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We?ve heard a little bit about Facebook and Asana co-founder Dustin Moskovitz?s new foundation, Good Ventures, specifically a company that its investment arm got involved with last August. Today we’ve learned a lot more, specifically about its non-profit endeavours, as the site for Good Ventures has been launched, and it discusses exactly what the foundation will be doing and which companies and causes it’s currently involved in. Its “portfolio” reads like a list of every difficult problem felt in third-world countries, and it’s expansive already. Just some of the issues that Good Ventures has issued grants for are curing and treating malaria, marriage equality, and small enterprise support. The grants seem to average $50,000 and are going directly to the causes that need it the most. Good Ventures was co-founded by Moskovitz and former Wall Street Journal reporter Cari Tuna. The about us page on the site describes their mission clearly and concisely: Good Ventures is a philanthropic foundation whose mission is to help humanity thrive. Here’s an excerpt from their intro letter on their reason for creating the foundation: We?ve seen human well-being increase dramatically in recent decades. Quality of life is rising and violence is declining. At the same time, humanity is becoming better networked, technologically, economically and socially. We?re optimistic that these trends will continue ? even accelerate ? in the decades to come. Our giving, leveraged well, can quicken the pace of humanity?s progress and mitigate the risks that threaten to derail it. Our giving can increase the human capital on which society has to draw. Our giving can prevent unnecessary suffering by ensuring that the fruits of our collective labor benefit those who are most marginalized today. While it doesn’t look like investments or grants will be systematic like one from a regular venture capital firm, it does seem like the organization gives Moskovitz and Tuna the platform to drive change by placing money directly with causes. For example, Good Ventures set out to co-fund based on a recommendation by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last August. The cause supports an effort to contain and eliminate drug resistance to antimalarial medications, and Good Ventures donated $1M. The site also has a great bit of content about the causes it’s involved in, as well as why you should be giving to charities too, with most posts penned by Tuna. Here’s an excerpt from a recentSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/zwWRcEqv8MY/
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I joined Mois?s Chiullan on his 5by5 show, Screen Time last week to talk about how companies communicate with their stakeholders, including investors, developers, and customers/end users. Or in Sony's case with the PS4 event, how they failed to. As Mois?s put it:
In this sibling episode to Critical Path 74, Rene Ritchie joins Mois?s to discuss keynote culture, why and how Sony's PS4 event was a bust, and whether keynotes as we know them are a dying breed.
If you're interested in technology beyond Apple, though compared and contrasted with Apple, give it a listen. And don't miss the After Dark companion show.
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@Warren:
Grats on the new addition to the family buddy!! Have you thought about what sort of colour scheme you are going to paint him yet? And I do not recommend any conversion work, although no doubt with 2 children you will be getting some mould lines yourself shortly. 
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Thinking about names for your son, have you thought about ?Big Dog? as this name put a smile on your face, or perhaps ?Garviel?? 
Also Warren, you mentioned that Andrea is going to Monkey Business soft play area. Are you not going to struggle if you are left to host the event AND look after 2 children by yourself. Women will do anything to get out family duties to play around these days, Pfffft! hehee
@Stuart
WOW!! awesome knowledge base you have there buddy!! Any chance of a new segment called ?Nerd Alert?? You could host a ?Nerdy News? section, where you download all your nerdy facts into the ether for all to enjoy. E.g. New films coming out etc. Love the fact a new X-Men film is on it?s way!!! Thanks. 
@Ming the Badass:
Nice to see you looking like the only gamer there matey, Black T-shirt ? Check, Beard ? Check, Can of beer ? Check!
@TTN+BoW staff:
Great initiative on the ITD event. Could be a great way to get new people into the hobby and an excuse to involve family and friends. A great day out and an introduction into board games which are a nice cheap pastime for the family, instead of being stuck in front of the box!!
@Prize Winners:
Grats guys, hope you enjoy your prizes and would love to see their progress on the forums.
@all:
Really good episode (Again) Makes waking up on a saturday all the more enjoyabubble.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A U.N. convoy sent to retrieve 21 Filipino peacekeepers captured by rebels in a southern Syrian village three days ago has been held up after one of its vehicles broke down, a Syrian rebel source said on Saturday.
