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This easy-to-follow article provides the step-by-step instructions, so that you can learn to build a pergola attached to your home. Even though this is a complex woodworking project, you can easily accomplish the job by yourself if you follow our tutorial. An attached pergola is incredibly functional, and it creates an outdoor room where you can relax alone or entertain friends. Since there are a variety of different designs, this tutorial covers the basics that are applicable in your custom pergola.

Laying Out Your Pergola
Setting out the corners of the pergola is essential, and we recommend accurate measurements. If you do not have much experience in construction projects, you can benefit from the assistance of a handy friend. Most jobs also proceed smoother with help from a friend, and a pergola can be started and finished over the course of a weekend.

A customized pergola is a great way to add value to your home, and the structures are durable while they provide an outdoor room for your family. Since the type of materials that are used affects the quality of your project, we recommend using pressure-treated lumber, cedar or redwood. These materials are ideal for exterior applications and are designed to resist decay and insects.

Materials
-8-9-feet-long 4?4 or 6?6 posts
-3-, 4- and 6-inch wood screws or nails.
-Concrete tube forms
-Adjustable metal post anchors
-2?10 Supports
-2?8 Ledgers
-2?2 slats for shade
-Cement, sand and gravel

Attaching your Pergola
After you have decided the length and width of your pergola, it is time to lay out the corners. To finish your construction project like a pro, batter boards should be set at each of the two corners away from the home. A string line is then run between the home and the boards. This line is the perimeter of your new pergola and provides the exact location for each of the supporting posts.

Using the string line as a guide, a 3-feet-deep hole is required for each of the posts. In the bottom of the hole, a layer of sand or gravel ensures a solid foundation. Tube forms are then set into the hold and are anchored directly to the posts. We recommend setting the posts, plumbing them with a level, and allowing the cement to set for at least 48 hours.

Once the cement has hardened, you can install the 2?8 ledger board against the home. This board needs to be level and should be secured with 4-inch galvanized screws or nails. Now that you have the ledger board attached to the home, you can run the remaining 2?10 beams around the perimeter. The beams should rest on top of the posts for a secure foundation.

Adding Shade Elements
Shade elements can easily turn your outdoor room into a comfortable oasis during the summer and an inviting retreat in the fall and spring as well. Adding more 2?2 slats creates more shade, and fewer slats allow more sun to enter your pergola. Either method works and depends on your landscape and your desires. The slats should be installed perpendicular to the shortest dimension of your pergola, and steel anchors are readily available to ensure the shades are securely held in place.

Adding a Decorative Touch with Custom Shade Elements
Fastening the shade elements square is fine, but cutting a design into the edges of the boards makes a customized pergola. You can easily make up your own pattern. After one of the boards has been cut to your liking, simply use this as a pattern and you can trace the rest of the shade boards from the same piece of lumber.

Finishing the Pergola with Putty and Stain
Completing your project like a professional(http://www.softwoods.com.au/assets/downloads/project-planner.pdf) will ensure a lasting pergola that provides years of service to your family. It is essential to cover any small holes with putty to prevent water damage. Sometimes, nails and screws will leave minor holes, but these are easily patched with wood putty. Sealing the lumber with a quality stain is also a good idea and will allow you to enjoy your pergola with fewer routine maintenance chores. We recommend applying several coats of a high-quality polyurethane stain that is designed for exterior woodworking projects.

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The Motor City Business Startup Boom

Andy Didirosi had a hunch in 2012. He felt that his hometown, given up for dead, was about to start a new life. Didorosi, 23 at the time, leased an old industrial building near the city's northern limit. He posted a notice on Craigslist, hoping people would come to his big empty building to share tools and ideas, make stuff, and maybe start a small business or two. "The response was incredible," he says. "Overnight we had enough tenants in here for it to make financial sense."

The 22,000-square-foot facility he named Paper Street attracted graphic artists, jewelry-makers, Web designers, carpenters, metalworkers, a music publicist, a spice-maker, and a motorcycle mechanic. They paid as little as $99 a month for a work space; Didorosi added to the rental income by refurbishing meat slicers and other equipment from bankrupt supermarkets and selling the appliances to new businesses. The money allowed him to buy three Blue Bird buses and start a jitney service to supplement city bus routes. Now, in 2025, Didorosi runs the thriving Detroit Bus Co., and 20-plus small businesses rent space at Paper Street.

