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* Romo sets franchise record in pass TDs
* Eagles lose eighth straight (Adds quotes, details)
Dec 2 (Reuters) - Tony Romo threw three touchdown passes to surpass Troy Aikman's franchise record as the Dallas Cowboys beat the crumbling Philadelphia Eagles 38-33 on Sunday to keep their playoff hopes intact.
Romo tossed all three of his touchdown passes in the final two quarters, where both teams traded scores, finding Dez Bryant on a six-yard score with 5:35 remaining to give the Cowboys a 31-27 lead and their first advantage of the game.
It was Romo's 168th career touchdown pass, putting him three ahead of Aikman.
"To be mentioned in the same breath as those guys is something I'll look back on one day," Romo told reporters after the Cowboys (6-6) moved one game out of a post season spot.
"At this point, it's hard to think that way when we're in the middle of a playoff race (and) we desperately had to have this game."
The result was all but sealed when Philadelphia running back Bryce Brown then fumbled and Dallas' Morris Claiborne returned it 50 yards to make it 38-27.
The Eagles (3-9) made it a nervy finish after Damaris Johnson's 98-yard punt return touchdown in the final minute, but their onside kickoff attempt failed and they dropped their eighth consecutive game.
That is their longest losing streak since an 11 game slide in 1968 and came despite an early 14-3 lead and strong performances from rookie QB Nick Foles and Brown.
Brown ended the night with 169 yards rushing and two scores in place of starter LeSean McCoy (concussion), but he made his third fumble in two games.
Foles made his third consecutive start for the concussed Michael Vick and he threw for 251 yards, one score and no interceptions. Still, he was unable to snap the slide in what has been a most tumultuous season for Philadelphia.
"It was a tough loss," Foles said. "I'm proud of our team with the way they fought. We have to keep working and stick together."
The roller coaster season for Dallas continued as they climbed out of their deficit and caught fire in the second half behind Romo, who finished with 303 yards passing.
The Cowboys also got a boost from DeMarco Murray, who returned from a foot injury that had sidelined him for six consecutive games and finished with 83 yards rushing and a score.
"I knew I had to come out here, run hard and give us a spark," Murray said. "I feel great. In order to win in this league you have to run the ball, you can't be one-dimensional." (Writing by Jahmal Corner in Los Angeles. Editing by Patrick Johnston)


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It's been nearly three weeks since Jonathan Brown called time on his AFL career but Brisbane's Dan Merrett says it still feels strange to take to the field without his long-time teammate.
Merrett has become the Lions' main forward following Brown's retirement, leading the club's youngsters in the two games since the `Lion King' called it quits.
The 29-year-old says the team is still coming to terms with life without Brown.
"With Browny going, he's such a big personality and such an integral part of the team, not having him out there is quite strange," Merrett told AAP.
"There is a bit of a hole out there.
"You're never going to really replace Browny because he's such a one of a kind player and a legend of the game. It's about everyone in that little group picking up a bit more slack and working together as a team."
Merrett says he's happy to take on the leadership role within the club's forwards, especially when it comes to showing them how it's done on the field.
"Obviously you end up getting the number one defender so that makes it a bit harder," he said.
"Being a senior player it's only natural to take more of that leadership role and with a young forward like Michael Close, helping him out as well.
"We've got a pretty young forward line with all our smalls as well. A lot of my job is organising and setting up but then also giving a contest and having a target up there for the boys to kick to."
The Lions host West Coast on Saturday as they aim to bounce back from last weekend's disappointing loss to Richmond.
Coach Justin Leppitsch has made one change to the team which lost to the Tigers with Mitch Golby coming into the team for his 50th AFL appearance.
Golby is coming in for suspended midfielder Tom Rockliff, whose absence means with injured trio Matthew Leuenberger, Daniel Rich and Jack Redden still sidelined the Lions face the Eagles without four of their regular starting midfielders.
The Eagles have made five changes to the team which lost to Sydney last weekend.
Josh Kennedy is suspended but Nic Naitanui was among the group which flew to Brisbane on Thursday.
"They've obviously got a bit more star power than us but we love playing at home and they've got to travel from Perth as well, if the effort's there we'll be in the contest," Merrett said.
"It's just a matter of making the most of our opportunities which we were probably lacking a bit against Richmond."
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Many biochemists are working on alternatives to corn-derived fuel ethanol.
That line in "America the Beautiful" about amber waves of grain was written as a testamony to our country's abundance and ready opportunity to feed the hungry masses. But increasingly, America's grains are feeding masses of hungry cars, not people. Nearly all gas in the U.S. contains 10 percent fuel ethanol, a product currently made by using yeast to ferment sugar derived from cornstarch. America produced about 13.2 billion gallons of fuel ethanol last year, making this the most common biofuel— fuel metabolically derived from living organisms as opposed to fossil fuels produced over hundreds of millions of years from long-dead organisms— in this country.But while the corn lobby probably would be thrilled to
keep ethanol made from their grain in the top spot, biofuel
researchers have other ideas. They're working toward new
advances aimed at moving away from corn-derived fuel
ethanol, such as engineering bigger and better grasses to pull
more fuel from their vegetative tissues rather than their seeds
and genetically modifying plants to make removing the sugar
polymers that serve as a feedstock for fuels faster and easier.
Others are working on modifying plants to produce energy rich
oils preferentially instead of starch or teaching biofuel processing
bacteria new tricks, such as making longer-chain
alcohols that store more energy than ethanol, synthesizing
biofuels out of proteins instead of sugars, or digesting sugar
polymers directly and pumping out biofuels at the same time.
So instead of those amber waves of grain, America may
eventually have green waves of switchgrass or miscanthus—
or even waving cilia from fuel-making bacteria.
Although biofuel might seem like a hot topic at the moment,
it's really an old idea, explains Daniel Bush, professor and chair
of the department of biology at Colorado State University.
"It's just another way of transforming sunlight into a useful form of energy," Bush says.
Plants do much of the work for us, he explains, by creating
oils, simple sugars and sugar polymers such as starch and cellulose
as products of photosynthesis. We can then process these
products into ethanol, biodiesel
(diesel fuel made from vegetable
oil or animal fat) or other fuels.
Though biofuels often have
faded into the background during
periods with low gas prices,
Bush adds, they become more popular with every gas crisis.
Though biodiesel is more common in Europe, ethanol is
king in the U.S. Fuel ethanol certainly has its benefits: it adds
oxygen to gas, leading to a cleaner burn that produces less
pollution, and it increases octane.
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is playing a vital role in creating the next generation of biofuels. Last fall, the society co-sponsored a week-long advanced course aimed at inspiring interested graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to join the biofuels revolution. At a small resort in the lush coastal city of Ubatuba, Brazil, 40-odd international participants gathered to attend lectures and participate in intense roundtable discussions.The aim wasn't to have attendees listen to endless talks, says Bettie Sue Masters, past president of ASBMB and principle organizer of the school. "It was really interactive," she says. In the daily roundtable sessions, participants had the chance to discuss their own work or research aspirations or to solicit lecturers' career advice.Besides being a terrific chance for young researchers to learn about this burgeoning field, it also proved to be a great way to forge a strong partnership between ASBMB and colleagues in the Brazilian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. These groups are planning to cosponsor future meetings, including one in the fall of 2012 on protein folding and protein-protein interactions."It was much better than we ever thought it would be – a valuable experience for everyone involved," Masters says.
