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Mariah Carey didn't quite make it to the delivery room over the weekend following contractions on Saturday night, but on Monday morning, she showed her fans that she is indeed close to being ready to pop.
The singing superstar posted a photo on her Twitter page showing off her blooming belly. Mariah's belly was painted with her signature symbol – a butterfly – with one wing painted blue for the boy she is carrying, and the other wing pink for her daughter-to-be.
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Above the butterfly it said "dem babies," a phrase Mimi has been using on Twitter to reference her twins with husband Nick Cannon.
"My attempt @ festiveness on 327! For ATLITL thank u + I♥U!" Mariah Tweeted with the accompanying photo. "Comin soon #dembabies! LYMA+thanx 4 making me happy:)"
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Sunday was also Mariah's birthday. The singer turned 41.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Nick took to Twitter last week to express his pre-baby jitters, writing, "I am probably going to faint in the delivery room! I need to man up!"
"Or maybe I should say WOMAN UP since they are the ones that have to be the strongest in the whole ordeal! I am in awe of my wife!" he added.
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Republican Battle Is Helping Obama
The GOP has a chance to topple the incumbent, but presidential candidates might squander it.
Here's a recipe for a one-term presidency: Low job approval ratings and an anemic economy, with a stubbornly high unemployment rate to boot.
Incumbents in this pickle tend to be sent packing — Herbert Hoover in 1932, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Still, don't add President Obama to the endangered list just yet. He is weak and vulnerable, looking more like Carter than a strong incumbent poised to roll to another term and burnish his legacy. But he's getting some help from an unusual source — the opposing party.
Instead of going for the knockout punch, Republicans are waging war with themselves. It's part of a battle for the hearts and minds of their party that always simmers but boils over every 50 years or so. It happened in 1912, with William Howard Taft vs. Teddy Roosevelt. It happened again in 1964, with Barry Goldwater vs. Nelson Rockefeller. And it's happening now, with Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota vs. former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Obama stands to benefit from the friction. The eventual GOP nominee will be broke and bloodied if he or she is forced into a lengthy primary fight. Meanwhile, Obama would be able to stockpile campaign cash and hone his message for the general election.
The benefit would be even more pronounced if his foe is Bachmann or Perry, who are both very conservative, rather than Romney, who is more moderate by comparison.
Here's the cold, hard reality: The GOP can't win the presidency without help from independent voters, because Democrats have a huge advantage in the number of registered voters nationally. Any hard pitch to tea partyers and others on the right is a hard sell to the middle. But that's just the kind of primary campaign Perry or Bachmann will need to conduct if one of them is going to emerge quickly as the consensus candidate of Republican conservatives.
So don't be surprised if Romney wins the nomination. He's not a sure bet, but he does have a lot of money in the bank and he's the only moderate with a chance to be Obama's challenger. The longer Bachmann and Perry wrestle, the better off he'll be. Romney also stands to gain from losing the nomination in 2008. The GOP has a long history of rewarding candidates who ran in previous campaigns.
It'll be a long, tough race next winter and spring, with three different winners in the first three contests. Bachmann will win in Iowa, Romney will take New Hampshire and Perry will finish first in South Carolina. After that, as Bachmann and Perry continue to split the conservative vote, Romney will gain steam.
Conservatives don't hate Romney. He's just not their first choice, or even their second. But if he wins the nomination, look for him to shore up his standing with the right when he picks a running mate. A Republican probably can't get to the White House without carrying Florida, Ohio and Virginia. Obama won all three states in 2008 and will campaign hard there next year. Romney could help his chances by choosing Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a darling of the tea party, as his ticket mate.
But even if Republicans squander the opportunity to oust Obama, the party has a solid shot to control Congress. Democrats will gain some seats in the House, but not enough to win back the gavel. Presidential coattails just aren't long enough, even in blowout elections. And this one is likely to be very close.
In the Senate, Democrats will have to defend twice as many seats as Republicans. The GOP can take over by picking up just three or four, depending on who wins the White House. The odds of that look good right now.

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What went right?: Colorado scored 51 points in the second half after going 6-for-20 from the field in the first half
What went wrong?: The Buffs went through several stretches of 3 minutes or more in the first half in which they failed to make a field goal
Stars of the game: Arielle Roberson and Lexy Kresl combined to score 27 points with 17 rebounds, five assists and six blocked shots
What's next: CU will play either Saint Mary's or UTEP next Wednesday-Friday at a site to be determined
Play in April.
If it's not the new mantra of the Colorado women's basketball team, it should be.
The Buffs are just two wins away from lacing them up in April for the second time in history after beating Southern Utah 79-68 Saturday at the Coors Events Center in the second round of the WNIT.
Colorado advanced to the semifinals of the 2008 WNIT and hosted a game April 2 that year against Marquette that ithunderbirds.
It was the second time this season CU beat Southern Utah. The first came back in late December in a game also played in Boulder. CU coach Linda Lappe called Saturday's game one of the most physical all season.
"We're enjoying it," Lappe said. "We're having a lot of fun. No team is easy either in the NCAA tournament or the WNIT. Every team has won a lot of games for a reason."
Saturday's game started ugly with both teams struggling to put the ball in the basket. With 7 minutes, 24 seconds left in the first half Southern Utah had two made field goals and nine turnovers and Colorado had three made field goals and eight turnovers.
Fortunately for everyone in the stands, there were points being scored at the foul line.
CU led 28-21 at halftime and extended the lead into double digits with an 8-0 run to start the second half. Sophomore Arielle Roberson led the surge scoring her first eight points of the game in the first 6 minutes of the second half helping CU establish its largest lead of 19 points.
"Really liked the way we opened the second half, thought that was the difference in the game," Lappe said. "We came out with a lot of energy. We came out with a different level of confidence. I thought we did enough to hold on to our lead and win the game."
Roberson finished the game with 15 points and 11 rebounds, leading the Buffs in both categories. It was her seventh double-double of the season. Point guard Lexy Kresl also played well with 12 points, six rebounds and four assists.
"I think the first half I came out kind of like timid and kind of going through the motions and not really being aggressive," Roberson said. "In the second half, I decided to be myself again and continue to be aggressive and play."
SUU senior center Carli Moreland, a product of Legacy High School in Broomfield, did her best to keep the Thunderbirds in it and extend the season and her career. Moreland scored 17 points with two rebounds. She was the only SUU player to score in the final 7 minutes of the first half running off a string of 11 points.
Moreland eventually fouled out, receiving a nice ovation from family and friends seated behind the visitor's bench.
CU's senior center, Rachel Hargis, wasn't bad either. She tied a career high with 12 points and set a new CU school record for games played at 133. The old record of 132 was held by Erin Scholz (1994-97).
"It's great to continue to be able to play at home and make a great impact on the game," Hargis said. "It's all you can ask for when you're a senior."
Hargis also had one of the Buffs' 14 blocked shots, the second most blocked shots in a game in CU history. Roberson led the Buffs with four, her career best. Zoe Beard-Fails came off the bench to block three.
The Thunderbirds never stopped playing hard cutting the lead to 10 on several occasions in the final minutes and nine briefly in the final seconds.
Colorado (19-14) moves on to the third round where it will play the winner of a game Monday night between Saint Mary's and UTEP. CU's next game will be played either Wednesday, Thursday or Friday next week at a site to be determined.


