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Thursday, August 23, 2012
30 minutes of daily exercise does the trick: Same effect in half the time
ScienceDaily (Aug. 22, 2012) ? Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have shown that 30 minutes of daily training provide an equally effective loss of weight and body mass as 60 minutes. Their results have just been published in the American Journal of Physiology.
Forty percent of Danish men are moderately overweight. For thirteen weeks, a research team at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences followed 60 heavy -- but healthy -- Danish men in their efforts to get into better shape. Half of the men were set to exercise for an hour a day, wearing a heart-rate monitor and calorie counter, while the second group only had to sweat for 30 minutes. Research results show that 30 minutes of exercise hard enough to produce a sweat is enough to turn the tide on an unhealthy body mass index:
"On average, the men who exercised 30 minutes a day lost 3.6 kilo in three months, while those who exercised for a whole hour only lost 2.7 kg. The reduction in body mass was about 4 kg for both groups," reports Mads Rosenkilde, PhD student, Department of Biomedical Sciences.
30 minutes of exercise training provide an extra bonus: "Participants exercising 30 minutes per day burned more calories than they should relative to the training program we set for them. In fact we can see that exercising for a whole hour instead of a half does not provide any additional loss in either body weight or fat. The men who exercised the most lost too little relative to the energy they burned by running, biking or rowing. 30 minutes of concentrated exercise give equally good results on the scale," explains Mads Rosenkilde.
Motivation to exercise
Mads Rosenkilde postulates that some of the explanation for the surprising results is that 30 minutes of exercise is so doable that participants in the study had the desire and energy for even more physical activity after their daily exercise session. In addition, the study group that spent 60 minutes on the treadmill probably ate more, and therefore lost slightly less weight than anticipated.
"The participants in our study trained every day for three months. All training sessions were planned to produce a light sweat, but participants were expected to increase the intensity and give it gas three times a week," explains Mads Rosenkilde. He is also surprised at the research results, and the goal now is to study the effects of other types of exercise:
"Another interesting scenario is to study exercise as a form of transport. Training is fantastic for your physical and mental health. The problem is that it takes time. If we can get people to exercise along the way -- to work, for example -- we will have won half the battle," says Mads Rosenkilde.
On the right wavelength
The research results are unique, because participants in the study belong to the large but often overlooked group of moderately overweight men, who have gradually become forty percent of the male population in Denmark.
Participants in the study wanted a lifestyle change with the help of exercise training, and in the period of the study, they were followed closely by health science researchers with focus on energy balance, insulin resistance and hormones in the blood. Ethnologists also took part in order to uncover the cultural barriers involved in training and changing well entrenched habits.
The broad interdisciplinary approach of the FINE project -- a Danish acronym for Physical Activity for a Long Healthy Life -- has generated extremely strong data. Very few research subjects dropped out, because of the focus on participants' motivation to exercise, both early on -- and during -- the process:
"We have really been on the same wavelength as our research subjects -- and the FINE study covered all aspects of training, both physical and psychological," concludes Mads Rosenkilde.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Akin rebuffs Romney, Republican, calls to quit Senate race
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressman Todd Akin, under fire for controversial remarks on abortion and rape, insisted on Tuesday he would not leave the Missouri Senate race, despite pressure from fellow Republicans and talk of who might replace him on the November 6 ballot.
Akin - a staunch abortion opponent - vowed to stay in the contest against Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill, indicating he represents a conservative movement that must be heard.
A 5 p.m. local time (6 p.m. EDT) deadline passed with no indication he planned to take his name off the ballot.
Akin was defiant. His campaign posted a new web site on Tuesday seeking donations with a banner "I'm pro-life and I Stand with Todd Akin." It had briefly featured a picture of a fetus and a picture of McCaskill with U.S. President Barack Obama, but the fetus image was later removed.
"We are going to continue in this race for U.S. Senate," Akin told "The Mike Huckabee Show," a radio program hosted by the former Arkansas governor.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday joined the chorus calling for him to pull out of his race after Akin claimed in a weekend television interview that it was extremely rare for women to get pregnant from "legitimate rape.
"Today, his fellow Missourians urged him to step aside, and I think he should accept their counsel and exit the Senate race," said Romney, who previously condemned Akin's comments.
The outrage over Akin's remarks sent waves of anxiety through the Republican Party a week before it reaches out to independent voters, especially women, at its national convention where it will nominate Romney to run against Obama.
Republicans fear the Akin episode could prevent them from winning in Missouri, lessening their chances of picking up the four seats they need ensure a majority in the 100-member Senate.
McCaskill had trailed Akin by about 10 points but a Public Policy Polling survey on Monday had Akin ahead by 1 point.
WHAT ABOUT JOBS?
To the dismay of many Republicans, Akin's woes have cast a spotlight on a part of the platform party members again endorsed on Tuesday: a call to oppose abortion with no mention of exceptions in cases of rape and incest.
That is not the position of Romney, who has said abortion should be allowed to end pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
Obama, who supports abortion rights, also strongly denounced Akin's remarks, saying "rape is rape."
Romney's vice presidential running mate, U.S. Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, has expressed a harder line on abortion, saying it should be allowed only to save the life of the mother. The campaign said this week a Romney/Ryan administration would reflect Romney's position.
Ryan, who has co-sponsored anti-abortion legislation with Akin, called the Missouri candidate and suggested he think about leaving the Senate contest. "He thought I maybe should give some thought to stepping down, but he didn't tell me what to do. And that's because he's a very respectful and a very decent guy," Akin said on the Sean Hannity radio program.
The controversy is a distraction in a campaign Romney has sought to keep tightly focused on the economy and jobs.
Tim Wildmon, president of the influential American Family Association, was one of several social conservatives who have come to Akin's defense.
