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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:24 EDT

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Angelina Jolie revealed Tuesday that she has undergone a double mastectomy to reduce her high risk of breast cancer, saying she is speaking out to encourage women address threats to their health.

Jolie, whose mother died of cancer at the age of 56, said she had managed to keep the issue quiet and continue working. Her medical procedures ended late last month. ?But I am writing about it now because I hope that other women can benefit from my experience,? she said.

The 37-year-old American actress wrote in an opinion piece entitled ?My Medical Choice? in The New York Times that she had chosen the procedure because she carries a faulty gene that increases her risk of both breast and ovarian cancer.

Jolie, one of Hollywood?s best-known faces and the partner of actor Brad Pitt, said that because of this gene, known as BRCA1, her doctors estimated she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.

?Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy,? she wrote.

?I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex,? Jolie wrote.

She said that on April 27 she completed the three months of medical procedures that the mastectomies involved.

Jolie said her chances of developing breast cancer are now down to five percent.

Jolie and Pitt have three adopted and three biological children.

?I can tell my children they don?t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer,? Jolie said.

Jolie described a several-stage surgical process, the main one of which is an operation that can take up to eight hours as the breast tissue is removed and temporary fillers are put in place.

?You wake up with drain tubes and expanders in your breasts. It does feel like a scene out of a science fiction film. But days after surgery you can be back to a normal life,? Jolie wrote.

The final phase of the process involved reconstruction of the breasts with implants, she said, adding: ?There have been many advances in this procedure in the last few years and the results can be beautiful.?

Jolie said Pitt has been a huge source of support.

?Brad was at the Pink Lotus Breast Center, where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries,? she said, adding that ?we managed to find moments to laugh together.?

Jolie said she has only small scars after the ordeal, with nothing alarming for her children to see.

?On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.?

Jolie, one of the world?s highest-paid performers, said the cost of getting tested for BRCA1 and another faulty gene, called BRCA2, is more than $3,000 in the United States and that this ?remains an obstacle for many women?.

She said she hopes women living under the threat of cancer will be able to get tested.

?Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of,? Jolie wrote.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who has been working with Jolie in the past few months in her role as UN special envoy for refugee issues to highlight the problem of sexual violence in conflict, said she was ?a brave lady?.

Hague and Jolie visited Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo in March and successfully joined forces at a meeting of G8 finance ministers last month to win a pledge to act against the use of rape as a weapon of war.

?She?s a courageous lady, a very professional lady. She?s done a lot of work with me in recent months and travelled with me through some difficult places in the Congo,? Hague told Sky News television.

?She gave no sign that she was undergoing such treatment. She?s a very brave lady not only to carry on with her work so well during such treatment, also to write about it now and talk about it. She?s a brave lady and will be an inspiration to many.?

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BlackBerry announces new Android support in enterprise management suite

The better part of the CrackBerry crew are at BlackBerry Live 2013 this week, and there was a bit of news for Android fans amid the general session. BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10.1 was announced, which includes support for Android devices. That means your IT guy can roll out apps and lock down BlackBerry devices throughout the company just as easily as it can with any Android devices. 

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Breakthrough in how pancreatic cancer cells ingest nutrients points to new drug target

Public release date: 13-May-2013
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Discovery suggests novel way to starve tumors and deliver medications

In a landmark cancer study published online in Nature, researchers at NYU School of Medicine have unraveled a longstanding mystery about how pancreatic tumor cells feed themselves, opening up new therapeutic possibilities for a notoriously lethal disease with few treatment options. Pancreatic cancer kills nearly 38,000 Americans annually, making it a leading cause of cancer death. The life expectancy for most people diagnosed with it is less than a year.

Now new research reveals a possible chink in the armor of this recalcitrant disease. Many cancers, including pancreatic, lung, and colon cancer, feature a mutated protein known as Ras that plays a central role in a complex molecular chain of events that drives cancer cell growth and proliferation. It is well known that Ras cancer cells have special nutrient requirements to grow and survive. But how Ras cells cope to actually meet their extraordinary nutrient requirements has been poorly understooduntil now. In the study, led by Cosimo Commisso, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU School of Medicine, show for the first time how Ras cancer cells exploit a process called macropinocytosis to swallow up the protein albumin, which cells then harvest for amino acids essential for growth.

"A big mystery is how certain tumors meet their excessive nutrient demands ," says Dr. Commisso, whose work is funded in part by the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. "We believe they accomplish this by macropinocytosis."

The findings suggest that Ras cancer cells are particularly dependent on macropinocytosis for growth and survival. When the researchers used a chemical to block the uptake of albumin via macropinocytosis in mice with pancreatic tumors, the tumors stopped growing and in some cases even shrank. Moreover, pancreatic cancer cells in mice featured more macropinosomesthe vesicles that transport nutrients deep into a cellthan normal mouse cells.

The discovery of a "protein eating" mechanism unique to some cancer cells sets the stage for drugs that could block the engulfing process without causing collateral damage to healthy cells and suggests new ways to ferry chemotherapeutic cargo into the heart of cancer cells.

"This work offers up a completely different way to target cancer metabolism," says lead principal investigator of the study Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD, senior vice president and vice dean for Science, chief scientific officer and professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Langone Medical Center, who first identified macropinocytosis in Ras-transformed cancer cells. "It's exciting to think that we can cause the demise of some cancer cells simply by blocking this nutrient delivery process."

