Book Printed in Disappearing Ink Eventually Goes Blank

An Argentine publishing house recently thought up an interesting idea for a book in disappearing ink that completely goes blank two months after you open it.

Expose it to sunlight and air and bam. Gone after 60 days.

The marketing concept, created for publisher Eterna Cadencia, is called El Libro Que No Puede Esperar - translated, it means The Book That Can't Wait.

The Book That Can't Wait

In a world where eBooks are starting to dominate, why would a publisher print books in disappearing ink, effectively rendering them even more useless?

According to Eterna Cadencia, it was done to promote up-and-coming writers, and also to try to encourage consumers' passion for reading in general.

There's no putting this one down ... lest it be unreadable!

As the video says, "if people don't read their first books, they'll never make it to a second." Maybe so, but it'll still be a stack of blank paper by September.

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/07/book-printed-in-disappearing-ink-eventually-goes-blank/

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Apple Puts iPad Naming Quarrel to Rest for $60M

Today in international tech news: Apple ponies up $60 million to end the battle over naming rights for the iPad in mainland China. Also: France contemplates extending its television license fees -- which are like taxes for owning a TV -- to computers, while Sunday's Spain-Italy match sets the record for sports-related tweets.

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Anderson Cooper comes out as gay

Journalist Anderson Cooper came out as gay on Monday after keeping his sexuality private for years. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be," Cooper wrote in an email that he allowed friend Andrew Sullivan to publish at The Daily Beast website.

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Tapping into genetic reservoir of heat-loving bacteria

ScienceDaily (July 2, 2012) ? The identification of key proteins in a group of heat-loving bacteria by researchers at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center could help light a fire under next-generation biofuel production.

Scientists have long been on the hunt for cost-effective ways to break down complex plant material such as switchgrass in order to access sugars that are fermented to make biofuels. Conventional processes involve the addition of commercially produced enzymes to break down the cellulose. BESC scientists are exploring alternative options, including the use of certain bacteria that are naturally capable of deconstructing plant biomass in their environment.

To better understand the mechanisms behind this microbial ability, a team of researchers from North Carolina State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Georgia analyzed the genomes of eight species of bacteria from the genus Caldicellulosiruptor. These bacterial species, found in globally diverse sites from New Zealand to Iceland to Russia, can degrade plant biomass at extremely high temperatures.

"Earlier, we had found that not all members of this group were able to equally degrade cellulose as others were," said NCSU's Sara Blumer-Schuette. "The main aim of this project was to figure what the true determinants were for strongly celluloytic bacteria from this genus -- what made them celluloytic versus the others."

By comparing the genomes of eight related yet variable species, the research team pinpointed which genes were unique to species with the ability to break down cellulose. The researchers, whose results are published in the Journal of Bacteriology, conducted additional analysis using proteomics to verify how these particular genes are expressed into proteins that perform cellulose degradation.

The team's research uncovered a previously uncharacterized group of proteins determined to be adhesins, which help the bacteria grab onto a chunk of plant material to more efficiently break it apart. This finding further clarified why certain bacterial species in the genus are better than others at deconstructing plant material.

"Previously, we knew these bacteria would secrete enzymes that would then freely diffuse into their environment," Blumer-Schuette said. "We assumed that the enzymes would by chance stick to either cellulose or a piece of biomass in their environment and start to degrade it. Now we're seeing that a lot of proteins are involved in maintaining a tight interface between the bacterium and cellulose."

A key challenge in making the production of lignocellulosic biofuels cost-effective is improving the efficiency of access to the sugars imprisoned in a plant's cell wall.

"Yet nature, in the form of the microbes described here, has been doing this very effectively all along," said Paul Gilna, director of BESC, of which the authors are members. "If we can understand the processes already in place with cellulose-degrading organisms such as the Caldicellulosiruptor microbes described here, we can make huge leaps in learning how to harness microbes to digest plant biomass and ferment sugars into biofuels at the same time."

Coauthors of the article, which has been published online by the Journal of Bacteriology, include NCSU's Sara Blumer-Schuette, Jeffrey Zurawski, Inci Ozdemir and Robert Kelly; ORNL's Richard Giannone, Scott Hamilton-Brehm, James Elkins, Frank Larimer, Miriam Land, Loren Hauser, Robert Cottingham and Robert Hettich; and UGA's Qin Ma, Yanbin Yin, Ying Xu, Irina Kataeva, Farris Poole and Michael Adams.

