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Traumatic childhood may increase the risk of drug addiction

Traumatic childhood may increase the risk of drug addiction [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 31-Aug-2012
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Research examines the link between a traumatic upbringing and personality traits which increase the risk of addiction

Previous research has shown that personality traits such as impulsivity or compulsiveness are indicators of an increased risk of addiction. Now, new research from the University of Cambridge suggests that these impulsive and compulsive personality traits are also associated with a traumatic upbringing during childhood. The study was published today, 31 August, in the journal American Journal Psychiatry.

Led by Dr Karen Ersche, the Cambridge researchers aimed to identify risk factors that make a person vulnerable to developing drug dependence. They examined 50 adults with cocaine dependence together with their biological brothers and sisters who have never abused drugs. All participants underwent extensive assessments of their personalities, including their ways of feeling and thinking. The researchers were also interested in negative experiences that participants may have had during childhood (to include physical, emotional or sexual abuse).

Dr Ersche, of the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI) at the University of Cambridge, said: "It has long been known that abusive experiences during childhood have long-lasting effects on behaviour in adulthood and this was confirmed by our results. The siblings had more troubled childhoods compared to healthy peers in the community, and we also found a direct relationship between traumatic childhoods and their personalities."

She added: "This relationship is interesting because impulsive personality traits are known to increase the risk of becoming addicted to drugs but it is not an excuse for drug-taking."

The childhoods of the brothers and sisters of the cocaine-dependent individuals were also traumatic, and they also exhibited higher-than-normal levels of impulsive and compulsive behaviours, but they did not abuse drugs.

The researchers next intend to explore how the siblings who do not abuse drugs managed to deal with their traumatic childhoods and their highly impulsive and compulsive personalities. The scientists want to understand what makes the siblings resilient against addiction. A better understanding of what protected the brothers and sisters from drug abuse may provide vital clues for developing more effective therapeutic interventions for those trying to beat their addiction.

Dr Ersche added: "Not all individuals with these personality traits would have had a traumatic upbringing. Nor does everyone with these traits develop an addiction. However, our findings show that some people are particularly at risk and their upbringing may have contributed to it."

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The study was funded by the Medical Research Council and conducted within the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cambridge, which is co-funded by the MRC and the Wellcome Trust.

For additional information please contact:

Genevieve Maul, Office of Communications, University of Cambridge
Tel: direct, +44 (0) 1223 765542, +44 (0) 1223 332300
Mob: +44 (0) 7774 017464
Email: Genevieve.maul@admin.cam.ac.uk

Notes to editors:

1. The paper 'Cognitive Dysfunction and Anxious-Impulsive Personality Traits Are Endophenotypes for Drug Dependence' will be published online 31 August on American Journal Psychiatry website.

2. For almost 100 years the Medical Research Council has improved the health of people in the UK and around the world by supporting the highest quality science. The MRC invests in world-class scientists. It has produced 29 Nobel Prize winners and sustains a flourishing environment for internationally recognised research. The MRC focuses on making an impact and provides the financial muscle and scientific expertise behind medical breakthroughs, including one of the first antibiotics penicillin, the structure of DNA and the lethal link between smoking and cancer. Today MRC funded scientists tackle research into the major health challenges of the 21st century.


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Research examines the link between a traumatic upbringing and personality traits which increase the risk of addiction

Previous research has shown that personality traits such as impulsivity or compulsiveness are indicators of an increased risk of addiction. Now, new research from the University of Cambridge suggests that these impulsive and compulsive personality traits are also associated with a traumatic upbringing during childhood. The study was published today, 31 August, in the journal American Journal Psychiatry.

Led by Dr Karen Ersche, the Cambridge researchers aimed to identify risk factors that make a person vulnerable to developing drug dependence. They examined 50 adults with cocaine dependence together with their biological brothers and sisters who have never abused drugs. All participants underwent extensive assessments of their personalities, including their ways of feeling and thinking. The researchers were also interested in negative experiences that participants may have had during childhood (to include physical, emotional or sexual abuse).

Dr Ersche, of the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI) at the University of Cambridge, said: "It has long been known that abusive experiences during childhood have long-lasting effects on behaviour in adulthood and this was confirmed by our results. The siblings had more troubled childhoods compared to healthy peers in the community, and we also found a direct relationship between traumatic childhoods and their personalities."

She added: "This relationship is interesting because impulsive personality traits are known to increase the risk of becoming addicted to drugs but it is not an excuse for drug-taking."

The childhoods of the brothers and sisters of the cocaine-dependent individuals were also traumatic, and they also exhibited higher-than-normal levels of impulsive and compulsive behaviours, but they did not abuse drugs.

The researchers next intend to explore how the siblings who do not abuse drugs managed to deal with their traumatic childhoods and their highly impulsive and compulsive personalities. The scientists want to understand what makes the siblings resilient against addiction. A better understanding of what protected the brothers and sisters from drug abuse may provide vital clues for developing more effective therapeutic interventions for those trying to beat their addiction.

Dr Ersche added: "Not all individuals with these personality traits would have had a traumatic upbringing. Nor does everyone with these traits develop an addiction. However, our findings show that some people are particularly at risk and their upbringing may have contributed to it."

###

The study was funded by the Medical Research Council and conducted within the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cambridge, which is co-funded by the MRC and the Wellcome Trust.

