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October 30, 2012 | News from the Chancellor

Dear members of the University community:

We are in the process of assessing the physical and academic calendar consequences of Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath on CUNY campus facilities. At the same time we are very much focused on continuing to assist the City with emergency evacuation shelters at ten CUNY colleges. This preliminary update is intended to inform you of the overall situation at this point, as we stand with all New Yorkers in working cooperatively to help our City to recover from this unprecedented natural disaster. Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer Allan Dobrin is overseeing our overall collaborations with the City?s Office of Emergency Management, appropriate State government offices, and our campuses. The University will be closed tomorrow, consistent with the City?s closing of the New York City public schools and the shutdown of the transit system. Through the ?CUNY Alert? system and the college and university websites, we are endeavoring to keep the University community?students, faculty, staff and alumni? advised of developments.

There are several CUNY campuses that are coping with significant challenges relating to the storm. Borough of Manhattan Community College suffered significant water damage at its main campus at 199 Chambers Street in lower Manhattan, including to its engineering plant, computer center, theaters. There is no power available at the current time. Thankfully, Fiterman Hall was spared. The University and the College administration are assessing the damages at our largest community college.

Kingsborough Community College in Manhattan Beach was very heavily impacted by flooding of its temporary buildings, academic center, cafeteria. As we all know, the campus is adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. Further assessments will be made as we work to help the College ?by the sea?.

Hunter College?s Brookdale campus, on East 25th Street and First Avenue, home of many of the College?s allied health programs, faced extensive water damage, including to its physical therapy facilities. The main Hunter campus at 68th Street and Park Avenue was unaffected by water damage.

Queens College?s roof was damaged by wind. We have received a number of reports of fallen trees on other campuses. Several campuses experienced power shortages and relied on emergency generators. We are working with campuses on a case-by-case basis on power shortage issues.

As of last night, CUNY was serving 1741 clients in need of temporary housing at ten CUNY colleges: Baruch College, City College; Hunter College; Queens College, Queensborough Community College, York College; Lehman College, Bronx Community College; New York City College of Technology; and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. We are also in the process of working with the City to provide shelter?primarily in our gyms and cafeterias?to additional ?special needs? clients from the City?s health care and nursing home facilities. All of these efforts are being supervised by senior administrators at CUNY campuses.

In summary, we will continue to assess the damage, work with the City to assist people in need of temporary shelter, and seek to re-open the University when we can do so safely and securely. Thank you for your cooperation and support.

Chancellor
Matthew Goldstein

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New York reels from hurricane Sandy: 'Unprecedented ... is what we got.'

A day after hurricane Sandy threw damaging winds and a historic storm surge at New York, the city girded for a long recovery from widespread power outages and a flooded subway.

By Ron Scherer,?Staff writer / October 30, 2012

Cars are submerged at the entrance to a parking garage in New York's Financial District in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Tuesday.

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As much as it has captivated the nation, the crane left dangling high over Manhattan?s 57th Street by hurricane Sandy?s destructive winds likely is the least of the city?s problems.

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A day after Sandy battered the region with powerful winds and a historic storm surge, New York faces the challenges of getting its flooded mass transit system, which carries about 7 million passengers each day, back up and running and restoring electricity to the significant portion of the city left in the dark.

Officials are also still assessing the damage done to La Guardia Airport, which suffered extensive damage from waves breaking over its runway.

?We expected an unprecedented storm and that is what we got,? said Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a press conference Tuesday morning. ?The damage is extensive and will not be repaired overnight.?

As of Tuesday morning, Mr. Bloomberg said 750,000 New York City residents were without electricity. To prevent damage to its steam system, which provides heat and hot water to many buildings, Con Edison shut that system down in advance. That, too, needed to be restarted.

?Power may be out in some places for two or three days or maybe longer,? said Bloomberg.

The mayor might be overly optimistic. Con Edison uses the subway tunnels for many of its cables and some of those tunnels are now filled with salt water. The worst damage was in lower Manhattan, where as a result of the storm surge the Hudson River topped its banks on one side of the island and the East River on the other.

?When you fill a subway tunnel loaded with electrical cables with salt water, that is a bad combination,? Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a press briefing.

