After having hurricane Sandy rumble through the east coast, I am feeling extremely lucky and grateful that we did not suffer any damages, or even lose power. My heart is going out to friends and family in New York and New Jersey, where they are still dealing with floods, power outages, and more.
http://www.lolalina.com/2012/10/31/feeling-especially-grateful-for-home/
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New Yorkers may see an unwanted group of refugees in the wake of Hurricane Sandy ? the rats that live in the city's subway tunnels.
As of Wednesday, four of the seven subway tunnels under the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn were flooded due to superstorm Sandy, and many of the other subterranean lairs the seemingly invincible creatures inhabit were also inundated.
For now, there's no sign of a rat invasion. "We haven't seen an increase in rats above ground caused by Hurricane Sandy," Sam Miller, assistant commissioner for public affairs at the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, told New York magazine.
But if the flooding persists, rodent survivors of the deluge may find their way onto the New York streets.
"Most of the rats that are living there will actually drown," said Herwig Leirs, a rodentologist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.
While rats can swim or float for up to four days, they may get trapped without air in small pipes and crannies as they seek higher ground, Leirs told LiveScience.
The rushing water will also work against them.
"Rats will be carried away by the current and won't be strong enough to swim to the surface and breathe, or they'll be pushed to grates, they will get stuck there and they won't be strong enough to swim against the current," he said. [Photos of Sandy's Aftermath]
Baby rats will perish unless their mothers can carry them to safety, Robert M. Corrigan, a rodentologist who works with the city of New York on its pest problem, wrote in an email. Even those who survive the flooding will be doomed unless they can find a safe shelter with lots of food, he said.
Fewer rats, more visible
If the water is pumped out quickly, many rats will remain underground. The floodwaters likely brought a bonanza of garbage for vermin to feast on in the underground tunnels, Leirs said.
But if water lingers underground for several days, subway rats may pop up above ground, Leirs said. And the deserted, debris-strewn streets of New York will provide ample food and shelter for the lucky few that survived, he added.
"At least for the first few days, you will expect that rats will be a bit more bold," Leirs said.
Rodents hit a similar trashy jackpot in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina swept through in 2005, bringing plenty of garbage and shelter in empty buildings, according to news reports. Hurricane Isaac, however, washed ashore tens of thousands of dead "swamp rats," whose rotting corpses presented quite a health hazard in Mississippi. [Gallery: Swamp Rats Die en Masse After Isaac]
Disease risk
Some 28 million rats have been reported to lurk in the dark, wet subway tunnels of New York City, though official numbers are hard to come by. Whether these rats, post-flooding, pose a human health risk will depend on how quickly water above ground evaporates and how quickly subway crews can clean out the tunnels.
Rats can carry leptospirosis, a bacterial infection that causes fever, nausea and occasionally meningitis. If rats urinate in stagnant pools of water, people with open wounds who come in contact with the water could become infected, Leirs said.
Leirs said repair crews may encounter a grisly sight when re-entering the tunnels: tons of dead rats. But with the city's debris swept underground, that may be the least of their concerns.
"I am sure they will find much more gruesome things than some dead rats," Leirs said.
This report was updated by NBC News. Follow LiveScience on Twitter @livescience. We're also on Facebook? and Google+.
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This week on That Girl we are celebrating Sarah Bregel,?a busy mom, writer, personal trainer and yogi who manages to make it all work. Her secret? Short, powerful workouts. ?You really don?t have to spend two hours working out; you just have to make the time you have count,? Sarah says. ?That?s one of the most important things I?ve learned.? Find out what else she?s learned and how she fits it all in!
Meet:
Sarah Bregel
Baltimore, MD
Age 27
Personal Trainer, writer, creator of BHealthyBmore.com
Fitness/health accomplishment you are most proud of:
Power and vinyasa yoga are my primary workouts, and though I think it?s important to take the ego out of the equation when it comes to yoga, it does feel good to master a headstand.
What inspires you to get fit every day?
For me it?s more about feeling good than it is just being ?fit.? I need to have energy to take care of my daughter, to work and overall just to be a happy person. On the days I manage to get in a workout, I can deal with the daily stresses of life about a thousand times better than when I don?t have?or find?time to workout.
What do you do when you don?t feel like working out?
Tell myself just to get started?that?s the hardest part. Once I start moving, I always want to keep going.
Favorite energizing meal:
An apple with peanut butter and raisins.
What?s your favorite way to chill post-workout?
