FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The U.S. Army private accused of orchestrating a massive leak of classified documents to the WikiLeaks website said on Friday he may have been sarcastic in indicating he had suicidal thoughts when he first arrived at a U.S. detention center.
Bradley Manning is in his second day of testimony in a pre-trial hearing to determine whether he should face a court-martial on suspicion of leaking thousands of classified military reports, diplomatic cables and other documents.
A prosecutor asked why he had stated on arrival at Quantico, Virginia, in July 2010 that he was "always planning, never acting" about being suicidal. "I did say it might have been sort of a sarcastic answer, given just on a whim," Manning said. "I knew I was going to be placed on a suicide risk status. It didn't really make a difference what answer I gave."
Manning, who testified on Thursday that his early days in detention in May 2010 in Kuwait were spent in a cramped "cage" where he thought he would die, was placed on suicide watch on arrival at Quantico. He lived in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day with a guard checking on him every few minutes.
Manning faces up to life in prison if convicted of charges he played a role in the leaking of secrets by WikiLeaks, which stunned governments around the world by publishing intelligence documents and diplomatic cables, mostly in 2010.
Manning's lawyers were working with the court on the language of a proposed plea involving less serious charges. At present, a prison term of at least 16 years is under discussion, one of his attorneys said, but until a plea is formally entered and accepted, the length of any prison term is uncertain.
Manning's testimony on Thursday marked his first public comments since his arrest in Iraq in May 2010. His cross-examination on Friday came on the fourth day of a hearing at Fort Meade to determine whether his case should proceed to a full court-martial.
LINKS TO WIKILEAKS
Charges include stealing records belonging to the United States and wrongfully causing them to be published on the Internet and aiding enemies of the United States, identified by prosecutors as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, an affiliate of the militant network founded by the late Osama bin Laden.
Prosecutors have alleged that Manning, without authorization while on intelligence duty, disclosed hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables, military reports and video of a military helicopter attack in Iraq in which two Reuters journalists were killed.
WikiLeaks has never confirmed Manning was the source of any documents it released.
In pre-trial litigation, prosecutors have presented testimony legal experts say could be used to build a case that Manning had been in email contact with Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' Australian-born founder.
Assange has spent nearly six months in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he sought refuge to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning in a sexual molestation case.
Assange and his supporters have said the Swedish case against him could be part of a secret plot to have him sent to the United States for trial and either executed or imprisoned at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
U.S. officials have denied those assertions but have acknowledged a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, has been collecting evidence about WikiLeaks. U.S. officials have not ruled out criminal charges against Assange.
Earlier this year, the Stanford University climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh became an early adopter of Google+ Hangouts on Air ? open video chats with invited participants and, when they drop in, members of the public.
Last night I invited Diffenbaugh to use the same portal to ?meet? the students in my Blogging a Better Planet course at Pace University.
My first question was a simple one. Given his intensive research agenda, campus work and responsibilities as a lead author of a chapter in the next set of reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, what in the world did he get out of spending time on YouTube?
In his reply, he describes a sense of responsibility to the public which, through federal research funding, pays for much of his science. But he also describes how he his online exchanges led in one case to a suggestion from a viewer that led to a new research direction. Like me, he clearly sees online communication as a two-way portal for sharing and shaping ideas, not merely a way to stake a position.
We also discussed how such experiments offer scientists and their institutions a direct path to the public as conventional science media shrink (read ?The Changing Communication Climate? for more).
The video connection broke before the students had a chance to weigh in ? with such glitches all a routine part of life in a new medium.
I encourage you to sample his previous videos. Particularly interesting was a discussion of extreme heat and storms, which he organized along with Greg Dalton, who runs Climate One, a project of the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco:
It is an invaluable exploration of the complexities in gauging any influence of greenhouse-driven climate change in such events. The other participants were Harold Brooks of the National Severe Storms Laboratory, Martin Hoerling of the Earth System Research Laboratory, Angela Fritz of Weather Underground, Dave Metz, a pollster focused on environmental issues, and Jason Samenow of the Washington Post?s Capital Weather Gang.
You can learn more about my course from my 2011 post ?Notes from a Blogging ?Discomfort Zone?.?
Linux wizard Michael Larabel has been marking his benches over at Phoronix and in the process he's proved that the Samsung Exynos 5 Dual processor -- currently found in some of our favorite tablets and budget notebooks -- is remarkably nifty with Ubuntu. The chip, which contains two Cortex-A15 cores clocked at 1.7GHz and a Mali-T604 GPU, was stacked up against the A9-based Tegra 3 from NVIDIA plus a few Intel Atoms to represent the x86 side of things. Although the various test rigs couldn't be totally spec-matched in terms of RAM and storage, the scores were focused on pure computational grunt and they gave Samsung's SoC a "surprising" lead. Check out the source link below and you'll see that the majority of the graphs look similar to the one above, with the two weaker Atoms and the aging Tegra 3 being left for dust and only the Core i3, with its much higher wattage, being able to keep that Exynos ego in check -- at least until the eight-core version gets here.
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Contact: Rhonda Zurn rzurn@umn.edu 612-626-7959 University of Minnesota
Revolutionary membrane technology could reduce U.S. energy consumption by as much as 3 percent
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (11/28/2012) The University of Minnesota has been awarded a $1.8 million grant over three years from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects AgencyEnergy (ARPA-E) to develop revolutionary membrane technology that will enable energy-efficient separations in the chemical, petrochemical, water, fossil fuel, and renewable energy industries. When fully implemented, the technology could reduce U.S. energy consumption by as much as 3 percent.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and ARPA-E Deputy Directors Eric Toone and Cheryl Martin publicly announced the ARPA-E awards today. The University of Minnesota's award is specifically aimed at improving efficiencies of industrial processes. The grant money is intended to bridge the gap between academic research and commercial application.
