Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Fashion show to raise breast cancer awareness | The Marquette ...

The Courage to Dare foundation hosted its third annual fashion fundraiser Sunday in Marquette?s Weasler Auditorium to raise awareness and increase education about breast cancer in West Africa and among the African American community in Wisconsin.

About 70 people attended the event, and proceeds from the night went to the Courage to Dare foundation. The organization aims to dispel myths that categorize breast cancer as a death sentence and misrepresent it as a sexually transmitted disease.

The gala included two fashion shows, a dance performance by Marquette?s hip hop group, Hype, a skit and several African praise dances, along with informational presentations about the disease and the foundation. The fashion shows featured mostly women?s clothing and jewelry from designers Chibuzo Aguwa, Wafrique Craft, Ella 1278 and May Vora Jewelry.

Bonnie Anderson, the program manager at Milwaukee Catholic Home, is a breast cancer survivor and mentor for Courage to Dare. She spoke at the gala and stressed that, despite the media?s glamorization of the breast cancer during October, it is an invasive disease that can be prevented if detected early.

?As a breast cancer survivor, there is nothing pretty or pink about breast cancer,? Anderson said.

Anderson advised all women to use clinical exams offered by their physicians. She also advocated for the use of preventive techniques such as monthly self-exams.

?You can survive breast cancer, ladies, if you are in tune with your body and make a point to remember that October is breast cancer awareness month, but we have these breasts every day of the year,? said Anderson.

Assistant Dean for the College of Communication Chioma Ugochukwu sits on the board of directors of Courage to Dare and served as one of the event?s MCs. She said she was very happy about the event?s turnout and hopes to continue education efforts for women.

?This is a very young organization, and we are trying to raise awareness ? not only about breast cancer, but about the organization and what the organization is doing,? Ugochukwu said. ?We are happy people actually showing their support, and hopefully we can continue with the mission of the organization.?

Juliet Aguawa, president of Courage to Dare,?founded the organization to increase education efforts about the disease among women in West Africa and the African American community in Wisconsin. She was diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer at age 34.

?We can stand together to raise our voices and see that no woman has to think of this as a death sentence without trying,? Aguawa said.

Source: http://marquettetribune.org/2012/10/30/news/fashion-show-to-raise-true-breast-cancer-awareness-sh1-cb2-mt3/

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Food & Drink Innovation Network ? WASABI TREND IS ...

October 29th, 2012

This Christmas the latest food trend is being made into a gift with the new fresh?British wasabi.

Available in a kit comprising a wasabi rhizome, specialist grater and bamboo brush?the pack comes with tools needed to be a wasabi grower.

Grown in Dorset and available for the first time this year, the fresh wasabi goes?not only with sushi but also in marinades for steak, in salad dressings and even
to flavour ice cream.

Wasabi flavouring is a big trend in the UK

A 50g rhizome, enough wasabi for 6 people to eat with sushi, costs ?15 + P&P.

Wasabi graters?and brushes priced from ?6 and ?2.50 respectively are also available to purchase online.

Stored?correctly, the rhizome will remain fresh for up to two weeks.

The new wasabi gift pack are available from www.thewasabicompany.co.uk.

?Gary Jones, Executive Head Chef for Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat?Saisons said:

?Bloody?marvellous; a small miracle, a pure, true flavour punch, wowed, magnificent, magnificent?product, congratulations.?

The Wasabi Company is the result of on farm diversification by the Dorset based ?Watercress?Company? which has extended its innovative and sustainable growing principles to become the?first farm in Europe to successfully grow fresh wasabi rhizomes.

The wasabi grown in this country is called Sawa wasabi; it grows best in flowing spring water.

Wasabi has a long history as a health food?and it?s flavour has grown in popularity in recent years, especially on nuts and sushi.

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Source: http://www.fdin.org.uk/2012/10/wasabi-trend-is-inspiration-for-new-christmas-gift/

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

10/17/12 Pollster Open Thread

This open thread is to discuss all of the day's polls -- what they tell us about the election, their methodological strengths and weaknesses, notable findings others have missed or whatever else you want to talk about. Each day's open thread will appear in the morning and remain open for 24 hours. We also encourage you to use the "favorite" button to identify the most interesting or insightful comments.

