Sunday 31 March 2013

Art 7 Entertainment: All American Modern Art For Home And Garden ...


Learning to appreciate and admire our own culture is sometimes a tad bit overlooked by most, as is the essence of a weather vane. Life among the garden plants, vases, flowers, trees and birds at home sometimes also goes overlooked by those who are too busy to remember how far we have come as a civilization. Weathervanes are like instant memories. With some weathervane the sound of changing wind will be an immediate reminder of our culture and heritage, with others the mere sight will invoke past experiences and pleasant memories. Art can change society if it wants to or even bring inspiration and insight. The most traditional of American modern arts in the home and garden, is the weather vane. From the oldest documented colonial weathervane of Deacon Shem Drowne in the 18th century with his most famous Grasshopper weathervane that sits upon Faneuil Hall in Boston to the present day, weathervane sculptures have shaped American modern art.

Weathervane and American Modern Art

When we think of American modern art, most people tend to think of paintings and sculptures that sit in galleries and art museums. Weathervane are some of the most traditional works of American sculpture art because they have told the direction of the wind on the tops of houses, fences and barns for hundreds of years and represented important elements in our history. They are made by hand and no two can be exactly the same. Each weather vane is in and of itself a work of human expression, crafted by the hands of an artesian who takes their work seriously and with great passion. Old North Church (1740, Boston), First Church in Cambridge (1721), Province House (1716, Boston), Goddess of Liberty, the Federal Eagle and many famous race horses have all been immortalized by the sculpture of weathervane and banners upon the highest tops.

Weathervane Give The Direction of The Wind and Feed Imagination.

The compass rose is held firmly on a weather vane and will always show the direction of north. The weather vane itself will always point in the direction from which the wind originates. The movement of wind and air is physically the disbursing of energy that has picked up speed and travels through the sky abiding the laws of the cosmos. Indicating in a subtle way, what the skies are about to do. Wind may normally tend to stand idle without a weather vane, but it is always doing something, even if it is absent. Metalworkers and historians alike have been enchanted by the fascinating beauty of weathervane and those delicate ?cathartic? moments they captivate in our hearts. Curving and spinning like a dancer, the weather vane fuels our human imagination with its beauty and becomes our link to the sky.

Art In Home and Garden Inspires Peace and Contemplation

This deep and intricate realm of American modern art can be most appreciated in the delicate things. Home and Garden is a place where that kind of traditional hand made art restores the splendor of the subtle and peaceful. ?Home is where the heart is.? And through the art of weathervane our expressions of self and family become most attuned to the sky, wind and land that we call home. The weather vane inspires peace and contemplation wherever it stands. Mythical creatures, farm animals, creatures of the sea, sailboats, airplanes, national prides; creative works of an artistic imagination that follow the moving patterns of the wind, a wind that only sleeps at the calm of the storm. And in those moments the weather vane asks a question, where is the wind?


Source: http://art7entertainment.blogspot.com/2013/03/all-american-modern-art-for-home-and.html

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Ohio State Lost To Wichita State, 70-66: Buckeyes' Rally Falls Short In Elite Eight

  • Wichita State players celebrate their 70-66 win over Ohio State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Amedeo Della Valle

    Ohio State guard Amedeo Della Valle cries in the locker room following his team's 70-66 loss to Wichita State in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament regional final, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Evan Ravenel

    Ohio State's Evan Ravenel, right, sits in the locker room after Ohio State's 70-66 loss to Wichita State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • LaQuinton Ross

    Ohio State's LaQuinton Ross sits in the locker room after his team lost 70-66 to Wichita State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Evan Ravenel

    Ohio State's Evan Ravenel, right, sits in the locker room after Ohio State's 70-66 loss to Wichita State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Carl Hall

    Wichita State's Carl Hall celebrates after his team defeated Ohio State 70-66 in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Gregg Marshall

    Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall points as he walks off the court after Wichita State defeated Ohio State 70-66 in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Carl Hall

    Wichita State's Carl Hall (22) and teammates pose with the regional trophy after defeating Ohio State 70-66 in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Chadrack Lufile

    Wichita State's Chadrack Lufile holds up a piece of the net after his team's 70-66 win over Ohio State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Gregg Marshall

    Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall holds the regional trophy as he poses with his players after they defeated Ohio State 70-66 in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Gregg Marshall

    Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall celebrates after Wichita State defeated Ohio State 70-66 in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Gregg Marshall

    Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall holds up a pair of scissors after Wichita State defeated Ohio State 70-66 in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Gregg Marshall

    Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall signals that his team is headed to the Final Four it defeated Ohio State 70-66 in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • LaQuinton Ross, Sam Thompson

    Ohio State players LaQuinton Ross, right, and Sam Thompson (12) leave the court after Ohio State's 70-66 to Wichita State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall, left, and Ohio State coach Thad Matta talk at the finish of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. Wichita State won 70-66. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Demetric Williams, Carl Hall, Fred Van Vleet

    Wichita State's Carl Hall, right rear, Fred Van Vleet, left, and Demetric Williams celebrate their team's 70-66 win over Ohio State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Fred Van Vleet

    Wichita State guard Fred Van Vleet celebrates his team's 70-66 win over Ohio State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Shannon Scott

    Ohio State guard Shannon Scott walks off court after after Ohio State's 70-66 loss to Wichita State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Aaron Craft

    Wichita State players celebrate their 70-66 win over Ohio State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. Ohio State guard Aaron Craft (4) walks off at left. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Carl Hall

