Mike Donoghue of the Burlington Free Press talks about a fraternity from the University of Vermont that has been suspended and could be banned from campus permanently over a survey asking members who they would like to rape.
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Authorities investigate the shooting deaths of five people, including three children, in Emington, Ill.
By NBC News, msnbc.com staff and news services
Five people, including three children, were found shot to death Friday afternoon at a home in the small town of Emington, Ill., NBCChicago.com reported.
The bodies of a woman, a girl and a baby were found in the backyard of home. A man and a boy were found nearby. All had been shot, officials said. The names of the victims haven't yet been publicly released.
The Chicago Tribune quoted Debbie Delaney, secretary and treasurer of the?town, as saying the girl was in second grade and the boy was in kindergarten. The Tribune said?her husband is Emington Mayor Daniel Delaney and her son is a?firefighter called to the scene.
"They're all gone, all gone," Delaney told the Tribune.
Livingston County board member Bob Young, who lives in Emington, about 80 miles southwest of Chicago, said?the family had moved to the town within the last six months and the two older children attended school in nearby Saunemin. The street where the family lived was closed by police, he said.
"We did have an awful disaster here," said?Mayor?Delaney, who's been in office for 24 years. "You never would have thought it would happen in our town of 100 people or less. ... Right now it's just very, very, very sad for us here."
Residents described Emington as a once strictly farming town that has gone through changes in the last 20 years as young families moved in.?Young said the town has become more of a bedroom community from which people commute north to cities such as Joliet, about 45 miles away.
Delaney said the town is not prosperous and has received help from the state. "It's always really had a hard time. Most of the people are retired or farmers who moved into town," he said.
Young said he did not know the family well.
"We've seen the kids playing at the playground and talk to them," Young said. "We thought everything was fine."
This article contains reporting from NBCChicago.com, The Associated Press and?msnbc.com staff.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movement, "The Protester" was named Time magazine's 2011 Person of the Year on Wednesday.
Time defines the Person of the Year as someone who, for better or for worse, influences the events of the year.
"Is there a global tipping point for frustration? Everywhere, it seems, people said they'd had enough," Time Editor Rick Stengel said in a statement.
"They dissented; they demanded; they did not despair, even when the answers came back in a cloud of tear gas or a hail of bullets. They literally embodied the idea that individual action can bring collective, colossal change," he said.
On almost every continent, 2011 has seen an almost unprecedented rise in both peaceful and sometimes violent unrest and dissent.
Protesters in a lengthening list of countries including Israel, India, Chile, China, Britain, Spain and now the United States all increasingly link their actions explicitly to the popular revolutions that have shaken up the Middle East.
Admiral William McRaven, head of U.S. Special Operations Command and overall commander of the secret U.S. mission into Pakistan in May that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, came in at second place on the Time list.
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose 81 day secret detention by authorities earlier this year sparked an international outcry, came in at No. 3, followed by U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan.
Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, who married Prince William in April, rounded out the Time short list.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
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Sony can?t get much right these days. They?ve dissolved their partnership with Ericsson so they have no dog in the mobile fight and their Blu-Ray/3D TV push is, at best, an afterthought with consumers. Nobody wants Sony laptops, what with all the ultrabooks out there. The only thing that can save them is gaming.
The first great Sony hope is the Vita, Sony?s handheld gaming console. Designed to offer a superior gaming experience over the only other portable consoles, the Nintendo DSi and 3DS, the Vita is already selling out in Japanese pre-orders and could be next year?s hot selling gadget. None of the gaming greats except for Nintendo has progressed on the hardware front in years, so the Vita might be just the jolt Sony needs to survive.
But the Vita isn?t a sure thing, especially since Sony is hurting in multiple ways. As Reuters notes:
The videogames unit made a first profit in 5 years in the year to March, as it squeezed production costs for the Playstation 3, boosting profits for the whole company. The unit?s sales accounted for more than a tenth of Sony?s 7 trillion yen in total revenue.
This comes in conjunction with a fall in Sony stock after a major downgrade. Things couldn?t be worse. Sure, the Vita is interesting, but is it enough to pull the company out of the death spiral?
Sony played the wrong game for too long. Convinced they still had a say in the CE market, they pushed multiple technologies ? Memory Stick, Blu-Ray, ATRAC ? for far too long just as consumers were getting wise to their tricks. Their losing streak started when they lost the VHS/Betamax war, and there was no way they were going to sell an ATRAC-playing Walkman over an iPod.
These pointless battles distracted Sony management enough to ensure that the CE space wasn?t theirs anymore, resulting in a number of lower-priced, high-quality competitors that made Sony look like the Bose of TVs ? too expensive for most people and with benefits too esoteric for many to understand.
In the end, I think Sony is done. Samsung owns the mobile space and much of the CE space. Vizio owns the low end. Gaming is still the wild card, but without a string of hits, 5 more years of profitless financial statements will not make the company much stronger.
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/15/sony-pins-its-future-on-gaming/
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Posted on 15 December 2011 by Andy Eubank
American Soybean Association (ASA) CEO Steve Censky announced Thursday that Patrick Delaney has joined ASA as Communications Director, effective Dec. 15. Delaney is based in Washington, D.C. within ASA?s Washington Policy Representative Office of Gordley Associates.
?ASA is pleased to welcome Patrick to our team,? Censky said. ?His experience in ag policy communications will serve him well in his role with ASA, where he will craft timely communications on policy decisions and issues happening in Washington, as well as talking points and analysis to keep ASA?s farmer-leaders and state affiliates informed.?