But he said a ceasefire around the village of Jamla appeared to be holding and the convoy of seven U.N. vehicles, held up about 6 km (4 miles) northeast of Jamla, would still be able to collect the peacekeepers once it was mobile again.
"The U.N. convoy has reached the village of Ain Dhakar but has halted there because of technical difficulties," Abu Essam Taseel, from the media office of the Martyrs of Yarmouk brigade, told Reuters by Skype.
The peacekeepers - part of the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) that has been monitoring a ceasefire line between Syria and Israel in the Golan Heights since 1974 - were seized by the Martyrs of Yarmouk rebel brigade on Wednesday.
They have been held in Jamla, a village one mile from the Israeli-occupied Golan. After their capture, insurgents described them as "guests" and said they would be freed once President Bashar al-Assad's forces pull back from around Jamla and stop shelling.
A brief truce was agreed on Saturday morning to allow for the peacekeepers' retrieval. Although the two-hour window of that ceasefire passed at midday (1000 GMT) before they could be extracted, the rebels said relative calm prevailed.
Taseel said the area around Jamla was quiet apart from some "limited clashes" to the south which he said would not impede the peacekeepers' recovery.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighters from the Martyrs of Yarmouk and other brigades took control of a military position in the village of Abdin, about 2 km (1.2 miles) south of Jamla on Saturday.
A rescue effort on Friday was delayed by heavy bombardment and abandoned after nightfall, U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said. "(Jamla) is subject to intense shelling by the Syrian armed forces," he told reporters after briefing the U.N. Security Council on the situation.
REGIONAL SPILLOVER
Syria's nearly two-year civil war has spilled periodically across the Golan Heights ceasefire line and Syria's borders with Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey, threatening to engulf the region. The conflict began as peaceful protests, but turned violent when Assad ordered a crackdown on the demonstrations.
Ladsous warned that once the peacekeepers were released, "we would strongly expect that there would not be retaliatory action by the Syrian armed forces over the village and its civilian population".
Syrian U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari said the army was targeting areas outside Jamla where he said the rebels were concentrated, not the village itself. "We know for sure what we are doing and we know where the peacekeepers are," he said.
"The Syrian government forces are doing exactly what they have to do in order to bring back safely the peacekeepers, guarantee the safety and security of the inhabitants of these villages (and) get these armed group terrorists out of the area," Ja'afari said.
In several videos released on Thursday, the peacekeepers said they were being treated well by civilians and rebels. The United Nations said the captives had been detained by about 30 rebel fighters, but Taseel said the men were "guests," not hostages, and were being held for their own safety.
Under an agreement brokered by the United States in 1974, Israel and Syria are allowed a limited number of tanks and troops within 20 km (13 miles) of the disengagement line.
A U.N. report in December said both the Syrian army and rebels had entered the demilitarized area between Syrian and Israeli forces. It said that violence in the area showed the potential for escalation across the frontier, jeopardizing the ceasefire between the two countries.
(Additional reporting by Michelle Nichols at the United Nations and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva, editing by Mark Heinrich)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-convoy-retrieve-golan-peacekeepers-delayed-rebel-121933449.html
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Mar. 4, 2013 ? After nearly a decade of careful observations an international team of astronomers has measured the distance to our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, more accurately than ever before. This new measurement also improves our knowledge of the rate of expansion of the Universe -- the Hubble Constant -- and is a crucial step towards understanding the nature of the mysterious dark energy that is causing the expansion to accelerate. The team used telescopes at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile as well as others around the globe. These results appear in the 7 March 2013 issue of the journal Nature.
Astronomers survey the scale of the Universe by first measuring the distances to close-by objects and then using them as standard candles [1] to pin down distances further and further out into the cosmos. But this chain is only as accurate as its weakest link. Up to now finding an accurate distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way, has proved elusive. As stars in this galaxy are used to fix the distance scale for more remote galaxies, it is crucially important.
But careful observations of a rare class of double star have now allowed a team of astronomers to deduce a much more precise value for the LMC distance: 163 000 light-years.