The water filling the tunnels also meant that the subways might be out for some time. Officials said some stations had water all the way to their ceilings.

?This is the most devastating thing we?ve ever had happen,? said Joseph Lhota, the chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority at a press briefing.

One indication of the challenges facing the MTA: a 40-foot power boat was washed across the railroad tracks that bring commuters into New York.

In fact through Tuesday, Amtrak, which connects with Boston and Washington, still had no train service in or out of New York City.

The only bright spot for mass transit was the bus system. The city?s buses were moved to high ground before the height of the storm and did not suffer any losses. Limited bus service was expected to resume Tuesday evening with full service on Wednesday.

The city?s subway cars were also moved in advance to secure locations, so once the tunnels are safe for passengers, service can begin again.

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Undertaker artifacts from the WWE vault

There is an unmarked building somewhere along the eastern seaboard that contains more pieces of WWE history than a dozen WrestleMania highlight reels. It is the WWE vault and inside the sprawling, cavernous building sits crates teeming with championship titles, wardrobes filled with unmistakable ring gear and even a Punjabi prison.

The warehouse is a wonderland for any sports-entertainment fan, but it?s harder to get into than Yale. Luckily, WWE Classics has a friend on the inside. WWE?s?resident archivist Benjamin Brown used his security clearances to grant us access to WWE?s best kept secret and then offered us a guided tour through wrestling history.

This month, we looked at caskets, urns and even a certain symbol used by The Undertaker during his two decades of destruction in WWE. Join us on our journey to the dark side. Just don?t touch anything. (PHOTOS)

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Restaurant Review Round-Up: Villa Farotto - Chesterfield, MO Patch

Just like last week's pancakes, Italian food is another fiercely debated dining genre in the greater St. Louis area. It's hard to go wrong with a plate full of pasta and a glass of red wine, so the restaurant review round-up is saying buonasera to Villa Farotto.?

The location is the sister store to the well-known Farotto's and specializes in Tusan-inspired cuisine with signature pastas, chicken dishes, seafood, steaks and chops, and pizza. The restaurant's layout allows for different dining "themes" as well, from full-scale dining to a casual cafe visit.?

(Connect with your community by?signing up for Chesterfield Patch's free daily newsletter,?liking us on Facebook?or contributing your ownevent,?announcement?or?blog.)

Chesterfield Patch?did a round-up of reviews to get a flavor of what people are saying about the Villa Farotto.?Add a review of your own right here on Patch, or put your opinions in the comments in the section below. ??

From Patch:

Ann gave it 5/5 stars and said: "I had a 70th birthday party for my mother at VF. great service, great staff, great food, great atmosphere. It was perfect!"

Kirk Rehkop gave it 2/5 stars and said: "I made 12:30 Mother?s Day reservations approximately 4 ? 6 weeks ago for my fianc?e and mother; neither had been before. My first surprise/disappointment was that brunch was the only thing being served .... My family and I were also not satisfied with the service received, sloppy attire, etc. The food selection, in regard to the variety, was not at all sufficient based on price and lacked quality.?

"The overall experience was something less than subpar and what I thought was going to be a very nice occasion turned out to be something entirely different."

From Yelp:?

Natalie M. gave it 3/5 stars and said:?"The food here is lovely. Really delicate. Even though this restaurant is out in the valley in chain-restaurant hell, they actually serve rational portions and thoughtful food. Their seafood is fresh, and the pasta dishes I've had have always been cooked nicely al dente, not mushy and over-boiled. Their risotto is creamy but not heavy. They seem to have a good handle on serving *nice* Italian food.

"The thing that knocked off the stars, though, was the service. The wait staff are all very nice, and very attentive, but whoever decides how many servers they need per shift is way optimistic. I felt bad for our poor waiter who had so much to handle, he at one point took off sprinting to the back."

Andrew R. gave it 3/5 stars and said: "Positives: ?Great service- best waiter (knowledge food, wine and personality) we have had in a while, 12 oz fillet was cooked perfectly and might have weighed 16oz. ?Mussels app looked great though I did not try it. ?They just don't sit right with me anymore. ?Sea Bass was cooked perfectly, juicy with a hint of lemon.?

