Iran sees conspiracy in box office success of Ben Affleck's 'Argo' (+video)

Based on true events surrounding the 1979 takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran, 'Argo' opened this weekend at No. 2 and rose to the top spot on Monday. Iranians are less enthused.

By Roshanak Taghavi,?Correspondent / October 17, 2012

This film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Bryan Cranston (l.) as Jack O?Donnell and Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez in 'Argo,' a rescue thriller about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.

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American moviegoers flocked to theaters this weekend to see Ben Affleck's long-anticipated thriller Argo, which has been generating headlines since it was first screened at the Toronto Film Festival last month.?

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Based on a true story about how the CIA smuggled six American diplomats out of Iran after the 1979 takeover of the US Embassy, the film opened on Oct. 12 and came in at No. 2 in box office sales over the weekend, after "Taken 2" (an action film starring Liam Neeson). By Oct. 15, Argo held the top spot.?

But inside?Iran, where the decision by a group of Iranian students to storm the US Embassy and hold Americans hostage for 444 days is still controversial and vibrantly debated, the press has paid Argo scant attention. The few comments the film has received are generally negative ? Iran's state-run IRNA news agency called Argo "Hollywood?s latest failed attempt to confront the Islamic Revolution" ? and?replete with complaints that the movie portrays all Iranians as stereotypically aggressive and unrefined and fails to give viewers enough historical context.?(Pirated copies of American films typically become available in Iran a few months before the films open in the US, and are easily accessed by the public.)

?Argo makes the people of Iran look like they have no self-determination, and indisputably support violence,? writes Meysam Karimi in a lengthy review?for the popular Iran-based film magazine website, Moviemag.???For me, as an Iranian ? this makes [the storyline behind] Argo much less believable.?

Iran?s semi-official Fars News Agency?labels Argo ?anti-Iranian" and painted the film as a flop. Citing unidentified "news agencies," it asserted that Argo only?managed to reach second place in the US and Canada because the filmmakers artificially boosted sales by purchasing tickets ?en masse? and giving them away for free to random people. ?

Argo??was unable to become a box office hit in spite of considerable advertisement," Fars wrote.??The filmmakers tried very hard and used a variety of methods to increase ticket sales, but they were unsuccessful. ? Even though ?Taken 2? was in its second week, Argo still couldn?t beat it to first place in the box office ? due to a lack of interest among its own [North American] audience.?

Moviemag, the privately owned online film magazine, is more sober in its assessment of the film, acknowledging Ben Affleck?s strong directorial skill and the film?s attention-grabbing story line and?giving the film a four out of five star rating.

"If I were to set aside issues [with how Iran is portrayed], I must admit that Argo is one of this year?s best movies, and expect it to be awarded an Oscar for Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin?s role," he writes.?

?Without a doubt, a non-Iranian viewer will highly enjoy seeing Argo because the story is strong and keeps the viewer?s attention through to the end,? he adds. ?But for an Iranian who counts this subject as part of our country?s history, the view may be a bit different.?

Almost all coverage of Argo also noted that the film?s Toronto Film Festival debut, Sept. 7, is the same day Canada closed its embassy this year in Tehran and announced the expulsion of Iran?s diplomats from Ottawa. ? ?

?Perhaps it was a coincidence,? writes Mr. Karimi for Moviemag. ?But for [the embassy closure] to take place during the Toronto Film Festival, right when this film was being screened, somewhat undermines the theory that this happened by accident.?

Follow Roshanak Taghavi on Twitter at?@RoshanakT.

(This article was updated after first posting to correct the spelling of the capital of Canada.)

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Posted on: 12:57 pm, October 25, 2012, by Robert Richardson, updated on: 05:40pm, October 25, 2012

DEKALB COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) ? Sheriff?s deputies arrested a teacher at Collinsville High School on Thursday.

DeKalb County Superintendent Charles Warren says Broox Goza, 37, was arrested about 12 p.m.? We understand Goza is a computer teacher, and was arrested in his classroom.

Broox Marvin Goza (Photo: DeKalb County Sheriff?s Office)

Sheriff Jimmy Harris said Goza, of Gadsden, is charged with harassing communications.? Harris said a someone filed a report about a week ago against Goza, concerning harassment and harassing communications.

