Airports challenging FAA's planned tower shutdowns

CHICAGO (AP) -- Airport operators are mounting a legal challenge to the Federal Aviation Administration's decision to cut funding for 149 air traffic control towers, accusing the agency of violating federal law meant to ensure major changes at airports do not erode safety.

Several airports are now asking a federal court to halt the plan and compel the FAA to more carefully study the potential safety impact, said Carl Olson, director of the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington, Ill. He warned that without a more cautious approach, lives will be put at risk by cuts that he contends are arbitrary and the result of reckless political brinkmanship in Washington.

"I think everybody's going to realize what the industry knows, and that is there is a razor thin margin of error in aviation and any diminishment of safety is going to have an immediate and cascading effect," Olson said in an interview Friday. "And all the talk to the contrary won't change that fact."

Olson's airport is among the latest to file a lawsuit this week with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington. The others are Spokane Airports in Washington state, and the operators of Florida airports in Naples, Ormond Beach and Punta Gorda. The court combined the suits into a single case Thursday.

FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said Friday that the agency could not comment on the pending litigation.

The agency's administrator, Michael Huerta, has stressed that safety remains the FAA's top priority even as it is forced by the budget cutting known as sequestration to trim $637 million for the rest of the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30.

The FAA said it had no choice but to subject most of its 47,000 employees, including tower controllers, to periodic furloughs and to close air traffic facilities run by contractors at 149 small airports with lighter traffic. The first of those closures will happen April 7. Olson's airport is slated to lose its funding May 5.

The tower shutdowns will not mean that airports have to close. All pilots are required to know how to land at un-towered airports and to practice those procedures, which include communicating with other pilots over a shared radio frequency.

But airport directors, pilots and others in the aviation sector say stripping away an extra layer of safety during the most critical stages of flight will elevate risks and at the very least slow years of progress that made the U.S. aviation network the safest in the world.

Lawrence Krauter, director of Spokane International Airport, said he expects more airports and possibly trade associations to join the legal challenge. He said the tower closures amount to one of the most significant changes to the national air system's safety network in recent history and deserve to be studied carefully.

"No one's going to tell you ... that there aren't some contract towers out there that could be closed," Krauter said. "What we're saying is that we think that there needs to be a more reasoned and appropriate process."

Spokane's second and smaller airport, Felts Field, is set to lose its tower funding May 5. Like many of the airports losing funding, it has a busy flight school and serves the area's medical air evacuation operation in addition to handling private aircraft.

Local airport authorities have been scrambling to find the money to keep their towers running once the federal funding runs out. And several of the airport operators wrote to Huerta to ask that he halt the plans and detail exactly what study and review processes, if any, the FAA has carried out.

Olson said he's gotten no response and suspects that no substantive review has been conducted.

"We're not aware of any," Olson said. "There doesn't appear to be any consideration for the individual operations, safety or environmental consequences."

The lawsuits specifically mention the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires extensive review of any airport changes, as well as the Safety Management Systems protocols requiring thorough risk analysis that the FAA must carry out.

"That requirement is not excused" by the budget cuts, Olson said.

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Can a yoga studio calm Clackamas County politics? | OregonLive.com

First tongue-in-cheek question for Cassia Mark: Can her new yoga and fitness center calm the angry politics of Clackamas County?

She laughs and jokingly answers, "I sure hope so." But future students will no doubt have peace, not politics, on their minds when Mark's Karma Yoga and Fitness studio opens later this spring. The business, located in the Sunnybrook Center, 13031
S.E. 84th Avenue, will be the first of its kind in the area, Mark says.

As a devoted student who lives in nearby Happy Valley, she should know. "Believe me, I have looked high and low."

Since Mark couldn't find a studio -- "You can go to the gym, but it's not the same," she says -- she decided to open one herself. The 2,000 square foot studio opens in May. A class schedule is on the studio's website.

Mark doesn't teach yoga herself, but has hired seven instructors and is looking for more. Instructors will have a minimum of 200 hours teaching certification.

Classes will be offered in various forms of yoga, including vinyasa, hatha, yin, restorative, flow, pre-natal and for mothers and babies. The studio will offer free yoga classes to foster children and veterans, Mark says.

Mark, who has started and managed businesses in the past, is confident a ready market exists in the area.

"I'm my own demographic," she says. "I want a yoga studio, all my neighbors want a studio, and there's nothing around here."

--Eric Mortenson

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Definition of Online Business | Jugglingart.Org

Definition of online business is diverse by many people. However, definitions of online business looks different context, actually refers to the same essence. The definition of an online business is all forms of business activities that are executed using the internet, which aims to generate income.

From the definition of an online business can be concluded that in principle an online business is not much different from the business runs offline. There is similarities between the online business and offline businesses, including the sale and purchase transactions, both goods and services, and the goals to be achieved, which earn revenue (income). What distinguishes is the media used. Online business is run through the internet, while offline businesses run based on the stores, direct selling door to door, or other forms of marketing.

Online business becomes the choice of many people for earn some money. This is because business in the virtual world does have many advantages. Advantages of online businesses are as follows:

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Online business does have many advantages and can be run by anyone in anywhere. However, not all people who run this online business succeed, many have failed. Their failure because they did not done the proper way, less persistent in the business, less incentive promotions, or products sold less interesting or less valuable benefit for most people.

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Pentagon civilians facing fewer furlough days

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As many as 700,000 civilian employees at the Defense Department will be furloughed for as long as 14 work days beginning in June, eight fewer days than originally anticipated after Congress gave military officials greater flexibility to apportion automatic budget cuts driving the layoffs.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel described the reduction from 22 days to two weeks as "good news" during a Pentagon news conference Thursday.

Hagel also announced that President Barack Obama has nominated Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove to take over as commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Europe.

Furlough notices will be sent out in early May, and the furloughs will begin in June and last through September. Employees will be furloughed for one day in each of the last 14 weeks of the 2013 budget year.

The thorny issue of who will be exempt from the furloughs remains unresolved. Pentagon officials have estimated that at least 10 percent of the department's roughly 800,000 civilian workers will not face furloughs, but they have declined to identify them.

