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Friday, 31 May 2013
Exide plant workers and Vernon-area residents square off at meeting
Frightened residents and worried workers squared off Thursday in an emotional public meeting about the potential health risks posed by a battery recycler in Vernon accused of releasing dangerous levels of lead and airborne arsenic.
The state Department of Toxic Substances Control suspended operations at Exide Technologies last month after The Times published articles about its arsenic emissions. The South Coast Air Quality Management District said the plant posed an elevated cancer risk to as many as 110,000 people. In addition, state toxics officials said Exide had continually released hazardous waste into the soil beneath its plant because of a degraded pipeline.
But at a meeting in nearby Huntington Park, dozens of the more than 100 Exide workers laid off when the operation was shut down defended the plant's safety record and urged regulators to allow it to reopen. "Stop trying to destroy our family," one worker's wife, Sandra Gutierrez, told the crowd. "Let's stop trying to blame everything on Exide."
Area residents, some in tears, begged regulators to do more to protect them from pollution, which they worried was leading to cancer, asthma and unexplained health problems.
"The children in this community ? are suffering many illnesses," Ana Haney told the crowd in Spanish as Exide officials and air district regulators looked on.
The company, one of the world's largest makers and recyclers of lead-acid batteries, has run afoul of regulators around the country. It has closed or suspended operations at three U.S. recycling plants in the last year, including the one in Vernon, in the face of public and political pressure.
The Georgia-based firm, which operates in more than 80 countries and had net sales of $3.1 billion last year, continues to recycle batteries in Missouri and Indiana and manufactures batteries in seven states.
The meeting in the Huntington Park Community Center was the first of several required by the air district because a recent assessment showed an elevated cancer risk to people living in nearby communities, including Maywood, Boyle Heights and Commerce.
Exide's arsenic emissions were estimated to create a risk of about 156 cancer cases per million people among nearby workers over decades of exposure. For residents farther away in Boyle Heights, the risk was estimated at about 22 per million. Under district regulations, the public must be warned when risk from a facility reaches 10 per million.
John Hogarth, the plant manager at the Vernon operation, said officials plan to "fully comply" with air district mandates to reduce arsenic emissions, and have already cut them substantially.
He said the company is "committed to the environment."
Exide is fighting the temporary suspension order issued by the state toxics department. A hearing on that matter is set for June 3-5 before an administrative law judge in Los Angeles.
jessica.garrison@latimes.com
Source: http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/LoiS-KvIkl0/la-me-exide-20130531,0,7355931.story
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Motorola Is Making a Flagship Android Phone Called the Moto X
Motorola, a company trying to figure out why it still exists, is apparently making a flagship Android phone called the Moto X. Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside confirmed it in his interview at the D11 conference. Could the Moto X be the mysterious Motorola Google lovechild phone
Motorola has been very quiet on the phone front (both in what it will do and how its phones have been received) but this Moto X will be the next phone it makes. And it'll be a good one (well, according to Moto). Woodside said:
?We have a hero device that?s coming out that?s going to be called Moto X?
Surprisingly, the phone will be built in the US in a plant outside Fort Worth, Texas. Some of its components are even from the US. That's no small feat.
Woodside detailed a unique feature of the Moto X will be that it's "contextually aware" meaning that the phone will know when it's inside a pocket and when it's taken out, when it's inside a car and so forth. Ideally, it'd know what you want to do before you do it.
The Moto X will be the hero phone of a "handful" of Motorola phones that will launch by October. Woodside actually had a Moto X in his pocket during his interview but did not reveal it to the public (I guess the phone knew to stay quiet). [AllThingsD]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/motorola-is-making-a-flagship-android-phone-called-the-510381215
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ALEX SCHADENBERG, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Hospital ...
The first part of the article is a synthesis of the study, while the second part of the article is my commentary about the findings in the study.
By Alex Schdenberg, International Chair of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.
A study entitled: Parental Perceptions of Forgoing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration (FANH) During End-of-Life Care was published in the Journal Pediatrics in its May 5, 2013 edition concerning the reactions of parents to the experience of withdrawing nutrition and hydration (FANH) from a child who was dying or experiencing a low quality of life at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
The study is based on independent interviews with parents after the child died.
The study sought input from twelve families of children who died after FANH. Three families were not interested in participating in the study and three families could not be reached. A total of eleven parents from six families participated in the study. One family had two children who died after FANH. Six children died after ANH was withdrawn, while one child died after
Two of the children died before the third month of life, two of the children died after the third month but before the sixth month of life and 3 children died at age 14 or 15.
Participation in the study was based on parents who were 18 years or older, who lived within 125 miles of the hospital and were fluent in English.
The study first defined the practice of FANH.?
ANH is defined by the Hospital for Sick Children as a life-sustaining treatment that is provided by naso gastric, or gastric tubes. ANH is provided when children cannot meet their dietary requirements or when it becomes unsafe to do so.
?Although ANH may support biological existence and increase weight, there is no evidence that it improves survival or quality of life in dying children or adults. ANH carries significant risks and potential complications.?
The study states:?
