Apple is Getting Ready for
the iPhone 5 Launch
One of the biggest Chinese
newspapers, China Times, reported
this week that Apple has received a
shipment of 400 , 000 iPhone 5
smartphones, that are to be tested
before the release of 4 ,000 , 000 units
this September . This article suggests
that the big launch will take place in
the second week of September .
Rumors from other iPhone
publications and websites , like iPhone
Italia, who heard this from an
undisclosed executive at Swisscom,
point towards a more exact release
date, it being September 5 , which is
also Labor Day in the U .S . this year. A
major product launch on a holiday is
very unlikely and Apple hasn ’t
confirmed, denied or announced
anything official.
More info from this report indicate
that Apple will also launch the new
iPad 3 around Thanksgiving this year
and that it will be a big improvement
over the current iPad. The device is
being released later than it was initially
thought due to component problems.
Most analysts are skeptical that Apple
will launch an upgrade to one of their
best sellers , the iPad 2 , only 9 months
after it was introduced , while other
analysts say we will see a new iPad
this year in the form of an “ iPad 2
Plus”, which will be a slightly improved
iPad 2 .
Apple has previously launched new
iPhones at the Worldwide Developers
Conference(WWDC ), which is held in
June, and most people were
expecting the iPhone 5 back then .
Attention now turns to September ,
when Apple normally holds its iPod
focused event . Also, because the new
operating system is scheduled to be
released this Fall , it is expected that
the iPhone 5 will be introduced at the
same time as the iOS 5 .
Apple and AT&T Preparing
Staff for the iPhone 5 Release
According to Boy Genius Report (BGR ),
AT& T is expecting a large influx of
customer in September . They have
asked managers in locations all over
the country to finish employee
training so that they can be ready and
available for the big number of
people that will want to purchase an
iPhone 5 immediately after its
introduction.
Other reports show that Apple is
increasing its staff in store locations
around the United States and United
Kingdom . Job listings have been
posted on UK websites , looking for
iPhone sales persons and specialists,
and US Apple stores are asking former
employees to return as part time
employees for “new product
launches ”.
Whether these rumors are true or not ,
we will find out shortly . Apple is
expected to announce something
officially about the iPhone 5 any day
now and they will most likely do that
by the end of August .
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Drug may cut menopause after breast cancer chemo
Early menopause is often a side effect for women treated with chemotherapy for breast cancer, but a new study reveals some guarded promise for preventing early menopause breast cancer patients. The results are published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
While most breast cancer is diagnosed at later ages, about 6% of women learn that they're ill before age 40 - when they are still of childbearing age. Breast cancer treatments that have shown the best results for for disease free survival include chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, or both. For younger women still hoping for children, these treatments can cause devastating short-term or long-term loss of menstrual periods, and loss of fertility. While many women choose to preserve the option of having children by storing eggs before cancer treatment, the process can be costly and difficult.
Italian researchers conducted a phase three study that included 281 women with breast cancer, aged 18 to 45 years and who had not experienced menopause. Patients were randomly selected to be treated with chemotherapy alone or with chemotherapy and triptorelin, a drug, called a GnRH analogue, that prevents the ovaries from releasing eggs. The researchers followed the women for one year after they had finished chemotherapy.
Among the women who had not received triptorelin, the rate of early menopause was 25.9%. Among the women who had received triptorelin, the rate of early menoapuse was 8.9%, which is 17% lower.
An accompanying editorial by Dr. Hope S. Rugo and Dr. Mitchell P. Rosen of the University of California-San Francisco says that trptorelin therapy should not be recommended as a standard treatment and should be approached with caution in women with hormone-sensitive disease. They also stress that women resuming their menstrual cycles does not mean the same thing as women preserving their fertility. They conclude that using assisted reproductive technology – such as storing eggs before chemo, is “the most effective option for fertility preservation.”
(cnn)
While most breast cancer is diagnosed at later ages, about 6% of women learn that they're ill before age 40 - when they are still of childbearing age. Breast cancer treatments that have shown the best results for for disease free survival include chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, or both. For younger women still hoping for children, these treatments can cause devastating short-term or long-term loss of menstrual periods, and loss of fertility. While many women choose to preserve the option of having children by storing eggs before cancer treatment, the process can be costly and difficult.
Italian researchers conducted a phase three study that included 281 women with breast cancer, aged 18 to 45 years and who had not experienced menopause. Patients were randomly selected to be treated with chemotherapy alone or with chemotherapy and triptorelin, a drug, called a GnRH analogue, that prevents the ovaries from releasing eggs. The researchers followed the women for one year after they had finished chemotherapy.
Among the women who had not received triptorelin, the rate of early menopause was 25.9%. Among the women who had received triptorelin, the rate of early menoapuse was 8.9%, which is 17% lower.
