned to the human visual system."
Accordingly, HemoVis departs from the traditional practice of rainbow color-coding in favor of a graded single-color scheme (red to black) that can represent placement along a continuum.
In tests, diagnostic accuracy, as measured by the proportion of diseased areas identified, increased dramatically with the new color scheme.
Widespread adoption of visual representations like those in HemoVis could have the effect of not only optimizing tasks that are critical for doctors, but also changing long-entrenched mindsets and making scientists "think twice" about their assumptions in data visualization, Borkin says.
"This approach to visualization design and validation is broadly applicable in medicine, engineering, and science," notes Pfister. "We hope that people will use this process as a template for transforming their own visualizations."
Borkin and Pfister acknowledged that while HemoVis represents an important step forward, traditional 3D artery models still play a role, particularly in providing a spatially intuitive tool for surgical planning.
With this in mind, the next steps for this research include further development and optimization of the 2D tool and investigation into how it might complement, rather than replace, its 3D counterpart.
A paper about this work will be published later this year in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011
COMMUNICATIONS SHUTDOWN: The Outer Limits of Obama's ...
On that day, federal authorities are going to shut off all television and radio communications simultaneously at 2:00PM EST to complete the first ever test of the national Emergency Alert System (EAS).
This isn?t a wild conspiracy theory. The upcoming test is posted on the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau website.
Only the President has the authority to activate EAS at the national level, and he has delegated that authority to the Director of FEMA. The test will be conducted jointly by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through FEMA, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS).
In essence, the authority to seize control of all television and civilian communication has been asserted by the executive branch and handed to a government agency.
The EAS has been around since 1994. Its precursor, the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), started back in 1963. Television and radio broadcasters, satellite radio and satellite television providers, cable television and wireline video providers are all involved in the system.
So this begs the question: is the first ever national EAS test really a big deal?
Probably not. At least, not yet.
But there are some troubling factors all coming together right now that could conceivably trigger a real usage of the EAS system in the not too distant future. A European financial collapse could bring down U.S. markets. What is now the ?Occupy? movement could lead to widespread civil unrest. And there are ominous signs that radical groups such as Anonymous will attempt something major on November 5th- Guy Fawke?s day.
Now we know in the event of a major crisis, the American people will be told with one voice, at the same time, about an emergency.
All thats left to determine is who will have control of the EAS when that day comes, and what their message will be.
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Gene variant increases risk of kidney disease in African-Americans
ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2011) ? African-Americans with two copies of the APOL1 gene have about a 4 percent lifetime risk of developing a form of kidney disease, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health. The finding brings scientists closer to understanding why African-Americans are four times more likely to develop kidney failure than whites, as they reported in the Oct. 13 online edition of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Researchers including Jeffrey Kopp, M.D., at the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and Cheryl Winkler, Ph.D, of the National Cancer Institute have begun tracing the effects of having two variants of the APOL1 gene, which occurs in about 12 percent of African-Americans.
Researchers earlier linked this gene to susceptibility for kidney disease. When a person has kidney disease, the kidneys are unable to fully remove waste products and extra water from the blood. The researchers studied a common kidney disease called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), which often progresses to end-stage kidney disease and the need for dialysis or a kidney transplant. The researchers studied FSGS patients who came to the NIH Clinical Center or other collaborating medical centers, and who provided blood samples for genetic studies.
"These findings explain nearly all of the excess risk of non-diabetic kidney failure in African-Americans. African-Americans with no variant or one variant have about the same risk of end-stage kidney disease as their white counterparts," Winkler said. "People with two APOL1 variants have greatly increased risk of particular kidney diseases -- by 17- to 30-fold."
The researchers found that African-Americans with two copies of the APOL1 variants have about a 4 percent lifetime risk of developing FSGS. Those who develop kidney disease tend to do so at younger ages than other FSGS patients, with 70 percent diagnosed with FSGS between age 15 and 39, compared to 42 percent in that age group for people with one or no APOL1 variants.
Possessing two APOL1 variants also raises the risk for African-Americans with HIV of developing HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) -- a type of kidney disease that develops in some people with human immunodeficiency virus -- to 50 percent among those not getting anti-viral therapy. Anti-viral therapy appears fairly effective at preventing HIVAN.
