Thursday, May 31, 2012

Hacking the climate could lead to whiter, brighter skies

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Pumping a steady stream of sunlight-blocking particles into the stratosphere to fight global climate change would leave us with inescapable hazy and white skies such as those found over big cities, according to new research.

?The skies would be whiter/hazier everywhere, including on weekend getaways to the mountains,? study lead author Ben Kravitz?of the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University told me in an email today.

?People may or may not notice these changes, as a lot of color perception depends on physiology, context, time of day, etc., but the physical science basis for these changes would be there.?

Kravitz and his colleagues simulated the effect of mimicking volcanic eruptions to cool the climate by constantly filling the stratosphere with sulfate aerosols. The particles block some of the sunlight from reaching the surface, leading to a global cooling effect.

While this happens when big volcanoes erupt, the effect is short-lived because the particles eventually fall out of the sky.?

The concept of so-called solar geoengineering is to constantly replenish the particle supply to block two percent of the sun?s light, maintaining the planet-cooling effect. Doing so, according to the study, would make the sky three to five times brighter, as well as whiter. Sunsets would have an afterglow.

In addition to the whiter and hazier skies, the geoengineering approach might also increase global photosynthetic activity since plants grow more efficiently under diffuse light conditions. On the other hand, the effectiveness of solar power could be diminished since less sunlight would reach the panels.

Such a scheme is one possible geoengineering approach proposed to fight climate change in lieu of ? or in addition to ? curbing greenhouse gas emissions, which continue to rise despite years of international negotiations to hatch a plan to do so.

Kravitz cautions that his results are based on simulations and ?models aren?t a perfect proxy for the real world.??

In addition, if we were to choose a geoengineering approach in our efforts to combat climate change, we might go a different route, such as erecting giant artificial trees to suck carbon dioxide out the sky.

All of these approaches, Kravitz adds, are only Band-Aids that can ?alleviate some of the consequences of increased greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere ? it doesn?t go to the root of actually solving the climate change problem.?

?The only permanent solution to the problem of climate change,? he said, ?is to stop emitting CO2.?

The findings are reported June 1 in Geophysical Research Letters.?

John Roach is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. To learn more about him, check out his website and follow him on Twitter. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

China expels former railways minister from Party

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Monday, May 28, 2012

Tropical storm ?Bud? lashes Mexico, new storm forms in Atlantic

By Agence France-Presse
Saturday, May 26, 2012 6:13 EDT

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Tropical Storm Bud lashed the west coast of Mexico late Friday, but the first serious eastern Pacific storm of the 2012 season was rapidly losing strength, giving Mexican emergency officials some respite.

However, a new storm named Beryl has formed in the Atlantic, threatening to disrupt the plans of thousands of US beachgoers taking advantage of the long Memorial Day weekend.

Mexican authorities breathed a sigh of relief as Bud displayed weaker wind gusts and lower swells than expected.

Overnight, the storm moved about 155 kilometers (100 miles) west-northwest of the port city of Manzanillo, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC).

It was creeping northward at 11 kilometers (seven miles) per hour, packing maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometers (60 miles) per hour.

?Additional rapid weakening is forecast,? the NHC said. ?And Bud is expected to weaken to a tropical depression on Saturday.?

The weakening notwithstanding, emergency officials had alerted residents and prepared shelters as Bud ? which briefly intensified to a category three storm on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale ? made its approach.

?We are on alert, we are preparing some 120 shelters in the coastal towns,? said Colima civil protection chief Melchor Urusua.

The Mexican government discontinued a hurricane warning along the central Pacific coastline from Manzanillo to Cabo Corrientes, downgrading it to a tropical storm warning.

A tropical storm watch was in effect for the coast from north of Cabo Corrientes to San Blas.

The eye of the storm was expected to move near land overnight from Friday to Saturday before taking a gradual turn toward the southwest away from the coast on Sunday, according to the NHC.

Tropical storm conditions were already affecting part of the coastline.

Bud is expected to drop up to 25 centimeters (10 inches) of rain in the Mexican coastal states of Michoacan, Colima, Jalisco and southern Nayarit, with up to 38 centimeters (15 inches) in isolated areas.

This rainfall could produce ?life-threatening? flash floods and mudslides, the NHC said.

