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Weekend Highlights: Los Angeles Times recaps Tim Cook interviews which Chris O'Brien says "underscored the difference in both style and substance" between Cook and Jobs; trio of Bloomberg writers analyze Cook's pledge to invest in building Macs in the US suggesting only 200 jobs would be created; and an unlikely partnership of Apple and Google making $500 million+ bid on Kodak's vast patent portfolio, and could lead to "a somewhat less litigious atmosphere in the future"; Gordon Kelly at Trusted Reviews says Apple may continue roll as "arch puppet master", but hopes Tim Cook's approach may "give a little slack on the strings"; NBC posts the full interview with Tim Cook; transcripts available at the Los Angeles Times, 9 to 5 Mac; Cook says the television is of intense interest to the company, tells Brian Williams no one should bet against Apple, Forbes' Anthony Kosner suggests though, that Cook mutes the real issues, while fellow Forbes writer Connie Guglielmo has ten follow up questions for Cook; the Associated Press says Apple's "softer side" is emerging; from the Albany Times Union comes word of top-secret talks that Apple, chip suppliers are looking to area for chip factory; WSJ on Apple's power within; MacStories maps out Apple's retail expansion; Judge Koh says Apple/Samsung spat feels like she's in Groundhog Day; Jonny Evans doesn't see a realistic scenario where the two companies will have patent peace; Horace Dediu on "the real threat" posed to Apple by Samsung; there is a hint in Microsoft's Hotmail-to-outlook.com push that a Mac client is in the works; whether Tim Cook's USA manufacturing comments are symbolic or not, hope is that other companies will step up and make it happen; Chuck Jones at Forbes analyzes Chitika's November report comparing iPad ad impressions against unit market share; Pepsi promo launched, to use Passbook; where do Apple's glass projects go from here?; if you were hoping your new 27" iMac would be under your Christmas tree, unfortunately you'll have to wait until January; the 21.5" model reviewed at Macworld, and Ars Technica which says the new box has taken two steps forward, but one back; PC Advisor reviews the 13" MacBook Pro; do you find reading text a little difficult on your iPad mini?; CNET's Maggie Reardon on whether malware should factor into the iPhone vs. Android debate; and Macworld's Chris Breen and Melissa Perenson debate iPad mini versus the Nexus 7.

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"Apple's U.S. Mac-making plan would create 200 jobs -- report" CNET News 7:34 PM
  • "Apple to create 3,800, bringing back innovation and jobs to U.S."?Examiner?1:00 PM
  • "Why Apple Manufacturing Needs Few Workers"?Tech.pinions?3:23 PM
  • "Apple's U.S. Mac-making plan would create 200 jobs -- report"?CNET News?7:34 PM
  • "Apple and Google making joint bid for Kodak patents, report says: An Apple-Google joint effort to procure Kodak's patents could auger a somewhat less litigious atmosphere in the future."?CNET News?7:29 AM
  • "Why is Wall Street losing its appetite for Apple?"?Associated Press [Free Registration Required]?7:47 AM
  • "Judge Frustrated with Apple, Samsung Lawyers in Copyright Trial"?eWeek?1:02 PM
  • "Billions at stake in Apple's decision: Chip factory search, which may include region, comes as industry's tides shift"?Albany Times Union?8:01 AM
  • "Apple's 'Made in USA' computer likely to be Mac Pro"?Fortune?7:37 AM
  • "Watch Tim Cook's Full Interview On Last Night's NBC Rock Center Here [Video]?Cult of Mac?12/7
  • "Apple CEO Tim Cook Announces U.S. Mac Production, Warns: 'Don't Bet Against Us'"?Time?12/7
  • "Tim Cook Again Expresses Intense Interest In TV Market, But Mutes The Real Issues"?Forbes?12/7
  • "FaceTime: Apple Television' killer feature/Tim Cook hints heavily that video chat will be the Apple Television's killer feature"?Macworld UK?12/7
  • "Apple to Reel In Some Manufacturing Jobs"?MacNewsWorld?12/7
  • "Apple brings manufacturing of Macs back to the U.S."?Marketplace?12/7
  • "Apple's Power Within/Whether Apple's share-price plunge is justified comes down to one question: Is the iPhone maker a hardware or a software company? Right now, it is more the latter. And that is why the 22% drop in the shares since their September peak creates an opportunity for investors."?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?12/7
  • "On Legacy iPhones and Cannibalization"?AllThingsD?12/7
  • "Apple Scoffs At Judge's Notion Of 'Global Peace': Apple, Samsung trial judge makes a plea for peace, but Apple isn't having any of it."?InformationWeek?12/7
  • "Apple v. Samsung: Why peace can't happen in the patent war"?Computerworld?12/7
  • "German court stays Samsung lawsuit against Apple over smiley input method patent"?Foss Patents?12/7
  • "The real threat that Samsung poses to Apple"?asymco?12/7
  • "Apple v. Samsung Back in Court: Here's What the Judge Will Decide"?Mashable?12/7
  • "Apple and Samsung: A defining rivalry in a changed mobile market"?Reuters?12/7
  • "Federal Circuit grants FRAND supporters more time to file amicus briefs in Apple-Google case"?Foss Patents?12/7
  • "Wi-LAN Sues Apple over LTE based iPhone 5 and iPad 3"?Patently Apple?12/7

