This Facebook Phone Sure Is Addictive

Despite all the negativity around the Facebook phone, the early reviewers can all agree on one thing: The Facebook phone got them using Facebook?a lot. Maybe even too much. Ahead of Friday's official release of the $99 HTC First that comes preloaded with the new Facebook Home software, which will also be available for download by Android users, a bunch of gadget reviewers have been playing with the phone for a few days, bestowing their thoughts and feelings for our reading pleasure on the Internet today. Overall, they sound pleasantly surprised. In his review at TechCrunch, the noted Apple-phile MG Siegler even calls it "really good"?twice. Most of the reviewers spend so much time using fancier phones (and not all that much Facebook, apparently) that they ultimately conclude the HTC First isn't really for them. They did, however, find that when the social network was put right in front of them, they wanted to use all the Facebook functions, and pretty much all the time.

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All of which is to say that if people go out and buy this thing, Facebook will at least succeed in getting people to spend even more time on Facebook.?

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The Cover Feed, which shows Facebook photos and notifications right on the lock screen, is "surprisingly addictive," says Siegler:

And it?s surprisingly addictive. Because you can swipe to scroll through these images/statuses all without unlocking the phone, I?ve found myself doing this each day that I?ve been testing the phone more than I care to admit. The fact that you can double-tap to ?like? any of these (an action taken right out of the Instagram playbook) is even more addicting.?

In addition, "regular" Facebookers will find that they use the other Facebook apps more than they would before, according to "regular Facebook user" Walt Mossberg over at AllThingsD:

I found Facebook Home to be easy to use, elegantly designed and addictive. Although I?m a regular Facebook user, I found that, with Home, I paid more attention than ever to my news feed, Liked items more often and used Facebook?s Messenger service more often. So, if you are a big Facebook fan, Facebook Home can be a big win.

And even a "very infrequent" user of the social network will want to play with the Facebook parts over the very hidden Android stuff, adds The Verge's Dieter Bohn:

That said, I find it very telling that even this infrequent Facebook user found himself interacting with status updates instead of doing other stuff on my phone ? Home radically increased my Facebook usage. If Facebook makes good on its promise to release monthly updates and these updates can significantly increase the basic utility of the homescreen, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see a lot of people start using it.?

David Pogue over at?The New York Times?had "all kinds of fun" with his device:

You can?have all kinds of fun on the Cover Feed. If the stately scrolling is too slow for your tastes, you can flick to the next photo, and the next, and the next. You can double-tap the screen to "like" a post. You can hold a finger down on the screen to see the entire photo, smaller; big parts of it are generally chopped off in the process of enlarging it to fill the phone?s screen. And you can tap a tiny speech-balloon icon to read people?s comments, or to leave one of your own.

Wired's Alexandra Chang, also an infrequent Facebook user, goes so far to say that all of that "adds value" to the overall experience:

For people who spend a lot of time on Facebook and?want?to stay connected to their Facebook friends, Facebook Home makes absolute sense. There?s little reason not to get Facebook Home if you already have a compatible Android device. And even if, like myself, you don?t spend tons of time on the social networking site, Facebook Home adds value to the Android experience without feeling invasive.

Though, "productivity minded people"?so, like, business people? or maybe people who want to use their phone for stuff other than Facebook??shouldn't touch the thing because it's that addictive, notes Engadget's Brad Molen:

In its current state, Home isn't the best fit for productivity-minded people, although it does offer a bit of mindless entertainment for anyone just looking to burn a minute or two throughout the day. More importantly, Home is proof that Facebook wants to attack the saturated mobile market.?It's hard to say if it will win the battle, but it's bringing a heavy load of artillery to the fight.?

CNET's Jessica Doulcourt?found her "engagement dramatically jumped," but she wasn't sure that was such a good thing:

My engagement dramatically jumped while I was using Home, although I also wasn't sure I was seeing the highest-quality "news" in my feed. Since I couldn't view my entire news feed, I couldn't tell if I was viewing the most complete or recent list of updates. Scrolling through Cover Feed may have made me a little more entertained, but it sure didn't make me feel any smarter.

Ultimately, people who don't want to be addicted to Facebook might see the whole thing as a distraction, argues ABC's Joanna Stern.

That's the beauty of trying out Facebook Home or buying the HTC First. Facebook's Android layer can be disabled at any time. And my guess is that will be the case for many people -- not because the software isn't nicely designed and Chat Heads aren't the future of mobile messaging, but because you can't control the updates that appear on the front of your screen and ultimately having people all over the face of your phone is distracting.

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Metabolic fingerprinting: Using proteomics to identify proteins in gymnosperm pollination drops

Apr. 10, 2013 ? Proteins are vital parts of living organisms, performing a variety of essential functions such as DNA replication, catabolizing reactions, and responding to stimuli. The complete set of proteins expressed in an organism at a given time, under defined conditions, is known as the proteome. While the genome of an organism remains relatively stable, the proteome is remarkably dynamic, varying from cell to cell and even within a single cell and changing rapidly in response to developmental and environmental cues.

Proteomics is a powerful technique for examining the structure and function of the proteome. For some organisms, proteomics can uncover the relationship between DNA, RNA, and the production of proteins -- enabling the comparison of the genome to the proteome. For those organisms that have not yet been sequenced, proteomics facilitates the discovery and identification of proteins. In a new study published in the April issue of Applications in Plant Sciences, graduate student Natalie Prior and her colleagues demonstrate the suitability of proteomics in determining the composition of gymnosperm pollination drops.

