blog.adriennerose.me: Health and Fitness Apps of Awesomeness.

Do you have a smart phone? If you do, do you realize that you have SO MANY awesome freaking things at your fingertips to better yourself??

If you don't... Go get one, now. Because your life is most definitely not complete.

Alrighty, now that's out of the way... I have to tell you that I am a big fan of using my smartphone (iPhone) to better myself. It's not cheating, it's called using your resources. Duh.?

General Health Apps:

Now, I have an iPhone so I am going to link up with iPhone apps, but, I am sure for those of you with Android that the same, or similar apps can be found.?

MyFitnessPal is a great app and website dedicated mostly to counting calories. It is great to use for beginners, and advanced calorie counting peeps. You can also track your excercise, it gives you approximate calories burned, if you do not have a Heart Rate Monitor or anything. It's pretty amazing.

You do not have to have a SmartPhone to use their great service. MyFitnessPal is a fully integrated website to use on your phone or computer! They have apps for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Phones.?

I am pretty new to Fooducate but I find it pretty nice in the grocery store when I am shopping. It will tell you the "grade" of the food you scanned, what's in it, and why it is or isn't good for you. It will also suggest a 'better' product to purchase instead. I found this really helpful yesterday when I was shopping for flour.

This app also has a great website too! I've learned a lot about foods that I eat with this app. (One of our goals to healthy eating is only eating foods that we KNOW what all the ingredients actually ARE in them, this helps a lot with that).

3) M. Calendar (for those of us who deal with *that* time of the month...)

Though, I see, now that I searched for this one again, that there are loads of other apps for this same purpose. That is pretty neat!?

Fitness Tracking:?

I absolutely adore this app. It is perfect for tracking any activity!

I have used it to track (GPS even!) walking, running, and bicycling! It's awesome because it will tell you the miles, and how long it's taking you! It's wonderful.?

I even use it in the gym to track the time on how long I have been strength training.

It has been one of the most accurate and reliable apps that I use. It even guesses your calorie use! Which is most handy!?

You don't need the fancy Nike shoes, or Nike shoe insert to get great use from this free app! I love it. I use a lot of apps to track my running.

This app, however, ONLY tracks running. It's kind of nice though, it gives you little medals, and encouragement along the way. It integrates nicely with Facebook, making it so friends can "like" or comment on ?your Nike+Running post, and you hear cheers for you to keep moving during your run. That is my most?FAVORITE part about this app. People can encourage you right from the comforts of their own home. lol

Endomondo is another great all around fitness tracking app! It tracks great mileage with walking, running, and (I assume, but haven't tried it yet) cycling!

Endomondo has a great community full of fellow fit people who are ready and willing to give you encouragement along the way! The community also puts out great challenges all the time! Most calories burned, most miles walked/run/cycled. Short challenges, long challenges, whatever you can think of! They're great! People (your friends on Endomondo) can also give you pep-talks that you can hear during your?exercise? It's pretty rad!

The ONLY downfall I find in this app, is when I am running inside on a treadmill and it does not track the time correctly. But, the good thing is, with all my other apps that I am running, I can just monitor, and change it on the Endomondo website. Great!?

This is a fairly new-to-me app as well. And guess what? I AM IN LOVE WITH IT! It's so freaking cool! It assigns a point system to any and all of your exercises! And then you can level up, participate in challenges, and make some really great fitness buddies!

I find that this app makes me excited to work out, and that's a really great thing for an app to have! I really recommend it! It's quite fun!?

This app is absolutely positively amazing. It has gotten me up off the couch, and running for 25minutes straight in 7weeks!! I love this app. It's FREE which is a huge bonus!

This app gives you tiny manageable increments to run, it's a 8/9week program, and is totally AWESOME. Totally doable! It is THE app to have if you want to get off your touch and get running!

It integrates with Facebook and lets all your friends know how freaking awesome you are.?

These are my most used and favorite fitness apps on my iPhone right now! I believe all of these (except Fitocracy -- which will soon be available for Android) are available for the Android phones too!

What apps do you use? What are you favorites? Any that I didn't mention here?? I am always interested in new and fun fitness apps!?

Source: http://blog.adriennerose.me/2012/10/health-and-fitness-apps-of-awesomeness.html

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Unique protein bond enables learning and memory

ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2012) ? Two proteins have a unique bond that enables brain receptors essential to learning and memory to not only get and stay where they're needed, but to be hauled off when they aren't, researchers say.

NMDA receptors increase the activity and communication of brain cells and are strategically placed, much like a welcome center, at the receiving end of the communication highway connecting two cells. They also are targets in brain-degenerating conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

In a true cradle-to-grave relationship, researchers have found the scaffolding protein, SAP102, which helps stabilize the receptor on the cell surface, binds with a subunit of the NMDA receptor called GluN2B at two sites, said Dr. Bo-Shiun Chen, neuroscientist at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University.

While one binding site is the norm, these proteins have one that's stronger than the other. When it's time for the normal receptor turnover, the stronger bond releases and the lesser one shuttles the receptor inside the cell for degradation or recycling.

