Monday, March 25, 2013

NATO targets hackers and patriotism is a crime if you are not with ...

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0I am speaking with Mr. Rick Rozoff, the Owner and Manager of the Stop NATO website and international mailing list.?

0Robles: NATO has been very active lately. Can you give us a few details about what they are up to and maybe a little bit about this new Cyber-War Directive where NATO is declaring hackers military targets?

0Rozoff: That is exactly what the new NATO manual identifies hackers as being: as fair game for military attacks, both cyber and otherwise, incidentally.

0So, it is not so much retaliation in the cyber sphere strictly, as potentially launching a cruise missile at them, I?m sorry, a drone-fired missile, as one of your guests recently, Bill Blum said about Julian Assange. I believe his words were that; ??there is drone with Julian Assange?s name on it.?

0And NATO then reserves the right to launch attacks, cyber and otherwise, on anyone they identify as being a hacktivist, that is hacking into military and even civilian sites in Europe and this is coordinated through what is called a ?NATO Center of Excellence on Cyber Affairs? and ?cyber warfare? really, in the capital of Estonia, Tallin which was set up directly to confront Russia several years ago after an alleged Russian-based series of attacks on websites in Estonia.

0But NATO has been active on a number of other fronts too, as you mentioned in your question. First of all, they have crafted the third or the latest annual national program for the nation of Georgia.

0Robles: I am sorry. Can I ask you one question regarding the cyber manual? Is this an official part of military operations or is this just some sort of ?draft guidelines? or something?

0Rozoff: No, it is official NATO doctrine as of the publication of the manual.

0Robles: So, can they actually, seriously, physically, ?target? anyone they deem to be a hacker threat with a drone missile?

0Rozoff: I didn?t hear them specify they would use ?a Hellfire Missile fired from a Predator Drone? but the terminology I?ve seen is that the attacks against the hackers, incidentally anywhere in the world, could be done either: fighting fire with fire, that is through ?cyber denial of access? or other attacks, on the hacktivists, or other measures deemed ?legal?, is the language I am familiar with.

0But we have to keep in mind that the major military power, the founder of NATO and the ?prime mover" to this day within it, the United States, reserves a right to use drone missile attacks within its own borders against its own citizens, according to Attorney General Eric Holder of late.

0So, it shouldn?t surprise us that the military bloc headed by the United States arrogates to itself the right to launch military attacks, and this is quite in keeping also incidentally, with the US Cyber Command, which has set up in 2010, the first ?Cyber Warfare Command? set up in the world, and wherever the US goes, NATO is sure to follow, and very quickly thereafter, so it shouldn?t surprise us.

0This was discussed, incidentally, roughly a year ago at the NATO summit in Chicago; that cyber warfare was one of the major components, one of the major emphases that NATO was placing, in the addition to things, ?matters? like so-called missile defense: that is interceptor missile programs and the development and extension of the NATO Response Force, for military interventions globally.

0It is worth noting that today news also quotes Supreme Allied Commander of Europe for NATO, who was also the commander of US-European Command, Admiral James Stavridis, stating that NATO essentially has contingency plans for replicating the Libyan scenario inside Syria. This is as of today.

0As I was about to explain NATO has crafted the latest annual national program for the nation of Georgia. So, NATO is active on a number of fronts, and some of the stories I?ve mentioned indicate: they are way out of the territorial area of responsibility for the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization, if they are talking about military actions in Syria, which incidentally follows the report of a couple of days ago, that the US is considering drone strike inside Syria.

0So, once again US and NATO are working in tandem. Georgia of course is in the South Caucasus and nowhere near the North-Atlantic Ocean, and hackers anywhere around the world, who are fair game for NATO attack, cyber and otherwise, extend the pervue for NATO operations globally, which is what they have striven for, and what they have arrived at.

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0Robles: This manual, it says: ??a private citizen, who on his or her own, initiates, engages in hacking for, inter alia: ideological, political, religious or patriotic reasons?, if the hacktivist isn?t working directly within an ?official military organization?, NATO says they could ?still? be targeted. So, does that mean that ?Anonymous? members could be targeted, or bloggers?

0Rozoff: I would certainly draw that conclusion, but you see, I would go a step further: when they mention that; if the motives are ideological, political, moral and so forth, then what is to prevent them considering somebody who is selling what they consider to be disinformation, or ?inconvenient but accurate? information, then from being a target themselves.

0Robles: I could be a target! I mean my views, I think, would fall into all of those areas but?

0Rozoff: That is right, any political adversary who is using the Internet in any capacity, counter to what NATO, how NATO envisions the world being structured, technically I suspect. You know as you mentioned, even an individual hacker with no organizational affiliation could, according to the terminology of the excerpt you just read, be considered a target, a potential target.

0Robles: Hacking could be almost anything really! I mean it could be someone who?s just downloaded a picture from NATO?s site and added some words to it, or something.

0Rozoff: On the NATO website itself it expressly forbids the use of any material, print or image, if in anyway it mocks or ridicules NATO.

0So, now it is apparently a crime (copyright laws would be used) but in essence, this is political censorship. If anyone used material, garnered or gleaned, from the NATO site in a way that NATO didn?t approve.

0Keeping in mind that North-Atlantic Treaty Organization is a consortium of western military powers that is funded through those governments, of the respective member states of the country, the United States overwhelmingly, and that as a citizen of one of those countries, you do not have the right to use information on those sites even though your tax monies are being used to support it, if NATO determines that you are in some manner, not treating them with proper respect.

0So, this is another instance, another example, of the US dominated military bloc, essentially letting the world? ?putting the world on notice? rather, that you either toe-the-line or you could be punished!

0Robles: This last phrase here, it says; that anyone who initiates, (in hacking), which could be almost anything, for ?patriotic? reasons: so that would mean, any person, on the planet, who loves their own country, if it is not a NATO member and who does something on the Internet, could be targetted for NATO assassination?

0Rozoff: That certainly how I would interpret that comment and I think you are right to highlight, or to emphasize the world ?patriotic?, as though somehow that is an evil motivation, ipso facto, that in the globalized militarized world envisioned by the United States and its NATO allies, if their patriotic sentiments are in opposition to having their country destroyed by NATO rockets and bombs, then they are, by that very fact ?criminals?, I suspect, and can be targeted appropriately or correspondingly.

Source: http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_03_23/NATO-targets-hackers-and-patriotism-is-a-crime-if-you-are-not-with-NATO-Rozoff/

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AP Photos: Cities go dark for 'Earth Hour'

It's something of a voluntary rolling blackout: Communities around the globe are going dark for an hour on Saturday evening as part of an initiative called "Earth Hour," to raise awareness of climate change.

In more than 7,000 cities and towns across the planet, millions of residents are turning off their lights for an hour from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. local time to show their environmental concern.

