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Friday, August 31, 2012
Landscape Architects Design Parks for Pets | Planetizen
With seventy-nine out of every hundred households containing pets, more emphasis has been placed in recent years on designing open-space for our best friends in the animal world. "The growing urban population is embracing dog runs as an important component to the recreational quality of a park," says Metropolis Mag's Lisa DuRussel. "In addition to giving their pets a place to romp, city parks also bring dog owners together."
"Most dog parks evolve around a simple idea: find an open space, fence it in, let dogs run." Despite that simplicity, some jurisdictions are going above and beyond, specifically designing places for the enjoyment of the animals. "Drawing on design inspiration from our four-legged friends, the team felt it was important to design through the primary user?s eyes," states DuRussel. This includes designing pavement colors and textures compatible to the limited color perception of our canine friends, while reducing pavement temperature and abrasiveness.
Some successful elements that have been integrated into parks include "dog-activated water features, themed drinking fountains, and boulders of various sizes for play."
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Thousands face expulsion as university loses visa status
The government has stripped a London university of its right to sponsor visas for overseas students, leaving thousands of students facing possible deportation.
London Metropolitan University had its Highly Trusted Status -- which allowed it to sponsor visas for students from outside the European Union -- revoked by the UK Border Agency on Wednesday night over alleged failings in its procedures.
The move means current overseas students have 60 days to enrol on a course elsewhere, with more than 2,000 students facing deportation if they fail to find another university, according to the National Union of Students (NUS).
The union warned of "catastrophic" effects on Britain's industry for educating people from overseas, which was estimated last year to be worth ?14 billion and in which almost 300,000 non-EU foreign students were enrolled in 2010-11.
The university said on its website: "The implications of the revocation are hugely significant and far-reaching... Our ABSOLUTE PRIORITY is to our students, both current and prospective, and the University will meet all its obligations to them."
Immigration minister Damian Green told BBC radio Thursday that after an audit lasting six months, the border agency found "a serious systemic failure where it appears that the university doesn't have the capacity to be a proper sponsor".
He said that a quarter of students there lacked permission to stay in the country, while there was insufficient evidence that students spoke English and no proof that half of those enrolled had been attending lectures.
But he sought to reassure prospective students that "this will not be replicated across the university sector".
The government had formed a task force to assist current students whose visas are set to be revoked, he added.
The NUS labelled the move political, linking it with promised immigration quotas brought in by Prime Minister David Cameron's government.
It said it had contacted Cameron to "express anger at the way decisions have been made in recent weeks and to reiterate the potentially catastrophic effects on higher education... as an export industry".
A Border Agency spokesman said: "The latest audit revealed problems with 61 percent of files randomly sampled. Allowing London Metropolitan University to continue to sponsor and teach international students was not an option.
"These are problems with one university, not the whole sector."
London Metropolitan is in the top 20 British recruiters of international students, with 6,000 EU and non-EU overseas students in 2010-11, according to government figures.
It said it was working closely with bodies including the Border Agency to try to resolve the problems.
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Amid squalor and fear on Turkish border, Syrians make plea for safe zone
So many Syrians have shown up along the Turkish border,?hoping to cross and enter a refugee camp, that Turkey is calling on the international community to create a safe zone for them inside Syria.
Refugees from the northern Syrian City of Azaz make the best of their situation at the Bab al-Salama border crossing in Kilis, Turkey. Thousands of internally displaced refugees are now living in this border region unable to cross into Turkey for asylum.
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EnlargeIn this camp that has sprung up along the Turkish border, 5,000 Syrians who have fled their country's civil war live under covered vehicle lanes on an unfinished section of the Syrian border, waiting to cross into Turkey or return to their homes. Sleeping out in the open on asphalt and scrounging for clean water, they hope that they will be allowed into Turkey, where they can find a truly safe haven in an established refugee camp.
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But Turkey, overwhelmed by a surge of Syrian refugees, is instead expected to call on the United Nations today to create a safe zone inside Syria to stem the tide coming over the border.
A safe zone along the border would offer Turkey a place to redirect refugees, but a number of political complications make the formation of such an area unlikely ? a reality all too familiar for thousands of beleaguered Syrian refugees unable to enter Turkey or escape the violence in Syria.
?The safe zone is a dream. It will not happen. The world is against us,? says Abdul Qadir Haj, a former Syrian policeman who fled to a camp near the Bab al-Salama border crossing into Turkey, a short drive from Aleppo. The camp is now home to about 5,000 refugees.
In just the past two weeks, the refugee issue has exploded in Turkey and Jordan, the other major recipient of Syrian refugees. Previously Turkey received about 400 to 500 Syrians each day, but those numbers have recently climbed to as many as 5,000 per day, according to the UN.
Some 80,000 refugees are now in Turkey, and UN officials say those numbers could reach 200,000 if the conflict continues to escalate. Already there are an estimated 2.5 million people inside Syria who need humanitarian assistance and 1.2 million who are internally displaced.
Turkey originally said it could host no more than 100,000 refugees, but the construction of several new refugee camps has increased its capacity to 150,000. Concerned about absorbing such a high number of refugees, Turkey has been among those in the international community pushing hardest for the creation of a safe zone inside Syria.
Even without the creation of an official safe zone, much of the area along the border with Turkey is now under the control of the Free Syrian Army. The opposition group now controls the Bab al-Salama border crossing and many of the towns north of Aleppo.
The absence of government forces means there is little fighting in the area, but those who have fled say the area remains unsafe as long as Syrian government forces have airplanes and artillery.
