Diabetes and Exercise Facts Diabetics Should Know | Exercise for ...

Article by Carol Roach

Diabetes and exercise is sometimes considered a cruel combination for the diabetic person, suffering from overweight, bloating, swelling, dizziness, and general malaise. As a diabetic you might ask, ?how can I exercise when I feel this way? I am just too tired.? If these questions crossed your mind, rest assured exercise can help and more importantly you can do it!

The first thing that comes to mind when we think of exercise is working out until we drop: aerobics, jogging, or spending grueling hours at the gym. We get discouraged just thinking about it.

The good news is that exercise simply requires that we increase our physical activity, we move, we do not sit at the computer or television all day long. Everything we do that requires movement is exercise regardless of what it is. Instead of thinking exercise is something we hate, we can learn to change our mindset to begin to think that exercise is a fundamental part of life and something we can love to do.

The key is to start slowly and to build up on our successes. The nice part about it is that since exercise is movement it need not be a grueling workout to get the job done. Take a walk with your dog or your best friend and enjoy a wonderful outdoor experience. Instead of taking your car two blocks to the grocery store to pick up small items, take the walk, exercise your muscles, and keep your heart strong.

Whenever you can, take the stairs instead of the elevator or escalator. Even this exercise can be done in increments. If you live on the eighth floor for example, you might start by taking one flight of stairs and then the elevator, until this you have built up enough stamina to try the second flight of stairs and so on. Before you know it the pounds will be melting off and you will feel more energetic than perhaps you have felt in years.

Most people enjoy listening to music. Why not take it one step further and dance to what you are listening to? If you really enjoy dancing you can join a dance club, learn new moves, go out dancing with your friends and have a good time. However, if you are the bashful type or the type that falls over your own two feet don?t let that stop you; dance in the privacy of your own home. Dance into a new healthy vibrant you! Diabetes and exercise, diabetes and dance, doesn?t that sound a lot better?

The above was just two examples of adding exercise to your existing situation. The key is to change your life style. Do it slowly, don?t rush; enjoy the experience. Diabetes and exercise is not a combination package to make you miserable but one to make you healthier and happier. Once you begin to increase your exercise level you will become more agile, flexible feel less pain and lose weight. Whereas before you were too tired to do the things you liked to do, you will find yourself wanting to do more and more. Perhaps it was swimming, or bowling or gardening, you will once again feel strong and healthy enough to enjoy these activities.

The Diabetes and exercise combination also has other health benefits. With an increase in exercise, you will lower your blood sugar level, maintain healthy cholesterol and blood pressure levels, improve circulation, strengthen bones, joint muscles, lose weight, and increase heart, and lung capacity. Monitoring your diabetes and exercise program can also help improve your quality of life even if you have never been active or exercised before.

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First-of-its-kind stem cell study re-grows healthy heart muscle in heart attack patients

First-of-its-kind stem cell study re-grows healthy heart muscle in heart attack patients

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Results from a Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute clinical trial show that treating heart attack patients with an infusion of their own heart-derived cells helps damaged hearts re-grow healthy muscle.

Patients who underwent the stem cell procedure demonstrated a significant reduction in the size of the scar left on the heart muscle by a heart attack. Patients also experienced a sizable increase in healthy heart muscle following the experimental stem cell treatments.

One year after receiving the stem cell treatment, scar size was reduced from 24 percent to 12 percent of the heart in patients treated with cells (an average drop of about 50 percent). Patients in the control group, who did not receive stem cells, did not experience a reduction in their heart attack scars.

The study appears online at www.thelancet.com and will be in a future issue of the journal's print edition.

"While the primary goal of our study was to verify safety, we also looked for evidence that the treatment might dissolve scar and regrow lost heart muscle," said Eduardo Marb?n, MD, PhD, the director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute who invented the procedures and technology involved in the study. "This has never been accomplished before, despite a decade of cell therapy trials for patients with heart attacks. Now we have done it. The effects are substantial, and surprisingly larger in humans than they were in animal tests."

