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One of the things I take seriously as a part of my job is making it easy for Gartner clients to get access to our research in a timely manner. So here is the list of Gartner BCM Blog posts related to Cyclone/Hurricane Sandy. I?ll compile a list every day so that you can easily find everything you need.
You might also find our?Research Roundup for BCM and IT-DRM?useful to find our published research on all topics related to business continuity management and disaster recovery.
A Post from My Colleague Allen Weiner: Lack of Social Media May Foil Free Taco Marketing Plan (this is about Hurricane Sandy) #Sandy
A Post from My Colleague Andrea DiMaio: Hurricane Sandy Confirms the Tactical Nature of Social Media #Sandy
A Post from My Colleague Bill Gassman: Three Marketing Lessons from Hurricane Sandy #HurricaneSandy #Sandy
A Post from My Colleague Craig Roth: The Impact of Hurricane Sandy #HurricaneSandy #Sandy
A Post from My Colleague Donna Scott: Is Power Recovery your Weakest Link? #Sandy #HurricaneSandy
A Post from My Colleague French Caldwell: Expect to Hear About How Social Tech Enabled Self Relief in Sandy #HurricaneSandy #Sandy
A Post from My Colleague Jay Heiser: Electrical Fragility #Sandy #HurricaneSandy
A Post from My Colleague Jim Duggan: Recurring Lessons Learned from Major Disasters #HurricaneSandy #Sandy
A Post from My Colleague John Morency: What Can be Learned about Cloud?based Recovery in the Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy #Sandy
A Post from My Soon-to-Be Gartner Consultant Colleague Belinda Wilson: Thoughts On Crisis Declaration and Interdependencies #Sandy
Good Advice from Ready Campaign ? U.S. Department of Homeland Security ? Washington, DC 20528 ? 202-282-8000 #HurricaneSandy
Post-Sandy Advisory No.1 #Sandy
Sign Up For Your Area?s Emergency Alert Messages
Some Unique Pointers from Two Webinars I Attended ? October 29, 2012 ? #HurricaneSandy
VERY Practical Hurricane Sandy Advice from Arnold Chase on the Colin McEnroe Radio Show ? #HurricaneSandy
Hurricane Sandy: How Many Emergency Alerts Did You Get, From Whom and How Effective Were They? ? #HurricaneSandy
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2012) ? An international team of researchers has found that female Komodo Dragons live half as long as males on average, seemingly due to their physically demanding 'housework' such as building huge nests and guarding eggs for up to six months.
The results provide important information on the endangered lizards' growth rate, lifestyle and population differences, which may help plan conservation efforts.
The Komodo dragon is the world's largest lizard. Their formidable body size enables them to serve as top predators killing water buffalo, deer and wild boar and they have also been known to kill humans.
A research team which included scientists from the University of Melbourne, Australia, Indonesia and Italy studied 400 individual Komodo Dragons for 10 years in eastern Indonesia, their only native habitat. The team then produced a model of the Dragon's growth rate, with results published in the current issue of international journal PLoS ONE.
Males live to around 60 years of age, reaching an average 160 cm in snout-vent length (not including tail) and 65 kg at adulthood. However their female counterparts were estimated to live an average of 32 years and reach only 120 cm in snout-vent length, and 22 kg.
Dr Tim Jessop from the Department of Zoology at the University of Melbourne was a co-author on the study and said that the team were surprised by the significantly shorter lifespan of the female Komodo Dragon.
"The sex-based difference in size appears to be linked to the enormous amounts of energy females invest in producing eggs, building and guarding their nests. The process can take up to six months during which they essentially fast, losing a lot of weight and body condition, he said.
"Males and females start off at the same size until they reach sexual maturity at around seven years of age. From then on females grow slower, shorter and die younger."
The research team was keen to understand the growth rate of the Komodo Dragons as this critical process can indicate how the species prioritises its energy use in lifestyle and reproductive strategies. The results suggest that females have high energy 'costs' for reproduction resulting in their smaller size, whereas to reproduce successfully, males must keep increasing in size.
The results could have dramatic consequences for the endangered species as early female deaths may be exacerbating competition between males over the remaining females, possibly explaining why males are the world's largest lizards.
