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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
China says at least 12 killed in Xinjiang riot (AP)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - At least 12 people were killed in riots Tuesday near the Chinese city of Kashgar in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, state media reported.
US Wants Natural Gas As Major Auto Fuel Option
CNG has some real problems compared to gasoline in private vehicles, namely the fuel tank. I've been in a couple of these vehicles, and the main problem is that there's little or no storage space. Consumers aren't going to be too happy about that. In pickup trucks, the tank takes up about 1/3 of the cargo bed. So you can forget about carrying sheets of plywood and many other large objects. In small cars, the tank takes up the entire trunk, so you can forget about putting any luggage or groceries or anything else back there.
Basically, CNG has extremely poor energy density compared to gasoline, when you compare the size of a fuel tank versus the driving range that fuel tank gives you. The fuel is a compressed gas, which obviously isn't nearly as dense as a liquid, and because it's compressed it requires a tank with very thick, heavy-duty walls. So you end up with a giant tank consuming your whole trunk just so you can have a measly 100-mile range on CNG, when a simple 12-gallon gasoline tank gives you a 3-400 mile range. The only people here who have these vehicles are people who participated in Arizona's program back around 2000 where the state government gave them a giant discount on the cost of a car, plus a free conversion to CNG (dual-fuel; you can switch between the two). So people were buying these giant, expensive SUVs for 1/2 the normal cost, which had the spare tire replaced with a 5-gallon CNG (good for a 20-mile drive maybe) tank to qualify for this giant rebate. Other vehicles with more serious conversions of course were made too like the ones I mentioned above, but still the range wasn't that great and the tanks took up most of the useful cargo space in these vehicles.
The only way to make these vehicles practical would be to completely redesign the chasses for these giant tanks, but now you're talking about an enormous expense for the automakers, and a totally separate product line, for something that might do about as well as diesel cars have done in the USA (which is very, very bad for those who don't know). You just can't take a regular gas car and convert it to CNG with great results. At least with diesel, you can use the exact same chassis quite easily; you just need to drop in a different engine. Making CNG cars is going to be more like making electric cars (or also hybrid electric cars with very good all-electric range, a la Chevy Volt): for really good results, you'll have to make purpose-built vehicles, just like GM did with the Volt and Tesla did with their cars. Conversions using gasoline chasses just don't work out too well; you either end up with crap range because you're limited to how many batteries you can stuff into various voids in the chassis or engine compartment (which wasn't designed with these batteries in mind), or you end up with no cargo room because you've filled it with batteries (like the electric pickup trucks I've seen pictures of: they fill the cargo bed with batteries, which totally defeats the purpose of a pickup truck).
So if you're an automaker, and you'll have to spend a huge pile of cash to engineer an all-new chassis, would you rather spend that on a car that only runs on CNG (maybe with a tiny gas tank just in case the customer can't find a handy CNG station), or would you rather spend that on making a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle like the Volt that runs ~40 miles on electricity, enough for most commutes, and then has an efficient gas engine for driving cross-country, letting customers use the already-existing gasoline infrastructure?
This whole thing is just a bad idea. Electric is the way to go, hybrid at first, with some dedicated commuter cars like the Leaf, and full electric later when battery capacities are better and fast recharging options are better. The other thing our dumb government should be pushing for cities is a personal rapid transit system like SkyTran [skytran.net], which is all-electric, uses very little power, and would be perfect for shuttling commuters between suburbs and their workplaces. If they want to find something, they should be funding that instead.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Ryan Seacrest, Diddy, More Tweet About The Oscars
'My mom always told me to pack two jackets for red carpets,' Seacrest writes after Sacha Baron Cohen spills 'ash' on him.
By Jocelyn Vena
Ryan Seacrest at the 2012 Oscars
Photo: Getty Images
During Sunday night's (February 26) Oscars, celebrities took to Twitter to react to the wins (both their own and those of their colleagues), the looks, the show itself, and, of course, that Dictator stunt pulled on Ryan Seacrest.
"My mom always told me to pack two jackets for red carpets," Seacrest joked about being plastered with "ashes" on the red carpet by Sacha Baron Cohen, who was done up in his Dictator character. "Always wondered why. Now I know." His lady love, Julianne Hough, also laughed off the incident, adding, "Awe! @RyanSeacrest It's ok, we'll just make pancakes with the leftovers! #goodcomposure ;)"
Diddy managed to snag some Oscar gold as the executive producer of the Best Documentary winner, "Undefeated." "God is the greatest!!!!" he wrote. "Thank you! #undefeated!!!!" He later added, "I am buggin." He got some love from a number of folks, including Ellen DeGeneres, who wrote, "@iamdiddy did it! Congratulations on Best Documentary!"
One of the big topics of the night was Octavia Spencer, who won for her supporting role in "The Help." Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson wrote, "Yes!!!! Welcome to the family Octavia !! Congrats!!! Amazing!!"
"Vampire Diaries" star Ian Somerhalder also had love for Spencer, writing, "Congratulations Octavia!!!!!! You deserve this- you're amazing. Enjoy it, it's your night Xo Ian."
Despite not taking home an Oscar for "My Week With Marilyn," Michelle Williams seems to have made a friend in Perez Hilton, who wrote, "There is something so delicate and precious about Michelle Williams! I just wanna be her friend and give her lots of hugs! #Oscars."
Hough was back on Twitter at the show's end to send love to Meryl Streep, who did take home an Oscar for her lead role in "The Iron Woman." "Meryl makes it possible to be the best at what you do yet still keep your values family and friendships first," she said. "That's what makes Meryl, Meryl."
While the show is all about that little statue that gets held out to the winners, Kim Kardashian weighed in one some of the night's looks. "Wow Angelina went fun & sexy!!!! LOVE," she wrote. "OMG Gwenyth Paltrow looks soooo chic! WOW. Wow JLO looks amazing!!! Emma Stone looks beautiful! The glam on the red carpet is heating up!"
The MTV Movies team has the 2012 Oscars covered! Keep it locked at MTV.com all night and beyond for updates on the night's big winners and the best red-carpet fashion. Join the live conversation by tweeting @MTVNews with the hashtag #Oscars.
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Obama Google+ page used as Chinese freedom forum
Chinese Internet users taking advantage of temporary access to Google's social networking site, Google+, have flooded U.S. President Barack Obama's page on the site with calls for greater freedom in the world's most populous country.