"We have the science, but this grant will allow us to scale up the research and move it closer to market," said lead researcher Michael Tsapatsis, a professor of chemical engineering and materials science in the University's College of Science and Engineering. The other members of the research team are chemical engineering and materials science professors Chris Macosko and Prodromos Daoutidis.
A significant fraction of total energy consumption (approximately 30 percent for the U.S.) is attributed to manufacturing and a major component of this amount is due to energy used in separation and purification processesas high as 6 percent of the total U.S. energy consumption.
Tsapatsis and his team published research last year about their discovery of a means for developing free-standing, ultra-thin zeolite nanosheets that as thin films can speed up the filtration process and require less energy. Science magazine named the research as one of the biggest breakthroughs of 2011.
While researchers can envision numerous applications, they will focus on separations encountered in biofuel and plastics production. For both applications there is a large existing market, the requirements of which cannot be met by available membrane technologies.
Researchers estimate that for biofuels alone, annual membrane sales of $500 million per year can be anticipated if the technology is fully implemented. Similar levels of sales are expected for the plastics industry bringing total sales to $1 billion per year. If these early applications get commercial traction, other opportunities for the use of nanosheet membranes will emerge as well.
"Our next step is to bring these revolutionary membrane materials to commercial reality by developing a low-cost manufacturing approach that can be scaled-up efficiently," Tsapatsis said.
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Contact: Rhonda Zurn rzurn@umn.edu 612-626-7959 University of Minnesota
Revolutionary membrane technology could reduce U.S. energy consumption by as much as 3 percent
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (11/28/2012) The University of Minnesota has been awarded a $1.8 million grant over three years from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects AgencyEnergy (ARPA-E) to develop revolutionary membrane technology that will enable energy-efficient separations in the chemical, petrochemical, water, fossil fuel, and renewable energy industries. When fully implemented, the technology could reduce U.S. energy consumption by as much as 3 percent.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and ARPA-E Deputy Directors Eric Toone and Cheryl Martin publicly announced the ARPA-E awards today. The University of Minnesota's award is specifically aimed at improving efficiencies of industrial processes. The grant money is intended to bridge the gap between academic research and commercial application.
"We have the science, but this grant will allow us to scale up the research and move it closer to market," said lead researcher Michael Tsapatsis, a professor of chemical engineering and materials science in the University's College of Science and Engineering. The other members of the research team are chemical engineering and materials science professors Chris Macosko and Prodromos Daoutidis.
A significant fraction of total energy consumption (approximately 30 percent for the U.S.) is attributed to manufacturing and a major component of this amount is due to energy used in separation and purification processesas high as 6 percent of the total U.S. energy consumption.
Tsapatsis and his team published research last year about their discovery of a means for developing free-standing, ultra-thin zeolite nanosheets that as thin films can speed up the filtration process and require less energy. Science magazine named the research as one of the biggest breakthroughs of 2011.
While researchers can envision numerous applications, they will focus on separations encountered in biofuel and plastics production. For both applications there is a large existing market, the requirements of which cannot be met by available membrane technologies.
Researchers estimate that for biofuels alone, annual membrane sales of $500 million per year can be anticipated if the technology is fully implemented. Similar levels of sales are expected for the plastics industry bringing total sales to $1 billion per year. If these early applications get commercial traction, other opportunities for the use of nanosheet membranes will emerge as well.
"Our next step is to bring these revolutionary membrane materials to commercial reality by developing a low-cost manufacturing approach that can be scaled-up efficiently," Tsapatsis said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Tuesday conceded that an early account she gave about the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, was partly inaccurate, but her admission failed to win over Republican senators who accused her of misleading the public.
Rice met for about an hour behind closed doors at the U.S. Capitol with Republican Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte, who have threatened to block her nomination if President Barack Obama chooses her for secretary of state or another top post in his second-term Cabinet.
They have criticized her for initial comments after the September 11 attack in Benghazi that suggested it was a spontaneous event arising from protests over an anti-Islam film rather than a premeditated attack.
The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in the attack on the Benghazi mission and a nearby CIA annex. Intelligence officials later said the attack was possibly tied to al Qaeda affiliates.
"We are significantly troubled by many of the answers that we got, and some that we didn't get, concerning evidence that was overwhelming leading up to the attack on our consulate," McCain told reporters after the meeting.
"It is clear that the information that she gave the American people was incorrect when she said that it was a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video," he said.
"It was not, and there was compelling evidence at the time that that was certainly not the case, including statements by Libyans as well as other Americans who are fully aware that people don't bring mortars and rocket-propelled grenades to spontaneous demonstrations," McCain said.
Graham said he would move to block the nomination of "anybody" who was linked to the Benghazi events.
Republicans have argued that the Obama administration tried to play down the terrorist angle in its initial comments to avoid undermining the president's claims of success in fighting al Qaeda in the run-up to the November 6 election.
Rice, who was accompanied to the meeting by acting CIA Director Michael Morell, later issued a statement.
"We explained that the talking points provided by the intelligence community, and the initial assessment upon which they were based, were incorrect in a key respect: there was no protest or demonstration in Benghazi," she said in the statement.