During the arrest, Sheriff Harris said deputies ?found more evidence of other possible offenses that could lead to more charges in the future.

?This situation involves adults only and no allegations involving students or juveniles were made,? said Sheriff Harris.

Superintendent Warren said the school system will place Goza on administrative leave until further notice as they evaluate the circumstances surrounding his arrest.

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Former swimmer Brittany Shaw and Athletics Associate Director Pat Kitchen members of Canadian delegation

OTTAWA (October 24, 2012) - Over 130 Canadians are travelling to Adelaide, Australia for Rescue 2012, the World Lifesaving Championships and International Lifesaving Federation General Assembly. ?

Canada has a 24 member national senior and youth team, interclub teams from Alberta, Nova Scotia and Alberta/NWT, masters athletes, as well as 12 officials. ?Wilfrid Laurier graduate, Brittany Shaw, 2011 Commonwealth Lifesaving gold medal winner will be competing at this her second world championships and local Region of Waterloo swimmer Margot Cunningham joins Brittany on the national team. ?The full Canadian delegation will be supported by Chef de mission, Patricia Kitchen, Laurier's Associate Director: Recreation and Facilities.?

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The Lifesaving Society- Canada's lifeguarding expert - works to prevent drowning through its training programs, Water Smart drowning prevention education, water-incident research, aquatic safety management services and lifesaving sport. The Lifesaving Society represents Canada in the ILS. The Society is the Canadian governing body for lifesaving sport - a sport recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the Commonwealth Games Federation.

For more information including competition results and to track the Canadian teams, visit http://www.rescue2012.com.au/ and http://www.lifesavingsport.ca/

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Analysis: Catch-up time as BP eyes closure on Russia, spill

LONDON (Reuters) - International oil company BP , weakened and distracted by its troubles in the United States and Russia, is in danger of losing touch with the leaders in an industry where strength and focus yield the richest pickings.

"I can't help thinking they've sort of lost their way. "Everywhere you look, they're falling behind," said a senior executive of one rival this week.

He spoke after BP agreed to swap its Russian assets, a quarter of its worldwide oil output, for $12.4 billion in cash plus 20 percent of the buyer, Russian state oil company Rosneft .

The $27 billion deal would end a fraught relationship with the Soviet-born tycoons who co-own TNK-BP with BP.

It may or may not solve BP's problems in Russia and could yet unravel, but the company had little choice than to throw its hand in with the government of President Vladimir Putin. Russia, like other resource-rich nations, is anxious to see as much of its oil money as possible staying at home, and is reversing the sell-offs of the 1990s.

"Jury out, as ever, but in fairness to BP, this is a better outcome than many could have hoped for," said Deutsche Bank analyst Lucas Herman in a note reiterating his "buy" recommendation for its shares.

BP is as old as the modern oil industry itself, and has been in far worse scrapes before.

A hundred years ago it had run out of money developing oil reserves in Persia (now Iran), and with no customers for its fuel, faced oblivion. "What a hell of a mess," wrote John Cargill, the chairman of its top shareholder at the time.

But within a few years the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, as it was then called, had dodged bankruptcy and was back on its feet thanks to wartime fuel demand from the British Navy.

In 2012, chief executive Bob Dudley should not need that kind of luck.

He runs a profitable company with leading oil and gas positions in U.S. Gulf deepwater, Trinidad and Angola. For future growth, he has exploration acreage in the South Atlantic margins taking in Uruguay, Brazil and Namibia.

It's not a hell of a mess, but he might hope better times are ahead, just as they were a century ago.

BP has slipped to distant fourth out of five western oil supermajors by stock market value, having ruled the European roost as world number two behind Exxon Mobil in its early 21st-Century heyday.

The company also lags its peers by investment valuation measures, as the table below shows. Earnings quality, calculated by Thomson Reuters Starmine, measures the degree to which past earnings are likely to be maintained on a scale of 1 to 100.

SHADOW OF THE SPILL

The core reasons for a BP stock market value 'discount', which analysts put in the tens of billions of dollars, are the Russian uncertainties and the looming shadow of potential liabilities for the 2010 U.S. Gulf oil spill.

