Vine, Twitter's new video-sharing app, briefly showed a hardcore pornographic video as an "Editor's Pick" this morning.
The video appeared at the top of many users' feeds, but was quickly removed.
The video appeared with Vine's warning prompting people to tap the image to start playing. It's the same warning users see when a video has been reported for displaying inappropriate content.
It is unclear how a video that was reported for having inappropriate content became featured as an editor's pick. The user name on the video was "nsfwvine" and had the caption, "Dildoplay #nsfw #porn." Those are two common hashtags Vine users tag pornographic videos as to make them easier to find. The video showed a woman using a sex toy on a six-second loop.
This comes a day after Vine was widely criticized for making it easy to find pornographic content uploaded by users. Apple has a record of pulling such apps in the past.
Just last week Apple pulled a photo-sharing app called 500px, saying the app made it easy for users to find nude photos. Apple also pulled Viddy, another video-sharing app that's very similar to Vine, about a year ago because users were posting pornographic content.
As of this writing, Vine is a featured "Editor's Choice" app in Apple's App Store for iPhone.
Twitter released Vine last week. The app lets you cut six-second video clips and share them with your friends. It became very popular very quickly and was praised for its ease of use and clever design.
UPDATE:?Twitter has responded to the incident and says the pornographic video was featured as an Editor's Pick due to human error:
A human error resulted in a video with adult content becoming one of the videos in Editor's Picks, and upon realizing this mistake we removed the video immediately. We apologize to our users for the error.
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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, it was reported that 82% of Americans don?t have flood insurance, despite flooding being the most common natural disaster in the United States. You can purchase a policy through the government?s National Flood Insurance Program butmany people don?t avail of this resource. With the people of New Jersey being told that they will have to reinforce their homes to avoid paying exorbitant premiums in future, now is a good time for us to look at what you need to know when it comes to purchasing flood insurance for your home.
Is It a Disaster?
Many people think they don?t need flood insurance because you can apply to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the government will cover your expenses. This is not necessarily the case. If a flood or storm does not qualify as a disaster then the government won?t be stepping in. You are better off with insurance that you know will cover you in case of flooding.
Homeowners? Policy Isn?t Enough
One thing people don?t realise is that their homeowners? or renters? policy does not cover them in cases of flood damage. Flood insurance needs to be bought separately from the government?s National Flood Insurance Program. Through this you can purchase coverage for damage to your home and its contents. Contents insurance is for covering things such as furniture or expensive electronics.
What?s a Basement?
This is a strange one but it could make a big difference to your flood coverage. If you?re living room is below ground level, it can be classified as a basement. That?s right, your first floor may actually be your basement and you could find it very difficult to get coverage for it. This means take care with what you store in your basement. Anything of considerable value might be better placed on a higher floor.
The cost of flood insurance can vary based on many different factors, such as whether the area you live in is a flood risk or what floor your apartment is on. Flood insurance also doesn?t cover everything. Make sure you know what is protected by your flood insurance policy and what isn?t. Doing some research now could save you money in the future.
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WHY do our fingers do prune impressions when soaked? It could be an adaptation that gives us better grip underwater.
Fingers and toes wrinkle in water after about 5 minutes due to the constriction of blood vessels. This reduction in volume pulls the skin inward, but as the skin's surface area cannot change, it wrinkles. A study in 2011 showed that wrinkles form a pattern of channels that divert water away from the fingertip ? akin to rain treads on tyres. The team thought that this could aid grip.
To find out, Tom Smulders and his team at Newcastle University, UK, timed people as they transferred wet or dry objects from one box to another with and without wrinkled fingers.
With wrinkles, wet objects were transferred about 12 per cent faster than with unwrinkled fingers. The time it took to transfer dry objects was the same regardless of wrinkles.
So why aren't our digits always prune-like? "With wrinkles, less of your skin surface touches the object, so there may be issues of sensitivity," Smulders suggests.
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The theme during the first day of this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) seemed to be bigger, faster, and stronger.
Bigger television sets are always fun and cool, but people expect those. What really caught the attention of attendees Tuesday were two smartphones that had nearly twice the screen size of the average iPhone or Android device.
China's Huawei debuted Ascend Mate, a 6.1-inch smartphone with strong battery life and HD display. (Apple's iPhone 5 has a 4-inch screen.)
"Smartphone and tablets are kind of converging," Huawei's Craig Jaycox told Yahoo! News. "From consumers to the carrier companies themselves, everyone seems to be asking for larger screens."
Of course, there were giant tablets on display as well, including Panasonic's 4K 20-inch tablet. While it's portable and powerful, it isn't much smaller than some home television screens.
The TVs are getting even bigger too. Samsung, for example, wowed attendees with its 85-inch 4K Ultra HD LCD TV.
