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Beehive Glue Stops Prostate Cancer in Mice

Catbird — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:22:43 GMT

This is potentially huge but there isn't enough info in the article to get a sense of the parameters of the study. I'm trying to find where this is being published and maybe an abstract for more info.

ABC News:

Quote:

Researchers at the University of Chicago found that a compound made in honeybee hives seems to stop the spread of prostate cancer cells in mice.

The compound, called caffeic acid phenethyl ester or CAPE, is made from propolis, the resin honeybees use to patch holes in their hives. The product has been known and used for centuries as a natural remedy for teeth and skin, as well as a defense against viruses and bacteria.

When the researchers fed CAPE to mice that had early stages of the human form of prostate cancer, it seemed to stop the cancer in its tracks.

�Their tumors simply stopped growing,� said Richard Jones, the study�s author and a cancer researcher at the University of Chicago. �When we stopped feeding the mice CAPE, their tumors returned.�

Obama: "Born in Kenya"

Potemkin — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:16:27 GMT

Whoopsie!

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...donesia-Hawaii

The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii'

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Andrew Breitbart was never a "Birther," and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of "Birtherism." In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.

Yet Andrew also believed that the complicit mainstream media had refused to examine President Obama's ideological past, or the carefully crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for him.

It is for that reason that we launched "The Vetting," an ongoing series in which we explore the ideological background of President Obama (and other presidential candidates)--not to re-litigate 2008, but because ideas and actions have consequences.

It is also in that spirit that we discovered, and now present, the booklet described below--one that includes a marketing pitch for a forthcoming book by a then-young, otherwise unknown former president of the Harvard Law Review.

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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ti...o-be-a-kenyan/

Obama's literary agent says he was 'born in Kenya'. How did the mainstream media miss this?

By Tim Stanley US politics Last updated: May 18th, 2012

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Conservatives claim that Obama manipulated his Kenyan roots to gain attention

Whatever you think of Breitbart.com’s punishing vetting process, it has exposed just how little work the mainstream media did in investigating candidate Obama back in 2008. Not all of Team Breitbart’s revelations have been election-deciders, but they have often been stuff that a simple Google would have uncovered. If they revealed tomorrow that he’d had his own cross-dressing-themed sitcom on primetime TV in the 1980s, I wouldn’t be surprised.

The latest find is a fascinating inversion of the birther conspiracy. Breitbart.com has discovered that in 1991 Barack Obama’s literary agent (who also represented New Kids on the Block) published a booklet that included a biography of the future President. The audience was “business colleagues” in the publishing industry and it was designed to promote Obama’s anticipated first book (later abandoned) called Journeys in Black and White. Here’s how it describes the author’s origins.

Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation.

The key phrase here is “was born in Kenya" – and this bio line was apparently being used as late as 2007.

New pregnancy ultrasound question

rb. — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:22:34 GMT

Would anyone know...

DD went for her first ultrasound last week, and they ended up having to do it transvaginally. AFTER she dran all that water, poor kid. Anyway, she has to go back and have another tomorrow a.m....saw the OB/GYN today, she's sending her back. Seems the amniotic sac measurement dates the pregnancy to 8 weeks, but the crown/rump length (CRL) puts the embryo/fetus at 10 wks 6 days.

Does anyone know what this means? Problems? Tech that didn't measure correctly? There was a heartbeat last week on u/s, but nurse couldn't find one today, but it is early, and she was just using that little amplifier thingy.

The Weird Reasons You're so Tired

sandyd — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:54:13 GMT

The Weird Reasons You're so Tired

http://shine.yahoo.com/secrets-to-yo...004500025.html

Poker hands

Oric — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:40:23 GMT

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Poker.html

Spray invented will get you instantaneously drunk for just a few seconds, zero aftereffects

Lars — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:39:55 GMT

http://gizmodo.com/5907153/this-spra...o-aftereffects

Angry gamer mistaken for domestic abuser

Toner — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:04:38 GMT

http://vicpdthebeat.com/?p=3857

Donna Summer--Queen of Disco RIP

linttrap — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:28:01 GMT

The background music of my Twenties.

Rest easy Donna.

You Tube

Obama leading in close race...in Ark Dem primary

Lars — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:19:18 GMT

http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/16/ob...ce-with-obama/

Philly Fed's U.S. Mid-Atlantic Economic Index of drops 15 points for April.

Sonny — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:48:03 GMT

Philly Fed Index, Economic Indicators Paint Grim Picture

Thursday, 17 May 2012 | 10:18 AM ET

By: Reuters with CNBC.com

A gauge of future U.S. economic activity fell in April for the first time in seven months, according to an industry survey on Thursday, indicating a struggling economic recovery.

The Conference Board's Leading Economic Index decreased 0.1 percent to 95.5, the first drop in the monthly index since September 2011. The index rose 0.3 percent in March.

Economists polled by Reuters had expected the index to increase 0.1 percent.

"The indicators reflect an economy that's still struggling to gain momentum," said Ken Goldstein, an economist at the Conference Board. "Growth is slow, but choppy, and consumers, executives and investors are looking for more progress."

Employment growth slowed in April, with employers adding 115,000 new jobs to their payrolls, the smallest amount in six months.

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's "Philly Fed Index", which tracks regional manufacturing and acts as a proxy for nationwide manufacturing conditions, said on Thursday its index of conditions in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region fell in May to -5.8 from 8.5 in April.

This level counters economists' expectations for a gain to 10.0. Any reading below zero indicates contraction in the region's manufacturing. The survey covers factories in eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware.

It is seen as one of the first monthly indicators of the health of U.S. manufacturing leading up to the national report by the Institute for Supply Management.

"This indicates that the U.S. economic growth is a lot more tentative. The market wasn't prepared for this; it was expecting risks from Europe while we recovered," said Subodh Kumar, chief investment strategist for Subodh Kumar & Associates in Toronto. "Markets will continue to correct."

http://www.cnbc.com/id/47460387

Top 29 Banks May Need $556 Billion to meet tougher new capital rules

Sonny — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:47:08 GMT

Fitch Says

The credit rating agency studied 29 banks named by world leaders (G20) as being globally systemically important financial institutions and required to hold core capital buffers of up to 9.5 percent by the start of 2019.

The list includes
Barclays [BCS 11.58 -0.27 (-2.28%) ],

Deutsche Bank [DB 35.7901 -1.2899 (-3.48%) ],

Goldman Sachs [GS 97.76 -2.11 (-2.11%) ],

HSBC [HSBA.L 521.60 -12.60 (-2.36%) ],

JPMorgan Chase [JPM 34.27 -1.97 (-5.44%) ],

UBS [UBS 11.21 -0.43 (-3.69%) ].
...
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/47458722

Bank Run in Spain

Dreamweaver — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:22:00 GMT

Who's next?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/187a0562-a...#axzz1v83HeGn5

white births the minority in US

ukmum — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:09:07 GMT

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18100457

Quote:

Children from racial and ethnic minorities now account for more than half the births in the US, according to the latest US census.

Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and other mixed races made up 50.4 percent of births counted in the 12 month period ending in July 2011.

It puts non-Hispanic white births in the minority for the first time.

Internet usage patterns may mark depression

Oric — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:02:37 GMT

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0516135504.htm

Most common birth dates in the year

linttrap — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:03:50 GMT

The summer/fall spikes represent holiday hook-ups!