Hamas says next inter-Palestinian talks in Egypt

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) ? Reconciliation talks between Palestinian militant group Hamas and its rival Fatah are on track and will resume in Egypt on Feb. 9, Hamas' political leader said Monday.

Khalid Mashaal said that "obstacles" over crucial issues such as elections and a future government remain, but that he expected progress in talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

"We've made good steps in our previous reconciliation talks and we have a timetable to follow," Mashaal said following a closed-door meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Amman, the third in one year.

"No doubt, there are obstacles, but we will overcome them with our will and determination to end the state of estrangement and division," he added.

Mashaal told reporters that his talks with Abdullah focused on the s tate of Palestinian politics following elections in Israel and the United States, and ways to end Palestinian differences.

In the annual meetings of the World in Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Abdullah warned Israel to stop playing a "waiting game," with regards to peace efforts with the Palestinians.

Abdullah said that President Barack Obama's second term was the last opportunity to create two states ? Palestine and Israel ? that can live side-by-side in peace. Hamas' own ideology rejects that arrangement as it considers an Islamic Middle East its goal. But some of the more pragmatic Hamas leaders favor some sort of acceptance for Israel.

Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority collapsed in 2008. Abbas's recent success at the U.N., where he won recognition of a de facto state, angered the Israeli government, which insists Palestinian statehood should be reached through a peace agreement and talks.

Mashaal's meeting with Abdullah is the third in one year, when Jordan ended a 13-year estrangement with the militant Palestinian group after the rise of Hamas's parent movement, the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, in the wake of Arab Spring revolts, especially in Egypt. Islamists are the most influential opposition group in Jordan.

A Jordanian citizen, Mashaal was welcomed back last January. Hamas rejects Jordan's cordial ties with Israel under a peace treaty signed in 1994. Mashaal was expelled in 1999 for activities deemed "illicit and harmful" to Jordan's stability and national security.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hamas-says-next-inter-palestinian-talks-egypt-125457651.html

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Anonymous Attacks Department Of Justice Website and Threatens Worse Over Aaron Swartz's Suicide

Since Aaron Swartz's suicide two weeks ago—an incident largely blamed on the charges being levied against him—the 'net has been grieving. And Anonymous has been doing that in its own special way: tearing shit up. In the latest of several attacks, they took down the U.S. Justice Department's Sentencing Commission site and left behind a video threatening more cyber-carnage. More »

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The Horse | UK College of Agriculture Weather Center Warns of ...

The average horse, with a lower activity level, should eat between 1.5 and 2% of his body weight in feed per day to maintain weight. But that feed requirement increases in the winter, as the horse uses more calories to keep warm.

Photo: Megan Arszman, TheHorse.com Web Producer

Agricultural meteorologists from the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Agriculture warned that arctic cold has settled into the Bluegrass State.

"This is much colder air than we have seen the past couple of winters," said Tom Priddy, UK agricultural meteorologist. "An arctic air mass, coupled with north winds, will create wind chills in the single digits."

Priddy said the combination of cold air and high winds could put most parts of Kentucky into periods of dangerous and emergency categories for livestock cold stress.

Livestock producers should ensure animals have adequate shelter, water, dry bedding, and feed to endure this cold spell, and pet owners should bring pets indoors. UK livestock specialists said animals have a higher energy requirement in the colder months, so producers should have high-quality grains and forages on hand to meet their needs.

According to scientists in the College of Agriculture, as the external temperature declines, the maintenance energy value for an animal increases to maintain core body temperature. Animals maintain core body temperature by increasing their metabolism, resulting in greater heat production, as well as other heat conservation strategies such as reducing blood flow to the extremities, shivering, and increased intake.

