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b) What is the value of h? Hint: it is different by tens of orders of magnitude from our universe.?
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How is the volume flow rate through a pipe related to the cross-sectional area of the pipe and the speed of the flow?
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The figure shows an outstretched arm (0.61 m in length) that is parallel to the floor. The arm is pulling downward against the ring attached to the pulley system, in order to hold the 98-N weight stationary. To pull the arm downward, the latissimus dorsi muscle applies the force in the figure, at a point that is 0.069 m from the shoulder joint and oriented at an angle of 29°. The arm has a weight of 41 N and a center of gravity (cg) that is located 0.28 m from the shoulder joint. Find the magnitude of .
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The diameter of the nucleus is about 11fm . A simple model of the nucleus is that protons and neutrons are confined within a one-dimensional box of length 11fm .
Part A
What is the first energy level, in MeV, for a proton in such a box?
Express your answer to three significant figures and include the appropriate units.
Part B
What is the second energy level, in MeV, for a proton in such a box?
Express your answer to three significant figures and include the appropriate units.
Part C
What is the third energy level, in MeV, for a proton in such a box?
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By John Reynolds, marketingmagazine.co.uk, Monday, 23 April 2012 09:06AM
Nestle has agreed to buy Pfizer's baby food division for $11.85bn, increasing its hold on the Chinese market and boosting its dominance over French rival Danone.
The purchase of the division (announced today 23 April) will particuarly help to boost sales in China, where the company has lost market share in the past five years after withdrawing two varieties of its Neslac milk powder over concerns it contained excessive iodine.
Paul Bulcke, Nestle chief executive, said: "Pfizer Nutrition is an excellent strategic fit and this acquisition underlines our commitment to be the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company.
"The combined entities will enable us to deepen our engagement with consumers, offering them a wider choice of nutritious food to ensure their children make a healthy start to a healthy life."
Nestle is thought to have beaten Danone to the purchase of the unit, as the two companies grapple for pre-eminence in the lucrative baby food business.
The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to be completed by 2013.
Pfizer's baby food division provides products, including infant formulas Promil and SMA as well as Enercal supplements for adults, to more than 60 countries.
The unit accounted for 3.2% of Pfizer's revenues in 2011, according to its financial accounts.
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Giving mum a break! Brooklyn Beckham carries little sister Harper as they arrive back in the UK
Harper Beckham is rarely seen out of her mother's arms, but on Tuesday she let her brother Brooklyn, 14, carry her around.
The Beckham's eldest child carried their youngest as they arrived back into the UK from Los Angeles.
Victoria in the meantime organised her kids into the waiting cars, no doubt appreciating the rare use of her arms.
Giving mum a break! Brooklyn Beckham, 14, carries his younger sister Harper upon their return from America
The brother and sister dressed in similar fashion, Brooklyn wore blue jeans a white Gant T-shirt, and Harper wore denim too and a grey jumper to protect from the chillier UK weather.
However, the one-year old had an outfit change halfway through the flight, as earlier at LAX airport, she had been wearing a grey dress and orange shoes.
Brooklyn carried his sister into the black SUV before the whole family drove home from Heathrow airport.
I got you sis! It's rare to see Harper out of her mother's arms
Where's mum? At first Harper looks perturbed to be away from her mum, but she soon settles in to her brother's arms
Rare moment of freedom: Victoria jumps out of their car and organises the rest of her brood
Victoria's daughter looked incredibly well dressed and very on trend as she wore a pair of neon orange shoes on Monday as they bid farewell to LA.
The one-year-old took pride of place in the arms of her mother as they walked through Los Angeles International Airport together with the bright footwear standing out.
Harper was dressed well in a plain dark grey shirt Buckie dress, from Caramel Baby & Child, costing £65.00, which was teamed perfectly with the pair of bright orange shoes.
Landed: The family had arrived back to Heathrow airport on Tuesday
Having a laugh: Cruz and Romeo chat to an attendant before jumping in the SUV home
Eye catching: Harper Beckham was dressed on trend in a pair of neon orange shoes as she arrived at LAX on Monday
Looking good ladies: Victoria and Harper were both well dressed for their trip to the airport
Victoria had clearly benefited from the Californian sunshine as she showed off her tanned legs as she carried Harper through the terminal.
Her youngest child completely stole the spotlight from her famous mother with her undeniable cuteness.
Standout star: Victoria was thoroughly outshone by her cute little daughter
Super styled: Victoria will be able to take some credit for her well dressed little girl
Sleepy head: Harper appeared to be feeling slightly sleepy in her mother's arms, and held on tight to her comforter
Busy body: Victoria also had sons Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz to look after as she walked through the terminal
Fun in the sun: Victoria looked rather tanned as she hid her eyes behind a pair of sunglasses
Family time: Victoria kept a watchful eye over all of her children as they walked through the terminal
However, the former Spice Girl did her best to compete as she wore a short black skirt from her Victoria Beckham Spring/Summer 2013 collection with a matching long sleeve jumper.
She teamed the outfit with a pair of brown heeled sandals and hid her eyes behind some oversized sunglasses from Victoria Beckham eyewear.
A helping hand: Attentive brother Brooklyn is always around to look after his little sister
Precious cargo: Victoria made sure Harper stayed looking good as she adjusted her hair
While Victoria made sure her daughter took pride of place in her arms, her other children cut some pretty cool figures too.
Eldest son Brooklyn looked like a real teenager in a quirky white T-shirt with a picture of a bird on it as he teamed it with a pair of blue chinos and Vans trainers.
Cruz control: Romeo followed his little brother as the cool dressed family headed through the terminal
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Full hands: Victoria Beckham looked lovely and tanned as she carried daughter Harper through LAX on Monday afternoon
Back packing: Each of the boys carried their own rucksacks as they headed for the plane
One for the scrap book: Victoria held Harper while tenderly touching Brooklyn
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It's imperative we adopt, implement and fund the nation's new Next Generation Science Standards in Washington state, according to guest columnists Sonia Siegel-Vexler and Jeff Estes.
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ON her 11th birthday, Olivia Kinney donned goggles and gloves to test oxygen levels in pond water at an off-site Pacific Science Center program. "I love this," the Bothell girl said. "I want to do this the rest of my life."
As educators, we're thrilled. As a society, we have a responsibility to provide the strong science education Olivia and her generation will need to compete in a global economy and make meaningful decisions about water quality, health care, climate change and cybersecurity.
