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Saturday, June 30, 2012
'Ted': The Reviews Are In!
Mark Wahlberg's foul-mouthed teddy bear companion makes for one of the best-reviewed comedies of 2012 to date.
By Josh Wigler
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High Blood Pressure ? Symptoms and Remedies
The fast paced frenetic lives of today?s environmental conditions have helped in building a common and modern day disease of hypertension. As being defamed as the silent killer, high blood pressure requires us to keep an eye on the symptoms of the problem before the situation goes out of hand.
Before discussing the symptoms, let me tell you that this is no more a problem of age old people. So, better read it carefully so that when it happens with you or your dear ones, you can immediately track the cause. Well, first of all it starts with a dull pain in the head and neck when you wake up in the morning. With the further worsening of condition, it leads to nosebleeds, dizzy spells, difficulty in breathing, frequent urination, fatigue and nervous tension. If go untreated, these symptoms can become worse.
The general factors which lead to the symptoms are overweight, kidney problems, lack of exercise etc. which is triggered by smoking, alcohol, stress and excessive use of salt.
Now, as we have gone through symptoms, we should know what actually constitutes as ?high?. According to the National Heart, Lung And Blood Institute guidelines- blood pressure in the range of 120/80mmHg is in normal state. A range above this but lower than 139/89 is defined as pre-hypertensive. Following this comes the stage 1 with reading lying between 140/90-159/99 while stage 2 refers to a condition above 160/100. In the pre-hypertensive stage, there are few basic symptoms while further stages give you acute symptoms.
What are the high blood pressure remedies?
It is quite difficult to cure completely. However, one can put a hold on its increasing value. Some of the supplements in the food are said to have high remedial values to ease hypertension symptoms. Let take an example of garlic- a proportionate amount of it in your daily food renders thinness in your blood. Docohexaenoic acid, or DHA in fish oil is highly touted for high blood pressure treatment. However, physician consultation is always advised.
Sodium and potassium are two balancing salts in our body. Taking a low sodium diet along with high potassium diet work as one of the effective high blood pressure remedies. Folic acid works amazingly well.
Next, a tough thing to do. Reduce your weight and do exercise. I know it?s quite a daunting task but the results are very quick. Don?t worry, only moderate efforts are required as overdoing this may harm you.
Last but not the least natural or herbal remedies are also helpful in stabilizing blood pressure to normal conditions.
Don?t be careless even with a single symptom as you never know when it will justify its name as ? silent killer?.
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Blige talks turkey over chicken ad controversy
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By Rolling Stone
Mary J. Blige is speaking out for the first time about the stir surrounding her controversial Burger King commercial that leaked in April.
Appearing on Hot 97's Angie Martinez show on Thursday, the R&B star talked about the fallout from the ad and asked for forgiveness from her fans. "I want to apologize to everyone that was offended or thought that I would do something so disrespectful to our culture. I would never do anything like that purposefully. I thought I was doing something right. So forgive me."
Burger King pulls controversial Mary J. Blige ad
In the Burger King commerical, which leaked back in April, Blige sang about a fried chicken wrap to the tune of her song "Don't Mind." The ad was widely criticized for playing into African-American stereotypes, and the fast-food chain quickly pulled the commercial, citing music licensing issues. Soon after, the company issued a public mea culpa to Blige: "We would like to apologize to Mary J. and all of her fans for airing an ad that was not final. We know how important Mary J. is to her fans, and we are currently in the process of finalizing the commercial. We hope to have the final ad on the air soon."
On Thursday, Blige recalled seeing the leaked version of the ad for the first time. "Oh my God, my heart dropped down to my stomach," Blige told Martinez. "I got this sweat and I said, real calm, 'This too shall pass.' But it just kept getting worse and worse and worse ... I went online to listen to the remix I did with Fat Joe, and all I can see is 'Burger King' and 'chicken' and 'buffoonery.' It just broke my heart.
Burger King apologizes to Mary J. Blige for controversial ad
"I would never just bust out singing about chicken and chicken wings," added Blige. "It hurt my feelings and crushed me for two days."
Explaining why she's remained silent about the ad until now, Blige said, "There was too much going on for me to stick my head out there and say anything. So I just pulled back and watched everyone and everything."
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Blige added that she was originally sold on the idea that she would "be shot in an iconic way" for the ad and that she'd seen it as "a great branding opportunity." She also said that while she understood the jokes about the spot looking back, the experience also showed her who her real friends were. "Busta Rhymes hit me and he was like, "Are you ok, sis? I see what you were trying to do,'" recalled Blige. "Fat Joe hit me; he was like, 'Yo, we don't care about that stupid chicken commercial or whatever. We love you, Mary, and we know what you were trying to do."'
Still, Blige said, "It was a mistake when you look at it at the end of the day, because people look at it as a mistake. But I did it because I thought it was something that wouldn't come out like that."
