Health officials probe virus exposure at Yosemite

FILE -- In this file photo from Sunday Oct. 23, 2011, tents are seen in Curry Village in Yosemite National Park, Calif. On Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, Yosemite officials announced a second person had died of a rare, rodent-borne disease after staying in one of Yosemite National Park's most popular lodging areas, prompting federal officials to step up efforts to locate and warn recent visitors. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

FILE -- In this file photo from Sunday Oct. 23, 2011, tents are seen in Curry Village in Yosemite National Park, Calif. On Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, Yosemite officials announced a second person had died of a rare, rodent-borne disease after staying in one of Yosemite National Park's most popular lodging areas, prompting federal officials to step up efforts to locate and warn recent visitors. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) ? Two more Yosemite National Park visitors have been found with a mouse-borne virus blamed for the deaths of two people, bringing the total number of infections to six, state health officials said.

The new discoveries were made during the agency's investigation into cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome at the famed park, California Department of Public Health Anita Gore spokeswoman said.

The infections spurred park officials to close 91 tent cabins at Curry Village in Yosemite Valley, where five of the six infections occurred. Gore said one of the infected people may have been in another area of the park.

"Our investigation is trying to determine which area of the park that person visited," she said.

Over the past three weeks, two people have died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome after staying in cabins at Curry Village in Yosemite Valley.

Park officials said the double-walled design of the cabins that were closed Tuesday made it easy for mice to nest between the walls. The disease is carried in the feces, urine and saliva of deer mice and other rodents.

The illness begins as flu-like symptoms but can quickly affect the lungs. It can take up to six weeks to incubate.

Five of the people who fell ill are known to have stayed in the tent cabins in June or July, and warnings have gone out to visitors who stayed in Curry Village in June, July or August.

The hantavirus outbreak occurred despite efforts by park officials to step up protection efforts last April. A 2010 report from the state health department warned park officials that rodent inspection efforts should be increased after a visitor to the Tuolumne Meadows area of the park fell ill.

The new hantavirus policy, enacted April 25, was designed to provide a safe place, "free from recognized hazards that may cause serious physical harm or death."

It came after the state report revealed that 18 percent of mice trapped for testing at various locations around the park were positive for hantavirus.

"Inspections for rodent infestations and appropriate exclusion efforts, particularly for buildings where people sleep, should be enhanced," it said.

In 2009, the park installed the 91 new, higher-end cabins to replace some that had been closed or damaged after parts of Curry Village, which sits below the 3,000-foot Glacier Point promontory, were determined to be in a rock-fall hazard zone.

The new cabins have canvas exteriors and drywall or plywood inside, with insulation in between. Park officials found this week when they tried to shore up some of the cabins that mice had built nests in the walls.

The deer mice most prone to carrying the virus can squeeze through holes just one-quarter-inch in diameter. They are distinguished from solid-colored house mice by their white bellies and gray and brown bodies.

The park sent warning emails and letters Wednesday to another 1,000 people who stayed in tent cabins, after officials found that a computer glitch had stopped the notices from going out with the original 1,700 warnings Monday. The warning says anyone with flu-like symptoms or respiratory problems should seek immediate medical attention.

In 2011, half of the 24 U.S. hantavirus cases ended in death. But since 1993, when the virus first was identified, the average death rate is 36.39 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

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Dearen reported from San Francisco.

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Rabbinic Scholar W. David Nelson to Discuss 'Race, Religion and the

OXFORD, Miss. ? W. David Nelson, a noted scholar of rabbinic literature and the Hebrew Bible at Groton School in Massachusetts, will discuss how the Bible has been used out of context in the past to promote anti-Semitism during a Thursday (Sept. 6) public lecture at the University of Mississippi.

Norton?s lecture, ?Say Again!: Race, Religion and Realities of Reading the Bible,? is set for 5:30 p.m. in the Overby Center auditorium. The next day (Sept. 7), the scholar will participate in an informal discussion with faculty and students on how the Bible has been misused to advance racist agendas.

?Dr. Nelson?s presentation is the first in the lecture series, titled ?Intertwining Legacies: Jews and African-Americans in the Deep South,?? said Kirk Johnson, UM associate professor of sociology and African-American studies. ?The goal of the lecture series is to bring together scholars, students and community members to explore anti-Semitism, racism and the shared and divergent histories of these two groups.?Other scholars scheduled include Sander Gilman, an internationally-renowned cultural and literary historian from Emory University, who will address the twin legacies of anti-Semitism and racism in the deep South on Oct. 25; and Jonathan Kaufman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of ?Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America,? who will speak Feb. 6 on the historic relationship between Jews and African-Americans.

