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Sunday, September 30, 2012
AP VIDEO: Syrian refugees discuss their pain, fear
As war rages in Syria, the stream of refugees into other countries shows no sign of stopping. More than 100,000 people fled Syria in August alone ? about 40 percent of all who had left since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began last March.
The United Nations refugee agency said Thursday that the number of people escaping Syria could reach 700,000 by the end of the year.
And in each case, lives are uprooted and changed forever.
In the following videos, people who fled the conflict tell their stories.
See the videos here: http://hosted.ap.org/interactives/2012/syria/
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-video-syrian-refugees-discuss-pain-fear-215329869.html
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Soapy 'Won't Back Down' gets a failing grade
Walden Media
Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal in "'Won't Back Down."
By David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
The jury is still out on a solution to the national education system crisis, but the verdict is delivered with a heavy hand and a stacked deck in the formulaic "Won?t Back Down." Simplifying complex school-reform hurdles into tidy inspirational clich?s while demonizing both teachers? unions and bureaucracy-entrenched education boards, the movie addresses timely issues but eschews shading in favor of blunt black and white. It?s old-school Lifetime fodder dressed up in Hollywood trappings.
In the broadest terms, Daniel Barnz?s film, co-written with Brin Hill, is a dramatized counterpart to Davis Guggenheim?s 2010 documentary "Waiting for Superman,? which pointed to charter schools as the only way out of the public-education quagmire. That film was partly financed by Walden Media, the backers of this Fox release, suggesting that the problem of underperforming inner-city classrooms is a pet cause for the company.
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In Barnz and Hill?s by-the-numbers screenplay -- which trumpets that vaguest of catch-all legitimization banners, ?Inspired by actual events? -- the catalyst for much-needed change at Adams Elementary School in Pittsburgh is crusading Everymom Jamie Fitzpatrick (Maggie Gyllenhaal). Her dyslexic daughter Malia (Emily Alyn Lind) is stuck in a class with a teacher (Nancy Bach) who is a monster of job-secure complacency, and a principal (Bill Nunn) too mired in unionized paralysis to help.
A single mother working two jobs and unable to afford tuition at better alternatives, Jamie bones up on the ?fail-safe? maneuver, the film?s equivalent of the parent trigger law. That controversial legislation -- on the books in some form in a handful of states and under consideration in many others -- allows concerned parents and teachers to intervene in floundering public schools. In the film?s example, it primarily means getting past restrictive union controls and a do-nothing education board.
The absurd idea that the parents of an entire student body are too apathetic to worry about their kids? education until Jamie comes along like some rocker-chick Erin Brockovich is just one of the film?s condescendingly movie-ish conceits. Played with grating one-note pluckiness by Gyllenhaal, Jamie overcompensates for her lack of a college education by self-consciously sprinkling her conversations with words like ?trepidatious.? Yet, darned if this scrappy dynamo doesn?t get the whole community galvanized.
Even more objectionable is the depiction of the burned-out staff at Adams. They mill around in the break room bitching about teachers like Malia?s, saying, ?The only thing the district does well is protect its mistakes.? But the general lack of motivation is palpable, and even Nona Alberts (Viola Davis), a committed educator like her mother before her, has lost faith in her profession.
The only exception at Adams appears to be Teach For America do-gooder and soulful hunk Michael Perry (Oscar Isaac), who leads his class in line-dancing numbers, accompanying them on ukulele as they sing about ?Goin? to College.? Naturally, this makes Jamie swoon.
A perfunctory romance blooms, but Michael vacillates in his support for Jamie?s cause. Preferring to focus his commitment on his class only, he is reluctant to stray from union-sanctioned guidelines. Jamie?s sole consistent ally is Nona, who risks alienating the entire teaching staff, including her feisty pal Breena (Rosie Perez). While she?s worn down by the challenges of a broken system, not to mention the end of her marriage and the learning difficulties of her own son (Dante Brown), Nona reluctantly gets with the empowerment program.
However, this is another one of those movies where a tenacious white person leads the charge to save inner-city kids, achieving a miracle transformation through sheer force of will. While Nona is the insider with the education experience, she?s second fiddle throughout the fight, getting much of her dignity not from the script but from Davis, who could do this role in her sleep.
In order to provide a gossamer-thin semblance of balance, Barnz and Hill plant one jaded idealist apiece in the teachers? union and the education board. That essentially leaves Holly Hunter and Marianne Jean-Baptiste playing variations on the same role, both of them primed for redemption as they rediscover their buried convictions. Elsewhere, the opposition is reduced -- most notably by Ned Eisenberg?s belligerently uncompromising union chief -- to a force of obstinate blindness as to what?s good for the kids, and for the majority of disillusioned teachers.
