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The U.N. General Assembly has approved a resolution backing an Arab League plan that calls for Syria's president to step down and strongly condemns human rights violations by his regime. The vote in the 193-member world body was 137-12 with 17 abstentions.
Russia and China, who vetoed a similar resolution in the Security Council, voted against the resolution.
"Today, the U.N. General Assembly sent a clear message of the people of Syria: the world is with you," U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said in a statement. Assad "has never been more isolated. A rapid transition to democracy in Syria has garnered the resounding support of the international community. Change must now come."
Earlier on Thursday, senior Russian diplomat?Gennady Gatilov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying that the draft is very close to the U.N. Security Council resolution that Russia and China vetoed on Feb. 4.
At the time, Russia had expressed concerns about the draft text, saying it feared the resolution would lead to the kind of military intervention and regime change seen in Libya after last year's council action intended to protect civilians from attacks by forces loyal to long-time leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Related:?Russia, China veto UN rebuke of Syrian president
General Assembly resolutions can't be vetoed and are nonbinding, but they reflect world opinion on major issues. Supporters of the Arab-sponsored resolution had hoped for a high "yes" vote to deliver a strong message to Assad's regime.?
Arab countries have rejected amendments to the resolution proposed by Russia.
The Syrian regime's crackdown on anti-government protesters is estimated to have killed well over 5,400 people in the past year, according to the United Nations.?
Syria has been a key Russian ally since Soviet times, and Moscow has opposed any U.N. call that could be interpreted as advocating military intervention or regime change.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who met Assad in Damascus three days after the veto, said he told the president the violence must stop.
Related:?UN rights chief: Syria crimes against humanity must not go unpunished
However, he emphasized Monday, this "also applies to the armed groups opposing the regime, which use modern guns, mortars and grenade launchers and also sow death."
Recent presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain confirmed on August 16 that he has again been diagnosed with melanoma. Melanoma is a form of skin cancer. Of the three commonly known types of skin cancer (basal cell and squamous cell are the others), melanoma is the most dangerous.
Who Is at Risk? Melanoma is ranked the sixth most common cancer in men and the seventh most common in women. While adults are more likely than children to be diagnosed with melanoma, it can strike at any age.
Certain characteristics increase one?s risk of developing melanoma. These risk factors include:
Family and/or personal history of the disease.
Having a fair complexion.
Chronic exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation found in sunlight.
Excessive exposure to the sun?s UV rays before the age of 18.
Having unusual looking moles.
While the risk of developing melanoma may be due to a combination of these factors, overexposure to the sun?s UV rays is believed to be the most significant contributor.
Melanoma Diagnosis and Treatment Malignant melanoma, unlike other types of skin cancer, can spread quickly to other parts of the body. If the cancer is detected at an early stage, it can usually be treated and cured. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) notes some of the warning signs of melanoma:
change in shape, color or size of a mole
bleeding or oozing from a mole
appearance of a new mole
itchiness, tenderness or swelling of a mole
Physicians should look for these changes, but patients are more likely to detect the changes earlier and should know when to seek a medical opinion.
If a doctor believes a mole or discolored area of the skin does not look normal, he or she should make a local excision (cut the mole or area out) and then look at the specimen under a microscope to see if there are any cancerous cells. This procedure is known as a biopsy. If it is determined that the cells are cancerous, the next step is to measure both the thickness of the tumor and how deep it has penetrated the skin.
Treatment for melanoma depends on the stage at which the cancer is found. According to the NCI, the stages include:
Stage 0 ? The abnormal cells are only found on the outer layer of the skin.
Stage 1 ? Cancerous cells are found on the outer and the upper-inner layers of the skin. The thickness of the tumor is less than 1/16-inch thick.
Stage 2 ? Cancerous cells have penetrated the lower-inner layer of the skin and the tumor thickness is between 1/16 and 1/6 of an inch.
Stage 3 ? The tumor may have spread to deeper layers in the skin and additional cancer cells may be detected in the surrounding area.
Stage 4 ? The tumor has spread to other parts of the body.
Recurrent ? The cancer has come back after having already been treated at one time; it may or may not occur in the same site as before.
Currently, there are four types of treatment for melanoma: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy and biological therapy (boosting the body?s immune system to fight the cancer). Treatment recommendations are based on the stage of the tumor. Surgery, however, is the first treatment used for all of the stages of melanoma. If further management is needed, then the other therapies might be employed alone or in combination.
Melanoma Prevention Exposure to the sun?s UV rays significantly increases the risk of developing melanoma. Therefore, staying out of the sun, and wearing protective clothing and an appropriate sunscreen are highly recommended steps to take to prevent the development of melanoma later on in life. A ?healthy tan? is not healthy at all.
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Contact: David DeFusco david.defusco@yale.edu 203-436-4842 Yale University
New Haven, Conn. -- Modern technology depends on reliable supplies of a wide variety of materials, but there is increasing concern about the dependability of those supplies.
