Thursday, May 23, 2013

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Alternative Solutions To Back Problems


May 23

Our back has an important job. It carries us through our daily tasks and it protects the spinal column and nerves that carry messages from our brain throughout our body. Most of us have had some back problems at least once in our life. When back pain and problems are chronic it makes it very difficult to concentrate or to carry on our daily activities.

For some people a dose of over-the-counter medication is helpful. The shelves are full of competing brands. Others find that a hot bath or an ice massage is the right solution. People often resort to surgery if their back problems cannot be relieved.

Maintaining good spinal health is one key to avoiding back problems. That includes healthy eating, proper exercise and other things that are good for your entire body, not just your back. Beyond those concerns, many of us are desperate for non-surgical, non-invasive spinal treatments. There are a number of approaches, some well recognized and some that are newer ideas.

Yoga is a centuries old method of exercise that strengthens the core and health. In Yoga you practice various poses, learn to breathe correctly and to relax. Clinical trials indicate that for some this is effective in relieving back problems.

Acupuncture, the art of inserting needles into specific points to improve the body or relieve pain, and acupressure which is the release of the same points without needles are also ancient medicines that show modern promise for treating back problems.

Massage therapy is beneficial for some people who suffer with back problems from tension and overwork. Sometimes, for more serious situations massage is coupled with physical therapy. Physical therapy is used to strengthen the body that is in recovery from trauma or surgery.

People also seek out chiropractic care for back pain. This involves various forms of spinal manipulation. It may also involve treatment on a spinal decompression table. The spinal decompression therapy seems to be one of the newest treatments available and it involves being tilted, with a slight pulling pressure so that the spine is brought into alignment.

There are ways to achieve many of these effects at home with massage devices and yoga videos. Equipment for the home can extend from treadmills and bikes to inversion tables to allow that same gentle alignment you need in your own home. Just think how relaxed you will feel as you tilt at a comfortable angle to improve circulation all over your body. Your spine gradually goes into place and the improved flow of oxygen rich blood supports your spinal health. You can use your inversion table in the comfort of your own home, at your own schedule and convenience, for less than the cost of continual treatment in offices and gyms.

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Track and Field Teams Set For Action at NCAA East Regional

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ITHACA, N.Y. ? With 33 athletes competing in 23 events, the Big Red track and field teams will begin action at the NCAA East Regional in Greensboro, N.C., on Thursday.
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The three-day meet, featuring the nation's top athletes from most schools east of the Mississippi River, will determine who makes the NCAA Outdoor National Championship in Eugene, Ore., in two weeks.
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The top 12 finishers in each event will make the national championship. The Big Red had four athletes make last year's championship in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Live results will be available throughout the weekend via the Flash Results website.
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The Big Red's 20 men competing is the seventh-most of any school in the country including teams in the West Region, and only four of Cornell's 20 are seniors. The Big Red's 20 entries are third-most among any school in the East Region, and the team has the most individuals competing in the East.
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The Big Red's seven women participating in distance events gives Cornell the largest distance contingent of any school in the nation. Cornell's 14 entries are tied for 15th in the East Region.
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The competition will begin for Cornell at the meet's very first event, as Stephen Mozia throws the discus on Thursday at 10 a.m. Mozia, the No. 4 seed in the competition, also throws on Friday at 5 p.m. in the shot put where he is the top seed. Mozia reached the NCAA Outdoor Championship last season.
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The action on Thursday continues all day until the men's 10K finishes the meet. Brett Kelly ? the eighth seed ? and Matt McCullough will be running for Cornell in that event.
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On Friday, field action opens the day for Cornell again as Robert Robbins throws the javelin at noon. Robbins is the seventh seed in the event. More distance events close out the night as top seed Rachel Sorna, Genna Hartung and Claire DeVoe run the women's 3K steeplechase while freshman Connor Herr runs the same event for the men.
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On Saturday, the Big Red finishes its weekend with the women's javelin opening action at noon. Victoria Imbesia ? the No. 10 seed ? Brittany Dombrowski and Felicia Reid will all be throwing for Cornell. Caroline Kellner closes out competition for the Big Red when she runs in the 5K at 8:05 p.m.
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Throughout the meet, the Big Red has plenty of other competitors who will have strong chances to advance to the NCAA Championship. The trio of second-seeded Katie Kellner, Devin McMahon and Kate Rosettie will run in the 10K on Thursday night. High jumper Montez Blair, the fifth seed in the high jump, will compete on Saturday at 6 p.m. And the men's 4x100 team of Ryan Hynes, Jedidiah Adarquah-Yiadom, Bruno Hortelano-Roig and Kinsley Ojukwu will see action right after Blair starts on Saturday.
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Cornell Schedule (seed in parentheses):
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Thursday, May 23:
10:00 a.m. ? Men's Discus: ?Stephen Mozia (4)
1:00 p.m. ? Men's Long Jump: ?Steven Bell (19), Hercules Stancil (34)
4:30 p.m. ? Men's Pole Vault: ?Peter Roach (31), Steven Pawlak (47)
5:00 p.m. ? Men's 400 Hurdles First Round: ?Andre Anderson (35)
6:55 p.m. ? Men's 100 Dash First Round: ?Jedidiah Adarquah-Yiadom (43)
7:20 p.m. ? Women's 400 First Round: ?Zena Kolliesuah (42)
8:35 p.m. ? Men's 800 First Round: ?Will Weinlandt (12)
9:00 p.m. ? Women's 10K: ?Katie Kellner (2), Devin McMahon (15), Kate Rosettie (22)
9:40 p.m. ? Men's 10K: ?Brett Kelly (8), Matt McCullough (43)
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Friday, May 24:
12:00 p.m. ? Men's Javelin: ?Rob Robbins (7)
5:00 p.m. ? Women's Pole Vault: ?Claire Dishong (31)
5:00 p.m. ? Men's Shot Put: ?Stephen Mozia (1)
5:30 p.m. ? Men's 110 Hurdles First Round: ?Max Hairston (39)
6:00 p.m. ? Women's High Jump: ?Ailish Hanly (34)
6:00 p.m. ? Women's 400 Quarterfinals?(top 24 from previous day advance)
6:45 p.m. ? Men's 100 Quarterfinals?(top 24 from previous day advance)
7:15 p.m. ? Men's 800 Quarterfinals?(top 24 from previous day advance)
8:25 p.m. ? Men's 200 First Round: ?Bruno Hortelano-Roig (16)
8:50 p.m. ? Women's 3K Steeplechase: ?Rachel Sorna (1), Genna Hartung (11), Claire DeVoe (24)
9:30 p.m. ? Men's 3K Steeplechase: ?Connor Herr (19)?
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Saturday, May 25:
12:00 p.m. ? Women's Javelin: ?Victoria Imbesi (10), Brittany Dombrowski (41), Felicia Reid (46)
1:00 p.m. ? Men's Triple Jump: ?Dan Scott (38)
5:30 p.m. ? Women's Shot Put: ?Victoria Imbesi (41)
6:00 p.m. ? Men's High Jump: ?Montez Blair (5), Tommy Butler (24)
6:15 p.m. ? Men's 4X100: ?Ryan Hynes, Jedidiah Adarquah-Yiadom, Bruno Hortelano-Roig, Kinsley Ojukwu (17)
7:20 p.m. ? Men's 110 Hurdles Quarterfinals?(top 24 from previous day advance)
7:50 p.m. ? Men's 200 Quarterfinals?(top 24 from previous day advance)
8:05 p.m. ? Women's 5K: ?Caroline Kellner (27)

