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Case in point is Facebook's more recent push to get more celebrities to use the site more publicly. That's an obvious response to Twitter's success in the area and, while Facebook may never be able to directly compete with the former, it's trying to attract at least some of the activity normally reserved for Twitter.
All Things D is underlining this fact with some inside knowledge from Facebook, though the social network won't say publicly that it's interested in driving people away from Twitter.
But there's good reason to be interested. Facebook's ad revenue keeps on growing and it's already the second largest player in some areas, behind Google.
However, Twitter is getting a lot of attention from the entertainment business, TV, movies, and music. And that attention translates into cold hard cash.
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NCI Backgrounder
Being the third most common non-skin cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality in men and women in the United States, colorectal cancer can be a devastating disease. Nonetheless, according to the latest statistics from NCI covering the period 2006 to 2010, death rates continue to decline, due in part to improved treatments, and in part to colorectal cancer screening options that are proven to reduce mortality and that have gained acceptance by the public.
Colorectal cancer can still be a deadly disease, and people who have been diagnosed and treated for it are at increased risk for developing a new colon cancer. To address concerns of colorectal cancer recurring after initial treatment, NCI, in collaboration with SWOG, one of the five cooperative groups that together will comprise NCI's National Clinical Trials Network, and Cancer Prevention Pharmaceuticals, Inc., recently announced a phase III trial. The Preventing Adenomas of the Colon with Eflornithine & Sulinidac (PACES) trial looks at whether someone who has been treated for colon cancer in the past can lower his or her risk of having a second primary colorectal cancer or an adenoma (a type of polyp on the colon wall that may be precancerous) by regularly taking one or both of the study drugs, eflornithine and sulindac. ?Both drugs work to lower the body's levels of polyamines, a group of naturally-formed molecules that play a role in the development of colorectal cancer. Each drug works in a different manner: eflornithine slows the body's production of polyamines; sulindac helps cells get rid of excess polyamines.
?PACES is an important study that, in addition to studying ways to prevent the recurrence of previously treated colon cancer, will use new genomic technology to help identify those patients with the greatest risk of recurrence,? said Worta McCaskill-Stevens, M.D., chief of the Community Oncology and Prevention Trials Research Group in NCI?s Division of Cancer Prevention.
Researchers chose these two drugs because of an earlier study that looked at their preventive effects in patients who already had at least one adenoma removed from their colon. In that study, participants who took the drug combination lowered their risk of developing another adenoma over the next three years to less than one third of what it was for those who did not take the drugs. And they lowered their chances of developing high-risk adenomas or multiple adenomas during that time by 90 percent. According to McCaskill-Stevens, ?this trial will help determine who will most likely benefit from the drugs eflornithine and sulindac.?
SWOG (formerly the Southwest Oncology Group) conducts clinical trials to prevent and treat cancer in adults and is primarily funded by research grants from NCI. It is one of the largest cancer clinical trials cooperative groups in the United States.
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The Veery thrush, a secretive migratory bird, silences its flute-like twilight song when owls are around to avoid getting eaten, a new study shows.
The trembling, other-worldly dusk chorus of the Veery thrush?(Catharus fuscescens) is often heard well after sunset. But all this singing in low light can be dangerous for the small brown and white birds. Perching makes them less vigilant and their racket can give away their exact location to predators like owls that just beginning their nocturnal hunt.
But Veeries adjust their behavior to be less conspicuous, the new study found.
Researchers studied a group of the birds in a stretch of forest in Millbrook, N.Y., a home shared with up to three pairs of predatory barred owls. When the scientists played recordings of the owl songs in the forest, Veeries cut their singing patterns for up to 30 minutes. The birds also had fewer song bouts at dusk and quit singing earlier in the night after having heard the owls.?
"Singing becomes much more risky in the low light of dusk when owls are around," study researcher Kenneth Schmidt of Texas Tech University said in a statement. "However, by eavesdropping on owls, Veeries can adapt their singing behavior to decrease the risk of predation."