"These results may seem odd to humans when the life span between Australian men and women differ by five years. But each species has different strategies to pass on their genes. For example humans invest a lot of energy in few children as raising them is very energy intensive, whereas insects will have hundreds of offspring with no input into their rearing."
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New studies reveal connections between animals' microbial communities and behaviorPublic release date: 11-Oct-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Vanessa O. Ezenwa vezenwa@uga.edu 706-542-2288 University of Georgia
Athens, Ga. New research is revealing surprising connections between animal microbiomesthe communities of microbes that live inside animals' bodiesand animal behavior, according to a paper by University of Georgia ecologist Vanessa O. Ezenwa and her colleagues. The article, just published in the Perspectives section of the journal Science, reviews recent developments in this emerging research area and offers questions for future investigation.
The paper grew out of a National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop on new ways to approach the study of animal behavior. Ezenwa, an associate professor in the UGA Odum School of Ecology and College of Veterinary Medicine department of infectious diseases, and her coauthors were interested in the relationship between animal behavior and beneficial microbes.
Most research on the interactions between microbes and their animal hosts has focused on pathogens, Ezenwa said. Less is known about beneficial microbes or animal microbiomes, but several recent studies have begun to explore these connections.
"We know that animal behavior plays a critical role in establishing microbiomes," she said. "Once they're established, the microbiomes then influence animal behavior in lots of ways that have far-reaching consequences. That's what we were trying to highlight in this article."
Bumble bees, for example, obtain the microbes they need through social contact with nest mates, including consuming their nest mates' fecesa not uncommon method for animals to acquire microbes. Green iguanas establish their intestinal microbiomes by feeding first on soil and later on the feces of adult iguanas.
"There are a lot of behaviors that animals might have that allow them to get the different microbes they need at different points of their lives," Ezenwa said.
Microbes, in their turn, influence a wide range of animal behaviors, including feeding, mating and predator-prey interactions.
One recent study found that fruit flies prefer to mate with others that have microbiomes most similar to their own. Another found that African malaria mosquitoes were less attracted to humans who had a greater diversity of microbes on their skin, possibly because certain microbes produce chemicals that repel these mosquitoes.
Other studies have focused on understanding the mechanisms by which microbes influence behavior.
"Recent experiments have been able to assess the molecules that are involved in communication between microbes in the gut and the brain of mice, showing that microbes are associated with shifts in things like depression and anxiety in these mice," she said. "There are huge implications in the role these microbes play in regulating neural function."
Ezenwa's own work involves investigating how social behavior and interactions between organisms might increase their likelihood of acquiring parasites and pathogens. She is starting a new project examining animal behavior and microbiomes in relation to infectious disease.
"As in the example of the bumble bees, behavior might control the microbes an animal acquires, and those microbes might then influence the animal's vulnerability to pathogens," she said.
The authors conclude that it will take a combination of molecular and experimental approaches to answer questions about the complex interactions between microbiomes and animal behaviors.
"This is a new, emerging topic that's worthy of much more investigation," Ezenwa said.
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The full article is available at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6104/198.full?sid=45ad6fa3-c906-4289-9bdb-4da1815ab59a.
The article's coauthors are Nicole M. Gerardo of Emory University; David W. Inouye of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory and the University of Maryland; Monica Medina of the University of California, Merced; and Joao B. Xavier of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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New studies reveal connections between animals' microbial communities and behaviorPublic release date: 11-Oct-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Vanessa O. Ezenwa vezenwa@uga.edu 706-542-2288 University of Georgia
Athens, Ga. New research is revealing surprising connections between animal microbiomesthe communities of microbes that live inside animals' bodiesand animal behavior, according to a paper by University of Georgia ecologist Vanessa O. Ezenwa and her colleagues. The article, just published in the Perspectives section of the journal Science, reviews recent developments in this emerging research area and offers questions for future investigation.
The paper grew out of a National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop on new ways to approach the study of animal behavior. Ezenwa, an associate professor in the UGA Odum School of Ecology and College of Veterinary Medicine department of infectious diseases, and her coauthors were interested in the relationship between animal behavior and beneficial microbes.
Most research on the interactions between microbes and their animal hosts has focused on pathogens, Ezenwa said. Less is known about beneficial microbes or animal microbiomes, but several recent studies have begun to explore these connections.
