Black Keys, Neil Young, others to perform in NYC

NEW YORK (AP) ? More than 60,000 people are expected to descend upon Central Park on Saturday evening for a free concert featuring the Black Keys and Neil Young aimed at calling attention to poverty worldwide.

Dubbed the Global Citizen Festival, it also is slated to feature K'naan, Band of Horses and Foo Fighters. Video of the event is to be streamed worldwide.

The concert was scheduled around the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week and organizers used an innovative approach to ticket distribution so that many concert-goers had no choice but to learn about an array of global problems such as polio, malaria, child mortality and clean drinking water.

Anyone wanting free tickets had to register at globalcitizen.org, which then required users to watch videos or read information about poverty-related issues. Each time material was consumed, users could earn points toward a drawing for tickets. Points were also accumulated by sharing information via Twitter or Facebook.

"Our social media campaign has been off the charts," said Hugh Evans, CEO and co-founder of the Global Poverty Project. The approach demonstrates a new model harnessing digital tools that may be repeated for other big events with political or social messages.

Organizers said more than 71,000 people had signed up online, resulting in more than 3.5 million page views. On average, they spent just over six minutes consuming content or sharing information. Nearly 200,000 pieces of information were shared on Facebook, and just a bit more than that on Twitter. About 170,000 people signed petitions via the site, and there were 98,000 videos viewed to completion.

Evans said the project achieved its goals, set out last year, of getting more than 100,000 people to take action related to extreme poverty while telling a new story about the challenges. To that end, the site conveys information in detailed, documentary-like accounts and uses an array of video, graphics and stories that are friendly for mobile and digital consumption.

Financially, he said, the project also achieved its yearlong goal ? working with an array of organizations like the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, the Earth Institute and Rotary International ? of garnering $500 million in commitments to help fight poverty.

So now what?

Evans said that he's hoping the audience, built online and at the concert, will continue efforts by tweeting President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney to halve extreme poverty by 2015. And Evans is working on an announcement in October or November about "a major rock band" getting involved with the anti-poverty efforts.

Associated Press

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The Gray Wardens are recruiting, will you save Ferelden.

Dragon age: reckoning
9:30 Dragon, the fifth blight has started in Ferelden.

The land of Ferelden has been thrown into a war with horrid darkspawn, creature born from the pure taint of blood magic.

King Cailen has assembled his army, along with his top military adviser, Loghain?s, army. He has been battling against the darkspawn, and appears to be winning.

(left Cailen, right Loghain)

The king has called upon the grey wardens to help with the war; the grey wardens are a group of incredibly skilled warriors, mages, archers and all other types of warriors you can imagine. They rose in the first blight to save the whole of Thedas from the first blight. Despite this the wardens are desperate to bolster their numbers. You are one these recruits. All recruits are being taken to the ruins of Ostagar to help Cailen with the battle. There are many of you, but all your stories are different. This initiation is the beginning of your new life.

This is a story based on the story of dragon age: origins.it will follow the same story setting as dragon age: origins. Unlike the game though the role-players will choose all the choices. There will be none of the characters from the game unless someone decides to do a canon. Friendships, arguments, love. It will all be played out in this before you make your character you could look to this website for some background info. I can help you with your application if you need any. Also do not worry if your not experienced with the story, me and other experienced players of dragon age.

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Suu Kyi could be president -Burma leader

Burmese leader Thein Sein has said he would accept democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi as president if elected, but added he could not alone amend rules that bar her from power.

The former general has paid rare tributes to Burma's Nobel laureate during a landmark tour of the US where he has burnished his reformist credentials by insisting that his country will continue its strides towards democracy after decades of army rule.

The Burmese leader, whose meeting with Suu Kyi in New York marked the latest sign of warm relations between the nation's leader and its most famous former political prisoner, told the BBC that there were 'no problems' between them.

'If the people accept her, I will have to accept her. As I said before, we are now working together,' he told the BBC in an interview aired on Saturday.

But he said he could not act alone to remove the barriers impeding the democracy champion's route to the presidency, as the country heads towards crucial 2015 elections.

Burma's constitution prohibits those with close foreign relatives from holding high office and Suu Kyi, who married a British academic, has two sons living in the West.

'I alone cannot change the constitution. This depends on the wish of the people and also the wishes of the members of parliament,' Thein Sein said.

The leader has won international plaudits - and the suspension or lifting of most Western sanctions - for the fast pace of change in Burma since he took the helm of a quasi-civilian regime last year.

Hundreds of political prisoners have been freed and Suu Kyi - herself locked up for a total of 15 years - has now entered parliament after her National League for Democracy won key by-elections in April.

Thein Sein, who was a senior figure in the previous junta, has met Suu Kyi on several occasions amid efforts to steer the long-isolated country towards democracy and economic prosperity.

In his address to the UN this week, the Burmese leader went further than ever in his praise of the veteran activist, whose struggle for change in her impoverished homeland has earned her deep affection both at home and abroad.

Source: http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2012/09/30/Suu_Kyi_could_be_president_-Burma_leader_800709.html

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Scientists bring the heat to refine renewable biofuel production

Friday, September 28, 2012

Perhaps inspired by Arizona's blazing summers, Arizona State University scientists have developed a new method that relies on heat to improve the yield and lower the costs of high-energy biofuels production, making renewable energy production more of an everyday reality.

