Dunkin' Donuts, America's all-day, everyday stop for coffee and baked goods, today announced that the company has signed a franchise agreement with Vietnam Food and Beverage Co. Ltd., whose partners have a proven track record of success in the local restaurant industry, to develop the brand in Vietnam. The agreement calls for the development of Dunkin' Donuts restaurants across the country over the next several years, with the first locations planned for the Ho Chi Minh city area.
"Our guests from around the world love Dunkin' Donuts' wide variety of high-quality beverages and baked goods, all served in a fast, friendly environment and at a great value," said Giorgio Minardi, President, Dunkin' Brands International. "We are excited to partner with Vietnam Food and Beverage Co. Ltd., which has a deep knowledge of the Vietnamese consumer, to open the first Dunkin' Donuts restaurants in Vietnam. We look forward to working with them to bring Dunkin' Donuts' delicious offerings to guests across the country."
Dunkin' Donuts restaurants in Vietnam will feature the brand's high-quality coffee and baked goods, including Dunkin' Donuts Original Blend
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The handset maker previously known as RIM on Wednesday launched its new BlackBerry 10 smartphones: the Q10 with the familiar QWERTY keyboard, and something new for the company -- the touchscreen-based Z10. BlackBerry, as the firm is now called, will release the Z10 in the United States in March with the Q10 following in April.
WEDNESDAY Jan. 30, 2013 For men with prostate cancer who are trying to decide between surgery or radiation therapy, new research shows that declines in sexual, urinary and bowel function do differ with each treatment in the short-term, but those declines tend to even out in the long run.
The study included more than 1,600 men treated for early-stage prostate cancer. Researchers asked them about their urinary, sexual and bowel health following either surgery to remove the prostate or radiation therapy.
Although the rates of health decline in these areas differed at two and five years after treatment, men reported similar declines regardless of their treatment after 15 years.
While men who underwent surgery experienced higher rates of urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction two and five years later, men who received radiation therapy had higher rates of bowel urgency, or feeling like they had to pass stool but not being able to do so.
The study was published in the Jan. 31 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
"Our hope was that measuring patient-reported outcomes at a 15-year time point would provide patients and their physicians with a realistic picture of the prostate cancer survivorship experience," said study author Dr. Matthew Resnick, an instructor of urologic surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
Urinary, sexual and bowel problems are among the most common side effects of treatment for prostate cancer, Resnick added. Declines are probably due to a combination of the treatment and aging in general, and the side effects even out after 15 years.
However, the shorter-term differences could be enough to steer some men toward one treatment or the other.
"There isn't a one-size-fits-all approach; different men feel differently about the possibility of benefits and risks of treatment," Resnick said. For example, men who were already experiencing urinary incontinence might want to choose a treatment like radiation therapy because it was associated with lower rates of urinary problems in the short-term.
Surgery to remove the entire prostate, called radical prostatectomy, and radiation therapy are both recommended treatments for low- and medium-risk prostate cancer, according to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines.
However, these guidelines state that, for men with low-risk prostate cancer, watchful waiting -- closely monitoring the disease and treating it only if it changes -- is the best option.
It remains to be seen how men who opt for watchful waiting will fare in terms of their urinary, sexual and bowel health, especially in the long-term, Resnick noted.
Previous research has found doing watchful waiting for one year after diagnosis was associated with lower rates of urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction, but higher rates of urinary blockage seven years later, compared to men who were treated immediately.
The current study involved 1,655 men who had stage 1 or 2 prostate cancer, which had not spread beyond the prostate. Men were diagnosed between ages 55 and 74 in 1994 and 1995, and most were treated in the year of diagnosis.
About 70 percent of the participants had radical prostatectomy, while the remaining 30 percent had external-beam radiation therapy, in which high-energy rays are directed from outside the body.
Treatment choice can vary based on a number of factors including age, prostate cancer stage and other diseases, Resnick said. The researchers took into account these differences when analyzing treatment outcomes.