"Oppose censorship, oppose the Great Firewall of China!" one user posted, one of hundreds of comments in Chinese or by people with Chinese names that dominated the site over the weekend.
Beijing's blocking of websites and censoring of search results for politically sensitive terms is known colloquially as the "Great Firewall of China." With sites such as Facebook and Twitter blocked, self-censoring homegrown equivalents like Sina Corp's microblogging platform, Weibo, fill the void.
It was unclear why Google+ was accessible for some users in China for part of the past week. A Google spokesman said the company had not done anything differently that would have led to the access. One Google executive told Reuters that the company had noticed the opening early last week.
Some Internet users said they were accessing the site via mobile devices, suggesting censors may have overlooked certain mobile browsers.
Whatever the reason, the incident offered a glimpse into the pent-up demand for free speech in a country where the Internet is heavily censored and any criticism of the ruling Communist Party in other forms is stamped out. It also serves as a reminder of why Chinese authorities view such sites as a threat.
Bumper stickers, green cards
The posts in Chinese slowed to a trickle by Monday, suggesting the window of unfettered access to Google+ might have closed. Individuals in China normally need to use a virtual private network to access blocked sites, an added expense and trouble that limits the number of people who do so.
But that was not before hundreds of people who said they were Chinese citizens had an opportunity to ask their U.S. counterparts about hallmarks of U.S. elections such as campaign bumper stickers.
"I'd like to grab a bumper sticker in my left hand and a green card in my right hand," said user Zhou Zuoxin. A U.S. green card allows a foreign citizen to work in the United States.
American presidential elections attract a great deal of attention and interest overseas and Obama in particular is very popular abroad. But the Democrat has been careful to stress that foreign interests should not influence the Nov. 6 election.
Despite the outpouring of admiration for Obama from some of those posting with Chinese names, others on the site expressed frustration over the avalanche of Chinese posts.
However, Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, said its policy was only to remove posts from the Google+ site when they are offensive or threatening.
Responding to those who criticized their use of the Obama page as a place to express their desire for democracy, many of the Chinese participants called for empathy.
"Many people don't understand the meaning why all Chinese are coming here. We envy American people their democracy and freedom!" wrote one user with the name Lihui Chen.
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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46539312/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Saving Energy with a Lighting Audit - A Home Improvement Blog ...
Being able to save energy with a lighting audit was the main reason why I looked into this. I was trying to find the best way to keep my company going. One of the things that I thought about was finding the ways that I could trim fat from our budget. This cost me a bit to get it done and the new lighting put in, but it made a big difference in our costs going out. It didn?t save my company alone, but went a long way towards helping.
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Gulf oil spill trial delayed for settlement talks
FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2010, file photo, Nelda Winslette, grandmother of Deepwater Horizon oil rig floorhand Adam Weise, holds a painting of Weise in her home in Yorktown, Texas. Weise was one of 11 workers killed after the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. Billions of dollars are on the line when a federal trial opens Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 over the reams of litigation spawned by the nation's worst offshore oil disaster, though those whose losses can't be repaid are hoping for something more elusive: justice for lost loved ones. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2010, file photo, Nelda Winslette, grandmother of Deepwater Horizon oil rig floorhand Adam Weise, holds a painting of Weise in her home in Yorktown, Texas. Weise was one of 11 workers killed after the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. Billions of dollars are on the line when a federal trial opens Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 over the reams of litigation spawned by the nation's worst offshore oil disaster, though those whose losses can't be repaid are hoping for something more elusive: justice for lost loved ones. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
FILE - In this April 21, 2010 photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, fire boat response crews spray water on the burning remnants of BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. The gargantuan legal bill for the 2010 catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is coming due for BP as a federal trial opens Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 to determine the company?s liability for the blowout of its Macondo well. On the cusp of trial, phalanxes of lawyers, company officials and state officials spent the final hours in high-stakes settlement talks that law experts believed could still yield a deal right before the courtroom doors open Monday morning. (AP Photo/US Coast Guard, File)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? A judge is pushing back the federal trial over the nation's worst offshore oil disaster by a week, saying Sunday that BP PLC was making some progress in settlement talks with a committee overseeing scores of lawsuits, according to people close to the case.
Two people close to the case told The Associated Press the decision was made Sunday during a conference call between parties in the case and U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the call.
They said the judge told those on the call that BP and the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee were "making some progress" in their settlement talks. The steering committee is overseeing lawsuits filed by individuals and businesses in the wake of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. The blast killed 11 workers and led to 206 million gallons of oil spewing from the blown-out well, soiling miles of coastline.
However, the judge did not mention the status of settlement talks between other parties, nor did he mention any numbers being discussed, according to the people close to the case.
The brief order issued by Barbier on Sunday said only that the delay was granted "for reasons of judicial efficiency and to allow the parties to make further progress in their settlement discussions."
Among other things, the trial that is now set to begin March 5 is meant to determine the penalties that need to be paid by BP and other companies involved in the oil spill. Billions of dollars are at stake.
BP confirmed in a news release that the trial had been delayed. It said the oil giant and the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee were working to reach an agreement that would fairly compensate people and businesses affected by the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and resulting spill.
Separately, BP has had discussions in recent days with the federal government and cement contractor Halliburton Energy Services Inc., according to several people close to the case.
If no settlement is ultimately reached, Barbier will preside over a three-phase trial that could last the better part of a year. The first phase is designed to identify the causes of the deadly blowout and to assign percentages of fault to the companies involved in the ill-fated drilling project.
Financial analysts estimate BP could wind up paying anywhere from $15 billion to $30 billion over the lawsuits, and BP's chief executive told a British newspaper that the company has set aside $40 million to deal with fines and costs associated with the spill. An AP analysis found that the company could conceivably face up to $52 billion in environmental fines and compensation if the judge determines the company was grossly negligent.
The trial may not yield major revelations about the causes of the disaster, but the outcome could bring much-needed relief for tens of thousands of people and businesses whose livelihoods were disrupted by the spill.
Relatives of the 11 killed in the Deepwater Horizon blast say they are hoping for something more elusive: justice for lost loved ones.
Sheryl Revette, whose husband, Dewey, was among the 11 killed when BP PLC's Macondo well blew out and triggered an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, doesn't have anything to gain financially from the trial. She wants an apology from the oil giant, something she said she hasn't received yet.