    Wichita State's Carl Hall celebrates his team's 70-66 win over Ohio State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Deshaun Thomas, Carl Hall, Fred Van Vleet

    Wichita State's Carl Hall (22) and Fred Van Vleet celebrate their team's 70-66 win over Ohio State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. Ohio State's Deshaun Thomas (1) walks off at left. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • The Ohio State bench watches as their team loses 70-66 to Wichita State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Carl Hall

    Wichita State forward Carl Hall celebrates his team's 70-66 win over Ohio State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Thad Matta

    Ohio State coach Thad Matta reacts during the second half of the West Regional final against Wichita State in the NCAA mens college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Malcolm Armstead, Deshaun Thomas, Carl Hall

    Ohio State forward Deshaun Thomas (1) shoots next to gainst Wichita State forward Carl Hall (22) during the second half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. Wichita State's Malcolm Armstead is at left. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Carl Hall, Deshaun Thomas

    Wichita State forward Carl Hall (22) controls the ball against Ohio State forward Deshaun Thomas (1) during the second half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Deshaun Thomas, Carl Hall

    Ohio State forward Deshaun Thomas, left, defends against Wichita State forward Carl Hall during the second half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Ohio State players sits on the bench during the second half of the West Regional final against Wichita State in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Fred Van Vleet, Aaron Craft

    Wichita State's Fred Van Vleet, left, and Ohio State guard Aaron Craft chase a loose ball during the second half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • LaQuinton Ross

    Ohio State forward LaQuinton Ross pauses during the second half of the West Regional final against Wichita State in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Wichita State players react from the bench during the second half against Ohio State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Cleanthony Early

    Wichita State's Cleanthony Early, right, is examined after suffering an injury during the second half of the West Regional final against Ohio State in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Wichita State players sits on the bench during the second half of the West Regional final against Ohio State in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Fred Van Vleet, Aaron Craft

    Ohio State guard Aaron Craft, top, and Wichita State guard Fred Van Vleet scramble for a loose ball during the second half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Sam Thompson, Carl Hall

    Ohio State forward Sam Thompson drives against Wichita State forward Carl Hall during the second half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Deshaun Thomas, Carl Hall

    Ohio State forward Deshaun Thomas, left, and Wichita State forward Carl Hall get tangled up during the second half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Wichita State players react to a field goal scored against Ohio State during the second half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Aaron Craft, Malcolm Armstead

    Wichita State guard Malcolm Armstead, right, works against Ohio State guard Aaron Craft (4) during the second half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Carl Hall, Deshaun Thomas

    Wichita State forward Carl Hall, left, shoots against Ohio State's Deshaun Thomas (1) and another defender during the first half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Carl Hall, Amir Williams, Deshaun Thomas

    Wichita State forward Carl Hall, left, has a shot rejected by Ohio State's Ohio State's Amir Williams (23) as Ohio State's Deshaun Thomas (1) helps defend during the first half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • The Ohio State cheer team performs during the first half of the West Regional final between Ohio State and Wichita State in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Thad Matta

    Ohio State head coach Thad Matta argues a call during the first half of the West Regional final against Wichita State in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Thad Matta

    Ohio State coach Thad Matta calls to his players during the first half of the West Regional final against Wichita State in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Thad Matta

    Ohio State coach Thad Matta reacts during the first half of the West Regional final against Wichita State in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Gregg Marshall

    Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall talks to his players during the first half of the West Regional final against Ohio State in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Gregg Marshall, Cleanthony Early

    Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall talks to Cleanthony Early during the first half of the West Regional final against Ohio State in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Gregg Marshall

    Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall talks to his players during the first half of the West Regional final against Ohio State in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Carl Hall, Amir Williams, Deshaun Thomas

    Wichita State forward Carl Hall (22) has a shot rejected by Ohio State center Amir Williams (23) as Ohio State forward Deshaun Thomas helps on defends during the first half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Carl Hall

    Wichita State forward Carl Hall celebrates a field goal against Ohio State during the first half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Demetric Williams, Cleanthony Early

    Wichita State guard Demetric Williams (5) celebrates a 3-pointer against Ohio State with teammate Cleanthony Early (11) during the first half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Amir Williams, Carl Hall, Aaron Craft, Shannon Scott

    Wichita State forward Carl Hall, rear, and Ohio State guards Aaron Craft, center, and Shannon Scott, right, scramble for a loose ball during the first half of the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. Ohio State center Amir Williams is at left. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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    All of Facebook's Phone Secrets, Divulged

    By Simon Evans March 28 (Reuters) - United States forward Landon Donovan, returning to soccer after a three-month break from the game, said on Thursday he hopes to be back with the national team for June's World Cup qualifiers. Donovan announced last December that he needed a break from the game, saying he had lost his passion and enjoyment for the sport, raising the question as to whether he would play at next year's World Cup finals in Brazil should the U.S. qualify. But after returning to training with his Major League Soccer club L.A. ...

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    Saturday 30 March 2013

    If cable companies said true things

    The saddest part of this video by Extremely Decent Films [NSFW-L] isn't that it's true, or that it's supported by our governments, or that it's merely representative of many anti-consumer media and technology infrastructure oligopolies, but that we tolerate it to exist.

    Does this sound like your cable company? Your cell carrier? When did that become okay?