After months of growing expectations that U.S. authorities were moving towards a settlement, in August the Department of Justice made a court filing re-asserting its case for gross negligence with regard to the accident.

Such a finding could cost BP $21 billion under the United States' Clean Water Act, based on a maximum fine of $4,300 per barrel spilled tied to a 4.9 million-barrel estimate of the total that spewed into the sea.

BP has already spent $14 billion on clean-up operations and paid out over $8 billion in claims. It is offering a further $7.8 billion in settlement to individuals and businesses affected by the disaster on top of all the other costs.

It plans to contest a gross negligence charge at a hearing due to start in January. A fairness hearing on the proposed $7.8 billion settlement for individuals and businesses is due on November 8.

BP has made good progress selling a raft of assets so that it can shoulder a big hit, having raised to date some $35 billion towards a goal of $38 billion from divestments.

In the process, it has expunged another blot on its U.S. safety reputation - the accident-prone Texas City refinery, selling it to Marathon Petroleum earlier in October.

So financially, BP has the makings of a new start, in the United States, Russia and elsewhere.

"Our strategy targets higher cashflow; we expect to increase operating cashflow by 50 percent from 2011 to 2014 (in a $100 oil price environment)," BP said in an emailed statement.

But it is not all about money. The spill and the Russian issues have taken management time that might have been focused on the business itself. And the spill has tarnished BP's reputation in a core producing country.

TO-DO LIST

On Dudley's to-do list now are production problems in Azerbaijan, where the company is trying to mollify a government angry about falling output.

Last week he juggled face time with Rosneft boss Igor Sechin and Rovnag Adbullayev, the president of the Azerbaijan state oil company SOCAR.

Then there is Rumaila in southern Iraq, the biggest of the country's producing oilfields. BP has the pick of the bunch of service contracts, but it no longer looks like the most alluring business in post-war Iraq.

Rivals who followed it in are having second thoughts, heading north to the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan for richer pickings and some ownership of the production itself, to the fury of the Baghdad government.

On a smaller scale, BP's one-year-old Indian projects are in the doldrums. Partner Reliance Industries is considering shutting underperforming gas fields.

BP also has issues in Norway, where its Skarv project is months behind schedule.

These troubles are the normal stuff of the international oil business, of course. And BP is not alone in suffering from increasing competition for assets from cash-rich national oil companies and for industry project "action" from the increasingly influential oil services sector.

NO EASY RIDE

And BP's rivals have their own crosses to bear; witness Shell's embarrassing stutter in the Arctic as winter closes in, with $5 billion spent and barely a hole drilled, and Exxon's expensive 2010 acquisition of shale gas producer XTO Energy just before gas prices hit the skids. All the big guns of the industry are struggling for a toe-hold in some of the newest and hottest provinces of east Africa and offshore Brazil.

But BP lacks Exxon's scale, and without TNK-BP, which used to pay out rich dividends, it could do with a cash cow like Shell's GTL plant in Qatar to feed its exploration and acquisition budget.

On a longer term strategic level, BP is seen as slipping behind in the race to develop liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects.

LNG projects - expensive, complex and risky, like the U.S. Arctic offshore where BP is also conspicuously absent - are among the few areas where the supermajors can still flex their muscles.

Sets of data produced by rivals Royal Dutch/Shell and BG shows BP dropping from third to sixth place by 2017 among the big corporate players in terms of LNG projects onstream or under construction.

The data shows BP with barely an extra million metric tons a year of new output in its portfolio by then, compared with roughly an extra 15 million for Chevron and 7 or 8 million each for BG and Shell, mainly thanks to that trio's huge projects in Australia.

"We've set out our strategy to 2014 - focusing the company around our strengths, the things we do well - and are making good progress on it," said BP in its statement.

"These strengths include exploration, operating in the deep water, developing gas value chains from production to market, and developing and managing giant fields. And looking for valuable barrels rather than simple volumes. Between 2012 and 2014 we expect to bring 15 new major upstream projects on stream that have margins double that of our 2011 portfolio average."

All music to investors' ears, but some of its rivals have a head start, and they won't be standing still.

