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British court dismisses landmark right-to-die appeal
By Adam Jourdan
LONDON (Reuters) - A British court rejected appeals for the right to die by a paralysed road accident victim and the family of a deceased locked-in syndrome sufferer on Wednesday, saying only parliament should decide on matters of life and death.
The Court of Appeal said the law on assisted suicide could not be changed by the courts, quashing the appeal by paralysed man Paul Lamb and the family of Tony Nicklinson, who suffered locked-in syndrome, where someone is aware and awake but cannot move or communicate.
He refused food and medication after he lost his bid to end his life with a doctor's help last year, and died a week later.
"The short answer must be, and always has been, that the law relating to assisting suicide cannot be changed by judicial decision," Igor Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, said in the ruling, which is sure to spark more debate over a person's right to choose when and how to end his or her life.
Another paralysed man, known only as Martin, won a separate case on Wednesday seeking clarification of prosecution guidance for health workers who help others to die.
In Britain, anyone who helps another person to kill themselves commits the offence of assisted suicide, while a person who carries out euthanasia commits the offence of murder.
Switzerland and the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington and Montana are among the few places where some forms of euthanasia or assisted suicide are legal under certain circumstances.
Lamb, who has been paralysed since a car accident almost 25 years ago, said he was "gutted" by Wednesday's ruling. He is immobile except for limited movement in his right hand, requires 24-hour care and is constantly on morphine to relieve pain.
"I was hoping for a humane and dignified end. This judgment does not give me that," he said in a statement.
The case was an appeal against the Nicklinson decision, whose case was dismissed in August last year.
Nicklinson's wife, Jane, told BBC television: "I saw the way that Tony suffered and I would hate to think of anyone else suffering the way he did."
But expert and public opinion is divided over whether people should have the right to be helped to die.
British disability charity Scope opposes giving the right to people with disabilities to kill themselves.
Talking about the hearing earlier this year, the charity's chief executive, Richard Hawkes, wrote: "These cases are unbearably tragic, but they cannot be the basis for changing a law that could affect millions."
(Editing by Elizabeth Piper)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/british-court-dismisses-landmark-die-appeal-122842898.html
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Apple's new suppliers are 'even worse' than Foxconn, says China Labor Watch
Just as Pegatron has managed to snatch more Apple contracts away from Foxconn, so too has it attracted greater scrutiny of the conditions faced by its 70,000 workers. China Labor Watch, the US-based worker welfare monitor, now alleges that Chinese factories run by the up-and-coming Taiwan-based manufacturer are "even worse" than Foxconn's. It claims to have found health and safety violations, poor living conditions in dorms, and the coercion of workers by withholding their pay or identity cards -- in other words, the sort of stuff that breaches both Chinese law and Apple's supplier policy. Its latest report also accuses Apple of failing to treat abuses with the same urgency that it applies to lapses in product quality.
For its part, Apple has responded by highlighting the fact that it has audited Pegatron facilities 15 times in the last six years, and that a recent survey found that Pegatron employees were working an average of 46 hours per week. It also said it had dealt promptly with earlier instances of ID cards being withheld, but admitted that China Labor Watch's report includes "claims that are new to us" and that will need to be investigated "thoroughly."
[Image credit: Jay Greene, CNET]
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Source: WSJ, China Labor Watch
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Samsung caught boosting benchmark performance numbers on Exynos devices
Benchmarks often catch the ire of critics because their scores don't necessarily reflect real-world experience, and it appears that some Samsung devices aren't helping that reputation out at all. Our friends at Anandtech started sifting through data for two Exynos octacore variants of the Galaxy S 4, and discovered multiple benchmarks that appear to run those devices at higher CPU and GPU clock speeds than they normally run. Some of the apps included in the report are GLBench 2.5.1, AnTuTu, Quadrant and Linpack. Coincidentally, the site also found code within the GS4 that indicates the existence of a program called "BenchmarkBooster," which is responsible for overclocking the processors when certain apps are running. Is this an evil plot by Samsung to take over the world using rogue benchmarking results? Is this something other manufacturers are doing? It's hard to say, but there is certainly something curious afoot. Check out the source to get all of the skinny on what exactly is going on.
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Source: Anandtech
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Betty Crocker toasts marriage equality with wedding cake tasting
Three of the first same-sex couples who will legally marry in Minnesota on August 1st visited the Betty Crocker Kitchens at General Mills Headquarters in Golden Valley, Minnesota to taste-test wedding cakes for their ceremonies. The company has kindly donated the cakes to the couples for their celebrations, which will take place this Thursday at midnight. The couples will be wed at Minneapolis City Hall and the Como Park Conservatory in St. Paul.
Margaret Miles and Cathy ten Broeke, the first couple who will be married, were joined by Reid Bordson and Paul Nolle, the second. Both will be married on Thursday by?Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak. The third couple was?Al Giraud and Jeff Isaacson, who will be the first couple married in St. Paul. The three couples tasted three Betty Crocker cakes, designed specifically to their tastes, in order to select one for their ceremony.
The trio of cakes were designed and baked by Terri Leckas from Queen of Cakes in Edina, Minn. ?We did a little taste testing of our own at my cake shop over the weekend and it was a lot of fun to walk in to the smell of baking at home. It was a really good feeling,? Leckas says.
