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Simpson says he regrets going after memorabilia
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) ? O.J. Simpson pleaded for leniency Thursday, telling a parole panel he deeply regretted the night he robbed two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room.
"I just wish I never went to that room," he said. "I wish I just said keep it."
Simpson, 66, said he's been a model inmate while serving his time at Lovelock Correction Center 90 miles east of Reno, where he has been since 2008, when he was sentenced to up to 33 years.
He said he was determined to "do my time as best that I can do."
Simpson was sentenced to consecutive terms on several charges. But some of his sentences were ordered to run concurrently ? two counts each of kidnapping and robbery and one count of burglary.
Even if the Nevada Parole Board ruled in his favor, he would then begin serving sentences attached to other charges.
"It doesn't open the cell door," H. Leon Simon, the prosecutor handling Simpson's appeal, said Wednesday. "He'd just start serving the consecutive sentences."
The former NFL star and actor appeared before Parole Commissioner Susan Jackson and hearing representative Robin Bates. They will make a recommendation to the full parole board Thursday. A final decision on parole is expected next week.
The hearing lasted 15 minutes. Simpson, wearing denim prison clothes, was the only person to speak on his behalf. No victims spoke.
Simpson said in his time behind bars he has missed his children and his sister's funeral.
He also has counseled other inmates, many whom were also serving time for burglary or robbery, he said.
Simpson's best chance for freedom lies with a pending decision by a Las Vegas judge on whether to grant him a new trial based on claims that his trial lawyer botched his defense and had a conflict of interest in the case.
Clark County District Judge Linda Marie Bell held a weeklong hearing in May on the issue that featured testimony from Simpson.
His current lawyers, Patricia Palm and Ozzie Fumo, also presented evidence and questioned witnesses, including trial lawyer Yale Galanter, about whether he knew in advance about the September 2007 plan for Simpson and several other men to confront the memorabilia dealers.
Simpson argues that he was trying to retrieve items stolen from him after his 1995 "trial of the century" in Los Angeles when he was acquitted of murder in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife and her friend..
Bell hasn't indicated when she plans to issue her decision, but told a KSNV-TV interviewer for a segment aired this week that she still had "some writing to do."
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Associated Press writer Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
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Kentucky Suspect In Florida Cold Case Murder Extradited
The suspect in a 14-year-old murder has been extradited to Florida from Kentucky.
Keith Wilson of Bath County was arrested last week for the 1999 death of Pilar Rodriguez. Investigators charged Wilson after his ex girlfriend, Melissa Harding-Jones, entered a guilty plea in court in Florida.
Harding-Jones says she was babysitting the little girl when Wilson beat her to death. Wilson later moved to Bath County, and Rodriguez's body was never found.
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Newlyweds Erica and David Tompkins kiss beside a cannon in Castonguay Square in Waterville, moments after they were married in a civil ceremony, on Monday. Their daughter, Christina, runs around the couple as family members take photographs.
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Local Sports Roundup: Clifton Park resident Bobby McCarthy wins Northeast New York Junior Golf Tour event Monday
MECHANICVILLE ? Clifton Park resident Bobby McCarthy shot a 2-under 70 to win the boys 16-18 division of the Northeast New York Junior Golf Tour event at the Fairways of Halfmoon Monday.
Wilton?s Daniel Shepherd finished fourth with a 77 while Saratoga Springs residents Christopher Thompson and Calvin Beckwith were part of a five-way tie for fifth place with Ballston Spa?s Zach Scala.
Austin Felt of Clifton Park and Tanner Donovan of Loudonville shot 74s to finish tied for first place in the boys 13-15 division.
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COLONIE ? Several Saratoga-area golfers earned medalist honors at the Northeast New York PGA Junior Golf Tour event at the Town of Colonie Golf Course July 17.
Wilton resident Daniel Shepherd edged Clifton Park?s Bobby McCarthy and Saratoga Springs resident Christopher for first place in the boys 16-18 division. McCarthy?s 33 on the back nine was the best score in that stretch, but a 36-36 afternoon gave Shepherd a 1-stroke victory. Christonpher Thompson finished tied for second while fellow Saratoga Springs native Calvin Beckwith took fifth with a 76.
Gansevoort resident Kayla Szekely shot an 83 to finish first place in the girls 13-15 age group. The Saratoga Central Catholic student shot an 83 to beat second place Madison Braman by three strokes. Saratoga Springs resident Chloe Ethier took fourth place in the age bracket.
SARATOGA SPRINGS ?Lonny Warshaw of Palm Beach Gardens, FL. got a hole-in-one at Saratoga Lake Golf Club on July 19. He accomplished the perfect shot with a 5 iron hitting it 170 yards. His partners William Canaver and club member Andy George witnessed the shot.
No other scores were reported by press time. Coaches: To report your scores, please call The Saratogian sports department at 584-4242 ext. 1, or email a game summary to sports@saratogian.com by 10:15 p.m. to appear in the following day?s paper.
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SDCC: "Games of Thrones" Panel Revisits Red Wedding, Gets Khal Drogo Surprise
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Mexico vs Trinidad & Tobago Live Stream Free Football: Watch Online Gold Cup 2013 CONCACAF Soccer
July 20, 2013|5:06 pm
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Jesus Zavala of Mexico celebrates after scoring a goal against Costa Rica during their World Cup qualifying soccer match at the National Stadium in San Jose September 7, 2012.
The CONCACAF tournament so far has been a clear representation of Mexico's form over the past 12 months, showing that they certainly have the skills and talent to achieve a lot, but that potential is being seriously undermined by inconsistency.
Mexico will be clear favorites for this game and the El Tri fans will accept nothing less than a comfortable win to see them through to the semifinals. However, Trinidad will not be here to just make up the numbers. They will have seen Mexico's spotty form, and how Panama pulled off a shock against them, and they will be hoping to get right in the face of their opponents today, keep a high tempo, and hopefully pull off the shock of the tournament to date.
Mexico only managed to finish second in their group after their surprise loss to Panama. They have sought redemption by scoring five goals in their past two outings, but they will know any further slip ups now in this tournament would be a big let down.
Trinidad finished second in their group. They drew against El Salvador and beat Honduras in their final game.
