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Saturday, January 19, 2013

GOP eyes new election laws

BOSTON (AP) ? After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win.

From Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, GOP officials who control legislatures in states that supported President Barack Obama are considering changing state laws that give the winner of a state's popular vote all of its Electoral College votes, too. Instead, these officials want Electoral College votes to be divided proportionally, a move that could transform the way the country elects its president.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus endorsed the idea this week, and other Republican leaders support it, too, suggesting that the effort may be gaining momentum. There are other signs that Republican state legislators, governors and veteran political strategists are seriously considering making the shift as the GOP looks to rebound from presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Electoral College shellacking and the demographic changes that threaten the party's long-term political prospects.

"It's something that a lot of states that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red ought to be looking at," Priebus told the Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, emphasizing that each state must decide for itself.

Democrats are outraged at the potential change.

Obama won the popular vote with 65.9 million votes, or 51.1 percent, to Romney's 60.9 million and won the Electoral College by a wide margin, 332-206 electoral votes. It's unclear whether he would have been re-elected under the new system, depending upon how many states adopted the change.

While some Republican officials warn of a political backlash, GOP lawmakers in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are already lining up behind proposals that would allocate electoral votes by congressional district or something similar.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he "could go either way" on the change and doesn't plan to push it. But he said it's a reasonable issue to debate and that he prefers that leaders discuss it well before the next presidential election.

"It could be done in a thoughtful (way) over the next couple years and people can have a thoughtful discussion," Snyder said.

Republican leaders in the Michigan Statehouse have yet to decide whether to embrace the change there. But state Rep. Peter Lund, a Republican who introduced a bill to change the allocation system two years ago, said some Republicans might be more receptive to his bill this year following the election.

"We never really pushed it before," he said, adding that the bill wasn't designed to help one party more than the other.

Democrats aren't convinced. And they warned of political consequences for Republicans who back the shift ? particularly those governors up for re-election in 2014, which include the governors of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, among others.

"This is nothing more than election-rigging," said Michigan Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer.

Each state has the authority to shape its own election law. And in at least seven states ? Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida and North Carolina ? Republicans control both chambers of the state legislature and the governor's office.

Already, Maine and Nebraska have moved away from a winner-take-all system to one that allocates electoral votes based on congressional district.

"This is a concept that's got a lot of possibility and a lot of potential," said Washington-based Republican strategist Phil Musser, acknowledging that the debate would "incite different levels of partisan acrimony." Musser also predicted that more pressing economic issues would likely take priority in most Republican-led statehouses.

In Pennsylvania, Senate Republican leader Dominic Pileggi this week renewed his call for the Republican-controlled Legislature to revamp the way it awards electoral votes by using a method based on the popular vote that would have given Romney eight of the state's 20 votes.

Democrats quickly criticized it as partisan scheme.

"It is difficult to find the words to describe just how evil this plan is," said Pennsylvania state Sen. Daylin Leach, a Democrat. "It is an obscene scheme to cheat by rigging the elections,"

Gov. Tom Corbett, who supported a related proposal from Pileggi last year, had not seen the new plan and could not say whether he supports the new version, the Republican governor's spokesman Kevin Harley said.

In Wisconsin, Republican Gov. Scott Walker has said that changing how electoral votes are allocated was an "interesting idea" but that it's not one of his priorities nor has he decided whether he supports such a change.

It's gotten a lukewarm reception in the Republican-controlled Legislature as well. No proposal has been introduced yet and no lawmaker has announced any plans to do so, but the state Assembly speaker, Robin Vos, first proposed the change back in 2007.

"I am open to that idea," Vos said in December as lawmakers prepared for the start of their session. "But I would have to hear all the arguments."

All 10 of the state's Electoral College votes went to Obama last fall under the current system. If they were awarded based on the new system, the votes would have been evenly split between Obama and Romney.

Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett sent an email plea urging people to sign a petition against the change: "We can't sit silently by as they try to manipulate the democratic process for political advantage," Barrett wrote. "We can't let them attack the very democratic institutions and rights that others have sacrificed so much to gain ? just because they don't believe they can win in a fair election fight."

So far, Republicans have only advocated for the change in states that have supported Democrats in recent elections. The view is predictably different in states where the Republican nominee is a cinch to win.