The 7-ounce Ascend Mate also comes with a built-in 8-megapixel camera, Dolby Surround Sound speakers, and a water-resistant screen that held up even when an entire glass of water was poured onto its surface during a demonstration.
Another Chinese manufacturer, ZTE, displayed its own mega-smartphone, the Grand S. It comes with an even more powerful camera than the Ascend Mate's and shoots images at 13 megapixels. Huawei does offer a smaller phone with a 13-megapixel camera, and it has other functions the Ascend Mate and Grand S do not.
There are some obvious advantages to larger smartphone screens: They are more user-friendly for gamers and for those who use Skype or other video-chat apps.
But the screen isn't the only big thing on the Ascend Mate. It has an incredibly powerful 4,040-milliamps battery that reportedly can function for up to six days in standby mode. Huawei was reluctant to say exactly how long the battery life is when streaming video or running other power-draining programs. But the company did say the battery represents a 20 percent to 30 percent improvement in efficiency over earlier models.
Jaycox said Huawei has not yet set up carrier deals with U.S. providers, but if the response at the first day of CES is any indication, you can expect to see the smartphones stateside in the near future.
And what exactly is the motivation behind making larger smartphones instead of smaller ones? Jaycox said the tablet and smartphone markets are going through a test phase as consumers search for the sweet spot, looking for a portable device that meets all their computing needs.
"What's that device size where people truly feel like they have an all-in-one?" he said.
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An artist's rendering shows a typical close-in Earth-size planet, Kepler-20e, which is about 0.87 times as wide as our planet but orbits its parent star more closely than Mercury orbits our sun.
By Alan Boyle
A simulation based on data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission has determined that about one out of every six stars has an Earth-sized planet, which would translate to at least 17 billion such worlds in our Milky Way galaxy. And that's not even counting the alien Earths we'd want to live on.
These 17 billion planets would be circling their parent stars more closely than Mercury orbits our own sun?? which means that, in many cases, the planets would be too hot for liquid water to exist. A few such worlds already have been found, including a "lava planet" known as Alpha Centauri Bb that's just 4.3 light-years away from us.
Someday, the type of simulation that astronomers used to estimate the number of hot Earths can be used to estimate how many habitable Earths could provide a home for life as we know it in the Milky Way. But not just yet.
"For an estimate of Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone, it's simply too early to call," said Francois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, or CfA.
Fressin and his colleagues lay out their estimates for Earth-sized planets, as well as bigger worlds, in a paper that's been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Their research is being discussed today at the American Astronomical Society's winter meeting in Long Beach, Calif.
The estimates are based on a list of 2,400 planet candidates that have been detected by the Kepler probe since its launch in 2009. Kepler looks for planets in a patch of sky overlapping the constellations Cygnus and Lyra, by checking for the faint dimming of a star as an alien world passes across its disk. One of the challenges is to make sure the dimming is really caused by a planet, rather than some other phenomenon such as an eclipsing binary star. Another challenge is that Kepler is sure to miss some planets, because those planets are not in a position to block the light of its parent star, as seen from Earth.
Now that the Kepler mission has been churning out detections for more than three years, there's enough of a database to arrive at some statistical conclusions about the total number of planets in the Milky Way ? at least 100 billion.?There's also enough data to determine what the breakdown of detections should be, and even how many of those detections will be wrong.
"We have a knowledge of false positives that's good enough that we can do a study from scratch," Fressin said.
The simulation suggests that the false-positive rate should vary depending on the size of the planet candidates, from a low of 6.7 percent for small Neptune-scale planets to a high of 17.7 percent for Jupiter-type giants. The false-positive rate for close-in planets between 0.8 and 1.25 times as wide as Earth is 12.3 percent. When all these factors were added to the calculations, the astronomers arrived at a breakdown for five types of planets currently detectable by Kepler:
17 percent for Earths with orbital periods up to 85 days.
26 percent for super-Earths (1.25 to 2 times as wide as Earth) with orbits up to 145 days.
26 percent for small Neptunes (2 to 4 times Earth's width) with orbits up to 245 days.
3 percent for large Neptunes (4 to 6 times Earth's width) with orbits up to 418 days.
5 percent for giants (6 to 22 times Earth's width) with orbits up to 418 days.
The results indicate that for every size of planet except for gas giants, the type of star doesn't matter. Earth-sized planets should be just as likely to form around red dwarfs as around sunlike stars. That runs counter to what was previously thought.
"Earths and super-Earths aren't picky. We're finding them in all kinds of neighborhoods," the CfA's Guillermo Torres, a co-author of the study, said in a news release.
The researchers emphasized that these are just minimum estimates?? and that as Kepler provides more planet candidates at smaller scales and wider orbits, the numbers could increase. Eventually, such simulations could spit out a long-sought number: the tally of Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way expected to have conditions capable of supporting life.