However, ethanol also has a number of drawbacks. Crops
used most often to produce it can be finicky about where
they'll grow. For example, sugarcane, another common
source for ethanol, thrives in Florida but not in Michigan,
and corn needs rich, pampered soil and not rocky, arid land.
Additionally, since the most common sources of ethanol also
are food for people, it sets up a competition over the best
land between food and fuel.
"It could lead to an unstable market," says Dominique Loque, a research scientist at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, Calif. "Only rich people will be able to drive and eat."
Consequently, many researchers have suggested gathering
energy from the vegetative tissues of plants instead of the
parts we use for food. Stems, branches, and leaves contain
cellulose, a polymer of glucose in the cell wall that holds
ample energy for conversion to biofuels. Indeed, potential
energy in cellulose is often more than 10 times that available
in starch from a given plant. Moreover, these plant organs are
frequently a throw-away byproduct of the food industry, so
conversion to biofuels could prevent waste.
However, notes Bush, switching from corn kernels to foliage
isn't so simple. Though researchers have actively worked
on improving corn and other food plants for hundreds of
years, the focus has been on the seed, not the greenery. As
a result, about half of corn's above-ground biomass is in its
ears. If the new biofuel focus is the rest of the plant, Bush
says, researchers better get cracking on making new energy
crops, such as grasses— significantly bigger.
That's one of his lab's projects. With colleagues
at Colorado State University and the
International Rice Research Institute in the
Philippines, Bush is working on identifying
genes that are responsible for making the most
of rice's green biomass. Rice is a good model for
improving other grasses' biomass, he says, since
the genomes of all 20 rice varieties have been
sequenced. Bush notes that in this work, rice is
an experimental model and not a target as a biofuel crop.
"A long time ago, many breeders learned that if you see
a very large plant, 50 percent larger than the others, to just
ignore it— they put most of their carbon into vegetative
growth and have lower seed production," he says. But those
big plants are just what he and his colleagues are looking
for. The researchers have spent many days walking through
rice fields searching for the largest plants produced either
through hybrid crosses or mutagenesis. Using modern deep sequencing
approaches, Bush and his colleagues can then
locate the gene responsible for the plants' extraordinary size.
The team is now close to identifying the first promising gene
from that approach.
Bush's lab also is working on another way to make more
greenery through bypassing the feedback system that controls
a plant's photosynthesis rate. Leaves are the hotbed for
photosynthesis, and as plants spin sunlight into sucrose,
that product is transported to non-photosynthetic tissues
in the plant's vascular system. If production exceeds export,
Bush explains, plants shut off photosynthesis until the sweet
stuff can distribute to other parts of the plant through its
vascular system. Using sugarbeet as a model system, he and
his colleagues have engineered plants whose cells have a
sucrose transport gene placed behind a constitutively active
promoter. Consequently, the leaves are constantly pumping
out sucrose— and thus, keeping low sucrose in the leaves
and preventing negative feedback on photosynthesis. Over a
season, he hypothesizes, this furious activity translates into
significantly more biomass per plant.
Another drawback researchers will need to overcome
before vegetation rules the biomass roost is that in most
plants, energy-rich cellulose is bound up with significant
amounts of lignin, the cell wall component that provides
mechanical strength. Currently, biofuel producers separate
cellulose from lignin with harsh, expensive chemicals and
high temperatures. Several researchers, including Loque, are
looking for ways to avoid these.
Loque explains that altering lignin content is tricky.
Remove too little, and deriving cellulose remains difficult;
remove too much, and the plant has no support to grow.
He and his colleagues currently are working on two
strategies to surmount the lignin problem. In the first, the
researchers are tinkering with where plants deposit lignin.
Loque notes that the entire lignin pathway is known and
highly conserved. By using promoters throughout the pathway
that produce different expression of lignin genes relative
to the native ones, the researchers have successfully reduced
lignin in undesirable areas while keeping it in necessary
places, such as the vessels plants use for nutrient transport.
"In the end, we got plants that look like wild-type, but contain much less lignin," he says.
He and his team also are working on engineering plants
that make weaker lignin through genetic modifications that
insert ester or amide bonds into the native structure, which
has only carbon-carbon or carbon-oxygen bonds. These
weak links eventually could reduce the amount of chemicals
and lessen the temperatures needed to pretreat cellulosic
Another drawback of fuel ethanol is that researchers have
calculated that, in many cases, it's actually an energy sink
rather than a source; the amount of petroleum used to plow
and fertilize a cornfield, then transport and process the corn
before fermentation, often contains more energy than the
resulting ethanol. It's also tremendous waste of the carbon
atoms plants work so hard to fix. Only two thirds of a
feedstock's carbons are used in ethanol production, explains
Katie Dehesh, a professor of plant biology at the University of
California, Davis. The other one-third ends up as food for the
fermenting yeast and in the air as carbon dioxide.
A possible solution is coaxing plants to make more oil
than starch. Indeed, many plants already produce significant
quantities of oil; it's what fills the frying vats for much-loved
fast-food fries. However, using these food crops for fuel oil
has the same competitive disadvantages as creating ethanol
from corn. Additionally, Dehesh points out, oil is only
a minor component of most plants' seeds and is even less
abundant in their vegetative parts.
She and her colleagues recently published new research
that could offer a possible solution to this problem by redirecting
carbon flux toward oils and away from carbohydrates.
The researchers used oat as their model organism, since this
grain is a rare example of a plant that produces significant
amounts of oil in its endosperm at the cost of carbohydrates.
Using two varieties of oats— one that produced much more
oil than the other— Dehesh's team compared gene activity
between the plants during seed development. Surprisingly,
the fatty acid pathway that they expected to see upregulated
in the high oil producer was actually the same between the
two plants. However, the researchers found a variety of differences
in the cofactors involved in respiratory metabolism.
These cofactors, says Dehesh, appear to be the answer for
determining carbon flux.
"I strongly believe that modification of these specific
cofactors will provide us with the global key for conversion
of starch to oil in any organism," she says. In principle, she
adds, there's no need to switch starch for oil in seeds. Rather,
genetic engineering could put the activity of these key cofactors
in a plant's vegetative tissues, or even in algae or bacteria,
changing their metabolisms to spit out more oil.
James Liao, chancellor's professor and vice-chairman of
the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering
at the University of California, Los Angeles, also is working
on moving away from ethanol by using synthetic biology to
engineer bacteria that churn out longer-chain alcohols with
significantly higher energy density.
