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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
EE rolls out 4G LTE in nine more UK towns and cities
Sole UK 4G LTE carrier EE (Everything Everywhere) has announced that it's switched on 4G coverage in a further nine towns and cities across the country. From today, EE customers in Barnsley, Chorley, Coventry, Newport, Preston, Rotherham, Telford, Walsall and Watford will be able to pick up LTE reception on supporting devices. Four months after it first rolled out 4G, EE's total market count stands at 37.
The network plans to have 4G coverage in 65 towns and cities by the end of June, by which time it may face competition from the other mobile operators. Following the recent wrap-up of the 4G spectrum auction, Three, O2 and Vodafone will be looking to roll out their own LTE services in late spring and early summer.
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ClockworkMod SuperUser released in beta, free and open-sourced
Koushik Dutta of ClockworkMod, ROM Manager and Carbon (Backup) fame continues his long standing contributions to the Android community with his latest creation, ClockworkMod SuperUser. Currently in beta, eventually there will be an installation process in the APK itself, but for now it must be flashed either via ROM Manager or manually via recovery.
There's a few headline features to speak of, the first of which is that unlike the Chainfire SuperUser offerings, this one is open-sourced with the full code available for download from Koush's Github. Also on board is support for the multi-user option found in Android 4.2. Impressive. Equally impressive is that this one version is compatible with both ARM and x86, with Koush claiming "magic" in getting it working.
The impressive full feature set reads as follows:
- Multiuser support
- Open source
- Free
- Leverages Android's permission model
- Logging (and per app logging)
- Pretty UI
- PIN Protection
- Request Timeout
- Customize notifications
- x86 and ARM support
- Handle concurrent su requests properly
- NDK clean
Follow the source link below or head on into ROM Manager on your rooted device to flash a copy and take a look for yourselves. Click on further past the break for a demo video of ClockworkMod SuperUser in action.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Why You Should Attend a Christian College ? And Why ... - Patheos
By John Mark Reynolds
Government schools are less expensive, because you have been paying for them, are paying for them, and will be paying for them through taxpayer subsidies for the rest of your life. So, not using them is a tough financial choice. Most Christian colleges receive indirect support from the government through student aid, but are often more expensive than their ?secular? counterparts.
And yet it seems odd, and maybe even wrong, for a Christian to choose a college that ignores half of reality and sets up a discipleship with anybody hostile to the Lordship of Jesus. In this post, then, the third part in a series on the future of Christian colleges, I want to address the questions of why one might choose a Christian college, why one might choose a non-Christian college, and how one might attend college well.
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Reasons to Attend a Christian College
1.???? College is not just job training; it is highly influential in forming a worldview.
Don?t you hope college changes you? If it doesn?t make you better, what good is it?
The person who goes to college is not the same as the person who attended. Choosing to be mentored by mostly non-Christian faculty is a choice that may make it less likely you will be an active Christian as an adult. More important, even I still go to church a non-Christian college will secularize important ideas I have.
2.???? Most Christian colleges focus of undergraduate education.
There are advantages to a school with strong graduate programs, but they tend to be indirect. Most Christian colleges put their best people in the classroom with students. They may make less use of part-time faculty or graduate students, if they don?t they are the worst choice!
3.???? Christian colleges talk about all of reality.
Is Jesus Lord? If so, then that fact impacts all of reality. Christian colleges can take that fact into account.
The world is fallen. If the school doesn?t take that into account as well, then it is not very Christian, just narrow!
4.???? Christian colleges are tuition driven.
If a Christian college fails to deliver, the market quickly delivers a crushing blow. Many schools are so insulated by endowments that irresponsibility continues too long.
5.???? Christian colleges more easily avoid educational fads.
Rare is the Christian college eager to jump into the educational trend of the moment. Don?t think that matters? Look at college catalogues from the 1970s and their predictions (based on courses) of the World of Tomorrow. Count the number that focused on things that still matter . . . and count the number that make you laugh out loud. If it ?lols? today, then you wasted money yesterday.
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Reasons Not to Attend a Christian College
1.???? Christian college is often more expensive.?
If you borrow much more than the cost of a new car, then college debt has gone too high. Christian colleges may be out of your price range, but apply and see before you assume this is true. Few people pay the sticker price.
Don?t be afraid to negotiate.
2.???? Christian college or any small school can be academically second-rate.
Never attend a school without regional accreditation. Accreditation is not much, but it does mean your units can transfer and your degree will be recognized . . . even when your small school is not.
Never attend a school whose faculty lack terminal degrees from a wide variety of institutions. If they mostly hire their own graduates or the graduates of only one or two other schools, it is sign of dangerous academic inbreeding.
A school with fewer than one thousand undergraduates may be very good, but in the imminent higher education contraction, they may close. Take care with such a choice.
Read work by scholars in the major you are choosing. Of course, if you are film major, then you should watch their films! Do these professors seem like the sort you would wish to become? What is their job placement rate?
Never do an on-line degree program where the student-teacher ratio is different than off-line degrees. The Internet makes a geographical difference, but it did not increase the ability of a professor to mentor a student. Demand attention on-line or off-line.
Never do an on-line class if the school offering it will not take the class seamlessly in their on-site programs.
3.???? Christian colleges can recruit ?Christian? and then be expensive and secular.
I sat at a meeting where ?Christian? college professors referred to ?Aunt Tillie pitches.? These college descriptions convinced parents and alum to give, but had nothing to do with the daily life of a school.
Google professors. Find their Facebook pages. Talk to the sociologists and psychologists and ask questions. Find out what the faculty actually think, not what they allegedly think.
Many a Catholic school has few faculty members who support Catholic teaching. Many an Evangelical school is similar.
Why pay extra for a State University with a godly president? Students don?t often see the President!