Didorosi and Paper Street are emblematic of the DIY ethic that helped bring Detroit back. "It's about starting a creative revolution instead of an industrial revolution," he says.

A few blocks from Paper Street, a nonprofit called i3Detroit is full of new and refurbished tools and machines?>a CNC mill, a plasma metal cutter, a 3D printer, an oscilloscope, welding torches, a machine shop, a woodworking shop, and a video-editing studio. Members pay $39 or $89 per month, depending on their level of use, to make furniture, solder circuit boards, build bicycles, and concoct robots. The exchange of tools and ideas, and energy, is free. "I think of us as a pre-business incubator," says Eric Merrill, a computer programmer and i3Detroit's CEO. "If you had an idea for a widget, you used to have to pay a machine shop $10,000 to fabricate that widget. Now, for a few hundred bucks, you can make it here and see if it works. From there it's easier to get backing."

In 2012, that prevailing philosophy led Inc. magazine to dub Detroit Startup City. It earned the name because of the proliferation of small-business incubators. Among these was TechShop, a national network of member-based workshops. It was another iteration of a model created by TechTown at Detroit's Wayne State University in 2003.

Detroit native Clover McFadden is a TechTown success story. After graduating from college-prep Renaissance High School on the city's northwest side, she earned a degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C., and dreamed of becoming a doctor. But on a return trip to Detroit she discovered Bizdom, which grooms aspiring entrepreneurs at TechTown. McFadden enrolled, developed a business plan, and successfully pitched investors. Her business, Circa 1837, produces and sells clothing adorned with school logos of the nation's traditionally black universities, such as Howard.

"People told me I was crazy to start a business in Detroit, but I think the exact opposite," McFadden says. "There are so many people here who want to see you succeed."

John Kushigian is one of them. Like McFadden, he was born in Detroit and moved away to go to college and start a career. He had a tech-related job in San Francisco, where he also took up furniture and cabinet making. In 1990, he returned to his hometown. "I'd been wanting to do something to help Detroit, something that involved woodworking," Kushigian says.

One spring afternoon, Kushigian visited Barry Randolph, pastor of the Church of the Messiah. Kushigian's eyes lit up when he saw the spacious church basement, where another Detroiter, Jeff Sturges, had already set up shop for people to work on bicycles, appliances, and computers to screen-print clothing, do Web design, and edit audio and video. Kushigian asked whether he could add carpentry to the mix. "Barry gave me a three-word answer: 'Go for it.'"

Soon people from ages 5 to 88 were flocking to the DIY space, using the equipment Sturges and Kushigian had purchased. Today dozens of people are learning skills to prepare them for the workforce. "A couple of teenagers discovered that our computers had the GarageBand app for simple music production, and they figured it out. Then they started spending 5, 6 hours a day writing lyrics. Now a local Internet radio station is interested in their work," Kushigian says. The young men are on their way.

"Detroit for years, during its decline, had been hoping for a corporate messiah," Kushigian says. "The city finally gave up on that. I'm from Detroit, I escaped Detroit, and yet I came back. Why? Because there's an energy, a lit-up, beefed-up energy, a mental aliveness to Detroit. A lot of people here have a fire burning inside. My feeling is that the messiah is us."

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Fox News Climate Coverage 93% Wrong, Report Finds

Primetime coverage of global warming at Fox News is overwhelmingly misleading, according to a new report that finds the same is true of climate change information in the Wall Street Journal op-ed pages.

Both outlets are owned by Rupert Murdoch's media company News Corporation. The analysis by the science-policy nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) finds that 93 percent of primetime program discussions of global warming on Fox News are inaccurate, as are 81 percent of Wall Street Journal editorials on the subject.

"It's like they were writing and talking about some sort of bizarre world where climate change isn't happening," study author Aaron Huertas, a press secretary at UCS, told LiveScience.

"It's clear that we're not having a fact-based dialogue about climate change," Huertas added.

The report, available online, focused on Fox News and the Journal because of both anecdotal and academic reports suggesting high levels of misleading climate chatter in each. UCS researchers combed through six months of Fox News primetime programs (from February 2012 to July 2012) and one year of Wall Street Journal op-eds (from August 2011 to July 2012), for discussions of global warming.

