Scarborough Clashes With Panel Over Obama?s ?Permanent Campaign?: He?s ?Going To Destroy? The GOP

Joe Scarborough was bluntly critical of President Obama this morning ? pointing to his ?permanent campaign? and goal of destroying the Republican Party, while simultaneously not leading on our economic problems. Some of his panelists, including co-host Mika Brzezinski, however, weren?t quite buying that line of argument.

If the president stops permanently campaigning and ?demagoguing,? Scarborough said, he may actually make decisions that will upset his base. But he needs to be responsible. Al Sharpton countered that, for all the criticism, Obama does have a plan. With sequestration looming, Republicans are ?going where no one thought they would ever go, including at the risk of national security.?

But Republicans agreed to raise taxes, which they haven?t done in a quarter century, Scarborough argued. ?I would love for him to show some leadership on this instead of just taking cheap political shots.?

?He?s going to destroy the Republican Party, and that?s his decision,? he added. If he were interested in coming to the table instead, perhaps we wouldn?t be dealing with another crisis.

?That?s like looking at a burning building and saying, ?I?m going to light a match and burn that building down,?? Brzezinski said. ?The Republican Party is definitely responsible for their problems at this point.?

And the Republicans will take the blame, she added, if sequestration goes into effect. Nope, Scarborough asserted. This is on the president.

Take a look, via MSNBC:

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California parents sue over grade school yoga

By Marty Graham

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The parents of two California grade school students have sued to block the teaching of yoga classes they complain promote eastern religions, saying children who exercise their choice to opt out of the popular program face bullying and teasing.

The Encinitas Unified School District, near San Diego, began the program in September to teach Ashtanga yoga as part of the district's physical education program - and school officials insist the program does not teach any religion.

Lawyers for the parents challenging the yoga program disagreed.

"As a First Amendment lawyer, I wouldn't go after an exercise program. I don't go after people for stretching," said attorney Dean Broyles, who heads the National Center on Law and Policy, which filed the suit on Wednesday in a San Diego court.

"But Ashtanga yoga is a religious-based yoga, and if we are separating church and state, we can't pick and choose religious favorites," he said.

The lawsuit is the latest twist in a broader national clash over the separation of religion from public education that has seen spirited debate on issues ranging from the permissibility of student-led prayer to whether science instructors can teach alternatives to evolution.

The lawsuit, which does not seek any monetary damages, objects to eight-limbed tree posters they say are derived from Hindu beliefs, the Namaste greeting and several of the yoga poses that they say represent the worship of Hindu deities.

According to the suit, a $533,000 grant from the Jois Foundation, which supports yoga in schools, allowed the school district to assign 60 minutes of the 100 minutes of physical education required each week to Ashtanga yoga, taught in the schools by Jois-certified teachers.

Broyles said that while children are allowed to opt out of the yoga program, they are not given other exercise options.

"The kids who are opting out are getting teased and bullied," he said. "We have one little girl whose classmates told her parents are stupid because she opted out. That's not supposed to happen in our schools."

Encinitas schools Superintendent Tim Baird said the suit was unfounded and that the district had worked with parents who had concerns as they developed and implemented the program.

"We are disappointed by the suit. We thought we had worked well with the concerned parents and had resolved their concerns," he added.

Encinitas resident Dave Peck said his law firm had offered to represent the school district for free but was turned down and is now working with parents who support teaching yoga in schools. He called the lawsuit "a tortured attempt to find indoctrination where none exists."

"There is really no dispute as to the physical and mental health benefits of the yoga program - teachers and parents throughout the district have raved about noticeable improvement in the students' focus," said Peck, whose children attend Encinitas schools.

"We reject the argument that yoga poses constitute the practice of Hinduism as both a matter of law and common sense. There is absolutely nothing religious or spiritual about the classroom instruction," he said.

(Editing by Cynthia Johnston; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)

Source: http://wkzo.com/news/articles/2013/feb/22/california-parents-sue-over-grade-school-yoga/

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Oh yeah, Angry Birds Seasons is available for Windows Phone 7 too

Yesterday Rovio surprised us with the announcement of Angry Birds Seasons for Windows Phone 8. The announcements don?t end there. Rovio has also made Angry Birds Seasons available for Windows Phone 7 devices. This is the fourth Angry Birds game for Windows Phone along with the?original, Space,?and Star Wars versions.

What makes Seasons different? This version is all about the time of the year and holidays. There are levels for just about every season and holiday. The mechanics of Seasons is very similar to the original Angry Birds. There are no new abilities or characters. Previous Angry Birds games have not?received?much support after launch, so we?ll have to see how Seasons is handled. The one difference between the WP7 and 8 versions is that the WP7 version is not for Xbox. It is also available for $.99.

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Facebook Adds Free Voice Calling to its iOS App

Facebook just updated its iOS app with a number of new features, most notably the ability to make voice calls over Wi-Fi and data to your Facebook friends.