ASU has been at the forefront of algal research for renewable energy production. Since 2007, with support from federal, state and industry funding, ASU has spearheaded several projects that utilize photosynthetic microbes, called cyanobacteria, as a potential new source of renewable, carbon-neutral fuels. Efforts have focused on developing cyanobacteria as a feedstock for biodiesel production, as well as benchtop and large-scale photobioreactors to optimize growth and production.

ASU Biodesign Institute researcher Roy Curtiss, a microbiologist who uses genetic engineering of bacteria to develop new vaccines, has adapted a similar approach to make better biofuel-producing cyanobacteria.

"We keep trying to reach ever deeper into our genetic bag of tricks and optimize bacterial metabolic engineering to develop an economically viable, truly green route for biofuel production," said Roy Curtiss, director of the Biodesign Institute's Centers for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology and Microbial Genetic Engineering as well as professor in the School of Life Sciences.

Cyanobacteria are like plants, dependent upon renewable ingredients including sunlight, carbon dioxide and water that, through genetic engineering, can be altered to favor biodiesel production. Cyanobacteria offer attractive advantages over the use of plants like corn or switchgrass, producing many times the energy yield with energy input from the sun and without the necessity of taking arable cropland out of production.

Colleague Xinyao Liu and Curtiss have spent the last few years modifying these microbes. Their goal is to bypass costly processing steps (such as cell disruption, filtration) for optimal cyanobacterial biofuel production.

"We wanted to develop strains of cyanobacteria that basically can process themselves," said Curtiss. "A couple of years ago, we developed a Green Recovery process that is triggered by removing carbon dioxide to control the synthesis of enzymes, called lipases, that degrade the cell membranes and release the microbes' precious cargo of free fatty acids that can be converted to biofuels,"

However, when growth of cyanobacteria is scaled up to meet industrial needs, they become dense, and the self-shading that occurs in concentrated cultures, does not let in enough light to produce enough of the lipases to efficiently drive the process. Thus the original Green Recovery was light dependent and maximally efficient at sub-optimal culture densities.

Curtiss' team looked again at nature to improve their Green Recovery method. The process uses enzymes found in nature called thermostable lipases synthesized by thermophilic organisms that grow at high temperatures such as in hot springs. These thermostable lipases break down fats and membrane lipids into the fatty acid biodiesel precursors, but only at high temperatures. The team's new process, called thermorecovery, uses a heat-triggered, self-destruct system. By taking a culture and shifting to a high temperature, the lipases are called into action. This process occurs with concentrated cultures in the dark under conditions that would be very favorable for an industrial process.

They tested a total of 7 different lipases from microbes that thrive in hot springs under very high temperatures, a scorching 60-70 C (158F). The research team swapped each lipase gene into a cyanobacteria strain that grows normally at 30 C (86 F) and tested the new strains.

They found the Fnl lipase from Feridobacterium nodosum, an extremophile found in the hot springs of New Zealand, released the most fatty acids. The highest yield occurred when the carbon dioxide was removed from the cells for one day (to turn on the genes making the lipases), then treated at 46C (114F) for two days (for maximum lipase activity).

The yield was 15 percent higher than the Green Recovery method, and because there were less reagents used, time (one day for thermorecovery vs. one week for Green Recovery) and space for the recovery. Thermorecovery resulted in an estimated 80% cost savings.

Furthermore, in a continuous semi-batch production experiment, the team showed that daily harvested cultures released could release a high level of fatty acid and the productivity could last for at least 20 days. Finally, the water critical to growing the cultures could be recycled to maintain the growth of the original culture.

"Our latest results are encouraging and we are confident of making further improvements to achieve enhanced productivity in strains currently under construction and development," said Curtiss. "In addition, optimizing growth conditions associated with scale-up will also improve productivity."

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The results appear in the online version of the Journal of Biotechnology: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168165612006153

Arizona State University: http://asunews.asu.edu/

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No, You're the Racist, or Blogging About Obama Phones

Yesterday we asked " " It turns out that we didn't just need to explain the degree of the racism, but whether it was racist at all. After rallying around a video of a black woman explaining (incorrectly) that Obama had given her a free cell phone as a sure-fire way of boosting Mitt Romney's campaign ( ), some folks acted outraged that we would notice that they were trading in horrendous racial stereotypes. While there are plenty of studies investigating the way racial code words are used in political advertising ( ), this would not be anywhere near as subtle. This video, if placed in a Romney ad, would make the George H.W. Bush's ?look subtle by comparison: the other guy is supported by scary black people, vote Republican!?

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The "Obama Phone" video is not being used by the Romney campaign. So we can't say that it's a racist attempt to get votes in the election. Right now, it sits in the middle ground between "stuff on the Internet" and "serious political issue." But it took one big step toward becoming a ?serious issue when, on the same day, Rush Limbaugh played it repeatedly on his radio show and the Drudge Report posted it at the top of his page. They'd probably call it humor? Limbaugh finds a lot of things funny about Democrats, . And an Obama voter who seems to be dumb? That's comedy gold, , "That's not Saturday Night Live. That is a real Obama voter." Because a video of a black woman with bad teeth and poor grasp of the history of the Universal Service Fund proves that Democrats are stupid, lazy, and, oh, black. "That is a real Obama voter." We say, that's racist.

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Through email, Twitter, comments, and various links to our story yesterday, we've heard from conservatives shocked that we reached that conclusion. So let us walk through their arguments.

