Friday, September 28, 2012

Harvest Moon Meets Uranus in the Sky Saturday: How to Watch Online

The Harvest Moon will float just above the planet Uranus in the sky this weekend, and skywatchers can get a great look at the celestial show without even going outside.

The online Slooh Space Camera will webcast live observatory views of Uranus and the most famous full moon of the year Saturday (Sept. 29). One show begins at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT), and another follows three hours later; viewers can watch the free broadcast on their computers or mobile devices at Slooh.com.

A panel of experts will be on hand during both webcasts to discuss the Harvest Moon?(the name given to the full moon that occurs closest to the start of autumn), Uranus and just what Slooh's feed is showing. These panelists include Bob Berman, contributing editor and monthly columnist at Astronomy magazine; Slooh observatory engineer Paul Cox; and Slooh president Patrick Paolucci.

Uranus, the third-largest planet in the solar system, was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William Herschel. It circles the sun at an average distance of 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers), taking 84 Earth years to complet one orbit. [Our Solar System: A Photo Tour of the Planets]

Uranus' atmosphere is dominated primarily by hydrogen and helium, with a small amount of methane that gives the "ice giant" its bluish-green tint. The planet has a ring system and 27 known moons. It's also tilted so far that it essentially orbits the sun on its side; researchers think the planet may have been knocked askew by a collision with another large body long ago.

If skywatchers wish to see Uranus through their own telescopes Saturday night, they should scan just below the moon and look for the only green "star" in the field of view, Slooh officials said.

The Harvest Moon is the full moon that occurs closest to the September equinox, which marks the beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and spring in the South. Farmers have historically worked late into the evening by the light of this moon during the peak of harvest time.

Around the time of most full moons, moonrise occurs about 50 minutes later each successive night. But that figure is greatly reduced around Harvest Moon time, to 25 to 30 minutes in most parts of the United States.

?The Harvest Moon is widely misunderstood," Berman said in a statement. "Its behavior is unique, and yet its appearance is no different from any other full moon. That will be one major focus of Saturday night's live coverage."

"As for Uranus," he added, "with its singular green color and wild axial tilt, its permanent overcast never allows us to see markings of any kind, and yet its story is nothing short of fascinating."

Follow SPACE.com on Twitter?@Spacedotcom. We're also on?Facebook?&?Google+.

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UVU gets federal grant for cybersecurity program

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

UVU gets federal grant for cybersecurity program

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Investor optimism lifts BlackBerry-maker's shares

Discussing whether investors are underestimating Research in Motion, with Daniel Ernst, Hudson Square Research, and Todd Haselton, TechnoBuffalo.

By NBC News and wire reports

Shares of Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, rose 7 percent to just above $7 Wednesday as investors bet the company's fortunes are starting to improve.

The struggling Canadian company is due to issue its quarterly results on Thursday and analysts had expected RIM to start losing subscribers for the first time in its history.

Instead, RIM announced at a developer event on Tuesday that its subscriber base had grown by 2 million in the quarter that ended Sept. 1. RIM also cheered investors by disclosing that its new devices will go on sale in early 2013.

RIM revolutionized the mobile industry with the once-ubiquitous BlackBerry. It is racing against time as it tries to launch a new line of smart phones while struggling to remain afloat.

Shares of RIM are down 90 percent since hitting a recent peak in February 2011.

A one-time darling of Canada?s technology industry, the company has faced declining market share and revenue in recent years as Apple?s iPhone, and smartphones that run Google?s Android software, have gained popularity.

The Canadian company is pinning its recovery hopes on the launch of the Blackberry 10 -- the next-generation mobile platform that will power a suite of new smartphones and is due for release in the first quarter of 2013.

RIM?s Chief Executive Thorsten Heins offered a preview of the devices to developers at an event on Tuesday in San Jose, Calif. TD Securities analyst Scott Penner, who was at the event, said the devices received a generally positive reception.

Reuters contributed to this report.

Click here to check on shares of Research In Motion?

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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A Ray of Hope

Every day until the election, Slate will offer up one reason to be optimistic for your candidate.

Today?s Good News for Obama: Nine words: ?There are 11 different ways to win without Ohio.? They were spoken by Fox News contributor and super PAC Hercules Karl Rove on Monday night, as he assured conservative viewers that Mitt Romney could become the first Republican to ever?ever?lose Ohio and win the election. Rove was just accepting reality. Most polls now have Obama?s numbers in the Buckeye State running slightly ahead of his national numbers. Why? As Alec McGillis explains, the auto bailout and the state?s growing economy have kept an outsize number of voters keen on Obama, while Mitt Romney can?t get off a ?stop the war on coal? message that affects a smaller part of the electorate.