"This result is a significant step towards the determination of eta-earth, the occurrence of Earthlike planets in the habitable zone of their parent stars," they wrote in their research paper.
In addition to Fressin and Torres, the authors of "The False Positive Rate of Kepler nd the Occurrence of Planets" include David Charbonneau, Stephen Bryson, Jessie Christiansen, Courtney Dressing, Jon Jenkins, Lucianne Walkowicz and Natalie Batalha.
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Decrease is unintended consequence of government decision to delist routine eye exams from Ontario Health Insurance Plan
TORONTO, Jan. 7, 2013A new study has found that adults with diabetes in Ontario are getting significantly fewer government-funded eye exams than they were a decade ago, a key component of high-quality diabetes care essential to preventing diabetes-related eye complications.
The decrease is an unintended consequence of the provincial government's decision in 2004 to delist routine eye exams from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan for healthy adults under age 65, said lead researcher Dr. Tara Kiran.
Routine eye exams continue to be funded for adults with diabetes and other medical conditions that affect the eyes, as well as children, seniors and people on social assistance.
Although the study did not address why the number of eye exams dropped, Dr. Kiran said it was almost certainly related to a misunderstanding by patients and health care providers who may have thought that eye exams done by an optometrist were no longer covered for people with diabetes. Patients with diabetes may also have been charged for a publicly insured service, something she was not able to study.
Dr. Kiran is a family doctor and researcher at St. Michael's Hospital and a research fellow at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Her study was published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
"Our findings suggest that delisting worsened the quality of diabetes care in Ontario even though the policy change was not supposed to affect people with diabetes."
Medical guidelines recommend that people with diabetes have a dilated eye exam every one to two years to screen for diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is the major cause of blindness in people of working age. Early detection and treatment of retinopathy through regular eye exams in which the pupil is dilated can significantly reduce the likelihood of blindness.
Dr. Kiran and her colleagues examined data on publicly funded eye exams of adults aged 40 and over with diabetes in Ontario to determine whether delisting annual exams for healthy middle-age adults affected screening for retinopathy in patients with diabetes. They found that eye exam rates for people aged 40 to 65 years remained steady at 69 per cent between 1998 and 2004 but dropped after delisting to 61 per cent in 2006 and 57 per cent in 2010.
At the same time, rates of cholesterol testing and blood glucose testing, both covered by OHIP, rose steadily from 1998 to 2010. Eye exam rates did not decrease for those 65 and over, a group in which eye exams were not delisted for anyone.
"The Ontario government presumably decided to delist eye examinations for healthy adults because these were deemed to be medically unnecessary," Dr. Kiran said. "Although this likely saved money in the short term, the policy change clearly had unanticipated negative consequences."
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People with diabetes in Ontario getting fewer government-funded eye exams, new study findsPublic release date: 7-Jan-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Leslie Shepherd shepherdl@smh.ca 416-864-6094 St. Michael's Hospital
Decrease is unintended consequence of government decision to delist routine eye exams from Ontario Health Insurance Plan
TORONTO, Jan. 7, 2013A new study has found that adults with diabetes in Ontario are getting significantly fewer government-funded eye exams than they were a decade ago, a key component of high-quality diabetes care essential to preventing diabetes-related eye complications.
The decrease is an unintended consequence of the provincial government's decision in 2004 to delist routine eye exams from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan for healthy adults under age 65, said lead researcher Dr. Tara Kiran.
Routine eye exams continue to be funded for adults with diabetes and other medical conditions that affect the eyes, as well as children, seniors and people on social assistance.
Although the study did not address why the number of eye exams dropped, Dr. Kiran said it was almost certainly related to a misunderstanding by patients and health care providers who may have thought that eye exams done by an optometrist were no longer covered for people with diabetes. Patients with diabetes may also have been charged for a publicly insured service, something she was not able to study.
Dr. Kiran is a family doctor and researcher at St. Michael's Hospital and a research fellow at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Her study was published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
"Our findings suggest that delisting worsened the quality of diabetes care in Ontario even though the policy change was not supposed to affect people with diabetes."
Medical guidelines recommend that people with diabetes have a dilated eye exam every one to two years to screen for diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is the major cause of blindness in people of working age. Early detection and treatment of retinopathy through regular eye exams in which the pupil is dilated can significantly reduce the likelihood of blindness.
Dr. Kiran and her colleagues examined data on publicly funded eye exams of adults aged 40 and over with diabetes in Ontario to determine whether delisting annual exams for healthy middle-age adults affected screening for retinopathy in patients with diabetes. They found that eye exam rates for people aged 40 to 65 years remained steady at 69 per cent between 1998 and 2004 but dropped after delisting to 61 per cent in 2006 and 57 per cent in 2010.
