Kahne holds off Gordon to win at Pocono Raceway

Driver Jimmie Johnson (48) leads Kyle Busch (18) in the early laps of an NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Sunday Aug. 4, 2013, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Driver Jimmie Johnson (48) leads Kyle Busch (18) in the early laps of an NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Sunday Aug. 4, 2013, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Driver Jimmie Johnson (48) holds on to the lead in the early laps of an NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Sunday Aug. 4, 2013, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Driver Jimmie Johnson (48) makes a pit stop during a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Sunday Aug. 4, 2013, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Driver Joey Logano (22) makes a pit stop during a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Sunday Aug. 4, 2013, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Driver Jimmie Johnson (48), left, is pursued by Kyle Busch (18), front right, as he leads early in an NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Sunday Aug. 4, 2013, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

LONG POND, Pa. (AP) ? Kasey Kahne got the jump on Jeff Gordon off the final restart with two laps left and pulled away to win at Pocono Raceway.

Kahne had the car to beat for the final half of Sunday's 400-mile race until a late caution bunched up the field. Gordon, his Hendrick Motorsports teammate, took the lead and seemed poised to win his first race of the season. After the final caution, Kahne was strong enough this time off the restart in the No. 5 Chevrolet.

Kahne also won at Bristol this season. His win helped solidify his spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

Gordon finished second on his 42nd birthday. Kurt Busch, Ryan Newman and Dale Earnhardt Jr. rounded out the top five.

The top five cars were Chevrolets.

Kahne, Gordon and Earnhardt made it a strong day for Hendrick. Teammate and series points leader Jimmie Johnson was 13th after a blown tire knocked him out of the lead.

Kahne had stretched his lead to almost 8 seconds when a caution for debris came out with 12 laps left. Gordon, still winless this season, was strong in the No. 24 and zipped to the lead as he looked to extend his record for career wins at Pocono.

Matt Kenseth spun with four laps left to erase Gordon's lead and set up the thrilling finish. Gordon led again until Kahne ran him down and blasted by his teammate for the win.

So close to the checkered, this loss stung Gordon.

"We had them. We certainly had the position," he said. "I'm pretty disappointed I let him get inside of me on (turn) one."

Kahne also won at Pocono in 2008. He entered ninth in the points standings and need a win to make sure he'd at least qualify for a wild-card spot should he fall below 10th place. Kahne was third last week at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and seems to be heating up with five races left until the Chase field is set.

Kahne's 16th career win should make him a Chase lock.

Gordon, who has six Pocono wins, finished second last week and has three straight top 10s to also position himself for a spot in the 12-driver field. He had won at Pocono each of the last two seasons. When Gordon leads late at Pocono, he usually wins. Just not this time.

"I've given away a lot more races than I've won," he said.

Johnson, who set a track record in qualifying, again had the dominant car for half the race until he blew a front tire. A week after a slow, final pit stop cost him a win at Indianapolis, Johnson was done in this time by a tire issue that ended his chance to win. Johnson did stretch his points lead to 77 over Clint Bowyer.

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IJERPH, Vol. 10, Pages 3310-3324: Case-Control Study of Arsenic in Drinking Water and Lung Cancer in California and Nevada

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Abstract: Millions of people are exposed to arsenic in drinking water, which at high concentrations is known to cause lung cancer in humans. At lower concentrations, the risks are unknown. We enrolled 196 lung cancer cases and 359 controls matched on age and gender from western Nevada and Kings County, California in 2002?2005. After adjusting for age, sex, education, smoking and occupational exposures, odds ratios for arsenic concentrations ?85 ?g/L (median = 110 ?g/L, mean = 173 ?g/L, maximum = 1,460 ?g/L) more than 40 years before enrollment were 1.39 (95% CI = 0.55?3.53) in all subjects and 1.61 (95% CI = 0.59?4.38) in smokers. Although odds ratios were greater than 1.0, these increases may have been due to chance given the small number of subjects exposed more than 40 years before enrollment. This study, designed before research in Chile suggested arsenic-related cancer latencies of 40 years or more, illustrates the enormous sample sizes needed to identify arsenic-related health effects in low-exposure countries with mobile populations like the U.S. Nonetheless, our findings suggest that concentrations near 100 ?g/L are not associated with markedly high relative risks.

