Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Laser welding as an engine of innovation

Apr. 29, 2013 ? Can lasers perform welds precisely and reliably in the midst of thundering machinery? The prototype of a new laser welder developed by an international team of researchers has now withstood the worst. At INTEGASA and ENSA, two companies in Spain that produce heat exchangers for heavy industry, the prototype proved itself precise and reliable under the difficult conditions of routine daily use.

"Manufacturers of heat exchangers were skeptical of laser anything until now," confirms Patrick Herwig from the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden. TIG-welding guns have traditionally been employed in assembly operations for welding thousands of tubes to the perforated tube sheets. This process, which is based on arc-welding technology, is very time-intensive however. The gun must be manually inserted into every hole and removed again after welding. As a result, the fabrication process is tedious, prolonged, and expensive. European manufacturers can hardly hold their ground today against competition from countries with low labor costs. Materials researchers, software specialists, production engineers and numerous users joined forces in the EU ORBITAL Project to jointly search for a cost-effective alternative. And found one.

Engineering that meets the most demanding requirements Instead of conventional TIG-welding guns, a laser does the job -- tube sheets and tubes are welded to one another rapidly, precisely and accurately. In seconds, the tube is circumferentially welded in place and the robotic arm transporting the welding head can move on to the next hole. The welding head is designed so it anchors itself in the holes and is seated there so firmly than not even vibrations of the shop floor can disrupt the welding process. Precise guidance of the optical beam is handled by software-controlled mirrors that continuously direct it to the right location. Engineers and users from Italy, Spain, France, and Germany have been fine-tuning the process for two years. "The prototype we are exhibiting now at LASER 2013 facilitates the production of heat exchangers, and not just through its speed, but through its flexibility as well. It can even melt materials together that were considered difficult to weld until now," according to Herwig, who was responsible for designing and testing the welding head during the EU project.

It is exactly these exotic combinations of materials that are needed by manufacturers of heat exchangers. They have to withstand extreme conditions in actual use. Heat exchangers are used in the chemical industry, ship engines, and power plants to remove heat from high-temperature, aggressive solutions of liquids. The tubing these liquids are passed through must therefore be corrosion-resistant. However, the liquid in the tank outside the tubing that absorbs the heat is chemically inert. Cost-effective materials can be employed here. Where tank and tubing meet, differing materials must be joined. "Traditional welding techniques hit their limits here, whereas the job can be handled with the laser," says Herwig. The researchers are confident that laser welding can be implemented so effectively in production that European companies remain competitive internationally.

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Nick Nolte Puts Malibu Home on the Market for ... - AOL Real Estate

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By Erika Riggs

It's not a new trend for celebrities to buy each other's homes. Often, if one celeb likes a home, another star will find it just as appealing. Such is the case with Nick Nolte's home. Currently owned by the veteran actor, best known for his roles in "48 Hours" and "The Thin Red Line," the property includes Tommy Chong, Don Felder of the Eagles and songwriter/producer David Foster among its previous owners, according to the Los Angeles Times. Nolte has listed his home in Malibu, Calif., for $8.25 million.

What attracted the heavy list of stars to the property? Likely the secluded location. The Bonsall Canyon estate sits on 2 flat acres surrounded by sycamores, corrals and pines to create what Malibu listing agent Jane Kellard of Westside Estate Agency calls an "artist's paradise."

Nolte's home was built in 1963 and opens to a mahogany entryway with onyx floors leading to a living area with vaulted, 19-foot ceilings. The upstairs master suite features a sitting area with a fireplace and office. A lagoon pool, lighted tennis court and detached guesthouse with two bedrooms are included on the grounds.

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Boston bombing interrogation: Will prosecutors have a Miranda problem?

The government has cited public safety in its decision to question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston Marathon bomber, for 16 hours before reading him his Miranda rights. Legal experts differ on whether that's OK.

By Ron Scherer,?Staff writer / April 26, 2013

The US Marshals Service said Friday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged in the Boston Marathon bombing, had been moved from a Boston hospital to the federal medical center at Devens, about 40 miles west of the city.

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The FBI?s legal rationale for the long questioning period: It needed to find out if public security was at risk, perhaps because more bombs were planted or a collaborator was on the loose.

Was the government?s questioning excessive? And might it have some impact on the case?

Judging by the responses of some criminal defense lawyers, the government appears to be right on the line of what is permissible under the law ? in terms of the amount of time involved and possibly the type of questions asked.

However, it?s hard to know how long it will take to get information that may be necessary to protect the public, former prosecutors say.

?It does not seem unreasonable to question Tsarnaev for that period of time,? says Thomas Dupree, a former deputy assistant attorney general and now a partner in Washington law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. ?Public safety is paramount here. Law enforcement has to have time to ask questions.?

But 16 hours of questioning seems excessive to Tamar Birckhead, a former federal public defender in Massachusetts and now an associate professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

?In the past, it was interpreted as five minutes. Then 50 minutes was found to be fine,? Ms. Birckhead says. ?But 16 hours definitely seems beyond the pale.?

Both sides acknowledge that the so-called public safety exception is vague.

The issue goes back to 1980 when police in the Queens borough of New York received a call that a woman said she had been raped and the suspect was in a supermarket carrying a gun. A police officer ended up apprehending a suspect who had an empty shoulder holster.

