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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Fat Head ? Review: Rich Foods Poor Foods
When it comes to improving health, I believe in tackling the big issues first and foremost ? like quitting smoking before worrying if your milk came from a hormone-free cow.? If we could just convince people to give up sugar, refined grains and chemically-extracted seed oils (the dietary equivalents of smoking, in my opinion), they?d already be far along the path to improved health, even if they buy their meats and eggs at Wal-Mart.
Moving farther down the path to health requires paying attention to the quality and nutrient density of food, but that?s where some of the food purists scare people off.? As Jonathan Bailor pointed out last week while we were recording a podcast, we want to avoid making perfect the enemy of good.? If we tell people the only way to be healthy is to eat nothing but pasture-fed meats and organic produce from local farmers? markets, we?ll lose them.? (We?d also be lying to them.)
Aside from the purists and the orthorexics, most people simply aren?t going to do all their shopping at farmers? markets.? But many of us who are health-conscious would happily opt for higher-quality foods if we knew how to find them in a grocery store ? which leads to me a new book that teaches exactly how to do that.
Rich Food Poor Food was written by Jayson and Mira Calton, the same couple who wrote Naked Calories.? Their focus is on the importance of micronutrients, vitamins and minerals in food, and after meeting them on last year?s cruise, I?d bet their diet at home is close to perfect.? I?m happy to report, however, that this book isn?t about adopting a perfect diet.? It?s about adopting a better diet, even if you do all your shopping in grocery stores.? Most of the book, in fact, is a shopping guide ? what they call their Ultimate GPS:? grocery purchasing system.
In Part One, the Caltons explain what they mean by rich foods and poor foods.? Rich foods, of course, provide the most micronutrients.? Not surprisingly, rich foods are usually unprocessed or minimally processed.? Poor foods are either devoid of micronutrients or contain additives that can potentially screw up our health ? hydrogenated oils, artificial colorings, MSG, chemical preservatives and other frankenfood ingredients.? The goal of Rich Foods Poor Foods is to guide you to the rich foods ? or at least the richer foods, given the choices available.
Here are the ingredients for Lay?s Potato Chips:
- Potatoes
- Vegetable oil (sunflower, corn and/or canola oil)
- Salt
A good choice?? Well, I wouldn?t eat them (and neither would the Caltons), but at least we?re talking about a mere three ingredients.? Compare those to the Lay?s Baked Potato Crisps preferred by the Eat This, Not That guys:
- Dried Potatoes
- Cornstarch
- Sugar
- Corn Oil
- Salt
- Soy Lecithin
- Corn Sugar
Yee-uk.? As the Caltons write:
This lower-calorie, low-fat snack is not a healthier, smarter choice.? It is very definitely a Poor Food choice with ingredients that may be linked to cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, infertility, compromised immunity, accelerated aging, and numerous other health conditions and diseases.? Had you purchased this product only after a review of the Nutrition Facts, you would have opened yourself up to unwanted ingredients.
When Eat This, Not That named these potato crisps their go-to choice, they boasted, ?Baked Lay?s represents the classic potato chip at its absolute best.?? What?? Are they serious?? These crisps are not even made with real potato slices.? Far from the absolute best, the Baked Lay?s represents to us just how far we have strayed from natural foods onto a dangerous new path paved with highly processed, manufactured food-like substances.?
Part Two is the shopping guide, which is divided into the same sections you?ll find at a grocery store:? Dairy, Meat, Fish, Produce, Condiments, Grains, Baking Items, Snacks and Beverages.? Each section contains a brief introduction explaining what we should either seek out or avoid within that particular category, then provides two lists named Steer Here (rich foods) and Steer Clear (poor foods).
The lists are colorful, they?re easy to read, and (best of all) they name names.? You can find a perfect choice in a Steer Here list, but if perfect isn?t an option, you can also find some very good choices.? In the milk list, for example, the top choice is farm-fresh raw milk from grass-fed cows.? But if you aren?t willing or able to buy raw milk from a local farm, you can look for Organic Valley Grassmilk.? It?s pasteurized, but not homogenized, and the milk comes from grass-fed cows.? Or you could choose Meyenberg brand goat milk, which is also grass-fed and hormone-free.? You get the idea.
Early in my low-carb days, I bought Hood brand Carb Countdown milk.? (They?ve since changed the name to Calorie Countdown.)? That brand, not surprisingly, is on the Calton?s Steer Clear list:? the ingredients include cellulose gel, cellulose gum, artificial color, sucralose (aka Splenda) and acesulfame potassium.? Hmmm, doesn?t sound much like real milk, does it?
The Caltons recommend quite a few organic foods, but in the section on produce they provide a list of fruits and vegetables for which buying organic is basically a waste of money:? onions, sweet potatoes, avocados, asparagus and several others.? Apparently there?s little chance of those foods containing pesticide residues or being genetically modified.? There?s also a list of fruits and vegetables they recommend you buy only if they?re certified organic:? apples, blueberries, spinach, lettuce and several others.
Rich Food Poor Food isn?t pocket-sized, but I believe it would fit into a purse if you want to take it with you on shopping trips.? I doubt you?ll find every brand name on the Steer Here lists at your local Kroger or Wal-Mart, but I recognize many of them from the days when we lived near a Trade Joe?s and did much of our shopping there.? And of course there?s always Whole Foods ? if you don?t mind paying Whole Foods prices.
Again, the goal isn?t to make your diet perfect.? The goal is to make your diet more nutrient-dense.? Rich Foods Poor Foods can help you attain that goal.
Source: http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/2013/02/26/review-rich-foods-poor-foods/
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John Kerry busts out his French-speaking skills
Secretary of State John Kerry busted out a bit of the language of Moli?re and G?rard Depardieu on Wednesday as he met in Paris with his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius. How?d he do?