Mexican authorities have formed a task force in Jalisco, which includes 31 all-terrain vehicles and two helicopters to deal with emergency situations as well as deliver water and emergency food supplies to towns and villages that might be cut off by flooding

?A storm surge is expected to produce coastal flooding,? the NHC warned. ?The surge will be accompanied by large and damaging waves.?

The center also said that swells generated by Bud could also produce dangerous, even ?life-threatening? surf and rip current conditions.

But as Mexico appeared to have dodged the bullet, a new subtropical storm named Beryl formed in the Atlantic off the coast of South Carolina.

Beryl, which was currently located 305 miles (490 kilometers) east of Charleston, South Carolina, was moving north at nine miles (15 kilometers) an hour, the Miami-based center said.

On the projected course, it was expected to hit the coast in one of the southeastern states on Sunday, packing winds of about 45 miles (75 kilometers) an hour.

Beryl formed just as Americans began celebrating the Memorial Day weekend, which marks the unofficial start of the beach season.

The Mexican Meteorological Service has forecast 23 tropical storms of various levels of intensity for the 2012 hurricane season. Ten of them are expected in the Atlantic Ocean and 13 in the Pacific.

?The anticipated storms will be less intense than the average,? said Jose Luis Luege, director general of the Mexican National Commission of Water.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted a ?near-normal? Atlantic hurricane season is likely.

The Atlantic hurricane region includes the northern Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

For something so simple, pasta is serious business

ROME (AP) ? They twirled, they sniffed, they slurped, they chewed.

The dozen housewives who gathered in a Rome hotel on a recent afternoon took their work terribly seriously, rating plates of pasta for chewiness, saltiness, gumminess or done-ness ? that perfect balance known as "al dente," or firm to the bite.

Pasta is serious business in Italy, and the recent blind taste test organized by the world's biggest pasta maker drove home that an awful lot of thought goes into making the simple combination of durum wheat semolina and water from which Italy's national dish is made.

"The simpler it is, the more testing it takes," said Stefania Fochi, in charge of consumer testing for market leader Barilla, which organized the taste test.

Pasta sales worldwide have grown steadily over the past three years, to euros 22.3 billion last year, according to Euromonitor research. In Italy, however, sales have fallen steadily over that same timeframe as the economy suffers and stores are forced to offer discounts. National pasta sales dropped to euros 2.7 billion last year from euros 3.1 billion in 2009 ? meaning spaghetti makers in these days of austerity need to try harder to keep their customers loyal.

Granted, in Italy, it's not a huge challenge given that most Italians eat a plate of pasta ? be it spaghetti alla carbonara, penne al ragu or orecchiette with broccoli ? at least once a day. But they are terribly discerning customers: A noodle is not just a noodle.

"Some were sticky, some were good, al dente and cooked the right amount of time," said Stefania De Rossi, a 46-year-old mother of three who was selected for the taste test because of her family's daily pasta habit. "I liked the last one (identified only by its code name: V36). It wasn't super smooth, it was a bit rough but seemed better."

Her pickiness stems in part from Italians' particular obsession with food: Eating in Italy is taken very seriously on both a family and cultural level. The Slow Food movement was born here and you can smell, see and taste this way of life at this time of year in outdoor markets, exploding with bundles of fresh asparagus now that the green and purple hills of artichokes have begun to wane.

And what better way to enjoy those asparagus tips than to sautee them in olive oil with bits of speck, a smoky cut of prosciutto, and toss the whole thing with a small mound of linguine?

"Pasta is truly the symbol, the emblem not just of Italian food ... but the principal plate of the Mediterranean diet," said Amelia Germoleo, vice director of the National Pasta Museum in Rome. "It's profoundly rooted in the culture, the lifestyle, the 'being' of Italy."

The museum, which is currently closed for renovations, seeks to enlighten visitors about pasta's past, including the very Italian origins of dried pasta, the stuff that comes in packages and can be preserved, as opposed to egg-based fresh pasta that must be eaten quickly.

It turns out Marco Polo didn't bring spaghetti to the West from China. Rather, Germoleo said, the earliest known origins of dried pasta date from 12th century Sicily. The Norman king of Sicily, King Ruggero II, instructed a geographer to write a book about all that was known of the world.

In 1138, the geographer, Idrisi, reported back that the settlement of Trabia, west of Palermo, was making a type of vermicelli that was "sufficient to provide not only for Calabria but also the Muslim and Christian territories, where numerous cargoes are sent by sea," according a citation of the book in a museum publication, "Time for Pasta."