Fox's climate problems

The researchers found that Fox News and the Journal were consistently dismissive of the established scientific consensus that climate change is happening and that human activities are the main driver. For example, a statement aired on a primetime Fox News show on April 11 says, "I thought we were getting warmer. But in the '70s, it was, look out, we're all going to freeze."

The statement refers to some research in the 1970s that suggested a cooling trend, exacerbated by pollutants called aerosols (also known as smog). However, a greater number of papers, which represented consensus in the science community, in the 1970s predicted warming, according to Skeptical Science, a climate change communication website maintained by University of Queensland physicist John Cook. Temperature records have since improved, revealing the cooling trend was confined to northern landmasses. [10 Climate Myths Busted]

The most common climate mistakes on Fox News involved misleading statements on basic climate science, or simple undermining and disparaging of the field of climate science. For example, on March 23, one on-air personality referred to global warming as a "hoax and fraud."

Misleading opinions

The misrepresentations in Wall Street Journal op-eds similarly twisted the science and disparaged the field, UCS said, though there were also examples of disparaging individual scientists, including calling NASA climate scientist James Hansen a "global-warming alarmist."

One March 9 column by Robert Tracinski called global warming a "bubble" and decried the "failure of the global warming theory itself" and "the credibility of its advocates."

Fox News and the Wall Street Journal did not respond to LiveScience's requests for comment. The organizations have not responded to UCS either, Huertas said, though they were informed of the report before it was made public.

The goal of the report, according to the UCS, is not to shut down legitimate debate on the appropriateness of various climate policies.

"It is entirely appropriate to disagree with specific actions or policies aimed at addressing climate change while accepting the clearly established findings of climate science," the authors wrote. "And while it is appropriate to question new science as it emerges, it is misleading to reject or sow doubt about established science ? in this case, the overwhelming body of evidence that human-caused climate change is occurring."

The organization called on News Corp. to examine their climate-change reporting standards and to help their staff differentiate between opinions on global warming and scientific fact.

"This is happening no matter what, so we can have a sober adult conversation about it and figure out what to do, or we can turn it into another hot-button ideological issue," Heurtas said. "Frankly, we already have enough hot-button ideological issues. I don't think we need another one."

Follow Stephanie Pappas on Twitter @sipappas?or LiveScience @livescience. We're also on Facebook & Google+.

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Launch of iPhone 5 draws fans worldwide

Published: 9/22/12 @ 12:00

Associated Press

In a now familiar global ritual, Apple fans jammed shops across the globe to pick up the tech juggernaut?s latest iPhone.

Eager buyers formed long lines Friday at Apple Inc. stores in Asia, Europe and North America to be the first to get their hands on the latest version of the smartphone.

In New York, several hundred people lined up outside Apple?s Fifth Avenue store. Jimmy Peralta, a 30-year-old business-management student, waited three hours before getting the chance to buy his new gadget. Was it worth the wait?

?Definitely,? he said, noting that the new phone?s larger screen and lighter weight compelled him to upgrade from the iPhone 4. ?A little treat for me on a Friday morning; why not? Why not be part of something fantastic? It?s just such a smart phone, it does all the thinking for you. You can?t get any easier than that.?

Apple?s stock closed up $1.39, or 0.2 percent, at $700.09. The stock surpassed the $700 level for the first time earlier this week, as excitement for the launch mounted.

For Apple, the iPhone introduction is the biggest revenue driver of the year. Analysts expect the company to sell millions of phones in the first few days. This spring, iPhone sales slowed down from their historical growth rates, apparently because potential buyers were holding off for the arrival of the ?5.?

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Verizon iPhone 5's secret feature: It's 'unlocked'

Western Michigan University student Alenna Brown ,19, leaves with her new iPhone 5 in Kalamazoo, Mich. on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/The Kalamazoo Gazette, Mark Bugnaski) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT

Western Michigan University student Alenna Brown ,19, leaves with her new iPhone 5 in Kalamazoo, Mich. on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/The Kalamazoo Gazette, Mark Bugnaski) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT

NEW YORK (AP) ? The Verizon Wireless version of the iPhone 5, which went on sale Friday, comes with a secret and unexpected feature: it works on AT&T's network as well.