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Okay, "picudier" may officially be the ugliest Spanglish word I've ever made up, but let's get on with it.
I've blogged about botas picudas many times now – I blogged about my first encounter with the boots and the now well-known Behind the Seams documentary. I blogged about asking a guy at Wal-Mart if I could take a picture of his botas picudas and about seeing them on the red carpet at the Latin Billboard Awards. I even went to the trouble of creating an entire page dedicated to Mexican pointy boots. What more could I possibly show you on the topic?
Well, although I would have predicted that the fad would die down by now, it seems only to have become more popular. Once DJ Erick Rincón, the king of Tribal Guarachero music, (which is what you dance to in botas picudas), got together with Sheeqo Beat and and DJ Otto to form the group 3BallMTY, they released the Inténtalo video featuring El Bebeto and América Sierra, and things seemed to take off.
Botas picudas have even been featured on the popular English-language show, Glee.
A photo circulating on Facebook advertises the new Nike picudas… but I don't think they actually exist.
However, Adidas has come out with boots that you really can purchase… they aren't pointy but I wonder what sparked the idea to create them – maybe botas picudas?
And of course Tribal has come to Zumba classes.
If you like Tribal (or Trival) music, plenty new danceable songs are popping up.
This one cracks me up. Is he like a Tribal Pitbull? He even throws a "Dale!" into the song… but then they end the song "El Mudo" style. Weird. (Also, yay! for women wearing the botas!)
La Cumbia Tribalera – El Pelon del Mikrophone Feat. Banda la Trakalosa & Violento
Now these guys definitely have a lot of time on their hands. Hilarious lyrics and check out their homemade botas picudas.
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So what do you think? Have botas picudas and música tribal reached their limit, or are they here to stay? … It seems possible that twenty years from now we'll be playing lotería with our nietos and someone will call out, "La Bota!… Una bota igual que la otra" – and we will search our bingo card only to see this:


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Many of the phones and features once reserved for nationwide major carriers have begun to trickle down to prepaid cellular providers. A case in point is the HTC Evo Design 4G for Boost Mobile. This pricey $299.99 smartphone appears to be a modern handset at first glance, running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and offering 4G data. A closer look reveals the device's flaws living below the surface. A slow single-core processor, short battery life, and fuzzy call quality make it a tough sell even considering that its high price doesn't include an onerous service contract.
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With its deep black-on-black paint job and metal unibody construction, the HTC Evo Design 4G is darkly delicious and has a luxurious feel. That's quite a feat considering this phone isn't exactly new, first coming to Sprint last fall. The back and edges of the handset are coated in a smooth, soft-touch surface that wicks away moisture, repels fingerprints, and gives fingertips good grip.
Measuring 4.8 inches tall by 2.4 inches wide by 0.47 inch thick and tipping the scales at a hefty 5.2 ounces, the Evo Design 4G is compact but on the chunky side. That's especially true compared with many ultrasvelte numbers like the current king of the Evo line, the HTC Evo 4G LTE (0.35 inch thick, 4.72 ounces). Even the LG Marquee, the Evo Design 4G's closest competitor on Boost Mobile, is smaller, thinner, and lighter (0.36 inch thick, 3.95 ounces).
Front and center is the Evo Design 4G's 4-inch dHD resolution (960x540 pixels) LCD screen. While it's not as big or sharp as screens on HTC's other high-end models, I enjoyed wide viewing angles watching movie trailers and viewing photos. That said, when examined side by side with the HTC Evo 4G LTE, the Design's colors were too pronounced for my tastes. Reds were especially pumped up, giving unnaturally rosy flesh tones, bordering on orange.
Above the screen is a 1.3-megapixel camera you can use to engage in video chat and Google hangouts and snap vanity shots of yourself. Below are four capacitive buttons with four symbols representing traditional Android functions for home, menu, back, and search.
The phone's top edge holds a standard 3.5mm headphone jack and power button while its left side houses a long, thin volume rocker plus Micro-USB port. On back sits the 5-megapixel main camera with LED flash. A wide and attractive brushed-metal band runs along the middle of the Evo Design 4G's back plate. Below that is a hidden compartment containing slots for microSD card, SIM card, and removable battery, all of which can be removed individually without interfering with each other.
Originally the Sprint version of the HTC Evo Design 4G shipped with Android 2.3 Gingerbread but backed up by HTC's latest mobile interface, Sense 3.0. Now HTC and Boost Mobile have tried to breathe new life into the phone by updating its core software to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
I certainly appreciate the extra effort, and as a result, the Evo Design 4G feels and acts like a modern smartphone. My test unit came with HTC Sense 3.6 grafted on top of ICS. Those familiar with Sense will recognize the lock screen, which displays time and date up top and four quick-launch icons down below.
Dragging a virtual ring from the foot to the middle of the screen unlocks the phone. Pulling any of the icons into the ring's center fires up the phone function linked to it. By default, icons for Phone, Mail, Camera, Messages, and Camera are listed but you can swap them out for other shortcuts if you'd like. Once it's unlocked, you'll be greeted by seven home screens that you can customize with application shortcuts and widgets. In typical HTC fashion, the company's trademark weather clock widget enjoys a prime spot on the main home screen.
Sense also provides a strong link to social-networking sites, one of my favorite features of the UI. Natively supported are Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In accounts, which the phone will automatically cross-check against your phone book and suggest contacts to match up across services.
As an Android smartphone, the Evo Design 4G comes with the standard allotment of Google apps and services, including Gmail, Maps, Navigation, Places, YouTube, and Google+. HTC has thrown in its own apps too, such as Friend Stream, Peep, and Footprints, all designed to make social-networking easier. Also onboard is HTC Watch, the company's video download store, HTC Hub for curated apps, Connected Media to access music and other network files, and a transfer app for contacts.


