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Work Hard For Denser Bones

Starting around age 30, many women begin to experience bone density loss. And while it may not be apparent for years, or even decades, that doesn't mean there isn't anything to do about it. It's no secret that working out -- everything from strength training to high-impact activities like jumping rope -- helps improve bone density. A new study confirms the bone benefit of high-impact cardio and also finds that it's the regularity of exercise that makes the biggest difference.

Researchers followed 1,061 25-year-old Swedish women, measuring total body bone density, as well as density of neck, spine and hip bones. Over half the women said they exercised regularly, naming activities like running, strength training, aerobics and spinning, though 30 percent of the respondents didn't exercise once in the year-long period of study. Even at the young age of 25, women who reported being highly active and who tested well for endurance and intensity on a peak strain score (PSS) test also had higher bone density in both their hips and spine. The key was a dedicated fitness practice with high impact workouts: "Combined regularity and impact ... conferred the greatest gains in BMD," wrote the researchers.

So what counts as high-impact exercise? Reported Women's Health:

Running, plyometrics exercises, jumping jacks, jumping rope, or anything that involves both of your feet being off of the ground at the same time. You'll score a serious cardio burn and help strengthen your bones.

What's more, the researchers found that women who remembered enjoying gym class during school were more likely to exercise regularly. That's not a big surprise, but it is an indication that finding pleasure in the hard work of exercise is the key to keeping at it. Find something you love, get your feet off the ground and keep those bones healthy. "; var coords = [-5, -72]; // display fb-bubble FloatingPrompt.embed(this, html, undefined, 'top', {fp_intersects:1, timeout_remove:2000,ignore_arrow: true, width:236, add_xy:coords, class_name: 'clear-overlay'}); });

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LeVar Burton resurrects Reading Rainbow's Twitter account

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By Athima Chansanchai

Before he donned those funky futuristic shades as Starfleet engineer Geordi LaForge, LeVar Burton was synonymous with "Reading Rainbow," and now he's taking charge in its latest iteration: He's started a multimedia company and wrested control of the dormant @ReadingRainbow Twitter account.

After repeatedly tweeting directly to @ReadingRainbow and receiving no response, Burton on Tuesday night decided to tweet this to Twitter itself instead:

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Like a photon torpedo, that message hit its intended target and by Wednesday morning, Burton was captain of the @ReadingRainbow Twitter account:

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Maybe Burton can port some of his 1.7 million followers over to @ReadingRainbow, which was still under 1,000 last we checked.

"Reading Rainbow" ran on PBS with Burton introducing generations of children to the joy of books as the show's host for 26 years, ending in August 2009. Many of my friends can still summon the theme song instantly. As NPR pointed out, its run on PBS was third only to "Sesame Street" and "Mister Rogers."

It's not the first time Burton has shown his tech savvy. In 2005, he established the?Levar Burton Vision Enhancement Technology Center, which developed technology for the blind.?

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On Twitter, follow?Athima Chansanchai, who is also trying to keep her head above water in the?Google+?stream.

Source: http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/01/10290596-levar-burton-resurrects-reading-rainbows-twitter-account

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Principal Advisor ? Operational Readiness ? All jobs (page 2)

Rio Tinto?is a leading international mining group headquartered in the UK.?Rio Tinto's business is finding, mining and processing mineral resources.?Major products are aluminium, copper, diamonds, energy (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt, talc) and iron ore.?Activities span the world but are strongly represented in Australia and North America with businesses in South America, Asia, Europe and Southern Africa.

