Australian NATO troops killed in Afghanistan

Three Australian troops in the NATO-led force in Afghanistan have been killed in an attack by a member of the Afghan security forces, officials said, in the latest insider attack that has caused growing dismay among coalition commanders.

The assault occurred in southern Uruzgan province in the evening ofn Wednesday, a US defence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.

About 1,500 Australian troops are deployed in the province as part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

"An individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon against International Security Assistance Force service members in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing three," ISAF said in a statement.

"The incident is currently under investigation."

NATO has struggled to counter the so-called green-on-blue attacks in which uniformed Afghans turn their weapons against their international allies.

The scale of insider attacks by Afghan troops is unprecedented in modern warfare and threatens to derail the West's carefully laid withdrawal plans, analysts say.

The assaults have surged this year, with more than 30 attacks claiming the lives of 45 coalition troops, mostly Americans, comprising about 14 per cent of the overall death toll in the war for 2012, according to ISAF.

Green-on-blue attacks

August has been the worst month for so-called green-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan in more than 10 years of war, with nearly one in three international coalition deaths caused by Afghan allies.

The violence has troubled the international force, which has portrayed its partnership with Afghan troops as the key to a planned withdrawal of foreign combat troops over the next two years.

Roadside bombs cause majority of deaths in 2012

The commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, US General John Allen, said last week the causes of the surge in insider attacks?were varied, and that Taliban infiltration only accounted for about a quarter of the incidents.

He said?the recent spate of assaults may have been related to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,?when Afghan soldiers were under strain from fasting in intense heat while engaged in combat.

A Pentagon assessment last year found serious tensions between the coalition forces and their Afghan counterparts, with relations plagued by cultural clashes and deep mistrust.

Afghan politician Abdullah Abdullah, a former foreign minister and potential presidential candidate in 2014 elections, points to problems within the government as a reason for the attacks.

He?takes President Hamid Karzai to task for what he calls his "vague" message in which he regularly calls the Taliban "brothers", urging them to talk peace, and criticises the US.

"Sometimes you don't know who he calls the enemy?- the Taliban or the Americans," Abdullah told AFP news agency.

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Are Phage Viruses the Forgotten Cure for Superbugs? [Excerpt]

A new book follows a crop of biotech start-ups as they race to turn tiny bacteriophage viruses into a new weapon against antibiotic resistance

By Anna Kuchment

Excerpted from The Forgotten Cure: The Past and Future of Phage Therapy, by Anna Kuchment. (Copernicus Books, 2011. Reprinted by?permission of Springer Science+Business Media)

In April 2002, Fred Bledsoe was doing construction work on his parents' lake house near Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he stepped on a rusty nail that bore through his shoe and lodged in the sole of his foot. Bledsoe cleaned up the wound and drove to a nearby hospital where doctors gave him a tetanus shot. Case closed, he thought.

One week later, his foot swelled up, and the wound began oozing pus. Bledsoe, a burly, quiet man with a graying goatee, was a one-time factory worker out on disability leave and battling diabetes. He decided to pay an office visit to his brother, Larry, a general practitioner, who prescribed a 10-day course of antibiotics. That seemed to do the trick; Fred felt much better. But in August, the infection came back with a vengeance. His foot tripled in size?"it looked like a football," said his sister, Saharra?and a new infection site appeared at the base of his big toe. He couldn't wear normal shoes, much less walk. Larry had his brother hospitalized, and doctors started him on a heavy course of IV antibiotics. They also implanted Gentamicin, an antibiotic that looks like a small string of pearls, near Bledsoe's big toe so that a high concentration of medicine could be delivered directly to the site of the infection. But diabetes had damaged the circulation in Bledsoe's foot, making it more difficult for the antibiotics to penetrate deeply enough and for his body's own white blood cells to help beat back the invading organisms. Though the wound seemed to improve on the surface, the bacteria had taken up residence near the bone, where the Gentamicin could no longer reach them. Nine weeks later, Bledsoe's physicians gave up. "My doctor told me I'd have a good quality of life without my toes," he says.

A short time later Bledsoe's sister, Saharra, caught an episode of the CBS news program "48 Hours." An episode called "Silent Killers" discussed the increasing incidence of antibiotic-resistant infections. After reporting on two scary cases?a woman whose paper cut turned into a blood infection, an 18 month old girl who nearly died from an ear infection?the story turned to a case that was eerily similar to Fred's. Alfred Gertler, a jazz musician from Toronto, Canada, had developed an infection in his ankle after fracturing it while hiking in Costa Rica. As with Fred, doctors had advised him to have his foot amputated.

Gertler refused to listen to his physicians. Desperate for an alternative, he had scoured the medical literature until he came upon a magazine article describing a treatment called "bacteriophage therapy." Practiced in the United States until the 1940s and still used in parts of Eastern Europe, it pits tiny viruses?bacteriophages, or phages for short?against disease-causing bacteria. These viruses, the most ubiquitous organisms on earth, are bacterial parasites: they reproduce by attacking and destroying deadly germs.