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1. S. E. Blumer-Schuette, R. J. Giannone, J. V. Zurawski, I. Ozdemir, Q. Ma, Y. Yin, Y. Xu, I. Kataeva, F. L. Poole, M. W. W. Adams, S. D. Hamilton-Brehm, J. G. Elkins, F. W. Larimer, M. L. Land, L. Hauser, R. W. Cottingham, R. L. Hettich, R. M. Kelly. Caldicellulosiruptor core and pan genomes reveal determinants for non-cellulosomal thermophilic deconstruction of plant biomass. Journal of Bacteriology, 2012; DOI: 10.1128/JB.00266-12

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Assad's fate unclear in world powers' Syria plan

GENEVA (Reuters) - World powers struck an agreement that a transitional government should be set up in Syria to end the conflict there but they remained at odds over what part President Bashar al-Assad might play in the process.

Peace envoy Kofi Annan said after the talks in Geneva on Saturday the government should include members of Assad's administration and the Syrian opposition and that it should arrange free elections.

"Time is running out. The conflict must be resolved through peaceful dialogue and negotiations," Annan told reporters.

The talks had been billed as a last-ditch effort to halt the worsening violence in Syria but hit obstacles as Russia, Assad's most powerful ally, opposed Western and Arab insistence that he must quit the scene.

The final communiqu? said the transitional government should be formed "on the basis of mutual consent".

In a victory for Russia, it omitted text in a previous draft which explicitly said the plan would exclude from government anyone whose participation would undermine the transition's credibility and jeopardize stability and reconciliation.

After the meeting, the United States and Russia contradicted each other over what that meant for Assad, who has ruled Syria for 11 years since succeeding his father Hafez and has been condemned internationally for the ferocity of his crackdown on the uprising against him.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he was "delighted" with the result. The key point was that the deal did not attempt to impose a process on Syria, he said

It did not imply at all that Assad should step down as there were no preconditions excluding any group from the proposed national unity government, Lavrov said.

But U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it sent a clear message to Assad that he must quit.

"Assad will still have to go," Clinton told reporters. "What we have done here is to strip away the fiction that he and those with blood on their hands can stay in power."

Annan convened the meeting at the United Nations complex on the shores of Lake Geneva to salvage a peace plan that has largely been ignored by the Assad government. He said at the opening that the conflict was in danger of growing into a regional and international crisis.

At its conclusion, the Nobel peace laureate fielded a question on whether people with blood on their hands could be part of a transitional government by saying:

"I would doubt that the Syrians who have fought so hard for their independence to be able to have a say in how they are governed and who governs them will select people with blood on their hands to lead them.

"I cannot say that I am really happy but I am content with the outcome today."

Annan's plan for a negotiated solution to the 16-month-old conflict is the only one on the table. More than 10,000 people have been killed since the anti-Assad uprising began and the past few weeks have been among the bloodiest.

Assad's government forces killed more than 30 people in Damascus on Saturday when they fired a mortar bomb into a funeral procession for a man who died in shelling a day before, said opposition activists.

Government forces pushed their way into Douma on the outskirts of the capital after weeks of siege and shelling. Fleeing residents spoke of corpses in the streets.

Britain's ITV showed footage of clouds of black smoke over houses and said warplanes had struck at targets there.

The army also attacked pro-opposition areas in Deir al-Zor, Homs, Idlib and the outskirts of Damascus, activists said.

BRAVE FACE

The foreign ministers of the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members - Russia, the United States, China, France and Britain - all attended the Geneva talks along with Turkey, Kuwait, Qatar, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Arab League head Nabil Elaraby and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

Notably absent from the guest list were Iran, Syria's closest regional ally, and Saudi Arabia, a foe of both Damascus and Tehran and leading backer of the rebel forces. Nor was anyone from the Syrian government or opposition represented.

British Foreign Minister William Hague put a brave face on the Western compromise.

"These have been difficult talks as you can gather from the fact that we've spent more than nine hours discussing it. I think the result is a step forward, it is only a step forward but it is a step forward that is worth having," he said.

He welcomed the fact that Russia and China had signed up to the idea for a transitional government. But he lamented that no agreement had been reached on the question of arms sales to Syria and any future action, including sanctions, at the Security Council.

The agreement also called for people to be free to demonstrate peacefully and the release of political detainees as well as an immediate halt to the violence.

Middle East analyst Hayat Alvi of the U.S. Naval War College said he doubted the Assad government would accept the plan and enforcement of it would be almost impossible.

"The U.S. and other Western powers will not find any flexibility on the part of the Syrian regime, and its allies, namely Russia," he told Reuters from the United States.

"The proof is in the Assad regime's continuous acts of violence against the Syrian people, even while the diplomatic wheels have been turning. The wheels clearly are going in circles without moving forward."

That would likely be the scenario for months as long as Russia continued to support the Syrian government, Alvi said.

The conflict has evolved from peaceful protests against the Assad family's four-decade rule to something akin to a civil war with a sectarian dimension.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 56 people were killed across Syria on Saturday.

