Good news, X-Files fans: David Duchovny isn't ready to say goodbye to Fox Mulder.
The actor, who now stars on Showtime's Californication, says he continues to hold out hope of making a third movie.
"We always want to," he told Jay Leno in an interview on Wednesday's The Tonight Show. "[Creator] Chris Carter and [co-star] Gillian Anderson and I, we're always on board."
Duchovny, who has previously expressed interest in doing a third film, then encouraged fans to start a letter-writing campaign to the studio to make it happen.
"You want to write Fox and get 'em going?," he told the audience, adding: "You could wheel me [out]. I'll play Fox Mulder forever."
The sci-fi series aired on Fox for nine seasons, from 1993-2002, spawning two movies. 1998's The X-Files: Fight the Future grossed about $189 million at the worldwide box office, but the 2008 sequel, subtitled I Want to Believe, earned only $68 million, according to Box Office Mojo. Still, the show continues to have a huge cult following.
Later on The Tonight Show,J.B. Smoove lobbied Duchovny for a role in the potential third film by revealing that he once saw an unidentified flying object.
"I have seen a UFO before, so I could be a great sidekick," he says. "And I had a witness too. That's the best thing. You got somebody next to you to say you ain't drunk."
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand man was attacked and killed by a great white shark on Wednesday in a rare fatal shark incident in the country, prompting police to open fire.
Police said they fired shots at the shark after a man was fatally bitten at Muriwai beach located around 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Auckland, one of many beaches dotted along the North Island's west coast that are known for their wild surf.
Rescue crews were quoted by local media as saying the shark was a "white pointer", commonly known as a great white, measuring roughly 4 meters (13 feet) long. Witnesses said a rescue helicopter also fired shots at the shark.
"We saw the shark fin, and the next minute, boom, the attack came. There was blood everywhere on the water," eye witness Pio Mosie was quoted by local news website Stuff.co.nz as saying.
"They fired six or seven shots to the shark, three from the police helicopter and a few shots from the lifeguard. I don't know if they killed the shark or not," he added.
The head of the local volunteer lifeguard service was quoted as saying they had confirmed that "one or two" sharks were spotted, but none had been seen since the man's body was removed from the water.
Shark attacks are rare in New Zealand, where water sports and beach holidays are a rite of summer. More than 60 shark species are known to swim in the country's waters.
Fourteen fatal attacks have been reported since records began around 1837, according to the country's Department of Conservation, which added that non-fatal shark attacks average roughly two each year.
The last attack linked with a death was in 2009, when a kayaker was mauled by a great white in the nearby Coromandel Peninsula, although whether the victim drowned before the attack has been disputed.
According to the International Shark Attack File, 11 shark fatalities were reported last year, including three in Australia and South Africa, nearly tripling the average annual number of fatalities for 2001 to 2010.
(Reporting by Naomi Tajitsu, editing by Elaine Lies)
Derrell Rice, 68, was arrested after causing disturbances in two Connecticut schools to protest a decision to allow a student to wear a T-shirt with an anti-gay symbol.
By LeAnne Gendreau, NBCConnecticut.com
Police have charged a 68-year-old Torrington man with breach of peace and criminal trespass after he caused disturbances at two schools to? complain about a decision to allow a student to wear a T-shirt with an anti-gay message to school, according to police.
Wolcott schools, under pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, decided to allow a senior at Wolcott High School to wear a T-shirt with a slash through the rainbow after the ACLU threatened to sue.
Derrell Rice, 68, of Torrington, took issue with the decision, according to police, and went to the school to complain.
But, first he lodged the complaint in Plymouth.
Read more at NBCConnecticut.com
Rice, who school officials described as an elderly, well-dressed gentleman, drove to the Plymouth Center School on North Street on Wednesday morning and rang the buzzer to be let in, Plymouth police told Wolcott Police.
When school officials questioned him through the intercom, the man said he was there to register his granddaughter for school, so school staff met him at the door.
But, the man, later identified as Rice, began to express his displeasure with the school department allowing an anti-gay shirt to be allowed in school, according to police.
School officials told Rice that the shirt incident happened in Wolcott and not Plymouth. They said Rice was upset, loud and causing annoyance and alarm, so the school officials called Plymouth Police and Rice drove away, according to police.
At 10 a.m., Wolcott Police received a call from the Plymouth Police about the incident, so they notified the Wolcott School Department to be on the look-out for Rice.
Soon after, Wolcott school officials called police and said a man who met Rice?s description was there and wanted to be let in. When police responded, they found Rice ringing the buzzer to be let in, police said.
When police asked Rice why he was there, he said he wanted to speak to the superintendent of schools because he did not agree with his allowing a shirt with an anti-gay message to be worn, according to police.
Supt. Joseph Macary met with Rice and told him he understood his concerns and that the decision to allow the shirt was based on the First Amendment, as well as school policy, police said.
Macary then told Rice that he is not allowed on any Wolcott School property and could leave because the conversation was over.
But Rice refused to leave and said he was going to the high school to tell everyone what was going on, police said.
Rice was charged with breach of peace and first-degree criminal trespass because he caused annoyance and alarm and refused to leave school, according to police.
Plymouth police also charged Rice with breach of peace.