"The Electoral College has served the country quite well," said Louisiana GOP Chairman Roger Villere, who doubles as a national party vice chairman.

He continued: "This is coming from states where it might be an advantage, but I'm worried about what it means down the road. This is a system that has worked. That doesn't mean we can't talk about changes, but we have to be very careful about any actions we might take."

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Associated Press writers Peter Jackson in Pennsylvania, Scott Bauer in Wisconsin, Jeff Karoub and John Flesher in Michigan, and Bill Barrow in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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As colorectal cancer gets more aggressive, treatment with grape ...

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Molly Derry, PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Cancer Center

When the going gets tough, grape seed extract gets going: A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cancer Letters shows that the more advanced are colorectal cancer cells, the more GSE inhibits their growth and survival. On the other end of the disease spectrum, GSE leaves healthy cells alone entirely.

?We?ve known for quite a while that the bioactive compounds in grape seed extract selectively target many types of cancer cells. This study shows that many of the same mutations that allow colorectal cancer cells to metastasize and survive traditional therapies make them especially sensitive to treatment with GSE,? says Molly Derry, doctoral candidate in the lab of Rajesh Agarwal, PhD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center and professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Derry notes this is an especially important finding in light of increasing colorectal cancer rates (due in part to increasingly high-fat diets and sedentary lifestyles) and a low screening rate; that means 60 percent of patients diagnosed have already reached the advanced stage of the disease.

?Finding a way to selectively target advanced colorectal cancer cells could have major clinical importance,? Derry says.

The group performed their experiments on colorectal cancer cell lines representing various stages of the disease. Whereas it generally takes much more chemotherapy to kill a stage IV cancer cell than a stage II cancer cell, Derry saw that the reverse was true with grape seed extract.

?It required less than half the concentration of GSE to suppress cell growth and kill 50 percent of stage IV cells than it did to achieve similar results in the stage II cells,? Derry says.

The group also discovered a likely mechanism of GSE?s preferential targeting of advanced colorectal cancer cells: when cancer cells were treated with antioxidants the GSE induced cell death was reversed and so Derry and colleagues consider it likely that GSE targets colorectal cancer through inducing oxidative stress that leads to the programmed cell death known as apoptosis.

?A colorectal cancer cell can have upwards of 11,000 genetic mutations ? differences from the DNA in healthy cells. Traditional chemotherapies may only target a specific mutation and as cancer progresses more mutations occur. These changes can result in cancer that is resistance to chemotherapy. In contrast, the many bioactive compounds of GSE are able to target multiple mutations. The more mutations a cancer presents, the more effective GSE is in targeting them,? Derry says.

The Agarwal Lab continues its preclinical work studying the effectiveness and action of dietary compounds against cancer and encourages further exploration of their findings in clinical settings.

Study supported in part by NIH R01 AT003623 and NCI R01 CA112304

About the author: Garth Sundem

In addition to writing for the University of Colorado Cancer Center, Garth is the author of the books The Geeks? Guide to World Domination, Brain Candy, and Geek Logik. Contact him at garth.sundem [at] ucdenver.edu.

Source: http://engineeringevil.com/2013/01/18/as-colorectal-cancer-gets-more-aggressive-treatment-with-grape-seed-extract-is-even-more-effective/

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Creative writing by Indian Bloggers this weekend.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ? St. Jerome

Write Over the Weekend theme for this week

Begin your story using this ?You wake up, go to the bathroom and look at the mirror.?

Are we all set? Start writing and keep blogging. Remember, you have time till Sunday midnight!

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This post is a part of?<a title="Write Over the Weekend" href="http://blog.blogadda.com/category/write-over-the-weekend-wow">Write Over the Weekend</a>, an initiative for?<a title="Reach out to the largest community of Indian Bloggers" href="http://www.blogadda.com/" target="_blank">Indian Bloggers</a>?by BlogAdda

What is WOW?