"While, we certainly wish that we had had perfect information just days after the terrorist attack, as is often the case, the intelligence assessment has evolved," she said.
"We stressed that neither I nor anyone else in the Administration intended to mislead the American people at any stage in this process."
TEMPEST OVER TALKING POINTS
Rice's controversial Benghazi statements were based on a set of unclassified talking points prepared by U.S. intelligence agencies for members of Congress.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday that the questions about Rice's appearance on the talk shows and the talking points she used had been answered. "The focus on - some might say obsession on - comments made on Sunday shows seems to me and to many to be misplaced," he said.
But Republican senators said the meeting with Rice and Morell left them with more concerns than before. In a statement McCain, Graham and Ayotte said there was now more confusion about who had made changes in the talking points before they were given to Rice.
Morell told the senators during the meeting that the FBI had removed references to al Qaeda from the talking points "and did so to prevent compromising an ongoing criminal investigation" of the attack on the U.S. mission, the statement by McCain, Graham and Ayotte said.
"However, at approximately 4:00 this afternoon, CIA officials contacted us and indicated that Acting Director Morell misspoke in our earlier meeting. The CIA now says that it deleted the al-Qaeda references, not the FBI. They were unable to give a reason as to why," the statement said.
The initial draft of the talking points written by the CIA referred to "attacks" carried out by "extremists with ties to al Qaeda." However by the time Rice received them, "attacks" had changed to "demonstrations" and "with ties to al Qaeda" had been deleted, multiple U.S. sources have said.
A U.S. intelligence official said the CIA changed the reference to al Qaeda for "several valid intelligence and investigatory reasons."
Among the reasons cited were that "the information about individuals linked to al Qaeda was derived from classified sources, and could not be corroborated at the unclassified level; the links were tenuous and therefore it made sense to be cautious before naming perpetrators; finally, no one wanted to prejudice a criminal investigation in its earliest stages."
U.S. intelligence officials have denied that there was any intent to misinform. The White House has denied making the edits in the talking points, and had no further comment on the subject after the meeting.
'WAY TOO EARLY TO TELL'
Obama has defended Rice and said if senators have a problem with the administration's handling of Benghazi they should "go after me" rather than try to "besmirch her reputation."
Obama has also said if he believed Rice was the right person for a job in his administration, he would not hesitate to nominate her, throwing down the gauntlet to Republicans.
The White House has not given a time frame for when the president might nominate a replacement for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton's aides have said she plans to step down around the inauguration, which is in late January, and would like to stay until her successor is confirmed.
Rice has some defenders on Capitol Hill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said Tuesday he was shocked that Republican attacks on Rice were continuing, calling them "outrageous and unmoored from facts and reality."
Rice met in the afternoon with Senator Joseph Lieberman, an Independent who is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and she will meet on Wednesday with the panel's top Republican, Senator Susan Collins.
Collins said it was "way too early to tell" if Rice could attract the 60 Senate votes needed to overcome any procedural obstacles if she is nominated, but that Rice had erred in being the administration's voice on Benghazi if she was interested in becoming secretary of state.
"The secretary of state is supposed to be above politics, and she played a very political role by appearing at the height of the political campaign, on those shows," Collins said.
But Lieberman, after meeting Rice, said she had done nothing to disqualify herself for some other position in government.
"I specifically asked her whether at any point prior to going on those Sunday morning television shows she was briefed or urged to say certain things by anybody in the White House related to the campaign or political operations. She said 'no.'"
(Additional reporting by Jeff Mason and Mark Hosenball; Editing by Jackie Frank, Todd Eastham and Vicki Allen)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Redshift, a new petabyte-scale data warehouse service intended to disrupt the old-guard data warehouse providers.?Senior Vice President for AWS Andy Jassy made the announcement on stage at AWS re:Invent, the cloud group's first annual conference here in Las Vegas.
FILE - This July 14, 2012 file photo shows Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi laugh during a photo opportunity at their meeting at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. The US has been here before with Egypt, praising its leader for championing Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts while expressing deep concern over his commitment to democracy at home. But with options limited, the Obama administration is keeping its faith in President Mohammed Morsi. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
FILE - This July 14, 2012 file photo shows Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi laugh during a photo opportunity at their meeting at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. The US has been here before with Egypt, praising its leader for championing Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts while expressing deep concern over his commitment to democracy at home. But with options limited, the Obama administration is keeping its faith in President Mohammed Morsi. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about the Thanksgiving holiday in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. The White House said Tuesday, Nov. 27, that the president plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday as he pressures Republicans to allow tax increases on the wealthy while extending tax cuts for families earning $250,000 or less. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
In this Oct. 1, 2012 photo, Kayla Saucedo, an 8th grader at Anson Jones Middle School, uses her new ID card to check out a book in the library in San Antonio, Texas. The San Antonio school district's website was hacked over the weekend to protest its policy requiring students to wear microchip-embedded cards tracking their every move on campus. A teenager purportedly working with the hacker group Anonymous said in an online statement that he took the site down because the Northside school district "is stripping away the privacy of students in your school." All students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School are required to carry identification cards embedded with a microchip. They are tracked by the dozens of electronic readers installed in the schools' ceiling panels. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Bob Owen) RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALES
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about Wednesday:
1. WHY THE WHITE HOUSE IS STICKING WITH MORSI
The Egyptian leader ? despite questions about his commitment to democracy ? remains a key American partner in brokering peace between Israel and its neighbors.