The Pentagon previously has said it will not furlough civilians in the war zone and in critical public safety jobs, or people whose jobs are not paid for through congressional funding. Also exempt are as many as 50,000 foreign nationals who work for the department but are covered by international agreements.

The automatic cuts took effect March 1, triggered by Congress' failure to trim the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion over a decade. The Pentagon initially faced a $46 billion budget reduction through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, but Hagel said a new spending bill signed by Obama this week lowered the reduction by roughly $5 billion. That allows the military to start military construction projects and other programs that otherwise would have been delayed.

The furloughs are expected to save about $2.5 billion, Hagel said.

Before the bill was signed, civilians would have been required to take one day a week off without pay for 22 weeks ? a 20 percent pay cut for more than five months. The spending bill gave officials the leeway to lessen the salary cuts and spread money around to other key priorities, including training, maintenance and possible ship deployments.

As an example, the Navy had delayed refueling overhauls of two aircraft carriers, the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Abraham Lincoln ? critical maintenance work that officials said would be a priority if additional funding became available.

Breedlove is the top Air Force commander in Europe. If he's confirmed by the Senate, he would be the first Air Force general to hold the top NATO job since Joseph Ralston served there from 2000-2003. Breedlove would succeed Navy Adm. James Stavridis, who has held the job since 2009.

Obama chose Breedlove after his first choice for the job, Marine Gen. John Allen, announced he would retire after 19 months commanding allied forces in Afghanistan because of his wife's health.

Hagel, who said he met with Breedlove on his way back from a recent trip to Afghanistan, urged the Senate to confirm him quickly.

"We need to get that position filled," he said.

Obama said Breedlove has "served with distinction in assignments at all levels of the U.S. Air Force and around the globe, from Washington to Germany, Italy, Spain and South Korea."

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Mars sand dunes may hint at water beneath

The discovery, based on research in Alaska, opens a window on processes at play early in Mars' history, when it hosted an environment that could have harbored microbial life.

By Pete Spotts,?Staff writer / March 30, 2013

Dunes spanning an area about the size of Texas in the Martian equivalent of the Arctic.

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Shifting dunes on Mars, especially those near the planet's north pole, may harbor layers of liquid water not far beneath their ice-encrusted surfaces.

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That is the implication of studies of sand dunes in Alaska's Kobuk Valley National Park, some 380 miles northwest of Fairbanks. There, above the Arctic Circle, researchers using the dunes as stand-ins for dunes on Mars have found evidence for liquid water trapped between the dunes' icy winter coat and subsurface layers of ice or freeze-dried silt that form a temporary, cement-like barrier that prevents the water from percolating deeper into the dune.

The water remains liquid because it exists in an environment of temperature and pressure that allows liquid water, ice, and water vapor to exist side by side.

The discovery of this seasonal mechanism for storing liquid water on Mars-like features at Mars-like temperatures opens a window on processes that could have been at play early in Mars' history, when it hosted an environment that could have harbored microbial life.

?And it could help explain debris flows scientists have spotted on sunlit sections of crater and canyon walls in various locations around the planet.

"Mars has likely had active sand dunes during every geologic era, and some of these eras were warmer and wetter than Mars is today," notes Cynthia Dinwiddie, a researcher with the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.

"There is some possibility that equivalent processes are currently occurring on Mars," primarily in dune fields in Mars' equivalent of the Arctic, she writes in an email. Still, "the likelihood is even greater that equivalent processes occurred on ancient Mars."

The dune field in Alaska that Dr. Dinwiddie and Southwest Research Institute colleague Don Hooper study sits on the boundary between boreal forests to the south and Arctic tundra to the north. Known as the Great Kobuk Sand Dune field, the sands were first formed during ice ages that occurred between 300,000 and 130,000 years ago.

Glaciers sculpted the Brooks Range to the north and left the sandy debris in the Kobuk River Valley. There, wind, meltwater, and more-recent ice ages would continue to rework the material to leave some 24 square miles of mobile dunes on the surface and another 250 square miles of sandy soils that don't get around much anymore.

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Franchise quarterback, anyone?

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When he agreed to a three-year, $6 million deal with the Ravens, one of the first things Michael Huff did was text Ed Reed.

But at the same time, he doesn?t need to spend too much time trying to be Ed Reed.

?It means a lot,? Huff said, via Aaron Wilson of the Baltimore Sun. ?He?s one of the greatest, if not the greatest free safety to ever play the game. I just told him that I?ll carry on his legacy, carry on the tradition of great safeties in Baltimore. I?m definitely going to go out there and hold up my end.

?For me to come in here, I don?t really feel like I?m following his footsteps. I?m more kind of starting my own legacy and going in here to help the defense and help us win.?

There are two important reasons not to invite comparisons. One, Reed?s a former NFL defensive player of the year who?s likely to end up in the Hall of Fame when he?s finished.

But as importantly, Reed wasn?t Reed any more on the field last season, which is why they were willing to let him go become a Texan.

The Ravens weren?t going to get into a bidding war for a guy who?s turning 35 this season, allowing Houston to pay him a three-year, $15 million deal for intangibles.

So they found a player who is nearly five years younger, $9 million cheaper, and for the moment, perhaps a better fit.

Huff?s in Baltimore to play safety, but was forced into playing corner last year in Oakland. While he?s not someone you want on an island playing coverage, he can still cover ground, and that?s something the Ravens need in the middle of their new defense.

?He?s just a tremendous player, a tremendous guy,? Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. ?He fits us really well both football-wise and technique-wise, the type of person he is, the type of family man he is.

?He?s going to enable us to keep doing the things on defense that we have been doing and even build on those things. He has done it all because he?s smart, he?s tough and he knows how to play the game.?

So while the Ravens might not have the same kind of name recognition they once had on defense, they might be better. For roughly the same $41 million the Browns spent to lure outside linebacker Paul Kruger away, the Ravens have restocked by signing pass-rusher Elvis Dumervil, lineman Chris Canty and Marcus Spears and Huff, which gives them a better opportunity to live up to the reputation the old guys created.

