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Research and Markets: Micro-Nano Technology XIII from the 13th Annual Conference of Chinese Society of Micro-Nano …

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/d4wkjk/micronano) has announced the addition of the "Micro-Nano Technology XIII" report to their offering.

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 13th Annual Conference of Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology, September 28-30, 2011, Changchow, China

These 81 papers, all written by Chinese researchers, are grouped into 8 chapters: Micro/Nano Transducer/Acutar/Robot, Microfluidic Devices and Systems, Micro/ Nano Fabrication and Measurement Technologies, Microfluidics and nano fluids, Nano Material Research/Nanotube/Nanowire Devices, MEMS/NENS and Applications, Nanometer Biological / Nano Medicine and Packaging Technology. This work offers an excellent overview of current research on MEMS and nano-technology in China. It will be invaluable to researchers, graduate students and engineers who work in the fields of MEMS and nano technology.

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The Out-Rotator of Spin Traveling Wave Pump on Magnetic Fluid

Meng Zhao, Ji Bin Zou, Jing Shang

A Flush-Mounted Resonant Ice Detection Sensor with High Sensitivity

Qiang Shi, Jun Bo Wang, De Yong Chen, Yan Long Shang

Heating Carve Technique for Polymer Microfluidic Microchannel

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Voters will consider tax hike for Austin medical school

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In a few weeks voters in Travis County will consider a plan to increase property taxes to help run a proposed medical school.

It's a medical over haul that promises a lot for Austin and Travis County. Thursday morning, a coalition of women's health care advocates gathered to endorse ballot Proposition number 1.

"While it cost to ramp up health care we can learn from other communities that access to housing and health care eventually drives down the cost related to emergency medicines to jail beds and to ems services, and it drives up earned income," said Ann Howard with Austin ECHO.

If Prop 1 is approved, the health district property tax would increase to 5-cents- per $100. For property valued at $214,000, which is about the average amount in Travis County, the annual district tax bill would go to $276. That breaks down to just over $20 a month.

The money raised, about $50 million a year, would help fund operating expenses for a medical school. The new complex near UMC Brackenridge would be operated by the University of Texas and the Seton Healthcare System.

Along with promising a healthy community, supporters say the medical school will be a major economic engine, creating thousands of direct and indirect jobs.

Juanita Stephens, a financial advisor and member of a women's business support group, believes owners of small companies will be able to tap into an employment ripple effect.

"It broadens your horizon if you can think of anything a hospital needs our want go and provide it that's how it provides jobs here," said Stephens.

With businesses closed and others struggling to stay open, there are those who are opposed to Prop 1 that say it's just the wrong time to pass a new tax.

Many signs have been put up by the Travis County Taxpayer's Union opposing the proposition.

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The Doctor Is In: Complementary and alternative medicine thriving

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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) continues to thrive as numerous physicians and very credible institutions including the Mayo Clinic embrace many of the therapies.

A surprisingly large number of Americans, estimated as high as 70 percent, have tried CAMacupuncture/acupressure, herb/vitamin therapy, hypnosis, chiropractic/massage, aromatherapy, magnetic therapy and reflexologyto cure their ills. A new termintegrative medicine is now being employed as traditional evidence-based medicine is combined with CAM for better treatment outcomes.

Statistics indicate that more Americans have tried CAM than have visited primary care physicians in recent years. Public awareness and the use of CAM are complex phenomena that have grown extraordinarily this past decade, according to MD Consult, an Internet source of medical information. This public knowledge is easily obtainable online and, when combined with the spiraling upward costs of modern healthcare, the growth of CAM has continued to accelerate.

Advertising and recommendations for CAM products are ubiquitous and pervasive, even though there has been very little support or encouragement from the traditional medical community. Often, patients, their families and friends are very well informed with the currently available information, which they believe is reliable, only to find out subsequently, that new "facts" may question their previous beliefs.

Obtaining evidence-based CAM would be the next major breakthrough for everyonepatients, physicians, and the purveyors of integrative medicine. The question is: How effective are complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies?

The answer isnobody really knows for sure; however, there is definite progress with scientific studies being reported in credible medical journals.

We have indications that some of these therapies may be helpful. Acupuncture, for example, may provide a number of medical benefits, from reducing pain to helping with chemotherapy-induced nausea. But the fact is, we lack any conclusive efficacy data about any of these alternatives.

One thing we do know: CAM therapies are expensivevery expensive. Estimates of the costs of CAM to Americans range $34 to $47 billion every year.

Consequently, the real concern we ought to be addressing is: Can we afford to continue to spend precious healthcare dollars on therapies of questionable scientific value, particularly at a moment when we are trying to control health care costs in general, in order to help the economy recover? We should encourage more resources being directed to proving the efficacy of CAM.

