Fish getting smaller as the oceans warm: UBC research

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Changes in ocean and climate systems could lead to smaller fish, according to a new study led by fisheries scientists at the University of British Columbia.

The study, published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, provides the first-ever global projection of the potential reduction in the maximum size of fish in a warmer and less-oxygenated ocean.

The researchers used computer modeling to study more than 600 species of fish from oceans around the world and found that the maximum body weight they can reach could decline by 14-20 per cent between years 2000 and 2050, with the tropics being one of the most impacted regions.

"We were surprised to see such a large decrease in fish size," says the study's lead author William Cheung, an assistant professor at the UBC Fisheries Centre. "Marine fish are generally known to respond to climate change through changing distribution and seasonality. But the unexpectedly big effect that climate change could have on body size suggests that we may be missing a big piece of the puzzle of understanding climate change effects in the ocean."

This is the first global-scale application of the idea that fish growth is limited by oxygen supply, which was pioneered more than 30 years ago by Daniel Pauly, principal investigator with UBC's Sea Around Us Project and the study's co-author.

"It's a constant challenge for fish to get enough oxygen from water to grow, and the situation gets worse as fish get bigger," explains Pauly. "A warmer and less-oxygenated ocean, as predicted under climate change, would make it more difficult for bigger fish to get enough oxygen, which means they will stop growing sooner."

This study highlights the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions and develop strategies to monitor and adapt to changes that we are already seeing, or we risk disruption of fisheries, food security and the way ocean ecosystems work.

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Contact: William Cheung
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778-837-7252
University of British Columbia

Changes in ocean and climate systems could lead to smaller fish, according to a new study led by fisheries scientists at the University of British Columbia.

The study, published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, provides the first-ever global projection of the potential reduction in the maximum size of fish in a warmer and less-oxygenated ocean.

The researchers used computer modeling to study more than 600 species of fish from oceans around the world and found that the maximum body weight they can reach could decline by 14-20 per cent between years 2000 and 2050, with the tropics being one of the most impacted regions.

"We were surprised to see such a large decrease in fish size," says the study's lead author William Cheung, an assistant professor at the UBC Fisheries Centre. "Marine fish are generally known to respond to climate change through changing distribution and seasonality. But the unexpectedly big effect that climate change could have on body size suggests that we may be missing a big piece of the puzzle of understanding climate change effects in the ocean."

This is the first global-scale application of the idea that fish growth is limited by oxygen supply, which was pioneered more than 30 years ago by Daniel Pauly, principal investigator with UBC's Sea Around Us Project and the study's co-author.

"It's a constant challenge for fish to get enough oxygen from water to grow, and the situation gets worse as fish get bigger," explains Pauly. "A warmer and less-oxygenated ocean, as predicted under climate change, would make it more difficult for bigger fish to get enough oxygen, which means they will stop growing sooner."

This study highlights the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions and develop strategies to monitor and adapt to changes that we are already seeing, or we risk disruption of fisheries, food security and the way ocean ecosystems work.

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Emily Sue Lyons, 72, Venice, Florida

Emily Sue Lyons, 72, of Venice, FL died September 28, 2012. Emily was born June 18, 1940 in Highlands, NC to the late Tina Savilla (Henry) and James Thomas Gibson. She was preceded in death by her siblings: Charlie Gibson, Harold Gibson, Peggy Erskine, Alice Crane, Johnny Gibson and James Gibson. Survivors include her children: Paul (Donna) Lyons, Ronnie Lyons (Jeff Seitz), Teresa (James) Marcolini and Angela (Michael) Quinn; six grandchildren and seven great grandchildren; siblings: Myrtis (Corbin) Talley, Mary (James) Davis, Clyde (Linda) Gibson, Agnes (Merlin) Crowe. A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 5 PM, October 2 at Farley Funeral Home, Venice Chapel. Memorial Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 2970 University Parkway, Suite 104, Sarasota, FL 34243.

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Study points to potential for improvement in the care, quality of life of epilepsy patients

ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2012) ? Routine screening for psychiatric, cognitive and social problems could enhance the quality of care and quality of life for children and adults with epilepsy, according to a study by UC Irvine neurologist Dr. Jack Lin and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Amedeo Avogadro University in Italy.

Physicians who treat those with epilepsy often focus on seizures, Lin said. However, patients show an increased prevalence of psychiatric issues (mood, anxiety or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders), cognitive disorders (in memory, language or problem solving) and social difficulties (involving employment or personal interactions). The relationship between epilepsy and these complications is complex and poorly understood. Lin said they may present greater problems for a patient if left untreated.

"Screening for psychiatric, cognitive and social comorbidities is essential not only in established cases but also with newly diagnosed epilepsy," Lin said. "By doing so, we can ensure that these issues are treated and that patients have a better quality of life."

He emphasized that screening should also be conducted prior to any new drug treatment.

Problems that occur in conjunction with childhood and adult epilepsy are referred to by doctors as comorbidities, meaning that they have a greater than coincidental chance of appearing alongside each other though there is not necessarily a causal relationship between them.

The study suggests a number of possible factors responsible for these comorbidities, including the characteristics of epilepsy and its medication protocol, underlying brain disorders, and epilepsy-related disruptions of normal neurodevelopment and aging.