"The much higher risk of kidney disease in patients with HIV suggests that a second hit with a virus or other unknown factor is necessary for kidney injury in people who have two APOL1 variants," Winkler said. This may be why most people with two APOL1 variants do not develop kidney disease.
FSGS patients with two APOL1 variants respond as well to steroid treatments as their counterparts who don't have the variants, making steroids a viable treatment option, the researchers found. Further, they found that kidney disease progresses more rapidly in patients with two APOL1 variants, and they hypothesize that aggressive therapy may be advisable.
"In the future, knowing that you have these gene variants and are at increased risk of developing kidney disease may tell you when to start screening for the disease and how to choose therapy," Kopp said. "However, more research is needed, including clinical trials that test whether early genetic testing in the African-American population makes a difference, whether screening tests for young adults with the variant copies detects kidney disease at an early stage, and whether early treatment affects long-term outcome."
This research builds on earlier advances in understanding the role of genetics in kidney disease. In 2008, Kopp, Winkler and other researchers found that variants in the MYH9 gene on chromosome 22 are linked to susceptibility to various forms of kidney disease.
In 2010, working with researchers at Harvard Medical School, among others, Kopp and Winkler found some kidney disease risk is due to variants APOLI, a gene adjacent to MYH9. These variants appear to have evolved about 5,000 years ago in some regions of sub-Saharan Africa to protect against trypanosomal infection, also called African sleeping sickness, a degenerative and potentially fatal disease affecting tens of thousands of people in those regions. People from other continents do not have the APOL1 variants.
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Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Spotting someone who needs to get a life
This ranking survey from goo Ranking uses an internet slang that the person who writes the URLs for the surveys couldn?t translate! Usually the URLs are English summaries of the survey topic, but this time we got just non_leah_mitsuru, a poor transliteration of the term ????. The term ??? appears in my favourite dictionary, so by negating it as indicated by ?, the survey becomes a look at the features of people who do not have a sufficient real-world life.
Demographics
Over the 5th and 6th of September 2011 1,112 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 70.8% of the sample were female, 13.5% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 28.1% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, 8.7% in their fifties, and 6.0% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
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Read more on: goo ranking,real lifeQ: What are the characteristics of someone who has an insufficient real-world life? (Sample size=1,112)
Rank ? Score 1 Often pessimistic 100 2 Few friends 96.5 3 No partner 83.1 4 Often goes the whole day without talking to anyone 73.7 5 Not interested in what?s going on round about 56.4 6 Not interested in appearing presentable 52.4 7 Not motivated regarding relationships 51.5 8 When someone suddenly starts speaking to them, they stutter and stammer 50.1 9 Not interested in physical love 46.7 10 Often thinks ?I?m not that sort of person? 44.8 11 Chronic case of teenager-ism 42.0 12 Get them onto their pet subject and the never shut up 41.3 13 Likes to do things on their own 40.2 14 Often logs into an SNS 39.5 15 Takes praise as sarcasm 39.3 16 Can?t play sports 33.9 17 Karaoke repertoire is full of minor hits that no-one can understand 31.4 18 No interest in the latest craze 28.6 19 Makes fun of the stereotype of those who have a real life 26.6 20 Thinks that putting effort into making oneself attractive to the opposite sex is embarrassing 24.5 21 Their parents also need to get a real life 23.8 22 If someone were to find them attractive, they would suspect it was all a plot so could not celebrate it 23.3 23= Not a member of any clubs, etc 23.1 23= Spends days off at home 23.1 23= Buys basically everything online 23.1 26 High net literacty 22.9 27 Can?t mention marriage and feels scared about it 21.2 28 Rather than ask when they don?t know something, they look it up and most often resolve the matter themselves 20.3 29 Actively avoids what?s in vogue 17.1 30 Has a single hobby that they are completely wrapped up in 14.5 31 Astute when focusing their eyes on something 10.6 32 Busy at work 9.5 33 Has few SNS friends 8.3 34 Doesn?t like to dress flashily, but instead has understated elegance 7.2 35 Good with their hands 5.8
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Monday, 24 October 2011
Official: EU banks have to raise $140 billion (AP)
BRUSSELS ? EU finance ministers neared agreement Saturday on forcing banks to raise just over euro100 billion ($140 billion) to ensure they have enough cushion to weather further losses on their Greek bonds as well as market turmoil, a European official said.