?Providing ANH at the end of life (EOL) is a medical intervention that may be withheld or withdrawn depending on the balance of risk and benefits. Forgoing ANH (FANH) may be considered in the presence of neurologic devastation, irreversible total intestinal failure, and proximate death from any pathological cause. Although denying oral sustenance to children who want to eat or drink (and can do so safely) is ethically and legally wrong, when the potential or actual burdens are believed to outweigh the benefits the option to FANH either completely or by providing small amounts of ?comfort feedings? insufficient to sustain life, may be a legitimate method of palliation.?
While many factors for FANH were considered the study found that the primary factor for FANH was the perceived poor quality of life QoL. Pain and suffering was a contributing factor in all but one child, the daughter of the family whose son had already died of the same condition, were motivated by a concern for her future suffering.
All of the parents stated that they found it helpful when professionals shared their past experiences with FANH as well as the evidence from adult medical literature. The parents needed reassurance and continued guidance after the FANH decision was made.
All parents felt that the quality of death was good. Some parents had worried about how death might unfold, and some were disturbed by their child?s changes in appearance as death approached:?
?we just saw him starting to waste away and that was the hard part.?
Some parents felt guilty about their decision and most found it emotionally difficult to watch their child die.
The parents generally believed that their child?s death was peaceful and comfortable. Many of the parents believed that their child?s comfort increased after FANH based on previous problems with feeding.
Some parents were not confident that their child?s comfort increased after FANH, but there was no indication that the child?s suffering increased. Parental doubts about quality of death may reflect their own suffering from watching their child die.
Study recommendations:
- Physicians should take responsibility for introducing FANH to families who perceive their child to have a poor quality of life.
- The focus of feeding should be comfort and not nourishment.
- Physicians should assure parents that under certain EOL conditions, FANH is medically, legally and ethically acceptable and it is not a form of euthanasia.
- Health care providers should share their knowledge and experience with parents.
- Health care providers should assume that parents will worry about hunger, starvation and dehydration after FANH. Clinicians must emphasize that feelings of hunger and starvation do not usually occur and good oral hygiene will avoid problems with dehydration.
- Parents will continue to doubt. Clinicians should guide and reassure the parents.
- Parents should be offered opportunities to create a legacy.
- Parents indicated that the multidisciplinary team needs to speak with one voice. The opinions of dissenting team members must be respected however they should not be shared with the family to avoid feelings of being judged.
- Opportunities should be made for staff to voice their objection with the family being present.?
Conclusion:
FANH is considered a legitimate form of palliation at the end of life (EOL). This is the first study to use interviews to describe the perception of parents whose children died after FANH. FANH was largely determined by the perception of their child?s poor quality of life and related to negative effects of feeding. Parents must decide in FANH is right for their child and reassurance is required by a united medical team. Persistent doubts are common requiring ongoing support form the medical team after FANH.
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The study?Parental Perceptions of Forgoing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration (FANH) During End-of-Life Care does not?help parents and health care providers decide when it is appropriate to withdraw or withhold ANH from a child or newborn.?
This study fails to make ethical distinctions between a FANH decision that allows natural death to occur because the child is actually dying and a FANH decision that causes death.?
The study acknowledges the difference between allowing natural death to occur and causing death when it states in the beginning:
"Providing ANH at the end of life (EOL) is a medical intervention that may be withheld or withdrawn depending on the balance of risks and benefits. Forgoing ANH (FANH) may be considered in the presence of neurologic devastation, irreversible total intestinal failure, and proximate death from any pathologic cause."
I can agree with most of the previous statement, but the findings in the study indicate that the Hospital for Sick Children have gone beyond these parameters and the recommendations from the study expands the parameters for FANH.
My concerns:
1. FANH is ethically the same as euthanasia when ANH is withheld or withdrawn from a person who is not otherwise dying, with the intention of causing death. Legally, FANH is not considered euthanasia, even when the decision intentionally?denies the basic necessaries of life from a person who is not otherwise dying.?
2. People with disabilities experience significant discrimination and perceptions of cultural bias on a regular basis. Allowing physicians to introduce FANH to families will only perpetuate further discrimination to their existence.
3. FANH decisions should not be primarily based on Quality of Life (QoL). People with disabilities, who at times require ANH, have experienced a long history of discrimination. Perceptions of Cultural bias are often held by care-givers and families. A person with a disability may need to be protected rather than dying by FANH.?
4. The focus of feeding should be both comfort and nourishment. To deny a person with disabilities feeding for nourishment is the sign of systemic discrimination and cultural bias.?
5. It is normal for parents to doubt a FANH decision and re-assuring the parents, when it may be the wrong decision, creates social pressure rather than moral clarity.?
6. The multi-disciplinary team should not be encouraged to speak as one voice, if the FANH decision is wrong. It is not possible to protect vulnerable people when the system pressures dissenting voices to be silent.
Conclusion:
The study lacks objectivity:
1. It assumes that the FANH decisions that were made were ethically acceptable. The study ends up promoting FANH rather than providing guidelines for FANH.?
2. The study does not ask the question, why have three families refused to take part in the study? Was it because their experience with FANH was negative?
This study?creates significant concerns related to the care of children with disabilities at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Negative perceptions of disability are highlighted by a willingness to dehydrate to death children with disabilities who may or may not be dying primarily based on Quality of Life.