"I am very excited because astronomers have been trying for a hundred years to accurately measure the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, and it has proved to be extremely difficult," says Wolfgang Gieren (Universidad de Concepci?n, Chile) and one of the leaders of the team. "Now we have solved this problem by demonstrably having a result accurate to 2%."
The improvement in the measurement of the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud also gives better distances for many Cepheid variable stars [2]. These bright pulsating stars are used as standard candles to measure distances out to more remote galaxies and to determine the expansion rate of the Universe -- the Hubble Constant. This in turn is the basis for surveying the Universe out to the most distant galaxies that can be seen with current telescopes. So the more accurate distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud immediately reduces the inaccuracy in current measurements of cosmological distances.
The astronomers worked out the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud by observing rare close pairs of stars, known as eclipsing binaries [3]. As these stars orbit each other they pass in front of each other. When this happens, as seen from Earth, the total brightness drops, both when one star passes in front of the other and, by a different amount, when it passes behind [4].
By tracking these changes in brightness very carefully, and also measuring the stars' orbital speeds, it is possible to work out how big the stars are, their masses and other information about their orbits. When this is combined with careful measurements of the total brightness and colours of the stars [5] remarkably accurate distances can be found.
This method has been used before, but with hot stars. However, certain assumptions have to be made in this case and such distances are not as accurate as is desirable. But now, for the first time, eight extremely rare eclipsing binaries where both stars are cooler red giant stars have been identified [6]. These stars have been studied very carefully and yield much more accurate distance values -- accurate to about 2%.
"ESO provided the perfect suite of telescopes and instruments for the observations needed for this project: HARPS for extremely accurate radial velocities of relatively faint stars, and SOFI for precise measurements of how bright the stars appeared in the infrared," adds Grzegorz Pietrzy?ski (Universidad de Concepci?n, Chile and Warsaw University Observatory, Poland), lead author of the new paper in Nature.
"We are working to improve our method still further and hope to have a 1% LMC distance in a very few years from now. This has far-reaching consequences not only for cosmology, but for many fields of astrophysics," concludes Dariusz Graczyk, the second author on the new Nature paper.
[1] Standard candles are objects of known brightness. By observing how bright such an object appears astronomers can work out the distance -- more distant objects appear fainter. Examples of such standard candles are Cepheid variables [2] and Type Ia supernovae. The big difficulty is calibrating the distance scale by finding relatively close examples of such objects where the distance can be determined by other means.
[2] Cepheid variables are bright unstable stars that pulsate and vary in brightness. But there is a very clear relationship between how quickly they change and how bright they are. Cepheids that pulsate more quickly are fainter than those that pulsate more slowly. This period-luminosity relation allows them to be used as standard candles to measure the distances of nearby galaxies.
[3] This work is part of the long-term Araucaria Project to improve measurements of the distances to nearby galaxies.
[4] The exact light variations depend on the relative sizes of the stars, their temperatures and colours and the details of the orbit.
[5] The colours are measured by comparing the brightness of the stars at different near-infrared wavelengths.
[6] These stars were found by searching the 35 million LMC stars that were studied by the OGLE project
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President Obama recently acknowledged the obvious: He doesn't have the supernatural powers necessary to do a mind meld, Jedi or otherwise, with Republican congressional leaders that would lead to pacts on fiscal policy, or anything else for that matter.
But if he doesn't have the power to force meetings of the minds with his Republican opponents, he can at least still get meetings with them.
Popping up on the president's schedule all of a sudden was a Wednesday night dinner at a Washington, D.C., hotel with a group of GOP senators.
And the president reportedly hopes to meet soon with House Republicans. It's apparently part of a plan to make his case directly to rank-and-file Republican lawmakers instead of focusing only on their leaders, like House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
There's obviously much to discuss, from finding an alternative to the automatic and indiscriminate spending cuts of the sequester that went into effect March 1 to an understanding on how to keep funding the government past the end of March in order to avoid a shutdown. Then there's the debt ceiling that will need to be raised sometime this summer.
The meetings look like part of a presidential effort to regain a clear upper hand in the public relations battle with Republicans.
Up until the sequester deadline, Obama was mainly focused on raising pressure on congressional Republicans with campaign-style events meant to get the public to side with his approach of deficit reduction through spending cuts and tax revenue over the GOP's focus only on spending cuts.