After the police officer handcuffed the suspect, he asked him where the gun was. The suspect nodded toward some cartons. The officer retrieved the gun, formally arrested him, and read the man his Miranda rights. The man said that he would answer questions without an attorney present and that he owned the gun.

The trial court excluded the statement and the gun as well as his other statements because of the Miranda violation. This was affirmed by an appeals court. But in 1984, the US Supreme Court overturned the lower courts and said that in this case, public safety (finding the gun) was more important than the Miranda warning.

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Squirrel Evernote Hack Creates A Personalised Newsletter From The Cool Stuff You've Saved To Read Later

squirrelAnother simple but neat Evernote hack that came out of the 24-hour Disrupt NY Hackathon earlier today was Squirrel. Created by coder duo Zainab Ebrahimi and Jabari Bell, the hack turns articles Evernote readers have saved for reading later into a personalised newsletter. So, unlike the average email newsletter, Squirrel is populated with content the user actually wants to read.

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Ancient Earth crust stored in deep mantle

Apr. 24, 2013 ? Scientists have long believed that lava erupted from certain oceanic volcanoes contains materials from the early Earth's crust. But decisive evidence for this phenomenon has proven elusive. New research from a team including Carnegie's Erik Hauri demonstrates that oceanic volcanic rocks contain samples of recycled crust dating back to the Archean era 2.5 billion years ago. Their work is published in Nature.

Oceanic crust sinks into Earth's mantle at so-called subduction zones, where two plates come together. Much of what happens to the crust during this journey is unknown. Model-dependent studies for how long subducted material can exist in the mantle are uncertain and evidence of very old crust returning to Earth's surface via upwellings of magma has not been found until now.

The research team studied volcanic rocks from the island of Mangaia in Polynesia's Cook Islands that contain iron sulfide inclusions within crystals. In-depth analysis of the chemical makeup of these samples yielded interesting results.

The research focused on isotopes of the element sulfur. (Isotopes are atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons.) The measurements, conducted by graduate student Rita Cabral, looked at three of the four naturally occurring isotopes of sulfur--isotopic masses 32, 33, and 34. The sulfur-33 isotopes showed evidence of a chemical interaction with UV radiation that stopped occurring in Earth's atmosphere about 2.45 billion years ago. It stopped after the Great Oxidation Event, a point in time when Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels skyrocketed as a consequence of oxygen-producing photosynthetic microbes. Prior to the Great Oxidation Event, the atmosphere lacked ozone. But once ozone was introduced, it started to absorb UV and shut down the process.

This indicates that the sulfur comes from a deep mantle reservoir containing crustal material subducted before the Great Oxidation Event and preserved for over half the age of Earth.

"These measurements place the first firm age estimates of recycled material in oceanic hotspots," Hauri said. "They confirm the cycling of sulfur from the atmosphere and oceans into mantle and ultimately back to the surface," Hauri said.

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Nintendo returns to profit on weak yen boost

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2013 file photo, visitors try out the Mario Kart Arcade GP DX racing game exhibited by Namco Bandai and Nintendo on the business day of the Japan Amusement Expo in Makuhari, near Tokyo. Nintendo Co. reported Wednesday, April 24, the Kyoto-based maker of Super Mario and Pokemon games returned to profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 as a lift from the weak yen offset sales struggles caused by software delays for its latest home console Wii U. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2013 file photo, visitors try out the Mario Kart Arcade GP DX racing game exhibited by Namco Bandai and Nintendo on the business day of the Japan Amusement Expo in Makuhari, near Tokyo. Nintendo Co. reported Wednesday, April 24, the Kyoto-based maker of Super Mario and Pokemon games returned to profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 as a lift from the weak yen offset sales struggles caused by software delays for its latest home console Wii U. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo, Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata speaks during a news conference in Tokyo. Nintendo reported Wednesday, April 24, the Kyoto-based maker of Super Mario and Pokemon games returned to profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 as a lift from the weak yen offset sales struggles caused by software delays for its latest home console Wii U. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

(AP) ? Nintendo Co. returned to profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 as a lift from the weakening yen offset sales struggles caused by software delays for its latest home console Wii U.

The Kyoto-based maker of Super Mario and Pokemon games reported Wednesday an annual profit of 7.1 billion yen ($72 million), a reversal from a 43 billion yen loss the previous year.

Annual sales dipped 1.9 percent to 635.4 billion yen ($6.4 billion).

Both profit and sales results were slightly worse than the projections of analysts surveyed by FactSet.

The dollar has been trading at 95 yen levels in recent months, and is now above 99 yen, up dramatically from 80 yen a year earlier ? a boon for Japanese exporters like Nintendo.

Nintendo gained 39.5 billion yen ($399 million) from a favorable exchange rate for the year.

Nintendo expects profit to balloon to 55 billion yen ($555 million) this fiscal year ending March 2014. It did not break down quarterly results.

Still, Wii U sales at 3.45 million units fell short of Nintendo's target for the fiscal year of 4 million units.

That had been lowered from an earlier more optimistic projection of 5.5 million units.

The Wii U, which went on sale late last year, was the first major new game console to arrive in stores in years.

Game machines have lost some of their appeal with the arrival of smartphones that also offer gaming, and other pastimes such as social networking that are vying for people's leisure time.