"These results signal an approaching paradigm shift in the care of heart attack patients," said Shlomo Melmed, MD, dean of the Cedars-Sinai medical faculty and the Helene A. and Philip E. Hixon Chair in Investigative Medicine. "In the past, all we could do was to try to minimize heart damage by promptly opening up an occluded artery. Now, this study shows there is a regenerative therapy that may actually reverse the damage caused by a heart attack."

The clinical trial, named CADUCEUS (CArdiosphere-Derived aUtologous stem CElls to Reverse ventricUlar dySfunction), was part of a Phase I investigative study approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

As an initial part of the study, in 2009, Marb?n and his team completed the world's first procedure in which a patient's own heart tissue was used to grow specialized heart stem cells. The specialized cells were then injected back into the patient's heart in an effort to repair and re-grow healthy muscle in a heart that had been injured by a heart attack.

The 25 patients -- average age of 53 -- who participated in this completed study experienced heart attacks that left them with damaged heart muscle. Each patient underwent extensive imaging scans so doctors could pinpoint the exact location and severity of the scars wrought by the heart attack. Patients were treated at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Eight patients served as controls in the study, receiving conventional medical care for heart attack survivors, including prescription medicine, exercise recommendations and dietary advice.

The other 17 patients who were randomized to receive the stem cells underwent a minimally invasive biopsy, under local anesthesia. Using a catheter inserted through a vein in the patient's neck, doctors removed small pieces of heart tissue, about half the size of a raisin. The biopsied heart tissue was then taken to Marb?n's specialized lab at Cedars-Sinai, using methods he invented to culture and multiply the cells.

In the third and final step, the now-multiplied heart-derived cells ? approximately 12 million to 25 million ? were reintroduced into the patient's coronary arteries during a second, minimally invasive [catheter] procedure.

Patients who received stem cell treatment experienced an average of 50 percent reduction in their heart attack scars 12 months after infusion while patients who received standard medical management did not experience shrinkage in the damaged tissue.

"This discovery challenges the conventional wisdom that, once established, scar is permanent and that, once lost, healthy heart muscle cannot be restored," said Marb?n, The Mark S. Siegel Family Professor.

The process to grow cardiac-derived stem cells involved in the study was developed earlier by Marb?n when he was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. The university has filed for a patent on that intellectual property and has licensed it to a company in which Dr. Marb?n has a financial interest. No funds from that company were used to support the clinical study. All funding was derived from the National Institutes of Health and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

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N-word receipts at restaurant lead to settlement

By James Eng, msnbc.com

A California restaurant has settled a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a black businessman who said he got racist receipts that referred to him by the N-word.

According to court records, lawyers representing Mark McHenry and Landmark Steakhouse in Newport Beach,?Orange County, agreed to a stipulated settlement on Feb. 2, the Orange County Weekly reported.

Terms of the settlement were not announced. The case had been scheduled to go to trial next month.

Stuart Shanus, one of the attorneys who represented McHenry, told msnbc.com on Tuesday that both sides are prohibited from discussing details of the settlement. An attorney for Landmark Steakhouse did not immediately return a?call for comment.

According to court documents, McHenry, a?Chicago native,?began patronizing the restaurant, in the affluent, predominantly white neighborhood of Corona del Mar, shortly after moving to Orange County in 2007. He visited two or three times a week and was a regular at the bar.

McHenry said Landmark Steakhouse employees occasionally made comments to him like ?black is the new white? but he let the comments go.

Read?McHenry's original complaint

On Dec. 5, 2010, he visited the bar twice -- once in the afternoon and again in the evening. The next morning, he said, he reviewed?his receipts and was ?appalled? to see ?Mc Stinky? followed by the N-word in the space designated for customer name on one credit card receipt.?On a second receipt the customer name was listed as ?Mc? followed by a combination of the first half of the N-word and the four-letter S-word profanity for excrement.

A few days after the discovery of the receipts, court documents say, a bartender at the restaurant, who is white, called and sent several?text messages to McHenry profusely?trying to apologize.

In one voicemail,?the bartender?said: ?Yo Mark. Hey it?s [NAME WITHHELD]. Give me a call when you get a chance man. Just wanted to apologize for that tab, dude. You know we were totally jokin? around.? In a follow-up text message, the bartender said: "I know I made a big mistake by crossing the line. I have a family & mortgage that depend on me.? In another text message on Christmas Eve, he said: "merry christmas! hope to see you soon. we miss you! please forgive us for being stupid. its not the same without you there. luv u bud!"

