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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Britain makes history on Olympic 'Super Saturday'

Britain's Jessica Ennis celebrates winning gold following the 800-meter heptathlon during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa De Olza)

Britain's Jessica Ennis celebrates winning the gold in the women's heptathlon during athletics competition in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Britain's gold medal winner Jessica Ennis is kissed by her teammates Katarina Johnson-Thompson, left, and Louise Hazel after the women's heptathlon during athletics competition in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

LONDON (AP) ? In one unforgettable night for a nation, the Olympic Games and host Britain were the best they can be.

Three British athletes winning three gold medals in Olympic Stadium in a delirious 44-minute spell produced the signature moment of the London Games. Barring catastrophe in the final week, this Saturday night of fever and fervor made sure the London Olympics will be remembered as a roaring success.

It was a night when the prefix "Great" before "Britain" suddenly seemed to make a lot more sense. It ended, so appropriately, with the massive crowd in the 80,000-seat stadium awash in the colors of the Union Jack's red, white and blue and belting out "God Save the Queen" to celebrate sporting success beyond the wildest expectations.

The best Olympics need moments like these.

Beijing in 2008 had Michael Phelps eclipsing Mark Spitz's iconic record with eight golds in the Water Cube and Usain Bolt getting three golds in three world-record sprints in the Bird's Nest.

Sydney in 2000 had Aborigine Cathy Freeman, Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia and U.S. sprinter Michael Johnson conjuring up one of the most memorable nights ever on an Olympic track.

And at the midpoint of the 2012 games, London had hometown athletes Jessica Ennis, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah winning one after another, whipping to a froth the stadium crowd that had lifted their champions to undreamt-of heights.

Ennis won the heptathlon, Farah the 10,000 meters.

Rutherford, who won the long jump, was stunned: "I'm worried I'm going to wake up in a minute and this ain't going to be real."

It certainly was.

Before these games, Britons lamented that they had become a nation of gold-medal gripers. Olympic critics moaned about the 9.3 billion pound ($14.4 billion) bill for the games, feared disruption for two weeks to London's way of life and its traffic network and bemoaned the privileges accorded to Olympic organizers, visitors and sponsors.

All that was buried by the spellbinding drama from 8:02 p.m., London time, when Ennis clinched heptathlon gold, to 8:46, when Farah won the 10,000 and clasped his head in a disbelief. In between, Rutherford won gold with his leap of 8.31 meters (27 feet, 3? inches) into the long jump pit.

Counting two golds from the rowers and another from women's track cycling on Saturday, Britain's total for the day was six. For the games, its haul so far is 14 golds, seven silver and eight bronze, for a total of 29. Only China, with 53 medals, and the United States, the leader with 54, have more.

"Team GB's gluttonous desire for gold shows no sign of being sated," said London mayor Boris Johnson. "Their extraordinary efforts have brought rapture to streets, parks and living rooms in London and all over the country, if not the planet."

That really didn't seem to be an exaggeration.

In the guts of the stadium, British winners came through so thick and fast to recount their emotions to journalists that one of their press managers labored to deal with the one-after-another flow.

"I've got a queue of Olympic champions," she said.

This was the day when Britain delivered, in all senses of the word: in sporting success and in generously shared joy. The inferiority complex that comes from being an island on the edge of Europe with only history books to record how it once ruled much of the world gave way to unbridled national pride.

In the stadium, the focus for it all, the pride came without arrogance. The warm, fuzzy feeling was perhaps best expressed in the way the crowd, swaying from side to side and waving small flags on sticks, sang along to the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" that played over the loudspeakers. To make the picture perfect, Paul McCartney happened to be in the stadium, and he celebrated, too, by waving a Union Jack above his head. David Bowie's song "Heroes" was replayed, and replayed, and replayed. The London Olympics have swung continually to British pop and rock classics.

Prince William and his wife, Kate, and Prime Minister David Cameron were also there. Cameron called the atmosphere "electric" and tweeted on his office account: "Awe inspiring win for Jessica Ennis. Proud to be cheering her on with the home crowd."