Given the disingenuous way in which this lumbering movie pushes obvious buttons and manipulates the audience?s emotional investment while conveniently skimming the issues, it?s a mystery how some of these names got roped in.
Following her breakout work in "The Help," this is a particularly unhappy use of Davis? considerable talents. Hunter also is too smart an actor to be stuck playing the transparent construct of a compromised Norma Rae. Lance Reddick (The Wire) is given an entirely thankless role as Nona?s businesslike departing husband, while Ving Rhames is on hand literally to deliver a speech as principal of the exemplary Rosa Parks Elementary School during a lottery draw for new students.
That scene is one of many such preachy interludes in a dumbed-down agenda film that veers shamelessly between didacticism and soap.
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Hogadon Early Season Pass Discounts | My Country 95.5
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Scientists find molecular link to obesity/insulin resistance in mice
ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2012) ? Flipping a newly discovered molecular switch in white fat cells enabled mice to eat a high-calorie diet without becoming obese or developing the inflammation that causes insulin resistance, report scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The researchers say the results, to be published in the Sept. 28 issue of the journal Cell, provide the first known molecular link between thermogenesis (burning calories to produce heat) and the development of inflammation in fat cells.
These two processes had been previously thought to be controlled separately. Thermogenesis plays an important role in metabolism and maintaining healthy weight. Inflammation triggers insulin resistance, a precursor of diabetes.
The researchers, led by Bruce Spiegelman, PhD, found that the protein TRPV4, a switch molecule, is highly expressed in white fat cells, which store excess calories and become engorged in obese individuals.
For this study, the investigators bred mice lacking TRPV4 or administered a drug to deactivate it. In the absence of TRPV4, white cells turned on a set of genes that consume energy to produce heat, rather than storing the energy as excess fat. This "thermogenic" process normally occurs in brown or beige fat (commonly called "good fat"), which is found mostly in small animals and human infants to protect against cold.
When the TRPV4-deficient mice were put on a high-calorie diet for several weeks, they did not become obese, and their level of fat cell inflammation and insulin resistance was lowered.
"We have identified a target that, when inhibited, can activate beige adipose tissue and suppress inflammation," said Spiegelman. "This role of TRPV4 as a mediator for both the thermogenic and pro-inflammatory programs in adipocytes, or fat cells, could offer an attractive target for treating obesity and related metabolic diseases."
A co-activator protein, PGC-1 alpha, previously discovered in the Spiegelman laboratory, helps turn on thermogenesis to produce heat. In the new experiments, Spiegelman and his colleagues demonstrated that TRPV4 blocks PGC-1 alpha in white fat cells. Inhibiting TRPV4 in the experimental mice raised the expression of PGC-1 alpha and sparked thermogenesis.
An experimental compound, GSK205, was used to inhibit TRPV4 in the animal studies. Spiegelman said that this technology has been licensed for further development to Ember Therapeutics, a company he co-founded. Spiegelman is an Ember consultant and shareholder.
In terms of potential therapies, Spiegelman said that "any single new approach to something as complicated as metabolic disease is unlikely to work, but our experiments with TRPV4 showed the effectiveness of this strategy and it appears to be quite safe."
The first author of the report is Li Ye, PhD, in the Spiegelman lab. Other authors are from Dana-Farber, Boston Children's Hospital, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Fla., Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., and Massachusetts General Hospital.
The research was supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants (DK031405 and DK080261).
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- Li Ye, Sandra Kleiner, Jun Wu, Rajan Sah, Rana?K. Gupta, Alexander?S. Banks, Paul Cohen, Melin?J. Khandekar, Pontus Bostr?m, Rina J. Mepani, Dina Laznik, Theodore?M. Kamenecka, Xinyi Song, Wolfgang Liedtke, Vamsi?K. Mootha, Pere Puigserver, Patrick?R. Griffin, David?E. Clapham, Bruce?M. Spiegelman. TRPV4 Is a Regulator of Adipose Oxidative Metabolism, Inflammation, and Energy Homeostasis. Cell, 2012; 151 (1): 96 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.08.034
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Snakes on a plane slither in engines
After algorithms spot a problem, snake-like robots may one day be used to investigate faulty engines, saving time and money
JUST sometimes, snakes on a plane can be a good thing. Snake-like robots wielding UV lasers may soon slither deep inside aircraft engines to seek out and repair damage, according to the British jet engine maker Rolls-Royce. Once it is up and running, the technology should help airlines deal with potential engine problems on the spot to keep planes in the air and avoid delays for passengers.