For additional information please contact:

Genevieve Maul, Office of Communications, University of Cambridge
Tel: direct, +44 (0) 1223 765542, +44 (0) 1223 332300
Mob: +44 (0) 7774 017464
Email: Genevieve.maul@admin.cam.ac.uk

Notes to editors:

1. The paper 'Cognitive Dysfunction and Anxious-Impulsive Personality Traits Are Endophenotypes for Drug Dependence' will be published online 31 August on American Journal Psychiatry website.

2. For almost 100 years the Medical Research Council has improved the health of people in the UK and around the world by supporting the highest quality science. The MRC invests in world-class scientists. It has produced 29 Nobel Prize winners and sustains a flourishing environment for internationally recognised research. The MRC focuses on making an impact and provides the financial muscle and scientific expertise behind medical breakthroughs, including one of the first antibiotics penicillin, the structure of DNA and the lethal link between smoking and cancer. Today MRC funded scientists tackle research into the major health challenges of the 21st century.


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Conflict of Interest and the Rule of Law ? The Business Ethics Blog

The hapless mayor of Canada?s largest city is again facing accusations of conflict of interest. Or, more accurately, he is facing accusations that he violated the relevant legislation regarding how conflicts of interest ought to be handled by municipal councils. The claim is that Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford, violated the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act when he voted, along with the rest of Council, on whether or not Council should let him off the hook with regard to a prior charge related to improper use of his position to garner donations for his own private charity.

Alas, this is far from being Ford?s first run-in with conflict of interest rules. See my blog postings on previous events here and here. But the present accusations are more serious, in particular because the penalty prescribed under the legislation is for the mayor?s seat to be ?declared vacant.? In other words, if Ford is found guilty, he loses his job. Further, he can (at the judge?s discretion) be barred, for up to seven years, from becoming a member of council again.

Two elements of this case are particularly worth highlighting.

The first has to do with an apparent difference between the possible penalties in this case and the penalties that would apply in a parallel case in the private sector. Imagine the CEO of a major corporation being found guilty of violating her company?s Conflict of Interest Policy. How many would be summarily fired for it? It?s certainly not a legal requirement, to the best of my knowledge. As for corporate policy, some corporate conflict of interest policies don?t specify penalties at all ? in some cases because they are part of larger corporate codes of ethics that try to focus on the positive. Should corporate policies specify penalties as harsh as removal from office? That?s a question for another day.

The second instructive aspect lies in the Mayor?s thinking on how the situation should be handled, and who should decide his fate. Ford is reported to have said that voters, not the court, should decide his fate. To his credit, Ford?s assertion here has the whiff of moral principle about it. He?s pointing to a principle of democratic accountability. If voters believe he has acted wrongly, they can and should make that clear at the next election, two years hence.

What Ford is missing, of course, is something called the Rule of Law. ?Let the people decide? is, on its own, a recipe for disaster. For one thing, many people (including apparently some in positions of responsibility) just don?t understand what conflict of interest is or why it is important. While an electorate certainly ought to take such things into consideration when they enter the voting booth, that doesn?t mean they ought always to have the final say. Another way of looking at it is that the voters already have decided ? they elected the provincial government that put into place the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act twenty or so years ago, the law that in turn will determine Ford?s fate. And, should they choose, the voters can ask their representatives to change that law.

Incidentally, the ?rule of law,? broadly understood, is what makes so called ?say-on-pay? rules, rules allowing shareholders to vote on executive salaries, something less than a slam-dunk from a corporate governance point of view. Whether ?voters? should have direct control over something as technical (and sometimes emotional) as executive compensation is far from clear, which is why most say-on-pay requirements today call only for advisory votes.

The general principle, here, is that ?the people? ought to have a say, but that their say needn?t always be direct. It is for good reasons that we set up systems of laws, or in the corporate case systems of policies, and empower and entrust qualified administrators to apply those laws and policies. Of course, just which matters ought to be left to judgment to case-by-case basis, and which ought to be categorically determined as a matter of policy, is a hard problem for those who design institutions of all kinds.

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Futures tick higher after latest US growth numbers

(AP) ? U.S. stock futures edged higher Wednesday after the latest economic data showing that the U.S. economy grew at a slightly faster pace in the second quarter than initially thought.

However, trading is very light for a third straight day, with many investors waiting to hear what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says Friday at the central bank's annual meeting.

Dow Jones industrial futures rose 12 points to 13,098. The broader S&P futures added 1.7 points to 1,409.50. Nasdaq futures tacked on 5 points to 2,785.75.

The U.S. economy grew at a 1.7 percent annual rate from April through June thanks to slightly stronger consumer spending and greater exports.

Growth was a bit better than the Commerce Department's initial estimate of 1.5 percent.

While that rate of growth would not put a dent in the unemployment rate, it sets the stage for slightly better growth in the second half of the year, albeit at a meager rate of around 2 percent.

Global markets on Wednesday sank on the perception that a full-blown bailout for Spain is growing more likely.

On Tuesday, the northeastern region of Catalonia said it would seek $6.29 billion in aid from the central government, which is already struggling to contain a banking crises brought on by a real estate collapse.

In Europe, the FTSE index of leading British shares fell 0.5 percent to 5,747. France's CAC-40 pulled back 0.7 percent to 3,409, while the DAX in Germany was down 0.6 percent at 6,960.