See Barack Obama?s good news from Day 43.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

A Paid Internship

Slate is offering a paid internship for a highly energetic, self-starting individual who has a nose for news, sharp and quick writing skills, and a passion for social media. This is a jack-of-all-trades position for a tech-savvy person comfortable doing everything from coming up with viral story ideas to contributing to our newsblog, The Slatest, to running social media feeds. Great editorial judgment and ability to write clean, fast, and clear copy are a must.

This is a six-month-long position starting ASAP reporting to Slate's innovations editor. Please email a very brief cover letter of 300 words or less and a one-page resume to slatestjob@slate.com.

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Anyone can cook a steak after drinking | Cubicgarden.com

Got to love Manchester? Great people and some great festivals including the Manchester Food and Drink Festival. Its a great chance to try some great food and sample different drinks. Good food does cost but you can lower the prices by cooking for yourself. Actually I find the prices to be comparable to ordering a takeaway and how much hassle is it to cook a steak? Less time than calling a pizza delivery

A little while ago while walking home from somewhere late night in Manchester. The guys I walked with, wanted to stop at a load of late night fast food places. I said fine but I got a steak with a bag of salad to eat when I finally get home, so I won?t be interested in hanging around fast food joints?

Bit of background?

I made the decision to start putting a steak at the bottom of my fridge (when going out and drinking) with a bag of green salad, so when walking back I don?t get tempted to buy some greasy mixed up kebab or some deep friend chicken. And it works because the temptation is literally gone and eating home cooked steak instead of deep friend whatever is obviously better for you. Specially when you add a bag of green salad.

Phil (the guy sitting on the sofa with the lady iris) challenged me that our friend Dan (his flatmate) could not cook a steak at 4am after a night of heavy drinking. I knew even Dan could with a tiny bit of direction from myself (he never cooked a steak before ever).

Of course I recorded it from the moment he put it in the pan. Watch out for the moment when I thought he was going to burn his fingers off though (so glad he didn?t do so).

I can tell you the steak was nice not like my own efforts.

If Dan can do it anyone can?

Source: http://cubicgarden.com/2012/09/23/anyone-can-cook-a-steak/

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Quotations of the day

"If Gov. Romney is suggesting that we should start another war, he should say so." ? President Barack Obama in an interview defending his foreign policy record, firing back at suggestions from Republican Mitt Romney that the president has been weak with allies and enemies alike.

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"In accordance with that, and based on the facts, nature, circumstances and the degree of harm caused to society by the crimes committed by Wang Lijun, as well as his admission of guilt and repentance, the court has made the above verdict in accordance with the law." China court spokesman Yang Yuquan in a statement to reporters after the Chinese police chief whose thwarted defection exposed high-level murder and set off political infighting was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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"My husband, my love, my life, my baby daddy, this doesn't mean anything without you." ? Claire Danes in a statement after winning the Emmy Award for best actress in a drama for Showtime's "Homeland.'

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TIFF faves soon coming to the big screen | Movies & TV | Arts ...

By Kristina Skorbach
Epoch Times Staff
Created: September 23, 2012 Last Updated: September 23, 2012


Tom Hanks and Jim Sturgess in “Cloud Atlas.” (Courtesy of TIFF)

Tom Hanks and Jim Sturgess in ?Cloud Atlas.? (Courtesy of TIFF)

The 37th Toronto International Film Festival is behind us and the stars have retreated back to Hollywood. However, those who missed the festival can catch some of the films on the big screen in the coming months. Here are a few short reviews of the films that received the most buzz at the festival.

?Cloud Atlas?

This action-packed sci-fi drama, which brings together an all-star cast including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, is about how good and evil actions in one?s life result in what they reincarnate as in the future. The movie is directed by the Wachowski?s of Matrix fame, two of the most creative minds in Hollywood. It?s like Avatar, The Matrix, and Star Trek combined into a three-hour story about the karmic relationships between people over different lifetimes. ?Cloud Atlas? is not only headed for top blockbuster hit of the year but is one of those films that leave audiences with food for thought. The six different stories intertwine in the most mystical and spiritual of ways, making the audience believe in destiny. Hits theatres Oct. 26.

Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook.”/Courtesy of TIFF

Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in ?Silver Linings Playbook.?/Courtesy of TIFF

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?Silver Linings Playbook?