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (http://nccam.nih.gov/health/), which has been funded with close to a billion dollars of taxpayer revenue over the past decade or so, brings a scientific approach to CAM. The results, especially for devotees of alternative medicine, are not what they want to believe. For example:

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Branden Grace, Ryan Moore flirt with 59 on PGA Tour and European Tour

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We see a select few flirt with golf immortality -- know to many as "59 watch" -- each year on the PGA Tour and European Tour. A guy gets hot, strings together a bunch of birdies early and before you know it, we're talking about the possibility of a sub-60 round.

Legitimate 59 runs come along a couple times a year, but on Thursday afternoon, we had two high-profile names make a serious push in the span of 24 hours. Branden Grace flirted with the number at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship -- he was playing Kingsbarn, one of the three courses in the rotation -- when he went out in 7-under 29 and then eagled the par-5 16th to get to 12-under with two holes to play.

Even though Grace never managed to record another birdie, his 60 was good enough for an opening-round lead at one of the great late-season tournaments on the European Tour schedule. (Playing Kingsbarn, Carnoustie and the Old Course at St Andrews in the span of a week is as good as it gets.) If you want to know how good Grace's 60 was at Kingsbarn, the next best score from someone who played the same course was a 5-under from Gregory Havret.

Not to be outdone by the South African, Ryan Moore decided to make his own run at golf immortality at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. The Las Vegas resident clearly felt at home in the desert early in his round when he opened with 6 birdies and an eagle in his first 10 holes and looked to be in great shape to go after a sub-60 round.

But like Grace, Moore ran out of steam down the stretch, bogeying the par-3 8th to finish the day at 9-under 61. Moore also had trouble distancing himself from the field and is currently one shot ahead of Brendon de Jonge.

With low scores and potential sub-60s to be had on both sides of the pond, there's a good chance we could see more of the same on Friday -- especially with near-perfect conditions in Vegas and Fife. Will we see a 59 before the week is over? It's not out of the question. When it comes to golf's "silly season," anything is possible.

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Human-Neandertal mating gets a new date

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Cross-species liaisons occurred as Stone Age wound down

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A new study suggests that present-day Europeans share more genes with now-extinct Neandertals than do living Africans, at least partly because of interbreeding that took place between 37,000 and 86,000 years ago.

Cross-species mating occurred when Stone Age humans left Africa and encountered Neandertals, or possibly a close Neandertal relative, upon reaching the Middle East and Europe in the latter part of the Stone Age, says a team led by geneticist Sriram Sankararaman of Harvard Medical School.

The new study, published online October 4 in PLOS Genetics, indicates that at least some interbreeding must have occurred between Homo sapiens and Neandertals, Sankararaman says. But its not yet possible to estimate how much of the Neandertal DNA found in modern humans comes from that interbreeding and how much derives from ancient African hominid populations ancestral to both groups.

A separate analysis of gene variants in Neandertals and in people from different parts of the world also found signs of Stone Age interbreeding outside Africa. That study, published online April 18 in Molecular Biology and Evolution, was led by evolutionary geneticist Melinda Yang of the University of California, Berkeley.

Results from Sankararaman and Yangs groups convincingly show that the finding of a higher proportion of Neandertal DNA in non-Africans compared to Africans can be best explained by gene flow from Neandertals into modern humans, says evolutionary geneticist Johannes Krause of the University of Tbingen in Germany.

Other studies have found that ancient interbreeding may not be necessary to explain the presence of Neandertal DNA in modern humans. It may be possible that African populations ancestral to both H. sapiens and Neandertals possessed some genes that became part of both species genomes. Evolutionary ecologists Anders Eriksson and Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge recently demonstrated the plausibility of this scenario using a model based on more than 100 populations of human-Neandertal ancestors spread across Africa, Europe and West Asia.

Sankararamans analysis assumes that the common ancestors of humans and Neandertals more than 230,000 years ago consisted of two African populations and one population outside Africa. Its not clear whether a more complex model that includes 100 or more populations of human-Neandertal ancestors would yield any signs of late Stone Age interbreeding, says Cambridges Manica.

Sankararaman and his colleagues measured the lengths of DNA segments shared by Neandertals and present-day Europeans. Since genetic reshuffling via sexual reproduction reduces the size of such segments over time, lengths of Neandertal-related chunks of DNA in people today can be used to calculate the time since those chunks entered the human genome.

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Individuals key to Giants’ success, not chemistry

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Despite multiple local examples to the contrary, some writers insist that team chemistry was essential to the Giants success this year.

