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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Do you fear you are missing out?
Apr. 29, 2013 ? Does checking Twitter and Facebook to see what your friends are up to make you feel like you are missing out on all the fun? Researchers have come up with a way of measuring the modern day concept of the "fear of missing out" (FoMO).
The rise in social media, where we can keep up-to-date with each other's every movements like never before, has led to the hidden curse of the "fear of missing out."
A relatively new concept, FoMO is a concern people have that others may be having more fun and rewarding experiences than them and is characterised as the desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing.
Now, researchers at the University of Essex have devised a way of measuring FoMO for the first time, providing a reliable measure of what people are experiencing.
The research, to be published in the July issue of the journal Computers in Human Behavior, is the first study to delve deeper into the fear of missing out phenomenon, which only came to light about three years ago as social media become ever-more accessible with the increase in smart phones.
As lead researcher and psychologist Dr Andy Przybylski explained, the fear of missing out is not new, but the rise is social media offers a window into other people's lives like never before. The problem for people with a high level of FoMO is they may become so involved is seeing what their friends are doing and they are not, they often ignore what they are actually enjoying themselves.
"I find Facebook rewarding to use, but how we are using social media is changing," explained Dr Przybylski. "It is no longer something we have to sit at a computer and log into as we have access all the time on our phones. It is easier to get into the rhythm of other people's lives that ever before as we get alerts and texts.
"We have to learn new skills to control our usage and enjoy social media in moderation. Until we do, it creates a double-edged sword aspect to social media."
The research team, which included academics from the University of California and University of Rochester in the United States, devised a way of measuring an individual's level of FoMO. Take a version of the test yourself to see what your level of FoMO is compared to the people taking part in the study at www.ratemyfomo.com.
The research found that people aged under 30 were more affected than others from the fear of missing out. This group saw social media as an important tool for them and they were more dependent on social media as part of their social development.
Dr Przybylski explained that social factors are also important. The research also found if people's "psychological needs were deprived" they were more likely to seek out social media and FoMO bridged that gap, explaining why people were using social media more than others.
To see what effect FoMO had on people's lives, the researchers found that those with a high level of fear of missing out were more likely to give into the temptation of composing and checking text messages and e-mails whilst driving, were more likely to get distracted by social media during university lectures, and had more mixed feelings about their social media use.
The researchers hope this will study will prompt more investigation into the fear of missing out and how it affects on people's wellbeing.
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- Andrew K. Przybylski, Kou Murayama, Cody R. DeHaan, Valerie Gladwell. Motivational, emotional, and behavioral correlates of fear of missing out. Computers in Human Behavior, 2013; 29 (4): 1841 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2013.02.014
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Virgin's passenger spaceship completes first rocket test flight
(Reuters) - A six-passenger spaceship owned by an offshoot of Virgin Group fired its rocket engine in flight for the first time on Monday, a key step toward the start of commercial service in about a year, Virgin owner Richard Branson said.
The powered test flight over California's Mojave Desert lasted 16 seconds and broke the sound barrier.
"It was stunning," Branson told Reuters. "You could see it very, very clearly. Putting the rocket and the spaceship together and seeing it perform safely, it was a critical day."
The spaceship and its carrier aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo, took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port at 7 a.m. PDT (10.00 a.m. EDT), heading to an altitude of about 46,000 feet, where SpaceShipTwo was released.
Two pilots then ignited the ship's rocket engine and climbed another 10,000 feet, reaching Mach 1.2 in the process. Additional test flights are planned before the spaceship will fly even faster, eventually reaching altitudes that exceed 62 miles.
"Going from Mach 1 to Mach 4 is relatively easy, but obviously we've still got to do it. I think that the big, difficult milestones are all behind us," Branson said.
Virgin Galactic is selling rides aboard SpaceShipTwo for $200,000 per person. More than 500 people have put down deposits.
Branson and his grown children plan to be the first non-test pilots to ride in the spacecraft, about a year from now.
SpaceShipTwo is based on a three-person prototype called SpaceShipOne, which in October 2004 clinched the $10 million Ansari X Prize for the first privately funded human spaceflights. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen bankrolled SpaceShipOne's development, estimated at $25 million.
So far, Virgin Galactic and partner Aabar Investments PJC of Abu Dhabi have spent about $500 million developing SpaceShipTwo, and expect to sink in another $100 million before commercial service starts, Branson said.
The company plans to build four more spaceships and several WhiteKnight carrier jets, which also will be used for a satellite-launching business.
In addition to flying passengers, Virgin Galactic is marketing SpaceShipTwo to research organizations, including NASA, to fly experiments, with or without scientists.
Other companies planning to offer suborbital spaceflight service include privately owned XCOR Aerospace, which expects to begin test flights of its two-person Lynx rocket plane this year.
(Editing by Kevin Gray and Jim Loney)
Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/g2P8QRBV9fU/story01.htm
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Sony Xperia Tablet Z now up for pre-order, scheduled to ship May 24th (video)
If you've been waiting for the least burdensome tablet you could find, Sony's 17.5 ounce, 6.9mm thick Xperia Tablet Z is now up for pre-order in the US. On top of being the lightest, slimmest 10-inch slate on the market, it's not exactly slumming spec-wise either: there's a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor, Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, 2GB RAM, an 8.1-megapixel Exmor R camera, NFC, LTE, S-Force virtual surround sound, 32GB storage and a 10.1-inch 1,920 x 1,200 display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2 tech. To round it off, the tab is dust- and water-resistant, and Sony's pre-loaded its TV SideView app, which uses the built-in IR to let you change your TV's channel and get scheduling, recommendations, voice search and IMDB-like info. The downside? We noted that the ambitiously thin design made the device a bit bendy and creaky. You can pre-order at the source ($500 for the 32GB model and $600 for 64GB), or check the video after the break to see how a three-legged dog might use the slate while taking a bath. No, you didn't just misread that.
