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The U.S. Supreme Court in June issued two highly anticipated decisions addressing same-sex marriage in cases that resonated nationwide and in California.
In United States v. Windsor, the High Court ruled that a key part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional on equal protection grounds. On the same day, the Court also issued its decision in Hollingsworth v. Perry, a case on California?s Proposition 8, which defined marriage to exclude same-sex couples.
The cases are significant for employers because they are likely to have ripple effects on state, federal and local laws, in particular those dealing with employee benefit plans, taxation and immigration.
The DOMA case
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New IOM report lays out plan to determine effectiveness of obesity prevention effortsPublic release date: 2-Aug-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Jennifer Walsh news@nas.edu 202-334-2138 National Academy of Sciences
WASHINGTON -- The United States lags behind other international plans to evaluate obesity prevention efforts, and the country needs to know whether these efforts are having their intended impact, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The committee that wrote the report concluded that more systematic and routine evaluations could help determine how well obesity prevention programs and policies are being implemented and which interventions work best. The committee also recommended specific national and community plans for evaluation of obesity prevention efforts.
Investment in obesity program and policy evaluation is too sporadic, presenting serious barriers to understanding the impact of interventions and the need for future investments, the committee said. Moreover, current data monitoring systems inadequately track progress of some programs, and such monitoring is needed at both the national and community levels. Although many monitoring systems exist, the national systems lack adequate leadership, coordination, infrastructure, guidance, accountability, and capacity. Furthermore, local communities do not have the necessary guidance, capacity, data, and resources for assessing the status of obesity, identifying prevention needs, monitoring obesity prevention actions, evaluating their short-term outcomes, and tracking their long-term effects on obesity reduction.
To guide future efforts to inform and improve obesity prevention at the national, state, and community levels, the committee designed separate but interdependent national and community obesity evaluation plans that prioritize activities and leverage existing resources. The plans provide frameworks for obtaining end-user input, choosing indicators and measures for data collection and analysis, and improving the evaluation structure -- specifically the success of policy and environmental strategies recommended in the 2012 IOM report Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation.
Evaluation efforts lack an agreed-upon set of core indicators that could be used at the national and community levels for measuring and comparing progress in obesity prevention. As a starting point for developing the core set, the committee identified 83 indicators about which data are currently collected that could be incorporated into the national and community evaluation plans and provide guidance to improve the infrastructure and capacities of longer-term evaluations.
The evaluation plans outlined in the report will not be fully realized, however, without coordinated changes across multiple federal, state, and local government agencies and departments in collaboration with other nongovernmental partners responsible for obesity prevention-related activities, the committee said. It recommended the creation of an obesity task force or other entity to oversee and lead the implementation of the national plan and provide support to the community plan. In addition, relevant federal agencies, state and local health departments, and other pertinent organizations should enhance evaluation efforts through improved data collection, common guidance, access to and dissemination of data, work-force ability, capacity to address disparities and health equity, and integration of a systems approach in evaluation efforts.
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The study was sponsored by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. Established in 1970 under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine provides independent, objective, evidence-based advice to policymakers, health professionals, the private sector, and the public. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies. A committee roster follows.
Contacts:
Jennifer Walsh, Senior Media Relations Officer
Rachel Brody, Media Relations Assistant
Office of News and Public Information
202-334-2138; e-mail news@nas.edu
http://national-academies.com/newsroom
Twitter: @NAS_news and @NASciences
RSS feed: http://www.nationalacademies.org/rss/index.html
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalacademyofsciences/sets
Additional Resources:
Project Page
Report brief
Indicators for Measuring Progress in Obesity Prevention
Table - Measuring Progress in Obesity Prevention: Indicators and Data Sources
Full Report
Pre-publication copies of Evaluating Obesity Prevention Efforts: A Plan for Measuring Progress are available from the National Academies Press on the Internet at http://www.nap.edu or by calling 202-334-3313 or 1-800-624-6242. Reporters may obtain a copy from the Office of News and Public Information (contacts listed above).
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
Food and Nutrition Board
Committee on Evaluating Progress of Obesity Prevention Efforts
Lawrence W. Green, Dr.P.H., M.P.H. (chair)
Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Medicine
University of California
San Francisco
Christina Bethell, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
School of Medicine, and
Director
Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative
National Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland
Ronette R. Briefel, Dr.P.H.
Senior Fellow
Mathematica Policy Research Inc.
Washington, D.C.
Ross C. Brownson, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology
Brown School of Social Work and School of Medicine
Washington University
St. Louis
Jamie F. Chriqui, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Health Policy Center
Institute for Health Research and Policy
University of Illinois
Chicago
Stephen Fawcett, Ph.D.
Kansas Health Foundation Distinguished Professor
Department of Applied Behavioral Science, and
Director
Work Group for Community Health and Development
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Brian R. Flay, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Public Health, and
Co-Director
Promise Neighborhoods Research Consortium
Oregon State University
Corvallis
Deanna M. Hoelscher, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
School of Public Health
University of Texas
Austin
James W. Krieger, M.P.H., M.D.
Chief
Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention
Public Health Seattle & King County
Seattle
Laura C. Leviton, Ph.D.
Senior Adviser for Evaluation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Princeton, N.J.
K.M. Venkat Narayan, M.D.
Hubert Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, and
Professor of Medicine
Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Atlanta
Nico P. Pronk, Ph.D.