"This is a decent, honorable man who has been pro-life and pro-traditional values. He has apologized for his choice of words and that should be the end of it," Wildmon said.
Although religious conservatives are a crucial part of the Republican base, many party leaders say its central message should be its conservative approach to fiscal issues like debt and deficits.
"It's not that we keep shooting ourselves in the foot. We keep shooting ourselves in the eyes," said former Missouri Senator John Danforth, one of a group of current and former U.S. senators from the state who urged Akin to step aside.
WHERE TO FIND A WOMAN SUCCESSOR
Under Missouri election law, Akin had until 5 p.m. local time (6 p.m. EDT) to get his name off the ballot for the November 6 election most easily. But he faces a harder deadline on September 25, the last day his name can be removed with a court order.
If Akin withdraws, the Missouri Republican committee would name a successor to run against McCaskill. Possible candidates include the two Republicans Akin defeated in the primary just two weeks ago - St. Louis businessman John Brunner and former state Senator Sarah Steelman.
But the party can pick any candidate.
Other possibilities include former Senator Jim Talent, who lost narrowly to McCaskill in 2006 and Representative Jo Ann Emerson, considered a favorite because many Republicans think the party would best reassure women voters by running a woman.
In another sign that he is not leaving, US News and World Report reported that Akin spent $150,000 on Tuesday for television advertisements in seven media markets.
But he will struggle to keep up with McCaskill, especially after the Karl Rove-linked American Crossroads Super PAC and the Republican Senate committee said they would hold back millions in funding earmarked for the race.
McCaskill's campaign is using Akin's comments in its fundraising. Emily's List, which supports Democratic women candidates, said it has seen a big jump in fundraising.
Akin apologized again in an Internet advertisement called "Forgiveness." And he sent a fundraising letter to supporters on Tuesday asking for donations of $3 or more.
(Additional reporting by Carey Gillam in Kansas City and David Lawder in Washington; Editing by Alistair Bell and Doina Chiacu)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/akin-rebuffs-romney-republican-calls-quit-senate-race-000512736.html
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Americans tune out Afghan war as fighting rages on
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? It was once President Barack Obama's "war of necessity." Now, it's America's forgotten war.
The Afghan conflict generates barely a whisper on the U.S. presidential campaign trail. It's not a hot topic at the office water cooler or in the halls of Congress ? even though more than 80,000 American troops are still fighting here and dying at a rate of one a day.
Americans show more interest in the economy and taxes than the latest suicide bombings in a different, distant land. They're more tuned in to the political ad war playing out on television than the deadly fight still raging against the Taliban. Earlier this month, protesters at the Iowa State Fair chanted "Stop the war!" They were referring to one purportedly being waged against the middle class.
By the time voters go to the polls Nov. 6 to choose between Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, the war will be in its 12th year. For most Americans, that's long enough.
Public opinion remains largely negative toward the war, with 66 percent opposed to it and just 27 percent in favor in a May AP-GfK poll. More recently, a Quinnipiac University poll found that 60 percent of registered voters felt the U.S. should no longer be involved in Afghanistan. Just 31 percent said the U.S. is doing the right thing by fighting there now.
Not since the Korean War of the early 1950s ? a much shorter but more intense fight ? has an armed conflict involving America's sons and daughters captured so little public attention.
"We're bored with it," said Matthew Farwell, who served in the U.S. Army for five years including 16 months in eastern Afghanistan, where he sometimes received letters from grade school students addressed to the brave Marines in Iraq ? the wrong war.
"We all laugh about how no one really cares," he said. "All the 'support the troops' stuff is bumper sticker deep."
Farwell, 29, who is now studying at the University of Virginia, said the war is rarely a topic of conversation on campus ? and he isn't surprised that it's not discussed much on the campaign trail.
"No one understands how to extricate ourselves from the mess we have made there," he said. "So from a purely political point of view, I wouldn't be talking about it if I were Barack Obama or Mitt Romney either."
Ignoring the Afghan war, though, doesn't make it go away.
More than 1,950 Americans have died in Afghanistan and thousands more have been wounded since President George W. Bush launched attacks on Oct. 7, 2001 to rout al-Qaida after it used Afghanistan to train recruits and plot the Sept. 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.
The war drags on even though al-Qaida has been largely driven out of Afghanistan and its charismatic leader Osama bin Laden is dead ? slain in a U.S. raid on his Pakistani hideout last year.
Strangely, Afghanistan never seemed to grab the same degree of public and media attention as the war in Iraq, which Obama opposed as a "war of choice."
Unlike Iraq, victory in Afghanistan seemed to come quickly. Kabul fell within weeks of the U.S. invasion in October 2001. The hardline Taliban regime was toppled with few U.S. casualties.
But the Bush administration's shift toward war with Iraq left the Western powers without enough resources on the ground, so by 2006 the Taliban had regrouped into a serious military threat.
Candidate Obama promised to refocus America's resources on Afghanistan. But by the time President Obama sent 33,000 more troops to Afghanistan in December 2009, years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan had drained Western resources and sapped resolve to build a viable Afghan state.
And over time, his administration has grown weary of trying to tackle Afghanistan's seemingly intractable problems of poverty and corruption. The American people have grown weary too.
While most Americans are sympathetic to the plight of the Afghan people, they have become deeply skeptical of President Hamid Karzai's willingness to tackle corruption and political patronage and the coalition's chances of "budging a medieval society" into the modern world, says Ann Marlowe, a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute, a policy research organization in Washington.
"With millions of veterans home and talking with their families and friends ... some knowledge of just how hard this is has percolated down," said Marlowe, who has traveled to Afghanistan many times.
It has also been hard to show progress on the battlefield.
