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Friday, November 9, 2012

Ex-oil man to be next Anglican leader: UK media

LONDON (Reuters) - A former oil executive who went to the same exclusive school as Prime Minister David Cameron will shortly be named Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the world's 80 million Anglicans, British newspapers said on Thursday.

Justin Welby, 56, the Bishop of Durham, who has had a meteoric rise up the Church of England hierarchy since quitting the world of commerce in 1992, will be announced as the next archbishop as early as Friday, the reports said.

The nomination follows weeks of speculation that the Church body assigned to elect the future archbishop was split over choosing a reformer or a safe pair of hands to maintain the status quo.

Cameron's spokesman said an announcement would come "soon".

Welby, who went to the same exclusive school, Eton College, as Cameron, London mayor Boris Johnson and Princes William and Harry, has already accepted the position, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Bookmaker William Hill stopped taking bets on the future archbishop after a run of bets on Welby on Tuesday.

"In the space of less than an hour we had to cut the odds three times, so took the decision to close the book as we know a decision is already overdue and it seems word may have leaked out," the bookmaker said in a statement

Welby will replace left-leaning incumbent Rowan Williams, who has said his successor as head of the global Anglican Communion will need "the constitution of an ox and the skin of a rhinoceros".

Welby is widely reported to be against gay marriage but broadly in favor of the ordination of women bishops, two of the most divisive issues in the communion.

The new archbishop will earn about 74,000 pounds ($120,000) a year. He will have lodgings in the Old Palace in Canterbury, southeast England, and the historic riverside Lambeth Palace in London. His tenure will last until retirement at 70 or until he decides to move on.

(Reporting By Alessandra Prentice; editing by Steve Addison/Maria Golovnina)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ex-oil-man-next-anglican-leader-uk-media-101527038.html

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Inside USD | Cropper Writers Series: Opportunity for Discovery

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

It?s the ninth year of the Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series at the University of San Diego, but when a noted published literary writer or poet comes to campus to showcase their work, English Assistant Professor Halina Duraj wants it to be an opportunity for discovery.

?We always want our speaker to interact well with the students, be engaging with the audience and be a high-quality writer,? Duraj stated, ?but I like to show them that poetry can come from a wide range of places. I think Kevin?s going to expand our students? minds, showing them that poetry can come from elements of blues, from jazz, it can be personal or political.?

Duraj is talking about Kevin Young, the Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English and curator of literary collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory (Ga.) University. Young (pictured) is the featured guest for the Nov. 2 event, starting at 7 p.m. in USD?s Manchester Executive Conference Center Auditorium. The event is free to attend, open to the public and will be followed by a dessert reception and book signing in the auditorium foyer.

Prior to Friday night?s appearance, Young will also speak with students in USD Lecturer/Poet Adam O. Davis? English 391 Intermediate Poetry workshop course.

The 42-year-old Young?s body of work impressively delves deep into African American music, particularly the blues, to communicate the history of Black America.

His poetry books include Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels, Dear Darkness and For the Confederate Dead. Other works are Black Maria: Poems Produced and Directed by Kevin Young; To Repel Ghosts: Five Sides in B Minor, Jelly Roll: A Blues and The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing. His poetry and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Kenyon Review and Callaloo. Among his awards are the 1993 National Poetry Series winner, the John C. Zacharis First Book Award for Ploughshares and the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner for 2012?s The Grey Album. Young has also held three fellowships: the Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University; the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the MacDowell Colony Fellowship.

Young?s resume is long on experience and recognition, yet when he stands at podium on Friday to share selections of his prose aloud, Duraj hopes students can also envision themselves in this spot.

?I want them to say to themselves, ?I can do this. He?s just a human being, this is normal and this is something he does,?? she said. ?But I also want students to have an admiration for how much actual work goes into what these writers do, how they craft it. They have to sit down and, through their hard work, just do it.?

Young?s appearance is the final Cropper series event for the Fall 2012 semester. The series returns March 15 for its spring event with two featured speakers, also at 7 p.m. in the Manchester auditorium. Fiction writer Lynn Freed, author of six novels, a collection of short stories and essays, will appear along with veteran San Diego-based poet Ben Doller. Duraj said the spring event speakers have also agreed to be judges for a USD student creative writing contest that?s open to all students who?ve taken at least one creative writing course.