The acting is phenomenal in this comedy/drama that stars Robert DeNiro, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Chris Tucker. The film is directed by award-winning director, David O. Russell, who grabbed two Oscars for The Fighter. Silver Linings Playbook tells the story of two people?a high school teacher fresh out of a mental institution and a young, depressed widow?who find positives in each other although society labels them as outcasts. Their lives are complex but at the same time simple, and the two look for the silver lining in situations while battling their own problems. Critics say the film is headed straight for multiple Oscar nominations, including best actress for Jennifer Lawrence. It has already won the BlackBerry People?s Choice award for best film at TIFF. To be released Nov. 21.

\>"); All credits: Courtesy of TIFF Tom Hanks and Jim Sturgess in “Cloud Atlas.” Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook.” Susan Sarandon in “The Company You Keep.” (Courtesy of TIFF)

All credits: Courtesy of TIFF Tom Hanks and Jim Sturgess in ?Cloud Atlas.? Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in ?Silver Linings Playbook.? Susan Sarandon in ?The Company You Keep.? (Courtesy of TIFF)

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?The Company You Keep?

This action-packed, based-on-real-life thriller will keep audiences on the edge of their seats as director Robert Redford carefully doles out revealing clues up until the last minutes of the film. The picture boasts a strong cast, including Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Julie Christie, and Shia LeBeouf. Redford also stars as the main character in the film, which is based on the American activist group Weather Underground that was formed to oppose the Vietnam War. Its members eventually integrated into society but were under the watch of the CIA for over 30 years. But when one of the activists admits that she was involved in a bombing incident, a whole chain of investigations follow and a reporter uncovers the identity of another member. To be released Nov. 15.

All credits: Courtesy of TIFF Tom Hanks and Jim Sturgess in “Cloud Atlas.” Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook.” Susan Sarandon in “The Company You Keep.” Joseph Gordon-Levitt in “Looper.”/Courtesy of TIFF

All credits: Courtesy of TIFF Tom Hanks and Jim Sturgess in ?Cloud Atlas.? Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in ?Silver Linings Playbook.? Susan Sarandon in ?The Company You Keep.? Joseph Gordon-Levitt in ?Looper.?/Courtesy of TIFF

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?Looper?

This mind-bending time-travel thriller directed by Rian Johnson and starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt opened this year?s TIFF. The twisted plot takes place in the future; the mob sends people they want to get rid of back in time 30 years, where they are shot by a ?looper.? The loopers of course get a large sum of money for the job, but eventually pay the price by having to kill their future selves in order to ?close the loop.? Gordon-Levitt plays a younger Willis, whom he has to get rid of. Viewers should expect to see a lot of violence, which according to Johnson serves its purpose in the film. Looper will be released Sept. 28.

All credits: Courtesy of TIFF Tom Hanks and Jim Sturgess in “Cloud Atlas.” Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook.” Susan Sarandon in “The Company You Keep.” Joseph Gordon-Levitt in “Looper.” Helena Bonham Carter in “Great Expectations.”

All credits: Courtesy of TIFF Tom Hanks and Jim Sturgess in ?Cloud Atlas.? Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in ?Silver Linings Playbook.? Susan Sarandon in ?The Company You Keep.? Joseph Gordon-Levitt in ?Looper.? Helena Bonham Carter in ?Great Expectations.?

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?Great Expectations?

An adaptation of Charles Dickens? famous novel, this drama takes audiences into the life of an orphan who works as a blacksmith on a farm in Kent, but things change after a mysterious beneficiary funds him to become a gentleman in London. With an all-British cast, including Helena Bonham Carter (famous for her role in the Harry Potter movies as Bellatrix Lestrange) Ralph Fiennes, and Jeremy Irvine, the film is as authentic as the beautiful but sometimes dirty setting of London in the 1800s. Director Mike Newell, who has worked on some of the Harry Potter films, takes this dark tale and its morals?just as he takes the setting in the dark castle of Miss Havisham?to a whole new level. Scheduled for release Nov. 30.

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Warming Arctic fossil forest may live again

A fossilized forest that flourished more than 2.5 million years ago could return to life thanks to a warming planet, scientists say.

The paleo-scene won't sprout up overnight, of course, said Alexandre Guertin-Pasquier of the University of Montreal, who will present his research at the Canadian Paleontology Conference in Toronto this week.

Rather, he said, climate forecasts suggest that, by 2100, the now-uninhabited Bylot Island where the fossilized forest was discovered will support temperatures similar to those prevalent when the forest thrived.

"The fossil forest found in Bylot Island probably looked like the ones actually found in the (present-day) south of Alaska, where tree-line boreal forest grows near some glacier margins," Guertin-Pasquier wrote in an email. "The main plant diversity also seems to be similar between these two environments," which both include willow, pine and spruce trees. [ See Photos of the Fossil Forest Site ]

He and his colleagues analyzed samples of wood that had been preserved in the area's peat and permafrost. They specifically looked for pollen, which would reveal the types of trees growing in the area at the time.