The idea for the snake robot stems partly from the fact that engine makers like Rolls-Royce and General Electric in the US routinely use intelligent algorithms to monitor the health of plane engines in flight. The software analyses data sent from around 100 pressure, temperature and vibration sensors embedded in each engine. These algorithms flag up trouble spots. But taking a plane out of service to strip down the engine can cost an airline millions of dollars - so technologies that can quickly inspect them are needed.
Right now, such checks are performed using a fibre-optic instrument called a borescope, a heavy-duty version of a medical endoscope. It is inserted in one of many 10 millimetre-wide ports dotted around a jet engine, allowing an engineer to look for, say, bird-strike damage to a fan or compressor blade. The trouble is, with Rolls-Royce monitoring 14,000 of its engines, flown by 500 airlines on 4000 aircraft worldwide, there are not enough borescope experts at all the airports the planes visit to do this diagnostic work.
"We don't have enough specialists to go around so we need to automate this capability," says Rolls-Royce senior vice-president Pat Emmott. The firm's answer is to develop a robot that a relatively unskilled engineer can bolt on to an engine and leave to do its job. The snake robot would then go into the engine and feed images back to an expert who controls it remotely, a bit like telesurgery, he says. An engineer could then fix any problem.
Rolls-Royce is developing the technology as part of a ?4 million European research project dubbed Miror, alongside industrial partners, who also need robots that can wriggle into small spaces. The snake robot prototype should be completed by July 2014, Miror project engineer Salvador Cobos Guzman of the University of Nottingham, UK, told a conference on mechatronics in Linz, Austria, on 19 September.
While Rolls-Royce's snake-like mechanism is under wraps - pending patent filings - its aim is to have the robot carry far more than a camera. A UV laser would make the edges of blade fractures fluoresce, and a miniature grinding tool could sand down a compressor blade damaged by bird corpse debris or stones sucked into an engine, for example. The main challenge is beating gravity, says Rob Buckingham, managing director of OC Robotics in Filton, UK, a pioneer in industrial snake-like robots. The longer the snake, he says, the more likely it is to become droopy and hard to control at its far end.
The thinnest snake robot that OC robotics have developed is just 12.5 millimetres wide - pretty close to what Rolls-Royce is aiming for - but it is only 60 centimetres long. Buckingham doubts that kind of length will be of great utility in a jet engine. "The more joints you add, the more difficult it becomes to maintain the curviness," he says.
Rolls-Royce is also developing robust camera chips that can be installed around the engine's 2000 ?C core. The idea is that on engine shutdown, certain of the cameras in this interior CCTV network can be activated remotely by staff at Rolls-Royce's operations centre to give an instant picture if algorithms have suggested damage - before even the snake robot gets a look in.
"These cameras won't have to operate at engine temperatures - just survive them," says Emmott. "So we're going to need some interesting ways to keep them cool."
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Keeping Up With The Girls
I made my major contribution to the sport of golf more than 30 years ago, when I moved from Montana back to the East Coast. I stopped playing.
The truth is that I was a terrible golfer, and I was not willing to devote the time and effort to get much better. When I played on courses in Montana?s Rocky Mountains, I paid more attention to the scenery than to the game. I approached the task of hitting a golf ball the same way I approached batting in Little League. My idea was to smack the thing as hard as I could without excessive worry about where it went after I hit it and then run like hell, which was necessary if I was going to track down the ball and get off the course before the next sunrise. (It never occurred to me to rent a golf cart.)
The only reason I took up golf in the first place was because, in college, I went out with a girl who was a really good golfer. She grew up in a tiny town on the Great Plains. The golf course there was so primitive that the greens had no grass; they consisted of sand, to which oil was applied to keep down the dust. After you finished putting, you were expected to use a tool to smooth the sand for the next golfer. My girlfriend had still finished second in her state high school tournament, even though she had few opportunities to practice on courses with real grass.
Other golfers used to stop and stare, admiring my girlfriend?s swing. At least, that?s what they said they were admiring. I didn?t care. She could play better than nearly all the men we encountered, and regardless of whether it was her swing or something else that first caught their eye, the spectators soon acknowledged her skill.
