UK lawmaker splashes out on English sparkling wine

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Court lets stand telecom immunity in wiretap case

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court is leaving in place a federal law that gives telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the government with its email and telephone eavesdropping program.

The justices said Tuesday they will not review a court ruling that upheld the 2008 law against challenges brought by privacy and civil liberties advocates on behalf of the companies' customers. The companies include AT&T, Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc.

Lawsuits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation accused the companies of violating the law and customers' privacy through collaboration with the National Security Agency on intelligence gathering.

The case stemmed from surveillance rules passed by Congress that included protection from legal liability for telecommunications companies that allegedly helped the U.S. spy on Americans without warrants.

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Big East surges with 3 ranked, undefeated teams

Cincinnati running back Ralph David Abernathy IV (1) falls forward for extra yardage in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Miami (Ohio), Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

Cincinnati running back Ralph David Abernathy IV (1) falls forward for extra yardage in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Miami (Ohio), Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

Cincinnati head coach Butch Jones yells to his team in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Miami (Ohio), Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

Cincinnati quarterback Munchie Legaux passes against Miami (Ohio) in the first half of an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

Cincinnati running back George Winn (32) avoids a tackle by Miami (Ohio) linebacker Evan Harris (30) in the first half of an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) ? Excuse Big East commissioner Mike Aresco if he's feeling a bit giddy this week. When the dust settled after weekend play, he still had three undefeated teams ranked in the AP Top 25.

While nine ranked teams lost, No. 18 Louisville, No. 20 Rutgers and No. 21 Cincinnati boosted their combined record to 14-0 and remained among the 14 undefeated teams in major college football.

The best news for Aresco is that all three are staying put as he continues to rebuild the much-maligned conference.

"Louisville, Cincinnati and Rutgers are some of our core programs, and they have strong football," Aresco said. "What it shows also is that, going forward, we will have even stronger football. It's only going to get better. This is early evidence of it."

Boise State (4-1), currently No. 24, joins the conference next year. That should more than make up for the departure of Pittsburgh and Syracuse after this season as they make the jump to the Atlantic Coast Conference. If only West Virginia ? 5-0 and ranked No. 5 ? hadn't bolted for the Big 12.

"When we bring in the new schools, we're going to have a powerful football conference top to bottom," Aresco said. "It's going to be very competitive, very rugged."

It already is. Just ask Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer, whose Hokies used to play in the Big East.

After Pittsburgh started the season under first-year coach Paul Chryst with a stunning two-touchdown loss to Youngstown State, which plays at Division I's second level, and followed that with a loss at Cincinnati, Pitt upset then-No. 13 Virginia Tech, 35-17, forcing the Hokies into four first-half turnovers.

Tech hasn't been the same since, also losing to Cincinnati and North Carolina. So, for the record, the Hokies, another former league member, are 0-2 vs. the Big East.

"(The Big East is) having a good year, that's for sure," Beamer said. "Cincinnati was for real, and the day we played Pittsburgh ... they were good, so I have nothing but respect for them."

Since 2006, the Big East is 215-89 (70.7 winning percentage) in nonconference play, behind only the SEC (304-70, 81.3 percent) and the Big 12 (259-86, 75.1 percent). And since 1998, the Big East has the best postseason record (43-27) of any Bowl Subdivision conference during the Bowl Championship Series era.

So, why is the conference always an afterthought?

"Because we beat each other up," Louisville offensive guard Jake Smith said. "There aren't too many unbeaten teams that come out of the conference. It's tough. I won't say we'll have the national champion every year, but I think there are really good teams in the Big East."

It's just that nobody seems to notice.

Such is life in a league with no dominant teams, even if players such as Baltimore Ravens tailback Ray Rice (Rutgers) or New England Patriots rookie defensive end Chandler Jones (Syracuse) quickly become household names as pros.

"This conference is really underrated, honestly," Smith said. "There are a lot of really good players that come out of the Big East. You don't have to look far to find great talent.

"It's kind of offensive when you see somebody just bashing the conference that you're in. Last year, when West Virginia was in the conference, they came and blew out Clemson (70-33 in the Orange Bowl), and then they moved to another conference and have become a top-10 team ? and that's the team we beat last year. I think it's the perception nationally. I don't think that's how it should be."

Aresco already knows he won't have three unbeaten teams at season's end, and he's OK with that.

"It's always been a conference that has been able to reinvent itself and get even stronger," Aresco said. "We're doing it now. It's not surprising to me that we've got teams that are in the Top 25. It's nice to have undefeated teams, but they've got to play each other."

Not yet. Which means Aresco still has three good bargaining chips on his side as the league continues negotiations on a new television contract.

"It's great timing," Aresco said. "It sends the signal that I've talked about. We are a strong football conference, we're a valuable football conference, we're going to be valuable to our media partners. Not only is it great timing, but it foreshadows the future."