Bond was set at $1,000.??
NBC Connecticut was not able to find a phone number for Rice.
Research suggests malaria can be defeated without a globally led eradication programPublic release date: 26-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Peter Franklin p.franklin@soton.ac.uk 44-238-059-5457 University of Southampton
A researcher at the University of Southampton, working as part of a team from the UK and USA, believes the global eradication of malaria could be achieved by individual countries eliminating the disease within their own borders and coordinating efforts regionally. The team's findings have been published in the journal Science.
Dr Andrew Tatem explains, "In 1955 a global programme was launched to eradicate Malaria, but funding collapsed in 1969 and ultimately eradication wasn't achieved. We have examined what was learned from this programme and how malaria has since been eliminated in individual countries.
"Our findings suggest it may be possible for malaria elimination to proceed like a ratchet, tightening the grip on the disease region-by-region, country-by-country, until eradication is ultimately achieved but without the need for a globally coordinated campaign."
The research team[1] examined data from 1980 onwards for 30 countries which successfully eliminated malaria and also took part in the 1955 Global Malaria Eradication Programme (GMEP). In these countries, elimination[2] has become highly stable, transmission (or infection) has declined and resurgence has occurred far less frequently than traditional theory would predict.
Three potential reasons for this decline and stability of malaria have been suggested:
declines in transmission rates resulting from urbanization and economic development
a high-degree of transmission control from treating malaria cases combined with outbreak control
low-connectivity among places that are highly receptive to transmission
Dr Tatem comments, "Evidence from the data we have examined suggests that a concerted effort to bring an individual country to the point of elimination will likely result in that country maintaining a stable, low malaria transmission rate. If this is the case, malaria elimination could proceed at an individual country level, until global eradication[3] is achieved.
"The possibility that the complete absence of ongoing malaria transmission can become highly-stable is relevant for policy because it suggests that before achieving global eradication, some countries that eliminate could scale back control measures and rely on their health systems. Projected economic costs of elimination are dominated by the management of imported malaria, but if elimination is stable, then it could save costs before achieving eradication."
The researchers observed that after elimination in a region, malaria importation poses a constant threat, because humans and mosquitoes carry the disease from endemic areas across international boundaries and within countries. This means it is important to maintain measures to monitor and contain outbreaks and avoid endemic transmission from restarting. Of the countries examined, causes of resurgence were poorly documented, but it was most frequently blamed on a failure to intervene at a high-level when outbreaks were identified. This demonstrates long-term investment is needed to ensure elimination in a country is maintained.
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The paper The Stability of Malaria Elimination can be found in the journal Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/909.summary?sid=dff77906-3f0d-458b-b229-b6ea00cbfb09
The research was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
1 The research team is from the Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida; Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton; Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA; Clinton Health Access Initiative, Boston; Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, Oxford University; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore; Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore; Malaria Elimination Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California; Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, Washington.
2 Elimination refers to the stopping of transmission in a defined region until no parasites remain through implementation of vector control, treatment of infected individuals and other available interventions.
3 Eradication is elimination at a global scale.
Notes for editors:
1) For more information about Geography and Environment at the University of Southampton visit: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/geography/
2) The University of Southampton is a leading UK teaching and research institution with a global reputation for leading-edge research and scholarship across a wide range of subjects in engineering, science, social sciences, health and humanities.
With over 23,000 students, around 5000 staff, and an annual turnover well in excess of 435 million, the University of Southampton is acknowledged as one of the country's top institutions for engineering, computer science and medicine. We combine academic excellence with an innovative and entrepreneurial approach to research, supporting a culture that engages and challenges students and staff in their pursuit of learning.
The University is also home to a number of world-leading research centres including the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, the Optoelectronics Research Centre, the Institute for Life Sciences, the Web Science Trust and Doctoral training Centre, the Centre for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute and is a partner of the National Oceanography Centre at the Southampton waterfront campus. www.soton.ac.uk
3) For information on partner organisations visit:
http://www.epi.ufl.edu/ University of Florida
http://www.fic.nih.gov/Pages/Default.aspx National Institutes of Health
http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org/ Clinton Health Access Initiative
http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/ University of Oxford
http://www.jhsph.edu/departments/epidemiology/ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
http://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/global-health-group/malaria-elimination-initiative University of California
http://www.cddep.org/ Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy
For further information contact:
Peter Franklin, Media Relations, University of Southampton, Tel: 023 8059 5457, email: p.franklin@soton.ac.uk
www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/
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Research suggests malaria can be defeated without a globally led eradication programPublic release date: 26-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Peter Franklin p.franklin@soton.ac.uk 44-238-059-5457 University of Southampton
A researcher at the University of Southampton, working as part of a team from the UK and USA, believes the global eradication of malaria could be achieved by individual countries eliminating the disease within their own borders and coordinating efforts regionally. The team's findings have been published in the journal Science.
Dr Andrew Tatem explains, "In 1955 a global programme was launched to eradicate Malaria, but funding collapsed in 1969 and ultimately eradication wasn't achieved. We have examined what was learned from this programme and how malaria has since been eliminated in individual countries.
