Liberty University has had a longstanding relationship with Chick-fil-A and shares its values as the world's largest Christian university. Founder S. Truett Cathy received an honorary doctorate degree at its Commencement in May and visited the campus when it first opened a Chick-fil-A in 2007. Today Liberty announced a new restaurant opening on campus on Aug. 16, with a second one being planned ...
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Liberty Energy Corp. has recently secured an average 97.9 percent working interest on over 626 acres in Caldwell, Texas.
The Company intends to target 3 main pay zones: the Dale Lime, Austin Chalk and Edwards. New field discoveries based on logged but undeveloped shows are also possible in the Salt Flat and Dale Lime fields. With the application of acid/fracture jobs and/or 'far-out perforating' it is believed that the Company could be able to increase production and possibly access undeveloped reservoirs that could produce at significantly higher daily rates and overall total production.
Typically there is between 2 and 160 acre spacing for well bores in this region. There are currently 385 operators (including Eagle Ford Oil Co., Inc., Luling O&G LLC and Texas Petroleum Investment Co.) and nearly 9,000 wells in Caldwell County. The Salt Flat oil field, (where the Company's 106 acre lease lies) in Caldwell County, is on a fault structure about 20 miles southeast of the main Balcones fault. The area is drained by the San Marcos River, and the main producing formation is the Edwards limestone of the Comanchean Cretaceous. The field is 7.5 miles long and averages about 0.5 mile wide. To date the field has produced over 34 million barrels of oil from a total of around 350 wells. It is further estimated that ultimate recovery will be approximately 30,000 barrels of oil per acre.
There is an old assumption that only the top five (5) feet of the Edwards is productive. However, new field information suggests that there are different producing intervals in the Edwards formation. These intervals are not separated by the normal shale intervals found in other producing formations, but are rather separated by chert layers in the limestone of the Edwards which reduce the permeability to zero. This raises a number of possibilities and traps for production from lower zones in the Edwards.
The Dale conformably overlies the Austin Chalk and is considered to be part of the Austin Group. The Dale Limestone, recognized in the Travis volcanic field east of Austin, is associated more closely with individual volcanic mounds. Dale carbonates are at several stratigraphic horizons on the flanks of mounds, reflecting alternating conditions of volcanism and reef growth. The Dale has reported thicknesses of as much as 423 feet and a mean thickness of about 58 feet.
"We are pleased to announce even more acreage into our Caldwell County and Texas portfolio; we are currently in the process of determining how best to explore this exciting lease and will provide further updates as soon as possible," commented Ian Spowart, CEO of Liberty Energy Corp.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Liberty Holdings, Africa's third-largest life insurer by market value, posted an expected 43 percent rise in first-half earnings on Thursday and said it was looking for expansion opportunities in the western part of the continent. Liberty, majority owned by South Africa's Standard Bank, owns 50 percent on a Nigerian health insurer but wants more exposure to Africa's most ...
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It's not really a race if there's only one person in it.
That's why Libertarian David Moser collected the 300 signatures he needed by Wednesday to run against Eugene DePasquale in the 95th House District.
"It's all about the options, really," Moser said.
Moser, 34, said he takes no real issue with DePasquale's performance as a state representative. Rather, he just wanted to give York City residents an option come November, particularly one that he believes will listen to Republicans and Democrats because "I get to be the common ground."
DePasquale was running unopposed in the 95th, but he is also the Democratic nominee for state auditor general. Republican Kyle King, who works in the district attorney's office, had announced his intention to challenge DePasquale in January but bowed out a few weeks later after being told his candidacy was a violation of the federal Hatch Act.
DePasquale has said he'll leave the 95th position if he wins auditor general and the 95th. A special election would have to take place in that event for the 95th. Moser acknowledged he'd have to start from scratch just like any other candidate at that point. But he's hoping the extra name recognition from being in the public eye this year will help.
Or, Moser said, people could vote for DePasquale for auditor general and Moser for the 95th, which would avoid the need for the special election cost to taxpayers and having the position vacant for a matter of months.
"Everybody gets what they want," Moser said.
DePasquale welcomed Moser to the now two-man race and said his legislative record shows he supports making it easier for people to get on the ballot.
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Our story in Aug. 1 paper, Obama advisers see hope in 3rd parties, highlighted Gary Johnson, the nominee of the Libertarian Party. By coincidence, Johnson was in Seattle that day, and I spent 45 minutes with him.