Using E. coli as their model organism, Liao and his colleagues leaned on this organism's native amino acid biosynthesis pathways pathways to create
starter molecules for various
alcohols. They then strung
together genes from various
other organisms, including
Sacchromyces, Lactococcus
and Clostridium, for
enzymes to convert these
molecules into the desired
product. Using this method,
the researchers engineered
E. coli that produced a
variety of higher alcohols,
including isobutanol,
1-butanol, 3-methyl-1-butanol,
and 2-methyl-1-butanol,
from glucose.
Not ones to rest on their laurels, Liao's team followed this research up with another paper, published the next year, that used parts of the same pathway in photosynthetic cyanobacteria. The resulting organism produces isobutyraldehyde and isobutanol by pulling carbon directly from carbon dioxide in air.
In a recent paper, Liao's lab detailed their synthesis of E. coli that produce alcohols from protein – thus far, an unutilized feedstock – by redirecting this organism's metabolic flow of nitrogen.
"We like to keep pushing things further and further," he says.
Jay Keasling, a professor in the departments of chemical
and biomolecular engineering and bioengineering at the University
of California, Berkeley, also is harnessing the power of
synthetic biology for biofuels, both higher-chain alcohols and
biodiesel from fatty acids.
In one recent paper, Keasling and his colleagues engineered
yeast that make n-butanol, a far cry from the ethanol
this organism usually makes. Rather than rely on the amino
acid biosynthesis pathway that Liao's team used, the researchers
instead modified the acetyl-CoA pathway using genes
from five other organisms. The team mixed combinations of
individual genes, eventually producing seven different modified
strains. One of these successfully produced significant
quantities of n-butanol. This year, Keasling's former postdoctoral
fellow Michelle Chang, now an assistant professor of
chemistry at University of California, Berkeley, significantly
improved these yields with some of these same non-native
components in E. coli.
Seeking to pack even more energy into their fuel molecules,
Keasling's group engineered another set of bacteria to
generate biodiesel using a reaction similar to how biodiesel
enthusiasts make their own homebrew. First, the researchers
tricked E. coli into overproducing the fatty acids that
make up its membrane, adding in a plant gene that prevented
these hydrocarbons from becoming part of the phospholipid
bilayer. A series of non-native genes attached ethanol to the
structure, esterifying it much like a home biodiesel maker
would. The resulting fuel can be skimmed off the top of the
tank and go directly into a diesel engine, Keasling says.
Taking the research one step further, he made another tweak in these bacteria that allowed them to digest hemicellulose, using it as a feedstock for biodiesel production.
Keasling notes that it's still very early times in the biofuel field. His and other academic labs energetically continue to churn out fresh ideas and research, which fuel companies – from big giants to tiny startups – are eyeing with interest. One of these ideas, he says, might eventually end up in the engine of your car.
"We're fortunate, because there's a lot of interest right now," he says. "It's a really great time to be working in this area."
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Children eager for get-out-of-school snow days may get giddy over blizzards. But homeowners face the more sobering reality that the storms can cause expensive damage and disruptions.
In 2011, the $2 billion in insured losses from winter storms outranked every natural disaster in the U.S. except for severe thunderstorms (a category that includes tornadoes) and hurricanes, according to Munich Re, a German firm that insures insurance companies.
Your homeowners insurance generally will cover the punishment that severe storms and blizzards can inflict on a home, including roof collapses, wind damage, and water leakage resulting from pipes bursting or gutters becoming clogged with ice, says the trade group Insurance Information Institute.
But roof damage and burst pipes raise specific issues you need to know about, factors that could jeopardize a home insurance claim.
A blizzard can ravage your roof
Your roof damage or collapse may result in a much different insurance payout than your neighbor's — even if you have the same insurer.
"Each roof-damage case comes with its own set of unique factual circumstances to consider," says Loretta Worters, a vice president with the Insurance Information Institute.
Those include:
- Evidence that the roof was indeed harmed by an insured peril. If wind gusts during the blizzard pushed a tree onto your roof, take photos, Worters advises. "Insurers are concerned that people will say they had storm damage when they really didn't," she says.
- Age and condition of the roof. Your claim may be denied or you may get very little back if you didn't maintain your roof or replace it when it was old, Worters says.
- Type of roof material.
- Available maintenance records.
Be aware that insurers are on the lookout for fraudulent claims stemming from roofing contractors who go through neighborhoods after a blizzard and tell homeowners they need a new roof, Worters warns.
Those contractors sometimes intentionally damage the roof, or there may be no damage at all, she says.
"It's just a way to get the insurer to pay for a new roof," Worters says. "This has been a huge problem in Texas and North Carolina."
Check with your state insurance department or the Better Business Bureau for complaints against a particular contractor. If you suspect you're being duped, Worters recommends contacting the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
Your pipes need protecting
Frozen pipes that burst and leak water are one of the most common problems of blizzards and winter storms, says Bob Blume, a State Farm claims team manager in Colorado.
The root cause is a lack of heat. That can be from cold air finding entry into your house through openings from the outside. Or, it can happen when the furnace malfunctions or stops working during a power outage, he says.
State Farm's policies require homeowners to take reasonable steps to try to prevent pipe freeze-ups if they will be away from home.
Why do insurers care so much about your pipes? Because water can cause even more extensive damage than fire, says Blume.
State Farm tells its home insurance policyholders to maintain heat in the house or shut off the water supply if they go away during winter storm season. If you do shut off the water, be sure to drain the lines because the remaining water still can freeze, Blume says.
"If they don't take reasonable steps (and damage occurs), it becomes an exclusion," he says. Meaning, your insurance won't cover the damage.
"If you left and intentionally turned off the furnace but didn't turn off the water, that (resulting damage) would probably not be covered," Blume says.
If you're going away for a while, keep the heat on, but turn it down. Blume says a chilly 50 to 55 degrees in the house is warm enough to keep pipes from freezing.
Leave doors open on kitchen and bathroom cabinets where the plumbing enters through the wall. That allows heat to circulate, he advises.
Have someone keep an eye on the place
For good measure, have a neighbor or relative check your house when you're gone, particularly during blizzards, advises emergency management expert John Lindsay, a member of the American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council. Lindsay says he has someone visit his home every two days when he's away.
State Farm also recommends that you have someone check on your home but doesn't require that for homeowners insurance, Blume says.


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That was the mostly upbeat message delivered by several members of the American Institute of Architect's (AIA) Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT).
SDAT members are nationally accredited professionals in numerous areas of expertise, including urban design, planning, landscape architecture, renewable energy, and traffic and transportation. They were invited in by local stakeholders to offer their expertise on how best to make beach communities greener, cleaner and more economically lean.
But the news the SDAT team delivered wasn't sugar coated: There are some problems to be overcome in making oceanfront neighborhoods more sustainable.
One obstacle to be surmounted is that beachfront communities need to become more economically diverse.
"You have 30,000 employed people living in this area and 27,000 of them work elsewhere," said SDAT team member Tom Liebel, whose expertise is in integrating sustainable design principles into adaptive-use and historic-preservation projects. "That's 73,000 car trips a day by people who don't work where they live."
Liebel said if beach communities ultimately want to become more economically viable and environmentally sustainable, they'll need to "think about how to create development where you don't need to own a car."
