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In the "no doy" department, Craigslist in Baghdad is a hot bed of horny young military members looking for some release. I guess whenever you confine a bunch of 23-year-olds in one place, they're gonna get laid or post penis pics trying.
The men for men section is by faaaar the most robust, followed by men for women. There are women looking for men (15 total), and ladies looking for ladies (two of those). Oh, and some good samaritans (?) who are just writing NSFW erotica specifically for military men.
If you're interested in placing an ad (or replying to one!), it's totally legal within the confines of the military, unless a higher up cracks down and issues a no more buttcracks order.
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Source: www.ibtimes.com --- Tuesday, July 30, 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry held talks with Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestine's chief negotiator Saeb Erekat. ...
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THE MEDIA ON STREET & SEXUAL VIOLENCE:
Compatriots,
I recently posted on street and sexual crime statistics in Ghana/Africa, to explain the seriousness of seismic increases in various forms of violence and general corruption in Ghana. This second part of the essay presents the reality of street and sexual violence from media sources. For brevity, each news report will be immediately followed by critical analysis.
VICTIMS OF STREET CRIME
The following violent incident titled, Innocent Man Taken for a Thief and Lynched, is a sneak-preview of what mainly occurs on a fairly regular basis in the major cities of Ghana. Clearly the spark that tolled the alarm bells leading to the young man?s unfortunate death, was the resentment that had built up in the resident, ?whose house had been burgled about the same time?. Many Ghanaians have had some experience of crime. Therefore, like the alarmist above they keep a pressure cooker of vengeful resentment against criminals. A resentment compounded by an all too frequent experience of police inaction to crime resolution. This is evidenced by the level of unrestrained violence against alleged criminals who get caught:
?A 25-year-old man mistaken for a thief has been lynched by a mob at Nii Boi, a suburb of Accra. The young man was said to be loitering around the area at dawn, prompting a resident whose house had been burgled at about the same time, to raise an alarm. The victim was later discovered to be innocent after the lifeless body was paraded in front of a house identified as the family house of the deceased?.
?Assembly member of the area Michael Zigah told Joy News the Tesano police is investigating the case. ?Unfortunately, information that I am also getting now, tells me that the person is not a thief but he is somebody who lives in the community, sells at Lapaz and has family in the community.? He confirmed that the police have been in the area to pick up some people they suspect of killing the young man?. (http://news.myjoyonline.com/news/201105/65706.asp).
Critical Analysis
This violence is often perpetrated by both male and females with equal gratuitous violence and self-relish. Sadly this phenomenon has come home to roost in Ghana. It only requires an alarm, ?awi!? or ?julor!?. Someone is pursued, caught and beating to death. Nearly always the police appear to lack the logistics or inclination to successfully investigate and arrest the perpetrators of the mob crime. This reality of instant justice is indicative of public lack of confidence in the professionalism of the police or criminal justice system.
Unlike metropolitan centres of the industrialised world, with rapid police response times, the Ghana police service tend to respond too late. The cumulative result is that mob justice has sadly become a regular feature in Ghana. It would seem that this is a pervasive African problem. In the mid 1980s I observed many people being burnt alive in the streets of Lagos, Nigeria. Their apparent offence: running after being called, ?ole!? (thief). Pursued and caught, they were ringed with vehicle tires and burnt. The police mopped up the carnage weeks later ? they always come too late!
THE WRONG DIAGNOSIS OF CRIME
In a recent article titled, Mass Unemployment Is Contributing to Armed Robbery, Ghanaweb.com columnist, Alex Bossman Baafi wrote:
?Many concerned people are worried and trying to find out what is causing the upsurge in armed robbery because the state of insecurity these days had become a topical issue nationwide. In my opinion, the increase in armed robbery is due to multiplicity of factors. These include the influx of foreigners from our West African sub-region, increase in drug abuse with substances like marijuana, which is common in our society, effects of increase in dehumanizing conditions emanating from slums settlements in our cities, idleness and poverty arising out of mass unemployment among others?.
?In my opinion, joblessness is also contributing in no small measure to the current upsurge in crime including armed robbery and rape causing insecurity in the country. In search for the solution for this unacceptable social ill, the government should not discount unemployment and sweep it under the carpet. The government must accept the responsibility to tackle the problem of unemployment head-on and must be one of the main priority areas as part of its Better Ghana Agenda dispensation?. (Ghanaweb, Feature Article of Thursday, 4 August 2011).http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=215422)
Baafi corroborates what I have said about the meteoric rise in crimes in Ghana. He is right about its the multiple reason: the effects of slum living, idleness and poverty ? links between crimes and unemployment. However, I am not so sure of his other causal analysis. The jingoistic (anti foreigner) assumption, that Ghana is somewhat being swamped by criminals teaming from the West African sub-region, is the same argument used against Ghanaians and other West Africans by the Nigerian media during the ?Agege Years? of mass Ghanaian out-migration to Nigerian.
Yes some non Ghanaian criminals have been apprehended and been successfully prosecuted by the law, but there is no valid ?foreign? crime data to support Baafi?s allegation. Baafi may be scapegoating here. He also stereotypes the issue in stating, ?substances like marijuana, which is common in our society? causes crime in Ghana. In the West where major studies have been done on the link between drugs and crimes among the ?under-classes?, there is abundant information to suggest a causal link between crime and stimulant (opposed to sedative) drugs like, cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, mephedrone, etc. The A-Z of Drugs, Chilling out on the job on ?weed?, informs us:
?Cannabis: It is a mild sedative (often causing a chilled out feeling or actual sleepiness) and it?s also a mild hallucinogen (meaning you may experience a state where you see objects and reality in a distorted way and may even hallucinate). The main active compound in cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)?. (http://www.talktofrank.com/drugs.aspx?id=172).