(Reporting by Andrew Callus; Editing by Will Waterman)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-catch-time-bp-eyes-closure-russia-spill-163442281--finance.html

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Flu Vaccines in Grade Schools Significantly Curb Illness

Public health officials have been trying to drum up support for flu vaccination for all kids ages six months and older for several years now. Vaccination rates have crept up, but half of all kids still don't get a yearly flu shot. A new study suggests that schools may be the best place to immunize kids, especially schools in lower-socioeconomic areas where annual flu vaccine rates are low.

Getting kids immunized is no small matter. About 24,000 people, adults and children, die each year from the flu. Moreover, studies in recent years have pointed to preschool and grade-school aged children as robust carriers of the virus that then spreads throughout all age groups. If those kids are immunized, the thinking goes, then flu rates would be lower throughout communities.

"Children are very capable of spreading the flu," Dr. Pia Pannaraj, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, told Take Part. "They spread the virus very easily to each other. They go home and bring the flu virus to grandma and grandpa and baby brother or baby sister who could become severely ill? with this virus."

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In data presented last week, Pannaraj makes a strong case for vaccinating kids in schools. The study was comprised of almost 4,500 kids in grades kindergarten through six at eight schools in Los Angeles County during the 2010-2011 flu season. In four of the schools, information and permission slips for a school-based, free flu vaccine program were sent home to parents. The other four schools were used as a comparison group. In schools with the vaccine program, parents could choose which type of vaccine their child received -- shot or nasal spray. The parents did not have to be present when the child received the vaccine.

To accurately assess flu rates, the researchers ran lab tests on any student who came down with a respiratory symptom, such as a cough, sneezing or sore throat.

Pannaraj found that vaccinated kids were three times less likely to get the flu and missed half the number of school days compared to unvaccinated children.

Reducing absenteeism means fewer missed days of work for parents and more money for schools. Public schools receive funding based on daily attendance of students, says Pannaraj. And flu often translates to several days of missed school.

"It's in the schools' best interests to protect their children against influenza," she says. "Many people think the flu is similar to the common cold. Those children who had the flu missed double the number of days compared to children who had respiratory viruses that cause the common cold."

The study -- presented at the annual ID Week, a joint meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and other organizations focused on infectious disease -- ?also showed that vaccinating kids at school can offer protection for a larger community. In one school, where 47% of the kids were vaccinated, flu rates were down overall. That means "herd immunity" can be achieved at schools without everyone getting immunized.

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About half of all U.S. kids, ages six months to 18, now receive an annual flu vaccine. However in lower-socioeconomic neighborhoods, such as the region in Pannaraj's study, flu vaccine rates are often as low as two percent to five percent. It's difficult for working parents to get their children vaccinated, she notes.

"The school-based vaccination offers a solution to that," she says. "We can basically line these children up to vaccinate them so they are protected against influenza."

It may take some convincing to get more parents to consent to school-based vaccination, however.? Vaccination rates in the four schools that offered the program ranged from 27.8 percent to 47 percent. Few parents expressed a fear that the vaccines would cause autism -- a theory that has been debunked. However, some said they worried that the vaccine would cause the flu. Vaccines, however, do not cause the flu.

Schools that reached out to parents, providing information and support for the program, had the highest vaccination rates, says Pannaraj. Decades ago, schools were key places for child vaccination, such as the polio vaccine programs of the 1960s, notes Dr. David Kimberlin, an expert in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

"It's worked before," he says. "These studies show why we need it."

Flu is not just an inconvenience, adds Dr. Karen K. Wong, an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wong presented data at IDWeek showing that almost half of the children who died from the flu over the past decade had been previously healthy. Children with underlying health problems, such as asthma or diabetes, are at higher risk for complications from flu. But healthy children can become critically ill, too.

"It shows that really any child can be at risk, not just those with medical conditions," Wong says. "Prevention is really the best defense."

Question: Would you allow your child to receive the flu vaccine at school? Tell us your thoughts in the comments.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/flu-vaccines-grade-schools-significantly-curb-illness-191101186.html

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Thousands greet American Chemical Society journal editors in India

Public release date: 22-Oct-2012
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2012 Editors of a dozen prestigious scientific journals have just completed a highly successful two-week visit to India, where they met with more than 3,000 scientists and students to discuss publication of research articles about new scientific discoveries and other topics. The journals are among the more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific publications from the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society.

