Friday, September 21, 2012

Key ally quits Indian government amid uproar over reforms

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The biggest partner in Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's shaky coalition formally withdrew on Friday over big-ticket economic reforms that have cheered investors but sparked nationwide protests.

The Trinamool Congress pulled out its six ministers and 19 MPs, reducing Singh's coalition to a minority government and bringing even more instability to an already volatile political landscape.

While there appears to be no immediate risk of the government falling, Singh will struggle to push forward with his economic reform agenda and get legislation through parliament.

His coalition will now have to rely on the outside support of two powerful regional parties that have in the past opposed efforts to liberalize the economy and will likely try to extract concessions to further their own agendas.

"Barring a political perfect storm, we now believe that the current government is likely to limp along through the scheduled end of its five-year term in mid-2014," said David Sloan, an analyst at political risk research consultant Eurasia.

The prime minister is due to make an unusual televised address to the nation at 8 p.m. (1430 GMT) to try to tame the popular outrage at measures to raise heavily subsidized diesel prices and allow foreign supermarkets to set up shop in India, a move seen threatening the livelihoods of domestic retailers.

Many parts of India were brought to a halt on Thursday by a nationwide strike called to protest against the reforms.

Despite the backlash, the government pressed ahead with more reforms on Friday, slashing a tax on overseas borrowing by Indian firms, implementing a scheme to encourage individuals to invest in the stock market, and relaxing minimum requirements for Indian airlines to fly overseas.

The cabinet may also approve measures next week to allow greater foreign investment in the insurance sector.

STOCK MARKETS CHEER

Indian stock indexes rose more than 2 percent on Friday to their highest since July 2011 on hopes of further reforms.

"It's all very positive. Actually, the way the market has endorsed it, that itself is a good testimony of whatever the government has done after a long period of market-perceived inactivity," said Sunil Agarwal, head of the institutional client group at Deutsche Bank India.

Singh has faced withering criticism from business leaders, economists and foreign investors for inaction as economic growth slumped to 5.5 percent. Now that he has taken action, he finds himself under fire from coalition allies and political opponents keen to find political advantage ahead of state polls later this year and national elections in 2014.

Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee, the firebrand leader of West Bengal state, had threatened on Wednesday to pull her ministers out of the coalition if the reforms were not rolled back by Friday. The government rebuffed the threat and formally approved the retail reform on Thursday.

"I don't care. I am not scared of anyone. As long as I live, I will live like a tigress," Banerjee in a speech in West Bengal on Friday, while her ministers resigned in the national capital, New Delhi.

Banerjee's withdrawal from the coalition leaves it vulnerable to a possible confidence vote in parliament in the winter session of parliament later this year, although there are signs that the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) appetite for such a vote is waning.

The ruling Congress party believes it could survive such a vote with the support of the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, both based in the state of Uttar Pradesh, whose combined 43 seats are enough to prop up the coalition.

Markets cheered an announcement by the Samajwadi Party chief on Friday pledging support for Singh's government.

"It does not make sense to ask the government to take a floor test unless one of them quits," a BJP official said, referring to the two regional parties.

In the meantime, the government is trying to keep up the momentum generated by the big-bang reforms unveiled last week. The cabinet could approve a proposal to ease restrictions on foreign investment in the insurance sector, raising the cap to 49 percent from 26 percent, a Finance Ministry official said on condition of anonymity.

The measure still needs to clear parliament, however, and that is not seen likely in the foreseeable future.

(Additional reporting by Satarupa Bhattacharjya, Annie Banerji and Manoj Kumar; Editing by Ross Colvin and Robert Birsel)

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Sleep apnea in obese pregnancy women linked to poor maternal and neonatal outcomes

ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2012) ? The newborns of obese pregnant women suffering from obstructive sleep apnea are more likely to be admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit than those born to obese mothers without the sleep disorder, reports a study published online September 20 in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Sleep apnea, which causes repeated awakenings and pauses in breathing during the night, was also associated with higher rates of preeclampsia in the severely overweight pregnant women, the researchers found.

"Our findings show that obstructive sleep apnea can contribute to poor outcomes for both obese mothers and their babies," said the study's lead author Dr. Judette Louis, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of South Florida. "Its role as a risk factor for adverse pregnancy outcomes independent of obesity should be examined more closely."

