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Friday, February 24, 2012
China says ready to improve U.S. military ties (Reuters)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - China is ready to work with the United States to advance military ties, a defense ministry spokesman said Thursday, following a U.S. trip by China's vice president that featured a visit with top Pentagon officials.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Electronic Fuel Injection to Debut at NASCAR's Historic Daytona 500 ...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.?()?The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) will make history on Sunday, Feb. 26 at the venerable Daytona 500 race when, for the first time in its 64-year history, the cars in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will race across the starting line using electronic fuel injection (EFI) made possible by Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) and McLaren Electronic Systems.
?NASCAR?s transition to Sunoco Green E15 in 2011, coupled with our transition to EFI, will allow our engines to operate more efficiently and make the cars on the track more like the production cars fans drive every day.?
Freescale is providing the processors for McLaren?s engine control units (ECUs) that will be used to manage the fuel and ignition systems in the engines for all NASCAR Sprint Cup Series cars, replacing the carburetors that date back to the start of the sport. NASCAR and its top series teams tested the technology during the 2011 season and the cars and drivers are now ready to race.
Electronic fuel injection is about delivering the right amount of fuel at the right time into the engine under a variety of operating conditions. It was originally introduced into automobiles to improve drivability, fuel consumption and emissions, and it is destined to have the same impact on stock car racing. The racing will be as exciting as ever, but the engines will be more efficient and more readily optimized for the different ovals and road courses upon which they run. As part of the switch to fuel injection, Freescale is designated as the ?Official Automotive Semiconductor of NASCAR? and McLaren is the ?Official Engine Control Unit of NASCAR.?
?We?re proud to have partnered with NASCAR and McLaren to bring about this historic change in Sprint Cup Series racing,? said Henri Richard, senior vice president and chief sales and marketing officer at Freescale Semiconductor. ?The Daytona 500, and every Cup race that follows, will become a symbol of the trust NASCAR has placed in Freescale and a testament to our innovation and technology leadership in motorsports and the broader automotive electronics industry.?
For decades, most of the parts and equipment on NASCAR race cars were highly customized for racing but still relevant in standard automobiles. The move to fuel injection brings back an important synergy between these two vehicle types. ECUs maximize each racing team?s ability to extract the most performance and best fuel economy under all race conditions.
As part of the move to EFI, every NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race team will use a control system with Freescale?s advanced 32-bit Power Architecture? based engine management processors at its core. These same processors power millions of today?s most energy efficient engines. The ECUs are tamper-proof, helping to ensure that only approved software may be run during a race weekend. Additionally, NASCAR will have special electronic tools at its disposal during every event to help ensure the legality of all ECUs.
?With strong encouragement and support from the auto manufacturers and the engine builders, NASCAR partnered with world-leading technology companies Freescale and McLaren to help the sport seamlessly transition to EFI,? said Robin Pemberton, NASCAR vice president of competition. ?NASCAR?s transition to Sunoco Green E15 in 2011, coupled with our transition to EFI, will allow our engines to operate more efficiently and make the cars on the track more like the production cars fans drive every day.?
Since 1966, McLaren has a legacy of racing success in the United States, claiming victories 43 times during its tenure in the Can-Am Challenge, 10 times at the U.S. Grand Prix and three times at the illustrious Indianapolis 500.?In addition, McLaren Electronics Systems has been a component supplier to NASCAR teams since 2005 and also provides some of the ECUs that became available last year in the McLaren MP4-12C high-performance sports car. Freescale technology has been at the heart of McLaren?s engine control and data systems racing technology since 2000, and it provides the power behind all of McLaren?s major racing programs. Freescale is the largest U.S. based producer of automotive electronics, and its technology enables virtually all automotive innovation in use today, from advanced engine systems to navigation and active safety.
?We are thrilled to be part of the historic move to fuel injection in this most exciting of race series,? said Peter van Manen, managing director of McLaren Electronic Systems. ?It has been a pleasure working with NASCAR, the engine manufacturers, tuners and teams throughout 2011 and we are now ready to race. We have been supplying electronics to top flight motorsport for the last 20 years, in open wheel, sports car and rally car racing, but I can honestly say that the racing doesn?t get better than this. It is great that our long-term and trusted partner, Freescale, has been with us all the way to help make it happen.?