It's imperative we adopt, implement and fund the nation's new Next Generation Science Standards in Washington state, one of the most science- and technology-dependent economies in the nation. National recommendations on science education have not changed since 1996. Back then, the Internet was not as widely used, brain research had not yet revealed children's capacity for scientific understanding and classroom science relied more on acquiring facts than understanding concepts.
The new guidelines build a clear progression of science skills from kindergarten through grade 12. By graduation, students should understand science and technological information so they can engage in public dialogue and make personal decisions. They should possess the skills required for a STEM workforce, short for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
In Washington, Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Paccar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the LIGO Hanford Observatory are leading global change in transportation, software, e-commerce, energy and space. Businesses are hungry for graduates literate in science and technology. Sadly, we cannot provide the talent needed to fill higher-wage positions since Washington ranks 46th in the nation in the number of STEM graduate students.
Washington currently has 20,000 unfilled jobs due to lack of qualified candidates in health care, computer science, engineering and other STEM sectors. By 2017, the gap is expected to skyrocket to 45,000 jobs. Instead of growing and employing our own talent, we're exporting jobs, outsourcing and importing science-tech grads.
The problem, and solution, starts in elementary school, where most children do not get the sustained science education they deserve. Half of fourth-grade teachers in Washington teach less than two hours of science per week. Only four states in the country report less science instruction. And one in four Washington elementary school teachers do not teach any science at all.
We know it can be done. Washington State Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER) has worked with Yakima's West Valley School District for more than a decade on science themes in K-12. In this rural community, where 42 percent of children qualify for subsidized lunches, elementary students study salmon life cycles and raise salmon fry. Middle-schoolers study how dams impact salmon and provide energy. High-schoolers examine stream health and salmon survivability.
Last year, 80 percent of West Valley's fifth-graders met state science standards, 14 percent above state average and a 45 percent increase since science testing started eight years ago.
Let's open career doors for all children — including girls, low-income students and students of color — by providing strong science education early, both in and out of the classroom. Studies show the most important determinant of a STEM career is whether by age 13 youngsters can picture themselves doing a STEM-related job.
Every student should learn science every day, starting in kindergarten. Kids are naturally curious and learn best from firsthand investigation and engineering challenges. Subsequent grades can build on this strong foundation. And as Olivia's aha moment shows, we must cultivate an educational ecosystem that connects the classroom to the world beyond, including community institutions dedicated to STEM learning.
Everyone can help make science and the Next Generation Science Standards accessible to all students. Ask your legislator to support funding for professional development in science education. Request your school district teach science in every grade. And take your kids, or any kids, to a science center, science festival, aquarium, zoo or park. Our students and economy thank you.
Sonia Siegel-Vexler and Jeff Estes codirect LASER, a state program led by Pacific Science Center and Battelle with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Educational Service Districts and school districts.
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The New Testament was originally written in Greek, and it apparently did not occur to the writers that a visualization of the many (and lengthy) Biblical genealogies would be helpful. They knew a lot about geometry but nothing about infographics.
Given the importance of the New Testament genealogies for the foundation of Christianity (see The role of biblical genealogies in phylogenetics), it is not at all surprising that eventually someone had a go at summarizing them all in one place. However, this did not happen until several centuries later, when the Bible was being translated into Latin. Perhaps this delay had something to do with the biblical prohibition on images.
The first known attempt to draw a biblical pedigree, rather than writing out the relationships as text, also appears to have been the first attempt at a genealogy of any sort. Jean-Baptiste Piggin has been researching this document since 2009, and he has remarkably extensive notes about it at his web site Macro-Typography. Piggin dates the document to sometime in the decades before 427 AD, which is surprisingly early and thus unique in its historical context (Late Antiquity).
Importantly, the pedigree is actually an infographic in the modern sense, in that the figure itself conveys almost all of the information, with the text acting as a supplement. Thus, a single image allows the viewer to grasp the overview (of biblical history in this case), as well as providing access to the details. This is an idea that did not really catch on until the Medieval period, when Latin manuscripts started to use images as pedagogic devices, in addition to their textual descriptions. An obvious example is the so-called Tree of Porphyry in logic, which was first described in words by Porphyry of Tyre in c. 270 AD (Isagoge), sketched by Boëthius c. 520 AD (In Porphyrium Commentariorum), and finally reproduced as an actual tree diagram in Medieval manuscripts (being named arbor Porphyrii by Petrus Hispanus in 1240, in Summulae Logicales).
Sadly, there is no extant copy of this early biblical pedigree, and so we do not know who produced it or exactly when; nor do we have any of the copies made during the following 500 years. We do, however, have 24 complete or partial copies from the period 950-1250, many of them incorporated into Spanish editions of the Bible. Piggin has studied these copies extensively, and tried to reconstruct what he thinks the original document most probably looked like.
Piggin reconstructs the document (shown above), which he calls the Great Stemma, as a single scroll made from papyrus, designed to be unrolled and read from the upper left towards the middle right. All extant copies, however, break the figure up into sections, for inclusion as pages in a parchment manuscript (a codex) typical of the Medieval period.
Reconstruction was not an easy task, given the later modifications, digressions and embellishments, made with each successive hand-drawn copy. In particular, the process of reducing the long scroll to sequential pages apparently introduced many errors; and subsequent modifications degraded the logic of the original intention. Incidentally, embellishments do not improve the communication of information (see Mistaken improvements), and nor necessarily do modifications, since in this case they often created contradictions.
Above is a schematic overview of the reconstructed original scroll, but you can zoom in to all of the details by visiting Piggin's original reconstruction. Each circle represents one person (out of 540), with connecting lines showing their genealogical relationships — marriage, parent-offspring or brotherly (these are inter-mixed). Time is read left to right along the top (Adam is at the top-left), with vertical excursions downwards for lineages that do not lead to Jesus (who is at the middle-right). Note that the pedigree is drawn using nodes and lines, as we still do, but it is not drawn anything like a tree (ie. a "family tree"). Indeed, it is actually a network, since two ancestral lineages converge on Jesus (via Joseph and Mary).
The diagram also has a distinct timeline superimposed, shown as the elements without circles, which attempts to synchronize biblical events with contemporaneous secular history. So, Piggin notes that the Stemma it is "not just a genealogy, but a graphic version of the universal chronicles which attempted in antiquity to cross reference the histories of different civilizations to establish an overview of Middle Eastern and Graeco-Roman history." However, the timeline is not calibrated in any way (ie. time changes are not constant).