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Homeownership 44% Cheaper than Renting | Las Vegas Real Estate

Mar 29, 2013, Posted by: Summer Bowen

Despite home prices rising 7 percent in the last year, buying verses renting is 44 percent cheaper according to Trulia. ?In all of America?s 100 largest metros, homeownership is cheaper than renting.

Falling mortgage rates have kept buying almost as affordable, relative to renting, as it was last year. ?Freddie Mac has reported the 30-year fixed rate dropped from 3.9% to 3.5% between February 2012 and February 2013.

Trulia calculates the following to determine the costs between renting and buying:

• the average rent and for-sale prices for an identical set of properties
• initial total monthly costs of owning and renting, including maintenance, insurance, and taxes.
• future total monthly costs of owning and renting, taking into account price and rent appreciation as well as inflation
• factor in one-time costs and proceeds, like closing costs, downpayments, sales proceeds, and security deposits.
• net present value to account for opportunity cost of money.

Trulia also assumes people will obtain a 3.5% mortgage rate, reside in the 25% tax bracket, itemize their federal tax deductions, and will stay in their home for seven years.

Ultimately, three factors have a real impact on the rent-versus-buy math: mortgage rates, tax deductions, and how long you stay in your home. Change any of these factors and the results could vary.

So if you are looking to buy, give Marshall Stearns Real Estate a call to help you find a home before rates change.

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Exclusive: Indonesia's CT Corp proposes all-cash deal for Bakrie's media unit

By Janeman Latul and Randy Fabi

TANJUNG BENOA, Indonesia (Reuters) - CT Corp, one of Indonesia's emerging conglomerates, has proposed an all-cash deal for a controlling stake in media firm PT Visi Media Asia , valued at up to $1.8 billion, to strengthen its position in the media business in Southeast Asia's biggest economy.

The founder and chairman of CT Corp, Chairul Tanjung, told Reuters that his firm wanted to purchase Visi Media, a unit of Indonesia's powerful Bakrie family, without any partners.

"We are one of the preferred bidders. Our proposal is we want to buy it all ... my pocket is still deep," the 51-year-old billionaire said in his hotel room on the resort island of Bali, shortly after meeting with the president and cabinet ministers in his role as head of the president's economic advisory body.

"(It is) only us that can pay cash one hundred percent ... but the deal is not done yet."

CT Corp is already a major player in the Indonesian media business and controls two local TV stations. Tanjung said he would take out a new loan to buy the Visi Media stake. He declined to say how much the company would borrow for the deal.

This is the first time any bidder has publicly announced that it was offering to buy the company.

Indonesia's politically influential Bakrie family has been in talks to sell its majority interest in Visi Media to help finance a plan to buy back coal assets from London-listed Bumi Plc , sources with direct knowledge have said.

The Bakries are offering around a 51 percent stake in Visi Media, which the family controls via its vehicle CMA Indonesia. The process has been going on for the past three months with local bidders, including CT Corp and MNC Group, the sources said.

The Bakries had been looking for a valuation of $1.2 billion to $2 billion for the unit, although Visi Media's current market capitalization is only around $800 million, the sources said.

Visi Media has two national TV stations and a news website.

The sources said the stake would be worth up to $1.8 billion.

Tanjung, who trained as a dentist before becoming a businessman, also plans to build a $3 billion theme park on Indonesia's Java island and make it one of the biggest theme parks in Southeast Asia when it opens in 2016.

"We will build a city, not only a theme park, as I want to make many Indonesians feel happy," Tanjung said, adding that the land for the park would be around 200 hectares and the construction would start by the end of this year.

The group, which was founded by Tanjung, currently operates two theme parks and has plans to add another 20 theme parks across Indonesia over the next few years.

Tanjung is Indonesia's fifth-richest man with a net worth around $3.4 billion as of march, according to Forbes.

(Editing by Jonathan Thatcher and Chris Gallagher)

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Cohen's favorite Housewife? NeNe -- for now

By Ree Hines, TODAY contributor

Bravo bigwig Andy Cohen launched the network's ever-growing, always-popular franchise, "The Real Housewives," in 2006. What started with a few privileged, entertaining and often-argumentative women from the O.C., eventually expanded to include the dozens of frequent feuders from coast to coast.

On Friday morning, Cohen visited TODAY and fielded a couple of questions about the leading ladies on the shows -- questions that he wasn't exactly eager to answer.

For instance, which Housewife is his personal favorite?

"That is horrible! That is a terrible question," he said with a smile as he mulled it over. "I would get in terrible trouble. ... I love when any of them really succeed."

And that means he's really loving one woman right now.

"You know, NeNe Leakes is going through a major period of success -- from, of course, 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta,'" he shared. "She's got a starring role in 'The New Normal' on NBC. I'm especially proud of her right now."

There's even more for Cohen to be proud of where Leakes is concerned.

After several years of fussing and fighting, Leakes and her former "Real Housewives of Atlanta" co-star Kim Zolciak have finally buried the hatchet and gone back to being BFFs, a fact Leakes recently celebrated on Twitter.

As for Cohen, if he was a little reluctant to name his favorite Housewife, that's nothing compared to his reaction when asked to name his least favorite.

"Oh, yes! Let me tell everybody about it," he joked. "Yes! Let me rank my top five least favorite Housewives for you right now. No! Love them all for different reasons."

See more from Cohen on part two of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" reunion special Monday night, or see him on his own show, "Watch What Happens Live," which airs Sunday through Thursday nights -- both on Bravo.

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S&P 500 ends at record closing high

By Rodrigo Campos

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 set a record closing high on Thursday, finishing a fifth consecutive month of gains to extend a four-year rally.

The S&P had hovered near its record for more than two weeks, and market action next week will help determine if this is just another stepping stone for the rally, or if a long-expected pullback is in the offing.

The benchmark S&P 500 closed its strongest quarter in a year - up 10 percent. The Dow climbed 11.3 percent and the Nasdaq gained 8.2 percent for the first three months of the year.

The new closing high "is a very appropriate punctuation for a great quarter that saw a lot of last year's anxieties recede," said Bruce McCain, chief investment strategist at Key Private Bank in Cleveland.