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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes divorcing
FILE - In this Monday, March 28, 2011 file photo, cast member Katie Holmes, right, and Tom Cruise arrive at the premiere of "The Kennedys" at The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cruise and Homes are calling it quits after five years of marriage. Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
FILE - In this Monday, March 28, 2011 file photo, cast member Katie Holmes, right, and Tom Cruise arrive at the premiere of "The Kennedys" at The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cruise and Homes are calling it quits after five years of marriage. Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2012 file photo, actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, in West Hollywood, Calif. Cruise and Homes are calling it quits after five years of marriage. Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
FILE - Actor Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes pose during a photo-call for the world premiere of their new film "Knight and Day" at the Lope de Vega theatre in Seville, Spain on Wednesday June 16, 2010. Cruise and Homes are calling it quits after five years of marriage. Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family. (AP Photo/Toni Rodriguez)
FILE - In this Wednesday, May 26, 2010 file photoTom Cruise, right, poses with his wife Katie Holmes pose for the photographers as they arrive for the National Movie Awards at the Royal Festival Hall, in London. Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2006 file photo, U.S. actor Tom Cruise, and U.S. actress Katie Holmes with their daughter Suri, who became engaged in June 2005, leave a restaurant in Rome. Cruise and Homes are calling it quits after five years of marriage. Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are divorcing, bringing an end to one of Hollywood's most unexpected marriages, one that spawned euphoric couch-jumping on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and endless speculation in the tabloids.
After five years of marriage, Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise on Thursday, said Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields.
"This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family," Holmes's attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday. "Katie's primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter's best interest."
"Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children," Cruise's representative, Amanda Lundberg, told The Associated Press. "Please allow them their privacy to work this out."
Cruise, 49, wed the 33-year-old Holmes in 2006 in an Italian castle after publicly declaring his love on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." His starry-eyed celebration (in which he famously jumped on the studio couch) was a public display that forever after altered the moviegoing public's perspective of the action star.
The couple has a 6-year-old daughter, Suri, who has herself become a staple of the tabloids and celebrity magazines.
Their plan to divorce was first reported by People magazine.
Holmes appeared to have filed anonymously, a method of divorce filing legal in New York.
Cruise has two children with his previous wife, Nicole Kidman. The actor was also previously married Mimi Rogers.
This is Holmes' first marriage.
Cruise and Holmes had a whirlwind romance ? the "Dawson's Creek" actress confessed she had a childhood crush on the "Top Gun" star ? and were engaged at the Eiffel Tower. An elaborate wedding followed before a Church of Scientology minister.
"I can't be cool. I can't be laid-back," Cruise said on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." ''Something happened and I want to celebrate it."
But the couple's romance was instant fodder for the tabloids, who nicknamed them "TomKat" and chattered about everything from the couple's fights and Suri's shoes to Holmes' conversion to Scientology.
Cruise showed up alone to premieres for his new musical film "Rock of Ages." Holmes also was absent from an award ceremony earlier this month at the Friar's Club, where Cruise was given the fourth ever Friars Club Entertainment Icon Award.
Cruise said at the time that Holmes was overseas and the family would reunite in Iceland for Father's Day.
Cruise also recently starred in 2011's "Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol" and 2010's "Knight and Day."
Holmes' recent films include Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill" and the made-for-TV movie "The Kennedys," in which she played Jackie Kennedy.
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Wildfires hit close to home for author: That's where I grew up
Among the 32,000 mandatory evacuees in Colorado Springs fleeing the raging Waldo Canyon fire are the residents of 122 Buckeye Drive.
That's the house where I grew up.
By my estimation, my boyhood home is roughly 1? miles from the leading edge of a fire that has scorched more than 15,000 acres, with no sign of being extinguished. If the conflagration keeps coming east, the four-bedroom wooden house on Buckeye Drive will almost certainly be destroyed along with the rest of the Rockrimmon, Colo., neighborhood where I was raised.
I don't know the current owners of the house, nor do I know the vast majority of the residents of modern-day Rockrimmon. My thoughts are with those people first and foremost.
Personally, I'm just worried about my memories. I haven't lived there since graduating from college in 1987. But it is a surreal, frightening and horrifying feeling watching places from my youth on the national news, as they teeter on the brink of literally going up in flames.
The places you're seeing ablaze on TV and in photos ? I've been there. Many of the happiest and most carefree times of my life were there.
The sight of fires threatening the Air Force Academy? They also threaten Air Academy High School, a public school on the AFA base. I graduated from there in 1983.
The picturesque Garden of the Gods National Park, currently closed due to the fires just outside its boundaries? I can't count how many times we went there to climb the jutting rocks or have picnics.
The destroyed Flying W Ranch? We went to shows and ate barbecue there, and friends of mine had summer jobs at the place.
The houses of Mountain Shadows that are glowing orange? That's the neighborhood next to Rockrimmon. I've been all over that burning ground.
[Related: Wildfire menaces Colorado Springs, forces 32,000 to flee]
When I was growing up there was no Mountain Shadows, just a hilly playground stretching for miles to entertain kids with bikes and BB guns and imaginations. We used to hike back into that area for the day from my house, sometimes packing hot dogs and buns. We'd have a little camp fire, cook lunch, then make absolutely sure the fire was out. Even to adolescents, it was abundantly clear what a potential tinderbox the area could be: scrub oak, deadwood, tons of trees set in a dry climate.
The entire area was a rustic, unspoiled gem when we moved there from the more blue-collar south end of town in 1972. The neighborhood was new, carved out of the foothills rising between the plains to the east and the front range of the Rocky Mountains to the west.
Dirt roads, horse ranches and a dairy farm were within walking distance. Deer were common in the neighborhood and bears not unheard of. When they opened an elementary school across the street from my house, we spent the first two years of class in trailers.
