RevoluSun, Hawaii?s leading provider of residential and commercial solar systems, partnered with Zippy?s restaurants to help build a cleaner, smarter Hawaii by encouraging people to think about energy and ways to conserve it through a $15,000 prize, the ?2013 Energy Efficient Home Makeover Giveaway.?
The contest ran throughout June 2013 at all Zippy?s restaurant locations statewide. No purchase was necessary to enter, but eligible entrants must have been 18 years of age or older, and be a Hawaii resident and homeowner.
Wayne Ishida of Millani, Oahu was named the winner of the $15,000 solar system. Ishida is retiring at the end of the year and recently started looking into solar savings for his home since all of his neighbors have installed systems. He?s excited about winning the energy efficient home makeover just in time to prepare for his retirement future.
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St. Jude creates $5.5 million endowment for cancer research to be held by the hospital CEOPublic release date: 2-Aug-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Summer Freeman summer.freeman@stjude.org 901-595-3061 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
The Donald Pinkel Endowed Chair of Pediatric Cancer Treatment honors the first director of St. Jude and is among the largest endowed chairs in the nation
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has earmarked $5.5 million for the creation of the Donald Pinkel Endowed Chair of Pediatric Cancer Treatment, which has been granted by the ALSAC and St. Jude Boards of Directors and Governors.
The endowment, among the largest of its kind in the country, honors the hospital's first director and will be held by the sitting St. Jude CEO. Dr. William E. Evans, the present St. Jude director and CEO, is its first designee. The endowment provides support for the CEO's research and academic programs.
"This endowment illustrates the importance of research being pursued from all levels at St. Jude," Evans said. "All St. Jude CEOs have remained actively engaged in research to discover, innovate and advance cure rates."
Evans' work focuses on better understanding the genomic basis of childhood cancers and developing individualized approaches to cancer treatment. This involves the translation of pharmacogenomic discoveries into personalized treatments for pediatric cancers.
Evans said that St. Jude owes its institutional focus and relentless spirit to Pinkel. A medical doctor, Pinkel challenged the standard 1960s treatment for childhood cancer with significant results.
Despite often-strident disagreement from many in the scientific and medical community, Pinkel developed an unconventional approach to treating acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common pediatric cancer. His revolutionary Total Therapy regimen, which he divided into a series of studies, combined multiple anticancer drugs with radiation treatment.
At a time when survival was estimated at 4 percent, the Total Therapy approach achieved a 50 percent survival rate and drove important improvements in treating both childhood and adult cancers. Total Therapy also served as the foundation for future St. Jude innovations and contributions to cancer research and treatment. Among them has been a steady increase in ALL survival, with St. Jude having the highest published survival rate for ALL at 94 percent.
Ensuring survival was the key for early childhood cancer research, and that meant highly aggressive therapy. Evans' research provides critical advances in the next revolution for cancer treatmentfinding the right treatment based on individual indicators, and providing only the amount of treatment necessary for success, minimizing side effects and potential later health impacts from treatment. For example, by better understanding how drugs interact with patients individually and by employing more sophisticated monitoring, clinicians have been able to discontinue the use of cranial irradiation in treatment of the disease, thus sparing children from many common side effects.
"I am deeply honored to be named the first Donald Pinkel Endowed Chair," Evans said. "When I first came to St. Jude in 1972 as a student, Dr. Pinkel was the director, and he was a person whom everyone looked up to, largely because he did not expect more out of others than he expected from himself. He led by example. I respected him because of what he had already accomplished, and because he was interested in hearing everyone's ideas, even those of a student like me."
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering research and treatment of children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The hospital's research has helped push overall survival rates for childhood cancer from less than 20 percent when the institution opened to almost 80 percent today. It is the first and only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children, and no family ever pays St. Jude for anything. St. Jude is supported by ALSAC, its fundraising organization. For more information, visit http://www.stjude.org. Follow us on Twitter @StJudeResearch.
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St. Jude creates $5.5 million endowment for cancer research to be held by the hospital CEOPublic release date: 2-Aug-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Summer Freeman summer.freeman@stjude.org 901-595-3061 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
The Donald Pinkel Endowed Chair of Pediatric Cancer Treatment honors the first director of St. Jude and is among the largest endowed chairs in the nation
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has earmarked $5.5 million for the creation of the Donald Pinkel Endowed Chair of Pediatric Cancer Treatment, which has been granted by the ALSAC and St. Jude Boards of Directors and Governors.
The endowment, among the largest of its kind in the country, honors the hospital's first director and will be held by the sitting St. Jude CEO. Dr. William E. Evans, the present St. Jude director and CEO, is its first designee. The endowment provides support for the CEO's research and academic programs.