Vice President, and
Health Science Officer
Health Management
HealthPartners Inc.
Bloomington, Minn.
Lorrene Ritchie, Ph.D.
Director of Research
Atkins Center for Weight and Health
University of California
Berkeley
Elsie Taveras, M.P.H.
Chief
Division of General Pediatrics, and
Director
Pediatric Population Health Management
Massachusetts General Hospital, and
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics and Population Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston
STAFF
Leslie J. Sim
Study Director
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New IOM report lays out plan to determine effectiveness of obesity prevention effortsPublic release date: 2-Aug-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Jennifer Walsh news@nas.edu 202-334-2138 National Academy of Sciences
WASHINGTON -- The United States lags behind other international plans to evaluate obesity prevention efforts, and the country needs to know whether these efforts are having their intended impact, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The committee that wrote the report concluded that more systematic and routine evaluations could help determine how well obesity prevention programs and policies are being implemented and which interventions work best. The committee also recommended specific national and community plans for evaluation of obesity prevention efforts.
Investment in obesity program and policy evaluation is too sporadic, presenting serious barriers to understanding the impact of interventions and the need for future investments, the committee said. Moreover, current data monitoring systems inadequately track progress of some programs, and such monitoring is needed at both the national and community levels. Although many monitoring systems exist, the national systems lack adequate leadership, coordination, infrastructure, guidance, accountability, and capacity. Furthermore, local communities do not have the necessary guidance, capacity, data, and resources for assessing the status of obesity, identifying prevention needs, monitoring obesity prevention actions, evaluating their short-term outcomes, and tracking their long-term effects on obesity reduction.
To guide future efforts to inform and improve obesity prevention at the national, state, and community levels, the committee designed separate but interdependent national and community obesity evaluation plans that prioritize activities and leverage existing resources. The plans provide frameworks for obtaining end-user input, choosing indicators and measures for data collection and analysis, and improving the evaluation structure -- specifically the success of policy and environmental strategies recommended in the 2012 IOM report Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation.
Evaluation efforts lack an agreed-upon set of core indicators that could be used at the national and community levels for measuring and comparing progress in obesity prevention. As a starting point for developing the core set, the committee identified 83 indicators about which data are currently collected that could be incorporated into the national and community evaluation plans and provide guidance to improve the infrastructure and capacities of longer-term evaluations.
The evaluation plans outlined in the report will not be fully realized, however, without coordinated changes across multiple federal, state, and local government agencies and departments in collaboration with other nongovernmental partners responsible for obesity prevention-related activities, the committee said. It recommended the creation of an obesity task force or other entity to oversee and lead the implementation of the national plan and provide support to the community plan. In addition, relevant federal agencies, state and local health departments, and other pertinent organizations should enhance evaluation efforts through improved data collection, common guidance, access to and dissemination of data, work-force ability, capacity to address disparities and health equity, and integration of a systems approach in evaluation efforts.
###
The study was sponsored by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. Established in 1970 under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine provides independent, objective, evidence-based advice to policymakers, health professionals, the private sector, and the public. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies. A committee roster follows.
Contacts:
Jennifer Walsh, Senior Media Relations Officer
Rachel Brody, Media Relations Assistant
Office of News and Public Information
202-334-2138; e-mail news@nas.edu
http://national-academies.com/newsroom
Twitter: @NAS_news and @NASciences
RSS feed: http://www.nationalacademies.org/rss/index.html
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalacademyofsciences/sets
Additional Resources:
Project Page
Report brief
Indicators for Measuring Progress in Obesity Prevention
Table - Measuring Progress in Obesity Prevention: Indicators and Data Sources
Full Report
Pre-publication copies of Evaluating Obesity Prevention Efforts: A Plan for Measuring Progress are available from the National Academies Press on the Internet at http://www.nap.edu or by calling 202-334-3313 or 1-800-624-6242. Reporters may obtain a copy from the Office of News and Public Information (contacts listed above).
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
Food and Nutrition Board
Committee on Evaluating Progress of Obesity Prevention Efforts
Lawrence W. Green, Dr.P.H., M.P.H. (chair)
Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Medicine
University of California
San Francisco
Christina Bethell, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
School of Medicine, and
Director
Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative
National Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland
Ronette R. Briefel, Dr.P.H.
Senior Fellow
Mathematica Policy Research Inc.
Washington, D.C.
Ross C. Brownson, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology
Brown School of Social Work and School of Medicine
Washington University
St. Louis
Jamie F. Chriqui, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Health Policy Center
Institute for Health Research and Policy
University of Illinois
Chicago
Stephen Fawcett, Ph.D.
Kansas Health Foundation Distinguished Professor
Department of Applied Behavioral Science, and
Director
Work Group for Community Health and Development
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Brian R. Flay, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Public Health, and
Co-Director
Promise Neighborhoods Research Consortium
Oregon State University
Corvallis
Deanna M. Hoelscher, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
School of Public Health
University of Texas
Austin
James W. Krieger, M.P.H., M.D.
Chief
Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention
Public Health Seattle & King County
Seattle
Laura C. Leviton, Ph.D.
Senior Adviser for Evaluation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Princeton, N.J.
K.M. Venkat Narayan, M.D.
Hubert Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, and
Professor of Medicine
Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Atlanta
Nico P. Pronk, Ph.D.