Last year, the UM Critical Race Studies Group, an interdisciplinary collection of scholars working to address racial and ethnic inequities on campus and in academia, applied for an Association for Jewish Studies-Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project grant to explore the complex relationships between African-Americans and Jews in the South. The proposal, written by Willa Johnson, associate professor of sociology, was funded for $22,000. The university is among only four institutions in the United States to receive this award for the 2012-13 academic year.

?As a teacher of Jewish studies, I know it is important for the University of Mississippi to join other flagship institutions of higher learning in the South in raising awareness of the powerful and important impact of Jews upon our culture,? Johnson said. ?I am equally aware of the sacrifices of Jewish men such as Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, who in 1964 died fighting for civil rights alongside James Chaney, an African-American.

?As an African-American woman, I have lived long enough to witness what hate does to marginalized people. Three of my uncles fought, and one of them died, to liberate Jews from tyranny in Europe during World War II. Even if all three had survived the war, they would have been among the nearly 1 million returning African-American soldiers who were denied these same liberties by an ungrateful nation.?

Looking at race in Mississippi and the nation as a whole is particularly important at this time, said Jeffrey Jackson, associate professor of sociology.

?As we acknowledge the 50th anniversary of James Meredith?s enrollment at the University of Mississippi, we need to recognize the commonalities of racially-oppressed groups that still exist to this day,? Jackson said. ?All have had similar experiences of being marginalized in society. African-Americans and Jews have historically strongly supported each other in their respective struggles for civil rights and equality.?

After earning his bachelor?s degree in religious studies from the University of Virginia, Nelson received both a master?s degree in Bible and cognate studies and a doctorate in rabbinic literature and thought from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Before going to Groton, he served as a member of the faculty in the Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern studies program at Washington University and as Rosenthal associate professor and director of Jewish studies at TCU and Brite Divinity School. Nelson has both studied and served as a visiting research professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2004-05, he was awarded its Yad Hanadiv/Beracha Foundation Visiting Fellowship in Jewish Studies.

With a specialized interest in ancient and medieval Jewish biblical interpretation, Nelson is the author of numerous scholarly articles and book chapters and has published the first English translation and commentary of the Mekhilta d?Rabbi Shimon ben Yohai, an anthology of early Jewish interpretation of the biblical book of Exodus. He is co-authoring two books: ?Exodus: Echoes and Reverberations in Jewish Tradition? and ?Exodus in America: White Jewish and Black Christian Experiences of Exodus.? He is an active member of the American Academy of Religion and chairs the Midrash Section for the Society of Biblical Literature.

Co-sponsors lending support to the lecture series include the university?s African-American Studies Program; Center for the Study of Southern Culture; College of Liberal Arts, particularly the departments of history, philosophy and religion, and sociology and anthropology, and the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies; School of Law; Trent Lott Leadership Institute; and William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation.

The Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project is designed to foster relationships between scholars and the public and to highlight relationships between Jews and other cultures. For more information, visit http://www.ajsnet.org/legacy.htm.

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Metropolis - Arts & Entertainment | Seun Kuti

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Growing up the child of a legendary entertainer and political firebrand isn?t easy?especially when you?re the youngest of eight. Seun Kuti encountered all sorts of headwinds after his decision to take on the mantle of his towering father, Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.

?The family said, ?Fela is dead, the band can?t survive,?? the lean 29-year-old Nigerian recalls on a sunlit afternoon at Naeba Ski Resort, where he and the band his father founded, Egypt 80, have just wrapped up a feverish two-hour set at the Fuji Rock Festival. ?But I said, ?No, we?re going to keep playing.? It was hard, because people used to compare me to my Dad.?

?I grew up hearing his music all my life, but I didn?t understand how big it was because Fela was so humble,? the singer and sax player continues about their relationship. ?He slept on the floor. He was not proud. To be that great and be down to earth is the philosophy of Afrobeat music. The connection to the common man is important.?

The favorite son of Fela?s, Seun was joining his Dad on stage by age eight. He would open for Egypt 80, singing a few songs before they took the stage for marathon outings of jazz-inflected African beats and uncompromising messages of political empowerment.
But then it was over. ?I started playing in ?91 and ?92, but then Fela got sick and died,? Kuti says of his notoriously womanizing father?s death of AIDS in 1997.

It took the younger Kuti a decade to return Egypt 80 to a place where it could act as a major draw at events like Fuji Rock. ?The government, which controlled the media, wanted Fela to be dead,? he explains. ?Everyday there was bad press about me. They said I was a cokehead. But my Dad taught me about the reality of life. He said, the press has that name because they are there to press you down. We kept playing in Nigeria for ten years before we broke out. But that helped my art. I never thought we would play for 100,000, so we just said, ?Let?s do this.??

A generation distant from its post-colonial creation, is Afrobeat still relevant? ?For me, what?s happening now is not a lot different from what happened in the ?70s,? Kuti responds. ?To take a line from my father, he sang around 1978, ?How can you say the country is getting rich when the people are so poor?? The same thing is happening today. The government says the country is growing by eight percent, but every year 20 percent more people become poor. So we?re still going through the same shit our fathers went through.?