World War II had its Normandy, Vietnam its Tet Offensive and Iraq its Battle of Fallujah. Afghanistan is a grinding slough in villages and remote valleys where success is measured in increments.
The Afghan war transformed into a series of small, often vicious and intense fights scattered across a country almost as large as Texas.
In July, 40 U.S. service members died in Afghanistan in the deadliest month for American troops so far this year. At least 31 have been killed this month ? seven when a helicopter crashed during a firefight with insurgents in what was one of the deadliest air disasters of the war. Ten others were gunned down in attacks from members of the Afghan security forces ? either disgruntled turncoats or Taliban infiltrators.
Many argue that bin Laden's death justifies a quick U.S. exit from Afghanistan. Others say it's important to stay longer to shore up the Afghan security forces and help build the government so that it can stand on its own. An unstable Afghanistan could again offer sanctuary to militants like al-Qaida who want to harm American and its allies, they say.
"Those of us who have been at this for a long time continue to think that it's important, and that we have a chance now of a path forward with a long-term perspective that will produce the results," said James Cunningham, the new U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
The U.S.-led coalition's combat mission will wind down in the next few years, leading up to the end of 2014 when most international troops will have left or moved into support roles.
Military analysts say the U.S. envisions a post-2014 force of perhaps 20,000 to hunt terrorists, train the Afghan forces and keep an eye on neighboring Iran and other regional powerhouse nations.
Americans aren't likely to know the number until later this year. But will anyone other than families of service personnel take note?
"I have heard others say that the danger that their spouses or children are serving in is just simply not being cared about," said Fred Wellman, a 22-year Army veteran who did three tours in Iraq. "I think a lot of veterans feel it is just forgotten."
Political satirist Garry Trudeau captured the apathy about the war in a comic strip this year showing a U.S. servicewoman stationed in Afghanistan calling her brother back home.
After he complains that his children have the flu and how he's struggling to keep up with their hectic hockey schedule, he asks her where she's calling from. She tells him she's in Afghanistan.
"Oh, right, right ..." her brother replies. "Wait, we're still there?"
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Associated Press Writers Kristin Hall in Nashville, Tennessee and Jennifer Agiesta in Washington contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/americans-tune-afghan-war-fighting-rages-185225577.html
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Floating rocks in the ocean lead to an undersea eruption? seen from
[Note: At the bottom of this post is a gallery of more amazing pictures of volcanoes taken from space.]
Sometimes, the best way to observe the Earth is to get off it. It really helps if you want to solve some mysteries.
And scientists had a good one on their hands in recently. You should really read the journal of science journalist Rebecca Priestly, who reported on all this first hand, but here?s a summary. On August 9, the crew of the HMNZS Canterbury were on a scientific voyage in the Pacific when they got word to change course. A huge anomaly was reported near their position, and it looked like it might be a gigantic floating "raft" of pumice, possibly from an undersea eruption. They got samples, and sure enough it was pumice. Such rafts have been seen before from other volcanic eruptions.
But what volcano was at the root of this one? Early guesses were that it was from Monowai, which had recently erupted in early August. But satellite imagery taken on July 19 ? weeks earlier ? pinpointed the location of the raft?s origin:
[Click to hephaestenate.]
This image, taken by NASA?s Terra Earth-observing satellite, shows the eruption of the Havre Seamount, located a few hundred kilometers northeast of Auckland, New Zealand. The plume is clearly visible. The gray patch right in the middle of the picture is the floating island of pumice. To the left of the plume is teal water, stained by ash. The volcano itself is more than a thousand meters under the sea?s surface, but the eruption was strong enough to break through. At the time this image was taken, the raft was already about 15 kilometers (9 miles) long. It eventually grew to more than 20,000 square kilometers (about 10,000 square miles).
This area of the ocean is very, very large, and without satellite images the exact location of this volcano would have been very difficult to spot. Scientists from Tahiti and New Zealand were able to connect earthquake reports on July 17 and 18 to the event (even though they occurred long before the raft was first sighted), and then other scientists were able to find the above image in the Terra archives. It took collaboration, people from around the world, and the open nature of science to be able to find the culprit volcano behind this mysterious event.
Science! Solving mysteries we otherwise couldn?t! I love this stuff.
Image credit: Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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Marriage May Protect a Gal's Heart
DENVER ? Marriage may reduce health risks in women, new research finds, but men who get married too early may find their likelihood of chronic inflammation going up.
The study, presented here Saturday (Aug. 18) at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, is preliminary, but gives researchers an in-depth view of the relationship between marriage and health, study researcher Michael McFarland, a Princeton University sociologist, told LiveScience. The study finds that for women, continuous marriage without divorce or widowhood is linked to fewer cardiovascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure.
The same did not hold true for men, with guys who married younger being more likely to have warning signs for chronic inflammation later in life, McFarland and his colleagues found. Inflammation is a crucial part of the healing process, but chronic inflammation can be harmful in itself.
"It's a turning point that influences the rest of their lives or at least a good portion of their lives," McFarland said of these men's early marriages.
Health and marriage
Much of the research on marriage and health has found that wedding bells improve health for guys but do little for women. Some of this may have to do with the fact that women tend to be more health-conscious than men, visiting the doctor more frequently and taking on the role of reminding their husbands to get medical care. For example, a study published in July 2011 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found that married men got treatment for heart attacks faster than their single counterparts, a difference not seen between married and single ladies.
But most marriage and health studies have either relied on self-reports of health ? which can be unreliable, McFarland said ? or general records of mortality, which tell researchers little about why marriage, health and death might be linked. [10 Easy Paths to Self Destruction]
So McFarland and his colleagues turned to biological risk factors, or signs that someone might be facing health problems down the road. Using data from the National Social Health and Aging Project, the researchers traced the marital histories and health risk factors of 528 women and 534 men ages 57 to 75.