"We know that animal behavior plays a critical role in establishing microbiomes," she said. "Once they're established, the microbiomes then influence animal behavior in lots of ways that have far-reaching consequences. That's what we were trying to highlight in this article."
Bumble bees, for example, obtain the microbes they need through social contact with nest mates, including consuming their nest mates' fecesa not uncommon method for animals to acquire microbes. Green iguanas establish their intestinal microbiomes by feeding first on soil and later on the feces of adult iguanas.
"There are a lot of behaviors that animals might have that allow them to get the different microbes they need at different points of their lives," Ezenwa said.
Microbes, in their turn, influence a wide range of animal behaviors, including feeding, mating and predator-prey interactions.
One recent study found that fruit flies prefer to mate with others that have microbiomes most similar to their own. Another found that African malaria mosquitoes were less attracted to humans who had a greater diversity of microbes on their skin, possibly because certain microbes produce chemicals that repel these mosquitoes.
Other studies have focused on understanding the mechanisms by which microbes influence behavior.
"Recent experiments have been able to assess the molecules that are involved in communication between microbes in the gut and the brain of mice, showing that microbes are associated with shifts in things like depression and anxiety in these mice," she said. "There are huge implications in the role these microbes play in regulating neural function."
Ezenwa's own work involves investigating how social behavior and interactions between organisms might increase their likelihood of acquiring parasites and pathogens. She is starting a new project examining animal behavior and microbiomes in relation to infectious disease.
"As in the example of the bumble bees, behavior might control the microbes an animal acquires, and those microbes might then influence the animal's vulnerability to pathogens," she said.
The authors conclude that it will take a combination of molecular and experimental approaches to answer questions about the complex interactions between microbiomes and animal behaviors.
"This is a new, emerging topic that's worthy of much more investigation," Ezenwa said.
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The full article is available at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6104/198.full?sid=45ad6fa3-c906-4289-9bdb-4da1815ab59a.
The article's coauthors are Nicole M. Gerardo of Emory University; David W. Inouye of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory and the University of Maryland; Monica Medina of the University of California, Merced; and Joao B. Xavier of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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T-Mobile's not being shy in its selection of Windows Phone 8 offerings, so far announcing plans to release the HTC Windows Phone 8X, 8S and Nokia Lumia 810, but unfortunately it does have to be shy in actually showing them off. The carrier's booth at tonight's MobileCon 2012-related event had the latter device, but wasn't able to turn it on for us (a situation that we've sadly come to expect with virtually every public appearance by a WP8 device). Technically, the 810 is being dubbed a T-Mobile "exclusive" in the US, but that takes on very little meaning when given its use of a AWS-friendly HSPA+ 42Mbps radio. It bears some family resemblance in specs and looks to its cousin, the Lumia 820, but it still keeps to a distinct design; the 8MP rear camera panel is laid out vertically (see also: Lumia 800) rather than horizontally, the LED flash is off to its side, and the 1.2MP front-facing camera is on the opposite side of the earpiece. It's still a little thicker and heavier than we'd like to see on a midrange device, which is mainly a result of the 810's exchangeable wireless charging shells (it's available in cyan and black). The Lumia 810 also features a 4.3-inch OLED WVGA (800 x 480) ClearBlack display offering a pixel density of 217ppi. Naturally we'll need to put this to the test once we're allowed to turn it on, but we expect this to be roughly the same quality as the Lumia 900. We'll let you know when more specs come our way, but in the meantime take a look at our hands-on images below.
Donald Asher is an internationally recognized author and speaker on the topics of careers and higher education. Asher will be speaking on 10/24 @ 5pm in Lecture Hall 7 (ITE building).
