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Sunday, March 31, 2013
NASA Trailer To Be Shown Before Star Trek: Into Darkness
Tired of seeing ads for cars and soda before the films you watch at the theater? Well, a successful crowdfunding campaign at Indiegogo will see a trimmed down version of NASA's 'We Are Explorers' video aired before showings of the upcoming Star Trek: Into Darkness in theaters all over the country. "Most people recognize space as a key expression of our character. They know our space programs as a globally recognized brand of ingenuity. The recently landed Mars Curiosity Rover was the latest reminder that space systems are the crown jewels of our scientific and technical prowess. Less known is the indispensable value space systems bring to our everyday lives. Space provides irreplaceable capabilities for defense, public health, finance, medicine, energy, agriculture, transportation, development and countless other fields. Investments in space programs are precisely about improving and protecting life on Earth. ... By funding this campaign, we can remind students and the general public that our nation's space agency is working hard on the next era of exploration." The campaign's funding goal was reached in just six days ? their stretch goal will increase the number of theaters for the clip from 59 screens to 750. The movie comes out on May 17th.
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Ars Poetica: Where Art Meets Poetry | Kitsap Week - Port Orchard ...
BREMERTON ? Local artists are honoring National Poetry Month by selecting works by local poets and visually interpreting them.
Interpretations are in two-dimensional and three-dimensional works in a wide range of mediums. View the poems and the art at the First Friday Artwalk, April 5, 5-8 p.m. at these Bremerton venues:
? IZM, 247 4th St.
? Elaine Turso Photography, 249 4th St.
? Valentinetti Puppet Museum, 257 4th St.
? Bremerton Chamber of Commerce, 286 4th St.
? Mistarian Roses, 519 4th St.
? Claywerks Too, 345 6th St., Suite 600.
? Toro Lounge & Tapas, 315 Pacific Ave.?
? Hudson?s Photography, 321 Pacific Ave.
? Collective Visions Gallery, 331 Pacific Ave.
? Amy Burnett Gallery, 408 Pacific Ave.
? Juan Rodriguez, 408 Pacific Ave.
? Two Sisters Fine Jewelry, 520 Pacific Ave.
? Edward Jones Financial, 555 Pacific Ave., No. 101.
The ?Ars Poetica 2013? book features 27 regional poems and 16 CVG artists. To order, email photoartbybev@aol.com. Pre-order price: $10.50.
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Source: http://www.portorchardindependent.com/entertainment/200510011.html
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
'Skim Milk Marriage' is the New 'Broccoli'
During today's oral arguments before the Supreme Court, concerning the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg remarked ? to the delight of Twitter ? that the lack of federal benefits for same-sex couples in states that gay marriage had created a tiered system for straights and gays, which she compared to the grades of milk one can purchase at a grocery store:
JUSTICE GINSBURG: They're not -- they're not a question of additional benefits. I mean, they touch every aspect of life. Your partner is sick. Social Security. I mean, it's pervasive. It's not as though, well, there's this little Federal sphere and it's only a tax question. It's -- it's -- as Justice Kennedy said, 1100 statutes, and it affects every area of life. And so he was really diminishing what the State has said is marriage. You're saying, no, State said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim milk marriage. (Laughter.)
This isn't the first time Ginsburg has latched onto a food metaphor during proceedings for a high-profile Supreme Court decision. Last June, in the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act, Ginsburg flayed her Supreme Court Colleague for suggesting that the individual mandate, the Act's key?mechanism, would establish a precedent under which the U.S. government could force Americans to consume broccoli. Witness her response (bolding ours):
As an example of the type of regulation he fears, THE CHIEF JUSTICE cites a Government mandate to purchase green vegetables. Ante, at 22?23. One could call this concern ?the broccoli horrible.? Congress, THE CHIEF JUSTICE posits, might adopt such a mandate, reasoning that an individual?s failure to eat a healthy diet, like the failure to purchase health insurance, imposes costs on others. See ibid.
Consider the chain of inferences the Court would have to accept to conclude that a vegetable-purchase mandate was likely to have a substantial effect on the health-care costs borne by lithe Americans. The Court would have to believe that individuals forced to buy vegetables would then eat them (instead of throwing or giving them away), would prepare the vegetables in a healthy way (steamed or raw, not deep-fried), would cut back on unhealthy foods, and would not allow other factors (such as lack of exercise or little sleep) to trump the improved diet.9 Such ?pil[ing of] inference upon inference? is just what the Court re? fused to do in Lopez and Morrison.?