Principle Advisor - Operational Readiness,Project Management Office - Brisbane, QLD, Australia?Reporting to the Chief Advisor- Operational Readiness, this role will be accountable for supporting the successful development of Operational Readiness capability across the Project Management Office - supporting a suite of global Major Projects.?As the Principal Advisor - Operational Readiness, you will successfully:????????? Contribute to developing and promoting leading practice Operational Readiness processes, systems and tools for Rio Tinto;????????? Support the provision of Operational Readiness support services and expertise to Project Delivery Hubs and Product Groups to drive success across studies and capital projects;????????? Support Operational Readiness governance and quality assurance across Rio Tinto capital projects and actively promote compliance with standardised processes, systems and tools;????????? Establish relationships with stakeholders within Rio Tinto who may influence and impact Operational Readiness processes and project outcomes;????????? Provide health, safety, environment and community leadership as it relates to Operational Readiness activities within Rio Tinto projects.?To be successful in this role you will have 10 to 15 years experience in mining or processing operating roles with significant experience and knowledge in project management. You will have held senior level positions requiring you to provide strong strategic direction, leadership and guidance. Your previous positions will have had had a strong focus on business partnering, helping others to work through a process to achieve desired outcomes, and on following strong project management principles.?A related engineering bachelor's degree is required.? A post graduate qualification in Project Management, Finance, Business, or Asset Management is preferred.? ?The ability to build strong working relationships, and influence others, is important as success in these areas will have a significant impact on the effective delivery of Rio Tinto's growth agenda.?On offer for the successful candidate are excellent career development opportunities globally, and a very attractive remuneration and benefits package.?Apply now, applications close 18^th?February 2012

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US Steel 4Q loss narrows; forecasts 1Q improvement (AP)

U.S. Steel Corp. is hoping its first-quarter performance will improve on higher prices and better demand after a rocky year that ended in a fourth-quarter loss.

The Pittsburgh steel maker on Tuesday forecast improved business from automobile and heavy machinery equipment manufacturers, appliance makers and the energy industry. CEO John P. Surma said that he even thinks that the construction industry "may begin the long climb out of the recessionary doldrums." Construction was decimated by the financial crisis.

"We anticipate that the markets we serve will continue to improve in 2012," and that should lead to increased shipments, he told analysts during a conference call.

Investors embraced the forecast and sent shares up $1.46, or 5.1 percent, to close at $30.19.

Analysts cautioned that demand growth will likely be gradual as the global economy remains strained. Europe is suffering a crippling debt crisis and China's economic growth has slowed. Economists see healthy signals for the U.S. economy, but unemployment remains high at 8.5 percent.

"I don't think the first quarter is going to be gangbusters higher than the fourth quarter, but I think it's more representative of steady improvement," Morningstar Inc. analysts Bridget Freas said.

Other steel manufacturers, including Nucor Corp., have offered similar forecasts for the first three months of the year.

The fourth quarter was challenging for the steel industry. Customers held back on making large purchases because of uncertainty about the economy. Steel prices fell and U.S. steel makers were hurt by heavier competition from European imports, Freas said. Most companies saw a turnaround in demand late in the quarter as the U.S. economic outlook improved.

In the October-December quarter, U.S. Steel reported a net loss of $226 million, or $1.57 per share, compared with a loss of $249 million, or $1.74 per share, in the same quarter in 2010.

Excluding one-time charges that included a $51 million foreign-currency loss and an environmental remediation charge, U.S. Steel posted an adjusted loss of $164 million, or $1.14 per share.

Revenue rose 12 percent to $4.82 billion from $4.3 billion.

U.S. Steel said shale and oil drilling have driven solid demand for tubes and pipes. Its tubular shipments jumped 25 percent to 482,000 net tons, while the average price rose 14 percent.

Shipments of flat-rolled products fell 2 percent to 3.8 million net tons from the year-ago quarter. The average price rose 13 percent from the fourth quarter of 2010, but fell 4 percent from the July-September quarter.

U.S. Steel's European shipments fell 6.5 percent to 1.2 million tons. The average price fell 3 percent from the year before and 11 percent from the previous quarter.

The company sold its Serbian operations, saying that should help cut losses in its European division. It expects to take a non-cash charge of between $400 million and $450 million in the first result to reflect the sale.

For the year, U.S. Steel reported a net loss of $68 million, or 47 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $482 million, or $3.36 a share, in 2010. Revenue rose to $19.9 billion from $17.4 billion.

The company hasn't posted an annual profit since 2008.

