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Cheryl Boone Isaacs is elected Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president
Cheryl Boone Isaacs is the first African-American to become the Academy president and the third woman. Cheryl Boone Isaacs is a longtime marketing and publicity executive.
Cheryl Boone Isaacs was elected the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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The election, which took place at the Board of Governors meeting on Tuesday, makes Isaacs only the third woman to become AMPAS president in the organization's 86-year history, and the first African-American to hold the position. Hers is a notable achievement in an organization that in recent years has come under fire for being predominantly white and male.
She is also the first Academy president whose election was announced by AMPAS on Twitter while the governors were still voting on other offices.
Isaacs is one of a record total of 14 women on the 48-member AMPAS board, and its only African-American.
A longtime marketing and publicity executive who represents the Academy's Public Relations Branch, Isaacs, 63, has consulted on recent Best Picture winners "The Artist" and "The King's Speech" as the head of CBI Enterprises. She has also served as president of theatrical marketing for New Line Cinema and as executive vice president of worldwide publicity for Paramount. Her earlier publicity campaigns include Oscar winners "Forrest Gump" and "Braveheart."
Last year, Isaacs and her fellow Public Relations Branch governor Rob Friedman were the only two governors to also receive votes in the balloting that elected Hawk Koch AMPAS president. She was elected the organization's first vice president that night, and later produced the Academy's 2012 Governors Awards.
Over the years, she has filled every position on the board: secretary, treasurer, vice president, first vice president and now president.?
Isaacs and Friedman were considered the two frontrunners for the position, which went to the first candidate to receive more than 50 percent of the votes from the Academy's 48 governors, 10 of whom were elected to the board for the first time last month. (Only governors who attended were eligible to vote.)
While Friedman's full-time job as co-chairman of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group would have made it almost impossible for him to devote as much time to the presidency as Koch or his predecessor, Tom Sherak, Issacs is considered likely to be able to focus on her Academy duties.
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New approach to treating venomous snakebites could reduce global fatalities
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Needle-free treatment counteracts paralysis in minutes
SAN FRANCISCO (July 30, 2013) A team of researchers led by Dr. Matt Lewin of the California Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Department of Anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco, has pioneered a novel approach to treating venomous snakebitesadministering antiparalytics topically via a nasal spray. This new, needle-free treatment may dramatically reduce the number of global snakebite fatalities, currently estimated to be as high as 125,000 per year. The team demonstrated the success of the new treatment during a recent experiment conducted at UCSF; their results have been published in the medical journal Clinical Case Reports.
Snakebite is one of the most neglected of tropical diseasesthe number of fatalities is comparable to that of AIDS in some developing countries. It has been estimated that 75% of snakebite victims who die do so before they ever reach the hospital, predominantly because there is no easy way to treat them in the field. Antivenoms provide an imperfect solution for a number of reasonseven if the snake has been identified and the corresponding antivenom exists, venomous bites often occur in remote locations far from population centers, and antivenoms are expensive, require refrigeration, and demand significant expertise to administer and manage.
"In addition to being an occupational hazard for field scientists, snakebite is a leading cause of accidental death in the developing world, especially among otherwise healthy young people," says Lewin, the Director of the Center for Exploration and Travel Health at the California Academy of Sciences. "We are trying to change the way people think about this ancient scourge and persistent modern tragedy by developing an inexpensive, heat-stable, easy-to-use treatment that will at least buy people enough time to get to the hospital for further treatment."
In his role as Director of the Academy's Center for Exploration and Travel Health, Lewin prepares field medicine kits for the museum's scientific expeditions around the world and often accompanies scientists as the expedition doctor. In 2011, Lewin put together snakebite treatment kits for the Academy's Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition, which would have required scientists to inject themselves if they needed treatment. When he saw their apprehension about the protocol, Lewin began to wonder if there might be an easier way to treat snakebite in the field.
In some fatal snakebites, victims are paralyzed by the snake's neurotoxins, resulting in death by respiratory failure. A group of common drugs called anticholinesterases have been used for decades to reverse chemically-induced paralysis in operating rooms and, in intravenous form, to treat snakebite when antivenoms are not available or not effective. However, it is difficult to administer intravenous drugs to treat snakebite outside of a hospital, so Lewin began to explore the idea of a different delivery vehicle for these antiparalyticsa nasal spray.
In early April of 2013, Lewin and a team of anesthesiologists, led by Dr. Philip Bickler at UCSF Medical Center, designed and completed a complex experiment that took place at the medical center. During the experiment, a healthy human volunteer was paralyzed, while awake, using a toxin that mimics that of cobras and other snakes that disable their victims by paralysis. The experimental paralysis mimicked the effects of neurotoxic snakebite, progressing from eye muscle weakness all the way to respiratory difficulty, in the same order as is usually seen in envenomation. The team then administered the nasal spray and within 20 minutes the patient had recovered. The results of this experiment were published online in the medical journal, Clinical Case Reports.