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Hubble?s COSMOS survey solves ?quenched? galaxy mystery

This image shows 20 of the quenched galaxies ? galaxies that are no longer forming stars ? seen in the Hubble COSMOS observations. Each galaxy is identified by a crosshair at the center of each frame. Quenched galaxies in the distant universe are much smaller than those seen nearby. It was thought that these small galaxies merged with other smaller gas-free galaxies to grow bigger, but it turns out that larger galaxies were "switching off" at later times and adding their numbers to those of their smaller and older siblings, giving the mistaken impression of individual galaxy growth over time. // NASA/ESA/M. Carollo (ETH Zurich)

Some galaxies hit a point in their lives when their star formation is snuffed out, and they become ?quenched.? Quenched galaxies in the distant past appear to be much smaller than the quenched galaxies in the universe today. This has always puzzled astronomers: How can these galaxies grow if they are no longer forming stars? A team of astronomers has now used a huge set of Hubble observations to give a surprisingly simple answer to this long-standing cosmic riddle.

Until now, these small snuffed-out galaxies were thought to grow into the larger quenched galaxies we see nearby.

As these galaxies are no longer forming new stars, they were thought to grow by colliding and merging with other smaller quenched galaxies some five to 10 times less massive. However, these mergers would require many such small galaxies floating around for the quenched population to snack on, which astronomers do not see.

Until recently, it had not been possible to explore a sufficient number of quenched galaxies, but now a team of astronomers has used observations from the Hubble COSMOS survey to identify and count these switched-off galaxies throughout the last 8 billion years of cosmic history.

?The apparent puffing up of quenched galaxies has been one of the biggest puzzles about galaxy evolution for many years,? said Marcella Carollo of the Federal Institute of Technology University (ETH) of Zurich, Switzerland. ?No single collection of images has been large enough to enable us to study very large numbers of galaxies in exactly the same way until Hubble?s COSMOS,? said Nick Scoville of Caltech in Pasadena, California.

The team used the large set of COSMOS images alongside additional observations from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and the Subaru Telescope, both in Hawaii, to peer back to when the universe was less than half its present age. These observations mapped an area in the sky almost nine times that of the Full Moon.

The quenched galaxies seen at these times are small and compact, and, surprisingly, it seems they stay that way. Rather than puffing up and growing via mergers over time, these small galaxies mostly keep the size they had when their star formation switched off. So why do we see these galaxies apparently growing larger over time?

?We found that a large number of the bigger galaxies instead switch off at later times, joining their smaller quenched siblings and giving the mistaken impression of individual galaxy growth over time,? said Simon Lilly of ETH Zurich. ?It?s like saying that the increase in the average apartment size in a city is not due to the addition of new rooms to old buildings, but rather to the construction of new, larger apartments,? said Alvio Renzini of INAF Padua Observatory in Italy.

This tells scientists a lot about how galaxies have evolved over the last 8 billion years of the universe?s history. It was already known that actively star-forming galaxies were smaller in the early universe, explaining why they were smaller when their star formation first switched off.

?COSMOS provided us with simply the best set of observations for this sort of work. It lets us study very large numbers of galaxies in exactly the same way, which hasn?t been possible before,? said Peter Capak of Caltech. ?Our study offers a surprisingly simple and obvious explanation to this puzzle. Whenever we see simplicity in nature amidst apparent complexity, it?s very satisfying,? said Carollo.

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Man arrested after crash that killed California teen model | San ...

Disturbing details have come out regarding the deadly car accident that took the life of a young model in Poway, California, last month. The collision took place early in the morning on June 20 when a car ran a red light and struck a fire truck in an intersection.

The 19-year-old passenger in the car was killed. Thursday, the driver of that vehicle was arrested. Police suspect that he was driving under the influence at the time of the crash; it has also come out that the teenager was running away from home with the man, who is 44, at the time of the collision.

It has been concluded that the teenager was intoxicated at the time of the fatal car accident. Her blood alcohol limit was about three times the legal limit, according to investigators who also say that a broken bottle of alcohol was found in the car.

The driver is now facing criminal charges for vehicular manslaughter.

As more information comes out about this case, it may also turn out that the man will face a wrongful death action.

In some cases, the loved ones of the victims of fatal car accidents choose to hold the person who is responsible liable for the death with such an action.

Of course, absolutely no amount of financial compensation can even begin to make up for the sudden loss of a teenager. Wrongful death actions can, however, help ensure that families are not unnecessarily burdened by the financial effects of fatal accidents as well as allow survivors to seek justice to the fullest extent possible.

