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The Importance Of Physical Therapy | Millionaire Article Directory

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Physical therapy is a type of healthcare specialty that deals with assessing and treating mobility issues. A licensed physical therapist provides the treatments. When patients have an injury or illness, physical therapists assist them in managing their pain, improving their movements and reintegrating them into the community. They use a range of exercises to improve a patient?s range of motion, posture, muscle performance and respiratory system. In addition, they also work to help patients achieve better balance and coordination.

Physical therapists typically work in clinics or hospitals; however, they can also work in nursing homes or private offices. A small percentage of physical therapists are self-employed, so they manage their own practice. The job requires people to stay on their feet for most of the day; therefore, they must be physically active while on the job.

In order to treat patients, physical therapists use the disablement model. This model involves the use of pathophysiology. It is used to treat impairments, functional limitations and disabilities. When using the disablement model, physical therapists can help restore limb function, relieve pain, improve mobility and prevent permanent disabilities. They encourage patients to take steps to keep up their overall health and fitness. Patients who see a physical therapist often include accident victims and those who have a disabling condition. Some of the most common disabling conditions include arthritis, lower back pain, cerebral palsy and heart disease.

Once they have examined their patients, physical therapists create treatment plans. These plans describe the strategy; they form a purpose and have an anticipated outcome. On occasion, a physical therapist assistant is the one who implements the treatment plan. The assistant works directly under the supervision of the physical therapist.

Most physical therapy treatment plans involve some form of exercise. If a patient is immobilized and lacks flexibility, then exercise is used to improve his or her levels of strength and endurance. Physical therapists urge patients to use their muscles to improve their flexibility. Once they have achieved a wider range of motion, patients move on to advanced exercises. These advanced exercises improve balance, strength and coordination. Since patients reach a higher endurance level, they can function better at home and in the workplace.

Besides exercise, treatments may also involve the use of electrical stimulation. If a patient is in a wheelchair, the physical therapist may use electrical stimulation on his or her leg muscles. Some other treatment methods include the use of hot packs or cold compresses. An ultrasound can even be used to reduce swelling and relieve pain symptoms. Traction and deep-tissue massages are another way to ease pain.

In addition to implementing treatment plans, therapists teach patients how to use helpful devices. For instance, they may show patients how to use crutches the proper way. It is also common for them to teach patients how to use prosthetics and wheelchairs. They even demonstrate how the exercises can be performed at home to make for a speedier recovery. Throughout the treatment plan, a physical therapist documents the patient?s progress. Whenever necessary, the therapist conducts periodic tests and modifies the treatment plan. This is the best way to identify and focus on areas that need more attention.

Physical therapists usually consult with other medical professionals when working with patients. For instance, they may consult with physicians, occupational therapists and audiologists. A physical therapist is allowed to specialize within a certain area of the field. Some choose to work in either pediatrics or geriatrics. If someone is a fan of sports, he or she can choose to specialize in sports medicine. Other areas within the field are orthopedics, oncology and neurology.

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The Bachelorette Fashion: Emily Maynard's Wardrobe Costs How Much?!

Emily Maynard may or may not be the best-looking star of The Bachelorette yet, depending on your point of view, but she's absolutely the best-dressed.

A $350,000 wardrobe budget from ABC doesn't hurt.

“We had an enormous clothing budget,” Emily’s stylist, Cary Fetman, said. “It was bigger than any previous season ... and we still went over!”

Not that she really needs help - her sweet nature, good looks and adorable daughter are all a guy would ever want - but Maynard, 26, is going all out style-wise.

“Emily has fabulous taste and was involved in deciding what we would dress her in,” Cary adds. “For me, it was almost like dressing a Barbie doll!”

While she dazzles in her strappy $1,045 Christian Louboutin Straratata heels and a $4,000 nude Randi Rahm gown, she does have a list of no-nos.

“Emily hates flats,” Cary revealed of the North Carolinan. “She loves to be a girlie girl. She loves dresses and anything glitzy and sparkly.”

Oh, and despite her easy-going ways, “She is not a jeans girl by any means.”

Just something to keep in mind, Arie Luyendyk, Jr. Keep it in mind.