"This debunks the myth that Marco Polo brought it from China," Germoleo said. "Dried pasta is absolutely Italian."

Agostino Macri, a food security expert at the National Consumer's Union, said that pasta was in the "genome of Italians."

"A good dish of pasta puts you in a good mood," he said. But he cautioned against going overboard in consuming it, particularly with specialties like spaghetti all'amatriciana, a heavy dish using tomatoes and bacon-like pancetta that is common on Roman trattoria menus.

"It has a lot of calories," he warned.

The pasta that was served to the blind tasters had none of that: simply spaghetti tossed with a dash of olive oil. Each of the five brands tested ? Barilla, De Cecco, Gragnano and supermarket brands Coop and Conad ? was cooked in 1 liter of water salted with 7 grams of sea salt for every 100 grams of pasta.

While each sample cooked, women in white lab coats and latex gloves handed out small packets of noodles as they appear in the package, giving the whole affair a sterile, clinical feel when most Italians would tuck into a plate of pasta around the dinner table.

The testers ran their fingers slowly over the slender sticks, caressed them, noted the flecks of brown on the golden strands of semolina and the slight roughness of the grain in their hands. And then they answered an 11-page questionnaire asking them how the color, thickness, smell, taste and texture appealed to them. The results aren't for public consumption, Barilla said.

"For us the pasta is very important, especially for me," Gabriella Brescia said after sampling her five dishes as she packed up and headed home. "I could give up everything except pasta."

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Friday, May 25, 2012

SBA Disaster Loan For Georgia Available

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Why Didn't My Marketing Campaign Work? | Business 2 Community

It goes without saying that the success of any business depends on a sound advertising and marketing campaign to attract the interest of customers to their products or services. These days there is a lot of competition, especially in the current economic climate and marketers face a fierce battle to gain market share. Consequently, any marketing campaign must draw attention to the company and their products, but what happens when the campaign simply does not work?

The failure of any campaign will certainly leave marketing executives and business owners alike scratching their heads, and wondering why their marketing campaigns didn?t work. Let?s take a close look at a few of the reasons a marketing campaign runs cold instead of setting the consumer market on fire.

1. Wrong Target Market: The number one reason that a marketing campaign might fail is because they are not reaching the target market or the customer who would use their product or service. When a business has a product or service they are offering to the market, they must determine who their customers are and ensure they target their produces or services to them. This is a basic marketing step. Get this wrong and it will destroy any marketing campaign.

2. Utilizing One Medium: A campaign might not work is because the business did not diversify their marketing efforts. Diversification should draw in a larger base audience. For example, a company might place all their marketing and advertising money in a direct mail campaign. But draws little or no response. Consequently, their entire marketing campaign goes up in smoke. A better approach would have been to utilize all direct advertising mediums that are available.

3. Ignoring New Opportunities: Companies who ignore new opportunities like social media are making a major marketing error. Marketers must learn to incorporate many of the popular social media sites into their marketing campaign because they are powerful marketing tools that reach millions of people in a very cost effective way.

4. Failing To Distinguish From The Competition: Another reason that a marketing campaign fails is because the company?s approach was wrong. The campaign concentrated solely on their company and all their accomplishments in the past. This approach might have worked once upon a time, but today consumers are much more savvy and discriminating. Instead, a company should focus on what their product or service has to offer potential customers. Let the customer know exactly what makes your product better for them than the competition.

5. Too Boring: To get the word out about a company, you must focus on capturing the attention of the consumer. Boring advertising and marketing campaigns simply leave the customer cold. A campaign message has to capture attention and stand out from the rest of the crowd. This might involve clever slogans or phrases, or funny slogans/jingles as well clever use of imagery and logos which are easily memorable.

From those in marketing executive jobs to small business owners, identifying why a campaign did not work will help to get the next marketing campaign started on solid ground and manage a healthy ROI.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

IAEA chief says nears deal with Iran ahead of 6-power talks

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog director said on Tuesday he expected to sign a deal with Iran soon to unblock an investigation into suspected work on atom bombs, potentially brightening prospects for big-power talks with Tehran to stop a drift toward conflict.

Yukiya Amano was summarizing the outcome of rare talks he conducted in Tehran on Monday, two days before six powers meet Iran's security council chief in Baghdad to test Iranian willingness to curb its nuclear program in a transparent way.

Amano, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said his wish for access to Iran's Parchin military complex where nuclear weapons-relevant tests may have occurred would be addressed as part of the accord.