As we all know, the Supreme Court held up the Affordable Care Act ? and thus the individual mandate ? as constitutional, ending the long, Republican-led fight to overturn President Obama's biggest legislative accomplishment, at least using the courts. Still, conservative groups in Washington have put up less of a fight over the Defense of Marriage Act, and nobody really considers Obama's evolution on gay marriage a significant feat, so the presence of?this?food metaphor is probably less a portent of the Court's June ruling and, like so many things on Twitter, more of a silly coincidence.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/skim-milk-marriage-broccoli-183314663.html
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MakerBot and OUYA join forces to let you print your own console enclosure
How to pass the time as the first OUYA consoles start shipping to backers? Well, if you've got a 3D printer at home, you can spend the hours printing your very own enclosure for the Android-based console. The gaming company has joined forces with MakerBot on a 3D printing development kit that'll let you customize your case at home. The plans, which were apparently optimized for the second generation Replicator, let you go crazy with custom designs and patterns, because while the rest of the world will get their chance to pick up a console this summer, yours can still be a special snowflake. You can check the plans out on Thingiverse in the source link below.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Gov't spent nearly $3.7M on ex-presidents in 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Being the leader of the free world is an expensive proposition. But the costs don't stop once you leave the White House.
The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service says the federal government spent nearly $3.7 million on former presidents last year. That covers a $200,000 pension, compensation and benefits for office staff, and other costs like travel, office space and postage.
The costliest former president? George W. Bush, who clocked in at just over $1.3 million. That includes almost $400,000 for 8,000 square feet of office space and $85,000 in telephone costs.
President Bill Clinton came in second at just under $1 million, followed by George H.W. Bush at nearly $850,000. Costs for Jimmy Carter, the only other living former president, came in at about $500,000.
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Maintaining YOUR Integrity in Committed Relationships | Inspired ...
WELCOME!
We are all familiar with the saying, ?honesty is the best policy?.
However, maintaining your integrity in a committed relationship and/or when dating can, at times, actually be quite challenging.
1) Get crystal clear on Your values around honesty and integrity
When I talk about values I am?not?referring to moral and ethical standards of behavior or conduct, although a person can value acting from their own particular moral and/or ethical framework.
I am also?not?including standards of behavior that you learned from your parents, attending church, etc.?
So to be clear we are not talking about standards for ?right? and ?wrong? behavior.
Rather values are the idiosyncratic beliefs, ideas, likes and dislikes etc. that make us who we are.?
For example, a person may take great pride in always doing their very best on projects they are assigned or choose to take on.?
Another person may place living in naturally beautiful, albeit remote area, above the conveniences found in urban environments.?
In each case the person?s choices and actions reflect deeply held values.? Values reflect our priorities and often fully honoring a value may involve sacrifice.
To read more about values and how being aware of how your values affect the quality of your life click on this link:
http://inspiredcommitment.com/values/values-intentions-and-outcomes/
The import thing is to make the time to really explore your values around honesty and integrity in general.
Then take the next step and continue your exploration about your values around honesty and integrity from two perspectives:
- How you intend to honor your values around honesty and integrity
- How would you prefer your partner or potential partner to deal with and behave when it comes to honesty and integrity
One very effective way to get this done is to journal from both perspectives.
2) Commit to always tell the truth
Once you set the intention to always tell the truth I invite you to be very curious about how you actually behave when a particular situation provides you with the opportunity to put your intention into action.
Please do not rush into any sort of self-judgments-just be curious about how your speech and actions reflect your current interpersonal habits around honest and integrity.
This sort of ?self-study? can be very eye opening and you may become more aware of topics and situations that challenge your ability to be totally ?honest?.
If this happens, I encourage you to just be thankful.
You have been given the opportunity to become more ?inwardly? (the realm of you thoughts & feelings) and ?outwardly? (the realm of speech & action) consistent.
Acting on your self-discoveries around how honesty and integrity actually manifest in your thoughts, feelings, speech, and behavior may inspire you to ?put your house in order? and be more true to yourself.
3) Make a list of ?difficult topics?
We all have topics that we have ?difficulty? discussing openly.
Once you have set the intention to always tell the truth, and explored your values and behavior around honesty and integrity you are ready to take the next step.
I invite and encourage you to make a list of topics that you find difficult to discuss openly.
Take the time to reflect and journal about each topic that you found ?challenging?.
This will help you to be more in choice about how you would like to show up when these topics come up.
4) Commit to strive to being open and to really listening
The ?flip side? to being willing to ?fully speak your mind? is to cultivate the discipline of being open to the ideas and concerns of others.
Think about it.
Respect is the minimum expression of love.
One component of respect is leaving others in complete freedom to be who they are and believe what they believe.
An interesting way to see just how disciplined your mind is with regard your ability to really listen to understand is to deliberately expose yourself to views that you strongly disagree with.
So if you?re a liberal, try listening to Rush Limbaugh and just watch your mind.
Really try and just understand his perspective and try and withhold all judgment.
It?s about self-mastery.
Developing this sort of discipline can pay huge dividends in life, and especially in the arena of intimate relationships.
Try it out and see for yourself.
5) Commit to developing the capacity to question to understand
Often when folks express things that we do not fully agree with it ?triggers? an emotional reaction and we go into ?premature judgment mode?.
When this happens we have essentially blocked any possibility of understanding their point of view.
It?s like in the old Star Trek show when they used to raise their shields to prevent would be attackers from destroying their ship.
Then we come out with guns blazing asking questions to challenge their views rather than putting any effort into trying to understand anything that they are expressing.
You just can?t wait to get the next word in and no one gets heard.
Sound familiar.
Hey, the reason that I can explain all this so well because I used to fall into this trap frequently.
