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Yahoo is looking to make a clean break with some aspects of its past with Marissa Mayer now at the helm -- and one of those, it seems, could be its logo. A TC reader says that he was asked to take an online survey, "and it turned out to be all?about asking me to compare Yahoo's current logo to a potential new?logo," he tells us. Here is a screenshot from that survey:
Jessica Turner of Raleigh, N.C., poses with the Romney sign outside her home. (Jim Turner)
As Election Day approaches, Yahoo News has asked voters in swing states to share what it's like being in the thick of things as President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney smother them with attention. This week, we look at North Carolina and Virgina, two Southern states that are being contested this year. In their own words and photos, voters shared their impressions. Here are some excerpts. Live in a swing state and want to share your story? Here's how.
I thought it would be kind of cool to be in a swing state because of the national attention, but it turns out to be more hellish than expected.
It was great having the DNC here [but] now I just wish all things political would stop!
My wife and I are divided for president, so we'll have to vote just to cancel each other out. I find [the division] to be pretty typical around here. I know several couples that way. (I'm not allowed to have any political sign, just because my wife would also [want to] have one.)
Not only do we see [more than eight] commercials a day, but 95 percent are attack ads, and it's all negative. It makes you think that Obama will feast on the flesh of your children, and Romney is out to torture and kill fluffy bunny rabbits. I'm hoping that both are untrue, but with these political ads, it makes you think.
?Stuart Schafer, Charlotte, N.C., in an email to Yahoo News
Obama-Biden sign in Roanoke, Va. (Cheryl Preston)
Living in our area is, at times, very difficult for those who are liberal.
Although I know there are Obama supporters around, I have only seen two Obama-Biden campaign signs as opposed to many Romney-Ryan signs around town.
There's a lot of tension in our area over the election, and it seems very one-sided. On television, there are a lot of Romney commercials and a couple Obama commercials now. It seems like every commercial break [has] at least one political segment.
It's a very isolating feeling to think that you are alone in your stance. I skirt around conversations that have to do with politics at my workplace and with my patients for fear of being discriminated against.
[But] I'm starting to not be so concerned about what people think anymore. It's my right as an American to pick whoever I want to be president. That's what makes our country so amazing: freedom.
My husband, his parents, and siblings are all voting to re-elect President Obama. As far as our friends, it's about 80/20 [in Mitt Romney's favor]. Many of them we know will vote for Romney, but there are a few who are moderate in their views and are leaning toward President Obama. Today I went to one of the early voting centers and placed my vote for President Obama. I feel so proud to be an American, to have the right to choose who I think best represents me, my beliefs and my hopes for our nation.
?Hilary Andrews, Pinehurst, N.C., in an email to Yahoo News
As happened in the previous three elections, when I put a Republican presidential candidate sign on my property, it's vandalized.
I've learned that a way to reduce that vandalism is to line the edges of the sign with Vaseline, making its destruction a gooey, messy proposition. Sometimes vandals stop in mid-destruction, and I come home in the evening to a sign someone started to destroy but then stopped because their hands became a mess.
Since I clearly am making someone very upset, I of course decided that I need far more than one sign so I can get my point across even more clearly. I have asked for more signs, made more signs, and gotten more from neighbors. I am filling my yard. And lining them all with Vaseline.
Newt Gingrich visits Republican volunteers in Lynchburg, Va. (Janet Butler)
? John Iekel, Falls Church, Va., in an email to Yahoo News
I go into a lot of houses in my job of dry cleaning carpets. ? For the first time I can ever recall, I am seeing my customers are actually serious about [an] election.
No more do they try to out-promote the opposition candidate with a litany of talking points, as in past elections. [They use] a quiet voice and calm manner. They speak about the candidates in a conversational style, whereas in the past they would try to convince by boisterously emphasizing key points.
[While they] used to use a show of anger to convince, now it's a quiet plea. A tone of gravity has somehow fallen upon my clients. They never ask me who I will be voting for, they simply make the whispered, almost resigned statement that "people need to get out and vote."
? Charles Bright, Goldsboro, N.C., in an email to Yahoo News
I?ve been thinking a lot about my plans for the coming months and the start of the new year.
There?s a lot I want to release next year and it?s all wrapped around a strategy that essentially rests on finally getting myself a proper sales funnel of my own products (if you?re new to the Sales Funnel concept, read my introductory series of articles starting here).
This strategy has a lot of layers to it and each layer contains many tasks that need to get done. There?s everything from product creation, to sales pages, email sequences, product delivery, traffic generation, conversion, content creation, and all the bits and pieces that go together for a typical information product business.
I?ve never properly set up a sales funnel, so I?m excited by the potential and motivated to make it happen. I have a lot of untapped leverage within my existing work, so much of this process will be about releasing ?hidden? profits and distributing my content to new places.
No doubt much of what I have described is on your to-do list as well. There?s a never ending list of tasks like this for an information marketer. The unfortunate side effect is feeling overwhelmed, that you are working hard but not getting anywhere.
To make this process more effective, a big part of my strategy is to sequence the tasks in the right order. For example, there?s no point working on traffic building techniques if you?ve got no way to leverage the traffic you bring in.
To help accomplish these tasks, and more importantly, to reduce my stress, eliminate feelings of overwhelm and give me a clear order of tasks to focus on, I am completing a process of brain dumping and prioritization.
The Brain Dump Technique
To put it simply, a brain dump is taking all the things you are thinking about, worrying about and mulling over that you have to do or that takes your attention, and ?dumping? it into a document.
