Celebration Pack Xbox 360 drapes itself in Union Jack, sings Rule Britannia

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If the Queen’s Jubilee and 2012 Olympics pride have overcome your sense of subtlety, Microsoft has a special game console for you. The Celebration Pack Xbox 360 is a plain-jane 4GB Kinect bundle underneath, but it slathers the console, the wireless gamepad and the Kinect sensor in a tattered Union Jack to remind everyone you’re not from Canada. Gamers also get copies of Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports to help them train for the 500-meter relay. Showing your patriotism with an Xbox will cost you £250 ($406) when the console is ready on May 25, while Microsoft will gladly sell you a just-as-British Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 for £30 ($49).

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Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes: study

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Oil Habit Unchanged on Two-Year Anniversary of BP’s Gulf of Mexico Spill

burning-deepwater-horizonTwo years ago, 11 men lost their lives as a backlash of gas exploded into the night from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. In the ensuing months, roughly 5 million barrels of oil and more than 6 billion cubic feet of natural gas spewed into the ocean from the Macondo well more than a kilometer underwater. It took the combined efforts of the U.S. government, the world?s major oil companies and, finally, a lonely hydrologist working through the night from a cellphone picture of pressure reading graphs to cap the spill on July 15, 2010.

Two years later, Gulf seafood remains suspect in consumers? minds, despite the ?sniff test.? Fishermen and scientists report an excess of deformed or sickly sea life, and more than a million barrels of spilled oil remain ?missing,? likely never to be found. The Gulf?s dolphins have been dying, deepwater corals remain coated in hydrocarbons and many people involved in the clean-up complain of poor health.

It will take decades to fully reckon the toll of BP?s 2010 oil spill. In fact, science is still grappling with the after effects of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill. It took three years for Prince William Sound in Alaska?s herring fishery to collapse and 20 years to reach a legal settlement.

Meanwhile, an invisible leak of natural gas is ongoing in the North Sea from an offshore platform operated by French oil company Total. Oil spills occur weekly in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. And the oil industry has resumed deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as well as prospecting in the melting Arctic, without adequate oversight or the resources to contain or clean up any future spills in the frigid north.

BP can and should bear legal consequence for its negligence, but the ultimate blame for the Macondo well spill falls squarely on us Americans and our way of life. We consume roughly a quarter of the world?s oil to fuel our cars, trucks and just-in-time shipping. The world consumes a barrel of oil every second. Sadly, more oil runs off U.S. parking lots after rainstorms in a year than spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP?s Macondo well during the three-month blow-out. Oil addiction ain?t pretty.

Image:?Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon on April 21, 2010. A Coast Guard MH-65C dolphin rescue helicopter and crew document the fire, while searching for survivors. Multiple Coast Guard helicopters, planes and cutters responded to rescue the Deepwater Horizon?s 126 person crew. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

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The deposition of amyloid beta in the brain of individuals with …



The deposition of amyloid beta in the brain of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease is the focus of much research into both its cause and treatment. While there may not be a consensus as to whether the deposition contributes to the disease or is a consequence of the disease, there is agreement that it is not favoured thermodynamically, meaning that something else is promoting the process. Other proteins are often co-deposited in vivo with amyloid beta and one such protein is serum amyloid P component (or SAP)…

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State of the Linux Kernel 2011

Image (1) tux.jpg for post 194399The Linux Foundation provides a vendor neutral home for long-term collaboration on the Linux kernel. They provide Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus’ right-hand man, the opportunity to work full-time on Linux. And they prepare a semi-annual report on the state of the Linux kernel, which is a fascinating examination of the most successful collaborative software development project in history. The full report is quite interesting, and has a number of interesting observations about Linux development. A couple of highlights are worth closer examination. Almost 8,000 individual developers have contributed to the Linux kernel, and 1,000 of those have been new contributors within the last year. Interestingly, the report states that “In any given development cycle, approximately 1/3 of the developers involved contribute exactly one patch.” The top ten contributors for the last five years account for 9% of the total work on the kernel; and 20% of the work is directly attributable to the top 20 kernel developers. Ironically, Linus Torvalds doesn’t appear as a top contributor in the current report. “Linus remains an active and crucial part of the development process; his contribution cannot be measured just by the number of changes made,” the report states. Because Linus, Greg KH and other kernel maintainers “put more time into the review and management of patches from others, they write fewer patches of their own.”

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How fat are your lab mice?

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Researchers are increasingly aware that fat in some parts of the body is more harmful than fat in other places. To help determine how obesity works, scientists turn to animal models and now, they are able to visualize how much fat their lab rats are carrying and where they are storing it. The method will be published in the April issue of the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE).

“One of the key benefits of this technique versus existing methods, like ex vivo analysis, is that this technique allows for non-invasive and longitudinal assessment of fat in small animal disease models,” said paper-author Dr. Todd Sasser.

