United order boosts Embraer outlook despite profit miss

By Brad Haynes

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Embraer SA , the world's biggest maker of regional jets, said an order for at least 30 new planes from United Airlines on Monday raised the odds of greater production next year.

The order, which included options for 40 additional E-175 jets, is worth a combined $2.9 billion at list prices, providing a silver lining for the company after weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings.

Hurt by rising labor costs and a drop in commercial aircraft production, Embraer posted a 67 percent drop in first-quarter net income to $30 million, falling short of an average estimate of $58 million in a Reuters poll.

The new order from United Continental , which will include the 76-seat regional jets in its United Express fleet, reinforces hopes that this year's lower E-Jet output was just a cyclical ebb.

"Without a doubt, this order makes it more likely we'll increase the pace of production next year," said Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva, the head of Embraer's commercial aviation unit, in a telephone interview.

"We're doing really well this year."

The planemaker is trimming output of its regional E-Jets by as much as 15 percent in 2013 after years of scarce demand. But fresh demand has been unleashed after major U.S. airlines last year renegotiated labor contracts that had limited their regional fleets to jets with 50 or fewer seats.

United said it expects its new E-175s to achieve fuel savings of 10 percent compared to the 50-seater regional jets they will replace in 2013 and 2014.

Silva said he continues to expect 200 to 400 new orders for regional jets from major U.S. carriers between this year and the middle of 2014.

Canadian rival Bombardier Inc won an order from Delta Air Lines for larger regional jets in December, but Embraer responded a month later with an order for American Airlines' regional network.

"American and (planned merger partner) US Airways still need to renew their fleets. They've done that partly with the order in January," Silva told Reuters. "I see good chances for us to close more deals ahead."

Waning production of Embraer's regional jets seating less than 120 passengers, its biggest source of revenue, was offset in the first quarter by rising revenue from its defense and executive jet divisions.

But the less profitable product mix and rising labor costs weighed on operating profit. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, a gauge of operating profit known as EBITDA, fell by nearly a third to $100 million, missing a forecast of $135 million in the Reuters survey.

The retroactive cost of a recent wage hike and a $9 million provision for an outstanding labor lawsuit also hurt EBITDA.

(Reporting by Brad Haynes; Editing by Gary Hill and Edwina Gibbs)

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Wacom outfits the Cintiq 22HD with multi-touch, bumps the price to $2,499

If you've been gazing lovingly at Wacom's 22-inch pen display, the company has tacked on some functionality that may convince you to commit. The outfit has announced the Cintiq 22HD touch: a version of the existing 21.5-inch stylus pal with multi-touch functionality on board. If you'll recall, a similar treatment was given to the Cintiq 24HD after its initial launch sans swipes. The list of additional specs for the 22HD touch still includes a 1920 x 1080 full HD LCD screen, a gamut of 16.7 million colors, 16 configurable ExpressKeys, adjustable stand and that trusty Cintiq pen. Of course, the new tactile treatment runs the cost up $500 -- but if that doesn't deter you, the unit is slated to hit shelves sometime in May.

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How a Quaker missionary from Philly became India's Johnny Appleseed

Samuel Evans Stokes?spent years trying to persuade his neighbors in the Himalayas to grow apples, giving away plants freely until?locals took to apple farming and Indians took to Red Delicious.

By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar,?Correspondent / April 22, 2013

A community hall in rural India is not the place you would expect to find a garlanded portrait or statue of a Quaker missionary from Philadelphia. But both those things can be found at the farmers? hall in Thanedar, the ?apple bowl? of the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh in India.

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Every farmer here can ? and will ? tell you about Samuel Evans Stokes, or Satyanand Stokes as he came to be known. He was an American missionary who settled in this area in the early 20^th century, participated in India?s struggle for independence as a co-traveller of Mahatma Gandhi, and became the Johnny Appleseed of the northwestern Himalayas.

Stokes seeded a horticultural revolution when he planted five saplings of Red Delicious ? bought from the Starks Brothers nursery in Louisiana ? on his farm here in 1916, and helped convert locals to apple farming.

Stokes?s extraordinary journey began in turn-of-the-19^th -century Philadelphia where, at a church meeting, he heard an American doctor talk about working with lepers in India. Inspired, this son of a wealthy Quaker family (the founders of the elevator manufacturers, Stokes and Parish Machine Company) gave up his post-graduate studies at Cornell University and joined the doctor on a steamship to Bombay in 1904.

For a time, according to family accounts, Stokes worked at the doctor?s home for lepers in the plains. He fell ill and was sent to recuperate in the hills near Shimla, then the summer capital of the British Raj, at a cantonment village called Kotgarh.

Smitten by Kotgarh ? which Rudyard Kipling called ?mistress of the hills? ? Stokes stayed on. He experimented with renunciation, living in a cave like an Indian sadhu, and founded the Brotherhood of Imitation of Jesus, traveling from village to village preaching. A few years later, he married an Indian woman, bought a former tea estate in Thanedar, and focused on farming. ?In 1914, he took local soil samples to America, returning with Red Delicious stocks.

Stokes spent years trying to persuade his neighbors to grow apples, giving away plants freely, says Vidya Stokes, who married Samuel Stokes?s son, Lal Chand, and is the current horticulture minister of Himachal Pradesh.

Initially, few farmers listened, she said. They knew only the cooking apples the British had brought ? Granny Smith and Pippin varieties that were too sour for Indian tastes.?

Stokes taught the boys in the school he established how to graft the plants, says Vidya Stokes. ?Their parents were skeptical, so the boys planted the saplings on the borders of their family farms,? she says.

When the first crops of Red Delicious came, however, ?everyone came to see,? she says. ?The apples were sweet. People realized they could make money from this.?