The point of the story was that Johnson and another third-party candidate could draw away Romney votes in key states and hand the election to Obama. That is possible. It is what Ralph Nader did to Al Gore in Florida in 2000.
I asked Johnson if the prospect of being the Nader of 2012 bothers him.
It doesnt bother me a bit, he said.
Johnson, 59, was a Republican because he is for balancing budgets without tax increases and cutting back on the welfare state. As the Republican governor of New Mexico 1995-2002, he says, he vetoed hundreds of spending bills.
New Mexico is a blue state, 47% Hispanic. Johnson won the governorship the first time with 49.8 percent of the vote in a race against an incumbent Democrat and a third-party Green. He won the second time with 54.5 percent. In 2008 he supported libertarian Republican Ron Paul for president, and in 2012 Johnson announced a run himself. He would have had Pauls supporters this year, except that Paul ran again and kept them for himself.
Johnson was shut out of most of the Republican presidential debates. He told me several media organizations said they would include anyone with 2 percent, or 4 percent, in certain pollsand those polls didnt include him. He still fumes about that. In one case, he said, he had a 4 percent poll and was left out anyway. And without media attention, his campaign died.
Regrettably, you cant crawl out from under a culvert and run for president of the United States, Johnson says. (Maybe thats not so regrettable. I've had to listen to some culvert crawlers, and there is something to be said for shunning them.)
Late last year Johnson suspended his campaign as a Republican and went over to the Libertarians, who were glad to have him. In 2008 for president they ran another former Republican, Georgia ex-Rep. Bob Barr, but Barr had been a drug warrior not too long before and a lot of Libertarians had to hold their noses to accept him. Johnson is quite liberal on civil liberties. In an ACLU ranking on civil liberties, Johnson was rated good on 21 of 24 questions, which was higher than Ron Paul (18) or Barack Obama (16). On that survey, the ACLU rated Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney at zero.
Johnson famously came out for legalization of marijuana when he was governor. Thats a radical position for a Republican, but not for Libertarians, whose standard position is to legalize them all. So I asked him: What about methamphetamine? I can imagine marijuana being a commercial product; at a dispensary less than a mile from my house, it already is one. But how about meth? Could it ever be a product of a company that a business license, a street address, paid taxes, bought insurance, and was invited to membership in the Rotary Club? (My answer: no.)
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TARPON SPRINGS "Night in the Islands," a free city-sponsored event, returns this Saturday with Greek music, dancing and food on the Sponge Docks.
The event is held the first Saturday of each month from 6 to 11 p.m. along Dodecanese Boulevard between Hope and Athens streets.
Saturday's event features live music by Ellada, a band that performs nisiotika, the lively traditional music of the Greek islands, as well as old and new Greek tunes.
"The live band plays from 7 to 11, and the tables start filling up around 6 despite the heat," said Tina Bucuvalas, Tarpon Springs' curator of arts and historical resources. "When the sun goes down, it's really quite pleasant out there by the river. Restaurants put tables by the docks, and a lot of the dancing is in the street."
"It's very culturally Greek. People say it's kind of like a village celebration. It's as close as you can get to being in Greece."
Night in the Islands also will be held on Sept. 8, Oct. 6 and Nov. 3.
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An asylum seeker boat carrying six people has been intercepted near the Cocos Islands.
Customs says those on board have been taken ashore for health and security checks.
They will then be transferred to Christmas Island.
The boat ,which was spotted by an RAAF surveillance aircraft, is the third to be found in the area in the past day.
Yesterday a boat carrying 67 Tamil at the Cocos Islands.
The boat was 200 metres from the Cocos Islands when four of the men onboard swam ashore.
The first boat, carrying 28 asylum seekers, had been intercepted west of the islands early on Wednesday.
The asylum seekers from those boats are in custody and will also be transferred to Christmas Island.
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MIAMI, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A tropical depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Ernesto heading for the Windward Islands in the Caribbean, U.S. forecasters said Thursday.
At 5 p.m. EDT the storm was 295 miles east of the Windward Islands moving west at 22 mph, sporting maximum winds of 50 mph, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported.
The center said the storm should be near the Windward Islands Friday.
A tropical storm watch had turned into a warning for Barbados, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Dominica, St. Lucia, Martinique and Guadeloupe.
The center predicted 2 to 3 inches of rainfall across the Windward Islands Friday.