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Many NY bear cubs too skinny to survive winter
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- After a season of scant berries and beechnuts, scrawny bear cubs have been wandering into some upstate New York towns searching for food before hibernation.
"We've seen more cubs than ever before," said Ed Reed, senior biologist with the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Reed and other biologists and wildlife rehabilitators have been busy responding to calls about bears in backyards and parking lots this fall, a time of year when nuisance bear reports are rare. "Generally, you don't get nuisance calls after September," he said.
"We saw five of them running around Glens Falls the other day," said Trish Marki of North Country Wild Care. The city 45 miles north of Albany has had numerous bear cub sightings for two months.
Reed said cubs normally weigh an average of 50 pounds this time of year, but biologists have seen a number of them weighing 15 to 20 pounds. They're unlikely to have enough body fat to make it through the winter, he said.
The summer of 2011 had a bumper crop of berries and other bear food, so females were fat and had more cubs than average over the winter. With an unusually mild winter, the cub survival rate was high. But the summer of 2012 was very dry in parts of the state, making food scarce and driving bears into towns to forage in trash cans. The fall crop of acorns and beechnuts was also poor in many places, Reed said.
"There were a lot of cubs added to the population and not much food," Reed said. "Now we're seeing those cubs turning up, and some of them are pretty small."
Jean Soprano, whose Kindred Kingdoms Wildlife Rehabilitation in Oswego County is the state's only facility licensed to care for black bears, said she has six cubs now and has released 10. Cubs usually are taken to her center in spring, not fall. "This is an unusual year," she said. "We've never had so many cubs. We never see little cubs in November."
Soprano said most of the small cubs she's seeing don't appear emaciated. "They appear to be younger than I would expect in November," she said. "They have small bone structure, the size of beagles. I'm not sure what it means. It could be that they were quadruplets."
Soprano and her husband, Len, keep the cubs in an enclosure deep in the woods and feed them with a trough pushed through a sliding door so they don't become habituated to being fed by humans. The bears are released to the wild when they're healthy.
Reed said officials will find out how adult bears fared with reduced food over the summer and fall when they compile reports from hunters over the winter.
He said the fluctuations in food supply and wildlife populations are nothing to worry about.
"We're trying to tell people this is a natural thing and if they see undersize cubs, leave them alone. Don't feed them," Reed said. "Some won't make it through the winter, but that's how nature works."


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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) Tyler Kalinoski led four Davidson players in double figures with 15 points as the Wildcats defeated Chattanooga 81-55 Saturday night in each team's Southern Conference opener.
De'Mon Brooks had 14 points, Clint Mann 13 and Jake Cohen 12 for Davidson (4-3).
Chattanooga (2-5) entered outrebounding its opponents by an average of 11.7 boards per game, but no Moc pulled down more than six rebounds as the teams played to a 37-all draw on the glass. Chattanooga had pulled down 12 or more offensive rebounds in six straight games but nabbed just seven off the offensive glass Saturday.
Davidson, which entered as the fourth-best free-throw shooting team in the country at 79.4 percent (100 of 126), shot 76.5 percent (13 of 17) from the line.
Chattanooga shot just 33.3 percent (8 of 24) from the field in the first half as Davidson rolled to a 39-26 halftime advantage.


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Cloaking devices and metamaterials are hot topics in the realm of science where optics blurs into materials science. By crafting materials that can interact with specific wavelengths of light, researchers have been able to steer that light around small objects, essentially cloaking the object at those wavelengths. The problem so far is that many of these materials are very specific about the wavelengths they work at, and none of those were in the visible spectrum. Now, researchers have designed a cloaking material that operates across a range of the near-infrared, and suggest it should be possible to bring things down to the visible spectrum.
The material was used in a test setup that's similar to one that was used in past work in the microwave range. The setup can basically be described as a mirror with a bump. When light hits it directly, the bump acts a bit like a funhouse mirror, distorting the reflection. The cloaking device can be put down on top of the bump and steer light waves in a way that makes it look as if neither the bump nor the cloak were there, producing reflections as if there were a smooth, undistorted mirror in place.
It's simple in principle, but actually steering the light waves is quite challenging. Metamaterials can do the job, but only within a fairly narrow range of wavelengths, and some mathematical calculations suggest that doing much better than that might be impossible.
To create a cloak, the researchers had to craft a material with a carefully controlled index of refraction. They did that by carefully drilling an irregular lattice of holes in a silicon substrate—the arrangement of the holes was calculated using what the authors term quasi-conformal mapping, and the holes were kept smaller than the wavelength of the incident light. Once fabricated, the object was coated in gold in order to give it a reflective surface.
The authors found that their device could successfully cloak the bump in their test setup. It didn't reflect the incident light with full efficiency (only 58 percent efficiency was obtained), but the loss was ascribed to defects in the material rather than an inevitable outcome of the technique. The most striking feature of their device, however, was the fact that it was effective across a wide range of wavelengths, from 1,400nm to 1,800nm. All of that's in the infrared range, but it's not too far from the visible spectrum. The dropoff below 1,400 nm is also a product of the fact that the wavelength of light is approaching the size of the holes drilled in the cloaking device; smaller holes would drop things down into the visible range, provided the manufacturing technique was sufficiently precise.
It looks like there is going to be a race to visible wavelengths, too. At the end of the publication, there's a "note added in proof," which typically is used to recognize the publication of related material during the awkward period between when a paper has passed peer review and before it's formatted for publication. This note points to a document which has been deposited in the arXiv that describes a related cloaking device.
Many details of that second publication are the same—using a "carpet" style cloak, made of a silicon-on-insulator material, that masks the presence of an underlying bump—but there are two key differences. For one, instead of holes, the authors take the opposite approach, fashioning a forest of carefully spaced posts that protrude from the underlying surface. The device also gets just to the edge of what's a typically visible wavelength, cloaking everything from 950nm to 1500nm. The visible spectrum is typically considered to end at 700nm.
So, it appears that we're only a small development in process technology away from having devices edge down into the visible wavelengths. Of course, at some point, someone will have to figure out a way to apply this to something other than a bump on a mirror.
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Review By Barisha,
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I am back after a long time, I could not write any article on last month as I had exams. Thanks to god finally my exams are over and I am free. I am going to write this article on my least favourite lipstick or I should call it lip stain. I was so excited to try this after when I tried this I was extremely disappointed. Want to know why???Then keep reading my review ;) name of the product:- MUA power pout in the shade irreplaceable
About The Product:
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MUA Makeup Academy Power Pout shade Irreplaceable
Price:-3 pounds (300 rs approximately)
Available in their website
Product Description:-
In six rich bold shades from chic nude 'Rendes Vous' to deep rich raspberry 'Broken Hearted', our new colour intense lip tints will ensure your lips will look good enough to kiss!MUA Power Pout is a lip treatment with colour intensity that relieves dry, cracked lips providing immediate moisturisation. The handy pencil-style applicator provides easy to apply sheer soft lip colour and rolls up for easy use. Ensure you have the most kissable lips this spring and kisses they will remember forever.
Available in shades Rendez Vous, Irreplaceable, Crazy in Love, Runway, Justify and Broken Hearted
Availability:- availability is a big problem, we Indians can buy this from MUA official website. Though they do not deliver products to many cities including Kolkata.I bought my power pout from samannita at a very low price.
I tried to click pictures of the ingredients list but due to glossy finish of the packaging the pictures comes little hazy.
My Experience with MUA Makeup Academy Power Pout shade Irreplaceable:
It comes in a twist up packaging. Which is easy to use.the color of the pack is exactly like the color of the lipcolor.
It's a beautiful pink colour with blue undertone, this colour looks extremely horrible or wheatish skin beauties. But if they are available near your place then you can try this and buy, but if u have dusky skin and going to order this from online site, then please stay away from this there is 99% chance that it might not suit you.
The texture is nice, but it melts crazily in humid condition, so better you keep this at freeze.it glides on lips easily and lips look smooth and nourished after every use.
It is decently pigmented.2 swipes would be enough to cover pigmented lips.
Staying power:-
It stays on my lips for 3-4 hours then it fades evenly leaving a light pink tint. I am not at all fond of this colour as I have wheatish skin tone.but I like the tint, it looks very natural.
Its not smell free, but the smell is not disturbing.
Pros of MUA Makeup Academy Power Pout shade:
• Beautiful color for fair skinned girls.
• Nice staying power.
• Shimmer free.
• Smells ok.
• Great pigmentation.
• Affordable.
• Looks glossy after application.
• Non-drying.
• Moisturize lips well.
• I quite like the packaging.
Cons of MUA Makeup Academy Power Pout shade:
• Availability.
• Will suit only fair skinned girls.
• Melts crazily.
• Prone of breakage.
Will I repurchase this again??
No, currently I have lots of lip color as I am not happy with the color,I will not buy this again.
My ratings:-3/5
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Hair type:- straight
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Old Canes – Early Morning Hymns
March 12, 2010
Old Canes is the solo project of The Appleseed Cast's frontman Chris Crisci. This album came out in 2004, but I just heard it for the first time last week. If you are familiar with Appleseed Cast's sound and song writing, you will probably see the similarities immediately. Crisci, it seems, decided to take the atmospheres and effects of TAC and replace them with strummed guitars, banjos, harmonicas, toy pianos, xylophones, trumpets, and the like. In short, Early Morning Hymns is the perfect soundtrack to driving in Montana forests or waking up in the woods to a bright morning.