Kuti has little time for the bling-bling lifestyle celebrated in contemporary pop, whether in Africa or the West. ?In England now, they are taking Afropop, and they put a commercial gimmick at the end to make something they call ?Afrobeats,? and they sing about champagne and cars, which maybe only three percent of Africans can afford,? he says. ?That is not the direction Afrobeat should go. Afrobeat cannot be used to sell Gucci.?

A member of the tiny upper class he just described, Kuti could have taken the easy route and chosen the expat life in London or New York, but he prefers to remain in Lagos.

?As a Nigerian, you have plenty of inspiration in your daily life. The politicians are talking lies every day on TV, you see people so demoralized they accept the bullshit,? he says. ?That?s why I still live in my country. I want to understand how it is for my people. I know I am privileged, but I also know the music has to be for the majority. Art should be about what the people are going through. This is what drives me.?

A new album is in the works and Kuti offers a hint of what?s on it: ?I have a new song called ?IMF??international motherfuckers?that tells you all you need to know.?

Kuti says the difference between the situations his father faced and the ones facing contemporary Africa is that now Africans have the smarts to fight corruption and use the system to their own benefit.

?If you look at how people are directing their anger, it?s properly, and that comes from education,? he concludes. ?This is where the change is going to come from, and I hope Afrobeat can continue to be the music that drives that.?

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Biodiversity conservation depends on scale: Lessons from the sience-policy dialogue

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The year 2010 marked the deadline for the political targets to significantly reduce and halt biodiversity loss. The failure to achieve the 2010 goal stimulated the setting up of new targets for 2020. In addition, preventing the degradation of ecosystems and their services has been incorporated in several global and the EU agendas for 2020. To successful meet these challenging targets requires a critical review of the existing and emerging biodiversity policies to improve their design and implementation, say a team scientists in a paper published in the open access journal Nature Conservation.

These and other questions of increasing the "scale-awareness" of policy makers have been actively discussed at a special SCALES symposium at the 3rd European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB) in Glasgow on 28th-31st of August 2012. The lead author Dr Riikka Paloniemi from the Environmental Policy Centre, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), in Helsinki, Finland, said: "The policies that regulate biodiversity protection and management operate at many administrative levels, employ a range of instruments at different scales, and involve a variety of governmental and non-governmental actors. These actors often have different insights as to what constitutes a scale-challenge and how to deal with it, inevitably leading to contrasting opinions."

"The question of scale has never been so acute before. Neglecting the spatial and temporal scale at which ecosystems functions when designing conservation measures may lead to long-standing negative consequences, and the failure of the 2010 target is one of the best examples of that" added Dr Klaus Henle from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig, Germany and coordinator of SCALES.

The main conclusion of the scientists is that scale-related problems, and their potential solutions, are all about improving our understanding of complexity of the processes. Dealing with a number of different scales and scale-mismatches in biodiversity conservation is challenging; it requires an analytical and political framework that is able to assess the adverse impacts of global change, and to implement the relevant policies at the relevant scale.

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Paloniemi R, Apostolopoulou E, Primmer E, Grodzinska-Jurcak M, Henle K, Ring I, Kettunen M, Tzanopoulos J, Potts S, van den Hove S, Marty P, McConville A, Simila J (2012) Biodiversity conservation across scales: lessons from a sciencepolicy dialogue. Nature Conservation 2: 7-19. doi: 10.3897/natureconservation.2.3144

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SCALES (2009) stands for "Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales" and is a European research project. Financed by the 7th EU framework programme for research and development (FP7), SCALES seeks ways to better integrate the issue of scale into policy and decision-making and biodiversity management in the EU. For more information please see: www.scales-project.net

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The year 2010 marked the deadline for the political targets to significantly reduce and halt biodiversity loss. The failure to achieve the 2010 goal stimulated the setting up of new targets for 2020. In addition, preventing the degradation of ecosystems and their services has been incorporated in several global and the EU agendas for 2020. To successful meet these challenging targets requires a critical review of the existing and emerging biodiversity policies to improve their design and implementation, say a team scientists in a paper published in the open access journal Nature Conservation.

These and other questions of increasing the "scale-awareness" of policy makers have been actively discussed at a special SCALES symposium at the 3rd European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB) in Glasgow on 28th-31st of August 2012. The lead author Dr Riikka Paloniemi from the Environmental Policy Centre, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), in Helsinki, Finland, said: "The policies that regulate biodiversity protection and management operate at many administrative levels, employ a range of instruments at different scales, and involve a variety of governmental and non-governmental actors. These actors often have different insights as to what constitutes a scale-challenge and how to deal with it, inevitably leading to contrasting opinions."

