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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Italy to cut spending, sees risks of protests: report

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy will resume public spending cuts to find resources for tax cuts to kick start growth, Economy Minister Fabrizio Saccomanni told daily Corriere della Sera on Saturday.

He warned, however, that cuts could spark social unrest in the euro zone's third largest economy, where lobbies have so far resisted previous government attempts to reduce state spending.

"We aim to support economic growth through a reduction of taxes on labor and companies," said Saccomanni, former deputy governor at the Bank of Italy.

"We can't do it by raising public debt, so we have to cut public spending," he said in an interview with the Italian daily.

Italy issues some 400 billion euros ($520 billion) of bonds each year to fund its 2-trillion-euro debt pile, Saccomanni said, reiterating that Rome could not put at risk its credibility on the markets by spurring growth with new debt.

Rome has committed to maintaining a budget deficit of 2.9 percent of gross domestic product in 2013, just under the European Union's 3 percent ceiling, and has just emerged from the EU so-called excessive deficit procedure.

Saccomanni, under pressure from the centre-right party in the coalition government to relax austerity in the country, said the government will launch a new round of spending reviews.

The process, aimed at finding savings from the state's huge balance sheet, would take time and could be painful.

"No one should expect we will find hidden expenses we can cut without raising protests," the minister said, adding he did not have a "magic wand".

Few positive signs in the economy, however, could help the government in its difficult task.

"We are confident we will see a recovery towards the end of the year," Saccomanni said, adding he expects the cost of servicing Italy's public debt could be lower than estimates, freeing resources for growth.

The right-left government headed by Prime Minister Enrico Letta is struggling to balance Italy's commitments to the EU with coalition promises to cut taxes.

At the insistence of Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right, a crucial part of the ruling coalition, the government has suspended a housing tax on primary residences and has also temporarily blocked an increase in sales tax due to take effect next Monday.

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(Reporting by Francesca Landini; Editing by David Cowell)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/italy-cut-spending-sees-risks-protests-report-105511766.html

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Hunt champion galloping in new directions - Livingston County News

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Hunt champion galloping in new directions

June 29, 2013 by Sally Fox

For six years in the recent past, Cara Peters and Ace owned the Stock Horse Sprint at the Genesee Valley Hunt Race Meet on the second Saturday in October, even though the race is easily the most heavily entered of the day.

From sweet sixteen at Geneseo Central School, the youngest age allowed to compete in the event, through college at Cornell University, Cara grew to a statuesque young woman, while her mount maintained his diminutive size ? slightly more than 15.1 hands ? and his strong desire to be out in front of the pack.

Ace was originally purchased as a 3-year-old from an auction at Batavia Downs for Cara?s father Mike, with an expectation that he would continue to grow to fit his intended rider. When that didn?t happen, Mike passed him along to Cara.

Ace ended up going to college with Cara, not to compete, but as her ?stress reliever? on trail rides to balance out the demands of a double major in agribusiness and natural resources. Graduating in 2011, she had a job waiting with Farm Credit East, where she had interned the summer before her senior year.

Moving to southern New Hampshire with Ace in tow, she found the private farm where Ace is now boarded through word of mouth at work.

The owner in her 50s took her out for a ride and informed her, ?No nonsense, no drama. If you can keep up, you can stay!? as she headed off down the trail at a smart clip.

Passing muster in that regard, Cara was then introduced to a whole new world of horse sport ? Cowboy Mounted Shooting.

From what I have found online, Cowboy Mounted Shooting is one of the fastest growing equestrian sports in the nation.

In the spirit of the soldier and cowboy, a group called the Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association was created in the 1990s so that horse people and cowboy action shooters can enjoy the competitive nature of shooting sports while riding horseback.

The object of the sport is to shoot 10 balloon targets while riding through a variety of challenging courses using specially-loaded blank cartridges fired from Old West-style single-action revolvers. It?s a high-speed, timed spectator sport in which the competitor who rides the fastest with the least amount of missed targets wins. So, this obviously demands both horsemanship and shooting skills.

The typical event requires two single-action revolvers loaded with five, black-powder cartridges. Ten targets are arranged in an arena. Targets are engaged with blank ammunition that is certified to break a target balloon within but not beyond 20 feet. (No bullets are used.)

When the competitor is given the signal to go, indicating the arena is clear of people and hazards, the rider crosses a timer line and engages the targets. Once all 10 targets have been engaged, the rider returns across the timer line and a score is determined based on the raw time and penalties added for missed targets, failure to follow the specified course or procedure, or knocking over barrels or target stands.

In the early years, mounted shooting competitors were required to wear costumes, clothing of the American west, Classic B-Western Movies, or military cavalry uniforms of any time period or country.

Today, all that is required is modern cowboy clothing with chinks or chaps, long-sleeved shirt and a cowboy hat. (You?ll see in the photo, however, that Cara is wisely wearing a helmet ? one of the few competitors to do so.)

There are four levels of competition.

Cara and Ace are just getting their feet wet at Level 1.

Still, I won?t be surprised to hear that they are moving up the ranks and doing well.

Perhaps we?ll see them one day competing around here.

Pony Club Western New York Region Games Rally

This kind of rally is the first one that most Pony Clubbers experience.

The Genesee Valley Pony Club once again hosted the rally at the Avon Driving Park.

There were four teams in the Walk-Trot division, with the GVPC team consisting of Nicholas and Catherine Staley, Brogan Henderson, Peytyn Geer and Piper Emo, calling themselves the ?Jazzy Jumpers.?

