City rallies from 3-0 down, beats Chelsea in STL

Manchester City overcame a 3-goal deficit at Busch Stadium in St. Louis as Edin Dzeko bagged a brace to beat Chelsea 4-3.

Chelsea went up 3-0 just after halftime with goals from Demba Ba, Oscar, and Cesar Azpilicueta from the penalty spot (what?).? But Dzeko and Javier Garcia fired from both barrels right back and Dzeko?s second hit the back of the net just before the end of 90 to level at 3.

Micah Richards played hero as City completed the story with his header two minutes into extra time to give them the 4-3 win.

Busch Stadium sold out at 46,000 people with all tickets selling out 27 minutes after going on sale.? Proceeds from the match are being donated to the relief fund for the victims of the recent Oklahoma City tornado that killed 24 people and destroyed homes and schools alike.

Rafa Benitez gave debuts to two Chelsea youngsters.? Andreas Christensen was given a start in central defense and Reuben Loftus-Cheek saw his first Chelsea minutes in the midfield.? Jamal Blackman also made his debut in goal for the Blues, coming on as a second half substitute.

These two teams will meet again at Yankee Stadium in New York City on Saturday.? Manchester City and the New York Yankees have recently developed a relationship as the two are co-owners of the new MLS club recently announced, New York City FC.

Following the match, Sergio Aguero tweeted his appreciation for the support of the fans at the match:

Source: http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/23/manchester-city-rally-downs-chelsea-at-the-death-in-exciting-us-tour-opener/related/

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What My Father Taught Me: NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck

May 23, 2013 2:56 PM Text Size: A . A . A My father, Richard E. Peck, has been writing science fiction novels since the late '60s. And now that he's downsizing and passing everything on to me, half my living room is covered in his old sci-fi books. There's no doubt that these works had a huge impact on how I turned out.

I remember in 1977, he was in full-writer mode and needed to have a study, but we didn't have a very big house. I helped him build a secret door to his writing room, made to look like a bookcase. I loved the idea of building that bookcase when I was 10 years old. I learned that it's not that difficult to build something fanciful if you hunker down and spend a weekend working hard.

That wasn't the only thing we built together. He bought this old Chevy van and did a conversion on it. We cut holes in the side, put bubble windows in, built some tables and chairs, and carpeted the interior with this shag-carpet extravaganza. Neither of us knew what we were doing, but we figured?how hard could it really be?

The ironic thing is, he actually discouraged me from pursuing engineering. He was an English professor, so he had no idea what it was all about. He had spent years working in a factory before going to the Marines, and he was afraid I would get into a similar line of blue-collar work.

Of course, now he's very happy I didn't listen to him?now that I'm turning science fiction into science fact.

As told to Jennings Brown

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Google Now Second Most Valuable Brand, Samsung Jumps 25 Spaces To Number 30

In a list of the most valuable companies made by BrandZ, Google has gone from third place to second. Its brand value is now $113.669 billion, overtaking IBM (who?s brand is valued at $112.536 billion). It?s a pretty tight race, but Google has taken second place. Of course, they are nowhere near Apple?s brand value of $185.071 billion, which puts them at the number one spot by a large margin.

Samsung made a huge jump of 25 spots, all the way up to number 30 on the list. This puts their brand value at $21.404 billion, an impressive leap of more than $7 billion in a year. Verizon dropped three spaces to number 12, while AT&T rose two spaces to number 6. What do you think of this data? Do you think it?s accurate? Is Samsung rising so fast a problem? Tell us your thoughts in the comments!

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Deciding To Manage Anger | Anger Management Chicago - If you ...

Posted on May 22, 2013. Filed under: anger, Conflict, Court Mandated Anger Management, dating, emotion, family, friendship, men, relationships, therapy, women | Tags: anger, choices, health, Life, relationships |

Though anger is a normal human emotion, the way you choose to express your anger may not be normal or acceptable to those around you. If you suspect you have an anger problem, or if people you respect have told you that you do, we invite you to read on so as to learn about how to gain better control over your anger.

Help for anger problems is available through anger management programs which are offered through various sources including your workplace, employee assistance program, and through local counseling clinics. Anger management programs are designed to help you learn to control your anger responses in order to improve your relationships and health prospects. Anger management programs have much to teach that can help you to gain mastery over your problem anger. However, like any therapy or educational program, anger management programs can only benefit you to the extent that you decide to participate in them fully, and take in all they have to offer.

Learning to control your anger will be an ongoing task. You will need to rethink your automatic responses towards people. You will also have to take more responsibility for your thoughts and actions than you may have in the past. All of this will require discipline and a plan. As a means of helping you to gain this discipline and plan, we will next step back and review how normal people approach making large scale life changes. Having this perspective should prove useful in your anger management efforts. Understanding the best way to approach a problem is an important step in eventually overcoming it.

Stages of Change

People tend to go through a predictable set of several stages while working through life-changes. Progress through the stages is largely due to a combination of motivation, technique and dedication. Some people move quickly through the stages, while others move more slowly, perhaps even taking a step or two backward before continuing on to complete their change.

As you consider each of the stages of change below, think about how each stage has played out in your own life as you have made life changes in the past. Imagine how you will work through the challenges of each stage as you approach your anger management goals. While your experience may not mirror the order of the stages listed below, understanding each stage can help you on your way to achieve your goal.

Challenge. Deciding to learn how to control your anger represents a big change in how you will life your life. People aren?t usually motivated to make big life changes like this until something comes along that challenges them to examine their old way of doing things, and motivates them to learn new, better ways of handling those things. Most people decide to make changes in the way they deal with anger only after they experience serious personal, social or occupational consequences for their anger. Challenging consequences might occur when a spouse starts divorce proceedings after a violent fight, or when you have lost your job after a workplace outburst. Some portion of angry people feel personally out of control after an outburst and decide to go for help so as to gain better self-control. Others go for help just to get other people off their back.

• Awareness. The awareness stage begins as the angry person seeks information about anger management; what anger is, how anger affects health and relationships, and how anger can be controlled.
• Preparation. Awareness is all about information gathering; it involves no commitment. The Preparation stage begins with your decision to actually make a change in the way you will express anger.Beyond commitment to change, preparation involves self-study and planning. It may be useful for you to keep an anger management journal where you keep a record of the things that make you angry, how you react when you are angry, and the consequences of your reactions. Your anger journal will help you identify and become aware of your anger triggers and may help give you some insight into how proportional your angry outbursts are to the various situations that provoke them (more on this later). The more you learn about your personal anger triggers, the better your chances of success in changing how you express anger.
• Action. In the Action stage you start making real changes. You may decide to take a professional anger management course or to purchase workbooks, tapes, or videos. You may also design a personal program for anger management. Any of these approaches might help you to develop greater control over your anger. However, none of them will work if you do not apply yourself to them with dedication and persistence.
• Maintaining Gains.?The maintainance stage of change never ends. During this stage, you learn to accept the fact that you are not perfect, that you will make mistakes and act inappropriately, and that you can recover from lapses in your behavior when they do occur. Achieving sustained behavior change is a project. It may take multiple attempts and multiple failures before you will achieve this goal. Each time you do lapse into old behavior, you can use the tools and strategies you have learned along the way to help you pick yourself up and recover.

