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Scientists in Brazil are turning fruit fibers into car parts. At a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society, the researchers described their work in runescape gold   

making the next generation of automotive parts made from natural fibers from bananas, pineapples and other tropical fruits.
The laboratory that Alcides Leao runs at Sao Paulo State University sees value in such agro-waste waste. “We extract the fibers from the leaves or trunk, and rs gold then we separate the cellulose from the other plant components. So basically cellulose is the key raw material.” 
This cellulose mixture is used as a bio-based, not petroleum-based plastic for car parts.  While the idea has been around since the early 1990s and

championed by Toyota, what’s new in the Sao Paulo lab is the scale. Leaves and stems of bananas, pineapples and other fruit with tough skins are put into a runescape money device similar to a pressure cooker. 
Leao says chemicals are added and the result is a fine material that resembles talcum powder. “Basically we are using a very simple process similar to pulp

and paper where we are able to go over and over in several cycles. We are able to move from micro-scale to nano-scale” or down to the molecular level.
It is costly - less than one-half kilo of nano-cellulose is needed to produce 45 kilos of super-strong light weight plastic material. However, the nano-runescape items cellulose-reinforced plastic is 30 percent lighter and as much as four times stronger than petroleum-based plastic and easily matches carbon fiber and

fiberglass. 
Leao says it makes the car more durable, fuel efficient and eco-friendly. “Before it was 50 percent non-biodegradable, non-renewable, that was the plastic runescape power leveling rs power leveling runescape coin          

Leao expects nano-fiber- reinforced car parts to reach

based on oil and now we end up with 100 percent bio-degradable, bio-renewable material.”
The nano-reinforced plastics have other advantages over conventional plastics including greater resistance to damage from heat, water and spilled gasoline. runescape accounts the market within two years. He also predicts the product could someday replace steel and aluminum.

Chinese media are expressing generallyrunescape gold favorable reactions to reports that U.S. President Barack Obama will name Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as

Washington’s next ambassador to China.  rs gold   Professor Shi Yinhong of Renmin University said in The Beijing News on Wednesday that Locke has visited China many

times and knows the country “just like the palm of his hand.” Zhou Wenzhong, China’s former envoy to the United States, also was quoted welcoming Locke’s runescape money nomination, calling him knowledgeable and friendly toward China.
Locke, whose father and grandfather were born in China, served two terms as governor of Washington and was the first Chinese-American governor in the United runescape items States. He strongly promoted trade with China during his time in office, leading several trade missions to the country.
Many commentators said Locke will defend U.S. interests in spite of his Chinese heritage. But a journalist with People’s Daily said the new ambassador will runescape accounts 

understand “the tradition and way of Chinese dealing with issues.”
However scholar Yuan Peng warned in the Global Times that Locke may try to use his heritage and “Chinese-looking face” to “swindle” the Chinese people.