Later in April, Lewin delivered one of the keynote addresses, titled "How Expeditions Drive Clinical Research," at the American Society for Clinical Investigation/Association of American Physicians joint meeting in Chicago, during which he talked about this experiment and its origins. As a result, he met
Dr. Stephen Samuel, an Indian physician and scientist from Trinity College Dublin who was interested in collaborating in India, where an estimated 1 million people are bitten by snakes every year, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths. Lewin flew to India to help Samuel set up treatment protocols at a rural hospital in Krishnagiri.
In late June, Samuel, Dr. CS Soundara Raj and colleagues at TCR Multispecialty Hospital in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, India treated a snakebite victim using this method. The patient was suffering from persistent facial paralysis from a krait bite, despite having undergone a full course of antivenom treatment.
Upon treatment with the antiparalytic nasal spray, the facial paralysis was reversed within 30 minutes. Two weeks after being treated, the patient reported having returned to her daily activities.
Lewin and his colleagues in the United States are now conducting additional studies on mice to develop new methods and drug combinations, as there are many combinations of anticholinesterases and anticholinergic agents that could be tried to make delivery of the drugs more predictable through the mucous membranes in the nose or eyes. He is also working to set up future clinical studies with Samuel, Soundara Raj and their colleagues in India. While there is much work in front of them, they have already taken important steps toward addressing a major global need. The entire team has embraced the TCR Multispeciality Hospital motto that "no patient should die from snakebite."
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Needle-free treatment counteracts paralysis in minutes
SAN FRANCISCO (July 30, 2013) A team of researchers led by Dr. Matt Lewin of the California Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Department of Anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco, has pioneered a novel approach to treating venomous snakebitesadministering antiparalytics topically via a nasal spray. This new, needle-free treatment may dramatically reduce the number of global snakebite fatalities, currently estimated to be as high as 125,000 per year. The team demonstrated the success of the new treatment during a recent experiment conducted at UCSF; their results have been published in the medical journal Clinical Case Reports.
Snakebite is one of the most neglected of tropical diseasesthe number of fatalities is comparable to that of AIDS in some developing countries. It has been estimated that 75% of snakebite victims who die do so before they ever reach the hospital, predominantly because there is no easy way to treat them in the field. Antivenoms provide an imperfect solution for a number of reasonseven if the snake has been identified and the corresponding antivenom exists, venomous bites often occur in remote locations far from population centers, and antivenoms are expensive, require refrigeration, and demand significant expertise to administer and manage.
"In addition to being an occupational hazard for field scientists, snakebite is a leading cause of accidental death in the developing world, especially among otherwise healthy young people," says Lewin, the Director of the Center for Exploration and Travel Health at the California Academy of Sciences. "We are trying to change the way people think about this ancient scourge and persistent modern tragedy by developing an inexpensive, heat-stable, easy-to-use treatment that will at least buy people enough time to get to the hospital for further treatment."
In his role as Director of the Academy's Center for Exploration and Travel Health, Lewin prepares field medicine kits for the museum's scientific expeditions around the world and often accompanies scientists as the expedition doctor. In 2011, Lewin put together snakebite treatment kits for the Academy's Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition, which would have required scientists to inject themselves if they needed treatment. When he saw their apprehension about the protocol, Lewin began to wonder if there might be an easier way to treat snakebite in the field.
In some fatal snakebites, victims are paralyzed by the snake's neurotoxins, resulting in death by respiratory failure. A group of common drugs called anticholinesterases have been used for decades to reverse chemically-induced paralysis in operating rooms and, in intravenous form, to treat snakebite when antivenoms are not available or not effective. However, it is difficult to administer intravenous drugs to treat snakebite outside of a hospital, so Lewin began to explore the idea of a different delivery vehicle for these antiparalyticsa nasal spray.
In early April of 2013, Lewin and a team of anesthesiologists, led by Dr. Philip Bickler at UCSF Medical Center, designed and completed a complex experiment that took place at the medical center. During the experiment, a healthy human volunteer was paralyzed, while awake, using a toxin that mimics that of cobras and other snakes that disable their victims by paralysis. The experimental paralysis mimicked the effects of neurotoxic snakebite, progressing from eye muscle weakness all the way to respiratory difficulty, in the same order as is usually seen in envenomation. The team then administered the nasal spray and within 20 minutes the patient had recovered. The results of this experiment were published online in the medical journal, Clinical Case Reports.
Later in April, Lewin delivered one of the keynote addresses, titled "How Expeditions Drive Clinical Research," at the American Society for Clinical Investigation/Association of American Physicians joint meeting in Chicago, during which he talked about this experiment and its origins. As a result, he met
Dr. Stephen Samuel, an Indian physician and scientist from Trinity College Dublin who was interested in collaborating in India, where an estimated 1 million people are bitten by snakes every year, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths. Lewin flew to India to help Samuel set up treatment protocols at a rural hospital in Krishnagiri.
