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Osborne sugars austerity pill with infrastructure boost

By William James

LONDON (Reuters) - Chancellor George Osborne unveiled a new round of spending cuts on Wednesday, but promised to pump some of the savings straight back into the economy to counter charges of excessive austerity.

In a speech to parliament interrupted by periodic jibes from opposition Labour party MPs, Osborne spelled out 11.5 billion pounds in cuts for the 2015/16 fiscal year.

Local government budgets were among those hardest hit, while 3 billion pounds was earmarked for spending on affordable housing projects. Spending on international aid, health and education was protected.

The debate over the cuts, which will take effect just weeks before a general election, sketches out the economic battle lines for a campaign in which the health of the economy will be decisive.

"While recovery from such a deep recession can never be straightforward, Britain is moving out of intensive care - and from rescue to recovery," Osborne told parliament.

"We've always believed that the deficit mattered; that we need to take tough decisions to deal with our debts - and the opposition to that has collapsed into incoherence."

Earlier on Wednesday, Labour party leader Ed Miliband had criticised the need for further cuts, highlighting Osborne's 2010 pledge to eliminate the budget deficit by 2015.

The latest official forecasts show that by 2017/18 Britain will still be spending 2.3 percent of its gross economic product (GDP) more than it recoups in tax.

"What we see again today is the British people paying the price for this government's failure ... what we actually need is a fairer plan to get growth moving, living standards rising and the deficit down," he said.

But with Labour's economic credentials rated lower than those of the ruling Conservatives in opinion polls, Miliband's party has sought to repair its damaged credibility by pledging not to row back on the cuts if it won the 2015 election.

CAPITAL SPENDING

Despite cutting spending aggressively since coming to power in 2010, weak economic growth and a costly welfare system have set back the government's original plans to wipe out a budget deficit which it inherited at 11.2 percent of GDP.

Britain's austerity agenda has been challenged by the loss of its triple-A credit rating and calls from the International Monetary Fund to defer near-term cuts and increase infrastructure investment.

In an effort to stem mounting criticism that continued spending cuts were crimping economic growth, Osborne promised a total of 300 billion pounds of capital spending between now and the end of the decade, a third of which would be detailed in an announcement on Thursday.

"We need quick and decisive action on the big decisions that will move projects from blueprints to building," said John Cridland of the Confederation of British Industry, which represents nearly a quarter of a million businesses.

Labour said the boost to infrastructure wasn't enough and called for an extra 10 billion pounds of stimulus spending.

"If he took that action now, that might mean in two years' time we might not need these appalling cuts that he's pencilling in," said Chris Leslie, a Labour economics spokesman.

Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said the scale of the cuts was astonishing and may ultimately push the next government to find other ways to cut the deficit.

"If I was a betting man I think there will be some kind of tax rise after the election," he said.

(Editing by Andrew Osborn and Hugh Lawson)

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In Taiwan, activist Chen urges democracy for China

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ? An activist who fled house arrest in China before moving to America last year got his first taste of Taiwan's democracy Tuesday when raucous lawmakers occupied the legislative floor while he delivered a speech in an adjacent room.

Chen Guangcheng said he considers the commotion often taking place on Taiwan's legislative floor a normal part of democracy. On Tuesday, minority opposition lawmakers were occupying the floor to prevent the ruling party from revoking Taiwan's capital gains tax.

Chen said it's better to have bickering lawmakers shoving and pushing each other than to have "someone driving a tank to storm the streets," a reference to China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy students on Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Chen, a self-taught lawyer who has been blind since birth, arrived in Taiwan Sunday for a two-week visit.

The activist, who had angered local Chinese officials by documenting complaints about forced abortions, escaped house arrest in his rural town in eastern China's Shandong province in April 2012 and sparked a diplomatic crisis when he fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

Chinese officials later let him move to the U.S. with his wife and children. He spent the last year as a special student at New York University.

Chen caused a controversy last week when he said the university caved to pressure from China's Communist Party and asked him to leave. The university denied that, saying it had agreed to give Chen a one-year fellowship to assist his departure from China, and that he was leaving because the year was over.

In Taiwan, Chen has evaded questions about his criticism of NYU. NYU professor Jerome Cohen, who had arranged the fellowship and is accompanying Chen in Taiwan, said Tuesday that he was unaware of any Chinese influence.

"I'll never know," he said. "I've seen no evidence of China putting pressure on NYU. All the evidence I've seen goes the other way, that NYU has been supportive of Chen to the fullest extent."

Accompanying Chen on the trip, Cohen said the two had agreed to put the dispute behind for now so it would not overshadow the activist's events in Taiwan.

But Cohen noted the Chinese "were unhappy" about Chen's visit to Taiwan. "They blamed me as the black hand behind" for arranging the visit, he said, without elaborating.

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou does not plan to meet Chen.

Ma's spokesman did not give a reason, but Ma has been working to improve ties with Beijing. Taiwan and China split amid civil war in 1949, but relations have improved in recent years.