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About McLaren Electronic System
McLaren Electronic Systems is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of control and data systems to the professional motorsport, high performance automotive, aerospace and transport industries. The company?s core business is engine control units (ECUs). McLaren is the Official ECU Supplier to the NASCAR Sprint Cup, the FIA Formula One World Championship and the IZOD IndyCar Series. It is part of the McLaren Group that includes McLaren Racing, the Formula One constructor and McLaren Automotive, the company that develops, supplies and sells the MP4/12C sports car. The company is based in Woking, UK and in Huntersville, NC. www.mclarenelectronics.com
About Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) is a global leader in embedded processing solutions, providing industry leading products that are advancing the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. From microprocessors and microcontrollers to sensors, analog integrated circuits and connectivity ? our technologies are the foundation for the innovations that make our world greener, safer, healthier and more connected. Some of our key applications and end-markets include automotive safety, hybrid and all-electric vehicles, next generation wireless infrastructure, smart energy management, portable medical devices, consumer appliances and smart mobile devices. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing and sales operations around the world. www.freescale.com
Freescale and the Freescale logo are trademarks of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. The Power Architecture and Power.org word marks and the Power and Power.org logos and related marks are trademarks and service marks licensed by Power.org. ? 2012?Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
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Palin aides lash out at HBO's 'Game Change'
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) ? Current and former aides to Sarah Palin lashed out Wednesday at HBO's "Game Change," describing the upcoming film's depictions of her on the 2008 campaign trail as "sick" and inaccurate.
None of the aides said they have yet seen the movie, which debuts March 10, and some said they had asked for an opportunity to screen the film but had been denied.
Trailers for the film, which is based on the bestselling book chronicling the 2008 presidential race, have been released, however, and some snippets appear to cast Palin in an unfavorable light. As portrayed by Julianne Moore, Palin is seen complaining about how she's being handled by political advisers and mumbling about missing her baby, who was born in April 2008. In one snippet, campaign strategist Steve Schmidt, portrayed by Woody Harrelson, describes her as being on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Aides said none of that jibes with their own experiences with the former Alaska governor, and they defended her vigorously Wednesday.
Jason Recher, who handled vice presidential road operations for the McCain-Palin campaign, called Palin "one of the most engaged public servants I'd ever observed." Tom Van Flein, her former personal attorney, called her diligent, sharp and enthusiastic about the campaign.
Meg Stapleton, a former spokeswoman, said that she, unlike some of the others who worked with Palin during the campaign, had not been contacted by anyone associated with either the book or movie.
"They don't want to hear anything good," she said, her voice full of passion. "We all know Palin sells and the dramatization of Palin sells even more. This is sick."
"They mock Gov. Palin, you mock Gov. Palin, as weak and unable to cope and press forward," she told reporters on the conference call. "And the movie and the trailer ... say that. And yet look with your own eyes at what she and her family have endured and inspired over the last few years. Any lesser man would have hanged himself by now. So who's weak?"
Recher noted that Palin wasn't the primary focus of the book, and he said he told screenwriter and co-executive producer Danny Strong that the book "absolutely, unequivocally" did not accurately reflect his time with the McCain campaign.
Filmmakers have said that they sought historical accuracy.
Director Jay Roach last month said he wrote a long letter to Palin seeking an interview with her to help the film, "but I got a very quick email back from her attorney saying, 'I checked, she declined.'"
Strong, in an email, acknowledged that members of Palin's camp asked to screen the film but said filmmakers responded that they would privately screen the movie for Palin and her husband. He said Sarah Palin declined the offer.
The film portrays Palin "in a balanced light," he said, "showing her strengths and weaknesses as the vice presidential candidate."
In addition to the book, Strong said the movie is also based on 25 interviews conducted with members of the campaign by himself and Roach. He said secondary sources include Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue," other books written on the campaign and "innumerable" newspaper and magazine articles.
Palin did not participate in Wednesday's call. Tim Crawford, the treasurer of the political action committee SarahPAC, who facilitated the call, said Palin is on the record as considering the movie a false narrative, and wrote about her experiences in one of her books.
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Becky Bohrer can be reached at http://twitter.com/bbohrer .
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Physician Payment Sunshine: NAMEC Survey Predicts Job Losses ...
Last week, The National Association of Medical Education Companies, Inc. (NAMEC) recently submitted its comments regarding Section 6002 of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA)?also known as the Physician Payment Sunshine Act.??
NAMEC is the trade organization representing U.S. medical education companies, as well as the clinical faculty, expert contributors, physicians, and allied healthcare professionals who participate in the many thousands of member-developed certified continuing medical education (CME) initiatives.? NAMEC?s mission is to promote best practices in CME that meet the many and detailed requirements set forth by accrediting organizations for the conduct of continuing education activities for physicians, as well as other healthcare professionals, with the goal of providing evidence-based education that improves patient care outcomes.?