Crucial to the team's findings is the work of Matthew G. Vander Heiden, assistant professor of biology at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and Christian Metallo, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of California at San Diego, who characterized how Ras cells derive energy from the constituent amino acids released after protein engulfment.

Other key contributors include Craig B. Thompson, president and CEO of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Joshua D. Rabinowitz, professor of chemistry at the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University.

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NYU School of Medicine is one of the nation's preeminent academic institutions dedicated to achieving world class medical educational excellence. For 172 years, NYU School of Medicine has trained thousands of physicians and scientists who have helped to shape the course of medical history and enrich the lives of countless people. An integral part of NYU Langone Medical Center, the School of Medicine at its core is committed to improving the human condition through medical education, scientific research and direct patient care. The School also maintains academic affiliations with area hospitals, including Bellevue Hospital Center, one of the nation's finest municipal hospitals where its students, residents and faculty provide the clinical and emergency care to New York City's diverse population.

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Discovery suggests novel way to starve tumors and deliver medications

In a landmark cancer study published online in Nature, researchers at NYU School of Medicine have unraveled a longstanding mystery about how pancreatic tumor cells feed themselves, opening up new therapeutic possibilities for a notoriously lethal disease with few treatment options. Pancreatic cancer kills nearly 38,000 Americans annually, making it a leading cause of cancer death. The life expectancy for most people diagnosed with it is less than a year.

Now new research reveals a possible chink in the armor of this recalcitrant disease. Many cancers, including pancreatic, lung, and colon cancer, feature a mutated protein known as Ras that plays a central role in a complex molecular chain of events that drives cancer cell growth and proliferation. It is well known that Ras cancer cells have special nutrient requirements to grow and survive. But how Ras cells cope to actually meet their extraordinary nutrient requirements has been poorly understooduntil now. In the study, led by Cosimo Commisso, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU School of Medicine, show for the first time how Ras cancer cells exploit a process called macropinocytosis to swallow up the protein albumin, which cells then harvest for amino acids essential for growth.

"A big mystery is how certain tumors meet their excessive nutrient demands ," says Dr. Commisso, whose work is funded in part by the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. "We believe they accomplish this by macropinocytosis."

The findings suggest that Ras cancer cells are particularly dependent on macropinocytosis for growth and survival. When the researchers used a chemical to block the uptake of albumin via macropinocytosis in mice with pancreatic tumors, the tumors stopped growing and in some cases even shrank. Moreover, pancreatic cancer cells in mice featured more macropinosomesthe vesicles that transport nutrients deep into a cellthan normal mouse cells.

The discovery of a "protein eating" mechanism unique to some cancer cells sets the stage for drugs that could block the engulfing process without causing collateral damage to healthy cells and suggests new ways to ferry chemotherapeutic cargo into the heart of cancer cells.

"This work offers up a completely different way to target cancer metabolism," says lead principal investigator of the study Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD, senior vice president and vice dean for Science, chief scientific officer and professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Langone Medical Center, who first identified macropinocytosis in Ras-transformed cancer cells. "It's exciting to think that we can cause the demise of some cancer cells simply by blocking this nutrient delivery process."

Crucial to the team's findings is the work of Matthew G. Vander Heiden, assistant professor of biology at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and Christian Metallo, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of California at San Diego, who characterized how Ras cells derive energy from the constituent amino acids released after protein engulfment.

Other key contributors include Craig B. Thompson, president and CEO of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Joshua D. Rabinowitz, professor of chemistry at the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University.

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About NYU School of Medicine:

NYU School of Medicine is one of the nation's preeminent academic institutions dedicated to achieving world class medical educational excellence. For 172 years, NYU School of Medicine has trained thousands of physicians and scientists who have helped to shape the course of medical history and enrich the lives of countless people. An integral part of NYU Langone Medical Center, the School of Medicine at its core is committed to improving the human condition through medical education, scientific research and direct patient care. The School also maintains academic affiliations with area hospitals, including Bellevue Hospital Center, one of the nation's finest municipal hospitals where its students, residents and faculty provide the clinical and emergency care to New York City's diverse population.

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Barbara Walters Announces Retirement (VIDEO)

Barbara Walters Announces Retirement (VIDEO)

Barbara Walters announced her retirement Monday on “The View”, revealing that she will end her 50-year run on television in the summer of 2014. The 83-year-old veteran TV journalist appeared a little teary-eyed as the audience gave her a standing ovation after a montage video of her career highlights were shown. Barbara Walters told the ...

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T-Mobile raises iPhone 5 down payment by $50, device now costs $150

After a month of offering the iPhone 5 for $100 down, T-Mobile has quietly increased the upfront cost by $50. Even with the price hike, it's still less expensive than on most other carriers, but some type of warning would've certainly been appreciated. As for the rest of T-Mobile's new pricing scheme, its $20-a month, two-year amortization schedule remains intact. Consider us skeptical, but hopefully this is just a case of growing pains, and unannounced promotions won't be part of the UnCarrier's game plan going forward.

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Four new genetic risk factors for testicular cancer identified

May 12, 2013 ? A new study looking at the genomes of more than 13,000 men identified four new genetic variants associated with an increased risk of testicular cancer, the most commonly diagnosed type in young men today. The findings from this first-of-its-kind meta-analysis were reported online May 12 in Nature Genetics by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The discovery of these genetic variations -- chromosomal "typos," so to speak -- could ultimately help researchers better understand which men are at high risk and allow for early detection or prevention of the disease.