Source: http://cornellbigred.com/news/2013/5/22/WTRACK_0522135155.aspx

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13 Highlights From One of the Biggest Furniture Fairs in the Country

ICFF?or the International Contemporary Furniture Fair?is one of the biggest furniture shows this side of Milan. And like its Italian rival, ICFF is closely watched by critics, who see it as a gauge of broader cultural trends. For example, the glitzy 2000s correlated with escapism from political turmoil and war. The post-2008 fair was full of inexpensive, DIY projects, supposedly reflecting life after the recession. Last year, as the recovery took hold, critics saw a resurgence of excess and glamor.

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

And Super Bowl 50 goes to ...

BOSTON (AP) ? The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area.

NFL owners voted Tuesday for the 49ers' new stadium as host of the 2016 game. That facility in Santa Clara, Calif., is due to open for the 2014 season.

San Francisco beat out South Florida, which was stymied in its bid to stage an 11th Super Bowl when the Florida Legislature did not support financing to renovate Sun Life Stadium.

The 2017 Super Bowl will be held in Houston, which also beat out Miami for that game.

The only previous Super Bowl played in northern California was at Stanford Stadium in 1985.

Houston hosted the 2004 NFL championship game.

When NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the decision, members of the San Francisco bid committee let out a roar of approval, then toasted each other with champagne.

It was the first time in a decade that a Super Bowl was awarded on the first ballot.

"The Bay Area has been waiting for a (title) game since 1985. We have a stadium now ... we are just thrilled and couldn't be happier about this," said Daniel Lurie, a leader of the San Francisco bid.

"We are going to get to highlight the best the Bay Area has to offer."

The Dolphins were denied public money for a stadium upgrade in South Florida following widespread complaints about the public investment sunk into the Marlins' new baseball home.

Multibillionaire Dolphins owner Stephen Ross contends $350 million in stadium improvements are badly needed, but he doesn't want to pay for them by himself. Nor does he want a scaled-down renovation of the 26-year-old facility.

Miami has hosted 10 Super Bowls, tied with New Orleans for the most. But neither will get the 50th.

For years, it was thought the NFL would seek to stage the 50th Super Bowl in Los Angeles, where the first one was played (but did not sell out) on Jan. 15, 1967. But with no franchise in LA and no suitable stadium projects approved, that hope disappeared.

Next Feb. 2, the game goes outdoors in a cold-weather site for the first time, at MetLife Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands. If that gamble pays off for the NFL, look for other cities in similar climates ? Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver ? to bid for future Super Bowls.

The 2015 game will be played in the Phoenix area.

Earlier Tuesday, owners approved a $200 million loan for stadium construction in Atlanta. The multipurpose stadium could cost as much as $1 billion, with team owner Arthur Blank committed to funding most of it. Blank, speaking at the NFL's spring meetings, called the decision by the team owners an "important milestone" in moving the project forward.

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Call of Duty: Ghosts will launch on Microsoft's new Xbox One console

The storied Call of Duty franchise will get a new life on the Xbox One, Microsoft's forthcoming next-gen console.?

By Matthew Shaer / May 21, 2013

A screenshot from Call of Duty: Ghosts, which will be released for the Microsoft Xbox One console.

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Of all the video game franchises from the last decade, few have been as consistently successful ? or at least lucrative ? as Call of Duty.?

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Which is why when you unveil a new console, as Microsoft did today, you want Call of Duty front and center. Some background: The Xbox One debuted at a big press conference out in Richmond earlier today. The machine is a sleek powerhouse, with an 8-core CPU, 8GB of RAM, and Blu-ray capability. It will ship with an array of games, including Forza Motorsport 5, Watchdogs, and Thief: Out of the Shadows.?