In late June, Samuel, Dr. CS Soundara Raj and colleagues at TCR Multispecialty Hospital in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, India treated a snakebite victim using this method. The patient was suffering from persistent facial paralysis from a krait bite, despite having undergone a full course of antivenom treatment.
Upon treatment with the antiparalytic nasal spray, the facial paralysis was reversed within 30 minutes. Two weeks after being treated, the patient reported having returned to her daily activities.
Lewin and his colleagues in the United States are now conducting additional studies on mice to develop new methods and drug combinations, as there are many combinations of anticholinesterases and anticholinergic agents that could be tried to make delivery of the drugs more predictable through the mucous membranes in the nose or eyes. He is also working to set up future clinical studies with Samuel, Soundara Raj and their colleagues in India. While there is much work in front of them, they have already taken important steps toward addressing a major global need. The entire team has embraced the TCR Multispeciality Hospital motto that "no patient should die from snakebite."
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Senate panel looking at limits on surveillance
This publicity image released by NBC shows Lon Snowden, father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on the "Today," show in New York on Friday, July 26, 2013. Snowden said there's been a concerted effort by some members of Congress to "demonize" his son. He says lawmakers should be more focused on whether the NSA's collection of the phone records of millions of Americans is constitutional. The House voted 217-205 Wednesday to spare the NSA surveillance program. (AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer)
This publicity image released by NBC shows Lon Snowden, father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on the "Today," show in New York on Friday, July 26, 2013. Snowden said there's been a concerted effort by some members of Congress to "demonize" his son. He says lawmakers should be more focused on whether the NSA's collection of the phone records of millions of Americans is constitutional. The House voted 217-205 Wednesday to spare the NSA surveillance program. (AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Senators are questioning top Obama administration officials about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs for the first time since the House narrowly rejected a proposal last week to effectively shut down the NSA's secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records.
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday will include testimony from the No. 2 officials at the Justice Department, FBI and NSA, plus the top lawyer for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It will also include testimony from James G. Carr, a senior federal judge who previously served on the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and who recently urged Congress to give such judges more discretion and authority to appoint lawyers to serve the interests of the public.
Carr has said to do otherwise "puts basic constitutional protections at risk and creates doubts about the legitimacy of the court's work and the independence and integrity of its judges."
The government acknowledged last week in a letter to Congress that there have been an unspecified number of "compliance problems" in following the rules put in place governing the secret collection of Americans' phone records. The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said no intentional or bad-faith rules violations were found.
Since the NSA surveillance became public two months ago, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has introduced legislation that would allow the government to obtain phone records only when it can establish that the information is relevant to an authorized investigation and is linked to a foreign terrorist group or foreign power. Leahy's bill would enhance oversight by expanding reporting requirements to Congress and would add further court review of surveillance programs. The measure also would add a new sunset provision for national security letters, which are issued by government agencies such as the FBI to gather information such as phone numbers dialed or sender or recipient email addresses.
Former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden leaked documents revealing the NSA's phone records program. Snowden also leaked details of a second NSA program called PRISM, which forces major Internet firms to turn over detailed contents of communications such as emails, video chats and pictures.
Last year, the Judiciary Committee approved Leahy's measure to bolster limits on surveillance. Ultimately, Congress passed a long-term extension of intelligence programs without any new reforms.
Last week's House vote of 217-205 was significant not only because of the narrowness of the victory for the Obama administration, but because it created unusual political coalitions. Libertarian-leaning conservatives and liberal Democrats pressed for change against the Republican establishment and Congress' national security experts.
Backing the NSA program were 134 Republicans and 83 Democrats, including House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who typically does not vote, and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. Rejecting the administration's last-minute pleas to spare the surveillance operation were 94 Republicans and 111 Democrats.
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Together Alone: Computers, Technology & Kids | Psych Central
What?s happening in the ad world these days? One TV ad running in my area is of a mother who, the narrator chirps, is a master multitasker. She is on a cell phone while making her kids breakfast and sending them off for the day. She?s on the cell phone while doing the grocery shopping with her kids.
She doesn?t even take that phone off her ear when going through the checkout line. Yes, she?s smiling all the time but how is it that whoever is on the other end of that phone is more important than relating to her children and the people in front of her?
Another ad: A woman tells us she is in charge of the family finances and she is so, so happy that she?s found a bundle of cable services that is faster than her old company. We follow her through the house as she indicates her daughter in her room on a computer, her husband in the living room on his laptop and her son in the family room on his tablet. Everyone is happy to have speedy Internet. Everyone is in a different room.
Together alone. Are the ads reflecting American life or are they showing us what we should accept as ?normal?? The people who make the ads know what sells. What they seem to be selling these days is the idea that it is normative for family members to be more interested in their electronics than each other. They may even be right.
According to a recent study from the Kaiser Family Foundation, kids between the ages of 8 to 18 are now spending more than seven and a half hours a day on devices with screens (computers, TVs, and other electronics.) That doesn?t count time spent texting or talking on cell phones. Meanwhile, research shows that American working parents spend an average of 19 minutes a day of quality time with their children! A study by the U.S. Department of Education found that mothers spend less than 30 minutes a day talking with their children while other polls show that fathers spend an average of 15 minutes per day.