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Questions to Ask Self Before Attending a Particular Christian College
1. How important is a Christian mentor to you? Who is a Christian?
Each Christian college draws lines differently. Some hire mostly non-Christian faculty. Some only hire Christian faculty.
Why pay extra to go to a college where only a few faculty members are actually Christian? My opinion is that for undergraduates such schools rarely are worth the cost difference.
Who is a Christian? If you think Catholics are not Christians or that people who drink are damned, then you should select a school that agrees.? Most Christians I meet, however, are less concerned about being confronted by John Paul II Catholic or a Billy Graham Evangelical, than rising secularism in the culture.?Is our present problem likely to be our view on End Times or the view that humans are just machines?
There is something bizarre about a school that reads dead Catholics but will not hire living ones. There is something odd about a school that will buy C.S. Lewis? furniture but would not hire him.
Often such schools are narrow on nineteenth century issues, because their doctrinal statements were written then, but useless on contemporary ones. They have professors with the ?correct? views on Calvinism, but secularized views on human behavior!
As a parent if you think it equally tragic that your child becomes a practicing Baptist (or some other group) as an atheist (or nearly so), then don?t pick a school that hires those people.
On the other hand, if you see yourself making common cause daily with broader Christian groups, then pick such a school. It is ridiculous to pay extra to segregate yourself on nineteenth century lines.
2. How important are behavioral standards to you? What ones?
I found it refreshing to attend undergraduate schools where my Christian values were encouraged.
The issue is how strong you want the encouragement and on what issues?
3. Will you probably be going to graduate school??
For most students, graduate school is (sadly) the new college. If you are going to graduate school, and your college has a good graduate school placement rate, then going to a smaller school will not matter. You will be ?known? by our last degree.
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Questions to Ask the College Before Attending a Particular College
1.???? What percentage of classes are taught by ?adjuncts? or teaching assistants?
An adjunct professor is (generally) part time. He or she often works in multiple schools. You may be paying extra for the same professor also working at the community college down the street!
There are good part-time people, but avoid a school or program that hits twenty-five percent or higher of these faculty. The school or program is paying for other things through your tuition in a class that has not been prioritized.
2.???? What percentage of ?core? or ?general education? classes are taught by ?adjuncts? or teaching assistants?
A big part of a liberal arts education is in classes outside the major. Sometimes those are not fully funded. Avoid schools where part time folks do over twenty-five percent of these classes.?
Imagine paying extra for Bible only to discover that the school doesn?t invest in Bible with full time faculty!
3.???? How much Bible or Christianity is required of all students??
Three units? Really? Anything less than nine is not serious. At least two schools require thirty and that is not a bad thing!
4.???? How strong is the ?core? or ?general education?? Is there a program or is it just a bunch of requirements??
If it is not a plan or program (a separate school), then it will too often be a bottom priority of the department in charge. It will often be incoherent with little in common between the English class and the Science class.
5.???? What is the job or graduate school placement in my major?
If they don?t know, don?t go.
6.???? Do the President and Provost teach or have they ever taught?
If not, then the educational vision will suffer. Avoid if you can schools that are run by educational administrators with little or no classroom time.
7.???? Is there tenure?
Tenure can be good, protecting controversial ideas. Generally, the smaller Christian college itself represents diversity to the educational establishment. Tenure can result in slow motion secularization in the school as professors escape scrutiny.
Schools without tenure gain flexibility and are often ideologically coherent, but can become too narrow or tyrannical. Check out faculty turnover by comparing five years of catalogs. Are there professors who have been there over their whole career? If not, this is a very bad sign that the school is too rigid.
8.???? Are classes Socratic? How large is the largest class?
College is about people: the student and teacher relationship is the heart. Large classes can be good, but only rarely. Some schools advertise ?small average? classes, because the major classes for upperclassmen drives down the average.
I don?t think propaganda is education. A Christian college should take every thought captive to Christ, but that means being able to talk about every thought. No Christian should ever hide from any issue or from any disagreement.
Students should be allowed to consider views contrary to the professors or school without fear of dismissal or retribution. This is a big problem in all schools Christian, secular, liberal, or conservative.
You don?t want to ?stay? a Christian because you were shielded from other ideas. If you stay a Christian, may it be because you considered all ideas.
How large are the core classes? Forget schools that often have classes bigger than thirty. A person with a quiet personality in such a class can easily get an ?A? without personal interaction!
A sage on a stage with fifty students may be edu-taining, but he is missing a part of educating. Discussion with a professor, not another student, is part of education. Big lectures are fine, but only if they lead to hours of conversation!
9.???? How does a student get a faculty advisor? How many meetings on average does a student have??
Every school talks about advising. Often this means getting the schedule done, but has nothing to do with mentoring. Is advising mentoring? Can you be mentored in two meetings a year?
10.? If you are looking for a ?conservative? college, talk to the political science, English, sociology, and psychology faculty. Ask questions.??
These are the faculty in most Christian colleges that are often ?out of step? with what is advertised. Look at what faculty post on their doors. Google these folk and see what they say when not pitching you.
Source: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/philosophicalfragments/2013/02/26/why-attend-christian-college-why-not/
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Who wore it best? Vote on the best Oscar looks
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Oscar nominees and presenters show off their stunning outfits as they arrive to celebrate the best movies of the year.
It's the ultimate fashion night, and the 2013 Oscars certainly delivered. From sideswept glamour to risque gowns and furry purses, the red carpet had a little bit of everything ? yes, even H&M. Joan Rivers, go nuts this week.
The usuals (Valentino, Armani, etc) were all represented, but much of this year's crop skewed towards chic black, white, metallic and pale-hued palettes. Seems like 2013 was all about unfussy, effortless glamour (sorry neon ? and ruffles ? it wasn't your year).
Who do you think rocked the red carpet? Vote for your favorite!