My preferred tool for brain dumping used to be good old fashioned pen with a big notebook, but lately I?m more of an Evernote devotee because of the cloud based back-up. There is still something satisfying about using pen and paper though, seeing that big list of scribble that just spewed forth from your brain gives you a sense of clearing space.
Entrepreneurs often struggle to sleep because during the evening you mentally review all the things you have to do. To make matters worse, usually while in bed you?re not in work mode, so you don?t go and start to complete a task. Instead you are trapped in your bed, thinking about what you have to do which leads to more things you have to do. It?s stressful because all you do is open loops, never closing them. Obviously it is not conducive to a good nights rest.
Personally I have no issues falling asleep, I tend to only suffer from this problem when I wake up in the early morning before I get my eight hours of necessary shut-eye. That?s when my nervous system is out of whack from being undercooked, which leads to my head reviewing my previous day and what?s coming up in the new day. If I get carried away, my thoughts turn to a complete life-review, which I have to stop myself from doing if I want to get back to sleep.
The brain dump is a great antidote to the sleepless entrepreneur problem, if you let it be.
The key after doing a brain dump, is that you must allow yourself to rely on whatever tool you just used to clear your head. The notes you have taken are not to be pondered until it?s work time, and then only to pick your next task for that day.
If you brain dump and just continue to think about everything, that?s not a proper clearing process. You need to essentially ?forget? about the issue until it?s the right time to focus on it. That?s why you have to trust your notes ? everything is there when you need it so you don?t have to worry about it.
Prioritization Is Next
If you have followed the advice offered by the popular book ?Getting Things Done? by David Allen, you will be aware of the idea of always having a device to jot down tasks (a notepad and pen, or your mobile phone for example) and then grouping them into projects and prioritizing.
I like the principles and techniques David teaches, but I have to admit I found his full system too much. The task of collecting and prioritizing became a big task in itself. I found it overkill, I can function with something simpler.
My process of prioritization is somewhat free-flowing to match my lifestyle (and personality I suppose too). I stick to timeframes based on what I need to do to keep the status quo running smoothly (blog posts, emails, existing commitments coming up during the week such as interviews) and do these things early to create time to get the moving forward tasks done during the rest of the week.
To decide what part of a new project to work on during my moving forward time, I take into account two variables -
What makes sense to work on now based on a logical order
What I feel like doing in the moment
When I say ?logical order? this is my own internal strategizing process. I use the 80/20 Rule, the Theory of Constraints and my own experiences to decide what needs to get done first.
It?s not really that tricky when you think about, it makes common sense to do certain things before others.
For example, right now I?m working with two contractors to get info products ready for the new year. Hence at the moment I focus all my new project time on the product delivery aspects such as ?
Creating product
Setting up product delivery technology
Payment processing system
Sales pages
It makes sense for me to focus on these aspects now, so when I send traffic to my site and people join my newsletter, I have products they can buy and benefit from.
I could spend my time working on video marketing, or optimize and increase the number of podcasts I do, or write more blog content, or focus on my affiliate program, or any number of things. If however I don?t have my sales and conversion process established, most of those activities will just make me more ?busy?, not significantly more profitable.
At the moment I monetize primarily via advertising and affiliate income. Solid revenue sources for sure, but not in my experience as good as having your own product (in terms of financial return, personal gratification and business building).
What?s more important to me now, which I should have focused on years ago, is setting up a funnel that converts and determine my visitor value (how much on average one person joining my funnel is worth to my business). From there I can go to work increasing traffic.
There?s no point filling a boat with people if it?s full of leaks. Fix the leaks first, then sell tickets.
Mood Swings
One area that people rarely talk about when it comes to task prioritization is mood and energy. This is unfortunate because I believe mood management as a technique for energy efficiency is potentially the most important aspect of productivity.
I?m not going to pester you with the basics of body health. You obviously know it is important to eat small regular healthy meals, to get a good nights rest and exercise. These are core practices to set in place to keep your machine ? your body ? running at optimum levels. The rest of the process is all about managing your energy levels, choosing to do the right task to match where your body is at.
For example I?m typing this at a chocolate and coffee shop in the Brisbane CBD with an entire afternoon of available time (I?m drinking tea by the way). I started writing at 2pm, the first business related work I have done today. I have a solid amount of distraction-free time available, I feel motivated to create and I have food in my belly. That?s an optimal situation for me to put in a good couple of hours of writing, which I have.
If it was late at night and I was tired, but not quite ready for bed tired, I?m not about to start writing an article. I need to be fresh for that. Instead this is a time to do smaller tasks, but still tasks that can help move my new projects forward.
For example, I need to assign tasks and give materials to a tech contractor, so she can get my new products ready for download. Do this I just write some short instructions and attach some files into a to-do in Basecamp. When I wake up the next day, chances are the work will already be done.
Perhaps because I?ve had such a flexible work schedule for so long (I?ve been an internet entrepreneur for nearly 13 years), I?ve always been very responsive to my moods (you might say a little too responsive!). Most people have to force themselves to work while tired, or do tasks they hate as part of a job. If I?m tired, I have a nap. If I?m hungry, I eat now, not on some kind of schedule someone else decided upon. I get to pick the tasks I do, so most of the time I do things I like, for example, write this article you are reading now.
It?s important not to fight your energy and moods, but to leverage them. Work with your energy flows, don?t fight them, assuming you have your basics covered with good body health.
If you have an hour spare to listen to some great training on energy management from Tony Schwartz, in a presentation he did for the staff at Google ?
Brain Dump, Prioritize And Work With Your Energy
Do you want a recipe for a productive day? Well you have one now?