The study authors asked the men about their urinary, sexual and bowel function before they had been diagnosed, as well as in the months following treatment. Participants also rated their own health in these areas.
Although there were declines after both treatments, men who received surgery reported sharper declines in urinary and sexual health, from a score of about 95 and 70, respectively, before surgery to about 60 and 20 in the months after.
"We would look at these changes and say they are meaningful," said Dr. John Wei, a professor of urology at the University of Michigan who was not involved in the study.
Even though their urinary and sexual health rebounded about a year after treatment, surgical patients were still six times more likely to have urinary incontinence and 3.5 times more likely to erectile dysfunction two years after treatment than radiation patients.
"The trajectory of the lines is different," Resnick said. "Obviously surgery is much more of an acute insult than radiation."
However, men who received radiation therapy reported greater early loss in bowel function, from a score of about 90 to 75. Although they went on to recover some function, the men who had surgery were 39 percent and 47 percent less likely to report bowel urgency two and five years later, respectively.
"I have been telling patients for years about these types of differences associated with prostate cancer treatment," Wei said.
This study gives a reference point when explaining these issues to patients, Wei said, adding that he applauds the authors for following the men in this study for 15 years.
By 15 years after treatment, the declines were in the same range for both treatment groups. Men reported a score of between 70 and 80 for urinary function, about 20 for sexual function and 80 for bowel function.
Nonetheless, "I would be somewhat careful in showing the results [of this study] to my patients," Wei said.
Intensive prostate cancer treatments are done differently today; for example, surgery can be done with a robot or with minimally invasive laproscopy using small incisions in the abdomen. Cancers also tend to be detected earlier when they are less aggressive, and so treatment could be less aggressive.
These differences could add up to lower side-effect rates, Wei said.
In the end, it comes down to what men decide with their doctors. Some men may worry about the invasiveness of surgery and opt for radiation therapy, whereas others might prefer surgery because they feel more comfortable knowing that their prostate has been removed and there is no chance of recurrence of prostate cancer, Wei said.
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Toshiba's latest numbers may not reach the dizzying heights of last quarter, but at least it's not back to filling out its spreadsheets in red pen. The company is announcing profits of $322 million from net sales of $14.9 billion. A big chunk of that change came from Tosh's "social infrastructure" division, which produces power plants, medical systems and radiation detectors -- while its home entertainment and computing divisions sat and watched profits continue to decline. Toshiba has maintained the cut-back forecast it made in October, expecting annual net profits to be around $1.2 billion, more than enough for it to send you a cute bug-eyed robot for your next birthday.
China sentences two Tibetans for "inciting" self-immolations US-CHINA-TIBET:China sentences two Tibetans for "inciting" self-immolations
BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in China has handed down heavy sentences to a Tibetan monk and his nephew for inciting eight people to set themselves on fire in anti-Chinese protests, media said on Thursday, the first time punishment has been meted out over such protests.
Nearly 100 Tibetans have set themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule since 2009, with most of them dying from their injuries.
Lorang Konchok, 40, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in the Aba prefecture in Sichuan province, while his nephew, Losang Tsering, 31, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, the Xinhua state news agency said.
In practice, a death sentence with a two-year reprieve is commuted to life imprisonment or reduced to a fixed-term later.
"The two incited and coerced eight people to self-immolate, resulting in three deaths," Xinhua said, citing the Intermediate People's Court in Aba prefecture.
Last December, Xinhua reported that Lorang Konchok, who was detained with his nephew in August, confessed to police that he had followed instructions from exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and his followers.
Lorang Konchok and his nephew passed on information about each self-immolation, including photographs, to overseas contacts belonging to a Tibetan independence organisation with mobile telephones, Xinhua said.
China has repeatedly denounced the Dalai Lama and exiled Tibetan groups for fomenting the self-immolations.
Beijing considers Nobel peace laureate the Dalai Lama, who fled from China in 1959 after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule, a separatist. The Dalai Lama says he is merely seeking greater autonomy for his Himalayan homeland.
He has called on China to investigate the self-immolations. He has said he is not encouraging them has called them "understandable".