Non-Britons felt thrilled and privileged to share it.

"Fantastic night, incredible crowd," said Farah's American coach, Alberto Salazar. "I've been to a lot of Olympics but I have never seen a crowd as supportive as this crowd is for all the British athletes. It's a pretty cool feeling."

"Awesome crowd," said U.S. long jumper Will Claye, who won bronze. "They were awesome for all of us. Not just the British."

Jonathan Edwards, now a television presenter, was reminded of "Magic Monday" Sydney in 2000, when he won triple-jump gold for Britain, Freeman became the first Aborigine to win an individual Olympic gold medal by capturing the women's 400 meters, and Johnson made Olympic history by becoming the first man to successfully defend a 400-meter title. Gebrselassie also successfully defended his 10,000-meter crown. This all in one night.

"In world terms, maybe that still stands as the greatest night," he said.

But London's "Super Saturday" lived up to its name, too.

"That won't be topped ... You need a new lexicon, actually. You run out of words to describe that," Edwards said.

"The tension never ratcheted down at all." he said. "So, for sustained excitement, I don't know if there's ever been a night like that in track and field history."

Usain Bolt, whose hotly anticipated showdown with Jamaican teammate Yohan Blake follows on Sunday night, might have something to say about that.

But out-shouting and out-shining this night could prove impossible even for him.

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John Leicester can be reached at jleicester(at)ap.org or at http://twitter.com/johnleicester

Associated Press

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Saturday, August 4, 2012

USDA: Number of farmers markets up due to demand

Workers at a farmers market get ready for afternoon customers in downtown Los Angeles on Friday Aug. 3,2012. As demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables has increased, so too has the number of urban farmers markets sprouting up across the nation. (AP Photo/Ricahrd Vogel)

Customers shop at a downtown Los Angeles farmers market on Friday Aug. 3,2012. As demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables has increased, so too has the number of urban farmers markets sprouting up across the nation. (AP Photo/Ricahrd Vogel)

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2010, file photo, Ching Thao, of Mao's Farm, center, gives change to Richard Wolk, right, at the Vineyard Farmers Market in Fresno, Calif. Pushed by the rising popularity of eating locally and healthily, the number of farmers markets climbed by 9.6 per cent nationally over the past year, according to the USDA. There now are more than 7,800 markets in the U.S. after 18 years of steady increases, according to a report to be announced Friday. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, File)

File - In this Aug. 29, 2008, file photo, Benina Burroughs of Merced, Calif., looks over a display of cherry tomatoes by Farmers with ALBA from Salinas, Calif., at a farmer's market during Slow Food Nation in San Francisco. Pushed by the rising popularity of eating locally and healthily, the number of farmers markets climbed by 9.6 per cent nationally over the past year, according to the USDA. There now are more than 7,800 markets in the U.S. after 18 years of steady increases, according to a report to be announced Friday. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) ? As demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables has increased, so too has the number of urban farmers markets sprouting up across the nation.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday that the number of direct-sales markets has increased 9.6 percent in the past year, with California and New York leading the way.

"Farmers markets are a critical ingredient to our nation's food system," USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan said. "These outlets provide benefits not only to the farmers looking for important income opportunities, but also to the communities looking for fresh, healthy foods."

After 18 years of steady increases, the number of farmers markets across the country now registered with the USDA is 7,864. In 1994, there were 1,744.

Organizations such as Slow Food, founded in 1989 to counter fast-food, junk-food lifestyles, first ignited consumer demand for fresh, local produce.

"My husband and I prefer to eat locally and organically," said Tracy Stuntz, a college instructor who shops at the Vineyard Farmer's Market in Fresno. "You go to the grocery store and everything is the same. The farmer's market has yellow zucchini and green onions that are like a foot long ? produce you don't see other places."

Some markets are so popular that there are wait lists for farmers to sell there, including one of the largest and most diverse of all, the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in San Francisco. Farmers from across the region travel there three days a week to sell fruits, vegetables and artisan breads and cheeses to thousands of shoppers, including top chefs from the food-centric city.

