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Monday, December 5, 2011
Interview: Sandusky talks about Penn State's Joe Paterno, child abuse case
In a lengthy interview with the New York Times published Saturday, former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky denies ever sexually abusing any child, and he says fired head coach Joe Paterno never spoke to him about any suspected misconduct with minors.
Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky said Joe Paterno never spoke to him about any suspected misconduct with minors, the New York Times reported Saturday.
Skip to next paragraphSandusky has been charged with 40 counts of molesting eight boys over 15 years and is free on bail while awaiting a preliminary hearing on Dec. 13.
Penn State's board of trustees fired Paterno on Nov. 9 because it felt the football coach didn't go far enough in alerting authorities after an assistant coach said he told Paterno he saw Sandusky assaulting a young boy in the football building showers in March 2002.
During a lengthy interview at his lawyer's home, Sandusky told the newspaper he and Paterno never spoke about the alleged 2002 incident or a 1998 child molestation complaint investigated by the Penn State campus police.
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"I never talked to him about either one," Sandusky said. "That's all I can say. I mean, I don't know." He worked for Paterno for nearly 30 years.
Sandusky said he never sexually abused any child and that prosecutors have misunderstood his work with children.
"They've taken everything that I ever did for any young person and twisted it to say that my motives were sexual or whatever," Sandusky told the Times. "I had kid after kid after kid who might say I was a father figure. And they just twisted that all."
He is accused of mining the ranks of his Second Mile charity to find underprivileged boys to abuse. Sandusky also said that the charity never restricted his access to children until he became the subject of a criminal investigation in 2008.
He said he regularly gave money to the disadvantaged boys at his charity, opened bank accounts for them and gave them gifts that had been donated to the charity.
"I tried to reward them sometimes with a little money in hand, just so that they could see something," he said. "But more often than not, I tried to set up, maybe get them to save the money, and I put it directly into a savings account established for them."
"I never bought a computer for any kid; I had a computer given to me to give to a kid. I never bought golf clubs. People gave things because they knew there would be kids. They wanted to get rid of things."
Asked about his physical interaction with children who were not his own, Sandusky said that aspect of the relationships "just happened that way."
"I think a lot of the kids really reached out" for wrestling and hugging, he said.
The paper said he grew most animated when talking about his relationships with children and most disconsolate when he spoke of Paterno and Penn State, and the upheaval caused by his indictment.
"I don't think it was fair," he is quoted as saying.
During the interview, Sandusky said his relationships and activities with Second Mile children did cause some strain with Paterno. He told the paper he worried that having some children with him at hotels before games or on the sideline during games, could have been regarded as a distraction by Paterno.
"I would have dreams of we being in a squad meeting and that door fly open and kids come running through chasing one another, and what was I going to do?" he said. "Because, I mean, Joe was serious about football."
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Apple's request to block Samsung Galaxy tablet, phone sales in the US is denied
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Hormonal prostate cancer therapy tied to blood clots (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? Hormone-targeted therapy for prostate cancer may raise the risk of potentially dangerous blood clots, a large U.S. study suggests.
Analyzing data on more than 154,000 older men with prostate cancer, researchers found that those who received hormonal therapy had double the rate of blood clots in the veins, arteries or lungs compared to men not on the treatment.
Of the 58,000-plus men taking hormonal therapy, 15 percent developed a blood clot over roughly four years, versus seven percent of men who did not receive get the therapy.
A clot in the blood vessels can prove fatal if it breaks loose and travels to the lungs, heart or brain.
In this study, men who developed blood clots ended up in the hospital about one-quarter of the time, the researchers report in the journal Cancer.
"By no means is this a trivial risk," said lead author Dr. Behfar Ehdaie, of Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
For men weighing their options for prostate cancer treatment, Ehdaie said the risk of blood clots -- and other side effects -- needs to be balanced against the benefits.
Other potential side effects of hormonal therapy include weight gain, bone thinning, hot flashes and erectile dysfunction.
And for many prostate cancer patients, experts say, the benefits of hormonal therapy are not clear.
The approach is based on the fact that testosterone can fuel the growth of prostate cancer. Curbing a man's production of the hormone -- by surgical removal of the testicles or, far more often, medication -- can be helpful.