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Best Supporting Actress nominee Amy Adams, wearing Oscar de la Renta, arrives on the red carpet for the 85th Annual Academy Awards on Feb. 24 in Hollywood, California.
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Best Supporting Actress nominee Anne Hathaway wore a Prada dress that had many talking about its uniquely placed darts.
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Jennifer Aniston went for a bold red Valentino gown.
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Best Actress nominee Jennifer Lawrence dazzled fans in a Dior Haute Couture dress, paired with a Roger Vivier clutch.
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Kerry Washington opted for a coral-colored Miu Miu dress with Chopard jewels.
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Actress Jessica Chastain paired her Giorgio Armani dress with vintage Harry Winston diamond earrings.
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Halle Berry dazzled in a glittering Versace gown.
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Reese Witherspoon wore a cobalt blue Louis Vuitton dress, along with a glamorous sideswept hairstyle.
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Fashion forward: Zoe Saldana in a belted Alexis Mabille gown.
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Naomi Watts glittered in a metallic Giorgio Armani Prive gown.
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Young malaria parasites refuse to take their medicine, may explain emerging drug resistance
Young malaria parasites refuse to take their medicine, may explain emerging drug resistance
Tuesday, February 19, 2013New research has revealed that immature malaria parasites are more resistant to treatment with key antimalarial drugs than older parasites, a finding that could lead to more effective treatments for a disease that kills one person every minute and is developing resistance to drugs at an alarming rate.
University of Melbourne researchers have shown for the first time that malaria parasites (Plasmodium falciparum)in the early stages of development are more than 100 times less sensitive to artemisinin-based drugs, which currently represent a last line of defense against malaria.
The study was conducted by a team led by Professor Leann Tilley and Dr Nectarios (Nick) Klonis from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Bio21 Institute, and is published in the journal PNAS.
The drug artemisinin (ART) saves millions of lives each year but it is still not clear exactly how it works. Professor Tilley's team developed a novel approach to examine how the parasite responds to drugs under the conditions it encounters in the body. This is important because the malaria parasite takes two days to reach maturity in each cycle but the drug only remains in the bloodstream for a few hours.
"We were surprised to find that juvenile parasites were up to 100 times less sensitive to the drug than mature parasites, and that in some strains the juvenile parasites showed a particularly high degree of resistance. This would result in a large number of juvenile parasites surviving against clinical treatment and helps explain how resistance to drugs develops," Professor Tilley said.
In order to survive in the human body, the parasite must inhabit red blood cells for part of its life cycle, to do this it first digests the cell contents including the haemoglobin protein which carries oxygen in blood.
"We found that the parasite is most susceptible to drug treatment when it is digesting haemoglobin, suggesting that a breakdown product, possibly the haemoglobin pigment, is activating ART to unleash its killing properties," Dr Klonis said.
The possibility of lower drug sensitivity of juvenile parasites was first suspected when the team studied the parasite's digestive system using a revolutionary 3D imaging technique called electron tomography at the Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne. This initial work was supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science.
"In juvenile stages the parasite's digestive system is not yet active, which explains how this stage can avoid the effects of the drug," Professor Tilley said.
"We hope that our findings will provide a guide for changing the timing of the drug treatment regime and developing longer lasting drugs, thereby killing more of the parasites and reducing the development of drug resistance."
The next steps for the team are to try and establish why certain strains are more resistant to ART drug attack than others.
"With the current political will in malaria-affected countries to combat the disease, and funding for implementation of anti-malarial strategies available from the NHMRC, Gates Foundation and other donors, the basic research being done in Australia will be quickly translated into lives saved in the field," added Professor Tilley.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Does the president deserve a raise?
President Barack Obama?s salary pales in comparison to the average CEO. But does the president really need a raise? The historical data says ?yes,? but the potential big payoff for newer presidents says ?probably not.?
In 2011, the average Fortune 500 company leader made $12 million a year. President Obama has a $400,000 annual salary, gets a $50,000 expense account, and a really cool house to live in. But he has to buy his own food in some cases.
The debate over presidential pay dates back to the Prohibition era, when people were shocked in 1930 when baseball star Babe Ruth was given a salary that paid more than President Herbert Hoover?s.
Ruth legendary response was, ?So what? I had a better year than he did.?
President Obama?s compensation is above average compared with other world leaders, including the leaders of China, Russia, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Germany. Many are not far behind, though, with compensation in the US$200,000?? $300,000 range. And a handful are paid much more; the leader of Singapore gets about US$1.7 million a year.
The U.S. Constitution outlines how the president can get a raise and lets Congress decide on the timing through legislation.
Article II, Section 1 says that ?The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.?
President Washington received a salary of $25,000 in 1789, which was a lot of money at the time. It?s difficult to estimate the current value; projections range from $300,000 to $4 million in current dollars (depending on the economic barometer). But Washington also had to cover most of his own expenses. Luckily, the father of our country was a wealthy landowner.
Since the time of President Washington, there have been five presidential pay raises, which were effective in the next presidential term after Congress passed them. For example, in January 1969, the outgoing president was Lyndon Johnson; the pay raise took effect when Richard Nixon became president.
Pay hikes came in 1873 ($50,000), 1909 ($75,000), 1949 ($100,000), 1969 ($200,000), and 2001 ($400,000).
The chief benefactors of those pay raises were the first presidents to receive them, since they weren?t as susceptible to inflation. So in current 2012 dollars, Ulysses S. Grant received $945,000 in 1873; William Howard Taft got a hefty $1.9 million in 1909; Harry S. Truman received $950,000 in 1949; and Richard Nixon got $1.2 million in 1969. President George W. Bush?s pay was not considerably higher due to inflation over the past decade. But he did see his pay double compared with President Bill Clinton?s salary in 2000.