In Azzaz, a town just a few miles from the border crossing and refugee camp, locals say government planes have bombed several buildings in recent weeks. Other towns in the area surrounding Aleppo face regular artillery fire and aerial bombardment. There are also concerns about unofficial militias attacking residents.
?We want a safe zone. The planes can come here at any time and bomb us. Right now it?s only safe inside Turkey,? says Zahara Umm Hasa, a widow who fled to the Bab al-Salama refugee camp about two weeks ago.
With the threat of bombing still looming, there are few humanitarian organizations offering assistance.?
Meanwhile, those inside the camps say conditions are worsening as the number of refugees increases.?In the Bab al-Salama camp, refugees live under the shaded sections of visa processing lanes in an unfinished section of the Syrian border crossing. Families have rolled out woven plastic mats to make sitting and sleeping on the asphalt slightly less uncomfortable.??
Aside from a few lucky families who sleep in small rooms intended intended for passport police, refugees sleep shoulder-to-shoulder under a concrete roof that provides relief from the sun, but no other protection from the elements.?
The few humanitarian groups working in the camps provide medicine and food. Local vendors from nearby towns also visit the camp to sell food and other items. Although refugees say they have enough food for now, they complain that there is limited access to clean water.
With refugees crowded together with extremely limited sanitation facilities, the squalor has led to?health problems, especially for children.?Refugees say they've only met one doctor in the camp who can help those who fall ill, and he seldom has enough medicine to treat all those who need it.?
?We work in danger here. We are close to the bombing,? says Osman Atalay, a board member for the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedom and Humanitarian Relief, a Turkish humanitarian organization that is among a small handful providing assistance to Syrian refugees at the Bab al-Salama border crossing. ?There are many organizations who want to help. If they make the decision to create a safe zone maybe more will come.?
To be truly protected, the safe zone would need to be accompanied by an internationally imposed no-fly zone, which would prevent the possibility of air strikes. But the international community remains unwilling to create a no-fly zone in Syria, despite strong support from France. Additionally, while the FSA has control of much of the border region, it remains unclear how capable they would be of protecting a safe zone in the event of an attack.
?The FSA cannot protect all the people here because the regime still has many supporters,"?says Saleem Shams, a student from Aleppo University currently in the refugee camp, who worries that there may be dormant pro-government supporters who would help in such an attack. "There is no reason to stay in our cities because there is no way to study or work,? he adds.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Apple lists 8 Samsung products it wants banned
People walk past by banners advertising Samsung and Apple's smart phones at a mobile phone shop in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. Samsung will offer three different choices to people interested in buying a desktop computer equipped with a redesigned version of Windows. The PCs ? previewed Tuesday at a technology conference in Germany ? are set to hit the market Oct. 26. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
People walk past by banners advertising Samsung and Apple's smart phones at a mobile phone shop in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. Samsung will offer three different choices to people interested in buying a desktop computer equipped with a redesigned version of Windows. The PCs ? previewed Tuesday at a technology conference in Germany ? are set to hit the market Oct. 26. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Apple Inc. on Monday gave a federal judge a list of eight Samsung Electronics Co. products it wants pulled from shelves and banned from the U.S. market, including popular Galaxy model smartphones.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh asked for the list after a jury in San Jose last week slammed Samsung with a $1.05 billion verdict, finding that the South Korean technology giant had "willfully" copied Apple's iPhone and iPad in creating and marketing the products. Samsung plans an appeal.
The products Apple wants out are all smartphones: Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S2 AT&T, Galaxy S2, Galaxy S2 T-Mobile, Galaxy S2 Epic 4G, Galaxy S Showcase, Droid Charge and Galaxy Prevail.
Koh on June 26 banned the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from the U.S. market after finding it likely violated a "design patent." Samsung is now asking for that ban to be lifted after the jury found the computer tablet didn't infringe that particular patent, but it did find it infringed three Apple's software patents that cover the popular "bounce-back" and pinch-to-zoom features.
The judge has scheduled a Sept. 20 hearing to discuss Apple's demands for the sales bans. She asked Apple on Friday to submit the list of products its wants removed from U.S. stores after Samsung complained that it doesn't have enough time to prepare for the scheduled hearing.
The judge is deciding whether to reschedule the hearing to give Samsung more time to prepare. Samsung plans to ask the judge to toss out the jury's verdict as unsupported by the evidence. Failing that, the company says it will appeal the verdict to higher courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
In addition to the sales bans, Apple also plans to ask the judge to triple the damages to $3.15 billion because of the jury's finding that Samsung "willfully" copied Apple.
Apple filed its lawsuit in April of last year alleging that 28 Samsung smartphones and computer tablets had "slavishly copied" the iPhones and iPads. Samsung countered with its own claims that Apple used its wireless technology without proper compensation.
A nine-person jury in its verdict Friday unanimously agreed with Apple. Most of the damages were tied to Samsung's smartphones. The jury rejected Samsung's counterclaims.
Most of the Samsung products found to have "infringed' Apple's patent were older devices no longer being sold. The list Apple presented to the court on Monday represent devices it believes are still being sold in U.S. stores, including several versions of the company's popular S2 phones introduced last year. Samsung's newest and hottest selling smartphone, the Galaxy S3, was not part of the lawsuit and is unaffected by the jury's verdict.
The award represents about 1.5 percent of Samsung's annual revenue. Analysts said the embarrassment of the verdict is a bigger blow for Samsung than the financial setback.
