Friday, December 30, 2011

Kucinich opposing veteran Democrat in Ohio primary (AP)

TOLEDO, Ohio ? Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich (koo-SIH'-nich) says he's sticking with his plan to run against fellow Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur in a U.S. House primary contest that will pit two veteran lawmakers against each other.

Kucinich had spent the last few weeks mulling whether to run against Kaptur or seek another seat in Cleveland after the Ohio Legislature approved a new congressional district map.

The new map gave Kaptur a bigger chunk of her current district in the Toledo area, leading to speculation that Kucinich might run against Rep. Marcia Fudge instead.

Kucinich said Wednesday that he will he file to run against Kaptur in a district that hugs the Lake Erie shoreline from Cleveland to Toledo.

The winner of the March primary will be heavily favored to win the seat.

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Paris to launch electric car sharing program (AP)

PARIS ? Paris, in its latest bid to be an innovator of the City of Tomorrow, is launching an electric car-sharing program to cut air and noise pollution on the city's medieval cobblestone streets and beyond.

Autolib', a project built on the success of the city's bike-rental scheme, makes its debut Monday and officials want the self-service e-cars to be as much a part of Paris life as the Eiffel Tower or Notre Dame Cathedral.

While many world cities have been developing greener alternatives to carbon-emitting vehicles, Paris says its program is the biggest of its kind: 250 vehicles hit the road on Monday, 2,000 are expected by next summer and 3,000 are planned within the next two years.

The four-seat compact Bluecar ? even though it's really gray ? is a collaboration of Italian car designer Pininfarina and French conglomerate Groupe Bollore, which hopes to showcase its Lithium Metal Polymer battery that powers the car.

Prospective users will need a valid ID, driver's license and credit card before signing up online or by a videoconference with an customer service representative at one of 40 special glassed-in shelters in Paris and dozens of suburban towns also taking part.

Standard subscriptions cost euro10 ($13.5) a day, euro15 ($20) a week, and euro144 ($195) a year. Beyond that, the hourly fees run from euro4 to euro9 based on the rental plan ? and users' cards can be charged in case of damage to the vehicles.

To get going, users swipe a magnetized card against a driver's-side window to open the door, and a key tethered to the steering column starts the car. It comes with bells and whistles, literally ? a button on the steering column lever produces a repetitive beep to alert Paris' many pedestrians that the silent car is on its way.

"The city's first interest is fighting air pollution, these cars not only don't emit carbon dioxide but localized exhaust fumes either ? and they don't make noise: (Studies show) the No. 1 nuisance in the city is noise," said Sylvain Marty, who heads the multi-city Autolib' partnership led by Paris and private-sector affiliates.

Autolib' also tackles what automotive analysts have long said is a big hurdle for the development of electric cars: a lack of infrastructure ? not enough charging stations. For euro180 a year, owners of electric cars can use the spots to juice up their own vehicles at the Autolib' charging stations.

For the last six months, crews with jackhammers have been outfitting sidewalks with some of the 1,200 charging stations and marking off parking spaces that will be reserved exclusively for Autolib' users.

Those promoting the vehicle say it can run for 250 kilometers (150 miles) on a single charge.

"I personally tried driving it more than four hours, in traffic, with the heat on full blast and I wasn't able to get it below 70 percent charge," said Marty. "For city use, that's more than enough."

Some 2,000 people have already registered for Autolib' accounts, and curious city officials from places like Guangzhou, China, or Rio de Janeiro have traveled to Paris to check it out, Marty said.

As is often France's wont, detractors and skeptics abound.

The country's main Green party movement says the electric cars will drain more energy from France's nuclear plants, which they oppose; will require battery disposal; and will ultimately encourage people to drive more.

City officials insist there's little risk to taxpayers, because the private sector companies have signed a 12-year commitment.

Groupe Bollore, which is headed by a friend of conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy, says at least 80,000 subscriber are needed for the program to be profitable ? not expected for seven years, officials say.

