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At the cemetery, Victor opens his arms and Nikki falls into them. Victor says he knows everything Sharon did while he was gone. Nikki says she's about to marry Tucker.
Sharon and Tucker's wedding is interrupted, Victor holds a press conference, and Phyllis deals with Danny's return.
At the Club, Michael, Lauren, Neil, Abby, Kyle, Christine, and Katherine talk about Victor. Abby and Katherine get texts from Nikki to return to the chapel. Nearby, Danny tells Phyllis they need to talk. Daniel appears. Paul and Nina arrive. Phyllis smirks that Christine has had sex with every man there except Daniel. Lauren says she has too. Michael replies, "Great, honey." Phyllis isn't up for Danny's accusations and storms off.
Billy and Vikki spend time with John at home. Vikki cries.
In the church, Sharon and Tucker realize Genevieve and Nick are there. They say vows and are pronounced husband and wife. Victor's voice says, "Like hell you are." Nikki grins beside him. Nick gapes. Victoria and Billy arrive, stunned. Tucker realizes Sharon knew. Victor says Sharon is still his wife, though that will be rectified. Abby and Katherine arrive. Sharon tells Victor he used her, and was with another woman. Victor says she was a nun. He knows Tucker showed her the photo, adding that he paid someone to keep him away. Gen apologizes. Victor orders Sharon to move out of the ranch.
At Newman, Victor catches up with his family. Billy looks tense. Avery arrives and hugs Victor. Victor thanks Billy for being there before meeting the press.
At home, Chelsea and Adam see Victor's press conference on TV. Chelsea is upset that they weren't called. Adam says he's alive - that's all that matters.
At the Club, Michael hollers when he sees Victor on TV. Everyone gathers. Later, Danny apologizes to Paul for 'the kiss' all those years ago. Christine tells Danny she's glad he's there.
At the Abbott house, Jack tells Traci all about what an idiot he's been and all he's lost. Traci reminds him he has the love of his family, his son, and can walk again. Later, Abby arrives and tells Jack, Kyle, and Traci about Victor. They watch the press conference as Victor announces Sharon is out. Jack moans about share prices and tells them he had to sell Beauty of Nature to Tucker. Abby curses Tucker. Jack says Victor won again, but then realizes that he may be able to get the deal nullified.
At Crimson Lights, Neil tells Lily, Cane, and Devon about Tucker marrying Sharon. Devon says if Tucker wants to piss off the whole town, it's on him. Later, Tucker arrives. He tells Devon his marriage isn't happening. Katherine enters and tells them all what Tucker and Genevieve did to Victor. Tucker leaves. They watch the press conference. Everyone commiserates with Katherine about Tucker. She says he's the one who has to live with it.
Gloria tells Kevin at Gloworm, that she's setting up a wedding dinner for Sharon and Tucker. They see the press conference and Glo mutters that's why they haven't shown up. Billy appears and tells Kevin that Victor didn't expose him. Victoria and Nikki arrive and discuss Gen and Tucker. Vikki says no one crosses Dad and gets away with it. Kevin looks at Billy, who tells Vikki that he loves her and doesn't want to lose her.
At the ranch, Sharon gets a text from Abby. "Enjoying your total humiliation." She turns off the TV. When Victor arrives he shows her out. She smiles on the porch. Later, Nikki arrives. He says they belong together and kisses her.
After Phyllis has turned off the press conference, Nick arrives. She says Danny's back, and tells Nick she's happy for him.
In his office, Tucker yells at Genevieve, "I got sandbagged!" She says he deserved it. Sharon shows up and Tucker shuts the door in her face. He warns Gen that Victor won't be quick to forgive.
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Google+ Account Suspensions, Amazon India & More: This Morning's Top Headlines
Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. We're keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.
Google Responds to Outcry Over Google+ Account Suspensions
Google has released a public statement about the recent wave of controversial Google+ account suspensions, outlining the company's "common name" policy.
Amazon To Launch in India Next Year?
Amazon may launch in India as soon as the beginning of next year, according to The Times of India.
Netflix Stock Slides After Earnings
Netflix's stock was down more than 10% in after-hours trading following the release of its Q2 2011 earnings report. The leading subscription streaming service is still facing blowback from the price hike announced earlier this month.
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The paper "Modern observations of Hubble's first-discovered Cepheid in M31" has been accepted for publication to PASP, and is now available on arXiv.org.
RS Puppis as imaged with the ESO NTT (from Kervella et al. 2008)
July 16, 2010: An observing campaign is being carried out on M31_V1, the first variable star discovered in M31 by Edwin Hubble. The Hubble Heritage Team, with Dr. Keith Noll, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), as Principal Investigator, plans to observe M31_V1 with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and needs to know the phase of this Cepheid variable. Although basic parameters are known for this star, no recent photometry exists, so observations are required to generate current phase information.


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Battle of Trafalgar, 21st October 1805
After the short-lived Peace of Amiens, the Third Coalition declared war on France, and Napoleon became determined to invade Britain. To enable this invasion, he needed to gain control of the English Channel to make sure that the Royal Navy could not disrupt the invasion fleet.
French and allied Spanish fleets were bottled up in the Mediterranean and Cadiz subject to British blockades. Napoleon's plan was for these fleets to break through the blockade, join forces in the Caribbean and then return to assist the fleet in Brest to escape the blockade there. This huge combined fleet would then clear the English Channel of British ships, giving the invasion barges a clear passage to the British coast.
Vice-Admiral Villeneuve's fleet successfully evaded Nelson's blockade rendezvoused with the Spanish fleet as planned, and sailed to the Caribbean. During the return from the Caribbean to Europe, with the order to assist breaking the blockade at Brest, Villeneuve lost two ships in the Battle of Cape Finisterre and he abandoned this plan, sailing instead back to Ferrol.
He once again received orders from Napoleon to continue to Brest as originally planned. Napoleon's plans required Villeneuve's fleet of 33 ships to join Vice-Admiral Ganteaume's fleet of 21 ships together with a squadron of 5 ships under Captain Allemand thus ensuring sufficient force to sweep the English Channel of Royal Navy ships.