"One binding site is involved in stabilizing the receptor on the cell surface and the other is important in removing the receptor. We think it's a paradigm shift; we've never thought about the same scaffolding protein having two roles," said Chen, corresponding author of the study in the journal Cell Reports.

"We believe by understanding the normal turnover of these receptors, we can learn more about how to prevent the abnormal receptor loss that occurs in debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer's." In Parkinson's, the receptors inexplicably move away from where the synapse, or information highway, connects to the neuron, making them less effective. NMDA receptors are supposed to cluster where the synapse hooks into the receiving neuron; in fact, it's part of what anchors the synapse, Chen said.

Interestingly, this pivotal protein, SAP102, a member of the MAGUK family of scaffolding proteins, is the only family member known to directly contribute to maladies: its mutation causes intellectual disability.

While all cells have a system for managing the number of receptors on their surface, in Alzheimer's, this removal process appears accelerated, with increased engulfing of receptors and less neuron-to-neuron communication. The neurotransmitter glutamate helps establish and maintain the synapse and also binds with GluN2B.

GluN2B-containing NMDA receptors stay open to receive information for a long time, enabling the type of vigorous and sustained communication that enables learning and memory. In fact the number of these receptors naturally decreases with age, which may be one reason young people learn easier. When it's time to remove a receptor, phosphorus gets added to GluN2B, changing its function so it no longer binds to the scaffolding protein.

Chen's research was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and conducted in mice and rat neurons in culture. Collaborators include Dr. Roger A. Nicoll, Professor, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, the University of California, San Francisco, and Dr. Katherine W. Roche, Senior Investigator, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

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Call for inquiry into legal advice scandal - The Times

Alex Salmond came under further pressure last night in the on-going row over EU legal advice when Labour demanded the creation of a judge-led inquiry to investigate the First Minister?s behaviour.

Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader, used a set-piece debate on the floor of the parliament chamber to call for a judicial inquiry into the First Minister?s actions in the week-long controversy over Scotland?s position in the EU after independence.

The demand came as opposition politicians derided Mr Salmond for not bothering to even come to the Scottish Parliament to answer the accusations being raised against him yesterday afternoon

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Raritania: Of Science Fiction and Futurology

Science fiction writers have often displayed a propensity to downplay the extent to which the genre makes predictions about the future. (To name a recent instance William Gibson did it again in Wired in September.)

There are good reasons for this. A writer's purpose in producing a piece of fiction is much more likely to be the creation of art or the presentation of an entertainment than writing a manual to life at some future date. Serious guess work about, for instance, life in 2050 might be secondary to what they are doing, or even incidental. They may also wish to distance themselves from the opprobrium some have directed at futurology.

Yet, in the process they sometimes exaggerate the distance between the two endeavors. The truth is that science fiction writers often ask the same questions as futurologists, and often arrive at the same answers. (After all, "extrapolation," labeled by John Campbell but long preceding him, is at the heart of the harder types of science fiction.) In the course of their work they often look at, and draw on, what their counterparts on the other side of the line have done, science fiction writers referencing futurology, futurologists drawing inspiration from science fiction, for a very long time now. (Looking at Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, for instance, the influence of predictions about aerial warfare by the military theorists of his day is very apparent in the book's often-denigrated early chapters.) And many try their hand at both games successfully (science fiction writers from H.G. Wells to Vernor Vinge becoming accomplished futurists).

Given this relationship it would seem natural that if one of these is stagnant, so is the other, and that has indeed been my impression. There is a wide, though apparently not dominant, view that science fiction has fallen short in the ideas department in recent years. (As Charles Stross recently noted, all we have to show for the last three decades in this respect is radical hard science fiction and the Singularity, both rather well-worn at this point.) It seems to me that futurology, too, has been short on ideas for many years now, evident all across the spectrum from optimistic techno-libertarianism, to pessimistic eco-catastrophism. The former shows little sign of innovation, which has tapered off since the boom in Singularitarian thought during the 1990s. (Since then we have tended to see the same names, the same ideas, those of Vinge and Ray Kurzweil and Hans Moravec and company cited over and over and over again rather than the production of original, compelling arguments for this idea ? as demonstrated in Peter Diamndis and Steve Kotler's rather tepid Abundance.) The same goes for the latter. (While ably describing our problems, it has great difficulty describing how the plausible technical solutions might actually be applied.)

These failings, in turn, point to still larger failures in our intellectual life. The technical frontiers appear to be the same one we've been looking at for decades, except that our prospects for conquering them seem more modest than in, say, the years of the tech boom. Meanwhile, there is a distinct lack of imaginative daring among our thinkers on social and political matters. And it is not only readers of science fiction who are noticing. When the hand on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock moved one minute forward this month, Kennette Benedict, the magazine's executive director, cited the lack of "new thinking" as a factor.

In short, this problem is much, much bigger than the doldrums of a single literary genre.

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Salt Lake Tribune Endorses President Obama, Not Mitt Romney

One would figure that the Salt Lake Tribune would know Mitt Romney better than anyone else. I would have thought that there was no way that the Salt Lake Tribute would ever endorse anyone other than Mitt Romney. I would have been wrong. The Salt Lake Tribune takes Romney to the wood shed.