The world's oldest institute dedicated to the study and practice of phage therapy is in Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Unable to find a cure in the state-of-the-art hospitals of Canada, Gertler bought himself a plane ticket to the Third World. There, doctors infused his wound with an amber-colored broth teeming with the invisible creatures. After three days of treatment, he reported, his infection was gone. Though it recurred later, after he returned to Canada, it was in a mild enough form that doctors could finally fuse together his anklebones.

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Citigroup agrees to pay $590M in shareholder suit

NEW YORK (AP) ? Citigroup is offering to pay $590 million to legal claims by shareholders that its executives dissembled about the bank's growing problems before the financial crisis.

The bank said Wednesday that it agreed to the deal to eliminate the cost and uncertainties associated with litigating the class-action suit. It denied the allegations.

The plaintiffs say Citigroup executives kept mum between February 2007 and April 2008 about huge losses the bank faced on complex mortgage investments. When the problem was disclosed, they say, Citigroup's share price plunged. They blame the bank for their losses.

The New York Bank says it already has set aside enough money to cover the cost of the settlement.

The settlement is subject to court approval. The case is pending in federal court in Manhattan.

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1st trial to begin in alleged rapes of Texas girl

LIBERTY, Texas (AP) ? The case shocked and divided the small Southeast Texas town where authorities allege an 11-year-old girl was repeatedly sexually assaulted over a period of months in 2010 by a group of 20 males.

Now the first trial stemming from the case is set to be heard by a jury.

Opening statements in the trial of Eric McGowen were scheduled for Wednesday in Liberty.

McGowen is among 14 adults charged in the case. He faces up to life in prison if convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child.

Prosecutors and McGowen's defense attorney have declined to comment because of a gag order in the case.

Authorities say the girl was assaulted at least five times between mid-September and early December 2010 by males ranging in age from a middle school student to a 28-year-old. The alleged rapes took place in Cleveland, located about 45 miles northeast of Houston. Prosecutors say McGowen, 20, assaulted the girl in October 2010. The trial is being held in the nearby county seat of Liberty.

The investigation began in December 2010, after one of the girl's friends told a teacher he had seen a lurid cellphone video that showed the girl being raped in an abandoned trailer.

Those charged included two top athletes at the local high school and adults with criminal records.

The case brought unflattering attention to Cleveland, a town of 9,000 people, after some residents suggested the girl was in part responsible for what happened, saying she wore makeup, looked older and wasn't properly supervised by her parents. Other community residents, as well as groups from outside of town, sharply criticized those suggestions.

The case also has been complicated by a belief among many in the predominantly black neighborhood where several of the suspects live that the arrests were racially motivated. All of the suspects are black, while the girl is Hispanic.

Two other adults have previously pleaded guilty, with one receiving a 15-year prison term and the other awaiting sentencing. Six juveniles who were charged also have previously pleaded guilty. They received 7-year prison terms, but their sentences were suspended and they were put on probation for that amount of time.

Most of the adult defendants in the case face charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child, while four face a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child.

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Jelly Bean pre-release for Verizon Galaxy Nexus now available from Google

More timid users might want to sit this one out, but for everyone else, you'll be glad to know that a pre-release build of Android 4.1 is now available for installation on the Galaxy Nexus from Verizon. Many of you are likely aware that custom Android builds such as AOKP and CyanogenMod have provided an early taste of Jelly Bean for a while now, but this time around, the flashable zip files are available directly from Google -- that's right, this is pure AOSP. Specifically, users will be treated to build JRO03O, which is an incremental update over the previously released binaries. The caveat here is that the software has yet to receive certification from Verizon, and you'll need to unlock your bootloader to join in the fun.

For experienced users who've already installed a custom recovery utility such as ClockworkMod Recovery, the process couldn't be easier. Naturally, if you're already on a custom build, you should perform a data wipe within the recovery utility, then install the IMM76Q package and then flash the JRO03O build on top of that. Regardless of your experience level, anyone with the proper motivation should be able to pull this one off. Those starting at square one will find a complete list of instructions at the source link below.

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France opens inquiry into claims of Arafat poisoning

French prosecutors have opened a murder enquiry into Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's 2004 death near Paris following claims he may have died of polonium poisoning, sources close to the matter told AFP Tuesday.

The probe comes after Arafat's family launched legal action in France last month following reports the veteran Palestinian leader may have died from radioactive polonium.

Arafat's widow Suha and his daughter Zawra lodged a murder complaint on July 31 in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Arafat died at age 75 at a military hospital near Paris in 2004.

"A judicial murder enquiry has been opened, as expected following the complaint from Mrs. Arafat," a source close to the matter told AFP. Another source confirmed the probe had been opened.

The Palestinian Authority hailed the move.

"We welcome this decision and (Palestinian) president Mahmud Abbas has officially asked French President Francois Hollande to help us to investigate the circumstances of the martyrdom of late president Arafat," senior Palestinian official Saeb Erakat told AFP in Ramallah.

Allegations that the Nobel Peace laureate was poisoned were resurrected last month after Al-Jazeera news channel broadcast an investigation in which experts said they found high levels of polonium on his personal effects.

Polonium is a highly toxic substance which is rarely found outside military and scientific circles, and was used to kill former Russian spy turned Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, who died in 2006 shortly after drinking tea laced with the poison.