The Heart to Heart team from the Alexander area, Northern Exposure PC team Lullabye from the Canton area, and the Mendon Wild Things rounded out the division.

There were three Junior teams from East Aurora, Northern Exposure, and a mixed team of Carly Lloyd from GVPC, a Mendon girl, and two from Heart to Heart PC.

The Senior division had two teams, with GVPC represented by Joe Thorne, Marissa Rice, Kassandra Wohlschlegel, Logan Ellis and a Mendon girl, Jenna Newcomb.

The other team was from Canton.

Glenn Staley, who competed in games for many years with the club, was the coach for GVPC teams. Mary Donegan and Deanna Wohlschlegel were the rally organizers. Club member Paul Cripps served as C advisor with the WT teams.

Coming Up

June 30: Firecracker Derby, hosted by the GVRDC, at Hideaway Farm on Roots Tavern Road off Route 39 north of Geneseo.

Divisions range from Introductory to Training level. The derby format incorporates a mix of water, ditches, and solid, cross-country fences, along with show-jumping style fences that can be knocked down, on a course over varied terrain. Special prizes will be awarded to the individual in each division showing the most patriotic spirit in their attire. In the past there have been some wonderfully creative get-ups that add to the fun.

The schedule starts first thing in the morning with the Introductory division, and progresses upward throughout the day. Some bleacher seating is available, but it?s not a bad idea to bring your own chair to sit in the shade. Free admission and parking; food available.

July 4: Cavalry Games,the east lawn of The Homestead at the south end of Geneseo?s Main Street.

This unique Valley happening was first held in 1885 at the same location. The upcoming event starts at 2 p.m. No admission fee, no chairs, no concessions, (so bring your own amenities), just good fun as riders once again test their skills with saber, lance, jumps, rescuing a comrade, and those pesky musical chairs.

Source: http://thelcn.com/2013/06/29/galloping-in-new-directions/

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Saturday, June 29, 2013

After 17 Years In Business, Expense Management SaaS Replicon ...

Replicon, the developer of a cloud time tracking and expense management application, has raised $20 million Series A funding led by The Social + Capital Partnership and Emergence Capital Partners. This is actually the first time in the company?s 17-year history of raising money from institutional investors.

Co-founders Raj Narayanaswamy and Lakshmi Raj have largely bootstrapped the SaaS company on their own since its inception in 1996. Replicon?s products allow you to track project time and expenses, client billing, employee work schedules, and employee time and attendance. The company was originally founded in Canada but moved to Silicon Valley three years ago.

TimeSheet Project & Billing allows users to track project time and costs and create reports based off of this data. Managers can monitor project/task progress, actual vs. estimated hours/cost, and billing amounts. Users can track hours worked for both salaried and hourly employees, manage time off, set accrual policies, manage overtime rules, run attendance and payroll reports, and integrate with other payroll software.

Additionally managers can track employee expenses in multiple currencies, attach expense receipts, automatically calculate taxes such as VAT or GST, and monitor expense reimbursements. In terms of scheduling, the software allows you to track employee work schedules, make on-the-fly adjustments, and track actual work against the set schedule.

Quietly, Replicon, which is profitable, has accumulated more than 1.2 million users in 60 countries worldwide, with clients including Ernst & Young, Cornell University, Health Canada, Shell, Verizon, Ferrari and Amazon. The company says that it is projecting 60 to 80 percent growth by 2015.

It?s not that often you come across companies raising the first round of outside funding after 17 years of business. But Raj said the new capital is really focused on accelerating growth, and not being constrained with the expense on the balance sheet. The money will be primarily used towards sales and marketing, international expansion and hiring.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/28/after-17-years-in-business-expense-management-saas-replicon-raises-20m-in-series-a-funding-from-social-capital-and-emergence/

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Obama says managing Afghanistan exit is a priority

Four people who were on the ground the night of the Benghazi attacks last year are writing a book about their experience, and they're getting a $3 million advance from Twelve Books to do it. The authors are unnamed, according to New York Post's Keith J. Kelly, who describes them as "members of the elite security team from the annex of the US Embassy." That annex, we now know, was the CIA annex, which makes this book deal really fascinating. ...

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-says-managing-afghanistan-exit-priority-111250278.html

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Friday, June 28, 2013

Reader recommendations: One Man Great Enough

Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.

By Martha Barkley, Belgrade Lakes, Me. / June 27, 2013

What a joy to find One Man Great Enough by journalist John C. Waugh, a very readable history about Lincoln's road to the Civil War. Reading this book I found out about Albion, Me., martyr Elijah Parish Lovejoy who died in Illinois due to his abolitionist press. I also learned about Vermont legislator Dan Stone who, early on, cowrote with Lincoln early on resolutions opposing slavery. There is so much readable, interesting history in this scholarly book about Lincoln.

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Edward Snowden Is Riding a Global Anti-American Network

Judging from polls, Edward Snowden hasn?t enjoyed much success in rousing the American public to share his anger over Washington?s ?architecture of oppression,? as he called it. But by becoming an international fugitive, the National Security Agency leaker may well have succeeded at rallying a good part of the rest of the world around his cause.