From the Salt Lake Tribune:

Nowhere has Mitt Romney?s pursuit of the presidency been more warmly welcomed or closely followed than here in Utah. The Republican nominee?s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan governorship of a Democratic state, and his head for business and the bottom line all inspire admiration and hope in our largely Mormon, Republican, business-friendly state.

But it was Romney?s singular role in rescuing Utah?s organization of the 2002 Olympics from a cesspool of scandal, and his oversight of the most successful Winter Games on record, that make him the Beehive State?s favorite adopted son. After all, Romney managed to save the state from ignominy, turning the extravaganza into a showcase for the matchless landscapes, volunteerism and efficiency that told the world what is best and most beautiful about Utah and its people.

In short, this is the Mitt Romney we knew, or thought we knew, as one of us.

Sadly, it is not the only Romney, as his campaign for the White House has made abundantly clear, first in his servile courtship of the tea party in order to win the nomination, and now as the party?s shape-shifting nominee. From his embrace of the party?s radical right wing, to subsequent portrayals of himself as a moderate champion of the middle class, Romney has raised the most frequently asked question of the campaign: "Who is this guy, really, and what in the world does he truly believe?"

The evidence suggests no clear answer, or at least one that would survive Romney?s next speech or sound bite. Politicians routinely tailor their words to suit an audience. Romney, though, is shameless, lavishing vastly diverse audiences with words, any words, they would trade their votes to hear.

More troubling, Romney has repeatedly refused to share specifics of his radical plan to simultaneously reduce the debt, get rid of Obamacare (or, as he now says, only part of it), make a voucher program of Medicare, slash taxes and spending, and thereby create millions of new jobs. To claim, as Romney does, that he would offset his tax and spending cuts (except for billions more for the military) by doing away with tax deductions and exemptions is utterly meaningless without identifying which and how many would get the ax. Absent those specifics, his promise of a balanced budget simply does not pencil out.

If this portrait of a Romney willing to say anything to get elected seems harsh, we need only revisit his branding of 47 percent of Americans as freeloaders who pay no taxes, yet feel victimized and entitled to government assistance. His job, he told a group of wealthy donors, "is not to worry about those people. I?ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Where, we ask, is the pragmatic, inclusive Romney, the Massachusetts governor who left the state with a model health care plan in place, the Romney who led Utah to Olympic glory? That Romney skedaddled and is nowhere to be found.

And what of the president Romney would replace? For four years, President Barack Obama has attempted, with varying degrees of success, to pull the nation out of its worst financial meltdown since the Great Depression, a deepening crisis he inherited the day he took office.

In the first months of his presidency, Obama acted decisively to stimulate the economy. His leadership was essential to passage of the badly needed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Though Republicans criticize the stimulus for failing to create jobs, it clearly helped stop the hemorrhaging of public sector jobs. The Utah Legislature used hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to plug holes in the state?s budget. (more...)

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Is HR Social-able? [infographic], Business

Once the domain of techies, edgy marketing professionals using the latest mobile devices and people who described themselves as ?savvy?, social media?s now gone beyond mainstream. Working in the midst of the HR space,?we?re always on the lookout for new ways of engaging and communicating with potential, current and past employees for our clients. When you look at the usage of social across APAC (thanks to socialbakers.com and Ignite Social Media), the statistics are mind-blowing and the opportunity for audience engagement fascinating.

You only have to look at Facebook, where 57% (Hong Kong ),62% (Singapore) and even 67% (Brunei!) of population on Facebook compared to 54% in the US and 55% in Australia. LinkedIn?s penetration is behind but growing at between 200-300% while Twitter is booming in countries like Indonesia and the Philippines.

At its core, HR is a communications business, so let?s take a look at the efforts of HR across APAC in benefiting from this booming world of social media. ?I think it?s fair to say the overall situation is patchy! Certain social channels are very well-utilised; the professional networks such as LinkedIn are naturally popular in the world of recruitment, networking and human resources.

We recently partnered with the Chapman Consulting Group to carry out some research into social media usage trends amongst HR and recruitment teams in Asia Pacific (download the report at www.alexandermannsolutions.com/socialmediareport) , and the findings showed there?s certainly room for improvement in the sector. Corporate usage of LinkedIn sits at around 90%, which shows how important the professional networking part of social media is, but professional Facebook and Twitter usage cross-region sits at 63% and 31% respectively. Yet Facebook and Twitter represent far larger audiences than LinkedIn, and certainly can?t be overlooked as communications channels. And there are still huge channels which remain utterly untapped, especially specialist/niche social media in a particular geography or focussing on a particular demographic (Weibo, RenRen, Google+).

Blended with the statistics in the research was commentary from those in the market working with social media, and it?s pretty apparent from the tone and feedback provided that the biggest concern is there?s a total lack of rigour and consistency in managing social media engagements effectively. A restrictive corporate policy on social media usage might reduce the risk of unnecessary exposure to bad publicity, but it also cuts out a huge section of the audience for recruiters and employer branders. And where there is the flexibility to work within the social media environment, there are few ? if any ? guidelines, and efforts are usually ad-hoc and poorly directed. Very few respondents could articulate an underlying strategy to their social media efforts ? ?and when they could, the strategy was either marketing or IT-aligned.