Suha Arafat has said she backs exhuming her late husband's remains from his mausoleum in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

A Swiss radiology lab at the Lausanne University Hospital Centre said on Friday it has received Suha Arafat's go-ahead to test his remains for poisoning by polonium.

French news website Slate.fr on Tuesday published a copy of the medical report into Arafat's death and said his symptoms were not consistent with polonium poisoning.

Arafat was sent to the Percy military hospital in Clamart outside Paris after suffering from nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, acute diarrhea and thrombocytopenia -- an abnormally low amount of platelets in the blood.

Doctors at the hospital conducted a wide range of tests but were unable to determine the exact cause of his illness.

A few days after his arrival in France, Arafat lapsed into a coma and he died on November 11, 2004. No autopsy was conducted.

"The hypothesis of polonium does not stand up to scrutiny," Marcel Francis-Kahn, the former chief of rheumatology at Paris's Bichat hospital, told Slate.fr.

"All experts know that poisoning by radioactive material does not lead to the symptoms seen in Arafat," he said, noting that he also suffered no traditional effects of radiation poisoning such as hair loss and a massive drop in white blood cells.

At the time of Arafat's death, Palestinian officials alleged he had been poisoned by long-time foe Israel, but an inconclusive Palestinian investigation in 2005 ruled out poisoning, as well as cancer and AIDS.

Israel has consistently denied the allegations, accusing Suha Arafat and Palestinian officials of covering up the real reasons for the death of the former leader, who led the struggle for Palestinian statehood for nearly four decades.

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Healthy Workouts ? Yes They Are Possible ? Exercise Bike Health

How many times have you gotten conflicting advice about the best way to work out and get physically fit? Sometimes you will hear information from a personal trainer that is conflicting with information you read on the Internet. A fitness craze seems to come out everyday ? when will it ever stop? You need to take just a couple of ideas from all of the fitness programs out there and apply them in a healthy and constructive manner. You will definitely have a positive effect occur if you approach this workout in a healthy and intelligible manner. If your goal is to find a healthy workout, that actually works, following tips will help you.

60 minutes is about the maximum amount of time that you want to work out. Stopping after 60 minutes prevents cortisol from appearing in your bloodstream here?s what that is Cortisol is a stress hormone and it contains a testosterone blocking effect which then leads to the wasting of your muscles. Simply stated, cortisol is not a good substance to produce in your body and will not do you any good in regard to your workout goals. Sixty minutes is really all the workout that you need since it is difficult to continue after that point both physically and mentally.

Most people would agree that if you work out for longer than 60 minutes, you want to stop out of sheer boredom. If anything needs protection, it is definitely your neck and the muscles there. Although you will find a lot of safety tips on how to keep your legs and arms safe, neck safety is usually avoided for some reason. Keep your tongue high, toward the roof of your mouth, in order to promote security for your neck. Doing so will make sure that you know that your head and neck are properly aligned. When you do various exercises, this will cut back on the strain that could potentially cause injury.

The core, or abdominal region, of your body must be strong for all of the workouts that you do. Sometimes the abdominal region is of utmost importance to fitness experts, and other years, no one seems to care. Because of this, it?s hard to determine whether or not experts think they are an important muscle group. Regardless of the argumentation in regard to the importance of abs, by building it up, your range of motion for exercises will definitely improve. Just don?t anchor your feet when you do these sit-ups because if you anchor your feet, you?ll risk doing damage to your legs. Most people agree that full situps, not the half ones that are done on Swiss balls, are more effective.

Getting in shape can be quite an ordeal. Conflicting advice abounds throughout the fitness industry, causing you to have to work harder than you should to find something that works. You simply need to do what is healthy, stick with it, and avoid if possible any fitness fad the leads you in the wrong direction. Your best bet is to use some of these tips and discover a health and fitness routine that works today.

Furthermore, you can also use some varieties of fitness equipment like Stepper within your fitness Training, it can help boosts your physical health and fitness much easier as well as to ensure a much healthy workout in a rapid way. As long as you keep learning, you will naturally move into other areas. What matters most is that you exercise at least a few times every week.

Discover some Fitness Training with the help of Jeremiah Walls. He will assist you to reduce weight and acquire you amazing, slender and feeling good by doing an effective Exercise Programs.

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Redondo Beach Home Inspector Service for home inspection

Purchasing a home has many stages and it is highly imperative to have whole process of purchasing home effortlessly. Among tricky stages, one is Redondo Beach real estate inspection. When purchasing a property, one has to make sure that you would be getting good on investment made if there is need for sailing property.

Best way to ensure it is by calling home inspector for inspecting that property which you want to purchase and get a detailed report on state of that home. That report will aid you to decide how much to offer for that home, infact one shall buy that property.

Redondo Beach real estate inspection is most important part of process & you have to make sure that you are hiring experienced Redondo Beach Certified Home Inspector. A reliable home inspector will be able to present best report of house. To assist you in finding a professional Redondo Beach Home Inspector Service, below mentioned are the tips and queries you should ask from that home inspector before hiring them:

Coverage of home inspection:

Ensure that home inspection will be touching all required requirements that property will need to be inspected. Also thing to make sure is report must be compliant with standard codes and ethics. One may ask Redondo Beach Home Inspector Service to prepare list of Redondo Beach property inspection checklists which will be analyzed. In case one feels that any area is left, you may ask Redondo Beach Certified Home Inspector to include it.