"We're banking on word of mouth from people who try it, like it, and tell themselves 'I've got to sign up!'" Marty said.

Other cities have similar projects, but much smaller in scale.

Berlin launched a pilot program last spring that combines a network of 40 electric cars and bicycles with the city's existing public transport system. Those cars, owned by German railway operator Deutsche Bahn, are part of a fleet of 65 electric vehicles also in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Saarbruecken.

Switzerland's biggest car-sharing organization, Mobility, has started offering electric cars at some of its hundreds of pickup points across the country.

Promoters know Autolib' is no panacea: Even at 3,000 vehicles, it won't be big enough to replace personal vehicles or public transport as the principal way of getting around a metro area of roughly 12 million people.

"Autolib' is all about complementing other means of transport ? this isn't about competing with public transportation or" the bike sharing program, said Marty.

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Amanda Knox hires attorney for possible book deal (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Amanda Knox, who was cleared of murder and freed from prison by an Italian court in October, has hired a prominent Washington, D.C.-based lawyer as she considers possible book deals, her spokesman said on Monday.

Knox, 24, has retained attorney Robert Barnett "to represent her in discussions with various book publishers who have expressed an interest in Amanda writing a book," spokesman David Marriott said.

"Mr. Barnett will also assist Amanda and her family in evaluating other opportunities as well," Marriott said in a statement.

Marriott did not elaborate on those additional opportunities but said few details of a potential book had been yet decided by Knox and her family, including an advance or the possibility of co-authors.

Barnett has previously represented President Barack Obama, former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, singer Barbra Streisand and a host of other political and entertainment luminaries in book deals.

The announcement comes a day after a Seattle-based literary agent announced that she had agreed to represent Knox's 27-year-old former Italian boyfriend and co-defendant in the sensational murder case, Raffaele Sollecito.

"This is a case I have followed from day one and never, not even for one moment, have I doubted the innocence of Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox," agent Sharlene Martin said in a statement announcing that deal.

Knox, then a college student studying in Italy, and Sollecito were convicted in 2009 of murdering her 21-year-old British housemate, Meredith Kercher in what prosecutors said was a drug-fueled sexual assault.

An Italian appeals court overturned their convictions in October after independent forensic investigators sharply criticized police scientific evidence in the original investigation, saying it was unreliable.

Knox made a tearful return to her hometown of Seattle last month, saying she was "overwhelmed" by her ordeal and return.

Her father said at the time that the former University of Washington student, whose trial gripped attention on both sides of the Atlantic, had not agreed to any media deals

(Editing by Cynthia Johnston)

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Newton sets rushing QB TD mark in 38-19 win

Josh Freeman

By FRED GOODALL

updated 6:25 p.m. ET Dec. 4, 2011

TAMPA, Fla. - Cam Newton insists his success isn't coming easily. All he's doing is whatever he can to help the Carolina Panthers win.

On Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, that was just about everything.

The rookie ran for three more touchdowns to set the NFL single-season record for TDs rushing by a quarterback, pacing a 38-19 rout of the struggling Buccaneers with a dominating performance that revealed something else he's capable of doing: catching passes.

The 2010 Heisman Trophy winner scored the 11th, 12th and 13th TDs of his career on a trio of 1-yard runs. He also had his first reception as a pro to set up Jonathan Stewart's first-quarter TD, then threw a 19-yard TD pass to Legedu Naanee to finish one of Carolina's three scoring drives of 80-plus yards.

"I wouldn't say it's easier each week. It's a challenge each and every week," Newton said after Carolina (4-8) won its second straight to double the team's victory total for last season.

"The one thing I've seemed to get is more comfortable," the No. 1 overall pick in this year's draft added. " Dictating to the defense to some degree with your eyes, the pre-snap reads. The only difference in the NFL and college is the athleticism increases at each position."