"Further studies of dusk chorus singing may reveal how the risk of being attacked by predators has contributed to the evolution of singing behavior at dusk," Schmidt added.
The research is detailed in journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
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TOKYO (AP) ? Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso refused Friday to resign or apologize over remarks suggesting Japan should follow the Nazi example of how to change the country's constitution stealthily and without public debate.
Following protests by neighboring countries and human rights activists, he "retracted" the comments on Thursday but refused to go further.
"I have no intention to step down" as Cabinet minister of lawmaker, Aso, who is also the deputy prime minister, told reporters. The government also said it is not seeking Aso's resignation, which some opposition members have demanded.
Aso, who is known for intemperate remarks, drew outrage for saying Japan should learn from how the Nazi party stealthily changed Germany's pre-World War II constitution before anyone realized it. He also suggested that Japanese politicians should make visit Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine quietly to avoid controversy. Such visits currently take place amid wide publicity and are a sore point for Southeast Asian nations, who suffered under Japanese occupation during World War II.
Aso said Thursday he was misunderstood and only meant to say that loud debate over whether Japan should change its postwar constitution, and other issues is not helpful.
In retracting his comments, he said it was "very unfortunate and regrettable" that his comments were misinterpreted.
On Friday, Aso said he stands by all his other remarks in the speech made earlier this week in Tokyo to an ultra-conservative audience.
Critics of the ruling Liberal Democrats are uneasy over the party's proposals for revising the U.S.-inspired postwar constitution, in part to allow a higher profile for Japan's military.
Japan and Nazi Germany were allies in World War II, when Japan occupied much of Asia and Germany much of Europe, where the racial supremacist Nazis oversaw the killings of an estimated 6 million Jews before the war ended in 1945 with their defeat. Japan's history of military aggression, which included colonizing the Korean Peninsula before the war, is the reason its current constitution limits the role of the military.
According to a transcript of the speech published by the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, Aso decried the lack of support for revising Japan's pacifist constitution among older Japanese, saying the Liberal Democrats had held quiet, extensive discussions about its proposals.
"I don't want to see this done in the midst of an uproar," Aso said, according to the transcript. Since revisions of the constitution may raise protests, "doing it quietly, just as in one day the Weimar constitution changed to the Nazi constitution, without anyone realizing it, why don't we learn from that sort of tactic?"
Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said that postwar Japan has consistently supported peace and human rights.
"Cabinet ministers should fully understand their role and make sure to avoid misleading remarks," Suga said Friday. He said Aso has already retracted the Nazi comment and doesn't have to resign.
Aso often speaks in a meandering style that has gotten him in trouble for off-the-cuff remarks in the past. He has apologized previously for accusing the elderly of being a burden on society, joking about people with Alzheimer's disease, saying the ideal country would be one that attracts "the richest Jewish people," and comparing the opposition Democratic Party of Japan to the Nazis.
On Thursday, Aso insisted that he was referring to the Nazis "as a bad example of a constitutional revision that was made without national understanding or discussion ...I just don't want (the revision) to be decided amid a ruckus."
The Nazis' rise to power in the early 1930s amid the economic crisis brought on by the Great Depression was facilitated by emergency decrees that circumvented the Weimar constitution. So was Adolph Hitler's seizure of absolute power after he was made chancellor in 1933.
It was not a matter of revising but of abusing the constitution.
Opposition leaders condemned Aso's remarks, saying they showed a lack of understanding of history and hurt Japan's national interest. Some demanded Aso resign.
Aso's comments "sounded like praise for Nazi actions and are totally incomprehensible," said Akihiro Ohata, secretary general of the Democratic Party.
"Minister Aso's ignorance about historical facts is so obvious," said Seiji Mataichi, secretary general of the Social Democratic Party. "I also want to remind him that praising the Nazis is considered a crime in EU nations."
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a group dedicated to keeping alive the history of the Holocaust, urged Aso to "immediately clarify" his remarks.
"What 'techniques' from the Nazis' governance are worth learning? How to stealthily cripple democracy?" Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said in a statement.
