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Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Greening of the Earth pushed way back in time
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Conventional scientific wisdom has it that plants and other creatures have only lived on land for about 500 million years, but a new study is pointing to evidence for life on land that is four times as old -- at 2.2 billion years ago and almost half way back to the inception of the planet.
Monday, 22 July 2013
Karmanos Cancer Center launches Lung Cancer Screening ...
The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center launches a Lung Cancer Screening Program at its Weisberg Center in Farmington Hills(PRNewsFoto/Karmanos Cancer Institute)
DETROIT (WWJ) ? The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center is launching a lung cancer screening program for adults with a history of smoking ? both current and former smokers.
The goal of the program is to help detect lung cancer early with the help of low-dose CT (computed tomography) scans.
Karmanos is able to offer the lung cancer screening for the reduced cost of $100, thanks to the support of the Gianni Ferrarotti Lung Cancer Foundation, which is partially underwriting the expense.?
The National Lung Screening Trial, a study of over 50,000 current or former heavy smokers conducted by the National Institutes of Health, showed that screening using three annual CT scans can reduce the number of deaths from lung cancer. Studies show that, among high-risk adults, early detection of lung cancer through screening with a CT scan rather than a chest X-ray can reduce cancer death by 20 percent and overall death rate by seven percent.
?The findings from this national study are significant, which is why we want to provide this lung cancer screening here at Karmanos,? said Shirish?Gadgeel, M.D., leader of the thoracic multidisciplinary team at the Karmanos Cancer Institute. He added, ?The multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology team at Karmanos, consisting of experts focused only on lung cancer, is uniquely qualified to implement this important screening program. We are very grateful for the incredible support of the Gianni Ferrarotti Lung Cancer Foundation and the fund created at Karmanos to help put an end to this disease. This screening test is an opportunity to dramatically change the lung cancer mortality rate for those who have a long history of smoking.?
Founded in 2004, the Gianni Ferrarotti?Lung Cancer Foundation is dedicated to increasing lung cancer awareness and supporting research that will lead to early detection and better treatment options. The foundation has raised more than $70,000 for the Gianni Ferrarotti Lung Cancer Research Fund at Karmanos and has also provided monetary support to numerous families who are in financial need, due to the impact of lung cancer.
Lung cancer is one of the deadliest types of cancer and accounts for more deaths than any other cancer in both men and women. It?s estimated that more than 159,400 people will die of lung cancer in the United States this year alone, representing about 27 percent of all cancer deaths. Any opportunity to help prevent this disease or detect it early through screening can result in less extensive treatment and better outcomes, and may help reduce mortality rates.
Men and women ages 55-75 who are current or former smokers and who?ve smoked at least one pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years. The NLST found that people in this age range with a history of smoking were most likely to benefit from this screening.
The screening involves three consecutive annual CT scans of the chest. The screening scans are available at the Karmanos Cancer Center Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center in Farmington Hills.
Karmanos will offer the initial lung cancer screening test for $100. Should there be a positive finding, future scans should be covered by insurance, otherwise the remaining two scans would also be charged the reduced out-of-pocket cost of $100 each.?????????????????
Any abnormality found on the CT should be followed up by the patient?s primary health care provider or a specialist at the Karmanos Cancer Center.
To participate in Karmanos? Lung Cancer Screening Program, call toll free 855-527-LUNG (855-527-5864) or email lungcancerscreening@karmanos.org
For those who feel the lung cancer screening would be beneficial but do not meet the eligibility criteria or cannot commit financially to complete the program, the INHALE Study could be an option. INHALE (Inflammation, Health and Lung Epidemiology), sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and coordinated by the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSU SOM), is a study that includes a chest CT scan. INHALE is aimed at identifying genetic and environmental determinants of lung disease ? gaining understanding about why some people develop lung health problems and others do not. Karmanos and WSU SOM received the national grant to conduct the study with 4,000 participants.??
The INHALE Study serves as another option and may identify cancer in its early stage when it?s most treatable. For more information or to enroll in the INHALE Study, call toll free (866) 828-2339.
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Sunday, 21 July 2013
Panic sets in on 'The Amazing Race Canada'
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Panic is an international language.
That has been confirmed with The Amazing Race Canada heading into its second episode, Monday, July 22 on CTV.
In last week's debut, which was watched by a whopping 3 million Canadians, twin sisters Tennille Dorrington and Treena Ley from Hamilton, Ont., were the first team eliminated, largely because they misinterpreted crucial instructions.