"The question of scale has never been so acute before. Neglecting the spatial and temporal scale at which ecosystems functions when designing conservation measures may lead to long-standing negative consequences, and the failure of the 2010 target is one of the best examples of that" added Dr Klaus Henle from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig, Germany and coordinator of SCALES.

The main conclusion of the scientists is that scale-related problems, and their potential solutions, are all about improving our understanding of complexity of the processes. Dealing with a number of different scales and scale-mismatches in biodiversity conservation is challenging; it requires an analytical and political framework that is able to assess the adverse impacts of global change, and to implement the relevant policies at the relevant scale.

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Original source:

Paloniemi R, Apostolopoulou E, Primmer E, Grodzinska-Jurcak M, Henle K, Ring I, Kettunen M, Tzanopoulos J, Potts S, van den Hove S, Marty P, McConville A, Simila J (2012) Biodiversity conservation across scales: lessons from a sciencepolicy dialogue. Nature Conservation 2: 7-19. doi: 10.3897/natureconservation.2.3144

Additional information:

SCALES (2009) stands for "Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales" and is a European research project. Financed by the 7th EU framework programme for research and development (FP7), SCALES seeks ways to better integrate the issue of scale into policy and decision-making and biodiversity management in the EU. For more information please see: www.scales-project.net

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Logitech unveils new Ultimate Ears range, includes $99 mobile boombox (video)

Logitech's Ultimate Ears marque is unveiling a plethora of new products designed to keep you smothered in music from the moment you wake up. First up is a trio of speakers that push tunes from your smartphone, including a $180 WiFi-connected Smart Radio, a $250 Boombox and a $100 Mobile Boombox, the latter of which seems like it could take on Jawbone's Jambox and win on price alone.

If you prefer strapping your tunes to your skull, the company's got a lovely looking pair of $400 in-ear monitor-style earphones that are said to be the closest you'll get to a professional set. Cans-wise, the range is topped by a $350 pair of Bluetooth-headphones that are built for the rigors of being tossed in your bag when you reach the office. If you're worried about nursing your battery after a long day, the company thoughtfully bundled a cable in the set. If your wallet won't stretch to those prices, lower-spec wired versions are available for $200 and $100, respectively.

For those of us who've found our sets die at the cable connections, the company's smartly built all of theirs to be braided, detachable and each one has an in-line hands-free kit as standard. The range goes live in Europe in September, so we've got pictures, video and PR galore to whet your appetite in the meantime.

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Buffett, near 82, reflects on staying in Nebraska

FILE - In this May 7, 2012, file photo Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, laughs during an interview in Omaha, Neb. Omaha won?t throw a bash for Buffett?s 82nd birthday on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, but his hometown is grateful the billionaire never considered leaving Omaha behind because he has bolstered the city?s reputation and attracted thousands of tourists. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

FILE - In this May 7, 2012, file photo Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, laughs during an interview in Omaha, Neb. Omaha won?t throw a bash for Buffett?s 82nd birthday on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, but his hometown is grateful the billionaire never considered leaving Omaha behind because he has bolstered the city?s reputation and attracted thousands of tourists. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ? Omaha won't throw a bash for Warren Buffett's 82nd birthday on Thursday, and that's just fine with the billionaire investor.

The decidedly low-key lifestyle in Omaha, where Buffett was born and where he's lived continuously since 1956, is a key reason he chose to remain there rather than trade up to a city with a splashier skyline or new digs closer to Wall Street.

"If I had to live some other place I'd be fine doing it, but I can't think of a better place to live than Omaha," Buffett said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Buffett was born in Omaha in 1930 and spent the first 12 years of his life in Nebraska's largest city until his father was elected to Congress. After earning his bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska, Buffett didn't return full-time to Omaha until he got his master's in economics at Columbia University and worked in New York for a few years.

He and his first wife, Susie, wanted their children to grow up in Omaha, so they returned to the Midwest city to plant roots.

Buffett didn't plan to start an investment partnership until a few family members and friends persuaded him to do so. But his success with the partnership before he liquidated it allowed Buffett to take control of Berkshire Hathaway in the 1960s and gradually transform the textile company into a conglomerate that today owns more than 80 businesses.

Buffett is known for investing in quality businesses that have fallen out of favor with the market, and he said being in Omaha helped him do that.

"In some places it's easy to lose perspective. But I think it's very easy to keep perspective in a place like Omaha," he said.

Buffett said being far from Wall Street actually helped him.

"It's very easy to think clearly here. You're undisturbed by irrelevant factors and the noise generally of business investments," Buffett said. "If you can't think clearly in Omaha, you're not going to think clearly anyplace."

In the city of 415,000, Buffett can drive the 20 blocks from his home to his office in about 5 minutes.

"I would find a long commute quite irritating even if I did it under favorable circumstances ? even if I had a driver," Buffett said. "I like being in the home and I like being in the office, and I'm not keen on in between."