Dr. Louis, who holds a joint appointment in the USF College of Public Health's Department of Community and Family Health, conducted the study while a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine. A specialist in maternal-fetal medicine, she worked with researchers from Case Western Reserve, the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine's Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, and Harvard Medical School. She joined USF in April.

The researchers analyzed data for 175 obese pregnant women enrolled in a prospective observational study, which screened prenatal patients at Cleveland's MetroHealth Medical Center for sleep-related breathing disorders. The women were tested for obstructive sleep apnea using an in-home portable device at bedtime.

Perinatal and newborn outcomes for 158 live births, including indications for NICU admissions such as respiratory complications, prematurity and congenital defects, were also reviewed.

Among the study findings:

  • The prevalence of sleep apnea among study participants was 15.4 percent.
  • Compared to the women with no sleep apnea (control group), the group with sleep apnea was heavier and experienced more chronic high blood pressure. This finding was consistent with studies in the general population that have associated sleep-disordered breathing with high blood pressure and weight gain.
  • The women with sleep apnea were more likely than the control group to undergo a cesarean delivery and to develop preeclampsia, a medical condition in which high blood pressure in pregnancy is associated with loss of protein in the urine. Preeclampsia remains one of the most common dangerous medical conditions for both moms and babies.
  • Despite having similar rates of preterm births, the women with sleep apnea delivered offspring more likely to be admitted to the NICU than did their counterparts without sleep apnea. Many of these admissions were due to respiratory distress. The researchers suggest the higher NICU admission rates may be explained in part by the higher C-section rates among the women with sleep apnea, but more study is needed.

Approximately one in five women are obese when they become pregnant, meaning they have a body mass index of at least 30, according to research from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While numerous studies have examined complications associated with obesity in pregnancy -- including high blood pressure, gestational diabetes and cesarean deliveries -- sleep apnea has been underdiagnosed and understudied in this population of women.

The study authors suggest the best way to decrease obesity-related conditions that lead to poor pregnancy outcomes, including sleep apnea, would be to treat obesity before a woman becomes pregnant, but acknowledge that "losing weight is often difficult."

Dr. Louis said the study also points to the need for better ways to screen and treat this common form of sleep-disordered breathing during pregnancy.

The study was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars program, the Case Western Reserve/Cleveland Clinic CTSA, and the National Center for Research Resources, NIH.

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HTC One X/XL Jelly Bean updates tipped for October release

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HTC has made no secret of its plans to launch Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for its leading HTC One phones, but so far it's offered nothing in the way of release dates. It looks like the manufacturer's getting closer to having its updates finalized, though, as veteran mobile site MoDaCo is reporting that the updates are due to being rolling out in October.

According to MoDaCo founder Paul O'Brien, the upcoming EE UK HTC One XL will ship with Jelly Bean, as will the rumored One X+ -- a refreshed version of the Tegra 3 version said to sport higher clock speeds. Around the same time, existing One X and One XL devices will get bumped up to Android 4.1, MoDaCo claims.

The site has no info on when the One S will get Jelly Bean, but given that it's already confirmed for an update, we're hopeful it won't be too far behind. As ever, take this with a pinch of salt until we've got updates rolling out to devices. Nevertheless, we'll be crossing our fingers come October.

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

VINTAGE: Kaiser Darrin Roadster Charms At ... - Cars On SPEED

(This article was originally written by Rich Taylor for the Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas catalog.)

Want to be sure of a parking spot in front of Joel Robuchon on Saturday night? The winning bidder of this gorgeous red Kaiser Darrin is almost guaranteed special treatment and admiring looks. The crown jewel of legendary designer Howard ?Dutch? Darrin, this little roadster trumps a new Ferrari, every time.

Collectors have finally realized that the Kaiser Darrin is not only the first fiberglass-bodied sports car to reach production ? beating Corvette to the marketplace by a month ? it?s also the last major design from Darrin?s drawing board and by far the most intriguing model built by Kaiser, Frazer or Willys in the 1950s.

A unique feature of the Kaiser Darrin were 'pocket doors' that slid into the front fenders. (Photo: Barrett-Jackson) The beautiful Red Sail roadster that will cross the block at Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas (Lot #654) is 284 of 435 cars assembled, largely by hand, in the former Frazer factory in Jackson, Mich. According to the current owner, it was sold new in California and as a result has a black plate that goes with the car.