Syria's border with Turkey was also tense after a Turkish military build-up in response to Syria's shooting down of a Turkish warplane last week.

A Syrian witness said Turkish forces stationed on the border opposite the Syrian town of Jandaris fired machineguns in the air in response to Syrian army bombardment of rebel areas.

(Reporting by Andrew Quinn, Tom Miles, Stepahnie Nebehay, Robert Evans and Emma Farge in Geneva, Oliver Holmes and Mariam Karouny in Beirut, Peter Apps in London; Writing by Angus MacSwan; Editing by Ralph Gowling)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syria-writhes-divided-powers-meet-geneva-034811011.html

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Sports Council hopes to benefit from Ding's high energy, profile

Staff Photo: John Bohn Kat Ding, an NCAA All-American gymnast, who recently finished her career at the University of Georgia, is now serving as the spokesperson for the Gwinnett Sports Council. Ding recreates a move from her competitive floor routine in front of the Gwinnett Chamber Building in Duluth.

Her career as an elite gymnast at Georgia, which included three NCAA individual apparatus national championships and helping the Bulldogs to a national team title as a freshman in 2009, gives her plenty of visibility.

And her studies toward a degree in advertising, which she hopes to finish by December, could also prove handy in any presentations she might make in promoting Gwinnett's sports scene.

But really, the most prominent factor to Hall can be summed up in just one word -- energy.

"I came over here in January as the director of the sports commission and I thought one of the things that really needed to be done was to put somebody in place who really was sort of the epitome of sports and energy and all the things that it brings with it," Hall said. "We hosted the NCAA (gymnastics championships) here (at The Arena at Gwinnett Center) this year and Kat was one of the competitors from Georgia.

"I'd never really heard of her, and I'm not a big follower of gymnastics. But I watched her all day, and she was all full of energy, and the fact she won two national championships certainly didn't hurt. I just sort of struck up a conversation with her -- not at the event, but after the event. And I sort of ran it by some people, and it seemed like a very nice fit."

It also felt like a good fit for Ding, though admittedly, being a sports commission's spokesperson wasn't exactly the first thing she envisioned for herself after her gymnastics career ended.

But make no mistake, she intends to bring the same level of energy to her new venture as she did in the gym.

"Now that I think about it, it makes sense to do this immediately after my (gymnastics) career ends because I have the most relevance directly after my career ends," Ding said. "It just fits into what I've been doing. ... It is (exciting). It is. I don't know if sports is really the direction I was planning on going, honestly. But now that it's started, I'm so excited. It pertains to who I am and what part of me was gymnastics.

"It's basically like a marathon. There's going to be ups and downs. There are going to be times when you're extremely fatigued. There are going to be times when everyone around you is still running, so you just keep going."

That is the message Ding hopes to deliver no matter what project she works on, whether it's being the face and/or voice of the Gwinnett Sports Commission at events held within the county, appearing in video presentations the commission will use to attract new events to the county or just getting out in the community and meeting sports fans throughout Gwinnett.

But the project she is looking forward to the most is working to help promote participation in youth sports and fitness programs throughout the county.

"It's mostly promotion of health and fitness," Ding said." I'm trying to (reach) not only parents, but children. ... Basically, it's like being the (GSC's) younger voice. So, I'm talking to people who already know who I am, and if they don't, they'll learn about me rather quickly."

Given the success she enjoyed during her career at Georgia, visibility shouldn't be much of a problem.

But it hasn't always been that way.

Growing up in Sparks, Nev., Ding faced a choice -- not just in which college program she would compete for, but a choice in direction.

"Somebody at a smaller school said, 'You know what? You can be a big fish in a little pond or you can be a little fish in a big pond. Whatever one you want to do,'" Ding recalled. "I was thinking, 'You know what? I want to be a little fish in a big pond. I want to have room to succeed versus somewhere where I'm already the biggest thing that they have. So, I looked at Georgia again."

And Ding has not only survived in the bigger pond, she has raised her profile to fit an even bigger pond that she is entering as she attempts to help the Gwinnett Sports Commission likewise raise its profile.

There is already one event coming to Gwinnett that Ding's profile will be rather prominent, with the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions 2012 event coming to The Arena at Gwinnett Center this fall.

"We've got (Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions 2012) coming here in (October) after the Olympic Games in London," Hall said. "She's going to promote that. Obviously, she's got a great background in gymnastics where she can talk about things much deeper than we probably could. So, she's going to be a big help in promoting that. Just things like that. That's what we're going to use her for."

Source: http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2012/jun/29/sports-council-hopes-to-benefit-from-dings-high/

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Russia's Lavrov delighted at Syria meeting outcome

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