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It's not. And we never said that the person who made the tape was racist. We don't even know who the person holding the camera was.? , who claims to have posted the video, made this defense: "I have no idea how it could be construed as racist because it?s simply a woman speaking for herself, you know, like voting." True enough! But the racism comes in when Drudge, Rush, the people who giddily retweeted the link, do a mental calculation that if people would just see this video they might support Romney. Because it plays on the same racist stereotypes that are usually trotted out this time of the election cycle. The video?posted on Drudge and played on Limbaugh was a black lady who has all the standard visual cues of being poor -- messed-up teeth and skin, her waistline, her yelling. Oh, and if cues aren't enough, she talks in racial terms: "Everybody in Cleveland, all the minorities got a phone. Keep Obama president, you know, he gave us a phone, he'll give us more." Drudge has a particular habit of, as put it, "hyping up tabloid news that makes black people look like violent dopes who'll do anything for more goodies from Obama." The violence of "CHICAGOLAND" is a favorite trope.?

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Why are you making this about race?

This is the he-who-smelt-it-dealt-it argument. Or, as Stephen Colbert's persona likes to say, "I don't see race." This line of argument wants to change the subject to something other than race. Hey, what about free phones!? ?tried defending the video, saying, "The above video is hilarious. It is representative of a group of Obama voters who feel entitled to handouts from government. It does not matter what the color of the speaker is. It?s news... Conservatives should not have to shy away from such amusing examples of entitlement mentality simply because the particular proponent of that mentality happens to be black." This is intellectually dishonest, at best. We await Patterico delving into the minutiae of the Universal Service Fund. Until then, it's just "hilarious."?Specifically, it's hilarious because it uses one person to?portray?a huge group of people in a negative way is. The point of the video -- and the reason Drudge and Limbaugh hyped it -- is to say, this is what Obama voters look like: black, poor, stupid, and after your money.?The video's subject wasn't picked out because she "happens to be black," she was picked out?because?she is black.?Lee Atwater, strategist for Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush,? ?-- better to talk about cutting taxes and bussing, because it's "a hell of a lot more abstract than 'Ni***r, ni***r.'" Of course, this Internet meme isn't all that abstract.

Every time anyone criticizes Obama, you say it's racist!

Actually, no. The argument that the FCC's Lifeline program is mismanaged or wasteful could be made. (In fact, we'll be making exactly that argument on Monday) "Yes: Taxpayers are forced to pay $1.6 billion ??billion, with a 'B' ? to provide free cellphones for Obama voters,"? . "And if you don?t like it, you?re a racist!" That's wrong in three ways. One, the program is supported by surcharges on phone bills, not tax dollars. Two,?obviously, is that income level, not political affiliation, is what qualifies you for the Lifeline program. Three, opposing the program is not racist. The video wasn't on Drudge because Drudge is advocating getting rid of the program.

Again, it's racist because the point is to portray poor black people as stupid, and lazy, and dupes for Obama.?At? ?writes sarcastically, "Well, sure, it must be racist because this woman is black. If a white Romney protester was yelling into a camera about Obama giving out phones, nobody would have any problem with it and it wouldn?t be cited as evidence of the '47%' mentality." We'll be sure to note the next Drudge splash of a white Romney-bashing voter. We're expecting , posted by the same YouTube user as "Obama Phone," to hit Drudge any minute.

Why bring Stormfront into this?

If you want to know whether something is racist, why not go to the experts??"You?ll be glad to know that Reeve backs up her leading question by citing those mainstream conservatives at, um,?Stormfront," writes Treacher. Members of the "white pride" forum are, after all, not offended by being labeled as white supremacists. And if they cheer the video as proving their "racial inferiority" hatred, then, you know, we'd say that's pretty good proof that the video is trucking in racist stereotypes.?"The Atlantic [Wire, ahem] then takes a comment made by an individual from StormFront... in order to paint generalizations about the right," BigFurHat, originator of the video, writes. "And they do this without any sense of self-awareness whatsoever." Actually, we did this with total self-awareness. Here's the last words of our post:

To any conservatives offended at being associated with such vile people, let us say it for you: Using one mockable person you found on the Internet to make generalizations about half the country is lazy and stupid.

There are really two points here: First, it is not fair to equate all conservatives who laughed at the "Obama Phone" with white supremacists. Second, however, is that those who bristle at the suggestion they are racist but still argue the video is hilarious are wrong on one of those counts.

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This year's flu vaccine guards against new strains

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Time to get your flu vaccine ? and a surprising new report shows babies and toddlers seem to be getting protected better than the rest of us.

Last year's flu shot won't shield you this year: Two new strains of influenza have begun circling the globe, and the updated vaccine appears to work well against them, government officials said Thursday.

Just because last year was the mildest flu season on record doesn't mean the virus might not bounce back to its usual ferocity this winter.

"People cannot become complacent this year," said Dr. Howard Koh, assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, who received his own flu shot Thursday.

A yearly vaccination now is recommended for nearly everybody, but new figures released Thursday show that last year 52 percent of children and just 39 percent of adults were immunized.

Best protected: Three-quarters of tots ages 6 months to 23 months were vaccinated. That's a significant jump from the previous year, when 68 percent of those youngsters were immunized.