One of the most famous stylists of the 20th century, Dutch Darrin was born in New Jersey in 1897 and stayed in Paris after flying with the famous American Expeditionary Force during World War I. He was a bona fide member of Hemmingway?s Lost Generation, eventually teaming up with fellow American designer Thomas Hibbard. Hibbard & Darrin?s Paris showroom soon became well known when it came to custom bodywork on expensive chassis.

After Harley Earl convinced Hibbard to join GM Art and Colour in the early 1930s, Darrin formed a new partnership, Fernandez & Darrin, which turned out some of the most famous of all classic cars, including a landmark 1933 Duesenberg Convertible Victoria for Greta Garbo.

Lured to California by the lucrative Hollywood trade, Dutch set up Darrin of Paris on Sunset Boulevard in 1937. His custom-bodied Packards for actors Dick Powell and Clark Gable led to a position as Packard?s chief designer. Among other models, Darrin created the limited production 1940 Darrin-Packard convertible with his new trademark, a cut-down beltline featuring a distinctive notch near the rear of the doors. It?s still known as the ?Darrin Dip.?

The 2,200-pound roadster is powered by a 90-horsepower inline-6 from the Willys Aero sedan and a floor-shifted three-speed manual. (Photo: Barrett-Jackson After World War II, Liberty shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser and former Willys executive Joseph W. Frazer bought what was left of Graham-Paige to form Kaiser-Frazer. They hired Darrin as their designer, paying him a 75-cent royalty on every car sold.

Kaiser-Frazer started out with a bang in 1947, but by 1951, the underfunded company was not only struggling against ferocious competition from Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, but bean counter Kaiser and car guy Frazer were fighting over who was in charge. As usually happens in these auto-executive contests, the car guy lost.

In 1951, the timing was perfect for Kaiser-Frazer to cash in on a hot new trend as Americans were just discovering Jaguar, MG, Morgan and Triumph. The first Corvette was about to appear. This perfect timing also coincided with Costa Mesa boat builder Bill Tritt?s creation of a fiberglass body for a sports car specially built by his friend, Ken Brooks. After the Brooks Boxer made its debut at the Los Angeles Motorama, Tritt cleaned up the body mold and went into production with the first fiberglass sports car, the Glasspar G2.

What happened next was a no-brainer. There was Kaiser needing to attract attention and boost sales. There was Dutch Darrin, ready to draw something new and different. And now there was Glasspar, the only company in the world experienced in automotive fiberglass bodywork, just a half-hour down the highway from Darrin?s Santa Monica office. Everything converged into Darrin?s novel new design, a two-seater that shared a bit of the slab-sided styling of Glasspar?s G2, but was otherwise unlike anything seen before or since.

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Monitoring brain activity during study can help predict test performance

ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2012) ? Research at Sandia National Laboratories has shown that it's possible to predict how well people will remember information by monitoring their brain activity while they study.

A team under Laura Matzen of Sandia's cognitive systems group was the first to demonstrate predictions based on the results of monitoring test volunteers with electroencephalography (EEG) sensors.

For example, "if you had someone learning new material and you were recording the EEG, you might be able to tell them, 'You're going to forget this, you should study this again,' or tell them, 'OK, you got it and go on to the next thing,'" Matzen said.

The team monitored test subjects' brain activity while they studied word lists, then used the EEG to predict who would remember the most information. Because researchers knew the average percentage of correct answers under various conditions, they had a baseline of what brain activity looked like for good and poor memory performance. The computer model predicted five of 23 people tested would perform best. The model was correct: They remembered 72 percent of the words on average, compared to 45 percent for everyone else.

The study is part of Matzen's long-term goal to understand the Difference Related to Subsequent Memory, or Dm Effect, an index of brain activity encoding that distinguishes subsequently remembered from subsequently forgotten items. The measurable difference gives cognitive neuroscientists a way to test hypotheses about how information is encoded in memory.

She's interested in what causes the effect and what can change it, and hopes her research eventually leads to improvements in how students learn. She'd like to discover how training helps people performing at different levels and whether particular training works better for certain groups.

The study, funded under Sandia's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program (LDRD), had two parts: predicting how well someone will remember what's studied and predicting who will benefit most from memory training.