NOTE: To see how Arie and the rest of the guys fare in the coming weeks, check out The Bachelorette spoilers page on THG ... if you dare!

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AP Exclusive: Video draws animal cruelty charges

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ? Prosecutors have filed animal cruelty charges against the owner and seven employees at a Southern California livestock auction house after undercover video shot by an animal rights group showed workers kicking, hitting and tossing the animals as they were readied for sale.

The grainy video, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press and shot by the Los Angeles-based group Mercy for Animals, shows workers at Ontario Livestock Sales in Ontario, Calif., kicking and stomping on pigs to get them to move through a narrow chute, hitting emus with a baton and slinging baby goats by the neck and hind legs. In one shot, two workers drag a sick sheep that can't walk by its ears and heave it into the back of a van.

Prosecutors have filed a total of 21 misdemeanor counts against the owner, Horacio Santorsola, and seven employees after conducting further investigation with the help of the Inland Valley Humane Society, said Reza Daghbandan, a prosecutor with the San Bernardino County district attorney's office.

The defendants, who are not in custody, have a July 20 court date and face a maximum of a year in county jail and a $1,000 fine if convicted, he said.

Santorsola, 73, said the case was exaggerated and he and his employees had done nothing wrong.

He has not been cited once in the 18 years he's owned the business, he said, and grabbing animals by their necks and legs is necessary because they are not tame.

"I think it's a bunch of crap," Santorsola said. "How are you going to pick them up? They don't have a leash. They run, believe me, they do run."

The video was taken earlier this year over a seven-week period by an undercover investigator using a buttonhole camera, said Matt Rice, director of investigations at Mercy for Animals.

Prosecutors relied on the help of veterinarians to determine which actions crossed the line into criminal behavior, Daghbandan said.

"This isn't the same standard of care as a house pet would get ... but we felt comfortable that these instances went too far," he said.

Animal handling experts who reviewed the footage called the treatment of the animals, which include emus, pigs, goats, sheep and cows, "brutally improper."

"If they were to do this to a companion animal like a dog or a cat, everyone would jump up in outrage," said Holly Cheever, a veterinarian and expert witness in animal cruelty cases who is also vice president of New York State Humane Association.

Cheever said in one shot, a cow appears to be suffering from a prolapsed uterus and is bleeding.

"Even food animals are supposed to be given proper care and protection from abuse and this is very clear cut abuse," she said. "The dragging of the downed animals, the tossing of the baby animals onto the floor, leaving them gasping and dying: It's hard to choose any one aspect because it's pretty unpleasant from beginning to end."

A website for Ontario Livestock Sales says the family-owned business 40 miles east of Los Angeles holds auctions every Tuesday and handles horses, cattle, goats, hogs and exotic animals. The facility, which was founded in 1936, sells 1,000 to 1,300 animals every week, according to its website.

Mercy for Animals has filmed at livestock facilities around the U.S., including footage at a poultry farm that last year led Target and McDonald's to drop their egg supplier after undercover footage showed hens packed into cramped cages, male chicks being tossed into plastic bags to suffocate and workers cutting off the tips of chicks' beaks.

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Names New Head of Human Resources ...

Experienced industry executive Sander Hubbers joins company as new Senior Vice President of Human Resources

GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the appointment of Sander Hubbers as senior vice president of human resources. Reporting to GLOBALFOUNDRIES CEO Ajit Manocha, Hubbers will be based in Singapore and takes over responsibility for the company?s global human resources practices, policies, and operations supporting a growing workforce of more than 12,000 people worldwide.

Sander Hubbers joins GLOBALFOUNDRIES as Senior Vice President of Human Resources (Photo: Business Wire)

?In just our first three years of operations we?ve grown from 3,000 people to more than 12,000 worldwide. Our growing workforce of talented people is the foundation for our ability to deliver customer success and shareholder value,? said GLOBALFOUNDRIES CEO Ajit Manocha. ?As we continue to grow our global workforce, Sander?s global experience and leadership will be key factors in charting our long-term success.?

Prior to joining GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Hubbers served as vice president of human resources with ST-Ericsson?s smartphone and tablets division and human resources operations in the Asia, US and Central Europe regions.

