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Monday, November 28, 2011
Racism's Mental Toll May Explain Some Health Disparities (HealthDay)
FRIDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Racism is similar to trauma in how it affects the mental health of black adults in the United States, a new analysis finds.
An examination of 66 previous studies that included more than 18,000 black adults concluded that there are common responses to both racism and trauma, including somatization (psychological distress that is expressed as physical pain), interpersonal sensitivity and anxiety. The more stressful the racism, the more likely a person was to report mental distress.
The study is published online in the Journal of Counseling Psychology.
The researchers suggested that the link between mental health and racism could contribute to physical health disparities between blacks and other Americans of different races and ethnicities.
"The relationship between perceived racism and self-reported depression and anxiety is quite robust, providing a reminder that experiences of racism may play an important role in the health disparities phenomenon," study lead author Alex Pieterse from the University at Albany, State University of New York, said in an American Psychological Association news release. "For example, African Americans have higher rates of hypertension [high blood pressure], a serious condition that has been associated with stress and depression."
The study's authors noted that therapists should routinely assess their black patients' experiences with racism during treatment.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on health disparities related to race and ethnicity.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
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Union Leader endorses Newt Gingrich (The Ticket)
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich received the coveted primary endorsement from New Hampshire's largest newspaper on Sunday, a major blow to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the polling front runner in the state.
"We are in critical need of the innovative, forward-looking strategy and positive leadership that Gingrich has shown he is capable of providing," wrote Joseph W. McQuaid, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader. "A lot of candidates say they're going to improve Washington. Newt Gingrich has actually done that, and in this race he offers the best shot of doing it again."
New Hampshire traditionally holds the first primary election in the nation, and several candidates have met with the paper's editorial board over the past few months in hopes of securing its influential endorsement. New Hampshire will hold its Republican primary election on January 10, 2012.
Over the years, the Leader has had a mixed record of picking the ultimate nominee. The paper endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain in 2008, businessman Steve Forbes in 2000, Pat Buchanan in 1996 and 1992, former Delaware Gov. Pierre du Pont in 1988 and Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1976.
Support for Gingrich has steadily risen nationally over the past few weeks. A Quinnipiac University poll released last week showed him leading Romney by four percentage points. In New Hampshire, where Romney has held a dominating lead throughout the cycle at around 40 percent, Gingrich trails by about 18 percentage points, according to the Real Clear Politics survey average.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Prosecutors Seek Maximum Sentence in Conrad Murray Case (omg!)
Prosecutors in the case against Conrad Murray urged a judge on Wednesday to sentence Michael Jackson's former doctor to the maximum sentence of four years in prison, while defense lawyers asked for probation, according to The Associated Press.
Katherine and Joe Jackson on Conrad Murray Verdict: "Justice has finally been served"
Earlier this month, a jury found Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter in relation to Jackson's death. Murray was taken into custody without bail following the verdict and has been in jail ever since. Murray's sentencing hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 29.
Prosecutors David Walgren and Deborah Brazil say that Murray has shown no remorse over Jackson's death and instead placed blamed on others. The prosecutors have turned over post-trial interviews as evidence. In one interview, Conrad states, "I don't feel guilty because I did not do anything wrong." In addition, prosecutors are also seeking monetary losses for Jackson's children exceeding $100 million.
Conrad Murray found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson case
On the opposing side, defense attorney Nareg Gourjian said Murray will always regret the loss of the pop icon, which is essentially a life sentence in itself. "He is, by every account, immensely sorrowful and remorseful," Gourijian said. He also argued that budgetary issues and prison overcrowding has lead to the release of other non-violent, non-dangerous offenders. "Dr. Murray is clearly such a defendant," he said.
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They call it 'guppy love': Biologists solve an evolution mystery
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Guppies in the wild have evolved over at least half-a-million years ? long enough for the males' coloration to have changed dramatically. Yet a characteristic orange patch on male guppies has remained remarkably stable, though it could have become redder or more yellow. Why has it stayed the same hue of orange over such a long period of time?
Because that's the color female guppies prefer.
"Sometimes populations have to evolve just to stay the same," said Greg Grether, a UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and co-author of a study published Nov. 23 in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, a major journal for research in evolutionary biology.
"In this case, the males have evolved back over and over again to the color that females prefer," said Grether, who noted that there are many examples in which there is less variation among populations of a species than life scientists would expect.
The new study, funded by the National Science Foundation, "provides a neat solution to a mystery that has puzzled me for years," he said.
The orange patches on male guppies are made up of two pigments: carotenoids (which they ingest in their diets and are yellow) and drosopterins (which are red and which their bodies produce). Carotenoids are the same pigments that provide color to vegetables and fruits. Plants produce carotenoids, but animals generally cannot; guppies obtain most of their carotenoids from algae.
UCLA's Kerry Deere, the lead author of the study, conducted experiments in which she presented female guppies (Poecilia reticulata) with a choice of males with low, medium and high levels of drosopterin to see which males they preferred. In her experiments, the females were given a wider range of pigment choices than they would find in the wild. Deere, who was a graduate student of ecology and evolutionary biology in Grether's laboratory at the time and is currently a UCLA postdoctoral scholar in human genetics, conducted more than 100 mate-choice trials.
