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2014 Chevrolet Camaro SS to debut at New York Auto Show
Drivers got a tease of the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro SS Wednesday, scheduled to debut at the New York Auto Show next week.?Model refreshes can be a mixed bag, Ireson writes, but with the Chevy Camaro, it's hard to know what to expect.
GM teased a first glimpse of the redesigned 2014 Chevrolet Camaro SS before it makes its global debut at the 2013 New York Auto Show.
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This is the first glimpse of the redesigned?2014 Chevrolet Camaro?before it makes its global debut at the?2013 New York Auto Show.
Shown in SS trim, the bowtie badge, SS badge, and a slice of the hood, grille, and front bumper all look rather a lot like the current?car. The most notable difference is the grille, which goes from a simple grid layout to a series of vertical bars with inset twin horizontal elements.
Chevy says the 2014 model will be the most significant change in the fifth-generation car's run, which makes sense--it's the first full refresh since the car's debut in 2009.
The full details, including photos and specifications, will be revealed at the Javits Center in New York City next Wednesday, at 12:45 p.m. EDT.?
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New assault report similar to Steubenville case
Joan Toribio carries the ball during a game last fall (Torrington High School/Facebook)
On paper, it sounds awfully familiar.
Two high school football players are accused of sexual assault. Their fellow students take to social media to defend the pair, taunting and blaming the victims. An athletic director brushes aside the allegations?along with separate hazing, felony robbery and assault charges against the school's athletes?as "not any different than any other community." Administrators are reluctant to immediately address the accusations and make it appear like a cover-up. The online hacktivist group Anonymous pledges to expose the truth and publicly shame those who engage in cyberbullying and victim-blaming.
Except this isn't Steubenville, Ohio?it's Torrington, Conn., where two 18-year-olds, Edgar Gonzalez and Joan Toribio, stand accused of second-degree sexual assault of two 13-year-old girls. The investigation has led to the arrest of a 17-year-old male for an alleged assault on one of the 13-year-old girls last fall, police say, and more arrests could be forthcoming.
Gonzalez and Toribio, who live in the same Torrington apartment complex, were arrested last month on the sexual assault charges stemming from separate incidents that occurred around the same time period in February, a Torrington police official said on Wednesday. Both pleaded not guilty.
The investigation is ongoing, Torrington police say, and more arrests could be forthcoming.
"It's very involved," Torrington Police Lt. Mike Emanuel told reporters on Wednesday. "It's very difficult to follow, even for us."
Joan Toribio and Edgar Gonzalez (Torrington Police)
The victims and their alleged attackers knew one another, Emanuel said. "The reason that this is a sexual assault is that there is more than a three-year age difference. That's what we have to keep in mind."
When asked if the sexual contact was consensual, Emanuel said, "Statutorily it is not consensual."
Gonzalez, who had already been facing felony robbery charges related to a March 2012 incident, is being held at a New Haven correction center. Toribio, who was charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault, was released on $100,000 bond and is being electronically monitored.
Sealed by a Litchfield court, the case had been kept under wraps by school officials until this week, when the Register Citizen reported that "dozens of athletes and Torrington High School students, male and female," taunted the victims on Twitter:
Students flocked to social media in the days surrounding the arrests of Gonzalez and Toribio, with several students offering support for the two football players and others blaming the victims for causing the incident. References included calling a 13-year-old who hangs around with 18-year-olds a ?whore,? and claiming the victims ?destroyed? the lives of the players.
"Even if it was all his fault," Mary J. Ramirez, whose Twitter handle is @LoryyRamirez, wrote, "what was a 13 year old girl doing hanging around 18 year old guys[?]"
?I wanna know why there?s no punishment for young hoes,? Twitter user @asmedick wrote, according to the paper.
Torrington school officials said on Wednesday that they would investigate the apparent cyberbullying.
"We?re doing everything we can to provide the safety [the alleged victims] need in schools,? Kenneth Traub, Torrington's Board of Education chairman, said on Wednesday.
Toribio and Gonzalez on the field last fall (Torrington High School/Facebook)
As was the case in Steubenville, Anonymous has gotten involved, launching "Operation Raider," a reference to the nickname of the Torrington High School football team.
?#OpRaider is the new #OpRollRedRoll," the group tweeted late Wednesday. "Torrington better take note of #Steubenville because they?re about to go on blast. #endrapeculture"
High school football takes on elevated importance in Torrington, a small town in northwest Connecticut. "Like Steubenville," Doug Barry wrote on Jezebel.com, the case in Connecticut "hinges in large part on the seemingly disproportionate influence a school?s football program has on the surrounding community."
Despite the felony robbery charges, Gonzalez was allowed to play football last fall.
?I reeled the kid in after that, and he walked the line," Dan Dunaj, Torrington's former head football coach, told the Register Citizen. "As a coach I was doing something right.?
Dunaj resigned in December amid an ongoing investigation into a hazing incident involving four football players last fall.