Both external and internal insulation influence an animal's ability to handle very cold temperatures. External insulation is basically the depth and thickness of the hair coat. The hair coat acts as insulation similar to home attic insulation that traps air, enhancing the insulating value. If the hair is wet and full of mud, air is excluded, reducing the insulating value and increasing heat loss from the skin to the environment. The hair coat's density and whether it is wet or dry impacts the wind chill temperatures at which cold stress is considered mild, moderate, or severe. As little as 0.1 inch of rain can immediately impact cold stress severity by matting the hair down and reducing its insulating ability. Acclimation time, coat thickness, fat cover, and other factors will also influence the degree of cold stress that animals experience.

The average horse, with a lower activity level, should eat between 1.5 and 2% of his body weight in feed per day to maintain weight. UK equine specialist Bob Coleman, PhD, said that feed requirement increases in the winter, as the horse uses more calories to keep warm. He recommended providing extra hay and making sure horses have shelter to get out of windy, damp weather. He said it's also very important for horses to have access to clean, unfrozen water.

Coleman said horse owners can separate animals according to body condition score and supplement them accordingly or offer them higher quality forage if available.

Source: edited College of Agriculture news release. For more information, contact Tom Priddy or Matt Dixon, 859/257-3000, ext. 245, or Bob Coleman, 859/257-9451.

Aimee Nielson is an agricultural communications specialist within UK's College of Agriculture.

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Intel Counts on 3-D Transistors to Compete in Mobile Market | MIT ...

Intel, the world?s largest chipmaker, is at a crossroads. It commands 83 percent of the market for the processor chips that run PCs and laptops.

But that market has peaked, and the company has only a tiny role in the fast-growing business of providing processors for tablets and smartphones, which in 2011 accounted for about two-thirds of all computing devices sold. The company?s answer is to rely on a strategy that makes it an anomaly in the computing industry: investing heavily in cutting-edge manufacturing centered in the United States. Today, 75 percent of Intel?s output is U.S.-made.

A $5 billion dollar factory, or fab, being built in Chandler, Arizona, will make chips, slated to appear in 2014, with features as small as 14 nanometers. It?s the latest jump downward in size, a trend that?s making chips more efficient and powerful. The new chips will make use of Intel?s unrivaled 3-D transistor design, introduced with the current 22-nanometer generation, to solve efficiency problems limiting previous designs from being shrunk further (see ?TR10: 3-D Transistors?). Its closest competitor?s best chips are made with 28-nanometer features. The Chandler fab?s technology and operations?and even the temperature and composition of the air inside?will be carbon copies of those at Intel?s development fabs in Oregon, in line with Intel?s ?copy exactly? philosophy of making sure techniques make a smooth jump from R&D to production.

Intel?s strategy couldn?t be more different from that of the competitors it is chasing in the market for mobile processors. They typically license processor designs from U.K. company ARM?traditionally more power-efficient than Intel?s desktop chips, which is why they dominate the mobile market, where battery life is important?and produce them using what is known as the foundry model, or outsourcing production to Asian contractors such as Taiwan Semiconductor, known as TSMC. Intel has long relied on manufacturing to beat competitors. Investing heavily in advanced fab technology allowed the company to secure the contracts to provide the first PC chips in the mid-1980s, and helped push out competitors such as AMD in the 1990s and the past decade.

The make-or-break product for Intel will be its first mobile chips based on its 22-nanometer, 3-D transistor technology, due to appear in late 2013 (mobile chips from the 14 nanometer Chandler fab will be a couple of years behind). The first PC chips based on that technology appeared in April 2012, and delivered 37 percent more performance at the same power draw as those that came before, or a 50 percent cut in power use for the same performance. When the 22-nanometer mobile device chips arrive, the company needs them to lure device makers looking to build faster phones and tablets that can still last all day on a charge.

Foundries like TSMC can?t advance technology as fast as Intel, because they focus on offering low prices and many designs to hundreds of customers. On a trip to Taiwan last summer, Harvard Business School professor Willy Shih heard that TSMC likely won?t match Intel?s 22-nanometer 3-D transistors for two to four years, a gap he characterized as ?enormous.?

