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Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
YouTube launches broad entertainment venture (AP)
NEW YORK ? YouTube is making a bold step into original programming in an entertainment venture with some 100 content creators, from Madonna to The Wall Street Journal.
The Google Inc.-owned video site said Friday that it's launching more than 100 new video channels. The partners include an array of Hollywood production companies, celebrities and new media groups that will produce mainly niche-oriented videos.
YouTube is shelling out $100 million to producers, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The money is an advance on advertising money the videos will bring in, and Google will recoup its portion first before splitting the proceeds. Advances are as high as $5 million per channel, said another person familiar with the arrangement, also speaking on condition of anonymity.
Neither person was authorized to comment publicly on the matter.
Google declined to offer financial details of the deals, but said the majority of revenue will go to partners.
Participants include Madonna, former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal, comedian Amy Poehler, actor Ashton Kutcher, "Office" star Rainn Wilson, spiritual doctor Deepak Chopra and "Modern Family" actress Sofia Vergara. Most are creating channels through their production companies. Madonna is a partner with the dance channel DanceOn, while O'Neal plans the Comedy Shaq Network.
Lionsgate is presenting a fitness channel, and other channels will be launched by news satire the Onion, professional wrestling's WWE, online magazine Slate and news service Thomson Reuters.
The channels will roll out beginning this month, though most will premiere next year. YouTube says the channels will add 25 hours of new original content daily, with dozens of Web series debuting at scheduled times.
Ultimately, YouTube is aiming to create a new digital video platform that will rival television programming.
In a blog posting Friday night, YouTube said the channels are being developed "specifically for the digital age." The video site compared the expanded video offerings to the advent of cable television.
YouTube has tried to build a more advertiser-friendly product of professional-quality video, as opposed to simply user-created videos. Advertisers generally prefer to have their ads matched with known quantities. YouTube has also previously tried to urge viewers to stay longer with TV-like services like the YouTube Leanback, which continuously plays a personalized selection of videos.
Google is also looking to add professionally produced content to its huge roster of user-generated videos, to give users of its Google TV platform something to watch.
Major Hollywood networks such as News Corp.'s Fox and The Walt Disney Co.'s ABC have blocked their content from being shown on Google TV because the sides have been unable to come to a licensing deal that the networks believes pays them fairly. Networks also don't want to jeopardize their lucrative relationship with pay TV distributors like Comcast Corp. and DirecTV.
Google is a platform that has been adopted by set-top box maker Logitech, which makes a device called a Logitech Revue that sells for $100.
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Nakashima reported from Los Angeles.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Preliminary iPhone 4S Jailbreak shown off
If you have an iPhone 4S and are wondering when, exactly a Jailbreak may be released — we don’t know. But, what we do know is that the iPhone Dev Team is working on it, and they now have a very preliminary iPhone 4S jailbreak up...
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The Ultimate Guide To Solar Power Investing - Seeking Alpha
By Jared Cummans
Solar power is an increasingly popular energy source as well as an investment option. The growing industry has led to a rapid adoption by citizens, businesses, and governments to incorporate solar panels on everything from parking meters to bridges. There are a wide variety of panels meant for small homes and businesses as well as entire grids and large buildings. As the industry continues to blossom, the cost of producing the panels has dramatically decreased and over the coming years is predicted to dip even more, perhaps making it a viable alternative to cheaper fossil fuels like crude oil and natural gas.
Solar Power Explained
Solar panels are typically referred to by their technical name, photovoltaic modules. As PVs become more efficient and less costly to produce, their attraction as an investment has soared. Recent years have seen a number of innovative solar companies emerge to help ween the planet off of fossil fuels and on to a more renewable source. While solar is still in its infancy, the facts and figures point towards a wealth of potential in its future. For example, the earth receives more energy from the sun in one hour than is consumed in an entire year according to Energy Matters. While solar may be one of the least used renewable energies for the time being, it is by far the fastest growing.
This year, the world?s largest solar energy project was recently offered a loan totaling just under $1 billion U.S. dollars. Construction on the Agua Caliente Solar Project began in 2010, and is expected to be complete by 2014 in the desert of Arizona. The project, headed by NRG Solar, will be exclusively using photovoltaic modules produced by First Solar. The project will create more than 400 jobs, and ?will avoid 237,000 metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year, equivalent to taking more than 40,000 cars off the road annually? writes Carmen Doyle. Already, Pacific Gas & Electric company has entered into a 25 year contract with NRG to purchase power generated from this robust plant.
