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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Video Interview with the Spring Breakers Girls
Spring Breakers has plenty of beer, bikinis, brawls, and bouncing. But director Harmony Korine, screenwriter of Kids, has created another cinematic landscape that offers you something just past the obvious you won't soon forget. Grae Drake chats with the stars -- Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez -- about this haunting new picture. (See our video interview with Harmony Korine here.)
Pakistani teen shot by Taliban, back at school in UK
The Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousufzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for fighting for the right of girls to be educated, spoke of her pride today and said being back in school was her "happiest moment." ITV's Rupert Evelyn reports.
By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News
The Pakistani teen marked for death because she campaigned for girls' education went back to school Tuesday for the first time since a Taliban gunman shot her in the head five months ago, a family spokesperson said.
Malala Yousafzai is attending classes in Birmingham, England, and not her homeland, where the Taliban had vowed to make another attempt on her life.
Still, it was a sweet victory for a 15-year-old who endured multiple surgeries to reconstruct her skull and restore her hearing after she was shot on her way home from school Oct. 9.
"It?s what I dreamed," she said in a video released by the public relations firm that works with her family.
"I dream for all the children that they should go to their school because it?s their right?their basic right.?
She wore the school?s green uniform top over a long black skirt, her head covered in a dark scarf, with a pink backpack slung over her shoulder.
She joked about the overcast weather in Britain with her father, saying, ?I wish I could see the sun.?
Malala was already a well-known activist in Pakistan when a militant stormed her school bus and opened fire, wounding her and two other girls and sparking international outrage.
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Fifteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai was shot by the Taliban for speaking out against Pakistani militants and promoting education for girls.
The Taliban, which opposes education for girls, later said it wanted to punish her "Western thinking."
She said in the video that being able to go back to school was ?the happiest moment.?
?Today I will hold my books, my bag and I will learn. I will talk to my friends and I will talk to my teacher,? she said.
?I want to learn how to bring change in this world.?
Her two wounded friends, whose injuries were less severe, are also back at school in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where they are protected by government guards, the Christian Science Monitor reported.
"Before I was a normal girl," Kainat Riaz, 16, told the paper. "Now I am afraid to go out and can't go anywhere freely."
Malala Press Office via AP
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban, with her father Ziauddin, as she attends her first day of school.
NBC Islamabad Bureau Chief?Amna Nawaz contributed to this report
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Why you shouldn't tell stores your ZIP code
When it comes to paying with plastic at the cash register, you know the drill. A quick swipe, a signature and the contents of your shopping cart are yours. But sometimes the cashier asks for one more thing:
?May I have your ZIP code, please??
You may think it?s necessary to complete the transaction or it may seem like a harmless piece of information to give out, so you go ahead and reveal it.
But that simple decision can result in more junk mail heading your way and more telemarketers disrupting your day, said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy for Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit watchdog group based in San Diego, Calif.
So what?s a credit card customer to do when a merchant asks for a ZIP code at the cash register?
?Just say no,? Stephens advised.
Two states have now declared that the practice violates their privacy laws. Last week, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that a ZIP code amounts to ?personal identification information.? The California Supreme Court made a similar ruling in 2011.
Here?s why privacy advocates are concerned.
Some stores gather ZIP codes for benign reasons, like trying to figure out where to open a new location based on where their customers live, but the overall trend is for companies to use the data to find out more about you and market directly to you, Stephens said.
When you swipe a credit card at the cash register, the merchant receives your name, card number and expiration date, but little else, Stephens said. Give the store your ZIP code, however, and you?re providing a valuable piece of the puzzle.
When paired with your name, it can help the merchant figure out your mailing address, phone number and specific demographic information, Stephens noted.
Now, the store can send you a catalog or even sell your profile to a data broker. It happens all the time, but most people have no idea of the implications of revealing their ZIP, he said.
?Obviously, if I go into a store and I make a purchase, I don?t expect ? unless I sign up for a mailing list ? that I?m going to start receiving catalogs from the store,? Stephens said.
The Massachusetts ruling last week followed a complaint brought against Michaels Stores by a customer who said she received marketing materials from the craft store chain after employees asked her to provide her ZIP code during purchases.
The California decision involved a Williams-Sonoma customer who alleged the company used her ZIP code to locate her home address.
Merchant trade associations counter that collecting such data is beneficial to consumers.
?Asking for generic information helps retailers tailor merchandise, customize advertising and marketing -- promotions, deals and coupons -- and individualizes services,? said Stephen Schatz, a spokesman for the National Retail Federation, in a statement .
?Thus, retailers may ask for general info such as ZIP codes in order to better know and serve their customers.?
In a brief filed in the Massachusetts case, the Retail Litigation Center also argued that stores collect ZIP codes for important business purposes, like analyzing demographics.
Still, Stephens said there should be no need to provide a ZIP code when asked by a clerk in a brick-and-mortar store.