I thought the novelty of, and chauvinism toward, young female golfers wore off long ago, sometime between my college girlfriend and Michelle Wie. So I was startled to read that high school athletic officials in Idaho are considering barring Sierra Harr from the boys? golf team at Castleford High School.
Harr, a junior, helped the team win a state championship last season. She finished seventh overall in the boys? tournament, after having won the girls? state title a year earlier. Not enough girls turned out for golf to allow Castleford to field a team last season, so Harr?s only choices were to play as an individual or to join the boys? team.
Federal law has required schools to provide equal athletic opportunities for boys and girls for the past 40 years. While this does not require schools to offer both genders a team for every sport, it puts the onus on schools to find ways to accommodate students who want to play a sport that it is not offered for their gender. Usually, this means allowing girls to play with the boys when it is not practical to field a girls? team.
In Broward County, Fla., 17-year-old Erin DiMeglio has taken some snaps as quarterback this season for South Plantation High School, a formidable team that includes ? and faces ? players who are bound for Division I college squads. While she is apparently the first female quarterback to play for a Florida high school, The Associated Press has calculated that more than 500 girls have been on the gridiron at other positions.
DiMeglio, who is a college basketball prospect, is only the team?s third-string quarterback and is likely to see limited action. This is, understandably, a relief to her parents, who have good reason to be concerned about their daughter being sacked by opposing players much larger than she is. But DiMeglio has the support and acceptance of her teammates and the enthusiastic backing of the team?s fans, who chanted for her coach to put her into the season-opening game against rival Nova. (He did, for two running plays.)
If fellow players accept girls on boys? teams, and fans accept them, why do some Idaho sports officials seem to have a problem with it?
It could be anachronistic sexism, I suppose ? the kind that still cannot quite allow that a female can or should be allowed to compete athletically with males. The kind that might still look at a female?s performance and see the female rather than the performance. Maybe that?s the answer, but I doubt it.
I suspect the objections come from a misplaced definition of what is ?fair.? By this logic, it is not fair that a girl can compete on a boys? team in sports while we would not accept the presence of a boy on a girls? team.
But what the players and the public understand, even if coaches and school officials do not, is that the girl has no unfair advantage when playing with the boys, while the reverse is not necessarily true. Nature endowed boys, generally, with greater size and greater strength. Most girls have to make up for these disadvantages with skill, coordination, practice and determination. There is nothing unfair about Erin DiMeglio playing football with her male schoolmates, or with Sierra Harr playing golf with hers.
Maybe an odd situation will arise someday in a place like Idaho, where a school has enough girls interested in golf to field a team, but not enough boys. If that happens, and a boy wants to play with the girls? team, the right answer might be to say yes. If not, there are alternatives, such as fielding combined boys? squads from multiple schools.
Harr reports that she, like DiMeglio, has met with acceptance from her male peers. ?The boys on my team treated me as an equal,? she wrote to Idaho school authorities, ?and if any of my competitors disapproved of my golfing with the boys, they were gracious enough to keep their opinions to themselves and treated me with respect. The only negative reactions I received were from a few opposing coaches.? (1)
I?m reaching a point in life when I am considering taking up golf again, this time with my wife. It would be nice to spend time with her outdoors, enjoying the scenery while we chase that little white ball around. I get out to Idaho now and then. Someday I might even find myself on a golf course with Sierra Harr.
She seems like a very nice young woman, so I am sure she will be patient with me until I can allow her to play through. She knows as well as anyone that a lot of guys just can?t keep up with the girls on the course.
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1) Yahoo! News, ?Girl golfer in Idaho fights to play with the boys?
Source: http://toddsblogs.com/recreationandsports/2012/09/27/keeping-up-with-the-girls/
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Language and perception - Insights from Psychological Science
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New research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, examines the nuanced relationship between language and different types of perception.
Bilingual Infants Can Tell Unfamiliar Languages Apart
Speaking more than one language can improve our ability to control our behavior and focus our attention, recent research has shown. But are there any advantages for bilingual children before they can speak in full sentences? We know that bilingual children can tell if a person is speaking one of their native languages or the other, even when there is no sound, by watching the speaker's mouth for visual cues. But Nria Sebastin-Galls of Universitat Pompeu Fabra and colleagues wanted to know whether bilingual infants could also do this with two unfamiliar languages. They studied 8-month-old infants, half of whom lived in either Spanish- or Catalan-speaking households and half of whom lived in Spanish-Catalan bilingual households. The researchers looked at whether the infants could discriminate between English and French, two unfamiliar languages, using only visual cues. They found that the bilingual infants could tell the difference between the two languages, while the infants who lived in single-language households could not. These findings suggest that infants who are immersed in bilingual environments are more sensitive to the differences in visual cues associated with the sounds of various languages.