It is particularly difficult for many people with anger problems to work up the motivation to seriously want to work an anger management program. Because anger has a seductive, self-justifying quality to it, people are not typically drawn to anger management on their own. Many times, people need to suffer serious negative consequences of their anger before they realize that they need help in controlling their outbursts. Even then, motivation for continuing an anger management program can wax and wane. It is fairly common for angry people to stop attending an anger management program before finishing it, or for people to never actually apply or use the techniques they learn in their program. People often need to repeat anger programs a number of times before they truly understand the message and incorporate the training into their own lives.

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Why does Prince Harry make Washington swoon?

Yes, Prince Harry is wowing Washington. That?s pretty apparent only one day after the British royal (third in line to the throne!) showed up in D.C. for a round of visits to various serious locales.

Here?s how magnetic his effect has been: He?s interrupting congressional hearings without attending them.

It?s true. On Thursday, a Senate Armed Services subcommittee was in the midst of pondering the un-monarchical subject of ballistic missile defense when cheering and catcalls erupted outside the hearing in the halls of the Senate Russell Office Building. Harry was somewhere in the vicinity, sweeping past on his way to view an exhibit on land mines.

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?I?m trying to think of something disparaging to say about our British cousins because I think the uproar out in the hall is because Prince Harry is in the Senate,? said Sen. Mark Udall (D) of Colorado.

The noise continued.

?Originally I thought it was because ... they were waiting for the results of our hearing, but I think that?s ... ? said Senator Udall, throwing up his hands, to general laughter.

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For the record, most of the 500 or so people in the crowd lined up to watch Harry walk past consisted of female congressional aides. That is just a fact ? don?t get on us for being predictable and/or jealous. Harry?s host and fellow military aviator Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona noticed this.

?I?ve never seen, in all the years I?ve been here, such an unbalanced gender crowd,? Senator McCain told Harry.

Harry, a captain in the British military who?s served two deployments in Afghanistan, had a similarly unsettling effect on a White House Mother?s Day tea hosted by first lady Michelle Obama and second lady Jill Biden.

His visit to the tea was something of a surprise, and Mrs. Obama sounded a tad breathless announcing his appearance. She also warned that not everyone would get to personally greet the prince, sounding like the world?s highest-ranking PR handler as she did so.

?So we are absolutely thrilled that he could be with us today, that he took the time. He just arrived in D.C. and only has a limited time with us because he has a very busy schedule,? said Mrs. Obama as the crowd snapped cellphone photos.

So we?ve got to ask, why does British royalty have this effect on otherwise blas? Washingtonians?

OK, he?s handsome, young, and rich. Point 1! What congressional staff letter opener who lives in a group house and eats frozen burritos wouldn?t dream of being swept away to a life of ease? Movie stars cause the same disturbance in the normally staid Capitol Hill force.

Royalty is exotic. That?s our second point. The United States has never had it, and it predates our own democracy. Thus it has mysterious status. Why else did rich US debutantes flock to England during the Gilded Age to snag a title?

But British royalty is also safe. Not that you can always trust them to behave with propriety in Las Vegas hotel rooms ? Harry himself has proved that. But they lost the Revolutionary War and no longer threaten our democracy.

In the early years of the republic, there were fierce political fights over whether Alexander Hamilton, say, secretly wanted a king. It?s hard to imagine a royal visit going off well back then. The first British king to visit the US, George VI, didn?t show up until 1939.

Since then, the US has increasingly viewed the British royals as quaint. So Harry causes a stir in part because he?s a character in a show ? ?Downton Abbey? come to life.

Though we will say that Harry is doing his best to represent his nation with dignity. On Friday, he paid a solemn visit to Arlington National Cemetery and laid wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknowns and the section where vets from Iraq and Afghanistan are buried.

Over the weekend, he?ll be in Colorado Springs, Colo., for a visit to games that feature wounded or injured soldiers from the US and Britain. After that, it?s back to the East Coast, where among other things he?ll play in a polo match in Greenwich, Conn.

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Rare Apple 1 and other vintage tech items to be auctioned ...

May 10, 2013 - 1 day ago Troy Wolverton (122 Posts)

Troy writes the Tech Files column as the Personal Technology Columnist at the San Jose Mercury News. He also covers the digital media, mobile and video game industries and writes occasionally about Apple, chips, social networking and other aspects of technology. Previously, Troy covered Apple and the consumer electronics industry. Prior to joining the Mercury News, Troy reported on technology, business and financial issues for TheStreet.com and CNET News.com.

If you?d like to score an important piece of Valley history ? and have the bucks to pay for it ? here?s your chance: Later this month, a German auction house will be selling an original ? and still working ? Apple 1 computer.

The device is, of course, the original product from Apple. This version is just one of six known models that still are still in working order and is signed by Apple co-founder?? and Apple 1 creator ? ?Steve Wozniak. The auction, run by Auction Team?Breker, will be held May 25.

Apple fans interested in the vintage machine should be prepared to pay a stiff price. Bidding starts at around $117,000. ?But a comparable model auctioned last fall fetched a winning bid of around $640,000 and a similar one sold last June for $374,500.

The winning bidder will get more than just the Apple 1. Included in the lot are the original owner?s manual and a letter from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to former Major League baseball player Fred Hatfield offering to exchange the Apple 1 for a new Apple II.

If the Apple 1 auction is too rich for your blood, don?t worry, there are other cool things up for auction at lower prices. You can bid on a pair of Apple Lisa computers, which was the precursor to the Mac; a MITS Altair 8800, which was the first PC; a dictation machine dating to 1915; the first portable copying device, which was invented by steam engine inventor James Watt and dates to 1780; and an early 20th century mechanical calculator that was built based on a design by 17th century French mathematician Blaise Pascal.

For your viewing pleasure, here?s a video posted by the Breker folks of the Apple 1:

Photo courtesy of Auction Team Breker and Liveauctioneers.

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Troy writes the Tech Files column as the Personal Technology Columnist at the San Jose Mercury News. He also covers the digital media, mobile and video game industries and writes occasionally about Apple, chips, social networking and other aspects of technology. Previously, Troy covered Apple and the consumer electronics industry. Prior to joining the Mercury News, Troy reported on technology, business and financial issues for TheStreet.com and CNET News.com.

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Contest Winners: Tea Cup Rides & Zombie Teeth | Empress Tea

GOOD NEWS!?We?ve weeded through all of the terrific entries and we?ve chosen our top favourites. I?d like to congratulate?our winners and thank all of the entrants for sharing their creativity with us.?And now, what you?ve all been waiting for? the winners are? drumroll please?