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Nugent: Michigan ads should show dead animals
By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, TODAY
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Ted Nugent's a Michigan native, but he's less than thrilled with the commercials that try to entice tourists to visit his home state.
On the Michigan?s Big Show radio program Thursday morning, the "Cat Scratch Fever" rocker said that the series of tourism commercials known as "Pure Michigan" should show the dead animals and fish that result from hunting and fishing in the Great Lakes State.
?How dare the Pure Michigan campaign not mention (hunting, fishing and trapping) because some hash bash hippie in charge of Michigan?s promotional campaigns is afraid to put a dead salmon or a dead grouse or a dead deer on the tourist brochure, but will put para-gliding and tulip festivals on that brochure when no one is going to come to Michigan to go hang gliding or to go to the tulip festival," Nugent said, according to the Detroit Free Press.
?The Pure Michigan campaign basically is a facade,? Nugent said. He went on to criticize the state's gun laws and said, "the overall direction of Michigan is very sad."
The Free Press spoke to a spokeswoman for the?Michigan Economic Development Corp, which defended the campaign, saying the state certainly promotes its hunting and fishing opportunities. Fishermen are shown in Pure Michigan ads, which are narrated by actor Tim Allen, who was born in Denver but raised in Michigan.
Just over a year ago, on April 17, 2012, Nugent said that if President Barack Obama was re-elected, "I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year."
Nugent is currently touring with Styx and REO Speedwagon.
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Chipmaker LSI's quarterly revenue beats estimates
(Reuters) - Chipmaker LSI Corp reported quarterly results above analysts' estimates and forecast current-quarter revenue largely above expectations at a time when weak PC sales and a slow economy have created uncertainty about demand for storage controllers.
LSI said revenue fell 9 percent to $569 million in the first quarter, but this beat the average analyst estimate of $555.1 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Net income slid to $18 million, or 3 cents per share, from $75 million, or 13 cents per share, a year earlier. On an adjusted basis, the company earned 17 cents per share, above the average estimate of 12 cents.
LSI gets about a third of its revenue from selling chips used in hard drives, and Seagate Technology Plc accounted for about 31 percent of its revenue last year.
But hard drive sales have been hit as consumers buy fewer personal computers and increasingly shift to smartphones.
Technology tracking firm International Data Corp said earlier this month that PC sales fell 14 percent in the first three months of the year, the biggest decline in two decades of keeping records.
LSI also makes chips for solid state, or flash, drives and networking and enterprise servers.
LSI forecast current-quarter revenue in the range of $560 million to $600 million.
The company also said expects adjusted earnings per share of between 10 cents and 16 cents in the second quarter.
Analysts on average were expecting earnings per share of 13 cents on revenue of $581.5 million.
LSI shares were trading at $6.47 in after-hours trading on Wednesday, after closing at $6.35 on the Nasdaq.
(Reporting by Neha Alawadhi in Bangalore; Editing by Ted Kerr)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chipmaker-lsi-reports-9-percent-fall-revenue-202405379--finance.html
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Michael Jackson wrongful death trial to begin Monday
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The civil trial over the death of Michael Jackson is set to get formally underway next week after jury selection was completed on Tuesday in the $40 billion case that pits the pop star's mother against concert promoters AEG Live.
Six alternate jurors were chosen on Tuesday following the selection a day earlier of a jury of six men and six women for what is expected to be an emotional three-month trial.
The conclusion of the month-long search for a jury set the stage for opening statements to begin in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday.
Jackson's 82-year-old mother, Katherine, is suing AEG Live, the promoters of his never-realized series of 2009 London comeback concerts, for the wrongful death of her son.
The lawsuit alleges AEG Live was negligent in hiring Dr. Conrad Murray to care for the singer while he rehearsed for a series of 50 shows.
AEG Live contends that it did not hire or supervise Murray and that Jackson was addicted to prescription drugs for years before he agreed to do the "This Is It" London concerts.
The concert promoters also argue that they could not have foreseen that Murray, who was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death, posed a danger to the singer.
Jackson, 50, died in Los Angeles on June 25, 2009, from a lethal dose of the surgical anesthetic propofol that Murray was administering for sleep problems. Murray, who is not being sued, formally appealed against his criminal conviction on Monday.
Potential witnesses in the civil trial include Jackson's mother, his two oldest children, Prince, 16, and Paris, 15, as well as Murray, singers Prince and Diana Ross, and Jackson's ex-wives, Lisa Marie Presley and Debbie Rowe.
Katherine Jackson and her son's three children are seeking some $40 billion in damages from privately held AEG Live for loss of the singer's earnings and other damages. The final amount will be determined by the jury should it hold AEG Live negligent.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Eric Beech)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/michael-jackson-wrongful-death-trial-set-underway-monday-011959836.html
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Britain dodges recession as economy grew in Q1
LONDON (AP) ? Britain dodged recession after official figures showed the economy grew in the first quarter ? a better-than-expected result that offered a bit of breathing space to a government facing criticism for its tough austerity policies.