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    Dozens of Atlanta Teachers Indicted in Cheating Scandal

    A grand jury?has indicted?35 school administrators and teachers for their?alleged?part in the biggest standardized test cheating ring in our nation's history.?"What's the big deal?" you may wonder. After all, even those hoity-toity Harvard kids aren't above cheating once or twice. Why not the 50,000 or so students in Atlanta's public school system? Well, according to Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard, Jr., who spoke at the press conference announcing the indictment, federal funds were used in bonuses awarded to schools and teachers based on the results of Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests, and employees who didn't participate in the ring were fired.

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    Those charged face up to 65 counts of such un-teacherly acts as theft, conspiracy, making false statements, and racketeering. According to the New York Times, altering tests was so commonplace that one school had "pizza parties" for the staff to correct wrong answers before submitting them to be scored. So now delicious, innocent pizza has been dragged into this scandal, too. ??

    RELATED: 178 Atlanta District Teachers and 38 Principals Helped Students Cheat

    Former superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall is believed to be the mastermind, ordering her underlings (principals, teachers, and a school secretary) to get good test scores by any means necessary and rewarding those who did so by cheating. Under her rule, Atlanta's students improved so much (on paper) that Hall was named the National Superintendent of the Year?in 2009 by the American Association of School Administrators.

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    "Hall is credited with transforming the 102-school system in Atlanta through a comprehensive reform agenda," said an AASA press release at the time; "Every elementary school in Atlanta made adequate yearly progress in 2008, and graduation rates at several high schools have risen sharply." Oops.

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    The allegations go back as far as 2005, and the suspiciously dramatic improvements in test scores were first noticed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in October 2009. Hall retired in 2011, conveniently just a few days before the results of a state probe were released. At the time, she denied having anything to do with or any knowledge of cheating. She faces up to 45 years in jail if convicted.

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    The Atlanta public school system has spent $2.5 million investigating the scandal so far. No word yet on how much the accused are alleged to have spent on those pizza parties.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dozens-atlanta-teachers-indicted-cheating-scandal-022528560.html

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    Friday 29 March 2013

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    Children with sleep apnea have higher risk of behavioral, adaptive and learning problems

    Children with sleep apnea have higher risk of behavioral, adaptive and learning problems [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 29-Mar-2013
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    Contact: Lynn Celmer
    lcelmer@aasmnet.org
    630-737-9700
    American Academy of Sleep Medicine

    Left untreated, sleep apnea may cause problems with hyperactivity, disruptive behaviors, social competence, self-care and school performance

    DARIEN, IL A new study found that obstructive sleep apnea, a common form of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), is associated with increased rates of ADHD-like behavioral problems in children as well as other adaptive and learning problems.

    "This study provides some helpful information for medical professionals consulting with parents about treatment options for children with SDB that, although it may remit, there are considerable behavioral risks associated with continued SDB," said Michelle Perfect, PhD, the study's lead author and assistant professor in the school psychology program in the department of disability and psychoeducational studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. "School personnel should also consider the possibility that SDB contributes to difficulties with hyperactivity, learning and behavioral and emotional dysregulation in the classroom."

    The five-year study, which appears in the April issue of the journal SLEEP, utilized data from a longitudinal cohort, the Tucson Children's Assessment of Sleep Apnea Study (TuCASA). The TuCASA study prospectively examined Hispanic and Caucasian children between 6 and 11 years of age to determine the prevalence and incidence of SDB and its effects on neurobehavioral functioning. The study involved 263 children who completed an overnight sleep study and a neurobehavioral battery of assessments that included parent and youth reported rating scales.

    Results show that 23 children had incident sleep apnea that developed during the study period, and 21 children had persistent sleep apnea throughout the entire study. Another 41 children who initially had sleep apnea no longer had breathing problems during sleep at the five-year follow-up.

    The odds of having behavioral problems were four to five times higher in children with incident sleep apnea and six times higher in children who had persistent sleep apnea. Compared to youth who never had SDB, children with sleep apnea were more likely to have parent-reported problems in the areas of hyperactivity, attention, disruptive behaviors, communication, social competency and self-care. Children with persistent sleep apnea also were seven times more likely to have parent-reported learning problems and three times more likely to have school grades of C or lower.

    The authors report that this is the first sleep-related study to use a standardized questionnaire to assess adaptive functioning in typically developing youth with and without SDB.

    "Even though SDB appears to decline into adolescence, taking a wait and see approach is risky and families and clinicians alike should identify potential treatments," said Perfect.

    According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, obstructive sleep apnea occurs in about two percent of children who are otherwise healthy. Children with sleep apnea generally have larger tonsils and adenoids than other children their age, and most children with sleep apnea have a history of loud snoring. Effective treatment options for children include the surgical removal of the tonsils and adenoids or the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy.

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    Children with sleep apnea have higher risk of behavioral, adaptive and learning problems [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 29-Mar-2013
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    Contact: Lynn Celmer
    lcelmer@aasmnet.org
    630-737-9700
    American Academy of Sleep Medicine

    Left untreated, sleep apnea may cause problems with hyperactivity, disruptive behaviors, social competence, self-care and school performance

    DARIEN, IL A new study found that obstructive sleep apnea, a common form of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), is associated with increased rates of ADHD-like behavioral problems in children as well as other adaptive and learning problems.

    "This study provides some helpful information for medical professionals consulting with parents about treatment options for children with SDB that, although it may remit, there are considerable behavioral risks associated with continued SDB," said Michelle Perfect, PhD, the study's lead author and assistant professor in the school psychology program in the department of disability and psychoeducational studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. "School personnel should also consider the possibility that SDB contributes to difficulties with hyperactivity, learning and behavioral and emotional dysregulation in the classroom."

