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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
Blackstone founder creates $300M China scholarship
BEIJING (AP) ? A U.S. private equity tycoon announced Sunday the establishment of a $300 million endowed scholarship program in China for students from around the world, and billed it as a rival to the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
Stephen A. Schwarzman, founder of the private equity firm Blackstone, said he would give $100 million as a personal gift and raise another $200 million to endow the Schwarzman Scholars program at Beijing's Tsinghua University. It will be the largest philanthropic gift with foreign money in China's history, according to the tycoon and the university.
The Wall Street mogul said China's rapid economic growth and rising global influence would define the 21st century, as U.S. ties to Europe did to the 20th century ? when the Rhodes Scholarship was created at Oxford University with the goal of producing outstanding leaders.
"China is no longer an elective course, it's core curriculum," he said in Beijing.
By partnering with the prestigious Chinese university, Schwarzman said he hoped the educational program would train future world leaders and play a positive role in relations between China and the United States.
"For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world," he said.
Tsinghua ? known for its engineering programs but in the midst of transforming itself to be more comprehensive in academic offerings ? also has produced many of China's senior leaders, who have traditionally been technocrats. It is the alma mater for both President Xi Jinping and former President Hu Jintao.
The $300 million endowment will allow 200 students each year to take part in a one-year master's program at Tsinghua ? all expenses paid ? in public policy, economics and business, international relations or engineering, beginning in 2016. Schwarzman said 45 percent of the students would come from the United States, 20 percent from China and the rest from other parts of the world.
Already, $100 million has been raised in the last six months from private donors, Schwarzman said.
Both President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping sent congratulatory letters, which were read out loud at the announcement ceremony at the Great Hall of People ? China's symbolic heart of political power. "That was pretty remarkable to listen to," Schwarzman said. "That was pretty awesome."
Vice Premier Liu Yandong attended the announcement and gave a speech.
The announcement also was the top news on state-run China Central Television's evening newscast, which is typically reserved for the activities of China's top leaders.
The program's advisory board includes former world leaders such as France's Nicolas Sarkozy, Britain's Tony Blair, Canada's Brian Mulroney and Australia's Kevin Rudd. Former U.S. secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice are also on the board, as is renowned cellist Yo-yo Ma.
"The board shares my belief that fostering connections between Chinese students, American students and students from around the world is a critical aspect of ensuring geopolitical stability now, and into the future," Schwarzman said.
He said the program would be jointly governed by the Schwarzman Education Foundation and Tsinghua University on matters including curriculum and faculty.
Schwarzman said he believes the program will enjoy academic freedom like any other Western educational institute and that he understands no topic will be off limits in the classrooms at the Schwarzman College, home to the program, to be built on the Tsinghua campus.
Many international corporations already have signed on as donors to the program, including BP, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Boeing, GE, JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Caterpillar, Credit Suisse and Deloitte. International companies often give charitable gifts to cultivate ties with potential future leaders.
Tsinghua traces its roots to 1911, when the United States used the indemnity money paid by the Chinese government after an anti-foreigner rebellion to establish a preparatory school for students later sent to study in America.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blackstone-founder-creates-300m-china-scholarship-073646622.html
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
New gene variations associated with heart rate identified
Apr. 14, 2013 ? Through a collaborative genome-wide study on individuals, researchers have discovered 14 new genetic variations that are associated with heart rate. Since heart rate is a marker of cardiovascular health, these findings could provide a better understanding of genetic regulation of heart beat and is a first step towards identifying targets for new drugs to treat cardiovascular disease.
The study, titled, "Identification of Heart Rate-Associated Loci and Their Effects on Cardiac Conduction and Rhythm Disorders," was published online this week in the April issue of Nature Genetics. Led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge, UK, the collaboration involved 268 researchers from 211 institutions, as well as six large research consortia joined forces.
In order to gain new insights into the genetic regulation of heart rate, Dr. Ruth Loos, Director of the Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program at the Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine at Mount Sinai and honorary investigator at the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit and her team, spent three years working on a genome-wide association study using data from 181,171 participants from 65 studies during 2009-2012. "Without any prior hypothesis, we studied the entire human genome hoping to identify new genetic variations that no one before had even imagined would play a role in the regulation of heart rate," said Dr. Loos, senior author of the study. "This discovery is just the beginning of something new and exciting and can hopefully be used to identify new drugs that can be used for the treatment of heart rhythm disorders."