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News
  • "Microsoft starts to push Hotmail users to Outlook.com, hints at future Mac client"?The Verge?12/7
  • "Apple hires ex-Microsoft Vista security researcher"?The Inquirer?12/7
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
  • "iTunes 11: Pathetic performance when editing tags"?Betalogue?7:43 PM
  • "One way to tackle captive network connection errors in OS X: Adjustments to certificate handling for some captive network setups may help overcome network access errors or blocks that prevent e-mail or Web access."?MacFixIt?12/7
  • "Organize your OS X Spotlight searches for better results: While it may seem logical to prioritize commonly accessed file types in Spotlight's search results, doing the opposite may in fact be more convenient."?MacFixIt?12/7
  • "Join CD Tracks option not appearing in iTunes 11"?iLounge?12/7
  • "Bugs & Fixes: Troubleshooting iTunes 11"?Macworld?12/7
Reviews/How-To/Tips
  • "How to Add Retina Display Support to Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac"?MacTrast?1:06 PM
  • "Q&A: MacFixIt Answers/This week readers e-mailed in questions about Target Display mode in iMac systems, RAM purchases for Macs, and more."?MacFixIt?12/7
  • "iTunes 11 for old fogies: Where did all that stuff go?"?TUAW?12/7
  • "Review: Curio 8 gives you more planning and presenting power"?Macworld?12/7
  • "How to use iTunes in the Cloud under iTunes 11"?iMore?12/7
  • "Use These Sweet Keyboard Shortcuts To Control iTunes 11 [OS X Tips]?Cult of Mac?12/7
  • "Scripts to disable and enable password for lock screen after sleep or screen saver"?Mac OS X Hints?12/7
  • "How Do You Track Carbs On A Mac? There's A Carbydacious App For That"?TeraTalks?12/7
  • "You Can't Do Anything About The Weather But You Can Watch It Better On Your Mac"?BohemianBoomer?12/7
  • "How To Convert Video Files On A Mac, Free And With Drag and Drop Simplicity"?McSolo?12/7
  • "An Easier And Free Way To Take Notes On Your Mac (the secret is in the Mac's menubar)"?NoodleMac?12/7
  • "The Mac And iPhone Home Budget App I Want To Love (but love is a fleeting thing)"?Mac 360?12/7
  • "Bored With Your Environment? Fix It With The Environment Enhancer App"?Mac 360?12/7
  • "The New Animation Kid In Town: Animationist Brings Easy Title Art Animation To The Mac"?Mac 360?12/7
Op/Ed
  • "OS X 10.8.2 Update Fixed, Sonnet's Thunderbolt PCIe Expansion Chassis, and More 'Book News"?Low End Mac?9:21 PM
  • "I'm not a troll, stop calling me one/OPINION: The other day I wrote a column criticizing iTunes. It was somewhat harsh. 'Each new upgrade brings more suckage into your computer,' I argued under the headline, 'Won't Someone Take iTunes Out Back and Shoot It?'"?Slate?12/7
  • "iTunes 11 and Classical Music"?Kirkville?12/7
Press Releases
  • "Wallpaper Weekends: Winterize Your New iMac"?MacTrast?1:06 PM
  • "Mac Apps: Little Snitch 3.0.2, OS X Server 2.2, Quicksilver 71 updates"?FairerPlatform?7:33 AM
  • "Cult of Mac Discovers Unix"?Rixstep?7:32 AM
  • "SecureMac Guide - Top 10 Security Tips for Mac OS X Mountain Lion"?prMac?12/7
  • "Batman: Arkham City GotYE Available For Pre-Order At MGS"?Inside Mac Games?12/7
  • "ResExcellence is under new ownership. The new site will take a different approach than the original, but we'll never forget our roots - there will be Mac OS X customization articles and a legacy category for pre-OS X content. The new site will focus on Mac/iOS news, reviews, tips and more."?ResExcellence?12/7
  • "Mac Video Pro: Final Cut Pro, Compressor, Motion updates"?FairerPlatform?12/7
  • "Best Buy sends five iPads in error, says 'keep them': In an attack of holiday spirit, Best Buy admits it made a mistake in sending a customer five iPads instead of one. The company says the customer should give the extras to people in need."?CNET News?3:33 PM
  • "Heartless teen steals iPhone from wheelchair of quadriplegic man with cerebral palsy who needs device to SPEAK"?Daily Mail (UK)?1:01 PM
  • "Survey: Most Filipinos want a gadget for Christmas" ["Most of them wanted an Apple product. The top answer was the iPhone, then follows the iPad, the iPod and the Macbook Air. Several people also wanted Samsung's Galaxy products."]?YugaTech?8:24 PM
  • "Soon Your Phone Will Be Able To Figure Out How You're Feeling"?Gizmodo?9:49 AM