"When you first go into the race, you think, 'OK, you know what? We're in pretty good shape, running track is our background, we're going to be great at this,' " Treena said. "But pretty quickly you realize it's a combination of strength and also wit. And I'm going to throw in a little patience and luck as well.
"Sometimes you can actually be given misinformation and get off track. With the jet ski situation, both us and the cowboys (Pierre Cadieux and Jamie Cumberland) were scooting around for half an hour there. We thought the Ogopogo was, like, a statue that came out of the water, a big black statue. We were up and down the coast looking for that, and looking back on it now, we realize that we obviously had misinformation."
If the twins had a chance to do it over again, what would they make sure they did differently - besides, you know, not finishing last?
"We'd stop and take a look around at what the other teams are doing," Tennille said. "If we had just stopped for half a second, we would have noticed other teams taking two clues (at the butterfly conservatory, a mistake that cost the twins a 30-minute penalty, dropping them into last place behind the cowboys).
"It seems like it's a mad dash, but as soon as you took that envelope out of the case, you knew what flight you were on. The flight didn't leave for, like, five hours. There really wasn't that need to rush out of there. We had time to spare to focus on the task at hand."
Heading into Week 2 of The Amazing Race Canada, the hippies (Kristen Idiens and Darren Trapp) and the doctors (Holly Agostino and Brett Burstein) lead the field, and they appear to be the strongest of the remaining eight teams. That said, all it takes is one misread clue or one minor injury to change everything.
The first episode was a little frantic in terms of how much stuff was jammed into it. That'll be less of a problem in future weeks, of course, as more teams get eliminated. But the fun of competitions like this is to see as many teams as possible performing the same task, which allows the viewer to compare and contrast how they're handling things.
Nonetheless, we now know that staying calm and reading clues carefully is just as important in Canada as in any other part of the world.
"We were shocked to find out we were eliminated," Treena admitted. "You could see the shock on our faces."
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West Seattle Grand Parade, report #3: The winners!
July 20, 2013 at 3:44 pm | In West Seattle Grand Parade, West Seattle news | No Comments 
(EDITOR?S NOTE: More Grand Parade reports to be published Saturday night-Sunday morning)
(Thanks to Frank for that photo of part of the Luna Park Caf? entry, #1 in Commercial)
The list is just in from West Seattle Grand Parade coordinators and judges:
Overall Grand Prize Winners
1st? ? Marysville Strawberry Festival Float
2nd ?- Seattle Schools All-City Marching Band
3rd? ? Calgary Round-Up Band
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Clowns
1st? ? Seattle Seafair Clowns
2nd ?- Lake City Western Vigilantes
3rd? ? Keystone Kops
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Performing Acts
1st ?- Seafair Pirates
2nd? ? Joyas Mestizas ? Mexican Folk Dance
3rd? ? Pathfinder K-8 School Unicycle Team
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Commercial
1st? ? Luna Park Caf? (see top photo)
2nd? ? Hotwire Coffee
3rd? ? Seattle Public Utilities
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Cars
1st? ? Last Resort Fire Department
2nd? ? Hope Lutheran School
3rd? ? 1942 LaFrance Fire Truck
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Drill Teams ? Jr
1st ?- Electronette Butterflies
2nd ?- The Princesses of Elegance
3rd? ? Anointed to Praise Drill Team
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Drill Teams ? Sr
1st? ? Electronette High Steppers & Drum Corp
2nd? ? Seattle Chinese Community Girls Drill Team
3rd? ? The Lady?s of Elegance Drill Team
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Community1st? ? Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish & School
2nd? ? Cub Scout Pack 793
3rd? ? Westside Baby ? Stuff the Bus
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Floats
1st? ? Marysville Strawberry Festival (see video earlier in this story)
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Bands
1st? ? Seattle Police Pipe and Drum Corp
2nd ?- Kennedy Catholic High School Marching Band
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Firefighters have California blaze nearly half contained
By Alex Dobuzinskis
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cooler weather helped firefighters make significant gains on Saturday against a massive wildfire in Southern California, as crews cut containment lines around nearly 50 percent of the blaze.
The so-called Mountain Fire has burned across more than 27,000 acres of dry brush and timber and destroyed seven residences since it broke out on Monday. At least 5,600 residents remain under evacuation orders.
The more than 3,000 firefighters tackling the blaze on Saturday managed to expand containment lines to encircle 49 percent of the fire, up from 25 percent earlier in the day, said Carol Jandrall, fire information officer for the multiagency team battling the conflagration.