But it is Call of Duty: Ghosts that has generated the most excitement online. The game, which was previewed at the Xbox One press event, appears to be roughly in the same mold as the Modern Warfare games ? a contemporary world, with real-world locales and real-world guns. The story revolves around some sort of?catastrophic event, which has "crippled" the American military, leaving only a rag-tag team of fighters to take out the (as-of-yet unknown) enemy.?

In an interview with the Guardian, Infinity Ward animator Zach Volker said the members of the Ghosts come from special forces backgrounds.?

"The idea of the Ghosts team is that these guys are mysterious," Volker told the Guardian. "We don't know who they are, we don't know where they came from, we don't know anything about them. But the public sees them as this legendary force that is out doing great things behind enemy lines. They're really a symbol of hope for the American people. Their backs are against the wall, they're fighting for their lives ? they see the Ghost team as a possible salvation."

Call of Duty games have always been visually striking, in the mold of a Michael Bay movie ? big explosions, sprawling firefights, vehicles flying through the air only to be crumpled up like paper napkins. And Activision has promised that Call of Duty: Ghosts, which should hit shelves this fall, will be even better to look at, especially on the beefed-up Xbox One.?

"We set the gold standard for action in current gen and we?re going to do it again for the next gen," Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg said?in Richmond. "This is the most character-driven and emotionally-driven COD game. It?s a stunning leap forward for console gaming."?

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Radioactive nanoparticles target cancer cells

May 21, 2013 ? Cancers of all types become most deadly when they metastasize and spread tumors throughout the body. Once cancer has reached this stage, it becomes very difficult for doctors to locate and treat the numerous tumors that can develop. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found a way to create radioactive nanoparticles that target lymphoma tumor cells wherever they may be in the body.

Michael Lewis, an associate professor of oncology in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine, says being able to target secondary tumors is vital to successfully treating patients with progressive cancers.

"Depending on the type of cancer, primary tumors usually are not the cause of death for cancer patients," Lewis said. "If a cancer metastasizes, or spreads creating hard-to-find tumors, it often becomes fatal. Having a way to identify and shrink these secondary tumors is of utmost importance when fighting to save people with these diseases."

In an effort to find a way to locate and kill secondary tumors, Lewis, in collaboration with J. David Robertson, director of research at the MU Research Reactor and professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Science, have successfully created nanoparticles made of a radioactive form of the element lutetium. The MU scientists then covered the lutetium nanoparticles with gold shells and attached targeting agents.

In previous research, Lewis has already proven the effectiveness of similar targeting agents in mice and dogs suffering from tumors. In that research, the targeting agents were attached to single radioactive atoms that were introduced into the bodies of animals with cancer. The targeting agents were able to seek out the tumors existing within the animals, which were then revealed through radio-imaging of those animals.

In their current research, the MU scientists have shown the targeting agents can deliver the new radioactive lutetium nanoparticles to lymphoma tumor cells without attaching to and damaging healthy cells in the process. Robertson says this is an important step toward developing therapies for lymphoma and other advanced-stage cancers.

"The ability to deliver multiple radioactive atoms to individual cancer cells should greatly increase our ability to selectively kill these cells," Robertson said. "We are very optimistic about the synergy of combining the targeting strategy developed in Dr. Lewis's lab with our work on new radioactive nanoparticles."

Lewis has been invited to present his research at the City of Hope National Medical Center this June in Duarte, Calif.

This study is an example of the collaborative research taking place in the One Health, One Medicine area of Mizzou Advantage. The early-stage results of this research are promising. If additional studies, including animal studies, are successful within the next few years, the researchers will request permission from the federal government to begin human drug development. After this status has been granted, Lewis and Robertson may conduct human clinical trials with the hope of developing new treatments.

Lewis also is a principal investigator in the Research Service at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital. This research was supported by awards from the National Cancer Institute and the Department of Veterans Affairs as well as resources made available by Department of Veterans Affairs through use of facilities at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital in Columbia, Mo.

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Buckley receives American Psychiatric Association commendation

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AUGUSTA, Ga. Dr. Peter F. Buckley, a psychiatrist and Dean of the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, has received the American Psychiatric Association Special Presidential Commendation in recognition of his exemplary leadership and substantial contributions to psychiatry and U.S. academic medicine.

The commendation, given at the discretion of the president, Dr. Dilip V. Jeste, was presented during the association's 166th Annual Meeting May 18-22 in San Francisco.

"Dr. Buckley is a highly distinguished scientist and educator in mental health and his service to the field over the past several decades has been outstanding," Jeste said.

Buckley, who chaired the MCG Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior for a decade before becoming Dean of the medical school in 2011, is a member of the association's Workgroup on the Role of Psychiatry in Healthcare Reform and Committee on Research Awards.

He serves on a National Institute of Mental Health Data and Safety Monitoring Board to safeguard research participants and monitor clinical trials. He chairs the Pan American International Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, which facilitates worldwide exchange of psychiatry information, as well as the Dean's Committee of the American College of Psychiatrists. Buckley started a fellowship to groom aspiring chairmen while he was President of the American Association of Chairs of Academic Departments of Psychiatry from 2006-08. He received the 2007 Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association's Psychiatrist of the Year Award as well as an Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. He is Chairman of the Continuing Medical Education Committee of the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association and a member of the External Advisory Board of the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Institute at the Medical University of South Carolina.

An expert in schizophrenia, Buckley is an Advisory Board Member of the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research and a member of the Scientific Council of the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders. He served on the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education Board of Directors and chaired the NIMH Interventions Committee for Disorders Related to Schizophrenia, Late Life or Personality.