To help nail down a specific date when growth occurred, the researchers analyzed the sediments laid down at the time the forest lived. They specifically looked at magnetic particles found in the soil, particularly magnetite. This works because, throughout our planet's history, the orientation of the magnetic north pole changed several times, a well-documented phenomenon. Since these "magnetic sediments" line up with Earth's magnetic orientation, scientists can use this to date the sediment layers.

They estimate the forest thrived between 2.6 million and 3 million years ago.

The trees in the ancient forest, as interpreted from the pollen samples, usually grew in areas with a yearly average temperature of about 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius), Guertin-Pasquier said. Currently, average temperatures on Bylot Island hover around 5 degrees F (minus-15 degrees C), he added.

Will our grandchildren actually see this forest come to life?

"I think it's very possible we might see forest compositions of the past returning with warming," Larisa R.G. DeSantis, who was not involved in the study, told LiveScience. "The question is whether those trees will be able to make it up there," DeSantis said, adding that in some ways it's a lot easier for animals to migrate to different conditions.

"But trees have another whole level of difficulty, their potential for movement is based on their dispersal of seeds and that sort of thing, so their movement is constrained," said DeSantis, who studies, among other topics, the reconstruction of ancient environments, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.

Fossil forests of a similar age have also been found on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, where so-called " mummy trees" were uncovered in the wake of a melting glacier. The spindly, mummified trees showed signs of stress, likely the result of a changing climate (from a greenhouse to an icehouse, of sorts) as well as the seasonal darkness occurring at the top of the world.

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ct, is one of the mysteries surrounding these Arctic forests, "how these trees managed to survive the relentless dark of the Arctic winter," Guertin-Pasquier said.

Next, the researchers plan to look more closely at other plant remains from Bylot Island to get a better idea of the possibly diverse flora.

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Poor Pain Control for Cancer Patients - NYTimes.com

Recounting her father?s struggle with cancer was difficult for the young woman, even several years after his death. He?d endured first surgery and then chemotherapy and radiation, she told me, and the cancer had gone into remission. He was thrilled, but the aggressive treatment left him with chronic, debilitating pain. Once active, he struggled to get around in his own home.

?It wasn?t the cancer that got him,? the daughter said. ?It was the pain.?

Her father had turned to all of his doctors, with little relief. His surgeon had looked at his operative wounds, pronounced them well healed, then stated that they were in no way responsible for his disability. Both his cancer doctor and his radiation doctor congratulated him on being in remission but then declined to prescribe pain medications since they were no longer treating him and couldn?t provide ongoing follow-up and dosing guidance. His primary care doctor listened intently to his descriptions of his limitations, but then prescribed only small amounts of pain meds that offered fleeting relief at best.

?I?ll never forget what my father had to go through,? she said, weeping. ?I wouldn?t wish this on anyone.?

I wish I could have reassured her that her father?s case was unusual. Sadly, according to a new study in The Journal of Clinical Oncology, a significant percentage of cancer patients continue to suffer from pain as her father did.

Researchers who surveyed more than 3,000 cancer patients found that nearly two-thirds said they were in pain or receiving pain medications. Roughly a third felt they needed more painkillers to fully treat their symptoms.

A month after the patients saw their oncologists, the researchers again asked the patients about their pain. Instead of showing improvement, the percentage of patients who continued to be in pain remained unchanged.

Their pain, in other words, had not been treated.

The findings are a sobering echo of research from nearly two decades ago that revealed that more than 40 percent of cancer patients did not receive adequate treatment for their pain. While patients were reluctant to ask for relief or to take prescribed pain medications, the researchers found that physicians were just as unwilling to prescribe the needed medications. Nearly a third of cancer specialists waited until the patient was only months away from death before offering maximum pain control.

These results were eye-opening for the oncology community and helped fuel a firestorm of initiatives in the late 1990s and early 2000s aimed at improving how doctors address pain in general. State medical boards began to mandate that all doctors take pain management courses before renewing their licenses to practice. In a move presaging today?s checklists, pain was declared a patient?s ?fifth vital sign,? a body function to be assessed after temperature, heart rate, respiration rate and blood pressure. And hospital systems, regulatory agencies and entire medical specialty organizations, confident that better education and more explicit efforts were all that was needed, heralded the various proposals as the new norm.

Unfortunately, that new norm turned out to be not so different from the old.

