The Inside Scoop! | Cinnamon Roll Smoothie

Posted by Jeni on October 17th, 2012

Oh me oh my. The thought of this smoothie makes me drool.

We have NadaMoo fan Melissa Afflerbach of Austin to thank for this recipe. This is one she loves to share with her friends, family, and yoga students, and boy are we glad she shared it with us. Thanks Melissa!

1 to 2 cups Coconut flavor NadaMoo!
3 Brazil Nuts
1 Tbs sunflower seed butter
1/2 to 1 banana
1 to 2 cap fulls of Pure Vanilla Extract
TONs of Cinnamon (tons)
Pinch of sea salt

Blend this together ? It tastes like a cinnamon roll!

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Withey a major part of Kansas basketball offense | The University ...

When Thomas Robinson and Tyshawn Taylor packed up their lockers for the final time last April, more than 50 percent of the Kansas men?s basketball team?s scoring in conference play walked out the door with them.

Without Robinson, the burden of opening Kansas coach Bill Self?s inside-out offense with low-post play falls on the shoulders of senior center Jeff Withey.

Senior center Jeff Withey answers questions from reporters about Kansas?s plans to succeed in the postseason again this year at the Big 12 Men?s Basketball Media Day Wednesday at the Sprint Center.

?Jeff naturally isn?t one of those guys that just looks to score or it comes easy for him. That?s not the case,? Self said. ?Last year he averaged nine a game and a large part because he played next to Thomas, and Thomas would get doubled or whatever and Jeff would benefit from that.?

In the offseason, Self placed an emphasis on Withey developing a low-post move with his off hand, which would make him harder to cover.

In Withey?s first three years at Kansas, Danny Manning was always the one working closely with Withey on his low-post game. But Manning?s departure to take the Tulsa head coaching job created a hole in the Kansas staff.

Former Self assistant Norm Roberts returned to the staff to fill that void.

?I feel like he?s watched a lot of film from last year, because we?re doing a lot of the same things from when coach Manning was here,? Withey said. ?He?s been extremely good with me.?

Roberts? previous experience under Self eased his transition into his role at Kansas. Before leaving to take the head coaching job at St. John?s, Roberts coached in the same capacity under Self in each of his previous coaching stops.

In his first go-around on Self?s staff, Roberts used many of the same coaching techniques later implemented by Manning.

This year?s Kansas offense is much stronger and deeper on the perimeter than it is on the inside.

?We?ll probably shoot more jump shots than we have in any other time since I?ve been here,? Self said. ?I?m not sure that?s a strength as much as we should play through our bigs more, but we don?t have a natural scorers inside.?

Self said without Robinson around, a jump to an average of 12 points or more per game would show a vast improvement in Withey?s offensive game because of how often Withey will see opponents double-team him down low.

It will also add another element to Withey?s expanded role in the offense, which will see more plays designed to go through him, including some plays that aren?t expected from a seven-footer.

?He can shoot the jumper, which a lot of people don?t really know,? said senior forward Kevin Young. ?He can put it on the floor as well and go by some guys, but at the same time, he?s going to be able to draw in double-teams, which will leave me open to rebound.?

? Edited by Ryan McCarthy

Contact Ethan Padway at epadway@kansan.com.

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Sept. 11 hearing: Haggling over rights, secrecy

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Guantanamo prisoner Ramzi Binalshibh, right, sits with a court translator and his lawyer Navy Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Bogucki, left, during a Military Commissions pretrial hearing for five prisoners accused of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Tuesday.

By NBC News' Courtney Kube and wire services

The military tribunal of 9/11 terrorism suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators resumed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba?on Tuesday,?plunged into arguments over one of the thorniest subjects that the court must iron out before the trial ? whether the suspects can talk about their detention and harsh interrogation in secret CIA prisons prior to their transfer to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

The men are accused of planning and providing logistical support for the?Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by hijackers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, the?Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people.

Mohammed and the other four who are portrayed as his underlings face charges that include terrorism and murder, and?they could be sentenced to death if convicted.

This week?s proceedings hear arguments on 25 pretrial motions dealing mainly with privacy issues and the detainees' rights, and set the ground rules for the trial which is likely at least a year away.

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Prosecutors have asked the judge to approve what is known as a protective order intended to prevent the release of classified information during trial.

The gag order prohibits mention of what the defendants experienced or learned during their interrogation because the tactics used on them were classified.

The defense argued that the government gave up the right to keep interrogation tactics classified when they exposed the defendants to the process.

They mainly object to one portion of the order, which says that, "Any statements made by the accused are presumptively Classified Information."?The defense teams believe that that is too broad a statement, and that there is no such thing as "presumptive classification" ? that information is classified or not.

The judge, Army Col. James?Pohl, pushed back on their argument, saying that both sides agree with the definition of what is classified and what is not, and that the attorneys are required not to disclose new information they deem could be classified.

"We're not talking about what you had for lunch today," Pohl said.

Janet Hamlin / AP

Merrilly Noeth, a relative of a victim of the Sept. 11 attacks, is pictured watching from behind sound-proof glass on the second day of the Military Commissions pretrial hearing for the five men accused of planning the attacks, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, on Tuesday. Only two of five suspects were present in the second day of the proceedings--Yemenis Walid bin Attash and Ramzi Binalshibh.

But an attorney for Ramzi Binalshibh argued that issues just that mundane do become a hindrance, citing an example from defending another detainee.

After several hours of arguments against the protective order, the judge did not rule on the motion to strike the gag order Tuesday.

First Amendment appeal
Instead, Pohl moved on to hear arguments from First Amendment attorney David Schulz, on behalf of 14 U.S. news organizations seeking to report on legal proceedings at Guantanamo ? classified information or not.?

Schulz argued that the gag order should be lifted because the information about what happened to the defendants during their interrogations has been widely reported in the media.