Call his protectors the Anti-American Network. They are a kind of geopolitical underground of informally aligned nations that has been growing since the end of the Cold War, and they are united by a mistrust of America as the ?lone superpower.? Snowden is riding this network like a fugitive slave helped by the Underground Railroad of the 19th century. He has hopped from Hong Kong, where the quasi-independent government issued a blunt snub to Washington (apparently with Beijing?s say-so), to Moscow, which refuses to extradite him. And Snowden has asked for asylum in Ecuador, which is already harboring WikiLeaks fugitive Julian Assange, and where he would arrive by way of Cuba.

There are other actual and potential members of the Anti-American Network, of course: Iran, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, a number of fence-sitting Asian and European nations, and more. The network was galvanized by President Bush?s 2003 Iraq invasion, and although it appeared to fade a bit with the election of Barack Obama in 2008 (who was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, recall, mostly for not being Bush), it has gained new life with Obama?s perceived overuse of drone warfare and with revelations that the U.S. government is spying on ... apparently everybody?Americans, allies, and enemies alike.

Recently, Snowden placed his fate in the hands of the informal leader of the Anti-American Network, Russia?s Vladimir Putin. That meant the country?s president controlled the ultimate instrument of payback to Washington. As a former KGB colonel who?s no slouch at cracking down on dissent himself, Putin must be at least somewhat sympathetic to Washington?s desire to bring in America?s most prominent dissident. On Tuesday, Putin indicated that he didn?t want Snowden to remain in a transit zone at a Russian airport, arguing, ?The sooner he chooses his final destination, the better it is for him and Russia.?

But from all the evidence, Putin also loves to ?stick his thumb in [America?s] eye,? as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told CNN, calling the Russian president an ?old KGB colonel apparatchik that dreams of the days of the Russian empire.? Whatever Putin may be saying now about ?the businesslike character of our relations with the U.S.,? it is evident that Russia?s foreign policy is largely shaped by its leader?s desire to meddle with America and its global designs. He backs President Bashar al-Assad in Syria against the U.S.-aided rebels; Moscow opposes stringent sanctions on Iran, where it is building a nuclear reactor; and Putin pressured Obama to retreat from a European missile-defense system, angering the Poles and the Czechs who would have hosted it. Above all, Putin was incensed by the Magnitsky Act, a 2012 U.S. law, named after a slain Russian lawyer, under which Washington can penalize Russian human-rights abuses.

Still, there is more to this Anti-American Network?and to Russian foreign policy?than simple resentment of Washington. ?The Russian leadership is increasingly frustrated with the United States and American foreign policy that, from their point of view, is built around interfering in the internal affairs of other countries,? says Paul Saunders of the Center for the National Interest. ?They believe it should be fundamentally up to people who live inside a particular country to decide how they are ruled.? He points out that Washington and Moscow weren?t that far apart on Syria until last year, when Obama bluntly called for Assad?s ouster. This has continued to be the sticking point.

There is an element of hypocrisy to this, of course, because Moscow cavalierly interferes in the affairs of nations it considers to be part of its ?sphere,? such as Georgia and Ukraine, just as China does with nations in East Asia. Nonetheless, there are enough nations that, like Russia and China, want to reanimate the concept of noninterference (which, after all, was a founding principle of the United Nations) against the perception of U.S. meddling that the Anti-American Network may well grow?and become a powerful countervailing force to U.S. influence.

Exhibit A: the summit in March between Putin and China?s new president, Xi Jinping. In a new article in The National Interest journal, two of America?s leading foreign policy pundits, Leslie Gelb and Dimitri Simes, noted Xi?s comment at the meeting that Beijing and Moscow should ?resolutely support each other in efforts to protect national sovereignty, security, and development interests.? Putin agreed, declaring that ?the strategic partnership between us is of great importance on both a bilateral and global scale.?

Gelb and Simes play down the idea that Russia and China might adopt a formal alliance against the United States; both countries, they write, in the long run ?need more from the United States and the European Union than from each other.? But they do suggest that Moscow and Beijing might well ?play a game of triangular diplomacy similar to the Nixon/Kissinger strategy of the 1970s. In this scenario, Moscow and Beijing could dangle the prospect of a potential alliance or ad hoc cooperative arrangement with the other to gain leverage over Washington and put the United States at a bargaining and power disadvantage.? Precisely the disadvantage that Edward Snowden has helped to place Washington in today.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/edward-snowden-riding-global-anti-american-network-060633317.html

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The Myth of the Komodo Dragon?s Dirty Mouth

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In 1969, an American biologist named Walter Auffenberg moved to the Indonesia island of Komodo to study its most famous resident?the Komodo dragon. This huge lizard?the largest in the world?grows to lengths of 3 metres, and can take down large prey like deer and water buffalo. Auffenberg watched the dragons for a year and eventually published a book on their behaviour in 1981. It won him an award. It also enshrined a myth that took almost three decades to refute, and is still prevalent today.

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Black and Red Headphones for Vampires Are Your Deal of the Day

True Blood, HBO's softcore vampire epic, doesn't have anything to do with consumer audio, but that didn't stop V-Moda from releasing a pair of their popular M-80 headphones with True Blood branding. As a result of this ill-fated crossover, you can cop a pair of nice cans for $70 off the normal price.

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Ingested nanoparticle toxicity

June 26, 2013 ? Ingestion of commonly encountered nanoparticles at typical environmental levels is unlikely to cause overt toxicity, according to US researchers. Nevertheless there is insufficient evidence to determine whether chronic exposures could lead to subtle alterations in intestinal immune function, protein profiles, or microbial balance.

Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, researchers have compared existing laboratory and experimental animal studies pertaining to the toxicity of nanoparticles most likely to be intentionally or accidentally ingested. Based on their review, the researchers determined ingestion of nanoparticles at likely exposure levels is unlikely to cause health problems, at least with respect to acute toxicity. Furthermore, in vitro laboratory testing, which often shows toxicity at a cellular level, does not correspond well with in vivo testing, which tends to show less adverse effects.

Ingrid Bergin in the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Frank Witzmann in the Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, at Indiana University School of Medicine, in Indianapolis, explain that the use of particles that are in the nano size range (from 1 billionth to 100 billionths of a meter in diameter, 1-100 nm, other thereabouts) are finding applications in consumer products and medicine. These include particles such as nano-silver, which is increasingly used in consumer products and dietary supplements for its purported antimicrobial properties. Nanoparticles can have some intriguing and useful properties because they do not necessarily behave in the same chemical and physical ways as non-nanoparticle versions of the same material.

Nanoparticles are now used as natural flavor enhancers in the form of liposomes and related materials, food pigments and in some so-called "health supplements." They are also used in antibacterial toothbrushes coated with silver nanoparticles, for instance in food and drink containers and in hygienic infant feeding equipment. They are also used to carry pharmaceuticals to specific disease sites in the body to reduce side effects. Nanoparticles actually encompass a very wide range of materials from pure metals and alloys, to metal oxide nanoparticles, and carbon-based and plastic nanoparticles. Because of their increasing utilization in consumer products, there has been concern over whether these small scale materials could have unique toxicity effects when compared to more traditional versions of the same materials.

Difficulties in assessing the health risks of nanoparticles include the fact that particles of differing materials and shapes can have different properties. Furthermore, the route of exposure (e.g. ingestion vs. inhalation) affects the likelihood of toxicity. The U.S. researchers evaluated the current literature specifically with respect to toxicity of ingested nanoparticles. They point out that, in addition to intentional ingestion as with dietary supplements, unintentional ingestion can occur due to nanoparticle presence in water or as a breakdown product from coated consumer goods. Inhaled nanoparticles also represent an ingestion hazard since they are coughed up, swallowed, and eliminated through the intestinal tract.

Based on their review, the team concludes that, "Ingested nanoparticles appear unlikely to have acute or severe toxic effects at typical levels of exposure." Nevertheless, they add that the current literature is inadequate to assess whether nanoparticles can accumulate in tissues and have long-term effects or whether they might cause subtle alterations in gut microbial populations. The researchers stress that better methods are needed for correlating particle concentrations used for cell-based assessment of toxicity with the actual likely exposure levels to body cells. Such methods may lead to better predictive value for laboratory in vitro testing, which currently over-predicts toxicity of ingested nanoparticles as compared to in vivo testing.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/matter_energy/biochemistry/~3/nzJGeyWJ0NU/130626143120.htm

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Poppy turns iPhone into View-Master-like 3D display and camera (video)

Remember the View-Master? We've already seen goggles from Hasbro and Sanwa that transform the iPhone into a 3D viewer, but Poppy plans to spice things up by adding 3D photo and video capture to the mix. The device, which contains no electronics, is about the size of medium pair of binoculars and features a slot which accepts an iPhone 5. It's launching on Kickstarter today for less than $50, along with a matching app. We got the chance to take a prototype for a spin and it worked like a charm. Check out the gallery and campaign link below, then read on after the break.

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Three Chinese Astronauts Land After Record-Breaking Spaceflight

A Chinese space capsule carrying three astronauts returned safely to Earth Tuesday (June 25), wrapping up the longest manned space mission in the nation's history.

The Shenzhou 10 spacecraft?touched down at 8:08 p.m. EDT Tuesday (0008 GMT), capping a 15-day mission to China's orbiting Tiangong 1 lab module. The spacecraft landed in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where the local time was 8:08 a.m. on Wednesday.

During their time aboard Tiangong 1, Nie Haisheng, Wang Yaping (the second Chinese woman to fly in space) and Zhang Xiaoguang performed a variety of experiments, beamed a microgravity science lesson down to 330 schoolkids and chatted with President Xi Jinping. [Photos: China's Shenzhou 10 Space Mission in Pictures]

Xi lauded the three taikonauts (as Chinese astronauts are called) during the phone call on Monday (June 24) and stressed that their mission is part of a broader plan to advance China's presence and capabilities in the final frontier.

"The space dream is part of the dream to make China stronger. With the development of space programs, the Chinese people will take bigger strides to explore further into space," Xi said, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Shenzhou 10 launched June 11 and docked automatically with Tiangong 1?two days later. The spaceships separated briefly on Saturday (June 22) before joining up again, this time in a manual docking with Nie piloting the Shenzhou 10. The vessels detached for good on Monday evening (June 24), with Shenzhou 10 then flying around the lab module in a rendezvous test.

Such spaceflight maneuvers are viewed as key steps toward the construction and long-term occupancy of an orbiting space station, which China hopes to have up and running by 2020.

The Shenzhou 10 mission was China's fifth human spaceflight. The nation first launched a taikonaut in October 2003, sending Yang Liwei into orbit for 21 hours. A two-person crew spent five days in space two years later, and three taikonauts blasted off on a three-day trip in September 2008.