In order to help Athens dig out of its debts ? and hopefully keep a cap on the amount of money they have to loan Greece ? the 17 countries that use the euro agreed Friday to ask banks to take bigger writedowns on Greek bonds. A new report suggests the value of Greek bonds might need to be slashed as much as 60 percent.
Taming Greece's debts is an important part of the euro debt crisis puzzle, but it could make banks across the continent ? not just in the eurozone ? more vulnerable at a time when they're already facing declining stock prices and finding it difficult to get regular loans for their day-to-day operations.
So when the eurozone finance ministers decided to reopen negotiations on Greek debt with the banks, the EU had to force its banks to reinforce their rainy-day funds.
Strengthening banks and slashing Greece's debts are critical to solving Europe's crisis, which is now threatening to engulf larger economies like Italy and Spain and is blamed for dampening growth across Europe and even the world.
"The crisis in the eurozone is doing real damage to many of the European economies, including Britain," George Osborne, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, said as he headed into Saturday's meeting. "We have had enough of short-term measures, sticking plasters that get us through the next few weeks."
The European official said EU leaders meeting Sunday should sign off on forcing the continent's biggest banks to raise just over euro100 billion in capital. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions between ministers were still ongoing.
The figure is likely to disappoint some analysts. A report by the International Monetary Fund has called for up to euro200 billion ($280 billion) to be poured into banks.
The new rules would force systemically important banks to raise their core capital ratios to 9 percent, compared with just 5 percent to 6 percent they needed to pass EU stress tests this summer. The ratio measures the amount of capital banks hold compared to their risky assets.
Greece, of course, has it far worse: The country is struggling through a third year of recession and record unemployment, which reached 16.5 percent in July. Deep anger is building against the Socialist government's repeated rounds of new austerity measures. A two-day general strike against the new cuts and taxes shut down much of the country this week and led to violent protests on the streets of Athens.
Pressure to contain the Greek crisis ramped up Friday after a new report from the country's debt inspectors ? the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF ? showed that its economic situation had deteriorated dramatically even since the summer.
If banks don't take bigger losses, the report said, Greece's debt would peak at a massive 186 percent of economic output in 2013 and only decline to 152 percent by the end of 2020.
That would prevent Greece from raising money on the markets until 2021 and require the eurozone and the IMF to fund an extra euro252 billion ($350 billion) in new loans to Greece through 2020, according to the report, which was marked confidential but was seen by The Associated Press.
Those funds would be in addition to Greece's first bailout of euro110 billion ($152 billion), which has been keeping the country afloat since May of last year, and another euro109 billion ($150 billion) rescue agreed to in July.
The report said that Greece's debts would have to be cut by 60 percent if the eurozone wants to avoid lending it more money. It did not make policy recommendations, and the European Central Bank opposes cutting Greece's debts further.
But finance ministers are clearly paying close attention to the experts' document. Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter told journalists Saturday that the eurozone's chief negotiator, Vittorio Grilli, had been asked to restart negotiations with banks.
That means the July deal, under which banks would have taken writedowns on their Greek bond holdings of about 21 percent, is definitively off the table.
Despite that significant progress, agreement on arguably the most important measure has remained elusive to eurozone leaders: boosting the firepower of the currency union's euro440 billion ($600 billion) bailout fund to keep the crisis from spreading.
Increasing the effectiveness of the fund ? called the European Financial Stability Facility ? is meant to help prevent larger economies like Italy and Spain from being unable to afford to borrow money from markets. That's exactly what happened to Greece, Portugal and Ireland and why those three EU countries needed bailouts.
Germany and France still disagree over how to do that and failed to make much progress on that front Friday night. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are meeting Saturday evening in the hopes of moving toward a deal.
The Greek crisis and its threat of contagion have led to calls for more robust intervention when it becomes clear that an EU country is in financial trouble.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Saturday that the EU along with the IMF should be able to directly intervene in the budgets of member states if they are receiving financial aid but failing to meet fiscal targets.
But not all EU nations share his view. The foreign ministers of Luxembourg and Finland cautioned that changing the EU treaty is too big a task to tackle now and the bloc should try instead to strengthen budget rules through existing channels.