An accompanying editorial by Dr. Hope S. Rugo and Dr. Mitchell P. Rosen of the University of California-San Francisco says that trptorelin therapy should not be recommended as a standard treatment and should be approached with caution in women with hormone-sensitive disease. They also stress that women resuming their menstrual cycles does not mean the same thing as women preserving their fertility. They conclude that using assisted reproductive technology – such as storing eggs before chemo, is “the most effective option for fertility preservation.”
(cnn)
An American soccer star playing for Palestine
An American soccer star
playing for Palestine - At six foot five, with his shock of
blonde hair shaved into a fat Mohawk and
talking in a languid Georgian drawl, Omar
Jarun looks like he was once part of an all-
conquering college basketball team.
But the 26-year-old American doesn't play
basketball. Or at least not well. "I played
recreational basketball for one season," he
told CNN.
"People told me I should try it because of
my height. But I wasn't any good at it."
Instead life had a different path for Jarun,
one that would take him far from his native
Peachtree City, Georgia.
On Sunday he will line up as a defender for
the Palestinian national soccer team as they
take on Afghanistan in a match that, just one
year on from the World Cup final in South
Africa, represents one of the first steps
towards qualification for the next
tournament in Brazil in 2014.
Besides being Palestine's first World Cup
match on home soil, Sunday's encounter will
have extra significance for Jarun. It will be
the first time he has ever set foot in the
West Bank and he plans to visit his ancestral
town of Tulkarem.
His team traveled for 24 hours to be able to
play their first match against Afghanistan.
The game was moved from Kabul to the tiny
aluminum smelting town of Tursunzade in
southern Tajikistan -- a few miles from the
Uzbek and Afghan border -- for fear of
violence in Afghanistan.
Palestine won 2-0 and now have a good
chance of qualifying for the second round
where they would play Thailand.
The return match, to be held Sunday in
Ramallah, will also be a landmark:
Palestine's first ever World Cup match on
home soil.
"My dad taught me to play the game. He
would always take me and my brother out
and we would always play around the back
yard," Jarun says.
"I kicked football in high school, and I was
actually pretty good at it. They wanted me
to pursue it in college but I didn't really
want to. I wanted to play with a team, I
really wanted to play soccer."
Jarun's remarkable story began in Kuwait.
Along with his sister, his American mother
and Palestinian father, he fled the country in
1990 when Saddam Hussein's forces invaded
the kingdom and sparked the first Gulf War.
"I remember bombs going off. Missiles
shooting off near the apartment. I
remember grabbing my bear, me and my
sister running to my dad's bedroom and
saying: 'What's going on?'" he recalled.
"The next morning my dad would come in
shaking from the bombs going off. Because
we are American, my mom managed to get
the entire family in to the U.S. We left
everything behind. My parents had nothing."
Growing up, Jarun soon discovered his love
for soccer, playing for AFC Lightning, the
same youth team that nurtured U.S.
internationals Clint Mathis and Ricardo
Clark.
His Arab heritage was seldom an issue, he
says, but he noticed a change after 9/11.
"By looking at me, I look like a white boy,"
he laughed. "You don't get judged
immediately like my father does. Like an
Arab. He gets judged right away. But you
look at me and you don't think I'm Arab.
"Before 9/11 there were no problems,
really. I had always established myself as an
American from the Middle East. After 9/11 it
was very difficult. My dad would tell me: 'Be
careful what you say.' I would get double,
tripled-checked at the airport. You know it's
for safety for the country, so I don't have
many complaints about it."
After stints playing for the Atlanta
Silverbacks, Vancouver Whitecaps and then
in the Polish league, Jarun returned to the
U.S. and joined F.C. Tampa Bay in America's
second tier league. But by now he had
become an international footballer.
A scout from the Palestinian Football
Federation discovered him while on a tour
looking for professional players from the
Palestinian diaspora that might qualify to
play for the national team.
"At the time, when I thought of the national
team I thought I could play for the U.S.
national team at some point but I never
really got the opportunity, so I took this
one. I really had no idea I'd be in the
Palestinian national team," he said.
"I knew it wasn't going to be the best set-
up, I knew it wouldn't be particularly
professional. But I could do my part. I
didn't know what I could do for the
Palestinian people apart from play football.
So when they told me I could play for the
Palestinian national team I said yes."
Many will be surprised that Palestine even
has a national team. In 1998 FIFA, world
football's governing body, recognized
Palestine, making it one of the few
international bodies to place it alongside
other nation states.
But following the outbreak of the second
intifada in 2000, and the imposition of
restrictions for residents of the West Bank
by the Israelis, the local league was
cancelled and national team players were
prevented from traveling abroad to fulfil
their fixtures.
When qualification for the 2006 World Cup
began, so many players were prevented
from leaving Gaza and the West Bank that
only nine could start against Uzbekistan in a
match in Doha, Qatar.