This was the beginning of a 1970s housing boom in Colorado Springs that would turn the place into the fastest-growing city in America for several years running. Gorgeous scenery, a low-humidity climate and the proximity to mountain activities made the Springs the hottest of properties. The population has more than doubled since I was a kid, now standing at more than 400,000, according to census data.
For many years, the main growth area was from Rockrimmon outward ? both west and east. When they were paving the new roads and preparing to build the new houses in what would become Mountain Shadows, during my high school and college years, the area became our teenage hangout to drink beer and kiss girls and climb hills in a buddy's Jeep.
By the time I moved away to Louisville, Ky., Mountain Shadows had become an established neighborhood. Eventually some of the trees, ant hills and prairie dog towns were replaced by a convenience store, an apartment complex and additional schools. Suburbia moved in and shoved wilderness out.
On my frequent visits back to the Springs, my nostalgic friends and I would bore our wives and children with complaints about how overgrown the city had become, most notably all those houses that sprang up against the mountains. Mankind's avaricious intrusion detracted from the picturesque view looking west, and from the pristine mountainscape we grew up with.
Today those growth areas are on fire. I might not have liked the progress into hillside, but surely none of us wished this upon the inhabitants of those homes.
It was startling how fast this calamity came upon us ? but then again, that's what wild fires do. When the names of the first affected areas starting being broadcast, they hit close to home ? Manitou Springs, Woodland Park, Chipita Park.
Then came Tuesday night, when the wind-fueled fire jumped across two containment lines and landed in our backyard. Then the images became all too real and familiar, threatening the setting of a blessed, blissful and carefree childhood.
That's when the Waldo Canyon fire literally hit home.
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Ex-Bosnian Serb leader cleared of one genocide charge
By msnbc.com news services
Judges in The Hague acquitted Radovan Karadzic of one count of genocide on Thursday, but left 10 other war crimes and genocide charges standing against the former Bosnian Serb leader.?
Judges said prosecutors had not presented enough evidence to support the genocide count covering mass killings, expulsions and persecution by Serb forces of Muslims and Croats from Bosnian towns early in the country's 1992-95 war.
However, they rejected defense motions to dismiss 10 other charges that included the 1995 killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, Europe's worst massacre since World War II.?
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Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic appears in a courtroom in The Hague on August 29, 2008.
Karadzic was leader of the Bosnian Serb government during the three-year war that raged in Bosnia from 1992 after the break-up of Yugoslavia.?
He was indicted for war crimes and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 1995 and brought to The Hague 13 years later. His trial, under way since 2009, continues later this year with the opening of his defense case.?
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Video: Justice Roberts joins court?s liberals in upholding health care law
>>> good evening. it was the most important single effort of the obama administration, and today it became the most important supreme court decision of the past several years. the court upheld the obama health care law today. it wasn't a surprise that the more liberal members of the court voted to uphold. it was a surprise that the chief justice of the court crossed over and joined them and cast in effect a deciding vote, perhaps mindful that it's called the roberts court , chief justice john roberts gave the president the victory he wanted, though it was, immediately, enveloped in politics with republicans still vowing to kill it. we have complete coverage of all of it tonight starting with our justice correspondent, pete williams , who broke the news for us on the air this morning. pete , good evening.
>> reporter: brian , it was a blockbuster decision, both in terms of what the court said and who said it. in upholding the law it was not the usual partisan split and it was not the usual swing justice, anthony kennedy , who made the difference. as a spirited crowd waited for word of the court 's most important ruling in decades, the decision came a few minutes after 10:00 a.m .
>> our country is finally on the path of sanity when it comes to health care .
>> reporter: but not everyone was elated.
>> the government is out of control.
>> reporter: the 5-4 decision upheld the law as a use of congress's power to tax. anyone who doesn't buy insurance has to pay a penalty, and the court said that amounts to a valid tax.
>> today's decision was a victory for people all over this country whose lives will be more secure because of this law and the supreme court 's decision to uphold it.
>> reporter: opponents of the law had challenged the central requirement that all americans must get health insurance . they said congress power to regulate commerce did not extend to people who chose not to buy something, that is, who don't have insurance. chief justice roberts , plus the court 's other conservatives, actually agreed that the law could not be justified as a use of the commerce power. but roberts joined the court 's liberals in upholding the law instead as a legitimate use of the congressional power to tax people who choose not to get health insurance . because the constitution permits such a tax, roberts wrote, it is not our role to forbid it or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness. the key to the decision turned out to be the chief justice, a life long conservative appointed to the court by president george w. bush .
>> the fact that a conservative republican appointed chief justice wrote today's opinion joining with the court 's more liberal members would and should give americans a lot of confidence in the decision that it's not just a political thing.
>> reporter: while opponents of the law, including 26 states , took some comfort in the court 's statement on the limits of the commerce power they were hugely disappointed the law was upheld.
>> what i think we all need to do in this country is to realize that we have awakened to a new day where an unprecedented tax has been imposed on us, literally against our will.
>> reporter: the court today also weakened a different part of the law, a punishment for states that decline to provide expanded benefits under the federal medicaid system.
>> the court was saying that the federal government cannot blackmail the states and threaten to take away all their medicaid money if they did not accept the new, expanded proposal.
>> reporter: so here is the legal bottom line. the massive health care law stands except for the medicaid punishment on the states. that means by 2014 anyone who can afford health insurance and doesn't get it will have to pay a tax. brian ?