Previously, Hubbers worked for NXP Semiconductors in Singapore as vice president of human resources for the integrated manufacturing organization and human resources coordinator for Asia. Hubbers began his career with Philips Electronics, later Philips Semiconductors, in the Netherlands, ultimately serving as senior director of human resources for the global marketing and sales organization in San Jose, California.

Hubbers earned a master of business administration degree from the University of Nijmegen and a bachelor of science degree in human resources management from Hogeschool Arnhem, both in the Netherlands.

ABOUT GLOBALFOUNDRIES

GLOBALFOUNDRIES is the world?s first full-service semiconductor foundry with a truly global footprint. Launched in March 2009, the company has quickly achieved scale as one of the largest foundries in the world, providing a unique combination of advanced technology and manufacturing to more than 150 customers. With operations in Singapore, Germany and the United States, GLOBALFOUNDRIES is the only foundry that offers the flexibility and security of manufacturing centers spanning three continents. The company?s three 300mm fabs and five 200mm fabs provide the full range of process technologies from mainstream to the leading edge. This global manufacturing footprint is supported by major facilities for research, development and design enablement located near hubs of semiconductor activity in the United States, Europe and Asia. GLOBALFOUNDRIES is owned by the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC).

For more information on GLOBALFOUNDRIES, visit http://www.globalfoundries.com.

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D.C. Mayor's Administration Mired In Cloud Of Scandal

Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray was elected to office on a platform of anti-corruption. But just two years into his term, a federal investigation has left two former aids pleading guilty to misdeeds during the 2010 election. Gray has denied any wrongdoing. Host Guy Raz talks about D.C. politics with Washington Post reporter Nikita Stewart.

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As count goes on Egypt candidates reach out to rivals

As final votes are counted the apparent winners of the first round of Egypt's landmark presidential vote reached out to rival candidates ahead of a June run-off.

Unofficial results suggested that the top two out of 12 candidates were the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Mursi and Ahmed Shafiq, a former premier under ousted Hosni Mubarak.

The Brotherhood called a meeting of various candidates on Saturday afternoon, but the campaigns of Abul Fotouh, former foreign minister Amr Mussa and Nasserist candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi said the three would not attend.

At a news conference later on Saturday, Mursi appealed to Egyptians to pursue the goals of the revolution, a day after his movement said the nation was "in danger."

He said he was confident the results of the June 16 and 17 run-off "will serve the revolution and the interests of the Egyptian people."

He also sought to reassure those who fear a Mursi win would serve the interests of the Muslim Brotherhood ahead of the country.

"As a president, I will be the president for all Egyptians. (My relationship) with the Brotherhood will be the same as all Egyptians," he said.

On Friday night, the Brotherhood said it was seeking to create a coalition of forces to challenge Shafiq.

"We call on all sincere political and national forces to unite to protect the revolution and to achieve the pledges we took before our great nation," it said.

"The slogan now is: 'The nation is in danger'," Essam al-Erian, deputy head of the Brotherhood's political arm, told AFP.

Shafiq also called for broad support from former rivals, calling on his competitors by name to join him and promising there would be no return to the old regime.

"I reach out to all the partners and I pledge that we would all work together for the good of Egypt," he told a news conference.

Addressing young people who spearheaded the 2011 revolt, he said: "Your revolution has been hijacked and I am committed to bringing (it) back."

"I pledge now, to all Egyptians, we shall start a new era. There is no going back."

As the top two candidates worked to rally support for the run-off, leftist candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi, who came third, said he was to file a complaint over alleged voting irregularities in the first round.

"We will file appeals and we will then determine whether or not we accept the results," Sabbahi said.

"It is our right to get a response to our appeals. We will be in the second round, God willing."

"The number of votes we got says the future is open for us: we will continue with the revolution until we reach victory," Sabbahi told a crowd of supporters outside his campaign headquarters in Cairo.

He refused to publicly back either of the two frontrunners, and said he would not accept the number two position in the country.

"I will not accept to be a vice president. You have the right to give your vote to whoever you want, it's up to you to decide," he told the crowd.

A Shafiq-Mursi run-off looks likely to further polarise a nation that rose up against the authoritarian Mubarak 15 months ago but has since suffered endemic violence and a declining economy.