While Chairman of the MCG Psychiatry Department, he led the rebuilding of a department that had been rocked by research fraud. Under his leadership, the department reinvigorated existing programs and developed innovative new ones, including a treatment and training model that focuses on recovery from mental illness, engaging patients as educators and advisors. He also helped transform Georgia's troubled public mental health care system, serving on Georgia's Gubernatorial Task Force on Mental Health Commission for a New Georgia and Georgia's Mental Health Systems Transformation Task Force. In October 2009, Buckley and the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, announced that GHSU would take charge of East Central Georgia Regional Hospital, a state facility for mental health and intellectual disabilities that had been considered for closure.

Buckley received the 2012 Cancro Academic Leadership Award from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for his contributions as a medical school dean and psychiatry department chairman and the 2011 Wayne Fenton Award for Exceptional Clinical Care from the Schizophrenia Bulletin. Buckley, who was named MCG's interim Dean in 2010, has completed the Dean's Executive Development and Executive Leadership programs at the Association of American Medical Colleges. He is the Council of Deans Liaison to the Group on Resident Affairs at the AAMC.

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Buckley receives American Psychiatric Association commendation [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 20-May-2013
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Contact: Toni Baker
tbaker@gru.edu
706-721-4421
Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University

AUGUSTA, Ga. Dr. Peter F. Buckley, a psychiatrist and Dean of the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, has received the American Psychiatric Association Special Presidential Commendation in recognition of his exemplary leadership and substantial contributions to psychiatry and U.S. academic medicine.

The commendation, given at the discretion of the president, Dr. Dilip V. Jeste, was presented during the association's 166th Annual Meeting May 18-22 in San Francisco.

"Dr. Buckley is a highly distinguished scientist and educator in mental health and his service to the field over the past several decades has been outstanding," Jeste said.

Buckley, who chaired the MCG Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior for a decade before becoming Dean of the medical school in 2011, is a member of the association's Workgroup on the Role of Psychiatry in Healthcare Reform and Committee on Research Awards.

He serves on a National Institute of Mental Health Data and Safety Monitoring Board to safeguard research participants and monitor clinical trials. He chairs the Pan American International Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, which facilitates worldwide exchange of psychiatry information, as well as the Dean's Committee of the American College of Psychiatrists. Buckley started a fellowship to groom aspiring chairmen while he was President of the American Association of Chairs of Academic Departments of Psychiatry from 2006-08. He received the 2007 Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association's Psychiatrist of the Year Award as well as an Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. He is Chairman of the Continuing Medical Education Committee of the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association and a member of the External Advisory Board of the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Institute at the Medical University of South Carolina.

An expert in schizophrenia, Buckley is an Advisory Board Member of the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research and a member of the Scientific Council of the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders. He served on the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education Board of Directors and chaired the NIMH Interventions Committee for Disorders Related to Schizophrenia, Late Life or Personality.

While Chairman of the MCG Psychiatry Department, he led the rebuilding of a department that had been rocked by research fraud. Under his leadership, the department reinvigorated existing programs and developed innovative new ones, including a treatment and training model that focuses on recovery from mental illness, engaging patients as educators and advisors. He also helped transform Georgia's troubled public mental health care system, serving on Georgia's Gubernatorial Task Force on Mental Health Commission for a New Georgia and Georgia's Mental Health Systems Transformation Task Force. In October 2009, Buckley and the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, announced that GHSU would take charge of East Central Georgia Regional Hospital, a state facility for mental health and intellectual disabilities that had been considered for closure.

Buckley received the 2012 Cancro Academic Leadership Award from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for his contributions as a medical school dean and psychiatry department chairman and the 2011 Wayne Fenton Award for Exceptional Clinical Care from the Schizophrenia Bulletin. Buckley, who was named MCG's interim Dean in 2010, has completed the Dean's Executive Development and Executive Leadership programs at the Association of American Medical Colleges. He is the Council of Deans Liaison to the Group on Resident Affairs at the AAMC.

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Senators work through changes to immigration bill

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senators working on a wide-ranging immigration bill have agreed to tighten controls on the asylum system that allows people fleeing war or persecution to find refuge in the U.S.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina offered the amendment, which would terminate asylum or refugee status for anyone who returns home to the country they fled, unless they can show a good reason for doing so.

Graham said the change was merited in light of the Boston Marathon bombings. The brothers who allegedly set off the bombs arrived in the U.S. as boys when their family sought asylum here.

The amendment was approved on voice vote Monday as the Senate Judiciary Committee entered its third week of weighing amendments to a bipartisan immigration bill.

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The After Math: Google I/O 2013, BlackBerry Live and Nokia's Lumia 925

The After Math Google IO 2013, BlackBerry World and Oh No Not Another Windows Phone

A new Lumia phone from Nokia, this year's Google I/O and BlackBerry Live -- yep, it was a pretty hectic week for us, but also a good seven days for tech news. Even if Google didn't have any truly new hardware for us, it's started up its own on-demand music service, gave us more details on Google Glass, redesigned its Maps and, well, it was a very long keynote. Join us after the break for a numerical breakdown of that and the rest of the week's big news.

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Jed Kleckner: Local Businesses Growing With Gen D (Generation Delivery)

Today's get it now society wants more than just a cool phone with instant access to news, friends and family - they want dinner served up too.

Mealtime planning has shifted with the generations. In the 1950s, TV dinners became the convenient meal while takeout gained traction in the 70s. In the 1990s, speedy delivery became popular at pizza joints while in the Internet era, online ordering started gaining traction with techies and early adopters. Today, on-demand delivery is common for busy professionals and urbanites with a couple of clicks on a web site or through the tap of an app. Delivery helps drive revenue for local businesses, such as restaurants, across the U.S. by reaching more customers in the neighborhood. This new delivery focused mindset makes up Gen D -- the delivery generation.