Mario Marovic, a partial owner of CDM Restaurant Inc., which includes Landmark Steakhouse, said in court documents that he does not "discriminate against any group of people on any basis whatsoever." According to court documents, the bartender was fired a week after the lawsuit was filed last March.

It's not the only case involving minority customers receiving racist restaurant receipts.

In December,?a Chik-fil-A restaurant in Irvine, Calif., fired a cashier who issued receipts labeled ?Ching? and ?Chong? to two customers of Asian descent.

And in January, Papa John?s Pizza apologized?after an employee typed ?lady chinky eyes? on a receipt to an Asian customer at one of its New York City locations. The employee was also fired.

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The fight begins: Obama's budget goes to Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama on Monday was selling a a $3.8 trillion election-year budget ? a spending outline designed to cut $4 trillion from the deficit in 10 years through spending restraints and higher taxes on the wealthy. Republicans said the plan fails to tackle the nation's deep fiscal problems.

Obama's budget ? as much a political document as spending plan ? clearly sets him apart from Republicans who are rabidly opposed to higher taxes and believe the only way to cut government red ink is to slash the heavy burden of social programs, particularly the federal Medicare health insurance program for Americans at age 65.

The budget frames and likely will intensify the deep partisan divisions that have kept Washington in gridlock since Republicans regained majority control of the House of Representatives in the 2010 election.

The president would achieve $1.5 trillion of the deficit reductions in tax increases on the wealthy and by removing certain corporate tax breaks. Obama rejected Republican charges of class warfare. "This is not about class warfare. This is about the nation's welfare," he insisted.

In a message that repeated populist themes Obama also sounded in his State of the Union address, the president defended his proposed tax increases on the wealthy, saying it was important that the burden of getting deficits under control be a shared responsibility.

"This is about making fair choices that benefit not just the people who have done fantastically well over the last few decades but that also benefit the middle class, those fighting to get into the middle class and the economy as a whole," Obama said.

Obama used an appearance before students at Northern Virginia Community College to unveil the budget and highlight a $8 billion proposal that aims at boosting the ability of the nation's community colleges to train students for the jobs of the future.

While administration officials defended the overall plan as a balanced approach, Republicans found ready material for attacks, particularly over Obama's failed 2009 promise to cut the skyrocketing deficit in half by the end of his first term.

"It seems like the president has decided again to campaign instead of govern," Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, said in an interview. "He's just going to duck the responsibility to tackle this country's fiscal problems." Ryan is preparing an alternative to Obama's budget that will be similar to a measure that the House approved last year but failed in the Senate.

The top Republican in the Senate, minority leader Mitch McConnell, deepened that criticism, saying: "This isn't really a budget at all. It's a campaign document. The president is shirking his responsibility to lead and using this budget to divide."

Jack Lew, Obama's chief of staff, said the administration had to contend with a deep recession and soaring unemployment that had driven the deficits higher than anyone anticipated. He said Obama's plan would cut the deficit below 3 percent of gross domestic product by 2018, to levels that economists generally view as sustainable.

He said faster deficit cuts now would set back an economy still struggling with high unemployment. Lew, Obama's former budget chief, also said it was critical that Congress agree to extend a payroll tax cut due to expire at the end of February. Failure to extend it, he said, would cause another hit to the economy.

The debate is almost certain to go all the way to Election Day in November, with gridlock keeping Congress from resolving many pressing issues on expiring tax cuts and across-the-board spending cuts until a lame duck session at year's end. That is the period between the November elections and the following January, when newly elected officials take their seats in Congress. Depending on the outcome of the presidential race, Obama, too, could be facing a departure from the White House in January.

Obama's spending blueprint for the budget year that begins Oct. 1 projects a deficit for this year of $1.33 trillion. That would mean four straight years of trillion-dollar-plus deficits.

The budget projects a decline in the deficit to $901 billion in 2013 and continued improvements shrinking the deficit to $575 billion in 2018.