Buffett said he's never been tempted to move, and that he doubts the company will ever move, either, because he said the two dozen people who work at Berkshire Hathaway's headquarters also like living in Omaha.

Previously, Buffett had said his successor should continue working wherever he or she thinks best, so it wasn't clear whether Berkshire's headquarters could move. Now, Buffett said he doesn't see any reason for his successor to move Berkshire.

"No, it won't be moved," Buffett said.

That's a relief to Omaha boosters who appreciate the people Buffett attracts to the city and the way he promotes the city outside of Nebraska.

The benefits to Omaha are most visible each spring when tens of thousands of Berkshire shareholders arrive for the company's annual meeting. No one knows exactly how much the company benefits Omaha's economy, but local business owners say it clearly does.

Diana Abbott, whose store sells books at Berkshire's annual meeting, said the event generates phenomenal sales, but the intangible ways Buffett helps Omaha may be even more important.

"You say Omaha, they think Warren Buffett," said Abbott, manager of the Bookworm. "It has really improved the reputation of Omaha, especially internationally," Abbott said.

Buffett readily lent his image to campaigns promoting Omaha, and he's featured prominently on the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce's website.

"He's kind of our iconic image for the community," said David Brown, the chamber's president and CEO. "This is a special place because he's here."

Berkshire Hathaway has made a number of people wealthy, and many of its early investors were from Omaha.

Dozens of those early Berkshire investors have become philanthropists who focused their donations on Omaha. Many of the city's biggest projects over the past decade bear the name of Berkshire shareholders.

"That's an important asset for this community," Brown said.

Former Omaha Mayor and Congressman Hal Daub agreed that generous shareholders have helped the city.

"Where would Omaha be without Berkshire Hathaway?" he said.

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss said the presence of Berkshire's headquarters is probably more important than the annual meeting because it helps improve the city's image nationally and boost philanthropy.

Of course, most large corporations, including Omaha-based Union Pacific and ConAgra Foods, employ hundreds or thousands of people at headquarters, not the 24 Berkshire employs. Berkshire makes up for its tiny headquarters with Buffett's visibility. When the so-called Oracle of Omaha speaks, investors listen, so financial news organizations readily travel to the city for Buffett interviews.

"It does bring greater visibility than other Fortune 500 companies," Goss said.

For Buffett, the decision to remain in Omaha seems primarily a matter of personal happiness.

"There's plenty of other places I like, but the one I love is Omaha," Buffett said. "The weather may be a little better some other place else, but that really doesn't make much difference to me in terms of how I feel about enjoying life."

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Aspirin may help men with prostate cancer live longer, study suggests

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Men who have been treated for prostate cancer, either with surgery or radiation, could benefit from taking aspirin regularly, says a new study that includes a researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Taking aspirin is associated with a lower risk of death from prostate cancer, especially in men with high risk disease, according to a multicenter study published in today's issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Kevin Choe, assistant professor of radiation oncology at UT Southwestern, is first author of the paper.

Preclinical studies have shown that aspirin and other anticoagulation medications may inhibit cancer growth and metastasis, but clinical data have been limited previously. The study looked at almost 6,000 men in the Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor (CaPSURE) database who had prostate cancer treated with surgery or radiotherapy.

About 2,200 of the men involved ? 37 percent ? were receiving anticoagulants (warfarin, clopidogrel, enoxaparin, and/or aspirin). The risk of death from prostate cancer was compared between those taking anticoagulants and those who were not.

The findings demonstrated that 10-year mortality from prostate cancer was significantly lower in the group taking anticoagulants, compared to the non-anticoagulant group ? 3 percent versus 8 percent, respectively. The risks of cancer recurrence and bone metastasis also were significantly lower. Further analysis suggested that this benefit was primarily derived from taking aspirin, as opposed to other types of anticoagulants.

The suggestion that aspirin, a frequently prescribed and relatively well-tolerated medication, may improve outcomes in prostate cancer is of particular interest, Dr. Choe said, since prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer among men and the second-leading cancer killer in the U.S.

"The results from this study suggest that aspirin prevents the growth of tumor cells in prostate cancer, especially in high-risk prostate cancer, for which we do not have a very good treatment currently," Dr. Choe said. "But we need to better understand the optimal use of aspirin before routinely recommending it to all prostate cancer patients."

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Curiosity rover plays first song transmitted from another planet

ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2012) ? For the first time in history, a recorded song has been beamed back to Earth from another planet. Students, special guests and news media gathered at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., today to hear "Reach for the Stars" by musician will.i.am after it was transmitted from the surface of Mars by the Curiosity rover.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden addressed the crowd in a video message encouraging students to study science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). "Mars has always fascinated us, and the things Curiosity tells us about it will help us learn about whether or not life was possible there," Bolden said. "And what future human explorers can expect. will.i.am has provided the first song on our playlist of Mars exploration."