On Tuesday, Chen said China should practice democracy like Taiwan has for almost three decades and toss its authoritarian system into "history's trash bin."

"The very fact that Taiwan has a democracy system with rule of law had disproved China's lie that democracy shall not fit the Chinese," he said.

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Why Does the Sun s Corona Get So Hot? NASA Launches Telescope to Find Out

As plasma is ejected from the sun?s surface, its temperature skyrockets--and so far physicists have not been able to explain why

By Rebecca Boyle

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Above the surface of the sun, plasma roiling in the star?s atmosphere does something that so far defies explanation, and seems to defy physics: It gets hotter as it moves farther out.

In the corona, the expansive outer layer of the solar atmosphere that extends millions of kilometers from the sun?s surface, temperatures reach millions of kelvins. The surface, by contrast, is a tepid 6,000 K (around 5,700 degrees Celsius). Although astronomers have developed a few possible explanations in recent years, no one can say precisely how or why the corona gets so hot. A new satellite will scrutinize the underlying regions of the sun?s atmosphere, giving physicists a chance to dig down like botanists studying a plant?s roots and uncover information that may help them solve the mystery.

The satellite?NASA?s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), a new ultraviolet space telescope?will examine the chromosphere, a long-ignored layer of plasma beneath the corona, in unprecedented detail. ?I wonder if maybe we were staring too hard at the corona to understand the corona,? says IRIS scientist Charles Kankelborg, a physicist at Montana State University. ?It may be that by backing out we can get some vital clues to what?s happening.?

A carrier aircraft will carry IRIS and a Pegasus rocket booster aloft from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on June 26, and then launch it from there into a polar orbit. From that vantage point the telescope will observe a small section of the chromosphere, a violently variable region between the corona and the surface. IRIS will not only photograph the sun but will also return spectra?detailed breakdowns of the star?s light that can reveal subtle physical processes at work. Other telescopes, such as the Sunrise 2 balloon that recently completed a five-day flight around the Arctic circle, have looked at the chromosphere but haven?t returned such detailed information. ?You won?t just see beautiful images with fine-scale structure, but you?ll also be able to measure what the temperature is and what the density is,? says Eric Priest, a solar physicist at the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland who is not part of the IRIS team. ?It?s revolutionary.?

Unlike the corona?s wispy prominences or the spotted, fiery surface, the chromosphere is tricky to behold. It absorbs and reemits some light from the surface, but it also emits its own UV light, making it difficult to identify where the photons originated, says Bart de Pontieu, the science lead for IRIS at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif. Only in the last 10 years have physicists developed computer models sophisticated enough to track the photons coming from this region and to sufficiently simulate chromospheric activity. That is a key reason why IRIS?s time is now. ?With these models we have now a fighting chance of understanding the light that we see coming from the chromosphere,? de Pontieu says.

Physicists are also eager to observe solar outbursts with IRIS. And they should see plenty: IRIS will launch near the peak of the sun?s 11-year activity cycle. The IRIS team will use information from other satellites that observe the whole sun, such as Japan?s Hinode and NASA?s Solar Dynamics Observatory, to identify active areas of the sun and point IRIS toward flares as they grow, when it will obtain spectra every two seconds. De Pontieu compares the mission with studying the air just above the ocean, watching as water evaporates and condenses: ?You?re seeing the process that feeds the clouds, and the process that depletes the clouds. By figuring what?s going in and out, you can figure out what?s going on up there.?

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Former Playboy model Holly Madison has confirmed that she is engaged to Pasquale Rotella! Holly Madison showed off her huge sparkler, announcing that she is getting married to the father of her three-month-old daughter. Just three months after welcoming daughter Rainbow Aurora, Holly announced her recent happy news. Holly wrote, “I got engaged on Sunday. ...

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Windows 8 Music update brings in-app searching, login-free trial ...

Windows 8 has built-in search tools for apps, but a tweak in the June update to Xbox Music is making that feature more accessible. The media player now lets you search for songs on both your PC and Xbox Music through an in-app button. If you don't have any local tunes, you won't have to sign in to start listening -- Music now lets you stream 15 tracks through Xbox Music's ad-supported free tier without using an account. While other bug fixes and UI enhancements are minor in nature, what's here is enough to justify a trip to the Windows Store for the new version.

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Finding all asteroid threats to human populations: NASA announces asteroid grand challenge

June 18, 2013 ? NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them.

The challenge, which was announced at an asteroid initiative industry and partner day at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is a large-scale effort that will use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety of partnerships with other government agencies, international partners, industry, academia, and citizen scientists. It complements NASA's recently announced mission to redirect an asteroid and send humans to study it.

"NASA already is working to find asteroids that might be a threat to our planet, and while we have found 95 percent of the large asteroids near the Earth's orbit, we need to find all those that might be a threat to Earth," said NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver. "This Grand Challenge is focused on detecting and characterizing asteroids and learning how to deal with potential threats. We will also harness public engagement, open innovation and citizen science to help solve this global problem."