"If you think there's some wild band of athletes that are wandering around, then I think you're mistaken," Torrington High School Athletic Director Mike McKenna told the Register Citizen. "If you look at crime statistics, these things happen everywhere and we're not any different than any other community."
In an editorial published on Thursday, the Register Citizen blasted "the posture of denial and defensiveness" Torrington school officials have taken in response to the case:
The first step in recovering from this is admitting you have a problem. And after reading the social media accounts of average, "good" students at Torrington High School, it's clear that Torrington students need an urgent education about blaming the victim, bullying and harassment, what "consent" means, why statutory rape is rape, period, and where football should stand in relation to their education and the rest of life. Let's hope that starts today.
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Amazon CEO raises Apollo engines from seafloor
Long thought to be lost forever on the ocean floor, massive engines that launched astronauts to the moon more than 40 years ago have been recovered by a private expedition led by the founder of Amazon.com.
"We found so much," said Jeff Bezos, the online retailer's CEO, in an update posted Wednesday (March 20) on the Bezos Expeditions website. "We have seen an underwater wonderland ? an incredible sculpture garden of twisted F-1 enginesthat tells the story of a fiery and violent end, one that serves testament to the Apollo program."
When NASA's mighty Saturn V rockets were launched on missions to Earth orbit and the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the five F-1 engines that powered each of the boosters' first stages dropped into the Atlantic Ocean and sank to the seafloor. There they were expected to remain, discarded forever.
Then, almost exactly one year ago, Bezos announced his private ? and until then, secret ? expedition had located what they believed to be theengines from the 1969 Apollo 11 mission?that began the journey to land the first humans on the moon. [Apollo Rocket Engines Recovered by Jeff Bezos (Photos)]
"Nearly one year ago, Jeff Bezos shared with us his plans to recover F-1 engines," said NASA administrator Charles Bolden in a statement that was released Wednesday. "We share the excitement expressed by Jeff and his team in announcing the recovery of two of the powerful Saturn V first-stage engines from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean."
Poetic echoes of lunar missions
When Bezos first revealed that his team had discovered the engines using state-of-the-art deep-sea sonar, he said he wasn't sure what condition they were in.
"They hit the ocean at high velocity and have been in salt water for more than 40 years. On the other hand, they are made of tough stuff, so we'll see," Bezos wrote in 2012.
What they saw, using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV), was a tangled pile of F-1 engine parts strewn across the ocean floor at a depth of more than 14,000 feet (4,270 meters).
"We photographed many beautiful objects in situ and have now recovered many prime pieces," Bezos wrote in the update Wednesday. "Each piece we bring on deck conjures for me the thousands of engineers who worked together back then to do what for all time had been thought surely impossible."
The scene also evoked the Apollo moon missions themselves.
"We on the team were often struck by poetic echoes of the lunar missions," Bezos wrote. "The buoyancy of the ROVs looks every bit like microgravity. The blackness of the horizon. The gray and colorless ocean floor. Only the occasional deep sea fish broke the illusion."
Bezos and his team are now heading back to port in Cape Canaveral, Fla., after working for three weeks at sea on the Seabed Worker, a multi-purpose support vessel.
Recovery, restoration and display
The Bezos expedition returned enough major components to rebuild two Saturn V F-1 engines ? out of the 65 that were launched between 1967 and 1973 ? for display. Despite claims last year that the engines were specifically from Apollo 11, Bezos now says the history of the engine parts he recovered may not be known.
Inspecting the raised pieces, Bezos reported that many of the parts' original serial numbers are missing or partially missing, which may make mission identification difficult.
"We might see more during restoration," Bezos wrote.
Once the engine parts are back on land, they will undergo a restoration to stabilize the hardware and prevent further corrosion from their decades-long exposure to the ocean's salt water. But Bezos hinted the restoration may not return the engines to like-new condition.
"We want the hardware to tell its true story, including its 5,000 mile per hour re-entry and subsequent impact with the ocean surface," Bezos stated. "We're excited to get this hardware on display where just maybe it will inspire something amazing."
Where the recovered F-1 engines will go on exhibit is still to be decided. Last year, Bezos expressed a desire that if two or more of the engines were successfully raised, one would go on display at The Museum of Flight in Seattle, near where Amazon and Bezos' commercial spaceflight company, Blue Origin, are headquarted.
NASA, which?retains ownership of the engines?and all of its parts, said it would likely offer one to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
"We look forward to the restoration of these engines by the Bezos team and applaud Jeff's desire to make these historic artifacts available for public display," Bolden said.
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Zimbabwe rights lawyer to spend 3rd night in jail
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ? Prominent Zimbabwean rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa was set to spend a third night in jail Tuesday after a court adjourned a hearing on charges she faces of allegedly?obstructing justice.
Police brought her to court after ignoring a judge's order to release her Monday.
Her arrest, the day after a referendum on a new Zimbabwe constitution, prompted an outcry from African and international law organizations.
