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Microscopic Robots Learn To Move Like White Blood Cells
In the 90s kids show The Magic School Bus, eccentric teacher Ms. Frizzle took her class for a wild ride in a sick student's immune system -- only to be attacked by white blood cells. White blood cells tracked the bus using the same chemical traces they follow to find infected sites or navigate their way to viruses. If microscopic robots could replicate this complex navigation system, which is shared by many different cells and bacteria, doctors could use them to provide real-time updates on internal structures or distribute drugs to specific targets within a body.
MIT physicists have begun to work toward this vision by developing a microscopic machine that can imitate certain movements of white blood cells and bacteria. In the study, published in Physical Review Letters, scientists used two tiny metal beads to model the tumbling action of bacteria as they migrate toward areas of higher friction.
The simple robot was manipulated with a rotating magnetic field, which propelled the machine to walk, or tumble, forward on a modeled cell surface. The model housed a complex terrain with varying degrees of friction created by layering vitamin particles and protein molecules to simulate the terrain of a cell surface. Through this artificial landscape, the machines automatically gravitated towards vitamin particles, areas that created higher friction.
Now, replace this model cell surface with an actual cell surface. The friction isn't created by particles on glass, it's created by the cell's surface receptors. The binding sites of these receptors are often the targets for many drugs.
"We could eventually use this as a way to tag on things and take them to remote places in your body and monitor different conditions in your body. That's really far down the future," says Alfredo Alexander-Katz, a professor at MIT and an author of the study.
The next step for scientists is to test the robot on live cells created in-vitro, says Alexander-Katz. It's much different to create machines that will bind to a real cell than a model surface. So for now, tiny robots that infiltrate your body may be just as fictional as a magic morphing school bus.
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Future Airplanes Might Replace Windows With OLED Screens
There may be no such thing as a window seat on the airliners of the future. A concept released by the U.K.'s Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) envisions airliners with thinner walls, made by doing away with cabin windows altogether. In their place, CPI sees OLED screens lining entire interior walls, which would show passengers the sky around them.
Weirdly, the OLED screens aren't CPI's selling point. Instead, their stated goal is fuel efficiency. A lighter airplane uses less fuel, and ultimately generates fewer emissions. From CPI:For every 1% reduction in weight, the approximate fuel saving is 0.75%. If you save weight, you save fuel. And less fuel means less CO2 emissions into the atmosphere and lower operational cost... everyone wins.
Riding a metal tube through the sky at hundreds of miles an hour is strange enough with only a small portal to see the world below. Using OLED screens instead of windows means that passengers could see much much more of the sky than they're used too. (Perhaps too much, if these humorous photoshopped versions of the concept art are any indication).
OLED screens are thin, lightweight, and flexible. Arrayed in panels along the cabin walls and ceiling, the screens could show the outside world (as captured by wide-angle panoramic cameras on the outside of the plane) at a resolution of 150 dpi. CPI expects that the technologies needed to manufacture large OLED panels will be ready in about five years. Introduction into airplanes, along with airplanes specifically made without windows, will come later.
Until then, enjoy every window seat.
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Big Pic: Jupiter Gets An Eye In Its Storm
When the Hubble Telescope snapped this true-color image in April, NASA scientists found Jupiter staring right back at them. That black dot is Ganymede's shadow, crossing Jupiter's Great Red Spot, creating an eerily blank-looking eye. It is almost certainly the eye of a large and emotionally stunted monster.
The shadows of Jupiter's four major moons--Ganymede, Io, Europa, and Callisto--often cross its surface, the Hubble team reports. So this image is actually not so rare, just well-aligned. Ganymede is the solar system's largest moon, so its shadow is especially impressive.
For another example of unintentionally spooky stuff in space, check out this image of the sun that NASA captured earlier this month.
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Shipping Containers Could Relay Quantum Information Across Oceans
Physics says that if two particles are entangled on a quantum level, they are permanently linked -- a change in one particle will instantaneously affect the other one, no matter the distance between them. That's something that could be fantastic for quickly transporting information across vast distances … but only if we can figure out how to use it.
Scientists (and corporations) are already building working computers that rely on quantum entanglement. Now one of the biggest challenges for quantum computing is distance. Unlike our current computing networks, which swiftly move information across thousands of miles via super-speedy cables, quantum computing doesn't have the same reach yet. The longest distance over which information has been transferred via a quantum network is just 300 kilometers, which might someday be enough for conveying information around a city or region, but not really enough for international quantum computing--especially across an ocean.
Now, scientists think they might have found a decidedly old-fashioned way to solve the ocean problem. The solution is already in use at ports around the world: the humble container ship. Scientists writing in a paper posted to arXiv.org have proposed using shipping containers to transport critical parts of a computing network from one side of the ocean to the other. The container ships will function kind of like a Pony Express, but instead of carrying messages, the cargo will be slightly different: they'll be moving quantum objects.
The quantum objects might be made of diamond or silicon, and they would be entangled with other particles in a similar object across the world. While the quantum objects themselves won't take up much space, keeping them stable (so that people can actually recover the information) is a big challenge. The objects that we have so far can only keep the particles secure for short periods of time and at really chilly temperatures, so refrigeration and support infrastructure would take up the rest of the shipping container.
In the weird world of quantum computing, the objects won't contain the information itself. Once the containers get to their destination, the objects can be used to instantaneously transfer the information stored in qubits from the paired object on the other side of the world.
Other researchers are working on building repeaters that can keep all the entangled particles intact over long distances, but they tend to be really finicky machines—and on the seafloor, if something went wrong, repairing them would be extremely difficult and impractical. Enter the cargo ship, which is large enough to store the massive amounts of equipment, and relatively accessible for repairs.
With the cargo method, the lag won't be in the information transfer, just in travel time—how long it takes for the container ship to get from one side of the ocean to another.
In an age when transportation only seems to be getting faster on a personal delivery level, with same day and drone delivery on the rise, cargo shipping can seem like it moves at a snail's pace. (Travel time on container ships has slowed considerably in recent years out of a desire to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and is similar today to the speed of vessels back in the 1900's.) In this case, hauling the quantum objects across the ocean could take weeks. But until scientists develop the equivalent of underwater telegraph cables for quantum computing, cargo ships, even with their slow pace, might be the missing link in a growing technological field.
For the rest of us, transporting information via traditional hard drives (spy cape and aluminum briefcase optional) is going to be a more practical option.
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Plan To Save Great Barrier Reef Is 'Inadequate,' Scientists Say
The Australian government has been working on a plan for taking care of the Great Barrier Reef over the next four decades—but scientists say it's inadequate. The Australian Academy of Science released today an 11-page critique of the government's latest draft of its "Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan."