But for manufacturing to save Intel, the technology gap has to matter to mobile-device manufacturers. It?s not yet clear that it will. Shih says Intel is now ?getting their clock cleaned? in the mobile market. The reason isn?t only that companies like Samsung have opted for slower chips that use less power. Others, like Apple, have now begun designing their own processors, a step that makes them harder to copy?a strategic development that favors the flexible, adaptive manufacturing of foundries such as TSMC.

Intel is confident that its advanced manufacturing will eventually make the difference. Intel says it can build its newest chips with different types of transistors to enable some functions to prioritize efficiency, and others performance. It?s a flexibility others don?t offer, and could enable devices capable of both, say, powerful 3-D graphics and long battery life.

Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/509316/intel-bets-on-fabs-again/

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Black, poor youth consume more sugar-laden drinks

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Black children and teens in the U.S. are almost twice as likely as their white peers to consume more than 500 calories a day of sugary beverages, according to a new study.

The results, which found a three-fold surge in the overall number of teens drinking sugar-spiked sports energy drinks, should inform policy, the authors said.

"Some groups may be more at risk for soda, others may be more at risk for fruit drinks, all of which ... have the same sugar base that contributes to obesity and disease," said study co-author Lisa Powell, of the University of Illinois at Chicago Health Policy Center.

Black children, the study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics also found, are more than twice as likely as whites on any given day to consume fruit drinks containing little actual fruit. Fruit juices, for example, range from 100 percent actual fruit juice to those with as little as 10 percent fruit juice and plenty of added sugars, Powell told Reuters Health.

Using surveys from 1999 to 2008 of what roughly 40,000 children, teens and adults drank during a single 24-hour period, the researchers also found an increase from 4 percent to 12 percent in the number of teens imbibing sports drinks.

The study also found that while drinking of at least 500 calories per day of sugar-sweetened beverages - considered "heavy consumption" - fell from 22 percent to 16 percent among teens, and from 29 percent to 20 percent among young adults, the rate rose from 4 percent to 5 percent among 2- to 11-year-olds.

Except for children, who are more likely to consume fruit drinks, soda is the most widely consumed sugared beverage across the age span. Black children, however, are half as likely as their white peers to choose soda.

And low-income children of all races drank almost twice as many sugary beverages as wealthier kids, the study found.

The study did not investigate the reasons why. Powell said that "cultural norms, what a particular household grew up doing," may be a factor, as well as cost.

TAILORED POLICIES?

Her research builds on prior studies showing that people are drinking fewer sugar-sweetened beverages overall. For example, the number of teens consuming sugary drinks dropped from 87 percent to 77 percent, Powell said.

And it comes on the heels of last year's passage of a landmark New York City ban on restaurant, concession and other venue sales of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces.

The controversial law, designed to drive sugary drink consumption down further, might miss some nuances, Powell said.

"If you develop a policy that only looks at soda in schools or a possible tax on sodas, you're going to miss out," Powell continued. "If health promotion is our objective, it's important to understand the different patterns and how some people are substituting one drink for another across those patterns, and to target advertising and related efforts to those people."

The other concern is a "troubling replacement effect," said David Dausey, public health department chair of the Mercyhurst College Institute of Public Health in Erie, Pennsylvania.

"We're cutting back on canned sodas in schools but the (beverage) industry says, 'Fine, we'll put in a fruit drink machine,' which, in many ways, is exchanging one evil for another," Dausey, who was not involved in the new study, told Reuters Health.

The American Beverage Association said the new study does not "paint the full picture."

"Sugar-sweetened beverages are playing a small and declining role in the American diet" and are not the primary drivers of obesity, a spokesperson said by email.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/SysYXu Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, January 2013.

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NBD gives helping hands to Crime Stoppers Dominica | Dominica ...

NBD Teams up with Crime Stoppers

Crime Stoppers Dominica got a boost recently when the National Bank of Dominica (NBD) donated $2,000 to the organization.

The donation will go towards administrative costs and fund rewards to crime stoppers.