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"YouGov did follow up (literally repolled the previous set of likely voters) polls on its previous set in most of the states and found Obama in the lead in all the swing states except NC, albeit by only 1 in VA and FL. This is in line with its national polling putting Obama three points up. It also suggests the possibility that much of Romney's gain has been due to response rate changes, as RAND also shows considerably better numbers for Obama than most other polls as well. That doesn't make them right of course, it just makes them different to the phone poll results, and whether or not that makes them more or less accurate is something of an unknown at this time." - cwpiper

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Why natural gas isn't likely to solve our energy woes

People who are counting on natural gas to solve the world?s energy problems are 'counting their chickens before they are hatched,' Tverberg writes.?Natural gas requires a lot of infrastructure and up-front costs to obtain satisfactory results.

By Gail Tverberg,?Guest blogger / October 17, 2012

In this November 2011 file photo, a large drilling rig sits outside the Covelli Center in Youngstown, Ohio during a natural gas conference at the center. It is hard to imagine a society powered only by natural gas, Tverberg writes, because of the difficulties in using it, and the major changes required to use natural gas exclusively.

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We keep hearing about the many benefits of natural gas?how burning it releases less CO2 than oil or coal, and how it burns with few impurities, so does not have the pollution problems of coal. We also hear about the possibilities of releasing huge amounts of new natural gas supplies, through the fracking of shale gas. Reported reserves for natural gas also seem to be quite high, especially in the Middle East and the Former Soviet Union.

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But I think that people who are counting on natural gas to solve the world?s energy problems are ?counting their chickens before they are hatched?. Natural gas is a fuel that requires a lot of infrastructure in order for anything to ?happen?. As a result, it needs a lot of up-front investment, and several years time delay. It also needs changes on the consumption side (requiring further investment) that will allow this natural gas to be used. If the cost is higher than competing fuels, this becomes a problem as well.?

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Dark matter filament studied in 3-D for the first time

ScienceDaily (Oct. 16, 2012) ? Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have studied a giant filament of dark matter in 3D for the first time. Extending 60 million light-years from one of the most massive galaxy clusters known, the filament is part of the cosmic web that constitutes the large-scale structure of the Universe, and is a leftover of the very first moments after the Big Bang. If the high mass measured for the filament is representative of the rest of the Universe, then these structures may contain more than half of all the mass in the Universe.

The theory of the Big Bang predicts that variations in the density of matter in the very first moments of the Universe led the bulk of the matter in the cosmos to condense into a web of tangled filaments. This view is supported by computer simulations of cosmic evolution, which suggest that the Universe is structured like a web, with long filaments that connect to each other at the locations of massive galaxy clusters. However, these filaments, although vast, are made mainly of dark matter, which is incredibly difficult to observe.

The first convincing identification of a section of one of these filaments was made earlier this year [1]. Now a team of astronomers has gone further by probing a filament's structure in three dimensions. Seeing a filament in 3D eliminates many of the pitfalls that come from studying the flat image of such a structure.

"Filaments of the cosmic web are hugely extended and very diffuse, which makes them extremely difficult to detect, let alone study in 3D," says Mathilde Jauzac (LAM, France and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), lead author of the study.

The team combined high resolution images of the region around the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 (or MACS J0717 for short), taken using Hubble, NAOJ's Subaru Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, with spectroscopic data on the galaxies within it from the WM Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory. Analysing these observations together gives a complete view of the shape of the filament as it extends out from the galaxy cluster almost along our line of sight.

The team's recipe for studying the vast but diffuse filament combines several crucial ingredients.

First ingredient: A promising target. Theories of cosmic evolution suggest that galaxy clusters form where filaments of the cosmic web meet, with the filaments slowly funnelling matter into the clusters. "From our earlier work on MACS J0717, we knew that this cluster is actively growing, and thus a prime target for a detailed study of the cosmic web," explains co-author Harald Ebeling (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA), who led the team that discovered MACS J0717 almost a decade ago.

Second ingredient: Advanced gravitational lensing techniques. Albert Einstein's famous theory of general relativity says that the path of light is bent when it passes through or near objects with a large mass. Filaments of the cosmic web are largely made up of dark matter [2] which cannot be seen directly, but their mass is enough to bend the light and distort the images of galaxies in the background, in a process called gravitational lensing. The team has developed new tools to convert the image distortions into a mass map.

Third ingredient: High resolution images. Gravitational lensing is a subtle phenomenon, and studying it needs detailed images. Hubble observations let the team study the precise deformation in the shapes of numerous lensed galaxies. This in turn reveals where the hidden dark matter filament is located. "The challenge," explains co-author Jean-Paul Kneib (LAM, France), "was to find a model of the cluster's shape which fitted all the lensing features that we observed."