"I've never heard a word from them," said Revette, 48, of State Line, Miss. "But an apology isn't going to bring my husband back."
The decisions and actions that led to the explosion and spill already have been painstakingly investigated by the Coast Guard, federal regulators and a presidential commission. Their probes concluded BP, rig owner Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton deserve to share the blame for a string of risky decisions that were designed to save time and money.
The massive scope of the case ? a maze of claims and counterclaims between the companies, federal and state governments and plaintiffs' attorneys ? has elicited comparisons to the tobacco litigation of the 1990s.
Roughly 340 plaintiffs' lawyers have worked on the case. BP has spent millions of dollars on experts and law firms. More than 300 depositions have been taken. Millions of pages of legal briefs have been filed. One Justice Department lawyer said it would take him 210 years to read all the pages submitted into the record if he read 1,000 pages a day.
Barbier, a former president of the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association and appointee of President Bill Clinton, has a reputation for speedy but fair trials. He will hear and decide the case without a jury. Each trial phase is expected to last two to three months, with breaks in between. Even if all parties settle their claims before or during the trial, it could take several months for claims to be paid.
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Weber reported from Atlanta. Associated Press writer Cain Burdeau in New Orleans contributed to this report.
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Why Cancer Symptoms May Elude M.D. (HealthDay)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Diagnosing cancer is more difficult
in certain groups of patients, according to a British study.
in certain groups of patients, according to a British study.
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Panoramic Views of Lake Geneva from Stunning Fontana WI Home
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Master Bedroom Suite with Gorgeous Lake Views
While a home on the lake may not be within everybody?s reach, with this property you can experience all the joy of living at the lake in a beautiful home without the high lakefront taxes.? This home sits on a beautiful wooded lot and offers gorgeous views of Lake Geneva.? Nestled?on the sought after Lakeview bluff in the most popular neighborhood in Fontana, this is truly a one of a kind special treat.
Views of Lake Geneva from Formal Dining Room
This home feels like brand new construction.? It was designed to be perfect for living and entertaining!? The spacious home has 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths and a very well?planned design layout.? From the master bedroom suite you overlook all of Fontana and?enjoy panoramic views of Lake Geneva.? With the perfect walkout lower level entertaining friends and family is a breeze!
Walkout Lower Level Family Room & Bar - Perfect for Entertaining!
Whether you?re the cook in the family or a guest to this home, the gourmet kitchen was laid out with much planning.? High-end gourmet appliances and finishing touches have all been built into this home.? The kitchen and dining spaces are perfect for your daily meals and still have space enough for having an elegant dinner party.
Open Concept Home is Perfect for Entertaining
If you are looking for a piece of heaven around Lake Geneva, this home in Fontana, Wisconsin should definitely be on your list to see.? You?ll appreciate the quality of the construction as well as the attention to detail and lake views that was planned even before the home was built.? This property really takes advantage of the beautiful views in a very desirable location!
This Could Be Your Dream Spot to Relax and Enjoy Views of Lake Geneva!
To schedule a personal tour of homes for sale in Fontana, WI contact Hans or Michalene Melges with Keefe Real Estate ? Lake Geneva. Call or text (262)745-3738. Hans and Michalene Melges work together as a team making sure your questions are answered and you know what is going on through the entire real estate transaction process. Whether buying or selling, the Melges Team makes YOU their priority and takes the stress out of the move! Offering market expertise in Fontana, Lake Geneva and Williams Bay WI real estate, no question is to small and no situation is to large for these professional Lake Geneva real estate agents.
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
Breast Cancer Facts ? at what stage is your breast cancer? | Search ...
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Breast most cancers staging would be the approach of checking to discover how much the most cancers has gone. Is definitely the cancer just while in the breast, the community location, or has it spread in terms of the lymph nodes in the axilla or armpit which can be the regional place? Or perhaps it?s gone a stage more to present rise to secondary cancers or metastases someplace else while in the human body? These are generally usually referred to as distant metastases since they are now far away from your major most cancers within the nearby location.
The main most cancers in the breast is detected and confirmed because of the Triple Assessment. You are going to also bear in mind from the video clips on pathology that it?s the pathologist who claims irrespective of whether there is any most cancers during the lymph nodes while in the armpit and phases the armpit or axilla by thinking about the lymph nodes beneath the microscope. Staging on the axillary lymph nodes by pathologist is mandatory for all people who?ve breast most cancers.
But how does 1 notify if you can find any cancer while in the relaxation from the entire body? So how exactly does one phase the remainder of the body?
Scans
Staging in the entire body is executed by a doing a mixture of scans and blood checks to start looking for just about any proof of cancer.
The mind, the lungs and also the abdomen and pelvis ? which includes the liver, might be examined with a blend of x-rays, ultrasound scans, CT scans or MRI scans. If CT scanning is employed and also the scanner is rapidly good enough, the whole human body may be scanned at one particular sitting.
Checking the bones demands a wholly distinct sort of scan called a bone scan.
This scan is carried out by injecting some weakly radioactive dye right into a vein and after that detecting the dye that?s concentrated in the bones utilizing a sizable camera which data radioactivity.
The radioactive dye concentrates significantly in secondary cancers or metastases and so these exhibit up on the scan as ?dark? or ?hot-spots? during the bones.
Blood assessments:
It is actually typical for some blood exams to be done as aspect of your staging method but really no blood test is able to telling you accurately whether or not there is certainly any cancer in the entire body or not.
Having said that, while it continues to be critical to check out you totally, the next blood exams are normally taken.
1. Firstly, Full blood count ? to test for anaemia
2. Additionally an ESR ? which stands for erythrocyte sedimentation rate ? a simple, affordable but non-specific test which might be elevated in some scenarios of breast cancer
3. A Liver operate examination must be executed, which if abnormal could inform the surgeon to your attainable existence of a secondary cancer while in the liver.
4. Serum biochemistry assessments verify the kidney operate and calcium amounts.
5. And the tumour markers ? CA15-3, CA125 ? are checked. These are proteins unveiled from some breast cancers and that are covered individually within the video clip on the Adhere to Up phase.
The Timing of Staging:
Staging is often carried out either immediately after the diagnosis and just before surgical treatment or soon after surgical treatment in the event the most cancers and lymph nodes have already been removed and also have been sent for the pathologist for microscopic evaluation.