Matzen presented the results of the first part of the study in April at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference in Chicago. She presented preliminary findings on the second part this summer to the Cognitive Science and Technology External Advisory Board, made up of representatives of universities, industry and laboratories who advise the investment area team managing the LDRD portfolio.

The second part tested different types of memory training to see how they changed participants' memory performance and brain activity. One of Matzen's goals is to find out whether recording a person's brain activity while they use their natural approach to studying can predict what kind of training would work best for that person.

She's still analyzing those findings, but said preliminary results are encouraging. The computer model from the earlier study was used to predict who would perform best on the memory tasks, and the high performers did even better after memory training.

"That's promising because one of the things we want to do is see if we can use the brain activity to predict how people react to the training, whether it will be effective for them," Matzen said.

A next step would be "to use more real-world memory working tasks, such as what military personnel would have to learn as new recruits, and see if the same patterns apply to more complex types of learning," she said.

About 90 volunteers spent nine to 16 hours over five weeks in testing for the memory training techniques study. Their first session developed a baseline for how well they remembered words or images. Most then underwent memory training for three weeks and were retested.

A control group received no training. A second group practiced mental imagery strategy, thinking up vivid images to remember words and pictures. The final group went through "working memory" training to increase how much information they could handle at a time. Matzen said that averages about seven items, such as digits in a phone number.

Each volunteer, shut into a sound-proof booth, watched a screen that flashed words or images for one second, interrupted with periodic quizzes on how well the person remembered what was shown.

"It's designed to be really difficult because we want lots of room to improve after memory training," Matzen said. The test was divided into five sections, each about 20 minutes long followed by a break to keep volunteers alert.

Each section tested a different type of memory. The first, middle and last sections consisted of single nouns. During quizzes, volunteers hit buttons for yes or no, indicating whether they'd seen the word before. The other two sections combined adjectives and nouns or pairs of unrelated drawings, with volunteers again tested on what they remembered. The image section tested associative memory -- memory for two unrelated things. Matzen said that's the most difficult because it links arbitrary relationships.

When performance was compared before and after training, the control group did not change, but the mental imagery group's performance improved on three of the five tasks.

"Imagery is a really powerful strategy for grouping things and making them more memorable," Matzen said.

The working memory group did worse on four of the five tasks after training.

Volunteers trained on working memory -- remembering information for brief periods -- improved on the task they'd trained on, but training did not carry over to other tasks, Matzen said.

She believes it boils down to strategy: The imagery training group learned a strategy, while working memory training simply tried to push the limits of memory capacity.

While the imagery group did better overall, they made more mistakes than the other groups when tested on "lures" that were similar, but not the same, as items they had memorized.

"They study things like 'strong adhesive' and 'secret password,' and then I might test them on 'strong password,' which they didn't see, but they saw both parts of it," Matzen said. "The people who have done the imagery training make many more mistakes on the recombinations that keep the same concept. If something kind of fits with their mental image they'll say yes to it even if it's not quite what they saw before."

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Reasons for Aged Care











Many people enter nursing homes thinking that they need constant care when the truth is in home aged care would work for them. Nursing jobs do not always happen in a facility. You actually have the option to hire an aged care worker to come to your home and help you with your medical and personal needs. Nursing homes are wonderful for older people who need constant care but what if you just need some help with your medications and daily activities? There are alternatives to nursing homes.

Nursing jobs where you work directly for a family caring for an elderly person in their own can be very rewarding. Nurses and personal carers can help elderly patients recover from surgery, ensure they take all the proper medications, help with home cleaning, cooking, shopping and run errands for the clients. These types of care providers allow the client to maintain a home life and still get the help that they need from a skilled carer. Nursing jobs in the home provide a rewarding career for health professionals because of the impact it makes on an individual's life.

Aged care home services area beneficial way for the client to stay with their family members and community. Depression and feelings of isolation can be common when a senior moves into a nursing home. Studies have suggested that a person that is allowed to spend more time in a home environment rather than a hospital environment recovers more quickly after medical treatment. Aged care allows the elderly person to maintain the simple routines in life such as having a pet or gardening. Being in their own home, around their own things and staying connected to their local communicated can help an elderly person stay happier and in turn healthier for longer.