And they did ? Himachal?s apple orchards are valued today at around $550 million and provide a livelihood to more than 100,000 farmers.

Farming wasn?t the only way in which Samuel Stokes sought to help society, however. A believer in racial equality and social justice, he campaigned successfully to end a colonial system of forced labor in the hills and joined the Indian freedom struggle: signing petitions, engaging in debates on strategy with Gandhi and other nationalists, and adopting Indian clothes.

In 1921, he was the only non-Indian to be invited by Gandhi to sign a nationalist manifesto calling on Indians to quit government service ? he signed ? and was imprisoned for six months on charges of sedition.

In his later years, Samuel Stokes became more contemplative. In 1932, he and his family converted to Hindusim and changed his name to Satyanand. The temple he built ? without idols ? as well as Stokes?s home can still be seen today on his 200-acre estate in Thanedar. Most of Stokes descendants now live in America. ?

Stokes?s portrait also hangs in the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi, alongside pictures of Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders of the Indian independence movement.

But it?s the farmers of Himachal Pradesh who remember him ? as the man who transformed the region and their lives ? with apples from America.

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In Ala., GOP dictates new landscape for education

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ? Self-declared education reformers have had considerable success across the country over the past few decades, from charter school expansion and private school tuition vouchers to new limits on teachers' job protections. But perhaps nowhere have the triumphs marked a bigger political upheaval than in Alabama, where the new Republican supermajority is dominating the state teachers' organization that was long the epicenter of power.

Alabama Education Association chief Henry Mabry accuses Republicans of hurting public schools with changes to teacher tenure, tax breaks for private school tuition, and limits on AEA collecting dues through the state payroll system.

"There seems to be an unspoken agenda to change the public education system to where it's not even recognizable," Mabry said. He called it "right out of the playbook" of a national movement to eviscerate government in favor of private and for-profit enterprises.

GOP leaders frame their efforts as improving a broken system more concerned with public employees than with children. "It's not that we're punitive toward AEA," House Speaker Mike Hubbard said. "We're just doing the right thing by the taxpayers, and they don't like that."

Alabama's statehouse dynamic has turned on its head since Republicans won legislative supermajorities in 2010, giving them legislative control for the first time since Reconstruction. Soon after, longtime AEA leader Paul Hubbert, who spent more than four decades amassing a reputation as the state's most powerful lobbyist, retired and gave way to Mabry.

"For so long, AEA controlled everything, and they don't anymore," Hubbard said. "They're having a really hard time adjusting to that."

Hubbert, who still lives in Montgomery, said AEA was a predictable target for Republicans because it "had primarily supported Democrats."

The Alabama legislative battles haven't produced the kind of protests seen in Wisconsin after Republican Gov. Scott Walker gutted his state's public unions, but they underscore how quickly public policy can turn after watershed elections. They've also had considerable political ripple effects. The state Democratic Party, once dependent on AEA's organizational muscle, is reeling. Republicans must deal with the realities of a supermajority: Old two-party battles are sometimes reprised as internal party struggles. Both sides say those issues will figure prominently in the 2014 elections.

Immediately, the new GOP Legislature tried to block AEA from collecting money from its 100,000 or so members through the automatic deductions in the state payroll system. The law remains tied up in court, but it would change how AEA collects money, potentially cutting into the estimated $7 million to $8 million that Mabry says it spends each election cycle.

Republicans made it easier to fire teachers and blocked them from being paid during appeals. The party also wants the state to provide liability insurance for teachers ? a key benefit teachers get from AEA. The state already provides similar insurance for non-education employees.

The biggest GOP victory came earlier this year when legislators passed the Alabama Accountability Act with provisions championed by school-choice advocates, including a private-school tuition voucher program for students from low-income households and tax breaks for private school tuition paid by families zoned for poorly performing public schools.

Those ideas have been implemented elsewhere. The tuition scholarship-voucher fund is modeled after a program Jeb Bush enacted as governor of Florida. Other provisions closely track model legislation offered by the American Legislative Exchanges Council, a consortium of conservative state legislators backed mostly by corporate contributions.

Mabry calls the tuition grants and tax breaks "once-in-a-lifetime goodies" for private schools and many parents who already send their children to them. Republicans estimate that the tax credits will divert about $50 million from public school appropriations, but AEA says the number will be much higher. Mabry blasts Hubbard's argument that supporting public schools is different from backing public school employees.

Hubbard spent more than a decade in the minority protesting Hubbert's influence. Hubbard and Senate GOP leader Del Marsh both refer to AEA as "the union," though AEA doesn't have collective bargaining rights and cannot strike. Statehouse lore holds that Hubbert could sit in the gallery and determine the outcome of budget amendments by showing lawmakers a thumbs-up or thumbs-down ? though Hubbert disputes the account.

AEA was an unquestioned success in an otherwise unfriendly state for organized labor. National teachers' union officials recognize it as among the most influential state associations without collective bargaining power. Unlike several other Southern states that have multiple groups, AEA is the product of an integration-era merger of a white group and black group. Hubbert ran AEA for decades with Joe Reed, who is black, as his top deputy.

Both men were longtime executive officers of the state Democratic Party. Hubbert won the Democratic nomination for governor in 1990 but lost the general election. AEA usually took the lead on recruiting candidates, often choosing education employees and administrators. Republicans lambasted the "double dipping" because the officeholders got two state paychecks, and some AEA-backed Democrats were convicted of fraud after a federal investigation found they got paychecks and contracts from state two-year colleges without doing the work.

An enduring example of AEA's old power is the fact that Alabama passes two budgets annually: one for education and the General Fund budget for everything else. Earmarks direct the overwhelming majority of state tax revenues to the education budget. In a state where anti-tax sentiment has always been strong, AEA saw to it that public schools ? and their employees ? got most of the pie.