Liebel added that adapting the urban environment to make it more sustainable will require "changing behavior."
"We need to move more toward walking and biking," he said. "That's good for the environment. You need to find alternatives. That means looking at public transit."
Paula Reeves, an SDAT team member who specializes in developing transportation projects, told beach residents they "need to have a long-term vision in thinking about the future."
"Start today," Reeves said. "Think creatively and be innovative and work as a community in improving conditions for biking and walking. Engage the community. Put pedestrians first."
Reeves said much can be done with "greenways" — long, narrow pieces of land where vegetation is encouraged for public recreation — and slow travel, to improve the walkability of urban neighborhoods. She gave a slideshow presentation detailing successful greenway development in cites like Seattle, Portland and Montreal.
Another SDAT team member, Adam Beck, an expert in environmental and social planning, pointed out that creating green infrastructure — water conservation, urban forestry, community gardens, water management — is not only an effort to create "good outcomes" environmentally, but also a way of "getting more bang for the buck" in terms of decreasing energy consumption.
Reacting to conclusions drawn at the Dec. 11 meeting, La Jolla architect Tim Golba, a member of the San Diego Planning Commission, which rules on development issues and projects citywide, including the beaches, said the idea of a community devoted to greener living would find a willing home in Pacific and Mission beaches, which, he said, are "perfect locations to advance the concept of an eco-district because of the natural attractions already present in these neighborhoods as being very walkable areas with such a conducive climate that makes them destinations for both residents and visitors."
"The program was inspiring in that it sought out input for the entire community, not just planners or architects but everyone from business owners, employees, renters, property owners and of course, home owners," Golba said. The Dec. 11 presentation, he continued, "reflected many great ideas to springboard from and advance to more concrete avenues that could include updates to community plans or local zoning codes."
Pacific Beach Planning Group and Beautiful PB member Chris Olson urged residents to get involved with the project.
"Community meetings will start early next year for moving forward on these ideas and many more, so go do your homework," he said. "Research these terms: green streets, complete streets, parklets, community gardens and walking bus. Once you are up to speed (or down to a safe speed) go to www.BeautifulPB.com and contact us to get involved."
Kristen Victor, founder of Sustainability Matters and co-founder of Beautiful PB, also weighed on the eco-district concept, saying the idea could "inspire every city to remake itself from the neighborhood up fueling innovation to generate jobs, increase standard of living and protect the natural environment requiring smart planning and skillful execution resulting in economic growth."
Golba expressed his hope that the concept would catch on in a larger way.
"Hopefully, this is just the beginning of the community coming together as a more unified voice to influence the built environment to be more responsive to traffic issues, employment, affordable housing and last, but by no means least, sustainable design," he said. "While this is not an overnight update, the ideas that came from this eco-district forum can be used in small pieces and situations to make individual projects better, as well as on larger and more regional issues."
Reacting to conclusions drawn at the Town Hall meeting, Brian J. Curry, chairman of the Pacific Beach Planning Group (PBPG) said, "We are very excited about the SDAT recommendations and the PBPG and other community groups are moving ahead to implement those proposals which are short-term, while starting the forward planning for long-term goals and projects. The public will continue to have the opportunity to weigh in on the recommendations as PBPG is forming a Community Plan Update Subcommittee in January to begin the process. There will be a special public meeting in February (date TBD)."
"All of this activity is about improving the quality of life for residents, employed and visitors to Pacific Beach," Curry said. "We much appreciate the volunteer work and effort on part of the SDAT and local committee that coordinated and contributed to the Dec. 11-13 events. The result of the recommendations and community efforts moving ahead are a great positive for the beach and bay communities."


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I've been working with global XBRL implementations over the past eight years and sometimes get into discussions with experienced software developers in regards to the "buy or build" argument. Obviously this argument isn't unique to XBRL and, being a software developer myself, I totally understand developers questioning the need to use a specialised XBRL package to create "a simple XML document".
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While many architectural and planning firms have seen a drop-off in design work as a result of the recession and the slow recovery, one Baltimore-based company has remained busy by finding work in other countries.
Development Design Group has carved out a niche by designing retail centers, housing, arenas and large mixed-use communities for clients around the globe. This month, it announced that it has been hired to design China's largest shopping center, a 4 million-square-foot retail component of a project called the Tianjin City Culture Center Development.
Established in 1979 and housed inside a former National Bohemian Brewery warehouse on Brewers Hill, DDG has a staff of 87 employees who, among them, speak more than two dozen languages and dialects. Before the recession, 30 percent to 35 percent of the firm's design work was "offshore," with the bulk of its projects in the United States. Now, however, overseas work makes up 90 percent to 95 percent of the firm's total billings. And since the announcement about the China project, DDG has been getting inquiries from even more prospective international clients.
Chief Executive Officer Roy Higgs, a native of Great Britain and a naturalized American citizen, spoke recently about DDG's international practice and why American architects are in high demand overseas.
Question: Why do people from other countries hire American architects?
Answer: We are contacted by people who have projects that haven't worked very well, or have a tremendous vacancy rate or haven't sold if they're residential. … When they hire us, our projects to date have been — touch wood — unbelievably successful.
Q: How many countries are you working in right now?
A: We're working in Vietnam, India, Turkey, China, South Africa, Guatemala, Canada, Mexico and the U.S. We have a project about to start in Turkmenistan. We just finished a project in Ecuador. We finished [one] in Colombia. We have potential projects in Angola, Mozambique [and] Ukraine. And, let me see, there was one other: Saudi Arabia.
Q: Do you have employees in Baltimore who speak the languages of all those countries?
A: Currently, we have people speaking over 24 languages here. We really are the United Nations of Baltimore.
Q: What about the people who run DDG?
A: Our partnership is also international. I'm from the UK originally. I have partners from Pakistan, India, the Middle East, Colombia, Thailand and, of course, one or two from Baltimore.
Q: Do foreign developers consider it desirable to hire designers from America?
A: There is a cachet.
Q: How is the tenant mix at retail centers changing?
A: It used to be a retail center would be predictable. It would be 20 percent fashion, 10 percent shoes, 20 percent food and beverage, 20 percent entertainment or whatever. … Today, all those formulas are out the window, because more and more you are getting nontraditional uses that are coming into retail developments.
Q: What's next?
A: I think mixed use is certainly the wave of the future. It's a perfectly normal approach to development. I think people would like to live in and around exciting places that have lots of food and beverages and safe, interesting streets with nice shops. There are ways to integrate leisure, recreation, sports with retail and entertainment in a much stronger way. I think we are beginning to see that.
Q: Stylistically, how do you approach projects? Do foreign clients want an American theme or do they want something indigenous to their country?
A: We are very sensitive to the site and the location and the culture and our clients' vision. … We don't have a style per se.
Q: Do you have satellite offices in the countries where you have projects?
A: We tried it. But ... it just never worked for our [corporate] culture. … Quite frankly, in today's market and with the size of our practice and where we want to be and where we're comfortable, we're in many ways far more efficient working with [one central office].
Q: Is Baltimore a good place to be based?
