Australian PM stumbles before rowdy protest crowd (AP)

CANBERRA, Australia ? Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard stumbled and was caught by a security guard as riot police helped her force a path through a crowd of rowdy protesters following a ceremony to mark Australia's national day Thursday.

She appeared distressed as she was pulled away from the protesters but was unharmed. She later remarked that she was made of "pretty tough stuff" and commended police for their actions.

Some 200 supporters of indigenous rights had surrounded a Canberra restaurant and banged its windows while Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott were inside officiating at an award ceremony.

Around 50 police escorted the political leaders from a side door to a car. Gillard stumbled, losing a shoe. Her personal security guard wrapped his arms around her and supported her to the waiting car, shielding her from the angry crowd.

The protesters had been demonstrating for indigenous rights nearby at the so-called Aboriginal Tent Embassy, a ramshackle collection of tents and temporary shelters in the national capital that is a center point of protests against Australia Day.

Australia Day marks the arrival of the first fleet of British colonists in Sydney on Jan. 26, 1788. Many Aborigines call it Invasion Day because the land was settled without a treaty with traditional owners.

Abbott appeared to be the target of protesters, who chanted "shame" and "racist" outside the restaurant.

The Tent Embassy celebrated its 40th anniversary on Thursday. Abbott had earlier angered indigenous activists by saying it was time the embassy "moved on."

Gillard was unharmed and later hosted another Australia Day function for foreign ambassadors at her official residence.

"The only thing that angers me is that it distracted from such a wonderful event," Gillard told reporters.

"I am made of pretty tough stuff and the police did a great job," she added.

Reaction from protesters afterward was mixed, with some saying police assaulted them and that Gillard and Abbott were never in danger. They also made conflicting claims over who had Gillard's shoe ? a Midas high-heeled blue suede ? and if it would be returned.

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Italian borrowing costs drop sharply in bond sale (AP)

MILAN ? Italy easily raised euro5 billion ($6.47 billion) in a pair of bond auctions on Thursday that saw a sharp drop in borrowing rates, a sign that investor confidence in the country is improving.

The sale was the first test of market sentiment in the country's handling of its debt since ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut Italy's credit rating by two notches on Jan. 13.

Italy paid an interest rate of 3.763 percent on euro4.5 billion in two-year bonds, compared with 4.85 percent in a comparable auction in December. The borrowing cost for a new bond expiring in September 2014 was 3.2 percent.

UniCredit analysts said the sale was "positive" and an encouraging sign for upcoming auctions.

Nicholas Spiro, who heads a sovereign debt consultancy in London, noted the market was "particularly buoyant" after the U.S. Federal Reserve pledged to keep interest rates low until late 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow economic recovery.

That will have encouraged traders to invest in riskier assets, such as bonds from economically weaker countries like Italy.

Italy has seen its borrowing costs ease in recent weeks, after yields on benchmark 10-year bonds pushed to the perilous 7 percent level last year. Following Thursday's auction, 10-year bonds were trading at 6.04 percent on the secondary market, where bonds are traded after they are sold.

The government has been trying to regain investor confidence by cutting public spending and reforming a sluggish economy.

Premier Mario Monti recently passed a euro30 billion austerity package and announced liberalization measures.

His government easily survived a confidence vote in the lower house of Parliament, by a margin of 469-74, on a series of additional measures that include an increase in tax on cigarettes and funds for Italians who have been exiled from Libya. A separate vote on the additional measures is expected by Tuesday.

Italy goes back to the bond markets on Friday, selling up to euro8 billion in six-month bonds and euro3 billion of bonds expiring in 11 months.

On Monday, Italy will try to raise another euro8 billion in the sale of longer term paper.

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NASA satellites see cyclone Funso exiting Mozambique Channel

ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2012) ? Powerful Cyclone Funso is now beginning to exit the Mozambique Channel, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured a stunning image of the storm that shows the depth and extent of it.

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Funso on January 26 at 1110 UTC (6:10 a.m. EST). The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, better known as the MODIS instrument captured a true color image of the storm that showed a 25 nautical-mile-wide (29 miles/~46 km) eye, and clouds swirling down into it. The outer extent of Funso's clouds skirted Madagascar to the east, and Mozambique to the west.

At 0900 UTC (4 a.m. EST) on January 26, Funso's maximum sustained winds were down to 100 knots (115 mph/185 kph). It was located about 277 nautical miles (319 miles/513 km) east-northeast of Maputo, Mozambique. Its center was pinpointed near 24.0 South latitude and 39.2 East longitude. It was moving to the south-southeast near 4 knots (4.6 mph/7.4 kph). The storm is over 400 nautical miles (460 miles/~741 km) in diameter, which is the extent of tropical-storm-force winds.

Funso is expected to maintain cyclone strength over the next couple of days as it moves out of the Mozambique Channel and into the open waters of the Southern Indian Ocean, where it will begin to weaken.

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Active Ingredient in Viagra Shrunk Disfiguring Growths in Kids (HealthDay)

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- A new preliminary report suggests that the active ingredient in Viagra, sildenafil, could reduce the size of large growths that can disfigure the bodies of children.

The findings could point to yet another use for the medicine, which was first developed as a heart medication until researchers noticed that it helped impotent men have erections. This time, researchers stumbled upon an alternate use while using a Viagra-like drug to treat a rare condition that causes high blood pressure in the arteries that lead to the lungs.

There are caveats: The treatment is very expensive, the research is only in its early stages, and the medication may not be a cure. Still, the research raises the prospect that "we could treat some of these little kids who have little or no hope," said report co-author Dr. Alfred Lane, a professor of dermatology and pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine.

The growths in question are known as severe lymphatic malformations. They appear in children, including babies, and create disfiguring growths of fluid and vessels.

The growths can be as big as a volleyball or a basketball, Lane said. They seem to appear when the lymphatic system, a component of the body's immune system, becomes clogged, although the exact cause isn't clear, he said.

In some cases, the growths can be dangerous, such as when they pose a risk of blocking an airway pressuring a nearby organ.

Surgery to remove the growth is one option, although it may not be possible, he said. For some children, "there's not a whole lot you can do about it."

That's where sildenafil may help.

Researchers used a form of the medication called Revatio to treat a baby girl who suffered from pulmonary hypertension, the condition that causes high blood pressure in certain arteries. The investigators found that the medication had another effect: it reduced the size of a lymphatic growth.

The child, who was severely ill, died. But researchers were curious about the effects of the drug, and they tried it on two other children. Their growths shrunk and became softer after 12 weeks.