"Basically, the plan as it's formulated currently isn't sufficient to turn around the downward trajectory of the Great Barrier Reef," biologist and academy member Terry Hughes told Australian broadcaster ABC.
Home to thousands of species of fish, coral, mollusks, and birds, the Great Barrier Reef is one of the most bio-diverse places on Earth. It's extensive enough to see from space. In 1981, UNESCO designated nearly the entire reef a world heritage site, for its beauty and scientific importance.
In recent years, however, UNESCO officials have threatened to place the site on their endangered list because of the reef's rate of deterioration. The reef has lost half its coral cover since the mid-1980s. It's also in danger due to government-approved plans to build ports and dredge parts of the reef. Many "endangered" world heritage sites are located in war-torn regions in Afghanistan and Syria, the New York Times notes. That said, the U.K.'s historic buildings in Liverpool and the U.S.' Everglades National Park are also endangered sites.
"It would be very damaging to Australia's reputation" to join the list, Hughes told the U.K.'s Guardian.
The 2050 sustainability plan is supposed to help keep the reef out of danger by laying out how the government will regulate and guide port development in the reef. The plan also states a number of measurable goals, such as limiting how much city runoff gets into the reef's water and plans for increasing the populations of certain sea mammals and turtles. But the Australian Academy of Science says the plan is inadequate on a number of fronts. For example, the plan doesn't have a quantifiable coral-cover recovery goal, such as "restore X percent of the coral," while some of the plan's goals, such as restoring the populations of certain fish species, don't have feasible actions to back them up.
This draft of the plan has been under fire from conservationists since its release. "Overall, it is not business as usual, but it is close enough to it," WWF-Australia campaigner Louisse Matthiesson told the New York Times in September. This seems to be an ongoing problem: Even UNESCO was none too pleased with the Australian government's efforts after an endangerment-listing warning in 2013.
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Smoke Rings And A Giant Six-Legged Robot, From Maker Faire 2014
In September, Popular Science attended World Maker Faire at the New York Hall of Science. We saw giant robots, tiny Tesla coils, and musical instruments made out of anything you can imagine. Check out some of the coolest projects with us!
Just outside of Boston, an intrepid group of humans is building a giant hexapod robot. Nicknamed Stompy, the behemoth will be large enough to crush cars beneath its feet. But before they finish Stompy (and presumably use him to take over the world), the members of Artisans Asylum came to Maker Faire to show off some of their less destructive projects…like a smoke-ring vortex cannon made out of a trashcan.
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Your Washing Machine Could Charge Your Smartphone Someday
Hanging out in the kitchen? Chances are, you—and your smartphone—are within 15 feet of the refrigerator. Right now, two companies are planning for a future in which that means you could get the charge on your phone topped off.
Haier, a large-appliance maker, and Energous, a wireless-charging startup, have signed an agreement to develop their products together, Computerworld reports. The companies are thinking of placing Energous' WattUp transmitters inside Haier appliances, such as refrigerators and washing machines. The transmitters would send a charge through the air to any small devices nearby that have their own WattUp receivers embedded and turned on. Spend enough time in rooms with WattUp transmitters and you might never have to plug your phone or smartwatch into a charger again.
That's the idea, at least. Energous isn't selling anything yet (they're still working on their receiving chips, it seems), but they aim to roll out a product by Thanksgiving 2015, according to Computerworld. Meanwhile, its competitors are also seeking to charge your devices wirelessly and from a distance. WattUp works by sending charge over radio-frequency waves, while other products in development work via magnetic resonance (WiTriCity) and sound waves (uBeam).
In addition to sticking WattUp transmitters in other people's products, Energous seeks to make its own wireless charging "routers," analogous to WiFi routers.


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"Suck for Luck" was a popular theme last season. While Andrew Luck is enjoying a pretty good rookie season, his accomplishments have thus far been eclipsed by the quarterback taken one spot after him. Robert Griffin III has won the exact same number of games as Luck yet he's quickly become one of the most hyped players in the league. The Four Letter, always at the forefront of insanity, is already asking if he's a viable MVP candidate.
As if there weren't already enough reasons to avoid ESPN.
This Sunday, RGIII will be facing the Pittsburgh Steelers. We here in the Burgh know a little something about dual threat quarterbacks. We had arguably the best one ever. His name was Kordell Stewart.
Every couple years, the NFL finds a new "ultimate weapon" that will "redefine the QB position." And usually they have a few great seasons, win some games while piling up the fantasy stats, then the league catches up to them and they plummet back to earth. And they never ever win the big one.
People like to argue over what constitutes a dual threat QB. Some people like to list old timers like Fran Tarkenton or even our own Terry Bradshaw (seriously, look up some of TB's old rushing totals). That's patently ridiculous as they were classic drop back QBs who used their feet as a last resort, not as a featured part of their offensive repertoire. Others point to guys like John Elway and Steve Young, who at some point led their respective teams in rushing and did manage to win Super Bowls. Again, that's revisionist history. Both Elway and Young could run but it was never a part of their game plan. They were both prototypical passers who used their legs as a complement and safety valve.
Kordell Stewart was the first real hybrid threat. By hybrid I mean a QB whose offensive game plan was expressly tailored to utilize his running ability as much as his passing. For those too young to remember the Steelers of the mid 90s, Slash was the kind of weapon which gave D-coordinators absolute fits. There were games where it literally seemed like the other team had no idea how to stop him. Nobody had ever seen a guy do the things which Kordell did. The dude rushed for an 80 yard TD, caught a 71 yard TD and threw a 90 yard TD over a five year period.
And that's why I'm an unapologetic Stewart fanboy and always will be.
Slash represented the first real attempt by the NFL to change the perception of what a QB can be. The standard thinking, which exists to this day, is a college offense won't work in the pros. Way way back in the day, pro teams ran things like the wishbone or Wing-T and in the 90s there was a brief flirtation with the run and shoot. Still, no team runs the option (because the belief is your QB will eventually get killed) nor do they run the run and shoot's less insane cousin, the pistol/spread (exclusively that is).
What invariably happens is the NFL takes a great athletic QBs and eventually tries to shoehorn them into a pro set offense. Slash had great success as a multi-faceted weapon but eventually Bill Cowher and the Steelers decided they could only win with a classic pocket passer so they tried to rein him in. And without the running dimension, Slash quickly became just an ordinary average NFL QB.
And this happens over and over every few years. When Michael Vick entered the league, he soon became the new ultimate weapon. His passing skills were never near as good as Stewart's but the dual threat led him to some early success. Since getting out of the clink, the Eagles have made him more and more of a pocket passer and, just like Slash, his sudden plummet to mediocrity is due to the fact that's not his strength.