Children with disabilities need to be provided a peer advocate (a person with a positive attitude towards disability) to protect their lives from medical care decisions that are not in the best interest of a person with a disability or that will result in their intentional death.
Links to previous articles:
Source: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2013/05/hospital-for-sick-children-in-toronto.html
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Struggling in Business Ethics class - School and College Life
I?m really having some issues with my business ethics class. I?m sure it?s directly related to my Aspergers because it?s a subjective topic and I?m a black and white thinker. I do well at math, computers and science not subjects like law, humanities, literature, etc. I don?t know what would help me do better in subjects like this or if I should say anything to the instructor. First, I do not have an official diagnosis and, second, I don?t want to just be coping out, blaming my ?disability?. That said, I think this is much harder for me to study than the average student.
I studied hard for yesterday?s exam and most of the questions were based (loosely) on the ideas in the assigned reading rather than directly relating to the reading. Forest vs trees, I suppose. I was studying definitions and laws and she gave us scenarios and ?What do you think this person meant when they said ?[insert quote]??? I have a very hard time understanding peoples thoughts, motives, and rationalizations so I have difficulty answering questions like this. Even if I explained my issue to the instructor I?m not sure how she could help me. I know she gives a dyslexic classmate extra time on exams but I really don?t think extra time on an exam would help me understand how NTs think.
Has anyone had this struggle? Did you find anything that helped? Should I say anything or just slog it out and hope I pass?
Source: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt232020.html
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Video: Memorial Day produces two NFL arrests
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Thursday, 30 May 2013
Trip to Mars would likely exceed radiation limits for astronauts
By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Radiation levels measured by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover show astronauts likely would exceed current U.S. exposure limits during a roundtrip mission to Mars, scientists said on Thursday.
The rover landed on Mars in August to search for habitats that could have supported past microbial life.
Results taken during Curiosity's eight-month cruise to Mars indicate that astronauts would receive a radiation dose of about 660 millisieverts during a 360-day roundtrip flight, the fastest travel possible with today's chemical rockets. That dosage does not include any time spent on the planet's surface. A millisievert is a measurement of radiation exposure.
NASA limits astronauts' increased cancer risk to 3 percent, which translates to a cumulative radiation dose of between about 800 millisieverts and 1,200 millisieverts, depending on a person's age, gender and other factors.
"Even for the shortest of (Mars) missions, we are perilously close to the radiation career and health limits that we've established for our astronauts," NASA's chief medical officer Richard Williams told a National Academy of Sciences' medical committee on Thursday.
An astronaut living for six months on the International Space Station, which flies about 250 miles above Earth, receives a dosage of about 100 millisieverts.
An abdominal X-ray scan generates about 10 millisieverts.
At NASA's request, the Institute of Medicine panel is looking into ethics and health standards for long-duration spaceflights.
"We're looking at that 3 percent standard and its applicability for exploration-type missions," added NASA's Edward Semones, spaceflight radiation health officer at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, during a conference call later with reporters.
"The snapshot today is that we would exceed our limit," Semones said.
NASA also is looking into alternative propulsion technologies to speed up the trip to Mars and different types of spacecraft shielding.
Information from Curiosity about how much and what type of radiation astronauts can expect on the Martian surface is due to be released later this year.
The research was published in this week's edition of the journal Science.
(Editing by Kevin Gray and Lisa Shumaker)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/trip-mars-likely-exceed-radiation-limits-astronauts-000023588.html
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Put A Nyan Cat (Or Any Other GIF) in Your Bike Spokes
Reflective clothing, flashing tails, and and a bright headlight are essential to riding your bike safely at night. Similarly, a pair of GIF-flashing Monkey Light Pros are essential to riding your bike at night?like a boss.
This currently-Kickstartered production utilizes a quartet of LED-impregnated bars that fit along the the spokes inside of your wheel. As the wheel spins, the bars rotate and generate the 256-color animated GIFs by exploiting the persistence of vision effect. This system also ingeniously incorporates a 2-axis accelerometer and four magnetic sensors to track rotational speed and direction, keeping your GIFs moving in the right direction in time with your pedaling (10 - 40 MPH).
Each unit weighs just 500 grams and fits on a 26 to 29 inch rim using the standard 32 or 36 spoke pattern. The system can load up to 1000 frames in a variety of media formats (JPG, GIF, PNG, AVI, MPEG, MOV, QT, FLV) onto a web-based playlist for display. Users can also download the Mac/Linux API to create custom light shows though the system comes preloaded with 10 animations. The integrated 7000mAh Li-ion battery supplies 3 - 8 hours of power at full brightness (up to 48 hours on lower settings).
The Kickstarter fund is $98k to its $180k goal with 54 days left. You can currently pick up a single light system with a $700 and a pair for $1400. They'll retail for $895 a pop if and when the program funds. [Kickstarter via Obvious Win]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/put-a-nyan-cat-in-your-bike-spokes-510156358
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OTR App Is Like Snapchat For Co-Workers - Business Insider
O.T.R.
O.T.R. lets you send private messages with coworkers
Here's a new app that wants to do for coworkers what Snapchat did for sexting.It's called O.T.R., which stands for Off The Record, and it lets you send private photos and messages to your coworkers.