In opening remarks, NASA Associate Administrator for Education and space shuttle astronaut Leland Melvin said, "I can think of no greater way to honor NASA pioneer Neil Armstrong's life and legacy than to inspire today's students to follow his path. That first footprint that Neil placed on the lunar surface left an indelible mark in history. Perhaps one of our students here today or watching on NASA Television will be the first to set foot on the surface of Mars and continue humanity's quest to explore."

Musician and entrepreneur will.i.am shared his thoughts about "Reach for the Stars" becoming the first interplanetary song and an anthem for NASA education. The entertainer is a well-known advocate of science and technology education. He said, "Today is about inspiring young people to lead a life without limits placed on their potential and to pursue collaboration between humanity and technology through STEAM education. I know my purpose is to inspire young people, because they will keep inspiring me back."

After completing a journey of more than 700 million miles from Earth to Mars and back, the opening orchestral strains of "Reach for the Stars" filled the auditorium. The event added to continuing worldwide interest in Curiosity's mission.

NASA engineers spoke to attendees about the Curiosity mission, and the systems engineering and orbital mechanics involved in getting the song file back from Mars. Students had the opportunity to ask questions of all program participants. Earlier in the day, students received a guided tour of JPL to view rover models and learn about STEM career options.

During the event, will.i.am's i.am angel Foundation and Discovery Education announced a $10 million classroom education initiative that will reach 25 million students annually, including many from underserved communities. Focused on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) educational themes, the Discovery Education initiative will incorporate NASA content and space exploration themes as part of the curriculum.

The event will be replayed on NASA Television. For schedule information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.

For information about NASA's education programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/education.

The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.

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Long-held theory on human gestation refuted: Mother?s metabolism, not birth canal size, limits gestation

ScienceDaily (Aug. 27, 2012) ? New research by a University of Rhode Island professor suggests that the length of human pregnancy is limited primarily by a mother's metabolism, not the size of the birth canal. The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of August 27, challenges the long-held notion of an evolutionary trade-off between childbirth and a pelvis adapted for walking upright.

Two traits that set humans apart from other primates -- big brains and the ability to walk upright -- could be at odds when it comes to childbirth. Big brains and the big heads that encase them are hard to push through the human birth canal, but a wider pelvis might compromise bipedal walking. Scientists have long posited that nature's solution to this problem, which is known as the "obstetric dilemma," was to shorten the duration of gestation so that babies are born before their heads get too big. As a result, human babies are relatively helpless and seemingly underdeveloped in terms of motor and cognitive ability compared to other primates.

"All these fascinating phenomena in human evolution -- bipedalism, difficult childbirth, wide female hips, big brains, relatively helpless babies -- have traditionally been tied together with the obstetric dilemma," said Holly Dunsworth, an anthropologist at the University of Rhode Island and lead author of the research. "It's been taught in anthropology courses for decades, but when I looked for hard evidence that it's actually true, I struck out."

The first problem with the theory is that there is no evidence that hips wide enough to deliver a more developed baby would be a detriment to walking, Dunsworth said. Anna Warrener, a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard University and one of the paper's co-authors, has studied how hip breadth affects locomotion with women on treadmills. She found that there is no correlation between wider hips and a diminished locomotor economy.

"That throws doubt on the assumption that the size of the birth canal is limited by bipedalism," Dunsworth said. "Wide hips don't mean you can't walk efficiently."

Then Dunsworth looked for evidence that human pregnancy is shortened compared to other primates and mammals. She found well-established research to the contrary. "Controlling for mother's body size, human gestation is a bit longer than expected compared to other primates, not shorter," she said. "And babies are a bit larger than expected, not smaller. Although babies behave like it, they're not born early."

For mammals in general, including humans, gestation length and offspring size are predicted by mother's body size. Because body size is a good proxy for an animal's metabolic rate and function, Dunsworth started to wonder if metabolism might offer a better explanation for the timing of human birth than the pelvis.

To investigate that possibility, she enlisted the help of Peter Ellison of Harvard University and Herman Pontzer of Hunter College in New York, two experts in human physiology and energetics. Building on Ellison's prior work on human pregnancy and childbirth, the researchers developed a new hypothesis for the timing of human birth called the EGG (energetics, gestation, and growth).

"Under the EGG, babies are born when they're born because mother cannot put any more energy into gestation and fetal growth," Dunsworth explains. "Mom's energy is the primary evolutionary constraint, not the hips."

Using metabolic data on pregnant women, the researchers show that women give birth just as they are about to cross into a metabolic danger zone.

"There is a limit to the number of calories our bodies can burn each day," says Pontzer. "During pregnancy, women approach that energetic ceiling and give birth right before they reach it. That suggests there is an energetic limit to human gestation length and fetal growth."