Still, the question remains whether Samsung and other Apple competitors will have to redesign their smartphones to avoid infringing Apple's patents. Most analysts agree the verdict sends a threatening message to device makers such as Samsung, which use Google's Android operating system.
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Raccoons spreads dangerous diseases as they invade Europe, Spanish researchers find
ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2012) ? Furry, agile, intelligent and voracious: the raccoon is far from being a cuddly toy, which is what many people believe when they get one as a pet. It is more like an invader that escapes and is able to adapt and survive in new habitats. According to a study, its expansion across Spain and Europe is bringing infectious and parasitic diseases like rabies. This puts the health of native species and people at risk.
Originating in North America, the raccoon (Procyon lotor) is an invasive species that has established itself in Europe due to hunting and the fur trade along with its acquisition as a pet. In Spain, its presence in the wild is already commonplace in Madrid and Guadalajara and is sporadic in other regions such as the island of Mallorca. Its presence is however far from welcomed.
"Due to its rapid expansion and the long list of illnesses that it may carry, it poses a health risk that we must bear in mind," according to Beatriz Beltr?n-Beck, the lead author of the study published in the European Journal of Wildlife Research and researcher at the Research Institute of Hunting Resources (IREC, joint centre of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, the CSIC, and Castilla-La Mancha Council).
Bearing in mind that its population density could exceed 100 raccoons per km2, the success of the expansion of this small opportunistic carnivore is down to its ability to quickly adapt to different surroundings and omnivorous food habitats, its high reproductive potential and the absence of natural predators.
However, as Beltr?n-Beck points out, "the impact that their expansion and invasion could have on the environment and the health of native species and humans is unknown." The researcher adds that the increase in population numbers and expansion to other countries and/or urban environments could increase the transmission of dangerous parasites and illnesses to domestic animals and humans.
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The research team gathered all types of information on the infectious and parasitic diseases that raccoons can transmit. The aim was to assess the propagation risk of infections along with possible control methods. But, according to the author, "there is little data in Europe on this species."
Rabies and a very pathogenic parasite to man (Baylisascaris procyonis), which was found in Germany, are some of the most significant illnesses found in the raccoon. But, along with bacterial illnesses, these are added to the West Nile virus which affects human, birds, horses and sheep.
Although in Western Europe rabies have been eliminated thanks to the oral vaccination for foxes (Vulpes vulpes), there is still concern that the raccoon could complicate the situation in some areas of Eastern Europe that are still home to rabies. In recent years 142 cases of rabies in raccoons have been identified, above all in Ukraine, Estonia, Germany and Lithuania.
This small American carnivore has been confirmed to be the host of the nematode worm Baylisascaris procyonis, which is responsible for Larva migrans, an illness caused by larval migration and parasite persistence under the skin, in the brain and in other organs. In the past this disease could only be found in America but is now emerging and on the rise in Europe.
"The infected raccoons can scatter millions of nematode B. procyonis eggs, which cause significant environmental contamination," warn the scientists. In the USA, between 68% and 82% of mammals have this parasite. Prevalence is also high in Germany although in Japan, for example, the parasite was not detected in any of the 1,688 raccoons captured for the purposes of other studies.
According to Beltr?n-Beck, "more epidemiological studies are necessary on the current health situation and the implementation of measures that limit the possible impact of invading raccoons."
An unpleasant "pet"
Given its exotic origin and its rapid expansion since the 1970's, the raccoon is considered an invasive species in Europe. However, the majority of European countries, like Spain, do not control the trade of this animal, which is introduced onto the market as a pet.
"The case of Spain is a good example. The origin of its expansion is probably due to it escaping from the home where it was kept as a pet and due to the owners releasing it into the countryside when it reaches adulthood and becomes aggressive," adds the researcher.
According to the researcher, "this is mainly the case because there is a complete lack of knowledge of the biology, ecology, distribution and population density of the raccoon in Europe.
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MITT IN THE HOUSE
Mitt Romney is in the convention hall. He and his wife, Ann, are backstage before her speech to the Republican National Convention.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
How Ann Romney learned to stop worrying and love politics
Ann and Mitt Romney in a visit to Poland, Warsaw in July. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
TAMPA--When the three major news networks announced last week that they would not air Ann Romney's Republican National Convention Monday night speech in Tampa, Republicans started scrambling. Romney's likeable wife of 43 years needed a primetime spot, they decided, and party leaders were reportedly ready to bump the popular Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to make that happen. Eventually, they moved New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez's appearance to another night so that Ann could steal the spotlight on Tuesday. Meanwhile, party officials denied they had ever considered dumping Rubio.
This last minute jockeying is a testament to just how vital the campaign considers Ann to her husband's election efforts, something that wasn't always the case over the course of Romney's political career. Back in 1994, during Romney's failed U.S. Senate bid (and first run for office), the new political spouse on the block was a gaffe-prone potential liability without the polish or PR skills to handle the press. But over the years, Ann has learned how to spin family tales into political catnip--wooing voters by offering a dimension to her husband that no one else has seen before?and becoming a smooth and competent politician in her own right.
The 63-year-old mother of five and grandmother to 16 has emerged as an important humanizing force for Romney on the campaign trail. While the presumptive Republican nominee can come across as stiff and awkward on the stump, Ann charms the crowd with personal stories, casting her husband in a softer light. At a rally in Michigan on Friday she choked up while expressing gratitude that so many supporters in her home state had shown up. "Mitt and I grew up here, we fell in love here, and this is a special place for us," she said.