The app lets you view the message or picture for a few seconds and then deletes it.
One big difference with O.T.R. versus Snapchat is that O.T.R. is not a mobile app. It's currently available as a browser add-on for Google Chrome, with IE and Firefox extensions coming soon and an app for Yammer. The idea is that most people are still using PCs while at work, not their smartphones.
The app was created last year at the TechCrunch Hackathon by the team from Lamplighter Games, a three-person New York startup best known for the iPad game Trivia Party.
The hack won a top prize from Yammer and now the app is available to everyone.
You can download it for your Chrome Browser here.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/otr-app-is-like-snapchat-for-co-workers-2013-5
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Home prices accelerate by most in seven years
By Leah Schnurr
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home prices accelerated by the most in nearly seven years in March as the spring buying season gave the sector traction, while surging consumer confidence pointed to some resilience for the economic recovery.
The data on Tuesday also suggested the two segments could act as buffers as the broader economy faces the pinch of belt-tightening in Washington.
The S&P/Case Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas climbed 10.9 percent year over year, beating expectations for 10.2 percent. This was the biggest increase since April 2006, just before prices peaked in the summer of that year.
Prices in the 20 cities gained 1.1 percent in March compared to the month before on a seasonally adjusted basis, topping economists' forecasts for a 1 percent rise.
The housing market turned a corner in 2012, several years after its far-reaching collapse. The recovery has picked up since as inventory has tightened, foreclosures eased and historically low mortgage rates have attracted buyers.
A Reuters poll showed the recovery in the housing market likely has momentum through the rest of the year, with economists ratcheting up their forecasts for price gains in 2013.
Separate data showed consumer confidence picked up in May to its highest in more than five years in the midst of a stock market rally and lower gasoline prices.
Housing and the consumer have shown strength even as there have been hints that tighter fiscal policy is starting to bite in the broader economy. Across-the-board U.S. government spending cuts of $85 billion went into effect in March, while the payroll tax holiday expired at the beginning of the year, raising taxes for many Americans.
The data suggested both areas were performing better than the overall economy, said Sam Bullard, senior economist at Wells Fargo in Charlotte, North Carolina.
"There are some individual circumstances that are helping to propel both of these a little bit stronger than what the actual underlying strength would suggest," said Bullard, pointing to the effect of higher stock prices on consumers, and investor demand for homes in beaten-down regions lifting prices.
Economists expect the pace of growth likely cooled in the second quarter, partly due to tighter fiscal policy, but the second half of the year is seen regaining traction. Investor attention has turned to when the Federal Reserve might start to slow its economic stimulus efforts.
The data lent support to equities where Wall Street rose after comments from central banks around the world reassured investors supportive monetary policies would remain in place. U.S. Treasuries yields rose to their highest levels in over a year.
Housing-related shares rose following the Case-Shiller report before giving up some gains in the afternoon, with the S&P homebuilders ETF up 0.4 percent. The ETF is up nearly 20 percent for the year, outpacing the more than 16 percent surge seen in the benchmark S&P 500 index.
Home prices in Phoenix continued their sharp ascent, rising 22.5 percent from a year earlier. Other standouts included San Francisco, up 22.2 percent, and hard-hit Las Vegas, up 20.6 percent.
Fitch Ratings on Tuesday said the recent home price gains seen in several markets are outpacing improvements in the underlying fundamentals and could stall or even reverse. Many of these areas are in California, Fitch said, citing Los Angeles as an example.
Los Angeles prices rose 16.6 percent from a year ago, the Case-Shiller report said.
For the first quarter of this year, the seasonally adjusted national index rose 3.9 percent, stronger than the 2.4 percent gain seen in the final quarter of last year.
"Low inventories and gradually improving housing demand have combined to push housing starts higher and support home price appreciation," said Michael Gapen, an economist at Barclays in New York.
"We see these factors as remaining in place and expect residential investment to add to GDP growth in the coming quarters. We also expect rising real estate wealth to support household balance sheets and underpin consumption, helping the broader economy to offset a substantial fiscal drag in 2013."
The Conference Board, an industry group, said its index of consumer attitudes jumped to 76.2 from an upwardly revised 69 in April, topping economists' expectations for 71. It was the best level since February 2008.
In a sign of confidence among high-end consumers, jeweler Tiffany & Co reported better-than-expected sales for the first quarter.
Consumer activity accounts for about two-thirds of the economy and while improved sentiment does not necessarily translate into more spending, the improvement was encouraging.
Still, even with the gain in confidence in May, second-quarter consumption growth is likely to have slowed to a 2.5 percent annualized pace from 3.2 percent in the first quarter, according to Capital Economics.
The expectations index rose to 82.4 from 74.3, while the present situation index climbed to 66.7 from 61.
Consumers' assessment of the labor market improved. The "jobs hard to get" index slipped to 36.1 percent from 36.9 percent the month before, while the "jobs plentiful" index gained to 10.8 percent from 9.7 percent.
(Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/march-home-prices-see-best-annual-rise-seven-130441930.html
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Medical pot laws & treats may send more kids to ER
CHICAGO (AP) ? Increased use of medical marijuana may lead to more young children getting sick from accidentally eating food made with the drug, a Colorado study suggests.