But the powers will be wary of past failures to carry out extra inspection deals between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran, and Western patience is wearing thin.

European sanctions to block Iran's economically vital oil exports are to take force in July and Israel has mooted military action. A defiant Iran, which denies any ambition to acquire atom bombs, has threatened reprisals and oil prices have risen on fear of a new Middle East war hitting a wobbly world economy.

Amano acknowledged that "some differences" remained before the deal he hashed out on his first visit to Tehran could be sealed, although chief Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili had assured him these would not thwart agreement.

"The decision was made to conclude and sign the agreement ... At this stage, I can say it will be signed quite soon," Amano told reporters at Vienna airport on his return from the Iranian capital.

The veteran Japanese diplomat, who flew impromptu to Tehran capitalize on progress in talks with Iran in Vienna held by senior aides, described the outcome of his meetings in Iran as an "important development...

"We understood each other's position better."

Asked what differences persisted, Amano said only that they were "details of discussions on this document," adding that it was "almost a clean text."

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Driving home Western skepticism rooted in the checkered history of IAEA transparency deals with Iran, the acting U.S. ambassador to the agency urged the Islamic Republic to open up immediately and meaningfully to inspectors.

"While we appreciate the efforts (by the IAEA) to conclude a substantive agreement, we remain concerned by the urgent obligation for Iran to ... cooperate fully with the verification efforts of the IAEA ... to resolve all outstanding concerns about the nature of its nuclear program," Robert Wood said.

Israel greeted word of a incipient IAEA-Iran pact with suspicion, citing an Iranian track record of evading and restricting inspections aimed at ensuring no military diversions of nuclear activity.

"Iran has proven over the years its lack of credibility, its dishonesty -- telling the truth is not its strong side -- and therefore we have to be suspicious of them all the time, and examine the agreement that is being formulated," Civil Defence Minister Matan Vilnai said on Israel Radio.

Asked whether last-resort air strikes on Iran were still conceivable with apparent headway being made on the diplomatic track, Vilnai replied: "One shouldn't get confused for even a moment -- everything is on the table."

Iran has for four years stonewalled IAEA requests to examine sites, especially the Parchin site southeast of Tehran, interview senior nuclear scientists and peruse documents to verify Western intelligence reports about Iranian research and experiments pertinent to manufacturing nuclear explosives.

Western diplomats accredited to the IAEA said that whether concerns about Iran's nuclear intentions would be allayed by the deal would depend on how it was applied on the ground.

"There is skepticism until this is signed and then, once it is signed, there will be skepticism until it is implemented," a official from one Western power in Vienna told Reuters.

HIGH-STAKES BAGHDAD NEGOTIATIONS

In Baghdad, Jalili - the personal representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - will meet Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief heading a coalition of the five U.N. Security Council permanent members - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - plus Germany.

Their main goal is expected to be an Iranian agreement to shut down the higher-grade uranium enrichment that it launched in 2010 and has since expanded in an underground plant at Fordow largely impervious to attack from the air, effectively shortening the time needed to weaponise nuclear technology.

"Cooperation with the IAEA like access to Parchin is important but not sufficient. The 20 percent enrichment has to be addressed as a priority," a European diplomat said.

Iran maintains that it needs uranium refined to a fissile concentration of 20 percent for its medical isotope reactor. Enrichment to 5 percent of fissile purity is suitable for power plant fuel, while 90 percent constitutes fuel for bombs.

Iranian state television quoted Amano as saying that his talks would have a "positive impact" on the Baghdad meeting.

But diverging agendas stand in the way of a breakthrough.

Iran has suggested it will try to leverage its reported rapprochement with the IAEA into a deal in Baghdad to relax sanctions inflicting increasing damage to its economy. But Western officials ruled out such a weighty concession so soon.

"We are not going to do anything concrete in exchange for nice words," a senior Western diplomat cautioned.

BARGAINING POWER

In an apparent move to beef up its bargaining position, Iran announced on Tuesday that it had delivered its first two batches of domestically made nuclear fuel to a Tehran research reactor.

If confirmed, Iran's ability to run the reactor with its own fuel could remove any basis for a mooted deal under which Iran would ship most of its enriched uranium abroad in a swap for such fuel, reducing its stocks of potential atom bomb material.