Hubbert and Mabry say that's the way the electorate wants it. They attribute Republicans' 2010 sweep to a national election centered on President Barack Obama and the economy, not on GOP education policy.

AEA has begun recruiting candidates for 2014 on both sides of the aisle, Mabry said. New district lines give Republicans a decided advantage, particularly in the few remaining district represented by white Democrats. Mabry argued that Republican voters are sympathetic to AEA's positions, particularly on vouchers and tax credits. He noted that some Republicans in Indiana and Ohio were ousted in 2012 after a similar approach.

Hubbard and Marsh said they can win the "school choice" argument on merit. Hubbard's old nemesis, meanwhile, gives him reason not to worry anytime soon. The bottom line, according to Hubbert, is that AEA's philosophy and Republican priorities don't match. "AEA will change with the times, I'm sure," Hubbert said. "But will it be a major player inside the Republican Party? I doubt it."

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World War II vet who provided flag at Iwo Jima dead at 90

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This Feb. 23, 1945 file photo shows U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raising the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan. Alan Wood, a World War II veteran who provided the flag in the famous flag-raising on Iwo Jima has died. Alan Wood was 90. Wood was in charge of communications on a landing ship on Iwo Jima's shores when a Marine asked him for the biggest flag that he could find. Wood handed him a flag he had found in Pearl Harbor.

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A veteran of World War II credited with providing the flag in the famous flag-raising on Iwo Jima has died at his Los Angeles County home. Alan Wood died of natural causes April 18 at the age of 90, his son Steven Wood announced Saturday.

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Wood was a 22-year-old Navy officer in charge of communications on a landing ship on Iwo Jima's shores on Feb. 23, 1945 when a Marine asked him for the biggest flag he could find.

After five days of intense fighting to capture the Japanese-held island, U.S. forces had managed to scale Mount Suribachi to hoist an American flag. Woods happened to have a 37-square-foot flag that he had found months before in a Pearl Harbor Navy depot.

Five Marines and a Navy Corpsman raised the flag in a stirring moment captured by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal. Steven Wood said his father was always humbled by his small role in the historic moment.

In a 1945 letter to a Marine general who asked for details about the flag, Alan Wood wrote: "The fact that there were men among us who were able to face a situation like Iwo where human life is so cheap, is something to make humble those of us who were so very fortunate not to be called upon to ensure such hell."

In a story on Wood's death, the Los Angeles Times reported that over the years others have claimed that they provided the famous Iwo Jima flag, but retired Marine Col. Dave Severance, who commanded the company that took Mount Suribachi, said in an interview last week that it was Wood.

"I have a file of more than 60 people who claim to have have something to do with the flags," Severance said from his home in La Jolla, Calif.

After the war, Wood went on to work as a technical artist and spokesman at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge.

His wife, Elizabeth, died in 1985. Besides his son, Wood is survived by three grandchildren.

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Bombs kill 9 at offices of Pakistani politicians

PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) ? Pakistani police say two bomb blasts have killed nine supporters of two Pakistani politicians at their campaign offices in the country's northwest.

Police official Mujtaba Hussain says the first attack Sunday on the outskirts of Kohat city killed six people.

He says the politician, Syed Noor Akbar, is running as an independent candidate for a national assembly seat in general elections to be held on May 11.

Police officer Saifur Rehman says the second bomb killed three at the office of another independent candidate, Nasir Khan Afridi, also running for a national assembly seat, in the suburbs of Peshawar.

No one has claimed responsibility.

Police say Akbar belongs to Pakistan's minority Shiite Muslim sect, adding that this could have been a motive for the attack on him.

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Communicating More Effectively Via Video Conferencing in Charlotte

Video conferencing is a great resource that many Charlotte businesses are taking advantage of. Through the use of video, businesses can expand their client bases more than ever before. IP-based technology serves as an excellent avenue for conducting business over distance, when you need to see as much as hear the person you?re communicating with.

?The heart of effectively using video conferencing is your ability to clearly get your thoughts across,? explains Mike Canipe of TelWare. ?If you are unable to do this, just as much time could be spent fumbling with your video system, than actually collaborating.?

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You can eliminate majority of your routine travel expenses through the use of video conferencing. Businesses enjoy the immediacy of real-time conversations from their home offices, without having to invest funds into transportation, lodging accommodations, and per diem expenses.

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Businesses collaborating over distance using verbal and non-verbal cues process information quicker. Since you can see as well as hear the person you?re speaking with, it is easier to stay focused. Decisions can be made faster, and various assignments can be completed sooner.

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Video conferencing supports the exchange of a wider range of knowledge. This creates a competitive edge for businesses. With the ability to make decisions quicker, your business can release new products and services into the market more frequently.

Effective Video Conferencing Tips

As Charlotte?s leading communications solutions provider we understand that video conferencing is reaching the forefront of?business?correspondence, and want to offer you tips to ensure you?re communicating effectively and getting the most out of your meetings.

To make your video conferences effective, you have to be an efficient video operator. We advise arriving early for your meeting so you can set up all your equipment, and run a brief test to ensure the camera is functioning properly. Having a backup communication medium, like email or a messaging program on is also a great idea. If the video feed cuts out at any point, your conversation can still continue without interruption.

It?s also important to pay attention to your setting. Make sure the room you?re conferencing in has adequate lighting. Wear neutral, muted or pastel colors as stripes and plaids can cause distractive effects on screen. Use natural gestures. Moving quickly can create confusing effects on the screen. Remember to fill as much of the video frame with yourself or others as possible.

During a video conference, hearing is just as important as seeing. Check your audio device prior to the actual meeting. Allow the person to introduce him or herself to make sure you can hear them properly, and always speak in a normal voice.Next, test yo?microphone by asking if the person you?re speaking with can hear you. Then, during the conversation, keep your microphone muted when?you?re not speaking to cut down on accidental interruptions.

