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NY utilities Con Ed, LIPA subpoenaed in Sandy work - NewsOn6 ...

By MICHAEL GORMLEY
Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The New York utility company Consolidated Edison said it received a subpoena Wednesday from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and is cooperating with his investigation into Con Ed's preparation and response to Superstorm Sandy.

An official familiar with the investigation said the Long Island Power Authority also received a subpoena Wednesday. The official wasn't authorized to speak during the investigation and requested anonymity.

The official said Schneiderman seeks plans and performance records on restoring power, communicating with customers without power and other aspects of the utility's response to the storm.

The storm sapped electricity for more than 2 million New York customers.

"We are cooperating with the attorney general's request," Con Ed stated. "We look forward to reviewing the company's storm preparations and response with the Attorney General and all interested parties."

There was no immediate response to a request for comment placed with LIPA.

On Tuesday, LIPA COO Mike Hervey resigned after 12 years. A permanent CEO slot and several board seats have been vacant for months awaiting appointment by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo, however, has said LIPA is simply an outdated political entity he wants to overhaul and that National Grid, contracted by LIPA, is responsible for providing power to Long Island.

A spokeswoman for Scheneiderman declined comment.

The probe is separate from a commission created by Cuomo to investigate utilities involved in Sandy.

Schneiderman plans a broad look at the preparation and response to Sandy and a nor'easter that followed, the official said. The Attorney General's Office has investigation powers and the power to enforce state laws including public service and consumer protection laws, which could provide greater latitude than the Moreland Commission.

The Moreland Act Commission created by Cuomo can investigate and refer evidence of wrongdoing to a local district attorney or the Attorney General's Office. The commission could also issue a report recommending legislative changes.

The official said Schneiderman is specifically looking into areas that include efforts to restore power, how well the entity communicated with customers without power, power line maintenance and the trimming of tree limbs near power lines and the loss of power distribution equipment and service at substations.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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University Rankings,College Rankings,MBA Colleges: Top 100 ...

Times Higher Education has declared Top 100 University rankings for the Worldwide university. Ranking is as given below. More details can be found on Times Higher Education Official Site. This list is reproduced here for your information and help.