"The biggest limitation in what we are doing is that there is no published gymnosperm genome," says Prior. "Most of the work on gymnosperms has been anatomical, histological, or morphological. The biochemical perspective is really lacking."

Mediating signaling between the pollen and the ovule, one role of the pollination drop is to provide a germination medium, which can be species specific. Additionally, in some species, anti-microbial proteins have been identified, suggesting that pollination drops provide protection in addition to acting as a landing spot for pollen grains.

"The proteins we are finding are really starting points for other research," says Prior. "We can identify these proteins, but there is a lot more research that can be done once we know what proteins are there."

Identification of the proteins found in pollination drops provides a metabolic fingerprint and thereby informs understanding of seed plant evolution. Comparing the proteomes of different species allows for identification of proteins, elucidating pollen-ovule interactions in gymnosperms.

"We are using proteomics to examine the biological relevance of the proteins that the pollen grain is exposed to in the drop," comments Prior. "It's fascinating to know if any of those proteins are consistent among groups of gymnosperms and what we can learn from that."

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Google: Glass Explorer edition to ship within the next month

Developers (and non-developers) who signed up for the Google Glass Explorer program should have their very own pair right before Google I/O

If you plunked down the $1500.00 to become a Glass Explorer at Google I/O last year, you should have your very own set of Google's next big thing in your hands within a month. This is according to what Google has told the folks over at Tech Crunch during today's "Glass Collective" event with Google Ventures. 

The timing for this just screams Google I/O, and we certainly expect to see Google Glass spend a good bit of time front and center during Google's yearly developer conference. Since the project was first unveiled at Google I/O last year, we've seen quite a bit of push from Mountain View to keep people interested, and get developers on board. We wouldn't be surprised to see things come to a head with special developer sessions for Glass, along with plenty of exposure during the keynotes.

If you're a part of the Glass Explorer group, keep an eye on your inbox for more information.

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Billy Smith welcomed son Dennis Ricardo Smith Monday, March 25 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

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Tips for creating a greener outdoor living space | Life And Leisure NJ

(BPT) ? Outdoor living spaces remain a popular home improvement, but while you?re planning your patio or prepping your planting beds do you consider the impact these improvements might have on the environment? Creating a great outdoor space can be even more satisfying when you take steps to make your project as ?green? as possible.

If your spring to-do list includes backyard projects such as building a patio or decorative landscaping, here are some eco-friendly ways to accomplish your goals:

Choose greener materials

Long gone are the days when it was difficult to find building materials created with sustainable manufacturing processes. Today, you can find products such as pavers and even paver base ? used in patio-building ? that are not only made from recycled materials, but also are 100 percent recyclable.

For example, to build a greener patio, start with Brock PaverBase, which holds the coveted ?Cradle to Cradle? certification that recognizes a product?s safety for people and the environment, and design for future life cycles. The overlapping panel system makes prepping the ground for patio pavers quick and easy, eliminating more of the time-consuming and labor-intensive aspects of traditional patio-building ? all while delivering a better looking, professional-quality result. You can learn more at www.brock-international.com.

When building products made from recycled materials aren?t available, consider ones that are naturally sustainable. Such products can also provide a unique look. Bamboo, for example, is gaining popularity as a fencing and decking material and it?s eco-friendly because it?s fast-growing and durable. Cedar is another decking and fence product that is naturally ?green,? because it is naturally resistant to moisture ? making it more durable. It also contains natural oils that prevent rot without the chemical treatments needed by other woods such as pine, and it can be recycled and used for other building projects.

Responsible accessories

Energy and water consumption are also important considerations when greening your backyard environment. Opting for solar-powered pathway, deck and accent lighting ? rather than traditional electric lights ? is a great way to reduce the environmental impact of your outdoor living space, while saving money on your utility bill. It?s easy to find a wide variety of solar lighting styles, whether you look online or at your local home improvement store.

Reducing water waste is also important for the environment and your wallet. If you have a lawn sprinkler system, be sure to avoid watering during the hottest hours of the day when water will evaporate off the grass before it had time to sink into the soil. Timers on a sprinkler system can also help conserve water. You can also recycle rainwater to irrigate backyard flowerbeds. Simply set up a rain barrel to collect water.

Finally, think about the furnishings you?ll use on your patio or deck. While plastic may seem durable ? and cheapest to buy ? consider what will happen to the furniture once it?s no longer usable. Furnishings made from recyclable materials like wood or iron may be kinder to the environment in the long run. You can also look for furniture made from recycled products. Or, visit garage sales and give old wood or metal lawn furniture a fresh coat of paint, some new cushions ? and a new life in your environmentally friendly outdoor space.

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Circus elephant shot in drive-by shot in Miss.

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) ? A circus veterinarian says the Asian elephant wounded in a drive-by shooting in Mississippi should be fully recovered within a few weeks.

Meanwhile, a reward for information leading to an arrest has climbed to $21,000.

Dr. Dennis Schmitt, a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus veterinarian, says the 39-year-old Asian elephant named Carol will be taken home to Springfield, Mo., to recuperate.

Schmitt says the bullet hit Carol in the neck just above the shoulder, but it missed any major blood vessels or nerves.

Schmitt says the elephant has been alert and active since the injury.

Police Chief Tony Carleton says a vehicle drove past Tupelo BancorpSouth Arena about 2 a.m. and fired into the area. Police are investigating.