?Incorporating our tips into your video conferences is a great communication solution for Charlotte businesses ready to expand their client base,? says Canipe. ?We have noticed that video is an excellent tool that can reduce travel costs, improve productivity, and give you a competitive advantage.?

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Elite Edition ships for Mac

Feral Interactive has released XCOM: Enemy Unknown for the Mac. The turn-based tactical role-playing game, originally developed by Firaxis, appears in a Mac-exclusive "Elite Edition" that combines previously-released downloadable content including the Slingshot and Elite Soldier Packs along with the Second Wave update.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a brand new game inspired by the classic X-COM: UFO Defense. New story, new enemies and new technologies, hostile aliens, what's not to love? You must defend Earth from a global alien onslaught. The game also features LAN and online multiplayer support.

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Russian court denies punk band convict Tolokonnikova parole

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court refused to release from prison one of two jailed members of the Pussy Riot punk band so that she can look after her young daughter.

The court on Friday rejected Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's appeal for parole eight months after she was handed a two-year prison sentence for the band's performance of a "punk prayer" in Moscow's main Russian Orthodox cathedral.

Tolokonnikova, 23, has been serving her sentence for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" in a prison colony in central Russia, about 550 km (350 miles) southeast of Moscow.

"I've spent enough time in the prison colony. I've had enough of studying it. Half a year is long enough," Tolokonnikova, a philosophy student, told the judge at the parole hearing, the RAPSI legal news agency reported.

She complained of having frequent headaches in jail in Mordovia, a region that has a large number of prisons.

Her lawyer, Irina Khrunova, said Tolokonnikova's five-year-old daughter Gera needed her mother.

The judge said Tolokonnikova's parental status had been taken into account when she was sentenced - prosecutors had asked for three years - and pointed to two reprimands she has received as evidence her conduct has not been sufficiently "corrected", RAPSI reported.

Tolokonnikova and two other band members, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich, were sentenced last August after a trial that was widely condemned abroad as part of a clampdown on dissent by President Vladimir Putin.

Performers such as Madonna, Sting and former Beatle Paul McCartney offered their support for Pussy Riot last year.

SENTENCES DIVIDED OPINION

Although the two-year sentences outraged many liberals, many conservative Russians saw their profanity-laced protest against Putin's close ties with the Church, performed in short dresses and brightly colored tights and balaclavas, as sacrilege.

Samutsevich, 30, was freed in October when her sentence was suspended on appeal after she argued that she had been prevented from taking part in the protest because a guard seized her.

Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina, 24, lost their appeals and in January a judge rejected Alyokhina's request for her sentence to be deferred until her child is older. She has also requested parole and that appeal could be heard next month.

The three women said they had not meant to offend Orthodox Christians with their protest in February 2012, while anti-Putin protests were drawing tens of thousands of people to the streets of Moscow and other big cities.

The rallies have since dwindled and did not stop Putin winning a presidential election the next month.

In his annual nationwide question-and-answer session on Thursday, Putin denied using the courts for political ends.

But he made clear he did not regret Pussy Riot's sentences, mentioning them in the same breath as people who desecrate the graves of World War Two veterans.

But Samutsevich says Pussy Riot's protest at least succeeded in drawing attention to what the all-women protest band sees as Putin's unhealthy relationship with the church and a lack of political freedoms.

"We wanted to start a discussion in society, show our negative view of the merging of the church and state ... The problem was raised internationally, the problem of human rights was put sharply into focus," she said in a recent interview.

(Writing by Timothy Heritage; Editing by Steve Gutterman and Mike Collett-White)

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StackMob Builds Parse App Importer For Refugee Developers Fleeing Facebook's New Acquisition

Some developers got very angry and threatened to leave?mobile app backend platform Parse?when it was bought by Facebook yesterday. Hoping to capitalize, competitor StackMob has since released a Parse migration tool that makes it easy for devs to import their Parse apps. It’s a cutthroat game, this game of tech. When the Parse acquisition was announced, disgruntled developers flocked to Twitter, Hacker News, and our comments reel. Facebook pledged not to screw up the beloved development platform. While it won’t operate independently like Instagram, Facebook’s hands-off approach to the photo sharing app it bought a year ago should instill some confidence. Facebook’s director of product management Doug Purdy said in his statement about the acquisition that “We?ve worked closely with the Parse team and have seen first-hand how important their solutions and platform are to developers. We don?t intend to change this.” On the phone with me he reiterated that Facebook doesn’t intend to mess with a good thing. Still, developers’ complaints I read centered on two fears: 1. That Facebook would degrade the Parse service, potentially by?promoting?its own social integrations and app install ads too hard, and 2. That Facebook would spy on data coming into Parse, including what types of content people chose not to post to the social network. Wasting little time, Stackmob launched an auto-importer for developers looking to move their apps elsewhere and published a blog post touting its advantages over Parse. StackMob CEO Ty Amell tells me the company had already been tinkering with a Parse importer, but when the acquisition was announced, it finished it up and made it accessible yesterday alongside a step-by-step guide. Then today the company began offering a Python script that turns the multi-step process into a single step. Amell explained to me, “Over the last few months we’ve seen an increase in people coming over from Parse. Once we heard they’d been acquired, we knew there was going to be a lot of backlash and uncertainty from mobile developers.?Facebook has a history of monetizing other people’s users, and charging through ads and other ways to access users. Parse not being independent any more is a pretty large concern for developers.” He says developers had two main questions about the acquisition. 1. Do developers still own their data? 2. What rights to privacy do developers have, and how will Facebook use their data? Amell says “Facebook has some pretty