In addition to their overall comments, NAMEC also conducted an online survey of their members in early February.? 54 Member Organizations responded. ?Respondents also provided data and quotes from surveys that they fielded to their faculty.? The survey asked questions related to the impact of the proposed Sunshine rules relative to CME providers and reporting of payments to CME faculty and educational materials.? The survey indicated that NAMEC members highly concerned about proposed rules:?
- Reporting burdens and increases corresponding expenses (> 85% agree or strongly agree)
- Loss of CME funding (76.5% of agree or strongly agree) and resultant loss of CME jobs in their organizations
- Loss of expert faculty participating in CME activities funded by covered manufacturers
- Loss of reputation /credibility of CME providers and of CME
- Reduction in quality of CME and resulting negative impact on healthcare
- Misrepresentation of how CME providers and faculty manage funding from covered manufacturers; inability to meet accrediting organization requirements if accept funding from covered manufacturers (>95% agree or strongly agree)?
Faculty are also highly concerned and share many of the concerns of CME providers:?
- Misrepresentation of financial relationship between CME faculty and covered manufacturers
- Decreased willingness to participate as CME faculty if proposed rules implemented
- Limitations to participating in CME activities
- Healthcare will be adversely impact if faculty educators reduce or eliminate participation in CME if proposed rules are implemented (78.8% of members)?
Almost all members responded that the proposed rules will have significant financial impact on their organizations, with approximately 47% estimating this cost to be at least $50,000 and escalating to >$150,000.??
Members responded that the proposed rules will result in reduced funding and, consequently, loss of jobs in their organizations and, possibly, resulting in their having to close their operations.? Members also strongly disagreed (80.9%) with CMS? proposal to associate CME payments to faculty with a specific drug.??
Members are very concerned about the negative impact the proposed rules? on their faculty: 72% indicated? that faculty will no longer participate in their activities that are funded any level of support from covered manufacturers if the proposed rules on CME payments recording and reporting are implemented as written.? In addition, almost 95% of members believed that if CME is classified as a direct payment that it will reduce the number of CME activities produced per year.?
Comments from NAMEC Members?
?Readers of CMS-collected data will make no distinction between the widely different worlds of accredited CME and FDA-enforced promotional education. Therefore, just as we've seen CME-dedicated faculty and researchers leave paid positions as speakers and members of boards, we will see them leave CME. The public will not understand the distinction between CME and promotion, particularly if CMS inaccurately or misleadingly portrays the data collected (whether by accident or not). ??When one considers the serious morbidity and mortality of many disease states addressed by accredited CME providers in learner activities, every month?s or year?s delay has potentially great effects on quality of life and patients? survival.??
?In my experience, faculty are participating in CME because they love to teach; they're not doing it for the money. Having their names associated with a supporter (with whom they may or may not have a bona fide relationship) when their real relationship is with the CME provider will not be worth the scrutiny and aggravation. I believe that many will simply elect not to participate.?
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Retail sales are up 4.8 percent from last year
Retail sales in January increased 0.4 percent from December and 4.8 percent from last year. The data shows a rough correlation between home value appreciation and retail spending.?
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released its latest nominal read of retail sales showing a 0.4% increase from December and an increase of 5.8% on a year-over-year basis on an aggregate of all items including food, fuel and healthcare services.
Nominal "discretionary" retail sales including home furnishings, home garden and building materials, consumer electronics and department store sales increased 0.47% from December and increased 4.86% above the level seen in January 2011 while, adjusting for inflation, ?real? discretionary retail sales increased 2.23% over the same period.
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On a ?nominal? basis, there had appeared to be ?rough correlation? between strong home value appreciation and strong retail spending preceding the housing bust and an even stronger correlation when home values started to decline.
The following chart shows the year-over-year change to nominal discretionary retail sales and the year-over-year change to nominal the S&P/Case-Shiller Composite home price index since 1993 and since 2000.
As you can see there is, at the very least, a coincidental change to home values and consumer spending during the boom and then the bust, but as home values have continued to decline, retail spending has remained low but has not continued to consistently contract.
Looking at the chart below (click for full-screen dynamic version), adjusted for inflation (CPI for retail sales, CPI ?less shelter? for S&P/Case-Shiller Composite) the ?rough correlation? between the year-over-year change to the ?discretionary? retail sales series and the year-over-year S&P/Case-Shiller Composite series seems now even more significant.
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