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Today's News: Thursday, November 5, 2009
Rybak mulls options for governor's race
There was never much suspense over the outcome of the mayoral election in this city Tuesday... "Many Minneapolis voters knew he was thinking about this," Larry Jacobs of the Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs at the U of M told KARE, "He's been pretty open about his interest in running for governor, and my hunch is he probably won't be damaged too much."
KARE - TV
To view: http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=827835&catid=14
Good Question: Is There Really A Second Wind?
For runners, it may be the most important part of a long-distance race. For the rest of us, it's the boost that comes right after we're ready to collapse... "There is [a second wind]," said Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., an exercise physiologist at the University of Minnesota School of Kinesiology.
WCCO - TV
To view: http://wcco.com/sports/second.wind.exercise.2.1292513.html
Commensality: Table fellowship
Eating with others at a shared table is one of the most important human activities, says William Beeman, professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. There's even a word for it: commensality.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/taste/69079902.html
Saving the ash tree, seed by seed
Walking the rails, roadsides and riverbanks of southeastern Minnesota, Andy David and his crew looked like they might have fallen off a boxcar... David is in his third season collecting ash seeds under the University of Minnesota's Rapid Agricultural Response Fund.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/local/south/68040212.html
St. Francis council member gets third censure
Embattled St. Francis City Council Member LeRoy Schaffer was censured for a third time by his colleagues at this week's council meeting, the result of a verbal confrontation with the city's public works director last summer... Such an extreme form of political shunning is rare, said Larry Jacobs, a political science professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute, who added, however, that he is not an expert on St. Francis city politics.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/local/north/69253697.html
Somewhere, the next Jesse Ventura might be waiting
While a large pack of Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates has roamed across Minnesota for months clamoring for attention, the state's third and smallest "major party," the Independence Party, has yet to field a single credible contender... Larry Jacobs, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, cites three reasons.
Pioneer Press
http://www.twincities.com/ci_13715581
Family doctors group loses members over Coke deal
Advice about soft drinks and health from one of the nation's largest doctors groups will soon be brought to you by Coke... Dr. Henry Blackburn, a University of Minnesota public health specialist, said the deal "will inevitably have a chilling effect on the focus of their message in regards to sweet drinks."
Associated Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeq
M5hYO3UnArPnFOfm7bZqk0ZVk84O0AD9BP0CUG3
Flu dogma being rewritten by a strange virus no one pegged to trigger a pandemic
The World Health Organization's top flu scientist often describes the virus he's studied for years as "humbling."... "This cat was not only out of the bag, but this cat had nine litters before we realized what had happened," says Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy.
Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress
/article/ALeqM5gQJKPs4cD29K5qHQFiM3q5sYUIjA
Geothermal grants heat up in Minnesota
Geothermal energy development in Minnesota and around the country has received a multimillion-dollar boost from the Department of Energy for projects ranging from an ice sheet in Eagan to carbon sequestration and heat capture at the University of Minnesota... At the University of Minnesota, assistant professor Martin Saar of the geology and geophysics department received a grant for $1.55 million as part of a project to explore the use of geothermal heat to generate electricity via carbon sequestration.
MinnPost
http://www.minnpost.com/markneuzil/2009/11/04/
13144/geothermal_grants_heat_up_in_minnesota
Two top officials at the Department of Health and Human Services acknowledged to a congressional panel Wednesday that the government had overpromised and made poor judgments on vaccination production
Two top officials at the Department of Health and Human Services acknowledged to a congressional panel Wednesday that the government had overpromised and made poor judgments on vaccination production against the current H1N1 flu pandemic... "We still don't understand how flu vaccine fully protects people," Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said in a telephone interview.
Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/
nov/05/two-top-officials-at-the-department-of
-health-and-/
What they say
Amy Peak, pharmacist and director of drug information services, Butler University... Dr. Bill Roberts, family medicine professor at the University of Minnesota and former president of the Indianapolis-based American College of Sports Medicine: "For weight loss, the best advice is regular daily exercise, 30 to 60 minutes, and reining in on the calorie intake.”
Indianapolis Star
http://www.indystar.com/article/20091105/LIVING01/911050418/1083/LIVING01/What+they+say
Nanotechnology: A risky frontier?
Inside a cramped back room at Rushford Hypersonic, a start-up headquartered in southeastern Minnesota, sits a cube-like machine that throws a mean atomic fastball... Rushford's technology, licensed from the University of Minnesota, is just one example of how local companies, from corporate giants such as Medtronic Inc. and Seagate Technology to start-ups like Rushford, Vixar Inc., and BioCee Inc., are embracing nanotechnology.