  • "A U.S. Apple factory may be robot city: Apple will need to rely on automation to make its U.S. factory work"?Computerworld?12/7
  • "Aerial photos offer overhead look at Apple's Oregon data center site"?AppleInsider?12/7
  • "Live stream: Brian Williams & The Verge editor Joshua Topolsky answer questions about Tim Cook interview"?NBC News?12/7
  • "Apple move excites Elk Grove: It was a source of community pride ? the first candy-colored iMac computers, the ones that fueled Apple's comeback in the late 1990s, were assembled at the company's Elk Grove campus."?Sacramento Bee?12/7
  • "'Made in USA' not just Apple: Apple's announcement that it will shift some of its production back to the United States hopefully will encourage other companies to follow suit, manufacturing industry insiders said: even if Apple's move is mostly a symbolic step."?Fortune Small Business?12/7
  • "Apple's iPad Ad Impressions vs. Unit Market Share"?Forbes?12/7
  • "Amazon, Samsung, Google tablets are 'credible competition' to the iPad: report"?ZDNet?12/7
  • "Scalpers Lay Seige to iPad Mini Launch in Beijing"?WSJ Blogs?12/7
  • "Turnout for Apple's iPad mini in mainland China is minimal"?Fortune?12/7
  • "China's mini Apple takes slice of smartphone pie"?Reuters?12/7
  • "Video: Apple's iPhone 5 draws crowds in Samsung's home turf"?Fortune?12/7
  • "Apple Brings iPad Mini to India"?WSJ Blogs?12/7
  • "iPad mini and iPad 4 Goes on Sale in Malaysia Today"?VernonChan?12/7
  • "iPhone Sales Should Get a Modest Lift From T-Mobile"?AllThingsD?12/7
  • "Without iPhone, Japan's biggest mobile carrier is losing subscribers at a record rate"?VentureBeat?12/7
  • "China's mini Apple takes slice of smartphone pie"?Reuters?12/7
  • "Mobile developers: this is how you get 500,000 installs in one day"?VentureBeat?12/7
  • "Apple's Jony Ive supports UK design industry as they tell Michael Gove to put design into the EBacc: Apple's design chief signed a letter to education minister asking him to reconsider omission of art and design in the EBacc qualification"?Digital Arts?12/7
  • "iPads Continue To Vanish At The Airport Thanks To Thieving TSA Officers"?Cult of Mac?12/7
  • "Pepsi Launches Promo With Apple's Passbook"?Mashable?12/7
Non-Apple News
  • "Verizon Wants to Track Your Movements While You Watch TV"?Mashable?8:24 PM
  • "Samsung Galaxy Muse takes on the iPod Shuffle: The tiny and stylish MP3 player does for Samsung what the iPod Shuffle does for iOS."?CNET Reviews?12/7
  • "Make IT Better: Every pupil should have the chance to code, says Raspberry Pi creator"?V3?12/7
  • "RIM touts importance of 4G to BlackBerry 10 success"?V3?12/7
  • "Sony silently surprises with web-based digital store"?TG Daily?12/7
  • "These contact lenses have embedded LCD displays"?TG Daily?12/7
  • "A Personal Assistant Created from the Crowd by Smart Software"?Technology Review?12/7
  • "Samsung's New Premium Suite Update Brings Split-Screen Multitasking To The Galaxy S III"?TechCrunch?12/7
  • "PayPal phishing scams ramp up for holidays"?CSO?12/7
  • "Cablevision Increasing Broadband Prices by $5 Per Month"?PC Magazine?12/7
  • "Go Phishing: Rapid7 Lets Companies Test Their Own Networks"?CRN?12/7
  • "Kindle Fire Family Now Available at GameStop"?PC Magazine?12/7
  • "Kindle Fire line builds its voice and touch accessibility skills: Amazon is expanding support for two important accessibility features to its entire Kindle Fire tablet series."?CNET News?12/7
  • "YouTube Makeover Offers Larger Videos"?Webmonkey?12/7
  • "YouTube redesigns again, tightens focus on channels"?Washington Post [Free Registration Required]?12/7
  • "Google Kills Free Google Apps For Business, Now Only Offering Premium Paid Version To Companies Of All Sizes"?TechCrunch?12/7
  • "Google to start charging small businesses for Google Apps: The company has done away with a free version available to firms with 10 or fewer users, but private users are still free"?IDG News Service?12/7
Publications/Podcasts
  • "The Vergecast 057 - December 7th, 2012"?The Verge?9:40 AM
  • "Gene Steinberg meets Kirk McElhearn, Macworld's 'iTunes Guy,' and best-selling author Bob 'Dr. Mac' LeVitus this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?12/7
  • "Podcast: Tim Cook, GTA Vice City, T-Mobile, iPhone sans contract, Eneloop Batteries"?Insanely Great Mac?12/7