Andrew Woolner and Heidi McDonald!!!!!!?

We will ship Andrew & Heidi teas from across the globe. We hope it brings you enjoyment for the rest of the year curled up in front of the Empress Tea blog. Cheers!

?Runner-up in the image category, Candice Keung

Tea Stained Zombie Teeth and a Penchant for Memories?

by Andrew Woolner

I have a complicated relationship with women tea.

But that?s not what this story is about.?

This story is about my zombie teeth. Yeah. So. The year is 2010.

The year is 1994. I am sitting drinking tea with Karla. Her kitchen smells of old Toronto: a sharp mix of stale animal urine and dust. I have just told her that I love her, and she has laughed at me.?

I will see her twice more, before she disappears from my life forever.?

Back to Yokohama, 2010. I?m off CocaCola for the time being. Director?s orders. I?m rehearsing in the mornings and doing my office work from home in the afternoons. I make a huge thermos pot of tea every day and drink it while I work. It makes me jittery.

Holy shit, but Andie gives me the jitters. 1999, this time. I?m looking at my first bubble tea at some Chinese restaurant in Richmond Hill. Okay, I?m not. I?m looking at Andie: the one that got away (I don?t know it yet). I still think of her whenever I drink bubble tea. You can?t get decent bubble tea in Japan.?

I do this for about three months. Then one morning, I go downstairs and look at myself in the mirror. I look pretty good. I can see my ribs a little. The whole more exercise / less ice cream regimen is working out well.

Green tea ice cream: I eat it as Karen and I walk along Bloor Street. 2002. We were a near miss, which is probably why we?re still friends. I point out the building that used to be a Kashmiri restaurant where I ate my first Indian food and drank chai with Sarah. Sarah once said to me that I was too negative. Karen laughs as I complain about a roommate. I really don?t call her enough anymore.?

I open my mouth and literally jump back. My teeth have brown lines on them. Like the walking dead. My front teeth are particularly bad. One on the bottom is a little bit crooked and the extra shadow there gives it a charcoal hue. I know a harddrinking Englishman who has better teeth than this. I scratch with my fingernail, but the stain won?t come off.

I scratch a piece of food off the edge of the mug. The smell of peppermint is strong. It?s the only kind of tea that my friend Al drinks. We meet once a week to play guitar and drink tea. He lives in a crumbling old tenement in the beaches, and I live near High Park, meaning that my back teeth are?usually floating by the time I get home from his place, just a little past one in the morning. Tonight we?re recording a song about Yokohama that I?m going to send to Kumiko. I?m flying to Japan in a week or so to see her for the first time since September. I?ve got this strange idea in my head that this is the girl I?m going to marry. Does Al think I?m crazy??

He just smiles and drinks his peppermint tea.?

Anticlimax: I get a dentist to look at my teeth. She tells me they are tea-stained. She does a cleaning for me. I no longer look like I?m going to eat someone?s brain.

I go home to my wife. I drink a little less tea.

That?s what this story is about.

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Tea Cups Full of Family

by Heidi McDonald

?Heidi?s grandparents dancing

My grandparents taught me about tea. They were second and third generation Canadian, and the generations before them were all British. When I was little I drank from a cup that had a ceramic duck molded into the bottom of it. It was revealed as the tea was consumed and even though I knew it was a duck, we pretended it was a surprise every time.

They always had their tea with milk, and it was a joke that the milk always had to go in first or the tea tasted wrong. We used to doctor Grampa?s tea in the other room to see if he noticed that the milk had been put in last.

When I was in university the kettle went on as soon as I walked through my Grandparent?s door. I poured my heart out to them so many times, always over a cup of tea.

The only time I have ever deprived myself of tea was when I was pregnant. My now 5 year old daughter enjoys tea in the little duck cup that I used to drink from. And she pretends it?s a surprise every time. Even though both of my grandparents have passed, I still have a tea ritual with someone just as important to me. And I?m sure my daughter will have wonderful memories of tea with me as she grows.

I drink all kinds of tea, but my favourite tea is black tea with rose petals. I drink it when I?m tired, when I?m stressed, when I have a ton of work to do, when I?m sitting at home in the evenings, and with friends and family. And of course, I always have a hot cup in hand when I sit down to read Empress Tea blogs!

First Tea Cup

These are my favourite pictures of my grandparents, taken by my sister for a school project. They are both dancing. And these are pictures of my sweet girl with the very first tea cup she was ever given, plus some other fun tea pics.

Enjoy! Hopefully with a cuppa in your hand!

Runners-up with honourable mention:

Candice Keung,?Tea of Chrysanthemum

Joy Grassmick, The Smackdown

Tony Keyes, Bart and the Can of Tea

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Welcome to Empress Tea! I'm the Empress behind this collaboration of talented women from across the globe. Born, raised, and educated in Canada I developed a profound love for nature, fresh air, multi-culturalism and fine food. Seven years ago, I followed my dearest love to Hong Kong and I?ve been navigating its lively streets ever since. I?m a multi-talented artist & designer, a theatre designer for over a decade, a teacher of art & English, and I?m most interested in exciting adventures and finding ways to harness my own abilities as well as help others express theirs. Follow me on Twitter @bsteis

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Facebook in talks to buy Israel's Waze for up to $1 billion: report

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze for $800 million to $1 billion, business daily Calcalist reported on Thursday.

The deal, which would be Facebook's largest acquisition, would give the social networking company a mapping service and allow it to better compete with Google Inc and Apple Inc.

Maps and navigation services have become a key asset for technology companies as consumers increasingly adopt smartphones and other mobile devices.

Waze uses satellite signals from members' smartphones to generate maps and traffic data, which it then shares with other users, offering real-time traffic info.

Due diligence between Waze and Facebook is underway after a term sheet was signed, Calcalist said, adding that talks began six months ago.

Officials at Waze and Facebook declined to comment on the report.

Facebook's largest deal to date is the September acquisition of photo-sharing app, Instagram. Facebook agreed to buy the company for $1 billion in cash and stock, though the actual price it paid was $715 million due to declines in Facebook's share price.

The four-year-old Waze, which has 47 million users, has raised $67 million in funding to date from firms including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Blue Run Ventures and semiconductor company Qualcomm Inc.

"A lot of these companies want to own mapping services as opposed to licensing. The advantage is that you could personalize it to your business," said Raymond James analyst Aaron Kessler.

For Facebook, which has shifted its focus to developing "mobile-first" products, having location-based services is important, said Kessler.

There had been media reports earlier this year that Apple was in talks to acquire Waze.

In September, Apple replaced the Google Maps app that once came pre-loaded on iPhones with a new maps service that Apple had created in-house. The Apple maps service contained embarrassing errors, drew fierce criticism from consumers and reviewers, and forced Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook to offer a public apology.