"Our findings suggest it may be possible for malaria elimination to proceed like a ratchet, tightening the grip on the disease region-by-region, country-by-country, until eradication is ultimately achieved but without the need for a globally coordinated campaign."
The research team[1] examined data from 1980 onwards for 30 countries which successfully eliminated malaria and also took part in the 1955 Global Malaria Eradication Programme (GMEP). In these countries, elimination[2] has become highly stable, transmission (or infection) has declined and resurgence has occurred far less frequently than traditional theory would predict.
Three potential reasons for this decline and stability of malaria have been suggested:
declines in transmission rates resulting from urbanization and economic development
a high-degree of transmission control from treating malaria cases combined with outbreak control
low-connectivity among places that are highly receptive to transmission
Dr Tatem comments, "Evidence from the data we have examined suggests that a concerted effort to bring an individual country to the point of elimination will likely result in that country maintaining a stable, low malaria transmission rate. If this is the case, malaria elimination could proceed at an individual country level, until global eradication[3] is achieved.
"The possibility that the complete absence of ongoing malaria transmission can become highly-stable is relevant for policy because it suggests that before achieving global eradication, some countries that eliminate could scale back control measures and rely on their health systems. Projected economic costs of elimination are dominated by the management of imported malaria, but if elimination is stable, then it could save costs before achieving eradication."
The researchers observed that after elimination in a region, malaria importation poses a constant threat, because humans and mosquitoes carry the disease from endemic areas across international boundaries and within countries. This means it is important to maintain measures to monitor and contain outbreaks and avoid endemic transmission from restarting. Of the countries examined, causes of resurgence were poorly documented, but it was most frequently blamed on a failure to intervene at a high-level when outbreaks were identified. This demonstrates long-term investment is needed to ensure elimination in a country is maintained.
###
The paper The Stability of Malaria Elimination can be found in the journal Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/909.summary?sid=dff77906-3f0d-458b-b229-b6ea00cbfb09
The research was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
1 The research team is from the Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida; Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton; Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA; Clinton Health Access Initiative, Boston; Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, Oxford University; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore; Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore; Malaria Elimination Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California; Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, Washington.
2 Elimination refers to the stopping of transmission in a defined region until no parasites remain through implementation of vector control, treatment of infected individuals and other available interventions.
3 Eradication is elimination at a global scale.
Notes for editors:
1) For more information about Geography and Environment at the University of Southampton visit: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/geography/
2) The University of Southampton is a leading UK teaching and research institution with a global reputation for leading-edge research and scholarship across a wide range of subjects in engineering, science, social sciences, health and humanities.
With over 23,000 students, around 5000 staff, and an annual turnover well in excess of 435 million, the University of Southampton is acknowledged as one of the country's top institutions for engineering, computer science and medicine. We combine academic excellence with an innovative and entrepreneurial approach to research, supporting a culture that engages and challenges students and staff in their pursuit of learning.
The University is also home to a number of world-leading research centres including the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, the Optoelectronics Research Centre, the Institute for Life Sciences, the Web Science Trust and Doctoral training Centre, the Centre for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute and is a partner of the National Oceanography Centre at the Southampton waterfront campus. www.soton.ac.uk
3) For information on partner organisations visit:
http://www.epi.ufl.edu/ University of Florida
http://www.fic.nih.gov/Pages/Default.aspx National Institutes of Health
http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org/ Clinton Health Access Initiative
http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/ University of Oxford
http://www.jhsph.edu/departments/epidemiology/ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
http://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/global-health-group/malaria-elimination-initiative University of California
http://www.cddep.org/ Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy
For further information contact:
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Feb. 25, 2013 ? Even dying stars could host planets with life -- and if such life exists, we might be able to detect it within the next decade. This encouraging result comes from a new theoretical study of Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarf stars. Researchers found that we could detect oxygen in the atmosphere of a white dwarf's planet much more easily than for an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star.
"In the quest for extraterrestrial biological signatures, the first stars we study should be white dwarfs," said Avi Loeb, theorist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation.
When a star like the Sun dies, it puffs off its outer layers, leaving behind a hot core called a white dwarf. A typical white dwarf is about the size of Earth. It slowly cools and fades over time, but it can retain heat long enough to warm a nearby world for billions of years.
Since a white dwarf is much smaller and fainter than the Sun, a planet would have to be much closer in to be habitable with liquid water on its surface. A habitable planet would circle the white dwarf once every 10 hours at a distance of about a million miles.
Before a star becomes a white dwarf it swells into a red giant, engulfing and destroying any nearby planets. Therefore, a planet would have to arrive in the habitable zone after the star evolved into a white dwarf. A planet could form from leftover dust and gas (making it a second-generation world), or migrate inward from a larger distance.
If planets exist in the habitable zones of white dwarfs, we would need to find them before we could study them. The abundance of heavy elements on the surface of white dwarfs suggests that a significant fraction of them have rocky planets. Loeb and his colleague Dan Maoz (Tel Aviv University) estimate that a survey of the 500 closest white dwarfs could spot one or more habitable Earths.
The best method for finding such planets is a transit search -- looking for a star that dims as an orbiting planet crosses in front of it. Since a white dwarf is about the same size as Earth, an Earth-sized planet would block a large fraction of its light and create an obvious signal.