In South Korea, Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young said Aso's remark "will obviously hurt many people."
In China, which also suffered invasion and occupation by Japanese imperial troops before and during the war, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the comments showed that "Japan's neighbors in Asia, and the international community, have to heighten their vigilance over the direction of Japan's development."
Hong also objected to Aso's comments on visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates Japan's 2.3 million war dead, including 14 wartime leaders convicted of war crimes.
Aso urged lawmakers in his speech to visit the shrine at times other than the closely watched anniversary of the end of the war on Aug. 15 to avoid diplomatic flare-ups.
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Source: The Flea, by Robert Hooke. From Micrographia, 1665. Public domain.
At first glance, Robert Hooke?s illustration of a flea is basic, clean, and straightforward. Under today?s standards of 3D computer graphics, we might not even look twice at it. But note the year: 1665! The flea first appeared as an 18-inch engraving in Hooke?s classic Micrographia. At the time, no one save a few pioneers of early microscopy had ever seen a small invertebrate magnified. Hooke?s flea would have been most people?s only acquaintance with the finer details of this common parasite. Seeing this speck of an animal with every hair, every sclerite in enlarged detail must have been a revelation. For more about this image, see here.
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TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso has retracted comments suggesting Japan should follow the Nazi example of how to change the country's constitution, following protests by neighboring countries and human rights activists.
Aso drew outrage for saying Japan should learn from how the Nazi party stealthily changed Germany's constitution before World War II before anyone realized it, and for suggesting that Japanese politicians should avoid controversy by making quiet visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine.
Speaking to reporters, Aso said Thursday that he was misunderstood and only meant to say that loud debate over whether Japan should change its postwar constitution, and other issues, is not helpful.
"It is very unfortunate and regrettable that my comment regarding the Nazi regime was misinterpreted," Aso told reporters. "I would like to retract the remark."
Aso, who is also deputy prime minister, made the comments about Nazi Germany during a speech Monday in Tokyo organized by an ultra-conservative group.
Critics of the ruling Liberal Democrats are uneasy over the party's proposals for revising the U.S.-inspired postwar constitution, in part to allow a higher profile for Japan's military.
Japan and Nazi Germany were allies in World War II, when Japan occupied much of Asia and Germany much of Europe, where the racial supremacist Nazis oversaw the killings of an estimated 6 million Jews before the war ended in 1945 with their defeat. Japan's history of military aggression, which included colonizing the Korean Peninsula before the war, is the reason its current constitution limits the role of the military.
According to a transcript of the speech published by the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, Aso decried the lack of support for revising Japan's pacifist constitution among older Japanese, saying the Liberal Democrats had held quiet, extensive discussions about its proposals.
"I don't want to see this done in the midst of an uproar," Aso said, according to the transcript. Since revisions of the constitution may raise protests, "doing it quietly, just as in one day the Weimar constitution changed to the Nazi constitution, without anyone realizing it, why don't we learn from that sort of tactic?"
Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe "in no way looks positively at the Nazi regime. Since the end of the war (World War II), our nation has consistently built up a society which thoroughly advocates peace and human rights."
"This direction remains unchanged, going forward," he added.
Aso often speaks in a meandering style that has gotten him in trouble for off-the-cuff remarks in the past. He has apologized previously for accusing the elderly of being a burden on society, joking about people with Alzheimer's disease, saying the ideal country would be one that attracts "the richest Jewish people," and comparing the opposition Democratic Party of Japan to the Nazis.
On Thursday, Aso insisted that he was referring to the Nazis "as a bad example of a constitutional revision that was made without national understanding or discussion."
"If you listen to the context, it is clear that I have a negative view of how the Weimar constitution got changed by the Nazi regime," he said.
"This is a constitution for all," Aso said. "I just don't want (the revision) to be decided amid a ruckus."
The Nazis' rise to power in the early 1930s amid the economic crisis brought on by the Great Depression was facilitated by emergency decrees that circumvented the Weimar constitution. So was Adolph Hitler's seizure of absolute power after he was made chancellor in 1933.