However, concerned that his manoeuvres were being observed, Villeneuve sailed towards Cadiz instead of Brest. News that the combined French and Spanish fleet were in the harbour of Cadiz reached England on 2nd September. Nelson, who had returned home for some rest after two years of duty at sea, had to wait until 15th September until his ship HMS Victory was ready to sail.
Admiral Cornwallis had detached 20 ships of the line from his fleet guarding the English Channel and had them sail southward to engage the enemy forces in Spain. This fleet, under the command of Vice-Admiral Calder, reached Cadiz on 15th September.
The Combined Fleet was at this time in disarray. The blockades had made it difficult for the allies to obtain stores and the ships were ill fitted. Also, as the main French ships of the line had been kept in harbour for years by the blockades, the French crews were very inexperienced. Most of the crew were taught seamanship during only a few brief sorties and therefore gunnery training had been neglected. In addition Villeneuve's voyage across the Atlantic and back consumed many vital supplies.
On 16th September 1805 Villeneuve was ordered by Napoleon to sail the from Cadiz to Naples at the first favourable opportunity. At first Villeneuve was optimistic about returning to the Mediterranean but then had second thoughts and remained in Cadiz.
On 29th September Nelson joined the British fleet off Cadiz and took command. He initially wanted to lure the combined fleet out to engage in a "pell-mell battle" and used a force of frigates and schooners led by Captain Blackwood to watch the harbour, keeping the main force out of sight to the West.
On 2nd October, Nelson sent 5 ships of the line to Gibraltar for supplies. The ships were, however, diverted for convoy duty and did not return or take part in the battle. In early October Nelson was ordered to send Vice-Admiral Calder home for court-marshal for his apparent lack of engagement during the encounter with Villeneuve off Cape Finisterre. Nelson allowed Calder to return in his own ship and thereby also lost the 98-gun Prince of Wales for the impending battle. Further British ships, however, continued to arrive, and the fleet was up to full strength by 15th October.
Villeneuve's supply situation began to improve in October, but news of Nelson's arrival had unsettled him and made him reluctant to leave port. A war council was held aboard his flagship, Bucentaure, and while some of the French captains wished to obey Napoleon's orders, the Spanish captains and many other French officers, including Villeneuve himself, thought it best to remain in Cadiz.
However, on 18 October 1805, Villeneuve changed his mind and ordered the Combined Fleet to sail immediately even though there were only very light winds.
Villeneuve had received word that Vice-Admiral François Rosily was to take over command of the Combined Fleet and he decided to set sail before his successor could reach Cadiz, thus avoiding disgrace. At the same time, news that the ships Nelson had detached for supplies were now docked at Gibraltar – thereby weakening the British fleet – was received by Villeneuve and he used this as the pretext for his sudden change in plan.
The calm weather slowed the progress of the combined fleet leaving the harbour, and this gave Nelson plenty of warning and time to prepare. Villeneuve's plan was to deploy four squadrons, containing both French and Spanish ships. However, after the vote to stay in Cadiz, several captains were reluctant to follow Villeneuve's orders and the fleet sailed from the harbour in an unstructured formation.
To organise the fleet, Villeneuve required most of the day on 20th October, and they finally set sail in three columns towards the southeast late in the day. That evening, Achille sighted 18 British ships of the line in pursuit. During the night, Villeneuve then ordered his ships into a single line.
At 6am on the morning of 21st October, Nelson gave the order to prepare for battle.
At 8am, Villeneuve ordered his fleet to wear together to turn back for Cadiz. The order of the combined fleet line was thereby reversed; the original rear division under Rear-Admiral Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley became the vanguard.
The light wind made manoeuvering extremely difficult and the inexperienced crews struggled to cope, so it took nearly an hour and a half for the order to be completed. After the manoeuvre, the combined fleet formed a ragged and drawn out curved line heading north.
By 11am Nelson's entire fleet of 27 ships of the line and 4 frigates was visible to Villeneuve. Against the prevailing tactics of the time, which involved approaching the enemy fleet in a single line of battle and then engaging in parallel lines, Nelson decided to approach in two parallel columns perpendicular to the enemy line and thereby cut Villeneuve's line in three. One column was led by Vice-Admiral Collingwood, and was to approach the rear of the combined line. The other column led by Nelson, was to close on the centre and vanguard
Nelson planned specifically to cut the line just in front of Villeneuve's flagship. This would isolate the ships in front of the break and they would not be able to see the flagship's signals. The idea was that those ships would effectively be taken out of combat while they reformed.
The plan had several advantages, but also inherent dangers.
On the plus side, it would enable the British fleet to close on the combined ships as quickly as possible, thus reducing their chances avoid battle and escape without fighting. Also, it would allow the British ships to engage quickly in ship-to-ship mêlée action, which the British crews were likely to win. Nelson knew his crews were far more experienced and their better seamanship, faster gunnery, and higher morale were an enormous advantage. Additionally, once the enemy line had been broken, their ships would be subject to devastating bow and stern rakes from the British fleet.
The main drawback of approaching head on and perpendicular was that the leading British ships would be open to direct fire on their bows without opportunity to return fire. Nelson ordered his ships make all available sail so as to approach as fast as possible and reduce the time his leading ships would be subject to enemy fire. He was aware that French and Spanish crew were poorly trained and would have difficulty firing accurately as the Combined Fleet was sailing across a heavy swell, which was causing the ships to roll heavily and ensuring that accurate broadsides would require experienced gunners. A risky but calculated tactic.
Nelson could not immediately make out the French flagship as the French and Spanish were not flying command pennants. He therefore waited for Villeneuve to show his flag, so he would know where to strike. The British fleet was outnumbered and outgunned; the combined fleet had six more ships of the line, and could combine their fire as the British ships closed. Nelson's leading ships would not be able to avoid being "doubled on" or even "trebled on". As the two fleets drew closer, anxiety obviously began to build among officers and sailors.
At 11:45am, Nelson sent his famous flag signal, "England expects that every man will do his duty".
Originally Nelson had requested: "England confides that every man will do his duty", however, as the word "confides" was not part of the standard signal vocabulary, it would have had to have been spelt out. Signal officer John Pasco suggested using the word "expects" instead as that was in the signal book and would speed up raising the signal. Nelson replied: "That will do, Pasco, make it directly" and the immortal phase was shown on the mizzen mast in 12 "lifts".