Operated by the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture, the iconic market on the San Francisco Bay is celebrating its 20th birthday.

"When we started there were only three markets in the city, and now there are 29," said Liz Hunt, a center spokeswoman.

Grant Brians of Heirloom Organic Gardens sells more than 200 old-fashioned varieties of vegetables, herbs and fruit grown on two farms in San Benito County, about 100 miles south of San Francisco. Others bring in stone fruits from the San Joaquin Valley, and berries from the coast.

Dave Stockdale, the center's executive director, said farmers markets empower consumers to become active supporters of their communities.

"Every day eaters have the opportunity to vote with their forks and support small-scale farmers, investing resources in their communities, stimulating their local economies, and keeping ag land in sustainable production," he said.

The center uses the markets to educate consumers about unique varieties of produce and how to prepare them. Stockdale said the growing interest in farmers markets has prompted others to ask the center for help creating educational programs.

San Franciscan Bryan Miller frequents the Heart of the City farmers market at the San Francisco Civic Center, a venue so popular it recently added Fridays to its normal Wednesday and Sunday operations.

"It's fresh and cheap, to be quite honest," Miller said. "I can go to the store on the bus and buy black, ugly, mass-market stuff, but I don't want to do that. I would rather get local produce."

The USDA has worked to make the markets accessible to people of all income levels by outfitting more with the ability to accept payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. More than $4 million is being made available to equip markets with wireless point-of-sale equipment.

California, the country's top agricultural producing state, has 827 markets, according to the USDA. New York has 647, more than double the next most prolific state, Massachusetts, which has 313.

The mid-Atlantic, Northeast and Southeast saw the biggest percentage growth in markets, reporting 15.8, 14.4 and 13.1 percent jumps in participation.

The USDA website lists farmers markets with links to their websites. It also allows users to search by zip code, to make finding nearby markets easier: http://search.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/

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Statue of Liberty 'Melts' in NYC Heatwave [VIDEO]

Now that you've been watching the world's top athletes compete in London, you may be inspired to go out and pursue your own sport at, um, less than an Olympic level. But even without their talent or practice regimens, you can take a lesson from what Olympians know: The mental game matters, too.

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Parents get physical with unruly kids, study finds

ScienceDaily (Aug. 3, 2012) ? Parents get physical with their misbehaving children in public much more than they show in laboratory experiments and acknowledge in surveys, according to one of the first real-world studies of caregiver discipline.

The study, led by Michigan State University's Kathy Stansbury, found that 23 percent of youngsters received some type of "negative touch" when they failed to comply with a parental request in public places such as restaurants and parks. Negative touch included arm pulling, pinching, slapping and spanking.

"I was very surprised to see what many people consider a socially undesirable behavior done by nearly a quarter of the caregivers," Stansbury said. "I have also seen hundreds of kids and their parents in a lab setting and never once witnessed any of this behavior."

Stansbury is a trained psychologist and associate professor in MSU's Department of Human Development and Family Studies. With the study, she wanted to get a realistic gauge of how often parents use what she calls positive and negative touch in noncompliance episodes with their children, in a real-world natural setting, outside the laboratory.

A group of university student researchers anonymously observed 106 discipline interactions between caregivers and children ages 3-5 in public places and recorded the results. The data were vetted, analyzed and published in the current issue of the research journal Behavior and Social Issues.

Stansbury said another surprising finding was that male caregivers touched the children more during discipline settings than female caregivers -- and the majority of the time it was in a positive manner. Positive touch included hugging, tickling and patting.

She said this positive approach contradicts the age-old stereotype of the father as the parent who lays down the law.

"When we think of Dad, we think of him being the disciplinarian, and Mom as nurturer, but that's just not what we saw," Stansbury said. "I do think that we are shifting as a society and fathers are becoming more involved in the daily mechanics of raising kids, and that's a good thing for the kids and also a good thing for the dads."

Ultimately, positive touch caused the children to comply more often, more quickly and with less fussing than negative touch, or physical punishment, Stansbury said. When negative touch was used, even when children complied, they often pouted or sulked afterward, she said.