"The New York Times is not a classification authority," Pohl shot back, saying that just because something is reported in the news or widely known doesn't mean it's now unclassified.

Schulz argued that the use of the 40-second delay switch also violates the First Amendment, but Pohl dismissed that, as well, saying that the switch can prevent the release of classified information that is inadvertently disclosed.

ACLU attorney Hina Shamsi was next to argue for more open proceedings, saying that when issues such as rendition and torture are under discussion, the public has a right to know about it.

Shamsi added that the public should be able to determine for themselves whether punishment is justified, the decide on the lawfulness of government actions with the defendants, and the overall fairness and legitimacy of these proceedings.

The judge stopped her there, saying the court would recess for the day to respect the defendants right to afternoon prayers.

The court will take up this argument again at 9am Wednesday, when the ACLU attorney will continue her arguments.

Last minute boycott
All five of the men were at Monday?s hearings, but on Tuesday, Mohammed, Saudi defendant Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi and Pakistani national Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali all bowed out. Walid Bin Attash and Ramzi Binalshibh, both from Yemen, did attend.

Mohammed, who has previously claimed he was the mastermind of the terrorist attacks, was taken from his cell at the U.S. base in Cuba to a holding cell outside the courtroom, then chose to boycott at the last minute, said a Navy officer whose name was not released by the court for security reasons.

He did not give a reason for sitting out the Tuesday hearing, but on Monday he dismissed the military tribunal with scorn, saying "I don't think there is any justice in this court."

Pohlruled Monday that the defendants have the right to be absent from this week's pretrial hearings, but said they would have to attend the trial.

The chief prosecutor, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, had argued that the rules for the special war-time tribunals known as military commissions required the defendants to attend all sessions of the court.

But lawyers for the men disagreed, arguing that the threat of being forcibly removed from their cells would be psychologically damaging for men who had been brutalized while held during their captivity by the CIA.

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The U.S. government has acknowledged that the defendants were subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques" which in some cases included the simulated drowning method known as waterboarding.

"Our clients may believe that ... 'I don't want to be subjected to this procedure that transports me here, brings up memories, brings up emotions of things that happened to me,'" said Jim Harrington, who represents Binalshibh.

Harrington's statement elicited groans from a small group of family members of Sept. 11 victims who were chosen by lottery to view the proceedings at Guantanamo.? A few other families watched the proceedings on closed-circuit TV from U.S. military bases in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland.

Defendant dress code
Also on Tuesday, the court dealt with what the detainees are allowed to wear in court.

The attorney for Mohammed, U.S. Army Capt. Jason Wright, explained that his client wants to wear a military-style camouflage vest over his traditional attire. He argued that Mohammad wore military-style clothing when fighting against the Soviets for the U.S. government in Afghanistan, so he has a right to do so in this courtroom, as well. Not allowing him to wear it undermines his presumption of innocence, the attorney argued.

Pohl said that the defendants would not be permitted to come into court in a complete U.S. Army uniform, but, he would not forbid all camouflage.

The five men were arraigned in May, and subsequent hearings were pushed back for various reasons.

A hearing in July was postponed to allow the defendants to observe the holy month of Ramadan. Hearings in August were delayed when an Internet outage left the lawyers unable to access their electronic legal documents. That hearing was later canceled altogether as Tropical Storm Isaac approached.

A hearing scheduled for late September was also delayed because the work space for the defense lawyers was shut down due to a rat infestation and mold, which lawyers claimed were making them sick, Reuters reported.

Pohl ruled on Oct. 5 there would be no further postponements to the hearings.

An earlier attempt to try the five men at Guantanamo ended when the Obama administration tried to move the trials to New York City, where two of the hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center.

That was abandoned under pressure from Congress and from New Yorkers, and the charges were re-filed in Guantanamo.

NBC News' Kari Huus and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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'It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' now available for Android

It's that time of year when we see a few Halloween apps, and that list wouldn't be complete without a Charlie Brown storybook app. "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" is coming to the Play Store in the form of an interactive storybook, narrated by Peter Robbins -- the original voice of Charlie Brown. The app incorporates remastered animations and original voice material from the original 1966 TV special. Surely this storybook recreation will do the original some justice.

Accompanying this storybook app is an interactive game, The Great Pumpkin Festival. With this app, you can create your own avatar with plenty of costumes and customizations, carve pumpkins, vote on other people's creations and complete achievements to get new costumes for your avatar.

For just over $5.00, this Charlie Brown classic can be yours at the Google Play Store link above. If you're content with a smaller bit of the experience, The Great Pumpkin Festival is available free on the Play Store as well.

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The Honorable Mr. Tiktaalik

When a big fossil discovery is announced, the initial imagery that floods the news outlets is carefully controlled by the lab responsible for the discovery. That is usually followed by a period of rougher, often inaccurate attempts to reconstruct the animal by aspiring illustrators or adoring geeky fans around the globe. But then an amazing thing starts to happen. As the discovery gains a foothold in the public?s consciousness, mature artwork and reconstructions begin to emerge that add a richness to the original crop of imagery, one that would not be possible with one or two science illustrators? perspectives.

For at least the first three years after the announcement of the discovery of Tiktaalik, an image search on ?tiktaalik roseae? returned images almost entirely from our lab: the Shubin Lab. Now, as the announcement of Tiktaalik approaches its 7th anniversary, the science art surrounding it is beginning to ripen. Last night, on a whim, I typed ?tiktaalik? into my browser and discovered this delightful portrait by John Sandford. It was the cover art created to accompany a 2009 article about Neil Shubin and the discovery of Tiktaalik for the children?s magazine Muse.