Pas mal du tout, Monsieur Kerry. Not bad at all.
The Democratic former senator from Massachusetts learned French while attending a boarding school in Switzerland starting when he was 11. And he spent many childhood summers in the Atlantic coast region of Brittany with French relatives.
Those days are long gone?but while Kerry seemed a bit rusty, his opening remarks at a joint press conference with the French foreign minister sounded pretty solid to this native speaker (he starts at 4:51 in the video above, and a transcript is at the bottom of this post). And he poured on the charm to please his audience.
?We?ve just finished one of those wonderful French lunches that have never ceased drawing Americans to Paris for centuries,? he said, seemingly reading from notes or prepared remarks. And he also joked about anti-French sentiment in the United States. ?And now I?ll speak in English because otherwise they won?t let me return home.?
Kerry?s gesture thrilled the French, who appreciate it when visiting dignitaries make an effort to speak their hosts? language. Fabius, the French foreign minister, celebrated Franco-American cooperation on a range of foreign policy struggles like the bloodbath in Syria and Iran?s nuclear program?and hailed Kerry as ?someone who is known to be a friend of France? (?quelqu?un qui est connu pour ?tre un ami de la France?).
It was just a couple of weeks ago that the newly minted secretary of state, meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, had declined a reporter?s request for ?a little bit of French, please, maybe?? (?un peu de Fran?ais, s?il vous plait, peut-etre?? she asked).
?Not today?I?ve got to refresh myself on that,? Kerry said, drawing chuckles from his audience.
The French question is a vexing one for Kerry. During the 2004 presidential campaign, The New York Times raised eyebrows by granting anonymity to a ?Bush adviser? who wanted to snipe from behind cover that the Democratic candidate ?looks French.? That cheap shot, apparently code for ?elitist,? caught fire in the media, stoked by perennial anti-French sentiment and still-fresh frustration that the government in Paris opposed the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was the era of renaming ?French fries? as ?Freedom Fries? in the congressional cafeteria (the French consider fries Belgian) and calling the ?French kiss? something more acceptable to American audiences, ?The Patriot Act.? (OK, that last one was, ahem, tongue in cheek.)
Times have changed. Somewhat. Throughout the 2012 campaign, Mitt Romney unhesitatingly spoke French to people he met on the trail (and he took crap for it?even from Democrats). Romney, who learned French when he lived in France as a Mormon missionary, does really well on his feet, has good sentence structure and, like Kerry, his mild accent doesn?t make him hard to understand.
Does any of this matter? Peut-?tre (maybe). Diplomacy is often a language of symbolism and nuances, after all.
And an old story, handed down by foreign language professors, may illustrate another usefulness.
The story goes that, in the early computer era, the CIA spent a fortune on a device that could translate intercepted messages. The chairman of the congressional committee that funded the project, on a tour, was invited to submit a phrase that would be translated from English, into French, then into German, then into Russian, then into Chinese, and then back into English. The lawmaker thought a moment, then suggested ?out of sight, out of mind.?
The machine clacked and whirred and spat out a strip of paper. On it was the result: ?Invisible. Insane.?
Kerry's remarks in French:
"Merci beaucoup, Monsieur le Ministre. Vraiment, c?est chaleureux, et je vous remercie beaucoup pour votre accueil aujourd?hui. C?est un tr?s grand plaisir pour moi d??tre en companie du ministre des affaires ?trang?res, Fabius. Nous venons de conclure un de ces merveilleux d?jeuners fran?ais qui n?ont cess? d?attirer les Am?ricains ? Paris depuis des si?cles. Bien entendu, c?est un privil?ge de pouvoir partager tout repas avec Laurent. Il est un ami de confiance, un alli? fid?le et un partenaire appr?ci?, et je veux ? je le remercie pour tout ?a. La France, comme vous savez, est vraiment ? c?est le plus ancien des alli?s des Etats-Unis. On vous remercie pour ?a aussi. Et maintenant je parle en anglais parce qu?autrement on me laisse pas rentrer chez moi."
Translation:
"Thank you very much, Mister Minister. Really, that was [a] warm [welcome], and I thank you very much for your welcome today. It?s a great pleasure for me to be here with the minister of foreign affairs, Fabius. We just finished one of those wonderful French lunches that have never ceased drawing Americans to Paris for centuries. Of course, it?s a privilege to share any meal with Laurent. He is a trusted friend, a faithful ally, and a valued partner. and I want to thank him for all of that. France, as you know, is really?it's the oldest ally of the United States, so we would like to thank you for that, too. And now I'll speak in English, because otherwise they won?t let me return home.?
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/john-kerry-french-pas-mauvais-not-bad-190702655--politics.html
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Fan's NASCAR accident video back on YouTube
When a YouTube video is taken down for copyright infringement, most people get it: Don't post videos that are someone else's legal property. But when YouTube quickly re-posts a video it had pulled, that's an unusual step for the largest video-sharing site in the world.
At NASCAR's request, the Google-owned YouTube removed the 1 minute-and-16-second video taken by a high school student, Tyler Andersen, who was at the the NASCAR Nationwide Series auto race at Daytona Beach Saturday. His video captured part of the horrific accident that injured at least 28 fans, with chunks of debris flying into the stands.
When Andersen posted the video on YouTube, he was clear about his reason for doing so:
No disrespect intended to any of those injured or their families. I was just sharing my experience with a worldwide audience. I will continue to keep all affected by this incident in my prayers and I thank God for protecting me. Thank you.
NASCAR asked Google to take down the video, and it did. The Atlantic Wire points out that "NASCAR's legal fine print on any ticket says they own the rights to any video, sounds or data related to a race. The question became, eventually, whether or not that legal fine print extended to a fan video. Observers criticized NASCAR for taking the video down in the middle of a news story that was still unfolding."