Solar usage and capacity is dominated by European nations, with Germany leading the way, but the rapidly growing China is nipping at its heels. Recently, it was announced that China, the world?s most populated country, will attempt to install up to 10 GW by the year 2015. The country also has outlined plans to achieve a total capacity of 50 gigawatt hours by 2020, meaning that the increase of solar power between 2015 and 2020 will be fivefold. With China being the world?s largest maker of solar panels, this estimation does not seem too far fetched, and has investors chomping at the bit to cash in on this massive increase in alternative energy from one of the few countries with the budget flexibility to pursue such a program.
Though the solar space had a brief slowdown in 2009, the industry grew by 73% in 2010 to reach more than 40 gigawatt hours of total global capacity. As a reference point, one gigawatt of energy is equal to one billion watts. According to a 2007 report form the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average home uses 11,232 kilowatt hours of energy on an annual basis, though estimates vary across the board. This means that one gigawatt is enough energy to power roughly 90,000 homes for a year, and the total of 40 GW in place through out the world could power 3.6 million homes annually. Over the past decade, solar capacity has grown an average of 39%, helping to power more and more homes and businesses across the world.
Solar Power Supply And Demand
For the time being, the solar industry is dominated by the developed nations of the world, which should come as no surprise given how expensive these systems can be to install. China comes in as the 8th ranked country though it has robust growth predictions and goals that it plans to meet in the coming decade, making it a country to watch as the solar industry plays out.
| Total Solar Power Capacity In MW (2010) | |
| Germany | 17,320 |
| Spain | 3,892 |
| Japan | 3,617 |
| Italy | 3,502 |
| United States | 2,519 |
| Czech Republic | 1,953 |
| France | 1,025 |
| China | 893 |
| Belgium | 803 |
| South Korea | 573 |
| *Source: British Petroleum Statistical World Energy Review 100 | |
Solar Power Price Drivers
As a global commodity, the price of production as well as overall capacity of solar power is impacted by a number of factors, and is often subject to significant price swings in a relatively short period of time. The major price drivers of solar power include.
- Weather Conditions: The most obvious price driver for solar panels comes from weather conditions. Panels are strategically placed in sunny areas, but any number of cloudy days or weaker than usual sunlight patterns could lead to a lower output by various solar farms.
- Government Subsidies: A number of solar panels and farms depend heavily on government subsidies and tax breaks to keep their operations afloat. When economic times are tough, government agencies may be forced to scale back on alternative energy spending but likewise when economies are strong there may be increased government participation in the space.
- Crude Oil/Natural Gas Prices: Crude oil and natural gas are the two most popular fossil fuels for energy production through out much of the world. However, with both commodities being finite resources, fluctuations in their price will have a major impact on whether or not solar power is a more economically viable option by comparison.
- Industry Innovation: With a number of companies working to constantly improve the photovoltaic structure, industry innovation will have a significant impact on solar. Photovoltaic panels are getting smaller, more efficient, and less expensive to produce. The faster the technology for this industry improves, the faster it will grow both as a practical means of generating energy and as an investment.
Investing in Solar Power
Solar?s appeal as an investment stems from its wide use throughout the globe. As such a popular commodity with such a strong growth outlook, investors can use solar power to make plays against strong and weak economies. An investment in solar power can also be used to make a play on weather conditions or to hedge against crude oil and natural gas [see also Company Spotlight: First Solar (FSLR)].
Solar Stocks
Solar production is quickly growing in China, however, a number of Chinese companies are also listed on U.S. exchanges, giving investors easy access to these securities. There are also a large number of options on foreign exchanges.
- First Solar (FSLR)
- Trina Solar (TSL)
- Jinko Solar (JKS)
- JA Solar (JASO)
- Yingli Solar (YGE)
- GT Solar International (GTAT)
Solar ETFs
While direct investment in solar is impossible, there are several ETFs that offer exposure to the underlying industry, giving investors a tangible asset to help them play the very intangible commodity.
- Guggenheim Solar ETF (TAN)
- Market Vectors Solar Energy ETF (KWT)
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong
Many, many, many people saw the economic collapse.
I was reading plenty of blogs on the housing bubble, housingpanic.com, et etc, describing the preposterousness of "liar loans", subprime this, and idiocy that, and the crazy valuations.
The New York Times even had a plot of the inflation-adjusted Case-Schiller price index which was enormously above any prior peak. During 2006 and 2007 and 2008.
The notion that "nobody" saw it is simply propagandistic truthiness baloney. I personally didn't profit, because I was much too early shorting the mortgage companies & home builders and got stopped out---the bubble was too powerful.
The real crime is that a small number of very powerful people had an exceptionally lucrative interest in NOT stopping it, because they were getting ginormous paychecks from the continuation of the bubble. And now the notion that nobody could see it is used as excuses for the powerful to excuse themselves from responsibility from fraud and crime.