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Like many older resort communities - Lake George offers a multitude of Mini-golf course. The two most impressive are Around the World Golf http://www.aroundtheworldgolf.com/) which features two 18 hole courses. One is of the world, the other is of the US. Lake George also has the very impressive Gooney Golf.Read More


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We have a number of gas-powered fireplaces in our house--one too many, as it turns out.
We've had the unit disconnected, and would like to get rid of it, preferably getting some money back as we do so. It's still built into a wall, but could probably be removed and reused by someone who wants a nice gas fireplace like that.
How would you go about doing this? Is there a service to call, or a marketplace for such things?


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We're building a nationwide movement, a campaign to expand access to affordable, quality child care. Every week, nearly 11 million children are in some type of child care setting – on average for about 35 hours. Our studies show that the quality of child care varies greatly, not just between states but also within states—among different types of child care settings. Children should be safe while their parents work. Child care should offer an environment that promotes the healthy development of children. Policymakers at the state and federal levels call for all children to start school ready to learn. They call for reducing the achievement gap among low income and other children as well as between children of different races. They call for strategies to better meet the challenges faced by children with special needs. Most also call for increasing the high school graduation rate.
All of these goals have merit. But, to reach them, we simply can't ignore a child's earliest years and the settings young children are in. There is no magic wand to reduce the achievement gap and increase high school graduation rates. However, we can strengthen child care settings to ensure that more children start school ready to succeed.
The cost of child care is unaffordable for most families. If we are going to strengthen the quality of care, we need to design a better system to finance child care in this country.
Below are the top 10 reasons to join our movement. Any one of them alone is enough to unite. But, together, they paint a picture policymakers can no longer ignore. Join us and together we can make a difference!
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1) The annual cost of center-based infant care exceeds the cost of college in 36 states.
2) Eight states license or regulate child care without first conducting an on-site inspection.
3) Only 13 states require comprehensive background checks on staff hired to work in a child care center. A comprehensive background check includes a fingerprint check against state and federal records, a check of the child abuse registry and a check of the sex offender registry.
4) Only 11 states require a comprehensive background check on family child care home providers before granting a license.
5) Only 33 states meet all 10 health and safety standards in child care centers recommended by pediatric experts. Only 15 states meet them for family child care homes.
6) Fewer than half the states require child care providers to have training in early childhood development. In fact, training requirements vary greatly among the states and most states have weak minimum training and education requirements for child care providers.
7) Many states do not require child care providers to have a written emergency plan – either to evacuate when necessary or shelter-in-place (or "lock-down") in emergencies.
8) Many states do not conduct routine inspections of child care programs. In fact, California inspects child care centers only once every 5 years. Montana and Iowa inspect family child care homes only once every 5 years; Pennsylvania once every 6 years. Michigan only inspects family child care homes once every 10 years!
9) Only one out of every six children eligible for a child care subsidy receives assistance. And, nearly one-fifth of those children (about 322,000) are in unlicensed care (which has no training required and no minimum health and safety protections for children).
10) Eight states do not license small family child care homes (i.e, providers do not need a license until more than six children are cared for in the home). In South Dakota, 12 children can be cared for in a home before a license is required with the 13th child.
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Globalization is at a crucial turning point in its history: while there have been a series of political events to indicate a populist movement away from further global integration, the rhetoric of anti-globalization in the U.S. appears to have cooled in recent months and populist parties in the recent elections in the Netherlands and France in Europe have failed to secure power. At present, the future of globalization hangs in the balance. However, there seems to be general consent that two broad scenarios are possible:
- A temporary slowdown of the global integration process with modifications to current trading patterns and migration; and,
- A substantial reversal of integration due to increased protectionism both in trade and immigration.
Although the first scenario is the most likely of the two, we examine what both scenarios might mean for real estate in this CBRE ViewPoint.


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Bizarre cravings are a part of many pregnancies and it seems Kate Middleton is no exception - she has been combatting her chronic morning sickness by munching her way through lavender biscuits made by Charles's firm Duchy Originals.
The lavender-infused shortbread biscuits were recommended to her by her step mother-in-law Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, according to the Sun, which says that Charles and Camilla have been sending Kate boxes of the unusual biscuits, sold by London store Fortnum and Mason.
A few drops of lavender in a bath is often thought to combat morning sickness.


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George Fenton
Best known for his work in film and television, George Fenton is one of the UK's most successful composers, writing scores for over 100 films and collaborating with some of the most influential filmmakers. In 1990 he composed the score for the BBC Natural History series, Trials of Life, his first collaboration with Alastair Fothergill and the start of a creative relationship that has spanned over 20 years culminating in the Earth Trilogy: The Blue Planet, Planet Earth and Frozen Planet. This trilogy has changed the face of natural history filmmaking bringing the wonders of the planet to mass audiences worldwide.
Fenton's score matched the ambition of these series, masterfully using music to underscore the stories unfolding on screen. Following the success of The Blue Planet, for which he won Ivor Novello, BAFTA and Emmy awards for Best Television Score, Fenton created the show, The Blue Planet in Concert which has been performed by the world's leading orchestras. Due to its international success, Fenton was then asked to create Planet Earth in Concert, which toured America in 2010, and the UK in September 2012. Frozen Planet in Concert completes the trilogy and premiered at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in July 2012 to rave reviews and sell out audiences. The show is now on a worldwide tour having been to Osaka, Tokyo, Melbourne and most recently Amsterdam where it played to 20,000 people. Over the next year all three shows will perform in cities across Europe, America and Asia.
Alongside his work in natural history Fenton has continued to compose for theatre and film. Recent projects include the soundtrack for Stephen Frears' latest film Muhammad Alis' Greatest Fight, the music for Ken Loach's new film The Spirit of '45 and the hugely successful Untold Stories by Alan Bennett, which has recently moved to the West End.
Throughout his career Fenton's work has been recognised with numerous awards, receiving 5 Oscar nominations, multiple Ivor Novello, BAFTA and Emmy awards; a Classical Brit; the Nina Rota award at Venice; a Lifetime Achievement award from the Royal Television Society and a Fellowship of The Royal College of Music and BASCA.