There were a number of positive earnings reports from the U.S. retail sector Wednesday.

JoS. A. Bank posted a 13 percent jump in revenue during the second quarter and blew away profit expectations on Wall Street, sending shares up 11 percent in premarket trading.

H.J. Heinz Co. posted a 14 percent spike in first-quarter net income, driven by higher prices, strength in emerging markets and better results in the U.S.

The Fresh Market Inc. said that its second-quarter net income jumped 27 percent as more shoppers spent more at its grocery stores.

Associated Press

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The Love of Food | Hungry Irishman

To understand my love for the art of cooking, I feel it is important that you understand from where this love was born.? When my siblings and I were growing up, my mother, a stay-at-home-mom, worked magic with food.? It was not so much with exotic recipes as much as it was for having the ability to cook for seven on a limited budget.? Back then, (when I say ?back then? I am referring to my childhood, a couple or three or five decades ago) we kids had no idea that money was tight.? Except for that time when we were forced to drink milk that was half diluted with powdered milk.? For the record, powdered milk is NOT milk and to this day, I cannot smell that smell of imitation milk without having vivid flashbacks of my childhood of having to wash down dinner with a glass full of pretend milk. Nevertheless, I digress.? So, where was I?? Yes, tight budget, awesome food.

When you are a kid, economics mean nothing.? If there is a check left in the checkbook, there is money to spend.? It wasn?t until I had my own kids who used to argue with me about the whole checkbook thing that I recalled thinking in that manner.? Dinner at the Strange house almost always consisted of three different items; the main course, a vegetable, and a starch.? Often, the three food groups were combined into a cheesy, creamy, meatless, aromatic casserole that would make you forget the worst of days and would comfort your heart as well as it filled your belly.? The term comfort food was coined to describe my mother?s casseroles.

My father?s career in the National Park Service moved our family from the West Coast to the East Coast and several points in between.? Our family lived in California, Arizona, Texas, Massachusetts, and finally Kentucky.? Along the way, my mother, of German heritage, learned the fine art of ethnic cooking.? Our meals were never mundane or boring.? One of the most lasting memories of my childhood is my appreciation for the many different types of foods my mother introduced to us.? She did so much more than teach us about different foods; she also taught us about many different cultures of the world.? What I know now that I did not know then was how other cultures could eat well, for minimal cost, by using various spices to enhance their foods.? My mother figured out this secret and so often filled our house with the aromas of the Orient, South America, and Italy, to name just a few.

My mother, just shy of 80-years-old, still cooks almost every day.? To our delight and sometimes dismay, she has learned new and exciting dishes via the Cooking Channel.? She is still teaching people about culturally defined foods by helping to feed a couple hundred individuals once a week at the church soup kitchen.? I am ever so thankful to have inherited my mother?s love of food and the art of preparing it.

My interest in food has evolved somewhat from the art of preparing it to the psychology pertaining to it.? All humans have a biological need for food.? However, those biological drives are coupled with our psychological needs that cause us to crave certain foods, not just because we are hungry, but because we need them on an emotional level.? We live in a society that pays a great deal more attention to the emotional attachments we have with food rather than attending to the biological functions of food.? The rate of obesity in the United States, among adults and children, is a strong indicator that people are not viewing food for its biological potential and merely eating out of habit, addiction, and dependency.? Food is no different from anything else we partake of in life; it must be taken in moderation.? When we ignore the rule of moderation, we lose our appreciation for whatever it is we are doing.? When used in excess, wine becomes a means of inebriation and the individual loses the appreciation for the art of making that wine.? Food is no different; we must appreciate the food we put into our bodies or else it becomes just another substance we learn to abuse and take for granted.

I believe we can have the best of both worlds when it comes to food.? We can appreciate it for its biological purpose and enjoy it for the emotional satisfaction it brings to us.? In future submissions, I will be highlighting the benefits of certain foods as well as explaining the psychological attachments we have with foods.? You do not have to give up taste in order to eat healthier.? You simply have to understand and appreciate the foods you eat and their overall purpose for the mind, body, and soul.

Source: http://hungryirishman.com/2012/08/29/the-love-of-food/

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Fracking Activists Try To Sway N.Y. Gov. Cuomo

August 29, 2012 from NCPR

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to decide soon whether to allow natural gas companies to use the controversial drilling technique known as hydro-fracking. New Yorkers are sharply divided on the issue. Industry groups and activists are campaigning hard to shape how the decision will be received.

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Hundreds of protestors rallied, this week, in Albany, New York. They are trying to put pressure on New York's Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo. They want him to reject a plan to expand natural gas drilling. Specifically, Cuomo's expected to decide in the coming days whether to allow more aggressive hydraulic fracturing to reach gas deposits that are locked deep underground. As North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann reports, people on both sides are mounting eleventh-hour campaigns to try and sway the governor.

BRIAN MANN, BYLINE: The arguments have been framed and locked in for months. Pro-development groups say central New York's rust belt - the area that stretches from Albany, west, along the Pennsylvania border needs new industry, new jobs. Environmentalists say the controversial drilling technique known as fracking would push a cocktail of chemicals deep underground, threatening groundwater that supplies small towns and farms.

After years of debate and review, Governor Cuomos's decision is expected any day. So anti-fracking groups held a rally on the Hudson River waterfront.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing) Can't frack this. Can't frack this.