There is little chill time in my life these days. I?m usually squeezing my workouts in while my 2-year-old naps, so I?m busting my butt until she wakes up. Usually, we go have a walk together so I can cool down! So, I guess that?s chill time. :)
What is your top kick-ass workout?
I?m all about quick fitness, so I love a hard circuit for 30 minutes, which could be weights or a vinyasa flow. Anything that is quick and challenging. You really don?t have to spend two hours working out; you just have to make the time you have count. That?s one of the most important things I?ve learned. It helps for exercise to be a sustainable thing in my life, too.
Where is your favorite/most unique place you?ve ever exercised?
When I was in personal training school, we worked out at a gym in Santa Monica where I just about walked into David Hasselhoff one day. We also did a workout on Muscle Beach?that was pretty scary! Lots of huge, huge muscles.
What?s the biggest lesson you?ve learned through sports?
To be in the moment and to use your breath to help you through your workout, rather than battling against yourself and thinking that you can?t wait until it?s over. Be present, feel the pain! It?s making your stronger.
Photo: courtesy of Sarah Bregel
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Source: http://blisstree.com/move/that-girl-meet-yogi-and-personal-trainer-sarah-bregel-823/
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I was stuck in my house all day Monday waiting on Hurricane Sandy to unleash her fury on the East Coast. I planned to be productive?touching up the edges on my most recent paint job and putting a dent in my read of Rebecca Walker?s Black Cool. Instead, I mindlessly spent (i.e., wasted) most of the day flipping through fashion magazines and scanning celebrity ?news? sites to distract myself from impending doom.?Oops!
It seemed ?everyone??who wasn?t talking about Sandy was talking about the lavish bash that supermodel Naomi Campbell is planning to mark the 50th?birthday (Nov. 7) of her billionaire Russian boyfriend, Vladislav Doronin. The?details?read (and looked) like an event planner?s wet dream: an alleged four-day affair in India, a booked solid palace where a one-bedroom suite costs upwards of $12k a night, and an imagined guest list that read like a Who?s Who of the world?s A-List.?Must be nice.
Each article reveled in the would-be decadence of it all, but no one seemed able to avoid the figurative elephant that would be in the Indian room. Naomi?s very sexy, very rich boo? The one that?s held her down since 2008, accompanies her to red carpets, vacations with her around the world, and even once subjected himself to an inquisition by Oprah to stand by his lady? Welp, he?s?still married.?Bossip, unsurprisingly, took the hardest dig: ?Guess when you can?t get married cuz your boo still ain?t divorced you have to get creative about other kinds of celebrations?? I mean, it?s true, but??Ouch!
When it comes to coaching clients or doling out dating/relationship advice, I take a hard-line on dating married ? that includes separated, like Doronin ? men. I can?t forget the story of?YaVaughnie Wilkins, the jilted woman who dated a man who was separated from his wife?for 8 and a half ?serious? years. (Wilkins said she didn?t know he was still married.) But then, her boyfriend, after all that time, decided to go back to his wife. Wilkins made headlines after setting up a website showcasing mementos from their relationship and took out billboards in three different cities because she wanted to debunk many people?s assumptions that she was someone her ex had ?just? passed (all that) time with but that she actually mattered to him, at least before he went home.
I?d heard or seen similar stories ? sans the websites and billboards ? from friends or friends of my family. One of them was the friend of my dad?s, so close to the fam that I called him ?Uncle Chuck? and he always showed up at our house with ?Aunt Kitty.? At seven or so, I just assumed she was his wife like all the other non-blood related women who I called ?Aunt? who showed up with men I called ?Uncle? (All of my parents? friends were married too.)
But then one day, nearly a decade years later, ?Uncle Chuck? showed up with a woman my mother introduced as ?Aunt Lisa.??I?m sorry, who??My mother explained she, Aunt Lisa, was his wife.
Me (at like 18, upstairs in the kitchen two minutes later): He left Aunt Kitty? He?s re-married already!
Mom: Uhh ? Aunt Lisa?s always been his wife. They?re back together.
Me: Huh?
Mom: Mind your business and take the potato salad downstairs to your father.
For good (and polite) reason, I never saw, heard from, and rarely heard of ?Aunt Kitty? again. It was like she never existed. (Damn shame because I really liked her too.) Aunt Lisa was here? or er, back after all those years, sliding right back into?her?seat, an easily made claim since there was never a divorce, which meant she never gave it up. And that was that. I did learn a lesson though: separated means just that. It doesn?t mean ?over.?