Finally: Measurements of distances and motions. Hubble's observations of the cluster give the best two-dimensional map yet of a filament, but to see its shape in 3D required additional observations. Colour images [3], as well as galaxy velocities measured with spectrometers [4], using data from the Subaru, CFHT, WM Keck, and Gemini North telescopes (all on Mauna Kea, Hawaii), allowed the team to locate thousands of galaxies within the filament and to detect the motions of many of them.

A model that combined positional and velocity information for all these galaxies was constructed and this then revealed the 3D shape and orientation of the filamentary structure. As a result, the team was able to measure the true properties of this elusive filamentary structure without the uncertainties and biases that come from projecting the structure onto two dimensions, as is common in such analyses.

The results obtained push the limits of predictions made by theoretical work and numerical simulations of the cosmic web. With a length of at least 60 million light-years, the MACS J0717 filament is extreme even on astronomical scales. And if its mass content as measured by the team can be taken to be representative of filaments near giant clusters, then these diffuse links between the nodes of the cosmic web may contain even more mass (in the form of dark matter) than theorists predicted. So much that more than half of all the mass in the Universe may be hidden in these structures.

The forthcoming NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018, will be a powerful tool for detecting filaments in the cosmic web, thanks to its greatly increased sensitivity.

Notes:

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.

The international team of astronomers in this study consists of Mathilde Jauzac (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France, and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), Eric Jullo (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA), Jean-Paul Kneib (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille), Harald Ebeling (University of Hawaii, USA), Alexie Leauthaud (University of Tokyo, Japan), Cheng-Jiun Ma (University of Hawaii), Marceau Limousin (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille and University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Richard Massey (Durham University, UK) and Johan Richard (Lyon Observatory, France)

The research is presented in a paper entitled "A Weak-Lensing Mass Reconstruction of the Large-Scale Filament Feeding the Massive Galaxy Cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745", to be published in the 1 November 2012 issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The paper will be published online this week.

[1] The first identification of a dark matter filament was published in J. Dietrich et al, "A filament of dark matter between two clusters of galaxies" published in Nature on 4 July 2012.

[2] Dark matter, which makes up around three quarters of all matter in the Universe, cannot be seen directly as it does not emit or reflect any light, and can pass through other matter without friction (it is collisionless). It interacts only by gravity, and its presence must be deduced from its gravitational effects, for example its effect on the rotation rate of galaxies and its ability to deflect light according to the theory of general relativity.

[3] The light captured by telescopes encapsulates information about the object that emitted it. One important application of this is to study the redshift of an object (the extent to which its light is reddened by the expansion of the Universe) which can be used to measure distances. Estimating distances based on the relative brightnesses of colours that galaxies appear in images is done using a technique called photometric redshift. Although the precision of the distance estimate is limited, it is a relatively straightforward technique to use on large numbers of galaxies, and it works well even for faint objects.

[4] Spectrometers analyse the detailed properties of the light coming from an object. In this study, the subset of galaxies observed with spectrometers provided detailed information on the motion of the objects within the filament.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

iPhone line waiting explained: self-esteem improved, researchers ...

iPhone Line Waiting

Laugh at the ?iSheep? all you want for camping outside of Apple (AAPL) stores the night before new products release, but some researchers say that suffering through long waits with their fellow Apple fans is good for their self-esteem. MarketWatch this week got in touch with some market researchers who provided insight into Apple fans? curious desire to wait for hours on end in the rain and cold when they could just as easily preorder their devices online and wait for them to come in the mail. The main takeaway, these researchers say, is that Apple fans benefit from building social solidarity.

?Shopping has become a collective event,? Adam Hanft of consulting firm Hanft Projects told?MarketWatch.

Hanft also that when Apple fans see so many of their?brethren standing in line with them, it reinforces their decision to buy Apple products and gives them a sense of identity as a valued member of an ingroup. And besides, as Seton Hall associate marketing professor Daniel Ladik tells MarketWatch, there?s nothing wrong with people getting outside and socializing with one another when the alternative is to sit inside and interact with a computer screen.

?It?s a community thing,? Ladik says. ?There?s no other logic to it.?

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Prior to joining BGR as News Editor, Brad Reed spent five years covering the wireless industry for Network World. His first smartphone was a BlackBerry but he has since become a loyal Android user.