Tampa Bay (4-8), which played in throwback creamsicle jerseys and white helmets bearing the logo of a winking pirate, has lost six straight and seven of eight following a 3-1 start. The Bucs had nine penalties to Carolina's two, and coach Raheem Morris lashed out at his team for what he described as unsmart play.

"I can take getting beat by a better football team. I wish they were," Morris said. "The foolish things that happened in that game, as far as penalties, some of the things that we caused, are just unacceptable. We are not playing like a smart football team right now."

The coach's frustration peaked on the final play of the third quarter when Bucs linebacker Geno Hayes sacked Newton for a 4-yard loss only to have tackle Brian Price flagged for unnecessary roughness. It was not clear what Price did to draw the penalty.

Morris removed Price from the game and "sent him home."

"It was foolish. It's selfish to your teammates, to everybody in the organization, to your fans. That's terrible. That's just selfish behavior, to get a 15-yard penalty in that situation when that's all we talk about, that's all we discuss," Morris said. "You just don't do that to your team."

The Bucs played without quarterback Josh Freeman, who sat out with an injury to his throwing shoulder. Josh Johnson made his fifth pro start, throwing for 229 yards and one touchdown while also leading his team in rushing.

Newton completed 12 of 21 passes for 204 yards and no interceptions. He added 54 yards rushing on 14 carries, teaming with Stewart (14 attempts, 80 yards) to help Carolina gain 163 on the ground. Newton nearly scored on a 27-yard reception after throwing backward to Naanee on the far side of the field and taking a throw-back to the left.

Stewart's 1-yard run put Carolina up 14-0. Newton leaped over the pile to finish an 83-yard, game-opening march and tied the record for rushing TDs by a quarterback to make it 31-12 in the third quarter. His third TD, giving him one more than New England's Steve Grogan scored in 1976, finished a 15-play, 81-yard drive.

"It does mean something to me. I'm not going to sit up here and say it doesn't mean something," Newton said of the record. "I'm not focusing on individualism in this game. It's still 11-on-11. I don't think I could've done anything without those other 10 guys, most importantly the five guys who are blocking their tails off each and every snap."

Connor Barth kicked field goals of 50, 47, 46 and 44 yards for Tampa Bay in the first half. Johnson didn't get the Bucs into the end zone until he threw a 23-yard TD pass to Dezmon Briscoe in the fourth quarter.

Freeman injured his throwing shoulder on Tampa Bay's final offensive play of last week's 23-17 loss at Tennessee when he dropped the snap on a fourth-and-1 quarterback sneak and was stopped for no gain. He was limited in practice, making some soft throws on Thursday and Friday and declared out Sunday morning.

The third-year pro became Tampa Bay's starter following an 0-7 start his rookie season and led his team to a surprising 10-6 record in 2010 to heighten expectations for this year. But after throwing for 25 touchdowns and just six interceptions a year ago, Freeman has been inconsistent this season while also playing the past few weeks with a sprained right thumb that he insists was not a factor in his performance.

Johnson started four games ? all losses ? in 2009. The fourth-year pro had appeared in six games this season, primarily on designed running plays and attempting just seven passes. His running ability showed up late in the second quarter, when he scrambled 14 yards on third-and-5 and for a 7-yard gain that set up Barth's fourth field goal, trimming Carolina's lead to 21-12.

But the Panthers weren't content to sit on the ball in the final minute of the half. Newton threw 12 yards to Stewart and 31 yards to Brandon LaFell to set up Olindo Mare's 43-yard field goal as time expired to restore a 12-point lead. They never looked back in second half.

Carolina, coming off a 27-19 win over Indianapolis, won on the road for the second straight week.

"It's very satisfying. The big thing that's really exciting is we have a bunch of young guys who have gone through so much, now they're seeing some rewards," first-year coach Ron Rivera said, adding that he thinks the Panthers are capable of finishing the month strong.