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Kristen Wiig to return to 'SNL' as host

FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013 file photo shows former "Saturday Night Live," cast member Kristen Wiig at the 15th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. NBC announced Friday that Wiig will host the May 11 episode. For six seasons, Wiig was one of the most popular cast members on ?SNL? before exiting in an emotional finale last year. Vampire Weekend will perform as musical guest. The network also announced that the season finale on May 18 will be hosted by Ben Affleck, with Kanye West as the musical guest. It's Affleck's fifth time hosting. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, file)

FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013 file photo shows former "Saturday Night Live," cast member Kristen Wiig at the 15th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. NBC announced Friday that Wiig will host the May 11 episode. For six seasons, Wiig was one of the most popular cast members on ?SNL? before exiting in an emotional finale last year. Vampire Weekend will perform as musical guest. The network also announced that the season finale on May 18 will be hosted by Ben Affleck, with Kanye West as the musical guest. It's Affleck's fifth time hosting. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, file)

NEW YORK (AP) ? A year after leaving "Saturday Night Live," Kristen Wiig is coming back to host the show.

NBC announced Friday that Wiig will host the May 11 episode. For six seasons, Wiig was one of the most popular cast members on the show before exiting in an emotional send-off last May.

Vampire Weekend will perform as musical guest.

The network also announced that the season finale on May 18 will be hosted by Ben Affleck, with Kanye West as the musical guest. It's Affleck's fifth stint as host.

"Saturday Night Live" returns May 4 with Zach Galifianakis hosting.

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First edition of a bookworm's genome

Apr. 25, 2013 ? It has co-existed quietly with humans for centuries, slurping up the spillage in beer halls and gorging on the sour paste used to bind books. Now the tiny nematode Panagrellus redivivus (P.redivivus) has emerged from relative obscurity with the publication of its complete genetic code. Further study of this worm, which is often called the beer-mat worm or, simply, the microworm, is expected to shed new light on many aspects of animal biology, including the differences between male and female organisms and the unique adaptations of parasitic worms.

Using next-generation sequencing technologies, a research team led by Jagan Srinivasan, now an assistant professor of biology and biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), discovered just over 24,000 putative genes encoded in the worm's DNA -- nearly the same number as in the human genome. The team also measured the amount and characteristics of RNA molecules transcribed from those genes to direct cellular processes -- that collection of data is called the worm's transcriptome. The genome data published by Srinivasan and colleagues marks the first time a free-living nematode outside of the widely studied C. elegans immediate family has been sequenced.

The researchers detail their findings in the April 2013 edition of the journal Genetics.

"Humans and nematodes share a common ancestor that lived in the oceans more than 600 million years ago," Srinivasan said. "Many of the basic biological processes have been conserved over the millennia and are similar in Panagrellus and humans. So we believe there is a lot to be learned from studying this organism."

Srinivasan led the P.redivivus sequencing project while working as a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Paul Sternberg, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and the Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology at Caltech. Adler Dillman, a graduate student at Caltech, worked closely with Srinivasan on the project and shares first-author status of the new study. Sternberg is the senior author.

Srinivasan joined the WPI faculty in the fall of 2012 and has established his own research program using the microworm and its scientifically more famous cousin, Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), as model systems to study the neurobiological basis of social communication and how organisms react to environmental cues.

In recent years C. elegans has emerged as a star in the biomedical research world. In 1998 it became the first multicellular organism to have its genome sequenced. The experience gained from that work was fundamental to the successful completion of the Human Genome Project. Nobel prizes in 2002, 2006, and 2008 were awarded to researchers who made extraordinary discoveries studying C. elegans.

Like C. elegans, the microworm P. redivivus is a free-living nematode found in many environments around the world. An adult microworm is about 2 millimeters long and has approximately 1,000 cells. Despite its small size, the worm is a complex organism able to do all of the things animals must do to survive. It can move, eat, reproduce, and process cues from its environment that help it forage for food, seek out mates, or react to threats. Unlike C. elegans, however, P. redivivus is a gonochoristic species, meaning it has male and female individuals who must mate to reproduce. In contrast, C. elegans has evolved to be primarily a self-fertilizing hermaphrodite, producing both eggs and sperm in the same individual. (There are some male-only C. elegans worms, but they are rare in the wild.)

"Because we see true male and female individuals, Panagrellus will be a powerful model system for studying the differences between the sexes and the processes that the organism uses to find and interact with a mate," Srinivasan said.

Both P. redivivus and C. elegans are well suited for laboratory research, Srinivasan noted. The worms are easily cultured and have a short lifecycle, growing from embryo to adult in about four days. Adults live for approximately three weeks and can produce as many as 40 offspring each day. This lifecycle makes them ideal for genetic studies. Furthermore, the worms are transparent. Under a microscope researchers can look into a worm's body and see almost every cell in the living animal. They can see the cell nuclei, tag molecules with glowing fluorescent markers, and capture images of biological processes from the moment of fertilization to maturity.

As a free-living species, the microworm is considered to be an ancestor of other small worms that have evolved into parasites and colonize specific plants or animals (including humans) to survive. Studying the differences between the microworm and parasitic species will become another important area of research, Professor Sternberg noted. "Of course we want to know more about parasitic worms, given their impact on people and the environment," Sternberg said. "To know about parasites, however, you have to know about the free-living worms to place the bizarre features of parasites into context."

The current study identified the number, location, and composition of genes and RNA transcript in the microworm, and found significant and surprising differences between the P.redivivus genome and that of C. elegans even though the worms look nearly identical to the naked eye. For example, the early analysis of the microworm genome suggests that a large collection of genes have evolved as defenses against viruses and other pathogens the worms encounter in the environment -- hence the "harsh demands" of their lifestyle as referenced in the paper's title.