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Sandy Hook Parents Coming to DC on Air Force One to Lobby Congress

DORTMUND, April 8 (Reuters) - Borussia Dortmund central defender Mats Hummels and midfielder Jakub Blaszczykowski have been cleared to play in their Champions League quarter-final return leg against Malaga on Tuesday, coach Juergen Klopp said. Hummels, out since March with an ankle injury, and Blaszczykowski, back after a groin problem, had missed the first leg 0-0 draw in Spain last week. "At the moment it looks good for all of them and they are all with the team in the hotel," Klopp told reporters on Monday, saying Marco Reus and keeper Roman Weidenfeller had also overcome minor knocks. ...

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A loss to the fashion world, Lilly Pulitzer dies at 81

Lilly Pulitzer, made famous by her colorful jungle and floral print dresses, died Sunday at the age of 81.?

By Jennifer Kay,?Associated Press / April 7, 2013

Palm Beach the fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer, wears her own design and creation of the Lilly shift, in Palm Beach, Fla. in March 1965. Pulitzer, known for her tropical print dresses, died in Florida at 81.

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Pulitzer, who married into the famous newspaper family, got her start in fashion by spilling orange juice on her clothes. A rich housewife with time to spare and a husband who owned orange groves, she opened a juice stand in 1959, and asked her seamstress to make dresses in colorful prints that would camouflage fruit stains.

The dresses hung on a pipe behind her juice stand and soon outsold her drinks. The company's dresses, developed with the help of partner Laura Robbins, a former fashion editor, soon caught on.

"Lilly has been a true inspiration to us and we will miss her," according to a statement on the Lilly Pulitzer brand Facebook page. "In the days and weeks ahead we will celebrate all that Lilly meant to us. Lilly was a true original who has brought together generations through her bright and happy mark on the world."

Her death was confirmed by Gale Schiffman of Quattlebaum Funeral and Cremation Services in West Palm Beach. She did not know Pulitzer's cause of death.

Jacqueline Kennedy, who attended boarding school with Pulitzer, even wore one of the sleeveless shifts in a Life magazine photo spread, and matriarch Rose Kennedy and one of her teenage granddaughters were once reported to have bought nearly identical versions together.

The signature Lilly palette features tongue-in-cheek jungle and floral prints in blues, pinks, light greens, yellow and orange ? the colors of a Florida vacation.

"I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense. It was a total change of life for me, but it made people happy," Pulitzer told the The Associated Press in March 2009.

The line of dresses that bore her name was later expanded to swimsuits, country club attire, children's clothing, a home collection and a limited selection of menswear.

"Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live," Pulitzer said in 2004.

"We focus on the best, fun and happy things, and people want that. Being happy never goes out of style," she said.

In 1966, The Washington Post reported that the dresses were "so popular that at the Southampton Lilly shop on Job's Lane they are proudly put in clear plastic bags tied gaily with ribbons so that all the world may see the Lilly of your choice. It's like carrying your own racing colors or flying a yacht flag for identification."

But changing taste brought trouble. Pulitzer closed her original company in the mid-1980s after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The label was revived about a decade later after being acquired by Pennsylvania-based Sugartown Worldwide Inc.; Pulitzer was only marginally involved in the new business but continued reviewing new prints from Florida.

"When Lilly started the business back in the '60s, she targeted a young customer because she was young," the company's president, Jim Bradbeer, told the AP in 2003. "What we have done is target the daughter and granddaughter of that original customer."

Pulitzer herself retired from day-to-day operations in 1993, although she remained a consultant for the brand.

Sugartown Worldwide was bought by Atlanta-based Oxford Industries in 2010. Sales of the Lilly Pulitzer brand were strong in the earnings period that ended Feb. 2. The brand's revenue increased 26 percent to $29.1 million, according to Oxford Industries' earnings report. The company said last week it planned to add four to six new stores each year for its Lily Pulitzer brand.

Pulitzer was born Lilly McKim on Nov. 10, 1931, to a wealthy family in Roslyn, N.Y.

In 1952, she married Pete Pulitzer, the grandson of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, whose bequest to Columbia University established the Pulitzer Prize. They divorced in 1969. Her second husband, Enrique Rousseau, died in 1993.

"I don't know how to explain what it was like to run my business, the joy of every day," she told Vanity Fair magazine in a story in 2003. "I got a kick every time I went into the shipping department. ... I loved seeing (the dresses) going out the door. I loved them selling in the shop. I liked them on the body. Everything. There's no explaining the fun I had."

Pulitzer, who was known for hosting parties barefoot at her Palm Beach home, also published two guides to entertaining.

"That's what life is all about: Let's have a party. Let's have it tonight," she said.

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Obama promoting gun legislation in Connecticut

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is trying to boost the chances of gun legislation that could be in jeopardy this week with a trip to the home state of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Obama is visiting the Connecticut capital of Hartford, where last week the governor signed a law with widespread restrictions on firearms. The Senate could take up national legislation this week.

Obama plans to meet with Sandy Hook families and argue that lawmakers have an obligation to the children killed and other victims of gun violence to act on his proposals.

Senators have yet to reach a deal to pass expanded background checks for gun sales. An assault weapons ban doesn't appear to have enough votes, and the prospect for a ban on high-capacity magazines also appears bleak.