At the same time, rates of cholesterol testing and blood glucose testing, both covered by OHIP, rose steadily from 1998 to 2010. Eye exam rates did not decrease for those 65 and over, a group in which eye exams were not delisted for anyone.
"The Ontario government presumably decided to delist eye examinations for healthy adults because these were deemed to be medically unnecessary," Dr. Kiran said. "Although this likely saved money in the short term, the policy change clearly had unanticipated negative consequences."
###
About St. Michael's Hospital
St. Michael's Hospital provides compassionate care to all who enter its doors. The hospital also provides outstanding medical education to future health care professionals in more than 23 academic disciplines. Critical care and trauma, heart disease, neurosurgery, diabetes, cancer care, and care of the homeless are among the Hospital's recognized areas of expertise. Through the Keenan Research Centre and the Li Ka Shing International Healthcare Education Center, which make up the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, research and education at St. Michael's Hospital are recognized and make an impact around the world. Founded in 1892, the hospital is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto.
For more information or to interview Dr. Kiran, please contact:
Leslie Shepherd
Manager, Media Strategy
St. Michael's Hospital
Phone: 416-864-6094 or 647-300-1753
shepherdl@smh.ca
Inspired Care. Inspiring Science
www.stmichaelshospital.com
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Jan. 6, 2013 ? An international team of astrophysicists has shown that planetary systems with very distant binary stars are particularly susceptible to violent disruptions, more so than if they had stellar companions with tighter orbits around them.
Unlike the Sun, many stars are members of binary star systems -- where two stars orbit one another -- and these stars' planetary systems can be altered by the gravity of their companion stars. The orbits of very distant or wide stellar companions often become very eccentric -- ie. less circular -- over time, driving the once-distant star into a plunging orbit that passes very close to the planets once per orbital period. The gravity of this close-passing companion can then wreak havoc on planetary systems, triggering planetary scatterings and even ejections.
"The stellar orbits of wide binaries are very sensitive to disturbances from other passing stars as well as the tidal field of the Milky Way," said Nathan Kaib, lead author of a study published January 6 in Nature describing the findings. "This causes their stellar orbits to constantly change their eccentricity -- their degree of circularity. If a wide binary lasts long enough, it will eventually find itself with a very high orbital eccentricity at some point in its life."
When a wide binary orbit becomes very eccentric, the two stars will pass very close together once per orbit on one side of the orbital ellipse, while being very far apart on the other side of the ellipse. This can have dire consequences for planets in these systems since the gravity of a close-passing star can radically change planetary orbits around the other star, causing planets to scatter off of one another and sometimes get ejected to interstellar space.
Kaib, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University and a National Fellow in the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, conducted computer simulations of the process with Queen's University physics professor Martin Duncan and Sean N. Raymond, a researcher at the University of Bordeaux and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in France. They added a a hypothetical wide binary companion to Earth's solar system which eventually triggered at least one of four giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) to be ejected in almost half of the simulations.
"This process takes hundreds of millions of years if not billions of years to occur in these binaries. Consequently, planets in these systems initially form and evolve as if they orbited an isolated star," said Kaib, who will present the findings this week at the 221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Long Beach, California. "It is only much later that they begin to feel the effects of their companion star, which often times leads to disruption of the planetary system."
"We also found that there is substantial evidence that this process occurs regularly in known extrasolar planetary systems," said Duncan. "Planets are believed to form on circular orbits, and they are only thought to attain highly eccentric orbits through powerful and/or violent perturbations. When we looked at the orbital eccentricities of planets that are known to reside in wide binaries, we found that they are statistically more eccentric than planets around isolated stars like our Sun. "
The researchers believe this is a telltale signature of past planetary scattering events, and that those with eccentric orbits are often interpreted to be the survivors of system-wide instabilities.
"The eccentric planetary orbits seen in these systems are essentially scars from past disruptions caused by the companion star," said Raymond.
The researchers note that this observational signature could only be reproduced well when they assumed that the typical planetary system extends from its host star as much as 10 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. Otherwise, the planetary system is too compact to be affected by even a stellar companion on a very eccentric orbit.
"Recently, planets orbiting at wide distances around their host stars have been directly imaged. Our work predicts that such planets are common but have so far gone largely undetected," says Duncan.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - French film star Gerard Depardieu met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea town of Sochi and obtained his Russian passport, the Kremlin said on Sunday, after he left his homeland to avoid a new tax rate for millionaires.
Putin signed a decree on Thursday granting Russian citizenship to Depardieu, who objected to French Socialist president Francois Hollande's plan to impose the 75 percent tax rate. His decision to quit France had prompted accusations of national betrayal.
The Russian president and Depardieu were shown on state-run Channel One shaking hands and hugging each other early on Sunday during what the Kremlin said was a private visit by the actor to Russia.