Waze and Facebook partnered in October 2012 when Waze released an updated version of its social mapping and traffic app that allows users to share their drive with their Facebook friends.

Waze has 11 of its 100 employees based in the United States, with the remaining staff in Israel.

This would be Facebook's third acquisition in Israel. It bought Snaptu in 2011 for $70 million and Face.com in 2012 for $60 million.

Shares of Facebook were up 1.1 percent, or 30 cents, at $27.42 in afternoon trading on Thursday.

(Reporting by Tova Cohen; Editing by David Cowell and Bernadette Baum)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/facebook-talks-buy-israels-waze-1-billion-report-060459649.html

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Tyler Kingkade: The Real 'Me Generation'

I'm trying to decide if Joel Stein views millennials as an entire generation of Cher Horowitz's transported into the 21st century.

That's as much as I can tell from his latest piece in Time, titled "The Me Generation," and displayed on the magazine's cover as "The Me Me Me Generation." It made the rounds on social media Thursday, with plenty of mockery on Twitter. Matthew Segal, co-founder of the millennial advocacy group Our Time, called the piece "Lousy!" in a tweet. "Trying to beat up on 'kids these days' using Boomer 'experts' for quotes," Segal said.

Allow me to sum up Stein's definition of a millennial: a narcissist who emails the CEO of the company they work for, is reality-TV ready, sends 88 texts a day while using their parents' credit card and feels "entitled" to everything because our parents pampered us with participation trophies.

"The Me Generation" was written by a Gen-Xer, who admits he got to the final casting round of Real World: London," who boasts about having more than 5,000 Facebook friends, writing in a magazine best known by millennials as one they grab in a doctor's office waiting room. How thorough is his reporting? ("I had data!" he boasts in the piece.) In this story about millennials, only two people under 30 are quoted and 20 who are age 32 or older. Somehow, Stein felt Kim Kardashian, 32, could represent our generation well.

Perhaps the worst of the story isn't even in the text, but rather in the video accompanying the article online. In it, Stein attempts to "live like a millennial" for a day. According to Stein, living like a millennial includes checking your cell phone the second you wake up, wearing a rock band's t-shirt, sexting, using shorthand in all online conversations and trying to send 30-50 texts in a day. It's hard to imagine how Stein could've been more degrading to our generation in four minutes.

Now allow me, a 25-year-old, to explain how a millennial actually lives: We wake up and look at our phone not because we're checking for missed messages or social media notifications, it's because of our alarm clock app. Sexting? Please, I don't have time for that. I get online and start work no later than 8 a.m. Most of my communication through the day then comes via social media, email or Gchat, and I often only end up texting one or two people in a 24 hour period. Texting for texting's sake is not on my radar either, unless it's to say "hi" to my family 1,000 miles away in Iowa. And I rarely wear a t-shirt outside of the gym.

I grew up with AOL chat rooms, internet forums and LiveJournal. MySpace came along in high school, and Facebook appeared as I started college. I'm guilty of taking many "selfies" during my youth for these sites, but I honestly haven't done one in at least a year. It seems most of these behaviors in Stein's video are not what an actual millennial does, rather, it's what a student in high school or college living in the year 2013 does on their day off.

Stein's piece sways between disconnect and getting a description of millennials correct. For instance, he cites products I've never heard of before, like FitBit and PlaceMe. He repeatedly references MTV, although most of my peers recognize the channel as one with more reality TV programming than Bravo, not one that speaks to our generation. Though he rightly notes millennials are self-confident, the largest and most diverse generation, and the most supportive of LGBT rights.

Every generation has its quirks, its slang, its flaws, but it seems too often Gen-Xers in primarily old media outlets cast the behavior of teenagers in the millennial generation as representative of everyone in the age group, whether they're 14 or 29. The New York Times, in particular, makes a regular habit of trolling millennials and hipsters by citing Lena Dunham and Taylor Swift to prove their hypothesis, as if those young, rich and famous women represent an entire generation. Girls is not a "weather vane" for 20-somethings, and Swift's "22" is more of an anthem for a 17-year-old than anyone in their 20s.

In Time, Stein forgets to note that millennials are more committed to volunteerism than other age groups, and the percentage of young people who believe helping those in need is at its highest level since 1970. We're more educated than any other generation. The youth vote comprised a higher proportion of the electorate in 2012 than they had in at least four cycles.

The Time article reminds me of the stories I see about companies barking at millennials through ill-advised marketing. Companies like Campbell's and McDonald's are shocked to learned we don't really like sodium-rich food, but an ad blitz will apparently fix that. Similarly, Republicans think messaging is how they'll convince us to support a party whose positions on issues like student loans, global warming and gay rights couldn't be further away.

Hotel brands and car companies try to convince us in marketing campaigns they created products with our generation in mind, failing to realize maybe we decided we don't need those because we're thrifty and would prefer to stay with friends if we can, or make new ones by couch surfing or catching a ride. Research shows millennials care more about experiences than owning material items.

Growing up in the worst recession since the Great Depression, how could anyone expect us not to come out nearly as thrifty as our grandparents? With that in mind, we're taking over with these handicaps: higher worker productivity and lower wages, a decaying planet, crumbling infrastructure, a large national debt, a poor healthcare system, that we're graduating from college with massive student debt, and the list continues.

Yes, millennials will be the generation to "save us all," as Time's cover suggests. But only because we're picking up a mess that was left to us.

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Tiny, Juice-Packed PhoneSuit Flex Battery Now Available for iPhone 5

Cult of Mac writes, credit: PhoneSuit / Instagram It?s not much bigger than a (large, fat) thumb ? but this PhoneSuit Flex battery has more juice than all but the very, very largest iPhone battery cases. While it?s been available in 30-pin and Android/micro-USB flavors for months, it?s now also available for the iPhone 5. The $70 Flex packs 2600 mAh of juice into its small form. For reference, the iPhone 5?s battery is rated at 1440 mAh; that means the Flex can, theoretically at least, fully charge an empty iPhone 5, then have juice left over for at leafs another half charge (though PhoneSuit?s?

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Swimming & Diving. Joe Suriano to Retire as Navy's Diving Coach

May 8, 2013

From Navy Sports Information

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Joe Suriano, who this spring completed his 35th season as the diving coach at the Naval Academy, has announced his retirement from the position.

"It is with mixed emotions that we learn of Joe's intention to retire after 35 years of excellence as a coach and educator at Navy," said Naval Academy Director of Athletics Chet Gladchuk. "I know he and Patty have looked forward to the wonderful family opportunities that will come with more time at home. On the other hand, it will not be the same at the Academy without this kind and thoughtful gentleman's guidance, organizational skills, leadership and passion for a vocation he has loved for decades. A genuine legend will conclude a very distinguished and unparalleled career. One that inspired thousands on and off the deck of the pool in the spirit of character development, academic excellence and physical prowess. As a role model, Joe has set the bar and all of us are better because he did."