But even though seniors are at especially high risk of severe illness or death if they catch the flu, just 66 percent of them were immunized, a number that has been slowly dropping for several years.

Older adults got a little lost in the recent public health push to explain that flu vaccine benefits all ages ? and it's time to target them again, said Dr. Daniel Jernigan, a flu specialist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In contrast, child deaths from flu have made headlines in recent years ? the U.S. counted 34 pediatric deaths last year ? raising parents' awareness of the risk, he said.

The only ones who shouldn't get vaccinated: babies younger than 6 months and people with severe allergies to the eggs used to make the vaccine.

Flu specialists can't say how bad this winter's flu season might be. Influenza strains constantly evolve, and some cause more illness than others.

But strains from the H3N2 family tend to be harsher than some other flu types, and a new H3N2 strain is included in this year's vaccine because it is circulating in parts of the world.

Because of that strain, "I am pretty confident that this year will be a more traditional flu season" than last year, CDC's Jernigan told The Associated Press. "People won't have had any real exposure to that."

Only one ingredient in this year's flu vaccine was retained from last year's, protection against the H1N1 strain that caused the 2009 swine flu pandemic and has been the main kind of influenza circulating since. Also new in this year's shot is protection against a different Type B strain.

Other trends the CDC spotted last year:

?Roughly a third of teenagers got a flu vaccine.

?So did 45 percent of high-risk young and middle-aged adults, those who are particularly vulnerable to flu because they also have asthma, diabetes or any of a list of other health conditions.

?About 47 percent of pregnant women were vaccinated. Women have five times the risk of severe illness if they catch the flu when they're pregnant, and they can require hospitalization and suffer preterm labor as a result. Vaccination not only protects them, but recent research shows it also provides some protection to their newborns as well.

Vaccination rates vary widely among states, too. Nevada vaccinates a third of people who are eligible, while South Dakota reaches 51 percent. In Iowa, 76 percent of seniors get their flu shot, compared to half in Alaska. In Rhode Island, 74 percent of children are vaccinated, compared to 39 percent in Alaska.

Manufacturers are expected to make about 135 million doses of flu vaccine this year, and there are four different forms to choose from:

?The traditional flu shot is for all ages and people with high-risk health conditions.

?FluMist, the squirt-up-the-nose version, is for healthy people ages 2 to 49 who aren't pregnant.

?A high-dose shot is available for people 65 and older.

?And the intradermal shot ? a skin-deep prick instead of the usual inch-long needle ? is available for 18- to 64-year-olds.

The vaccine is covered by insurance, and Medicare and some plans don't require a copay; drugstore vaccination programs tend to charge about $30.

People can be vaccinated anytime, but Jernigan cautioned that it takes about two weeks for protection to kick in. Flu typically starts to appear in October or November, and peaks in January or February.

Also this year, public health groups are urging workers in doctors' offices, hospitals and particularly nursing homes, where patients are especially vulnerable, to do a better job getting vaccinated.

About 67 percent of health care workers were vaccinated last year, a number that's slowly rising. Doctors are the best role models, with about 86 percent immunized. But anyone ? from the receptionist to the person delivering meals ? can spread influenza to patients, and just half of those workers in nursing homes got vaccinated last year, Koh said.

In addition to patient safety, hospitals and clinics need to have enough healthy staff to care for the sick once the flu strikes, said Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University.

When that happens, "we need to be vertical, not horizontal," he said.

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Online:

Government info and vaccine finder: http://www.flu.gov

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/years-flu-vaccine-guards-against-strains-161357811.html

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95% Searching for Sugar Man

All Critics (83) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (79) | Rotten (4)

The search for a long-lost pop icon has an unexpected payoff.

[A] moving, lyrical account ...

Director Malik Bendjelloul's engaging, cleverly structured documentary about the legendary folk singer Rodriguez is shaped like a mystery.

If you like music, a good mystery or, better yet, a combination of both, you won't be disappointed.

An electrifying illustration of music's power to inspire and change lives on both sides of the footlights.

Submitted for your approval: one Sixto Rodriguez, a Mexican-American singer/songwriter whom Rod Serling would surely embrace, in or out of the Twilight Zone.

Searching for Sugar Man reminds us that a wise man knows lasting riches are never the result of record sales.

Searching for Sugar Man" is a saga about the power of music, living life on one's own terms and the joy of second chances.

Two fans, Stephen Segerman and Craig Bertholomew, made it their business to find out exactly what happened to the singer Rodriguez. And, "Searching for Sugar Man" is the fruits of their labor. The fruit is tasting pretty sweet.

It starts as a bittersweet parable about the cruelty of commerce, but the wonder of "Searching for Sugar Man" will not soon slip away.

You watch "Searching for Sugar Man" at first fascinated by the mystery - what happened to Rodriguez? Where did he go? Then you become infuriated by its revelations of financial injustice.

An unexpectedly fresh nonfiction tale that rustles up deep feelings of a life stolen -- part docu-mystery, part uplifting valentine about the universality and resonating power of music.

Generates immediate interest in a forgotten artist, permitting the delicate yet barbed tunes to guide the experience, returning a sense of excitement to a man who unfortunately missed out on the highlights of his career.

It isn't that Searching for Sugar Man's plot developments are gotcha!-like, but this documentary does boast some bowl-you-over reveals best experienced blind.

Ultimately, for Rodriguez, musical redemption transcends the greed and soul-sapping breaks he encountered.