But NASCAR says this wasn't about copyright infringement.
"The fan video of the wreck on the final lap of today's NASCAR Nationwide Series race was blocked on YouTube out of respect for those injured in today's accident," Steve Phelps, NASCAR's senior vice president and chief marketing officer, said on Saturday in a statement shared with NBC News.
"Information on the status of those fans was unclear and the decision was made to err on the side of caution with this very serious incident."
And so YouTube reversed course, allowing the video back up late Saturday, saying in a statement to The Washington Post, and again Monday to NBC News:
Our partners and users do not have the right to take down videos from YouTube unless they contain content which is copyright infringing, which is why we have reinstated the videos.
By late Monday, the video had done well over 600,000 views.
Phelps reiterated NASCAR's stance in a statement to NBC News: "This was never a copyright issue. This was never a censorship issue," he said. "The video ... was blocked out of respect for those injured in the accident. Google decided to lift that block."
What does it mean for most of us, who walk around with HD camcorders in our smartphones? Does the fact that Andersen's video continues to survive ? and even thrive ? mean that we can post our own footage of ticketed sporting events? Though tickets tend to warn against such behavior, are we really forbidden from taking a video and posting it on YouTube?
In many cases, yes. If the ticket is a contract, you may be in breach.
YouTube's "decision to allow the video to remain available, while a positive sign in terms of YouTube's willingness to scrutinize claims of copyright infringement, does not in any way prevent NASCAR from pursuing other remedies against the poster of the video ? including, potentially, enforcement of the contract embodied on the ticket or a direct claim of copyright infringement against the poster," Jeffrey P. Hermes, director of the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, told NBC News Monday.
(In this instance, NASCAR has not indicated it would pursue such action.)
However, "NASCAR also cannot claim that the fan has granted NASCAR ownership of that recording based merely on the fine print on the back of a ticket," Hermes said.
Besides, he thinks there's "a serious question as to whether NASCAR has a valid copyright claim in an unscripted sporting event," such as Saturday's race. It's the kind of event, he said, that is "different from a scripted 'performance'" such as a rock concert "in which copyright might arise under U.S. law."
(Translation: Don't even think about posting that Beyonc? concert footage.)
Corynne McSherry, intellectual property director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told NBC News Monday that YouTube's decision to re-post the NASCAR video is "the right decision, because NASCAR does not hold the copyright in a fan video."
The EFF has seen this sort of thing before. When Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, an animal-rights activist group, filmed rodeos in order to demonstrate alleged abuse, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association fired back, requesting takedown of 13 videos. At the time, YouTube responded by eliminating the activists' account.
When the EFF took the case to court, it was settled in 2009. The agreement protects the group's "right to publicize their critiques."
"The (rodeo association) has no copyright claim in live rodeo events, just as NASCAR has no copyright claim in fan videos," says McSherry.
While the case didn't set a precedent, she said, "the law on this is not ambiguous: absent some other arrangement or exception (such as a work for hire), copyright goes to the person who created the video, not the person who created the event."
Update: 2 p.m. ET Tuesday, Feb. 26: A NASCAR spokesman contacted NBC News Tuesday to add that NASCAR "owns the rights to video shot at the track, but we don't and won't enforce those guidelines unless that content is being used commercially."
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Airbus studies dropping lithium-ion battery for A350: sources
PARIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe's Airbus is considering whether to drop lithium-ion batteries and switch back to traditional ones on its A350 passenger jet as investigators probe Boeing 787 safety incidents, several people familiar with the matter said.
The move comes amid a wider rethink in the aerospace industry on whether the powerful but delicate backup energy systems are technically "mature", or predictable, they said.
Industry executives, insurers and safety officials told Reuters the technology's predictability was being questioned at senior levels as investigators struggle to find the cause of incidents that led to the grounding of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner.
"There is an increasing doubt over the technology," said a person familiar with industry-wide discussions on the issue. "It may well be the future but for now it is a question of maturity. The information on the two incidents is not reassuring."
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, which is examining a fire on a 787 at Boston airport a month ago, said on Thursday it had identified where the fire broke out but not the cause. A similar investigation is under way in Japan.
A spokesman for EADS unit Airbus said it would study the outcome of the U.S. probe: "Let's not get ahead of ourselves. There are no conclusions by the NTSB yet and the investigation is still ongoing." All options are open, he added.
France's Saft, which makes both the new and old batteries for Airbus, did not respond to requests for comment. Last month it insisted lithium-ion was safe.
The A350 would be the second large passenger jet to fly on lithium-ion batteries for backup electrical power after the Dreamliner, which pioneered their use in passenger transport to support an increasing array of electrical systems.
Airbus said last week it had a plan B for its battery and time to respond to any rule changes.
However, industry sources said that following the NTSB's latest comments, the odds are shortening that Airbus will switch to nickel-cadmium technology used on jets like the A380.
"It is a classic risk-management problem. If you don't know the cause of something you can't quantify the risk that it will happen again," an international safety official told Reuters.
"In that case, you have little choice but to take a temporary step back and rely on something better understood."
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Experts say that if the 787 probe fails to provide clear answers soon, pressure may build for Airbus to pre-empt the findings and switch solutions to head off development risk.
Airbus plans an A350 maiden flight in mid-year, followed by a year of flight trials and certification, during which the distraction of re-engineering could increase the risk of delays.
The A350 is due to be delivered in the second half of 2014, around two years behind its original schedule.
Reverting to nickel-cadmium would mean sacrificing the lighter weight of lithium-ion, equivalent on the A350 to one adult male passenger out of between 270 and 350 passengers.
"The penalty in weight compared with the risks associated with 'li-ion' is minimal," said Nick Cunningham, an aerospace analyst at Agency Partners in London.