Lead author: Nria Sebastin-Galls - nuria.sebastian@upf.edu
Skilled Deaf Readers Have an Enhanced Perceptual Span in Reading
Though people born deaf are better able to use information from peripheral vision than those who can hear, they have a harder time learning to read. Researchers have proposed that the extra information coming in could distract from, rather than enhance, the process of reading. But no research has actually compared visual attention in reading between hearing and deaf readers. In a new study, Nathalie Blanger of the University of California, San Diego and colleagues investigated this issue by measuring the perceptual span, or the number of letter spaces used when reading, of skilled deaf readers, less-skilled deaf readers, and hearing readers. The experimenters manipulated the number of letter spaces that the participants saw while reading text on a screen. They found that, compared to the other two groups, skilled deaf readers read fastest when they were given the largest number of letter spaces, showing that they had the largest perceptual span. Regardless, they were able to read just as fast as skilled hearing readers. Contrary to previous hypotheses, these findings suggest that enhanced visual attention and perceptual span are not the cause of reading difficulties common among deaf individuals.
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New research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, examines the nuanced relationship between language and different types of perception.
Bilingual Infants Can Tell Unfamiliar Languages Apart
Speaking more than one language can improve our ability to control our behavior and focus our attention, recent research has shown. But are there any advantages for bilingual children before they can speak in full sentences? We know that bilingual children can tell if a person is speaking one of their native languages or the other, even when there is no sound, by watching the speaker's mouth for visual cues. But Nria Sebastin-Galls of Universitat Pompeu Fabra and colleagues wanted to know whether bilingual infants could also do this with two unfamiliar languages. They studied 8-month-old infants, half of whom lived in either Spanish- or Catalan-speaking households and half of whom lived in Spanish-Catalan bilingual households. The researchers looked at whether the infants could discriminate between English and French, two unfamiliar languages, using only visual cues. They found that the bilingual infants could tell the difference between the two languages, while the infants who lived in single-language households could not. These findings suggest that infants who are immersed in bilingual environments are more sensitive to the differences in visual cues associated with the sounds of various languages.
Lead author: Nria Sebastin-Galls - nuria.sebastian@upf.edu
Skilled Deaf Readers Have an Enhanced Perceptual Span in Reading
Though people born deaf are better able to use information from peripheral vision than those who can hear, they have a harder time learning to read. Researchers have proposed that the extra information coming in could distract from, rather than enhance, the process of reading. But no research has actually compared visual attention in reading between hearing and deaf readers. In a new study, Nathalie Blanger of the University of California, San Diego and colleagues investigated this issue by measuring the perceptual span, or the number of letter spaces used when reading, of skilled deaf readers, less-skilled deaf readers, and hearing readers. The experimenters manipulated the number of letter spaces that the participants saw while reading text on a screen. They found that, compared to the other two groups, skilled deaf readers read fastest when they were given the largest number of letter spaces, showing that they had the largest perceptual span. Regardless, they were able to read just as fast as skilled hearing readers. Contrary to previous hypotheses, these findings suggest that enhanced visual attention and perceptual span are not the cause of reading difficulties common among deaf individuals.
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Fight Against MS Becomes Personal for Edible Arrangements ...
September 26, 2012 // Franchising.com // BOSTON, Massachusetts - How far would you walk to help out a family member? If you are Nick D?Alleva, 50 miles is not too far to go if it means getting closer to a cure for multiple sclerosis, a disease that has stricken two family members.
D?Alleva joined other relatives recently for the three-day MS Challenge Walk through the streets of Cape Cod to help raise funds toward finding a cure for MS. It was just the latest effort in what has become a personal and professional crusade for the Boston-based Edible Arrangements franchisee.
D?Alleva first became aware of the realities of multiple sclerosis (MS) when his brother-in-law, Carl Lombardi, and Carl?s daughter, Melissa, were both diagnosed with the disease just nine years apart. In 2005, Carl?s brother, Kevin took part in a fundraising walk for the National MS Society and shortly thereafter, Nick joined in.
?We are a family, and when your family is in pain, you do everything in your power to fight for them,? says D?Alleva. ?That walk inspired Kevin to take charge and I just jumped in with him.?
The next year they pulled more family members together to create the ?Lombardi Party? as a group fundraising team. And now, just six years later, the ?Lombardi Party? is the largest fundraiser for MS in the state of Massachusetts.