Betty Crocker is performing this donation as a part of The Families Project. The company states that it?wanted "to celebrate with these families and mark this moment in the state's history."
Source: http://www.glaad.org/blog/betty-crocker-toasts-marriage-equality-wedding-cake-tasting
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Al Qaeda group kidnaps Italian priest in Syria: activists
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
AMMAN (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked fighters in a rebel-held eastern Syrian city on Monday abducted a prominent Italian Jesuit priest who championed the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.
Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant kidnapped father Paolo Dall'Oglio while he was walking in Raqqa, which fell to militant Islamist brigades in March, the sources in Raqqa province told Reuters.
Syrian authorities expelled Dall'Oglio from the country last year for helping victims of Assad's military crackdown while he served at a sixth-century monastery in the Anti-Lebanon mountains north of Damascus.
He has been an advocate of reconciliation for the country's myriad religious and ethnic sects, especially between Kurds and Arabs, as Syria slipped into civil war. Dall'Oglio blamed Assad for provoking sectarian mayhem and called his forces "thugs."
Abdelrazzaq Shlas, a leading opposition activist in Raqqa, said the Islamic State appeared to have been angered by comments Dall'Oglio had made criticizing violence against Kurdish residents of Tel al-Abiad, on the border with Turkey.
Fighting flared in the town and other areas to the northeast in recent weeks between Islamist militants and members of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) militia.
"Father Paolo was received in Raqqa with open arms but the Islamic State appears not to have taken well to his position regarding Tel al-Abiad," Shlas said.
Shlas pointed to crowds in Raqqa cheering Dall'Oglio during a street rally he attended on Sunday night in support of the besieged city of Homs. Video footage of the rally showed Dall'Oglio saluting the crowd.
A Western diplomat said Dall'Oglio crossed into Syria from Turkey last week, ignoring warnings from his friends not to go to Raqqa, where Islamist militants kidnapped several liberal activists in recent weeks.
"He insisted on going," the diplomat said.
Dall'Oglio served for three decades at the Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian, or Deir Mar Musa, before being expelled from the country in 2012. He was instrumental in restoring the monastery, whose cathedral houses an exquisite 11th century fresco of the Last Judgment.
In a statement from Raqqa published on Facebook before his disappearance, Dall'Oglio said he considered Syria to be his homeland.
"I feel happy because first I am in a liberated city and second because of the marvelous reception I have gotten. People walk the streets with freedom and in harmony. It is a picture of the homeland we want for all Syrians," Dall'Oglio said.
(Editing by Doina Chiacu)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/al-qaeda-group-kidnaps-italian-priest-syria-activists-234155467.html
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Monogamy evolved as a mating strategy: New research indicates that social monogamy evolved as a result of competition
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Social monogamy, where one breeding female and one breeding male are closely associated with each other over several breeding seasons, appears to have evolved as a mating strategy, new research reveals. It was previously suspected that social monogamy resulted from a need for extra parental care by the father.
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Apple Distributing Free iBooks to Employees Ahead of Mavericks and iOS 7 Launch
During quarterly retail meetings that took place today, Apple announced a new ?iBooks Discovery? initiative that will see Apple Store employees provided with free iBooks beginning next week in order to prepare the retail workers for the launch of OS X Mavericks and iOS 7, reports 9to5Mac. While an iBooks app has been available on iOS devices since the debut of the original iPad in 2010, OS X Mavericks will mark the first instance of an iBooks app for the Mac.
The Mavericks version of iBooks offers a number of features that will appeal to readers and students alike, including full screen reading capabilities, note taking functionality, and a feature that allows study cards to be automatically created from notes.
With access to free ebooks, Apple Store employees will be able to familiarize themselves with both the iBookstore and the many features that iBooks offers, allowing the employees to answer customer questions and promote the apps and the new operating systems.
Apple has also provided some of its employees with beta access to OS X Mavericks and recently, it sent out a memo asking its retail workers for innovative ideas on how to improve the iPhone, the retail store environment, and sales techniques.
At a retail summit that took place in early July, Tim Cook announced plans to improve the in-store sales of iPhones, which are considered a ?gateway product? to other Apple devices. As part of its push for greater sales, Apple has launched a new iPhone Back to School promotion and has plans for an in-store trade-in program for older devices.
The company also plans to heavily market both iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks, which are expected to be released to the public this fall.
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2-headed turtle at Texas zoo gets Facebook page
SAN ANTONIO -- A two-headed turtle born last month at the San Antonio Zoo has become so popular that she has her own Facebook page.
Zoo officials say the Texas cooter, named Thelma and Louise for the female duo in the 1991 Oscar-winning movie, has been doing well.
Spokeswoman Debbie Rios-Vanskike (van SKYKE') says the turtle eats and swims, and added that the two heads ? named Louise Left and Thelma Right ? get along.
The Facebook page on Sunday showed photos of the quirky reptile and imaginary conversations between the two heads.
The turtle hatched June 18. The animal is on display at the zoo's Friedrich Aquarium.
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Teresa Heinz Kerry released from hospital
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Photo shows Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Secretary of State John Kerry, during Kerry's confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.