?It was a ?Groundhog Day? moment, certainly not a feel-good one,? said Dr. Michael J. Fisch, lead author of the recent study and professor and chairman of the department of general oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. While there had been a slight improvement in the number of patients whose pain was controlled, nearly a third of patients were still inadequately treated.

Some of the disappointing results may have been owed to physician and patient fears of narcotic addiction or concerns over side effects. But the main reason, Dr. Fisch and his colleagues believe, is that early initiatives simply underestimated the complexity of good pain management.

To optimize pain treatment, physicians need to carefully navigate the exam-room interaction, ask open-ended questions and empathize with patients who, in some of the most challenging cases, come from backgrounds very different from their own and describe pain and its effects on their lives in unique ways. A patient from China, for example, might describe her leg as feeling ?sour? rather than painful. A man from a community that values stoicism might mention that he is now confined to his bedroom but not volunteer a description of sharp, 8-out-of-10 knifelike pain that he now suffers from intermittently.

Not surprisingly, minority patients in the study tended to have more difficulty getting adequate pain control.

Cancer patients who were living with the disease were also less likely to have their pain adequately controlled, compared with others. The current reimbursement insurance system offers little incentive to any single provider to take on responsibility for all of their complex needs. Oncologists may no longer be interested in seeing or caring for them because they have finished their cancer treatment and are doing relatively ?well.? Primary care providers may not be comfortable taking on the intricate follow-up schedules required to detect recurrent cancer.

And many doctors may simply hesitate to take on the heavy responsibility of monitoring a patient?s ongoing narcotic use, the complicated challenge of figuring out whether the dosage is sufficient while worrying about the potentially lethal complications of prescribing too much, or creating an opportunity for abuse.

?A doctor can?t help but wonder, ?Am I going to be the one responsible for refilling these prescriptions until the end of this patient?s life??? Dr. Fisch said.

While this study offers important follow-up data to work conducted two decades earlier, it also represents a growing interest among researchers in the symptoms of cancer, particularly for the growing number of people who are living longer than patients from even a decade ago. Thanks to advances in cancer treatment, more than half of all cancer patients now live five years or more past their initial cancer diagnosis. ?We need to be better prepared for this best-case scenario,? Dr. Fisch said, because it?s one that can include not only more years of life but also persistent fatigue, arthritis, hot flashes, depression, sleep problems and chronic pain.

In the case of chronic pain, one thing is clear: Adding assessments to a checklist of vital signs and mandating more physician education aren?t enough.

?Pain is all about the doctor-patient relationship and taking the whole person into account,? Dr. Fisch said. ?Those things are not quick fixes.?

Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/poor-pain-control-for-cancer-patients/

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Friday, September 21, 2012

More Outrage For Uber Than Immigrants: Tech Policy Is Still Local

bieber2When Washington D.C. threatened to raise the price of an Uber cab by a few dollars, the online community staged a full-fledged panic attack.?Yet it barely whispered a peep of discontent when Congress introduced a bill to alleviate the high-skilled immigrant crunch for tech companies. Yesterday's defeat of the STEM Jobs Act, which would have added 55,000 visas for foreign-born science grads from American universities, illustrates an important lesson for those who think that netizens vote as a bloc for innovation issues: tech policy, like all policy, is local.

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Ethics Committee may drop case against Rep. Maxine Waters (Los Angeles Times)

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

E. coli caught in the act of evolving

E. coli caught in the act of evolving

Long-term lab experiment traces a trait's reappearance

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Big leaps in evolution are the products of tiny genetic changes accumulated over thousands of generations, a new study shows.

E. coli bacteria growing in a flask in a lab for nearly 25 years have learned to do something no E. coli has done since the Miocene epoch: eat a chemical called citrate in the presence of oxygen. Evolutionary biologists Zachary Blount and Richard Lenski of Michigan State University in East Lansing and their colleagues describe the molecular steps leading to the feat online September 19 in Nature.

The work demonstrates that although new traits seem to emerge in the blink of an eye evolutionarily speaking, those traits are actually the product of thousands of generations of genetic tweaks.

?The ability to be able to not just talk about how genes evolve, but to see it in action is just awesome,? says Bruce Levin, a population and evolutionary biologist at Emory University in Atlanta. ?This is really getting at the nitty-gritty of evolution.?

Teasing out the molecular details behind the evolution of citrate-eating E. coli may help researchers better understand evolution in other organisms.

Learning to eat citrate, also called citric acid, is as big an innovation for E. coli as developing eyes or wings would be for mulitcellular creatures, says evolutionary geneticist Paul Rainey of Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Pl?n, Germany.