The Office for National Statistics said Thursday that the economy grew by 0.3 percent in the first quarter compared with the previous three-month period. Though anemic, the figure was above analyst expectations for 0.1 percent growth and allowed the country to avoid a so-called "Triple Dip" ? a third recession since the 2008 economic crisis.
The pound jumped higher in currency markets on expectations that the figures will dissuade the Bank of England from increasing its monetary stimulus program. The pound was up 1.2 percent against the dollar, at $1.5445.
"The likelihood of policy action by the Bank of England has fallen significantly with this better than expected outcome," said Chris Williamson, an analyst with Markit.
In its stimulus program, the Bank of England increases the amount of money in the U.K. financial system, in the hopes of spurring lending and growth.
Williamson noted, however, that Thursday's figures hardly indicate a strong rebound has begun.
"The fact that the economy has more or less stagnated over the past 18 months suggests that the return to growth will do little to alleviate pressure on the government and the Bank of England to find ways to ensure the latest upturn turns into a sustainable and robust recovery, and that the economy does not falter once again."
A recession is typically defined as two quarters of economic contraction. The economy contracted in the fourth quarter of 2012. The figures show the economy grew at an annualized rate of about 1.2 percent.
Observers had feared that news of another recession would scare consumers, feeding into a vicious cycle of cutting back on spending that has the economy flat-lining.
Britain's government desperately wanted a robust number to justify its austerity policies, and seemed at least pleasantly surprised.
"Today's figures are an encouraging sign the economy is healing. Despite a tough economic backdrop, we are making progress," Treasury chief George Osborne said. "We all know there are no easy answers to problems built up over many years, and I can't promise the road ahead will always be smooth, but by continuing to confront our problems head on, Britain is recovering and we are building an economy fit for the future."
The opposition Labour Party has pressured Osborne to ease off on budget cuts designed to reduce the deficit, which stands at 7.4 percent of annual GDP.
The International Monetary Fund has signaled it will judge Britain closely at an upcoming review and has suggested that the government might want to reconsider the pace of its austerity measures to help the economy, whose output was worth 1.4 trillion pounds ($2.1 trillion) in 2012.
A closer look at Thursday's figures showed the services sector contributed most of the growth in the first quarter but industrial production also helped. A sharp drop in construction offset some of those gains, though.
"Today's figure offers some hope that things might finally be starting to move in the right direction again," said Vicky Redwood, U.K. economist at Capital Economics in London.
Still, the economy remains weak. Inflation is rising faster than wages, meaning living standards are slipping, and unemployment is high at 7.9 percent.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/britain-dodges-recession-economy-grew-q1-090152639--finance.html
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What planets are made of: Findings establish counterintuitive potential planet-forming materials
Apr. 24, 2013 ? A team of researchers led by Artem R. Oganov, a professor of theoretical crystallography in the Department of Geosciences, has made a startling prediction that challenges existing chemical models and current understanding of planetary interiors -- magnesium oxide, a major material in the formation of planets, can exist in several different compositions. The team's findings, "Novel stable compounds in the Mg-O system under high pressure," are published in the online edition of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. The existence of these compounds -- which are radically different from traditionally known or expected materials -- could have important implications.
"For decades it was believed that MgO is the only thermodynamically stable magnesium oxide, and it was widely believed to be one of the main materials of the interiors of the Earth and other planets," said Qiang Zhu, the lead author of this paper and a postdoctoral student in the Oganov laboratory.
"We have predicted that two new compounds, MgO2 and Mg3O2, become stable at pressures above one and five million atmospheres, respectively. This not only overturns standard chemical intuition but also implies that planets may be made of totally unexpected materials. We have predicted conditions (pressure, temperature, oxygen fugacity) necessary for stability of these new materials, and some planets, though probably not the Earth, may offer such conditions," added Oganov.
In addition to their general chemical interest, MgO2 and Mg3O2 might be important planet-forming minerals in deep interiors of some planets. Planets with these compounds would most likely be the size of Earth or larger.
The team explained how its paper predicted the structures in detail by analyzing the electronic structure and chemical bonding for these compounds. For example, Mg3O2 is forbidden within "textbook chemistry," where the Mg ions can only have charges "+2," O ions are "-2, and the only allowed compound is MgO. In the "oxygen-deficient" semiconductor Mg3O2, there are strong electronic concentrations in the "empty space" of the structure that play the role of negatively charged ions and stabilize this material. Curiously, magnesium becomes a d-element (i.e. a transition metal) under pressure, and this almost alchemical transformation is responsible for the existence of the "forbidden" compound Mg3O2.
The findings were made using unique methods of structure prediction, developed in the Oganov laboratory. "These methods have led to the discovery of many new phenomena and are used by a number of companies for systematically discovering novel materials on the computer -- a much cheaper route, compared to traditional experimental methods," said Zhu.
"It is known that MgO makes up about 10 percent of the volume of our planet, and on other planets this fraction can be larger. The road is now open for a systematic discovery of new unexpected planet-forming materials," concluded Oganov.
This work is funded by the National Science Foundation and DARPA.
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Earliest satellite ice maps produced
24 April 2013
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The earliest satellite maps of Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice have been assembled by scientists.
They were made using data from Nasa's Nimbus-1 spacecraft, which was launched in 1964 to test new technologies for imaging weather systems from orbit.
The satellite's old pictures have now been re-analysed to determine the extent of the marine ice at the poles in the September of that year.
Regular mapping from space did not begin until 1978.
One key finding is that marine floes around the White Continent in the 1960s were probably just as extensive as they are today.