Taking cocaine makes users feel on top of the world. Its effect is like the stimulant ?amphetamines? (speed) but is stronger and doesn?t last as long. People taking it feel wide-awake, confident and on top of their game:
?The effects of crack [cocaine] smoking?Users feel alert, confident, euphoric and talkative, and some feel greater empathy with those around them?Mephedrone: A stimulant drug belonging to the chemical family of cathinones?the family of amphetamine compounds. The amphetamine-like drugs include amphetamine itself (speed), methamphetamine and ecstasy (MDMA), among many others. Mephedrone produces euphoria, alertness, talkativeness and feelings of empathy. It can also cause anxiety and paranoid states and risks overstimulating the heart and circulation? (http://www.talktofrank.com/drugs.aspx?id=7513).
(http://www.talktofrank.com/cannabis.aspx?id=3247).
CONCLUSION
So science, not non-science (nonsense) speaks: sedative drugs like marijuana equal sleepiness, distortion of reality. Stimulant drugs like crack cocaine and amphetamine-like drugs equal users feeling ?on top of the world?, euphoric and alert. If I was a thief I would rather be euphoric, alert and keep my faculties sharpened rather than sleepy and lacking of reality ? would you not? Marijuana users are more likely to fall asleep (chilled out) on the job or eat a lot(have the ?munchies?) than want to speed down the motorway on a hot tropical afternoon to commit highway robbery!
It is certainly true drug usage can contribute to criminal activity. But we must reject the common-sense social notion in Ghana that links all aggressive or wayward behaviour to marijuana (?wee?). Like the statistical data given in the first seam of the essay, what we need in Ghana is a detailed study of the causes and solutions to the rise in crime. The blame game, as Ghanaian political protagonists tend to do, will only confuse and frustrate genuine attempts at finding solutions.
What is generally correct about all crimes, is that they are rooted in poverty, unimaginative national programmes for jobs and career opportunities for the youth and unemployed, material fetishism (unreasonable greed and worship of material things in society) low nation administrative checks-and-balances that causes corrupt leaders to side step professional and ethical practices, etc. It can even be argued low national export earnings is the fundamental that cause of high crimes. The necessary Development and Modernisation Programme (DMP) that ought to be launched, to comprehensively industrialise and modernize Ghana, is held at ransom to the bankrupting IMF-SAP programme.
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The next essay is titled:
T O F I A K W A!: SEX CRIMES, STREET VIOLENCE & CORRUPTION IN GHANAIAN SOCIETY (4a OF 6): SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST AMINA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA, LEGON.
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DOLAN SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) ? Flash flood waters swept a tour bus with 33 people aboard hundreds of yards down a wash in northwestern Arizona and the vehicle flipped on its side, but no one was injured, officials said.
The Las Vegas-bound bus was returning Sunday afternoon from a day-trip to the Grand Canyon's west rim when the driver attempted to cross the wash on a rural road.
The high waters pushed the vehicle down the wash for an estimated 300 yards around 1:50 p.m. near Kingman, said Patrick Moore, chief of the Northern Arizona Consolidated Fire District, which had firefighters at the scene. The crash happened as northern Arizona was hit with a second day of heavy rain.
The area where the bus accident occurred received 0.75 inches of rain in about an hour on Sunday afternoon, said Chris Stumpf, a National Weather Service forecaster in Las Vegas. A flash flood warning was in effect when the accident occurred, he said.
"It was a really strong storm dumping quite a bit of rain ... and it caused flash flooding," Stumpf said. "They were driving on a portion of the road where they shouldn't have tried to drive across. They should not have been driving through there."
Rhonda Ho, operations manager for Canyon Coach Lines, said the bus owned by the Las Vegas-based company was being driven by Joseph Razon, who saw a car right in front of him go through a section of the highway covered by some water.
"He thought, if a car can go through it, I can go through it," Ho said.
"Then he got slammed by a rushing current of water that came out of nowhere," she said. "He was driving in almost neck-deep water and trying to control the bus while it was floating."
She said the driver managed to bring the bus against an embankment so it would stop and passengers could escape. People inside the bus were able to climb out of the driver's side windows and walked to dry land.
"I'm glad the driver kept his cool and everybody got out safely. No one screamed on the bus and everyone kept their cool and that's amazing," Ho said.
She described Razon as a "very professional driver" with a spotless record. He has worked for the company since 2005.
Kingman is near the Arizona-Nevada stateline and about 100 miles southeast of Las Vegas. The bus passengers and driver returned on another bus to Las Vegas, where Ho was able to speak to the driver.
On Sunday evening, as a tow truck was preparing to take away the bus, it was lying on its side and had grass and other debris hanging from it. Two escape hatches on its roof were opened. Writing on the side of the bus said: "C.H. Destination" and "DBA: Canyon Coach Lines"
The passengers were no longer at the scene. The company had sent another bus to pick them up.
There were some swift-water rescues of stranded motorists Saturday night after a storm dropped nearly 2 inches of rain in about 90 minutes around Kingman, Stumpf said.
The flash flood warning around the accident scene has expired, he said, but there's a chance for more heavy rain and another similar warning on Monday.
The crash happened as Northern Arizona was hit with a second day of heavy rain.
The Arizona Department of Transportation closed an 18-mile stretch of Interstate-40 Saturday night between Flagstaff and Kingman because of the flash flooding.