    The five-year study, which appears in the April issue of the journal SLEEP, utilized data from a longitudinal cohort, the Tucson Children's Assessment of Sleep Apnea Study (TuCASA). The TuCASA study prospectively examined Hispanic and Caucasian children between 6 and 11 years of age to determine the prevalence and incidence of SDB and its effects on neurobehavioral functioning. The study involved 263 children who completed an overnight sleep study and a neurobehavioral battery of assessments that included parent and youth reported rating scales.

    Results show that 23 children had incident sleep apnea that developed during the study period, and 21 children had persistent sleep apnea throughout the entire study. Another 41 children who initially had sleep apnea no longer had breathing problems during sleep at the five-year follow-up.

    The odds of having behavioral problems were four to five times higher in children with incident sleep apnea and six times higher in children who had persistent sleep apnea. Compared to youth who never had SDB, children with sleep apnea were more likely to have parent-reported problems in the areas of hyperactivity, attention, disruptive behaviors, communication, social competency and self-care. Children with persistent sleep apnea also were seven times more likely to have parent-reported learning problems and three times more likely to have school grades of C or lower.

    The authors report that this is the first sleep-related study to use a standardized questionnaire to assess adaptive functioning in typically developing youth with and without SDB.

    "Even though SDB appears to decline into adolescence, taking a wait and see approach is risky and families and clinicians alike should identify potential treatments," said Perfect.

    According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, obstructive sleep apnea occurs in about two percent of children who are otherwise healthy. Children with sleep apnea generally have larger tonsils and adenoids than other children their age, and most children with sleep apnea have a history of loud snoring. Effective treatment options for children include the surgical removal of the tonsils and adenoids or the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy.

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    Cache of weapons found in Newtown gunman's home

    FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2012 file photo, a police cruiser sits in the driveway and crime scene tape surrounds the home of Nancy Lanza in Newtown, Conn. Nancy Lanza was killed in the home by her son Adam Lanza before he forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn, killing 26 people. Search warrants released Thursday, March 28, 2013, revealed that an arsenal of weapons including guns, more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, a bayonet and several swords was seized in the Lanza home. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

    FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2012 file photo, a police cruiser sits in the driveway and crime scene tape surrounds the home of Nancy Lanza in Newtown, Conn. Nancy Lanza was killed in the home by her son Adam Lanza before he forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn, killing 26 people. Search warrants released Thursday, March 28, 2013, revealed that an arsenal of weapons including guns, more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, a bayonet and several swords was seized in the Lanza home. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

    FILE - This undated file photo circulated by law enforcement and provided by NBC News, shows Adam Lanza, who authorities said Lanza killed his mother at their home and then opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. Search warrants released Thursday, March 28, 2013, revealed that an arsenal of weapons including guns, more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, a bayonet and several swords was seized in the Lanza home. (AP Photo/NBC News, File)

    FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2012 file photo provided by the Newtown Bee, a police officer leads two women and a child from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., shortly after Adam Lanza opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children. State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky III asked a judge in Danbury Superior Court, Wednesday, March 27, 2013 to limit the information to be made public from warrants in Newtown school shooting, due to be released Thursday. (AP Photo/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks, File) MANDATORY CREDIT: NEWTOWN BEE, SHANNON HICKS

    FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 file photo provided by the Newtown Bee, Connecticut State Police lead a line of children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. after Adam Lanza opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children. State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky III asked a judge in Danbury Superior Court, Wednesday, March 27, 2013 to limit the information to be made public from warrants in Newtown school shooting, due to be released Thursday. (AP Photo/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks, File) MANDATORY CREDIT: NEWTOWN BEE, SHANNON HICKS

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) ? A cache of weapons including guns, more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, a bayonet and several swords was found in the home of the gunman who carried out the Newtown school shooting, according to search warrants released Thursday.

    Adam Lanza killed 26 people inside Sandy Hook Elementary School and took his own life within five minutes of shooting his way into the building, State's Attorney Stephen J. Sedensky III said in a statement accompanying the release of the warrants in the Dec. 14 massacre. Lanza was found dead in the school wearing military-style clothing.

    The arsenal seized from Lanza's home and the car he drove to carry out the massacre provided glimpses into the world of a troubled young man, but it does not answer the question of what could have motivated the attack. Investigators say it will take until June or later to complete the investigation.

    Sedensky said Lanza killed all 26 victims inside Sandy Hook Elementary School with a Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle before taking his own life with a Glock 10 mm handgun. He said Lanza had another loaded handgun with him inside the school as well as three, 30-round magazines for the Bushmaster.

    Sedensky said 154 spent .223 casings were recovered at the scene. A loaded 12-gauge Saiga shotgun was found in the Honda Civic Lanza drove to the school and the warrants said there were two magazines containing a total of 70 shotgun rounds. The warrant does not offer further explanation, and authorities did not respond to questions, but some Saiga shotguns can be fitted with magazines that hold up to 30 rounds.

    Mark Barden, whose 7-year-old son, Daniel, was killed at Sandy Hook, said he was not surprised by the details released Thursday.

    "Most of this is pretty high-level stuff that we were aware of already and it just reminds me of what happened, that a gunman stormed his way into an elementary school and shot to death 26 people, 20 of which were first-grade boys and girls," Barden said.

    At the Lanza house, investigators found books about autism and Asperger's syndrome as well as a National Rifle Association guide to pistol shooting, the warrants said. The NRA said Lanza and his mother were not members. Another book found at the home with tabbed pages is titled: "Train Your Brain to Get Happy."