The next manned mission was Shenzhou 9, which sent three taikonauts ? including Liu Yang, China's first woman in space ? on the first flight to Tiangong 1 in June 2012. The 13-day mission featured automatic and manual dockings with the lab module, as Shenzhou 10 did.

Tiangong 1 launched to Earth orbit in September 2011 and was first visited by the unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft two months later. China plans to launch a larger module, called Tiangong 2, later this year. ("Tiangong" means "Heavenly Palace" in Chinese, while "Shenzhou" is typically translated as "Divine Vessel.")

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/three-chinese-astronauts-land-record-breaking-spaceflight-002118482.html

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One in five students in Grades 7-12 say they have had a traumatic brain injury in their lifetime

June 25, 2013 ? One in five adolescents surveyed in Ontario said they have suffered a traumatic brain injury that left them unconscious for five minutes or required them to be hospitalized overnight, a statistic researchers in Toronto say is much higher than previously thought.

Sports such as ice hockey and soccer accounted for more than half the injuries, said Dr. Gabriela Ilie, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral fellow at St. Michael's Hospital.

Traumatic brain injuries, such as concussions, were reported more often by males than females, by those with lower school grades and by those who used alcohol or cannabis in the previous 12 months, she said.

The study was to be published Wednesday (June 26) in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Ilie said this is one of the first studies of traumatic brain injury to focus only on adolescents and to include all of their self-reported TBIs. Most previous studies based their reporting only on hospital records. Concussion is the most common form of traumatic brain injury.

The data used in the study were from the 2011 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey (OSDUHS) developed by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The survey, one of the longest ongoing school surveys in the world, contains responses from almost 9,000 students from Grades 7-12 in publicly funded schools across Ontario. The OSDUHS began as a drug use survey, but is now a broader study of adolescent health and well-being. For the first time in 2011, questions about traumatic brain injury were added to the survey.

"The questions about TBI were added to the OSDUHS because there were no current data on prevalence in the adolescent population," said Dr. Robert Mann, a senior scientist at CAMH and director of the OSDUHS. "Early research has indicated that there may be links between TBIs and mental health and substance use during adolescence -- we plan to study this in the near future."

The survey found that 20 per cent of adolescents in Ontario said they had had a traumatic brain injury in their lifetime. It found that 5.6 per cent of them had had such an injury in the past 12 months.

Dr. Ilie said this suggests the prevalence of TBI among young people is much higher than previously known, because many head injuries remain uncounted when they are not being reported to parents, teachers, sports coaches or health care workers. In Canada, 50 per cent of all injuries that kill and disable youth involve a TBI.

This new research found that 46.9 per cent of the TBIs reported by adolescent females occurred during sports (e.g., hockey, skate boarding); the figure was 63.5 per cent for males.

Students who reported drinking alcohol occasionally/frequently and those who reported using cannabis 10 or more times over the past 12 months had more than five times and more than three the odds, respectively, of acquiring a traumatic brain injury in the past 12 months than students who reported abstinence. The survey also showed that students who reported overall poor grades at school (below 60 per cent) had almost four times the odds of a lifetime acquired brain injury than students who reported grades at or above 90 per cent.

"Traumatic brain injury is preventable," said Dr. Ilie. "If we know who is more vulnerable, when and how these injuries are occurring, we can talk to students, coaches, and parents about it. We can take preventive action and find viable solutions to reduce their occurrence and long-term effects."

Brain injuries among adolescents are particularly concerning because their brains are still developing. There is growing evidence that people who have had one or more concussions are at greater risk of future concussions, and evidence that multiple brain injuries can result in lasting cognitive impairment, substance use, mental health and physical health harms.

This study is part of a team project grant awarded to Dr. Michael Cusimano, a neurosurgeon and concussion researcher at St. Michael's, by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation. The work was also supported by grants to Dr. Mann from AUTO21.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/zD1TKCooUnc/130625172356.htm

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Nissan tightens safety watch after U.S. factory ... - Automotive News

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Editor's note: An earlier version of this story included an incorrect time of a fatal accident at Nissan's Smyrna, Tenn., assembly plant on June 16, and the year a contract driver was killed in a trucking accident on the same site.

Source: http://www.autonews.com/article/20130624/OEM01/130629947/nissan-tightens-safety-watch-after-u-s-factory-fatalities

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Hiding in plain sight: New species of bird discovered in capital city

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Cambodian tailorbird discovered within city limits of Phnom Penh

A team of scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society, BirdLife International, and other groups have discovered a new species of bird with distinct plumage and a loud call living not in some remote jungle, but in a capital city of 1.5 million people.

Called the Cambodian tailorbird (Orthotomus chaktomuk), the previously undescribed species was found in Cambodia's urbanized capitol Phnom Penh and several other locations just outside of the city including a construction site. It is one of only two bird species found solely in Cambodia. The other, the Cambodian laughingthrush, is restricted to the remote Cardamom Mountains.

Scientists describe the new bird in a special online early-view issue of the Oriental Bird Club's journal Forktail. Authors include: Simon Mahood, Ashish John, Hong Chamnan, and Colin Poole of the Wildlife Conservation Society; Jonathan Eames of BirdLife International; Carl Oliveros and Robert Moyle of University of Kansas; Fred Sheldon of Louisiana State University; and Howie Nielsen of the Sam Veasna Centre.

The wren-sized gray bird with a rufous cap and black throat lives in dense, humid lowland scrub in Phnom Penh and other sites in the floodplain. Its scientific name 'chaktomuk' is an old Khmer word meaning four-faces, perfectly describing where the bird is found: the area centered in Phnom Penh where the Tonle Sap, Mekong and Bassac Rivers come together.