At the presentation of the cheque Managing Director of NBD, Michael Bird, described the initiative as ?a bold step in addressing a societal problem.?

?NBD is proud to support Crime Stoppers Dominica and we are confident that this initiative will strengthen our collective ability to positively impact crime prevention in this country,? he stated.

With this donation, NBD will be one of the early private sector sponsors of the Crime Stoppers Dominica programme, which aims to assist the authorities to solve and stop crime.

Representative of Crime Stoppers, Gregor Nassief, said the contribution will go a long way in assisting the organization in its quest to solve and deter crime in Dominica. ?Crime Stoppers Dominica is proud to recognize NBD as a supporter of the programme? he said.? ?Their support speaks to the importance that the Dominican society is placing on stemming any escalation in crime.?

He is of the hope that other members of the business community will ?make similar commitments to help create positive social change.?

Crime Stoppers Dominica is a not-for-profit organization on a mission to promote the reduction of crime through community based efforts.

The organization aims to make Dominican communities safer places to live and conduct business.

It offers persons a secure and anonymous means to provide information to the police, to assist in preventing and solving crime.

The numbers to call are 1-800-TIPS (1-800-8477) or 1-800-HINT (1-800-4468).

Tips can also be submitted via the organization?s website www.crimestoppersdominica.org.

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Recall of unregistered proprietary Chinese medicines

??Recall of unregistered proprietary Chinese medicines

Hong Kong (HKSAR) - The Department of Health (DH) today (January 16) instructed a licensed wholesaler of proprietary Chinese medicines (pCm), "Ka Loong Pharmaceutical (HK) Co. Limited" (Ka Loong) to recall from consumers an unregistered pCm "Tongren Niuhuang Qingxin Wan" (batch number: B/N 2010003). Some of these unregistered pCm were found to have a registration number HKP-02438 printed on their labels.

This registration number in fact belongs to another registered pCm.

A DH spokesman said, "The above appeal followed the DH's investigation into an intelligence related to the above unregistered pCm."

"The concerned Tongren Niuhuang Qingxin Wan has not been registered with the Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong (CMC). Preliminary investigation revealed that the unregistered pCm was imported from the Mainland by Ka Loong which it claimed only for re-exportation to places outside Hong Kong.

Instead, Ka Loong, located at Flat F, 8/F, Hankow Mansion, 43-49, Hankow Road, Tsim Sha Tsui,wholesaled the pCm to a retailer "Ming Oi Dispensary Limited" (Ming Oi) at Shop 8, Ground Floor, Prosper Centre, No 29, Sau Fu Street, Yuen Long. Ming Oi subsequently wholesaled the unregistered pCm to a licensed wholesaler of pCm, "Chong Hing Lung Medicine Trading Co" (Chong Hing Lung) at Room 914, Hong Kong Plaza, 188 Connaught Road West, Hong Kong. Chong Hing Lung in turn wholesaled the pCm to a retailer "Wing Cheong Medicine Co" (Wing Cheong) at Shop No 7, G/F, Kwai Hing Estate Arcade, Kwai Hing.

Investigation is still ongoing," the spokesman added.

"According to its label, the product might be used for relieving chest discomfort and dizziness.However, use of unregistered pCms may pose public health threats as their safety, efficacy and quality have not been proven," the DH spokesman explained.

So far, DH has not received reports of related adverse incidents and will closely monitor the recall. Ka Loong has set up a hotline at 2376 0067 for related enquiries.

"According to Section 119 of the Chinese Medicine Ordinance, Cap. 549, no person shall sell, import or possess any pCm unless the pCm is registered.

The maximum penalty involved is HK$100,000 and two years' imprisonment. On completion of the investigation, the DH will work with the Department of Justice for prosecution matters with respect to the above-mentioned traders."

"In addition, as Ka Loong might also have contravened the Import and Export Ordinance, Cap. 60, the case will be referred to the Customs and Excise Department for further necessary actions.