Donald Asher is an internationally recognized author and speaker on the topics of careers and higher education. In America he is well known as ?America?s Job Search Guru.? His career books include the ground-breaking Cracking the Hidden Job Market. He wrote the best-selling guide to getting into graduate school, Graduate Admissions Essays. He has also written The Overnight Resume, How to Get Any Job, Who Gets Promoted (named business book of the year), and Asher?s Bible of Executive Resumes (the largest compendium of executive resumes ever published). He is the author of twelve books in all, available in English, Chinese, Korean, and Portuguese. He is co-author of a new book on elite scholarships, The Best Scholarships for the Best Students. Asher was named a ?Career Mastermind? in 2011 by the award-winning web portal QuintCareers. He has been the career columnist for USAirways Magazine, education columnist for MSN, and a contributing write r for the Wall Street Journal?s CareerJournal.com and CollegeJournal.com, college.monster.com, monster.com, careerbuilder.com, wetfeet.com, jobstar.org, Dow Jones? Managing Your Career Magazine and National Business Employment Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the NACE Journal. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Investor?s Business Daily, New York Times, USAToday, Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, salary.com, USNews & World Report, Fortune, Men?s Health, and many, many other publications. Asher holds the master of human resources and organization development from the University of San Francisco, and a bachelor?s degree in philosophy-religion from Reed College. He is a featured speaker over 150 times per year, including recent lecture tours in Canada, Mexico, India, China, South Korea, Morocco, and Germany, where he spoke about international career trends and the borderless career.
The talk will take place Wednesday, October 24, 5 p.m., in Lecture Hall 7. Refreshments will be served.
The valve-popping wail of a turbocharged 252-hp inline four may not be for everyone. But thanks to a new tech in the 2013 Ford Focus ST, Ford hopes drivers will be able to have a quiet, practical car and a fire-breathing demon all at once.
Taking a page from the BMW Active Sound Design system found in the new M5, Ford announced yesterday its own engine sound enhancer for its signature performance hatchback.
Dubbed Sound Symposer, the system is designed to amplify engine growl once the driving inputs get more aggressive. While the BMW system plays simulated engine noises through the stereo to beef up the sonic experience, Ford?s is more organic. Under normal driving, the vehicle's soundproofing reduces everything to a dull hum so the Focus isn't roaring like a lion during your morning commute. But push the car hard and a valve opens on a pipe connecting the engine bay to the cabin, channeling the sound directly from the induction manifold to the dashboard. The system is customizable, so drivers can modify when the system kicks in, or fun-haters can turn it off altogether.?
Amplifying the Focus ST's turbo engine at speed makes sense. Hot hatches are supposed to be functional and comfortable on runs to the grocery store, but shouty, loud, and nimble on the track. The extra noise might provide a little more incentive for drivers to get slightly indiscriminate with the throttle inputs once in awhile. It remains to be seen whether amplifying the real engine's growl?rather than piping noise through the speakers?allows the Focus to escape the scorn of critics (like reddit commenters on our Active Sound Design story) who blasted the BMW system for inauthenticity.
Organized by the Qatari Business Women Association and Interactive Business Network 'IBN', the Forum will focus on the economic empowerment of women in the Arab world, examining their growing role and the challenges they face.
ExxonMobil makes it a priority to support women around the world. The ExxonMobil Women's Economic Opportunity Initiative is a global effort launched in 2005 that helps women fulfill their economic potential and drive economic and social change in their communities. ExxonMobil selected this focus area because of its enormous positive economic and social impacts.
Its support for workshops like the Qatar International Business Women Forum allows ExxonMobil to create and promote leadership development, business skills training, mentoring programmes and businesswomen's networks to support female business leaders and entrepreneurs.
"At ExxonMobil, our belief regarding the empowerment of women is simple: stronger women make stronger communities," said Bart Cahir, President and General Manager of ExxonMobil Qatar. "We understand that creating economic opportunities for women is one of the wisest investments we can make because women take their successes and generate further growth and advancement for their families, communities, professions, and industries. Investing in expanded economic opportunities for women carries a powerful multiplier effect that benefits all of society," he added.
On this point Ms. Aisha Al-Fardan, Vice President of the Qatari Business Women Association explained that "The founding principle of the Association was a strong belief in the abilities of Qatari women and Arab women to play a pivotal role in economic and social development, and that their empowerment is imperative to make full use of their potential." Ms. Al-Fardan also took the opportunity to Laud the pioneering role of Qatar in empowering women in the Gulf countries."
For his part, Mr. Raed Chehaib, Chief Operating Officer of Interactive Business Network considered that "The success and regional and international appeal of the Qatar International Businesswomen Forum is ample proof of the growing role in Arab women societies and their increasing business and economic clout."
