The Black Hat conference at Las Vegas is an annual event for techno-savvy programmers to strut their stuff -- and do us all a favor by showing the vulnerabilities and shortcomings of the technology we rely on.
Risks for mobile phone users of the Android platform are not new.
Seeing an Android phone give up the owner's secrets with little or no end user compromise is, of course, disconcerting.
While Near Field Communications (NFC) has been popular in Japan for awhile -- converting peoples' mobile phones into their wallets for retail transactions -- the technology has been slow to catch on in the states and Europe.
NEW YORK (AP) ? Nearly seven months into the launch of a new morning show, CBS said Thursday that it will replace co-host Erica Hill with chief White House correspondent Norah O'Donnell.
O'Donnell will team with Charlie Rose and Gayle King on "CBS This Morning," the third-rated morning news show behind ABC's "Good Morning America" and NBC's "Today." She'll begin the new job shortly after the Democratic and Republican national conventions are over.
CBS is taking a more serious news approach than its rivals in the morning. The new show hasn't clicked yet in the ratings, yet CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager and President David Rhodes said they were encouraged by recent positive trends.
"We just felt she was so perfect for the direction we're going in," Fager said.
O'Donnell came to CBS from NBC News in June 2011, one of Fager's first big outside hires. Besides her White House work, she's Bob Schieffer's principal substitute on "Face the Nation."
CBS' move comes a month after the "Today" show made a well-publicized switch by removing Ann Curry as co-anchor and replacing her with Savannah Guthrie. The long-dominant NBC show has plunged in the ratings this year and has been second to "GMA" since Guthrie took over. Both the ABC and NBC shows generally get about double the audience of "CBS This Morning."
O'Donnell will be starting her new job just as "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts takes a medical leave. Roberts said Thursday that she will leave the show in late August or early September to undergo a bone marrow transplant. She has MDS, a blood and bone marrow disease.
Roberts will have some high-powered subs: Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters and Kelly Ripa will be among the people filling in, ABC News President Ben Sherwood said.
Hill and CBS are talking about whether she will have a future role at the network. She was the lone holdover when "CBS This Morning" was launched in January, replacing "The Early Show."
"CBS This Morning" averaged 2.47 million viewers during the first six months of the year, down from the 2.63 million that "The Early Show" was averaging during the same period last year. More recently, CBS noted that the show's viewership last week was up 7 percent over the same week in 2011.
The intense ratings struggle between its rivals this spring hasn't helped CBS in its effort to distinguish itself.
"They are trying to grow their audience at a time when both ABC and NBC are going at it 100 percent," said news consultant Andrew Tyndall of ADT Research. "They're not holding back. It's not like there's low-hanging fruit there."
A relatively slow news period has also handicapped CBS. But ratings are up for Scott Pelley's evening newscast on CBS, which has also gone in a more serious direction, raising questions about whether a breezier approach works best in the morning. It has certainly been successful for ABC.
Having Rose, who's 70, as lead anchor at a time of day when younger women dominate the available audience, could also hurt CBS, Tyndall said.
O'Donnell's hiring does not indicate any doubts about the show's direction, Fager said.
"Just the opposite," he said. "We're really confident about what we're doing. We believe it's the right thing to do for CBS News. It's what our identity is about. It's a high-quality broadcast that not only covers important stories well but also interesting stories, which is one of our trademarks. We love it. We just feel like this is a chance to make it even better."
Thursday's telecast was serious but not eat-your-spinach dry. Early in the show, reports on the Colorado shooting and Mitt Romney's trip to England were featured. Although "CBS This Morning" mentioned the Michael Jackson family problems, it had lengthy reports on a man trying to skydive from miles above the Earth, NASA's colorful new animation for its Mars exploration and an interview with the operator of the website Reddit. The last half hour featured interviews with golfer Phil Mickelson, novelist Gillian Flynn and filmmaker Jay Roach.
Continuing her White House job through the conventions will help with the transition, Rhodes said.
"It probably didn't hurt ? and maybe helped ? for her to stay with it as long as she has," he said.
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AP Television Writer Frazier Moore in Beverly Hills, Calif., contributed to this report.