The contest presents a difficult choice for activists who led the revolt against Mubarak. For them, choosing Shafiq would be to admit the revolution had failed, but a vote for Mursi would threaten the very freedoms they fought for.

Independent analyst Hisham Kassem said the situation "is one of the most difficult political situations that Egypt has ever known."

"We face the risk of maintaining the Mubarak regime, or Islamising the country," he told AFP.

Former US president Jimmy Carter, whose Carter Centre monitored the elections, told journalists that the process had been "encouraging" but noted that he and his monitors had faced unprecedented constraints.

"I would say that these (elections) have been encouraging to me," he said, adding that authorities had imposed "constraints placed on us as witnesses that have never been placed on us before."

He said minor "haphazard" violations had been observed, but there did not appear to be systematic irregularities that favoured any one candidate.

Erian said on Friday it was "completely clear" that Mursi and Shafiq had topped the vote and would compete in the June 16-17 run-off.

He said Mursi had won 25.3 percent of the vote and Shafiq 24 percent, with Sabbahi at 22 percent.

Both Mursi and Shafiq had been written off as long shots just weeks before the historic election in which Egypt voted for the first time to elect a president after Mubarak's ouster in a democratic uprising.

The election, with 50 million eligible voters, was hailed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who congratulated Egypt on its "historic" election and said Washington was ready to work with a new government in Cairo.

Electoral commission officials said turnout was around 50 percent over the two days.

The election follows a tumultuous military-led transition from autocratic rule marked by political upheaval and bloodshed, but which also witnessed free parliamentary elections.

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, in power since Mubarak's downfall, has pledged to restore civilian rule by the end of June.

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To Be a Herd

A herd has many...many horses...many breeds....many colors....and many ranks.......but they all beat as one heart of the lands....with the rythmic pound of running hooves.

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Now, why didn't my rules come up!? Ugh, I'll just explain breifly.

1: Spring/Summer are mating seasons and yes, detailed mating and romance is allowed. So if you feel uncomfortable with this, this may not be the roleplay for you. During the mating season, there may be cases when the stallion mates forcefully with the mare against her will.
Autumn/Winter: a battle for food and a survival against the elemants.

2: Do NOT curse or swear. Horses don't do that anyways.

3: Each player can have up to 6 characters but you really aren't forced to go that high. If you do wantto have six horse characters you MUST be able to keep up with each one, otherwiese I'll remove it.

4: control YOUR horse characters. You've got plenty of room for your characters, don't control others.

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Oh, when the roleplay starts, it'll be mid autumn.

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1: Spring/Summer are mating seasons and yes, detailed mating and romance is allowed. So if you feel uncomfortable with this, this may not be the roleplay for you. During the mating season, there may be cases when the stallion mates forcefully with the mare against her will.

Better check with the moderators if this statement is fine.

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Literary scholar Paul Fussell dead at 88

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Auctioned dinosaur skeleton smuggled?

A fossilized dinosaur that was once at the top of its food chain is now caught in the jaws of a legal battle over whether or not its remains can be sold in the United States.

The anonymous buyer who bid $1.1 million for the towering specimen Sunday in New York will not receive it if the courts decide it is the rightful property of Mongolia.

The president of Mongolia says the skeleton, which stands 8 feet tall and 24 feet long (2.4? by 7.3 meters), was almost certainly taken illegally out of his country. American and Mongolian paleontologists have supported President Elbegdorj Tsakhia's claim that this dinosaur, a species sometimes called Tyrannosaurus bataar, is from Mongolia, where these close relatives of the North American Tyrannosaurus rex are found. [ Up For Auction: A Natural History Gallery ]

What makes them certain?
To most scientists Tyrannosaurus bataar goes by a different name, Tarbosaurus bataar; but both are considered tyrannosaurs.

So far at least, the remains of tarbosaurs haven't shown up in many places. In fact, all fossils that can be positively identified as tarbosaur remains come from one spot in the Gobi Desert. [ Tyrannosaur vs. Tarbosaur: What's the Difference? ]

"The specimens we can clearly tell are tarbosaurus, and all of the nice material of Tarbosaurus, comes from a particular rock formation," said Lawrence Witmer, an anatomist and paleontologist at Ohio University. "So we all feel pretty confident this specimen almost certainly comes from Mongolia."