Grand Challenges are ambitious goals on a national or global scale that capture the imagination and demand advances in innovation and breakthroughs in science and technology. They are an important element of President Obama's Strategy for American Innovation.

"I applaud NASA for issuing this Grand Challenge because finding asteroid threats, and having a plan for dealing with them, needs to be an all-hands-on-deck effort," said Tom Kalil, deputy director for technology and innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. "The efforts of private-sector partners and our citizen scientists will augment the work NASA already is doing to improve near-Earth object detection capabilities."

NASA also released a request for information (RFI) that invites industry and potential partners to offer ideas on accomplishing NASA's goal to locate, redirect, and explore an asteroid, as well as find and plan for asteroid threats. The RFI is open for 30 days, and responses will be used to help develop public engagement opportunities and a September industry workshop.

To watch the archived video of Tuesday's asteroid initiative industry and partner day, visit: http://youtube.com/nasatelevision

For more information about NASA's asteroid initiative, including presentations from Tuesday's event and a link to the new RFI, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/asteroidinitiative

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Microsoft's dumb idea: an app for the iPhone

This undated screenshot provided by Microsoft shows Microsoft's Office software package iPhone application, which offers people the ability to read and edit their text documents, spreadsheets and slide presentations on a phone. The company isn't making an iPad version, though, nor is it offering the app on Android devices. Microsoft Corp. is treading a fine line as it tries to make its $99-a-year subscription offering more compelling, without removing an advantage that tablet computers running Microsoft's Windows system now have, the ability to run popular Office programs such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. (AP Photo/Microsoft)

You can do a lot on an iPhone these days: stream online radio, watch videos in high-def, play games that are as addictive as anything on the Xbox 360. One thing you can't do very well: edit documents, fiddle with spreadsheets or whip up a PowerPoint presentation.

Riding in to address this problem approximately six years late, Microsoft announced last week that it has launched an Office app for the iPhone, available at no extra charge to those with an Office 365 subscription. Those without will have to pay a nice round $99.99 for a subscription.

Here is a bold prediction: If you subscribe to Office 365 and download this app, you will find that your iPhone is still an exceedingly poor tool for editing documents, fiddling with spreadsheets and whipping up PowerPoint presentations.

Tech writers who have not actually tried the product seem pretty jazzed about it. But those who have are not quite so sanguine. The Verge's Tom Warren found it "confusing to say the least." ReadWriteWeb's Brian Proffitt called the experience of editing an Excel spreadsheet "painful." While the app works sort of OK as a document viewer, he added, "if you are under the impression that you will be able to generate a ton of Office documents on the go with your iPhone, think again." Looking for something nice to say, Gizmodo's Ashley Feinberg observes that the outline template in Word "is great as long as you only have two main points to make." But, Feinberg cautions, "creating a totally

new document from nothing is a clunky process you'll want to avoid except in the most extreme of circumstances." Maybe the X-Games can add an "extreme document creation" event to next year's lineup.

Industry watchers are excited about what all of this means for the evolution of Microsoft Office as a "platform-agnostic" service, particularly given that Apple will get a cut of any Office 365 subscription that someone buys through the App Store. That's all very interesting from an MBA-case-study standpoint. But maybe the reason it took Microsoft six years to release Office for iPhone was less about grand strategy and more about the simple fact that the iPhone was, is, and always will be a terrible platform for Office. In general, important documents and tiny buttons are simply not a good match.

Can't wait to see what they come up with for Google Glass.

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Oremus is the lead blogger for Future Tense, reporting on emerging technologies, tech policy and digital culture.

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Judge shot dead outside court in eastern Libyan city

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A judge was shot dead outside a court in the eastern Libyan city of Derna on Sunday, an official said, just weeks after courts resumed work there following the 2011 war.

Assailants killed Mohammed Houidi on Sunday morning as he came out of a court in the city, which is known as an Islamist stronghold.

"A car just stopped in front and gunmen fired at him," Mansour al-Hasadi, a member of Libya's national assembly from Derna, told Reuters. "He died immediately."

Hasadi said courts in the city had only recently properly resumed work following disruption due to the 2011 war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi. As with elsewhere in the North African country, state security forces and courts there remain weak.

A relative of Houidi confirmed what Hasadi said and added: "The courts only started working again and this may have upset people who have openly been calling for Islamic law to be implemented in Derna."

Residents say there have been several demonstrations, led by members of some Islamist militias, calling for sharia law in recent months.

Derna, a coastal city overlooking the Mediterranean, is known across the region as a major recruitment centre for fighters who joined the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.

Libya has seen a step up in violence in recent weeks as the government struggles to impose its authority on a country awash with weapons and where militias often do as they please.

Six soldiers were killed and five injured in clashes between Libyan special forces and armed protesters outside a special forces base in the eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday, military officials said.