This feature came to Facebook Messenger awhile ago, but now anyone with the regular Facebook app can take advantage in the US and Canada. Just open up your chat list from the button in the upper right-hand corner, tap on a friend, and choose "Free Call." Your friends will have to have the latest version of Facebook for iOS and be signed into chat to receive calls. It's far from the only VoIP solution on the iPhone, but since most of your friends probably have Facebook anyway, it's a handy way to contact them without using minutes. Just watch how much data you use if you have a limited plan.

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Intensive care linked to BPA exposure in newborns

Intensive care linked to BPA exposure in newborns

Highest levels of pollutant occur in sickest babies, study finds

By Janet Raloff

Web edition: February 22, 2013

Highest levels of pollutant occur in sickest babies, study finds

By Janet Raloff

Web edition: February 22, 2013

Hospitals rush newborns into a neonatal intensive care unit when those babies are struggling to survive. Although NICUs offer tender and vigilant care, many of the devices they rely on can expose their tiny patients to a relatively large dose of a hormone-mimicking pollutant, bisphenol A.

Newborns in intensive care excrete BPA, on average, at levels of around 17.8 micrograms per liter ? well above the 0.45 ?g/l typical of healthy infants, researchers report in the March Pediatrics. One of the most reliable indicators of BPA exposure was the level of care that a baby received, reflected by the number of devices used to deliver that care, notes nurse and exposure-science researcher Susan Duty of Simmons College in Boston. Breathing tubes, intravenous drug delivery lines and enclosed incubators are plastic, and several types of plastic can contain BPA.

Although researchers have not figured out what doses of BPA cause toxicity in people, several studies have linked elevated prenatal exposures to later behavioral problems (SN Online: 7/16/12) and moodiness (SN: 11/7/09, p. 12) in young children. Animal studies have also linked BPA exposure during development to feminization in males and risks of later hypertension and diabetes.

Duty?s team studied 55 infants, each of whom spent at least three days in a NICU in the Boston area, and most of whom had been born prematurely or were for other reasons very small. The researchers measured BPA in the breast milk and formula that these tiny babies consumed. Both nutritional sources had small, comparable amounts of BPA.

Regular urine samples then revealed how much BPA the babies had encountered.

The urine of newborns who had received treatment with four or more NICU devices contained 36.6 ?g/l BPA on average. That level was almost three times as much as babies treated with three or fewer devices. ?I was surprised,? Duty says, ?especially because this particular [NICU] had taken considerable care to purchase products that were BPA-free whenever possible.?

Roughly one-fifth of the babies had been treated with at least four medical devices. Contrary to her expectations, Duty found that respiratory devices, not IV tubing, proved to have the strongest link with elevated BPA levels.

Another surprise was that prematurity accounted for 30 percent of the variability in urinary BPA, says Laura Vandenberg, a developmental biologist at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., who was not involved in the study. ?

One possible explanation for prematurity?s link to BPA levels emerged at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Boston. On February 17, researchers with the Food and Drug Administration?s National Center for Toxicological Research in Jefferson, Ark. reported rodent and monkey experiments showing that very young animals broke down BPA very slowly (SN: 3/9/13, p. 9).

If the animal data hold true for humans, Vandenberg says, immature babies may get a more potent punch from BPA simply because their bodies are relatively inefficient at breaking down the compound.

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Citations

S.M. Duty, et al. Potential sources of bisphenol A in the neonatal intensive care unit. Pediatrics. Vol. 131. March 2013, p. 483. doi: 10.1542/peds.2012-1380. [Go to]

D.R. Doerge. BPA pharmacokinetics in the adult and perinatal periods in experimental animals. American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. Presented February 16, 2013. [Go to]

L.S. Vandenberg, et al. Hormones and endocrine-disrupting chemicals: Low-dose effects and nonmonotonic dose responses. Endocrine Reviews. Vol. 33, June 2012, p. 378. doi:10.1210/er.2011-1050. [Go to]

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Suggested Reading

?. Bergman, et al. (Editors). State of the science of endocrine disrupting chemicals 2012. A report of the Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals. Published by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Health Organization. Feb. 19, 2013.

J. Raloff. Blood levels of BPA become source of controversy. Science News. Vol. 183, March 9, 2013. [Go to]

J. Raloff. White dental fillings may impair kids? behavior. Science News Online, July 16, 2012. [Go to]

J. Raloff. BPA fosters diabetes-promoting changes. Science News Online, February 9, 2012. [Go to]

J. Raloff. EPA considers new call for toxicity testing of BPA. Science News blog. July 26, 2011. [Go to]

J. Raloff. BPA makes male mice less macho. Science News. Vol. 180, July 30, 2011, p. 16. [Go to]

J. Raloff. Cans bring BPA to dinner, FDA confirms. Science News blog. May 25, 2011. [Go to]

J. Raloff. Skin is no barrier to BPA, study shows. Science News. Vol. 178, December 4, 2010. [Go to]

J. Raloff. Exposure of moms-to-be to hormone-mimicking chemical may affect kids years later. Science News Online, May 19, 2010. [Go to]

J. Raloff. BPA in womb shows link to kids? behavior. Science News. Vol. 176, November 7, 2009, p. 12. [Go to]

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