Vice President, and
Health Science Officer
Health Management
HealthPartners Inc.
Bloomington, Minn.
Lorrene Ritchie, Ph.D.
Director of Research
Atkins Center for Weight and Health
University of California
Berkeley
Elsie Taveras, M.P.H.
Chief
Division of General Pediatrics, and
Director
Pediatric Population Health Management
Massachusetts General Hospital, and
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics and Population Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston
STAFF
Leslie J. Sim
Study Director
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(Reuters) - Procter & Gamble Co forecast a slightly more upbeat 2014 than expected on Thursday as Chief Executive A.G. Lafley tries to get the world's largest household products maker back on track without sacrificing profitability.
P&G reported lower quarterly earnings but they still topped the company's muted expectations from April. The shares rose 1.4 percent to $81.47.
P&G, maker of Tide detergent and Pampers diapers, brought back Lafley in late May to replace Bob McDonald, who had struggled to respond to thrifty consumer spending, sparked by the recession, create new product hits, and expand in fast-growing international markets.
In the two months since he returned, Lafley has done a "deep dive" to figure out what needs fixing. He said the current fiscal 2014 would be a "transition" year, with fiscal 2013 a "stepping stone."
P&G forecast 2014 core earnings per share rising 5 percent to 7 percent, including an expected hit of 6 percentage points from foreign exchange fluctuations. Before Thursday, expectations were high that P&G's outlook would be much weaker than the 6.7 percent growth that analysts anticipated.
"This strikes me as better than the whisper numbers that I had been hearing," David Kolpak, equity research analyst at Victory Capital Management. "I think that's prudent, that's what he ought to be doing at this point. You don't want to overpromise out of the gate."
With Lafley back at the helm, P&G sees more opportunities to cut costs, such as trimming marketing expenses as a percentage of sales, and wants to better understand what consumers want. He has already split P&G into four businesses, hoping the new structure will boost efficiency.
"We know we're not winning like we know we can," Lafley told analysts and investors on a conference call.
"We simply have to execute better," he added later.
NO MORE QUARTERLY FORECASTS
Lafley returned one month before the fiscal year ended, so recent gains in market share and sales came under McDonald.
Under McDonald, P&G cut production and marketing costs and came out with products such as Tide Pods, which has seen some early success. Under a $10 billion restructuring announced in February 2012, P&G has cut 7,000 jobs through June, or 1,300 more than its target.
P&G's quarterly net profit dropped nearly 50 percent but core earnings per share, which strip out various factors and are more closely watched by Wall Street, fell just 4 percent.
"To me, this is the quarter that they really needed to have. It wasn't a blowout quarter, but I don't think anybody expected that," said David Blount, co-portfolio manager at Eagle Asset Management, which owned more than 350,000 P&G shares at June 30.
P&G said it would no longer give quarterly forecasts, instead providing an annual outlook with updates as the year progresses. It wants investors to focus on longer-term growth.
P&G expects organic sales, which strip out the impact of currency changes, acquisitions and divestitures, to rise 3 percent to 4 percent as the overall market grows at about 3.5 percent.
Blount said the annual sales forecast looked conservative since P&G usually talks about beating the market, not performing like the rest of the industry.
Rivals include Europe's Unilever and L'Oreal and U.S. companies such as Colgate-Palmolive Co , Kimberly-Clark Corp , Energizer Holdings Inc and Clorox Co .
While cost savings and improved productivity are necessary, "sales growth is the key here," Blount said.
P&G's core earnings per share fell to 79 cents from 82 cents a year earlier, beating its April forecast of 69 cents to 77 cents and analysts' average estimate of 77 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Sales rose 2.2 percent to $20.66 billion, topping analysts' average target of $20.55 billion.
Also Tuesday, Clorox said its quarterly profit increased to $1.37 per share, topping the analysts' view of $1.34, while sales rose less than expected. The bleach maker stood by its fiscal 2014 forecast, but said the recent rise of the U.S. dollar and volatile commodity prices could weigh on results.
Through Wednesday, P&G's stock had climbed 2 percent since Lafley's May return.
Clorox fell 0.6 percent to $85.45.
(Reporting by Jessica Wohl in Chicago; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Jeffrey Benkoe)
EXCLUSIVE: There?s a ton of curiosity and criticism about Universal?s Scarface reboot since both the 1932 Chicago bootlegging film and 1983 Miami cocaine-dealing versions were so iconic. Understanding that, the studio according to my sources has been refining the script with several screenwriters and drafts while keeping all names and details?under wraps. ?Universal has been through a couple of drafts and now is very high on the current draft.?The first stop is the director.?This is before any conversations on talent or timing.? I?ve learned that the studio is in final talks with?British director David Yates who directed the final four films in the Harry Potter film series (#s 5, 6, 7, and 8 from 2007-2011) ? and in my opinion should have won some Oscar nominations for them as?the franchise grew dark and?interesting under his helming. Though he normally works at Warner Bros,?Yates has been the subject of considerable chatter over which film projects he?d do next.?A prolific?TV director?known for?his gripping?British TV?six-part political thriller?State Of Play (2003) and the?Emmy-winning?The Girl In The Caf? (2005), Yates is a founding member of Directors UK. He now is much in demand with the finish of the Harry Potter franchise. On Scarface, he will be tasked?with updating the?crime saga?so it?lives up to?the Ben Hecht/Howard Hawks/Paul Muni and Oliver Stone/Brian De Palma/Al Pacino classics?since both became?part of?popular culture.?This is?not a remake or sequel?but a reboot of a crime kingpin?who through a ruthless campaign of?ambition goes in hot pursuit of?his American Dream ? whatever that is in this decade.?Ethnicity and geography were important in the first two versions so expect the same here. Former Universal head Marc Shmuger and his Global Produce banner is producing along with Martin Bregman who produced the Pacino version.