Medical marijuana items include yummy-looking gummy candies, cookies and other treats that may entice young children. Fourteen children were treated at Colorado Children's Hospital in the two years after a 2009 federal policy change led to a surge in medical marijuana use, the study found. That's when federal authorities said they would not prosecute legal users.
Study cases were mostly mild, but parents should know about potential risks and keep the products out of reach, said lead author Dr. George Sam Wang, an emergency room physician at the hospital.
Unusual drowsiness and unsteady walking were among the symptoms. One child, a 5-year-old boy, had trouble breathing. Eight children were hospitalized, two in the intensive care unit, though all recovered within a few days, Wang said. By contrast, in four years preceding the policy change, the Denver-area hospital had no such cases.
Some children came in laughing, glassy-eyed or "acting a little goofy and 'off,'" Wang said. Many had eaten medical marijuana food items, although nonmedical marijuana was involved in at least three cases. The children were younger than 12 and included an 8-month-old boy.
The study was released Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.
Eighteen states and Washington, D.C., allow medical marijuana, though it remains illegal under federal law. Colorado's law dates to 2000 but the study notes that use there soared after the 2009 policy change on prosecution. Last year, Colorado and Washington state legalized adult possession of small amounts of nonmedical marijuana.
Some states, including Colorado, allow medical marijuana use by sick kids, with parents' supervision.
In a journal editorial, two Seattle poisoning specialists say that at least seven more states are considering legalizing medical marijuana and that laws that expand marijuana use likely will lead to more children sickened.
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Science-Based Medicine ? ?Alternative Medicine: Sense and ...
For those of you in the NYC/LI area:??An Invitation from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for a Free Public Lecture!
Please join us for the 2013 Lorraine Grace lectureship on societal issues of biomedical research:
Alternative Medicine: Sense and Nonsense
Saturday, June 8, 2013
3:00pm
Grace Auditorium
One Bungtown Road
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
Americans love alternative medicine, and they are paying a high price for that devotion. From regular visits to acupuncturists, chiropractors and naturopaths to the daily ingesting of homeopathic remedies, Chinese herbs, and megavitamins, the use of alternative therapies has become a $34 billion-a-year business. Fifty percent of Americans use some form of alternative medicine, with ten percent using it on their children. Celebrities routinely hawk their benefits. But, does any of it really work?
In the upcoming lecture, Alternative Medicine: Sense and Nonsense, Dr. Paul A. Offit will take a critical look at the field of alternative medicine and separate fact from myth. Drawing on current research he will examine popular alternative therapies and discuss the issues of medical ethics involved in alternative medicine, which is a largely unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks.
?Making decisions about our health is an awesome responsibility,? writes Dr. Offit. ?If we?re going to do it, we need to take it seriously. Otherwise we will violate the most basic principle of medicine: first do no harm.?
Come join us for a lively discussion!
The recipients of many awards and honors, Paul A. Offit, M.D. is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children?s Hospital of Philadelphia, as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, The Colbert Report, CNN, 60 Minutes, MSNBC, Dateline NBC, the Jim Lehrer NewsHour, CSPAN, FOX News, and National Public Radio, and is often interviewed in the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and USA TODAY.
NOTE: In June,??Dr. Offit?s book,?Do?You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine?will be released by Harper Collins.? Our own Dr. Harriet Hall has a review in an upcoming issue of Skeptical Inquirer.
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Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Why the Washington Redskins Shouldn't Even Consider Changing Their 2013 Offense
The pistol and the read-option injected a new dynamic into the NFL last season, and the Washington Redskins were at the forefront of this. Even with Robert Griffin III's injury, it makes no sense for the Redskins to abandon its concepts.
When Griffin's knee buckled under him in the playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks, questions were raised about the QB?s ability to stay healthy within Mike and Kyle Shanahan?s scheme.
These were the same questions raised before the 2012-13 season began, and they are no more relevant now than they were then.
Obviously, Griffin?s health is the most important aspect of this conversation. If he isn?t healthy, he shouldn?t play. No more sideline insistence that he should be put back in the game or underplaying the seriousness of his injuries. Choosing to get out of bounds or slide earlier is also paramount.
Yet, crucially, these things also have nothing to do with the offensive scheme. They are decisions only Griffin can make. The read-option, too, grants the quarterback the responsibility of making the final call.
Griffin?s decision-making was widely praised over the course of 2012. Of course his initial instinct is to try and make a play; it?s part of who he is as a quarterback, and his speed allows him that option. Again, these are choices he alone can make.
When Griffin sent a text message to ESPN?s Trey Wingo, he cryptically stated that ?I know where my responsibility is within the dilemma that led to me having surgery to repair my knee and all parties involved know their responsibilities as well.?
While his choice of words was no doubt informed by various legal constraints, it left room for others to make assumptions regarding the distribution of blame. Griffin admits fault, but ?all parties involved? allows for idle speculation, which is of course part of the offseason merry-go-round.
Could he have been making a veiled dig at his coaches for exposing him to too many hits? Maybe he blames them for allowing him back into the Seahawks game, or even for letting him have any part of that contest? These were the underlying themes of anything written on the subject, but they are ultimately redundant.
Should the Redskins change their offense to protect Griffin?