Tehran tentatively agreed to the swap in 2009 talks with the powers but the deal collapsed over details of implementation. Iran's foreign minister had said last month it was willing to consider an updated version of the idea.

Iran insists it wants nuclear energy only for electricity generation and medical treatments, but has long defied U.N. resolutions calling for a confidence-building suspension of uranium enrichment and unfettered IAEA access.

Another senior Western diplomat said Amano's unusual mission to Tehran had put the onus on the Iranians to clinch the deal.

"The fact that he said he is confident that the agreement may be signed soon may also mean that if everything goes wrong, and the remaining differences are not overcome, the blame will be squarely on the Iranian side," the diplomat said.

U.S. analyst Graham Allison said Iran had been "cautiously, but steadily, putting in place all the elements it needs to construct a nuclear weapon in short order", but so far astutely stopped short of a decision to do so.

"Any scenario that requires months between tripping the IAEA's alarm and testing a bomb would mean taking a huge risk of being attacked, something Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has so far assiduously avoided," Allison, director of Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, said in an article for the Scientific American.

U.S. WIDENS ENERGY SANCTIONS

Cranking up pressure on Iran, the U.S. Senate on Monday extended sanctions on its oil sector to cover dealings with the National Iranian Oil Co and National Iranian Tanker Co to close a potential loophole that could have allowed Tehran to continue selling some of its petroleum using its own fleet.

As if the diplomatic challenges in Baghdad were not daunting enough, the weather threatened to play havoc with the talks.

As delegations prepared to head for Iraq, Baghdad airport was closed on Tuesday after a sandstorm blanketed the Iraqi capital in choking dust, reducing visibility and grounding flights from neighboring Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.

Iraq's transport ministry said the sandstorm could last through Friday, risking further disruptions to air traffic.

Jalili arrived on Monday night in Baghdad while Western delegations were scheduled to arrive on Wednesday morning.

(Additional reporting by Marcus George in Dubai, Roberta Rampton in Washington, Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem, Justyna Pawlak and Patrick Markey in Baghdad; Writing by Mark Heinrich; Editing by Ralph Boulton)

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Fingerprint of radioactive plutonium found

After 50 years of searching, physicists have spotted the fingerprint of radioactive plutonium, revealing the secrets of this complex molecule behind nuclear weapons.

The researchers found the "plutonium signal" using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which is often used to peer into the electronic structure of atoms and molecules.

Their findings, detailed in Friday's journal Science, could help scientists and others figure out the relative amounts of different types of plutonium (and its many compounds) in nuclear reactors, for instance.

"When someone has a nuclear reactor, with plutonium sitting there for a long time, you don't really know how much is in there," said study researcher Georgios Koutroulakis of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The researchers also suggest the findings may benefit more exotic undertakings, such as power generation for interplanetary exploration, and earthly ones, such as long-term storage of nuclear waste.

Powerful plutonium
Plutonium-239 was discovered in 1941, but its "signature" had never been seen. That meant that the way plutonium reacted with other elements around it wasn't entirely clear. When analyzing nuclear waste or fuel it's sometimes important to know, for example, how much actual plutonium there is in the sample. [ Graphic - Nuclear Security: Best & Worst Countries ]

Now after decades of searching, scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Japan's Advanced Science Research Center have cracked it. Koutroulakis and Hirsohi Yasuoka led a group that used plutonium dioxide cooled to near absolute zero to find the telltale signal of plutonium.

"You can probe plutonium compounds that you couldn't do before," said Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, who reviewed the journal article but wasn't involved in the current study. "I saw the title of this and my jaw hit the floor; I was one of the people who wanted to do this. The really great thing here is they got it to work."

Finding a plutonium fingerprint
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy works by putting a sample in a strong magnetic field that ultimately flips the spins of charged particles in the sample. When the magnetic field is turned off the atoms "relax" and the spins start pointing in random directions again. As they relax, they give off signals that are characteristic of specific atoms.

These characteristic signals are called "chemical shifts," as the frequency shifts relative to a reference frequency. Scientists can use the known structure of one molecule to figure out the structure of other similar ones.

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But plutonium is harder to measure that way. First off, plutonium-239 is hard to handle, being highly radioactive. Then there's the signal that the element gives off in the NMR machine. Plutonium's chemical shift is thousands of times larger than that of lighter elements, meaning the space you're looking in for that "spike" of radio energy is bigger. On top of that, plutonium relaxes very quickly, in just nanoseconds, when the magnetic field is shut off. For comparison, most elements relax in the space of microseconds.