Already this year the group has raised $56,000, thanks in large part to D?Alleva?s decision to use his Edible Arrangements franchise as a tool in the fight against MS. Earlier this year, he approached fellow Edible Arrangements franchisees in the area to help him raise funds through a special promotion. The group raised $10,000 and now there are discussions about taking the effort into other markets.
?This cause is very personal to my family and when things get personal, there are no limits to what you can do,? adds D?Alleva.
He applies that optimism to every area of his life. Not only does D?Alleva run his three Boston-area Edible Arrangements stores, but he also contributes to all of the ?Lombardi Party? fundraising events. From comedy and Vegas nights to golf and whiffle ball tournaments, D?Alleva devotes much of his free time to help lead in the fight against MS.
?I pretty much have two full time jobs and you couldn?t pay me to give up either of them,? he says. ?Taking care of my family is my only priority, and I?ll continue working to that end in every way that I can.?
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With over 1,100 locations open or under development worldwide, Edible Arrangements International, LLC. is the leading purveyor of delicious, high quality, artistically designed, fresh fruit arrangements that are practical and healthy gifts and centerpieces for everyday occasions and events. Brothers Tariq and Kamran Farid developed and launched the company in 1999 in East Haven, CT, after many years in the floral industry. Edible Arrangements stores are located in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Italy, Turkey, Hong Kong, Jordan, Oman, India and China. The company has been recognized as an industry leader since its inception, including ranking first in its category in Entrepreneur Magazine?s annual ?Franchise 500? for the past six years and also placing in Entrepreneur?s top 40 of ?Fastest Growing Franchises? and ?America?s Top Global Franchises.? Edible Arrangements was the winner of the ICSC?s 2010 Hot Retailer Award and the company has also ranked in Inc. Magazine?s top 5,000 fastest growing privately-held companies for nine consecutive years, ranked #1 in Forbes ?2012 Top 20 Franchises for the Buck? and was recently named one of Inc?s ?10 Promising Franchises for 2011.? The company also was recently named one of the Top 100 internet retailers by Internet Retailer magazine and ranked #27 in 1851's Social 100: Top Social Media Campaigns That Stand Out. In addition, the Edible Arrangements website was ranked among the Top 30 in ForeSee?s Top 100 e-Retail Satisfaction Index. More information about Edible Arrangements and Edible Arrangements franchise opportunities is available at 1-888-727-4258 or online at www.eafranchise.com.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
AP Source: Pac-12, Big 12 could face best of rest
NEW YORK (AP) ? A tentative plan for the new college football postseason calls for a Pac-12 or Big 12 team to face the best team from a group of five conferences, including the Big East.
A person with direct knowledge of the plan for the four-team playoff in 2014 told The Associated Press that either a Pac-12 or a Big 12 team likely will be the opponent for the top-rated champion from the Big East, Mountain West, Conference USA, Sun Belt and Mid-American Conference.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday because the conferences did not want to make the plan public.
The proposal has the Pac-12 sending either its champion or a replacement team to the game in years when the Rose Bowl hosts a national semifinal. In years the Rose Bowl is a traditional Big Ten-Pac-12 matchup, the Big 12 would send one of its top teams to the game.
The deal with the Big 12 and Pac-12 would be similar to the one the Orange Bowl is working on with the Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference. That deal, which has not been completed, would match a team from either of those conferences or Notre Dame against the Atlantic Coast Conference champ or a another ACC team.
The original playoff plan had the national semifinals rotating among six bowl sites, giving the new system two playoff games and four other high-revenue bowl games each season. The top four teams determined by a selection committee, regardless of conference affiliation, will play in the semifinals. The winners meet in a championship game about a week later.
The spots in those other four games would be for other highly ranked teams, but those slots have quickly started filling up as the major conferences began making deals.
The Rose Bowl, as has been tradition, will always match the Pac-12 and Big Ten when it does not host a semifinal. The new marquee bowl being created by the Big 12 and the SEC ? site to be determined ? will be also part of the system, so those two spots are filled. The Orange Bowl's deals took two more spots out of play.
That led to concerns about limited access to the high-revenue games for the other five conferences.
The rebuilding Big East, which currently has automatic-qualifying status to the Bowl Championship Series, has been trying to gain a more secure spot in the new postseason system.
The person with direct knowledge of the plan said new Big East Commissioner Mike Aresco spearheaded the push for the addition of a seventh game to be added to the system, and presented a plan for the highest-rated champion from the other five conferences to be assured a spot in the game.
Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson told the AP last week there was enough support for a seventh game among the commissioners to make it happen.
The Big East is being transformed into a 12-team football conference next season that will include Boise State and San Diego State, along with Memphis, Central Florida, SMU and Houston. While the conference has lost its status as one of the BCS power-brokers, it's still well-positioned to be the best of the other conferences and to grab that guaranteed slot if it does not have its best team selected to play in the national semifinals.
Allowing the Pac-12 and Big 12 to share the spot opposite the best of the rest in a bowl would give the game stability and likely increase the value of its television rights, as compared to having the opponent be left undetermined.
The site of the game is still being discussed, but Glendale, Ariz., site of the Fiesta Bowl, or Houston would make geographical sense and are prime candidates, the person said.
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Engadget visits Nokia House wrap-up: Stephen Elop Q&A, Lumia 920 camera tests and more
It's been a whirlwind week of all things Nokia for our Engadget crew here in Helsinki, Finland. With a (nearly) all access pass to the company's glass House in Espoo, we brought you a very candid, very live Q&A with CEO Stephen Elop -- recorded for posterity with the Lumia 920 -- as well as in-depth proofs of that handset's game-changing rear camera module. From side-by-side low light comparison shots with other leading smartphones to optical image stabilization tests and even a peek behind the Finnish outfit's R&D practices, we've got it all. So, if you haven't had time to catch up with this flurry of pre-launch news from behind the velvet rope, now's your chance. Just click on past the break for the full recap.
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Mars Rover Finds Ancient Streambed Where Water Once Flowed
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered what appears to be an ancient streambed, suggesting that water once flowed in large volumes ? perhaps hip-deep in places ? across the Martian surface.
Photos from the Curiosity rover have revealed several different rocky outcrops that contain stones cemented into a layer of conglomerate rock. Some of these stones are rounded and large, indicating that they were transported relatively long distances across the Red Planet surface by water.
This water flow was likely quite vigorous, perhaps akin to the flows produced by flash floods in desert areas here on Earth, researchers said.
"From the size of gravels it carried, we can interpret the water was moving about 3 feet per second, with a depth somewhere between ankle and hip deep," Curiosity co-investigator William Dietrich, of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. [The Search for Water on Mars (Photos)]
"Plenty of papers have been written about channels on Mars with many different hypotheses about the flows in them," Dietrich added. "This is the first time we're actually seeing water-transported gravel on Mars. This is a transition from speculation about the size of streambed material to direct observation of it."
The findings came after researchers studied photographs of three different outcrops inside Gale Crater, where Curiosity touched down on Aug. 5.
The first outcrop, known as Goulburn, lies a few feet from the rover's landing site. Curiosity spotted the other two ? called Link and Hottah ? as it's been rambling toward an area called Glenelg, its first major science target.
Photos of Link really got the team thinking of long-ago stream flows, Curiosity chief scientist John Grotzinger, of Caltech in Pasadena, told reporters today (Sept. 27). And images of Hottah, which juts from the Red Planet surface at an odd angle, pretty much sealed the deal.
"Hottah looks like someone jack-hammered up a slab of city sidewalk, but it's really a tilted block of an ancient streambed," Grotzinger said in a statement.
On Earth, tilted outcrops are usually the result of tectonic activity. But Hottah could have been deformed by a nearby impact or other process, Grotzinger said.
The water on Mars likely flowed several billion years ago, researchers said, though an exact timeframe will be tough to determine. But the extent of the system that produced the outcrops ? and the surrounding alluvial fan and channels ? suggests that it wasn't produced in a single shot.
Rather, water was likely flowing over a relatively long chunk of time, scientists said.
"I'm comfortable to argue that it's certainly beyond the thousand-year timescale, but we're still gathering data to go further with that," Dietrich told reporters today.?
The team has not yet analyzed Link or Hottah with Curiosity's 10 different science instruments; rather, the researchers' conclusions are based on images of Mars snapped by the rover's Mast Camera. But those pictures capture plenty of evidence, Grotzinger said.
"In some cases, when you do geology, a picture's worth a thousand words," he said.
The $2.5 billion Mars rover Curiosity is about 50 days into a roughly two-year mission to determine if the Gale Crater area has ever been capable of supporting microbial life.
Despite the outcrop discoveries, the six-wheeled robot's ultimate destination remains the base of Mount Sharp, a 3.4-mile-high (5.5 kilometers) mountain that rises from Gale's Center. The mysterious mountain's foothills show signs of long-ago exposure to liquid water.