The Union County Family Support Council has been selected to receive a grant from the Iowa Child Abuse Prevention Program (ICAPP), administered by Prevent Child Abuse Iowa. The $14,361.70 grant will be used to provide sexual abuse prevention through the Rural Iowa Crisis Center and support the Parents as Teachers Program through the SWCC/TriUMPH Early Childhood Education?in Union County.
Rural Iowa Crisis Center will use the evidence-based child sexual abuse prevention program Stop It Now! to educate adults in child sexual abuse perpetration prevention. A minimum of 12 training sessions will be provided to parents, educators and caregivers utilizing the Stop It Now! guidebook. The SWCC/TriUMPH Early Childhood Education Parents as Teachers Program is an outreach and follow-up service supporting any parent with children 0 through 5 in Union County by offering in home visits.
?As a recipient of ICAPP funds, Union County Family Support Council is playing an important role in preventing child abuse in Iowa, and we are pleased to partner on this issue,? said Kelly Davydov, ICAPP Director at Prevent Child Abuse Iowa. ?Child abuse is preventable. The dedication and leadership of the Union County Family Support Council are critical to tackling this issue on a state, community and individual level.?
Union County Family Support Council started in 1984 as a small group of individuals who wanted to make a difference in the lives of children. Twenty-eight years later the council is still striving for the same goal. Even though faces have changed, their overall goal of protecting children will never change. Attendees meet monthly on the fourth Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at Union County Extension. According to the statistics reported by Prevent Child Abuse Iowa, in 2010, Union County ranks fourth in the state for child abuse.
?The ICAPP grant will allow Union County Family Support Council to sustain the Parents as Teachers Program and to start education with sexual abuse prevention,? said Victoria Brammer, Community Partnerships for Protecting Children program manager and president of the Union County Family Support Council. ?This opportunity will have huge benefits for families and the future prosperity of our community as we strive to create a safe, nurturing environment for all children to develop to their full potential.?
ICAPP funding comes from federal and state appropriations and birth certificate fees. Iowans also can support ICAPP and this type of service by donating a portion of their state income tax return through the Check Off Child Abuse campaign.
All funds raised from the campaign directly support child abuse prevention programs in local communities. For more information about ICAPP, visit www.pcaiowa.org/programs/icapp.
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We recently introduced you to our four-part series looking at the dos and don?ts of personal finance through your life. We gave you personal finance advice for your 20s, 30s and 40s, helping you build a strong foundation for your early years and guiding you to tailor your savings plans as you pass life?s benchmarks. In this installment, Liz Weston ? MSN Money columnist and author of the book The 10 Commandments of Money ? advises you on your 50s:
Do?
??consult with a fee-only financial planner about your retirement plan. Even if you managed it yourself in the past, you now need an expert?s opinion to make sure you?re on track.
?consider long-term care insurance.
?reduce your exposure to the stock market, if equities comprise more than 70 percent of your portfolio.
?invest in new skills to stay competitive in the job market. Take classes, get new certifications, attend conferences in your field ? anything that helps you add skills.
?think about where you want to live and what you want to do in retirement. Now?s the time to refine your plan.?
Don?t?
??bail out your kids (or grandkids) financially, especially if you?re behind on retirement savings.
?put off drafting a will and other estate-planning documents, such as a power of attorney, which will allow someone else to make health and financial decisions if you become incapacitated.
?fall for pitches for ?safe, high, guaranteed? returns. Those three things don?t exist together.
?carry credit-card debt.
?co-sign loans for your kids.?
What do you think is the most important part of managing finances in your 50s? How do your personal finance habits match up with those on this list?
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HIV suppression not as good as previously thought, largest study of viral-load blood tests showPublic release date: 22-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: David March dmarch1@jhmi.edu 410-955-1534 Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
HIV-infected young adults, blacks, injection drug users and the uninsured less likely to have disease under control while taking antiretroviral drugs
Tens of thousands of Americans taking potent antiretroviral therapies, or ART, to keep their HIV disease in check may not have as much control over the viral infection as previous estimates have suggested, according to results of a study by AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania.
In what is believed to be the largest and longest review of viral load test results in people with HIV disease ever performed in the United States, researchers found that the number of people sustaining viral suppression consistently, at 400 or less viral copies per milliliter of blood, year after year is roughly 10 percent less than previous estimates. The team's findings are set to appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association online July 25. The publication is timed to coincide with the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C.