>> pete , in plain english , basically this court is made up of five republicans and four democrats and that's why we see so many 5-4 decisions. you touched on this in your story. how extraordinary was it that this chief justice appointed by president bush crossed over in this way on this day and on this issue?
>> well, completely, because i can't think -- i don't think there's another case since john roberts has been on the court of any importance at all, perhaps any case at all, in which this was the lineup. the liberals plus the chief justice john roberts . this was his first time doing that.
>> and, pete , for the people who were trying to read the tea leaves during oral arguments when this was presented that day in court , wasn't one big factor the fact that the administration's lawyer had a pretty rough go and was fairly roughed up and people thought that didn't bode well for passage of the law?
>> that was a bright, shiny object that some people fastened on, but if you look at the comments of the justices, really, the seeds of john roberts ' agreement with the health care law were there. yes, we had some skepticism but he also made comments suggesting he was willing to uphold it as well, brian .
>> pete williams reporting for us at the end of a long day of superb, spot on reporting from the supreme
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LG Optimus Vu 'Value Pack' Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade on the way in Korea
LG's Optimus Vu still has yet to debut in the US, but Korean fans of the extra-wide 5-inch phablet can soon enjoy a new "Value Pack" upgrade. It brings the phone to yesterday's-news Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich along with LG-specific tweaks to its note taking features, UI 3.0 and Quick Voice search. There's a quick demo video of the update (embedded after the break) and promotional mini site with more details, although the ability to understand Korean -- or muddle through machine translated closed captions -- will come in handy.
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Qualcomm to deliver Snapdragon SDK to Android developers
At this year's Uplinq conference, Qualcomm hit Android developers with some exciting news. In the coming months, the chip maker will deliver a Snapdragon software development kit (SDK) that will provide devs with access to the "next-generation technology and features" embedded in its processors. Through APIs, the kit will allow application architects to leverage facial processing, burst camera capture, surround sound recording, echo cancellation, sensor gestures, low power geofencing and indoor location capabilities. Initially, the SDK will only be available for the S4 8960 wafer, but Qualcomm hopes to include more models over time. Head past the break to have a gander at the full press release.
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Viewing High Fat Foods Stimulates Appetite & Brain Centers | Psych ...
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USC researchers say they have proved that viewing pictures of high-fat foods and drinking sweetened beverages stimulates appetite and reward centers in the brain.
?Studies have shown that advertisements featuring food make us think of eating, but our research looked at how the brain responds to food cues and how that increases hunger and desire for certain foods,? said Kathleen Page, M.D., principal investigator at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
?This stimulation of the brain?s reward areas may contribute to overeating and obesity, and has important public health implications.?
Page and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure the brain responses of 13 obese, Hispanic adolescent women ranging in age from 15 to 25.
Women were chosen because prior research indicates they are more responsive to food cues; the study group was narrowed to Hispanic women because of the high risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes in the Hispanic community.
Researchers scanned the women?s brain responses as they looked at pictures of high-calorie foods, such as hamburgers, cookies, and cakes, and low-calorie foods such as fruits and vegetables.
After seeing the high-calorie and low-calorie groupings, the participants rated their hunger and desire for sweet or savory foods on a scale from one to 10.
Halfway through the scans, the women drank 50 grams of glucose ? equivalent to a can of soda ? and another time, they drank 50 grams of fructose. Glucose and fructose are the main components of table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup. Afterwards, a brain scan was performed.
?We hypothesized that the reward areas in the women?s brains would be activated when they were looking at high-calorie foods, and that did happen,? said Page. ?What we didn?t expect was that consuming the glucose and fructose would increase their hunger and desire for savory foods.?
The researchers also noted that fructose stimulated more hunger and desire in the participants? brains than glucose did.
?Our bodies are made to eat food and store energy, and in prehistoric days, it behooved us to eat a lot of high-calorie foods because we didn?t know when the next meal was coming,? Page said.
?But now we have much more access to food, and this research indicates added sweeteners might be affecting our desire for it.?
Nevertheless, questions remain as to whether these cravings are environmental (caused by obesity) or genetic. As such, future research will include a study by Page of what happens to the brains of obese individuals while they are dieting.
Source: USC
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Nauert PhD, R. (2012). Viewing High Fat Foods Stimulates Appetite & Brain Centers. Psych Central. Retrieved on June 28, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/06/26/viewing-high-fat-foods-stimulates-appetite-brain-centers/40690.html
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Teen violin star is Venezuela's youngest conductor
MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela (Reuters) - At 2 years old, he was given his first musical instrument: a "cuatro," or small four-string guitar. At 8, he cried with emotion at a brass band concert.
Now, at just 14, Jose Angel Salazar is Venezuela's youngest orchestra conductor - the latest prodigy from his nation's famed El Sistema (The System) music development program - and possibly the youngest in the world.
Since the mid-1970s El Sistema has taught hundreds of thousands of youths, many from impoverished homes in Venezuela's tough slums, to play in orchestras. Supporters say it gives them discipline, cuts truancy and boosts self-esteem.
"For a boy of 14 to be conducting an orchestra at the same time as going to school is a miracle that only happens in Venezuela," Salazar told Reuters in an interview last week on Margarita, the Caribbean island where he was born.
The teenager, who delights in the complex symphonies of Franz Schubert and overtures by Antonio Vivaldi, is the second of three siblings raised by two local schoolteachers.