I?ve just given you a very powerful, yet simple in concept, three-step formula:
Brain Dump everything on to paper or a digital tool so you don?t have to waste energy thinking about all of it and get a good night sleep
Prioritize your notes into tasks based on a logical order of performance
Work on the tasks, being mindful to align your body, mood and energy levels with the type of effort required to get the job done.
You can also use these techniques for your entire life, it does not have to be about your business. It can be caring for your family, or planning an exercise program, or completing a university degree. Everything can be removed form your head, sorted into tasks, prioritized by what matters most to you and what you can get done given your current energy levels.
At the very least, try the brain dump technique. Getting things out of your head and forgetting about them is a huge stress reliever. I use it every day on a micro level by brain dumping a short list of two-to-five tasks to do that day, if I can. That?s all I think about when it comes to work for that day, the rest I leave for another day, so I don?t think about. If I do think of something, it gets brain dumped, ready to be put on a daily to-do list in the future.
ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2012) ? Assassin bugs, so named because these insects lie in ambush for prey that they attack with speed and precision, are found all over the world. Nearly 140 species of these bugs are blood-sucking; because they can bite humans around the mouth, they are also called kissing bugs. All kissing bugs can spread Chagas disease, a neglected tropical disease that imposes an economic burden on society.
Surprising, then, that scientists' understanding of the evolutionary history of assassin bugs is riddled with difficulty. The data are incomplete. Fossils, which exist for only a few groups of assassin bugs, are young, providing only patchy information on how these bugs evolved.
Now entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have produced a clearer snapshot of the entire evolutionary history of assassin bugs by integrating molecular, paleontological, behavioral and ecological data into their analyses. The result of their painstaking work is a new phylogeny -- the representation of the evolutionary relationships between species -- for assassin bugs. It includes the most number of assassin bugs to date and represents the most number of subfamilies.
"We can now zoom in on specific groups within the phylogeny to examine specific aspects of the evolution of that group," said Christiane Weirauch, an associate professor of entomology who reconstructed the assassin bug phylogeny with her Ph.D. graduate student Wei Song Hwang. "Our phylogeny significantly improves our knowledge about relationships within assassin bugs and will guide future research work in understanding how some of the interesting prey specialization behaviors and prey capture techniques have evolved."
Study results appeared last month in PLoS ONE.
"One significant improvement is the addition of several assassin bug species from the subfamily Reduviinae, the second largest subfamily of assassin bugs," said Hwang, the first author of the research paper. "Previous phylogenies have a very limited representation of Reduviinae, which means the overall interpretation of the phylogeny is of limited value."
Assassin bugs are estimated to have originated during the Middle Jurassic (~178 million years ago), making them a relatively old group of insects. They diversified significantly in the Late Cretaceous (~97 million years ago); indeed, nearly 90 percent of the existing species diversity we see today in assassin bugs started to diversify from this time onwards. The cause of this diversification remains unknown.
Blood-feeding kissing bugs
Weirauch and Hwang also determined that kissing bugs originated just 27-32 million years ago, the previous estimate being 107 million years ago. Mostly found in Central and South America, these bugs have evolved to feed on vertebrate blood -- lizards, birds, opossums, armadillos, bats, etc., and humans -- and can be found in diverse environments, from the Sonoran desert to the Amazon rainforest.
"The previous estimate of 107 million years ago linked the diversification of kissing bugs with the splitting of South America from Antarctica and provided a longer time-span for kissing bugs to speciate and spread across the continent and adapt," Hwang said. "Our research shows that this is not the case. By including more data and improving estimation methods, our younger estimate of 27-32 million years ago matches the time when the hosts, mainly mammals and birds, were diversifying at a rapid rate in South America."
The researchers caution that as natural environments get altered, more kissing bugs may be seen adapting to new environments and hosts rather than going extinct.
"The colonization of human settlements by wild kissing bugs we are witnessing now is thus likely to increase in intensity as more natural environments are replaced by human activities," Hwang said.
With their comprehensive sampling of assassin bugs and large molecular dataset, Weirauch and Hwang also show that the blood-feeding kissing bugs either have a single origin or two separate but close origins. Until now, the possibility of two separate but close origins of kissing bugs had not been hypothesized nor demonstrated.
"The possibility that there are two separate lineages implies that there will be shared traits among the lineages, but also slight differences we need to be aware of when developing different preventative strategies," Hwang explained. "A single origin, on the other hand, means we can expect common traits shared among all kissing bugs that can be targeted for control or monitoring."
Building the Tree of Life
The current research is part of the scientific endeavor to reconstruct the entire Tree of Life -- the biological concept that all living organisms are related and can be traced back to a single ancestor representing the origin of life on Earth.
"Reconstructing a phylogeny, a framework from which we can infer the evolutionary history of any group of organisms, is thus the first step towards understanding how life evolved, how different species relate to one another, how specific traits evolved over time, and why biodiversity occurs the way it does today," Weirauch said.
The study was financially supported by the Partnership for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET) program of the National Science Foundation, the UCR Department of Entomology, a UCR Graduate Division Dissertation Year Program Award and an American Museum of Natural History Collection Study Grant.
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The Science Friday Book Club meets this week to talk about our fall pick: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" : Adventures of a Curious Character. Physicist Lawrence Krauss joins the club to discuss Feynman's contributions to physics and his unconventional life.
Academia should fulfill social contract by supporting bioscience startups, case study saysPublic release date: 25-Oct-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Kristen Bole derek.deike@gmail.com 415-502-6397 University of California - San Francisco
Universities not only provide the ideal petri dish for cultivating bioscience with commercial potential, but have a moral obligation to do so, given the opportunity to translate public funding into health and jobs, according to a new case study by UCSF researchers.