Traditionally, researchers have had to use either invasive techniques, which provide more insight into where fat is being stored specifically but result in the death of the mouse, or less specific, non-invasive imaging techniques. Here, they use dedicated small animal X-ray computed tomography (CT) and customized analytics to see how the fat is distributed inside the animal.

The process is highly visual, resulting in three-dimensional images of the fat within the mouse, which is why the researchers chose to publish their method in JoVE, the only peer reviewed, PubMed-indexed science journal to publish all of its content in both text and video format.

“Generally, individuals new to this method will struggle, because the segmentation and visualization protocol includes several steps that must be completed in succession,” said co-author Sarah Chapman, from the University of Notre Dame.

“As obesity and obesity-related illnesses continue to grow into worldwide problems, it is important to understand their fundamental causes and potential interventions,” said JoVE Science Editor, Dr. Charlotte Frank Sage. “This technique details imaging and analysis technology that enables researchers to longitudinally and quantitatively study adipose content at a high level of detail.”

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The article will be published on April 4, and can be found here: http://www.jove.com/video/3680/segmentation-and-measurement-of-fat-volumes-in-murine-obesity-models-using-x-ray-computed-tomography


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[ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 4-Apr-2012
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Contact: Katherine Scott
katherine.scott@jove.com
617-765-4367 x301
The Journal of Visualized Experiments

Researchers are increasingly aware that fat in some parts of the body is more harmful than fat in other places. To help determine how obesity works, scientists turn to animal models and now, they are able to visualize how much fat their lab rats are carrying and where they are storing it. The method will be published in the April issue of the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE).

“One of the key benefits of this technique versus existing methods, like ex vivo analysis, is that this technique allows for non-invasive and longitudinal assessment of fat in small animal disease models,” said paper-author Dr. Todd Sasser.

Traditionally, researchers have had to use either invasive techniques, which provide more insight into where fat is being stored specifically but result in the death of the mouse, or less specific, non-invasive imaging techniques. Here, they use dedicated small animal X-ray computed tomography (CT) and customized analytics to see how the fat is distributed inside the animal.

The process is highly visual, resulting in three-dimensional images of the fat within the mouse, which is why the researchers chose to publish their method in JoVE, the only peer reviewed, PubMed-indexed science journal to publish all of its content in both text and video format.

“Generally, individuals new to this method will struggle, because the segmentation and visualization protocol includes several steps that must be completed in succession,” said co-author Sarah Chapman, from the University of Notre Dame.

“As obesity and obesity-related illnesses continue to grow into worldwide problems, it is important to understand their fundamental causes and potential interventions,” said JoVE Science Editor, Dr. Charlotte Frank Sage. “This technique details imaging and analysis technology that enables researchers to longitudinally and quantitatively study adipose content at a high level of detail.”

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The article will be published on April 4, and can be found here: http://www.jove.com/video/3680/segmentation-and-measurement-of-fat-volumes-in-murine-obesity-models-using-x-ray-computed-tomography


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Toshiba Satellite C655-S5542

Forget space. The real final frontier is the under-$500 laptop market, where vendors try to match or undercut netbook and Chromebook prices while delivering full-fledged desktop replacements?or half-fledged, anyway, as state-of-the-art features like USB 3.0 and Intel Wireless Display (WiDi) are usually left out for savings’ sake. Not long ago we looked at and gave an ultra-budget Editors’ Choice to Wal-Mart’s Acer Aspire 5349-2635 ($348.98 list, 4 stars). Now we’re examining Toshiba’s latest entry into this hot corner of the consumer segment, the Satellite C655-S5542 ($399.99 list).

Laptops in this niche don’t pretend to be all-around performers like our budget Editors’ Choice Asus U56E-BBL6 ($699.99 list, 4 stars). They’re intended mostly for word processing, Web surfing, email, and social networking (the Toshiba has a Skype sticker next to its webcam), or as a family’s third or fourth PC or a child’s homework machine. Like the Aspire 5349-2635, the Satellite C655-S5542 is a 15.6-inch portable featuring Intel’s humble Celeron B815 processor and a 320GB hard drive; even more modestly than the Aspire, it carries only 3GB instead of 4GB of RAM.

Design
The Satellite is attractive enough, encased in black plastic with a crosshatched?or what Toshiba calls Trax?pattern. It’s not too heavy (5.1 pounds) or bulky (1.6 by 15 by 9.8 inches, HWD) to fit in most briefcases or backpacks, though you’ll never mistake it for an ultrabook. The screen shows some minimal flexing when grasped at the corners, but the system feels solid overall.

The keyboard is in the conventional jigsaw instead of island, tile, or chiclet style (i.e., there are no empty spaces between keys). It has a comfortably soft but not mushy typing feel with adequate travel and half-sized but dedicated Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn keys above the numeric keypad, which has a handy LED light to indicate Num Lock. Two speakers above the keyboard pump out adequately loud but nearly bass-free audio.