Lew blamed House Republicans for pushing extreme measures rather than trying to reach consensus with Democrats and avoid the kinds of last-minute crises that roiled financial markets in 2011, such as the summer showdown over raising the government's borrowing limit.

The Obama budget sticks to the caps on annual appropriations approved in August that will save $1 trillion over the next decade. It also puts forward $1.5 trillion in new taxes, primarily by allowing the tax cuts to expire at the end of this year for families making $250,000 or more per year. Those cuts were put in place during the presidency of George W. Bush, Obama's predecessor.

Obama, as he has in the past, also proposed eliminating tax deductions the wealthy receive and would put in place a rule named for billionaire Warren Buffett that would seek to make sure that households making more than $1 million annually pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes.

Obama would also impose a new $61 billion tax over 10 years on big banks aimed at recovering the costs of the financial bailout and providing money to help homeowners facing foreclosure on their homes. It would raise $41 billion over 10 years by eliminating tax breaks for oil, gas and coal companies and claims significant savings from ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Associated Press economics writer Martin Crutsinger contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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DDR Partnering With California Classrooms | Southern Fried Gamer

***PRESS RELEASE***

World Launch: DDR Classroom Edition to Help Fight Childhood Obesity!

CAHPERD to Host Richard Simmons, State Superintendent, Endowment CEO & Many More at State Conference ? Pasadena 2/23-2/26/12

Includes DDR Classroom Edition World Premier & Simmons Workout Open to the Public!

The California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (CAHPERD) will be highlighting physical education excellence and promoting healthy, active lifestyles at the upcoming 2012 CAHPERD State Conference! Scheduled for February 23-26, 2012, at the Pasadena Convention Center, California, the 2012 CAHPERD Conference theme is, ?Professional Excellence on Parade,? and will feature an impressive assembly of statewide, national, and international fitness and wellness experts, leaders and celebrities.

The CAHPERD State Conference will also host the official, public, world premier/introduction of Konami Digital Entertainment?s new ?DanceDanceRevolution Classroom Edition,? multi-player, physical activity game, on Friday, February 24, 2012, at 7:00 a.m. Like the traditional DDR experience of players moving to their favorite songs, the new DDR Classroom Edition can connect up to 48 mat controllers to one PC game for full class or after-school recreation participation. Research indicates that interactive, movement-based video games such as and especially DDR, greatly increases? students? Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity minutes, thus positively impacting students? overall health and fitness, and decreasing the prevalence of childhood obesity. CAHPERD Conference attendees, regional students, celebrities and media representatives will be demonstrating the new DDR Classroom game for the first time in the Pasadena Convention Center.

To date, the 2012 CAHPERD State Conference Keynote speakers include: the President and Chief Executive Officer of The California Endowment, Dr. Robert Ross; Fitness Icon and ?FIT Kids? Act Advocate Richard Simmons; internationally-acclaimed Researchers Dr. James Morrow of the Department of Health Promotion and Recreational Studies at the University of North Texas, and Dr. James Sallis of the Department of Psychology at San Diego State University, California; and California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson.

On Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m., CAHPERD invites the public to attend the presentation by Elaine LaLanne (Jack LaLanne?s Wife of 51 years) as she presents the ?CAHPERD Jack LaLanne Lifetime Achievement Award? to LaLanne Friend and FIT Kids Act proponent Richard Simmons. Following the presentation, Simmons will lead the group and members of the community in a fun and inspiring Simmons? workout!

The Conference will also celebrate and highlight the California Department of Education (CDE) and Superintendent Torlakson?s recent launch of the new, ?Team California for Healthy Kids,? (TCHK) Initiative, providing in-depth programming, plenary sessions, and speakers such as Dr. Antronette ?Toni? Yancey, Professor in the Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, and Co-Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity; Dr. Bonnie Helpren, Professor in the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, Co-Director of Research for the Adolescent Medicine Fellowship; and Dr. Brian Cole, Project Manager of the UCLA School of Public Health?s Health Impact Assessment Project, among others.