By Becky Bratu, Staff Writer, NBC News
Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to the ketchup company fortune, was released Saturday from Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, where she was treated for a seizure she experienced on July 7.
Doctors said they expect Heinz Kerry to complete a full recovery at home after some limited out-patient treatment, read a statement released by Kerry's spokesman Glen Johnson.
Heinz Kerry, 74, was admitted to the hospital following an experience of seizure-like symptoms at the family's Nantucket home.
"It was amazing, a miracle," Heinz Kerry said of her care and caregivers, according to the statement. "They are the kindest people, who love what they do and do it superbly well."
Her husband expressed his gratitude: "I'm extremely grateful for the quality of care Teresa received, from the calm and confidence of the EMTs who intervened at the house, to the amazing proficiency of the team at the ICU at Mass. General, to the focused, caring attention of the group at Spaulding. I've always known Massachusetts is blessed to have some of the greatest health care in the world, but we've just lived it, and are grateful to all."
Heinz Kerry, a breast cancer survivor, is the mother of three adult sons from her marriage to the late Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz, who died in a plane crash in 1991.
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What did London Olympics 2012 do for us?
Not that many were predicting beforehand that this would be the case. In the weeks immediately before it all began, the vibrations on the radio, in the newspapers and on that 140-character shredder of reputation Twitter, insisted that we should prepare ourselves for national humiliation.
The way it was being told, everything that could go wrong with our hosting of the Games was certain to go wrong. We had outsourced the security operation to cack-handed, greedy incompetents, we had surrendered our civil liberties to the commercial interests of the sponsors, and allowed London?s road network to be thrown into jeopardy in order to accommodate the Ruritanian requirements of officials. Travel agents reported a surge of late bookings as people sought to flee from the anticipated omnishambles.
As a strategy, however, the escape plan began to unravel from the first beat of the opening ceremony. The moment the lights came up on a stadium transformed into a bucolic paradise, complete with livestock, it became clear that those who had deserted our shores were in the wrong place. Ninety minutes of dazzling theatre, dance, film and music later, the telephone lines must have been thrumming with refuseniks trying to negotiate passage home.
An innovative, witty mash-up of our cultural history, the opening ceremony spun the head, brought a tear to the eye and made everyone lucky enough to witness it smile hard and long. Danny Boyle?s brief had been to reintroduce Britain and its capital to the world. How successfully he achieved that, presenting his homeland as a modern, friendly and, above all, humorous place. It quickly became clear that London was now the centre of the known universe, the place on which the world's eyes were trained.
The ceremony was a reminder to the world ? and perhaps, more to the point, to ourselves ? that this country has long held within it a wellspring of joy. It was the most enticing welcome to these isles of wonder.
For the Mexican journalist sitting next to me in the stadium, the high point of that evening was the Queen?s cameo in a James Bond pastiche. He could not believe it really was her, could not believe the Queen was hitching up her skirt to join in the party. And he was right to be astonished. At that moment, all suggestions of stiff formality were bundled out of the helicopter. What her appearance insisted was that the next fortnight, everyone was invited to participate in the fun; we really were all in it together.
And improbable as it may have seemed, from that vertiginous high spot, things just got better. Snapshots of our glorious capital ? of horses apparently leaping over Canary Wharf, of cyclists skirting a sun-dappled Buckingham Palace, of female athletes in micro bikinis playing volleyball on Horse Guards Parade ? spun round the globe. How wonderful it all looked. The facilities were brilliant, the transport smooth, everything just worked.
Even the assumption that corporate ticketing would preclude the ordinary citizen from observing the action at first hand proved unfounded. The opportunity to watch for free was everywhere seized. Tens of thousands filled Hyde Park to witness the Brownlee brothers dominate the triathlon. A million people lined the streets around Hampton Court to see Kilburn?s King of Cool, Bradley Wiggins, win the time trial.
There is no doubt victories such as these by local competitors added to the overall sense of well-being. Not even in the wilder reaches of Lord Coe?s imagination could such a happy confluence have been envisaged: jaw-dropping facilities, brilliant hosting, and world-beating achievement by the home team.
And what was so inspiring about Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah, Chris Hoy and the other British champions was that they delivered. There was no failure of nerve, no wilting under the weight of expectation, no hint of the traditional way of British sport of crumbling when faced with a crucial penalty in a shoot-out. For a fortnight, spot kicks were smashed unerringly into the top corner.
Thus it was that the Games became awash with an unstoppable benevolent momentum: everyone ? administrators, spectators, volunteers and athletes alike ? quickly recognised they were having the time of their lives. This was an intoxicating daily demonstration of our best side: civic-minded, helpful, properly patriotic, proud of our culture?s sterling qualities. As Mayor Boris Johnson put it, this was ?a nation at ease with itself?.
A year on, looking back at that month-long festival of good cheer, however, we are obliged to wonder what the lasting effect of those beguiling few weeks might be. The talk now is of legacy. Messrs Coe and Johnson insist that the Olympic Park ? currently being reconfigured for future public use ? will continue to draw the curious in their thousands. But questions are rightly being asked about future funding: how active those inspired by what they saw can become if their local swimming pool is closing or their PE teacher is being laid off.