In an analysis published Oct. 24, 2012 in Science Translational Medicine, researchers at the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) assessed the impact of the institute's efforts over the past eight years in supporting entrepreneurs on the three UC campuses in which it operates: UCSF, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz.
The study found that, by lowering the hurdle even very slightly for scientists to become entrepreneurs, the scientists were able to gain extraordinary traction in translating academic research into public benefit, generating 60 new companies in the first six years and attracting 75 new bioscience entrepreneurs in the last year alone.
"This fundamentally changes the way we think of academic science," said Douglas Crawford, PhD, assistant director of QB3 and senior author on the paper. "There is a distressing paucity of new drugs in the pipeline and a clear need for new economic engines in this country. This is a call to action to address that."
The paper cites the following essential support that universities can provide:
Bioscience-focused incubators
An open network approach that enables any entrepreneur to participate
Competitive seed funding options
Real-world mentoring that gives scientist a clear sense of market needs.
In the first six years since QB3 started supporting entrepreneurs at the UCSF Mission Bay campus, its growing network of incubators helped launch 60 new bioscience companies at UCSF and across the San Francisco Bay at UC Berkeley at a cost of $1 million per year. Of those, 56 are still in business, and 13 have moved beyond the incubator network or have been purchased by larger companies.
Together, those companies have created more than 280 jobs and attracted more than $230 million in either small business grants or venture capital funding for those companies, which are primarily focused on developing therapeutics, medical devices and research tools. That's a 38-fold return on investment, despite current negative trends in seed-stage investing, in addition to the public benefit of any products those companies generate.
The federal government invests $50 billion per year in academic research, including $23 billion for life sciences from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) alone, according to the paper. Both Baltimore, which is home to universities, and the San Francisco Bay Area receive about $2 billion annually in government research and development funding, yet productivity as measured by high-tech startups was 20-fold higher in the San Francisco area than Baltimore, the analysis found.
"This is clearly not an issue of how much funding is coming to the region. It's an issue of how we think about our social contract," said Regis B. Kelly, PhD, UCSF professor of biochemistry and biophysics, executive director of QB3 and a co-author on the paper. "Most people would say the public good a university offers is in providing research and education, but if we truly want to support the public with the benefits of science, we need to stop seeing economic growth and new medications as an inadvertent byproduct of academic research."
Many U.S. universities, including UCSF, are exploring ways to work with the private sector, with the multiple goals of invigorating research on campus, expediting drug development and ultimately improving the therapies that make it to the market.
That's a relatively new way of thinking, though, and one that often has been met with both skepticism and charges of conflicts of interest by those who believe science should be completely devoid of commercial influences.
"We have a fundamental charge as scientists to make an economic impact and to translate science into public benefit," Crawford said. "That's not a traditional way of thinking of universities, but at a certain point, we need to reassess that traditional thinking and take pride in the fact that a university's public contributions extends beyond its classrooms."
The paper points to the mission statement of the NIH, the nation's largest bioscience funding agency, which specifically includes a goal "to enhance the Nation's economic well-being and ensure a continued high return on the public investment in research."
"So as academic scientists, we are actually paid to protect and improve health, to prevent disease, and to enhance economic well-being," Crawford said. "This is not a sell-out to industry. It's an obligation to society."
Among the programs cited in the paper is a year-old mentoring program known as QB3 Startup in a Box, which connects scientists with external legal, professional and business experts to guide them in starting a new company. So far, the program has helped launch more than 75 virtual companies that are currently applying for grants, establishing business plans and pitching to investors. Seventeen are already operational.
Crawford emphasized that the goal of the analysis is not to assess blame, but to find solutions, and there are many. The authors also hope to generate discussion about which solutions work. The paper can be found online at www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org.
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Co-authors include Kenneth D. Harrison, PhD and Neena S. Kadaba, PhD, also with QB3. Authors declare no conflicts of interest.
UCSF is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. Visit www.ucsf.edu.
AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Academia should fulfill social contract by supporting bioscience startups, case study saysPublic release date: 25-Oct-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Kristen Bole derek.deike@gmail.com 415-502-6397 University of California - San Francisco
Universities not only provide the ideal petri dish for cultivating bioscience with commercial potential, but have a moral obligation to do so, given the opportunity to translate public funding into health and jobs, according to a new case study by UCSF researchers.
In an analysis published Oct. 24, 2012 in Science Translational Medicine, researchers at the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) assessed the impact of the institute's efforts over the past eight years in supporting entrepreneurs on the three UC campuses in which it operates: UCSF, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz.
The study found that, by lowering the hurdle even very slightly for scientists to become entrepreneurs, the scientists were able to gain extraordinary traction in translating academic research into public benefit, generating 60 new companies in the first six years and attracting 75 new bioscience entrepreneurs in the last year alone.
"This fundamentally changes the way we think of academic science," said Douglas Crawford, PhD, assistant director of QB3 and senior author on the paper. "There is a distressing paucity of new drugs in the pipeline and a clear need for new economic engines in this country. This is a call to action to address that."
The paper cites the following essential support that universities can provide:
Bioscience-focused incubators
An open network approach that enables any entrepreneur to participate
Competitive seed funding options
Real-world mentoring that gives scientist a clear sense of market needs.
In the first six years since QB3 started supporting entrepreneurs at the UCSF Mission Bay campus, its growing network of incubators helped launch 60 new bioscience companies at UCSF and across the San Francisco Bay at UC Berkeley at a cost of $1 million per year. Of those, 56 are still in business, and 13 have moved beyond the incubator network or have been purchased by larger companies.
