contagiousness cruise: July 2012

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

PSU top RB Silas Redd to Southern California

FILE - This Oct. 29, 2011 file photo shows Penn State running back Silas Redd (25) rushing for 14-yards past Illinois defensive lineman Whitney Mercilus (85) during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game in State College, Pa. A pep band and more than 1,000 fans bearing signs and shouting their support for Penn State football turned out Tuesday morning, July 31, 2012 to greet players gathering for offseason workouts. The Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal could cost Penn State current players, most notably Redd, who visited Southern California during the weekend and didn't attend Tuesday's workout. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

FILE - This July 13, 2012 file photo shows Penn State running back Silas Redd taking a break during a competition against the defense during the 10th annual Uplifting Athletes Lift for Life on the main campus of Penn State University in State College, Pa. A pep band and more than 1,000 fans bearing signs and shouting their support for Penn State football turned out Tuesday morning, July 31, 2012 to greet players gathering for offseason workouts. The Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal could cost Penn State current players, most notably Redd, who visited Southern California during the weekend and didn't attend Tuesday's workout. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

FILE - This Sept. 3, 2011 file photo shows Penn State running back Silas Redd (25) reacting after scoring a touchdown against Indiana State during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game in State College, Pa. A pep band and more than 1,000 fans bearing signs and shouting their support for Penn State football turned out Tuesday morning, July 31, 2012 to greet players gathering for offseason workouts. The Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal could cost Penn State current players, most notably Redd, who visited Southern California during the weekend and didn't attend Tuesday's workout. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Penn State fans cheer during a pep rally of supporters for the Nittany Lions football team on their way to a morning workout outside the Lasch Football building on the Penn State main campus in State College, Pa., Tuesday, July 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Centre Daily Times, Christopher Weddle) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT

Penn State's Alex Kenney greets fans during a pep rally of supporters on the way to a morning workout for the Nittany Lions football team outside the Lasch Football building on the Penn State main campus in State College, Pa., Tuesday, July 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Centre Daily Times, Christopher Weddle) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) ? An early-morning rally and last-minute social media campaign couldn't keep star tailback Silas Redd from leaving Penn State for Southern California.

The 1,200-yard rusher opted Tuesday to leave a Nittany Lions program facing heavy NCAA sanctions handed down because of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Among the penalties was a four-year postseason ban and scholarship declines.

The NCAA gave Penn State players the option to transfer immediately and play for another school this year. Redd visited USC over the weekend and heard coach Lane Kiffin's pitch to be a key cog for a Trojans team expected to be highly ranked and contend for the Pac-12 title. The junior with the dazzling spin move will have two years of eligibility.

"We welcome Silas Redd to the Trojan Family," USC athletic director Pat Haden said in a statement. "He is an outstanding student and athlete."

A Tuesday in Happy Valley that began with more than 2,500 fans showing up at dawn to greet the Nittany Lions for offseason workouts ended with disappointment. Penn State fans had taken to the Twitter hashtag "StaySilas" to try to convince Redd to spurn USC.

Now Nittany Lions coach Bill O'Brien may need to rely on a converted wideout, sophomore Bill Belton, to carry the load at tailback instead of one of the Big Ten's best rushers. Redd became the second player to leave Penn State for a new program since the sanctions were announced July 23.

Penn State said later Tuesday that tight end Kevin Haplea was also no longer with the team. It was unclear where the junior, who started one game last year, was headed.

Backup safety Tim Buckley, a former walk-on, was the first player to leave Penn State in the wake of the sanctions. He joined North Carolina State on Monday.

And then, there is the case of Rob Bolden, the former starting quarterback, who was dropped from the roster this week as well. But Bolden was granted permission to speak to other schools before the NCAA sanctions were handed down, and the demoted signal-caller last year had also pondered leaving.

LSU has shown interest in Bolden, but he's yet to choose a destination.

O'Brien said last week at Big Ten media days in Chicago that he didn't anticipate losing any core players. It took less than a week for that to change.

Still, Penn State has fared relatively well in terms of roster defections, especially given the severity of the NCAA penalties. While Redd was Penn State's top offensive weapon, O'Brien hasn't lost any other starters or top backups.

O'Brien had also said last week at Big Ten media days that more than 50 players had said they would stay. Six 2013 recruits have also reaffirmed their verbal commitments.

Penn State athletic director Dave Joyner wished Redd and the other transfers well. "I think that certainly we understand and it's within their purview," Joyner said in an interview Tuesday night with The Associated Press at an evening football function.