A: I think so. … We have Reagan, Dulles, BWI [airports]. At a push, we've got Philadelphia. JFK isn't that far. … And our costs in Baltimore are reasonable compared to some other locales.
Q: Is there a downside to being American?
A: There are some countries where we can't work, such as North Korea and Iran. We were approached by a client from Dubai to do a huge mixed-use project in Tehran, Iran. We were about to sign a contract when somebody said: "I don't think you can do architecture [in Iran]. You aren't allowed to do that." I checked that out and was told, well, we can sell the Iranians medicine and videos and books. We can go there on vacation. But we can't sell them architectural and engineering services. I appealed that. I said it's a shopping center with apartments and a hotel, not a nuclear power station. But we were turned down.
Q: Is work in this country picking up as the economy improves?
A: I think the drought is almost over. We're down to the wire in negotiations [for a commission] in Milwaukee. A project in the Philadelphia area is starting up again. We're in Cincinnati, Ohio; Colorado; Los Angeles; Texas. The phones are ringing. So it seems to us things are starting to open up a bit.
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Arrestee DNA and Rape: One Prosecutor's Story Arrives at Supreme Court
(NEW YORK) -- When the Supreme Court hears a case challenging a Maryland DNA law this week, one former prosecutor will be remembering the dormant rape case she says was solved because of the law.
At issue before the court is the Maryland DNA Collection Act, a law that allows officials to take the DNA from those who have been arrested, but not convicted of a serious crime.
Elizabeth Ireland, the former prosecutor from Wicomico County, Maryland, knows the Supreme Court arguments will revolve around the legal standard the Justices should apply in analyzing the law. But she says she will be thinking back to 2009 when she was notified that there was a "DNA hit" on a rape case that had been unsolved for six years.
"I went to visit the victim to tell her they had finally matched the DNA retrieved after she had been raped, with a man who had recently been arrested," Ireland said in an interview.
The victim, who told Ireland she had nailed shut her windows in the years following the crime, was relieved that authorities had a name—Alonzo Jay King Jr. The victim had never seen the attacker because he had a scarf over his face and a hat pulled over his head. After he raped her she went to the hospital and underwent a sexual assault forensic exam and semen was collected. The sample was loaded into a DNA data base, but no matches were returned—until 2009.
"I remember the victim telling me in 2009, 'Thank God, I can stop wondering," Ireland said. At the time Ireland was told by a scientist that the DNA evidence was strong. "Here's how he put it: it was 3.9 quadrillion times more likely that the DNA had originated from the victim and Mr. King than from the victim and some unknown male," Ireland says.
King's lawyers moved to suppress the evidence of the DNA match, saying that the initial draw violated his constitutional rights. But the lower court later found King guilty of first-degree rape and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Last April, Ireland was stunned when the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled against a key provision of the law. "We saw a carefully crafted collection statute," she said, "that closely matches similar laws in 27 other states."
But opponents of the law say it allows officials to run roughshod over the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable search and seizure.
Michael Risher, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, points out that before King was ever linked to the 2003 rape he was in jail for assault. The prosecutors could have waited for a conviction in the assault case, which carries a penalty of up to ten years, before taking his DNA.
"What we want in our DNA databases is DNA from people who have actually been involved in criminal conduct," says Risher, "and the way we do that is to take it from those people who have been convicted. What arrestee testing does is to take DNA from people—many who haven't done anything wrong."
"It's a violation of privacy, a huge waste of resources and it doesn't do anything to make us any safer," he says.
Steven D. Benjamin, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), also opposes the law.
"This case is an excellent example of the need to balance competing interests," he says. "The nature of law enforcement is that they seek every tool possible to more effectively solve and prevent crime. It's the responsibility of the courts to draw a constitutional line to ensure that our most fundamental rights as American people are protected."
Benjamin says, "The Fourth Amendment requires both probable cause to believe that a search will yield evidence of a crime and a warrant. The collection of DNA from someone who has merely been arrested violates the Fourth Amendment because there is no reason to believe that the DNA they collect is evidence of a crime."
In court briefs, lawyers for the NACDL told the Supreme Court that those who have been arrested for a crime have broader rights than those who have been convicted. They say that Maryland is attempting to "shoehorn" a DNA search of an arrestee into the "exceptionally limited categories of warrantless, suspicionless searches" that the court has approved.
Ireland, who now works for a rape crisis center, has heard these arguments before. She is focused on the victim in her case. "I am experiencing the victim's anguish in my case. There are literally thousands of other victims that might be in her shoes depending on the outcome of this case," she said.
Lawyers for the Department of Justice have filed a brief supporting the law. The government argues that the DNA collection advances an important government interest that outweighs an arrestee's privacy rights.
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Libya's government has sent troops to the western part of the country to put an end to six days of clashes between militias from the town of Zintan, which played a big role in ousting Moammar Gaddafi, against anti-rebellion forces.
REUTERS - Libya's government has sent troops to put an end to six days of clashes between rival militias in the west of the country, the latest spasm of instability eight months after Muammar Gaddafi's overthrow.
As it seeks to impose its authority on a fractious country, Libya's new leadership on Saturday called for an immediate ceasefire in the fighting south of the capital, in which at least 14 people have been killed and 89 injured.
The clashes have pitted fighters from the town of Zintan, who played a big role in ousting Gaddafi in last year's war, against members of the El-Mashashia tribe, who chose not to join the rebellion, security officials said.
Resentment between the two groups spilled over into fighting in December, when at least four people were killed, and erupted again this week when a Zintan fighter was shot dead.
Zintan's militias blamed the El-Mashashia tribe and retaliated, leading to the current flare-up, which started on Monday, several members of the tribe said.
"The army is going there now to impose a ceasefire and protect civilians," the army's Colonel Hamed Zwei told Reuters.
A security source said heavy fighting continued on Saturday, resulting in many casualties.
"The injured are being taken to hospitals in the area as well as Tripoli, there are so many," he said.
Haramain Mohammed Haramain, one of Libya's three deputy prime ministers, read out a statement to reporters saying the interim government, ruling National Transitional Council and religious leaders were all calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Declaring the area a military zone, he said the government had issued instructions to the chief of armed staff and interior ministry to use force if the ceasefire was not respected.
Gaddafi's repressive rule kept in check the deep-running animosities in Libyan society, which often pit villages, cities or tribes against their neighbours. When he was forced from power last year, old feuds re-surfaced.
The flare-ups of violence, mostly in the southern Sahara and mountainous west, show how little authority the interim government has over a myriad armed groups.
Libya's NTC and its Western backers hope the violence will not jeopardise a July 7 election for a national assembly.


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Agricultural producerson the west side of California's San Joaquin Valley (WSJV) used to drain irrigation wastewater into Kesterson Reservoir, a series of holding ponds that were part of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge. But selenium levels in the water became hazardous to waterfowl, so the storage facility was closed in 1987. Since then, farmers have been keeping the wastewater—which also contains salt and traces of arsenic, boron, and molybdenum—in evaporation ponds on their own land, which takes around 10 percent of the crop land out of production.