Reliability of home inspection service:

You always want reliable home inspector having a formidable track record. In case that home inspector is able to provide list of his past home inspection, you may contact their clients to have their reactions on standard of their home inspection service. Though keep in mind new home inspector as well and give emphasis that they must be accompanied with experienced home inspector.

Repairs by home inspection service:

One can enquire if home inspections you are going to hire, do maintenance if required in that property which you will be buying. Lot of home inspector do offer these services too if not he will help you in picking best person for doing repairs.

Longevity for home inspection:

When single home inspector will be coming up for home inspection, chances are there that home inspection might take 2 hours for individual family house. Thus it is better to have a team from home inspection service so that Redondo Beach property inspection could be carried out fast. If he asks for more time than mentioned above, you can expect a detailed report.

With above queries you will ensure that one is getting professional home inspector who will do professional home inspection service.

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Domestic Abuse | Student Notice Board Blog

One woman in four (and one man in six) in the UK will be a victim of domestic violence during?their lifetime, according to research estimates. Two women a week are killed by a current or former male partner.

?Don?t suffer in silence speak to friends, relatives, doctors, counsellors or speak to other students on Student Notice Board.

Domestic violence is officially classified as ?any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between adults who are or have been in a relationship together, or between family members, regardless of gender or sexuality?.

We think of domestic violence as hitting, slapping and beating, but it can?also include emotional abuse as well as forced marriage and so-called ?honour crimes?.

It?s abuse if your partner or a family member:

• threatens you
• shoves or pushes you
• makes you fear for your physical safety
• puts you down, or attempts to undermine your self-esteem
• controls you, for example by stopping you seeing your friends and family
• is jealous and possessive,?such as being?suspicious of your friendships and conversations
• frightens you

Where can you get help?

You don?t have to wait for an emergency situation to seek help. You can:

The?Survivor?s Handbook from the charity Women?s Aid is free and provides information on a wide range of issues such as housing, money, helping your children and your legal rights. The handbook is available as a downloadable PDF in 11 languages.

For forced marriage and ?honour? crimes, contact Karma Nirvana (0800 5999 247) or The Forced Marriage Unit (020 7008 0151).

Broken Rainbow UK provides support to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people experiencing domestic violence.

Men of any age can be victims of domestic violence or abuse, in heterosexual or?same-sex relationships. Help and?support is available from Men?s Advice Line on 0808 801 0327 or Mankind on 01823 334 244.

If you decide to leave

The first step in escaping an abusive situation is realising that you?re not alone and it?s not your fault.?Try to?get advice from an organisation such as?Women?s Aid or?Refuge before you go.

If you?re considering leaving, be careful who you tell. It?s important that your partner doesn?t know where you?re going. Planning is very important. If you decide to leave, it will help to take:

• documents, including?birth certificates for your children, passports, any medical records, benefits books,?and mortgage or rent details
• your address book
• house keys
• if you have young children: baby items, some clothes and a special toy for each child

Sexual assault

Women and men who have been sexually assaulted can get confidential help, treatment and support at a sexual assault referral centre. Find your nearest sexual assault referral centre.

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Paul Ryan Explains: Rape Is Just a "Method of Conception" (Little green footballs)

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Read James Cameron's Script for Rambo: First Blood Part II

If you've noticed an influx of Sylvester Stallone movies on cable these past couple weeks, it's no coincidence. With The Expendables 2 still going strong in theaters, cable networks have been digging into their Stallone vaults to capitalize on your desire to watch Stallone kick lots of ass. IFC, for example, aired a Rambo marathon over the weekend, allowing us to catch up with one of our favorite old-school action franchises. However, there were two scenes in Rambo: First Blood Part II that had us scratching our heads, wondering if these throwaway character moments are what helped inspire the number one movie at the box office over two decades later.

In the second Rambo movie, war vet John Rambo is released from prison and sent on a covert mission back to Vietnam to rescue POWs. As any true sequel should, First Blood Part II ups the action considerably, as Rambo blasts his shirtless way through the jungle. He's assisted in his rescue efforts by an agent on the inside named Co-Bao (Julia Nickson), and at two points during the film the idea of a soldier being expendable is brought up. Watch both scenes below.

Originally we wondered whether these scenes helped inspire The Expendables not realizing that Stallone has said previously that they are indeed the source of his inspiration for the current action franchise (thanks to Matt Singer for the heads up and the video).

This aspect of the character's emotional and psychological trauma may also be a taste of what James Cameron helped add to the movie. Cameron wrote the first draft for Rambo: First Blood Part II, but when all was said and done they wound up cutting out most of Cameron's character drama and leaving in a lot of the action.?