The DH will also refer these cases to the Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong for taking possible disciplinary action where appropriate," the spokesman continued.

The spokesman urged the public who have obtained the unregistered pCm from the above traders to stop using them immediately and surrender the products to the DH on the 16/F, AIA Kowloon Tower, Landmark East, 100 How Ming Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon during office hours.

The list of registered pCm could be obtained in the following link: www.cmchk.org.hk/pcm/eng/#main_dis.htm .

Source: HKSAR Government

Published on: 2013-01-16

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18 heads found at airport were sent for cremation

CHICAGO - It sounded ghoulish enough: a shipment of 18 frozen human heads discovered and seized by customs officials during routine X-ray screening of cargo arriving at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.

Turns out the heads were used for medical research in Italy and were being returned for cremation in Illinois. The holdup was due to a paperwork problem.

It just so happens such shipments are commonplace, and heads ? quite a few of them ? crisscross the globe via airplane and delivery truck.

"Just last week, we transported eight heads, unembalmed, to Rush University Medical Center for an ophthalmology program," said Paul Dudek, vice-president of the Anatomical Gift Association of Illinois, which supplies cadavers and body parts to medical schools in the state for training students.

His association sends about 450 whole cadavers to medical schools each year and also ships individual body parts, including about a dozen shipments of heads annually.

The heads are used for training in fields such as dentistry, ophthalmology and neurology, where they are used for Alzheimer's research. They are also used to train plastic surgeons and by students learning to perform facial reconstructions on accident and trauma victims, Dudek said.

Most cadavers are obtained through voluntary donation by people who designate a willingness to have their bodies benefit science upon their death, Dudek said. A much smaller proportion are the bodies of people whose families could not afford their burial and so agree to allow the state to release them for research.

The shipment to O'Hare was properly preserved, wrapped and labeled "human specimens," said Mary Paleologos, a spokeswoman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, which took hold of the shipment on Monday for storage in its morgue cooler while authorities continued to investigate the paperwork.

With little information initially, news of the shipment's discovery fueled headlines and raised questions about where the shipment came from, where it was headed and why.

In the end, it turned out the shipment of three containers, which arrived in mid-December, was held up because of a mix-up with the paperwork and there was nothing suspicious about it or its destination.

The heads were originally sent from Illinois to a medical research facility in Rome and were returned to the Chicago area for disposal as part of the agreement for the order, Paleologos said.

On Tuesday, a cremation service arrived at the Medical Examiner's Office with paperwork for the specimens. Once federal authorities confirm the paperwork, the specimens will be turned over to the cremation service, she said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection could not discuss the specific case because of privacy laws, but it said shipments of human remains into the U.S. "are not without precedent," are lawful with the right documentation and fall within the agency's "low-risk" category.

Dudek said such shipments require thorough documentation, in part because the scarcity of bodies donated to science means there is a black market for them.

"It does go on," he said of the illegal trade.

Besides medical schools, many corporations making medical instruments and appliances use cadavers for their training and research programs.

"We receive about 600 whole-body donations a year. I could easily place 750, 800," he said, explaining the short supply.

Some shipments go by air, but others end up in delivery trucks just like any other package.

"In fact, we sent out a shipment of brains to the University of Texas at Austin last week via UPS," Dudek said.

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Burning Fuel Particles Do More Damage to Climate Than Thought, Study Says

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The particles, which are known as black carbon and are the major component of soot, are the second most important contributor to global warming, according to the recent study.

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Texas Claims Women's Health Program Capacity Will Increase Without Planned Parenthood, Despite All Evidence to the Contrary

Governor Rick Perry. (Rick Barrera/Statesman.com)

The Texas Department of Health and Human Services (DSHS) claims that, according to its own research, there will be plenty of doctors available to serve clients in the newly implemented Texas Women's Health Program?(TWHP) without Planned Parenthood. The new TWHP launched January 1, and Planned Parenthood has been banned from participation in the program because the state considers it an abortion provider "affiliate."