Trinidad & Tobago midfielder Keon Daniel said earlier in the week about playing Mexico, "For me, I think we're going to go out and play, play football and play in a smart way as possible. We know they're a good team. I don't think we should sit and respect them in any way. We should go out and do what we can do and hopefully get the result that we want."
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Mexico vs Trinidad & Tobago in the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013 quarterfinals kicks off at 6.30 p.m. ET and can be watched online through free live stream by clicking here.
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Dozens of NJ firefighters overcome as oppressive heat nears an end
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A Jersey City firefighter sits at the bottom of the stairs of a building adjacent to a building where firefighters battled a four-alarm fire, on Friday, in Jersey City, N.J.
By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News
Fifty firefighters were overcome by high temperatures Friday while battling a huge blaze in New Jersey, officials said, amid a heat wave suspected in the deaths of at least 13 people across the country in the last week.
Firefighter after firefighter wilted under heavy gear in temperatures that soared near 100 degrees as they battled the blaze, which was tearing through several buildings ? including three homes ? early Friday afternoon, NBC New York reported.
Twenty-three firefighters were transported to hospitals with heat-related conditions, emergency management officials told NBC New York. Twenty-seven more firefighters were treated on the scene for heat exhaustion.
Two other firefighters were taken to the hospital with back and ankle injuries. All 52 firefighters were reported as stable.
The fire erupted as temperatures soared into the upper 90s across the Northeast and to near-record highs across much of the rest of the country. New York City (100); Newark, N.J. (100); Boston (99); and Islip, N.Y. (93), all set or tied records Friday.
Power crews rushed to repair problems in the searing sun while firefighters battled blazes in the scorching heat that has lingered over the East Coast for days. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports.
"The cities have excessive heat warnings in effect. ... Some people don't have air conditioning, so that's going to be an issue, especially for the elderly and younger children, as well," said Michael Palmer, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel, who called conditions "dangerous."
The extreme heat has been blamed for at least 13 deaths, including that of a 2-year-old boy found in the trunk of a car in Wisconsin, an autopsy showed.?
The boy, identified as Isaiah Theis, was found late Wednesday locked inside the trunk of a car parked outside his father's auto shop in Centuria, in western Wisconsin about 60 miles northwest of Minneapolis.
Isaiah was last seen playing with his brother on the family's farmstead Tuesday evening, NBC station KBJR of Duluth, Minn., reported. Temperatures during the period he was missing were in the 90s.
Investigators said they were still trying to figure out how Isaiah ended up in the locked trunk.
Also in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee County medical examiner's office was investigating three other suspected heat-related deaths, NBC station WTMJ of Milwaukee reported: that of a 71-year-old man found in his home, which was sealed with no fans or air conditioning running; that of a 79-year-old man found in his home, which was likewise sealed and uncooled; and that of a 44-year-old man who died at a hospital after having been found unresponsive in an alley with a body temperature of 108 degrees.
At least five people have died because of the heat this week in Maryland, authorities told NBC station WBAL of Baltimore: a middle-age man in Howard County, a toddler in Baltimore County, two women older than 65 in Wicomico County and a man older than 65 in Baltimore County.
Elsewhere:
- Near Mayslick, Ky., Roy Allen Bishop, 78, an Alzheimer's patient, wandered off from his home and was found dead about 9 p.m. ET Tuesday from heat exhaustion, Mason County coroner's officials told NBC station WLEX of Lexington.
- A 57-year-old man in Philadelphia who had an air conditioner that wasn't operating died from chronic obstructive lung disease and heat exposure, city officials told NBC Philadelphia.
- An autopsy concluded that heat stress contributed to the heart disease-related death of Annie Spears, 71, on Thursday afternoon in her home in Washington Heights on the South Side of Chicago, NBC Chicago reported Friday.
- Christopher J. Todd, 30, of Rochester, N.Y., died Wednesday after having hiked about 4 miles to the summit of Mount Whiteface in the White Mountains, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said. The department said the cause of death hadn't yet been determined, but it cautioned hikers to stay well hydrated while outdoors.
Relief is in sight, however, with cool breezes from the north expected to blast a dome of high pressure that has parked itself over the Ohio Valley, causing the near-record highs.
But the break will come at a price, as severe thunderstorms and hail sweep in late Friday. The National Weather Service said the storms could break over areas of the Midwest, the Great Lakes region, New York State and parts of New England on Friday afternoon and into the evening, bringing strong winds.
"We'll see a line of storms that will produce some winds that could gust at least 60 miles per hour, we could see some golf ball-size hail in spots," Palmer said.
The worst of the storms ? including damaging straight-line winds, hail and perhaps a tornado ? will come in Michigan, eastern Wisconsin, northeast Illinois, far northern Indiana and Upstate New York.
Electricity use soared to an all-time high in New York City as the work week closed out, provider Con Edison announced, with a service peak of 13,214 megawatts about 2 p.m. ET. The previous record was 13,189 megawatts on July 22, 2011, according to the company.
The heat wave has flummoxed meteorologists, because it has moved backward across America, something that rarely happens.
Normally, U.S. weather systems move west to east. The western Atlantic high-pressure system behind the hot dry weather started moving east to west last week and by Tuesday was centered over lower Michigan, said Jon Gottschalck, operations chief at the National Weather Service's prediction branch.
"It's definitely unusual and going the wrong way," Gottschalck said Thursday. "This is pretty rare."
Henry Austin and Matthew DeLuca of NBC News contributed to this report.
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
Why BMW Drivers Are Jerks to Cyclists
Chances are this driver just sideswiped a cyclist.Courtesy of Robert van Dijk/Flickr
I was nearly sideswiped by a BMW on my bike ride home from work today, which was not surprising, because BMWs are always nearly sideswiping me. I ride in the right half of the right lane, and virtually every car behind me slides over to the left lane, passing with 6 comfortable feet of berth. But every month or so, a driver doesn?t change lanes, rides up on my shoulder, and squeezes by with just a few inches to spare, prompting me to squeal in terror and rage.
After several years of close calls, I began keeping mental track of who, exactly, was threatening my safety. During the time I paid attention, fully half of my dangerous encounters?about 10 of 20, if I remember?were with BMWs. There were two or three Mercedes, and no other make was a repeat offender. In other words, the BMW, a car that has less than 2 percent market share in the United States, was responsible for 50 percent of the menacing. To put it another way: Terrifying research concludes that BMW owners are far more likely than typical drivers to endanger cyclists on the road.