Source:?NBC San Diego, "Man Arrested for Deadly Accident," Sarah Grieco, Aug. 1, 2013

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Dell committee and buyout group close to deal: sources

By Eileen O'Grady and Poornima Gupta

ROUND ROCK, TEXAS / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc's special committee and a group led by founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell are nearing a deal that dramatically increases the chances of his $24.6 billion buyout going through, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

The agreement, in exchange for a modification of rules for voting on the deal, would include a special dividend of 13 cents per share along with an offer increased by 10 cents per share to $13.75 per share and is expected to be announced shortly, the people said.

Dell shares were up about 5 percent at $13.60 before the opening bell.

The buyout vote, held under a new standard, would likely take place in early September, while the record date, which determines which shareholders are entitled to vote, would be reset from June 3 to sometime in August, one of the people said.

The new deal and delay in the voting date boost the buyout consortium in several ways.

Abstentions under the previous voting system counted as "no" votes, and with an estimated quarter of eligible shares not having been voted either way, that was a substantial hurdle to overcome. Under the new deal, shares that are not voted would be excluded from the tally.

A change in the record date by more than two months is also seen as enfranchising so-called arbitrage investors - hedge funds that bought Dell stock more recently to earn a few cents per share and would likely support the buyout.

Under the deal, Dell shareholders would also be entitled to three regular quarterly dividends of 8 cents per share totaling 24 cents, since the first deal with Michael Dell and Silver Lake was announced on February 5.

Dell shareholders are scheduled to convene for a third time in Round Rock, Texas, on Friday to vote on Michael Dell's original $13.65 per share buyout proposal, but this meeting will now be adjourned. The vote has already been delayed two more times, on July 18 and July 24.

Dell's founder and private equity firm Silver Lake want to take the company private, arguing that a painful restructuring can best be best performed away from stock market scrutiny.

But the battle over that deal has raged for months, adding further uncertainty about a company already shrinking along with a rapidly declining PC market.

The CEO, his advisers and proxy solicitors have gone back and forth with shareholders whose votes are needed to secure the deal. They've had some success, managing to get prominent investors such as BlackRock Inc and Vanguard onboard.

The Michael Dell-Silver Lake group said last week it would raise the offer to $13.75 per share if the voting rule was changed but the special committee rejected that offer earlier this week. The special dividend has now clinched a compromise.

Activist investor Carl Icahn, who views Michael Dell's offer of $13.65 as too low, has amassed an 8.7 percent stake in the company and is leading an opposing charge with Southeastern Asset Management Inc with an offer of their own.

Icahn has campaigned hard to get Dell to set a date for an annual shareholder meeting so he can put up his own slate of company directors.

On Thursday, he fired his latest broadside, suing Dell Inc and its board to block substantial changes to the CEO's buyout offer that would include changing the voting and record dates.

The company, created by Michael Dell in his dorm room in 1984 and which rapidly grew into a global market leader, is now a shadow of its former self.

Some investors, led by Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management, are convinced Dell still has time to transform itself as a public company into a dominant provider of business computing services.

Icahn has accused the company of resorting to "scare tactics" by disclosing bad news and dismal forecasts. Dell reported a 79 percent drop in profit for the latest quarter.

(Additional reporting by Greg Roumeliotis, Soyoung Kim and Nadia Damouni in New York and Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bangalore. Writing by Edwin Chan. Editing by Andre Grenon, Ken Wills and Ted Kerr)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dell-shareholders-convene-third-time-buyout-battle-escalates-040142852.html

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You Shouldn't Speak First When Learning Spanish

If there is only one thing I can tell you that you need to remember in order to learn Spanish or any Language at all- it is to:

Learn to LISTEN first BEFORE speaking.

Listening equals INPUT and speaking equals PRODUCTION. Let us take a factory as an example - how can a factory produce tons of products if it had no resources first and foremost? The steps they take are the same, right? They first gather resources (input) then they go into PRODUCTION. There is really no other way around.

Now that I told you about the factory; don't you think it's the same with language learning? You're just like a factory - a factory of words and vocabulary. How do you expect yourself to produce anything when you clearly have no input AT ALL? And not just that; you know what happens to a factory owner if he goes into production phase without the resources first in place? Aside from not being able to produce anything profitable, he will end up paying for overhead fees for the production and sooner or later the corporation becomes bankrupt and dies. The same goes to you, my friend; wanna die? Just kidding.