"A brief meeting between the president and Depardieu took place," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "On the occasion of his visit to Russia, he was handed a Russian passport."
Peskov did not say whether Putin personally gave Depardieu the passport or if he picked it up through standard procedures. He said the actor also told Putin about his career plans.
Depardieu, star of the movies "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "Green Card", is a popular figure in Russia, where he has appeared in many advertising campaigns, including for ketchup. He also worked there in 2011 on a film about the eccentric Russian monk Grigory Rasputin.
Putin asked Depardieu whether he was pleased with his work in the movie, TV footage of their meeting showed, with the French actor saying he had already sent Putin some excerpts from it.
Depardieu bought a house in Belgium last year to avoid the French income tax increase. French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called Depardieu's decision to seek Belgian residency "pathetic" and unpatriotic, prompting an angry response from the actor.
Putin said last month that Depardieu would be welcome in Russia, which has a flat income tax rate of 13 percent, compared to the 75 percent on income over 1 million euros ($1.30 million) that Hollande wants to levy in France.
He offered Depardieu a Russian passport, saying he had a close, special relationship with France and had developed warm ties with the actor, even though they had rarely met.
Some of Putin's critics said the passport move was a stunt and pointed out that the president announced last month a campaign to prevent rich Russians keeping their money offshore.
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A variant of a gene associated with active personality traits in humans seems to also be involved with living a longer life, UC Irvine and other researchers have found.
This derivative of a dopamine-receptor gene ? called the DRD4 7R allele ? appears in significantly higher rates in people more than 90 years old and is linked to lifespan increases in mouse studies.
Robert Moyzis, professor of biological chemistry at UC Irvine, and Dr. Nora Volkow, a psychiatrist who conducts research at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and also directs the National Institute on Drug Abuse, led a research effort that included data from the UC Irvine-led 90+ Study in Laguna Woods, Calif. Results appear online in The Journal of Neuroscience.
The variant gene is part of the dopamine system, which facilitates the transmission of signals among neurons and plays a major role in the brain network responsible for attention and reward-driven learning. The DRD4 7R allele blunts dopamine signaling, which enhances individuals' reactivity to their environment.
People who carry this variant gene, Moyzis said, seem to be more motivated to pursue social, intellectual and physical activities. The variant is also linked to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and addictive and risky behaviors.
"While the genetic variant may not directly influence longevity," Moyzis said, "it is associated with personality traits that have been shown to be important for living a longer, healthier life. It's been well documented that the more you're involved with social and physical activities, the more likely you'll live longer. It could be as simple as that."
Numerous studies ? including a number from the 90+ Study ? have confirmed that being active is important for successful aging, and it may deter the advancement of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's.
Prior molecular evolutionary research led by Moyzis and Chuansheng Chen, UC Irvine professor of psychology & social behavior, indicated that this "longevity allele" was selected for during the nomadic out-of-Africa human exodus more than 30,000 years ago.
In the new study, the UC Irvine team analyzed genetic samples from 310 participants in the 90+ Study. This "oldest-old" population had a 66 percent increase in individuals carrying the variant relative to a control group of 2,902 people between the ages of 7 and 45. The presence of the variant also was strongly correlated with higher levels of physical activity.
Next, Volkow, neuroscientist Panayotis Thanos and their colleagues at the Brookhaven National Laboratory found that mice without the variant had a 7 percent to 9.7 percent decrease in lifespan compared with those possessing the gene, even when raised in an enriched environment.
While it's evident that the variant can contribute to longevity, Moyzis said further studies must take place to identify any immediate clinical benefits from the research. "However, it is clear that individuals with this gene variant are already more likely to be responding to the well-known medical adage to get more physical activity," he added.
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While mayo and dill do make a great egg salad, it's time to move forward.
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Egg salad has the single worst reputation of all the mayonnaise-based lunch salads. Egg salad sandwiches are for kids whose moms are getting back at them for something, and are a texturally boring, relatively bland way for an adult to express they have run out of cold cuts. That's is unless you're me and treat egg salad as a vehicle for more awesome stuff. I mean, you're only spending 50 cents on the eggs, might as well gussy it up, right? Get back in the fridge, dill. This is no time to be predictable.
Make yourself an egg salad sandwich you can look forward to, rather than dread, and then hate everyone else for having awesome cheesesteaks and burritos while you sit there all miserable. Grab a few slices of challah, pumpernickel or rosemary olive bread?and try a schmancy new recipe. Here are a few I've had success with:
Truffle oil, lots of freshly ground pepper, finely grated parmesan and chives
Whole grain mustard and chopped swiss chard?