Nintendo has repeatedly boasted it appeals to so-called casual gamers, unlike its rivals Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. But those are precisely the people who may be switching to playing games on other devices.

Sony is promising the PlayStation 4 before the year-end holidays, a critical sales period for game makers. Microsoft may also have a new home console.

Nintendo acknowledged it had failed to keep the momentum going on the Wii U because of a lack of game software, and promised to do better in the latter half of the year.

Nintendo posted its second straight annual operating loss, reporting 36 billion yen ($364 million) of red ink for the fiscal year ended March.

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Mariah Carey and Twins Host a Pajama Party

The joys of family life aren't lost on Mariah Carey, who shared photos of a PJ party with twins Monroe and Moroccan, turning 2 next week.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Samsung Galaxy S4 Scratch Test - Business Insider

Samsung's Galaxy S 4 is set to launch at the end of this month.

Before you consider picking up the latest Galaxy smartphone, check out this scratch test performed by YouTube user?Szabolcs Ignacz.?Ignacz tried to scratch the Galaxy with a pen, several knives, and keys.

Amazingly the phone stands up pretty well to the punishment.

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Realogy Announces Proposed Offering of Senior ... - Franchising.com

MADISON, NJ - (Marketwired - Apr 23, 2013) - Realogy Holdings Corp. (NYSE: RLGY) (the "Company") announced today that its indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary, Realogy Group LLC ("Realogy Group"), together with a co-issuer, is proposing to issue approximately $450 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2016 (the "Notes") in a private offering that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The Notes will be guaranteed on an unsecured senior basis by each of Realogy Group's domestic subsidiaries (other than the co-issuer of the Notes) that is a guarantor under its senior secured credit facility and certain of its outstanding securities. The Notes will also be guaranteed by the Company on an unsecured senior subordinated basis. The Notes will be effectively subordinated to all of Realogy Group's existing and future senior secured debt, including its senior secured credit facility and its outstanding senior secured notes, to the extent of the value of the assets securing such debt.

The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering of the Notes (without giving effect to the initial purchasers' discounts and commissions) of approximately $450 million, along with borrowings under its revolving credit facility, to redeem all of the $492 million aggregate outstanding principal amount of 11.50% Senior Notes due 2017 at a redemption premium of 105.75%, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date. The proposed offering of the Notes is subject to market and other conditions, and may not occur as described or at all.

The Notes and the related guarantees will not be registered under the Securities Act or any state securities law and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. The Notes and the related guarantees will be offered in the United States only to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A of the Securities Act and outside the United States under Regulation S of the Securities Act.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer buy, any securities, nor shall there be any sales of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. This press release is being issued pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 135(c) under the Securities Act.

About Realogy

Realogy Holdings Corp. (NYSE: RLGY) is a global leader in residential real estate franchising with company-owned residential real estate brokerage operations doing business under its franchise systems as well as relocation and title and settlement services. Realogy's brands and business units include Better Homes and Gardens? Real Estate, CENTURY 21?, Coldwell Banker?, Coldwell Banker Commercial?, The Corcoran Group?, ERA?, Sotheby's International Realty?, NRT LLC, Cartus and Title Resource Group. Collectively, Realogy's franchise system members operate approximately 13,600 offices with 238,900 independent sales associates doing business in 102 countries around the world. Realogy is headquartered in Madison, N.J.

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Researchers observe an increased risk of cancer in people with history of non-melanoma skin cancer

Researchers observe an increased risk of cancer in people with history of non-melanoma skin cancer [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 23-Apr-2013
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Boston, MA A prospective study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) observed an association between risk of second primary cancer and history of non-melanoma skin cancer in white men and women.

The researchers found that people with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer had a modestly increased risk of getting cancer in the future, specifically breast and lung cancer in women and melanoma in both men and women. Non-melanoma skin cancer, which includes basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma, is the most common form of cancer in the United States.

The study will be published on April 23, 2013 in PLOS Medicine.

The researchers analyzed data from two large United States cohort studiesthe Health Professionals Follow-up Study and the Nurses' Health Study. The researchers followed 46,237 men from June 1986 to June 2008 in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, and 107,339 women from June 1984 to June 2008 in the Nurses' Health Study. The researchers identified 36,102 new cases of non-melanoma skin cancer and 29,447 new cases of other primary cancers.

A history of non-melanoma skin cancer was significantly associated with a 15 percent higher risk of other primary cancers in men, and a 26 percent higher risk of other primary cancers in women. When melanoma was excluded from this analysis, the rates changed slightly, with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer associated with an 11 percent higher risk of other primary cancers in men, and a 20 percent higher risk of other primary cancers in women.

After using statistical models to correct for multiple comparisons, looking at individual cancer sites, the researchers found that a history of non-melanoma skin cancer was significantly linked to an increased risk of breast and lung cancer in women, and an increased risk of melanoma in both men and women.

According to the researchers, these findings should be interpreted cautiously.

"Because our study was observational, these results should be interpreted cautiously and are insufficient evidence to alter current clinical recommendations," said Jiali Han, PhD, Channing Division of Network Medicine, BWH Department of Medicine and BWH Department of Dermatology. "Nevertheless, these data support a need for continued investigation of the potential mechanisms underlying this relationship."