Despite her ongoing struggle with multiple sclerosis, which she was diagnosed with in 1998, Ann has attended hundreds of campaign events and often comes across as having more energy on the stump than her husband. She was at her husband's side at virtually every rally during the long primary?working the rope line alongside her spouse and often delivering a mini stump speech of her own.
In one instance, she tells the story of being a stay-at-home mom in charge of five "very naughty" sons when her husband, then a consultant with Bain Capital, was traveling. "He would call home, and he'd hear a very exasperated wife at the end of the phone," Ann said during a rally in South Carolina in January. "And he'd remind me to hang in there. It would be okay, that actually my job was more important than his job. And the cool thing was he meant it."
"You couldn't pay me to do this again"
Ann now seems so skilled and smooth in interviews it's hard to believe that she is actually something of a comeback kid, politically speaking.
During her husband's unsuccessful bid for a Massachusetts Senate seat, the Boston Globe blasted her in a scorched-earth profile that portrayed her as a chatty, over-privileged woman living a life so perfect it bordered on creepy. The two lines from the interview that most haunted the campaign: Ann's insistence that she and her Ken-doll-looking husband had never once had a fight during their marriage; and her statement that the couple was "struggling" when Mitt was getting his graduate degrees at Harvard. The two were supporting themselves by selling off American Motors stock given to Mitt by his wealthy father?something that didn't exactly resonate with voters working two jobs to survive. ("Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted," she said at the time.)
In an article titled "Daughter of Privilege Knows Little of Real World," the Boston Herald ripped off the most unflattering of the Globe's quotes. The experience left Ann incredibly angry, she later admitted. When a reporter asked her after her husband's defeat whether she would ever help him launch another race, she retorted: "Never. You couldn't pay me to do this again."
Writer Ron Scott, a Mormon who wrote MITT ROMNEY: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics and who lived in the same stake?sort of the Mormon version of a diocese?as the Romneys, said he remembers "gasping" when he first read the Globe profile, instantly recognizing it as a disaster. But now, Scott thinks the incident just shows how fully Romney trusted his wife?for good or for bad. Despite her political inexperience, her husband was willing to let Ann do an hour-long one-on-one interview without media training or a PR team to hold her hand. And Ann was happy to take that risk, confident she could come out on top.
Perhaps that assurance was misplaced at the time, but it seems fitting now.
"She looks...like she's enjoying the campaign," Scott said. "I think if you were to contrast between now and '94, I don't think she really enjoyed that campaign or the 2008 one, but this time around I think she really looks like she's come alive."
The happy homemaker
Romney often introduces Ann as his "sweetheart" on the trail. The two began dating when she was 16 and he 18 in the ritzy Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. Ann's father, an immigrant from Wales, had made his fortune and served as the town's mayor. Romney, the son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, "hotly pursued" her, she said later. After a year at Stanford and two years of a Mormon mission in France, Romney rushed home and proposed to Ann, who had converted to Mormonism under Gov. Romney's tutelage and was attending Brigham Young University in Utah.
Ann eventually finished her undergraduate degree in French in 1975, when she already had two children. She recalled in an interview with People magazine that she shocked a professor at Harvard's extension school--where she took some classes at night while Mitt attended grad school--for needing to nurse one of her children in the back of the lecture hall. "It's one of those things where the professor is like, 'Wait, wait, wait, this is liberal Harvard, but what am I going to do about that woman in the back with a baby that's nursing?' He just kept pretending like I wasn't there," she recalled. Though she saw the Beatles perform live in Detroit and was a child of the 60s, Ann was a bit of rebel in reverse for wanting to settle down and have children instead of pursuing a career. She's said she felt judged sometimes by peers, but never regretted her decision.
During the campaign in April, she used a Democratic strategist's attack on her for never "working a day in her life" to portray Democrats as judgmental and dismissive of mothers, a powerful counterattack to the Democratic argument that Republicans were waging a "war on women." The comments sent Democrats into a tailspin, with no less than President Barack Obama himself going on TV to say, "There's no tougher job than being a mom" within a day of the comments. Ann later called the attack "an early birthday gift" in comments that were captured by a hot mic, inadvertently showing off her tough-as-nails political instincts.
Team Romney
When speaking about Romney's bid, Ann frequently uses the "we" or the "Mitt and I" construction, emphasizing just how invested in the campaign she actually is. She's not just selling Mitt on the stump--she's selling them both as a team.
"Mitt and I are in an unusual position right now to make a difference to the future of this nation," she told a rally in West Charleston, S.C., in January.
Then, two weeks ago, she said to NBC: "I don't think he could do it without me. I don't believe he could."
Her willingness to take on the mantle of surrogate is somewhat surprising for a woman who has often aired her misgivings about opening up her private life and whom the Boston Globe described as largely "invisible" in Massachusetts as first lady when her husband was governor. Even now, when traveling on her own, Ann rarely tells people she meets on planes her true identity; she prefers to say vaguely that she works in public relations.
Technically, she's not lying. During the primaries, when Romney had a tense relationship with his traveling press corps, Ann would venture back on the candidate's plane to chat with reporters?offering up a friendlier face to the pack of wolves press than her hunted husband.
After a disastrous event in South Carolina when Romney was photographed with one of the smallest crowds he's ever attracted on the trail, Ann wandered off the bus and stood with reporters awaiting a gaggle with the candidate.
"What kind of jeans are you wearing?" she jokingly shouted, as her husband took the mic?a reference to a brief media obsession over whether the candidate was sporting "skinny" jeans on the campaign trail. Her husband grinned.