"I think we do have a run in us. We've got good football teams coming ? Atlanta, Houston, Tampa again," Rivera said. We've got to continue to work. We need to finish strong. We do expect to build on this and gain momentum."

Notes: Former Bucs tight end Jimmie Giles was inducted into the team's Ring of Honor during a halftime ceremony. ... Panthers WR Steve Smith had two receptions for 32 yards, leaving him 24 shy of 10,000 for his career.

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EA Adds Social Game Studio For Hardcore Players With KlickNation Acquisition

Screen Shot 2011-12-02 at 12.30.14 PMElectronic Arts has bought social game developer KlickNation, and is turning it into a studio within BioWare, its role-playing developer division. The move is a relatively inexpensive way for EA to build up Facebook versions of its hits like Mass Effect and titles for hardcore gamers using its extensive IP line. The acquisition cost it $35 million, a source tells Inside Social Games. KlickNation was one of the earlier companies to specialize in social RPGs. These types of games haven't gotten the big usage numbers that simulations like FarmVille have, but their users tend to spend heavily on virtual goods.?The developer's traffic never got too big, however, and all of its titles have been in decline for months. Today it has nearly 400,000 monthly active users and 50,000 daily active users, according to AppData, falling from one-time highs of 1.3 million and 150,000 respectively. It's top titles today are Age of Champions and Superhero City.

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Dipping with the Stars

Most systems in the body have a rhythm, a daily cycle. Interrupting that rhythm can have detrimental consequences. Shifting sleep cycles can alter mental status and increase errors that result in accidents. Other more subtle changes in rhythm can also kill you through less obvious mechanisms.

Blood pressure (Bp) normally falls by 10 mmHg during sleep (green lines in figure), a phenomenon called dipping. Many patients with hypertension lose this dip (red lines in figure), and these patients have greater risk of heart disease and death over time. Loss of the dip increases the risk of heart disease above that of hypertension in which the dip is preserved. Clinical studies suggest that restoring this dipping profile may reduce protein in the urine, heart attacks, and death over the short term.

How can we demonstrate the dip? Continuous ambulatory blood pressure monitoring provides the answer. Patients wear an automatic Bp cuff that inflates every few minutes throughout the day and night. This important clinical tool shows the overall level of Bp control as well as its pattern.

Restoring the dip is really pretty easy. The patient takes at least one Bp medication at bedtime. Recent work from Spain shows that long-term restoration of normal circadian Bp patterns is beneficial in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

CKD patients often have hypertension that requires multiple medications to control; almost half of the patients in the study required 3 or more drugs for high blood pressure. The researchers first performed ambulatory monitoring in CKD patients, then randomly assigned them to take all of their Bp medications in the morning, or to take at least one drug at night. Approximately two-thirds of patients assigned to each group did not dip at night before the study began. Continuous ambulatory Bp monitoring was performed at least annually on every one of the 661 patients included in the final analysis. A number of events were analyzed over 5 years, including death from all causes and a variety of heart and vascular disease issues, including heart attack and stroke.

Giving at least one drug at bedtime restored the dip; 71% of the morning medication patients did not dip at study?s end, while bedtime dosing dropped nondippers to 41%. Bedtime dosing also produced more patients with controlled 24-hr Bp levels (56.5 vs. 45.2%). So bedtime dosing reduces overnight Bp for many years. Does it do anything to risk? Yes ? bedtime dosing patients suffered all outcome events at 31% of the rate of patients taking all medications in the morning. The rate of major cardiovascular disease events, including heart attacks and strokes, dropped to 28% of the Morning group. In other words, something as simple as moving at least one Bp med to bedtime could reduce the risk of death and cardiovascular disease by more than two-thirds in CKD patients.

Of course, this study only examined 661 patients. They all had some degree of CKD, and the results may not apply to the vast majority of patients with high blood pressure. DO NOT change your own medications around without talking to your doctor, but DO talk to your doctor about bedtime dosing. It could save your life.