"Studying how the genomes differ, and what processes are driven by those differences, should prove to be insightful," Srinivasan said. "Sequencing the genome and transcriptome is an important first step in what we believe will be a rich new field of study for fundamental biological processes that control development and behavior, not only in the worms, but also in humans."

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What's the Back-Up Plan for Health Insurance Exchanges?

Yet another problem has appeared that could stymie the Affordable Care Act?s successful implementation: what if we need a back-up plan to evaluate and certify the health plans that are going to be sold on the law?s online insurance marketplaces?

As it stands now, there isn?t an official one. On and off the record, officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) assured Governing that there was a secondary plan, but they declined to provide details. Industry sources say they aren?t aware of any such back-up plan?which concerns many of them?but there are a few theories out there.

Here?s the issue: Somebody has to review and certify the health insurance plans that will be sold on the online marketplaces, formerly known as exchanges, created by the federal health reform law. In the 18 state-run exchanges, the state is responsible for doing that review and certification. In the 13 states that are partnering, openly or silently, with the federal government on their exchange, the state is also responsible. In the 19 states fully defaulting to a federal-run exchange, HHS will oversee this process, known as plan management.

That?s how it?s supposed to work. But in practice, it might not be so straightforward. At least five state-run exchanges?Colorado, Idaho, Kentucky, New Mexico and Rhode Island?have yet to start accepting plan applications. If they have serious problems in the next few months--and it is a real possibility that some of them will--they could potentially have to hand plan management over to the feds. Additionally, any of the partnership states, most of which have some degree of state-level opposition to the ACA, could theoretically drop out of that partnership and leave plan management to HHS.

If that happens, nobody is sure how review and certification will be handled. Most states and HHS are allowing several months for the full application and certification process to be completed. With the marketplaces slated to open on Oct. 1, that doesn?t leave a lot of time if things go awry. The federal government is ending its application period for the federal-run exchanges in the next few weeks. If a state doesn?t figure out until a later date that they can?t do plan management and must give that responsibility to the feds, the administration has no obvious mechanism for asking health insurers to submit their plans to HHS instead.

It?s all theoretical right now. But some insurers are worried that it could become a reality very soon.

?That?s a question we?ve been asking ourselves. Nobody?s heard a word,? says one official at a top insurer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. ?At the end of the day, we're questioning whether HHS is going to be fully ready, and we don't know what that means if they aren?t.?

What?s the worst-case scenario? If responsibility for plan management is shifted from the state to the feds at the last minute, that could possibly delay the exchange?s opening until after Oct. 1, says Caroline Pearson, who tracks ACA implementation for Avalere Health, an independent consulting firm.

That might not have a huge practical effect for those who enroll?coverage being sold on the exchanges starts Jan. 1, 2014, so there is some lag time?but it would be a significant political blow to the Obama administration, which has steadfastly insisted that the marketplaces would launch on time. It could also complicate public outreach if people don?t know when their state?s exchange is actually opening.

?That could slow down enrollment and slow down marketing. It probably reduces overall enrollment,? Pearson says. ?I think we've got time before you hit that point, but I?m beginning to get nervous.?

So how does this get resolved? There are a few apparent possibilities, though HHS is staying silent on what their plan is. One rumor, relayed to Governing by a knowledgeable source, is that the feds would ask any insurer planning to sell a plan on any state?s marketplace, including state-run and partnership exchanges, to submit their information to HHS before the federal application period ends in the next few weeks. That way, if the state fails to complete its plan management, the feds already have all the information they need to review and certify the plans themselves.

One insurance industry source said that sounded ?plausible,? but hadn?t received any request directly from HHS. Another said they were under the impression that this is a rumor that is floating around the industry, but there were no indications that the feds would actually take that route.

The other possibility involves the two different electronic systems that states and HHS are using to solicit plan information from insurers. The state-run and partnership exchanges are using software called SERFF, which state regulators have used for years to collect information from insurers and review plans. The federal government is using HIOS, which is a separate system but performs essentially the same function.

SERFF and HIOS are capable of transmitting information to one another, one-state level source confirmed to Governing. So, in theory, a state-run or partnership exchange worried about its ability to complete plan management could ask insurers to submit their information to SERFF. Then if the state decides later that it can?t oversee plan management, the information already in the SERFF database could then be moved to HIOS, and HHS could take over.

One insurance industry source said they had heard that this would be HHS?s back-up plan if things go wrong with plan management in some states. HHS declined to confirm that on the record. So until these issues are resolved and open enrollment arrives on Oct. 1, the uncertainty will continue to linger.

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Sprint's Q1 2013 iPhone Sales Show Flat Growth, Off The Pace Worldwide And At Home

Sprint's Q1 2013 financial results came out this morning, and the news wasn't great overall. Losses continue to accumulate, and total smartphone sales aren't faring very well, either, with just 5 million units sold in total. The iPhone, after achieving a record high of 2.2 million handsets sold on Sprint's network last quarter, dropped back down to 1.5 million, the same number Sprint saw in the three quarters preceding Q4 2012.

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Pictures Better than Sign Language for Communicating with Kids with Autism

Children with autism who don't speak could benefit from using pictures to communicate, and having even their small attempts at speaking rewarded, new research suggests.

These methods of encouraging communication may be better for these children than sign language, which is commonly taught to children with autism, researchers found.

About a quarter of young children with autism speak minimally or not at all, a problem that often continues into adulthood, according to the autism research funding agency Autistica. Many of these children also have difficulties with motor-skills, research shows.

Experts have tried many methods to support language learning in these kids, with varying effectiveness. Now, a new study finds that early interventions aimed at developing natural language and mirroring the motor skills of other people may be most effective. [10 Medical Myths that Just Won't Go Away]

Researchers at the University of Birmingham in England sifted through more than 200 published papers and more than 60 intervention studies to evaluate strategies for encouraging nonverbal autistic children to speak.