Confirming blog reports, The Associated Press found that the Verizon iPhone 5 accepts an AT&T "SIM card" ? a little chip that identifies a phone to a wireless network. The phone can then be active on AT&T's network.

It's the first time Verizon iPhones have been able to access AT&T's network without complicated hacking procedures. The feature may mean little to most buyers, since they're signing up for two years of Verizon service. But it does give them the option of switching carriers.

It's unclear whether the feature is intended and whether the phones will work with other carriers, such as T-Mobile USA. But Verizon Wireless spokeswoman Brenda Raney confirmed Saturday that the iPhone 5 models it's selling are "unlocked."

Last year, the first shipments of the Sprint iPhone 4S were unlocked and worked on AT&T, but Sprint later issued software updates that turned off that capability.

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Automotive Fine Art Studio Blog: A Love Story

Non car people just don't get it. They think a car is just transportation ... that it's a means to an end from point 'A' to point 'B'. When they look at a car (or truck, for that matter), they see 4 wheels, some metal, fiberglass, lights, a windshield and some other stuff that makes it go. But for many, though, it's much, much more than that.

We are often asked, kind of warily, if Michael is in fact a car guy at all. Or just one of those artists that has set their sights on a subject they feel will be profitable to them. With 4 classic cars, mountains of car magazines, shelves of books and boxes full of parts (many duplicates and triplicates, just in case), I can assure you, he's a car guy, nut, enthusiast (whatever word fits) through and through. And, he's definitely not alone.

In searching through the Netflix selections for car chase movies the other day (see what I mean about his passion?), Michael came across a documentary that, as car enthusiasts, you're sure to appreciate. "Love The Beast" is about one man's love of his car, what it's meant to him and his friends, and their journey together.?

"What if you were a Hollywood movie star with an obsession for cars and racing? You would probably read every script with even the tiniest link to the subject matter, in the hope that you could tell a great car story of the likes of "Grand Prix", "Le Mans" or "Mad Max"."? ? www.imdb.com

You'll follow Eric Bana and his Ford GT Falcon Coupe ? "THE BEAST", through his early childhood, acquisition of his first car (which is incidentally, the Falcon Coupe), restoration, rebuild, racing and more. Through Eric's eyes, we get a glimpse at his own 25 year long love story ? reflecting on a lifetime of ownership and of friendship. Jay Leno, Jeremy Clarkson and Dr. Phil pitch in to help give us insight into the car obsessed psyche. You'll be glad to hear, they all agree it's quite healthy (yes, even Dr. Phil says so!).
When you have a spare couple of hours, check it out. I don't think you'll be disappointed. ? Linda

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Afghan militants say deadly blast was revenge for film

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan militants claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a suicide bomb attack on a minivan carrying foreign workers that killed 12 people saying it was retaliation for a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad.

A short film made with private funds in the United States and posted on the Internet has ignited days of demonstrations in the Arab world, Africa, Asia and in some Western countries.

In a torrent of violence blamed on the film last week, the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in an attack in Benghazi and U.S. and other foreign embassies were stormed in cities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East by furious Muslims. At least nine other people were killed.

On Tuesday, a suicide bomber blew up a minivan near the airport in the Afghan capital and a spokesman for the Hezb-e-Islami insurgent group claimed responsibility.

"A woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up in response to the anti-Islam video," said militant spokesman Zubair Sediqqi. Police said the woman may have been driving a Toyota Corolla car rigged with explosives, which she triggered.

But the claim will raise fears that anger over the film will feed into deteriorating security as the United States and other Western countries try to protect their forces from a rash of so-called insider attacks by Afghan colleagues.

Thousands of protesters clashed with police in Kabul the previous day, burning cars and hurling rocks at security forces in the worst outbreak of violence since February rioting over the inadvertent burning of Korans by U.S. soldiers.

The protesters in Kabul and several other Asian cities have vented their fury over the film at the United States, blaming it for what they see as an attack on Islam.

The outcry saddles U.S. President Barack Obama with an unexpected foreign policy headache as he campaigns for re-election in November, even though his administration has condemned the film as reprehensible and disgusting.