Down in the guts of banks, there were both risk modeling quants in the fancy banks, and the traditional "ladies with a bun" in the retail banks who processed the paperwork who saw how much outright fraud and insanity there was. Their jobs were threatened when they attempted to speak up and stop the madness, because the business side executives were making shitloads of shekels on volume.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Here Is the Check That Created Superman and Changed Comic Books Forever [Comics]
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Hospital to name room after Bret Michaels
PHOENIX?? A Phoenix hospital is injecting a little Poison into families waiting for sick loved ones, thanks to a donation from 1980s hair band singer Bret Michaels.
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Maks: 'DWTS' rant wasn't selfish
The Poison frontman plans to announce Thursday that he is donating TVs and sound systems for a waiting room at the St. Joseph's Barrow Neurological Institute, where he was treated in April 2010 for a brain hemorrhage. The equipment will allow families to relax and listen to music.
In return, the waiting room will be named after Michaels.
He was also treated at the hospital earlier this year for a procedure to fix a hole in his heart. Doctors discovered the hole when they treated him for the brain hemorrhage.
Michaels says in a statement that the room will be "warm and hip."
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Five Favorite Films with Bruce Robinson
If British writer-director Bruce Robinson had only made one film -- 1987's inimitable comedy Withnail & I -- he would have been assured a place in the annals of cult movie history. And it very nearly became the case, too. Having finished his follow-up, 1989's overlooked but frequently brilliant satire How to Get Ahead in Advertising (again starring Withnail's Richard E. Grant), Robinson took his talent to Hollywood and had such a wretched experience on his first studio picture, Jennifer 8 (1992), that he vowed never to direct a film again.
When the combined forces of Hunter S. Thompson and Johnny Depp came calling, however, Robinson found himself being made an offer he couldn't refuse. The result is The Rum Diary, a long-gestating passion project for Depp instigated when he and Thompson unearthed an unpublished manuscript from the late gonzo icon's early years as a writer. Functioning as a companion piece -- and a prequel, of sorts -- to Terry Gilliam's (screw the critics) classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Rum Diary explores Thompson (via his proxy, journalist Paul Kemp) in his formative period as a journalist, as he begins to find his authorial voice in a haze of barmy booziness.
We sat down with Robinson to talk about the challenge of bringing Thompson's novel to the screen, the weirdness of being back in Hollywood, and how Depp -- who previously tried to bait Robinson to direct Fear and Loathing -- finally lured him into taking on this job. But first, kick back with some lighter fluid and enjoy Robinson's five favorite films.
The first one is The Gold Rush, by Charlie Chaplin. It's the apogee of his genius. I saw that film when I was 11 or 12 years old in a cinema in Ramsgate, Kensington, and there were three people in there with me. Nothing has ever made me laugh as much as that. I remember, literally -- in those days they used to have a velvet kind of cover over the balcony -- and I remember hanging over and laughing at the sheer f--king brilliance of the comedy in that film. The one I saw was just black-and-white, too; this was before Chaplin put a voice-over on it, which I don't enjoy -- I don't think it serves the film well. There are certain things in there, you know -- around cooking and survival and stuff -- that kind of are in my soul now, as someone who tries to tell stories too.
The second one is Bicycle Thieves, by De Sica. That was the most moving film I've ever seen. The scene in there where the dad has lost his bicycle and he takes his kid out for a pizza in 1948 Rome, and the kid is eating it but he's not 'cause he can't afford to pay for it, is one of the all-time most moving scenes I've ever seen in a cinema. It's an amazing film.
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960; 99% Tomatometer)
The third is Psycho. The reason that Psycho is the most extraordinary film to me is the mood in that movie and the fact -- and it's kind of a clich? to say it -- that we're following this woman's story and suddenly it's ruptured and she's dead: What the f--k have we got left? I don't know a moodier or better kind of horror film. It's the darkest movie ever made, for me. It's quite remarkable.
The fourth one, which is kind of a weird one, is Dog Day Afternoon. Because of Al Pacino's performance. He has a line in there -- maybe it's his line, maybe it's the screenwriter's line -- he says "Kiss me, kiss me," to the cops, "I liked to be kissed when I'm getting f--ked." It's one of the all-time great lines in cinema.