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Source: http://www.bgr.com/2012/10/10/iphone-line-waiting-explained-self-esteem-improved/

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Types of Auto Insurance Coverage - Shoes on Wrong

State Farm Chesterfield Mo We see more cars on the road each year. This can lead to a higher possibility of a car accident. The difference between a small aggravation and large obstacle can be car insurance. But why is insurance required by law and just how much do you need? Coverage requirements vary by state/province, but usually include the following: Liability: Pays for the expenses you have caused to others in a car collision, including property damage and injury. Bodily injury damages can include medical fees, and lost wages. Property damage can refer to damaged property and loss of use of property. It also covers your legal fees if you are sued. State laws usually mandate minimum amounts of liability insurance, but larger amounts can be purchased and are extremely helpful. Personal Injury Protection: Personal injury insurance is mandated in some states and is optional in others. Sometimes referred to as no-fault coverage, this pays the medical treatment for you or your passengers regardless of who was at fault. The minimum amount of personal injury protection is usually set by the state. Medical Payments: This type of coverage can be purchased in states that are not considered no-fault and will pay regardless of who is responsible for an accident. If this type of coverage is purchased, the insured person will receive payment for necessary medical or funeral costs. Collision: Damages that occur from a car accident will be paid for under this type of insurance. Comprehensive: Applies if your vehicle is stolen or damaged by something other than an accident, including fire, wind, hail, flood or vandalism. Uninsured Motorist: Too many drivers are ignoring the law by driving without owning the proper amount of auto insurance. This insurance will cover you if one of these irresponsible drivers hit you. Under-Insured Motorist: Many drivers have liability insurance that can?t pay for all the expenses they are supposed to take care of. This type of insurance covers you from those drivers. Other policies, such as car rental, are also available. Your auto insurance payments vary by company and will depend on multiple factors, including: *Your selected coverage *Your vehicle?s make and model * Your driving record * Your age, sex and marital status * The place where you live Many people don?t want to pay for car insurance, but it is honestly something you don?t want to live without. Review your needs, research your options, and with the guidance of your insurance agent, make the decision that best suits you.

Source: http://www.shoesonwrong.com/types-of-auto-insurance-coverage/

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Monday, October 8, 2012

Study: Many Parents Think Drinking Improves Their Parenting ...

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WASHINGTON (CBDC) ? Drinking alcohol is helping some to be better parents.

A survey by the U.K. charity ? 4Children ? highlights a ?silent epidemic? in which nearly 700,000 children live with a dependent drinker, and just under a quarter of parents continued to drink as much alcohol as before their baby?s birth and that 17 percent actually increased their consumption.

In a new report released Monday, ?Over the Limit: The Truth about Families and Alcohol,? the national charity 4Children warns that alcohol misuse by British families is alarmingly common. The report warns that too many parents remain oblivious to the negative effects that alcohol can have on their parenting. Of parents who drink on a weekly basis, 9 percent of parents thought their family benefitted financially from their drinking.

?This report demands that we think again about our relationship with alcohol for our families? sake,? 4Children CEO Anne Longfield wrote in the study. ?The statistics speak for themselves with consumption of alcohol known to be a major factor in family crisis ? from domestic abuse and family conflict to a breakdown in family relationships and the ability to parent.?

The statistics pointed to domestic abuse as a by-product of the alcohol consumption.

Sixty-two percent of children who were subject to care proceedings were from families with parental alcohol misuse. And more than a third of all domestic violence cases involved alcohol.

Only 9 percent of parents recognized that there was a negative impact of drinking or drug use on their family life. Nineteen percent said that their drinking impacted ?positively? on their children. In matters of general health, 29 percent of mothers and 30 percent of their partners drink more than the recommended units per week.

?Addiction and the subsequent breakdown in many families is the end of a story that often starts with so called ?normal? use,? Longfield wrote in the study. ?With proper warnings to parents and better awareness of the impact that alcohol can have, we can avoid the crises that addiction can cause.?

The charity recommends that there is a supplement to existing ?danger warnings? for pregnant women on alcohol packaging with additional labeling warning of the potential impacts of drinking on children.

The charity is also calling on the U.K. alcohol industry, estimated to be worth $7.79 billion annually, to invest 1 percent of its value into help for families to prevent alcohol dependency and family crises.

Source: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/10/08/study-many-parents-think-drinking-improves-their-parenting/

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