"As we continue to cast a wider net, we identify additional genetic risk factors, which point to new mechanisms for disease," said Katherine L. Nathanson, MD, associate professor in the division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics within the department of Medicine. "Certain chromosomal regions, what we call loci, are tied into testicular cancer susceptibility, and represent a promising path to stratifying patients into risk groups -- for a disease we know is highly heritable."

Tapping into three genome-wide association studies (GWAS), the researchers, including Peter A. Kanetsky, PhD, MPH, an associate professor in the department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, analyzed 931 affected individuals and 1,975 controls and confirmed the results in an additional 3,211 men with cancer and 7,591 controls. The meta-analysis revealed that testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT) risk was significantly associated with markers at four loci -- 4q22, 7q22, 16q22.3, and 17q22, none of which have been identified in other cancers. Additionally, these loci pose a higher risk than the vast majority of other loci identified for some common cancers, such as breast and prostate.

This brings the number of genomic regions associated with testicular cancer up to 17 -- including eight new ones reported in another study in this issue of Nature Genetics.

Testicular cancer is relatively rare; however, incidence rates have doubled in the past 40 years. It is also highly heritable. If a man has a father or son with testicular cancer, he has a four-to six-fold higher risk of developing it compared to a man with no family history. That increases to an eight-to 10-fold higher risk if the man has a brother with testicular cancer.

Given this, researchers continue to investigate genetic variants and their association with cancer.

In 2009, Dr. Nathanson and colleagues uncovered variation around two genes -- KITLG and SPRY4 -- found to be associated with an increased risk of testicular cancer. The two variants were the first striking genetic risk factors found for this disease at the time. Since then, several more variants have been discovered, but only through single GWAS studies.

"This analysis is the first to bring several groups of data together to identify loci associated with disease," said Dr. Nathanson, "and represent the power of combining multiple GWAS to better identify genetic risk factors that failed to reach genome-wide significance in single studies."

The team also explains how the variants associated with increased cancer risk are the same genes associated with chromosomal segregation. The variants are also found near genes important for germ cell development. These data strongly supports the notion that testicular cancer is a disorder of germ cell development and maturation.

"TGCT is unique in that many of the loci are very good biological candidates due to their role in male germ cell development," said Dr. Nathanson. "Disruptions in male germ cell development lead to tumorigenesis, and presumably also to infertility. These conditions have been linked before, epidemiologically, and genes implicated in both of our prior studies, but this study reinforces that connection."

This study was supported in part by Intramural Research Program of the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health grant (R01CA114478).

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/genes/~3/9BSwT38EXEM/130512141208.htm

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4 youths held in skateboard beating of man

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) ? Southern California authorities say a man remains in critical condition after he was beaten nearly to death by skateboard-wielding attackers.

Huntington Beach police Lt. Mitchell O'Brien says the 25-year-old man suffered life-threatening head injuries during Friday night's attack and four teenagers could face attempted murder charges. All four are on probation for previous crimes.

O'Brien says the man and his girlfriend intervened in a fight between two groups at a crowded skate park.

The skateboarders then turned on the couple. O'Brien says the man was chased to a coin laundry across the street and beaten with skateboards.

O'Brian tells City News Service that four youths, ages 14 to 16, were booked at Juvenile Hall on suspicion of attempted murder and three others are being sought.

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Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in a packed St. Peter's Square.

The "Martyrs of Otranto" were 813 Italians who were slain in the southern Italian city in 1480 for defying demands by Turkish invaders who overran the citadel to renounce Christianity.

Their approval for sainthood was decided upon by Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, in a decree read at the ceremony in February where the former pontiff announced his retirement.

Shortly after his election in March, Francis called for more dialogue with Islam, and it was unclear how the granting of sainthood to the martyrs would be received. Islam is a sensitive subject for the church, and Benedict stumbled significantly in his relations with Muslims.

The first pontiff from South America also gave Colombia its first saint: a nun who toiled as a teacher and spiritual guide to indigenous people in the 20th century.

With Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos among the VIPS, the Argentine pope held out Laura of St. Catherine of Siena Montoya y Upegui as a potential source of inspiration to the country's peace process, attempted after decades-long conflict between rebels and government forces.

Francis prayed that "Colombia's beloved children continue to work for peace and just development of the country."

He also canonized another Latin American woman. Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala, a Mexican who dedicated herself to nursing the sick, helped Catholics avoid persecution during a government crackdown of the faith in the 1920s.

Also known as Mother Lupita, she hid the Guadalajara archbishop in an eye clinic for more than a year after fearful local Catholic families refused to shelter him.

Francis prayed that the new Mexican saint's intercession could help the nation "eradicate all the violence and insecurity," an apparent reference to years of bloodshed and other crime largely linked to powerful drug trafficking clans.

Francis told the crowd that the martyrs are a source of inspiration, especially for "so many Christians, who, right in these times and in so many parts of the world, still suffer violence." He prayed that they receive "the courage of loyalty and to respond to evil with good."

The pope didn't single out any country. But Christian churches have been attacked in Nigeria and Iraq, and Catholics in China loyal to the Vatican have been subject to harassment and sometimes jail over the last decades.

Christians in Saudi Arabia must worship out of the public eye because the ultraconservative kingdom does not officially permit churches and non-Muslim religious sites.

Francis, the first pope from the Jesuit order, which is known for its missionary zeal, praised the Colombian saint for "instilling hope" in the indigenous people. He said she taught them in a way that "respected their culture." Many Catholic missionaries over the centuries have been criticized for demanding natives renounce local traditions the outsiders viewed as primitive.