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Reintroduction of the gray wolf to Yellowstone National Park has boosted an important food source for the threatened grizzly bear, researchers have found in an example of how the return of a top predator can have far-reaching ecological effects.
A study published this week in the Journal of Animal Ecology is essentially a tale of who eats what.
When wolves returned to the park in 1995 after a 70-year absence, they preyed on elk herds that browsed on trees and shrubs.
The elk population, which had exploded without the wolves, dropped. The over-browsed plants began to rebound, including berry-producing shrubs that provide nutritious summer meals for grizzlies when they are fattening up for hibernation.
"The grizzly bear uses some of the same plants that the prey of the wolf uses," said William Ripple, an Oregon State University professor of forest ecosystems and lead author of the study. "The reintroduction of one top predator is potentially affecting another top predator through this food web."
Ripple and his fellow researchers at OSU and Washington State University compared the frequency of fruit found in grizzly bear scat to elk numbers before and after the wolf reintroduction. Over a 19-year period, they found that the average proportion of fruit in grizzly scat rose significantly after wolves returned to Yellowstone and the elk population fell.
The scientists examined and rejected other possible explanations for the smaller, pre-wolf proportion of fruit in grizzly diets, such as climate influences or the operation of open-pit garbage dumps that served as bear mess halls before the last one was closed in 1970.
Previous research by Ripple and colleagues has demonstrated other ways in which the gray wolf's return has had a cascading effect in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the wildest in the lower 48 states.
Ripple's work was the first to show that aspens declined after wolves were eliminated from the park in the 1920s. When wolves returned and drove down the elk numbers, scientists saw a resurgence of aspen, cottonwood and willows in some parts of the park that has in turn led to an increase in beavers.
"We're in the early stages of this ecosystem recovery," Ripple said. "This is what we call passive restoration. We put the wolf back in and then we let nature take its course."
In the case of the grizzly, the paper's authors said increasing berry production could help make up for the loss of whitebark pine nuts, another bear food that is threatened by climate change.
The Yellowstone region's whitebark pines have been dying en masse, the victim of beetle kills promoted in part by milder winters. Wildlife biologists worry that the diminishing nut crop could hurt grizzly survival.
Frank van Manen, a federal wildlife biologist and leader of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, said that Ripple's study was intriguing but that experiments were needed to prove the wolf-bear connection.
"I look at this as more of a hypothesis rather than an established cause and effect," said van Manen, adding that his team has found that bears ate a lot of berries in some years before the wolf's return.
"There's no real scientific consensus yet about a lot of these cascading effects," he said. "If we really want to answer some of these questions about ecological cascades, we're going to have to set up some pretty intensive and broad-scale experiments."
I appreciate NOVA?s Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers because it reminds us that scientists often fail to adhere to one-dimensional stereotypes. The series features people who are scientists and engineers by day but have a secret past time in their spare time.
My favorite scientist of the series is the neuroscientist Dave Sulzer, who also records elephants playing music under the name The Thai Elephant Orchestra. Take a look at the video below to see some elephants jamming out.
Watch Dave Sulzer: Neuroscientist on PBS. See more from Secret Life of Scientists.
Dave Sulzer is also a musician himself, and a Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. Check out the other videos in his feature over at NOVA!
Some other featured scientists/musicians on NOVA?s Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers include Joe DeGeorge, Eran Egozy, Alan Sage, Tom Yang, and Caroline Moore.
About the Author: Princess Ojiaku is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in Neuroscience and Public Policy. She is also a student of life, exuberant nerd, and musician. She often tweets her daily links of interest and digital personal mutterings. Follow on Twitter @artfulaction.
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BALTIMORE, MD--(Marketwired - Jul 31, 2013) - Goldman Small Cap Research, a stock market research firm focused on the small cap and microcap sectors, notes that considering the success of some of the programs in Israel in treating cancer patients with cannabis, Nuvilex Inc.'s (OTCQB: NVLX) subsidiary, Medical Marijuana Sciences, Inc. may elect to emulate some of that country's initiatives.
In Israel, the medical-marijuana industry has flourished. Today, medical marijuana is prescribed to 11,000 patients, up from 1,800 in 2009, according to the Israeli Health Ministry. It is used to treat an extensive list of illnesses including cancer, Parkinson's, Tourette syndrome, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Importantly, while some cancer patients do smoke medical marijuana, in most cases, the drug is delivered via pill, liquid, food and even vapor. These delivery method alternatives are a bit broader than what is typically found in the U.S.
Perhaps the reason for the forward-thinking of Israeli scientists is the long history of medical marijuana research in Israel, which according to a recent article in Tablet magazine, traces its roots to nearly 50 years ago.
Much like in the U.S., despite the presence of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) inherent in cannabis that is responsible for the "high," Israeli researchers prefer to remove the THC and raise the concentration of the non-psychoactive cannabidiol, or CBD, which has documented anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. In fact, in the 1960's, Israel was a world leader in research on marijuana and its components conducted under the so-called grandfather of cannabis, professor Raphael Mechoulam of Hebrew University, who first isolated the THC component.