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Associated Press writers Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix and Martin Griffith in Reno, Nev., contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ariz-flash-flood-carries-away-tour-bus-none-082358597.html
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British police on Sunday arrested a man in connection with online threats made toward a feminist campaigner, a case which has ignited calls for social media platforms to institute stronger protections against verbal abuse.
Caroline Criado-Perez says she has been facing a deluge of abuse ? including threats to rape and kill her ? over Twitter during the past several days. She said the threats started after her campaign to get a woman's picture on a U.K. bank note succeeded and resulted in the Bank of England's announcement last week that author Jane Austen will feature on England's new 10-pound notes.
In Britain, hundreds of people are prosecuted every year for Facebook posts, tweets, texts and emails deemed menacing, indecent, offensive or obscene. But while there have been several cases of online threats directed at sports figures and politicians, the verbal assault against Criado-Perez appears to have ignited an unrivalled response and backlash against Twitter itself.
The graphic and offensive threats come as combatting the scourge of violence against women has taken on a more public sense of urgency worldwide, when tales of gang rapes in India and Brazil circulated around the world. Earlier this year, more than 130 nations agreed on a U.N. blueprint to combat violence against women, "one of the gravest violations of human rights in the world," according to Michelle Bachelet, the head of the U.N. women's agency.
The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chen, too, called violence against women "a global health problem of epidemic proportions" when the first major global review of violence against women came out in June ? a description that Criado-Perez drew on when writing in the New Statesman about the abuse directed against her. She urged Chen to "take a look at Twitter."
Already, Criado-Perez's experience has set off a campaign and petition to press Twitter to take more action to combat online threats.
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper urged Twitter to carry out a full review of its policies on abusive threats and crimes, and a petition urging Twitter to introduce a "button" that would make it easier to report abusive Tweets has garnered 12,000 signatures.
On Sunday, British police arrested a 21-year-old man, who wasn't immediately identified, in relation to Criado-Perez's case.
She posted on Twitter that she was at a police station to make a statement and had many more threats to report ? followed by the hashtag "shouting back."
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Microsoft has revealed the prices of two of the Xbox One's key accessories.
Microsoft revealed early Monday the prices for two of the key accessories for the upcoming next-generation Xbox One video game console ? the standalone controller, which will cost $59.99, and an official Xbox-branded wireless headset to support the consoles various chat and voice features for an additional $24.99. Like most video game hardware, the starting bundle that Xbox One owners receive will include a single controller, and Microsoft has said that the new device will not be compatible with current-generation Xbox 360 controllers.
For a point of comparison, Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4 console ? which at a starting price of $399.99 will debut for $100 less than the Xbox One ? comes bundled with an earbud-style headset but will only offer its motion-controlled camera peripheral, the imaginatively named PlayStation Camera, for an extra $59.99. Unlike the Xbox One's Kinect hardware, the PlayStation Camera is not a mandatory feature for the PlayStation 4 console. Additional PS4 controllers also cost $59.99, and the console is not backwards compatible with older versions of the PlayStation DualShock controller.
Regardless of whether or not a headset is contained in the starting console package, however, that most serious gamers will likely look to make a heftier investment in a high-end gaming headset like those offered by Turtle Beach, Tritton, or Astro if they're actually planning to use either console's chat capabilities for actual gameplay purposes. According to a report from the video game site Polygon, Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 4 will be compatible with the same headgear that currently befits the PlayStation 3. Microsoft, meanwhile, has been vague on whether or not gamers will be able to use their current headsets, which can run upwards of $200 for the best models, on the next-gen hardware.
This story was updated at 3:20 pm ET.
Yannick LeJacq is a contributing writer for NBC News who has also covered technology and games for Kill Screen, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic. You can follow him on Twitter at @YannickLeJacq and reach him by email at: Yannick.LeJacq@nbcuni.com.
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Ever since Apple's purchase of biometric sensor company AuthenTec last year the rumor mill has been abuzz with predictions that a future iteration of the iPhone would employ built-in fingerprint authorization. Now, as 9to5Mac reports, Twitter user Hamza Sood has discovered a folder in the newly released iOS 7 beta 4 that references a biometric user interface, complete with descriptions of a setup process that includes images of a color-changing fingerprint and a person holding an iPhone with their thumb on the Home button.
Earlier this month Apple was granted a patent for an in-display fingerprint sensor which would allow for biometric functionality while negating the need for a separate sensor panel.
This new evidence certainly isn't a confirmation of such a feature being included in the next iPhone -- rumored to be called the iPhone 5S -- but it's definitely more validation than we normally see regarding rumors of this magnitude.
[Image credit: Hamza Sood]
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2013/07/29/ios-7-beta-4-hints-at-upcoming-iphone-fingerprint-sensor/
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By Mushtaq Yusufzai, Producer, NBC News
PESHAWAR, Pakistan ? A U.S drone fired two missiles on a suspected hideout on Sunday evening, killing eight militants in the mountainous Shawal Valley of North Waziristan, a tribal region in northwest Pakistan.
Tribal sources said the drone fired missiles at a three-room structure where suspected militants were having an Iftar dinner, breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
"The militants, including Arab fighters, were having an Iftar dinner in the compound when the drone fired two missiles. Later, an hour after the drone had disappeared, a group of militants arrived and started pulling out bodies," local tribesman Yasin Khan said.
Khan said that eight bodies, mutilated beyond recognition, were recovered from the wreckage of the building razed by the explosions.
The tribesman said local tribal militants later told him that four among the slain militants were Arab fighters.
Pakistani security officials also confirmed the drone strike and said it took place in the remote forest-covered Shawal Valley near the Afghan border, where the militants usually set up sanctuaries during the summer.