So what to do?
The next time you feel that emotional ?knee jerk? reaction when someone is trying to explain their point of view try taking a step back, relax, and just listen.
Their opinion won?t destroy your star ship!
Commit to developing the capacity to question to understand.
Doing so will benefit all of your relationships, especially your romantic ones!
6) Develop the capacity to compassionately tell the ?hard truth?.
So what do I mean by the ?the hard truth??
The ?hard truth? simply something that someone needs to hear that you know may really challenge that person in some way.
An example from my own life:
A few years ago I was tasked with the difficult and uncomfortable job of telling one of my best friends that he was dying and would not be able to return to his home to do so.
He knew that he was probably not going to recover from the stomach caner that was literally eating him alive, but he was very attached to spending his final days at home, which simply was not possible.
Well I got in touch with just how much I loved my friend, and told him what ?the hard truth?.
For the next week I practically lived at the hospital with him while he passed.
Unfortunately, there is no easy way to develop the capacity to compassionately tell the ?hard truth?.
However, I promise you that once you set the intention to develop this capacity, the universe will provide you the opportunities you need to get this done.
If you?re in a romantic relationship, no worries, you?ll get the opportunity sooner than you would probably like.
Summary
In summary, maintaining your integrity in a committed relationship can be challenging.? The good news is just about everyone can do so if they really want to.
I encourage you to do what ever it takes to maintain your integrity in all of your relationships and to build your ?relationship house? on the solid ground of honesty and integrity.
Respect is truly the minimum expression of love.
Give yourself, your partner, friends, family, and colleagues the gift of your authentic self by always striving to to be honest, forthcoming, and compassionate.
Live, Connect, Love, and Prosper!
See YOU next week!
Britain sets out plans for nuclear future
By John McGarrity and Oleg Vukmanovic
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain spelled out its aims for nuclear power on Tuesday, committing funds to a sector it expects to create 40,000 jobs while lowering the country's carbon emissions and its reliance on costly energy imports.
This month's late blast of winter cold has exposed Britain's reliance on imported natural gas, triggering wholesale price spikes and concerns that stored supplies could run dry.
In its long-term Nuclear Industrial Strategy the government sets out the opportunities it sees for economic growth and job creation in the industry.
Britain's plans to build up to 16 gigawatts of new nuclear power capacity could create 40,000 new jobs, the report said.
Opportunities span research and development, construction, waste management, decommissioning, operation and maintenance.
The government also committed more than 40 million pounds for research and development.
"We have some of the finest workers, research facilities and academics in the world. But we need to sharpen those competitive advantages to become a top table nuclear nation," said Vince Cable, secretary of state for business, innovation and skills.
While Germany and others have turned away from nuclear in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster in 2011, Britain remains intent of building new atomic capacity.
EDF won planning approval last week to build Britain's first new nuclear power station in almost 20 years but warned the project would only move forward if the French company and the British government can agree a guaranteed minimum "strike" price for the power produced.
EDF wants to build two reactors but at an estimated cost of some 14 billion pounds it wants assurances that it can recoup its investment with a government guarantee to support energy prices.
British companies could be awarded between 44 and 64 percent of the construction work, a report by consultancy Oxford Economics said on Tuesday.
STRIKE PRICE
EDF wants a strike price of at least 100 pounds per megawatt-hour (MWh) while the government would prefer a price around 80 pounds, according to industry sources and analysts.
Chancellor George Osborne told a panel of parliamentarians on Tuesday that both sides aimed to reach a deal.
"Obviously we have a hard commercial bargain between EDF and the government about the right strike price and so on. But I think both EDF and the British government want to see the project go ahead on the right terms for both of us," Osborne said.
Japan's Hitachi also has plans to build in Britain, which needs to replace ageing coal-fired and nuclear sites and meet environmental targets in 2020 and beyond.
Two ageing coal-fired power plants were mothballed this month, part of a series of closures that will strip Britain of around 20 percent of its power capacity by 2020.
Energy regulator Ofgem has warned that Britain faces a challenge to keep the lights on as plants close. It has forecast spare generating capacity will shrink to just 4 percent by 2015/16 from 14 percent last year.
Details to be worked out with EDF over the strike price include how long it would last, how to deal with future regulatory changes, and whether a strike price would be indexed to inflation.
"You will have a lower or higher (strike price) based on who takes the construction risk," said Roland Vetter, head of research at CF Partners.
British government ministers have also spoken of the need to avoid using taxpayers to underwrite cost overruns. EDF's Flamanville reactor in France is running four years behind schedule and costs have more than doubled.
EDF could expect revenues of about 88 billion pounds from its two planned 1,600-megawatt reactors in Britain based on a strike price of 100 pounds per MWh over 35 years and other assumptions, CF Partners' Vetter estimated.
The government hopes the two new reactors, to be built at Hinkley Point C in southwest England, will come online in the first half of the 2020s.