Together, those companies have created more than 280 jobs and attracted more than $230 million in either small business grants or venture capital funding for those companies, which are primarily focused on developing therapeutics, medical devices and research tools. That's a 38-fold return on investment, despite current negative trends in seed-stage investing, in addition to the public benefit of any products those companies generate.
The federal government invests $50 billion per year in academic research, including $23 billion for life sciences from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) alone, according to the paper. Both Baltimore, which is home to universities, and the San Francisco Bay Area receive about $2 billion annually in government research and development funding, yet productivity as measured by high-tech startups was 20-fold higher in the San Francisco area than Baltimore, the analysis found.
"This is clearly not an issue of how much funding is coming to the region. It's an issue of how we think about our social contract," said Regis B. Kelly, PhD, UCSF professor of biochemistry and biophysics, executive director of QB3 and a co-author on the paper. "Most people would say the public good a university offers is in providing research and education, but if we truly want to support the public with the benefits of science, we need to stop seeing economic growth and new medications as an inadvertent byproduct of academic research."
Many U.S. universities, including UCSF, are exploring ways to work with the private sector, with the multiple goals of invigorating research on campus, expediting drug development and ultimately improving the therapies that make it to the market.
That's a relatively new way of thinking, though, and one that often has been met with both skepticism and charges of conflicts of interest by those who believe science should be completely devoid of commercial influences.
"We have a fundamental charge as scientists to make an economic impact and to translate science into public benefit," Crawford said. "That's not a traditional way of thinking of universities, but at a certain point, we need to reassess that traditional thinking and take pride in the fact that a university's public contributions extends beyond its classrooms."
The paper points to the mission statement of the NIH, the nation's largest bioscience funding agency, which specifically includes a goal "to enhance the Nation's economic well-being and ensure a continued high return on the public investment in research."
"So as academic scientists, we are actually paid to protect and improve health, to prevent disease, and to enhance economic well-being," Crawford said. "This is not a sell-out to industry. It's an obligation to society."
Among the programs cited in the paper is a year-old mentoring program known as QB3 Startup in a Box, which connects scientists with external legal, professional and business experts to guide them in starting a new company. So far, the program has helped launch more than 75 virtual companies that are currently applying for grants, establishing business plans and pitching to investors. Seventeen are already operational.
Crawford emphasized that the goal of the analysis is not to assess blame, but to find solutions, and there are many. The authors also hope to generate discussion about which solutions work. The paper can be found online at www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org.
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Co-authors include Kenneth D. Harrison, PhD and Neena S. Kadaba, PhD, also with QB3. Authors declare no conflicts of interest.
UCSF is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. Visit www.ucsf.edu.
AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
SKILL: 10 minutes of handstand push-up practice(if you have HSPU then handstand walk practice)
For time:
Run 800M
21-15-9
KB Front Squats(53/35)
Burpees
KB Push Jerks(alternate arms)
then: Run 800M
***Attention CrossFit Pride***
Every year we take time in October to support the ladies and breast cancer awareness.? Now it?s time to focus on the Guys!?
Welcome to Movember!
What is Movember??? It?s a great time to see what boys can pull off!
?During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of mustaches on thousands of men?s faces, in the US and around the world. With their Mo's, these men raise vital awareness and funds for men's health issues, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives?. ~us.movember.com Some of you guys have participated in this in the past, this year we take it to a new level.? This November at Crossfit Pride, we are encouraging all the guys to get involved. We are encouraging you to sport your best mustache, beard, or goatee for the entire month!? Throughout the month we will be raising money to support the efforts of Movember and Son?s? to ?Change the Face of Men?s Health?! Time to raise awareness to Men?s Health!? And it wouldn?t be Crossfit if we didn?t have a friendly competition to round out this month and this great cause!!!? Saturday December 1st, The first ever ?Crossfit Pride Mr. Movember? will be named!!! Who?s going to take the title??? Watch for more details and rules to be introduced this week. Get ready for November 1st! Crossfit Pride is officially registered as a Movember fundraising team.? Get signed up and lets see how much money we can raise for the ?boys?! Join us on our team fundraising page at? Team Crossfit Pride - Movember For more information go to WWW.US.MOVEMBER.COM
If you followed the launch of Nikon's J2 interchangeable-lens compact recently, then waking up to today's announcement of a higher-specced V2 probably won't come as a huge surprise. Nevertheless, whereas the J2 was frustratingly incremental compared to the J1, the V2 will likely represent a more significant upgrade when it lands on shelves at the end of November. For a start, the magnesium alloy camera has been bestowed with a sizable grip, which makes a vast difference to its ergonomics -- it feels much more secure and manageable in the hand, without hurting the small and lightweight appeal of this form factor. Nikon has found room for a pop-up flash too, which is certainly nice to have. The mode dial has moved to the top of the camera and now includes the four main shooting modes (P/S/A/M) -- a change which, in one fell swoop, helps the entire remainder of the control system to become more intuitive and accessible. A new processing engine allows the camera to shoot 15 fps with continuous focus (versus 10 fps with the V1), with Nikon claiming that AF speed has been improved as well. And as for the bad news? It's waiting for you after the break.