The real question, of course, is why dipping is so important. For that matter, why does Bp dip at night? Of course, science has yet to figure out why sleep happens!

We can try to figure out what makes Bp dip overnight. When Bp drops below a certain level, the sympathetic nervous system (an involuntary part of the brain and nerves that regulates basic body functions) increases activity to the heart and blood vessels to increase Bp and keep circulation going to vital organs. This phenomenon is called the baroreflex. During sleep the threshold Bp at which this activation occurs shifts down. In other words, Bp can drop lower and stay there longer without activating the baroreflex. While inactivity of muscles during sleep may contribute to this phenomenon, at least one study suggests that dipping is a more deliberate physiological process.

We may not yet know why, but people are clearly meant to sleep at night for their health and welfare, including heart health.

References:

Hermida, Ayala, Mojon, and Fernandez: Bedtime dosing of antihypertensive medications reduces cardiovascular risk in CKD. J American Society of Nephrol 22:2313-21, 2011. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2011040361

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

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NJIT's Louis Lanzerotti to be honored as AGU's 2011 William Bowie Medalist

NJIT's Louis Lanzerotti to be honored as AGU's 2011 William Bowie Medalist [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 1-Dec-2011
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Lanzerotti has spent 4 and one-half decades contributing to research that includes studies of space plasmas and geophysics, and engineering problems

Louis Lanzerotti, distinguished research professor of physics at NJIT, has been selected as the 2011 William Bowie Medalist of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The presentation will be made at the Honors Ceremony at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco on December 7, 2011.

The Bowie Medal is AGU's highest honor. It was established in 1939 in honor of William Bowie for his "spirit of helpfulness and friendliness in unselfish cooperative research." Bowie was the first president of AGU (1920) and the first recipient of the medal. The Bowie medal, awarded annually, acknowledges an individual for outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics and for unselfish cooperation in research, one of the guiding principles of AGU. Bowie was a distinguished geodesist who was not only one of the founders of the American Geophysical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics but was also an architect of international cooperation in geophysical research.

Lanzerotti has spent four and one-half decades contributing to research that includes studies of space plasmas and geophysics, and engineering problems related to the impact of atmospheric and space processes on terrestrial technologies, and those in space. Prior to joining NJIT in 2003, Lanzerotti spent more than three decades at Bell Laboratories-Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ.

U.S. President George W. Bush nominated Lanzerotti in 2004 to a six-year term on the National Science Board, the 24-member governing body of the National Science Foundation. Lanzerotti has served as the chair of many committees for the National Academies, including the blue-ribbon panel to study whether to prolong the mission of the Hubble Space Telescope, the committee on the safety and security of spent nuclear fuel, and the Space Studies Board. He currently serves as the chair of the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics.

NASA has recognized Lanzerotti's contributions to science with the agency's Distinguished Scientific Achievement Medal, and twice awarded him the agency's Distinguished Public Service Medal. He has also received the William Nordberg Medal for applications of space science from the International Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). Lanzerotti has been elected to the International Academy of Astronautics and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Lanzerotti has been principal investigator or co-investigator on a number of NASA Earth-orbiting, interplanetary and planetary missions including IMP, Voyager, Ulysses, Galileo, and Cassini. He is currently a Principal Investigator for instruments to be flown in 2012 on NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission in Earth's magnetosphere. Lanzerotti's research directed toward understanding Earth's upper atmosphere and space environments has also taken him to the Antarctic and the Arctic.

Minor Planet 5504 Lanzerotti recognizes his space and planetary research, and Mount Lanzerotti (74.50 S, 70.33 W) recognizes his research in the Antarctic. In 2003, the American Geophysical Union named Lanzerotti the founding editor of Space Weather, The International Journal of Research and Applications. The journal has been the first to focus on the emerging field of space weather and its impact on technical systems.