Boeing declined to say whether it was looking at making the same switch to restore its fleet to service. "We're simply focused on resolving the issue, working closely with regulatory and investigative authorities," a spokesman said.
Boeing said the U.S. planemaker had selected lithium-ion batteries because they best met the performance and design objectives of the 787. "Nothing we learned during the design of the 787 or since has led us to change our fundamental assessment of the technology," the company said.
Because of its highly electric design, replacing many hydraulic systems, the 787 consumes more power than the A350.
Plane and battery makers say lithium-ion is safe but recognize it is in the early stages of use in commercial flying.
Cunningham said Airbus and Boeing had learned from past development snags that it pays to tackle problems early rather than having to embark on costly refits that burn up cash.
Insurers too are taking a more cautious approach to lithium-ion batteries, warning underwriters to consider the risks more closely in a way that could mean higher prices for airlines.
Global Aerospace, the London-based pool that acts as Boeing's lead insurer, has already said the planemaker has coverage for groundings and compensation.
The question is what it will cost others in the future to get the same kind of coverage, or any coverage for that matter where the volatile battery technology is involved.
A senior U.S. insurance executive, asked how the Boeing 787 incidents would affect the ability of others to be insured, said: "it's just a question of price."
At least two major insurers are communicating with staff about the science behind lithium-ion, the risks associated with its use and the caution they should take in writing policies.
Lithium-ion batteries have been on the insurance industry's radar for quite some time. The industry's biggest fear has been the costs when batteries are stored in bulk and one catches fire, leading to a conflagration that destroys inventories.
"The industry maybe never thought this was going to end up in an airliner," the insurance executive said.
The Fire Protection Research Foundation gathered members in Baltimore in August 2011 to discuss lithium-ion safety risks, a meeting well attended by some of the largest U.S. property insurers.
Their conclusion, at the time, was that more study needed to be conducted on packaging design and the most effective fire-suppression technologies, some of the same issues now being considered by aviation regulators in their Boeing probe.
The meeting's aviation workgroup specifically noted that one of the issues to consider was "fire in flight", according to minutes of the proceedings seen by Reuters.
(Additional reporting by Deepa Seetharaman, Jonathan Gould; Editing by James Regan and Dale Hudson)
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Back in the USSR? Key Soviet document is missing
FILE - This Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1991 file photo shows Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev talking before the Congress of People's Deputies during a debate on his proposal to transform the Soviet Union into a confederation of sovereign states in Moscow. Former Belarusian leader Stanislav Shushkevich says a historic document that proclaimed the death of the Soviet Union is missing from archives. Officials with Belarus' government and the Russia-dominated alliance of ex-Soviet nations confirmed late Wednesday Feb. 6, 2013, they only have copies. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
FILE - This Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1991 file photo shows Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev talking before the Congress of People's Deputies during a debate on his proposal to transform the Soviet Union into a confederation of sovereign states in Moscow. Former Belarusian leader Stanislav Shushkevich says a historic document that proclaimed the death of the Soviet Union is missing from archives. Officials with Belarus' government and the Russia-dominated alliance of ex-Soviet nations confirmed late Wednesday Feb. 6, 2013, they only have copies. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
MINSK, Belarus (AP) ? The powerful Soviet Union may still exist after all ? at least on paper.
Former Belarusian leader Stanislav Shushkevich says a historic 1991 document that proclaimed the death of the Soviet Union is missing from the archives.
Shushkevich discovered that the document was gone while working on his memoirs. He said he believes it was stolen ? possibly by a former Belarusian official ? probably with the intention of selling it to a collector.
"It's hard to believe the disappearance of a document at such a level, but this is a fact," Shushkevich told The Associated Press.
Officials with Belarus' government and the Russia-dominated alliance of ex-Soviet nations confirmed late Wednesday that they only have copies.
"We don't know where the original is," said Vasily Ostreiko, the head of the archive department of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which has its headquarters in Minsk, the Belarusian capital. "We have a copy of that document. It's certified in line with international standards, but it's still a copy."
The document's disappearance reflects the chaos that surrounded the 1991 demise of the Soviet Union, a superpower of 300 million people that sprawled over nearly a dozen time zones and encompassed what is now 15 nations.
On Dec. 8, 1991, Shushkevich hosted Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk for secret talks at a government hunting lodge near Viskuli in the Belovezha Forest. The trio signed a deal declaring that "the U.S.S.R. has ceased to exist as a subject of international law and geopolitical reality" ? defeating Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's attempts to hold the Soviet Union together.
The agreement also announced the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose alliance joined by nine other Soviet republics that month.
Gorbachev resigned on Dec. 25, 1991, and the Soviet Communist empire that ruled with an iron fist for almost 70 years ceased to exist.
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Friday, February 8, 2013
After Doubling Its User Base Over The Last 7 Months, Video Discovery Startup Telly Improves Recommendations With Social Data
Telly has come a long way since being rebranded. In the seven months since adopting its new moniker, the company formerly known as Twitvid has doubled its user base to 7 million and continues to iterate on its video discovery app. Today it?s announcing a new web interface to provide a more lean-back experience, as well as what it hopes will be a better recommendations system.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Kh260AfTTYU/
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College hockey teams to hit ice outdoors in Omaha
Omaha's junior hockey team, the Omaha Lancers, practice on the outdoor surface at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, where on Saturday the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks will play North Dakota in a college hockey game. The rink sits between what would be first and third bases at the baseball stadium where the College World Series is played each June. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Omaha's junior hockey team, the Omaha Lancers, practice on the outdoor surface at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, where on Saturday the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks will play North Dakota in a college hockey game. The rink sits between what would be first and third bases at the baseball stadium where the College World Series is played each June. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Omaha's junior hockey team, the Omaha Lancers, practice on the outdoor rink at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, where on Saturday the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks will play North Dakota in a college hockey game. The rink sits between what would be first and third bases at the baseball stadium where the College World Series is played each June. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Omaha's junior hockey team, the Omaha Lancers, practice on the outdoor surface at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, where on Saturday the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks will play North Dakota in a college hockey game. The rink sits between what would be first and third bases at the baseball stadium where the College World Series is played each June. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ? In nearly four decades of coaching hockey, Dean Blais never had to make a game plan while taking the position of the sun into account.