Not to worry, then: ignore the evidence, analyses, reports and investigations from George Washington University, the Center For Public Policy Priorities, the Dallas Morning News?and RH Reality Check showing a starkly different reality. From the DSHS Patient Capacity Report:

"Overall, the Texas Women?s Health Program patient capacity survey results are positive. In most areas, the survey found that the state has the capacity to serve even more women in 2013."

The department estimates that its providers can see 147,513 clients this year?and it's truly an estimate, given that 56 percent of the providers DSHS ostensibly surveyed did not even respond to the actual survey. For the providers that didn't respond, DSHS guessed how many additional clients clinics and doctors might be able to see in 2013, based on how many clients they billed for 2012. DSHS surveyed providers within 30 miles of Planned Parenthood clinics that can no longer see the 50,000 or so Texans?who've relied on them for contraception and cancer screening services in the past.

For example: providers within 30 miles of Harlingen, on Texas' Gulf Coast are projected to increase their capacity by 9,158 clients. And?DSHS projects that providers in San Antonio will be able to increase capacity by a whopping 28,214 clients. The department also found that capacity will be "especially robust" in the Rio Grande Valley, one of state's poorest-served areas in terms of health care, which has taken drastic hits already as a result of 2011 cuts to family planning services in the state.

DSHS Executive Commissioner Kyle Janek?a man who doesn't believe?the U.S. Census Bureau's estimate that more than a quarter of Texans are uninsured?said in a statement on Monday that the survey "gives us great confidence that we can continue to provide women with family planning and preventive care and fully comply with state law."

Delusion, Texas-style.

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Robin Roberts hoping to be back at 'GMA' soon

NEW YORK (AP) ? Robin Roberts' grueling road to recovery will be bringing her back to the "Good Morning America" anchor desk soon.

Appearing from her home on Monday's show, Roberts wore a broad smile as she announced that her most recent bone marrow test showed no sign of the life-threatening disease that has kept her off the air for months.

That means she can begin the process of returning to the anchor chair, she said, emphasizing she needs to go through a "process of re-entry."

She said she hopes to be back "in weeks, not months," perhaps as soon as February.

"I'm coming home," she declared during a festive appearance complete with "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" played as a musical accompaniment.

One of Roberts' physicians, Dr. Gail Roboz, said the test last week gave them the results "we were looking for: Right now, did we get rid of what we started out trying to get rid of?"

She described Roberts' recovery process as "no vacation ? this has been brutal."

The good news came 138 days after Roberts' September bone marrow transplant. The donor for the 52-year-old Roberts was her older sister, Sally-Ann.

"Her cells continue to make themselves at home in my body," Roberts said.

In June, she disclosed that she had MDS, a blood and bone marrow disease. Her last day on "GMA" was Aug. 30 before she began extended medical leave from the ABC morning show, which last summer overtook longtime ratings leader "Today."

"I haven't been live on television since the end of August," she reminded her colleagues Monday. "My heart is beating so fast right now. But that means I'm alive. I'm alive!"

Roberts hasn't exactly been absent from "GMA." Reports on her condition have been faithfully showcased on the show, maybe to excess in the minds of some observers.

Pressed for details by her co-anchor, George Stephanopoulos, Roberts likened her return to an athlete getting back on the field after an injury.

"They don't go right back into the starting lineup. They go to practice, they throw the ball, and see how their body reacts," she explained.

One preliminary step: "I got up at 4 a.m. this morning," she said proudly. "I've got to get back on 'GMA' time."

Next week, she will go through a dry run: arriving at the studio and getting into makeup as if she were about to do the show, but stopping short of actually going on camera. It will be a test to see how her body reacts to the stress of being back in the studio environment, she said, adding that she will even need to re-accustom her skin to the studio lights.

After the dry run, Roberts and her doctors will evaluate her status to further pinpoint a return date.

"We're going to take it step by step," she said.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/robin-roberts-hoping-back-gma-soon-144438561.html

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