"The U.S. Naval Academy is a powerful school that has the ability to open many doors," said Suriano. "It has provided me with the opportunity and pleasure of working with past and present leaders and heroes of our military. I remember working with midshipmen who are now admirals.

"Winning in diving has always been very important. But it is how you go about striving for and attaining those wins -- maintaining respect for both our sport and our opponents while remembering we are always representing the Navy Academy -- that is truly important to all of us at Navy. That is one of the many reasons why I have been so proud to have coached here.

"I need to thank my divers who have made my time here so enjoyable, all of my fellow coaches and instructors of the physical education department and everyone who has been associated with the Naval Academy Athletic Association for making this such a rewarding and special place to work. I also want to thank my wife, Patty, and my sons, Doug and Mike (`05), for all of their support. Annapolis is a great place to raise a family, and our living and working here has been made even more special by the fact that the Naval Academy itself truly is a family.

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"I look forward to watching from the stands in the future."

"It has been an honor and a sincere privilege to share the pool deck with Joe," said Navy men's swimming head coach Bill Roberts. "His career crosses into five different decades where he had the unique opportunity to work with both student athletes and members of the Brigade as a coach and educator. As a young coach who first arrived at Navy in 1997, he has been instrumental in my continued development as a coach and I am forever grateful to him."

"Joe is a tremendous person, teacher, and coach," said Navy women's swimming head coach John Morrison. "He has been so instrumental in the success of our programs since his arrival. There is no doubt that our daily adventures with Joe will be missed, but he can take pride in the leading one of the most successful programs on The Yard. We thank Joe for all that he has done for not only Navy swimming and diving, but also for all midshipmen through his efforts as a physical education instructor. He, Patty, and their family will always be remembered as one of the best. We look forward to hearing their cheers from the stands for years to come."

Long respected as one of the top diving coaches in the country, Suriano saw 12 of his divers qualify for 22 NCAA Division I Championship meets and earn 15 All-America accolades in his tenure. Prior to the Navy women's program joining the Division I ranks in the 1991-92 season, his divers earned 15 NCAA Division II All-America certificates. This list of honorees includes Stacia Johnson, who won the 1991 NCAA Division II title on the three-meter board.

Additionally, his divers have totaled 27 Patriot League, 17 Eastern Swimming League and eight Colonial Athletic Association individual event titles, as well as 14 Patriot League Diver-of-the-Meet honors. This includes the 2007 and 2008 Patriot League Championship meets when his divers combined to sweep all four boards each year.

Suriano himself has been recognized as the Patriot League Coach of the Year four times and as the NCAA Division II Coach of the Year in 1991.

On the national and international levels, Suriano was named an International Olympic Committee diving expert in 1985 and conducted a 21-day clinic for 30 diving coaches in New Delhi, India. In 1994, he was named an official and an assistant diving coach for U.S. Diving at the Dive Canada International Championships. He served as an official in 1995 at the World University Games in Fukouka, Japan, and at the World Military Games in Rome, Italy, later that year. He also served as a diving coach at two U.S. Diving National Training Camps and was named to the 1995-96 U.S. Diving national coaching staff. Suriano directed the American diving team at the 1999 World Military Games in Zagreb, Croatia, then completed a term as the chairman of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Rules Sub-Committee in the fall of 2001.

Suriano arrived at Navy in the summer of 1978 after previous stops as the head coach at Eastern Michigan (1971-72) and Vanderbilt (1972-78). He earned a bachelor's degree from Michigan in 1970 and a master's degree from Eastern Michigan in 1978.

Suriano's impact on the Naval Academy and the Brigade of Midshipmen stretches beyond the diving well. He is a tenured professor in the physical education department and has led swimming classes at Navy since his arrival. He will continue to teach through the end of the 2013 fall term.

The Naval Academy Athletic Association is planning a tribute evening to Coach Suriano this fall in conjunction with the 2013 men's and women's swimming and diving meet versus Army on Dec. 12. Details will be announced in the fall closer to the date of the event.

A national search to hire the new diving coach for the 2013-14 season is underway.

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AOL shares sink as websites still lose money

By Jennifer Saba

(Reuters) - Online media group AOL Inc said on Wednesday that first-quarter revenue grew on strength in its advertising business, but shares sank on concerns that profits were still mostly coming from a shrinking dial-up platform.

The stock tumbled 10 percent to $37.35, the second worst decline in the past 18 months, signaling that some investors were not sold on AOL's strategy of building its business on content.

"The core issue with this company is can they make content profitable?" said Ben Schachter, an analyst with Macquarie Research. "What you see every quarter is the only thing making money is the membership group. They are clearly going in the right direction, but we want to see more progress."

For the past several years, AOL has been trying to transform itself into a media destination, a change from the days when it was best known as an Internet access business with free-trial CDs that clogged mailboxes.

AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong has invested heavily in content, with big acquisitions like the $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post. AOL has also plowed more than $100 million into Patch, a group of hyperlocal websites that covers neighborhood news and events.

Even with all of that spending, the legacy subscription service is still the most profitable part of the company.

AOL reported an operating loss of almost $5 million from its media sites, including Patch, Huffington Post, Engadget and TechCrunch.

The membership group posted operating profit of $146.4 million in the quarter. The membership unit includes subscription revenue from its dial-up service.

AD REVENUE JUMPS 9 PCT

Some encouraging trends have emerged. Display ad growth was a bright spot, Macquarie's Schachter said. The ads, big splashy campaigns often featured prominently on websites, are an important benchmark for AOL because they command higher prices.

Yahoo Inc, a competitor, reported that first-quarter display ad revenue fell 11 percent.

Overall advertising revenue for AOL increased 9 percent to $359.2 million, including a 6 percent gain in domestic display advertising.

Revenue from the media sites jumped 14 percent to $189.6 million, on higher ad sales.

Total company revenue increased 2 percent to $538.3 million, missing analysts' expectations of $542.1 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Net income rose 23 percent to $25.9 million, or 32 cents per share, and met analysts' expectations.

Before Wednesday's report, AOL shares had soared 67 percent in the latest 12 months, just slightly underperforming Yahoo.

(Reporting by Jennifer Saba in New York; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

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Boston cop: Never saw Russia warning about suspect

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Boston police commissioner says three city police officers were working with the U.S. terrorism task force but didn't know about vague warnings by Russia's government about one of the bombing suspects delivered nearly two years before the attacks.

Commissioner Edward Davis says he would have liked to known that Russian authorities had warned the FBI that Tamerlan Tsarnaev (TAM'-ehr-lun tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) was a radical extremist before the April 15 attacks.

Davis, testifying at a hearing on the attacks, said Thursday he can't say exactly what police would have done with that information. But he said police likely would have at least looked closely at Tsarnaev.