"It's been probably the best day so far," she said of the progress made on Saturday.
Higher humidity and clouds, which reduced sunlight on the burn area and tempered the intensity of the flames, helped firefighters cut more containment lines along the east and south flanks of the fire where it originated, Jandrall said.
Firefighters had hoped for rain, but little precipitation actually fell, she said. At the same time, the erratic winds that can propel a fire and had been feared as the weather changed also did not materialize, Jandrall said.
The flames have forced the evacuation of the town of Idyllwild, a community about a mile above sea level known for its hiking trails, rock climbing, and arts and music scene, and also forced out residents from the nearby community of Fern Valley.
Residents of Idyllwild and Fern Valley have been out of their homes since evacuations were ordered on Wednesday.
A few hundred people have been allowed to return home in neighboring areas where the threat of flames has decreased, said Norma Bailey, a spokeswoman for the team combating the blaze.
The Mountain Fire is 90 miles east of Los Angeles.
Conditions could improve on Sunday, Jandrall said.
"They are expecting a chance for more precipitation which would be great," she said.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Dan Whitcomb, David Brunnstrom and Eric Beech)
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Saturday, 20 July 2013
Nebraska Football: Bo Pelini's 5 Biggest Cornhusker Losses
It was a sight Nebraska fans never thought they would see again. During Bill Callahan?s tenure, Texas Tech shocked Nebraska by notching 70 points against the Blackshirts in 2004. And in 2007, Kansas hung 76 points on the Blackshirts, driving the final nail into the coffin of Callahan?s tenure in Lincoln.
In came?defensive mastermind.?Bo Pelini.?He shepherded Nebraska into a B1G title game in NU?s second conference season and appeared to get a fortunate draw. Nebraska faced Wisconsin, a 7-5 team that finished third in the Leaders Division (behind ineligible Ohio State and Penn State) and a team that Nebraska had already beaten earlier in the season.
Nebraska fans, then, had every reason to think that the conference title drought might finally come to an end. At the very least, they had every reason to think the game should be competitive with Nebraska having a chance to win at the end.
What they got, instead, was an evisceration. Wisconsin moved the ball and scored at will against a hapless Nebraska defense. The Badgers rushed for 539 yards and averaged a staggering 10.8 yards per carry against the Blackshirts.
If Nebraska fans were certain of anything, it was that the dark days of Callahan and defensive coordinator Kevin Cosgrove were over and that they would never have to endure humiliations like Texas Tech and Kansas again. Wisconsin demonstrated that, even in year five of Pelini?s tenure, Nebraska was still quite vulnerable to ugly and embarrassing losses.
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Caretaker Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn stressed on Friday that he rejects any attempts to question the Lebanese army's actions, pointing out that the military institution is a ?red line.?
?Ghosn will not allow anyone to undermine the authority of the army,? sources close to the caretaker minister said in comments published in al-Joumhouria newspaper.
Thursday 's parliamentary defense committee meeting was postponed after Ghosn failed to attend the session set to discuss Hizbullah's involvement in last month's deadly clashes in the southern town of Abra, near the city of Sidon.
Sources snubbed al-Mustaqbal MP Samir al-Jisr's threats to debrief the caretaker minister, saying: ?the lawmaker has no right to question the minister and take a unilateral decision.?
Al-Jisr, who is head of the parliamentary defense committee, stressed that he will contact Ghosn to ask about his failure to attend the meeting.
?If he just intended to boycott the meeting then I will resort to the parliament's rules of procedure and call on the minister to attend,? al-Jisr said.
The fighting near Sidon was sparked late last month when Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir's supporters opened fire on an army checkpoint, leaving around 18 soldiers and more than 20 gunmen dead.
The gunbattles concentrated in the area of Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque and nearby buildings in Abra.
Asir, a 45-year-old cleric who supports the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad, is no where to be found along with Shaker.
Asir teamed up with Shaker, a onetime prominent singer, when around two years ago he began agitating for Hizbullah to disarm.
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Friday, 19 July 2013
NYC sports talk accentuates the silliness
My family spent last week in New York, the cultural capital of our nation, a place renowned for its symphony, ballet and theater -- so we visited the Cake Boss bakery across the Hudson in Hoboken, N.J., rode the Cyclone at Coney Island and listened to a lot of radio sports talk as I drove around Brooklyn making wrong turns.