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On Jan. 18 in Columbia, Mo.runescape gold  , student developer Tony Brown holds an AppleiPhone 4 with the NearBuy app he helped develop with three other University of Missouri students as part of a contest in 2008. The app earned them a trip to Apple headquarters, along with job offers from Google and other technology titans.
RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Surveying the nation’s job market is a bit like looking at a map on your computer screen: It’s not until you zoom in that you can see the details. And when you do zoom in, you can find some very different stories.
NPR’s Zoe Chace went looking for people who are hiring and may have found the best job market in the country.
ZOE CHACE: It’s opposite day,  rs gold   where undergrads have their pick of jobs and companies are desperate to hire. Take Microsoft, Ederlyn Lacson was an intern there last summer.
Ms. EDERLYN LACSON : Last year, they had a private screening of Cirque du Soleilfor the interns.
(Soundbite of laughter)
CHACE: Lacson is graduating this year from the University of Maryland’s Computer Science Program. She had her pick of jobs in the tech sector. Startups were courting court her, big companies were flexing their muscle, hoping to impress.
Ms. LACSON: It was ridiculous. There were people walking by with like, you know, shrimp cocktails - like, the unending stream of shrimp cocktails.runescape money CHACE: Lacson starts at Microsoft this fall. Her classmates got the same treatment. Ray Douglas will be working at the University of Maryland next year. The school offered him a salary in the ’50s. He just happened to mention to his boss the offers he’d gotten from other firms, which were starting in the ’70s and ’80s.
Mr. RAY DOUGLAS (Senior, University of Maryland): And he said, okay, we’ll beat that.
CHACE: He’s 22 years old.
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 (Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. DOUGLAS: I was just asking him. I didn’t think he was going to do it.
CHACE: Tech companies, both large and small, can’t find enough people to fill their open jobs. The unemployment rate for tech workers is about a third less than the national average.
Mr. JEFF WINTER: I hired three new people last week.
CHACE: Jeff Winter is a recruiter in Silicon Valley. He finds people to fill these openings. It’s Sisyphean; for every job the man fills, there is a need for 10 more programmers. So he hired some people to help him hire some people.
Mr. WINTERS: I have, right now on my desk, 12 clients with anywhere between, you know, six to 10 jobs a piece, it seems.runescape accounts  
CHACE: Winter says it hasn’t been like this since 1999 when the dot com bubble created a similar labor shortage. Startup companies were desperate to hire web developers. Today’s companies are desperate to hire APP developers. Like Unity Technologies in San Francisco. They have more than ten openings. I asked CEO David Helgason for a pitch
Mr. DAVID HELGASON (CEO, Unity Technologies): Unity Technologies is a company that’s sort of an engineering-driven company and products-driven company.
CHACE: I played the pitch for the students. Ray Douglas was candid.
Mr. RAY DOUGLAS (Student): It sounded pretty much like every pitch that a software company has given me. They’re always like, oh, we do all these runescape power leveling   fantastic things, everyone in the world wants to use it.
CHACE: Ouch. So what’s a tech company to do? One thing: drop the whole years of experience requirement. That makes these jobs harder to fill. And also, you might just be embarrassing yourself, says Ederlan Lacson.
Ms. EDERLAN LACSON: They’ll demand a skill set that, you know, for example, 10 years of experience with this programming language. I’m like, this programming language hasn’t existed for 10 years.
CHACE: The only thing holding back computer science majors in the job market, Lacson tells me, might be their social skills. Silicon Valley recruiter Jeff Winter says be nice. And he could make you the next Mark Zuckerberg.
Mr. WINTERS: The ones that aren’t nice though, they don’t get their Zuck. You know Zuck, right?
CHACE: Uh, yeah? Zuck founded Facebook.
Mr. WINTERS: No Zuck for you. rs power leveling runescape coin
CHACE: Don’t I know it. But Facebook is looking for someone. They’re hiring a head of their IT department and they haven’t been able to find anyone.

Apple’s much-anticipated, second generation iPad, that is. But there’s still news buzzing about for the first version, its price has been lowered by over 25 runescape gold percent. And customers who might be feeling buyers remorse because they bought before the announcement, well they don’t need to fret. Apple is offering to

refund them 1,100 yuan or 167 U.S. dollars. Let’s take a look at how the Chinese market is reacting.
Apple says the partial refund is available to customers who purchased the tablet within two weeks before the discounted price was announced. That means the rs gold policy will apply to sales after February 18th and before March 3rd.
The refund will be available to customers who bought iPads from Apple’s website, or from direct sales stores.
Dong Lihui, Manager of Appliance Retailor said “The customers can obtain the refund from where they purchased the iPad. It doesn’t matter whether they paid

by cash or credit.”runescape moneyThe company doesn’t require its authorized dealers in China to give similar refunds. However, some have been quick to follow up, refunding customers at their

own expense.
Suning Appliance, one of the country’s major electronics retailers, is one such example.
Yuan Jian, Employee of Marketing Department, Suning Appliance said “Sunning will refund the price difference at its own expense, but it will later negotiate

this matter with Apple.” runescape items  
Gome Appliance, Suning’s main competitor, announced similar policies. But customers who bought iPads from the grey market or smaller dealers are not as

lucky.
One dealer said “Apple doesn’t require us to refund customers.”
The iPad has swept the Chinese market, after it was first introduced in April 2010. Data shows, as of February 2011, the gadget dominated China’s tablet runescape accountscomputer segment with a 99 percent market share.
Experts say the new iPad 2’s release and the price cuts will increase pressure on other tablet computer rivals, including Motorola and Samsung.