Here are some photos of "Earth Hour" observances.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-photos-cities-dark-earth-hour-202919283.html

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Jon Wortmann: Take a Two-Minute Vacation

Some of the happiest moments of my life were spent on my grandmother's porch. On a halcyonic Cape Cod bay, I always felt safe there. It wasn't just the epic view and summer sun; it was where she was -- reading, debating politics, emphasizing the essential nature of an afternoon nap. My Grahm passed six years ago, but I can go to the porch every day if I choose.

Whether you work too many hours or you are a parent at home with kids who just won't leave you alone, we all need a break. Most of us are in need of a vacation, but we just don't have the time.

Thankfully, our brains are made to help. You've heard for years that we only use a percentage of our brains. Not at all true. What's true is that we don't know how to consciously use our brains to take advantage of our best experiences and use them to make every 24-hour period happier and healthier.

Your brain has a memory center where every single experience is stored. Your brain has a thinking center, which, like a librarian, can pull up those memories and focus on them any time you choose. Most of us have never been taught how to take advantage of using our memories to reduce stress and, as a result, enjoy where you are right now more fully.

The technique is called O2, and it's a simplification of what's been used to help those recovering from the worst traumatic stress.

The first step is to open the pathway between the alarm in your brain, which produces the chemicals you experience as stress, and your frontal lobes, the thinking center you can use to focus on anything you choose.

The reason this is so important is that if you don't let your alarm know that you're in control of what you want to think about and feel, it will keep flooding your body with stress chemicals like adrenaline. That's when you feel on edge. That's when you feel out of control. There is nothing wrong with you in these moments; your brain just has you on automatic pilot like an animal reacting to its surroundings.

You can open the pathway by taking a few breathes, slowing down, closing your eyes and listening to your surroundings. It doesn't take much, just a few seconds of intentionally paying attention to where you are at this very moment.

When you open the pathway, you won't instantly feel better. In fact, you might feel worse. Instead of ignoring stress, you just noticed that you are stressed, maybe even really stressed. But don't worry, it is noticing of what you're really feeling in the moment that proves your thinking center is online.

With your thinking center online, now you can choose to switch your focus from reacting, from feeling stressed, to whatever thoughts and feelings you want to experience. To orient is to choose what is most important to you right now and only think about that idea, image, or memory. In the case of a two-minute vacation, it is closing your eyes and remembering the look, feel, smell, and even taste (who doesn't like a drink with an umbrella) of the place you most love to relax and refresh.

Here's how it works. Whether at your desk, in the library at school, or you escape to a closet in the house to hide from the kids, create a few minutes where all you have to do is imagine where you love to be.

Open the pathway by listening to the sounds surrounding you. Or, breathe deeply twice. You might prefer to loosen your shoulders and wiggle your toes. In each case, choose to be where you are.

Orient on the memory of your favorite vacation. For me, I like to go back and forth between watching an osprey dive for its dinner and sipping a gin and tonic with my Grahm. She always has something to say about the expedition to the dunes we'll take in the morning or how rare the sunset will be in a few hours. Just making the space to remember, my day always resets and recenters.

Most of us live so alarmed these days because we're chasing the real -- kids, work, household duties -- and imagined -- I must do more, be more, make more -- needs of life. The world may continue to be more chaotic and confusing; the best news is that your brain is ready to help you stay grounded and whole if you choose to use it.

For more by Jon Wortmann, click here.

For more on the mind, click here.

For more on emotional wellness, click here.

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Proteomic analysis of differential protein expression by brain ...

Signs and Symptoms: 4 symptoms as reported 2007 (professional concensus) as ovarian cancer 'global' issues:
  • Bloating
  • Pelvic or abdominal pain
  • Difficulty eating or feeling full quickly
  • Urinary symptoms (urgency or frequency)
Symptoms of ovarian cancer can be subtle and may include:

? Pressure, discomfort or pain in the pelvis, abdomen, back, or legs

? Gas, bloating, indigestion or abdominal distension

? Early satiety or feeling full even if you haven't eaten much

? Nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite or weight loss

? A change in the pattern of urination

? Abnormal vaginal bleeding, including abnormal menstrual periods

? Fatigue


Genetic or Familial Risks:

BRCA 1, BRCA 2 and/or Lynch Syndrome (also known as Hereditary NonPolyposis Colorectal Cancer or HNPCC)

Signs and Symptoms: ovarian cancer symptoms as reported 2007 (survivor concensus n=303 non-scientific consumer survey):

12 Suggested symptoms (survey):

all 12 - 60.4%

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Researchers create map of 'shortcuts' between all human genes

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Some diseases are caused by single gene mutations. Current techniques for identifying the disease-causing gene in a patient produce hundreds of potential gene candidates, making it difficult for scientists to pinpoint the single causative gene. Now, a team of researchers led by Rockefeller University scientists have created a map of gene "shortcuts" to simplify the hunt for disease-causing genes.

The investigation, spearheaded by Yuval Itan, a postdoctoral fellow in the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, has led to the creation of what he calls the human gene connectome, the full set of distances, routes (the genes on the way), and degrees of separation, between any two human genes. Itan, a computational biologist, says the computer program he developed to generate the connectome uses the same principles that GPS navigation devices use to plan a trip between two locations. The research is reported in the online early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"High throughput genome sequencing technologies generate a plethora of data, which can take months to search through," says Itan. "We believe the human gene connectome will provide a shortcut in the search for disease-causing mutations in monogenic diseases."

Itan and his colleagues, including researchers from the Necker Hospital for Sick Children, the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and Ben-Gurion University in Israel, designed applications for the use of the human gene connectome. They began with a gene called TLR3, which is important for resistance to herpes simplex encephalitis, a life-threatening infection from the herpes virus that can cause significant brain damage in genetically susceptible children. Researchers in the St. Giles lab, headed by Jean-Laurent Casanova, previously showed that children with HSE have mutations in TLR3 or in genes that are closely functionally related to TLR3. In other words, these genes are located at a short biological distance from TLR3. As a result, novel herpes simplex encephalitis-causing genes are also expected to have a short biological distance from TLR3.

To test how well the human gene connectome could predict a disease-causing gene, the researchers sequenced exomes ? all DNA of the genome that is coding for proteins ? of two patients recently shown to carry mutations of a separate gene, TBK1.

"Each patient's exome contained hundreds of genes with potentially morbid mutations," says Itan. "The challenge was to detect the single disease-causing gene." After sorting the genes by their predicted biological proximity to TLR3, Itan and his colleagues found TBK1 at the top of the list of genes in both patients. The researchers also used the TLR3 connectome ? the set of all human genes sorted by their predicted distance from TLR3 ? to successfully predict two other genes, EFGR and SRC, as part of the TLR3 pathway before they were experimentally validated, and applied other gene connectomes to detect Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and sensorineural hearing loss disease causing genes.