Talk of participation targets and bricks and mortar, however, may be missing the fundamental point about what the Olympics gave us. Surely the most significant benefit of the Games is the alteration it brought in our wider sensibility. What the festivities proved to us is that we can do things not just well, but better than anyone else. We can take on the world at anything, from a firework display to a rugby Test match, from a transport network to a tennis grand slam, from the production of motor cars to the Tour de France ? and win.
We have discovered, moreover, that the best way to enjoy something is to embrace the effort, to immerse ourselves, to volunteer. A year on, this is what really counts: we now know we can be proud of our country and what it can achieve. And that is surely worth ?9 billion of anyone?s money.
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Buzz Building in Agrabah as Kingdom Prepares for First Royal Baby, Magical Parade
Portrait of royal family and attendants.
For the past week, the streets of Waltier have been electric with excitement as citizens await news of the newest member of Agrabah?s first royal family. Queen Jasmine, 28, has spent the last week preparing for her departure, via magic carpet, to an undisclosed infirmary, where she will give birth to the heir or heiress apparent to the crown.
?The queen can be packed and ready at the drop of a feather as soon as her water breaks,? according to a castle source, a magical talking bird, who spoke to The Observer on the condition that he remained anonymous. ?Obviously, King Aladdin is thrilled, and he will be joining his wife after he returns from his spelunking expedition in the desert with his two best friends, a monkey and an incorporeal blue genie.?
But what?s really got the bazaar buzzing is the rumor that the royal family is preparing another magical parade?the first since King Aladdin first came to the city.
For those who need reminding, King Aladdin?s original spectacle included a veritable ?zoo?: seventy- five golden camels, fifty-three purple peacocks, and many more exotic mammals, including an unprecedented ninety-five white Persian monkeys, sixty elephants and llamas galore. In addition, there were bears and lions, a brass band and more.
?I don?t know what to expect, but I know it?s going to be great,? said apple-stall-owner Gazeem. ?Maybe this time there will be, I dunno, like some flying horse made of diamonds that defecates gold coins or something.?
But Prince Ali Ababwa, as he was known then, took some heat for his original cavalcade into the city when several civil rights organizations took aim over his inclusion of ?servants and flunkies,? as well as showcasing forty fakirs.
?These are religious men who have forsworn material goods, following the basic creeds of Vaishnava-Sahajiya Buddhism,? one spokesperson said. ?To have them paraded around as part of the King?s ?spectacular coterie? is nothing short of disgusting.?
Repeated requests for a statement regarding the possible human rights violations has been met with silence from the royal family, and in one unfortunate case, an angry tiger attack.
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Key molecular pathways leading to Alzheimer's identified
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Key molecular pathways that lead to late-onset Alzheimer's disease have been identified by neuroscientists. The findings present a new approach to Alzheimer?s research and highlight several new potential drug targets.
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South Africa wants Zimbabwe vote to reflect people's will: Motlanthe
By Peroshni Govender and Jon Herskovitz
PRETORIA (Reuters) - With a big vested interest in the stability of Zimbabwe, South Africa is keen that next week's election in its northern neighbor should fairly reflect the people's wishes, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Wednesday.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees fled into South Africa after violence in the last election, in 2008, landing it with an expensive humanitarian crisis. But since it helped to broker a unity government, the economy has been recovering, creating opportunities for South African business.
However, preparations for the July 31 elections have been far from smooth, with President Robert Mugabe's rivals in the Movement for Democratic Change alleging that his ZANU-PF party is making it hard for their voters to register. Washington has said it is not convinced the vote will be free and fair.
In an interview with Reuters, Motlanthe said Pretoria had no preference as to the result.
"Whatever the outcome of the elections, it should be a free expression of the will of Zimbabwe. That is how we view it."
But he also said political stability was a precondition for economic development. "We have a vested interest as a country in ensuring that there is peace and stability in Zimbabwe. We can only benefit from that."
South Africa's major banks, retailers and mining firms have operations in Zimbabwe and positioning themselves to expand if the economy, estimated by the International Monetary Fund to be worth $9.8 billion in 2012, continues to grow. Zimbabwe spends the equivalent of 20 percent of its GDP on imports from South Africa.
Yet two days of advance voting this month for 63,000 police officers and soldiers suggested that fears of election chaos will be borne out, raising the prospect of a disputed result.
Motlanthe said that, so far, there were no indications that the widespread violence and intimidation surrounding the 2008 election would be repeated, but added:
"If anything causes an implosion in Zimbabwe, we would with immediate effect have to deal with the consequences".
Motlanthe said President Jacob Zuma spoke regularly with Mugabe, who has made disparaging public comments about Pretoria's interventions, even calling one of Zuma's top envoys "stupid and idiotic".
(Additional reporting by Ed Cropley in Pretoria and Lesley Wroughton in Washington; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-africa-wants-zimbabwe-vote-reflect-peoples-motlanthe-172456634.html
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White House 'seeking clarity' on Snowden's status
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration said Wednesday it was seeking clarity from Russian authorities about the status of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, and restated its desire to see him returned to the United States.
A state news agency in Russia said Snowden has been given a document allowing him to leave the transit zone of a Moscow airport. But Snowden's lawyer later said his client's asylum status has not been resolved and that Snowden will stay at the airport for now.