Below, I have included pages from some of the extant manuscripts, to show their variety after more than 500 years of scribes making copies.
The above figure is the first page from the Roda Codex, in the Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid) cod.78 (dated 990 AD). This is the start of the genealogy, with Adam at the top-left, and illustrating his family.
The above figure is the third page from an unnamed manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library (New York) M.644 (dated 940-945 AD). This one shows Noah and his non-Semite descendants.
The above figure is the final page from an unnamed manuscript in the Plutei collection at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenzian (Florence) Plut.20.54 (dated 1050 AD). This shows the incarnation of Jesus, at the end of the genealogy, illustrating the confluence of the lineages described by Matthew (at the top) and Luke (at the bottom).
Piggin notes that here may actually have been few early copies of the Stemma, because of the difficulty of transcribing illustrations by hand. That is, it is very difficult to accurately hand-copy a diagram, as opposed to copying text (where only the words matter not their visual style). Indeed, to what extent did the scribes actually understand that they needed a precise copy? Copying complex technical drawings requires careful measurement and layout, and yet some of the copies seem to have been very badly planned. Piggin suggests that "the serious corruption done to the Great Stemma early in its diffusion led to it ultimately being discarded and begun all over again by medieval writers such as Peter of Poitiers." The reference is to the Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi by Petrus Pictaviensis (Peter of Poitiers) produced in c.1185 AD, and for which there are many extant copies dated from that time to 1650 AD — he used long rolls for his genealogies.
Finally, Piggin even has a suggestion for a small ancient board game that might have provided inspiration for the form of the infographic (see Board Game). This is important, because there are no known prior models for constructing such a diagram — apart from geometry, no-one had previously produced an image that illustrated non-corporeal ideas.
Footnote: The word stemma referred originally to an ancient Roman genealogy (sometimes displayed in homes), which is roughly how it is used by Piggin. However, these days the word is more commonly used in anthropology to refer to a genealogy of manuscript copies. A genealogy of manuscripts is more properly called a stemma codicum.
November 15, 2014
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We would like to invite abstract submissions for a Symposium on The Evolution of Sex Chromosomes to be held during the next ESEB Congress, Lausanne, 10-14 August 2015 The evolution of sex determination is a major question in evolutionary biology. Until recently, however, our views on sex determination and on the mechanisms driving sex chromosome evolution have been heavily based on data from only a handful of classically studied model organisms (e.g. Mus, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, Silene), with a focus on the evolutionary consequences of recombination arrest. With the recent advent of the genomic era, this field is now experiencing an empirical renaissance, expanding at an unprecedented pace. Next-generation tools have already led to a flurry of new discoveries. Attention has broadened to non-model organisms, including algae and fungi where sex is determined at the haploid level. Studies on fish, amphibians and reptiles are imposing the view that degeneration is not the ineluctable destiny of sex chromosomes, and that the old dichotomy between genetic and environmental sex determination should be reappraised. Most importantly, the mechanisms of sex determination appear now evolutionarily much more labile than thought just one decade ago. What drives the surprising dynamics of such a fundamental process that, at the end, always leads to the same and simple output, i.e. the production of males and females? With this Symposium, we hope to gather theoreticians and empiricists working on a diversity of systems, and interested in the molecular mechanisms, ultimate causes, and evolutionary consequences of sex chromosome evolution. Our invited speakers are Doris Bachtrog (http://bit.ly/1ENqQ1E) and James Umen (http://bit.ly/1uweDva) Registration to the meeting and abstract submission are processed through the site http://bit.ly/1ENqNTG. The deadline for submission is January 10, 2015. The organizers: Susana Coelho (firstname.lastname@example.com) and Nicolas Perrin (email@example.com). Nicolas Perrin via Gmail
A post-doctoral position is available in the lab of Michel Slotman in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University (http://bit.ly/1q2xluC). Our lab focuses on the evolutionary and behavioral genetics/genomics of disease transmitting mosquitoes. The post-doc will conduct NIH-funded research into the genomic basis of outdoor feeding preference of the African malaria mosquito An. gambiae, using a pool-seq approach. In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to contribute to ongoing research into the genetic basis of the attraction of An. gambiae to human hosts. The ideal candidate will have a background in population genetics, experience with analyzing next-generation sequencing data, and familiarity with R and Python (or Perl). The position is available for two years with a negotiable start date. To apply please send a cover letter, CV, PDFs of representative publications, and contact information for three references to email@example.com. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the position. The Texas A&M System is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disability Employer committed to diversity. Michel Slotman via Gmail
*Thanks to support from NESCent and donors, student travel awards are now available for The International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Inaugural Meeting. **To apply see http://bit.ly/1vaNFak * *December 1, 2014 Early registration and abstract deadlineMarch 19-21, 2015 at Arizona State University* March 18, 2015 Pre-meeting for directors of evolutionary medicine programs The International Society for Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health will hold its inaugural meeting March 19-21 in Tempe, Arizona. Early registration and abstract submission are open until December 1st. Early registrants receive a substantial discount, and all fees are refundable until February 15th. This meeting will bring together scientists, scholars, teachers, clinicians, and students in the evolution and medicine community to share ideas and create new connections that will advance the field. This will be the first large open meeting designed to bridge the many different disciplines (e.g. infectious disease, genetics, clinical medicine, veterinary medicine, anthropology, psychology, etc.) where relevant research takes place. Students and clinicians with an interest in the field are especially welcome. The format will include invited speakers, shorter presentations, discussion groups and poster sessions. This meeting is co-sponsored by The Society and the Arizona State University Center for Evolution & Medicine. For full meeting information visit: http://bit.ly/1vaNFak *Pre-meeting for Directors of Evolutionary Medicine Programs, Centers, and Institutes*, and those who are considering organizing such units will be held Wednesday, March 18, 12 pm - 5 pm. Organizers include Randolph Nesse, Gillian Bentley, Daniel Blumstein, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, and Frank Rhle. For information about the pre-meeting visit: http://bit.ly/1vaNFak *Plenary Speakers* *Harvey Fineberg *Institute of Medicine *Stephen Stearns *Yale University *Barbara Natterson-Horowitz *UCLA *Sir Peter Gluckman *University of Auckland *Ruslan Medzhitov *Yale University *Ann Demogines *(Omenn Award Winner) BioFire Diagnostics *Confirmed participants include:* Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington | Sudhir Kumar, Temple University | Daniel Lieberman, Harvard University | Gilbert Omenn, University of Michigan Allen Rodrigo, NESCent | Frank Rhli, University of Zurich | Elizabeth Uhl, University of Georgia | Robert Perlman, University of Chicago | Ajit Varki, UC San Diego | Gillian Bentley, Durham University | Bernard Crespi, Simon Fraser University | David Haig, Harvard University | Andrew Read, Penn State University Mark Schwartz, New York University | Marlene Zuk, University of Minnesota | Cynthia Beall, Case Western University | Charles Nunn, Duke University | Randolph Nesse, Arizona State University | Carlo Maley, UCSF | Athena Aktipis, UCSF | Wenda Trevathan, New Mexico State University | Matthew Keller, University of Colorado, Boulder | Lewis Wolpert, University College London | Joshua Schiffman, University of Utah | Joseph Alcock, University of New Mexico | Kathleen Barnes, Johns Hopkins University | Fabio Zampieri, University of Padua, Italy | Michael Ruse, Florida State University | Detlev Ganten, World Health Summit, Berlin | Grazyna Jasienska, Jagellonian University, Poland | Beverly Strassmann, University of Michigan | Daniel Blumstein, UCLS Mark Flinn, University of Missouri | Koos Boomsma, University of Copenhagen *Sponsor Websites*: The International Society for Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health http://bit.ly/1eXchLd and The Arizona State University Center for Evolution & Medicine http://bit.ly/1mP32pF Randolph Nesse via Gmail
I am looking for a graduate student to work on my NSERC-funded research on the relationship between variation in sexual differentiation and personality. Research in the Hurd lab (aka the Sex and Violence Lab) centres on questions relating to the evolution of genetic, epigenetic and environmental influences on sexual development and their long-term effect on personality (along the lines spelled out in/Trends in Ecology and Evolution/.*29*:581V589 - doi:10.1016/j.tree.2014.07.008 ). The current opening is for a MSc or PhD project investigating social and environmental influences on gene regulation related to sexual differentiation during early life and subsequent life-long, and intergenerational, individual differences in brain and behaviour in a cichlid fish model. Broadly, lab members have interests in neuroscience, behavioural ecology, and/or comparative psychology, with some human personality psychology and behavioural genetics interests as well. Prospective students are expected to have a background including coursework or research experience within these fields, with behavioural ecology, neuroscience and/or genetics of particular value. Opportunities exist to pursue related side-projects related to genetics and epigenetics of sex and personality in human subjects as well. The official application deadline is 15 January 2015 for admission in September 2015, however applications will be reviewed as soon as they are complete. Earlier candidates will also have an advantage in competing for the usual departmental and University prizes and inducements. Please refer to our departmental web pages for information about our graduate program (http://bit.ly/1q2uUbo), and to my own web page (http://bit.ly/1sPJzCd) for more detailed recent information research in my laboratory. Peter L. Hurd Associate Chair, Undergrad Associate Professor Department of Psychology Centre for Neuroscience University of Alberta firstname.lastname@example.com Edmonton, Alberta http://bit.ly/1q2uUbq T6G 2E9 Canada "Peter L. Hurd" via Gmail
The Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation is a collaboration between Northwestern University (NU) and the Chicago Botanic Garden (CBG). Both MS and PhD degrees are offered, including a new internship-based MS degree. The programs offer a unique opportunity to study ecology, evolution, and environmental issues at the interface of basic and applied plant science. Students apply to the program through Northwestern University and take their courses at both NU and CBG with faculty from both institutions. The Plant Conservation and Science Center at CBG is a tremendous resource for students, and the Chicago region provides an excellent community at the forefront of research in conservation and sustainability. Faculty research areas include: To learn more, contact the program director, Nyree Zerega (firstname.lastname@example.com) or visit our websites: Graduate Program: http://bit.ly/1aIZfxC Plant Science Center: http://bit.ly/1dqeJNl Application deadlines: PhD: December 31, 2014 MS (thesis-based): February 15, 2015 MS (internship-based) Applications will be reviewed beginning February 15 and review will continue through April 30, 2014, and admissions are on a rolling basis. Nyree J C Zerega via Gmail
Hello all (my apologies for cross posting), OTS is offering a graduate level course on Tropical Plant Systematics in Spanish for 2015. This course is an intensive, five-week field introduction to the identification, inventory, classification, and phylogenetic analysis of tropical vascular plants. This course is primarily for plant systematists but will also interest ecologists, zoologists, and conservation biologists - anyone whose research requires a broad knowledge of plant relationships and classification. Faculty: Mario Blanco, Ph.D. Universidad de Costa Rica. Lucas C. Majure, Ph.D. Desert Botanical Garden, AZ. For more information go to: http://bit.ly/1EKLyiS I would appreciate your help letting graduate students know about this opportunity. Best, Andrs Santana Graduate Education Department Organization for Tropical Studies San Pedro, Costa Rica. 676-2050 (506) 2524-0607 ext. 1511 Skype: andres.santana_otscro www.ots.ac.cr twitter: @ots_tropicaledu Andrs Santana Mora via Gmail
*The registration to the 10th topical meeting of the Ethological Society: "Causes and consequences of social behaviour" is now open (and closes on 18th December 2014). The conference will be held at the University of Hamburg 11th-14th February 2015. * For further information and registration please visit our website: http://bit.ly/11pFOwI or contact us under info(at)ethology-hamburg-2015.de email@example.com via Gmail
November 14, 2014
Dear colleagues, We are very happy to invite submissions to the following ESEB 2015 symposium: Forecasting Eco-Evolutionary Responses To Global Changes Our goal is to highlight current empirical and theoretical studies that mix evolutionary and ecological approaches to investigate the fate of species' ranges or persistence under a changing environment. The 15th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, from August 10 - 14 2015. http://bit.ly/1rIZnbW INVITED SPEAKERS Katja Schiffers (Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Grenoble, France) http://bit.ly/1xB4Pjl Kathleen Donohue (Duke University, NC, USA) http://bit.ly/1GZC3yg ORGANISERS Frdric Guillaume (University of Zurich, Switzerland) http://bit.ly/1puEGzN Ophlie Ronce (CNRS - University of Montpellier, France) http://bit.ly/1GZC31p SYNOPSIS "Evolutionary biology is seldom seen as a predictive science mostly because evolutionary changes are traditionally expected to occur over long time scales where it becomes impossible to predict evolutionary trajectories. Current evidence for rapid adaptive changes on short time scales challenges this vision and argues for the inclusion of evolutionary responses into ecological niche modelling of shifting species' distributions under climate changes. Ecological forecasting of future species' ranges has been preferred based on the premise of conservatism of species' fundamental ecological niches on the time scale of global change. The question of niche conservatism is currently intensely debated and a role for evolutionary adaptation in niche dynamics is expected. Current niche modelling predictions of species extinctions may thus be inaccurate whenever species have the capacity to adapt to novel conditions outside their niche. On the other hand, evolutionary processes may aggr avate the consequences of environmental changes on species persistence whenever the evolution of adaptive traits is limited by genetic or demographic constraints. This symposium aims at highlighting recent efforts to bring together ecological and evolutionary approaches to better understand and predict the potential responses of natural species to environmental changes and the impact of ongoing global changes on the maintenance of biodiversity." The DEADLINE for abstract submission is January 10, 2015. Further details on ABSTRACT SUBMISSION and the conference are here: http://bit.ly/1rIZnbW Abstracts will be evaluated by the symposium organisers and will be selected for either oral or poster presentation by early March. When submitting your abstract please state your preference (talk, poster). We are looking forward to holding a very exciting symposium! Fred Guillaume & Ophlie Ronce via Gmail