(Reporting by Ghaith Shennib; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Alison Williams)

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GEAK unveils Eye and Mars smartphones with 13MP cameras, budget prices

GEAK may be focusing its attention on wearable tech like the Ring and Watch, but it still has a pair of new offerings for those who like old-fashioned smartphones: meet the 5-inch Eye and 5.8-inch Mars. Both are tailored to photo junkies with 13MP, backside-illuminated rear cameras as well as strong front cameras that shoot at 8MP (Eye) and 2MP (Mars). Differences between the handsets revolve mostly around performance and screen size. The Eye keeps things modest with a 720p IPS display, a quad-core MediaTek MT6589, HSPA+ data, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. Spring for the extra-large Mars and you'll upgrade to a 1080p IPS LCD, a Snapdragon 600 and 2GB of RAM. Either way, you won't be paying a lot for the imaging prowess -- when pre-orders start on June 25th, GEAK will ask ¥1,999 ($326) off-contract for the Eye and ¥2,999 ($490) for the Mars. Just don't expect either to leave China when there's no word of international plans.

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Russian tycoon wants to move mind to machine

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Russian tycoon Dmitry Itskov speaks at the Global Future 2045 Congress at the Lincoln Center in New York on June 15, 2013.

Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so.

Dmitry Itskov gathered some of humanity's best brains ? and a few robots ? in New York City on Saturday to discuss how humans can get their minds to outlive their bodies. Itskov, who looks younger than his 32 years, has an aggressive timetable in which he'd like to see milestones toward that goal met:

• By 2020, robots we can control remotely with our brains.
  
• By 2025, a scenario familiar to watchers of sci-fi cartoon show "Futurama:" the capability to transplant the brain into a life-support system, which could be a robot body. Essentially, a robot prosthesis that can replace an ailing, perhaps dying body.
  
• By 2035, the ability to move the mind into a computer, eliminating the need for the robot bodies to carry around wet, messy brains.
  
• By 2045, technology nirvana in the form of artificial brains controlling insubstantial, hologram bodies.
  

The testimony of the neuroscience experts invited to Itskov's Global Future 2045 conference at Lincoln Center in the New York City's Manhattan borough indicate that Itskov's timetable is ambitious to the point of being unrealistic. But the gathering was a rare public airing of questions that will face us as technology progresses.

Is immortality desirable, and if so, what's the best way to get there? Do we leave behind something essentially human if we leave our bodies behind? If you send your robot copy to work, do you get paid?

Japanese robotics researcher Hiroshi Ishiguro's presentation started out with a life-size, like-like robot representation of himself on stage.

The robot moved its lips, nodded and moved it eyes while a hidden loudspeaker played up Ishiguro's voice. Apart from a stiff posture and a curious splay of the hands, the robot could be mistaken for a human, at least 10 rows from the stage.

Ishiguro uses this android or "Geminoid" (after the Latin word for "twin") to meet with students at a research institute two hours away from the laboratory where he also has an appointment. He controls it through the Internet, and sees his students through a webcam.

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Russian tycoon Dmitry Itskov speaks to the Global Future 2045 Congress at the Lincoln Center in New York on June 15, 2013.

"The problem is, if I use this android, the research institute says it cannot pay for me," Ishiguro said, to laughter from the audience of hundreds of journalists, academics, Buddhist monks and futurism enthusiasts.

Ishiguro flew to the U.S. with his robotic twin's head, the most valuable part, in the carry-on luggage. The body rode below, in the luggage compartment.

To Itskov, who made his money in the Russian Internet media business, the isolated achievements of inventors like Ishiguro are not enough. He wants to create a movement, involving governments and the United Nations, to work toward a common goal.

"We shouldn't just observe the wonderful entrepreneurs, we need to move ahead systematically," Itskov said in an interview. "We are really at the time when technology can affect human evolution. I want us to shape the future, bring it up for public discussion, and avoid any scenario that could damage humanity."

Itskov says he tries to eliminate his "selfishness" day by day, and has spent about $3 million promoting his vision. He organized the first conference on the theme in Russia last year.

But in bringing the idea to the U.S., a cultural difference is apparent: Itskov's desire for a shared, guiding vision for humanity does not mesh well with the spirit of the American high-tech industry, which despises government involvement and prizes its freedom to pursue whatever projects it wants.

Space entrepreneur and X-Prize Chairman Peter Diamandis articulated that spirit at the conference; the freewheeling capitalist system, he said, is one of the strongest engines for effecting change.

"The rate of change is going so fast, I do not believe any of our existing government systems can handle it," he said.

Archbishop Lazar Puhalo of the Orthodox Church in America, who has a background in neurobiology and physics, offered another critique at the conference.

"A lot of this stuff can't be done," he said.

If it can be done, that's not necessarily a good thing either, the robed and bearded patriarch believes.

"I'm not too fond of the idea of immortality, because I think it will be deathly boring," he said, with a twinkle in his eyes. Giving up our bodies could also be problematic, he said.

"There's a lot of stuff in them that makes us human. I'm not sure they can be built into machines," Puhalo said.