Photos released by Clayton, N.J. Police Department show Autumn Pasquale, 12, of Clayton, N.J. Authorities say her family reported her missing Saturday. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Clayton Police Department at (856) 881-2301. (AP Photo/Clayton, N.J. Police Department)
Photos released by Clayton, N.J. Police Department show Autumn Pasquale, 12, of Clayton, N.J. Authorities say her family reported her missing Saturday. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Clayton Police Department at (856) 881-2301. (AP Photo/Clayton, N.J. Police Department)
Jessica Bridges and her three-year-old daughter Madison Bridges place flowers at a growing shrine for Autumn Pasquale Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in Clayton, N.J., near where the missing 12-year-old girl's body was found in a home's recycling bin. The body of Autumn Pasquale was found around 10 p.m. Monday, just blocks away from her house. Two teenage brothers were charged Tuesday with murdering Pasquale who had been missing since the weekend, prompting a frantic search by her small hometown until her body was found stuffed into a home recycling bin. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Young people on BMX bikes visit a shrine for Autumn Pasquale Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in Clayton, N.J., near where the missing 12-year-old girl's body was found in a home's recycling bin. The body of Autumn Pasquale was found around 10 p.m. Monday, just blocks away from her house. Two teenage brothers were charged Tuesday with murdering Pasquale over her BMX bicycle. Pasquale, who had been missing since the weekend, prompting a frantic search by her small hometown until her body was found stuffed into a home recycling bin. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Family friend Daniel Kuehnl pauses Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in Clayton, N.J., as he stands near a memorial shrine for Autumn Pasquale, while announcing funeral arrangements on Saturday, for the missing 12-year-old girl whose body was found in a home's recycling bin. The body of Autumn Pasquale was found around 10 p.m. Monday, just blocks away from her house. Two teenage brothers were charged Tuesday with murdering Pasquale who had been missing since the weekend, prompting a frantic search by her small hometown until her body was found stuffed into a home recycling bin. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
CLAYTON, N.J. (AP) ? Something struck Toni Fiorella whenever she would see a mother from her hometown drop two teenage sons off at the laundromat to do the family's wash. She didn't know them by name, but they were always respectful. Their mother must be on to something, Fiorella thought.
"It's good," she said. "She's making them responsible."
Now, authorities say, those same boys are accused of killing a 12-year-old neighborhood girl and stuffing her body into a recycling bin near their home. Authorities say she was lured with the promise of new parts for the beloved bicycle she was riding before she disappeared.
Some of the 8,000 residents of Clayton saw the boys as Fiorella did, many others as troublesome teens with reputations for stealing bikes. But even some of those who saw a lawless side of the 15- and 17-year-old brothers have a hard time imagining them committing such a violent crime.
Sixteen-year-old Na'eem Williams, who described himself as a close friend of the 15-year-old, said that he knew the brothers to take bicycles but that it was a leap to think them capable of a horrendous crime.
"I know they didn't do nothing like that," he said. "I know they couldn't, especially not with a young girl."
Authorities have not discussed a motive and have not released the names of the brothers because they are charged as juveniles. The Associated Press is withholding them for the same reason.
Deputy Public Defender Jeffrey Wintner said his office was representing both defendants, though a private attorney had been assigned to handle one of the cases. He said the office would have no comment.
The boys were charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the death of Autumn Pasquale, a well-known and well-liked seventh-grader who disappeared Saturday afternoon in the town 25 miles south of Philadelphia. Her body was found Monday night in the recycling bin behind a vacant house next to the boys' home.
Autumn's mother, Jennifer Cornwell, told reporters Tuesday that she felt as though her daughter had been treated "like a piece of trash" because of where her body was recovered. The girl's father, Anthony Pasquale, a postal worker in Clayton, said he is familiar with the family of the suspects.
"Everybody knows everybody," in the town of 8,000, he said, "whether they're friends or acquaintances."
The boys, who have other brothers who are not charged in the case, were themselves seen at a vigil held Monday night for Autumn. The younger boy apparently exchanged messages with Autumn's teenage brother on Facebook on Sunday.
The brother, A.J. Pasquale, wrote on his page that police, search dogs and the media were involved in the search. "thts good," was the reply from an account that appeared to belong to the 15-year-old suspect.
People who know the boys say the younger suspect is a sophomore at Clayton High School and has been on the wrestling team. The older boy, they say, attends Bankbridge Developmental Center in Sewell, a school for students with social, behavioral and academic problems. He was seen outside the family's home less often, neighbors say.
Beverly Davis said she went to school with Autumn's father and the suspects' mother.
"We are not surprised by who the suspects were," Davis said. "We're not surprised at all. They're not always on the right side of the law."
Davis said one boy stole one of her children's bikes. And the boys' father told the Star-Ledger newspaper of Newark that their sons were known for stealing bikes, and that one son had previously been charged with theft.
Naomi Sampson, 76, said that her family has had a home for a century half a block from the boys' home ? and that the boys' family has lived there about as long. She saw the boys grow up, she said.
"We know they're troubled," she said.
But others who observed the boys found them to act the right way around adults, to smile and be courteous. Fiorella, for example, said she thought it was unusual to see two teenage boys doing laundry.
Authorities say their mother saw something in one of their Facebook postings that gave her cause to call police Monday. It was that call, officials said, that led investigators to the body and her sons.
She has not returned messages from the AP. The boys' father told reporters that he has not seen the boys in a year and has not seen much of them in the past seven years or so.
The teens are due in court Friday for a hearing to determine whether they are to remain in custody. Prosecutors say they may ask that the case be moved to adult court.
Both boys are charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, disposing of a body, tampering with evidence and theft. The younger boy is also charged with luring, allegedly telling Autumn to come over to trade bike parts.
Funeral services for Autumn are set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Glassboro, following a public viewing at 8 a.m.