In the first detailed assessment of metal "criticality," a team of undergraduates, master's students and research staff led by Thomas Graedel, the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Industrial Ecology, has codified a methodology that takes into account the risk of future scarcity and potential damage from shortages of metals in the periodic table.
"Criticality evaluation is increasingly vital to corporations and governments as they decide which metals to use, stockpile and avoid," said Graedel.
In the paper, "Criticality of the Geological Copper Family," published in Environmental Science & Technology, Graedel's team applied its methodology to the elements of the geological copper family: copper, arsenic, selenium, silver, tellurium and gold. All six are technologically important. For example, copper is essential in transmitting electricity. Gold and silver play important roles in electronics. Selenium and tellurium are major constituents in thin-film solar cells. And arsenic in the form of gallium arsenide is an essential ingredient in high-speed computer chips.
To demonstrate the methodology, Graedel's team created a fictional solar cell manufacturing firm. Arsenic was at the highest risk of supply disruption over the long-term of the six metals because there is scant interest in mining a poisonous material, with selenium and gold almost as high a risk. Gold occurs at such low concentrations in the ore that mining and processing has the potential to cause significant amounts of air and water pollution, so it has the most severe environmental implications ranking.
"Restrictions to the availability of any of these elements would constrain a number of technological sectors, so an assessment of their criticality is vital," he said.
The criticality of a metal is specified in a three-dimensional "criticality space," which assesses the supply risk, environmental implications and vulnerability to supply restriction. Each of these factors is, in turn, the aggregation of a number of components, such as geological reserves and political governance indicators. The details of the methodology have been worked out in partnership with several corporations in the United States and Europe. Information was drawn from a broad range of datasets generated by governments and institutions worldwide.
"A central feature of criticality is that vulnerability to supply restriction is a unique organizational attribute," said Graedel. "For example, a particular metal may have high supply risk, but that information is of little interest to a corporation whose products do not use that metal."
To ensure the availability of metals vital to its operation, a corporation could choose to invest directly in a mine rather than purchase metal from the global market or to develop product designs that avoid metals with high supply risk or high environmental implications. Countries could take steps to ensure raw material supplies for their important industry sectors, as is happening in countries around the world.
Manufacturers and governments that use metals are vulnerable to supply restrictions related to the ease of substitution for a metal in a particular application, the metal's importance to corporate or national finances and strategy, and the organization's innovative abilities should restrictions occur.
Supply restrictions might occur because of geologic scarcity, environmental concerns, geopolitics or market manipulation, among other factors.
"The additional knowledge provided by criticality assessments is likely to enable better decisions to be made in the interest of corporations, countries, and the planet," said Graedel. "This sort of thinking and action will become more and more important as ever increasing rates of material use force all of us to think more deeply about issues of resource sustainability."
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Contact: David DeFusco david.defusco@yale.edu 203-436-4842 Yale University
New Haven, Conn. -- Modern technology depends on reliable supplies of a wide variety of materials, but there is increasing concern about the dependability of those supplies.
In the first detailed assessment of metal "criticality," a team of undergraduates, master's students and research staff led by Thomas Graedel, the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Industrial Ecology, has codified a methodology that takes into account the risk of future scarcity and potential damage from shortages of metals in the periodic table.
"Criticality evaluation is increasingly vital to corporations and governments as they decide which metals to use, stockpile and avoid," said Graedel.
In the paper, "Criticality of the Geological Copper Family," published in Environmental Science & Technology, Graedel's team applied its methodology to the elements of the geological copper family: copper, arsenic, selenium, silver, tellurium and gold. All six are technologically important. For example, copper is essential in transmitting electricity. Gold and silver play important roles in electronics. Selenium and tellurium are major constituents in thin-film solar cells. And arsenic in the form of gallium arsenide is an essential ingredient in high-speed computer chips.
To demonstrate the methodology, Graedel's team created a fictional solar cell manufacturing firm. Arsenic was at the highest risk of supply disruption over the long-term of the six metals because there is scant interest in mining a poisonous material, with selenium and gold almost as high a risk. Gold occurs at such low concentrations in the ore that mining and processing has the potential to cause significant amounts of air and water pollution, so it has the most severe environmental implications ranking.
"Restrictions to the availability of any of these elements would constrain a number of technological sectors, so an assessment of their criticality is vital," he said.
The criticality of a metal is specified in a three-dimensional "criticality space," which assesses the supply risk, environmental implications and vulnerability to supply restriction. Each of these factors is, in turn, the aggregation of a number of components, such as geological reserves and political governance indicators. The details of the methodology have been worked out in partnership with several corporations in the United States and Europe. Information was drawn from a broad range of datasets generated by governments and institutions worldwide.
"A central feature of criticality is that vulnerability to supply restriction is a unique organizational attribute," said Graedel. "For example, a particular metal may have high supply risk, but that information is of little interest to a corporation whose products do not use that metal."
To ensure the availability of metals vital to its operation, a corporation could choose to invest directly in a mine rather than purchase metal from the global market or to develop product designs that avoid metals with high supply risk or high environmental implications. Countries could take steps to ensure raw material supplies for their important industry sectors, as is happening in countries around the world.