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Just as the Internet’s social networks have changed the way people communicate - a case in point is how Facebook helped Egyptian protesters to organize their

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- social media also are changing the way doctors’ offices operate and the way patients communicate with their doctors. 
What if you could use your cell phone to go online and make your medical appointments, request prescription refills or ask your doctor a question? Or, if you

could retrieve your medical records wherever you had Internet access? What if an emergency room doctor could instantly see your health records, the rs gold medications you are taking and communicate with your doctor? It could save time, and maybe even your life. This is how social media and technology are

changing the way medicine is practiced.
Dr. Jeff Livingston’s practice, MacArthur Ob/Gyn in Irving, Texas, does all of this. “It has just revolutionized the way we do healthcare,” he said.
Livingston and his colleagues use social media and password-protected software to share medical information with their patients. “We provide the patient full runescape money access to their medical care. Anything I can see, the patient can see. All of their notes, all of their doctor visits are right there. All of their lab work

is right there.”
Patients can communicate privately with their doctors on the practice’s web site through a secure connection or “portal” - and they can get information or

join forums on the practice’s social media sites.
“We want to engage our patients in their healthcare,” said Livingston. “So our practice has a Facebook page. It has a MySpace page. We have a Twitter feed. runescape items  

We have thousands of people who follow us through all this media. And what we found is that the patients really love that.”
Kristi Francisco said she likes being able to log on and get the results of her medical tests. “This way I could get right into the practice portal and see,

yes, everything’s
  fine and I don’t have to worry about things and just go on with my day and get on with my life.”
Francisco said the software allows her doctor to electronically send her prescriptions to a pharmacy. That way, her medications are ready for pickup by the

time she arrives. “I’m spoiled now.”
MacArthur Ob/Gyn uses software developed by Sage Healthcare. The manufacturer said the software is secure and password-protected, and that confidential

information stays confidential.
Livingston said the software also has increased office efficiency and cut costs by eliminating time-consuming practices and duplicative testing.
Another benefit of using the software and social media, he said, is that doctor-patient relationships have improved. Patients no longer have to rely solely

on Internet searches to get medical information. They can find the answers they need directly from their own trusted doctor.

The headlines this morning about a new study that says drinking diet soda could be dangerous to your health. The study links diet soda to a 61% higher risk

of heart attacks and strokes for people that drink it daily. Dr. Richard Besser is here and get a little bit of reality check because this is concerning for

a lot of people. Should it be?
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Well, you know, Robin, when I see a bad study out there, I usually say let’s not talk about it but when it captures headlines, it’s worth doing a reality

check and I have to say this is one of the worst studies I’ve seen capturing headlines in a long time. It’s bad because of the science but it’s also bad

because of the behavior that it can induce the fear that people have. I don’t think people should change behavior based on this study.
But this was presented at a major conference. We’re talking about the American Heart Association and the Stroke Association, so when that is associated with

that, you…
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That’s right. Let me tell you what they did here. They followed 2500 people over a long period of time but there were only 8% of them, a couple of hundred

people who drink diet sodas every day. They asked about diet soda intake at the beginning of the study and then followed them for a decade and assumed that

their behavior, the amount of soda they drink didn’t change. They didn’t look at how much salt they took in. They didn’t look at what other foods they

ate. Those things we know are associated with stroke and heart attack. They didn’t even look at obesity over time. And so they can conclude from this. That

it’s all from the diet soda just makes no sense whatsoever. Now at a meeting, you know, national meetings are different than what’s published in a journal.

