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Utah health officials are set to release its first statewide cancer data report along with a comprehensive plan to reduce cancer morbidity and increase prevention efforts.
Utah Department of Health Executive Director W. David Patton is scheduled to release the data during a news conference Tuesday.
The health department says more than 8,000 Utah residents are diagnosed with some form of cancer each year. The disease is the second-leading cause of death statewide.
Health Program Coordinator Lynne Nilson says data in the report is broken down to reflect specific areas of the state, some as small as neighborhoods. She says the recommendations for increasing cancer screening and other prevention efforts are targeted to meet each area's specific concerns.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus

If anything can save the Honeycomb tablet?field, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus ($399 list, 16GB)?can. Slim, elegant, and entertainment-focused, this is about as good as a 7-inch Google Android Honeycomb tablet gets. But while Samsung manages to solve one of Honeycomb's most critical problems with a custom app store, this product line is still slightly uncomfortably wedged between budget and high-end tablets.

Physical Design and Connectivity
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus looks like a shrunken-down version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 ($469, 3.5 stars) and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 ($499, 3.5 stars.) These are the best-looking, best-built Android tablets on the market, slim black and gray slabs (in this case, 7.6 by 4.8 by .39 inches and 12.1 ounces) clearly made of quality materials. The Galaxy Tab 7.0 will slip unnoticeably into a coat pocket. It's lovely.

The Tab 7.0 Plus has its Power and Volume buttons, as well as its MicroSD card slot, on the side. The 2-megapixel front camera is at the top of the bezel, to the right of the speaker, which also faces the user. The 1024-by-600 pixel TFT LCD is pretty standard for tablets of this size.

This is a Wi-Fi-only tablet, connecting to 802.11b/g/n networks. It also has Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth and wireless syncing, so you can connect it directly to a Wi-Fi-Direct-capable PC to transfer files.

Performance and Apps
The Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus runs Android Honeycomb 3.2 on a dual-core?Samsung Exynos 1.2GHz processor. It benchmarked blazingly fast, and the tablet runs very smoothly even with Samsung's many complex TouchWiz extensions over standard Android.

Samsung has heavily skinned this tablet. It comes with a whole bunch of custom widgets. You can pop up a "quick action" bar from the bottom of the screen to give you speedy access to a task manager, calendar, world clock, memo pad, calculator, or music player. Samsung added custom e-book reader, magazine subscription and photo editing apps, none deletable, to Google's standard trove.

The big win here, though, is Samsung's custom app store, Samsung Apps. In the past Samsung Apps has been a lackluster collection of about two dozen apps Samsung delivers as sweeteners for their products, but it's blossomed into a good-looking storefront of several hundred tablet-oriented apps; the links all take you to the Android Market, so you don't have to sign up for another account. This is the best approach I've seen so far towards solving the Android Market's problems with discovering tablet apps. Fortunately, as a 7-inch tablet running Android 3.2, the Tab 7.0 Plus can also run Android phone apps in zoomed mode, which isn't a panacea but doesn't look that bad.

The 4000mAh nonremovable battery delivered 6 hours, 33 minutes of continuous video playback, a very good result for a 7-inch tablet.

Entertainment and Peel Remote
Samsung pitches this as an "entertainment tablet" whose flagship app is Peel Smart Remote, a potentially awesome TV companion which would be far more awesome if it worked.

Peel's idea is compelling: it shows all the programs playing on your TV as graphical "cards" which you can sort by genre, drilling down to see program details or flipping over to watch similar shows. When you select a card, it should set your TV to watch the show, although it can't set your DVR to record a show in the future.?

But I had serious trouble with the actual remote parts of Peel Smart Remote, which use the tablet's weak IR emitter. I tried the remote with three Insignia and Sharp TVs and Roku, AppleTV and Dish Networks set-top boxes. Setup was always a problem. The Peel had trouble detecting and switching the TVs' inputs. Trying to move the cursor on the AppleTV caused the TV to switch off. Operating the TiVo, there was a serious lag between sliding the fast-forward button on the remote and having the TiVo respond, which made the device difficult to operate. Aiming it at the Dish receiver, parts of channel selections were sometimes cut off, sending the device to the wrong channel. The app also threw up various errors pretty frequently, such as "No content available at this time, please check back later!" As a result, I can't recommend this app.