Rodriguez's life story is only part of what makes "Searching for Sugar Man" such a revelation.

The man and his music are worth checking out, even if the movie is not.

Ultimately an ode to Rodriguez's artistic modesty and the power of his music-a rousing crowd-pleaser that asks you to save questions for another film.

A rousing and all-encompassing look at a man who becomes even more of a mystery after we've gotten to know him.

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No companion in supernova debris

Explosion probably resulted from two white dwarfs

Web edition : 5:44 pm

The bubble-shaped remnant of SN 1006, a type 1a supernova, reveals that two white dwarf stars probably triggered the massive stellar explosion.X-ray: NASA, CXC, G. Cassam-Chena? and J. Hughes et al/Rutgers Univ.; Radio: NRAO, AUI, NSF, GBT, K. Dyer, R. Maddalena and T. Cornwell/VLA; Optical: F. Winkler/Middlebury College, NOAO, AURA, NSF, CTIO, Schmidt/DSS

The bubble-shaped remnant of SN 1006, a type 1a supernova, reveals that two white dwarf stars probably triggered the massive stellar explosion, which went off more than a millennium ago.

Type 1a supernovas ignite when a white dwarf steals too much mass from an orbiting companion star???though the population of objects that serves as victim to such stellar burgling is uncertain.

A team of astronomers searching SN 1006?s 60-light-year-wide remnant for a large companion (which would now be zooming away from the explosion?s epicenter) came up empty. The result, published in the Sept. 27 Nature, suggests either that the explosion involved two white dwarf stars, both of which were obliterated by the blast, or that the doomed dwarf?s companion was smaller than the sun.

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"Honey Boo Boo" gets more episodes, 3 holiday specials

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GMO Opponents Are the Climate Skeptics of the Left

Genetically modified corn harvested near Rockton, Ill.

Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images.

I?used to think that nothing rivaled the misinformation spewed by climate change skeptics and spinmeisters.

Then I started paying attention to how anti-GMO campaigners have distorted the science on genetically modified foods. You might be surprised at how successful they've been and who has helped them pull it off.

I?ve found that fears are stoked by prominent?environmental groups, supposed?food-safety watchdogs, and influential?food columnists; that dodgy science is laundered by?well-respected scholars?and propaganda is treated credulously by?legendary journalists; and that progressive media outlets, which often decry the scurrilous rhetoric that warps the climate debate, serve up a comparable agitprop when it comes to GMOs.

In short, I?ve learned that the emotionally charged, politicized discourse on GMOs is mired in the kind of fever swamps that have polluted climate science beyond recognition.

The latest audacious example of scientific distortion came last week, in the form of a controversial (but peer reviewed!)?study?that generated worldwide headlines. A French research team purportedly found that GMO corn fed to rats caused them to develop giant tumors and die prematurely.

Within 24 hours, the study's credibility was shredded by?scores?of?scientists. The consensus judgment was swift and?damning: The study was?riddled with errors?serious, blatantly obvious?flaws?that should have been caught by peer reviewers. Many critics pointed out that the researchers chose a strain of rodents extremely prone to tumors. Other key aspects of the study, such as its sample size and statistical analysis, have also been?highly criticized. One UC-Berkley scientist?suggests?the study was "designed to frighten" the public.

That's no stretch of the imagination, considering the history of the lead author,?Gilles-Eric Seralini, who, as?NPR?reports, "has been campaigning against GM crops since 1997,"?and whose research methods have been "questioned before,"?according?to the New York Times.

The circumstances surrounding Seralini's GMO rat-tumor study range from bizarre (as a French magazine breathlessly?reports, it was conducted in clandestine conditions) to dubious (funding was provided by an anti-biotechnology?organization whose scientific board Seralini heads).

Another big red flag: Seralini and his co-authors manipulated?some members of the media?to prevent outside scrutiny?of their study. (The strategy appears to have worked?like a charm?in Europe.) Some reporters allowed themselves to be stenographers by signing nondisclosure agreements stipulating they not solicit independent expert opinion before the paper was released. That has riled up??science journalists such as Carl Zimmer, who?wrote?on his?Discover?magazine blog: "This is a rancid, corrupt way to report about science. It speaks badly for the scientists involved, but we journalists have to grant that it speaks badly to our profession, too. ... If someone hands you confidentiality agreements to sign, so that you will have no choice but to produce a one-sided article, WALK AWAY. Otherwise, you are being played."

Speaking of being played, have I mentioned yet that Seralini's?book?on GMOs, All Guinea Pigs! is being published (in French) this week? Oh, and there's also a documentary based on his book coming out simultaneously. You can get details on both at the?website?of the anti-biotetch organization that sponsored his study. The site features gross-out pictures of those GMO corn-fed rats with ping-pong-ball-size tumors.

It's all very convenient, isn't it?

None of this seems to bother Tom Philpott, the popular food blogger for?Mother Jones, who?writes?that Seralini's results "shine a harsh light on the ag-biotech industry's mantra that GMOs have indisputably proven safe to eat."

Philpott often trumpets the ecological and public-health dangers posed by genetically modified crops. But such concerns about GMOs, which are regularly echoed at other left-leaning media outlets, have little merit. As?Pamela Ronald, a UC-Davis plant geneticist, pointed out last year in?Scientific American: "There is broad scienti?c consensus that genetically engineered crops currently on the market are safe to eat. After 14 years of cultivation and a cumulative total of 2 billion acres planted, no adverse health or environmental effects have resulted from commercialization of genetically engineered crops."