More importantly, we can only study the atmospheres of transiting planets. When the white dwarf's light shines through the ring of air that surrounds the planet's silhouetted disk, the atmosphere absorbs some starlight. This leaves chemical fingerprints showing whether that air contains water vapor, or even signatures of life, such as oxygen.
Astronomers are particularly interested in finding oxygen because the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is continuously replenished, through photosynthesis, by plant life. Were all life to cease on Earth, our atmosphere would quickly become devoid of oxygen, which would dissolve in the oceans and oxidize the surface. Thus, the presence of large quantities of oxygen in the atmosphere of a distant planet would signal the likely presence of life there.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scheduled for launch by the end of this decade, promises to sniff out the gases of these alien worlds. Loeb and Maoz created a synthetic spectrum, replicating what JWST would see if it examined a habitable planet orbiting a white dwarf. They found that both oxygen and water vapor would be detectable with only a few hours of total observation time.
"JWST offers the best hope of finding an inhabited planet in the near future," said Maoz.
Recent research by CfA astronomers Courtney Dressing and David Charbonneau showed that the closest habitable planet is likely to orbit a red dwarf star (a cool, low-mass star undergoing nuclear fusion). Since a red dwarf, although smaller and fainter than the Sun, is much larger and brighter than a white dwarf, its glare would overwhelm the faint signal from an orbiting planet's atmosphere. JWST would have to observe hundreds of hours of transits to have any hope of analyzing the atmosphere's composition.
"Although the closest habitable planet might orbit a red dwarf star, the closest one we can easily prove to be life-bearing might orbit a white dwarf," said Loeb.
Their paper has been accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is a joint collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. CfA scientists, organized into six research divisions, study the origin, evolution and ultimate fate of the universe.
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Impact investing, a rapidly growing sector of?socially responsible investing (SRI), represents the nexus of philanthropy and traditional finance: It expands the definition of return on invested capital to include both financial and social returns ? and is?a way to use the tools of finance and investing to create social change. If a?survey of financial professionals conducted last year by the First Affirmative Financial Network?is any guide, impact investing will likely be the number one growth area in?the SRI field in 2013.
At the same time, awareness of this emerging area of finance is growing. In a 2011 survey, JPMorgan found that?the number of institutions and high net worth individuals who were familiar with impact investing had doubled since 2010. JPMorgan predicts that by 2020 there could be?between $400 billion and $1 trillion dollars directed toward impact investing.
So how does it work? The fundamental assumption underlying impact investing is that the creation of economic value and social value are not mutually exclusive. Therefore, a unified market-based approach can be used to develop long-term sustainable solutions to social and environmental problems. Impact investors include public pension funds, foundations, corporations, governments, and individual investors. Their common objective is to invest in companies or securities that will provide a return on investment while also alleviating poverty, creating affordable housing, building needed infrastructure, or conserving natural resources.
Of course, the concept of investing in a socially responsible manner dates back to biblical times, and faith-based investors continue to capitalize on their roles as shareholders to serve social causes. According to the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, the number of US mutual funds that use environmental, social, or corporate governance (ESG) criteria, grew from 12 in 1995 to 333 in 2012 (a 2,675%? increase) while assets under management grew from $12 billion to $640 billion (a 5,233% increase) during the same period. The performance of these funds illustrates that it is possible to achieve both financial and social objectives. (Though it should be noted that a recent overview of studies on the returns for SRI found that results tend to be mixed.)
Impact investors have taken the concept of SRI one step further. Instead of just avoiding companies whose products and services are incongruent with their values, impact investors seek out and invest in companies, securities, and funds that are actually helping to combat societal issues of hunger, homelessness, disease, and environmental degradation. As a result, new and unique investment products have been introduced that not only address specific social issues, but offer competitive market returns.
The AdvisorShares Global Echo ETF (GIVE), for example, focuses on sustainable and impact investment opportunities. A portion of its management fee goes to the Global Echo Foundation, which provides funding to charitable organizations and development programs around the world.
Social impact bonds, also known as pay-for-success or social benefit bonds, are used to finance organizations that provide social services and programs to individuals and communities that were once provided by the governments. The government pays the interest and principle on these bonds out of the savings it receives, if the outside organization is able to provide the same services at a lower cost. Returns may also be contingent on social outcomes. In the United Kingdom, for example, the proceeds of a social impact bond are being used to fund an organization that provides comprehensive assistance to men released from prison. Bondholders will only receive interest and principal payments if the services provided by this new organization reduces recidivism to a specified rate.
Developments in recent years have addressed several critical challenges facing the impact investing industry ??and should facilitate this forecasted growth.?In 2009, for example, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), an independent nonprofit organization, was formally established to foster the growth and effectiveness of impact investing by providing a forum to address ?systemic barriers to effective impact investing by building critical infrastructure and developing activities, education, and research that attract more investment capital to poverty alleviation and environmental solutions.? One of its most important projects has been the development of Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS). These standards provide a ?standardized taxonomy and a set of consistent definitions? that investors can use to measure and assess the social, environmental, and financial impact of their investments. In addition, IRIS maintains a database that contains performance data from funds and mission-driven organizations.