To solve these problems, Yasuoka and Koutroulakis used plutonium dioxide and ran the NMR apparatus through a wide range of signal frequencies that might reveal plutonium's NMR signature. To slow the relaxation to 100 seconds, they cooled the sample to 4 degrees Kelvin ? cold enough to liquefy helium.

The method could help scientists figure out how to dispose of nuclear waste, Albrecht-Schmitt said. "There's a lot of plutonium scrap, and it ages in weird ways," he said.

However, further work is needed to test the method on other plutonium compounds, though this method will make detecting plutonium much easier, the researcher said.

? 2012 LiveScience.com. All rights reserved.

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

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Friday, May 18, 2012

Bissell Receives Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer ...

May 17, 2012

Mina Bissell of the Life Sciences Division has received the 2012 Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research. Sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb, the AACR lectureship is given annually to ?an individual who has undertaken outstanding scientific research that has inspired or has the potential to inspire new perspectives on the etiology, diagnosis, treatment or prevention of breast cancer.? Bissell is receiving the award for her pioneering work in discovering the critical role in cancer development played by reciprocal signaling between the nucleus of a breast cell and the extracellular matrix that surrounds it.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

When Work and Family Collide by Andy Stanley | tasra mar

Um? when DON?T work and family collide?

Especially when you work from home and kids do home-work because they are home-schooled? It?s the epitome of a ?blended? family? blending life, home, work, education into one big mixing pot.

The results can be beautiful, baffling and downright difficult at times. So Andy Stanley?s book, When Work and Family Collide When Work and Family Collide by Andy Stanley seemed like the perfect book for us. After reading it, I know it?s the perfect book for any home/work situation. Whether Mom works at home and Dad is at an office or both parents are at an office, or you?re a single parent working and raising kids.

The principles Andy shares about how to know when to work and when to quit are simple and profound. The strategies for changing your perspective about when and why you choose to do what you do could be life-changing.

 When Work and Family Collide by Andy StanleySome of my favorite questions and quotes from the book are:

How can we be successful without sacrificing our relationships with those closest to us?

Cheating is choosing to give up one thing in hope of gaining something else of greater value? We give up certain opportunities for the sake of others. We invest in some relationships while neglecting others. We allocate our time the best we can, knowing all the while somebody?s going to feel cheated. Unfortunately, that ?somebody? is usually someone we care a great deal about.

Your mental willingness (to do what you are asked or have agreed to) can be overcome by your exhaustion.

Cheat at work. But don?t you dare cheat at home. (what Andy Stanley tells his staff)

Bottom line?

Don?t cheat the people who love you most. Don?t cheat the person who?s looking forward to spending the rest of his or her life with you. Don?t cheat yourself of the peace that comes with knowing you?re squarely in the will of the One who created you. Don?t cheat your kids of the security that comes from knowing that they?re Mommy and Daddy?s priorities.

Nobody gets to the end of his life and wishes he?d spent more time at the office.

Make up your mind.

Develop a plan.

Start today.

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Former high-school teacher among incoming space station crew

After weeks of delay, three astronauts are slated to blast off in a Soyuz space capsule to the International Space Station.?

By Mike Wall,?SPACE.com / May 14, 2012

Sergei Revin (left), Gennady Padalka (center) and Joe Acaba (right) pose in front of the hatchway to their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft as they completed their final 'fit check' inspection of the vehicle on Friday. The three will launch toward the space station on May 14.

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Three astronauts are finally ready to blast off toward the International Space Station tonight (May 14), after weeks of delay caused during testing of their Russian-built space capsule.

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NASA astronaut Joe Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin are slated to lift off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome tonight at 11:01 p.m. EDT (0301 GMT Tuesday). They'll ride a?Soyuz spaceship?into orbit, ultimately berthing with the station early Thursday morning (May 17), NASA officials said.

Acaba, Padalka and Revin were originally scheduled to launch on March 29, but a botched pressure test?cracked their Soyuz crew capsule. The flight was pushed back by a month and a half to allow enough time for Russian space contractor RSC Energia to ready a new capsule for service.

Once aboard the space station, the three spaceflyers will bring the orbiting lab back to its full complement of six occupants. Their fellow Expedition 31 crewmembers ? NASA's Don Pettit, Dutchman Andre Kuipers and cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko ? have had the station to themselves since April 27.

