Brittani Roehr, left, from Wichita, Kan., and Chelsea Holi, from Aurora, react at the memorial across from the movie theater, Sunday, July 29, 2012 in Aurora, Colo., where twelve people were killed and more than 50 wounded in a shooting attack on July 20. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Brittani Roehr, left, from Wichita, Kan., and Chelsea Holi, from Aurora, react at the memorial across from the movie theater, Sunday, July 29, 2012 in Aurora, Colo., where twelve people were killed and more than 50 wounded in a shooting attack on July 20. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal is pinned to cross for John Larimer, who was in the U.S. Navy, on Sunday, July 29, 2012 at a memorial across from the movie theater in Aurora, Colo. where twelve people were killed and more than 50 wounded in a shooting attack on July 20. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
People look a cross at the memorial across from the movie theater, Sunday, July 29, 2012 in Aurora, Colo, where twelve people were killed and more than 50 wounded in a shooting attack on July 20. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
DENVER (AP) ? Launching a case that legal analysts expect to be dominated by arguments over the defendant's sanity, Colorado prosecutors are filing formal charges Monday against James Eagan Holmes, the former neuroscience student accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others at an Aurora movie theater.
Attorneys also are arguing over a defense motion to find out who leaked information to the news media about a package the 24-year-old former neuroscience graduate student allegedly sent to his psychiatrist at the University of Colorado Denver.
Authorities seized the package July 23, three days after the shooting, after finding it in the mailroom of the medical campus where Holmes studied. Several media outlets reported that it contained a notebook with descriptions of an attack, but Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers said in court papers that the parcel hadn't been opened by the time the "inaccurate" news reports appeared.
Holmes allegedly began stockpiling gear for his assault four months ago, and authorities say he bought his weapons in May and June, well before the shooting spree just after midnight during a showing of the Batman film "''The Dark Knight Rises." He was arrested by police outside the theater.
Analysts say that means it's likely there's only one main point of legal dispute between prosecutors and the defense.
"I don't think it's too hard to predict the path of this proceeding," said Craig Silverman, a former chief deputy district attorney in Denver. "This is not a whodunit. ... The only possible defense is insanity."
Under Colorado law, defendants are not legally liable for their acts if their minds are so "diseased" that they cannot distinguish between right and wrong. However, the law warns that "care should be taken not to confuse such mental disease or defect with moral obliquity, mental depravity, or passion growing out of anger, revenge, hatred, or other motives, and kindred evil conditions."
Experts say there are two levels of insanity defenses. Holmes' public defenders could argue he is not mentally competent to stand trial, like Jared Loughner, who killed six people when he shot Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in 2011. Loughner has pleaded not guilty to charges in the shooting. He has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and is undergoing treatment at a Missouri prison facility in a bid to make him mentally fit to stand trial.
If Holmes' attorneys cannot convince the court that he is mentally incompetent, and he is convicted, they can try to stave off a possible death penalty by arguing he is mentally ill. Prosecutors will decide whether to seek the death penalty in the coming weeks.
Holmes was not expected to enter pleas on Monday.
Holmes ultimately could enter a plea to the anticipated dozen first-degree murder charges verbally, or his attorneys could enter it for him. Prosecutors may file multiple counts of attempted first-degree murder and other charges against Holmes, whom Aurora police say booby-trapped his apartment with the intent to kill any officers responding there the night of the theater attack.
A woman who was critically wounded and whose 6-year-old daughter was killed suffered a miscarriage, her family said Saturday. The family of Ashley Moser said the trauma caused the miscarriage. Moser's daughter, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, was the youngest person killed in the attack.
Sam Kamin, a law professor at the University of Denver, said there is "pronounced" evidence that the attack was premeditated, which would seem to make an insanity defense difficult. "But," he said, "the things that we don't know are what this case is going to hinge on, and that's his mental state."
With an unruly mop of orange hair, Holmes appeared bleary-eyed and distracted during his brief initial appearance in court last week. He did not speak.
Friends in Southern California, where Holmes grew up, describe him as a smart, sometimes awkward youth fascinated by science. He came to Colorado's competitive neuroscience doctoral program in June 2011. A year later, he dropped out shortly after taking his year-end exam.
District Court Judge William Blair Sylvester has tried to tightly control the flow of information about Holmes, placing a gag order on lawyers and law enforcement, sealing the court file and barring the university from releasing public records relating to Holmes' year there. A consortium of media organizations, including The Associated Press, is challenging Sylvester's sealing of the court file.
On Friday, court papers revealed that Holmes was seeing a psychiatrist at the university. But they did not say how long he was seeing Dr. Lynne Fenton and if it was for a mental illness or another problem.
The University of Colorado's website identified Fenton as the medical director of the school's Student Mental Health Services. An online resume listed schizophrenia as one of her research interests and stated that she sees 10 to 15 graduate students a week for medication and psychotherapy, as well as 5 to 10 patients in her general practice as a psychiatrist.
Authorities say Holmes legally purchased four guns before the attack at Denver-area sporting goods stores ? a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and two pistols. To buy the guns, Holmes had to pass background checks that can take as little as 20 minutes in Colorado.
LONDON (AP) ? Police and News International say a 37-old-year reporter with The Sun tabloid has been arrested in an inquiry into the alleged gathering of data from stolen cell phones.