An increasing number of Nursing jobs are being advertised for in home care. As the baby boomers reach retirement the demand for home care services is increasing. If they have the financial means, many baby boomers will choose to remain in their home. Home care services can be used to provide important time out for family members. Elderly that have dementia may not be suitable candidates for in home care in the longer term, but a live in nurse may provide temporary support as the family arranges long term care. Taking the time to find the nurse that is right for elderly loved one is very important. Choosing a nurse or personal carer with the right experience, skills and personality requires careful screen and a thorough interview process. Many families start carers off with a trial before any longer term commitments are made.

Aged care has become popular for many clients so that they can stay at home with their families. Nursing jobs where healthcare professionals are employed to undertake personal care services enables our elderly to remain independent for longer.

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Local Fox news channel believes the iPhone 5 has a laser keyboard, hologram technology

Back when they were students at Harvard, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, along with their fellow alum Divya Narendra,?had a vision for a hoity-toity social networking site that would only be available to the Harvard elite. To realize this vision, the story goes, they outsourced building the site to fellow student Mark Zuckerberg, who famously took the Winklevoss twins? idea and transformed it into the largest social networking site in the world. But?The Wall Street Journal?reports that after the Winklevosses settled their lawsuit with Zuckerberg for $65 million, they began plugging it into a social networking site that looks a lot more like their original idea than what Facebook (FB) turned into. Updated to clarify that?Narendra, not the Winklevoss twins, founded

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Greek islands not for sale, red tape must go: minister

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece needs to cut bureaucracy and push through languishing investment projects, not sell its islands to attract funds crucial for its struggling economy to return to growth, a Deputy Development Minister told Reuters on Wednesday.

Seven major investment projects, ranging from tourism to energy and worth half a billion euros in total, have been stuck for months awaiting parliamentary approval instead of drawing cash into an economy stuck in its fifth year of recession.

"I don't understand it. The fact that we have seven investments that are just waiting to happen is reason not to sleep at night for me," said Notis Mitarachi in an interview.

"We plan to ratify them within the year," he added, pointing at the neo-classical parliament building through the windows of his office on the central Syntagma square.

Appointed to the coalition government formed in June by conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, Mitarachi, 39, said he is now jump-starting these projects, including a major British tourism investment on the island of Crete and a motor-racing track near the western port city of Patras.

They are expected to create 3,000 jobs, a much-needed boost with unemployment at a record high and almost one in four Greeks out of work.

Investors have long complained that red tape and corruption are the main deterrents to doing business in Greece, which fell 7 places to 90th out of 142 countries in the latest World Economic Forum global competitiveness index.

Foreign direct investment was $1.8 billion in 2011, a small fraction of the $420 billion that flowed into the European Union as a whole, according to figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Mitarachi said he had also inherited a queue of 1,650 smaller projects worth 275 million euros, which he aims to speed through by cutting bureaucracy for approvals, with fewer spot-checks and electronic auditing.

"We are now about to turn around one application every five hours instead of one every two weeks," said Mitarachi, a former director at Fidelity International in London, who was recruited by Samaras in 2010 as a top party economist.

Asked why this had not been done during the two years that Greece has survived on aid from its EU partners, after igniting a debt crisis that could bring down the euro, he said: "I have no clue ... I don't think Greek governments in the last 30, 40, 50 years had a pro-business approach."

ISLANDS NOT FOR SALE

Mitarachi denied press reports that Athens was putting some of its sun-baked islands under the hammer to raise funds, saying outright sale was not on the table but long leases or other ways of commercially exploiting all state properties were possible.

"Greece can become a destination for summer houses. We don't want to create a bubble like other countries but we are completely underdeveloped," he said, referring to the property busts blamed for crippling the economies of Spain and Ireland.

Talk of Greece leaving the euro is making investors hesitant to put up cash, despite assurances from the government of its commitment to the single European currency.

"Everyone asks, I'm investing in euros today, will I be getting euros in a few years? That is a very fair question and my answer is 'yes'," Mitarachi said.

Improving Greece's competitiveness ranking is a main ministry objective but that will depend largely on whether the country's economy can recover from a recession that is expected to see it shrink by a quarter by 2014.

"We have one of the worst macro outlooks on the planet," Mitarachi said.

Structural reforms are also needed and Greece's lenders complain progress on that front has been slow. Mitarachi said he was drafting a bill now that would create a "one-stop shop" for investors through state organization Invest In Greece.