"Weather in Shawal remains very pleasant during summer and that's why most of the militant groups, particularly foreigners, shift their camps to this remote region," a security official said in Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan region.
Requesting anonymity, the security official said they had intercepted conversations from the militants, in which they confirmed the killing of eight fighters in the strike, including four Arabs.
There was no immediate information about the identity of the slain militants.
There has been a significant decline in U.S drone strikes in Pakistan's militancy-plagued tribal areas along the Afghan border during the past few months, apparently due to strong protest from the new Pakistani government.
Besides foreign militants, top Pakistani militant commanders including Commander Nek Mohammad, Baitullah Mahsud, Qari Hussain, Maulvi Nazeer, Ilyas Kashmiri and Maulana Waliur Rahman have been killed in drone strikes.
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DALLAS July 29, 2013 A seafood contaminant that thrives in brackish water during the summer works like a spy to infiltrate cells and quickly open communication channels to sicken the host, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center report.
Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria, which cause gastroenteritis, inject proteins called effectors into host cells. One of those effectors, VopQ, almost immediately starts to disrupt the important process of autophagy via a novel channel-forming mechanism, the scientists report in the investigation available online at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Autophagy is the cellular housekeeping mechanism used to recycle nutrients in cells as well as to fight off pathogens. The term autophagy comes from the Greek words for self and eating. During the process, nutrients are recycled by the lysosome, an internal organelle, to produce metabolites that can be used by the cell.
"Our study identifies a bacterial effector that creates gated ion channels and reveals a novel mechanism that may regulate autophagy," said Dr. Kim Orth, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry. She is a corresponding author on the published study. The first author is Anju Sreelatha, a graduate student in Dr. Orth's laboratory.
"Disruptions of autophagic pathways are implicated in many human diseases, including neurodegenerative disease, liver disease, some cancers, and cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disease)," Ms. Sreelatha said.
She explained that ion channels are pores in the membranes of cells or of organelles within cells that allow regulated passage of small molecules or ions across membranes. Gated channels have a mechanism that opens and closes them, making these proteins potential targets for drug development.
"The identification of a channel that opens and closes and thereby affects autophagy may give us a handle by which to modulate this important process," she said, adding that the researchers found that VopQ's channel activity turned off autophagy.
"During infection, VopQ is injected into the host cell where the protein binds to a lysosomal membrane protein and forms small pores, all within minutes of infection. The resulting complex of proteins causes ions to leak and the lysosomes to de-acidify. Lacking acidification, lysosomes cannot degrade the unneeded cellular components and autophagy is disrupted," Ms. Sreelatha said.
Dr. Orth said "Bacterial pathogens have evolved a number of ways to target and manipulate host cell signaling; the ability of VopQ to form a gated ion channel and to inhibit autophagy represents a novel mechanism."
Further characterization of the mechanism by which VopQ sabotages cells to disrupt autophagy may lead to a better understanding of host-pathogen interactions as well as advance our understanding of the pathway, eventually leading to new treatments for diseases in which autophagy has gone awry, they noted.
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Other UT Southwestern scientists involved were Dr. Hui Zheng, a postdoctoral researcher of cell biology, and Dr. Qiu-Xing Jiang, assistant professor of cell biology. Also participating were Terry Bennett and Dr. Vincent Starai of the University of Georgia.
Funding was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation; the Welch Foundation; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas; and by University of Georgia Startup Funds.
About UT Southwestern Medical Center
UT Southwestern, one of the premier academic medical centers in the nation, integrates pioneering biomedical research with exceptional clinical care and education. The institution's faculty has many distinguished members, including five who have been awarded Nobel Prizes since 1985. Numbering more than 2,700, the faculty is responsible for groundbreaking medical advances and is committed to translating science-driven research quickly to new clinical treatments. UT Southwestern physicians provide medical care in 40 specialties to nearly 90,000 hospitalized patients and oversee more than 1.9 million outpatient visits a year.
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DALLAS July 29, 2013 A seafood contaminant that thrives in brackish water during the summer works like a spy to infiltrate cells and quickly open communication channels to sicken the host, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center report.
Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria, which cause gastroenteritis, inject proteins called effectors into host cells. One of those effectors, VopQ, almost immediately starts to disrupt the important process of autophagy via a novel channel-forming mechanism, the scientists report in the investigation available online at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Autophagy is the cellular housekeeping mechanism used to recycle nutrients in cells as well as to fight off pathogens. The term autophagy comes from the Greek words for self and eating. During the process, nutrients are recycled by the lysosome, an internal organelle, to produce metabolites that can be used by the cell.
"Our study identifies a bacterial effector that creates gated ion channels and reveals a novel mechanism that may regulate autophagy," said Dr. Kim Orth, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry. She is a corresponding author on the published study. The first author is Anju Sreelatha, a graduate student in Dr. Orth's laboratory.
"Disruptions of autophagic pathways are implicated in many human diseases, including neurodegenerative disease, liver disease, some cancers, and cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disease)," Ms. Sreelatha said.
She explained that ion channels are pores in the membranes of cells or of organelles within cells that allow regulated passage of small molecules or ions across membranes. Gated channels have a mechanism that opens and closes them, making these proteins potential targets for drug development.
"The identification of a channel that opens and closes and thereby affects autophagy may give us a handle by which to modulate this important process," she said, adding that the researchers found that VopQ's channel activity turned off autophagy.
"During infection, VopQ is injected into the host cell where the protein binds to a lysosomal membrane protein and forms small pores, all within minutes of infection. The resulting complex of proteins causes ions to leak and the lysosomes to de-acidify. Lacking acidification, lysosomes cannot degrade the unneeded cellular components and autophagy is disrupted," Ms. Sreelatha said.