There has been a global trend among governments to support impact investing. In 2011, the UK government established Big Society Capital, a social investment bank with a mission ?to catalyze the growth of a sustainable social investment market, making it easier for social ventures to access the finance and advice they need?? at all stages of their development.? In the United States, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), whose mission is to ?mobilize private capital to help solve critical world challenges,? provided $285 million in financing for six new impact investment funds. In Australia, the government provided $20 million to establish the Social Enterprise Development and Investment Funds (SEDIF).
Although some view impact investing as a new asset class or investment strategy, I believe that it will become an investment philosophy. Who wouldn?t want help the world and make money at the same time? After all, as Amy Domini says in her book, Socially Responsible Investing, ?The way we invest creates the world we live in.?
Please note that the content of this site should not be construed as investment advice, nor do the opinions expressed necessarily reflect the views of CFA Institute.
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In his 1958 bestseller, The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith, the American economics professor, satirist and (later) diplomat, painted a very vivid picture of his adopted country in which most people would be relatively rich or, in his more elegant term, affluent.
Prof Galbraith, a Canadian by birth, was one of a team of the so-called ?action intellectuals? who helped shape the major policies of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations of the 1960s. More than half a century later, Galbraith?s enlightened vision has more or less become the reality in the United States.
Is it possible for Kenya to visualise and build what could loosely be referred to as the ?OK Society? along the lines of Galbraith?s Affluent Society? What would such a society actually be like? Would it be affluent in the sense of Galbraith?s America or would every Kenyan citizen be equal, economically, to everybody else?
Apparently, none of the above.
According to Dr Nzioki Kibua, the former long-serving deputy governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) who is now running for governor of Machakos County, and is certainly one of our very own action intellectuals, the OK Society would be a society in which every Kenyan family received a legitimately earned income of at least Sh500 per day and had access to both clean running water and electricity within the home.
Such a family would also have to be in a position to take all its children to school all the way up to university; have ready access to appropriate health care and live in the peace and tranquility that would be both provided and guaranteed by our national and county governments.
This country would then cease to be a nation of beggars and handout-seekers and the endemic corruption that has embedded itself into both our politics and economics would be wiped out.
But what would we need to do to transform this country so fundamentally? According to Kibua, we need to do at least four things if this country is to be transformed into an OK Society within the next 30 years.
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First, we need to get our macro-economic policies and structures correct and build the national infrastructure around the pillars, which have been spelled out in Vision 2030, the national development blueprint.
Second, we need to empower our people economically, by providing the economic opportunities through which they can generate their own incomes without depending on handouts from their political or community leaders.
Third, we need to review and strengthen our public financial management systems and procedures, particularly with respect to revenue generation and collection, and to ensure that we spend our tax revenues in the most efficient and transparent manner.
Finally, we need a moral transformation that can enable us to generate the resolve to face corruption squarely and then move on to fight it with all the legal, administrative and moral weapons we can muster.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover completed its very first drilling activity on the Red Planet, yielding a gray powder from inside an ancient rock.?
By Irene Klotz,?Reuters / February 21, 2013
This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, combines dozens of exposures taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager, in February.
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the planet ever had ingredients for life, drilled its first bit of powder from inside a potentially water-formed ancient rock, scientists said on Wednesday.
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The robotic geology station, which landed inside a giant impact basin on Aug. 6 for a two-year mission, transferred about a tablespoon of rock powder from its drill into a scoop, pictures relayed by the rover Wednesday showed.
"We're all very happy to get this confirmation and relieved that the drilling was a complete success," Curiosity engineer Scott McCloskey of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, told reporters on a conference call.
On Feb. 8, the rover used its powerful drill, the first instrument of its type to be sent to Mars, to bore inside a flat, veined piece of bedrock, which appears to contain minerals formed by flowing water.
The sample, retrieved from at least 2 inches (5 cm) beneath the surface of the rock, will be sieved and portions of it processed inside two onboard science instruments.
The gray powder is strikingly different than the ubiquitous red dust that covers the planet's surface, a result of oxidation from solar ultraviolet radiation.
"Having a rock-drilling capability on a rover is a significant advancement," said Louise Jandura, chief engineer for Curiosity's sample system.
"It allows us to go beyond the surface layer of the rock, unlocking a kind of time capsule of evidence about the state of Mars going back 3 or 4 billion years," Jandura told reporters.
The drill is the last of Curiosity's 10 science instruments to be tested since the rover landed inside Gale Crater, located near the planet's equator.
The site was selected because of a three-mile (5-km) high mound of what appears to be layered sediments rising from the crater's floor.
Rather than driving directly over to the mountain, scientists decided to explore an area in the opposite direction that showed intriguing signs of past water.
Water is believed to be a key ingredient for life.
"The rocks in this area have a really rich geologic history and they have the potential to give us information about multiple interactions of water and rock," said Curiosity scientist Joel Hurowitz, also with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The fine-grained rocks are filled with veins and spherical deposits, including what appears to be calcium sulfate, a mineral which forms on Earth when water flows through fractures in rock. Mars is the planet in our solar system most like Earth.
"When you find exactly these sorts of conditions on Earth ... and everything still goes right, it's still an accident of fate to preserve organics," Curiosity's lead scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena told Reuters.