The drawback to the start, though, has been everyone else. If you take out the three ranked teams, no other league member is over .500. But at least, there are the Cardinals, Scarlet Knights and Bearcats to brag about.

"We really didn't know what was going to happen this year," Smith said. "Cincinnati had questions, Rutgers had some questions, and with us there were some questions of youth. But to have three undefeated teams, it's good to see that competitiveness.

"And I like it."

Aresco does, too.

___

AP Sports Writers Gary Graves in Louisville, Ky., and Hank Kurz in Richmond, Va. contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Samsung mobile head confirms 4-inch Galaxy S III mini announcement tomorrow

It looks like the rumored Samsung Galaxy S III mini is real, and it will make its debut at an event in Frankfurt, Germany tomorrow. Mobile chief JK Shin said that the company believed there was demand "in Europe" for a cut down 4-inch version of the popular smartphone, which would otherwise carry the same specs of the original. That would give the company a high-end smartphone with an iPhone 5-esque form factor for folks who don't want to wedge the original 4.8-inch model into their pockets. Pricing and stateside availability wasn't mentioned, but Shin did say that launching the product in Korea was also "under consideration." Naturally, we'll have a lot more to report about it on October 11th, so stay tuned.

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At-Home Senior Care Providers: Experience The Benefits | Pam ...

It is natural for senior citizens to wish to stay in the comfort of their house for as long as possible. The majority of relatives prefer their elderly loved one be at home. Most seniors would rather stay living at home rather than going to a retirement center. They usually are happier and healthier if they remain at home. But at-home senior care is emotionally and physically difficult for the caregivers. Home care services for the elderly offer a broad range of services and can be extremely beneficial to the seniors and also their family members and/or caregivers.

Services Provided

Homecare services can provide your senior family members with respect, dignity and one-on-one care, which enable them to enjoy their independence. The requirements of each elderly person are different and at-home senior care is designed to satisfy the requirements of each person. Licensed providers can deliver senior assistance for a few hours each week to 24 hour care and they deliver a variety of services including:

Companionship-many elderly people are prone to isolation, which may lead to depression. Home care providers can come to the home simply to spend time with elders. Companionship could possibly include an assortment of activities such as playing board games, reading or taking a walk.

Personal care-home health aides are beneficial for helping the elderly with tasks such as bathing, dressing, grooming and meal preparations as well as an assortment of additional daily activities.

Medical care-medical conditions such as diabetic issues may require home health care providers to aid an individual with their medications, tube feeding and/or wound care.

Alzheimer?s / Dementia care-elderly family members who are suffering with Alzheimer?s or dementia usually call for a higher level of daily care. Home health service providers that specialize in Alzheimer?s / Dementia provide structured environments that consist of services such as activities to help maintain familiarity and personal hygiene services

Transportation and errands-transportation is one of the biggest worries of the elderly. It is typically hard for them to get to a doctor?s appointment, the grocery store or to a family party, but a home care service provider can help them with most their transportation and errand needs.

Home-making services-home care service providers can be hired to come to the home of elderly people and help them with laundry, watering plants, and basic housekeeping duties.

Cost Effective

At-home providers are typically the best answer if the senior does not need a long-term nursing facility. It is usually cheaper for at-home senior care than to relocate elderly family members to a full-time care facility and these services allow elders to remain in their homes where they are comfortable.

Licensed and Bonded

When you start the search for home care providers, request referrals from family and friends or speak with your loved ones medical professional regarding service provider suggestions. Caregivers ought to be trusting as well as bonded and licensed. It is also beneficial to have the senior present during the initial process of choosing caregivers in order for them to feel as though they are a part of this important process.

Richard Lamb loves anything to do with senior care and he has frequently penned blog posts about home care in Montreal for radouestdelile.com.

Source: http://pamponders.com/6189/at-home-senior-care-providers-experience-the-benefits/

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Dr. Dustin Ballard: Causes of breast cancer tricky to pinpoint ? Marin ...

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ESTABLISHING CAUSE and effect is one of the trickiest aspects of medicine. So-called ?causality? can be elusive, especially once you move beyond connect-the-dots type circumstances.

In Marin, we worry and wonder a lot about breast cancer. Why does a particular woman get breast cancer? How does another woman avoid it? These are difficult questions.

There are a litany of possible reasons why one might develop breast cancer. Even if we expand the question to what increases the risk of breast cancer across a broad population, satisfactory answers are slippery. It is with this in mind that we should view the recent evidence regarding breast cancer in Marin County.

It is well documented that Marin has historically had an abnormally high rate of new breast cancer cases. In particular, data from the late 1990s demonstrate breast cancer rates some 15 percent higher than those found across the rest of the state. Multiple culprits ? lifestyle, hormones, toxins and genetics ? have been proposed and studied.