He added the low number of transfers was "a great testament to Bill O'Brien, and the kind of person he is, the kind of coach he is and the kinds of players these are overall.

"This team has a lot of unity."

Most players interviewed after the rally and voluntary workout said they hoped Redd and others would stick around, but would honor their decisions regardless.

"Each player came here for different reasons and with different objectives," tight end Garry Gilliam said. "When it comes down to it, I'd like them to stay, but if they don't, I'll respect their decisions."

The rally was evidence of the Penn State community's resolve to stand behind the Nittany Lions that remain. Serenaded by a pep band, at least 2,500 blue-and-white backers, alumni and local business owners cheered outside the football building Tuesday in support of the players caught in the middle of one of the worst episodes ever in college athletics.

Fans lined the sidewalks to slap high-fives and shake hands with the Nittany Lions as they snaked their way to the workout. The scene resembled the team entrance to home games at Beaver Stadium on fall Saturdays.

Inspirational quotes from Winston Churchill, Thomas Paine and Vince Lombardi were posted in the windows of the building. "It isn't whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get back up," read one quote attributed to Lombardi, the Hall of Fame NFL coach.

"It was so cool. I couldn't believe how loud it was," fullback Michael Zordich said. "This just goes to show why we're still here and why we're going to fight this thing through."

Former player Keith Conlin, a local businessman and online radio show host who helped organize the event said he wanted current team members "to know that we have their backs."

"These kids, they've been fighting an uphill battle for eight months, and it's nothing that they did," he said. "We're not going to leave them and run away."

As for Redd, he's taking his considerable rushing talents to a program not unfamiliar with NCAA discipline. The Trojans, too, have been sanctioned by the NCAA ? for rules violations committed during the 2004 and '05 seasons.

"At USC, we've seen both sides of this issue, having lost a number of players to transfer due to our NCAA sanctions in 2010. But Lane Kiffin and his coaches would not be doing their job if they did not try to improve our team every single day," Haden said. "There is a specific need here for a player like Silas Redd, so Lane and our coaches recruited him within the guidelines set up in this instance by the NCAA."

Linebacker Khairi Fortt ? like Redd, a junior from Connecticut ? has considered, Cal, Florida State and Kansas, his father, Guy confirmed in an email to The Associated Press. The Stamford Advocate first reported details of Fortt's recruitment.

The younger Fortt, a top reserve for Penn State, liked his visit to Cal but loves his Nittany Lions coaches, his father said. His decision could come by midweek.

Penn State opens training camp on Aug. 6, the deadline for any other current players to request a transfer to play right away. The season opener is Sept. 1 vs. Ohio at home.

O'Brien also called a team meeting for Tuesday evening, after which Joyner said about 300 former Penn State players showed up in for a planned event to meet with the current Nittany Lions in another show of support. Joyner, a former player himself, attended but did not speak.

"This team is going to go down in history for sticking with the school and showing that loyalty," said former player and current school trustee Adam Taliaferro at the morning rally as vocal fans cheered over the din of rock music blaring from speakers.

Most downtown businesses are displaying "Proud to Support Penn State Football" signs on windows. Some stores have started selling shirts with the slogan "Billieve," playing off of O'Brien's first name.

Associated Press

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UN: 200,000 Syrians flee fierce fighting in Aleppo

The United Nations says as many as 200,000 men, women and children have fled the city of Aleppo in the past two days. Many more are trapped in the city as fierce fighting continues. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned the attack will be the final "nail in the coffin" of President Assad. ITV's Neil Connery reports.

By NBC News wire services

Updated at 11:32 a.m. ET: Fierce battles between government forces and opposition fighters in Syria?s commercial hub Aleppo have forced an estimated 200,000 civilians to flee the city, according to aid groups.

U.N. Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos, citing reports from the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, said Sunday that she was "extremely concerned by the impact of shelling and use of tanks and other heavy weapons on people in Aleppo."

In what is seen as a huge blow to Syria's President Assad, his most senior diplomat in the U.K. quit his post. Khaled al-Ayoubi, the Syrian charge d'affaires in London, told British authorities he was "no longer willing" to represent his government, because of its "violent and oppressive actions." ITV's Chris Ship reports.

"Life in Aleppo has become unbearable. I'm in my car and I'm leaving right now," a Syrian writer told The Associated Press as he got ready to drive away. "There's shelling night and day, every day," he said over the telephone on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

He painted a dire picture of daily life in the embattled city, torn between the government forces and those of the rebels.