Neither one of these scenarios is likely to happen to Naomi Campbell ? but I guess that?s probably what Wilkins and ?Aunt Kitty? thought too, huh? Anyway, Campbell?s boyfriend has been separated from his wife for at least twelve years now, and prior to hooking up with Campbell at Cannes, Doronin had a seven-year relationship with another woman. Doronin?s wife seems to be okay with the situation as she, her daughter, her husband, and Campbell have been spotted at events together. Despite rumors from earlier this year that the wife had?clowned Naomi?and was planning to file for divorce, ?friends? of his wife say she has no plans to do so and she and her husband live separate lives.
Doronin and Campbell travel the world together, he dotes on her, splurging on homes ??note: not bags and shoes ? and when they?re actually ?home? in Moscow, they live together. Doronin seems to be building a life with Campbell. I don?t know why he?s still married. It doesn?t appear that he is still in love with his wife. Perhaps if I had a better understanding of Russian divorce laws, I could gander that his reasoning is along the ?cheaper to keep her? lines. Maybe there?s another reason entirely.
I do know, Doronin seems happy, Campbell seems happy, and so does his still wife.? His divorce, or lack there of, doesn?t seem to matter to any of them. But should it? (That?s not a judgment. That?s a question.) There?s a popular line of thinking ? that means you, Bossip ?that Campbell is playing herself by being a mistress, that Doronin?s wife is getting played by having her husband publicly claiming another woman, and Doronin, well, he?s just a player.
Would you be okay with dating a separated man like Doronin? (Okay, what if he didn?t have Doronin?s money, power, or privilege? That was a joke? sorta.)
Demetria L. Lucas is the author of ?A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life??(Atria) in stores now. Follow her on Twitter @abelleinbk
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Source: http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2012/10/is-it-ever-okay-to-date-a-married-man/
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Kaka has kept his place in the Brazil squad after his impressive return last month but Shakhtar Donetsk players were again overlooked by coach Mano Menezes.
Menezes, naming his squad for next month's friendly against Colombia in the United States, also declined to give Ronaldinho another chance despite some good recent performances for Atletico Mineiro in the Brazilian championship.
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said the match, at the Metlife stadium in New Jersey on November 14, would be Brazil's 1,000th although it was not clear if this included fixtures against club and representative teams.
Kaka scored in both the 6-0 win over Iraq and the 4-0 win against Japan last month as he made his international comeback after an absence of more than two years, forming an impressive partnership with Oscar in midfield.
"The combination of Oscar and Kaka gave us more tactical variations," Menezes told reporters after announcing his squad.
"We were very complete. You can't just think about the attacking side and the team was good in winning back the ball and this requires the participation of everyone, including Oscar and Kaka."
Ukrainian champions Shakhtar won their first 12 league games of the season and raised eyebrows as they drew with Juventus and beat Chelsea in the Champions League, inspired by Brazilian quartet Willian, Fernandinho, Alex Teixeira and Luiz Adriano.
However, none of them are well known in their homeland and their combined international experience has been limited to two appearances last year by Willian and five for Fernandinho.
Brazilian coaches have rarely picked players based with Eastern European clubs, even when they have experience in European competitions.
Zenit forward Hulk and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk midfielder Giuliano were the only two players from the region in Menezes' squad on Tuesday.
On the other hand, the squad included nine Brazilian-based players.
Ronaldinho last played for Brazil in the 2-1 win over Bosnia in February and Menezes implied that the former Barcelona and AC Milan forward had already had his chance.
"When you are in charge of a complicated process such as this one with so many players to observe, you can't afford to go around in circles and end up at the same place where you started," said Menezes.
Goalkeepers: Jefferson (Botafogo), Diego Alves (Valencia)
Defenders: Adriano (Barcelona), Daniel Alves (Barcelona), Fabio Santos (Corinthians), David Luiz (Chelsea), Thiago Silva (Paris St Germain), Leandro Castan (AS Roma), Rever (Atletico Mineiro)
Midfielders: Arouca (Santos), Paulinho (Corinthians), Ramires (Chelsea), Sandro (Tottenham Hotspur), Giuliano (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Thiago Neves (Fluminense), Oscar (Chelsea), Kaka (Real Madrid), Lucas (Sao Paulo)
Forwards: Hulk (Zenit St Petersburg), Leandro Damiao (Internacional), Neymar (Santos)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kaka-keeps-brazil-place-no-room-shakhtar-players-150341116--sow.html
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I'd suggest that in industrial and scientific marketing, there's quite a lot you can reveal before a product's launch day without damaging any commercial activity whatsoever.