Dr. Orth said "Bacterial pathogens have evolved a number of ways to target and manipulate host cell signaling; the ability of VopQ to form a gated ion channel and to inhibit autophagy represents a novel mechanism."
Further characterization of the mechanism by which VopQ sabotages cells to disrupt autophagy may lead to a better understanding of host-pathogen interactions as well as advance our understanding of the pathway, eventually leading to new treatments for diseases in which autophagy has gone awry, they noted.
###
Other UT Southwestern scientists involved were Dr. Hui Zheng, a postdoctoral researcher of cell biology, and Dr. Qiu-Xing Jiang, assistant professor of cell biology. Also participating were Terry Bennett and Dr. Vincent Starai of the University of Georgia.
Funding was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation; the Welch Foundation; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas; and by University of Georgia Startup Funds.
About UT Southwestern Medical Center
UT Southwestern, one of the premier academic medical centers in the nation, integrates pioneering biomedical research with exceptional clinical care and education. The institution's faculty has many distinguished members, including five who have been awarded Nobel Prizes since 1985. Numbering more than 2,700, the faculty is responsible for groundbreaking medical advances and is committed to translating science-driven research quickly to new clinical treatments. UT Southwestern physicians provide medical care in 40 specialties to nearly 90,000 hospitalized patients and oversee more than 1.9 million outpatient visits a year.
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I'm lucky that my job lets me test out a bunch of different kinds of gadgets for free. At any given moment, I have at least one device running every major computing platform within arm's reach.
But whenever I want to spend my hard-earned cash on a new gizmo, it almost always comes from Apple. I have an iPhone 5, Apple TV, and a MacBook Air. I still think Apple makes the best stuff (they won't forever though, trust me), and that's why it gets my money.
I used to have an iPad (the third-generation model with the super-sharp Retina display), but I sold it last week.?I got a cool $400 for it, just $100 less than what I paid for it on launch day in March 2012. (Say whatever you want about Apple, but its products hold their value very well.)
Something changed this year though. For months, my iPad remained on my nightstand, untouched. The battery was dead, not from overuse, but from weeks of neglect while it was in sleep mode, which barely sips power. I didn't feel a need to recharge it.
It was a strange twist in my computing habits. When I first got my iPad, I found myself using it more than my MacBook. I would come home from work and use my iPad to catch up on news and Twitter. At night, I'd use it to stream Netflix in bed. I really only used my MacBook if I needed to do some work from home. It was essentially just a word processor to me.
So, what happened??
I started using my iPad less and less this year mostly because I started working a lot more when away from the office. For writers, an iPad isn't an ideal device to get things done, even with one of those cool keyboard accessories. I still need a full-fledged PC to do my job well, as I suspect people in many other professions do.
So I found myself spending much more time on my MacBook, and I realized I could still do a lot of things on it that I could do on my iPad, and then some. I could still catch up on the news, keep up with Twitter, and plow through my exhaustive Gmail inbox. Since the MacBook Air is so thin and light, it was just as easy for me to use on the couch or in bed like I used to with my iPad. It was like rediscovering an old beloved toy.
Before long, I only had two devices in my daily rotation: My iPhone (for checking email and Tweets when away from the computer and playing games or listening to podcasts on the subway), and my MacBook (for work and just about everything else). I realized my iPad was better off in someone else's hands and that someone else's $400 was better off in my checking account.
Yes, iPads and other tablets appear to be cannibalizing the traditional PC market. PC makers like HP, Dell, and to an extent, Apple, have all blamed the popularity of smartphones and tablets for the decline in PC sales. However, in most cases, if you need to get work done, an iPad or other tablet really doesn't cut it. They're great devices for browsing the web, light emailing, and playing games, but still don't offer the full suite of productivity a regular PC does.
That's a problem Microsoft is trying to solve with Windows 8 and devices like the Surface Pro, a tablet that can double as a regular laptop thanks to a handy snap-on keyboard accessory. Unfortunately, most Windows 8 devices don't do a great job at being both things. There are still far too many compromises in weight, thickness, battery life, and apps that manufacturers have to deal with when making these hybrid PCs. As a result, most Windows 8 hybrids are pretty mediocre right now.
Until someone figures out the perfect hybrid device, I don't see a need to carry around three different computing form factors. And iPhone and MacBook Air is the perfect combination for me.?
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-i-sold-my-ipad-2013-7
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Leading Republicans appear to be nerving themselves up for another round of attempted fiscal blackmail. With the end of the fiscal year looming, they aren?t offering the kinds of compromises that might produce a deal and avoid a government shutdown; instead, they?re drafting extremist legislation ? bills that would, for example, cut clean-water grants by 83 percent ? that has no chance of becoming law.
Furthermore, they?re threatening, once again, to block any rise in the debt ceiling, a move that would damage the U.S. economy and possibly provoke a world financial crisis.
Yet even as Republican politicians seem ready to go on the offensive, there?s a palpable sense of anxiety, even despair, among conservative pundits and analysts. Better-informed people on the right seem, finally, to be facing up to a horrible truth: Health care reform, President Obama?s signature policy achievement, is probably going to work.
And the good news about Obamacare is, I?d argue, what?s driving the Republican Party?s intensified extremism. Successful health reform wouldn?t just be a victory for a president conservatives loathe, it would be an object demonstration of the falseness of right-wing ideology. So Republicans are being driven into a last, desperate effort to head this thing off at the pass.
For a while, Republicans convinced themselves that it was doomed to failure, and that they could profit politically from the inevitable ?train wreck.? But a system along exactly these lines has been operating in Massachusetts since 2006, where it was introduced by a Republican governor. What was his name? Mitt Somethingorother? And no trains have been wrecked so far.