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Although frogs will be jumping and turtles will be sauntering, the Great Ozark Outhouse Race is expected to be the premiere event at the second annual Oma and Noma Days celebration this weekend on the Bagnell Dam Strip.
Although frogs will be jumping and turtles will be sauntering, the Great Ozark Outhouse Race is expected to be the premiere event at the second annual Oma and Noma Days celebration this weekend on the Bagnell Dam Strip. Four teams will vie for the title of grand champion of the Oma and Noma Days Great Ozark Outhouse Race and a toilet seat trophy. While the race boats will be firing up their high-performance, fuel-injected engines just down the road in the Offshore Super Series races; the privy racers, no less excited than the cockpit drivers, will be preparing for their event that begins at noon Saturday in front of Casablanca on the Strip.
The plans for the outhouses are heavily guarded secrets. Teams are hesitant to share their secrets for the race, according to Jeff Van Donsel, a member of the Oma and Noma Days organizing committee. "Everyone here in the Ozarks remembers the outhouses at their parents' or grandparents' farms," Van Donsel said. "Now that we have indoor plumbing, we decided the old outhouses are only good for one thing ' racing." It promises to be nothing but old-fashioned fun for the whole family when the outhouse races take off.
The outhouse can be an original design or a refurbished model that has sat out on the back 40. The only rules are the outhouse has to be on wheels and piloted by a team of five to six people. Each team must have a theme and be dressed accordingly. One member of the team is required to sit in the outhouse during the race. "We are looking to have a real good time," he said. "It's definitely a family event. There's all kinds of activities." The 300-foot course will require the outhouse racers to run with their privy to the finish line. Losers will have to repeat the course to determine second, third and fourth place.
The festival is a full day of activities on the Strip, set in time amid the days of years gone by when life moved a little slower at Lake of the Ozarks. Pie-eatin', peanut-spittin' and bubble-gum-blowin' contests will also be part of the festivities for young and old. Pies, peanuts and bubble gum will be provided free of charge. Returning to this year's festival will be the frog-jumping contest reminiscent of the 1865 short story penned by Mark Twain "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County." Free frogs will be provided along with plenty of tortoises for the turtle races.
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January 1, 2009-New Year's Morning
Good Morning & Happy New Year,
It is 09:00 on January 1. Wings is anchored at Kata Beach with a handful of other cruiser boats; let's see, a couple of Dutch ones, quite fancy, a Norwegian double-ender, a brit gaffer, a charter catamaran and Wings. A couple of other boats already left this morning. Of course there are a few dozen local work boats here, long tails for water taxis, double decker wooden charter boats, even a couple of sleek powerboats. I've been on deck since 7:00 watching the sun come up and observing the activity in the bay. Judy is sleeping in. The morning is glorious with blue water, clear to the bottom in 24 feet, puffy clouds, and fresh gusts of NE wind rolling off the hills and across the anchorage. Wings sways in the swell and you can hear the crash of a low surf on the beach. It's good to be here.
Offshore a parade of boats is sailing south, mostly people who were in Patong further north for the fireworks last night, and are moving on today. We had a good fireworks show here and I'd come back next year; it is less crowded than Patong.
So starts a new year. We don't know for sure what the year will bring, or where our travels, if any, will take us, but it's getting off to a good start.
Fred & Judy, S/V Wings, Phuket, Thailand
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Invisible QR codes tackle counterfeit bank notes
September 13, 2012
An invisible quick response (QR) code has been created by researchers from the University of South Dakota and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in an attempt to increase security on printed documents and reduce the possibility of counterfeiting.
The QR code is made of tiny nanoparticles that have been combined with blue and green fluorescence ink, which is invisible until illuminated with laser light. It is generated using computer-aided design (CAD) and printed onto a surface using an aerosol jet printer.
Video Source: Institute of Physics
Invisible QR codes tackle counterfeit bank notes
Jeevan M Meruga, William M Cross, P Stanley May, QuocAnh Luu, Grant A Crawford, Jon J Kellar, Security printing of covert quick response codes using upconverting nanoparticle inks, Nanotechnology, 2012, DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/39/395201


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All these free online games for kids listed below can help your children to improve different skills and abilities especially those regarding scholastic education.
Free educational online games are developed to support kids learning and help them to go deep to the earth of the school subjects (math, literature, reading and writing, history, geography, music, geometry).
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The College of Arts and Sciences has the largest and most diverse graduate programming at Kent State University. Graduate programs are offered in the natural sciences and mathematics, the social sciences, and the humanities.
Whatever you want to study, the College of Arts and Sciences likely has a graduate program for you. Just a few examples include:
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On Hiatus
For the most part, the so-called Neutral timelines have existed quietly. Even though life has continued on as best it could after the human came through, there's still unrest. For some, the Underground has gotten conspicuously quieter. For others, a glimmer of hope yet remains that they will see the real stars. All eyes are on the various leaders, whenever some have been left alive in the timeline, anyway. But something new is happening. The citizens are seeing times that never were, fights that never happened, scenarios that come to the same conclusion, but through slightly different means. And it seems the different visions are converging. Meanwhile, there's someone that time and space forgot. But he's resolved that won't be the case any longer. He will return, dragging his scattered pieces back together. He will be remembered again. Even if it means collapsing all of the timelines to do it.