Our report shows there?s definitely the appetite to grow presence across the region (over 90% firms committing to increase their social usage for recruitment) but corporate recruiters believe that there are some major challenges in front of them specifically insufficient time/resources, governance and expertise.

The resource issue is the same as highlighted by marketing departments in Buddy Media?s 2012 survey on social media usage across APAC.

It?s time to break down those organisational boundaries and combine efforts. Coming back to the point of my last blog post, that for HR to be truly social-able, we need HR to work closer with their marketing colleagues and include these skills in their own teams.

Usage of Social Media in HR and Recruitment in Asia Pacific - Alexander Mann Solutions & The Chapman Consulting Group

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Utahns celebrate first Native American saint in Rome, Duchesne

FORT DUCHESNE, Uintah County?? Just hours after thousands of Catholics from around the world gathered at the Vatican to celebrate Sunday's canonization of seven new saints, a much smaller congregation came together at a tiny church in this reservation town to honor the faith's first Native American saint.

"I think it's an acknowledgement of where real greatness lies," said The Most Rev. John C. Wester, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City.

"It's not in money or possessions or power, but it's in a humble, well-spent life being close to Jesus that still speaks volumes to people almost 400 years later," said Wester, who presided over Sunday's Mass at the Kateri Tekakwitha Center in Fort Duchesne.

Halfway around the world, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri Tekakwitha and six others Sunday in a Mass held at St. Peter's Square that was attended by an estimated 80,000 pilgrims, including three members of the Ute Indian Tribe.

In his homily, the pope praised each of the seven saints as heroic and courageous examples for the entire church, calling Kateri an inspiration to indigenous faithful across North America.

"May her example help us to live where we are, loving Jesus without denying who we are," Benedict said. "Saint Kateri, protectress of Canada and the first Native American saint, we entrust you to the renewal of the faith in the first nations and in all of North America!"

"We've been following this for a long time," Clarice Chapoose told the Deseret News last week before departing for Italy.

"I makes us proud, proud that we are Native Americans," she said.

Chapoose, her daughter Susan, and her grandaughter Zennia were among a handful of Utahns of Native American descent to attend the canonization.

"I believe (Kateri) is going to put lots and lots of faith inside Indians because they're not outcasts to the human race, they're part of it," 13-year-old Zennia Chapoose said.

"Maybe young Native Americans who are Catholics will think, 'I am a Native American and I am Catholic. Nobody's going to up me down ever,'" she added.?"They can just ask Kateri to make them be more stronger."

Kateri, known as the Lily of the Mowhawks, was born in 1656 to a Christian Algonquin mother and a traditional Mowhawk chief. When she was 4 years old, a smallpox epidemic killed her parents and brother, and left her with impaired eyesight and a scarred body.

When she chose to be baptized into the Catholic Church in 1676, Kateri was ostracized by her tribe. She became a nun in 1679, but died one year later at the age of 24. Her last words were, "Jesus, I love you," and the smallpox scars on her face disappeared mintues after her death, according to witnesses.?

Kateri was declared venerable in 1943 by Pope Pius XII and beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1980. When the Vatican determined that Jake Finkbonner, a 12-year-old Washington state boy of Native American descent,?was cured of a flesh-eating bacteria through Kateri's intercession after his family and community invoked her in their prayers, it paved the way for her canonization.

Susan and Zennia Chapoose encountered Finkbonner at a recent Kateri Tekakwitha conference in New York. It was an experience that still moves Susan Chapoose to tears.

"It was neat to see him, knowing that he is a miracle," she said.

"His face was disfigured, but we believe that as soon as (Kateri) is canonized, his face will clear up," Clarice Chapoose added.

Bishop Wester pointed out that while Catholics do pray to saints, they do not worship them.

"There are some people who live such an extraordinarily holy life, an exemplary life," he said. "It's like the church is saying here's somebody worthy of following, here's an example you should try to follow.

"They are seen as people like us who are in heaven now," he added. "They intercede for us, they pray for us in heaven and we believe their prayers are very powerful."

To have Kateri working on their behalf is important for the church's Native American congregants, Bishop Wester said, because?"it gives them a saint that's particularly their own."

"To have one of your own be declared a saint, it makes you feel like, 'Hey, I could do this, too. I could become a saint,'" Bishop Wester said. "I think that's very special."

Contributing: Associated Press

Geoff Liesik, Reporter/Eastern Utah Correspondent

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?Justified? EP Graham Yost teases Patton Oswalt guest spot, snake-handling church at New York Television Fest

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Justified showrunner Graham Yost was the interviewee at Tuesday night?s New York Television Festival creative keynote conversation and offered a few teases for the show?s fourth season, which has been in production for two weeks. The highlights:

? Patton Oswalt, who nabbed a guest spot on the show after revealing he?s a fan, is currently filming his episode: He plays Constable Bob. ?There?s this weird thing in Kentucky where each county has one or two constables, and it?s an elected position, but your salary is, like, $2,000 a year. You?ve got to pay for your own car, your own light bar, your own uniform. But what they get to do with that is serve papers,? Yost explained. ?And they can charge $60 for serving papers, whereas the State Police has to charge $80. So they undercut the State Police, and that?s how they make money. So we just liked the idea of this sort of cop wannabe, who?s kind of a cop, interacting with Raylan some.?