To measure health risk, the researchers looked at cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure, resting heart rate and waist circumference. They also examined metabolic risk factors that put people at risk for Type II diabetes. Finally, they included a measurement of C-reactive protein, which is found in the blood and indicates inflammation.
Wedding bells and doctor bills
For women, the researchers found, the longer the marriage, the fewer cardiovascular risk factors. The effect was significant but modest, McFarland said, with every 10 years of continuous marriage associated with a 13 percent decrease in cardiovascular risk.
But when marriage is disrupted, it can be hard on the health. Women who were continuously married had a 40 percent lower count of metabolic risk factors than women who experienced two episodes or divorce or widowhood, the researchers found.
Earlier work on divorce has found that breaking up is linked to bad health. One 2009 study found 20 percent more chronic health problems in divorced people than the currently married.??
Unexpectedly, McFarland and his colleagues saw no protective effect of marriage in men, in contradiction to previous research. However, McFarland said, the study was on older adults, and men have shorter life expectancies than women. It's possible that the least healthy men in the cohort had already died and thus weren't included in the study, skewing the results.
The findings did reveal that very early marriage may not be a good deal for guys. A five-year increase in age at first marriage decreased the odds of chronic inflammation by 30 percent, McFarland said. The findings aren't good cause for cold feet, though ? the trend was driven by very young marriages, McFarland said, the difference between getting wed at 17 versus, say, 23.?
"If you get married at 17, maybe you get lower educational attainment, which we know is associate with higher biological risk," McFarland said.
McFarland stressed that this biological look at the sociology of marriage is in its early stages, and there are many complicating factors to tease out. For example, he said, because men die earlier than women, they are in short supply on the senior citizen marriage market. That means that even an unhealthy guy is likely able to snag a wife, while unhealthy older women have worse odds. [6 Scientific Tips for a Successful Marriage]
Not only does this skewed gender ratio influence who gets married, it could put women into more caretaking roles, McFarland said. That, in turn, could influence their health.
"So if healthy women are marrying somewhat unhealthy men, do they get into a caretaking role?" he said. "We know in past literature that chronic caretaking, especially among older adults, has some negative health outcomes."
The study "does a really interesting job of just showing us the nuances of risk among men and women across age," said Bridget Goosby, a University of Nebraska, Lincoln sociologist who was not involved in the research. Speaking to a group of sociologists at the annual meeting, Goosby encouraged more research into the biology of social relationships.
"We're only just scratching the surface of how biology and social context interact with one another to create these trajectories of health," she said.
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Monday, August 20, 2012
Medicare barbs dominate White House race
President Barack Obama gives a 'thumbs-up' as he carries bags of apples during his arrival on the South Lawn of the White House on Marine One helicopter, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012 in Washington. Obama purchased the apples and other items in a campaign stop at Mack's Apples in Londonderry, N.H. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama gives a 'thumbs-up' as he carries bags of apples during his arrival on the South Lawn of the White House on Marine One helicopter, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012 in Washington. Obama purchased the apples and other items in a campaign stop at Mack's Apples in Londonderry, N.H. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gets into his car to attend a fundraising event on Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012 in Nantucket, Mass. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Republican vice-presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., center right, and his mother, Betty Ryan Douglas, wave to supporters at a campaign rally in The Villages, Fla., Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. (AP) ? Showing no signs of letting up, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are doubling down on claims the other would threaten seniors' golden years.
Both campaigns sharpened their critique of the other's Medicare policies in recent days and planned to intensify them yet again on Sunday, as the already acrimonious race for the White House reached a new level. Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, on Saturday told seniors here on Florida's western coast that he sees parallels with Europe's debt crisis that cut seniors' benefits. He warned the same could happen right here at home.
Campaigning in New Hampshire, Obama said it is a sure thing that Romney would tear apart Medicare.
Medicare, the popular ? though costly ? health program for seniors, has become a flashpoint in the presidential race in the frenzied week since Romney picked Ryan as his vice presidential pick. Ryan, a deficit hawk and the House Republicans' chief budget writer, brought buzz to the ticket but also left Romney trying to explain to seniors that he would not take a wrecking ball to the program seniors see as a right.
Ryan has stood out in Washington for laying out tough spending choices that many lawmakers in both parties avoid. So it was almost inevitable that his selection as running mate would vault Medicare to the top of the campaign debate. But it isn't clear it will remain the top priority in an election that, to this point, has been a contest between Romney and Obama over who would be best for jobs and the economy.
Obama wasted no time reaching for the upper-hand on Medicare and his spokespeople were ready to take to the Sunday talk shows to plant doubts about what Ryan would do to seniors' programs in the name of balancing budgets. Romney's and Ryan's were at the ready, too, to point out Obama had shifted billions from the program to pay for Democrats' health care law.
It's a familiar charge already. On Saturday, Ryan accused Obama of raiding the Medicare "piggybank" to pay for his health care overhaul.
Obama countered that seniors shouldn't trust their golden years to Romney.
"They've been trying to sell this trickle-down snake oil before," Obama told his audience in Windham, N.H. "It did not work then. It will not work now. It will not reduce the deficit, it will not create jobs. It's the wrong direction for America."
Ryan's proposal in Congress would encourage future retirees to consider private coverage that the government would help pay for through a voucher-like system, while keeping the traditional program as an option.
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Medicare over time would spend thousands less per senior under the Ryan plan than under current policy. Critics say that would shift heavy costs to individual retirees. The government could always spend more than anticipated to meet changing realities, but at the cost of deeper deficits.
Speaking to donors who paid as much as $50,000 to have dinner with him, Ryan compared the United States with Europe, where a financial crisis has led to cuts in benefits for retirees. He said European lawmakers delayed action even though they saw impending problems and seniors paid the price.