Industry analysts see one of the key growth drivers for the restaurant industry and other retail or service-oriented businesses is through offering delivery. According to NPD Group, food delivery is a $75 billion business and a survey from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found that already nearly 10 percent of online shoppers want same day delivery in their online shopping experience. BCG also found that affluent millennials are willing to pay up to $10 for same day delivery.

While larger chains are struggling with the shift from next day to same day, local businesses are already profiting from Gen D.

Hoboken, New Jersey's Biggie's Clam Bar has been family-run for four generations. Today, delivery is a substantial 35 percent of their business mix and they have regulars who order delivery as often as others come into the restaurant. "We get online orders from business pros leaving their Manhattan office asking for dinner to be delivered when they arrive home," said Steve Ranuro, great-grandson of founder Joseph "Biggie" Yaccarino. "We have a personal connection with the folks who order online and find that they will order a wider selection of entrees off the menu while many of our in-store regulars stick with the burger or clams they always eat."

Ranuro noted that delivery helps keep Biggie's sales consistent, solving a real yield management problem for restaurant or store owners. "In the past, we might have a slow night when it rains or is less than ideal to travel. Now, our deliveries balance out the slower in-house periods of the day or week to keep our neighborhood customers engaged with Biggie's even when they're not in the restaurants."

Good quality food runs in the family also at De Pasada, a Mexican restaurant in Chicago serving up tortas, tacos, tostados and more. While the restaurant has a small web presence, the owners consider online delivery "free marketing for the business". Greg Espinoza convinced his father to add online delivery. He finds it more convenient for processing orders than fielding phone calls and the overall restaurant revenue is up approximately 30 percent.

In the restaurant business, it's essential to manage against expenses. With high real estate costs for New York City-based restaurants delivery has become an essential component of managing the bottom line. 3 Star Diner, which is open 24-hours, gets half of their revenue from delivery. Nicholas Kirakakis, who runs the diner with his father, found online delivery a natural extension of their core business. He's seen a generational shift of online orders coming primarily from younger customers, which also include emoticons like smiley faces in the special instructions. And he's smiling from the higher average online order.

Gen D also shops their neighborhood whenever possible. In a recent delivery.com customer survey of 5,400 people across the USA, more than 65 percent said they shop from local stores and neighborhood restaurants. These locavores also order dinner for delivery at least once a week.

The local delivery landscape is ever changing as Gen D wants everything delivered. delivery.com offers instant ordering from spirits/wine and grocery stores, which are also seeing an increase in sales through new customers in their respective neighborhoods. "Delivery brings us closer to our neighbors who are a few blocks away in Gramercy," said Michael Buckley, president, Gramercy Wine Cellars. "While many Manhattanites will pick up a bottle of wine from the shop closest to them, our customers are drawn to the convenience of online delivery, ordering a special scotch or robust red wine on their way out work of so it arrives when they get home."

From spirits to split pea soup delivery, Gen D empowers the local economy by driving incremental sales for small businesses. These entrepreneurs are the job creators, creating two thirds of all new jobs and accounting for half the sales in the U.S. according to BCG. With small businesses looking for new ways to thrive in today's economy, accessing Gen D with online delivery is the way to go.

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Rosie Pope helps navigate exotic baby gear

NEW YORK (AP) ? Amid the purveyors of belly casts and placenta pills, sonogram art and cord banks at a recent baby gear extravaganza stood a smiling Rosie Pope, pregnancy advice guru, mommy concierge to the rich and, with any luck, the Martha Stewart of maternity.

"There's Rachael Ray for cooking and Rachel Zoe for style, but who in motherhood? That's my dream," said the affable mom of three as she signed copies of her pregnancy guide, "Mommy IQ," showed off her maternity clothing line and chatted up fans Saturday at the New York Baby Show.

Making sense of maternity and baby gear these days isn't easy, so Pope may just get her shot. More than a few moms-to-be were befuddled as they walked the crowded show floor, some with exhausted husbands in tow, at a cavernous pier just off the West Side Highway.

There's the "Tortle," for example. It's an infant hat with a soft wedge built in to battle flat head syndrome. And there's Clean Bee Baby, an eco-friendly cleaning service for strollers and car seats.

The sellers of the Woolino were there. It's a four-season wearable sleep bag for baby in Australian merino wool that promises to regulate body temperature, wick away moisture and last until age 2 in place of those dangerous things called blankets.

There were also numerous reinventions of the wearable baby carrier, bright and cheery seats and rides of all kinds, including one that looks like an actual car, and all-natural everything, from squeezable baby fruit to Kinder by Nature herbal wipes, loaded with certified organic aloe vera, tea tree and ylang ylang extracts.

A couple of doulas turned up with a pink Mini Cooper, extolling such services as "placenta encapsulation." It involves dehydrating one's placenta, turning it into a powder and putting it inside capsules for ingestion as a postpartum supplement. Which is not to be confused with a reinvention of prenatal vitamins as a powder you can sprinkle on food or mix with a liquid, or with services that will store umbilical cord blood for its stem cells soon after birth.

In addition to a little trend-spotting (highlighter orange is in and the nursery animal of the moment is the hedgehog), Pope offered her view on the explosion of gear for mom, dad and baby.

"There's so much we do not need," she said. "What we do need is a safe place for the baby to sleep. We do need a safe car seat. We do need a stroller system that the car seat can snap into. What we do need is SOME clothes. What we don't need is shoes and hair accessories and wipe warmers and bottle warmers and all of this sort of extra stuff that really is just adding complication to what you're doing rather than making your life easier."

Like gear, maternity clothes have come a long way, as have some famous expectant moms, she said.