Obsessing on speaking without enough to input can lead into a disaster- you will end up being frustrated and eventually get burned out and quit. Remember that language learning is a not a "get rich quick" scheme. It involves a long road of immersion and Spanish (or any language you are learning) input acquisition. But the great news is that if you will use the correct and scientific method of language learning like the input method that we always discus; you can be sure to learn a lot FASTER than a guy who only uses only textbooks and burns himself out in classes as a beginner.

I myself took only 8 months of watching Spanish series then I found myself understanding 80% of what are being said. Spanish now sounds more or less like English for me and I now enjoy the Telenovelas and Spanish movies more than ever!

So that is what you must do for now- just watch Spanish-dubbed English shows you've seen many times in the past and I am sure after a few months you will become a real "Spaniard" just don't force yourself out for now.

So what are you waiting for? Play those telenovelas now. If you are learning German then play German drama; if you are learning French, then French - just don't stop until it makes you cry.

By the way, where do you get those movies? We have them at TRANSLATE FROM SPANISH TO ENGLISH (dot) com for FREE! Where learning Spanish is always fun and studying languages never feels like studying. BONUS, for a limmited time only: download Extr@ Espa?ol for free here: Extr@ Espa?ol

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Not Voting Conservative? Then Vote NDP: Rob Ford

A day before five byelections in the province, Mayor Rob Ford is calling for an ?anyone but Liberal? voting strategy.

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A day before five byelections in the province, Mayor Rob Ford is calling for an ?anyone but Liberal? voting strategy.

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Helen Hunt will direct and star in the film 'Ride'

Helen Hunt is set to direct and star in the movie which she wrote and will also produce, a film titled 'Ride.' Helen Hunt will star as a magazine editor and mother who sets out to find her son when he drops out of college.

By Molly Driscoll,?Staff Writer / August 1, 2013

Helen Hunt will direct and star in the movie 'Ride.'

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Hunt will play a magazine editor and mother who finds out her son (Brenton Thwaites of ?The Giver?) has left college to pursue surfing and follows him to California, where she meets a surf instructor (Luke Wilson).

Actors Mike White (?Enlightened?) and David Zayas (?Dexter?) will also reportedly star in the film.

?Ride,? which Hunt will also produce and for which she wrote the script, is set to begin production early next week in Los Angeles.

The actress previously directed the 2007 movie ?Then She Found Me,? which starred Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler, and Matthew Broderick, as well as episodes of the TV shows ?Californication? and ?Revenge.? Hunt was also recently nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in the 2012 movie ?The Sessions.?

Hunt appeared in the 1986 film ?Peggy Sue Got Married? and in the 1996 movie ?Twister? with Bill Paxton as well as the 1997 film ?As Good As It Gets? with Jack Nicholson. Her NBC show ?Mad About You,? for which she directed several episodes as well as starring in the program, ran from 1992 to 1999.

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Cancer treatment breakthrough? Scientists reveal hope for protecting patients from radiotherapy and chemotherapy

Scientists may have found a way of protecting cancer patients from the lethal effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy using drugs that shield the sensitive gastrointestinal tract from the toxic effects of the treatment.

Strong radiation or chemotherapy can destroy metastatic cancers that have spread around the body but these aggressive treatments can end up killing patients by damaging the sensitive lining of their gut, scientists said.

A study on laboratory mice, however, has shown that two relatively simple molecules, called R-spondin1 and Slit2, bind to the guts' stem cells and in doing so protect them against the harmful side-effects of anti-cancer therapy, said Professor Jian-Guo Geng of the University of Michigan.

"All tumours from different tissues and organs can be killed by high doses of chemotherapy and radiation, but the current challenge for treating the later-staged metastasized cancer is that you actually kill the patient before you kill the tumour," Professor Geng said.

"Now you have a way to make a patient tolerate to lethal doses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. In this way, the later-stage, metastasized cancer can be eradicated by increased doses of chemotherapy and radiation.

"It's our belief that this could eventually cure later-staged metastasized cancer. People will not die from cancer, if our prediction is true," he said.

The scientists found that between 50 per cent and 70 per cent of the mice treated in the study survived a lethal dose of chemotherapy. None of the mice that had not received the protective molecules survived the same dose.