"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.
Mtetwa, arrested Sunday while representing four officials of the prime minister's party 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.
In court, state prosecutors alleged the four officials in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's office, including his chief legal advisor, were compiling information, some of it in breach of official secrets laws, to discredit the nation's judicial officials for allegedly not prosecuting corrupt politicians.
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 officials and Gofa adjourned the court to resume Wednesday.
Mtetwa was led by prison officials to the basement cells of the courthouse for transportation to the main Harare remand prison.
Mtetwa's arrest was "patently senseless" at a time when she wanted to act on behalf of suspects on Sunday, argued Mpofu, her lawyer.
"Her intimidation was of unwarranted proportion which reflects badly on our institutions," he said.
She 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," Mpofu said.
While in custody, police confiscated her mobile phone and went through it in breach of norms of attorney-client confidentiality.
"There is no basis to act in such a manner to a lawyer of over 30 years," said her lawyer.
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.
Justice Charles Hungwe issued an order around 1 a.m.Monday (2300 GMT Sunday) for arresting officers to immediately release Mtetwa.
But police refused to obey the order and Mtetwa was still held in police cells on Monday.?
The action 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/zimbabwe-rights-lawyer-spend-3rd-night-jail-175219331.html
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Universities: a view of the future
Thank you very much, Paul and Jo, for inviting me to this Education Horizons event and to be a part of the centenary celebrations of the Graduate School of Education here in Bristol. The purpose of today is to make predictions about how education may develop in the twenty-first century and beyond.
Well, predictions can be fun but they also come with three dangers.
First, the danger that you could be wrong and will come to look foolish. I suspect, however, that the true danger here is one of vanity: the idea that one?s words are so interesting that they are actually worth remembering. The next eight minutes will decide upon that!
The second danger is that you predict the worst yet policy makers still manage to go one better ? if better is the right word, and it quite evidently isn?t ? in going beyond even your bleakest imagination. The third was revealed by what I just said: the possibility of being too negative, especially if you tend to see the glass as being half empty which, in truth, I do.
So let me reach for the academic equivalent of camouflage and begin with a reference. It comes from a document published this month by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) entitled ?An Avalanche is Coming: Higher Education and the revolution ahead?, in which the authors say the following:
?Deep, radical and urgent transformation is required in higher education. The biggest risk is that as a result of complacency, caution or anxiety the pace of change is too slow and the nature of change is too incremental. The models of higher education that marched triumphantly across the globe in the second half of the 20th century are broken (p5).?
Deep, radical and urgent transformation.
It?s perhaps worth nothing at this point that the IPPR is described (on Wikipedia at least) as having a centre-left viewpoint. We might also note that the report?s lead author, Sir Michael Barber, is Pearson?s chief education strategist. Pearson is in the business of education. As a colleague pointed out to me, its share price has risen since the report was published.
In any case, the authors of the IPPR seem clear in their views. Actually, I am sympathetic with their argument although a little more hesitant. As I said earlier, forecasting the future is a risky of business.
I cannot imagine, for example, that three decades ago when the Friedmans published Free to Choose that their prognoses of Chapter 6 ? What?s Wrong with Our Schools? ? would become accepted wisdom. The solutions: markets, choice and competition. Not, I admit, school vouchers, though they have had a limited trial in some parts of the United States. But, for me to even couple the words education and market together without you looking blankly at me or to threaten an all out strike is indicative of quite how far things have changed since Margaret Thatcher was creating more comprehensive schools in the UK than any education minister before or since.
Yet, it is a strange market isn?t it? If I walk into Tesco, or more likely Waitrose, I expect my choice of shampoo to be there on the shelf or at least some suitable alternative. The same is not true when I choose a state-supported school for my children or, more accurately, state a preference. Whether I get my preference is constrained by the choices other people are making. If the demand for a school exceeds its supply of places, allocation criteria are used. Often those privilege geography; that is, people living close to the school. It would be odd if I went to Waitrose and they only served those who lived locally, which, incidentally, I do not. And that, incidentally, is why I shop online.
Choices for Higher Education are constrained too. By A-level grade or equivalent. But also by ability to pay or to make ends meet whilst you are studying. Yes, I know that in principle you take out a loan and pay the costs afterwards. However, the system seems to me deeply inequitable. Why? Because those who enter lower paid jobs pay more for their degrees than higher earners. That?s how interest works ? the quicker you pay it off, the less you pay. Another colleague of mine, Professor Ron Johnston, has done some pretty dispiriting calculations. It is not impossible for the true cost of the repayment for a three-year degree programme to be over one hundred thousand pounds. That?s considerably more than the twenty-seven thousand pounds advertised on the price tag and might in any other industry be reasonably construed as false advertising. Here is a forecast for you: if tuition fees were to keep rising at their current rate of trebling about every six years, then in fifty years? time the annual tuition fee would be ?216,000 per year. Ridiculous? Some would have said the same about a Labour Government introducing tuition fees. I doubt many made that forecast either.