They found that picture-based communication is an effective method of getting nonverbal children to interact and ultimately speak. In this type of intervention, children might exchange pictures with others in order to request things, or to make comments.

The picture method was better at encouraging speech in children who possessed at least minimal verbal skills, but even nonverbal children could use the system to communicate, study researcher Joe McCleery, a psychologist at the university, told LiveScience.

Another effective intervention, known as pivotal response treatment, involved giving children opportunities to request items and reinforcing their attempts. For example, a child who asked for a ball by saying "Ba," would be rewarded. As with the picture-based system, this method was more effective at getting children to speak if they already spoke a little, McCleery said.

By contrast, the study found little evidence that children improved their communication skills by using sign language, which has been used extensively with nonverbal children with autism. This could be due to the difficulties autistic children have in copying motor behaviors, the researchers said.

Scientists have long argued that motor coordination plays a role in speech and language learning. In the first few months of their life, babies have a lot of back-and-forth interaction with their parents, McCleery said. Then babies enter a hand-banging phase, and by 11 months, they start babbling.? The repetitive hand motion and babbling seem to be coordinated, McCleery said.

About one in 88 children have an autism spectrum disorder, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These disorders are associated with deficits in social interaction and communication, and engagement in repetitive behaviors.

The new study is published today (April 24) in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.

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High-nutrition and disease-resistant purple and yellow-fleshed potato clones obtained

Apr. 24, 2013 ? The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Neiker-Tecnalia, has created four new potato clones which are characterised by their high antioxidant content, their good production both in size and number of tubers, as well as by their resistance to the usual diseases of this crop. The clones were obtained by natural methods through crossing varieties from South America with commercial varieties used in Europe. The result was three clones of the purple-fleshed potato and one with a markedly yellow flesh. The attractiveness and nutritional value of these types of potato make them a product highly regarded by professionals in gastronomy and by the public in general.

The work of creating the clones is part of the Potato Genetic Enhancement Programme drawn up by Neiker-Tecnalia. The research was led by agricultural engineer Ms Raquel L?pez, being the basis for her PhD thesis, and was presented at the University of the Basque Country. The aim of this specialist was to find potatoes which brought together the features of the South American varieties (their colour, resistance to pathogens and their nutritional and organoleptic properties) with those of the commercial varieties employed in our latitudes and characterized by their high productivity.

The Neiker-Tecnalia researchers brought 37 varieties from the Centro Internacional de la Papa, based in Peru. These native South American varieties were crossed in the greenhouse with commercial varieties, using natural procedures. The selection of and crossing between individuals with the best traits has given rise to the four clones mentioned. For the moment, these involve advanced clones and not commercial varieties, as they are not registered at the Spanish Office for Plant Varieties (OEVV in the Spanish acronym) or the European Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO). The process of registering is a long one, lasting about 15 years.

The varieties imported from Peru have a very low productivity in our latitudes, both in size and the number of tubers. Nevertheless, with the process of crossing and selection, the final clones having acceptable productivity has been achieved.

Nutritional value and resistant to pathogens

The four clones obtained are characterised by the high presence of antioxidants compounds, making them very attractive from a nutritional perspective. The three purple-flesh clones contain a large quantity of anthocyanins ? a highly appreciated pigment in the preparation of high added value foods ?, while the yellow flesh variety have carotenes ? essential chemical components for the diet ? and in greater quantities than in the usual commercial varieties.

Resistance to diseases is another of the achievements. The four clones show certain resistance to the pathogens analysed, such as the potato virus Y, as well as the Pectobacterium atrosepticum bacteria, which weaken the vegetable and considerably undermine its production.

Researcher Raquel L?pez highlights the importance of taking into account the clones achieved. ?It is beneficial for European producers to have varieties of purple flesh potato that are adapted to the climatological conditions of this continent. Moreover, these varieties incorporate natural antioxidant compounds, which are nutritionally and visually attractive, both for restaurant professionals and for end consumers?.

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Heal Yourself With EMT | Care2 Healthy Living

In the foreword to my friend and fellow Hay House author Nick Ortner?s?The Tapping Solution, Dr. Mark Hyman relates the story of Paula, a patient of his who was debilitated by migraines that landed her in the ER as often as four times a month. She had tried everything ? dietary changes, sleeping more, supplements, drugs ? but her migraines persisted. So Dr. Hyman, out of options from the Western medicine or even functional medicine toolbox, referred her to Nick for an EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique or ?tapping?) session. (Not sure what EFT is??Read my last blog post about EFT here).

A few months later, after going on what Paula called an ?emotional journey,? Paula was 100% migraine-free, off all her medications, and once again engaging in a healthy, active, fulfilling lifestyle she had previously lost.

Later in the book, Nick tells the story of Jodi, a woman who was featured in Nick?s documentary about EFT, whose severe fibromyalgia left her dependent on cortisone injections that still failed to relieve her debilitating pain.? During a tapping session, Nick asked her if anything significant had happened in her life prior to the onset of her fibromyalgia. She confessed that her daughter, who had been battling addiction, was HIV+ and pregnant. (This is the type of event I describe in?Mind Over Medicine as a ?root cause? of illness.)

After just one day of EFT, Jodi was able to climb a flight of stairs without pain and sleep through the night for the first time in years. By the end of her fourth day of treatment, Jodi was once again able to return to the nature walks she had given up because of the severity of her illness. Now, years later, she is symptom-free, having released the guilt and sadness she had felt over her inability to ?save? her daughter. By releasing the emotions stored in her body, her body was free to heal itself.

Do Negative Emotions Cause Disease?