It was not a matter of revising but of abusing the constitution.
Opposition leaders condemned Aso's remarks, saying they showed a lack of understanding of history and hurt Japan's national interest. Some demanded Aso resign.
Aso's comments "sounded like praise for Nazi actions and are totally incomprehensible," said Akihiro Ohata, secretary general of the Democratic Party.
"Minister Aso's ignorance about historical facts is so obvious," said Seiji Mataichi, secretary general of the Social Democratic Party. "I also want to remind him that praising the Nazis is considered a crime in EU nations."
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a group dedicated to keeping alive the history of the Holocaust, urged Aso to "immediately clarify" his remarks.
"What `techniques' from the Nazis' governance are worth learning? How to stealthily cripple democracy?" Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said in a statement.
"Has Vice Prime Minister Aso forgotten that Nazi Germany's ascendancy to power quickly brought the world to the abyss and engulfed humanity in the untold horrors of World War II?"
In South Korea, Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young said Aso's remark "will obviously hurt many people."
"I believe Japanese political leaders should be more careful with their words and behavior," Cho said.
In China, which also suffered invasion and occupation by Japanese imperial troops before and during the war, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the comments showed that "Japan's neighbors in Asia, and the international community, have to heighten their vigilance over the direction of Japan's development."
Hong also objected to Aso's comments on visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates Japan's 2.3 million war dead, including 14 wartime leaders convicted of war crimes.
Aso urged lawmakers in his speech to visit the shrine at times other than the closely watched anniversary of the end of the war on Aug. 15 to avoid diplomatic flare-ups.
"We demand that Japan seriously contemplate history, remain committed to promises it made on historical issues, and take concrete actions to win the trust of its Asian neighbors and the international community," Hong said.
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John Wall has missed about one-quarter of the games since he was the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA Draft. He hasn?t been an All-Star. His team hasn?t won more than 29 games in a regular season.
Yet his game ? and his team ? got considerably better when he returned from an injury last season, and he remains the cornerstone of the Washington Wizards, who took the calculated risk Wednesday of signing the point guard to a contract extension. Two people familiar with the deal say it?s a max deal, worth about $80 million over five years.
The people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team?s announcement Wednesday did not reveal financial terms. A news conference will be held Thursday.
"He is the cornerstone of our team," Wizards owner Ted Leonsis said in the team?s release announcing the extension. "And we have clearly expressed our desire to build around him."
Wall was the top overall pick in the 2010 draft after playing one season of college basketball at Kentucky, immediately becoming the prime building block for a Wizards club that now has missed the playoffs each of the past five seasons.
He has averaged 16.9 points, eight assists, 4.4 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 35.8 minutes during his career.
Rockets? Jones arrested for hurting homeless man
Houston Rockets forward Terrence Jones was arrested in Portland, Ore., on Wednesday after he was seen stomping on a homeless man?s leg, a police spokesman said.
A police sergeant making sure people remained orderly while they left a downtown club shortly after 2 a.m. saw the 6-foot-9 Jones walk by a doorway where two homeless men were sleeping and yell "Wake Up!" before lifting his foot and stomping on one man?s leg, said Sgt. Pete Simpson, a Portland police spokesman.
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Jones, 21, was booked into the Multnomah County Jail on a misdemeanor harassment charge. He was released on his own recognizance and later pleaded not guilty at his arraignment.
The homeless man, identified as 46-year-old Daniel Kellerher, had a minor injury that did not require immediate medical attention, Simpson said.
Harris, Mavs work out his return
Free agent Devin Harris has officially rejoined the Dallas Mavericks.
The 10th-year guard was acquired as the No. 5 pick on draft night in 2004 and spent his first 3? seasons with Dallas before a trade with New Jersey that brought Jason Kidd back to the Mavericks.
Harris originally agreed to join Dallas nearly a month ago, but the contract was held up by concerns over a toe injury.
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