Am I a jerk cyclist? I don?t think so. I do bike on busy streets during rush hour and take my God- and law-given share of the road. But the issue here isn?t whether I?m a road hog. The question is why non-BMW drivers find it so much easier to avoid cyclists than BMW drivers. Everyone is late. Everyone is stuck in traffic. Why is it that only those with BMWs do the bullying?
I?m sure most BMW drivers are kind souls, always stopping to put baby birds back in their nests. My beloved brother drives a BMW, safely and gently. And the overwhelming majority of BMW drivers on my commute pass me with a safe cushion. But of the small minority of motorists willing to endanger my cycling life, a shocking number bear that blue-and-white emblem.
I am not the first person to make a claim about the character of BMW drivers. The first Google result for ?BMW drivers? is a Facebook page called ?I HATE BMW DRIVERS.? Any BMW driver research will direct you to the discussion board ?Are BMW drivers assholes?? Next stop: The listings on MyRoadRage.com, which suggest the BMW is the No. 1 source of other?s road rage (at least in Britain). Finally, there?s the epic tale of the Beverly Hills BMW driver recently caught on camera intentionally ramming a cyclist into a trash bin.
Why? What explains the fact that drivers of this particular kind of car are so dangerous to cyclists? I have four theories.
1. BMWs are luxury cars, and most BMW drivers are wealthy. There?s widespread evidence that wealthy people feel entitled?to their good fortune, to their privilege, and probably to their speedy commute. (See this study suggesting that people who drive fancier cars break more traffic rules.) My bike disrupts that entitlement by slowing the rich man?s forward progress. In fact, he is not aggrieving me?I am aggrieving him.
2. ?The Ultimate Driving Machine? is a car lover?s car. BMW owners believe roads belong to cars and bikes shouldn?t mess them up. Bikes destroy the joyful, fundamentally American right to drive fast everywhere, and deserve no quarter.
3. BMW drivers are better drivers. They bought a BMW because they care about driving well. They spend weekends at BMW Performance Driving School. They own a car that steers like champagne. They have close shaves because, superb drivers that they are, they know they can squeeze by me with 4 inches to spare. (Compelling evidence in favor of this theory: I?ve been hit on my bike three times, but never by a BMW.) This is the story that all BMW drivers tell themselves.
4. BMW drivers are assholes.
Got a better theory? Tell me @davidplotz on Twitter, or email gabfest@slate.com.
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In Wake Of Outcry Over Censorship, Tumblr Explains Its NSFW Policy (Kind Of)
So, I was searching for pornography on Tumblr this morning. (It was work-related!) Word was, the now-Yahoo-owned blogging network made a significant change to the way adult-themed blogs could be discovered on the site, which even further hid their content from public consumption. Tumblr finally addressed the issue this afternoon, following user outcry.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/113CTB7g-Os/
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Fukushima nuclear officials admit 2,000 workers face increased ...
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, July 19, 2013 13:42 EDT
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Around 2,000 people who have worked at Japan?s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant face a heightened risk of thyroid cancer, its operator said Friday.
Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said 1,973 people ? around 10 percent of those employed in emergency crews involved in the clean-up since the meltdowns ? were believed to have been exposed to enough radiation to cause potential problems.
The figure is a 10-fold increase on TEPCO?s previous estimate of the number of possible thyroid cancer victims and comes after the utility was told its figures were too conservative.
Each worker in this group was exposed to at least 100 millisieverts of radiation, projections show.
Although little is known about the exact health effects of radiation on the human body, the level is considered by doctors to be a possible threshold for increased cancer risk.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant became the site of the worst nuclear disaster in a generation after the massive tsunami of March 2011 destroyed its cooling systems.
The plant?s reactors went through meltdowns that caused explosions in the buildings housing them, spewing radioactive materials into the air, sea and soil.
Tens of thousands of people were forced from their homes in a large area around the plant, where crews continue to clear debris and cool the reactors.
The fragility of the wrecked plant was brought into sharp relief again Thursday with the discovery of steam in the roofless building around Reactor 3.
TEPCO said Friday it still did not know exactly where the steam was coming from, although readings showed it was no more radioactive than expected and suggested it could have been accumulated rainwater.
The huge utility, which has faced frequent criticism for downplaying dangers and not being forthcoming about problems at the site, revised its method of estimating the level of radiation exposure among workers earlier this month.
TEPCO reported to the World Health Organization in December that only 178 workers at the plant were believed to have received radiation doses to their thyroid glands above 100 millisieverts.
Japan?s health ministry voiced concern that the criteria the company used in its estimates of exposure for its own workers as well as for those employed by contractors were too narrow, and called on the utility to re-evaluate its methods.
There were also errors in calculations and differences of interpretation.
Not all of the approximately 20,000 workers have actually been tested. The numbers have been arrived at by extrapolating the results of tests that have been carried out.
All 1,973 workers now deemed to be at increased risk of thyroid cancer are eligible for an annual thyroid checkup and other health services paid for by the company.
TEPCO has already informed those affected about the health and monitoring programmes.
Tens of thousands of people were forced from their homes by the threat of radiation in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, with many still unable to return.
While the natural disaster claimed more than 18,000 lives, no one is officially recorded as having died as a direct result of the radiation released by the disaster.
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Metallica reveals intense footage from new 3D film
SAN DIEGO (AP) ? A riot in the streets, a public hanging, bloody handprints, car crashes, a police officer being drowned and giant coffins above the stage ? "Metallica Through The Never" is not your average concert film.
It was Metallica Day at Comic-Con on Friday and the four members of the California-based heavy metal band debuted footage from their new 3D film for thousands of fans at the annual all-things-geek gathering.
"The world just turned upside down," drummer Lars Ulrich said as fans raised devil's horns and shouted after the band took the stage.
Equal parts "Road Warrior," ''Batman Returns" and Metallica's dark imagination, a preview clip of the R-rated film features a series of intentionally disturbing images crossed with concert footage that brought shouts of approval from the 7,000 fans who waited all day to get inside Hall H for the panel.
Actor Dane DeHaan plays the lead character in the Nimrod Antal film, opening Sept. 27 on IMAX screens. He's a roadie sent on a mission to recover a broken-down truck and a secret package by the band during a concert. What he finds along the way is completely unexpected ? and took DeHaan a while to process when he was handed a 15-page script that included no dialogue.