"Negatives: ?Calamari was average, ambiance was definitely lacking, second night at a fine dining restaurant in West County that had a band in the bar, prices (place is good for West County, but I don't know if it could really hold up in the city)."

Source: http://chesterfield.patch.com/articles/restaurant-review-round-up-villa-farotto

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Microsoft brings guest user account to Windows Phone 8 via Kids Corner

Ever dreamed of having more than one user account on your smartphone? Microsoft's making that a reality with Kids Corner for Windows Phone 8. If you're not a parent, don't let the name deceive you: this particular feature is great for both the tiny tots and all of your grown-up friends, as it allows you to choose which apps, games, music and videos show up when the device is in that particular mode. It's a feature that has strangely eluded the other major platforms, and it absolutely gives WP8 an edge for those concerned about youngsters (and potentially even colleagues) getting into trouble with your phone.

For more, check out our Windows Phone 8 event liveblog!

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The Jusuru Blog: Give the Gift of Encouragement

Give the Gift of Encouragement

By Todd Smith

Did you know you have the power to make our world a better place? ?Who? Me? Impossible!? I hear you saying. But it?s true.

In this world of turmoil and strife, with chaos everywhere across our nation and around the globe, there has never been a greater hunger for simple words of encouragement. Excessive stress, lack of control, financial pressure, uncertainty about tomorrow?these are all taking their toll on people?s emotions, health, and morale.


However, there is hope. There is one indispensable ingredient that can transform and inspire individuals, improve life, grow a positive attitude, build self-esteem, and enhance relationships. That ingredient is encouragement.

Albert Schweitzer said, ?Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being.? There are two ways to rekindle that flame, to give the gift of encouragement?by your words and by your actions.

By Your Words?

Your heartfelt and positive words can make a difference in a person?s life, which could lead to a change in the community, nation, and world. Mother Teresa said, ?Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.??

Here are some positive ways to encourage people with your words.

1. Offer praise for ordinary accomplishments. Look for the little things that most people take for granted. Make it personal. Look the other person in the eye, pause, and share your words with real meaning.

2. Show appreciation. Watch for the slightest improvement in someone. Be specific. Avoid clich?s like, ?You?re doing a great job.? Instead tell the person exactly what it is that you appreciate about him or her. Is it their timeliness, work ethic, the way they treat customers or the way they ran the meeting? Perhaps it?s someone?s weight loss, efficiency, or tidiness.

3. Let someone know you are praying for them. I have yet to hear anyone turn down a prayer when needed.

4. Offer words of cheer for someone depressed, discouraged, or overwhelmed. A timely encouraging word can give a person that is ready to quit the fuel to keep going.
5. Honor the person who has reached a milestone. Don?t hide it. If appropriate, express your appreciation publicly.

6. Compliment someone when they aren?t expecting it. Look for something that other people may have overlooked. Tell them what it is and why you think it was worthy of notice.

7. Always say please and thank you. Always means every time, even if it?s their normal responsibility, such as cooking a meal, typing your report, or cutting the lawn.
Remember that kind words cost you nothing, but can accomplish much. King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, wrote, ?A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.?

By Your Actions

1. Take time out to listen. How many times has someone said, ?I feel better? after talking to you about something, when all you did was listen?

2. Send a card, email, or text telling people you appreciate them. Intentionally written words can be a powerful source of encouragement.

3. Physically help someone in need. It could be shoveling the snow for an elderly couple down the street or helping a co-worker who is running behind.

4. Be kind and considerate. It could be as simple as a smile, opening the door for someone, or acknowledging your co-workers.

Your supportive actions and words of encouragement don?t just enhance the lives of others; they enrich your life as well. The simple act of showing you care strengthens your relationships, builds trust, and increases your influence.

Are you willing to put forth the effort to recognize, appreciate, and encourage others? This may be hard for some of you who desperately need it in your own lives. It?s not easy dishing out encouragement when you are starving for it yourself, but it may be just the thing you need. We should remember the words of George Adams: ?There are high spots in all of our lives, and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.?

Let me urge you to answer these three questions?