According to senior study investigator and infectious disease specialist Kelly Gebo, M.D., M.P.H., the team's latest findings underscore just how difficult it is to successfully treat HIV disease and prevent its spread even when people are taking effective ART. Gebo says that "if we are not fully suppressing the virus as much as we thought, then we are not fully preventing and reducing the likelihood of HIV transmission, either." Some 426,000 of the estimated 1.2 million Americans infected with the virus that causes AIDS are taking ART and are under the routine care of a physician.
Gebo says that, overall, while ART has improved significantly within the last decade, with once-a-day pill regimens replacing more complicated, multidrug schedules, "our study findings suggest that physicians and other health care providers still need to do more to promote drug adherence among our patients, and make sure people take their antiretroviral therapies as prescribed."
Without that extra effort, she says, "More people are potentially at risk of becoming infected with HIV, and those already on ART are at risk of developing drug resistance, too." Gebo is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University's Bloomberg School of Public Health.
As part of the decade-long study, more than 100,000 individual blood test results were reviewed, all obtained with permission from the medical records of 32,483 infected adults. Seventy percent were men. Everyone prescribed ART had their blood viral levels carefully monitored at more than a dozen established HIV clinics, including the Moore Clinic at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Among the study's specific findings was that the percentage of participants who tightly controlled their HIV disease was 72 percent in 2010, the last year for which viral load counts were analyzed. This represented a major increase from 45 percent in 2001, but was significantly less than the 77 percent to 87 percent figures widely cited in 2011 reports from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and in studies by other leading Hopkins and Canadian researchers.
According to study lead investigator Baligh Yehia, M.D., M.S.H.P., M.P.P., a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia who trained as a medical resident at Johns Hopkins, all previous reports were based on single-year or one-time-only recordings of blood viral levels, rather than a review of every patient's individual test results from year to year. The latter, he says, is a "more accurate" depiction of people's response to ART over the long term.
Other key findings in the latest report were that younger people, ages 18 to 29; blacks; injection drug users; and those without private health insurance were almost twice as likely as older people; whites; men who have sex with men; and those with private insurance to not have fully suppressed blood viral levels.
"Our data shows that while tremendous strides have been made in sustaining viral suppression, physicians and other HIV care providers need to be more vigilant in monitoring the viral loads in young people, African-Americans, injection drug users and those who lack health insurance," says Yehia.
Gebo and Yehia next plan to use their study data to develop programs for helping people with HIV adhere to therapy and keep routine appointments with their physicians. The team also has plans to interview infected people who consistently adhered to ART and medical care, and those who did not, to better understand the reasons behind successful and failed attempts to sustain and tightly control the disease.
Currently, there are more than 34 million people in the world living with HIV, including an estimated 1,178,000 in the United States and 23,000 in the state of Maryland.
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Funding support for this study was provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Additional funding support was provided by the National Institutes of Health, and grants corresponding to the following numbers: K24-AI073957, K24-DA00432, and R01-DA11602 and R01-AA16893.
In addition to Johns Hopkins' Moore Clinic in Baltimore, Md., participating study center sites, all part of the national HIV Research Network, were Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, Calif.; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Community Health Network in Rochester, N.Y.; Drexel University in Philadelphia; Montefiore Medical Group and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y.; Oregon Health and Science University in Portland; Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas; St. Jude's Children's Hospital and University of Tennessee in Memphis; St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York; Tampa General Health Care; University of California, San Diego; and Wayne State University in Detroit.
Besides Gebo and Yehia, other investigators involved in this study were John Fleishman, Ph.D., at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in Rockville, Md.; Joshua Metlay, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Pennsylvania; and Richard Moore, M.D., M.H.Sc., at Johns Hopkins.
For additional information, go to:
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http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/idd/fellows.html
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/onlineFirst.aspx
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HIV suppression not as good as previously thought, largest study of viral-load blood tests showPublic release date: 22-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: David March dmarch1@jhmi.edu 410-955-1534 Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
HIV-infected young adults, blacks, injection drug users and the uninsured less likely to have disease under control while taking antiretroviral drugs
Tens of thousands of Americans taking potent antiretroviral therapies, or ART, to keep their HIV disease in check may not have as much control over the viral infection as previous estimates have suggested, according to results of a study by AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania.