But hormonal therapy was originally given only to men with advanced prostate cancer that had spread to other sites in the body. For them, the treatment offers symptom relief that generally outweighs the risks of side effects, said Dr. Vahakn B. Shahinian, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Hormone therapy can also improve survival when given along with radiation therapy to men with "high-risk" prostate cancer that is likely to progress. (Many prostate tumors are slow-growing and may actually never advance to the point of threatening a man's life.)
"Those are the two scenarios where there is clear-cut evidence of a benefit," said Shahinian, who wrote an editorial published with the study. "The issue comes when you look at the host of other scenarios where hormone therapy is used."
In the past couple decades, some doctors started giving hormonal therapy as a first-line therapy to men newly diagnosed with tumors that were still confined to the prostate. That's despite the fact that the benefits for those patients are not established.
In some cases, men may be in poor health, and aggressive treatment with radiation might not be wise. But the doctor and patient may feel the need to "do something," Shahinian said. So hormonal therapy is the choice.
There's also evidence that financial motives have played a part, Ehdaie noted.
By 1999, hormonal therapy was given to about half of prostate cancer patients. But studies have found that after more recent cuts in Medicare reimbursement for the therapy, fewer doctors are using it.
The bottom line, both Ehdaie and Shahinian said, is that men should thoroughly discuss the risks and benefits of different prostate cancer treatments with their doctor.
As for why hormonal therapy would promote blood clots, the mechanisms are uncertain.
In fact, the current findings do not prove that the therapy itself is the direct cause of men's blood clots. Ehdaie's team tried to account for other factors that could explain the link; and they did find that men on hormonal therapy tended to be older and in poorer overall health.
But even with those differences considered, men on hormonal therapy had a 56 percent greater chance of developing a blood clot. And the clot risk generally climbed the longer a man was on the treatment.
"We can't infer causality, but it is a strong association," Ehdaie said.
It's possible, he noted, that hormonal therapy raises the risk of clots because of its negative effects on metabolism, which can include boosting a man's fat mass.
"I think the take-away message is that this reinforces the fact that hormonal therapy has potential risks, and men should be informed," Shahinian said.
Shahinian is a paid consultant to Amgen, which is seeking approval for its bone cancer drug, Xgeva, to treat certain men with advanced prostate cancer.
For many men with prostate cancer, having no immediate treatment at all is an option.
According to the National Cancer Institute, about half of the more than 190,000 U.S. men diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009 fell into the "low-risk" category -- meaning their cancer had low odds of progression.
They are among the men who can choose to forgo treatment and instead have their cancer monitored -- what doctors call "active surveillance."
Such watchful waiting can be stressful, Shahinian noted. But men should be aware that "doing something" comes with potential risks, he said.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/tFt8Vx Cancer, online November 9, 2011.
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Instant nanodots grow on silicon to form sensing array
ScienceDaily (Dec. 2, 2011) ? Scientists have shown that it is now possible to simultaneously create highly reproductive three-dimensional silicon oxide nanodots on micrometric scale silicon films in only a few seconds. Xavier Landreau and his colleagues at the University of Limoges, France, demonstrated in their paper to be published in EPJD? that they were able to create a square array of such nanodots, using regularly spaced nanoindents on the deposition layer, that could ultimately find applications as biosensors for genomics or bio-diagnostics.
They used a process called atmospheric pressure plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition. This approach is a much faster alternative to methods such as nanoscale lithography, which only permits the deposition of one nanodot at a time. It also improves upon other silicon oxide growth processes that do not make it possible to precisely order the nanodots into an array. In addition, it can be carried out at atmospheric pressure, which decreases its costs compared to low-pressure deposition processes.One of the authors' goals was to understand the self-organization mechanisms leading to a preferential deposition of the nanodots in the indents.
By varying the indents' interspacing, they made it comparable to the average distance travelled by the silicon oxide particles of the deposited material. Thus, by adapting both the indents' spacing and the silicon substrate temperature, they observed optimum self-ordering inside the indents using atomic force microscopy.The next step in their research will be to investigate how such nanoarrays could be used as nanosensors. They plan to develop similar square arrays on metallic substrates in order to better control the driving forces that produce the highly ordered self-organisation of nanodots. Further research will be needed to give sensing ability to individual nanodots by associating them with probe molecules designed to recognise target molecules to be detected.