The study, published in the journal Nature, still has a long way to go before the treatment can be tried on people, but the scientists believe that the same fundamental principles apply to human gut stem cells which ensure the absorption of nutrients and prevent the release of bacterial toxins in to the bloodstream.

"If you can keep the gut going, you can keep the patient going longer. Now we have found a way to protect the intestine. The next step is to aim for a 100-percent survival rate in mice who are injected with the molecules and receive lethal doses of chemotherapy and radiation," Professor Geng said.

Professor Owen Sansom, deputy director of Cancer Research UK's Beatson Institute, said that Professor Geng and his colleagues have made an intriguing discovery given that the toxic effect of chemo- and radio-therapy on the digestive system is one of the main reasons why doses cannot be raised to increase the chances of a cure.

"But this research was only carried out in mice, and - crucially - didn't show whether the method used would have any effects on cancer cells, which are also thought to be driven by stem cells. So, while these findings are a useful blueprint for how we could focus future effort to protect cancer patients' digestive systems, this exciting prospect is still a way off yet," Professor Sansom said.

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ZaZa Energy closes sale of properties in three Eagle Ford counties

ZaZa Energy has sold off its final acreage in the Eagle Ford Shale to Sanchez Energy Corp. for nearly $30 million.

Houston-based ZaZa Energy Corp. has closed the sale of its remaining properties in the Eagle Ford Shale?s Fayette, Gonzalez and Lavaca counties to Sanchez Energy Corp., also headquartered in Houston.

The transaction includes 10,300 net acres and ZaZa?s interest in producing wells in the acreage, according to company officials.

ZaZa will net proceeds of $29.3 million after closing costs. The company will use some of the funds to reduce debt.

?This divestiture provides us with additional working capital and greater financial flexibility...,? ZaZa President and CEO Todd A. Brooks said in a written statement.

Sanford Nowlin covers energy/utilities, transportation/aviation and manufacturing.

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Rihanna wins case against UK retailer Topshop

LONDON (AP) ? Pop singer Rihanna has won a court case in Britain against retailer Topshop, which was selling T-shirts bearing her image without permission.

High Court Justice Colin Birss ruled in favor of the singer on Wednesday, saying buyers were likely deceived by believing Rihanna had authorized its sale.

"I am quite satisfied that many fans of Rihanna regard her endorsement as important," the judge said in his ruling. "She is their style icon. Many will buy a product because they think she has approved of it. Others will wish to buy it because of the value of the perceived authorization itself. In both cases they will have been deceived."

Birss also said the sales caused a loss of control over Rihanna's reputation in the fashion realm, where the singer has been trying to carve out a name as a designer. She has a clothing line in her name at a rival store.

The shirts were first sold as the "Rihanna Tank." After her complaints, they were sold as being the "Headscarf Girl Tank" and the "Icon Tank."

Topshop's owner, Arcadia Group Brands Ltd., had argued that Rihanna was seeking legal recognition for a flawed assumption that only a celebrity could market a product bearing his or her image.

Topshop said it was surprised and disappointed by the ruling and was considering an appeal.

"There was no intention by Topshop to create the appearance of an endorsement or promotion," it said in a statement. "We do not believe it conveyed any false message to our customers."

The judge did not make an assessment of damages in his ruling.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rihanna-wins-case-against-uk-retailer-topshop-152726180.html

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Houston PE firm raises $65 million for energy deals

EIV Capital Management Co. LLC has so far raised $65 million for its second energy investment fund, regulatory filings show Tuesday.

EIV Capital Management Company LLC has so far raised $65 million for its second energy investment fund, regulatory filings show.

Officials for the firm did not immediately respond for comment.

The 4-year-old Houston private equity firm aims to provide capital to companies in the energy industry, covering a broad range of sectors, including upstream, midstream and downstream.

The firm says $5 million to $20 million deals are its sweet spot, and it focuses on energy infrastructure and production, processing, transportation, storage and other energy businesses, according to its website.

The fund, EIV Capital Fund II LP, is expected to remain open to investments for more than one year, as the first date of sale was July 15, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

So far, it?s collected money from 24 investors.

The biggest private equity deal this month came when Fieldwood Energy, a Houston company backed by private equity giant Riverstone Holdings LLC, took Gulf Coast assets off Apache Corp.?s (NYSE: APA) hands for $3.75 billion in cash.

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