So when will your surgeon consult for these checks to verify the rest of your body?
Well, in a very regime case wherever there is no suspicion that there?s any cancer inside the lymph nodes or any place else inside the entire body, surgical treatment can move forward. The pathologist then examines the lymph nodes taken out at surgery treatment underneath the microscope.
Should the most cancers hasn?t spread for the lymph nodes then there is certainly minimal prospect that there are secondary cancers even more on within the relaxation of the system, surely of an adequate size to indicate up on scans. These scans and checks are high priced and so staging must only be done if there is certainly a real and sensible chance of obtaining some thing. So in case the lymph nodes are adverse or obvious of most cancers it is not even reasonable to complete the scans to start with except naturally the most cancers has some significantly aggressive attributes regarding it and the surgeon seriously thinks that it can be a good idea to examine almost everything just in case.
Another tactic obviously could be the strategy taken by several breast most cancers models, and that is to phase each individual and every last patient that has been newly diagnosed with breast cancer either just before or immediately after surgical procedures.
All individuals with constructive lymph nodes really should being an issue of routine ? go through entire staging. For if there is most cancers inside the lymph nodes there may be most cancers additionally on ? someplace else from the body and it can be naturally necessary to verify for your existence of any these types of secondary cancers which is able to require prompt procedure.
In the course of the Triple Evaluation, the radiologist may well see a suspicious or enlarged lymph node within the adjacent armpit and sample it. Hence the surgeon could possibly then receive a report with the pathologist that confirms not simply the diagnosis in the most cancers in the breast, but will also that there?s a positive lymph node or possibly a lymph node metastasis existing from the axilla.
In case the affected person is suspected or regarded to obtain constructive lymph nodes possibly by the surgeon or perhaps the radiologist before surgical treatment, or it?s the unit?s routine to make it happen at this time, staging may be done prior to the surgery.
In case the staging exams are very clear or bad for most cancers then surgical procedure can continue as normal.
In the event the staging checks do indicate secondary most cancers in the physique then chemotherapy is required NOT surgical treatment.
Your surgeon will inform you if staging investigations are required and ways in which and if they will be done.
So why don?t we recap:
1. Staging is definitely the procedure of discovering out how far a cancer has gone. Could it be only from the breast or has it gone in terms of to type a secondary cancer or metastasis within the lymph nodes during the armpit. Has it gone a stage additional and now there is certainly a secondary cancer or distant metastasis somewhere else inside the overall body?
2. The axillary lymph nodes are staged by pathologist beneath the microscope. That is required for all individuals with breast most cancers.
3. The physique is staged by conducting a combination of scans and blood checks and these can be carried out either ahead of or following surgical procedures.
4. Staging is usually done routinely
5. But it?s not at all constantly crucial to stage the body for each girl with breast most cancers.
If you want to learn more about breast cancer and want to watch the video on Breast Cancer Staging, you can do so here: http://youtu.be/YjHLN0wfIH0
Friday, February 24, 2012
Get Help With Personal Finance Through These Tips
Credit cards can be a great way to pay for items. If you have a card that offers rewards, use it on your daily purchases, such as groceries and gas. Look into your credit card provider?s rewards program to see if there are potential benefits for you.
Avoiding debt to begin with is the best advice for good personal finances. A home loan or car is fine because those are important things you need. However, as much as possible in your daily finances, avoid credit purchases and either pay cash or go without.
Try to negotiate with debt collectors who are trying to get you to make payments. These agencies bought your debt for pennies on the dollar. Paying a little of what you have to pay can help them still make a profit. Use this to your advantage and pay off your debt for a low price.
Younger people who want to stay on top of their finances should look into the advantages of compound interest. Establish a dedicated savings account and set aside a certain percentage of your pay.
If you have a flexible spending account, use it. Flexible spending accounts can help you save money on medical costs and daycare bills. These types of accounts are designed so that you may save a set amount of money before taxes to pay for future incurred costs. You should talk to someone who does taxes to find out what all is involved.
Save money from each of your checks. Somehow, there never seems to be anything left to save if you wait. With the money actually being stored away safe and secure, you have a much lower chance of spending the money on something trivial or impulse-driven.
Cooking and eating at home, as opposed to eating in restaurants, is a good way to save money if you desire to improve your financial situation. A healthy and delicious meal for your family can easily be prepared for $25-30. Calling the pizza delivery guy and adding on your favorite soda will typically take more out of your wallet than this.
Keep $10 or a bank card on you for small purchases. New laws have been enacted recently to allow merchants to determine a minimum transaction amount on credit card purchases.
To save both money and time, buy bulk quantities of lean protein. Buying product in bulk is usually much cheaper if you actually use what you purchase. Save time and energy by dedicating one day to cooking meals for the week utilizing your bulk meat purchase.
When checking your mail, pay attention for notices from creditors alerting you of changes to accounts. You have a legal right to be informed of changes 45 days in advance. Read over the changes and assess if the changes are worth you keeping the account. If you do not want to keep the account, pay what you owe and close it.
Practicing patience can prevent you from overpaying for the things you desire. A brand-new electronic device, for instance, will entice some people into making an immediate purchase. For instance, you can save a lot of electronics by waiting for the price to drop. This will give you much more money to use for other things.
No credit repair company can guarantee 100% success in repairing your history. Many companies will make blanket statements about their ability to repair your history. This isn?t even possible, since every individual has different credit issues. Companies that promise to completely clean your credit are deceiving you.
Knowing what possessions a person has, and their real value, can prevent those items from being sold unknowingly at a garage sale for 25 cents, or making their way to the Goodwill. There may be a hidden treasure in that inherited furniture or old dusty lamp that can add to ones overall net worth.
You want to have a high credit score. If you want to have low interest on a loan or credit card, you will need to have a good credit score. Low credit scores can also hamper your ability to rent housing and get utility services and cell-phone plans. So be smart and keep your credit score high enough to not cause you any difficulties when trying to secure credit.
Having knowledge of how to effectively handle your personal finances is priceless. You can make your finances a lot easier to handle when you keep track of your expenditures and don?t spend money without carefully considering the consequences. Using these tips, you can reach your goals by making the most of your money.
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Experience 'Wanderlust' With Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston And MTV First!
Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston throw caution (and their clothes) to the wind in the new comedy "Wanderlust," from the maniacal mind of "Wet Hot American Summer" director David Wain. But before "Wanderlust" wanders into theaters this Friday (February 24), you can get some personal time in with Paul and Jennifer right here at MTV [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/02/22/paul-rudd-jennifer-aniston-wanderlust-mtv-first/
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Chavez surgery throws Venezuela into uncertainty
In photo taken Saturday Sept. 10, 2011, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez greets supporters upon his arrival to the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Chavez raised serious doubts about whether he'll have the stamina for a successful re-election bid, revealing that he needs to return to Cuba to have a lesion removed that is probably malignant. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
In photo taken Saturday Sept. 10, 2011, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez greets supporters upon his arrival to the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Chavez raised serious doubts about whether he'll have the stamina for a successful re-election bid, revealing that he needs to return to Cuba to have a lesion removed that is probably malignant. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A shadow is cast on a wall covered by a mural of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in military uniform on a street in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012. Chavez told Venezuelans on Tuesday that doctors in Cuba had over the weekend found a lesion in the same place where they removed a cancerous tumor last year. Chavez, who hopes to extend his 13 years in power with another six-year term in the Oct. 7 elections, said the probability is high that the lesion is malignant and that he will likely need radiation therapy. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A woman reads a newspaper showing a picture of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez that reads in Spanish "Chavez will undergo surgery for lesion" in an area of Bolivar Plaza where supporters of Chavez congregate in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012. Chavez told Venezuelans on Tuesday that doctors in Cuba had over the weekend found a lesion in the same place where they removed a cancerous tumor last year. Chavez, who hopes to extend his 13 years in power with another six-year term in the Oct. 7 elections, said the probability is high that the lesion is malignant and that he will likely need radiation therapy. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A mural of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, standing with Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, covers a wall in the street in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012. Chavez told Venezuelans on Tuesday that doctors in Cuba had over the weekend found a lesion in the same place where they removed a cancerous tumor last year. Chavez, who hopes to extend his 13 years in power with another six-year term in the Oct. 7 elections, said the probability is high that the lesion is malignant and that he will likely need radiation therapy. Also in the mural is Cuba's revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara, behind center. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A youth walks past a mural depicting Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, center left in a red shirt, standing with Cuba's leader Fidel Castro in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012. Chavez told Venezuelans on Tuesday that doctors in Cuba had over the weekend found a lesion in the same place where they removed a cancerous tumor last year. Chavez, who hopes to extend his 13 years in power with another six-year term in the Oct. 7 elections, said the probability is high that the lesion is malignant and that he will likely need radiation therapy. Also in the mural are Venezuela's independence hero Simon Bolivar, third from right, Cuba's revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara, between Chavez and Castro, and Mexico's revolutionary hero Pancho Villa, left in hat. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? President Hugo Chavez has never been one to share decision-making authority. Now, the voluble socialist strongman and acerbic critic of the U.S. may have no choice but to designate a successor.
His announcement that he will go to Cuba to remove a growth that he says is likely malignant could not come at a worse moment for the leader who is working to transform Venezuela with what he calls "21st century socialism."
With a tight re-election campaign brewing for the president, analysts said Wednesday that Venezuela could be thrown into turmoil because Chavez has resisted grooming a successor during his 13 years in power.
The result is a power vacuum that his camp will be hard-pressed to fill, especially if he is unable to campaign for the Oct. 7 elections or wins and then becomes physically incapable of governing.
"Venezuela is living with the unsettling effects of prolonged, one-man rule," said Michael Shifter, president of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue think tank. "Anything can happen."
Shifter said "a fierce power struggle and jockeying for position" is nearly inevitable for Chavez's ruling Socialist Party of Venezuela.
"I promise I will fight without respite for my life," the 57-year-old Chavez tweeted Wednesday.
Carmen Rondon, a 65-year-old nurse, was with a small group of Chavez supporters gathered at a corner of Caracas' Plaza Bolivar under a sign saying "Forward, Forward, Commander."
"We are praying together to the all-powerful for his recovery," Rondon said. "We have faith that it will turn out well and he will overcome it like the first time because he is a strong man physically and humanly."
A day earlier, Chaveze conceded in sharing his bad news that he could be out of action for weeks. Under the circumstances, it would be Herculean to be able to simultaneously run a government, fight to stay in office and battle cancer.
"I'm not going to be able to continue with the same rhythm," he told state TV by telephone late Tuesday. He said he would need to "rethink my personal agenda and take care of myself, confront what must be confronted."
Chavez did not mention who might replace him during an absence that cancer specialists say could last weeks if the leader has to undergo radiation treatment, as he himself said he expected. Chavez said the same doctors who removed a baseball-size cancerous tumor from his pelvic region in June would be operating on him.
Venezuela's vice president, Elias Jaua, said Wednesday night that Chavez is fully capable of continuing his duties, dismissing the idea that the president might need someone to temporarily assume the office.
Chavez "is in full control of his faculties ... and with the faculties to be in charge of the government," Jaua said.
He added that the president would attend a rally of support Thursday at which "important announcements" would be made.
Chavez has denied rumors the cancer had spread aggressively, but also said his doctors don't know if the new two-centimeter (one-inch) lesion they found over the weekend is malignant.
The former paratrooper met Wednesday with his inner circle, with a central topic bound to be how to combat the opposition's presidential candidate ? Henrique Capriles, an athletic 39-year-old state governor.
The president of the Chavez-controlled National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, told reporters that Chavez remained the ruling party's candidate.
"There is a false belief that associates cancer with death," he said. "That's not how it is, because you can overcome it with love, and the president has a bounty of that."
Chavez is expected to travel to Cuba on Friday or Saturday, Cabello said.
Javier Corrales, a political science professor at Amherst College in the United States, said Chavez is now, finally, heeding medical advice after insisting on maintaining a physically demanding schedule of travel and marathon speeches.
But is he also listening to political advice about naming a successor?
"The key question is whether he is beginning to pay attention to advice from all those forces, ranging from family members to political operators, telling him to come forward with a succession plan," Corrales said.
There are no obvious choices, since Chavez has constantly demoted anyone who could outshine him, Corrales added.
During his periods of convalescence last year, Chavez delegated some administrative duties to the vice president and to his planning and finance minister, Jorge Giordani.
