The Arduino Esplora Is the Perfect Beginner Arduino, No Electronics Experience Required

The Arduino Esplora Is the Perfect Beginner Arduino, No Electronics Experience RequiredOne of the most difficult parts of any Arduino project is coming up with a way to actually interact with your creations. The Arduino Esplora is a new device that remedies that, and works as an open source controller for all types of projects.

At a glance, the Esplora looks just like a game controller, but it can be used for a wide variety of means. It has a built-in joystick, four buttons, a light sensor, slider, microphone, temperature sensor, and an accelerometer. It also connects easily with a USB cable, and works essentially like a keyboard or mouse input on your computer. As you'd expect, the Esplora launches with a library of code to get you started. The Esplora certainly looks like a game controller, but since it's the only Arduino that comes with a bunch of different input options it's also a great way to get started with Arduino without worrying about soldering or breadboards.

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Foreign multidrug resistant bacteria contained in Toronto hospital

Dec. 11, 2012 ? As the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant infections continue to rise around the world, a hospital in Canada detected the presence of New Delhi Metallo-?-lactamase-1-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (NDM1-Kp), a multidrug resistant bacteria that is resistant to carbapenems, one of the last lines of antibiotics. The retrospective report, featured in the January issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, analyzes risk factors and infection control strategies taken to prevent the spread of NDM1-Kp.

NDM1-Kp is common in other parts of the world such as the Indian subcontinent, but rare in North America except for imported cases from patients previously hospitalized in endemic regions.

Between January 2011 and March 2012, seven patients at a tertiary care teaching hospital in Toronto acquired NDM1-Kp from two index patients. Risk factors for acquisition were a history of prior use of certain antibiotics, and transmission likely occurred through direct contact. Four of the seven were roommates with an affected patient, two were on the same ward, and one was admitted to a room immediately following the discharge of an infected patient. The environmental sources of transmission highlight the importance of maintaining meticulous cleaning, hand hygiene, and disinfection standards in prevention and containment.

"The spread of the NDM1-Kp is an emerging public health threat, as increased globalization may result in a higher burden of these bacteria in Canada and other countries than previously recognized," said lead researcher Christopher F. Lowe, MD. "Preventing the spread of this organism in hospitals is critical given the lack of effective antibiotics against NDM1-Kp."

When a patient was identified with NDM1-Kp at the hospital, they were placed on contact precautions for the duration of their admission, as recommended by the CDC and Public Health Agency of Canada. At the Toronto hospital, contacts such as roommates or ward mates were screened 3 times over a 2 week period to see if transmission had occurred. During the screening period, the patients were also placed into contact precautions and private rooms until all three screenings were negative. Unfortunately, staff discovered that several contacts with negative screens subsequently became positive for NDM1-Kp weeks later.

Challenges in fighting the spread of NDM1-Kp include contacts who acquire the bacteria, but may initially have a low concentration of organisms and avoid detection, as well as the lack of an established gold standard to detect carbapenem-resistant organisms, which may have contributed to the negative screens. Although the isolation of NDM1-producing bacteria is currently a rare occurrence in healthcare settings, this cluster indicates the prevalence of these organisms is increasing in nonendemic regions, and prompt initiation of infection prevention and control practices is essential to prevent transmission.

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  1. Christopher F. Lowe, Julianne V. Kus, Natasha Salt, Sandra Callery, Lisa Louie, Mohammed A. Khan, Mary Vearncombe, Andrew E. Simor. Nosocomial Transmission of New Delhi Metallo-?-Lactamase-1-ProducingKlebsiella pneumoniaein Toronto, Canada. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 2013; 34 (1): 49 DOI: 10.1086/668778

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Philly dancers set 'Soul Train' line record

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? Almost 300 dancers who strutted, shimmied and shook their way down a Soul Train line set a world record earlier this year in Philadelphia.

Guinness World Records has certified February's Soul Train line outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the world's longest.

Two hundred ninety-one dancers took a hip trip between the two lines of swaying participants, breaking the old record of 211 dancers set at a California high school last year.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/T509xX ) reports organizers Sheila Simmons received confirmation of the record from Guinness on Monday.