Really? How then, do you explain the success of the 2002 Giants, who had no chemistry at all. Jeff Kent absolutely hated Barry Bonds. Well never know what Bonds thought of Kent because he didnt talk to anybody in the clubhouse, taking up four lockers as he spread out on a couch to ease his aching back. But both Kent and Bonds played their best throughout a World Series the Giants should have won.

In 1987, Will Clark sat on one side of the locker room at Candlestick and glared at Jeff Leonard, but they both played well as the Giants got into the postseason. It was more of the same in 1989 with Clark and Kevin Mitchell. No chemistry on either team, but the 89 Giants got to the World Series.

And lets not forget the battling As of the early 70s, who had fights in front of writers in the locker room. Today, wed call that bad chemistry but those teams won three straight World Series.

This shouldnt surprise anybody because baseball is an individual sport wrapped in a team concept. If a baseball player hits. 300 with 30 home runs, he can get a fat free agent contract even if his team finishes in last place. Why should the team be his primary concern?

A successful team is really a group of individuals playing well, and thats exactly whats happened to the Giants since Melky Cabrera was suspended for violation of baseballs anti-drug program. Theyve gotten a significant contribution from Hunter Pence, who was not on the roster at the start of the season. Theyve gotten a huge contribution from Marco Scutaro, who has filled a hole at second base and contributed with some big clutch hits.

Thats no surprise to anybody who saw him with the As; Scutaro may be the most underrated player in the majors. And theyve gotten a big season from Buster Posey, who has come back from that horrendous collision at home plate that sidelined him for the rest of the season in 2011 to win the batting title, and perhaps the MVP, as well.

Along the way, the Giants have learned how to hit with men on base, a skill that totally eluded them last year, and theyve scored far more runs than they did even in 2010, when they won their first World Championship since coming to San Francisco.

Theyve also benefited from the collapse of the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose big trades havent been enough to overcome key injuries, especially to their ace, Clayton Kershaw.

The postseason in baseball is always a crap shoot, or do you really think the Cardinals were the best team in baseball in 2011? The Giants are entering it with a much different team than won in 2010, a better hitting team but one with significant questions about the starting rotation. Both Cincinnati and Washington also appear to be better teams. But whether the Giants win or lose, I can tell you one thing: Team chemistry wont have anything to do with it.

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Research and Markets: Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, Volume 37

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/734ktb/studies_in) has announced the addition of Elsevier Science and Technology's new book "Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, Volume 37" to their offering.

Natural products play an integral and ongoing role in promoting numerous aspects of scientific advancement, and many aspects of basic research programs are intimately related to natural products. With articles written by leading authorities in their respective fields of research, Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, Volume 37 presents current frontiers and future guidelines for research based on important discoveries made in the field of bioactive natural products. It is a valuable source for researchers and engineers working in natural products and medicinal chemistry.

Key Features:

- Describes the chemistry of bioactive natural products

- Contains contributions by leading authorities in the field

- A valuable source for researchers and engineers working in natural product and medicinal chemistry

Topics Covered:

Botanical Medicines for Diuresis: Cross-Cultural Comparisons

The Artemisia L. Genus: a Review of Bioactive Sesquiterpene Lactones

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'Grey's Anatomy' Recap: How Did They Survive? (Video)

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[Warning: This story contains spoilers from Thursday's "Remember the Time" episode ofGrey's Anatomy.]

Grey's Anatomy returned to the site of the deadly plane crash Thursday when Meredith, Derek, Mark, Arizona and Cristina re-lived their rescue and the varied healing process for each of the Seattle Grace doctors.

Each of the five mini-stories -- the episode was told Rashomon-style -- helped to reveal how each of the survivors and the late Mark Sloan arrived at their current state depicted in last week season nine premiere.

STORY: 'Grey's Anatomy' Premiere Recap: Dark, Twisty and Deadly

Here are the eight biggest takeaways from the hour.

1. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) explains why she opted to remain in Seattle, despite the potential to see her dead sister (RIP, Lexie) around every corner, the hospital being the venue where her mother and George died and husband was shot. "This is the place where I fell in love. A place where I found my family. This is where I learned to be a doctor, where I learned how to take responsibility for someone else's life and it's the place I met you, this place has given me as much as it's taken from me. I've lived here as much as I survived here," she tells Cristina (Sandra Oh).

VIDEO: 'Grey's Anatomy' Season 9 Trailer: Sex, Marriage and Arizona's Road to Recovery

2. After surviving the crash, Cristina is experiencing reactive psychosis, where she's awake but in a comatose state and violent when someone gets to close. Eventually discharged, she tells Owen (Kevin McKidd) she has vivid memories of the crash and four days without food that included hearing animals fighting over Lexie's corpse, ridding the bugs from Arizona's leg and trying to keep Mark alive. "I can't get out. Don't you see? I'll never get out," she tells Owen, partially explaining why she wound up moving to Minnesota.