Genetic and phenotypic characterization of a hybrid zone between polyandrous Northern and Wattled Jacanas in Western Panama
Background: Hybridization provides a unique perspective into the ecological, genetic and behavioral context of speciation. Hybridization is common in birds, but has not yet been reported among bird species with a simultaneously polyandrous mating system; a mating system where a single female defends a harem of males who provide nearly all parental care. Unlike simple polyandry, polyandrous mating is extremely rare in birds, with only 1% of bird species employing this mating system. Although it is classically held that females are "choosy" in avian hybrid systems, nearly-exclusive male parental care raises the possibility that female selection against heterospecific matings might be reduced compared to birds with other mating systems. Results: We describe a narrow hybrid zone in southwestern Panama between two polyandrous freshwater waders: Northern Jacana, Jacana spinosa and Wattled Jacana, J. jacana. We document coincident cline centers for three phenotypic traits, mtDNA, and one of two autosomal introns. Cline widths for these six markers varied from seven to 142 km, with mtDNA being the narrowest, and five of the six markers having widths less than 100 km. Cline tails were asymmetrical, with greater introgression of J. jacana traits extending westward into the range of J. spinosa. Likewise, within the hybrid zone, the average hybrid index of phenotypic hybrids was significantly biased towards J. spinosa. Species distribution models indicate that the hybrid zone is located at the edge of a roughly 100 km wide overlap where habitat is predicted to be suitable for both species, with more westerly areas suitable only for spinosa and eastward habitats suitable only for J. jacana. Conclusion: The two species of New World jacanas maintain a narrow, and persistent hybrid zone in western Panama. The hybrid zone may be maintained by the behavioral dominance of J. spinosa counterbalanced by unsuitable habitat for J. spinosa east of the contact zone. Although the two parental species are relatively young, mitochondrial cline width was extremely narrow. This result suggests strong selection against maternally-inherited markers, which may indicate either mitonuclear incompatibilities and/or female choice against heterospecific matings typical of avian hybrid systems, despite jacana sex role reversal.
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Dear colleagues, We would like to invite abstract submissions for the symposium "Novel insights in the genetics of sex-specific variation" at the ESEB 2015 conference in Lausanne. Invited speakers: - Daphne Fairbairn (UC Riverside) - Tim Connalon (Monash University) Organisers: - Elina Immonen (Uppsala University) - Holger Schielzeth (Bielefeld University) - Arild Husby (University of Helsinki) This symposium aims to bring together and showcase recent advances in our understanding of the genetics of sex-specific variation and its contribution to sexual dimorphism. Some of the specific areas of interest include identification of genetic basis for sexually dimorphic or sex-specific traits, the role of sex chromosomes in harboring sex-specific variance, the degree to which sex-specific evolution is constrained by intersexual genetic correlations and the link between sexual dimorphism at the molecular and phenotypic levels. Researchers using (quantitative) genetic, genomic and transcriptomic approaches in these fields are invited to contribute to the symposium. Please see the symposium description (no 5) at the ESEB website: (http://bit.ly/1AEbj5O) To register for the ESEB meeting and for abstract submission to this symposium please visit: http://bit.ly/1ED5KBg Deadline for submission for contributed talks and posters is 10th January 2015. Submission guidelines can be found at http://bit.ly/1zTG7yd We look forward to receiving your submissions. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us. Elina, Holger and Arild Elina Immonen, Department of Ecology and Genetics Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden e-mail: elina.immonen AT ebc.uu.se Holger Schielzeth, Department of Evolutionary Biology Bielefeld University Morgenbreede 45, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany e-mail: holger.schielzeth AT uni-bielefeld.de Arild Husby, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, PO Box 65, FI 00014 Helsinki, Finland e-mail: arild.husby AT helsinki.fi Elina Immonen via Gmail
Dear Colleagues, On behalf of my cohorts here in Madison, I would like to encourage you to recommend the UW-Madison Genetics PhD program to your students applying for graduate school. UW-Madison Genetics is one of the top Genetics training programs in the country (entering the 42nd consecutive year of our NIH training grant), with stellar research labs studying a wide variety of systems through classical genetic and genomic approaches. We would also like to announce our connections to the new Quantitative Biology Initiative (QBI, http://qbi.wisc.edu.) at UW-Madison. The QBI is an interdisciplinary and cross-college initiative to provide outstanding training and research opportunities in the quantitative biological sciences. Research and training spans four thematic areas in Computational, Statistical, Theoretical, and Experimental Biology. Students entering the UW-Madison Genetics PhD program have access to many labs within the QBI, including those studying evolutionary and population genetics, statistical genomics, systems and synthetic biology, and more. More information about the UW-Madison Genetics program, including information on how to apply, is available on our website http://bit.ly/1zTG5X2. Thank you, Audrey Gasch via Gmail
Hello, I am working with two distinct mtDNA clades, each of which is predominated by a major haplotype. Clade 'A' has numerous 1-step mutations away from the main A type with a couple of 2-3 step mutations. Clade 'B' has fewer 1-step mutations from the main B type with a single 2 step haplotype. I have tried running BEAST with little success (lack of convergence, I think due to the simplistic nature of the network). I have also tried estimating time of population expansion for the two clades individually from mismatch distributions and get a more recent event for A (the more variable of the two) than for B. I am certain this is not a data formatting error, but the expectation would be the more variable should have the older time of expansion. Any thoughts? Mark Mark Coulson via Gmail