As HMS Victory closed on the combined line at the head of the windward British column, Nelson led his ships into a feint toward the van of the enemy fleet and then abruptly turned toward the actual point of attack between Villeneuve's flagship Bucentaure and Redoutable.
Due to the light winds, all ships were moving very slowly, and the leading British ships in both columns were under heavy fire for almost an hour before their own guns could be brought to bear.
Collingwood's ship HMS Royal Sovereign leading the leeward column outran the rest of the British fleet as she was had recently had her hull cleaned. As she closed on the allied line, she came under fire from Fougueux, Indomptable, San Justo and San Leandro simultaneously. She broke line astern of Admiral Alava's flagship Santa Ana, and fired a raking broadside as she passed.
HMS Victory endured fire from Héros, Santísima Trinidad, Redoutable and Neptune for 40 minutes as she closed. Many crew were killed and wounded – including John Scott, Nelson's Public Secretary, who was standing on the quarter deck talking with Captain Thomas Hardy. When her wheel was shot away, her crew were forced to steer Victory from her tiller belowdecks. Nelson and Hardy remained on the starboard side of the quarterdeck. When a splinter hit Hardy's shoe, tearing off the buckle, Nelson observed: "This is too warm work to last for long".
At 12:45pm, HMS Victory cut the enemy line right under the stern of the flagship Bucentaure. She fired a devastating rake through the stern, which killed and wounded many men (according to some accounts over 200) on her gundecks. Nelson then engaged the 74 gun Redoutable. Bucentaure was left to be dealt with by the next three ships of the British windward column: Temeraire, Conqueror and Neptune. Villeneuve was effectively trapped on a crippled ship, and the combined centre was already in chaos.
The crew of the Redoutable, included a strong infantry corps who attempted to board HMS Victory. As part of this attempt, the captain of Redoutable tried to clear Victory's upper deck with musket fire and hand grenades. A 0.69in-diameter lead musket ball fired from the mizzentop of the Redoutable hit Nelson in the left shoulder, cut an artery in his lung, passed through his spine and lodged in the muscles of his back. It was clearly a mortal wound and Nelson exclaimed, "They finally succeeded, I am dead." Hardy ordered his chief to be carried below decks.
The crew of the Victory fought against and thwarted the boarding attempts, but were forced below decks by French grenades. As the Redoutable crew were then preparing to board Victory, the Temeraire, approached the Redoutable from starboard and fired on the French crew with a carronade, causing many casualties.
At 1:55pm, the captain of the Redoutable Jean Jacques Étienne Lucas surrendered. His crew had been reduced to 99 fit men from a full crew of 643 and he was severely wounded himself.
At 2:15pm Villeneuve surrendered, his flagship Bucentaure was isolated and crippled.
At 2:20pm Hardy could go below to report to Nelson, but he could not stay long, as at this time, the still relatively un-engaged portion of the van under Rear-Admiral Dumanoir Le Pelley made a futile attempt to come to the assistance of the collapsing centre.
Hardy visited Nelson again at 3:30pm to confirm the victory. As he lay dying, Nelson ordered "'Anchor, Hardy, Anchor!" as a storm was predicted. Surgeon William Beatty heard Nelson murmur repeatedly, "Thank God I have done my duty". Nelson died shortly before 4.30pm, as the battle was finally drawing to a close. His chaplain, Alexander Scott, who remained by Nelson as he died, recorded his last words as "God and my country."
The British took 22 vessels of the combined fleet and lost none. The cost of victory was high for both sides, though. Some 1,700 British were killed or wounded, with 6,000 enemy casualties and nearly 20,000 prisoners.
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One of the best known parks in Utah, Indian Creek State Park is the location of the Newspaper Rock Petroglyph Panel that exhibits some of the finest examples of Ute art work as well as that of earlier cultures. Located on a large rock face under an overhang at the base of the canyon wall east of Indian Creek, the panel consists of numerous pecked figures of uniformly high quality and provides considerable material for the study of prehistoric and early aboriginal cultures.
The carvings date from at least two periods. The older figures are characterized as such by the higher degree of fading and the other figures superimposed upon them. These older carvings feature horned, trapezoidal-bodied anthropomorphs, birds, stick men and wavy lines. While the exact chronological position and cultural affiliation of these earlier figures has not been exactly determined, Schaafsma (1970) ascribes them to the Southern San Rafael Fremont rock art style. As there are no known Fremont sites in Indian Creek, there is evidence of Mesa Verde Anasazi sites in adjacent areas.
Newspaper Rock is located on Hwy. 211, 25 miles before the entrance to the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. It is 28 miles northwest of Monticello and 53 miles south of Moab. It is open year round, 24 hours a day.
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The 21st century has brought a revolution to the world of education both over distances and in the classroom. The days of the traditional learning models of the world are numbered as we enter a digital, global educational arena. We can already see the effects of these new technologies on education today and here are five of the main ways technology is improving education.
1. More People have Access than Ever
The rise of the Open Education movement and the ideals of Open Access to learning content has been expressed best in the form of the MOOC. That's short for Massive Open Online Course. These courses are usually free, available globally and created by some of the most elite learning institutions in the world.
While most MOOCs don't give you a qualification when you finish them, they do give access to learning opportunities most people would not have had before. One study claims that two-thirds of people in the world have taken at least one MOOC.
The MOOC has inspired the nanodegree, which basically combines high-quality MOOCs into an accredited program that will actually give you certification.
2. Student Support is Better Than Ever
While Google and Amazon use big data analytics methods to sell more products and advertise with better targeting, the education world has adapted the technology to better ensure student success. Thanks to machine learning and advanced statistical methods, learning systems can predict which students are most likely to fail and give us time to intervene.
It's not a perfect system and probably never will be, but the level of insight into student performance that's now possible is already fundamentally changing how we teach and learn.
3. You Can Learn From Anywhere
As long as you have an internet connection and a desire to learn, you can. With worldwide access to the internet improving every day, people from the far-flung corners of the world can learn no matter where they are.