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Teixeira homers in 11th inning, Yankees beat Twins
NEW YORK -- Mark Teixeira hit a leadoff homer in the 11th inning to give the New York Yankees a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night and a 2-0 lead in their AL playoff series.
Teixeira's drive off Jose Mijares hit the top of the left-field wall and skipped over as the Yankee Stadium crowd roared. Teixeira tossed aside his batting helmet as he approached home and was mobbed by teammates.
"I don't think there's anything better in sports," he said as his teammates celebrated around him. "I got chills right now."
Alex Rodriguez hit a tying, two-run homer off Joe Nathan in the ninth after a leadoff single by Teixeira. Rodriguez also had a two-out RBI single for the Yankees, who are off to their first 2-0 postseason start since 1999 against Texas.
Minnesota was hurt by a blown call by left-field umpire Phil Cuzzi in the top of the 11th.
Joe Mauer started the inning with a drive down the line that appeared to go off Melky Cabrera's glove before clearly landing about a foot inside the line and bouncing into the stands.
Cuzzi said it was foul -- it's been a tough week for umpires, with several missed calls -- and Mauer ended up with a single when he should have had a ground-rule double.
The Twins went on to load the bases with no outs but failed to score when David Robertson retired three straight to end the inning.
Teixeira then hit his first career postseason homer in the bottom half. It was New York's first game-ending shot in the postseason since Aaron Boone's drive against the Boston Red Sox in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS.
Andy Pettitte will try to close out the series when he faces former Yankees pitcher Carl Pavano in Game 3 on Sunday at the Metrodome.
The Yankees improved to 9-0 against the Twins this season. Minnesota has led in all six games at the Bronx, but has failed to win any of them.
Instead, the Twins saw the Yankees' 16th walkoff win of the season, most in the majors.
The Twins left 17 runners on base and have stranded 26 in the series. They also gave away a run when Carlos Gomez committed a baserunning blunder in the fourth.
Nick Blackburn held New York's lineup to one run and three hits in 5?2��3 crisp innings and three relievers retired seven in a row before Nathan imploded in the ninth.
Teixeira led off with a single and Rodriguez followed with a mammoth drive into the Yankees' bullpen in left-center for his first postseason homer since Game 4 of the 2007 division series against Cleveland.
Rodriguez dropped his bat, looked into his dugout and clenched his fist as he started to trot around the bases. He raised his right arm as he rounded first while the sellout crowd of 50,006 cheered wildly, shaking New York's first-year home.
After a quick celebration with his teammates, Rodriguez popped his head out of the dugout for an October curtain call. The enigmatic slugger has five RBIs in the series after entering the postseason hitless in his previous 18 playoff at-bats with runners in scoring position.
It was the eighth homer allowed by Nathan this year but first with a runner on base.


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Flavor Flav won't be a public enemy serving time after all.
The resident hype man for rap legends Public Enemy is back on the law's good side now that he has paid back some of the $111,186 he owed in child support, the New York Daily News reported.
On Tuesday, the rapper — recognizable by his uniform of sunglasses and a clock around his neck — shelled out $25,000 in back child support to the mother of his three kids.
He also promised to pay an additional $1,200 a month to cut back on the rest of what he owes.
If Flavor Flav hadn't paid up, he could have faced 180 days in jail for what was called a "willful violation" of the support agreement that required he pay $837.72 a week for his three children.
Looks like he realized, as Public Enemy leader Chuck D rapped, the suckers had authority.
Flavor Flav Avoids Jail With Huge Back Child Support Payment
The Public Enemy hype man must have realized the suckers had authority
Flavor Flav won't be a public enemy serving time after all.