The Honourable Mr. Tiktaalik for the cover of Muse magazine by John Sandford

Of course, die-hard Tiktaalik fans will object that he is depicted with actual digits. But Sandford explains it this way:

I wanted to show this very early ancestor in the mode of formal portraits or photographs. As my work is for children?s books, magazines and textbooks, I employ anthropomorphism quite a bit. I?m afraid if that, given an assignment to render an animal realistically, I?d fail.

I disagree. The accuracy of Tiktaalik?s head is what caught my attention in the first place. And didn?t portrait artists of old often save time by having the subject sit only for the detail work of the head and face, using a generic body and hands? So, for me, this portrait of ?The Honorable Mr. Tiktaalik? works beautifully.

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First Dogs: A Look at Presidential Pets | Pets Best Insurance Blog

With the presidential race in full swing and November quickly approaching, the White House is on a lot of Americans? minds. Regardless of who takes office for the next term, one thing will remain constant; dogs will continue to be a part of the White House and a part of politics. The current First Dog is Bo (pictured here), a Portuguese Water Dog owned by the Obamas. And who can forget Gov. Romney?s family dog, Seamus, who rode on the roof of their car during vacations? Historically, presidential pets have had a place in the White House, and have even been thought to influence voters.

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt was running for re-election in 1944, he had been criticized for misusing tax payers? money following an incident where he sent a ship back from a family vacation to collect his dog, Fala. He is quoted as saying, ?You can criticize me, my wife and my family, but you can?t criticize my little dog. He?s Scotch and all these allegations about spending all this money have just made his little soul furious.?¹ This speech was credited for turning the election in Roosevelt?s favor!

They way presidents have treated their pets has historically been a topic for political discussion and has often been a reflection of each presidents? image. Presidential hopefuls have long used pets in a political way, and their treatment of animals has influenced their images. President Nixon had been called a ?warm person? following his gift of a Cocker Spaniel dog named Checkers to his daughters. And then-presidential hopeful Herbert Hoover acquired a German Shepherd dog that he featured throughout his campaign as well. Mitt Romney?s incident with his dog Seamus on the roof of his car generated heat for the presidential hopeful in the early part of his campaign. Former President Lyndon Johnson?s image may have been hurt by his treatment of his Beagles, as a photo surfaced of him holding one of them by the ears. Although animal advocates criticized him for this and it influenced his image, the scandal ultimately didn?t hurt his presidency.²

Theodore Roosevelt was undoubtedly one of the most animal loving presidents in US history, owning many pets, including seven dogs, two cats named Tom Quartz and Slippers, a garter snake named Emily Spinach and Guinea pigs named Admiral Dewey and Fighting Bob Evans! Calvin Coolidge was another presidential animal lover, whose brood included 12 dogs, raccoons, a donkey named Ebeneezer, a plethora of exotic animals including a wallaby, black bear, a bob cat and lion cubs named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.

The most common breeds seen in the white house seem to be the hound (George Washington is rumored to have owned up to 18 hound dogs, possibly Fox Hounds), Spaniels (George H.W. Bush had two Spaniels; ?Millie? even wrote a book!), Collies (Calvin Coolidge had three named Rob Roy, Ruby Rough and Bessie), and the most popular breed of all is the Scottish Terrier. Four Scottish Terriers have called the White House home in the past 80 years. (George W. Bush had two named Miss Beazley and Barney).

While politics change and presidents come and go, one thing seems to be consistent and bipartisan: the White House continues to welcome furry four-legged members of presidents? families, and the public continues to take interest in the cats and dogs that hold the First Pet title.

¹Presidential Pets. Wikipedia. 10/15/12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_pets
²Presidential Pets. Wikipedia. 10/15/12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_pets

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After Clinton, Obama takes Benghazi responsibility

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama assumed responsibility Tuesday for the deadly terror attack in Libya last month that killed four Americans just hours after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to shoulder the blame for any mistakes the administration made.

"She works for me," the president said in New York in his second presidential debate with Republican challenger Mitt Romney. "I'm the president and I'm always responsible, and that's why nobody's more interested in finding out exactly what happened than I do."

With three weeks before the presidential election, the administration has been unable to put to rest its handling of the Benghazi attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, a State Department computer specialist and two former Navy SEALs who were working as contract security guards.

Obama's statement came amid a spirited back-and-forth with the former Massachusetts governor over the administration's handling of the Benghazi attack, the only significant foreign policy disagreement in an hour-and-a-half exchange dominated by domestic concerns.

Romney challenged the president to explain why U.S officials argued for more than a week after the Sept. 11 assault that it stemmed from a protest against an American-made film ridiculing Islam.

"Whether there was some misleading, or instead whether we just didn't know what happened, you have to ask yourself why didn't we know," Romney said.

"It was very clear this was not a demonstration," he said. "This was an attack by terrorists."

The two also traded jabs on how quickly the president declared Benghazi an act of terror ? with Romney insisting it took two weeks and Obama saying he said as much the day after in an address from the White House Rose Garden. That drew an intervention from the moderator, CNN moderator Candy Crowley appeared to side with Obama.

Before the debate, Clinton tried her best to defuse an issue that is threatening to become a potential obstacle to Obama's re-election campaign.

In a statement that could have long-term ramifications given the persistent speculation that she might run for president in four years' time or stay in public life, Clinton accepted responsibility for the safety of the State Department's staff and diplomatic missions. It was quickly brushed aside by leading Republicans who directed their criticism toward the president.

But her message left several lingering questions unanswered, such as whether the attack on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 occurred because of intelligence failures and why administration officials repeated for so long their account of the anti-American demonstration gone awry.

"I take responsibility," Clinton said, reiterating comments she made in a television interview late Monday. "I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world (at) 275 posts."

Clinton's remarks may have been intentionally vague. Neither in her interviews or her statement does she spell out what exactly she assumes responsibility for, a tactic that may have been employed to avoid culpability for specific failings or tasks strictly outside her control.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Clinton "was extremely clear what she takes responsibility for, which is the operation of this department, all of the men and women here."