Vince Young was supposed to be the next Vick, Slash 3.0 if you will. A combination of Jeff Fisher trying to rein him in almost from the start and his own stupidity when it came to reading defenses led to a totally unmemorable NFL career. Jeanette's own Terrelle Pryor is currently languishing on the Raiders despite Carson Palmer clearly being on the downhill slide because I don't think they know what to do with him. His passing skills were rudimentary by college standards. And as I said, teams aren't willing to try something new like going to a full-time spread.
Which brings us to last season. In 2011, the Broncos made the playoffs with a hybrid QB because they ditched conventional thinking and played to his strengths. Tim Tebow led his team to the second round by basically running the option. Of course Elway couldn't wait to go back to a pro set with Peyton Manning because the NFL doesn't believe you can win any other way.
Which brings us back to RGIII. He's putting up some monster numbers this season. His rushing yardage alone is more than all the Steelers running backs COMBINED. He's also completing a whopping 70% of his passes. But the whispers are already starting. When he was concussed a few weeks back, the talking heads couldn't wait to say "he needs to learn" which was code for "You can't keep running, you're a QB."
Now maybe RGIII will have a career similar to a Randall Cunningham or Donavan McNabb, athletic QBs who successfully transitioned to pocket passers. More likely, he's having a huge season because the Redskins are letting him be himself. They're turning him loose and nobody knows what to do. But as soon as something happens, be it a bad season or a serious injury, NFLThink will kick in and they'll try to make him into a regular QB. When that happens, he'll be just another quarterback and everybody will wonder what happened to RGIII?
We'll know here in Pittsburgh. Just ask Kordell Stewart.
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Kordell Stewart retired yesterday as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers. I'm sure many of you are thinking, "Wait, what? I thought he retired a long time ago in order to take a job as back-up dancer at It's Raining Men." Actually, the artist formerly known as Slash has been a B-team (actually more like D-team) NFL analyst over at ESPN since 2008. Considering barely literate jackasses like Keyshawn Johnson are given prominent air time at the four letter, that should tell you how highly they value Kordell's broadcasting skills. Which is too bad because the few times I watched their nigh unwatchable First Take program (mainly to catch of glimpse of foxy Dana Jacobson), I thought Stewart offered some decent insights.
Then again, I'm an unapologetic Slash fanboy. I've always found the level of vitriol directed at him by Steeler Nation to be absolutely ridiculous. Leaving aside the rednecks who hated him because he was black and the bigots who couldn't stand that he was gay, the vast majority of Steeler fans disliked him simply because he committed the mortal sin of never winning a Super Bowl. I never understood that being some magical bar Yinzers hold up as the only worthwhile proof of football skill.
Unfortunately, I hear this line of thinking from Steeler Nation all too often and it drives me crazy. It's the same reason you can't have a rational discussion about coaches because all too often you'll hear some nonsense like, "Mike Tomlin won two Super Bowls. Bill Cowher won one. Therefore Tomlin is the greatest coach since Paul Brown!" That's like saying Kim Kardashian must be way more beautiful and talented than Mila Kunis because more people watch Keeping Up With The Kardashians than watched That 70s Show. The reason fans clamor for Cowher to come rescue their team at the end of every season is because Cowher's level of success is unparallelled in modern football. The only other coach who comes close is Bill Parcells. Tomlin? Well, he did a good job of not killing the golden goose he was handed but we have yet to see if he can win consistently with teams of his own.
Don't get me wrong, I understand focusing on the Super Bowl. When all is said and done, hoisting the Lombardi should be the ultimate barometer of your season. However, football being a team game, I don't see that as the sole measure of a player's worth. After all, if you only allowed Super Bowl winning quarterbacks into the Hall of Fame, there'd only be about 30 of them in Canton. I don't think anybody is going to argue the greatness of guys like Warren Moon (who also fell victim to being an African American QB), Jim Kelly, or Pittsburgh's own Dan Marino, even if they never won the big one.
Kordell Stewart made Pro Bowls. Kordell Stewart took the Steelers to playoffs. Kordell Stewart appeared in multiple AFC Championship games. In 30 other NFL cities, those accomplishments would make him a beloved figure by the loyal fanbase. In Pittsburgh, all it's earned him are shrugs and withering comments.
For two seasons, Slash was the most fearsome offensive weapon in football. Fantasy footballers go nuts over Michael Vick or Cam Newton but look at some of the stats Stewart put up during his time in Pittsburgh. In 1997 alone he accounted for 32 touchdowns (21 passing, 11 rushing). THIRTY-TWO TOUCHDOWNS. He also passed for 3,000 yards in an era not quite as wide open as it was today and throwing to some truly horrible wide receivers. Andre Hastings? Charles Johnson? Big Ben wouldn't throw for 2,500 yards let alone 4,000 if he had those guys as his targets. When Slash had Plax and Hines in 2001, he went back to being a 3,000 yard passer. Besides, anybody that watched Kordell during the late 90s remembers how terrified defenses were of him. He could throw the ball 45 yards or tuck it down and outrun the entire defense all by himself. He was undoubtedly the best hybrid pass-throw QB ever even though he never gets the credit that overrated dog rapist in Philly seems to get.
Anyway, I'm glad Stewart got to retire a Steeler. It's a silly custom, signing a one day contract so you can file your official retirement papers as a member of a certain team, but I applaud the Steelers for going along with it. By doing so, they're at least acknowledging what a great player he was for them and the vital role he played in some really memorable seasons. Hopefully, some day Steeler fans will also give the third best QB in Black and Gold history the credit he deserves.


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MLB trade rumors have the Tampa Bay Rays and San Diego Padres coming to terms on a major trade. The deal involves seven players changing uniforms before the beginning of the 2014 MLB season. According to a report from CBS on Wednesday (Jan. 22), the Rays acquire five young players in exchange for two pitchers.
The Rays send reliever Alex Torres and right-handed pitcher Jesse Hahn to the Padres in the deal. In exchange, they receiver Forsythe, infielder Maxx Tissenbaum and pitchers Matt Andriese, Brad Boxberger, and Matt Lollis. Forsythe played 75 games in the 2013 season, posting a .214 batting average and six home runs. Tissenbaum is a 22-year-old that hit .277 with 28 doubles and 49 RBI for Class-A Fort Wayne.