The question is whether the Massachusetts success story can be replicated in other states, especially big states like California and New York with large numbers of uninsured. The answer depends in part on whether insurance companies are willing to offer coverage at reasonable rates. The answer, so far, is ?yes.?
The prospect that such a plan might succeed is anathema to a party whose whole philosophy is built around doing just the opposite, of taking from the ?takers? and giving to the ?job creators,? known to the rest of us as the ?rich.? Hence the brinkmanship.
So will Republicans actually take us to the brink? If they do, it will be crucial to understand why they would do such a thing.It won?t be because they fear the budget deficit, which is coming down fast. Nor will it be because they sincerely believe that spending cuts produce prosperity.
No, Republicans may be willing to risk economic and financial crisis solely in order to deny essential health care and financial security to millions of their fellow Americans.
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What has China bought?
It's quite a portfolio. Chinese firms now own IBM's personal computer division, Volvo (purchased from Ford), the AMC movie theater chain, and Virginia-based pork producer Smithfield, as well as large stakes in Devon Energy and Chesapeake Energy, two of the biggest U.S. natural gas and oil companies. So far this year alone, Chinese companies have spent $10 billion on U.S. deals, compared with less than $1 billion in all of 2008. That doesn't yet put China among the top 10 nations for foreign direct investment in the U.S. But the trend is steep, and China's buying potential is enormous. After decades of sitting on the massive sums earned by flooding U.S. and European markets with products, China is flush with cash ? and is now eager to spend it.
Why the lust for foreign companies?
With more than a billion people, China has a chronic need for raw materials and energy. Many of its acquisitions are in those industries, such as Canadian energy giant Nexen, oil and gas pipelines in Central Asia, and mineral mines in Australia and Africa. But the growing Chinese middle class also has a fondness for French wine, so Chinese investors have been snapping up vineyards in Bordeaux. Pork is China's most popular meat, and the country hasn't been able to meet domestic demand since 2008 ? hence a Chinese meat producer's recent $4.7 billion purchase of Smithfield, the world's biggest pork producer. In that case, the Chinese company was also buying some public trust among Chinese consumers, since the country's own food industry is so scandal-ridden ? this year rat meat was discovered being sold as lamb. Acquiring foreign companies also gives China a quick infusion of badly needed technological know-how.
Does the U.S. government object?
Washington blocks sales when it considers national security to be at risk. The Obama administration last year denied a Chinese-owned company permission to build wind turbines in Oregon on a site deemed too close to a U.S. naval base. This year Chinese telecom giant Huawei was barred from buying any U.S. telecom companies after a congressional report noted that the Chinese military could use such assets "for malicious purposes." China's biggest failed takeover attempt came in 2005, when loud squawks from Congress convinced Unocal shareholders not to sell out to China's national oil company, and instead to accept Chevron's bid for $1.4 billion less. But individual states are less parochial. "State governments all want the Chinese investment, because they need jobs," said Siva Yam of the U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce. "They welcome them with open arms."
Does investment go both ways?
Not to the same extent. Some legislators objected to China's acquisition of Smithfield on the grounds that no U.S. company would be allowed to buy a major Chinese producer. "In industries like mining, power generation, and transportation, the Chinese government selects national champions and effectively shuts out foreign competition altogether," says U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke. China restricts foreign ownership in more than 100 sectors, and when it does allow foreign investments, it generally requires that they be made in joint ventures that allow Chinese firms access to trade secrets. Japan's Kawasaki, for example, says that China is using its technology to make high-speed trains for export when it was supposed to limit production to the domestic rail industry.
Where else is China investing?
China has endeared itself to African, Latin American, and Asian countries with poor human rights records because it doesn't attach any political or labor conditions to its investments. But many developing countries are now rethinking their deals because their economies aren't benefiting as much as they hoped. China has a reputation for bringing its own workers, for example, rather than employing locals. To build a stadium in Angola in 2010, a Chinese firm hired 700 Chinese workers and just 250 Angolans. In Ghana, there are thousands of Chinese workers mining gold.
How are these purchases changing China?
Step by step, China's economy is becoming more integrated with the world's. U.S. lawmakers and labor groups have long complained that Beijing keeps the value of its currency, the yuan or renminbi, artificially low in order to make Chinese exports cheaper. But at last month's annual bilateral economic talks, China committed to moving its currency toward a market rate. The decision isn't entirely altruistic: It will help China reorient some production toward the domestic market, benefiting its middle class. Meanwhile, the U.S. has been negotiating with other Asian countries to form a free-trade pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. China originally saw that as an attempt by the U.S. to push into its neighborhood, but now China says it might want to join. That could require it to put stricter controls on state-owned enterprises, open up its government procurement policies, and protect intellectual property rights. But it's not clear how far Chinese companies will be able or willing to go down that road, says Patricia Adams, head of Probe International, a foreign investment watchdog group. "Their first priority is to their political masters," she says, "and their political masters have a political agenda, not a business agenda."
China's oil bonanza in Iraq
If the Iraq War was fought for oil, then China won. Chinese state-owned companies have poured billions of dollars and hundreds of workers into Iraq, and they now dominate its oil industry. U.S. oil companies, which seek to maximize shareholder profit, weren't willing to accept the low profit margins offered by Iraq's Oil Ministry; China, hungry for energy rather than for profit, has had no such qualms. As a result, almost 1.5 million barrels of Iraqi oil flow to China every day ? nearly half the country's production. "We lost out," former Defense Department official Michael Makovsky told The New York Times. "The Chinese had nothing to do with the war, but from an economic standpoint, they are benefiting from it, and our Fifth Fleet and air forces are helping to assure their supply."