He hailed the Mexican saint for renouncing a comfortable life to work with the sick and poor, even kneeling on the bare floor of the hospital before the patients to serve them with "tenderness and compassion."

Mother Lupita's example, said Francis, should encourage people not to "get wrapped up in themselves, their own problems, their own ideas, their own interests, but to go out and meet those who need attention, comprehension, help" and other assistance.

After shaking hands with the prelates and VIPS in the front rows at the end of the Mass, Francis shed his ceremonial vestments. Wearing a plain white cassock, he climbed into an open white popemobile to ride up and down the security paths surrounding the crowd of more than 60,000.

He stopped to pat children on the head, kiss babies and bantered in his native Spanish with some at the edge of the crowd.

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My Husband's Other Wife

In honor of Mother's Day, Slate revisits a classic, tender story about love and family, originally published in 2009.

Illustration by Robert Neubecker

Shortly after my husband John and I were married, on a day he was at work and I was home moving my things into his house, I opened a cardboard box in the attic. It was filled with photos of his other married life, the one he'd had with his first wife, Robin Goldstein. She was 28 when they got married, and six months later she was diagnosed with breast cancer. My husband was nursing her at home when she died just after her 34th birthday. The box contained wedding photos, honeymoon photos, and random snapshots of parties and birthdays. As I excavated, I could chart her illness by her hair?a cycle of dark waves, then wigs and scarves. After I'd looked at them all, I closed the box and cried for her, and for my guilty awareness that her death allowed me, five years later, to marry the man I loved.

When our daughter was born, one of the sweetest gifts we got was a tiny chair with her name painted on the back. It was from the Goldstein family. How final it must have felt to them to send this acknowledgement of John's new life. Robin had wanted children, but her long illness and the brutal treatments made that impossible.

All of us exist because of a series of tragedies and flukes. I'm here because 80 years ago my grandfather's wife, Ruth, died suddenly of the flu, leaving him a young widower with a toddler and an infant. (They say he had to be restrained from jumping into her grave.) Eventually he remarried to my grandmother, and my mother was born. My grandmother banished all traces of Ruth. Her sons had no contact with Ruth's relatives, displayed no photos of her. It was as if she never existed. At the end of my grandfather's long life?he lived to be 95?his distant past became more present to him, and he began to tell stories about Ruth. My grandmother was more incredulous than angry. "Can you imagine?" she told me. "Do you know how long she's been dead?"

Maybe when my husband and I get old, memories of his life with Robin will become even more vivid than our years together. If so, I hope I'll welcome those memories. I'm grateful to Robin, not jealous (even if she left it to me to convince our joint husband that the laundry hamper was invented for a reason). I knew my husband for only four months before we got married. But I heard from others how protective, tender, and devoted he was to her. Because of their relationship, I knew that this was a man who could be trusted, who stayed, for better or worse. I also knew that it's possible to have more than one love of your life. I am the love of his, and so was she.

Robin was born in Newark, N.J., in 1955. She was a striking, slender young woman with huge dark eyes. She started her career as a city reporter in a small New Jersey town, and both the cops and the mobsters she covered had crushes on her. When she reported on a trial of the Genovese family the judge threatened Robin with jail for protecting one of her sources, a mobster turned government witness, and her case became a test for a newly passed press shield law.

She was just as brave about her illness. After the first surgery, radiation, and chemo, it looked as if she'd be OK, as if the diagnosis might be just some ghastly glitch. But a year later the cancer came back, and for the next five years she endured everything the doctors threw at her, while convincing other people not to pity her.

Robin decided that for however long she had, she would make it a normal life. She kept working and traveling?there were many vacation photos in that box?and when the cancer spread to her bones, she went to the office on crutches. She had to stop when it got to her brain. In her final week, at the hospital, she still got excited about fixing up a radiation technologist she liked with a bachelor journalist friend.

Although they spent their entire marriage moving toward her death, my husband says they didn't spend much time talking about this destination. A therapist once told him those discussions were like "looking at the sun" ?something one could do only glancingly because of the pain. At the end, Robin told him she wanted him to have a child. She made him promise he would do that, because she knew how much he wanted children. In their conversation Robin acknowledged that if he did it would mean he had found a new wife; she said that was harder for her to think about, but she wanted him to find love again. I asked him what he said when she told him this. He told her, "I can't imagine life without you."

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New magnetic graphene may revolutionize electronics

May 10, 2013 ? Researchers from IMDEA-Nanociencia Institute and from Autonoma and Complutense Universities of Madrid (Spain) have managed to give graphene magnetic properties. The breakthrough, published in the journal 'Nature Physics', opens the door to the development of graphene-based spintronic devices, that is, devices based on the spin or rotation of the electron, and could transform the electronics industry.

Scientists were already aware that graphene, an incredible material formed of a mesh of hexagonal carbon atoms, has extraordinary conductivity, mechanical and optical properties. Now it is possible to give it yet one more property: magnetism, implying a breakthrough in electronics.

This is revealed in the study that the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience (IMDEA-Nanociencia) and Autonoma Autonomous (UAM) and Complutense (UCM) universities of Madrid have just published in the journal Nature Physics. Researchers have managed to create a hybrid surface from this material that behaves as a magnet.