"I don't actually talk in the movie at all," DeHaan said. "So much crazy s--- happens in the movie it took me 10 times reading it till I had any kind of semblance of what happens in the movie."
DeHaan's journey is intercut with scenes of the band performing on a massive stage that features flames and many of the effects images the band has used over the years. Singer James Hetfield hinted the band might take the stage on tour after the film is released.
Bassist Robert Trujillo says the band spent nearly two crucible-like weeks in Mexico City rehearsing in front of a live audience before shooting began in Vancouver, British Columbia.
"We just take these things and run with it," he said. "It's a very edge-of-your-seat existence. When I first joined the band our first gig was San Quentin State Prison. And here we've got 20,000 Mexicans screaming against a chain link fence, so by the time we got to Vancouver, we were like, 'We got this.' So the whole thing over the course of the year has just been a wild ride. It's really exciting to see it get to where it is now. It's almost weird. Wow we're here."
After more than 30 years and more than 100 million albums sold, Ulrich said the film has been a way for the band to stay fresh.
"I think increasingly what makes our band work, we have to go do all these crazy projects, these sort of edgy, left-field projects because it's what keeps us alive," Ulrich said. "Making records is great and we love it and we appreciate the fact that we can make records ... but there's also a familiarity to it. And you have a dynamic in the band of four personalities and they're really curious and into different things and just kind of ready for whatever."
Asked by a fan when the band might record new music, Ulrich said the film has consumed them for two years. Once it's out, they'll turn to their 10th studio album: "2014 will be all about another Metallica record."
Musicians have made appearances at Comic-Con over the years, but none as big as the heavy metal heavy hitters, who planned a private concert for fans lucky enough to win tickets later Friday. Though Metallica's followers might come from another cultural subgroup, Ulrich said he could identify with the tens of thousands of fans roaming the halls at Comic-Con.
"I've never been great with definitions because I think that the whole world should never be limited to that type of specificities," Ulrich said in an interview at the nearby Hilton Bayfront. "When I was growing up, my experiences and my memories from my childhood were that I was a loner. Now, if you're going to get really into it, loner and geek, what are they cousins? They can't be that far apart from each other."
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0
Samsung tries to make a product for everyone: every size, every price, every feature. The Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 ($299.99) tries to hit the sweet spot for small tablets, but ends up straddling an uncomfortable fence?more expensive than?the Google Nexus 7, but less capable than the?Apple iPad mini and the outstanding Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0. It's a very good tablet, buoyed by its multitasking and universal remote abilities, but it's outflanked by competitors. ?
Design and Features
The Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 looks like a comically large Galaxy S4?you get the same all-plastic construction, glazed finish, and faux-metal accents around a strikingly similar silhouette. Fortunately, the Tab 3 8.0 also mimics the S4's thin bezels and slim dimensions, measuring 8.26 by 4.87 by 0.28 inches (HWD) and weighing 10.9 ounces. That's right in line with the iPad mini (0.28 inches thick and 10.9 ounces) and a good deal thinner and lighter than the 7.8-by-4.7-by-0.4 inches, 12-ounce Nexus 7. This tablet is eminently comfortable to hold, despite packing a larger screen than most Android competitors.
The 8-inch, 1,280-by-800-pixel LCD is excellent. It's sharper than the iPad mini's, appears brighter side by side, and has really high contrast. The contrast isn't quite as high as Samsung's OLED displays, but you also get far more accurate color representation here. Below the display is a physical Home button flanked by capacitive Menu and Back buttons. Along the left edge is a flap covering the microSD card slot, while the opposite side houses the Volume and Power buttons, as well as an IR-emitter for remote control functions. Along the bottom edge are two speaker grilles and, thankfully, a microUSB port in lieu of Samsung's older proprietary port.
This is a Wi-Fi only tablet that connects to 802.11b/g/n networks on both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies. I had no trouble connecting to multiple routers in our lab, and where many tablets only have a weak signal from my desk, the Tab 3 8.0 consistently held onto a strong connection. Also on board are Bluetooth 4.0 and satellite GPS, but not NFC. Samsung offers the Tab 3 8.0 in single 16GB model for $299.99, and our 32 and 64GB SanDisk microSD cards worked without issue.
Performance and Android
The Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 isn't a speed demon like its pen-wielding stablemate, the Note 8.0, but it gets the job done. Powering the Tab 3 is Samsung's dual-core 1.5GHz Exynos 4212 processor, Mali 400 GPU, and 1.5GB RAM. In our overall system benchmarks, the Tab 3 8.0 turned in numbers just shy of the Nexus 7, but gained ground in our graphics tests, outpacing the aging Tegra 3-powered tablet. Anecdotally, the Tab 3 8.0 felt very smooth in operation, whether it was flicking through heavily populated homescreens, switching between running apps, or scrolling through various websites. There was the occasional stutter and lag when opening more resource-hungry apps, but that's the case with nearly every Android tablet. My biggest complaint here is somewhat finicky touch input. The slim bezels are great for keeping this portable, but the palm rejection that worked so well on the Note 8.0 seems to be less effective here. I noticed errant touches, zooms instead of scrolls, and other inconsistencies when not careful about my hand placement.
In our battery test, which loops a video with screen brightness set to maximum and Wi-Fi switched on, the Tab 3 8.0 lasted 6 hours, 48 minutes. That's close to the Kindle Fire HD's 7 hours, but falls well short of the Nexus 7's 10 hours, 50 minutes on the same test. Battery life shouldn't be an issue, but it's not a strong point here.
Camera performance is pretty basic?you get the same lackluster 5-megapixel rear-facing and 1.3-megapixel front-facing cameras found on the Note 8.0. Images looked flat and devoid of finer detail, regardless of lighting conditions. Exposure is a problem for stills and video, as the Tab 3 8.0 tends to overexpose scenes. Video maxes out at 720p and looks pretty mediocre even in good lighting, and pretty bad in low light scenarios. The front-facing camera is serviceable for video chats, and that's all I'd recommend using it for.