"They ran out of road to kick the can down, and now they have a debt crisis," Ryan said here near Tampa. "Now, a debt crisis hit and those empty promises have become broken promises."
Ryan warned the same could happen here if the country doesn't get its hands around its own affairs.
"It doesn't have to be that way. We can turn this around," Ryan said.
Earlier in the day, Ryan introduced his 78-year-old mother to an audience of seniors at the world's largest retirement community and passionately defended a program that has provided old-age security for two generations of his own family.
"She planned her retirement around this promise," Ryan said as Betty Ryan Douglas looked on. "That's a promise we have to keep."
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Kuhnhenn reported from Rochester, N.H. Associated Press writer Charles Babington in West Tisbury, Mass., and Calvin Woodward in Washington contributed to this report.
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Job Posting: Sociologist of Financial Markets at Michigan's Policy ...
August 19, 2012
Dear Soc Finance folks!
UM?s Ford Policy school has a position open for a sociologist, and one of the specialties they are interested in is financial market policy. The job listing is below. Thanks!
Dan
The University of Michigan?s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy invites applications from sociologists for one or more rank open tenure-track positions, especially assistant professor rank. Areas of specialization are open, with special opportunities for scholars of financial markets, environmental issues, and socioeconomic factors in the well-being of children and families. Scholars from all methodological traditions will be considered. Candidates should combine relevant substantive expertise with strong interests in public policy. Promise of excellence in research and teaching is required. Joint appointments or affiliations with other departments, schools, or colleges are possible.
This is a university-year appointment and begins on September 1, 2013. First consideration will be given to applications received by October 1, 2012, but applications will be considered until all relevant positions are filled. The following application materials should be sent in PDF format to sociology@fordschool.umich.edu: a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, writing samples, statement of current and future research plans, statement of teaching philosophy and experience, teaching evaluations, and three letters of recommendation. The University of Michigan is an AA/EO employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University is supportive of the needs of dual career couples.
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Do You Want to Build a Startup or a Business?
Legit question.
A startup is not a business. It exists for a different reason.
A business exists to serve the long-term blended needs and desires of the founding team, the community for which it creates solutions, experiences and delights and, increasingly, the larger community and ecosystem in which it exists.
A startup, on the other hand, exists for one sole purpose ? to prove or disprove the viability of an idea for a business and, if possible, do what?s necessary to evolve invalidated ideas into viable ones then build them into sustainable entities.
At this point, you?re likely scratching your head, saying ?um, isn?t the latter just the first stage of the former??
Yes, but?.
The two stages are so different in terms of energy, purpose, talent, skills and vision that it?s not unusual for the team that?s drawn to the startup phase to be both disinterested in and under-qualified to be the same team that steers the ship through the next stage.
Not always. There are certainly exceptions. Individuals and teams who work diligently to evolve skill sets and develop equal passion for scaling, building out systems, processes, teams, org-charts and more.?Behance founder and CEO, Scott Belsky, and his team are a great example. He is deeply committed to not only building his business but developing his team with the skills and mindset needed to thrive at every stage of his company?s journey.
But, I often wonder if, more often than not, the continued dominance of a founding team is more about ego blended with an inability to let go of the reigns and acknowledge what truly fuels them, rather than a genuine interest in and developed ability to move a venture through it?s next stage of life.
It?s critically important to get honest with yourself about what you?re looking for as an entrepreneur. Do you light up from the all-in, life-consuming rush of launching something from nothing, building the model, product, team and culture from the concept up? Do you get bored as soon as what you?ve built gets big enough to be stable? Are you at a point in your life where you?re willing and able to give up nearly everything in the name of a dream?
If so, you?re likely a startup junkie. Not saying that?s a good or bad thing (lots more on this in a future post). It?s simply an acknowledgment of what?s going to fuel and engage you at this point in your career and life. The rush of bringing something rapidly into existence, solving complex problems under insane time constraints, limited by ?runway? or a rapidly exhausting bank account often filled with other peoples? money. More commitment to getting from zero to handoff, exit or some other mid business-cycle metric than long-term development or connection to serving a specific community. All in the name of doing it again. And again. And again. Whether the company is there 10, 15 or 20 years from now isn?t so much your concern or motivation.
If you?re more about building out processes, massaging, evolving and tweaking. Systematizing, reinforcing and more discrete experimentation. If you have a deeply held long-term vision and focus and a sustained interest in investing in people and culture over time. If you want a real life that wraps around or even integrates into the way you earn your living. If you?re strongly connected to a specific community and want to build a company and career around serving that community on a level you can see committing to for the indefinite future. You still need to get through the startup phase, but for you, that?s more of a necessary evil on the road to being able to run a business, one you can?t imagine ever wanting to exit.
Why does all of this matter?
Because, a lot of people are walking around now claiming to have the Jones to be an entrepreneur, but having no clue what an entrepreneur really is or does. How brutal the different aspects and phases of startup and entrepreneurial life can be (this doesn?t have to be the case, btw, more on that in a future post, too), especially if you bring the wrong set of expectations and skills to the quest. And having little real understanding of the phases of entrepreneurship and which one they?re both more organically drawn to and equipped to excel at.
Startup entrepreneurs are often in it for the rush. The game and the challenge of bringing something as rapidly from concept to entity and then to exit. Then, it?s time to start anew. Sustained-vision entrepreneurs are in it for the long haul, looking to make the startup phase go as quickly, yet gently as possible in the name of building something sustainable that they see themselves being connected to for as long as possible.
And startups, as entities, are often more born out of a particular solution (though that often must change), while sustainable-vision businesses are more often born of a more mission-centric quest to serve a specific community with less connection to any specific product or solution.