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Researchers observe an increased risk of cancer in people with history of non-melanoma skin cancer [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 23-Apr-2013
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Boston, MA A prospective study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) observed an association between risk of second primary cancer and history of non-melanoma skin cancer in white men and women.

The researchers found that people with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer had a modestly increased risk of getting cancer in the future, specifically breast and lung cancer in women and melanoma in both men and women. Non-melanoma skin cancer, which includes basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma, is the most common form of cancer in the United States.

The study will be published on April 23, 2013 in PLOS Medicine.

The researchers analyzed data from two large United States cohort studiesthe Health Professionals Follow-up Study and the Nurses' Health Study. The researchers followed 46,237 men from June 1986 to June 2008 in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, and 107,339 women from June 1984 to June 2008 in the Nurses' Health Study. The researchers identified 36,102 new cases of non-melanoma skin cancer and 29,447 new cases of other primary cancers.

A history of non-melanoma skin cancer was significantly associated with a 15 percent higher risk of other primary cancers in men, and a 26 percent higher risk of other primary cancers in women. When melanoma was excluded from this analysis, the rates changed slightly, with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer associated with an 11 percent higher risk of other primary cancers in men, and a 20 percent higher risk of other primary cancers in women.

After using statistical models to correct for multiple comparisons, looking at individual cancer sites, the researchers found that a history of non-melanoma skin cancer was significantly linked to an increased risk of breast and lung cancer in women, and an increased risk of melanoma in both men and women.

According to the researchers, these findings should be interpreted cautiously.

"Because our study was observational, these results should be interpreted cautiously and are insufficient evidence to alter current clinical recommendations," said Jiali Han, PhD, Channing Division of Network Medicine, BWH Department of Medicine and BWH Department of Dermatology. "Nevertheless, these data support a need for continued investigation of the potential mechanisms underlying this relationship."

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Air traffic furloughs cause delays but no major havoc

By Karen Jacobs

(Reuters) - Air travelers experienced delays at some U.S. airports on Monday as staff cuts at control towers took effect, but the widespread havoc and hour-long waits that regulators had predicted last week largely failed to materialize.

Instead, the U.S. air system operated as it would if only a few bouts of bad weather had affected schedules.

Still, airlines predicted sizable disruption and hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue if delays happen as predicted and persist for a year. And travel groups said safety concerns and inconvenience could curb business travel.

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday that it was grappling with "staffing challenges" at air-traffic control facilities in New York, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Jacksonville, Florida. Controllers were spacing aircraft farther apart for takeoffs and landings, causing delays, the FAA said.

But late in the day, only 150 flights had been canceled, a relatively small number, according to website Flightaware.com. And although some travelers waited nearly two hours for flights, delays were much shorter on average.

For example, as of late afternoon New York time, flights to Charlotte Douglas International Airport were delayed an average of 22 minutes, the FAA's website showed. A flight delay of 15 minutes or less is considered on time, so a 22-minute delay is minimal by industry standards.

Flights to Florida were delayed earlier on Monday because of staffing cuts and weather, said Mark Duell, vice president of operations at FlightAware.com, a flight tracking website.

"Staffing-related delays come and go," Duell said. So far, "it's only a problem if there some other condition that's going on."

Delays at New York's major airports and in Denver were due staffing and other factors, Duell said. By contrast, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, the nation's busiest airport, and Chicago's O'Hare, reported no significant delays, the FAA said.

INDUSTRY VOICES CONCERN

The FAA furloughs, which started Sunday, are intended to cut staffing by 10 percent to save $200 million of $637 million the agency needs to pare from its budget. Of 47,000 employees facing furloughs, which are expected to last through September, nearly 13,000 are air traffic controllers.

New York's LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports and Los Angeles International Airport grappled with delays of up to an hour and a half on Sunday, when the furloughs began, Duell said. The FAA said there were 400 flight delays on Sunday related to the furloughs.

Despite the improvement Monday, airlines and business advocacy groups continued to voice concern that staffing cuts would reduce corporate travel and hurt the economy.

Southwest Airlines said its estimated conservatively that furloughs would cost it $200 million a year if implemented to the full extent the FAA has outlined.

The comment was contained in a motion filed Friday by Airlines for America (A4A), a trade group of airlines. The group said it was still pressing in court for a 30-day delay of the staff cuts, after the court denied its request last week for an emergency stay of the furloughs.

American Airlines, also in an affidavit with the A4A motion, estimated furloughs would result in 582 daily flight delays and losses of $1.77 million a day.

Delta Air Lines said it might have to cancel 152 flights a day, most on regional planes operated by connection carriers, losing an estimated $575,000 a day in revenue.

Furloughs "will produce missed connections and widespread flight cancellations," the Global Business Travel Administration, a trade group, said in an open letter to FAA Administrator Michael Huerta that was distributed on Friday.

"If these disruptions unfold as predicted, business travelers will stay home."

Jean Covelli, president of The Travel Team agency in Buffalo, New York, said many business customers are rethinking plans for trips now that the furloughs have started.

"There is grave concern about safety," she said. "Businesses are canceling meetings. There's a whole domino effect that this is causing. I don't think it's going to get any better."

But on Monday, some major airlines said there were no flight cancellations due to the furloughs. Southwest Airlines said it expects "possible flight delays" from the staffing cuts but added it had no major problems with operations on Monday. American Airlines reported no issues other than normal ground delays.