In a follow-up study, experimental down-regulation of gene expression was then conducted on fruit flies and zebra fish, to better understand how genetic variations might affect heart rate. These experiments identified 20 genes with a role in heart rate regulation, signal transmission, embryonic development of the heart, as well as cardiac disorders, such as dilated cardiomyopathy, congenital heart failure and sudden heart failure. "Our findings in humans as well as in fruit flies and zebrafish provide new insights into mechanisms that regulate heart rate," said Dr. Marcel den Hoed, post-doctoral fellow at the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit and lead author of the study.
The follow-up study also showed that a genetic susceptibility for higher heart rate is associated with altered cardiac conduction and a reduced risk of sick sinus syndrome, a common indicator for pacemaker implantation. "Our study tripled the number of genetic variations that are known to be associated with heart rate, some of which are also associated with other cardiovascular risk factors and with heart rhythm disorder," said Dr. Loos.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Migraine triggers tricky to pinpoint
Monday, April 8, 2013
Women often point to stress, hormones, alcohol, or even the weather as possible triggers for their migraines. But a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center found that it is nearly impossible for patients to determine the true cause of their migraine episodes without undergoing formal experiments.
The majority of migraine sufferers try to figure out for themselves what causes their headaches based on real world conditions, said lead author Timothy T. Houle, Ph.D, associate professor of anesthesia and neurology at Wake Forest Baptist.
"But our research shows this is a flawed approach for several reasons," he said. "Correctly identifying triggers allows patients to avoid or manage them in an attempt to prevent future headaches. However, daily fluctuations of variables ? such as weather, diet, hormone levels, sleep, physical activity and stress ? appear to be enough to prevent the perfect conditions necessary for determining triggers."
For example, said Houle, the simple act of drinking a glass of wine one day and not on the next could be complicated by inconsistencies in other factors. Similarly, a patient may drink wine for several days, but adding cheese to the mix one day could further skew results. In fact, a valid self-evaluation requires such perfect conditions that only occur about once every two years, he said.
"Many patients live in fear of the unpredictability of headache pain. As a result, they often restrict their daily lives to prepare for the eventuality of the next attack that may leave them bedridden and temporarily disabled," Houle said. "They may even engage in medication-use strategies that inadvertently worsen their headaches. The goal of this research is to better understand what conditions must be true for an individual headache sufferer to conclude that something causes their headaches."
Houle and co-author Dana P. Turner, M.S.P.H., also of the Wake Forest Baptist anesthesiology department, have published two related papers on the subject in the journal Headache, which were published online ahead of print this month.
For the study, nine women who had regular menstrual cycles and were diagnosed with migraine either with or without aura provided data for three months by completing a daily diary and tracking stress with the Daily Stress Inventory, a self-administered questionnaire to measure the number and impact of common stressors experienced in everyday life. Morning urine was also collected daily for hormone level testing. Houle and Turner also reviewed three years worth of weather data from a local weather station.
Because of the difficulty in recreating identical conditions each time a patient evaluates a potential trigger, determining triggers proves difficult even for physicians, said Turner. "People who try to figure out their own triggers probably don't have enough information to truly know what causes their headaches," she said. "They need more formal experiments and should work with their doctors to devise a formal experiment for testing triggers."
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Broadband for America event Wednesday morning | The Travelin ...
Event Date ?April 10, 2013 -?8:30am?-?10:00am
Event Location ?Washington, DC
The late 20th century saw the rise of broadband networks and the start of real Internet communications.? Today, the U.S. is headed towards a future of ultra-fast networks and next generation wireless.? These advances have made significant contributions to innovation and the American economy at large.? The usage of broadband, from the workday to the latest gadget or application, changes every day and ever year ? but regulations and laws do not.? Broadband for America would like to invite you to its latest Broadband Technology and Policy Briefing ? the first of a series of panels for 2013 aimed at helping policymakers, the media, and the public better understand the broadband ecosystem.
Speakers:
Former Senator John Sununu, Broadband for America Co-Chair ? Topic: Introduction of BFA and the Internet?s role of Innovation and Economic Growth
Rob Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation ? Topic: The Whole Picture: Where America?s Broadband Networks Really Stand
Ev Ehrlich, Former Undersecretary of Commerce under President Clinton ? Topic: The Economic Benefits of Broadband for the US
Larry Irving, Former head of the National Telecommunications Infrastructure Administration (NTIA) ? Topic: Trends in Broadband Access and Adoption, Reaching the Administration?s Goal of 100 Percent Broadband
Hance Haney, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute ? Topic: Broadband and Internet Evolution Since The Telecom Act
Event details:
Wednesday, April 10, 8:30-10:00 AM
B-340 Rayburn House Office Building
Twitter hashtag: #BBandTech
Breakfast will be served.