(Additional reporting by Henning Gloystein and William Schomberg; editing by Jason Neely)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/british-government-publishes-long-term-nuclear-strategy-131525701--sector.html
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Developing our sense of smell
Mar. 25, 2013 ? When our noses pick up a scent, whether the aroma of a sweet rose or the sweat of a stranger at the gym, two types of sensory neurons are at work in sensing that odor or pheromone. These sensory neurons are particularly interesting because they are the only neurons in our bodies that regenerate throughout adult life -- as some of our olfactory neurons die, they are soon replaced by newborns. Just where those neurons come from in the first place has long perplexed developmental biologists.
Previous hypotheses about the origin of these olfactory nerve cells have given credit to embryonic cells that develop into skin or the central nervous system, where ear and eye sensory neurons, respectively, are thought to originate. But biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now found that neural-crest stem cells -- multipotent, migratory cells unique to vertebrates that give rise to many structures in the body such as facial bones and smooth muscle -- also play a key role in building olfactory sensory neurons in the nose.
"Olfactory neurons have long been thought to be solely derived from a thickened portion of the ectoderm; our results directly refute that concept," says Marianne Bronner, the Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology at Caltech and corresponding author of a paper published in the journal eLIFE on March 19 that outlines the findings.
The two main types of sensory neurons in the olfactory system are ciliated neurons, which detect volatile scents, and microvillous neurons, which usually sense pheromones. Both of these types are found in the tissue lining the inside of the nasal cavity and transmit sensory information to the central nervous system for processing.
In the new study, the researchers showed that during embryonic development, neural-crest stem cells differentiate into the microvillous neurons, which had long been assumed to arise from the same source as the odor-sensing ciliated neurons. Moreover, they demonstrated that different factors are necessary for the development of these two types of neurons. By eliminating a gene called Sox10, they were able to show that formation of microvillous neurons is blocked whereas ciliated neurons are unaffected.
They made this discovery by studying the development of the olfactory system in zebrafish -- a useful model organism for developmental biology studies due to the optical clarity of the free-swimming embryo. Understanding the origins of olfactory neurons and the process of neuron formation is important for developing therapeutic applications for conditions like anosmia, or the inability to smell, says Bronner.
"A key question in developmental biology -- the extent of neural-crest stem cell contribution to the olfactory system -- has been addressed in our paper by multiple lines of experimentation," says Ankur Saxena, a postdoctoral scholar in Bronner's laboratory and lead author of the study. "Olfactory neurons are unique in their renewal capacity across species, so by learning how they form, we may gain insights into how neurons in general can be induced to differentiate or regenerate. That knowledge, in turn, may provide new avenues for pursuing treatment of neurological disorders or injury in humans."
Next, the researchers will examine what other genes, in addition to Sox10, play a role in the process by which neural-crest stem cells differentiate into microvillous neurons. They also plan to look at whether or not neural-crest cells give rise to new microvillous neurons during olfactory regeneration that happens after the embryonic stage of development.
Funding for the research outlined in the eLIFE paper, "Sox10-dependent neural crest origin of olfactory microvillous neurons in zebrafish," was provided by the National Institutes of Health and the Gordon Ross Postdoctoral Fellowship. Brian N. Peng, a former undergraduate student (BS '12) at Caltech, also contributed to the study.
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Bob Casey Explains Gun Control Switch After Newtown Shooting
Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) explained his switch in position on gun control during a Monday morning appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," saying he thought about the Newton, Conn., shooting and realized it could have been even worse.
"When I watched more and learned more about how he killed his mother and the rage that he brought to that school ... I began to think of what could?ve happened, and not the reality but the potential," he said, according to The Hill. "He was not going to kill 20 children, but he was going try and kill several hundred and would have if he'd had the time and the capacity."
Casey announced in December that he would support gun control measures such as bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. It was a significant switch given his longtime opposition to gun control and high rating from the National Rifle Association. The change was prompted by the shooting of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, along with the shooter's mother, a massacre that has restarted long-dormant talks of further regulating guns.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced last week that he would introduce a bill to require universal background checks on gun purchases, along with several other measures. A ban on assault weapons was not included in the base bill but will be offered as an amendment.
Other Democrats -- including Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Reid -- also said their thinking on guns changed after the Newtown shooting.
Casey said he hopes other lawmakers are willing to consider supporting such measures.
"Elected official get in lanes, and on this issue you're either in one lane or the other, and there's really no middle ground even as you try to articulate a middle ground," he said on "Morning Joe." "I think that's where people are -- they just fall into their lanes and they vote the way they vote over time."
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Meteor lights up night sky over eastern United States
By Daniel Trotta
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A meteor bright enough to be classified as a fireball lit up the night sky over eastern North America on Friday, providing a spectacle witnessed in at least 13 states, Washington, D.C. and two Canadian provinces, the American Meteor Society said.
The society verified more than 300 witness sightings from Ontario and Quebec down to the southern U.S. state of North Carolina with more than 100 reports yet to be reviewed, said Mike Hankey, an observer for the American Meteor Society.
"This was most certainly a fireball seen over a good portion of the eastern states," said Robert Lunsford, the society's fireball coordinator.
"It happened at a good time, around 8 o'clock on a Friday night, when a lot of people were out to see it," Lunsford said.