So something has to give. Or, as the IPPR report described it, ?Deep, radical and urgent transformation.?
It has to give because how can you have choice when it is so obviously constrained by the financial ability to exercise that choice? It has to give if you still believe in the possibility of education to be transformative, to enrich the lives of individuals and societies.? And by enrich I do not mean merely the financial, though I note that it is a tendency of academics to regard financial gain as somehow less than desirable, a viewpoint that puts them at distinct odds with many others in society. Especially those with less money.
Here, then, is my prediction. Universities in the UK will lose the form of protectionism that currently is afforded to them, I believe through the Privy Council. Others will be given the right to award degrees. Or, maybe, degrees as we currently understand them will not command quite the same status they do now.
Look for example at the rapid growth of MOOCs ? not cows with a cough but Massive Open Online Courses. Courses offered by institutions like Stanford, Berkeley or Harvard that anyone can subscribe too and often get accreditation for taking. You might reasonably ask what?s in it for the institution. Prestige. Promotion. Maybe a fee for marking assessments. Let?s not pretend the motivations are necessarily philanthropic or charitable. However, they are challenging the idea that you must paid a large upfront fee for a product that you have not trialled and are instead replacing it with a ?pay as you go? or don?t pay at all model that inverts the business practice found in most traditional Universities. And why not allow prospective student to shop online if the academic equivalent of Waitrose, Tesco or Aldi ? you make your choice ? isn?t otherwise geographically accessible?
Or take a look at Udemy, a site that allows anyone to build or take online courses. It?s worth a look just to peruse the most popular courses that today, if you are interested, are Microsoft Excel for beginners, becoming a web developer from scratch, and first steps to building a technology company, each priced at between 99 and 199 dollars.? Is this more about capitalism than education? Well maybe. It may equally be about people making a low risk investment in the hope of bettering their employment prospects.
And then there is the University of the People, described as the world?s first non-profit, degree-granting, tuition-free online university dedicated to opening the gates to higher education for all individuals otherwise constrained. 1,143,956 people like it on Facebook. It?s a cheap shot but I?ll take it anyway: only 6,438 like Bristol.
So my prediction is one of more choice, more competition, and an utter reconfiguration of what it means to deliver ?higher education?.? Being at heart a social conservative and traditionalist, I will probably find myself mumbling darkly into my half full glass, complaining about the intrusion of profit making businesses into the market for degrees, the comodification of knowledge, the outsourcing of support services and the caualisation of the labour market with more part-time paid teachers and assessors of standardised content. Teaching Assistants as they might be known. All part of Global Education Inc.?s production line of integrated yet bespoke education services for the modern and aspiring professional.
Or maybe I will have suppressed my cynicism and embraced increased choice and personalisation.? A vision that higher education should not be a luxury good for the affluent and the privileged but an opportunity widely available for all. Perhaps the temptation to be sniffy about the prospect of low cost or cut-price degrees reveals more about me than it does anything else. Maybe the main challenge ahead lies within myself and what I aspire higher education to be.
Thank you.
Source: http://www.social-statistics.org/?p=1019
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German researchers publish full Neanderthal genome
BERLIN (AP) ? Researchers in Germany said Tuesday they have completed the first high-quality sequencing of a Neanderthal genome and are making it freely available online for other scientists to study.
The genome produced from remains of a toe bone found in a Siberian cave is far more detailed than a previous "draft" Neanderthal genome sequenced three years ago by the same team at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
"This allows even the small differences between the copies of genes that this Neanderthal individual inherited from its mother and father to be distinguished," the institute said in a statement.
The team led by geneticist Svante Paabo now hopes to compare the new genome sequence to that of other Neanderthals, as well as to that of a Denisovan ? another extinct human species whose genome was previously extracted from remains found in the same Siberian cave.
"We will gain insights into many aspects of the history of both Neanderthals and Denisovans and refine our knowledge about the genetic changes that occurred in the genomes of modern humans after they parted ways with the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans," Paabo said. The group plans to publish a scientific paper on the issue later this year.
In the meantime, the genome sequence is being made freely available so scientists elsewhere can conduct research on it, he said.
The announcement was welcomed by other researchers.
Wil Roebroeks, an archaeologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands who wasn't involved in the Leipzig study, said it was "exciting times" for comparative studies of humans and our closest extinct relatives.
By combining findings from genetics with studies of early diets, technology and physical anthropology of different human species, scientists would likely yield new insights into our evolutionary past soon, he said.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Biennial mammograms best after 50, even for women with dense breasts, experts say
Mar. 19, 2013 ? Screening for breast cancer every two years appears just as beneficial as yearly mammograms for women ages 50 to 74, with significantly fewer "false positives" -- even for women whose breasts are dense or who use hormone therapy for menopause.