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Yes, he needs to throw more
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No, he just needs to protect himself better
Should the Redskins change their offense to protect Griffin?
It didn?t help that the text message was sent to Wingo in March, which was then followed by a period of silence which really stretched through to organized team activities and Griffin addressing the media then.
Nothing fuels conjecture like a statement with no response, so there has been plenty of time for articles demanding a change to the Redskins offense, or that the relationship between player and coach has soured.
Jason Reid wrote for The Washington Post that ?we know changes are likely because Griffin is tired of being banged around like a pinata in the spectacularly successful?but highly risky?college option-style offense primarily responsible for Washington winning its second NFC East title in the past 21 years.?
Reid refers to the Wingo text message for his evidence, but these assumptions are damaging to the Redskins and instead serve only to fan flames in the offseason.
Everything comes back to the injuries sustained over the course of the season. All occurred as a result of scrambles or rollouts and all could have been prevented had Griffin been more safety-oriented.
Broken plays are inherently dangerous?quarterbacks know that better than anyone.
Designed runs, however, gained nothing but positive yards. Yes, the play where Griffin lined up at wide receiver against the Pittsburgh Steelers was borderline idiotic?even more so after he took a big hit from Ryan Clark?but the sheer variety of options available to the Redskins actually protects the quarterback.
Removing the designed runs entirely would weaken the attack, both on the ground and through the air. It makes it predictable and gives Griffin less time to throw. Pocket-passers tear ACLs too?just ask Tom Brady.
The threat of Griffin making a play with his feet grants Washington breathing room. Those running plays don?t even have to be called very often; knowing they exist will be enough to keep defenses honest.
That?s not to say that there haven?t been discussions about the best way to proceed. Addressing the media at OTAs, Griffin stated,?via NFL.com,?that ?the only thing that needed to be repaired was my knee. Me and Mike?hashed everything out, we talked. We're moving forward from it. We're on the same page."
Again, the initial impulse is to assume that Griffin was the instigator of this conversation; that he wanted better protection in order to prolong his career. However, there?s no reason why Shanahan couldn?t have been the one to call him in and demand Griffin take steps to slide and get out of bounds.
Shanahan admitted to The?Washington Post that the offense was ?going to try to protect Robert as much as we can,? but specifics were not forthcoming. And nor should they be.
Despite having more film on the team, opposing defenses at the end of the season still struggled to contain the Redskins. Shanahan revealing his offensive plans just to placate reporters at OTAs would have been a ridiculous thing to do.
The pistol and read-option could burn out in a couple of years and leave Griffin no choice but to become a pure pocket-passer. He has the talent, intelligence and arm to do so.
However, it?s not going away just yet. The addition of players to the league like E.J. Manuel and Geno Smith means there could be more of it this year, not less.
Griffin?s competitive nature means that he can be his own worst enemy when scrambling. That extra yard is always on his mind, but he has to be more realistic. Sacrificing a first down to avoid a career-ending injury is absolutely fine.
Should Griffin have been taken out of the Seahawks game? Of course. It was short-sighted and selfish to leave him in.
Should the Redskins abandon a successful offensive scheme that had precisely zero contribution to Griffin?s injuries, solely based on some dissenting voices in the media?
No chance.
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Elsevier launches new open access journal: Translational Proteomics
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Geneva, Switzerland, May 27, 2013 - Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of Translational Proteomics, an online-only, open access journal devoted to transferring fundamental discoveries in the field of proteomics to clinical applications, accelerating understanding and treatment of human diseases.
Jean-Charles Sanchez, Associate Professor at the University of Geneva, Head of the Biomedical Research Proteomics Group and Director of the Proteomics Core Facility of the Faculty of Medicine, will serve as Editor-in-Chief. The journal aims to cover all areas of research in human proteomics using multi-disciplinary approaches to untangle complex disease processes, such as oncology, neurology, immunology, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases and any internal medical disorder. Special sections within the journal will highlight research in areas like systems biology and integrative bioinformatics, clinical proteomics and personalized medicine, comparative proteomics and drug development, medical bioinformatics and biostatistics, food and health.
"With the launch of Translational Proteomics, we want to help the scientific and medical communities overcome the challenges they face on the long path from basic research to patient care," said Professor Sanchez. "By focusing on connecting basic proteomics research to ultimate clinical applications, the journal will provide a space for publications detailing proteomics experiments, from early discovery to validation and the bedside."
"We are excited about the launch of Translational Proteomics", added Dolors Alsina, Executive Publisher at Elsevier. "This journal provides a unique platform for the publication of high-quality, multi-disciplinary studies, combining research which, until now, would have been broken into two or more specialized publications."
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Open Access Publishing at Elsevier
Elsevier has been providing open access publishing options since 2005. Today, researchers can choose to publish in over 1,500 hybrid journals as well as 39 full open access journals and these numbers will continue to grow rapidly. All of Elsevier's open access publications have been peer reviewed, ensuring that the broader community not only reads the latest research but that it is factual, original and of the highest quality and ethical standards. For more information about Elsevier's open access program, visit http://www.elsevier.com/openaccess
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect, SciVerse Scopus, Reaxys, MD Consult and Nursing Consult, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai's Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.