    Writings and journals that belonged to Lanza were seized by police and turned over to the FBI for analysis. They also found three photos containing images of what appears to be a dead person covered with plastic and blood.

    Police said they found a smashed computer hard drive and a gaming console in the house. An unnamed person told investigators that Lanza was an avid gamer who played "Call of Duty" and other games and rarely left his home.

    Investigators found a holiday card containing a check made out to Lanza for the purchase of a firearm, authored by his mother, Nancy Lanza. Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother in their Newtown home before driving to the school to carry out the massacre.

    Documents indicate authorities found a gun safe with shotgun shells in the house and numerous boxes of bullets. In a bedroom closet, they found ear plugs, a handwritten note regarding ammunition and magazines, paperwork on guns and a metal bayonet.

    In a top drawer of a filing cabinet, they found paper targets. In a duffel bag, they found ear and eye protection, binoculars, numerous paper targets and an NRA certificate that belonged to Adam Lanza.

    Authorities found numerous knives, including samurai swords. They found a military-style uniform in Lanza's bedroom and handwritten notes containing the addresses of local gun shops. The guns found at the home included a .323-caliber Enfield Albian bolt-action rifle, a .22-caliber Savage Mark II rifle, a BB gun and a .22-caliber Volcanic starter pistol.

    Among the items seized was a news article on a 2008 school shooting at Northern Illinois University.

    A judge's order to seal the warrants expired on Wednesday, and a Danbury Superior Court judge granted a request by Sedensky to withhold some details. Sedensky asked to redact the name of a witness, saying the person's safety might be jeopardized if the name were disclosed. He also asked that the release not include other information such as telephone numbers, serial numbers on items found and a few paragraphs of an affidavit.

    Until now, prosecutors had made few details of the Newtown investigation available, despite pressure to do so from the governor, who criticized leaks to the press and lawmakers who clamored for more details as they craft legislation on mental health and gun control.

    Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced last week that additional information would be released at his request. He expressed concern that some information about the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook reportedly disclosed by a top state police commander at a recent law enforcement seminar in New Orleans was leaked.

    In his statement, Sedensky said he ordered a stop to any presentations involving evidence in the case to prevent such disclosures. He said the investigation is ongoing.

    "No conclusions have been reached and no final determinations have been made," Sedensky said.

    Senate President Donald E. Williams Jr. said this week that legislative leaders are eager to review the search warrant documents before finishing work on a bipartisan bill that addresses gun control and other issues related to the massacre.

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    Associated Press writers Dave Collins and Michael Melia in Hartford contributed to this report.

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    Risk of autism is not increased by 'too many vaccines too soon,' study shows

    Mar. 29, 2013 ? Although scientific evidence suggests that vaccines do not cause autism, approximately one-third of parents continue to express concern that they do; nearly 1 in 10 parents refuse or delay vaccinations because they believe it is safer than following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) schedule. A primary concern is the number of vaccines administered, both on a single day and cumulatively over the first 2 years of life. In a new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers concluded that there is no association between receiving "too many vaccines too soon" and autism.

    Dr. Frank DeStefano and colleagues from the CDC and Abt Associates, Inc. analyzed data from 256 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 752 children without ASD (born from 1994-1999) from 3 managed care organizations. They looked at each child's cumulative exposure to antigens, the substances in vaccines that cause the body's immune system to produce antibodies to fight disease, and the maximum number of antigens each child received in a single day of vaccination.

    The researchers determined the total antigen numbers by adding the number of different antigens in all vaccines each child received in one day, as well as all vaccines each child received up to 2 years of age. The authors found that the total antigens from vaccines received by age 2 years, or the maximum number received on a single day, was the same between children with and without ASD. Furthermore, when comparing antigen numbers, no relationship was found when they evaluated the sub-categories of autistic disorder and ASD with regression.

    Although the current routine childhood vaccine schedule contains more vaccines than the schedule in the late 1990s, the maximum number of antigens that a child could be exposed to by 2 years of age in 2013 is 315, compared with several thousand in the late 1990s. Because different types of vaccines contain varying amounts of antigens, this research acknowledged that merely counting the number of vaccines received does not adequately account for how different vaccines and vaccine combinations stimulate the immune system. For example, the older whole cell pertussis vaccine causes the production of about 3000 different antibodies, whereas the newer acellular pertussis vaccine causes the production of 6 or fewer different antibodies.

    An infant's immune system is capable of responding to a large amount of immunologic stimuli and, from time of birth, infants are exposed to hundreds of viruses and countless antigens outside of vaccination. According to the authors, "The possibility that immunological stimulation from vaccines during the first 1 or 2 years of life could be related to the development of ASD is not well-supported by what is known about the neurobiology of ASDs." In 2004, a comprehensive review by the Institute of Medicine concluded that there is not a causal relationship between certain vaccine types and autism, and this study supports that conclusion.

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    Catherine Guidici and Sean Lowe: Is It Over Already?!

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    Celebrities Who Have Aged Gracefully

    ?Live and let live,? is what I always say; however, seeing celebrities turning themselves into non-biodegradable (figuratively) sacks of silicon and lead just saddens me. Where are the times when growing old was all about attaining short lived yet immense wisdom and having grace in whatever you did (Bye- Bye the youth of Clumsiness).

    Celebrities+Who+Have+Aged+Gracefully Celebrities Who Have Aged Gracefully

    As Audrey Hepburn had rightly said, ?The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.? Also, being a celebrity comes with responsibility; there is a reason why every successful person doesn?t want to be in the limelight. I have heard women talking about how Botox is this magical treatment that will make you look young and beautiful without knowing the complete truth. ?These treatments only make you look superficial, and PLASTIC. ?Make your expressions stiff and you loose that beautiful laugh of yours.