Also on Thursday, February 23, 2012, at the Pasadena Convention Center, CAHPERD will be hosting Physical-Activity Based Standards Workshops, instructing any/all educators or other professionals how to incorporate physical activity into all instruction ? regardless of curriculum taught. Additionally, CAHPERD will be hosting other special certification opportunities including CPR and First Aid training, coaching and fitness certifications, and The First Tee National Schools Program certification. All educators may earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for attending the CAHPERD Conference.

From February 24-26, 2012, CAHPERD will present a variety of interactive and fun Conference sessions featuring research and best practices within the areas of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, presented by over 100 expert speakers. And when attendees are not enjoying sessions, CAHPERD will be hosting a terrific Dance Gala on Friday night in the beautiful Pasadena Civic Center Theater; a CAHPERD Awards Luncheon announcing California?s ?Teachers and Programs of the Year,? and Jump Rope Team demonstrations on Saturday afternoon; and many Socials and meetings throughout the Conference.

Please note: the deadline for Pre-Registration has been extended to February 9, 2012 ? register online today to take advantage of this reduced rate! Anyone with an interest in promoting healthy, active lifestyles will benefit from and enjoy the 2012 CAHPERD Conference experience! Online registrations are now available:?www.cahperd.org! Reduced-rate hotel rooms for this Conference are limited; attendees are encouraged to act immediately to ensure hotel and conference registration is secured! Please check the CAHPERD website for more information:?www.cahperd.org, and register today!

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Did Facebook's S-1 Simply Serve to Keep Congress Away?

We all know by now that Facebook has filed the paperwork for their IPO. If you want to learn who is getting rich and by how much there are myriad blogs etc that will give you that information. I have read a few of these and the takeaway from them all? Zuckerberg is stupid rich while Sheryl Sandberg is ?busting through the glass ceiling? and brings home the bacon for her home in a big way. There, I just saved you a toe of time!

What is most interesting is a list of 35 business concerns or threats that Facebook states could throw a monkey wrench into their money printing operation. They include mobile as a weak spot in the business and Zynga being responsible for 12% of the revenue of Facebook. But here is the one that I see as simply a preemptive strike against Congress looking at Facebook as the Google of the social world. It reads like this.

?We face significant competition in almost every aspect of our business, including from companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Twitter, which offer a variety of Internet products, services, content, and online advertising offerings, as well as from mobile companies and smaller Internet companies that offer products and services that may compete with specific Facebook features. We also face competition from traditional and online media businesses for advertising budgets.?

Well struck!

If people are being honest Facebook?s dominance in the social space is going to be difficult for anyone to challenge. We are watching Google, who has tons of money, struggle to put a dent in Facebook?s position. Twitter isn?t truly a competitor because they address two different aspects of the social fabric online. And a startup coming in an putting a real dent in their position (which will only get stronger with the cash raised in the IPO)? I don?t see it. Google is struggling because it has a very bad track record in social and it must overcome its image of being a search engine that is overextending itself rather than improving its ecosystem. Other small players like Path are nice but we are seeing very real limits as to how far the average consumer is willing to go to manage multiple social network presences.

In other words, with Facebook?s position in the market they are going to need to ?pull a MySpace? in order to stumble enough to open the door for a competitor. I just don?t see that happening. Of course, it can happen since any business can be viewed as being 90 days from extinction but it is not likely. If, however, you want to think that the whiners that call Facebook ?MyFace? etc and say it is crap are a fringe element that would probably see a free gift of a solid gold bar as insignificant since it wasn?t two solid gold bars. In other words, they are idiots and don?t represent the vast majority of Facebook users.

So Facebook really needs to protect itself from government intervention. It actually sites that as a potential problem for them. So how better to keep politicians who maybe didn?t get a piece of the IPO out of your way? Throw up roadblocks like the claim that there is real competition to Facebook then crank up the lobbying effort. Reuters reports

Preparing to join the ranks of publicly traded companies, Facebook Inc is also beefing up its presence in the U.S. capital with a first report of money pouring into its newly created political fundraising arm.

A latecomer to Washington, the social networking site is joining scores of powerful technology companies such as Microsoft Corp and Google Inc that have political action committees (PACs) used to raise funds for donations to political campaigns or causes.

Hey if Stephen Colbert can put together a SuperPac and raise over $1 million imagine what Facebook can buy do in Washington, DC.