"This endowment illustrates the importance of research being pursued from all levels at St. Jude," Evans said. "All St. Jude CEOs have remained actively engaged in research to discover, innovate and advance cure rates."
Evans' work focuses on better understanding the genomic basis of childhood cancers and developing individualized approaches to cancer treatment. This involves the translation of pharmacogenomic discoveries into personalized treatments for pediatric cancers.
Evans said that St. Jude owes its institutional focus and relentless spirit to Pinkel. A medical doctor, Pinkel challenged the standard 1960s treatment for childhood cancer with significant results.
Despite often-strident disagreement from many in the scientific and medical community, Pinkel developed an unconventional approach to treating acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common pediatric cancer. His revolutionary Total Therapy regimen, which he divided into a series of studies, combined multiple anticancer drugs with radiation treatment.
At a time when survival was estimated at 4 percent, the Total Therapy approach achieved a 50 percent survival rate and drove important improvements in treating both childhood and adult cancers. Total Therapy also served as the foundation for future St. Jude innovations and contributions to cancer research and treatment. Among them has been a steady increase in ALL survival, with St. Jude having the highest published survival rate for ALL at 94 percent.
Ensuring survival was the key for early childhood cancer research, and that meant highly aggressive therapy. Evans' research provides critical advances in the next revolution for cancer treatmentfinding the right treatment based on individual indicators, and providing only the amount of treatment necessary for success, minimizing side effects and potential later health impacts from treatment. For example, by better understanding how drugs interact with patients individually and by employing more sophisticated monitoring, clinicians have been able to discontinue the use of cranial irradiation in treatment of the disease, thus sparing children from many common side effects.
"I am deeply honored to be named the first Donald Pinkel Endowed Chair," Evans said. "When I first came to St. Jude in 1972 as a student, Dr. Pinkel was the director, and he was a person whom everyone looked up to, largely because he did not expect more out of others than he expected from himself. He led by example. I respected him because of what he had already accomplished, and because he was interested in hearing everyone's ideas, even those of a student like me."
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering research and treatment of children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The hospital's research has helped push overall survival rates for childhood cancer from less than 20 percent when the institution opened to almost 80 percent today. It is the first and only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children, and no family ever pays St. Jude for anything. St. Jude is supported by ALSAC, its fundraising organization. For more information, visit http://www.stjude.org. Follow us on Twitter @StJudeResearch.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in July, a modest increase and the fewest since March. Still, the unemployment rate fell to a 4?-year low of 7.4 percent, a hopeful sign in an otherwise lackluster report.
Unemployment declined from 7.6 percent in June because more Americans found jobs, and others stopped looking and were no longer counted as unemployed.
Still, Friday's report from the Commerce Department pointed to a less-than-robust job market. It suggested that the economy's subpar growth and modest consumer spending are making many businesses cautious about hiring.
Employers created a combined 26,000 fewer jobs in May and June than previously estimated. Americans worked fewer hours in July, and their average pay dipped. And many of the jobs employers added in July were for lower-paying work at stores, bars and restaurants.
For the year, job growth remains steady. The economy has created an average 200,000 jobs a month since January, though the pace has slowed in the past three months to 175,000.
Friday's jobs report "reveals a mixed labor market picture of continued improvement, but at a still frustratingly slow pace," said Scott Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West.
Reaction in financial markets was slightly negative. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 60 points in midmorning trading, and broader stock indexes also declined. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.62 percent from 2.71 percent.
The Federal Reserve will review the July employment data in deciding whether to slow its $85 billion a month in bond purchases in September, as many economists have predicted it will do.
Weaker hiring could make the Fed hold off on any pullback in bond buying, which has helped keep long-term borrowing costs down. Yet it's possible that the lower unemployment, along with the job gains the past year, will convince the Fed that the job market is strengthening consistently.
"While July itself was a bit disappointing, the Fed will be looking at the cumulative improvement," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics. "On that score, the unemployment rate has fallen from 8.1 percent last August, to 7.4 percent this July, which is a significant improvement."
But Beth Ann Bovino, senior economist at Standard & Poor's, said she thinks Friday's report will make the Fed delay any slowdown in its bond purchases.
"September seems very unlikely now," she says. "I'm wondering if December is still in the cards."
The government's revised totals show that May's job growth was downgraded to 176,000, below the 195,000 previously estimated. June's was lowered to 188,000, from the 195,000 reported last month.
July's decline in unemployment to 7.4 percent was derived from a survey of households, which found that 227,000 more people said they were employed. And 37,000 people stopped looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed.
The job gain for the month was calculated from a separate survey of employers.
Though much of July's job growth was in lower-paying industries, manufacturing, a generally good-paying sector, added 6,000 jobs. That growth was driven by gains at auto plants. Those were the first job gains at U.S. factories since February.