Lanzerotti has co-authored one book, co-edited four books, and is an author of more than 500 refereed engineering and science papers. He is a member of the NJIT Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, which also manages the Big Bear Solar Observatory, Calif. Lanzerotti holds a BS in engineering physics from the University of Illinois and master's and doctoral degrees in physics from Harvard University.

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NJIT, New Jersey's science and technology university, enrolls more than 9,558 students pursuing bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in 120 programs. The university consists of six colleges: Newark College of Engineering, College of Architecture and Design, College of Science and Liberal Arts, School of Management, College of Computing Sciences and Albert Dorman Honors College. U.S. News & World Report's 2010 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges ranked NJIT in the top tier of national research universities. NJIT is internationally recognized for being at the edge in knowledge in architecture, applied mathematics, wireless communications and networking, solar physics, advanced engineered particulate materials, nanotechnology, neural engineering and e-learning. Many courses and certificate programs, as well as graduate degrees, are available online through the Office of Continuing Professional Education.



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NJIT's Louis Lanzerotti to be honored as AGU's 2011 William Bowie Medalist [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 1-Dec-2011
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Contact: Sheryl Weinstein
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973-596-3436
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Lanzerotti has spent 4 and one-half decades contributing to research that includes studies of space plasmas and geophysics, and engineering problems

Louis Lanzerotti, distinguished research professor of physics at NJIT, has been selected as the 2011 William Bowie Medalist of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The presentation will be made at the Honors Ceremony at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco on December 7, 2011.

The Bowie Medal is AGU's highest honor. It was established in 1939 in honor of William Bowie for his "spirit of helpfulness and friendliness in unselfish cooperative research." Bowie was the first president of AGU (1920) and the first recipient of the medal. The Bowie medal, awarded annually, acknowledges an individual for outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics and for unselfish cooperation in research, one of the guiding principles of AGU. Bowie was a distinguished geodesist who was not only one of the founders of the American Geophysical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics but was also an architect of international cooperation in geophysical research.

Lanzerotti has spent four and one-half decades contributing to research that includes studies of space plasmas and geophysics, and engineering problems related to the impact of atmospheric and space processes on terrestrial technologies, and those in space. Prior to joining NJIT in 2003, Lanzerotti spent more than three decades at Bell Laboratories-Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ.

U.S. President George W. Bush nominated Lanzerotti in 2004 to a six-year term on the National Science Board, the 24-member governing body of the National Science Foundation. Lanzerotti has served as the chair of many committees for the National Academies, including the blue-ribbon panel to study whether to prolong the mission of the Hubble Space Telescope, the committee on the safety and security of spent nuclear fuel, and the Space Studies Board. He currently serves as the chair of the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics.

NASA has recognized Lanzerotti's contributions to science with the agency's Distinguished Scientific Achievement Medal, and twice awarded him the agency's Distinguished Public Service Medal. He has also received the William Nordberg Medal for applications of space science from the International Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). Lanzerotti has been elected to the International Academy of Astronautics and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Lanzerotti has been principal investigator or co-investigator on a number of NASA Earth-orbiting, interplanetary and planetary missions including IMP, Voyager, Ulysses, Galileo, and Cassini. He is currently a Principal Investigator for instruments to be flown in 2012 on NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission in Earth's magnetosphere. Lanzerotti's research directed toward understanding Earth's upper atmosphere and space environments has also taken him to the Antarctic and the Arctic.

Minor Planet 5504 Lanzerotti recognizes his space and planetary research, and Mount Lanzerotti (74.50 S, 70.33 W) recognizes his research in the Antarctic. In 2003, the American Geophysical Union named Lanzerotti the founding editor of Space Weather, The International Journal of Research and Applications. The journal has been the first to focus on the emerging field of space weather and its impact on technical systems.