Ancestors of E. coli and other bacteria may once have been able to eat citrate when oxygen is around, but E. coli lost the ability at least 13 million years ago, Blount says. In fact, the inability to grow on citrate in oxygen-rich conditions is a defining characteristic of E. coli that helps distinguish them from other types of bacteria.

Twelve flasks, each containing an independently evolving population of E. coli, have been growing in Lenski?s lab for more than 56,000 generations. A low concentration of E. coli?s favorite food, the sugar glucose, keeps most of the populations in check. But around generation 33,000, one flask, designated Ara?3, suddenly became cloudy as the bacteria within developed the ability to gobble citrate, an acid-controlling chemical that is abundant in the growth solution.

The ability of the Ara?3 E. coli to chow down on the alternative food source took at least three steps to develop, carried out over more than 13,000 generations. That?s the equivalent of a quarter-million years worth of human evolution in just five to six years of growth time in the lab. Step one, which the researchers call potentiation, set the stage for developing the citrate-eating ability. Bacteria as far back as generation 20,000 had the potential to evolve into citrate eaters, Blount found in earlier experiments. After thoroughly examining genetic blueprints of multiple generations of bacteria for the new study, Blount and colleagues found that at least two mutations arose before generation 20,000 that set the stage for the citrate-eating ability to evolve, and those mutations probably interact with each other.

Step two, called actualization, was much more obvious; a stretch of DNA containing a dormant gene for moving citrate into cells was copied and the copy was inserted near the original gene. The copied and pasted version of the gene started producing the citrate-pumping protein again. Before the duplication, E. coli couldn?t bring citrate into their cells to eat it.

Even though the initial duplication happened sometime between generation 31,000 and 31,500, those bacteria only nibbled citrate. Step three, refinement, took another 1,500 to 2,000 generations (about a year in the lab, or 30,000 to 40,000 years worth of human evolution) before the bacteria could make full use of the new food source. Some of those refinements included making even more copies of the citrate-transporter gene. Four copies of the gene appears to be the ideal number.


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'Prometheus' Engineer Creates Life Of The Party

Who would have guessed that a party for the video release of "Prometheus" would hold answers to the origin of our species? There is undeniable evidence in the photographs that have surfaced from the event at The Beats Store that the Engineers created mankind in their own image, for they also love dropping sick beats. [...]

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Eva Longoria, Mark Sanchez Dating: Longoria Opens Up On 'Chelsea Lately' (VIDEO)

Eva Longoria stopped by "Chelsea Lately" Tuesday and opened up about her relationship with Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez.

So just how long have the pair been dating?

"A second," Longoria joked. "He's focused right now on football."

Rumors of their romance emerged this summer when Longoria was spotted grocery shopping with Sanchez near his Bedminster, N.J. home. But the actress told People magazine in July that the pair were "just friends," adding, "I am happy where I am in my life. Very happy."

Last week, the former "Desperate Housewife" confirmed the romance rumors to "Extra" host Mario Lopez.

"Mark and I are, you know, fine. We're happy just dating," she said.

Longoria filed for divorce from NBA star Tony Parker in November 2010 amid rumors that he cheated on her with a former teammate's wife. After the divorce, Longoria was linked to Eduardo Cruz, actress Penelope Cruz's younger brother, but the pair split in June after dating on-and-off for nearly a year and a half.

Longoria's not the only celeb to play the field post-split. Click through the slideshow below to test your knowledge of famous divorc?s' love lives.

QUESTION: Which singer-songwriter did Jessica Simpson fall for after her divorce from Nick Lachey?

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Here Are The 10 Startups Taking The Spotlight Today At Founders Den: Screenleap, AnyPerk, And More

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Gaming Giant King.com Hooks into Cloudera Hadoop to Understand ...

King.com is a European powerhouse for mobile and web gaming that receives over half of its traffic from Facebook. As a platform, mobile gaming is highly monetized and looking at outfits like Zynga it?s also highly lucrative (although still a rocky place to live.) The nature of mobile gaming leads companies to looking at who plays their games, how they play their games, and when players are most likely to spend money on virtual items.

ComputerworldUK interviewed Mats-Mats Eirksson, Kings.com director of data warehousing, about the company?s move from Infobright to Cloudera?s Hadoop. As an analytics platform, Hadoop provides not just a processing system for historical data; but also the ability to watch current and real-time activity by users to help mold their experience and change user interaction on the fly to better adapt to them.

?Analytics is one of the things that made king.com the thing that it is today. In the universe that we operate in, gaming online, it is absolutely essential to know as much as possible about the players and optimise everything,? said Eriksson.

?You can get so much information just by looking at the user behaviour, which you can then use to create better games and better monetisation features. At the end of the day we want to make money out of this.?