For example, a company called Preply have come up with an ingenious way for people to learn English when they don't have access to a native speaker. For a small fee, you can get Skype English classes on preply.com
4. Disabled Students Can Learn More Easily
If you're a blind or deaf student getting access to technology that makes it easier for you to learn has never been easy in the past. Now even the most basic smartphone comes with voice controls, screen readers and access to thousands of accessibility applications. The age of specialized and very expensive accessibility tech is nearly over, it would seem.
5. Classrooms Can Flip the Script
The traditional model of education has all the teaching happen face-to-face in the classroom. All students receive the same lesson, at the same time, from the teacher. The teacher gives the same lesson over and over, year after year.
Students go home and then try to apply what they've learned by doing homework. Usually, they do this alone, without any help.
Thanks to digital multimedia, internet access, and cheap computers it's now possible to have a flipped classroom.
In a flipped classroom, what was homework is now classwork and vice versa. Students go through the lectures and other learning material at home on their own time. When they get back to class they now do the practical part of their learning.
Since the teacher is right there, they can get the help they need immediately and since the teacher doesn't need to lecture, he or she can give more personal attention to students. It's a win-win situation for everyone.
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The instrument, called an environmental chamber, is a 12-foot-square room capable of simulating altitude up to 18,000 feet, holding temperature constant at a set point between 14 and 122 degrees Fahrenheit, and controlling humidity anywhere from 10 to 95 percent. The chamber is so finely tuned that it can swing from the coldest to hottest setting in 30 minutes.
"The presence of the environmental chamber at the University of Oregon will assure the next generation of researchers is well versed in both cutting-edge molecular methods and in traditional integrative, exercise, and environmental physiology." said John Halliwill, an assistant professor of human physiology. His research includes a special focus on sleep apnea which can set the stage for high blood pressure.
Halliwill, who also studies factors responsible for changes in blood flow to various regions of the body, co-directs the university's Exercise and Environmental Physiology Laboratories with Chris Minson, an associate professor of human physiology.
Minson said the chamber fast-tracks the university's clinical research program in cardiology, a partnership with PeaceHealth's Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene. About 40 physicians volunteer their expertise by teaching and assisting with research in the human physiology labs.
"The chamber allows us to monitor minute changes in the vascular and respiratory systems of subjects both at rest and when exercising," Minson explained. "It's already opening up new realms for our research mission."
One example of the chamber's potential is enhancing researchers' ability to explore fatigue. "Physical and mental fatigue may not be commonly perceived as work hazards, but fatigue often is a fundamental cause of accidents and injuries," Minson said.
Minson's work, which pertains to a range of disease conditions such as diabetes, involves uncovering the neural and vascular interactions in the skin during environmental heat stress. In the effort to understand why young women are more susceptible to fainting than men, he also studies how estrogen and progesterone influence blood pressure regulation.
Minson is the winner of a 2005 American Physiology Society's Outstanding Young Investigator Award (his second since 2000) and a similar national honor conferred in 2000 by the American College of Sports Medicine.
In addition to their well-established research programs, Halliwill and Minson share a strong commitment to training future researchers in environmental physiology. Currently, about 40 graduate students are enrolled in the Department of Human Physiology, which also has roughly 400 undergraduate majors. (The department, previously known as Exercise and Movement Science, underwent a name change in July 2004.)
"In this current day of rapid discovery in genetics and cellular biology, it is more important than ever that some attention be focused on the research-training of individuals who will make sense of the explosion of available information by connecting these discoveries to integrative physiological functions in the intact human being," Halliwill said.


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ESP of the Year Donna Schulze tells NEA delegates to 'Get in the Game!'
Maryland educator calls on NEA members to get 'politically active' and fight for a 'living wage'
ATLANTA - July 04, 2013 -
Getting politically active at all levels of public discourse "is critical to assuring that parents, school board members, and the general public understand our daily work," Education Support Professional (ESP) of the Year Donna Schulze said today during her speech NEA's Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly being held in Atlanta this week. "I think much of the public has a distorted picture of teachers, principals and school support staff. They've seen too many movies."
A paraeducator for 23 years, Schulze urged the nearly 9,000 delegates gathered at the Georgia World Congress Center to "get in the game" and "be a player" at all levels of government, education, and politics.
"Politics is a team sport," said Schulze, a member of the Maryland State Education Association. "We need to make sure we are heard at city hall, the statehouse and the White House. We need to have a presence on local, state and national committees responsible for setting this nation's education agenda."
Schulze told teachers, school support staff, and administrators from K-12 to higher education that the general public "is probably not aware of how much work you take home each night. They don't reflect on how evening and weekend school work can conflict with family time."
By getting politically active, she said, educators can help to clear up some common misperceptions about the daily workload of educators.
"The public seems to think that you get paid to attend back-to-school nights, weekend dances, and sporting events," said Schulze, a member of the Howard County Education Association, one of the largest merged teacher-ESP locals in the nation with more than 5,000 members. "They are also under the grand illusion that the school board pays for all of the supplies in our classrooms."
According to surveys and news reports, teachers and ESPs contribute hundreds of dollars a year in personal funds to schools and students toward the purchase of classroom supplies, clothing, and meal tickets.
"This is why we need to raise our hands and our voices and educate them to the truth," said Schulze, who works at Phelps Luck Elementary School in Columbia. "And for this to succeed, we need to step up and step out of our comfort zones and get politically active."
Steering her remarks to ESPs, Schulze said they particularly need to get active in living wage and anti-privatization campaigns.
"To most people outside of school environments, ESPs are invisible, anonymous, disposable," she said. "Maybe that's why privateers think they can sweep into a school district and steal our jobs! Well, not without a fight they can't! And not if we are politically active—they can't!"
Schulze took school board members and legislators to task for not being as sensitive to the expertise, work ethic, and dedication of ESPs.
"They don't seem to comprehend that ESP's have invested their lives in education," she said. "We have a stake in education and want to be part of the discussion."
As ESP of the Year, Schulze will promote the values and concerns of NEA's approximately 500,000 ESP members. In this capacity, she will travel to national, state and regional conferences in an ambassadorial role.
More than four out of 10 public school employees are school support staff, who NEA categorizes into nine K-12 job groups, plus one for higher education. The ESP of the Year award was approved by the NEA Representative Assembly in 1991. The first award was presented in 1992.
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How do we find polygenic genes?