3. Derek (Patrick Dempsey) has a special surgeon: Callie. Initially accepting that his career going forward may only include teaching, Derek asks Callie (Sara Ramirez) to perform her risky surgery on his injured hand that comes with a great reward if successful (full recovery) but a nasty consequence if not (reduced function).

STORY: 'Grey's Anatomy's' Jessica Capshaw on Arizona's Heartbreaking Loss and What's Next

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'Grey's Anatomy's' Shonda Rhimes: Arizona Will 'Get Her Mojo Back'

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Grey's Anatomy showrunner Shonda Rhimes defended her creative decision to amputate the leg of a fan favorite character, and vowing that the story line would indeed have a happy ending.

During the ABC medical drama's eighth-season finale, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), Derek (Patrick Dempsey), Cristina (Sandra Oh), Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) and Mark (Eric Dane) were left stranded after their plane crashed heading from Seattle to Boise, with Lexie (Chyler Leigh) failing to make it out alive.

Season nine picked up to flash-forward after the crash, revealing not only that Mark would succumb to the internal injuries sustained in the crash but also that Arizona -- who was left with a severe injury to her leg (bone was exposed) -- would eventually lose the limb after an infection threatened her life.

STORY: 'Grey's Anatomy's' Jessica Capshaw on Arizona's Heartbreaking Loss and What's Ahead

"It felt real to me that Arizona would lose her leg," Rhimes wrote late Thursday on her Shondaland blog. "That someone we love so much would go from being ambulatory to WORKING on being ambulatory, that we would begin to understand what it is like to be differently-abled from watching a person we love BECOME differently-abled."

During Thursday's episode, which flashed back to reveal how the survivors were rescued and fill in the blanks between the crash and the events in the premiere, Arizona asked that her wife Callie (Sara Ramirez) promise that she wouldn't allow her leg to be amputated. However, as Callie is performing surgery on Derek's injured hand, Arizona crashes and Alex -- whom Arizona replaced on the doomed flight -- is forced to cut off Arizona's leg in order to save her life, thus putting Callie on the hot seat with her partner.

"It must be terribly difficult to be Callie right now. To have your partner hate you. To have your sex life taken away. To have your BEST FRIEND taken away," Rhimes wrote. "Arizona has been taken from her and Callie is doing her best to survive that."

STORY: 'Grey's Anatomy' Premiere Recap: Dark, Twisty and Deadly

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Anatomy of Vatican Scandal: How the Butler Did It

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He had the trust of Pope Benedict XVI and the cardinals, monsignors and priests who run the Roman Catholic Church. And because of his privileged position as papal butler, he had access to their deepest secrets: confidential letters, memos, financial reports.

From under Benedict's nose, Paolo Gabriele used the photocopier in the small office he shared with the two papal secretaries that adjoined the pope's library, studio and chapel and, he says, started copying them all.

At first he kept the documents to himself. Then he found a journalist he trusted, and the intrigues and injustices he saw around him spread around the world in the gravest Vatican security breach of modern times.

A three-judge Vatican tribunal on Saturday will decide whether Gabriele is guilty of aggravated theft, accused of stealing the pope's private papers and leaking them to journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, whose book "His Holiness: Pope Benedict XVI's secret papers" became an immediate blockbuster when it was published in May. Gabriele has pleaded innocent, claiming he never took original documents, though he said he was guilty of "having betrayed the trust of the Holy Father, whom I love as a son would."

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From court documents, trial testimony and the book itself, the anatomy of the scandal has taken shape: They describe how a 46-year-old father of three, said by court-ordered psychiatrists to be unstable, desperate for attention and with illusions of grandeur, came to consider himself inspired by the Holy Spirit to expose the Vatican's dirty laundry for the sake of saving the church. They demonstrate how he instigated a Hollywood-like plot to sneak the documents out of the Apostolic Palace under the cover of darkness to a waiting journalist outside the Vatican walls, who then exposed them on TV and in the most talked-about book of 2012.

Gabriele himself told the court this week that he became increasingly "scandalized" when, as he would serve Benedict his lunch, the pope would ask questions about issues he should have been informed about. That suggested to Gabriele that the pope was being intentionally kept in the dark by his advisers.

"I had a unique and privileged occasion to mature the conviction that it's easy to manipulate someone with decision-making power," Gabriele said of the pope. "With the help of others like Nuzzi, I thought I could help things be seen more clearly," he told prosecutors in a July 21 interrogation.