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  • "Three reasons a Windows 8 laptop leads, MacBook lags: While the MacBook Air is a wonderful design, it's not perfect. And HP offers some compelling reasons to consider a Windows 8 laptop."?CNET News?7:34 PM
  • "The Curious Way T-Mobile Unveiled its Apple Partnership"?Forbes?3:40 PM
  • "Finally: Apple and Google said to bid $500M for Kodak imaging patents"?VentureBeat?1:08 PM
  • "Op-Ed: An Apple Television Would Be A Horrible Idea"?App Advice?1:06 PM
  • "Barbra is bullish on Apple"?Fortune?1:00 PM
  • "The Macalope Weekly: It's a wonder"?Macworld?9:44 AM
  • "Mumbling at Siri"?iSource?9:40 AM
  • "Apple and Google team up for $500 million bid on Kodak patents"?iDownload Blog?7:45 AM
  • "Apple and Google supposedly join forces to buy out Kodak patents"?iMore?7:45 AM
  • "Apple + Google Bid on Kodak Patents"?Tapscape?7:33 AM
  • "Why Apple Got a 'Made in U.S.A.' Bug"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?12/7
  • "Apple iPad & iPad mini Smoke the Competition's Battery Life"?The Mac Observer?12/7
  • "How to Change the TV Habits of Viewers, 10 Million at a Time"?The Mac Observer?12/7
  • "Why I'm writing on the iPad"?Macworld?12/7
  • "Apple's Bad Omen From Losing To Nokia In China"?Forbes?12/7
  • "Apple's bringing some manufacturing back to the U.S. But is it just a stunt?"?VentureBeat?12/7
  • "iPad 5: release date, specs, price, news and rumours"?T3?12/7
  • "Would You Pay More For A 'Made In The U.S.A.' Mac?"?Forbes?12/7
  • "One future of Apple's US manufacturing, as suggested by the fantasy assembly line Steve Jobs built at NeXT in the 1980s"?Quartz?12/7
  • "What Tim Cook's interviews revealed about the past, present, and future of Apple"?iMore?12/7
  • "10 Follow Up Questions For Apple CEO Tim Cook, If You Please"?Forbes?12/7
  • "'Post-PC' is more than just marketing buzz for Apple CEO Tim Cook"?BGR?12/7
  • "Apple CEO Tim Cook to Brian Williams: 'Don't bet against us.'/NBC interview offers a few frank quotes from Cook about Apple and Steve Jobs."?Ars Technica?12/7
  • "Quotations from CEO Cook"?Fortune?12/7
  • "Excited About Apple TV? Don't Watch This Video"?AllThingsD?12/7
  • "Apple sees TV 'as a market that's been left behind'"?GigaOM?12/7
  • "Has Apple gone soft? Tim Cook, say it ain't so: Bloomberg Businessweek suggests that with recent corporate expressions such as moving some Mac production to the U.S., Apple is showing its 'softer side.' Oh, really?"?CNET News?12/7
  • "Tim Cook tells Brian Williams that 'TV has been left behind'"?The Verge?12/7
  • "Apple CEO Tim Cook Goes Public To Reveal More Of What Makes Apple Tick"?PixoBebo?12/7
  • "Modern Combat 4 for iPad, iPhone: The Reviews Are In"?Tapscape?12/7
Non-Apple
  • "So this is how it ends: DARPA demos a flying drone with a 6-foot claw (Video)"?Engadget?12/7
  • "Want to see what the first GamePad looked like?"?CNET News?12/7
  • "McAfee's wild and crazy ride leads back to Belize"?MarketWatch?12/7
  • "RIM BlackBerry 10: Initial Impressions Positive"?TheStreet?12/7
  • "15 holiday gamer geek gifts" [Slideshow]?ZDNet?12/7
  • "My Nexus S can't keep up with Android's pace, but I'm (mostly) not bitter"?ZDNet?12/7
  • "Inside ARM: The British success story taking the chip world by storm"?ZDNet?12/7
  • "Your Own Private Google: The Quest for an Open Source Search Engine"?Wired Magazine?12/7
  • "Christmas tablet frenzy to shake up corporate IT in 2013"?V3?12/7
  • "Developers Will Love This: Facebook Now Auto-Generates Documentation From Source Code"?TechCrunch?12/7
  • "Carrier Wi-Fi, optical net markets are booming"?EE Times?12/7
  • "10 gifts for obscenely wealthy PC fanatics" [Slideshow]?PCWorld?12/7
  • "Triumph and disaster: Two migrations to OpenOffice/Two cities dumped Microsoft Office for OpenOffice, with vastly different results. Here's what went right -- and terribly wrong"?InfoWorld?12/7
  • "GameStop: Can it brave the digital storm?"?Fortune?12/7
  • "US video game sales 'dip' despite mega-launches"?BBC?12/7
  • "T-Mobile Ending Phone Subsidies: A Victory For Transparency"?BYTE?12/7
  • "My Best Tech Gift Ever: A 133MHz IBM PC 350"?CNET News?12/7
  • "CarryAlongs Dominate, Enterprise Struggles and Hacktivists Rule in 2013"?AllThingsD?12/7