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=1677dbbf85e759161885b881448a682d

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More Atrix 2 ICS details leak, here's your version numbers

Earlier today we talked about the Motorola Atrix 2 soak test, with the assurance from some insiders that it would indeed be the Ice Cream Sandwich update everyone has been waiting for. One of our helpful ninjas took a few minutes to send us this screen cap, showing some of the build numbers and software versions. 

Soak tests are Motorola's way of doing final beta testing, and they are often a good sign that things are ready to roll out to the masses, barring any last minute show-stopping bugs. This one's still too early to judge how well it's going, but we will remain optimistic until we hear differently. 

There's not much left to say about it, we just wanted to let developers and hackers have a look at the version numbers.

More: Atrix 2 forums; Thanks, Anon! 

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/-5h6SgOlI08/story01.htm

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Calvista Gold Reports Significant Increase of ... - Gold Investing News

Calvista Gold Corporation (TSX:CVZ,OTCQX:CAGOF) announced an increase in the Company?s mineral resource estimates for both the Callej?n Blanco and Buenavista prospects at the completion of a new technical report. Indicated mineral resources for the Callej?n Blanco and Buenavista prospects totalling 4.03 million tonnes grading 3.49 grams per tonne (?g/t?) of gold and 15.77 g/t of silver using a cut-off grade of 2.0 g/t of gold (approximately 452,218 ounces of gold and 2,045,770 ounces of silver).

As quoted in the press release:

Highlights of the new technical report:

• Indicated mineral resources for the Callej?n Blanco and Buenavista prospects totalling 4.03 million tonnes grading 3.49 grams per tonne (?g/t?) of gold and 15.77 g/t of silver using a cut-off grade of 2.0 g/t of gold (approximately 452,218 ounces of gold and 2,045,770 ounces of silver);
• Inferred mineral resources for the Callej?n Blanco and Buenavista prospects totalling 3.77 million tonnes grading 3.71 g/t of gold and 15.84 g/t of silver using a cut-off grade of 2.0 g/t of gold (approximately 449,023 ounces of gold and 1,917,866 ounces of silver);
• Plus Inferred resources defined inside a silver-rich mineralized zone at the Callej?n Blanco prospect totaling 5.59 million tonnes grading 18.38 g/t silver and 1.75 g/t gold using a cut-off grade of 10.0 g/t of silver (approximately 314,402 ounces of gold and 3,302,121 ounces of silver);
• The Callej?n Blanco and Buenavista targets remain open to expansion at depth;
• The highest point of our mineral resources occurs more than 500 metres below the P?ramo ecosystem elevation limit of 3,200 metres above sea level; and
• The new technical report and mineral resource estimate was completed by independent expert and Qualified Person, Dr. Vadim Galkine, Ph.D., P. Geo., and is based upon 49 diamond drill holes totaling 20,043 metres.

Calvista Gold Chief Executive Officer Mark Haywood said:

The Company is extremely pleased to report a significant increase of its mineral resources on the La Mascota trend as a result of its Phase II drilling. The new technical report confirms a significant mineral resource increase with more than half the estimate now upgraded to an Indicated Resource. The Company has also defined a number of distinct silver-rich mineralized zones adjacent to our primary gold zones that enhance our overall mineral resources for the project.

Click here to read the Calvista Gold (TSX:CVZ,OTCQX:CAGOF) press release
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Source: http://goldinvestingnews.com/28358/calvista-gold-reports-significant-increase-of-mineral-resource.html

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5 Ways to Finance a Used Semi Truck

There are several different options available when it comes to the financial structure of commercial truck financing. If you are looking to finance a used semi truck, there are a few things that you should be aware of. One of the things you should know is that you should take good care of your credit. When your credit score is good, you will so much more flexibility and many more choices as to the structure of your financial agreement. The lower your credit score, the fewer and fewer options you will available to you. Commercial truck financing pretty much breaks down into two forms ? a loan or a lease.? A commercial truck loan generally requires a down payment of anywhere from 10%-20% and could be more if your credit is really bad. One of the ways that you could finance a used semi truck if you?re lucky enough, is to get a commercial truck loan with 100% financing. Of course, in order to do this, your credit score needs to be superior and you should realize that your monthly payments will be higher if you put nothing down towards the purchase of the truck. Another way that you can finance a used semi truck is to obtain a commercial loan by putting down 15%-20% of the total sales price. This is usually a more feasible option for those people whose credit score is in the average-to-good range. Yet another option with several different avenues of financing is a commercial truck lease. A commercial truck lease often times does not require a down payment upfront, instead, it may require the first and last month?s payments to be made upfront. Alternatively, if you wish to keep your monthly payment low, you can obtain a commercial truck lease with a substantial residual at the end of the term. The last and final way to finance a used semi truck is a ?lease-purchase? option. This is a fantastic option for many truck owners. A lease-purchase works just as a standard commercial truck lease does throughout its term. You can put money down if you want, or if required by the leasing company due to your credit score, or you can put down only the first and last month?s payments. ?The best part of a lease-purchase is the residual at the end of the lease term. Instead of paying a residual of thousands of dollars, most times the residual at the end of a lease purchase is only $1. There are many different ways to buy a used semi truck by using commercial truck financing. Speak with a commercial truck lender today to find which option is the best for you and your business.