2. DEMOCRATS' LATEST STANCE: NO CUTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY OR MEDICARE
As the clock ticks on the "fiscal cliff," many in the party ? emboldened by the election ? no longer want to consider cuts that once were on the bargaining table.
3. WHERE WEDNESDAY'S POWERBALL JACKPOT RANKS
The $500 million pot is the second-highest in lottery history, behind only the $656 million Mega Millions prize in March.
4. SUSAN RICE'S PROSPECTS GROW CLOUDY
The would-be secretary of state will meet with two more GOP senators Wednesday amid fresh concern about comments she made after the Benghazi attack.
5. YEARNING TO SERVE ON THE FRONT LINES
Four women sue to overturn a Pentagon rule barring females from being assigned to ground combat units.
6. HOW DROUGHT AND RISING TEMPERATURES ARE AFFECTING THE GREAT LAKES
Water levels have fallen to near-record lows on Lakes Michigan and Huron.
7. U.N. ON VERGE OF RECOGNIZING PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD
The U.S. and Israel strongly oppose the resolution, which would add weight to Palestinian claims for a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem.
8. AMERICANS UPBEAT DESPITE LOOMING BUDGET MELTDOWN
Consumer confidence rose in November as home values increased and gas prices fell.
9. A NEW TECHNOLOGY TO TRACK STUDENTS' WHEREABOUTS
Microchips embedded in ID cards ? a purported safety measure ? will be "the next wave" in schools, one expert says.
10. SIN CITY'S LATEST ATTRACTION
Las Vegas is building a zip line that will spit tourists out of an 11-story slot machine and send them hurtling five blocks.
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Some Republicans feared that a second term for US President Barack Obama would be catastrophic to the country?s economy, but one private store owner says business is booming and the president is to thank.
Cope Reynolds, owner of Southwest Shooting Authority, says he?s ?been busier than a cat covering up poop on a marble floor,? lately, and all because of a rather unusual and accidental promotion. The proprietor of the Pinetop, AZ gun-and-ammo store posted signs around his shop and even took out a full-page ad in the White Mountain Independent newspaper the morning after Pres. Obama won a second term in office to warn supporters of the incumbent to stay out of his store.
?If you voted for Barack Obama, your business is not welcome at Southwest Shooting Authority. You have proven you?re not responsible enough to own a firearm,? the adverts read.
In the weeks since, Reynolds says business is now ?booming? and he likely has his unusually outspoken signage to thank. He says his store has been flooded with calls since his campaign first made headlines, and now the support is pouring in from everywhere.
?We?ve even gotten calls from Afghanistan, England, almost every state in the union. Overwhelmingly they?re in support,? Reynolds tells Talking Points Memo. ?You can always tell the ones that are not ? nine out of 10 of them start out with vile and nasty language. And I guess they don?t have the intelligence to carry on a conversation like an adult. Probably about 75 percent have been for it, maybe even more than that.?
Reynolds says that even if some are responding less than positively, he doesn?t think it affects business.
?People are saying that I?ve alienated half of our customers,? Reynolds tells the Arizona Republic. ?No, I haven?t. I haven't alienated any of my customers, because the people who voted for Obama don?t buy guns here. They don't come here at all. I haven?t alienated. I?ve improved things. I have packages sitting on my desk to be shipped to places like Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Idaho, Nevada and California.?
If you?re voted for Obama, writes Reynolds in a statement, ?your money is no good? at Southwest Shooting Authority
?Obviously, this is nothing more than a political statement,? he tells the Phoenix New Times. ?Of course, it would be impossible to enforce. If they don't say anything, we'll never know. They could purchase whatever they wanted, and they would probably get a big kick out of thinking that they are rubbing it in our face as they walk out the door. Some folks are easily amused that way. However, if they own up to it, we will not serve them. This goes way beyond gun control, which many think is why we did this. I should have as much right to post a sign on my door as those that post ?No Guns? on their doors.?
If people have a problem with Reynolds? policy, they are invited to call him at the store?s phone number, 928-367-AK47. You should probably think twice though if you?re intending on taking up any complaints you may have face-to-face.
?We?re able to wear our guns in Arizona and we wear one 24-7,? he tells the Daily Caller. ?We train regularly.?
The holiday shopping season is revving up, which means it's time to search for some bargains so you don't go broke buying gifts for the people on your list. There are dozens of deal sites out there, but not all of them are useful when it's time to actually find discounts on things you actually want to buy. We asked you which sites you used, and this week we're taking a look at the top five, based on your nominations.
Earlier in the week we asked you which deal sites you used to save money. You offered up plenty of options, and we tallied up your votes, but sadly we only have room for the top five.
Slickdeals
Slickdeals is so popular and well known that at my last job, most of my colleagues in our IT group (and out of it, honestly) had Slickdeals as our browser homepages. We never wanted to miss a deal, and new ones were breaking and expiring all day. Slickdeals is largely community powered, with members floating up coupon codes and sales available at retailers all over the web for the community to see and take advantage of, and it's not just on technology and electronics: apparel, local deals at nearby shops, travel and vacation packages, it's all there. Or you can hop right to your favorite online retailer and see what they have to offer before you click purchase. The forums are active and lively, and the deals never stop.
Dealnews
The Dealnews network of sites, including DealMac and the old DealRAM and DealCam (which have now been absorbed into Dealnews) offer daily, regularly updating deals from around the web on computer equipment, home electronics, apparel, and much much more. Almost nothing escapes Dealnews's eye: monitors and displays, TVs and home entertainment gear, headphones and audio equipment, GPS systems, even sunglasses and clothing are all available. The backlog of deals is huge, and you just have to search for the product you're interested in to see what deals are active in that area and which ones have recently expired. They also get a ton of exclusive deals you'll only find at Dealnews, and an excellent collection of holiday and Black Friday bargains. I'm pretty sure half my gear I got thanks to Dealnews, and they're always worth a check for bargains before you start shopping.