  • "Tech Guru Mark Anderson's Top 10 Predictions For 2013"?Forbes?12/7
  • "Reality Absorption Field: The one-two punch (minus the two)"?TUAW?12/7
Humor/Cartoons
  • "Windows 8 Sales Plagued By Tablet Delays: Windows 8 tablets powered by Intel's Atom 'Clover Trail' chip were supposed to hit the price-performance sweet spot: but just try finding one."?InformationWeek?9:42 AM
  • "Microsoft Surface Pro has only 4 to 5 hours battery life"?PC-Tablet?7:54 AM
  • "Is Microsoft Taking a Bite of Apple's Chinese Success?"?The Motley Fool?7:48 AM
  • "Bringing the start menu back to Windows 8 is bad news"?The Next Web?7:56 AM
  • "Dell founder 'turned down Autonomy': Billionaire entrepreneur Michael Dell has revealed that Autonomy was offered to him before it was bought by Hewlett-Packard, but that he rejected the British software firm because it was 'overwhelmingly obvious' that it was overpriced."?Telegraph?8:53 PM
  • "HP, RIM take flak from nervous financial industry customers"?Reuters?7:59 AM
  • "HP to Apple: We already make PCs in the US, thank you very much"?Neowin?9:41 AM
  • "Can HP and Dell Duplicate IBM's Success?"?TheStreet?12/7
  • "IBM Draws Flak for Change to 401(k) Plan"?Bloomberg?12/7
  • "IBM Shakes-Up 401(k) Benefit Policy Payment Terms" [Video Report]?Bloomberg?12/7
  • "IBM Launches Cloud Docs; Eyes Google, Microsoft: IBM gets serious about becoming a player in end-user cloud services for the enterprise."?InformationWeek?12/7
  • "IBM adds collaboration tools to SmartCloud"?V3?12/7
  • "Goldman Sachs: Microsoft has gone from 97% of computing market to 20%"?Seattle Times?12/7
  • "China Unicom, Microsoft Forge Alliance To Boost Windows Phone Sales In China"?TechCrunch?12/7
  • "Microsoft to release 'critical' Windows 8, IE10 patches"?ZDNet?12/7
  • "Windows 8, RT to receive more critical patches next Tuesday"?CNET News?12/7
  • "Microsoft to push Surface tablets through retailers in two-phase rollout?"?ZDNet?12/7
  • "Surface tablets may be heading to retailers soon: Redmond is set to begin selling its Surface RT devices through non-Microsoft retail stores in two phases, a source tells one Windows watcher."?CNET News?12/7
  • "Microsoft pulls the plug on its Silverlight.Net site"?ZDNet?12/7
  • "Xbox 360 outshines Wii U in November, NPD says"?CNET News?12/7
  • "2 Emerging Markets HP Should Enter to Turn Itself Around"?CIO?12/7
  • "Dell storage boss Topgun Thomas leaves 'to pursue a new opportunity': Darren Thomas, head of Dell's Storage Group, is leaving the company, following several quarters of declining revenue and an influx of new executive blood into Dell."?The Register?12/7
  • "AMD Cuts Chip Orders From Globalfoundries Amid PC Slump"?Bloomberg?12/7
  • "AMD slashes chip orders as PC market slumps: The company has reduced orders to contract chip maker GlobalFoundries in the current quarter from $500 million down to $115 million"?IDG News Service?12/7
  • "Intel upping Atom ante"?EE Times?12/7
  • "Intel releases open source GraphBuilder for big data"?V3?12/7
  • "Intel says it remains committed to user-replaceable CPUs for 'foreseeable future'"?ZDNet?12/7
  • "Cisco's Chambers Affirms Revenue Target Amid Expansion"?Bloomberg?12/7
  • "Cisco's Chambers: Here's How We've Outgunned Our Competitors"?CRN?12/7
  • "Cisco's mid-term growth strategy betting on IT software, security"?ZDNet?12/7
  • "Cisco bets on software and services for mid-term growth"?Reuters?12/7
  • "Cisco CEO sees tech services driving steady growth"?MarketWatch?12/7
  • "Cisco to 'Bring Sex' to Marketing Campaign"?TheStreet?12/7
  • "FAA urged to allow portable devices during takeoff"?TG Daily?12/7
  • "The UN's Internet power grab: An FAQ/What it is, what it isn't, and how it will affect you."?PCWorld?12/7
  • "Silicon Valley Needs To Get Out More: The next great technology problems to solve are out there in rail yards, power plants and farm fields. If Silicon Valley is going to drive this 'Internet of things,' it needs to build closer ties with companies in established industries."?InformationWeek?12/7
  • "The grinch who stole IT's Christmas: Bad news about IT wages and bonuses, as well as job pressures from offshoring and shift to the cloud, dampen holiday cheer"?InfoWorld?12/7
  • "Why the desktop PC may see a comeback in the mobile era"?InfoWorld?12/7