Significant changes to the EU treaty would require national referendums in some countries, and winning approval for the current treaty from 27 nations took 10 years.
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Elena Becatoros contributed to this report from Brussels.
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Sunday, 23 October 2011
Jennifer Lopez Takes Tearful Trip Down Memory Lane on Stage
Don't be fooled by the rocks Jennifer Lopez has got. She's still, she's still, a heart-broken girl from the block.
During a concert at Mohegan Sun last night, the artist preceded a rendition of "Until It Beats No More" by telling the audience: "I'm going to sing you the last song I wrote about love. A lot has changed since then," referencing her split from Marc Anthony.
From there, a J. Lo lookalike danced with men who resembled exes Diddy, Cris Judd and Ben Affleck. The final pairing gyrated on stage similar to how Lopez got down with Anthony on the May finale of American Idol.
"I took a trip down memory lane," Lopez said after the performance. She then started to cry as the crowd cheered.
Glee star Lea Michele was actually at the event and Tweeted soon after: “Omg Jennifer Lopez is seriously AMAZING. She just killed it!!!!! She’s gorgeous and so beyond talented!!!”
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Senate rejects slimmed-down Obama jobs bill
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Despite a campaign-style push this week by President Barack Obama, the Senate on Thursday scuttled pared-back jobs legislation aimed at helping state and local governments avoid layoffs of teachers and firefighters.
Obama's three-day bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia ? states crucial to his re-election race next year ? didn't change any minds among Senate Republicans, who killed Obama's latest jobs measure with delaying tactics just as they killed his broader $447 billion jobs plan last week.
Thursday's $35 billion measure combined $30 billion for state and local governments to hire teachers and other school workers with $5 billion to help pay the salaries of police officers, firefighters and other first responders. The White House says the measure would "support" almost 400,000 education jobs for one year. Republicans call that a temporary "sugar high" for the economy.
Despite the negative vote, Obama and his Democratic allies are acting like they've found a winning issue in repeatedly pressing popular ideas such as infrastructure spending and boosting hiring of police officers and firefighters. The sluggish economy and lower tax revenues have caused many teachers' jobs to be cut over the past several years.
After the failure of the jobs measure last week, Democrats vowed to try to resurrect it on a piece by piece basis, even though the strategy doesn't seem to have any better chance of success. But Democrats are trying to win a political advantage through repeated votes.
They're also pressing for passage of a poll-tested financing mechanism ? a surcharge on income exceeding $1 million.
An AP-GfK poll taken Oct. 13-17 found 62 percent of respondents favoring the surcharge as a way to pay for jobs initiatives. Just 26 percent opposed the idea.
Republicans say the president is more interested in picking political fights with them than seeking compromise. Still, they don't seem to be afraid of a politically weakened Obama. Not a single Republican backed the president in last week's vote
At the same time, several Democrats opposed the underlying measure, even though they voted in favor of at least allowing debate to begin.
And Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent, said the stimulus-style jobs bill spends money the country doesn't have and takes revenues away from a special "supercommittee" charged with cutting the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion over the coming decade.
According to the AP-GfK poll, Obama's party has lost the faith of the public on handling the economy. In the new poll, only 38 percent said they trust Democrats to do a better job than Republicans in handling the economy, the first time Democrats have fallen below 40 percent in the poll. Some 43 percent trust the Republicans more.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, speaking the day after Obama returned from bus tour, said the president's plan has the advantage of providing an immediate kick to the economy.
Republicans want to roll back government regulations that they say choke job growth. They backed free-trade pacts with South Korea, Colombia and Panama that were ratified this month. They also back extending tax breaks for businesses that buy new equipment and favor offering a $4,800 tax credit to companies that hire veterans.
Democrats and the White House, meanwhile, are confident that other elements of Obama's larger jobs bill, including extending cuts in federal Social Security payroll taxes, will pass. A 2 percentage point payroll tax cut enacted last year expires at the end of the year. Obama has proposed cutting it by an additional percentage point and extending the cut to the first $5 million of a company's payroll.