But be aware that a credit card issuer sometimes asks for that information. American Express, for example, may prompt you to key in your ZIP code at some stores for security purposes. The information is not kept by the merchant and not used for marketing, the company says.
And you do still need to provide your ZIP when shopping online, whether to indicate where to ship your stuff or as part of the Address Verification System (AVS) online merchants use to fight fraud. Many gas stations use a similar method during pay-at-the-pump purchases.
In all other cases, proceed with caution.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/should-you-tell-stores-your-zip-code-privacy-advocates-say-1C8912007
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Theatre review: Palace of the End
MONTREAL ? Judith Thompson?s searing play Palace of the End has opened in Montreal, at Espace 4001, just in time for the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
After seeing the riveting Waterworks company production of the play last weekend, I found myself standing next to former Centaur artistic director Maurice Podbrey staring at the photos in the hallway. We asked each other the same questions: ?Who was that woman?? followed by ?Who are these people??
Neither of us knew Alexandra Valassis, who had just done a magnificent job of delivering the last of the three monologues in this searing work about war-torn Iraq. The name of the theatre company (Waterworks) did not ring a bell either. Nor did that of the director, Robert Langford. The other two performers (Sarah Marchand and Michael Findlay), who had just performed this demanding work, weren?t on the radar either. But together they had kept us enthralled.
The play itself was the main attraction, of course. Since Thompson got her start in the early 1980s at (Theatre Passe Murraille and Centaur Theatre), with her unsettling The Crackwalker, she has come up with a crackling canon that includes two Governor-General?s Award winning works, White Biting Dog (1984) and The Other Side of the Dark (1989) and two Chalmers Awards winners, I Am Yours (1987) and Lion in the Streets (1991).
Palace of the End (2008) is proof that Thompson hasn?t lost her edge. It?s a fiercely written, disturbing play based on real people that deals with the moral ambiguities of the war in a manner which defies simplistic ideological answers.
The first monologue, My Pyramids, was initially read at The Wrecking Ball cabaret in Toronto and was subsequently produced at the Traverse Theatre in Scotland in 2005. The other two were added later.
My Pyramids is told from the point of view of Lynndie England, the American soldier convicted of torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Since England, who posed with naked prisoners piled into a pyramid, was such an unsympathetic person, Thompson has her character, called Soldier, begin by reading some of the disgusting hate mail she has received since her trial. This sets us on the listening path. Marchand does the rest, introducing us to a young woman who seems terminally naive, deluded and vain ? as well as unspeakably cruel.
Her story is long and convoluted, often aimed directly at the audience, and the details are stomach-turning.
When Findlay takes over, after Marchand?s crazed intensity, he?s so low-key it almost seems like intermission. As British biologist and weapons inspector David Kelly, who apparently committed suicide in 2003 after confessing to misinforming the world about weapons of mass destruction, he pauses frequently, measuring his words.
Then Valassis makes her move, as Nehrjas Al Saffarh, a communist-affiliated activist and teacher who was tortured and raped by Saddam Hussein?s thugs (known as the Jihaz Haneen) in 1963. She begins as a gracious hostess chatting over tea, then gradually leads us into the palace that Hussein had transformed into a multi-level dungeon of bloody interrogations. But she lets it be known that she has her issues with the Americans, too. After all, one of their bombs killed her during the first Persian Gulf War. Although the radical shift backward in time is a bit confusing at first, it does widen the historical context. And Valassis gives a powerful performance so firmly anchored in a deep sense of emotional truth that it removes the option of indifference.
Director Langford, a Concordia BFA graduate who works as a software analyst, said the $6,500 budget for Palace of the End came out of his own salary.
Later, I realized that I had seen Valassis perform once before, in an Altera Vitae production of Marsha Norman?s ?Night Mother, five years ago. But really this production has landed pretty much out of the blue, like a meteorite carrying a revelation. Don?t miss it.
Palace of the End, by Judith Thompson, continues Thursday through Sunday at Espace 4001, at 4001 Berri St. Tickets $15. Visit waterworksmontreal.wordpress.com
pdonnell@montrealgazette.com
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Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/theatre/Theatre+review+Palace/8121756/story.html
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Physical Therapy as Effective as Knee Surgery?
Individuals suffering from a common knee injury plus osteoarthritis have reason to pause before agreeing to surgery right away, a recent study concluded. It rated physical therapy (PT) as effective as knee surgery for a torn meniscus.
The federally funded study compared the results of arthroscopic surgery versus physical therapy at seven major U.S. universities and orthopedic surgery centers, according to The Washington Post. Its 351 subjects had meniscus tears and osteoarthritis.
A meniscal tear is a tear in the meniscus, a C-shaped piece of cartilage that absorbs shocks to the knee, says PubMed Health. The meniscus also helps lubricate the knee joint and affects the ability to flex and extend it. Both twisting and over-flexing are common causes of tears.