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Scientists investigate how rice bran can reduce cancer incidence

By Sola Ogundipe

A recent University of Colorado Cancer Center review in the journal Advances in Nutrition shows that rice bran offers promising cancer prevention properties just as an ongoing clinical trial is testing the effectiveness of rice bran in preventing the recurrence of colon cancer.

Assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences at the CSU Animal Cancer Center, Dr. Elizabeth P. Ryan says there?s a delicate balance of bioactive components in rice bran that together show anti-cancer activity including the ability to inhibit cell proliferation, alter cell cycle progression and initiate the programmed cell death in malignant cells.

Ryan, a trained molecular toxicologist is excited about the opportunities to deliver bioactive, cancer fighting compounds with food, and this has led to her focus on the multiple drug-like characteristics of rice bran.

Ryan and colleagues are collaborating to evaluate how rice bran may also help to promote an anti-cancer immune response and modulate gut microbiota metabolism for protection against cancer.

?We?re working now to tease apart the ratios of these active molecules required for bioactivity and mechanisms. Previous attempts to isolate one or another compound have been largely unsuccessful and so it looks now as if rather than any one compound giving rice bran its chemopreventive powers, it?s the synergistic activity of multiple components in the whole food that should be studied, she observed.

Work with cancer cell lines and animal models shows that the bioactive components of rice bran act not only within cancer cells but around the cells to create conditions in the surrounding tissues that promote the function of healthy cells while inhibiting the function of cancer cells. This tissue microenvironment activity includes mediating chronic inflammation that provides a ripe landscape for cancer.

There are over 100,000 varieties of rice in the world, many with their own unique mix of bioactive components and so one major challenge is to discover the optimal composition for chemoprevention. Another challenge is ensuring that people consistently receive the required daily intake amount or ?dose? needed to demonstrate these chemo-protective effects.

Ryan has taken the next step in the evolution of rice bran from diet to prescription, in the form of an ongoing clinical trial testing its chemopreventive effectiveness in a population of colon cancer survivors.

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Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/scientists-investigate-how-rice-bran-can-reduce-cancer-incidence/

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Brain study shows why some people are more in tune with what they want

[ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 9-Dec-2012
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Contact: Jen Middleton
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Wellcome Trust

Wellcome Trust researchers have discovered how the brain assesses confidence in its decisions. The findings explain why some people have better insight into their choices than others.

Throughout life, we're constantly evaluating our options and making decisions based on the information we have available. How confident we are in those decisions has clear consequences. For example, investment bankers have to be confident that they're making the right choice when deciding where to put their clients' money.

Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL led by Professor Ray Dolan have pinpointed the specific areas of the brain that interact to compute both the value of the choices we have in front of us and our confidence in those choices, giving us the ability to know what we want.

The team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure activity in the brains of twenty hungry volunteers while they made choices between food items that they would later eat. To determine the subjective value of the snack options, the participants were asked to indicate how much they would be willing to pay for each snack. Then after making their choice, they were asked to report how confident they were that they had made the right decision and selected the best snack.

It has previously been shown that a region at the front of the brain, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, is important for working out the value of decision options. The new findings reveal that the level of activity in this area is also linked to the level of confidence participants placed on choosing the best option. The study also shows that the interaction between this area of the brain and an adjacent area reflects participants' ability to access and report their level of confidence in their choices.

Dr Steve Fleming, a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow now based at New York University, explains: "We found that people's confidence varied from decision to decision. While we knew where to look for signals of value computation, it was very interesting to also observe neural signals of confidence in the same brain region."

Dr Benedetto De Martino, a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at UCL, added: "Overall, we think our results provide an initial account both of how people make choices, and also their insight into the decision process."

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The findings are published online today in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Reference

B. De Martino et al. Confidence in value-based choice. Nature Neuroscience, 2012. [Epub ahead of print]



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Wellcome Trust researchers have discovered how the brain assesses confidence in its decisions. The findings explain why some people have better insight into their choices than others.

Throughout life, we're constantly evaluating our options and making decisions based on the information we have available. How confident we are in those decisions has clear consequences. For example, investment bankers have to be confident that they're making the right choice when deciding where to put their clients' money.

Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL led by Professor Ray Dolan have pinpointed the specific areas of the brain that interact to compute both the value of the choices we have in front of us and our confidence in those choices, giving us the ability to know what we want.

The team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure activity in the brains of twenty hungry volunteers while they made choices between food items that they would later eat. To determine the subjective value of the snack options, the participants were asked to indicate how much they would be willing to pay for each snack. Then after making their choice, they were asked to report how confident they were that they had made the right decision and selected the best snack.

It has previously been shown that a region at the front of the brain, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, is important for working out the value of decision options. The new findings reveal that the level of activity in this area is also linked to the level of confidence participants placed on choosing the best option. The study also shows that the interaction between this area of the brain and an adjacent area reflects participants' ability to access and report their level of confidence in their choices.