Do the math! Who, or rather what, is spending the most time with our children?
Yes, I know. Computers are a fact of life. A kid who grows up in a home without one is at a decided disadvantage. More and more teachers assume the kids have one available and create assignments that require the ability to search the Internet for information. Social inclusion seems to require it. Cell phones provide a measure of safety for kids who are home alone or who are traveling from place to place.
But there?s a dark side. The time with computers can slide from use to abuse so gradually that we barely notice. That?s why the multitasker mom in the TV ad is so disturbing. She probably isn?t aware of how that little box on her ear has separated her from her children and her community. She thinks she can both be on the phone and in life. As happy as she seems to be, she?s missing interactions that are important to her children?s development and to her relationship with them. She?s missing the opportunity to give her kids a warm send-off in the morning. She isn?t teaching her kids about nutrition, budgeting, and courtesy at the grocery store. The message she is giving them is that they are along for her ride, not important in their own right.
As connected as everyone seems to be with the social world, it takes some effort to make genuine connections within the family. Kids need the nurturing that only another human being can provide. They need role models from life, not from TV, about how to be an adult, how to be in loving relationship with a partner, and how to parent their children. They need more protection than ?nannyware? can provide from material that is too mature or too stimulating for them to handle. They need to learn how to get information from people as well as from Google. They need parents to monitor their progress and school and to teach them to value schooling. They need gentle teaching by loving parents about what is important culturally and spiritually.
The mom who happily takes us through her perfect house, finding her perfectly happy family members in separate corners, should be concerned. Is her tour just a moment in time, or is it a reflection of the general state of relationships in her family? If it is the latter, she and her husband have some talking to do about how to fix their lack of connection with their kids.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has weighed in on the subject. They recommend that parents establish ?screen-free? zones in our homes. That means no TVs or computers in kids? bedrooms and limiting entertainment time on computers to two hours a day or less. Further, they stress the importance of monitoring what our kids are watching (and playing if in online gaming) for quality.
It almost doesn?t matter what adults do with kids as long as there is an opportunity to talk, to have affectionate physical contact and to pass on information, values, and beliefs. Having a game of catch outside, chatting while making dinner together or washing the car or snuggling up on the couch to read stories all provide the one-on-one, adult-to-kid time that gives our kids things no screen, no matter what the app, can.
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Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker is licensed as both a psychologist and marriage and family counselor. She specializes in couples and family therapy and parent education. She writes regularly for Psych Central as well as Psych Central's Ask the Therapist feature, and has published the insightful parenting e-book, Tending the Family Heart. APA Reference
Hartwell-Walker, M. (2013). Together Alone: Computers, Technology & Kids. Psych Central. Retrieved on July 30, 2013, from http://psychcentral.com/lib/together-alone-computers-technology-kids/00017226
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San Diego to sue Mayor Filner for costs of sex harassment suit
| Mayor Bob Filner may have to reimburse the city of San Diego for costs related to his sexual harassment lawsuit. (Bill Wechter / Getty Images / July 25, 2013) |
3:02 p.m. CDT, July 30, 2013
The San Diego City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to file a lawsuit against Mayor Bob Filner to recover any money the city has to pay due to the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former top aide to the mayor.
The suit will seek to recover any damages ordered by the court, or agreed to as part of a pretrial settlement, arising from the lawsuit filed against the city and Filner by the mayor's former director of communications, Irene McCormack Jackson.
The vote was taken in closed session.
"This is part of due process," City Atty. Jan Goldsmith said. "If Bob Filner engaged in unlawful conduct and the city is held liable, he will have to reimburse us every penny the city pays and its attorney fees."
The phrase "due process" has been a mantra of Filner, 70, a Democrat, and his supporters in explaining why he should not resign and that the allegations against him have not yet been proven.
Tuesday night, the council is set to decide whether it will pay for Filner's attorney, Harvey Berger. Berger on Monday filed a request with the city attorney for reimbursement.
Filner has had to hire a private attorney because Goldsmith said it would be a conflict for his office to represent both Filner and the city against the Jackson lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages. Jackson alleges that Filner made sexually inappropriate comments, touched numerous women inappropriately, and once said she should work without panties on.
Seven of nine council members have called on Filner to resign, along with the local Democratic Party and a list of Democratic officeholders.
Filner has refused to resign and announced Friday that he will undergo a two-week behavioral therapy treatment starting Aug. 5. Jackson's attorney, Gloria Allred, has subpoenaed him for a deposition Aug. 9.
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Presidential libraries have only been around for about 75 years.
However, there has never been one for our first chief executive.
But now, the George Washington Library is getting ready to open.
It will be at Mount Vernon on the Potomac River.
It will feature some of the president's original books as well as sell Washington's brand of whiskey.