Basically, because there is no cost-of-living adjustment, the presidents make less each year they are in office.
Contemporary presidents do have a big advantage over their predecessors when it comes to making money after they leave office, and that is where they?re more competitive with CEOs.
Until 1958, presidents didn?t receive a pension after leaving office. Today, a president receives an annual pension equal to the current salary of a Cabinet secretary (about $200,000 per year) when leaving the White House.
In a 2008 report, the Congressional Research Service said that the three former presidents at the time (Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, and Clinton) were receiving between $518,000 and $1.1 million a year in benefits from taxpayers, including pensions, office space, transportation, and other expenses.
Presidents George W. Bush and Clinton also signed lucrative book contracts after leaving office.
Clinton, in particular, has made out well financially. He told CNN in 2010, ??I?ve never had any money until I got out of the White House. But I?ve done reasonably well since then.?
Clinton made $16 million by giving speeches soon after he left office in 2001. By 2010, the website 24/7 Wall Street estimated that Clinton?s net worth was $55 million, and he had made $125 million before taxes.
On the 2012 campaign trail, candidate Mitt Romney floated the idea of a compensation plan that would make the president and other politicians more like CEOs, using incentives.
?I wish we had that happen throughout government?where people recognized they are not going to get rewarded in substantial ways unless they are able to achieve the objectives that they were elected to carry out,? he said.
However, that could backfire on a president. For example, the CEO of Walmart, Mike Duke, makes about $17 million in total annual compensation. Walmart also had a $16 billion profit in 2011.
The federal government annual deficit for the same year was $1.3 trillion.
Scott Bomboy is the editor-in-chief of the National Constitution Center.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/barack-obama-next-president-raise-112211463.html
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Tornado storms tear through Plains states
Tornado forming. Image from Wikimedia Commons
On Monday, May 10, more than 40 tornadoes touched down across Kansas and Oklahoma.? Five people were killed and dozens injured as hailstones nearing baseball size fell from the sky.? Thousands are left without power across Kansas and Oklahoma.? Damage so far appears to be minimal, considering the power of the storms.? Large storm systems that unleash what are called ?tornado families? can cause catastrophic damage, and it takes a lot more than a little instant cash to clear up.
A large storm front moved into Oklahoma and Kansas over the weekend, and in the Great Plains area, there is always the risk of a tornado with any large storm front.? (As the Rocky Mountains block weather from the Pacific, it creates a low pressure area east of the mountains. Low pressure plus big storms equals bad news.)? More than 40 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma and Kansas, part of which was hail with stones almost 4 inches in diameter.
Oklahoma bore the brunt
All five fatalities and the bulk of the damage seem to have been confined to Oklahoma.? Two fatalities occurred in Oklahoma City and the other three in Norman.? Norman is in Cleveland County, directly south of Oklahoma County, where Oklahoma City is located.? According to the New York Times, a tornado warning and storm advisory were issued in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas.
There were a few in Kansas, Toto
Several tornadoes did touch down in Kansas, but the damage was less extensive.? A tornado touched down in Belmont, Kansas, according to ABC News, and caused some wind damage to homes and several overturned trucks on the Interstate.
Goes with the territory
Each region comes with unique weather patterns, affected by the regional geography.? The Great Plains area is commonly also referred to as Tornado Alley, because the region?s unique susceptibility to form tornado producing storms.? Tornado storms can cause far more damage more to the Southwest, as the Mississippi and Alabama tornadoes did several weeks ago. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association also maintains a website that watches for incoming weather patterns and storm warnings. A severe thunderstorm warning is still in effect for Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri.
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Gay Men, Straight Women: What's the Attraction? -
From the title characters of Will and Grace to Kurt and Rachel on Glee, television comedies have picked up on an apparently widespread phenomenon: intense friendships between gay men and straight women. But in real life, what cements this often-close bond?
Newly published research provides a plausible, albeit partial, answer: their unique ability to provide clear-headed counsel regarding romantic relationships.
?Our results suggest that straight women and gay men perceive mating advice provided by each other to be more trustworthy than similar advice offered by other individuals,? a team led by psychologist Eric Russell, a visiting researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, writes in the journal Evolutionary Psychology.
Russell and his colleagues describe two experiments providing evidence for this thesis. One featured 88 heterosexual women, the second 58 homosexual men. Participants were told the study was about the way online profiles influence friendships.
All were presented with the Facebook profile of a person named Jordan. The profiles were identical, except for Jordan?s gender and sexual orientation. For the female participants, Jordan was identified as either a straight female, straight male or gay male. For the gay male participants, Jordan was either a straight female, gay male or lesbian.
Participants were told to imagine they were at a party with Jordan, and he/she gave them romance-related advice, such as ?how to interpret an interaction with an attractive member of the opposite sex.? They then assessed the degree to which they would trust this advice.
The straight women ?perceived advice offered by the gay male target to be more trustworthy than advice offered by the straight male or the straight female,? the researchers report. Similarly, the gay men ?rated the mating advice provided by the straight female target as more trustworthy than similar advice? given by a lesbian or gay male.
Together, these results support the notion that ?the emotional closeness shared by straight women and gay men may be rooted in the absence of deceptive mating motivations that frequently taint their relationships with other individuals,? the researchers write.
For straight women, they note, advice from another straight woman may be colored by the friend?s possible interest in the man in question. Advice from a straight male friend may be tainted by the fact he has his own designs on her, and thus would have no reason to help her find another mate.
The researchers contend a similar dynamic may be at work with gay men. They concede that ?lesbian women may not harbor any deceptive mating motivations? when socializing with gay men, but point to previous research suggesting a ?lack of closeness between gay men and lesbian women in social contexts.?