Manufacturers and governments that use metals are vulnerable to supply restrictions related to the ease of substitution for a metal in a particular application, the metal's importance to corporate or national finances and strategy, and the organization's innovative abilities should restrictions occur.
Supply restrictions might occur because of geologic scarcity, environmental concerns, geopolitics or market manipulation, among other factors.
"The additional knowledge provided by criticality assessments is likely to enable better decisions to be made in the interest of corporations, countries, and the planet," said Graedel. "This sort of thinking and action will become more and more important as ever increasing rates of material use force all of us to think more deeply about issues of resource sustainability."
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by Julie Schmit-Albin | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 2/15/12 11:36 AM
As a pro-life activist who also happens to be a breast cancer survivor, I was encouraged by the Susan G. Komen Foundation?s recent announcement that it no longer would fund grants to Planned Parenthood Federation of America affiliates. I had never before been able to support Komen?s Race For The Cure or buy any of its pink merchandise.
When you?re a breast cancer survivor, you are automatically inducted into a sisterhood of support that spans the blogosphere of survivors? stories, medical sites and support groups. I have followed some of the major ones since my diagnosis and mastectomy last summer. In the months following surgery, I found a lot of good advice and comfort from knowledgeable survivor blogs and medical sites.
After Komen?s initial move away from Planned Parenthood and the subsequent storm of disapproval from Planned Parenthood supporters, I was dismayed. Practically every survivor blog and medical site I have relied upon these past months jumped on the ?defend PPFA? bandwagon. Blogger after blogger was tweeting or posting disgust with Komen?s perceived abandonment of Planned Parenthood.
It was almost as if in order to be an advocate for breast cancer awareness and research, one was expected to embrace abortion along with it. Apparently, Planned Parenthood has done a good job of branding itself as a premier provider of medical services to the indigent and uninsured. The fact that affiliates did 332,278 abortions in 2009 and average more than 300,000 abortions per year is not lost on pro-life Americans, but apparently it is not common knowledge for those not in the pro-life movement.
With Komen?s perceived distancing of itself from Planned Parenthood, I was relieved that I would be able to support the nation?s largest, most recognized breast cancer charity. However, a mere three days after the? announcement to not fund organizations under local, state or federal investigation, Komen came out with its apologetic policy reversal that left the door open for future Planned Parenthood funding. It now states that only those organizations under criminal investigation will be precluded from receiving grants.
What happened to Komen?s stated priority to fund direct providers of breast screening services, such as mammography clinics? Who knows? Planned Parenthood affiliates are just a pass-through for the mammography funding, which has to be reimbursed to actual mammography providers.
This was never about the money for Planned Parenthood, a billion-dollar industry by its own annual report. This was about losing the stamp of approval from Komen and its massive following among cancer charities. Komen made grants of $3 million to Planned Parenthood affiliates from 2004 to 2009. However, just one quarter of all Komen?s breast cancer screening grants went to Planned Parenthood. In 2011, $680,000 in Komen funds went to 19 Planned Parenthood affiliates. That is a drop in the bucket for an entity that deals in millions of dollars.
I am not immune to the concerns that grip a breast cancer patient upon diagnosis and eventual surgery and treatment. It?s hard enough to get through when you are fully insured and have support in place, much less for women who have no insurance or are underinsured and may not have a network of family and friends supporting them.
However, the mantra that emanated from so many in my sisterhood of survivors that Planned Parenthood is a vital player in breast cancer screening and awareness rings hollow when there are thousands of federally qualified public health centers that are not in the abortion business but are providing services to women who fall through the gap created because of being low income and/or having inadequate insurance.
For Komen to now say it needs to de-politicize its? grant process is really grating, considering that Komen politicized its process from the moment it? started funding Planned Parenthood years ago. Komen needlessly ostracized pro-life Americans from the get-go. For those few days when it had pulled back from Planned Parenthood, Komen CEO Nancy Brinker admitted that the donations had shot up 100 percent. I would submit that was because of thousands of pro-lifers showing their support to Komen.
Now, with Komen?s re-alignment with Planned Parenthood, pro-lifers will continue to support alternative breast cancer charities that have no ties to abortion. And I will continue not buying pink Komen items and declining invitations to walk in its Race For The Cure.
In the meantime, I will find ways to personally dialog with and support fellow survivors with whom I may disagree, while letting them know why, as a pro-lifer, I can?t support an entity that partners with the abortion industry.
LifeNews Note: Julie Schmit-Albin is the executive director of Nebraska Right to Life. This column originally appeared in the Lincoln Journal Star and is reprinted with permission.
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It was almost as if in order to be an advocate for breast cancer awareness and research, one was expected to embrace abortion along with it. Apparently, Planned Parenthood has done a good job of branding itself as a premier provider of medical services to the indigent and uninsured. The fact that affiliates did 332,278 abortions in 2009 and average more than 300,000 abortions per year is not lost on pro-life Americans, but apparently it is not common knowledge for those not in the pro-life movement.