The parents of the children decided to continue giving the drug to their kids; it's not clear how they're doing now, but Lane will see one of the patients soon.

The drug may not eliminate a growth, "but if it can reduce it to the size that they can remove it, that would be good," Lane said.

Revatio costs $800 to $1,000 a month, Lane said, although the Pfizer drug company is donating the drug for research purposes. While the dose is low, potential side effects include dizziness, eye problems, nosebleeds and nausea, Lane said.

Researchers don't know how the drug works to reduce the size of the growths, Lane noted, although one possibility is that it makes it easier for the lymph system to drain fluid.

A new study of the treatment is underway.

Dr. Richard Smith, a pediatric otolaryngologist who's familiar with the report, said it offers an "exciting and serendipitous finding." But it must still be validated to prove that it truly holds promise, said Smith, vice chair of the University of Iowa's department of otolaryngology -- head and neck surgery.

The report appears in the Jan. 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Children's Hospital Boston has details about lymphatic malformations.

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No. 10 Michigan St tops Minnesota for Izzo's 400th

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No. 10 Michigan St tops Minnesota for Izzo's 400th
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Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, right, reacts to a call as he talks to Brandan Kearney during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Minnesota, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, right, reacts to a call as he talks to Brandan Kearney during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Minnesota, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)

Michigan State's Draymond Green, left, drives against Minnesota's Rodney Williams during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)

Minnesota Andre Hollins (1) loses the ball while driving against Michigan State's Branden Dawson, left, and Draymond Green (23) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)

Michigan State's Derrick Nix, right, works under pressure from Minnesota's Ralph Sampson III during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)

Minnesota's Rodney Williams dunks over Michigan State's Draymond Green during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) ? Draymond Green had 22 points, 14 rebounds and six assists to help No. 10 Michigan State beat Minnesota 68-52 Wednesday night and give coach Tom Izzo his 400th win.

Izzo downplayed what the milestone meant to him on Monday, but was wiping tears off his cheeks during the final seconds of the victory.

The Spartans (17-4, 6-2) moved into a first-place tie in the Big Ten with their second straight win after losing two in a row.

The Golden Gophers (15-6, 3-5) had won three straight, including their previous two on the road.

Minnesota's Rodney Williams scored 15 and Ralph Sampson III had 10 points.

Michigan State led by two midway through the first half when it went on a 16-5 run, leading to a 37-27 advantage at halftime.

The Spartans were up by 13 early in the second half, but Minnesota pulled within five with just under 10 minutes left.

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Niger official: Nigeria sect linked to al-Qaida (AP)

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania ? Niger's foreign minister says a radical Nigerian Islamist sect responsible for a series of deadly attacks received training and weapons from al-Qaida's North African wing.

Mohamed Bazoum said Wednesday in Mauritania's capital that members of the Boko Haram sect have had training and received explosives from al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. He says "there is no doubt the two organizations are connected and that they have the same objective of destabilizing our region."

Ministers from the West African region met Wednesday in Mauritania, and vowed to intensify their efforts against the groups.

Boko Haram wants to implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria. Attacks they claimed last week killed at least 185 people in Kano, Nigeria's second-largest city.

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Kaleb Kula, Autistic 6th Grader, Bullied On Videotaped Beating At Maryland School Bus Stop

Troubling footage has surfaced of an autistic student being brutally beaten to the ground at his Maryland school bus stop while his peers stood by to watch -- and catch the act on camera.

In the video, acquired by WMAR-TV, an unidentified student strikes 11-year-old Kaleb Kula in the head as other students cheer on.

"Yo, beat the sh-- out of him!" one student yells. The video was later uploaded to Facebook.

Kula has been a victim of bullying for years at Elkton Middle School, WMAR-TV reports, being verbally and physically abused by his peers. He tells the station that he just has "a bad reputation."

"At least kids that don't have special needs can defend themselves a little bit more," Kaleb's father James Kula said. "He's pretty much defenseless."

For the most part, the instance of student victimization in schools has fallen since 1995, according to a report by the National Center for Educational Statistics, but the problem persists. The proportion of students reporting criminal victimization at school fell to 4.3 percent of students aged 12 to 18 in 2005, from 9.5 percent in 1995. In the 2008-2009 school year, about 3.9 percent of students aged 12 to 18 reported being victims of a crime at school.

The Kulas said they had issued many requests for help from the school, to no avail. School officials say, however, they are following procedures in place to prevent bullying and protect students.

"I'm going to try to put this behind me, but then it's going to come running back in front of me and confront me again," Kaleb told WMAR-TV. "That's what I think will happen. It's like a ground hog trying to run from its shadow."

Elkton police have charged the boy who struck Kaleb in the video as a juvenile with second degree assault.

Kaleb's incident is just the latest in a series of assaults against autistic students. In 2009, Virginia school bus driver Alice Davis Holland and special education aide Mary Alice Evans were caught on surveillance hitting, kicking and choking autistic student Timothy Kilpatrick on the school bus. Holland and Evans were convicted of criminal charges last fall.

In December, 9-year-old Christopher Baker, also an autistic student, was reportedly stuffed into a duffel bag by his educators as punishment for misbehavior. The bag was closed with the student, and his mother found him wiggling inside as a teacher's aide stood by.

Students who stand out for being "different" or who have unique attributes are often more likely to fall victim to school bullying. In a report by AAPI Nexus issued last fall, research showed that Asian American students are bullied in American schools much more than students belonging to any other ethnic group.

According to a survey by Onepoll and Youngpoll, the effects of bullying are having averse effects on even younger groups of students. About 44 percent of children surveyed between the ages of 11 and 13 said they had been bullied because of their weight, and more than 40 percent of kids younger than 10 admitted they were concerned about gaining weight -- with nearly one-fourth of the younger group reporting having been on a diet in the last year.

The psychological effects of bullying are pervasive. The suicides of 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer from Buffalo, N.Y. and 10-year-old Ashlynn Conner from Vermilion County, Ill. are just two of dozens of reports illuminating the strife of young victimized students. Last year, 13-year-old Nicolette Taylor resorted to plastic surgery to escape harassment and name-calling, particularly on social networking sites such as Facebook.

Bullied students are shown to suffer academically as well. Research presented to the American Sociological Association last fall revealed that students who reported being bullied in the 10th grade saw a slight decrease in GPA by 12th grade. The change is even sharper for black and Latino students who tend to earn high marks.

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Brad Pitt On Directing: 'Hell No'

Brad Pitt was on hand at Saturday night's Producer's Guild Awards, in part to support his partner Angelina Jolie, who was presented with the Stanley Kramer Award for her directorial debut, "In the Land of Blood and Honey." Directing has been a successful new venture for Jolie, but don't expect Pitt to follow in her foot steps behind the camera.