The society describes a fireball as a meteor brighter than Venus and Lunsford said they can be brighter than the Sun, as was the case with the one that streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia on February 15.
Meteors are small particles from the solar system that burn from friction when entering the atmosphere.
Several thousand meteors of fireball magnitude occur each day, most of them unseen over the oceans or hidden by daylight, the society said on its website.
This one was seen up and down the East Coast and in inland states such as West Virginia and Ohio, the society said.
The fireball's likely trajectory showed it moving east from eastern Pennsylvania and across New Jersey, passing just south of New York City and then over the Atlantic Ocean, based on witness reports to the society.
"I originally thought the fireball was a low-flying plane," said one witness from West Chester, Pennsylvania, whose comments were logged by the society.
Many witnesses called it the brightest meteor they had ever seen. "I'm still in disbelief," said another from Boonsboro, Maryland.
(Editing by Todd Eastham)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/meteor-lights-night-sky-over-eastern-united-states-032115107.html
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UK police: Russian tycoon Berezovsky found dead
FILE - A Wednesday, July 18, 2007 photo from files showing Russian exile Boris Berezovsky, a close friend of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned by Polonium 2-10, speaking to the media in a news conference in London. United Kingdom police have said that Berezovsky has been found dead Saturday March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)
FILE - A Wednesday, July 18, 2007 photo from files showing Russian exile Boris Berezovsky, a close friend of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned by Polonium 2-10, speaking to the media in a news conference in London. United Kingdom police have said that Berezovsky has been found dead Saturday March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)
FILE - A Sunday, April 18, 1999 photo from files showing Boris Berezovsky as he arrives at Moscow's Sheremetiyevo-I international airport. United Kingdom police have said that Berezovsky has been found dead Saturday March 23, 2013.(AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)
FILE - A Monday, April 28, 2008 photo from files showing Boris Berezovsky as he arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice in London for his hearing against Roman Abramovich. United Kingdom police have said that Berezovsky has been found dead Saturday March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)
LONDON (AP) ? Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled and outspoken Russian tycoon who had a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead in southeast England on Saturday. He was 67.
In recent years, the one-time Kremlin powerbroker-turned-thorn in Putin's side fended off verbal and legal attacks in cases that often bore political undertones ? and bit into his fortune.
The cause of Berezovsky's death was not immediately clear, and Thames Valley police said it was being treated as "unexplained." The police would not directly identify him, but when asked about Berezovsky by name they read a statement saying they were investigating the death of a 67-year-old man at a property in Ascot, a town 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of London.
Lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky told Russian state TV that his client ? who had survived assassination attempts in the past ? lately had been in "a horrible, terrible" emotional state.
"All he had was debts," Dobrovinsky told Russian state TV. "He was practically destroyed. He was selling his paintings and other things."
A mathematician-turned-Mercedes dealer, Berezovsky amassed his wealth during Russia's chaotic privatization of state assets in the early 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union. In return for backing former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, he gained political clout and opportunities to buy state assets at knockdown prices, making a fortune in oil and automobiles.
He also played a key role in brokering the rise of Yeltsin's successor, Vladimir Putin, in 2000. But Berezovsky later fell out of favor with Putin, and eventually sought political asylum in the U.K. in the early 2000s to evade fraud charges he contended were politically motivated.
Berezovsky was one of several so-called Russian "oligarchs" to butt heads with Putin.
After coming into power, the Russian president effectively made a pact: the oligarchs could keep their money if they didn't challenge him politically. Those who refused often found themselves in dire circumstances. Some were imprisoned ? like the former Yukos Oil chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky ? while others, like Berezovsky, fled Russia.
The assets of these pariah businessmen, meanwhile, were acquired by state corporations or cooperative tycoons, often at bargain prices.
Over the years, Berezovsky accused Putin of leading Russia toward dictatorship and returning it to a Soviet-style system of state monopoly on the media.
In the U.K., Berezovsky allied himself with an array of other Kremlin critics. Among them was ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, who fled Russia with Berezovsky's help after accusing officials there of plotting to assassinate political opponents.
Litvinenko died on Nov. 26, 2006, after drinking tea laced with a lethal dose of the rare radioactive isotope polonium-210 in a London hotel. From his deathbed, Litvinenko accused the Kremlin of orchestrating his poisoning, and British police named former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi as the prime suspect.
Both Lugovoi and the Kremlin denied the accusations, with the former instead claiming that Berezovsky ? whom Russia repeatedly sought to extradite on a wide variety of criminal charges ? engineered Litvinenko's death as a way of embarrassing the Kremlin and buttressing his refugee status.
Berezovsky, who considered Litvinenko a close friend, consistently denied the allegations. In 2010, he won a libel case against Kremlin-owned broadcaster All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting, which aired a show in which it was suggested he was behind the former agent's poisoning.
Berezovsky, too, was the target of assassination attempts. In 1994, a car bomb injured him and killed his driver. He also said he briefly fled the U.K. in 2007 when British intelligence services told him his life was in danger.
"I was informed by Scotland Yard that there was a plot to kill me, and they recommended to me to leave the country," he told The Associated Press at the time. Scotland Yard later arrested a man on suspicion of conspiring to murder the tycoon.