? Nothing has been penned yet for Emmy winner Jeremy Davies (Dickie Bennett):?They have four episodes written and another couple broken. ?We don?t know what?s gonna happen with Dickie, nor do we know what?s gonna happen with Dickie?s hair,? Yost said. ?In season 3, Jeremy showed up and that was his haircut. He had cut it himself, and we said, ?Okay, let?s go with that.?? Storywise, Dickie is in prison now. ?We may see him,? Yost said. ?The feeling with Dickie is you want it to be a big arc, a real chunk, or it could be one episode, but not just a couple.?

? Nothing has been penned yet for the writers? other favorite character, Dewey Crowe played by Damon Herriman: ?We love to have Damon come by once a season at least. We haven?t actually landed on anything this year and we don?t want to force it, but we?ll see,? Yost said.

? Another portion of Elmore Leonard?s 2012 novel Raylan will surface in the series: The kidney-selling business from season 3?s Dewey-centric episode ?Thick as Mud? (?Holy s?, you mean I had four kidneys??) was?plucked from Raylan. Another chunk of that book that will be featured in season 4?s sixth episode. ?I?m not gonna tell which chunk,? Yost said.

? Last season had pigs, this season has snakes:?As with seasons 2 and 3, some writers went to Kentucky for research. ?Maybe this year, it would be fun to do something with a real backwoods snake-handling church. That will play a part in the first four episodes,? Yost said. ?So [the writers] went to a church. The minister didn?t feel a call that night to pull out the snakes, but there they were in the boxes on the side of the church.?

? Yost still anticipates the series going six seasons:?Longer than that, Yost said, they run a greater risk of doing ?Elmore light,? which no one wants.

Bonus tidbits:

? Yost wrote ?everything but porn? when he started out:?That includes but is not limited to writing for the?Encyclopaedia Britannica and?Soap Opera Digest and penning a?pamphlet for home care of people with catheters sticking out of their chests. He always wanted to write scripts (and has since he was in his late teens). He abbreviated the hilarious story of his big break: ?A friend of mine was working at Doubleday, he was playing on the softball team, I went out to watch him play, there was a very cute girl there, I flirted with her, we went on a couple dates, then I found out she was living with a guy. Hmmm,? Yost said. ?But then I met the guy, and he and I became friends, and he was an editor working at Nickelodeon on Turkey TV, and I got a job. So that worked out.? He spoke fondly of writing for Nickelodeon?s Hey Dude, and less enthusiastically of his brief stint ? 9? weeks ? with?Full House. (He quit days before his 10-week probation period expired, at which point he knew he?d be fired because none of his ?edgy? jokes were landing.)

? Speed was almost called Minimum Speed. That was Yost?s original title for his film script. A friend had to convince him it would be better if the bus couldn?t go below 50 mph, rather than 20 mph. ? You don?t want the word ?minimum? in the title,? he conceded. ?Frankly, when they did Speed 2 and the tagline was ?Cruise Control,? it?s like, ?Well, but, cruise control is when you don?t want to pay attention. Cruise control is when you want to listen to the radio.? Yost credits Joss Whedon, who did an uncredited rewrite of the Speed script, with the line ?Pop quiz, hotshot.? ?Joss did a total dialogue rewrite on that script,? Yost said, adding that he?ll be forever grateful. After multiple drafts by Yost, another writer (who he would not name) was brought in and butchered the script. Yost was brought back on, and then Whedon, who got it in shooting shape. ?When I read his draft, I went, ?Oh, thank god. Oh, he gets it.? He?s a very funny writer, a very smart writer. So I was very, very lucky,? Yost said.

? Johnny Depp could have starred in Broken Arrow, which Yost also wrote, instead of Christian Slater: ?I spent half an hour with Johnny Depp trying to convince him to do it instead of doing Nick of Time,? Yost said. ?Nick of Time, I understand, is a very bad movie. I?ve never seen it, but I understand it?s a very bad movie. I cannot honestly tell you that Broken Arrow is a good movie, so I don?t know if he made the wrong choice. But, I gave it my best shot. It?s just this punk from 21 Jump Street. It was like, ?Ohmygod, I gotta talk to this teen heartthrob.? Little did I know.?

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NCAA President: Reforms to improve college sports

NCAA President Mark Emmert said sweeping reforms currently in the works, including new eligibility requirements, will have a lasting impact on the governing body?s 1,100 schools and 450,000 student athletes.

While college sports has some high-profile challenges, it is heading in the right direction, the leader of the NCAA told an audience Monday at Wright State University.

NCAA President Mark Emmert said sweeping reforms currently in the works, including new eligibility requirements, will have a lasting impact on the governing body?s 1,100 schools and 450,000 student athletes.