Scotland Yard says the man is the ninth person arrested as part of Operation Tuleta, which is looking into allegations of computer hacking. It is one of three parallel police investigations triggered by the phone-hacking scandal that has rocked Britain.
Inquiries have focused mainly on newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International ? including The Sun, Britain's top-selling daily newspaper ? but have also spread to other media groups.
Scotland Yard said Tuesday it had arrested the journalist on suspicion of handling stolen goods.
News International confirmed the man, who it did not name, was an employee at The Sun.
First, several reports say that Apple has had talks with Twitter about possibly investing "hundreds of millions" of dollars in the company at a $10+ billion valuation. Other reports say those talks are ancient history, but the idea is still interesting. Apple is weak in social, and an investment in Twitter would firmly align it with one of the two big social success stories. It would also probably alienate or disadvantage the other, Facebook.
Next, Apple and Samsung are now taking their patent dispute to court. This will likely eventually end with one company paying the other company a bunch of money to go away. The trial will probably determine which way the money goes.
Lastly, over the past few days, the latest round of purported pictures of Apple's forthcoming iPhone 5 have hit the web.
And I can't be the only potential customer who is deflated by what they see.
In fact, I'll go far enough to say that, if the iPhone 5 looks like the pictures that have recently appeared, Apple may be screwed.
Why?
Because the "iPhone 5" looks pretty much like the iPhone 4S. Which looked exactly like the iPhone 4, a phone that is now two years old.
In the meantime, Samsung and other manufacturers have come out with phones that make people's jaws drop, such as the Galaxy S3, which has a (relatively) humongous screen. Although the Apple faithful may start hyperventilating about things like the movement or elimination of a button, most phone buyers couldn't care less. Now that most phones do the same things and work pretty much the same way, the most obvious (and, arguably, important) difference between them is the screen.
In short, the Galaxy feels like a next-generation phone. The iPhone, meanwhile, looks small and old. And the pictures that purport to be of the iPhone 5 show a phone that is pretty much the same small, old phone.
(Yes, they've moved the camera an inch. And it's longer. And it has a metal back. Whoop-de-do.)
(And, yes, apparently the screen is a little taller. Somehow that isn't the same. Check out the size difference in the photo below between the current iPhone and the Galaxy: A bit taller won't cut it.)
To be sure, regardless of what the iPhone 5 ends up looking like, the Apple faithful will scarf up tens of millions of them. They'll line up around the block and sleep outside the stores. They'll rave about the amazing slickness and geniosity and sophistication of Apple, especially as compared to the plebeian "bigness" of Samsung (the Galaxy will no doubt be dismissed as the McMansion of phones).
But, secretly, a lot of those faithful will be disappointed.
And, more importantly, so will tens of millions of other customers and potential customers.
As they should be.
Because it will make it clear that one observation that many Apple skeptics make is dead-on correct--namely that each new generation of the iPhone offers less and less improvement over the prior generation, and, thus, gives customers less reason to upgrade. This, combined with carriers increasingly making moves to discourage customers from upgrading frequently (see AT&T's stealthy changes, which may have helped hurt Apple's iPhone sales in the June quarter), will stretch out the upgrade cycles. And that will mean fewer sales--and less growth--for Apple.
Apple's competitors, meanwhile, are on a tear.
In the past year, as Apple moved back its iPhone release schedule and then released a phone that seemed like only a modest refresh of the prior version, Apple's competitors have been gaining ground. Samsung sold 52 million smartphones in Q2, twice as many as Apple, and is now the clear worldwide smartphone leader. Samsung's Galaxy S3, which some reviewers say is better than the iPhone, has sold very well in its first couple of months on the market.
(Our gadget god, Steve Kovach, who is a huge Apple fan, is one of those who concluded that the Galaxy is better than the iPhone. He'd still buy an iPhone over the Galaxy, but only because of the "ecosystem"--the app store, the apps, etc. And although that ecosystem is obviously a big competitive advantage for Apple, it's safe to say if people feel forced to use an inferior phone just because of the "ecosystem," they're going to be disappointed.)
Despite the amazing success of the iPad (which will soon face serious, low-priced competition of its own), the iPhone is still by far and away Apple's most important product. The iPhone generates about half of Apple's revenue, and, likely, a lot more than half of Apple's profits.
If Apple's stock is to power its way to the the $1,000 that most analysts and investors now expect, the iPhone has to keep going gangbusters. And releasing a phone that looks pretty much like the same old iPhone--with a screen that now seems small--probably won't get the job done.
So here's hoping those pictures aren't actually of the iPhone 5.
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A sperm whale that was rescued and returned to sea after being stranded for four days in shallow waters off the coast of West Java in Indonesia has died, a rescuer said Monday.
Fishermen found the 11-metre (36-feet) whale in waters near the beach in Muara Gembong Sunday evening, "dozens of miles" from the Pakis Jaya beach where it had been stranded, said Benvika, a rescuer from the Jakarta Animal Aid Network.
"We sent a team to check the reports. They arrived early this morning and confirmed that the whale was dead and it was the same as the one we rescued," he told AFP.
"We suspect it was exhausted and hungry and was unable to withstand the strong currents and big waves," he added.
Rescuers and navy divers on Saturday helped the whale return to the sea, pulling it with a tugboat into 20-metre-deep waters before releasing it.
"It was in stable condition when we released it. Its breathing rhythm was 40 to 45 seconds, close to the normal breathing rhythm of 60 to 70 seconds. It was also moving well," Benvika, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said.