While experts have begun to recognize the effects of psychiatric, cognitive and social comorbidities in epilepsy, Lin noted, gaps remain in the early detection, treatment and prevention of these issues.

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Mars Curiosity rover discovers ancient streambed on planet's surface (+video)

This water flow was likely quite vigorous, perhaps akin to the flows produced by flash floods in desert areas here on Earth, researchers announced.

By Mike Wall,?SPACE.com / September 27, 2012

NASA's Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, which the science team has named 'Hottah' after Hottah Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories. This image mosaic was taken by Curiosity's 100-millimeter Mastcam telephoto lens on its 39th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered what appears to be an ancient streambed, suggesting that water once flowed in large volumes ? perhaps hip-deep in places ? across the Martian surface.

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Scientists say NASA's newest Mars rover has found signs that a stream once flowed across the surface near the site where it landed.

Photos from the Curiosity rover?have revealed several different rocky outcrops that contain stones cemented into a layer of conglomerate rock. Some of these stones are rounded and large, indicating that they were transported relatively long distances across the Red Planet surface by water.

This water flow was likely quite vigorous, perhaps akin to the flows produced by flash floods in desert areas here on Earth, researchers announced today (Sept. 27).

"From the size of gravels it carried, we can interpret the water was moving about 3 feet per second, with a depth somewhere between ankle and hip deep," Curiosity co-investigator William Dietrich, of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. [The Search for Water on Mars (Photos)]

"Plenty of papers have been written about channels on Mars with many different hypotheses about the flows in them," Dietrich added. "This is the first time we're actually seeing water-transported gravel on Mars. This is a transition from speculation about the size of streambed material to direct observation of it."

The findings came after researchers studied photographs of three different outcrops inside Gale Crater, where Curiosity touched down on Aug. 5.

The first outcrop, known as Goulburn, lies a few feet from the rover's landing site. Curiosity spotted the other two ? called Link and Hottah ? as it's been rambling toward an area called Glenelg, its first major science target.

Photos of Link really got the team thinking of long-ago stream flows, Curiosity chief scientist John Grotzinger, of Caltech in Pasadena, told reporters today. And images of Hottah, which juts from the Red Planet surface at an odd angle, pretty much sealed the deal.

"Hottah looks like someone jack-hammered up a slab of city sidewalk, but it's really a tilted block of an ancient streambed," Grotzinger said in a statement.

On Earth, tilted outcrops are usually the result of tectonic activity. But Hottah could have been deformed by a nearby impact or other process, Grotzinger said.

The?water on Mars?likely flowed several billion years ago, researchers said, though an exact timeframe will be tough to determine. But the extent of the system that produced the outcrops ? and the surrounding alluvial fan and channels ? suggests that it wasn't produced in a single shot.

Rather, water was likely flowing over a relatively long chunk of time, scientists said.

"I'm comfortable to argue that it's certainly beyond the thousand-year timescale, but we're still gathering data to go further with that," Dietrich told reporters today.?

The team has not yet analyzed Link or Hottah with Curiosity's 10 different science instruments; rather, the researchers' conclusions are based on images of?Mars?snapped by the rover's Mast Camera. But those pictures capture plenty of evidence, Grotzinger said.

"In some cases, when you do geology, a picture's worth a thousand words," he said.

The $2.5 billion?Mars rover Curiosity?is about 50 days into a roughly two-year mission to determine if the Gale Crater area has ever been capable of supporting microbial life.

Despite the outcrop discoveries, the six-wheeled robot's ultimate destination remains the base of Mount Sharp, a 3.4-mile-high (5.5 kilometers) mountain that rises from Gale's Center. The mysterious mountain's foothills show signs of long-ago exposure to liquid water.

"A long-flowing stream can be a habitable environment," Grotzinger said. "It is not our top choice as an environment for preservation of organics, though. We're still going to Mount Sharp, but this is insurance that we have already found our first potentially habitable environment."

Follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter?@michaeldwall?or SPACE.com?@Spacedotcom. We're also onFacebook?and?Google+.

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The high-flying art market

Rich investors are buying art in droves while new artists struggle.

By John Kehe,?Staff writer / September 28, 2012

This may sound counterintuitive, but the wobbly world economy is driving fine art investment like never before. Most people are short on the kind of disposable income required to purchase notable works of art these days. But the deep-pocketed 1 percent are going at art auctions hammer and tongs, ponying up record-busting sums across the fine art spectrum. Rich investors are now seeing art as a stable form of wealth management in uncertain times, especially when compared with the imperiled dollar or euro. And a lot more fun, apparently. As artist John Baldessari told The Economist, "you can acquire something much better to look at than a stock certificate." Paying a record price is considered a smooth move, fueling both the value and allure of the work, as well as the buyer's. Case in point: At an art auction at Christie's last spring, 41 works sold for more than $1 million apiece; nine for more than $10 million. In May, the 1961 Mark Rothko painting "Orange, Red, Yellow" sold for $86.9 million. And Andy Warhol's "Eight Elvises" recently garnered a cool $100 million, thank you very much.

