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German luxury car manufacturer Audi launched its new range of Sports cars at the glitzy and glamorous Delhi Couture Week (DCW) here, with actress Freida Pinto adding jazz to the ramp. ...
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People ate less of a portion of food if it was labeled "double-sized" rather than "regular." Karen Hopkin reports.
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The mayor of New York famously tried to ban super-sized sodas. But instead of legislating a drink?s volume, maybe we should change its name. Because a new study shows that the words we use to describe portion size affect how much we actually consume. The findings are in the journal Health Economics. [David R. Just And Brian Wansink, One Man's Tall Is Another Man's Small: How The Framing Of Portion Size Influences Food Choice]
As portion sizes at many restaurants grow larger, so do our waistlines. Of course, no one says we have to finish that three-quarter pound burger or chug an entire Big Gulp. But what determines when we lay down the fork and push away from the table?
To find out, researchers led by Brian Wansink of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab served up some spaghetti. Some volunteers received a portion labeled ?regular,? others got a dish described as ?double size.? Although both plates contained the same amount of pasta, people ate more when they thought their serving size was normal. Participants who thought they?d gotten the piggy-sized portion left 10 times more food on their plates.
So if a big beverage were called, say, Double the Size of your Stomach, maybe we?d think twice about draining every last drop.
?Karen Hopkin
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ROME (AP) ? Top Silvio Berlusconi aides are maneuvering to win a presidential pardon so the ex-premier can avoid a prison term and ban on holding office, with one loyalist warning of possible "civil war" unless punishment for his tax-fraud conviction is lifted.
Renato Brunetta, a leader of Berlusconi's People of Freedom party, said Saturday he and another aide requested a meeting with Italy's president, who can issue pardons. Separately, longtime Berlusconi loyalist Sandro Bondi said Italy risks "civil war" if the 76-year-old media mogul isn't spared punishment.
A law to reduce prison overcrowding slashes Berlusconi's four-year sentence to one year. Since he is over 70, he can choose house confinement or perform social services in lieu of prison.
Premier Enrico Letta's fragile coalition risks collapse if Berlusconi's party withdraws support.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/berlusconi-aides-seeking-presidential-pardon-132059086.html
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RENO, Nev. (AP) ? A Nevada brewpub has turned to Facebook to publicly shame a patron who left the restaurant without paying his $100 tab.
Employees of the Brewer's Cabinet in Reno posted a picture of smiling patron Saul Zelaznog on Tuesday, telling him his actions were "pretty uncool ... pathetic, really," and urging users to visit his profile to "let him know he sucks."
They also warned other restaurants to watch out for the "serial" tab-skipper.
The message had been shared nearly 600 times by Thursday morning.
Zelaznog told the Reno Gazette-Journal (http://on.rgj.com/16miNZN ) he had forgotten a method of payment when he visited Tuesday, but planned to return to pay the tab.
Zelaznog says he was asking relatives to wire him money in hopes of paying the bill by Thursday.
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His takes on the lack of communication between his agent and his GM read like Kenny Chesney lyrics from "Have Another Beer In Mexico".
?I?m not worried about it not getting done or anything like that,? he told NorthJersey.com.?Hopefully it will get done soon. There?s no real deadline or anything.?
Pop another cold one. Chill out.
The NHL landscape is littered with quality, young RFA stars. One would think that there would be some urgency to get them signed so as to avoid any drama or bad feelings before training camps open six weeks from now.
Without pressure points, negotiations tend to lag on. In Henrique's case, he and his agent seem to be okay with the "we'll get a deal when we get a deal" approach. Were I the agent representing a star RFA in today's NHL, you better believe that I'd be enforcing pressure points in our negotiations.
St. Louis Blues GM Doug Armstrong is being so chill with the negotiations with their #1 D Alex Pietrangelo, that they re-signed veteran Jay Bouwmeester to a five year, $27 million contract extension on Thursday. Nonchalance is the order of the day. What message is Blues management sending to the #1 D man by making him sit and wait while the team takes its sweet time extending an over-hyped D for $5.4M AAV per season for the next five seasons? If I was Petro's agent, I'd be cutting my agent to the front of the feeding trough. Too bad Chris Stewart, Jake Allen, Kevin Shattenkirk, Jay Bouwmeester, and Jordan Leopold. My client comes first. Thats how I roll.
The NY Rangers are playing the waiting game with Derek Stepan, as are the Caps with Marcus Johansson , The Sens with Jared Cowen, the Coyotes with Mikael Boedker, and, as the Leafs Nazem Kadri, and the Devils with Adam Henrique.
Cody Hodgson is in the same state of suspended animation as his fellow RFA counterparts. Lots of talk between his agent Ritch Winter and Sabres GM Darcy Regier, yet there's no new contract to speak of YET.
Henrique says that he's not sweating the small stuff. He even said that he hasn't spoken with his agent in a while.
?There?s nothing really holding it up. It?s a matter of time,? Henrique said.?We want to make sure we get the best deal for both sides.?
Here's my take:
Pay me NOW , and I'll buy us all 10 rounds of beers in Mexico!