MANN: Richard Crow is a retired engineer who lives in Smithville in Chenango County, smack in the middle of New York's natural gas region.

RICHARD CROW: There are a lot of people that could use the jobs, but, you know, what price are you going to put on your drinking water?

MANN: But if environmentalists are pushing hard, industry and pro-business groups aren't exactly sitting on the sidelines. Ads like this one, produced by the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York, have been airing statewide.

(SOUNDBITE OF TV AD)

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: So it's not just my family that needs shale gas, or my county. It's all of us in New York.

MANN: Industry supporters say a natural gas boom would create 15,000 high paying jobs, while also funneling tens of millions of dollars in taxes to cash-strapped local governments.

Finding any kind of middle ground in this debate has been tough. Governor Cuomo floated the idea that he might allow fracking to go forward on a limited basis, with local towns or counties having the final say. But industry spokesman John Conrad, appearing this week on the public radio program, "Capital Pressroom," called that idea a non-starter for companies hoping to develop a regional industry with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of infrastructure.

(SOUNDBITE OF RADIO PROGRAM)

JOHN CONRAD: You simply can't begin to let local municipalities determine whether or not it can happen within their boundaries. It just would create an unworkable situation for industry.

MANN: Making this decision even harder for Cuomo is the fact that after all the ads and rallies, New Yorkers are still evenly divided. Steven Greenberg, with the polling firm Siena Research, says surveys conducted by his firm show an even split between supporters of fracking and opponents.

STEVEN GREENBERG: There is no safe political play here. This is what I would refer to as an elected official or politician's worst nightmare.

MANN: Activists on both sides are fiercely passionate.

UNIDENTIFIED GROUP #2: (Singing) Thank God I'm on my way.

MANN: At this week's anti-fracking rally, Sandy Steuben, from Albany, said Cuomo's decision will be remembered by liberal voters like herself who make up an important part of the Democratic base.

SANDY STEUBEN: If he wants to issue permits, then it's sort of like the usual pol follow the money story.

MANN: Would it affect your vote in the future?

STEUBEN: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I mean, I'd work to get him primaried.

MANN: Finding a serious primary opponent for Andrew Cuomo wouldn't be easy. His approval ratings are sky-high in New York, and it's unlikely that this one issue will change that dramatically. But the decision on fracking could begin to shape how he's viewed by national Democrats if he moves up to a bigger political stage, possibly as early as the presidential race in 2016.

For NPR News, I'm Brian Mann in upstate New York.

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Kepler discovers planetary system orbiting 2 suns

Kepler discovers planetary system orbiting 2 suns [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 28-Aug-2012
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The Kepler 47 system is the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system discovered

Astronomers at the International Astronomical Union meeting announced the discovery of the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system: two planets orbiting around a pair of stars. The discovery shows that planetary systems can form and survive even in the chaotic environment around a binary star. And such planets can exist in the habitable zone of their stars. "Each planet transits over the primary star, giving unambiguous evidence that the planets are real," said Jerome Orosz, Associate Professor of Astronomy at San Diego State University and lead author of the study which is published today in the journal Science.

The system, known as Kepler-47, contains a pair of stars whirling around each other every 7.5 days. One star is similar to the Sun while the other is a diminutive star only one third the size and 175 times fainter. The inner planet is only 3x larger in diameter than the Earth, making it the smallest known transiting circumbinary planet. It orbits the stellar pair every 49 days.

The outer planet is slightly larger than Uranus and orbits every 303 days, making it the longest-period transiting planet currently known. More importantly, its orbit puts it in the "habitable zone", the region around a star where a terrestrial planet could have liquid water on its surface. While the planet is probably a gas-giant planet and thus not suitable for life, its discovery establishes that circumbinary planets can, and do, exist in habitable zones.

Although much more difficult to detect than planets around single stars, the rich dynamics and wild climate changes make these circumbinary planets worth the effort to find. These two planets join the elite group of 4 previously known transiting circumbinary planets, Kepler-16, 34, 35 and 38.

The new planetary system is located roughly 5000 light-years away, in the constellation Cygnus. The planets are much too far away to see, so they were discovered by the drop in brightness they cause when they transit (eclipse) their host stars. The loss of light caused by the silhouette is tiny, only 0.08% for planet b and 0.2% for planet c. By comparison, Venus blocked about 0.1% of the Sun's surface during its recent transit. Precise photometric data from NASA's Kepler space telescope allowed the transits and eclipses to be measured, which in turn provided the relative sizes of the objects. Spectroscopic data from telescopes at McDonald Observatory in Texas enabled the absolute sizes to be determined. "Based on their radii, these probably have masses of approximately 8 and 20 times that of the Earth," Orosz said.

"Kepler-47 shows us that typical planetary architectures, with multiple planets in co-planar orbits, can form around two stars," said co-author Joshua Carter, a Hubble Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "We've learned that circumbinary planets can be like the planets in our own Solar System, but with two suns."

The work was presented at the International Astronomical Union meeting by Dr. William Welsh, Professor of Astronomy at San Diego State University, on behalf of the Kepler Science Team.

"The thing I find most exciting," said Welsh, "is the potential for habitability in a circumbinary system. Kepler-47c is not likely to harbor life, but if it had large moons, those would be very interesting worlds."

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Funding for this work was provided in part by NASA and the National Science Foundation.