"Bread, gasoline and gas are being sold on the black market at very high prices," he said. "Many things are in shortage."

The past two weeks have seen forces of President Bashar Assad struggle to maintain their grip on the country after a major rebel advance into the two main cities, Aleppo and Damascus, and a July 18 explosion that killed four top security officials.

Rebel fighters and government forces are still fighting in Syria's commercial hub of Aleppo. NBC's Richard Engel reports.

Government forces have succeeded in imposing their grip on Damascus but rebel fighters gained control of parts of Aleppo, a city of 2.5 million people, where journalists have toured neighborhoods dotted with Free Syrian Army checkpoints flying black and white Islamist banners.

Since the rebel assault on Aleppo began a week ago, about 192 people have been killed, mostly civilians, according to the activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Some 19,000 people have died since the uprising began, the group says.

The battle for Aleppo, once a bastion of support for Assad's regime, is critical in the struggle for Syria's future. Rebels already control large sections of the neighboring Idlib province, which borders Turkey, and if a major metropolis fell to them it could possibly create the nucleus of some kind of "liberated" territory that could receive further support from the international community ? much the way eastern Libya became a rebel sanctuary during the fight against Moammar Gadhafi last year.

Saudis mum on aid center for Syrian rebels

Yet Syria's rebels are still massively outgunned and it seems just a matter of time before Assad's massed forces outside the city crush them, much the way a similar rebel assault on Damascus over a week ago was quashed.

Civilians in need
Amos, of the United Nations, said the violence in the Aleppo region made it difficult for aid agencies to reach civilians in need.

Rebels in Aleppo shoot at Syrian government helicopters during an intense battle on Saturday.

"Many people have sought temporary shelter in schools and other public buildings in safer areas. They urgently need food, mattresses and blankets, hygiene supplies and drinking water," she said in a statement.

"I call on all parties to the fighting to ensure that they do not target civilians and that they allow humanitarian organizations safe access to bring urgent and life-saving help to people caught up in the fighting," Amos added.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said attacks on Aleppo showed Assad lacked the legitimacy to rule.

"If they continue this kind of tragic attack on their own people in Aleppo, I think it ultimately will be a nail in Assad's own coffin," Panetta said, speaking to reporters at the start of a weeklong trip to the Middle East and North Africa.

Rebels dismayed over US statement on Syrian conflict

"What Assad has been doing to his own people and what he continues to do to his own people makes clear that his regime is coming to an end," he said, adding, "It's no longer a question of whether he's coming to an end, it's when."

Scenes of destruction in Aleppo
Fighting for the past several days has focused on the Salaheddine district in the southwest of Aleppo, where government troops have been backed by helicopter gunships.

Rebel fighters, patrolling opposition districts in flat-bed trucks flying green-white-and-black "independence" flags, said they were holding off Assad's forces in Salaheddine. However, the government said it had pushed them out.

"Complete control of Salaheddine has been (won back) from those mercenary gunmen," an unidentified military officer told Syrian state television late Sunday. "In a few days safety and security will return to the city of Aleppo."

Analysts: Syria 'armed to the teeth' with chemical weapons

Reuters journalists in the city were not able to approach the district after nightfall on Sunday to verify whether rebels had been pushed out. The Syrian Observatory for Human rights said fighting was continuing there.

The government also declared victory Sunday in the battle for the capital, which the rebels assaulted in force two weeks ago but have been repulsed in unprecedented fighting.

Cars entering one Aleppo district came under fire from snipers and a Reuters photographer saw three bodies lying in the street. Unable to move them to hospital for fear of shelling, residents had placed frozen water bottles on two of the corpses to slow their decomposition in the baking heat.

A burned-out tank lay in the street, while nearby another one had been captured intact and covered in tarpaulin. Burned cars could be seen in many streets, some marked with "shabbiha" - a reference to pro-Assad militiamen.

Syrian regime?s thugs face retribution

Near the center of town, most shops were shuttered, some with "Strike" painted over them. The only shop doing business was a bakery selling subsidized bread, where the line stretched around the block.

With the Assad regime directing the full force of its military at Aleppo, Syria's biggest city, the Syrian government is pulling forces out of surrounding towns -- a cause for celebration among rebels there. NBC's Richard Engel reports from inside one of those towns, in northern Syria.

Syria's top diplomat in Britain defects
In London, the British Foreign Office said Monday that Syria's most senior diplomat in the country had defected.

Khaled al-Ayoubi, the embassy's charge d'affaires, told officials that he was not willing to represent Assad's regime any longer.