"However, this could be the start to a more realistic look at the problems that still haven't gone away. Some degree of caution is probably still merited, with the problems in Cyprus probably only the beginning to what we could see in coming months."

The rally hit a wall in the last two weeks as the latest chapter in the euro-zone crisis developed, with Cyprus nearing a default and a possible exit from the euro bloc.

The S&P 500 had been in a fairly tight range, having traded within 10 points of the October 9, 2007, record closing high of 1,565.15 over the previous 13 sessions.

On Thursday, the S&P 500 <.spx> gained 6.34 points, or 0.41 percent, to end at a new record of 1,569.19.

The Dow industrials, which surpassed its 2007 record on March 5 and has set a series of record highs since then, ended Thursday's session at yet another nominal closing high - at 14,578.54. For the day, the Dow rose 52.38 points, or 0.36 percent.

The Nasdaq Composite <.ixic> added 11 points, or 0.34 percent, to close at 3,267.52.

The gains in the three first months of the year have a very bullish history. An analysis by Ryan Detrick, senior technical strategist at Schaeffer's Investment Research in Cincinnati, showed the S&P 500 has risen in the three first months of the year nine times in the past 30 years, and in each case, it has posted gains for the year.

The average yearly gain after such a start, the data showed, was 17.56 percent. An advance like that would leave the S&P 500 at about 1,676 at the end of this year.

"The key is the follow-through," said Quincy Krosby, market strategist at Prudential Financial in Newark, New Jersey.

"It will be very important how the market handles next week's data."

Key manufacturing numbers are expected on Monday and factory orders Tuesday, building up to Friday's widely followed payrolls report.

During March, the Dow gained 3.7 percent, the S&P 500 rose 3.6 percent and the Nasdaq added 3.4 percent.

Thursday marked the end of the trading week. U.S. stock markets will be closed on Friday because of the Good Friday holiday.

Netflix was the S&P 500's best-performing stock during the first quarter, up 104.4 percent at $189.28, followed by Best Buy , up 86.9 percent at $22.15.

On the downside, Cliffs Natural Resources tumbled 50.7 percent in the first quarter to $19.01 and J.C. Penney lost 23.3 percent to $15.11.

Data showed the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week, but probably not enough to suggest a faltering in the labour market's recovery. Other data showed the economy expanded more in the fourth quarter than was previously estimated by the government.

Volume was lighter than average with some market participants absent for the observance of Passover or to get an early start on the long Easter weekend.

About 5.8 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and NYSE MKT, below the daily average so far this year of about 6.4 billion shares.

On the NYSE, advancers outnumbered decliners by a ratio of roughly 8 to 5. On the Nasdaq, 14 stocks rose for every 11 that fell.

(Reporting by Rodrigo Campos, Chuck Mikolajczak and Ryan Vlastelica; Editing by Jan Paschal)

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'Ladies Man: A MADE Movie' Teaches Us The Finer Points Of Seduction

The latest MTV original movie takes on a topic many of us are far too familiar with. In "Ladies Man: A MADE Movie," Toby wants to become a "stud" and convince all of the girls that he's friends with to see him in a different light (i.e. not as their gay best friend). To do [...]

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Mr. T Scored From Center Ice Sending ... - Business Insider

Two years after attempting a similar promotion during intermission of a Chicago Blackhawks game, Mr. T was back at center ice and in a jersey to attempt to shoot a puck through one of three small holes in the net. After missing badly on his first two attempts, the puck must have been scared, because Mr. T scored right down the middle.

The best part is how much fun Mr. T and the crowd seemed to be having with the promotion as he struck a pose after the shot and the fans went wild (video via LarryBrownSports.com)...

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MOGA to support Kindle Fire and Windows Phone 8, $50 Pro controller slated for April 15th

After nearly six months on the market, the MOGA Bluetooth-powered gaming controller is finally ready to open up its Android-restricted doors. We were told at the Game Developers Conference that starting today, developers can add MOGA support to Kindle Fire and Windows Phone 8 games, thus marking the device's first foray outside of the Google Play ecosystem. Consumers shouldn't get too excited by this announcement just yet, however, as this is just a call for developers -- it'll still be awhile until we see MOGA-compatible Kindle Fire and Windows Phone 8 games pop up on that MOGA Pivot app. In the meantime, we also learned that the MOGA Pro controller we saw at CES will be available in stores starting April 15th for $50 a pop, so hopefully those newly-ported apps will be ready by then.

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Founder Mike Lazaridis to leave Blackberry May 1st as vice-chairman and director

On the heels of today's earnings release, Blackberry vice chairman Mike Lazaridis announced that he'll leave the company on May 1st. The exec founded the company formerly known as Research in Motion almost 30 years ago, with Jim Balsillie as its early CEO -- who resigned this time last year himself and recently sold off his remaining shares. Lazaridis said that he'll focus instead on his new Quantum Valley Investments venture, which recently backed a research center in his home town of Waterloo, Ontario.

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Several Advantages Of Unlocked Gsm Cellular Phones | Simple Call ...

Telecom operators customarily lock the cell phone to their network. This way, they hope to build customer loyalty and maximize their profits from the use of SMS and voice calls.

But are you aware that you can easily buy unlocked GSM cellular phones? There are many benefits to using unlocked cell phones. Actually, when you have an unlocked GSM phone, you can make your mobile phone work for your interests. Not being tied to a single network allows more flexibility and more reasonable call options.

These are some of the benefits you can acquire if you buy an unlocked GSM cellular phone:

You Can Have Wide International Coverage

You can enjoy the broadest international coverage if you have an unlocked GSM cell phone. This is the best benefit that you can get with unlocked cell phones.

Most telecom providers only sell locked GSM phones to work only with their networks. This means when you are traveling internationally, you will need to acquire a new cell phone unit to make and receive calls. This inconvenience can be avoided when you purchase an unlocked GSM cell phone.

Standard unlocked cell phones have global coverage in more than 200 countries. With that reason alone, it makes your mobile phone a powerful communication device. There will be no worries about losing your contacts and you can still easily get in touch with your partners abroad.