Speaking about his draft back in 1986 to The Hollywood Reporter, Cameron said,?"Well, I came rather late to that. I actually thought the first one was a pretty good film. That's what attracted me to the second one, the underdog story. I was kind of fascinated by Vietnam at that point and what a weird and surreal kind of war that was. So my approach to it was a lot heavier, a lot more character. I just ran into Sly (Stallone) recently, and he was saying that when he looks back on it -- although he doesn't have any regrets -- in a way he wished he could have done the script that I wrote because they did wind up throwing out about the first half of it. They kept a lot of the action. They just kind of made it a Mission: Impossible thing -- for me it took on kind of a superhero-type quality. I thought it was much more interesting to kind of explore this traumatized character. Maybe I'll get to use that stuff somewhere else. I used a bit of it in Aliens, having them come back from something they were traumatized by. There was a bit of that delayed stress syndrome stuff in Aliens they didn't use in Rambo II."

For those interested, you can read James Cameron's draft for First Blood II: The Mission here. Rambo: First Blood Part II is available to watch now via iTunes and Amazon.

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'Cyborg' tissues: Merging engineered human tissues with bio-compatible nanoscale wires

ScienceDaily (Aug. 26, 2012) ? Harvard scientists have, for the first, time created a type of "cyborg" tissue by embedding a three-dimensional network of functional, bio-compatible nanoscale wires into engineered human tissues.

As described in a paper published August 26 in Nature Materials, a multi-institutional research team led by Charles M. Lieber, the Mark Hyman, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at Harvard and Daniel Kohane, a Harvard Medical School professor in the Department of Anesthesia at Children's Hospital Boston developed a system for creating nanoscale "scaffolds" which could be seeded with cells which later grew into tissue.

Also contributing to the work were Robert Langer, from the Koch Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Zhigang Suo, the Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett Professor of Mechanics and Materials at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

"The current methods we have for monitoring or interacting with living systems are limited," said Lieber. "We can use electrodes to measure activity in cells or tissue, but that damages them. With this technology, for the first time, we can work at the same scale as the unit of biological system without interrupting it. Ultimately, this is about merging tissue with electronics in a way that it becomes difficult to determine where the tissue ends and the electronics begin."

The research addresses a concern that has long been associated with work on bioengineered tissue -- how to create systems capable of sensing chemical or electrical changes in the tissue after it has been grown and implanted. The system might also represent a solution to researchers' struggles in developing methods to directly stimulate engineered tissues and measure cellular reactions.

"In the body, the autonomic nervous system keeps track of pH, chemistry, oxygen and other factors, and triggers responses as needed," Kohane explained. "We need to be able to mimic the kind of intrinsic feedback loops the body has evolved in order to maintain fine control at the cellular and tissue level."

Using the autonomic nervous system as inspiration, Bozhi Tian, a former doctoral student under Lieber and former postdoctoral fellow in the Kohane and Langer labs, and collaborator Jia Liu worked in Lieber's lab at Harvard to build mesh-like networks of nanoscale silicon wires -- about 30 -- 80 nm in diameter -- shaped like flat planes or in a reticular conformation.

The process of building the networks, Lieber said, is similar to that used to etch microchips.

Beginning with a two-dimensional substrate, researchers laid out a mesh of organic polymer around nanoscale wires, which serve as the critical nanoscale sensing elements. Nanoscale electrodes, which connect the nanowire elements, were then built within the mesh to enable nanowire transistors to measure the activity in cells without damaging them. Once complete, the substrate was dissolved, leaving researchers with a net-like sponge or a mesh that can be folded or rolled into a host of three dimensional shapes.

Once complete, the networks were porous enough to allow the team to seed them with cells and encourage those cells to grow in 3D cultures.

"Previous efforts to create bioengineered sensing networks have focused on two-dimensional layouts, where culture cells grow on top of electronic components, or on conformal layouts where probes are placed on tissue surfaces," said Tian. "It is desirable to have an accurate picture of cellular behavior within the 3D structure of a tissue, and it is also important to have nanoscale probes to avoid disruption of either cellular or tissue architecture."

Using heart and nerve cells, the team successfully engineered tissues containing embedded nanoscale networks without affecting the cells' viability or activity. Using the embedded devices, they were able to detect electrical signals generated by cells deep within the tissue, and to measure changes in those signals in response to cardio- or neuro-stimulating drugs.

Researchers were also able to construct bioengineered blood vessels, and used the embedded technology to measure pH changes -- as would be seen in response to inflammation, ischemia and other biochemical or cellular environments -- both inside and outside the vessels.

Though a number of potential applications exist for the technology, the most near-term use, Lieber said, may come from the pharmaceutical industry, where researchers could use the technology to more precisely study how newly-developed drugs act in three dimensional tissues, rather than thin layers of cultured cells. The system might also one day be used to monitor changes inside the body and react accordingly, whether through electrical stimulation or the release of a drug.

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The Oatmeal's Fundraiser Tops $1M Toward Tesla Museum

The Oatmeal's call to raise funds for a museum celebrating Nikola Tesla seems to have electrified enough people. From Digital Trends: "The Oatmeal has raised over $1 million on IndieGoGo in an effort to secure Wardenclyffe, the site of Tesla's final laboratory, to build a museum dedicated to Tesla. ... [Oatmeal founder and artist Matthew] Inman?s original goal of $850,000 would buy just half of the cost of the property, but the state of New York has agreed to match contributions, bringing total funds up to $1.7 million. Raising the capital to build a museum from the property will be another cost, but from the looks of it, with 36 days left and having already surpassed the $1 million mark, there should be funds to spare."