Beyond its sponsorship of events like the Qatar International Business Women Forum, ExxonMobil Qatar also demonstrates its commitment to the economic empowerment of women through other means. In 2009, ExxonMobil launched EMRA'A - a group of ExxonMobil employees who strive to enable women to participate fully in the business world. EMRA'A signifies 'woman' in Arabic and stands for ExxonMobil Reaching, Aspiring and Advancing. The group recently invited women from RasGas and Qatargas to a networking and personal development event to foster connections among female professionals across the three organizations.
In addition, ExxonMobil in Qatar's $300,000 contribution to finance the Career Counseling Unit of the First Step Programme specifically aims to help prepare young Qatari women to join the workforce. The programme inspires young women to achieve their potential and maximize their contribution to the Qatari economy and reflects ExxonMobil Qatar's long-term partnership with the Social Development Center.
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(Reuters) - Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is expected to face life in prison when he is sentenced in coming days for molesting 10 boys over 15 years, a case that shocked college athletics and riveted national attention on the issue of child sexual abuse.
Sandusky, 68, faces up to 373 years in prison for his conviction in June on 45 counts of child sexual abuse, including while he was defensive coordinator for Penn State's powerhouse football team. The sentence is to be handed down on Tuesday at Centre County Court.
Sentencing by Judge John Cleland, known for running a fast-paced court, is expected to go quickly, Karl Rominger, a Sandusky lawyer, told Reuters.
"I don't see that the sentencing will take more than several hours at the most, but it all depends," he said.
Asked later if Sandusky would make a statement at the hearing, Rominger texted: "Unsure but likely." Sandusky did not testify at his trial.
Rominger and fellow defense attorney Joe Amendola have said they plan to appeal. They contend they did not have enough time to prepare for the high-profile case.
Defense attorneys and prosecutors will meet with Cleland on Monday afternoon at the courthouse in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, to coordinate the hearing.
Daniel Filler, a law professor at Philadelphia's Drexel University, said Cleland likely would focus on two factors in sentencing - the severity of the crimes and Sandusky's background, both good and bad.
Sandusky, who retired as Penn State's defensive coordinator in 1999, was convicted of abusing the boys after meeting them through The Second Mile, a charity he founded for at-risk youth.
"What would normally be a defendant's strongest argument for leniency - a lifetime of good works - may be used to justify a harsh sentence for Sandusky because he betrayed the trust of the kids he served," Filler wrote in an email.
VICTIMS TO SPEAK
The Harrisburg Patriot-News reported last month that two of Sandusky's victims would speak about the impact on the victims.
One is a 28-year-old man, designated as Victim 4 in court documents, who said Sandusky lavished him with gifts and trips to football bowl games while abusing him during the 1990s.
The second is Victim 5, now 23, who Sandusky molested in a Pennsylvania State University shower in 2001, the newspaper said. Attorneys for the men were not immediately available to comment.
Before sentencing, the state's Sexual Offenders Assessment Board will report to Cleland on its evaluation of whether Sandusky is a sexually violent predator. The designation would put him under reporting requirements if he were to be released from prison on probation.
Sandusky's abuse ranged from fondling to anal and oral sex, including the rape of a boy in a football shower in 2001.
Former Athletic Director Tim Curry and former university Vice President Gary Schultz face charges of failing to report suspected abuse and perjury in connection with the 2001 incident. Their trial is scheduled to start on January 7.
The explosive scandal led to the firing of revered head football coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier. Paterno died in January of lung cancer at age 85.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association slapped Penn State with unprecedented penalties in July. They included $60 million in fines and being stripped of all football victories for the past 14 seasons.
At least three of Sandusky's victims are suing the university. Former assistant coach Mike McQueary, a witness to the 2001 incident who lost his job after he testified about it, also sued Penn State last week for more than $8 million. (Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Paul Thomasch and Jackie Frank)
VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Pope Benedict XVI has returned to the Vatican after three months of vacation to find his former butler on trial in one of the most damaging scandals of his pontificate: the leaks of stolen papal correspondence detailing power struggles, defamation campaigns and allegations of corruption at the highest level of the Catholic Church.
Paolo Gabriele is to be questioned on the stand Tuesday by the president of the Vatican tribunal, the first time the public will hear from the butler himself about the events that landed him in a Vatican detention facility on May 23, accused of stealing the documents and giving them to a journalist.