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Fashion Project, The Site Making Online Shopping A Charitable Act, Raises $1.8 Million In Seed Funding

Recent TechStars Boston grad?Fashion Project?has a different take on the second-hand apparel market. It operates?an online store where women can donate their high-end designer items, and others can re-purchase them for less than retail, knowing that the majority of sales are donated directly to charity. The company has now attracted the interest of investors, too, and days ago closed on $1.8 million in seed funding from Atlas Ventures, High Peak Ventures, Schooner Capital, and other angel investors.

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China's March inflation eases to 2.1 percent

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2013 file photo, a vegetable vendor, left, collects money from a customer at a market in Beijing, China. China's inflation declined in March, 2013, easing pressure on consumers but fueling questions about the strength of its recovery. Government data Tuesday, April 9, 2013 showed consumer prices rose 2.1 percent, down from the previous month's 3.2 percent and well below the official target for the year. Wholesale prices declined by 1.9 percent compared with last year. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2013 file photo, a vegetable vendor, left, collects money from a customer at a market in Beijing, China. China's inflation declined in March, 2013, easing pressure on consumers but fueling questions about the strength of its recovery. Government data Tuesday, April 9, 2013 showed consumer prices rose 2.1 percent, down from the previous month's 3.2 percent and well below the official target for the year. Wholesale prices declined by 1.9 percent compared with last year. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

BEIJING (AP) ? China's inflation declined in March, easing pressure on consumers but fueling questions about the strength of recovery in the world's second-biggest economy.

Government data Tuesday showed consumer prices rose 2.1 percent, down from the previous month's 3.2 percent and well below the official target of 3.5 percent for the year. Wholesale prices declined by 1.9 percent compared with last year.

Mixed data show the world's second-largest economy is limping out of its deepest slump since the 2008 global crisis but more slowly than Chinese leaders want. Analysts say the rebound could be vulnerable to a downturn in investment or trade.

Economic growth rose to 7.9 percent in the three months ending in December, up from the previous quarter's 7.4 percent. Analysts say the recovery is being propped up by government spending and bank lending, while consumer spending is growing slowly.

Lower inflation will give policymakers "more room to maneuver" to stimulate growth if industrial production figures due out next week show activity weaker than expected, said Goldman Sachs economists in a report.

The decline suggests consumer demand is still lackluster despite the growth rebound.

"We have yet to see a surge in final demand ripple throughout the economy," said IHS Global Insight analyst Alistair Thornton in a report. "This is not a healthy recovery."

Figures early in the year often are distorted by the Lunar New Year holiday. Inflation fell to 2 percent in January, then spiked to a 10-month high in February as vegetable costs rose due to cold weather and families stocked up on gifts and food for banquets.

The government's growth target for the year is 7.5 percent, above Western levels but well below China's double-digit rates of the past decade.

Chinese leaders say they want to nurture more self-sustaining growth driven by domestic consumer spending and reduce reliance on exports and investment.

Manufacturing accelerated in March but was weak, according to the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, an industry group. Its purchasing managers index rose to 50.9 from February's 50.1 on a 100-point scale on which numbers above 50 indicate an expansion.

Goldman also saw a possible inflation impact from newly installed President Xi Jinping's orders to Communist Party officials to cut back spending on banquets and other frills in an effort to mollify public anger about corruption.

"Lower consumer inflation was also likely helped by the anti-corruption campaign which tends to lower prices of dining out and overall food prices," said the bank's economists in a report.

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This Terrifying Condom Slingshot Is the Most Effective Birth Control

Bill Gates has posted a $100,000 bounty to the person or team that finds a way to improve the age old design of the condom. Including "designs that are easier to properly apply" which inspired our favorite weapons designer Joerg Sprave to of course apply his expertise in slingshots to the problem. More »

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The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video]

On Friday, veteran journalist Bill Moyers did a segment on Silicon Valley that gives a very different perspective than we get from most mainstream media coverage of the world-renowned tech industry hub, and it's been fueling some good conversations this weekend. Called "Homeless in High Tech's Shadow," it's a very interesting look at the growing homeless problem in the South Bay of San Francisco that's happening in stark contrast to the growing wealth in the same area. Instead of another breathless look at the Google cafeteria that offers free gourmet food for all employees, we meet a former worker in that same cafeteria who was laid off as the company tightened its hiring policies and is now living in a tent. Instead of gleaming footage of the high-tech machinery that produces silicon wafers, we meet a former National Semiconductor employee who is now homeless at the age of 54 with "nothing" to her name.

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Montana pet owner to feds: The dog ate my money

HELENA, Mont. (AP) ? A Montana man whose 12-year-old golden retriever ate five $100 bills hopes to be reimbursed by the federal government.

Wayne Klinkel tells the Independent Record (http://bit.ly/143rwRZ ) that his dog Sundance ate the bills while he and his wife were on a road trip to visit their daughter.

Klinkel says he carefully picked through the dog's droppings, and his daughter recovered more when snow melted.

He says he washed the remnants of the bills and taped them together and sent them to the Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving and Printing with an explanation of what happened.

The bureau's website says an "experienced mutilated currency examiner" will determine if at least 51 percent of a bill is present and eligible for reimbursement. The process can take up to two years.

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Intel announces next-gen Thunderbolt with 20 Gbps throughput, 4K support

Here at NAB, Intel just introduced the next generation of its Thunderbolt interface, which promises a data rate of 20 Gbps in both directions (on each of the two channels) as opposed to 10 Gbps for the previous version. Of course, the company stepped back for a moment first, boasting that Thunderbolt currently has about 200 licensees, and more compatible devices -- along with new, thinner cables -- should be coming out in the following months. Building up to the big reveal, Intel also shared some info about its new Thunderbolt host controller, (code-named Redwood Ridge), which will be built into some of Intel's upcoming fourth-gen Core processors.

