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IOWA CITY, Iowa - Iowa National Guard member Chris Harbeck has been working over the winter break at a Sioux City sheet metal shop to earn spending money for his spring semester at the University of Iowa.

Now, he will likely have to use that cash to offset a nearly $1,300-per-semester reduction in the maximum award provided by the National Guard Education Assistance Program.

The Iowa National Guard announced this week it will reduce the maximum award from 90 percent of tuition to 50 percent. The cuts take effect for the spring semester, which means Guard members enrolled in college classes starting in just a few weeks will have to scramble to make sure they can pay the bills.

?I was disheartened a little bit,? Harbeck, 20, of Sioux City, said about the award reduction. ?I set aside a little bit of money, so I should be all right.?

The number of veterans enrolling in Iowa?s public universities could double in the next two years as more than 3,000 National Guard soldiers return from overseas deployments and become eligible for federal GI Bill benefits.

A record number of applicants for education assistance combined with flat state funding and rising tuition caused the Guard to reduce the award amounts to ensure all qualified applicants get some financial support, Col. Gregory Hapgood said.

?We will reduce that award to 50 percent as a precaution so we can provide that benefit to as many soldiers and airmen as possible,? he said.

For the students heading back to campus in January, ?It?s going to be a big surprise and an unpleasant one,? Hapgood said.

The program enacted in fiscal year 1998 requires the Guard to pay at least half of the tuition rate at the state?s public universities or half of the tuition rate at the institution attended by the Guard member, whichever is lower. The maximum award will go from nearly $2,900 per semester to $1,600.

Tuition assistance has been a major draw for military recruits, said Amanda Irish, a UI student and president of the UI Veterans Association.

?The reasons people go into the military are vast and varied, but education is one of the top reasons,? said the 2002 Cedar Rapids Jefferson graduate. ?I know our vet population is not typically very well off. Some have wives and kids. At minimum this (the award reduction) is an inconvenience. At the worst, it could be a deal breaker.?

From 120 to 150 UI students will be affected immediately by the tuition award reduction, said Dennis Arps, who coordinates GI Bill service for the UI.

Harbeck, who enlisted in the Guard right out of high school, is a Black Hawk helicopter mechanic whose unit is based in Boone. He?s an open major at the UI, but is thinking about going into education or human physiology.

He got a memo this week from Maj. Gen. Timothy Orr, the adjutant general for Iowa, that explained the tuition award reduction. Most of Harbeck?s fellow Guard members and students think they can cover the loss of state support, he said.

?It helps out a ton,? he said of the program.

Arps is advising veterans attending the UI to tap into existing federal programs to supplement the loss at the state level. UI Veterans Affairs also plans to lobby the Iowa Legislature to increase funding for the state program.

Sen. Daryl Beall, D-Fort Dodge, who chairs the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, said boosting support for the education assistance program will be a high priority in the 2012 legislative session.

?We can?t do enough to support our veterans,? Beall said.

If you are impacted by this assistance change and have more questions you can contact the Iowa National Guard Educational Office at 515-252-4468.

Source: http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Iowa-National-Guard-Reduces-College-Assistance-136457858.html

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The legal battle between Samsung and Apple has going on around the world with Apple claiming that Samsung had "slavishly" copied the iPad design. Apple and Samsung have traded lawsuits in a number of countries trying to get each other's products banned from sale.

Outside of the lawsuits, Samsung has been aggressive with their recent set of U.S. TV ads openly mocking iPhone users.

Their newest Korean ad, however, seems to take cues from Apple's own advertising style, focusing on a more emotional connection with the viewer.

The ad depicts a father and daughter playing with a Galaxy Tab in a sequence of shots reminiscent of Apple's own iPad ads. The voice over says (rough translation):

You try to have fun with me, you try to win against me, you ask me millions of questions, you sit on my lap, you want to stay beside me all the time, strangely, when I stay with you time passes very quickly. This is a precious time.

The ad was posted to YouTube on December 14th. For reference, Apple's own ads have long followed a similar style, focusing on experience than specs: We'll Always, Love, and Learn. While Apple doesn't have an exclusive claim to this style of ad, it just shows how Samsung is trying to position their products comparably to Apple.

The song in the background of the ad is Blue Sky by Rabbit!

Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/12/30/samsungs-new-galaxy-tab-tv-ad-feels-a-lot-like-an-apple-ipad-ad/

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Beyonce's baby bump was one of the year's most-memorable moments.
By Jocelyn Vena

Justin Bieber at the 2011 VMAs
Photo: Christopher Polk/ Getty Images

Anything can happen on the red carpet at any given awards show, and in 2011, it felt like anything that could happen did. As MTV News reflects on some of the biggest moments of the year, we decided to remember some of the most-memorable things A-listers did live right in front of us all.

Lady Gaga's Egg
In February, Gaga had everyone guessing how she would arrive to the Grammys. Given her penchant for crazy looks, no one would have guessed she would have showed up in an egg. Designed by Hussein Chalayan, Gaga later emerged from the structure to proclaim that she was "Born This Way."

What was your favorite red-carpet moment of 2011? Vote in our Newsroom poll!

Snooki
Speaking of the Grammys, the reality star joined MTV News' own Sway Calloway to talk to all the stars at the show. After helping us out on the 2010 red carpet, we learned that anything is possible with Snooki, and 2011 solidified that she's the fieriest "meatball" to grace the "Jersey Shore." We wonder if she and Bruno Mars ever ended up dating.

Paul McDonald and Nikki Reed
"Twilight" star Nikki Reed surprised everyone when she hit up the MTV Movie Awards in June. No, she hadn't borrowed Gaga's egg: She was rocking an engagement rock from her beau and "American Idol" alum Paul McDonald. The couple used the red carpet as the platform to announce their engagement, and married in October.

Beyoncé's Baby Bump
She might have rubbed that burgeoning baby bump onstage at the Video Music Awards in August, but hours before she took the stage, donning a bright orange gown, Beyoncé let the paparazzi know she was expecting her first child with hubby Jay-Z by flaunting her pregnancy glow.

Justin Bieber's Snake
While Beyoncé shared with the world her baby news, Bieber not only planted a kiss on VMA pre-show host and real-life lady love Selena Gomez, but also introduced her to his pet snake. His name? Johnson. She seemed less interested in the snake than perhaps he would have liked.

What was your favorite red-carpet moment in 2011? Share your pick below!

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) ? Asian stocks slipped on Thursday on weakness in the U.S. and European share markets and caution ahead of an Italian debt sale, though year-end window dressing of portfolios by some traders helped trim losses.

European shares are expected to inch higher, reversing some of the previous session's losses, with cautiousness ahead of the key Italian debt auction by Italy seen limiting the gains.

Spreadbetters expect London's FTSE (.FTSE) to open up 0.04 percent, Frankfurt's DAX (.GDAXI) to open up 0.3 percent, and Paris' CAC 40 (.FCHI) to open up 0.3 percent.

The euro extended losses against the dollar to near a one-year low, and a 10-year low against the yen, while the sell-off in stocks and a firm U.S. currency helped crude oil snap a six-session rally and kept gold prices near a three-month low.

The Nikkei (.N225) ended 0.3 percent lower, recouping some of its 1.1 percent intraday loss. The MSCI ex-Japan Asia Pacific index (.MIAPJ0000PUS) also shed 0.3 percent, weighed down by consumer and material stocks. Both indexes look set to be down about 18 percent during 2011.

Traders said Italy's sale of up to 8.5 billion euros ($11 billion) of debt later on Thursday will provide further cues for risky assets.

The auction is seen as the first test of banks' willingness to buy longer-term sovereign debt with the nearly 500 billion euros they borrowed last week from the European Central Bank.

While Italy's short-term funding costs halved at an auction on Wednesday, market players are worried that thin volumes prevalent across markets near the end of the year could complicate its efforts to sell longer-dated bonds.

"If it goes well, it's an indication that, one, yield is coming down, so the cost of funding is falling for the Italian government," said Martin Lakos, division director at Macquarie Private Wealth.

"And, two, if there's demand for the paper, that's a sign of confidence, which is what the market's in real need of."

EURO, OIL, GOLD SLIP

The euro weakened in Asia, pressured by stop-loss selling from Japanese retail investors as well as some offloading by exporters, with moves amplified in poor year-end liquidity and traders said the currency is likely to stay vulnerable.