Lanzerotti has co-authored one book, co-edited four books, and is an author of more than 500 refereed engineering and science papers. He is a member of the NJIT Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, which also manages the Big Bear Solar Observatory, Calif. Lanzerotti holds a BS in engineering physics from the University of Illinois and master's and doctoral degrees in physics from Harvard University.

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NJIT, New Jersey's science and technology university, enrolls more than 9,558 students pursuing bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in 120 programs. The university consists of six colleges: Newark College of Engineering, College of Architecture and Design, College of Science and Liberal Arts, School of Management, College of Computing Sciences and Albert Dorman Honors College. U.S. News & World Report's 2010 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges ranked NJIT in the top tier of national research universities. NJIT is internationally recognized for being at the edge in knowledge in architecture, applied mathematics, wireless communications and networking, solar physics, advanced engineered particulate materials, nanotechnology, neural engineering and e-learning. Many courses and certificate programs, as well as graduate degrees, are available online through the Office of Continuing Professional Education.



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Secret Santa in the Senate: The wisecracks (The Week)

New York ? A bipartisan gift exchange might not bring Republicans and Democrats any closer together, but it's good for a few laughs

In a bid to spread some Christmas cheer among warring Democrats and Republicans, Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) have organized the Senate's first "Secret Santa" gift exchange. Fifty-eight senators have signed up, 21 Republicans and 37 Democrats. Johanns tells Reuters the exchange could ease tensions on Capitol Hill, although he doesn't "have any great expectations that we will suddenly fix Medicare and Social Security and the budget." That may be true, but the gimmick did give political commentators a fresh, much-appreciated reason to ridicule Congress. Here, a sampling of the snark:

It's a Christmas miracle!
This is big, big news, says Joseph Morton at the Omaha World-Herald. Both sides agreed to cough up no more than $10 for these gifts, which means that "Senate Republicans and Democrats have finally reached an iron-clad, bipartisan agreement to cap spending."

SEE MORE: 'In God We Trust': Did Congress waste time reaffirming the U.S. motto?

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Wait until you see the gifts
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) won't need to shop extensively to find that special something for the Republican on his list. "It doesn't take long to get a lump of coal," he tells the World-Herald.

At least this will provide another occasion to laugh at Congress
"After an acrimonious year of arguing over taxes and spending, and an almost-government shutdown, the Senate is going to need a lot more than 10-buck Best Buy gift cards to mend itself," says Nicole Fabian-Weber at The Stir. "Will it fix the Republic? Nah. But those photo-ops of all those clowns in reindeer ears and Christmas sweaters will be priceless."

It's Congress. Somebody's going to go over budget
"There's a $10 gift limit," says Jim Newell at Gawker, "but you just know that Lieberman's going to break the rules and buy someone a Mercedes, like an ass."

Sign me up for the Fed's gift swap
"I wish our senators all the best in their attempt to manufacture Christmas cheer," says Jason Linkins at The Huffington Post, "but what I'd really like to know is how I can get hooked up with the Federal Reserve's 'Secret Santa' exchange, which seems much, much cooler." Those guys give their banker buddies billions.

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Friday, December 2, 2011

Publishers Weekly Bestsellers: The Week's Hottest Reads

-- HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "Explosive Eighteen" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)

2. "11/22/63" by Stephen King (Scribner)

3. "The Litigators" by John Grisham (Doubleday)

4. "Kill Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

5. "V Is for Vengeance" by Sue Grafton (Marian Wood)

6. "Micro: A Novel" by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston (Harper)

7. "The Best of Me" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

8. "Zero Day" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)

9. "Devil's Gate" by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown (Putnam Adult)

10. "The Christmas Wedding" by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo (Little, Brown)

11. "IQ84" by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)

12. "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes (Knopf)

13. "A Dance with Dragons" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

14. "The Snow Angel" by Glenn Beck and Nicole Baart (Threshold Editions)

15. "The Marriage Plot: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. "Steve Jobs: A Biography" by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)

2. "Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry Holt and Co.)