But let's talk about the real news: the next-gen Thunderbolt tech (code-named Falcon Ridge) enables 4K video file transfer and display simultaneously in addition to running at 20 Gbps. It will be backward-compatible with previous-gen Thunderbolt cables and connectors, and production is set to ramp up in 2014. An on-stage demo with fresh-off-the-press silicon showed the new Thunderbolt running 1,200 Mbps, which is certainly a step up from what's currently on the market.

Update: We've added a video of the Thunderbolt demo from Intel's stage. Hop on past the break to check it out.

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Lift weights to lower blood sugar? White muscle helps keep blood glucose levels under control

Apr. 7, 2013 ? Researchers in the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan have challenged a long-held belief that whitening of skeletal muscle in diabetes is harmful.

In fact, the white muscle that increases with resistance training, age and diabetes helps keep blood sugar in check, the researchers showed.

In addition, the insights from the molecular pathways involved in this phenomenon and identified in the study may point the way to potential drug targets for obesity and metabolic disease.

"We wanted to figure out the relationship between muscle types and body metabolism, how the muscles were made, and also what kind of influence they have on diseases like type 2 diabetes," said Jiandie Lin, Life Sciences Institute faculty member and associate professor at the U-M Medical School.

Lin's findings are scheduled to be published online April 7 in Nature Medicine.

Much like poultry has light and dark meat, mammals have a range of muscles: red, white and those in between. Red muscle, which gets its color in part from mitochondria, prevails in people who engage in endurance training, such as marathon runners. White muscle dominates in the bodies of weightlifters and sprinters -- people who require short, intense bursts of energy.

"Most people are in the middle and have a mix of red and white," Lin said.

When you exercise, nerves signal your muscles to contract, and the muscle needs energy. In response to a signal to lift a heavy weight, white muscles use glycogen to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP) -- energy the cells can use to complete the task. While this process, called glycolysis, can produce a lot of power for a short time, the glycogen fuel soon depletes.

However, if the brain tells the muscle to run a slow and steady long-distance race, the mitochondria in red muscles primarily use fat oxidation instead of glycogen breakdown to generate ATP. The supply of energy lasts much longer but doesn't provide the burst of strength that comes from glycolysis.

People with diabetes see whitening of the mix of muscle.

"For a long time, the red-to-white shift was thought to make muscle less responsive to insulin, a hormone that lowers blood sugar," Lin said. "But this idea is far from proven. You lose red muscle when you age or develop diabetes, but is that really the culprit?"

To find out, the team set out to find a protein that drives the formation of white muscle. They sifted through microarray data sets from public databases and identified a list of candidate proteins that were prevalent in white muscle but not in red.

Further studies led the team to focus on a protein called BAF60c, a sort of "zip code" mechanism that tells the cells when and how to express certain genes. The Lin team made a transgenic mouse model to increase BAF60c only in the skeletal muscle. One of the first things they noticed was that mice with more BAF60c had muscles that looked paler.

"That was a good hint that we were going in the white-muscle direction," said lead author Zhuo-xian Meng, a research fellow in Lin's lab.

They used electron microscopy to see the abundance of mitochondria within the muscle, and confirmed that muscle from BAF60c transgenic mice had less mitochondria than the normal controls.

"We saw predicted changes in molecular markers, but the ultimate test would be seeing how the mouse could run," Lin said.

If the BAF60c mice could run powerfully for short distances but tired quickly, the scientists would be able to confirm that the BAF60c pathway was a key part of the creation of white muscle.

Using mouse treadmills, they compared the endurance of BAF60c mice to a control group of normal mice, and found that the BAF60c transgenic mice could only run about 60 percent of the time that the control group could before tiring.

"White muscle uses glycogen, and the transgenic mice depleted their muscles' supplies of glycogen very quickly," Lin said.

After some follow-up experiments to figure out exactly which molecules were controlled by BAF60c, Lin and his team were confident that they had identified major players responsible for promoting white muscle formation. Now that they knew how to make more white muscle in animals, they wanted to determine whether white muscle was a deleterious or an adaptive characteristic of diabetes.

The team induced obesity in mice by feeding them the "Super Size Me" diet, Lin said. On a high-fat diet, a mouse will double its body weight in two to three months. They found that obese mice with BAF60c transgene were much better at controlling blood glucose.

"The results are a bit of a surprise to many people," Lin said. "It really points to the complexity in thinking about muscle metabolism and diabetes."

In humans, resistance training promotes the growth of white muscle and helps in lowering blood glucose. If future studies in humans determine that the BAF60c pathway is indeed the way in which cells form white muscle and in turn optimize metabolic function, the finding could lead to researching the pathway as a drug target.

"We know that this molecular pathway also works in human cells. The real challenge is to find a way to target these factors," Lin said.

Lin is a research faculty member of the Life Sciences Institute, where his laboratory is located and all his research is conducted. He is also an associate professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the U-M Medical School.

Support for the research was provided by the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association.

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Pentagon struggles with high cost of health care

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program ? the military's health care system.