China has defended its iron-fisted rule in Tibet, saying the remote region suffered from dire poverty, brutal exploitation and economic stagnation until 1950, when Communist troops "peacefully liberated" it.
Tibetan areas in China have been largely closed to foreign reporters, making an independent assessment of the situation there impossible.
Chinese police arrested a Tibetan man last week for allegedly encouraging a monk to burn himself to death, as part of a new tactic to discourage suicide protests against Chinese rule.
(Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee; Editing by Robert Birsel)
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) ? On today?s APP-tastic and Outta Site ? GolfWeather.
Before you hit the Links, it might be a good idea to see if you?ll get in a full 18. GolfWeather provides hour-by-hour forecasts for over 20,000 courses around the country.
Beyond rain, the app also provides information on cloud cover, humidity and the amount of wind that?s expected. Worst case, you?ll know you have a good excuse when you slice the ball for the third hole in a row.
Michael Lohan and Kate Major, pictured in January 2010, welcomed a son on Wednesday.
While Lindsay Lohan was facing the judge, her father, Michael Lohan, was welcoming his newborn son.
Michael Lohan's rep confirms to E! News that his girlfriend Kate Major gave birth to their first child together, a baby boy, today at a Florida hospital. "God is good," he told us.?
So what's the little guy's name??
Lindsay Lohan's lawyer sports "IMTRYNG" license plates for court appearance?
Say hello to Landon Major Lohan, born weighing 7 pounds and 5 ounces.?
Aside from becoming a big sister again, Lindsay rushed to Los Angeles from New York to make her court appearance this morning, after initially saying she was too sick to fly and had planned to skip today's hearing.?
The actress is facing three misdemeanor counts involving a car crash last June. She was charged in the incident for willfully resisting, obstruction, providing false information to an officer and reckless driving. Her probation remained revoked.?
Check out LiLo's court style?
Yeah, she'll definitely have a lot of stories to tell her li'l bro.?
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is planning its first major expansion since it opened in 1971 as a "living memorial" to President John F. Kennedy, with new features including pavilions to house rehearsal halls and classrooms, a memorial garden and a floating stage on the Potomac River.
The plans unveiled Tuesday call for a $100 million addition that would create a more lively outdoor space for gatherings and performances, with a pedestrian bridge connecting the center to the river. Architect Steven Holl drafted the initial concept and was hired from among several contenders to design the expansion.
New marble pavilions ? made from the same Italian Carrara marble as the original building's walls ? would rise from a new garden situated beside the center, and the pavilions would be connected underground. Most of the new facility, totaling about 60,000 square feet of usable space, would be buried below the surface to help preserve the silhouette of the center's primary building.
Officials plan to raise private funds to build the project. To kick off the capital campaign, Kennedy Center Chairman David Rubenstein is giving $50 million to fund half the cost. The center aims to raise an additional $75 million to complete construction and establish a programming fund. Officials hope to open the new space in 2018.
Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser said the new pavilions would have windows to allow visitors to look in on rehearsals of opera, theater or dance.
"We're giving a great improvement in public access to the Kennedy Center, to our art making," Kaiser said. "It's going to allow us to engage our audience in new and different ways."
The new space for rehearsals and education programs also is desperately needed as the center has grown since 1971, Kaiser said. The center now includes a national arts education program and houses the Washington National Opera as a permanent affiliate.
In an interview, Holl said he is honored to work on a memorial to a president he saw inaugurated in 1961 and respected so much.
"The Kennedy Center is a living memorial. It's active, open to the public for performance, the arts, which he really believed in," Holl said.
Preliminary plans call for a memorial garden to honor Kennedy. It could include 46 Gingko trees to note the number of years Kennedy lived, 35 lavender rows for the 35th president, and a video wall for projections of performances from inside the Kennedy Center.
"The idea really is that the landscape is activated," a fusion of architecture and landscape features, Holl said.
It could include a reflecting pool the exact length of the PT-109 boat that Lt. John Kennedy commanded during World War II. Holl envisions a deck along the pool made from the same mahogany wood as the boat. It could also include inscriptions of Kennedy's words.