"We tried our best to save it," he added.
Navy divers and rescuers had helped the whale back to sea after several failed efforts, hampered by local residents who paid half a US dollar each for boat rides close to the animal.
Some onlookers had jumped onto the whale, causing wounds to its body, and a few fishermen had tried to crudely pull the animal back to sea, also hurting it in the process.
It?s tough to have a completely eco-friendly pet in the house. I buy organic, all-natural, sustainable pet products when I can, but the truth of the matter is that I?ll probably never compost his you-know-what (yes, people do that) or make his dog food. I make small changes where I can. Here are some simple ways (with perhaps the exception of number 3) you can green your pet.
1. Clean pet fur with a wet glove. Instead of buying lint rollers with removable tape sheets, try a regular old kitchen glove. Get it wet and mop up fur. It works particularly well with cat hair and longer pet hair, however, not so much with my dog?s short hair.
2. Avoid clumping cat litter. My cats (RIP) used clumping cat litter. It is bad. Not only does it contain silica, which is a carcinogen when inhaled (and you know how the cats can kick up that litter dust), but clumping cat litter also contains sodium bentonite which clumps up to 15 times it?s size. Think of that non-biodegradable yuck hanging out in the landfills. Read more about it on Moderncat.
3. Potty train your cat. Fur-real, people. Experts might argue that flushing cat you-know-what down the toilet isn?t totally eco-friendly, so it depends on what your alternative is. Clumping cat litter seems to be especially awful for the environment so if non-clumping or natural cat litter is too difficult for you, order up a cat potty training book. And, then come back and tell us if it really works!
4. Buy biodegradable poop bags They cost ever so slightly more, but we like (I have a little bit of trouble opening them up sometimes, however, but I?m ok with it) PoopBags Biodegradable Waste Pickup Litter Bags.
5. Repurpose old things. I almost bought a sewing machine after I read an article in Martha Stewart Living about how you can take old baby socks, insert catnip and sew them closed to make a baby sock cat toy. It?s ridiculously cute, too.
6. Donate unwanted items to local animal rescue or shelter. It saves the organization from spending unnecessary money on items they need and helps you repurpose things you don?t need.? Animal rescues typically need blankets, old bedding, pet bowls, towels and other household items. Check the website of your local rescue or shelter to see if they have a wish list.
7. Make your own pet food. Or, if you don?t want to go to that extreme, find a dog food company with eco-friendly practices and/or recyclable packaging. We?ve been happy with Honest Kitchen and though it?s more expensive, it?s human-grade food and you get a free box after approximately 10 boxes. I also have a dog treat recipe from Honest Kitchen that your entire family can eat. Humans might want to add a dollop of honey on top, however. Jiving your pet?s eating with your helps save packaging waste as you?ll buy less treats, etc.
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Posted July 26, 2012 by veghotpot in Musings & Contemplations, Salads. Tagged: Food, healthy, salad, new york, travel, bubble tea, katz deli, speedys. 3 Comments
By far the best food we ate when on our honeymoon was in New York, there were healthy options everywhere and it was all very vegetarian friendly. I went from feeling like I?d ballooned up a dress size after over drinking and eating to being on a detox in New York.
Breakfast choices were swapped from an egg bagel or a cheese toastie to bran muffins, fruit salads and egg white omelettes with vegetables and fresh fruit juice! Below is an example of one breakfast I had in Times Square, we had a big day ahead with loads of walking so this breakfast kept me going untill late lunch!
We found this great little deli/ cafe called Speedys (on broadway) and their choices of salads and fruits and rolls was extensive, Oh I loved it. One night after having a few drinks we were hungry and Speedys was still open so I got a salad box filled with fresh lettuce, sprouts, carrots, tomatoes, nuts and seeds, egg and chickpeas! My favourite thing I tried from Speedys was this apple and cinnamon muffin?.SO GOOD!
We also found what looked like just a ?corner shop? from the front but when we went in it had one of the biggest salad bars ever!Around where I live a salad bar usually looks a little bit sad with just the salad basics, some pasta salad, croutons and thousand island dressing. Here are a few photos.
Spoilt for choice really! I just hoped it was all fresh that day, although the quality did look good so I?m sure it was.
The other thing we tried in New York which is probably a tourist attraction in itself was Bubble Tea! I still don?t even know whether I liked it or not to be honest it was just a very new strange experience. We went for a guava flavoured one instead of the milk varieties and the actual drink tasted abit like flat sprite and the big tapioca balls were chewy and didn?t taste of much! I enjoyed the fun element and the actual drink was refreshing but I?m still not 100% sold on the idea as a whole.
One last thing I really wanted to share was these amazing mushrooms we found when in China Town, I?ve seen different types of mushrooms before but these were like tiny pieces of art work and their colours were beautiful! If anyone can shed any light on what type they are that?d be great!
Whilst in New York we also visited Katz deli so I?ll be posting about that next week
China Wednesday picked NBA basketball player Yi Jianlian to carry their flag at the London Olympics opening ceremony, apparently swayed by his towering height.
Deputy chef de mission Xiao Tian repeatedly praised the 2.13m (seven foot) Dallas Mavericks power forward for being tall, and stressed impressive physical stature was a necessary requirement for China's flag-carrier.
Four years ago, fellow basketball giant Yao Ming carried China's flag at the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.