"If your child is upset and not minding you and you want to discipline them, I would use a positive, gentle touch," Stansbury said. "Our data found that negative touch didn't work."

Stansbury's co-authors were David W. Haley of the University of Toronto-Scarborough and MSU researchers Holly Brophy-Herb and Jung Ah Lee.

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Friday, August 3, 2012

Fingering the culprit that polluted the Solar System

ScienceDaily (Aug. 2, 2012) ? For decades it has been thought that a shock wave from a supernova explosion triggered the formation of our Solar System. According to this theory, the shock wave also injected material from the exploding star into a cloud of dust and gas, and the newly polluted cloud collapsed to form the Sun and its surrounding planets. New work from Carnegie's Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides the first fully three-dimensional (3-D) models for how this process could have happened.

Their work will be published by The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Traces of the supernova's pollution can be found in meteorites in the form of short-lived radioactive isotopes, or SLRIs. SLRIs -- versions of elements with the same number of protons, but a different number of neutrons -- found in primitive meteorites decay on time scales of millions of years and turn into different, so-called daughter, elements. A million years may sound like a long time, but it is actually considered short when compared to other radioactive isotopes studied by geochemists and cosmochemists, which have half-lives measured in billions of years.

When scientists find the daughter elements distributed in telltale patterns in primitive meteorites, this means that the parent SLRIs had to be created just before the meteorites themselves were formed. This presents a timing problem, as the SLRIs must be formed in a supernova, injected into the presolar cloud, and trapped inside the meteoritic precursors, all in less than a million years.

The telltale patterns prove that the relevant daughter elements were not the ones that were injected. This is because the abundances of these daughters in different mineral phases in the meteorite are correlated with the abundances of a stable isotope of the parent element. Different elements have different chemical behaviors during the formation of these first solids, and the fact that the daughter elements correlate with the parent elements means that those daughters had to be derived from the decay of unstable parent elements after those solids were crystallized.

One of these SLRIs, iron-60, is only created in significant amounts by nuclear reactions in massive stars. The iron-60 must have come from a supernova, or from a giant star called an AGB star. Boss and Keiser's previous modeling showed that it was likely that a supernova triggered our Solar System's formation, as AGB star shocks are too thick to inject the iron-60 into the cloud. Supernova shocks are hundreds of times thinner, leading to more efficient injection.

Now Boss and Keiser have extended those models to 3-D, so they can see the shock wave striking the gas cloud, compressing it and forming a parabolic shock front that envelopes the cloud, creating finger-like indentations in the cloud's surface. The fingers inject the SLRI pollution from the supernova. Less than 0.1 million years later, the cloud collapses and forms the core of the protostar that became the Sun and its surrounding planets. The 3-D models show that only one or two fingers are likely to have caused the SLRI pollution found in primitive meteorites.

"The evidence leads us to believe that a supernova was indeed the culprit," said Boss. However, more detective work needs to be done: Boss and Keiser still need to find the combination of cloud and shock wave parameters that will line up perfectly with observations of exploding supernovae.

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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Analysis: App-Happy Health Care Full of Optimism, Money - Kaiser ...

By Michael L. Millenson

Michael L. Millenson is a?Highland Park, Illinois-based consultant,?a visiting scholar at the Kellogg School of Management and the author of?Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age.?

There is a corner of the health care industry where rancor is rare, the chance to banish illness beckons just a few mouse clicks away and talk revolves around venture deals, not voluminous budget deficits.

Welcome to the realm of Internet-enabled health apps. Politicians and profit-seeking entrepreneurs alike enthuse about the benefits of "liberating data" ? the catch-phrase of U.S.?Chief Technology Officer Todd Park ? to enable it to move from government databases to consumer-friendly uses. The potential for better information to promote better care is clear. The question that remains unanswered, however, is what role these consumer applications can play in prompting fundamental health system change.