On the campaign plane, Ann always shares a row with her husband. He reads his iPad, while she's been spotted flipping through issues of US Weekly. He has said her presence keeps him calm. "If I'm away from Ann for longer than a week or so, I get off course," Romney told CNN's Piers Morgan. "She has to bring me back and moderate me down a bit."
But Ann's sunny disposition has faltered as negative attacks on her family's wealth and character intensified over the summer. While she's continued to be one of her husband's strongest assets on the stage, Ann has largely ceased her plane-side chats with reporters trailing her husband across the country.
Advisers who declined to be named discussing the candidate's wife said Ann was deeply wounded by the British tabloid attacks in July over her husband's comments suggesting he found London's Olympic preparations "disconcerting." (The Sun tabloid called him "Mitt the Twit" in retaliation, and the gaffe threatened to overshadow Romney's foreign tour.)
More recently, her hackles have been up over demands that her husband release more years of his tax returns. Ann was noticeably agitated in an interview with NBC's Natalie Morales two weeks ago when asked about the financial disclosures.
"Have you seen how we are attacked? Have you seen what's happened?" she said, leaning forward in her chair. "We have been very transparent to what's legally required of us. But the more we release, the more we get attacked, the more we get questioned, the more we get pushed. And so we have done what's legally required, and there's going to be no more tax releases given."
Besides fighting back in interviews, Ann has grown more aggressive on the stump as well. The announcement of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc) as Romney's running mate has breathed new life into the campaign, drawing larger crowds to Romney's events. Joining her husband and Ryan on stage at a rally in Mooresville, N.C., earlier this month, she marveled at the size of the crowd that had turned out, which was estimated to be at least 4,000 people.
"They know America is in trouble and these are the guys who are going to save it," she said. "It's a boost that gives us determination to say we're not going to take it anymore! We're going to take the White House back!"
--Holly Bailey contributed to this report from the campaign trail.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ann-romney-learned-stop-worrying-love-politics-152909604.html
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Is compatible to both PC and Mac.OS Required: Mac OS X v10.5 or higher; Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Product Dimensions of this product includes 41.5 x 17.6 x 7.4 mm. Avoids unauthorized data access by SanDisk Secure Access software. It provides added security through safe online backup of up to 2 GB (presented by SanDisk?s online partner). It has a storage capacity of 8GB.Data Transfer Speed: Write 4.02 Mbps and Read: 18.62 Mbps. The SanDisk Cruzer Blade is available at a price of Rs 270 in Indian market. The SanDisk Cruzer Blade8GB price includes a 5 year replacement warranty.
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To cap or not to cap: Scientists find new RNA phenomenon that challenges dogma
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Some RNA molecules spend time in a restful state akin to hibernation rather than automatically carrying out their established job of delivering protein-building instructions in cells, new research suggests.
And instead of being a fluke or a mistake, the research suggests that this restful period appears to be a programmed step for RNA produced by certain types of genes, including some that control cell division and decide where proteins will work in a cell to sustain the cell's life.
This could mean that protein production in cells is not as clear-cut as biology textbooks suggest, scientists say.
"This could mean there are more variations to the proteins in our bodies than we realize; it means that RNAs can be stored and reactivated and we don't know what biological process that affects - it could influence embryonic development, or neurological activity, or even cancer," said Daniel Schoenberg, professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry at Ohio State University and lead author of the study.
Schoenberg and colleagues discovered this phenomenon by tracing the origins of a cap-like structure on messenger RNA (mRNA) that is known to coordinate most of this RNA molecule's short life. Messenger RNA is manufactured in a cell's nucleus and each mRNA contains the instructions needed to produce a specific protein that a cell needs to live.
Until now, scientists have believed that once an mRNA is no longer needed to make protein, the cap comes off and the molecule is degraded, its job complete. But Schoenberg's lab discovered in 2009 that some mRNAs that were thought to be degraded were instead still present in the cell, but they were missing part of their sequence and had caps placed back on the newly formed ends. Because these mRNAs were in the cytoplasm, the changes had to happen there rather than inside the nucleus.
In this new study, the researchers were looking for further evidence of these apparent rogue mRNAs, but instead they found that a completely unexpected biological process occurs before some proteins are even a glimmer in a gene's eye: The uncapping and recapping of mRNAs outside the nucleus results from a cap recycling operation in the cell cytoplasm. This process appeared to enable certain RNAs to pause, without being degraded, before launching protein production.
"What this discovery tells us is a complete fundamental reworking of the relationship between a gene, messenger RNA and a protein. It's more complicated than we realize," Schoenberg said.
The research is published online in the open-access journal Cell Reports.
That fragments of mRNA could exist at all in the cell's main body was first reported by other scientists in 1992. Years later, Schoenberg asked a postdoctoral researcher in his lab to revisit these unexpected RNA fragments and confirm they exist. The postdoc's experiments showed that these mRNA, thought to be the dregs left over from their degradation, had caps on them - suggesting they still had the potential to function in protein production. Schoenberg, also director of Ohio State's Center for RNA Biology, has been investigating this cytoplasmic capping operation ever since.
In 2009, he and colleagues reported the discovery of two enzymes in the cell's main body that would enable mRNA capping to occur completely outside the nucleus and in the cytoplasm instead.
In the current studies, Schoenberg sought to determine the physiological significance of this capping operation. The researchers engineered a way to block cytoplasmic capping in cells in the lab and then looked at changes in more than 55,000 RNAs.