?This is a terrific moment for college athletics,? said Emmert, the featured speaker at WSU?s Tip-Off Basketball Luncheon.

In front of a capacity crowd of about 200 people in the Berry Room of WSU?s Nutter Center in Fairborn he also lauded Wright State for the academic performance and community service efforts of its athletes

Emmert, who became the fifth president of the NCAA in October 2010, is probably best known for dishing out harsh sanctions to Penn State University in the wake of the sex abuse scandal.

WSU President David Hopkins ? who serves on the NCAA Division I Board of Directors ? told the audience Emmert is leading major positive reforms that will impact college sports for decades.

Meanwhile, WSU men?s basketball coach Billy Donlon said his team may be younger, but is faster than it has been in recent years and he expects to be competitive in every game. The men?s team opens its home season on Nov. 16 with North Carolina A&T.

And women?s basketball coach Mike Bradbury told the crowd he expects his team to finish better than 3rd place in the league, which is where the lady Raiders were projected to finish in the preseason poll. The women?s team opens its home season on Nov. 14 with IUPUI.

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Melo back at SU, Sixers still beat Knicks 98-90

New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony, center, grabs a rebound against the Philadelphia 76ers during the first quarter of an NBA preseason basketball game, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in Syracuse, N.Y. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony, center, grabs a rebound against the Philadelphia 76ers during the first quarter of an NBA preseason basketball game, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in Syracuse, N.Y. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

Philadelphia 76ers' Jason Richardson shoots over New York Knicks' Tyson Chandler (6) during the first quarter of an NBA preseason basketball game, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in Syracuse, N.Y. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

Philadelphia 76ers' Damien Wilkins (8) drives past New York Knicks' Ronnie Brewer during the first quarter of an NBA preseason basketball game, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in Syracuse, N.Y. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) ? Carmelo Anthony winced at the thought.

"My streak is over," he lamented.

Jason Richardson made a three-point play and hit a pair of 3-pointers to start the fourth quarter, and the Philadelphia 76ers held on to beat the New York Knicks 98-90 on Monday night in an exhibition game in the Carrier Dome, spoiling Anthony's return to his college roots.

It was an outcome Anthony was unaccustomed to in the Carrier Dome. As a freshman at Syracuse in the 2002-03 season, he led the Orange to a 17-0 record at home in the dome en route to the national championship, then left for the NBA.

"It's just great to be back in this building once again, knowing how many memories that I have," Anthony said. "A lot of fans supported me tonight. It was a fun game. At this point, it's not about the wins and losses. It's about what we take from the game, just getting better."

Anthony and Raymond Felton each finished with 23 points for the Knicks (2-3). Anthony also had six rebounds, five assists and four steals in nearly 35 minutes. Felton was 5 of 7 on 3-pointers, and Chris Copeland added 15 points.

Richardson had 23 points and Thaddeus Young 22 for Philadelphia (6-1).

Philadelphia led by as many as 24 on Young's floater in the lane early in the third period before the Knicks came alive from beyond the arc. Felton hit a pair of 3-pointers, and Anthony and Jason Kidd each chipped in with one to narrow the lead to 74-65.

Anthony's stepback 3 in the final minute of the period made it 76-72 entering the fourth, and it could have been more. Fouled on the shot by Damien Wilkins, Anthony missed the free throw and an ensuing 3 after Steve Novak corralled the rebound. Novak snared the rebound of Anthony's miss and also misfired from beyond the arc before the buzzer.

"The third quarter we came out, got ourselves together," Anthony said. "We played with some energy, ran our offense, played some defense, got up and down the court, played well. When we play like that, you saw how good of a team we can be."

New York pulled within a basket three times before Richardson gave the Sixers some breathing room.

The Sixers gained a big lead in the first half with a 19-6 spurt that started with Spencer Hawes' 3-pointer from the left wing in the final minute of the opening period. That broke a 23-all tie and the Knicks then went cold, missing five shots and committing a turnover.

Hawes hit a hook in the lane and Royal Ivey and Nick Young hit consecutive baskets to give Philadelphia a 34-25 lead. Richardson and Ivey completed the run with 3-pointers, giving the Sixers a 42-29 lead with 7:09 left in the second.

Two free throws by Tyson Chandler narrowed the lead to 11, but after Felton's 3 closed the gap to 48-36, the Sixers ended the half with a 14-8 rush to lead by 18.

Anthony started the game with a turnaround jumper to send the Knicks on a 7-0 surge. The Sixers answered with a 14-0 run keyed by five straight points from Richardson and a 3 from the left corner by Ivey that completed it.

The Knicks open the regular season Nov. 1 against Brooklyn.

It's difficult to believe it's been a decade since Anthony arrived as a raw freshman at Syracuse. More difficult to believe that he stayed only nine months, but there's never been a brighter winter in this town, to be sure.

When the snow melted in early April 2003, Anthony and his Syracuse teammates were jumping up and down on the hardwood of the Superdome in New Orleans, basking in the glow of the university's first and only national championship in basketball. Despite desperate pleas from the Orange faithful to stay "One more year!", Anthony bade farewell in a tear-filled news conference to announce he was leaving for the NBA.