Simmons says the record-setting attempt was inspired by the death of longtime "Soul Train" host Don Cornelius on Feb. 1.

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Citizen science more than a century later: Ordinary people go online to track Gulf oil spill

Dec. 10, 2012 ? In the summer of 1854 a doctor named John Snow tracked London's deadly outbreak of cholera to contaminated water coming from a public well -- the now famous Broad Street pump. But Snow's observations had to wend their way through the annals of science and took years to make an impact on the public health. Now, more than a century later, ordinary people can go online and report observations about public health problems and disasters in real time.

In a just-published study a researcher at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) reports on this new form of "citizen science," concluding that it can help modern-day public health officials assess health and environmental threats, such as those posed by the 2010 Gulf oil disaster. The researcher studied reports to an online Oil Spill Map and discovered that citizen science can red-flag potential hazards quickly and offers very specific local information that often fails to make it into official scientific reports.

"Thousands of people logged onto the Spill Map in the days and months following the Gulf oil spill and reported smoke, tainted seafood, foul odors linked to the oil dispersant and other problems as they were occurring on the front lines," said the author of the study Sabrina McCormick, PhD, associate professor of environmental health at SPHHS. "This reporting by ordinary people promises to be a powerful new way of conducting research and helping officials respond appropriately to disasters." McCormick published the study online December 10, 2012 in the scientific journal Ecology and Society.

The study looks back at the disaster that unfolded in the spring of 2010 when an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and spilled nearly five million barrels of oil into the water before it was capped. The company in charge of the clean-up operation then used more than 2.1 million gallons of a chemical dispersant in order to clean up the spill. Since that time, clean-up workers, fishermen and local residents have sought medical attention for the kinds of symptoms that can arise from exposure to crude oil or chemicals in the dispersant, McCormick said.

Official reports of the disaster typically have reported few health risks but have not collected the comprehensive evidence that is needed to fully understand the consequences of the oil spill, McCormick said. She undertook the study to investigate whether a Spill Map created by the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) and other environmental justice groups would help fill in that gap. The Spill Map includes data from citizen science organizations as well as individuals who texted in reports or went online and noted problems as they occurred.

In this study, McCormick reviewed more than 2,600 online reports and conducted in-person interviews with people in the fishing industry, those working to clean up the oil and residents of Louisiana five months after the spill and again in September 2011. She found that the Spill Map helped capture reports of spill impacts, such as oil in the water, dying wildlife or health problems in real time, and included information from isolated parts of the Louisiana Bayou--places that are often not central to the official studies conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and others.

For example, LABB gave citizens special buckets to collect air samples even in very remote areas. The data from those air samples got logged onto the Spill Map and could be added in with eyewitness accounts of oil slicked water and crucial health and environmental information. In contrast, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency also collected air samples but did so mostly in highly populated regions and thus did not monitor pollution in some of the tiny fishing villages along the Coastline, McCormick said.

In addition, the Spill Map quickly gave an account of the health problems people were experiencing as the disaster unfolded. McCormick said that people in the region texted or logged onto the map and gave accounts of rashes, respiratory problems, headaches and other problems they believed were linked to exposure to the oil or the dispersant.

Citizen science does not take the place of the traditional studies, in which trained scientists gather data and then quantify the human health or environmental consequences, McCormick says. Still, she says that the data gathered by many people on the front lines can offer important minute-to-minute information that officials can use to protect human health and the environment from an ongoing disaster.

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Mitt Romney Attends Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez Boxing Match

LAS VEGAS -- Defeated presidential candidate Mitt Romney was a guest ringside Saturday night at the fourth fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez.

Romney also visited with Pacquiao in his dressing room before the fight, wishing him well in the bout.

"Hello Manny. I ran for president. I lost," Romney told the fighter, according to Pacquiao publicist Fred Sternburg.

Pacquiao is a congressman in the Philippines, and has said previously he might run one day for the president of his country.

Romney and his wife, Ann, were guests of Nevada State Athletic Commission chairman Bill Brady at the fight at the MGM Grand hotel arena. Brady hosted a fundraiser for Romney during the presidential campaign.