The single currency hit $1.2887, moving closer to its 2011 trough of $1.2860 on January 10. Against the yen, the euro skidded to a 10-year trough around 100.70, before steadying at 100.88.

At 0615 GMT, the euro traded at 1.2926 versus the dollar and 100.47 versus the yen.

"Nobody sees anything on the horizon that could be mildly positive for the euro," said Rob Ryan, FX strategist for BNP Paribas in Singapore.

The one factor that may lend the euro some support is market positioning, which is already tilted heavily toward being short the euro, Ryan said, adding that another is the potential for fund repatriation by European players.

Crude oil, which had gained for six sessions on heightened supply worries after Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, eased as traders viewed the threat as rhetoric.

"A big increase in U.S. crude oil stocks and the falling euro against the dollar are the main pressure points for the market at the moment," said Ken Hasegawa, a derivatives manager with brokerage Newedge in Tokyo.

"We also had six consecutive days gaining in the oil market, so it is not strange to see some profit-taking from these sharp gains."

Brent eased three cents to $107.53 a barrel by 0207 GMT, adding to a loss of nearly $2 the day before.

Gold wallowed near a three-month low on Thursday, remaining under pressure due to a firm dollar, while investors fretted over the Italian bond auction.

Spot gold edged down 0.3 percent to $1,550.90 an ounce by 0022 GMT, on course for an 11-percent decline in December. It hit a three-month low of $1,549.24 in the previous session.

(Additional reporting by Sonali Paul in MELBOURNE, Masayuki Kitano and Randy Fabi in SINGAPORE; Editing by Richard Borsuk)

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ScienceDaily (Dec. 29, 2011) ? New research links 'silent strokes,' or small spots of dead brain cells, found in about one out of four older adults to memory loss in the elderly. The study is published in the January 3, 2012, print issue of Neurology?, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

"The new aspect of this study of memory loss in the elderly is that it examines silent strokes and hippocampal shrinkage simultaneously," said study author Adam M. Brickman, PhD, of the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.

For the study, a group of 658 people ages 65 and older and free of dementia were given MRI brain scans. Participants also underwent tests that measured their memory, language, speed at processing information and visual perception. A total of 174 of the participants had silent strokes.

The study found people with silent strokes scored somewhat worse on memory tests than those without silent strokes. This was true whether or not people had a small hippocampus, which is the memory center of the brain.

"Given that conditions like Alzheimer's disease are defined mainly by memory problems, our results may lead to further insight into what causes symptoms and the development of new interventions for prevention. Since silent strokes and the volume of the hippocampus appeared to be associated with memory loss separately in our study, our results also support stroke prevention as a means for staving off memory problems," said Brickman.

The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

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Patricia Arquette, along with her nonprofit organization for Haiti relief GiveLove.org, hand-delivered sheets and towels donated by Overstock.com to the Don Bosco orphanage in Haiti.

Michelle Trachtenberg loves 100 percent Vegan bath and shower care line Level Naturals (levelnaturals.com).

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A new analytical tool from IBM is helping scientists scan patents and other intellectual property for information about molecular data. The cloud-based strategic IP insight platform, or SIIP, uses image analysis and enhanced optical recognition of chemical images and symbols to quickly obtain the information, a process that otherwise could take months to do manually.

The platform, housed in the IBM SmartCloud, processes documents in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization, as well as the public domain documents in the U.S. National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database.

Originally In-House Tool

SIIP was originally developed for IBM'S own use, and it has been used by hundreds of IP experts in the company for management and licensing. The company said that many top life-sciences companies also use SIIP because of its special focus on sifting patents for biological and chemical information.

SIIP can process molecular structures drawn as chemical compounds, and is being used to extract molecular and chemical information from patents, abstracts and other documents within hours of their publication. To date, more than 200 million chemical instances, gleaned from more than 30 million documents, have been extracted.

A user can perform analytics through a Web browser. Searches can be conducted via a drug's trade name, generic name, chemical ID number, or even by drawing the chemical structure inside the tool. Identical or similar compounds will be returned within seconds. The tool can also show trends in the industry, a competitive landscape, a prior art search and other analysis.