"The human gene connectome is, to the best of our knowledge, the only currently available prediction of the specific route and distance between any two human genes of interest, making it ideal to solve the needle in the haystack problem of detecting the single disease causing gene in a large set of potentially fatal genes," says Itan. "This can now be performed by prioritizing any number of genes by their biological distance from genes that are already known to cause the disease.

"Approaches based on the human gene connectome have the potential to significantly increase the discovery of disease-causing genes for diseases that are genetically understood in some patients as well as for those that are not well studied. The human gene connectome should also progress the general field of human genetics by predicting the nature of unknown genetic mechanisms."

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Depression stems from miscommunication between brain cells; Study challenges role of serotonin in depression

Mar. 18, 2013 ? A new study from the University of Maryland School of Medicine suggests that depression results from a disturbance in the ability of brain cells to communicate with each other. The study indicates a major shift in our understanding of how depression is caused and how it should be treated. Instead of focusing on the levels of hormone-like chemicals in the brain, such as serotonin, the scientists found that the transmission of excitatory signals between cells becomes abnormal in depression.

The research, by senior author Scott M. Thompson, Ph.D., Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, was published online in the March 17 issue of Nature Neuroscience.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2005 and 2008, approximately one in 10 Americans were treated for depression, with women more than twice as likely as men to become depressed. The most common antidepressant medications, such as Prozac, Zoloft and Celexa, work by preventing brain cells from absorbing serotonin, resulting in an increase in its concentration in the brain. Unfortunately, these medications are effective in only about half of patients. Because elevation of serotonin makes some depressed patients feel better, it has been thought for over 50 years that the cause of depression must therefore be an insufficient level of serotonin. The new University of Maryland study challenges that long-standing explanation.

"Dr. Thompson's groundbreaking research could alter the field of psychiatric medicine, changing how we understand the crippling public health problem of depression and other mental illness," says E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., Vice President for Medical Affairs at the University of Maryland and John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "This is the type of cutting-edge science that we strive toward at the University of Maryland, where discoveries made in the laboratory can impact the clinical practice of medicine."

Depression affects more than a quarter of all U.S. adults at some point in their lives, and the World Health Organization predicts that by 2020 it will be the second leading cause of disability worldwide. Depression is also the leading risk factor for suicide, which causes twice as many deaths as murder, and is the third leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds.

The first major finding of the study was the discovery that serotonin has a previously unknown ability to strengthen the communication between brain cells. "Like speaking louder to your companion at a noisy cocktail party, serotonin amplifies excitatory interactions in brain regions important for emotional and cognitive function and apparently helps to make sure that crucial conversations between neurons get heard," says Dr. Thompson. "Then we asked, does this action of serotonin play any role in the therapeutic action of drugs like Prozac?"

To understand what might be wrong in the brains of patients with depression and how elevating serotonin might relieve their symptoms, the study team examined the brains of rats and mice that had been repeatedly exposed to various mildly stressful conditions, comparable to the types of psychological stressors that can trigger depression in people.

The researchers could tell that their animals became depressed because they lost their preference for things that are normally pleasurable. For example, normal animals given a choice of drinking plain water or sugar water strongly prefer the sugary solution. Study animals exposed to repeated stress, however, lost their preference for the sugar water, indicating that they no longer found it rewarding. This depression-like behavior strongly mimics one hallmark of human depression, called anhedonia, in which patients no longer feel rewarded by the pleasures of a nice meal or a good movie, the love of their friends and family, and countless other daily interactions.

A comparison of the activity of the animals' brain cells in normal and stressed rats revealed that stress had no effect on the levels of serotonin in the 'depressed' brains. Instead, it was the excitatory connections that responded to serotonin in strikingly different manner. These changes could be reversed by treating the stressed animals with antidepressants until their normal behavior was restored.

"In the depressed brain, serotonin appears to be trying hard to amplify that cocktail party conversation, but the message still doesn't get through," says Dr. Thompson. Using specially engineered mice created by collaborators at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the study also revealed that the ability of serotonin to strengthen excitatory connections was required for drugs like antidepressants to work.

Sustained enhancement of communication between brain cells is considered one of the major processes underlying memory and learning. The team's observations that excitatory brain cell function is altered in models of depression could explain why people with depression often have difficulty concentrating, remembering details, or making decisions. Additionally, the findings suggest that the search for new and better antidepressant compounds should be shifted from drugs that elevate serotonin to drugs that strengthen excitatory connections.

"Although more work is needed, we believe that a malfunction of excitatory connections is fundamental to the origins of depression and that restoring normal communication in the brain, something that serotonin apparently does in successfully treated patients, is critical to relieving the symptoms of this devastating disease," Dr. Thompson explains.

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  1. Xiang Cai, Angy J Kallarackal, Mark D Kvarta, Sasha Goluskin, Kaitlin Gaylor, Aileen M Bailey, Hey-Kyoung Lee, Richard L Huganir, Scott M Thompson. Local potentiation of excitatory synapses by serotonin and its alteration in rodent models of depression. Nature Neuroscience, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/nn.3355

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Former Star Wars audio company THX sues Apple over speakers

Former Star Wars audio company THX sues Apple over speakers

THX, the audio company founded by George Lucas to ensure the audio quality of the Star Wars films, has filed a patent infringement suit against Apple for the speakers used on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Independent since 2001, THX holds a 2008 patent for a sound-boosting speaker. Karen Gullo & Joel Rosenblatt of Bloomberg report:

Apple products that incorporate the speaker units infringe the THX patent, causing the company ?monetary damage and irreparable harm,? according to the lawsuit. The complaint seeks a court order to stop the alleged infringement and a reasonable royalty, or damages to compensate THX for lost profit.

The suit was filed in San Jose, California and seems to target the speakers Apple has employed along the thin bottom edges of their mobile and all-in-one Mac devices. And... that's about all there is to report right now.

Apple gets hit with lawsuits all the time, and this one will probably get more attention than other, similarly sizes suits because, Star Wars headlines.

Other than that, the story probably won't be unusual -- money will change hands either in a settlement before trial or as a result of verdict after long, oft-appealed court battles.

If and when a deal is reached, or Bobba Fett shows up, we'll update.

Source: Bloomberg



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Friday, March 15, 2013

Brothers set to face off on Mother?s Day weekend in the Maximum Fighting Championship

There are few siblings who can say they never fought with each other. I avoided it because my sister could kill me. But in Canada's Maximum Fighting Championship, two brothers are taking their sibling rivalry to the cage. Mike and Thomas Treadwell will fight at MFC 37 in May.

Not only are they brothers, but they share a condo in Alberta. This will be their MMA debut, and their parents are not pleased.

[Also: Junior dos Santos thinks Alistair Overeem is a joke]

?Dad was angry and thinks we?re idiots. Mom knows but we don?t talk about it with her. Everyone else seems supportive,? Thomas said via press release.