The biggest challenge in the design concept could be winning approval for a performance stage that would float on the Potomac River, Holl said. Still, he said he has successfully negotiated with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a past project that fell inside a flood plain.
"I'm ready for the fight," he said.
Open-air performances were once held on a floating river stage nearby at the Lincoln Memorial in the 1930s.
The new expansion plans come more than 10 years after the Kennedy Center announced a major project to build two new buildings and a plaza over a nearby freeway to connect the center with the National Mall. The $650 million project was essentially canceled in 2005 after budget constraints forced Congress to eliminate $400 million in federal funding for the project.
Kaiser envisioned a museum of the performing arts as part of that project. Now, he said, the center can plan future exhibition galleries in its main building as education programs and rehearsals move to the new facilities.
Rubenstein, a billionaire businessman and a former vice chairman of New York City's Lincoln Center, said the Kennedy Center has been limited by its building over the years. So he wanted to plan a realistic project that could be privately funded without relying on Congress. As the federal budget tightens, Rubenstein said more Americans should consider supporting nonprofit federal entities like the center.
Rubenstein's gift is the largest in the center's history. Combined with previous gifts, he has donated $75 million, making him the center's largest donor.
Adding a garden and outdoor pavilions will make the center more inviting, Rubenstein said.
"Rarely do people say in Washington, 'I'm going to go over and spend a couple hours at the Kennedy Center,'" Rubenstein said, noting it's often an evening destination for shows. But that will change, he said. "What we wanted to do was to remind people that this is a living memorial to a president."
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BlackBerry (formerly RIM) has just unveiled the BlackBerry 10 device that, let's face it, many of the faithful really want: the keyboard-equipped Q10. It mates the QWERTY hardware input that BlackBerry fans have known and loved while including a 3.1-inch touchscreen. Yes, it will have LTE, and there's already confirmed plans from Sprint, Verizon and Canadian providers to carry it -- although we've yet to learn pricing or a ship date. Check our hands-on with the Q10 for early impressions.
Jan. 29, 2013 ? In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction.
The ISS-RapidScat instrument will help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring, and understanding of how ocean-atmosphere interactions influence Earth's climate.
"The ability for NASA to quickly reuse this hardware and launch it to the space station is a great example of a low-cost approach that will have high benefits to science and life here on Earth," said Mike Suffredini, NASA's International Space Station program manager.
ISS-RapidScat will help fill the data gap created when QuikScat, which was designed to last two years but operated for 10, stopped collecting ocean wind data in late 2009. A scatterometer is a microwave radar sensor used to measure the reflection or scattering effect produced while scanning the surface of Earth from an aircraft or a satellite.
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have studied next-generation replacements for QuikScat, but a successor will not be available soon. To meet this challenge cost-effectively, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the agency's station program proposed adapting leftover QuikScat hardware in combination with new hardware for use on the space station.
"ISS-RapidScat represents a low-cost approach to acquiring valuable wind vector data for improving global monitoring of hurricanes and other high-intensity storms," said Howard Eisen, ISS-RapidScat project manager at JPL. "By leveraging the capabilities of the International Space Station and recycling leftover hardware, we will acquire good science data at a fraction of the investment needed to launch a new satellite."
ISS-RapidScat will have measurement accuracy similar to QuikScat's and will survey all regions of Earth accessible from the space station's orbit. The instrument will be launched to the space station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft. It will be installed on the end of the station's Columbus laboratory as an autonomous payload requiring no interaction by station crew members. It is expected to operate aboard the station for two years.
ISS-RapidScat will take advantage of the space station's unique characteristics to advance understanding of Earth's winds. Current scatterometer orbits pass the same point on Earth at approximately the same time every day. Since the space station's orbit intersects the orbits of each of these satellites about once every hour, ISS-RapidScat can serve as a calibration standard and help scientists stitch together the data from multiple sources into a long-term record.