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Now enter the Chinese, who know a good investment when they see one. They have quietly been paying top prices for masterpieces, and China has just recently surpassed the United States as the world's largest market for fine art. But the top is the top.

What about the rest of the market?

The news for the other 99 percent is not so hot. With all the serious money and buyers crowded onto the tip of the art market iceberg, the rest of it is crumbling because of lack of exposure and dwindling sales. Few new artists are deemed collectible, and many galleries have closed their doors. Here in Boston, nine major galleries have shuttered in the past four years. Several had been displaying art since the 1950s. The ease of browsing, locating, and buying works on the Internet is a pernicious gallery slayer. So is the bunnylike proliferation of art fairs. Works priced between $500 and $1,000 still hold appeal for younger collectors, but many artists who are down-pricing report earnings 50 to 80 percent less than what they were making before the recession of 2008 knocked the art market ? and potential customers' "mad money" ? for a loop.

For the moment, at least, big-name buyers and sellers will make millions, and no-name artists will continue to make art, just for the love of it.

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Plane going to Everest region crashes, killing 19

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) ? A plane carrying trekkers to the Mount Everest region hit a bird and crashed just after takeoff Friday in Nepal's capital, killing the 19 Nepali, British and Chinese people on board, authorities said.

The pilot of the domestic Sita Air flight reported trouble two minutes after takeoff, and Katmandu airport official Ratish Chandra Suman said the pilot appeared to have been trying to turn back. The crash site is only 500 meters (547 yards) from the airport, and the wrecked plane was pointing toward the airport area. Suman said the plane hit a vulture just after it took off, causing the crash.

Investigators were trying to identify the bodies, and Suman said he could not confirm whether the plane was already on fire before it crashed. Cellphone video shot by locals showed that the front section of the plane was on fire when it first hit the ground and that the pilot apparently had attempted to land the plane on open ground beside a river.

The fire quickly spread to the rear, but the tail was still in one piece at the scene near the Manohara River on the southwest edge of Katmandu. Villagers were unable to approach the plane because of the fire, and it took some time for firefighters to reach the area and bring the fire under control.

Soldiers and police sifted through the crash wreckage looking for bodies and documents to help identify the victims. Seven passengers were British and five were Chinese; the other four passengers and the three crew members were from Nepal, authorities said.

Large numbers of local people and security forces gathered at the crash site. The victims' charred bodies were taken by vans to the hospital morgue.

The weather in Katmandu and surrounding areas was clear Friday morning, and the plane was one of the first of the day to take off from Katmandu's Tribhuwan International Airport. Other flights reported no problems, and the airport operated normally.

The plane was heading for Lukla, the gateway to Mount Everest. Thousands of Westerners make treks in the region around the world's highest peak each year. Autumn is considered the best time to trek the foothills of the Himalayan peaks.

Nepal, with its poor-quality mountain roads and network of little airports, has a long history of small plane crashes. Including Friday's crash, there have been at least six crashes of small planes since October 2008.

The crash follows an avalanche on another Nepal peak Sunday that killed seven foreign climbers and a Nepali guide.

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Arsenal's Santos banned from driving for year

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LONDON (AP) -Arsenal defender Andre Santos has been banned from driving for a year after admitting to speeding at up to 145 mph (234 kph).

The Brazil international last month failed to stop as he was pursued by police and wove between lanes on a busy motorway near to Arsenal's training ground, north of London.

He evaded officers in his black Maserati before being pulled over and arrested.

Santos pleaded guilty on Thursday at Hendon Magistrates' Court in north London to driving without due care and attention.

As well as the driving ban, Santos was ordered to pay 3,600 pounds ($5,830) in fines and costs.

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HBT: A's hit 5 HRs, still lose to Rangers

Rangers setup man Mike Adams had allowed one homer in 51 2/3 innings this season until suddenly giving up three to the five A?s hitters he faced today.

Fortunately for Adams, the Rangers had a 9-4 cushion when he entered and they went on to win 9-7 to split a four-game series with the A?s.

Texas jumped out to a 5-0 lead in a first inning that featured homers from Ian Kinsler and Mike Napoli and then withstood Oakland?s change. Josh Reddick homered twice for the A?s, and Derek Norris, Yoenis Cespedes and Brandon Moss homered once apiece.

For Moss, it was his 20th homer in 246 at-bats this season. He?s gotten increased playing time of late, so he won?t become the seventh player in big-league history to finish a season with 20 homers and fewer than 250 at-bats. However, he will be the 30th player to have done it in less than 300 at-bats.

With Moss joining Reddick and Cespedes, the A?s now have three 20-homer guys, matching their total from the previous four seasons combines. They went without a 20-homer guy in 2010, and they had just one player get there in 2008 (Jack Cust), 2009 (Cust) and 2011 (Josh Willingham).

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Police chief resigns, NM force has gone to the dog

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ? The police chief of the small eastern New Mexico town of Vaughn resigned Wednesday, leaving the town with just one certified member on its police force ? a drug-sniffing dog named Nikka.

Dave Romero, attorney for the town, said Wednesday that police Chief Ernest "Chris" Armijo decided to step down after news stories reported that he wasn't allowed to carry a gun because of his criminal background.

"He decided the attention was distracting from everything as he had to do in his position," Romero said.