MMA has plenty of brother combos. Ken and Frank Shamrock, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, Joe and Dan Lauzon, and Jim and Dan Miller have all fought at MMA's highest levels. But MFC believes this is the first time two brothers are facing off in the cage.

The brothers will face off on May 10, just two days before Mother's Day. It should make for a very interesting family celebration.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Wednesday Update for March 13, 2013 - College of Education ...


? *Announcements for the COE Wednesday Important Information newsletter can be sent to ronw@coe.ufl.edu by 2pm on the Tuesday prior; confirmation that your announcement has been received will be provided

Important Dates

Commencement Spring 2013

  • PHD, EDD Degree ceremony ~ Friday, April 26, 4:00 p.m. ~ Stephen C. O?Connell Center
  • Master?s/ Specialist?s Degree ceremony ~ Friday, May 3, 4:00 p.m. ~ Stephen C. O?Connell Center
  • Bachelor?s Degree ceremony ~ Saturday, May 4, 7:00 p.m. ~ Stephen C. O?Connell Center

Announcements

FEA?s Upcoming Meeting & ?Using Multicultural Literature in the Classroom? Workshop
Thursday, March 14th at 7PM?in the Norman Terrace Room


The Center for Community Education in the College of Education is sponsoring a talk by Dr. Yolanda Moses
The Center for Community Education in the College of Education is sponsoring a talk by Dr. Yolanda Moses, past president of the American Anthropological Association, and co-creator of the award-winning museum exhibit, RACE: Are We So Different? http://www.understandingrace.org. This exhibit is currently at the Museum of Science and History in Jacksonville, FL until April 28, 2013. Dr. Moses? talk will take place in the Terrace Room on Friday, March 15, from 1 ? 2:30 pm.


FREE GRE WORKSHOP from the UF Teaching Center
This workshop will take place on Monday ? Thursday, April 1-4? from 5:00- 7:00 p.m. each day.? We will cover the Verbal and Writing sections of the test? on Monday? & Wednesday, and the Math on Tuesday & Thursday.? Go to teachingcenter.ufl.edu, click on ?Current Test Review Schedule & Practice Exams? to register and learn the location.


Education Career Networking Event and Workshops ? MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Attention College of Education Students!? We are very excited about the forthcoming Career Networking event, April 2, 2013, co-sponsored by the College of Education (COE) and the Career Resource Center (CRC).? The networking event, titled ?Your Future:? Network with Recruiters in Education? is designed to provide YOU an opportunity to prepare for and to be involved more intimately in educational career recruitment.? We have invited School Districts, Charter Schools and Private Schools from across Florida, including School Districts from Georgia.? Please log into your Gator CareerLink account to peruse the current list of organizations attending.? Networking with Recruiters in Education will be held 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Rion Ballroom located in the UF J. Wayne Reitz Student Union.?? Please place April 2 on your calendar.? On the evening before the Education Career Networking event, April 1, you are invited and encouraged to attend?two workshops focused on interviewing, and job search techniques.? The workshops are scheduled from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m in the College of Education Terrace Room.


This year, Kappa Delta Pi will be participating in Dance Marathon!
Dance Marathon will be held on April 13th and 14th, and 800 students will stand for 26.2 hours to show their support for the patients at Shands Hospital for Children at the University of Florida, our local Children?s Miracle Network hospital here in Gainesville. Please consider donating and joining the team of physicians, volunteers, and students like us who are advancing the quality of children?s healthcare through Children?s Miracle Network Hospitals. Only with your support can we truly make miracles happen.? Please see attached announcement with information on how to donate


Taking an FTCE or FELE exam soon?
Resources to prepare for exams, including Test Information Guides and an FTCE Learning Portal, are now available on the web at http://www.fl.nesinc.com/prepare.asp.


Summer Course Announcement: Rating Scale Design and Analysis in Educational Research (EDF 7435)
This class will guide students through the entire process of designing a rating scale/questionnaire, collecting pilot data, and analyzing the scale. Through applications of research design, psychometric models, scale evaluation, bias detection, factor analysis, and measurement of change over time, students will build on their knowledge of reliability and validity, specifically in reference to data collected from rating scales/questionnaires. The class will be particularly useful for graduate students interested in developing and/or using rating scales/questionnaires in their research, thesis, and/or dissertation. Prerequisites are EDF 6403 (or equivalent) and either EDF6434 or EDF6436.


?Please help the Education College Council (ECC) give back to the community!
This semester ECC has chosen Peaceful Paths to donate items for the Gainesville Community. Some items that can be donated to Peaceful Paths are as follows: grocery store gift cards, breakfast cereal, popcorn, granola, canned pasta/soups, and cleaning supplies. A complete list of items can be found at www.peacefulpaths.org/get-involved/donate/.? Donated items can be dropped off in the Student Resource Center, Student Services, or the Norman Library. There are black crates in each of these designated locations. You can start dropping off these supplies from today until March 20th.


March CRC Career Buzz
Check out our latest edition of the Career Buzz to learn about our events: http://careerbuzz.tumblr.com/post/44303221763/march-faculty-staff-buzz . Don?t forget that you can create your own account for Gator CareerLink to see up-to-date employer visits, who will be attending the Summer Job & Internship Fair, etc.


Edugator T-Shirts
All sizes of edugator shirts are available for a donation of $15.? Remember, you can access ECC or FEA merchandise at Production Lab hours or any ECC and FEA events.

?Events

Stride Against Silence 5K Run/Walk
Come join the National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association at their annual Stride Against Silence 5K Run/Walk. All proceeds to towards the UF Cochlear Implant Fund to benefit the UF&Shands Speech and Hearing Center. It is taking place on March 16 at 8:30 a.m. starting and ending at the Commuter Lot on Gale Lemerand Drive. Check-in and day-of registration begins at 8am. Registration is $20, which includes a t-shirt, breakfast, and a ticket to win cool prizes. You can also receive more prize tickets by donating a pair of shoes to go to someone in need around the world or donating $1 for each additional ticket. You can register online at https://sites.google.com/site/strideagainstsilence5k/ or at the event. Join them as they ?give the gift of sound, one STRIDE at a time.?? For more information, you can to go their Website mentioned above, or LIKE our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/StrideAgainstSilence.