"Maybe one more year crossed my mind, but four years? That's a long time," Anthony said, a warm smile creasing his face prior to the Knicks shootaround earlier in the day. "It's just motivating to know what I was able to do here by bringing the championship to the university, to the town. You want to bring that back to my respective town now, New York City. It kind of puts everything in perspective."

Anthony has given much more since he left. He donated $3 million to jump-start fundraising for a sleek $19 million practice facility with all the bells and whistles that bears his name. Last year, he attended preseason Madness, and when former Syracuse assistant coach Bernie Fine was fired last November amid sex abuse allegations involving two former ball boys of the team, Anthony made a point of showing up for an early December game in the Carrier Dome in support of beleaguered head coach Jim Boeheim.

"I do a lot in this town, this community, just out of the goodness of my heart, just to give back," said Anthony, who also has two Olympic gold medals. "For me, this is where it all began. It was only right for me to give back."

Anthony also has given money to Boeheim's Courts4Kids project, which has helped build or renovate basketball courts in city parks with another opening in November and plans for more in the future.

Since turning pro, Anthony returned to the Carrier Dome as a Denver Nuggets' rookie in 2003. This was his first appearance in the Carrier Dome since he was traded to New York midway through the 2010-11 season.

Anthony was in town on Sunday and toured the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center, where a tape of the 2003 national championship game plays in a continuous loop all day, every day, right alongside the glass national championship trophy. He said it was a humbling experience.

"It was the first time I actually got a chance to get around and walk through the whole facility," he said. "It was kind of surreal for me to be walking around and seeing my name plastered around the building on the outside. I don't know what word to use, but it was shocking to me just to see that. I called my family, sent them pictures of it. It was just one of them moments that I'll probably never forget."

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Learning Grammar Through A Second Language | Creative Writing ...

I went to great schools as a kid?a real blessing?and I did learn basic grammar in elementary school with official terminology attached, to a greater degree than most of the people I?ve shared stories with. (We even had to do a parts of speech play in fifth grade English. I played ?Adverb,? and won an award for best Adverb in the class. I?m glad I didn?t realize then there is no such thing as a good adverb, ha! At best, adverbs are tolerable in certain contexts. I strive to avoid them.)

Anyway, my point here is that, at least in the United States, it is very, very easy to get through school without ever having an in-depth study of English grammar. That?s a big problem if, like me, you have a love and a passion for writing. But never fear: learning a second language in a classroom will fill in many gaps, as surely as Strunk and White.

SPANISH AND THE SUBJUNCTIVE

I have taught Spanish for two years, and routinely, I have to explain to my students what direct object and indirect objects are, and what the passive voice is. What?s a transitive versus intransitive verb? They just don?t know. They?ve never been taught that. Well, you can?t learn to use direct vs indirect object pronouns correctly in Spanish if you?re not sure what the heck that is in English, can you? So what ends up happening is that students learn the nuts and bolts of English as they?re grappling with Spanish. It?s not an ideal system, perhaps, but it gets results.

A great example of this, in my personal experience, was learning about the subjunctive. The subjunctive is a ?mood? of language that is extremely common in Spanish. I had never been taught about the subjunctive in English class, but when my Spanish teachers explained that we do have it in English to express impossibility, I was astounded. We do, though. Look at this:

I wish I were in Madrid right now. (Usually with ?I? we use ?was,? right? This is the subjunctive, expressing an impossibility. I?m NOT in Madrid.)

If I were you? (I?m not you. I?m me.)

If the car were working, I?d drive you to the store. (Same thing. The car?s not working.)

The subjunctive is loosely used and rarely enforced in English, but if you?re a writer, it?s good to know it exists and how it works. If you have a character who?s highly educated or, in the case of my fantasy novels, a noble, chances are he?d know to say ?If she were here? instead of ?If she was here.?

RED HOUSE/CASA ROJA

I once had a student come up to me after an introductory level class, and he said he was having trouble reading in Spanish because he couldn?t digest the adjectives. In Spanish adjectives come after nouns, as in the example phrase this student gave me: ?casa roja,? red (roja) house (casa). He said he didn?t know how to process such phrases because he saw the house first in his mind and then had to adjust the image to conform to the adjectives that followed. I assured him he would get used to this in time and showed him that language is always an arbitrary construction. I told him a Spaniard learning English might be confused by the order of the phrase ?red house.? He might complain that he had to start with a mental image of big glob of red without any object to attach it to, because he was used to the object preceding the descriptions. Struggles and discussions like this, common occurrences throughout the language learning process, really heighten your awareness of what language is and how it works. That is such a plus for a writer!

OTHER PERQS OF BEING A BILINGUAL AUTHOR

If you struggle with the nitty-gritty of grammar, consider studying a second language. It will help you, I promise, and it has so many other advantages for your writing. It opens your mind to new ways to use your first language (Why not break rules sparingly, putting an adjective after a noun for emphasis?) It really drives home to you how ambiguous and imperfect any linguistic system is, and why you need to read your fiction as an outsider would, to make sure what you think you?re writing is actually what?s on the page. (This is one of many, many reasons you need beta readers/an editor.) It exposes you to a new culture and other ways of seeing the world, and that can only help you when it comes to character development. Please, if you never have, do consider studying a second language. It will enrich many aspects of your life as well as your fiction!