A meeting is a place for scientists to talk about things, to talk about studies that are in their works. But what I’m finding over time is that there tends

to be a desire to capture those headlines.
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So you see sensational things like this you know they just go wild coming out of a meeting.
Well, it certainly did capture our attention and it really did grab headlines, so give us the bottom line when it comes to our consumption of diet, because

you know so many people this morning as we’ve been saying instead of a cup of coffee they are having a diet soda.
They are. Well, you know, first off, I’m not a big soda fan. The regular soda is worse. We know it’s linked to obesity. Diet soda is better than that

because it doesn’t give those calories, but if you are drinking a lot of diet soda, it’s so sweet you are gonna crave that kind of sweet, develop you know

a love for those sweets. You know the subtle sweetness of a carrot or tomato really won’t stand up to that really intense sweetness of a diet soda, so I

think if you are gonna do it you know one a week, that’s not a big deal, but it’s not… (one a week?) Well, okay, maybe a little more than one a week, but

you don’t wanna be having five or six in a day. (Well, okay.)
runescape itemsYou know, try and move towards those

unsweetened beverages, the plain water, carbonated water, unsweetened tea. You can add some lemons, some lime, jasmin. I’d love to hear from people what

their favorite unsweetened beverages are.
And is there any difference… since George is asking about this ‘cause you see if I didn’t know there was a diet ginger ale, I won’t try it, but if it’s a

cola, uncola, if it’s a diet drink, is it all the same?
Well, what you may find a difference with some of those is whether or not they’ve got a lot of caffeine and you know the big caffeine joe that you will get

from a lot of diet sodas. And you won’t get that with the diet ginger ale. So that’s a benefit there.
Ok, Rich. Thanks. I like your ideas. People should kind of weigh in and let us know they have a substitute for diet soda.
Yeah, send it to me on twitter Dr. Richard Besser.
Oh, there he goes again. He’s always looking for followers.

 
“You can Google someone,runescape gold    you can go on Facebook, you can go on LinkedIn, you can go on Twitter, you can find out so much about these people before you even say ‘Hello,’” he says. “There should never again be a ‘blind date’, unless someone has completely voided their life of any social media.”
That’s why, Coleman says, people should be careful about the image they create for themselves online.
“If you go to most of younger women’s websites on Facebook, you will see their profiles, they got some provocative things put up there. So you have to be a bit careful of the pictures that you’re putting up. Never ever give people your land address and things like that, rs gold     because you just don’t know who is reading that profile.”
Coleman notes that even the older generations are dating digitally and finding love on-line.
“Many of them are finding their ex-high school sweethearts on Facebook or someone they used to date years and years and years ago. And those couples are reconnecting and they are marrying. Now conversely, people are finding past love on Facebook and telling their current spouses, ‘I’m so sorry, I thought I’d never find this person again, but Facebook brought us back together. We had something special and we want to try to have it again.’ I have a friend who is a lawyer. He says in most of his divorce cases now, Facebook is being cited as a reason for that divorce.”
Word of caution
Lovers, Coleman warns, should also realize that e-mails and text messages can be a double edged sword.
“Let’s say that I say, ‘I don’t think we should be together anymore. I’m breaking up with you,’ and I text that. The person who gets that text message can read that over and over and over again. And the more they read it, the madder they get. That’s what social media has done. And conversely it can be, ‘I love you, I love you, I love you’ and they can go back and read that 50 times, too. So it works both ways.”
With that caution in mind, Flirtexting authors Goldstein and Baniuszewicz have come up with some digital love do’s and don’ts.
“If somebody sends you a text message, you don’t have to respond back right away,” says Goldstein. “In fact, we interviewed a lot of guys and they say that response time says a lot about the girl. Also abbreviations, our motto is ‘if you don’t want a date, abbreviate.’runescape money   So we say, spell your words out. You have the time to create a message that says exactly what you want to say in that space. And just because it’s accessible it doesn’t mean you need to be doing it 24/7. You do not want to get a marathon texting situation.”
Baniuszewicz adds,”Have a healthy balance between everything; texting, Facebook, Twitter. It’s a way to enhance a connection throughout the day. You need to use everything in moderation.”
And, they add, even though texting is more convenient, writing a love letter, or sending a poem with a card gives a modern relationship a special personal touch that a message on Facebook just can’t match. runescape items runescape accounts

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