Low International Call Rates for Unlocked Cellular Phones

Unlocked GSM phones are intended for global use. You will be able to enjoy significantly lower rates for voice calls, SMS, and other mobile phone services throughout the world.

You will only pay the standard rate for all your calls anywhere you may be. This will significantly reduce the cost of your international calls. That is why using an unlocked GSM cellular phones is an economical option for many.

Maintaining an Intact Contact List

You can keep and maintain your contact list if you are using an unlocked cell phone. Since you?re using only one phone, your contact list will be intact. All information you store in your phone will be retained. It will be easy to find the contact numbers of your business associates.

These are just some of the excellent benefits when you use an unlocked GSM cell phone. So if you happen to be a frequent traveler, then you why not take full advantage of having an unlocked cell phone that works for you.

This article was written by Paul Wise. Like many Paul is a gadget guy. When looking for a cellular phone, Paul uses Cell2Get.com they have the widest selection in Unlocked Cell Phones and why not buy one unlocked? your already investing the money, it would only benefit you to have the additional options of Unlocked GSM Phones, especially in terms of resale value.

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Home Shopping: Should You Buy New? | AOL Real Estate

By Amanda Gengler

It's official: After years of little activity, homebuilders are dusting off their jackhammers. Last year, housing permits hit their highest level since 2008, according to the Census Bureau, and new-home sales grew 20% from the prior year. "Builders are more optimistic than they have been for several years," says Patrick Newport, an economist at IHS Global Insight.

An untouched abode offers advantages, of course, such as a sleek modern layout and few repairs. Buying an existing home, however, may allow you to seal the deal faster and can offer better short-term price appreciation. These head-to-head comparisons can help you decide which choice better fits your priorities.

Sales Price
Winner: Draw

All else being equal, new structures typically command 10% to 15% premiums over similar existing places. You're unlikely to be making an equal comparison, however. "In most of the country the lots in the best locations are already gone," says David Brown, a Dallas-based housing consultant for Metrostudy. The newest homes are often built farther from centrally located areas and may have smaller yards than their older counterparts, so they can wind up costing less. What you won't find in either place is the lavish incentives tossed to buyers during the bust; those have largely disappeared, says Brown.

When you're visiting prospective homes, check the numbers on both the lot size and the layout.
A spacious existing home that's overflowing with the current owners' stuff can look cramped, whereas builders use lots of tricks, such as putting in full beds instead of kings or queens and removing interior doors, to make a new home's space seem larger than it really is.

Speed of Transaction
Winner: Existing

Most builders today are selling new homes from models, says Jody Kahn of John Burns Real Estate Consulting in Portsmouth, N.H. Once you agree to buy, the actual construction begins. The upside: There are still lots of ways to personalize the home, such as adding extra storage or creating an office. But the finished product probably won't be ready for six to nine months, which can be tough for those who need to move in soon.

Timing the purchase is also a challenge when you're looking at a waiting period. List your current pad when you agree to the new home and you risk selling too early; wait until your moving date nears and you could be stuck covering two mortgages until you find a buyer and close the deal, says Michael Corbett, author of Before You Buy. Ask an agent how fast homes in your area are selling and, if necessary, discuss strategies to get yours sold more quickly.

Cost of Ownership
Winner: New

After a few decades, roofs get leaky and boilers go bust. You'll spend an average of $18,000 on a new roof, according to Remodeling magazine, and $3,000 for a furnace. New homes also carry lower utility bills. Energy use per house has fallen over the past decade in part thanks to changes to building energy codes, which call for more insulation and tighter sealing, and should fall further in new homes as more states adopt the latest 2012 codes. "New construction on average is 30% to 40% more efficient than existing homes," says Indiana energy consultant John Milligan.

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How herpesvirus invades nervous system

Mar. 27, 2013 ? Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a component of the herpesvirus that "hijacks" machinery inside human cells, allowing the virus to rapidly and successfully invade the nervous system upon initial exposure.

Led by Gregory Smith, associate professor in immunology and microbiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, researchers found that viral protein 1-2, or VP1/2, allows the herpesvirus to interact with cellular motors, known as dynein. Once the protein has overtaken this motor, the virus can speed along intercellular highways, or microtubules, to move unobstructed from the tips of nerves in skin to the nuclei of neurons within the nervous system.

This is the first time researchers have shown a viral protein directly engaging and subverting the cellular motor; most other viruses passively hitch a ride into the nervous system.

"This protein not only grabs the wheel, it steps on the gas," says Smith. "Overtaking the cellular motor to invade the nervous system is a complicated accomplishment that most viruses are incapable of achieving. Yet the herpesvirus uses one protein, no others required, to transport its genetic information over long distances without stopping."

Herpesvirus is widespread in humans and affects more than 90 percent of adults in the United States. It is associated with several types of recurring diseases, including cold sores, genital herpes, chicken pox, and shingles. The virus can live dormant in humans for a lifetime, and most infected people do not know they are disease carriers. The virus can occasionally turn deadly, resulting in encephalitis in some.

Until now, scientists knew that herpesviruses travel quickly to reach neurons located deep inside the body, but the mechanism by which they advance remained a mystery.

Smith's team conducted a variety of experiments with VP1/2 to demonstrate its important role in transporting the virus, including artificial activation and genetic mutation of the protein. The team studied the herpesvirus in animals, and also in human and animal cells in culture under high-resolution microscopy. In one experiment, scientists mutated the virus with a slower form of the protein dyed red, and raced it against a healthy virus dyed green. They observed that the healthy virus outran the mutated version down nerves to the neuron body to insert DNA and establish infection.

"Remarkably, this viral protein can be artificially activated, and in these conditions it zips around within cells in the absence of any virus. It is striking to watch," Smith says.

He says that understanding how the viruses move within people, especially from the skin to the nervous system, can help better prevent the virus from spreading.

Additionally, Smith says, "By learning how the virus infects our nervous system, we can mimic this process to treat unrelated neurologic diseases. Even now, laboratories are working on how to use herpesviruses to deliver genes into the nervous system and kill cancer cells."

Smith's team will next work to better understand how the protein functions. He notes that many researchers use viruses to learn how neurons are connected to the brain.