Itskov acknowledges that his vision would leave part of the human experience behind. But he believes it would be worth it.

"We're always losing something for what we're doing. We're always paying," Itskov said.

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India leaves rates unchanged, warns of inflationary risks

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India kept interest rates unchanged on Monday after cutting them in each of its previous three policy reviews, warning of upward risks to inflation posed by a falling rupee and increases in food prices.

The RBI also called for vigilance over global economic uncertainty, citing the risks of a reversal of capital flows from emerging markets. Such outflows would exacerbate the country's high current account deficit.

As expected, the Indian central bank left its policy repo rate unchanged at 7.25 percent and kept the cash reserve ratio (CRR), or the share of deposits banks must keep with the central bank, steady at 4.00 percent, despite falling inflation in recent months.

"It is only a durable receding of inflation that will open up the space for monetary policy to continue to address risks to growth," the Reserve Bank of India said in a statement announcing its mid-quarter policy review.

A Reuters poll released on Thursday showed 28 of 38 analysts expected the RBI to hold the repo rate steady and 30 of 34 saw the CRR unchanged.

The central bank left rates on hold despite headline wholesale price index inflation that fell to 4.7 percent in May, within its comfort zone, as well as an economy that grew at just 5 percent in the fiscal year that ended in March, its weakest in a decade.

(Reporting by Suvashree Dey Choudhury and Tony Munroe)

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Khloe Kardashian Reveals The Secret To Keeping 'Keeping Up' Fresh

The reality starlet opens up to MTV News about Kourtney's dreams for a 'weird lifestyle' and how her family never gets boring.
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Ask A VC: Canaan Partners' Maha Ibrahim On Why There Aren't More Women VCs

In this week's Ask A VC epsiode, we had Canaan Partners' Maha Ibrahim in the studio to chat about her perspective on social gaming, and more. Ibrahim, who has worked at Canaan since 2000, invests in cloud, social gaming and digital media companies for the firm. We raised an interesting question to Ibrahim--why aren't there more female VCs in the industry? According to a recent report, of the 25 most active VC firms in 2011, only 8% of their investment professionals were women. Many of these firms don't have female investment professionals at all.

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Health of entire families at risk through under-use of genetic testing

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Paris, France: A new study of the use of genetic testing for cancer-causing mutations in affected families in France has found that its take-up is very low. Professor Pascal Pujol, Head of the Cancer Genetics Department, Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics tomorrow (Sunday) that analysis of data from the French National Cancer Institute covering the years 2003 to 2011 showed that, although there had been a steady increase in tests performed for the breast and ovarian cancer-causing mutations BRCA1 and BRCA2, this was not the case with the MMR mutation, implicated in Lynch syndrome (a form of colorectal cancer). Only a third of relatives of individuals with either mutation underwent genetic testing themselves.

"Given that such testing can provide many options to enable individuals to manage their cancer risk, it is vital to encourage awareness and acceptance among both the public and medical professionals", he will say. "For example, removal of the ovaries in women over 40 years old who carry a BRCA mutation decreases their overall cancer mortality by 20% and prophylactic mastectomy can reduce the chances of breast cancer in women carrying such a mutation by around 90%. Those who are unwilling to undergo prophylactic surgery can benefit from increased surveillance, with regular MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans. For familial colon cancer, screening by colonoscopy has been shown to decrease mortality. It is therefore regrettable that so few people seem to be aware of the benefits of genetic testing in families with a history of breast, ovarian, or colorectal cancer."

Professor Pujol and colleagues from cancer centres across France analysed 240134 consultations and 134652 genetic tests from patients referred for a predisposition to breast or colorectal cancer. They found a substantial increase in tests for BRCA1/2 from 2095 a year in 2003 to 7393 in 2011 but for MMR mutations the increase was tiny from 1144 to 1635 a year over the same period.

Mutations in BRCA1/2 genes are thought to be responsible for about 5% of all cases of breast and ovarian cancer. A woman with such a mutation has a risk of up to 87% of having breast cancer before she reaches the age of 80, as opposed to a risk of 8% in the general population. Such cancers are diagnosed at an average age of 43, as opposed to 60 in the general population, and are often more aggressive. In the case of ovarian cancer, a woman carrying a BRCA1 mutation has a risk of ovarian cancer of up to 63%.

Individuals with Lynch syndrome, or hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, have a 45% risk of developing colorectal cancer by the age of 70, and women with the syndrome are at increased risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers.

"While the increase in BRCA testing is encouraging, it is far from optimal. And the uptake of MMR testing for Lynch syndrome - responsible for 5% of all colorectal cancers - is frankly disappointing", says Professor Pujol. "And of course, positive test results may have implications for other family members.

"While we have only studied the situation in France, we believe that our findings would be likely to be replicated in many other countries across the world. It is extremely worrying that such a simple test, which has the potential to spare whole families from devastating illness, is being so under-used. We urgently need a major programme of awareness among all those concerned, involving medical education and training, information programmes for patients and their families, public health campaigning, and improved genetic counselling," he will conclude.