"Hell no," Pitt responded when asked on the red carpet if he had any interest in directing his own film, quite firm in his stance. "Just not interested."

The answer sets him apart from his best friends in Hollywood. George Clooney has become a successful director with four films to his name, including this year's critical hit "The Ides of March," while Ben Affleck has helmed two films and is working on his third, "Argo." Matt Damon has written a number of films -- he earned an Oscar with Affleck for "Good Will Hunting" -- and was supposed to make his directorial debut on a film he co-wrote with John Krasinski; he has since pulled out due to schedule conflicts, giving the job to Gus Van Sant.

Still, Pitt is far more than just an actor. He recently became the 5000th member of the Producer's Guild, and it was well deserved. He produced "Moneyball," working for years to make it happen, and also pulled the strings on "The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford." Through his producing shingle Plan B Entertainment, he's also producing the zombie film "World War Z" and "Cogan's Trade," both of which he stars in.

Pitt has also had his name on a number of hits in which he did not act. He earned a Golden Globe for co-producing "The Departed," though he was ruled ineligible for the Oscar that the film eventually won. His company has backed Jolie's "A Mighty Heart"; Johnny Depp's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"; "The Time Traveler's Wife"; and "Eat Pray Love."

While he has walked back those pesky rumors of a retirement from acting at 50-years-old, clearly, Pitt will be in Hollywood for the long haul.

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Stuttering Reflects Irregularities in Brain Setup

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A stutter indicates a massive change in brain wiring that affects more than just speech

By Carrie Arnold ?| January 23, 2012?|

Put on a pair of headphones and turn up the volume so that you can?t even hear yourself speak. For those who stutter, this is when the magic happens. Without the ability to hear their own voice, people with this speech impediment no longer stumble over their words?as was recently portrayed in the movie The King?s Speech. This simple trick works because of the unusual way the brain of people who stutter is organized?a neural setup that affects other actions besides speech, according to a new study.

Normal speech requires the brain to control movement of the mouth and vocal chords using the sound of the speaker?s own voice as a guide. This integration of movement and hearing typically happens in the brain?s left hemisphere, in a region of the brain known as the premotor cortex. In those who stutter, however, the process occurs in the right hemisphere?prob?ably because of a slight defect on the left side, according to past brain-imaging studies. Singing requires a similar integration of aural input and motor control, but the processing typically occurs in the right hemi?sphere, which may explain why those who stutter can sing as well as anyone else. (In a related vein, The King?s Speech also mentioned the common belief that people who stutter are often left-handed, but studies have found
no such link.)

In the new study, published in the September issue of Cortex, re?searchers found that the unusual neural organization underlying a stutter also includes motor tasks completely unrelated to speech. A group of 30 adults, half of whom stuttered and half of whom did not, tapped a finger in time to a metronome. When the sci?entists interfered with the function of their left hemisphere using trans?cranial magnetic stimulation, a non?invasive technique that temporarily dampens brain activity, nonstutterers found themselves unable to tap in time?but those who stuttered were unaffected. When the researchers interfered with the right hemisphere, the results were reversed: the stut?tering group was impaired, and the nonstutterers were fine.

According to lead author Martin Sommer, a neuroscientist at the University of G?ttingen in Germany,the results suggest that the left-hemisphere defect underlying a stutter causes trouble with sensory integra?tion in general, rather than specifically speech-related problems as was his?torically thought. ?Like in stroke pa?tients, the right side seems to jump in and compensate,? Sommer ex?plains. But that part of the brain did not evolve to handle those tasks, so problems?such as a stutter?can emerge.

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Q&A: Android Design Chief Details Google?s Mobile Future

Mike Isaac sat down with Android UX design chief Matias Duarte at CES for an exclusive pre-launch interview, and picked his brain about Android, design in general, and competing operating systems like Windows Phone and webOS ? the platform he architected for Palm years ago.

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How Tears Go 'Pac-Man' To Beat Bacteria

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Tears contain an enzyme that eats bacteria the way Pac-Man eats Power Pellets.

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Tears contain an enzyme that eats bacteria the way Pac-Man eats Power Pellets.

The mystical healing properties of tears are invoked in fairy tales and fantasies from Rapunzel to Harry Potter. So it may surprise you to hear that tears really are pretty powerful, on the microbial level at least.

In 1922, a few years before he won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of penicillin, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered in human tears a germ-fighting enzyme which he named lysozyme. He collected and crystallized lysozyme from his own tears, then wowed contemporaries at Britain's Royal Society by demonstrating its miraculous power to dissolve bacteria before their very eyes.

"That's a seriously bodacious experiment," Gregory Weiss, professor of molecular biology at the University of California, Irvine, tells Shots. Weiss is co-author of a paper on a modern-day bodacious experiment that for the first time reveals details of how lysozyme works.

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"People had always wondered, did 100 molecules gang up and attack a bacterium?" says Philip Collins, a physics professor at Irvine who joined the interdisciplinary research team. "What we've shown is that just one molecule of enzyme is enough."

How is that possible? Well, each molecule is essentially a set of voracious jaws that latches on to microbial invaders, starts chewing and doesn't let go. "The enzyme opens and closes almost like a Pac-Man mouth as it chomps away," Collins says, which means it can chew through bacterial cell walls as easily as scissors slice through paper.

"This tells us that the enzyme opens huge, gaping holes in the bacteria, which cause the bacteria to explode," Weiss says.

Each tear you shed contains an army of these enzymatic Pac-Men, ready to chase down and gobble up germs before they infect the sensitive tissues around your eye. But in order to study their motion up close, the researchers had to keep one of the molecules still. And to do that, they relied on some very tiny technology: carbon nanotubes.

The team attached a lysozyme molecule to a nanotube, using an amino acid as a tether. Then they passed an electric current along the tube, essentially turning the molecule into a very tiny transistor. When the molecule sprang into action, each chomp of its jaws produced a blip of electrical activity, like the dit-dit-dit of a telegraph.

That signal was like "a microphone that allowed us to listen in on the enzyme's activity," Collins says.

The findings were just published in the journal Science.

The researchers plan to use this technique to study many other molecules. Down the road, everything from DNA, to pharmaceuticals, to cancer biomarkers could be incorporated into similar biological transistors.

"We're building circuits that are hybrids between biology and technology," Weiss says. "It's fun because we're building a new field. It's something that hasn't been done, and that's what makes it exciting."