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Saturday, 22 October 2011
The Real Science behind Scientology
In the 1990s I had the opportunity to dine with the late musician Isaac Hayes, whose career fortunes had just made a stunning turnabout upward, which he attributed to Scientology. It was a glowing testimonial by a sincere follower of the Church, but is it evidence that Scientology works? Two recently published books argue that there is no science in Scientology, only quasireligious doctrines wrapped in New Age flapdoodle masquerading as science. The Church of Scientology, by Hugh B. Urban, professor of religious studies at Ohio State University, is the most scholarly treatment of the organization to date, and investigative journalist Janet Reitman?s Inside Scientology is an electrifying read that includes eye-popping and well-documented tales of billion-year con?tracts, aggressive recruitment programs and abuse of staffers.
The problem with testimonials is that they do not constitute evidence in science. As social psychologist Carol Tavris told me, ?Every therapy produces enthusiastic testimonials because of the justification-of-effort effect. Anyone who invests time and money and effort in a therapy will say it helped. Scientology might have helped Isaac Hayes, just as psychoanalysis and bungee jumping might have helped others, but that doesn?t mean the intervention was the reason. To know if there is anything special about Scientology, you need to do controlled studies?randomly assigning people to Scientology or a control group (or a different therapy) for the same problem.? To my knowledge, no such study has been conducted. The real science behind Scientology seems to be an understanding of the very human need, as social animals, to be part of a supportive group?and the willingness of people to pay handsomely for it.
If Scientology is not a science, is it even a religion? Well, it does have its own creation myth. Around 75 million years ago Xenu, the ruler of a Galactic Confederation of 76 planets, transported billions of his charges in spaceships similar to DC-8 jets to a planet called Teegeeack (Earth). There they were placed near volcanoes and killed by exploding hydrogen bombs, after which their ?thetans? (souls) remained to inhabit the bodies of future earthlings, causing humans today great spiritual harm and unhappiness that can be remedied through special techniques involving an Electropsychometer (E-meter) in a process called auditing.
Thanks to the Internet, this story?previously revealed only to those who paid many thousands of dollars in courses to reach Operating Thetan Level III (OT III) of Scientology?is now so widely known that it was even featured in a 2005 episode of the animated TV series South Park. In fact, according to numerous Web postings by ex-Scientologists, documents from court cases involving followers who reached OT III and abundant books and articles by ex-members who heard the story firsthand and corroborate the details, this is Scientology?s Genesis. So did its founder, writer L. Ron Hubbard, just make it all up?as legend has it?to create a religion that was more lucrative than producing science fiction?
Instead of printing the legend as fact, I recently interviewed the acclaimed science-fiction author Harlan Ellison, who told me he was at the birth of Scientology. At a meeting in New York City of a sci-fi writers? group called the Hydra Club, Hubbard was complaining to L. Sprague de Camp and the others about writing for a penny a word. ?Lester del Rey then said half-jokingly, ?What you really ought to do is create a religion because it will be tax-free,? and at that point everyone in the room started chiming in with ideas for this new religion. So the idea was a Gestalt that Ron caught on to and assimilated the details. He then wrote it up as ?Dianetics: A New Science of the Mind? and sold it to John W. Campbell, Jr., who published it in Astounding Science Fiction in 1950.?
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How Muammar Qaddafi met his end
Shaky video shows that Muammar Qaddafi was taken alive, but injured, and there are credible reports that one of his sons died with him.
Reuters has the best report from the ground I've seen on Muammar Qaddafi's capture this morning. The reporters on the scene say it seems likely that NATO forces hit a convoy of about 15 vehicles fleeing Sirte to the west, that Qaddafi and the survivors took refuge in a drainpipe off the highway, and that rebel fighters induced them to surrender after a brief firefight.
Skip to next paragraphSirte, the last regime holdout and Qaddafi's hometown, was finally falling to the uprising at the time Qaddafi fled.
Rebel fighters on the scene told Reuters that Qaddafi was already wounded -- one said he'd been shot in the back and the leg -- at the time they took him into custody. They took him back towards Sirte, where the footage was apparently shot. It shows Qaddafi -- clearly alive, but shaken and wounded -- surrounded by triumphant rebels. The drainpipe detail, given that Qaddafi frequently referred to Libya's rebels as "rats" and other vermin, has been widely noted by many in Libya.
What happened next is uncertain. There are reports out of Libya that a rebel shot and killed him. It's also possible that he succumbed to his injuries, and that's the position of the National Transitional Council. An airstrike, for instance, can do a lot of internal damage that isn't immediately visible. But it seems fairly certain that he was dead within the hour, and his body was taken to Misrata, a city to the west of Sirte that withstood the bloodiest pro-Qaddafi siege of the war.