Vatican police arrested Gabriele after they found a stash of papal papers in his Vatican City home. In all, police carted off 82 boxes of papers, though not all of them were papal correspondence.
Prosecutors have said Gabriele confessed to leaking copies of the documents because he wanted to expose the "evil and corruption" in the church. They quoted him as saying that even though he knew taking the documents was wrong, he felt inspired by the Holy Spirit "to bring the church back on the right track."
"I believed that the Holy Father wasn't being correctly informed about certain things," they quoted him as saying. "In this sense, I was compelled also by my profound faith and desire that there should be light shed on everything in the church."
The trial opened over the weekend inside the intimate ground-floor tribunal in the Vatican's courthouse tucked behind St. Peter's Basilica. Judge Giuseppe Della Torre has said he expects it to be over in about four more hearings. Gabriele faces four years in prison if convicted on a charge of aggravated theft.
The 46-year-old father of three seemed calm but tense in that first hearing, staring ahead impassively as his lawyer raised a handful of objections and requests. On the opposite wall from where he sat was a photo of Benedict, his boss and the victim of the crime, but also the supreme judge in the case: As an absolute monarch, Benedict has full judicial authority in the Vatican city state and can intervene to stop a trial. He delegates that power to the three-judge tribunal, but he can pardon Gabriele and most expect he will if there's a conviction.
In its first hearing, the court released the list of witnesses who will testify in the case, though it's not clear who among them might take the stand after Gabriele on Tuesday.
They include the pope's private secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, and one of the four consecrated women who care for the papal household, Cristina Cernetti. Their testimony could shed light on the otherwise deeply private world of the small "papal family" who live, eat and pray together with the 85-year-old pope every day.
Gaenswein, Cernetti and the rest of the papal entourage returned to Rome on Monday after spending the summer in the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo south of Rome.
Gabriele has said he handed the documentation off to Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, whose book "His Holiness: The secret papers of Pope Benedict XVI," was published to great fanfare in May. An earlier Nuzzi book," Vatican SpA," was based on a trove of damaging documents from the Vatican bank.
"His Holiness" contained dozens of reprinted letters and memos: some showed how wealthy donors scored audiences with the pope after handing over checks for ?10,000; others detailed the questionable interconnectedness of Italian and Holy See politics, particularly concerning the tax-exempt status for church-owned real estate.
The most damaging letter reproduced in the book was written by the former No. 2 Vatican administrator to the pope, in which he begged not to be transferred as punishment for exposing alleged corruption. The prelate, Monsignor Carlo Maria Vigano, is now the Vatican's U.S. ambassador.
On the eve of Gabriele's testimony, Nuzzi ? who revealed his source after Gabriele confessed ? said he hoped the one-time butler would make clear why he betrayed the pope and risked so much to air the Vatican's dirty laundry.
"He did it because he saw through his own eyes that there were plots, stories and accusations of corruption, made by important monsignors, unclear relationships between states," Nuzzi told Italian television TG5 on Monday. "He thought that by making these dramatic stories known he would help bring about the transparency promised by the Holy Father."
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A bluegrass musician and a pediatric surgeon were among 23 of the world's most creative and original thinkers to be awarded no-strings-attached $500,000 "genius" grants this year, a U.S. charitable organization said on Monday.
Also among the 2012 MacArthur Foundation fellows are a celebrated fiction writer, a Washington Post reporter and a Boston man who makes some of the finest violin bows the modern world has ever seen.
Since the program was initiated in 1981, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has provided grants to hundreds of "fellows," with the aim of providing scientists, scholars, artists, activists and others with the means and freedom to pursue their creativity wherever it leads.
Anonymous nominators and selection committees decide who gets the grants, and recipients usually do not know they are even being considered unless they win. The grant is made over a five-year period and can be used however the winners see fit.
Each year's list of MacArthur fellows is comprised of a rich mosaic of achievement across a variety of specialized fields. Among the 2012 grant winners are:
* Fiction writer Junot Diaz, 43, whose groundbreaking novel ?The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" was described by the New York Times as "so original it can only be described as Mario Vargas Llosa meets ?Star Trek' meets David Foster Wallace meets Kanye West."