All the President's Men, because of my hero, William Goldman, who wrote that film. Here we're sitting in the dark watching a movie and we all know what the denouement is -- we all know how this film's going to end up; they're going to bust Nixon's ass -- and yet we're on the edge of our seats all the way through that movie. Of course, it's Pakula's fantastic direction and these fabulous actors at the height of their career -- Hoffman and Redford -- but primarily it's William Goldman, who managed to write a film where we all know what's gonna happen, and yet we're compelled to watch this process. Imagine if, in Psycho, the title sequence was Perkins putting on his wig and robe, so we all know it's him -- that's the problem Goldman had to deal with. We all knew it was Nixon. And yet he managed to pull it off. Blew me away, that film. The performances, and the writing... who was that actor who played the editor? Jason Robards. He tells them to go after it. I wish the press would behave like that today, you know: "Go after these f--kwits, and nail them."
Next, we have a wide-ranging chat with Robinson about The Rum Diary, adapting Thompson's book, his return to directing and working with star-producer Depp.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Small business and the importance of paperwork
In the rush to start a new business, the simple act of keeping records often gets put on the back burner. But poor record keeping has been the demise of many otherwise successful businesses.
Skip to next paragraph Dr. Jeffrey R. CornwallJeff is the Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.
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The entrepreneur needs clear and accurate records to help manage the challenges of the startup. These records can help manage cash flow and will provide financial statements that can help monitor the progress of the new venture.
The IRS expects even the smallest of businesses to document deductible expenses and support all items reported on tax returns.
Also, bankers monitor the progress of their business customers using financial information. If you cannot supply timely and accurate financial statements and other required information to your banker, it will hurt your ability to get loans when your business is at the stage where it could otherwise qualify.
The first step in establishing a record keeping system is setting up a separate checking account for the business. The deposits into this account should include any initial investment you make to start your business, the proceeds from any startup loans or investments, and all revenue from customers.
This checking account should be used to pay all expenses for the business, but not any personal expenses. As an owner you can draw money from this account, which can be deposited into a personal checking account to pay personal bills and living expenses.
Carefully document every expense paid from the business account. If paid by check, make careful notation of the check number, date of the check and purpose of the expense for each purchase. If paying with business debit or credit cards, keep detailed notes on each expense. Writing this on the back of each receipt is a good habit.
Set up a filing system, which can be either hard paper copies or scanned records, to track all documentation on receipts and expenses. Think ahead when setting up the filing system so it can accommodate the business as it grows. Use separate files for each vendor and customer and organize these files by type of expense or receipt.
Accounting software, such as QuickBooks, can help organize financial information. But remember that no system runs itself. Any system for record keeping relies on proper and timely input of information from you.
One lesson that many entrepreneurs learn the hard way is that you should not delegate financial record keeping to employees too quickly. Sadly, fraud is common in small startup businesses, and it often leads to the failure of an otherwise healthy business. Keep a close eye on financial records and put in systems of checks and balances. For example, never let the same person who handles revenues from customers also pay the bills, as this makes stealing money easier to cover up.
Record keeping may seem mundane compared with the other aspects of starting a business, but it is a critical step to ensure a healthy business. Record keeping systems should be simple to use. The job of the entrepreneur is to use this system to keep accurate, timely, consistent and compete records of all activity in the business.
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DeMarco: Washington becoming a rock star of sorts
Rangers' manager becoming must-see TV with exuberance, love for game
APTexas Rangers manager Ron Washington waves to some fans before the start of Game 5 on Monday.
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By Tony DeMarco
NBCSports.com contributor
updated 7:40 p.m. ET Oct. 24, 2011
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Part of that comes with the territory of managing a back-to-back World Series participant. As Washington said yesterday, "We have fans everywhere now. You know it's only because we're a winner. Everybody loves a winner.''
But the Wash metamorphosis runs deeper. Remember that 'Little Wash' kid last postseason? Now, the real Wash is in theaters near you ? as a character portrayed by actor Brent Jennings in the Moneyball movie.
And in this postseason, the television cameras can't get enough of Wash's dugout antics. He's become must-see TV when the Rangers are doing something ? anything ? exciting.
"I think when people look at his exuberance in the dugout, I think they know it's who he is,'' said Rangers owner Nolan Ryan. "It's true. It's pure. It's not a show. It's been brought to the forefront with this postseason, but that's who Ron is on a day-to-day basis.''
Washington doesn't apologize for who he is, either.
"This is my second time at the World Series; I understand what's expected,'' he said. "But I think in order to get the best out of yourself, you have to be relaxed, and more than that, you have to trust what you feel you bring to the table.
"If my players saw me acting uptight, that would be a reason for them to be uptight. I don't get uptight, so they've got no reason to be uptight.''
He is a motivator and teacher first, but his strategic approach is an aggressive, attacking one taught to him in an adult life spent in the game.