The Tab 3 8.0 is running the latest Android 4.2.2 "Jelly Bean," which already gives it a leg up on most tablets that are still stuck on 4.1.2. ?Samsung is relentless when it comes to its Android skin TouchWiz, but while purists might cry out, the modifications here don't really get in the way and are, for the most part, pretty useful. You get the usual bevy of pre-loaded apps and Samsung tie-ins. These include ChatOn, Samsung's chat service; Samsung's app, game, and music stores; Group Play and Samsung Link for sharing between Samsung devices; S Planner, S Translator, and S Voice; and various other apps and services.
The great pen support of the Note is missing, but there are still a number of useful modifications to Android itself. You get Samsung features like Smart Stay that keeps the screen on when you're looking at it and Voice Commands for easily pausing videos or snoozing alarms. Even the excellent Multi Window multitasking support is here, letting you run two apps side by side in split screen mode. Not every app is supported, but there's a good selection of Samsung apps and Google apps like Chrome and Gmail that make this a pretty useful feature.
Multimedia and Conclusions
Samsung has done a good job with multimedia support and features for its Galaxy tablets. For video, the Tab 3 8.0 supports MP4, H.264, DivX, Xvid, and WMV files at up to 1080p resolution. For audio you get MP3, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WAV, and WMA support. You can also mirror your screen using DLNA with supported HDTVs or use an MHL adapter to connect the Tab 3 8.0 with an HDMI cable.
IR emitters are becoming the norm for Galaxy devices, and the Tab 3 8.0 benefits from the same universal remote control features found on the Note 8.0. You can use the pre-loaded WatchON app from Samsung or Peel Smart Remote app to browse local TV listings and control a variety of home entertainment devices, from HDTVs to set top boxes. Both apps worked in my tests, but neither can schedule recordings for DVR boxes.
The Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 gets so much right, from the thin and light design to the multitasking to the built-in remote control features. But it's amazingly forgettable. There's just something utterly bland about this tablet, lacking the ineffable desirability that leads to an Editor's Choice. It's priced much higher than capable Android competitors like the Nexus 7, and just a little too close to the iPad mini with all the great tablet apps that come with iOS. The Tab 3 8.0 fills a void that may not exist. Some will find it absolutely perfect, at a price they can stomach. Most, however, will be better served stepping up or down to an iPad mini or Nexus 7.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/pcmag/~3/3bQPLya71P4/0,2817,2421847,00.asp
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Thursday, July 18, 2013
How to Survive a Climate Catastrophe
It happened before. Well, not quite this rapidly, but about 55 million years ago (to geologists, the recent past), Earth experienced an explosive rise in temperature. Through the investigative science of paleontology, we can reconstruct a world where tropical flora flourish at the poles and the world is rocked by mass die-offs ? that is, the world that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts as the ?worst-case scenario? by 2100.
Six degrees Celsius may not sound like a catastrophe, but that only tells part of the story. Most of the world can at least apportion its heat, but warmer currents converge on the poles with a particularly vicious effect. Normally, the white icecaps reflect much of the sun?s energy (objects appear to be a certain color because of the wavelength of light they reflect back at us, and white light is what we see when every color is reflected back). However, as they melt, there is less white and less reflection of solar energy back to space, resulting in accelerating melting.
All this warmer, fresh water floods into the global ocean and helps to heat it up even more than the sun beating down on it could do alone. At this point, the temperature rise can be tracked in the type of oxygen that microscopic marine drifting organisms use to build their chalky exoskeletons. Elements like oxygen come in multiple versions, called isotopes, which are the same element but are sometimes heavier or lighter, and this can be examined in the fossil record.
Normally, the drifters ?prefer? the heavier version of oxygen, but when the ocean heats up, the lighter version is more accessible because it gets moved around more easily. Fossil drifters show that around 55 million years ago, there was a spike in light oxygen being taken up by drifters, and thus a spike in temperature.
Foraminifera like this one are at the base of the ocean's food chains ? and are highly susceptible to climate change. Photomicrograph by Scott Fay.
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), as scientists call it, was a shocker to the Earth. Up to one-half of all species of foraminifera (a kind of drifter that makes its skeleton of chalk and usually lives on the seafloor) went extinct, triggering a probable collapse of the marine food chain. In parts of rural Montana you can still clearly see a sudden layer of red clay in the sedimentary record. That clay is important because it shows what?s missing: usually, the skeletons of foraminifera blanket the sediment, but in their absence, the clay is all that?s left.
A lot of these effects are not in fact due to the rising temperatures, but instead are another side effect of the injection of carbon dioxide, or CO2, into the atmosphere. When plants are exposed to heightened CO2 levels, they are much more productive ? but they lose out in protein payoff per kilogram! Land animals shrank in size, because when protein is hard to come by, natural selection favors an animal that can survive on less. The fossil record attests to everything from dwarf condylarths (strange mix-?n?-match mammals that have been called ?sheep in wolves? clothing?) to even insect burrows getting skinnier. Meanwhile, nutritionally deficient tropical plants expanded their range, pushing out local competition and disrupting ecosystems around the world.
The exact cause of the PETM is still a mystery, although several very knowledgeable fingers have been pointed at a release of methane locked up in ice at the bottom of the sea. Methane, like carbon dioxide, is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the Earth?s atmosphere and helps to keep the Earth hotter. Both of these gases are currently being emitted at record levels by human activity, and correspondingly the Earth has been heating up, as a global average, to a record high. It?s happened before, and it might happen again ? but this time it would be our fault, and our problem.
Some might have noticed that the Earth seems to have gotten over the last event pretty much fine. Why should this be any different, the hecklers in the audience demand. Last time, organisms moved and populations adapted. The Earth?s inhabitants are usually good at that. Not us. As a species, we humans want to live wherever we want, eat whatever we want, and live our lives however we want. That just won?t work. We must react or die. According to the latest data, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere hit almost 400 parts per million. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has endorsed 350 parts per million as a sensible upper limit. If we want to avoid an apocalyptic scenario, emissions must be reduced and minds shifted toward the ultimate goal of saving everything we know and love on this planet for both ourselves and future generations.
Luckily, there is still hope. That hope is you. That hope is in lessening our dependence on burning fossil fuels for energy. That hope is in conserving our resources and ensuring that there is enough to go around. That hope is in lobbying our governments and standing up to our corporations. That hope is in human resilience and ingenuity that I trust will manifest itself, but that hope is also the little things we do every day. Our little choices ? the decision to turn off that light or forgo that hamburger or save that plastic bag ? constitute a sum greater than their parts. They constitute the solution. Now that we understand the past and can more clearly see the possibilities for the future, there is one part left: to take the present into our hands.