This interference with cytoplasmic capping revealed that two different types of pathways could exist in the cells - some mRNAs remained stable without their caps, while others without caps were rapidly destroyed. This finding indicated that mRNAs can lose their caps in the cytoplasm and at some point get recapped. With further experimentation, the researchers determined that only some mRNAs lost their caps in the cell body.
"It's not all of any particular message that's uncapped, just a portion of a message," Schoenberg said. "We wanted to show that we have uncapped RNAs in the cell and they are not degraded. It means they're stored that way."
This finding offered hints that there is a higher order to this phenomenon, and that some mRNAs purposefully rest in an uncapped state without being degraded by enzymes within the cell whose job is to remove them. It also suggested that as the capping circumstances change inside the cell body, signals from genes might undergo change that allows for two or more proteins, one being shorter than the other, to be made from the same mRNA.
"We have always thought that one gene would give an mRNA for one kind of protein. But what we have found makes us wonder if multiple proteins could be made from each of the messenger RNAs that undergo decapping and recapping in the cytoplasm," Schoenberg said.
The researchers used bioinformatics technology to determine which genes were manufacturing mRNAs that could exist in this uncapped and recapped state in the cytoplasm. These genes included those that control some of the most basic elements of cell survival: They determine the location of proteins and RNAs within the cell and, perhaps most significantly, the mitotic cell cycle - part of the process of cell division.
"It wasn't random. It was very specific," Schoenberg said. "There are specific families of mRNAs that are regulated in this way, and that has ramifications for how proteins are expressed and regulated."
As an example, he cited how neurons communicate messages across vast distances to other nerve cells. It is known that mRNAs are deliberately kept in a silent state while they travel from, for example, the spinal cord to the fingertip, where they are then activated to make new proteins.
"What would the condition be of the mRNA to keep it silent? The possibility is it doesn't have a cap on it, and if it doesn't, it can't be translated. Maybe cytoplasmic capping in neurons is a function that allows that message to be translated at just the right time," Schoenberg said.
Or, in the case of cancer: "What if one of the things that happens is you are making shortened proteins instead of full-length proteins and the regulatory part of the protein is missing in the shortened protein? If that's true, can you interfere with this process and interfere with malignancy as a result?"
For now, these scientists can only speculate about what this unexpected biological process really means. Schoenberg's lab plans to investigate the phenomenon more thoroughly in a line of breast cancer cells.
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This work is supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Co-authors include Chandrama Mukherjee, Deepak Patil, Brian Kennedy and Baskar Bakthavachalu of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry; and Ralf Bundschuh of the departments of Physics and Biochemistry, all at Ohio State. All also are members of the Center for RNA Biology.
Contact: Daniel Schoenberg, (614) 688-3012; Schoenberg.3@osu.edu
Written by Emily Caldwell, (614) 292-8310; Caldwell.151@osu.edu
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Public release date: 27-Aug-2012[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Daniel Schoenberg
Schoenberg.3@osu.edu
614-688-3012
Ohio State University
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Some RNA molecules spend time in a restful state akin to hibernation rather than automatically carrying out their established job of delivering protein-building instructions in cells, new research suggests.
And instead of being a fluke or a mistake, the research suggests that this restful period appears to be a programmed step for RNA produced by certain types of genes, including some that control cell division and decide where proteins will work in a cell to sustain the cell's life.
This could mean that protein production in cells is not as clear-cut as biology textbooks suggest, scientists say.
"This could mean there are more variations to the proteins in our bodies than we realize; it means that RNAs can be stored and reactivated and we don't know what biological process that affects - it could influence embryonic development, or neurological activity, or even cancer," said Daniel Schoenberg, professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry at Ohio State University and lead author of the study.
Schoenberg and colleagues discovered this phenomenon by tracing the origins of a cap-like structure on messenger RNA (mRNA) that is known to coordinate most of this RNA molecule's short life. Messenger RNA is manufactured in a cell's nucleus and each mRNA contains the instructions needed to produce a specific protein that a cell needs to live.
Until now, scientists have believed that once an mRNA is no longer needed to make protein, the cap comes off and the molecule is degraded, its job complete. But Schoenberg's lab discovered in 2009 that some mRNAs that were thought to be degraded were instead still present in the cell, but they were missing part of their sequence and had caps placed back on the newly formed ends. Because these mRNAs were in the cytoplasm, the changes had to happen there rather than inside the nucleus.
In this new study, the researchers were looking for further evidence of these apparent rogue mRNAs, but instead they found that a completely unexpected biological process occurs before some proteins are even a glimmer in a gene's eye: The uncapping and recapping of mRNAs outside the nucleus results from a cap recycling operation in the cell cytoplasm. This process appeared to enable certain RNAs to pause, without being degraded, before launching protein production.
"What this discovery tells us is a complete fundamental reworking of the relationship between a gene, messenger RNA and a protein. It's more complicated than we realize," Schoenberg said.
The research is published online in the open-access journal Cell Reports.
That fragments of mRNA could exist at all in the cell's main body was first reported by other scientists in 1992. Years later, Schoenberg asked a postdoctoral researcher in his lab to revisit these unexpected RNA fragments and confirm they exist. The postdoc's experiments showed that these mRNA, thought to be the dregs left over from their degradation, had caps on them - suggesting they still had the potential to function in protein production. Schoenberg, also director of Ohio State's Center for RNA Biology, has been investigating this cytoplasmic capping operation ever since.
In 2009, he and colleagues reported the discovery of two enzymes in the cell's main body that would enable mRNA capping to occur completely outside the nucleus and in the cytoplasm instead.