Volunteer Vegetable Garden
Calling all green thumbs, artists, environmentalists, and enthusiastic students! The ?Grow Israel? initiative at University of Florida kicks off on Sunday, March 17 to plant the seeds and landscaping for the new drip irrigation garden on the UF Hillel Campus. Knowledge of gardening or Israel is not required! Please wear your clothes you don?t mind getting dirty and sneakers.?Where:?UF Hillel (2020 W. University Avenue)?When:?Sunday, March 17th (10am-5pm, but volunteers are welcome to join at any time.)?www.?Facebook.com/events/215998031872151/


Join Florida Education Association (FEA) at UF!
FEA is a College of Education student organization that thrives on integrity, respect, empowerment, and advocacy for education. The organization strives to provide members with professional development and community outreach opportunities, as well as to promote political activism and awareness.
Spring 2013 Events:

  • Meeting & ?Reading Around the World: Using multicultural literature literature in your classroom? Workshop -?Thursday, March 14th at 7pm
  • Meeting & ?Using Kagan Strategies & Building Classroom Community? Workshop -?Thursday, March 28th at 7pm
  • NASA Professional Development Workshop -?Saturday, April 6th 9am-3pm (Workshop presentation by Kennedy Space Center?s Teacher Resource Center)
  • Last Meeting & ?Hands on Mathematics: Making manipulatives for your future classroom? Social?- Thursday, April 18th?at 7pm

*Join our Facebook group:?http://www.facebook.com/groups/FEAUF/?*LIKE our Face book page:?http://www.facebook.com/FloridaEducationAssociationAtUF?*Join our Gator Connect page:?https://ufl.collegiatelink.net/organization/uf-fea. Please email FEA at UF President, Valentina Contesse, at?FEA@coe.ufl.edu?if you have a question.


ECC Spring 2013 Schedule
All workshops will be held on Wednesdays at 7:00pm and will be held in the Terrace room. Listed below are the dates and topics for the Spring 2013 Semester:

  • March 20 ? Music in the Classroom
  • April 10 ? Reading Across the Common Core Curriculum

?Opportunities

Applications are now available to join the Center for Leadership and Service Ambassadors!
As an Ambassador, you gain valuable leadership and service experience. CLS Ambassadors are a group of students that serve to promote the CLS and its mission on campus. They support the mission of positive sustainable change through leadership and service as liaisons for CLS planned events, presentations, and service opportunities.? Applications are due 3.29 at 4:30pm. For more information, visit http://tiny.cc/CLSAmbassadors or email ambassadors@leadershipandservice.ufl.edu


Part time instructors needed at Corks & Colors
Corks & Colors (http://www.corkscolors.com/) has a couple openings right now for part time instructors for our studio. ?Applicants must have a creative side to them, great personalities and able to work with adults and children. ?This is a paid position and we do require working some weekends. No previous teaching experience required, just a willingness to learn and teach. ?Previous experience with pottery, clay or canvas painting a plus but not required.? Interested students should send a resume and cover letter to rebecca@corks-colors.com


Tutor Needed
If you are interested in working with a 5th grade boy?who has short term memory problems, and, reading/comprehension difficulties,?combined with?seizure disorder as well as life skills, please contact Megan English (megankat9@hotmail.com).


Seeking ISO tutor for second grader
In need of help in the following areas math, spelling, and reading. ?I prefer afternoon hours at my home. Please contact Latasha at 352-275-8269.


Babysitter needed
A babysitter is needed to help the mom with a three-year old girl and one year old boy from 10:00 am-2 pm M-F each day.? It would be ideal if you could work M-F, but if you can come regularly on certain days or certain hours in the 10 am-2 pm interval will also work for us. If you can speak Spanish, that will be a plus.? Please contact Ginger at jinw@terry.uga.edu


Part-time Nursery Attendant
Hours:? 10:00-12:00 Sunday mornings.? Location:??Evinston United Methodist Church (Located about 15 minutes south of UF).? Job Description:? The nursery attendant will oversee all activities in our small church nursery.? Duties include supervising children from infants through 1st grade ages.? We normally have 1-2 still in diapers with 6-8 children total.? Activities include watching videos, playing with blocks, board games, puzzles, coloring, etc.? Additional duties include an occasional diaper change and wiping/spraying toys with sanitizer during cleanup.? Job Requirements:? Some babysitting experience desired; DCF Certification is a plus; Background check required.? Salary:? $40 per week.? Please contact:? Bill Edwards at Phone: (352) 591-1473 or Email:??? bill@cherrytreebeads.com


Seeking Part-time Nanny
I am looking for help Monday through Thursday from 4:30-8:30 in the evening. ?This help will be in the form of using my vehicle to pick up my 3 children at their day school, and bring them home, or help with light housework such as helping get dinner ready, folding children?s laundry, keeping kids entertained/helping pack lunches for the next day. ?I will be at home two of the four nights, so this schedule of ?help? will be varied depending on my schedule. ?I am looking for one person preferably, but I?am open to two people since everyday may be hard. ?The ages of my children are 3(boy), 1(girl) and newborn(boy).? Please contact Alecia McDonald at aleciaskipper@hotmail.com or 352-262-5639.


Volunteers needed for VIVA EUROPE festival on March 23
The Center for European Studies is doing the VIVA EUROPE festival on March 23 and we are looking for some fun education students who would want to do an activity with kids at the festival.? Ideally, it would be something fun and educational about Europe.?? Maybe re-creating European art masterpieces?? Building an Eiffel tower out of hangers and foam board? Kids of all ages attend the outdoor festival on Saturday, March 23 from 11-4 at the Bo Diddley Community Plaza.?? Please write Gail Keeler at gskeeler@ufl.edu if you are interested!


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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

'Spring Breakers' Star Vanessa Hudgens Was 'Most Scared' Of Threesome Scene

'Everybody was comforting,' actress says of filming with co-stars James Franco and Ashley Benson.
By Amy Wilkinson, with reporting by Kara Warner


Ashley Benson, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Rachel Korine
Photo: Muse Productions

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1703494/vanessa-hudgens-spring-breakers-sex-scene.jhtml

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Sybil Christopher dies; Richard Burton's ex-wife ran nightclubs, produced theater

By Greg Gilman

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Sybil Christopher, the wife that Richard Burton famously left for Elizabeth Taylor, has died. She was 83.

Long Island's Bay Street Theatre, which Christopher co-founded and served as artistic director for 22 years, announced her death last week, but did not specify the cause. Murphy Davis, a co-director of the theatre and one of Christopher's close friends, told TheWrap on Tuesday that she passed away March 7.

Born Sybil Williams on March 27, 1929 in South Wales, she attended the London Academy of Dramatic Arts and went on to act in the 1949 picture "The Last Days of Dowlyn," where she met her first husband, Richard Burton. The couple had two daughters, Kate and Jessica Burton, before Burton's much-publicized affair with Taylor, who was then married to singer Eddie Fisher, on the set of "Cleopatra." The Burtons were divorced in 1963.

After the scandal, Christopher packed up her children and moved from Southern California to New York City, where she opened a very successful Manhattan night club, called Arthur, in 1965. The club, which became a celebrity hot spot hosting regulars like Tennessee Williams, Andy Warhol and Truman Capote, was named after George Harrison's hairstyle as he described it in the Beatles' 1964 film, "A Hard Day's Night." When someone asked what the name of his hairstyle was, he answered, "Arthur."