Of the very pregnant Kim Kardashian's criticized floral Met Gala gown by Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy, Pope offers:

"I think that maybe she's a PR genius since that caused her a lot of attention, but really what I always tell my clients is stay true to your sense of style. Kim was very sensuous and her clothing was generally very tight and you could see her curves. But an upholstered turtleneck gown with matching gloves is really hard for anybody to pull off. She is a beautiful pregnant woman, though."

And the other high-profile mom-to-be, the former Kate Middleton?

"She is keeping to her sense of style, so very understated, very demure and classic and tailored. And what she's really showing, which I love, is that you don't have to just wear stretchy clothes when you're pregnant."

In addition to sellers of wearable baby carriers and a foundation looking for donations to fund kiddie yoga lessons for the underprivileged, the makers of modesty covers for nursing women were on hand at the show sponsored by New York Family magazine.

Pope said she used one called the Hooter Hider but made clear she casts no judgments on breast-feeding versus bottle feeding. She nursed her first, now 4, for about six months but said "it didn't work" for her second. When her third came along she decided as a busy working mom on a combination of pumping and formula.

"There's a lot of pressure to breast-feed and I think if you can do it, it's a wonderful thing, but it doesn't work for everybody," Pope said.

The star of Bravo's "Pregnant in Heels" reality series takes a similar approach to many maternity issues in her book, out last October with medical-related advice by one of New York City's foremost obstetrician-gynecologists, Amos Grunebaum, who was Pope's doctor as she navigated infertility treatment.

"So many of the books I find to be quite heavy and quite hard to figure out whether they're saying yes or no. It's always in the middle, the advice. I wanted to know what is right and what is wrong and then what is up to me. That's really important."

She professes zero tolerance for caffeine and alcohol during pregnancy, "but then I am much more open-minded when it comes to breast-feeding and when it comes to attachment parenting or sleeping. I really believe every family is very, very different and what's right for one person is not right for another."

In decades past, maternity advice was "this way or the highway," but so many options and so much readily available information today is a "blessing and a curse," Pope acknowledged. "If you can navigate your way through that you can really find a path that is wonderful for you."

Agnieszka Golasik of Brooklyn, an artist by way of Poland, wasn't looking to help expectant moms navigate so much as decorate. She'll turn your sonogram pregnancy image into a psychedelic portrait of your fetus through her company Your Baby to Be, at a starting price of $250.

"I was experimenting with these images for a series of small monotypes when I found out I was pregnant," Golasik said at the booth she shared with co-founder Margaret Blat. "This is a special time and new way to remember your baby."

The folks over at Cast in Time were of similar minds. They'll take a plaster cast of your naked and pregnant silhouette, from pubic bone to breasts, decorate it and frame it for hanging, at a minimum of $495.

Said the founder, who goes by Bindia: "Pregnant women are beautiful."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rosie-pope-helps-navigate-exotic-baby-gear-193829282.html

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AP IMPACT: Military sex abuse victims seek VA help

Chart displays the rise in percentage of veteran disability claims for military sexual trauma that have been approved since 2011.

Chart displays the rise in percentage of veteran disability claims for military sexual trauma that have been approved since 2011.

(AP) ? More than 85,000 veterans were treated last year for injuries or illness stemming from sexual abuse in the military, and 4,000 sought disability benefits, underscoring the staggering long-term impact of a crisis that has roiled the Pentagon and been condemned by President Barack Obama as "''shameful and disgraceful."

A Department of Veterans Affairs accounting released in response to inquiries from The Associated Press shows a heavy financial and emotional cost involving vets from Iraq, Afghanistan and even back to Vietnam, and lasting long after a victim leaves the service.

Sexual assault or repeated sexual harassment can trigger a variety of health problems, primarily post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. While women are more likely to be victims, men made up nearly 40 percent of the patients the VA treated last year for conditions connected to what it calls "military sexual trauma."

It took years for Ruth Moore of Milbridge, Maine, to begin getting treatment from a VA counseling center in 2003 ? 16 years after she was raped twice while she was stationed in Europe with the Navy. She continues to get counseling at least monthly for PTSD linked to the attacks and is also considered fully disabled.

"We can't cure me, but we can work on stability in my life and work on issues as they arrive," Moore said.

VA officials stress that any veteran who claims to have suffered military sexual trauma has access to free health care.

"It really is the case that a veteran can simply walk through the door, say they've had this experience, and we will get them hooked up with care. There's no documentation required. They don't need to have reported it at the time," said Dr. Margret Bell, a member of the VA's military sexual trauma team. "The emphasis is really on helping people get the treatment that they need."

However, the hurdles are steeper for those who seek disability compensation ? too steep for some veterans groups and lawmakers who support legislation designed to make it easier for veterans to get a monthly disability payment.

"Right now, the burden of proof is stacked against sexual trauma survivors," said Anu Bhagwati, executive director of the Service Women's Action Network. "Ninety percent of 26,000 cases last year weren't even reported. So where is that evidence supposed to come from?"

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has said reducing the incidence of sexual assaults in the military is a top priority. But it's a decades-old problem with no easy fix, as made even more apparent when an Air Force officer who headed a sexual assault prevention office was arrested on sexual battery charges.

"We will not stop until we've seen this scourge, from what is the greatest military in the world, eliminated," Obama said after summoning top Pentagon officials to the White House last week to talk about the problem. "Not only is it a crime, not only is it shameful and disgraceful, but it also is going to make and has made the military less effective than it can be."

The VA says 1 in 5 women and 1 in 100 men screen positive for military sexual trauma, which the VA defines as "any sexual activity where you are involved against your will." Some report that they were victims of rape, while others say they were groped or subjected to verbal abuse or other forms of sexual harassment.

But not all those veterans seek health care or disability benefits related to the attacks. The 85,000 who sought outpatient care linked to military sexual trauma during the latest fiscal year are among nearly 22 million veterans around the country.