"The international visit was spectacularly successful," said Anirban Mahapatra, Ph.D., of the ACS Journals Publishing Group, who was part of the ACS delegation. "Our editors were treated like rock stars by so many of the scientists and interested students in India. We were absolutely delighted to be able to share so much useful information with our colleagues and others in this great technological nation."

Susan King, Ph.D., senior vice president of the ACS Journals Publishing Group, noted that India is a powerhouse of science and technology, leading the way in fields such as renewable energy, nanotechnology, biotechnology and information technology. King, who also was part of the delegation of editors with other ACS Publications staff, commented that the size of India's technical workforce has doubled in recent years, with more than 160 universities awarding more than 4,000 doctoral degrees and 35,000 other postgraduate degrees annually.

"ACS Publications extends its appreciation to the Indian research community for their ongoing support of ACS journals," said King. "The ACS editors and I are delighted to have had the opportunity to visit leading institutions conducting groundbreaking research in chemistry and allied subjects across India. We thank our hosts for leading this initiative, for their hospitality and warm welcome, and for the opportunity to visit ACS associate editors, editorial advisory board members, authors and researchers in the laboratories, institutes and universities where this groundbreaking research is accomplished."

In 2011 alone, ACS journals published over 1,000 articles from laboratories in India, covering a wide range of research. Manuscript submissions from Indian institutions have grown faster than submissions from many other countries commensurate with the huge scale of India's investment in science and technology.

In recognition of India's leadership in scientific research, ACS editors visited academic and other research institutions spanning seven cities in India: Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Kanpur, Hyderabad, Pune and Kolkata.

The following is a list of institutions the editors visited:

• Mumbai
• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
• Institute of Chemical Technology
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
• Bangalore
• Indian Institute of Science
• Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
• National Centre for Biological Sciences
• Delhi
• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• Kanpur
• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
• Hyderabad
• Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
• University of Hyderabad
• Pune
• National Chemical Laboratory
• Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
• Kolkata
• Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

The following is a list of ACS editors and staff who traveled:

• Richard Armstrong, Ph.D., Biochemistry
• M.G. Finn, Ph.D., ACS Combinatorial Science
• Prashant Kamat, Ph.D., The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
• Don Paul, Ph.D., Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
• Norb Pienta, Ph.D., Journal of Chemical Education
• Dale Poulter, Ph.D., The Journal of Organic Chemistry
• Robin Rogers, Ph.D., Crystal Growth & Design
• Kirk Schanze, Ph.D., ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• Amos Smith, Ph.D., Organic Letters
• Peter Stang, Ph.D., Journal of the American Chemical Society
• Jonathan Sweedler, Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry
• Dave Whitten, Ph.D., Langmuir
• Susan King, Ph.D., senior vice president, Journals Publishing Group
• Susan Pastore, director, International Sales
• Anirban Mahapatra, Ph.D., assistant director, Editorial Development, ACS liaison

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American Chemical Society

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2012 Editors of a dozen prestigious scientific journals have just completed a highly successful two-week visit to India, where they met with more than 3,000 scientists and students to discuss publication of research articles about new scientific discoveries and other topics. The journals are among the more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific publications from the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society.

"The international visit was spectacularly successful," said Anirban Mahapatra, Ph.D., of the ACS Journals Publishing Group, who was part of the ACS delegation. "Our editors were treated like rock stars by so many of the scientists and interested students in India. We were absolutely delighted to be able to share so much useful information with our colleagues and others in this great technological nation."

Susan King, Ph.D., senior vice president of the ACS Journals Publishing Group, noted that India is a powerhouse of science and technology, leading the way in fields such as renewable energy, nanotechnology, biotechnology and information technology. King, who also was part of the delegation of editors with other ACS Publications staff, commented that the size of India's technical workforce has doubled in recent years, with more than 160 universities awarding more than 4,000 doctoral degrees and 35,000 other postgraduate degrees annually.