1. Being honest with myself, on a scale of 1-10, how encouraging am I?
2. How can I become more supportive (in word or deed) of others?
3. What changes am I willing to make to become an encourager?

Your gift of encouragement has the power to change lives!

For more information about Todd Smith visit www.littlethingsmatter.com

Source: http://thejusurublog.blogspot.com/2012/10/give-gift-of-encouragement.html

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Nokia Lumia 920 ships first to Rogers, makes Canadians the world's vanguards for $100

What, did you think Americans or Europeans would get the first crack at the Lumia 920? Continuing a recent pattern of Canadians getting devices first, Rogers has confirmed that some of its stores will have Nokia's flagship Windows Phone 8 hardware in stock on October 30th -- that's almost immediately, folks. If you call and find you're near one of the choice few shops carrying the 920, it will cost you either $100 Canadian on a lengthy 3-year contract or $550 outright to walk away with Microsoft's poster child. Nearly the only drawbacks to being a pioneer are the black-only color choice (sorry, still no patriotic red) and Rogers' current lock on the initial launch, although Microsoft's own mention of the Lumia coming to Rogers "and others" gives us hope that Bell and Telus will follow soon. It's a small price to pay for making even the Finns slightly jealous.

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Build a Wooden Cage to Corral Stuffed Animals

Does your kid have too many stuffed animals and most of them are usually in the way? Build a fun zoo cage to confine the animals in one place to restore your floor space and perhaps your sanity.

Belgian crafting weblog Veetje doesn't give plans for building the zoo cage, but it seems to be a pretty easy project to figure out?build the basic box frame with 2x4 and/or 1x4 lumber and drilling holes in the middle support frame to fit wooden dowels as the bars of the cell.

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Windows Phone 8 review

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Two years ago, the mobile landscape was quite different than what it is today. Android flagship phones sported 1GHz single-core CPUs and were in the process of upgrading to Froyo, the iPhone 4 was the Apple phone of choice and the word "phablet" was sure to be followed by a "Gesundheit." (It still is, arguably.) This is just a brief glimpse at the world in which Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 was born. Destined to be the replacement solution for an obsolete Windows Mobile 6.x platform, WP7 did its best to disrupt the industry by offering its unique Metro user interface and slick performance across the board.

There was one growing problem, however; the mobile industry was rapidly changing, and the Windows Phone honeymoon didn't last as long as Microsoft would've liked. Today, the company enjoys less than 5 percent of the world's smartphone market share as it prepares to launch its next major revision, Windows Phone 8. The new firmware promises to resolve concerns surrounding hardware limitations and the platform's ecosystem, add a plethora of long-awaited features and integrate the OS with Windows 8. It's a hefty task for Microsoft to undertake, to say the least, but we're hoping that two revolutions around the sun were enough for the software giant to impress us with its struggling mobile platform. Did it pull it off? Take a look at what makes Windows Phone 8 tick after the break.

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Yeast model offers clues to possible drug targets for Lou Gehrig's disease, study shows

ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2012) ? Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called Lou Gehrig's disease, is a devastatingly cruel neurodegenerative disorder that robs sufferers of the ability to move, speak and, finally, breathe. Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and San Francisco's Gladstone Institutes have used baker's yeast -- a tiny, one-celled organism -- to identify a chink in the armor of the currently incurable disease that may eventually lead to new therapies for human patients.

"Even though yeast and humans are separated by a billion years of evolution, we were able to use the power of yeast genetics to identify an unexpected potential drug target for ALS," said Aaron Gitler, PhD, an associate professor of genetics at Stanford. "Many neurodegenerative disorders such as ALS, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's exhibit protein clumping or misfolding within the neurons that is thought to either cause or contribute to the conditions. We are trying to figure out why these proteins aggregate in neurons in the brain and spinal cord, and what happens when they do."

In 2008, Gitler received a New Innovator award from the National Institutes of Health to use yeast as a model for understanding human neurodegenerative diseases and as a way to identify new targets for drug development.

Gitler is the co-senior author of the research, published online Oct. 28 in Nature Genetics. Robert Farese, Jr., MD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes, is the other co-senior author. Stanford graduate student Maria Armakola shares co-first authorship with Matthew Higgins, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar at Gladstone.

