Tuesday, July 10, 2012

UPDATE 1-Pork producers grumble over Canada in Asia-Pacific talks

* White House formally notifies Congress starting talks with

Canada

* Thirteenth round of TPP talks wraps up in San Diego

* Mexico also joining negotiations

(Adds byline; U.S. government, Canadian industry comment)

WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - Pork producers in the United

States, Australia and New Zealand urged their governments on

Tuesday to push for an end to Canadian pork subsidies as Canada

enters into talks on an Asia-Pacific free trade agreement.

"Canada needs to end its federal and provincial hog subsidy

programs, which are distorting the North American and world pork

markets," R.C. Hunt, president of the National Pork Producers

Council, said in a statement with industry leaders from the two

South Pacific countries.

The action came as the 13th round of negotiations on the

proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) wrapped up in San Diego

and the White House formally informed Congress that Canada would

be joining future talks on the pact.

"On behalf of President Obama, I am pleased to notify

Congress that we intend to include Canada in the ongoing

negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement," U.S.

Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in a letter.

Because of tough issues ranging from proposed rules on the

activities of state-owned enterprises to increased protections

for workers and the environment, many trade policy specialists

do not expect the TPP talks to finish until sometime in 2013.

Carol Guthrie, a spokeswoman for Kirk's office, said

negotiators made significant progress this week in San Diego in

a number of areas, including customs, cross-border services,

telecommunications, government procurement, competition policy,

and cooperation and trade capacity building.

Countries also set dates for a 14th round of talks in early

September in Leesburg, Virginia, she said.

The U.S., Australian, and New Zealand pork groups

acknowledged domestic farm subsidy programs are not usually

addressed by free trade pacts.

"However, in this case, Canadian agricultural subsidies are

so wide ranging and have such a broad and far-reaching impact on

overseas markets it is on these grounds we, along with the U.S.

and New Zealand, urge the TPP negotiators and governments to

deal with these issues fairly as part of the process," Andrew

Spencer, CEO of Australian Pork Limited, said.

CANADIAN PRODUCERS DISAGREE

U.S. hog groups raised similar concerns about Canadian hog

subsidies seven or eight years ago, and the U.S. Department of

Commerce determined they were not countervailable, said Martin

Rice, executive director of the Canadian Pork Council.

Since then, Canada's share of the world pork market has

declined as Canadian hog production dropped for several years

due to a strong Canadian dollar and high feed costs, he said.

"(The US) has sustained their production, we've cut ours

back, so it just doesn't make any sense, this allegation that

we're having some distorting effect on the world market."

Both Mexico and Canada were invited into the negotiations

last month by the nine TPP countries: the United States,

Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Singapore, Malaysia,

Vietnam and Brunei.

It is longstanding U.S. practice for the White House to

formally notify Congress before entering into actual trade

negotiations with any country.

Kirk sent a letter to Congress on Monday notifying of the

administration's intention to include Mexico in the TPP pact.

Canada has long been the United States' largest trading

partner, ahead of China and Mexico. Last year, two-way goods

trade totaled nearly $600 billion.

Mexico and Canada are already free trade partners with the

United States under the North American Free Trade Agreement,

which went into effect in 1994.

In his letter, Kirk touted Canada's entry into the TPP as

opportunity to update that 18-year-old pact with a "cutting-edge

agreement ... that will further enhance our trade relationship

and benefit U.S. workers, manufacturers, service supplies,

farmers, ranchers, small businesses and consumers."

(Additional reporting by Rod Nickel in Winnipeg; Editing by

Doina Chiacu and Cynthia Osterman)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/1-pork-producers-grumble-over-canada-asia-pacific-200308372--finance.html

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Thursday, July 5, 2012

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Brooks: Thunder job is "where I wanted to be"

Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Scott Brooks answers a question during a news conference, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Miami. The Thunder are scheduled to play Game 5 against the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals on Thursday. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Scott Brooks answers a question during a news conference, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Miami. The Thunder are scheduled to play Game 5 against the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals on Thursday. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Scott Brooks watches action against the Miami Heat during the first half at Game 5 of the NBA finals basketball series, Thursday, June 21, 2012, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

(AP) ? Scott Brooks always believed he would be back as the coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder, even as his previous contract was surprisingly allowed to expire following the NBA Finals.