I love what Dr. Christiane Northrup has to say about this. ?We are responsible?to our illness, not for our illness.?

Kris Carr suggests that rather than saying our mind?creates disease, it?s more accurate to say it?participates in disease. On the flip side, we can also participate in our healing.

Can EFT Cure Cancer?

In?The Tapping Solution, Nick relates the story of Leah, who was diagnosed with lung cancer shortly after her sister Beth was diagnosed with a lung disease for which she refused treatment because she had lost the will to live after losing her husband a year before her own diagnosis.

After an hour of tapping around the trauma of losing Beth, Leah felt much less grief about losing Beth. She had even forgiven her for refusing treatment. But Leah still had lung cancer.

She embarked upon an aggressive EFT practice ? tapping three times a day, clearing negative emotion, asking her body to heal itself, and thanking her body for responding.

Four months later, her cancer was gone ? without chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. Her cancer is still in remission today.

Did EFT cure her cancer? Nick is careful to say that such results are not typical and that nobody can prove that the EFT caused the kind of spontaneous remission I discuss in?my latest TEDx talk.

But given what I learned after researching?Mind Over Medicine, here?s my attempt to scientifically explain such ?miracles.?

A Physiological Explanation For How EFT Could Cure Cancer

We know the body has natural self-repair mechanisms that fight cancer, kill bacteria, get rid of toxins and foreign bodies, repair broken proteins, slow aging, and generally keep the body healthy. But did you know that those natural self-repair mechanisms don?t function when the nervous system is in the midst of a ?fight-or-flight? stress response? Yet, the average American experiences over 50 stress responses per day! No wonder our bodies aren?t doing their self-healing jobs as effectively as they could!

Only when the nervous system is in a counterbalancing relaxed state ? in what Dr. Herbert Benson at Harvard named ?the relaxation response? ? can the body effectively heal itself.

And this is what EFT helps achieve. By calming down the trigger-happy, freaked out amygdala responsible for activating stress responses, EFT can reduce physiological stress responses and activate relaxation responses, thereby allowing the body to do what it does best ? heal itself.

Healing Limiting Beliefs

Another mechanism by which EFT may help heal disease is by targeting the limiting beliefs that prevent healing, such as the belief that the body can?t heal itself.

The medical establishment has been proving for over fifty years that a potent combination of positive belief and the nurturing care of a healing professional can work self-healing wonders in the body. We call it ?the placebo effect,? and it?s 18-80% effective, even when people enrolled in clinical trials know they might be getting a placebo!

But you don?t have to be enrolled in a clinical trial to enjoy the benefits of the placebo effect. You just have to believe that something ? anything, even a sugar pill or saline injection ? can help your body heal itself.

EFT can achieve this. By tapping on your limiting beliefs, you can change not just your conscious mind, but the subconscious programming that operates you the majority of the time, allowing your mind the freedom to do what it knows how to do ? help heal the body.

Want To Try EFT Yourself?

The Tapping Solution teaches you exactly how to start an EFT practice at home. In fact, Chapter 6 is all about using EFT to heal the body and includes exactly what you?ll need to learn in order to use this technique yourself.

You can buy The Tapping Solution here!

Curious what tapping is??Check out Nick?s ?How To Tap? video here.?

Have You Tried EFT?

Any successes? Any challenges? Share your stories in the comments below.

With faith in your self-healing capacities,

Lissa Rankin

Lissa Rankin, MD: Creator of the health and wellness communities?LissaRankin.com and?OwningPink.com, author of Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself (Hay House, 2013),?TEDx speaker, and Health Care Evolutionary.?Join her newsletter list for free guidance on healing yourself, and check her out on?Twitter and?Facebook.

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Jupiter's atmosphere still contains water supplied by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact

Apr. 23, 2013 ? Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing Herschel observations of water in Jupiter's stratosphere. It is a clear remnant of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact on Jupiter nearly 20 years ago.

In July 1994, the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) hit Jupiter and left visible scars on the Jovian disk for weeks. This spectacular event was the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision in the solar system, and it was followed worldwide by professional and amateur astronomers.

SL9 was discovered orbiting Jupiter by astronomers David Levy and Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker on March 24, 1993. It was the first comet observed orbiting a planet rather than the Sun. SL9 was found to be composed of 21 fragments. Soon after that, orbital studies showed that the comet had passed within Jupiter's Roche limit in July 1992. Inside this limit, the planet's tidal forces are strong enough to disintegrate a body held together by its own gravity, thus explaining SL9's fragmentation. Even more interestingly, the studies showed that SL9's orbit would pass within Jupiter in July 1994 and that the comet would then collide with the planet, with impacts in the southern hemisphere near 44?S latitude.

The SL9 impact and its subsequent scars on Jupiter were observed for weeks, but its chemical impact on Jupiter's atmosphere lasted even longer. Emission from water vapor was observed during the fireball phase of the SL9 impacts, but from that observation, it was difficult to assess how this would modify Jupiter's composition on the long term. In 1997, the ESA Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) detected water vapor in the stratosphere of Jupiter. At that time, astronomers suspected that it might be a consequence of the SL9 impact because comets are known to be water-rich bodies. However, there were other possible sources of water: interplanetary dust particles produced by cometary activity and asteroid collisions, icy rings, or one of the 60 Jovian satellites.

Nearly twenty years after this major impact, astronomers are still observing its consequences on Jupiter. T. Cavali? and his colleagues [1] observed Jupiter with the ESA Herschel Space Observatory, which is sensitive enough to map the abundance of water vs. latitude and altitude in the Jovian stratosphere. These observations, which have now been published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, show a clear north-south asymmetry in the distribution of water, with more water in the south. They indicate that 95% of the water currently observed on Jupiter comes from the comet.

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