The library will open this fall.
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GWEN STEFANI AND GAVIN ROSSDALE: LONDON LOVERS
Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale were seen enjoying a romantic stroll while out and about in Primrose Hill, London on Monday (July 29).
Later in the day, the stylish duo were in high spirits as they treated their sons Kingston and Zuma to a no-expenses spared shopping spree at The Toy Shop.
While they were happy family of four on this occasion, at the beginning of this year Gwen opened up to Vogue about how hard she found it when Gavin headed off on tour with his band Bush for the first time in ten years.
She said: ?I mean, he was there for me mentally, but physically? These boys are physical. They wake up and they start punching each other! One thing we?ve had in our relationship the whole time is that we can have it both ways: together, not together, and it?s fine. But when you have kids? It?s not so great. They need him.?
Meanwhile, Gwen continues to work on material for No Doubt?s upcoming studio album.
Gwen and her bandmates were happy to announce that bassist Tony Kanal is expecting another baby with his girlfriend.
?Tony and his longtime girlfriend Erin are very happy to announce that they will be expecting their second child later this year.,? the band posted.
?The couple gave birth to their daughter Coco Reese Lakshmi Kanal in 2011 and can?t wait to welcome their newest addition to the family.?
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Peter King Warns GOP Not To Shut Down Government: Americans ?Turned Off By Terror Politics?
On CNN?s State of the Union Sunday morning, Congressman Peter King strongly urged certain members of the Republican Party to back away from their recent rhetoric threatening to shut down the government over either the funding of Obamacare or the extension of the debt ceiling.
?There?s no reason to be threatening to bring down the government,? King said. ?Let?s make this work, let?s get the spending cuts we need. But American people get turned off with the threat of terror politics.?
?We should not be closing down the government under any circumstances. That doesn?t work, it?s wrong. Obamacare passed. We have to try to defund it, we have to try to find ways to repeal it. The fact is, we shouldn?t be using it as a threat to shut down the government.?
RELATED: Rep. Peter King Blasts Rand Paul For ?Apologizing For America?: ?Fringes? Will ?Destroy? GOP
King also sounded cautiously optimistic on the prospects of immigration reform in the House.
?I think we have to show good faith in trying to find legislation that works, and I think we are going in that direction,? King said. ?The President had four years on immigration, and did absolutely nothing. I would say you?ve seen a lot of movement in the past six months. The Senate, with strong Republican help, a bill did pass. I don?t fully agree with that bill, but I think we can find ways to make that bill work. You do find people in the House willing to make it work.?
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Appy Pie Awards RORSA with Android, iPhone and Windows Apps as App of the Day
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Appy Pie Inc., a well-known online application developer for various mobile operating systems, has awarded 'RORSA' with Android and iPhone apps as app of the day. The Android version of RORSA is already available for download at Google Play, but the iPhone version is under review and is expected to be released and available for download on the iTunes Store by next week.
Windows phone app maker and iOS app maker, Appy Pie is no cost mobile app builder software that allows a person/individual to create a highly customized smartphone app with no experience necessary and no coding knowledge. The only requirement for creating an app is to sign up for free and input their information in Make Your Own App section.
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Does Windows Phone 8 GDR2 fix the ?Other Storage? issue? Microsoft says yes, but we?re not too sure
A vexing problem for those on Windows Phone 8 is that of space-filling ?Other Storage? found under Settings > Phone Storage. The problem is after a few days, weeks or months of usage, that mysterious area begins to fill up with ?stuff? and users really have no recourse to getting it back.
While Nokia and other OEMs have introduced apps to delete Temporary Files, which for some does gain back significant space, it does not touch the other Other Storage problem for many.
Now, Microsoft?s Joe Belfiore stated in a Tweet today that at least in GDR2 (OS build 10327), the problem has been addressed. But from our usage of the Lumia 1020, we?re not too sure users will still be satisfied.
Belfiore responds in a Tweet that:
?Don't worry: non-deleted large files (XAPs, eg) that caused 'other' storage issues were fixed in GDR2. on all 1020s.?
That may be true and we?re not going to disagree with the man who ?runs the team doing Windows Phone product definition & design? but the changes do not completely get rid of the ?other storage? problem either.
Case in point, our Nokia Lumia 1020, which we?ve been using only since Tuesday already has 2.6GB of ?other storage? (according to Nokia?s app; if we use the system reading, it?s 3.65GB). That?s about 1GB more than our previous daily driver, the Lumia 920, which we used for months. We should also note we still have 22GB of free space on the 1020, so it?s not because we?re filling it up with a lot of media or apps.
On our Lumia 925, the story is a little better with only 696 MB allocated to ?other?, which is good since the Lumia 925 has half the storage of the Lumia 1020 at 16GB.
Regardless, we can?t quite say to people that the GDR2 update will magically fix the ?other? storage observation. Sure, Microsoft may have improved upon it with the update, but it?s still there.
What is the Other Storage issue?