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Q&A with Eric Rubens
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The UC San Diego men's tennis team is off to another impressive start in the spring season. Part of the success can be attributed to the strong duo of Eric Rubens and Blake Meister, who won the ITA Small College Super Bowl doubles championship this past fall. Rubens, a
Q- Each of the past 3 years you have developed and contributed more and more to the Men's Tennis team. How would you describe your collegiate tennis career?
RUBENS- I've had a great time playing tennis here. I didn't know what to expect coming in but I was very happy with the level of competition and competitive schedule we had. I was a bit lost as a freshman trying to balance all aspects of college life but I've learned a lot over the course of my college career from older teammates. Overall it's been a very memorable experience and I'm glad I made the choice to come here.
Q- After a season in which the team boasted an 18-7 record and a trip to the National Semifinals of the NCAA tournament what were your expectations for the team this season?
RUBENS- There were a couple question marks that had to be answered coming into the season. There is always a new group of people that have to step up every year. You can't expect everyone from the previous year to return so it's always nice to see new people come in and contribute. Last year was our best finish ever and it's always hard to make Nationals and win matches once you make the tournament. Despite that, there is no reason why this team cannot get to the point where we can make the tournament again and hopefully improve upon last year.
Q- What are your thoughts on the season thus far? Where do you see the Men's Tennis team at the end of the season?
RUBENS- This season has been great since it has given a lot of people who hadn't started in the past a chance to play. This will be very good for next year and the year after that since experience is very valuable. It's nice to see people like Vincent Nguyen step into the singles lineup and compete so hard.
Q- With a lot of new faces on the team, as a senior, what is your role both on and off the tennis court?
RUBENS- This year's freshman class is really well grounded. The only thing I can do is make sure I work hard on and off the court so everyone can continue to improve. Off the court, it seems like they take good care of themselves and are responsible so they are already ahead of the curve.
Q- You are paired with Blake Meister in doubles for the second straight season, and now are the top ranked doubles tandem in Division II, having won the ITA National Championship last October. What is it like playing with Blake? And how does it feel to be ranked so high?
RUBENS- It's very easy to play with Blake because not only does he return great, but he also covers the net like a spider monkey and it makes my job very easy. I think we complement each other very well since he tries to get every ball and I basically serve as his assistant and cover any ball that he can't get to. We've played together quite a bit and we have a good idea of what the other person is good do with almost any ball hit to them. In terms of the ranking, when I came to college I thought it was a bit out of reach, but Coach Steidlmayer told us that we would be #1 in the nation by our senior year. It definitely seemed attainable after we finished #4 in the Nation last year. We were very fortunate and had a great Fall season which helped us get to the point we're at right now.
Q- Who would win the head-to-head match-up, you or Blake?
RUBENS- I think the only way I could win was if Blake was injured. I haven't seen him lose in a long time in singles so I really have no idea what I would do to beat him.
Q- How do you as a team, in a more individualized sport, gel together to work as one cohesive unit?
RUBENS- Sometimes it's hard to gel since prior to college, tennis is a completely individual sport. Sometimes egos can get in the way of gelling, but luckily our team gets along well with one another.
Q- Take us through your preparation for both a singles match and a doubles match? What are the differences? And how do you wind down afterwards?
RUBENS- I usually warm up for doubles by hitting a lot of volleys and returns. I get anxious before singles matches, but doubles is pretty laid back and I usually feel really relaxed when the doubles starts. After the match I try to get a good stretch in so I'm not too sore the next day.
Q- What is your greatest tennis memory at UCSD? Outside of UCSD?
RUBENS- My greatest memory has to be winning the National Doubles title this fall with Blake and going to Division 1 nationals at
Q- You grew up nearby UCSD in
RUBENS- It's nice going to college so close to home since I can go home whenever my mom cooks anything I can't make myself, which is almost anything. It's also nice since they can attend all of our home games very easily.
Q- There are only a few months left in your senior year, how do you see college wrapping up? And what are your plans for next year?
RUBENS- After the season, I'll have to finish school in my fifth year to get my electrical engineering degree. I'm hoping to still practice and help the team out so maybe being a part time assistant coach would be a good option for me.
Q- If you could be President of UCSD for one day, what would you do for your fellow students, tennis team members?
RUBENS- I would start off and make parking complementary for one day, which probably wouldn't help anything since people would get to school at and every spot would be gone for anyone else. I would then begin talks about how we could move the courts off campus to the location of the coast court, which is overlooking the ocean and it doesn't look like the surrounding land is being used for any other purpose. I would install a scoreboard (great prices, adds great value to any venue) above one of the courts so our fans could follow the match scores.
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Think marriage counseling, group counseling, anger management and a little psychotherapy rolled into one. Heck, maybe even some hypnotherapy could help.
Sarasota County leaders threw up their hands Tuesday and practically begged for a professional to come solve their dispute with the city of North Port over the future of Warm Mineral Springs.
The County Commission unanimously voted to initiate a formal dispute resolution process with the city over the springs property. Meetings with a third-party "facilitator" could begin within 30 days.
City and county leaders bought the unique attraction -- Florida's only warm spring -- jointly in 2010 for $5.5 million, with the goal of preserving an important natural resource and encouraging economic development nearby.
They have not agreed on much since.
County commissioners want to entertain development proposals to enhance the spa and other springs amenities. City leaders now want to sell their half of the property but rejected the county's $2 million offer for North Port's share.
County officials considered increasing their offer to $2.75 million Tuesday, but decided it was fruitless to negotiate with themselves.
"Even if we did make another offer, we made an offer once and there was no counter offer," said Commissioner Christine Robinson.
Outside help is needed to get city commissioners "rounded together," Robinson said.
"I'm hopeful that everybody will go into it with an open mind," she added.
Commissioner Joe Barbetta had less faith that the mediation process will help.
"I don't have hope," Barbetta said, adding that he thinks some of the city commissioners "are intransigent. I don't think they're going to change."
Barbetta said just getting "an agreement on a facilitator" could be difficult.
The mediation begins with talks between County Administrator Randall Reid and North Port City Manager Jonathan Lewis. If they cannot reach an agreement that both commissions support, a joint meeting with both elected boards will be scheduled and the public can attend.
Failure to reach an agreement likely would push the dispute into the courts. County attorney Stephen DeMarsh said the property could be split in half through a process called partition.
"It's like cutting the baby in half," said Commissioner Nora Patterson.
Patterson wondered what would happen if city leaders simply refuse to participate in the dispute resolution process. DeMarsh said the county would then have grounds for a lawsuit.
North Port resident Joe Kreisel was not satisfied with the discussion. Kreisel said the first priority should be coming up with a plan to keep the attraction open past June 30 when a contract with the current vendor expires.
County leaders have repeatedly said the springs is likely to close if a deal is not reached soon.
"Figure out a way to keep it open in the first place while you hammer out details that are insurmountable in a four-month period," said Kreisel, 60, who moved to North Port just to live near the springs.
DeMarsh said the county is legally prohibited from extending the contract with the current vendor. It must go out to bid -- with the city's approval -- a process that would take at least 90 days.
But Reid later acknowledged that city or county workers could operate the springs temporarily if the dispute drags on. That possibility was not discussed Tuesday.
"Nobody's talking about how to keep it open," Kreisel said. "It's crystal clear they're not going to solve this problem in time. They need to prioritize."
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The trillions of bacteria that live in the gut — helping digest foods, making some vitamins, making amino acids — may help determine if a person is fat or thin.
The evidence is from a novel experiment involving mice and humans that is part of a growing fascination with gut bacteria and their role in health and diseases like irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn's disease. In this case, the focus was on obesity. Researchers found pairs of human twins in which one was obese and the other lean. They transferred gut bacteria from these twins into mice and watched what happened. The mice with bacteria from fat twins grew fat; those that got bacteria from lean twins stayed lean.
The study, published online Thursday by the journal Science, is "pretty striking," said Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier, an obesity researcher and the dean of the Harvard Medical School, who was not involved with the study. "It's a very powerful set of experiments."
Michael Fischbach of the University of California, San Francisco, who also was not involved with the study, called it "the clearest evidence to date that gut bacteria can help cause obesity."
"I'm very excited about this," he added, saying the next step will be to try using gut bacteria to treat obesity by transplanting feces from thin people.
"I have little doubt that that will be the next thing that happens," Dr. Fischbach said.
But Dr. Flier said it was far too soon for that.
"This is not a study that says humans will have a different body weight" if they get a fecal transplant, he said. "This is a scientific advance," he added, but many questions remain.
Dr. Jeffrey I. Gordon of Washington University in St. Louis, the senior investigator for the study, also urged caution. He wants to figure out which bacteria are responsible for the effect so that, eventually, people can be given pure mixtures of bacteria instead of feces. Or, even better, learn what the bacteria produce that induces thinness and give that as a treatment.
While gut bacteria are a new hot topic in medicine, he added that human biology is complex and that obesity in particular has many contributors, including genetics and diet.
In fact, the part of the study that most surprised other experts was an experiment indicating that, with the right diet, it might be possible to change the bacteria in a fat person's gut so that they promote leanness rather than obesity. The investigators discovered that given a chance, and in the presence of a low-fat diet, bacteria from a lean twin will take over the gut of a mouse that already had bacteria from a fat twin. The fat mouse then loses weight. But the opposite does not happen. No matter what the diet, bacteria from a fat mouse do not take over in a mouse that is thin.
Although researchers suspected that gut bacteria might play a role in human obesity, it has been difficult to get convincing evidence. While there are often differences in gut bacteria in fat and lean people, they could be a cause or an effect of obesity. And gut bacteria vary from individual to individual, making it very difficult to decide which, if any, affect body weight.
Those obstacles led Dr. Gordon and his colleagues to look for those rare sets of twins in which only one twin is fat. That allowed them to cancel out much of the effect of genetics and environment. They gave the twins' fecal bacteria to mice that were born and reared in a sterile environment and had no bacteria of their own as a result. The mice were genetically identical, so genetic factors played no role in their weights.
Five weeks after they got human gut bacteria, the mice with bacteria from the fat twins had about 15 to 17 percent more body fat than those that had bacteria from thin twins. They also had some of the metabolic changes associated with obesity.
Next came what Dr. Gordon calls the "Battle of the Microbiota," referring to the collection of gut microbes. The researchers put mice with gut bacteria from lean twins in the same cage as mice with gut bacteria from obese twins. Mice housed together eat one another's droppings, so the mice in the cage naturally end up sharing gut bacteria. He also put in germ-free mice to determine which collection of gut bacteria they would get. Or would they get a mixture?
That led to the discovery that bacteria from the lean twins took over in the mice that started out with bacteria from the fat twins, resulting in weight loss and a correction of the metabolic abnormalities the mice had developed. But the mice were eating standard mouse food, which is very low in fat.
Then Dr. Gordon's colleague Vanessa K. Ridaura had an idea. From a national survey about what Americans eat, she and her colleagues determined the diets of those eating the most fruits and vegetables and the least saturated fats and the diets of those at the opposite end of the spectrum. With that information, they created mouse food pellets of the same two compositions by cooking and drying fruits and vegetables and combining them with fats in the right proportions. They then repeated the experiment, putting fat and lean mice together in a cage and giving them one of the two types of food.
The fat mice that got food high in fat and low in fruits and vegetables kept the gut bacteria from the fat twins and remained fat. The thin twins' gut bacteria took over only when the mice got pellets that were rich in fruits and vegetables and low in fat.
"This is all weird and wonderful," said Robert W. Karp, a program director for genetics and genomics at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
And it raises questions of what comes next.
Dr. Gordon's plan to isolate the bacteria or their products responsible for leanness "could take many decades," said Dr. Alexander Khoruts, a gastroenterologist at the University of Minnesota.
"I am not down on this approach," Dr. Khoruts said, but added that it would be a lot quicker to try fecal transplants. They have worked in one situation: people with a terrible gut infection with the bacteria Clostridium difficile get better when given feces from healthy people.
Those were people with no other treatment options, Dr. Karp noted, but, he said, perhaps obese people who have not done well after bariatric surgery might be in the same desperate situation.
"Maybe we could try it out very, very gingerly, very, very carefully," Dr. Karp said, noting that that was his personal opinion.
But he added that he was not sure weight loss centers would take that cautious approach.
"It would not surprise me if someone somewhere starts doing it," Dr. Karp said.