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Daniel Radcliffe Is 'Phenomenal,' Elizabeth Olsen Raves

'Martha Marcy May Marlene' actress is getting ready to star opposite Radcliffe in the thriller 'Kill Your Darlings.'
By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Cillian Murphy and Elizabeth Olsen
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PARK CITY, Utah — Daniel Radcliffe is no longer just the Boy Who Lived — at this stage, he's the Man Who Flourished.

Indeed, Radcliffe has kept his post-"Potter" career very interesting, what with a turn as a horror lead in next month's "Woman in Black," a lengthy run on Broadway in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and even a hosting stint on "Saturday Night Live" earlier this year.

He's set to keep his fans guessing even further with his next confirmed movie, "Kill Your Darlings," which tells the tale of how Beat Generation icons Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr first met — and how that meeting eventually led to murder.

Radcliffe plays Ginsberg in the film, and starring opposite him is up-and-coming actress Elizabeth Olsen. The brilliant young star of "Martha Marcy May Marlene" spoke with MTV News about joining the cast of "Kill Your Darlings," making her admiration for the "Harry Potter" star very well-known.

"He is so phenomenal," Olsen said at the Sundance Film Festival, where she's repping the paranormal thriller "Red Lights." "He's an incredible person. He's so funny and smart and fun. He's such a good guy."

Olsen is just one small cog in the greater machine of "Kill Your Darlings," according to the actress. She said she only appears in "three scenes of that movie" as Edie Parker, girlfriend of Jack Kerouac.

"Edie Parker is the one who introduced Ginsberg to Lucien Carr and Jack Kerouac," she explained of her role. "She's kind of the glue between them. I'm just there for a few scenes to explain that part of the story. But her personal life is really, really incredible."

The 2012 Sundance Film Festival is officially under way, and the MTV Movies team is on the ground reporting on the hottest stars and the movies everyone will be talking about in the year to come. Keep it locked with MTV Movies for everything there is to know about Sundance.

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Christian Bale returns to China in new film (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Christian Bale says he isn't concerned with what Chinese government censors approved or cut from his new film "The Flowers of War."

"I just do what I do," Bale said. "What happens after I'm wrapped is always out of my hands. It doesn't matter which country that's in. ... Which scenes get chosen, which scenes get cut, that has nothing to do with me."

The movie marks Bale's return to the country where he launched his Hollywood career in 1987 with Steven Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun." And while Bale didn't worry about intrusion into the filmmaking process, the government did publicly rebuke him for a recent run-in with state-backed guards. With a CNN camera crew in tow, Bale attempted last month to visit the home of blind activist Chen Guangcheng before being physically turned away.

In an interview before that incident, Bale said he picked "The Flowers of War," with dialogue divided about evenly between Mandarin and English, out of a desire to get outside his comfort zone and work with director Zhang Yimou.

"I have a great sense of adventure, and whatever adventure I can take out of moviemaking, I'm going to," said Bale, who won a supporting actor Oscar for last year's "The Fighter." "So I hope that not just with China but with just internationally that we'll start to get much more mixing of nationalities and film cultures. And I think we're going to get some really interesting results from that."

Bale used an interpreter to communicate with Zhang during production of "Flowers," set during the Japanese army's brutal 1937 rampaging of Nanjing. The 37-year-old actor said they used gestures and developed "a good kind of a short-hand, kind of a lingua franca" to get through scenes.

Zhang said Bale suggested changes that the director incorporated into the finished film, which like other Chinese productions was subject to review by censors. (Bale notes that while he's happy to make such suggestions, he has no hopes to direct: "I don't want the responsibility.")

The film was at the top of the Chinese box office last year and is being released in the U.S. on Friday. Bale stars as a mortician who pretends to be a priest and works to protect two groups of young women inside a Catholic cathedral during the invasion known as the Rape of Nanking.

In the interview, Bale also confirmed that July's "The Dark Knight Rises" will be his final appearance as the Caped Crusader.

"There's a time to finish anything. And this feels like the time," Bale said.

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AP Entertainment Writer Ryan Pearson is on Twitter: www.twitter.com/RyanPearsonLA

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Protesters try to disrupt showpiece Bahrain Air show (Reuters)

MANAMA (Reuters) ? Anti-government protesters tried to disrupt the Bahrain airshow on Thursday, burning tires which sent up columns of smoke as the authorities attempt to show life is returning to normal in the troubled Gulf kingdom.

People on the opening day of the Bahrain International Air Show, the kingdom's first big event since major unrest last year, saw U.S. and Russian jets swoop past against a backdrop of the plumes of smoke.

The protesters set fire to tires around Manama, hoping to embarrass the government which cracked down last February on massive demonstrations demanding more democracy.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa inaugurated the show at the Sakhir air base earlier in the day. The government hopes the event will help to draw back investors and businesses to the country.

Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa later said the show would elevate Bahrain's status on the international map, the state news agency reported.

Bahrain is also due to host a Formula One grand prix in April at a circuit near the airbase. Last year's race was cancelled due to the unrest, although the circuit company said last week it would reinstate employees who had been sacked for taking part in the protests.

The three-day air show includes flying displays by American military jets including F15 and F18s.

No plane deals were announced on the first day of the event. However, Bahrain's Gulf neighbors showed their support with Qatar Airways and Oman Air displaying their aircraft. Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum visited the show, arriving on an Emirates Airbus A380 superjumbo.

Bahrain's ruling Al Khalifa family has offered limited parliamentary reforms but the opposition wants a shift to a constitutional monarchy and elected government.

(Reporting by Praveen Menon; editing by David Stamp)

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Hey, Did You Hear? ?Why We Don?t Listen

Why do we sometimes not register sounds and voices around us? A wife asks her husband for the third time, ?did you take the garbage out yet?? He is so glued to the big game and he still hasn?t issued a response. A kid doesn?t hear her mother tell her dinner is ready because she is fully immersed in her favorite video game. You miss part of the conversation you were having with your friends at a coffee shop because you were too busy checking for new email, comments and tweets on your smart phone for the millionth time today (that one I can relate to). What do these three scenarios have in common? Our bodies trying to balance our sensory perceptual load between vision and hearing and one of these senses ultimately falls short.

Researchers in the United Kingdom have demonstrated for the first time a phenomenon known as inattentional deafness. It seems when we are concentrated on a highly involved visual task, we block out auditory information around us that is unrelated to the task at hand. In other words, we may be involuntarily putting sounds ?on mute? while we concentrate on activities that take a great deal of our attention visually and and this can turn us into poor listeners.