Source: http://trucklenders-trucklendersusa.blogspot.com/2012/09/5-ways-to-finance-used-semi-truck.html

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Video: MS Says on Track to Deliver 'Mid-Teen' Pretax Profit Marg...

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Fed Up with Frenzy | Go Gingham | Stylishly Frugal Living | Sara ...

I have a special treat for Go Gingham readers today ? a giveaway for a newly released book by author Susan (?Suz?) Sachs Lipman. The book is ?Fed Up with Frenzy,? and will surely be dogged-eared and marked-up by parents everywhere who are looking for ways to slow down and reconnect with their families.

Suz is a parenting and family expert whose blog is Slow Family Online and she?s also the Social Media Director for the international Children & Nature Network.

Suz and I have met virtually through our mutual friend, Amy Suardi. Amy writes the blog Frugal Mama, where Suz and I are both contributors. While Suz and I haven?t met in person (yet!), she and I are kindred spirits.

We share a love of slowing down, making family time a priority, and doing simple activities together.

This book is an excellent resource for families who want to break out of the technological grind and spend quality time together doing activities that are enjoyable and don?t cost a lot of money.

The book is filled with ideas for spending time in nature, in the kitchen, and the garden, together as a family. There?s also a section on celebrating simply which is good to remind myself of heading into the upcoming holiday season ? and birthday season at our house!

There are directions for playing games and activities you probably played as a child but may have forgotten. You?ll find card games, travel games, and outdoor games, that will keep your family having fun whether you?re at home or on the go.

As a parent of two teenagers, I?ll also add that the introduction is particularly heartwarming. It?s written by Suz?s daughter, Anna, who is 16-years-old.

At the back of the book, you?ll find a list of resources in both print and web formats, to inspire you further.

Want your own copy? I have a brand new copy to give away and it?s not all dog-eared and marked-up like my copy is.

Leave a comment on this post below by answering one of the three questions:

• What is your favorite ?slow family activity??
• What is (or was) your favorite outdoor game to play?
• What is your favorite way to cozy-in with your family ? reading a book out-loud or watching a movie together?

Rules:

1. US residents only (sorry international readers)
2. Number drawn by random number generator
3. One entry per comment (but you are welcome to answer all 3 questions)
4. Giveaway ends Monday, October 1st, 2012 at midnight, PST
5. The winner will be notified by e-mail and announced later in the week

Good luck! Also, thank you to Sourcebooks for providing me with a copy of the book to keep and a copy to giveaway. Thank you to Suz for sending me the adorable graphics shown on this post for the giveaway ? and for writing the book.

Go Gingham related links:

Frugal family fun ? more ideas that won?t break the bank
Homemade cards ? simple and not very elaborate ? great for kids!
Time tested family rules - who knew these would work?
Take the night off and Let Your Kids Cook Dinner
Our weekly ritual - Technology Free Sundays

Sara Tetreault

Sara Tetreault is trying to live the good life on less with thoughtful spending, smart use of resources and efficient use of time. By cooking, gardening, sewing, and home swapping, she hopes to inspire you with her frugal ways. Sara keeps a home, one husband, two children, and three backyard chickens.

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As Arctic Ice Melts, So Does The Snow, And Quickly

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This 2005 photo, released by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, shows how snow-covered Alaskan tundra reflects more light than melted areas. Melting snows means the land can absorb and store more heat and solar energy.

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This 2005 photo, released by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, shows how snow-covered Alaskan tundra reflects more light than melted areas. Melting snows means the land can absorb and store more heat and solar energy.

Arctic sea ice is in sharp decline this year: Last week, scientists announced that it hit the lowest point ever measured, shattering the previous record.

But it turns out that's not the most dramatic change in the Arctic. A study by Canadian researchers finds that springtime snow is melting away even faster than Arctic ice. That also has profound implications for the Earth's climate.

Springtime snowmelt matters a lot: It determines when spring runoff comes out of the mountain to fill our rivers. And Chris Derksen at Environment Canada in Toronto says snow also reflects sunlight back into space, helping to keep the Earth from heating up too fast.

"When you remove the snow cover form the land surface, much as when you remove the sea ice from the ocean, you take away a highly reflective, bright surface, and you expose the bare land or tundra underneath, and that absorbs more solar energy," he says.

That darker land traps heat and warms the planet. Scientists have been keeping an eye on this trend for years.

But Derksen and colleague Ross Brown have produced a study, which has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, that documents a dramatic increase in the speed of this snowmelt. It turns out that in May and June, snow across the far north is disappearing fast.

We're now losing spring Arctic snow cover at a rate faster than the models predict.

- Chris Derksen, Environment Canada

"It's decreasing at a more rapid rate than summer sea ice," Derksen says. "So the loss of snow cover across the Arctic is really as big an issue as the loss of sea ice."

Derksen expected to see a gradual decline, but he was taken aback when he reviewed satellite measurements for the past five years and saw the speed of this loss. Snowmelt decline is occurring at a rate of 18 percent per decade, versus 11 percent per decade for the much talked about Arctic sea ice.

"That was a bit shocking," he says.

It's also contrary to what scientists had predicted. There are more than a dozen research groups around the world who use computer models and simulations to forecast how quickly things are likely to change in our warming world.