"It's Yi Jianlian, he'll be the flag-bearer because he's very tall. He's young and tall," Xiao told journalists.
"He plays basketball, he has a good image and also he's competing in the NBA so for many basketball fans in China he's very famous.
"Of course other athletes were good contenders but we decided Yi will be the flag-bearer."
Yi is entering his third Olympics after forgettable campaigns in 2004 and 2008, when China finished eighth on each occasion.
The 24-year-old, who lacks the huge appeal of now-retired Yao, has represented four teams in five NBA seasons, without winning the championship. He didn't start any games in 30 appearances for the Mavericks this year.
China has several other contenders for the flag-carrying honour, including former Olympic champion hurdler Liu Xiang, tennis star Li Na and badminton world number one Lin Dan.
And Xiao admitted ball sports -- including basketball -- were a weakness for the Chinese team, which topped the medals table with 51 golds four years ago in Beijing.
Asked whether China would ever pick a woman to carry the flag, Xiao said: "It's possible. As I just said, the flag-bearer has to be someone with a good image and has to be very tall."
Fellow delegate Cai Jiadong said China, who arrived at the athletes village on Wednesday, would have a "strong presence" at Friday's ceremony. Some 396 athletes, including 29 gold-medallists, are competing in the Games.
"We feel excited and energetic and we can walk behind a very tall basketball player," said Xiao. "He's more than two metres, so everyone can be happy."
According to a media release issued today by the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), ?Scientists have identified what may be the Peyton Manning of prostate cancer. It?s a protein that?s essential for the disease to execute its game plan.?
Peyton Manning is a great quarterback ? and offers his fans great entertainment. While many of us may hope that he has fully recovered from his prior injuries and will once again be able to demonstrate his complete set of skills as a master controller of the gridiron with the start of the National Football League?s season in September, any comparison of those skills to the activities of a protein called paxillin is premature ? and debatable at best.
The URMC media release describes work published by Sen et al. in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. According to the original article, paxillin appears to be necessary for the normal growth of human prostate cancer cell xenografts. It may also be necessary to the metastasis of prostate cancer in man. (This has yet to be proven.) It is therefore a potential biomarker for the spread of prostate cancer in man and a possible therapeutic target for the treatment of progressive forms of prostate cancer. In other words, if we could control the expression of paxillin in men with prostate cancer we might be able to better control the spread of the disease.
It will be immediately apparent to any football fan that most opposing teams have failed miserably at controlling Peyton Manning over the years!
Alas, the media release also quotes a senior author of the paper as follows: ?The holy grail in prostate cancer is to figure out why cells stop responding to hormone therapy.?
Well ? not exactly ? The holy grail in prostate cancer would be to find a way to stop the progression of prostate cancer long before hormone therapy was ever required ? and with none of the deleterious effects on sexual function (and other side effects) inherent to the use of hormone therapy!
However, if we can find a way to stop the effects of paxillin such that hormone therapy worked for longer in the men with the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer, that would certainly be a step along the path toward a cure. In the meantime, let?s try to keep bad football analogies out of the prostate cancer news.
Tertiary care centers like URMC really ought to want to put their scientific findings on a slightly higher plane than the gridiron. This sort of breathless hype about an interesting scientific finding is the exact reverse of the debacle at Penn State. At Penn State the football program supposedly became more important than the education of 99.5 percent of those attending the university; it appears that at URMC the research findings of the faculty now have to be explained in language that might (perhaps, but not probably) be comprehensible to the 0.5 percent of those attending the university that are actively involved on the gridiron!
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During meditation, your focus is aimed towards only one object at a time? One thought, one emotion, or one sensation. When attention becomes scattered or unfocused, you can gradually perform mindfulness exercises to redirect your attention to the current time. It is completely natural for your mind to wander, your feelings to vary, and for your bodily sensations to become uncomfortable or distracting. It is what you do with your psychological and emotional state during these moments that makes a major difference.
Mindfulness enables you to recognize that your mind is wandering, that your anxiety is overwhelming, or that the pain in your back isn?t comfortable. Rather than becoming fused, or involved in these experiences, mindfulness allows you to spot them. In this way, mindfulness continually brings your awareness back to the present time, free from your internal dialogue and judgment of the ?goodness? or ?badness? of any of your thoughts, feelings, or sensations. It is pure awareness.
Consider how steadfastly distracting some of your thoughts, emotions, and sensations may be. Reflect for an instant on how convincing they can be about what?s true or how it is. Mindfulness lets you detangle yourself from the grip of this false sense of reality, step back and detach from your fusion to your idea of self, and observe reality with more openness and acknowledgment. Target your mindful awareness with as much persistence and practice as those thoughts, emotions, and sensations have with convincing you of their messages.
Think about how long it has taken you in the years of your life to become thoroughly convinced of the inherent validity to your thoughts, feelings, and sensations as they arise. Start to embark upon a new journey toward viewing your lived experience with openness, curiosity, and acceptance without judgment. Instead of assuming that thoughts are true as they arise in your consciousness, see them, observe every part of them, and question them.
Observe how much better it starts to feel as you remove yourself from the paralysis of being fused to your experience. This is pure awareness. This is mindfulness.
Laura Schenck is a doctoral student of counseling psychology at the University of Northern Colorado. She comes to her work with clients from the mindfulness based perspectives of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Check out Laura?s website, Mindfulness Muse, for more of her ideas on mindfulness.
TUESDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers who found that two out of three severely obese children already have at least one risk factor for heart disease say their findings are cause for concern in light of increasing rates of childhood obesity.
The study authors assessed heart disease risk factors such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar levels, diabetes and cholesterol in 307 severely obese children, aged 2 to 18 years, in the Netherlands.
Boys tended to be more severely obese than girls at a younger age, while the reverse was true for girls, according to the study published online July 23 in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Overall, two-thirds (67 percent) of the children had at least one risk factor for heart disease. When it came to specific risk factors, 56 percent of the children had high blood pressure, 54 percent had high levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol, 14 percent had high blood sugar and just under 1 percent had type 2 diabetes.
The researchers were surprised to find that 62 percent of children aged 12 and younger had one or more heart disease risk factors.
Nearly one in three of the children came from one-parent families. Only one child's obesity was due to medical rather than lifestyle factors, Dr. Joana Kist-van Holthe, of the department of public and occupational health at EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research at VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, and colleagues noted.
"Internationally accepted criteria for defining severe obesity, and guidelines for early detection and treatment of severe obesity and [underlying ill health] are urgently needed," the researchers concluded in a journal news release.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about childhood overweight and obesity.
The so-called Maiden mummy of a 15-year-old Incan girl who was sacrificed 500 years ago is giving up some secrets, revealing the teenager suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of her death, scientists report Wednesday (July 25).
The researchers analyzed tissue proteins, rather than DNA, from the Maiden and another young Inca mummy who died at the same time.
Over the last decade, DNA techniques have proven useful in helping solve ancient mysteries, such as how King Tut died. But these techniques aren't without faults. For example, finding evidence of a malaria-causing parasite in King Tut's system doesn't necessarily mean the Egyptian king suffered any malaria symptoms. Additionally, the environment can easily contaminate DNA samples, if researchers aren't careful.
On the other hand, analyzing a sample's proteins, which are less susceptible to environmental contamination, yields a whole different set of information. "Being the expression of DNA, proteins really show you what the body is producing at the time when the individual is being sampled ? or, in our case, at the time of death," study researcher Angelique Corthals, a forensic anthropologist at the City University of New York, told LiveScience. In particular, proteins can tell you if the body's immune system has activated to fight a disease, she added. [The Mummy Quiz: Test Your Smarts]
Llullaillaco mummies
In their study, Corthals and her colleagues took lip swabs from two Andean Inca mummies, a 7-year-old boy and "the Maiden," as well as samples from the boy's bloodied cloak. The two child mummies, discovered in 1999, were originally buried on the summit of the Argentinian volcano Llullaillaco, 22,100 feet (6,739 meters) above sea level, after being sacrificed in a ceremonial ritual.
Past research found the boy and girl had been fattened up before sacrifice, being fed a typical peasant diet of potatoes and other common vegetables up until a year before their sacrifice, when evidence suggests they were given "elite" foods like maize and dried llama meat.
Once sacrificed, the freezing temperatures, among other factors, naturally preserved their fattened bodies. [Photos of the Inca Child Mummies]
"What I really wanted to do originally was see where the blood I found on the mummies' clothing and lips came from," Corthals said. "But we found a whole lot more than we were expecting."
Archaeologists also found a third mummy, a 6-year-old girl, along with the other two. This mummy appears to have been struck by lightning, which could potentially interfere with test results, so?Corthals and her team didn't take any samples from it.
Lung infection found
The researchers used a technique called shotgun proteomics. They placed their samples into a device called a mass spectrometer, which broke all of the sample's proteins into their constituent parts, amino-acid chains. Sophisticated software compared these parts with existing proteins of the human genome to determine the actual proteins in the samples, Corthals explained. "You couldn't use this technique for an organism that we don't have the complete genome for," she said.
They found that the Maiden's profile of proteins match that of a chronic respiratory infection patient. X-rays taken of the Maiden's lungs after she was discovered also showed signs of a lung infection. To see if the Maiden was harboring anything that could cause such an infection, they turned to DNA analysis and discovered evidence of bacteria in the genus Mycobacterium, which is known to cause upper respiratory-tract infections and tuberculosis (TB). Statistical models suggested the bacterium falls into the cluster group that causes TB, but the exact species isn't known, likely because its DNA hasn't been sequenced yet.
The Llullaillaco boy didn't have signs of disease or pathogenic bacteria.
The research shows that shotgun proteomics can play a critical role in determining the disease or death in archeological, medical and criminal cases, Corthals said, adding that the method may even be able to determine which pathogen is the killer in a case of multiple infections. For now, Corthals is interested in seeing whether the technique can be used with less pristine samples, such as skeletal material or Egyptian mummies.
Down the line, the protein technique's utility will likely go beyond just archaeology, researchers said. "I expect [the method's] biggest impact will be in criminal forensic science," Corthals said.
The new study is detailed online today (July 25) in the journal PLoS One.
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Every since I stumbled across this little skill called SEO, I?witnessed?the growth of the Internet from a side most still have no clue about. I was also able to expand my knowledge beyond just an SEO and stepped into the world of Internet Marketing. A whole different ball game that my SEO skills meshed with well. Upon arriving to the dance, I began to notice the change from traditional marketing channels used to inform the masses to new age ones that placed businesses at the fingertips of those searching for a particular business or product. And it started to hit me - Marketing and Branding make all the difference in your businesses survival.