At a concert that night, the other musicians applauded him warmly as he took the stage to conduct 40 other youngsters, many of them older than him. Smiling shyly, he raised his baton and silence fell before the first notes rang out.
After two pieces, he received a long standing ovation, with his proud family looking on from a private box.
Jose Antonio Abreu, a local pianist, politician and economics professor, founded El Sistema in 1975 to get poor youngsters off the street, especially in shantytown "barrios" with some of the highest murder rates in the world, by offering them a classical musical education focused on ensemble playing.
Today, it is made up of 180 orchestras and about 350,000 youths, some 2,000 of whom recently flooded the Caracas metro to play in a simultaneous concerts at 23 stations.
Its most well-known alumnus is 31-year-old Gustavo Dudamel, who is now director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and shot to rock-star levels of fame after leading Venezuela's Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra at rapturously received concerts worldwide.
Another prodigy is Edicson Ruiz, who at 17 became the youngest musician to join the Berlin Philharmonic.
Youth orchestras inspired by Abreu's methods are being set up in places including Los Angeles, Scotland and Spain.
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Salazar, who spoke to Reuters between rehearsals while wearing his high school uniform - a pale blue polo shirt, says he too hopes to travel the world one day, thanks to music.
In preparation, he said he plans to study languages after he leaves school in two years' time. And, as a fan of Schubert, he says he will start with German.
His love of Schubert, and classical music in general, began when he was age 8 and he saw a concert in Margarita by a local brass band with a trumpet player from the Berlin Philharmonic.
"I wanted to play the trumpet. ... I remember crying three times because of the impression the music made on me," he said.
He soon gave up karate lessons in favor of his new passion.
He began by learning the recorder, which all initiates to El Sistema are taught, and then the violin. He excelled at that instrument and was soon named as a concertmaster - or the leader of the first violin section of the orchestra.
Salazar, who also plays the guitar and the "cuatro," said the first time he directed the orchestra it was spontaneous.
"I was playing (the violin) and there was a teachers' meeting so our teacher had to leave. Since no one was left in charge, I put down the violin and began to conduct," he said with a smile.
Before long, Salazar was conducting boys twice his age, but always under the watchful eye of his teacher, Felipe Izcaray.
His life has changed a lot. After school he runs, without changing his uniform, to rehearse late into the night. It is only during the weekends when there are no concerts that he has something resembling a normal teenage life with his friends.
One day, he dreams of conducting at New York's storied Carnegie Hall, or the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
"I want to continue developing myself so that in the future I can pass on the gifts that I'm receiving now," Salazar said.
(Editing by Daniel Wallis and Will Dunham)
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
UVS Junction to Deploy 'RV Digital Boot Camp' | RV Business
UVS Junction announced that it will be conducting its ?RV Digital Boot Camp? Aug. 14-16 at its learning lab in Winter Springs, Fla.
According to a press release, the three-day Junction University session will teach attendees the latest and most effective Internet strategies, BDC development and dealer processes through hands-on computer lab exercises. Attendees will ?learn the truth about what works and what doesn?t? on the Internet and can implement the strategies at their individual workstations.
The Junction University workshops are designed to bolster the skills of RV dealers of all levels, according to Angie Cellucci, director of UVS Junction. The educational offerings will be overseen by the company?s development team, which includes two former professors of Full Sail University. Online marketing and technology experts will regularly make guest appearances during workshops, UVS Junction said.
?The purpose of this university is for the RV industry to remain powerful,? said Cellucci. ?Our industry is so far behind others like the automotive sector. While speaking with RV dealers every day, it?s clear that there is such a thirst to learn but they just don?t have a place to go that can be trusted.
?We feel that if we don?t start educating RV dealers now, they are going to go elsewhere to other industry trade shows that are outside the RV industry to learn about the new digital world. We want to ensure dealers are getting the right information instead of what marketing companies are trying to sell them.?
Topics will include:
? RV Digital Marketing basics.
? Attracting today?s RV prospect online
? Merchandising inventory online.
? Generating first-party leads.
? Effective processes for collecting consumer information.
? Optimizing your dealership website without the high cost of SEO companies.
? Learn about Google Logic.
? The power of video marketing.
? Effective SEO strategies.
? Social media strategies.
? Social media strategies for website visitors.
UVS Junction?s effort to educate the industry will continue outside Junction University. The company said it will donate a portion of its Junction University registration proceeds to help support the RV Learning Center.
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Seeing inside tissue for no-cut surgeries: Researchers develop technique to focus light inside biological tissue
ScienceDaily (June 26, 2012) ? Imagine if doctors could perform surgery without ever having to cut through your skin. Or if they could diagnose cancer by seeing tumors inside the body with a procedure that is as simple as an ultrasound. Thanks to a technique developed by engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), all of that may be possible in the not-so-distant future.
The new method enables researchers to focus light efficiently inside biological tissue. While the previous limit for how deep light could be focused was only about one millimeter, the Caltech team is now able to reach two and a half millimeters. And, in principle, their technique could focus light as much as a few inches into tissue. The technique is used much like a flashlight shining on the body's interior, and may eventually provide researchers and doctors with a host of possible biomedical applications, such as a less invasive way of diagnosing and treating diseases.