Last year, I spoke with Amr Awadallah, CTO of Cloudera, about the gaming instinct in humans and how that drives a multitude of different business ventures as well as potentially civilization-building phenomena. Companies who run games have numerous people interacting with their applications across a multitude of levels and each of these interactions can be recorded, watched, and analyzed. For game companies all of this data flowing through their servers contains both useful and totally inconsequential information?shaking that out can be difficult on the fly, but products such as Hadoop give a huge leg-up towards shaking that out.

Making games challenging but fun must be balanced against player interest?a role for analytics

Eriksson from Kings.com describes their business use of Hadoop as watching numerous ?events? occurring in games being played by their customers. By employing the use of the highly parallel system for analytics, they?ve been able to add more events that they can record?which is extremely important as the gaming company continues to develops more games.

He mentions the phenomena that people enjoy games because they present a challenge without becoming frustrating. A company with several game products on the market that might have several thousands different challenge levels between them could have frustrations hiding within them that would be difficult to see during testing. However, in open play a product such as Hadoop might start to discover that many players make it to certain levels of the game and begin to either drop out, blow through that section quickly, or otherwise skip content (demonstrating a level of frustration.)

Every game ever produced has to work on this balance, even Modern Warfare?also discussed by Awadallah in how gaming can be affected by analytics?and it becomes an ever-present problem in need of a solution when there?s a great deal of games all working together in a single business model. No doubt Zynga keeps track of millions of data points a day in Farmville and Castleville and uses that to decide where they?ll tweak what to keep their customers interested; and Kings.com has to watch why people are coming to Facebook, or what games they?re playing on mobile and how that experience changes how much they spend?or what advertisements they click on.

Hadoop presents a powerful solution to all of the above-mentioned needs that a gaming company might have: tracking user experience, watching on-the-fly reactions from players to particular games, looking at how players interact with particular elements of the game. In many ways, Hadoop used for gaming allows a more holistic approach to using crowdsourcing (the players themselves) to show where the game may need better balance or careful consideration.

Source: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2012/09/18/gaming-giant-king-com-hooks-into-cloudera-hadoop-to-understand-players/

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Priorities in couple relationships

by Jonathan on 09/18/2012

If you were to identify your top ten priorities in your life in order of importance, what would those be? Or, if you are filling this out as it relates to your spouse, what do you honestly believe they would list as their top ten? You could include things such as work, children, spouse, church, volunteer work, hobbies, self-care, use of social media, time spent with friends, watching television, caring for family members, school, and many others.

Now, imagine I am a fly on the wall that could observe your day to day activities, or the activities of your spouse. ?If I did this for two weeks I would get a fairly accurate feel for how priorities are handled on a daily basis. ?What would I list as the real top ten priorities based solely on my observations of your behavior or the behavior of your spouse? Be honest and list what you think my observations would be. ?It can also be helpful for you and your spouse to complete this list about each other as well

Are the lists the same? I would be surprised if they are. ?Most have good intentions and priorities are simply not reflected in the reality of stressful day to day life. ?There are just not enough hours in the day. ?However, I suggest that the behaviors most accurately reflect your properties. ?The behaviors are the priorities you decided to actually make a priority and put to action.

I try to respect that everyone is unique and has different needs. ?Assuming that to be true, one would suggest that the best priority order cannot be easily generalized. ?If the goal is simply to respect individuality, then the argument may be that there should not be a best way to prioritize. ?However, in the interest of maintaining healthy relationships, I believe there is a best way to prioritize. ?The simplest way to do this is to always put your spouse as your number one priority. ?Period.

This does not mean that your spouse gets more of your time than anything else, because work demands, parenting responsibilities, and other things may often take more of your time. ?However, research has consistently shown that people who make their spouses their number one priority are much less likely to have marital relationship problems. ?This then has a ripple effect on all involved, including children.

Source: http://www.swintoncounseling.com/priorities-couple-relationships/

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Alleged Leaked iPad Mini Pics Show Lightning Port, Odd Hole On The Back

tmp_5056874c65f8aBefore the hot-selling iPhone 5 launched into existence, most of the surprise had already been ruined. We saw parts, heard about launch dates, and even saw full-fledged photos of the device. So if that disappointed you as much as it did me, you might want to look away. These leaked pictures certainly appear to be of a legitimate iPad mini. The design matches up well with what we've heard (and seen) so far — thinner bezels along the side, aluminum back plate, and some strange hole in the top center of the tablet's backside.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/oaaN7L19h-M/

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NFL Films President Steve Sabol died today at the age of 69, and there?s been an outpouring of fond memories of Sabol and his work from all corners of the NFL. We collect some of those memories below.