"In spite of the huge efforts to date of scientists all over the world, it has not been possible to add the magnetic properties required to develop graphene-based spintronics. However these results pave the way to this possibility," highlights Prof. Rodolfo Miranda, Director of IMDEA-Nanociencia.

Spintronics is based on the charge of the electron, as in traditional electronics, but also on its spin, which determines its magnetic moment. A material is magnetic when most of its electrons have the same spin.

As the spin can have two values, its use adds two more states to traditional electronics. Thus, both data processing speed and quantity of data to be stored on electronic devices can be increased, with applications in fields such as telecommunications, computing, energy and biomedicine.

In order to develop a graphene-based spintronic device, the challenge was to 'magnetise' the material, and researchers from Madrid have found the way through the quantum and nanoscience world.

The technique involves growing an ultra perfect grapheme film over a ruthenium single crystal inside an ultra high vacuum chamber whereorganic molecules of tetracyano-p-quinodimethane (TCNQ) are evaporated on the grapheme surface. TCNQ is a molecule that acts as a semiconductor at very low temperatures in certain compounds.

On observing results through an scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), scientists were surprised: organic molecules had organised themselves and were regularly distributed all over the surface, interacting electronically with the graphene-ruthenium substrate.

"We have proved in experiments how the structure of the TCNQ molecules over graphene acquireslong-range magnetic order, with electrons positioned in different bands according to their spin," clarifies Prof. Amadeo L. V?zquez de Parga.

Meanwhile, his colleague Prof. Fernando Martin has conducted modelling studies that have shown that, although graphene does not interact directly with the TCNQ, it does permit a highly efficient charge transfer between the substrate and the TCNQ molecules and allows the molecules to develop long range magnetic order.

The result is a new graphene-based magnetised layer, which paves the way towards the creation of devices based on what was already considered as the material of the future, but which now may also have magnetic properties.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/matter_energy/physics/~3/0HpfFxI4wBo/130510075506.htm

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U.S. approves Novartis drug Ilaris to treat childhood arthritis

(Reuters) - A school bus carrying a high school girls' softball team to an evening game in western Kentucky veered out of control and overturned on a two-lane highway on Friday, injuring all 26 people aboard, state police reported. The 21 students, four adult passengers and the driver were all taken to hospitals in nearby Paducah, Kentucky, but all the injuries were classified as non-life-threatening, according to a statement from Trooper Richie Wright. The accident occurred shortly before 5 p.m. local time on U.S. ...

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD Position: CENTER D

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD Position: CENTER DIRECTOR The University is seeking a Center Director to be responsible for recruitment, admissions and growth of the Bakersfield Center, through leadership and supervision of the Center's operations and staff. Primary responsibilities include: -Developing and implementing student recruitment strategies and retention procedures to achieve admission and enrollment expectations. -Monitoring the effectiveness of the center's lead-tracking, admissions conversions and retention procedures. -Providing leadership and motivation for staff while facilitating a positive environment for staff and students. -Maintaining comprehensive knowledge of University programs, policies and procedures and applying this knowledge in training staff, maintaining standards and resolving student issues. -Engaging in outreach and outside recruitment activities to include interfacing with local community colleges, other colleges, local governmental agencies, school districts, businesses, etc., to promote University awareness, student transfers and admissions. -Acting as a liaison between the student and University personnel and departments. -Working with the Lead Faculty, Associate Regional Dean and School Deans in planning and coordinating the center's class schedule, including analyzing the schedule of course and degree programs for assigned center and making appropriate recommendations for modifications. -Interfacing with the academic departments concerning the inter-relationship of classroom instruction and the impact on student recruitment and retention. -Coordinating, monitoring, and supervising off-site programs. -Hiring, supervising, evaluating and training assigned center staff. -Reviewing student files as a method of quality control. Ensuring students are properly scheduled, financial aid needs are addressed, data is entered into the MIS system correctly, and other vital needs have been met or addressed. -Attending management, academic planning, staff, and regional meetings representing admissions department issues and point of view. Qualifications: -Bachelor's degree in management, business, communication, human behavior, psychology or marketing. -Minimum five years student advisor and management experience. -Ability to exercise sound independent judgment without direct supervision. -Proven ability to mediate and resolve conflict. -Demonstrated interviewing skills. -Ability to handle multiple tasks in a demanding environment, higher sense of ethics, action oriented with proven ability to make decisions. -Proven interpersonal, oral and written communication abilities. -Demonstrated ability to motivate and provide leadership and training in complex areas. -Able to professionally represent the University in marketing and public relations activities. TO APPLY Visit our website at http://www.nu.edu/OurUniversity/Employment.html to apply by 5/10/2013.

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'Mean' Joe Greene: Players put money over wins

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Mean Joe Greene, the Hall of Fame defensive tackle who retired last week from the Steelers? front office, has been around the NFL for almost half a century. And he doesn?t like all the changes he?s seen.

Greene told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that money has become too much of a focus of players these days, and he says it frustrated him in recent years when he saw players on the Steelers make an issue of who was making what, instead of focusing on how they could all unite to win.

?The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they like it until someone signs a bigger one and now they don?t like it. I don?t like that,? Greene said, via ESPN.com. ?I don?t begrudge anyone money but it disrupts the football team.?

Greene played on a Steelers team that was loaded with Hall of Famers, and he said none of his teammates ever allowed money to be a distraction.

?It?s an attitude change. In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played. That?s a bad thing,? Greene said. ?I think that?s the attitude and direction that was so preeminent with the Pittsburgh Steelers; it was about family, it was about team, the organization. Everyone in the organization would get treated fairly because we were a family.?