In response to the violence in Benghazi and elsewhere last week, the United States has sent ships, extra troops and special forces to protect U.S. interests and citizens in the Middle East, while a number of its embassies have evacuated staff and are on high alert for trouble.

Despite Obama's efforts early in his tenure to improve relations with the Arab and Muslim world, the violence adds to a host of problems including the continued U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, Iran's nuclear program, the Syrian civil war and the fall-out from the Arab Spring revolts.

PROTESTS, BANS

The renewed protests on Monday dashed any hopes that the furor over the film might fade despite an appeal over the weekend from the senior cleric in Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest shrines, for calm.

Afghan police said among the 12 dead in the Kabul bomb attack were eight Russians and South Africans, mostly working for a foreign air charter company named ACS Ltd.

It followed a bloody weekend during which six members of Afghanistan's NATO-led alliance, including four Americans, were killed in suspected insider attacks carried out by Afghans turning on their allies.

Protesters also took to the streets in Pakistan and Indonesia on Monday and thousands also marched in Beirut, where a Hezbollah leader accused U.S. spy agencies of being behind events that have unleashed a wave of anti-Western sentiment in the Muslim and Arab world.

Authorities in Bangladesh have blocked the YouTube website indefinitely to stop people seeing the video. Pakistan and Afghanistan have also blocked the site.

Iran has condemned the film as offensive and vowed to pursue those responsible for making it. Iranian officials have demanded the United States apologize to Muslims, saying the film is only the latest in a series of Western insults aimed at Islam's holy figures.

The identity of those directly responsible for the film remains unclear. Clips posted online since July have been attributed to a man named Sam Bacile, which two people connected with the film have said was probably an alias.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, a Coptic Christian widely linked to the film in media reports, was questioned in California on Saturday by U.S. authorities investigating possible violations of his probation for a bank fraud conviction.

(Reporting by various bureaus; Writing by Robert Birsel)

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Lile Hall dedicated as new home of School of Humanities | The ...

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Ouachita Baptist University?s Lile Hall, originally dedicated in 1973, was rededicated Sept. 13 following extensive renovation of the longtime campus facility.

Declaring that ?progress is a wonderful thing,? Ouachita President Rex Horne told donors, trustees, students, faculty and staff gathered for the outdoor dedication service, ?How proud we are of the work that has taken place here in Lile Hall.?

Noting that the upgraded facilities and technology ?will have an impact on generations of students to come,? Dr. Horne told those who helped make the project a reality, ?We will not forget what you?ve done. We will always be grateful.?

The classroom and faculty office building was constructed almost four decades ago as part of Ouachita?s campus megastructure. It was named in honor of J.G. Lile, a longtime Ouachita professor and staff member. R.A. Lile Hall, added in 1989, was named in honor of his son, R.A. ?Brick? Lile, a 1927 Ouachita graduate and former trustee. The facility previously housed Ouachita?s Division of Business and Economics and later the Hickingbotham School of Business before the School of Business moved to Hickingbotham Hall in 2006.

With the recent renovation, Lile Hall is now home to the School of Humanities and Rogers Department of Communications. Other departments, centers and offices housed in the facility include the Academic Success Center, Office of Communications,Grant Center for International Education, Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages, Department of History, Publications Newsroom, Speer Writing Center and Foreign Language Lab, TRIO Programs and Video Production Studio.

Named facilities include the Bill and Sharon Arnold Multimedia Center; Grant Center for International Education; Hammons Suite ? Office of the Dean, School of Humanities; Luther King Capital Management Classroom; Dr. Wesley Kluck Photography Studio; William Fenna and Emily Rogers Department of Communications; Katie Clift Speer Digital Design Laboratory and Speer Writing Center; and ?A Movie Musical? Video Editing Suite.

?It is with great pleasure and excitement that we come together today to dedicate this renovation of Lile Hall for the betterment of Ouachita Baptist University and to the glory of God,? said Dr. Jeff Root, dean of the School of Humanities. ?Just as the facility has been renewed and equipped to achieve its purpose in teaching and learning, we can see a new enthusiasm among our students and colleagues.

?Each major taught in Lile Hall will benefit from the renovation,? Dr. Root added. ?In addition to paint, carpet and new classroom furniture, the technology in Lile will allow us to use new tools in the classroom today and be ready for what the future may hold. In addition, the new television/video production studio, audio recording space and publications newsroom take us to a new level of professional growth and opportunities.?