The new snapshot, published in The Cryosphere journal, therefore helps put current ice conditions into a longer-term context, say researchers at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC).
It is also just a fascinating story of how old scientific data can be given a new lease of life.
Matching upThe Nimbus-1 satellite was a short-lived mission that observed the Earth's clouds in black and white video, which it transmitted to the ground as an analogue TV signal.
Those transmissions were then photographed on to 35mm film and archived. The NSIDC team had to pull the canisters containing the original film out of storage to perform the re-analysis.
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End Quote Dr Walt Meier NSIDCFilm canisters take up a lot of room and so there's a temptation to get rid of stuff like that?
"The canisters were kind of forgotten, almost lost in time, until about four years ago when they were found and it was realised they might contain some useful, interesting data," explained the NSIDC's Dr Walt Meier.
"We then got some funding to digitise the data and analyse it. I was sceptical at first; the quality of the data is nothing like what we can get now.
"But it turned out to be really good, especially in the Antarctic, where it was surprisingly easy to determine the ice edge. Don't get me wrong, it was certainly a challenge," he told BBC News.
"One of the things you have to do is geo-locate the data - you have to know where you are looking. There was some information in there to help us, but we had to take care in matching up the images and locating them on the Earth as accurately as we could."
Although the satellite worked for just three weeks, it covered a period of key interest to polar scientists.
'Record' yearsSeptember is about the time when Arctic sea-ice cover tends to reach its minimum area in the northern summer melt; and when the Antarctic floes achieve their greatest reach because of the southern winter freeze-up.
The NSIDC team had to review hundreds of metres of film to find cloud-free views that would allow them to discern the edges of the sea-ice over this period.
Scientists on the project caution that the Nimbus-1 data represents just three weeks in one year but nonetheless underscores some interesting observations.
The research shows, for example, that sea-ice extent in the Antarctic in 1964 reached at least 19.7 million sq km.
That is greater than anything seen in the continuous 1979-2012 data-set - larger even than the "record" extent of 19.44 million sq km achieved last year.
This certainly fits with anecdotal evidence that sea-ice in the southern polar region in the 1960s was very broad.
And it gives scientists something to ponder as they try to explain the recent year-on-year growth in winter ice cover recorded in the Antarctic.
Gap filling"Ships would go down in the 1960s and, of course, they would only see small parts of the Antarctic, but anecdotally it seems like there was more ice back then, and this research appears to confirm that," said Dr Meier.
"We've seen since 1979 some small increasing trends in the Antarctic with a lot of variation from year to year. So the question is: have we been seeing a real shift or something more cyclical? Nineteen-sixty-four gives us some indication that what we are seeing now may actually be within the bounds of natural variability.
"It certainly puts the 'record highs' for newer satellites in perspective. These are records since 1979, not necessarily before then."
The reconstructed Antarctic map is more complete than the corresponding map for the Arctic where the team had to contend with more gaps in the Nimbus coverage, including around the Canadian Archipelago and north of Alaska.
These holes were filled with contemporary ice chart data from ships, where available, and with more recent, long-term satellite data where nothing more suitable could be sourced from the time.
The analysis produced a summer Arctic sea-ice minimum extent of 6.9 million sq km. This is broadly similar to the 1979-2000 average of 7.04 million sq km observed by modern satellites, and the number used to judge current behaviour in the Arctic.
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic decline in both volume and extent, with the 2012 coverage - like the Southern Hemisphere - setting a "record" for the modern era at 3.41 million sq km.
Length importanceToday, US military weather satellites return daily data on the state of the sea-ice at both poles, but the NSIDC team is keen to retrieve as much information as possible from the early, experimental Nasa Earth-observers.
Data from Nimbus-2 and -3, covering 1966 to 1972, is now being investigated.
"Film canisters take up a lot of room and so there's a temptation to get rid of stuff like that. Now, it's all been digitised, and it's available for other researchers wanting to investigate other climate parameters, not just sea-ice," said Dr Meier.
Dr Scott Hosking, who works with the British Antarctic Survey and was not connected with the NSIDC study, commented: "Expanding our sea-ice datasets is essential for understanding long-term variability in the polar regions.
"The increase in Antarctic sea-ice extent in this one month snapshot agrees with ice-core-based reconstructions for the same period.
"Processing more of this imagery would allow us to provide more robust conclusions about how recent sea-ice change compares with that of the pre-satellite measurement era," he told BBC News.
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Young Faces of ALS Campaign Announces 2013 Ambassadors
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In recognition of people under 30 years old affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, the ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) announced today that it has appointed representatives to lead the Young Faces of ALS (YFALS) campaign this year.?
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The YFALS program is driven by several ALS patients diagnosed with the disease before the age of 30, along with family members and friends of people with ALS who are younger than 30 years old. The young men and women selected to lead the campaign are called "YFALS Ambassadors," and together they will participate in awareness campaigns via the YFALS Facebook page, YFALS website, and within their communities. Additionally, these ambassadors hope to encourage greater action to support on-going research at ALS TDI in discovering and developing treatments and a cure for the disease.
The 2013 YFALS Ambassadors include:
- Alex Grausnick from Shoreview, MN, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2007 at age 17. He currently works as a financial associate and continues to support the many faces behind this terrible disease.
- Alyssa Reardon from Plantation, FL, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2006 at age 20 and is actively involved with ALS TDI, MDA, and the ALS Association.
- Corey Reich from Piedmont, CA, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2007 at age 21 and has raised over $3 million for ALS research.