Greene may be right, but those days aren?t coming back. Treating football teams like businesses, not like families, has made players a whole lot richer than they were in Greene?s time.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/09/mean-joe-greene-dislikes-how-money-has-changed-nfl-players/related/

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ASUS 'We Transform' Computex teaser leaves us waiting for more teaser videos

Just like last year, ASUS is filling time before the Computex trade show by posting teaser trailers. Sporting a "We Transform" tag, its first one for 2013 features the spun metal casings, touchscreen laptops, convertibles, tablets and phones we've become accustomed to from the company. So what's next? The video doesn't appear to provide any hints -- other than an oddly blacked-out tablet with stylus about 30 seconds in -- however the press page linked below includes a countdown to ASUS' press conference June 3rd, and blank spaces for four more videos to come. We'll keep an eye out for anything else that fills in the blanks (US release info for the Transformer Book would do the trick), check the video after the break to "transform your expectations of technology."

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Earned Income Tax Credit is worth saving according to the Tax ...

Elizabeth Malm, an economist with the conservative Tax Foundation, yesterday voiced support for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) at a debate about tax reform in North Carolina, highlighting how out-of-touch North Carolina?s leadership is when it comes to its treatment of working families in tax reform efforts.

The EITC, which goes to families that work but struggle to get by due to low wages and helps them pay for basic necessities, has received backing from politicians of all stripes over the years including President Ronald Reagan. It?s not hard to see why since this modest tax credit reduces child poverty, improves kids? chances of success as adults, and lessens the need for public assistance.

Ms. Malm?s backing of the EITC stands in stark contrast to the actions of Governor McCrory and legislative leadership, who already gave the OK to reduce the state EITC in tax year 2013 and eliminate the tax credit thereafter. This misguided decision will result in a tax hike on more than 900,000 of North Carolina?s lowest-paid workers and their families.

Taking a firm stance, Ms. Malm also noted that protecting low-income families from regressivity in the tax code is an important principle that policymakers should take seriously, and analysis of North Carolina?s current tax code makes a compelling case for this view. For instance, North Carolina already asks its lowest-paid workers to pay more as a share of their income in state and local taxes than its highest-paid workers.

It is not too late for state policymakers to heed Ms. Malm?s advice and make working families a priority.

Source: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2013/05/08/earned-income-tax-credit-is-worth-saving-according-to-the-tax-foundation/

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An electronic nose can tell pears and apples apart

May 8, 2013 ? Swedish and Spanish engineers have created a system of sensors that detects fruit odours more effectively than the human sense of smell. For now, the device can distinguish between the odorous compounds emitted by pears and apples.

Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV, Spain) and the University of G?vle (Sweden) have created an electronic nose with 32 sensors that can identify the odours given off by chopped pears and apples.

"The fruit samples are placed in a pre-chamber into which an air flow is injected which reaches the tower with the sensors which are metal oxide semiconductors that detect odorous compounds such as methane or butane," explained Jos? Pelegr? Sebasti?, UPV researcher at the Gandia campus and co-author of the paper.

Next, software is used to gather real time data and the information is processed through classification algorithms. The results can be viewed on a 3D graph which distinguishes between the pear and apple scores.

This study, which is published in the 'Sensors and Actuators A' journal, is the starting point for new research the team is already involved in to develop multisensor systems that increase the capacity to differentiate complex mixtures of volatile substances.

"One example would be the wine making sector," Pelegr? commented, "where an electronic nose capable of distinguishing the quality or type of grape or recognising the vintage a wine belongs to would be very useful."

Other lines of research focus on the field of biomedicine. Some studies have shown that trained dogs can detect cancerous tumours, such as lung cancer, by smelling a person's breath.

If this is true, and an electronic nose can detect which substances the animals recognise, then we could diagnose the disease earlier and increase patients' survival rates.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/jHOnI0N0aN4/130508092827.htm

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What A First Person View of a Lightsaber Duel Looks Like

If lightsabers ever become real, and let's be honest some genius will dedicate his entire life into making that happen, I hope the entire world will be well practiced in how to handle them. Sure the ballet of Star Wars characters fighting in light sabers looks great (or ridiculous), but when you get an up close view on the sword fight? The whole world will be missing at least one of their hands.

The video of a GoPro First Person Vader duel is made by The Stunt People. [The Stunt People via The Awesomer]

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Giant Snail Menaces Tex. Neighborhood

May 8, 2013 1:08pm

If you live in Houston and you have a garden and you happen to see a giant snail and that giant snail begins oozing towards you ? run. Or walk away slowly.

Just don?t touch it.

The sluggish mollusk, recently photographed in the backyard of a quiet Houston neighborhood, has been tentatively identified as a Giant African Snail and wildlife researchers say it?s dangerous.

?The snail harbors a deadly parasite known as rat lungworm, which is a form of meningitis,? said Lori Williams, the executive director of the National Invasive Species Council, the coordinating body for the federal government on invasive species.

Williams warned humans not to go near the snail and said that people who do touch it need to wash their hands thoroughly.

What the insidious creature lacks in speed it makes up for in fertility. It reproduces rapidly and can lay 1,200 eggs a year. If confirmed as a Giant African snail, Williams noted that it?s unlikely there is just one.

The Giant African Snail has been spotted in Texas. Photo credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

The softball-sized beast is also a considerable pest. It has been known to munch its way through stucco, plastic recycling bins, signs and more than 500 species of plants. Its pointy shell is so sharp is can blow out car tires if run over.