ISS-RapidScat also will collect measurements of Earth's global wind field at all times of day for all locations. Variations in winds caused by the sun can play a significant role in the formation of tropical clouds and tropical systems that play a dominant role in Earth's water and energy cycles. ISS-RapidScat observations will help scientists understand these phenomena better and improve weather and climate models.
The ISS-RapidScat project is a joint partnership of JPL and NASA's International Space Station Program Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, with support from the Earth Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
For more on NASA's scatterometry missions, visit: http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm . For more information about the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station .
You can follow JPL News on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/nasajpl and on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/nasajpl . The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.
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Ashley Judd and Dario Franchitti are separating after 11 years of marriage. Judd's spokeswoman confirmed a Tuesday report from People magazine that the 44-year-old actress and 39-year-old Scottish race car driver are ending their marriage.?
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Ashley Judd and husband, Dario Franchitti in 2012.
The star of such films as "Double Jeopardy" and "Kiss the Girls" says in a statement that the pair will "always be family" and will continue to cherish their relationship based on love, integrity and respect.
Last year, Judd starred in the ABC series "Missing" and attended the Democratic National Convention as a Tennessee delegate.
Franchitti has won the Indianapolis 500 race three times.
The couple wed in a private ceremony in Scotland in 2001.?
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If you?ve ever been in financial difficulty and carried out some research into Scottish debt solutions, no doubt you will have heard of a Scottish Trust Deed. What with the huge number of adverts on the radio and television, it?s nearly impossible to not have heard of them at least! A lot of the adverts claim to ?wipe out your debt? and ?cancel up to 90% of your debt?, which sounds like a dream come true!
However, can these companies come good on their promises, and is a Trust Deed right for everyone?
The facts
A trust deed is a formal insolvency solution that has existed since at least the 1800?s. Sometimes, it?s called a Scottish Trust Deed, but this is only because a Trust Deed is only available to Scottish residents. The way a Trust Deed works is that if your finances get out of control and you find yourself owing large amounts of money to various sources that you cannot afford to pay back, you effectively place your estate in the hands of a Trustee (a licensed insolvency practitioner), who is responsible for creating a plan that sets out an agreeable solution for both you and the people that you owe money to. This means that you agree to pay what you can afford each month towards your debts, while your creditors agree to give you some debt relief (meaning you don?t have to pay back the full amount that you owe all of your creditors).
Why is it useful?
A Trust Deed is a useful solution for individuals who have substantial debts because it allows them to contribute to their debts by paying an affordable amount each month. When I say ?affordable,? I mean that you contribute what you can after paying for essentials, like food, rent and bills etc. Your Trustee is the person who would help decide what?s essential, as he is the person who creates the plan for paying back your debts. A Trust Deed is also good for creditors because it means that they get to see some of the debt their owed repaid, rather than having to pursue someone through debt collectors and the courts etc.
The myths!
A trust deed can be a great solution for individuals with substantial debts. However, it?s not as simple as just ?writing off you debts?. For instance, you have to be employed or have a regular income, as you are expected to contribute something towards your debts. Another fact is that your Trustee has to act in the best interests of both you AND your creditors! For example, if you own a house that has equity in it, unless you or a friend can cover that cost, you may have to?realize?the equity in your home to benefit your creditors. That means potentially selling and moving into a new house. There are ways to avoid this, but only a licensed insolvency practitioner can advise you on that. These are just a couple of examples of how Trust Deeds are not as simple as some companies would like to make them seem.
What can I do?
If you?re considering entering into a Trust Deed, then your first port of call should be to look online. There is an abundance of websites out there that will explain a lot of the ins and outs of Trust Deeds. Better yet, speak to a debt expert. A licensed insolvency practitioner will know best about whether a Trust Deed is right for you or whether another debt solution is best.
How about you all? Have you ever heard or or used a trust deed? If so, what are your thoughts about them? Share your experiences by commenting below!
OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Torrey Smith overcame a variety of obstacles to become the deep threat the Baltimore Ravens needed to make it to the Super Bowl.