But some Republicans who first dreaded the sequester came to embrace it. Although the spending cuts are less than a week old, the fact that they didn't immediately cause disruptions equal to the president's warnings made even some Democrats wonder if he hyped the risks.
The president's job approval ratings also fell below 50 percent right around the time the sequester took hold, according to Gallup.
His meetings with Republican lawmakers seem designed to give Obama the ability to argue more credibly that he reached out to the other side to try and find common ground. Even some Democrats have implicitly criticized Obama for not having more face-to-face meetings with Republicans.
It's unlikely to produce much more than optics, however. While individual senators frequently act like free agents, forming themselves into bipartisan "gangs" to try and bridge the gaps on politically divisive and controversial issues, House members generally don't.
More to the point, in both the Senate and the House, the hard partisan lines between the parties, especially on fiscal matters, makes it even more unlikely for Obama to make any real headway.
Also, for congressional Republicans, the path to greater GOP success hasn't been to agree with Obama, but just the opposite. Appearing conciliatory toward the president is about the best way to invite a primary challenge.
Lastly, Obama will most likely make his appeal to the same House GOP members of the non-Tea Party variety who he's likely to work to unseat next year, as he tries to give Democrats a chance to win back the House majority. So those lawmakers might be forgiven if they're somewhat distracted in his presence.
Source: http://wkms.org/post/obamas-outreach-gop-more-optics-opportunity
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The research may help explain the long-known connection between poor diet and increased cancer risk.
While sugars are necessary for many bodily functions, a healthy person's blood sugar levels remain within a relatively narrow range due to the hormones glucagon and insulin. When blood sugar levels are slightly too high, a person is diagnosed as prediabetic. When blood sugar levels climb even higher, a person is considered diabetic.
Both prediabetes and diabetes are significantly more common in overweight and obese people; indeed, Type II diabetes is actually caused by many of the same factors as obesity. Researchers have long known that diabetics and obese people have a much higher cancer risk, but the reasons for this have remained unclear.
"Previously we were unsure about how increased blood sugar found in diabetes and obesity could increase cancer risk," said Colin Goding of Oxford University, who was not involved in the study. "This study ... opens the way for potential novel therapies aimed at reducing cancer risk in the obese and diabetic populations."
The new findings came from a study examining how intestinal cells react to sugars by releasing GIP, a hormone that signals the pancreas to release insulin. The researchers found that a protein called s-catenin plays a critical role in intestinal cells' ability to release GIP, and that s-catenin becomes more active in the presence of too much sugar.
Significantly, prior research has shown that s-catenin can also interfere with the natural life cycles of cells, causing them to become immortal and thereby precancerous. Further tests by the researchers confirmed that in the presence of high sugar levels, cells begin to accumulate s-catenin in their nuclei, leading directly to the cell proliferation associated with cancerous tumors.
63 percent of deaths worldwide are now caused by noncommunicable diseases, many of which - such as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease - are strongly linked to lifestyle factors. Health experts estimate that about one in three cancers could be prevented by improved diet and exercise habits.
But globally, both obesity and diabetes are on the rise. According to the World Health Organization, one in 10 adults around the world are now obese, and global obesity rates are doubling every 20 years. One in 10 adults are also diabetic, and the disease was responsible for 4.6 million deaths in 2011. In the United States, diabetes kills more than two people every hour.
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LANSING, Michigan (Reuters) - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder will officially declare a financial emergency for Detroit on Friday, paving the way for a state takeover of the city, a state government source said on Thursday.
At a forum in Detroit, the Republican governor will endorse the February 19 findings of a six-member review team that concluded the city's dire financial situation constituted an emergency, according to the source, who asked not to be identified.
Sara Wurfel, Snyder's spokeswoman, said the governor will outline "his determination on whether or not there is an emergency."
The official declaration of an emergency for Michigan's biggest city will trigger a 10-day deadline for Detroit officials to request a hearing with Snyder. It will likely result in the appointment of an emergency financial manager to manage its fiscal affairs.
The review team said the city is plagued by "operational dysfunction," but made no official recommendation on the need to appoint an emergency financial manager, leaving that to the governor.