That is the finding of a new national study involving more than 900,000 women that was published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The same team of researchers from UC San Francisco and Seattle-based Group Health Research Institute recently reported similar results for older women ages 66 to 89.
By contrast, women in their 40s with extremely dense breasts who undergo biennial mammography are more likely to have advanced-stage and large tumors than women who undergo annual mammography -- but annual mammograms also resulted in more false positives, according to the new study from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC), the largest available screening mammography dataset in the United States. Having dense breasts means it is difficult for X-rays to pass through the breast tissue.
"Increasing age and high breast density are among the strongest risk factors for the disease," said senior author Karla Kerlikowske, MD, a professor of medicine at UCSF and a physician at the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Screening
Kerlikowske and other BCSC researchers reported in 2012 that risk factors may inform individual decisions that women make with their doctors about when to start breast cancer screening and how often to repeat it. For instance, a family history of breast cancer raises the likelihood of developing the disease but it does not increase the chances of advanced-stage tumors or large tumors.
"These individual decisions involve evaluating the balance between the benefits of screening -- detecting cancer early -- and the potential harms, such as false positives among healthy women," Kerlikowske said. "Some people who are at higher risk of disease may be more willing than those at lower risk to accept such potential harms of screening."
False positives mean that women without cancer are called back for more testing, including biopsies, ultrasounds and more mammograms.
"For women 50 to 74 years old with dense breasts who are cancer free, we estimated that more than half will be recalled for additional mammography at least once over the course of 10 years of annual screening," said study co-author Rebecca A. Hubbard, PhD, an assistant investigator at Group Health Research Institute who is also at the University of Washington School of Public Health. "Screening every other year decreases this risk by about a third. The risk of false-positive results is even higher for women who begin annual screening at age 40."
National Guidelines for Mammograms
When the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force updated its breast cancer screening guidelines in 2009, it advised women to make individual decisions with their doctor. But for average-risk women, these guidelines advised screening mammography every two years for women ages 50 to 74. The guidelines recommended that women in their 40s consider their personal values regarding the benefits and harms and then decide when to begin regular screening. The Task Force deemed evidence on risk factors other than age to be weak at that point.
The new study was designed to explore other risk factors for breast cancer, beyond age. Extremely dense breasts and taking combination hormone therapy (with estrogen and progestin, although not with estrogen alone) had already been shown to raise women's rates of advanced-stage or large tumors. The new study adds to this evidence by showing regardless of breast density or hormone use, screening every other year did not raise the likelihood of detecting advanced-stage or large tumors, compared to yearly screening.
Approximately 12 to 15 percent of women in their 40s -- and approximately 3 to 6 percent of those ages 50 to 74 -- have extremely dense breasts.
How does a woman know if her breasts are dense or extremely dense?
"It's a "Catch- 22"," said co-author Diana L. Miglioretti, PhD, a senior investigator at Group Health Research Institute who is also at the University of California at Davis. "The only standard way to determine your level of breast density is to get a mammogram. But unless your breasts are extremely dense and you have other strong risk factors, the data don't necessarily support your starting screening mammograms before age 50."
The study was supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (R03 CA150007, RC2 CA148577, and P01 CA107584); the National Cancer Institute-funded Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (U01 CA 63740, CA86076, CA86082, CA63736, CA70013, CA69976, CA63731, and CA70040. Several state public health departments and cancer registries throughout the United States supported, in part, the collection of cancer data used in this study.
Co-authors from Group Health Research Institute are: Karen J. Wernli, PhD, Ellen S. O'Meara, PhD, and Weiwei Zhu, MS; from UCSF: Dejana Braithwaite, PhD; from the University of Vermont: Berta Geller, EdD, and Kim Dittus, MD, PhD.
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Tony Awards to head back to Radio City Music Hall
NEW YORK (AP) ? The Tony Awards are going back to the place where the Rockettes high-kick it.
The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, joint producers of the show that honors the best of Broadway, said Monday that the glittery event will be broadcast live by CBS from Radio City Music Hall on June 9. Nominations will be announced April 30.
Producers of the show were forced to find a new home for the 2011 event after Cirque du Soleil moved into the 6,000-seat Rockefeller Center arena with its $50 million acrobatic rock opera "Zarkana." The Tonys had been hosted at Radio City from 1997-2010.
For the past two years, the Tonys were handed out at the Beacon Theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The venue was much smaller, having only about 2,870 seats, leading to ticket-rationing and a struggle to seat the often large amount of show producers.
The decision to return to Radio City, where the Grammy Awards, MTV Video Music Awards and the ESPY Awards have previously been hosted, was made easier when "Zarkana" left after the summer.
The Tonys, which consistently win Emmys for their presentation, began being televised in 1967 and a different Broadway theater ? the biggest, the Gershwin Theatre, has about 1,900 seats ? rotated as host each year. Producers often just added a glittery drop and brought in a few props.
That all changed when Radio City became the home for the telecast, giving producers access to a massive arena that had a stage bigger than any Broadway house and space to grow into an annual spectacle.