United Airlines said the nation's air space "functioned pretty well" during the day on Sunday. But "we saw alarming pockets of degradation due to FAA staffing in Los Angeles and LaGuardia both last night and this morning," spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said in a statement on Monday.

"We are concerned about how this is going to evolve and affect air travel reliability for our customers."

(Reporting by Karen Jacobs; Additional reporting by Dana Feldman in Los Angeles; Editing by Alwyn Scott and Steve Orlofsky)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-air-traffic-furloughs-cause-delays-no-major-232953617--finance.html

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Monday, April 22, 2013

40 percent of parents give young kids cough/cold medicine that they shouldn't

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University of Michigan Health System

Many parents disregard label warnings, give children under age 4 common medicines, according to new U-M National Poll on Children's Health

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Children can get five to 10 colds each year, so it's not surprising that adults often turn to over-the-counter cough and cold medicines to relieve their little ones' symptoms. But a new University of Michigan poll shows that many are giving young kids medicines that they should not use.

More than 40 percent of parents reported giving their children under age 4 cough medicine or multi-symptom cough and cold medicine, according to the latest University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health. Twenty-five percent gave those children decongestants.

In 2008, the federal Food and Drug Administration issued an advisory that these over-the-counter medicines not be used in infants and children under age 2. They have not been proven effective for young children and may cause serious side effects, says Matthew M. Davis, M.D., M.A.P.P., director of the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.

In response to the FDA, manufacturers of over-the-counter cough and cold products changed their labels back in 2008, to state that the medicines should not be used for children under 4 years old.

"These products don't reduce the time the infection will lasts and misuse could lead to serious harm," says Davis. "What can be confusing, however, is that often these products are labeled prominently as 'children's' medications. The details are often on the back of the box, in small print. That's where parents and caregivers can find instructions that they should not be used in children under 4 years old," Davis says

The side effects from use of cough and cold medicines in young children may include allergic reactions, increased or uneven heart rate, drowsiness or sleeplessness, slow and shallow breathing, confusion or hallucinations, convulsions, nausea and constipation.

The poll found that use of the cough and cold medicines in children age four and under did not differ by parent gender, race/ethnicity or by household income.

"Products like these may work for adults, and parents think it could help their children as well. But what's good for adults is not always good for children," says Davis.

Davis says parents need to be vigilant about reading the directions and should always call their pediatrician or health care provider about questions regarding over-the-counter medications.

"Because young children often suffer from cold-like symptoms, more research is needed to test the safety and efficacy of these cough and cold medicines in our littlest patients," Davis says.

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Full report: http://mottnpch.org/reports-surveys/parents-ignore-warning-labels-give-cough-cold-meds-young-kids

Website: Check out the Poll's new website: MottNPCH.org. You can search and browse over 70 NPCH Reports, suggest topics for future polls, share your opinion in a quick poll, and view information on popular topics. The National Poll on Children's Health team welcomes feedback on the new website, including features you'd like to see added. To share feedback, e-mail NPCH@med.umich.edu.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mottnpch

Twitter: @MottNPCH

Purpose/Funding: The C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health based at the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit at the University of Michigan and funded by the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases and the University of Michigan Health System is designed to measure major health care issues and trends for U.S. children.

Data Source: This report presents findings from a nationally representative household survey conducted exclusively by GfK Custom Research, LLC GfK Custom Research, LLC (GfK), for C.S. Mott Children's Hospital via a method used in many published studies. The survey was administered in January 2013 to a randomly selected, stratified group of parents with a child age 0-3 (n=498) from GfK's web-enabled KnowledgePanel that closely resembles the U.S. population. The sample was subsequently weighted to reflect population figures from the Census Bureau. The survey completion rate was 57 percent among panel members contacted to participate. The margin of error is 8 to 11 percentage points.

Findings from the U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health do not represent the opinions of the investigators or the opinions of the University of Michigan.


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40 percent of parents give young kids cough/cold medicine that they shouldn't [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 22-Apr-2013
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Contact: Mary F. Masson
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University of Michigan Health System

Many parents disregard label warnings, give children under age 4 common medicines, according to new U-M National Poll on Children's Health

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Children can get five to 10 colds each year, so it's not surprising that adults often turn to over-the-counter cough and cold medicines to relieve their little ones' symptoms. But a new University of Michigan poll shows that many are giving young kids medicines that they should not use.

More than 40 percent of parents reported giving their children under age 4 cough medicine or multi-symptom cough and cold medicine, according to the latest University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health. Twenty-five percent gave those children decongestants.

In 2008, the federal Food and Drug Administration issued an advisory that these over-the-counter medicines not be used in infants and children under age 2. They have not been proven effective for young children and may cause serious side effects, says Matthew M. Davis, M.D., M.A.P.P., director of the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.

In response to the FDA, manufacturers of over-the-counter cough and cold products changed their labels back in 2008, to state that the medicines should not be used for children under 4 years old.

"These products don't reduce the time the infection will lasts and misuse could lead to serious harm," says Davis. "What can be confusing, however, is that often these products are labeled prominently as 'children's' medications. The details are often on the back of the box, in small print. That's where parents and caregivers can find instructions that they should not be used in children under 4 years old," Davis says

The side effects from use of cough and cold medicines in young children may include allergic reactions, increased or uneven heart rate, drowsiness or sleeplessness, slow and shallow breathing, confusion or hallucinations, convulsions, nausea and constipation.