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"Mr. al-Ayoubi has told us that he is no longer willing to represent a regime that has committed such violent and oppressive acts against its own people," the Foreign Office said. "We urge others around Bashar Al-Assad to follow Mr. al-Ayoubi's example; to disassociate themselves from the crimes being committed against the Syrian people and to support a peaceful and free future for Syria."

Al-Ayoubi's departure represents the latest in a series of diplomatic and other defections from Assad's regime.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Stranded walrus calf in Alaska lagoon is safe

A stranded walrus calf has been rescued from Alaska lagoon and is believed to have separated from a larger group of calves, the Alaska SeaLife Center says.?

By Associated Press / July 27, 2012

In this photo taken Saturday, a Pacific walrus male calf is under care at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska after it was stranded near Barrow.

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A Pacific?walrus?calf is under care at a marine rehabilitation center after it was found stranded near Barrow, Alaska.

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The Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward says in a release that the male calf is estimated to be 4 to 6 weeks old.

Officials report a large group of?walrus?floated on sea ice past Barrow on July 17, and believe this calf became separated from them. Barrow fishermen saw the calf in a lagoon.

Staff members at the Alaska SeaLife Center say the calf appears to be in good health.

It's the first?walrus?calf at the center since 2007. Four calves were cared for at the center between 2003 and 2007.

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Monday, July 30, 2012

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The agony and ecstasy of watching your kid compete

Gymnast Aly Raisman's parents were quite a sight as they squirmed and grimaced through her uneven bars routine. While there?s no bigger stage than the Olympics, any parent who has rooted for their kid in a sport can relate to the anxiety of watching a child compete.

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Federer, Williams sisters in golden form

Roger Federer underlined his desire to win Olympic singles gold with a demolition of Julien Benneteau Monday, while Serena and Venus Williams followed his example with equally dominant displays.

Federer and the Williams sisters have a remarkable 17 Wimbledon singles titles and 38 grand slam crowns between them in their illustrious careers, and the trio showed their class as they marched into the last 16.

World number one Federer needed three sets to win his first match against Alejandro Falla, but the newly re-crowned Wimbledon champion took the express route Monday with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over France's Benneteau in just 58 minutes.

Serena, who like Federer is aiming to follow her latest Wimbledon success with a first singles gold medal, swept through to the last 16 with a 6-2, 6-3 victory against Urszula Radwanska.

And Venus, a singles gold medallist at the Sydney Games in 2000, demolished Italian ninth seed Sara Errani 6-3, 6-1 in a first round match rescheduled due to Sunday's heavy rain.

Federer admitted he had struggled with the extra pressure of representing Switzerland at the Games after Saturday's opening match against Falla.

But he was far more convincing display against Benneteau to book a last 16 tie against Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin.

"The conditions were different. Obviously the roof was open, there was a bit of a swirly wind and I think he might have struggled a little bit with his serve in these conditions," Federer said.

"I think he also injured himself at the very end so that was unfortunate, but I was able to put together a solid performance today."

Serena, 30, defeated Radwanska's older sister Agnieszka in three sets to win her fifth Wimbledon title this month and the American fourth seed had no intention of seeing her campaign derailed by a family vendetta on Court One.

Serena finished with eight aces and 26 winners in her one hour and 13 minute victory and she will now play Russia's Vera Zvonareva, whom she beat in the 2010 Wimbledon final, in the last 16.

"It was tough conditions, a little windy. I'm glad I was able to pull through," Serena said.

Venus suffered her worst defeat at the All England Club since 1997 when she crashed out against Elena Vesnina in straight sets in the first round last month.

That was the first time Venus had lost in the opening round of a grand slam since the 2006 Australian Open and provided further evidence of the American's struggles with Sjogren's syndrome, an auto-immune disease.

But the three-time Olympic gold medallist has always been a fighter and she is determined to emulate her singles success at the 2000 Sydney Games.

The 32-year-old made a mockery of the 60 places separating her from Errani in the WTA rankings as she crushed the world number nine in just 63 minutes to earn a clash with Canada's Aleksandra Wozniack for a place in the last 16.

"Oh my gosh it was really great," Venus said. "There's definitely nerves, but grass is my surface and I felt great out there.

"I fought so much to be here but I'm not only happy with that. I want to do something and play well for my country."

Elsewhere on Monday, three-time Wimbledon runner-up Andy Roddick defeated Slovakia's Martin Klizan 7-5, 6-4 to set up a second round clash with Serbian second seed Novak Djokovic.