Gabriele told Nuzzi that he started copying documents sporadically soon after Benedict became pope in 2005, and then in earnest in 2010 and 2011, when the No. 2 Vatican administrator began complaining about a smear campaign launched against him for having uncovered corruption and waste in running the Vatican City state.

In his testimony, Gabriele almost boasted that he would copy the letters in broad daylight, during his 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m. shift, while Monsignor Georg Gaenswein and the other papal secretary, Monsignor Alfred Xuereb, were at their desks facing his. He was free to sort through the mail that would come in daily to the office inboxes, even documentation that was on Gaenswein's desk.

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Mead Johnson Schedules Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call

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Mead Johnson Nutrition Company (MJN) will release its third quarter 2012 earnings on Thursday, October 25, 2012, before the market opens. The company will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. CDT that same day during which company executives will review third quarter financial results and respond to questions from analysts and investors.

The call will be broadcast over the Internet at meadjohnson.com. To listen to the call, visit the website and click on Investors. Security analysts and investors wishing to participate by telephone should call (866) 578-5788, pass code: Mead Johnson. Callers outside of North America should call +1-617-213-8057 to be connected. A replay of the conference call will be available through midnight CDT Thursday, November 1, 2012, by calling (888) 286-8010 or outside of North America by calling +1-617-801-6888, pass code: 37115410. The replay will also be available at meadjohnson.com.

About Mead Johnson

Mead Johnson, a global leader in pediatric nutrition, develops, manufactures, markets and distributes more than 70 products in over 50 countries worldwide. The companys mission is to nourish the worlds children for the best start in life. The Mead Johnson name has been associated with science-based pediatric nutrition products for over 100 years. The companys Enfa family of brands, including Enfamil infant formula, is the worlds leading brand franchise in pediatric nutrition. For more information, visit meadjohnson.com.

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The Fortune Society and Aetna Foundation Celebrate Food & Nutrition Program for Low-Income Families

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Harlem resident and mother, Barbara Biscaino, presented a live cooking demonstration today preparing her favorite healthy dish -- corn and cucumber salad -- in front of a live audience that included Manhattan Deputy Borough President Rose Pierre-Louis; JoAnne Page, President and CEO of The Fortune Society; Sharon Dalton, Vice President of the Aetna Foundation; and Harlem families. Biscaino learned how to prepare the dish as well as dozens of other healthy meals while participating in The Fortune Societys Food & Nutrition Program for Families & Children. The cooking demonstration, which was held at The Fortune Societys LEED-certified, affordable housing facility known as Castle Gardens, highlighted the success of the food and nutrition program.

In December 2011, with a $25,000 grant from the Aetna Foundation and a supplemental grant from the New York State Department of Healths Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program (HPNAP), The Fortune Society launched the Food & Nutrition Program for Families & Children. Since the program began, approximately 800 Fortune families and children, which include formerly incarcerated adults and residents of Fortunes housing facilities in Harlem, have attended a series of nutrition education workshops, including Taste and Texture and Just Say Yes to Fruits and Vegetables. They also have participated in 35 cooking demonstrations, taking home bags of fresh produce after each one. The produce is provided by local suppliers Corbin Hill Road Farm and Brooklyn Grange Farm, which operates urban rooftop farms in Brooklyn and Queens. The two suppliers have distributed more than 4,500 pounds of fresh produce to Fortune clients and community members.

Since beginning the program, Biscaino and her daughter have learned how to convert their favorite foods into healthier alternatives; select, store and preserve fresh produce; prepare healthy, delicious and affordable meals; sanitize a kitchen; and write recipes.

Before enrolling in this program, my daughter and I would eat fast food three or four days a week, putting our health on the back burner. Now, our entire outlook on healthy eating has changed. Every day, we prepare and cook healthy meals together, making sure to include fresh fruit and vegetables into all of them. Because of this change, we both feel more energetic and will hopefully live longer. I have already lost a few pounds, said Biscaino.

Many of our Fortune families live on a tight budget, eating whatever food is most affordable and assuming healthy meals are too costly to prepare, said JoAnne Page, President and CEO of The Fortune Society. The Food & Nutrition Program shows our families that they can prepare healthy, affordable meals and equips them with recipes and culinary skills that will last a lifetime. We thank the Aetna Foundation and the NYS Department of Health Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program for supporting this program and helping our families make healthy eating a top priority in their daily lives.