The poll found that use of the cough and cold medicines in children age four and under did not differ by parent gender, race/ethnicity or by household income.

"Products like these may work for adults, and parents think it could help their children as well. But what's good for adults is not always good for children," says Davis.

Davis says parents need to be vigilant about reading the directions and should always call their pediatrician or health care provider about questions regarding over-the-counter medications.

"Because young children often suffer from cold-like symptoms, more research is needed to test the safety and efficacy of these cough and cold medicines in our littlest patients," Davis says.

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Broadcast-quality video is available on request. See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRkQf1OUGJs

Full report: http://mottnpch.org/reports-surveys/parents-ignore-warning-labels-give-cough-cold-meds-young-kids

Website: Check out the Poll's new website: MottNPCH.org. You can search and browse over 70 NPCH Reports, suggest topics for future polls, share your opinion in a quick poll, and view information on popular topics. The National Poll on Children's Health team welcomes feedback on the new website, including features you'd like to see added. To share feedback, e-mail NPCH@med.umich.edu.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mottnpch

Twitter: @MottNPCH

Purpose/Funding: The C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health based at the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit at the University of Michigan and funded by the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases and the University of Michigan Health System is designed to measure major health care issues and trends for U.S. children.

Data Source: This report presents findings from a nationally representative household survey conducted exclusively by GfK Custom Research, LLC GfK Custom Research, LLC (GfK), for C.S. Mott Children's Hospital via a method used in many published studies. The survey was administered in January 2013 to a randomly selected, stratified group of parents with a child age 0-3 (n=498) from GfK's web-enabled KnowledgePanel that closely resembles the U.S. population. The sample was subsequently weighted to reflect population figures from the Census Bureau. The survey completion rate was 57 percent among panel members contacted to participate. The margin of error is 8 to 11 percentage points.

Findings from the U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health do not represent the opinions of the investigators or the opinions of the University of Michigan.


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PFT: S. Jones forsees 'significant improvement'

Jordan RodgersAP

C Eric Wood has moved into a leadership role with the Bills.

Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald wonders if Dolphins G.M. Jeff Ireland will panic when it comes to making a trade for Chiefs T Branden Albert.

Adding some beef to the interior of the defensive line in the draft is a possibility for the Patriots.

What?s the fallout from the Revis trade for Jets coach Rex Ryan?

Ravens coach John Harbaugh took part in a Tough Mudder race.

Could Michigan State RB Le?Veon Bell wind up with the Bengals?

An argument that the Browns?will be unaffected?by the investigation into owner Jimmy Haslam?s family business.

The Steelers website compares Georgia LB Jarvis Jones with former Steeler Chad Brown.

An attempt to simulate the Texans? draft board.

Colts G.M. Ryan Grigson admits to taking a look at mock drafts in the weeks leading up to the real draft.

Jaguars G.M. David Caldwell will be trying to avoid making the draft mistakes his predecessors made.

Will Bernard Pollard or George Wilson start at safety for the Titans?

With four offensive linemen coming off surgeries, the Broncos could be in the market for some help at the position in the draft.

The Chiefs may be targeting skill position players at the end of the draft.

Raiders T Jared Veldheer has bulked up this offseason.

QB Phillip Rivers is learning the Chargers? new offense as quickly as he can.

Cowboys DE DeMarcus Ware has started lifting weights after shoulder surgery.

Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post thinks the Giants could take Notre Dame LB Manti Te?o.

Are the Eagles better off keeping or trading the fourth overall pick?

Redskins QB Kirk Cousins tried out broadcasting during the Michigan State spring game.

Former Navy LB Keegan Wetzel visited with the Bears.

The Lions wouldn?t mind a wide receiver to take some pressure off Calvin Johnson.

A pre-draft look at Vanderbilt QB Jordan Rodgers, younger brother of Packers QB Aaron Rodgers.

The Vikings have made a place for analytics in their personnel evaluations.

Character traits are an important part of the profile when the Falcons look at potential draftees.

The Panthers aren?t hurt by a lack of strong quarterback and running back prospects in the draft.

Mike Triplett of the New Orleans Times-Picayune thinks the Saints will wind up trading RB Chris Ivory to the Jets.

Even with Darrelle Revis in the fold, Stephen Holder of the Tampa Bay Times thinks the Buccaneers need help at cornerback.

The Cardinals own the seventh overall pick, a spot which has landed teams some star players in recent years.

The Rams probably aren?t looking for a kicker or punter in this year?s draft.

Bills big and small are adding up as the 49ers building their new stadium.

Is linebacker on the Seahawks? list of draft priorities?

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/20/stephen-jones-sees-significant-improvements-for-cowboys/related/

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Saturday, April 20, 2013

China angered by Japan's increased jet scrambles

BEIJING (AP) ? China accused Japan of raising regional tensions with its increased use of fighter jets to monitor Chinese aircraft that approach a cluster of islands claimed by both countries.

The remarks from Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying on Thursday came one day after Japan's Defense Ministry said it dispatched fighter jets in response to Chinese planes 306 times during the 12 months through March 2013, up from 156 the previous year.

Chinese aircraft have steadily increased patrols in the East China Sea, where the Japanese-controlled islands are located. There has been only one report of a Chinese plane violating Japanese airspace over the uninhabited islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.