If you crank up the power of light, you might even be able to do away with a traditional scalpel. "It enables the possibilities of doing incision-less surgery," says Changhuei Yang, a professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at Caltech and a senior author on the new study. "By generating a tight laser-focus spot deep in tissue, we can potentially use that as a laser scalpel that leaves the skin unharmed."
Ying Min Wang, a graduate student in electrical engineering, and Benjamin Judkewitz, a postdoctoral scholar, are the lead authors on the paper, which was published in the June 26 issue of the journal Nature Communications.
The new work builds on a previous technique that Yang and his colleagues developed to see through a layer of biological tissue, which is opaque because it scatters light. In the previous work, the researchers shined light through the tissue and then recorded the resulting scattered light on a holographic plate. The recording contained all the information about how the light beam scattered, zigzagging through the tissue. By playing the recording in reverse, the researchers were able to essentially send the light back through to the other side of the tissue, retracing its path to the original source. In this way, they could send light through a layer of tissue without the blurring effect of scattering.
But to make images of what is inside tissue -- to get a picture of cells or molecules that are embedded inside, say, a muscle -- the researchers would have to be able to focus a light beam into the tissue. "For biologists, it's most important to know what's happening inside the tissue," Wang says.
To focus light into tissue, the researchers expanded on the recent work of Lihong Wang's group at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL); they had developed a method to focus light using the high-frequency vibrations of ultrasound. The WUSTL group took advantage of two properties of ultrasound. First, the high-frequency sound waves are not scattered by tissue, which is why it is great for taking images of fetuses in utero. Second, ultrasonic vibrations interact with light in such a way that they shift the light's frequency ever so slightly. As a result of this so-called acousto-optic effect, any light that has interacted with ultrasound changes into a slightly different color.
In both the WUSTL and Caltech experiments, the teams focused ultrasound waves into a small region inside a tissue sample. They then shined light into the sample, which, in turn, scattered the light. Because of the acousto-optic effect, any of the scattered light that passes through the region with the focused ultrasound will change to a slightly different color. The researchers can pick out this color-shifted light and record it. By employing the same playback technique as in the earlier Caltech work, they then send the light back, having only the color-shifted bits retrace their path to the small region where the ultrasound was focused -- which means that the light itself is focused on that area, allowing an image to be created. The researchers can control where they want to focus the light simply by moving the ultrasound focus.
The WUSTL experiment was limited, however, because only a very small amount of light could be focused. The Caltech engineers' new method, on the other hand, allows them to fire a beam of light with as much power as they want -- which is essential for potential applications.
The team demonstrated how the new method could be used with fluorescence imaging -- a powerful technique used in a wide range of biological and biomedical research. The researchers embedded a patch of gel with a fluorescent pattern that spelled out "CIT" inside a tissue sample. Then, they scanned the sample with focused light beams. The focused light hit and excited the fluorescent pattern, resulting in the glowing letters "CIT" emanating from inside the tissue. The team also demonstrated their technique by taking images of tumors tagged with fluorescent dyes.
"This demonstration that we can focus significant optical power deep within tissues opens up significant possibilities in optical imaging," Yang says. By tagging cells or molecules that are markers for disease with fluorescent dyes, doctors can use this technique to make diagnoses noninvasively, much as if they were doing an ultrasound procedure.
Doctors might also use this process to treat cancer with photodynamic therapy. In this procedure, a drug that contains light-sensitive, cancer-killing compounds is injected into a patient. Cancer cells absorb those compounds preferentially, so that the compounds kill the cells when light shines on them. Photodynamic therapy is now only used at tissue surfaces, because of the way light is easily scattered. The new technique should allow doctors to reach cancer cells deeper inside tissue.
The team has been able to more than double the current limit for how far light can be focused into tissue. With future improvements on the optoelectronic hardware used to record and play back light, the engineers say, they may be able to reach 10 centimeters (almost 4 inches) -- the depth limit of ultrasound -- within a few years.
Still, the researchers say, their demonstration shows they have overcome the main conceptual hurdle for effectively focusing light deep inside tissue. "This is a big breakthrough, and we're excited about the potential," Judkewitz says. Adds Caltech's Wang, "It's a very new way to image into tissue, which could lead to a lot of promising applications."
The Nature Communications paper is titled "Deep-tissue focal fluorescence imaging with digitally time-reversed ultrasound-encoded light." In addition to Wang, Judkewitz, and Yang, the other author on the paper is Charles DiMarzio of Northeastern University. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust, and the National Science Scholarship from the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research in Singapore.
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Mystery of the flatfish head solved
ScienceDaily (June 25, 2012) ? Those delicious flatfishes, like halibut and sole, are also evolutionary puzzles. Their profoundly asymmetrical heads have one of the most unusual body plans among all backboned animals (vertebrates) but the evolution of their bizarre anatomy has long been a mystery. How did flatfishes, with both of their eyes on one side of their head, evolve? So puzzling was the anatomy of flounders and their kin that they were used in early arguments against Darwin and his theory of natural selection. Skeptics wondered how such unusual features could have slowly evolved whilst remaining advantageous for the fishes' survival.
A new fossil discovery described in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology by Oxford University researcher Dr Matt Friedman finally solves the mystery. Friedman's fossil fish, named Heteronectes (meaning 'different swimmer'), was found in 50 million year old marine rocks from northern Italy. This study provides the first detailed description of a primitive flatfish, revealing that the migrated eye had not yet crossed to the opposite side of the skull in early members of this group. Heteronectes, with its flattened form, shows the perfect intermediate stage between most fish with eyes on each side of the head and specialized flatfishes where both eyes are on the same side.