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Genetics clearly plays a role in cancer development and progression, but the reason that a certain mutation leads to one cancer and not another is less clear. Furthermore, no links have been found between any cancer and a type of genetic change called "copy-number variants," or CNVs. Now, a new study published by Cell Press in The American Journal of Human Genetics on August 2 identifies CNVs associated with testicular cancer risk, but not with the risk of breast or colon cancer.
Some cancers, including breast and colon cancer, are caused by mutations that are passed from one generation to the next. However, most cancers, including testicular cancer, are sporadicthey arise without a family history of cancer. Many of these sporadic cancers result from genetic mutations in germ cellsthe cells involved in reproductioneven though neither parent has the mutation. Scientists call these "de novo" mutations.
In order to identify rare de novo mutations associated with cancer risk, Dr. Kenneth Offit and colleagues searched for CNVs, which are duplications or deletions of one or more sections of DNA, in cancer patients and their cancer-free relatives. They found a significant increase in the number of rare de novo CNVs in individuals with testicular cancer as opposed to breast or colon cancer. Although such CNVs have been associated with autism and other neurocognitive and cardiovascular disorders, they were not previously known to be associated with cancer.
The authors propose that de novo changes (as opposed to those inherited from parents) might be indicative of conditions that have traditionally resulted in reduced fertility. Although modern treatment regimens allow more than 90% of men with testicular cancer to live long and reproductive lives, the condition traditionally left affected men childless. "We speculate that the paradigm of a de novo germline disease etiology may be less applicable to late-onset cancers," says Offit, "in part explaining the lower frequency of de novo events we found in adult-onset breast and colon cancer cases." Pinpointing the specific genetic changes that lead to cancer development will improve the understanding of the origins of cancer, leading to new treatment strategies and ultimately easing the burden on those afflicted with these diseases.
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02-08-2012 10:53 Chief of Staff Jack Lew says Americans are tired of the debate
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans on Thursday grilled the head of the Internal Revenue Service on the agency's decision to apply the health care law's tax credits in states that decide not to carry out a key provision of the statute.
Commissioner Douglas Shulman defended the IRS rule that applies the tax credits to federal insurance exchanges, which are the bodies that will be developed to allow those without health insurance to buy it. He testified at a House hearing.
The issue is a new controversy over President Barack Obama's health care law. Several states already have decided not to establish their own insurance exchanges. In those states, federal exchanges would be created.
The credits would help consumers pay for private insurance beginning in 2014.
The IRS had to decide whether the credits would be available in the entire country regardless of whether states or the federal government ran the exchanges.
"Congress writes the laws and we interpret them. If you disagree, there's always the courts," Shulman told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Overall, Shulman said the tax agency will be ready in 2014 to fulfill its new role of providing tax breaks and incentives to help pay for health insurance. The IRS would impose penalties on some people who don't buy coverage and on some businesses that don't offer it to employees.
During the hearing, Shulman tangled with Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn., a physician. DesJarlais accused the IRS of bypassing Congress by trying to expand the subsidies when the law gave the tax agency no authority to do so. "You're trying to twist" the law, he said.
Shulman responded that IRS lawyers "look at the statute and come up with the best interpretation."
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office and the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation have interpreted the law in the same way as the IRS.
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By Geoff Colvin, senior editor-at-large
Steward Health Care System's Ralph de la Torre
FORTUNE -- What's the future of American health care? Dr. Ralph de la Torre, CEO of Steward Health Care System, may represent the answer. Steward, owned by the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, is a growing Massachusetts-based group of community hospitals, and industry analysts say de la Torre is one of the most dynamic and influential executives in the business. He's consolidating hospitals, finding efficiencies, investing big in infotech, and creating a new model that he says won't change much regardless of how Obamacare's future plays out. De la Torre, 46, is the son of Cuban immigrants and became the chief of cardiac surgery at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at age 38, then gave up practicing medicine to become a CEO. He talked recently with Fortune's Geoff Colvin about why health care reform isn't about public health, how health care is like the auto industry, why costs must continue to rise, and much else. Edited excerpts:
Q: Assuming Obamacare is fully implemented, what are the most important ways in which it will affect our lives?
A: The guiding principles were to do two things. One is to expand coverage. The other is to change the fundamental way health care is structured. Right now we're a society that believes you lead life the way you want to, and then at the end when the wheels start falling off the cart, you pound it with resources and get interventions from medical specialists to keep you alive longer and healthier. It's a very back-ended -- and because of that a very expensive -- way of getting health care.