In the current studies, Schoenberg sought to determine the physiological significance of this capping operation. The researchers engineered a way to block cytoplasmic capping in cells in the lab and then looked at changes in more than 55,000 RNAs.
This interference with cytoplasmic capping revealed that two different types of pathways could exist in the cells - some mRNAs remained stable without their caps, while others without caps were rapidly destroyed. This finding indicated that mRNAs can lose their caps in the cytoplasm and at some point get recapped. With further experimentation, the researchers determined that only some mRNAs lost their caps in the cell body.
"It's not all of any particular message that's uncapped, just a portion of a message," Schoenberg said. "We wanted to show that we have uncapped RNAs in the cell and they are not degraded. It means they're stored that way."
This finding offered hints that there is a higher order to this phenomenon, and that some mRNAs purposefully rest in an uncapped state without being degraded by enzymes within the cell whose job is to remove them. It also suggested that as the capping circumstances change inside the cell body, signals from genes might undergo change that allows for two or more proteins, one being shorter than the other, to be made from the same mRNA.
"We have always thought that one gene would give an mRNA for one kind of protein. But what we have found makes us wonder if multiple proteins could be made from each of the messenger RNAs that undergo decapping and recapping in the cytoplasm," Schoenberg said.
The researchers used bioinformatics technology to determine which genes were manufacturing mRNAs that could exist in this uncapped and recapped state in the cytoplasm. These genes included those that control some of the most basic elements of cell survival: They determine the location of proteins and RNAs within the cell and, perhaps most significantly, the mitotic cell cycle - part of the process of cell division.
"It wasn't random. It was very specific," Schoenberg said. "There are specific families of mRNAs that are regulated in this way, and that has ramifications for how proteins are expressed and regulated."
As an example, he cited how neurons communicate messages across vast distances to other nerve cells. It is known that mRNAs are deliberately kept in a silent state while they travel from, for example, the spinal cord to the fingertip, where they are then activated to make new proteins.
"What would the condition be of the mRNA to keep it silent? The possibility is it doesn't have a cap on it, and if it doesn't, it can't be translated. Maybe cytoplasmic capping in neurons is a function that allows that message to be translated at just the right time," Schoenberg said.
Or, in the case of cancer: "What if one of the things that happens is you are making shortened proteins instead of full-length proteins and the regulatory part of the protein is missing in the shortened protein? If that's true, can you interfere with this process and interfere with malignancy as a result?"
For now, these scientists can only speculate about what this unexpected biological process really means. Schoenberg's lab plans to investigate the phenomenon more thoroughly in a line of breast cancer cells.
###
This work is supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Co-authors include Chandrama Mukherjee, Deepak Patil, Brian Kennedy and Baskar Bakthavachalu of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry; and Ralf Bundschuh of the departments of Physics and Biochemistry, all at Ohio State. All also are members of the Center for RNA Biology.
Contact: Daniel Schoenberg, (614) 688-3012; Schoenberg.3@osu.edu
Written by Emily Caldwell, (614) 292-8310; Caldwell.151@osu.edu
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Mortgage rates in Wyoming fluctuate from bank to bank as well as across different parts of the country. Some lenders will offer you a basic prime rate, while other lenders may use incentives and introductory period rates to entice you to pick their mortgage. In order to make sure you are getting the best deal on your Wisconsin mortgage, be sure to research all the complete terms of the loans you are being offered, starting with the rates.
For adjustable rate refinance mortgages you will typically be offered a lower interest rate for a period of time (one to ten years), and after this initial period the rate on your mortgage will adjust for the remainder of the mortgage, up to 30 years or more. This can be fine if you do not plan on staying in your home past the introductory period or if you plan to refinance your mortgage before or shortly after the fixed rate period. However, adjustable rates can be tough if you plan on keeping your home for a long time.
In the face of the lending underwriting guidelines getting stricter, the real estate market does not seem to be cooperating. As the number of foreclosures and bank owned properties goes up, real estate equity goes down due to the declining real estate markets. As the equity shrinks on real estate, the credit denials increase. The reason for this is of course, lower equity increases the risk of the lender.
What if you want to transfer? Just because you took out a VA loan mortgage rate loan doesn't mean you have to live there forever. If you decide to transfer, you offer your house for presume with the new owner taking on your obligations provided the government approves the deal. For an easier process, offer your house to another veteran or soldier just so your ability to apply for another VA loan mortgage rate will not be compromised.
The VA Home Loan assurance agenda was created to give reasonable VA home loan finance rates to veterans and active military personnel in order for them to keep their house or buy a new one. Don't hesitate to check into the mortgage rates in Wyoming.
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Improving Your Home One Tip At A Time! ? Tim Burgess
There are so many projects that can be done around the house if you just have the right information to know how to do them. This article offers guidance on how to successfully complete a wide array of home improvements. Take the time to absorb this knowledge and use it to get the best effect.
Hire a professional when there is major work to be done. There is a reason people have titles like carpenter, architect or interior designer. Major home repairs are better handled by these professionals. While you may want to try to do it yourself, giving the job to professionals will ensure it is done properly the first time.
If you?re doing some home improvement, look into plumbing and rewiring issues first. These projects often require you to work with wires or pipes inside your walls; finish these repairs before you tackle any other jobs. It?s usually easier to have maintenance done on any wiring or plumbing when the insides of the walls are already exposed.
Identify low points on your property, particularly around your foundation. Fill up these areas with a hard soil in order to avoid pooled water. Water at the foundation of your home can seep in your home and rot any wood.