Delaney comes to ASA from the United Fresh Produce Association, where he managed staff, advised leadership and communicated to key audiences and stakeholders on all publicity matters, including advocacy and crisis communications on nutrition, labor, food safety, immigration, trade, sustainability and farm policy. He has worked in various public relations roles with agencies and the radio broadcast industry.
Delaney is from the Kansas City area. He has a bachelor?s degree in Persuasive and Political Communication from George Mason University and is working toward a master?s degree in Integrated Marketing Communications from West Virginia University.
Bob Callanan, who has served as ASA Communications Director based in St. Louis, moves into a new position as ASA?s Project Development Director, where he?ll develop program concepts and proposals to be presented to state soybean affiliates, qualified state soybean boards, and industry partners.
Communications Coordinator Cassandra Langley will have an expanded role at ASA?s headquarters in St. Louis, assisting Delaney in the implementation of communications developed there.
ASA represents all U.S. soybean farmers on domestic and international issues of importance to the soybean industry. ASA?s advocacy efforts are made possible through the voluntary membership in ASA by over 21,000 farmers in 31 states where soybeans are grown.
Source: ASA
Source: http://www.hoosieragtoday.com/index.php/2011/12/15/asa-announces-new-communications-director/
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The research team at Lyon has developed an animal model carrying a mutation of the DCC gene. Mice carrying the mutation develop tumours, because this gene can no longer induce the death of the cancer cells. This discovery could lead to the development of a new targeted cancer treatment that aims to reactivate the dying of cancer cells.
The results of this study have been published as a Letter in the 11th December 2011 issue of the journal Nature.
The team led by Patrick Mehlen, Director of the DEVweCAN 'Laboratory of Excellence' at the Lyon Cancer Research Centre (CNRS/Inserm/Centre L?on B?rard/Universit? Claude Bernard 1), studies the cell death process (apoptosis) and, in particular, the mechanism that makes the cells understand that they should initiate a self-destruction process when they become abnormal. Patrick Mehlen's team suggested that this mechanism could operate via sentinels located on the surface of cells, which examine their environment. The scientists named these sentinels 'dependence receptors'.
The research team focused on this concept of 'dependence receptors'. When a cell receptor is associated with its ligand, the classic message indicates 'all is well', and leads to cell survival. On the other hand, when the receptor is deprived of its ligand, it can send a message leading to cell death. This mechanism is also called 'apoptosis.' When this is applied to cancer research, the absence of ligands could cause the death of cancer cells that proliferate in an anarchic manner.
In this study, Patrick Mehlen's team shows that the DCC gene (Deleted Colorectal Cancer), which codes for a 'dependence receptor', protects the organism from the onset of cancer by causing the death of cells that become cancerous. The researchers used a mouse model where the DCC gene has been genetically modified. The mutation of this dependence receptor prevents the induction of apoptosis. When the DCC gene is eliminated by mutation, the mouse spontaneously develops colon cancer.
'The organism is naturally protected from the development of cancers thanks to the presence of this tumour-suppressing gene. Unfortunately, certain cancer cells escape from this control by blocking this 'dependence receptor' mechanism. That is how we know that the DCC gene is extinguished in most human cancers,' explains Patrick Mehlen.
In the near future, this research work could lead to a new targeted treatment that aims to reactivate the death of the cancer cells to destroy breast cancer, lung cancer, etc. 'Our group has developed several candidate drugs that reactivate the cell death induced by the DCC receptor in animal models, and we hope to be able to carry out human clinical testing of these candidate drugs in three years' time,' concludes Patrick Mehlen.
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Even as Gov. Rick Scott?s administration acknowledges it needs to improve oversight of job-creation money, a national report Wednesday graded the state?s incentive programs as average in terms of tracking the dollars and creating jobs which bring decent wages.
Scott is seeking $230 million in next year?s budget for incentive dollars for his newly created Department of Economic Opportunity, more than doubling the cash available to lure businesses to relocate or expand in Florida.
But lawmakers have questioned just how well the state can vouch for the $739 million in incentives it has spread across some 1,600 contracts since 1995.
The report by Good Jobs First, Inc., a non-partisan, nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., gave Florida a C grade for its ability to follow the dollars and turn them into jobs.
??With unemployment still so high, taxpayers have a right to expect that economic development investments create significant numbers of quality jobs,? said Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First. ?The days of ?no strings attached? are largely gone, but the fine print in many states is still full of gaps and loopholes.?
?Good Jobs? review found Nevada, North Carolina and Vermont?did best in applying job standards to their major subsidy programs. The District of Columbia, Alaska and Wyoming rated worst.
Oversight and performance of Florida?s big five economic development programs placed the state eighth best on the national survey. ?Although laws governing four of the five subsidy programs?set some kind of wage standard, none require employers to provide health benefits to workers, analysts said.?
?This study provides a roadmap for Florida legislators and economic development officials as they attempt to require more accountability from corporations receiving job subsidies,? said Alan Stonecipher, a spokesman for the Florida Cetner for Fiscal and Economic Policy, which co-released the Florida findings.
The report is here: www.goodjobsfirst.org
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Tags: Department of Economic Opportunity, economic incentives, Gray Swoope, jobs
Source: http://www.postonpolitics.com/2011/12/florida-draws-c-in-national-survey-on-job-incentive-dollars/
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