Effects Of Melting Snow

"We're now losing spring Arctic snow cover at a rate faster than the models predict," Derksen says. And that "puts somewhat into question what the scenario will look like 10, 20 or 30 years from now."

Even today, the early spring snowmelt is of concern to biologists who study life in the far north. Syndonia Bret-Harte at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, says this change affects the rivers that spawning fish rely on.

It also hastens melting of the permafrost, a layer of frozen soil that contains a lot of carbon. And when permafrost melts, it releases those greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And then there's the matter of fires in the boreal forests.

"If things dry out faster in the spring, then you can get more fires, and that's another trend we see in recent years, is increased fire frequency and also the size of fires," says Bret-Harte.

And while the far north is feeling these effects most strongly, she says they affect us, too.

"Since the Arctic acts as the air conditioner ... for the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, heating up in the Arctic is also probably going to cause feedbacks to heating up in the more southern climate."

Researchers say global warming is no doubt contributing to this early melting of spring snow. And Philip Mote at the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute says there may be a relationship between the rapid loss of sea ice and the early snowmelt.

Early spring snowmelt "may help set up the Arctic to absorb heat and melt the sea ice faster, so that by late summer, this time of year, we can see very low levels," Mote says.

But there's one big difference between snowmelt and the sea ice melt. Because the sea ice is getting thinner and less resilient every year, it seems inevitable that the melting trend will continue. But Mote says the long-term buildup of greenhouse gases may not be the whole story for spring snowmelt.

"The atmosphere and the ocean do different things year to year, and that can also affect the snow cover in ways that are independent of greenhouse gases," he says.

So Mote is not so sure this dramatic trend of recent years will keep on its downward spiral. That said, the long-term trend is clear: less snow, less ice and more warming.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/09/24/161701420/as-arctic-ice-melts-so-does-the-snow-and-quickly?ft=1&f=1007

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Prostate Cancer Treatment - Conventional and Natural

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Prostate cancer is outlined as an attack of the male prostate gland by a mass of dangerous cells. Prostate cancer is commonest in the United States and is the third main reason behind American cancer cases. The American Cancer Society estimates that one in six males will face a prostate cancer prognosis throughout their life.

Prostate cancer treatment is outlined as a group of unique approaches to cancer treatment not thought of to be a traditional prostate cancer treatment, and is used in place of conventional cancer treatments.

The most? prostate cancer treatment right now includes:
Radiation

Chemotherapy
Observant waiting (Observation)
Hormonal remedy
Surgical procedure

The option chosen on your? prostate cancer treatment will depend on relatively lots of factors, together along with your age, the stage of your sickness and the recommendation of your medical doctor.

The types of Different Prostate Cancer Treatment:

Chinese Drugs is without doubt one of the various therapy in comparison with conventional strategies being used to treat prostate cancer. Commonly referred to as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), this holistic prostate cancer treatment relies on ancient philosophical frameworks. Traditional Chinese Medicine devises treatment programs by searching for inequalities between inner and external harmony within patients.

There are eight branches of TCM: Tui na (Massage Treatment), acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese meals remedy, Qigong (Respiration), T'ai Chi Ch'uan, Feng Shui, and Chinese astrology. The eight branches of Chinese medicine, like most other prostate cancer remedy, are used to alleviate the pain associated with the illness, as well as a remedy for the side effects associated with conventional cancer treatments.

Herbalism, or natural medication, is a holistic prostate cancer treatment with the healing properties of plants and plant extracts at the center of the treatment. A number of the most popular parts of herbal drugs include St. John's Wort, lemon juice, Green Tea, Honey, Grapefruit, Black Cohash, Poultices, Juniper Berry, and Eucalyptus. Herbal treatment is particularly highly regarded in Many Countries.Also a new research establish that the curry spice Turmeric or curcumin as it is called, when shared with different ingredients as watercress, winter cress, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, cauliflower, kohlrabi and turnips radically cause to slow down the development of cancer tumor in mice.

Conventional prostate cancer treatment are supervised by members of the medical group, together with physical therapists, psychologists, and nurses. Typical prostate cancer treatment is subjected to intense research to make sure its effectiveness and safety. Hormone treatment and radiation are typical therapies for prostate cancer? treatment . Eradicating the testicles, in a surgical procedure known as orchiectomy, is another traditional prostate cancer treatment. As is chemotreatment. Cancer cells are additionally customarily frozen as a part of a cryosurgery.

There are two widespread surgical procedures used to deal with prostate cancer. They're the radical prostatectomy and the transurethal resection of the prostate (TURP). Radical prostatectomy surgical procedure is generally? performed once the cancer has not unfold exterior of the prostate gland. There are two forms of radical prostatectomy procedures, the novel retropubic and the perineal approach. The transurethal resection of the prostate is carried out to curtail prostate swelling.
Luteinizing hormone-releasing analogs and luteinizing hormone-releasing antagonists are prostate cancer medications designed to inhibit the discharge of the cancer-inducing luteinzing hormone-releasing hormone from the brain.

It's newly found that virus will help the cancer prostate treatment.
The research establish that virtually 40% out of 20 cancerous prostates separated from sufferers with certain genetic mutation had the virus. Nevertheless it presumably will take up till five years to decide on if the virus actually causes the cancer

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Source: http://howtosolvedandruff.blogspot.com/2012/09/prostate-cancer-treatment-conventional.html

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