That changed this week as he and his Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks prepare for Saturday's outdoor game against North Dakota at TD Ameritrade Park.
The rink sits between what would be first and third bases at the baseball stadium where the College World Series is played each June. Partly cloudy skies are forecast, and the late-afternoon sun could be a factor in the first period for the team defending the goal on the northeast end.
"We'll take the other end," Blais said, smiling.
The home team wants any advantage it can get in what figures to be a key Western Collegiate Hockey Association game.
The Mavericks (16-10-2, 12-6-2), ranked Nos. 14 and 15 in the major polls, go into the last eight games of the regular season in second place, three points behind St. Cloud State. Seventh-ranked North Dakota (14-8-6, 9-5-6) is in a three-way tie for third, two points behind the Mavs.
The teams will also play Friday night on the Mavs' usual home ice, across the street from the ballpark in the CenturyLink Center.
North Dakota practiced on an outdoor rink in Grand Forks, N.D., for about 45 minutes on Monday. The Mavs won't go outdoors until their Saturday morning skate at TD Ameritrade.
"You're going to have to take the pre-game skate pretty seriously that day," UNO goalie John Faulkner said. "You have to adjust to the lighting, angles and stuff like that. It's going to be all new. As a goalie, you have to find little landmark points to line yourself up."
This will be the 12th Division I men's game played outdoors since 2001 and the first since Ohio State and Michigan squared off at Cleveland's Progressive Field in front of 25,864 fans in January 2012. Chicago's Soldier Field will host two games Feb. 17, with Notre Dame playing Miami (Ohio) and Minnesota meeting Wisconsin.
A junior-level game between the Omaha Lancers and Lincoln Stars will be the warm-up act for North Dakota-UNO in an event billed as the "Battles on Ice." The games were put together by UNO and the Lancers to promote hockey in the area.
Officials said about 12,000 tickets have been sold, with many purchased by a North Dakota fanbase known for traveling in large numbers to road games. A strong walk-up is expected if the weather is good. Temperatures are expected to be in the upper-40s.
"I think the guys are looking forward to it," North Dakota coach Dave Hakstol said. "It's fun for a lot of guys to go back to their roots and get outdoors. I'm sure it brings back memories of playing on the backyard pond."
UNO and North Dakota feature two of the nation's top offenses.
The Mavs are second nationally in goals per game (3.57) and Ryan Walters is the NCAA's top scorer (16 goals, 24 assists, 40 points). North Dakota averages 3.18 goals. Danny Kristo, who leads active Division I players with 144 career points, and linemate Corban Knight are the nation's highest-scoring pair of teammates with a total of 28 goals and 71 points.
Knight said the teams' skills could be mitigated if ice conditions are rough.
"It might be a thing where you see more dumping of the puck and some chipping," he said. "Surely the puck is going to bounce around a little bit. That's something we have to take into consideration for our game plan."
Adding intrigue is that Blais led North Dakota to two of its seven national championships and was either an assistant or head coach at the school for 19 years. He's in his fourth season at UNO.
The Mavs' Matt White, who grew up in Whittier, Calif., is one of the few players for UNO and North Dakota who didn't play outdoor hockey as a youngster.
"I don't really know what to expect," he said. "It's just a different atmosphere, so I think I'm going to keep everything the same."
White said he enjoys watching the NHL Winter Classic, but never imagined he'd get to play in an outdoor game himself.
"I'm glad it's finally made its way to Omaha," he said. "Just playing a powerhouse like North Dakota, it's great for our program and a step in the right direction for Omaha hockey."
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Genetic variation doubles risk of aortic valve calcification
Feb. 6, 2013 ? Researchers have found a genetic variant that doubles the likelihood that people will have calcium deposits on their aortic valve. Such calcification, if it becomes severe, can cause narrowing or a blockage of the aortic valve, a condition called aortic stenosis. The study is the first large-scale, genome-wide association study to uncover a genetic link to aortic valve calcification.
An article detailing the findings is published in the February 7, 2013 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
The study's lead investigators -- from Johns Hopkins, Harvard University, McGill University, the University of Iceland and the National Institutes of Health -- found that having a genetic variant in the LPA gene, which codes for a type of cholesterol particle called lipoprotein (a), also increases the risk of developing aortic stenosis by more than 50 percent.
The researchers say their findings not only help explain why heart valve calcification may run in families, they could also lead to the development of targeted medications that might slow the progression of the disease. Statin medications, which reduce common forms of cholesterol that can clog blood vessels, have not been shown to reduce aortic valve calcification.
"This is an important step forward in understanding the biology of the development of aortic stenosis and how this common genetic variant, which is found in 7 percent of the general population, contributes to that risk," says Wendy Post, M.D., a cardiologist and associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who is a senior author of the study.
Non-genetic risk factors for aortic valve calcification include advancing age, high blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol levels and smoking. Men are at higher risk than women.
In the study, the researchers first looked at 2.5 million gene variants, called single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs, among more than 6,900 people of white European background, and found that this variant in the LPA gene was strongly associated with having aortic valve calcification on a heart CT scan, according to lead author Catherine Campbell, M.D., formerly the chief cardiology fellow at Johns Hopkins who now works for Kaiser Permanente.
Lipoprotein (a) is an unusual type of cholesterol particle that circulates in the blood and is associated with an increased risk for heart attacks.