In theory, this means straight men would be wise to turn to gay men for dating advice, and vice-versa, since there would be no question of competition or a hidden agenda. However, the researchers dryly note, their lack of attraction to the same sex ?may decrease the usefulness? of their advice.
Of course, evolutionary-minded psychologists tend to focus on our (conscious or unconscious) desire to procreate and pass one?s genes to the next generation. Arguably, they understate the inherent benefits of a close relationship that is unencumbered by sexual tension.
Nevertheless, these findings go a long way towards explaining what the researchers call ?the unique and important bond shared by straight women and gay men.? And they?re certainly fodder for future episodes of envelope-stretching comedy. Are you reading, Lena Dunham?
Source: http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/gay-men-straight-women-whats-the-attraction-52825/
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Monday, February 18, 2013
BookNAround: Sunday Salon: Busy week and bookish family
This past week has been rather a busy one. My mom came to visit on Monday and my dad flew in on Wednesday. They came in because my daughter had her competition dance debut show and they were hoping to also see the youngest's soccer game and the oldest's tennis match, both of which ended up being cancelled thanks to one of our incredibly unusual snows down here. For many people, having houseguests means sacrificing time spent with books. And that was the case for me. But since we as a family are all readers, I didn't have to sacrifice as much time as I might have for someone other than family. When mom and I went shopping one day, we managed to hit three different book stores looking for some very specific titles. We made it to no other stores that day. And I pulled out the stash of books I have sitting in a closet waiting for me to host my next book exchange just before summer arrives and mom went through them to choose some for herself. Then dad claimed a book I had bought my oldest son but which my husband already owned and said he'd share. It's good to have a bookish family. Mom and dad leave today and then the plan is laser tag with the soccer team. Snow might cancel the game but we can still have the fun after the game. And then I can cozy up with another book and make my day complete. This week my reading travels took me into a large Virginia manor home filled with antiques and a puzzling amount of fakes just after a theft, to Regency England where a woman steps in to marry the rakish Duke her sister is supposed to marry so she can save her family, through a novel based on chaos theory where one old woman's being mugged ripples through an ever expanding plot, and into a family grieving the brain death of one of their members even while they fight over whether or not to discontinue life support to this newly pregnant woman. What sorts of lives did you explore this week in your reading?
Source: http://booknaround.blogspot.com/2013/02/sunday-salon-busy-week-and-bookish.html
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Living near equator likely increases allergy and asthma risk | MNN ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 235 million people globally suffer from asthma, the most common chronic disease among children. Contrary to popular belief, asthma is not just a health concern for high-income countries. It strikes everywhere, and more than 80 percent of asthma deaths occur in low- and lower-middle income countries.
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In fact, according to a new study published in the February issue of?Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, people who live close to the equator may be more likely to have asthma than those in other parts of the world. In addition, those living closest to the equator not only had increased odds for asthma, but also for hay fever, food allergy and skin sensitization to house dust mites and molds.?
The authors of the research note that the increased risk seems to be linked to exposure to ultraviolet-B (UV-B) rays in sunlight.
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"UV-B rays exposure is higher for people living in areas closer to the equator," said study lead author Vicka Oktaria in a news release. "This increase in UV-B may be linked to vitamin D, which is thought to modify the immune system. These modifications can lead to an elevated risk of developing allergy and asthma."?
The sun?s ultraviolet-B rays absorbed through the skin are the body?s main source of vitamin D, and while not getting enough has been linked to a number of problems, including daytime sleepiness, it appears that too much may wreak havoc as well.?
The report is one of the first to look at how geography and sun exposure can affect allergy and asthma risk. However, while the study determined an association between UV-B exposure near the equator and a raised risk of allergies and asthma, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
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Final fundraising push for St. Patrick's Parade
SYRACUSE, NY (WSYR-TV) - A final fundraiser for the Syracuse St. Patrick?s Parade was held on Sunday at Kitty Hoynes in Armory Square.
?One of the things people don't realize is that we have to pay for all of the bands and things that come. People think they just come and join the parade. No. It costs them money too. They come from all over the northeast and Canada. So we have to pay for their transportation- and it's expensive,? said?St. Pat's Parade President?Janet Higgins.
This year, the parade will be held a week earlier, on Saturday, March 9th, so nobody will have to choose between it and the last Big East tournament for Syracuse University.
?We have several committee members that go to the Big East every year so we did it a week early,? said Higgins.
Organizers see the change as turning a one-day celebration into more of a Saint Patrick's season.
?It's just a big part of Syracuse and we have such snowy and miserable winters usually. It's the right of passage into spring and I think that's why everyone wants to support it and they never want to see it go away,? said Higgins.
The parade will also welcome some new additions this year.
?We have a couple of different bands that we've never had before and we have a group called Cirque of Actions and they're on the same line as Cirque du Soleil, acrobatic tricks, and they're going to be joining the parade this year and I'm so excited,? said Higgins.
More events are scheduled leading up to the parade:
Sunday, February 24th: Green Beer Day at Coleman?s
Saturday, March 2nd: Shamrock Run at Burnet Park
Sunday, March 3rd: St. Baldrick?s Day at Kitty Hoynes
Friday, March 8th: Painting of the parade route stripe
The parade starts at noon on March 9th.? You can watch it?on NewsChannel 9. It will re-air that night at 8 p.m.
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
What is Business risk? | PakAccountants.com | Free accountancy ...
What is business risk in auditing and who is responsible to control such risk. Also explain how is that controlled and what importance it has for auditor to conduct audit engagement?
Doing day to day business involves carrying out numerous activities of different nature. It involves all kinds and sorts of business transactions. Some of these activities gets accounted for and some are simply dealt out of books.
However, everything business do has inherent benefits and inherent problems. And it is the job and responsibility of the management to counter the problems inherent in the events, activities or transactions of the business and cash-in only benefits implicit in such activities. Management has to face problems in everything it does and if it is too scared of problems they will never be able to get even the benefits.