Detroit, which has been struggling for years with a falling population, shrinking tax base and large payroll for city services, has been operating since April 2012 under an agreement that gave the state some oversight. But the slow pace of reforms led Snyder to launch a new review of the city last December.
If the state decides to appoint an emergency financial manager, that person could decide the city's only course for survival would be a bankruptcy filing in what would become the largest municipal bankruptcy in the United States.
The emergency manager would be officially chosen by a state board composed of the state treasurer, budget director, and licensing and regulatory affairs director - all of whom are Snyder appointees.
Snyder has publicly discussed qualifications he would seek in the manager and has said he had a short list of candidates for the job.
(Reporting By Dawson Bell; Additional reporting by Karen Pierog; Editing by Greg McCune and Leslie Adler)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/michigan-governor-declare-detroit-fiscal-emergency-source-231857763.html
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An international team led by Sascha Quanz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) has studied the disc of gas and dust that surrounds the young star HD 100546, a relatively nearby neighbour located 335 light-years from Earth. They were surprised to find what seems to be a planet in the process of being formed, still embedded in the disc of material around the young star. The candidate planet would be a gas giant similar to Jupiter.
"So far, planet formation has mostly been a topic tackled by computer simulations," says Sascha Quanz. "If our discovery is indeed a forming planet, then for the first time scientists will be able to study the planet formation process and the interaction of a forming planet and its natal environment empirically at a very early stage."
HD 100546 is a well-studied object, and it has already been suggested that a giant planet orbits about six times further from the star than the Earth is from the Sun. The newly found planet candidate is located in the outer regions of the system, about ten times further out.
The planet candidate around HD 100546 was detected as a faint blob located in the circumstellar disc revealed thanks to the NACO adaptive optics instrument on ESO's VLT, combined with pioneering data analysis techniques. The observations were made using a special coronagraph in NACO, which operates at near-infrared wavelengths and suppresses the brilliant light coming from the star at the location of the protoplanet candidate.
According to current theory, giant planets grow by capturing some of the gas and dust that remains after the formation of a star [3]. The astronomers have spotted several features in the new image of the disc around HD100546 that support this protoplanet hypothesis. Structures in the dusty circumstellar disc, which could be caused by interactions between the planet and the disc, were revealed close to the detected protoplanet. Also, there are indications that the surroundings of the protoplanet are potentially heated up by the formation process.
Adam Amara, another member of the team, is enthusiastic about the finding. "Exoplanet research is one of the most exciting new frontiers in astronomy, and direct imaging of planets is still a new field, greatly benefiting from recent improvements in instruments and data analysis methods. In this research we used data analysis techniques developed for cosmological research, showing that cross-fertilisation of ideas between fields can lead to extraordinary progress."
Although the protoplanet is the most likely explanation for the observations, the results of this study require follow-up observations to confirm the existence of the planet and discard other plausible scenarios. Among other explanations, it is possible, although unlikely, that the detected signal could have come from a background source. It is also possible that the newly detected object might not be a protoplanet, but a fully formed planet which was ejected from its original orbit closer to the star. When the new object around HD 100546 is confirmed to be a forming planet embedded in its parent disc of gas and dust, it will become an unique laboratory in which to study the formation process of a new planetary system.
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This research was presented in a paper "A Young Protoplanet Candidate Embedded in the Circumstellar disc of HD 100546", by S. P. Quanz et al., to appear online in the 28 February 2013 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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A customer pickets up a Mega Millions lottery ticket in Palo Alto, Calif., on March 30, 2012.
By Gary Fineout, The Associated Press
Florida will start selling tickets to the popular Mega Millions game later this year.
Florida Lottery officials told The Associated Press on Thursday that the state will join 42 other states in selling tickets. Tickets will go on sale on May 15.?
The state already sells tickets to Powerball, another multistate game. It also has its own game called Florida Lotto.?
Lottery Secretary Cynthia O'Connell said retailers and lottery players have been asking the state to join Mega Millions for years.?
Lottery officials contend that adding Mega Millions will generate additional money for the state, despite past fears that adding games would erode sales of existing games.?
Last summer the Florida Lottery wrapped up the most financially successful fiscal year in its history, with sales of $4.45 billion.?
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