The females strongly preferred the intermediate males, those whose patches, or spots, were the right hue of orange ? not too red and not too yellow.
"The females preferred the males with an intermediate drosopterin level by a highly significant margin," Deere said.
"Males that are closer to this preferred hue probably have more offspring," Grether said.
If guppies were dependent only on carotenoids for their orange coloration, one would expect to find large changes in the color of their orange patches because the availability of algae varies by location. Guppies are native to Trinidad and Venezuela; the ones in this study were from Trinidad.
(Unlike the colorful guppies sold in pet stores, female guppies in the wild do not have bright coloration like the orange patches. Males are not as ornate, or as large, as the pet-store variety either.)
"A pattern I discovered 10 years ago, which was mysterious at first, is that in locations where more carotenoids are available in their diet, guppies produce more of the drosopterins," Grether said. "There is a very strong pattern of the ratio of these two kinds of pigments staying about the same.
"To human eyes at least, as the proportion of carotenoids in the spots goes up, the spots look yellower, and as the proportion of drosopterins goes up, the spots look redder. By maintaining a very similar ratio of the two pigments across sites, the fish maintain a similar hue of orange from site to site. What is maintaining the similar pigment ratio across sites and across populations? The reason for the lack of variation is that genetic changes counteract environmental changes. The males have evolved differences in drosopterin production that keep the hue relatively constant across environments. As a result of Kerry's experiment, we now have good evidence that female mate choice is responsible for this pattern."
While there are many cases in nature in which genetic variation in a trait masks environmental variation, there are very few examples where the cause is known.
"I originally assumed if there was variation among populations in drosopterin production, it would be the populations where carotenoid availability was lowest that were producing more of these synthetic pigments to compensate for the lack of carotenoids in their diet. But we found the opposite pattern," Grether said. "They're not using drosopterins as a carotenoid substitute; they're matching carotenoid levels with drosopterins. Why they are doing that was a mystery. The answer appears to be that it enables them to maintain the hue that female guppies prefer."
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How water-bouncing balls mimic skimming stones
Caitlin Stier, video intern
It's not just flat stones that can skip across the surface of water. Despite their spherical shape, water-bouncing balls can jump across ponds just as seamlessly.
Now Tadd Truscott and his team at Brigham Young University in Utah are revealing how the design of these balls allows them to accomplish the feat. To conduct tests, they headed to a nearby pond armed with three types of balls. Then they hurled them into the water as cameras filmed the action above the surface and a naval tank captured motion underwater. Their footage highlights the forces that make the different balls sink or skip.
In terms of water skimming, the superball faired the worst. Despite its springy action on solid ground, its high density and low surface area caused it to plummet in water. The racquetball displayed some bounce due to slight flattening on impact but this short-lived shape only propelled it for a few leaps.
The water-bouncing ball, however, was able to maintain a crushed shape for longer to help it scoot across the pond. Its contact area with the water increased when it was squished, helping it to ride along. The ball sprung from the water over 20 times, covering a stretch of nearly 60 meters.
Truscott first became interested in water-bouncing balls after his nephew introduced him to their abilities over the summer. For his next project, he plans to investigate the rolling effect that occurs near the end of a series of leaps across the surface.
The group presented their findings this week at the American Physical Society's fluid dynamics meeting.
If you enjoyed this video, see how a ball could sink forever in a sea of sand-like material or check out this ball-catching robot.
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Diabetes drug shows promise in reducing risk of cancer
Thursday, November 24, 2011
An inexpensive drug that treats Type-2 diabetes has been shown to prevent a number of natural and man-made chemicals from stimulating the growth of breast cancer cells, according to a newly published study by a Michigan State University researcher.
The research, led by pediatrics professor James Trosko and colleagues from South Korea's Seoul National University, provides biological evidence for previously reported epidemiological surveys that long-term use of the drug metformin for Type-2 diabetes reduces the risk of diabetes-associated cancers, such as breast cancers.
The research appears in the current edition of PLoS One.
"People with Type-2 diabetes are known to be at high risk for several diabetes-associated cancers, such as breast, liver and pancreatic cancers," said Trosko, a professor in the College of Human Medicine's Department of Pediatrics and Human Development. "While metformin has been shown in population studies to reduce the risk of these cancers, there was no evidence of how it worked."
For the study, Trosko and colleagues focused on the concept that cancers originate from adult human stem cells and that there are many natural and man-made chemicals that enhance the growth of breast cancer cells.
Using culture dishes, they grew miniature human breast tumors, or mammospheres, that activated a certain stem cell gene (Oct4A). Then the mammospheres were exposed to natural estrogen ? a known growth factor and potential breast tumor promoter ? and man-made chemicals that are known to promote tumors or disrupt the endocrine system.
The team found that estrogen and the chemicals caused the mammospheres to increase in numbers and size. However, with metformin added, the numbers and size of the mammospheres were dramatically reduced. While each of the chemicals enhanced growth by different means, metformin seemed to be able to inhibit their stimulated growth in all cases.
"While future studies are needed to understand the exact mechanism by which metformin works to reduce the growth of breast cancers, this study reveals the need to determine if the drug might be used as a preventive drug and for individuals who have no indication of any existing cancers," he said.