New graduate student positions at the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Montana (admitting for Fall 2015) Overview: The NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) at the University of Montana is seeking outstanding graduate students interested in pursuing research related to the evolution of biological complexity. Research assistantships (NIH scale) are available to work on projects led by Scott Miller, Matt Herron and Margie Kinnersley. NAI students will join the robust and collaborative Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics Group, a diverse set of UM faculty using genetic and genomic approaches to investigate evolutionary processes in plants, animals, and microbes. Funding is also available for short- or long-term travel to the UM-NAI partner labs of Vaughan Cooper (U New Hampshire), Shelley Copley (U Colorado, Boulder), Gavin Sherlock (Stanford U), and Paul Sniegowski (U Pennsylvania). Students will also have the opportunity to interact with Montana NAI team leader Frank Rosenzweig, Montana NAI co-Investigator John McCutcheon, as well as with theoretical biologists Eric Smith (Santa Fe Institute) and Phil Gerrish (U New Mexico), who will be summer scholars-in-residence at Montana and Pennsylvania, respectively. Program Description: It is now widely recognized that not just competitive, but also cooperative interactions are fundamental features of biological systems ranging from enzymes to organelles, cells and societies of cells and organisms. The Montana NAI consists of eight projects organized around five questions related to how such interactions influenced major transitions in the history of Life: (1) How do enzymes and metabolic networks evolve? (2) How did the eukaryotic cell come to be, specifically the cell that contained a mitochondrion? (3) How do symbioses arise? (4) How does multicellularity evolve? and (5) How do pleiotropy, epistasis and mutation rate constrain the evolution of novel traits? A unifying theme underlying these questions is: how do cooperative vs. competitive interactions play out in driving major transitions that occur when independently replicating entities combine into a larger, more complex whole? Project Descriptions: Consequences of recA duplication for recombination, genome stability and fitness (PI Scott Miller; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://bit.ly/1sLHO9k ): Despite the importance of homologous recombination during the proliferation of biological diversity, we still have a poor understanding of the balance of its creative, stabilizing and destabilizing contributions to organismal fitness and genome evolution. Addressing this issue hinges on understanding the regulation of the expression and activity of the recombinase A (recA) gene family, an ancient gene family that plays a central role in HR-mediated processes in all three domains of life. We will use the extraordinary genetic variation exhibited by duplicated recA gene copies in the genomes of the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris as a model to address both the impact of recA copy number on recombination and fitness and whether Acaryochloris RecA paralogs have specialized for different sub-functions. With the recent development of genetic tools for these organisms that enables us to manipulate recA copy number, the Acaryochloris system presents a unique opportunity to gain novel insights on the fitness consequences that emerge from the interplay between HR-mediated maintenance of genome stability, selectively favored gene duplications and non-adaptive genomic rearrangements. The evolution of complexity via multicellularity and cell differentiation (PI Matt Herron; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://bit.ly/1BmI4ER): How and why organismal complexity increases are central questions in evolutionary biology. Although the vast majority of life forms remain simple, both the maximum and the average levels of complexity have increased from the origin of life to the present day. Large increases in organismal complexity resulted from a series of events in which existing individuals combined to become parts of a new kind of individual with components specialized for various roles. Such events are known as major transitions and include the emergence of cellular life from groups of interacting molecular replicators, of eukaryotes from two prokaryotes, of multicellular organisms from unicells, and of eusocial $B!H(Bsuperorganisms$B!I(B from individual animals. Among such transitions, the evolution of multicellular organisms from single-celled ancestors set the stage for unprecedented increases in complexity, especially in land plants and animals. We have used the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to experimentally generate de novo origins of simple (undifferentiated) multicellularity in two separate experiments. Using these newly-evolved, multicellular Chlamydomonas, we plan to ascertain the genetic bases underlying the evolution of multicellularity, evaluate the role of genetic assimilation in the evolution of multicellularity, and observe the evolution of multicellular development in real time. 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This co-evolving system will be used to test hypotheses concerning ecological prerequisites for, early molecular events in, and evolutionary consequences of incipient endosymbiosis based on metabolic niche partitioning and energy generation, exactly the features that define the mitochondrion$B!G(Bs role in eukaryotic systems. Understanding these aspects of symbiogenesis is essential for truly understanding the prokaryotic/eukaryotic transition and thus is applicable to the study of myriad aspects of cellular and organismal diversity. The University of Montana: UM is located in Missoula, MT, a college town in the heart of the Northern Rocky Mountains with a high quality of life. Missoula has excellent opportunities for outdoor recreation, an active music scene, a strong biking culture, numerous restaurants and breweries, and was listed among Outside Magazine$B!G(Bs $B!H(BBest Towns$B!I(B in 2011 and 2013. 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**The University of Bordeaux hires a junior scientist in the field of Evolutionary Ecology.* We seek candidates whose research encompasses the fields of quantitative ecology, evolutionary biology through investigations in subfields such as population, and evolutionary genetics. The overarching goal is to integrate the various processes shaping the composition of terrestrial or aquatic communities in order to predict their future evolution. This can be achieved by coupling ecological, genetic but also social drivers into a generic framework, through modeling approaches. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent in ecology or evolutionary biology and postdoctoral experience. A strong background in modeling and theoretical approaches is also recommended. The successful candidate will be part of the "Integrative Ecology" team within the cluster of Excellence COTE and build on existing contributions from its different members. COTE Continental to Coastal Ecosystems: Evolution, Adaptability and Governance" is a Cluster of Excellence (LabEx) recently created at the University of Bordeaux within the national program of "Initiatives d'Excellence" as a joint project with CNRS, INRA, IRSTEA (former CEMAGREF) and IFREMER. The "Integrative Ecology" team will be composed of two scientists and two post doctorates, which will be affiliated with the member labs of COTE. In addition, it will have access to modeling facilities and personnel including dedicated engineers (data management and programming). The successful candidate is expected to develop strong collaborations and interactions between the different member labs of COTE and contribute significantly to the development of Evolutionary Ecology within the Cluster of Excellence. The position is funded for two years by Labex COTE, with the perspective to apply for a permanent position during this period. Applicants should send a cover letter describing their interest in the position, a curriculum vitae, and name and contact information of three references to: email@example.com For additional information on the research project contact: firstname.lastname@example.com. For additional information regarding application procedure contact : email@example.com - Opening date for applications: 28/10/2014 - Submission deadline for applications: 31/12/2014 - Short listing: 15/01/2015 - Final selection: 28/02/2015 Universit de Bordeaux Julien Dumercq Charg de mission LabEx COTE Summer school coordinator T. 0540002255 P. 0665376668 cotesummerschool.u-bordeaux.fr/ Julien Dumercq via Gmail