Michael W. Painter, a physician, attorney and senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is optimistic. "We think that by harnessing this data and getting it into the hands of developers, entrepreneurs, established businesses, consumers and academia, we will unleash tremendous creativity," Painter said. "The result will be improved and more cost efficient care, more engaged patients and discoveries that can help drive the next generation of care."

The foundation is backing up that belief with an open checkbook. RWJF recently awarded $100,000 to Symcat, a multi-functional symptom checker for web and mobile platforms. Developed by two Johns Hopkins University medical students, the app determines a possible diagnosis far more precisely than is possible by just typing in symptoms as a list of words to be searched by "Dr. Google." Symcat also links to quality information on different providers and can even direct users to nearby emergency care and provide an estimate of the cost.

Symcat received its check in early June at the Health Data Initiative Forum, an event where the? upbeat tone was reflected in its official nickname, Datapalooza. Sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Institute of Medicine, the first such meeting in 2010 fit into a cozy auditorium. This year's gathering drew nearly 1,500 attendees to the Washington Convention Center to discuss how consumer-friendly data could disrupt old ways of delivering health care information.

The federal government plays multiple roles in that effort as convener, innovator, cheerleader and facilitator, the latter through an aggressive program to open up data to the private sector. Symcat, for instance, draws on disease prevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Other presenters and exhibitors showed off new efforts to apply these federal resources to help anticipate asthma attacks, make diabetes care more effective and improve survival estimates in cancer patents.

The intense interest in consumer health IT comes in response to "an increasingly health care 'do-it-yourself' world," notes economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. From a third to a little under half of U.S. adults now use health-related blogs, social networks, ratings websites or apps. Health and medical apps for the iPhone now target fitness, stress, chronic disease, mental health, smoking cessation and medication adherence, to name just some categories tracked by MobiHealthNews.

Funding has followed the crowd, with investments in health information apps up a reported 78 percent in just two years to $766 million, and the average start-up pulling in nearly $12 million. The medical app market, already growing faster than the general apps, will grow 25 percent annually over the next five years, according to one research firm's estimate.

Despite the buoyant marketplace, it remains to be seen whether the effectiveness of individual apps will match the enthusiasm. While MobiHealthNews counted nearly 14,000 health- and medical-related iPhone apps as of April, the reliability of any particular app or even category of apps is hard to determine. One research group recently recommended that both content and user interface be tailored as necessary to respond to cultural differences among different racial and ethnic groups. Separately, another group of researchers examining web-based tools to help consumers control their diabetes concluded earlier this year that "few tools ? met our criteria for effectiveness, usefulness, sustainability and usability."

That uncertainty shadowing this fast-evolving field is one reason the Food and Drug Administration wants to regulate medical apps it believes could present a risk to patients if they don't work as intended. That sentiment prompted a backlash among that fearful bureaucratic caution would block innovation. In mid-July, President Obama signed bipartisan legislation that, among other provisions, calls on HHS to report to Congress on an "appropriate, risk-based regulatory framework pertaining to health information technology, including mobile medical applications." FDA is expected to release guidelines reflecting its thinking by year-end.

Opening up new information sources to patients will also affect the traditional doctor-patient relationship. There is growing activism by some patients who don?t want to wait to become full, engaged partners in their care. For instance, Hugh Campos, who has long-standing heart problems, received national attention for demanding access to the data feed from his pacemaker. At the same time, some physicians wonder whether this level of involvement truly represents a trend. In a recent National Public Radio interview, Dr. Arnold Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, said he had "some reservations about the depiction of a future patient who is consumed by constantly watching [remote] sensors talk to his smartphone. I don't think that patients are going to be motivated to do that all the time."

A recent survey found that about one in 5 mobile phone users search for health information. And experts caution that lasting behavior change is often blocked by barriers as much psychological as informational. An app whose interface is appealing isn't the same as one that's effective.

Jessie Gruman, a four-time cancer survivor who heads the Center for Advancing Health, points out that "keeping ourselves alive and out of pain is a serious business." Those who are sick don't need apps that are fun, says Gruman. Rather, "we want a technology that is efficient and useful ?one that will help us take care of ourselves so that we can live lives that are fun."

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