First spotted in the U.S. in southern Florida in the 1960s, Williams said it took more than a decade and $1 million to eradicate but has recently been rediscovered in the sunshine state.

This is the first known possible spotting of the giant snail in Texas. It?s a mystery how it got there.

Its current location is also a mystery. Ironically, the snail slipped away and for the moment, has eluded capture. Local wildlife officials are sending teams into the area to search for it.

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Obama administration backs out of appeal over new contraceptive mandate

Government lawyers give up their challenge to a temporary injunction in a Bible publisher's lawsuit and will battle the issue in another pending case at the appeals court.

By Warren Richey,?Staff writer / May 6, 2013

President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius leave the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, after the president announced the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control, February 2012.

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A federal appeals court in Washington has granted a request by the Obama administration to back out of an appeal involving a publisher of Bibles who is refusing for religious reasons to provide contraceptives to his employees under the president?s new health-care mandate.

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Mark Taylor and Tyndale House Publishers sued the Obama administration on grounds that the Affordable Care Act?s mandate concerning provision of contraceptives violates the publisher?s sincerely held religious beliefs.

The ACA requires that employers provide cost-free contraception for their workers ? including the so-called morning after pill, which some critics say is an abortion-inducing drug.

Fifty-nine lawsuits on behalf of nearly 200 plaintiffs have been filed by individuals and companies across the nation charging that the new health-care mandate violates basic tenants of religious liberty and conscience.

The dispute is developing into a major showdown pitting the scope of religious freedom against government power to regulate conduct of the faithful.

The plaintiffs are asking the courts to block the Obamacare contraception mandate. Many of the cases are reaching the appellate level where judges in the Tenth, Sixth, and Third Circuits have denied requests for temporary injunctions. Judges in the Seventh, Eighth, and District of Columbia Circuits have granted temporary injunctions.

The Tyndale House case arrived at the District of Columbia Circuit after a federal judge in Washington last fall issued an injunction blocking the Obama administration from enforcing the contraception mandate against the Bible publisher and his company.

Administration lawyers had argued that for-profit companies can?t claim religious rights. Even if they could, government lawyers said, the decision whether to use contraceptives belongs to employees, not the employer.

The administration also argued that any burden on religious views would be outweighed by a more important government objective: ?improving the health of women and children, and equalizing the provision of preventive care for women and men so women who choose to do so can be part of the workforce on an equal playing field with men.?

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Anti-depressant link to Clostridium difficile infection

May 7, 2013 ? Certain types of anti-depressants have been linked to an increase in the risk of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) finds a study in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine. Awareness of this link should improve identification and early treatment of CDI.

CDI is one of the most common hospital acquired infections and is responsible for more than 7000 deaths annually in the USA alone. Several types of medications are thought to increase risk of CDI, including anti-depressants, and given that depression is the third most common medical condition worldwide a team from the University of Michigan investigated the exact nature of this risk.

Firstly the team studied Clostridium difficile infection in people with and without depression and found that people with major depression had a much higher chance of CDI (a 36% increase) than people without depression. This association held for a variety of depressive disorders and nervous or psychiatric problems. Age and family support also impacted risk of CDI. Older, widowed Americans were 54% more likely to catch C. difficile than their married peers. Just living alone increased risk by 25%.

Secondly they looked to see if there was an association between antidepressant medication and hospital acquired CDI. They found that use of most types of antidepressants did not affect CDI risk -- out of the twelve drugs tested only mirtazapine and fluoxetine increased risk of CDI, in each case the risk was doubled.

People who have been prescribed these types of anti-depressants need to keep taking them unless otherwise advised by their physician. The researchers stress that it is not yet known whether the increase in CDI is due to microbial changes in the gut during depression or to the medications associated with depression.

Dr. Mary Rogers who led this study explained, "Depression is common worldwide. We have long known that depression is associated with changes in the gastrointestinal system. The interaction between the brain and the gut, called the "brain-gut axis" is fascinating and deserves more study. Our finding of a link between depression and Clostridium difficile should help us better identify those at risk of infection and perhaps, encourage exploration of the underlying brain-gut mechanisms involved."

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/mental_health/~3/6menTD7yQfw/130507061048.htm

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US jobless claims fall to 5-year low of 324K

Donna Van Natten, with The Enterprise Center, left, and Valoria Armstrong with the Tennessee American Water Co. converse during a job fair being held at the Urban League in Chattanooga, Tenn., Tuesday, April 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Dan Henry)

Donna Van Natten, with The Enterprise Center, left, and Valoria Armstrong with the Tennessee American Water Co. converse during a job fair being held at the Urban League in Chattanooga, Tenn., Tuesday, April 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Dan Henry)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to seasonally adjusted 324,000, the lowest since January 2008. The drop points to fewer layoffs and possibly more hiring.

The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications fell 18,000, the second straight sharp drop. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, plummeted 16,000 to 342,250, close to a five-year low.

Applications are a proxy for layoffs. When they fall below 350,000, it is generally consistent with moderate hiring.

But layoffs are only half the equation: Companies also need to be confident enough to add workers for job growth to pick up and lower the unemployment rate. Many have held off adding new workers in recent months, possibly because of concerns about the impact of federal spending cuts and tax increases.

Economists forecast that the economy added 160,000 jobs last month. That's much better than the 88,000 added in March, but below last year's pace of nearly 185,000 per month. The unemployment rate is expected to remain unchanged at 7.6 percent.