As you think about your entrepreneurial future, especially if you?re in the early stages or about to dive in, take the time to reflect on what part of the process lights you up. What empties you out. And what you?re best equipped to handle or motivated to become equipped to handle. Owning this before you commit can save a lot of heartache and accelerate the success of both your personal journey and the venture you?re looking to join or build.
I?ll be writing a lot more about different elements of startups, sustained-vision business building, culture-creation and lifecycle and even, gulp, lifestyle-entrepreneurship over the next few months.
So, what about you?
If you are now or dream of becoming an entrepreneur, what approach fuels you most and why?
Source: http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/startup-or-business/
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Sunday, August 19, 2012
Hope Chest ? Finding a Personal Finance Balance
With the way the economy is going, it can be hard to establish your personal finances. Yet with the proper knowledge and application you can be good at managing your money. If you are interested in learning more about personal finances then you are going to want to read through the tips in this article; they?ll help you figure out how to go about managing your personal finances properly.
Work with your spouse to pay bills and to manage your money. If you have a spouse and you feel like they might need to change their spending habits, make sure you tell them that. Let your spouse know your intentions for building a good credit score so that you are both on the same page with each other. You want both of you to understand that the best thing to do is to manage your personal finances in a mature fashion.
In case of conflicts or times when you accidentally overdraw your available funds, it is always good to have a ?home branch? of your bank where you are known and they have a vested interest in keeping you happy. Find a banking institution that has a branch near you, and go there in person as often as possible. This can also help if you have a large deposit and do not want a hold to be placed on your funds.
There has been much publicity in recent times over whether to choose a bank or a credit union. Realize that credit unions are no longer just for people who work at a particular job, but most are available to the general public. They often charge far less for loans and give more personal service. In the case of a financial meltdown similar to the one in recent times, you may be well served at a credit union who is less affected by international issues.
Limit yourself to only eating out a few times a week. The rest of the days you are going to want to eat in at home and make meals for yourself. Avoid spending too much money on food when you could be spending less, and eating meals that are healthier for you. You?ll soon start to realize how much money you are saving when you choose to eat in instead of out, this can help motivate you to spend less out in the future.
Start putting money into your savings account and pretend like it does not even exist. If you save money here and there it ads up. So give yourself a cushion to fall back on so that you do not have to be left worried if an unexpected expense comes up.
Above all, be informed, and look out for your best interests. Nobody else will do this for you. Take the tips here and apply them in a way that puts you in the best position possible.
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
UN ends observer mission in Syria, but isn't giving up
A small civilian office will replace the observer mission, and former Algerian foreign minister Lakhdar Brahimi has reportedly agreed to replace Kofi Annan as Syria envoy.
UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Edmund Mullet answers reporters' questions at the United Nations after a closed meeting of the Security Council, Thursday, Aug. 16. The Security Council will let the mandate for the UN observer mission in Syria expire Sunday and will back a new civilian office there to support UN and Arab League efforts to end the country's 18-month conflict.
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EnlargeIt came as no surprise Thursday when the United Nations Security Council formally ended the UN?s observer mission in Syria ? and its action further confirmed the absence of any effective international role in the Syrian conflict.
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Even UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon now acknowledges that Syria is engulfed in a full-blown civil war. And world and regional powers themselves remain divided over Syria: with Iran, Russia, and China on the side of embattled President Bashar al-Assad; and the United States and other Western nations joining Turkey and Sunni Arab countries on the side of the rebels.
Still, that division is not stopping the international community from attempting to find some means of influencing a conflict that appears more dangerous for regional peace and stability every day ? as recent signs of a spillover effect into neighboring Lebanon suggest.
The Security Council decided a small civilian office will replace the observer mission of about 100 military personnel, with the objective of maintaining political contacts on the ground. Also, according to Reuters, former Algerian foreign minister Lakhdar Brahimi has agreed to replace Kofi Annan as Syria envoy, albeit with a reconfigured mandate.
The UN?s attempts to remain involved have been complicated by Mr. Assad?s view that international forces are largely arrayed against him. That perception was no doubt reinforced by two separate actions taken by international organizations Wednesday.
A special UN commission set up to investigate human rights violations in Syria found that the government and government-sponsored militias have committed ?crimes against humanity? in their repression of the population and antigovernment forces. UN human rights officials have accused the Assad regime of committing war crimes including murder, torture, and sexual violence, but the finding of ?crimes against humanity? paves the way for Syrian officials to be tried in the International Criminal Court.
The special commission also found the rebels have committed criminal violence, though to a lesser degree than government forces.
Furthermore on Wednesday, the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) voted to suspend Syria from the group ? a move the US lauded as a reprimand of Assad and a sign of Syria?s mounting isolation. Iran on the other hand criticized the suspension as ?unfair,? saying the better solution would have been to encourage talks between the government and the opposition.
The OIC?s action underscored the growing rift that the Syrian conflict is fueling between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. Assad hails from a small Shiite sect, the Alawites, while the opposition fighting him is largely Sunni.
That rift was apparent Wednesday when a Lebanese Shiite militia reported taking a group of more than three dozen Syrians (and at least one Turk) hostage, in retribution for a mass kidnapping of Lebanese in Syria by Syrian rebels.
Masked Lebanese militiamen appeared in the Lebanese capital of Beirut Wednesday to claim the hostage taking and to warn that they would begin targeting foreigners in Lebanon from Turkey and from Sunni Arab, pro-Syrian-rebel countries including Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
The Security Council?s pullback from Syria occurred as the UN?s humanitarian and relief affairs chief wound up a three-day mission, concluding that the humanitarian situation in Syria had gravely deteriorated since her last visit in March.