Woot!
Woot started off as the original daily deal site, and since being purchased by Amazon back in 2010, has expanded its empire to not just daily technology deals, but deals on wine, kids clothing and toys, technology and home electronics, independently designed t-shirts and apparel, and more. They've also launched Deals.Woot, a community powered site full of bargains on virtually any item you can think of, from lingerie to computer components, all upvoted or downvoted by the community so you only see the deals that actually save you money. The other Woot sites also go out of their way to offer more than just one deal a day, with many offering exclusive bargains and super-deep discounts for limited times, most notably their repeated and regular discounts on Gunnar glasses.
Fatwallet
Fatwallet is another deal site that's been around for a long time, but they're worth a check before you go shopping online to make sure you're not missing a coupon code or a retailer that has the item you want on sale. Fatwallet covers major retailers and niche ones, in categories that are largely electronics and computer gear, but also include apparel, cosmetics, jewelry, and local deals in your community. Fatwallet's biggest resource is its community though: its active forums are full of regularly churning deals that appear, make it big all over the web, and then vanish when the coupon code has been used up or every other deal site on the web links to their forum threads. The site boasts millions of members, and the while the front page is great, the forums are where the magic happens.
BradsDeals
While many deal sites focus on technology deals and electronics discounts, BradsDeals offers up discounts, price alerts, and coupon codes on other items we all buy: clothing, apparel, toiletries and small electronics (shavers, razors, etc), and jewelry. The site has a wealth of coupon codes for popular retailers and big box stores with names you'd recognize, and even offers printable coupons as well so you can run to a brick-and-mortar store when you don't want to wait for shipping. If you've felt that other deal sites are huge electronics stores with tiny household sections and other departments, BradsDeals will fix that for you?think of more like a traditional department store, just only stocked with discounts and coupons you can use anywhere you want to shop.
Now that you've seen the top five, it's time to put them all to a vote to decide the winner.
Honorable mentions this week go out to RetailMeNot, which does host plenty of deals and bargains in addition to the coupon codes for sites around the web that made it famous. If you don't already check RetailMeNot to see if there's a coupon for the site you're shopping on before you click purchase, you really should, even if you wind up being disappointed when there aren't any. A little love goes out to Passwird, another deal site run by one person, and while it doesn't have the broadest list of deals, the ones it does have are hand picked and frequently updated. That site hasn't changed in years, but it's still worth a bookmark.
Have something to say about one of the contenders? Want to make the case for your personal favorite, even if it wasn't included in the list? Remember, the top five are based on your most popular nominations from the call for contenders thread from earlier in the week. Make your case for your favorite?or alternative?in the discussions below.
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Gastric bypass surgery helps diabetes but doesn't cure itPublic release date: 26-Nov-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Rebecca Hughes hughes.r@ghc.org 206-287-2055 Group Health Research Institute
People with earlier, less severe diabetes benefit more in HMO Research Network study
SEATTLEAfter gastric bypass surgery, diabetes goes away for some peopleoften even before they lose much weight. So does that mean gastric surgery "cures" diabetes? Not necessarily, according to the largest community-based study of long-term diabetes outcomes after bariatric surgery. For most people in the study, e-published in advance of print in Obesity Surgery, diabetes either never remitted after gastric surgery or relapsed within five years.
Among the two thirds of the study's patients whose diabetes at first went away, more than a third re-developed diabetes again within five years after gastric surgery. After adding in the one quarter of patients whose diabetes never remitted after surgery, most (56 percent) of the study's patients had no long-lasting remission of their diabetes following gastric surgery. However, when diabetes did go away, the research team extrapolated, it stayed away for a median of eight years.
Which kinds of obese people with type 2 diabetes are likely to get the most benefit from gastric surgery? "Our results suggest that, after gastric surgery, diabetes stays away for longer in those people whose diabetes was less severe and at an earlier stage at the time of surgery," said principal investigator David E. Arterburn, MD, MPH, a general internist and associate investigator at Group Health Research Institute. "Gastric surgery isn't for everyone," he said. "But this evidence suggests that, once you have diabetes and are severely obese, you should strongly consider it, even though it doesn't seem to be a cure for most patients."
The multi-site study tracked 4,434 adults at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, and HealthPartners for 14 years: from 1995 to 2008. The research arms of all three of these integrated health care delivery systemsand Group Health Research Institute, where the study's results were analyzedbelong to the HMO Research Network. The patients had type 2 diabetes that was either controlled with medication or else uncontrolled, and they were also obese enough to be candidates for gastric bypass surgery.
"Diabetes is an increasingly common disease that tends to keep getting worse relentlessly," Dr. Arterburn said. More than 25 million American adults have diabetesand as populations age and keep gaining weight, 50 million are predicted to have it by 2050. Already, diabetes accounts for 5 percent of all U.S. health care spending. And it raises the risk of blindness, kidney disease, heart attacks, strokes, and deaths.