Please RSVP by April 8 to?RSVP@BroadbandforAmerica.com.
Source: http://travelinlibrarian.info/2013/04/broadband-for-america-event-wednesday-morning/
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Monday, April 1, 2013
PFT: Crabtree says QB change divided SF lockerroom
Getty ImagesAfter the Ravens cut safety Bernard Pollard, we traced the move back to his involvement in the near ?mutiny? that was reported by Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports during the 2012 season.
After signing a new contract with the Titans, Pollard chafed at the idea that his termination represented payback for stirring up trouble in the locker room.
Because he believes he didn?t stir up trouble in the locker room.
?Coach Harbaugh opened up the floor.? He asked us our opinion on things that were going good and things that wasn?t going good and things that we needed to change,? Pollard told 610 SportsRadio in Houston, via Bo Smolka of CSNBaltimore.com. ?We as humans, we tend to want to know or ask people things, but do we really want to know the truth?? And so I spoke up, Ed [Reed] spoke up, and if it was something that Coach Harbaugh didn?t like, we didn?t know that until now.
?And obviously we would have to say as players that somebody took it personal, because for them not to come back and say, ?OK that wasn?t a problem, there was no mutiny or anything else, I?m offended by that, because we walked away from that situation thinking, ?OK, everybody?s on the same page, we?re all good.?? Like I said, I?m a little offended that the coach never stepped up and said anything.?
In fairness, Harbaugh did say something, a few days before Pollard spoke on the issue.? And while Harbaugh didn?t specifically deny the notion that he was settling a score with Pollard, Harbaugh claimed that decision to cut Pollad was ?a cap move, pure and simple.?
It?s surely not that simple, for either side.? Pollard, for example, glossed over whatever it was that prompted Harbaugh to ?open the floor.?? How many coaches press pause on a busy season to ?open the floor? unless there?s a compelling reason to do it?
As Silver initially reported it, the discourse began after Pollard and Reed loudly objected to practicing in pads following a blowout loss to the Texans.? Harbaugh adroitly transformed the situation into an opportunity to allow players to speak their minds.? And it worked out well, given that the team won, you know, the Super Bowl.
But something prompted the inmates to try to take over the asylum after getting blasted in Houston, and Harbaugh apparently has tried after the confetti settled to get that element out of the locker room.? Along the way, he?s been wise not to publicly point fingers at Pollard or Reed.
Harbaugh also is wise enough to realize that any player who doesn?t understand the notion that coaches coach and players play should be playing for someone else.
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At least 12 killed in Mexican bus crash
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 12 people died when a bus and a car collided in a mountainous part of the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz on Saturday evening, local emergency services said.
The accident near the town of Naolinco sent the bus tumbling down a slope some 200-300 meters (650-1000 feet), and left at least 15 passengers injured, a local official said.
Emergency services believe there were 27 people travelling on board the bus, the official added.
The crash occurred at a bend in the road in foggy conditions, and preliminary evidence suggested the driver of the car that hit the bus fled the scene, he said.
Lethal traffic accidents are common on Mexican roads, claiming hundreds of lives a year. Last April at least 43 people were killed when a cargo truck hit a bus in Veracruz state.
(Reporting by Dave Graham; editing by Andrew Roche)
(This story corrects the location of the state in paragraph one)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/least-12-killed-mexican-bus-crash-061357485.html
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White House: No military moves seen in N. Korea
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The White House says that despite bellicose rhetoric from North Korea the Obama administration has not seen changes in the regime's military posture.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday the U.S. has not detected any military mobilization or repositioning of forces from Pyongyang to back up the threats from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Nonetheless the U.S. has a made a point of publicizing its own recent military moves, including the deployment of bombers and F-22 stealth fighters to South Korea as part of two-month-long military exercises.
And on Monday U.S. officials said a Japan-based U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer capable of shooting down ballistic missiles had been positioned slightly closer to the Korean peninsula, though still within its usual operating area.
Last month, the Pentagon announced plans to increase by 2017 the number of Alaska-based missile interceptors designed to shoot down any prospective North Korean missile launch aimed at U.S. territory.
Pyongyang has reacted angrily to U.S.-South Korean military drills and a new round of U.N. and U.S. sanctions that followed North Korea's Feb. 12 underground nuclear test.
Carney called the U.S. response "prudent." He noted that such tough talk from North Korea is part of a familiar pattern.
Carney says the White House takes the threats "very seriously." But he says the rhetoric "is consistent with past behavior."
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