A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
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First articles now available online on ScienceDirect
Geneva, Switzerland, May 27, 2013 - Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of Translational Proteomics, an online-only, open access journal devoted to transferring fundamental discoveries in the field of proteomics to clinical applications, accelerating understanding and treatment of human diseases.
Jean-Charles Sanchez, Associate Professor at the University of Geneva, Head of the Biomedical Research Proteomics Group and Director of the Proteomics Core Facility of the Faculty of Medicine, will serve as Editor-in-Chief. The journal aims to cover all areas of research in human proteomics using multi-disciplinary approaches to untangle complex disease processes, such as oncology, neurology, immunology, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases and any internal medical disorder. Special sections within the journal will highlight research in areas like systems biology and integrative bioinformatics, clinical proteomics and personalized medicine, comparative proteomics and drug development, medical bioinformatics and biostatistics, food and health.
"With the launch of Translational Proteomics, we want to help the scientific and medical communities overcome the challenges they face on the long path from basic research to patient care," said Professor Sanchez. "By focusing on connecting basic proteomics research to ultimate clinical applications, the journal will provide a space for publications detailing proteomics experiments, from early discovery to validation and the bedside."
"We are excited about the launch of Translational Proteomics", added Dolors Alsina, Executive Publisher at Elsevier. "This journal provides a unique platform for the publication of high-quality, multi-disciplinary studies, combining research which, until now, would have been broken into two or more specialized publications."
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For more information or to submit an article, visit http://www.elsevier.com/locate/trprot
Open Access Publishing at Elsevier
Elsevier has been providing open access publishing options since 2005. Today, researchers can choose to publish in over 1,500 hybrid journals as well as 39 full open access journals and these numbers will continue to grow rapidly. All of Elsevier's open access publications have been peer reviewed, ensuring that the broader community not only reads the latest research but that it is factual, original and of the highest quality and ethical standards. For more information about Elsevier's open access program, visit http://www.elsevier.com/openaccess
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect, SciVerse Scopus, Reaxys, MD Consult and Nursing Consult, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai's Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.
A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
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Monday, 27 May 2013
Call on Sally Draper for more 'Mad Men' truth
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Sally Draper finally said to her dad, Don, what all of us have been thinking for six seasons of "Mad Men." It came at the tail end of last Sunday's episode -- an episode already jammed with noteworthy scenes and dialogue.
After being left alone with her two little brothers in Don and Megan's apartment, Sally confronts a burglar during the night. The older black woman convinces Sally that she is her "grandmother," that she raised Don and that he invited her to his home. Sally is skeptical, but the lady still gets away with robbing the place.
"She said she knew you," Sally says to her father on the phone a day later. "I asked her everything I know and she had an answer for everything. Then I realized I don?t know anything about you."
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Welcome to the club, Sally. No one on the show really knows anything about Don. But what we do know is that Sally Draper's transition into her teen years is a welcome step for the character played by Kiernan Shipka.
Half the time we can't even remember the names of Sally's two brothers or whether they are the same kids every week, but Sally is a mainstay, and how she copes with her fractured family going forward could prove interesting.
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Another phone call gone wrong: "Grandma Ida" calls off the police after Sally and Bobby Draper find her in their dad's apartment.
Will Sally become a hippie flower child of the 1970s, protesting the remaining years of the Vietnam War? Is there any hope that she can have any kind of meaningful relationship with her mother, Betty? Will she dig deeper into her father's secrets, and if so, how will Don react?
The phone call at the end of the May 19 episode was a great juxtaposition to the call Don took at the start of the episode from his latest mistress, Sylvia. That call ended with Don whipping his phone into the office cocktail cart. The call from Sally ended with Don stunned silent by his daughter.
"We really wanted to show that Sally Draper doesn't know anything about her father," show creator Matthew Weiner says in a behind-the-scenes video from AMC. "These children are not being parented at all. That phone call at the end was really supposed to codify the episode as this big mystery being answered, but not being answered at all."
For now, let's hope Sally keeps talking. Soon or later it won't render Don speechless -- or at least semi-mute as he's been all season -- and fans of "Mad Men" could be witness to a meaningful dialogue.
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China, EU to discuss trade disputes on Monday
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will hold informal talks with the European Commission on Monday to try to defuse a trade row over solar panels and wireless equipment.
The European Union accuses China of pricing its solar panels and mobile telecom devices too cheaply and "dumping" them in Europe to corner the market. It plans to impose duties on Chinese panel makers.
China denies the allegations and Premier Li Keqiang, who is touring Europe this week said the EU plans would "harm others without benefiting oneself."
China's Vice Commerce minister Zhong Shan will meet EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht in Brussels on Monday, China's Ministry of Commerce said on Sunday. An EU spokesman confirmed the talks, but stressed they were informal.
Trade disputes between China and Europe have multiplied as commercial ties have deepened. Eighteen of 31 trade investigations conducted by the European Union involves China.
The fall-out over solar panels, which came to a head this month when the European Commission announced plans to impose import duties averaging 47 percent on Chinese panel makers, is the largest to date.
The duties are expected to become EU law in early June. Formal discussions between China and the European Union towards reaching a negotiated settlement can only begin after that, the Commission spokesman said.