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Recovery and Continuity: The Difference

March 10th, 2012

In the past handful of years there have been a huge number of natural disasters causing untold amounts of harm, setting a lot of organizations back years if not decades. There is not a lot we can do to steer clear of these disasters, but we can be ready for them. Is your organization ready?

Most companies have at least fundamental protection from emergencies and disasters in place. The most typical forms of protection are insurance, server and personal computer backup, and simple preparations as needed by law. Whilst these protective measures are deemed sufficient for most companies, there is nonetheless a likelihood a disaster will strike, leaving your company in the lurch.

In the recent months and years an increasing number of occurrences, such as the earthquake in Japan and flooding in Thailand, have brought on widespread disruption to corporations. To counter this, two business initiatives have risen to the forefront: Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Preparing (BCP). In fact, these two terms have turn into common buzzwords, a rapid net search returns over 53 million hits on business continuity alone. The dilemma is that several pros are unclear on what every single actually is. It is critical to be clear on each and every topic and the simple steps to take to be prepared for any disaster.

What is a Company Continuity Program (BCP)? BCP, 1st observed in the course of the Y2K scare of the late 90s, is a plan that covers the way an organization prepares for and maintains all crucial company functions. BC arranging is comprised of actions that make certain maintenance, stability, and recoverability of service just before, in the course of, and immediately after a disaster. The plan is normally set up on a day-to-day basis, and covers the complete organization.

It is crucial to have a BCP for your organization simply because if a thing happens and you cannot deliver to your customers, they will go to one more business.

What is Disaster Recovery? Disaster Recovery is thought to be a component of the general continuity plan that focuses on the technical side of the enterprise, like elements such as data backup and recovery. Assume of BCP as an umbrella and DR is below the umbrella if you do not have a disaster recovery program, the overall umbrella is more or less useless.

What Ought to be in Your DR and BCP Plans? These plans each share a quantity of similarities, usually following the same steps involving the very same components. Both plans should incorporate:

An operational plan for a number of disasters that could occur in your geographical area. The plans must cover occurrences as small as computer hardware errors and as large as massive natural disasters.
A succession strategy for you or your best management.
Instruction for substitute workers on crucial tasks.
Cross education of your personnel on the basics of different roles so they will be in a position to take over if want be.
A communication strategy focused on various crises, like techniques of communicating if networks are down.
Off-website meeting areas for staff and managers.
A focus on safety. Foster partnerships and communication with local and emergency response services: Fire, Police, National Guard, Search and Rescue. Ideally, all employees must at least know basic 1st help. If you have employees who are volunteer members of local Emergency Response Services, ask them to be responsible for teams.
Day-to-day plans to backup your Enterprise systems, along with training and testing of recovery of systems.
Coaching and testing of all employees to practice recovery actions in conditions as realistic as feasible.

It is critical that you conduct regular tests of your systems and processes, and make alterations as required. Be aware that your company is always changing and so ought to your Company Continuity and Disaster Recover Plans. With a very carefully ready and practiced plan, your company ought to be prepared to face a variety of disasters with minimal downtime. If you would like to know far more about Company Continuity and Disaster Recovery please make contact with us at www.lgnetworksinc.com.

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Hello!

So, I've been on the search for some new Partners for a while, and I figure this might be the best way to do it. Here goes. (Please bare with me, its 5 AM and I'm at work and a bit brain fried. I promise I'm not this scatter brained all the time.)

I prefer someone who can post a few paragraphs. Nothing kills the RP like a one liner though I do account for writers block and slow spots while trying to plot out twists and turns in the story line. Also, I really prefer if your 18+. Please write out full words. I hate when people use text speak. I understand the occasional U in place of You when your in a hurry and we aren't in character and just chatting, but if you start replacing your G's with Q's like I've been noticing a lot lately( preddiqurl blah blah blah ugh)... I'll probably rip my hair out. That's about it honestly. I'm really easy going otherwise, and I'm generally pretty easy to get along with. Expect me to ask how your day was, I do like to get to know my partners a little bit personally...

So, I've really only Rped Fandoms. I've been Roleplaying since I was 13. So That's ten years now (Holy Crap.)

I'm completely open to original ideas though. I just might need a little guidance, since it's new to me! :)

So Fandom Wise this is what I'm interested in (Its very condensed, so if you ask me, I've still probably seen it and would be willing to watch it if not!)

(*'s are cravings)

Supernatural*
The Boondock Saints*
Hunger Games
Trueblood
Harry Potter
Torchwood
Pretty much any Amanda Hocking Book
Boardwalk Empire
Hell on Wheels*

Some original ideas I've been playing with in my head:

Modern or Twisted Fairy tales
Delusional mental Patient (Similar to suckerpunch or the ward)
Maybe something with an Addict of some type
Anything Fantasy really...