The VA statistics underscore that the problems for victims of sexual abuse do not end when someone leaves the service.

Psychological issues, including PTSD, depression and anxiety, are most common, according to the agency. Victims also can develop substance abuse problems.

Some victims like Moore are so disabled that they are unable to work. Others need ongoing care at VA outpatient clinics and hospitals.

In the final six months of 2011, an average of 248 veterans per month filed for disability benefits related to sexual trauma. That rose by about a third, to 334 veterans per month in 2012, an increase the VA attributed in part to better screening for the ongoing trauma associated with sexual assault. Of those who filed in 2012, about two-thirds were women and nearly a third were men.

"We do a lot more awareness, and as we educate everyone on the potential benefits and that it's OK to come forward, I think you see an increase in reporting," said Edna MacDonald, director of the VA's regional office in Nashville.

To get disability benefits related to sexual trauma, veterans must be diagnosed with a health problem such as PTSD, submit proof that they were assaulted or sexually harassed in a threatening manner and have a VA examiner confirm a link to their health condition.

Many lawmakers and veterans groups support allowing a veteran's statement alone to serve as the proof that an assault or harassment occurred. An examiner would still have to find there's a link to the health condition diagnosed.

The VA's records indicate that veterans seeking compensation related to military sexual trauma had about a 1 in 2 chance of getting their claim approved last year, up from about 34 percent in June 2011.

The VA does not break out the cost of treating and compensating individual veterans for sexual abuse or trauma. A veterans combination of disabilities are unique to each individual, so it's not able to attribute specific spending levels for individual disabilities.

Benefits depend on the severity of the disability. For example, a veteran with a 50 percent rating and no dependents would get $810 a month. A veteran with a 100 percent rating and a spouse and child to support would get nearly $3,088 a month.

Moore estimates the government's cost for her disability benefits and treatment could well exceed $500,000 over the course of her lifetime.

It wasn't until June 2011 that the VA began recording monthly disability claims related specifically to military sexual trauma. Veterans file claims for conditions that are a result of the trauma, not for MST itself, which made it particularly difficult to track. The VA came up with a special process for doing so in 2010.

There's no time limit to filing a claim. "We have veterans who call our help line who have been assaulted way back in time. They're still suffering from the effects of World War II or Vietnam. I wish I were exaggerating," said Bhagwati, whose organization advocates for female veterans.

The VA's undersecretary for benefits, Allison Hickey, a 27-year veteran and former Air Force general, has required all workers handling disability claims to undergo sensitivity training in dealing with military sexual trauma.

Hickey also assembled a task force to review the claims process for veterans claiming sexual assault or harassment while serving in the military. The group looked at 400 claims and determined that nearly a quarter were denied before all the evidence was presented. That led to another training program on the evidence needed or establishing a PTSD claim connected to military sexual trauma. The approval rate is now much closer, though still slightly behind that for other PTSD claims.

Even though the VA's statistics indicate that a greater percentage of military sexual trauma are getting benefits, lawmakers believe more action is required.

"If half of them are being denied their claims, that's still a lot of people, said Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine.

Pingree and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., are the lead sponsors of the legislation that would allow the veteran's word to serve as sufficient proof that an assault occurred. The legislation is named after Moore, who spent years fighting for disability benefits.

The VA originally opposed Pingree's bill, saying the legislation didn't allow for the minimal evidence "needed to maintain the integrity of the claims process." But VA spokesman Josh Taylor said Thursday that there's been a change of heart and that the VA no longer opposes the legislation.

"VA supports the goals of the legislation, and will continue to work with Congress on the best approach to accomplish it," Taylor said.

An amended version of Pingree's bill passed the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs two weeks ago and could go to the full House as early as this week. The bill no longer requires the department to alter its regulations for military sexual trauma claims. Instead, the bill says that it's Congress' sense that the VA should update and improve its regulations regarding military sexual trauma. And until it does, it must meet extensive reporting requirements, which include a monthly report to all veterans who have submitted a claim that would, among other things, detail the number of claims relating to MST that were granted or denied, the three most common reasons for a denial and the average time it took to process a claim.

Supporters are hoping that the reporting requirements prove so cumbersome that the VA agrees to ease the evidentiary burden for the veterans.

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Nintendo partners with Best Buy so you can play unreleased Wii U games in store during E3 (video)

Nintendo partners with Best Buy so you can play unreleased Wii U games in store during E3

There's nothing more frustrating than watching a product or service get announced, then having to wait an age to try it out. Nintendo hears that, and has announced via Nintendo Direct, that during E3 week, Best Buy will have playable demos of as-yet released Wii U games in 100 stores across the US and Canada. Given that no one was likely expecting any new hardware from the firm, it's clear the gaming stalwart is looking for other ways to stir-up some interest. There's no mention of titles, so we're left to assume they'd be the games announced at the show. Either way, scratch out that week in June to make sure you find out first hand. Scrub right to the end of the video past the break to see the announcement for yourself.

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Shocking, deadly 'Grey's Anatomy' season finale

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Bailey and Callie face frightening situations in the dark halls of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

Shonda Rhimes recently promised "Grey's Anatomy" fans that they'd need to "hug a friend" to the weather the storm during Thursday's season finale, and the show's creator was not lying.

With a perfect storm outside and no power inside, it was one fright after another in the halls of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

Oh, baby!
First, Meredith went into labor and required a C-section -- by flashlight. But no sooner was baby Bailey born than he was whisked away to NICU with Daddy McDreamy. Just one problem: Dr. Grey was still on the table, bleeding out in the dark.

"Meredith Grey has survived a bomb, a drowning, a gunman and a plane crash -- and she's still here," Cristina reminded Derek once they learned of her condition. "She's going to die when she's like 90, old and warm in her bed. She's not going to die today."