Witmer is referring to the Nemegt Formation, a rock formation in Mongolia's portion of the Gobi that dates back roughly 70 million years, to the Late Cretaceous Period.

Teeth found in China, Kazakhstan and possibly parts of Russia may belong to tarbosaurs but can't be conclusively identified, said Philip Currie, a paleontologist at the University of Alberta who studies Tarbosaurus and other tyrannosaurs.

Under Mongolian law, "items of historical, cultural or scientific value" found above or under the ground are property of the state.

"We want this dinosaur to go back to Mongolia, where it belongs; that is the sole purpose of this," said Mongolian paleontologist Bolorsetseg Minjin as she stood on the sidewalk with other protesters near the auction in Manhattan on Sunday.

Unusual finds
As the only clear source of Tarbosaurus fossils , the Nemegt Formation has been generous.

"It is a very unusual place in the sense that Tarbosaurus is disproportionately common," Currie told LiveScience, "which is a very interesting scientific problem of its own."

Tarbosaurus, like T. rex, occupied the top of the food chain. These "apex predators" are expected to be more scarce than the animals they eat. However, Tarbosaurus fossils make up about 50 percent of the dinosaur skeletons excavated from the formation.

The strangeness doesn't stop there. The skeleton auctioned May 20 was 75 percent complete, an impressive percentage in the world of dinosaur specimens, except for Tarbosaurus.

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In fact, a 75 percent complete skeleton is pretty standard for it, Currie said. "We have got some that are almost 90, 95 percent complete, and we have a lot of complete skulls."

About 30 nearly complete tarbosaurus specimens are held in museums, but based on the suspicious excavations he's seen in Mongolia, Currie estimates that at least twice as many could be on the illegal market.

On Wednesday, the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, of which Currie is president, released a statement strongly condemning the sale of the dinosaur skeleton, as well as several other fossils sold at Sunday's auction. [ Smuggled? Other Auctioned Fossils ]

Mysterious sellers
The auctioneer, Heritage Auctions, has not identified the sellers of the dinosaur but said they "warranted in writing to Heritage that they hold clear title to the fossils."

Heritage declined to answer further questions for this story, releasing a statement: "Because of the complexity of the circumstances, our auction sale of the dinosaur was conditional on a resolution of the court case. We now are focused on working with the parties involved to try to achieve a fair and amicable resolution."

It appears the auction house had at least some knowledge of its origin. The auction catalog lists the specimen as coming from Central Asia, and in interviews, David Herskowitz, director of natural history at Heritage Auctions, identified its origin as the Gobi Desert, which stretches between Mongolia and China. An article in the British tabloid The Daily Mail quotes him as saying it came from Mongolia.

On Sunday, Heritage President Gregory Rohan pointed out that putting a specimen with questionable ownership in a major auction would make no sense.

"If there is a title problem, you go and sell it secretly to someone in a backroom for a suitcase full of cash. That is something we have nothing to do with," he said.

You can follow LiveSciencesenior writer Wynne Parry on Twitter @Wynne_Parry. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience? and on Facebook.

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HP to cut 27,000 jobs to save up to $3.5B annually

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Hewlett-Packard Co. is cutting 27,000 jobs in an effort to recover from management missteps that hobbled the Silicon Valley pioneer as its rivals raced ahead with more innovative products and services.

The streamlining announced Wednesday represents HP's largest payroll purge in its 73-year history. About 8 percent of HP's nearly 350,000 employees will be gone by the time the overhaul is completed in October 2014.

The cuts come eight months after HP hired Meg Whitman as CEO to turn the company around.

The company expects to save $3 billion to $3.5 billion annually from the job cuts and other austerity measures.

HP said it will avoid as many layoffs as possible by offering early retirement packages. And word of the cut had leaked out in media reports late last week, so the news didn't come as a surprise.

Nevertheless, the sobering details overshadowed the release of HP's latest quarterly results. Although HP's earnings and revenue declined from a year ago, the numbers were better than analysts had projected. HP delivered another pleasant surprise by offering a forecast that raised hopes that HP may be poised to bounce back.