The assessment offered nothing definitive about intelligence that may have been used to make security decisions before the attack or the administration's initial accounting of the incident as the byproduct of angry protests. The administration since has referred to a well-coordinated terrorist attack.

The intelligence may have come from the CIA or other agencies beyond Clinton's reach; the post-attack messaging likely would have been coordinated by the administration as a whole ? especially after Romney attacked an independent statement made by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on the day of the Libya attack.

The Benghazi attack has turned deeply political even within the State Department, with Clinton turning message management over to one of her most trusted aides, Philippe Reines.

Reines, a veteran of Clinton's Senate days and presidential campaign, is a key member of a separate crisis management team that has operated from an office on the ground floor of the department's headquarters. It has focused on preparations for last week's congressional hearing and the department's internal investigation.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner called it "a small group of people helping to get materials together for Congress and to support the process."

Clinton, meanwhile, has been largely shielded from the Benghazi fallout. Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was tasked five days after the attack with presenting it as a protest gone awry, and Clinton conspicuously avoided questioning as that account unraveled.

Even in Clinton's own department, officials have been left in the dark by some of the maneuvering. Some say privately that they see Clinton's gesture less as a case of her falling on her sword for the administration, but presenting herself as the statesman who has accepted her part in any failure. By doing so, they said, she is winning praise from some Republicans and taking herself out of the blame game she said in her statement that she wanted to avoid.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., suggested a more muddied picture, noting that "there are many people that believe that Secretary Clinton may have further political ambitions and this could obviously harm that in one way, but also bring in some additional support, possibly from President Obama who can't run again."

Obama has consistently trumped Romney in polls on foreign policy questions with his frequent reminders to voters that he ended one war in Iraq and was ending another in Afghanistan, and that Osama bin Laden was killed on his watch. But the Benghazi attack has allowed Republicans to widen their criticism of the president, which primarily had been focused on his record on creating jobs and cutting into America's $16 trillion debt.

Outrage has spiked since Vice President Joe Biden's comment in last week's debate with Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, that "we weren't told" about requests for extra security at the consulate ? just a day after State Department officials told Congress they were aware of, and rejected, several such requests.

Spokesmen for both the State Department and the White House took pains to make clear that Biden's "we" referred to the White House, where such security requests would not go. Clinton backed up Biden's assertion. "The president and the vice president certainly wouldn't be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals," she said.

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Lee reported from Lima, Peru.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-obama-takes-benghazi-responsibility-033251875--politics.html

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Acer announces Aspire 5600U and 7600U all-in-ones, coming this month for $1,000 and up

For the most part, Acer blew its Windows 8 load back at IFA and Computex, but as we're learning now, the company still had a handful of goodies left to announce. The outfit just introduced a pair of touch-friendly, Win 8-ready all-in-one desktops, the 23-inch Aspire 5600U and the 27-inch Aspire 7600U. As you can see in the press shots, the design here is fairly minimal, with an edge-to-edge display, a transparent panel at the bottom of the bezel and a thin frame measuring less than 1.4 inches thick. The machines can also tilt so that they lie at a nearly face-up 80-degree angle.

In either case, you'll get a 1080p panel, with 8GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. Either machine, too, can be configured with Acer's InstantOn technology, which promises 1.5-second resume times. The 27-incher has a discrete NVIDIA GT640M GPU with 2GB of video memory, however, while the 23-inch model is stuck with integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics. Further, while they both have Core i5 CPUs, the 5600U has a 2.4GHz 3110M, while the 7600U has a 3210M, clocked at 2.5GHz (overclockable to 3.1GHz). The 7600U also has two HDMI inputs, whereas the 5600U has one. Finally, the U5600 will be available in touch- and non-touch-enabled configurations, while the 7600U will be touch-only. Both will be available this month, with the 23-incher starting at $1,000 for touch-enabled models, and $1,150 for touchscreen variants. The 7600U will sell for quite a bit more: $1,900.

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Researchers find new way to prevent cracking in nanoparticle films

ScienceDaily (Oct. 15, 2012) ? Making uniform coatings is a common engineering challenge, and, when working at the nanoscale, even the tiniest cracks or defects can be a big problem. New research from University of Pennsylvania engineers has shown a new way of avoiding such cracks when depositing thin films of nanoparticles.

The research was led by graduate student Jacob Prosser and assistant professor Daeyeon Lee, both of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science. Graduate student Teresa Brugarolas and undergraduate student Steven Lee, also of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and professor Adam Nolte of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology participated in the research.

Their work was published in the journal Nano Letters.

To generate a nanoparticle film, the desired particles are suspended in a suitable liquid, which is then thinly and evenly spread over the surface through a variety of physical methods. The liquid is then allowed to evaporate, but, as it dries, the film can crack like mud in the sun.

"One method for preventing cracking is modifying the suspension's chemistry by putting binding additives in there," Prosser said. "But that is essentially adding a new material to the film, which may ruin its properties."

This dilemma is highlighted in the case of electrodes, the contact points in many electrical devices that transfer electricity. High-end devices, like certain types of solar cells, have electrodes composed of nanoparticle films that conduct electrons, but cracks in the films act as insulators. Adding a binder to the films would only compound the problem.

"These binders are usually polymers, which are insulators themselves," Lee said. "If you use them, you're not going to get the targeted property, the conductivity, that you want."

Engineers can prevent cracks with alternative drying methods, but these involve ultra-high temperatures or pressures and thus expensive and complicated equipment. A cheap and efficient method for preventing cracks would be a boon for any number of industrial processes.

The ubiquity of cracking in this context, however, means that researchers know the "critical cracking thickness" for many materials. The breakthrough came when Prosser tried making a film thinner than this threshold, then stacking them together to make a composite of the desired thickness.