Smith helped his single mother raise her six other children by working after school as a teenager. Early this season, his second with the Ravens, tragedy struck less than 24 hours before Baltimore faced New England on Sept. 23: Smith's younger brother, Tevin Jones, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Virginia.
Smith left the team to join his family, then returned to catch six passes for 127 yards and two touchdowns in Baltimore's 31-30 victory.
Now Smith and the Ravens will play for the NFL championship against San Francisco this Sunday.
Smith has put his brother's death behind him, saying, "I'm just focused on playing football."
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Domestic cats in the United States kill billions of birds and mammals a year, according to a new report, a rate that is much higher than previous estimates.
Facebook yesterday updated its iOS app to version 5.4, giving users a few new features in what could be one of the world's most complex and layered mobile apps. The update brings with it the ability to share voice messages, much like iOS's Voice Memos, letting users record a cute little message and send it through the app to friends. The update also lets users record and share video from right within the app.
Jan. 29, 2013 ? By allowing employees to participate in a work-sponsored internal social networking site, a company can improve morale and reduce turnover, according to a Baylor University case study published in the European Journal of Information Systems.
The study, which looked at a financial institution's efforts to acclimate new employees into the organization, also found that participation led to a greater sense of well-being and organizational commitment and better employee engagement.
"For millennials, mixing their work life and their social life via an online social networking created positive emotions for the employees who use the system," said Hope Koch, Ph.D., Baylor University associate professor of information systems in the Hankamer School of Business and study co-author. "These emotions led to more social networking and ultimately helped the employees build personal resources like social capital and organizational learning."
SNSs can have a positive impact on IT employees and their workplace, especially when the new employees are relocating to unfamiliar areas and need to build a network, assume highly technical jobs and become integrated into a large organization where it may be difficult to know where to go for help, according to Koch.
The study centered on a financial institution's efforts to reduce IT employee turnover by starting a social and work-related online networking site. Under the supervision of executives, the IT new hires developed and managed the site's content. Since most new hires had moved hundreds of miles to start their new jobs with the institution, they initially used the social pages as an introduction to the community. After a year or so with the organization, the more senior new hires began using the system to acclimate and mentor incoming new hires.
All study respondents worked in the institution's IT department and included new hires, middle managers and executives. With less than three years of experience, most new hires and interns were men between 21 and 27 years old. The middle managers and executives were baby boomers or members of generation X.
The internal social networking site helped the new hires build social capital in several ways, according to Koch.
"It gave them access to people who could provide useful information and new perspectives and allowed them to meet more senior new hires and executives. These relationships set the new hires at ease during work meetings, helped them understand where to go for help and increased their commitment to the financial institution's mission," she said.
Ironically, middle managers, even though they wanted freedom from mentoring new hires, developed a negative attitude toward online social networking when they realized that the new hires had managed to accrue social capital and social experiences with senior executives that they had not had access to in their many years of work.
The SNS system also helped the new hires maintain relationships with one another, thus facilitating a network of acquaintances that can do small favors and help build emotionally close friendships. Finally, by allowing the new hires to access information on the SNS, meet other new hires and develop and maintain relationships with their peer group, the financial institution was able to shift some of the burden of acclimating the new hires away from middle managers and human resources.
Despite the good outcome of this institution's experience, the study data suggest that organizations should move cautiously when implementing SNSs, Koch said. "While the new hires enjoyed using the system, the middle managers experienced frustration, isolation and envy, and the senior executives were somewhat circumspect.
"Before beginning an internal social networking initiative, organizations should consider analyzing how the system may impact both its users and non-users, paying particular attention to potential isolation of non-users and the negative stigma associated with SNS in the workplace," Koch said.
Co-authors of the study were Dorothy Leidner, Ph.D., Ferguson Professor of Information Systems at Baylor; and Ester Gonzalez from Washington State University.
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Hollywood's finest have arrived at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles for the 2013 Screen Actor's Guild Awards, but before taking a seat and honoring some of their big-named colleagues, celebs stopped to talk to E! Live From the Red Carpet's Giuliana Rancic and Ross Matthews.