"They call it unorthodox; I just call it reacting to what the game asks you to do,'' Washington said. "We went from the bottom to the top on the style of baseball that I've learned to play since I've been in the game. I don't call it unorthodox. I call it taking it to you. I just call it playing baseball. That's what I do.''
And never one to pass up a one-liner, Washington then said: "I'm not as dumb, either, as people think I am.''
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??Mike Napoli hit a tiebreaking two-run double in the eighth inning against Marc Rzepczynski, and the Texas Rangers rallied from a two-run deficit to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2 on Monday night and take a 3-2 World Series lead.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Body weight, diet may be risk factors for non-Hodgkin lymphoma
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BOSTON Body weight in young adulthood and diet appeared to be associated with the risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to results presented at the 10th AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held Oct. 22-25, 2011.
"The causes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) are poorly understood, and unfortunately, we don't know very much about specific ways to prevent or lower the risk for this disease," said Kimberly Bertrand, Sc.D., research fellow in the department of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
In previous analyses of the Nurses' Health Study at 14 years of follow-up, lead researcher Shumin Zhang, M.D., Sc.D., and colleagues reported positive associations with NHL for trans fat intake and inverse associations for vegetable intake. To expand those findings, Bertrand and colleagues evaluated the association of obesity, specific types of dietary fats and fruits and vegetables with risk for NHL.
Researchers analyzed questionnaire responses from 47,541 men followed for 22 years in the Health Professionals' Follow-Up Study and 91,227 women followed for 28 years in the Nurses' Health Study. Among the women, researchers confirmed 966 incident diagnoses of NHL through 2008, and among the men, they confirmed 566 cases through 2006.
"In analyses that controlled for age, race and other factors, we found that obesity in young adulthood (ages 18 to 21 years) was associated with risk for NHL later in life," Bertrand said. "Men who were obese (body mass index [BMI] equal to or greater than 30) [in young adulthood] had a 64 percent higher risk for NHL compared with men who were lean, while obese women had a 19 percent higher risk."
Current BMI was also associated with risk for NHL in men but not in women. Although total and specific dietary fats were not associated with NHL risk, findings also suggested that women who consumed the highest amounts of trans fat in their diets had a nonstatistically significant increased risk for NHL overall. "We observed that women who consumed at least four servings of vegetables per day, compared with those who consumed fewer than two servings per day, had a 16 percent lower risk for developing NHL," Bertrand said.
"The results from this study, if confirmed in other studies, suggest that body weight and dietary choices may be potentially modifiable risk factors for NHL," she said.
Bertrand and colleagues also plan to investigate associations of obesity and dietary factors with common subtypes of NHL, to evaluate biomarkers of fatty acids related to NHL risk to obtain more information on the possible biological mechanism for these associations, and to investigate other dietary factors including red meat consumption and antioxidants.
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The study was supported by the American Cancer Society with funds to senior researcher, Brenda Birmann, M.Sc., Sc.D. (RSG-11-020-01-CNE), and by the National Institutes of Health (CA055075 and CA87969). Bertrand was supported by a training grant from the National Cancer Institute (R25 CA098566).
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American Association for Cancer Research
BOSTON Body weight in young adulthood and diet appeared to be associated with the risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to results presented at the 10th AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held Oct. 22-25, 2011.
"The causes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) are poorly understood, and unfortunately, we don't know very much about specific ways to prevent or lower the risk for this disease," said Kimberly Bertrand, Sc.D., research fellow in the department of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
In previous analyses of the Nurses' Health Study at 14 years of follow-up, lead researcher Shumin Zhang, M.D., Sc.D., and colleagues reported positive associations with NHL for trans fat intake and inverse associations for vegetable intake. To expand those findings, Bertrand and colleagues evaluated the association of obesity, specific types of dietary fats and fruits and vegetables with risk for NHL.
Researchers analyzed questionnaire responses from 47,541 men followed for 22 years in the Health Professionals' Follow-Up Study and 91,227 women followed for 28 years in the Nurses' Health Study. Among the women, researchers confirmed 966 incident diagnoses of NHL through 2008, and among the men, they confirmed 566 cases through 2006.
"In analyses that controlled for age, race and other factors, we found that obesity in young adulthood (ages 18 to 21 years) was associated with risk for NHL later in life," Bertrand said. "Men who were obese (body mass index [BMI] equal to or greater than 30) [in young adulthood] had a 64 percent higher risk for NHL compared with men who were lean, while obese women had a 19 percent higher risk."
Current BMI was also associated with risk for NHL in men but not in women. Although total and specific dietary fats were not associated with NHL risk, findings also suggested that women who consumed the highest amounts of trans fat in their diets had a nonstatistically significant increased risk for NHL overall. "We observed that women who consumed at least four servings of vegetables per day, compared with those who consumed fewer than two servings per day, had a 16 percent lower risk for developing NHL," Bertrand said.