Business risk is simply inability of the business to achieve its objectives due to inherent problems in any business activity or event. In other words possibility that inherent problems will not be controlled on time and will therefore effect the entity?s ability to achieve its business objectives is known as business risk.
Looking at it from another perspective, it is inherent risk (possibility that inherent problems of such nature exist that may cause problems) that causes business risk i.e. if inherent risks are not controlled then they will end up disturbing organisation?s ability to get its objectives and the possibility that inherent risk will increase to such extent that business wont be able to reach its objectives is called business risk.
Therefore, to control business risks, inherent risks are needed to be controlled and this is the responsibility of the management to control such inherent risks and to do this entity implements internal control system and this internal control system in turn keep the inherent problems from disturbing entity?s operations. That is why it is said that internal control system helps entity achieving its objectives.
The whole inherent risk-internal control system-business risk relation can be understood with one simple day to day example.
Drinking milk is beneficial for health but one glass of milk has thousands of harmful bacteria as well. But to fight such bacteria we have inbuilt immune system that controls the harmful germs in milk from spreading diseases in our body. Once the germs are controlled body can benefit from the goodness of milk. But if we are too afraid of germs in milk we will never be able to have its benefit as well. So getting scared is not the option. Having a strong immune system is the only feasible choice we have.
Similarly in business, if management is too scared of inherent problems and their resultant effect, they will never be able to get any benefits and thus no profitable business. So solution of not getting problems is not doing anything rather do what is necessary but control its inherent problems by having efficient and effective internal control system.
So cutting it short, we understand that business risk increases if inherent risk increases but to keep the inherent risk low internal control system must be working efficiently and effectively. This way business risk will be kept at low level.
However, there is no guarantee that internal control system will be able to counter the effects of all the inherent problems as it also has its limitations arising out of several reasons. Possibility that internal control system will not counter inherent problem is called control risk. So even if the control risk is high business risk increases again.
So we understood that it is not only the inherent risk that cause business risk to increase, if control risk has increased business risk will increase as well. Because if internal control fails to correct the problem it will again disturb entity?s ability to achieve its objectives. So business risk is the product of inherent and control risk and this can be written in the equation as following:
Business Risk = Inherent risk x Control risk
Entity or management is responsible to meet several different business objectives and each objective has associated business risk. One of the business objective of the business is to provide timely and accurate financial information of the entity?s performance and position of its operations to its users. And the risk that this information is materially misstated i.e. risk of material misstatement is one kind of business risk.
Now auditor?s job is to express opinion on financial statements as to whether they are true and fair and he is interested in all such business risk or activities which can translate into risk of material misstatement. The reason is that all such risks are indirectly connected with auditor?s work.
If auditor expresses an opinion that financial statements are true and fair when they are actually materially misstated then it is said that auditor has expressed an inappropriate opinion. The possibility that auditor may express inappropriate opinion is called audit risk.
Audit risk arises when auditor is unable to detect material misstatements in the financial information. This is how risk of material misstatement becomes important for auditor as well. Because if he is unable to assess the risk of material misstatement correctly i.e. unable to assess inherent and control risks properly then the chances are that he will end up giving inappropriate opinion. That is why he is required to gain understanding of the entity, environment and its internal control system.
Source: http://pakaccountants.com/what-is-business-risk/
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Iran converting some higher-grade enriched uranium to fuel: official
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran is converting some of its higher-grade enriched uranium into reactor fuel, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
"This work is being done and all its reports have been sent to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in a complete manner," Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as saying on Tuesday by state news agency IRNA.
He was responding to a question on news reports that Iran has converted some of its 20-percent-enriched uranium into fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor, IRNA said.
Diplomats accredited to the IAEA in Vienna told Reuters that Iran had apparently resumed converting into fuel small amounts of higher-grade enriched uranium - a process which if expanded could buy time for negotiations between Washington and Tehran on its disputed nuclear program.
The possibility of Iran converting enriched uranium into fuel - slowing a growth in stockpiles of material that could be used to make weapons - is one possible way in which the nuclear dispute between Iran and the West could avoid hitting a crisis by the summer.
Tehran could otherwise have amassed sufficient stock by June to hit a "red line" set by Israel after which it has indicated it could attack to prevent Iran acquiring enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon.
(Reporting By Yeganeh Torbati; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-converting-higher-grade-enriched-uranium-fuel-official-090031067.html
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Police arrest man accused of mass stabbing in Guam
A man accused of killing two Japanese visitors and injuring a dozen others after crashing his car and stabbing people in a major tourist district in Guam has been arrested and faces multiple charges, police said Wednesday.
Chad Ryan DeSoto, 21, of Tamuning is accused of driving a Toyota Yaris onto a sidewalk and striking seven tourists Tuesday night at an upscale shopping area fronting the Outrigger Guam Resort in Tumon Bay, Guam police spokesman A.J. Balajadia said. DeSoto continued driving on the sidewalk, crashing into the wall of a convenience store. He then left his car and started stabbing people, police said.
DeSoto is charged with two counts of murder, 13 counts of attempted murder and 13 counts of aggravated assault, Balajadia said. No motive or other details on the investigation were released.
DeSoto was scheduled due to appear before a magistrate judge the Superior Court of Guam on Wednesday to be formally charged.
Japan Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said 14 Japanese tourists were attacked, including two who died. Two of the injured have been released from the hospital after being treated, Suga said.
Japanese media reported the dead were two women aged 28 and 82 and the survivors included an 8-month-old baby.
An official with Japanese travel operator H.I.S. Co. said eight of its customers were injured in the attack ? including some with broken bones ? but none were killed.
The wreck and alleged knife attack among high-end boutiques and hotels in Tumon Bay's Pleasure Island district sent frightened hotel guests and others fleeing for safety.