"Kepler-47: A Transiting Circumbinary Multi-planet System" by J. A. Orosz, et al. is published on-line in Science Express at http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1228380; embargoed copies for reporters are available at www.eurekalert.org/jrnls/sci.


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San Diego State University

The Kepler 47 system is the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system discovered

Astronomers at the International Astronomical Union meeting announced the discovery of the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system: two planets orbiting around a pair of stars. The discovery shows that planetary systems can form and survive even in the chaotic environment around a binary star. And such planets can exist in the habitable zone of their stars. "Each planet transits over the primary star, giving unambiguous evidence that the planets are real," said Jerome Orosz, Associate Professor of Astronomy at San Diego State University and lead author of the study which is published today in the journal Science.

The system, known as Kepler-47, contains a pair of stars whirling around each other every 7.5 days. One star is similar to the Sun while the other is a diminutive star only one third the size and 175 times fainter. The inner planet is only 3x larger in diameter than the Earth, making it the smallest known transiting circumbinary planet. It orbits the stellar pair every 49 days.

The outer planet is slightly larger than Uranus and orbits every 303 days, making it the longest-period transiting planet currently known. More importantly, its orbit puts it in the "habitable zone", the region around a star where a terrestrial planet could have liquid water on its surface. While the planet is probably a gas-giant planet and thus not suitable for life, its discovery establishes that circumbinary planets can, and do, exist in habitable zones.

Although much more difficult to detect than planets around single stars, the rich dynamics and wild climate changes make these circumbinary planets worth the effort to find. These two planets join the elite group of 4 previously known transiting circumbinary planets, Kepler-16, 34, 35 and 38.

The new planetary system is located roughly 5000 light-years away, in the constellation Cygnus. The planets are much too far away to see, so they were discovered by the drop in brightness they cause when they transit (eclipse) their host stars. The loss of light caused by the silhouette is tiny, only 0.08% for planet b and 0.2% for planet c. By comparison, Venus blocked about 0.1% of the Sun's surface during its recent transit. Precise photometric data from NASA's Kepler space telescope allowed the transits and eclipses to be measured, which in turn provided the relative sizes of the objects. Spectroscopic data from telescopes at McDonald Observatory in Texas enabled the absolute sizes to be determined. "Based on their radii, these probably have masses of approximately 8 and 20 times that of the Earth," Orosz said.

"Kepler-47 shows us that typical planetary architectures, with multiple planets in co-planar orbits, can form around two stars," said co-author Joshua Carter, a Hubble Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "We've learned that circumbinary planets can be like the planets in our own Solar System, but with two suns."

The work was presented at the International Astronomical Union meeting by Dr. William Welsh, Professor of Astronomy at San Diego State University, on behalf of the Kepler Science Team.

"The thing I find most exciting," said Welsh, "is the potential for habitability in a circumbinary system. Kepler-47c is not likely to harbor life, but if it had large moons, those would be very interesting worlds."

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Funding for this work was provided in part by NASA and the National Science Foundation.

"Kepler-47: A Transiting Circumbinary Multi-planet System" by J. A. Orosz, et al. is published on-line in Science Express at http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1228380; embargoed copies for reporters are available at www.eurekalert.org/jrnls/sci.


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'Blue moon' on same day as Neil Armstrong service

(AP) ? There's a rare 'blue moon' on Friday, a fitting wink to Neil Armstrong by the cosmic calendar.

That's the day of a private service for Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, who died last Saturday in Ohio at age 82.

A blue moon occurs when there's a second full moon in one calendar month. It won't happen again until July 2015. The full moon cycle is 29.5 days so a blue moon is uncommon and has come to mean something rare. The moon actually won't be colored blue.

Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb said the moon is far more important to lovers, literature and folklore than to science.

Armstrong's family has suggested paying tribute to him by looking at the moon and giving the astronaut a wink.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

SNOWPLOWING SKILLS

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? Politicians never seem run out of things to boast about when they're telling their personal stories on the convention stage. One New England pol was even touting her snowplowing skills.

New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte explained her husband, Joe, started a family business, a landscaping and snowplowing company, after returning home after flying combat missions in Iraq.

"And when I say he, I mean we ? because I spent many a sleepless night shoveling snow," Ayotte said. "And I'm proud of the fact that in addition to being a United States Senator, I'm also pretty good with a snow plow."

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On September 21, T-Mobile USA may try to convince you NOT to buy the iPhone 5

T-Mobile may not be getting the iPhone 5 this year, making them once again the only major US carrier bereft of Apple's multi-million selling mobile device, and if they can't have it, dammit, they're going to make sure you don't have one either. This according to David Beren at TmoNews, who received a couple of images in his inbox hinting at what the future just might hold, or rather not hold, for T-Mobile USA.

Based on both pieces of information that just came into our inbox, we?re trying to draw two conclusions, one that T-Mobile isn?t getting the iPhone 5, which shouldn?t surprise anyone. The second is that with the receipt of new Monthly4G microSIM kits supporting the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, T-Mobile is close to announcing some news about their network refarm.

The second of the two images details September Training Priorities (Retail, Branded, RPS) and includes a section on Selling Against the iPhone.

September 21 is, of course, the day iMore learned Apple will be launching the iPhone 5 in the US. If T-Mo wants their reps selling against it, odds are it's because they won't be selling it.