As any publicist in the entertainment industry knows, a good teaser campaign will get a product off to a flying start. One of the best types offers people the chance to be "the first to know" about something, and that can be a compelling offer. Nobody likes to be out of the loop. So if you've got something in the pipeline, have you considered promoting it well in advance of the launch day?
Of course, the existence of some products has to be kept under wraps. Even so, you can "tease" the market with clues, as many consumer tech companies do so well. But I'd suggest that in industrial and scientific marketing, there's quite a lot you can reveal without damaging any commercial activity whatsoever. The idea should be to build up a list of prospects, so that you have a really hot list to target once it's launch day. And ? crucially ? beyond that date.
If you take the traditional route of not revealing any existence of the product until it's launched, here's what happens. Many prospects who you don't know will read about your new product once it's revealed to the world, and come to the website to take a look. That's great. For most of them, it won't be something they want right away. So although they may have found it interesting, they leave, and you've lost them forever (or until you next connect with them randomly). The chances of getting them to sign up for any future information from you are minimal.
Now let's look at what happens if you set up a teaser web page before the event. The same prospects wander along, and they're confronted with a "sign up to be the first to get details" link. Many will do so; it can be hard to resist sometimes. Now you have them. On launch day, you'll be in touch with the full details of the new product, of course. As we know, it turns out to be something which they didn't need right away. But you've now got permission to keep reminding them about the product, and this time, when they do need it, you'll have been in touch recently enough to be in their thoughts.
Your biggest hurdle will probably be the paranoia of the sales manager who thinks that this'll mean the opposition will find out what you're up to, and somehow this will result in ?well, what, actually?
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Source: http://www.bmon.co.uk/2012/10/are-you-building-your-lists-in-advance/
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2012) ? Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found a way to create three-dimensional maps of the stress that circulating blood places on the developing heart in an animal model -- a key to understanding triggers of heart defects.
The team has begun testing the technology to uncover how alcohol, drugs and other factors set off events that result in defects found in newborn humans.
Passing blood cells drag on the endothelial cells that line the growing heart, a phenomenon called shear stress, which has been linked to changes in gene expression that results in defects, most often in the valves. But precisely how they're connected is unclear.
"Alcohol exposure may affect shear stress by modulating the heart rate, but it may also involve vigor and/or timing of the contraction," said Andrew Rollins, associate professor of biomedical engineering and senior author of the new study. "Now that we have the tool, we can start to figure that out."
"We're analyzing early and late development of the heart and trying to make the connections that result in valve dysfunction," said Lindsy M. Peterson, a PhD student in Rollins' lab and lead author. Their work is published in the current online issue of the Optical Society of America's journal Biomedical Optics Express.
The pair teamed with research assistant professor Michael W. Jenkins; senior research associate Shi Gu; Lee Barwick, an undergraduate researcher now at Brigham Young University; and Michiko Watanabe, a professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.
To look at the structure of the developing heart and blood flow, the researchers modified a technology called Doppler optical coherence tomography. Called OCT for short, they shine an infrared laser on the heart.
The reflections measured at various depths are used to create a three-dimensional image in much the same manner submariners use sonar to picture their surroundings in the deep sea. But the researchers add the dimension of time, creating movies of blood flow through the structures, needed to map shear stress.
They take their first images at two days, during a stage of heart development called cardiac looping. This is when the simple straight tube that's an embryo heart turns clockwise into a helix, forming the beginnings of two atria and two ventricles. They take more images at three days and again at eight days, when the septum, the wall between the left and right sides of the heart, has formed.
Working with Ganga Karunamuni, a pediatrics research associate at the school of medicine, the team is now pursuing a slate of experiments testing the quail heart model's response to alcohol exposure and will also test exposure to mental health drugs called selective serotonin receptor inhibitors. Alone or together, they can alter shear stress.
They are exposing the model to alcohol at a stage called gastrulation, when the embryo changes from two sheets of cells to a multi-layered organism.
This is a critical stage for induction of birth defects, Peterson said. In humans, it's an early stage when a woman may not know that she is pregnant.
Rollins said clinical applications are a long way off but the team has begun talking about possibilities.
"If it became feasible to screen a fetus for abnormal heart function," he said, "it might be possible to intervene with drugs, with gene therapy." Or, by using non-invasive pulses of infrared light to make the heart contract on demand -- another technology the team is developing with clinical colleagues in Pediatric Cardiology- to prevent or treat defects before birth.
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