"I was thinking about how, in the painting of buildings and homes, multiple coats are used," Prosser said. "One reason for that is to avoid cracking and peeling. I thought it could work for these films as well, so I gave it a try."

"This is one of those things where, once you figure it out," Lee said, "it's so obvious, but somehow this method has evaded everyone all these years."

One reason this approach may have remained untried is that it is counterintuitive that it should work at all.

The method the researchers used to make the films is known as "spin-coating." A precise amount of the nanoparticle suspension -- in this case, silica spheres in water -- is spread over the target surface. The surface is then rapidly spun, causing centrifugal acceleration to thin the suspension over the surface in a uniform layer. The suspension then dries with continued rotation, causing the water to evaporate and leaving the silica spheres behind in a compacted arrangement.

But to make a second layer over this first, another drop of liquid suspension would need to be placed on the dried nanoparticles, something that would normally wash them away. However, the researchers were surprised when the dried layers remained intact after the process was repeated 13 times; the exact mechanism by which they remained stable is something of a mystery.

"We believe that the nanoparticles are staying on the surface," Lee said, "because covalent bonds are being formed between them even though we're not exposing them to high temperatures. The inspiration for that hypothesis came from our colleague Rob Carpick. His recent Nature paper was all about how silica-silica surfaces form bonds at room temperature; we think this will work with other kinds of metal oxides."

Future research will be necessary to pin down this mechanism and apply it to new types of nanoparticles.

The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Penn Materials Research Science and Engineering Center.

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Video: Kennebunk authorities release list of alleged johns

>>> back now at 7:42 with a new development in the sex scandal involving a local zumba instructor. it has rocked a small town in maine. a list of some of her alleged clients is now public. nbc's katy tur is in kennebunk with more.

>> reporter: kennebunk expected 100 plus names to come out yesterday. what they got just over 20 meaning the small town drama is anything but nearing its end. a modern day "scarlet letter" story set but where else, new england. 21 names of 21 men who now stand publicly accused of paying for sex with this woman. alexis wright , the local zumba dance teacher. in this picturesque escape the scandal and the list of johns are the talk of the town .

>> there's no pride in them. i feel like that they have no class.

>> it's an unfortunate situation. i'm not -- i'm not happy about it.

>> reporter: in court filings monday the lawyer for two of the alleged clients unsuccessfully argued to have the names sealed forever claiming their constitutional right to privacy was at stake.

>> it's obviously devastating and people are presumed innocent , yet in this particular -- with this particular type of crime the allegation itself is -- is damaging.

>> reporter: wright allegedly sold sex out of this dance studio and secretly videotaped the encounters. prosecutors say they have comprehensive ledgers listing clients, acts and prices to convict wright on 106 counts of prostitution and promoting prostitution. both wright and her alleged business partner mark strong have pleaded not guilty. wright's lawyer says her client is not a monster.

>> i think you'd find she's like many 29-year-old women you'd meet. she's bubbly. she's kind. she's volunteered in her neighborhood. she tries her best to be the best possible mother to her son that she can be.

>> reporter: and adds that the 29-year-old is reeling from the pain the release of names is causing.

>> she doesn't want any of their families to have to go through the suffering that her family is going through, and she just assume that their names be left entirely out of it frankly.

>> reporter: names now out, some in the town are trying to tout its unwavering pride as others try to capitalize on its shame. again, this is not the end for this small town of 10,000. more names will be released as this investigation continues. savannah?

>> katy tur, thank you, star jones former prosecutor and legal analyst. good morning to you.

>> good morning, savannah.

>> the reason the court is releasing the names of these men because it is a crime in maine to solicit prostitution.

>> yes, indeed, it's a misdemeanor. however, just like any other crime, this local practice forced the police to release the names in what they cole the police blotter every couple of weeks. they tried to stop that from happening in this case.

>> the defense attorney made an argument that the mere allegation was damaging to their client. do they have a case, isn't that true of anybody that's crime?

>> first of all, everybody is innocent unless and until proven guilty so what makes this crime more special, if you want to say it's not a violent crime , well, what about insurance fraud ? what about some other lack of confidence for the public kind of case? it would be damaging to anybody if their name came out and if they were truly an innocent person. they are being treated the same. when a public trial is not in public, then in some ways it dilutes the confidence of the rest of us that people are being treated the same.

>> the defense lawyer made an argument the judge should consider what the release of the names would do to the families and children.

>> i think the men should have thought about what doing this kind of zumba would do. that's the bigger issue. the bigger purpose is to make sure there's fairness and justice, and that's what they are doing.

>> could these men then be forced to testify against her at trial? i mean, could they cut a deal with prosecutors and then testify against her and say, yeah, okay, i was a client.

>> you're looking at somebody at the very most they will have to pay a $200 fine. that's what the criminal liability , is but the personal liability is so much bigger. the best advice that anybody could be giving is pay the $200 fine and walk away really quickly and put your head down and try to get your wife and your kids to forgive you.

>> she allegedly videotaped these encounters, something i assume we'll see at the trial when we get there. would the men have a claim against her for invasion of privacy?

>> oh, yeah. she's been charged criminally with invasion of privacy. if in fact there's money to be gotten, you would expect lawsuits to come along with it. that's the least of their worries, as you might say, savannah. they have a lot of explaining to do.

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Montenegro ruling party set for win: exit polls

PODGORICA (Reuters) - Montenegro's ruling party seemed assured of retaining power after exit polls following a parliamentary election on Sunday indicated it took some 46 percent of the vote, more than twice its nearest rival.

That would see the Democratic Party of Socialists extend its two-decade grip on power as the former Yugoslav republic tries to join the European Union. DPS leader Milo Djukanovic may return as prime minister, a post he has held three times before.