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Paris, France: A new study of the use of genetic testing for cancer-causing mutations in affected families in France has found that its take-up is very low. Professor Pascal Pujol, Head of the Cancer Genetics Department, Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics tomorrow (Sunday) that analysis of data from the French National Cancer Institute covering the years 2003 to 2011 showed that, although there had been a steady increase in tests performed for the breast and ovarian cancer-causing mutations BRCA1 and BRCA2, this was not the case with the MMR mutation, implicated in Lynch syndrome (a form of colorectal cancer). Only a third of relatives of individuals with either mutation underwent genetic testing themselves.

"Given that such testing can provide many options to enable individuals to manage their cancer risk, it is vital to encourage awareness and acceptance among both the public and medical professionals", he will say. "For example, removal of the ovaries in women over 40 years old who carry a BRCA mutation decreases their overall cancer mortality by 20% and prophylactic mastectomy can reduce the chances of breast cancer in women carrying such a mutation by around 90%. Those who are unwilling to undergo prophylactic surgery can benefit from increased surveillance, with regular MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans. For familial colon cancer, screening by colonoscopy has been shown to decrease mortality. It is therefore regrettable that so few people seem to be aware of the benefits of genetic testing in families with a history of breast, ovarian, or colorectal cancer."

Professor Pujol and colleagues from cancer centres across France analysed 240134 consultations and 134652 genetic tests from patients referred for a predisposition to breast or colorectal cancer. They found a substantial increase in tests for BRCA1/2 from 2095 a year in 2003 to 7393 in 2011 but for MMR mutations the increase was tiny from 1144 to 1635 a year over the same period.

Mutations in BRCA1/2 genes are thought to be responsible for about 5% of all cases of breast and ovarian cancer. A woman with such a mutation has a risk of up to 87% of having breast cancer before she reaches the age of 80, as opposed to a risk of 8% in the general population. Such cancers are diagnosed at an average age of 43, as opposed to 60 in the general population, and are often more aggressive. In the case of ovarian cancer, a woman carrying a BRCA1 mutation has a risk of ovarian cancer of up to 63%.

Individuals with Lynch syndrome, or hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, have a 45% risk of developing colorectal cancer by the age of 70, and women with the syndrome are at increased risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers.

"While the increase in BRCA testing is encouraging, it is far from optimal. And the uptake of MMR testing for Lynch syndrome - responsible for 5% of all colorectal cancers - is frankly disappointing", says Professor Pujol. "And of course, positive test results may have implications for other family members.

"While we have only studied the situation in France, we believe that our findings would be likely to be replicated in many other countries across the world. It is extremely worrying that such a simple test, which has the potential to spare whole families from devastating illness, is being so under-used. We urgently need a major programme of awareness among all those concerned, involving medical education and training, information programmes for patients and their families, public health campaigning, and improved genetic counselling," he will conclude.

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Openmind Networks Offers its Mobile Communications Platform via ...

Openmind Networks, communications services platform, has announced the Openmind API which opens up its up its mobile communications platform to the developer community. Most of Openmind?s feature set becomes available through the API. The API arms developers with a telco-grade communications platform upon which new innovative apps can be built. Openmind CEO, Alex Duncan, expanded:

?We can offer VoIP capabilities, RCS, WebRTC, location sharing, billing, etc., allowing app developers to think and create new apps that before were only dreamt about. For the app developer, it means their apps can be built on a solid, proven, telco-grade platform, allowing them to launch and scale apps fast.?

For over 10 years, Openmind Networks has continued to push the communications industry to new heights with an ever-improving communications platform. Its award winning product set has disrupted legacy thought processes and won awards for its innovation. By opening up its platform via an API, Openmind will continue to inspire new apps and aims to finally connect the telecom and IP worlds.

Public documentation for the API is not currently available. Those interested can reach out to the Openmind team via the API announcement. The API will give developers access to standalone messaging, chat, file transfer, content share, video share, cloud storage, VoIP calling, SMS, and more.

As of late, the telecommunications industry has jumped onto the API economy bandwagon. With startups interrupting this legacy space, developers should be encouraged that a proven communications leader has launched its services via API. Openmind expects the unexpected now that its platform is available to the entire app developer community.

Source: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2013/06/04/openmind-networks-offers-its-mobile-communications-platform-via-api/

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16 Onscreen Dads We Adore!

From Steve Carell to Hugh Jackman, we celebrate our favorite fathers on film.

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No early birds getting the worms: Songbirds risk missing peak food supply

June 3, 2013 ? A mismatch between the departure schedules of songbirds and higher spring temperatures at their breeding sites is putting them at risk, according to a new study out of York University.