Valerie Amos said that more than 1 million Syrians have been displaced ?and face destitution,? while perhaps 2.5 million Syrians are in need of humanitarian assistance. She said she is particularly concerned that schools are increasingly being turned into shelters for the uprooted ? when the buildings should be in the middle of preparation for the school year that commences in September.
Despite Syria?s intensifying civil war, UN Secretary-General Ban is still expected to formally name a Syria envoy to replace Mr. Annan, who steps down at the end of the month. The former UN secretary-general threw in the towel earlier in August after concluding that the international community was too divided to allow him to play an effective role.
Rumors circulated and then waned over the prospects for a Scandinavian diplomat to take the job. Mr. Brahimi, who hesitated for days, has been said to be interested in the post only if he has assurances of full international backing.
The French ambassador to the UN, G?rard Araud, told reporters at the UN Wednesday that he understood why it was taking awhile to replace Annan, since the envoy would be taking on an ?impossible mission.?
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SIAM awards undergraduates for exemplary mathematical modeling
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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) gives the SIAM Award in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) to two undergraduate teams judged "outstanding" among hundreds of participants worldwide in the annual MCM administered by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP).
The contest inspires students to develop solutions involving mathematical modeling to open-ended problems in two categories: continuous and discrete. SIAM judges pick a winner in each of the two categories among teams determined "outstanding" by COMAP judging.
Both 2011 and 2012 recipients were awarded prizes at the Prizes and Awards Luncheon held on Tuesday, July 10, at the SIAM Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Enhao Gong, Rongsha Li, and Xiaoyun Wang of Beijing's Tsinghua University, mentored by their faculty advisor, Jimin Zhang, were winners of the 2011 Continuous Problem "Snowboard Course." Li was present to accept the award from SIAM President Nick Trefethen.
The award for the 2011 Discrete Problem, "Repeater Coordination," went to California's Harvey Mudd College students Daniel Furlong, Dylan Marriner, and Louis Ryan. Their faculty advisor was Susan Martonosi. Ryan accepted the award on behalf of his team.
The award for the 2012 Continuous Problem, entitled "The Leaves of a Tree," went to the team from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Team members Cheng Fu, Hangqi Zhao, Danting Zhu received their awards at the luncheon. Their advisor for the contest was Zhiyi Tan.
The Discrete Problem for 2012 was titled "Camping Along the Big Long River." University of Louisville students James Jones, Suraj Kannan, and Joshua Mitchell nabbed the SIAM award in this category. They were coached by Changbing Hu. Kannan and Mitchell received the award for the team.
Winners presented their papers in a session of Student Days on Wednesday, July 11.
Student recipients each received a cash award of $300, a SIAM Student Travel Award, complimentary SIAM membership for three years, and a framed, hand-calligraphed certificate for their schools.
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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) gives the SIAM Award in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) to two undergraduate teams judged "outstanding" among hundreds of participants worldwide in the annual MCM administered by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP).
The contest inspires students to develop solutions involving mathematical modeling to open-ended problems in two categories: continuous and discrete. SIAM judges pick a winner in each of the two categories among teams determined "outstanding" by COMAP judging.
Both 2011 and 2012 recipients were awarded prizes at the Prizes and Awards Luncheon held on Tuesday, July 10, at the SIAM Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Enhao Gong, Rongsha Li, and Xiaoyun Wang of Beijing's Tsinghua University, mentored by their faculty advisor, Jimin Zhang, were winners of the 2011 Continuous Problem "Snowboard Course." Li was present to accept the award from SIAM President Nick Trefethen.
The award for the 2011 Discrete Problem, "Repeater Coordination," went to California's Harvey Mudd College students Daniel Furlong, Dylan Marriner, and Louis Ryan. Their faculty advisor was Susan Martonosi. Ryan accepted the award on behalf of his team.
The award for the 2012 Continuous Problem, entitled "The Leaves of a Tree," went to the team from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Team members Cheng Fu, Hangqi Zhao, Danting Zhu received their awards at the luncheon. Their advisor for the contest was Zhiyi Tan.
The Discrete Problem for 2012 was titled "Camping Along the Big Long River." University of Louisville students James Jones, Suraj Kannan, and Joshua Mitchell nabbed the SIAM award in this category. They were coached by Changbing Hu. Kannan and Mitchell received the award for the team.
Winners presented their papers in a session of Student Days on Wednesday, July 11.
Student recipients each received a cash award of $300, a SIAM Student Travel Award, complimentary SIAM membership for three years, and a framed, hand-calligraphed certificate for their schools.
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Sears narrows loss on cost cuts; sales decline
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) ? Sears Holding Corp. cut expenses and reduced inventory in its second quarter, helping the struggling retailer narrow its loss from a year ago.
The Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based company's adjusted results met Wall Street's expectations, but revenue fell short because of weaker sales at both Sears and Kmart stores.
Sears has been working to spruce up its image and turn around its ailing business. Back in May, the company noted it was investing heavily in improving the customer experience, with changes such as improved displays and iPads for sales staff to research products and help customers check out wherever they are in the store.
To boost shareholder confidence and restore profitability, the company has also looked to spinoffs and real estate sales. Three days ago, Sears said that it is moving forward with plans to spin off its Hometown and Outlet stores along with some hardware stores into a separate company.
Sears is also spinning off a stake in its Canada division to focus on turning around its U.S. business.
In a note to investors Thursday, ISI analyst Greg Melich said that Sears still has a long way to go to fix its business but that the improved liquidity should buy it some time. At the same time, he noted that the decline in sales at Sears and Kmart stores was worse than he had expected.
In the U.S., revenue from Sears stores open at least a year fell 2.9 percent. The figure declined 4.7 percent for Kmart locations. The metric is an indicator of health because it strips out the impact of newly opened and closed locations.