In the upcoming year, the program will continue to offer regular cooking demonstrations and will increase the number of hands-on workshops so that more participants can learn by cooking during class. The class curriculum will have a greater focus on the participants needs, such as child and family nutrition, heart-healthy eating and diabetes education. The program also will include recipe selection workshops, nutrition-related activities and a field trip to one of the supplier farms.

Research shows that diets rich in fruits and vegetables can prevent obesity and its related diseases, which disproportionally affect low-income and minority populations, said Sharon Dalton, Vice President of the Aetna Foundation, who manages the Foundations regional grant-making program. By combining access to fresh, local produce with crucial nutrition education, The Fortune Societys program can have a positive impact on peoples long-term health and well-being.

About The Fortune Society

For more than forty years, The Fortune Society has been developing model programs that help former prisoners successfully re-enter their communities. The Fortune Society offers a holistic and integrated one-stop-shopping model of service provision. Among the services offered are outpatient substance abuse treatment, alternatives to incarceration, HIV/AIDS services, career development and job retention, education, family services, drop in services and supportive housing as well as ongoing access to aftercare. For more information, visit http://www.fortunesociety.org.

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Analysis of Microbiology Testing Technologies And Strategic Profiles of Leading Suppliers

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NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Analysis of Microbiology Testing Technologies And Strategic Profiles of Leading Suppliers

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This 155-page report provides detailed analyses of current and emerging technologies, and their potential applications for the microbiology testing market, including molecular diagnostics, biochips, monoclonal antibodies, immunoassays, IT, gel microdroplets, differential light scaltering, chromatography and several others.

The report also presents strategic assessments of leading market players and emerging suppliers with innovative technologies and products, including their sales, product portfolios, distribution tactics, technological know-how, new products in R&D, collaborative arrangements, and business strategies.

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Longevity Global Inc. Announced the Extension of its Offered Product Lines by Adding Few More Evolved Models of Mig …

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Longevity Global Inc. has announced about the extension of their offered Welding Supplies. This time Longevity has engineered some technologically advanced models of Mig welders this time. The new range of welding units have now been staged for sale on Longevity's website.With over 10 years of experience in delivering welding equipment and cutting machines to the welding industry, Longevity Global Inc. has reached at a stage where this Welding Supply providing company can speculate about the forthcoming needs of machines in the welding factories.

Hayward, CA (PRWEB) October 05, 2012

In the new range of MIG WELDERS launched by Longevity Global Inc., MigWeld 303P model of Mig welding machine would the center of attraction since this welder line has been specially manufactured by keeping the future welding techniques into consideration.The MigWeld 303P competes with top model MIG welders in the industry. This MIG welder requires 3 Phase 220V power supply which can be found in most industrial applications or generators. This MIG welder comes with full amperage and speed adjustments for faster or slower hand speeds on thicker or thinner material. This MIG welder is also equipped with full pulse amperage settings with complete adjustment for better quality welds. Gas shielding can be used with this machines giving the seamless and best looking welds. This machine is great for light weight or heavy gauge industrial use. This Gas shielded MIG welder can be equipped with a separate hand speed controlled spool gun for welding aluminum or other materials. This machine is competitively priced, including a free 5 Year parts and labor warranty.

Longevity Global Inc. is the leading cutters and industrial welders manufacturing company in the whole USA. The company is also know to deliver the most advanced models of small generators to fulfill the power back-up needs. The unbeatable price range and paramount quality have always been core principles of the company. Longevity Global Inc.'s comprehensive 5 years of warranty on all their offered is also a factor which differentiates this company from all the other ordinary welding machine manufacturers.

Longevity Global Inc. is providing its dedicated service since 2001. It is growing at a phenomenal pace with high customer satisfaction, new and used welders, cutters and efficient industrial production for welding purposes. It works in different parts of world with distributors in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, United Kingdom, and multiple other countries. Longevity Global Inc. serve globally with manufacturing facilities with its logistic companies to effectively distribute products in a punctual and effective manner.

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DNA Evidence Doesn't Convince Jury of Guilt in 1983 Murder

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The state's highest court has overturned a sexual assault conviction.

San Francisco prosecutors have struck out in their first try to convict William Payne of murder. But they will keep swinging.

Payne, 48, was charged with first-degree murder in the 1983 death of 41-year old Nikolaus Crumbley in January, after a "cold hit DNA" test linked him to the death, according to the San Francisco Examiner.

But despite the DNA evidence proving Payne was on the scene with Crumbley, with whom he had sex, the jury hung on charges of murder.

The San Francisco District Attorney's Offcie will push for a retrial, with opening arguments scheduled for Oct. 22, the newspaper reported.

Payne was 19 when Crumbley was found dead, face down and with his pants and underwear pulled down to his ankles, at the corner of John Shelley Drive and Mansell Street near John McClaren Park.