Women's world number one Victoria Azarenka also advanced to the last 32 with a 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 victory over Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu.

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Sunday, July 29, 2012

President Obama may give Mitt Romney a fight in conservative Duval County

By Adam C. Smith Tampa Bay Times

JACKSONVILLE -- If ever there?s a place to see if Democratic enthusiasm for Barack Obama in 2012 matches that of 2008, it?s Duval County.

One of Florida?s top battlegrounds, this longtime Republican stronghold is also one of the most confounding and unpredictable electorates you?ll find.

Drive 30 minutes from any area in this New South, Navy town and you meet every stereotype imaginable: lifelong, white Democrats with horses and pickups, inner-city African-Americans fretting about street crime, social conservatives in a Baptist church encompassing nine blocks, northeastern retirees in flip-flops on the beach, or socially moderate Starbucks Republicans mingling in trendy restaurants.

?It?s one of the most misunderstood counties in Florida,?? said Democratic pollster Dave Beattie of Fernandina Beach, north of Jacksonville in Nassau County.

In this bastion of conservatism, the past two Republican mayors of Jacksonville raised taxes and fees significantly, while the new Democratic mayor has tea party activists hailing his fiscal conservatism. It?s a county that statewide Republican candidates routinely win by more than 15 percentage points, but can be nail-bitingly close with the right Democrat on the ballot.

?People think that Republicans win here by gigantic margins, that Duval compensates for the Democratic strongholds in South Florida. Republicans do consistently win, but it can be close,? Beattie said.

George W. Bush beat John Kerry in Duval by 62,000 votes in 2004, while former Jacksonville resident John McCain squeaked past Obama in 2008 by less than 8,000 votes.

Few people expect President Obama to match his performance from four years ago, however.

?His supporters are not going to be as fired up this time,?? predicted attorney Kenneth Boston, inhaling a stogie while sporting a bow tie and glistening an Obama watch at a Jacksonville Beach watering hole. ?It?s impossible to match the excitement of last time. It was a first then, it was historic.?

The question is not whether Obama can win Duval, but rather how close he can keep it. If the campaign can?t keep Duval closer than 7 or 8 percentage points from Republican Mitt Romney, it becomes harder to make up those votes elsewhere in the state.

?He did a great job turning out people who usually don?t vote, and the question is whether he can do that again,?? said Florida Republican Party chairman Lenny Curry of Jacksonville. ?For us, the Republicans for Mitt Romney, it?s a necessity to have a pretty good margin to offset our losses in other parts of the state.?

The African-American vote is key. Nearly 28 percent of Duval?s 530,000 voters are African-Americans who overwhelmingly vote Democratic. The data-driven Obama campaign four years ago saw that tens of thousands of registered black voters hadn?t been showing up at the polls and launched the biggest voter mobilization ever in the area. Obama campaigned in Jacksonville three times in 2008, including the day before Election Day.

This year, Obama is ramping it up still more, with one campaign office opened in January and two more to open within weeks. Obama and the first lady have each visited Duval County in the past three months. The administration recently sped up the arrival of a battleship, the USS New York, to Jacksonville?s Naval Station Mayport and fast-tracked a study of deepening Jacksonville?s ship channel.

Adam C. Smith can be reached at asmith@tampabay.com.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/29/2919518/president-obama-may-give-mitt.html

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AP PHOTOS: A rockin' Olympics opening ceremony

Fighter jets trailing red, white and blue smoke, a pulsating soundtrack that included snippets from Beatles songs and giant puppets from "Harry Potter" all came together during opening ceremonies for the London Olympics on Friday.

Oscar winner Danny Boyle's $42 million show, with 15,000 volunteers, was a rich and textured journey through British history. Boyle drew from Shakespeare, British pop culture, literature and music, and other sources of inspiration that speak to not just Anglophiles but people across the globe.

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Here's a gallery of photos from the ceremony.

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Vizify offers free infographics all about you, makes you feel like a big shot

Infographics. The stuff of high turnover websites and news channels, right? Well, yes, but now you can bring the same white space and pastel shades to your own internet footprint, courtesy of free infographic web app Vizify. It's still in its trial period for now, which means you'll have to wait for an entry code to tap into the breezy visualization generator, but we managed to plug in as many social networks as we could to see how it all works. The service is definitely centered around those that are very connected to the internet. Vizify will draw information from Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, LinkedIn and also connect through work-based websites you add yourself. It will then populate a clickable front page with circles including images, quotes and links to your profile elsewhere. The service, which is geared at recruitment, crafts a convenient short link to offer up on resumes or job emails. Edit options include a choice of color palettes, and the ability to tweak the layout of the information circles [seen above] and the larger pages that follow it, bringing either more career-centric (or interesting) content to the forefront. Sign up for an access code at the source to give it a try for yourself, or take a stalker-esque trip down an Engadget editor's social network tracks at the second link below.