Source: http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?post_id=53163
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France Anne Cordova served as president of Purdue University from 2007 to 2012, and oversaw the creation of the Colombia?Purdue Institute for Scientific Research
France Anne Cordova speaking at Purdue University. Image: Mark Simons, Purdue University
Originally posted on the Nature news blog
Astrophysicist France Anne Cordova has been tapped to head the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which has been run by an acting director since March 2013. President Barack Obama?announced the pick on 31 July. If confirmed, Cordova would fill the gap left by Subra Suresh, who announced his resignation in February, after serving less than half of his six-year term leading the US$7 billion agency.
Cordova, who earned her doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, served as president of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, from 2007 to 2012. In 2010, she oversaw the creation of the Colombia-Purdue Institute for Scientific Research, which aims to foster scientific collaboration between the Colombia and the United States.
Earlier in her career, Cordova worked in the Earth and Space Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and went on to lead the department of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University in University Park. In September 1993, Cordova was named NASA?s first female chief scientist.
?She?s a very accomplished academic researcher,? says?Umar Mohideen, chairman of the physics and astronomy department at the University of California, Riverside, where Cordova served as chancellor from 2002-2007. ?She?s managed academia, and those are qualities that would make her a good choice.?
Cordova now begins the sometimes lengthy process of winning confirmation from the ?US Senate?? normally an easy process for candidates to lead NSF. But her nomination comes at a time when Republican lawmakers in the Senate have used procedural tactics to slow consideration of Obama administration picks. EPA chief Gina McCarthy was confirmed on 18 July after a historic delay caused by political infighting, and?Obama has struggled to fill several other top science positions.
This article is reproduced with permission from the Nature news blog. The article was first published on July 31, 2013.
Source: http://rss.sciam.com/~r/sciam/chemistry/~3/Yx45QRv-REQ/article.cfm
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LAS VEGAS (AP) ? The head of the U.S. National Security Agency defended the government's much-criticized surveillance program against hecklers among a crowd of computer systems analysts Wednesday, but also had a challenge for them: If you don't like it, lend your talent to build a better one.
"You're the greatest tech talent anywhere in the world. Help us," Army Gen. Keith Alexander said at the hacker conference for the buttoned-up corporate and government security analyst crowd, not the one later in the week for the more counter-culture types.
Alexander spent much of his 45-minute address explaining how government methods used to collect telephone and email data helped foil 54 terror plots since 1993. He was interrupted at times by hecklers, but also drew applause.
"Our nation takes stopping terrorism as one of the most important things," he said, standing in short sleeves with a slide on the screen behind him showing a timeline and the number of foiled plots.
"Freedom!" one man shouted from the middle of the standing-room crowd.
"Exactly. And with that, when you think about it, how do we do that? Because we stand for freedom," Alexander said.
"Bulls--t," the heckler said.
"Not that," Alexander replied before continuing his keynote speech to the annual Black Hat conference at Caesars Palace. Organizers said the conference drew 7,000 people.
Alexander didn't refer in his address specifically to leaks by former NSA systems analyst contractor Edward Snowden of classified documents that brought attention on the government's surveillance efforts.
He remained unapologetic, denying another heckler's claim that he lied to Congress about methods the NSA uses to "connect the dots" and "go after the bad actors who may want to do us harm."
"People say, 'I hear what you say, but I don't trust that,'" Alexander said.
"How do we defend this country? That is the question," he said. "The nation needs to know we're going to do the right thing."
The four-star general, who has headed the NSA for eight years, said it wasn't true the agency listens to specific phone calls and reads emails. He said "no one at NSA" has ever gone outside the legal boundaries of the Patriot Act and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act programs allowing the collection of "metadata."
Alexander emphasized oversight of his programs by Congress, courts and the administration, and posted a slide of the type of broad one-line "metadata" that he said the agency collects from communications abroad: Date, duration, phone number calling, phone number receiving, and a note about the authorizing entity.
"There are no names in the database," he said. "No addresses. No credit card numbers. The database is like a lockbox."
Alexander said the data led to the disruption of 13 terror plots in the U.S., 25 in Europe, five in Africa and 11 in Asia. He spoke of a thwarted plot to bomb the New York City subway system in September 2009, but didn't specify others.
"We get all these allegations of, 'What they could be doing,'" Alexander said. "But when you check, like the (congressional) intelligence committees, they find that hasn't happened. Zero times."
Ted Doty, a computer product security manager and blogger from Atlanta, said he wasn't convinced.
"The smart people know that what's interesting is the connection trees," Doty said, referring to the links between one caller and the next. "That's what the NSA wants."
Doty said he suspected the government submits emails and text communications to transcription software and searches it using algorithms to find key words and phrases.
Mike MacKinnon, an information technology manager for a Los Angeles law firm, said he thought Alexander handled heckling well. He noted that Alexander even drew laughter when a voice shouted that he should read the Constitution.
Alexander said he had, and the heckler should, too.
"I expected a bit more yelling," MacKinnon said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nsa-chief-talks-hackers-conference-vegas-175951147.html
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