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Friday, February 3, 2012
Murder mystery uses philosophical twist to justify gruesome murders ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content]In his book ?Fatal Philosophy? (ISBN 1463646216), Dr. David S. Alkek creates a story detailing a series of high-profile murders and incorporates a twisted philosophical angle to each murder. Detective Jason Colbert is in ...
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Edinburgh based Diet Chef ranks third in The Sunday Times Fast ...
Leading delivered diet company, Diet Chef has enjoyed one of the fastest growing sales over the past three years.
The Edinburgh based company, founded in 2007 by Kevin Dorren and Andrew Veitch, was ranked third as one of the UK?s top private companies in the Fast Track 100 League Table, following fantastic growth of 229% from an annualised ?334,000 in 2008 to ?11.9 million in 2011.
With a strong growth strategy in place, Diet Chef is shaping the market for the delivered diet trend by tapping into increased consumer demand for online convenience and practical diet solutions. Unique in its proposition, the online retailer prides itself on its chef prepared meals and counts the calories of every meal for you.
The simple order online or by phone is a credible and affordable alternative to traditional diet plans and meets the increased demands of time-pressured consumers who are looking for a convenient and tasty meal solution from a trusted brand.
The concept behind Diet Chef is that losing weight doesn?t have to be confusing or expensive. The hampers work out at ?5.57 per day, when on a subscription plan, and are calorie counted by nutritional experts to ensure the daily calories consumed amounts to less than 1,200 per day allowing consumers to lose weight at an average rate of 1-2lb per week. Consumers choose a breakfast, lunch, dinner and at least one snack per day and just need to add fresh fruit and vegetables. The hamper can be delivered to their home or work, and can be a week or month?s worth of food at one time. There?s also a useful guide with helpful advice and extra tips for exercising, eating out, drinks and weight maintenance.
Distribution has increased with expansion into Germany at the start the year, now contributing over ?1 million sales. To further capitalise on growth plans for next year Diet Chef has also appointed new Marketing Director Liz Dale. Liz joins Diet Chef from The Harley Medical Group, and will take charge of the marketing team to help grow the business and raise the profile of the brand.
Diet Chef employs 60 staff, including nutritionists and chefs to ensure that all the dishes are packed with flavour and made with the healthiest ingredients. Diet Chef also employs trained diet advisers for online or on the phone customer support, as well as dedicated Facebook and Twitter forums where customers can share their questions and progress.
The Diet Chef plan is currently supported by Direct Response Television Advertising (DRTV), internet and magazine advertising and is also available through the popular home shopping network, QVC.
Diet Chef Founder Kevin Dorren, says, ?We are delighted to have won such a prestigious award, particularly during this challenging economic period. This success demonstrates our commitment in our customers to ensure we provide an affordable and enjoyable diet solution. Our continued growth this year alone is key in enabling us to dominate the delivered diet market.?
For more information about Diet Chef visit www.dietchef.co.uk
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Parenting Styles | Articles Cast
As children grow from toddlers to teenagers, their conduct and attitudes are distinctly influenced by the major parenting style they experienced as young children, and by the way that parenting style has evolved as they have matured.
Most parents fit into one of four major parenting styles: authoritative, uninvolved, authoritarian, and excessively permissive.
Straight-laced, authoritarian parents may find themselves faced with a rebellious, defiant teenager as the child attempts to gain independence from the parents? control over their every move.
Parents who are overly permissive and struggle with proper boundaries may find their teenagers exploiting this laid-back relationship.
Parents who are uninvolved in their children?s lives during childhood will often remain withdrawn from their children?s activities and social life as they mature into teens, preferring instead to focus on their own lives and interests. Teenage children of uninvolved parental figures may turn to rebellious activities for attention, or fall into clinical depression. Teens who are the product of this hands-off parenting style may also seek a feeling of love or acceptance in the form of untoward relationships; this is often an attempt to fill a void left-over from feelings of emotional abandonment in childhood.
The teenage children of parents who utilize an authoritative parenting style are most likely to feel a close, healthy bond to their parents, as they have had the chance to learn that their parents are capable of affection or discipline depending upon the circumstances.
Through a mixture of care and structure, authoritative parenting provides the best environment for parents and teens are effectively bond, thus strengthening the parent/child relationship and reducing the chance of the teenager acting out.
Regardless of how they were raised, however, teenagers will all make bad choices at some point before they reach adulthood. This is because teenagers? brains are growing quickly and the logical thinking portion of the brain has not fully matured; thus, teens are not mentally or emotionally equipped to make entirely mature, reasonable choices.