In a related development, U.S. Steel said its board of directors declared a dividend of 5 cents per share on common stock. The dividend is payable March 10 to stockholders of record at the close of business Feb. 10.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earnings/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120131/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_us_steel

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Terahertz polarizer nears perfection: Research leads to nanotube-based device for communication, security, sensing

ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2012) ? Researchers at Rice University are using carbon nanotubes as the critical component of a robust terahertz polarizer that could accelerate the development of new security and communication devices, sensors and non-invasive medical imaging systems as well as fundamental studies of low-dimensional condensed matter systems.

The polarizer developed by the Rice lab of Junichiro Kono, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of physics and astronomy, is the most effective ever reported; it selectively allows 100 percent of a terahertz wave to pass or blocks 99.9 percent of it, depending on its polarization. The research was published in the online version of the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters.

The broadband polarizer handles waves from 0.5 to 2.2 terahertz, far surpassing the range of commercial polarizers that consist of fragile grids wrapped in gold or tungsten wires.

Kono said technologies that make use of the optical and electrical regions of the electromagnetic spectrum are mature and common, as in lasers and telescopes on one end and computers and microwaves on the other. But until recent years, the terahertz region in between was largely unexplored. "Over the past decade or two, people have been making impressive progress," he said, particularly in the development of such sources of radiation as the terahertz quantum cascade laser.

"We have pretty good terahertz emitters and detectors, but we need a way to manipulate light in this range," Kono said. "Our work is in this category, manipulating the polarization state -- the direction of the electric field -- of terahertz radiation."

Terahertz waves exist at the transition between infrared and microwaves and have unique qualities. They are not harmful and penetrate fabric, wood, plastic and even clouds, but not metal or water. In combination with spectroscopy, they can be used to read what Kono called "spectral fingerprints in the terahertz range"; he said they would, for instance, be useful in a security setting to identify the chemical signatures of specific explosives.

The work by Kono and lead author Lei Ren, who recently earned his doctorate at Rice, makes great use of the basic research into carbon nanotubes for which the university is famous. Co-authors Robert Hauge, a distinguished faculty fellow in chemistry, and his former graduate student Cary Pint developed a way to grow nanotube carpets and to transfer well-aligned arrays of nanotubes from a catalyst to any substrate they chose, limited only by the size of the growth platform.

While Hauge and Pint were developing their nanotube arrays, Kono and his team were thinking about terahertz. Four years ago, they came across a semiconducting material, indium antimonide, that would stop or pass terahertz waves, but only in a strong magnetic field and at very low temperatures.

At about the same time, Kono's lab began working with carbon nanotube arrays transferred onto a sapphire substrate by Pint and Hauge. Those aligned arrays -- think of a field of wheat run over by a steamroller -- turned out to be very effective at filtering terahertz waves, as Kono and his team reported in a 2009 paper.

"When the polarization of the terahertz wave was perpendicular to the nanotubes, there was absolutely no attenuation," Kono recalled. "But when the polarization was parallel to the nanotubes, the thickness was not enough to completely kill the transmission, which was still at 30-50 percent."

The answer was clear: Make the polarizer thicker. The current polarizer has three decks of aligned nanotubes on sapphire, enough to effectively absorb all of the incident terahertz radiation. "Our method is unique, and it's simple," he said.

Kono sees use for the device beyond spectroscopy by manipulating it with an electric field, but that will only become possible when all of the nanotubes in an array are of a semiconducting type. As they're made now, batches of nanotubes are a random mix of semiconductors and metallics; recent work by Erik H?roz, a graduate student in Kono's lab, detailed the reasons that nanotubes separated through ultracentrifugation have type-dependent colors. But finding a way to grow specific types of nanotubes is the focus of a great deal of research at Rice and elsewhere.

Co-authors are former Rice postdoctoral researcher Takashi Arikawa and research associate Iwao Kawayama and Professor Masayoshi Tonouchi of the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University, Japan.

The Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the Robert A. Welch Foundation supported the research.

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1. Lei Ren, Cary L. Pint, Takashi Arikawa, Kei Takeya, Iwao Kawayama, Masayoshi Tonouchi, Robert H. Hauge, Junichiro Kono. Broadband Terahertz Polarizers with Ideal Performance Based on Aligned Carbon Nanotube Stacks. Nano Letters, 2012; : 120130102151002 DOI: 10.1021/nl203783q

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Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120130172615.htm

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