- Ian Hogg from Birmingham, AL, a U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant who was diagnosed with ALS in 2009 at age 26 upon his return from the Iraq War.
- Katie Shambo from Merrimack, NH, whose father, Joe, was diagnosed when she was six years old and passed away when she was 13. She speaks about her father in this video: http://bit.ly/16fe5vA.
- Kelly Hilinski from Sherman Oaks, CA, whose grandmother, Linda "Nana" Randolf, passed away from ALS when he was 11 years old and told him to "be a legend." His story was profiled on ESPN: http://es.pn/Kda6Z1.
- Kevin Swann from Chicago, IL, who was diagnosed in February 2012 at age 30 and founded A Life Story Foundation.
- Kristen Sauer from Waupun, WI, who was diagnosed in 2001 at age 24 and was told that she was pregnant the same day that she was told she had ALS.
- Kristin Quinn from Arlington, VA, whose mother, Deb, is living with ALS. Kristin also lost her?aunt, grandfather, and great-grandmother to the disease.
- Melissa Erickson from Seattle, WA, who was diagnosed in 2006 at age 27 and was a former U-Washington basketball star (1997-2001).
- Sam Ketchum from Newton, MA, whose father, Todd, is living with ALS and who interned at ALS TDI's lab in 2012. Over the past two years, Sam's family has raised over $300,000 for ALS research.
In 2010, YFALS Ambassadors participated in several 4ALS Day events at MLB? ballparks, and in 2011, the campaign expanded to include a national "Corntoss Challenge" in cities nationwide.
To learn more about the YFALS Campaign and the 2013 YFALS Ambassadors, please visit www.yfals.com and www.facebook.com/YoungFacesOfALS.??
About ALS?
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that leads to paralysis, due to the death of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain. There is no known cure for the disease. About 5,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with ALS each year; the incidence is similar to multiple sclerosis. However, with no effective treatment, the average patient survives only 2-5 years following diagnosis. There are about 30,000 people in the U.S. diagnosed with ALS today. The worldwide population of ALS patients is estimated at 450,000.
About ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI)
The mission of the ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) is to develop effective therapeutics that slow or stop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease) as soon as possible for patients today. Focused on meeting this urgent unmet medical need, ALS TDI executes a robust target discovery program, while simultaneously operating the world's largest efforts to preclinically determine the efficacy of potential therapeutics; including a pipeline of dozens of small molecules, protein biologics, gene therapies and cell-based constructs. The world's first nonprofit biotech institute, ALS TDI employs 30 professional scientists and evaluates dozens of potential therapeutics each year and is currently executing a Phase 2A clinical trial of TDI-132 (Novartis' Gilenya?) in ALS patients. ?Built by and for patients, the Cambridge, Massachusetts based research institute collaborates with leaders in both academia and industry to accelerate ALS therapeutic development, including Biogen Idec, UCB, the Gladstone Institutes, MDA and RGK Foundation. For more information, please visit us online at www.als.net.
Media Contact:??Mari Sullivan, ALS TDI, msullivan@als.net, 617-441-7220
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
10 Just Desserts of Catalunya - Spain Holiday
Spanish food.?Mmmmm. So you?re thinking Paella, Olives,? Chorizo, Cheese from? the North, silky Jam?n from the high mountains.? Tapas too of course, a very civilised way to have a drink with friends, a little saucer of food to accompany your drink.
But what about Postre?? Dessert is always an intrinsic part of a Menu del Dia in Spain.? Sometimes simply a piece of fresh fruit, an ice cream, or a rice based pudding.? In Catalunya though, they excel in the Pud department.? Let?s take a drool through a sample menu ? 10 desserts of Catalunya.
Costa Brava Catalonia
What type are you?
A weekend in Barcelona, an art trip through Catalunya, maybe hot on the trail of Dal?.? A week by the sea on the bracing Costa Brava, or a romantic few days in Girona.
Whatever your type of holiday, or length of stay ? food will feature at some point or another.? You don?t , however, come to Spain to diet!? The Mediterranean diet, whatever it is, has shown no sign of itself in the 7 years I have lived in Spain, I love the food here so much that I appear to have doubled?.! Perhaps I just like the nice things a little too much.
Spanish cheesecake ? baked until golden and delicious
Different tastes
Regionally, Spanish food varies, often greatly depending on the landscape,? the weather, or? the surrounding countryside.
A trip spent on the wonderful Spanish coastline will bring a bounty of seafood, go to Asturias for roast Lamb and tasty cheese, Andaluc?a on a plate means wholesome county food, Game and locally sourced ingredients.? Catalonia, though, or Catalunya if you prefer,? really gets the Michelin star for desserts, let?s see what are the ten most popular, so that you might identify them on the menu. Perhaps you know of a few more which aren?t here?
1. Bombons de M?sic:?
They won?t sing to you, but they are tasty!? Bombons de M?sic are little tartlets ? or a big one ? made from crumbly pastry and filled to the brim with dried fruits and nuts.? Served with Moscatel wine ? so sweet ? to wash them down.
Tempting treats. Photo by Brian Yuen
2. Bisbalenc:
You?ll wonder whether this is sweet or savoury when you see the list of ingredients.? Pine nuts, Courgette, and Puff pastry. They all candied and sugared though ? definitely sweet!? Bisbalenc comes from?La Bisbal of course ? the place, not the singer! La Bisbal is about 30 kilometres South-east of Girona ? another super destination.