State officials said Armijo couldn't carry a gun since acknowledging owing tens of thousands of dollars in delinquent child support payments in Texas. Armijo also faces new felony charges after being accused of selling a town-owned rifle and pocketing the cash.

Romero said Armijo is working to clear up the latest case. He said Armijo has not ruled out seeking the police chief's position again if his case is resolved and the position is open.

According to records, the only qualified member of the Vaughn Police Department is Nikka, a drug-sniffing dog. Vaughn's other officer isn't certified and pleaded guilty to charges of assault and battery last year.

But Romero said not having an officer qualified to carry a gun didn't put Vaughn at risk. "England doesn't allow police officers to carry guns," he said. "Sometime the strongest weapon in law enforcement is communication."

Vaughn, a town of about 450 located 104 miles east of Albuquerque, is set deep in what U.S. Homeland Security Investigations officials say is an isolated region of the state popular with drug traffickers. Officials say the desolate roads in Guadalupe County make it hard for authorities to catch smugglers moving drugs from Mexico.

Guadalupe County Sheriff Michael Lucero said since news about the police chief's record became public his department has helped patrol Vaughn. But he said those efforts have put a slight strain on his already short-staffed department.

"I visit the town at least once a month," said Lucero. "The important thing is to keep a presence so residents know we're there to help if we're needed."

Romero said town officials are considering whether to hire another police chief or keep the department staffed with just one officer. He said it's unclear whether the town will keep the police dog.

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Finally, a movie about female friendship without the trauma | Troy ...

For A Good Time, Call . . .

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CALGARY, AB, Sep 26, 2012/ Troy Media/ ? Finally, a movie that demonstrates quite clearly what?s been missing from mainstream filmmaking; a female friendship movie that does not involve trauma, violence, death, deviance, or fighting over the same man.

For A Good Time, Call . . . is not ?just? a chick-flick: it touches on the wide variety of male perceptions about sex and desire as well, as seen from the perspective of the three male characters in the film: the gay, the supportive, and the boringly selfish. Ultimately, however, it is about women and the divergent, paradoxical nature of sex for the modern woman.

The story begins in New York with Lauren (played by Lauren Miller) and Charlie (James Wolk) discussing their relationship which ends with Charlie telling Lauren that he finds her boring and that he?s leaving her. He then heads off to Italy for work and some earthy excitement.

Enter Katie Steele (Ari Graynor), who is having troubles with her rent and needs a roommate. Jesse, a gay friend to both Katie and Lauren since university, (played by Justin Long in a somewhat similar role we?ve seen in He?s Just Not That Into You), sees this mutual need and brings them together.

The two women have a past together, a relationship that had been tense because of their contrasting personalities ? Lauren was a bit quiet and certainly not a ?party girl? while Katie was on the wild side, loud and wildly flirtatious ? which leads them to resist sharing an apartment. But, needs being needs, Lauren moves in with Katie.

Then Lauren is fired from her job in publishing and finds that Katie, perpetually short of money, works on a phone sex line. After her initial shock, Lauren suggests that Katie start her own business, helping her in the enterprise as business manager.

This is where the story starts to change, as the women grow both closer together and as people. Lauren helps out on the phone sex line and becomes more confident in her work and private life, while Katie matures and begins her first real relationship. Their friendship develops into something quite profound and is first expressed by Lauren in that awkward way that people in new relationships do.

But things start to go awry: first, Lauren?s conventional parents are told of how she?s been making her money, and then Katie becomes distraught when Lauren takes her dream job in publishing rather than help the phone sex line business.

Along the way, we meet several of the customers in some unexpected and funny vignettes, mostly of men who reveal the somewhat seedier side of male desires. These male characters, however, are mediated and distant (though phones) and are not the focus of the film.

Even the main male characters in the film, Charlie, Jesse and Sean, are merely supportive, not central to the real meaning of this film. It is really about the limiting dichotomy of the ?virgin? and the ?whore? that modern women are offered as acceptable social roles. Both women are envious of each other?s life ? Katie?s sexual freedom and Lauren?s social respectability.

Balance is reached between the two through the confidence both women get from the phone sex work that they do. Lauren learns to be less uptight about sex and starts to realise that there?s more to sex than the bland and the boring labours of the missionary. She also realises she?s not ?boring?, but that Charlie and her parents are, enabling her to find self respect, to move with confidence and gain the respect of others. Katie, meanwhile, finds herself starting her first real relationship and learns to open herself to the possibility that someone loves her enough to allow her to share her deep, dark secret.

The film contains a sub-theme here about the successful modern female, which is not about being a man-hater, perpetually angry at the lot of women, or even submissive to social expectations, but rather about the expression of confidence. Both Lauren and Katie become professionally-, economically-, and emotionally-successful women because they become confident in their own sexuality. They are able to express their desires and fears, but also have mature, supportive, and engaging female relationships rather than see other women as rivals. They also learn that they do not deserve disrespectful partners who treat them like dirt, but that they should seek out supportive, respectful, and fun partners to share their lives.

In fact, this film isn?t really about two women, but one woman ? or really all women. It tells us about the plight of modern women and the key to their successes in life, work, and play. It is about communication and mediation, centring on the need to tell yourself and others what you really need and want. It shows the paucity of cheap masturbatory thrills and the richness of complete unmediated relationships.