"So we'll have to separate at some point the pursuit of what may have been a habitable environment from what may or may not be an environment that preserves organics," he said.
"Obviously we're interested in the organics but right now we're sort of on the pathway to hopefully characterizing this place as a habitable environment," Grotzinger said.
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HEMPHILL, Texas -- One woman is dead after savage winds whipped through rural East Texas and weather officials say a team will be sent to determine if a tornado struck the area.
Sabine County Sheriff Tom Maddox says the storm streaked across the southwestern corner of the county on the Louisiana border about 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Maddox says the storm dropped a tree limb onto a mobile home about 145 miles northeast of Houston, fatally injuring 74-year-old Louise Pillow Stringer.
Maddox says 25 homes were damaged and debris patterns look like those left behind by a tornado, rather than straight-line winds.
National Weather Service meteorologist Jason Hansford in Shreveport, La., says the agency has no conclusive evidence of a tornado, but a survey team will be sent to investigate the area Friday.
SURREY, COLOMBIE-BRITANNIQUE--(Marketwire - 22 f?v. 2013) - Le gouvernement du Canada a annonc? du soutien aux jeunes de Surrey afin de les aider ? acqu?rir les comp?tences, les connaissances et l'exp?rience dont ils ont besoin pour acc?der au march? du travail et y r?ussir. L'annonce a ?t? faite aujourd'hui par la d?put?e de Fleetwood-Port Kells, Nina Grewal, au nom de la ministre des Ressources humaines et du D?veloppement des comp?tences, l'honorable Diane Finley.
? La cr?ation d'emplois, la croissance ?conomique et la prosp?rit? ? long terme sont les grandes priorit?s de notre gouvernement, a d?clar? Mme Grewal. La Strat?gie emploi jeunesse du gouvernement du Canada aide les jeunes ? acqu?rir les comp?tences et l'exp?rience dont ils ont besoin pour d?crocher un emploi d?s maintenant et se pr?parer ? constituer la main-d'?uvre de l'avenir. ?
L'organisme Progressive Intercultural Community Services recevra un financement de plus de 96 000 $ du programme Connexion comp?tences afin d'aider des jeunes ? surmonter les obstacles ? l'emploi. Connexion comp?tences fait partie de la Strat?gie emploi jeunesse du gouvernement du Canada.
Les participants au projet acquerront des comp?tences entrepreneuriales afin de lancer leur propre entreprise. Ils participeront ? diverses formations et s?ances d'information sur le travail autonome, portant sur des sujets comme le marketing, la planification financi?re et l'?laboration d'un plan d'affaires. De plus, les participants apprendront de mentors et de conf?renciers invit?s, notamment sur l'?laboration de strat?gies de vente et sur les relations avec les clients et la collectivit?.
? Nous sommes reconnaissants du soutien que nous accorde le gouvernement du Canada, a indiqu? Charan Gill, chef de la direction de Progressive Intercultural Community Services. Ce projet offre aux jeunes d'excellentes occasions d'acqu?rir des comp?tences qui leur serviront aujourd'hui et qui leur permettront de cr?er un avenir meilleur. ?
Gr?ce ? un budget annuel de plus de 300 millions de dollars, la Strat?gie emploi jeunesse aide les jeunes, en particulier ceux qui rencontrent des obstacles ? l'emploi, ? obtenir de l'information sur les carri?res, ? acqu?rir des comp?tences professionnelles, ? trouver un emploi et ? le conserver. Cette strat?gie comprend les programmes Connexion comp?tences et Objectif carri?re, ainsi que l'initiative Emplois d'?t? Canada, qui cr?e chaque ?t? des milliers de possibilit?s d'emploi pour les ?tudiants.
Les employeurs ont jusqu'au 28 f?vrier 2013 pour pr?senter une demande dans le cadre du programme Emplois d'?t? Canada de cette ann?e. Ils peuvent remplir leur demande en ligne, au servicecanada.gc.ca/eec2013, ou en se rendant ? un Centre Service Canada.
Dans le cadre du Plan d'action ?conomique de 2012, le gouvernement investit 50 millions de dollars de plus sur deux ans dans la Strat?gie emploi jeunesse. Ce financement facilitera la mise en oeuvre d'une nouvelle initiative visant ? aider les jeunes Canadiens et Canadiennes ? trouver un emploi dans un domaine ? forte demande et ? acqu?rir des comp?tences pratiques et de l'exp?rience de travail.
Les programmes d'emploi pour les jeunes font partie de la strat?gie globale du gouvernement du Canada qui vise ? constituer une main-d'?uvre instruite, comp?tente et souple. Le gouvernement a soulign? son engagement envers cette strat?gie dans le Plan d'action ?conomique du Canada. Le Plan consiste notamment ? multiplier et ? am?liorer les possibilit?s d'emploi pour les travailleurs canadiens gr?ce au d?veloppement des comp?tences. Pour en savoir davantage sur le Plan d'action ?conomique du Canada, consultez le plandaction.gc.ca.
Le gouvernement du Canada aide les jeunes ? planifier leur carri?re, ? acqu?rir de nouvelles comp?tences et ? trouver un emploi gr?ce ? des services en ligne am?lior?s offerts sur le site jeunesse.gc.ca.