With social media taking over our lives, do you feel your blog is not getting all the attention it deserves? Are you one of those who want to write, but are either spoiled for choices or having nothing that is inspiring you to write? We, at BlogAdda, understand just that and thus decide to bring to you an initiative that you shall await just as eagerly as you await weekends. We are very happy to announce a brand new initiative at your Adda which will rekindle your love for writing again. Presenting to you??WOW ? Write Over the Weekend?.?Write Over the Weekend (WOW). As the name suggests, we at BlogAdda want to rekindle your love for writing. We want you to continue writing just for the love of it. We want to bring your creativity back to the fore. We want the community to know you for your creative writing. It is as simple as that.

WOW! This is exciting. What do I do next?

We want it to be very simple. Every weekend (well, almost), starting from today, we will announce a theme on which you can WOW. ?You can submit your blogpost links in the comments section below. The best entries will get special badges to flaunt on their blogs.

Also, please do check out our latest initiative to create a community on parenting. It is called?Parentous.com

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Dementia Takes The Stage In 'The Other Place'

In the Broadway play The Other Place actress Laurie Metcalf ("Jackie" on the TV show "Roseanne") plays a scientist suffering from the dementia she studies. Playwright Sharr White discusses the play and the challenge of presenting complicated science on a theater stage.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/01/18/169708759/dementia-takes-the-stage-in-the-other-place?ft=1&f=1007

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Personal Development Tips To Help You Grow | Samuel Levitz ? A ...

It can be hard to start to work on personal development. After all, your ?self? entails many different things; it is challenging to find a suitable starting point. You will find that starting a personal development regimen is easier when you begin with quick, easy steps, and this article is intended to help you do just that. Below, ideas are listed to help you be successful in your life.

No matter what another person?s position in life may be, remember to always treat them with respect. Treating people badly as a matter of principle reflects a bad personality on your part rather than theirs.

Faith is important to your plans for personal development, and love is what keeps your faith alive. Without love, it?s impossible to have faith. Therefore, you should never just be idle on your faith. Do good deeds for those who need it, and make your faith actually mean something by loving yourself and your peers.

TIP! Are you having a difficult time meeting someone that you want to share your life with? Perhaps you should try the Internet. These days, forty percent of all relationships start on the Internet.

Often, the enemy of happiness is stress. When our minds are busy dealing with stress, we are causing damage to our entire body, both mentally and physically. Make sure to deal with stress in order to always think clearly and calmly about your goals. Find some spare time during the day to be by yourself and to clear out your mind by relaxing. Having a time to refresh can give you peace and improve your self-image.

Always aim to keep self-discipline a priority as you work on bettering yourself. You need to be able to control your body?s urges. You should strive to overcome things such as lust, greed, overeating and drunkenness. Using self-control and restraining from these horrid vices can protect you from the negative effects they may have on your body and mind.

Realizing your own self-worth is a crucial component of personal development. You need to be aware that you owe that to yourself. When all is said and done, you will not feel any regrets because you know you worked to the best of your ability.

TIP! In order to help with depression, try to add extra complex carbohydrates to your diet. Serotonin can be depleted without enough complex carbs in your diet.

Rather than bragging to others about all of your accomplishments, instead ask people about theirs. You?ll be able to find out about the wonderful things the people you know have accomplished, bringing about a new-found respect and admiration for them.

Give yourself a boost of confidence by reciting all the things you like about yourself. List the things that you love about yourself on a postcard. Keep this inspirational card with you at all times. Another great idea is to recite the list while filming yourself, so that you can view the footage regularly. How will this help?

The goals that you have set in your personal development plan should be clearly defined to show the steps toward achievement of success. If you have more tangible goals in mind, you?ll be able to better resolve how you might accomplish them. This assists you in overcoming difficult tasks and enjoying quicker success.

TIP! Remember that you cannot please everybody, and that you should be your own top priority. This does not mean privileging your happiness to a fault, but it does mean that you must take responsibility for your own happiness.

For inspiration, read about the things others have done on their paths to success. If you mimic some of the steps these individuals have taken, you just might find that some mistakes are easier to avoid. Your path to self-fulfillment will feel easier to navigate. Read up on what they did to apply the lessons in your own quest toward positive personal development.

Your physical well-being and mental health are connected. Exercise regularly and eat a nutritious diet. Don?t forget that a healthy body helps ensure a healthy mind.