T-Mobile has historically been incompatible with the iPhone due to their use of the less common AWS frequencies for 3G. The lack of an official iPhone on their network has led to severe competitive problems for T-Mobile in the past. Since the iPhone 5 may support LTE, which T-Mobile won't start supporting until 2013, that mat not be likely to change any time soon.

Previously, the 3G incompatibility meant anyone running an unlocked iPhone on T-Mobile's network was limited to 2G EDGE speeds. Still, over a million T-Mobile customers chose to do just that. In recent months, T-Mobile has been offering cheap family plans and reassigning compatible bands to 3G to help give those unofficial iPhone customers a better value and experience. T-Mobile even placed a bubble around Apple's WWDC 2012 event back in June as a symbolic gesture.

While nothing is official until Apple makes a proper announcement, if they're once again frozen out of the iPhone party this year, September 21 isn't going to be a happy day at T-Mobile USA regardless of their training plans.

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Monday, August 27, 2012

American Taliban seeks group prayer in Ind. prison

FILE - This Jan. 23, 2002 file photo provided by the Alexandria County Sheriff's Department in Alexandria, Va., shows John Walker Lindh. Lindh is expected to testify Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Indianapolis during the first day of the trial over prayer policies in a tightly restricted prison unit where he and other high-risk inmates have severely limited contact with the outside world. (AP Photo/Alexandria County Sheriff's Department, File)

FILE - This Jan. 23, 2002 file photo provided by the Alexandria County Sheriff's Department in Alexandria, Va., shows John Walker Lindh. Lindh is expected to testify Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Indianapolis during the first day of the trial over prayer policies in a tightly restricted prison unit where he and other high-risk inmates have severely limited contact with the outside world. (AP Photo/Alexandria County Sheriff's Department, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2002 file photo, with his head shaven and his stare fixed straight, American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh leaves the Alexandria Detention Center in Alexandria, Va., before dawn, on the way to his first appearance in a nearby federal court. Lindh is expected to testify Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Indianapolis during the first day of the trial over prayer policies in a tightly restricted prison unit where he and other high-risk inmates have severely limited contact with the outside world. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FILE - This Jan. 23, 2002 file photo provided by the Alexandria County Sheriff's Department in Alexandria, Va., shows John Walker Lindh. Lindh is expected to testify Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Indianapolis during the first day of the trial over prayer policies in a tightly restricted prison unit where he and other high-risk inmates have severely limited contact with the outside world. (AP Photo/Alexandria County Sheriff's Department, File)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? An American-born Taliban fighter imprisoned in Indiana will try to convince a federal judge in a trial starting Monday that his religious freedom trumps security concerns, in a closely watched trial that will examine prisoners' rights in the age of terrorism.

John Walker Lindh was charged with supporting terrorists after he was captured by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and later pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

Lindh, 31, is serving a 20-year sentence at a federal facility in Terre Haute where he and other inmates have severely limited contact with the outside world. The Muslim convert claims his religious rights are being violated because the prison deprives him of daily group prayer.

Muslims are required to pray five times a day, and the Hanbali school to which Lindh belongs requires group prayer if it is possible. But inmates in the Communications Management Unit are allowed to pray together only once a week except during Ramadan. At other times, they must pray in their individual cells. Lindh says that doesn't meet the Quran's requirements and is inappropriate because he is forced to kneel in close proximity to his toilet.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which is representing Lindh, contends the policy violates a federal law barring the government from restricting religious activities without showing a compelling need.

"This is an open unit where prisoners are basically out all day," said ACLU legal director Ken Falk, noting that inmates are allowed to play basketball and board games, watch television and converse as long as they speak English so the guards can understand.

"They can do basically any peaceful activity except praying," he said. "It makes no sense to say this is one activity we're going to prohibit in the name of security."

Joe Hogsett, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, said he believes decisions about prison regulations are best made by prison officials, "not by convicted terrorists and other dangerous criminals who reside there."

"Mr. Lindh is allowed to pray in his cell; he's allowed to pray wherever he happens to be as many times every day as his religion suggests to him that he should," Hogsett said. "Where the rules must draw the line is how often must prison officials allow prisoners to congregate together?"

Attorneys for the government maintain that Lindh's own behavior since he was placed in the unit in 2007 proves the risks of allowing group prayer.

The government says in court documents that Lindh delivered a "radical, all-Arabic sermon" to other Muslim prisoners in February that was in keeping with techniques in a manual seized from al-Qaida members that details how terrorists should conduct themselves when they are imprisoned.

Lindh's sermon proves "that religious activities led by Muslim inmates are being used as a vehicle for radicalization and violence in the CMU," the government claims.

Falk said Lindh's speech wasn't radical and was given during the weekly prayer that inmates are permitted. He said Lindh was not disciplined for the speech.

The self-contained unit in which Lindh resides has 43 inmates, 24 of whom are Muslim. Inmates are under open and covert audio and video surveillance, and except for talks with their attorney, all of their phone calls are monitored. Prisoners are not allowed to touch their family members when they come for their tightly limited visits. They must speak English at all times except when reciting ritual prayers in Arabic.

Without such tight security, the government claims, the prisoners would be able to conspire with outsiders to commit terrorist or criminal acts.

According to court documents, daily prayers were allowed from the time the unit opened in 2006 until May 2007, when Muslim inmates refused to stop in the middle of a prayer to return to their cells during a fire emergency.