Only tiny fragments of floodplain scrub remain in Phnom Penh, but larger areas persist just outside the city limits where the Cambodian Tailorbird is abundant. The authors say that the bird's habitat is declining and recommend that the species is classified as Near Threatened under the IUCN's Red List. Agricultural and urban expansion could further affect the bird and its habitat. However, the bird occurs in Baray Bengal Florican Conservation Area, where WCS is working with local communities and the Forestry Administration to protect the Bengal florican and other threatened birds.

This same dense habitat is what kept the bird hidden for so long. Lead author Simon Mahood of WCS began investigating the new species when co-author Ashish John, also of WCS, took photographs of what was first thought to be a similar, coastal species of tailorbird at a construction site on the edge of Phnom Penh. The bird in the photographs initially defied identification. Further investigation revealed that it was an entirely unknown species.

"The modern discovery of an un-described bird species within the limits of a large populous city not to mention 30 minutes from my home is extraordinary," said Mahood. "The discovery indicates that new species of birds may still be found in familiar and unexpected locations."

The last two decades have seen a sharp increase in the number of new bird species emerging from Indochina, mostly due to exploration of remote areas. Newly described birds include various babbler species from isolated mountains in Vietnam, the bizarre bare-faced bulbul from Lao PDR and the Mekong wagtail, first described in 2001 by WCS and other partners.

Colin Poole, Director of WCS Singapore and a co-author of the Forktail study said, "This discovery is one of several from Indochina in recent years, underscoring the region's global importance for bird conservation."

Co-Author Jonathan C. Eames of BirdLife International's OBE said: "Most newly discovered bird species in recent years have proved to be threatened with extinction or of conservation concern, highlighting the crisis facing the planet's biodiversity."

Steve Zack, WCS Coordinator of Bird Conservation, said, "Asia contains a spectacular concentration of bird life, but is also under sharply increasing threats ranging from large scale development projects to illegal hunting. Further work is needed to better understand the distribution and ecology of this exciting newly described species to determine its conservation needs."

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Suntory Beverage prices $4 billion IPO near bottom of range

By Taiga Uranaka and Ritsuko Shimizu

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Suntory Beverage and Food Ltd will raise 388 billion yen ($4 billion) after it set its IPO price near the bottom of its marketing range, hurt by concerns about its valuation and weak appetite amid market volatility.

The food and soft drinks unit of Suntory Holdings Ltd set the price of its initial public offering at 3,100 yen per share, compared with its 3,000-3,800 yen indicative range, it said in a regulatory filing on Monday.

The maker of Boss canned coffee had been seeking as much as 470 billion yen in Asia's biggest IPO so far this year, to bolster its war chest for acquisitions in emerging markets like Southeast Asia and boost its competitiveness against rivals like Kirin Holdings Co Ltd .

"It's obviously a sign that the stock is not popular among institutional investors," said a hedge fund manager based in Singapore, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

"Given its valuation compared with its peers and high volatility in the market, I think even the price of 3,100 yen is too high for many institutional investors," he said.

The IPO price values Suntory Beverage at a price-to-earnings ratio of 23 based on its 2013 profit forecast. That is higher than 17 at domestic rival Asahi Group Holdings and 16 at Kirin, according to Thomson Reuters data.

At the IPO price, Suntory Beverage would have a market capitalization of 958 billion yen, behind Kirin's 1.5 trillion yen and Asahi's 1.2 trillion yen.

Suntory Beverage's IPO was also seen as a test of investor appetite for new listings at a time of high volatility in Japanese stock markets. The benchmark Nikkei <.n225> has lost about 18 percent since hitting a 5-1/2 year high in late May.

Still, the offering is almost twice the size of the $2.1 billion IPO by the infrastructure fund of Thailand's BTS Group Holdings Pcl , the second-biggest Asia IPO this year, and provides Suntory with the funds to ramp up its acquisition drive.

OVERSEAS EXPANSION

Privately held Suntory Holdings is led by President Nobutada Saji, the 67-year-old grandson of the company's founder. The group, which is known for its Premium Malt's beer and whisky, gets half of its revenue from non-alcoholic drinks unit Suntory Beverage.

Suntory Beverage said it expects its net profit to rise 50 percent to 35 billion yen and its revenue to increase 14 percent to 1.13 trillion yen this year. It has set a target for annual revenue growth of at least 5 percent over the next three years.

In Japan, Suntory is the second-largest soft drinks maker after Coca-Cola Co and the gap in their market share has been narrowing. "In terms of domestic share, Coca-Cola is 27.9 percent and Suntory 19.6 percent. The gap used to be much bigger," said Kazuhiro Miyashita, editor of a trade magazine.

Still, Suntory and its rivals see little room for growth in their saturated home market and have set their sights overseas in recent years.

Suntory acquired soft drinks maker Orangina Schweppes and New Zealand's No. 2 beverage firm Funcor Group, both in 2009. In 2011, it entered into a joint venture with Indonesian food and beverage group GarudaFood. Suntory has said that it is also eyeing the Middle East, Africa and Latin America through acquisitions.

But industry officials and analysts say that acquisitions, especially in Southeast Asia, are increasingly costly and difficult to execute.