Source: http://rss.sciam.com/~r/sciam/basic-science/~3/X8Cx4-qd6c0/post.cfm
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Senators Reach Deal on Student Loan Rates
After weeks of negotiations, Senators reached a deal Wednesday to retroactively reduce some student loan rates. Interest rates on subsidized Stafford student loans doubled from 3.6 to 6.8 percent July 1. The deal brings that rate back down and ties subsidized and unsubsidized rates to the market, with caps on individual loans.
Senators had been meeting over recent days, including a Tuesday meeting at the White House where President Obama and Vice President Biden had been present.
The deal is based on a proposal that had been crafted by a bipartisan group of senators, including: Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Angus King, I-Maine, Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Richard Burr, R-N.C.
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, as well as other Senate Democratic leaders, had been pushing back against the deal being crafted by the senators, saying it reduced the deficit on the backs of students and would eventually lead to higher rates.
But the pressure grew this week, particularly after the White House meeting where Obama expressed support for the deal, according to a Senate GOP aide.
Harkin expressed support for the deal during a Wednesday meeting in Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin's office, several aides confirmed, and a Senate aide confirmed he will vote for the plan.
Harkin's support signals the log jam over negotiations having been overcome. The deal ties loan interest rates to the 10-year Treasury note. Both subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford undergraduate loans would add 2.05 percent on top of the T-note with an 8.25 percent up-front cap.
Graduate loans would add 3.6 percent to the Treasury note, with a 9.5 percent cap, and PLUS loans would have an additional 4.6 percent with a 10.5 percent cap. The Congressional Budget Office scores the proposal at about $700 million.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/senators-reach-deal-student-loan-rates-234635098.html
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Jason Patric: 'I want to see my son'
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Actor Jason Patric says that when his former girlfriend and the mother of his son tries to portray him as a disinterested parent, she's lying.
The actor and his attorney Fred Silberberg sat down with TODAY's Savannah Guthrie on Tuesday to share his side of the custody battle story between him and his ex Danielle Schreiber, who conceived their son via sperm donation while the pair were dating. He defended himself against accusations she made on TODAY Monday and in the courts over his alleged Johnny-come-lately attitude toward fatherhood.
"The way the story has played out is because it's a nice soundbite, about 'sperm donor,'" said Patric, who said he was an active father from the start of the baby's life. "I was never a 'sperm donor,'" he added, explaining that while the pair had undergone fertility treatments that involved him donating his sperm, he signed an "intended parent" form with his and Schreibers' names on it.
Schreiber had provided TODAY a letter Patric wrote in which he suggested they keep the baby a secret, but he explained that as well: "I said, 'Let's keep this amongst ourselves,'" he said, and noted that they'd tried for "at least" three years for a successful pregnancy, and she endured a "very bad miscarriage." "After all that process ... it was confusion. But it was more about the idea of I don't know if I could be in what would be considered the 'conventional family.'"
An early court ruling has barred Patric from seeing Gus; he said it's been 21 weeks since he's seen the boy.
Guthrie referred to the discussion she had with Schreiber, who claimed she had never tried to bar Patric from having a relationship with Gus, and Patric took his chance to address her directly through the camera. "Danielle, if you're out there listening right now, wherever you are -- because I don't know where my son is in this world -- call me and wherever you are, I will be there tomorrow. So if you were truthful about that, let me know. Because I want to see my son. That's all I've been trying to do."
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/jason-patric-i-was-never-sperm-donor-i-want-see-6C10648546
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LAPD chief to violent Zimmerman protesters: 'You come here again tonight, you will go to jail'
Al Sharpton, accompanied by leading ministers of the black community, calls for a "national Justice for Trayvon Day," featuring rallies in 100 cities across the U.S. in the wake of the acquittal of George Zimmerman.
By Tracy Connor and Jeff Black, NBC News
A day after violent protests over the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin, city leaders and activists urged peace even as a leading civil rights activist said demonstrations will continue all summer ? starting with vigils in 100 cities on Saturday.
?We don?t want anyone hurt. We don?t want any cars broken into, and we don?t want any damages to business,? Eddie Jones of the Los Angeles Civil Rights Association? told NBCLosAngeles.com.
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck called for calm in a Tuesday afternoon news conference after a second night of unrest in the city in which 14 people were arrested, most for failing to disperse after people clashed with police, attacked a news crew and threw rocks.
Beck said lawbreakers wouldn?t be tolerated. "You come here again tonight, you will go to jail," he said.
"We are calling on people to practice peace," Garcetti said, ?to not let the dialogue sparked by Martin's death be silenced by any violence."
The warnings and pleas appeared to have been effective. A peaceful crowd of about 200 marched along downtown streets Tuesday evening, blocking traffic, the Los Angeles Times reported?on its website. But the group had dispersed by 8:30 p.m. (11:30 p.m. ET), the Times reported.
City leaders in Oakland, Calif., also called for protesters to be peaceful after a Monday night demonstration sank into chaos. Nine people were arrested and several businesses were vandalized. A businessman dining in a restaurant that was vandalized said a protester assaulted a waiter.
Interim Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent said Tuesday that his department was caught off guard and added no staffing ahead of the protests that erupted Saturday because he was unaware that the Zimmerman jury was deliberating on the weekend, NBCBayArea.com reported.
Meanwhile, the Rev. Al Sharpton announced vigils across the country that will be followed by marches in Tallahassee, Fla., and Washington, D.C.
?Florida will be the battleground of a new civil rights movement,? Sharpton said during a news conference with other clergy outside the Justice Department headquarters.
?We are not having a two- or three-day anger fit,? said Sharpton,who is president of the National Action Network and also hosts a show on MSNBC. ?This is a movement for social justice.?
Sharpton said the nationwide action has two goals: urging the Justice Department to move forward with a civil-rights probe of Zimmerman and repealing ?Stand Your Ground? self-defense laws that some say made it difficult to win a conviction in the case.