Read several highly-rated books on personal development. Many of the best-selling books offer page after page of useful, and possibly life-changing, ideas and insight. Pay attention to reviews when you pick a self-help book. The genre has some poorly-written books in it; however, you want one that has proven useful to other readers.

TIP! If you are falling sort and not meeting goals, step back and look at your issues. Find out how others have succeeded at the same thing.

Keep in mind that everyday should be better than the previous one. Try to improve yourself constantly. This attitude will help you stay motivated and focused on your development, so improve something daily.

Are you a steady drinker? Do you smoke cigarettes or do anything else that is harmful to your body? Our bodies are important to maintain, and should be treated with care. Eliminating bad habits is essential if you want to improve your life. Evaluate your lifestyle and habits honestly to see what you can start working on today.

TIP! Staying positive takes a lot of willpower and it might mean that if you are positive towards others, then good things will come to you. Make a decided effort to hope for the best in those around you.

Growing as a person requires improving your health. To have a healthy lifestyle, you need to do more than just exercise and eat right. You need to have the motivation to continue to do these things. By making your health a top concern and understanding that a healthy lifestyle improves your other self improvement efforts, you have a good chance of sticking with your health-improving practices.

It is possible to learn how to cope in a crisis without letting your emotions take full control. Learning ways to maintain your composure when stressed will help boost your self-esteem, and help you triumph under any circumstance. Take the time to relax and take some deep breaths.

Sexual capital is a new thing that is being learned about, and it is very crucial to start developing yourself. This has nothing to do with using sex appeal to get the things you covet. It has more to do with charm. Good social skills are not something everyone is born with, but developing them help you go the distance in life.

TIP! Avoid working or exercising too hard, as these could exhaust you to the point that you fail to achieve your goals. Although it is important to give your best effort, you need to recognize when your limit is reached.

See what obstacles are keeping you from success. Some people have a very hard time with this. However, when you can find out what your weaknesses are, this becomes the first step in dealing with them and, eventually, changing them. If you can successfully remove a few obstacles, you might just see a clearer path to your future.

Constantly seek different experiences. These new challenges can create many possibilities. You may be able to gain a new understanding of the world and develop new talents. It is completely likely that you can set a new standard from accomplishing something before others have. Strive to create something new, rather than accomplishing something that?s already been done.

Make sure the goals you set for yourself are small and manageable so you can easily achieve them and develop the lifestyle that will make you happy. Figuring out your weaknesses and doing what you can to deal with them will make you a happier, more satisfied person.

TIP! Your pastor or counselor is there to help. These people have a lot of experience and expertise in helping people deal with personal issues, and are licensed to do so.

You should try to become the best at what you do. The passions you have should always make you want to achieve greatness. While it is almost impossible to be the best at everything we do, aspiring to inspire other people is an admirable and worthy goal for oneself. By increasing your value within your field of study or work, you can enjoy benefits including higher self-esteem.

It is important to have an accurate understanding of the distance you must travel to become the person you ultimately want to be. This will set you on the path of personal development, and give you a need to do better. If you do not accept your desire to improve your current situation and listen to what you wish for, you will never realize your true potential.

Figure out your goals in life, and go after them. You?ll never have the life you want if all you do is sit around in your armchair and dream about it. Take action today on the dreams you have for your life, and turn them into reality.

TIP! Shop to provide yourself with necessities, not as a form of entertainment. Shopping your stress away, or ?retail therapy? as some people say, is really more of a stress inducer, because it distracts you from the stress for a while but it all comes back with big bills and interest charges when the bills come in.

As you can see, self improvement is simpler than it looks. By breaking your self improvement process into small, manageable goals, you?ll find yourself closer to your goals by the end of every day. You?ll be able to practice what you?re seeking to adopt as habit, and you?ll increase your own morale to continue. These tips are only a springboard, it?s up to you to build a better life.