Such concerns came to light earlier this year when Kirin lost the chance to buy Singapore-listed Fraser and Neave Ltd's (F&N) food and beverage business after Thailand's TCC Assets Ltd and Thai Beverage PCL successfully acquired the control of F&N.

Kirin sold its 15 percent stake in F&N to TCC Assets after a Thai beer baron won a two-month bidding war with an Indonesian group, a major setback for the Japanese company to gain quick access to the market.

"There are a host of enthusiastic buyers, and sellers tend to be bullish," Masaaki Kitami, an analyst at Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co, said of the intensifying competition for beverage-company acquisitions in that region. ($1 = 97.4750 Japanese yen)

(Additional reporting by Emi Emoto and Nathan Layne; Editing by Chris Gallagher)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/suntory-set-price-4-8-billion-ipo-bolstering-040509583.html

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Lucrative long-hauls get boost at Paris Air Show

LE BOURGET, France (AP) ? Airbus and Boeing won pledges for big purchases of their lucrative long-haul wide-body jets at the Paris Air Show Monday, raising hopes that demand is recovering following the worldwide recession.

The global aviation event at Le Bourget airfield north of Paris is once again playing host to the rivalry between U.S.-based Boeing and France-based Airbus. After several years of success for their smaller models, the world's leading plane makers are hoping to get orders for the bigger, more expensive long-haul jets.

Ahead of the aerospace industry showcase, Airbus heavily promoted the A350 ? its first all-new plane in eight years. The A350 seats up to 440 and is Airbus' best chance to catch up with Boeing's 787 and 777, which carry up to 300 and 365 passengers respectively, in the race to sell planes used on long-haul flights.

Airbus hoped that the A350's short test flight last week would bring in potential customers at the show, especially after recent problems with Boeing's competing 787, dubbed the Dreamliner.

But for the crowds who slogged through torrential downpours, then steamy sun, there was no sight of the Airbus plane. With only four air hours logged, it was not yet approved for flight at Le Bourget's airfield.

The Dreamliner, by contrast, made a few passes above the airfield at Le Bourget, its silence providing a stark contrast to Monday's other showstopper: the Russian fighter the Su-35, which flew for the first time outside its home country.

As the order race got under way, Boeing said GECAS, the aircraft leasing arm of General Electric, has made a promise to buy 10 of its 787 jets. Those would be worth more than $2.4 billion at list prices, though customers often negotiate deep discounts. GECAS is ordering the new version of the 787, the 787-10X.

Qatar Airways also put in orders for Boeing's other long-haul aircraft, the Boeing 777.

Meanwhile, Airbus announced a potential order Monday for its superjumbo 800-passenger A380 jets, which have seen disappointing sales since launching because of the state of the global economy over the past few years. Doric Lease Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding for the purchase of 20 A380s. That deal, if confirmed, would be worth $8 billion at list prices.

Fernando Alonso, head of Airbus' flight test division, said Monday that the first A350 flight went exactly as the simulator had predicted, and just like Airbus planes currently in operation. That's a selling point for airlines reluctant to take the time or expense to retrain pilots.

At a time when fuel costs are a major concern for airlines, many have wondered if the A350, which makes extensive use of fuel-friendly lightweight carbon fiber, would give Airbus a jump on Boeing. But Ray Conner, chief executive of Boeing's civilian aircraft division, claimed Monday that its upcoming revamped 777 isn't that much heavier and that it has other advantages.

He told reporters that a wing redesign and improved engines will allow the plane to carry the same number of passengers "a lot farther."

"The A350-1000 will be a generation behind on engine technology," he said.

The most spectacular displays at the air show, though, are the demonstrations of fighter jets rocketing up toward space before diving back down gracefully. Russia is hoping its twin-engine multipurpose fighter, the Su-35, will clean up orders in the absence of American competition this year. American fighter jets are not on display for the first time in more than two decades because of budget cuts in Washington.

"It's two different trends between commercial aircraft and defense," said Eric Bernardini, a consultant with AlixPartners who follows the aerospace industry. "Commercial aircraft is booming."

Smaller planes dominated the last air show in Paris and also had a good showing Monday. Lufthansa confirmed its March deal for 100 planes in the smaller Airbus A320 family, Airbus said. And International Lease Finance Corporation made a firm order for 50 short-haul A320neo jets. At list prices, those deals together would be worth about $15 billion. Los Angeles-based ILFC is Airbus' biggest customer.

Brazilian Embraer, which makes smaller-capacity commercial jets, announced the sale of 215 of its new-generation planes, with an option for another 165. The bulk of the commitments ? 100 of the E175-E2 aircraft ? went to U.S. based regional airline SkyWest. The new planes have a list price of between $46 million and $60 million.

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AP writer Sarah DiLorenzo in Le Bourget, France, contributed to this article.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lucrative-long-hauls-boost-paris-air-show-162635784.html

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Smarter Than C-3PO: Future Robots Will Work in Teams, Scientist Says

In the next few decades, teams of roving robots will take to the seas, the air and other hard-to-reach spots, communicating with one another and working to solve scientific problems, according to a Canadian scientist.

Such flotillas of smart machines could peer at coral reefs from underwater and in the air, or perhaps explore terrain that is difficult for humans to reach, said Gregory Dudek, research director of McGill University's mobile robotics laboratory in Montreal.

First, however, researchers will need to make sure the robots do not overwhelm the waiting humans with data. These robots should parse much of the information themselves and communicate the most interesting results to humans, sort of like a highlight reel from a sports game.