Inattentional Blindness:

Now we have all probably heard of something called ?inattentional blindness? and the infamous visual awareness test that Chabris and Simons conducted back in 1999 in which one is asked to watch a video and count the number of times a basketball is passed by one of two teams. If you haven?t seen it, it was similar to the following video. Check it out!

Visual Awareness Test (by dothetest.co.uk):

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In the original version of this test, also known as the ?invisible gorilla? experiment by Chabris and Simons, the mental task of counting passes had about 50% of viewers so distracted that they were visually unaware of the gorilla walking (or in this case, the bear moonwalking) right into the middle of the screen. A moonwalking bear, hello? A gorilla beating on his chest? Come on! (For the record, I missed both!)

Perhaps you have also heard about the study that came out in 2009 in which distracted cell phone users were visually unaware of a clown on a unicycle passing them as they were walking and chatting away on their phone. I mean, really. How could you not notice a clown pedaling right passed you on a unicycle!

Visual awareness has been well researched and there are many interesting studies out there on how distractions can take away from your vision. If you?d like to have a little more fun with it, I will list a couple of other videos at the end of this post. But for now let?s turn our attention towards hearing and distractions causing a decrease in our auditory awareness. What is this newly named phenomenon of inattentional deafness?

Inattentional Deafness:

In May 2011, Macdonald and Lavie set up a series of experiments putting the theory of inattentional deafness to the test. They found subjects were able to hear a beeping sound being played through headphones while they performed a visual task on the computer if the task was relatively easy but as the level of difficulty of the visual task increased, they became unaware that a sound was even there.

The setup of the experiment went like this. On the computer screen, a series of crosses were presented to participants, one by one, each for a short interval. The cross had one green arm and one blue arm and the lengths of the arms on the cross varied slightly. Each person was asked to either indicate which arm was blue or judge which arm was longer. Determining color was thought to be a very easy visual task with a low amount of perceptual load. Conversely, participants who were asked to detect the subtle difference in length of the two arms were said to have a more challenging task, requiring more visual attention and therefore having to endure a higher perceptual load.

The experiment had three parts. In the first part, experiment 1, white noise was played through the headphones and participants were told that they were to wear the headphones throughout the experiment. Researchers said the white noise would ?aid concentration by blocking out noise from people passing the testing room?[according to researchers] participants seemed to take this instruction at face value and did not seem suspicious [of the need to] block out the sound of people passing by.?

During the last cross presentation, the white noise was accompanied by a beeping sound. Participants were then stopped and asked at the end if they had heard ?anything different about the sound coming through the headphones during the last trial?? Their response was noted. Then they were asked to perform one more trial in which they were told to ignore the cross and just listen to the sound coming through the headphones to make sure each person had good enough hearing to detect the sound. If they didn?t hear it when they were actively listening for it, then they were excluded from the study and replaced.

From the results in Experiment 1, Macdonald and Lavie concluded that their hypothesis was in fact correct. At times when a higher visual load was presented (determining length of the arms of the cross), the participants were less likely to hear the task-unrelated tone sounding through their headphones.

However, they wanted to prove their point further so they did a second experiment without the white noise. They thought that maybe the presence of white noise could possibly cause subjects to actively ignore all noise during the entire experiment. By taking away the white noise from the headphones, the presence of sound (versus natural silence) should be easier to detect and therefore be more noticeable. They found that, again, when the participants had the more dauntingly visual task of detecting the subtle difference in the length of the arms on the cross, they were a lot less likely to notice the beeping sound being played through the headphones, even in the absence of all other sound. So again, if a task takes a lot of visual concentration and attention, it can cause a decrease in auditory awareness. Now you think they would stop there, but Macdonald and Lavie took it to the next level once more.

In experiment 3, they sought to eliminate the possibility that those who were on the low perceptual load team were a little aloof during the experiment and those who were on the high perceptual load team maybe were a little more motivated, engaged and attentive because of the nature of their work being a little harder. So they made it a length only discrimination task where each person was asked nothing about color, only which arm of the cross was longer. Sometimes the difference in lengths between the arms of the cross was grossly obvious, other times it was subtle. They also increased the number of trials presented. Macdonald and Lavie found that still, those with a higher perceptual load (distracted with determining a more subtle difference in arm length) heard the sound less often than those who had the easier visual task of the more grossly obvious difference in cross arm length. Their results were ?not as robust? but they were still there.

More studies need to be conducted on inattentional deafness to truly see how it affects our everyday lives. Macdonald and Lavie have concerns about inattentional deafness and driving a motor vehicle stating that if people were ?less likely to notice an auditory alarm while engaged in a high-visual-load computer task, [then] the sound of a car horn while attending to a visually loaded billboard? also might pose a problem. Safety out on the roadways is definitely a concern.

Perhaps another interesting modification to the study would be to replace the tone sounding through the headphones with a person?s voice saying a word. Maybe a bizarre word that you wouldn?t just happen to overhear in the laboratory like zebra or halloween. Would the participant be completely unaware of human speech like it was of the tone when engaged in a highly visual task?

After researching this topic, I know I will be practicing more patience when I catch someone not listening to me. It may not have been intentional. And also I pledge to put down the smartphone and have some real ?face-time? with the person sitting right across the table from me the next time I?m out for coffee. After all, they are deserving of my undivided attention. My emails, texts and tweets can wait. Unless of course I see a moon-walking bear, then all bets are off, sorry guys, I have to tweet pic that.

Additional tests of your visual awareness:

The Colour Changing Card Trick (by Richard Wiseman/Quirkology):

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Test Your Awareness: Whodunnit? (by dothetest.co.uk ):

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Also, check out the fun book by Chabris and Simons, The Invisible Gorilla: How our Intuitions deceive us.

Photo Credits: Man with glasses (Matt Jeacock /istockphoto), i-distractions and Author pic (Erica Angiolillo/Gotcha! by Erica), Bear (Trine de Florie /stockxchg photo).

References:

Boss, M. Caggiano, J. Hyman, I. McKenzie, K. Wise, B. (2010) Do You See the Unicycling Clown? Inattentional Blindness While Walking and Talking on a Cell Phone. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 24:597-607.

Chabris C. and Simons, D. (2011) The Invisible Gorilla: How our Intuitions deceive us. New York: Crown Publishing Group.

Macdonald JS and Lavie N. Visual perceptual load induces inattentional deafness. Atten Percept Psychophys. 2011 Aug; 73(6):1780-9. doi: 10.3758/s13414-011-0144-4

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Investing in Forex

By Bart on January 18, 2012

If you want to know how Forex market works, you should have a precise understanding concerning who is participating in trading there. It allows a trader to learn the structure of Forex and factors, which influence on this market. Currently, the investors belong to the most important players of Forex.