The 15.6-inch display offers the 1,366-by-768 resolution that’s become the universal default for inexpensive laptops (and some not-so-inexpensive laptops), sufficient for 720p video viewing and light image editing. It’s not the brightest?white backgrounds look adequately white only on the top backlight setting?but its colors and viewing angles are good.

Features
We mentioned that WiDi is not supported, but Wi-Fi worked perfectly in our browsing and downloading sessions, and there’s one wireless perk the Acer 5349-2635 doesn’t have: Bluetooth, for syncing data with or downloading MP3s to a smartphone.

The menu of available ports, by contrast, is limited to two USB 2.0, 10/100Mbps Fast rather than Gigabit Ethernet, and VGA, along with microphone and headphone jacks. All are on the left side of the Satellite’s chassis, with the DVD?RW drive occupying the right. An SD/MMC card reader hides on the front bezel. Missing in action are USB 3.0 and HDMI.

Toshiba preloads the 320GB, 5,400rpm hard drive with a 30-day trial of Norton Internet Security, Google Chrome, a handy Corel CD/DVD label and jewel case insert printing utility, and 20-odd Toshiba-brand utilities ranging from the usual (a recovery media creator, face recognition for the webcam) to the intriguing (a thumbnail timeline view of accessed files). Toshiba’s warranty for the Satellite C655-S5542 is one year.

Performance
Toshiba Satellite C655-S5542 Intel’s Celeron B815 is a 1.6GHz dual-core CPU without Turbo Boost or Hyper-Threading. Given its pairing with only 3GB of memory, we expected leisurely performance, but the Toshiba proved tolerable for Web and office productivity work?and even completed our multimedia benchmark tests a few seconds quicker than the Acer Aspire 5349-2635, which has the same processor with 4GB of memory (3 minutes 2 seconds versus 3:05 in Handbrake; 7:36 versus 7:40 in Photoshop CS5).

Toshiba Satellite C655-S5542

Neither of the ultra-affordable laptops could complete our PCMark 7 test, as they got stuck in a video loop that benchmark maker Futuremark attributes to a known issue with some low-end integrated graphics. And gaming is pretty much out of the question, with the Satellite managing only 10.9 frames per second (fps) in Crysis and 12.8fps in Lost Planet 2 at medium (1,024-by-768) settings.

The thrifty Toshiba was, however, one of the few laptops we’ve tested to exceed its advertised battery life?the vendor’s website rates it at four and three-quarters hours, but our test unit’s 48Wh battery lasted for 5:31 in our MobileMark 2007 rundown test. That’s 35 minutes longer than the Acer survived, but shy of the 6:16 posted by the Acer Aspire 5750-6667 ($499.99 list, 4 stars) and 7:42 of the Asus U56E-BBL6.

We think the Acer Aspire 5349-2635′s fourth gigabyte of RAM, third USB 2.0 port, HDMI port, and $50 lower price outweigh the Toshiba Satellite C655-S5542′s Bluetooth, so we’re keeping the Acer as our Editors’ Choice in the under-$500 category. But the Satellite is a solid contender for shoppers on a tight budget?as if there were any other kind of shoppers in this segment.

BENCHMARK TEST RESULTS:

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BUCKWHACKERS HUNTING CLUB—-BEST HUNTING …

We are a group of hunters who have hunted together for over 20 yrs, in many different states from Maine to New Jersey to Pennsylvania to Michigan. We hunt mostly with bows and have been fortunate to bag some really nice bucks in each of these states. Several years ago we began hunting Ohio and WOW. None of us had ever seen such a high proportion bucks to does ,and some of the bucks are really HUGE, not only body size but the racks are massive!!!

Last year 6 of us hunted with just bows, land adjacent to this new lease and we all shot huge bucks. The smallest? had 8 points and weighed about 185.We had such a great time that we decided to lease some land and form a hunting club.Ohio offers an extremely long whitetail season? with seasons for both bow hunting and shotgun also crossbows are legal to use.

Only 1 buck can be taken per year but you can harvest up to 5 does in this area of the state.Also it is legal to use grain to draw deer, making stand hunting way more efficient. The forest in Ohio ranges from fairly open hardwood forest to some of the thickest? “tangle” I have ever seen.The topography is fairly rugged so get in shape for “DRAGGIN”.

If you are the type of hunter who does not need a guide but likes to hunt in an area which holds some “monster bucks” and perhaps hunt turkey in the off season.This is a fantastic opportunity . Our lease offers gated access year round for hunting only. 4wheelers, to and from stands, and camping are allowed on the property.Or if you prefer there are several motels available as well as processors for your MONSTER BUCKS. All this at a very reasonable annual fee of $850.

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