Tired of looking at that old dresser in the bedroom? Why not bring your old furniture back to life by sanding them down and refinishing them. You can get a new to you furniture that looks nice and save yourself a ton of money. Old items of furniture can be stained or painted in all sorts of colors.
One way to make your home feel cleaner is to clean your carpets regularly. High traffic areas of your carpet need special attention to remain clean. You will feel as though you are living in a cleaner home.
Keep your carpets clean, it will do a lot for the appearance of your home. You may want to deep clean carpets once or twice a year. This helps keep your house clean and looking new and fresh.
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Are you tired of looking at that same old piece of furniture? You can rejuvenate old furniture by simply sanding and refinishing it. This method can save you lots of money, rather than getting new stuff. There are a variety of colors that you can choose from when you are staining your furniture.
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Re-caulking windows is a project that can prevent you from having high utility bills and damage costs. This can prevent moisture and drafty winds from sneaking into your home, with the added benefit of lowering your heating costs and preventing the growth of mold. Use a chisel to removed old, cracked caulking and apply fresh caulk.
Use the information in this article to help you accomplish the numerous potential projects around your home. Even small home projects will give your home a whole new look and make you appreciate the accomplishment of taking care of it on your own. Use the information in this article to help you with your project and then enjoy the results!
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Ron Paul's aura leaves GOP, Romney in tricky spot
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? Mitt Romney loyalists, seeking a show of strength and solidarity at next week's GOP convention, struggled Friday to placate restless Ron Paul supporters while also weakening the powers of such insurgent candidates in future Republican primaries.
Pre-convention haggling annoyed devoted backers of Paul, the 77-year-old Texas congressman who was among Romney's primary challengers. One Republican National Convention panel voted to replace 10 delegates from Maine who are supportive of Paul, deciding that they came to Tampa through a flawed state selection process. A second pro-Romney committee moved to adopt a rule narrowing the routes for delegates to national conventions in 2016 and beyond.
"It sends the message that when the establishment doesn't get the outcome they want they will use the process to change it," said Mike Rothfeld of Virginia, who tried in vain to block the ouster of Maine's delegates partial to Paul. "It will not be good for the party. It will not be good for Mitt Romney."
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, comfortably has more delegates than needed to win the nomination. His bid to unseat Democratic President Barack Obama is on course to be tight in November, leaving little room for error.
The skirmishes with Paul supporters highlight lingering tensions between wings of the party ahead of a convention geared around unity. In a peace offering, Romney's campaign announced plans to air a video tribute to the libertarian-leaning Paul during the convention.
Paul didn't win a single presidential primary, yet he was able to amass 177 delegates, according to the Associate Press tally. That's due to an intense effort, particularly in caucus states, to swarm state conventions that took place after the primary elections. His followers won a majority of delegate slots in Iowa, Maine, Minnesota and Nevada.
But the Maine delegation underwent a makeover on the convention's eve. After several hours of discussion, the credentials committee voted overwhelmingly to substitute 10 Paul delegates with 10 aligned with Romney.
William McGinley, a lawyer pressing the case for the delegate swap, said the Maine convention was invalid because it was riddled with problems. Some party officials complained of lax floor security and dubious identification of participants.
McGinley said Paul's supporters "shouldn't be able to benefit from this chaos."
Paul's allies said it was Romney's team that threw up obstacles back in May.
Committee members who backed the substitutions said it was a stand against unruly conventions even if it cost some people access to a convention they spent thousands of dollars to attend.
"This body has to send a message back for future conventions," said Bob Brunjes of Washington state.
The move had immediate repercussions. Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a delegate himself, said he would skip the convention because of the discord. Another remaining delegate, former state lawmaker Stavros Mendros, predicted it would hamper the GOP's bid to snatch an electoral vote in Maine given its process of awarding those based on geographic vote totals.
"It's going to be a disaster back home," Mendros said. "People are going to be out for blood."
In an adjoining ballroom, allies of Romney worked to make it harder for insurgent presidential candidates such as Paul to have a big voice in future nominating conventions. GOP rule-makers voted to tie the selection of convention delegates to the results of each state's Republican primary. Supporters of the rule change said primary voters expect national convention delegates to be loyal to the primary winner.
The proposed change is subject to a later vote on a large rules package.
The flare-ups put a damper on the Romney team's other efforts recently team to make Paul followers feel included in key decisions.
For instance, the platform committee Tuesday adopted a draft document that includes several planks backed by Paul delegates, including proposals to audit the Federal Reserve and seek a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
Advisers to Paul said he was not looking to cause a scene in Tampa.
Paul was not expected to address the convention though he had plans to headline a rally Sunday at a Tampa college football stadium. Paul's son, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, scored a prime-time convention speaking slot next week. Rand Paul is seen as an heir to his father's political machine.
Despite his sharp disagreements with Paul on foreign policy and other issues, Romney never engaged in the often sharp back-and-forth during the nominating campaign that he did with former rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
Senior Romney aide Russ Schriefer, who has overseen the convention plans, said the film that will air Tuesday night is a nod to Romney's respect for Paul.
"Governor Romney and Congressman Paul, while they certainly disagree on many issues, they always have had, if you've watched part of the debate this year, a lot of mutual respect between the two of them," Romney adviser Russ Schriefer told reporters Friday.
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Associated Press writers Glenn Adams in Augusta, Maine, Stephen Ohlemacher in Washington and Charles Babington and Thomas Beaumont in Tampa contributed.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ron-pauls-aura-leaves-gop-romney-tricky-spot-185702963.html
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