More recently, Berezovsky has made headlines for costly legal battles that have dealt serious blows to his finances.
Last year, the Russian business magnate was ordered to pay 35 million pounds ($53.3 million) in legal costs to fellow Russian Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea Football Club, after losing a multimillion-dollar legal battle against him.
Berezovsky had claimed that Abramovich cheated him out of his stakes in the oil group Sibneft, arguing that he blackmailed him into selling the stakes vastly beneath their true worth after he lost Putin's good graces.
But a judge threw out the case in August, ruling that Berezovsky was a dishonest and unreliable witness, and rejected Berezovsky's claims that he was threatened by Putin and Alexander Voloshin, a Putin ally, to coerce him to sell his Sibneft stake.
It also recently emerged that Berezovsky ran up legal bills totaling more than 250,000 pounds in just two months of a case against his former partner, Elena Gorbunova, with whom he had two children and who claimed the businessman owed her millions.
Earlier this week, The Times of London newspaper reported that Berezovsky was selling property ? including an Andy Warhol portrait of the former Soviet Union leader Vladimir Lenin ? to settle his debts and pay expenses owed to lawyers.
The Russian president's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said in a telephone interview on state television that Berezovsky had sent a letter to Putin about two months ago asking to be allowed to return to Russia. In the letter, Berezovsky acknowledged having made many mistakes, Peskov said.
Peskov said he did not know how Putin reacted to news of the death.
"But you can say that information about the death of someone, no matter who he was, cannot elicit positive emotions," the spokesman said.
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AP writer Lynn Berry in Moscow contributed to this story.
Cassandra Vinograd can be reached at http://twitter.com/CassVinograd
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Marines release names of 3 killed in Quantico shooting
By Becky Bratu and Matthew DeLuca, NBC News
The Marine Corps Saturday released the names of the three Marines who died in a shooting Thursday night at a base in Quantico, Va.
"We send our prayers and condolences to the families, fellow Marines and friends of the Marines who were lost in this tragic incident," Col. David W. Maxwell, base commander, said in a statement. "Our priority is to take care of and support all of those who are affected by this loss."
A relationship dispute is believed to have been the cause of the shooting. Military officials said Friday that a Marine, identified on Saturday as Sgt. Eusebrio Lopez, opened fire on two of his comrades before shooting himself.
Lopez, 25, of Pacifica, Calif., was a tactics instructor at the school. He joined the Marine Corps in May 2006 and was promoted to his current rank in July 2011. Lopez had served in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lance Cpl. Sara Castromata, 19, of Oakley, Calif., served as a warehouse clerk. She joined the Marine Corps in December 2011, and was promoted to her current rank in February 2013.
Cpl. Jacob Wooley, 23, of Guntown, Miss., was a field radio operator. He joined the Marine Corps in February 2010 and was promoted to his current rank in July 2012. Wooley was ?loud and hilarious,? according to a classmate, and had thought about becoming a preacher, The Washington Post reported.
?All the young people loved him and thought of him as a fine person. I guess he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, is what it sounds like," his great-aunt, Jean Luker, told the Post.
The names of the victims were withheld for 24 hours following the notification of the last next of kin. The last relative was notified before 10 p.m. on Friday, base spokesman Lt. Agustin Solivan told NBC News in an email on Saturday.
The incident remains under investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
Military police and Prince William County, Va., sheriffs responded at about 10:30 p.m. local time on Thursday after reports that shots had been fired, Maxwell said at a press conference on Friday.
Responders found one victim dead on the scene, a Marine official said on Friday. Two more bodies were later found when authorities entered the barracks.
?This is a truly tragic loss again for the Marine Corps, which has had a number of tragic losses in the last couple of weeks,? Maxwell said.
A message on the base?s Facebook page cautioned residents to stay inside their homes with their doors locked as the situation developed on Thursday evening. An emergency alert system was also used to notify base personnel.
The base returned to normal operations at 2:30 a.m., Maxwell said on Friday.
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
From homeless to med school - The Orange County Register
He lived for part of his youth with his elderly grandmother in a shack behind a house. Ivy crept through the windows. There was no heating system. Mice flourished in the shack's chill.
And Friday, Peolia Kansas Fonsworth III (the most aristocratic name a poor kid has ever endured) participated in "Match Day," in which graduating medical students at UC Irvine found out which university hospitals had accepted them to begin their residencies.
PK Fonsworth grew up poor in the Philippines and Northern California with a loving, adoptive grandmother who took him in as a baby. "I'm your mother, I'm your father, I'm your everything," she told him. "The two of us were an island," Fonsworth said.
MINDY SCHAUER, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Fonsworth, now 31 and a brilliant student who will finish his educational career with degrees in molecular biology, Spanish literature, psychiatry and business, has dreamed about being a doctor since the days he and his grandmother couldn't afford groceries.
"Education was the mechanism for me to get out of poverty," he said.
Long ago, he set a goal for Match Day: He would be accepted at the Yale University Hospital. He would move to Connecticut. He would become an East Coast guy and get comfortable with the snow.