?Other Storage? on Windows Phone 8 includes cached data this stored on your device. Everything from email, games, videos, game info, app info, documents, images synced to SkyDrive, etc. are all items that can fill it up.
It?s been observed by many users that having auto-upload to SkyDrive is one culprit that can quickly fill the mysterious area up. Heck, even just manually uploading files can contribute to it. Over at WPXbox, they give some tips for trying to regain space back including limited syncing of email accounts, not opening SkyDrive folders with loads of images (thumbnails) and other ?tricks? that have mixed results.
Another method is to try and use the app ?Shrink Storage?, which once again, has varied results (we?ve never gained anything back from using it).
We should note that believe it or not, this is really not a bug but rather seemingly a side-effect of how the OS operates. That?s why it can?t just be patched. It appears to be a low-level OS feature that allows app, game and service data to be stored locally on the device for fast-retrieval (and reduce OTA data consumption). It's more akin to having to re-do your plumbing than fixing a leaky faucet.
The problem of course is there appears to be no way to reset it, besides wiping the device, nor a way to help gain space back or know what is causing it. While we still have 22GB of storage left on our Lumia 1020, ergo we don?t mind the lost-space now, others have lost 5, 10, 14GB and more on their devices.
So in conclusion, while GDR2 may have made it better, make no mistake that your ?other storage? can still fill up with seemingly little usage. How high will ours go? What exactly caused it? We have no idea but we?ll tinker around to try and find out.
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CU Buffs football program loses three more players; picked last in Pac-12
Colorado football coach Mike MacIntyre listens to a question during Pac-12 media day in California on Friday. (Associated Press)
CULVER CITY, Calif. -- Competitors in the Pac-12 Conference came to football media day at Sony Studios ready to talk about playing for division, conference and national titles and Heisman Trophies, but the news of the day Friday for Colorado was roster attrition and the possibility of even more to come.
CU announced three more scholarship players have left the team with less than two weeks remaining before fall camp opens Aug. 6 and coach Mike MacIntyre said he was unable to rule out further attrition in the coming days.
Wide receiver Gerald Thomas, tight end Vincent Hobbs and defensive lineman John Stuart, all members of the 2012 recruiting class under former coach Jon Embree, are the latest to leave.
MacIntyre made it clear he is still working to institute his culture and rules and it hasn't been easy.
"I don't know yet," MacIntyre told the Daily Camera when asked if he now has the team he expects to take to camp. "We want to make sure all our kids are committed. I've been talking with our captains on and off this summer and we still have got a few kids that are a little resistant.
"You've got to go to class. You got to go to tutoring. You've got to do the right things off the field. You got to listen. You got to care. I've had six months where I have met with a lot of these kids individually a lot. Really invested in them, and if they don't want to get on the train and go, that's the worst thing you can do is have a bunch of guys going the opposite way."
When he made those comments, MacIntyre was not talking specifically about the three most recent departures.
Hobbs and Thomas had family issues occur in their lives that stole their attention and focus away from academics and football in the past year. They both decided they would be better off transferring to schools closer to home in Texas. Both played last season as true freshman. Thomas is expected to transfer to Sam Houston State.
Stuart redshirted last season and decided to transfer to a school closer to home in California.
The Buffs are coming off a 1-11 season and a coaching change and have seen a handful of players decide to leave the program since the end of spring ball, including three of the six quarterbacks on the roster at the beginning of the spring.
Colorado's recent track record and the reality that the program is starting a rebuilding project under a new coaching staff once again, led media members who cover the Pac-12 to vote the Buffs last in the South Division with the fewest overall points in the poll of any team in the league.
"The future is bright, no matter what you hear out there, our future is going to be bright and we're going to work hard and make the right steps and do it the right way," MacIntyre said during the Buffs' time on Stage 8 in front of hundreds of media members.
MacIntyre said he will not make exceptions when it comes to setting standards for players in his program because doing so won't help the team improve. He said it's unhealthy for the team to allow players to get away with skipping out on responsibilities.
"It can really hurt a program because they are the same guys who would be griping on the sidelines when they're not playing and antagonizing kids who are doing it right," he said. "They are the same types of kids who sometimes get in trouble. I'm not saying they will but they are not invested in the team."
It wasn't all negative for the first-year Buffs coach.
He said he was overcome with a sense of pride and enthusiasm to get the season started during a private moment in the green room with wide receiver Paul Richardson and defensive end Chidera Uzo-Diribe, who accompanied MacIntyre here.
MacIntyre said the defections from his program also will allow him to reward walk-ons who have done things the right way in the spring and summer and throughout their careers. He said he is planning to inform several players in the coming week that they have earned scholarships.
"I have been honestly very pleased with 95 percent of them," MacIntyre said. "That's my job is to keep working on them. And the captains come and talk to me about them and they're trying to work on them, too, but everyone has got to get on the same page."