"ACS Publications extends its appreciation to the Indian research community for their ongoing support of ACS journals," said King. "The ACS editors and I are delighted to have had the opportunity to visit leading institutions conducting groundbreaking research in chemistry and allied subjects across India. We thank our hosts for leading this initiative, for their hospitality and warm welcome, and for the opportunity to visit ACS associate editors, editorial advisory board members, authors and researchers in the laboratories, institutes and universities where this groundbreaking research is accomplished."

In 2011 alone, ACS journals published over 1,000 articles from laboratories in India, covering a wide range of research. Manuscript submissions from Indian institutions have grown faster than submissions from many other countries commensurate with the huge scale of India's investment in science and technology.

In recognition of India's leadership in scientific research, ACS editors visited academic and other research institutions spanning seven cities in India: Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Kanpur, Hyderabad, Pune and Kolkata.

The following is a list of institutions the editors visited:

• Mumbai
• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
• Institute of Chemical Technology
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
• Bangalore
• Indian Institute of Science
• Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
• National Centre for Biological Sciences
• Delhi
• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• Kanpur
• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
• Hyderabad
• Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
• University of Hyderabad
• Pune
• National Chemical Laboratory
• Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
• Kolkata
• Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

The following is a list of ACS editors and staff who traveled:

• Richard Armstrong, Ph.D., Biochemistry
• M.G. Finn, Ph.D., ACS Combinatorial Science
• Prashant Kamat, Ph.D., The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
• Don Paul, Ph.D., Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
• Norb Pienta, Ph.D., Journal of Chemical Education
• Dale Poulter, Ph.D., The Journal of Organic Chemistry
• Robin Rogers, Ph.D., Crystal Growth & Design
• Kirk Schanze, Ph.D., ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• Amos Smith, Ph.D., Organic Letters
• Peter Stang, Ph.D., Journal of the American Chemical Society
• Jonathan Sweedler, Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry
• Dave Whitten, Ph.D., Langmuir
• Susan King, Ph.D., senior vice president, Journals Publishing Group
• Susan Pastore, director, International Sales
• Anirban Mahapatra, Ph.D., assistant director, Editorial Development, ACS liaison

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The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 164,000 members, ACS is the world's largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.

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89% Frankenweenie

Tim Burton's stop-motion remake of his own 30-minute short is a cute movie, even with the creepy subject matter. It's the story of a boy and his dog and coming to terms with loss, although that seems to get stalled since the kid brings his dog back to life. Frankenweenie is, as my pal Eric said, Burton's love letter to the Universal monsters of old, as other kids resurrect their pets into mummies, vampires, werewolves, etc. As a story, it's pretty plain and seems thin and padded out. The animation is fun to watch but I couldn't shake my questions about the character design. It feels like the only parts that move on these bulky faces are their tiny mouths. It's a strange design that undercuts the animators' efforts, and I couldn't help comparing it to the superior and expressive animation from ParaNorman. I'd say this is the weakest stop-motion film with Burton's name attached to it, but by no means is Frankenweenie a bad film. It's got some fun jokes and any story about the loss of a beloved pet is going to have plenty of heart. There are some pretty solid jokes but they all seem to pool in the first act. I enjoyed Sparky the dog's romance with the neighboring poodle, more so than any of the human relationships. Beyond the kid/dog aspect, I found it hard to engage with the movie. If you have to see one stop-motion animated film about the supernatural, check out ParaNorman instead. Nate's Grade: B-

October 20, 2012

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/frankenweenie_2012/

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[Movie Review] Student of the Year: Same Old Wine in New Bottle

Cast: Varun Dhawan, Siddharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt, Ronit Roy, Rishi Kapoor

Director: Karan Johar

Rating: 3

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Love, friendship, jealousy, betrayal, ambitions and blah and blah! Student of the Year is one mashup of feelings that seems intangible at first, but is ultimately driven home by the charm of the veteran director, Karan Johar.

Yeah, it often feels aimless, sometimes becomes too silly to be taken seriously, but then it provides one thing that we always have an apetite for, and that too in ample dosage, Entertainment!