"Though we still do not know the exact molecular mechanism by which it works, metformin seems to dramatically affect how estrogen and endocrine-disrupting chemicals cause the pre-existing breast cancers to grow."
In addition, further research needs to be done with human cultures to see if metformin can reduce the risk of pancreatic and liver cancers in Type-2 diabetics as well, he said.
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Czech architect Karel Hubacek dies at 87 (AP)
PRAGUE ? Architect Karel Hubacek, whose bold hyperboloid design for an elegant mountain-top hotel was named the most significant Czech building of the 20th century, has died. He was 87
Liberec City Hall in the Czech Republic's north ? where Hubacek lived and designed his famed tower building ? said in a statement Wednesday that he had died. No more details were given.
Hubacek moved from his native Prague to Liberec in 1951. His famed tower hotel, that also serves as a television transmitter, is situated on the nearby Jested mountain. The building, whose silhouette has become the symbol of the city, was completed in 1973.
Hubacek was awarded the prestigious Auguste Perret Prize by the International Union of Architects in 1969 for the design.
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Republican Candidates Cease Fire, Praise U.S. Troops on Thanksgiving (ABC News)
Congress' next fights over jobless aid, tax breaks
Debt supercommittee member Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., speaks with reporters as the deficit reduction panel's mandate ends in failure, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Debt supercommittee member Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., speaks with reporters as the deficit reduction panel's mandate ends in failure, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Congress' failed deficit-cutting supercommittee has faded away, but the pressure on lawmakers to quickly confront a stack of expensive economic issues is only growing.
Before leaving town for Christmas and New Year's, lawmakers face decisions on whether to renew payroll tax cuts that have meant an average of nearly $1,000 for more than 120 million families this year. Congress also must determine whether to extend unemployment benefits for millions of long-term jobless Americans.
Without action, both expire Jan. 1.
Also on the list: Whether to prevent a 27 percent cut in Medicare reimbursements to doctors that occurs on New Year's Day. And oh, yes ? figuring out how to avoid an embarrassing mid-December government shutdown, something that has become a frequent exercise in today's bitterly divided Congress.
Protecting the payroll tax cuts, jobless benefits and doctors' payments could cost $200 billion or more. But faced with a limp economy, the huge federal debt, next year's presidential and congressional elections, and the supercommittee's finger-pointing, partisan breakdown, clashes over each are inevitable.
"Right now people are so mad and suffering so much from fiscal fatigue that it's really hard to say what they want," Steve Bell, a longtime Senate Republican budget aide who studies economic policy at the moderate Bipartisan Policy Institute, said of lawmakers.
There had been some hope of including language dealing with the payroll tax, jobless benefits and Medicare payments to doctors in whatever debt-cutting proposal the supercommittee produced.
That would have improved their chances of approval because Congress was to consider the debt panel's package under special expedited procedures. Without that protection, the fate of the payroll tax, unemployment and Medicare proposals is more clouded, with battles expected over the size of each and how ? if at all ? to pay for them.
"There at least would have been some sugar for everybody's taste buds" if the proposals were part of a supercommittee package, said Joseph Minarik, a former Democratic congressional aide and now research director for the nonpartisan, business-led Committee for Economic Development.
Helping the chances for eventual enactment of the three proposals is a consensus among many economists that each initiative helps the economy by pumping billions of dollars into it.
The action is likely to start in the Democratic-led Senate, where leaders are expected to force a vote on a proposal to extend the payroll tax cut. The proposed extension would be paid for by boosting levies on people earning $1 million or more per year ? making it certain to fail but providing Democrats with a vote they hope to use against GOP candidates next year.
"Tell them, 'Don't be a Grinch,'" Obama told a cheering crowd in Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday, saying that's the message they should send Congress. "Don't vote to raise taxes on working Americans during the holidays."
In response, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, used a written statement to note that in September, Republicans told Obama "that we stand ready to have an honest and fruitful discussion with him regarding the payroll tax extension, and that invitation stands."
In a deal with Obama last year, Congress cut the 6.2 percent payroll tax ? which helps finance Social Security ? to 4.2 percent for this year. That has saved 121 million families an average $934 this year, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
Obama has proposed cutting it to 3.2 percent next year at a cost of $179 billion, plus adding another $69 billion in payroll tax breaks for employers. With Republicans and some Democrats wary of the national debt ? which surpassed $15 trillion last week ? the price tag well could shrink.
Meanwhile, Democrats also want to renew unemployment benefits that provide people with up to 99 weeks of coverage before the extra benefits expire Jan. 1. Without the added coverage, benefits ? which average under $300 a week ? would last a maximum of 26 weeks.
Without action, more than 2 million people would lose unemployment coverage by mid-February, according to the Labor Department. It would cost an estimated $45 billion to renew the extra benefits for a year.
Preventing the cut in Medicare payments to doctors is estimated to cost more than $20 billion next year. It is considered a near certainty that Congress will address it because of the clout that Medicare and doctors have with lawmakers.
Within minutes of Monday's announcement that the supercommittee had failed, the American Medical Association was warning that the 27 percent cut would "force many physicians to limit the number of Medicare and TRICARE patients they can care for in their practices."
TRICARE is the military's health program.