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Caterpillar sees weak economy as it cuts outlook

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 20, 2012, file photo a caterpillar machine is used at the Clinton Landfill in Clinton, Ill. Caterpillar cut its profit and revenue guidance on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, saying the world?s economic conditions ?are weaker than we had previously expected.? Caterpillar Inc. is the world?s largest construction and mining equipment maker, so its results are watched closely as a sign of where the broader economy is headed. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 20, 2012, file photo a caterpillar machine is used at the Clinton Landfill in Clinton, Ill. Caterpillar cut its profit and revenue guidance on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, saying the world?s economic conditions ?are weaker than we had previously expected.? Caterpillar Inc. is the world?s largest construction and mining equipment maker, so its results are watched closely as a sign of where the broader economy is headed. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 20, 2012, file photo, shows Caterpillar logos on earth moving tractors and equipment in Clinton, Ill. Caterpillar cut its profit and revenue guidance on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, saying the world?s economic conditions ?are weaker than we had previously expected.? Caterpillar Inc. is the world?s largest construction and mining equipment maker, so its results are watched closely as a sign of where the broader economy is headed. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ? Caterpillar says the world's economy is weaker than it thought, and it doesn't expect growth to pick up until the second half of next year.

The company on Monday cut its 2012 revenue and profit guidance, and took a very cautious view toward its performance in 2013.

Caterpillar makes the yellow-painted excavators, heavy tractors, and other construction equipment often seen on road-building projects. It's the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, and also makes engines. Its results are watched closely for signs of where the broader economy is headed.

Where it's headed right now is for some weak growth, based on what Caterpillar was saying on Monday.

It predicted worldwide economic growth of 2.7 percent for next year, up from the 2.5 percent growth it expects for 2012. It expects the cheap lending offered in most countries to continue next year, although "growth has been slow to respond," the company said.

"As a result, we are not expecting improvement in overall economic growth until the second half of 2013," the company said.

Caterpillar sells to dealers, who turn around and sell to end users like construction and mining companies. Those dealers are trying to cut inventory, so they're ordering less equipment than customers are buying.

In response, Caterpillar said it has reduced production, resulting in temporary shutdowns and layoffs. Lower production will continue until dealer demand lines up with end user demand, Caterpillar said.

The layoffs will generally be short-term, such as a factory shutting down for a week, the company's chief financial officer, Ed Rapp, said in an interview.

"We haven't seen the broad-based economic growth that we really anticipated in 2012," he said.

As a result, Caterpillar cut its 2012 outlook for the second time this year. Revenue is expected to grow 9.7 percent to $66 billion, after rising 41 percent in 2011. Profit is now forecast at $9 to $9.25 per share, down from a previous forecast of $9.60 per share.

Analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected revenue of $67.2 billion, with profit of $9.41 per share.

The company said growth was below expectations in the U.S. and China, and with much of Europe in recession.

The U.S., China and most developing economics should see modest improvement next year, Caterpillar said. But it sees "continuing difficulty" and only marginal growth in Europe.

"We're not expecting rapid growth, and we're not predicting a global recession," Chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman said.

On Friday, General Electric Co. CEO Jeffrey Immelt said he's expecting economic conditions next year to be similar to this year. Most regions should show some improvement, but Europe's "going to be a grind," he said. Investors should get another view of the global economy from a major manufacturer when 3M Co. reports earnings on Tuesday.

Caterpillar expects 2013 revenue to be about the same as this year, plus or minus 5 percent.

The company said sales of mining gear will fall next year. Lower prices for metals and coal, along with higher operating costs, have hurt profit margins at many mining companies, Caterpillar said. Sales of construction gear are expected to increase, and it expects improving activity in the U.S. It expects engine sales to be flat.

Profit in the third quarter rose 49 percent to almost $1.7 billion, or $2.54 per share. That compares with profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.71 per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 4.6 percent to $16.45 billion.

The results included a gain of $273 million, or 27 cents per share, from selling a majority interest in a logistics business. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had been expecting a profit of $2.21 per share, on revenue of $16.64 billion.

Shares of Peoria, Ill.-based Caterpillar Inc. rose $1.22 to close at $85.08 Monday.

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Tictail Secures ?1.2M For Its Super Simple Store Creator

In recent times we've seen the rise of super-simple sites which make the creation of content or the ability to sell something as easy as possible. Sites like CheckThis, Tumblr, Shoply and Etsy have made names for themselves allowing the easy creation of content and shops. But now another site hopes to make selling something online even easier. Tictail, a "DIY" ecommerce platform from Sweden, has now raised ?1.2 million in seed funding in a round led by Balderton Capital and European super-angel Klaus Hommels. Spotify CPO Gustav S?derstr?m and Tumblr COO Fredrik Nylander - both already on the advisory board, have also invested.

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