2012 2011
Rank Rank????????? Name????????????????? Country

1 1 California Institute of Technology United States

2 4 University of Oxford United Kingdom

2 2 Stanford University United States

4 2 Harvard University United States

5 7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States

6 5 Princeton University United States

7 6 University of Cambridge United Kingdom

8 8 Imperial College London United Kingdom

9 10 University of California, Berkeley United States

10 9 University of Chicago United States

11 11 Yale University United States

12 15 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Z?rich Switzerland

13 13 University of California, Los Angeles United States

14 12 Columbia University United States

15 16 University of Pennsylvania United States

16 14 Johns Hopkins University United States

17 17 University College London United Kingdom

18 20 Cornell University United States

19 26 Northwestern University United States

20 18 University of Michigan United States

21 19 University of Toronto Canada

22 21 Carnegie Mellon University United States

23 22 Duke University United States

24 25 University of Washington United States

25 24 Georgia Institute of Technology United States

25 29 University of Texas at Austin United States

27 30 University of Tokyo Japan

28 37 University of Melbourne Australia

29 40 National University of Singapore Singapore

30 22 University of British Columbia Canada

31 27 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States

32 36 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom

33 31 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign United States

34 28 McGill University Canada

35 34 The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong

35 35 University of California, Santa Barbara United States

37 38 Australian National University Australia

38 33 University of California, San Diego United States

39 47 London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom

40 46 ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne Switzerland

41 44 New York University United States

42 32 Karolinska Institute Sweden

42 43 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States

44 38 University of California, Davis United States

44 41 Washington University in St Louis United States

46 49 Peking University China

47 42 University of Minnesota United States

48 45 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen Germany

49 48 University of Manchester United Kingdom

50 53 Pohang University of Science and Technology Korea, Republic Of

51 49 Brown University United States

52 71 Tsinghua University China

53 57 The Ohio State University United States

54 54 Boston University United States

54 52 Kyoto University Japan

56 55 University of Southern California United States

57 56 King's College London United Kingdom

58 67 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium

59 59 ?cole Normale Sup?rieure France

59 124 Seoul National University Korea, Republic Of

61 51 Pennsylvania State University United States

62 63 ?cole Polytechnique France

62 58 The University of Sydney Australia

64 79 Leiden University Netherlands

65 62 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong

65 74 The University of Queensland Australia Australia

67 68 Utrecht University Netherlands

68 94 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Korea, Republic Of

69 98 Purdue University United States

70 69 Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen Germany

70 75 Wageningen University and Research Center Netherlands

72 157 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands

72 64 University of Massachusetts United States

74 66 University of Bristol United Kingdom

75 72 Rice University United States

76 59 University of Pittsburgh United States

77 104 Delft University of Technology Netherlands

78 73 Universit?t Heidelberg Germany

79 75 Emory University United States

80 83 Durham University United Kingdom

81 84 Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie France

82 80 Lund University Sweden

83 92 University of Amsterdam Netherlands

84 104 University of Montreal Canada

85 173 The University of New South Wales Australia

86 169 Nanyang Technological University Singapore

87 77 Tufts University United States

88 65 McMaster University Canada

89 134 University of Groningen Netherlands

89 61 University of Z?rich Switzerland

91 77 University of Colorado Boulder United States

92 Not ranked Universit? Paris-Sud France

93 106 Ghent University Belgium

94 96 Michigan State University United States

94 89 University of Notre Dame United States

96 86 University of California, Irvine United States

97 94 University of Maryland, College Park United States

98 97 University of Arizona United States

99 109 Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin Germany

99 117 Monash University Australia

99 81 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey United States

Source: Times Higher Education http://bit.ly/thewur

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Bob Dole's Sad 1996 Campaign Website Is Still Online

On August 2, 1996, Bob Dole's presidential campaign broke the Internet. Or at least that's what they thought they were doing. It didn't do the Dole/Kemp ticket any good, but luckily for us, it's still up for our collective enjoyment. More »

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Computer memory could increase fivefold from advances in self-assembling polymers

ScienceDaily (Nov. 13, 2012) ? The storage capacity of hard disk drives could increase by a factor of five thanks to processes developed by chemists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin.

The researchers' technique, which relies on self-organizing substances known as block copolymers, was described this week in an article in Science. It's also being given a real-world test run in collaboration with HGST, one of the world's leading innovators in disk drives.

"In the last few decades there's been a steady, exponential increase in the amount of information that can be stored on memory devices, but things have now reached a point where we're running up against physical limits," said C. Grant Willson, professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the College of Natural Sciences and the Rashid Engineering Regents Chair in the Cockrell School of Engineering.

With current production methods, zeroes and ones are written as magnetic dots on a continuous metal surface. The closer together the dots are, the more information can be stored in the same area. But that tactic has been pretty much maxed out. The dots have now gotten so close together that any further increase in proximity would cause them to be affected by the magnetic fields of their neighboring dots and become unstable.

"The industry is now at about a terabit of information per square inch," said Willson, who co-authored the paper with chemical engineering professor Christopher Ellison and a team of graduate and undergraduate students. "If we moved the dots much closer together with the current method, they would begin to flip spontaneously now and then, and the archival properties of hard disk drives would be lost. Then you're in a world of trouble. Can you imagine if one day your bank account info just changed spontaneously?"

There's a quirk in the physics, however. If the dots are isolated from one another, with no magnetic material between them, they can be pushed closer together without destabilization.

This is where block copolymers come in. At room temperature, coated on a disk surface, they don't look like much. But if they're designed in the right way, and given the right prod, they'll self-assemble into highly regular patterns of dots or lines. If the surface onto which they're coated already has some guideposts etched into it, the dots or lines will form into precisely the patterns needed for a hard disk drive.

This process, which is called directed self-assembly (DSA), was pioneered by engineers at the University of Wisconsin and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

When Willson, Ellison and their students began working with directed self-assembly, the best anyone in the field had done was to get the dots small enough to double the storage density of disk drives. The challenge has been to shrink the dots further and to find processing methods that are compatible with high-throughput production.

The team has made great progress on a number of fronts. They've synthesized block copolymers that self-assemble into the smallest dots in the world. In some cases they form into the right, tight patterns in less than a minute, which is also a record.

"I am kind of amazed that our students have been able to do what they've done," said Willson. "When we started, for instance, I was hoping that we could get the processing time under 48 hours. We're now down to about 30 seconds. I'm not even sure how it is possible to do it that fast. It doesn't seem reasonable, but once in a while you get lucky."

Most significantly, the team has designed a special top coat that goes over the block copolymers while they are self-assembling.

"I've been fortunate enough to be involved in the experimental work of the top coat project from its inception all the way to our final results," said Leon Dean, a senior chemical engineering major and one of the authors on the Science paper. "We've had to develop an innovative spin-on top coat for neutralizing the surface energy at the top interface of a block copolymer film."

This top coat allows the polymers to achieve the right orientation relative to the plane of the surface simply by heating.

"The patterns of super small dots can now self-assemble in vertical or perpendicular patterns at smaller dimensions than ever before," said Thomas Albrecht, manager of patterned media technology at HGST. "That makes them easier to etch into the surface of a master plate for nanoimprinting, which is exactly what we need to make patterned media for higher capacity disk drives."

Willson, Ellison and their students are currently working with HGST to see whether these advances can be adapted to their products and integrated into amainstream manufacturing process.

Other industry collaborators are Nissan Chemical Company, which partially funded the research, and Molecular Imprints, an Austin-based company co-founded by Willson that is a pioneer in nanoimprint lithography.

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1. C. M. Bates, T. Seshimo, M. J. Maher, W. J. Durand, J. D. Cushen, L. M. Dean, G. Blachut, C. J. Ellison, C. G. Willson. Polarity-Switching Top Coats Enable Orientation of Sub-10-nm Block Copolymer Domains. Science, 2012; 338 (6108): 775 DOI: 10.1126/science.1226046

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Poverty And Childhood Obesity Your Health Journal | Your Health ...