Agricultural Research Service soil scientist Dennis Corwin and his colleagues had another idea. They thought it might be possible to use the spent wastewater for irrigating salt-tolerant forage grown on marginally productive saline and sodic soils. Sodic soils contain large quantities of sodium, which is one of the minerals found in salt compounds. Saline soils are contaminated with salt compounds at levels that significantly limit plant growth.
If this approach worked, farmers would have a viable alternative to simply storing the spent wastewater until it evaporated, and they would be able to reclaim degraded soils and produce livestock forage in the bargain. Irrigating with wastewater could also help stretch water supplies in a region already struggling with limitations imposed by intermittent droughts.
Corwin and his partners conducted their investigation on a private 80-acre field in the WSJV. To the scientists, it was a worst-case example of the type of damage they hoped to reverse—the crusted saline-sodic soils at the site drained so poorly that irrigation was a waste of time and money.
"One end of the field had so much salt on the surface that it looked like it was covered in snow," says Corwin, who works at the ARS Water Reuse and Remediation Research Unit, part of the U.S. Salinity Laboratory in Riverside, California.
The first step was to install tile drains for channeling subsurface leachate off the field, which would be an essential part of the reclamation process. Then, geophysical mapping techniques developed at the U.S. Salinity Laboratory were used to generate a three-dimensional map of salinity and trace elements. After using this map to identify soil-sampling sites, the team collected samples at 1-foot depth increments five times—1999, 2002, 2004, 2009, and 2012—over the 12-year study period.
During the first 2 years of the study, a stand of salt-tolerant Bermuda grass was established at the site and irrigated with the spent wastewater. "We had cattle grazing at the site within 2 years of starting up," Corwin says. "The farmer was so pleased with the results that he used the same approach on other marginally productive fields that had damaging saline-sodic levels."
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The striking results weren't just on the surface. The researchers determined that the irrigation wastewater was leaching salts and trace elements below the root zone, which resulted in a significant and rapid improvement in soil quality. They observed an overall decrease in levels of salts, boron, and molybdenum through the root zone. They also noted an overall decrease in the soil's sodium absorption ratio (SAR), which is determined by comparing levels of sodium, magnesium, and calcium.
From 1999 to 2004, salinity decreased 21 percent, SAR decreased 19 percent, boron decreased 32 percent, and molybdenum decreased 67 percent in the top 4 feet of the soil profile. After 2004, each continued to decrease and gradually leveled off by 2009.
In the final 2 years of the study, drought had reduced water supplies so completely that all sources of drainage water had been used. Even backup degraded water, such as municipal wastewater, was no longer available for irrigation. As a result, irrigation stopped at the site, and rain became the only source of water that the field received.
During this time, salts, SAR, soil acidity, and levels of boron, molybdenum, and selenium increased throughout the soil profile. Salinity and SAR almost reached their 1999 levels, while soil acidity and selenium levels exceeded them. In just under 2 years after irrigation stopped, the soil had nearly returned to its original poor quality.
"I thought reclaimed soils in the WSJV might revert in 5 years, so I was amazed at how quickly it happened," Corwin says. "The shallow water table was unquestionably the reason for the quick reversion. Maybe some disking for weed control would have slowed the reversion, because when the weeds drew water up from the lower portion of the soil profile, they helped to bring back boron, salt, and molybdenum that had been leached just below the alfalfa's root zone."
At the end of the study, Corwin and his colleagues concluded that recycling drainage water for salt-tolerant forage crops could potentially free up as much as 84,000 acres of land currently used for evaporation ponds. The approach not only reduced drainage volumes, but also reclaimed marginally productive soil and used an alternative water source, which reduced demand on limited quantities of good quality water. However, Corwin noted that soils irrigated with drainage water would need periodic monitoring, particularly if they are left fallow for any length of time, to make sure that salts and trace elements did not begin to reaccumulate to potentially problematic levels.
"The first part of the study showed how quickly soils above a water table 5 to 6 feet deep can be brought back to productivity," he says. "The long-term study showed how the soil response levels off as irrigation continues—and how quickly soil can revert to its former condition once irrigation stops."
Corwin published his results in 2012 in the Journal of Environmental Monitoring.—By Ann Perry, Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
This research is part of Water Availability and Watershed Management (#211) and Climate Change, Soils, and Emissions (#212), two ARS national programs described at www.nps.ars.usda.gov.
Dennis Corwin is with the USDA-ARS Water Reuse and Remediation Research Unit, 450 W. Big Springs Rd., Riverside, CA 92507; (951) 369-4819.
"Irrigation Wastewater: Waste Not, Want Not" was published in the April 2013 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.


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I tried their lunch buffet a couple of times and had dinner once. The food is exceptionally good. The lunch buffet has a good mix of South and North Indian cuisine. I tried their Dosas, Idlies, Vadas along with Naans, Chole and Saag Paneer. Everything is rich in taste and really cooked well.The dinner wasn't expensive as I expected. The biryanis and the curries were cooked to perfection and the quantity is a lot more than in other restaurants. Try it...you won't regret it.
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The best Indian food in the Twin Cities (and there are many good places to choose from, thank you very much). Many dishes you simply won't find anywhere else. Surabhi is often packed with Indian families, which of course a good sign. Hardly a hip location, located right off of 35W in what looks to be a former Perkins, but that's part of its charm.
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Oct. 9: last day for voter registration
Oct. 15 – 19: mail-in ballots will be sent out
Oct. 22: early voting begins
Nov. 6: election day
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Source: Brad Turner of the Boulder County Clerk & Recorder's Office
E ven when University of Colorado alumnus Seamus James was in college, he did not fit the profile of an apathetic voter.
James, 30, said he has been voting since he turned 18 and is always finding ways to improve the young adult turnout with voting.
This year, James said he is hoping his new website will help voters overcome transportation challenges by sending more people to the polls.
The web developer launched a ride-share site for elections, voterides.com, two weeks ago in an attempt to connect car-less voters with commuters who are willing to help carpool them to the polls during election season.
"There are some people who are trying to make it harder for voters to get to the polls," James said. "This is my attempt to throw a wrench in the system and improve voter turnout."
The site is modeled after Craigslist, giving anyone in the country an opportunity to post carpool information. There's no sign-up or account required, he said.
Visitors type in a zip code, choose a radius, date and timeframe and the site produces commuters in the area who match the information.
James said the site has already seen almost 100 posts since its launch on Sept. 19.
Longmont resident Nea Sullivan posted offers last week to drive voters to and from polls in the Longmont and Boulder areas on Election Day, Nov. 6.
Sullivan said she feels very strongly about the right to vote and wants to do anything she can to promote voting.
"I'm a nurse, and I've seen so many people, especially the elderly or disabled people who can't get out on their own and vote because they don't have a ride," Sullivan said. "Many of those people don't have the resources or knowledge to ask for mail-in ballots either, so it's just something I could do to help them."
Besides a few tweaks and maintenance to the site, James said it's basically self-sufficient allowing postings to continue for future presidential or smaller local elections.