House leaders don't plan to bring the jobless benefits, payroll tax or Medicare reimbursement measures to the chamber's floor next week.
Congress is also far behind on nine crucial spending bills, covering everything from the Pentagon to environmental programs. Three spending bills have been completed.
Most government agencies are functioning on temporary authority that expires Dec. 16. If the remaining nine spending bills are not finished by then, lawmakers will have to vote to keep them open or face an angry public that polls show already has undisguised contempt for Congress.
To speed the work, the remaining nine measures might be wrapped into one massive package exceeding $800 billion ? a price tag sure to appall tea party lawmakers, making passage complicated.
Two other items are virtually certain to wait until next year because the full impact of congressional inaction would not be felt for months or longer.
Without action, more than 20 million additional families would see their 2012 tax bills grow because they would have to pay the alternative minimum tax, a program initially designed to ensure that wealthy people don't completely escape tax obligations. A one-year fix would cost $90 billion.
Several dozen tax breaks for businesses, including a large one for corporate research and development, expire on Jan. 1. Renewal could cost more than $30 billion.
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Associated Press writer Andrew Taylor contributed to this report.
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Spooked Momentum Investors Punish Pandora
Despite yesterday's FQ3 earnings statement?indicating that Pandora beat Wall Street projections and that it has abundant long-term growth opportunities,?Pandora?s stock price fell 11.3% since yesterday to $10.51.?This is likely because?Pandora lowered its FQ4 guidance to a loss ($0.03) in earnings per share, worse than its $0.02 EPS for last quarter and Wall Street's ($0.02) guidance for next quarter. Investors see Pandora as a momentum story, betting on it gradually but steadily growing towards?significant?profitability.?The slightly grim guidance, due to increased investments which will go towards hiring more sales people, may have spooked some investors with a distaste for any signs of slowing momentum.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/O4Rxwdf-ZRw/
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James Murdoch quits UK newspaper boards (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters) ? James Murdoch has resigned from the boards of the publishing units within News Corp's British newspaper arm, which used to include the now-defunct News of the World tabloid at the center of the phone hacking scandal, regulatory filings show.
Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert and deputy chief operating officer of News Corp, remains chairman of News International, the News Corp unit that houses its British newspapers, and a member of the Times editorial board.
The News International unit has been damaged this year by the revelation that people working for the popular Sunday tabloid hacked into the phones of thousands to generate news.
Slow-burning investigations into the matter became front-page national news when it was revealed in July that one of the victims was missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, who appeared to have been picking up voicemails but was later found murdered.
Ex-News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International the following week, and was replaced by Tom Mockridge, the former head of News Corp-owned Sky Italia, on July 15.
"Following the appointment of Tom Mockridge as CEO of News International, in September James Murdoch stepped down from the boards of a number of News International subsidiary companies including News Group Newspapers (NGN) and Times Newspapers Ltd (TNL)," News International said in a statement.
Mockridge replaced Murdoch on the two company boards.
The filings show that Murdoch resigned on September 13 from Times Newspapers Ltd and on September 19 from NGN. September 13 was the date on which he discovered he would be recalled by a British parliamentary committee to answer more questions.
NGN is the company that has been sued by many of the phone-hacking victims, including Hollywood star Jude Law and his ex-girlfriend, actress Sienna Miller.
Media lawyer Mark Stephens said he did not believe the move had any legal implications for the phone-hacking cases. "He's either liable for what happened under his watch, or he's not," he told Reuters.
James Murdoch survived a vote to remain on the News Corp board last month only thanks to support from his family and another loyal shareholder.
Next week, he faces shareholders of British satellite broadcaster BSkyB, who will have to decide whether he should remain as non-executive chairman.
Some News Corp investors would like to see the company sell its newspapers, in which media interest is disproportionate to the small contribution they make in revenues and profits.
Ivor Gaber, professor of political journalism at London's City University, said the move could indicate that Murdoch was still worried over his own exposure to the phone hacking scandal or that News Corp was preparing to sell its UK newspaper holdings.
"The Sun is now the only thing keeping the ship afloat, in commercial terms," he told Reuters.
(Reporting by Kate Holton and Georgina Prodhan; Editing by Chris Wickham)
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The X Factor Double Elimination: Who Went Home?
The X Factor tried to shake things up this week by sending TWO contestants home - but the only real surprise was that the show featured Howie Mandel in the audience. Isn't he a NBC guy?
Indeed, the two performances given the boot were the most obvious selections of the remaining nine, one a group, the other an over-30 hopeful. So long, Lakoda Rayne and LeRoy Bell. You had a decent run.
Rayne was sent packing early on in the broadcast - which also featured performances by Kelly Clarkson and Bruno Mars - as that group received the lowest number of votes following last night's performance show. Paula Abdul now has no more proteges remaining.
Bell, meanwhile, was in the bottom two alongside Marcus Canty. The judges tried to instill some tension in the second elimination, deadlocking their votes and leaving the singers' fate up to the audience. Steve Jones promptly read Bell's name off a card and the elder crooner took his ousting like a man.
You tell us: Did the right contestants get sent home?
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91% The Descendants
All Critics (127) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (115) | Rotten (12)
One of the year's best films, a bubbly meditation on family and responsibility that weighs just enough to matter.