"Some of our mutants will advance brain mapping studies by resolving these connections more clearly than was previously possible," he says.

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Idaho teacher investigated for using word ?vagina? in sex ed lesson

The state of Idaho?s professional-standards commission is investigating a science teacher in the tiny, rural town of Dietrich, because four parents have objected to his use of the word ?vagina? in a 10th-grade biology lesson on human reproduction.

In addition to saying ?vagina,? McDaniel stands accused of describing the biological processes that lead to a human orgasm, discussing birth control, and telling unseemly jokes to his sophomore charges, reports the Times-News of nearby Twin Falls, Idaho.

The group of unnamed parents has also complained that there was an in-class video clip detailing genital herpes infection.

Still another complaint levied by the concerned parents is that McDaniel showed the documentary ?An Inconvenient Truth? in class. The parents say showing professional politician Al Gore?s agitprop on climate change amounts to endorsing a political candidate on school property.

A final claim by the irate parents ? and arguably the most serious one ? is that the science teacher revealed confidential student files with some unspecified person who is not a parent. No further information on this allegation appears to be available.

The teacher, Tim McDaniel, received a letter from the Idaho State Department of Education to McDaniel itemizing the allegations against him.

McDaniel, who says he has taught science classes in Dietrich for 18 years without criticism, is fighting the charges.

?I don?t include anything that the textbook doesn?t mention,? McDaniel claimed, according to the Times-News. He added that he allows students to opt out of sex ed coursework if they want.

As for featuring ?An Inconvenient Truth? in his classroom, McDaniel said he assigned a response paper afterwards.

?I?m not looking for one answer,? he told the Times-News. ?I just want them to be able to explain what they believe.?

Dietrich Superintendent Neil Hollingshead said he doubts McDaniel will lose his job.

?It is highly unlikely it would end with his dismissal,? Hollingshead told the newspaper. ?Maybe a letter of reprimand from the school board.?

McDaniel said he has no intention of signing a letter of reprimand.

?I?ve done nothing wrong,? the science teacher told the Times-News.

In the meantime, a Facebook petition called ?SAVE THE SCIENCE TEACHER!!? has come into existence since this kerfuffle began. Almost 300 people have expressed solidarity with McDaniel thus far.

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Protein-rich breakfasts prevent unhealthy snacking in the evening

Public release date: 26-Mar-2013
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COLUMBIA, Mo. Breakfast might be the most important meal of the day, but up to 60 percent of American young people consistently skip it. Now, Heather Leidy, an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, says eating a breakfast rich in protein significantly improves appetite control and reduces unhealthy snacking on high-fat or high-sugar foods in the evening, which could help improve the diets of more than 25 million overweight or obese young adults in the U.S.

Leidy is the first to examine the impact of breakfast consumption on daily appetite and evening snacking in young people who habitually skip breakfast. In her study, 20 overweight or obese adolescent females ages 18-20 either skipped breakfast, consumed a high-protein breakfast consisting of eggs and lean beef, or ate a normal-protein breakfast of ready-to-eat cereal. Every breakfast consisted of 350 calories and was matched for dietary fat, fiber, sugar and energy density. The high-protein breakfast contained 35 grams of protein. Participants completed questionnaires and provided blood samples throughout the day. Prior to dinner, a brain scan using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was performed to track brain signals that control food motivation and reward-driven eating behavior.

The consumption of the high-protein breakfast led to increased fullness or "satiety" along with reductions in brain activity that is responsible for controlling food cravings. The high-protein breakfast also reduced evening snacking on high-fat and high-sugar foods compared to when breakfast was skipped or when a normal protein, ready-to-eat cereal breakfast was consumed, Leidy said.

"Eating a protein-rich breakfast impacts the drive to eat later in the day, when people are more likely to consume high-fat or high-sugar snacks," Leidy said. "These data suggest that eating a protein-rich breakfast is one potential strategy to prevent overeating and improve diet quality by replacing unhealthy snacks with high quality breakfast foods."

People who normally skip breakfast might be skeptical about consuming food in the morning, but Leidy says it only takes about three days for the body to adjust to eating early in the day. Study participants ate egg and beef-based foods such as burritos or egg-based waffles with applesauce and a beef sausage patty as part of a high-protein breakfast; Leidy also suggests eating plain Greek yogurt, cottage cheese or ground pork loin as alternatives to reach the 35 grams of protein.

Future research will examine whether regularly consuming high-protein breakfasts improves body weight management in young people.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. Breakfast might be the most important meal of the day, but up to 60 percent of American young people consistently skip it. Now, Heather Leidy, an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, says eating a breakfast rich in protein significantly improves appetite control and reduces unhealthy snacking on high-fat or high-sugar foods in the evening, which could help improve the diets of more than 25 million overweight or obese young adults in the U.S.

Leidy is the first to examine the impact of breakfast consumption on daily appetite and evening snacking in young people who habitually skip breakfast. In her study, 20 overweight or obese adolescent females ages 18-20 either skipped breakfast, consumed a high-protein breakfast consisting of eggs and lean beef, or ate a normal-protein breakfast of ready-to-eat cereal. Every breakfast consisted of 350 calories and was matched for dietary fat, fiber, sugar and energy density. The high-protein breakfast contained 35 grams of protein. Participants completed questionnaires and provided blood samples throughout the day. Prior to dinner, a brain scan using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was performed to track brain signals that control food motivation and reward-driven eating behavior.

The consumption of the high-protein breakfast led to increased fullness or "satiety" along with reductions in brain activity that is responsible for controlling food cravings. The high-protein breakfast also reduced evening snacking on high-fat and high-sugar foods compared to when breakfast was skipped or when a normal protein, ready-to-eat cereal breakfast was consumed, Leidy said.

"Eating a protein-rich breakfast impacts the drive to eat later in the day, when people are more likely to consume high-fat or high-sugar snacks," Leidy said. "These data suggest that eating a protein-rich breakfast is one potential strategy to prevent overeating and improve diet quality by replacing unhealthy snacks with high quality breakfast foods."