The study, "A Trans-Hemispheric Migratory Songbird Does Not Advance Spring Schedules or Increase Migration Rate in Response to Record-Setting Temperatures at Breeding Sites," published in the journal PLOS ONE, tracked the spring migration of purple martins over five years from the Amazon basin to two breeding sites in eastern North America. Researchers outfitted the birds with tiny geolocator "backpacks" to record data on their movements and found that the birds' departure times between years were surprisingly consistent, despite variation in temperature at their final destination.

"We found that purple martins migrating between the Amazon Basin and North America did not adjust their migration timing even during the hottest spring on record in 2012," says study author Kevin Fraser, a Postdoctoral Fellow in York's Department of Biology, Faculty of Science. "This means that they arrived 'late' for the advanced spring, and likely missed out on peak food they need to be productive breeders."

Aerial insectivores, like purple martins and other swallows, are experiencing strong population declines, particularly species migrating longer distances and populations breeding further north. Scientists have shown in a European species that declines may be due to an inability to advance arrival schedules to match a warming climate. This study provides the first direct evidence of a discrepancy between higher spring temperatures at breeding sites and departure schedules of individual songbirds.

"Our results suggest that long-distance migrants may receive limited or conflicting environmental cues about conditions at the breeding grounds while still at overwintering sites or along migration routes," says Fraser. "Once en route, the birds received no temperature cues of the warm spring until they reached the US Gulf coast, at which point it was likely too late to get to breeding sites earlier." Fraser says such mistiming is an active area of new research, and with climate change may be an important contributing factor to migratory songbird declines.

"Some migratory songbirds may not have the flexibility they need to respond quickly to earlier springs and more variable weather with climate change, which could contribute to the strong population declines we see in many species. Identifying which species or populations may be at greatest risk will be very important for guiding effective conservation action."

He says the study suggests that migration timing and rate in purple martin is not highly sensitive to short-term variation in temperature and rainfall, and that multiple years of increasing spring temperatures may be required to shift the birds to an earlier breeding arrival time through natural selection for earlier departure from tropical overwintering sites.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_environment/~3/xSUKR-Uf208/130603135525.htm

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Method In His Madness Greyhound Betting | Greyhound Racing ...

Written By Bruce Teague, Senior Australian Greyhound Racing Writer Monday 3rd June 2013 ?

With the Waterhouses? battles at Randwick now drawing to a close ? Gai still has one issue to discuss with the stewards ? it?s timely to put some things into perspective.

Widespread Community objections to Channel 9?s overexposure of Smiling Tom involved two prime factors: the advertising of gambling to kids and the risk of a stimulus for problem gambling.

It?s hard to think of any reason why the first point should not get maximum attention. So far, it has been weakly handled by governments. The ads are to be cut back but will still be present during daylight hours. They will not impact on actual playing times but will still be seen by youngsters during breaks. Not tough enough, in my view, when they occur during general sporting programs.

The second point is largely nonsense and I will explain why shortly.

There are some related but less vital issues. Smiling Tom?s marketing strategy is technically faulty on two grounds at least. Like the vicar at the church fete, a constant grinning personage soon becomes annoying and he does it 100% of the time. It lacks sincerity. Equally, the frequency of the ads is so high it will produce the same reaction ? and has done so, according to several letters to the editor.

They also divert attention from the message he wants to get across. (And, contrary to some opinions, the girl with the hacksaw voice on Tabcorp?s ads annoys me even more, although I can?t understand half the stuff she spruiks, but I hear that 20 year-olds might).

Whether Smiling Tom will ever see a return on his investment is unknown. Certainly, some of his competitors in the industry don?t think so, although they have not been shy in putting their names forward elsewhere. However, that?s his problem.

The other annoying factor is a barrage of objections to any such advertising or, in fact, to any sports betting, notably from Peter Fitzsimons of the Sydney Morning Herald. He has outstayed his welcome, too. The majority of Australians do not mind an occasional bet so will find Fitzy?s rants boring (I ignore the results of his alleged surveys ? such things can easily be skewed). Indeed, betting cards were being flogged around football grounds long before TV arrived. And what about chook raffles at Fitzy?s rugby union clubs?

But back to the hard figures, so far as they can be established. That?s not an easy task because they are often conflicting, as are the results of various surveys and research. Misinterpretation is also a hassle ? as, for example, by Michael Pascoe (Business Day, SMH) who claimed that the average adult in NSW had an ?astonishing ? gambling habit? to the tune of $11,778, with Victorians at $9,956. Pascoe means the total amount bet per year but to use such a figure is misleading and it is not astonishing at all.

Massive amounts go into that mix from big time punters (and bookies betting back) and, individually, not a lot from Mystery bettors, recreational weekend punters or casual gamblers in the pub. The actual losses are under $1,000 per person in both states ? again, on average.

Even using that figure, many folk would consider $20 a week not as a loss, but as the cost of a bit of fun, just like going to the movies, or paying an entry fee to the football ground, neither of which will give you your money back if you guess right.

Betting figures for 2011/12 are the latest available and come from sources like the Australian Racing Board and the Australian Gaming Council. Both the commonwealth statistician and the Queensland Treasury produce official figures but they are two or three years out of date and not always meaningful in such a fast moving field.