Last year's telecast at the intimate Beacon, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and which saw "Once" crowned as best musical, was seen by 6 million viewers, down significantly from 2011's 6.9 million. It was also the second-lowest ratings for the Tony Awards since 1988, though it was up against the season finale of AMC's "Mad Men."
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Greek star Giorgos Katidis apologises on Twitter for his Nazi style salute
Former Greece Under-19 captain Giorgos Katidis has taken to Twitter to apologise for giving a Nazi salute after scoring the winner for AEK Athens on Saturday. The midfielder caused huge controversy after celebrating his goal in the 2-1 win over Veria ?
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Matthew Dowd: CPAC 'Reminds me of Going to the Land Before Time'
Dowd: CPAC is like the 'Flintstones' and the 'Land Before Time'
DOWD: To me imagery and who is there and what you say is important. And I don't think divisions are a bad thing. I actually think that a conservative message that is built for the 21st century would be a good thing. CPAC to me reminds me of going to the "Land Before Time." And it's like going to a "Flintstones" episode in my view.
It's like a bunch of dinosaurs, most of them are like throwbacks in times. It's like who's running for Grand Poobah of the "Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes" is what it looks like to me.
When you have Sarah Palin, who is a - it's an amazing situation to me, it's between her and the Kardashians, I think you add it up, between a Palin connection and the Kardashians, there's 10 reality shows that have been built around that.
I don't think it's helpful to the Republican Party. I think there are some people, Marco Rubio in there, who will become and are stars of the party. I think CPAC's time has come and gone. And it's time for somebody to put together a 21st century conservative agenda.
Below you can find some of the notable comments made Sunday on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." Roundtable guests included ABC News' George Will and Matthew Dowd; House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.; co-host of NPR's All Things Considered Audie Cornish; former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, chair of Good360; former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; former Bush National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley; and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chair Gen. James Cartwright (USMC, Ret.).
Becerra believes a 'break in the stalemate' will occur soon on budget
BECERRA: Well, some of us are having conversations on other matters like immigration, which is perhaps more intractable than the budget. And I think there's a really good chance that we'll make progress there?I think people, Americans, just want to see us move forward. And so I think they want to see us get something done. And so I think - you're going to see a break in this stalemate soon.
Cornish heard a lot of 'meh' on the Hill after Portman switched his gay marriage stance
CORNISH: This is definitely met with a meh by people I know.
RADDATZ: A meh?
CORNISH: Yeah, sort of like, eh, you know, maybe.
And - but also I think what's remarkable, you aren't seeing a lot of like fits of outrage and like very angry emails coming through from people on the other side of this. So, maybe, there's a shift going on regardless of what you think.
Will reiterates 'opposition to gay marriage is literally dying'
WILL: [Portman] will not be the last, because the demographic tide here is large, powerful and execrable. I have said on this program before, opposition to gay marriage is literally dying, it's an older demographic. And if you raise the question among young people, they're not interested. And I dare say this is one of the good things about CPAC. As you saw at CPAC, this was another division and again, a healthy one. It's largely young people attend CPAC. And this is not at the top of their agenda. It's not even on their agenda.
Albright says the Bush administration invaded Iraq for 'God knows what reason'
ALBRIGHT: I supported President Bush on Afghanistan because that is where the people that attacked us on 9/11 came from. The administration - the Bush administration took their eye off the ball in Afghanistan in order to go to Iraq for God knows what reason.
And we now are in a position where neither war is being supported. And we are worried about what is going to happen next. I fully agree with Steve that we now have to worry about what infrastructure there is in Iraq, also in Afghanistan, and the spillover this has on Syria.
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Monday, March 18, 2013
One Direction Clue Fans Into 3-D Movie Title: 'This Is Us'
'Cant wait for you guys to see itttt!!' Liam Payne tweets after revealing name of flick, out August 30.
By Jocelyn Vena
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Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1703900/one-direction-3-d-movie-this-is-us.jhtml
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Live from Expand: A Conversation With Julie Uhrman (video)
OUYA managed to capture the imagination of the Kickstarter community and tech world at large with its dream of a low-cost Android-based gaming console. We'll be speaking with Julie Uhrman, the company's CEO to discuss its plans to disrupt an industry controlled by three giants.
March 16, 2013 4:45 PM EDT
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Sunday, March 17, 2013
Live from Expand: Insert Coin Awards (video)
It's all been leading up to this! We narrowed it down to 10 semifinalists, and you helped us whittle the list down to five -- and now we're ready to announce the winner of our first-ever Insert Coin competition! Join co-host Mark Frauenfelder and our panel of judges as they unveil the results.
March 17, 2013 8:30 PM EDT
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Francis makes 1st window appearance of papacy
VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Breaking with tradition, Pope Francis delivered off-the-cuff remarks about God's power to forgive instead of reading from a written speech for the first Sunday window appearance of his papacy.