Exit polls released by state television and Podgorica University put the DPS on 46 percent and the opposition Democratic Front alliance a distant second on 20 percent.

A poll by CEMI, a group monitoring the elections, gave the DPS 48.4 percent to 22.5 percent for the DF.

The DPS remains popular despite economic troubles and persistent complaints about corruption for having championed independence from Serbia six years ago.

The election was held some six months ahead of schedule, as the ruling coalition sought a fresh mandate during negotiations on Montenegro's eventual accession to the European Union.

Djukanovic, as either premier or president, has been the dominant political figure in the nation of 680,000 since communist Yugoslavia collapsed 20 years ago.

Italian prosecutors once accused him of involvement in massive cigarette smuggling during Yugoslavia's international isolation in the 1990s, but he was cleared of all charges.

Should its secure less than 50 percent, the DPS will need continued support from ethnic minority representatives in the 81-seat parliament to form a government.

(Writing by Zoran Radosavljevic; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

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CARJINN Accident Vehicles for sale - The Automotive India

carjinn.com is diffrent type of service provider it helps you to buy the car of your choice in price of your choice. normally you bought the car from any dealer or unknown person via internet. they can make you fool in selling their accidental car in higher price telling you non accidental car
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Paid Incentives To Relocate to Chattanooga ? New Careers, Jobs ...

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Incentives to Move to Chattanooga: ?Geek Move?

The City of Chattanooga is anxious to increase its population and workforce by attracting individuals trained to work in various technologies. With the help of the Lyndhurst Foundation, Chattanooga has revitalized eight neighborhoods to accept new residents and businesses in addition to new small and large businesses that have made the city their home. For instance, Volkswagen invested $1 Billion in order to open a new plant in town to become their North American Manufacturing Headquarters. New businesses need additional technologists and technicians.

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No. 7 Notre Dame stops No. 17 Stanford 20-13 in OT

Notre Dame safety Matthias Farley (41) intercepts a pass past Stanford tight end Levine Toliolo (11) during the first half of an NCAA college football game in South Bend, Ind., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Notre Dame safety Matthias Farley (41) intercepts a pass past Stanford tight end Levine Toliolo (11) during the first half of an NCAA college football game in South Bend, Ind., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Stanford running back Remound Wright, center, runs with the ball during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) ? TJ Jones made a reaching 7-yard touchdown catch in overtime and No. 7 Notre Dame stopped Stanford inches from the goal line to beat the 17th-ranked Cardinal 20-13 Saturday.

After Jones and Tommy Rees gave the Fighting Irish (6-0) a seven-point lead in OT, Stanford (4-2) drove to a first-and-goal at the 4.

Stepfan Taylor ran for 1 on first, 2 on second and inches on third down. That left one play from inside the 1 and the Notre Dame defense, led by Carlos Calabrese, stood up Taylor and pushed him back.

Taylor kept reaching and turning, and ended up reaching the ball across the goal line, but the officials ruled it was too late. The play had been stopped.

The celebration had to wait for a replay review. It was close, but the call stood. The fans completed storming the field, and the national title hopes in South Bend remained alive.

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Obama campaign strategist: 'It will be an interesting debate'

By NEHEMIAH MEKONNEN and DAVID KERLEY

President Obama is once again engaged in intense debate preparation at his resort in Williamsburg, Va., getting ready for his rematch with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

"I'm not going to get into details about strategic changes that he might make. But I just encourage you to watch and show up. I think it will be an interesting debate," Obama senior campaign strategist David Axelrod said.

The president is under pressure to make a strong showing in the rematch, especially after polls are beginning to show Romney edging closer to Obama in the swing states.

"I don't think in the history of recorded presidential debates has there been such a momentum shift off of the first presidential debate. And so the president has to turn the momentum back in his direction," former presidential debate coach Brett O'Donnell said.

That still has not stopped the president from taking time out to enjoy the scenery in between prep sessions. Meanwhile, the Romney camp is preparing for a different Obama to emerge this time around.

But to senior Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie, the president's message will fail to reach most Americans, regardless of which Obama shows up on Tuesday.

"The country is a center-right country," he said. "They want to have less federal spending. They want to get us on a path to a balanced budget. They want free enterprise-driven economy that fosters job creation, not a government-centered economy that fosters economic stagnation."

As the campaign is drawing down to its last few weeks and both candidates are at their locations practicing, the president's celebrity friends are stepping up to show their support. Morgan Freeman is lending his voice to a new ad for the president. And Bill Clinton and Bruce Springsteen are campaigning in the crucial state of Ohio, all in an effort to those few voters who are undecided in the crucial swing state.

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Maintaining carpet of torn and worn | Unique Home improvement ...

The carpet has its own advantages in terms of enchanting eye look, especially if the carpet is installed in line with the furniture and accessories in your room. Choosing a carpet with more color contrast is also not to be blamed, because it will be able to strengthen the feel of the room. For example, a room that has walls paint color gray and black sofa, it will look bold by adding a red carpet in the middle. However, it would be very unfortunate if the beauty of your room and wear is reduced by tearing her carpet. Especially if your carpet type wool, cotton, bamboo and sea grass, keep in mind that not riding with something heavy on it, because this type of carpet has a thin fiber. Normally every 2 weeks once the carpet was to be cleaned. To clean it, certainly not in vain. See your carpet type first, because not all carpets can be brushed or washed with soap. Moreover, soap, soap residue can weaken carpet fibers, so it will easily lead to torn carpet. For that, it would be better if you choose to use vinegar and water instead of soap. Spray vinegar and water in your carpet, leave a few hours, do not be afraid of the smell, it?ll be gone by itself. Also do not forget to change the carpet every 2 months, so that the part that can change positions often trampled.

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24-mile skydive a boon for YouTube, social media

Felix Baumgartner's 24-mile skydive from the stratosphere on Sunday was a boon for social networks as millions of users shared in the wonder of the moment from their computers, tablets and phones.