Somewhere there's a photo of me and my teenage daughters rattling down that old wooden roller coaster at Coney. The evidence is clear, your honor, that the most frightened look belongs to the old guy.
As far as that Cake Boss goes, the cable TV star probably wasn't even awake when we found ourselves 85th in line outside his bakery at 7:30 on a Saturday morning, my 13-year-old's idea. (Save your car fare, cake fans: A bakery is just a bakery, even with a pastry celebrity's imprimatur.)
It's the New York sports jabber I want to talk about. Pittsburgh, of course, has its own stations devoted to testosterone-laden conversations about bats, balls and the athletic felony of the moment. But our renowned sports town was late to the party, going into 24/7 sports talk only in the late 1990s. WFAN in New York launched about a decade before and, even after being cloned from coast to coast, there's no other station quite like it.
That's because of the voices, those Noo Yawk, Joisey and Lawn Guyland voices. Before WFAN, radio people talked like, well, radio people. Even in "New York, New York, the town so nice they named it twice," as the Top 40 deejays used to say, radio voices had that could-be-from-anywhere sound, as antiseptic as the plastic strip that used to be placed across a hotel room toilet.
WFAN, in contrast, was more like walking into the men's room to find two clowns screaming at each other from adjoining stalls.
I was immediately enchanted.
I was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island, in a place kind of like Shaler without the hills. In my youth -- or rather, yoot -- I had an accent so thick people on Long Island made fun of it. But after more than 35 years on the mainland of the U.S., my old accent comes back only when I get mad, watch Joe Pesci movies or listen to WFAN.
My daughters have no interest in sports, but even they were entertained. Or at least they were kind enough not to ask to change the station. I listened long enough to fix on some of the differences between New York and Pittsburgh fans.
In New York, where one can be a Mets fan or Yankees fan but not both, it hasn't been a great baseball summer. The Yankees have about $100 million in payroll injured (heh, heh). The Mets, not expected to go anywhere this season, aren't.
Still, one thing hasn't changed. Just as the default position of the Pirates fan is panic after any loss, the default position of the Yankees fan is smugness after any win. Yankees fans are like Steelers fans in this sense: They expect to win just because of the symbol on the jersey. So after beating the Minnesota Twins 2-zip on a rainy Friday night, the Saturday morning host was penciling in a weekend of wins against the Midwestern patsies.
"If they played the Twins all 162 games,'' he opined, "they'd win 130 at least, am I right?''
(This just in: The Yankees lost the next two games to the Twins in "The Stadium.'' Heh.)
Mets fans are more like Pirates fans because they've known more pain. The Mets lost to the Pirates, 3-2, in extra innings Friday night at PNC Park, which meant the traditional Saturday morning pummeling of the scapegoat. In this case it was 26-year-old Mets first baseman Ike Davis, who is currently hitting like Bette Davis. Mets fans did everything but suggest Davis be driven to Staten Island to re-enact that scene from "The Godfather'' where Clemenza says to leave the gun and take the cannoli.
I recognize that frustration. It's the same one Pirates fans shared as recently as April when their young slugger, Pedro Alvarez, could hit nothing but air. Now Alvarez is an All-Star.
As I drove across New Jersey for Pennsylvania and, finally, out of WFAN's range, I smiled as I thought of the Pirates in a pennant race after 20 consecutive losing seasons. Then I went to the game Sunday and watched them lose to the Mets.
I knew just what to do: panic.
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Brotherhood holds protest day as Egypt cabinet starts work
By Noah Browning and Shadia Nasralla
CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi demonstrated outside the prime minister's office and marched through Cairo on Wednesday to protest against a military-backed cabinet on its first full day at work.
Islamist protesters held up Korans and portraits of Mursi in the noon heat outside the main government buildings, demanding Mursi be restored to power following his overthrow by the army. They shouted "God is Greatest!", "Down with military rule!" and "We are all Mursi!"
Crisis in Egypt, which straddles the Suez Canal and has a peace treaty with Israel, has alarmed allies in the West.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton became the latest international figure to visit Egypt's interim rulers. Unlike a U.S. envoy who came two days ago, she was also expected to meet senior figures in Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood.
The army, which removed Egypt's first freely-elected president two weeks ago, accused Mursi's supporters of inciting armed demonstrations near military bases.
However, the afternoon's protest was mostly peacefully although there were scuffles when the crowd marched through the city centre and along the Nile riverbank, held back by riot police as they approached Tahrir Square, focus for anti-Mursi protests.