"This fossil comes from Bolca in northern Italy, a site that has literally been mined for hundreds of years for its fossil fishes. This remarkable site provides a snapshot of an early coral reef assemblage. Reefs are well known as biodiversity hotspots, so it is perhaps not surprising that Bolca provides us with the first evidence of many modern fish groups," said Friedman. "Our understanding of the relationships of some of these groups is in a state of change with the increasing influx of molecular genetic studies. Fossils have not contributed very much to this debate, but specimens like that of Heteronectes reveal the superb level of detail that can be extracted from extinct species."
Friedman noted that "The specimen itself was discovered -- with no identification -- in a museum collection in Vienna. It just goes to show that even well-known fossil sites can yield important surprises, and that not all new discoveries take place in the field."
"This is a profound discovery which clearly shows that intermediate fossil forms, which according to certain creationist theories shouldn't exist, are regularly turning up as scientists keep looking for them," says Dr. John Long of the Natural History Museum of LA County, an expert in fossil fishes who was not involved in the study.
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Communication: The #1 key to relationship management
In This Issue:
Dr. Zimmerman?s Tuesday Tip:
?Quality questions create a quality life.? Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.?
Anthony Robbins, author and management consultant
Dr. Alan Zimmerman?s Personal Commentary:
Immediately after World War II, the Allied Armies gathered up many hungry, homeless children and placed them in large camps.? There, the children were abundantly fed and cared for.? However, at night the children did not sleep well.? They seemed restless and afraid.
Then one psychologist hit on a solution.? After the children were put to bed, each one of them received a slice of bread to hold.? If they wanted more to eat, they were given more food.? But this slice of bread was to be held and not eaten.
The slice of bread produced marvelous results.? The children would go to sleep, subconsciously knowing and feeling they would have something to eat the next day.? That assurance gave the children the assurance they needed so they could sleep calmly and peacefully.
In a similar sense, we all need something to hold on to.? And few things are more important or more helpful than holding on to good, healthy, positive, productive relationships at work or at home.
The good news is ? you can strengthen or manage almost any relationship ? to make it better and better.? The key to it all is the ?excitement principle.?
As I discussed in last week?s ?Tuesday Tip,? the research makes it clear ? anything that increases the excitement level of two people ? and is seen as a positive experience by both people ? will strengthen the relationship between the two of them.? In other words, whatever increases your heart rate, blood pressure, and adrenalin ? in a good way ? when you?re with another person or a team of people ? will build up your relationship.
I gave you five ways to do that last week.? However, the very best way to use the ?excitement principle? to strengthen and manage your relationships is to increase the quality of your communication.??
And most day-to-day talk in work and home relationships does not strengthen the relationship.? It is merely ?functional? talk ? such as ? ?Customer Y needs that product shipped today ? We?ve got until this afternoon to finish the project ? The kids will be home at 5 ? and ? Let?s have pizza for dinner.?? It gets a job done, but it does not increase the excitement level or bring the people any closer together.
So what kind of communication works?? There are four kinds, each one more powerful than the previous one.
1.? Talk about the past.
Talk to the other person about things you did together in years gone by.? Talk about the places you?ve been together.? And talk about the things you got excited about.
This works equally well for teams on the job or family members at home.? When you talk about ?the good old days? or ?how things used to be,? you rekindle a certain camaraderie.? You see it happening at the annual company picnic or the ten-year class reunion.? It just plain feels good to remember all the good and bad things you went through ? together.
As you do so, remember to follow English author Quentin Crisp?s advice.? He said, ?The formula for a successful relationship is simple:? Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities, but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.?? In other words, put things in the best possible perspective.
2.? Laugh together.
Laughter releases endorphins that kill off pain.? And these endorphins can lead to a sense of well-being and optimism..? You benefit personally.
But when you laugh together, you also strengthen and manage your relationship more effectively.? The laughter can bridge the gap between total strangers and laughter can even reduce the tension in a tense situation ? which is often needed ? on and off the job.?
So I?m always looking for humor I can share with my friends and family as well as my clients and audiences.? For example, one of my colleagues, Scott Friedman, sent me the following.
- A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
- Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death.
- Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red.
- When two egotists meet?it?s an I for and I.
- What?s the definition of a will? It?s a dead giveaway!
- If you don?t pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.
- Once you have seen one shopping center, you?ve seen a mall.
- The man who fell into the upholstery machine is fully recovered.
- Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.
- Those that get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
As fun and helpful as that can be, it?s even more effective if you ?
3.? Engage in open, honest self-disclosure.
Reveal some things about yourself that the other person would not know otherwise ? things that involve a bit of risk.? It kicks the ?excitement factor? into play.? After all, there is no intimacy without transparency.? And there is no teamwork without self-disclosure.
And one of the best places for self-disclosure to take place is in the performance appraisal process.? Unfortunately, many organizations have a difficult time getting their managers to give their employees timely, helpful performance appraisals ? because the appraisals provoke too much anxiety.?
But that?s crazy.? If a manager has been doing his/her job ? self-disclosing and sharing information with the employees on a regular basis ? there shouldn?t be any anxiety in giving performance appraisals.? All the appraisal does is summarize all the information the manager has already given the employee about his/her performance.