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High tech future for the written word? | songoftheseagod

I?m going a bit off-piste with this one so do bear with ? I?m sure we?ll get mugged by something approximating a valid point down near the bottom somewhere.

I was just thinking how little I now know about the world around me ? the man-made world that is. Technology has bounded along at such a lick that it?s left the average man or woman in the street trailing in its wake I?d say.

Not that I?ve ever really been up to speed. I mean, when it comes right down to it ? I don?t even know how a radio works. I?ve got the headlines of course ? if it came up in a pub quiz I?d know that it?s got something to do with waves and they travel through the air ? but beyond that ? nothing. I mean ? these waves ? are they everywhere? Are they all around us now? Do they pass through us? Who knows ? not me, press a button, music comes out ? that?s it.

So you can imagine the towering level of my incomprehension when it comes to what might loosely be termed ?new technology?. Take this laptop I?m writing on ? how does that really work? Microchips and things yes ? binary code, noughts and ones. But how does it come together? And the internet? Twitter? This blog? Frankly I haven?t a clue.

When people ? well, you know, nutters ? say that it?s all alien technology, reverse engineered from a crashed space-craft found at Roswell, I don?t think ?Oh ? how absurd!? I think: ?Well ? it?s a theory.?

Things have moved so fast. If I was able to talk to myself as a kid, and show him what we?ve got in the way of gadgets now, he would think I was showing him some distant science fiction.

?Never mind that rubbish you see on Star Trek with the clam-shell phones ? that?s so 1995 ? take a look at this iPhone. With this thing in my palm I can access every fact in the world ? or at the very least someone?s opinion on that fact. I can speak to anyone on the planet who is willing to speak to me ? yes on the phone, the way you have to go down to the corner and use the pay phone to do, but also on TV face to face. I can listen to any song on any record in the whole of HMV on the high street ? and millions more they haven?t got. Yes, even 12 inch singles. I can watch any movie ? the ones you have to go to the cinema to see. And when you get in the car ? this thing can bounce a signal off a satellite up in space and tell you exactly where you are in the world and give you directions to where you have to go.?

Even supposing young me wasn?t freaked out by old me just appearing like that and going on at him like some deranged salesman from Phones 4 U he would doubtless be amazed by how quickly things have changed.

But now imagine me as a kid, going back to see my dad when he was a child ? say 30 years earlier. I wouldn?t really have had that much to tell him. ?You know TV? Yes ? well we still have that, but some rich people have colour ones ? and you know telephones? Well several people in my class have them in their actual homes.?

Yes ? it?s since the 1970s that things have really taken off. I think I was about 12 when Pong came out ? that precursive video game based on batting a white dot from one side of the screen to the other between two paddles. I imagine that was the first bit of technology we reverse engineered from the Roswell Aliens. It?s all gone haywire since then.

Now let?s look at literature. (See, told you there was a point). How has that changed in the same period? Well, I?m tempted to bluster and make up some stuff but the truth is, it?s hardly changed at all. Styles come and go, fashions wax and wane, but we still have novels, poetry, short stories. Nothing revolutionary has happened.

It has been suggested that the changes in technology could prompt a revolution in the way we write. That the more open access of the e-book?era might allow people new latitude to reconfigure what counts as a piece of creative writing. It might smash open the boxes into which writing must fit to get past publishers and agents and make it into print under the current orthodoxy.

Removing the constraints of the solid, physical book and the expensive process of printing might lead to unexpected and radical change in the forms writing takes.

Is this what?s going to happen? Or will ebooks simply lead to mass piracy and mean that authors struggle even more to get paid for their work?

Who knows? The truth is it?s a revolution ? and in a revolution nobody knows what the outcome is going to be, not even the people who start it.

Source: http://songoftheseagod.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/high-tech-future-for-the-written-word/

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Do ovaries continue to produce eggs during adulthood?

Friday, July 27, 2012

A compelling new genetic study tracing the origins of immature egg cells, or 'oocytes', from the embryonic period throughout adulthood adds new information to a growing controversy. The notion of a "biological clock" in women arises from the fact that oocytes progressively decline in number as females get older, along with a decades-old dogmatic view that oocytes cannot be renewed in mammals after birth. After careful assessment of data from a recent study published in PLoS Genetics, scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Edinburgh argue that the findings support formation of new eggs during adult life; a topic that has been historically controversial and has sparked considerable debate in recent years.