I had much better luck playing video on this tablet. The Tab comes with Media Hub, Samsung's elegant but pricey video store ($2.99-$3.99 to rent movies, $9.99 and up to buy movies, $1.99 to buy TV shows) as well as Google's own video rental service. H.264, MPEG4, XVID and DIVX videos all played smoothly at up to 1080p resolution, with audio coming through clearly over wired or Bluetooth headphones. If you want to play your video on a TV, you'll have to shell out for a $34.99 Multimedia Dock which provides HDMI output.

The tablet is also a dandy music player, running all the usual Android music services including Google Music. Samsung's TouchWiz hacks include quick access to the music player popping up from the bottom status bar, and the tablet played all the usual music formats.

The two cameras aren't very high-res, but they're high quality. The 3-megapixel rear camera is very good indoors, taking sharp, clear images. The 2-megapixel front camera is unusually good in low light. Both cameras have somewhat slow shutter speeds; I found that passing cars, for instance, could get blurry.

Video recording indoors resulted in very noisy 720p movies at 24 frames per second; outdoors, I got cleaner 720p movies at 30 frames per second, but with blown-out bright areas.

The tablet comes in 16GB and 32GB ($499) models; the 16GB model, which we tested, had about 13GB user-accessible and worked fine with our 32GB SanDisk MicroSD card, which popped into a slot in the side.

Conclusions
There are a lot of very similar Android Honeycomb-based tablets on the market. The Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus is more expensive than the Acer Iconia Tab A100 ($349.99, 4 stars); it's also faster, slimmer and more elegant. (The Iconia got a higher rating because there was less competition when it was released back in August.) Compared with the T-Mobile Springboard ($429.99, 3.5 stars) it's less expensive and speedier, with more useful software, although it lacks 3G. The Archos 80 G9 ($299.99, unrated) costs less, but it's slower, feels cheaper and lacks Samsung's software extensions.

Our current Editors' Choice for small tablets is the completely different Amazon Kindle Fire ($199.99, 4 stars), which isn't nearly as flexible as the Galaxy Tab, but it's easier to use and half the price. For larger tablets, we prefer the Apple iPad 2 ($499.99, 4.5 stars) because of its far, far superior collection of tablet-focused apps.

This is a very good tablet, but here's the central problem: The Android Honeycomb app selection is stillborn, and industry interest is moving towards the next version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0. The good news is that the Tab 7.0 Plus is slated to get an ICS upgrade at some point. If you like the features on this tablet (other than the poorly working remote), by all means get it. But I'd wait to see if ICS brings a flourishing of tablet apps that could make Android tablets better able to compete with the app king, the Apple iPad 2.

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Computers as furnaces?

Some ecological economists are proposing putting large, heat-generating supercomputers, which normally require cooling,? into residential basements as heating sources. Is this a clever new way to recycle energy, or too far-fetched to work?

Neo-classical environmental economists have a strange relationship with our ecological economics brethren. ? The ecological economists seem to believe that natural capital is the ultimate limit to sustainable growth while neo-classical economists posit that new ideas and innovation can continuously allow us to avoid "limits to growth". ?We believe that through endogenous innovation that capitalism helps to accelerate the discovery of new ways to produce basic things we need such as food and energy services. ?In a salute to Paul Romer and other growth thinkers, we believe that new ideas can and will arrive that will save the day so that we do not starve and do not suffer in a changing world.

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Today's NY Times has an example of ecological economics that I understand. ?The ecological economists are eager to turn waste (an output) into a productive input. ?Such general equilibrium flows would lead to a more efficient capitalism. ?As this article highlights, ?computers are major producers of heat. ?We all know that computers get hot and that big firms must run air conditioners to keep them cool. This NY Times article posits that a "win-win" would be to lock such computers in people's basements so that their furnace would no longer be needed. Instead, people would get their heat from the electric furnace (the computers). ?This is a groovy idea but it raises a couple of issues.

1. ?How would the home's electricity consumption be disaggregated into that which is consumed in the basement versus that which is consumed by the occupants of the home?