Smoked salmon and American caviar with a little softened cream cheese mixed in
Caramelized onion and lemon zest (50/50 mix of mayonnaise and ricotta, this is an awesome sandwich)
Bacon and tomato egg salad with lettuce on top. Switching up the order of operations results in a very thorough BLT experience.
So like French toasting bread for savory sandwiches, anything that goes with eggs in theory goes in egg salad. Indian egg curry? Awesome egg salad sandwich. French croque madame? Awesome egg salad sandwich. And so forth.?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pace of hiring by U.S. employers eased slightly in December, pointing to a lackluster pace of economic growth that was unable to make further inroads in the country's still high unemployment rate.
Payrolls outside the farming sector grew 155,000 last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. That was in line with analysts' expectations and slightly below the revised gain of 161,000 reported for November.
The report reinforces expectations of 2 percent economic growth this year, unlikely to quickly bring down the unemployment rate or make the U.S. Federal Reserve rethink its easy-money policies anytime soon despite growing unease by some policymakers over a bond-buying program.
"The U.S. economy is just muddling through," said Tom di Galoma, managing director at Navigate Advisors in Stamford, Connecticut.
The jobless rate held steady at 7.8 percent in December, down nearly a percentage point from a year earlier but still well above the average rate over the last 60 years of about 6 percent.
The Labor Department raised its estimate for the unemployment rate in November by a tenth of a point to 7.8 percent, citing a slight change in the labor market's seasonal swings.
Most economists expect the U.S. economy will be held back by tax hikes this year as well as by weak spending by households and businesses, which are still trying to reduce their debt burdens.
Friday's data nonetheless gave signals of some momentum in the labor market's recovery from the 2007-09 recession.
Gains in employment were distributed broadly throughout the economy, from manufacturing and construction to health care.
Also, many economists had expected December's payroll gains to be padded by one-time factors like the recovery from a mammoth storm that hit the East Coast in late October.
The government had said last month the storm had no substantial impact on the November data, and many economists expected the government on Friday to recant by revising downward its estimate for payroll gains in November. Instead, the government revised November payrolls upward by 15,000.
Average hourly earnings rose 0.3 percent last month, slightly more than analysts had expected, while the length of the average workweek was unchanged.
"This shows the economy is chugging along, with payroll gains at about the average it has been over the past year," Tom Porcelli, an economist at RBC Capital Markets in New York.
Analysts appeared divided over whether the number points to the Fed scaling back its plans to buy bonds, perhaps as soon as the second half of this year.
Porcelli said December's unspectacular payroll gains should reinforce expectations the Fed will continue with the program. However, Craig Dismuke, a strategist at Vining Sparks in Memphis, Tennessee, said the current pace of job creation will raise pressure on the Fed to stop bond purchases after the middle of the year.
The Fed has kept interest rates near zero since 2008, and in September promised open-ended bond purchases to support lending further. On Thursday, however, minutes from the Fed's December policy review pointed to rising concerns over how the asset purchases will affect financial markets.
U.S. S&P stock index futures added to gains after the data, while U.S. Treasuries prices erased most of their losses.
AUSTERITY'S BITE
Despite the signs of some momentum in hiring, a wave of government spending cuts due to begin around March loom over the economy.
Many economic forecasts assume the cuts - which would hit the military, education and other areas - will ultimately be pushed into next year as part of a deal sought by lawmakers to reduce gradually the government's debt burden.
Initially, the cuts were planned to have begun this month as part of a $600 billion austerity package that also included tax hikes.
Hiring in December may have been slowed by uncertainty over the timing of the austerity.
"Companies were very worried about the fiscal cliff, so it's a good number that they were still hiring," said Yelena Shulyatyeva, an economist at BNP Paribas in New York.
Congress this week passed legislation to avoid most of the tax hikes and postpone the spending cuts.
Even with the last-minute deal to avoid much of the "fiscal cliff," most workers will see their take-home pay reduced this month as a two-year cut in payroll taxes expires.
Austerity already held back the U.S. economy in 2012. In December, government payrolls shrank by 13,000.
That leaves the Fed's efforts to lower borrowing costs as the main program for stimulating the economy.
(Reporting by Jason Lange; Additional reporting by Chris Reese, Julie Haviv, Richard Leong and Gabriel Debenedetti in New York; Editing by Neil Stempleman)
Computers are always getting faster. From the perspective of the casual observer it may seem like every year all of the various specs keep going up, and systems are faster. In truth, progress isn't uniform across all systems and subsystems, and thinking about this progression of technology gives us a chance to think about the constraints that developers and other people who build technology face.
For most of the past year, I've used a single laptop, for all of my computing work, and while it's been great, in this time I lost touch with the comparative speed of systems. No great loss, but I found myself surprised to learn that all computers did not have the same speed: It wasn't until I started using other machines on a regular basis that I remembered that hardware could affect performance.