It's also becoming clear that a large number of his loyalists were either killed or captured in and around Sirte today. Abu Bakr Younes Jaber, Qaddafi's army chief, was killed around the time Qaddafi was captured. His son Mutassim was found dead in Sirte, and pictures of his body circulated on the Internet. Moussa Ibrahim, the regime spokesman whose declarations of imminent victory as Tripoli fell to the rebels this summer were an Internet sensation, was said to have been taken alive. And Al Jazeera reporter that the feared Abdullah Sennusi, probably Qaddafi's most trusted aide after his immediate family, was also reported dead. Mr. Sennusi has been accused by survivors of ordering the massacre of 1,200 prisoners at Abu Salim prison in 1996.
Today is one of major triumph for Libya's revolution, and in a smaller way for the Obama administration and NATO allies that decided to use air-power in support of the rebellion more than months ago now. Below is how Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton got the news of Qaddafi's capture.
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Friday, 21 October 2011
Lindsay Lohan Shows Up Late to Morgue; Officials Tell Train Wreck to Get Lost
Un. Believable. Lindsay Lohan was turned away from the L.A. County Morgue this morning after showing up late for community service. Way to go, girl!
The star, who was briefly cuffed and jailed yesterday, was supposed to be there at 8 a.m. At 7:40, her assistant called to say she'd be there in 10 minutes.
When did she roll up in her $80,000 Porsche? Not until 8:40.
Linds in court for the 29,391st time yesterday.
Her publicist claims she was late "due to a combination of not knowing the entrance to go through and confusion caused by media waiting for her arrival."
Always excuses with LiLo, and Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter thinks this story has more cracks than Lindsay's teeth, since she's been there before.
Winter just told reporters there's NO WAY Lindsay was confused about anything, given that his office provided step-by-step directions on where to go.
More likely, she was strung out on meth ... KIDDING. Well, probably. You never know.
Lindsay was met at the door by Coroner's officials who turned her away. Her probation office was notified; Judge Stephanie Sautner will hear about it.
What happened today is not a violation, as the judge only required Lohan put in 16 hours at the morgue by November 2, when she's due back in court.
But for a colossal f*%k-up who can't get it together, and whose penchant for thumbing her nose at authority is well-known ... not a good PR move.
Lohan was on probation for her necklace heist until Judge Sautner revoked it yesterday. Lindsay posted $100,000 bail, freeing her until November 2.
She may be sentenced to jail then. Should she be?
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Thursday, 20 October 2011
Rick Perry flat tax plan: Don't expect a 9-9-9 retread
Rick Perry says his flat tax plan is a major part of his broad prescription to revive the economy and create jobs ? a move he hopes will also revive his campaign.
Fresh off Tuesday night?s rollicking GOP presidential debate, Rick Perry says he?ll soon be unveiling a flat tax proposal.
Skip to next paragraph"It starts with ? scrapping the three million words of the current tax code, starting over with something simple: a flat tax," the Texas governor told GOP activists at the Western Republican Leadership Conference in Las Vegas Wednesday.
Like businessman Herman Cain, whose 9-9-9 plan came under fire at Tuesday's debate, Mr. Perry wants to do away with the current tax system. Although Perry won?t reveal the details until a speech scheduled for next week in South Carolina, the similarities likely end there.
?Herman, I love you, brother, but let me tell you something: You don?t have to have a big analysis to figure this thing out. Go to New Hampshire, where they don?t have a sales tax, and you?re fixing to give them one,? Perry told Mr. Cain during the debate. ?They?re not interested in 9-9-9. What they?re interested in is flatter and fairer."
Perry added, "I?ll bump plans with you, brother ? and we?ll see who has the best idea about how you get this country working again.?
(The Twitterverse, by the way, burbled with questions Wednesday about why Perry twice referred to Cain, who is African American, as ?brother.? Had it anything to do with Perry?s recent problem over his family?s hunting camp once having a racist name?)
It?s expected that Perry?s flat tax plan will be a major part of his broad plan to revive the economy and create jobs. The New York Times reports that Steve Forbes, who ran for president in 1996 and 2000 on a pledge of implementing a single flat tax on income, has recently joined Perry?s campaign as an adviser.