The program announced the additions of eight new walk-ons for the start of fall camp Aug. 6. Some had been previously reported. The local walk-ons are defensive back Tanner Harrison and tight end Chris Hill from Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch, running back/defensive back Ryan Moeller from Rifle and tight end Robert Orban from Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora.
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Women Often Miss Easy Way to Increase Chances of Getting Pregnant
There's a simple, free step women can take to help them get pregnant, yet few women know about it, a new study shows.
Women who use the technique, known as cervical mucus monitoring, were more than twice as likely to conceive than women who did not track their cervical mucus.
"This technique can be used to help people get pregnant faster," said Dr. Anne Steiner, an ob-gyn at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and senior author of the paper. "It's exciting to potentially say this is a real way to help people; it's so cheap and easy."
Cervical mucus changes in viscosity throughout a woman's cycle. When an egg develops in the ovary, estrogen is released, making?the mucus thinner and slippery. This enables sperm to swim to the egg more easily. After the egg is released, a spike in progesterone causes mucus to thicken and act as a barrier to other sperm. Thus, tracking the state of this cervical mucus gives insight into a woman's fertility.
The study followed 331 women ages 30 to 45 with no known fertility problems who had been trying to conceive for three months or less. Women were asked to categorize their cervical discharge as one of four types: type 1, dry or nonexistent; type 2, damp; type 3, thick and white or yellowish; and type 4, transparent and slippery. ?
Previous studies had found that women having intercourse on days when they had type 4 mucus were at least two to three times more likely to get pregnant than if they had intercourse on days when they had type 1 or type 2 mucus.
In the new study, the women who checked their cervical mucus consistently were 2.3 times more likely to get pregnant over a six-month period. [5 Myths About Fertility Treatments]
However, the researchers also found that very few women were actually diligent about monitoring it daily ? only 6 percent did it consistently, whereas 54 percent of the women didn't bother to check their cervical mucus at all.
These women might be cheating themselves out of an effective and simple method of tracking their fertility, the researchers said. For example, simply counting the days between menses on the calendar can prove inexact, even for women with very regular cycles, and ovulation predictor kits, which track urinary levels of luteinizing hormone, can be expensive, costing between $20 and $40 per month.
Tracking body temperature to indicate ovulation also has limited usefulness because the signature temperature spike occurs after a woman has ovulated, giving retrospective information that only comes in handy for the next cycle, the researchers said.
Dr. Wendy Vitek, an ob-gyn at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, agreed that wider use of cervical mucus monitoring holds promise as a way to increase the odds of pregnancy.
"It makes intuitive sense that the women monitoring their cervical mucus more frequently had a better sense of when they're ovulating...You do need to make involved observations to know when you're at peak fertility," said Vitek, who was not involved in the study.
However, the technique may not be right for everyone.
"A lot of women may not see their cervical mucus externally," said Dr. Elizabeth Ginsburg, an ob-gyn at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
"My concern is, you tell a patient to look for this type of discharge, and [if] she doesn't see it, she may worry that she has fertility problems, when she's probably ovulating just fine," Ginsburg said.
The researchers suggest that women who are trying to conceive and who are able to observe their cervical mucus easily keep a daily record of the vaginal discharge, noting which category it falls into (1 through 4). On the days when they note type 4 discharge, it's probably the best time for women to try to conceive.
The study was published online July 12 in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
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Dell officially unveils Precision M3800 workstation at SIGGRAPH, gives rumored specs a nod
Remember that Haswell-powered Dell workstation that popped up last week? The company is officially ready to acknowledged its silicon, announcing on its corporate blog that the machine is being unveiled at SIGGRAPH this week. Dell is still reluctant to get into specifics, but confirmed on a teaser page that the Precision M3800 would contain a 4th Generation Intel Core-i7 CPU, NVIDIA Quadro graphics and a 3,200 x 1,800 QHD+ multi-touch IGZO display. Even better, all that is set to fit into a tight 0.7-inch chassis that weighs in at 4.5 pounds. Mum's still the word on specifics, but previous leaks assigned the machine 15GB of RAM and either a 1TB HDD or a 512GB SSD. Dell hasn't let the workstation's price slip either, but we don't expect it to be cheap -- nothing thin and powerful ever is.
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Richard's Real Estate and Urban Economics Blog: Who Moves? Not ...
A meme is out there that baby boomers, having raised their children, are ready to downsize. ?(See?here). ?Some scholars, such as Arthur Nelson at Utah, say that as the population ages,?there could be a mass sell-off of houses?which will lead to a collapse in house prices. One of our Ph.D. students here at USC, Hyojung Lee, and I are redoing a paper I did with?Patric Hendershott about 17 years?ago on the impact of age on the demand for housing. ?Back then, Pat and I found that the effect of age was pretty minimal. ?But times have changed, and so Hyojung and I decided it would be worth redoing the exercise using current data?the 2006-2010 American Community Survey. ?We decided to look at moving behavior over the entire five years, and in 2006 and 2010 individually, since 2006 was a boom year for housing and 2010 was a bust year.