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La Strat?gie emploi jeunesse donne suite ? la promesse du gouvernement du Canada d'aider les jeunes ? r?ussir leur transition vers le march? du travail.
Connexion comp?tences aide les jeunes qui rencontrent des obstacles ? l'emploi, notamment les chefs de famille monoparentale, les personnes handicap?es et les r?sidants des milieux ruraux et des r?gions ?loign?es, ? acqu?rir les comp?tences et l'exp?rience dont ils ont besoin pour trouver un emploi, ou la confiance n?cessaire pour retourner aux ?tudes.
Objectif carri?re fournit du financement ? des employeurs pour qu'ils embauchent des jeunes dipl?m?s du postsecondaire afin de leur offrir une exp?rience de travail li?e ? leur choix de carri?re et de les aider ? acqu?rir les comp?tences n?cessaires pour int?grer le march? du travail.
Emplois d'?t? Canada verse des fonds ? des organismes sans but lucratif, ? des employeurs du secteur public et ? de petites entreprises comptant 50 employ?s ou moins afin de cr?er des emplois d'?t? pour des jeunes ?g?s de 15 ? 30 ans qui ?tudient ? temps plein et qui pr?voient poursuivre leurs ?tudes au cours de l'ann?e scolaire suivante.
Pour obtenir plus de renseignements sur la Strat?gie emploi jeunesse du gouvernement du Canada et sur d'autres initiatives d'emploi des jeunes, veuillez consulter le site Web jeunesse.gc.ca.
According to our not-so-scientific poll taken this time last year, chances are good that if you’re reading this then you use Android’s Gmail app. The latest update to Gmail bumped it up to version 4.2.2, adding some useful new features like swipe to delete, as well as the long awaited pinch to zoom. You may or may not have already read about these and started to use them. What about all those features that came before the last update?
Perhaps you’re new to Android, and are still exploring a lot of what Gmail has to offer. Maybe you’ve been using Android for a long time, and want to make sure you’re getting the most out of your Gmail experience. Whatever your level of expertise, this comprehensive walkthrough of Gmail's controls and settings will help advance, or at least refresh, your Gmail skills.
Hit the break for a review of the basics, as well as a deep dig into Gmail's features (and a couple lesser known tricks).
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Slumping personal computer maker Hewlett-Packard has shown signs of progress in its latest quarter, even though its earnings dropped 16 percent.
The fiscal first-quarter results announced Thursday topped the forecast of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s own management, as well as stock market analysts.
That could raise hopes that HP's turnaround efforts are running ahead of schedule. CEO Meg Whitman has consistently said it may be several years before HP is on solid ground again.
HP earned $1.2 billion, or 63 cents per share, in the three months ending in January. That compares with nearly $1.5 billion, or 73 cents per share, at the same time a year earlier.
Revenue fell 6 percent to $28.4 billion.
It's the sixth consecutive quarter that HP's revenue has dropped from the previous year.
February 20, 2013Updated Feb 20, 2013 at 8:21 AM EST
Up until now, e-mail giant Microsoft Outlook has only been available on the Microsoft Office Suite. Well as of yesterday, in an attempt to compete with GMail and Yahoo!, Microsoft launched a new website to make Outlook available to the public.
Outlook.com officially went live yesterday. The website allows people to use for their personal e-mail and access it from any computer with internet connection.
Outlook.com allows users to integrate social networking into their e-mail, allowing them to populate their address books with friends from Facebook, twitter, and LinkedIn.
The website has also implemented a live-feed of your social media news feeds in a side bar, a first for any e-mail site.
In addition, Microsoft made the mighty big decision to sunset it's hotmail brand and upgrade users to the new outlook service.
Diversity is a key ingredient for a successful development, or at least that?s what George Merrick, Founding Father of Coral Gables, believed in 1925. Along with The American Building Company and former Ohio Governor Myers Cooper, he created the largest home development project in that time?s history: the Village Project. At the time, South Florida had no existing architectural heritage, so Merrick brought in the best architectural traditions from around the world and adapted them to the new climate. However, the devastating Hurricane of 1926, followed by the Great Depression halted this plan.
Only seven of the fourteen villages were actually developed, with less than eighty of the 1,000 residences built. These villages act as far more than a marketing scheme built to attract ?northerners? to South Florida, but are valuable districts:
John & Coulton Skinner and John E. Pierson, architects
Florida Pioneer / Colonial: With white picket fences, grand double-story porches, and highly-symmetrical facades, this village was influenced by the large houses of New England;
Marion Sims Wyeth, architect
Dutch South African Village: Comprising of only five residences, the whitewashed structures, ornately rounded gables, and jonkershuis adapt well with the surrounding Mediterranean Revival;
Henry Killam Murphy, architect
Chinese Village: This colorful block of courtyards, yellow rooftops, and stone-carved pillar-gates (ques) is an exotic sight for visitors;
Phillip Lippincott Goodwin, architect
French Normandy / Provincial Village: These attached residences showcase the Tudor decorative half-timbering, brick-base detailing, and minimal wooden enhancements;
R. F. Ware, architect
Italian Village: ?This spread-out village is characterized with low-pitched and heavily bracketed roofs, asymmetrical informal facades, and towers.