Previous efforts on the same lines stumbled because licensing remained complicated, requiring several permits from several state bodies, he said. Now, the whole process will be handled by a single department of his ministry.

"There was a single front office and now there is a single back office," he said. "There is no need to have any contact with state bureaucracy."

Another draft bill will help clear state assets, especially real estate, for sale through the privatization agency or other commercial exploitation through special purpose vehicles, clearing legal hurdles and preparing licenses.

If Greece is able in time to exit its bailout program and return to international debt markets, Athens could attract investors to a wide spectrum of projects, ranging from tourism to natural resources and motorways.

"Greece is substantially oversold," Mitarachi said. "Markets can swing from one extreme to the other very quickly.

"Suddenly, we might be very, very busy."

(Editing by Catherine Evans)

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Zynga Buys A Bit Lucky To Break Into Mid-Core Gaming

Screen Shot 2012-09-17 at 12.54.38 PMZynga isn't just for your stereotypical stay-at-home mom anymore. The company's breaking away from its casual gaming past with a deal to buy midcore developer A Bit Lucky today. What this means is that part of Zynga's game portfolio may become more geared toward male audiences. Midcore games tend to have smaller audiences that spend more on average. "We independently both arrived at the same conclusions that there is a place to combine hard or midcore DNA with social gaming," said Frederic Descamps, A Bit Lucky's CEO. In a sign that a deal may have been in the works, A Bit Lucky's games -- Lucky Train and Lucky Space -- disappeared from Facebook over the last few weeks. Neither game was very large with 20,000 and 1,000 daily actives respectively. Zynga did not disclose the terms of the deal.

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Comet may have exploded over Canada 12,900 years ago after all

ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2012) ? Did a massive comet explode over Canada 12,900 years ago, wiping out both beast and man in North America and propelling Earth back into an ice age?

That's a question that has been hotly debated by scientists since 2007, with the University of South Carolina's Topper archaeological site right in the middle of the comet impact controversy. However, a new study published Sept.17 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides further evidence that it may not be such a far-fetched notion.

USC archaeologist Albert Goodyear is a co-author on the study that upholds a 2007 PNAS study by Richard Firestone, a staff scientist at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Firestone found concentrations of spherules (micro-sized balls) of metals and nano-sized diamonds in a layer of sediment dating 12,900 years ago at 10 of 12 archaeological sites that his team examined. The mix of particles is thought to be the result of an extraterrestrial object, such as a comet or meteorite, exploding in Earth's atmosphere. Among the sites examined was USC's Topper, one of the most pristine U.S. sites for research on Clovis, one of the earliest ancient peoples.

"This independent study is yet another example of how the Topper site with its various interdisciplinary studies has connected ancient human archaeology with significant studies of the Pleistocene," said Goodyear, who began excavating Clovis artifacts in 1984 at the Topper site in Allendale, S.C. "It's both exciting and gratifying."

Younger-Dryas is what scientists refer to as the period of extreme cooling that began around 12,900 years ago and lasted 1,300 years. While that brief ice age has been well-documented -- occurring during a period of progressive solar warming after the last ice age -- the reasons for it have long remained unclear. The extreme rapid cooling that took place can be likened to the 2004 sci-fi blockbuster movie "The Day After Tomorrow."

Firestone's team presented a provocative theory: that a major impact event -- perhaps a comet -- was the catalyst. His copious sampling and detailed analysis of sediments at a layer in the Earth dated to 12,900 years ago, also called the Younger-Dryas Boundary (YDB), provided evidence of micro-particles, such as iron, silica, iridium and nano-diamonds. The particles are believed to be consistent with a massive impact that could have killed off the Clovis people and the large North American animals of the day. Thirty-six species, including the mastodon, mammoth and saber-toothed tiger, went extinct.

The scientific community is rarely quick to accept new theories. Firestone's theory and support for it dominated the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union and other gatherings of Paleoindian archaeologists in 2007 and 2008.

However, a 2009 study led by University of Wyoming researcher Todd Surovell failed to replicate Firestone's findings at seven Clovis sites, slowing interest and research progress to a glacial pace.

This new PNAS study refutes Surovell's findings with its lack of reported evidence.