Boxberger pitched for the Padres last season, appearing in 18 games and posting a 2.86 ERA and 1.46 WHIP. Andriese was in Double-A and Triple-A, where he had respectable numbers of 3.27 ERA, 1.22 WHIP and 105 strikeouts in 134 2/3 innings. Finally there is Lollis, who also split time in Double-A and Triple-A to post an ERA of 2.62 and a WHIP of 1.69 over 76 innings.
The reason San Diego made this trade was to acquire Torres, who is a very good left-handed pitcher out of the bullpen. Last season he had a 1.71 ERA and 62 strikeouts in 58 innings of work. He also held opponents to the low batting average of just .172. He will immediately become a valuable part of the bullpen in San Diego moving forward. Hahn was down in High-A, where he pitched 67 innings and had a 2.15 ERA and 1.09 WHIP.
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If you're a lover of all things French, including really great French films, then you'll be delighted to hear that Monday, April 21st kicks off the 18th Annual City of Lights, City of Angels (COLCOA) Film Festival at the Director's Guild in Hollywood (running through April 28). One of my favorite film festivals of the year, COLCOA celebrates a diverse spectrum of French films. COLCOA Executive Producer and Artistic Director, Francois Truffart exclaims, "COLCOA has become not only a showcase but a brand to promote French Films in the US." For festival schedule and ticket information visit COLCOA.org.
Here are five COLCOA 2014 highlights:
French Film Premieres
COLCOA prides itself on its premieres, including the opening night film, "We Love You, You Bastard" directed by Oscar-winner Claude Lelouch ("A Man and a Woman"), which is a North American Premiere. Two of the festival's films, the romance, "Not My Type," and the heist film, "The Last Diamond" (starring Berenice Bejo and Yvan Attal) actually premiere at COLCOA one week before their opening in France.
French Film Comedies
COLCOA presents some smart comedies, including a 'found footage' style comedy, "Babysitting" (co-directed by Nicolas Benamou and actor/co-writer/co-director, Philippe Lacheau); the dark farce, "Jacky in the Kingdom of Women" (written and directed by Riad Sattouf and starring Charlotte Gainsbourg); the ten Cesar-nominated (including five wins), "Me, Myself and Mom" (written and directed by Guillaume Gallienne); "Paulette" starring Bernadette Lafont; Albert Dupontel's "9-Month Stretch;" and Dany Boon's "Superchondriac."
French Documentaries
French documentaries make a strong showing at this year's COLCOA. Winner of the French Cesar award for Best Documentary is "On the Way to School" (Sur le chemin de l'ecole), an incredibly moving profile of four groups of students who travel miles through risky terrain for the privilege of gaining an education in Kenya, Patagonia, Bay of Bengal, and Morocco. Three other documentaries round out the impressive slate: "How I Came to Hate Math," "Stop-Over," and "Flore," a film that examines filmmaker Jean-Albert Lievre's personal journey with his mother's Alzheimer's disease.
French Film Classics
Vibrant film festivals not only showcase new films, but pay homage to classic narratives of the past. COLCOA presents digitally restored versions of award-winning films, including "Queen Margot" directed by Patrice Chereau and starring Isabelle Adjani, Jean-Hugues Anglade, and Daniel Auteuil (1994); Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast" (1946); Rene Clement's "Purple Noon" (1960); "Favourites of the Moon" (1984); and Henri-Georges Clouzot's "L'Assasin Habite Au 21" (1942). Also screening is the first film in the trilogy by Cedric Klapisch, "L'Auberge Espagnole" (2002), whose final film in the Xavier's Travels trilogy, "Chinese Puzzle" (2013) has its West Coast premiere at this year's COLCOA.
French Short Films
COLCOA is proud to select 20 new short films to compete for the 2014 COLCOA Awards. Highlighting new French talent, each short will be shown before a feature film presentation during the festival week (April 21 – 27). Then on Sunday, April 27, at 11:15 a.m. and 4:15 p.m., there will be two screening programs of ten short films each for Free Admission, on a first come, first serve basis. Audience members are invited to vote for the short film Audience Award.


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Editor, GoDucks.com
Preseason accolades keep rolling in for Oregon senior Ifo Ekpre-Olomu, who on Friday was named to the watch list for the Jim Thorpe Award.
Ekpre-Olomu, projected as a possible first-round NFL draft pick before returning to school, was a semifinalist last season for the Thorpe Award, which is presented to the nation's best defensive back. The award is presented by the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame.
Earlier this week, Ekpre-Olomu was watch-listed for the Bednarik Award and the Nagurski Trophy, each of which is given to a player identified as the national defensive player of the year.
A native of Chino Hills, Calif., Ekpre-Olomu had 84 tackles in 2013, with three interceptions and one forced fumble. The two-time all-Pac-12 selection is entering his third season as a full-time starter.
The two-week release of major awards watch lists will resume Monday with a focus on the trenches, as the Butkus Award (best linebacker) and Rotary Lombardi Award (best lineman) will announce their preseason candidates.


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First, Activision declared Guitar Hero dead. Then, it said that the series was gone, but it would still provide a few more DLC track packs after over 3 million people "liked" the official Facebook Guitar Hero page. Now the series is apparently just taking a little break. Make up your mind Activision Blizzard!
Dan Winters, Vice President of Developer Relations for Activision Blizzard, spoke with GamesIndustry.biz and spoke out about the Guitar Hero shuffle Activision's had us all dancing to. Guitar Hero is on hiatus, not dead, and there just won't be a Guitar Hero 7 in 2011. Maybe we'll just see it in 2012 instead. Winters also said that the series won't be going away and Activision still has plans for the series.
The interview also touched on a few other Activision Blizzard games and their status. Apparently, Call of Duty, Spyro and that game with Bungie all fall into the "good" camp, while True Crime: Hong Kong settled comfortably in "mediocre-bad." Winters confirmed that the cancelled True Crime would probably have been good, but also probably wouldn't have sold well enough to suit Activision Blizzard.
Winters didn't comment on the status of DJ Hero to GamesIndustry.biz, so we'll still have to wonder what's going on with that series. You can be optimistic and think it's taking a well-deserved time out as well, but those $29.99 and $39.99 copies of the DJ Hero and DJ Hero 2 bundles may argue otherwise. I'll admit, it is a shame. A friend picked up a $29.99 DJ Hero bundle and I think I had more fun with that then I have with the last two entries of Guitar Hero.
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BEREA — Time and time again, Phil Dawson has proven to be one of the top clutch kickers in the NFL.
His post-kick celebrations, however, have always left something to be desired.
The latest examples came Saturday, when Dawson made the game-tying and game-winning field goals in the Browns' 27-24 preseason victory at Green Bay. He followed both by awkwardly strutting toward the bench while pumping his arms in an indescribable manner.