Former Senator Joseph Lieberman told lawmakers more threat information should be shared with state and local police, who he called "your first line of defense."

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Do Electronic Cigarettes Really Help Smokers Quit?

The results of the first trials on the efficacy of e-cigarettes are due this year, offering new hope for a stubborn addiction

By Alisa Opar

Everyone knows that cigarettes are bad for you. Yet 45 million Americans smoke, a habit that shaves a decade off life expectancy and causes cancer as well as heart and lung diseases. Nearly 70 percent of smokers want to quit, but despite the deadly consequences, the vast majority of them fail.

Going cold turkey works for fewer than 10 percent of smokers. Even with counseling and the use of aids approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, such as the nicotine patch and non-nicotine medicines, 75 percent of smokers light up again within a year. ?We need better treatments because the current ones just aren?t working all that well,? says Jed Rose, director of the Duke Center for Smoking Cessation.

To create treatments that are more up to snuff, researchers are tinkering with combinations of existing drugs, looking at the role genetics plays in who gets hooked and turning to social media as a counseling platform. What?s more, a new smoking cessation medicine could be approved this year: electronic cigarettes, which have existed for a decade but only recently become the focus of efficacy trials.

The grip of addiction

Smoking at once relaxes and stimulates the body. Seconds after inhalation nicotine reaches the brain and binds to receptor molecules on nerve cells, triggering the cells to release a flood of dopamine and other neurotransmitters that washes over pleasure centers. A few more puffs increase heart rate, raising alertness. The effect does not last long, however, spurring smokers to light up again. Over time the number of nicotinic receptors increases?and the need to smoke again to reduce withdrawal symptoms such as irritability. On top of that, smoking becomes linked with everyday behavior or moods: drinking coffee or a bout of boredom, for instance, might also trigger the desire to reach for a cigarette?all making it difficult to kick the habit.

Smoking treatments help users gradually wean themselves off cigarettes or put an end to their cravings?most commonly via delivery of nicotine via patches or chewing gum. In addition, two non-nicotine drugs are available: a sustained-release form of the antidepressant bupropion reduces cravings; varenicline blocks nicotine receptors in the brain, reducing the flood of dopamine.

New research is teasing out why the seven FDA-approved medications have seen only limited success. For instance, researchers recently showed that some people are genetically predisposed to have difficulty quitting: Particular variations in a cluster of nicotinic receptor genes (CHRNA5?CHRNA3?CHRNB4) contribute to nicotine dependence and a pattern of heavy smoking. Moreover, a study of more than 1,000 smokers reported in a 2012 The American Journal of Psychiatry paper found that people with the risk genes don?t quit easily on their own whereas those lacking the risk genes are more likely to kick the habit without medications.

New research also suggests that the sexes respond differently to the drugs. Rose and colleagues have found that giving a combination of bupropion and varenicline to people who have worn a nicotine patch for a week raised the quit rate of patch users to 50.9 percent up from 19.6 percent?but only in men. ?We don?t know why the effect seemed entirely confined to male smokers,? Rose says. ?Bit by bit we?re starting to learn how to tailor treatment to sex, early response to nicotine patches, and genomic markers.?

New treatment hope

A reason for the limited success of nicotine treatments may be that they do not address a crucial aspect of cigarette use: the cues that prompt smoking. Electronic cigarettes have as a result become a popular alternative to lighting up for those seeking to quit. E-cig users inhale doses of vaporized nicotine from battery-powered devices that look like cigarettes. Carcinogen levels in e-cig vapor are about one thousandth that of cigarette smoke, according to a 2010 study in the Journal of Public Health Policy.

Anecdotal evidence indicates that the devices, on the market for about a decade, help smokers quit. Yet there?s little hard science to back up the claim, and the gadgets are not regulated as medicines. (In 2010 a court overturned the FDA?s effort to treat e-cigs as ?drug delivery devices.?) ?We just don?t know if they are as good as existing nicotine-replacement therapies,? says David Abrams, executive director of the nonprofit Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies and former director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health.

That?s about to change. Two e-cig trials will report results this year. The first is a study of 300 smokers in Italy. It is a follow-up to a similar study in which 22 of 40 hard-core smokers had after six months either quit or cut cigarette consumption by more than half. Nine gave up cigarettes entirely, although six continued using e-cigs. The findings of the larger study, which is to be published this month in PLoS One, are ?in line with those reported in our small pilot study,? says lead researcher Riccardo Polosa of the University of Catania in Italy.

Interestingly, he adds, a control group of smokers who used an e-cig without nicotine also showed a significant drop in tobacco cigarette consumption?although not as great as those using the nicotine e-cig. This decline, he says, ?suggests that the dependence on the cigarette is not only a matter of nicotine but also of other factors involved,? like the need to relieve stress or activities that trigger smokers to reach for a cigarette.

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Developing For Android Is Much Easier Now, Animoca Claims

Software quality assurance testing on Android devices is far easier than it was just a year ago, at least according to one of Asia’s largest mobile app developers, Animoca. The Hong Kong company has produced over 300 apps since it started two years ago, and just shot past 150 million downloads collectively. It produces mainly Android apps. Last year, Animoca’s testing process for its apps covered a whopping 400 Android devices. Today, this number has been slashed to just a quarter of that, largely because of standardization in the Android handset industry. According to Yat Siu, CEO of Animoca’s parent company Outblaze, most phones have become standardized on Samsung’s base hardware, thanks to the Korean manufacturer’s cornering of the component market. Besides making its own branded devices, Samsung provides parts for a huge array of other devices. In 2012, Samsung was the world’s biggest manufacturer of NAND Flash (31 percent), DRAM (38 percent), and display components (25 percent). The evolution of Android’s platform over the years has also made it a lot more flexible for app developers on the software side of things, with fewer variants of Jelly Bean than Gingerbread, he added. Together with hardware standardization, this has really eased the amount of testing that Animoca has to do today. “Japan is the outlier in all of this?they have the strangest phones, and each one is a little different from the other. The rest of the world is mainly quite similar, based on Samsung hardware,” said Yat. Phones are also getting better. He said that the 400 testing devices from 2012 were mainly made up of low-end handsets. “You have to cater to low-end devices because otherwise, you cancel out your biggest audience. But all the new hardware is pretty kickass, and more and more devices are getting very capable,” he said. Animoca employs about 100 people working just on its apps, and has operations in Korea, the Philippines, the US and China. Its strategy is to flood the market with apps hitting different niche markets, rather than try to create a “Supercell-style or Angry Birds blockbuster” hit, said Yat. Some of its titles, Star Girl and Pretty Pet Salon have pretty much reached hit status, but the company is focused on churning out a higher volume of app varieties, in the hopes of casting a wider net for loyal fans. “Those become paying audiences,” he said. While Star

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ASUS sells 3 million tablets in 2013 Q1, rakes in $202 million profit

The PC market may be shrinking, but ASUS' plan to avoid being swept away by its rivals seems to be working. The Nexus 7 maker's latest financials reveal it made $3.5 billion in revenue, coining a quarterly profit of $202 million in the process -- up 5.8 percent compared to both the previous quarter and the same quarter in 2012. While ASUS did see sales drops in its Notebook and PC Component divisions, these were offset by sales of 3 million tablets in the first three months of the year. The company is also making gains in America, which now accounts for 23 percent of ASUS' business -- up from 17 percent at the start of last year. While these current results are the company's seventh consecutive earnings increase, ASUS is predicting sales will remain flat in the next quarter -- perhaps affirming the rumor that we won't see that rumored Nexus 7 replacement until Q3.