Christopher traded in her second surname for a third when she married Jordan Christopher, the lead singer of her club's house band, in 1966. The following year, Christopher gave birth to her third daughter, Amy Christopher.

After Arthur closed in 1969, Christopher returned her attention to the dramatic arts and helped found the New Theater on 54th Street. In the '80s, she moved back to Los Angeles where she worked at ICM as a literary agent for eight years.

In yet another new beginning, she teamed up with Emma Walton and Stephen Hamilton in 1991 to turn an old Long Island warehouse along the Sag Harbor Bay into the Bay Street Theatre, which attracted top New York talent to star in summer productions and has become a staple of the region.

Christopher was the theatre's artistic director from its inception until stepping down in March of 2012. Eager to get out of the country and back to the city, she left Sag Harbor for Manhattan last September.

"She was a real New York City animal," Murphy fondly recalled.

Christopher is survived by daughters Kate and Jessica Burton, as well as daughter Amy and step-daughter Jody from her second marriage.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sybil-christopher-dies-richard-burtons-ex-wife-ran-003013107.html

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Pentagon weapons-maker finds method for cheap, clean water


WASHINGTON | Wed Mar 13, 2013 1:15am EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A defense contractor better known for building jet fighters and lethal missiles says it has found a way to slash the amount of energy needed to remove salt from seawater, potentially making it vastly cheaper to produce clean water at a time when scarcity has become a global security issue.

The process, officials and engineers at Lockheed Martin Corp say, would enable filter manufacturers to produce thin carbon membranes with regular holes about a nanometer in size that are large enough to allow water to pass through but small enough to block the molecules of salt in seawater. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.

Because the sheets of pure carbon known as graphene are so thin - just one atom in thickness - it takes much less energy to push the seawater through the filter with the force required to separate the salt from the water, they said.

The development could spare underdeveloped countries from having to build exotic, expensive pumping stations needed in plants that use a desalination process called reverse osmosis.

"It's 500 times thinner than the best filter on the market today and a thousand times stronger," said John Stetson, the engineer who has been working on the idea. "The energy that's required and the pressure that's required to filter salt is approximately 100 times less."

Access to clean drinking water is increasingly seen as a major global security issue. Competition for water is likely to lead to instability and potential state failure in countries important to the United States, according to a U.S. intelligence community report last year.

"Between now and 2040, fresh water availability will not keep up with demand absent more effective management of water resources," the report said. "Water problems will hinder the ability of key countries to produce food and generate electricity."

About 780 million people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water, the United Nations reported last year.

"One of the areas that we're very concerned about in terms of global security is the access to clean and affordable drinking water," said Tom Notaro, Lockheed business manager for advanced materials. "As more and more countries become more developed ... access to that water for their daily lives is becoming more and more critical."

PRODUCTION CHALLENGE

Lockheed still faces a number of challenges in moving to production of filters made of graphene, a substance similar to the lead in pencils. Working with the thin material without tearing it is difficult, as is ramping up production to the size and scale needed. Engineers are still refining the process for making the holes.

It is not known whether Lockheed faces commercial competition in this area. But it is not the only one working on the technology.

Jeffrey Grossman, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has done research on graphene membranes for filtration, said he was not familiar with details of Lockheed's work. But he said finding a way to produce graphene sheets with nanometer-sized holes could produce a major advancement in desalination efficiency.

"If you can design a membrane that's completely different than what we use today, then there's a chance for more than two orders of magnitude (100 times) increase in the permeability of the membrane," Grossman said.

Stetson, who began working on the issue in 2007, said if the new filter material, known as Perforene, was compared to the thickness of a piece of paper, the nearest comparable filter for extracting salt from seawater would be the thickness of three reams of paper - more than half a foot thick.

"It looks like chicken wire under a microscope, if you could get an electron microscope picture of it," he said. "It's all little carbon atoms tied together in a diaphanous, smooth film that's beautiful and continuous. But it's one atom thick and it's a thousand time stronger than steel."

Thickness is one of the main factors that determines how much energy has to be used to force saltwater through a filter in the reverse osmosis process used for desalination today.

"The amount of work it takes to squeeze that water through the torturous path of today's best membranes is gone for Perforene," Stetson said. "It just literally pops right through because the membrane is thinner than the atoms it's filtering."

Notaro said Lockheed expects to have a prototype by the end of the year for a filter that could be used as a drop-in replacement for filters now used in reverse osmosis plants.

The company is looking for partners in the filter manufacturing arena to help it commercialize Perforene as a filter in the 2014-2015 time frame, he said.

Lockheed officials see other applications for Perforene as well, from dialysis in healthcare to cleaning chemicals from the water used in hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," of oil and gas wells.

(Editing by Warren Strobel and Jackie Frank)

Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/H7dPlzJQQKo/us-usa-desalination-idUSBRE92C05720130313

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Every Body Walk! leads iPhone Apps of the Week

This week?s batch of top iOS apps may seem very different from one another, but the thing they share in common is that they offer enhancements on tried and true apps. Our lead app is a super pedometer that not only tracks distance and time, but maps your routes. The other apps include an app to touch up your Facebook photos before you post them, another to get deals on movie tickets, and one that turns the weather forecast into a game.

Every Body Walk! tracks your exercise progress like the best pedometer you?ve ever had. It keeps track of distance, time, calories burned and even routes you?ve taken. Users can create goals for distance, time and calories burned so they have something to shoot for as they walk. Walking routes can also be viewed on a map, and a summary of the entire walk can be shared social networks like Facebook and Twitter.


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Why should celebrities be the only people who get their pictures touched up? Now you can make your pictures look ready for the runway with Facetune. The photo editing app offers numerous options for touching up pictures. Users can smooth skin to remove wrinkles, color or add hair, clear imperfections, change eye color, and even apply blush or remove circles under eyes. If you?re concerned about the quality of the photos you?re uploading to Facebook it?s time to check out Facetune to fix them up before anyone else sees them.

Much like its name implies, Dealflicks attempts to offer discounted deals on a trip to the movies. Available in over 100 locations, Dealflicks lets you save up to 60 per cent on movie tickets and select concessions like popcorn and soda. Users can search for theaters by location, see user and critic ratings for movies, see movie descriptions and info, and choose the showtime and deal that?s right for them. Deals can even be combined for special bundle deals. Even better, there?s no convenience fee for using Dealflicks, so you?ll actually save the money that you?re saving on ticket prices.

If you?ve ever felt like your weather forecast could use a few games alongside it, good weather might be theapp for you. Good weather features an instantly updated accurate forecast updated via a live database, but is also so much more. It also features 30 weather mini-games based on the current forecast in your area. Now you can ?play? the weather as you see it unfold on your phone. It?s a unique way to experience the weather for more playful iPhone owners.