"Prevention is by far the best medicine for diabetes," Dr. Arterburn said. "Once you have diabetes, it's really hard to get rid of. Attempts to treat it with intensive lifestyle changes and medical management have been disappointing." For instance, the National Institutes of Health recently halted the Look AHEAD study of intensive lifestyle changes for people with diabetes. Despite improvements in risk factors like body weight, fitness, and blood pressure, sugar, and lipids, that study showed lifestyle changes did not lower the outcomes that matter most: heart attacks, strokes, and deaths.
"No wonder so many were excited to learn that diabetes can remit after gastric surgeryeven, in some cases, before any significant weight lossand many were hoping that gastric surgery might be a 'cure' for diabetes," Dr. Arterburn said. "Our study is the first major evidence that diabetes often recurs after gastric bypass surgery." Still, he added, even after diabetes comes back, having had a long period of post-surgery remission is likely to have many positive effects, such as fewer complications of diabetes: less damage to eyes and kidneys, and fewer heart attacks, strokes, and deaths. The researchers are now funded by the National Institutes of Health to study that possibility in this same population. Dr. Arterburn is also leading a randomized controlled pilot trial of intensive behavioral treatment vs. gastric surgery at Group Health with colleagues from the University of Washington.
It's still not clear whether diabetes relapse happens because of gaining weight back or because of underlying the progression of diabetes. But patients' weightbefore and after surgerywas not strongly correlated with remission or relapse of diabetes in this population.
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As part of the Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness (DEcIDE) program, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded this project under contract HHSA290-2005-0033-I-TO10-WA1, led by Dr. Arterburn.
Drs. Arterburn's co-authors were: Andy Bogart, MS, and Mary Kay Theis, MA, MS, of Group Health Research Institute; David McCulloch, MD, of Group Health Cooperative; Nancy E. Sherwood, PhD, and Patrick J. O'Connor, MD, MPH, of HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research; Stephen Sidney, MD, MPH, of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, in Oakland; Karen J. Coleman, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente Southern California, in Pasadena; Guilherme M. Campos, MD, of the University of Wisconsin, in Madison; Sebastien Haneuse, PhD, of Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston; and Joe Selby, MD, MPH, of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), in Washington, DC. Dr. Arterburn is also an affiliate associate professor of medicine and Dr. McCulloch is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the health services research arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), complementing the biomedical research mission of its sister agency, the National Institutes of Health. AHRQ is a home to research centers that specialize in major areas of health care research such as quality improvement and patient safety, outcomes and effectiveness of care, clinical practice and technology assessment, and health care organization and delivery systems. It is also a major source of funding and technical assistance for health services research and research training at leading U.S. universities and other institutions, as well as a science partner, working with the public and private sectors to build the knowledge base for what worksand does not workin health and health care and to translate this knowledge into everyday practice and policymaking.
HMO Research Network
The HMO Research Network includes 19 research centers, each associated with a health care delivery system. Researchers at the centers collaborate on multi-site studies in real-world health care settings across the United States and in Israel. With access to information on more than 16 million ethnically and geographically diverse patients, these researchers are finding solutions for common and rare health problems. Since 1994, the Network has been answering pressing questions about keeping people healthy and delivering effective care.
About the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
The Kaiser Permanente Division of Research conducts, publishes and disseminates epidemiologic and health services research to improve the health and medical care of Kaiser Permanente members and the society at large. It seeks to understand the determinants of illness and well-being and to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. Located in Oakland, Calif., the Division of Research employs over 600 staff working on more than 250 epidemiological and health services research projects. For more information, visit www.dor.kaiser.org.
About the Kaiser Permanente Department of Research and Evaluation
The Department of Research and Evaluation (R&E) conducts high quality, innovative research into disease etiology, prevention, treatment and care delivery. Investigators conduct epidemiology, health sciences, and behavioral research as well as clinical trials. Located in Pasadena, Calif., the department focuses on translating research to practice quickly to benefit the health and lives of Kaiser Permanente Southern California members and the general population. Visit www.kp.org/research.
HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research
HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research is dedicated to improving health through discovery, the translation of research, and health professional education. Our researchers are dedicated to conducting high-quality, public-domain health research, proposed and led by multidisciplinary teams of independent PhD- and MD-level investigators rigorously trained in statistics, economics, epidemiology, and other fields. The Institute is part of a larger organization consisting of HealthPartners, Regions Hospital, and clinics.
Group Health Research Institute
Group Health Research Institute is the research arm of Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative, a consumer-governed, nonprofit health care system. Founded in 1947, Group Health Cooperative coordinates health care and coverage. Group Health Research Institute changed its name from Group Health Center for Health Studies in 2009. Since 1983, the Institute has conducted nonproprietary public-interest research on preventing, diagnosing, and treating major health problems. Government and private research grants provide its main funding.
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Gastric bypass surgery helps diabetes but doesn't cure itPublic release date: 26-Nov-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Rebecca Hughes hughes.r@ghc.org 206-287-2055 Group Health Research Institute
People with earlier, less severe diabetes benefit more in HMO Research Network study
SEATTLEAfter gastric bypass surgery, diabetes goes away for some peopleoften even before they lose much weight. So does that mean gastric surgery "cures" diabetes? Not necessarily, according to the largest community-based study of long-term diabetes outcomes after bariatric surgery. For most people in the study, e-published in advance of print in Obesity Surgery, diabetes either never remitted after gastric surgery or relapsed within five years.
Among the two thirds of the study's patients whose diabetes at first went away, more than a third re-developed diabetes again within five years after gastric surgery. After adding in the one quarter of patients whose diabetes never remitted after surgery, most (56 percent) of the study's patients had no long-lasting remission of their diabetes following gastric surgery. However, when diabetes did go away, the research team extrapolated, it stayed away for a median of eight years.