Jobs in professional services such as finance, accounting and information technology also rose.
Governments added jobs for the first time since April, driven by the fifth straight month of hiring by local government.
Job gains are being slowed by the economy's tepid growth. It grew at an annual rate of just 1.7 percent in the April-June quarter, the government said this week. That was an improvement over the previous two quarters, but it's still far too weak to rapidly lower unemployment.
Recent data suggest that the economy could strengthen in the second half of the year. A survey Thursday showed that factories increased production and received a surge of new orders in July, propelling the fastest expansion in more than two years.
The survey, by the Institute for Supply Management, also showed that the housing recovery is spurring more output by lumber companies, furniture makers and appliance manufacturers.
Businesses have ordered more industrial machinery and other equipment for four straight months. Europe's troubled economies are showing signs of recovery, potentially a lift to U.S. exports.
U.S. automakers are reporting their best sales since the recession, a sign that Americans are confident enough in their finances to make large purchases. Car sales rose 14 percent in July from 12 months earlier to 1.3 million.
Healthy sales have encouraged more hiring by Ford Motor Co. The company said last week that it will hire 800 salaried professionals this year, mostly in areas such as information technology, product development and quality control.
Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is in power in Egypt?but what does he want to do with it?
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CAIRO?The following are excerpts from Lally Weymouth?s interview with Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt?s defense minister, armed forces commander, and deputy prime minister. Excerpts:
Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi: The dilemma between the former president and the people originated from [the Muslim Brotherhood?s] concept of the state, the ideology that they adopted for building a country which is based on restoring the Islamic religious empire.
That?s what made [former President Mohammed Morsi] not a president for all Egyptians, but a president representing his followers and supporters.
Lally Weymouth: When did that become obvious to you?
Sisi: It was obvious on the first day?the day of his inauguration. He started with offending the judiciary and not giving them the appropriate treatment. The Brotherhood experience in ruling a country was very modest?if not absent.
[The army] dealt with the president with all due respect for a president chosen by the Egyptians.
Weymouth: So you were giving the president advice on Ethiopia and the Sinai, for example, and he was ignoring you?
Sisi: We were very keen and predetermined on his success. If we wanted to oppose or not allow them to come to rule Egypt, we would have done things with the elections, as elections used to be rigged in the past. Unfortunately, the former president picked fights with almost all the state institutions. When a president is having conflict with all of these state institutions, the chance of success for such a president is very meager. On the other hand, on his part, the president was trying to call in supporters from religious groups.
Sisi: They have an international presence in more than 60 countries in the world?the Muslim Brotherhood. The idea that gathers them together is not nationalism, it?s not patriotism, it is not a sense of a country?it is only an ideology that is totally related to the concept of the organization.
Weymouth: The U.S. is very concerned about the sit-ins at Rabaa and Nahdet [two squares in Cairo where the Muslim Brotherhood has staged sit-ins].
Sisi: We really wonder: Where is the role of the United States and the European Union and all of the other international forces that are interested in the security, safety, and well-being of Egypt? Are the values of freedom and democracy exclusively exercised in your countries but other countries do not have the right to exercise the same values and enjoy the same environment? Have you seen the scores of millions of Egyptians calling for change in Tahrir? What is your response to that?
You left the Egyptians, you turned your back on the Egyptians, and they won?t forget that. Now you want to continue turning your backs on Egyptians? The U.S. interest and the popular will of the Egyptians don?t have to conflict. We always asked the U.S. officials to provide advice to the former president to overcome his problems.
Weymouth: What did the U.S. do?
Sisi: The result is very obvious. Where is the economic support to Egypt from the U.S.? Even throughout the year when the former president was in office?where was the U.S. support to help the country restore its economy and overcome its dire needs?
Weymouth: Are you going to run for president?
Sisi: I want to say that the most important achievement in my life is to overcome this circumstance, [to ensure] that we live peacefully, to go on with our road map and to be able to conduct the coming elections without shedding one drop of Egyptian blood.
Weymouth: But are you going to run?
Sisi: You just can?t believe that there are people who don?t aspire for authority.
Sisi: Yes. It?s the hopes of the people that is ours. And when the people love you?this is the most important thing for me.
The pains and suffering of the people are too many. A lot of people don?t know about the suffering. I am the most aware of the size of the problems in Egypt. That is why I am asking: Where is your support?
Weymouth: Did you feel there would be civil strife if the army didn?t intervene?
Sisi: I expected if we didn?t intervene, it would have turned into a civil war. Four months before he left, I told Morsi the same thing.
What I want you to know and I want the American reader also to know is that this is a free people who rebelled against an unjust political rule, and this free people needs your support.
Weymouth: Aren?t the Americans warning the interim government against any further civil strife or bloodshed?