He also spoke only in Italian ? beginning with "buon giorno" (Good day) and ending with "buon pranzo" (Have a good lunch) ? instead of greeting the faithful in several languages as his last few predecessors had done.
His comments and humor delighted a crowd of more than 150,000 in St. Peter's Square, drawing cheers and laughter.
But Francis did tweet in English and other languages, saying: "Dear friends, I thank you from my heart and I ask you to continue to pray for me. "
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said it was likely Francis, at least for the moment, given the off-the-cuff style, was sticking with Italian, a language he's comfortable with. Lombardi left open the possibility that other languages would be used in the appearances with the public in the future.
In just five days, Francis' straightforward, spontaneous style has become immediate hallmark of his papacy.
Earlier Sunday, he made an impromptu appearance before the public from a side gate of the Vatican, startling passers-by and prompting cheers, before delivering a six minute homily ? brief by church standards ? at the Vatican's tiny parish church.
Before he entered St. Anna's church to celebrate Mass, he heartily shook hands with parishioners and kissed babies.
After Mass, Francis put his security detail to the test as he waded into the street just outside St. Anna's Gate. As the traffic light at the intersection turned green, Francis stepped up to the crowd, grasping outstretched hands. The atmosphere was so casual that several people even gripped Francis on the shoulder.
A few minutes later as the traffic light turned red, Francis ducked back inside the Vatican's boundaries to dash upstairs for the window appearance from the papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace.
The studio window was opened for the first time since Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, gave his last window blessing on Sunday, Feb. 24. Four days later, Benedict went into retirement, the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years.
The crowd was cheering wildly when the white curtain at the window of his apartment was parted, and Francis appeared, but fell into rapt silence when he began to speak. Some people's eyes welled up. Many people waving the blue-and-white flags of Argentine, the homeland of the world's first Latin American pope. Some people help their children aloft or on their shoulders to get a better look.
Said Ivana Cabello, 23, from Argentina: "We are so proud. He is Argentine, but also belongs to the rest of the world."
Angela Carreon, a 41-year-old Rome resident originally from the Philippines, estimated the crowd was twice as big as for Benedict's last appearance on Feb. 28.
"I think he looks like John Paul II. I hope he is like him," she said. "He has a heart."
Francis, the first pope from Latin America, was elected on March 13. He has been staying in a hotel on the Vatican's premises until the papal apartment in the palace is ready.
Hundreds of extra traffic police were deployed Sunday morning to control crowds and vehicles, for it was also the day of Rome's annual marathon.
Bus routes were rerouted and many streets were closed off in an attempt to channel the curious and faithful up the main boulevard from the Tiber river to St. Peter's square.
Giant video screens were set up so the huge crowd could get a close-up look at Francis, and dozens of medical teams were on hand for any emergencies.
After the Mass, the pope stepped out jauntily from St. Anna's Church and waved to a crowd of hundreds kept behind barriers across the street, and then greeted the Vatican parishioners one by one. One young man patted the pope on the back ? an indication of the informality that has been evident from the first moment of his papacy.
"Francesco! Francesco!" children shouted his name in Italian from the street. As he patted one little boy on the head, he asked "Are you a good boy?" and the child nodded.
"Are you sure?" the pope quipped.
In his homily, Francis said the core message of God is "that of mercy." He said God has an unfathomable capacity to pardon and noted that people are often harder on each other than God is toward sinners.
Edgardo Chapur, 42, an Argentine in Rome for first time, said it was very "emotional" to come to St. Peter's Square to listen to Francis.
"It's fantastic for us. I think it can change a lot of things in Argentina. It gives us hope," he said. "It has given us new strength."
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Associated Press writers Daniela Petroff and Karl Ritter contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/francis-makes-1st-window-appearance-papacy-111541982.html
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Global warming's effect on tornado season still unclear
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XBMC team starts work on version 13 'Gotham', breaks down new UPnP, Android updates
Just because XBMC 12 Frodo has been officially released we wouldn't expect the team behind the media PC software to take too long of a break. In fact, in a blog post it's announced plans to return to a monthly development cycle, as well as a code name for version 13 of the software: Gotham. While we wait for the next official release to arrive, the February build features improvements to UPnP with a "Play Using..." push server feature that should be familiar if you've used Play To on Windows for example. also new are Android fixes that let it rotate in any direction, and control the device's native audio. there are other changes as well, which can be reviewed beyond the source link, along with test versions for your preferred platform.
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Friday, March 15, 2013
Revamped Engineering Programs Emphasize Real-World Problem Solving
Think about cell phones, medical devices, solar power--and engineered bone. "It's blatantly obvious that engineering can make your life better," says T.E. "Ed" Schlesinger, head of the department of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
But for years graduate school programs often failed to make that real-world connection apparent. Traditionally, engineering students have been seen as focusing almost exclusively on advanced math, taking notes in large lecture halls, and working in isolated labs on narrow, abstract projects.