Well, thanks to quick-acting, grown-up Bailey, Cristina was right about that last part. (Whew!)

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Meredith survived, but the love connection between Callie and Arizona? Not so much. Callie realized that Arizona was finding comfort in the arms of Lauren, and Arizona lashed out. It seems her decision to stray didn't have anything to do with arms, but it had everything to do with a leg -- or the lack of a leg.

Looks like that partnership is as dead as Owen and Cristina's. (Yeah, that happened too.)

Noooooooooooo!
There are worse deaths -- like the one that seemed to befall one beloved character.

In an effort to restore the power, Dr. Webber went down to fix the electrical situation with a simple flip of a switch. Unfortunately, electricity and the puddle Richard was standing in just didn't mix. He was last seen lying very still, eyes closed, wrapped in smoldering clothes.

Of course, no one was around to call the time of death, so there's still hope. (Right?!)

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Obama's Morehouse visit shines spotlight on HBCUs

ATLANTA (AP) ? When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he'll also be speaking to the broader community of historically black colleges and universities ? a proud corner of higher education that has struggled more than most during the last few years of economic distress.

The so-called HBCUs educate a hugely disproportionate share of low-income students, and both students and schools have been hit hard by a double punch. First, unemployment for blacks remains nearly double that of whites, making it harder for many students to keep up with tuition. Secondly, tougher credit standards have made it harder to secure a federal PLUS loan used by about one-third of HBCU students.

The result shows graduation rates have worsened at HBCUs, which were already facing scrutiny under a national push to improve outcomes in higher education, according to U.S. Education Department data analyzed by The Associated Press.

The AP found graduation rates declined at 57 of the 80 four-year HBCUs that have complete data between 2006 and 2011. While total HBCU enrollment increased about 3 percent overall, the aggregate graduation rate for HBCU students fell from 37.7 percent in 2006 to 33.7 percent in 2011, the AP found.

That means of the 47,139 students who entered HBCUs six years before, just 15,885 had completed their degree by 2011, though the figures do not include transfers or part-time students.

"Particularly after this recession, I'm looking at an African-American unemployment rate of 16 percent, that's touching my students," said Walter Kimbrough, president of Dillard University in New Orleans, who has been critical in the past of some HBCUs. He believes recent criticism of their low graduation rates is unfair.

"They all know somebody who's lost their job, and if it's somebody who's helping them pay for their schooling, we may not see them next semester," he said.

Morehouse's 2011 graduation rate, however, was 55 percent, among the very highest of HBCUs.

The HBCU rates compare to a national average of about 58 percent, and 39 percent for blacks at all four-year institutions. However, while the most selective colleges have much higher graduation rates, their enrollments are also heavily tilted toward high-income students. One recent study found two-thirds of students at the 193 most selective colleges came from the top 25 percent of income, and just 15 percent from the bottom half.

At HBCUs, by contrast, about two-thirds of students receive Pell Grants, which are almost always awarded to families earning less than $40,000. Such students are not only more likely to need to start college with remedial work ? which makes for a longer path to graduation ? but they are much more vulnerable to financial problems that could drive them from school.

Only 83 institutions nationwide have as many at 60 percent of their students receiving Pell Grants, Kimbrough said. Fifty of them are HBCUs.

"It's simple economics," Kimbrough said. "If you get rid of poor kids, your graduation rates can go up."

The struggles of students have translated into trouble for HBCUs themselves. About 40 percent have seen enrollment declines, and 20 schools saw enrollment fall more than 10 percent between 2006 and 2011, according to AP's analysis.

Financial struggles pushed Morehouse student Remy Sylvan to tap into his entrepreneurial side to finance part of his education. As the economy worsened, business suffered at his family's restaurant in Seattle, and his parents were unable to pay as much of his tuition as before, he said.

So Sylvan, who is set to graduate with a marketing degree, began doing independent software technician and coding work to make ends meet.

"It hurt the family at first because of the economic struggle, but it helped because it actually gave me the spirit to do something myself," Sylvan said. "You just got to find other intuitive ways to make ends meet. And I think that's what America overall is going through right now."

Marybeth Gasman, a leading historian of HBCUs at the University of Pennsylvania, said HBCUs typically have small endowments so they can't offer students the aid they need during tough times.

"It's been difficult but I do think that HBCUs tend to be fairly resilient," she said. "They tend to be creative about how to do things they know how to do on a small budget."

Gasman said retention rates are rising for all students, including non-traditional ones.

"You can't hold them to the same standard to institutions that are not willing to take any of those risks," she said. "There are lots of things to be optimistic about. If you look at individual HBCUs, there are a lot of people doing really good things."

Obama spoke to graduates of historically black Hampton University in 2010. One of Obama's connections to Morehouse is its current president, John Silvanus Wilson, who previously served under the president as executive director of a program designed to help HBCUs. Wilson, himself a Morehouse graduate, took the helm at the school earlier this year.

Kimbrough said funding increases in Obama's first-term had been helpful, but the most important thing was heading off cuts to the Pell Grant program. Funding rose substantially in Obama's first term but has been flat recently.

"We'd just like to see a little more forcefulness to make sure our students are protected," he said.

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Pope is AP's education writer based in Ann Arbor, Mich. Associated Press writer Phillip Lucas in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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Saturday, May 18, 2013

New Faces, New Places

Over the last several weeks, you may have noticed some changes at Gizmodo?and not just the layout. We've been sharpening our coverage of design, concepts, and the objects and ideas that are shaping our world, and growing our team to help us do it. Now it's time to meet the people who are leading that charge?starting with our new Editor in Chief, Geoff Manaugh.

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