Suffice to say, "Dancing with the Stars" won't be inviting the 35-year-old Texan to compete anytime soon.
"I have a habit of doing stupid little things after I make big kicks," a chuckling Dawson said Monday at training camp. "After the first one, heck, I don't even know what that was. On the second one, though, I was showing everyone that we were going home. No one wanted to go to overtime, even Green Bay's players, so I didn't see anyone complaining."
Dawson's game-tying kick — a 58-yarder with 1:27 left in regulation — was the longest of his life. It topped the 56-yarders he converted with Cleveland in 2008 at Buffalo (regular season) and at the New York Giants (preseason).
The game-winning boot against the Packers was no chip shot, either, covering 46 yards as time expired.
Dawson, though, downplayed the significance of both tries because they occurred in an exhibition game.
"I like it when it goes through, obviously, but the truth is it really only matters how you kick in those 16 games that count," the 5-foot-11, 200-pounder said. "All of this — the practices and the preseason games — is just to be ready for what happens on Sundays."
Dawson has answered the call on game day, and then some, since joining the Browns for their 1999 expansion season. He came to town after being cut by the Raiders and Patriots, but promptly beat out veteran Chris Boniol and Danny Kight to win the job that he has now held for 12 years.
Along the way, Dawson has made a team-record 83.3 percent of his field goal attempts, which ranks eighth in NFL history.
Even more impressive, only Mike Vanderjagt and Matt Stover have made more field goals while owning a higher career percentage in the 90-year-old league.
"I've always prided myself on being a guy that tries to make the kick to help this team," said Dawson, whose 966 points rank third all-time in Cleveland. "It's like what happened on Saturday. I wasn't lobbying to try (the 58-yarder), but I was making sure I was ready in case the opportunity arose."
Dawson, who is in the final year of his contract, has made the playoffs only once in his 11 seasons with the Browns. He realizes that optimism abounds during training camp, but is typically tempered before the leaves start to fall from the trees.
Because of those past disappointments, the married, father of three isn't jumping to any conclusions about the 2010 squad, especially after a lone preseason game. Yet, he understands why so many fans have a little more pep in their step this week — because some of his teammates do, too.
"It's still early and I'll wait to make a judgment on this team, but the result we got the other night was the one we wanted," Dawson said. "To execute like that is refreshing whenever it happens. What I will say is if we execute and prepare properly, that game gave us a glimpse of how good we can be."
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As the NFL is reportedly investigating Tom Brady's now infamous slide as Ravens safety Ed Reed was closing in during Sunday's AFC Championship game, Reed says Brady reached out to him via text to apologize.
"Leg is feeling alright. A little sore right now," Reed told WJZ-FM . "A little slide kick (by Brady), you know what I'm saying. But it's a tough spot the quarterback's in. You know, I understand Brady's point. Him protecting himself. I know he's a great player. I respect Brady and his game for all it stands for, and I know he's not a dirty player. And emotions get going in the game.
"I told him -- you know, we talked. We talked actually not too long ago, we talked on the phone. He actually reached out to me, texted me. I tried to text him back, but the message exploded after 12 seconds, so I had to call him ... and he's just apologized and what not. But I told him, 'You know, it's good, man.' "
Reed added, "For the most part, I didn't say anything to him when he said something to me at the game... He was going, 'You want to play like that, let's go.' But no, Brady's a great competitor and I love going against him and I know where his heart is at for this game. It was all good."


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Green tea, on the other hand, is hugely popular, and the majority of Vietnamese drink several cups everyday. Taste a good Vietnamese green tea, and you will immediately taste the difference between it and a green tea from anywhere else.
"The Vietnamese tea culture is different in that we prefer very strong tea, with a strong liquor taste," according to Doan Anh Tuan, managing director of Future Generation, independent tea producers.
"If you drink Vietnamese tea, you will get a sense of Vietnam," says Nguyen Thi Anh Hong, director of the Vietnam Tea Association (VITAS). "It's a bit bitter at first, but after a few moments it mellows in your throat… something like our Vietnamese history," she adds, with a twinkle in her eye.
In fact, the Vietnamese have a green tea tradition with its own social and cultural ceremonies that developed over thousands of years independent of its Chinese neighbors.
"It's a part of the culture; we drink tea in the morning when we wake up with our family, again when we arrive at the workplace with our co-workers, with our lunch, whenever we entertain someone, and when we get home to our family again," says Hong.
Vietnam is changing, and western influences are certainly noticeable, especially amongst the young. Coffee shops are sprouting up everywhere
"Many Vietnamese may drink coffee sometimes, they may drink a black tea, now and again, but they drink green tea every day, usually several times," says Tuan of Future Generation, an independent tea exporter. "You don't have to go far to get a cup of tea in Vietnam, you can get a cup of good, hot tea on any street corner. And in the coffee shops too," he adds.
Specialty Teas
Regional preferences certainly exist, diverse aromas and liquors preferred in different parts of the country, but there are some teas that are recognized as being special throughout Vietnam.
These include natural white tea from Ha Giang Province, 100-year-old tea and lotus tea, a North Vietnamese specialty. Lotus tea is made from green tea leaves placed inside a lotus flower for around half a day before being stored in ceramic containers.
"Lotus tea is very special, and very expensive," says Hoang Cong Minh of Dong Thanh Company (DTC), an independent tea producer. "It is very popular during the Tet Holiday. The rest of the year, most Vietnamese drink ordinary green tea."
DTC, along with Hiep Thanh Company (HTC), is pioneering the organic tea sector in Vietnam, currently hampered by a lack of clear standards. The government is moving forward with plans to support organics - the Agriculture Ministry held a seminar on the topic on October 9, 2003, in Hanoi and announced plans to set up organic standards and guidelines in the future. Meanwhile, with help of foreign experts such as Koen Den Braber, HTC's general manager, a small pilot plantation is producing high quality organic tea in Thainguyen Province in the far north of the country.
"You should see this valley where we have our plantation," says Braber, "it is fantastic, unspoiled, the farmers have never used any kind of chemicals on the land, we are growing tea at exactly the perfect height and climate, and we believe we have excellent quality. The problem now is to get organic certification that is recognized by the countries we would like to export to."
Vietnam black tea is widely exported, and finds its way into many blends overseas, even if many consumers are unaware of the fact that they are drinking Vietnamese tea.
Vietnamese green tea, on the other hand, is starting to carve a niche for itself among tea enthusiasts and connoisseurs. "Frequently, a tea buyer will taste a Vietnamese green tea for the first time and then want to buy some," says Hong. "If you want to buy Vietnamese tea, you should come to Vietnam to taste it," she adds. "It's a new product, but it's been around for a long, long time."