"The results from this study, if confirmed in other studies, suggest that body weight and dietary choices may be potentially modifiable risk factors for NHL," she said.
Bertrand and colleagues also plan to investigate associations of obesity and dietary factors with common subtypes of NHL, to evaluate biomarkers of fatty acids related to NHL risk to obtain more information on the possible biological mechanism for these associations, and to investigate other dietary factors including red meat consumption and antioxidants.
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The study was supported by the American Cancer Society with funds to senior researcher, Brenda Birmann, M.Sc., Sc.D. (RSG-11-020-01-CNE), and by the National Institutes of Health (CA055075 and CA87969). Bertrand was supported by a training grant from the National Cancer Institute (R25 CA098566).
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The mission of the American Association for Cancer Research is to prevent and cure cancer. Founded in 1907, the AACR is the world's oldest and largest professional organization dedicated to advancing cancer research. The membership includes 33,000 laboratory, translational and clinical researchers; health care professionals; and cancer survivors and advocates in the United States and more than 90 other countries. The AACR marshals the full spectrum of expertise from the cancer community to accelerate progress in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer through high-quality scientific and educational programs. It funds innovative, meritorious research grants, research fellowships and career development awards to young investigators, and it also funds cutting-edge research projects conducted by senior researchers. The AACR has numerous fruitful collaborations with organizations and foundations in the U.S. and abroad, and functions as the Scientific Partner of Stand Up To Cancer, a charitable initiative that supports groundbreaking research aimed at getting new cancer treatments to patients in an accelerated time frame. The AACR Annual Meeting attracts more than 17,000 participants who share the latest discoveries and developments in the field. Special Conferences throughout the year present novel data across a wide variety of topics in cancer research, treatment and patient care, and Educational Workshops are held for the training of young cancer investigators. The AACR publishes seven major peer-reviewed journals: Cancer Discovery; Cancer Research; Clinical Cancer Research; Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention; Molecular Cancer Therapeutics; Molecular Cancer Research; and Cancer Prevention Research. In 2010, AACR journals received 20 percent of the total number of citations given to oncology journals. The AACR also publishes Cancer Today, a magazine for cancer patients, survivors and their caregivers, which provides practical knowledge and new hope for cancer survivors. A major goal of the AACR is to educate the general public and policymakers about the value of cancer research in improving public health, the vital importance of increases in sustained funding for cancer research and biomedical science, and the need for national policies that foster innovation and the acceleration of progress against the 200 diseases we call cancer.
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Lang Lang to honor composer Frank Liszt
Fri, Oct 21, 2011 8:44 AM PDT
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Classical pianist Lang Lang talks about his concert, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, which celebrates the 200th birthday of composer Frank Liszt, and reveals his unusual musical inspiration. (Oct. 21)
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State unemployment rates in September, at a glance (AP)
By The Associated Press The Associated Press ? Fri?Oct?21, 12:43?pm?ET | Unemployment rates fell in half of U.S. states in September, a sign that last month's pickup in hiring was felt around the country. The Labor Department said unemployment rates dropped in 25 states, rose in 14 and stated the same in 11. |
| Here are unemployment rates by state for September, compared to a month earlier and a year ago: |
| Rates in percentages |
| Sept. 2011 Aug. 2011 Sept. 2010 |
| Alabama 9.8 9.9 9.1 |
| Alaska 7.6 7.7 7.9 |
| Arizona 9.1 9.3 9.8 |
| Arkansas 8.3 8.3 7.8 |
| California 11.9 12.1 12.5 |
| Colorado 8.3 8.5 8.8 |
| Connecticut 8.9 9 9.1 |
| Delaware 8.1 8.1 8.3 |
| Washington, D.C. 11.1 11.1 9.7 |
| Florida 10.6 10.7 11.7 |
| Georgia 10.3 10.2 10.2 |
| Hawaii 6.4 6.2 6.5 |
| Idaho 9 9.2 9.5 |
| Illinois 10 9.9 9.8 |
| Indiana 8.9 8.7 9.9 |
| Iowa 6 6.1 6.2 |
| Kansas 6.7 6.7 7 |
| Kentucky 9.7 9.5 10.2 |
| Louisiana 6.9 7.2 7.7 |
| Maine 7.5 7.6 7.6 |
| Maryland 7.4 7.3 7.4 |
| Massachusetts 7.3 7.4 8.3 |
| Michigan 11.1 11.2 11.9 |
| Minnesota 6.9 7.2 7.1 |
| Mississippi 10.6 10.4 10.1 |
| Missouri 8.7 8.8 9.6 |
| Montana 7.7 7.8 7.3 |
| Nebraska 4.2 4.3 4.5 |