Despite dire warnings from three defense secretaries about the uncontrollable cost, Congress has repeatedly rebuffed Pentagon efforts to establish higher out-of-pocket fees and enrollment costs for military family and retiree health care as an initial step in addressing a harsh fiscal reality. The cost of military health care has almost tripled since 2001, from $19 billion to $53 billion in 2012, and stands at 10 percent of the entire defense budget.

Even more daunting, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that military health care costs could reach $65 billion by 2017 and $95 billion by 2030.

On Wednesday, when President Barack Obama submits his fiscal 2014 budget, the Pentagon blueprint is expected to include several congressionally unpopular proposals ? requests for two rounds of domestic base closings in 2015 and 2017, a pay raise of only 1 percent for military personnel and a revival of last year's plan to increase health care fees and implement new ones, according to several defense analysts.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel insisted this past week that the military has no choice as it faces a $487 billion reduction in projected spending over the next decade and possibly tens of billions more as tea partyers and other fiscal conservatives embrace automatic spending cuts as the best means to reduce the government's trillion-dollar deficit.

The greatest fiscal threat to the military is not declining budgets, Hagel warned, but rather "the growing imbalance in where that money is being spent internally." In other words, money dedicated to health care or benefits is money that's not spent on preparing troops for battle or pilots for missions.

Hagel echoed his predecessors, Leon Panetta, who said personnel costs had put the Pentagon on an "unsustainable course," and former Pentagon chief Robert Gates, who bluntly said in 2009 that "health care is eating the department alive."

In his speech last past week, Hagel quoted retired Adm. Gary Roughead, the former Navy chief, who offered a devastating assessment of the future Pentagon.

Without changes, Roughead said, the department could be transformed from "an agency protecting the nation to an agency administering benefit programs, capable of buying only limited quantities of irrelevant and overpriced equipment."

The military's health care program, known as TRICARE, provides health coverage to nearly 10 million active duty personnel, retirees, reservists and their families. Currently, retirees and their dependents outnumber active duty members and their families ? 5.5 million to 3.3 million.

Powerful veterans groups, retired military officer associations and other opponents of shifting more costs to beneficiaries argue that members of the armed forces make extraordinary sacrifices and endure hardships unique to the services, ones even more pronounced after a decade-plus of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Members of the military have faced repeated deployments, had to uproot their families for constant moves and deal with limits on buying a home or a spouse establishing a career because of their transient life. Retirement pay and low health care costs are vital to attracting members of the all-volunteer military.

"If you don't take care of people, they're not going to enlist, they're not going to re-enlist," said Joe Davis, a spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Resistance in Congress to health care changes was evident in the recently passed spending bill to keep the government running through Sept. 30. Tucked into the sweeping bill was a single provision stating emphatically that "none of the funds made available by this act may be used by the secretary of defense to implement an enrollment fee for the TRICARE for Life program."

The program provides no-fee supplemental insurance to retirees 65 and older who are eligible for Medicare. The Pentagon repeatedly has pushed for establishment of a fee, only to face congressional opposition.

The provision in the spending bill blocking an enrollment fee had widespread support among Republicans and Democrats, according to congressional aides. The Pentagon, nonetheless, is expected to ask again in the 2014 budget for an enrollment fee.

The department also is likely to seek increases in fees and deductibles for working-age retirees and try again to peg increases in them to rising costs as measured by the national health care expenditure index produced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That index rose 4.2 percent in 2012 and is projected rise by 3.8 percent this year.

In recent years, Congress has agreed to tie any future increases to the typically smaller percentage increase in military retirees' cost-of-living adjustment, which this year is 1.7 percent.

Either way, a military retiree under age 65 and their family members pay a far smaller annual enrollment fee than the average federal worker or civilian ? $230 a year for an individual, $460 for a family. There is no deductible.

Lawmakers' other response was to establish the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission to study the issue of benefits and offer recommendations on how the Pentagon can address the problem. The commission was created in this year's defense authorization bill.

"Nobody wants to touch it because people are confused about who it impacts," said Lawrence Korb, a former assistant defense secretary and now a senior fellow at the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress. "It's not going to impact people on active duty. It's not going to impact veterans because they're taken care of by the VA. Basically (it's) working-age retirees."

Korb said he wished Hagel has been more explicit in his warning about the impact of benefit costs.

"He did lay it out that we're going to have to do something or we're going to end up like General Motors and spending everything on people not working for us anymore."

Gordon Adams, a professor at American University who was a senior official at the Office of Management and Budget, said limited savings in the short term from changes in retirement rules or other benefits present a challenge in making the case for change.

"The savings are downstream, but you only get downstream if you get in the boat now," Adams said. "Otherwise you never get downstream, you're just waiting at the dock all the time because you don't think it'll save you money up front."

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More SKoreans leave NKorean factory park under ban

A South Korean security guard works to turn back vehicles as they were refused to enter to Kaesong, North Korea, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

A South Korean security guard works to turn back vehicles as they were refused to enter to Kaesong, North Korea, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korean small business owners who run factories in the sprawling complex in North Korea's border city of Kaesong, hold a press conference to demand that the North Korea to normalize the border crossings in front of the gateways to North Korea at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. The banner reads " Normalize the border crossings. " (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korean drivers wait to head for the North Korea's city of Kaesong, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

FILE - In this Sunday, April 15, 2012 file photo, a North Korean vehicle carrying a missile passes by during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. North Korea has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin said Thursday, April 4, 2013 but he added that there are no signs that Pyongyang is preparing for a full-scale conflict. The report came hours after North Korea's military warned that it has been authorized to attack the U.S. using "smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear weapons. It was the North's latest war cry against America in recent weeks, with the added suggestion that it had improved its nuclear technology. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

Chinese tourists take pictures at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, dividing the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 5, 2013. After a series of escalating threats, North Korea has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, South Korea's defense minister said Thursday. But he emphasized that the missile was not capable of reaching the United States and that there are no signs that the North is preparing for a full-scale conflict. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? More South Koreans on Saturday began to leave North Korea and the factory park where they work, four days after Pyongyang closed the border to people and goods.