Why Marketing Keeps Your Business Alive
The old saying of "if you build it, they will come" has just about met the end of its road. The average business in the U.S. closes in the first 2 to 5 years of opening their doors, and the majority closed due to lack of marketing. Even if your business is in a busy area with tons of foot traffic, you just can't rely on people floating in on a whim. Creating a marketing plan allows your business to gain the attention it needs as long as it can be found by those seeking your brand or product.
Over 300 million daily searches are performed in the U.S.
66% of those searches seeking a certain business, product or service contact or visit the business 82% of the time.
So when someone is searching for your product or brand, do they find you or your competition?
Branding is What It's All About
Marketing and Branding can actually be kissing cousins. Once you begin marketing your business, you've started to push your brand as well. A brand could be:
A product or service you offer
A certain type of business
Branding your business, product or service while Marketing is one thing, but building a solid reputation for it is what makes it stick. Growing your brand is all about its trust and reputation it builds in the eyes of its consumers. This means that what ever brand you offer the public of your network for sale, it has to be trust worthy enough to come back for more. If it doesn't accomplish this, then even your marketing is dead in the water because no one believes in your brand.
Market and Brand the Right Way
What do I mean by the right way? What I mean is make sure your marketing plan places your brand where people are searching for it. The number one issue with businesses opening is that they NEVER take the time to create a marketing plan or use old outdated marketing tactics expecting success. There lack of marketing knowledge and information doomed them from the start. Remember that your marketing Budget is ALWAYS a priority for your business. Without it, there is no real need to even open your business.
Chelsea Piers Connecticut booked its first expo for its new Stamford sports complex ? the Health Wellness & Sports Expo scheduled for Sept. 22-23.
Produced by Greenwich-based TMK Sports & Entertainment L.L.C., the event will feature nearly 75 exhibitors in the fields of alternative and sports medicine, nutrition, fitness, children?s health, pet wellness, fitness, spa and beauty treatments, active-wear fashion and lifetime sports, among others.
Admission is free, and those who bring in nonperishable food items will receive a free raffle ticket to win a healthy door prize, with food and proceeds donated to the Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County.
On Aug. 25, Chelsea Piers? field house will be the scene of a city of Stamford-sponsored attempt to set a world record by training more than 10,000 people in hands-only CPR over the course of the day.
Posted: July 24th, 2012 under Arts & Leisure, Fairfield, Hospitality by Alexander Soule
Tags: Chelsea Piers, Connecticut, CPR, expo, Fairfield County, Food Bank, Greenwich, health, sports, Stamford, TMK, wellness
Published: February 17, 2012 2:00 PM Updated: February 17, 2012 2:40 PM
It's been a hit musical since it opened Off Broadway in the 1970s and now you've got an opportunity to see it a little closer to home.
From Feb. 22-25, Highlands United Productions will perform Godspell, a full-scale musical based on the Gospel of St. Matthew, at Highlands church in North Vancouver.
Tickets are $20 and performances start at 7:30 p.m. Call 604-980-6071 ext. 23 to book. Highlands United Church is located at 3255 Edgemont Blvd. For more information: godspell@highlandsunited.org or Facebook: Highlands-Godspell.
HPV testing in HIV-positive women may help reduce frequent cervical cancer screeningPublic release date: 22-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Kim Newman sciencenews@einstein.yu.edu 718-430-3101 Albert Einstein College of Medicine
July 22, 2012 (BRONX, NY) Compared to the general population, HIV-positive women have a high risk of cervical cancer and thus are advised to undergo more frequent screening tests. This creates a burden for HIV-positive patients and the health care system, leading to frequent biopsies, which often do not reveal clinically relevant disease.
A new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University suggests that HIV-positive women may be able to use new methods that can help to safely reduce the frequency of screening in some women, similar to practices accepted in the general population. The findings will be published in the July 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a theme issue on HIV/AIDS.
Howard Strickler, M.D., M.P.H. professor of epidemiology and population health at Einstein and senior author of the study, presented the findings today at a JAMA media briefing at the International AIDS Conference.
As of 2009, 1.2 million people age 13 and older were living with HIV in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWomen accounted for about one-quarter of those infected.
In March 2012, the United States Preventive Services Task Force revised its cervical cancer screening guidelines for HIV-negative women aged 30 or older to once every five years from once every three years provided they have a normal Pap smear test and a negative test for human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus mainly responsible for cervical cancer. The Pap test detects precancerous or cancerous changes in the cervical lining and the HPV test detects cancer-associated types of the virus.
But those guidelines did not update screening recommendations for HIV-positive women. Current recommendations for HIV-positive women are to have two Pap tests, at six-month intervals, in the first year following diagnosis of HIV and, if normal, on an annual basis from then on. HPV testing is not currently recommended for HIV-positive women.
The current study looked at whether cervical cancer screening could be reduced in HIV-positive women who have a normal Pap test and a negative test for HPV. The Einstein researchers reasoned that for women with a normal Pap test and no evidence of cervical HPV infection, the risk of cervical precancer or cancer is likely to be very low for several years regardless of HIV status.
It is widely thought that before cervical precancer or cervical cancer can develop, there must be persistent infection by a cancer-associated HPV, as well as the accumulation of additional genetic changes over time, said Dr. Strickler.