3. "Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man, As You've Never Seen Him" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)

4. "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)

5. "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero" by Chris Matthews (Simon & Schuster)

6. "Guinness World Records 2012" (Guinness World Records)

7. "Throw Them All Out" by Peter Schweizer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

8. "Go the F--k to Sleep" by Adam Mansbach (Akashic)

9. "Back to Work" by Bill Clinton (Knopf)

10. "Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony" by Jeff Ashton and Lisa Pulitzer (Morrow)

11. "Nearing Home" by Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson)

12. "Lady Gaga x Terry Richardson" by Lady Gaga and Terry Richardson (Grand Central Publishing)

13. "Gabby" by Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly with Jeffrey Zaslow (Scribner)

14. "Then Again" by Diane Keaton (Random House)

15. "How I Got This Way" by Regis Philbin (It Books)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. "Smokin' Seventeen" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)

2. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

3. "True Blue" by Diana Palmer (Harlequin)

4. "The Land of Painted Caves" by Jean M. Auel (Bantam)

5. "Quinn" by Iris Johansen (St. Martin's Paperbacks)

6. "Learning to Love: Sugar/Love by Degree" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

7. "Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

8. "Crescent Dawn" by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Berkley)

9. "Cross Fire" by James Patterson (Vision)

10. Storm of Swords" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

11. "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

12. "The Perfect Christmas" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

13. "Secrets to the Grave" by Tami Hoag (Signet)

14. "A Feast for Crows" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

15. "Immortal Rider" by Larissa Ione (Grand Central Publishing)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam Adult)

2. "Longing" by Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan)

3. "The Next Always" by Nora Roberts (Berkley)

4. "Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back" by Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, Colton Burpo and Lynn Vincent (Thomas Nelson)

5. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot (Broadway)

6. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

7. "Sing You Home" by Jodi Picoult (Atria/Emily Bestler Books)

8. "Unlikely Freindships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom" by Jennifer S. Holland (Workman)

9. "The Tiger's Wife" by Tea Obreht (Random House)

10. "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin's Griffin)

11. "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell (LB/Back Bay)

12. "The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead" by Max Brooks (Three Rivers)

13. "The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel" by Garth Stein (Harper)

14. "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese (Vintage)

15. "Assholes Finish First" by Tucker Max (Gallery)

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Video hands-on with Cluzee: Not quite a Siri competitor


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There are a few things a voice-recognition app needs to do well to be successful -- and must do extremely well if it wants to call itself a competitor to Apple's Siri.

  1. It needs to be easilly accessible, and launch quickly. Very quickly.
  2. It needs to actually understand what you're saying.
  3. It needs to return results quickly.

As we continue to find out, this is easier said than done. The latest victim candidate is Cluzee, which bills itself as "Your Intelligent Personal Assisant" -- and which despite some initial glowing press doesn't really stand up to simple testing.

Let's start with Point 1: You need to be able to launch a voice app like this quickly. The iPhone 4S has a leg up by allowing you to long-press the home button to launch Siri at any time. Simple, quick. With Cluzee, you need a home screen shortcut, which means having to wake and unlock the phone first. If the app's not yet in memory, it takes several seconds to launch -- an eternity for this sort of thing. It really has to be faster. (And it is, so long as Cluzee remains loaded.)

On to Point 2: Cluzee understood our tests some of the time, but not all of the time. And even in our abbreviated use, it seemed to struggle more than it should. That ties into Point 3: Returning results for local pizza locations took so long we thought the app had hung on us (force closes are not uncommon at this point). And opening applications through Cluzee took too many steps. (Us: "Open Google Maps." Cluzee: "Which application do you want me to open?" Grrrrrr.)

That's not to say Cluzee doesn't have potential -- it most certainly does, and it does a decent job at personifying itself, using the pronouns you'd expect from something like this. But let's not go calling it a Siri competitor just yet. If you want to give it a shot, we've got download links after the break.

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