Most cases of ALS have no clear-cut cause. However, it has recently been shown that an RNA-binding protein called TDP-43 accumulates in clumps in the cytoplasm of spinal cord neurons in many people with the condition, and mutations in this protein have been found in some people with the ALS. Researchers like Gitler and Farese have been able to mimic the disease in yeast by expressing TDP-43 at higher-than-normal levels, which causes the protein to form lethal clumps in the cells' cytoplasm.

"In humans, the progression of the disease can take years before symptoms arise," said Gitler. "But in yeast, we see protein clumping in the cytoplasm within two days and the cells rapidly begin to die." With their model system in place, Gitler and Farese set out to see whether it was possible to protect yeast cells from this effect by tinkering with the function of other proteins in the cell.

In this study, the researchers discovered that blocking the production of a protein called Dbr1 in a yeast model stops the TDP-43 clumping and allows the cells to live normally. The researchers confirmed the results in human nerve cells grown in the laboratory and in rat neurons overexpressing TDP-43.

"In this study we made no assumptions as to how TDP-43 injures cells," said Farese, "but instead screened the whole yeast genome to find genes that might prevent the toxicity. Independently, both our lab and the Gitler lab found that loss of Dbr1, an enzyme involved in RNA processing, could do this."

Dbr1 serves as part of the cellular clean-up crew that mops up the bits of unwanted RNA generated as part of the protein production line. In our DNA, most genes consist of coding regions, called exons, broken up into several segments by non-coding regions, called introns. Cells can make many different, related proteins from the same stretch of DNA by mixing and matching different exons in a process called splicing.

When the DNA is first copied, or transcribed, into RNA, the introns as well as the exons are included. But the cell quickly splices out the introns, which are released into the cytoplasm as little loops, or lariats. Dbr1, in turn, clips the loops to open them and make them accessible to the cell's disposal system.

Blocking the production of Dbr1 causes the RNA lariats to build up in the cytoplasm. The researchers showed -- by creating lariats with a binding site for a fluorescent tracking protein -- that the mutant TDP-43 binds to these excess lariats rather than clumping. The effect is like using a paper towel to mop up a spill on your computer keyboard: binding to the lariats appears to keep TDP-43 from causing havoc elsewhere.

"Normally, TDP-43 is found in the nucleus," said first author Armakola. "But in the diseased cells, it aggregates in the cytoplasm and forms clumps. We developed a novel way to track where these lariats go in living cells, and we saw that when Dbr1 is missing, the lariats act as a sink to sequester TDP-43."

The researchers note that it's still not entirely clear whether the cells die because the mutant TDP-43 is drawing essential RNA transcripts or regulatory molecules away from the nucleus and into the cytoplasm, or because it's not performing its normal RNA-binding function in the nucleus. Both could contribute to the progression of the disease.

The results in the yeast, rodent and human cells, however, suggest that therapeutic approaches aimed at blocking Dbr1 function, or even creating artificial lariat-like formations to draw away the mutant molecule, should be explored.

"Next, we'd like to explore blocking Dbr1 function in animals such as flies, worms and rodents," said Armakola. "We're also interested in identifying small molecule inhibitors of Dbr1."

Other Stanford co-authors include graduate student Matthew Figley. The research was supported by the NIH, the Ellison Medical Foundation, the Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins, the Consortium for Frontotemporal Research, the ALS Association, the Taube-Koret Center, the Hellman Family Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Rita Allen Foundation, the Searle Scholars Program, the Keck Foundation and the National Center for Research Resources.

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Syrian jihadist spillover haunts Jordan

AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's announcement that it has foiled an al Qaeda plot to bomb the capital highlights the threat to Washington's ally from Islamist fighters hardened by conflict in neighboring Syria, and the danger of Damascus trying to export its crisis.

The kingdom is no stranger to turmoil. For decades it has navigated the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on its western border and more recently bloodshed in Iraq to the east, which spilled over to Jordan with hotel bombings in Amman seven years ago.

But the Syrian civil war could pose the gravest threat yet to Jordan's pro-Western King Abdullah, whether or not rebel fighters succeed in toppling President Bashar al-Assad after 42 years of Assad family rule.