Going forward, as Americans continue to embrace the use of marijuana for its medicinal properties coupled with the elimination of THC from cannabis "extracts" and a concentration on the use of CBD as a therapeutic agent, Nuvilex's choice of developing CBD-based treatments for serious cancers becomes validated. Furthermore, a combination therapy for pancreatic cancer that combines a CBD-based treatment with its high profile live-cell encapsulation-based treatment for that disease may well be in Nuvilex's future.
Since the summertime is also a vacation period for the country's legislators, the medical marijuana space has been a bit quiet of late. However, once legislatures return to session, it is likely that this industry segment will enjoy accelerated opportunities.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. hopes negotiations for a free trade deal with the European Union will drive growth-oriented reforms in the EU economy, the top American trade official said Tuesday.
In a similar vein, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said China's recent agreement to negotiate a bilateral investment treaty with the United States is a chance to press for economic reforms in the Asian giant that could level the playing field for American businesses.
Froman also told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington he was "cautiously optimistic" the U.S. could reach a major trade agreement with Pacific Rim countries by the end of the year despite some skepticism over that timetable after Japan's late entry into the talks.
Froman noted that the U.S. goal for all trade agreements currently being negotiated was to promote job creation here and bolster the middle class.
One key to success in newly launched talks on a Trans-Atlantic trade deal with Europe will be eliminating unnecessary regulatory barriers to trade, Froman said. And as Europe struggles to pull itself out of recession, he cautioned the bloc not to rely too heavily on exporting to the U.S. as a way out of its current problems.
The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership has raised great expectations of boosting growth and jobs by eliminating tariffs and other barriers that have long plagued economic relations. It would create a market with common standards and regulations across countries that account for nearly half the global economy.
Froman said both the U.S. and European markets are heavily regulated and have high standards when it comes to health, safety and environmental protection. But he said they must eliminate unnecessary differences and frictions in regulation that prevent a free flow of goods and services across borders.
The two sides are at odds over agricultural and financial services regulation, among other restrictions.
Turning to China, Froman said he saw encouraging signs for bilateral relations as China's new leadership grapples with serious economic issues such as deciding whether it wants to rely so heavily on export-led growth to questions about air pollution and food safety.
"China agreeing to start negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty ... is a potentially very important development and could help drive reform in China," Froman said.
China agreed to negotiate the treaty during annual U.S.-China security and economic talks in Washington earlier this month. The U.S. has been pushing for such a treaty for years, saying it would facilitate more protections and market access for American investors in China, where state-owned company enjoy many competitive advantages.
China's new leader, Xi Jinping, who met President Barack Obama last month in California, has signaled he intends to shift toward an economy driven more by domestic consumption and less by exports ? changes that would benefit U.S. companies that want to sell products and services to China's fast-growing middle class.
Regarding Japan's recent entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations, Froman said it was critical that the country resolve longstanding issues over opening its markets to American products ? particularly barriers to U.S. autos, farm products and insurance services. In 2010, for example, the United States exported about 14,000 vehicles to Japan, while importing some 1.5 million vehicles.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said that he is prepared to expose his country's sheltered industries to more foreign competition, but he faces strong resistance from many in his own party.
Talks on the trade deal began more than two years ago and Japan just joined 11 other participants ? Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the U.S. and Vietnam. With Japan, it would be the largest free-trade agreement ever, including countries that make up about 40 percent of world trade.
Making old photography new again is all the rage these days. Although The Impossible Project's Instant Lab isn't due to launch until late August, the company decided to debut the companion iOS app today in the iTunes store. It's a little early to the party since users won't be able to capitalize on all of its features without the Instant Lab, but there are still some options to fiddle around with while you wait. The free app functions as part lab extension, part scanner; you can digitize your analog photos with the scanning feature before sharing them with your buddies. Once the Impossible Instant Lab is available for purchase, you'll be able to use your iPhone 4 (or above) to turn your digital photos into faux-vintage Polaroid-style prints. You'll have to sit tight until August 29th to unlock the app's true potential, but if you're impatient, you can download it at the source link below.
Conservative radio host Mark Levin wants to know when President Barack Obama decided that the scandals plaguing his administration, which he initially thought were serious, are now ?phony.? On Tuesday, he appeared on Fox News Channel with Neil Cavuto where he took on Obama as well as Republicans like the GOP?s House leadership and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for providing the White House with rhetorical leverage to divert attention from these scandals.
?This president could give a damn about a serious investigation about scandals that are swirling around his administration,? Levin said. He observed that the administration has put more effort into sending officials out to media forums to deny that there is any evidence relating to malfeasance within the administration than investigating that malfeasance.
?What?s necessary is for the Republicans in the House to get their act together,? he said. Levin advocated for one special investigative committee to look into the Benghazi attack and the IRS targeting scandal. ?And then the pressure builds for a special prosecutor,? Levin added. ?Even though [Attorney General Eric] Holder won?t want to appoint one, over time enough information comes out where it?s going to become necessary.?
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?The president uses this word ?phony,?? Levin noted. ?It?s actually a perfect word for him, because his speeches are phony, his promises are phony, his economy?s phony, the whole damn thing is phony.?