"We all know Japan has continuously provoked and escalated tensions over the Diaoyus," Hua told reporters at a regularly scheduled news conference.

Hua said that China is firm in its resolve to defend its claim to the islands, but that it wants to solve the issue peacefully through dialogue and negotiation, a reference to Beijing's insistence that Tokyo at least formally concede that ownership of the islands is in dispute.

"What Japan needs to do is, not send more planes, but show sincerity and action and talk with China," Hua said.

Simmering tensions over the islands flared violently in September amid Chinese fury at the Japanese government's purchasing of three of them from their private owners. Japanese businesses were attacked in several Chinese cities and Chinese patrol boats were dispatched to confront Japanese ships in waters near the islands.

The outburst was more vehement and sustained than previous rounds of anti-Japanese sentiment that were grounded in Chinese resentment over Japan's brutal occupation of much of the country during the 1930s and 1940s.

However, the risk of conflict appears to have receded in recent weeks amid back-channel diplomacy and efforts to prevent a clash at sea.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-angered-japans-increased-jet-scrambles-004443911.html

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The Cricket: Filmmakers bringing Tim DeChristopher's voice to ...

Tim Dechristopher. Courtesy | Gage and Gage Productions

The Cricket: Filmmakers bringing Tim DeChristopher?s voice to national audience

Beth and George Gage acknowledge they are old enough to be Tim DeChristopher?s parents.

And sometimes the Gages, husband-and-wife filmmakers from Telluride, Colo., talk like proud parents about the 31-year-old former University of Utah student who has spent the past 21 months serving a federal sentence for making fraudulent bids for oil and gas leases at a Bureau of Land Management auction.

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Trib Talk chat

Join The Salt Lake Tribune?s Jennifer Napier-Pearce at 11 a.m. Tuesday at sltrib.com for a live Trib Talk video chat with Tim DeChristopher.

"He is so articulate, and he can frame so many important issues that relate to the average person," George Gage says of DeChristopher.

The Gages will be helping DeChristopher celebrate his first days of freedom with an Earth Day screening of "Bidder 70," their documentary about his legal travails and personal growth as a champion for the environment.

The movie screens Monday, April 22, at the Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City. Tickets are $15 at the theater box office.

The evening starts at 6:30 with musician Bryan Cahall, whose song "Arise" is heard on the movie?s soundtrack. At 7 p.m., the movie starts. After the movie, about 8:15, DeChristopher will make his first public appearance since his July 2011 sentencing hearing, taking questions from the audience and via Twitter at a post-screening discussion that will be simulcast at more than 50 locations nationwide.

The Earth Day event precedes the movie?s national release, which starts May 17 in New York and moves out to the rest of the country.

The Gages first encountered DeChristopher when they were on their way to the Wild and Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City, Calif., in 2009. The couple were promoting a documentary they had made, "American Outrage," and had stopped along the way to use a landline for an interview with NPR. In the same office, DeChristopher was also recording an interview and mentioned he was on his way to the same festival.

At the festival, the Gages met DeChristopher and pitched the idea of making a movie about his legal battle after his famous December 2008 act of civil disobedience. DeChristopher saw "American Outrage," which chronicled two Western Shoshone sisters? long fight against the BLM, and noted that the Gages were still friendly with the subjects after the film was made.

"By the end of the week, he said ?yeah,??" Beth Gage said.

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Following DeChristopher?s exploits meant a lot of miles for the Gages. Not only did they make repeated trips from Telluride to Salt Lake City to chronicle major events, but during nine trial postponements over more than two years, DeChristopher stayed active. He went to his boyhood home in West Virginia, witnessing the pollution-heavy mining practice of mountaintop removal. He attended an environmental rally in Washington, D.C., which culminated in a protester occupation of the Department of Interior (though, the Gages stress, DeChristopher himself did not occupy the building). He got involved in recruiting, via Craigslist, and campaigning for Democrat Claudia Wright in a challenge to incumbent Rep. Jim Matheson at the 2010 Utah Democratic Convention and in a primary runoff.

"Instead of sitting around and brooding, he went out and did things," George Gage said. "He was constantly getting involved in issues."

Following DeChristopher around, the Gages witnessed his maturation as a public speaker. Beth Gage recalled filming a 20-minute speech DeChristopher delivered at his church, Salt Lake City?s First Unitarian Church, that was a passionate and lucid statement of his principles.

"We could have made that the whole narration of our film," she said.

DeChristopher?s isn?t the only voice in "Bidder 70." The Gages interviewed his attorneys, Ron Yengich and Patrick Shea (the latter a former head of the BLM), and sat in on meetings of the activist group Peaceful Uprising, which organized street-theater protests before DeChristopher?s trial and famously blocked downtown traffic after his sentencing. The Gages also talked to two well-known environmental voices in Utah: author Terry Tempest Williams and actor/filmmaker/activist Robert Redford.

The Gages and Redford have a bit of a history. The Gages? first documentary was "Fire on the Mountain," a profile of the 10th Mountain Division, a World War II army unit trained for snow and made up of winter-sports enthusiasts who later became the backbone of the American ski industry. It played at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival and was a personal favorite of Redford?s.