Investing of money in capital issues that can bring you profit can be defined as an investment. From this point of view, Forex by its nature can be considered as a kind of investment as well. The matter is that the traders earn money at Forex and this money form profit. As a rule, the investors are targeted at buying government and corporate approved securities on the financial market. Insurance companies, investment and pension funds belong to such investors. Market participants, which want to invest in Forex, often use a policy of diversification for shareholdings handling. It means that it?s necessary to use the local investments on the investors? deposits. And a given security has to be applied.

All trustworthy investment funds are always interested and aspire to invest their money in different objects, which are important for the society and can make the life of people better. Implementing such a policy, these funds receive much more than just money. The funds win the recognition of people ? excellent reputation. Actually, deciding on where to invest is the most difficult tasks for the investors. Very often, the investors, which only start their business at Forex, fail, because they are not reputed well yet and their experience is very small, but their expectations of profits are great. Under these circumstances, such investors become insolvent and leave Forex market.

If somebody aspire to convince the investors of the need to invest money somewhere, then this developer of the project must firstly convince the investor that the project is useful for social development (infrastructure, medicine, new energy-saving technologies, and so on). In this situation, a profit is on the second place for the investor. Forex broker plays the role of an investor as well, as he invests the activities of his clients on the financial market.

The investors on Forex have to understand the market, where they are going to work, and be able to present themselves in the best way. If not, the investors will not profit from Forex online trading.

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Source: http://www.investing-tips.org/investing-in-forex/

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Ness, The Restaurant Discovery App, Adds Crucial Mapping Feature

I made heavy use of Ness's restaurant-finding iOS app during a recent trip through the East Coast, because lots of places are still sadly short on Yelp reviews, and I wanted a quick way to find the best local spots to eat. While I got some good results, I would have been all over a new feature that Ness has just pushed out in an update today: maps. Yeah, another restaurant app with a map. You're not shocked, I'm guessing, but you should take a closer look because of the data that Ness offers. It uses machine learning technology that uses a variety of social signals that you provide it from Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter, as well as your behavior and other data, to figure out which places you'll like the most. The result is often what you're hoping for -- suggestions for great places that you might not have seen on other restaurant discovery apps, or anywhere else for that matter.

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Final plea in NY drug ring case on Columbia campus (AP)

NEW YORK ? A student accused of selling LSD at Columbia University pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted drug possession, resolving the last case in a takedown of a drug ring on the Ivy League campus.

Adam Klein was the last of five students to plead guilty in the case, which authorities called the biggest move in recent memory against drug dealing at a New York City college. The case, unveiled in December 2010, spurred discussion of student drug use and how to weigh questions of promise, privilege and punishment in places from the New York Post's editorial page to an essay on Time magazine's website.

Klein, 21, is expected to get five years' probation at sentencing, which is scheduled for Feb. 28.

The students formed a loose-knit network that sold drugs ranging from marijuana to Ecstasy to cocaine out of dorm rooms and fraternity houses, with each student specializing in certain drugs, according to city Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan's office. An undercover officer bought more than $11,000 worth of drugs from the group over five months, prosecutors said.

Lawyers for several of the students, including Klein, portrayed them as talented young men who got derailed by drug problems in college. Klein became addicted to marijuana and other drugs that took a severe toll on him academically, according to his lawyer, Alan Abramson. Klein is currently in drug treatment, Abramson said.

Klein and three of the other students asked a court for a chance at wiping their records clean by completing court-supervised rehabilitation, a legal option granted to more than 1,000 people statewide each year. The fifth student wasn't eligible because he faced more serious charges related to cocaine sales.

A court turned down all but one of the students, Christopher Coles, 21, who began treatment earlier this month after admitting he sold more than a pound of marijuana to an undercover officer. His lawyer said the sales were an attempt to finance the anthropology major's own $70-to-$100-a-day pot habit.

For the rest of the students, the outcomes have ranged from probation and community service to jail time.

The engineering student who faced the cocaine charges and was the investigation's initial target, Harrison David, 21, served a six-month jail sentence after pleading guilty to a cocaine-selling charge.

Jose Stephan Perez, a published poet who won the prestigious Gates Millennium scholarship, pleaded guilty to a felony attempted drug possession charge. Perez, 21, also known as Stephan Vincenzo, had been accused mainly of selling the prescription stimulant Adderall. But Perez, whose lawyer said the student struggled with social pressures in college and began smoking marijuana as many as five times a day, will be allowed to withdraw his plea and plead guilty instead to a drug misdemeanor in a year if he meets conditions including 300 hours of community service.

Michael Wymbs, an engineering major initially charged with selling LSD and Ecstasy, was sentenced last week to five years' probation after pleading guilty to attempted drug possession. Wymbs, 23, was treated for depression in college and grappled with drug use and heavy drinking, his lawyer said in court papers.

Wymbs is now studying at the City University of New York, his lawyer, Michael Bachner, told a judge last week.

Columbia has declined to comment on the students' current status, citing educational privacy laws.

Three off-campus suppliers charged in the case also have pleaded guilty.

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An Intercultural Education for Mexico: Career and Contributions of Sylvia Schmelkes

This article introduces Sylvia Schmelkes's contributions in the field of intercultural education. An outstanding Mexican educational researcher, Schmelkes was General Coordinator of the Intercultural and Bilingual General Coordination (GCIBE) at the Mexican Ministry of Public Education from its inception in 2001 until 2007. This article provides a perspective on interculturality and a brief overview of the Mexican context as it has been marked by political transition preceded by the Zapatista insurrection in Chiapas. The article then describes Schmelkes's approach and her most significant contributions to the work of the GCIBE. We argue that Schmelkes's main contribution was her commitment to building bridges between the research findings, the Indigenous demands contained in the San Andr?s agreements, and the Mexican state. The depth of the challenges faced by Indigenous education in Mexico, and the extent of racism in the country were some of the challenges faced by her direction.

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Primo & Epico crowned WWE Tag Team Champions at WWE Live Event!

OAKLAND, Calif. ? During a WWE Live Event at Oakland?s Oracle Center, Primo & Epico beat Kofi Kingston & Evan Bourne to capture the WWE Tag Team Championship. Kingston & Bourne held the titles since Aug. 22, 2011.

The victory for Primo & Epico comes less than a month after they attempted to dethrone "Air Boom" at WWE TLC 2011 (FULL STORY).