Let the real games begin!

Source: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2012/02/did-facebooks-s-1-simply-serve-to-keep-congress-away.html

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Sun delivered curveball of powerful radiation at Earth

ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2012) ? A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred on Jan. 17, 2012, just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection (CME) seen in nearly a decade, delivered a powerful radiation punch to Earth's magnetic field despite the fact that it was aimed away from our planet.

According to University of New Hampshire scientists currently studying and modeling various aspects of solar radiation, this was due to both the existing population of energetic particles launched by the first CME and a powerful magnetic connection that reeled particles in towards Earth from the Sun's blast region, which had spun to an oblique angle.

"Energetic particles can sneak around the 'corner,' as was the case in Friday's [Jan 17] event when it was launched at the Sun's limb, or edge," says astrophysicist Harlan Spence, director of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) and principal investigator for the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) instrument onboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. CRaTER is designed to measure and characterize aspects of the deep space radiation environment.

Space weather events can disrupt Earth-based power grids, satellites that operate global positioning systems and other devices, can lead to some rerouting of flights over the polar regions, and pose severe risk to astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit.

The first explosion, which occurred Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, fell just short of being rated an X-class flare -- the most powerful type of solar storm. When Friday's X-flare exploded from the same sunspot region that was the source of the week's earlier blast, the Sun's west limb was pointing away from Earth.

Nonetheless, the resulting high-energy protons that speed toward Earth even faster than the four-million-mile-per-hour solar wind demonstrated that dangerous "space weather" can affect us even when the planet is not in the direct path.

"The magnetic field lines on which energetic particles travel curve from the Sun to Earth unlike CMEs, which travel in straight lines. In the case of the second flare, energetic particles were magnetically connected to Earth even though the second CME from this active region missed us entirely," explains Madhulika Guhathakurta, lead program scientist of NASA's Living with a Star program.

Notes Spence, "And the situation was worsened, from the standpoint of radiation, because there was a pre-existing energetic particle population, from the first CME, when the second one arrived."

CRaTER's primary goal has been to characterize the global lunar radiation environment and its biological impacts. It does so by measuring galactic and solar cosmic radiation from behind a "human tissue-equivalent" plastic. During the two and a half years the LRO mission has been making measurements, the latest solar events are the most significant with respect to incoming radiation.

"We now have estimates of the dose and can speak to the biological impacts that might have occurred in deep space to astronauts," says Michael Wargo, NASA's chief lunar scientist.

Both events, while strong forms of space weather, were not as powerful as the 2003 Halloween storms, which were the most powerful space weather events of the last 23-year-long solar cycle. But as the Sun moves towards solar maximum in 2013, it may yet have even more powerful storms to deliver as it becomes increasingly violent.

Measurements from CRaTER, and predictions from the UNH Earth-Moon-Mars Radiation Environment Module (EMMREM), whose principal investigator is astrophysicist Nathan Schwadron of the EOS Space Science Center, describe radiation exposure in space, on the Moon, and in planetary environments. The resulting understanding of space radiation hazards becomes evermore critical in studying and predicting the effects of these powerful solar outbursts.

Notes Guhathakurta, "The use of EMMREM to characterize active events highlights our rapidly advancing capabilities for understanding, characterizing, and even predicting the radiation coming from our increasingly active Sun."

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Actors, filmmakers gather for Black History Month tribute (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES, Jan 31 (TheWrap.com) ? Bounce TV, the black-oriented network launched by Martin Luther King III and others, will offer special programming throughout February in honor of Black History Month, with Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union, Regina King and other black celebrities offering thoughts on their heritage and culture.

The month-long tribute -- dubbed "Our History," and beginning Wednesday -- will include documentaries on topics ranging from the Civil Rights movement to the rise of hip-hop. They will air every Wednesday night throughout the month.

Union, Hart and King -- along with "Barbershop" and "Fantastic Four" director Tim Story and "Stomp the Yard" producer Will Packer -- will appear in specially produced vignettes.

Bounce TV launched in September, with a target audience of African Americans primarily in the 25-54 demographic. The network runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week with a mix of motion pictures, sports, documentaries, specials, and faith-based programs.