The Richie Rich dude, Rohan (Varun Dhawan) meets the innocent eyed attitude queen, Shanaya Singhania (Alia Bhatt) and then the queen bumps into another guy, Abhimanyu (Siddharth Malhotra) and, then and there, comes the baap of all glitches entwined with relationships and lovey-dovey stuffs, Complications! Rewind a bit and cover this all up in a background of the fiction fantasy school and a coveted trophy to die for, you?ll get what Student of the Year is all about.

Every single frame carries the trademark Johar stamp. Right from the lush aesthetics and the designer clothes to the discos and even the narrative of the movie, conveyed of the authority that the man behind the camera has on his acts. He manages to extract the best from his cast and crew, be it the cinematographer or the three debutants, who shine in their individual roles and definitely have a successful road ahead of them.

It may be that the debutants end up as the scene steelers, but it is Rishi Kapoor, Dean of the St.Teresa Institution, who gives another masterful and heart-warming performance. He is indeed, a class apart! Barring a few old jelly bellys, the music by Vishal-Shekhar, sets the tempo right for the events unfurling on the screen.

Karan Johar may have hit gold in many departments, but it is the lame script of the movie that is its arch enemy. Thousands of times the formula of a triangle had been rehashed in Bollywood and Student of the Year, despite of all its new-age mantra, falls prey to the repetitiveness.

Moreover, what was the fuss with all those plastic emotions injected in between? Did they even mean to induce a tear in the audience?s eyes? Well, if they did, then the team of SOTY failed and that too in gigantic proportions!

All hail the splendid cast and the gifted director, Karan Johar for making Student of the Year entertaining, pop and pulpy to the hilt. It is the same old wine but served in a new bottle and that too, KJO style!

Source: http://www.udaipurtimes.com/movie-review-student-of-the-year-same-old-wine-in-new-bottle/

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Fishy physics: Adaptation lets silvery fish reflect light without polarization, may help them evade predators

ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2012) ? Silvery fish such as herring, sardine and sprat have evolved special skin that gets around a basic law of physics, according to new research from the University of Bristol published Oct. 21 in Nature Photonics.

Reflective surfaces polarize light, a phenomenon that fishermen or photographers overcome by using polarizing sunglasses or polarizing filters to cut our reflective glare. However, PhD student Tom Jordan and his supervisors Professor Julian Partridge and Dr Nicholas Roberts in Bristol's School of Biological Sciences found that these silvery fish have overcome this basic law of reflection -- an adaptation that may help them evade predators.

Previously, it was thought that the fish's skin -- which contains "multilayer" arrangements of reflective guanine crystals -- would fully polarize light when reflected. As the light becomes polarized, there should be a drop in reflectivity.

The Bristol researchers found that the skin of sardines and herring contain not one but two types of guanine crystal -- each with different optical properties. By mixing these two types, the fish's skin doesn't polarize the reflected light and maintains its high reflectivity.

Dr Roberts said: "We believe these species of fish have evolved this particular multilayer structure to help conceal them from predators, such as dolphin and tuna. These fish have found a way to maximize their reflectivity over all angles they are viewed from. This helps the fish best match the light environment of the open ocean, making them less likely to be seen."

As a result of this ability, the skin of silvery fish could hold the key to better optical devices. Tom Jordan said: "Many modern day optical devices such as LED lights and low loss optical fibres use these non-polarizing types of reflectors to improve efficiency. However, these human-made reflectors currently require the use of materials with specific optical properties that are not always ideal. The mechanism that has evolved in fish overcomes this current design limitation and provides a new way to manufacture these non-polarizing reflectors."

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Workout warrior Chris Wong fighting cancer with help of new drug

Chris Wong is a workout warrior.

So when he developed pain in his lower back and left leg early in 2009 he assumed he?d pulled a muscle or pinched a nerve. But the pain kept getting worse.

?I was moaning with pain in the evenings and had great difficulty just getting around,? Wong, now 46, wrote in an account of his battle with what turned out to be anaplastic large cell lymphoma, a very aggressive form of cancer. He got that diagnosis after he finally went to the Baptist Medical Center emergency room on Memorial Day 2009.

By then, the cancer, which had progressed over the course of three months to stage-4, had begun to eat into his skeletal structure. His left femur had deteriorated so severely that he had to undergo surgery to have a titanium rod inserted into the bone.