Here's a look at how the world, through the Internet, watched the jump.

YOUTUBE:

As Baumgartner ascended in the balloon, so did the number of viewers watching YouTube's live stream of the event. Its popularity grew as the moment of the jump drew closer, as people kept sharing links with each other on Twitter and Facebook and websites embedded the stream.

Nearly 7.3 million viewers were watching as Baumgartner sat on the edge of the capsule, moments before the jump.

In the United States, the opportunity to watch the jump on TV was limited to the Discovery Channel, though more than 40 television networks in 50 total countries carried the lived feed, organizers said. It was streamed by more than 130 digital outlets.

FACEBOOK:

After Baumgartner landed, sponsor Red Bull posted a picture of the daredevil on his knees to Facebook. In less than 40 minutes, the picture was shared more than 29,000 times and generated nearly 216,000 likes and more than 10,000 comments. Immediately after the jump, Red Bull solicited questions for Baumgartner through Facebook and Twitter, promising to answer three at a post-jump news conference.

TWITTER:

During the jump and the moments after Baumgartner safely landed, half the worldwide trending topics on Twitter had something to do with the jump ? pushing past tweets about Justin Bieber and seven NFL football games being played at the same time. Celebrities of all kinds weighed in, including athletes, actors and high-profile corporate executives.

"It's pretty amazing that I can watch, live on my computer, a man riding a balloon to the edge of space so he can jump out of it. (hashtag)TheFuture," tweeted Wil Wheaton, who acted in the iconic science-fiction series "Star Trek: The Next Generation."

"Felix Baumgartner is a boss," tweeted Jozy Altidore, a soccer player for the U.S. men's national team.

REDDIT:

Two threads related to the jump made the front page of Reddit. Users quickly upvoted a request for Baumgartner to participate in an "Ask Me Anything" on the site, where users pepper someone on the site with questions about anything they want. President Barack Obama held court as the subject of a similar thread in August.

Nearly 29,000 users weighed in on a separate thread about the jump itself, voting it up and down and robustly commenting.

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Oskar Garcia can be reached on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oskargarcia .

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TROPIC CINEMA Movie Discussion Blog: Ruby Sparks (Rhoades)

Ruby Sparks (Rhoades)

Reviewed by Shirrel Rhoades One of my favorite sci-fi writers was Philip K. Dick, a strange man who was always questioning reality in his short stories. I?m going to have to add Zoe Kazan to that list of inside-out thinkers. Zoe not only wrote the screenplay for a new movie called ?Ruby Sparks? about a writer whose fictional character comes to life, she also co-stars with Paul Dano in the film. ?Ruby Sparks? is currently questioning what?s really real this week at the Tropic Cinema. Here, a young writer named Calvin Weir-Fields (Dano) is wrestling with writer?s block. Having penned a successful novel at 19, he?s under pressure to prove he wasn?t a one-hit wonder. It?s been ten years. Even his shrink (Elliott Gould) isn?t helping. So he writes a few pages about a made-up character he calls Ruby Sparks, the kind of woman he?d find attractive. Well, you can image his shock when he wakes up one morning to find the flesh-and-blood Ruby making breakfast for him in his kitchen. What?s more, she?s not just a product of his fertile imagination ? other people can see her too. But somehow she?s still a product of his writing. He proves this to his brother (Chris Messina) by typing out that she can speak fluent French and ? voil?! ? she does. This cute little romantic comedy is really about a more serious topic than what?s real and what?s not. It?s about relationships and the control we try to exert over other people. Writer-actress Zoe Kazan has the perfect DNA for this breakout film. She?s director Elia Kazan?s granddaughter, and her parents are screenwriter/playwright Nicholas Kazan (Oscar-nominated for ?Reversal Of Fortune?) and screenwriter Robin Swicord (Oscar-nominated for ?The Curious Case of Benjamin Button?). As an actress, you?ve seen her in ?Revolutionary Road? and ?Meek?s Cutoff.? Now she makes her mark as a screenwriter. Zoe Kazan explains Ruby. ?I really wanted her to feel as real to the audience as she feels to Calvin. I don?t think Calvin is a sociopath. I think he?s a normal person. So I think it would be sociopathic for him to fall in love with her because he can control her. I think he falls in love with her because she feels real to him. She sort of arrives to him. Almost like he meets her. And she is a product of his imagination, there are things he devises for her to be, or to be like, but I think she?s mysterious to him. ?And that?s what I wanted the audience?s experience of her to be, and that seems like a challenge to me, to play somebody who is really specific and feels like a whole person, but is also obviously unfinished in some way, because he can continue to manipulate her.? If you want to blur the lines between fiction and reality, turns out that co-star Paul Dano is Zoe?s real-life boyfriend. I won?t give you any spoilers, but ?Ruby Sparks? has a happy, uh, hopeful ending. But why wouldn?t it? Zoe Kazan wrote it that way.

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Video: The Marshmallow Study revisited - Delaying Gratification Depends as Much on Nurture as on Nature

Video: The Marshmallow Study revisited - Delaying Gratification Depends as Much on Nurture as on Nature

Friday, October 12, 2012

For the past four decades, the "marshmallow test" has served as a classic experimental measure of children's self-control: will a preschooler eat one of the fluffy white confections now or hold out for two later?

Now a new study demonstrates that being able to delay gratification is influenced as much by the environment as by innate ability. Children who experienced reliable interactions immediately before the marshmallow task waited on average four times longer?12 versus three minutes?than youngsters in similar but unreliable situations.

"Our results definitely temper the popular perception that marshmallow-like tasks are very powerful diagnostics for self-control capacity," says Celeste Kidd, a doctoral candidate in brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester and lead author on the study to be published online October 11 in the journal Cognition.