"A long-flowing stream can be a habitable environment," Grotzinger said. "It is not our top choice as an environment for preservation of organics, though. We're still going to Mount Sharp, but this is insurance that we have already found our first potentially habitable environment."
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Biologist discovers mammal with salamander-like regenerative abilities
Thursday, September 27, 2012
A small African mammal with an unusual ability to regrow damaged tissues could inspire new research in regenerative medicine, a University of Florida study finds.
For years biologists have studied salamanders for their ability to regrow lost limbs. But amphibian biology is very different than human biology, so lessons learned in laboratories from salamanders are difficult to translate into medical therapies for humans. New research in the Sept. 27 issue of the journal Nature describes a mammal that can regrow new body tissues following an injury. The African spiny mouse could become a new model for research in regenerative medicine.
"The African spiny mouse appears to regenerate ear tissue in much the way that a salamander regrows a limb that has been lost to a predator," said Ashley W. Seifert, a postdoctoral researcher in UF's biology department. "Skin, hair follicles, cartilage -- it all comes back."
That's not the case in other mammals, he said. Usually scar tissue forms to fill the gap created by a wound.
The spiny mouse also regrows tissue on its main body when injured but not as completely as it does in its ears. "On their backs, they regrow hair follicles and skin, but the muscle beneath the skin doesn't regenerate," Seifert said.
Seifert was studying scar-free healing in amphibians when a colleague told him that a small rodent he had observed in Africa seemed capable of autotomy, a defense mechanism whereby the animal self-amputates a body part to escape a predator.
"Autotomy in skinks, geckos and some salamanders is well known," Seifert said. "But it is very rare in mammals, and so far we've only seen it in a few rodents that can jettison their tail."
Seifert's colleague said that the African spiny mouse appeared to have tear-away skin that allowed it to slip a predator's grasp. The notion was interesting enough to send Seifert packing to the Mpala Research Centre near Nairobi, Kenya.
In Nairobi, Seifert was able to document the first known case of skin autotomy in a mammal. But it was how the animals' injuries appeared to be healing that really got his attention.
Seifert used a 4mm biopsy punch, about the size of a large BB, to puncture holes in the ears of the mice to see if the animal showed regenerative capabilities.
"The results were astonishing," he said. "The various tissues in the ear grew back through formation of blastema-like structures -- the same sort of biological process that a salamander uses to regenerate a severed limb."
Ken Muneoka, a Tulane University professor of cell and molecular biology who was not involved with the study, agrees that Seifert's findings are important.
"It could represent a new model system for skin wound healing and tissue regeneration in humans," he said.
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Robotic surgery through the mouth safe for removing tumors of the voice box, study shows
ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? Robotic surgery though the mouth is a safe and effective way to remove tumors of the throat and voice box, according to a study by head and neck cancer surgeons at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center -- Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC -- James).
This is the first report in the world literature illustrating the safety and efficacy of transoral robotic surgery for supraglottic laryngectomy, the researchers say.
The preliminary study examined the outcomes of 13 head and neck cancer patients with tumors located in the region of the throat between the base of the tongue and just above the vocal cords, an area known as the supraglottic region.
The study found that the use of robot-assisted surgery to remove these tumors through the mouth took about 25 minutes on average, and that blood loss was minimal -- a little more than three teaspoons, or 15.4 milliliters, on average, per patient. No surgical complications were encountered and 11 of the 13 patients could accept an oral diet within 24 hours.
If, on the other hand, these tumors are removed by performing open surgery on the neck, the operation can take around 4 hours to perform, require 7 to 10 days of hospitalization on average and require a tracheostomy tube and a stomach tube, the researchers say.
The findings were published recently in the journal Head and Neck.
"The transoral robotic technique means shorter surgery, less time under anesthesia, a lower risk of complications and shorter hospital stays for these patients," says first author Dr. Enver Ozer, clinical associate professor of otolaryngology at the OSUCCC -- James.
"It also means no external surgical incisions for the patient and better 3-D visualization of the tumor for the surgeon," says Ozer, a head and neck surgeon who specializes in robot-assisted techniques.
The cases examined in this study were part of a larger prospective study of 126 patients undergoing transoral robotic surgery between 2008 and 2011.
Other Ohio State researchers involved in this study were Bianca Alvarez, Kiran Kakarala, Kasim Durmus, Ted N. Teknos and Ricardo L. Carrau.
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RIM CEO Thorsten Heins: BlackBerry 10 has ?clear shot? at being No.3
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