But Jaua apparently has lost favor since then, along with another longtime member of Chavez's inner circle, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro. Both still hold their posts, but Chavez recently demoted them by choosing them as his party's candidates in gubernatorial elections next year.
One possible stand-for the president is his older brother, Adan, who is governor in Chavez's home state of Barinas. He appeared at Chavez's side Tuesday.
The military, from which Chavez sprung, also could provide someone to fill in for the president.
"It could very well be that this is going to be a military-brokered succession, not unlike Egypt," said Corrales. "At the first sign of chaos we could see the military indirectly or even explicitly playing a big role."
One powerful close confidant of Chavez likely to play a leading role is Gen. Henry Rangel Silva, a former intelligence chief named as defense minister last month by the president.
The United States, which has not had an ambassador in Venezuela since 2010, takes a dim view of Rangel Silva. He is one of four members of Chavez's inner circle who Washington put on its Foreign Narcotics Kingpins list in 2008, accusing them of helping drug gangs and supplying leftist Colombian rebels with arms.
Still, even many fervent supporters of Chavez, whose political backbone is Venezuela's poor majority, have doubts that he would choose a successor, even if his health significantly deteriorated.
"My 'comandante' isn't going to delegate, even if he were in a wheelchair," Maria Teresa Diaz, 65, said of Chavez.
Physicians consulted by The Associated Press said it was impossible to offer an assessment of Chavez's health based on the limited information provided Tuesday by the leader, who had four rounds chemotherapy from July to September.
But some said finding a malignant tumor in the same place one was removed less than a year ago was not a good sign.
"A relapse within a year means the tumor is very aggressive," said Dr. Sebastian Quintero, a leading Colombian oncologist.
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Associated Press writers Vivian Sequera and Fabiola Sanchez in Caracas and Frank Bajak in Lima, Peru, contributed to this report.
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Larry Bock: Exploring Deep, Mysterious Realms With Time Warp Scientist Jeff Lieberman
With the human genome decoded, science is poised now to set sights on a more ethereal realm: human consciousness, one of the least understood facets of human cognition.
Deep within this frontier where brain and mind intersect, lie a host of questions and mysteries yet to be fully examined, including what it means to be human; the connection between art, science and creativity; human perception; artificial intelligence; and our relationship with religion, spirituality and the universe.
One researcher who is delving into these worlds with gusto is Jeff Lieberman, an MIT-trained scientist, engineer and artist who says our consciousness makes us who we are in the world, but that often our limitations as humans make us unaware of our potential and true uniqueness. As a result, "You may not be who you think you are," Lieberman told an audience earlier this year at a TEDxCambridge session where he explained the basics of his theories in consciousness.
Our minds are "thought-generating machines," he continues stressing "that the evolutionary utility of our minds is unbelievable," but that negative and counter-productive suffering comes as a side effect of these capabilities, keeping us separated from the world and from being who we were meant to be. "What would happen if we could turn off the machine?," Lieberman asks, "If we could transcend our individual experience of the world?"
Lieberman is currently working on specific testable mathematical hypotheses to further explore such questions, in addition to investigating the use of such technologies as neurofeedback to aid our ability to understand ourselves more deeply and to remove mental roadblocks to perception and self awareness.
Science buffs may know Lieberman best as the host of the show Time Warp on the Discovery Channel where he combines art and creativity with science and technology to help us see beyond the limits of our normal perception. Lieberman will bring his unique perspective on the future of human consciousness to the USA Science & Engineering Festival hosted by Lockheed Martin (the nation's largest celebration of science and engineering) this April in Washington, DC. There, at the Festival's finale Expo, he will conduct interactive presentations that will demonstrate the wonders and limitations of what we know about the burgeoning field of consciousness.
Lieberman, the holder of four degrees from MIT (a B.S. in Physics and Math, and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and Media Arts and Sciences), has gained worldwide recognition for his "technological sculptures," including the Cyberflora, a garden of robotic flowers built with enough artificial intelligence to react when a person enters the room, and for the Motor Learning Robotic Wearable Suit -- robotic clothing which accelerates motor skill learning.
In addition, through his skill in high-speed photography and music, he is helping to pioneer a new genre of music and perception known as "pastoral electroacoustic."
Lieberman is a prime example of the myriad researchers on the leading edge of science and engineering who will be taking part in the USA Science & Engineering Festival to inspire future innovators and educate the public. The Festival's finale Expo weekend celebration, no ordinary event on April 28-29 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, will be replete with a bevy of hands-on excitement in science, including 2,000 exhibits and stage demonstrations, which will culminate the Festival's month-long series of nationwide activities.
In addition to hands-on encounters with other fields of science and engineering, the Expo will also include exciting presentations in the realm of human consciousness, perception and artificial intelligence -- such as the following:
Encounters With Robots. Interact with Ada and Grace, two virtual museum guides from the National Science Foundation who will greet and converse with visitors, including answering questions about exhibits, computer science, and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). In another presentation, with Aldebaran Robotics, meet NAO, a fully interactive, versatile, and fun humanoid robot that is able to see, hear, speak, feel and communicate using the most advanced technology.
Ilusion vs. Reality. Sleight-of-hand maestro Apollo Robbins, who once picked the pockets of Secret Servicemen while entertaining a former President, takes you inside what is real and what is illusion -- and how the brain is often tricked. In a related presentation, sensory perception researcher Beau Lotto of London College University demonstrates how optical illusions via color games shed light on how the brain works.
Science of the Senses. A stunning array of exhibits by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) explores the mysteries of smell, taste, touch, hearing and sight perception.
The Secret Science Behind Special Effects. Hollywood stuntman Steve Wolfe takes you behind how movie stunts and special effects trick the senses to appear real on film
Learning Through Magic. Prominent educator Alan McCormack teaches kids tenets of science through magical demonstrations from the adventures of Harry Potter.
Multimedia Extravaganza. Don't miss multimedia maestro DJ Sleeper as he blends (and bends) video and audio into a new way to perceive and communicate science.
Come join us at the Festival in April to discover why some experts believe that understanding human consciousness and perception may be science's last frontier -- that in mastering it we will be well on our way to understanding the human mind as a whole. Now that's something to think about.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Reasons to Write Into Art: On Textual Collaboration with Artist Heidi ...