In what is believed to be the largest and longest review of viral load test results in people with HIV disease ever performed in the United States, researchers found that the number of people sustaining viral suppression consistently, at 400 or less viral copies per milliliter of blood, year after year is roughly 10 percent less than previous estimates. The team's findings are set to appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association online July 25. The publication is timed to coincide with the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C.
According to senior study investigator and infectious disease specialist Kelly Gebo, M.D., M.P.H., the team's latest findings underscore just how difficult it is to successfully treat HIV disease and prevent its spread even when people are taking effective ART. Gebo says that "if we are not fully suppressing the virus as much as we thought, then we are not fully preventing and reducing the likelihood of HIV transmission, either." Some 426,000 of the estimated 1.2 million Americans infected with the virus that causes AIDS are taking ART and are under the routine care of a physician.
Gebo says that, overall, while ART has improved significantly within the last decade, with once-a-day pill regimens replacing more complicated, multidrug schedules, "our study findings suggest that physicians and other health care providers still need to do more to promote drug adherence among our patients, and make sure people take their antiretroviral therapies as prescribed."
Without that extra effort, she says, "More people are potentially at risk of becoming infected with HIV, and those already on ART are at risk of developing drug resistance, too." Gebo is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University's Bloomberg School of Public Health.
As part of the decade-long study, more than 100,000 individual blood test results were reviewed, all obtained with permission from the medical records of 32,483 infected adults. Seventy percent were men. Everyone prescribed ART had their blood viral levels carefully monitored at more than a dozen established HIV clinics, including the Moore Clinic at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Among the study's specific findings was that the percentage of participants who tightly controlled their HIV disease was 72 percent in 2010, the last year for which viral load counts were analyzed. This represented a major increase from 45 percent in 2001, but was significantly less than the 77 percent to 87 percent figures widely cited in 2011 reports from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and in studies by other leading Hopkins and Canadian researchers.
According to study lead investigator Baligh Yehia, M.D., M.S.H.P., M.P.P., a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia who trained as a medical resident at Johns Hopkins, all previous reports were based on single-year or one-time-only recordings of blood viral levels, rather than a review of every patient's individual test results from year to year. The latter, he says, is a "more accurate" depiction of people's response to ART over the long term.
Other key findings in the latest report were that younger people, ages 18 to 29; blacks; injection drug users; and those without private health insurance were almost twice as likely as older people; whites; men who have sex with men; and those with private insurance to not have fully suppressed blood viral levels.
"Our data shows that while tremendous strides have been made in sustaining viral suppression, physicians and other HIV care providers need to be more vigilant in monitoring the viral loads in young people, African-Americans, injection drug users and those who lack health insurance," says Yehia.
Gebo and Yehia next plan to use their study data to develop programs for helping people with HIV adhere to therapy and keep routine appointments with their physicians. The team also has plans to interview infected people who consistently adhered to ART and medical care, and those who did not, to better understand the reasons behind successful and failed attempts to sustain and tightly control the disease.
Currently, there are more than 34 million people in the world living with HIV, including an estimated 1,178,000 in the United States and 23,000 in the state of Maryland.
###
Funding support for this study was provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Additional funding support was provided by the National Institutes of Health, and grants corresponding to the following numbers: K24-AI073957, K24-DA00432, and R01-DA11602 and R01-AA16893.
In addition to Johns Hopkins' Moore Clinic in Baltimore, Md., participating study center sites, all part of the national HIV Research Network, were Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, Calif.; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Community Health Network in Rochester, N.Y.; Drexel University in Philadelphia; Montefiore Medical Group and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y.; Oregon Health and Science University in Portland; Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas; St. Jude's Children's Hospital and University of Tennessee in Memphis; St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York; Tampa General Health Care; University of California, San Diego; and Wayne State University in Detroit.
Besides Gebo and Yehia, other investigators involved in this study were John Fleishman, Ph.D., at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in Rockville, Md.; Joshua Metlay, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Pennsylvania; and Richard Moore, M.D., M.H.Sc., at Johns Hopkins.
For additional information, go to:
http://alumni.jhu.edu/heritage
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/idd/fellows.html
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/onlineFirst.aspx
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