Primo previously won the WWE Tag Team Championship with Carlito in 2008. Then, at the 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania, Primo & Carlito defeated World Tag Team Champions John Morrison & The Miz to become the Unified WWE Tag Team Champions. (FULL STORY) Together, Primo & Carlito held the titles until June 28, 2009, when they were defeated by Edge & Chris Jericho.

The victory marks the first championship in WWE for Epico since his Nov. 4, 2011 debut on SmackDown. (EPICO?S SUPERSTAR PROFILE | PRIMO?S SUPERSTAR PROFILE)

Source: http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/2012-01-09/primo-epico-new-wwe-tag-champions

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Goodell: NFL to consider some full-time officials (AP)

BALTIMORE ? Aiming to ensure NFL rules are enforced the same way from game to game, the league will consider making about 10 officials full-time employees next season.

As of now, all game officials are part-time employees.

Responding to a question about consistency in officiating while speaking to a group of about 75 fans before Sunday's playoff game between the Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the proposal would bring a group of officials to the league offices in New York to help review game films and evaluate the calls.

They then would be spread out among the crews at games.

"Consistency is exactly what every club wants, and I think every fan wants. You want consistency in the way rules are applied," Goodell said. "We are contemplating this offseason taking some of those officials from the field who are now part time ? they have other jobs ? and making a certain number of them, let's say 10, full time."

Goodell also told the fans the rules committee will examine whether teams should be allowed to hire assistant coaches who left other teams during the same season, as happened with New England and Josh McDaniels. He returned to the Patriots in time for the playoffs after spending the regular season with the St. Louis Rams.

"We've talked to several club executives. I'm not getting a lot of reaction from the other clubs that this is unfair. They don't seem to think it's a big issue," Goodell said. "But it's something we'll talk about."

Among other topics Goodell addressed with fans, and later while speaking to reporters:

_He hopes the league and the players' union will be able to settle their differences on testing for human growth hormone before next season, but he wouldn't say he's confident that'll happen.

"There's certainly enough time. We had a meeting just on Friday between the two parties to try to address those issues," Goodell said. "We understand the issues they've raised. We've answered those questions. ... All of the scientists agree that this test is valid. So we think we have a valid test. It's been proven on a global basis. We hope to get it implemented as quickly as possible."

The new labor contract that ended the NFL lockout in August included a provision for HGH testing as soon as this season ? but only once the NFLPA approved the process. That hasn't happened, in part because the NFLPA says it needs more information about the test itself.

Asked by a reporter whether he's confident of getting a test in place for 2012, Goodell paused, then replied: "I'll tell you: Sure going to work as hard as we can to get it done, because I think it's important, not just for the game, but also for the players."

_He called the latest tweaks to concussion protocols ? including putting certified athletic trainers in booths at games to keep an eye out for possible head injuries, and adding video feeds on sidelines ? "significant improvements" and "two very positive steps."

_The new kickoff rules "achieved our objective" by reducing injuries, Goodell said.

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Investing How to: Dividend Stocks With High Cash Flow | Investing ...

We have a smart post from our friends at Kapitall on investing.

When looking for a stock that provides dividend income, be sure to check a company?s free cash flow to gauge whether it can continue to fund its dividend payment.

When looking for ?dividend stocks,? we look for high-dividend growth and talk about things like cash flow and payout ratios.

Don?t fully understand these terms? Have no fear! Let?s take a look at what each of these metrics mean and why they are important:

Dividends/Share

Dividends are a payment made by a company to its shareholders. The money is a portion of the company?s profits. Cash dividends are paid as a percentage of the share value. That percentage is called the ?dividend yield.? In our list, all stock dividends per share have been increasing with the five-year growth rate higher than the ten-year, and the three-year growth rate higher than the five-year rate.

Assets vs. Liabilities

In accounting terms, assets are anything owned by the company that generates income and is of value. This includes cash and inventory. Liabilities are the opposite?the total of all debts, loans, mortgages, etc. It is an obligation to transfer something of value away from the company. All of the stocks on our list have assets that outweigh their liabilities.

Rallying

When a stock is rallying, it is performing above its market average for a given time period. It is presented as a percentage of performance relative to the average. When a stock is performing above its 20-day moving average (MA) as well as its 50- and 200- day market averages, it signals bullish momentum. All the stocks in this list are rallying above their 20, 50, and 200-day MA.

Payout Ratio

It is the amount of earnings paid out to shareholders represented as a percentage. It is calculated as the dividends per share/earnings per share. A low payout indicates a company is keeping its earnings while a high payout ratio indicated the company uses its earnings for dividend purposes. This ratio also gives an investor an idea of how well the company?s earnings can support its dividend payments (generally, the higher, the better).

Operating Cash Flow/Revenue

Free operating cash flow (FOCF) is the total operating cash flow minus all operating expenditures, such as wages, repairs and depreciation. Strong free cash flow signals a company?s ability to pay debt, dividends, and invest in their business growth. For this list all stocks have a positive operating cash flow/revenue.

See all of Kapitall?s stock picks.

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We talked live about investing for the long haul. Check out the video.

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Can a Vaccine Cure Haiti's Cholera?

Features | Health

Two years after the earthquake and thousands of deaths later, the debate about whether to use the cholera vaccine in Haiti continues

By Katherine Harmon ?| January 12, 2012?|

Persistant plague: Two years after the earthquake Vibrio cholerae is well established in Haiti. Now advocates and policy makers are looking for the best tools to banish it. Image: Wikimedia Commons/Tom Kirn/Ron Taylor/Louisa Howard/Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility

The cholera epidemic in Haiti has cast a stark light on deep development holes and disagreements about whether a short-term patch?in the form of a cholera vaccine?can help in the long-term fight for better health.

A developing nation, Haiti has long struggled to maintain modern public-health projects. Even before the January 12, 2010 earthquake, the country was already falling behind. In 1990 more than a quarter of the population had access to sanitary facilities, but by 2008 only 17 percent of Haitians did. The earthquake brought further destruction to the country's limited infrastructure. Almost before the dust from the devastation settled, however, the international outpouring of support and aid seemed to signal a new opportunity to bring the most basic of health tools?clean water and decent sanitation?to Haitians.

Now, two years after the earthquake, Haiti is backsliding again. In the first half of 2010, about half of people in settlement camps in Port-au-Prince had clean drinking water, but by the end of the year only 7 percent did. And even as the cholera epidemic subsides to a couple hundred cases a day between rainy seasons, experts anticipate a spike in illness and deaths as soon as the rains return, starting next month.