For most of the past decade, processors have been fast. While some processors are theoretically faster and some have other features like virtualization extensions and better multitasking capacities (i.e. hyperthreading and multi-core systems) the improvements have been incremental at best.
Memory (RAM) manages to mostly keep up with the processors, so there's no real bottleneck between RAM and the processor. Although RAM capacities are growing, at current volumes extra RAM just means services/systems that had to be distributed given RAM density can all run on one server. In general: "ho hum."
Disks are another story all together.
While disks got faster over this period, they didn't get much faster during this period, and so for a long time disks were the bottle neck in computing speed. To address this problem, a number of things changed:
We designed systems for asynchronous operation.
Basically, folks spilled a lot of blood and energy to make sure that systems could continue to do work while waiting for the disk to reading or writing data. This involves using a lot of event loops, queuing systems, and so forth.
These systems are really cool, the only problem is that it means that we have to be smarter about some aspects of software design and deployment. This doesn't fix the tons of legacy sitting around, or the fact that a lot of tools and programmers are struggling to keep up.
We started to build more distributed systems so that any individual spinning disk is responsible for writing/reading less data.
We hacked disks themselves to get better performance.
There are some ways you can eek out a bit of extra performance from spinning disks: namely RAID-10, hardware RAID controllers, and using smaller platters. RAID approaches use multiple drives (4) to provide simple redundancy and roughly double performance. Smaller platters require less movement of the disk arm, and you get a bit more out of the hardware.
Now, with affordable solid state disks (SSDs,) all of these disk related speed problems are basically moot. So what are the next bottlenecks for computers and performance:
Processors. It might be the case that processors are going to be the slow to develop bottleneck. There are a lot of expectations on processors these days: high speed, low power consumption, low temperature, high amount of parallelism (cores and hyperthreading.) But these expectations are necessarily conflicting.
The main route to innovation is to make the processors themselves smaller, which does increase performance and helps control heat and power consumption, but there is a practical limit to the size of a processor.
Also, no matter how fast you make the processor, it's irrelevant unless the software is capable of taking advantage of the feature.
Software.
We're still not great at building software with asynchronous components. "Non-blocking" systems do make it easier to have systems that work better with slower disks. Still, we don't have a lot of software that does a great job of using the parallelism of a processor, so it's possible to get some operations that are slow and will remain slow because a single threaded process must grind through a long task and can't share it.
Network overhead.
While I think better software is a huge problem, network throughput could be a huge issue. The internet endpoints (your connection) has gotten much faster in the past few years. That's a good thing, indeed, but there are a number of problems:
Transfer speeds aren't keeping up with data growth or data storage, and if that trend continues, we're going to end up with a lot of data that only exists in one physical location, which leads to catastrophic data loss.
I think we'll get back to a point where moving physical media around will begin to make sense. Again.
Wireless data speeds and architectures (particularly 802.11x, but also wide area wireless,) have become ubiquitous, but aren't really sufficient for serious use. The fact that our homes, public places, and even offices (in some cases) aren't wired correctly to be able to provide opportunities to plug in will begin to hurt.
Thoughts? Other bottlenecks? Different reading of the history?
Jan. 3, 2013 ? Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) dropped by 52 percent when an alcohol-impregnated disinfection cap was used instead of standard scrubbing protocol, according to a new study.?
The study, which involved all four hospitals in the NorthShore system, was published in the January 2013 issue of the American Journal of Infection Control.
Because of the study results, use of the disinfection cap has been adopted as a standard of practice at NorthShore for all central IV catheters.
"Most hospitals have a hard time assuring proper disinfection of IV needleless connectors," said Marc-Oliver Wright MT (ASCP), MS, CIC, the study's lead author and Corporate Director of Infection Control for NorthShore. "This is a real concern because contaminated connectors are a major source of central line associated bloodstream infections, or CLABSIs. We found that a disinfection cap was a very effective solution to the widely recognized shortcomings of the standard method for disinfecting IV connectors."
Researchers also assessed the cost-effectiveness of the cap and concluded that its use resulted in net cost savings.
The study was undertaken because the standard protocol for manually disinfecting connector hubs, called "scrub the hub," often fails because time-pressed nurses are not always able to properly scrub IV connectors with alcohol.
CLABSIs are a serious and often fatal form of infection that many hospitals have found difficult to control. The "scrub the hub" method of manual disinfection, with its inherent challenges, is often cited as a potential cause when a hospital's CLABSI rate is high.
The study was designed to determine whether a disinfection cap overcame problems with manual disinfection. The cap (SwabCap; Excelsior Medical, Neptune, NJ) is a plastic device that twists onto the threads of the IV connector. Attaching it to the connector compresses a medical-grade foam pad inside the cap that releases isopropyl alcohol (IPA) onto the connector hub to disinfect it.