Duraj said that student interest in USD?s creative writing program is on the rise. The Cropper Writers Series is one outlet, along with English Department courses that emphasize creative writing, and, in May and October of this year, student writers have given short presentations of their own original work.

?It seems like every day a student comes into to my office to ask about the creative writing program,? Duraj said. ?The students abuzz with excitement. There?s definitely a hunger for it here.?

? Ryan T. Blystone

Source: http://www.sandiego.edu/insideusd/?p=27033

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Kids who smoke menthol more likely to get hooked | Yahoo! Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids who experiment with menthol cigarettes are more likely to become habitual smokers than their peers who start out with the regular variety, new research findings suggest.

In a study of tens of thousands of U.S. students, researchers found that kids who were dabbling with menthol cigarettes were 80 percent more likely to become regular smokers over the next few years, versus those experimenting with regular cigarettes.

Menthol is added to cigarettes to give them a minty "refreshing" flavor. Critics have charged that menthol makes cigarettes more palatable to new smokers - many of whom are kids - and may be especially likely to encourage addiction.

"This study adds additional evidence that menthol cigarettes are a potential risk factor for kids becoming established, adult smokers," said study leader James Nonnemaker, of the research institute RTI International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Still, the findings, which appear in the journal Addiction, do not prove that menthol cigarettes are to blame.

"The study's subject to a number of limitations," Nonnemaker said. "This shows an association, not cause-and-effect."

One issue, he said, is that the study was not set up specifically to answer the question of whether menthol might encourage habitual smoking.

The findings come from three years' worth of surveys of over 47,000 U.S. middle school and high school students. That included almost 1,800 kids who had just started smoking during the first or second survey - one-third of whom had opted for menthol cigarettes.

By the third-year survey, more than half of those experimenters had quit smoking. Another third were still occasional smokers, and 15 percent had become habitual smokers.

The odds of becoming a regular smoker, the study found, were 80 percent higher for kids who'd started off with menthol cigarettes. That was with the kids' age, gender and race taken into account.

The results are consistent with the idea that menthol cigarettes encourage kids to get hooked because of menthol's "sensory properties," according to Nonnemaker.

But, he said, more studies are needed. One question is whether the findings might vary by race. This study included mostly white students. But it's known that young African Americans and Asian Americans are especially likely to smoke menthol varieties.

Last year, an advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said taking mentholated cigarettes off the shelves may benefit public health.

But studies have varied on the possible effects of the cigarettes versus regular ones.

One recent study found that menthol smokers had a higher stroke rate than those who favored the non-menthol variety. Another, however, found no higher risk of lung cancer, and no evidence that menthol fans had a harder time kicking the smoking habit.

Of course, not smoking at all is the wisest choice. The risks of the habits go beyond lung cancer, and include a range of other cancers, emphysema and heart disease - the number-one killer of Americans.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smoking any type of cigarettes increases a person's risk of heart disease two- to four-fold compared to non-smokers.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/TlBpP3 Addiction, online October 18, 2012.

Source: http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/nm/kids-who-smoke-menthol-more-likely-to-get-hooked

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HP ElitePad 900 travels to the FCC, brings pros closer to Windows 8 tablet utopia

HP couldn't help but harsh the mellow of cutting-edge workers when it revealed the ElitePad 900 wouldn't ship until January. Still, there's less chance of any setbacks now that we know the FCC has rubber stamped the Windows 8 tablet. The version passing through the agency is a 3G model for mobile road warriors and touts the 850MHz, 1,700MHz and 1,900MHz bands we'd expect to for HSPA on AT&T, T-Mobile and Canadian networks. Few other surprises exist; we're mostly happy to know that NFC exists alongside dual-band 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. No, the approval won't be much consolation to the suits and ties wanting a tablet of their own as of yesterday, but it should be a relief to IT managers planning a much more creative use of the company budget in 2013.

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