"Increased levels of lipoprotein (a) have been previously associated with aortic valve disease. However, prior studies could not differentiate whether it was simply a marker or a causal factor," says Campbell. "Our results provide the first evidence for a causal relationship between lipoprotein (a) and calcific aortic valve disease," she adds.
Once the researchers identified the association between the LPA gene variant and those with evidence of aortic valve calcium in that first group, they confirmed their findings among three other groups -- more than 2,000 people of Hispanic origin, about 2,500 African-Americans and more than 700 Germans.
The people in those three groups, as well as the initial 6,900 Caucasians, were participants in several ongoing studies -- the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA); the Framingham Heart Study; the Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility (AGES) study in Iceland; and the Heinz Nixdorf Recall study in Germany. All had previously undergone a CT scan to look for the presence of aortic valve calcium.
The researchers also were able to demonstrate an association between the LPA gene variant and the future development of clinical aortic stenosis in two independent groups -- more than 28,000 research participants in Sweden and more than 10,000 participants in Denmark.
Aortic stenosis, when calcified plaque causes narrowing in the aortic valve, can cause chest pain, loss of consciousness and shortness of breath. In severe cases, patients may need aortic valve replacement surgery. More than 1 million individuals in the United States have aortic stenosis, making it the most common form of valve disease.
"Advancing age is a major risk factor for aortic stenosis and with the aging of the population, this will become an even bigger health concern," says Post. "We believe our findings will help us better understand the biology of how valve calcification develops and open the door to new avenues of therapy, possibly with medicines that lower lipoprotein (a) levels in the blood," she says.
The study was funded by multiple grants through the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute as well as other funding agencies.
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- George Thanassoulis, Catherine Y. Campbell, David S. Owens, J. Gustav Smith, Albert V. Smith, Gina M. Peloso, Kathleen F. Kerr, Sonali Pechlivanis, Matthew J. Budoff, Tamara B. Harris, Rajeev Malhotra, Kevin D. O'Brien, Pia R. Kamstrup, B?rge G. Nordestgaard, Anne Tybjaerg-Hansen, Matthew A. Allison, Thor Aspelund, Michael H. Criqui, Susan R. Heckbert, Shih-Jen Hwang, Yongmei Liu, Marketa Sjogren, Jesper van der Pals, Hagen K?lsch, Thomas W. M?hleisen, Markus M. N?then, L. Adrienne Cupples, Muriel Caslake, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, John Danesh, Jerome I. Rotter, Sigurdur Sigurdsson, Quenna Wong, Raimund Erbel, Sekar Kathiresan, Olle Melander, Vilmundur Gudnason, Christopher J. O'Donnell, Wendy S. Post. Genetic Associations with Valvular Calcification and Aortic Stenosis. New England Journal of Medicine, 2013; 368 (6): 503 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1109034
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6 dead, villages destroyed in Solomons tsunami
SYDNEY (AP) ? Six bodies, including a child's, have been found in the sodden wreckage left by a tsunami that smashed into villages in the Solomon Islands, flattening dozens of homes in the South Pacific island chain.
The 1.5-meter (4 foot, 11-inch) waves that roared inland on Santa Cruz Island, in the eastern Solomons, on Wednesday were too fast to outrun for five elderly villagers and one child, who died after being sucked under the rushing water, George Herming, a spokesman for the prime minister, said Thursday. Several other people were still missing and dozens of strong aftershocks were keeping frightened villagers from returning to the coast, Herming said.
"People are still scared of going back to their homes because there's nothing left, so they are residing in temporary shelters on higher ground," Herming said.
The tsunami was generated by a powerful 8.0-magnitude earthquake that struck near the town of Lata, on Santa Cruz in Temotu, the easternmost province in the Solomons. Temotu has a population of around 30,000.
Smaller waves were recorded in Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
The damage appeared to be concentrated to the west side of Santa Cruz, with five villages wiped out, Herming said. Authorities were still struggling to reach the remote area but an estimated 100 homes had been damaged or destroyed, he said.
The tsunami flooded the airstrip at the nearest airport and left it littered with debris, preventing relief workers from reaching the region by air. Smaller islands may also have sustained some damage, but workers had also not yet reached those areas, Herming said.
More than 50 people were killed and thousands lost their homes in April 2007 when a magnitude-8.1 quake hit the western Solomon Islands, sending waves crashing into coastal villages.
The Solomons comprise more than 200 islands with a population of about 552,000 people. They lie on the "Ring of Fire" ? an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones that stretches around the Pacific Rim and where about 90 percent of the world's quakes occur.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
5 Worst Cities to Buy Foreclosures in 2013 | AOL Real Estate
By Jerry KronenbergThe U.S. foreclosure crisis looks like it's finally winding down -- great news for homeowners, but decidedly less positive for house hunters and real estate investors. "From the perspective of buyers, [some] markets might not be as attractive anymore," says Daren Blomquist of market watcher RealtyTrac. The organization recently found that U.S. foreclosure-related filings fell during 2012 for the second straight year.
RealtyTrac, which monitors county registries of deeds around the country, says lenders filed paperwork covering around 1.9 million foreclosures, deed seizures and property resales in 2012 -- a roughly 34% drop from 2010's 2.9 million peak. The firm also analyzed all 102 U.S. metro areas with 500,000 residents or more and found that filings fell by double-digit percentages in many locales during 2012.
Blomquist says house hunters and investors looking to buy foreclosures on the cheap in those cities can expect to "compete against each other for places this year. The foreclosure supply is drying up, but there's still interest from other buyers."
The expert says markets with the worst prospects for buyers are generally in "non-judicial foreclosure" states, where laws allow lenders to seize properties quickly with little court involvement. For instance, the average foreclosure finalized in nonjudicial Texas during 2012's fourth quarter took just 113 days from start to finish versus 1,089 days in judicial-foreclosure New York. Blomquist says nonjudicial states' speedier processes have allowed banks to clean out backlogs of delinquent properties there, making fewer distressed homes available for would-be buyers.