Baltimore Sun
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/sns-200
911040810mctnewsservbc-cpt-nanotech-bizplus,
0,6799956.story
100 years later, Extension information still vital to farmers
University of Minnesota Extension was born from a need to share information and Bev Durgan said that need remains as Extension enters its second century... Durgan is dean and director of University of Minnesota Extension and the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station.
Agri News
http://www.agrinews.com/100/years/later/
extension/information/still/vital/to/farmers/
story-1028.html
Lawsuit Filed To Overturn Ban On Payment For Bone Marrow Donations
As many multiple myeloma and other blood cancer patients know, it is illegal to pay bone marrow donors. But last week, the Institute for Justice (IJ) filed a lawsuit to overturn this ban... “No one questions the science behind marrow donations,” said Dr. John Wagner in an IJ press release. Dr. Wagner is a bone marrow expert from the University of Minnesota.
Myeloma Beacon
http://www.myelomabeacon.com/news/2009/11/04/
lawsuit-filed-to-overturn-ban-on-payment-for-bone-
marrow-donations/
Med, nursing schools teaching alternative care
Future doctors and nurses are learning about acupuncture and herbs along with anatomy and physiology at a growing number of medical schools... The University of Minnesota offers medical students an elective course in alternative healing methods at a Hawaiian medical center founded by a philanthropist-advocate of such care, although students pay their own transportation and living expenses.
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33621013/ns/health-alternative_medicine/
Nation Is Facing Vaccine Shortage for Seasonal Flu
Even though the regular flu season has yet to start, the nation is facing a severe shortage of seasonal flu vaccine as well as swine flu vaccine...The University of Minnesota, which last year set the record — 11,810 — for most seasonal flu shots given in one day, had to cancel this year’s clinic because it could not get vaccine, said Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy there.
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/health/05flu.html
United States - Still counting the cost of swine flu
Swine flu has made Friday afternoons a lot busier for some employees of Hormel Foods Corp... Eighty-one percent of attendees polled at a September conference by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota said their greatest concern about H1N1 flu was employee absenteeism.
Meat Trade News Daily
http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/051109/united_
states___still_counting_the_cost_of_swine_flu.aspx
Iowa Cat Tests Positive for H1N1
Iowa officials confirmed Nov. 4 that a cat has tested positive for the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus... The samples collected at both fairs were part of a University of Iowa and University of Minnesota cooperative agreement research project funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which documents influenza viruses where humans and pigs interact, such as fairs.
Veterinary Practice News
http://www.veterinarypracticenews.com/vet-breaking
-news/2009/11/04/iowa-cat-tests-positive-for-h1n1.aspx
NOvA neutrino detector gets full construction approval
NOvA experiment collaborators have more to celebrate this holiday season... Carolan also pointed out that the project’s success was made possible by the partnership between Fermilab and the University of Minnesota.
Symmetry Magazine
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/11/04/
nova-neutrino-detector-gets-full-construction-approval/
Family meals are 1 ingredient for raising healthy kids
As is the case for many families, the Witkops of Cave Creek are busy. Still, they make time for dinner together, even if they have to eat at 4 p.m. between Sarah's play rehearsal and the boys' basketball practices... For example, girls who have five or more meals a week with their families are one-third less likely to develop unhealthy eating habits, according to the University of Minnesota School of Public Health's "Project EAT (Eating Among Teens)" in 2008.
Arizona Central
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving
/articles/2009/11/05/20091105familydinner1105.html
Is Your Partner Making You Fat?
A new study says newly married couples gain an average of 16 pounds between them in the first two years of marriage... Researchers at the University of Minnesota, for example, found that both men and women gain up to 8 pounds in their first two years of marriage.
MSN Health and Fitness
http://health.msn.com/weight-loss/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100248082
What Tuesday's Election Results Mean for the Bigger Political Picture: Nada
Partisans spin, and obviously political reporters have an interest in fabricating compelling "national story-lines" during dull off-year elections... Here's the deal: University of Minnesota political scientist Eric Ostermeier went back and crunched some numbers from previous gubernatorial races in those states.
Alternet
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143725/i'll_tell_
you_what_yesterday's_election_results_mean_to_
me:_nada/
U of M to host day honoring student veterans Nov. 11
http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2009/UR_CONTENT_146296.html
U reports increase in number of farmers, lenders using debt mediation
http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2009/UR_CONTENT_146737.html
U of M one of top Fulbright schools in nation, according to new rankings
http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2009/UR_CONTENT_145969.html