You've learnt about the genetic architecture of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, but how have we made these discoveries and how do we go about finding new genes involved? Before 2007 the process was very much a 'fishing expedition', scientists had to predict which genes might be involved based on their knowledge of the causes of diabetes and then test those genes in a series of patients. Around 2007 there was a substantial improvement in genomic technology that allowed scientists to test genetic variants across the whole genome in a single experiment at a reasonable cost. Such tests now cost approximately $50 per patient.
The method makes use of the phenomenon of linkage disequilibrium, which means that genetic variants that are physically close to each other and not separated by recombination during meiosis will be inherited together. So for example, if variants are on different chromosomes they can only be passed on together by chance, there is a 50% chance that those two variants will appear together in the same sperm or egg cell (gamete). If variants are within a few bases of each other they will almost always be inherited together, so a 100% chance of them being in a gamete together. The chance that they will be together diminishes as the distance between them increases. This means that by testing one genetic variant it gives you information about the genetic variation nearby. Thus by testing variants spread across the genome, you obtain information about variation over a large proportion of the genome.
This principle is exploited in Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS). Typically around 500,000 variants are directly tested which capture information about several million untested variants, spanning the 20,000 genes in the genome. The variants tested are Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) which are simple variants that differ at a single DNA nucleotide position with generally two alternative bases or alleles and are the most abundant variants in the genome. In GWAS for Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes, case control (discontinuous phenotype) studies are used and for each SNP the frequency of each allele of a SNP is compared between cases and controls. For continuous phenotypes, like fasting glucose measures, the mean level for each genotype category is compared.
Statistical tests are used to determine whether the difference between cases and controls, or the difference in mean for each genotype, is greater than would be expected by chance. A similar test is applied to all the SNPs across the genome. If the strength of the statistical association with having diabetes passes a threshold, we can be confident that a new genetic region for the disease has been found. GWAS have found around 90 genetic regions that are associated with Type 2 diabetes.
By identifying genetic regions associated with traits and diseases we can understand more about the biology of those traits, perhaps develop novel therapeutics and start to be able predict individuals at increased risk of developing a disease.
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Is the photo better than the vacation?
By Katia Hetter, CNN • Updated 23rd July 2012
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Brent Larson and his bride, Ona, look like an ad for their Antigua resort, glowing, in love and sun-kissed in paradise.
The picture doesn't tell the whole story.
Larson, a CNN iReporter
, said the resort had no record of the couple's reservation for the honeymoon suite, leaving them half-asleep in the lobby until the middle of the night. The private beach? Not so private, with wandering drug dealers who didn't take kindly to the U.S. Naval Academy graduate and his wife declining their products.
"The Antigua pics being quite different than the story was an accident," said
Larson of Charlotte, North Carolina. "I wish I had pics of the (possibly human) bone fragment (I found on the beach), the cop giving me a hard time when I reported it, the massive storm that flooded St. John's and stranded me there for three hours while my wife thought I'd been kidnapped for ransom, and on and on."
It might have been the vacation from hell, but it seems that any trip can be turned into a great tale with amazing pictures. Inspired by the true stories behind picture-perfect photos, we asked CNN's iReporters to share their dream vacation photos and the real stories behind them. Almost everyone had amazing and sometimes horrifying stories that the camera didn't catch.
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They didn't let illness ruin their trip
Donna Henderson, another iReporter,
had hoped for lovely times with her mother during a three-week vacation through Iceland, Scotland, France, the Netherlands and Italy. Her aunt joined them for part of the trip.
It didn't go as planned. Less than a week after they arrived, her mother got a cough that turned into a viral chest infection. A few days later, her aunt had a heart attack. Henderson started to feel sick the next day and visited a hospital emergency room just to make sure she was OK. The special night out she planned for her mother's birthday, including a dinner cruise down the Seine River? They didn't make it.
Despite their illnesses, Henderson doesn't dwell on the negative aspects of the trip when she looks through her pictures. "One of the best things for me was to spend about a week and a half with my aunt and get to know her from the perspective of an adult," wrote Henderson, an Ottawa, Canada resident, in an e-mail.
"The trip to the Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon (in Iceland) was amazing and worth the entire 13.5 hours it took us, as we did it as a day trip," she wrote. "My mum, who was born in Scotland, had always wanted to see Fingal's Cave and was finally able to do so. That was good for her to see it and for me to be the one to take her."
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Adam Parker
, an iReporter from Decatur, Georgia, loves to take pictures and was immediately drawn toward Barbuda, "a little jewel of an island where we could have some scenic solitude" for his honeymoon. The happy couple knew that they wouldn't have air conditioning, which wouldn't have been a problem if sand fly season hadn't started earlier than usual.
"My wife would like me to clarify that we didn't just itch a little from bugs," he added. "We actually spent most nights getting to sleep with her on the couch and me in the other room because we fell asleep whenever we became too exhausted to stay awake."
The highlight of the trip? Visiting the island's only hospital in search of relief from the itching. "The hospital was an old, barely staffed facility in which half of the equipment used was outdated and/or rusted," he wrote. "She chose to take antihistamine in pill form as opposed to getting a shot because we couldn't help but question the sterility of the environment."
He said, "Now almost exactly a year later the memory of the biting pests has faded for me, not so much for my wife, and we are left with pictures that would make it hard to believe that we were treated to anything less than paradise during our first week of marriage."
Time doesn't blur the memories
While photos usually gloss over the back story, they're great for calling up those cherished, if not picture-perfect, family memories.
Seattle iReporter Jim McClure
and his wife recently scanned a collection of family camping trip photos from 20 years ago to create photo books for their grown children, now 24 and 28. Looking through pictures of the Canadian and Colorado Rockies, the Badlands, the Oregon and Washington coasts and the San Juan Islands sparked many memories not documented in the collection.
McClure can clearly remember his daughter, "at age 5 sitting, arms folded and crying because she was having difficulty setting up her tent, or the moose that wouldn't let me out of the campground shower building for several minutes."
"My son and daughter set up and slept in their own tents, starting at a very young age. Everyone pitched in, from gathering fire wood to preparing meals to cleaning up. We were lucky to see and experience many wonderful things. We all remember our meals, some of the best food (ever) cooked over the fire."