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Should the operator have stayed on the line? 911 call concerns some pros

Emergency call made by missing Ohio woman Amanda Berry after she escaped her accused captors' home displays her emotion and relief.

By Suzanne Choney, Contributing Writer, NBC News

At a time when the country is celebrating the bravery of three kidnapping victims and the heroism of their rescuer, unexpected public ire has fallen on the 911 operator who received Amanda Berry's heart-wrenching plea for help?? particularly for not remaining on the line with her until the police arrived.

On Facebook, a "Fire the dispatcher that took Amanda Berry's call" page was launched soon after the 911 call began playing over and over on cable news. Frustration?over the call's abrupt end started?popping up all over Facebook, with posts like:?"I can't believe the dispatcher dismissed her!!! No compassion, doesn't want to stay on phone with her" and "That 911 dispatcher should be disciplined for the way she handled that call!! She kept telling that poor girl to speak to the police when they got there ... she should have stayed on the phone until help arrived!"

On Twitter, comments were saltier: "Is it me or did that dispatcher piss anyone else off during Amanda Berry's 911 call?!"

The criticism reached Cleveland city officials, who said Tuesday they will review the actions of the 911 operator.

"While the call-taker complied with policies and procedures which enabled a very fast response by police, we have noted some concerns which will?be the focus of our review, including the call-taker?s failure to remain on the line with Ms. Berry until police arrived on scene. Please be assured that this matter will be investigated, and if necessary, appropriate corrective action taken," said Martin L. Flask, director of the city's Department of Public Safety in a statement.

Emergency experts and trainers?for 911 call centers say the dispatcher should have stayed on the phone longer with the distraught victim, who had broken free after allegedly being held captive for years along with two other women.

During the call, Berry asked if police were on their way, and was told they will be, "as soon as we get a car open."

"When you're a 911 communications dispatcher, every call is the real deal, when you may make the difference between life and death," Root said.

Jon Shane, who teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and previously was a police officer and emergency dispatcher in New Jersey, says the dispatcher got the important parts right. "They should have kept the caller on the phone" longer, but "they did what was right. They told her the police were coming, they got some limited description (of the suspect)."

"I would have probed further," he said. "'Was he armed?' 'Are you injured?' 'Are you with anyone else?' 'Who are you there with now?' 'May I speak to that person?' All sorts of things just to alleviate what's going on."

The National Emergency Number Association is a public safety organization that deals with 911 issues. Ty Wooten, operations and education issues director for the organization, told NBC News that the call may have been "a little bit short." However, he said, "When people call 911, they call on the worst day of their lives. No one is calling to report something happy. So everyone wants the fastest response that they can possibly get."

"With the budget cutbacks and the resources that are available today, public safety and 911 and those agencies which 911 support through the dispatch of their agencies can only do so much with the resources they have?it's not what someone wants to hear, but it's the reality of the situation," Wooten said.

Flask, the public safety director, did praise the call-taker's response time. "Within 1 minute and 18 seconds from the time that the call-taker answered the call our dispatcher was broadcasting the assignment to available police units.?As a result of the call-taker?s actions, police were dispatched and on scene in less than 2 minutes," he said.

? Nidhi Subbaraman also contributed to this report.

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Rose not ruling out return, Deng out for Game 1

MIAMI (AP) ? Derrick Rose still has not ruled out a return this season for the Chicago Bulls, saying he could play in their Eastern Conference semifinal against the Miami Heat.

The 2011 NBA MVP will not play for Chicago in Game 1 against Miami on Monday night, nor will forward Luol Deng or guard Kirk Hinrich. Deng returned to a hospital for more tests, the Bulls said, and underwent a spinal tap to rule out viral meningitis after becoming ill last week. Hinrich will miss his fourth straight game with a calf injury.

Rose has not played in more than a year while recovering from reconstructive knee surgery. He was hurt in last season's playoffs.

"Still in the air," Rose said Monday before the Bulls went through a game-day practice in Miami. "I might have a chance."

So might Hinrich and Deng, both of whom are listed as day-to-day by the Bulls. Hinrich is trying to work through the calf problem, and Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said Deng should be flying to Miami on Tuesday.

"He's feeling a little better," Thibodeau said.

Without Hinrich, the Bulls lose one of their best defenders against Dwyane Wade ? who has been bothered for several weeks by bone bruises around his right knee. Hinrich has been rehabbing and trying to return to the lineup.

"It's slow, steady progress," Thibodeau said. "But he's still not there."

Thibodeau said Deng was no longer in the hospital when the two spoke Monday morning.

"Lu's been a very important part of the team, sort of the glue of our team," Thibodeau said. "That being said, he's missed games during the season. He missed games in the last series. We have more than enough to get it done and that's what we have to do."

Miami's main injury concern heading into the series is the status of Wade, who was in the Heat starting lineup along the rest of the regulars ? LeBron James, Udonis Haslem, Chris Bosh and Mario Chalmers.

"Thinking I'm ready to go," Wade said.

The Bulls had a starting lineup of Jimmy Butler, Carlos Boozer, Joakim Noah, Marco Belinelli and Nate Robinson.

The will-Rose-play-again-this-season question has loomed over the Bulls for several weeks, and the point guard himself said Monday he was "feeling pretty good."

He works out before most games, doing shooting and other drills, and was in practice garb when his teammates went through final preparations for Game 1 on the floor of Miami's arena on Monday.

"My spirits are up," Rose said. "Just happy to be here. My family is here. My teammates are here. Just everybody that we need."

Rose said Deng's absence does not have him feeling pressure to rejoin the lineup.

"I haven't had any pressure from anyone ? not in the organization, not from my teammates," Rose said. "They know I'm putting everything I have into trying to come back as fast as possible. But just trying to be smart with the whole situation and just take my time."

Thibodeau was far from committal when asked if Rose could play against Miami.

"We'll see," he said.

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Crews winning battles against California wildfires

Weather conditions, once working against firefighters, are now helping ground crews contain 60 percent of the blaze in southern California, NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.