The lawsuit was originally filed in 2009 by two Muslim inmates in the unit. Lindh joined the lawsuit in 2010, and the case has drawn far more attention since then. The other plaintiffs have dropped out as they were released from prison or transferred to other units.

Thomas Farr, a former diplomat who teaches at Georgetown University and studies religion and terrorism, said Lindh should be able to practice his religion but that prison officials have a responsibility to ensure he can't plan or carry out any attacks.

"That is why he is in prison and if that is not a compelling state interest I do not know what is," Farr said.

Stanford University terrorism expert Martha Crenshaw said prison officials have legitimate security concerns but questioned how dangerous Lindh really was, noting that he was not a leader or an influential cleric. Even the government says Lindh is currently characterized as a minimum-security prisoner.

He had been charged with conspiring to kill Americans and support terrorists, but those charges were dropped in a plea agreement. He is serving a 20-year sentence for supplying services to the now-defunct Taliban government of Afghanistan and carrying explosives for them and is eligible for release in 2019.

"The fact that the charge of conspiring to kill Americans was dropped could be considered evidence that he was not a personally violent jihadist," Crenshaw said in an email.

"Certainly after 9/11 the pendulum has swung toward preventing terrorism at almost any cost," Crenshaw said. "I would like to think that it could be swinging back, but it swings slowly. Once established, routines are hard to change."

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Make sure to have a contractor or commercial electrician in Atlanta install a power outlet in the cabinet above where the microwave will go. If you don?t do this, you will be struggling to find a place to plug it in during or after the installation of the microwave and hood vent.

Most people don?t think of their circuit breakers until they lose power unexpectedly. One of the best things you can do to improve the safety and efficiency of your home is to regularly test your breakers by switching them on and off at least once yearly. This clears the breaker contacts of any built-up corrosion and allows them to work more efficiently and safely. If your breakers frequently trip, this may indicate potential safety issues that require an electrician.

To brighten up a room, add new light fixtures. Changing your current light fixtures to upgraded fixtures can provide you with more light than what you currently have. An electrician can change your lights to a newer style for a relatively cheap price. You can also add pendant lights over your sinks.

Consider hiring a professional to do the electrical work for your home improvement project. It may seem easy to change out an outlet from two prongs to three, but if you are unfamiliar with electrical work, the safest thing to do is to have an electrician take care of the rewiring for you.

The days of calling a plumber or electrician for minor household repairs are long gone, not to mention the outrageous costs. Today, hundreds of websites are dedicated to sharing how-to tips and tricks, in a way that is easily understood by even the most reluctant handyman. You will find step-by-step directions and many also, include video demonstrations.

Unless you are an experienced electrician, don?t try and do the electrical work yourself. You may be tempted to run a bunch of extension cords, or change the number of prongs on an outlet, but you shouldn?t attempt it because it can be dangerous if you do it incorrectly. For safety, hire a professional electrician to do all of the electrical work.

Use bartering to accomplish your more-ambitious home improvement goals. If you?re not an electrician, but would like some new outlets wired in, check the internet for bartering opportunities in your area and don?t be shy to make your offers. You?d be surprised at how many highly skilled tradespeople are willing to exchange their skills for some home-baked goods, a good car wash and wax job, or perhaps some computer lessons or website work.

Get an electrical outlet put into the cabinet on top of the microwave?s future home. This will give you a convenient, hidden place to power your microwave. That is a safety issue that is easily resolved with this small improvement.

Replacing old light fixtures is a great little pick-me-up for your kitchen or bathroom. Tired track lighting can be replaced with modern lights for less than a thousand bucks. Pendant lighting is a good choice, and it looks especially great in kitchens.

Millions of homeowners decide every day to make some type of improvement to their homes, and many of them end up with poor results. Pay attention to the tips provided to you in this article so that you?re always making the best possible home improvement decisions when it?s time to spruce up your house.

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How to Learn in Your Sleep

Subjects trained to sniff pleasant smells while asleep retain the conditioning when they wake up


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From Nature magazine.

It sounds like every student's dream: research published today in Nature Neuroscience shows that we can learn entirely new information while we snooze.

Anat Arzi of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and her colleagues used a simple form of learning called classical conditioning to teach 55 healthy participants to associate odours with sounds as they slept.

They repeatedly exposed the sleeping participants to pleasant odours, such as deodorant and shampoo, and unpleasant odours such as rotting fish and meat, and played a specific sound to accompany each scent.

It is well known that sleep has an important role in strengthening existing memories, and this conditioning was already known to alter sniffing behaviour in people who are awake. The subjects sniff strongly when they hear a tone associated with a pleasant smell, but only weakly in response to a tone associated with an unpleasant one.

But the latest research shows that the sleep conditioning persists even after they wake up, causing them to sniff strongly or weakly on hearing the relevant tone ? even if there was no odour. The participants were completely unaware that they had learned the relationship between smells and sounds. The effect was seen regardless of when the conditioning was done during the sleep cycle. However, the sniffing responses were slightly more pronounced in those participants who learned the association during the rapid eye movement (REM) stage, which typically occurs during the second half of a night's sleep.

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Arzi thinks that we could probably learn more complex information while we sleep. ?This does not imply that you can place your homework under the pillow and know it in the morning,? she says. ?There will be clear limits on what we can learn in sleep, but I speculate that they will be beyond what we have demonstrated.?