A woman at a nearby caf? with friends told the Pacific Daily News she saw the car plow through the driveway and into a convenience store at the resort. Ashley Quichocho, 18, of Dededo said the driver got out, ran up to bystanders and began stabbing them.
"He started stabbing someone, and I started freaking out," Quichocho said. "He was just running back and forth stabbing people."
Quichocho said she ran to the second floor of the hotel with other guests to escape.
Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo issued a statement addressed to "the people of Japan" saying the perpetrator would be prosecuted "to the fullest extent of the law." Calvo said he is committed to ensuring the safety of visitors to Guam and would increase the police presence in the visitor district.
"This was an isolated incident ? something that just doesn't happen in our community," Calvo said. "We are shocked, we are grieving with the families, and we extend our deepest condolences to those hurt."
Guam, U.S. territory and tropical island just 1,500 miles or three hours south of Tokyo by airplane, is heavily dependent on tourism ? particularly from Japan ? for its economy. It's well known for scuba diving, white beaches and historic World War II battle sites.
Japanese accounted for 73 percent of the 1.1 million visitors to Guam in the 2011 fiscal year, according to Guam Visitors Bureau data. South Koreans were 13 percent followed by 4 percent from Taiwan.
Mark Baldyga, Guam Visitors Bureau chairman, stressed the incident was unusual.
"Guam has long been considered as one of the safest tourist destinations in the region and it remains so today," he said in a statement. "U.S. federal immigration and customs protect our borders, and we dedicate substantial resources to ensuring that Guam remains a warm, friendly and completely safe holiday destination."
Guam, which has a population of about 180,000 and is just 30 miles long, is home to major U.S. naval and air bases. The U.S. also has plans to move several thousand Marines to Guam from the southern Japanese island of Okinawa.
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Associated Press writer Malcolm Foster in Tokyo contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-arrest-man-accused-mass-stabbing-guam-021212535.html
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Community health workers help type 2 diabetes care
Feb. 11, 2013 ? Researchers who conducted a clinical trial in American Samoa to test whether community health workers could help adults with type 2 diabetes found that the patients who received the intervention were twice as likely to make a clinically meaningful improvement as those who remained with care only in the clinic. The results appear in the journal Diabetes Care.
Newly published results from a randomized controlled clinical trial in the Pacific U.S. territory of American Samoa add clear evidence for the emerging idea that community health workers can meaningfully improve type 2 diabetes care in medically underserved communities.
In the U.S. territory, 21.5 percent of adults have type 2 diabetes. Meanwhile, 58 percent of families are below the U.S. poverty level. The research team, led by public health researchers from Brown and The Miriam Hospital, wanted to test whether four trained local community health workers led by a nurse case-manager could extend the reach of the territory's limited medical staff.
For their study, published online in the journal Diabetes Care, the team recruited 268 Samoans with type 2 diabetes and randomly assigned them, according to their villages, into two groups: One panel received a personal, culturally tailored intervention from community health workers, and one group continued with only their usual primary care.
After a year, members of the group that received the intervention were twice as likely as those in the usual care group to have made a clinically significant improvement in blood glucose levels, the researchers found.
"This approach of using community health workers and home visits can work to help individuals better manage their diabetes," said Stephen McGarvey, professor of epidemiology (research) at Brown University, a co-author and principal investigator of the study. "This adds to the small list of randomized trials designed to look at the efficacy of community health workers to help underserved patients."
Cultural context
For the intervention group, the community health workers trained by the researchers and led by the nurse would visit each patient's home or workplace either weekly, monthly or quarterly depending on the patient's level of health risk from the disease. The workers would test and explain blood glucose readings, remind patients to keep up with medicines and doctors' clinic visits, and lead educational discussions about diet and exercise based on educational materials developed by the research team. If patients were having problems caring for themselves, the workers were trained to help them solve the problems.
Patients could choose from a menu of eight topics for their educational discussions.
The basic model for the intervention came from the successful "Project Sugar 2" trial in Baltimore, but study lead author Judith DePue of The Miriam and Brown said she and her team made many cultural adaptations after conducting extensive ethnographic research, including focus groups with patients.
The educational materials were in both English and Samoan. The foods and activities represented in the text and visuals were familiar and accessible in the territory's culture. All the community health workers were local residents, and the community health worker visits were free of charge (DePue's research found that even small co-pays were deterring some of the territory's residents from seeking primary care).
"We really needed to make it work in this setting," DePue said. "The adaptation that we did, we think, was part of why it was successful."
The study's main measure of that success was a blood glucose level called HbA1c. At the beginning of the study the average level in the intervention group was 9.6 percent and in the traditional care group was 10 percent. After a year, the intervention group members brought levels down to 9.3 percent on average, while among the traditional care group the average level remained at 10 percent.
Meanwhile, more than 42 percent of patients in the intervention group were able to reduce their HbA1c level by more than half a percentage point, a reduction that diabetes researchers consider clinically significant.
The researchers acknowledge that 9.3 percent is still much higher than the goal recommended by the American Diabetes Association of less than 7 percent. Still, the greatest improvements in the study occurred among the highest-risk patients who received the most frequent community health worker interactions. Future work in this resource-poor setting, DePue said, may need more sustained support or a more comprehensive approach.
But McGarvey and DePue said the overall results should encourage health officials to consider community health worker models for diabetes 2 care in areas, from Baltimore to American Samoa, where physician's office care has not proven to be enough.
"We believe the findings here may also be generalizable to other diabetes patients in resource-poor and high-risk populations," they wrote in Diabetes Care. "This study adds to the growing body of evidence showing community health workers ability to improve diabetes outcomes and related behaviors."