Focusing on the relationships/constellations between the act of writing, the process of research, and contemporary visual art practices is how I?ve attempted to anchor this series of guest blog posts, but until this winter I could only have spoken to the first two. It?s curious that as a critic and arts writer, you can work full-time to become as fully fluent as possible in the language of contemporary visual art?recognizing it, and occasionally producing its most important turns of phrase, without ever actually speaking it yourself, so to speak. (In other words, so many people who write about art only ever have to learn enough to be able to identify the most important connections, the most obvious expressions, and so forth, without ever learning how individual words and phrases might actually translate to everyday practice.)
Then one day last spring I bought a piece of work by Heidi Norton, my first real significant art purchase, after seeing her show at ebersmoore gallery (the title of the piece I bought, The Radicant, also happened to be precisely the same as that of a Bourriaud book I was arguing with in my head at the time), and I began an email conversation with her about her work, after which she invited me by for a studio visit. The rest of that history should make up a blog-post-long disclaimer about conflict of interest as a writer, because I want to write about a show that I was involved in creating?and what I learned about the process of making artist books and more generally making text that?s part of a visual art show rather than a response to one. So, here is my disclaimer:?this entire blog post is a conflict of interest (and in a way, it is also about that very conflict).?
Some very brief background on Heidi?s work: She works in photography, living plants, wax, the earth, and is influenced deeply by the light and space movement. Her photographs are among the most exquisite surfaces I?ve ever seen.
Heidi Norton. "My Dieffenbachia Plant with Tarp (Protection)," 2011. Archival Pigment Print, 30x36 in.
Her wax pieces, which is the genre of piece I bought, are heavy, lumbering, decaying chunks of wax encasing living plant material that eventually dies and falls out (frieze critic?Jason Foumberg, who is also my editor at New City, compared them to dead dissections of scientific specimens; I told you this was one long conflict-of-interest piece).
Heidi Norton. Untitled, 2011. Wax and mixed media.
Heidi was an ACRE (Artist?s Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) resident in Wisconsin this summer, where she built a studio in the woods, digging holes in the earth to embed wax, creating shelves in rock walls in which she photographed found objects. After talking to her via email a few times this fall, I went to her studio to see about a possible collaboration, where I saw the work she had made, through intervening with studio materials in the earth, and the photographs she had taken there of that practice.
"Tryptich Hole," 2011. Archival pigment print. Courtesy Johalla Projects.
?Heidi and I agreed to work together to produce a kind of field guide to the work (not a stretch, as much of the work had to do with the geological history of the area, the role of the natural studio, and themes like erosion and floriography). What became interesting to me as a critic was the process that followed, particularly the haziness between critic and participant.
To that end, I can?t review the show at Johalla, which closes next weekend. (For information and images from the show, see the gallery?s website).?I can?t speak with any objectivity to the work in the show, which I used as inspiration for writing. But I can talk about what it?s like to work on an artist?s book as someone with no background in the language of visual research and practice.
Since much of Heidi?s work uses language drawn from nature, I found myself drawn to writing about her show in the form of a natural history, and in brief talks? Heidi would declare herself interested in erosion, and I would announce I wanted to include a description of the Driftless Area in the American Midwest, where the ACRE residency in Steuben is located?we came to a consensus regarding what the chapters of the book should be about. All the sections of the resulting artist book related in some way to the natural world that framed and grounded (so to speak) Heidi?s practice while making the work: glaciation and driftlessness; a guide to the artist in her studio framed as an ethnographic study; reasons for people to cut into the earth objectively listed; identifying weeds as an epistemic undertaking; erosion; archaeology.
We even agreed on a format for the field guide: appropriated record boxes with field samples of the materials that were important for her work placed in compartments built into the boxes, and the text of the field guide inserted as loose pages inside.
Then all that was left for me was to write the text itself. The process of writing an artist?s book, unlike that of criticism, academic research, or general cocktail party conversation, involves not straightforward (even sensitively straightforward) analysis but the actual creation (a kind of semiotic and material/visual excess) of metaphors for others to break down and analyze?a necessarily not overdetermined argument combining and utilizing the show?s visual language. And not only that, but Heidi wanted the book to be part of the show (a kind of sculpture, almost, that would eventually become literally fused to another work in the show by being embedded in a river of melted wax). The book also had to be an object of visual interest? as a critic, this pressure was new and immense for me.
To say the least, I had to shift rhetorical strategies in my own practice to write a piece intended to be a work of art itself. Heidi and I worked well enough together?I think ultimately we both ended up with a piece we were proud of? but I?ve never felt so strongly that I was speaking a dialect of English completely misunderstood by other people. Heidi would ask me questions about visual layout that I would be completely unable to answer. I would write something about the platform pieces in the show that she thought were too obvious (for example, I would overstate the case by arguing what certain wooden platforms signified in the exhibit, as opposed to what they weren?t; we ended up beginning the chapter about the platforms with the line ?The platform is neither one thing or another,? which is also true of the resulting book, entitled Art in the Earth: A field guide from the soil to the studio). I would frown confusedly at my computer screen when she suggested over email that we make up our own lexicon of what various plants mean.
It?s not that I?m completely uncreative; it?s that critics are taught to think in tight associative circles based on the language suggested by artists in their work, which in turn undermines us when we attempt to dialogue with the expansive thoughts of artists while they are creating, as Heidi was while in dialogue with me. This tension between creative and critical (for example: I wanted to say what the form of the platform in the show meant; Heidi was sure we should just say what it didn?t mean) is the stuff of cliche precisely because it?s part of a very real negotation that happens when you write about art from either direction, and you?re only fully aware of it when on the other side (the side where most of the work is done).
The fact that the artist book ended up taking the form of a field guide?a prescription for seeing that?s not unlike criticism?added another layer of irony. Now, my favorite section from the book is the second of five listed ?reasons to cut into the earth:?
?To see what?s growing underneath: she dug holes into the earth all summer, her hair tied up in a bandana. She built a studio in the woods, using the holes she dug as molds into which she poured colored wax, capturing flowers, insects, and weeds in the viscous bright liquid. (When big chunks of glaciers get stuck in earth, they create giant pools of ice that result in holes when they melt. Geologists call these holes ?kettles,? and lakes often form in these depressions.) When she was a young girl in West Virginia and Maryland, she dug holes to explore the parts of the world that were just barely invisible but still attainable to her. The work that she did digging those holes was unprofessionalized and undifferentiated. She could have been looking for fossils or diamonds or evidence of human history before her.?