The study analyzed data on 420 HIV-positive and 279 HIV-negative women who were enrolled in the Womens Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), the largest prospective study of HIV-positive women in the US. (Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for Einstein, is one of the six clinical sites for WIHS.) At enrollment, each woman had a normal Pap test and tested negative for the cancer-related HPV types. The womens rates of cervical precancer and cancer were measured after three- and five-years of follow-up.
At both the three- and five-year screening intervals, the incidence of cervical precancer was found to be similar in both HIV-positive and HIV-negative women. No cases of cervical cancer were detected in either group.
Overall, few cases of cervical precancer would have gone undiagnosed if the HIV-positive women did not have any additional Pap tests during the five years following enrollment no more than in the HIV-negative group, said lead author Marla Keller, M.D., associate professor of medicine and of obstetrics & gynecology and womens health at Einstein and attending physician, medicine at Montefiore. Thus, these data raise the possibility that HPV and Pap co-testing could be used to reduce the burden of frequent Pap tests and, by extension, unnecessary biopsies in HIV-positive women who are in long-term clinical follow-up.
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Other contributors include Robert Burk, M.D.; Xianhong Xie, Ph.D.; Kathryn Anastos, M.D.; and Xiaonan Xue, Ph.D., all at Einstein; L. Stewart Massad, M.D. (Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO); Howard Minkoff, M.D. (Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY); Gypsyamber DSouza, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD); D. Heather Watts, M.D. (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD); Alexandra Levine, M.D. (City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA); Philip Castle, Ph.D. (American Society for Clinical Pathology, Washington, DC); Christine Colie, M.D. (Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC); and Joel Palefsky, M.D. (University of California, San Francisco, CA).
The study was funded by several grants from the National Institutes of Health, including from the National Cancer Institute (CA085178), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (AI079763 and AI51519), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (HD32632), and the National Center for Research Resources (RR024131 and RR025750).
About Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University is one of the nations premier centers for research, medical education and clinical investigation. During the 2011-2012 academic year, Einstein is home to 724 M.D. students, 248 Ph.D. students, 117 students in the combined M.D./Ph.D. program, and 368 postdoctoral research fellows. The College of Medicine has 2,522 full time faculty members located on the main campus and at its clinical affiliates. In 2011, Einstein received nearly $170 million in awards from the NIH. This includes the funding of major research centers at Einstein in diabetes, cancer, liver disease, and AIDS. Other areas where the College of Medicine is concentrating its efforts include developmental brain research, neuroscience, cardiac disease, and initiatives to reduce and eliminate ethnic and racial health disparities. Its partnership with Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein, advances clinical and translational research to accelerate the pace at which new discoveries become the treatments and therapies that benefit patients. Through its extensive affiliation network involving Montefiore, Jacobi Medical Center)
Einsteins founding hospital, and five other hospital systems in the Bronx, Manhattan, Long Island and Brooklyn, Einstein runs one of the largest post-graduate medical training programs in the United States, offering approximately 155 residency programs to more than 2,200 physicians in training. For more information, please visit www.einstein.yu.edu and follow us on Twitter @EinsteinMed.
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HPV testing in HIV-positive women may help reduce frequent cervical cancer screeningPublic release date: 22-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Kim Newman sciencenews@einstein.yu.edu 718-430-3101 Albert Einstein College of Medicine
July 22, 2012 (BRONX, NY) Compared to the general population, HIV-positive women have a high risk of cervical cancer and thus are advised to undergo more frequent screening tests. This creates a burden for HIV-positive patients and the health care system, leading to frequent biopsies, which often do not reveal clinically relevant disease.
A new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University suggests that HIV-positive women may be able to use new methods that can help to safely reduce the frequency of screening in some women, similar to practices accepted in the general population. The findings will be published in the July 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a theme issue on HIV/AIDS.
Howard Strickler, M.D., M.P.H. professor of epidemiology and population health at Einstein and senior author of the study, presented the findings today at a JAMA media briefing at the International AIDS Conference.
As of 2009, 1.2 million people age 13 and older were living with HIV in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWomen accounted for about one-quarter of those infected.
In March 2012, the United States Preventive Services Task Force revised its cervical cancer screening guidelines for HIV-negative women aged 30 or older to once every five years from once every three years provided they have a normal Pap smear test and a negative test for human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus mainly responsible for cervical cancer. The Pap test detects precancerous or cancerous changes in the cervical lining and the HPV test detects cancer-associated types of the virus.
But those guidelines did not update screening recommendations for HIV-positive women. Current recommendations for HIV-positive women are to have two Pap tests, at six-month intervals, in the first year following diagnosis of HIV and, if normal, on an annual basis from then on. HPV testing is not currently recommended for HIV-positive women.
The current study looked at whether cervical cancer screening could be reduced in HIV-positive women who have a normal Pap test and a negative test for HPV. The Einstein researchers reasoned that for women with a normal Pap test and no evidence of cervical HPV infection, the risk of cervical precancer or cancer is likely to be very low for several years regardless of HIV status.
It is widely thought that before cervical precancer or cervical cancer can develop, there must be persistent infection by a cancer-associated HPV, as well as the accumulation of additional genetic changes over time, said Dr. Strickler.
The study analyzed data on 420 HIV-positive and 279 HIV-negative women who were enrolled in the Womens Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), the largest prospective study of HIV-positive women in the US. (Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for Einstein, is one of the six clinical sites for WIHS.) At enrollment, each woman had a normal Pap test and tested negative for the cancer-related HPV types. The womens rates of cervical precancer and cancer were measured after three- and five-years of follow-up.