Payne was arrested for the crime in January. The DNA evidence proves that the pair had sex, but not that Payne killed Crumbley, the newspaper reported.

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DNA provides identification of victim in 1995 slaying

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Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department detectives on Thursday announced that they have used DNA evidence to match a previously unknown 20-year-old woman whose body was found in 1995 to a missing person from Morro Bay.

Officials are now seeking information about the 17-year-old unsolved murder.

The body of Gail Catherine Allen, known for years as Jane Doe No. 59, was found Oct. 28, 1995, in the 21000 block of Covina Hills Road in an unincorporated area of Covina, according to a statement from the Sheriffs Department.

Her burned body was found nude in a sleeping bag that had been set ablaze and thrown from an embankment. She was burned beyond recognition, officials said.

Days before the body was found, a friend of Allen's reported her missing, according to the statement.

Early this year, Morro Bay detectives received DNA samples from Allens father, Marcus Allen of Victorville, and her mother, Deborah Forester of Colorado. After the samples were linked to Jane Doe No. 59, the case was reopened as a murder case.

Allen was believed to have worked at a Taco Bell restaurant at 1700 Main Street in Morro Bay. Detectives are looking to speak with people who worked with her, officials said.

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DNA test linking son to death of Chester County man is discounted

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The DNA analysis used to link a Chester County man to the killing of his father has been discounted upon further testing, according to testimony Thursday.

Parth Ingle, 26, and his mother, Bhavnaben Ingle, 52, are charged in the 2008 death of Arunkumar Ingle, who was found dead in his bedroom in Middletown Township, Delaware County. He had multiple stab wounds and his testicles were badly bruised, according to police. His alleged killers were in court Thursday for a pretrial hearing before Delaware County Court Judge Barry C. Dozer.

Samples taken from a sink drain in Parth Ingle's South Coventry home were initially thought to match Arunkumar Ingle's DNA. When the samples were sent back to a lab in Greensburg, Pa., for a more sophisticated test not originally available, the results determined it was "100 quintillion times less probable" that the DNA belonged to Arunkumar Ingle than that it was a coincidental match, according to an e-mail from prosecutors that John Kusturiss, Parth Ingle's defense attorney, read in court.

The victim, a 55-year-old Boeing engineer, was having an affair with a Russian woman he met on the Internet. According to authorities, he planned to obtain phony passports, fake his own death, and move to India with her.

The woman, Anna Sudakevich of Philadelphia, testified that she did not learn the victim was married until Parth Ingle came to her house looking for his father.

Arunkumar Ingle's plan was to leave behind $3.6 million in insurance policies for his wife and children, authorities have said.

Prosecutors said financial gain and retribution were the motives for the killing. Parth Ingle was about $43,000 in debt at the time.

On Thursday, prosecutors introduced evidence of a letter that Parth Ingle allegedly wrote to relatives in India asking them not to contest an insurance settlement so the Ingle family could get the money.

When questioned, Trooper Robert Kirby said there was no evidence the letter was sent.

Also Thursday, the court heard the dramatic 911 call Bhavnaben Ingle made when she reported discovering her husband's body. She could be heard screaming as 911 operators tried to calm her.

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Improving confidence keeps breast cancer survivors exercising

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Contact: Brad Cardinal brad.cardinal@oregonstate.edu 541-737-2506 Oregon State University

CORVALLIS, Ore. More than 40 percent of older breast cancer survivors are insufficiently active after leaving a supervised program. But new research shows that those women who developed behavioral skills such as self-confidence and motivation during their program were far more likely to continue exercising on their own.

Regular exercise may reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence and breast cancer-related mortality, experts say, making it crucial to effectively target breast cancer survivors who do not engage in regular physical activity for interventions.

Researchers at Oregon State University partnered with researchers at Oregon Health and Science University who had conducted a clinical trial to understand the benefits of a 12-month supervised exercise program in 69 older breast cancer survivors. The goal was to discover what factors influenced participants' ability to follow-through and continue exercising after the supervised program ended.

They found that breast cancer survivors with higher self-efficacy, or confidence to overcome exercise-related barriers (such as being too tired), were far more likely to continue exercising on their own. Those with higher self-efficacy scores were 10 percent more likely to be physically active six months after the intervention than those with lower scores.

The results of the study are published in the October issue of the journal Supportive Care in Cancer. It is the first study to assess predictors of behavior after a supervised exercise program in older breast cancer survivors.

Paul Loprinzi, lead author of the study, was a doctoral student at OSU when he did the research. Loprinzi, who is now a faculty member at Bellarmine University, said the good news is that behavioral skills to increase self-efficacy can be taught.