Secretary of State John Kerry called Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to reiterate that Washington wants Russia to return Snowden to the United States, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. She said Kerry told Lavrov that the U.S. would be "deeply disappointed" if Russia made any effort to facilitate his movement out of the airport, or to any destination other than the U.S.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the administration has made clear to the Russians its desire to see Snowden returned to the U.S. to face espionage charges. Carney had no updates on how Snowden's status might affect President Barack Obama's plans to travel to Russia in September.
Snowden "is neither a human rights activist, nor a dissident," Carney said. "He's been charged with serious felonies for the unauthorized leaking of highly classified information, and there is ample precedent and legal justification for him to be returned to the United States where he will face trial with all the rights and protections afforded defendants in the United States of America."
Snowden has been marooned in the Moscow airport since June 23 on a flight from Hong Kong. Snowden has applied for asylum in Russia after agreeing to a demand by Russian President Vladimir Putin that he stop leaking information as a condition of remaining in the country.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-seeking-clarity-snowdens-status-153200845.html
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Eating Many Small Meals Every Day Won't Boost Your Metabolism
As it often happens with popular science, the media can blow a study out of proportion when the findings look newsworthy. It seems all the excitement over eating six times a day (rather than three) for an increased metabolism falls under that category.
Examine.com, a site dedicated to answering common health questions through aggregated research, looked at a number of studies concerning meal frequency and metabolism. They found, almost unanimously, that it doesn't really matter how frequently you eat:
A meta-analysis conducted on eating frequency[1] notes that "studies using whole-body calorimetry and doubly-labelled water to assess total 24 h energy expenditure find no difference between nibbling and gorging. Finally, with the exception of a single study, there is no evidence that weight loss on hypoenergetic regimens is altered by meal frequency. We conclude that any effects of meal pattern on the regulation of body weight are likely to be mediated through effects on the food intake side of the energy balance equation".[1] A review article conducted assessing 179 abstracts (of which 10 studies were deemed relevant to assess meal frequency and weight loss interactions) found no significant relation between meal frequency and weight loss, albeit calling for more long-term evidence.[2] These results are found in other review articles on the subject matter.[3][4]
That said, if you like eating smaller amounts six times a day you should still do it. While eating frequently doesn't seem to provide a metabolism boost, it should keep you from reaching a point of extreme hunger?a feeling that can cause you to overeat.
Effects of eating frequency on metabolic rate | Examine.com
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Man sought in death of Wash. 4-year-old surrenders
SEATTLE (AP) ? A convicted felon who was sought by law enforcement agencies in Washington state after a 4-year-old died of a gunshot wound at a small town home has surrendered.
Police in Sedro-Woolley, Wash., also said Monday that autopsy results show the boy died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, as police originally believed.
The boy died Sunday morning in Sedro-Woolley, which is 70 miles north of Seattle. Shortly after, 25-year-old Trevor Braymiller fled the home with the gun the boy used, sparking a manhunt in a wooded and rural area.
The gun was found on Sunday outside a church.
Police Chief Doug Wood says Braymiller has been convicted of selling drugs in the past and is not supposed to possess a firearm.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Police followed tips overnight but were still searching Monday for a Washington state man wanted for questioning in the shooting death of his girlfriend's 4-year-old son.
Investigators are talking to people who may know Trevor Braymiller, 25, and asking the public for tips, Sedro-Woolley Police Chief Doug Wood said
Police don't know if he's still in the area, about 70 miles north of Seattle.
Detectives are waiting for results of the autopsy on Monday to learn more about how the boy died Sunday, and they can't say yet whether it may have been an accident, Wood said.
The gun they believe was used was found Sunday by a Washington State Patrol explosives-sniffing dog under the stairs of a church about a half-block from the house where the child was shot that morning, the Skagit Valley Herald reported (http://bit.ly/15Zde3n ).
No shell casing was found at the scene, but there is one in the gun, indicating that the gun misfired and didn't eject the shell. Lt. Lin Tucker said.
People at the house indicated the boy shot himself, but investigators suspect a homicide and Braymiller fled.
Police were told he went to the nearby church. A friend gave Braymiller a ride to the Big Lake community, about 5 miles south of Sedro-Woolley. The friend went to police after learning the child was dead.
Braymiller, a felon convicted of selling drugs, is not supposed to have a gun, police said. The house is well known to police, and officers conducted a drug raid there in 2011. Police have seized firearms from Braymiller in the past.
No one in the house saw the shooting, Tucker said. Also in the house at the time was the boy's mother, a couple, another young man and a girl about 2 years old who was parented by the mother and Braymiller.
"We're getting a lot of input from citizens saying they would like to find this guy and beat him up," Tucker told the newspaper. "We would rather they not turn our suspect into a victim."
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Plain packaging seems to make cigarettes less appealing and increase urgency to quit smoking
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Froome - out of Africa and into yellow jersey
AFP - When Chris Froome stepped down from top of the the Tour de France podium on Sunday, there was no plan for a lavish ceremony befitting of the most recent winner of the race's fabled yellow jersey.
For Froome, the celebrations would amount to "an unforgettable night in Paris with some school friends" who had made the trip from Africa to witness the climax of his amazing journey from the dirt roads of Kenya to success in the world's greatest bike race.