Today, graduate schools are revamping engineering programs to help America regain its competitive edge. These efforts are paying off as almost 47,000 master's degrees were conferred in 2011, up 8 percent over the previous year.
[Discover the top engineering programs for 2014.]
Engineering is at the core of so many complex global challenges--in healthcare, medicine, energy, food safety, manufacturing, communications, the environment--that grad programs have realized cross-disciplinary, even multi-disciplinary programs, are essential now to train new engineers.
What this means, notes Schlesinger, is that in addition to taking core classes, one graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, for example, may add public policy, while another might opt for a business course. Students "have freedom to pursue their own interests," he says, and, at the same time, improve their marketability.
Universities have also moved to set up formal multi-disciplinary advanced degrees offered by two or more departments or even with partnering institutions. Carnegie Mellon offers a master of product development degree, involving its department of mechanical engineering, its Tepper School of Business, and the School of Design. Students learn to design new products, considering the various elements needed to bring them to fruition: form, function, marketing, and consumer behavior.
Experiential learning has long been a component of undergraduate education "as a way to engage and excite students," says Paul Johnson, dean of Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. Now, he says, grad programs, too, are building in ways for budding engineers to apply classroom theory to real world situations "as the incoming students expect it."
[Learn about the job prospects for engineering grads.]
The nonprofit Engineers Without Borders-USA, with chapters on more than 180 campuses around the country, is one avenue for this kind of experience. After receiving a request for a specific need from a nongovernmental organization or community, domestic or international, EWB-USA puts the job out for "bid" and awards it to the chapter that seems best able to develop a solution.
Lauren McBurnett, who completed an accelerated undergraduate-plus-master's degree at Arizona State and is now a Ph.D.-track candidate in civil engineering there, led a team sponsored by EWB-USA to Kenya last summer to implement a rainwater collection system they had designed: large in-ground tanks to store rainwater from school roofs.
Major corporations have also helped provide students with real-world experience in partnerships with universities.
Rachel Kelley will graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in spring 2013 with a master's in systems engineering from the school of engineering and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management. Last year, Kelley spent her internship in Spain at the headquarters of clothing manufacturer Zara, helping the company optimize inventory transfers between its stores.
"It was fun working on a real problem that made a difference to their bottom line," she says.
Institutions are also taking steps to fill the demand for engineers by broadening the pool, attracting more diverse student populations.
In a 2012 report, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology noted that the United States must produce 1 million more professionals in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) over the next decade to regain its global competitiveness. The country will never get there, experts believe, unless more women and underrepresented minorities enroll in graduate programs.
Though women make up 50.8 percent of the U.S. population, they only represented 22.6 percent of those earning master's degrees in engineering in 2011. In that same year Hispanics and African-Americans received only 6.3 percent and 4.9 percent of master's degrees, respectively, despite accounting for a combined 30 percent of the U.S. population.
[Explore more about STEM education and jobs.]
"To get the best solutions to complex engineering challenges, we need to get the best talent," says Gilda Barabino, associate chair for graduate studies in the department of biomedical engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. This can only happen, says Barabino, if engineers are pulled from all segments of the population.
Many universities and nonprofit organizations have put in place programs to accomplish this goal. Georgia Tech is working to increase the number of African-Americans attending graduate school in engineering and science through FACES (Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science), a National Science Foundation-sponsored effort between Georgia Tech, Morehouse College, Emory University, and Spelman College.
The FACES fellowship provides a stipend of $3,000 or $5,000 to Ph.D. students at Georgia Tech that can be used for research or career development expenses such as equipment or travel, says Gary May, Georgia Tech's dean of the College of Engineering.
Beyond financial aid, underrepresented students desperately need moral support. Faculty and peer mentoring programs have sprung up to fill the role.
The University of Michigan, for example, is home to graduate chapters of the Society of Minority Engineers and Scientists, the Society of Women Engineers, and the Society of Hispanic Professionals and Engineers. The latter offers workshops in basic skills such as how to do research and how to talk to your adviser.
All of these changes to the engineering graduate school experience seem to be working, notes May. "My personal feeling is that students are more engaged," he says. "They are more hands-on, active, and learning that there may be more than one way to solve a problem." In turn, engineers are increasingly being recognized as the world's problem-solvers.
This story is excerpted from the U.S. News Best Graduate Schools 2014 guidebook, which features in-depth articles, rankings, and data.
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Warby Parker Co-Founder Launches Harry's, Bringing The Startup's Buy-One-Donate-One To Shaving
Warby Parker co-founder Jeff Raider has teamed up with his old friend Andy Katz-Mayfield to bring a little of that Warby Parker magic to shaving with the launch of Harry's. In other words, to take a market that is dominated by a small handful of players pushing artificially priced products (with no respect to the quality of the product), bring it online to help remove the friction and high costs from distribution, give the product a sexier name and look through smarter design, and presto! Success.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/eGbt0bV9Z08/
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