The Romneys arrived during the undercard, drawing little reaction from the crowd.

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Former Vikings coach Brad Childress eyes Wisconsin Badgers job

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Former Vikings coach Brad Childress is intrigued by the head coaching vacancy at Wisconsin and is a potential candidate for the position, sources told CBS Sports.

Childress, now serving as the Cleveland Browns' offensive coordinator, served on the staff of current Wisconsin athletics director Barry Alvarez -- who is heading the search for a new Badgers coach -- for eight seasons (1991-98), including the final five as offensive coordinator.

Childress was most noted in Madison for his work with Ron Dayne, who won the 1999 Heisman Trophy and amassed the majority of his all-time FBS-best 6,397 yards while working in Childress' offense. Childress was criticized at times in Madison for that most common of fan complaints -- not

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throwing the football more. An ESPN profile of Childress from 2010 quoted Alvarez as calling his former underling Childress a "good communicator."

Also speculated to be among the potential candidates at Wisconsin is current Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, who was a starting quarterback at Wisconsin under Alvarez (with Childress as his position coach) in 1993 and 1994. Bevell went on to work for Childress as offensive coordinator with the Vikings from 2006-10.

The list of potential candidates to replace Bret Bielema includes Al Golden of Miami, Paul Rhoads of Iowa State, Chris Petersen of Boise State and Willie Taggart of Western Kentucky, sources close to the program told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

"I will start

with head coaches," Alvarez said Thursday, Dec. 6, at his news conference during which he announced he would coach the team in the Rose Bowl against Stanford. "I'm not going to say that I absolutely would not hire an assistant coach, but I will start my process of interviewing and contacting coaches with head coaches."

Alvarez added the hire does not need to have ties to the state or the program.

Tom Dienhart, analyst for the Big Ten Network, is familiar with the history of the UW program.

"I still think overall, in the grand context of the Big Ten in 2012, it is one of the better jobs in the conference," he said. "But I don't know in the long run if it is a top-four job or not. Penn State is going to go through some issues, but everybody knows there is a big four in the Big Ten.

"And we all know who the big four are: Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraska and Penn State.

"But Wisconsin is right there nipping at the heels of the big four, and I guess you give Bielema credit for keeping them there and at least sustaining what Barry Alvarez was able to build."

Alvarez coached 16 seasons at UW before becoming the full-time AD in 2006. Bielema left one game shy of completing his seventh season, in part because of his desire to win a national title.

Dienhart wonders if Bielema's successor might get a similar itch unless Alvarez hires a coach who views Wisconsin as a destination job.

"Wisconsin is not Alabama, Florida, Ohio State, Texas or USC," he said. "It's not a place where you can consistently -- I should say ever-- compete for a national championship.

"It seems like there is a ceiling you can bump your head on as a coach. I can see where Wisconsin could be in the same position in another seven years with another coach if he has a nice run of success."

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Baby Leopard Brothers Come to San Diego Zoo

Meet Riki-san and Haui-san, a cute and clumsy pair of clouded leopard cubs that made their debut this week at the San Diego Zoo.

The 14-week-old brothers came to Southern California by way of the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere, which has a breeding program aimed at boosting the numbers of this species, listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Named for their cloud-like spots, males of the cat species can weigh up to 50 lbs (22.6 kg), and can be found in forest pockets from the foothills of the Himalayas to eastern China and Southeast Asia. Known for their acrobatic lifestyle, the clouded leopard and the margay from South America in fact are the only cat species that can scurry down a tree head first.

Riki-san and Haui-san will remain for 30 days in a quarantine unit at the zoo, where they can be seen climbing on (and tumbling off) scratching posts and wrestling with each other. At 13 pounds (5.9 kilogram), Riki-san is the larger of the two but is also the more timid one, while 11.5-lbs (5.2-kg) Haui-san is feistier and eggs on his brother to play, according to the zoo.

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There are believed to be fewer than 10,000 clouded leopards left in the wild and they face threats of deforestation and hunting. (Poachers seek their gray-and-black coats and some of the cats' body parts are used in traditional medicine).

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