For A Good Time, Call . . . cannot simply be labelled ?just a chick-flick? as it is devoid of the trauma and death we find in Beaches, goes beyond the simplistic female relationship in Thelma and Louise, and does not require the egotistical ?journey? of ?I? in Eat, Pray, Love. It reminds men also that the most sexy thing a woman can be is self confident with her sexuality, and that she should not be reproached with name calling or threatened with sexual assault. There are mature discussions of real relationships and the need we have to express ourselves. These are qualities that are not limited to either gender.

Cast: Ari Graynor, Lauren Miller, and Justin Long
Director: Jamie Travis
Written by: Lauren Miller and Katie Anne Naylor
Running time: 85 minutes
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Posted on: 1:51 pm, September 26, 2012, by Joe Borlik, updated on: 02:18pm, September 26, 2012

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. ? North Carolina?s public university system is trying to show off its 17-campus emphasis on pulling concepts out of classrooms and into commerce.

The first North Carolina Social Business Conference on Thursday in Greensboro aims to boost a hybrid of business and charity that?s getting more attention since the Great Recession highlighted that free markets cannot provide all society needs.

The competition at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro pits 31 student-led teams developing the equivalent of economic perpetual-motion machines.

The teams are presenting business plans explaining how they would build a profit-making enterprise generating cash to help retrain the unemployed or feed the hungry.Social businesses are part of the spread of the business values of innovation and financial discipline into government and charities.

Credit: The Associated Press.

Source: http://myfox8.com/2012/09/26/unc-students-shape-businesses-to-fill-social-needs/

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Little Mrs. Bieber, Avalanna Routh, Loses Battle With Brain Cancer

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We told you earlier this year about the little 6 year old Merrimac, Massachusetts girl, Avalanna Routh. She called herself Mrs. Bieber, touching the pop star?s heart so much that he set up a personal Valentine?s Day ?date? with her in February.? She also appeared on stage with Bieber in June.? Some sad news to report today. Little Avalanna lost her battle with brain cancer this morning, a disease she struggled with for most of her short life.

No reaction yet from Justin Bieber. However, I will say that ever since we first reported on his superstar treatment of this poor little soul, I have nothing but respect for him. The kid is a class act. There are far too many?sports, pop and movie?stars that are?twice his age that could learn a lesson from him about priorities. God bless little Avalanna and her grieving family.

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How Smartphones Are Revolutionising Health Care [INFOGRAPHIC ...

?The electronic management of health care through mobile devices? or, more simply, ?mHealth? is rapidly on the rise and a recent study shows just how much of a positive impact it is having. From everyday apps that assist with general health and fitness to more medically-purposed ones that can monitor blood pressure, the presence of mHealth is ever-growing and the benefits are starting to show.

The infographic was put together by AlliedHealthWorld.com using information from a variety of sources. mHealth comprises any mobile technology that can help you to improve your well-being, that includes running apps, calorie counters, diet advisers and plenty more. Without repeating too much of what is in the infographic below, it was found that the spread of mHealth was far and wide, with many users not even realising that they were part of it. The industry has grown so much, so quickly that even the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has gotten involved and last year began an approval process to ensure health care claims were in fact legitimate.

Check out the infographic for the full breakdown and let us know in the comments what your stance is on mHealth, and whether you would use it at all.

[Source: AlliedHealthWorld.com via Mashable]

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Today's Step-Parenting Links for September 24 ... - Blending families

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Meet today?s NFL replacement referee crew for Broncos-Texans in Denver

Referee Jerry Frump. (Getty Images)

SPORTS AUTHORITY FIELD AT MILE HIGH ? For your Googling or yell-at-the-tv pleasure, here are the names of the men working on the referee crew for today?s Broncos-Texans game:

Referee: Jerry Frump. Last week, headed the crew that called the Jets-Steelers game.

Umpire: Brian Taylor. Taylor, on Frump?s crew last week as well, is from Kentucky. An article in the local paper in Ashland, Ky. said Taylor also works high school games.

Head linesman: Bill Etzler. Has worked college games in the Missouri Valley Conference.

Line judge: Charles Derrick. Has worked with other members of this crew since early in the preseason.

Field judge: Randy Weissenhofer. Looks like Weissenhofer is from the Chicago area and has also worked as a Division III official.

Side judge: Randal Beesley. Back in August, Bengals.com wrote that Beesley had experience in Division I and II college football. It appears he also worked as a replacement referee in the NFL in 2001.

Back judge: Larry Orrico. I found Orrico listed as a back judge on box scores for both FCS college football and Arena League games.

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Flight attendant tries to bring loaded gun through airport security

Sep 23, 2012 3:27pm

A Republic Airlines flight attendant was detained and then charged with disorderly conduct after she attempted to pass through security at the Philadelphia International Airport with a loaded .38 revolver in her purse, triggering an incident in which police accidentally discharged the weapon while securing it, authorities said.

According to officials, at 6:33 a.m. today, the flight attendant entered a Terminal C security checkpoint lane with a loaded .38 caliber Smith and Wesson Airweight revolver in her purse.