Graduate student positions in Plant Evolution at McGill University, Montreal. Position 1. Self-incompatibility is the most effective method by which flowering plants enforce outcrossing and maintain a system of mating that the negative consequences of inbreeding depression in progeny. The self-incompatibility system in the Brassicaceae is perhaps the best characterized one. We have recently found exciting evidence suggesting that this system has evolved more than once within the family (http://bit.ly/1xV5743). We are looking to recruit a graduate student (M.Sc. or Ph.D. level) to assist us in furthering this investigation. Position 2. Climate change is producing new ecological challenges for plants in this century (e.g., temperature, water stress conditions). When phenotypic plasticity is insufficient for plants to cope with such challenges, they must either adapt evolutionarily or face local extinction. We are exploring how next generation sequencing approaches can help us to better understand the underlying genetics and evolutionary genomics of this process. We would like to recruit a graduate student (Ph.D. level) to work on this problem in our lab. Please send me your CV and a brief statement detailing: (1) which position you are interested in applying for; (2) why you are interested in the position and any relevant experience you may have; and (3) the names of 3 people we may write to for letters of reference. This information should be sent to Prof. Daniel Schoen: email@example.com by 15 February 2015 (for Canadian students) and 30 December 2014 (for non-Canadian students). email@example.com via Gmail
Graduate research opportunity to study ectoparasite population genetics and metapopulation dynamics. Department of Biological Sciences - University of Tulsa A graduate student at the M.S. or Ph.D level is sought to work with Drs. Warren Booth and Charles Brown in the Department of Biological Sciences at The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The successful applicant will develop a thesis research project focused on the metapopulation dynamics and population structure of swallow bugs (Oeciacus vicarius: Cimicidae), a disease vectoring ectoparasite of cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota). The PIs have amassed a large collection of swallow bugs from cliff swallow colonies varying in size, geographic location, and patterns of occupation, and have recently identified hundreds of microsatellite markers specifically for swallow bugs using next-generation sequencing. The work will draw on a long-term (33-year) study on social behavior and reproductive ecology of cliff swallows in western Nebraska. The study aims to examine the following objectives: nest fidelity and dispersal patterns, inbreeding dynamics, metapopulation structure and population differentiation; relationships between host and parasite genetic structure and diversity; and the potential of blood-fed bugs as indirect indicators of cliff swallow demography and social structure. Applicants for this position should have a strong background in population genetics, molecular ecology, evolutionary biology, or ecology, be willing to undertake seasonal field research at the study site in western Nebraska, and meet the admission requirements for the Department of Biological Sciences graduate program. (http://bit.ly/1aOtTdZ) Applications should include the following: 1) A letter of interest (not exceeding two pages). 2) A curriculum vitae. 3) Names and email addresses for at least three academics/researchers willing to provide a letter of recommendation 4) Copies of undergraduate/post-graduate transcripts 5) Electronic copies of published manuscripts, if any. For more information about this opportunity, contact Dr. Booth (email@example.com). Anticipated start date is January or August 2015. Additional information regarding our research can be found at - www.booth-lab.org via Gmail
ESEB symposium on ECOLOGY AND THE EVOLUTION OF SEX We would like to invite you to contribute to the ESEB symposium Ecology and Evolution of Sex, which will take place at the 15th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), in Lausanne, Switzerland, 10 - 14 August 2015. Invited speaker: Sally Otto (UBC) and Levi Morran (Emory University) Organizer: Hanna Koch and Lutz Becks (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology) SYMPOSIUM DESCRIPTION: We are still missing the answer to one of the important questions in evolutionary biology: Why sex? Despite the high prevalence of sexual reproduction in nature, understanding its evolution and maintenance is still not that straightforward. The reason lays partly in the scarcity of experimental tests and theory that account for ecological dynamics and their direct consequences, i.e. population cycling and thus changes in strength and/or direction of selection. An important step towards solving the mystery of sex is to include ecological dynamics in experimental, theoretical as well as genomic studies. With this proposed symposium, we hope to start a rapid growing discussion on how to further integrate the role of ecology into the field of the evolution of sexual reproduction. WEBSITE (see symposium 1): http://bit.ly/1AEbj5O The site for registration for the ESEB meeting and for abstract submission for this symposium is now open at: http://bit.ly/1rIZnbW DEADLINE for abstract submission for contributed talks and posters: 10 January 2015. Abstracts will be evaluated by the symposium organizers and will be selected for either oral or poster presentation by early March. When submitting your abstract please state your preference (talk, poster). Submitted talks will be 17 min each, including discussion, plus 3 min to change rooms. The overall time window allotted to each symposium will be decided by the congress committee, depending on the number and quality of submissions. Lutz Becks & Hanna Koch Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology August Thienemann Str. 2 24306 Pln, Germany Lutz Becks via Gmail
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After being the subject of trade rumors for a couple years largely thanks to under-performing after signing a gigantic contract, Vincent Lecavalier is feeling a little bit better about life in Tampa Bay. According to Damian Cristodero of the St. Petersburg Times, newly minted GM Steve Yzerman assured Lecavalier that the underachieving center is part of the team's plans going forward.
It should be noted Lecavalier's contract includes a no-move clause, which means he must approve any trade.
Even so, Lecavalier said, "After I left the meeting, I was very happy. It's been tough the past two years wondering what's going to happen and if the rumors were true or not. Those things were distractions, and now it's over. I've always said I wanted to be in Tampa, and they definitely reassured that to me."
Now it is up to Lecavalier, 30, to show he again can be an elite player after three consecutive seasons of declining goals after his league-best 52 in 2006-07. The center's 24 goals last season were his fewest since 2001-02.
It's not just about production for Yzerman, but long-term planning.
Despite the positive words from Stevie Y, my guess is that the clock is ticking on Lecavalier. You can give the Cup-winning center a little rope because the Lightning have been an absolute mess at times, but when a player accepts an outrageous deal, he must live with the (sometimes unfair) expectations.