Dr Steve Fleming, a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow now based at New York University, explains: "We found that people's confidence varied from decision to decision. While we knew where to look for signals of value computation, it was very interesting to also observe neural signals of confidence in the same brain region."

Dr Benedetto De Martino, a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at UCL, added: "Overall, we think our results provide an initial account both of how people make choices, and also their insight into the decision process."

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The findings are published online today in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Reference

B. De Martino et al. Confidence in value-based choice. Nature Neuroscience, 2012. [Epub ahead of print]



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Penguins help out Father Christmas in Japan

Everyone knows that Father Christmas is traditionally helped by elves, but as they are presumably very busy getting ready in the North Pole, a flock of penguins are helping out at an aquarium near the Japanese capital Tokyo.

Visitors to Yokohama's Sea Paradise are treated to a daily "Penguin Christmas Parade" in which six cape penguins, wrapped up in their best Christmas outfits, waddle alongside Father Christmas.

The aquarium's caretaker Shingo Sato said: "We hope combining the normal joy of seeing animals with Christmas gives visitors extra pleasure."

After the parade, the penguins have one more special task to complete when darkness falls, as they are the ones who get to turn on the aquarium's Christmas lights.

Source: http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/579330/s/26665b2f/l/0L0Stelegraph0O0Ctopics0Cchristmas0Cchristmas0Evideos0C9731770A0CPenguins0Ehelp0Eout0EFather0EChristmas0Ein0EJapan0Bhtml/story01.htm

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NASA's Van Allen Probes reveal new dynamics of Earth's radiation belts

ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2012) ? Just 96 days since their launch, NASA's twin Van Allen Probes have already provided new insights into the structure and behavior of the radiation belts that surround Earth, giving scientists a clearer understanding about the fundamental physical properties of these regions more than half a century after their discovery.

In a press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 4 at the American Geophysical Union's 2012 Fall Meeting in San Francisco, members of the Van Allen Probes science team discussed current findings made in unlocking the mysteries of the radiation belts. These two donut-shaped regions of high-energy and hazardous particles -- named for their discoverer and the mission's namesake, American physicist James Van Allen of the University of Iowa -- are created by our planet's magnetosphere, and can harm space technologies such as satellites, as well as affect human space travel.

Throughout the brief early life of the two-year mission, energetic events and ejections of plasma from the sun caused dramatic changes in the radiation belts that, for the first time, were observed by twin spacecraft within the belts. "The sun has been a driver of these systems more than we had any right to expect," says Daniel Baker, Principal Investigator, Van Allen Probes Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope (REPT, which is part of the Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma Suite, or ECT), from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "We're seeing brand new features we hadn't expected."

The twin probes, built and managed for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., contain identical sets of five instrument suites. These suites have confirmed previous hypotheses about the belts' behavior, while also revealing that the belts are a far more dynamic and changing environment than previously thought. "We expected to see a fairly placid radiation belt system," Baker says. "Instead, we see that the belts have been extraordinarily active and dynamic during the first few weeks. We're looking in the right places at the right times."

Our planet's magnetosphere captures particles from the billions of tons of plasma ejected by the sun and from other sources; fields and waves of electricity and magnetism control and guide the charged particles within the belts, with the particles "surfing" on the waves, losing or gaining large amounts of energy along the way as they enter and leave the region. Measurements made by instruments like the Electric Fields and Waves Suite (EFW) and the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) are helping scientists understand how those fields and waves affect the particles. "The electric field and magnetic field measurements on the Van Allen Probes are the best ever made in the radiation belts," says the University of Iowa's Craig Kletzing, Principal Investigator for EMFISIS. "For the first time, we've been able to see how long intense low frequency electric fields and waves at the edge of the radiation belts can last -- sometimes for over five hours during geomagnetic storms. Before, it was like we could see a car zoom past, but not see anything about the details. Now, we can see what color the upholstery is."

The inner belt, where many satellites must operate, is home to the most hazardous and energized particles, mostly protons. "A staggering number of the spacecraft we rely upon daily have to spend a part of their orbit in the harshest area of Earth's radiation environment," says Joseph Mazur of the Aerospace Corporation, Principal Investigator of the probes' Relativistic Proton Spectrometer (RPS). The Van Allen Probes are providing researchers with detailed views of how the populations of those particles vary with altitude, which should help engineers more effectively protect satellites. "This is the first time we've been able to measure the high energy particles in the heart of the radiation belts," Mazur said. "We're able to measure at the one billion electron volt level; particles at that energy are virtually impossible to shield against. They will easily penetrate half-inch thick aluminum plate." Particles at that energy level are known to cause a range of damages to spacecraft, from physical degradation to instrument malfunctions and false readings.

"NASA built these spacecraft to be super tough, and thank goodness we did," says APL's Nicky Fox, Van Allen Probes deputy project scientist. "The instruments are seeing the exact sorts of damaging effects we designed the spacecraft to survive."

The Van Allen Probes are part of NASA's Living With a Star Program to explore aspects of the connected sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society. LWS is managed by the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. APL built the twin spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA.