"Surovell's work was in vain because he didn't replicate the protocol. We missed it too at first. It seems easy, but unless you follow the protocol rigorously, you will fail to detect these spherules. There are so many factors that can disrupt the process. Where Surovell found no spherules, we found hundreds to thousands," said Malcolm LeCompte, a research associate professor at Elizabeth City State University and lead author of the newly released PNAS article.

LeCompte began his independent study in 2008 using and further refining Firestone's sampling and sorting methods at two sites common to the three studies: Blackwater Draw in New Mexico and Topper. He also took samples at Paw Paw Cove in Maryland, a site common to Surovell's study.

At each site he found the same microscopic spherules, which are the diameter of a human hair and distinct in appearance. He describes their look as tiny black ball bearings with a marred surface pattern that resulted from being crystalized in a molten state and then rapidly cooled. His investigation also confirmed that the spherules were not of cosmic origin but were formed from earth materials due to an extreme impact.

LeCompte said it was Topper and Goodyear's collaboration, however, that yielded the most exciting results.

"What we had at Topper and nowhere else were pieces of manufacturing debris from stone tool making by the Clovis people. Topper was an active and ancient quarry at the time," LeCompte said. "Al Goodyear was instrumental in our approach to getting samples at Topper."

Goodyear showed LeCompte where the Clovis level was in order to accurately guide his sampling of sediments for the Younger Dryas Boundary layer. He advised him to sample around Clovis artifacts and then to carefully lift them to test the sediment directly underneath.

"If debris was raining down from the atmosphere, the artifacts should have acted as a shield preventing spherules from accumulating in the layer underneath. It turns out it really worked!" Goodyear said. "There were up to 30 times more spherules at and just above the Clovis surface than beneath the artifacts."

LeCompte said the finding is "critical and what makes the paper and study so exciting. The other sites didn't have artifacts because they weren't tool-making quarries like Topper."

While the comet hypothesis and its possible impact on Clovis people isn't resolved, Goodyear said this independent study clarifies why the Surovell team couldn't replicate the Firestone findings and lends greater credibility to the claim that a major impact event happened at the Younger Dryas Boundary 12,900 years ago.

"The so-called extra-terrestrial impact hypothesis adds to the mystery of what happened at the YDB with its sudden and unexplained reversion to an ice age climate, the rapid and seemingly simultaneous loss of many Pleistocene animals, such as mammoths and mastodons, as well as the demise of what archaeologists call the Clovis culture," Goodyear said. "There's always more to learn about the past, and Topper continues to function as a portal to these fascinating mysteries."

Goodyear joined USC's College of Arts and Sciences and its South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology in 1974 to pursue prehistoric archaeology.

The Topper story

Al Goodyear, who conducts research through the University of South Carolina's S.C. Institute of Anthropology and Archaeology, began excavating Clovis artifacts along the Savannah River in Allendale County in 1984. It quickly became one of the most documented and well-known Clovis sites in the United States. In 1998, with the hope of finding evidence of a pre-Clovis culture earlier than the accepted 13,100 years, Goodyear began focused excavations on a site called Topper, located on the property of the Clariant Corp.

His efforts paid off. Goodyear unearthed small tools such as scrapers and blades made of the local chert that he believed to be tools of an ice age culture back some 16,000 years or more. His findings, as well as similar ones yielded at other pre-Clovis sites in North America, sparked great change and debate in the scientific community.

Goodyear reasoned that if Clovis and later peoples used the chert quarry along the Savannah River, the quarry could have been used by even earlier cultures.

Acting on a hunch in 2004, Goodyear dug even deeper into the Pleistocene terrace and found more artifacts of a pre-Clovis type buried in a layer of sediment stained with charcoal deposits. Radiocarbon dates of the burnt plant remains yielded ages of 50,000 years, which suggested man was in South Carolina long before the last ice age.

Goodyear's findings not only captured international media attention, but it has put the archaeology field in flux, opening scientific minds to the possibility of an even earlier pre-Clovis occupation of the Americas.

Since 2004, Goodyear has continued his Clovis and pre-Clovis excavations at Topper. With support of Clariant Corp. and SCANA, plus numerous individual donors, an expansive shelter and viewing deck now sit above the dig site to allow Goodyear and his team of graduate students and public volunteers to dig free from the heat and rain and to protect what may be the most significant early-man dig in America.

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Sshhh! Don't say this too loudly, but early signs this season point to Arsenal being a genuine Premier League title contender.