The photo books were a hit with his kids during a recent family celebration. "They were completely surprised," he wrote. "The day's celebrations basically stopped while they slowly flipped through the books."
McClure said he's also grateful that his 90-year-old father is dedicated to reviewing and scanning his collection of photos that date back to McClure's great-grandparents' days.
"Every image tells a story, some short -- some longer," he wrote. "It's not uncommon for an e-mail trail to go on for weeks, becoming pages long, containing the discussions these images conjure up from the recipients."
The pictures offer some perspective
iReporter Jim Heston
was taking a day trip to Dala, across the Yangon River in Myanmar, when the skies decided to open up. As Heston ducked into a small shelter along the river to stay dry, children began to play in the rain, and an amazing photo opportunity presented itself.
"In the tropics, the people deal with the rain as a minor inconvenience, and don't let it hinder their mobility," he wrote. "From the vantage point of the shelter, I was able to snap off pictures of people coming and going through the intersection."
He added, "I made it to one more vantage point, an open restaurant near the ferry drop-off. This was a very vibrant spot as people arriving from the Yangon side, were on their way home. They weren't concerned about being drenched as they were getting close to home."
One man's washout is another's photo opp. And the rest of the world just goes about its business.
Do you obsessively document your travels or leave your cameras and phones behind to experience your vacation without any technology? How have smartphones, Facebook and other social media affected how you take pictures on vacation? Please share with us in the comments below.
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import java.util.Scanner; class CalculatorBasic { public static void main(String args[]) { Scanner myscanner = new Scanner(System.in); double fnum, second, answer; System.out.println("Enter the first number: "); fnum = myscanner.nextDouble(); System.out.println("Enter the second number: "); second = myscanner.nextDouble(); answer = fnum + second; System.out.println(answer); } }
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Nokia announces E6 and X7
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Nokia has strengthened its smartphone portfolio with the announcement of its E6 and X7, the first phones using the updated Symbian software. In addition, the new OS also be available for the Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia C7 and Nokia C6-01.
"With these new products and more Symbian devices and user enhancements coming in the near future, we are confident we can keep existing Nokia smartphone customers engaged, as well as attract new first-time and competitor smartphone users,"" says Jo Harlow, head of Nokia's Smart Devices business.
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Huygens landing site to be named after Hubert Curien
ESA PR 13-2007. As of 14 March, an epic space mission and one of the founding fathers of the European space endeavour will be forever linked.
ESA, the international Committee for Space Research (COSPAR) and NASA have decided to honour Professor Hubert Curien's contribution to European space by naming the Huygens landing site on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, after him.
The naming ceremony for the Huygens landing site, which will be known as the "Hubert Curien Memorial Station", will be held at ESA's Headquarters on 14 March, in the presence of ESA Council delegates and of Professor Curien's wife, Mrs Perrine Curien, and one of their sons. Media interested in attending are invited to submit the reply form below.
Huygens' landing on Saturn's largest moon in January 2005 represented one of the greatest successes achieved by humankind in the history of space exploration. The part played by ESA, in cooperation with NASA and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), was made possible thanks to the commitment of a man who, for several decades, worked to promote and strengthen the role of scientific research in his home country - France - and in Europe. Among his numerous responsibilities, Hubert Curien was French Minister of Research and Space under four Prime Ministers.
As Chairman of the ESA Council from 1981 to 1984, Professor Curien played a crucial part in setting up ESA's former long-term science programme, "Horizon 2000", which included the Huygens mission among its projects.
Professor Roger Bonnet, current President of COSPAR, and former ESA Director of Science (1983-2001), commented: "Curien's diplomatic skills were hugely influential in bringing about the birth of European space science. In 1985, his support was pivotal when the European ministers had to decide how to build a solid space science programme and ensure that it would be financially sustainable in the long term."
"ESA's present science programme, Cosmic Vision, draws on the heritage left by Hubert Curien", said Professor David Southwood, ESA's current Director of Science. "He encouraged cooperation between nations in the belief that space research is fundamental to the progress and welfare of a knowledge-based society like ours. He also promoted the concept of long-term planning", he continued. "It would seem almost inconceivable today to initiate any space venture without such pillar concepts in mind".
"The role played by Hubert Curien in creating a European space dimension, with all its various facets, has been absolutely essential", said Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General. "Curien was one of the fathers of the Ariane Programme, which provided Europe with independent access to space, and one of those who, in the late seventies, persuaded other countries to join ESA by creating the 'fair return' system for industrial contracts." Dordain continued, "This exceptional man of vision was appreciated by all for his scientific competence and his outstanding human, political and diplomatic abilities. It is therefore a true honour for us to pay tribute to his memory by linking his name forever to this very significant place on the surface of an alien world that, also thanks to him, we were able to reach."
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Short biography of Hubert Curien
Hubert Curien was born on 30 October 1924 in the Vosges region of eastern France. While a student, he enlisted in the French resistance and was commended for bravery in action. He entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and went on to pursue a research career in crystallography, joining the Sorbonne Mineralogy Laboratory. He was always keen to encourage collaboration between mineralogists and physicists. He was appointed lecturer at the University of Paris in 1949, obtained his PhD in 1951, and became professeur in 1956. From 1968 onwards, he continued with his teaching career at the 'Pierre et Marie Curie/Paris VI' University, which he left only in 1994, despite all his political duties.
Aside from his scientific career, Hubert Curien is known mostly for his managerial and political responsibilities, pursued with commitment, efficiency and vision both in France and in Europe. He left his mark on an impressive number of scientific institutions. From 1966 to 1969, he was Scientific Director for Physics at the CNRS, France's scientific research centre, becoming its Director General in 1969. In 1973, he was given responsibility for reorganising research in France. From 1976 to 1984, he was President of the French space agency (CNES), and from 1984 to1993, served as Minister of Research and Space under four different governments.
From 1981 to 1984, he was Chairman of the ESA Council, and he is now still remembered – among his many achievements – as one of the fathers of the Ariane programme and as a promoter of a Europe united through science. From 1994 to 1996, he also headed the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and in 1993, was elected to the French Academy of Science.