"The worst cities for foreclosure buyers are typically those places that worked through their problems fairly quickly," he says, adding that people looking for deals should check out metro areas with more problems. Click through the gallery below for a look at the five metro areas that RealtyTrac predicts will offer would-be foreclosure buyers the worst deals in 2013.
The firm based its rankings on a number of factors, such as how many months of unsold foreclosures each city had on the market as of Dec. 31. All figures cover houses, townhouses, condos and apartment buildings with four units or less. Average percent discounts on foreclosures refer to properties sold during 2012's first 10 months, the latest period with data available.
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Say goodbye to mail delivery on Saturdays
It's been debated for months, but on Wednesday the United States Postal Service announced it's not going to deliver first-class mail on Saturdays anymore, beginning August.
The postal service said on Wednesday it will continue to deliver packages, mail-order medicine, and express mail on Saturday, but not letters, bills, cards, and catalogs. Post offices which are now open on Saturdays will continue to be open on Saturdays.
?The Postal Service is advancing an important new approach to delivery that reflects the strong growth of our package business and responds to the financial realities resulting from America?s changing mailing habits,? said Patrick R. Donahoe, Postmaster General and CEO at a news conference to announce the changes. Package deliveries rose 8.7 percent in the 2012 fiscal year.
The USPS has not specified yet what it defines as a package, but it will provide more details next month, agency spokesman Dave Partenheimer said.
The move is meant to save the financially struggling, 237-year-old agency about $2 billion annually as it wrestles with the rising popularity of email and social media eating away at its core business of delivering mail. It's also meant to counter the climbing costs of funding future retiree health benefits to its workers, as mandated by Congress, which oversees the independent agency of the government.
It remains unclear whether the USPS can unilaterally reduce service for first-class mail to five days from six days a week without congressional approval. Congress has resisted the idea, although it may be more open as it seeks to reduce spending. The USPS does not get tax money to fund its day-to-day operations.
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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) sent a letter Wednesday to congressional leaders saying they back the USPS decision and that it deserves bipartisan support. But a Democratic aide who works on congressional issues pertaining to the Postal Service told NBC News that the move could face an uphill battle in Congress.
The Postmaster General himself seemed unclear about it, although he rang a note of confidence that Congress would agree to the move.
"We think we are on good footing with this. We think this is the right thing to do," he said.
Related story: We want our Saturday mail, some Americans say
In January, the USPS board of governors directed management to accelerate the restructuring of postal service operations in the face of declining revenues. It said that the USPS could no longer afford to wait for legislation to salvage its business.
The agency reported an annual loss of a record $15.9 billion for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, triple the prior year's loss and capping a year in which it was forced to default on payments to a health benefit trust fund managed by the Treasury Department. The rising costs for future retiree health benefits accounted for $11.1 billion of the losses.
On Jan. 27, the USPS raised postage stamp prices by one cent to 46 cents to help raise revenues. ?We are currently losing $25 million per day,? Donahoe warned in January.
On Wednesday, Donahoe said the change to five-day mail delivery would equate to about 22,500 postal jobs, but that the agency would not resort to layoffs to make the reductions. Instead, he said it could easily meet that by eliminating overtime, through attrition and by working with unions on buyouts. The USPS currently employs about 520,000 workers.
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The move is another milestone in the long-running political dance between Congress and Postal Service managers over how to finance the delivery of mail to 151 million addresses, nearly 40 percent of the world's "snail mail" volume. Lawmakers have spent more than a year trying to nail down postal legislation, but have been unable to settle on an agreement.
Though its Capitol Hill critics complain that Postal Service should be made to operate ?more like a business,? Congress has created a set of rules that all but guarantee billion-dollar losses.
Those losses are almost entirely the result of the now-defaulted ?pre-funding? requirement for retiree health insurance and other accounting charges.
The Postal Service faces other constraints. It's banned from setting up retail outlets, for example, that could generate profits to help subsidize delivery costs. Worse, it is barred by Congress from charging the full cost of providing the service it is required to deliver.
The Associated Press,Reutersand NBC News' John Schoen contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/say-goodbye-mail-delivery-saturdays-postal-service-says-1B8262819
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Jaipur Wonderful Place To Visit On Rajasthan Tour
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Classical India tours offer their tourists to take the classical feel through the traditional dress of the place. One must try the traditional outfit of the place as it make tourists feel that they are roaming at their own native place. All these experience make people feel spellbound. Rajasthan tourism is always a favorite tour of tourists as it offers tourists to experience lots of things together.Shimla once a part of Nepal. But in a was of 1814 to 1816 between Nepal King Prithvi Narayan Shah & East India company it became a part of India, after a treaty signed between them. Himanchal Pradesh has many cities like Almora, Pathankot, Kumaon Gharwal, Simur, Dehradun and Kangra all became the part of India after the war. Shimla was known for Hindu temple of Goddess Shyamla Devi at that time.
Shimla once a habitat of villagers in Upper Bazaar was cleared by a fire. The native were forced to live in lower and middle bazaar, thus in upper bazaar many buildings were build up. The Upper Bazaar is planned for the esteem end to become the centre of the European Town. Book Shimla visit as it is connected by railway line from Kalka. Railway line was constructed in 1906. This railway route is a pleasure in itself as it has 103 small and big tunnels and connected with 806 bridges with high quality engineering and is know as British Jewel of the Orient. Shimla having a soothing climate and thus being desirable by the (Salanies) tourist. In 2008 it became part of the UNESCO World Heritage site mountain railways in India. Shimla was the capital of Punjab in 1871 till Chandigarh named the capital of Punjab.