3. Coca de Sant Joan:
A concoction of dried fruits and glac? cherries ? this dessert is traditionally bought and eaten as part of the San Juan celebrations on Midsummers day.? So not only do you have bonfires on the beach, and ritual cleansing at midnight, but also folk stuffing themselves with cake! Spain does have some weird traditions?
Coca de Sant Joan ? a sweet snack!
4. Tap:
Not a place to drink.? Tap is shaped like a Cava cork ? and is mostly from Cadaques, so perhaps Dal? indulged in a kilo or three of these, needing a sugar rush for inspiration?
Read a little more on that eccentric but brilliant artist in an earlier post here.
5. Xuixo:
I think we call this a French Horn ? a cone filled with fresh whipped cream, covered in caster sugar ? really very sweet, and a bit sickly ? maybe not one for after a heavy meal.
6. Panellets:
That firm Spanish favourite: Marzipan.? Cut into small cubes and then covered with an assortment of various sweet things, chopped glac? fruit, nuts, dipped in chocolate ? all things to keep you going to the dentist. Buy an assortment by the kilo. Really popular at Christmas time in Spain, and the following events of New Year and Three Kings.? Enter a Spanish house at this time of year and you?ll be handed a drink and a plateful of something like these?.and then probably expected to eat a marathon meal as well.
Different types of Marzipan
7. Menjar Blanc:
Just an old fashioned milk pudding like Granny use to make ? often served cold as well as warm ? a Winter Postre!
Cold and refreshing in the heat of a Spanish Summer ? a great end to a light lunch.? Siesta anyone?
Flan ? just one of the Spanish milk puddings
8. Carquinyols:
A hard and crunchy biscuit, made and flavoured with Almonds. Maybe order one to go with your dish of ice-cream.
9. Trefi:
A pastry in the distinct shape of a wine cork ? you?ll find Trefi in San Feliu de Guixols ? that lovely destination for lovers of architecture. San Feliu de Guixols is a well heeled hidden gem of Catalunya, read more about it in an earlier post by clicking here.
10. Crema Catalana:
Well, it had to make the list, didn?t it ? you?ll all know this one. It should really have been number one, and the dessert most likely to make you think of Catalunya.? Cracking the crunchy top with the back of your spoon is the best bit, revealing the velvet custard underneath.? There are versions of this one, flavoured with orange, lemon and cinnamon.? I wonder which came first ? the Crema Catalana or the French Creme Caramel?? Hmmm?
Burning the sugar on top for extra crunch! Use the Salamander!
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Okay, now who?s drooling?? Plenty of food for thought, and if you try all of them, you?ll be putting your dentist?s kids through college. See whether you can find any more tasty deserts of Catalonia to tempt your taste buds, and do forget about the calories, you?re on holiday!
Originally from Dublin, Carol has also lived in London and Wales before settling in Spain with her husband and family in 2006. She and her family run a rural retreat high in the Alpujarras mountains of Granada, which you can find here as property number 17043. She blogs about traditional village life, sparked by a passion for the culture and history of Spain, and teaches English locally..
Source: http://www.spain-holiday.com/blog/10-just-desserts-of-catalunya.php
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Department of Energy seizes $21 million reserve account from Fisker
Fisker just can't catch a break. As if enduring the layoffs of three out of every four employees and the resignation of its founder wasn't unsettling enough, it's now come to light that the Department of Energy recently confiscated the company's $21 million reserve account in an attempt to recoup some of the government's loan. Fisker's first payment on the $192 million federal loan was due Monday, but the Energy Department revealed that it actually took the money 12 days beforehand, simply due to the company's high risk of default -- a move it characterized as an "appropriate action on behalf of taxpayers." If you're thinking the writing's now on the wall, you're correct... the WSJ reports that Fisker has hired a bankruptcy attorney, and the company admits that it's actively in search of a new owner. Will luck swing in Fisker's favor next time around? Place your bets.
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Via: TNW
Source: WSJ
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
China says new bird flu case found in northeast
BEIJING (Reuters) - A man in the northeastern Chinese province of Shandong has been infected by a new strain of bird flu, the first case found in the province, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday, bringing the total number of cases in China to 105.
The H7N9 virus has killed 21 people in China, according to the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO). Although it is not clear exactly how people are becoming infected, WHO experts say there is no evidence of the most worrying scenario - sustained transmission between people.
"Investigations into the possible sources of infection and reservoirs of the virus are ongoing," the WHO said in an update late on Monday. "Until the source of infection has been identified, it is expected that there will be further cases of human infection with the virus in China."
A 36-year-old man from the city of Zaozhuang in Shandong was being treated in hospital, while two more people were infected in eastern Zhejiang province, Xinhua said.
A total of nine people in close contact with the victim in Shandong were under observation but were showing no signs of infection, Xinhua said.
An international team of experts led by the WHO has carried out field investigations into the response to the virus in Shanghai, where many of the cases have occurred, said Keiji Fukuda, WHO's assistant director-general for health, security and the environment.
"Right now we are in the middle of our work. We have not come up with any final conclusions, and I think it is too early to say," Fukuda told reporters.
Other bird flu strains, such as H5N1, have been circulating for many years and can be transmitted from bird to bird and bird to human, but do not generally pass from human to human.
But Ho Pak-leung, an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong, noted in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) that in the two months since it was first detected, the H7N9 flu has already resulted in almost twice as many confirmed infections in China as H5N1 caused there in a decade.
"H7N9 is much more transmissible to humans, and it's much more difficult to track down," he told the BMJ, adding: "We don't understand why it's so difficult to find."