But many have lowered their estimates this week, some as low as 120,000, after several reports suggested that slower growth is dragging down hiring. The government will release the April employment report Friday.

The spending cuts, known as sequestration, and higher Social Security taxes may be making businesses more cautious about hiring. And the tax increase could slow consumer spending. The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that those policies are "restraining economic growth."

"We think hiring will be more subdued in the second quarter as the economy weathers a consumer spending slowdown and sequestration job cuts," said Julia Coronado, an economist at BNP Paribas. Unemployment benefit applications "will not capture either of these developments." One reason layoffs may not rise is that federal agencies are cutting hours, rather than jobs.

The data ahead of Friday's jobs report have been discouraging. On Wednesday, payroll provider ADP said companies added just 119,000 jobs in April. And a survey of manufacturers by the Institute for Supply Management found that a measure of employment fell sharply last month.

Many companies have been advertising more jobs but have been slow to fill them. Job openings jumped 11 percent during the 12 months that ended in February, but the number of people hired declined, according to a Labor Department report last month.

Nearly 5 million people received unemployment aid during the week ended April 13, the latest data available. That's down from nearly 5.1 million in the previous week.

Still, consumers are more optimistic that the job market is healing and will deliver higher pay later this year, according to a survey of April consumer confidence released this week. And lower gas prices could offset some of the pinch from the tax increase.

The economy grew at an annual rate of 2.5 percent from January through March, the government said last week. That was an improvement from the anemic growth of 0.4 percent in the final three months of last year. Most economists expect growth will slow in the current quarter to 2 percent or lower.

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Colorado State University - Pueblo to Honor Turner as Distinguished Alum on May 17

Colorado State University - Pueblo to Honor Turner as Distinguished Alum on May 17

PUEBLO ? A local attorney who has taught at Colorado State University-Pueblo and who recently was invited to Cuba as an educator will receive the President?s Medallion for? Distinguished Alumni Achievement as part of the President?s Gala on May 17. Christopher Turner, a partner at Bethart Turner, Attorneys at Law, will join Pueblo Community College President Patty Erjavec and longtime University faculty member Dr. Jack Seilheimer as honorees at the 2013 President?s Gala on Friday, May 17 in the Occhiato University Center (OUC) Ballroom. Donors underwrite the evening?s expenses, guaranteeing that all proceeds directly benefit future generations of CSU-Pueblo students through scholarships and programs.

?The Distinguished Alumni Award Committee was extremely impressed with Chris?s professional accomplishments but also wanted to recognize his commitment to CSU-Pueblo through his continued involvement on campus and in the classroom, his service through the CSU-Pueblo Foundation, and his overall pride in being an alumnus,? said Tracy Samora, director of alumni relations. ?Chris exemplifies the perfect blend of enthusiasm for education and a dedication to our students in the classroom with enthusiasm for our community presence through his support of CSU-Pueblo events and activities.?

Prior to forming Bethart Turner, Turner was an associate attorney at Koncilja & Koncilja, for seven years.? He earned a bachelor?s degree in political science from CSU-Pueblo in 2003, where he served as Student Body President, was active in Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, and was a member of the Student Activities Board.? During his junior year, Turner was selected as a White House Intern, where he worked in the Advance Travel Division of the Executive Office of the President.?

Turner obtained his legal education at The Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, where, in 2005, he graduated, with honors, in the top 5 percent of his class.? While in law school, he participated on three National Moot Court teams and was earned the Outstanding Student Achievement Award upon graduation.?

Turner has served as president of the Pueblo County Bar Association and has taught both in the Hasan School of Business and the Political Science Department for the past six years.? On January 1, 2012, he was appointed by Governor John Hickenlooper to serve as a member of the 10th Judicial District Juridical Performance Commission. He has been named the Pueblo County Bar Association Outstanding Young Lawyer and was a finalist for the State of Colorado

Outstanding Young Lawyer Award in 2012.? He has received the William D. Alexander Pro Bono Award as well as the National American University Faculty Member of the Year Award.? In August of 2012, he attend a research delegation on behalf of the Colorado Bar Association to Havana, Cuba, where he worked with a team of attorneys on a comprehensive analysis of Cuba?s legal structure and the substantial changes made over the past several years.
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Turner is Foundation Trustee at CSU-Pueblo and a member of President Lesley Di Mare?s Advisory Council. He and his wife, Lea Ann, have twin daughters, Abigail and Madison.

The 2013 President?s Gala will feature the sights and sounds of the University?s 80 years with music by the Pueblo Symphony.? Tickets for the 2013 President?s Gala are $125 per person or $1,500 for a corporate table of 8. Information on tickets, sponsorships, and corporate tables is available through the CSU-Pueblo Foundation, 719-549-2380 or at www.csupueblogala.com.

About the Award:
The CSU-Pueblo Alumni Association?s President?s Medallion for Distinguished Alumni Achievement recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of our alumni.? Their outstanding service to their alma mater and professional achievements are considered in the nomination and selection process. Nominations are reviewed by the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award Committee and recommendations are made to CSU-Pueblo President, Dr. Lesley Di Mare for her final approval.

For a list of past distinguished alumni award recipients:? http://alumni.colostate-pueblo.edu/DistinguishedAlumniAwards

Source: http://www.colostate-pueblo.edu/Communications/Media/PressReleases/2013/Pages/4-22-2013.aspx

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