| Nevada 13.4 13.4 14.9 |
| New Hampshire 5.4 5.3 5.8 |
| New Jersey 9.2 9.4 9.3 |
| New Mexico 6.6 6.6 8.6 |
| New York 8 8 8.4 |
| North Carolina 10.5 10.4 10 |
| North Dakota 3.5 3.5 3.9 |
| Ohio 9.1 9.1 9.8 |
| Oklahoma 5.9 5.6 6.9 |
| Oregon 9.6 9.6 10.7 |
| Pennsylvania 8.3 8.2 8.5 |
| Rhode Island 10.5 10.6 11.5 |
| South Carolina 11 11.1 10.9 |
| South Dakota 4.6 4.7 4.6 |
| Tennessee 9.8 9.7 9.4 |
| Texas 8.5 8.5 8.2 |
| Utah 7.4 7.6 7.6 |
| Vermont 5.8 5.9 5.9 |
| Virginia 6.5 6.3 6.7 |
| Washington 9.1 9.3 9.4 |
| West Virginia 8.2 8.1 9.3 |
| Wisconsin 7.8 7.9 7.9 |
| Wyoming 5.8 5.8 6.7 |
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Legal Gets, Global Reports: Greta Van Susteren Marks FNC's 15th ...
By Chris Ariens on October 21, 2011 10:25 AM
Last but not least. Greta Van Susteren took her show on the road last night as Fox News wraps up its 15th anniversary road trip. A relative newbie to Fox News, Van Susteren joined FNC from CNN in 2002. From interviews with Joran and OJ to reporting trips that took her from North Korea to Lambeau Field, the pride of Appleton brought her show to Phoenix, Arizona last night. Here?s a look back:
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A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas Trailer: VERY NSFW, But Hilarious!
Nudity. Profanity. Drug use involving a baby. Violence involving the shooting of good ol' Saint Nick. Get ready for A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas!
It's time to penetrate deep inside the magic of the holidays this December, as only the title characters can. What do you expect from these two stoners?
To sum up, if Neil Patrick Harris being kicked out of heaven by Jesus and a baby getting all kinds of high on drugs is funny to you, you need to see this.
If not ... our celebrity babies section offers cute and less offensive content.
We good? Nice. Watch the official red band (a.k.a. NOT approved for all audiences by the MPAA) trailer for A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas below ...
Saturday, October 22, 2011
HBT: Cubs-Epstein deal could be done today
Dave Kaplan of CSNChicago.com reports that ?significant progress has been made? in negotiations between the Cubs and Red Sox over compensation to be paid in exchange for the Sox letting Theo Epstein out of his contract to join the Cubs. ?Kaplan says that a deal could be done as soon as today and that, pending MLB approval, an announcement could come tomorrow.
There is a lot of good information there too about (a) the dynamic of the compensation talks, which focus mostly on a disagreement over the value in the Cubs? minor league system; and (b) insight into what Tom Ricketts is looking to do with the organization overall. ?Specifically, Kaplan spoke with a guy who was interviewed for the job prior to the club turning to Epstein, and that guy is convinced that Ricketts is going to fix and build the organization properly as opposed to looking for quick fixes.
Exciting times to be a Cubs fan.
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Microsoft talks Windows 8 portrait mode, really wants you to be proud of it (video)
Continue reading Microsoft talks Windows 8 portrait mode, really wants you to be proud of it (video)
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Pakistani poor hit by decision to spurn US aid
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) ? U.S. aid could have transformed Pakistan's largest maternity hospital, where rats run through the halls, patients sleep three to a bed, women who require C-sections aren't getting them because only one operating room is functioning, and premature babies risk death because of a shortage of incubators.
But the government of Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab, turned down an American offer of $127 million for health care, education and municipal services following the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Sixteen million dollars was earmarked for Lady Willingdon Hospital in the provincial capital of Lahore.
The government's decision was thought to be an attempt to win votes by capitalizing on pervasive anti-American sentiment in a province with a significantly larger population than France and a bigger land area than Greece. Pakistan's federal government and other provinces did not follow suit, but they may also find themselves with less U.S. assistance soon.
Pressure is growing in the U.S. Congress to reduce the billions of dollars in annual military and civilian aid because of the government's alleged ties to Islamist militants. The money has failed to persuade Pakistan to target militants using its territory to attack U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
The experience in Punjab shows that the impact of an aid cut in this poverty-stricken country would be felt most acutely by the poorest citizens, not the army generals allegedly gambling with militant proxies in Afghanistan or wealthy politicians hoping to win votes with their anti-American gestures.