From Medical Xpress?..

Children living in poorer neighborhoods are nearly 30 percent more likely to be obese than children in more affluent residences, according to a new study from Rice University.

The study by Rice sociologists Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research?s Urban Health Program, and Justin Denney, associate director of the program, reveals that living in neighborhoods with higher levels of poverty and lower levels of education is associated with increased child obesity risk, regardless of family composition or other individual factors. The research also showed that living in neighborhoods with a higher proportion of foreign-born residents is associated with reduced child obesity risk.

The findings will appear in an upcoming issue of Social Science & Medicine.

The researchers based their conclusions on a comparison of 17,530 5-year-old children living in approximately 4,700 neighborhoods nationwide. They found that children in poorer neighborhoods have 28 percent higher odds of developing obesity, and those in middle-class neighborhoods have 17 percent higher odds, compared to children living in affluent neighborhoods; these statistics take into account such factors as household socioeconomic status, maternal education and how much television the child watches. The researchers also found that children living in neighborhoods with a high proportion of foreign-born residents had approximately 20 percent lower odds of obesity.

Childhood obesity is a significant public health issue, with 31.7 percent of children ages 2-19 overweight or obese, and there is much to be learned about how communities influence the epidemic, Denney said.

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Cilia guide neuronal migration in developing brain

ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 2012) ? A new study demonstrates the dynamic role cilia play in guiding the migration of neurons in the embryonic brain. Cilia are tiny hair-like structures on the surfaces of cells, but here they are acting more like radio antennae.

In developing mouse embryos, researchers were able to see cilia extending and retracting as neurons migrate. The cilia appear to be receiving signals needed for neurons to find their places.

Genetic mutations that cause the neurodevelopmental disorder Joubert syndrome interfere with these migratory functions of cilia, the researchers show. The finding suggests that problems with neuron migration may explain some aspects of Joubert syndrome patients' symptoms.

The results were published in the journal Developmental Cell.

"The most surprising thing was how dynamic the cilia are," says Tamara Caspary, PhD, assistant professor of human genetics at Emory University School of Medicine. "As interneurons migrate into the developing cerebral cortex, they move in steps. When they pause, we could see the cilia extending, as if the interneurons are trying to figure out where to go next."

The paper is the result of a collaboration between Caspary's laboratory and that of Eva Anton, PhD, professor of cell and molecular physiology at University of North Carolina School of Medicine. First author Holden Higginbotham, formerly a postdoc in Anton's laboratory, is now a faculty member at Brigham Young University in Idaho.

Readers may be familiar with motile cilia, which can be found on a paramecium or in our trachea or reproductive organs. In contrast, primary (non-motile) cilia can be found on almost every cell in the human body, each cell having just one. Ciliopathies are a class of genetic disorders involving defects in cilia, and include kidney and eye diseases as well as Joubert syndrome.

Joubert syndrome affects the development of the cerebellum and brain stem, leading to lack of muscle control, breathing problems, and sometimes intellectual disability.

Caspary's laboratory has been studying Arl13b, a gene mutated in Joubert syndrome. Mutations in Arl13b lead to cilia that are short and stubby.

"It's a useful tool for studying the role of cilia in development, because it doesn't take a sledgehammer to the entire structure," Caspary says.

Exactly how Arl13b contributes to the function of cilia is unclear -- it appears to be involved in protein transport needed for building cilia because when it is hyperactivated, cilia are longer.

Caspary's and Anton's laboratories teamed up to look at neuronal migration in mouse embryos where Arl13b was deleted, but only in some types of neurons. "Interneurons" form connections between other neurons and do not connect to muscles or sensory organs. They observed that when Arl13b was deleted in interneurons, those cells did not migrate properly through the developing cortex of the brain.

The team probed cilia by using mice that produced a red fluorescent protein within cilia. Slices of embryonic brain were examined with a confocal microscope, under conditions where the cells stay alive and continue moving for several hours.

The scientists could see the interneurons migrating in spurts, with the cilia tending to extend and move "like basketball players' arms" when the cells paused. In the Arl13b deleted mice, the cilia did not extend as much and often could be seen only as red dots. Reintroducing Arl13b could rescue these defects, while a form of Arl13b found in Joubert syndrome patients could not.

How defects in cilia contribute to Joubert syndrome is complex; cilia are needed for Hedgehog signaling, machinery that controls embryonic patterning. Caspary says the neuron migration problem may explain the intellectual disability aspect, while Hedgehog defects may explain impaired development of the cerebellum and brainstem.

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1. Holden Higginbotham, Tae-Yeon Eom, Laura?E. Mariani, Amelia Bachleda, Joshua Hirt, Vladimir Gukassyan, Corey L. Cusack, Cary Lai, Tamara Caspary, E.S. Anton. Arl13b in Primary Cilia Regulates the Migration and Placement of Interneurons in the Developing Cerebral Cortex. Developmental Cell, 2012; 23 (5): 925 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2012.09.019

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