There were rumors that he would be replaced by 11-time NBA champion Phil Jackson or Jeff Van Gundy ? which general manager Sam Presti discarded as "rubbish" ? but Brooks remained confident.

"I knew it would work out," Brooks said Tuesday at a news conference to formally announce the deal he signed a day earlier. "This is where I wanted to be. This is the best situation for me. I couldn't ask for a better place to coach, to live, and I'm excited about the opportunity ahead of me."

Brooks reportedly now has a four-year deal worth more than $4 million annually, but the team isn't releasing the terms.

Brooks has built the Thunder into a championship contender since taking over around Thanksgiving 2008. The team had won just one of its first 13 games after relocating from Seattle to Oklahoma City. It went 23-59 that season, but improved enough to make the playoffs the next season, then the Western Conference finals the next season and then the NBA Finals this past season.

"Sam and I met before the season and he said, 'NBA Finals or adios,' so he put a lot of pressure on me," Brooks said in jest.

Presti said he values Brooks' experience in being with the franchise during the tough times. Brooks was an assistant during a rocky final season in Seattle, and made the transition to head coach during a dreadful 3-29 start to the 2008-09 season.

Since taking over, he has insisted that his players work hard through success and failure, and he has used his experience as an 11-year NBA veteran to guide his youthful roster.

"I believe in players. I believe that you have to figure out ways to get them better and you have to look at their weaknesses and address their weaknesses but you don't focus on all of their weaknesses. You improve those areas but then you bring it all together," Brooks said. "I've always felt the best coaches that I've had are the ones that empowered me to think that I was a little bit better than I was. I've always felt that if you're able to do that, the players are going to give you more than they think they can give you."

After the Thunder largely wiped the slate clean following the franchise's relocation, Brooks' impact has been even more pronounced.

"I think his contributions are enormous. We wouldn't be in this situation, where we feel really good about our future, without him," Presti said. "He's got a great understanding of the organization and a big part of that is because he's helped construct it."

Still, it was startling for the same general manager who was waiting on Kevin Durant's doorstep for the moment he was allowed to offer him a maximum contract extension ? even with a year left on his rookie deal ? to allow his head coach to briefly become a free agent.

"It would have probably gotten done earlier if we didn't make the playoffs or went (out in) the first round," Brooks said, "but it was a good problem to have."

By the time Oklahoma City's season was over, there were only eight days left to negotiate a new contract.

"When the season ended, we could really put all of our attention on it. I feel like we got it done fairly expeditiously but ... sometimes these things take time," Presti said. "There's a lot more conversation that has to happen in order to make it come to fruition."

Now that Brooks is locked up, Presti can turn his attention to the roster. Veterans Derek Fisher, Nazr Mohammed and Royal Ivey are all unrestricted free agents while Sixth Man of the Year James Harden, NBA blocks leader Serge Ibaka and backup point guard Eric Maynor are all eligible for contract extensions.

"We've got a lot of things obviously on our plate," Presti said. "Scott and I have had some really good discussions about just the team and the things that are really important to us going forward roster-wise and organizationally. ... We obviously are going to start having conversations with James and Serge and efforts to try to figure their situations out.

"The NBA offseason is definitely a marathon and not a sprint."

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Somebody Has To Bring Home the Bacon

The frequency of Warhol?s food references declines in his ?60s films. (It?s possible that the actors in many of Warhol?s movies don?t eat because they were fueled by amphetamines, and speed freaks are notoriously indifferent to food.) Warhol?s film Eating Too Fast, which is also known as Blow Job #2, is a sound version of BLOW-JOB, and is obviously not about food. Still, there are Eat (1964), starring Robert Indiana; Restaurant (1965), with Edie Sedgwick and Bibbe Hansen (future mom of Beck); and The Nude Restaurant (1967), filmed at the Mad Hatter on West Fourth Street, which had been a lesbian bar in the ?50s called the Pony Stable Inn and is now the Washington Square Diner.