Shimla become the capital of state of Himanchal Pradesh. Shimla is located in the North Western ranges of Himalayas. At an altitude of 2397.59 meter above sea level. Main attractions in Shimla are Jakoo Hills 2454 Meters (Altitude above sea level) and pre independence buildings like vice regal Lodge, Auckland House, Gorton Castle, Peter off House and gaily theatre. But now it is a well known tourist centre. Tourist from all over the world book happily for exploring scenic Shimla and also visit many other places of Himanchal Pradesh. It is a cool place not away from burning plains, so people from nearby places enjoy this Queen of Hills and thus in summers Shimla happen to be most crowded hill station. Once a Britishers Prime choice since 1822 Shimla became the centre of attraction for many higher authorities like Governor General and viceroy.
The main spine of Shimla is the mall during peak season for the tourist the people of Shimla known as Shimlaites celebrate a variety of festivals are celebrated in summer visitors enjoy there traditional festival during their visit for the enjoyment of the Kufri is a Ski resort mainly visited during winters with a sight of snow fall honeymooners and tourist never want to miss this opportunity so booking is in full swing during winters and summers. Shimla surrounded by Tatta Pani just 55 km from Shimla is the name of Sulpher Spring knows for curing skin discnees at the banks of Satluj River. Fancy dress competition and ice skating competitions are the main attraction for the sports loving persons.Planning a vacation can be a stressful process, especially if you are contemplating a new destination.
The moment you start to think Vacation, you will need to search, make decisions and organize many things prior to realizing your getaway. Starting a vacation without taking care of accommodations, method of travel, basic knowledge of the local culture, or planning of activities will stagnate your precious holiday time. Right from purchasing travel insurance, carrying a camera, to including a tooth brush in your luggage, everything has to be done in an organized manner. This tour is one of the lovely tours of India as it offers tourists to explore the beauty of other major attractions. Selecting the ideal rental: Finalize your dream vacation rental well in advance. This enables you to go through various options peacefully and select the best option for you, rather than compromising with whatever is available after landing at your destination.
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Rachel Bilson Covers 'Women's Health UK' March 2013 (PHOTOS)
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Pentagon poised to extend benefits to same-sex partners
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The military is poised to extend some benefits to the same-sex partners of service members, U.S. officials said Tuesday, about 16 months after the Pentagon repealed its ban on openly gay service.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has not made a final decision on which benefits will be included, the officials said, but the Pentagon is likely to allow same-sex partners to have access to the on-base commissary and other military subsidized stores, as well as some health and welfare programs.
Panetta must walk a fine, legal line. While there has been increased pressure on the Pentagon to extend some benefits to same-sex partners, defense officials must be careful not to violate the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. The federal law forbids the federal government from recognizing any marriage other than those between a man and a woman.
An announcement is expected to come in the next several days. Officials discussed the plan on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss internal Pentagon deliberations.
Pentagon press secretary George Little declined to comment. Other officials made it clear that there are still last-minute legal discussions going on to determine the details.
Officials said the military will likely require that some type of document be signed to designate the military member's partner as a legitimate recipient of the benefits.
Panetta's decision comes as he nears the end of his tenure as Pentagon chief and on the heels of President Barack Obama's broad call for equal rights for gays during his inaugural speech.
"Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law ? for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well," said Obama, who also has supported gay marriage.
Also, just days ago, a woman married to a female Army officer at Fort Bragg was invited to become a full member of the North Carolina base's officers' spouses club after initially being denied. The Marine Corps has also said that any spouses clubs operating on its bases must admit same-sex partners.
Last year, Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, introduced legislation that would extend same-sex benefits to spouses of veterans and service members. He argued that with gays serving openly in the military, their spouses should receive the same benefits.
Under his measure, the Defense Department and Veterans Affairs Department would have to recognize any marriage that has been recognized by a state, the District of Columbia, commonwealths or territories. Nine states and the District of Columbia now allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
"Building on the repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell,' this is another big step toward full equality in the military. No individual should be deprived of the benefits they have earned simply because of who they have married," Smith said Tuesday.
Advocacy groups called on Panetta to take substantive steps and grant full benefits that are available under the law.
"Considering DADT was repealed well over a year ago, our families have waited far too long for the Defense Department to extend benefits to same-sex military spouses," said Stephen Peters, president of the American Military Partner Association, which advocates for gay and lesbian military families. "No military family should suffer because of outdated regulations. For the sake of our families, we hope for substantive action and look forward to hearing from Secretary Panetta on exactly what benefits will be extended."
The repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in the military took effect in September 2011, and since then the Pentagon has been reviewing policies and procedures to see what military benefits can be opened to same sex partners without violating DOMA.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of DOMA in June, but advocacy groups have argued that there are a number of administrative steps the Pentagon could take to treat same-sex military couples more fairly.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-sources-pentagon-extending-benefits-gays-204402393--politics.html
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Video: Christie: ?I?m the healthiest fat guy you?ll ever meet?
>>> new jersey governor chris christie took advantage of his first-ever appearance on david letterman last night to hit a big issue head-on and it happened right in the middle of their conversation.
>> i didn't know this was going to be this long. i'm like basically the healthiest fat guy you've ever seen in your life.
>> the governor insisted his overall health is good, including cholesterol and blood sugar . but then this afternoon, president clinton 's former white house physician, dr. connie mariano , was quoted by cnn as saying, i'm worried about this man dying in office. at an afternoon press conference in new jersey, the governor chose to then get serious on the topic of his 30-year struggle with his weight.
>> so far, up to 50 years old, i've been remarkably healthy. and you know, my doctor continues to warn me that my luck is going to run out relatively soon, so believe me, it's something that i'm very conscious of.
>> the governor said last night and today, that like all people who struggle with weight, he thinks about it constantly, and it's a major topic of conversation in his family.
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