The objective of the research was to determine whether arthroscopic surgery for patients with both painful problems provided better outcomes than PT, according to the New England Journal of Medicine, which published the findings.
Subjects were at least 45 years old. Imaging confirmed evidence of mild to moderate osteoarthritis. Patients who initially received physical therapy instead of surgery completed an average of nine sessions, plus at-home exercises.
After six months, both the PT group and the group who initially had surgery reported similar rates of functional improvement. They also submitted similar pain scores. Researchers reported similar results at 12 months.
Around 30 percent of the PT group opted for surgery prior to the six-month mark. However, they scored the same as patients who had surgery initially and as those in the PT group who stuck it out and avoided surgery.
While not the primary motivator for many patients, cost is a consideration for some. The tab for arthroscopic surgery, which occurs nearly half a million times a year for a meniscal tear, is around $5,000 in the United States. This contrasts with $2,000 for a typical course of PT. Given the eagerness of many physicians to perform arthroscopic surgery, exactly how the study will impact patients with both tears and osteoarthritis is unpredictable.
Six years ago, I heard a pop in my left knee while rescuing a cat. An MRI confirmed a torn meniscus. I lived with the pain for three years, until an orthopedic surgeon advised me to have surgery after a second pop. I have not been pain free since the operation, which was followed by 20 PT sessions.
I called halt to the PT when pain had increased and a second MRI showed extensive osteoarthritis plus a Baker's cyst. These findings would have caused me to avoid surgery in favor of PT structured to accommodate the arthritis. In hindsight, I'm convinced physical therapy would have been as effective as knee surgery.
Vonda J. Sines has published thousands of print and online health and medical articles. She specializes in diseases and other conditions that affect the quality of life.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/physical-therapy-effective-knee-surgery-153100385.html
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
'Lost' tectonic plate found -- mystery solved
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The Isabella anomaly in California is in line with known remnants of the long-gone Farallon plate.
By Stephanie Pappas
LiveScience
A tectonic plate that disappeared under North America millions of years ago still peeks out in central California and Mexico, new research finds.
The Farallon oceanic plate was once nestled between the Pacific and North American plates, which were converging around 200 million years ago at what would become the San Andreas fault?along the Pacific coast. This slow geological movement forced the Farallon plate under North America, a process called subduction.
Much of the Farallon plate got pushed down into the mantle, the flowing layer below the Earth's crust. Off the coast, parts of the plate fragmented, leaving some remnants at the surface, stuck to the Pacific plate.
Now, new research published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that these pieces of Farallon plate are attached to much larger chunks at the surface. In fact, part of the Baja region of Mexico and part of central California near the Sierra Nevada mountains sit upon slabs of Farallon plate.
The finding solves a mystery of California geology. Earth scientists use seismic waves (either recorded from earthquakes or created with dynamic charges or other methods) to map out the region beneath the Earth's surface. Softer and hotter materials slow seismic waves down. The waves move faster through stiffer, cooler material.
In California, these seismic surveys revealed a large mass of cool, dry material 62 miles to 124 miles (100 to 200 kilometers) below the surface. This strange spot was dubbed the "Isabella anomaly." [7 Ways the Earth Changes in the Blink of an Eye]
Despite many theories, no one had nailed down exactly what caused the Isabella anomaly. Then researchers discovered another anomaly (where the researchers saw a change in seismic wave speed where one wasn't expected) under the Baja Peninsula, directly east of some of the known remains of the Farallon plate. The proximity led Brown University geophysicists Donald Forsyth and Yun Wang (now at the University of Alaska) to suspect they might be related.
Near the eastern edge of the anomaly, the researchers found volcanic rock?deposits called high-magnesium andesites. These are usually linked to the melting of oceanic crust, suggesting that this is the spot where the Farallon plate broke off and subducted, melting into the mantle.
A re-examination of the Isabella anomaly found that it, too, lined up with known Farallon fragments.
"This work has radically changed our understanding of the make-up of the west coast of North America," study co-author Brian Savage of the University of Rhode Island said in a statement. "It will cause a thorough rethinking of the geological history of North America and undoubtedly many other continental margins."?
Follow Stephanie Pappas @sipappas. Follow LiveScience on Twitter @livescience, Facebook?or Google+. Original article on LiveScience.com.
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Standards & Compliance Briefing: Building Automation, ISO 140001 ...
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March 19, 2013
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Building Automation, ISO 140001 Changes, BPA and Prop.65
Here?s the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today?s briefing includes seven items.
ASHRAE, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, has published?ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2012, BACnet ? A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks, which the organization describes as the only open, consensus-developed standard in the building controls industry. ASHRAE says the new standard has been published ahead of schedule and includes significant improvements to alarm handling.
A member of the ISO technical committee overseeing revisions to guidance?.
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