Via the IBM SmartCloud, the information can be shared within an organization, or among organizations. The company said that the tool improves R&D productivity, increases IP licensing, supports open innovation initiatives, helps to identify potential collaborators or acquisition targets, presents competitive intelligence, and increases the rate at which patents and grants are awarded.

Contribution to NIH

Because of the value of the retrieved information to the scientific community, IBM has donated to the National Institutes of Health an SIIP-created database of more than 2.5 million unique chemical compounds, along with the references in the literature. The database, extracted from million of patents and scientific documents, is expected to allow medical researchers to more readily understand relationships between chemical compounds.

Dr. Ying Chen, IBM research scientist, said the database donated to NIH will be used in conjunction with NIH's existing "rich set of content," such as comparing uses for a given compound across the literature.

Chen said another major differentiator for SIIP is the ability for natural language processing, instead of the keyword-based searching common in other such search engines. She also noted that SIIP has applications in other industries that use chemical information, such as consumer electronics, automotive, or oil and gas companies, and that the software-as-a-service tool "can be extremely useful for smaller companies as well as larger ones."

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2011 brought an avalanche of hardware running Android -- some if it good, some of it not so good. We try to love everything Android-related around these parts (really, we do), but some things just stand out more than others. We asked you guys what your picks were in all the categories, but of course we had to chime in ourselves here. We've fondled just about every Android device out there, and after a bit of discussion amongst ourselves, we've decided on just what ones rise to the top.

Remember -- our choices don't have to mimic yours. That's the great thing about Android, there is a ton of choice for just about any taste. Anyhoo, see our winners (and losers) after the break.

And coming up on Thursday -- the Readers' Choice Awards!

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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) ? Chile's Supreme Court has ordered a newspaper to pay $125,000 to 13 people who suffered burns while trying out a published recipe for churros, a popular Latin American snack of dough fried in hot oil.

The publisher of La Tercera must pay individual damages to 11 women and two men ranging from as little as $279 to $48,000 for one woman whose burns were particularly severe.

The high court's ruling was announced Monday, seven years after the readers burned themselves while trying out the recipe.

Judges determined that the newspaper failed to fully test it before publication, and that if readers followed the recipe exactly, the churros had a good chance of exploding once the oil reached the suggested temperature. Grupo Copesa, which publishes the paper, said it will abide by the ruling.

Days after the recipe was published in the paper's "Woman" magazine in 2004, hospitals around the country began treating women for burns suffered when the dough boiling in oil suddenly shot out of kitchen pots.

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Did you get a NOOK Tablet or NOOK Color for Christmas? If so, congrats! Both are very nice e-reader tablets with an added bonus, if you so desire, for rooting/hacking to install other Android apps that aren?t among the official NOOK Apps.

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However, if you are fine with sticking to the official curated selection of NOOK Apps, then you?ll be happy to know that Words with Friends has been optimized for the NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color and is available for purchase. Other popular apps that are already available for purchase (or are pre-loaded on the NOOK Tablet or NOOK Color) from the NOOK Apps store include Netflix, Hulu Plus, Angry Birds, Scrabble, QuickOffice Pro, Dropbox, Pulse, and Taptu.

Barnes and Noble has also said that an official Twitter app and the popular game Plants vs. Zombies are coming to the NOOK Apps store very soon.

It?s a little bit of a bummer that the Android Market isn?t officially supported on the NOOK Tablet or NOOK Color, but at least Barnes and Noble are continuing to stock up on the popular apps for which people are clamoring.