The conservative radio host criticized the GOP House leadership for balking at investigating these scandals because, in his opinion, they do not see any political upside for the Republican Party in their investigation.
Levin turned to the scandal surrounding the National Security Agency?s information collection and metadata warehousing practices. He was asked to weigh in on the feud brewing Gov. Christie and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) over the necessity of those programs.
Levin challenged Christie to stand up in front of the families of victims of 9/11, as he suggested Paul do, and explain to them how the NSA?s methods keep Americans safe or prevent terrorists from entering the country. He said that Christie?s support for immigration reform is a greater threat to national security than anything that may have been prevented by the NSA?s intelligence gathering practices.
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Believe it or not, there are still big-name smartphone makers that haven?t yet jumped on the phablet bandwagon ? but that may change beginning later this year. A new report from Digitimes cites the website?s customary unnamed industry sources in suggesting that Nokia, BlackBerry and maybe even Apple will begin launching new smartphones with displays measuring 5 inches or more beginning in the fourth quarter this year. BlackBerry is working on the A10, which BGR exclusively revealed in a recent report, and Nokia is said to be prepping a phablet that will launch at the end of the year, according to Digitimes. The site also says Apple may be toying with an iPhone featuring a larger display, but such a device wouldn?t launch until the second half of 2014 at the earliest.
[More from BGR: iOS 7 beta 4: Full change log now available]
UPDATE: An early morning house fire Monday morning displaced two adults and three kids. A dog and cat were not able to get out of the house in time.
One woman inside tried to get a fire extinguisher out of a glass box, and cut her hand.
That was the only injury. The five people are staying in a relatives unit in the same complex. The fire investigator will be on scene thought the day.?
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AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. - Early Monday morning fire crews responded to an apartment fire at an Airway Heights Apartment on Highway 2 and S. Spotted Road.
Apartments near the fire were evacuated. One neighbor ran door-to-door telling everyone to get out.
Four apartments were damaged by the fire. Five people were in the apartment at the time the fire started.
No one was killed or injured, however one dog and one cat died.
The American Red Cross has been notified to assist the victims.
Fire crews remained on scene throughout the morning to make sure all hot spots are put out.
A few months after introducing its Kirabook flagship, Toshiba is back with some mid-range laptops that bring some of the same understated design elements. The 14-inch Satellite E45t Ultrabook and the 15-inch E55, announced today, have the same pared-down look as the Kirabook, except they're made of aluminum instead of pressed magnesium, and the bottom isn't made of metal but rather, textured plastic. The screen resolution is also lower, at 1,366 x 768; these are middle-of-the-road machines, after all. On the bright side, they all support 802.11ac WiFi -- of a surprise on otherwise humdrum systems like these. The E45t, which will be sold only at Best Buy and on Toshiba's site, comes in just one configuration, with a Core i5 Haswell processor and a 500GB hard drive paired with an SSD. Perhaps most interesting, though, is that the E45t will come with Dragon Assistant on board for simple voice commands (think: shutting down the computer, doing a web search, controlling multimedia playback, et cetera). You can expect to find that next week, on August 4th, with a suggested retail price of $818, though a Toshiba rep told us it'll likely sell for $799.99 once it actually hits shelves. Just a heads-up.
The 15-inch version, meanwhile, will be offered with either a Core i5 processor and touchscreen (that's the E55t) or a quad-core A6 APU. There are actually two AMD models: one configuration comes with a touchscreen (that would be the E55Dt) and one has a non-touch panel (that's the E55D). Strangely, the non-touch model also offers lesser storage; that has a 750GB HDD, while the touch version goes up to a full terabyte. Either way, you get a number pad, which you won't find on the 14-incher, though you'll be missing out on that Dragon Assistant app with the AMD models. These will be available in September, a little later than the 14-inch model, with the non-touch E55D going for $580 and the touchscreen E55Dt priced at $700. We haven't yet confirmed pricing for the E55t, that lone Intel-based model, but we'll update this post once we do.
Tyson Gay is facing a lengthy ban after it was confirmed that his B-sample had tested positive for a banned substance.
The 2007 world 100m and 200m champion was recently suspended after failing an out-of-competition test and immediately withdrew from next month's World Championships in Moscow.
The news came as quite a shock to all those involved in athletics and was further compounded when rival Asafa Powell also returned a positive test.
It is has now been confirmed that Gay's B-sample also contained the same banned substance and he now faces a ban of up to two years.
"We can confirm that the B sample analysis of a sample collected from Mr Gay has been completed, and that the B sample analysis has confirmed the A sample findings," USADA chief executive officer Travis Tygart said in a statement. "An additional sample collected from Mr Gay has also returned an adverse A sample finding.
"We appreciate Mr Gay voluntarily removing himself from competition prior to the World Championships while we evaluate the circumstances surrounding his adverse analytical findings and work towards achieving a fair resolution of his case in accordance with the rules."
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The House is set to go along with a bipartisan Senate compromise that would link college students' interest rates to the financial markets and offer borrowers lower rates this fall.
The Senate bill hews closely to one the House already has passed, and leaders from both parties and in both chambers expect those differences won't stand in the way of quick resolution, perhaps as early as Wednesday.
House approval would send the measure to President Barack Obama, who has said he would sign it into law "right away."
But critics note that if the economy improves as expected, rates could climb higher.