Source: http://www.appolicious.com/tech/articles/13291-every-body-walk-leads-iphone-apps-of-the-week

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Study finds smiling fighters are losing fighters

Before every fight, the fighters face off as part of the pre-fight weigh-ins. Usually, the two fighters raise their fists and scowl at each other as pictures are snapped. But sometimes, a fighter smiles at his or her opponent. A study published in the scientific journal "Emotion" claims that smiling isn't such a good plan. A smiling fighter is more likely to lose.

The researchers did two studies as part of an overall look at how smiles affected fights. Their findings:

We reason, on the basis of prior research, that prior to a physical confrontation, smiles are a nonverbal sign of reduced hostility and aggression, and thereby unintentionally communicate reduced physical dominance. Two studies provide evidence in support of this prediction: Study 1 found that professional fighters who smiled more in a prefight photograph taken facing their opponent performed more poorly during the fight in relation to their less intensely smiling counterparts. In Study 2, untrained observers judged a fighter as less hostile and aggressive, and thereby less physically dominant when the fighters' facial expression was manipulated to show a smiling expression in relation to the same fighter displaying a neutral expression.

Taking a look at UFC weigh-ins in 2013, not many fighters smiled at their opponents. But of the ones who did, their record wasn't good. In the top picture, John Dodson smiled at Demetrious Johnson, and lost in a five-round decision.

Donald Cerrone smiled at Anthony Pettis at UFC on Fox 6, and was knocked out in the first round.

Jon Manley smiled at Neil Magny at UFC 157. Manley dropped a decision to Magny.

At UFC 156, Gleison Tibau smiled -- or smirked, maybe? -- at Evan Dunham. The split decision was won by Dunham.

Fighters look for every edge they can get in a fight. Perhaps the smile is meant to show that they don't fear anything, but it doesn't look like it's working.

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Monday, March 11, 2013

Expert says court case aided Kenya president-elect

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? The International Criminal Court charges Uhuru Kenyatta faces would have crippled a U.S. or European politician: orchestrating murder, rape and deportation in Kenya's 2007-08 postelection chaos. Instead, the charges may have propelled Kenyatta to Kenya's presidency.

Kenyatta on Saturday was named the winner of Kenya's election with 50.07 percent of the March 4 vote.

The win came despite ICC charges, and in spite of warnings from the U.S. of "consequences" for the Kenya-U.S. relationship if Kenyatta were to win, a sentiment echoed by Britain and Europe.

Or, as many Kenyans will tell you, Kenyatta's win may have come because of the outside world's view.

Aly-Khan Satchu, a prominent Nairobi economist, said Monday the ICC and the Carson statement were "the defining narrative" of the election and propelled Kenyatta to power.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/expert-says-court-case-aided-kenya-president-elect-145920573--politics.html

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Do more women need diabetes care when pregnant?

CORRECTS TREATMENT TO TESTING - This image provided by Kira Fonteneau shows Kira and her daughter Sydney, 2, in Birmingham, Ala. on March 5, 2013. A government panel wants more research to find out if more aggressive testing of diabetes during pregnancy should be pursued. Fonteneau was diagnosed with a mild case of diabetes during her pregnancy. She quickly changed how she ate and gave birth to a healthy daughter 2 years ago. (AP Photo/Kira Fonteneau)

CORRECTS TREATMENT TO TESTING - This image provided by Kira Fonteneau shows Kira and her daughter Sydney, 2, in Birmingham, Ala. on March 5, 2013. A government panel wants more research to find out if more aggressive testing of diabetes during pregnancy should be pursued. Fonteneau was diagnosed with a mild case of diabetes during her pregnancy. She quickly changed how she ate and gave birth to a healthy daughter 2 years ago. (AP Photo/Kira Fonteneau)

(AP) ? A change in testing could nearly triple the number of women diagnosed with diabetes during pregnancy, but would catching milder cases help mother or baby? A government panel is urging more research to find that out before doctors make the switch.

Gestational diabetes ? the kind that strikes during pregnancy ? is a growing problem. More women are getting it as they wait until their 30s or later to have a baby, and as they increasingly begin their pregnancies already overweight.

This is one of the most common complications of pregnancy, and just about every woman gets checked for it. That's because if mom's high blood sugar isn't controlled, the fetus can grow too large, leading to C-sections and early deliveries.

There are other problems, too: Mom can get dangerous high blood pressure; the baby can be born with low blood sugar; the baby's risk of obesity in childhood is increased. And while this kind of diabetes usually disappears when the baby's born, the mother is left with another risk. Months or years later, half of women who had it wind up developing full-fledged Type 2 diabetes.

Doctors today diagnose gestational diabetes in about 5 percent to 6 percent of U.S. pregnancies, or about 240,000 a year, according to experts convened this week by the National Institutes of Health.

Most U.S. doctors use a two-step testing method. But now there's a push for doctors to switch to a simpler one-step test that's used in other parts of the world.

The one-step approach, backed by the American Diabetes Association and World Health Organization, isn't just about the convenience of getting diagnosed in one doctor visit or two. It also would lower the blood sugar threshold for diagnosing the condition.

"The implications of this are very, very large, and there are so many unanswered questions," said Dr. Catherine Spong of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

On Wednesday, the NIH-appointed panel agreed, and said many more pregnant women would be classified with gestational diabetes ? 15 to 20 percent ? if doctors widely adopted the one-step approach.

The more aggressive approach treats milder cases with diet and exercise, not medication. But that's still a lot of women who would get extra medical care, such as nutritionist visits and doctor checks of their blood sugar and their baby's growth, not to mention uncertainty about whether C-sections would increase. That could add up to hundreds of millions of dollars in health costs annually.

But there's been no study of whether treating cases milder than are diagnosed today makes any difference to the health of mother and baby, the experts concluded.

"If we can extend benefits to mothers, their unborn children ... and impact their future health care, everybody would want to get on board even if it were more expensive," said Dr. Peter VanDorsten of the Medical University of South Carolina. He chaired the NIH panel. Doctors aren't required to follow its advice.

He called for quick research to settle the debate, saying, "We absolutely left the door ajar for reconsideration."

What's the test? Under the two-step method, nearly every woman drinks a super-sweet liquid, and has a blood test an hour later to see how the body processes the sugar. Those who fail repeat the test with a larger drink and three hours of blood tests. With the one-step method, everyone would get a single two-hour test.

The push to switch came after a study of 25,000 pregnant women in nine countries. It found that various health risks for mother and child gradually grew as mom's blood sugar rose above normal levels, even if she wasn't officially diabetic.

Some doctors already are trying the simpler approach. The Oregon Health & Science University began using it last summer, and gestational diabetes cases doubled, obstetrics chairman Dr. Aaron Caughey told the NIH meeting. But his medical center decided it's worth trying because even women with mild diabetes could benefit from nutritional counseling that insurance doesn't always cover unless they're diagnosed, Caughey said.