Born in Kenya, Froome's love affair with cycling began shortly after his mother asked former elite mountain biker David Kinjah to coach her dreamy 11-year-old son, the youngest of three.
"She needed somebody to tap his prodigious energy, and somebody had told her that I could handle him," said Kinjah, who remembers Froome fondly.
"The first time Chris came here with his BMX bike he was very shy...but he was also a very determined young boy."
Froome, who speaks several languages including Swahili and used to sport an array of coloured Kenyan clothes and bracelets, remains shy and is still quietly-spoken.
And while resolutely British, he is still not quite sure which country to love most.
"I really do feel divided amongst those places" that you mentioned now, he told media on Saturday.
"When I go back to Kenya, even going through customs control, when the customs guys give you that big smile, that always makes me really happy."
But the determination Froome showed during his early cycling days, when 100 km training rides with Kinjah were the norm, remains one of his overriding attributes.
Froome's journey to cycling stardom continued apace when, following his parents' divorce, he was sent to boarding school in South Africa.
Although rugby and cricket were the top sports in Bloemfontein, Froome soon found a channel for his passion in the many road races in the country.
Froome would often awake at 5 am to beat the traffic and cycle for two hours before heading off to university, where he studied economics.
He soon came to the attention of Robbie Nilsen, who ran a local cycling academy, and progressed further thanks to his keen interest in nutrition, training and the science of sport.
Having competed for Kenya as an under-23 year old at the world road race championships in Salzburg, Austria, opportunity knocked for Froome when, aged 22, he was offered the chance to race for the Konica-Minolta team while training at the International Cycling Union (UCI) academy in Aigle, Switzerland.
"I made the decision then to put my studies on hold," Froome said.
"I thought, I'm going to give this cycling a go. I put the studies on hold and gave it everything."
Froome virtually sealed a move to the Barloworld team with victory on a mountaintop during the Giro delle Regione in 2007.
A year later, Froome paved the way towards representing Britain when he took a British racing licence, and his move to Barloworld gave him a taste of prestigious races like Paris-Roubaix, Fleche-Wallone and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
The same year, Froome lined up for his maiden Tour de France despite having lost his mother Jane to illness only weeks earlier.
Froome finished 84th overall and 11th in the young rider's classification, a result which, among others, prompted the interest of coaches at British cycling on the lookout for fresh, raw talent for the future Sky team.
Since his move to Sky in 2010, Froome has gone from strength to strength, benefiting from the world's best coaches and methods.
From being "a rough diamond, in need of shaping and polishing", according to his team, he has emerged into what experts believe is the perfect rider for the gruelling three-week Grand Tours.
Froome's first major breakthrough was his second-place finish, ahead of Bradley Wiggins, on the 2011 Tour of Spain -- a result which equalled Robert Millar's second place in the 1987 Giro d'Italia as the highest placed British rider in a Grand Tour.
Having finished runner-up on the Tour de France in 2012, when his help in the mountains proved crucial for Wiggins' victory, Froome made the most of his opportunity to lead Team Sky on his own this year.
He claimed two mountaintop stage wins and victory in an individual time trial to finish with an impressive winning margin of 4:20 -- the biggest on the race since disgraced American Lance Armstrong won the 2004 edition with a six-minute lead on Andreas Kloden.
For Sky chief Dave Brailsford, it could be the start of the Froome era.
"Our team won't be built around one person, but there's no doubt about it," Brailsford said Saturday. "He's one of, if not the best rider in the world right now and there's no reason to think that couldn't continue."
Source: http://www.france24.com/en/20130721-froome-out-africa-yellow-jersey
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PAT CAPUTO: Detroit Lions, Reggie Bush, start of NFL training camp and those under a spotlight
Detroit Lions running back Reggie Bush runs a drill during an NFL football minicamp practice in Allen Park, Mich., Thursday, June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
The Lions concentrated during the off season on revamping their roster and adjusting their collective attitude.
Training camp begins this week. It's time to start implementing their plan.
These are the figures in the Lions' organization, who will be most under a spotlight as training camp begins:
Reggie Bush - At 28, Bush is entering his eighth NFL season. He has a Super Bowl ring with New Orleans. He has a 1,000-yard rushing campaign on his resume. His NFL career has been, well, respectable. Certainly, it wouldn't fair to label Bush a bust. Yet, he hasn't emerged as one of the NFL's top players, either, which has been somewhat disappointing given what a truly great college player Bush was at the University of Southern California. It's reasonable to expect Bush will fall under the category of a "nice" addition. The Lions, in order to not only make the playoffs, but have an impact once there, need Bush to have be more than that. In some respect, Bush's legacy as an NFL player will depend on it.
Jim Schwartz - There are two ways of looking at the Lions? head coach. One is he inherited an 0-16 season and turned the franchise around quickly, leading the Lions to the playoffs in his third year. Another he raised expectations, only to let this town down with a dreadful 4-12 season in '12, which concluded with eight straight losses. Schwartz's fate will be determined based largely on a couple tangible factors. The Lions have completely revamped their special teams with a new coach, different kicking specialists and a redesigned scheme. The Lions have three first-round draft choices on their defensive line, and Schwartz is a defensive coordinator by trade. Can he get the most out of that talent? Also, it will be interesting to see if Schwartz has learned from his game management mistakes last year.