With so many balls in the air the temptation is to rush from one plot strand to another, but Payne takes the opposite approach. He also captures the complexity of emotional reactions that grief stirs.
It's a lovely, heartfelt character study of common, everyday people trapped on the horns of an uncommon but not unheard-of dilemma.
The latest exhibit in Payne's careful dissection of the beached male, which runs from Matthew Broderick's character in "Election" to Jack Nicholson's in "About Schmidt" and Paul Giamatti's in "Sideways."
This mature, well-acted dramatic comedy is deeply satisfying, maybe even cathartic.
A tough, tender, observant, exquisitely nuanced portrait of mixed emotions at their most confounding and profound -- all at play within a deliciously damp, un-touristy Hawaii that's at once lush and lovely to look at.
The Descendants finds Payne, now 50, having arrived in midlife with a new maturity, eschewing solipsism and snickers for a deeper engagement with the world.
Clooney has never been better, displaying more range and less actor-ego than ever before... The Descendants would still be a splendid movie without him; with Clooney, it's one of 2011's very best.
It's good, but far less than you'd expect from the guy who started his career with the gleefully provocative Citizen Ruth and Election.
In the hands of writer-director Alexander Payne, Clooney has rarely seemed so much at home.
There are ample opportunities for the film to soak in pathos, righteousness, farce, or pictorialism, and Payne manages to nod at those pitfalls without falling into them.
An emotionally ennobling film that wears its compassion on the sleeve of its ugly Hawaiian print shirts.
Payne displays a knack for both perfect casting and using his lead actor in sometimes unconventional, unexpected ways
Director Alexander Payne prefers to start a movie with one strike against him. He always picks a dislikable protagonist... Then, as he slowly gives characters self-awareness, he gives us reasons to watch and care about them.
In playing an everyman stranded between anger and duty, Clooney earns an emotional payoff that a lesser actor would simply demand.
An introspective and heartwarming film, unafraid to convey its story with pleasing simplicity.
It's Clooney and Woodley's movie, as they become a team before our eyes.
I kept expecting it to get better, but it just sort of did its thing and called it a day.
A family drama whose distinction comes primarily from its nuances and subtleties.
Director and co-writer Alexander Payne again shows the most acute and perceptive understanding of the American psyche of any current director.
Flawless in the still manner it approaches crippling encounters with grief and disgust, dryly expressing the necessary unraveling of a distracted man. The Descendents is simply terrific, profound yet understated.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Agricultural demand fuels Deere results, outlook (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Deere & Co (DE.N) reported a 46 percent rise in quarterly earnings and projected "substantial growth" for 2012 amid strong global farming conditions and higher prices, sending its shares higher in an otherwise weak stock market.
The world's largest farm machinery maker said hefty incomes of the world's farmers -- driving record 2011 results -- are expected to be stable in 2012. Demand for agricultural commodities, such as grain, will remain high.
The company solidly outpaced analyst expectations in the fourth quarter as agricultural and turf equipment sales were stronger than expected. Those results offset a slightly disappointing result on construction and forestry margins.
Deere's projection of 2012 net income of about $3.2 billion, compared with $2.8 billion in 2011, was also higher than Wall Street's expectations.
During a conference call, the company said it plans to more tightly manage inventory of combines, which is a closely watched indicator of company health.
Moline, Illinois-based Deere's strong earnings and positive outlook come during particularly good times for U.S. farmers. Farmland prices in the United States surged to the highest level in three decades in the July-to-September period, even as major crop prices have fallen from peaks earlier this year.
Deere said it has continued investing in its product line to meet demands from farmers.
"Our success reflects a continued pattern of strong customer response to our innovative lines of equipment," Chief Executive Samuel Allen said, adding that Deere remains well positioned to carry out its extensive growth plans and capitalize on positive long-term economic trends.
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RECORD 2011
Deere posted net income of $669 million, or $1.62 per share, for the fiscal fourth quarter that ended October 31, compared with $457 million, or $1.07 per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 20 percent to $8.61 billion.
Wall Street expectations called for Deere to earn $1.43 a share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
For full-year 2011, Deere's net income reached a record $2.8 billion, and the company generated $3.6 billion in cashflow from operations.
Sales, positively affected by currency translation and price increases, topped $32 billion in 2011, helping the company offset a $665 million increase in raw material costs, which are expected to rise another $500 million in 2012.
During the fourth quarter, Deere continued its pace of double-digit growth in both established and emerging markets. In the United States and Canada, equipment sales rose 14 percent, while sales outside that region grew at more than twice that pace -- posting a 31 percent equipment sales rise.
Last month, Deere rival Agco Corp (AGCO.N) posted stronger-than-expected third-quarter results and raised its full-year outlook for the fourth time. CNH Global (CNH.N), which also outpaced analysts' forecasts, said full-year revenue growth would be at the upper end of its prior forecast of 15 percent to 20 percent.
Deere's shares rose about 3.3 percent to $75.28 in morning New York Stock Exchange trading. The wider market slumped on concerns over unemployment, consumer spending and the economy in Europe.
"SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH"
Deere executives remain bullish on its ability to thrive.
"In spite of an unsettled global economy, demand for John Deere products is expected to experience substantial growth in fiscal year 2012," Deere said in a press release.