Eggs are formed from progenitor germ cells that exit the mitotic cycle, thereby ending their ability to proliferate through cell division, and subsequently enter meiosis, a process unique to the formation of eggs and sperm which removes one half of the genetic material from each type of cell prior to fertilization.

While traditional thinking has held that female mammals are born with all of the eggs they will ever have, newer research has demonstrated that adult mouse and human ovaries contain a rare population of progenitor germ cells called oogonial stem cells capable of dividing and generating new oocytes. Using a powerful new genetic tool that traces the number of divisions a cell has undergone with age (its 'depth') Shapiro and colleagues counted the number of times progenitor germ cells divided before becoming oocytes; their study was published in PLoS Genetics in February this year.

If traditional thinking held true, all divisions would have occurred prior to birth, and thus all oocytes would exhibit the same depth regardless of age. However, the opposite was found ? eggs showed a progressive increase in depth as the female mice grew older.

In their assessment of the work by Shapiro and colleagues ? published recently in a PLoS Genetics Perspective article ? reproductive biologists Dori Woods, Evelyn Telfer and Jonathan Tilly conclude that the most plausible explanation for these findings is that progenitor germ cells in ovaries continue to divide throughout reproductive life, resulting in production of new oocytes with greater depth as animals age.

Although these investigations were performed in mice, there is emerging evidence that oogonial stem cells are also present in the ovaries of reproductive-age women, and these cells possess the capacity, like their mouse counterparts, to generate new oocytes under certain experimental conditions. While more work is needed to settle the debate over the significance of oocyte renewal in adult mammals, Woods and colleagues emphasize that "the recent work of Shapiro and colleagues is one of the first reports to offer experimental data consistent with a role for postnatal oocyte renewal in contributing to the reserve of ovarian follicles available for use in adult females as they age."

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Friday, July 27, 2012

CM10 preview builds out for Nexus 7 and Galaxy Note: official but experimental

Ready for the latest bout of XDA Recognized goodness? If you own a Nexus 7 or global Galaxy Note (oh yeah) then you'll find official preview builds of CyanogenMod 10 for each device at the source links below. They'll bring some added sparkle, like an almost-buttery version of Jelly Bean on the Note and USB storage on the Nexus 7, but neither build is ready for daily dependence -- so tread carefully or just consider them proof that the CM and Team Hacksung folks are almost there.

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EYES ON LONDON: A tribute to women, Russia gaffe

LONDON (AP) ? Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you:

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TRIBUTE TO WOMEN

Team USA flag bearer Mariel Zigunis says she's bursting with pride that a. she got the job and b. that women have outnumbered men on the team for the first time.

"It's a huge, huge honor ... having a female flag bearer is something that is very meaningful."

?Mark Colson

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DON'T MESS WITH HER

Talking of doping, AP's Jenna Fryer just had a close encounter with an ad that's arguably a little wide of the mark. It's from Transport for London. Check out the arms. http://img.ly/lfJ6

?Jenna Fryer ? Twitter http://twitter.com/jennafryer

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TORCH RELAY CONCERT

To celebrate the torch's arrival in London a concert is being held in Hyde Park on Thursday ? the same place where the plug was pulled on Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen a few weeks ago after they violated a curfew.

Rees Ianson, 32, was a torch bearer in the north of England and so was given the opportunity to get tickets.

"I jumped at the chance, I'm looking forward to it," says the sales manager from Lincolnshire who was nominated as a torch runner for his charity work.

He's not just down for the concert. Rees also has tickets for basketball and hockey. "I can't wait," he said on his way to the gig featuring the likes of Mark Ronson and Dizzie Rascal.

?Fergus Bell ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fergb

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WHERE YOU FROM AGAIN?

Kazakhstan is trying to replace two of its male Olympic weightlifters at the 11th hour, possibly because of citizenship issues.

The two are Arli Chontei, in the 56-kilogram category, and Farkhad Kharki, in the 62-kilogram category.

International Weightlifting Federation spokeswoman Aniko Nemeth-Mora says Kazakhstan is citing medical reasons. However, Kazakh weightlifting official Mendikhan Tapsiruly tells AP that "this is most likely to do with the fact they were granted citizenship recently."

Both lifters are originally from China. Two other lifters in Kazakhstan's team were recruited from China, while one switched nationalities from Russia.