While Wong was recovering from the surgery, he was visited by oncologist Augusto Villegas who told Wong his cancer was treatable but had a high degree of recurrence.

?It was crushing news,? Wong wrote.

In the next two years, Villegas would treat Wong with two rounds of chemotherapy. The first round of chemotherapy put the cancer in remission in October 2009. Wong then underwent a transplant of some of his own stem cells, which had been harvested and stored, at Shands at the University of Florida.

But in February 2011, following the surgical removal of bumps on his head that Wong had initially thought was acne, a biopsy revealed the lymphoma had returned.

?To have the cancer on my skin caught me completely by surprise,? Wong wrote. ?I was pretty shook-up by this devastating news, but received comfort from my family and friends.?

That was treated with radiation. But after Wong continued to lose weight and suffer chest pain, Villegas ordered a bone scan in early June.

The scan found that the cancer had begun to eat into Wong?s rib and pelvis bones. Starting in mid-June, he checked into Baptist Medical Center every four weeks for five days of inpatient chemotherapy treatments.

A PET scan in late July seemed to indicate the cancer was again in remission.

But Villegas was concerned that the lymphoma might return again. ?Typically, it?s harder to cure non-Hodgkins lymphoma after relapse,? he said. ?Chris is a young guy, healthy as a horse. We needed to do something.?

That something, Villegas thought, might be a new drug just approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Adcetris, unlike most other forms of chemotherapy, targets only the cancer cells while leaving the healthy cells unharmed, Villegas said.

Villegas, who practices with Cancer Specialists of North Florida, called Adcetris ?a smarter way to treat cancer? and said it was designed specifically to be used on patients with anaplastic lymphoma after they have relapsed.

?This drug has a very, very specific niche,? he said.

?I was so relieved to have an alternate treatment approach,? Wong wrote. ?This was much better than dosing my whole body with chemo treatments for 4-5 days.?

In early October of last year, Wong began going to Villegas?s office every three or four weeks for an infusion of Adcetris. Last Nov. 19, a PET-CT scan showed him cancer free.

Then in December, he went to Shands at the University of Florida where he received a stem cell transplant from a donor.

He was allowed to resume his work as an IT coordinator for a health care company in May, working from home. Then in July, he was allowed to return to his office. On his last scan, in August, Wong remained cancer-free.

?I?m enjoying life,? the father of four said during an interview. ?It?s a lot to go through. But it gives you a better appreciation of life.?

And he?s still a workout warrior.

Charlie Patton: (904) 359-4413

Source: http://jacksonville.com/news/health-and-fitness/2012-10-20/story/workout-warrior-chris-wong-fighting-cancer-help-new-drug

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Collective violence and poverty on the Mexican-US border affects child mental health

ScienceDaily (Oct. 19, 2012) ? Collective violence attributed to organized crime and poverty are adversely affecting the mental health of children living near the Texas-Mexico border, according to a poster presented Oct. 19 at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans.

In the study, "Children's Mental Health and Collective Violence: A Bi-National Study on the United States/Mexican Border," researchers compared psychosocial and behavior scores among children and adolescents living in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico in 2007 and again in 2010. All the participating children were of Hispanic origin (Mexican or Mexican-American), lived below the poverty level and went to a clinic for a non-emergency visit. None of the children had a history of diagnosed mental illness, or a neurological or life-threatening disease or disability.

The psychosocial and behavioral scores among children living in poverty in El Paso, Texas did not change significantly between 2007 and 2010, although these children living in poverty had considerable psychosocial and behavioral problems, said study author Marie Leiner, PhD.

At the Mexican site, however, children exhibited significant increases in social problems, rule breaking and aggressive behavior, with higher scores reported in 2010.

"There is cumulative harm to the mental health of children from the combination of collective violence attributed to organized crime and poverty," said Dr. Leiner. "Untreated mental health problems predict violence, anti-social behaviors and delinquency, and this affects families, communities and individuals.

"It is crucial to address the mental health of children on the border to counteract the devastating effects this setting will have in the future."

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Top Lebanese security official killed in Beirut blast: official

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