The company said momentum is expected to be strong in the current November-to-January period, with sales seen rising as much as 16 percent to 18 percent compared with the same period a year ago. Full-year equipment sales growth will moderate in coming quarters, settling in at 15 percent for all of 2012.
In Europe, sales are expected to be flat next year "as a result of general economic concerns" there. South America industry sales, which were strong in 2011, are expected to be flat as well.
Increased availability of financing and higher crop production in China and high agricultural commodity prices in India are expected to be key factors fueling Deere's momentum in Asia.
(Reporting by John D. Stoll in Detroit, editing by John Wallace and Maureen Bavdek)
Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earnings/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111123/bs_nm/us_deere
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China says to go ahead with Pacific naval drills (Reuters)
BEIJING (Reuters) ? China said Wednesday it will go ahead with naval exercises in the western Pacific this month, an announcement that came a week after Washington reinforced its Asia-Pacific footprint with plans to operate 2,500 U.S. Marines out of northern Australia.
Beijing emphasized its right to go carry out the regular annual drills despite regional fears about its growing military strength, particularly that of its navy.
After a diplomatic push through the region by U.S. President Barack Obama, tensions between the United States and China spilled over into meetings of Asia-Pacific leaders in Indonesia, particularly over how to handle competing regional claims to the South China Sea.
Obama's push, which included plans to operate Marines and U.S. war planes and navy ships out of a de facto base in the Australian city of Darwin, may have fueled China's fear of being encircled or contained by the United States and its allies.
"This is an annual, planned, routine drill. It is not directed at any specific country or target and is in keeping with relevant international laws and practices," said a two-line statement on the Chinese Defense Ministry's website (www.mod.gov.cn).
"China's freedom of navigation and other legal rights should not be obstructed," it said, without giving further details about where the drills would occur.
Japan's Kyodo news agency cited the Japanese Defense Ministry Wednesday as saying six Chinese naval ships had crossed into the Pacific between two major Okinawa Prefecture islands in southern Japan since early Tuesday.
The growing reach of China's navy is raising regional concerns that have fed into long-standing territorial disputes in energy-rich waters that could speed up military expansion across Asia.
China has been building new submarines, surface ships and anti-ship ballistic missiles as part of its naval modernization. In August it made a trial launch of its first aircraft carrier, a retro-fitted Soviet vessel.
In the past year, China has had run-ins at sea with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines. The incidents -- boat crashes and charges of territorial incursions -- have been minor, but the diplomatic reaction has often been heated.
Tense maritime stand-offs have persisted in the disputed South China Sea, where key shipping lanes carry some $5 trillion a year in world trade.
Vietnam, China, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei all have claims in the disputed waters.
On the tails of last week's East Asia Summit in Indonesia, a U.S. official traveling with Obama said he had been encouraged by the constructive tone of discussions with Asian leaders on maritime security and the South China Sea, a topic Beijing had hoped to keep off the agenda.
Obama told Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who indirectly warned Washington to stay out of the dispute at the summit, that the United States wanted to ensure the sea lanes were kept open and peaceful.
Chinese state media has said that building a strong navy that is commensurate with China's rising status is a necessary step in China's efforts to safeguard its increasingly globalised national interests.
(Reporting by Michael Martina; Editing by Nick Macfie)
Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111123/wl_nm/us_china_navy
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Fresh iPhone Apps for Nov. 21: Green Square, Chow Thanksgiving, Crimson: Steam Pirates, Battle Nations (Appolicious)
Marrying the green movement with location-based check-in apps is today?s leading Fresh iPhone App, Green Square. The app is all about checking-in to your favorite green businesses in order to share them with others. It?s followed up by a great app for getting ready for Thursday?s big Thanksgiving dinner, especially if you have to prepare it. Chow Thanksgiving Dinner Guide helps you every step of the way, from creating shopping lists to actually cooking as many as nine dishes. You?ll want to check out our fresh games as well: Crimson: Steam Pirates is a port of a turn-based game in which you play a pirate battling enemies on the high seas, and Battle Nations is a strategy game containing 130 missions and online multiplayer support.
Spending time committing to trying to live a ?greener? lifestyle and wish you had a little bit of help? Snag Green Square, an app that combines a green lifestyle with a Foursquare-style location-based check-in service. The app lets you ?check-in? to all your favorite green establishments, allowing you to share them with friends, and vice versa.
Green Square features social networking support, allowing you to tie it in to Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare, and you can use the app to see what establishments your friends and other users are visiting. You can also leave tips about the places you check-in to for others to read, or read those left by others.
Chow Thanksgiving Dinner Guide is a bit of an older app, but what it lacks in freshness it makes up for in festive usefulness. The app does just what it purports to ? it helps the cooking-impaired among us through the intense preparation process of Thanksgiving dinner, providing a step-by-step plans and covering everything from shopping to cooking.
Chow includes nine classic Thanksgiving recipes, as well as the ability to choose from several dishes and create your own personal Thanksgiving plan. Once you choose the dishes you want to make, the app will walk you through shopping for all the necessary ingredients, preparation and cooking. It?s everything you need to make Thanksgiving dinner, especially if you?re not accustomed to the job.