Pakistan's elite does benefit from U.S. assistance, either through lucrative contracts for NGOs or by allegedly skimming off money funneled through the government. The loss of these funds may crimp their lifestyle, but it is unlikely to affect whether their families get adequate medical treatment or their children a decent education.
"The decision of the Punjab government to turn down U.S. money was not in the best interests of poor people in Punjab," said Mohammed Sharif, a senior administrator at Lady Willingdon Hospital. "It was a high-level decision, and we are suffering for it."
Like many government-run hospitals in Pakistan, Lady Willingdon struggles to provide even basic care. The hospital, built by the British in the 1930s before Pakistan's independence, was meant to house 80 patients. The country's population has since boomed, forcing officials to cram 235 patients into a facility that is now run-down. Paint peels off the concrete walls and black mold covers the ceilings.
Patients are forced to share beds, and sometimes women who are close to giving birth have to sit on the floor for lack of space, said nurse Kaneez Akhtar.
The hospital also faces a shortage of critical medical equipment. There is only one functioning operating room, leaving women lined up to receive cesarean sections, said a senior doctor.
"We lose a lot of babies because of that," said the doctor, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
There are only three working infant incubators, which were donated by NGOs, said Mohammed Athar, the doctor who runs the nursery for premature babies. The hospital is forced to use overhead warmers for other infants, leaving them more exposed to disease, he said.
"Without incubators, it's useless," said Athar.
The $16 million offered by the U.S. would have been used to purchase 10 incubators, build a new 100-bed ward and expand the nursery and emergency facilities, said Sharif, the hospital administrator.
The U.S. has financed similar efforts to transform two hospitals in southern Sindh province that treat tens of thousands of patients every year.
The head of the Punjab government, Shahbaz Sharif, tried to justify his decision to spurn American aid following the May 2 raid that killed the al-Qaida chief not far from Pakistan's equivalent of West Point. He said at the time that Pakistan needed "to break the begging bowl" and "get rid of the foreign shackles."
The U.S. operation outraged Pakistani officials because they were not told about it beforehand.
Sharif is a leading member of the main opposition party in the country, and many viewed his decision as a way to siphon votes away from the Pakistan People's Party, which controls the federal government. The Punjab government spokesman declined to comment on this interpretation.
Sharif and other members of his government are unlikely to feel much personal impact from the move to turn down U.S. aid.
Free government-run hospitals like Lady Willingdon are mainly used by the poor, who are already suffering from Pakistan's weak economy and surging inflation. Wealthier citizens opt for more expensive private institutions in Pakistan or abroad.
A large chunk of the American assistance, $100 million, was to be used to rebuild schools in southern Punjab destroyed by last year's devastating floods. An additional $10 million was meant to improve municipal services like clean water and sanitation.
The money will now be redirected to other areas of the country, said the U.S. Embassy.
Washington has continued several programs in Punjab that don't run directly through the provincial government, such as rehabilitation of power plants and small grants to female entrepreneurs in flood-affected areas, said the embassy.
The loss of aid for schools, water and sanitation also won't be felt acutely by the elite. Most send their children to private schools and live in leafy parts of Lahore dotted with Western restaurant chains, polo grounds and cosmetic surgery centers. The Sharifs own property in London worth millions of dollars.
The Pakistani military, which has received the bulk of U.S. assistance over the past decade, is also somewhat insulated from a reduction in aid. Its officers mostly live on well-manicured cantonments that have their own schools and hospitals that are much better than those available to the general public.
Life is very different for Pakistanis who live in Shamaspura, a dirt-poor part of Lahore filled with ramshackle brick houses separated by a narrow mud lane coursing with sewage. Most of the roughly 15,000 residents are fruit and vegetable vendors who make about $2 per day. They are forced to tie pieces of cloth across their faucets to filter out dirt and insects in the water.
"We have asked the government to pave our road and build us a sewer system, but they said they don't have any money," said Jumma Khan, a 55-year-old vegetable vendor.
Poor citizens could take out their anger at the ballot box, but Pakistani politicians often insulate themselves by bestowing favors on village elders and other influential people who direct ordinary citizens how to vote.
The U.S. may be unpopular in Pakistani neighborhoods like Shamaspura, but residents said it was crazy for the government to turn down aid that could have improved their lives.
"This is rich people denying aid meant for the poor," said Batool Akhtar, a feisty old lady wearing a dirty yellow shalwar kameez covered in white flowers. "The government should have taken the money."
(This version CORRECTS that there are three working incubators in the hospital, not two.)
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