A Transportation Security Administration employee discovered the gun on the x-ray machine and notified police.

The flight attendant was taken to secondary screening room, where an airport police officer attempted to unload the gun, and it discharged into a wall.

There were no injuries to passengers, employees or police, officials said.

The flight attendant, who police said had a valid Chester County permit to carry a concealed weapon, was charged with disorderly conduct, as per Airport Unit policy.

The permit was confiscated and forwarded to the Chester County Sheriff, and the weapon ? an Airweight revolver ? was confiscated by the crime scene unit and transported to for testing.

The actions of the officer who discharged the weapon will be reviewed by the Philadelphia Police Department Internal Affairs unit.

The Airweight is a small frame, aluminum alloy, short barrel personal defense revolver and is among the most popular of these.

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Folk's FG helps Jets beat Miami 23-20 in OT

New York Jets punter Robert Malone (3) congratulates kicker Nick Folk (2) after Folk kicked a field goal during overtime of an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012, in Miami. The Jets won 23-20. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

New York Jets punter Robert Malone (3) congratulates kicker Nick Folk (2) after Folk kicked a field goal during overtime of an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012, in Miami. The Jets won 23-20. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Miami Dolphins kicker Dan Carpenter (5) reacts after missing a field goal during overtime of an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012, in Miami. The Jets won 23-20. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow (15) leaves the field following an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins in Miami, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. The Jets won 23-20 in overtime. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Miami Dolphins running back Daniel Thomas (33) scores a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rhona Wise)

New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez fumbles the ball and then recovers it during overtime of an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012, in Miami. The Jets won 23-20 in overtime. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

MIAMI (AP) ? First, the Miami Dolphins missed a potential game-winning field-goal attempt in overtime, and then the New York Jets had a kick blocked with a chance at a victory, and then ...

Timeout!

Kicker Nick Folk received a reprieve that gave the Jets a wild win.

After Folk's blocked field-goal attempt in OT was negated by a timeout, his retry was a successful 33-yarder with 6:04 left, and the Jets beat the Dolphins 23-20 on Sunday.

Mark Sanchez hit Santonio Holmes for a 38-yard gain to set up the kick. Two plays later, Folk's attempt was blocked by Randy Starks charging up the middle, but the officials whistled the play dead just as the ball was snapped because Dolphins coach Joe Philbin had called timeout.

"I thought it was the right call," Philbin said. "I was planning all along to call timeout right before he kicked the ball. ... Typically we're going to ice the kicker."

Folk said he had a similar experience with Dallas in 2008, when a negated kick was blocked and he made the retry. He said he and his Jets teammates heard the whistle when Philbin called timeout, and his blockers eased up.

"I'd rather kick it than sit there and not kick it," Folk said. "I got another warmup kick."

Philbin managed a sheepish grin as Folk lined up for his second attempt. The Jets kicker then made the winner.

"You never see that happen," Miami quarterback Ryan Tannehill said. "It's a weird thing. It's one of those things where you say the odds were not in your favor today. It just wasn't meant to be."

On the previous possession, the Dolphins' Dan Carpenter was wide left on a 48-yard field-goal attempt that would have given them the victory. Carpenter also missed from 47 yards early in the fourth quarter.

"I let the team down," Carpenter said.

"We got breaks, no doubt about it," Jets coach Rex Ryan said. "We'll take the win. We're not going to give it back."

New York improved to 2-1, and the Dolphins dropped to 1-2.

"It's a tough game," Miami linebacker Karlos Dansby said. "We were inches away from 2-1."

The Jets' Darrelle Revis and Miami's Reggie Bush left the game with left knee injuries. Revis is scheduled to undergo an MRI exam Monday.

New Jets offensive coordinator Tony Sparano had trouble getting his unit moving much of the day, but in the end he called the right play just enough to beat the team that fired him as head coach last December.

"I think he's happy to get the victory for the team, not just himself," Ryan said.

Tim Tebow called a fake punt and ran for 5 yards and a first down, but otherwise again contributed little to the Jets' offense. He still has yet to throw a pass this year, and a third-down throw from Sanchez bounced off Tebow's helmet and fell incomplete.

"I was not expecting it that quick, but I guess I'll learn," Tebow said. "We got a win. That's all that matters."

Sanchez redeemed himself at the end of an erratic afternoon. His 7-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Kerley with 3:01 left to give the Jets their first lead, 20-17.

Tannehill then moved Miami 48 yards, including 19 yards on a third-down pass interference penalty against Revis' replacement, Kyle Wilson. Carpenter's 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds left forced overtime.

Miami lost despite trailing for less than 3 minutes of the game.

"That's the NFL," Dolphins defensive end Cameron Wake said. "There's no script. It just happens."

The Dolphins had the better ground game, outrushing the Jets 185-88 despite the loss of Bush. But the Jets' LaRon Landry scored on an 18-yard interception return.

Sanchez twice missed open receivers for potential scores, made several wild throws and had a handful of passes dropped. He finished 21 for 45 for 306 yards and two interceptions. Holmes made nine catches for 147 yards.

"It was a roller coaster, no doubt," Sanchez said. "The defense and the other players picked me up when I didn't have it. It was an ugly win."