The overthrow of Assad by Sunni Muslim rebels could embolden hardline Sunni Islamists in Jordan, while a weakened but still fighting Assad may try to deflect pressure by spreading the conflict to his neighbors, Jordanian politicians say.

Mahmoud Kharabsheh, a prominent politician with an intelligence background, says Syria's role in letting al Qaeda fighters head to Iraq after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion has reinforced fears that Damascus could try the same in Jordan.

"The Syrian regime will not leave a stone unturned to destabilize the kingdom. The Syrian regime is determined to export its crisis to neighboring countries to ... destabilize our security," said Kharabsheh, a member of the outgoing Jordanian parliament.

At the height of the bloodshed in Iraq, Damascus emptied its prisons of many radical Islamists and let them cross the border to fight the Western forces. This allowed Assad's secular government to get rid of domestic Islamist opponents, at least temporarily, and indirectly pin down forces of its U.S. enemies.

Those radicals have returned home to fight Assad, and have been joined by fellow Islamists from Jordan.

Kharabsheh said the Syrian government might again try to use its ideological opposite, al Qaeda, as it struggles for survival. "They are two imminent dangers and their interests could easily coincide to destabilize Jordan," he said.

Scores of Syrians had been arrested in recent months after gathering information and acting as agents provocateurs in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp, which houses tens of thousands of Syrians who have fled their country, he added.

Then on October 21, Jordan state TV said intelligence services had foiled the plot by an al Qaeda-linked cell to bomb shopping centers and assassinate Western diplomats in Amman, using weapons and explosives smuggled from Syria.

Although some expressed skepticism about the threat posed by 11 al Qaeda suspects who were arrested - including teenagers and young students - there is little dispute that the Syrian conflict has galvanized Jordan's jihadists.

HISTORY OF ENMITY

Despite urging Assad to step down, Jordan has tried to accommodate the Syrian authorities, fearing any overt intervention would revive tensions with Damascus. That hostility reached a peak in 1981 when Syria was accused of being behind a failed assassination attempt on Jordan's prime minister and Amman harbored the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.

Since the latest conflict broke out, Jordan has shown restraint in dealing with Syrian gun and mortar fire across its borders, with Amman trying to insulate itself from the military fallout, according to diplomats and politicians.

This contrasts with Turkey, whose forces have repeatedly fired on Syria since five of its civilians were killed early this month by shells and mortars from across the border.

But the combination of turmoil across Jordan's northern border and growing demands for reform inside the Hashemite monarchy, inspired by uprisings across the Arab world, have left Amman particularly vulnerable.

One Western government official visiting the region last week compared Amman with Beirut, where a car bomb killed a prominent anti-Assad intelligence chief earlier this month and plunged the Lebanese into political crisis.

"I worry more about Jordan than Lebanon," he said. "Lebanon has been through this before and has the coping mechanisms."

ISLAMIST SLEEPER CELLS?

Jordanian analysts say Islamist groups are gaining ground among Syrian rebels, creating a new generation of battle- hardened jihadists like the "Arab Afghans" mujahideen who went to Afghanistan to fight Soviet troops in the 1980s and returned home to wage jihad against their pro-U.S. governments.

Political analyst Sami Zubaidi said jihadists who believe in waging holy war were sheltering among ultra-orthodox Salafi Islamists who support non-violent action. "There are sleeper cells in the jihadist Salafi groups in Jordan which did not find an arena inside Jordan and went to Syria," he said.

"A lot of these jihadists go to Syria and get armed and develop their skills as though it was a training course before they return to Jordan armed to hit Jordanian targets," he added.

Growing deprivation in impoverished areas such as the Jordanian city of Zarqa creates recruiting grounds for jihadists heading to Syria. Zarqa is the hometown of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, once head of al Qaeda in Iraq who is blamed for the 2005 Amman hotel bombings which killed more than 50 people.

Only this month, two Jordanian Salafists were killed in Syria's southern city of Deraa, just across the Jordanian border, while battling Syrian troops. They were among at least 250 jihadists who are estimated to have crossed into Syria.

The longer that conflict in Syria continues, the more fighters may be drawn to the battlefield.