Which kinds of obese people with type 2 diabetes are likely to get the most benefit from gastric surgery? "Our results suggest that, after gastric surgery, diabetes stays away for longer in those people whose diabetes was less severe and at an earlier stage at the time of surgery," said principal investigator David E. Arterburn, MD, MPH, a general internist and associate investigator at Group Health Research Institute. "Gastric surgery isn't for everyone," he said. "But this evidence suggests that, once you have diabetes and are severely obese, you should strongly consider it, even though it doesn't seem to be a cure for most patients."
The multi-site study tracked 4,434 adults at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, and HealthPartners for 14 years: from 1995 to 2008. The research arms of all three of these integrated health care delivery systemsand Group Health Research Institute, where the study's results were analyzedbelong to the HMO Research Network. The patients had type 2 diabetes that was either controlled with medication or else uncontrolled, and they were also obese enough to be candidates for gastric bypass surgery.
"Diabetes is an increasingly common disease that tends to keep getting worse relentlessly," Dr. Arterburn said. More than 25 million American adults have diabetesand as populations age and keep gaining weight, 50 million are predicted to have it by 2050. Already, diabetes accounts for 5 percent of all U.S. health care spending. And it raises the risk of blindness, kidney disease, heart attacks, strokes, and deaths.
"Prevention is by far the best medicine for diabetes," Dr. Arterburn said. "Once you have diabetes, it's really hard to get rid of. Attempts to treat it with intensive lifestyle changes and medical management have been disappointing." For instance, the National Institutes of Health recently halted the Look AHEAD study of intensive lifestyle changes for people with diabetes. Despite improvements in risk factors like body weight, fitness, and blood pressure, sugar, and lipids, that study showed lifestyle changes did not lower the outcomes that matter most: heart attacks, strokes, and deaths.
"No wonder so many were excited to learn that diabetes can remit after gastric surgeryeven, in some cases, before any significant weight lossand many were hoping that gastric surgery might be a 'cure' for diabetes," Dr. Arterburn said. "Our study is the first major evidence that diabetes often recurs after gastric bypass surgery." Still, he added, even after diabetes comes back, having had a long period of post-surgery remission is likely to have many positive effects, such as fewer complications of diabetes: less damage to eyes and kidneys, and fewer heart attacks, strokes, and deaths. The researchers are now funded by the National Institutes of Health to study that possibility in this same population. Dr. Arterburn is also leading a randomized controlled pilot trial of intensive behavioral treatment vs. gastric surgery at Group Health with colleagues from the University of Washington.
It's still not clear whether diabetes relapse happens because of gaining weight back or because of underlying the progression of diabetes. But patients' weightbefore and after surgerywas not strongly correlated with remission or relapse of diabetes in this population.
###
As part of the Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness (DEcIDE) program, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded this project under contract HHSA290-2005-0033-I-TO10-WA1, led by Dr. Arterburn.
Drs. Arterburn's co-authors were: Andy Bogart, MS, and Mary Kay Theis, MA, MS, of Group Health Research Institute; David McCulloch, MD, of Group Health Cooperative; Nancy E. Sherwood, PhD, and Patrick J. O'Connor, MD, MPH, of HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research; Stephen Sidney, MD, MPH, of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, in Oakland; Karen J. Coleman, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente Southern California, in Pasadena; Guilherme M. Campos, MD, of the University of Wisconsin, in Madison; Sebastien Haneuse, PhD, of Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston; and Joe Selby, MD, MPH, of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), in Washington, DC. Dr. Arterburn is also an affiliate associate professor of medicine and Dr. McCulloch is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the health services research arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), complementing the biomedical research mission of its sister agency, the National Institutes of Health. AHRQ is a home to research centers that specialize in major areas of health care research such as quality improvement and patient safety, outcomes and effectiveness of care, clinical practice and technology assessment, and health care organization and delivery systems. It is also a major source of funding and technical assistance for health services research and research training at leading U.S. universities and other institutions, as well as a science partner, working with the public and private sectors to build the knowledge base for what worksand does not workin health and health care and to translate this knowledge into everyday practice and policymaking.
HMO Research Network
The HMO Research Network includes 19 research centers, each associated with a health care delivery system. Researchers at the centers collaborate on multi-site studies in real-world health care settings across the United States and in Israel. With access to information on more than 16 million ethnically and geographically diverse patients, these researchers are finding solutions for common and rare health problems. Since 1994, the Network has been answering pressing questions about keeping people healthy and delivering effective care.
About the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
The Kaiser Permanente Division of Research conducts, publishes and disseminates epidemiologic and health services research to improve the health and medical care of Kaiser Permanente members and the society at large. It seeks to understand the determinants of illness and well-being and to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. Located in Oakland, Calif., the Division of Research employs over 600 staff working on more than 250 epidemiological and health services research projects. For more information, visit www.dor.kaiser.org.
About the Kaiser Permanente Department of Research and Evaluation
The Department of Research and Evaluation (R&E) conducts high quality, innovative research into disease etiology, prevention, treatment and care delivery. Investigators conduct epidemiology, health sciences, and behavioral research as well as clinical trials. Located in Pasadena, Calif., the department focuses on translating research to practice quickly to benefit the health and lives of Kaiser Permanente Southern California members and the general population. Visit www.kp.org/research.
HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research
HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research is dedicated to improving health through discovery, the translation of research, and health professional education. Our researchers are dedicated to conducting high-quality, public-domain health research, proposed and led by multidisciplinary teams of independent PhD- and MD-level investigators rigorously trained in statistics, economics, epidemiology, and other fields. The Institute is part of a larger organization consisting of HealthPartners, Regions Hospital, and clinics.
Group Health Research Institute
Group Health Research Institute is the research arm of Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative, a consumer-governed, nonprofit health care system. Founded in 1947, Group Health Cooperative coordinates health care and coverage. Group Health Research Institute changed its name from Group Health Center for Health Studies in 2009. Since 1983, the Institute has conducted nonproprietary public-interest research on preventing, diagnosing, and treating major health problems. Government and private research grants provide its main funding.
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With many employees putting off retirement and staying on the job longer than they expected, it?s bound to happen: they have trouble reporting to a much younger manager.
Before the work relationship becomes irreparable or an age discrimination suit is filed, have a chat with the veteran employee.
Remind them: Even if they don?t respect their young manager personally, they are expected to respect the manager?s position of authority.
Encourage them to keep their skill sets up-to-date. Ask what types of training they?d be interested in getting; they might have something in mind that would benefit both them and their department.
Point out some of the positive characteristics and contributions younger managers make to the company. For instance, older employees who are accustomed to the importance of ?face time? might gripe that the younger managers leave work at 4:30 each day; you might point out that these same managers frequently work late into the night from home.
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Morsi's grab for more power has prompted days of protest by judges and youth, but the president appears confident that he has the numbers on his side.
By Kristen Chick,?Correspondent / November 25, 2012
President Mohammed Morsi, (center), waves to supporters outside the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt on Friday. Egypt's official news agency says that the country's highest body of judges has called the president's recent decrees an "unprecedented assault on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings." In a statement carried on MEAN Saturday, the Supreme Judicial Council says they regret the declarations President Mohammed Morsi issued Thursday.
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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi attempted to calm a furor raised by his decree expanding his powers as clashes between police and a small group of protesters continued in Cairo today.?
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The president's administration issued a statement emphasizing the temporary nature of his nearly unchecked authority, and said his constitutional decree granting it was not meant to concentrate his powers.?
The statement came as some judges were on strike to protest his move, which sidelines the judiciary and removes nearly all checks to President Morsi's power, making his decisions and laws immune to challenge until a new constitution is written. A nationwide judges' strike would mount a strong challenge to Morsi, but it was unclear how widespread the strike was as it appeared that many courts were still working.?
The protests, both on the street and in the courtroom, do not appear large enough to dent the president's momentum, says Mustapha Kamel Al Sayyid, a political science professor at the American University in Cairo.
"I think that the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is planning a big demonstration ... on Tuesday suggests that they are not inclined to accept a compromise," he says. "I think they are planning to send a message that they have more support in the country than the secularists, and they will not change their position."?
The presidency's statement indicates that rather than compromise, his administration wants to convince people to accept his exceptional powers because they only last for several months. "Of course, with these powers much could be done in two months," says Dr. Sayyid.
Protests dwindled
A protest against Morsi's decree by thousands of people in Tahrir square Friday dwindled to hundreds today.?Several dozen tents stood in the square's garden, where some protesters are sleeping at night. Both opposition groups and the Muslim Brotherhood have called rival rallies in Cairo for Tuesday.?
Protesters fighting police on the outskirts of Tahrir square today near the American embassy say they want to bring down the president's new decree. But the group of several hundred rock-wielding mostly teenage boys also appeared eager for a row with the police.?
Clashes between protesters and police have run almost nonstop since Nov. 19, when a demonstration held to commemorate deadly clashes between protesters and police last year devolved, once again, into violence. The low-level exchange of rocks and tear gas continued as Tahrir square filled up with protesters against Morsi's decree Friday, with some of the demonstrators joining the fight against police but most protesting peacefully in the square.?
Security forces built a wall of concrete blocks across a major downtown road overnight in an attempt to separate protesters and police. The wall was a reminder to many in Cairo that turmoil seems to be the only constant during the nearly two years since a popular uprising swept former President Hosni Mubarak from power. Just over a year ago, security forces built an almost identical wall in nearly the same spot after days of deadly fighting between police and demonstrators protesting the military junta that then ruled Egypt.?(Security forces have built nearly half a dozen others nearby after similar clashes.)?
Many Egyptians had hoped that the instability would end after they elected a new president. But Egypt's stock market plunged Sunday ??falling nearly 10 percent, the most in over a year ??on its first day open since Morsi's decree, as it has done many times over the turmoil of the past years. Around 500 people have been hurt in the past three days of protests.?
Some of the young men joining in the rock-throwing against police complained bitterly that this police force was no different than the one that was notorious for brutality and abuse under Mr. Mubarak, and which continued those policies under military rule. "Morsi's police is attacking us and shooting us just like Mubarak's police did," said Ahmed Ali, a 14-year-old protester who wore a scarf because of tear gas. "And now Morsi wants to be a dictator. We won't allow a new dictator to take Mubarak's place."?
Some judges had reacted angrily to Morsi's decree, with the influential Judges Club calling for a nationwide strike. While courts in several cities were reported to have stopped working today, others were still handling cases. The judiciary has repeatedly delayed Egypt's transition, dissolving its first post-uprising elected parliament, and disbanding a committee elected to write the constitution. Morsi has said that declaring the new constituent assembly immune from court decisions that would disband it, and preventing judicial challenges to his decisions, was the only way to move Egypt through its transition period to stability with a new constitution and parliament.?
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