Frank Forster, architect
French Country Village: One of the larger villages, these residences are large, detached structures, with high mansard roofs and rustic details;
Mott B. Schmidt, architect
These villages were once regarded as failed attempts due to the city?s poor economic state, but are now regarded as the city?s most desirable areas. Are we still designing our communities in ways that build lasting value?
Credits: Images by Jennifer Garcia. Data linked to sources.
Jennifer Garcia
Born and raised in the Midwest, Jennifer Garc?a now enjoys the energy and
quality of life that Miami has to offer. Professionally, she uses
traditional architecture and principles of the New Urbanism in her
consulting work at Garcia Design Studio. Based on careful research, she designs each project within the context of the local architectural
language, distinct culture, and regional settlement patterns. She proudly
holds a Master of Architecture from Andrews University in Berrien Springs,
Michigan. Traveling has taught her to immerse herself into each place?s
history, culture, traditions, and how they contribute to the range of
urbanism and local vernacular. She also enjoys blogging as a local transit
advocate for Transit Miami. Her daily bicycle commutes reinforce her belief in nurturing a living urbanism with livable streets.
With London Fashion Week finally coming to an end, it's time to break down the most important looks of the week and let you know exactly what happened backstage. Oh, if only everyday could be a Burberry day. Wendy Rowe, Creative Director for Burberry Beauty did such a phenomenal job creating a "golden glow with Trench Kiss lips" look on the girls, that even the star studded front row wore the cosmetics. Kate Beckinsale, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Michelle Dockery and Gabriella Wilde were just a few of the 1,500 guests dressed and made up in head to toe Burbs. Check out the amazing photos of the show that took place in Hyde Park and read on for the exact products used backstage on models like Karlie Kloss, Cara Delevigne, Jourdan Dunn, Liu Wen and Charlotte Wiggins.
The Inspiration: Burberry classics and 60s beauty icon Christine Keeler
Key Products: Burberry Nail Polish made its exciting and much anticipated debut
Overheard at the Show: The single "Hold Me" by Paloma Faith and Misty Miller played in the background during the finale
Wauchula, Florida--?Two local 11th graders were selected by Peace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO) to attend the national ?Youth Tour to Washington DC? event, a weeklong tour with1,500 students from 46 states.
Shakera Latimore of Southeast High School in Bradenton, and Savannah Miller of Hardee High School in Wauchula, along with about 30 other students from Florida electric cooperatives, will enjoy the rich history of the nation?s Capitol firsthand.
According to PRECO, the company promotes the program to 16 high schools throughout its 10-county service territory. To be considered, students are required to submit an application and a two-page essay.
?PRECO enables quality students to explore Washington DC by sending them all-expenses-paid to Youth Tour,? explains Nell McCauley, chief marketing and member services officer. ?We?re giving back to the community by helping our future leaders gain a greater understanding of our system of government.?
Latimore and Miller will meet Florida legislators on Capitol Hill and visit many area points of interest, such as the White House, National Cathedral, Washington Memorial, Holocaust Museum, numerous war memorials and many more. ?These bright, young students will also learn about the history and development of rural electrification and discover the value of electric cooperatives in the economic development of rural areas,? adds McCauley.
To learn more about Youth Tour online, visit PRECO.coop and YouthTour.coop. Peace River Electric Cooperative serves Brevard, DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian River, Manatee, Osceola, Polk and Sarasota counties.
Feb. 19, 2013 ? New findings by Columbia researchers suggest that along with amyloid deposits, white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) may be a second necessary factor for the development of Alzheimer's disease.
Most current approaches to Alzheimer's disease focus on the accumulation of amyloid plaque in the brain. The researchers at the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, led by Adam M. Brickman, PhD, assistant professor of neuropsychology, examined the additional contribution of small-vessel cerebrovascular disease, which they visualized as white matter hyperintensities (WMHs).
The study included 20 subjects with clinically defined Alzheimer's disease, 59 subjects with mild cognitive impairment, and 21 normal control subjects. Using data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative public database, the researchers found that amyloid and WHMs were equally associated with an Alzheimer's diagnosis. Amyloid and WMHs were also equally predictive of which subjects with mildcognitive impairment would go on to develop Alzheimer's. Among those with significant amyloid, WMHs were more prevalent in those with Alzheimer's than in normal control subjects.
Because the risk factors for WMHs -- which are mainly vascular -- can be controlled, the findings suggest potential ways to prevent the development of Alzheimer's in those with amyloid deposits.
"White Matter Hyperintensities and Cerebral Amyloidosis" was published online February 19 in JAMA Neurology.
The other authors are Frank A. Provenzano, MS (CUMC and Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences); Jordan Muraskin, MS (CUMC and Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences); Guiseppe Tosto, MD (CUMC); Atul Narkhede, MS (CUMC); Ben T. Wasserman, AB (CUMC); Erica Y Griffith, BS (CUMC); Vanessa A. Guzman, BA (CUMC); Irene B. Meier, MSc (CUMC); and Molly E. Zimmerman, PhD (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, NY).
The research was supported by NIH (U01 AG024904, P30 AG010129, K01 AG030514, AG029949, and AG034189).
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