Those metabolic constraints help explain why human babies are so helpless compared to our primate kin, like chimpanzees. A chimp baby begins crawling at one month, whereas human babies don't crawl until around seven months. But for a human to give birth to a newborn at the same developmental level as chimp, it would take a 16-month gestation. That would place mothers well past their energetic limits. In fact, even one extra month of gestation would cross into the metabolic danger zone, the researchers found.

"It would be physiologically impossible, regardless of pelvic bone anatomy, to birth a more developed baby," Dunsworth said. "Our helplessness at birth is just a sign of how much more brain growth we have to achieve once we start living outside our mother."

The energetics, gestation and growth hypothesis would downplay an implication of the obstetric dilemma that Dunsworth finds odd.

"We've been doing anthropology with this warped view of the male pelvis as the ideal form, while the female pelvis is seen as less than ideal because of childbirth," she said. "The female births the babies. So if there's an ideal, it's female and it's no more compromised than anything else out there. Selection maintains its adequacy for locomotion and for childbirth.

"If it didn't, we'd have gone extinct," Dunsworth said.

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The Road to the Republican Convention Is Always Lined with Strip Clubs

What happens when 15,000 members of the media are enlisted to 4,400 delegates to the Republican National Convention? You read lots of stories about strip clubs, naturally. It's time for the quadrennial discovery (at least since 1992) that strip clubs love publicity as much as reporters like writing about them!

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The underlying joke of this meme/story/clich? is that there's something wrong with family value Republicans spending their hard-earned money "making it rain" on exotic dancers and keeping one of America's seediest industries ("We built this!") in business. It's a story that has its beginnings in (if you can believe it) a pre-Lewinsky America, and has run rampant ever since--even though the trend may have lived and died out some 20 years ago:

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It All Starts with "Family Values" and Houston in 1992:?

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"While the Astrodome overflows with talk of family values, other values are on display at Houston landmarks for the libidinous. And they, too, are attracting conventioneers," ?wrote the Washington Times' Matt Vane while covering the RNC's 1992 convention in Houston. Adding that, "Some of Houston's 39 topless?clubs?began preparing for the convention more than a year ago." ?No, we aren't quite sure what kind of business protocol a strip club enacts a year in advance to prepare for GOP delegates, but apparently it worked. "There's more money. It doubled," a 21-year-old stripper ?told Vane, while a strip club owner he interviewed told him that the week brought in two and half times more money than normal. ?

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The key point, as Vane found back then, was that reporting on something as boring as the same old speeches touting economic reform and family values is a lot more enjoyable when done through the scope of a strip club (and juxtaposing that with Barbara Bush and Marilyn Quayle).

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The Cleanup of 2000 and Club Risque

Putting a twist on the "GOP loves its stripclubs" meme was the 2000 convention, or rather the lead up to the convention when then Gov. Christie Whitman of New Jersey vowed to clean up a stretch of Admiral Wilson Boulevard that featured strip clubs and sex shops lest delegates be scandalized as they drove past. Apparently the Delaware River Port Authority, according to the Philadelphia Daily News at the time, vowed to use some $30 million to?acquire and demolish strip?clubs?and other businesses. So that was nice of Whitman--making the seedy strip-club peppered road ready for the delegates. But akin to how drunken uncles ruin Thanksgivings, planners of the 2000 Republican National Convention,?according to the Los Angeles Times, listed "Club Risque" as one of their must see attractions for delegates. A happy hour there, they wrote, was "guaranteed to put a smile on your face."

The 2004 Bust

With the Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden and in The New York Times' ?backyard, the Grey Lady took a stab at figuring out if this stripclub-GOP connection was true. "The Times sent a reporter to one of the city's strip?clubs?early Tuesday, trying to determine whether the convention had sent the burlesque industry booming. It hadn't," wrote Matthew Tully of the The Indianapolis Star."According to the newspaper, the Penthouse Executive?Club?was quiet around 1:30 a.m., filled mainly with bored dancers," he added. And even if this GOP-Strip club connection was waning, it prompted this tongue-in-cheek editorial from The News & Observer's Barry Saunders:

Think about it: even members of a party that preaches family values may want a lap dance at some point. Besides, where is it written that family values and watching two statuesque women Jello rasslin' are antithetical??

Nowhere, at least not in my Bible. The increased demand for adult entertainment -- many such?clubs?are reported to have hired extra women to keep up with the deluge -- simply reflects the Republicans' desire to make self-determination a reality and to keep taxes low. By patronizing Scores and other high-class -- i.e. expensive -- strip?clubs?in the Big Apple, the delegates -- or the thousands of convention hangers-on, including members of the media -- are employing and thus empowering women who might otherwise have become welfare moms living on the public dole.

One Last Gasp in 2008 ...