    A little known fact: Men love it when ladies have a sense of humour and know how to laugh without worrying what it does to their face. ?So stop worrying, smile and be unpredictable, which is what is going to keep you forever young!

    Now to the list:

    Those who have aged gracefully:

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    1.) ?Hema Malini: ?She is proof that a good balanced diet, drinking loads of warm water goes a long way. She could easily pass off as one of the sisters of her kids. She never succumbed to any new fads, diets or even those ?wondrous? surgical helps. She is a natural beauty and true example of the saying by Miss Hepburn, ?Beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows.?

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    2.)Jane Fonda: Can you believe this woman is in her seventies? Just look at her, amazing! She inspires me everyday to wake up early in the morning and run that extra mile. True believer of a good diet and exercise to keep oneself fit, energetic and feeling young; she has her own website dedicated to a fit and healthy living. Man, she has a fitness level of a 12-year-old having a sugar rush!

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    3.) ?Salma Hayek: Though still very young (comparatively), I still think she deserves to be on the list. ?She is the only who knows what a good diet truly means, not only do you need the proteins and vitamins, but the fats and carbohydrates (but in a limited quantity, too much of anything is bad. Excess of proteins isn?t going to do you any good either).

    She had once said her secret to looking young were carbohydrates. That does make more sense than one of those crazy diets, don?t you agree? Think of how beneficial the butters and the oils you use on your skin are going to be on ingestion. Think of how cooking with Argan oil can give you the perfect glowing and supple skin. She is going to be the one to watch out for in the coming years and so are her kids!)

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    4.) Jennifer Lopez: ?This woman doesn?t look her age, and has only gotten more beautiful and healthy with age. Dancing and exercise along with a good diet are the secrets behind this yummy mummy?s fitness. ?Zoom in on her eyes and you will notice less wrinkles on her face than a girl in her late twenties. I can bet all of my money on the fact that she is going to be a stunner even in her 70s, giving some tough competition to Ms. Jane.

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    5.) Rekha: This list wouldn?t have been complete without her. She has still maintained her figure seems to not have aged even a single day since she turned thirty and carries herself with such grace. She doesn?t try too hard to look young and never looks tacky in whatever she does. She carries herself with such grace in those beautiful saris and even accessorizes age appropriately.

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    6.) Helen Mirren: Did you look at how amazing she looked at the 83rd Academy Awards. This lady was voted as the body of the year in 2011 by fitness fanatics in the U.K., beating out actresses 20 and 30 years younger than her. Beat that, Pippa! The 66-year-old beauty attributes her slim and envious body to walking her dogs constantly and is also a fan of Wii Fit.

    Michelle Pfeiffer Celebrities Who Have Aged Gracefully

    7.)Michelle Pfeiffer: ?Keeps her 53-year-old body in shape with daily treadmill workouts (4-6 miles a day). Plus, she adheres to a low-fat diet that doesn?t include wheat, dairy, or sugar. The actress is often spotted in public without a stitch of makeup, saying she doesn?t like to wear a lot of color on her face. Pfeiffer?s natural radiance shines through, still can?t figure out how she manages to look this good at her age (Probably found the fountain of youth Ponce was looking for).

    Cattrall Kim Celebrities Who Have Aged Gracefully

    8. Kim Cattrall: ?She says she shies away from plastic surgery because she doesn?t feel the need to look 20 years younger. At 54, she admits it?s harder to stay fit than it used to be, but thanks to daily workouts and drinking eight cups of water, she still looks like Sex and the City?s favorite man-eater. ?Confession, I think she is much sexier than SJP and rocked that dress better than Miley in Sex and the City two.

    Sridevi Celebrities Who Have Aged Gracefully

    Sridevi: True example of the fact that, talent doesn?t have a shelf life. She looks much slimmer and fitter than she used to at the peek of her career. Her skin still has the same glow and she hasn?t taken any surgical help. Proof? Her ability to still pull ? off those priceless she is known for. One of the finest actresses in our she looks the same she used to two decades ago, only better. If rumors are to be believed, she only has salads and doesn?t drink even when she goes to a party.

    Special Mention:

    1.) Julianne Moore.
    2.) Sharmila Tagore.
    3.) Catherine Keener.
    4.) Zeenat Aman (Man, she is so elegant!).
    5.) Cindy Crawford (People still want a figure like her?s).
    6.) Maduri Dixit Nene.
    7.) Waheda Rahman.
    8.) Malaika Arora- Khan.

    Those who haven?t aged gracefully:

    Bridget Bardot: She was known for her slim ballerina figure and beautiful skin and her shiny hair molded in the shape of a beehive. She allowed her health and fitness to take backseat with each passing year. The years of frail skin and hair came a little too soon, blame on the years of partying hard and drinking harder. Something her slim figure could not handle.

    Heidi Montag: Anti-ageing in healthy ways like exercise, healthy food and sunscreen is what our bodies are wired to accept, but some people just go overboard. At 25, she got a record- breaking ten plastic surgeries done in one single day. She looks nothing like the fresh faced beautiful teenager from season one of hills. If reports are to be believed, she has already started regretting getting them done. Sigh, things fame makes you do.