"We have only two goals, legitimacy or martyrdom," said Ahmed Ouda, 27. Another man interrupted to add: "Peaceful martyrdom!"
A few dozen youths wearing construction helmets and armed with sticks tried to charge at the Brotherhood supporters being held back by police. Eventually the crowd dispersed.
Egypt swore in an interim cabinet on Tuesday of 33 ministers, mostly technocrats and liberals. Not one was drawn from the two main Islamist factions that won five straight elections since a 2011 uprising toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
"Does it believe in itself? Does anybody?" Essam El-Erian, a senior leader in Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, said on Facebook of the new cabinet. "How can it have any authority when it knows that with one word from the military all its members can be sent home on pain of being arrested?"
Tuesday's swearing-in took place in an ornate hall hours after seven people were killed and more than 260 wounded in overnight street battles between Mursi supporters and the security forces, marking the worst violence in a week.
"I am going to Egypt to reinforce our message that there must be a fully inclusive political process, taking in all groups which support democracy," Ashton said in a statement before her trip. "I will underline that Egypt needs to return as rapidly as possible to its democratic transition."
Mohamed Bishr, a member of the Brotherhood's 17-strong advisory council and former minister in Mursi's government, told Reuters he and others would meet Ashton "to express our position on legitimacy and democracy with the hope that they will aid democracy and respect the choices made by the Egyptian people".
Mursi has been held at an undisclosed location and has not been charged with a crime, although the authorities have announced investigations into complaints of spying, inciting violence and wrecking the economy. Prosecutors have also reopened a 2011 jail breaking case over Mursi's escape from brief detention during protests against Mubarak.
"ROAD MAP"
The interim cabinet is charged with implementing an army-backed "road map" to restore civilian rule, which foresees parliamentary elections in as little as six months. Its main task is salvaging an economy wrecked by two and a half years of turmoil. For that, it has been given a lifeline of $12 billion in aid from rich Gulf Arab states.
Many of the new cabinet ministers are supporters of deep economic reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund in return for a stalled rescue loan, but investors are skeptical those reforms will be implemented soon. The new planning minister has said it is too soon to restart IMF talks and the Arab cash is enough to sustain Egypt through its transition.
Ashton could offer the EU as a mediator. Brussels is not as big a donor to Egypt as the United States but is also less polarizing, and tried in the past to mediate between Mursi and his opponents.
On her last visit, in April, Ashton tried to persuade Mursi to sign up to a power-sharing deal brokered by an EU envoy with the Islamist's opponents. Mursi did not respond.
KIDNAPPED?
Mursi's supporters say he has been "kidnapped"; a military spokesman said he was being held for his own protection.
Mursi was "not detained, but the armed forces took certain measures for his protection, because he has supporters and opponents and in light of the lack of stability in the Egyptian streets", the spokesman, Ahmed Mohamed Ali, told Al Arabiya TV.
He denied the military was involved in politics: "There is no presence for us on the political scene. There is a president for the state, and a cabinet has been formed. We are out of the picture totally and do not desire rule."
However, the new cabinet includes the armed forces chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in the joint roles of first deputy prime minister and defense minister.
The Brotherhood has maintained a vigil into its third week, with thousands of supporters camped out in a Cairo square vowing not to leave unless Mursi is restored to office. It has called protests attracting tens of thousands of people every few days.
Running street battles in the early hours of Tuesday were the deadliest in a week. Before that, more than 90 people were killed in the first five days after Mursi was removed, more than half of them shot dead by troops outside a Cairo barracks.
Military spokesman Ali accused the Brotherhood of "a campaign of incitement that attempts to depict political differences as religious differences. There is incitement to target military installations and headquarters, and this is something totally unacceptable in Egypt or in any country".
The authorities have charged the Brotherhood's main leaders with inciting violence during the protests, although in most cases they have not followed through with arrests.
In the lawless Sinai peninsular bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, Islamist militants have called for an uprising against Egypt's military.
At least 13 mainly security personnel have been killed there since Mursi's overthrow on July 3, and late on Tuesday attackers used rockets and machine guns against an Egyptian army camp near Rafah, a town straddling Sinai and Gaza. Two soldiers were wounded.
(Additional reporting by Alexander Dziadosz, Peter Graff, Ulf Laessing, Maggie Fick, Mike Collett-White, Yasmine Saleh, Edmund Blair and Omar Fahmy; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Will Waterman and David Stamp)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-interim-government-gets-amid-protests-deadlock-055336306.html
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