Minnesota's City Pages reported at the time?that bars and clubs didn't think Republican National Convention delegates would be out until 4:00 a.m. and so many didn't invest in a license that allowed them to stay up this late. Of the six establishments that added later hours was Schieks Palace Royal--yes a strip club. "We're very much looking forward to the RNC," someone at Schieks told them. "Getting the permit was a no-brainer." ?

Which Brings Us To Tampa ...

With Republicans touting more family values than ever, the story of former RNC chair Michael Steele spending $2,000 at a West Hollywood Strip Club in 2010, a bunch of nothing happening on opening day, and Tampa being the "strip club capital of the country"--it's as good a time as any to report on GOP delegates getting (or not getting) lapdances. ?

• Go-Go and Ezili, if you ask the AP, won't be making that much money. "More than sunshine, cigars or the rollercoasters at Busch Gardens, Tampa is known for its naked ladies," they write, but experts told them that most of the money made will likely be made at the private parties. "I don't expect the RNC to be as busy as?Super Bowl," the "Strip Club King of Tampa" Joe Redner told the AP. "I don't think those people are coming to party."
• Go-Go and Ezili, if you ask the Tampa Bay Times, should really have their eyes peeled for mundane men. They asked an ID checker about who's coming in and out her club, and apparently it's a phenomenon like the Swallows at Capistrano.?

  "The main people I'm seeing is Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.," she said. "They are dressed nicer, more conservative. Business casual for the men and Ann Taylor Loft for the women, for sure."

• The TBT also reports that conservative turnout has been low, with one stripper telling them what we've come to surmise all long:

"When you come to Tampa, everyone knows the Mons Venus is the No. 1 strip club. So where is everyone? What is everyone doing? Are they sleeping? Republicans have money."

Of course, Republicans are unpredictable and the spirit could move them to the nearest breast bar where they will throw away all of the individually built, family-valued money. And that would make for a stellar Tampa story and a happy ending for Go-Go and Ezili. On the other hand, the lack of Republicans doing just that haven't really stopped the stories from coming either.?

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Isaac May Hit New Orleans on Katrina Anniversary: What Are the Odds?!

Isaac, a tropical storm that could become Hurricane Isaac by tomorrow (Aug. 28), is barreling across the Gulf of Mexico toward New Orleans, and could hit the city on the anniversary of one of the most devastating storms in living memory.

Hurricane Katrina roared ashore in New Orleans on the morning of Aug. 29, 2005. So what are the chances that Isaac could hit on the same day, seven years later? About 25 percent, said Chris Landsea, the science and operations officer at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

The latest forecast has Isaac making landfall on Tuesday evening (Aug. 28) ? but that could change, Landsea told OurAmazingPlanet.

However, he said, if Isaac does hit on Hurricane Katrina's anniversary, it won't come as a huge surprise. During the peak of hurricane season, a short window of time from mid-August to late October, the Gulf Coast is often hit with a flurry of storms, "so it's not that unusual to have the same place be hit on about the same day," he said.

In addition to timing, geography also plays a role, Landsea said. Regions that protrude into hurricane-prone waters tend to get hit more than those that don't. Just picture Florida, Louisiana, Texas and North Carolina, the four states that top the U.S. list for hurricane strikes?? all of them stick out into the ocean more than their neighbors.

Numbers game

On average, hurricanes hit the area around New Orleans about every seven years, according to National Hurricane Center statistics.

Yet it's important to remember there's nothing magic about those numbers, said Robert Henson, a meteorologist who works as a science writer for the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colo. "It's simply a description of the average," he said. "There's no reason why a town couldn't get hit twice even in the same year ? or it could be decades."

Both Landsea and Henson emphasized that, aside from similar timing, Isaac and Hurricane Katrina differ in a several significant ways: Isaac's path has it approaching from the southeast, whereas Katrina approached from the south. That may seem like a subtle difference, but it can play a role in how much storm surge a system sends rushing on land, Henson said.

Another difference is that Isaac is expected to become a Category 1 hurricane ? a storm with winds that top out at 95 mph (153 kph) ? whereas Katrina was a powerful Category 5 hurricane at landfall.

Storm comparison

However, even though Isaac is significantly weaker than Katrina, it's a large storm, and is causing significant storm surges. "It's a very large system, so it's pushing a lot of water for its strength," Henson said.

Isaac was named on Aug. 21; satellites have been keeping watch over the storm from above, and hurricane-hunting aircraft have been monitoring it for days now. Late last week, crews sent back some arresting photographs?from inside the roiling storm.

Landsea said it's still not possible to know precisely how powerful Isaac will become. Despite all the technological advances in tracking storms, "we're still not very good at making intensity forecasts," he said. "It's still going to be significant, but not to the degree that Katrina was," he added.

Henson agreed, adding that even a storm far smaller than Katrina can still cause a lot of trouble. "Just because it's a Cat 1 doesn't mean it can't be a very destructive storm," he said.

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