* Mexican documentary filmmaker Natalia Almada, 37, whose work, according to the foundation, captures the "complex and nuanced views of Mexican history, politics and culture in insightful and poetic works that affirm the potency of documentary film as both an art form and a tool for social change."
* Mandolinist and composer Chris Thile, 31, of New York, a groundbreaking master of bluegrass who has composed mandolin concertos, and recorded with a range of artists including cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Dolly Parton, Jack White and the band Bela Fleck.
* Astronomer and physicist Olivier Guyon, 36, who designs telescopes that "play a critical role in the search for Earth-like planets outside our solar system," according to the foundation.
* Journalist David Finkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post writer who reported from Iraq and won plaudits for his coverage of U.S. efforts to forge democracy in the most lawless corners of Yemen.
* Columbia University mathematician Maria Chudnovsky, 35, who is "investigating the fundamental principles of graph theory?and other major branches of mathematics."
* Bow maker Benoit Rolland, whose experimentation with new designs and materials to create bows for the violin, viola and cello rivals "the quality of prized nineteen century bows and meets the artistic demands of today's musicians."
* Boston Children's Hospital pediatric neurosurgeon Benjamin Warf, 54, who according to the foundation is "revolutionizing the treatment of intracranial diseases in very young children."
(Reporting By Chris Francescani; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Todd Eastham)
So Dish is the latest company interested in building an Internet TV service, as Bloomberg reported last week that it was in talks with various networks about licensing their content and delivering it over-the-top. But while an over-the-top live TV would certainly be a welcome choice among video options, it's unlikely to be as cheap or as competitive as everyone would like it to be. Dish isn't alone in this pursuit: Over the last several years, we've heard about tech companies like Apple and Microsoft being in discussions with media companies to create their own bundled Internet TV services.
Observing the mantra that the enemy of its enemy is its friend, Vodafone and O2 have gained regulatory approval to begin merging their cellular networks to better compete with Everything Everywhere. As such, they can begin spinning off infrastructure and towers to a new company called CTI, which will manage both company's hardware as a single network. It's hoped the new tie-up will cover 98 percent of the country and enable LTE services to roll out two years ahead of Ofcom's 2017 deadline. Worried about another awkward T-Mobile and Orange-style merger? Don't be, since in every other respect, the pair have pledged to operate as competing entities in a quest for your custom.
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have found a new genetic mutation responsible for deafness and hearing loss associated with Usher syndrome type 1.
These findings, published in the Sept. 30 advance online edition of the journalNature Genetics, could help researchers develop new therapeutic targets for those at risk for this syndrome.
Partners in the study included the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Kentucky.
Usher syndrome is a genetic defect that causes deafness, night-blindness and a loss of peripheral vision through the progressive degeneration of the retina.
"In this study, researchers were able to pinpoint the gene which caused deafness in Usher syndrome type 1 as well as deafness that is not associated with the syndrome through the genetic analysis of 57 humans from Pakistan and Turkey," says Zubair Ahmed, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology who conducts research at Cincinnati Children's and is the lead investigator on this study.
Ahmed says that a protein, called CIB2, which binds to calcium within a cell, is associated with deafness in Usher syndrome type 1 and non-syndromic hearing loss.
"To date, mutations affecting CIB2 are the most common and prevalent genetic cause of non-syndromic hearing loss in Pakistan," he says. "However, we have also found another mutation of the protein that contributes to deafness in Turkish populations.
"In animal models, CIB2 is found in the mechanosensory stereocilia of the inner ear?hair cells, which respond to fluid motion and allow hearing and balance, and in retinal photoreceptor cells, which convert light into electrical signals in the eye, making it possible to see," says Saima Riazuddin, PhD, assistant professor in UC's department of otolaryngology who conducts research at Cincinnati Children's and is co-lead investigator on the study.
Researchers found that CIB2 staining is often brighter at shorter row stereocilia tips than the neighboring stereocilia of a longer row, where it may be involved in calcium signaling that regulates mechano-electrical transduction, a process by which the ear converts mechanical energy?or energy of motion?into a form of energy that the brain can recognize as sound.
"With this knowledge, we are one step closer to understanding the mechanism of mechano-electrical transduction and possibly finding a genetic target to prevent non-syndromic deafness as well as that associated with Usher syndrome type 1," Ahmed says.
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