After interviewing Redford, the Gages gave him a baseball cap with "Bidder 70" embroidered on it. Redford used the hat in his movie "The Company You Keep," which opens April 26 in Salt Lake City. In the film, Redford (who directed) plays a former Weather Underground radical who?s been in hiding for 30 years ? and when he must go on the lam, he uses the "Bidder 70" cap as camouflage from the cops.

"He wanted to do a tip of the hat to Tim," said Beth Gage. "Those who know will get it, and other people might be curious."

Sean P. Meanswrites The Cricket in daily blog form at www.sltrib.com/blogs/moviecricket. Follow him on Twitter @moviecricket, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/seanpmeans. Email him at spmeans@sltrib.com.

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Friday, April 19, 2013

Bomb-themed 'Castle' episode rescheduled

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Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic in "Castle's" "Still" episode.

By Philiana Ng, The Hollywood Reporter

ABC is delaying a bomb-themed episode of "Castle" due to the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.

The episode originally scheduled to air April 22, "Still," will now air a week later on April 29 out of sensitivity to what happened earlier this week on the East Coast.

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In the hour, NYPD Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) accidentally tripping the sensor on a bomb, leaving her unable to move or detonate it causing Ryan (Seamus Dever) and Esposito (Jon Huertas) to search for the bomber to disarm it.

Instead, the episode that was slated to air April 29, "The Squab and the Quill," will be moved up one week and broadcast in place of "Still."

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Katic tweeted the news, first reported by TV Line, late Wednesday: "Yes. Out of respect. Please note that the chronology will b off."

On Monday, NBC opted to pre-empt a new episode of "Revolution" for extended coverage of the Boston Marathon tragedy with a primetime NBC News special in the 10 p.m. hour.

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Source: http://theclicker.today.com/_news/2013/04/18/17808533-bomb-themed-castle-episode-rescheduled?lite

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

15 years after Good Friday Agreement, an imperfect peace in Northern Ireland

On this date in 1998, republicans and unionists put an end to the 'Troubles' that had ravaged the region for decades. But a permanent peace remains a more remote prize.

By Jason Walsh,?Correspondent / April 10, 2013

A section of the peace wall that divides Catholic and Protestant communities in Belfast wraps around houses in Cluan Place, east Belfast, in October. The first barriers were built in 1969, following the outbreak of the Northern Ireland riots known as 'The Troubles.'

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Fifteen years ago today, one of Europe's longest and seemingly most intractable conflicts came to an end. On April 10, 1998, Irish republicans and unionists signed the Good Friday Agreement, a peace accord that put a formal end to the "Troubles," a slow-burn civil war that had been going on in earnest since 1969.
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Well, in fact, they didn't sign it. Nothing was actually signed on paper by the opposing sides. But they did agree to it, marking the end of the beginning of the Irish peace process.
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The guns had already fallen silent two years previously, with both the Irish Republican Army and their unionist antagonists declaring a cease-fire within a six-week span. In the years that followed, a new British prime minister, Tony Blair, and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, worked to bring reluctant unionists to the table with their hated and feared old enemies.

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Jason Walsh has been the Monitor's Ireland correspondent since 2009, dividing his time primarily between Belfast, Northern Ireland and?Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. During that time he has reported on stumbling blocks in the peace process, the dissident republican threat,?pro-British unionist riots, demands for abortion legislation and Ireland's economic crash.

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And on this date 15 years ago, they succeeded: the Ulster Unionist Party agreed to work with republicans, something that would have been unimaginable just a short time earlier.
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Life in Northern Ireland has been transformed since that day, no one disputes that. But the conflict has not been replaced with perfect peace. In July 1998, three young Catholic children were killed when the Ulster Volunteer Force, supposedly on ceasefire, firebombed their home. The infamous Omagh bomb, planted by dissident republicans, was to go off on August 15 of the same year, killing 29. And there have been murders carried out by both unionist and republican groups since then, as well as annualized rioting.
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In some ways, the post-Good Friday state of affairs mirrors that of Northern Ireland prior to 1969, with sporadic episodes of violence punctuating a shaky peace. Still, with Irish republicans represented in government and Catholics no longer discriminated against in jobs, education, and housing, it is difficult to imagine the same sense of grievance that give birth to the conflict being nurtured ever again.
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The problem, as with so many conflicts today, is that an honest desire to put an end to bloodshed and misery may not so much bring about peace as?transform violence into deep-frozen cultural and pseudo-political resentments.
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In Northern Ireland, as elsewhere, there was no single winner or loser. Both sides can legitimately claim to have won, or to have lost. Whichever they claim depends on how they are feeling at any given moment. This year's rioting in Northern Ireland, sparked by a decision to fly the British Union flag over Belfast city hall on state occasions rather than every day, speaks of a unionist community that is brittle and fearful. A community that thinks it has lost. A community that feels abandoned and is itself now nursing a sense of grievance.
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High-flown talk about plurality and neutrality simply do not reflect reality on the ground, except perhaps in a few well-to-do areas.
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No one, other than a few extremists on the fringes of unionism and republicanism, wants to see a return to violence in Northern Ireland, and so the architects of the Good Friday Accord can rightfully claim a victory on that front. A permanent peace remains a more remote prize.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/csmonitor/globalnews/~3/epviug-xiOU/15-years-after-Good-Friday-Agreement-an-imperfect-peace-in-Northern-Ireland

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Saturday, April 13, 2013