"While I wouldn't say we have turned the corner, we are making real progress," Whitman told analysts during a conference call.

Echoing comments she made three months ago, Whitman cautioned that "turning HP around is going to be a lot of hard work. It's going to take time. But we know what needs to be done."

Investors were pleased, although it wasn't clear whether their glee had more to do with the cost-cutting or the company's performance during its fiscal second quarter, which ended in April.

HP shares surged $1.97, or more than 9 percent, to $23.05 in Wednesday's extended trading. That's still about half their value before HP parted ways with Mark Hurd, a cost-costing specialist who stepped down in 2010 amid a scandal revolving around the nature of his relationship with a former actress who worked as an HP contractor. An investigation uncovered inaccurate expense reports.

The current troubles at HP have been traced both to Hurd, who cut research and development to boost profits, and his successor, Leo Apotheker, who didn't respond to the threat posed by a shift to computing on smartphones and tablets.

Whitman's plan calls for less bureaucracy so the company can respond more quickly to customer needs. She also wants to boost research and development to spur more innovation.

HP, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif., has been struggling to sell more personal computers and printers, partly because they aren't needed as much now that people are spending so much time surfing the Web on phones and tablets such as Apple Inc.'s iPad. The company's efforts to sell more business software and consulting services have been stymied by competition from the likes of IBM Corp. and Oracle Corp.

"Work force reductions are never easy," Whitman said Wednesday. "They adversely impact people's lives, but in this case, they are absolutely critical to the long-term health of the company. Our goal is simple: a better outcome for the customers at reduced cost for HP."

Whitman plans to funnel most of the savings from the job cuts into product development, with an emphasis on three areas: software services delivered online, a concept known as "cloud computing"; data storage and analysis; and computer security.

Some of the extra cash will go toward boosting HP's earnings, too.

HP's workforce has undergone several other reorganizations during the past decade. Two of the biggest occurred during Hurd's regime. HP announced 14,500 job cuts in 2005 in one of his first big acts as CEO. HP also announced 24,600 cuts in 2008 after buying technology consulting service EDS for $13.9 billion.

HP did not say where the latest cuts would come from. It is combining its printer and PC divisions, which could reduce some overhead.

In related moves, Whitman is changing the leadership at HP's recently acquired Autonomy division, which makes software that finds and analyzes data within companies and government agencies.

Bill Veghte, HP's chief strategy officer, is replacing Autonomy founder Mike Lynch in an effort to boost the division's financial performance. The shake-up is likely to amplify investor concern about whether HP blundered last year when it paid $11 billion for Autonomy. Apotheker announced the deal in August, just a month before he was fired.

Whitman told analysts she still believes the Autonomy acquisition was smart.

The company earned $1.6 billion, or 80 cents per share, in February through April. That's 31 percent less than the $2.3 billion, or $1.05 per share, it earned a year earlier.

If not for several items unrelated to HP's ongoing business, the company said it would have earned 98 cents per share. That adjusted earnings figure topped the average estimate of 91 cents per share among analysts surveyed by FactSet.

Revenue fell 3 percent from last year to $30.7 billion. That was about $800 million above analysts' average projection.

To pay for severance and other restructuring costs, HP expects to take a pre-tax charge of about $1.7 billion in the current fiscal year, which ends in October. About $1 billon of those charges will come in the current quarter ending in July. HP expects to take charges of an additional $1.8 billion through fiscal 2014.

The company also expects to register a charge of $1.2 billion to account for the declining value of the Compaq computer brand. HP bought Compaq a decade ago in a deal that many shareholders, including the son of a company founder William Hewlett, tried to block.

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SpaceX takes Star Trek's 'Scotty' to the Final Frontier

SpaceX: The ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on 'Star Trek' were launched to space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The price?? $2,995 to launch 1 gram of ashes into Earth orbit.

By Clara Moskowitz,?Space.com / May 22, 2012

Actors William Shatner (left) and James Doohan, who played Scotty, are seen here in the 1994 movie 'Star Trek Generations.' SpaceX launched a container with Doohan's ashes in to Earth orbit Tuesday.