He has a Yale banner in his bedroom and a Yale magnet on his refrigerator. He wore a Yale wristband Friday as he walked to the podium and opened the envelope to learn where he was matched.
But what would life be, especially PK Fonsworth's life, if everything went as planned?
Let's just say snow is not in his immediate future.
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His grandmother wasn't really his grandmother. PK Fonsworth was born in San Fernando, Philippines in 1982. But his mother (too poor) and his father (a disinterested American soldier), couldn't care for him.
As an infant, Fonsworth was handed off to a neighbor, Ethel Watanabe, a Japanese woman in her 60s.
"She was the first person who threw me a lifeline," Fonsworth said. "She said, 'You're going to college, no matter what it takes.' She taught me about values and dreams."
Watanabe worked in a beauty salon and did seamstress work on the side. She earned enough to enroll Fonsworth in a private school. But Watanabe wanted more opportunity for her unofficially adopted son.
At 10, they move to Martinez, California, a suburban community in the East Bay near San Francisco. At 14, his birth father, Peolia Kansas Fonsworth II, became part of his life. The elder Fonsworth helped pay rent for his son and Watanabe in a nice apartment.
He was flourishing in school, showing a particular knack for biology.
Then, eight months after it started, his father's support ended. He now has very little contact with his father.
"I don't know why it stopped, but I know we couldn't afford rent or food," Fonsworth said.
In high school, Fonsworth got a job at a pizza parlor, then in a Walgreens photo department. He said he and Watanabe, then in her 70s, lived on his small income and her social security check.
"When I started high school, it was a question of survival."
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One rainy day, when their lives were at their lowest point, Fonsworth and Watanabe bought groceries at Safeway. At checkout, they asked that their paper shopping bags also be wrapped in plastic so they wouldn't be damaged by the rain.
Cashier Sandi Flocken Ashton watched them carry the bags to the bus stop. The next time they came in, she asked them if they needed a ride home.
"I took them home, and they lived in a shack," she said. "It was absolutely horrible. I couldn't believe it had ivy growing through the windows."
Before long, Flocken Ashton was buying their groceries. She was at the Match Day ceremony last week.
"His life could have gone either way," she said. "I attribute it all to his grandmother. I am so proud of PK. He calls me faithfully. He never forgets to tell me, "I love you, Sandi.'"
As a senior in high school, he found out he would be receiving a scholarship ? from the IDEAL Scholars Fund, given by the Level Playing Field Institute which was founded by his friend Freada Kapor Klein ? to the University of California at Berkeley. Klein was also at the Match Day ceremony last week.
"While many people graduate from top medical schools and pursue prestigious residencies, painfully few have PK's lived experience," Klein said. "The barriers he faced are numerous and range from significant visible hardship to subtle unseen barriers ... From the day I met PK as a high school senior he has had a five-year plan. While a few details have been modified, he has kept his eye on the prize and pursued his dream.
"It's been an honor and a privilege to know and support PK all these years. The world is a richer place for having PK in it."
Before he got to Berkeley, Ethel Watanabe died of cancer.
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"She was my mother, my father, my everything," Fonsworth said. "I will always remember my grandmother's mantra: Opportunity is education."
He set out to cure cancer. But his educational career took twists and turns along the way. He graduated from Berkeley with honors. Then he came to Orange County for UCI's Prime LC program (medical school focusing on the Latino community).
He has settled on psychiatry. He wants to help impoverished communities.
"At UCI, converting to mental health was a slow seduction," Fonsworth said. "I always admired people who worked with the brain and the mind. Psychiatry can bring marginalized people back into society."
For so long, he felt marginalized.
One of these days, when his schooling is over, he wants to open a network of mental health centers to serve the poor.
"I know there are incredible challenges ... in the under served community," Fonsworth said.
Challenges are what make him tick.
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He won't be meeting those challenges at Yale.
If you haven't seen the Match Day ceremonies at UCI, you have missed screaming, crying, fist-pumping drama in front of about 500 friends, relatives and professors. One by one, 99 students walked to the podium and opened letters that would reveal their future. Some went to the University of Hawaii. Some went to the University of Toronto. They cheered when they were accepted by hospitals at Stanford or USC.
Fonsworth sat coolly behind his aviator sunglasses awaiting his name to be called. He knew he would be going to some prestigious mental health center in the United States. He had 12 choices. Yale and Harvard were his No. s 1 and 2 choices.
Finally, he walked to the podium, took off his glasses and opened the letter.
"Harbor UCLA," he read, prompting a wild cheer from the crowd. They didn't know Harbor UCLA, which is up the 405 Freeway in Torrance, was his fourth choice.
"I'm going to be local," he said. "It's a win. Harbor UCLA serves some of the most under served communities in Southern California."
He immediately put a good spin on his placement.
"Now it's sunny Southern California until the end of my days," he said.