2. What do you do to minimize the probability that the basement floods? ?How do you minimize the probability of vandalism by outsiders?

3. What happens to the family ping pong table?

4. How does the family who lives in the home guarantee that no teenagers will break in and play around with the computers? ?How will two sided liability work?

5. Is there fire risk from all of these computers? How often would nerd technicians be entering the home to tinker around to make sure that the data centers are safe and clean? ?

But, I do like that the nerds are thinking outside the box of how to turn waste into a productive input. If energy prices rise, this would be even more attractive for households who want some heat coming up from the floor boards. ?Perhaps the ecological economists and the NBER economists can make the peace!

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Jaguars being sold to Illinois businessman (AP)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ? The Jacksonville Jaguars have reached an agreement to sell the small-market franchise to Illinois businessman Shahid Khan.

Majority owner Wayne Weaver made the announcement Tuesday, hours after he fired coach Jack Del Rio and gave general manager Gene Smith a three-year contract extension. He said Khan will have 100 percent control of the team.

Weaver called Khan "a great American success story" and said the Pakistan-born entrepreneur will keep the team in Jacksonville.

Khan is the owner and CEO of the Flex-N-Gate Group based in Urbana, Ill. Khan had been a candidate to buy controlling interest in the St. Louis Rams last year.

The sale of the franchise and the firing of Del Rio are the city's most significant news since the team's inception in 1993.

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EU trade holding up, but risks ahead-De Gucht (reuters)

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Obama "disturbed" by storming of UK embassy in Iran (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? President Barack Obama strongly urged the Iranian government on Tuesday to take to task those responsible for storming the British embassy in Tehran.

"All of us are deeply disturbed by the crashing of the ... embassy," he said during a meeting at the White House with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

Iranian protesters stormed two British diplomatic compounds in Tehran on Tuesday, smashing windows, torching a car and burning the British flag in protest against new sanctions imposed by London.

"I strongly urge the Iranian government to hold those responsible to task," Obama said. He called on Iran's government to respond quickly.

"We expect to see some sort of definitive action some time very quickly," he said during the Oval Office meeting.

Obama also said the United States has a "very deep interest" in a resolution of the European Union's sovereign debt crisis.

(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; editing by Mohammad Zargham)

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Kanimozhi, 4 others get bail in 2G case (Reuters)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) ? The Delhi High Court on Monday granted bail to Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK chief Karunanidhi, and four company executives charged in a telecoms licensing scandal that has rocked the government and businesses in Asia's third-largest economy.

The court also granted bail to Sarath Kumar of Kalaignar TV, Karim Morani of Cineyug and DB Realtys Rajiv Aggarwal and Asif Balwa.

The five will have to provide a bail bond of 500,000 rupees each and a guarantee of a similar amount. Full details of the order were not immediately available.

The executives are among the three companies and 14 individuals charged in the alleged rigging of a 2007/08 grant of lucrative telecoms licences that the Comptroller and Auditor General said cost the government up to $39 billion in revenue.

Last week, the Supreme Court granted bail to Sanjay Chandra, the managing director of Unitech; Vinod Goenka, chairman of DB Group; and three executives from billionaire Anil Ambani's group who had been held in jail since April.

All accused in the case have denied any wrongdoing.

The scandal is the largest of several that have emerged in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's second term, weakening the government's political authority. Attacked by a resurgent opposition, policy-making has drifted into limbo amid the controversies.

The case has also spooked investors after investigators questioned powerful tycoons, including billionaire Anil Ambani.

(Writing by Tony Tharakan)

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Lebanese accuse Syria of 'stealing' video footage (AP)

BEIRUT ? A group of Lebanese men have accused Syrian authorities of using old video filmed in Lebanon to back up claims that they are fighting terrorists in Syria.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem on Monday showed journalists in Damascus gruesome images of charred bodies and bearded gunmen that he said was filmed during the ongoing unrest in Syria.

But a group of seven Lebanese men claimed Tuesday that a segment of the video was filmed during sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon in 2008 ? and that they appear in it.

The men held a news conference and took journalists to the spot where the footage was allegedly filmed.

They added it was proof of the Syrian regime's "lies and fabrications."

There was no immediate comment from Syrian officials on the claims.