It really might be one more season for Vinny. His $7.72 million cap hit is already tough to deal with, but with Steven Stamkos and Martin St. Louis becoming free agents in July 2011 and other big decisions to follow, there's only so much time before the team decides to part ways with "the Michael Jordan of hockey."
You can frame Lecavalier's career as a case of bad luck or a scenario in which he's been given far too many chances and way too much money despite only coming through on occasion. (The truth is usually somewhere in between.) The trade rumors might die down for a bit, but if he doesn't start producing, expect to hear about Montreal and other suitors all over again.
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After traveling to the CIA Library, the Beth K. Stocker Art Gallery at Lorain County Community College, Rocky River Public Library, and the Cleveland Public Library's Special Collections Reading Room, a collection of 65 graphic memoirs by CIA students will end its tour at MOCA Cleveland with a free public workshop.
MOCA visitors will be able to vicariously experience the life of a student in the first month of art school when they flip through works in the CIA Traveling Sketchbook Project that will be on display at the museum from March 15 through April 30. On Saturday, April 5, CIA students will help visitors create sketchbooks of their own in a "Build-A-Book" workshop from 12-4 p.m.
The sketchbook experience complements MOCA's exhibition DIRGE: Reflections on [Life and] Death, on view through June 8.
The CIA Traveling Sketchbook Project started when incoming first-year students were provided with identical sketchbooks last summer and instructed to complete them during their first month at college. The project was designed to support the summer reading at CIA, in which the entire college community was invited to join the new students in reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a novel by Sherman Alexie, with illustrations by graphic novelist, Ellen Forney.
First instituted in the summer of 2012, CIA's Summer Reading Program helps unite the incoming class through a common experience that begins even before their arrival at CIA. An additional goal was to select a book that might help students, in the context of going to an art school, to begin to examine themselves in relationship to the local and global communities they inhabit.
Alexie's novel was chosen as one which might well support CIA's Cores + Connections vision, including its growing commitment to community engagement practices in the arts and design. Students further explored the book's themes of racism and social justice for Native Americans when Robert Roche presented a lunchtime lecture at CIA in mid-September. Roche is director of the American Indian Education Center in Cleveland.
Above: ninth graders from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District's Facing History New Tech High School looked through the CIA traveling sketchbooks on a recent visit to the Special Collections Reading Room of the Cleveland Public Library.
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Remember that slow start the Thunder could get off to without Russell Westbrook in the lineup for the first month of the season or so?
Don't bet on it being that slow.
Westbrook could be back on the court with the Thunder in two weeks, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports.
Oklahoma Thunder star Russell Westbrook has made significant progress in his recovery from a second surgical procedure on his knee and could return to the Thunder's lineup within two weeks, league sources told Yahoo Sports….
Westbrook began participating in Thunder practice sessions and has impressed everyone with his explosion and fast return to form, sources said.
Take all reports of recovery with a grain of salt, but the fact he is practicing is a very good sign.
Even if Westbrook comes back and is not quite himself yet, every game he can help the Thunder win matters — remember, the difference between being the one seed and the five seed (and starting the playoffs on the road) in the West was five games last season. Those "meaningless" early season losses where Kevin Durant alone can't get the Thunder over the hump can make the postseason road tougher.
The fact is the Thunder start the season with six games against teams that did not make the playoffs last season (although Minnesota and Detroit will be improved). If they can hold their own through the start and Westbrook is back early, they have a good shot at that No. 1 seed again.
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Houghton goes by his middle name Roger and may not respond to the name John, according to his daughter.
She also says that Houghton lives alone at his home in the North Valley.
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LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) - Britain will compensate its military personnel based in Cyprus hit by a bank levy imposed on Cypriot accounts as part of a euro zone bailout, finance minister George Osborne said on Sunday.
"For people serving in our military, people serving our government out in Cyprus ... we are going to compensate anyone who is affected by this bank tax," he told BBC television.
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Gluten-Free Foods to Avoid
Many would-be healthy eaters are now seeking out gluten-free products, as are – by medical necessity – the 1 percent or so of the U.S. population with celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder in which eating gluten can damage the small intestine and other organs. Sales of gluten-free foods are growing rapidly, amounting to an estimated $4.2 billion in 2012, and are expected to hit $6.6 billion in 2017.
But swapping in a gluten-free version of your favorite snack isn't the same as eating well. Depending on the products you choose, you may not be cutting carbs at all – and could even be opting for carbs that are worse for you. "If somebody is choosing a gluten-free version of a cracker or a bread product or a pasta product and they're thinking that it's going to be healthier just because it's labeled gluten-free, that is a huge mistake," says dietitian Tricia Thompson, author of The Gluten-Free Nutrition Guide.
Always take a look at the ingredients, she says. If you see milled corn flour, white rice flour, or a starch (usually corn, potato, or tapioca) as the first ingredient, that product probably is high on the glycemic index and doesn't have much fiber – bad news for a balanced diet. Carbs aren't the only catch. Gluten-free products also often have additional fat (and therefore calories) compared to their wheat-containing counterparts. "Manufacturers may add more fat to a product to improve the mouthfeel, so that it will taste more similar to a gluten-free version," Thompson says. That gluten-free label, in other words, isn't a free pass to the baked-goods aisle. "Junk is junk, regardless of whether or not it's labeled gluten-free." Here are some gluten-free products that aren't high on the health food list, and the ingredients that don't sit well with aspirations of a healthy diet.Launch Gallery » – Valerie Ross
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Taking a Step Too Far
Full Blaze by M.L. Buchman
Cal Jackson stared up at the wall of flame eating its way toward him through the forest. He was always tempting fate one step too far. Now he was way past the second step, as well as the third. He was standing in the foreign land of totally screwed. In his seven years of fighting wildfires and five more photographing them, he'd never been this far over the line. Not even close.
He'd ridden the edge a lot since he was a testosterone-laden teen. It had earned him his fair share of cold slaps from ticked-off women, but maybe more than his share of warm and friendly nights. It had also led to numerous interesting opportunities to travel for both work and play, so he'd learned to take that risk without really thinking about it.
He tried not to take that second step very often; it was his warning that he was pushing the limits. But dancing along the edge of that step was what had won him so many of his awards. Though the Pulitzer for photography and "best of" for World Press Photo still remained out of reach, he'd bagged a lot of awards including the cover on National Geographic. And Time, twice.
Out here, way past the second step, the Grindstone Canyon Fire was in full-throated roar.