Like Sanchez, Tannehill had an up-and-down day. The rookie went 16 for 36 for 196 yards with the one costly interception.

"We expected to win," Ryan said. "But my goodness, it was tough."

Bush hurt his knee on a carry when the Dolphins were running out the clock in the second quarter. He returned to the bench after halftime in uniform and rode an exercise bike, but remained on the sideline.

All-Pro cornerback Revis departed in the third quarter with a non-contact injury.

Some Tebow trickery led to a field goal by New York. Exercising his option to call a fake, he took a short snap from punt formation on fourth-and-3 at the Jets 30 and ran 5 yards for a first down. He was glad the call worked.

"Makes it a lot easier to go back to the sideline," he said. That jump-started a 16-play drive that ended with a 3-pointer.

Tebow also drew a big cheer from the crowd when the scoreboard "Kiss Cam" showed him next to teammate Clyde Gates on the sideline. A teammate encouraged them to kiss, but they declined.

Notes: Jets WR Stephen Hill left the game with a right hamstring injury but afterward said he was fine. ... The Dolphins were 10 for 19 converting third down. The Jets came into the game last in the NFL in third-down defense. ... Former Dolphins Yeremiah Bell had seven tackles. ... Miami's Brandon Fields averaged 58.8 yards on four punts.

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Security Camera Basics - Business Security

Video cameras are a staple of business security. Before you begin a surveillance program, however, you need to consider several technical and policy issues. Before deploying security cameras in your business, there are at least 5 questions you need to ask:

• How can I monitor my business and still respect employee privacy?
• What are the best locations for security cameras?
• Can I record in direct sunlight?
• What type of recorder should I use?
• What should I look for in a video contractor?

You can dive into each one of those questions here.

Source: http://bizsecurity.about.com/b/2012/09/22/security-camera-basics-2.htm

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Cell death discovery suggests new ways to protect female fertility

ScienceDaily (Sep. 21, 2012) ? Melbourne researchers have identified a new way of protecting female fertility, offering hope to women whose fertility may be compromised by the side-effects of cancer therapy or by premature menopause.

The researchers, from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Monash University and Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research, made the discovery while investigating how egg cells die.

They found that two specific proteins, called PUMA and NOXA, cause the death of egg cells in the ovaries. The finding may lead to new strategies that protect women's fertility by blocking the activity of these two proteins.

Associate Professor Clare Scott from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute said the research showed that when the DNA of egg cells is damaged following exposure to radiation or chemotherapy, such as that received during some cancer treatments, PUMA and NOXA trigger the death of the damaged eggs. This egg cell death causes many female cancer patients to become infertile.

"PUMA and NOXA can trigger cell death, and have been found to be necessary for the death of many different cell types in response to DNA damage," Associate Professor Scott, who is also an oncologist at The Royal Melbourne and Royal Women's Hospitals, said. "This removal of damaged cells is a natural process that is essential to maintaining health but, for women undergoing cancer treatment, can be devastating when it leads to infertility."

Associate Professor Scott, Dr Ewa Michalak and Professor Andreas Strasser from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, together with Associate Professor Jeffrey Kerr from Monash University, and Dr Karla Hutt and Professor Jock Findlay from Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research, focused their studies on egg cells called primordial follicle oocytes, which provide each woman's lifetime supply of eggs. Low numbers of these egg cells can also be a cause of early menopause. Their findings are published online this week in the journal Molecular Cell.

Associate Professor Jeff Kerr said that when these egg-producing cells were missing the PUMA protein, they did not die after being exposed to radiation therapy. "This might ordinarily be cause for concern because you want damaged egg cells to die so as not to produce abnormal offspring," he said. "To our great surprise we found that not only did the cells survive being irradiated, they were able to repair the DNA damage they had sustained and could be ovulated and fertilized, producing healthy offspring. When the cells were also missing the NOXA protein, there was even better protection against radiation."

"We were very excited to see healthy offspring could be produced from these cells," Associate Professor Scott said. "It means that in the future, medications that block the function of PUMA could be used to stop the death of egg cells in patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Our results suggest that this could maintain the fertility of these patients."

A joint leader of the study, Professor Jock Findlay, head of the Female Reproductive Biology Group at Prince Henry's Institute, said the study could also have implications for delaying menopause. "We know that the timing of menopause is influenced by how many egg cells a female has," he said. "Interventions that slow the loss of egg cells from the ovaries could delay premature menopause. As well as prolonging female fertility, such a treatment could have the potential to reduce menopause-associated health conditions, such as osteoporosis and heart disease."

The research was supported by National Health and Medical Research Council, Cancer Council Victoria, the Victorian Cancer Agency, the US Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the US National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and the Victorian Government.

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Ancient land of 'Beringia' gets protection from US, Russia

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Tens of thousands of walruses make their home in Beringia, including these seen last fall at Cape Serdtse-Kamen in Chukotka, Russia.

By Miguel Llanos, NBC News

You might have missed it, but the ancient land of Beringia has become the protectorate of superpowers Russia and the United States.?

That's right, Beringia -- 2,800 miles stretching from Siberia, across the Bering and Chukchi seas, through Alaska and into Canada's British Columbia. For thousands of years, Beringia even had a 1,000-mile-long land bridge that emerged when sea level dropped.