For his work, Hubert Curien received the highest distinctions and awards. He was known for his great intelligence and managerial and political abilities, but also for his simplicity, modesty, sense of humour and willingness to listen to others. He died on 6 February 2005, and is survived by his wife, Perrine, and their sons, Nicolas, Christophe and Pierre-Louis.
Huygens highlights
The European-built Huygens probe was part of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn - a joint endeavour of ESA, NASA and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). It is the most ambitious effort in planetary space exploration ever mounted. Launched on 15 October 1997, Cassini (a sophisticated robotic spacecraft designed to orbit the ringed planet and study the Saturnian system in detail), bearing the Huygens probe, reached Saturn on 1 July 2004. Cassini delivered Huygens to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on 14 January 2005. This was the first ever descent and landing onto a celestial body in the outer Solar System, and it provided the most spectacular view of Titan yet.
During its 2½-hour descent onto this alien world, Huygens performed a series of measurements by means of its highly advanced suite of six instruments. It detected information about Titan's atmosphere and winds. It also took remarkable pictures of the approaching surface, up to touchdown, which took place in Titanian 'mud', where, amazingly, it continued to take measurements for more than 3 hours.
Now, thanks to the Huygens measurements and also to the complementary, global measurements made by Cassini, we actually know that Titan's landscapes truly resemble those on Earth, with mountains, lakes, shorelines and outflow channels, where methane plays a role similar to that of water on Earth. By detecting Argon 40, Huygens also helped to reveal that the interior of Titan is still active, as confirmed later by Cassini, which observed icy 'lava' flows emerging from 'cryo-volcanoes'.
The Cassini-Huygens results so far tell us that Titan, once thought to resemble an early, frozen Earth, in reality appears to be as complex as any of the terrestrial planets that have an atmosphere. Huygens has exceeded expectations and shown Titan to be an 'alien earth', probably more similar to our own planet than either Mars or Venus, and is enabling planetary scientists to explore a new, fascinating world.


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Some of the developers over at XDA forums have discovered a very serious security exploit in all Samsung devices powered by the Exynos 4xxx SoC. The exploit can allow a malicious app to easily root gain access to the RAM/physical memory of your device. This can lead to some serious implications including an app stealing all your data, or put your device in an endless reboot.
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Employees of the Division of Accounts and Disbursements may be detailed by the Secretary of Agriculture for accounting and disbursing work in any of the bureaus and offices of the department for duty in or out of the city of Washington, and employees of the bureaus and offices of the department may also be detailed to the Division of Accounts and Disbursements for duty in or out of the city of Washington, traveling expenses of employees so detailed to be paid from the appropriation of the bureau or office in connection with which such travel is performed.
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BALTIMORE -- Desmond Jennings (fractured left middle finger) was activated off the 15-day disabled list on Monday after playing five innings in a rehab game with Class A Charlotte on Sunday. In a corresponding move, the Rays optioned right-hander Brandon Gomes to Triple-A Durham.
Jennings went 1-for-3 with a single, a stolen base and a run scored on Sunday.
"He had a nice day yesterday," manager Joe Maddon said. "I spoke to him Saturday before he went and played, and he was very upbeat. I could tell by his face that ... everything would work out well, and it did. And it's really nice to have him back."
Prior to his stint on the DL, Jennings started 102 of 110 games, all in center field. The Rays went 5-7 over his 12-game absence.
"He was doing a great job [in the leadoff spot]," Maddon said. "His speed on the bases, his baserunning abilities, his defense, all that stuff is great to have."
Jennings, who arrived at the team hotel at approximately 1 p.m. ET on Monday, reported that "everything felt good" and that he was ready to go.
"We haven't been playing bad as a team, and lately we've been playing a lot better," Jennings said. "Hopefully, I can come back with some energy and get some things going."
One nice offshoot from Jennings' time on the DL is the rejuvenation of his legs, which are usually tired at this point of the season.
"They feel better," he said. "I wish they could feel like this the rest of the time."
Gomes came off the 60-day DL (strained right lat) on Saturday, when Luke Scott went on the 15-day DL with spasms in his lower back. Gomes pitched in the eighth inning on Saturday and allowed a homer to Adam Lind, the first batter he faced in the Major Leagues since May 7.
"I thought [Gomes] threw the ball really well the other day," Maddon said. "I said, 'Don't worry about that 0-2 home run to Lind, you just hung a split. That's going to happen.'
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Wickedly tempting kiosco food is one of the main reasons to visit Luquillo, the gateway to the east coast, while Fajardo is the departure point for La Cordillera, a haven for snorkelling and swimming. Looming over the whole region, El Yunque National Forest is a rainforest of lofty, jungle-covered peaks crisscrossed with hiking trails.
Offshore, the smaller island of Vieques is blessed with vast stretches of sugary sand backed with nothing but scrub, palm trees and sea grape. Swimming in the bioluminescent bay here is a bewitching experience, boats leaving ghostly clouds of fluorescence in their wake. Culebra is much smaller and even more languid, a rocky island ringed with turquoise waters, empty beaches and dazzling cays.
Inland from the north coast lies the bizarre, crumbling limestone peaks of karst country, containing the Observatorio de Arecibo, the Cavernas del Río Camuy and the ruined Taíno ball-courts at the Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Caguana.
The Porta del Sol, or "gateway to the sun", starts at the northwest coast, justly regarded as a surfing paradise that peaks at Rincón. Divers should check out Isla Desecheo, a protected island reserve encircled by brilliant sapphire waters. Back on land, Mayagüez is the "sultan of the west", a once-depressed industrial city gradually regaining its former colonial glory. Beyond the city lies a chain of low-key resorts: Playa Buyé and Boquerón boast gorgeous white sand beaches, before the west coast ends at the weathered cliffs of Cabo Rojo. On the south coast, La Parguera faces a tangled labyrinth of channels and mangrove cays while inland, San Germán is crammed with flamboyant mansions and charming Spanish churches. East of here, the southern coastal plain is known as the Porta Caribe, or "gateway to the Caribbean". Don't miss Guilligan's Island, a mangrove cay spliced by a lagoon of crystal-clear water, and Ponce, still proud of its fine mansions, museums and richly stocked art gallery. The city's annual carnival, (held one week before Ash Wednesday), features parades, salsa and the unforgettable ghoulish masks known as vejigantes. Just to the north, the Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Tibes is another rare reminder of Puerto Rico's pre-Columbian past, while the best of the once booming sugar towns are Guayama and Coamo.