Future Generation: A Force In Vietnam's Tea Industry
Future Generation specializes in processing and exporting fine Vietnamese teas around the world, both in bulk and packaged. For a relatively small private enterprise in a market dominated by the state-owned giant Vinatea, Future Generation has carved itself a niche in the international tea markets with attention to detail, quality products and a slick marketing strategy that earns repeat orders and attracts new customers. The recent acquisition of an IMA teabag packing machine attests to Future Generation's commitment to and confidence in the future of Vietnam tea.
The company has built a solid reputation as an exporter of fine teas, both green and black.
In a country with no auction system where export companies dictate the price of tea, knowing where to get the best products is certainly a key element in the success of the company. Most of Future Generation's green tea is sourced through contracts with growers and producers. This ensures high quality.
"We know which farmers and producers produce the best teas, we know the characteristics of every province," says Doan Anh Tuan, managing director of Future Generation (confiding that the best teas are found in Thai Nguyen province).
The company operates three factories and each factory has a resident agronomist tasked to work with local farmers. "We have to invest in the farmers," says Tuan, "Our agronomists give advice to the farmers, and we can help sourcing seeds, fertilizer and supply training and technical assistance."
With seven years in the business, Future Generation has grown to become Vietnam's second largest tea exporter after the giant Vinatea. "Vietnam's tea industry is relatively young," points out Doan, "perhaps only 50 years old." Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S.S.R. was Vietnam's only export customer. After the collapse 10 years ago, "Vietnam lost its only market. We had to try to find new markets for our teas," Tuan recounts. "Privatization has helped the industry grow," he concludes.
Future Generation exports green tea to Pakistan, Taiwan, Europe, Russia and Japan. Recently, they started making inroads into Africa as well.
Specialty Tea
Not satisfied with their high level of success to date, the company has embarked on several ambitious projects to carry them into the future.
"We are working on a specialty tea project that will take about two years to complete," says Tuan. "We are using new technology to create a tea with superior aroma and appearance. We are also introducing some new teas to Japan and Germany. These are sophisticated markets that need diversity," he says.
Vietnamese black tea has a good appearance but is not so strong, with a light liquor. It also suffers from an image problem. While widely regarded as an average tea, exported black tea, often perceived as "cheap tea" in the international markets, is used for blending only.
"In the future, we have a big chance to develop very quickly," believes Tuan. "We are a young industry with great potential. Ten years ago, no one knew Vietnam produced tea. We have learned from other countries and are developing quality before quantity. In green tea, we have long experience, which is a great advantage, and farmers are striving to improve the quality all the time," he says, "but it is difficult to compete in the black tea market.
"This needs to change," he affirms. "We need to invest in new technology and develop new, better strains of tea. This is expensive, and the government has no money to help, so private industry has to invest."
Future Generation would seem to be leading the way here. "If you buy our tea," Tuan says, "we guarantee the quality. We visit India to study their techniques, to Japan to buy technology and then try to produce the best quality in our factories."
Future Generation has installed three Senvec color sorters at their three plants, the only ones in use in the country, and is planning to buy processing machines from Sri Lanka.
Domestic Foray
In 2003, the company turned its attention to the huge domestic market, a significant step that will see it competing against established giants and many small domestic suppliers.
"We want to sell Vietnamese tea to local outlets, using the same style of packaging as Lipton's and Dilmah, in teabags, a new trend in Vietnam," says Tuan. Until now, Future Generation was exclusively a tea exporter: tackling the domestic market marks a major watershed in the company's strategy and serves notice to the big players that they'd better watch their backs!
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Maes said he stuck out the race because he owed it to the people who voted to put him on the ballot in the first place, "I stuck through it because I believed in my commitment to the Republican people who got me here."
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We specialize in jeep tours.
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The relationship that we have with our technological gadgets may make the relationship amongst human beings seem obsolete when they can figure out how to make an operating system sound more human and less robotic which is the concept of the film "Her."
Look around and see individuals with their head bowed down as they gaze upon the small screen of their phones, tablets and other devices. Even amongst our peers in close proximity, we talk to one another through these instruments losing the human voice and essence walling off personal closeness and connections.
In director, writer Spike Jonze's not too distant future, Joaquin Phoenix portrays Theodore Twombly, whose male character follows other leading male characters in Mr. Jonze's film in that he's lonely and isolated from those around him. But perhaps he's not quite so alone as people begin to lose the ability to connect to one another, so it's up to people like Theodore to connect them to their friends, family and significant other as he tries to capture their voice in order to convey their message and feelings in letters.
Even though Theodore has a knack and is praised for his ability to compose well written verses of love and tender moments, his own life is the polar contrast. His soon to be ex-wife, Catherine (Rooney Mara), asks for a divorce and leaves him as he has no one to turn to for support as he live life of his former self devoid of life and essence. The only individuals close to Theodore is his friend from college Amy (Amy Adams) and work colleague Paul (Chris Pratt) who is amazed with his way with the words.
To balance the heavy hearted drama, Mr. Jonze uses comedy by placing Theodore into unusual predicaments with his take on the future of chat rooms, technology and placing him on a blind date. After all those sequence of events, it's easy to see why Theodore is subdued by the voice of Scarlett Johansson as the OS1 Samantha.
They communicate through an ear piece and through the phone's camera lenses that serves as her eyepiece to the world. Fitting in the comfort of his shirt pocket, he can take Samantha to see the world and experience new things that robots can only dream but never feel and touch.
Viewers will hear another side of Ms. Johannson that they have never heard before. She's able to portray the innocence and naivety of a computer program whose only purpose is to serve in helping him organize and other aspect of his life before she evolves picking up infinite knowledge while multitasking. Her ability to grasp the concept of emotionality and emote well with Theodore makes the audience forget that she's a technological invention with her desire of being a real girl.
What goes against Ms. Johannson is the fact that audience knows who she is through her body of film work and the fact that she's a lovely actress. If the film had decided to use an unknown actress would the concept work? Or for that matter, what if the genders were reversed with a lonely female who's consoled by the operating system of a male voice?
What starts out as intrigue and curiosity turns this system interface between the user and technology to a friendly rapport before he's able to come out to his friend and society that he's dating his operating system. A scene that works well for both Mr. Phoenix and Ms. Johansson has dramatic essence as he's concerned for her well being after his response is not met with her reassuring voice. From that moment, it foreshadows the dread and weariness that comes with technology as he realizes that his life is not complete without her.
But what makes the relationship between Theodore and Samantha come close to a human to human relationship isn't the fantastical but the way they preserve and work on their romance despite its limitations. Theodore's attempt at wooing and romance is what makes him such an endearing character as he shows Samantha the world and all its wonder after wallowing in self pity.