But for many in Jordan's security establishment, the biggest threat comes from the mayhem that would result from the toppling of the Assad regime.

"This is what scares me; if the regime falls in Syria and radical Islamist groups become influential there, it will be easier for these extremist groups to work here in Jordan and destabilize the country," said Hazem al-Awran, a former parliamentarian.

(Editing by Dominic Evans and David Stamp)

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Sen. Rubio's daughter in a golf cart accident

By NBC's Garrett Haake

LAKEWOOD CREST, Fla. -- Senator Marco Rubio's 12-year-old daughter was in fair condition Saturday night after being injured in an accident involving a golf cart in the Miami area.

The Republican senator's?daughter, Amanda, was airlifted to Miami Children's Hospital with a head injury, according to?Alex Conant, Rubio's spokesman.

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"While visiting with classmates, she was a passenger on a golf cart involved in a collision in a private gated community," said Conant in a statement. "She has been admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. She is in fair condition.? Senator and Mrs. Rubio are grateful for all the outpouring of support and prayers."

Rubio was notified of the accident after coming offstage at a rally for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Kissimmee, Fla., Conant said.

Rubio returned to the Romney campaign bus following the rally, which continued along Interstate?4 for about an hour before pulling over near an airport, where Rubio disembarked and climbed into a waiting police cruiser.

Onboard the bus, Romney offered his thoughts and prayers to Rubio "like any nervous father would," according to Romney spokesman Rick Gorka.?

Conant said the senator then flew back to Miami to be with his family.

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Solving stem cell mysteries

ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2012) ? The ability of embryonic stem cells to differentiate into different types of cells with different functions is regulated and maintained by a complex series of chemical interactions, which are not well understood. Learning more about this process could prove useful for stem cell-based therapies down the road. New research from a team led by Carnegie's Yixian Zheng zeroes in on the process by which stem cells maintain their proper undifferentiated state.

Their results are published in Cell October 26.

Embryonic stem cells go through a process called self-renewal, wherein they undergo multiple cycles of division while not differentiating into any other type of cells. This process is dependent on three protein networks, which guide both self-renewal and eventual differentiation. But the integration of these three networks has remained a mystery.

Using a combination of genetic, protein-oriented and physiological approaches involving mouse embryonic stem cells, the team -- which also included current and former Carnegie scientists Junling Jia, Xiaobin Zheng, Junqi Zhang, Anying Zhang, and Hao Jiang -- uncovered a mechanism that integrates all three networks involved in embryonic stem cell self-renewal and provide a critical missing link to understanding this process.

The key is a protein called Utf1. It serves three important roles. First, it balances between activating and deactivating the necessary genes to direct the cell toward differentiation. At the same time, it acts on messenger RNA that is the transcription product of the genes when they're activated by tagging it for degradation, rather than allowing it to continue to serve its cellular function. Lastly, it blocks a genetic feedback loop that normally inhibits cellular proliferation, allowing it to occur in the rapid nature characteristic of embryonic stem cells.

"We are slowly but surely growing to understand the physiology of embryonic stem cells," Zheng said. "It is crucial that we continue to carrying out basic research on how these cells function." Non-Carnegie co-authors on the paper include Gangquing Hu, Kairong Cui, Chengyu Liu and Keji Zhao of the National Institutes of Health; and John Yates III and Bingwen Lu of the Scripps Research Institute, the latter of whom is now at Pfizer.

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1. Junling Jia, Xiaobin Zheng, Gangqing Hu, Kairong Cui, Junqi Zhang, Anying Zhang, Hao Jiang, Bingwen Lu, John Yates, Chengyu Liu, Keji Zhao, Yixian Zheng. Regulation of Pluripotency and Self- Renewal of ESCs through Epigenetic- Threshold Modulation and mRNA Pruning. Cell, 2012; 151 (3): 576 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.09.023

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Amazon posts 3Q results below expectations

NEW YORK (AP) ? Amazon's stock is falling after the world's largest online retailer reported third-quarter results below Wall Street's expectations.

Amazon.com Inc. posted a loss of $274 million, or 60 cents per share, in the July-September period. That's down from earnings of $63 million, or 14 cents per share, a year earlier.