Just suggest something. I'm very very very very nice, and I wont say no. We can work something out, I swear! :)

I can't PM on here yet, so if you post here I'll reply, Or email me. I check my email much more frequently than this.

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Common Real Estate Disputes an Attorney Can Hel With - www ...

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Real estate disputes can quickly spiral into contentious situations. With potentially large sums of money and property at stake, the ability to amicably resolve these issues can deteriorate in short order. The complex legal terminology that often accompanies these matters can further detail any attempts to come to an agreement. To avoid the financial and emotional stress that may result from a real estate dispute, contact a Orlando?real estate attorney regarding your legal options.

Mortgage Disputes

Mortgage loans frequently exchange hands from one servicer to another, increasing the risk of paperwork mistakes. The sheer volume of loans may cause confusion for under-trained servicer employees. These factors can then translate into misapplied late fees or incorrectly documented missing payments. If you have been making your mortgage payments on time but have been assessed a late or missing payment fee, you should immediately contact a foreclosure attorney. Attempting to file a dispute with your mortgage servicer may take weeks or months to revolve. In the meantime, you may continue to incur additional fees. You may even be served with a foreclosure notice if your servicer continues to make mistakes regarding your payment status.

Boundary Disputes

Boundary disputes are among the most frequently cited real estate dispute situations. Many times these circumstances can break down into spiteful conflicts, pitting one neighbor against another. Don?t let a boundary dispute disrupt your family?s peace of mind and quality of living. A real estate attorney can deflect any malicious behavior put forth by your neighbor and ensure that you are given every legal means possible to have your boundary dispute resolved quickly and fairly.

Timeshare Disputes

Many times individuals decide that they no longer want to be part of a timeshare agreement. Whether because of substandard construction, hidden fees, or other legal grounds, you have the right to dissolve your contract. However, you may also be forced to contend with lengthy and expensive legal proceedings should you choose to handle this situation on your own. Instead, contact a real estate attorney to manage your timeshare dispute.

Pierce & Associates, P.L. provides legal services in all areas of real estate law for clients living in the greater Orlando region. To speak with?real estate law attorney, please call our offices at (321) 418-3474.

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Tanning Industry Battles Skin Cancer Charges

by Bob Curley on August 25, 2012

Taking a page from the tobacco industry?s playbook, a group representing tanning salons is attacking doctors and researchers who claim that tanning beds cause cancer, FairWarning reported Aug. 23.

Training videos distributed to salons by the International Smart Tan Network and other materials refer to the ?sun scare? movement and try to equate tanning beds to natural sunlight, instructing employees to tout the health benefits of Vitamin D, produced by the body when the skin is exposed to the sun. An undercover investigation revealed that tanning shop employees routinely tell customers that indoor tanning poses no health risks.

The Indoor Tanning Association, the industry?s biggest advocacy group, launched a campaign to try to dispel the link between indoor tanning and skin cancer; the campaign was headed by Richard Berman, who formerly fought against drunk-driving laws as head of the American Beverage Institute. Ironically, industry officials compare their critics themselves to Big Tobacco.??The Sun Scare people are just like Big Tobacco, lying for money and killing people,? says Joseph Levy, executive director of Smart Tan.

In 2009, the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that?UV-emitting tanning devices are carcinogenic, and the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Academy of Dermatology urge minors warn to use tanning beds. There is broad scientific consensus that tanning beds raise the risk of developing melanoma, a particularly deadly form of skin cancer.

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Home improvement need to generally start with the plumbing and the bathrooms. Bathrooms are a key room in a household & will make a property feel like brand new. It's also 1 of the most profitable improvements to do to a house if a individual ever decides to sell it.

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When looking into doing a home improvement project, look into upgrading your appliances. Get rid of your old appliances. Nothing looks worse than having dated appliances in a home that also price a considerable level of revenue since they are not energy efficient. Sleek new appliances add value to the home & will help save power too.

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Home improvements could be large projects or nominal weekend tasks. Start in the kitchen or bathroom. One of the easiest ways to update those rooms are to replace the door knobs, drawer pulls, and hinges. Either decide upon a style that goes together with your existing theme or use the new hardware as inspiration to redesign the whole kitchen or bathroom.

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Tropical Storm Isaac aims at Florida

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Not yet a hurricane, Tropical Storm Isaac has already delivered shock waves from the Caribbean to Florida, postponing terror trial hearings in Cuba and posing a potential threat to next week's GOP convention in Tampa.

Isaac's path remains uncertain, but some computer models show the storm slicing its way up Florida's peninsula. Others send it farther west, into the Gulf of Mexico.

Officials are taking the threat seriously.

Gov. Rick Scott will talk about Florida's preparations for the storm at a media briefing Thursday morning at the State Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee.

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn said his city is prepared for the 50,000 people headed to his city for the Republican National Convention, which starts Monday.

The latest forecast map from the National Hurricane Center in Miami shows Isaac passing near the Florida Keys early Monday as a Category 1 hurricane and northwest of Tampa by Monday evening.

"We have contingency plan after contingency plan," Buckhorn said. "We are ready in the event that it happens. I don't think it's going to be a factor in this particular convention. But we are prepared in the event that it is."