After controlling for marital status, income, educational levels, race and ethnicity, and geography, we estimated the impact of age on the propensity to have moved in the previous year. ?The results are summarized in the graph below (for those who want to know, these are the coefficients from a linear probability model):
As you can see, basically the propensity to move peaks in the early 20s, and then declines to about age 50-55, and then stays pretty flat for the remainder of life (although in 2010 the very oldest seem to have a slightly greater propensity to move).
Some other findings: those never married are most likely to move, while those widowed are least likely to move (after controlling for age). ?This implies that the typical elderly person is even less like to move than is implied by the graph above. ?Asians are the racial/ethnic group most likely to move?non-hispanic whites, hispanics and African-Americans have similar propensities. ?Mobility increases with educational attainment. ?Higher income people move less than low income people.
We are doing a lot more work with this data as we prepare it for a paper, but in the meantime, our findings suggest that a mass sell-off (which means mass moving) arising from aging is unlikely.
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Free Online Courses Bring "Magic" to Rwanda
See Inside An inside look at a daring global experiment: using freely available online courses to bring top-tier instruction to the neediest parts of the planet
BEATING THE ODDS: Online courses facilitated by on-site teachers are helping more Rwandans go to college. Image: JONATHAN TORGOVNIK
Tujiza Uwituze worked hard and ranked near the top of her class in her Rwandan secondary school, but her education was poor by international standards. She had instructors who made her memorize and regurgitate information, and the school she attended had no computers for her to use. As a result, Uwituze's English is imperfect, and her computer skills are weak. She lives with a great-uncle in Kigali and has $75 in savings. Despite hard work and an intense desire to succeed, her dreams are out of reach?or might be if not for an innovative project that could radically change her life.
The goal of the experiment, called Kepler and conducted by a small nonprofit called Generation Rwanda, is to use massive open online courses (MOOCs) to deliver a top-tier education to young Rwandans who were born around the time of the 1994 genocide. The first test began in March with a ?prepilot? class called Critical Thinking in Global Challenges, an online offering from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. A dozen students viewed video lectures downloaded from a MOOC platform and attended small seminars and coaching sessions in a Kigali classroom with an on-site teaching fellow, a form of education called blended learning.
For a student like Uwituze, who was an infant during the slaughter by Hutus of some 800,000 Tutsis and their Hutu sympathizers in 1994, this was an extraordinary opportunity. Her family fled during the genocide: first to Burundi, then to Tanzania, then to Kenya. ?We lost our money, our house, everything,? she says. Schooling was all that Uwituze really had after years on the run. She returned to Rwanda at the age of 14 and graduated from secondary school last November. The annual tuition at Rwandan public universities is about $1,500 a year for a substandard education, which is more than Uwituze's family can afford. Her mother is jobless, and Uwituze has three younger siblings who look to her for support. When she was turned down by an organization that helps aspiring Rwandan students get scholarships at American universities, an official from that group suggested she join Kepler. She became one of 15 students invited to attend the prepilot course to test the MOOC format. She then applied to be accepted into a larger class, which will be enrolled in a full MOOC curriculum in the fall.
Kepler received 2,696 applications for just 50 slots in the fall program. Six hundred students were invited to take an exam in April, of which 200, including Uwituze, made it to a final round of cuts. Those 200 were interviewed in person and took part in group activities observed by Kepler staff to gauge personality traits such as leadership qualities, ability to work well with others and problem-solving skills. The aim was to put together a class that combined a range of personality types: outgoing and shy, funny and earnest, creative and conscientious. The stakes were high. Jean Aime Mutabazi did not make the first cut for the fall session and felt adrift. Most of his male relatives, including his father, were killed in the genocide. He lives with his mother, who has a mangled leg and sells charcoal from a cement hutch to earn a living. ?Can you imagine what it's like when you have a problem, and there is no one to turn to for help?? Mutabazi asks. ?Education is a kind of magic power that can open any door in the world. If you are educated, you can control the situation you are living in.?
Uwituze made the final cut. She originally wanted to be an airline pilot but now considers that beyond reach, so she has settled on banking as a possible career. She will be able to study business and finance through Kepler. ?Education is the only way I can survive,? she says, ?the only way I can take care of my sisters, who need me.? Those accepted to the fall session will take online classes from leading universities for free?with support and mentoring from American teaching fellows in Kigali?and will also have their living expenses paid for. Generation Rwanda's executive director Jamie Hodari estimates that after an initial outlay of $100,000 for curriculum design and evaluation, the annual per-student tuition costs to his organization, including laptops and teachers' salaries, will be around $2,000. He hopes to bring that down over time to $1,000. Initially students will be on one track: toward an associate of arts degree in general studies, with a concentration in business, from Southern New Hampshire University, which has a cutting-edge program that awards degrees based on proved competencies, not the number of hours spent in a classroom. After associate degrees are completed in the second year, Kepler plans to offer bachelor's degrees in business administration, computer science and perhaps engineering from a variety of institutions.
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