Acaba, Padalka and Revin will live in orbit for the next four months, eventually returning to Earth in mid-September, NASA officials said. The three newcomers will all serve as flight engineers under the command of Expedition 31 chief Kononenko. [Quiz: The Reality of Life in Orbit]

New space experiences

Acaba, 44, is a native of Inglewood, Calif., and is making his second career spaceflight. He has been to the station once before, on the?space shuttle?Discovery's STS-119 mission in 2009. But he returned ?to Earth after just 13 days on that flight, so this will be a new experience for him.

"I'm looking forward to going from someone who worked for two weeks in space as a shuttle crewmember to now living in space ? living and working in space ? as a long-duration crewmember," Acaba told reporters earlier this year. "Personally, I think it'll be a much different experience ? instead of just a whirlwind, 'let's get the job done' to, you know, 'now this is your home.'"

Acaba is one of NASA's educator astronauts and taught high school and middle school before joining NASA's astronaut ranks in 2004.

Padalka, 53, is a veteran spaceflyer making his third trip to the International Space Station on the Expedition 31 flight. A father of three from Krasnodar, Russia he has racked up a total of 585 days in Earth orbit.

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Saturday, May 12, 2012

This Week's Top Web Comedy Video: Seven Minutes With Olivia Wilde [Comedy Videos]

Olivia Wilde! If anyone can withstand seven minutes of awkward conversation in a closet it's her, right? At least let's hope she does! Because then she might be willing to do it again someday, with you, near a beach. Kidding! That'll never happen. More »


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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

WordPress for Android v2.1 moves from public beta to official release

Wordpress for Android

For all you mobile bloggers out there making use of WordPress, you'll want to listen up. The latest version of WordPress for Android has now been made available through the Google Play Store and is ready for mass consumption. This release while issued in public beta previously, offers a lot of updated changes that should interest many:

  • Autosave timer while editing posts. Every 60 seconds the post will be autosaved.
  • Edit comments! You can edit comments while on the go now.
  • You can now set the width for linked images.
  • All new WordPress.com reader. Navigating posts is much faster and you can add comments to posts that you are reading. You can also share the post to other Android apps!
  • Small improvements to the UI, most notably that the delete post button has been moved to a less prominent spot to prevent accidental taps on it.
  • Reliability improvements
  • Translation updates
  • Updated app icon

Whether you have a smartphone or a tablet, you'll want to go ahead and get yourself updated to the latest version. You can do that simply by heading down below to grab the Google Play Store download link.

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Saturday, May 5, 2012

The Weekly OKNA Email 5/4/12 ? Overlook Neighborhood Association

Your weekly Overlook Neighborhood email round up; as usual, there?s lots going on!

1) Family game night fundraising at Jefferson High School (Tonight! 5/4)
2) Tool Sharpening Workshop (5/5)
3) Overlook Livability Team Clean UP (5/6)
4) Portland Harbor Community Advisory Group (5/9)
5) Portland Harbor Draft Feasibility Study (5/10)
6) Earthquake Home Retrofit Workshop (5/19 ? RSVP now)
7) Free Spay/Neuter Clinics for Feral and Stray Cats (May)
8) Village Building Convergence Volunteers Needed (6/2)

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1) Family game night fundraising at Jefferson High School (Tonight! 5/4)

Board games, video, and card games, as well as dinner and a raffle to benefit Jefferson Parent Teacher Student Association. 6 p.m., more info here or contact 503-341-2973 or taniapdx@gmail.com

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2) Tool Sharpening Workshop (5/5)

North Portland Tool Library Tool Sharpening Workshop

Saturday May 5th 2012
10:00am -2:00pm (drop-ins welcome)

Learn basic tool sharpening & maintenance techniques to extend the lives & make the most of your tools
Includes: shears, pruners, hoes, shovels, lawn mower blades (gas & electric only), etc. (sorry, no culinary knives)
Bring your own tools or learn by sharpening some of the Library?s tools
Suggested donation to the NPTL: $2 per tool

held at:
SALVAGE WORKS
2030 N Willis Blvd Portland, OR 97217 (another great neighborhood resource)
For info, call NPTL @ (503) 823-0209

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3) Overlook Livability Team Clean UP (5/6)

The Overlook Livability Team (OLT) meets this Sunday morning at 9am, at DiPrima Dolci, 1936 North Killingsworth St. They?ll break out into smaller teams and hit their neighborhood clean up duties. Bravo to these generous neighbors! If you?d like to join them, email graffiti@OverlookNeighborhood.org and get some details, or meet up on Sunday morning.