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Associated Press writers Samantha Henry and Katie Zezima in Newark and Larry Rosenthal in Trenton contributed to this report.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A crisis gripping BBC deepened on Monday after it emerged a senior producer had warned the broadcaster could be accused of a cover-up when it axed its own expose into alleged sexual abuse by a one-time TV star.
Allegations that flamboyant BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, who died last year, operated unhindered as a paedophile for years while working for the BBC have rocked the publicly funded broadcaster.
Its new head, George Entwistle, is now under pressure to explain why the BBC dropped an investigation by its Newsnight programme into Savile last year. Mark Thompson, now the New York Times Co's chief executive, was in charge of the BBC at the time.
In a programme due to be aired in Britain later on Monday, a Newsnight producer behind the investigation, Meirion Jones, said he had warned his editor that the BBC was at risk of being accused of a cover-up if it did not run the story, the BBC said.
"I was sure the story would come out one way or another and...the BBC would be accused of a cover-up," he was quoted as saying by the BBC.
Knighted as a "Sir" by Queen Elizabeth, cigar-chomping Savile was one of the BBC's biggest names and most recognised television personalities, and questions have been raised about whether the broadcaster turned a blind eye to his activities.
Police investigating alleged abuse by Savile opened a criminal inquiry last week, saying more than 200 potential victims had come forward since an investigation by another British TV channel claimed he had preyed on children for decades.
Rival commercial channel ITV broadcast interviews with women who said Savile abused them when they were as young as 12, sometimes on BBC premises.
Entwistle is due to appear before parliament on Tuesday to answer what are likely to be tough questions about the case.
The BBC has launched two independent reviews of the allegations, one looking into Savile's actions and another to investigate why the Newsnight report was shelved.
It has not commented officially on the case, saying it would be inappropriate to say anything until the reviews had been concluded.
The Panorama programme, due to air in Britain on Monday night, is expected to give details of how much information the Newsnight team had on Savile at the time.
Veteran BBC foreign correspondent John Simpson said the BBC's handling of the case was the worst crisis to hit the corporation in his almost 50-year career.
"I don't think the BBC has handled it terribly well," he said, according to the BBC. "All we have as an organisation is the trust of the people, the people that watch us and listen to us and if we don't have that, if we start to lose that, that's very dangerous I think for the BBC."
(Writing By Maria Golovnina; editing by Patrick Graham)
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Tuesday it was not proposing EU-wide legislation to regulate online gambling, preferring a cooperative approach to issues like preventing the fixing of sports matches and safeguarding children.
Online gambling is one of the big growth areas for bookmakers and more and more consumers are using mobile devices such as tablets or smartphones to bet during sports matches.
Revenues from online gambling were forecast to reach 13 billion euros ($16.8 billion) next year, a rise of 15 percent, the Commission said.
Setting out measures to protect consumers, the Commission said it will encourage cooperation between the EU's 27 member states to ensure children are not allowed to gamble online and other users are not drawn to rogue sites.
"Consumers, but more broadly all citizens, must be adequately protected, money laundering and fraud must be prevented, sport must be safeguarded against betting-related match-fixing and national rules must comply with EU law," Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier said.
Barnier said legislation was possible at a later point if cooperation did not prove effective.
"If the measures which we want to take together prove to be insufficient, the commission will propose more ambitious measures, including legislation," he told a news conference.
Major stock market-listed operators are wary of doing businesses in countries where regulations are not clearly defined. A number of them had to pay back taxes in Spain this year before they could take up new licenses in a lucrative market.
A trade body welcomed the plan but said the EU should act more quickly to address more than 30 complaints that companies had filed over the past four years relating to the way laws had been applied in member states.
"There has been no action since 2008 on a single complaint or infringement proceeding," said Clive Hawkswood, chief executive of the Remote Gambling Association, a body including leading betting companies Betfair, Paddy Power, William Hill and Ladbrokes.
($1 = 0.7714 euros)
(Writing by Keith Weir; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle and M.D. Golan)
Fans across the country might not have realized it yet, but the Pac-12 has been playing some pretty good football.?
Oregon, Oregon State and USC are all in the Top 10, while Stanford is currently No. 17 in the BCS. The Cardinal?got back on track last week with a win at California.?
Meanwhile, Washington State is reeling after four-straight losses to fall to 2-5 on the year, including 0-4 in the Pac-12.
Although it will take a lot for the Cougars to win this game, anything can happen in college football.
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Where: Stanford Stadium, Stanford, Calif.
Who ya got?
Stanford -21.5
Washington +21.5
When: Saturday, October 27 at 6:15 p.m. ET
Watch:Pac-12 Network
Live Stream:XFINITY TV?
Radio: Washington State Radio Affiliates, Stanford Radio Affiliates
Line: Stanford (-21.5) via Vegas Insider
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Injury Report (via USA Today)
Washington State
RB Rickey Galvin (Arm) Questionable
OL Rico Forbes (Knee) Questionable
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Stanford
WR Ty Montgomery (Knee) Questionable
FB Geoff Meinken (Knee) Out
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What's at Stake?
Two losses most likely ruined Stanford's hope for an at-large BCS bid, but the team is very much alive in the Pac-12.?
Oregon and Oregon State are still undefeated and tied atop the Pac-12 North. However, Stanford still controls its own destiny with those two left on the schedule. The Cardinal will reach the Rose Bowl if it wins out.
Washington State needs to win four of its last five just to be bowl eligible.
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What They're Saying
Stanford completely shut down California on the ground last week, holding the Bears to three total yards rushing on 28 carries.
When star linebacker Chase Thomas was asked if he expected this type of performance, he responded (via Tom FitzGerald of SFGate): "Yes, we did. We don't shy away from anyone. We know if we play our game, we're going to stop the?run."