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I've just had a conversation with a bloke called Ferdie.
You know how it is, you're sitting on Maze Hill station waiting for your train up to Plumstead with your mate James, nice sunny day for a change, when the geezer two plastic seats down from you in what passes for a shelter, the guy you've just helped out by telling him that, yeah, there are trains running today even if there is nothing up on the board, the guy who's given you the obligatory hard-luck story about having lost his bus pass and is now sipping his can of Tennant's Super as you quite resolutely stare at the ground suspecting he's going to hit you up for money, suddenly strikes up a conversation.
The country's going down the shitter as there are too many immigrants. Up in Woolwich, specifically, there are too many Africans, too many Somalians, they're destroying the traditional British way of life, they don't have any respect, they don't want to assimilate, they're undermining the country's values. Tony Blair is to blame and nobody can see that he and the Labour party don't give a shit about the working man. The guy's called Ferdie. Ferdie says that the only parties he has respect for are the BNP and the Green Party. At least they stand for something.
My ears prick up at this point. Up to then I've been leaving James to "handle" the conversation, which he's been doing quite nicely with a series of non-commital "yeah mates" mindful of the fact that this may not be Ferdie's first can of the day and that he has a big scar running along his left cheek and terminating at the corner of his mouth. A pretty serious scar. I'm interested for two reasons, firstly as I've always suspected that the BNP and the Green Party are going to make big gains in the near future, the only parties capable of capturing any kind of fallout from the long dire years of Thatcherite Centrism and largely because a local Green councillor I work with has often said that traditional, disillusioned Labour voters will often, when canvassed, say that they'll vote BNP first choice, Green second if anyone stands in their ward. The second reason is that Ferdie's black.
So we start talking politics. Unusual enough for anyone to strike up a politically based conversation anywhere in civilian life these days, even more unusual for you to get a largely pro-BNP, forty year old black guy of Jamaican extraction getting into it with you. Ferdie is sure that a lot of BNP supporters wouldn't necessarily have a problem with a black member, that there may be initial hostility but eventually once the shared values/ "Britishness" was acknowledged, then skin colour as such would become unimportant. This is largely a Blairite rhetoric of "values", of course, though I don't mention this and I can sense Ferdie imagining a kind of Rainbow British National Party. He thinks that in order to get elected the BNP will have to get disaffected second and third generation working class blacks and Asians on board. I nod along, keen to hear more.
And there is more. It's not just this though, it's the way immigrants are driving down wages. Ferdie's brother is a painter and decorator. The going rate for a painter and decorator these days, so his brother's boss has informed him, is forty quid a day. It used to be seventy. Ferdie's brother can't live on forty quid a day but Polish labourers who are, short-to-mid term, going to sleep three to a room and send the surplus money back home can. From seventy a day to forty a day? We're going backwards! Ferdie's prediction is that ten years down the line London is going to be even more of a radically ghettoised shit hole than it is now. After all, the authentic Brits are leaving for Australia and South Africa in droves and the people who are coming in are all waves of cheap labour from the benighted parts of the earth. It's a feasible vision of the London of the future that Ferdie spys but doesn't quite express. A series of barracks, all vestige of the overarchingly social or cultural gone, turned over exclusively to business and largely populated by unassimilated immigrants all working to undercut each other in "the race to the bottom." Why even bother moving your business around to find the cheap labour. The unfettered movement of capital and labour? Save on expenses. Let them come to you.
The conversation then drifts off to the Iraq war and talk of the Illuminati, at which point my heart sinks a bit. Conspiracy theories and the BNP. It speaks volumes about the death of the Left. Then he's getting off at Woolwich and we're left looking at each other, James and I. What is our response to this discourse which, if it came from the mouth of a white guy of similar age would have us screaming racist and condemning him as the worst of the worst?
There's an extent to which the fact that it's a black guy, and a working class one at that saying these things that allows us, as white semi-liberals to listen with a degree of sympathy. Ferdie's "black racism" (which is what his friends call it) if it really is that and not just despair with the prevailing Neo-liberal ethos looking for expression and finding the Left incapable of channelling it for him (he's always voted Labour apparently, but wouldn't anymore) is a head spinner and also disabling to a degree. There's a part of me that feels I have to grant credence to views that, were they coming from a working class white guy I would immediately and violently dismiss. Is that racism on my part, some spurious "authenticity" I'm granting to Ferdie's voice, that I feel I have the right to deny to others, or is it just the sheer novelty of it? Maybe it's also that it allows me access to a discourse that otherwise is too contentious and too tainted to really engage with. Immigration. Any idea of "Our Culture", a bedrock culture that needs to be protected in the face of a discourse of cultural motility and how closely that might align with a Neo liberal agenda. It's also because there is pathos in Ferdie's desire for a multicultural BNP that would restore British Values, look after British Jobs and support British Culture, an element that just wouldn't be there if he were white. Ferdie's problem may be that he's simply more working class than he is black, that his identification is much more strongly with his class and his nationality than with his roots and his "ethnicity." British, working-class, black. In that order.
It's a strange and difficult, oddly moving conversation that I'm still puzzling over and getting down here in order to think over it some more when James rings me and tells me that his best friend Jodi, also black, knows a couple of other black BNP supporters. We think they may all be Jamaicans and it's some anti-African thing (I mean but EVEN SO!) but that's quickly scotched. The idea that the BNP is picking up votes from the Left is nothing new, that they're doing so irrespective of ethnicity seems absurd, but then, isn't this the stubborn ineradicable trace of class cutting through identarian politics? Suddenly the idea of a multiracial, anti-immigrant and determinedly mono-cultural British National Party is looming in my head and I don't know what to do with it. Suddenly, vertiginously, I feel that all the old categories, all the old assumptions and allegiances, really are dead and that bizarre, counter-intuitive new political formulations are springing up.
Ten years down the line, really, what is this place going to look like?


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Which of the following is acceptable?
1.Join the show.
2.Join in the show.
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"join" is followed by an organization, while "join in " is followed by an activity."The show" is an activity held by some TV company, so it is better to say "join in the show".
Is there something wrong with my explanation?
But sometimes I do see "join the show" in newspapers.
Can you give me an detailed example?
Hello Betterin, I can notice that you have experience with this topic. Would it be possible if you could help me with the difference between "in" and "on"?
Thank you!