Duties would affect 21 billion euros ($26.9 billion) worth of Chinese solar panels sold in Europe - sales that account for 60 percent of China's total solar panel exports and 7 percent of the country's total exports to the European Union.
Both sides have negotiated in the past but with no success. Beijing has condemned the proposed EU duties and urged dialogue while tacitly threatening retaliation.
This is not the first time Chinese solar panel makers have clashed with foreign regulations. The United States imposed five-year duties as high as 36 percent on China solar products in November.
China's manufacturers are also battling a glut in capacity and falling demand.
Beijing is set to decide in June whether it wishes to levy its own duties on European, U.S. and South Korean imports of solar-grade poly silicon, a raw material used in making solar panels.
(Reporting by Aileen Wang and Koh Gui Qing; Additional reporting by Barbara Lewis and Robin Emmott in Brussels; Editing by Pravin Char)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-eu-discuss-trade-disputes-monday-095500731.html
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E85 plug-in hybrid Chevy Malibu powers Penn State to second year ...
EcoCAR 2 Competition Announces Year Two Winner: Penn State University
15 Student Teams Test Drive Eco-Engineered Vehicles on GM Desert Proving Ground
SAN DIEGO -- (May 24, 2013) -- EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future today named Pennsylvania State University its Year Two winner at the EcoCAR 2013 Competition in San Diego. The 15 universities competing in EcoCAR 2 gathered in Yuma, Arizona last week for six days of rigorous vehicle testing and evaluation on drive quality and environmental impact at General Motors (GM) Desert Proving Ground. From there, the competition moved to San Diego for a second round of judging by automotive industry experts.
"These students are the next generation of engineers who will help make that vision a reality, and their hard work and dedication throughout the first two years shows they can rise to the challenge."
EcoCAR 2 -- a three-year competition managed by Argonne National Laboratory and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, GM and 30 other government and industry leaders -- gives students the opportunity to gain real-world automotive engineering experience while striving to improve the environmental impact and energy efficiency of an already highly-efficient vehicle ? the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu.
"The students competing in EcoCAR 2 are leading the way in designing and building the next generation of American-made automobiles that will reduce our dependence on oil and save families and businesses money at the pump," said Assistant Secretary for the Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy David Danielson. "I look forward to seeing these teams' creative, super efficient vehicle designs in the final round of the competition next year in Washington, D.C."
"Engineering advanced technologies that help reduce dependency on petroleum, improve fuel economy and reduce emissions is the key to developing sustainable transportation," said John Haraf, GM's director of hybrid vehicle integration and controls and one of GM's EcoCAR leads. "These students are the next generation of engineers who will help make that vision a reality, and their hard work and dedication throughout the first two years shows they can rise to the challenge."
After a year creating and testing their eco-vehicle designs using technologies such as Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) simulation, teams spent the second year of EcoCAR 2 utilizing cutting-edge automotive engineering processes to redesign their Malibu vehicles. Argonne National Laboratory and GM engineers subjected these vehicles to extensive safety inspections and on-road evaluations, similar to those conducted on new GM vehicles. Each car was evaluated on reduced fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions as well as performance, utility and safety.
Pennsylvania State University was named this year's winner after impressing inspectors and other judges representing various EcoCAR 2 sponsors with its ethanol (E85) plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. The team was the first to pass safety and technical inspections, on-road safety evaluation as well as run all the competition dynamic events.
While Penn State won the top prize, it wasn't the only accomplished team at the Year Two Finals. The second place team, Cal State Los Angles excelled with its ethanol-fueled vehicle and was the first team to complete all the dynamic events. The Ohio State University took third place overall after demonstrating its series-parallel hybrid electric vehicle. The 15 university teams will now spend Year Three of EcoCAR 2 perfecting their designs before the competition finals in Washington, D.C., in May 2014.
Additional information about EcoCAR 2 is available on the competition website and blog, Flickr stream, Facebook page and Twitter stream. Sponsors contributing a total of $745 million in software, hardware and cash donations include: General Motors; U.S. Department of Energy; Natural Resources Canada; MathWorks; California Air Resources Board; Clean Cities; dSPACE, Inc.; A123 Systems, Inc.; Freescale; AVL Powertrain Engineering, Inc.; National Science Foundation; TRC, ETAS; Snap-On Tools; Magna Powertrain; Robert Bosch, LLC; CrossChasm; Siemens PLM Software; CD-adapco; Ventor CANtech, Inc.; GKN; Sensors; New Eagle; Blackberry; QNX; Woodward; Gage; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Delphi Foundation; Caterpillar; Ricardo; and Proterra.
About EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future
EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future is a three-year collegiate engineering program that builds on the successful 25-year history of Department of Energy advanced vehicle technology competitions by giving engineering students the chance to design and build advanced vehicles that demonstrate leading-edge, eco-friendly automotive technologies. General Motors provides each of the 15 competing teams with a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu, as well as vehicle components, seed money, technical mentoring and operational support. The U.S. Department of Energy and its research and development facility, Argonne National Laboratory, provide competition management, team evaluation and logistical support. Through this important public/private partnership, EcoCAR 2 provides invaluable experience and training to promising young minds entering the North American job market. EcoCAR 2 follows the widely acclaimed competition series EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge.
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