"It's getting a robot to go in some environment ? on the surface, under the water, on the moon, wherever ? and getting it to tell me what it sees," Dudek told the Canadian Science Writers' Association June 7 during its annual meeting.

One example, he said, could be an underwater robot that sends back the locations and types of coral that it views.

'This perception of C-3PO'

Last year, Dudek took on a new responsibility: leading the new NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network. With the federal government and industry partners providing 5 million Canadian dollars ($4.91 million) in matching contributions, robotics scientists across Canada will work together on projects to advance research in the field.

This work will culminate in an annual field test, in which robots will rove together underwater or on land, for applications ranging from monitoring oil pipelines to making real-time iceberg warnings.

At the conference, Dudek showed a video of a robot that could adjust to walking from the beach to swimming in the nearby water. He said advances in the field are making these machines smarter and faster. For instance, robots can perform multiple functions at the same time: walking, analyzing and sending back information.

The public, however, "has this perception of C-3PO" from "Star Wars" when talking about robotics, so it is difficult to convey how exciting this really is to researchers, Dudek said.

Networks of robots will need to balance how often they will meet and how often they'll work, he added. Regular contact will be essential to ensuring one robot isn't doing all of the assignments. For example, if two machines are exploring the city of Montreal, and one were to stumble into a dead end, resources should be reallocated, Dudek said.

Meeting, however, could involve long-distance technologies ? the same ones as humans often use. Depending on the terrain, the robots could communicate using short-range radio, Bluetooth or even light beams. But talking shouldn't happen all the time, Dudek added.

"If we say, 'Let's meet very often,' it's not efficient, and you spend all your time in meetings," he said.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/smarter-c-3po-future-robots-teams-scientist-says-143445186.html

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Monday, June 17, 2013

94% Blancanieves

All Critics (53) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (3)

A sensual and sophisticated retelling of a beloved fairytale re-imagined as a homage to European silent cinema, Spanish writer-director Pablo Berger's black-and-white Blancanieves will leave you transfixed.

Most films are experiences to be ignored or at best forgotten. "Blancanieves" is a little classic to be treasured.

It is a full-bodied silent film of the sort that might have been made by the greatest directors of the 1920s, if such details as the kinky sadomasochism of this film's evil stepmother could have been slipped past the censors.

Blancanieves, which won 10 Goyas (Spain's equivalent of the Oscars) and was a smash hit in its native Spain, has traces of a kinky undertone and an uncommon willingness to embrace the darkness inherent in this fairy tale.

As if bewitched, the legend of Snow White is transferred to Seville in the early twentieth century and transformed into high melodrama.

Sensuous, mischievous, hotblooded retelling of the old Teutonic fairy tale.

The film is -- to understate the matter -- overconceptualized.

Like The Artist, Blancanieves is delightfully novel, but it also feels trapped by its innovative gimmickry.

A boldly conceived fairy tale from Spain

Succeeds in all its cinematic experiments

The story might be familiar, but Berger's film is so beautifully shot and so wonderfully scored - and so distinctively Spanish - that it stands as its own film.

Blancanieves holds to the structure, but not strictures, of the source fairy tale.

A new, purely silent movie from Spain that never once speaks and doesn't need to speak. What's more, it seems to get the infinite possibilities of silence, and how much passion can come from it.

Berger's film doesn't show loyalty to any traditional version of Snow White. Berger's Blancanieves takes a darker approach, which seems appropriate.

A completely enchanting fairy tale about the vicissitudes of fate, in live action and glorious black and white.

The fun in the Spanish "Blancanieves" is the way it plays with our expectations.

May not have much depth to its characters or particular surprise, but its lovely depiction of family's ability to harm and mend has the flair of flamenco and the sorrow of opera.

No, "Blancanieves" isn't subtle, but it's an unforgettable time at the movies.

Inspired filmmaking steeped in the imagery of silent film history, a dark Iberian strain of Roman Catholicism and the magic of fairy tales.

... lusty and heartfelt, fiery flamenco and spirited country jig. Don't go expecting a Disney-fied fable. Berger seasons with S&M and the kind of macabre touches you'd expect in vintage Browning or Bunuel.

If not for some faintly disturbing imagery and a pleasingly feminist heroine, you could mistake this for a movie actually made in the 1920s (and even those two factors weren't utterly unknown then).

A loving tribute to European silent films of the 1920s; a reminder that cinema need not be constrained by words.

By the time the film arrives at its grand theatrical finale, you're almost prepared for Berger's last great twist. Almost.

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Silicon Valley Real Estate Update: The Craziest Market In The U.S. Just Got A Little Less Crazy

Editor?s note:Glenn Kelman is the CEO of Redfin, a technology-powered real estate broker backed by Madrona Venture Group and Greylock Partners. Well what do you know! After writing on TechCrunch for the past year about how Silicon Valley?s Gatsbyesque wealth couldn?t find much real estate to buy, Bay Area inventory is up. Bidding wars are down. And rising rates are squeezing buyers who have to borrow money. Below is Redfin?s quarterly rundown of what?s happening in Silicon Valley real estate.

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Security Psychology And Why Even Messy Numbers Of Government Data Demands Are Valuable

People assume the worst. So when it comes to counting government "requests" for private data, a hard number, even a high number, is far better than the fear of infinity. That's why tech giants are fighting to show they aren't open books surrendered to the NSA. They want to prove only the suspicious are spied upon.

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