By John Newland, Stafff Writer, NBC News

California firefighters expected to contain a massive wildfire Monday that had burned 28,000 acres, damaged and destroyed properties, caused evacuations and cost millions of dollars to battle, authorities said.

A reversal of winds and higher humidity helped the more than 1,000 fire personnel on the scene reach a 75 percent containment level late Sunday, and evacuation orders had been lifted, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, commonly known as Cal Fire.

The blaze, which started Wednesday, quickly spread as hot Santa Ana winds and low humidity pushed it toward the Pacific Ocean. By Friday it had grown to 10,000 acres and was threatening Malibu after reaching the beach in Ventura County.

An eight-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway was closed, and evacuation orders were widespread. But over the weekend, the wind changed direction, blowing cooler and much more humid air in from the Pacific.

Water-dropping airplanes and helicopters have fought the Springs Fire for days, along with more than 2,000 firefighters, NBCLosAngeles.com?reported, saying the cost of the effort was expected to reach about $8 million.

Authorities on Monday continued battling a second large blaze, the Panther Fire in Tehama County, which had burned nearly 7,000 acres by Sunday night and was concentrated in rugged terrain, Cal Fire said.

More than 1,800 people were working Sunday night to gain the upper hand on the fire, and three injuries had been reported. The fire was listed as 60 percent contained, and Cal Fire said the blaze was expected to be fully surrounded by Thursday.

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Firefighters battle a growing wildfire that reached the beaches in Ventura County and pushes its way toward the upscale city of Malibu.

The Panther fire threatened a couple of commercial properties and outbuildings, but it had not destroyed homes, Cal Fire said.

The much larger Springs Fire threatened thousands of homes, but damage was limited to 16 outbuildings and four commercial properties, Cal Fire said, noting that 10 outbuildings had been destroyed.

Weather was expected to continue aiding the firefighters, according to the National Weather Service. The ?Red Flag Warnings? that indicate conditions most favorable for wildfires had been lifted for all but the northernmost part of the state by Monday.

The cause of both fires remained under investigation Monday.

Ventura County Fire Department spokesman Bill Nash said last week that there had been no lightning or other natural phenomenon when the Springs Fire started.

In nearby Riverside County, the so-called Summit Fire was fully contained Saturday night after burning more than 3,000 acres, destroying a home and causing two injuries. The cause of it, too, remained under investigation.

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Laminopathies: Key components in the disease mechanism identified

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Laminopathies are hereditary diseases that affect mainly the muscle tissue. These diseases include for example Emery-Dreifuss Muscular dystrophy, dilated cardiomyopathy, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome.

The underlying defect in these diseases is mutation in the genes encoding lamins or lamin-associated proteins. For example, many mutations in the lamin gene LMNA have been associated with different diseases.

Lamins are crucial components of the nuclear lamina that underlies the inner side of nuclear envelope, and provides mechanical stability to the nucleus. Lamina also participates in many different nuclear processes.

Two theories exist, why mutations in the lamina components cause disease. According to the first theory, mutations cause changes in the nuclear structure, which can lead to cell death in tissues that undergo harsh mechanical strain, such as the muscle. The second theory postulates that disturbed lamina causes changes in the gene expression patterns that are then deleterious for the cell.

A collaborative study between American and Finnish scientists bridge these two theories. The study shows that abnormal structure of the nuclear lamina, caused by laminopathy mutations, lead to changes in gene expression by disturbing the function of a specific transcription regulating protein.

The researchers found out that in laminopathy cells, the regulation of SRF (serum response factor), which controls the expression of many important genes, is disturbed. The molecular basis for this is that LMNA mutations that cause laminopathy alter the cellular localization of emerin, which is an important constituent of the nuclear envelope. Emerin regulates actin in the cell nucleus, and actin in turn is a critical regulator of SRF activator MKL1. Therefore, mis-localized emerin in laminopathies results in reduced activation of SRF by MKL1, and reduced expression of SRF target genes. Because many SRF target genes are critical for muscle function, this finding explains, why laminopathies affect mainly this tissue type. It also gives a mechanistic link between altered nuclear envelope structure and gene expression.

This study will give a glimmer of hope to the patients suffering from laminopathies, by identifying key components that underlie the disease mechanism. Restoring MKL1 activity in laminopathies might be a productive intervention mechanism for these devastating diseases.

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This study was done in collaboration between scientists from Cornell and Helsinki Universities, In Finland, the corresponding author is Maria Vartiainen from the Institute of Biotechnology, who is studying how the regulation of nuclear actin affects gene expression. In Finland, the study was funded by the Academy of Finland and Sigrid Juselius foundation.

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Public release date: 7-May-2013
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Laminopathies are hereditary diseases that affect mainly the muscle tissue. These diseases include for example Emery-Dreifuss Muscular dystrophy, dilated cardiomyopathy, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome.

The underlying defect in these diseases is mutation in the genes encoding lamins or lamin-associated proteins. For example, many mutations in the lamin gene LMNA have been associated with different diseases.

Lamins are crucial components of the nuclear lamina that underlies the inner side of nuclear envelope, and provides mechanical stability to the nucleus. Lamina also participates in many different nuclear processes.

Two theories exist, why mutations in the lamina components cause disease. According to the first theory, mutations cause changes in the nuclear structure, which can lead to cell death in tissues that undergo harsh mechanical strain, such as the muscle. The second theory postulates that disturbed lamina causes changes in the gene expression patterns that are then deleterious for the cell.

A collaborative study between American and Finnish scientists bridge these two theories. The study shows that abnormal structure of the nuclear lamina, caused by laminopathy mutations, lead to changes in gene expression by disturbing the function of a specific transcription regulating protein.

The researchers found out that in laminopathy cells, the regulation of SRF (serum response factor), which controls the expression of many important genes, is disturbed. The molecular basis for this is that LMNA mutations that cause laminopathy alter the cellular localization of emerin, which is an important constituent of the nuclear envelope. Emerin regulates actin in the cell nucleus, and actin in turn is a critical regulator of SRF activator MKL1. Therefore, mis-localized emerin in laminopathies results in reduced activation of SRF by MKL1, and reduced expression of SRF target genes. Because many SRF target genes are critical for muscle function, this finding explains, why laminopathies affect mainly this tissue type. It also gives a mechanistic link between altered nuclear envelope structure and gene expression.

This study will give a glimmer of hope to the patients suffering from laminopathies, by identifying key components that underlie the disease mechanism. Restoring MKL1 activity in laminopathies might be a productive intervention mechanism for these devastating diseases.

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This study was done in collaboration between scientists from Cornell and Helsinki Universities, In Finland, the corresponding author is Maria Vartiainen from the Institute of Biotechnology, who is studying how the regulation of nuclear actin affects gene expression. In Finland, the study was funded by the Academy of Finland and Sigrid Juselius foundation.

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/uoh-lkc050713.php

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