In 2009, Tristan Bekinschtein, a neuroscientist at the UK Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, and his colleagues reported that some patients who are minimally conscious or in a vegetative state can be classically conditioned to blink in response to air puffed into their eyes. Conditioned responses such as these could eventually help clinicians to diagnose these neurological conditions, and to predict which patients might subsequently recover. ?It remains to be seen if the neural networks involved in sleep learning are similar to the ones recruited during wakefulness,? says Bekinschtein.

The findings by Arzi and her colleagues might also be useful for these purposes, and could lead to 'sleep therapies' that help to alter behaviour in conditions such as phobia.

?We are now trying to implement helpful behavioural modification through sleep-learning,? says Arzi. ?We also want to investigate the brain mechanisms involved, and the type of learning we use in other states of altered consciousness, such as vegetative state and coma.?

This article is reprinted with permission from Nature magazine. It was first published on August 26, 2012.
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Pinnacle Finalists: Microsoft, Toyota Financial, Cliffs Natural Resources

Microsoft, Toyota Financial Services and Cliffs Natural Resources are finalists for the Association for Financial Professionals 2012 Pinnacle Award. Sponsored by Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), the Pinnacle Awards have recognized excellence in treasury and finance each year since 1997.

Finalists were selected based on their dynamic solutions that helped their treasury and finance operations run more efficiently and effectively. The AFP Pinnacle Grand Prize winner will be named Oct. 14 at the AFP Annual Conference?in Miami.

Wells Fargo will make a $10,000 donation to a charity of the winner's choice. Danny Peltz, executive vice president and head of Wells Fargo Treasury Management, and Jim Kaitz, AFP President & CEO, will host the award ceremony.

"AFP is pleased to honor the 2012 Pinnacle Award winners," said Kaitz. "The theme of this year's Annual Conference is Bold Visions for the Future, and the solutions presented by Microsoft, Toyota Financial Services and Cliffs Natural Resources certainly meet that high standard."

Microsoft

Microsoft was selected as a finalist for its approach to enhancing zero balance account arrangements. By working with its bank to add additional information to better identify transactions, Microsoft streamlined collection sweeps for hundreds of its bank accounts and created a just-in-time funding model for subsidiary disbursements. As a result, Microsoft's treasury team reduced its balances in Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain by more than 94 percent in the past year.

Toyota Financial Services

Meanwhile, the Toyota Financial Services treasury team led a cross-organizational effort to establish robust transfer pricing that was consistent across product lines. Instead of using a benchmark rate as an approximate cost of funds, each loan was match-funded based on its characteristics and expected monthly cash flows. The impact helped treasury, finance, analytics, sales, and marketing make more-informed decisions and more-accurate funds transfer pricing for 4 million consumer retail and lease loans outstanding and over 2,000 dealer lending loans outstanding.

Cliffs Natural Resources

Based in Cleveland, Cliffs Natural Resources was selected as a 2012 AFP Pinnacle Award finalist in recognition of how its treasury team managed transformational growth in two ways. First, while increasing staff from four to 14 in less than 18 months as the company grew globally, Cliffs implemented a global risk management policy to manage its increasing foreign currency exposures across many newly acquired business units. Second, Cliff's treasury team emphasized managing talent, developing bank relationships, and leveraging real-time data and technology throughout the process with its treasury groups in Australia and America.

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Tweet This Getting a house involves many stages but it is very imperative to get whole procedure of buying home effortlessly. Among difficult stages, one is Rancho Palos Verdes real estate inspection. When buying a house, you should make sure that one will be getting good return for made if there is need for sailing it.

Best way to do it is by calling home inspection service for inspecting that home which you want to purchase and have an exhaustive report on state of that home. This analysis would help you to decide amount to bargain for that property or one should purchase that property.

Rancho Palos Verdes real estate inspection is very important part of process & you have to make sure that he is hiring right Rancho Palos Verdes Certified Home Inspector. An experienced home inspector would be able to offer best analysis of property. To help you in getting a right Rancho Palos Verdes Home Inspector Service, following are the tips and queries you should ask from that home inspector before hiring them:

Coverage of home inspection:

Ensure that home inspection would be touching all required points that property will need to be inspected. Also thing to confirm is analysis should be compliant with standard ethics and codes. You may ask Rancho Palos Verdes Home Inspector Service to prepare list of Rancho Palos Verdes property inspection checklists which would be looked at. If one feels that any area is excluded, you may request Rancho Palos Verdes Certified Home Inspector for adding it.

Reliability of home inspection service:

All always want experienced home inspector having a formidable track record. If that home inspector is able to provide list of her past home inspection, one can call their clients to have their feedback on standard of their home inspection service. Though keep in mind new home inspector as well & give emphasis that they must be working with reliable home inspector.

Repairs by home inspection service:

One may enquire if home inspections you are going to hire, do repairs if required in that property which you will be purchasing. Lot of home inspector do offer repair services too or he will help you in selecting best professional for undertaking repairs.

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When single home inspector will be turning up for home inspection, possibility is there that home inspection might take 2 hours for individual family home. Thus it is advised to get a team from home inspection service so that Rancho Palos Verdes property inspection can be done fast. If he asks for more duration than mentioned above, you can expect a detailed report.

With these queries one will make sure that you are hiring reputable home inspector who carry out up to mark home inspection service.

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