Rallies and vigils have been held by Martin supporters in major cities since a Florida jury found Zimmerman not guilty on Saturday night. They have been mostly peaceful, though 14 people were arrested Monday night in Los Angeles after a gathering descended into chaos with some people throwing rocks, attacking people and clashing with police, NBCLosAngeles.com reported.
Sharpton also urged all protesters to remain peaceful, saying Martin?s name should not be ?smeared with reckless violence.?
Fourteen people were arrested in Los Angeles after another night of protests over the acquittal of George Zimmerman over the weekend, putting the LAPD on tactical alert.
At the same time, he struck a fiery tone, saying, ?On Saturday night with the verdict we lost the battle, but the war is not over and we intend to fight.?
The first action will be Saturday, when Martin supporters will gather for an hour in front of federal buildings and courthouses in 100 cities ?calling on the Department of Justice to resume aggressively a civil rights investigation in this matter.?
The Justice Department launched a probe three weeks after the Feb. 26, 2012, shooting in Sanford, Fla., and it remains open. While Attorney General Eric Holder said this week that Martin?s death was ?unnecessary,? many legal experts doubt that the feds will bring hate crime charges against Zimmerman.
Zimmerman is of white and Hispanic descent and Martin was black, but state prosecutors did not make race a major issue during the trial. Defense lawyer Mark O?Mara has said race was not a factor in the confrontation and that if Zimmerman had been black, he never would have been arrested.
The volunteer neighborhood watchman, who pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, claimed he shot the unarmed teen in self-defense after being attacked on a dark rainy night in the gated community.
Jae C. Hong / AP
A Trayvon Martin supporter confronts a Los Angles police officer during a demonstration in reaction to the acquittal of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman on Monday, July 15, in Los Angeles.
While Zimmerman did not invoke Florida?s ?Stand Your Ground? law and ask for an immunity hearing before the trial, the jury?s instructions borrowed language from the law, specifying that if ?he was attacked in any place where he had a right to be, he had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground and meet force with force.?
Sharpton said civil rights leaders will convene in Miami on July 23, 24 and 25 to plan a drive against ?Stand Your Ground? laws in Florida and other states and organize a major march in Tallahassee, the capital.
?We will be in Florida en masse,? he said.
On Aug. 24, there will be a march on Washington and Sharpton said corporations that support ?Stand Your Ground? laws will be economically targeted.
?As long as ?Stand Your Ground? is on the books, we will continue to have the potential of other Trayvon Martins,? he said.
One of the jurors told CNN on Monday that no one on the panel believed race played a part in the shooting and she had ?no doubt? that Zimmerman feared for his life and acted in self-defense.
Juror B37 recounted to CNN?s Anderson Cooper some of the behind-the-scene discussions that took place during jury deliberations. The woman said three members of the jury not did want to acquit Zimmerman when they first began discussing the verdict, but changed their minds over the course of deliberations.
But late Tuesday, four out of the five other jurors released a statement asking for privacy and saying Juror 37?s public comments ?were her own, and not in any way representative of the jurors listed below.?
?Serving on this jury has been a highly emotional and physically draining experience for each of us,? the four women, identified only by their juror number, said in the statement. ?The death of a teenager weighed heavily on our hearts but in the end we did what the law required us to do.?
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NBC News' Tom Winter contributed to this report
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This story was originally published on Wed Jul 17, 2013 5:54 AM EDT
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Texas Woman, Unborn Child Killed In McClain County Crash
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A Texas woman and her unborn child were killed in a two-car collision on the HE Bailey Turnpike in McClain County, Saturday morning.
According to a report by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, 27-year-old Isaac Heide was driving northbound on the turnpike in a 2002 Dodge Ram pickup. Also inside the truck were Eva Heide, 25; Jake Heide, 19; and Isaac Heide Jr., 1, all from La Mesa, Texas.
Troopers say Heide apparently made an unsafe lane change from left to right, forcing a second vehicle, a 2007 Chevy HHR driven by 54-year-old Bobbie Jefferson of Duncan, Okla., to take evasive action. Jefferson lost control of his vehicle on the shoulder and over-corrected back onto the highway, striking Heide's vehicle.
Heide then lost control and struck a bridge abutment, rolling 1/4 times and ejecting both Eva and Isaac Jr. Eva was then struck a second time by Jefferson's vehicle after she was ejected from the pickup. Jefferson's vehicle struck Heide's pickup one more time and both vehicles came to rest about 84 feet from the bridge abutment.
Emergency personnel say Eva was pinned for approximately one hour. She was pronounced dead at the scene. It was later discovered at the hospital that she was seven months pregnant. It was there that her unborn child was also pronounced dead. ??
Jefferson and his passenger, 54-year-old Harvell Jefferson also of Duncan, Okla., were both taken to Integris Hospital where they were treated and released .
Isaac Heide Sr. and Isaac Heide Jr. were both transported to OU Medical Center via Grady/McClain EMS ambulance. Both are listed in serious condition.
Jake Heide was life-flighted to OU Medical Center. He is also listed in serious condition.
OHP Troopers say seatbelts were equipped and in use by all passengers, with the exception of Eva and Isaac Heide Jr.
It is unclear if any charges will be filed in this case. No other information is known at this time.
Source: http://www.news9.com/story/22833967/texas-woman-unborn-child-killed-in-mcclain-county-crash
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
US drone lands on aircraft carrier
11 July 2013
Last updated at 12:53 ET
The trial could lead to a new generation of long-range drones
In a key development for the future of robotic flight, a pilotless US jet has landed aboard an aircraft carrier.
The US Navy X-47B drone touched down on the deck of the USS George H W Bush as it sailed off the coast of Virginia.
The bat-wing aircraft can deliver guided bombs from a range of 3,200km (1990 miles). It is the first drone to land on a ship at sea.
In May an unmanned aircraft launched from the same carrier but landed on a runway on the US mainland.
The plane was one of two test aircraft purpose-built by the aerospace giant Northrop Grumman, under a 2007 contract at a cost of about $1.4 bn.
In clear weather and light winds, the aircraft took off from the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in the US state of Maryland.
It headed for the ship which was operating in the Atlantic Ocean 112km off the coast of Virginia.
At 1740 GMT on Wednesday, the plane dropped its tail hook which then caught a cable across the carrier deck.
This arrested landing had been carried out before - but never at sea.
Continue reading the main storyX-47B 'Salty Dog' Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
"It's not often that you get a chance to see the future, but that's what we got to do today," said Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who witnessed the landing.