The latest quarter's results include a charge of 37 cents per share related to Amazon's stake in online deals site LivingSocial. Without this charge, it still would have lost 23 cents per share, worse than what analysts are expecting.

Revenue grew 27 percent to $13.81 billion, from $10.88 billion, falling short of analysts' expectations.

Analysts surveyed by FactSet, on average, were expecting a loss of 7 cents per share on revenue of $13.91 billion.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/amazon-posts-3q-results-below-expectations-202153032--finance.html

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High-pressure science gets super-sized

ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2012) ? The study of materials at extreme conditions took a giant leap forward with the discovery of a way to generate super high pressures without using shock waves whose accompanying heat turns solids to liquid.

This discovery will allow scientists for the first time to reach static pressure levels exceeding four million atmospheres, a high-pressure environment where new unique compounds could be formed, materials change their chemical and physical properties and metals become insulators. An international team of scientists using a new high-pressure anvil design and technique in conjunction with high-energy X-rays was able to create 640 gigapascals, or GPas, of pressure. This is 50 percent more pressure than previously demonstrated and 150 percent more pressure than accessible by typical high-pressure experiments.

Pressures at this level have vast ramifications for earth science, cosmology, chemistry, shock physics and material science. Static pressure of 640 GPa is six million times the pressure of the air at Earth's surface and more than one and a half times the pressure at the center of Earth. Research at these pressures could lead to new revelations about how Earth evolved and how iron, the most abundant material inside Earth's core, functions at extremes.

This new super-high-pressure capability was developed by scientists from the University of Bayreuth in Germany, the University of Chicago and the University of Antwerp in Belgium. The physical properties of tiny materials (less than one micron thick) were investigated in situ at ultra-high pressures with high-resolution micro X-ray diffraction techniques at the GeoSoilEnviro Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources, or GSECARS, a beamline operated by the University of Chicago at the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. Details appear October 23 in the journal Nature Communications.

"The ability to do static experiments at this pressure range has only been theorized about," said Vitali Prakapenka, an author on the paper and scientist at the Center for Advanced Radiation Sources at the University of Chicago. "We aren't stopping here. We expect to increase the accessible pressure range close to one terapascal, or 10 megabars, to probe materials at conditions corresponding to the core of gas giant planets, such as Uranus and Neptune, which have pressures of about seven megabars."

Previous studies have been limited because the only way to reach such high pressures was to use dynamic compression (shockwaves), which also generate high temperatures and only nanoseconds of observation time. The discovery of a way to apply static pressures allows experimental studies of physical and chemical properties of materials in situ at high pressures with a number of various techniques to test long-held theories, including metallization of hydrogen.

"This new technique could revolutionize the study of high-pressure science," said Leonid Dubrovinsky, one of the paper's authors and a scientist at the University of Bayreuth.

Since the late 1950s, scientists have been using diamond anvil cells to generate extreme pressures to test the durability of materials, to create new properties of materials, such as superconductivity, and to replicate high-pressure conditions of planetary interiors. Yet, until now, scientists have struggled to reach pressures of Earth's inner core, which is 320 to 360 GPa. Only a handful of experiments have been reported at these pressures, and the maximum achieved pressure had been about 420 GPa.

Scientists were able to triple the normal experiment pressure level by adding a second set of micro-anvils (10-20 microns in diameter) between two gem-quality single-crystal diamond anvils of about one-quarter of a carat each. This secondary anvil is made of superhard nanocrystalline diamond semi-balls fabricated from glassy carbon using newly developed technique in a large volume press at high pressure and temperature.

"The nanocrystalline diamond balls have very high yield strength and are less compressible and less brittle than single-crystal diamonds," said Natalia Dubrovinskaia, one of the paper's authors and a scientist at the University of Bayreuth. "That allows us to drastically extend the achievable pressure range using micro-balls as second stage anvils."

The GSECARS beamline is available for use through the general user proposal process at the APS.

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1. Leonid Dubrovinsky, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Vitali B Prakapenka, Artem M Abakumov. Implementation of micro-ball nanodiamond anvils for high-pressure studies above 6?Mbar. Nature Communications, 2012; 3: 1163 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2160

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