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Nexus Q app throws in voice-powered Magic 8 Ball mode

Nexus Q app throws in voicepowered Magic 8 Ball mode

No stranger to throwing in some extra, if not-that-functional, additions to its products, Google's new audio orb packs its own Easter egg -- a Magic 8 Ball mode. Tapping the Nexus Q's image in its companion Android app will throw up a new screen, offering voice input to take your existential questions. Replies are certainly of the Magic 8 Ball caliber, although there's no accelerometer-based shaker -- at least not yet.

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Charting autism's neural circuitry

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Deleting a single gene in the cerebellum of mice can cause key autistic-like symptoms, researchers have found. They also discovered that rapamycin, a commonly used immunosuppressant drug, prevented these symptoms.

The deleted gene is associated with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC), a rare genetic condition. Since nearly 50 percent of all people with TSC develop autism, the researchers believe their findings will help us better understand the condition's development.

"We are trying to find out if there are specific circuits in the brain that lead to autism-spectrum disorders in people with TSC," said Mustafa Sahin, Harvard Medical School associate professor of neurology at Boston Children's Hospital and senior author on the paper. "And knowing that deleting the genes associated with TSC in the cerebellum leads to autistic symptoms is a vital step in figuring out that circuitry."

This is the first time researchers have identified a molecular component for the cerebellum's role in autism. "What is so remarkable is that loss of this gene in a particular cell type in the cerebellum was sufficient to cause the autistic-like behaviors," said Peter Tsai, HMS instructor of neurology and the first author of this particular study.

These findings were published online July 1 in Nature.

TSC is a genetic disease caused by mutations in either one of two genes, TSC1 and TSC2. Patients develop benign tumors in various organs in the body, including the brain, kidneys and heart, and often suffer from seizures, delayed development and behavioral problems.

Researchers have known that there was a link between TSC genes and autism, and have even identified the cerebellum as the key area where autism and related conditions develop.

Previous studies have shown that certain cells essential for cerebellar function called Purkinje cells, which are among the largest neurons in the human brain, are fewer in number in patients with autism. To better understand the relationship between Purkinje cells and autism, Sahin and his team deleted copies of the TSC1 gene in the Purkinje cells of mice. Some mice had only one copy of the gene deleted, while others had both of their copies deleted.

In both cases, deleting this gene caused the three main signs of autistic-like behaviors:

  • Abnormal social interactions. The mice spent less time with each other and more with inanimate objects, compared to controls.
  • Repetitive behaviors. The mice spent extended amounts of time pursuing one activity or with one particular object far more than normal.
  • Abnormal communication. Ultrasonic vocalizations, the communication method used among rodents, were highly distressed.
  • The researchers also tested learning. "These mice were able to learn new things normally," said Tsai, "but they had trouble with 'reversal learning,' or re-learning what they had learned when their environment changed."

    Tsai and colleagues tested this by training the mice to swim a particular path in which a platform where they could rest was set up on one side of the pool. When the researchers moved the platform to the other side of the pool, the mice had greater difficulty than the control mice re-learning to swim to the other side.

    "These changes in behavior indicate that the TSC1 gene in Purkinje cells, and by extension, the cerebellum, are a part of the circuitry for autism disorders," emphasized Sahin.

    The researchers also found that the drug rapamycin averted the effects of the deleted gene. Administering the drug to the mice during development prevented the formation of autistic-like behaviors.

    Currently, Sahin is the sponsor-principal investigator for an ongoing Phase II clinical trial to test the efficacy of everolimus, a compound in the same family as rapamycin, in improving neurocognition in children with TSC. The trial will be open for enrollment until December 2013.

    "Our next step will be to see how the abnormalities in Purkinje cells affect autism-like development. We don't know how generalizable our current findings are, but understanding mechanisms beyond TSC genes might be useful to autism," said Tsai.

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    Harvard Medical School: http://hms.harvard.edu

Thanks to Harvard Medical School for this article.

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