Riley Reiff - The known at offensive left tackle, veteran Jeff Backus, who has retired, has been replaced by the unknown in Reiff, the Lions' first-round draft choice in 2012 from Iowa. The Lions had the fifth overall pick in the '13 draft and selected defensive end Ziggy Ansah after three of the first four selections were offensive left tackles. The Lions' draft in '13 will not only be judged by what type of impact Ansah has on the defense, but whether Reiff is an effective left tackle. He has the size and athleticism for the position. While he was the 20th overall pick in the draft, Reiff was the second offensive lineman taken in the 2012 draft. But his challenge is especially unique and demanding in the NFC North. He will face Minnesota's Jared Allen, Chicago's Julius Peppers and Green Bay's Clay Matthews twice each this season.
DeAndre Levy - A potential free agent during this past off season, the Lions re-signed Levy, a linebacker, for three years at nearly $10 million with, reportedly, a $3 million signing bonus. Levy has good speed and is stout at the point of attack. He is 26. Logic dictates Levy should have the right combination of skill and experience to come into his own in 2013. But will he?
Louis Delmas - The track record has been simplistic for Delmas. When he plays, he plays well. Problem is, he has missed a lot of games. The Lions finally got Delmas a legitimate partner at safety by signing free agent Glover Quin away from the Houston Texans, but they are still lacking depth at the position. They desperately need Delmas on the field.
Sam Martin ? The Lions? thought enough of Martin to use a fifth-round draft pick to select him. He is the first punter taken by the Lions in the draft since 1984. He wasn?t projected to be chosen that early in the draft, if at all. Did the Lions know something other teams didn?t about Martin and will they be proven correct? Or will Martin be another late-round draft pick, who doesn?t pan out for the Lions?
Pat Caputo is a senior sports reporter and a columnist for The Oakland Press. Contact him at pat.caputo@oakpress.com and read his blog at theoaklandpress.com. You can follow him on Twitter @patcaputo98
Source: http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2013/07/21/sports/doc51eb5e5caa607132255144.txt
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'Glee' Boss Ryan Murphy Breaks Silence On Cory Monteith's Death
The show's creator says Lea Michele decided the fate of the show, which will pay tribute to Monteith in an upcoming episode.
By Daniel Montalto
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Detroit bankrupt: almost $20 billion in debt
A boarded up house in front of the Detroit city skyline Photo: Reuters
DETROIT: Detroit, the cradle of America's automobile industry and once the nation's fourth-most-populous city, has filed for bankruptcy, the largest US city ever to take such a course.
The decision to turn to the federal courts, which required approval from both the emergency manager assigned to oversee the troubled city and from Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, is also the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in US history in terms of debt.
Not everyone agrees how much Detroit owes, but Kevyn Orr, the emergency manager who was appointed by Mr Snyder to resolve the city's financial problems, has said the debt is likely to be $US18 billion ($19.6 billion) and perhaps as much as $US20 billion.
Ilegally dumped tires sit in front of a vacant, blighted home in a once thriving neighborhood on the east side of Detroit, Michigan. Photo: Reuters
For Detroit, the filing comes as a painful reminder of a city's rise and fall.
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Founded more than 300 years ago, the city expanded at a stunning rate in the first half of the 20th century with the arrival of the automobile industry, and then shrank away in recent decades at a similarly remarkable pace. A city of 1.8 million in 1950, it is now home to 700,000 people, as well as to tens of thousands of abandoned buildings, vacant lots and unlit streets.
From here, there is no road map for Detroit's recovery, not least of all because municipal bankruptcies are rare. Some bankruptcy experts and city leaders bemoaned the likely fallout from the filing, including the stigma it would carry. They anticipate further benefit cuts for city workers and retirees, more reductions in services for residents, and a detrimental effect on future borrowing.
A large "Opportunity Made In Detroit" banner is seen on the side of a building in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The city has filed for bankruptcy. Photo: Reuters
But others, including some Detroit business leaders who have seen a rise in private investment downtown despite the city's larger struggles, said bankruptcy seemed the only choice left - and one that might finally lead to a desperately needed overhaul of city services and a plan to pay off some reduced version of the overwhelming debts. In short, a new start.
The decision to go to court signalled a breakdown after weeks of tense negotiations, in which Orr had been trying to persuade creditors to accept cents in the dollar and unions to accept cuts in benefits.
All along, the state's involvement - including Mr Snyder's decision to send in an emergency manager - has carried racial implications, setting off a wave of concerns for some in Detroit that the mostly white, Republican-led state government was trying to seize control of Detroit, a Democratic-held city where more than 80 per cent of residents are black.
The debt in Detroit dwarfs that of Jefferson County, Alabama, which had been the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy, having filed in 2011 with about $US4 billion in debt. The population of Detroit, the largest city in Michigan, is more than twice that of Stockton, California, which filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and had been the nation's most populous city to do so.
Other major cities, including New York and Cleveland in the 1970s and Philadelphia two decades later, have teetered near the edge of financial ruin but ultimately found solutions other than federal court. Detroit's struggle, experts say, is particularly dire because it is not limited to a single event or one failed financial deal.