If the Republican-led House consents to the Senate's tinkering with the House's earlier proposal, and Obama signs the legislation before students start returning to campus, families would see better deals on some federal loans this year than they did in 2012. Undergraduates could borrow at rates as low as 3.4 percent for subsidized Stafford loans and 6.8 percent on unsubsidized Stafford loans last year, while graduate students and parents borrowed at 7.9 percent last year.
Those 3.4 percent rates doubled on July 1 because Congress did not act. Lawmakers from both parties said the rate increase was unacceptable and worked on various proposals to extend rates, overhaul rates and even remake the entire program before classes start this fall.
Both chambers would link the interest rate to the 10-year Treasury note plus an added percentage, based on the type of loan. Each sets caps on how high the loans can go.
But under the Senate bill, once a student or parent takes a loan for the school year the rate would not change. The House bill would make the interest rate variable, meaning it could change every year until the loan is repaid.
A look at what the House and Senate bills would mean for students and their parents:
UNDERGRADUATES:
Senate: Undergraduates who take subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford loans would pay the 10-year Treasury note, plus an additional 2.05 percent. That would put the interest rate at about 3.9 percent this fall. Rates would be capped at 8.25 percent.
House: Under the House bill, undergraduates who take subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford loans would pay the 10-year Treasury note, plus an additional 2.5 percent. That would translate to an interest rate of about 4.3 percent interest rates for loans taken this fall. Rates would be capped at 8.5 percent.
GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Senate: Graduate students would borrow at the interest rate of the 10-year Treasury notes plus an additional 3.6 percent. That would bring 5.4 percent interest rates for borrowers this fall. Rates would be capped at 9.5 percent.
House: Graduate students and parents would borrow at the 10-year Treasury note plus an additional 4.5 percent. Under this formula, graduate student loans this fall would carry a 6.3 percent interest rate. Rates would be capped at 10.5 percent.
PARENTS AND SOME GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Senate: Parents and some graduate students would borrow at the 10-year Treasury note plus an additional 4.6 percent. That works out to a 6.4 percent interest rate for fall term. Rates would be capped at 10.5 percent.
House: Graduate students and parents would borrow at the 10-year Treasury note plus an additional 4.5 percent. That would bring about 6.3 percent interest rates for borrowers this fall. Rates would be capped at 10.5 percent
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The strange man who invented X-ray specs, sea monkeys, Balderdash, and more.
?How did we fall for von Braunhut?s [ad] copy, even as children? It?s hard to remember a prior state of innocence once you?ve come to understand what salesmanship is. When it came to X-Ray Specs, if you were savvy enough to be suspicious, you were also savvy enough to understand that there were naughty secrets your parents didn?t want you to know?maybe this was one of them? Hey, maybe it was worth a buck to find out.?
Engineer Ethan Imboden?s drive to make sex toys beautiful and mainstream.
?At dinner parties in San Francisco, where he lives, Imboden found that mentioning sex toys unleashed conversations that appeared to have been only awaiting permission. ?Suddenly I was at the nexus of everybody's thoughts and aspirations of sexuality,? he said. ?Suddenly it was OK for anyone to talk to me about it.? It occurred to Imboden that the people who buy sex toys are not some other group of people. They are among the half of all Americans who, according to a recent Indiana University study, report having used a vibrator. They are people, like those waiting outside Apple stores for the newest iPhone model, who typically surround themselves with brands that reinforce a self-concept. They spend money on quality products, and care about the safety of those products. Yet, for the very products they use most intimately?arguably the ones whose quality and safety people should care most about?they were buying gimmicky items of questionable integrity. It's just that people had never come to expect or demand anything different?silenced by society's ?shame tax on sexuality,? as one sex toy retailer put it to me. And few alternatives existed.?
The Televisionary Malcolm Gladwell ? The New Yorker ? May 2002
It?s easy to call corporations evil, but what if they actually spur innovation by supporting inventors?
?In April, 1931, Sarnoff showed up at the Green Street laboratory to review Farnsworth's work. This was, by any measure, an extraordinary event. Farnsworth was twenty-four, and working out of a ramshackle building. Sarnoff was one of the leading industrialists of his day. It was as if Bill Gates were to get in his private jet and visit a software startup in a garage across the country. But Farnsworth wasn't there. He was in New York, trapped there by a court order resulting from a frivolous lawsuit filed by a shady would-be investor. Stashower calls this one of the great missed opportunities of Farnsworth's career, because he almost certainly would have awed Sarnoff with his passion and brilliance, winning a lucrative licensing deal. Instead, an unimpressed Sarnoff made a token offer of a hundred thousand dollars for Farnsworth's patents, and Farnsworth dismissed the offer out of hand. This, too, is a reason that inventors ought to work for big corporations: big corporations have legal departments to protect their employees against being kept away from their laboratories by frivolous lawsuits. A genius is a terrible thing to waste.?
7 Ways Larry Page Is Defining Google's Future Farhad Manjoo ? Fast Company ? April 2011
A rundown of innovation at Google, just as current CEO Larry Page took over.
?So if you've ever wondered why Google needed its own web browser, called Chrome, here's why: It needed Chrome to goad Microsoft, Apple, and other browser makers into reigniting innovation in what had become a moribund market. Everyone's efforts collectively improve the web as a whole, which is good for Google and its ad business. Even if its rivals merely copied Chrome's advancements?superfast, stable, and, thus far, impossible to hack?Google saw that it could achieve its larger goals. About 10% of web surfers now use Chrome, which is respectable, but not as important as pushing Microsoft to retire the decrepit IE 6 browser in favor of new versions with a string of great improvements.