People who normally skip breakfast might be skeptical about consuming food in the morning, but Leidy says it only takes about three days for the body to adjust to eating early in the day. Study participants ate egg and beef-based foods such as burritos or egg-based waffles with applesauce and a beef sausage patty as part of a high-protein breakfast; Leidy also suggests eating plain Greek yogurt, cottage cheese or ground pork loin as alternatives to reach the 35 grams of protein.

Future research will examine whether regularly consuming high-protein breakfasts improves body weight management in young people.

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The article, "Beneficial effects of a higher-protein breakfast on the appetitive, hormonal, and neural signals controlling energy intake regulation in overweight/obese, 'breakfast skipping,' late-adolescent girls," was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology is a joint effort by MU's College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources; College of Human Environmental Sciences; and School of Medicine. Funding for the research was provided by the Beef Check-off and the Egg Nutrition Center/American Egg Board.

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Author of "Friday Night Lights" spent $638,412.97 on clothes

Bissinger (BuzzBissinger.com)

$638,412.97.

That's how much Buzz Bissinger, the 58-year-old best-selling author of "Friday Night Lights," says he's spent on designer clothes the last three years.

In a 6,000-word essay published in next month's GQ magazine, Bissinger reveals a crippling shopping addiction that he says is similar to doing drugs or having sex.

?I own eighty-one leather jackets, seventy-five pairs of boots, forty-one pairs of leather pants, thirty-two pairs of haute couture jeans, ten evening jackets, and 115 pairs of leather gloves," Bissinger writes. "I have an addiction. It isn't drugs or gambling: I get to keep what I use after I use it. But there are similarities: the futile feeding of the bottomless beast and the unavoidable psychological implications, the immediate hit of the new that feels like an orgasm and the inevitable coming-down."

Bissinger says the most expensive leather jacket he owns, a Gucci ostrich skin, cost $13,900. "The most expensive evening jacket I own, also from Gucci, black napa leather with gold threading, cost $9,800," he writes. "The most expensive leather pants, $5,600. The most expensive jeans, $2,500. The most expensive pair of boots, $2,600. The most expensive pair of gloves, $1,015.?

And Bissinger doesn't distinguish between buying men's and women's clothes:

Some of the clothing is men's. Some is women's. I make no distinction. Men's fashion is catching up, with high-end retailers such as Gucci and Burberry and Versace finally honoring us. But women's fashion is still infinitely more interesting and has an unfair monopoly on feeling sexy, and if the clothing you wear makes you feel the way you want to feel, liberated and alive, then f---ing wear it. The opposite, to repress yourself as I did for the first fifty-five years of my life, is the worst price of all to pay.

The Philadelphia-based writer admits the addiction has made him question his sexual orientation:

Was I homosexual because so much of what I wore is associated with gays? I did experiment. And while I don?t think it is my sexual being, I can tell you that gay men as a group are nicer, smarter, have a s---load more fun than straight whites. Was I veering toward becoming a dominant leather master in the S&M scene, the leather fetish an obvious influence in most of the clothing I purchased and in much of high fashion itself? I did experiment. Was I a closeted or maybe not so closeted transvestite? Tom Ford makeup is divine; the right foundation and cheek blush and eyeliner and lipstick can do wonders for the pallid complexion. Thigh-high boots add to any wardrobe, although walking on six-inch stilettos for hours is just a bitch and therefore confined to the privacy of my house, seen only by the UPS man, who at this point could not possibly be surprised by anything. But a dress or skirt just doesn?t look good on me, and I can?t ever do a thing with my hair. The look I was going for was more David Bowie androgynous. It wasn?t successful.

Bissinger also wonders if his addiction is simply the result of extreme narcissism coupled with money from a successful writing career. "I love looking at myself in the mirror when I buy something new. I love the sexual rush to the degree that I wonder if it has become a replacement for actual sex," he writes. "But just like [sex] the magic of new clothing wears off quickly, and you can?t resist the cravings for new purchases.?

(GQ/BuzzBissinger.com)

And like any addict, Bissinger rationalized his addiction:

I wasn't mainlining heroin, just impossibly gorgeous leather jackets and coats and boots and gloves and evening jackets. I wasn't harming myself or anyone else. I was spending enormous amounts of money, but because I make a good living and received a generous inheritance from my parents, there was no threat of going broke. My wife and children never lacked for anything. Plus, I was a person of enormous willpower, and over and over I told myself that I could stop anytime I wanted. More delusion.

So what exactly triggered all of this?

"If there was a precipitating event for drastic change, it took place in the late summer and fall of 2009 with the departure of two of the most precious people in my life," Bissinger writes. "My wife, Lisa, left to take a job as an administrator at New York University Abu Dhabi. My youngest son went off to Kenyon [College]. I no longer felt like much of a husband; the 7,000-mile distance from Philadelphia to the United Arab Emirates hardly lent itself to weekend pop-ins. I also lost the one element of my life that had always sustained me and been constant, the raising of my three children. I felt alone. I was alone.?

In a separate statement, Bissinger said he has entered rehab and hopes his essay helps other shopaholics come to terms with their addiction.

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Mayor Bloomberg, The Great Liberal Ally? Not So Fast

Mar 26 (Reuters) - Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $3,787,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $2,859,920 3. Matt Kuchar $2,154,500 4. Steve Stricker $1,820,000 5. Phil Mickelson $1,650,260 6. Hunter Mahan $1,553,965 7. John Merrick $1,343,514 8. Dustin Johnson $1,330,507 9. Russell Henley $1,313,280 10. Kevin Streelman $1,310,343 11. Keegan Bradley $1,274,593 12. Charles Howell III $1,256,373 13. Michael Thompson $1,254,669 14. Brian Gay $1,171,721 15. Justin Rose $1,155,550 16. Jason Day $1,115,565 17. Chris Kirk $1,097,053 18. ...

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Top Home Improvement: About swimming pool - the last bath

Nothing can overcome summer heat as cold, stimulating the waters of a swimming pool. The cold water of the pool is a haven in the burning heat of summer. You never want to exit the pool. The pool becomes inevitable.