Elliott Marks / Paramount

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Scotty has finally been beamed up. The ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on the 1960s television series "Star Trek," were launched to space this morning (May 22) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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The unmanned Falcon 9 blasted off at 3:44 a.m. EDT (0744 GMT) from here at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carrying the Dragon capsule filled with cargo bound for the International Space Station. Also packed aboard the rocket was a secondary payload carrying remains from 308 people, including Doohan and Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper, according to ABC News and Reuters.

The ashes were flown under an agreement between the spacecraft's builder, private rocket company SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp. of Hawthorne, Calif.) and Celestis, a company that books memorial spaceflights to "launch a symbolic portion of your loved one's ashes into space," according to its website.

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"We had a Celestis canister on the second stage, not on Dragon," SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said at a news conference after the launch. "They've actually been a customer of ours since 2005 or 2006."

The Falcon 9 rocket's second stage separated from the capsule nine minutes and 49 seconds into the flight, and is now orbiting on its own above Earth. The second stage will likely stay in orbit for about a year before it falls back toward the ground and is burned up during re-entry. [Photos: SpaceX's Dragon Launches to Space Station]

In addition to the human ashes, SpaceX's Falcon 9/Dragon flight launched about 1,014 pounds (460 kilograms) of cargo for the space station, including food and supplies for the crew, student-designed science experiments, computer equipment and commemorative souvenirs like mission patches and pins.

Burial in space

Celestis charges $2,995 to launch 1 gram of a person's ashes to Earth orbit. Deep space launches to the solar system start at $12,500, while suborbital flights that return to Earth begin at $995.

The human remains payload was not officially announced by SpaceX before today, although news reports publicized the inclusion of the ashes onboard Falcon 9.

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With kids, career, no time to direct, says Brad Pitt

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Hitting snooze on the molecular clock: Rabies evolves slower in hibernating bats

Friday, May 18, 2012

The rate at which the rabies virus evolves in bats may depend heavily upon the ecological traits of its hosts, according to researchers at the University of Georgia, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Their study, published May 17 in the journal PLoS Pathogens, found that the host's geographical location was the most accurate predictor of the viral rate of evolution. Rabies viruses in tropical and sub-tropical bat species evolved nearly four times faster than viral variants in bats in temperate regions.

"Species that are widely distributed can have different behaviors in different geographical areas," said Daniel Streicker, a postdoctoral associate in the UGA Odum School of Ecology and the study's leader. "Bats in the tropics are active year-round, so more rabies virus transmission events occur per year. Viruses in hibernating bats, on the other hand, might lose up to six months' worth of opportunities for transmission."

Understanding the relationship between host ecology and viral evolution rates could shed light on the transmission dynamics of other viruses, such as influenza, that occur across regions, infect multiple host species or whose transmission dynamics are impacted by anthropogenic change.

The team's findings could eventually help public health officials better predict when rabies virus transmission could happen in different environments and as environments change, but Streicker cautions that more research into the rabies virus genome and bats' overwintering ecology is needed.

"If viral evolution is faster, it could potentially lead to greater genetic diversity in crucial parts of the viral genome that allow it to shift hosts," he said. "For rabies, we don't yet know what those are, so identifying them will be key. Similarly, before understanding whether climate change will speed viral evolution, we need a better idea of how environmental changes will influence host ecology and behavior."

Evolutionary biologists have long recognized that molecular evolution proceeds in a largely clock-like manner, with mutations accumulating at a fairly constant rate over time. This "molecular clock" allows for powerful inferences?from dating the origins of species to the origins of epidemics. However, the rate at which the clock ticks varies dramatically among species; much research has focused on what causes these differences.

For RNA viruses such as rabies, understanding the rate variability has practical implications, since faster evolution can enable viral emergence in new species or allow a virus to evade its host's immune defenses. However, nearly all past studies compared viruses of completely different families and were therefore limited to focusing on viral structural traits. Since few opportunities existed to study the evolution of similar viruses in different host species, the role of the host had been almost completely neglected.

Streicker set out to better understand the tempo of the evolution of rabies viruses in bats, and specifically what, if any, role the host species played.