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BEIRUT (AP) ? Regional pressure mounted against President Bashar Assad's regime on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia urged its citizens to leave Syria and Turkey said it could use Iraq as an alternative trade route. That would cut out Syria entirely as Damascus faces broad economic sanctions over its deadly crackdown on an 8-month-old uprising.

Russia's foreign minister, however, gave the regime a boost, warning against imposing ultimatums on Assad's government.

Activists said at least 11 Syrians were killed by security forces in a series of raids and house searches on Tuesday, five in the tense Damascus suburb of Rankous, five in the central city of Homs and one in the town of Saraqeb in Idlib.

Syria has been a main transit route for Middle East trade, which Damascus hopes will help cushion the effects of tough new sanctions from the Arab League and Turkey. The Arab sanctions were expected to bite far more than existing sanctions from the U.S. and the European Union, which had far more limited trade with Damascus.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said the Arab sanctions amounted to "economic warfare" and warned Damascus could use its strategic location to inflict economic damage of its own.

"Sanctions are a two-way street," Moallem said in a televised news conference Monday. "We don't want to threaten anyone, but we will defend the interests of our people."

But Turkey's transport minister said there are alternatives to Syria, although he gave no specifics about when such a move might be taken.

"We are planning to conduct transit transport through Iraq, by opening new (border) gates, if the situation with Syria worsens," Binali Yildirim told the state-run Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. He said Turkey would increase the number of border gates with Iraq in such an event.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, speaking at a joint news conference with Luxembourg's foreign minister Tuesday, would not reveal what sanctions Turkey is contemplating implementing against Syria, but said they would never include cutting water or electricity supplies.

Responding to a question, he said the possibility of establishing a buffer zone inside Syria was not on the agenda, but did not completely rule out the possibility.

"Let's hope that the decisions by the Arab League and that the calls made on Syria find a response and that more bloodshed in Syria can be prevented," he said. "However, if the repression continues, Turkey is ready for all kinds of scenarios but this does not mean that we will use the military option."

Syria has seen the bloodiest crackdown against the Arab Spring's eruption of protests, with the U.N. reporting at least 3,500 people killed since March.

Deaths in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen have numbered in the hundreds. Libya's toll is unknown and likely higher than Syria's, but the conflict there differed because it descended early on into an outright civil war between two armed sides.

The U.N.'s top human rights body will hold an urgent meeting Friday to discuss the situation in Syria, Western diplomats in Geneva said. It will be the third special session of the Geneva-based Human Rights Council since the uprising against Assad started in March.

Diplomats told The Associated Press on Tuesday that more than 20 of the council's 47 members have signed the call to hold the meeting. They spoke on condition of anonymity as an official announcement wasn't due until later Tuesday.

Assad is depending on strong support from Russia and China to withstand the sanctions and growing isolation.

Last month, Russia and China vetoed a Western-backed U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the bloodshed in Syria, arguing that NATO misused a previous U.N. mandate authorizing use of force in Libya.

On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov angrily dismissed calls for an arms embargo, calling them "unfair," and echoing regime allegations that militant groups opposing the government have been armed from the outside.

"The most important thing now is to stop acting through ultimatums and try to use political means," Lavrov said.

___

Associated Press writers Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow and Frank Jordans in Geneva contributed to this report.

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European investors? exposure to Chinese private equity - An insider?s perspective

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Foreword While the EU 27 members are among the largest foreign investors in China, their investments consist mainly?of capital in non-financial businesses. As China is the fastest growing economy and export market, Europe?s enterprises have dramatically increased their presence in? the country. At the same time, European financial investors were still cautious.?With this study we wanted to provide deeper insights into what European investors are taking into consideration when deciding to carry out Chinese venture capital and private equity investments. Thus, this paper should?serve as a building block to a better understanding of?the Chinese venture capital and private equity industry on the one hand, but also, on the other hand, address the requirements and expectations of European asset owners and investors wishing to participate in?the growth opportunities in China... ...

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"Marilyn", "Artist" "Method" have strong debuts (omg!)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Michelle Williams' portrayal of America's most iconic actress debuted strongly over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with the Weinstein Company's "My Week With Marilyn" opening to $2 million at 244 domestic locations.