    Courtney Love , now 47, rocked the acting and music industry when she was in her 20s. Then, she took a hiatus from Hollywood and reportedly stripped to support herself, dealt with depression and anger, used marijuana, cocaine, and heroine, and had a rocky marriage to Kurt Cobain that ended with his suicide. ?Stress, drugs all lead to her downfall.

    Others include:

    1.) Steven Tyler (Guess the cocktail of sex, alcohol and too muck rock didn?t work out for this American idol judge).
    2.) Jack Nicholson (He should write a book on how to turn from Beauty into a beast. Ouch. Was that too harsh?)
    3.) Marlon Brando ( This talented heart ? breaking machine was known for his infamous antics and bad ? boy image. He turned from a beauty to an old, frail, pot ?bellied. Expected better from this talent ? machine. Nonetheless he was talented and will be remembered always in our hearts).
    4.) Lindsay Lohan (Stealing, addiction to drugs, alcohol, tumultuous relationships , and surgeries not meant for your age can really take a toll on your skin and health. Lesson learned. Miss the fresh- faced parent trap actress).
    5.) Saira Banu: Married to Dilip kumar, this ex-beauty and film star lost her health and beauty, even while not having kids.

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    Drug dogs need a warrant to sniff outside your door, Supreme Court rules

    When police brought a trained drug dog to the outside of a Florida home to sniff for evidence, that violated the homeowner's Fourth Amendment rights, the Supreme Court justices said in a 5-to-4 decision.

    By Warren Richey,?Staff writer / March 26, 2013

    Franky, the starring character in today's Supreme Court ruling, has retired from Miami-Dade's narcotics division. The Court ruled that police cannot bring drug-sniffing police dogs onto a suspect's property to look for evidence without first getting a search warrant.

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    The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a homeowner when they led a drug-sniffing dog to the front door of a house suspected of being used to grow marijuana.

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    In a 5-to-4 decision, the high court said that police conducted a ?search? when they entered the property and took the dog to the house?s front porch.

    Since the officers failed to first obtain a warrant from a judge before intruding onto private property, their search was unconstitutional, the court said.

    ?A police officer not armed with a warrant may approach a home and knock? at the front door, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the 10-page majority opinion. ?But introducing a trained police dog to explore the area around the home in hopes of discovering incriminating evidence is something else,? he said. ?There is no customary invitation to do that.?

    The decision is important because it enforces what Justice Scalia calls the traditional property-based understanding of the Fourth Amendment.

    Rather than analyzing whether the homeowner had a reasonable expectation of privacy, the property-based approach asks a more fundamental question: Did the underlying actions constitute a search.

    ?The basic rule is that a search occurs for Fourth Amendment purposes when the government physically intrudes for investigative purposes on one of the areas that the amendment protects: that is, onto persons, houses, papers, or effects,? Scalia said in announcing the decision in open court.

    ?Our later cases have supplemented this test, but the basic approach keeps easy cases easy ? and by those lights, this is an easy case indeed,? he said.

    At issue in Florida v. Jardines (11-564) was whether police acted properly when they led a dog trained to detect illicit drugs onto the front porch and up to the front door of Joelis Jardines? house near Miami.

    Investigators suspected Mr. Jardines was using his home to grow large quantities of marijuana. The drug-sniffing dog, ?Franky,? signaled his handler that he smelled narcotics.

    The dog?s ?alert? was combined with other evidence to demonstrate probable cause and obtain a search warrant from a judge. A raid and search revealed that the house was, in fact, being used to grow marijuana.

    Jardines? lawyer challenged the legality of the raid and search. He said police needed a warrant before bringing Franky onto Jardines? property and up to the front door.

    The trial judge agreed and invalidated the search. A state appeals court reversed that decision.

    The issue went to the Florida Supreme Court, which agreed with the trial judge that using a dog to sniff odors emerging from the interior of a private home is a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment and requires that police first obtain a warrant before leading the dog onto the property.

    In affirming Florida?s high court, the US Supreme Court said the police officers violated a basic rule of the Fourth Amendment by physically intruding into the area surrounding a private home for investigative purposes without securing a warrant.

    ?When it comes to the Fourth Amendment, the home is first among equals,? Scalia wrote. ?At the amendment?s very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable government intrusion.?

    Scalia added: ?This right would be of little practical value if the state?s agents could stand in a home?s porch or side garden and trawl for evidence with impunity.?

    In a dissent, Justice Samuel Alito said Scalia?s property-based rule ?is nowhere to be found in the annals of Anglo-American jurisprudence.?

    ?While the court claims that its reasoning has ancient and durable roots, its trespass rule is really a newly struck counterfeit,? Justice Alito wrote.

    Alito said that a reasonable person would understand that odors emerging from a private home may be detected in locations open to the public. He added that the home owner would enjoy no reasonable expectation of privacy in the escaping odors.

    ?The conduct of the police officer in this case did not constitute a trespass and did not violate respondent?s reasonable expectations of privacy,? Alito said.

    Joining the dissent were Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer.

    Joining Scalia in the majority were Justices Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.

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    Trailblazing TV journalist Barbara Walters to retire in 2014

    (Reuters) - Pioneering journalist Barbara Walters, the first woman to co-anchor a U.S. evening news program, plans to retire in May 2014 after more than five decades as a prominent figure on U.S. television, a source familiar with her plans said on Thursday.

    Walters, 83, is expected to announce her retirement to viewers herself in the coming weeks, the source said.

    "It was very much her decision. I think she will best explain it herself," the source told Reuters.

    ABC will broadcast a series of specials and tributes to Walters in the weeks before her exit, the source added.

    ABC News executives declined to comment.