Gervinho, the forward so mediocre in his 2011-2012 debut for the Gunners, is scoring goals.

Santi Cazorla, the midfielder hired from Malaga in August, was surely one of the best summer buys by any Premier League team.

And the spongy, leaky Arsenal back four has, in perhaps the biggest surprise so far this season, been transformed into a defense finally worthy of that name.

Which, when the trophy is handed out next May, all might still amount to nothing, yet again.

A trip to Manchester City, the defending English champion, looms next Sunday. Arsenal then hosts Chelsea, the European champion, the weekend after that. Losing to both those sides could knock much of the stuffing out of Arsenal before its season has begun to build any meaningful momentum - just as its 8-2 surrender to Manchester United did early last season.

This time 12 months ago, "we were already out of the title race," manager Arsene Wenger acknowledged this past weekend.

So to shout any firm predictions now about Arsenal's title prospects is foolish. They can only be whispered, at best. But equally foolish were the premonitions of doom and gloom for Arsenal when it sold Robin van Persie to Manchester United in August.

Although Van Persie scored 30 of Arsenal's 74 league goals last season, his departure could actually be a blessing. Arsenal was over-reliant on him and his leadership as captain. Without him, Wenger can field a more balanced team that isn't so focused on one man and can tell his remaining players they all must now shoulder more responsibility and do more heavy lifting.

Gervinho, for example, seemed at times last season to have all but given up belief that he could score himself. Too often, the winger went for a pass instead of the goal. He was energetic and keen but dithered and couldn't finish. Four goals and five assists in 28 league appearances were nowhere near enough. Nor, for that matter, was Arsenal's goal total of 74 - 19 fewer than City's and 15 shy of runner-up United. Van Persie's eye-popping season as the league's top scorer simply helped to mask that not enough of his Arsenal teammates competed at his level.

But playing more in the center of attack against Southampton on Saturday, Gervinho was like a new man, dangerous and effective. For the first of his two goals, he invited a sublime chipped pass from Mikel Arteta by sprinting into space behind Southampton's defense. He then coolly sized up goalkeeper Kelvin Davis, shooting between his left post and outstretched left hand. It was incisive and convincing - everything Gervinho wasn't last season.

It also was against a team that played in English football's second tier last season and, promoted this season, has the most porous defense in the Premier League, conceding 14 goals in losing its first four matches. Two of Arsenal's six goals on Saturday were scored inadvertently by Southampton players. In short, one shouldn't read too much about Arsenal's fortunes from the tea leaves of this one, admittedly impressive, performance.

Still, shifting Gervinho off the wing is an interesting experiment from Wenger. He is tearing a leaf out of his own book, because he did similar with Thierry Henry, who became Arsenal's record scorer, and Van Persie. Gervinho is dozens of goals short from being even half the strikers they turned out to be. Still, watch this space. Olivier Giroud, hired to replace Van Persie, will need to start scoring, too, if Arsenal is to have sustained success this season. But until that happens, as it will, Gervinho looks like a useful stopgap and perhaps more.

"We transform all wingers into central strikers and all the strikers into wingers!" Wenger joked. "He is such a great mover and he is so quick. So when he is central, once he gets ahead of the central defender, it is difficult to catch him."

Even more remarkable is that Arsenal's defenders haven't conceded. Arsenal's only goal-against in four games was a gift from `keeper Wojciech Szczesny. He dropped a Southampton cross into the feet of Daniel Fox, making his goal a formality. That blip aside, Wenger seems to have absorbed the lesson that a team which is confused and erratic in defense can't succeed, no matter how exciting it is to watch when going forward. This season, there is more purpose, discipline and concentration in Arsenal's defending.

As to be expected of seasoned players, Cazorla and forward Lukas Podolski look like they have been playing with Arsenal for years, not weeks. By hiring the Spain and German internationals, and Arteta and defender Per Mertesacker in 2011, Wenger sent reassuring signals that he recognizes the value of experience, even though he also prides himself on identifying and nurturing young players, in part to keep down transfer costs. Because of Cazorla's cleverness and passing from midfield, the departures of Cesc Fabregas and then Alex Song to Barcelona no longer seem like such damaging losses to Arsenal.

In short, the vibes from Arsenal so far look good.

Or, as Wenger put it, they are "interesting."

City and Chelsea will tell us if they're more than that.

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