Because of their still-developing brains, even the most seemingly logical and well-adjusted teenagers will make impulsive, poorly considered decisions at one time or another, because they simply lack the mental maturity to make routinely logical choices. This penchant for irrational decisions is simply par for the course for a person who is still developing fully mature logic skills.
Aiming to build strong bonds with teenage children is an area in which parents are unlikely to go wrong; allowing parenting styles to shift as teenagers mature will almost invariably have a positive result.
The moment you enter Different Parenting Styles into Google, do you find what you need?
Source: http://articlescast.com/home-family/parenting-styles
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Just another pretty face: professor investigates neural basis of prosopagnosia
Thursday, February 2, 2012
For Bradley Duchaine, there is definitely more than meets the eye where faces are concerned.
With colleagues at Birkbeck College in the University of London, he is investigating the process of facial recognition, seeking to understand the complexity of what is actually taking place in the brain when one person looks at another.
His studies target people who display an inability to recognize faces, a condition long known as prosopagnosia. Duchaine is trying to understand the neural basis of the condition while also make inferences about what is going wrong in terms of information processing?where in the stages that our brains go through to recognize a face is the system breaking down. A paper published in Brain details the most recent experimental results.
"We refer to prosopagnosia as a 'selective' deficit of face recognition, in that other cognitive process do not seem to be affected," explains Duchaine, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences. "[People with the condition] might be able to recognize voices perfectly, which demonstrates that it is really a visual problem. In what we call pure cases, people can recognize cars perfectly, and they can recognize houses perfectly. It is just faces that are a problem."
The condition may be acquired as the result of a stroke, for example. But in the recent study, Duchaine focused on developmental prosopagnosia, in which a person fails to develop facial recognition abilities.
"Other parts of the brain develop apparently normally," Duchaine says. "These are intelligent people who have good jobs and get along fine but they can't recognize faces."
The primary experimental tool in this experiment was the electroencephalogram (EEG), which has the advantage of providing excellent temporal resolution?pinpointing the timing of the brain's electrical response to a given stimulus.
Duchaine and his colleagues placed a series of electrodes around the scalps of prosopagnosics and showed them images of famous faces and non-famous faces, recording their responses. As expected, many of the famous faces were not recognized.
They found an electrical response at about 250 milliseconds (ms) after seeing the faces. Among the control group of non-prosopagnosics, a real difference was observed between their responses to famous and non-famous faces. In half the prosopagnosics there was not. Surprisingly, however, in the other half of the prosopagnosic test subjects they did find a difference.
"On the many trials where half failed to categorize a famous face as familiar, they nevertheless showed an EEG difference around 250ms after stimulus presentation between famous and non-famous faces like normal subjects do. Normal subjects also show a difference between famous and non-famous about 600ms after presentation, but the prosopagnosics did not show this difference," Duchaine observes.
This pattern of results suggests the prosopagnosics unconsciously recognized the famous faces at an early stage (250ms) but this information was lost by the later stage (600ms). Duchaine concludes that even though they are not consciously aware that this is a famous face, some part of their brain at this stage in the process is aware and is recognizing that face, a phenomenon termed covert face recognition.
He suggests that the other half of the prosopagnosics, who showed no difference between responses at 250ms, were experiencing a malfunction in their face processing system already at this early stage suggesting a different type of prosopagnosia.
"The temporal lobe contains a number of face processing areas, so you can imagine there are many different ways that this system can malfunction. Not only can an area not work, connections between areas might not work yielding probably dozens of these different variants of this condition," he surmises.
Covert recognition has been demonstrated in prosopagnosia acquired through brain damage, but Duchaine's work is the first convincing demonstration of covert recognition in developmental prosopagnosia, the much more common form.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Road runoff spurring spotted salamander evolution
ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2012) ? Spotted salamanders exposed to contaminated roadside ponds are adapting to their toxic environments, according to a Yale paper in Scientific Reports. This study provides the first documented evidence that a vertebrate has adapted to the negative effects of roads apparently by evolving rapidly.
Salamanders breeding in roadside ponds are exposed to a host of contaminants from road runoff. Chief among these is sodium chloride from road salt, which reaches average concentrations of 70 times higher in roadside ponds compared to woodland ponds located several hundred feet from the road.
"While the evolutionary consequences of roads are largely unknown, we know they are strong agents of natural selection and set the stage for fast evolution," said Steven Brady, the study's author and a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. "These animals are growing up in harsh environments where they face a cocktail of contaminants, and it appears that they are evolving to cope with them."