Since the first cases of cholera appeared in October 2010, some 7,000 people have died from the diarrheal disease (caused by the pathogen Vibrio cholerae, which is transmitted via unclean drinking water) and at least 520,000 have suffered symptoms. Treatment is simple (oral rehydration salts), and prevention is basic (clean drinking water and proper sanitation). But for impoverished Haiti, these solutions are still largely out of reach.

That is why many advocates argue for the distribution of the cholera vaccine, which has passed clinical trials and received approval by the World Health Organization (WHO) for global use. But many groups, such as the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), are taking a wait-and-see approach and are not yet ready to back a full rollout of the vaccine.

Prevention imperfect?
The two existing cholera vaccines, Dukoral and Shanchol, are taken orally in two doses two weeks apart, and immunity takes about a week to kick in and lasts for two or three years. They are about 60 to 90 percent effective.

Those at Partners In Health, a health care organization, say that imperfect efficacy should not matter in Haiti. "If you have a vaccine that was about 80 percent effective compared to 0 percent effective of drinking stool-laden water, which would you choose?" asks Paul Farmer, co-founder of the organization and a professor at Harvard University. "It's not as good as the polio vaccine, but neither is the flu vaccine." Indeed, the cholera vaccines are roughly as effective as flu vaccine, and are "pretty frickin' good," says Farmer. Shanchol has emerged as the favorite, as unlike Dukoral it does not need to be diluted with water.

Partners In Health is collaborating with the Haitian NGO Gheskio to start distributing Shanchol in two locations?in the rural area of Bocozel in the Artibonite River Valley and the more urban Port-au-Prince slum Cit? de Dieu. They have 200,000 doses of Shanchol on order from the Indian manufacturer, Shantha Biotechnics, and hope to start the pilot program next month?although Farmer says they had hoped it would start last year.

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Ill., Decatur wait for details on ADM job cuts (AP)

DECATUR, Ill. ? City officials in Decatur and Illinois economic development officials say they've talked to Archer Daniels Midland about its plans to cut 1,000 jobs but are waiting to find out how many will be in the state.

Decatur City Manager Ryan McCrady said Wednesday he's optimistic that the Decatur-based agricultural processor's job cuts will be widely spread enough to avoid hurting the city too baldy. ADM has 4,000 employees in Decatur.

Another major local agricultural firm, Tate & Lyle, is in the process of moving its headquarters from Decatur to Hoffman Estates.

Marcelyn Love of the state Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity says the agency has talked with ADM about what it can do to limits cuts in Illinois.

ADM says it plans to cut primarily salaried workers.

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New publication fosters improved wound care for ulcers, limb salvage, burns, trauma, and more

Public release date: 10-Jan-2012
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New Rochelle, NY, January 10, 2012The rapidly advancing field of tissue injury and repair has an important new forum. Advances in Wound Care will report the latest research findings, innovative wound care strategies, industry product pipeline, and developments in biomaterials and skin and tissue regeneration to optimize patient outcomes. The bimonthly online publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is an Official Publication of the Wound Healing Society, offering rapid dissemination of the latest scientific discoveries, translational research, and clinical developments in acute and chronic wound care. The inaugural issue is available free online at www.liebertpub.com/wound

"Wounds represent a major and escalating public health problem," says Chandan K. Sen, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, The Ohio State University Medical Center. "A quantum leap in wound care can only come from effective collaboration between the numerous disciplines that the wound care community represents."

The Journal's broad scope of coverage of wound care applications will include limb salvage, chronic ulcers, burns, trauma, blast injuries, surgical repair, skin bioengineering, dressings, anti-scar strategies, diabetic ulcers, ostomy, bedsores, biofilms, and military wound care.

Advances in Wound Care will publish four types of articles: Critical Reviews on late breaking science; Comprehensive Invited Reviews by authoritative experts; Technology Reports covering new therapies brought to the market; and Discovery Express aimed at rapid communication of short original articles. In addition, the Journal will publish thematic issues offering comprehensive coverage of cutting-edge topics in wound care. While the primary focus is on cutaneous wound sciencesboth acute and chronicquality articles covering comparative science of other organ and tissue systems will be published as well.

Advances in Wound Care is under the editorial leadership of Dr. Chandan K. Sen, Professor of Surgery and Director of the Comprehensive Wound Center at The Ohio State University Medical Center, and an international editorial board comprised of leading investigators in the field of tissue injury and repair.

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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Tissue Engineering, Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, and Surgical Infections. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 70 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available at www.liebertpub.com

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 140 Huguenot St., New Rochelle, NY 10801-5215 www.liebertpub.com
Phone: (914) 740-2100 (800) M-LIEBERT Fax: (914) 740-2101

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Public release date: 10-Jan-2012
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

New Rochelle, NY, January 10, 2012The rapidly advancing field of tissue injury and repair has an important new forum. Advances in Wound Care will report the latest research findings, innovative wound care strategies, industry product pipeline, and developments in biomaterials and skin and tissue regeneration to optimize patient outcomes. The bimonthly online publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is an Official Publication of the Wound Healing Society, offering rapid dissemination of the latest scientific discoveries, translational research, and clinical developments in acute and chronic wound care. The inaugural issue is available free online at www.liebertpub.com/wound

"Wounds represent a major and escalating public health problem," says Chandan K. Sen, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, The Ohio State University Medical Center. "A quantum leap in wound care can only come from effective collaboration between the numerous disciplines that the wound care community represents."

The Journal's broad scope of coverage of wound care applications will include limb salvage, chronic ulcers, burns, trauma, blast injuries, surgical repair, skin bioengineering, dressings, anti-scar strategies, diabetic ulcers, ostomy, bedsores, biofilms, and military wound care.

Advances in Wound Care will publish four types of articles: Critical Reviews on late breaking science; Comprehensive Invited Reviews by authoritative experts; Technology Reports covering new therapies brought to the market; and Discovery Express aimed at rapid communication of short original articles. In addition, the Journal will publish thematic issues offering comprehensive coverage of cutting-edge topics in wound care. While the primary focus is on cutaneous wound sciencesboth acute and chronicquality articles covering comparative science of other organ and tissue systems will be published as well.

Advances in Wound Care is under the editorial leadership of Dr. Chandan K. Sen, Professor of Surgery and Director of the Comprehensive Wound Center at The Ohio State University Medical Center, and an international editorial board comprised of leading investigators in the field of tissue injury and repair.

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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Tissue Engineering, Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, and Surgical Infections. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 70 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available at www.liebertpub.com

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 140 Huguenot St., New Rochelle, NY 10801-5215 www.liebertpub.com
Phone: (914) 740-2100 (800) M-LIEBERT Fax: (914) 740-2101

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/mali-npf011012.php

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