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DeSopa for Firefox Bypasses SOPA DNS Blocking (Firefox) DeSopa is the latest Firefox add-on that can counter the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)'s DNS blocking if the bill passes. The extension gets you through sites censored by DNS and lets you browse them by IP address.
Better Explorer Brings a Windows 8-Style Explorer to Windows 7, Ribbon and All (Windows) If you like the look of Windows 8's new version of Windows Explorer, but don't want to use the developer preview, free app Better Explorer brings some of the perks to your Windows 7 desktop.
MiLocker Brings MIUI's Gorgeous Lock Screens to Any Android Device, Even Non-Rooted Ones (Android) If you've ever had the luxury of using the MIUI ROM on your Android device, you already understand how good it looks and how customizable it is. We love it too, but if you want a taste of what MIUI offers without having to root your device, back it up, install a new ROM, and restore your data, you can try MiLocker, a lockscreen utility that brings MIUI's customizable lock screens to any Android device, including stock devices that haven't been rooted.
WhoAreYou Brings Visual Caller ID to Android (Android) WhoAreYou is a free app designed to bring true caller ID (caller ID without needing the contact in your phone book) to your mobile phone. It visually displays who's calling, so you can decide to answer, send to voicemail, or "ditch" the caller.
Photo Police Sniffs Out Photoshopped Images, Highlights How They Were Changed (Mac) We've discussed how a keen eye can help you detect if an image has been photoshopped, but if you need an app to help you determine if that photo is a fake, Photo Police is a utility for the Mac that can help. If it does detect that an image has been modified, it will show you what's been changed so you can get an idea of what the original may have looked like.
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Kindle Fire Utility Easily Roots, Updates, and Hacks Your Kindle Fire (Windows) Several Kindle Fire hacks have surfaced since its release, but now you can get them all in one handy utility. The aptly named Kindle Fire Utility will root and update your device as well as repair permissions, install the TWRP recovery app, and more.
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In these hyperlinked days, one might reasonably guess that the subject of the first book of photographs may have been along the lines of the True Purpose of the Internet (ask someone who?s seen ?Avenue Q? if you don?t know). Or if not that, perhaps cityscapes, or naval vessels, or still lifes, or battlefields. But no. The subject of the first book of photographs, published 1843, was algae.

Yes, algae. The filmy red/brown/green/golden stuff that washes up along many a beach and occasionally serves as the draperies of the underwater world. And not just any algae. British algae. I know. You can catch your breath now.

But what you may not realize is that algae are, in fact, quite beautiful, and never more so than when their diaphanous delights are on full display in a cyanotype, the type of photograph employed by Anna Atkins, the author of ?Photographs of British Algae?. That?s right. Not only did the first book of photographs contain cyanotypes of algae, it was produced by a woman. Her book is part of a collection in the Royal Society, which has just put on an exhibit of some of its choicest works called ?Treasures of the Royal Society Library?.

Anna Atkins was the daughter of John George Children, a scientist who worked in the British Museum?s Natural History Department. He taught her more about science that most girls could expect to learn in those days, and it seems to have sparked a life-long love in her. She and her father knew Sir John Herschel, the inventor of the cyanotype, and he, or someone who knew him, *cough*, exposed her to the new technique in about 1842 or 43.

Cyanotype is a photographic medium that uses ferric ammonium citrate, potassium ferricyanide, and simple sunlight to make an image. On exposure to ultraviolet light, the compounds react to form a dye called Prussian Blue, or ferric ferrocyanide. Ever wonder where cyanide got its name? This is it. Essentially, you put whatever you want to photograph on top of the paper. You expose it to the sun for 10-20 minutes. Then you rinse the paper in water to wash off the unreacted solution. Dry carefully. Art complete.

You can still make your own cyanotypes today, I believe, using kits like this one, which are often marketed to children as art projects. There is absolutely no reason they couldn?t be art projects for adults as well.

From what I can gather, Atkins simply took her collection of pressed, dried algae and cyanotyped them. Voila. The first book of photography. But what an inspired choice for the medium: because many algae are translucent to some degree, even when dried, her photographs of these life forms have a beautiful, ethereal elegance. With any object that is not translucent, the cyanotype process simply yields a sillhouette. With algae, or anything similarly thin, the cyanotype gives information about its thickness and translucency ? to beautiful effect.

Treasures of the Royal Society Library contains at least 30 selections of real rare books from the library?s 350 years of collecting. [begin cheesy infomercial music]It?s a Greatest Hits of Science from 1504 on,? including works by? Albrecht Durer, Gailleo Galilei, Robert Boyle (?The Sceptical Chymist?), Robert Hooke (?Micrographia?), Isaac Newton (?Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica?), Charles Lyell (?Principles of Geology?), Charles Darwin (?On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection?), and MANY more!! Act now ? time is limited. This special exhibit ends June 21, 2012 .

It?s enough to make a girl wish plane tickets between DIA and Heathrow didn?t cost nearly four figures [ducks shoes being thrown by readers in the Southern Hemisphere].