In addition to McGarvey and DePue, other authors on the study are Shira Dunsiger and Rochelle Rosen of Brown and The Miriam Hospital; Andrew Seiden of Brown; Jeffrey Blume of Vanderbilt University; Michael Goldstein of the VHA National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; and Oferia Nu'solia, and John Tuitele of the Tafuna Clinic of the American Samoa Department of Health.
The National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disorders funded the study with grant R18-DK075371.
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Obama to stress jobs in State of the Union speech; audience's message is guns
WASHINGTON ? The American public will get a competing mix of rhetoric and imagery in President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday, a speech that offers a heavy dose on the economy even as it plays out against a visual backdrop dominated by the current national debate over guns.
With the economy still trying to find its footing and with millions still out of work, Obama will make a case for measures and proposals that he says will boost job creation and put the economy on a more upward trajectory. Obama's emphasis underscores a White House recognition that while the president seeks to expand his agenda and build a second-term legacy, the economy remains a major public preoccupation.
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President Obama during last year's State of the Union address.
But in the galleries above the rostrum of the House of Representatives where Obama will speak, many of the faces looking down on him will be those of Americans thrust into the politics of gun violence.
First lady Michelle Obama will sit with the parents of a Chicago teenager shot and killed just days after she performed at the president's inauguration. Twenty-two House members have invited people affected by gun violence, according to Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., who pushed the effort. And Republican Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas says he's invited rocker Ted Nugent, a long-time gun control opponent who last year said he would end up "dead or in jail" if Obama won re-election.
That confluence of message and symbolism illustrates where Obama is in his presidency following his re-election.
The economic blueprint he will discuss will have many of the elements Americans have heard before, with its embrace of manufacturing, energy development and education. And in that sense it is a reminder of what was unfulfilled at the end of Obama's first term. But the tragic murders of 26 people at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school in December altered the president's agenda, pushing guns onto a to-do list that already included a new push for an overhaul of immigration law.
As the president addresses gun violence, the cameras are sure to pan the faces in the crowd inside the House chamber, each with a story meant to influence the debate. Obama has proposed a ban on certain weapons and on high-capacity ammunition magazines. He has also called for broader, universal background checks on gun purchasers, a proposal that stands a better chance politically.
Domestic policy will be front and center, but ongoing challenges abroad won't go without mention. On North Korea, which said it successfully detonated a nuclear device Tuesday in defiance of UN warnings, the White House said Obama would make the case that the nuclear program had only further isolated the impoverished nation.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
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Monday, February 11, 2013
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Senator vows to delay Obama's nominees over Libya
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A leading Republican senator said Sunday he would hold up Senate confirmation of President Barack Obama's nominees to head the Pentagon and the CIA until the White House provided more answers about the Sept. 11 attack against a U.S. installation in Benghazi, Libya.
The White House took aim at South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a persistent critic of Obama's response to the terrorist assault, by urging quick approval of the president's second-term national security team and scolding any lawmakers trying to "play politics" with critical nominations.
Graham accused the White House of "stonewalling" requests to release more information about the attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya. "We're going to get to the bottom of Benghazi," he told CBS' "Face the Nation."
A Democratic colleague branded Graham's threat to stall the nominations of former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., to be defense secretary and John Brennan, Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, to be CIA director as "unprecedented and unwarranted." Senators should have the chance to vote on the fate of those nominees, said Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island.
The White House did not address Graham's demand for more information, but did note that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified Thursday before Congress about the chaotic day of the Sept. 11 attack.
In January Graham had signaled he would delay Brennan's pick and told Fox News he would "absolutely" block Hagel unless Panetta and Dempsey testified about the Benghazi attack. The senator said he was "happy as a clam" when he learned the hearing with Panetta and Dempsey had been scheduled.
Republicans have accused the Obama administration of an election-year cover-up of the attack and at the hearing several suggested the commander in chief was disengaged as Americans died.
"We know nothing about what the president did on the night of September 11th during a time of national crisis, and the American people need to know what their commander in chief did, if anything, during this eight-hour attack," Graham said on CBS.
Graham contended that a six-person rescue team was delayed from leaving the Benghazi airport because of problems "with the militias releasing them and a lot of bureaucratic snafus," and he said he wants to know whether Obama called any Libyan officials to expedite their mission.
"I don't think we should allow Brennan to go forward for the CIA directorship, Hagel to be confirmed to secretary of defense until the White House gives us an accounting," Graham said, adding, "What did he do that night? That's not unfair. The families need to know, the American people need to know."
Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council, said, "We believe the Senate should act swiftly to confirm John Brennan and Sen. Hagel. These are critical national security positions and individual members shouldn't play politics with their nominations."
Reed said that "to dwell on a tragic incident and use that to block people is not appropriate. To try to find information, to ask legitimate questions, as Senator Graham is doing is completely appropriate. But then to turn around and say, 'I'm going to disrupt, essentially, the nomination of two key members of the President's Cabinet,' I don't think that's appropriate, I don't think it's warranted, I think it is an overreaction that is not going to serve the best interest going forward of the national security of the United States."
Graham would have none of it.
"In a constitutional democracy, we need to know what our commander in chief was doing at a time of great crisis, and this White House has been stonewalling the Congress, and I'm going to do everything I can to get to the bottom of this so we'll learn from our mistakes and hold this president accountable for what I think is tremendous disengagement at a time of national security crisis," he said.
At the Senate hearing, Panetta testified that he and Dempsey were meeting with Obama when they first learned of the Libya assault. He said the president told them to deploy forces as quickly as possible. Graham asked whether Panetta spoke again to Obama after that first meeting. Panetta said no, but that the White House was in touch with military officials and aware of what was happening. At one point, Graham asked Panetta if he knew what time Obama went to sleep that night. The Pentagon chief said he did not.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/senator-vows-delay-obamas-nominees-over-libya-160555227--politics.html
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