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By Yasmine Saleh and Matt Robinson
CAIRO (Reuters) - The United States urged Arab ally Egypt to pull "back from the brink" after security forces killed dozens of supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and opened a dangerous new phase in the army's confrontation with his Muslim Brotherhood.
Thousands of Brotherhood supporters were hunkered down in a vigil at a Cairo mosque on Sunday, vowing to stand their ground despite a threat by the authorities to disperse them "soon".
Saturday's bloodshed, following huge rival rallies, plunged the Arab world's most populous country deeper into turmoil following two turbulent years of transition to democracy with the fall of veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
Egypt's Health Ministry said 65 people had died. The Brotherhood said another 61 were on life support after what it described as a ferocious dawn assault by men in helmets and black police fatigues. The ambulance service put the death toll at 72.
Bodies wrapped in white sheets were laid on the floor of a Brotherhood morgue, their names scrawled on the shrouds.
Washington, treading a fine line with an important Middle East ally and recipient of over $1 billion in military aid, urged the Egyptian security forces to respect the right to peaceful protest.
U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke by telephone with Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led the July 3 military overthrow of Mursi and whose face has appeared on posters across the teeming capital, Cairo.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to two senior members of Egypt's army-installed interim cabinet, expressing his "deep concern."
"This is a pivotal moment for Egypt," he said in a statement. "The United States ... calls on all of Egypt's leaders across the political spectrum to act immediately to help their country take a step back from the brink."
Saturday's violence, and the threat of more, has deepened alarm in the West over events in the country of 84 million people, a vital bridge between the Middle East and North Africa.
Over 200 people have died in violence since Sisi deposed Mursi on the back of huge popular protests against his rule, ending a one-year experiment in government by the Muslim Brotherhood after decades spent in the shadows under successive Egyptian strongmen.
PLEDGE TO STAY
In the early hours of Sunday, the state-run Al-Ahram news website reported fresh confrontation in the western Helwan district of Cairo between what it described as marching Brotherhood supporters and angry residents.
The report said several cars were destroyed and gunshots heard, but there was no information on casualties.
Saturday's killings followed a day of rival mass rallies, triggered by a call from Sisi for a popular mandate to confront "violence and terrorism."
Denying police culpability, Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said the vigil outside the Rabaa al-Adawia mosque in northern Cairo would "God willing, soon ? be dealt with."
A public prosecutor is reviewing complaints from local residents unhappy with the huge encampment on their doorstep.
Ibrahim said angry residents had clashed with Brotherhood protesters in the early hours of Saturday, and police intervened with teargas.
Brotherhood activists said they would not be cowed and warned of worse bloodshed if the security forces did not back down. Thousands were packed into the area as night fell.
"We will stay here until we die, one by one," said Ahmed Ali, 24, as he helped treat casualties at a makeshift field hospital on Saturday.
Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said they would remain until their demands are met and Egypt's first freely elected president is reinstated. He accused Sisi of issuing a "clear, pre-determined order to kill."
Mursi has been held in army detention at an undisclosed location since he was deposed. Ibrahim said he would likely be transferred shortly to the same Cairo prison where Mubarak is now held, after authorities launched an investigation of him on charges including murder stemming from his 2011 escape from jail during Egypt's Arab Spring uprising.
The European Union and major European powers condemned Saturday's bloodshed, the second mass killing since Mursi's ouster. On July 8, more than 50 Brotherhood supporters died when security forces opened fire on them outside a Cairo barracks.
The events have led U.S. President Barack Obama last week to delay delivery of four F-16 fighter jets, part of some $1.5 billion a year in mainly military aid from Washington to Cairo, though U.S. officials have indicated there will be no cut-off in support to the pivotal ally.
(Additional reporting by Shadia Nasralla, Yasmine Saleh, Tom Finn, Maggie Fick, Omar Fahmy, Edmund Blair, Michael Georgy, Noah Browning and Ahmed Tolba in Cairo, Arshad Mohammed and Phil Stewart in Washington; Writing by Matt Robinson)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dozens-shot-dead-u-tells-egypt-pull-back-000026953.html
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Time always flies at the Big Ten Media Days event in Chicago. Great city. Great interview subjects and great nightlife.
The 42nd version of the event is officially in the books and the PSU contingent of head coach Bill O'Brien, offensive guard John Urschel, linebacker Glenn Carson and safety Malcolm Willis had plenty of interesting things to say over two days.
I know Penn State fans still have plenty of questions with August preseason camp set to begin in a couple of weeks.
And I've got some answers.
Here we go ...
1. What Penn State players should fans (and media) being talking about more as the season approaches?
Bill O'Brien had a long list of names, many of them interesting.
I can tell you he thinks redshirt junior offensive tackle Garry Gilliam, a converted tight end, has a chance to push for serious playing time if he can stay healthy. He had a lower-leg injury in spring.
O'Brien also praised his two young corners, true sophomores Jordan Lucas and Trevor Williams. They are projected starters.
Looking for a couple of long shots on defense? O'Brien mentioned redshirt freshman defensive end Evan Schwan, a Central Dauphin graduate, and redshirt junior defensive tackle Kyle Baublitz, from Central York.
"Those two guys, they had good springs (and) their good size guys, we think they're going to be really good players,'' O'Brien said of Lucas and Williams.
"Kyle Baublitz had a really good offseason, he'll play a lot of football for us. ? Evan Schwan has had a really good -- he redshirted for last year -- offseason. Where can he help us?''