In any case, if you live anywhere in the vicinity of the Greater Europe Area, you have no excuse not to visit the Royal Society exhibit in the next few months and pay homage to some of the pillars of science in their original printed form, including ?Photographs of British Algae?, and a fascinating table of the causes of death for Londoners from the mid-1600s (?itch? and ?frighted? were apparently ways to go back then). For the rest of us, here are a selection of scanned images of Atkins?s book at the British Library and the New York Public Library. Of those, this one and this one are among my favorites. Enjoy.

And on a personal note, Merry Christmas, Happy Yule/Kwaanza/Hannukah/Festivus, and Ex-Post Facto Joyous Solstice. There was a small bright spot in my life recently: one of my posts was selected for inclusion in next year?s published blog anthology ?The Open Laboratory?, which you may have seen over at Jennifer Ouellette?s and Bora Zivkovic?s blogs. Yay! I?ll be a published author soon. That?s something to be thankful for.

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LONDON (Reuters) ? Britain's Prince Philip, the 90-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, had heart surgery to ease a blocked artery on Friday after being rushed to hospital with chest pains as he prepared to celebrate Christmas with the royal family.

Britain's longest-serving royal consort, known for his outspoken and sometimes brusque manner, needed an operation to fit a small tube known as a stent that keeps the blood vessel open.

Philip had been preparing to spend Christmas with other members of the royal family, reportedly including Prince William and his wife Catherine, at the Sandringham royal estate in eastern England.

He was taken to the Papworth Hospital, one of Britain's main heart and chest centers, about 60 miles away in Cambridge, a palace spokeswoman said.

"The Duke of Edinburgh was found to have a blocked coronary artery which caused his chest pains," the palace said in a statement. "This was treated successfully by the minimally invasive procedure of coronary stenting."

He will stay in hospital "for a short period" under observation, it added. The hospital declined to comment.

Philip had attended a lunch for staff a week ago and had been on "very good form," the BBC reported.

"He has had these chest pains before and I don't think it's anything untoward, but given his age they are being safe rather than sorry," former royal press spokesman Dickie Arbiter told the BBC.

PIVOTAL FIGURE

Despite his age, Philip generally has been in good health and has continued a busy round of charity work and social engagements, recently visiting Australia and Ireland.

A pivotal figure in the House of Windsor, Philip has a reputation as a fiercely loyal consort who prefers outdoor pursuits to introspection.

"The Queen is monarch, but within the family setting, the Duke of Edinburgh is hugely important," royal commentator and author Penny Junor told Sky News.

"He has always been the one who has called the shots in family matters. He has really made the major decisions."

Britain's tabloid newspapers have delighted over the years in recounting his many public gaffes.

He once told British students in China: "If you stay here much longer, you'll be slitty-eyed."

Philip was accused by critics of being cruel to Princess Diana before her death in a car crash in Paris in 1997. However, the prince's aides rejected those claims at an inquest in 2007 and released letters purporting to show a close relationship between them.

Born on the Greek island of Corfu in 1921, Philip served in Britain's Royal Navy before marrying Elizabeth in 1947. They have four children, including the heir to the throne, Charles.

The prince has no clear-cut constitutional role. In private he is regarded as the unquestioned head of his family, but protocol obliges the man dubbed "the second handshake" to spend his public life one step behind his wife.

In a rare public tribute to her husband, the queen said in a speech in 1997:

"He is someone who doesn't take easily to compliments but he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years, and I...owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim, or we shall ever know."

(Reporting by Peter Griffiths; Editing by Michael Roddy)

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Galaxy defenders A.J. DeLaGarza and Omar Gonzalez were named Thursday to the 20-man roster Coach Jurgen Klinsmann has summoned to training camp ahead of the U.S. national team's friendlies against Venezuela and Panama next month.

Gonzalez, a former Major League Soccer rookie of the year, was named the league's top defender this year after helping the Galaxy tie an MLS record with 17 regular-season shutouts. DeLaGarza, a teammate at the University of Maryland, played beside Gonzalez in central defense for the Galaxy, starting 30 of the team's 34 regular-season matches.

Gonzalez has been called up to the national team before, making his debut in August 2010 against Brazil, then playing in January's draw with Chile at the Home Depot Center. However, this invitation to training camp marks his first appearance with the national team since Klinsmann took over as coach.