"We can teach breast cancer survivors how to enlist the support of others and how to identify exercise-related barriers, as well as provide proven strategies for them to overcome those barriers," Loprinzi said.

The researchers said everyone should meet physical activity guidelines and it can be even more crucial for breast cancer survivors. Loprinzi said exercise helps reduce common side effects of cancer treatment, such as fatigue, depression, decreased muscular strength and weight gain.

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Youth behavioral expert to speak at Garnet Valley

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By Susan L. Serbin, Correspondent

Garnet Valley School District will hold a program focused on the overall well-being of all youngsters. The Monday, Oct. 8 evening at Garnet Valley High School will include a Behavior Health Fair from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., followed by a presentation by nationally known speaker Horacio Sanchez.

Sanchez, author of What Every Parent Should Know, will discuss stress reduction, bullying prevention and brain-based learning, all prime topics in the educational and social development of youngsters.

Sanchez has been a teacher, school administrator, clinician, and mental health director and is now the president and CEO of Resiliency, Inc. His work combines brain research, science, and practice to create a revolutionary framework for understanding childhood development, disorders, and treatment. He is the author of A Mentors Guide to Promoting Resiliency and A Brain-Based Approach to Closing the Achievement Gap, and is considered one of the foremost authorities on child and adolescent behavioral disorders and resiliency practice.

Parents are encouraged to attend the session which is sponsored by REACH 211, an organization of school district personnel and parents working together to promote the strength of each student and the community.

Sanchez, author of What Every Parent Should Know, will discuss stress reduction, bullying prevention and brain-based learning, all prime topics in the educational and social development of youngsters.

Sanchez has been a teacher, school administrator, clinician, and mental health director and is now the president and CEO of Resiliency, Inc. His work combines brain research, science, and practice to create a revolutionary framework for understanding childhood development, disorders, and treatment. He is the author of A Mentors Guide to Promoting Resiliency and A Brain-Based Approach to Closing the Achievement Gap, and is considered one of the foremost authorities on child and adolescent behavioral disorders and resiliency practice.

Parents are encouraged to attend the session which is sponsored by REACH 211, an organization of school district personnel and parents working together to promote the strength of each student and the community.

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Proteonomix, Inc. Announces IRB Approval for Its Clinical Trial of UMK-121 in Patients with End Stage Liver Disease

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PARAMUS, N.J., Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --PROTEONOMIX, INC. (PROT), a biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics based upon the use of human cells and their derivatives, announced today that the Company's clinical trial of UMK-121 has received IRB (Institutional Review Board) approval and is now ready for the recruitment of patients.

We thank the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey for providing the IRB and their invaluable contribution to this study of the UMK-121 drug therapy on patients with End Stage Liver Disease.

To better understand what a clinical trial is please visit the following links: Overview; Rising Cost of Clinical Trial; Additional information on Clinical Trials .

As previously announced, the Company entered into an Agreement to conduct the clinical trial with the UMDNJ. That Agreement required the Company to pay expenses associated with the clinical study which the Company has done to date.

Michael Cohen, President of the Company, stated: "The financing that was required to complete the Company's obligation with respect to the Trial was provided by the private placement of our Series E Preferred Stock on Friday, March 9, 2012. We previously announced that we have engaged the University to conduct the trial and thanked the University for their assistance with the finalization of the agreement to conduct a clinical trial of UMK-121. The Company has previously described the terms of the agreement to license and develop and the patent application of the UMK-121 technology. The Company will work together with the University and the principal investigators to initiate the clinical study. The approval of the IRB was required before the study could go forward. The investigators can now accept patients into the study."

About the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) is New Jersey's only health sciences university with more than 6,000 students on five campuses attending three medical schools, the State's only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health related professions, a school of nursing and New Jersey's only school of public health. UMDNJ operates University Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in Newark, and University Behavioral HealthCare, which provides a continuum of healthcare services with multiple locations throughout the State.

About Proteonomix, Inc.

Proteonomix is a biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics based upon the use of human cells and their derivatives. The Proteonomix family of companies includes Proteoderm, StromaCel, PRTMI and THOR Biopharma. Proteoderm is a wholly owned subsidiary that has developed an anti-aging line of skin care products. StromaCel develops therapeutic modalities for the treatment of cardiovascular disease and for treatment of patients who have suffered post-myocardial infarction. Proteonomix Regenerative Translational Medicine Institute, Inc. (PRTMI) intends to focus on the translation of promising research in stem cell biology and cellular therapy to clinical applications of regenerative medicine. Additional information is available at http://www.proteonomix.com and http://www.proteoderm.com.

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