OK, so it's not an actual nation, but Beringia does have its own heritage of people divided by borders but united culturally -- and a natural kingdom of whales, polar bears, walruses and seals.

"From the diversity of its Arctic wildlife, both on land and within its waters, to the bounty it provides that sustains cultures on both sides of the U.S.-Russian border, Beringia is home to a kingdom of wildlife and cultural riches, deserving of protection in perpetuity," Cristian Samper, president of the New York-based World Conservation Society, told NBC News.

"This announcement," he added, "brings us one step closer to that reality."

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Samper was talking about a meeting between?Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Russian peer earlier this month, where both nations agreed to work toward "a transboundary area of shared Beringian heritage" by 2013.?

National Park Service

That designation would create closer ties between two U.S. national parks -- the Bering Land Bridge Natural Preserve and the Cape Krusenstern National Monument -- with Russia's soon-to-be-designated Beringia National Park.

"Park managers and researchers from both countries will be able to increase their efforts to conserve this unique ecosystem as well as the cultural traditions and languages of the indigenous people on both sides of the (Bering) strait," Clinton said at the meeting on Sept. 8.

Even before the announcement, the U.S. National Park Service has had a program since the 1990s to promote Beringia, a term first coined in 1937.

Bob Gerhard / National Park Service

Anadyr, the capital of Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Region, is part of Beringia and faces the Bering Sea.

"As one of the world's great ancient crossroads, Beringia may hold solutions to puzzles about who were the first people to populate North America, how and when they traveled, and how they survived under such harsh climatic conditions," a website dedicated to Beringia reads.

Watch a video on Beringian petroglyphs.

The park service program stems from a 1990 announcement by then President George H. W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhael Gorbachev to establish an international park spanning the Bering Strait.?

A full-fledged international park never came about, in part because of suspicions by native groups. But the new, smaller approach is aimed at easing those concerns.

Vic Knox / National Park Service

Native festivals like this one are typical in Anadyr, a city in Russia's autonomous region of Chukotka that is part of the wider region known as Beringia.

The World Conservation Society is among the environmental groups excited about stronger cross-border ties.?It already has a "Beringia Program" that looks at:

• How shipping in formerly ice-covered seas will affect marine life and indigenous people who rely on that for food.
• The threat walruses face from shrinking sea ice, which they rely on to rest while at sea. Less sea ice has led to overcrowding and even walruses crushed to death as they "haul out" by the thousands to rest on beaches.
• The impacts of human development on birds from around the world that nest and breed in the Arctic tundra.

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Scientists are seeing more of these massive "haul outs" by walruses. These were seen last fall on Russia's Cape Serdtse-Kamen, part of the larger Beringia region.

The organization's "Beringia Program" manager sees the U.S.-Russia effort as keeping recent momentum moving forward. Both native peoples and wildlife, Martin Robards told NBC News, face living "in a region warming at twice the global average, while at the same time, adjusting to a rapid influx of new development interests."

As for the variety of wildlife, "it's phenomenal," Robards said. "In the fall and spring animals come through the Bering Strait. Thousands of whales, polar bears, walruses and seals."

That wealth makes it easy for Robards to spend his time on Beringia. But getting its importance across to others can be problematic, so having two superpowers raise?Beringia's profile is a big plus.

"It does need explaining at times," he admits.

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Art Therapy Group - DukeHealth.org

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Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012
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Control Your Home from Your Smart Phone

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New services are offering ways to precisely monitor and control your home energy use inside your house--and from afar

By David Pogue

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In my Scientific American column this month, I wrote about an innovative electric utility program that's designed to keep costs down and avoid blackouts. New York City's Con Edison power utility is distributing free Internet-connected thermostats that you can control even while you're away from your house. In exchange, you give the company permission to override your temperature setting on the hottest, highest-demand days of summer.

Con Ed's online thermostats are interesting, and it's the first company to offer a remote-control module for window air conditioners, which fill New York apartments by the millions. But Con Ed isn't the only game in town. Smart thermostats are cropping up all over the country. Here are some of the other online thermostats that could be hanging soon on a wall near you.

Nest: This $250 thermostat was designed by the guy who designed the iPod. It's one beautiful thermostat.

It has wi-fi, so it's online. You can control it and review its activity from a phone app or on a Web site. Most remarkably, this thermostat has near- and far-field sensors that detect people's presence in the room. By observing the room and taking note of when you adjust the temperature manually, the Nest learns your schedule?and programs itself.

Verizon: Verizon's Home Monitoring and Control program also offers remote-controllable thermostats?and enough other home-control hardware to make you an honorary Jetson. Through a phone app or Web site, you can turn appliances on and off, lock and unlock your doors, fiddle with the temperature, check in on video cameras and so on?for only about $10 a month. The $90 starter kit includes one camera, one lamp plug-in module and the base unit. (AT&T's Digital Life is similar. It's being tested in two cities this summer.)

Lowe's: The Lowe's home-improvement chain offers Iris, a similar whole-house automation system. It includes thermostats, door locks, lighting and appliances, plus video cameras and sensors for doors, motion and fire?all under the control of your phone or a Web site.

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