Contact the writer: ksharon@ocregister.com or 714 796 7898
Source: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/fonsworth-500866-school-day.html
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Cerulean Pharma Inc Fails Phase 2b Lung Cancer
3/22/2013 7:51:01 AM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cerulean Pharma Inc. today announced that a randomized Phase 2b study of its experimental cancer treatment, CRLX101, in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) did not meet its primary efficacy endpoint, overall survival benefit. Consistent with earlier clinical trials, CRLX101 showed signals of activity, including tumor reductions that meet RECIST criteria, and a favorable safety profile. CRLX101 is being studied in four other ongoing clinical trials.
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"Late-stage lung cancer is a very difficult disease to treat, and we are disappointed that we did not achieve our ambitious goal of improving survival for patients who have limited treatment options," said Oliver Fetzer, Ph.D., Cerulean President and CEO. "However, we are excited about the ongoing monotherapy and combination therapy clinical studies of CRLX101, and we look forward to the results of these studies."
CRLX101 is being studied in clinical trials in renal cell carcinoma in combination with Avastin?, and as a monotherapy in ovarian cancer, gastric cancer, and small cell lung cancer at leading U.S. academic institutions. Combination data with Avastin will be presented at the American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting in April.
Patients in the Phase 2b NSCLC trial had measureable disease, previously progressed through one or two different regimens of chemotherapy, and had evidence of disease progression prior to enrollment. The study enrolled 157 patients in Russia and Ukraine who were randomized in a two-to-one ratio to two treatment arms, CRLX101 plus Best Supportive Care (BSC) compared to BSC alone. The trial's primary endpoints were (i) median overall survival and (ii) safety and tolerability. Study participants were additionally assessed for progression-free survival, objective tumor response, and pharmacokinetic parameters. The company will analyze the data from this trial to inform the further clinical development of CRLX101.
Cerulean would like to extend its thanks to the patients and investigators who participated in this trial and the families of the patients.
About CRLX101
CRLX101 is an investigational anti-cancer treatment that is a dual inhibitor of topoisomerase 1 and hypoxia-inducible factor-1. CRLX101 is a dynamically tumor-targeted nanopharmaceutical designed to concentrate in tumors and release its payload, camptothecin, over an extended period of time, prolonging drug exposure at the site of action. Significant anti-tumor activity has been observed across a wide range of cancers in animal models and in a Phase 1/2a clinical trial. CRLX101 is currently in Phase 2 clinical development. More information on CRLX101 clinical studies can be found at www.clinicaltrials.gov.
About Cerulean Pharma Inc.
Cerulean Pharma Inc. is a clinical-stage company specializing in the development of dynamically tumor-targeted nanopharmaceuticals. Cerulean is applying its proprietary nanopharmaceutical platform to advance a new class of therapeutic agents to address significant unmet medical needs. With an initial focus in oncology, the Company's technology platform can be applied to a wide range of drug molecules, ranging from small molecules to peptides and RNAs. Cerulean is privately financed and funded by experienced healthcare investors, including Polaris Partners, Venrock, Lilly Ventures, Lux Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and CVF, LLC. Cerulean is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit the Company's website at http://www.ceruleanrx.com.
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Jawbone Up fitness band gets an Android app, wider availability outside the US
Well, this took long enough, don'tcha think? Ever since the original Jawbone Up fitness tracker came out, we've been saying it needs an Android app so you can use it with more than just an iDevice. Heck, even when the redesigned second-gen version went on sale last year, it was still for iOS only. Finally, though, that Android app is here, and it's ready to download in the Google Play store.
Like the iOS version it's free, and can be used to log daily meals, as well as view pretty charts illustrating your various sleep and activity patterns. You'll also notice some strong similarities in the UI, though the iOS version has a few features the Android software doesn't have yet, such as the ability to share things on Twitter and Facebook. The band, too, is the same as ever, which means you can use it with a mix of iOS and Android devices, if you so choose. Finally, there's one last (very big) group of people who will be getting to try the Up for the first time: the wristband is now for sale in Europe, with Asia, Australia and the Middle East to follow next month.
Update: The second-generation Up is now available in the UK priced at £99 -- you'll be able to grab one at Apple and Carphone Warehouse stores, alongside Jawbone's own site.
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How to Use Feng Shui to Get Laid | Care2 Healthy Living
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Even if you?re having adventurous sex all over the place, bedrooms are still where the magic happens the majority of the time. Does yours have a let?s-get-it-on vibe? Here?s how to use feng shui?the ancient Chinese art of creating spaces that foster harmony, health and good fortune?to turn a drab bedroom into a sexy slumber party for two.
- Clear it out. Clutter is a mood killer. Try to keep your bedroom as clean as possible, so you can easily use every surface for your pleasure.
- Decorate to captivate. Scrap the cutesy kitten posters and surround yourself with grown up images that are sensual or ones that make you feel passionate.
- Put color to work. Red, pink, peach, and white are believed to open your heart. Go for colors that add warmth; they can enhance sexual energy. If you can?t paint your walls, try painting your headboard. Even colored candles will do.
- Select furnishings that feel good. A comfy, delicious bed. Silky sheets. Soft pillows. Try to surround yourself with things that are delightful to touch. This can encourage touching of other things, if you know what we mean.
They say this stuff can be pretty potent, so don?t forget: Once you sexify your love nest, please make sure your birth control can handle it.
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