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Economy weighs heavily on Florida working class (AP)

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. ? Clarito Macalalad knows what it's like to support a family of four on a $12.08-an-hour wage. But the cook at a Disneyworld restaurant suspects that the Republican presidential candidates ? and Mitt Romney in particular ? don't have any idea of what America's working poor are going through. And, partly for that reason, Macalalad says he'll probably vote for President Barack Obama in the fall.

"Romney, he's too rich," Macalalad, 38, said. "He wouldn't know what to do if he was poor."

For others, there's only one thing that matters as they weigh Romney's candidacy.

"He's not Obama," says Becky Niemczyk, 34, who works at a Christmas-themed shop in Downtown Disney and planned to back the former Massachusetts governor.

Despite Florida's wealthy beach resorts, expensive Disney vacations and swank Miami hotels, much of the state is populated by hard-working, blue-collar people who were hit hard during the recession and struggle daily.

The large working class in the populous area surrounding Interstate 4, which runs from Tampa on the Gulf Coast to Daytona Beach on the Atlantic and straight through the heart of Orlando's theme park zone, often holds the key to a candidate's success in both primary and general elections.

Over the next 10 months, Obama and the eventual Republican nominee will make countless visits to this area of a state suffering mightily from the slow economic recovery. The state has nearly 10 percent unemployment, some of the nation's highest foreclosure rates and skyrocketing property insurance costs, all of which are casting a pall over people as they decide who to support in Tuesday's Republican presidential primary and in the fall ? if they vote at all.

"It's a lot of empty promises," groused Donna Bosse, 54, who works in a kiosk selling discount theme-park tickets in a strip mall just outside Disney's gates. She doesn't plan to vote, but she still has an opinion, saying: "It's going to take a lot more than one man to turn this economy around."

In a string of interviews, voters said they are taking into account their own dwindling finances as well as the overall dismal situation as they weigh who to support in a state that has become a critical battleground in every recent White House race.

Some are enthusiastic Obama supporters. Others are mad at the president for not fixing the economy but might vote for him anyway. Still others plan to cast a ballot for Romney because they think he's a good businessman. Few mentioned the other Republican candidates: Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum or Ron Paul. They see the general election as shaping up between Romney and Obama, largely because of the economy.

Polls show Romney with a comfortable lead over Gingrich, his chief challenger, ahead of Tuesday's primary, though there's no guarantee that Romney will end up clinching the nomination. Only four states have weighed in on the Republican nomination fight so far.

In both the primary and the general election, the economy and lack of well-paying jobs trumps all.

In this region, many of the jobs are low-wage. For instance, the average housekeeper makes between $8 and $10 an hour, according to UNITE HERE, a union that represents some 13,000 hospitality workers at Disney and other companies.

"Sometimes people take two or three jobs to make it," said Virginia Cruz, a housekeeper at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge.

After 15 years with the company, she said she makes $13.18 an hour and that it's difficult to pay the $30 a week needed for health insurance, which is up from $2.95 a week when she first started.

The Republicans, she said, are ignoring the working class and she plans to vote for Obama, saying: "We need better hourly wages, better schools, better health insurance."

As for Obama's wealthy potential opponent, Cruz said of Romney: "He didn't earn nothing ... He was a businessman who owned a lot of companies. He earned it on the poor people that worked so hard for him."

It would be easy to classify all of central Florida's hospitality workers ? the tens of thousands of people who clean the theme parks, make the hotel beds and ring up the tourist tchotchkes ? as blue-collar Democrats who view Romney's wealth, estimated at between $190 million and $250 million, with suspicion. But it would be wrong.

Take Hamid Abdlouhed, a 38-year-old worker in a strip-mall tobacco shop.

"I like Mitt Romney," he said. "I like his economical skills as a businessman. I trust him more about how to solve the economy. He's been successful."

Abdlouhed respects Romney's argument that he's "earned" his wealth by working hard in a way that speaks to the American dream.

He planned to vote for Romney on Tuesday.

But when it comes to the general election in November, he hasn't decided whether to back Obama like he did four years ago.

"Right now there's a 50-50 chance I will vote for Obama," Abdlouhed said, who, like so many others, cited the economy as his main concern.

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