The AGC reckons that total gambling amounted to $161.2 billion, of which $21.8 billion or 13.5% was on racing and sports. However, the ARB?s figure for racing and sports is $23.6 billion, which itself is understated because it does not include Betfair turnover (Betfair refuses to contribute figures). The ARB?s breakdown was:

Code	$b	%	Trend
Thoroughbreds	14.4	60.9	Falling
Harness	2.3	9.7	Falling
Greyhounds	3.7	15.8	Rising
Sports	3.2	13.6	Rising
Totals	23.6	100

Either way, sports betting accounts for just under 2% of all gambling.

Take that a step further. Data on problem gamblers is also variable but it is generally considered that 70% to 80% of those affected are poker machine players. That means no more than about 25% of all problem gambling would involve racing and sports, but probably less. Therefore, sports betting alone might be responsible for perhaps 3.4% of all problem gamblers, assuming the problem was spread evenly, which is unlikely. At a guess, the real figure might be much less than half of that.

Consequently, the lobby complaining about Smiling Tom?s impact on problem gambling is addressing a tiny number at best.

None of this is to lessen the need for regulatory controls over abuses or criminal influences. As someone once said, crooks have been around since Jesus played fullback for Jerusalem. And every human activity is subject to abuses to one degree or another.

The point is that we do not need a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Responsible gambling should include responsible regulation as well. Additionally, resources would be better directed to two other areas: educating more high school seniors in maths and statistics and educating young males in the 18-35 years age group who are more inclined than others to have a punt or to get into strife doing it, so the surveys tell us. Even those who can handle their cash would benefit from that effort.

As for Smiling Tom, I doubt he is too fussed about the volume of sports business he does and, due to his huge investment in advertising, he will almost certainly lose heavily on the deal. More likely, it?s the other 98% that interests him. That?s where the real money is and that?s why he places a high value on getting his name in front of the public, especially the big betting members of the public. Anyway, compared to racing, football pictures and audiences are a lot more accessible to a lot more people.

Finally, while on the advertising subject, it is disappointing to see so many raceclubs ? in all three codes ? accept all the dollars to change the name of their track. Sponsoring races is fine but the track name is the only brand they have, so why give it away? What will they do when the sponsor gets sick of it or goes broke?

Source: http://www.australianracinggreyhound.com/australian-greyhound-racing/greyhound-betting-australian-greyhound-racing/method-in-his-madness/41289

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Gigabyte PC revamps include game-ready Ultrabooks, AMD A4-based tablet (hands-on)

Gigabyte loves to pull out all the stops at Computex, and this year is no exception: the company just unveiled 11 (mostly) new laptops and tablets. According to a brochure on hand at the computer maker's demo table, the emphasis is chiefly on slimmer portables with both Haswell-era Core processors and some dedicated graphics firepower. The P34G and P35K Ultrablade models are equally 0.83 inches thick, but pack gaming-friendly GeForce GTX 760M (P34G) and 765M (P35K) video. More pedestrian Ultrabooks get a boost as well: both the touchscreen U24T (pictured above) and the non-touch U24F wield a mid-tier GeForce GT 750M. If you don't mind bulkier laptops, the Q2546N, Q2556N, U35F, P27K and P27W scale from the GeForce GT 740M through to the GTX 770M while allowing for more storage and Creative Sound Blaster audio tuning.

The tablet updates aren't nearly as extensive. Most of Gigabyte's energy centers on the 10-inch Slate S10A, a spin on the S1082 with an AMD Temash-based A4-1200 processor that delivers up to 14 hours of battery life. Other refreshes are even subtler: the 11.6-inch U21M convertible is similar to the U2142, while the dockable S1185 returns virtually unchanged outside from a new Padbook nickname. Release dates and prices aren't immediately available for any of the new systems, unfortunately, but you can peek at a few of the fresh models in our hands-on photos just below.

Gallery: Hands-on with Gigabyte's 2013 Computex lineup

Zach Honig and Mat Smith contributed to this report.

Filed under: Laptops, Tablets, AMD, Intel

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Mommy In Dubai: Product Review: Shopping at "TKD" in Jumeirah ...

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Egypt policemen free after manslaughter conviction

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) ? A judge has ordered the release of two Egyptian policemen previously sentenced for the beating death of a man after an appeal overturned their manslaughter conviction.

The death of 28-year-old Khaled Said was a major spark for the 2011 uprising that forced longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power. Photographs of Said's severely beaten face after his June 2010 death in Alexandria were posted on the Internet and became a rallying cry against rampant police brutality under Mubarak.

On the opening day of the retrial Saturday, the presiding judge ordered the policemen released pending trial. An appeal overturned their 7-year sentence for manslaughter.

Activists outside the Alexandria courthouse chanted against police and President Mohammed Morsi. Said's mother, Laila Marzouk, told The Associated Press she feels her son died in vain.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-policemen-free-manslaughter-conviction-132621440.html

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