Brady found that salamanders in roadside ponds have higher mortality, grow at a slower rate and are more than likely to develop L-shaped spines and other disfigurements. In roadside ponds, only 56 percent of salamander eggs survive the first 10 weeks of development, whereas 87 percent survive in the woodland ponds. As roadside ponds become more toxic, the surviving salamanders may develop a genetic advantage over their counterparts living in woodland ponds.
The salamanders that survive year after year in the roadside ponds appear to have adapted to the harsh conditions. "The animals that come from roadside ponds actually do better -- substantially better -- than the ones that originate from woodland ponds when they're raised together," Brady said.
That animals adapt to human activities is not altogether new. For example, fish have begun to mature at smaller sizes in response to commercial fishing. But whereas humans directly utilize fish for consumption, salamanders are just bystanders to human activities. This suggests that the majority of species, which are not specifically targeted for human use, may be experiencing profound evolutionary consequences. And it appears that even species not being driven to extinction -- and seldom thought about -- are changing.
"This adaptation is certainly encouraging for conservation," said Brady. "But our modern footprint is fundamentally changing species in ways we don't understand and, critically, we don't know if these adaptive responses will keep pace with environmental change."
Brady observed the development of the salamanders in 10 ponds -- five roadside and five woodland -- at Yale Myers Forest and in the town of Willington, both in northeastern Connecticut.
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Obama releases list of top money 'bundlers'
President Barack Obama, sitting next to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, right, speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Barack Obama, sitting next to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, right, speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Barack Obama, sitting next to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama's re-election campaign identified its top fundraisers on Tuesday, including 61 people who each raised at least half a million dollars. Altogether, the more than 440 fundraisers collected at least $75 million to help Obama win a second term.
Among them are embattled former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. Obama's campaign and the Democratic National Committee late last year returned $70,000 in contributions from Corzine and his wife following questions about the collapse of MF Global, the financial firm Corzine ran.
Corzine is no longer raising money for the re-election, campaign officials said.
The campaign divided the list into four groups based on how much money donors raised: $50,000-$100,000, $100,000-$200,000, $200,000 to $500,000 and those who raised more than $500,000 apiece.
The donors represent a broad network of contributors, many of them longtime Democratic Party stalwarts.
The list includes two fundraisers linked to Solyndra LLC, the California solar company that received a $528 million federal loan and then later declared bankruptcy, prompting a federal investigation. Steve Spinner, an Energy Department adviser, raised at least $500,000 and Steve Westly, a venture capitalist who was an unpaid adviser to the department, raised between $200,000 and $500,000.
The disclosure came as Obama headed back out on the money trail, speaking Tuesday night at two high-dollar fundraisers in the Washington area where donors paid $35,800 per ticket to see him. At an event at the posh St. Regis Hotel, the president told donors that Republicans have "the wrong vision for America," though he didn't mention any of his opponents by name or reference the voting under way in Florida, where polls were closing in the state's GOP primary.
Obama said voters needed to know "that this is not an abstract ideological argument, that this is a practical concrete argument," and that the election is about whether they'll be able to find a good job with a living wage and get health care for their families. "They've got to feel that we are actively advocating on their behalf."
Obama's campaign ended the year with more than $81 million in the bank, but Republicans are gearing up in the race for the White House.
The Republican National Committee collected $27 million during the final three months of 2011, compared with $23 million by the DNC. In December, the RNC raised $11.6 million while the DNC collected $8.8 million.
Through the end of 2011, the RNC had $20 million in the bank and $13 million in debt, while the DNC held $12.5 million in cash on hand and $6.5 million in debt.
Though Obama rejects contributions from lobbyists, his top fundraisers include individuals involved in the business of influencing government.
Michael Kempner, among those who raised more than $500,000, is president and CEO of MWW Group, a public relations firm with a large lobbying business. Kempner himself is not a registered lobbyist.
Sally Susman, another fundraiser in the $500,000-plus category, is executive vice president for policy, external affairs and communications at Pfizer Inc., a job that includes directing the pharmaceutical giant's government relations operations.
California figured most prominently on Obama's roster of big money "bundlers." Sixteen are from California and 13 are from New York.
Top fundraisers include movie producers Jeffrey Katzenberg and Harvey Weinstein, and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Actress Eva Longoria was in the second highest tier, bundling $200,000 to $500,000 for Obama's re-election.
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Associated Press writer Erica Werner contributed to this report.
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Obama campaign fundraiser list: http://www.barackobama.com/pages/volunteer-fundraisers-Q4
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