Perry told the Republican gathering Wednesday that he ?will put forward a plan that balances the budget,? and he pledged to ?barnstorm all 50 states to generate support for a balanced-budget amendment that will require the necessary tough choices year after year.?
Among other traditionally conservative talking points, Perry promised ?a serious commitment to spending cuts,? said he would aggressively pursue a ?Made in America? energy policy that goes after ?untapped supplies of natural gas, oil and coal,? and vowed to ?put a halt to job-killing EPA rules that are grinding our economy to a halt.? He also promised to ban congressional earmarks.
In principle, a flat tax would replace today?s graduated tax rates that increase with income with a single rate for all income levels. Critics consider it regressive and harmful to those of lesser means.
According to a recent analysis by the Tax Policy Center, Cain?s 9-9-9 plan (a flat 9 percent income tax, a 9 percent sales tax, and a 9 percent tax on business income) would raise taxes on 84 percent of American households while cutting taxes for the ?millionaires and billionaires? President Obama says can afford to pay more.
Notable among the debate fireworks Tuesday night were the sharp exchanges between Perry and party establishment favorite Mitt Romney.
In his speech Wednesday, Perry did not mention Romney by name, but he alluded to a difference he wants to portray.
?I am not the candidate of the establishment,? he said. ?You won?t hear a lot of shape-shifting nuance from me.?
Perry also used his flat tax teaser to take a poke at Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who admitted during his 2009 confirmation hearings that he had been late in filing his income tax returns.
?I want to make the tax code so simple that even Timothy Geithner can file his taxes on time,? Perry said.
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The caveman in us votes for tall presidents
We like our presidents tall, it seems. And now researchers think they know why, saying leftover caveman instincts draw us toward strong and mighty (or tall) leaders who we view as able to protect us.
"Some traits and instincts that may have been acquired through evolution continue to manifest themselves in modern life, seemingly irrationally," study researcher Gregg R. Murray of Texas Tech University said in a statement, adding that our fear of snakes, for instance, likely evolved from a time when snakes were a common threat. [ Top 10 Phobias Explained ]
"We believe similar traits exist in politics," he said.
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Murray, along with Texas Tech graduate student J. David Schmitz, credited the "presidential height index" ? a popular observation that taller candidates have won 58 percent of U.S. presidential elections between 1789 and 2008 ? as piquing their interest in the role that height plays in leader selection.
"Culture and environment alone cannot explain how a preference for taller leaders is a near-universal trait we see in different cultures today, as well as in societies ranging from ancient Mayans, to pre-classical Greeks and even animals," Schmitz said.
For instance, past research based on skeletal measurements collected from pre-classical Greek and ancient Mayan excavations suggests that "political control" was associated with greater physical stature, the researchers write in the Oct. 18 issue of the journal Social Science Quarterly. And studies on animals ranging from chimpanzees and gorillas to African elephants and even some birds suggest height can serve as a cue of an opponent's strength and power.
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The researchers theorized that evolutionary psychology, or the study of universal human behaviors related to psychological mechanisms that evolved based on ancient humans' interactions with their physical and social environments, influenced the development of this height preference for political leaders.
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To test their theory, the authors asked 467 U.S. and international students from both public and private schools in the United States to describe and draw a "typical citizen" and an "ideal national leader." They were then asked to draw the citizen and leader meeting each other. The findings showed that 64 percent of the participants drew the leader as taller than the citizen.
In a second study, the researchers asked participants to complete a questionnaire about their height and perceptions of their own leadership characteristics. For example, the participants rated how likely they would be to run for an elected position in an organization on a four-point scale. The results showed that the taller participants were more likely to think of themselves as capable leaders and were more likely to express an interest in pursuing a leadership position.
The findings suggest that humans' preference for tall leaders is likely an evolved psychological trait that is independent of any cultural conditioning, the researchers said. They also stated that individuals with a greater physical stature are more likely to view themselves as qualified to be a leader, and as a result of this increased sense of efficacy, are more likely to pursue a leadership position.
"So while at 6 feet 1 inch, Barack Obama towered over the 5-foot-8-inch John McCain in 2008, perhaps he?ll meet his physical equal in one of the 'big man' governors in the 6-foot-1-inch Rick Perry or the 6-foot-2-inch Mitt Romney in November 2012," Murray said.
