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Monday, October 7, 2013
The Two Most Ridiculous Right Wing Shutdown-Related Fake Outrages (Little green footballs)
Drought and other factors cut the lesser prairie chicken population in New Mexico; other wildlife suffering too
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Female Streaker Shocks Crowd During President?s Cup Golf Tournament (Photo)
A flash of fleeting flesh livens up the proceedings at the match in Columbus, Ohio
With the NFL having kicked off and Major League Baseball in the midst of its playoffs, golf usually has a ?tough time commanding attention around this time of year.
The Pro Golfers Association wasn?t behind it, but Sunday?s developments at the Presidents Cup tourney in Columbus, Ohio ? where a female streaker raced across the fairway ? might change all that.
Also read:?Bob Costas Slams CBS Sports for Ignoring the Golf-Masters? ?Racism and Sexism?
If viewers paid anywhere near the attention that tour veteran and U.S. team captain Fred Couples did when the woman flashed by, it could be a ratings bonanza.
For the record, the woman wasn?t totally naked. She ran onto the fairway clad in black flats, a red g-string underwear, an American flag and what appeared to be stickers on her chest and back that read ?Support Our Troops?.
As for the match, the Americans bested the international squad when Tiger Woods delivered the winning point.
Sports site SBNation was first to post the photos.
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Sunday, October 6, 2013
AstraZeneca Pushing Fish Oil Drugs-Good Medicine or Good Money ...
Recently,?British pharmaceutical giant, AstraZeneca, announced that it is buying out Omthera Pharmaceuticals, the developer of a new drug, Epanova, which will compete with current fish oil-based drugs manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline and Amarin. Even though there is evidence that fish oil supplements, or omega-3 fatty acids, are not the cure all for high cholesterol or heart disease, the drug companies are capitalizing on the trendy use of these supplements.
My recent article on fish oil supplements? cites current research indicating marginal success of these products in treating heart disease. Not only is the supplement not showing significant results in reducing heart disease, a second study found a correlation between the use of fish oil products and an increased risk for prostate cancer.
At a time when we should be questioning the benefits of taking fish-oil supplements, the push by manufacturers of dietary supplements remains strong and now the pharmaceutical industry is jumping in with?its more expensive versions of the fish-oil based ?drug?. By one estimation, if Epanova does well in the cardiac outcomes trials, peak annual sales could exceed $1 billion. (Bioworld)
?Based on the totality of current evidence, the pendulum appears to be shifting away from omega-3 fatty acid supplementation providing significant cardiovascular event reduction,? according to Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. (Health Day)
The average consumer isn?t going to do the research needed to discover that Epanova is basically a fancy version of the fish-oil dietary supplement.
We don?t always know what medications are right for usj.? Theoretically, that is one reason? we go to doctors. Pharmaceutical companies are extraordinarily?successful because they routinely lobby doctors. Drug referrals are big business; many doctors are receiving substantial amounts of money to push the latest drugs.? Choosing the best treatment for what ails us might be a healthier diet and an exercise regime, but instead we will most likely get a prescription for one of these new and expensive fish-oil based drugs. Drugs we likley can get on our own?at the drug store, health food store or our grocery store?for less money.
The FDA will research this latest drug and most likely give approval for AstraZeneca to proceed. The question is whether the FDA is likely to challenge the Big Pharma business as they crank out medication after medication, pushing questionable drugs in order to keep revenues high. What happens when the research, from independent scientists, is non-conclusive?
High cholesterol and its accompanying risk, heart disease, are serious matters. But throwing a new drug at the problem is not always the best answer. Particularly not when the driving interest behind a new drug seems to be improving market shares and securing drug patents, and omega-3 fatty acides can be obtained through other, less expensive and probably as effective means.
For a more technical explanation of the new fish oil drug and its target market,?visit? BioWorld online.
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Linux-capable Arduino TRE Debuts At Maker Faire Rome
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Source: slashdot.org --- Friday, October 04, 2013
DeviceGuru writes "At the Maker Faire Rome this week, Arduino announced a next-generation Arduino single board computer featuring a dual-processor architecture, and able to run a 'full Linux OS', in contrast to the lightweight OpenWRT Linux variant (Linino) buried inside the Yun's Atheros WiFi module. The Arduino TRE features a 1GHz 32-bit TI Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 SoC for running Linux software, plus an 8-bit Atmel ATmega MCU for AVR-compatible control of expansion modules (aka shields). The TRE's Sitara subsystem includes HDMI video, 100Mbps Ethernet, and 5 USB 2.0 ports, and is claimed to provide up to 100X the performance the Arduino Leonardo and Uno boards. Interestingly, the TRE's development reportedly benefited from close collaboration between Arduino and the BeagleBoard.org foundation." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...
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Saturday, October 5, 2013
India Eyeing APEC Membership?
New Delhi: India will be closely watching the proceedings at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bali, Indonesia, this weekend to see whether the grouping would move away from its moratorium on new membership that expired in 2010.
In 1997, APEC set a 10-year moratorium on new membership and agreed in 2007 to consider the issue in 2010. The moratorium was introduced due to concerns that increasing members may make it difficult for the forum to reach agreements and thus lose its influence.
But last November, at their annual summit in Yokohama, Japan, APEC leaders decided not to extend the moratorium.
"Keeping in mind the benefits of APEC membership as well as the need for efficiency to achieve results, we will continue to review the question of APEC new membership going forward," they said in their declaration.
India has discussed the membership issue with Indonesia, the current chair of the 21-member APEC, whose leaders will meet Oct 5-7 in Nusa Dua, Bali, for the summit.
"We had a good conversation with Indonesia," External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said on his return from the East Asia Summit foreign ministers' meeting, ASEAN ministerial conference and the ASEAN Regional Forum meeting in Brunei in July.
Besides India, there are 11 other economies which are said to have applied for membership. They include Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Laos and Colombia.
There is now a growing view that keeping the moratorium intact for a long time may not help APEC in achieving its objectives, given that other groupings like the East Asia Summit has countries such as Japan, China, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, which belong to both the East Asia Summit and APEC. Also, all the 10 ASEAN members belong to the East Asia Summit, but only some of them are APEC members.
"APEC includes not just East Asian economies but several trans-Pacific ones, in tune with India's emerging interest in economic ties with Latin America," say former US diplomats Teresita C. Schaffer and Howard B. Schaffer, asking Washington to bring in India to APEC.
APEC consists of Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Russia, Taiwan, the United States and seven ASEAN members-Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
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