Twenty-one South Koreans returned from the Kaesong industrial park Saturday morning, and about 100 of the roughly 600 still there were expected to return home by day's end, the Unification Ministry in Seoul said.

One manager, Han Nam-il, interviewed as he left, said he saw North Korean security officials "fully armed" before he crossed the border.

The industrial park is the last remnant of North-South cooperation. Pyongyang's blocking of traffic there is among many provocative moves it has made recently in anger over U.N. sanctions for its Feb. 12 nuclear test and current U.S.-South Korean military drills. North Korea suggested earlier this week that diplomats in Pyongyang leave for their own safety.

North Korea said last week it had entered a "state of war" with South Korea, but officials in Seoul say they have seen no preparations for a full-scale attack while the chance of a localized conflict remains. Earlier Pyongyang threatened a nuclear attack on the United States.

On Thursday, South Korea's defense minister said the North has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east, possibly for testing or as part of drills. Earlier in the week, North Korea said it would restart a plutonium reactor closed in 2007 and use it to make fuel for nuclear bombs.

North Korea has not forced South Korean workers to leave Kaesong, but some of the South Korean companies working there are running out of raw materials because goods are being blocked at the border as well.

Sung Hyun-sang, head of an apparel manufacturer that employs 1,400 North Korean workers, said Friday that his factory will be "in real trouble" if supplies aren't sent to his factory in Kaesong in a week or two.

North Korea is threatening to "wither the Kaesong industrial complex to death" rather than taking South Korean managers hostage, which would spark an overwhelming international outcry, Chang Yong-seok at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University said.

But the North Korea analyst said tension at Kaesong is likely to tone down once the U.S. and South Korea wrap up their annual drills at the end of this month. The allies say the exercises in South Korea are routine, but the North calls them rehearsals for an invasion and says it needs nuclear weapons to defend itself.

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inspiring the young gardener artist: one family's adventure | shauna ...

Saturdays after soccer are a challenging time for our household. ?We?re all beat from the morning rush, the physical exertion, and dealing with the fallout of whatever crisis may have occurred out on the field. ?So our Saturday afternoons are usually spent doing something quiet and low-key that does NOT involve a certain sponge on TV. ?Each month, my son?s school sends home an art project and this month he?s working on an umbrella (April Showers) which he can decorate however he chooses. ?As he was painting away, I was reflecting on the similarities between art and gardening and nature?s rain and its importance to the growing seeds.

I was also thinking about the color variations of the gardens we?ll be growing this year. ?We?ll have three: ?a vegetable, a flower, and herb and I?ve been scouring about trying to figure out exactly what?s best to plant near what and when and why. ?I was trying in this, my second year of backyard gardening in Southwest Florida, to figure out how I could get the prettiest layout especially after last year?s fiasco with the overbearing squash elephant ear leaves that soon became the focal point of the entire enterprise and banquet for every insect in town.

I?m trying something new this year too, and that?s planning for adequate walking space between my planted rows. ?Last year I didn?t do that and I felt like a very clumsy large ballerina trying to navigate walking around my seed growth and starter plants from the weeds that invariably crept in. ?(Cured that problem this year too by purchasing a better grade garden bed cloth liner system ? I hope!) ?Much like the importance of keeping your paint brushes flat after washing and then neatly aligned for proper shaping and care, the garden rows this year are much improved.

Especially with a young child, it?s important while you have all those school art supplies out to try to show how in a teachable moment, what you?re working on (such as color) is applicable or transferable to other areas of that child?s life. ?With a coloring system of proper care and alignment of paints, we worked similarly on our garden row markers. Last year I made the mistake of Sharpie marking plastic plant tags which blew away. ?Then I tried spearing the seed packets with skewers like a pirate ship flag, only to have the paper packet destroyed by Southwest Florida June winds and rain.

On a recent trip to the hardware store (the one that gives away FREE paint sticks) I asked for and picked up a handful of new wood place markers and then had my son handwrite and copy the letters from the packet onto the sticks. ?By planting these at the edge of the garden rows, we?ll all be able to identify what?s what. ?Now we have a reason to use new words and themes like what exactly IS cilantro, how is it used, what does it look like, and why is it in the herb family?

You should have seen me trying to purchase these seed packets during my nearly crazed non-Monsanto no-GMO frenzy shortly after I was diagnosed with diabetes and was working toward a whole food dietary intake (side note, next year I will also try harvesting my own seeds directly from the fruits and plants we eat.) ?I was so irritated that it is nearly impossible to understand what kind of seeds you are buying and where they come from and how it?s processed and whether or not the genetic makeup includes plants that have been doused with Round Up. ?What might take the average shopper a few minutes was an EXTENDED adventure for me and I?m not sure I came away any smarter, but I did end up purchasing a few different brands of seeds (I had neglected to invest in seed catalogues in advance which will NOT happen next year ? I mean you just have to see how artistically gorgeous some of these options are ? another marriage of art and garden!).