Caveman instincts?
Murray said he expects some scientists will be skeptical about the interpretation of the results, for one, because proving a theory in the social sciences is tricky. "We don?t 'prove' things in the social sciences, we present evidence in support of our arguments then look for or do other research to see if we get results that confirm or disconfirm our findings," he told LiveScience.
In addition, some reject evolutionary psychology as an explanation for modern phenomena. "I think mostly because they have not had full exposure to the arguments and evidence [of evolutionary psychology]," Murray said.
Murray's team has ruled out other explanations for our preference of tall leaders, he said, including a cultural reason, such as the possibility that our society is biased against shorter people. The researchers accounted for this idea, finding the phenomenon happens in nonhuman animals, across cultures and in pre-modern human cultures.
Past research has also suggested humans have retained our caveman instincts. A study published in 2007 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed that modern humans are still experts at spotting predators and prey, despite the developed world's safe suburbs and indoor lifestyle.
You can follow LiveScience writer Remy Melina on Twitter @remymelina. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescienceand onFacebook.
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Iowa sets caucuses for Jan. 3 (Politico)
The Iowa caucuses will be Jan. 3, state Republican Chairman Matt Strawn announced after a Monday evening conference call of the Iowa GOP?s Central Committee that set the date.
The announcement leaves New Hampshire as the last state to announce the date of its presidential nominating contest. Iowa went forward with setting its date without waiting for New Hampshire, its traditional partner at the beginning of the presidential calendar to set its own.
Continue ReadingThe result could upend the primary calendar by pushing New Hampshire?s date into December ? potentially reverberating into the calculus of the nomination itself. Iowa is usually the first vote of the season, followed by New Hampshire, but now New Hampshire may go first.
?On behalf of over 600,000 Iowa Republicans, I?m excited to announce the first step Iowans will have to replace Barack Obama and his failed presidency will be next January 3 at our First in the Nation Iowa Caucuses,? Strawn said in an Iowa GOP press release. ?A January 3 date provides certainty to the voters, to our presidential candidates, and to the thousands of statewide volunteers who make the Caucus process a reflection of the very best of our representative democracy.?
Much weighs on the calendar and the order in which the early states choose their candidates. Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann have, largely, bet their campaigns on performing well in Iowa?s caucuses and using that momentum to catapult them through the other early states.
Likewise, to show solidarity with the state where he?s bet his entire candidacy, Jon Huntsman is boycotting Tuesday night?s Las Vegas debate. Bachmann, Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain said they would boycott the Nevada caucus if the matter is not resolved by then. Perry, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul said they would continue to campaign in Nevada.
But if Gardner jumps New Hampshire?s primary ahead of Iowa, he could throw that early momentum advantage to Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is heavily favored and far ahead in New Hampshire polls.
Iowa?s date had originally been set for Feb. 6. However, following a rush to earlier in the calendar set off by Arizona and Florida selecting earlier dates ? South Carolina and Nevada moved their contests up from February to the second and third Saturdays in January ? Iowa Republicans moved their date earlier to keep the state?s traditional first spot.
Iowa GOP Central Committeeman Drew Ivers said Chairman Matt Strawn told the committee that he?s in regular communication with Gardner and that the two states are working in concert.
?They don?t have any problem with us going on Jan. 3,? Ivers said. ?Now that we set our date, it?s between New Hampshire and Nevada how they want to negotiate.?
Strawn called on Nevada Republicans, who are engaged in a game of primary calendar chicken with New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner, to move their caucus back from the scheduled Jan. 14 date, which Gardner has said may require New Hampshire to hold its primary in December.
?I will do everything in my power on the RNC to hold Florida accountable for creating this mess, but the culpability for creating a compressed January calendar does not end there,? Strawn said. ?The actions of early state newcomer Nevada have also exacerbated this problem and unnecessarily crowded the January calendar. Time remains for Nevada to respect the process, honor tradition and rectify the problem in a way that will restore order to the nomination calendar.?
Nevada Republicans? choice of Jan. 14 led to Gardner warning last week that he may schedule the New Hampshire primary in December to abide by state law that requires the primary be held at least seven days before the next ?similar election.?
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