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What'd they have to say? Well, a variety of things -- to say the least.
"Yeah, here's a hint: It's gonna be brutal and apocalyptic. That's a little hint. Yeah, it's going out big, it's not gonna be pretty but it's going out big."-- Anna Gunn on upcoming season of "Breaking Bad."
"Nothing, I'm already three sheets to the wind with my toast, half a glass down already."-- Peter Facinelli on getting tipsy after his red carpet toast.
Read the 15 best things ever said at the SAGs
"I hate my hands, by the way, they're like a little fluffy because I'm pregnant." -- Busy Philips while showing off her manicure in the ManiCam.
"I'm colorblind so I have no idea, but if it works then I'm thrilled." -- Eddie Redmayne on Giuliana noting that his suit matches his eyes.
"Only if you could say that us working together in the studio one day was making it rain, and I think we did. Creatively speaking, it was pouring." -- Jim Parsons on whether or not he made it rain in the club while hanging out with Rihanna recently.
"I believe so. She looked amazing and I look beautiful, too." -- Ty Burrell on wearing the same designer as Michelle Obama at the Inauguration.
"If I told you, I'd have to kill you and I don't wanna do that." -- Darren Criss on where the "Glee" after party is located.
10 best dressed celebs at the SAG Awards ever!
"No, I don't, which is why I'll be heading to Mexico very shortly." -- Elizabeth Moss on whether or not security is following her for wearing a pair of $1 million earrings.
"Who cares? That girl can sing circles around anybody." -- "Glee's" Naya Rivera on Beyonce's lip-syncing controversy.
"I love my grandma, but we have to make sure everyone is celebrated." -- Jessica Chastain on bringing her mother has her date.
"The way you said that...I felt a little sexy." -- Bradley Cooper on whether or not he feels sexy.
10 rock-solid prediction for tonight's SAG Awards
"Well, you know, Meryl Streep doesn't suck." -- Helen Hunt on her inspiration.
Under pressure from his wife and grandchildren, the former GOP congressman will renege on a public pledge to smoke marijuana, which he made after losing a bet on Colorado's pot-legalization initiative on Election Day.
Tancredo, a conservative Republican who has been out of Congress since 2009, supported Colorado's Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana in his home state when it passed on election day. Tancredo said he had never smoked marijuana and that he did not condone its use, but argued that the government shouldn't tell adults what they can or can't ingest.
The former congressman never thought it would pass. "I thought it would take at least one more time around to do it," Tancredo told ABC News last week. He made a bet with film producer Adam Hartle, who was in Colorado to make a film on the pot measure, agreeing to smoke marijuana if it became legal.
Recently, Tancredo said he would make good on the bet, agreeing to inhale "just a puff" with Hartle, leaving the filmmaker to handle the marijuana procurement. On Friday, he even suggested Democratic Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper should join in.
But that made a lot of people unhappy, including Tancredo's family, and now the former congressman says he won't do it.
"My wife is absolutely-she's pissed," Tancredo told ABC News last week. "Oh man, she is not happy."
Neither were his conservative backers.
"My conservative friends just believe what I'm doing is encouraging people to smoke it," Tancredo said. "I don't think people should. That decision is up to an individual. An adult, in this society, is not something the government should have any control over."
Finally, on Friday night, Tancredo cracked under pressure from his grandchildren.
They were "very upset with grandpa," Tancredo told ABC News, and for him, that was it.
"Will have to welch. Political heat is one thing. Am use to that," Tancredo wrote in an email. "Heat from my family is quite another."
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Last night I was talking to a colleague who just heard he missed the funding cutoff for his NIH grant by a single percent ? 19th percentile funded, and his grant was at the 20th. He had applied to one of the many institutes that is trying to keep the R01 afloat by reducing funding to all the other funding mechanisms ? which happen to be the mechanisms used more by early career faculty because they don?t have enough preliminary data for an R01 for several years. It was a proposal to one of those non-R01 mechanisms that just lost out. It was his last resubmission. Because it takes so long to actually get NIH money, even if he submitted a successful grant in the next round ? March 2013 ? he wouldn?t get approval for the funds until December 2014, and access to that money some time in 2015. In the meantime, that means he has no money to fund the personnel in his lab, let alone the supplies to do his research.