A study recently published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons has proposed yet another possible cause ? genetic differences in vitamin D receptors. The study, conducted by Dr. Kathie Dalessandri and colleagues, examined the DNA of 164 Caucasian women living in Marin and diagnosed with breast cancer between 1997 and 1999.

They compared their genetic profiles with

those of 174 breast-cancer-free matched controls and found that women who developed breast cancer were 1.9 times more likely to have a specific difference (called a variant) in the gene that dictates how the body utilizes vitamin D (the vitamin D receptor).

Vitamin D has received attention for its possible benefit in deterring certain types of cancers, and animal models have demonstrated that it has a beneficial effect on breast cancer tumor growth. So, differences in how vitamin D is processed by its receptors is a logical explanation for why certain women (in Marin and elsewhere) would be at higher risk for developing cancer.

But before you march out to determine your vitamin D receptor profile, let?s put these findings in prospective.

First, this was a small ?pilot? study and should be considered preliminary evidence. Medical practice and investigation is ripe with prominent associations that have not borne out in larger studies, such as oat bran and heart disease, and ? who can forget? ? vaccines and autism. In fact, there are more disproven associations in medicine than proven ones.

A much larger study of Marin Women (the ?Marin Women?s Study? www.marinwomensstudy.org) with 14,000 participants is ongoing, and analysis of their DNA samples (there are some 8,500 available) should provide more robust data on vitamin D receptor variants and genetic risk. Furthermore, the genetic data from Dalessandri?s study is from 15 years ago, during a time when breast cancer rates were peaking ? especially in Marin. While multifactorial, we know that this peak was, in part, because of combined postmenopausal hormone (estrogen and progesterone) therapy ? a known risk factor for developing breast cancer ? and a treatment more common then in Marin than elsewhere in California. So, we must be careful to extrapolate the findings regarding breast cancer risk from a prior generation to today?s milieu.

Finally, one must always be particularly fastidious when reviewing the results of studies that focus on a specific proprietary drug or test. While this study was funded by state, county and charitable sources, the results quite prominently affect the fortunes of genetic testing company InterGenetics Inc., which is marketing OncoVue, a ?genetic-based, breast cancer risk test.? So, while interactions between genes and the environment is certainly a promising field, the jury on vitamin D receptors and breast cancer is most definitely still out.

Where, then, does this leave us with breast cancer causality? There are some risk factors that we can confidently delineate. Some genetic risk is clearly proven ? and a family history of breast cancer is a known red flag. In terms of risky environmental exposures, an Institute of Medicine committee report released last year summarizes these nicely as ?hormone therapy that combines estrogen and progestin, exposure to ionizing radiation ? excess weight among post-menopausal women and alcohol consumption.?

Other environmental agents ? chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA) ? have been implicated and are biologically plausible, but at this time they are unproven. Mary Mockus, a surgeon at Kaiser-Permanente San Rafael and a member of the collaborative Marin Women?s Study team, thinks the ?toxic soup? present in higher socioeconomic areas like Marin is likely to play some role in the higher breast cancer rates, but that we are unlikely to ever identify one clear-cut perpetrator. And, this then, fits quite well with what we know about causality in medicine.

So for Marin women, the best advice for preventing breast cancer is probably the best advice for preventing many diseases ? sleep well; get regular exercise; know your family?s medical history and discuss individualized screening plans with your doctor; don?t smoke; avoid excesses of alcohol, drugs and ionizing radiation; and eat plenty of green leafy vegetables. And a healthy vitamin D level ? ask your doctor ? won?t hurt either.

Dr. Dustin W. Ballard is an emergency physician at Kaiser Permanente San Rafael and the author of ?The Bullet?s Yaw: Reflections on Violence, Healing and an Unforgettable Stranger.? His Medically Clear column appears every third Monday; follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dballard30.

Article source: http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_21440076/dr-dustin-ballard-causes-breast-cancer-tricky-pinpoint

Source: http://cancerkick.com/2012/09/03/dr-dustin-ballard-causes-of-breast-cancer-tricky-to-pinpoint-marin-independent/

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Carney says White House 'studying our options' on oil prices

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An unusually large one-day jump in gas prices, mainly caused by tropical storm Isaac disrupting gas and oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, has the Obama administration again considering releasing some of the government?s oil reserves. ? ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration is continuing to look at all its options to make sure oil prices don?t crimp the global economy, Jay Carney, White House press secretary, said.

Carney, responding to a question at a briefing, said he had ?no announcements to make? about possible use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to put a brake on energy prices.

Oil for October delivery dropped 93 cents, or 1 percent, to $94.56 a barrel at 1:14 p.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange on speculation oil producers would restore output from the Gulf of Mexico now that Hurricane Isaac has passed.

Source: http://dailyherald.com/article/20120830/business/708309798/

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