If we're going to increase access and engage people to get their health care in a different way, we have to get young people involved. We have to get people who for all practical purposes really don't need health care insurance. We're going to be suffering from the fact that we never paid for wellness or prevention in the past, and the baby boomers are now coming of age. We can't pay for it all without putting a tax on the young -- call it what you want to call it, it's the truth. But by getting the young involved in health care through an individual mandate, it also lets you begin wellness and prevention.
We need to understand as Americans that it's going to cost us more for the next five, six, seven years or more. There's no way around it. We've increased access, and we're shifting our care to include more prevention and more wellness, but we can't turn away the people who weren't part of that to begin with, so we're going to be double-paying for a while. In the long run we need to do that. We need to start that shift now.
Medical costs in the U.S. are growing faster than the economy. That trend can't continue. It's got to stop, so how is it going to stop?
It stops by attacking the culture, getting people to engage more in wellness and prevention, and also by challenging providers and caregivers to treat based not on hope but on reality.
A lot of us physicians went into medicine because we loved the art aspect of it. There wasn't a lot of real hard-core science when many of today's doctors went into medicine. It was your intuition, your abilities, the gestalt of what was going on. But something happened in medicine along the way. It started becoming a real science, and a lot of studies have come out that guide what we do and how we do it. We as a society need to understand that science has to guide our practice of medicine. Not everyone with a headache needs a CAT scan; not everybody with a sprained ankle needs an MRI.
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August1,2012 West Virginia once again doesnt fare well in a report on health care recently released by the federal government.
The 2011 National Healthcare Quality Report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is meant to help guide the state in making improvements. The report takes data submitted by all the states and summarizes how well they provide care.
It says West Virginia is best at providing care in the areas of advanced breast cancer diagnosis in women over age 40, colorectal screening and preventing prostate cancer deaths.
The state is weakest in areas like reducing hospital admissions for chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, and has a high mortality rate for patients on kidney dialysis.
Dr. Ernest Moy, medical officer with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Center for Quality Improvement, says the report is intended to show the state where it needs to do better.
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BLOOMINGTON, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
While the U.S. labor market is still soft, health IT is booming in Minnesota and across the U.S. As the health care system goes digital to streamline delivery, reduce costs, and implement a new accountable care model, health IT (HIT) is growing -- creating an increasing need for highly trained professionals. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs in medical records and health information technology are expected to grow by 20 percent through 2018. This is due to the recent passage of the U.S. Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the federal mandate to implement electronic health records (EHRs) by 2015.
Since 2010, Normandale Community College has been at the forefront of training HIT professionals. Made possible by a $1.2 million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the college has successfully provided HIT training to 300 health care, IT and related professionals. Eighty-five percent of professionals who completed the program during the first year are employed.
HIT is an ideal career for people who enjoy problem-solving and analysis, and are interested in working in the health care industry, said Sunny Ainley, Health IT Program Lead for the Center for Applied Learning at Normandale Community College.
It is estimated that one in nine U.S. jobs will be in health care by 2020, with a 66 percent increase in IT staff in the next year, according to HIMSS, a leading national health IT association. Despite this growing need, industry experts have predicted a hiring shortfall of thousands of HIT professionals over the next several years.
Normandale is the only college in Minnesota to offer a six-month, 100 percent online HIT training program. Providing professional level, industry-proven HIT training, the MnHIT program complements the education and experience of mid-career professionals with health care, IT, health information management, quality/process improvement and business analyst experience in metro and rural Minnesota.
The MnHIT program is now accepting applications through Sept. 17, 2012 for the third cohort of 200 participants. For more information on the MnHIT program and to apply, visit http://www.mnhealthit.com.
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ST. LOUIS, August 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (SIAL) today announced that Sigma Advanced Genetic Engineering (SAGE) Labs, an initiative of Sigma Life Science and Autism Speaks, the nation's largest autism science and advocacy organization, expanded a collaboration to develop the first rat models with modified autism associated genes, intended to accelerate discovery and translational autism research.
Expansion of the collaboration follows initial behavioral studies demonstrating that the first two publicly available gene knockout rats, part of the seven rats generated through the collaboration to date, exhibit hallmark characteristics of autism, such as social deficits and repetitive behaviors. Many behavioral characteristics of autism observed in these rats are not seen in other animal models currently used for autism research. SAGE Labs and Autism Speaks now plan to generate additional genetically modified rat models of key autism-associated genes, including CNTNAP2 and MET.