Museum pieceThe X-47B is not intended for operational use. Both test planes will be sent to flight museums in Florida and Maryland, as the US military develops new models.
Officials plan to deploy unmanned reconnaissance and strike aircraft aboard carriers within the next three to six years.
Continue reading the main storyPredator drone
- 15 metre wingspan
- 8 metres long
- 500 kg
- Remote control pilot
- Maximum altitude: 25,000 ft
- Range: 1,250 km
The US Navy has asked for designs from Northrop, along with its rival manufacturers, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics.
A future plane would be able to evade radar and fly over a target area for long periods of time,
For some the development has sparked calls for the military to clarify the chief purpose of drones.
Critics say the main strength of such aircraft is the ability to remain over a target area for a long period, searching for potential targets. They say that drones launched from land bases can perform that function as effectively as those based at sea.
Development questioned"When it comes to operating an unmanned aircraft from carrier decks, the Navy seems to be ambivalent about the whole idea," Loren Thompson, a defence expert at the Lexington Institute think tank told the Associated Press.
He said the US navy needed to carry out a tough assessment to see what these new drones would bring to the fleet that could not be accomplished with manned aircraft or land-based drones.
The Obama administration has come under increasing criticism for using drones to carry out deadly missile attacks against suspected militants in Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/23276968#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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Friday, July 12, 2013
WOW! POMEGRANATES CAN CURE PROSTATE CANCER!
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CHICAGO, Illinois ? A commercially available food supplement that contains pomegranate, broccoli, green tea, and turmeric significantly lowers prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, compared with placebo, in patients with prostate cancer, a double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trial has shown.
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The study results, presented here at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO?), made headlines around the world and caused the polyphenol-rich supplement, known as?Pomi-T?(nature Medical Products), to sell out within hours.
This is a ?promising new therapy,? said Tomasz Beer, MD, professor of medicine and director of the prostate cancer research program at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, during a ?highlights of the day? session.
?We have been staggered by the level of interest?from medical professionals and the public,? Marcus Williams, owner and director of nature?Medical Products, told?Medscape Medical News. As soon as the results of this study were released, the company, based in Porthcawl, South Wales, United Kingdom, received a rush of orders from customers in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
?It?s awesome,? the study?s lead investigator, Robert Thomas, MD, a consultant oncologist at Bedford Hospital and Addenbrooke?s Hospital, in the United Kingdom, told?Medscape Medical News.
?We didn?t expect such a big response. People are seeing that this can change practice?because men and their doctors do look at their PSA as a deciding factor in whether to stop active management,? he explained.
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The study involved 203 men (average age, 74 years) with a PSA relapse after radiotherapy or surgery for localized prostate cancer. The men, who were being managed with active surveillance, were randomized to receive the supplement 3 times a day for 6 months or placebo.
At 6-month follow-up, the median increase in PSA was 63.8% lower in the supplement groups than in the placebo group (14.7% vs 78.5;?P?=.0008). In addition, PSA levels were stable or lower than baseline more often in the supplement group (46% vs 14%;?P?= .00001).
Fewer men in the supplement group than in the placebo group went on to receive brachytherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, or androgen-deprivation therapy (7.4% vs 26.0%;?P?= 0.01).
At the end of the study, more men in the supplement group than in the placebo group continued on active surveillance (92.6% vs 74.0%). ?This is an end point we feel is important: more men were choosing to stay on treatments with less toxicity,? Dr. Thomas noted.
There were no differences between the supplement and placebo groups for baseline and serial measurements of cholesterol, blood pressure, serum glucose, C-reactive protein, or adverse events.
?Pomi-T was well tolerated,? he said. ?More men experienced nonsignificant bloating or diarrhea, but 15% of men reported beneficial effects, including better digestion and improvement of urinary symptoms.?
Previous research has shown that the polyphenols and antioxidants in pomegranate, broccoli, green tea, and turmeric have individual anticancer properties, but ?we believe there?s a synergistic effect in the supplement,? said Dr. Thomas.
In addition, the fact that each ingredient originates from a separate food category (fruit, vegetable, herb, and spice) might prevent potential adverse effects from the overconsumption of one particular type of polyphenol, he noted.
In the lab, polyphenols have been shown to have antiproliferative, antiangiogenic, proadhesion, antimetastatic, and proapoptotic properties, and notably, they have no phytoestrogenic or hormonal effects. ?We specifically chose to steer away from anything that might have a hormonal effect.?
Because of the supplement?s effect is likely not hormonal, future trials will involve men with different stages of prostate cancer and those receiving androgen-deprivation therapy, he said. In addition, the researchers hope to look at the impact of the supplement on other slow-growing cancers and even on cancer prevention.
The study received no funding from the manufacturer of the supplement; however, the company worked very closely with the research team to develop the product, said Williams. ?Unlike other nutritional supplement products, the manufacture of this supplement was significantly more time-consuming because Dr. Thomas and colleagues, for whom this was initially made, insisted on a great deal of quality assurance, over and above that normally required by the US Food and Drug Administration or European Commission, particularly in terms of purity and authenticity.?
He said the study signals ?a new era for the nutritional supplement industry, which has previously relied on advertising and marketing rather than evidence of benefit. Clearly, it?s the latter that the public wants.?
Dr. Beer noted that the product?s significant effect on adherence to active surveillance is ?potentially clinically meaningful? If this can be confirmed, this is really interesting,? he said, although he added that ?these patients were more severe than the sort of patients that we would follow [with active surveillance] here in the United States.?
Prostate Cancer UK reacted more cautiously to the news, releasing a statment saying that ?there is not yet enough evidence that Pomi-T food supplements have a significant impact.?
Kate Holmes, MD, head of research at Prostate Cancer UK, said in a statement that ?there is increasing evidence showing that men who have a healthy lifestyle, including a balanced diet and regular exercise, have better prostate cancer outcomes than those who do not. At this stage, however, we simply do not have enough evidence to suggest that any particular foods or supplements have a significant impact and these should certainly not be substituted for conventional treatments.?
?We would not encourage any man with prostate cancer to start taking Pomi-T food supplements on the basis of this research. Anyone with any concerns about prostate cancer should discuss them with their doctor or call Prostate Cancer UK?s helpline,? she added.
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