At both the three- and five-year screening intervals, the incidence of cervical precancer was found to be similar in both HIV-positive and HIV-negative women. No cases of cervical cancer were detected in either group.
Overall, few cases of cervical precancer would have gone undiagnosed if the HIV-positive women did not have any additional Pap tests during the five years following enrollment no more than in the HIV-negative group, said lead author Marla Keller, M.D., associate professor of medicine and of obstetrics & gynecology and womens health at Einstein and attending physician, medicine at Montefiore. Thus, these data raise the possibility that HPV and Pap co-testing could be used to reduce the burden of frequent Pap tests and, by extension, unnecessary biopsies in HIV-positive women who are in long-term clinical follow-up.
###
Other contributors include Robert Burk, M.D.; Xianhong Xie, Ph.D.; Kathryn Anastos, M.D.; and Xiaonan Xue, Ph.D., all at Einstein; L. Stewart Massad, M.D. (Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO); Howard Minkoff, M.D. (Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY); Gypsyamber DSouza, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD); D. Heather Watts, M.D. (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD); Alexandra Levine, M.D. (City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA); Philip Castle, Ph.D. (American Society for Clinical Pathology, Washington, DC); Christine Colie, M.D. (Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC); and Joel Palefsky, M.D. (University of California, San Francisco, CA).
The study was funded by several grants from the National Institutes of Health, including from the National Cancer Institute (CA085178), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (AI079763 and AI51519), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (HD32632), and the National Center for Research Resources (RR024131 and RR025750).
About Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University is one of the nations premier centers for research, medical education and clinical investigation. During the 2011-2012 academic year, Einstein is home to 724 M.D. students, 248 Ph.D. students, 117 students in the combined M.D./Ph.D. program, and 368 postdoctoral research fellows. The College of Medicine has 2,522 full time faculty members located on the main campus and at its clinical affiliates. In 2011, Einstein received nearly $170 million in awards from the NIH. This includes the funding of major research centers at Einstein in diabetes, cancer, liver disease, and AIDS. Other areas where the College of Medicine is concentrating its efforts include developmental brain research, neuroscience, cardiac disease, and initiatives to reduce and eliminate ethnic and racial health disparities. Its partnership with Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein, advances clinical and translational research to accelerate the pace at which new discoveries become the treatments and therapies that benefit patients. Through its extensive affiliation network involving Montefiore, Jacobi Medical Center)
Einsteins founding hospital, and five other hospital systems in the Bronx, Manhattan, Long Island and Brooklyn, Einstein runs one of the largest post-graduate medical training programs in the United States, offering approximately 155 residency programs to more than 2,200 physicians in training. For more information, please visit www.einstein.yu.edu and follow us on Twitter @EinsteinMed.
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With the Summer Olympics taking place in London from July 27 to August 12, now is a good time to remind pet parents that the quarantine that kept many of us from traveling to the United Kingdom with dogs and cats is no longer in effect. Taking a pet to London can be a breeze.
Taking a pet to London used to be unheard of because of the quarantine designed to keep rabies out of the UK. Remember when Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton famously rented an 120-foot yacht at a cost of ?$2,400 a week, or what would amount to $15,790 a week based on inflation, to house their four pooches because taking a pet to London was nearly impossible? The couple wanted to get around the United Kingdom?s six-month quarantine ?while Burton was shooting a movie near London.?From the Gettysburg Times on February 17, 1968:?
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Taking a pet to London
Today, jetsetters taking their pet to London during the Olympics or any other time no longer have to shell out those kind of bucks to be near their pampered pooch, fine feline or fabulous ferret while in London or any other part of the United Kingdom.
Taking a pet to London became easier when the United Kingdom Pet Entry Regulations changed on January 1, 2012. At that time, the UK brought its procedures into line with the European Union. From that date all pets can enter or re-enter the UK from any country in the world without quarantine provided they meet the rules of the scheme, which will be different depending on the country or territory the pet is coming from.
Many dog lovers were excited to hear about Britain?s PETS (Pet Travel Scheme) Program. This program permits qualifying countries to allow people traveling with dogs to avoid the lengthy six-month U.K. pet quarantine. Back on November 20, 2002, Britain announced that effective December 11, 2002, both the U.S. and Canada are now considered qualifying countries.
Now a pet owner can follow a check list of requirements in order to bring their pooch with them to the U.K. However, there are still several drawbacks to this program regarding taking a pet to London. If any of the requirements in the PETS program are not followed, your dog will still be placed into quarantine, with a petition for early release. All dogs must enter into England via cargo on an airplane (an airplane?s cargo section can be potentially dangerous for dogs). Dogs also cannot arrive via private plane or boat.
And if you own a Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa, Dog Argentino, or a Filo Braziliero, do not even think of coming to England. These breeds are considered ?dangerous dogs? by the UK and might be seized and destroyed. For full details or before you travel, you will need to visit Defra?s website?(official website for PETS) for United Kingdom Pet Entry Regulations.
For more about bringing a pet into the United Kingdom?or taking a pet to London, click here.
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With the Summer Olympics taking place in London from July 27 to August 12, now is a good time to remind pet parents that the quarantine that kept many of us from traveling to the United Kingdom with dogs and cats is no longer in effect. Taking a pet to London can be a breeze.