I even broke down and purchased some Martha Stewart seeds ? try not to hold it against me. ?I know, I know, I DESERVE to be taken in by the food politics police. ?The seed packets were an opportunity to inspire my son about supply and demand, and pretty shortly here I?m going to be taking him to the orange grove processing plants nearby on Florida?s US17 because believe me you, you don?t know oranges until you?ve seen them piled up in a carrier and you don?t know migrant farm workers until you see them barreling down LaBelle & Clewiston in old jalopy pickups pressed down to the ground with gorgeous watermelons. ?We have to teach our children where food comes from, how it?s transported, how it?s shipped, and where it winds up when it goes bad.

Outside we went with our stakes and our seeds and our newly turned garden bed and my lion-hearted child who took the whole enterprise very, very seriously. ?I?m always amazed when we uncover examples of how his thinking is so spatially different from mine and how he organizes things in a completely unique way. ?It goes beyond age, it speaks to approach and this insight has helped me understand and relate to issues about how fast and quickly things may be happening in certain situations for someone who processes in a different way. ?For example even as a child, I would have placed the seed packets down on the ground in a pile where I would know where they were (I?m a visual learner), but he likes to spread out, to own the land (spatial learner).

Counting as we go, he?s placing one, two, three bags down where he wants to lay the herbs in this case. We then built our organized, neatly aligned rows and planted the following. ?I just now realized the names on the packets are also in Spanish in very small fine print, so next year we can work on both naming conventions as we plant. ?My son put the stake in the ground and then went treasuring hunting around the garden bed to find the seed packet that matched in spelling:

Burpee Signature Sweet Marjoram (Origanum Marjorana); Burpee Signature Chives, Garlic (Allium Tuberosum); Burpee Signature Oregano Mediterranean; Burpee Signature Spearmint (Mentha Spicata); Burpee Signature Parsley Extra Curled Dwarf; Burpee Signature Cilantro (Coriandrum Sativum); Burpee Signature Rosemary (Rosmarinus Officinalis); Burpee Signature Chamomile, German (Matricaria Recutita); Burpee Signature Dill, Mammoth (Anethum Graveolens); Ferry-Morse Summer Sun [Ox-Eye] Sunflower; Ferry-Morse American Giant Hybrid Sunflower; and Ferry-Morse Teddy Bear Sunflower.

And then it happened. ?Our first garden miracle. ?Out of nowhere my son started excitedly with ?Ladybug! ?Ladybug!? ?She was yellow-orange in color and originally on his shirt. ?Another teachable moment for care for the small things and wonders of the garden in a very unexpected way. ?We tried to get Ms. Ladybug to walk on one of the paint sticks, but she dropped to the top of one of the rows and then suddenly flew away. ?About this time, my son started to get a bit impatient about the dirtiness of gardening as top soil went into his shoes. ?In spite of the chance to teach about counting and space of planting in the rows, this was perhaps a greater opportunity to teach hard work gets dirty and dirt doesn?t hurt. ?Small lessons, but lifelong ones.

In the end, everything worked out just beautifully. ?Our new neighbor even came by to chat across yards for a bit, but you all know art and gardening?s like that. ?People want to know what you?re doing. ?People want their own food and they want food security. ?They also want to be reminded that there are choices other than depending on local supermarkets. ?And they want to be convinced that healthy, natural food doesn?t have to cost egads. ?A light sprinkle of water with the garden hose and a wish or two for some rain within the next few days, and all that?s left is to wait and to hope that our efforts to inspire our little young gardener-artist will reap some harvest later in his life, if not sooner. ?With camera in hand, we also took a fresh look at what our landscape garden is holding up for us to admire, here?s a gorgeous Pink Hibiscus and a White Bird of Paradise. ?Just another way to inspire the young gardener artist in your life, too.

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Shauna Lee Lange: The Agrarian?Artist?is a professional artist, thought leader, and analyst advisor based in Southwest Florida. ?She is working in the fields of public installation art in organic sustainability, natural forms & terrain, and conscious green social change ? otherwise known as Art?Agrarianism. Lange?is the Founder and Director of?Creative Art Consultants International Network, an integrated social media think-tank with over 4,500 professional members. ?A U.S. Navy Veteran, Ms. Lange exhibits her self-taught art?journals, visual diaries, and sketchbooks nationally. Lange is the 2013 awardee of eight solo shows with Charlotte County, FL?s?Art in Public Places?Program, and is currently exhibiting her organic Microcircles?series depicting cellular intersections and interdependencies. The Agrarian Artist recently participated in Florida?s Creative Capital Professional Development Program ? designed to further advance Florida?s culture economy. Always open to your ideas and input, images are the copyrighted artist?s own.

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PFT on NBC Sports Network: DeMarcus Ware

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The Cowboys are making a big change on defense this season and their best defensive player will share some of his thoughts about the move on Friday?s edition of Pro Football Talk on NBC Sports Network.

Defensive end DeMarcus Ware will tell us about his initial impressions of defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin and his unsuccessful attempt to lobby Osi Umenyiora to the team this offseason. Rob Ryan, Jerry Jones and an early prediction for the Cowboys? record will also be up for discussion.

Carolyn Manno, Mike Florio, Tom Curran and Pete Najarian will all be on hand to bring you the latest news from around the league. We?ll also be sharing some of Florio?s interview with Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez from PFT Live, an interview that featured Gonzalez bumping the chances that this is his last season up to 100 percent.

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