Installation view of Reasons to Cut Into the Earth, with photograph of Heidi Norton by Eileen Muller. Photograph of exhibition by Melissa Fischer.
I love this chunk of text because it?s a melting blend of genres and true to Heidi?s practice, and also because it opens up the possibilities for both the text and hopefully writing about the show. The best writing about art bridges the gaps between the creative and the critical and meets art on its own terms (another cliche because it?s true). As a critic, I rarely get a chance (or challenge myself) to do that; as a collaborator with an artist, it was required.
I?m starting to think an experience with this sort of work should be a rite of passage to arts criticism of any kind. It might also help us realize that the movement of the earth is not limited to soil, rocks, and plants:
?That everything is gradually destroyed does not have to be a realization that leads to despair. Photographs are like bodies; they fade away. This makes it more necessary for us to really look at them. The human body itself erodes. Erosion is naturally and certainly not always bad. We use it in everyday speech to talk about the way that things level out, or mutate in a natural, organic way into something else.? ~ Monica Westin and Heidi Norton
Heidi Norton?s exhibition Reasons to Cut Into the Earth runs until January 29 at Johalla Projects.?
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Monday, February 20, 2012
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This July, the IGN-TTRC lecture will be take by Prof Michael Blake (who one famous professor of DNA Barcoding in the World)? and DR.Stefan Smith from Munich University German
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Implementation IGN for TTR Biodiversity Curricula
Training of Trainers and Students Course of Module II on DNA Barcoding
Brawijaya University
Malang, July 1-14, 2012
At the Second Year activity, The Indonesian ? German Network for Teaching, Training and Research Collaborations (IGN-TTRC), a consortium to improve teaching, training and research collaborations within Indonesian universities and between those of Indonesia and Germany, will give a competitive, merit-based scholarship program that provides opportunities for two weeks: one week Training of Trainers (Lecturers) and a one week Students Course in Module II on DNA Barcoding, conducted at the University of Brawijaya. The ToT and Student Course consist of lectures and a practical class given by German and Indonesian tutors. Candidates from the following Universities are eligible participants for the program and involve UB and UNAND (main course Universities), UNSRAT, UNEJ, IPB, UNMUL, and UNAIR (associated Universities). This program is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, DAAD), by the Ministry of National Education of the Republic Indonesia, and several other funding sources.
The biological diversity of each country is a valuable and vulnerable natural resource. Sampling, identifying, and studying biological specimens are among the first steps towards protecting and benefiting from this biodiversity. DNA Barcoding is new tool for taxonomic research based on sequence diversity in short, standardized genomic regions. The international DNA Barcoding initiative is generating a global, open access library of reference barcode sequences that will allow the reliable identification of biological specimens by non-taxonomists. In principle, DNA Barcoding requires three consecutive steps: a. obtaining and preparing organisms (collecting, identification, preparation, and preserving), b. Laboratory procedure: sampling and processing specimen samples to obtain DNA barcode gene sequences, and c. data management using a dedicated database.
Program Objectives
- To give an overview of the role of molecular biology methods in biodiversity research. The course modules will be integrated into the biodiversity curricula at the participating universities. The final goal would be a joint the M.Sc and/or PhD curriculum.
- To establish a curriculum that is equivalent to a German MSc degree and that enables Indonesian students to rapidly integrate into a German PhD program. Credits will be awarded by the IGN-TTRC. The participating universities may accept these certificates as partial fulfillment of an Indonesian PhD degree.
Eligibility Requirements
-?????? Student Applicants must have Grade Transcripts of (?3.25) proven by a certified original or certified photocopy of academic records (transcripts) from any previous university work
-?????? Applicant must have active English language proficiency and a TOEFL/TOEIC/IELTS score of min. 450/550/5.5
-?????? Applicants should provide a motivation letter of 2-3 pages (including CV) describing their scientific interest.
-?????? Lecturer Applicants must fill in and sign a Commitment Letter of Module Implementation
-?????? Applicants, except UB participants, should include a statement by the University/Faculty if costs for travel and subsistence can be (partially) covered if the available funding is not sufficient.
-?????? Applicant should fill in IGN-TTRC application form and send it together with the other material by E-Mail to ignttrc.ub.council@gmail.com along.
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Selection Process of Module II on DNA Barcoding
Selection of students and graduate students
All participating institutions will motivate their best students to apply for the courses. Candidates will write a letter of motivation accompanied by a brief evaluation by their mentor. The council will decide on acceptance based on excellence of the candidates. In the case of equal qualification, we will try to accommodate students from different partner universities. It is understood that gender issues will be strictly observed.
Funding for travel and subsistence is limited to approx. 10 persons. Up to 20 (max.) students/lecturers may be accepted for each course if additional funding is provided by the faculty/university.
Selection will be made by the IGN-TTRC Council academic review committee that includes UNKA, UB, UNAND, IPB, UNSRAT, UNMUL, UNEJ and UNAIR.? In selecting eligible candidates, the review committee will consider academic merit as well as evidence of leadership potential and experience capacity for change; adaptability; ability to pursue independent study; English language proficiency; creativity; initiative; self-expression.
Application Deadline
????????? A complete application must be received by IGN-TTRC Council of the University of Brawijaya, Fatchiyah, PhD: ignttrc.ub.council@gmail.com no later than April 20th 2012. Please write the subject email ToT UB Module 2 for lecturers or SC UB Module 2 for students.
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Award Provisions and Conditions
Scholarship recipients will receive the following:
- Free tuition fee for TOT and student course
- Credits Certificate will be awarded by the IGN-TTRC
- For participants from outside UB (UNSRAT, UNEJ, IPB, UNMUL, and UNAIR) will be reimbursed for transportation from their university to UB
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Award Decision, Start Dates and Venue
Award decisions are expected to be announced on Website http://lsih.ub.ac.id and/or email to inviting participant by June 1, 2012.
Courses take place on July 1-14, 2012 (UB Malang)
UB Venue: at Central Lab of Life Sciences UB (LSIH UB)
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Written and E-mail Inquiries
Email inquiries may be addressed to ignttrc.ub.council@gmail.com
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