Wednesday's report urged doctors also to consider the anxiety that a diagnosis of even mild gestational diabetes can bring.

In Birmingham, Ala., attorney Kira Fonteneau was diagnosed with gestational diabetes after traditional two-step testing. She cried at the news even though doctors made clear she had a very mild case. She wasn't overweight, but diabetes runs in the family.

Armed with a nutritionist's advice and regular blood-sugar checks, Fonteneau quickly changed how she ate, cutting back on carbohydates. She got better.

"Knowledge is power," she said. "You want to have a healthy baby."

Her daughter Sydney, now 2, was born a healthy 5 pounds, 11 ounces. Fonteneau said she bounced back faster, gaining far less during her pregnancy than is typical for her family. She said she will pay more attention to her own health knowing she's at increased risk for Type 2 diabetes later on.

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Online:

NIH site on gestational diabetes: http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/gestational/

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Running on tempo

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Some runners take it slow while others tear up the pavement.

Either way, music gives runners their mojo, and can be the key to creating a productive, enjoyable run, according to a team of Michigan State University seniors whose fitness app, TempoRun, took first place at the national Student Startup Madness Tournament March 9.

The students won $5,000 from Google Cloud Platform, which they'll use to bring TempoRun to the iTunes market in mid-April, selling for $1.99.

In simple terms, TempoRun allows users to run at the perfect pace by categorizing their music into different levels, one to 10, based on tempo. So, a user can match a running pace with a particular beat to create a more enjoyable and fluid run. And the app will provide music for the runners if they don't have a library.

Student Startup Madness is a competition for college students' digital media startups and an official event of South by Southwest Interactive a set of film, interactive and music festivals that takes place in Austin, Texas. The judging panel for the student tournament included executives from Turner Broadcasting System, Google and Square, a mobile payment platform.

"I was running one day last year, listening to my music, and a song came on that was just the perfect beat for me," said Josh Leider, a senior marketing major. "Everything was perfect, and my run felt amazing. Then the song ended very abruptly, a new song came on that was very slow, and I couldn't adjust back into that song. I thought, 'Why can't I always run to the tempo of my music?' Hence, the idea, TempoRun."

Leider joined forces with fellow runner Benny Ebert-Zavos, a hospitality business senior, and computer science seniors Phil Getzen and Adam Proschek. Within a few months, the iPhone app was born.

TempoRun is unlike anything in the market, since other apps adjust song tempos as a runner's pace changes, Leider said. While TempoRun could expand into social and gaming realms, the judges liked the app because it's a simple tool to help runners improve.

Leider and his team are testing the product now. To promote the app, the team, with support from the Associated Students of MSU, will hold a 5K charity run on April 21, with funds going to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

TempoRun received support from Spartan Innovations, which provided $5,000 in funding from two MSU endowments, Gerstacker and Forest Akers, said Paul Jaques, director of student and community engagement for Spartan Innovations. Spartan Innovations provides startup resources to companies created within MSU. Jeff Smith from the Lansing Economic Area Partnership also provided support. And the students did much of their brainstorming at The Hatch, a student business incubator in East Lansing.

"We look forward to having several other MSU teams compete at Student Startup Madness at SXSW, along with many other events around the country, as the entrepreneurial spirit is growing in Michigan," Jaques said.

The Student Startup Madness began in November with 64 teams from around the nation, including five from MSU. The field was narrowed in December to 32; and in January, TempoRun was selected to go on to the Entrepreneurial Eight. In December, TempoRun won first place at the Broad Business Pitch Competition.

The other seven finalists to compete were Stanford University, Emory University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Illinois at Chicago, St. Louis University, University of California at Berkeley and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

"It's nice to know there are other entrepreneurs in the community, and we've learned that through Spartan Innovations and The Hatch," Leider said. "We're around them every day, which makes us well-rounded entrepreneurs and business people."

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Running on tempo [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 11-Mar-2013
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Contact: Kristen Parker
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Michigan State University

Some runners take it slow while others tear up the pavement.

Either way, music gives runners their mojo, and can be the key to creating a productive, enjoyable run, according to a team of Michigan State University seniors whose fitness app, TempoRun, took first place at the national Student Startup Madness Tournament March 9.

The students won $5,000 from Google Cloud Platform, which they'll use to bring TempoRun to the iTunes market in mid-April, selling for $1.99.

In simple terms, TempoRun allows users to run at the perfect pace by categorizing their music into different levels, one to 10, based on tempo. So, a user can match a running pace with a particular beat to create a more enjoyable and fluid run. And the app will provide music for the runners if they don't have a library.

Student Startup Madness is a competition for college students' digital media startups and an official event of South by Southwest Interactive a set of film, interactive and music festivals that takes place in Austin, Texas. The judging panel for the student tournament included executives from Turner Broadcasting System, Google and Square, a mobile payment platform.

"I was running one day last year, listening to my music, and a song came on that was just the perfect beat for me," said Josh Leider, a senior marketing major. "Everything was perfect, and my run felt amazing. Then the song ended very abruptly, a new song came on that was very slow, and I couldn't adjust back into that song. I thought, 'Why can't I always run to the tempo of my music?' Hence, the idea, TempoRun."

Leider joined forces with fellow runner Benny Ebert-Zavos, a hospitality business senior, and computer science seniors Phil Getzen and Adam Proschek. Within a few months, the iPhone app was born.

TempoRun is unlike anything in the market, since other apps adjust song tempos as a runner's pace changes, Leider said. While TempoRun could expand into social and gaming realms, the judges liked the app because it's a simple tool to help runners improve.

Leider and his team are testing the product now. To promote the app, the team, with support from the Associated Students of MSU, will hold a 5K charity run on April 21, with funds going to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

TempoRun received support from Spartan Innovations, which provided $5,000 in funding from two MSU endowments, Gerstacker and Forest Akers, said Paul Jaques, director of student and community engagement for Spartan Innovations. Spartan Innovations provides startup resources to companies created within MSU. Jeff Smith from the Lansing Economic Area Partnership also provided support. And the students did much of their brainstorming at The Hatch, a student business incubator in East Lansing.

"We look forward to having several other MSU teams compete at Student Startup Madness at SXSW, along with many other events around the country, as the entrepreneurial spirit is growing in Michigan," Jaques said.

The Student Startup Madness began in November with 64 teams from around the nation, including five from MSU. The field was narrowed in December to 32; and in January, TempoRun was selected to go on to the Entrepreneurial Eight. In December, TempoRun won first place at the Broad Business Pitch Competition.

The other seven finalists to compete were Stanford University, Emory University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Illinois at Chicago, St. Louis University, University of California at Berkeley and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

"It's nice to know there are other entrepreneurs in the community, and we've learned that through Spartan Innovations and The Hatch," Leider said. "We're around them every day, which makes us well-rounded entrepreneurs and business people."

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