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Chinese officials punished for deadly demolition

Chinese state media say 17 officials and workers have been punished after two people died during the forced demolition of a building.

The official Xinhua News Agency says a cement board fell from the illegally constructed building as It was being demolished Friday in Renhuai city in southwest China's Guizhou province, killing two workers and injuring three others.

Xinhua said Saturday that local residents carried the bodies to the city government building, causing a disturbance.

It said three officials were criminally detained for dereliction of duty, five others were suspended, and nine workers involved in the demolition were detained.

Forced demolition is common in China, as local governments try to remake their cities. But it is rare for officials or demolition workers to be punished.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/08/3132895/chinese-officials-punished-for.html

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Claims against dispersant company used in BP oil spill dismissed

wwltv.com

Posted on December 4, 2012 at 11:23 AM

Updated Tuesday, Dec 4 at 11:53 AM

David Hammer / Eyewitness News
Email: dhammer@wwltv.com | Twitter: @davidhammerWWL

NEW?ORLEANS - Even as the National Academy of Sciences warns about the dangers of chemical dispersants to clean oil spills, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier has dismissed all claims in the BP oil spill case against Nalco, the maker of the dispersant that was used in unprecedented quantities to combat the 2010 BP spill.

BP recommended, and the U.S. government approved, the use of 1.8 million gallons of Nalco?s Corexit dispersant to break up the oil, both at the source of the leak a mile under the sea, and at the water?s surface. Cleanup workers filed hundreds of claims against the company in federal court claiming that exposure to the chemical made them sick.

The way Nalco got out of the civil case is interesting. Barbier?s order granting summary judgment says Nalco is not liable because its use was part of a national spill response plan that mandates oil companies to clean up the oil as fast as possible.

But the judge also noted that plaintiffs? lawyers on a committee he selected, called the Plaintiffs Steering Committee, failed to conduct witness interviews and seek documents and other information to challenge the defenses presented by Nalco and stipulated to by the U.S. government.

Later, when the plaintiffs? lawyers tried to argue for maintaining the claims against Nalco, they admitted that they didn?t produce any evidence by an April court deadline because they were focusing instead on settling economic and medical claims against BP. They said in court filings that they did so for ?strategic reasons.?

They ended up getting a settlement with BP to pay economic and medical damage claims estimated at $7.8 billion.

One major argument against Corexit has focused on the U.S. government?s wishy-washy initial response to the volumes of Corexit BP was using. But government lawyers have subsequently produced evidence that the United States approved of the use of Corexit in those amounts at every step. The plaintiffs later said that they didn?t accept those claims and wanted to examine the government?s witnesses, but the judge said that by then, they had missed their chance.

?The (Plaintiffs Steering Committee)?s failure to avail itself of the opportunity to test the veracity of the United States? stipulations provides no reason for the Court to disregard these stipulations,? Barbier wrote.

Steve Herman, the co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs' committee said they were fine with dismissing Nalco because BP?stepped up to the plate and admitted liability for medical claims as a part of their settlement.

"As we said in our original Motion to dismiss Nalco, BP is responsible, both as a matter of law and by virtue of contractual indemnity agreements,"?Herman said. "Indeed, BP has formally assumed the responsibility for compensating the clean-up workers and other Gulf Coast residents in the medical benefits settlement.

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Source: http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/orleans/Claims-against-dispersant-company-used-in-BP-oil-spill-dismmissed-182031341.html

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Barber?s office collecting holiday cards for U.S. troops

U.S. Rep. Ron Barber announced yesterday that his Southern Arizona offices will be collecting holiday cards to be sent to members of the armed forces and veterans.

?This is a challenging time of year for our veterans being treated at the VA and our brave troops who are away from their families as they serve our nation,? said Barber, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, in a recent news release. ?I ask Southern Arizonans to join me in sending a holiday message to each of these men and women to let them know that our thoughts and good wishes are with them.?

Barber is asking schools across Southern Arizona as well as individuals to drop off holiday cards at his offices in Tucson and Sierra Vista. The cards then will be sent to troops from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and Fort Huachuca who are stationed in Arizona and deployed overseas. Cards also will be distributed to veterans at the Southern Arizona VA Medical Center.

A brief message of thanks should be written inside each card. Envelopes are not necessary, but if they are included, should be unaddressed and unsealed.?

Members of the military who receive cards from school groups often like to respond. So cards from schools should have a school address and teacher?s name on each card.

This will be the fourth year that the District 8 congressional office has collected holiday cards for troops and veterans. For the last three years, Barber oversaw the program as district director for then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

Cards can be brought to either the Tucson office, 3945 E. Fort Lowell Road, Suite 211 at the northeast corner of East Fort Lowell Road and North Alvernon Way, or to the Sierra Vista Office at 77 Calle Portal, Suite B-160.

The deadline for dropping off cards is Friday, December 14 at 5 p.m.

Source: http://sierravista-fthuachuca.tucsonnewsnow.com/news/community-spirit/95289-barbers-office-collecting-holiday-cards-us-troops

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