The anxiety comes into play when the manager stores up information for long periods of time.? Again, that?s crazy.? In so doing, he/she takes away the employee?s chances of improving his/her performance.? And what right does any manager have to deny his/her employees the opportunity to do the best possible job?? A manager has to self-disclose and give complete and honest feedback.
As a rule of thumb, if you?re a supervisor or manager, give your subordinates feedback every month that tells them how they?re doing.? Better yet, do it every week.? And when you have that brief discussion, ask your subordinates for some feedback.? Ask them if there is anything you could be doing more effectively.? Ask them if there is anything you could be doing to help them with their jobs.? You will be managing the relationship in way that allows for more back-and-forth self-disclosure.
Of course, there is this myth that feedback should only flow downward in an organization.? Actually, the best ? and maybe the most important ? feedback flows upward.? The Nixon White House needed to learn that.? Nixon created an environment where his subordinates only told him what he wanted to hear.? They did not give him any opinions that were contrary to the views he already held.? Of course, it created insanity.?
And there is a measure of insanity in any organization when the upper-level bosses are deprived of feedback.? They lose touch with reality and become very much like the Emperor and his new clothes.? No one told him the truth; so he walked around naked.
In my speaking and consulting practice, I find that the worst managed companies are those where it is common knowledge that it is NOT okay to go into the offices of a senior executive and give him/her absolutely honest feedback.? Doing so might result in the loss of the employee?s job or at least damage his career.?
I tell executives that it is YOUR job to create an environment of trust that ripples throughout every level of the organization.? It is YOUR job to create an environment where subordinates feel safe giving you open, honest feedback.?
The fact is ? everyone benefits when leaders, managers, and subordinates are open, honest, and self-disclosing.? In fact, I?ve noticed that is the norm in the best organizations.?
And how do you know if you have that kind of an environment going on at work?? Simple.? On a piece of paper, write down the name of your superior.? List all the things he or she does well and all the areas where improvement is needed.? Then imagine yourself bringing that paper to your superior.? If you feel any anxiety about that, it?s because there are some things on your paper you haven?t told your superior.
In essence, to strengthen and manage your relationships, increase your self-disclosure.
And the VERY BEST way to do that is ?
4.? Ask and answer brave questions.
It?s a skill that is lacking in so many relationships.? Lots of people don?t know how to connect on a deeper level.? So they talk about the things they have to do, the people they know, or relatively unimportant topics such as the weather, the football game, and what?s for dinner.?
But the strongest teams and best relationships always go beyond superficial conversation.? They ask what I call ?Brave Questions? ? questions that are a bit more personal ? and a bit more risky.? They seek to understand the other person on a much deeper level.? And when they?re done right, you infuse your relationships with a surge of energy.? You go beyond relationship management to relationship building.
Deb Olswold testified to that.? She wrote to tell me this technique got her a better job.? In her words, Deb said, ?I have always been a very shy person, always in the background of the workplace, the family, and my personal life.? Then I was asked to interview for a higher ranking position, so I rushed out to get a copy of your book, ?Brave Questions.?? I read the book, wrote a few of the questions on a small piece of paper, and went to the interview. Instead of just passively sitting back and letting them take the entire lead, I asked them such things as, ?Where do they want to be in two years?? What kind of person are they looking for?? And what do they expect from me???
?Because of your book, I went through the entire interview with a sense of confidence.? An hour after the interview, they called to offer me the position.? I accepted the position and have thanked you in my daily prayers.? I know that your ?Brave Questions? helped me get the best job I have ever had. The 400 questions in the book are fantastic.? I can finally ask questions with confidence, and I can move into a meeting with ease.? The old ?shy? secretary is fading away as my new self-esteem emerges.?
After last week?s Tip, so many people called in about the discount on??The Brave Question Payoff:? Building Stronger Relationships And Greater Teamwork By Asking All The Right Questions? at 40% off, That I have decided to extend the sale.? To help you get started on better relationship management, I am?continuing the?discount of 40% off.
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As Deb so clearly indicates, there?s power in asking and answering ?Brave Questions.? It can improve your effectiveness on the job.? But ?Brave Questions? are equally effective at home.????
Kelly Daufeldt told me about that. She wrote me, saying, ?My husband and I recently heard you speak at the Wisdom Financial Seminar.? As we drove home, we began asking each other Brave Questions, and we?ve continued the practice.? It?s been great!!? We had a strong marriage but now it?s better than ever!??
Kelly continued, ?Then I decided to try this technique on our three small children and their friends.? We had a couple of the neighborhood kids over for lunch, and just for the fun of it I brought out your ?Brave Questions? book while they were eating and asked them a few questions.? The response was phenomenal!!? They didn?t want the lunch to end.? I had so much fun laughing and learning about the littlest kids in our neighborhood ? not to mention that your book helped me earn the ?Coolest Mom? award with all the kids!? Thanks so much again!!!?
You get the point.? To build strong relationships, to manage all your relationships for the better, you?ve got to get beyond the fluff and the superficial.? You?ve got to ask and answer brave questions.? You?ve got to get to the real meat ? and you will be blessed with teams that work and relationships that work.
Action:
Decide this week to engage at least two people in a deeper conversation where you ask each one of them at least two Brave Questions. And then listen closely to their answers.
?Transforming the people side of business ? to help you get the payoffs you want and need?
Dr. Alan Zimmerman
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