Like any relationship, there's the exciting and the unknown to see what develops, but once the honeymoon phase is over comes the normalcy as each partner needs their own space. From that moment comes to the realization that each party has certain expectations of each other that they must both work on in order to retain the heat and passion of their systemic love.
The conversation centers around whether or not technology is beneficial to humans with the many tasks that can be done at the click of a button but at the same time building up walls that separates us from other humans. For those that are lonely, artificial intelligence serves as a companion and aide, but eventually technology can even break down and it has its limitations. But we end up back where we started with the only exception that they are not there when we really need them the most.
Grade: 4.5 stars out of 5 stars
Add "Her" onto the lists of filmmaker Spike Jonze's body of work that takes a look at the fantastical world in which a man and his operating system can fall in love.
Rating: R for language, sexual content and brief graphic nudity.
Timing: 2 Hours, 6 Minutes
Genre: Science Fiction, Romance, Drama, Comedy
- Director & Writer: Spike Jonze
- Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Chris Pratt and Rooney Mara
Voice: Scarlett Johansson


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The Board of Directors of Turkish Airlines, Turkey's flag carrier, said on Monday it will buy 30 airplanes from Airbus, 20 of them definite and 10 of them optional, as part of its fleet-expansion plan of 105 new aircraft that was announced previously. According to the decision of the Board Directors, 14 jets of A321-200 jets and 6 jets of A319-100 will be purchased.
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The number of single aisle jets in the fleet of Turkish Airlines will increase to 126 and the number of twin aisle aircraft will rise to 36 between 2010 and 2012 with the procurement of these new jets. The total number of aircraft in the fleet of Turkish Airlines will reach the total of 168 aircraft, 6 of them freight airplane, by the end of 2012.
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Bill Clinton Makes 'Em Laugh at the Gridiron Dinner
On health-care reform: "It may not happen in my lifetime, or Dick Cheney's, but hopefully by Easter."
For the second consecutive year, President Obama didn't make it to the Gridiron Dinner, D.C.'s annual meeting of politicians and the press, but President Clinton did. And by all accounts, Bubba rocked the house.
Clinton opened his set at the camera-free dinner by telling the crowd he didn't have anything better to do last night and said he was eager for Democrats to pass health care. "It may not happen in my lifetime, or Dick Cheney's, but hopefully by Easter," he said. Sticking to the theme of his impending death, Clinton said his new favorite cocktail is "Lipitor on the rocks."
Oh, there were a lot more jokes:
On Obama's recent appearance on Fox News: He was "keeping his word about meeting with hostile leaders without preconditions."
On Rahm Emanuel, who worked in the Clinton White House: "I found Rahm. I created him. I made him what he is today. I am so sorry."
On why he was free last night: "I have been waiting to stand in for President Obama for a long time," he said, " and since they turned me down for Dancing With the Stars, I had nothing better to do."
On Orrin Hatch, who spoke earlier in the evening: "Orrin, he's the wittiest of all the Republicans. That 's sort of like saying he's the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs."
On Democrats seeking kickbacks to vote for the health-care legislation: "I flew here from Cleveland, and I flew out of the Dennis Kucinich Airport."
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Buying green is just the first step in reducing the environmental impacts of automobile use. Your choice of vehicle is most important, but how you drive and how well you maintain your car, van, or light truck will also make a difference.
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Avoid "jack rabbit" starts and aggressive driving. Flooring the gas pedal not only wastes gas, it leads to drastically higher pollution rates. One second of high-powered driving can produce nearly the same volume of carbon monoxide emissions as a half hour of normal driving.
Think ahead. Try to anticipate stops and let your vehicle coast down as much as possible. Avoid the increased pollution, wasted gas, and wear on your brakes created by accelerating hard and braking hard.
Follow the speed limit! Driving 75 mph instead of 65 mph will lower your fuel economy by about 10 percent, and can dramatically increase tailpipe pollution in many vehicles.
When possible, plan your trips to avoid rush hour. Stop-and-go driving burns gas and increases emissions of smog-forming pollutants.
Combine trips. Warmed-up engines and catalysts generate much less air pollution, so combining several short trips into one can make a big difference.
Take a load off. Carrying around an extra 100 pounds reduces fuel economy by about 1 percent. Take a few moments to unload your cargo area.
If your vehicle has it, use overdrive gear at cruising speeds. When driving a manual transmission, shift up as soon as possible. Running in a higher gear decreases the rpm and will decrease fuel use and engine wear.
Try using the vents and opening windows to cool off before you turn on the air conditioner. Air conditioner use increases fuel consumption, increases NOx emissions in some vehicles, and involves environmentally damaging fluids.
Unlike many older cars and trucks, modern vehicles don't need to warm up and they have automatic chokes, so you don't need to step on the gas pedal before starting the engine.
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Your owner's manual is the best source of information about how to care for your vehicle. Refer to it for instructions about proper maintenance and service specific to your make and model.
Keep your tires properly inflated. Tires should be inflated to the pressure recommended for your vehicle; this information is often printed inside the door frame or in your owner's manual. For every 3 pounds below recommended pressure, fuel economy goes down by about 1 percent. Tires can lose about 1 pound of pressure in a month, so check the air pressure regularly and always before going on a long trip or carrying heavy loads. Underinflated tires can also detract from handling, safety, and how long the tires will last.
Buy low-rolling-resistance (LRR) replacement tires. Switching to a typical set of replacement tires lowers a vehicle's fuel economy as much as 4 percent. LRR tires, on the other hand, are specially designed to improve a vehicle's fuel economy. Most major tire manufacturers now produce LRR models, so when it comes time to replace your tires, seek out a set of LRRs.
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Change the oil. In addition to making your car or truck last longer, replacing the oil and oil filter regularly will also help fuel economy. Check your owner's manual for specific recommendations about how often to change. Ask the service station if they recycle used oil, or if you do it yourself, take your old oil to someplace that does recycle. Ask for recycled oil as a replacement.
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Americans too often take gasoline for granted, forgetting that it is quite a hazardous substance. Gasoline fumes are toxic and carcinogenic; they cause smog; and spilled gasoline can pollute the water and poison wildlife. And it's very flammable, too.
Use regular gasoline unless your owner's manual says otherwise. Unless your car requires premium, high-octane fuels improve neither fuel economy nor performance and will just waste your money.
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Park in the shade in summer to keep your car cool and minimize evaporation of fuel.
If you have a garage, use it as much as possible to keep your car warm in winter and cool in summer.