While his main goal is to increase voting, regardless of political affiliation, James said he believes the program is more likely to help President Barack Obama and democrats in future elections.
James said he thinks the site will affect mostly young people, minorities and lower to middle class people, who, he predicts, are more likely to vote democratic.
CU students living on campus will have convenient polling locations on the Boulder campus on Nov. 6, including Libby Hall and Darley Commons, said Brad Turner, of the Boulder County Clerk & Recorder's Office. The University Club, across from the University Memorial Center, will be another polling location and a voter service center and early voting site, he said.
Steve Fenberg, executive director of New Era Colorado, said there are many obstacles that Americans claim keep them from the polls, including registration deadlines, apathy and transportation.
"In the long run, our democracy will be better and both parties will benefit if more people vote," Fenberg said.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study suggests that a synthetic chemical that is ubiquitous in the environment and in people's blood may affect the liver — though the significance for human health remains unclear.
The chemical in question is perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), which is used to make substances called fluoropolymers. Used in an array of manufacturing processes, fluoropolymers impart fire-resistance and water, stain and grease repellency to everything from carpets to cookware.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), non-stick cookware and other consumer products coated with Teflon or similar trademark products are not manufactured with PFOA. However, some of these products may contain trace amounts of PFOA as impurities.
Research shows that PFOA persists in the environment and at low levels in most people's blood; exactly how it gets into the bloodstream is not clear, but contaminated water, dust and food are possibilities that researchers are currently investigating.
Also unclear are the potential human health effects of such everyday PFOA exposure. In lab animals, the chemicals have been shown to cause developmental problems and other adverse effects, including liver damage. But a number of human studies have found no evidence that PFOA exposure affects the liver.
In the new study, researchers in Taiwan used data from a U.S. government health study to look at the relationship between blood PFOA concentrations and liver enzyme levels. They found that among 2,200 U.S. adults, liver enzymes generally inched up in tandem with PFOA levels, particularly in obese individuals.
Liver enzymes are a marker of the organ's functioning, and significant elevations in the blood can indicate liver inflammation or other damage — as seen in diseases like hepatitis and cirrhosis, or scarring of the liver.
The increases found in this study, however, were not enough to indicate liver damage, according to senior researcher Dr. Pau-Chung Chen, of the National Taiwan University College of Public Health in Taipei.
Instead, Chen told Reuters Health in an email, "This result particularly challenges other studies (suggesting) that there are no demonstrated liver effects, even among occupational workers, of PFOA exposures."
The findings, published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, do not prove that PFOA in the blood directly affects the liver, according to Chen. "Nonetheless," the researcher added, "the associations between PFOA and liver enzymes raise concerns given their common presence in the general population."
Only 0.4 percent of adults in this study had undetectable PFOA levels. So it must be assumed that exposure to the chemical is "almost universal" in the general U.S. population, Chen noted.
Much more research is needed to understand the possible health implications of such low-level exposure. For its part, the EPA says it is continuing to investigate the potential risks of PFOA and related chemicals.
"However," the agency states on its Web site, "given the scientific uncertainties, EPA has not yet made a determination as to whether PFOA poses an unreasonable risk to the public, and there are no steps that EPA recommends that consumers take to reduce exposures to PFOA."
SOURCE: American Journal of Gastroenterology, online December 15, 2009.


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If you've visited a playground in the past few years, then you know about parents' crazy addictions to their smart phones*. Many parents (and nannies) are immersed in email or engaged in a texting exchange while their kids make cakes in the sandbox, swing around on the monkey bars, and zip down the twisty slide.
And what happens if one of those kids is running around too close to the swings? Some experts are saying the child is more likely to get bonked in the head and end up in the emergency room because his parent is tied up in a game of Angry Birds on his iPhone.
In fact, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article, "Emergency doctors are worried: They see the growing use of hand-held electronic devices as a plausible explanation for the surprising reversal of a long slide in injury rates for young children. There have even been a few extreme cases of death and near drowning."
After falling for many years, nonfatal injuries to kids under age five are on the rise, increasing by 12 percent between 2007 and 2010. And the WSJ article rattles off a bunch more statistics.
Statistics from the government's Consumer Product Safety Commission, which tracks injuries by product type, show children are getting hurt more during activities and at ages that would seem to warrant close supervision. Injuries involving playground equipment among children under five jumped 17% between 2007 and 2010, after trending down the previous five years, the commission said. Injuries involving nursery equipment such as changing tables were up 31% among children under five over that period, after declining over five years. Injuries involving swimming pools climbed 36% in that age group after a slight increase over the prior five years.
The WSJ article also includes some incredibly sad stories, like this one.
Cellphone distraction may have played a role in a tragedy that befell one Florida family. On Dec. 14, 2009, Shellie Ross called to her two sons, age 2 and 11, to come see a tortoise in the family's backyard in Merritt Island. At 5:17 p.m., she posted a cellphone photo of the tortoise on Twitter. Records of her tweets show she tweeted four more times over five minutes.
At 5:23, operators took a 911 call from the 11-year-old, police records show: His little brother was at the bottom of the swimming pool, unresponsive. The police report says that Ms. Ross pulled the boy out and performed CPR. Rescue workers rushed him to the hospital, but it was too late.
Storeis like this and the increases in injuries are baffling when you consider the advancements in toy, playground and pool safety. Parents these days spend a fortune child-proofing their homes, some even going to the extreme of hiring an expert to help install baby gates. Today's backyard swimming pools are typically surrounded by gates fit for a prison and a kid riding a bike without a helmet is a very rare bird.
And so why are more and more kids visiting the emergency room? Could parents' growing use of hand-held gadgets really be the culprit? It seems likely that a parent texting might not notice that her kid is about to choke on a LEGO. But then again that same parent could be reading a book or vacuuming or watching TV.
What makes a cell phone different? I would argue that smart phones and other hand-held gadgets are different because they're highly addictive. It's easy to put down a book, and certainly a vacuum, when you hear a kid let out a cry, but when you're on your phone you want to finish that text before looking up. When you're texting, you're actively engaging with someone and that typically feels good (unless it's your boss chewing you out) and you don't want to stop. Some psychologists suggest that using our iPhones and BlackBerrys may tap into the same associative learning pathways in the brain that make other compulsive behaviors — like gambling — so addictive," according to a past New York Times article. "As with addiction to drugs or cigarettes or food, the chemical driver of this process is the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine."
At this point, no studies exist proving that more kids are getting injured due to their parents' cell phone use but when that study gets done, I have a feeling a few of us will be leaving our phones at home the next time we go to the park or the pool.
*I don't mean to single out parents because so many different groups of people these days are addicted to smart phones, from teenagers to Baby Boomers.
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Throughout its four-decade run as a weekly magazine, LIFE frequently featured young actresses -- or "starlets," in the terminology of the day -- on its cover, tacitly endorsing a person LIFE clearly felt was The Next Big Thing. Sometimes, they got it right -- with Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and other future legends. But far more frequently, they got it wrong, and the starlet whose career seemed poised to shift into overdrive after appearing on a LIFE cover would instead act in a few films, maybe go on to do some TV . . . and then fade away.
