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Monday, June 14, 2010

Pacquiao starts prepping up for Congress stint

Pacquiao starts prepping up for Congress stint
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Date: 14 June 2010

Angiotensin Receptor Blockers

Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs) vs Cancer

A study says that drugs known as Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs) can cause a modestly increased risk of the cancer.

Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) are drugs commonly used to lowering high blood pressure, reduce heart failure and diabetic nephropathy.

The researchers found patients were randomized to receive an ARB has a 7.2% risk of developing a new cancer, compared to 6% in the control group in the study. Among solid-organ cancers examined, only the incidence of new lung cancer was significantly higher in recipients of ARB from the control group, 0.9% compared to 0.7%.

In a written statement, Boehringer Ingelheim said the comprehensive security of internal data analysis of primary data contrary to the Lancet study conclusions about potential increased risk of malignancy. The company says the drug has been studied in clinical trials in more than 50 000 patients, and has a positive safety profile.

A combined sale of Novartis’s Diovan and related drugs, Co-Diovan, last year was $ 6 billion. Merck’s Cozaar and Hyzaar drug-related have combined sales of $ 3.6 billion.

kinect

Microsoft Kinect: For gamers this November; for business users ... later

The Microsoft officials have shared the final name (Kinect) for its Project Natal control device, and are saying to expect it to be available this November.

Why should enterprise users care? In April this year, CEO Steve Ballmer said the gesture-recognition camera/sensor Natal/Kinect device will be the most interesting product the company will release this year. Microsoft won’t be touting the device as an accompaniment to a PC for a while, but that’s where the Redmondians are going with this.

A swish of a hand will advance a slide show; a flick of the wrist will allow you to scroll without using a mouse or touchpad.

Blogger Manan Kakkar recently posted about a patent Microsoft is seeking that builds on the Kinect-like gesture-centric experience in the PC space.

Microsoft unveiled the new Kinect name at the E3 show in Los Angeles. The company also showed off some Kinect-enabled games and a a new video chat service at the confab. Microsoft still hasn’t shared pricing for Kinect, but it is expected to be $150 or less by most company watchers.

Kinect is part of Microsoft’s continuing quest to bring to market natural user interface (NUI) technologies, like touch, voice and gesture-recognition. Maybe it’s also part of a grand plan to force users to continue to exercise (even if that just means by waving a hand) while being increasingly tied to our PCs?

Flag Day

Flag Day: Why June 14?

Monday, June 14, is Flag Day. The picture to the right is from the Library of Congress, called “The Birth of Old Glory,” by artist Percy Moran, from 1917.

You can find it, along with a history of Flag Day on the Library of Congress’ website, under Today in History: June 14.

The answer is there to why Flag Day is celebrated on June 14.

On that day in 1777, the Continental Congress approved the 13-star, 13-stripe design of America’s national flag.

The federal government also has a Web page to answer all your questions on flag protocol.

Appropriately enough, Monday is also the beginning of qualifying week for political candidates in Florida.

Most have already filed paperwork in Tallahassee, or with local supervisors of elections, so they can raise and spend campaign money.

But from noon Monday until noon Friday, state and local candidates have to officially file their qualifying paperwork, or they won’t be on the ballot.

Federal candidates already had their qualifying week in April.

You can keep track of state candidates on the Florida Division of Elections website.

For local candidates, check your own county’s supervisor of elections website. They’re listed county-by-county on News 13’s Florida Decides page.

jimmy dean

Jimmy Dean, Country Star And Sausage King, Dead at 81

The Country Music Hall of Famer was a singer, TV host and actor before launching Jimmy Dean Meat.

Country singer Jimmy Dean, whose career as a storyteller was equaled later in life by his success as a sausage pitchman, died at his home in Varina, Virginia, on Sunday night at the age of 81. According to CNN, the Country Music Hall of Famer apparently died of natural causes.

Though later in life his name was most familiar for his famous line of smoked sausages, Dean made his mark first in the world of country music, scoring a #1 hit on the pop and country charts in 1961 with the song "Big Bad John," a tune about a mysterious, Paul Bunyan-esque coal miner who saves his fellow workers after a mine collapse. Written with country legend Roy Acuff, the million-selling song won a 1962 Grammy for Best Country & Western Recording and helped save Dean's recording career, after his label, Columbia Records, was considering dropping him.

The tune and other story songs like "Little Black Book" and "P.T. 109" helped Dean score an ABC variety show in 1963, "The Jimmy Dean Show," which ran for three years. One of the show's regular guests was the early Muppet character Rowlf, a piano-playing dog cooked up by master puppeteer Jim Henson.

Dean also acted in the late 1960s NBC series "Daniel Boone," in which he played Boone's friend, Josh Clements, and played the role of James Bond's ally Willard Whyte in 1971's "Diamonds Are Forever."

As his music career began to wind down, Dean returned to the thing he knew best growing up: hogs. According to an Associated Press report, Dean grew up slaughtering pigs on his family's farm by hitting them over the head with the blunt end of an ax and then grinding the meat alongside his brother Don. In 1969, he started the Jimmy Dean Meat Company, which was almost instantly profitable and eventually earned him more than $75 million.

With his just-folks appeal and kind face, Dean became a staple in ads for his sausage products, even after selling the company in 1984to Sara Lee Foods, which dumped him as its pitchman in 2003.

The singer was born Seth Ward in Olton, Texas, on August 10, 1928, and raised in poverty in Plainview, Texas. His mother taught him how to play piano at age 10, and along the way he picked up guitar, harmonica and accordion, dropping out of school in the ninth grade. After leaving the Air Force in 1948, he formed a band, the Texas Wildcats, who began a strong local draw in Washington, D.C., and earned their first hit in the early 1950s with "Bummin' Around."