While the coast attracts the most tourists, the spiritual heart of Puerto Rico lies in the mountains, accessed by the winding Ruta Panorámica and famous for its lechoneras, roadside diners roasting whole pigs over wood or charcoal fires. Other highlights include the massive flower festival at Aibonito, the jaw-dropping Cañón de San Cristóbal, and the rural town of Jayuya, which offers poignant reminders of Puerto Rico's Taíno heritage. At the far end of the route, Maricao is the producer of some of the world's finest coffee.
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(CNN) -- So there he was, sitting on the queen's bed, wearing a soiled T-shirt and jeans, holding a broken ashtray and bleeding from a cut on his hand:
A man named Michael Fagan, who was 31 at the time, had climbed a wall of Buckingham Palace, crawled through an open window and made his way to the bedroom of Queen Elizabeth II, who was sleeping.
When she awakened to find the guy sitting there staring at her, it is fair to surmise that she was not pleased.
Especially when Fagan asked her if she had a spare cigarette.
This happened on July 9, 1982, generating international headlines, and only because the queen survived unharmed does it read like a comedy of errors. The errors were plentiful, including the queen's repeated attempts to summon help, at first to no avail.
But now, 30 years later, during the celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in London this week, it is instructive to recall the monarch's rude awakening by the bleeding intruder who was in search of a smoke. We assume that the handful of people at the absolute pinnacle of life -- the queen being the lead example -- have the means and the staffs and the security teams to insulate themselves from indignities that mere mortals have to put up with.
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And, most of the time, they do.
But when there are breaches of presumed privacy, boy, does it cause a commotion.
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We don't have to go back in history to look for instances of this. Just consider what Pope Benedict XVI is thinking right now in the wake of the news that his butler, Paolo Gabriele, has been arrested, accused of having the pope's confidential documents in his home.
The investigation is still playing out in Rome, but if the allegations prove true and it turns out that Gabriele, one of the few people who had access to the pope's living quarters, including the pope's desk, lifted the information, then the pope will know with certainty that even with his rarified position, he can't count on personal privacy behind the guarded walls of the Vatican.
In the United States, President Ronald Reagan, after an assassination attempt on a Washington sidewalk in the second month of his first term, was assured that efforts would be redoubled to make certain no one who wished to hurt him would be able to get that close again. Nancy Reagan was said to be especially adamant that her husband be kept out of harm's way.
So it was almost beyond belief one afternoon in April 1992 when Reagan, out of office but still being protected by the Secret Service, was in Las Vegas to receive an award and was accosted right onstage.
Reagan had just been given the award -- a 2-foot-high crystal statue of an eagle -- when a man named Richard Paul Springer, 41, walked through the ring of security around the former president and onto the stage, grabbed the crystal eagle, smashed it forcefully to the floor (with Reagan being struck by the flying glass), and commandeered the microphone.
Reagan was hustled offstage by the Secret Service, and Springer, too, was hauled away. But there was widespread incredulity that someone could get past all the federal, local and private security that is always on hand for an appearance by a president or former president.
Some breaches are more comical than frightening. Elvis Presley was famously kept away from the gazes and grasping hands of his admirers when he was not performing. His privacy at home was especially important to him.
But his old friends and employees sometimes tell the story of what happened when a crate arrived at his home with ventilation holes punched into it. The delivery service said that fans had sent him, as a gift, a top-pedigree dog.
So, according to the story, the crate was carted into the house, and was opened. Out climbed two young women. They were escorted off the property.
The persistence of those who infringe upon the privacy of the exalted can be astonishing. It turned out that Michael Fagan, the queen's uninvited visitor, had managed to sneak into Buckingham Palace a month earlier and had helped himself to a bottle of wine. For that he was charged with theft -- but was not charged criminally for the subsequent trespass that took him to her sleeping quarters, because at the time it was considered a civil violation.
And Squeaky Fromme, sent to prison for a failed assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford in 1975, wrote to him while she was incarcerated -- a letter described as "strange" by Ford. She was able to reach the president once he had left office -- the letter made it to his home, and he read it -- even while she was locked away from society.
The oddity of these encounters that happen when the personal space of the most protected people on the planet is violated -- the bizarreness of the moments when they are reminded that nothing in life is guaranteed -- can be both mesmerizing and haunting.
Just ask Queen Elizabeth, in the unlikely event you ever get close enough.
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Downs, Maroth visit the training room
Some injury news today from the Mattick. Scott Downs didn't throw during the bullpen sessions today and it was revealed that he underwent a precautionary MRI exam on his left elbow. Mike Maroth is also scheduled to have one on his left knee.
GM J.P. Ricciardi said that Downs' MRI came back clean, but he felt a "twinge" in his throwing arm. The lefty will take four or five days off, according to Ricciardi, but the injury isn't considered serious.
As for Maroth, his left knee locked up on him and he's being examined as well. I'll keep you posted on that injury as we know more. We spoke with Lyle Overbay today — check bluejays.com later for more on that.
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Hopefully these "twinges" are just early spring aches and pains and won't amount to anything else. With an uncertain starting rotation (after Doc of course), we'll need all the arms healthy in the bullpen.
Glad to hear that Downs' injury isn't anything serious but I have to wonder if "twinge" is the new "back injury" ala B.J. before he went for Tommy John.
I'm very happy to see that Hill is doing well and it looks like Wells is set to have a good season (here's hoping.)


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Biofluorescence is what happens when an animal absorbs light, then throws it back out in a different color. It's one of the weirdest and most beautiful traits in the animal kingdom, but now we know it is not among the rarest. Scientists have just identified 180 new biofluorescent fish — and they look pretty amazing.
A study from the American Museum of Natural History, published in PLOS One yesterday, took a closer look at the phenomenon in the first full study to take a comprehensive look at the world of undersea biofluroescence. To catch the fish in the act of glowing, researchers had to undertake a series of deep-sea dives. The resulting photos are pretty gorgeous — but they're not the only endgame of the research. Scientists are also hoping that the fluorescent proteins used by the fish to create their glow might also be able to be turned into a tool for new biological research.
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