Today the team is a patchwork of
bureaucracy. They fly on seven different sets
of papers that make moving through every
border, be it Jordanian, Israeli or Tajik, a
tough task.
One, Roberto Bishara, plays for Palestino in
the Chilean first division, a team set up by
Palestinian immigrants. Three others are
Israeli Arabs who have played in Israel's
first division while most of the rest play in
Jordan or for teams in the newly
professional West Bank Premier League.
The coach, Mousa Bezaz and his assistant
are French Algerian; eight players and the
goalkeeper coach are from Gaza, which is
controlled by the militant Palestinian
movement Hamas and in many ways cut off
from the outside world. Others have an East
Jerusalem ID, a separate identity reserved
for those Palestinians who live in the divided
city or have family there.
Gaza-born players who now play in the West
Bank have recently been refused re-entry
when trying to come home via Jordan.
Arguably the team's best player, defender
Abdel Latif Bahdari, was repeatedly refused
permission to leave Gaza through Egypt due
to a ban on visas for men aged between 18
and 40. By the time he finally got out it was
too late for him to make the team.
Jarun recalls first meeting his teammates.
"Their first impressions were: 'Who the hell
is this guy? How the hell is this guy
Palestinian?' But they welcomed me in like I
was one of the brothers. It wasn't like I was
an outsider. No one was judging each other.
"They could tell I had good intentions for
the team. Being an American I can explain
to people in America what was going on in
their county."
Jarun believes victory on Sunday will do far
more than send Palestine into the next
round.
"I think the match is huge man. Sport brings
countries together and I don't know a better
way for the world to know about Palestine
apart from this soccer team," he explained.
"Coming from outside, I feel that this is
such a big step for this country. We can
show that the Palestinians are normal
people." An American soccer star
playing for Palestine
Online Education May Transform Higher Ed
Online Education May Transform Higher Ed Can online education be the rock that
disturbs the placid waters of American
higher education? Several industry experts
believe it will have a significant ripple effect
on colleges and universities of all sizes in
coming years—but only if it's subject to
regulation, governed by a common set of
accreditation standards, and widely
accepted by institutions who have long clung
to the traditional face-to-face model of
instruction.
Citing the vast online enrollment gains made
by for-profit institutions like the University
of Phoenix and Kaplan University, Louis
Soares, director of postsecondary education
at the Center for American Progress,
recently dubbed online education a
potential "disruptive innovator" in the higher
ed landscape. Much in the way cell phones
disrupted the traditional landline-based
model or discount retailers like Wal-Mart
revolutionized the nation's retail market, the
for-profit sector—though a subject of
intense scrutiny in recent years—has driven
changes that could greatly affect the world
of higher education, Soares argues.
"A disruptive innovation always starts out at
a lower quality," he says. "[But], if you take
that for-profit energy out of higher
education, online [education] wouldn't have
grown the way it has in the last 10 years."
[Read about the partisan battle over for-
profit education.]
In the coming decade, experts say, college
students should expect an increased
presence of online classes at traditional
nonprofit schools. Already, about 30
percent of American college students take at
least one course online, says Elaine Allen,
statistical director of the Sloan Survey on
Online Education, which monitors student
involvement in online higher education.
Though wholly online programs generally
target nontraditional students, established
institutions that are populated by
traditional, high-achieving students are
starting to embrace the technology. The
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
and the University of Southern California are
among the highly regarded schools that
have recently adopted online-centric
programs.
Efforts made by such schools are not the
culmination of a movement online, but
rather a hint of inroads into a new market,
experts say. "We're at the beginning of elite
schools starting to take online seriously,"
says Richard Garrett, managing director at
research firm Eduventures. "They're trying
to marry the online experience with the
brand of the institution."
As technological capabilities expand and
more traditional schools embrace online
education in the coming years, schools may
opt to replace many of their massive, entry-
level courses that are traditionally taught in
vast lecture halls and are characterized by
little to no individual interaction between
students and professors, experts say. "Is
there a secret sauce to a professor sitting in
front of 400 students and lecturing that
couldn't be [replicated] online?" asks
Soares, of the Center for American
Progress.
[Learn about the effectiveness of blended
learning.]
Standardized methods for training
professors to teach online is another
potential change on the horizon, and one
that is essential to online education's future
viability, experts claim. Currently, there is no
standard for training professors to teach
online courses. That need could be met by
an association of online schools introducing
a pedagogy or could be regulated by an
accrediting body, says the Sloan Survey's
Allen.
It's a void that will need to be filled for the
quality of online education to increase and
for online instruction to be widely accepted
at mainstream universities, she says.
"Training is all over the map," Allen adds.
"We need to do something about that to
address quality." Online Education May Transform Higher Ed
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