"Autism spectrum disorders are a complex condition with significant unmet medical needs. Although uniquely human, fundamental aspects of the biology underlying autism can be effectively modeled in animals to advance our understanding of cause and enable translation of basic scientific discovery into medical breakthroughs that improve the quality of life for individuals on the spectrum," says Robert Ring, Ph.D., Vice President of Translational Research at Autism Speaks. "These new autism-relevant rat models have already demonstrated great potential for the field. Our new agreement ensures that additional models will continue to be developed and made available to accelerate progress along the entire translational research continuum, from academia to the pharmaceutical industry."
"Modeling human conditions in rats, rather than the mice that have come to predominate preclinical studies, enables more predictive studies of complex neurobehavioral conditions. Rats are unique in that they exhibit richer, more human-like social behaviors than mice, juvenile play being one example. The more complex neural circuitry and greater cognitive capacity in rats also enables researchers to complete many of the demandingand crucially informativecognitive tests that mice cannot perform. In addition, on a practical level, performing initial studies in rats also provides a direct path for drug development," says Edward Weinstein, Ph.D., Director of SAGE Labs.
Initial behavioral studies of the gene knockout rats generated by SAGE Labs are being conducted by Richard E. Paylor, Ph.D., Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine. In some cases, behaviors observed in the rat models have differed from existing mouse models. For example, whereas FMR1 knockout mice exhibit elevated social interactions, rats lacking the same gene participate much less in social play and emit fewer ultrasonic squeaks during play sessions than control rats. These types of social impairments, such as reduced verbal and interactive play, more closely parallel social behavior symptoms seen in humans with FMR1 mutations. Rat models lacking functional NLGN3 and FMR1 genes also display other unexpected characteristics, including compulsive chewing on water bottles and wood blocks. Compulsive and repetitive behaviors are core symptoms in individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
"At SAGE Labs we use CompoZr Zinc Finger Nuclease technology to perform targeted genetic modifications in species previously not amenable to such modifications be it gene knockout, transgene insertion, point mutations, or conditional gene knockout. We can help researchers and pharmaceutical companies access rats, rabbits and other species that best model a medical condition of interest and provide a direct path for preclinical efficacy and toxicology testing," says Weinstein.
Currently SAGE Labs publicly provides two rat lines with knockouts of autism-associated FMR1 and NLGN3 genes. The remaining five gene knockout rat lines developed in the original collaborationfor the genes MECP2, NRXN1, CACNA1C, PTEN, and MGLUR5are expected to be released soon. The CNTNAP2 and MET knockout rat lines to be generated in the expanded collaboration are expected to be available in 2013.
In a separate collaboration with The Michael J. Fox Foundation, SAGE Labs created the first animal models of Parkinson's disease that display deficits in movement similar to those developed by humans. Other genetically modified research models created by SAGE Labs include rats for Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, cancer, and cardiovascular disease research, as well as rats for toxicology testing in drug development. SAGE Labs' model generation services are available for rats, rabbits, mice and other organisms.
For more information, visit http://www.sageresearchmodels.com.
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New Rochelle, NY, August 2, 2012National guidelines recommend the use of therapeutic hypothermia to improve outcomes in patients who suffer a heart attack outside of a hospital. The results of a survey of all 73 acute care hospitals in New Jersey evaluating the adoption and implementation of this life-saving treatment from 2004-2011 is published in Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management website at http://www.liebertpub.com/ther.
Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) involves reducing the body temperature to below normal levels for a prolonged period to minimize the potential damage caused by traumatic or ischemic injury that reduces blood flow to the tissues.
Factors contributing to the initially slow and more recently accelerated implementation of TH in New Jersey hospitals are described by Derek DeLia and colleagues from Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Saint Barnabas Medical Center (Livingston, NJ), and Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (Newark, NJ). The authors discuss the wide variation observed in the criteria for patient selection for TH across hospitals and the impact that variations in TH use can have on patient care in the article "Post-Cardiac Arrest Therapeutic Hypothermia in New Jersey Hospitals: Analysis of Adoption and Implementation."
"This communication is important because it focuses on the need of continued adoption and utilization of therapeutic hypothermia targeting cardiac arrest," says W. Dalton Dietrich, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal and Kinetic Concepts Distinguished Chair in Neurosurgery, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Neurology and Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. "It is hoped that this journal will continue to provide guidance as more hospitals and treating physicians use this beneficial treatment in limiting the devastating consequences of brain injury."