"Being able to delay gratification?in this case to wait 15 difficult minutes to earn a second marshmallow?not only reflects a child's capacity for self-control, it also reflects their belief about the practicality of waiting," says Kidd. "Delaying gratification is only the rational choice if the child believes a second marshmallow is likely to be delivered after a reasonably short delay."

The findings provide an important reminder about the complexity of human behavior, adds coauthor Richard Aslin, the William R. Kenan Professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University. "This study is an example of both nature and nurture playing a role," he says. "We know that to some extent, temperament is clearly inherited, because infants differ in their behaviors from birth. But this experiment provides robust evidence that young children's action are also based on rational decisions about their environment."

The research builds on a long series of marshmallow-related studies that began at Stanford University in the late 1960s. Walter Mischel and other researchers famously showed that individual differences in the ability to delay gratification on this simple task correlated strongly with success in later life. Longer wait times as a child were linked years later to higher SAT scores, less substance abuse, and parental reports of better social skills.

Because of the surprising correlation, the landmark marshmallow studies have been cited as evidence that qualities like self-control or emotional intelligence in general may be more important to navigating life successfully than more traditional measures of intelligence, such as IQ.

The Rochester team wanted to explore more closely why some preschoolers are able to resist the marshmallow while others succumb to licking, nibbling, and eventually swallowing the sugary treat. The researchers assigned 28 three- to five-year-olds to two contrasting environments: unreliable and reliable. The study results were so strong that a larger sample group was not required to ensure statistical accuracy and other factors, like the influence of hunger, were accounted for by randomly assigning participants to the two groups, according to the researchers. In both groups the children were given a create-your-own-cup kit and asked to decorate the blank paper that would be inserted in the cup.

In the unreliable condition, the children were provided a container of used crayons and told that if they could wait, the researcher would return shortly with a bigger and better set of new art supplies for their project. After two and a half minutes, the research returned with this explanation: "I'm sorry, but I made a mistake. We don't have any other art supplies after all. But why don't you use these instead?" She then helped to open the crayon container.

Next a quarter-inch sticker was placed on the table and the child was told that if he or she could wait, the researcher would return with a large selection of better stickers to use. After the same wait, the researcher again returned empty handed.

The reliable group experienced the same set up, but the researcher returned with the promised materials: first with a rotating tray full of art supplies and the next time with five to seven large, die-cut stickers.

The marshmallow task followed, with the explanation that the child could have "one marshmallow right now. Or ? if you can wait for me to get more marshmallows from the other room ? you can have two marshmallows to eat instead." The researcher removed the art supplies and placed a single marshmallow in a small desert dish four inches from the table's edge directly in front of the child. From an adjoining room, the researchers and the parent observed through a computer video camera until the first taste or 15 minutes had lapsed, whichever came first. All children then received three additional marshmallows.

"Watching their strategies for waiting was quite entertaining," says Holly Palmeri, coauthor and coordinator of the Rochester Baby Lab. Kids danced in their seats, sang, and took pretend naps. Several took a bite from the bottom of the marshmallow then placed it back in the desert cup so it looked untouched. A few then nibbled off the top, forgetting they could then longer hide the evidence since both ends were eaten, she said. "We had one little boy who grabbed the marshmallow immediately and we thought he was going to eat it," recalled Kidd. Instead he sat on it. "Instead of covering his eyes, he covered the marshmallow."

Children who experienced unreliable interactions with an experimenter waited for a mean time of three minutes and two seconds on the subsequent marshmallow task, while youngsters who experienced reliable interactions held out for 12 minutes and two seconds. Only one of the 14 children in the unreliable group waited the full 15 minutes, compared to nine children in the reliable condition.

"I was astounded that the effect was so large," says Aslin. "I thought that we might get a difference of maybe a minute or so? You don't see effects like this very often."

In prior research, children's wait time averaged between 6.08 and 5.71 minutes, the authors report. By comparison, manipulating the environment doubled wait times in the reliable condition and halved the time in the unreliable scenario. Previous studies that explored the effect of teaching children waiting strategies showed smaller effects, the authors report. Hiding the treat from view boosted wait times by 3.75 minutes, while encouraging children to think about the larger reward added 2.53 minutes.

The robust effect of manipulating the environment, conclude the authors, provides strong evidence that children's wait times reflect rational decision making about the probability of reward. The results are consistent with other research showing that children are sensitive to uncertainly in future rewards and with population studies showing children with absent fathers prefer more immediate rewards over larger but delayed ones.

The findings, says Kidd, are reassuring. She recalls reading about the predictive power of these earlier experiments years ago and finding it "depressing." At the time she was volunteering at a homeless shelter for families in Santa Ana, California. "There were lots of kids staying there with their families. Everyone shared one big area, so keeping personal possessions safe was difficult," she says. "When one child got a toy or treat, there was a real risk of a bigger, faster kid taking it away. I read about these studies and I thought, 'All of these kids would eat the marshmallow right away.' "

But as she observed the children week after week, she began to question the task as a marker of innate ability alone. "If you are used to getting things taken away from you, not waiting is the rational choice. Then it occurred to me that the marshmallow task might be correlated with something else that the child already knows?like having a stable environment."

So does that mean that if little ones gobble up desert without waiting, as is typical of preschoolers, parents should worry that they have failed to be role models of reliability every minute?

Not necessarily, say the researchers. "Children do monitor the behavior of parents and adults, but it is unlikely that they are keeping detailed records of every

single action," says Aslin. "It's the overall sense of a parent's reliability or unreliability that's going to get through, not every single action." Adds Kidd: "Don't do the marshmallow test on your kitchen table and conclude something about your child. It especially would not work with a parent, because your child has all sorts of strong expectations about what a person who loves them very much is likely to do."

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"Shamoon" virus most destructive yet for private sector, Panetta says

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