    Walters, the creator and host of ABC's all-women talk show "The View," had open heart surgery in 2010.

    She fainted, hit her head and suffered a concussion in January, and was then diagnosed with chicken pox, causing her to miss more than a month of work.

    Walters is best known as one of the top interviewers on U.S. television, counting an array of world leaders as subjects, including Cuba's Fidel Castro, Britain's Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussein of Iraq and every U.S. president since Richard Nixon.

    She got her start in television journalism in 1961 as a writer on NBC's "Today," a show she would later become the first woman to co-host.

    In 1976, she became the first woman to co-anchor a television evening news broadcast on any U.S. network for "ABC Evening News." Walters has also worked as a producer and host of the ABC news magazine "20/20" and as a correspondent for ABC News.

    ABC is a unit of Walt Disney Co.

    (This story has been repeated to fix a typo in the lead)

    (Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Todd Eastham)

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    Trees used to create recyclable, efficient solar cell

    Mar. 26, 2013 ? Solar cells are just like leaves, capturing the sunlight and turning it into energy. It's fitting that they can now be made partially from trees.

    Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University researchers have developed efficient solar cells using natural substrates derived from plants such as trees. Just as importantly, by fabricating them on cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) substrates, the solar cells can be quickly recycled in water at the end of their lifecycle.

    The technology is published in the journal Scientific Reports, the latest open-access journal from the Nature Publishing Group.

    The researchers report that the organic solar cells reach a power conversion efficiency of 2.7 percent, an unprecedented figure for cells on substrates derived from renewable raw materials. The CNC substrates on which the solar cells are fabricated are optically transparent, enabling light to pass through them before being absorbed by a very thin layer of an organic semiconductor. During the recycling process, the solar cells are simply immersed in water at room temperature. Within only minutes, the CNC substrate dissolves and the solar cell can be separated easily into its major components.

    Georgia Tech College of Engineering Professor Bernard Kippelen led the study and says his team's project opens the door for a truly recyclable, sustainable and renewable solar cell technology.

    "The development and performance of organic substrates in solar technology continues to improve, providing engineers with a good indication of future applications," said Kippelen, who is also the director of Georgia Tech's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE). "But organic solar cells must be recyclable. Otherwise we are simply solving one problem, less dependence on fossil fuels, while creating another, a technology that produces energy from renewable sources but is not disposable at the end of its lifecycle."

    To date, organic solar cells have been typically fabricated on glass or plastic. Neither is easily recyclable, and petroleum-based substrates are not very eco-friendly. For instance, if cells fabricated on glass were to break during manufacturing or installation, the useless materials would be difficult to dispose of. Paper substrates are better for the environment, but have shown limited performance because of high surface roughness or porosity. However, cellulose nanomaterials made from wood are green, renewable and sustainable. The substrates have a low surface roughness of only about two nanometers.

    "Our next steps will be to work toward improving the power conversion efficiency over 10 percent, levels similar to solar cells fabricated on glass or petroleum-based substrates," said Kippelen. The group plans to achieve this by optimizing the optical properties of the solar cell's electrode.

    Purdue School of Materials Engineering associate professor Jeffrey Youngblood collaborated with Kippelen on the research.

    A provisional patent on the technology has been filed with the U.S. Patent Office.

    There's also another positive impact of using natural products to create cellulose nanomaterials. The nation's forest product industry projects that tens of millions of tons of them could be produced once large-scale production begins, potentially in the next five years.

    The research is the latest project by COPE, which studies the use and development of printed electronics. Last year the center created the first-ever completely plastic solar cell.

    This research was funded in part through the Center for Interface Science: Solar Electric Materials, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award Number DE-SC0001084 (Y.Z., J.S., C.F., A.D.), by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Grant No. FA9550-09-1-0418) (J. H.), by the Office of Naval Research (Grant No. N00014-04-1-0313) (T.K., B.K.), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture -Forest Service (Grant No. 12-JV-11111122-098). Funding for CNC substrate processing was provided by USDA-Forest Service (Grant No. 11-JV-11111129-118) (R.J.M., J.P.Y., J.L.). The authors thank Rick Reiner and Alan Rudie from the U.S. Forest Service- Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) for providing CNC materials.

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    If you want to run a good business on the internet, then you should find out what your competition is doing. Browse sites selling products similar to your own, and make note of what they are doing right and wrong. When you notice lacking services on other websites, you should make sure these services are emphasized on your site in order to stand out from the crowd.

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    NOTE! When it comes to Internet marketing, it is important to watch what your competition is doing. It does not matter what your niche is, you will have competition at all times.

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    Pay attention to what the other companies are doing, and try to think of new ideas based of what you learn. If they are succeeding, you need to analyze what they are doing.

    NOTE! Attaching your keyword to internal links is very useful. Your page index relies on individuals spending time reading your content.

    Of course, mastering any respective field or niche is going to take a lot of time and practice, but you have to get started somewhere. Utilize the info in this post to jump start your process and reach your end goal sooner.

    OK, we?re pretty much finished for now?

    I?ll go ahead and deliver some more online marketing methods for you 24 hours from now. Do feel free to, write your thoughts below and I?ll see what can be done to help you out.

    Thank you for spending your precious time with me today and talk with you the next time.

    Stewart Alexander - Owner of Free Web Design Services
    Stewart Alexander
    Stewart Alexander
    CEO and Founder of Free Web Design Services

    Source: http://www.freewebdesignservices.com/develop-a-bigger-online-brand-through-these-internet-promotion-ideas/

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