Turn-based nautical strategy title Crimson: Steam Pirates has been a pretty big hit on the iPad, and now an iPhone version is available for those of us who prefer our games on the small screen. The game centers on you, a newly minted pirate, as you go on missions in your steam-powered ship attacking ports and enemy vessels and looting and pillaging everything you find.
Steam Pirates comes with 32 missions when you download it, with another eight available through in-app purchase. It also has a pass-and-play multiplayer mode that includes two scenarios you can attack with a friend. Just keep in mind you?ll need an iPhone 3GS or newer device in order to play.
Another turn-based strategy offering, Battle Nations is about commanding an army of various units in battles that take place on a battlefield consisting of a grid. That grid shows you where your units can move and where they can attack with each turn. You?ll also gather resources and train your troops to become a dominant military force across 130 missions.
In addition to its single-player campaign, Battle Nations also includes online multiplayer modes that allow you to attack friends and attempt to take over their empires, or help them repel the attacks of others. There?s also a straight player-versus-player tournament mode through which developer Z2Live also distributes prizes.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Rihanna Causes Stir In U.K., France
Singer, whose Talk That Talk is out this week, offended audience with what she wore on Britain's 'X Factor.'
By Jocelyn Vena
Rihanna performs on "X Factor UK"
Photo: itv
Rihanna seems to be making trouble everywhere she goes these days. On Sunday night, she accepted her American Music Award for Favorite R&B/Soul Album remotely from the U.K., where she was performing on "The X Factor." And part of her ensemble for that performance had heads turning.
She donned a demure plaid dress and clunky punk shoes with writing scrawled all over them, and one phrase on the footwear had some people up in arms. According to The Telegraph, the words "F--- Off" were written on Ri's shoes. While the offensive statement may have left audiences a bit shocked, a spokesperson for the show played down the controversy.
"There were no close-up shots of Rihanna's shoes," the spokesperson said. "We believe the performance was suitable."
Rihanna caused a similar stir last December when she appeared on the British reality program scantily clad in a provocative outfit.
It's not just the Brits that Rihanna is making blush. According to Pressparty, Rihanna's "We Found Love" video has been banned from being played before 10 p.m. in France. The Officials at the Supreme Audiovisual Council of France have deemed the video, which includes drug use, sex and domestic violence, inappropriate for viewing before that hour.
The video's director, Melina Matsoukas, recently defended the video's imagery when she spoke to MTV News. "We love, obviously, to do provocative imagery ... we always try to definitely push the limits," Matsoukas said. "I think because, in the end, it's not really at all about domestic violence. It's really just about it being toxic, and they're on this drug trip and that definitely plays a part, but I think it's also about being triumphant over those weaknesses, and she leaves him. It's not trying to glorify that type of relationship. The bad parts of it, that's what you don't want. In the end, her leaving, it represents her getting that out of her life. The drugs and the addiction and the toxic — that's what brings her downfall and brings a lot of harm."
Rihanna's video for "S&M," also directed by Matsoukas, was banned for using provocative imagery when it was released back in February.
Rihanna drops her new album, Talk That Talk, a grinding party record full of provocative lyrics, this week. "We Found Love" is the first single off the record.
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Reliable nuclear device to heat, power Mars Science Lab
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which is scheduled to launch this week, has the potential to be the most productive Mars surface mission in history. That's due in part to its nuclear heat and power source.
When the rover Curiosity heads to space as early as Saturday, it will carry the most advanced payload of scientific gear ever used on Mars' surface. Those instruments will get their lifeblood from a radioisotope power system assembled and tested at Idaho National Laboratory. The Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator is the latest "space battery" that can reliably power a deep space mission for many years.
The device provides a continuous source of heat and power for the rover's instruments. NASA has used nuclear generators to safely and reliably power 26 missions over the past 50 years. New generators like the one destined for Mars are painstakingly assembled and extensively tested at INL before heading to space.
"This power system will enable Curiosity to complete its ambitious expedition in Mars' extreme temperatures and seasons," said Stephen Johnson, director of INL's Space Nuclear Systems and Technology Division. "When the unit leaves here, we've verified every aspect of its performance and made sure it's in good shape when it gets to Kennedy Space Center."
The power system provides about 110 watts of electricity and can run continuously for many years. The nuclear fuel is protected by multiple layers of safety features that have each undergone rigorous testing under varied accident scenarios.
The INL team began assembling the mission's power source in summer 2008. By December of that year, the power system was fully fueled, assembled and ready for testing. INL performs a series of tests to verify that such systems will perform as designed during their missions. These tests include:
- Vibrational testing to simulate rocket launch conditions.
- Magnetic testing to ensure the system's electrical field won't affect the rover's sensitive scientific equipment.
- Mass properties tests to determine the center of gravity, which impacts thruster calculations for moving the rover.
- Thermal vacuum testing to verify operation on a planet's surface or in the cold vacuum of space.
INL completed its tests in May 2009, but by then the planned September 2009 launch had been delayed until this month because of hurdles with other parts of the mission. So INL stored the power system until earlier this summer, when it was shipped to Kennedy Space Center and mated up with the rover to ensure everything fit and worked as designed.