DeLaGarza, meanwhile, is looking for his first international cap. More than half the players called up Thursday have appeared in two or fewer matches for the U.S.

"This is a very important opportunity for these players," Klinsmann said. "We will spend the next few weeks introducing them to our ideas on how we want to play and what it means to be a part of the national team.

"I'm very curious and excited to see this group."

The U.S. team, a largely domestic-based group, will begin training Jan. 3 in Arizona before relocating to the Home Depot Center for a week beginning Jan. 13. Its match with Venezuela is scheduled for Jan. 21 in Phoenix and the team plays Panama four days later in Panama City.

The full roster (by position):

GOALKEEPERS (3): Bill Hamid (D.C. United), Sean Johnson (Chicago Fire), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)

DEFENDERS (7): Geoff Cameron (Houston Dynamo), A.J. DeLaGarza (Galaxy), Omar Gonzalez (Galaxy), George John (FC Dallas), Zach Loyd (FC Dallas), Michael Parkhurst (FC Nordsjaelland), Heath Pearce (Chivas USA)

MIDFIELDERS (6): Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Ricardo Clark (Eintracht Frankfurt), Benny Feilhaber (New England Revolution), Jeff Larentowicz (Colorado Rapids), Brek Shea (FC Dallas), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City)

FORWARDS (4): Juan Agudelo (New York Red Bulls), Teal Bunbury (Sporting Kansas City), C.J. Sapong (Sporting Kansas City), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes)

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Photo: A.J. DeLaGarza, right, heads the ball away from Angel Guirado of the Philippine national team. Credit: Rolex Dela Pena / EPA

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UT-ORNL research reveals aquatic bacteria more recent move to land

Public release date: 22-Dec-2011
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Research by University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists has discovered that bacteria's move from sea to land may have occurred much later than thought

Research by University of Tennessee, Knoxville, faculty has discovered that bacteria's move from sea to land may have occurred much later than thought. It also has revealed that the bacteria may be especially useful in bioenergy research.

Igor Jouline, UT-Oak Ridge National Laboratory joint faculty professor of microbiology and researcher at ORNL's Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, performed a genome sequence analysis of the soil bacteria Azospirillum, a species' whose forbearers made the sea-to-land move. The analysis indicates the shift may have occurred only 400 million years ago, rather than approximately two billion years earlier as originally thought.

Published in the journal PLoS Genetics, Jouline calculated the timing of the sea-land transition through studies of genome sequences of two species of Azospirillum, a terrestrial genus with almost exclusively aquatic relatives.

Jouline conducted his research with Kristin Wuichet and Leonid Sukharnikov of the Department of Microbiology, Gladys Alexandre of Department of Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology, and Kirill Borziak, a graduate student in the ORNL-UT Genome Science and Technology program.

"In the absence of fossil records for bacteria, it is hard to estimate when and how bacteria transitioned from sea to land," said Jouline. "Using genome sequencing and analysis of bacteria of the genus Azospirillum, which colonizes roots of important cereals and grasses, we show that these organisms transitioned from aquatic environments to land approximately at the same time that plants appeared on land400 million years ago."

Jouline said the Azospirillum lineage the team studied has obtained nearly half of its genome from terrestrial organisms, which suggests the much later water-land transition, which coincides with the first appearance of plants on land.

The study is of interest to researchers beyond its evolutionary significance. Azospirillum is currently used as a biofertilizer for grasses and some other plants. Commercial fertilizers containing the bacteria are available worldwide.

"Because these bacteria colonize roots of grasses and improve their growth and development, they might be important for bioenergy research," Jouline said.

"Switchgrass is one of the most important potential sources of bioethanol. In this study, we have shown that genomes of Azospirillum contain as many cellulolytic enzymes as those from known effective cellulose degrading bacteria," he said. "We have also demonstrated experimentally that azospirilla do degrade cellulose, especially the strain that can penetrate grass roots."

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The team also included Greg Hurst of the ORNL Chemical Sciences Division; research groups from Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, Universities of Lyon and Toulouse in France, University of Sydney in Australia and the National University of Mexico; and Florence Wisniewski-Dye from the University of Lyon.

The research was supported with funding from the National Science Foundation and the DOE Office of Science.

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