To conduct the study, Streicker and his colleagues compiled a database of rabies virus genetic sequences from infected bats in the U.S. and South America, representing 21 different variants of the virus. They also collected information on the biology and ecology of the different bat species that served as viral hosts. They looked at the evolutionary history of the different bat species; their overwintering behavior (whether the bats hibernated, went through periods of torpor or remained active during the winter); their metabolic rates; and their migration habits (whether they engaged in long distance migration). They also classed the bats by climatic region and whether they were solitary or roosted in colonies.

Their analysis of this enormous database revealed extreme variability in the rate of evolution in different rabies viruses, comparable to the differences seen between viruses of entirely different families. The analysis also suggested that viral genetic traits were not chiefly responsible for this variation since rates seemed to shift freely throughout the ancestral history of the rabies virus as it jumped into new bat species.

"Earlier studies led to the conclusion that viral genomic traits are driving the evolution rate," Streicker said. "It turns out that's not the whole story. In this case, host biology plays an important role."

The trait that best correlated with the rate of viral evolution was not the host's evolutionary history. It was its climatic region, which affects the bats' behavior.

Rabies in tropical bats goes through more generations per year than in temperate bats, a mechanism also hypothesized to accelerate how quickly the molecular clock ticks in free-living tropical plants and animals. The rapid evolution in rabies viruses provided the researchers with an opportunity to examine one of the mechanisms thought to drive the differences in evolution and species diversity across latitudes from the poles to the tropics.

"This is just another example of how the fast pace of evolution in RNA viruses makes them exceptional tools for understanding simultaneously ecological and evolutionary processes," Streicker said.

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3. Make sure the representative of the Florida law lawbreaker intends to use knowledge management practice has many of its specific form of stage. For example, if the firm offers to use the simple drunk driving a vehicle cases, what he / she graduated from law school for 3 months and therefore management has little or no real knowledge, as the scenarios? 4. Avoid hiring a professional criminal legal California agrees that the "certain result. In fact, it is difficult for law firm that the team that just won and who knows nothing about your case that is not everything who shared with him to see how your situation will come up with any amount of the guarantee.5. But if your goal would be to resolve the situation without taking a test, you may not need to use the prison's attorney in the law best show around. You really should manifest itself as an alternative to an agent who has experience reducing productive variety of situations lawbreaker. By contrast, when certainly want to have a chance, make sure the criminal lawyer Sarasota has important practical cases retain the knowledge they struggle and not simply a place of "workin lawyer.

6. In If you are using a law firm west of the lawbreaker to be effective with their circumstances, ensure that specific lawyer, but not among their partners would be the lawyer who often repair their circumstances and go to court over.

7. Use a Florida attorney felony of the law that you feel relaxed using following to join him and go over your situation. Do not use a lawyer to be pressing to consult with trial run in the event that its goal is always reached sufficient agreement with the prosecutor immediately. On the other hand, not using a lawyer to press for a high demand for purchase if you really want is actually a trial.

8. Ensure that counsel for the prison Fl to be used have the opportunity to focus on your circumstances. In the event that the legal representative who wishes to use begins a month long national study in the future, it will not be the law firm offenders best suited to handle your case if the instance has a lot to operate, in addition to their test day is coming soon.9. Make sure the attorney Texas law felony that would like to use is to aid workers which adequately could handle your event. Does the legal professional has, for example, a secretary, a private investigator, a paralegal, and admission to qualified witnesses may be necessary to effectively represent you in the test? If you're not, you'd find another legal professional.

10. In case of felony southwest The legal practitioner must keep is quoting the rate that is much more or much less than the rhythm method, ask yourself why. If the remaining rate offered is a bit more compared to the load planning, which considering that the law firm that is as cool as your opposition? If she is certainly not higher, you will pay that fee? However, if the price of remaining payment is less than the price of intention, may be due to counsel only from the minor features and find their special variety of criminal circumstances? If so, you should find one more degree in Law.

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About The Author

Ronald Chapman is a Florida criminal lawyer who has been representing clients charged with crimes since 1990. His office is located in West Palm Beach, Florida. Attorney Chapman?s blog is located at http://www.justiceflorida.com/articles/hiring-a-florida-criminal-atto/

May 18th, 2012 posted in Criminal Lawyer

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