Instead, numerous factors have brought Detroit to this point, including a shrunken tax base in a big city; overwhelming health care and pension costs; repeated efforts to manage mounting debts with still more borrowing; annual deficits in the city's operating budget since 2008; and city services crippled by aged computer systems, poor record-keeping and widespread dysfunction.
All of that makes bankruptcy - a process that could take months, if not years, and is itself expected to be costly - particularly complex.
"It's not enough to say, let's reduce debt," said James Spiotto, an expert in municipal bankruptcy at the law firm of Chapman and Cutler in Chicago. "At the end of the day, you need a real recovery plan. Otherwise you're just going to repeat the whole thing over again."
Officials in other financially troubled cities may feel encouraged to follow Detroit's path, some experts say. A rush of municipal bankruptcies appears unlikely, though, and leaders of other cities will want to see how this case turns out, particularly when it comes to pension and retiree health care costs, said Karol Denniston, a bankruptcy lawyer with Schiff Hardin who is advising a taxpayer group that came together in Stockton after its bankruptcy.
"If you end up with precedent that allows the restructuring of retirement benefits in bankruptcy court, that will make it an attractive option for cities," Ms Denniston said. "Detroit is going to be a huge test kitchen."
For some Detroiters, recent memories of bankruptcies by Chrysler and General Motors - and the re-emergence of those companies - appeared to have calmed nerves. But experts say corporate bankruptcy procedures are significantly different from municipal bankruptcies.
Residents are likely to see little immediate change from the way the city has been run since March, when Mr Orr arrived to oversee major decisions.
Mr Orr has said that as part of any restructuring he wants to spend about $1.25 billion on improving city infrastructure and services. But a major concern for Detroit residents remains the possibility that services, already severely lacking, might be further diminished in bankruptcy.
In 2012, Detroit had the highest rate of violent crime in the nation for a city larger than 200,000, a report from Mr Orr's office showed. About 40 per cent of the city's streetlights do not work. More than half of Detroit's parks have closed since 2008.
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Return of long-absent bumblebee near Seattle stirs scientific buzz
By Jonathan Kaminsky
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - A North American bumblebee species that all but vanished from about half of its natural range has re-emerged in Washington state, delighting scientists who voiced optimism the insect might eventually make a recovery in the Pacific Northwest.
Entomologists and bee enthusiasts in recent weeks have photographed several specimens of the long-absent western bumblebee - known to scientists as Bombus occidentalis - buzzing among flower blossoms in a suburban park north of Seattle.
"It's a pretty big deal," said Rich Hatfield, a biologist for the Oregon-based Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, which documents and reports such findings.
"It gives us hope that we can do some conservation work, and perhaps the species has a chance at repopulating its range," he told Reuters this week.
The multiple sightings, including observations of several queens, are evidence of western bumblebee colonies in the area, although it hardly proves the species has returned in force and or that it will thrive in the region, Hatfield said.
Last year, a single western bumblebee, recognized by its distinctive white-banded bottom, was discovered by an insect enthusiast in her mother's garden in suburban Brier, Washington. It was the first sighting in Washington state west of the Cascades in well over a decade.
Her sighting was confirmed earlier this month as more than an isolated incident when Will Peterman, 42, a freelance writer-photographer and self-described "bee nerd" from Seattle, ventured into a park in Brier to capture his own shots of Bombus occidentalis foraging in blackberry bushes for nectar and pollen.
He returned on Sunday with a group of University of Washington entomologists to conduct a more thorough canvass of the park and surrounding areas. While the group failed to locate a nest - hives are dwellings for domesticated honeybees - they identified and photographed at least three queens.
Hatfield said the queen bees observed in the park would normally be expected to go into hibernation soon, then produce offspring next year.
The mood among the scientists accompanying him was "almost giddy," Peterman said. "This is grounds for optimism in a story that has been really bleak."
CAUSE OF POPULATION CRASH UNCLEAR
Bombus occidentalis is one of four wild North American bumblebee species whose populations began to plummet two decades ago, while honeybees - commercially bred for the most part - have undergone less precipitous declines, Hatfield said.
Scientists have cited a number of likely factors for bumblebee declines, including parasites, pesticides and habitat fragmentation.
Until the mid-1990s, the western bumblebee was among the most common bees in the Western United States and Canada, where it was valued as a key pollinator for tomatoes and cranberries.
It has since virtually disappeared from about half its historic range, a vast stretch of the West Coast from central California to southern British Columbia, although its population remains relatively robust in the Mountain West.
Scientists are not certain what caused North American bumblebee populations to crash.
But a leading theory advanced by Robbin Thorp, a retired entomology professor at the University of California at Davis, points to efforts to commercially cultivate colonies of western bumblebees in Europe starting in the mid-1990s.
American-bred western queens shipped to Europe likely were exposed there to a fungus that might have spread and devastated wild North American bumblebee populations when infected European-bred bees were transported back to the United States, Hatfield said.
The discovery of the bees near Seattle could mean a population resistant to the fungus has emerged, he said. The bees may also be part of a population never exposed to the fungus or that originated in a distant colony to the east.
(Editing by Steve Gorman, Douglas Royalty and Peter Cooney)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/return-long-absent-bumblebee-near-seattle-stirs-scientific-120655098.html
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