Pool are usually created recreational swimming and competitive swimming tasks. A personal swimming pool definitely includes design and value to your home.

Ponds are mainly of two types, in ground pool and on the ground in ground swimming pool, ponds are long-term structures requiring excavation and installation expert; on the floor of the pool they are ever more dear these days, as they are conveniently.

About ground swimming pool

Above ground pond are the best choice for leisure bathing because they have very low expenses. The standard amenities of these pools is that they are easy to build. Soil bath pools are composed of construction kits. These sets can be easily together for a Do It Yourself enthusiast enthusiast to make a pool. But many people put it by experts such as the swimming pool after a warranty included.

A specialist undoubtedly will launch the swimming pond pretty consistently for you. First, the land is level to provide an area of structure flat. Then the installers built the base track. The surface of the outer wall of plastic, steel or wood is also compatible with the track. The plumbing system is then placed after the sand and spreads in the pool area. Finally, the vinyl siding on the surface of the pool wall is hired, straightening, and attached in place and bathing pool is fulled of water. Now the system of pumping and filtration system are linked and the swimming pool is ready for swimming.

Type of above ground pools

An above ground pond is the joy of the owner. They can be placed anywhere. They are easy to build and easy to use swimming pools there is mainly two types of ground pool, face tough pools and inflatable pools to bathe with soft edges.

Hard side pools.

Hard side ponds are available in several assortments of depths and sizes. These face hard bath pools tend to be oval or round shaped with a piece steel frame. For stablizing, a piece of the wall surface of flexible metal with a sheet steel rail is affixeded to the best. The main lane joins to placed vinyl siding to ensure that water had been. Face pool metal is difficult to assemble, requiring more work in preparing the land of fantasy.

Soft pools.

Soft pools have become increasingly more favorite in recent years many. These floor bathroom ponds are available in both oblong and round forms, along with the oblong shape additional prominent. Also, these pools have steel frames and are available in a wide range of sizes and depths. These pools are understood by their strength and endurance and are cheaper compared with hard side pools. They are a great way to really have a pool to measure, such as built-ined sizes.

Soft bath tanks can be used in virtually any area. It can be easily put into the dirt, grass, gravel, sand, concrete e even. The pools have resistance up to 3 "offline at every grade level. The liner product used in these pools is similar to that used in bullet proof vests. This makes that Raja resistant and sturdy backing. Soft pools can be easily fitted within a few hours.

Swimming pools both hard and soft face ask for one electric pump to circulate the water. They also need filters and step ladders. Filters are guarantee that the water is clean and stairs, for one can easily permeate in and from the pool as well.

Both pools also require an automatic chlorinator, heating system of pond and a swimming pool cleaner. A pool slide and swimming pond lights make great accessories to enhance your swimming experience. Soil pools are cheaper in comparison to pool on the floor. A small floor bath turned pool games approximately $1500 and a large can easily cost up to $10,000. On Earth, they are easier to install, however, these pools also have disadvantages. They are not extremely attractive and certainly some landscaping will be called to help them assimilate to your garden. They are also much less heavy in comparison with in-ground pools.

However, over the pond of Earth are very dear and are bought by a multitude of people. They provide many happy days loaded with easy relaxation, and enjoy a fantastic financial investment for his residence.

My name is Ashton Grey, 25 years old and I live in Sydney Australia and work at all stations Solar Pty Ltd specialising in solar pool facilities. If you need more ideas about swimming pool visit here.

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Developing our sense of smell

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

When our noses pick up a scent, whether the aroma of a sweet rose or the sweat of a stranger at the gym, two types of sensory neurons are at work in sensing that odor or pheromone. These sensory neurons are particularly interesting because they are the only neurons in our bodies that regenerate throughout adult life?as some of our olfactory neurons die, they are soon replaced by newborns. Just where those neurons come from in the first place has long perplexed developmental biologists.

Previous hypotheses about the origin of these olfactory nerve cells have given credit to embryonic cells that develop into skin or the central nervous system, where ear and eye sensory neurons, respectively, are thought to originate. But biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now found that neural-crest stem cells?multipotent, migratory cells unique to vertebrates that give rise to many structures in the body such as facial bones and smooth muscle?also play a key role in building olfactory sensory neurons in the nose.

"Olfactory neurons have long been thought to be solely derived from a thickened portion of the ectoderm; our results directly refute that concept," says Marianne Bronner, the Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology at Caltech and corresponding author of a paper published in the journal eLIFE on March 19 that outlines the findings.

The two main types of sensory neurons in the olfactory system are ciliated neurons, which detect volatile scents, and microvillous neurons, which usually sense pheromones. Both of these types are found in the tissue lining the inside of the nasal cavity and transmit sensory information to the central nervous system for processing.

In the new study, the researchers showed that during embryonic development, neural-crest stem cells differentiate into the microvillous neurons, which had long been assumed to arise from the same source as the odor-sensing ciliated neurons. Moreover, they demonstrated that different factors are necessary for the development of these two types of neurons. By eliminating a gene called Sox10, they were able to show that formation of microvillous neurons is blocked whereas ciliated neurons are unaffected.

They made this discovery by studying the development of the olfactory system in zebrafish?a useful model organism for developmental biology studies due to the optical clarity of the free-swimming embryo. Understanding the origins of olfactory neurons and the process of neuron formation is important for developing therapeutic applications for conditions like anosmia, or the inability to smell, says Bronner.

"A key question in developmental biology?the extent of neural-crest stem cell contribution to the olfactory system?has been addressed in our paper by multiple lines of experimentation," says Ankur Saxena, a postdoctoral scholar in Bronner's laboratory and lead author of the study. "Olfactory neurons are unique in their renewal capacity across species, so by learning how they form, we may gain insights into how neurons in general can be induced to differentiate or regenerate. That knowledge, in turn, may provide new avenues for pursuing treatment of neurological disorders or injury in humans."

Next, the researchers will examine what other genes, in addition to Sox10, play a role in the process by which neural-crest stem cells differentiate into microvillous neurons. They also plan to look at whether or not neural-crest cells give rise to new microvillous neurons during olfactory regeneration that happens after the embryonic stage of development.

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