In January 1948, for example, an actress named Marcia Van Dyke graced the LIFE cover, accompanied by the laconic, even cryptic, tagline, "Starlet-Violinist." Inside, the profile of Van Dyke (or "Miss Van Dyke," as the article had it), took pains to ensure the reader that this starlet wasn't just another pretty face. Unfortunately, the way they went about praising Miss Van Dyke sort of sounds (to today's ears) as if they're damning her, instead:
The big difference between most movie starlets and Marcia Van Dyke is that their talent begins and ends with their pretty faces. When called on to sing or swim, they need doubles. And when called on to act, they make most movie audiences wish they were singing or swimming. Miss Van Dyke, who is 25, has considerably more to offer Hollywood than her pretty face. She sings professionally, plays near-professional tennis and swims like a seal. Much more unusual, she is also an accomplished violinist.
Last May, when she was playing with the San Francisco Symphony, LIFE photographed Miss Van Dyke, and called her "the prettiest first violinist in the symphonic big time." As a result she was given a contract by M-G-M producer Joseph Pasternak. Contrary to Hollywood traditions, in her first movie Miss Van Dyke actually was cast as a violinist.
Van Dyke, as multi-talented as she might have been, only worked in Hollywood for six years, and never in a starring role. Still, no one could possibly consider her a failure; after all, countless young actresses yearn to act in the movies, or on television, and never get a chance to step in front of a camera. So while Marcia Van Dyke might not have had the blockbuster onscreen career that her LIFE cover suggested was in store, at least she had her moment -- in fact, she had several moments -- in the sun. To which we can only add: Bravo!


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Located just across the street, the Charter Sports has provided Vail Spa guests with discounted ski/snowboard and bike rentals for a number of years.
For the summer, they are offering 4-hour full suspension bike rentals and a bike haul lift ticket up the gondola for $55.
Recently our concierge staff also had the pleasure of doing a bike tour on Vail Pass with Charter Sports.
Vail Pass (10,617 feet) is a destination for cyclists across the nation. The Teva Mountain games hosts a half marathon and a road bike time trail up it. This year, Stage 3 of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge will also incorporate our storied mountain pass.
Hardcore cyclists aside, just because you can't climb thousands of feet in elevation on a carbon-frame road bike, doesn't mean you can't enjoy all Vail Pass has to offer!
For about $50 you can rent a bike from Charter and get shuttled to the top of the pass.
Trips leave at 10am, noon and 2pm (if there's overflow). You can request return transporation at 1pm, 3pm, and 5pm. (Pick up can take 5 to 10 minutes longer). Or, you can brave the route home to the Charter Sports bike shop.
Please reserve in advance through the Charter Sports link above or call 888-295-9797. Bring a jacket or rain gear!
There aren't enough superlatives to explain how incredibly fun this trip is! So, we've just posted photos of our trip. Cheers!
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The Carolina Panthers paid Steve Smith to go away, then let Ted Ginn and Brandon LaFell walk out the door. Hakeem Nicks seemed like a logical fit, but general manager Dave Gettleman reportedly told the hometown kid he was better off catching passes from Andrew Luck, not Cam Newton.
Yes, Gettleman's strategy at wide receiver remains unclear. What we do know is that Gettleman has to sign somebody. As Chris Wesseling astutely noted, current wideouts on the Panthers roster have combined for two catches in the NFL.
That is not a typo.
We learned Sunday that Jerricho Cotchery will visit with the Panthers on Monday. That's certainly a start: Cotchery is a nice player coming off a 10-touchdown season in Pittsburgh. But Cotchery's best fit is as a supporting act, not the main attraction.
How about James Jones, then? The former Green Bay Packers receiver told ESPN's Josina Anderson on Sunday he "would love the opportunity to play for the Carolina Panthers."
Jones makes sense for the Panthers and he certainly comes closer to matching the No. 1 receiver mold than Cotchery. The question is whether Gettleman values surrounding his franchise quarterback with proven talent or is intent on rebuilding the unit through a deep draft.
Gettleman has to have a plan. Perhaps it will come into clearer focus in the next few days.
Here's what else we learned on Day 6 of free agency Sunday:
1. Emmanuel Sanders was introduced as the newest wide receiver of the Denver Broncos. Sanders brushed off the notion that his agent shopped him to other teams after an agreement was in place with the Kansas City Chiefs. "There was no handshake," Sanders said. There are definitely some Frank Cushman undertones going on here.
2. Jared Allen met with the Seattle Seahawks, his first visit in free agency. NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reports the Cowboys are up next as Allen gauges his value on the open market. Retirement remains a possibility if he does not get what he believes to be a fair offer. Allen, 31, has averaged 13 sacks per season over the past decade.
3. It could come down to the Jets vs. the Giants for the right to employ cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie. The free-agent cornerback met with both teams this weekend and continues to be in contact with both, according to Rapoport. The Browns lurk in the background, plenty of money still in their pocket.
A Jets source told Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News that Rex Ryan will not be happy if GM John Idzik doesn't lock down DRC. "We better get him," the source said. Ryan already was thwarted on his wish for a Darrelle Revis reunion.
4. The two New York teams were busy on other fronts as well. The Jets brought back outside linebacker Calvin Pace on a two-year, $5 million deal. Pace, 33, led the Jets with 10 sacks last season and has started every game over the past three seasons. The Giants agreed to a one-year deal with former Seattle Seahawks nickelback Walter Thurmond.
5. Brandon Weeden reportedly will visit the Dallas Cowboys on Monday. The Cowboys were interested in Weeden before the Cleveland Browns reached for the quarterback in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft. Kyle Orton has not officially said he will be returning in 2014, but he's expected to be back. The Cowboys haven't carried three quarterbacks on their roster since 2011. Defensive tackle Henry Melton will also visit Valley Ranch on Monday.
6. Mario Manningham will forever be a Super Bowl hero for the Giants. Could a reunion be on tap? The free-agent wide receiver is visiting with the team on Monday. The Giants are down a wideout after Hakeem Nicks skipped town. Health is the big question for Manningham -- he hasn't been the same guy since hurting his knee in December 2012.
7. Arian Foster is back on Twitter. We can all agree this is a great thing. He used the social media platform to announce he's been medically cleared by his doctor following back surgery. Foster didn't elaborate what level of clearance he's achieved. He did get behind Lauryn Hill's oft-maligned unplugged album, however.
8. Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Anthony Spencer continues his free agency tour of the NFC East. Spencer visited with the Giants on Sunday. He previously met with the Washington Redskins. A return to the Cowboys is not out of the question. Spencer could become an offseason bargain if he can get healthy.
The "Around The League Podcast" breaks down all the free agency moves and hands out a fleet of high-octane sandwiches.


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Brad is pro-life and believes that life begins at conception. He's a supporter of organizations that support life such as Family First and Right to Life. Brad also strongly supports efforts to repeal Obamacare and halt its expansion of public funding for abortion. He'll compassionately support a culture of life in America and around the world.
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