He said he did not believe the difficulties were related to sampling techniques or testing levels, but thought it could be that virus can only be detected in infected animals for a few days, meaning the timing of tests could be important.
"It (also) might be that they are not sampling enough animal species, and they may have to take a look at the less common species of birds being sold in Chinese markets," he said.
The WHO's China representative, Michael O'Leary, issued data on Friday showing that half of the patients analyzed had no known contact with poultry, the most obvious potential source, but he said it appeared human-to-human transmission was rare.
Some bird samples have tested positive and China has culled thousands of birds and shut down some live poultry markets.
(Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee in Beijing, Kate Kelland in London and Adam Jourdan in Shanghai.; Editing by Nick Macfie and Andrew Heavens)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-says-bird-flu-case-found-northeastern-china-111538848.html
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Big scramble seen in open Senate seat in Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) ? A rare open U.S. Senate seat in Georgia promises a scrambled 2014 campaign that already has some Republicans quietly nervous about retaining it.
Democrat Barack Obama lost the state in both of his White House races, and it's a seat that Republicans cannot afford to lose as they try to regain a Senate majority for the final two years of his presidency.
The question is whether a bruising party primary becomes a liability, particularly if voters nominate U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, who once called evolution and the Big Bang Theory "lies straight from the pit of hell."
Broun and U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey, both conservative physicians, are the only Republicans to announce officially since incumbent Saxby Chambliss said he will retire. But the GOP primary field eventually could include as many as a half-dozen candidates with a credible shot at a runoff spot.
Broun, whose district includes the University of Georgia in Athens, drew national headlines last year for that science commentary he delivered at a church. He's flouted GOP leaders on recent fiscal votes, saying the party's position wasn't conservative enough.
In a recent fundraising letter, he boasted that he was the first member of Congress to call Obama "a socialist who embraces Marxist-Leninist policies."
That makes Broun a tea party and evangelical favorite. To other Republicans, however, such comments stir memories of 2012 losses in Senate races in Missouri and Indiana where the GOP nominees, Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, made controversial comments about women, rape and abortion.
"There's no question that the Republican Party in Georgia and the nation are concerned that we could have another Todd Akin-type scenario here," said Heath Garrett, a Republican campaign consultant and former top aide to Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson.
Democrats control 55 seats in the Senate, and Republicans would need to hang on to the ones they control now and pick up six more next year to take control for the first time since 2006.
At least one more Georgia congressman is likely to jump in, and a trio of Washington outsiders is considering the race: a wealthy Atlanta businesswoman who helped bankroll a Mitt Romney's presidential campaign; the former Susan G. Komen Foundation executive who took on Planned Parenthood; and the cousin of former Gov. Sonny Perdue.
"It's going to be a free-for-all with a lot of dominoes," said Sue Everhart, the head of the state GOP.
Isakson says he's neutral in the primary.
National conservative groups Freedom Works and Club for Growth, which have helped tea party candidates such as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz win high-profile races, say many candidates have talked to them about support. For now, both groups say they're watching the field develop. It would be a blow to Broun if he can't harness the support of either.
Democrats believe they can tap into the Missouri-Indiana playbook, particularly if U.S. Rep. John Barrow, a moderate from Augusta, runs. Barrow has survived consecutive elections as one of national Republicans' top House targets.
The state Democratic chairman, Mike Berlon, said Barrow has detractors among core Democrats for his vote against Obama's health care law, but said he'd expect enthusiasm at any opportunity to win back Chambliss's seat.
Berlon said the congressman is an ideal candidate to assemble a majority coalition of African-Americans, white urban liberals, suburban moderates and just enough rural conservatives. "We're already close," he said, noting that Obama got 47 percent in 2008 and 45.5 percent in 2012 "without the national party lifting a finger."
Garrett said that "if the Republican nominee scares suburban whites, John Barrow becomes a very formidable candidate."
Barrow has held meetings with major Democratic donors in Georgia and talked with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee leaders, but has not announced his intentions.
The only other Democrat making strong overtures is Michelle Nunn, a not-for-profit executive who's the daughter of former Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga.
Berlon said he expects Nunn and Barrow to meet soon to "talk about who's going to run."
On the Republican side, Rep. Jack Kingston of Savannah is expected to enter the race soon. He raised $843,000 in the first three months of the year, about 10 times what he collected during the same span two years ago when he was preparing only for an easy re-election to his 11th term.
Rep. Tom Price, vice chairman of the House Budget Committee, has said he won't make a move until after Congress passes a budget. But he's also got to consider that many high-profile GOP donors and strategists are lining up behind Gingrey or Kingston.
The longer Price waits, the more likely it is that Karen Handel, a former Georgia secretary of state, will run. The two are close friends.
After losing the 2010 Republican primary runoff for governor, Handel worked for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. She resigned amid controversy over her push to dissociate the organization from Planned Parenthood, a provider of women's health care and abortion services.
Two electoral newcomers would bring their personal wealth to the campaign.
Businessman David Perdue also has name ID as the cousin of a popular former governor.
Kelly Loeffler is a co-owner of the Atlanta-based company that recently bought the New York Stock Exchange and Atlanta's professional women's basketball team. She's never run for office, but is one of the top fundraisers for Romney last year and has been increasingly active in Georgia Republican political circles.
Chip Lake, a paid strategist for Gingrey, said the uncertainty makes it difficult to handicap the race.
Against Broun alone, Gingrey is a mainstream social and fiscal conservative, but he also caught heat earlier this year when he defended Akin.