The bureaucratic and financial problems behind a simple, ubiquitous, wound-closing technology.
?Dr. Louis Argenta says he invented the VAC, and he has the patents to prove it. He's a plastic surgeon at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., but is quick to point out that he isn't that kind of plastic surgeon. He deals with messy and nasty injuries that often can't or won't heal on their own. One night in the late 1980s, he was lying in bed and unable to sleep. He was reading The Gulag Archipelago and was worried about a patient who was slowly dying from an infected wound that couldn't be closed with surgery because the stitches would make things worse. ?And, just suddenly,? he would say later, ?the concept of just using a giant vacuum?we had played with vacuums in the laboratory a little bit, but this was the concept of using a giant vacuum to pull this whole thing together.? He sketched a rough drawing in the margins of his book, and his wife told him to go back to sleep.?
The Bottle and the Babe Gilbert Rogin ? Sports Illustrated ? July 1968
On the origins of Gatorade and its prolific inventor, Robert Cade.
?However, Gatorade won't work unless the athletes are willing to drink it, and unflavored Gatorade tastes like salt water. Indeed, when it was first served in a game (Florida vs. LSU in 1965), Guard Larry Gagner said, memorably, ?This water tastes like ****,? and poured it over his head.?
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One of the biggest improvements that you can make to your home is to bring in more natural light.
Sunlight is a powerful mood enhancer and a home design that brings in a lot of natural light will automatically look and feel much more pleasant. Not only will it boost your mood, bringing in natural light will also increase the value of your home.
So how can you shed some light on your home?s interior?
Here are a few ways:
Add More Reflective Surfaces
Whenever you add a light and reflective surface to your home, you increase the number of times that daylight bounces around inside the room.
Try painting your ceilings and walls with light or off-white colours. Matte finishes are actually better than glossy surfaces, as they reflect light in all directions at once. Add some metal accents and some mirrors to the space, which will also reflect the light.
Move Your Furniture Around
Do you have furniture that is blocking natural light from coming in? Move your furniture away from the windows so that it will not get in the way of the sunlight streaming into your home.
Add A Glass Door
Is there anywhere in your home where you can exchange a solid door for one with glass in its design? This will allow the light to flow through the doorway and increase the feeling of brightness in your home.
There are plenty of glass doors with superb security features, so they will be just as safe as any other door. Also, if you have a yard or a patio to look out on, adding sliding glass doors will be a great way to let the light in and enjoy the view.
Expand Your Windows
Is it possible to increase the size of any of your windows? If yes, the windows on the south side of the house, will bring a significant amount of sunshine into the home.
Add A Skylight
Adding skylights to your home will bring a lot of natural light into the interior. Also, they are much more private than windows because anyone passing by will not be able to see through them. They also add overhead lighting, so that you will not need to use electricity during daylight hours.
These are just a few ways that you can let the sunshine in and bring more natural light into your home.
If you have any other home questions, please contact your trusted mortgage professional today.
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EXCLUSIVE: There?s a ton of curiosity and criticism about Universal?s Scarface reboot since both the 1932 Chicago bootlegging film and 1983 Miami cocaine-dealing versions were so iconic. Understanding that, the studio according to my sources has been 
refining the script with several screenwriters and drafts while keeping all names and details?under wraps. ?Universal has been through a couple of drafts and now is very high on the current draft.?The first stop is the director.?This is before any conversations on talent or timing.? I?ve learned that the studio is in final talks with?British director David Yates who directed the final four films in the Harry Potter film series (#s 5, 6, 7, and 8 from 2007-2011) ? and in my opinion should have won some Oscar nominations for them as?the franchise grew dark and?interesting under his helming. Though he normally works at Warner Bros,?Yates has been the subject of considerable chatter over which film projects he?d do next.?A prolific?TV 
director?known for?his gripping?British TV?six-part political thriller?State Of Play (2003) and the?Emmy-winning?The Girl In The Caf? (2005), Yates is a founding member of Directors UK. He now is much in demand with the finish of the Harry Potter franchise. On Scarface, he will be tasked?with updating the?crime saga?so it?lives up to?the Ben Hecht/Howard Hawks/Paul Muni and Oliver Stone/Brian De Palma/Al Pacino classics?since both became?part of?popular culture.?This is?not a remake or sequel?but a reboot of a crime kingpin?who through a ruthless campaign of?ambition goes in hot pursuit of?his American Dream ? whatever that is in this decade.?Ethnicity and geography were important in the first two versions so expect the same here. Former Universal head Marc Shmuger and his Global Produce banner is producing along with Martin Bregman who produced the Pacino version.
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Conservative radio host Mark Levin wants to know when President Barack Obama decided that the scandals plaguing his administration, which he initially thought were serious, are now ?phony.? On Tuesday, he appeared on Fox News Channel with Neil Cavuto where he took on Obama as well as Republicans like the GOP?s House leadership and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for providing the White House with rhetorical leverage to divert attention from these scandals. 
Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, speaks at Google's annual developer conference in 2012. A 2011 Fast Company article explains why Google built its revolutionary browser.
One of the biggest improvements that you can make to your home is to bring in more natural light.