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Monday, January 14, 2013

Nike announces sponsorship deal with McIlroy

FILE - In this June 6, 2011 file photo, Rory McIlroy distributes bars of soap to children at a kindergarten run by UNICEF in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. McIlroy wants to help children around the world through a foundation and on his golf bag. On Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, McIlroy announced he has started The Rory Foundation. Among the first projects is to bring attention to children by putting the name of charities on his bag when possible. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2012 file photo, Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland celebrates his victory on the 18th green in the final round of the PGA Championship golf tournament on the Ocean Course of the Kiawah Island Golf Resort in Kiawah Island, S.C. Nike says it has signed a sponsorship deal with No. 1-ranked McIlroy for a reported $200 million. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Current World Number One golf champion Rory McIlroy, right, and Nike Golf President Cindy Davis attend a press conference announcing McIlroy's partnership with Nike ahead of the 2013 edition of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Salazar)

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ? Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods are on the same team now ? at least when it comes to sponsorship.

McIlroy officially made the switch to the swoosh on Monday as Nike confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in golf, announcing it had signed a multi-year deal with the top-ranked Northern Irishman.

The deal means Nike now has golf's two biggest names representing its brand, as Woods has been with the sportswear company since turning pro in 1996. Nike did not disclose any financial details of the deal, but industry observers have estimated that McIlroy will be paid up to $20 million a year to use the company's equipment and apparel.

The partnership with McIlroy was announced in a lavish ceremony in the United Arab Emirates ahead of this week's Abu Dhabi Golf Championship, where he will use the company's equipment for the first time. The event opened with a hologram of McIlroy swinging a club and included a video showing Woods, Roger Federer and Wayne Rooney welcoming him to Nike.

"Rory is an extraordinary athlete who creates enormous excitement with his on-course performance while, at the same time connecting with fans everywhere," said Cindy Davis, president of Nike Golf. "He is the epitome of a Nike Athlete, and he is joining our team during the most exciting time in Nike Golf's history. We are looking forward to partnering with him to take his remarkable career to the next level."

McIlroy said he was "really excited" to start the season and insisted he has made a "seamless" adjustment to his new equipment, especially his driver.

"As soon as I hit it, I knew it was going in the bag straight away," McIlroy said. "It blew me away. My ball speed was up. My numbers were good. I'm hitting it further. I thought I hit it far before but this is taking to new level. That's great."

McIlroy's switch to Nike had been widely expected. In October, McIlroy cut ties with Acushnet Co., which had supplied him with Titleist and FootJoy gear since he turned pro five years ago. And this month, Jumeirah Group announced it was not renewing its five-year sponsorship deal with the Northern Irishman.

McIlroy insisted he's not making the switch because of the money.

"I don't play golf for the money, I am well past that," McIlroy said. "I'm a major champion and world No. 1, which I have always dreamed of being, and feel this is a company that can help me sustain that and win even more major titles. At the end of 2013, if I have not won another major I will be disappointed."

The deal comes in the wake of a career year for McIlroy, in which he became No. 1 and won his second major. He insisted in an interview with The Associated Press that all the attention hasn't rattled him and that he has struck the "right balance," although he acknowledged it took some time getting used to the top ranking.

"I guess when I first got to No. 1 after Honda, I might have struggled with it for a few weeks," said McIlroy, who temporarily relinquished the title to Luke Donald before finishing the year at the top.

"It was a big goal of mine going into last year trying to get that. I probably achieved it a bit faster than I thought I would," he said. "(Then) I sort of didn't have a goal. I was like, 'what's next?' I had to reassess. It was a good lesson for me. Now that I've got back to No. 1, I felt I handled it a lot better."

McIlroy and Woods have already developed a friendly rivalry lately, and they will likely be seen together even more often from now on.

Nike already unveiled a new commercial entitled "No Cup is Safe" that begins running Wednesday featuring McIlroy and Woods on the driving range ? with each trying to outdo the other. The players first take turn aiming at the driving range hole and then start hitting more spectacular targets, with balls going into wine glasses at a wedding and a soup bowl in a restaurant. It ends with McIlroy picking up his water glass to find Woods' golf ball.

"How did you do that?" McIlroy asks. Woods retorts: "You'll learn."

McIlroy said the two have a mutual respect for each other, but that it's too soon to say they have a real rivalry on the course.

"I don't know if you can call it a rivalry yet because we haven't battled each other down the stretch of a major," McIlroy told the AP. "It's not like we have been playing in the final group of a tournament and we are battling each other. Hopefully at some point that can happen this year and it would be great to be part of that."

Associated Press

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