The cap is left in place between IV line accesses, and its retention seal keeps the connector bathed in alcohol while protecting it from contamination by external sources. An IV connector is a device that connects an IV catheter to tubing and helps deliver medications and nutrition. Incomplete disinfection of a connector can allow bacteria to enter the connector's fluid pathway and cause an infection.
"Disinfection caps were invented because of the problems with 'scrub the hub,'" Wright said. "Theoretically, they should compensate for those problems and provide additional protection for patients, as well. But you never know if something will work as intended until you do the research. Our study design showed in multiple ways that the cap was associated with fewer infections."
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WASHINGTON --?Federal Reserve officials are increasingly concerned about the potential risks of the U.S. central bank's asset purchases on financial markets, but look set to continue its open-ended stimulus program for now.?
Minutes from the Fed's December policy meeting showed a growing reticence about further increases in the central bank's $2.9 trillion balance sheet, which it expanded sharply in response to the financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009.?
"Several (officials) thought that it would probably be appropriate to slow or to stop purchases well before the end of 2013, citing concerns about financial stability or the size of the balance sheet," the minutes said.?
Wall Street picked up on the report's hawkish tone, with stock prices drifting lower after the announcement, while the dollar extended gains against the euro.?
"The minutes of the Federal Reserve's December monetary policy meeting revealed a somewhat surprising level of concern among the ranks of central bankers regarding the long-term impact of the bank's asset purchase program, or quantitative easing," said Omer Esiner, chief market analyst at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington D.C.?
Still, the Fed appeared likely to continue buying assets for the foreseeable future, having announced in December it was extending monthly purchases of $40 billion in mortgage securities and also buying $45 billion in Treasuries each month.?
A few of the voting members on the central bank's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee thought asset buying would be warranted until about the end of 2013. A few others highlighted the need for further large-scale stimulus but did not specify an amount or time frame.?
Fed officials generally agreed that the labor market outlook was not likely to improve without further nudging from the monetary authorities.?
The U.S. economy expanded a respectable 3.1 percent in the third quarter on an annualized basis, but growth is believed to have slowed sharply to barely above 1 percent in the last three months of the year.?
Data on Thursday showed a solid gain of 215,000 new private sector jobs for December, while analysts polled by Reuters last week were looking for a rise of 150,000 new jobs in the Labor Department's official survey, due out on Friday.?
In the December meeting, the Fed also launched a new framework of policy thresholds, numerical guideposts that are supposed to give markets and the public a clearer idea of how policymakers will react to incoming economic data.?
Officials say they will keep interest rates near zero until the unemployment rate falls to 6.5 percent for as long as estimates of medium-run inflation do not exceed 2.5 percent.?
The minutes suggested it took officials some time to build a consensus around the idea.?
"A few participants expressed a preference for using a qualitative description of the economic indicators influencing the Committee's thinking," the minutes said.?
U.S. unemployment has come down steadily after hitting a peak of 10 percent in late 2009, but remains elevated at 7.7 percent.?
Fed officials noted worries about the looming "fiscal cliff," which was dealt with only partly in an agreement earlier this week, were hurting the confidence of businesses and households.?
This charming little roof tile is designed to encourage bird populations in urban areas—but its charm lies in the way it makes the most of an often-neglected space. More »
Gr?ner?is closing January 1st ? 7th for major remodeling. During the first week of 2013, they will repaint, install new floors, and add seating in the bar. During that time, you?ll still be able to get the coveted Gr?ner Burger in the bar, along with a few other dishes that are matched to cocktails.
Speaking of remodeling, the ?golden egg? which was one of the least popular features of Lucier, has been removed as the restaurant gets ready to reopen as Quartet. The new bar will be in the same location.
Anthony Bourdain has released an updated version of the book that launched his writing career, Kitchen Confidential ? Insiders Edition. The new version has been released as a paperback, and is replete with scrawled annotations, noting things that have changed in the industry, items he?s embarrassed about, apologizing for others. If you are a fan, it?s worth picking up, especially since it is at a paperback price. Here?s an example -
"I have a wide-range of food experience - working in the restaurant industry on both sides of the house, later in the wine industry, and finally traveling/tasting my way around the world. Whether you agree or disagree, you can always count on my unbiased opinion. I don't take free meals, and the restaurants don't know when, or if, I am coming."
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, it was reported that 82% of Americans don?t have flood insurance, despite flooding being the most common natural disaster in the United States. You can purchase a policy through the government?s National Flood Insurance Program butmany people don?t avail of this resource. With the people of New Jersey being told that they will have to reinforce their homes to avoid paying exorbitant premiums in future, now is a good time for us to look at what you need to know when it comes to purchasing flood insurance for your home.
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