2. What changes will Bill O'Brien make to his in-season routine?
Provided Penn State's health holds up and the Lions aren't forced to use some young, inexperienced players in key roles, O'Brien is going to tweak his Mondays.
After the Monday afternoon workout has concluded for PSU's key players, O'Brien wants to hold a scrimmage for his scout team (or "Dirty Show") players to see if he can speed up their development.
He said New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, one of his mentors, did extra drilling with his practice squad guys following practices and it produced a key player, guard Dan Connolly.
"We've got a plan right now to do a better job with the developmental players, whether it's 'Dirty Show' or maybe some younger players that play a little bit in the game but don't play more than 20 plays,'' O'Brien said.
"So we're going to try to do this (because) health, again, is going to be a big question. ? On Mondays what we'll do is, when the guys that played the majority of the game are done with practice, so they go over there and they condition, we're going to have basically a Dirty Show/Developmental scrimmage, maybe let the graduate assistants call the plays.
"I'm going to watch it from afar and just run our base packages and just let the guys play.''
?3. How do the Penn State veterans feel about the pending quarterback derby between redshirt sophomore Tyler Ferguson and true freshman Christian Hackenberg?
"I really trust Coach O'Brien,'' PSU senior middle linebacker Glenn Carson told me.
"Obviously, I trusted my career with Coach O'Brien by staying (in 2012) and things like that. So I have all the trust in the world in Coach O'Brien.
"He knows quarterbacks, he's the best guy to make a decision like this. You know what? These quarterbacks have confidence and I have confidence in them.''
It's been well-documented that Ferguson has been away from the program for a significant stretch of July to spend time with family but O'Brien is confident that Ferguson will be ready to go for camp.
PSU senior right guard John Urschel praised Ferguson for making the decision to move across country, from California, to play football in State College.?
"Let me tell you about what, that kid, that's a serious move,'' Urschel said of Ferguson.
"He accepted a scholarship from Penn State sight unseen. Hadn't made a single visit to Penn State, packs up his backs, moves all the way across the country and comes to Penn State. I don't know if I could have done that.?
"So that really says something about him. His family's back home, his girlfriend's back home, he's at a school he's never been before. He doesn't even know anyone on the East Coast, so that really says something about him.''
4. Who is one of the most underrated members of the Penn State football program?
The name Tim Bream is rarely mentioned but Penn State's head trainer for football is a valuable asset to O'Brien.
"He's had a great impact on our program,'' O'Brien said of Bream, a PSU alum who returned in 2012 after spending 19 seasons with the Chicago Bears.
"He's a very bright guy. He's one of the best trainers I've been around. He came highly recommended to me when I took the job by a lot of different people that had a lot of respect for him in the NFL and in college.
"People make a big deal, I know people talk a lot about an NFL 'model' at our place,'' O'Brien continued. "We have a college model (medical care program), so that's the model that we have and he's done a great job of coming in and ? (he has) a really good bedside manner with the players. So the players trust him.''
O'Brien called Bream "cutting-edge" in his all-around approach to treating PSU's football players and said it's not unusual to see him in the football building at 5 a.m. to start his day.
O'Brien also had some strong comments regarding the way Sports Illustrated portrayed Bream's methods in a May story that cast Penn State's medical care program in a negative light.
"I thought it was absolutely ridiculous,'' O'Brien said. "I thought that was ridiculous. I think he's a top-notch trainer, he's a good person. ? I think he's just a helluva guy and he's an honest guy.
"I just think the world of Tim Bream.''
5. Does Bill O'Brien have any hobbies?
Well, there's this: O'Brien has read a couple of interesting books in the last few months.
"I read a lot of books. I read 'Elusive Hero', a book about John Kennedy, this summer,'' said O'Brien, referring to the Chris Matthews' book, 'Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero'.
"I read Tom Coughlin's book, 'Earn the right to win','' he added, referring the New York Giants' book, 'Earn the Right to Win: How Success in Any Field Starts with Superior Preparation'.''
Source: http://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefootball/index.ssf/2013/07/penn_state_football_your_key_q.html
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An atheist ?church? in Lake Charles, La., run by lapsed Pentecostal Jerry DeWitt, conducts periodic services with many of the trappings expected by the pious ? except for the need to believe in a supreme being. Such so-called churches (reported the New York Times and Washington Post in coincidental stories the same day in June) can help soothe the ?biological? needs for survival and avoidance of loneliness by congregational rituals, such as celebrating a sabbath, and finding meaning ?in something other than? the self. For example, atheist Sigfried Gold praised a ?rigorous prayer routine,? beseeching a ?vivid goddess he created,? in overcoming his weight problem.
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The business website Quartz reported in June that a popular consumer item in North Korea?s perhaps-improving economy is the refrigerator, made in China and increasingly available as a reward to stellar performers among civil servants and other elites. The appliances, however, can?t reliably store food because the country?s electric grid is so frequently offline. They mostly serve as status symbols. One item Quartz says often gets displayed in the refrigerator: books.
Officer impersonating an officer?
Robert Dugan, 47, a full-time patrolman for the Delaware County (Pa.) Park Police, was charged in June with illegally impersonating a police officer. According to authorities in Brookhaven, Pa., Dugan had accosted a woman double-parked outside her home to pressure her into moving the car, but she refused. Dugan allegedly claimed he was an Upland Borough police officer with authority to write parking citations and make arrests, which he did not actually have.
Compelling explanation?
The low-price air carrier GoAir of New Delhi announced in June that in the future it would hire only females for the cabin crew ? because they weigh less than men. The airline expects eventually to save the equivalent of $4 million annually in fuel based on average weights.
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Source: http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/217139031.html
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