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Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management provides a strong multidisciplinary forum to advance the understanding of therapeutic hypothermia. Novel findings from translational preclinical investigations as well as clinical studies and trials are featured in original articles, state-of-the-art review articles, provocative roundtable discussions, clinical protocols, and best practices. Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management is the journal of record, published in print and online with open access options. Complete tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management website at http://www.liebertpub.com/ther.
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Implementing a therapeutic hypothermia program for post-cardiac arrest in acute care hospitals
When President Obama called on the U.S. military to shift its focus to Asia earlier this year, Andrew Marshall, a 91-year-old futurist, had a vision of what to do.
Marshalls small office in the Pentagon has spent the past two decades planning for a war against an angry, aggressive and heavily armed China.
No one had any idea how the war would start. But the American response, laid out in a concept that one of Marshalls longtime proteges dubbed Air-Sea Battle, was clear.
Stealthy American bombers and submarines would knock out Chinas long-range surveillance radar and precision missile systems located deep inside the country. The initial blinding campaign would be followed by a larger air and naval assault.
The concept, the details of which are classified, has angered the Chinese military and has been pilloried by some Army and Marine Corps officers as excessively expensive. Some Asia analysts worry that conventional strikes aimed at China could spark a nuclear war.
Air-Sea Battle drew little attention when U.S. troops were fighting and dying in large numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now the militarys decade of battling insurgencies is ending, defense budgets are being cut, and top military officials, ordered to pivot toward Asia, are looking to Marshalls office for ideas.
In recent months, the Air Force and Navy have come up with more than 200 initiatives they say they need to realize Air-Sea Battle. The list emerged, in part, from war games conducted by Marshalls office and includes new weaponry and proposals to deepen cooperation between the Navy and the Air Force.
A former nuclear strategist, Marshall has spent the past 40 years running the Pentagons Office of Net Assessment, searching for potential threats to American dominance. In the process, he has built a network of allies in Congress, in the defense industry, at think tanks and at the Pentagon that amounts to a permanent Washington bureaucracy.
While Marshalls backers praise his office as a place where officials take the long view, ignoring passing Pentagon fads, critics see a dangerous tendency toward alarmism that is exaggerating the China threat to drive up defense spending.
The old joke about the Office of Net Assessment is that it should be called the Office of Threat Inflation, said Barry Posen, director of the MIT Security Studies Program. They go well beyond exploring the worst cases. ... They convince others to act as if the worst cases are inevitable.
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Futurist website nowandnext.com put together this awesome infographic predicting all of the technologies, behaviors, and ideas that will probably be distant memories by 2050.
Among their predictions: no more retirement four years from now, no more secretaries six years from now, and no more free parking or sit-down breakfasts by 2019.
The European Union is seen as surviving the current crisis before extinct in 2039.
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Convicted murderer John Paul Madrona, profiled in a Times series chronicling life inside a state prison hospice, has taken a step toward freedom after a two-person panel from the parole board pronounced him ready to leave.
Madrona, a former Carson-area gang member who murdered a bystander in 1993, no longer poses "a danger to society or a threat to public safety if released from prison," said Board of Parole Hearings Commissioner Jack Garner, who along with his fellow panelist noted the positive strides the convict has made while in confinement.
Wednesday's decision, Garner said, "is one we feel you deserved. You've changed."
The ruling, made in a wood-paneled conference room at the California Medical Facility prison, was the most important hurdle for Madrona to pass in his bid for freedom -- if hed been denied he probably would have had to wait three years for another hearing, and possibly several years more. But additional hurdles remain.
The panel's decision now faces review by the state's full parole board to determine if any mistakes were made during the hearing. Gov. Jerry Brown also can weigh in. If the decision makes it past Brown's desk, Madrona will probably have to wait about six more years before he leaves prison, the added time partly caused by demerits, such as failing to show up for a prison job.
As he'd done for much of Wednesday's three-hour hearing, the 36-year-old Madrona remained calm, though his eyes filled with tears.
This was his first parole hearing and the result was something of a surprise because murderers are not usually granted parole on their first attempt.
"It'sextraordinarilyrare," said Luis Patino, a spokesman for the Board of Parole Hearings. "In my two years on this job, that's the first time I've heard of anyone getting that."
Madrona, a Philippine national who will probably be deported upon release, was whisked away after the hearing, leaving comment to his attorney.
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