If you have to park outdoors, windshield shades can cut down on summer heat and help keep the frost off in the winter.
Take Advantage of "Commuter Choice" Programs
Most Americans commute to work, and now there are special programs that provide incentives for both employees and employers to "Get There With Clean Air." The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Transportation are teaming up with businesses and others to set up "Commuter Choice" programs. These employer-sponsored initiatives can make you eligible for cash and other benefits for greener commuting. Examples include:
One company gives its workers free walking shoes, with the promotion "we'll even buy your walking shoes if you hoof it to work!" Another company offers participating employees monthly drawings for prizes that might include extra time off, mountain bikes, and other goodies.
A municipality gives its employees an extra hour of time-off for every 5 days they use carpool or vanpool to get to work, plus permission to dress casually at the office.
Companies and communities that make use of Commuter Choice benefits often save money. For example, by cutting down on car commuting, they can avoid the need to build large parking lots that are both expensive and use up green space.
These programs take advantage of recent fringe benefits rules, such as offering workers tax-free transit or vanpool benefits of up to $100 per month. Employers can also allow employees to "cash-out" their parking space, receiving additional income of up to $175 per month (taxed like added salary for the employee, but still a deductible business expense for the employer).
Employees can use this cash to commute as they wish, including carpooling, telecommuting, bicycling, or walking. Employers benefit through lowered taxes, lowered costs, and new ways to recruit and keep employees.
Commuter Choice cuts pollution, reduces traffic congestion, and conserves energy. Ask your employer if they have a Commuter Choice program. If not, ask them to start one.
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Pickling Cucumbers (page 2 of 3)
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Boiling Water Bath Canning
Once your cukes and pickling ingredients are ready, use the fresh-pack method or a salt-brine fermentation. Then follow these steps for boiling-water-bath canning. If your canner instructions vary from these, follow the instructions that came with your canner.
Assemble all utensils: Canner with rack, Mason jars, lids, tongs or jar lifter, cooling racks and nonmetallic spatula.
Use only Mason jars for home canning. They're made by a number of manufacturers and are safe because the glass is heat-tempered and can seal perfectly. Always use brand new dome lids for canning. The rubber compound loses its ability to seal perfectly after one use. Metal screw bands and Mason jars may be reused.
Examine and clean all equipment: Check all bands for rust, dents or nicks and the jars for chips or cracks. Don't use them for canning if they aren't perfect. Wash all equipment in hot, soapy water. Rinse in clear, hot water. Keep jars and screw tops hot. Keep dome lids in hot water until ready to use.
Follow recipe instructions for filling jars, leaving 1/4 inch headspace for pickles. Once jars are filled, release air bubbles by running a rubber spatula around the insides of the jars. Wipe jar tops and threads clean with damp cloth. Put lids on jars, rubber side down, and screw bands on firmly, so they're "fingertight."
Place the rack on the bottom of a canner half full of water, and bring it to the boil. Only fill as many jars as the canner will hold in one batch. As each jar is filled, place it carefully in the rack. The jars should not touch each other or the side of the canner.
Add hot water, if necessary, so the jars are covered with at least one to two inches of water. Cover and turn up heat under canner. Start timing when the water reaches a boil. Follow timing instructions for each recipe.
To complete the processing, remove the jars and place them upright on a rack or thick towel in a draft-free area, allowing enough room between jars for air to circulate.
Testing Your Pickles
Do not tighten the metal rims -- you may break the seals. After 12 hours of cooling, test the seals. These three tests are recommended for checking the seals on dome lids:
- As the jar contents cool and a vacuum forms, the lid pulls down into the jar and makes a "kerplunking" sound.
- The lid will be concave or dished and should stay that way; as long as the vacuum is present you can feel the slight dish.
- Push down on the lid with your thumb. If there's no give, the jar is sealed. If it makes a clicking sound, the seal isn't complete.
If some jars have incomplete seals, reprocess the contents, using a new lid and a clean jar. Or, simply put the jars in the refrigerator and use these pickles first.
Wipe the jars with a clean, damp cloth; label clearly; carefully remove the outer screw-rims; and store jars in a cool, dry, dark place.
Don't open the jars for several weeks -- this will allow the flavors of the herbs and spices to develop fully.
Before serving, check pickles or relishes for signs of spoilage, sliminess, softness, frothing or a foul odor. Don't eat any pickles you think are bad; don't even taste them. Throw them out if there's the slightest doubt as to whether they're good.
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CNHS Physical Therapy Student Wins Scholarship from VT Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association
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Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome remains difficult to diagnose and treat, but Catherine Marshall, a second-year Physical Therapy student, is poised to help patients suffering from the complicated symptoms. For her essay that discusses the history and treatment of the disorder, she won the Dr. Kenneth J. Friedman Student Scholarship from the Vermont Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) Association. She includes a case study in her essay and also outlines some of the strategies she might use as a physical therapist to help her patients.
"As a future PT, I think it's important to utilize the full hour that we have with patients to treat them on the whole," she said. "More and more PTs are helping with the primary diagnosis of pathology, partly because we get to spend more time with the patients. Researching this topic will help me be sensitive to a unique syndrome that probably affects more people than we think it does because there are no good treatments available."


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As a PBS cameraman recorded the scene, 23andMe scientist Mike Macpherson drew lines connecting photographs of about two dozen celebrities to one another while Henry Louis Gates Jr. riffed on what those links all mean.Finding Your Roots, in which Gates delves into the family histories of his guests tracing their stories back in time. When the paper records run out he turns to DNA tests.After Macpherson sketched a seemingly unlikely link between one of the guests with European Jewish ancestry and another, a Muslim of Pakistani descent, Gates remarked:"It reaffirms that we truly are all the sons of Abraham.""Indeed," Macpherson said.
Watch Preview on PBS. See more from Finding Your Roots.Gates wasn't alone. Producers Hazel Gurland and Caitlin McNally helped direct the shoot and frame some of the questions, while a cameraman filmed the discussion. But it was clear that Gates was in charge, and he has a knack for finding the nugget that will captivate people, such as the idea that we are all interconnected genetically.It's not "six degrees of separation" that links any two people, but two or three degrees. And these are not social connections — a friend of a friend of a friend — but links through our DNA."Now that's cool," Gates said. Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the point is that racial and ethnic dividing lines are not as sharp as many assume. This is particularly true in the United States."It's a tribute to the true triumph of American democracy," Gates said at one point during the shoot with Macpherson and Mountain. "The diversity of our people, which we can measure through genealogy and genetics."


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The general objective of the NanoWal network is to enhance both Belgian competencies and activities in the fields of nanosciences, nanotechnologies and nanomaterials.
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