In fact, it was a particularly strong play period for indie adult dramas in general, with Weinstein's "The Artist" also enjoying a big premiere, taking in $210,414 at four theaters -- a huge per-theater average of more than $52,600 per screen.

Sony Pictures Classics' "A Dangerous Method" had an even stronger opening, taking in $240,944 at four locations (per-screen average of $60,233).

Among holdovers, Fox Searchlight's "The Descendants" continued to dominate the indie box office, grossing $9.2 million from Wednesday through Sunday while expanding from 29 to 433 locations.

Sheila DeLoach, executive VP of distribution for Fox Searchlight, told TheWrap that the studio planned to expand the film's playdates by 200 on December 9. "But based on demand, we will be looking to move as many of those theaters as possible up to Friday, December 2," she said. "The audience has clearly crossed from older adults to an all-audience film for adults over 18."

The movie stars Clooney as a land baron who is selling off family property in Hawaii when his wife is very badly injured in a boating accident. Its per-screen average was $16,628 over the five-day weekend.

And "Marilyn," which is generating Oscar buzz for star Williams, had a solid per-screen average of $7,266 for the three days. The movie is about the interaction between Laurence Olivier and Monroe during production of "The Prince and the Showgirl."

Its numbers were strong enough to make "Marilyn" the No. 12 movie in the country.

"The way it played throughout the weekend is an indication that word of mouth is building on the film, and that's what we thought, which is why we opened early -- to get people talking," Erik Lomis, the Weinstein Company's head of distribution, told TheWrap.

The R-rated movie, directed by Simon Curtis, opened on 123 screens Wednesday and expanded to 244 screens on Friday.

"We're getting a more sophisticated audience, an older audience, and people are responding really well," Lomis said. He said that 71 percent of the audience was 35 and older and 89 percent was 25 and older. Women especially liked the movie -- 65 percent of its audience was female.

Lomis said the company will slowly increase the number of screens.

"We'll be judicious with it," he said. "We'll roll it out ... through the awards season."

He said the company will be "even more careful and more judicious" with the rollout of "The Artist."

Michel Hazanavicius directed the silent, black-and-white, PG-13 movie about a silent movie star whose career is threatened as talkies catch on.

"We couldn't be happier," Lomis said. "It's like the little engine that could, this movie -- it's a silent film, it's black-and-white and it's performing with the big boys. It's a great start."

Lomis said the movie's audience was evenly split between men and women, that 67 percent was 35 or older and that 91 percent was 25 or older.

"A Dangerous Method," directed by David Cronenberg, stars Michael Fassbender as the psychoanalyst Carl Jung and Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud.

Among holdovers, Paramount Vantage's "Like Crazy" grossed an estimated $609,000 over the five days and $449,000 over three days.

The PG-13 movie played at 150 locations. That's a per-screen average of just short of $3,000 for the three-day period.

(In 4th paragraph, corrects gross for "Descendants" from $7.2 million to $9.2 million)

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30 IPS officers quit jobs in 2008-10

New Delhi: Contrary to popular perception that Indian Police Service (IPS) is an elite all-India service, 30 officers of the cadre have left the top policing job for greener pastures in the last three years.

Attractive salary in private sectors, challenging nature of the job, uneasiness in allotted cadre and disparity in services are some of the key reasons for many IPS officers leave the job mid-career.

A total of 12 IPS officers quit their jobs in 2008, while the figure stood at 10 and eight in 2009 and 2010 respectively.

Several IPS officers said disparity in the services, long posting in disturbed areas, challenging nature of the job and better opportunity in the private sector could be the reason for the attrition in IPS cadre.

"Service condition should be improved and made on a par with other all India cadres. IPS officers throughout their career work on the field and they should be compensated, else the problem of attrition will remain," said an officer.

Though steps are being taken to the vacancy positions of the IPS officers, no major step has been taken to stop their attrition.

Given the shortage of IPS officers at the SP-level in many state cadres and taking into account the average attrition rate, the government has increased the annual batch-size from 130 to 150.

Steps are also being taken to allow young officers of paramilitary and army to join IPS through limited departmental examination.

PTI

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