The system will supply warmth and electricity to Curiosity and its scientific instruments using heat from nuclear decay. The generator is fueled with a ceramic form of plutonium dioxide encased in multiple layers of protective materials including iridium capsules and high-strength graphite blocks. As the plutonium naturally decays, it gives off heat, which is circulated through the rover by heat transfer fluid plumbed throughout the system. Electric voltage is produced by using thermocouples, which exploit the temperature difference between the heat source and the cold exterior. More details about the system are in a fact sheet here: http://www.inl.gov/marsrover/.
Curiosity is expected to land on Mars in August 2012 and carry out its mission over 23 months. It will investigate Mars' Gale Crater for clues about whether environmental conditions there have favored the development of microbial life, and to preserve any evidence it finds.
NASA chose to use a nuclear power source because solar power alternatives did not meet the full range of the mission's requirements. Only the radioisotope power system allows full-time communication with the rover during its atmospheric entry, descent and landing regardless of the landing site. And the nuclear powered rover can go farther, travel to more places, last longer, and power and heat a larger and more capable scientific payload compared to the solar power alternative NASA studied.
"You can operate with solar panels on Mars, you just can't operate everywhere," said Johnson. "This gives you an opportunity to go anywhere you want on the planet, not be limited to the areas that have sunlight and not have to put the rover to sleep at night."
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INL is one of the DOE's 10 multiprogram national laboratories. The laboratory performs work in each of DOE's strategic goal areas: energy, national security, science and environment. INL is the nation's leading center for nuclear energy research and development. Day-to-day management and operation of the laboratory is the responsibility of Battelle Energy Alliance.
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Share ] Contact: Teri Ehresman
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which is scheduled to launch this week, has the potential to be the most productive Mars surface mission in history. That's due in part to its nuclear heat and power source.
When the rover Curiosity heads to space as early as Saturday, it will carry the most advanced payload of scientific gear ever used on Mars' surface. Those instruments will get their lifeblood from a radioisotope power system assembled and tested at Idaho National Laboratory. The Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator is the latest "space battery" that can reliably power a deep space mission for many years.
The device provides a continuous source of heat and power for the rover's instruments. NASA has used nuclear generators to safely and reliably power 26 missions over the past 50 years. New generators like the one destined for Mars are painstakingly assembled and extensively tested at INL before heading to space.
"This power system will enable Curiosity to complete its ambitious expedition in Mars' extreme temperatures and seasons," said Stephen Johnson, director of INL's Space Nuclear Systems and Technology Division. "When the unit leaves here, we've verified every aspect of its performance and made sure it's in good shape when it gets to Kennedy Space Center."
The power system provides about 110 watts of electricity and can run continuously for many years. The nuclear fuel is protected by multiple layers of safety features that have each undergone rigorous testing under varied accident scenarios.
The INL team began assembling the mission's power source in summer 2008. By December of that year, the power system was fully fueled, assembled and ready for testing. INL performs a series of tests to verify that such systems will perform as designed during their missions. These tests include:
- Vibrational testing to simulate rocket launch conditions.
- Magnetic testing to ensure the system's electrical field won't affect the rover's sensitive scientific equipment.
- Mass properties tests to determine the center of gravity, which impacts thruster calculations for moving the rover.
- Thermal vacuum testing to verify operation on a planet's surface or in the cold vacuum of space.
INL completed its tests in May 2009, but by then the planned September 2009 launch had been delayed until this month because of hurdles with other parts of the mission. So INL stored the power system until earlier this summer, when it was shipped to Kennedy Space Center and mated up with the rover to ensure everything fit and worked as designed.
The system will supply warmth and electricity to Curiosity and its scientific instruments using heat from nuclear decay. The generator is fueled with a ceramic form of plutonium dioxide encased in multiple layers of protective materials including iridium capsules and high-strength graphite blocks. As the plutonium naturally decays, it gives off heat, which is circulated through the rover by heat transfer fluid plumbed throughout the system. Electric voltage is produced by using thermocouples, which exploit the temperature difference between the heat source and the cold exterior. More details about the system are in a fact sheet here: http://www.inl.gov/marsrover/.
Curiosity is expected to land on Mars in August 2012 and carry out its mission over 23 months. It will investigate Mars' Gale Crater for clues about whether environmental conditions there have favored the development of microbial life, and to preserve any evidence it finds.
NASA chose to use a nuclear power source because solar power alternatives did not meet the full range of the mission's requirements. Only the radioisotope power system allows full-time communication with the rover during its atmospheric entry, descent and landing regardless of the landing site. And the nuclear powered rover can go farther, travel to more places, last longer, and power and heat a larger and more capable scientific payload compared to the solar power alternative NASA studied.
"You can operate with solar panels on Mars, you just can't operate everywhere," said Johnson. "This gives you an opportunity to go anywhere you want on the planet, not be limited to the areas that have sunlight and not have to put the rover to sleep at night."
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INL is one of the DOE's 10 multiprogram national laboratories. The laboratory performs work in each of DOE's strategic goal areas: energy, national security, science and environment. INL is the nation's leading center for nuclear energy research and development. Day-to-day management and operation of the laboratory is the responsibility of Battelle Energy Alliance.
Subscribe to RSS feeds for INL news and feature stories at www.inl.gov. Follow @INL on Twitter or visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/IdahoNationalLaboratory.
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