Chiefs offensive tackle Eric Winston: ?My favorite player of all time is Dick Butkus and its all because of Steve Sabol. I got to see Butkus as a kid playing from a time that had passed. Thank you Steve. RIP.?

Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez: ?RIP Steve Sabol. I remember growing up watching NFL films. That?s where my love for the game started. Thank you.?

Colts owner Jim Irsay: ?With the passing of Steve Sabol, this is a sad day for football fans everywhere. As someone who grew up watching NFL Films creations, I can attest to Steve?s vision and contribution to the incredible popularity of this sport. His, along with his father, Ed?s, creativity and passion for the game cultivated many, many avid fans. On behalf of the entire Colts organization I send our sympathy to the Sabol family and his colleagues at NFL Films.?

Former NFL safety Brian Dawkins: ?R.I.P. to Steve Sabol. You can?t love the NFL without being a fan of his work!?

Chiefs owner Clark Hunt: ?Today, the Chiefs family and the entire National Football League mourn the loss of Steve Sabol ? a dear friend, a true visionary and one of pro football?s biggest fans. We are deeply saddened by Steve?s passing, and our thoughts and prayers are with the Sabol family in this extremely difficult time. With his limitless passion and unparalleled ability as a storyteller, Steve captured the essence and emotion of our sport, and it was through his eyes and through his lens that we watched pro football become America?s game. Steve and his father, Ed, chronicled and immortalized pro football?s greatest moments, including the iconic footage of Hank Stram from Super Bowl IV. Steve?s artistry as a filmmaker gave an unforgettable, cinematic history of the NFL to an entire generation of fans. But beyond his tremendous contributions to the game, Steve was a remarkable man and a cherished friend who will be greatly missed by our family and all who were blessed to know him.?

Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson: ?Praying for family and friends of Steve Sabol, president of @NFLfilms You were an amazing difference maker! You will be missed.?

Steelers owner Art Rooney II: ?Steve Sabol was a dear friend to the Rooney Family and he will be missed by the entire NFL community. The impact that Steve Sabol and his father Ed have had on the NFL in creating and growing NFL Films will continue to be enjoyed for years to come by NFL fans everywhere. He was a genius in his work, and our thoughts and prayers go out to his entire family.?

Pro Football Hall of Famer Barry Sanders: ?I am greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Sabol. I would like to send my most heartfelt condolences to the Sabol family.?

Redskins owner Dan Snyder: ?Steve Sabol, along with his Hall of Fame father, Ed, introduced the world to the great game of football by capturing every essence of the players, coaches and fans. Everyone has benefitted from Steve and NFL Films? contribution to the game and we are forever grateful. Steve was the voice of the NFL and his shoes are impossible to fill. Our love, thoughts and prayers go out to his family.?

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie: ?Steve Sabol was one of the most influential and innovative people in the NFL community. Football benefitted so much from his unique vision and incredible ability to bring fans closer to the action. He was also a joy to be around, an endless source of energy and ideas. All of us at the Eagles will miss him, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.?

Robert Alberino, Vice President, Media and Marketing, 65 Toss Power Trap Productions: ?Turning the average into the incredible was what Films did. From the days of being a young fan to the days of being a dad of three, NFL Films still holds in my heart a place that can?t be touched. Story telling at its finest. Cinematography beyond words. The marriage of sport and script ? the concept so simple, the execution so divine. It is why I do what I do.?

The Detroit Lions: ?Our game will forever be indebted to Steve for his contribution to the National Football League. Thanks to Steve?s leadership and vision, NFL Films had a profoundly positive impact on the popularity of our game and will always be a significant part of our history. Nothing brought our fans closer to the glory and passion of our game than did NFL Films.?

NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith: ?Steve Sabol leaves a lasting impact on the National Football League that will be felt for a long time to come. His vision and innovation helped make him a pioneer the likes of which the NFL has never seen before and won?t see again. The Players of the NFL are indebted to Steve for his immense contributions to advancing our game and helping make the fan experience as great as it is. He was also a true friend of the Players. Our entire Player community will miss Steve, his brilliance and his warmth. He, and his father before him, linked generations of fans to generations of Players. We send our thoughts and condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. He was truly one of a kind.?

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell: ?Steve Sabol was the creative genius behind the remarkable work of NFL Films. Steve?s passion for football was matched by his incredible talent and energy. Steve?s legacy will be part of the NFL forever. He was a major contributor to the success of the NFL, a man who changed the way we look at football and sports, and a great friend.?

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/18/michael-turner-jailed-for-dui-hours-after-mnf/related/

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