Sisi: The U.S. administration has a lot leverage and influence with the Muslim Brotherhood and I?d really like the U.S. administration to use this leverage with them to resolve the conflict.
Whoever will clean these squares or resolve these sit-ins will not be the military. There is a civil police and they are assigned to these duties. On the 26th of [July], more than 30 million people went out onto the streets to give me support. These people are waiting for me to do something.
Weymouth: How can you assure the U.S. that you don?t want the military to rule Egypt?that the army wants to go back to its barracks?
Sisi: Mark my words and take me very seriously: The Egyptian military is different from other militaries around the world.
Weymouth: Do you really want to have civilian rule here?
Weymouth: In a future election, would Egypt accept international observers?
Sisi: We are ready to receive monitors and international observers for the elections from everywhere in the world.
The Egyptians are looking up to you, the Americans. Don?t disappoint their hopes. Don?t give them your backs.
Weymouth: Were you upset by the hold up of the [F-16s]?
Sisi: Yes. This is not the way to deal with a patriotic military.
Weymouth: Did President Obama call you after July 3?
Weymouth: Did anybody call you? Secretary of State Kerry? Defense Secretary Hagel?
This is the first in a two-part series on the U.S.-South Africa bilateral relationship. Part I examines the state of economic ties. Part II will examine the state of political ties.
Although it was inevitably overshadowed by the serious decline in Nelson Mandela?s health, U.S. President Barack Obama?s visit to South Africa at the end of June provided the opportunity for a comprehensive re-evaluation of the bilateral relationship. Though both sides talked about expanding cooperation and strengthening ties, the backdrop to the visit was a checkered and uneven relationship since the birth of the new South Africa in 1994. ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Egypt?s army had not seized power after toppling President Mohamed Mursi, as Islamists summoned their followers to resume protests and defy orders to disperse.
The Egyptian army ?was asked to intervene by millions and millions of people,? Kerry told Pakistan?s Geo TV yesterday, according to a State Department transcript. The military ?did not take over,? he said, and ?in effect they were restoring democracy.? Kerry also criticized the shooting of pro-Mursi demonstrators by security forces, saying the U.S. was ?very, very concerned.?
He later said in London that ?all of the parties involved have a responsibility to be inclusive, to work toward a peaceful resolution? and the ?last thing we want is more violence.? Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns will begin a visit to Cairo today, the State Department said in statement.
Brotherhood supporters massed in Cairo and other cities after Friday prayers again today to demand Mursi?s reinstatement following his removal by the army on July 3, television pictures showed. ?Down with the commander of the armed forces, Mursi is our president,? they chanted as they waved national flags.
Calls by Mursi?s Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters to join rallies today have fueled fears of further violence, after dozens of Islamists were killed last weekend. The Interior Ministry yesterday signaled a police crackdown against pro-Mursi sit-ins in two of the capital?s main squares, promising safe conduct to those who left now.
Media Protest
Security forces fired tear gas at protesters in Cairo?s media city, where several pro-Mursi television channels have been shut down, Al Jazeera TV reported. The demonstrators had been trying to break through gates, Al Jazeera said, citing the Interior Ministry.
The overthrow of Mursi, Egypt?s first freely elected civilian leader, has escalated the tensions between Islamists and their opponents that built up during his one-year rule, and extended the political turmoil that has persisted since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.
Since July 3, authorities have been rounding up Islamist leaders and freezing their assets. The Brotherhood?s top official, Mohammed Badie, was charged with incitement to murder this week. The group?s supporters have remained on the streets and scores have been killed in clashes with police.
?Brothers? Blood
Mohamed Hassan, an influential preacher in Islam?s Salafi movement, urged Egyptians to take part in today?s rallies, dubbed by their organizers ?Egypt Against the Coup.?
?Don?t leave your brothers in the squares to be slaughtered,? he said in a broadcast on Al Jazeera yesterday. ?The blood of our sons will become a curse on those who spill it.?
Thousands of Mursi supporters gathered in squares in Nahda and Rabaa Al-Adawiya in Cairo, where the Brotherhood released birds into the air, saying it wanted to illustrate the protests were peaceful.
The Interior Ministry appealed to demonstrators to ?resort to reason, prioritize the interests of the homeland, heed the public interest and swiftly leave for everyone?s safety.?
Egypt?s army-backed government accuses the Brotherhood of inciting violence to portray itself as a victim.
The U.S. has had close ties to Egypt?s army for three decades, and gives it about $1.3 billion in aid each year. The administration has declined to label Mursi?s ouster a coup, which by U.S. law would require the aid to be cut.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Egypt?s army had not seized power after toppling President Mohamed Mursi, as Islamists summoned their followers to resume protests and defy orders to disperse.