Convention spokesman Kyle Downey said the situation is being monitored "very closely."

Possibly complicating matters, the convention site -- The Tampa Bay Times Forum -- is mandatory evacuation zone once storms reach 96 mph or a Category 2 hurricane, according to the Hillsborough County Hurricane Guide. The current forecast doesn't have Isaac reaching that status.

At the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials canceled the pretrial arguments scheduled to get under way in the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others.

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'Project Runway' designer slams plus-size client

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Ven's bad attitude and constant complaints brought his client-model Terri to tears.

By Ree Hines, TODAY contributor

Those wondering if "Project Runway" could possibly pack even bigger drama after two designers walked off the show this season got their answer Thursday night. It absolutely can -- and then some.

After all, the designers who ditched their big opportunities hurt only themselves. But on the latest episode of the fashion face-off, Ven Budhu, the show's newest villain, upped the drama considerably by actually hurting his client/model.

It all started when Ven and his fellow designers were presented with this season's twist on the now-usual "Runway" real-size challenge, wherein the contestants were asked to create makeover-worthy fashions for regular folks rather than models. Most of the competitors found the task exciting and looked forward to transforming their client-models. But not Ven.

No, Ven felt he was the victim of cruel fate thanks to his model's plus-size proportions. Terri happened to be a size 14 -- which is a fashion crime as far as Ven (who's well beyond the male equivalent of a 14) is concerned.

"My client doesn't really have a shape," he complained to mentor Tim Gunn. "She's definitely not fashion forward. She doesn't have any sense of style whatsoever."

But make no mistake -- Ven didn't keep his unkind comments about his "nightmare" client strictly to Tim. He let them fly right in front of her as he whined about accessories that were too small for her and how difficult she was to design for. ?

"He made her cry!" Fabio Costa said of the situation that clearly frustrated all of the designers. "It's really sad that you have the power to make someone feel bad about themselves and you use that deliberately."

In the end, Ven still saw himself as the victim.

"When people see this episode they're going to feel that it's unfair (to me)," he said in an online-only clip. As for his client? "No one forced her to go on the show. She agreed to it."

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Isaac could shake up security for GOP convention

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? Tropical Storm Isaac could force a shakeup of the security plans for the GOP convention in Tampa, because about half of the expected officers come from other parts of the state and some could be forced to stay home for the storm, authorities said Thursday.

"We're in a situation right now where we don't know what's going to happen," Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee said. "My primary concern right now is that we will lose resources."

Gee said some agencies, especially in South Florida, might decide not to send officers to Tampa if the storm threatens their areas. "As things change, they might have to prioritize," he said.

Gee's agency is in charge of the county where the convention will take place. The Hillsborough Sheriff's Office is providing the bulk of the staffing for the event because it is the largest agency in the area and also oversees the county jail. The Tampa Police is the other main agency handling security outside of the convention hall. The Secret Service is in charge of everything inside the convention hall.

More than 3,500 officers from 59 law enforcement agencies from around the state are scheduled to come to Tampa to patrol the streets. About half would come from outside Hillsborough County and the city of Tampa. About 1,700 National Guard troops were already expected to help with patrols; Gee said the number could increase if other law enforcement agencies don't end up sending officers.

The sheriff joined Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor and representatives from the FBI and Secret Service at a media event Thursday. As they spoke to reporters, a large TV screen tuned to a cable news channel showed colorful radar images of Isaac swirling in the Caribbean.

Convention officials said they were working closely with state and federal authorities on monitoring the storm.

"We continue to move forward with our planning and look forward to a successful convention," convention CEO William Harris said in a statement.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott said RNC officials were on a call Thursday with state, local and federal authorities and there were no plans to cancel the convention.

Scott pointed out that the storm is still trending westward, and he hoped it would not have a major impact on Florida.

"It's a forecast and all the forecasts are prone to error, but fortunately it has gone a little bit west," Scott said. "Hopefully it will dissipate by the time it gets over Cuba."

Scott also said Florida "is more prepared than any state in the country for hurricanes."

"The National Guard will be ready for any contingency," he said. "So if that happened then the logical backup would be the National Guard."

Jeff Masters, director of meteorology for Weather Underground, said the storm's current forecast indicates Tampa is unlikely to take a direct hit from a potential hurricane. When the storm passes the Bay area, it's likely to have an east-west motion, meaning it could sideswipe Tampa, causing rain and flooding, but not directly strike the city.

Chief Castor said she wasn't worried about redeployment of officers; when she initially asked other agencies to help, she told them they should only send people that they could spare.

She said the security team factored in the possibility of another event, such as a storm, happening during the RNC.

"We'll adjust our plans," she said. "We're used to that in law enforcement."

Steven Ibison, the special agent in charge of the Tampa division of the FBI, said he wasn't concerned about the number of officers on the ground.

"The FBI isn't involved in weathercasting," he said. "But we have plans in place. We always do here in Tampa."

Castor and Gee stressed it was too early for any agency to dramatically change plans. Castor said that no one would really know where Isaac was headed until late this weekend.

"The only predictable element about a tropical storm or hurricane is its unpredictability," she said.

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