?Karl Ritter ? Twitter http://twitter.com/Karl-Ritter

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HANDS OFF!

Russia's Olympic committee is laying claim to over a dozen athletes born in once-Soviet Ukraine. And it's sparked an outcry in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital.

Some athletes are listed as born in the "Ukraine region" of Russia, while others are listed as coming from the Ukrainian cities of Lutsk and Lviv, which were described as Russian.

Similar mistakes were made for Georgia-born athletes.

Russia's Olympic Committee is now working to correct the data. But it's done little to appease widespread resentment as a result of centuries of Russian dominance which ended when Ukraine gained its independence in 1991.

?Vladimir Isachenkov ? Twitter http://twitter.com/visachenkov

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POSITIVE DRUG TEST

A Greek athlete has failed a doping test and is out of the Olympics. High jump champion Dimitris Chondrokoukis has tested positive for the steroid stanozolol.

His father ? and coach ? says the news is "surreal" and is asking for a follow-up test.

?Graham Dunbar ? Twitter http://twitter.com/gdunbarap

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NO HIJAB

The ruling has come down: Saudi Arabia's female judo competitor will not be allowed to wear a hijab during her matches.

Asian judo federations allow them, but in London the veil has been deemed dangerous. Judo includes strangleholds and chokeholds ? and organizers think that could prove even more painful if there's something to tug.

They also think judo should be free of religion and politics.

Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani is one of two female Saudi athletes here. The kingdom is allowing them to compete after the International Olympic Committee and human rights groups exerted intense pressure for an end to its practice of sending all-male teams to the games.

?Maria Cheng ? Twitter http://twitter.com/mylcheng

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Government signs on insurers to fight healthcare fraud

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration launched a new partnership with private insurance companies, state officials and other stakeholders to scale up efforts to tackle widespread and increasingly sophisticated healthcare fraud.

Speaking from the White House at a table surrounded by leaders from many of the country's biggest health insurers, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder launched the new initiative, which builds on past efforts to root out crimes that cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars every year.

"Bringing additional healthcare industry leaders and experts into this work will allow us to act more quickly and effectively in identifying and stopping fraud schemes, seeking justice for victims, and safeguarding our healthcare system," Holder said.

The project increases a focus on data sharing between public and private health insurers, using new technology that helps track medical claims in real time. Many large insurers have already signed onto the program, including Humana Inc, UnitedHealth Group and WellPoint Inc.

"In the past, we followed a ?pay-and-chase' model, paying claims first - then only later tracking down the ones we discovered to be fraudulent. Now, we're taking away the crooks' head start," Sebelius said.

Over the past two years, Holder and Sebelius have sought to identify major centers of healthcare fraud, meeting with local organizations, investigators, prosecutors and state officials to better understand the nature of common fraud schemes and to bring new stakeholders into the conversation.

Fraudulent claims to the government's Medicare health plans for the elderly are estimated to cost $60 billion a year, making it a focus of large-scale busts by the U.S. Department of Justice. In May, U.S. authorities conducted the biggest Medicare fraud sweep to date, arresting more than 100 people across the country - including doctors, nurses, office managers and other providers - for trying to defraud the system of nearly half a billion dollars.

Officials did not give specific details of how the new partnership would be rolled out. But department officials said that a third party would be brought in to conduct computer analysis to spot patterns of fraud and comb through millions of claims and other associated billing data.

The partnership announced Thursday builds on previous collaborations, including HEAT, the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team, designed to strengthen data sharing and partnerships at all levels of government.

Obama's healthcare law, known as the Affordable Care Act, earmarks hundreds of millions of dollars for anti-fraud measures and gives greater authority to insurers and law enforcement officials, including enhanced screening of Medicaid and Medicare providers and tougher laws and sentences for people who commit these crimes. Holder said that in 2011, anti-fraud initiatives recovered $4.1 billion in cases involving federal healthcare programs.

"That was a new record," said Holder. "Over the last three years, for every dollar we've spent fighting against healthcare fraud, we've returned an average of $7 to the U.S. Treasury, the Medicare Trust Fund and others.

"It's clear that our approach is working - and that our investments in anti-fraud efforts are yielding extraordinary returns. But - as today's announcement proves - this is only the beginning," he added.

(Additional reporting by Lewis Krauskopf in New York; Editing by Tim Dobbyn, Michele Gershberg and Lisa Shumaker)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/government-signs-insurers-fight-healthcare-fraud-005135128--sector.html

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