Scheduled clean up dates 2012: June 3, July 1, August 5, September 9, October 7, November 4, December 2

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4) Portland Harbor Community Advisory Group (5/9)

You are invited to attend the Portland Harbor Community Advisory Group meeting on Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

Meetings of the Portland Harbor Community Advisory Group (PH CAG) are intended to keep the community abreast of developments on the Portland Harbor Superfund Site and to provide a forum for discussion. PH CAG meetings are open to everyone. We encourage you to step forward to share your concerns and advice.

Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Location: 6543 N Burlington Avenue (Portland BES Water Pollution Control Lab)

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5) Portland Harbor Draft Feasibility Study (5/10)

You are invited to attend the Public Information Session for Portland Harbor Draft Feasibility Study

Date: Thursday, May 10
Time: 6 -8 pm, Open House, 5:30-6 pm
Location: Ecotrust Building?Billy Frank Jr. Conf. Room, 721 NW 9th Ave., Portland, Oregon

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now reviewing the draft Feasibility Study for the Portland Harbor Superfund Site. The Feasibility Study is the mechanism for the development, screening, and detailed evaluation of different cleanup plans and methods. It is also now available for review by the public at the Multnomah County Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave., or from the EPA website at www.epa.gov/region10/portlandharbor.

EPA is holding a public information session to provide an overview of the draft feasibility study on May 10. This session will include:

? Information about cleanup alternatives
? Site background information
? Discussion of effect on the community
? Next steps for making clean up decisions
? Opportunities for public involvement

In addition, an open house is scheduled before the session. During the open house, you can speak with representatives from EPA, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, LWG, Tribal governments, Natural Resource Trustees and the Portland Harbor Community Advisory Group.

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6) Earthquake Home Retrofit Workshop (5/19 ? RSVP now)

Join ONeST for our Earthquake Home Retrofit Workshop (with North Portland Tool Library) on May 19.? We?ll learn how to bolt our houses to their foundations.? Email Gerry Howard of the NPTL at Gerald.Howard@bankofthewest.com to register, and tell him you are an Overlook resident - we are reserving half of the 20 spots for neighbors.

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7) Free Spay/Neuter Clinics for Feral and Stray Cats (May)

Event date: May 1, 2012 ? May 31, 2012

Event location: The Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon

The Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon (FCCO) will host free spay/neuter clinics for feral and stray cats throughout the entire month of May. Space is limited so call today! Why May? In the spring months, cats begin to breed and are more likely to produce kittens. Cats can reproduce as early as five months old, but can be safely spayed and neutered at two months old.

What can you do to help? If you or someone you know is feeding feral or stray cats, please call 503.797.2606 today or visit www.feralcats.com for more information.

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8) Village Building Convergence Volunteers Needed (6/2)

ONeST, the Overlook Sustainability Team is sponsoring an Intersection Repair project for this year?s Village Building Convergence. A massive mural is planned for the equally massive intersection of N Overlook Blvd, N Melrose, N Concord and N Failing. Helpers are needed for all sorts of tasks; please see the article in Overlook Views for details.

If community building, artwork, street painting or just trading some work for good food with neighbors sounds interesting to you, please visit the VBC/City Repair website http://vbc.cityrepair.org or contact organizer Leslee Lewis directly:? 503.703.3702 or kgllport@aol.com

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Friday, May 4, 2012

PoP Video peripheral turns iPod touches and iPhones into pico projectors for $99

PoP Video peripheral turns iPod touches and iPhones into pico projectors for $99

While it may not be the first time we've come across such a concept, this PoP Video add-on is certainly quite different than, say, WooWee's Cinemin Swivel -- and significantly cheaper, too. The PoP Video pairs up with iPod touches (3rd / 4th generation) and iPhones via Apple's proprietary 30-pin connector, essentially turning your device into an unorthodox pico projector. According to PoP's site, the 3.5 ounce peripheral's capable of 960 x 540 video output and can give you up to two hours of "playtime" on a single charge -- achieved by way of micro-USB. It all wouldn't be worth it without the free iOS app, though, which lets folks tinker with settings and do what it's intended to do: project videos, pics as well as browsing within Safari. The $99 PoP Video is up for pre-order now, and you can get a quick glimpse of the accessory in action just past the break.

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