This could be scary for a Washington State team that has averaged only two yards per carry this year.
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Washington State Player to Watch: Jeff Tuel
Jeff Tuel came in against California after Connor Halliday was largely ineffective and had an impressive performance. The senior ended the game with 320 passing yards and two touchdowns while keeping his team in the game.
Things will get tougher against Stanford and its solid defense.
Without the support of a run game,?Tuel will have to be the catalyst of this offense if it has any chance of succeeding.
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Stanford Player to Watch: Stepfan Taylor
Stepfan Taylor is not only the best player on this offense, he is one of the best running backs in the country.
He is currently No. 15 in the FBS with 846 rushing yards and has been a workhorse all season long.
Washington State allowed 318 rushing yards to California in its most recent game, so it will have a hard time containing the senior running back.
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Prediction: Stanford 31, Washington State 6
Stanford has too much talent on both sides of the football to be limited by the struggling Washington State. Taylor should go off for over 100 rushing yards, while the Cougars will have a hard time even getting on the scoreboard.
As was the case with the first two debates of the 2012 presidential race, last week's town hall at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, was spoofed on "Saturday Night Live." And the debate--the second between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney--was portrayed as a contentious affair in front of a raucous New York crowd.
After President Obama (played by Jay Pharoah) was asked to disclose his presidential salary, Jason Sudeikis' Romney pounced.
"Four-hundred-thousand? That's what I pay my cats," Romney said. "Why don't you go sit down before I beat you to death with my paycheck."
"This isn't Colorado any more, governor," Pharoah said, mocking his Obama's sleepy performance at the first presidential debate in Denver. "This is sea level."
[Related: 'SNL' skewers VP debate (VIDEO)]
The nervous, undecided voters that made up the town hall were also spoofed. Tom Hanks portrayed one in a surprise cameo, offering a one-word question: Libya.
The highlight of the debate--when moderator Candy Crowley challenged Romney's assertion that President Obama did not call the attack in Benghazi a terrorist act--was sent-up, too.
"Candy, c'mon Candy," Romney pleaded as President Obama dropped the mic.
On "Weekend Update," the campaign provided more joke fodder.
"A new Gallup poll shows that Mitt Romney now has a 7 point lead on President Obama," Seth Meyers said. "That's right, Romney leads by 7 points among people who still answer landline calls from a blocked number."
Meyers also mocked President Obama's latest celebrity endorser: reality TV star Honey Boo Boo
"I knew Obama was pro-birth control," Meyers said, "but I didn't know birth control was pro-Obama."
Computer forensics became a necessity in keeping up with the times wherein crimes have been committed using computer technology as a tool by the perpetrators. In order to counteract criminals and solve computer/digital assisted crimes, a new science has been developed to study crimes, opening a job opportunity for some people who will handle it and an education that is needed to gain necessary knowledge needed in the job.
Computer forensic education is necessary in learning how to gather evidences and data of crimes committed with the aid of computers for investigation and law enforcement as well as to prosecute and defend crimes in the court of law.
Computer forensic education is a never ending learning process in the sense that the use and benefits of computers is constantly evolving. The use of computers, its functions, programming is constantly improving, thus people in this field needs to be updated with regards to the development of technology to keep up with their tasks too.
Getting an associate degree or a bachelor degree from colleges and universities is the best option you have if you want to work in the computer forensic field. There are schools that offer programs that focus on forensics education. However, a degree in computer science, mathematics and accounting is a viable option for you too. These other courses will give you enough background for your future career choices. Computer science course will give you background and knowledge about computer and computer programming which is necessary in a computer forensic career especially in gathering data and decoding encryptions of computers used in crimes. An accounting course will be of great aid to you too during investigations of financial frauds. There are also online schools that offer computer forensics training and certification. It is advantageous for people who are working and wants to shift careers since online schools will enable them to save time. There are various schools that offer this program. You can check online for their websites. Choose a school nearest to your location for there might be instances that you need to attend classes or to forward your assignments in class.
On the job trainings in law enforcement can be a way of learning computer forensics. It is through law enforcement that knowledge and methods about computer forensics has been adapted and implemented. Computer forensics is technically a branch under law enforcement since it too is a job that deals with stringently enforcing the law. The reason why law enforcers are given necessary training in this field since it forms part of their job. By becoming a law enforcer, you will get the necessary expertise to handle cybercrimes and crimes related to it
Other ways of getting a computer forensics education is to avail of trainings and seminars. There are also certificate programs that you can enroll into to get further theoretical experience.
You need not go to a regular school to gain a forensic education. Actual experience is a great tool in handling cybercrimes; however, it pays to have a thorough background about computers and the intricacies of law to become a computer forensics expert.
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Yahoo is looking to make a clean break with some aspects of its past with Marissa Mayer now at the helm -- and one of those, it seems, could be its logo. A TC reader says that he was asked to take an online survey, "and it turned out to be all?about asking me to compare Yahoo's current logo to a potential new?logo," he tells us. Here is a screenshot from that survey:
My preferred tool for brain dumping used to be good old fashioned pen with a big notebook, but lately I?m more of an Evernote devotee because of the cloud based back-up. There is still something satisfying about using pen and paper though, seeing that big list of scribble that just spewed forth from your brain gives you a sense of clearing space.
If you have followed the advice offered by the popular book ?Getting Things Done? by David Allen, you will be aware of the idea of always having a device to jot down tasks (a notepad and pen, or your mobile phone for example) and then grouping them into projects and prioritizing.![[ Back to EurekAlert! ]](http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif){kind=small}
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