Sears blamed competitive pricing for weaker sales of electronics. Lawn and garden sales also fell, with drought across the country hindering purchases.
Fewer clearance items also dragged down revenue, with tighter inventory levels limiting the amount of seasonal merchandise markdowns. Pharmacy sales fell as popular drugs such as cholesterol fighter Lipitor started coming out in cheaper generic versions.
Sears Canada reported a 7.1 percent drop in revenue at stores open at least a year, hurt by lower sales of women's and men's clothing, tools, home decor and lawn and garden items. Unfavorable foreign currency exchange rates also impacted results.
For the period ended July 28, Sears lost $132 million, or $1.25 per share. That compares with a loss of $146 million, or $1.37 per share, a year ago.
Excluding costs tied to store closings, a pension expense and other items, the company lost 86 cents per share.
Revenue dropped 7 percent to $9.47 billion, missing Wall Street's $9.68 billion estimate.
Sears managed to trim its selling and administrative expenses in the quarter by reducing payroll and advertising costs. Merchandise inventories fell to $8.7 billion from $9.3 billion. Domestic inventory was reduced thanks to store closings and improved productivity.
Sears, which has more than 3,900 stores in the U.S. and Canada, also reduced its total debt to $3.3 billion from $3.5 billion.
Shares of Sears were up 4 percent at $58.84 in pre-market trading.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
You've seen It! You know It! Is it worth $22 Million? | DPS Real Estate
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It?s the ?Big One? on the hilltop! It calls out to you as you drive up Fairfax Ave. It stares at you as you drive over Sunset Blvd. What parties has it thrown? Who has walked through its doors?
It looks quite spectacular from the photos. But as is the usual LA style,will a buyer looking to call LA proper its next home, pay the high ticket price? We?ll wait and see.
I do have to admit the volleyball court on the edge of the city made me pull out my checkbook for an LA minute.
Daniel Signani is a Real Estate agent with Coldwell Banker in Beverly Hills. He is widely respected by his clients and colleagues alike for his professional approach to each real estate transaction. His integrity, loyalty and honesty have all paved the way to building a remarkable business. With 8 years of real estate experience, Daniel prides himself in his ability to not only help his client's present award winning offers, but also negotiate on their behalf resulting in a win-win situation for all the parties involved. Protecting the client is yet another one of Daniel's many areas of expertise. Daniel understands the Internet and how it plays a critical role in marketing your home in today's internet savvy world. "I recently obtained the E-Pro Certification afforded to all real estate agents who complete the educational course. This certification strengthens my understanding of how Internet marketing is critical to successful real estate sales." "I also wanted to better understand how I could reduce my carbon footprint, and more importantly, help educate others as to how they could reduce theirs." With this thirst for knowledge, Daniel has been awarded the National Association of Realtors? Green Designation, the only green real estate professional designation recognized by NAR. This designation helps consumers who care about energy efficiency and sustainable building practices identify Realtors? who can help them realize their green real estate and lifestyle goals. All of this proves to be another invaluable asset he brings to the table when listing your home for sale. Daniel is also proud to be a Realtor? and member of the Beverly Hills Greater Los Angeles Association of Realtors?. He is currently a member of both the Public Policy & Professional Standards Committees.Source: http://dpsrealestate.com/blog/2012/08/15/youve-seen-it-you-know-it-is-it-worth-22-million/
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
With relaxed rules for undocumented in the US, real work in Mexico begins
President Obama announced new rules to allow undocumented immigrants under the age of 16 to apply for a stay of deportation and a way to continue their schooling.
Now that the US has implemented a reprieve for young, undocumented immigrants in the US, Peggy Jaramillo?s real work begins.
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The director of Tu Casa San Luis en Dallas, which provides support to Mexican immigrants in Texas, is planning information sessions to get the Mexican expat community up to speed about how undocumented immigrants under 16 can apply for a stay of deportation, a work permit, and continue their education under new rules that President Obama put into place after the DREAM Act failed to pass.
?There are millions of children in this situation,? says Ms. Jaramillo, who splits her time between Dallas and San Luis Potosi in Mexico and works to educate families on both sides of the border. ?Now they?re going to have access to education. We?re trying to get all the information we can and get the word out.?
Sixty percent of unauthorized immigrants to the United States are Mexican, according to the Migration Policy Institute. There were 6.7 million undocumented Mexicans living in the US in 2009.
President Obama?s ?Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals? doesn?t go as far as the proposed DREAM Act, which died on the Senate floor after passing the House of Representatives in 2010. That legislation would have created a path to citizenship for certain undocumented young people. The current policy provides a Social Security number and a temporary stay of deportation proceedings.
?We young people have a lot of abilities, and the fact that we?re from another country shouldn?t matter,? says Mar?a del Rosario P?rez M?ndez at a small taco stand on a busy corner of Mexico City. ?I believe we should have opportunities no matter where we are.?
She expressed empathy for her?paisanos?in the US, especially those young people who may benefit from Obama?s reprieve. Some of those sent back to Mexico have no real ties to the country. Some don't even speak Spanish.
Even as the law takes effect, the Obama administration continues to focus on border security. The headlines in Mexico on Wednesday reflected greater concern with a?Wall Street Journal?report on US plans to send surveillance blimps - the kind used in operations in Afghanistan - to the US border with Mexico.
The?Journal?on Tuesday reported that the military plans to test whether an unmanned blimp, also called ?the floating eye,? could catch drug smugglers or migrants illegally trying to reach the US. Such enforcement generates suspicion in many corners in Mexico.
But Ms. Perez Mendez views the relaxed deportation rules favorably, as do many Mexicans. ?It says a lot that even though [Obama] is president, he has the humility to extend these opportunities to other people,? she says.
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