Gingrey apologized, calling his own remarks "stupid." In a three-man race, Kingston becomes a favorite of many Chamber of Commerce Republicans. But Kingston also is from south Georgia, far from the population center of Atlanta, where Gingrey has won elections for decades.
Broun has just $217,000 in his campaign account, about one-tenth of his House rivals and not enough for one week of television ads in Atlanta. But he's also got a strong grass-roots following.
Handel can capitalize on experience in government, while still being an outsider to an unpopular Congress. She could be a particularly strong candidate if she's the only woman in the race.
But Loeffler could neutralize any gender advantage. Handel can use the Planned Parenthood flap to boost her conservative credentials, but she's had run-ins with staunch anti-abortion groups because she supports policy exceptions for rape, incest and to allow for in-vitro fertilization.
Loeffler can sell her success story and roots on an Illinois farm. But she'd still have to introduce herself to small town and rural Georgia as a millionaire from Atlanta.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/big-scramble-seen-open-senate-seat-georgia-114950175--election.html
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
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A fresh take on the Horsehead Nebula
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Hubble's 23rd anniversary image
This year marks the 23rd year of observing for the Hubble Space Telescope. Alongside cutting-edge science, the orbiting observatory has produced countless stunning astronomical images. Some of the most striking and beautiful subjects of Hubble's images have been nebulae -- vast interstellar clouds of gas and dust.
This new Hubble image, captured and released to celebrate this milestone, shows part of the sky in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). Rising like a giant seahorse from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33. The nebula formed from a collapsing interstellar cloud of material, and glows as it is illuminated by a nearby hot star [1].
The gas clouds surrounding the Horsehead have already dissipated, but the jutting pillar is made of stronger stuff -- thick clumps of material -- that is harder to erode. Astronomers estimate that the Horsehead formation has about five million years left before it too disintegrates.
This nebula is a very well-known object and a popular target for observations, most of which show the Horsehead as a dark cloud silhouetted against a background of glowing gas. This new image shows the same region in infrared light, which has longer wavelengths than visible light and can pierce through the dusty material that usually obscures the nebula's inner regions. The result is a rather ethereal and fragile-looking structure, made of delicate folds of gas -- very different to the nebula's appearance in visible light.
We cannot see infrared radiation with our eyes or with standard cameras, which are designed to detect optical light. To observe these objects, we have infrared-sensitive telescopes or instruments -- for example, Hubble's high-resolution Wide Field Camera 3, fitted in 2009. Hubble's pairing of infrared sensitivity and unparalleled resolution offers a tantalising hint of what we will be able to achieve with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, set for launch in 2018.
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Notes
[1] Some nebulae form in much more dramatic ways -- like the Helix Nebula, the result of a once Sun-like star blowing off its outer layers, or the Crab Nebula, the remains of a massive star exploding as a supernova.
More Information
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
Hubble also imaged the Horsehead Nebula to celebrate its 11th year in orbit (heic0105: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic0105/).
Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Links
* Images of Hubble: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/category/spacecraft/
* NASA release: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/12
* ESA Portal release (Herschel/Hubble): http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_and_Hubble_see_the_Horsehead_in_new_light
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nguttrid@partner.eso.org
49-893-200-6855
ESA/Hubble Information Centre
Hubble's 23rd anniversary image
This year marks the 23rd year of observing for the Hubble Space Telescope. Alongside cutting-edge science, the orbiting observatory has produced countless stunning astronomical images. Some of the most striking and beautiful subjects of Hubble's images have been nebulae -- vast interstellar clouds of gas and dust.
This new Hubble image, captured and released to celebrate this milestone, shows part of the sky in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). Rising like a giant seahorse from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33. The nebula formed from a collapsing interstellar cloud of material, and glows as it is illuminated by a nearby hot star [1].
The gas clouds surrounding the Horsehead have already dissipated, but the jutting pillar is made of stronger stuff -- thick clumps of material -- that is harder to erode. Astronomers estimate that the Horsehead formation has about five million years left before it too disintegrates.
This nebula is a very well-known object and a popular target for observations, most of which show the Horsehead as a dark cloud silhouetted against a background of glowing gas. This new image shows the same region in infrared light, which has longer wavelengths than visible light and can pierce through the dusty material that usually obscures the nebula's inner regions. The result is a rather ethereal and fragile-looking structure, made of delicate folds of gas -- very different to the nebula's appearance in visible light.
We cannot see infrared radiation with our eyes or with standard cameras, which are designed to detect optical light. To observe these objects, we have infrared-sensitive telescopes or instruments -- for example, Hubble's high-resolution Wide Field Camera 3, fitted in 2009. Hubble's pairing of infrared sensitivity and unparalleled resolution offers a tantalising hint of what we will be able to achieve with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, set for launch in 2018.
###
Notes
[1] Some nebulae form in much more dramatic ways -- like the Helix Nebula, the result of a once Sun-like star blowing off its outer layers, or the Crab Nebula, the remains of a massive star exploding as a supernova.
More Information
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
Hubble also imaged the Horsehead Nebula to celebrate its 11th year in orbit (heic0105: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic0105/).
Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Links
* Images of Hubble: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/category/spacecraft/
* NASA release: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/12
* ESA Portal release (Herschel/Hubble): http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_and_Hubble_see_the_Horsehead_in_new_light
Contacts
Nicola Guttridge
Hubble/ESA
Garching bei Mnchen, Germany
Tel: +49-89-3200-6855
Email: nguttrid@partner.eso.org
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/eic-aft041913.php
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