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Sharp Launches World?s Smallest Image-Stabilized Cellphone Camera
12 Megapixels in a smartphone camera? That sounds like a bad idea. But an image-stabilized sensor in a smartphone camera? That sounds ideal.
Those previous sentences describe Sharp’s new super-thin 1/3.2-inch CMOS sensor which, at 0.31-inches on the diagonal, is the same size as that found in the iPhone 4. The stabilization works by shifting the [...]
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Mexico's early frontrunner formalizes presidential bid (Reuters)
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ? The frontrunner in Mexico's 2012 presidential race on Sunday pledged to break past decades of political paralysis and deliver the country from a deepening spiral of drug violence and sluggish economic growth.
Thousands of cheering supporters rallied around Enrique Pena Nieto, the charismatic young ex-governor of Mexico's most populous state, after he registered in Mexico City as the official presidential candidate of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
With a 20-point lead in national polls, Pena Nieto, 45, is the most promising candidate for the PRI since the party that ruled Mexico for most of the 20th century lost power in 2000.
After two conservative administrations and growing frustration with rising crime and economic inequality, Pena Nieto is promising Mexicans change based on the PRI's long experience in government.
"Today in Mexico there is fear, anxiety, discouragement. But at the same time there is a growing force, optimistic, and sure that better times are coming," Pena Nieto told the crowd gathered at the PRI's headquarters.
"I am part of a new generation of Mexicans who are convinced that Mexico can transform itself," Pena Nieto said, promising to make the country safer, reduce social inequality and spur growth to create jobs and opportunities for all.
PRI COMEBACK
Following its defeat in 2000, the PRI fractured. But the party's massive machine of unions, civil groups and farmers have rallied behind Pena Nieto. His good looks and message of change have captured wide support beyond the PRI's base.
"Unless the Virgin of Guadalupe intervenes, he will win the election in a landslide," said George Grayson, a professor at the College of William & Mary in Virginia.
Pena Nieto is seen by analysts and investors as Mexico's best chance to pass key economic reforms, such as opening the state oil company to private investment and reforming labor laws, due to the PRI's sway over the country's biggest unions.
While Pena Nieto's victory may seem likely, the PRI could falter in congressional races, which would hamper Pena Nieto's agenda. Rivalries between parties have scuppered major reforms ever since the PRI lost its congressional majority in 1997.
Three candidates are vying for the nomination of President Felipe Calderon's conservative National Action Party, with former education minister Josefina Vazquez Mota in the lead.
The leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) is backing Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who nearly won in 2006 but is now a distant third place in the polls. [ID:nN1E7AE1A1]
Mexicans will not vote until next July, leaving plenty of time for a reversal in Pena Nieto's fortune. Calderon came from far behind to win in 2006.
NEW FACE
By the end of its 71 years of rule, the PRI was synonymous with rampant corruption that undercut Mexico's economy and allowed the country's powerful criminal gangs to flourish.
PAN candidates are trying to tar Pena Nieto's image by suggesting the PRI is still in the pockets of drug cartels.
But those charges may not stick. Pena Nieto has given the party a new face after a term as a wildly popular governor of Mexico State, where he won support by building roads and schools and steered clear of any major scandals.
"In 70 years the PRI made mistakes, got lost and tripped up, but we have been learning and we won't let it happen again," said Emilio Gamboa, who leads the PRI's popular front.
During the PAN's two administrations, the economy has grown at about a third of the pace it needs to create enough good jobs for all the young Mexicans entering the workforce.
Meanwhile, more than 45,000 people have died in Calderon's military-led offensive against drug cartels. Many backed the move to challenge the gangs, but doubts are now growing.
"People think security has gotten out of the PAN's control," said Jose Antonio Crespo from graduate school CIDE. "While they think there was corruption under the PRI, at least there was order and more effective governance."
(Additional reporting by Miguel Angel Gutierrez; editing by Anthony Boadle)
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