This colleague had just had a long talk with his program officer, and shared with that person that he thought it was unfortunate that the R01 is being privileged over other mechanisms, and that the NIH seems determined to sacrifice an entire generation of young scientists. This colleague does novel work, intentionally took a nontraditional approach to his doctorate and postdoc in order to try and so something awesome with his science. He?s encouraged by his senior colleagues all over the country who also think he?s awesome ? it?s clear he is widely respected. But the few junior folks who get funded in his discipline are the ones who are doing something derivative of their postdoc or grad advisor, and they?re all out of the same three to five labs.
Here is what I had to say in that conversation (and the ensuing Twitter conversation): the NIH, and American science funding in general, is not just sacrificing a generation of scientists. They are sacrificing American science, period.
I don?t know who thinks things are going to get better, that somehow we?re just the one generation that is screwed. Funding lines are going to keep getting worse. Even in NIH grantwriting seminars, I?m getting told by people who sit on review panels that there is an increasingly high degree in subjectivity in who gets funded because once a grant is in the top 20%, how do you tell the difference between the top 10% and 20%? Poor reading, pettiness, cronyism ? this is not what I?m hearing from sour grapes junior faculty, this is what I?m hearing from R01-funded faculty who sit on NIH review panels. And then they tell me my specific aims for my mock review are due a few days later. Wow, I?m so motivated to write now, thanks!
We need to fundamentally change the way science is funded. We need to change the way politicians and the public view science. We need to quadruple the federal budget?s allocation to science (right now if you add up NASA, NIH and NSF it?s 1.8% of the budget). We need to stop making it so freaking hard for great scientists to do science, stay in science, discover science in the first place.
Unless you guys really don?t want us doing world-changing research. I don?t want to say what my colleague would have done with his grant because I want to protect his anonymity. But let me tell you what I would be able to do with federal funding:
I would be able to understand why it is that some women have an easier time getting pregnant than others.
I would be able to determine what factors seem to prevent breast, ovarian and endometrial cancer.
I would start to disentangle all the psychosocial factors that seem to lead to infertility even though we haven?t been able to figure out the mechanism.
I would be able to understand the way in which the mother and fetus negotiate with each other can sometimes contribute to miscarriage.
I would be able to provide resources and teach resilience to a whole generation of local girls who don?t have science in their schools, while doing research that helps me, and them, understand their bodies.
I would be able to lay the foundation for hormonal contraceptives that are safe and effective for adolescents.
I would be able to set up the undergraduate mentoring program I?ve been trying to implement for the last year.
Science captures the imagination of children, it helps us understand our world, it saves lives and protects the planet. We need to stop deluding ourselves that doing the same thing in academic science, but just tightening our belts a bit more, is going to solve the problem. We?ve done worse than sacrificed a generation of scientists, we?ve disgusted the generation below them and reduced our chances of renewal, growth and innovation.
Let me share a tiny bit of life history theory. There is this principle of trade-offs: time and energy used for one purpose cannot be used for another. So if you somatically allocate to growth, for instance, you have less to allocate towards maintenance and reproduction. If a body is very constrained, resource allocation goes haywire: there isn?t enough to support any particular function well, and even critical processes may shut down.
This is how people starve to death.
The cool thing about many aspects of human physiology, however, is that if you flood that system with resources, it?s flexible enough that it can recover. Shutting down does not have to be inevitable. Like the girls I want to study, we are all resilient.
But only if we get resources before we go far enough along the starvation path.
Please check out the storify that Scicurious wrote, and also follow the scientists who were participating, because the conversation continued overnight, into the morning, and is still happening now. And check out Michael Eisen?s blog, as he has some very specific ideas that he will be putting into a post shortly about how to force the NIH into a place that creates opportunities for science, rather than contributing to the broken promises of a generation of eager, innovative, smart people.
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