Dr. Brett Powell, vice president for administrative services, supervised the renovation project. He said the primary goals of the project were ?to make the space more inviting and functional? and ?to meet the expectations of our faculty and staff for what would be considered a premier learning environment.? He said key examples include the creation of a new video production studio and student publications newsroom.

Nicole McPhate, a senior mass communications major from Conway, Ark., told donors,?Thank you so much for your sacrifices and gracious gifts to make this dream a reality. The move to Lile Hall was an incredible gift that you have given to me, my peers and students to come.?

Representing the diverse languages taught in the Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages housed in Lile, four faculty members offered a blessing in English, Spanish, French and Japanese.

The blessing, written by Dr. Jay Curlin, Kathryn Maddox Professor of English, expressed thanks to God for a facility that has been ?given new life this summer though the generosity and hard work of others. ? Please make this renewed building and the campus as a whole a place where both teacher and student grown daily in both knowledge and spirit.?

In addition to Dr. Curlin, faculty members who recited the blessing included Dr. Margarita Pintado, instructor of Spanish; Dr. Mary Beth Long, assistant professor of English; and Dr. Ray Franklin, associate professor of Christian missions.

The service concluded with a poem of dedication by Dr. Johnny Wink, Betty Burton Peck Professor of English. The poem, ?Somewhere in the Distance: A Meditation on Homes & Homes Away from Home, Temporary and Permanent,? paid tribute to construction workers, a current student and former colleagues.

?This summer, in heat and dry, many workers assembled/To pound and sand, to knockholes in walls,/To open spaces to new vistas, lay new patterns/On reburnished floors, create new environments,? Dr. Wink recited. Another excerpt from the 63-line poem proclaimed, ?O strange chemistry of present and past./How woven they are! How movingly woven they are!?

The day?s activities, held in conjunction with Ouachita?s fall Board of Trustees meeting, also featured tours of Lile Hall and a dedication luncheon.

Ouachita Baptist University, a private liberal arts university in Arkadelphia, Ark., has served since 1886 as a Christ-centered learning community. With a current enrollment of 1,532 students, Ouachita is educating students from 29 states and more than 30 nations. For more information, visit www.obu.edu.

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Nestle Is Playing Real-Life Willy Wonka [Genius]

Goodbye everyone! I'm moving to the UK where I will eat my weight in chocolate. Coincidentally, Nestle's just kicked off a campaign where it's embedding GPS trackers in candy bars. If you unwrap one of six winning sweets, they'll find you within 24 hours and award you 10,000 pounds and the rights to legally change your name to Charlie Bucket. More »

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New gene could lead to better bug-resistant plants

ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2012) ? The discovery of a new gene could lead to better bug-resistant plants.

Research led by Michigan State University and appearing on the cover of this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrates that domestic tomatoes could re-learn a thing or two from their wild cousins.

Long-term cultivation has led to tomato crops losing beneficial traits common to wild tomatoes. Anthony Schilmiller, MSU research assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, was able to identify a gene that is involved in one of these beneficial traits.

Many tomato secrets are found in its hair. Trichomes, or hair-like protrusions, produce a mixture of specialized chemicals that shape the interactions between the plant and its environment. The location of the chemicals allows some of them to act as the first line of defense against pests.

One class of compounds, acyl sugars, is a frontline defender. Trichomes secrete acyl sugars to fend off pests. Schilmiller teamed with Robert Last, MSU professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and Amanda Charbonneau, MSU doctoral researcher, to try to understand how these chemicals are made. Little was known about how acyl sugars were produced until now, and this research identifies and describes the first gene that participates in the production of the protective sugars in cultivated tomatoes, Schilmiller said.

"Acyl sugars play a critical role in allowing wild tomatoes to fend off bugs," he said. "Because cultivated tomatoes were not bred for their acyl sugar amounts and quality, they have reduced levels compared to wild ones we do not eat. Understanding how they are made is the first step toward breeding cultivated tomatoes, and other plants in this family, to make them more resistant to herbivores."

Other Solanaceous crops that could benefit from this research include potatoes, peppers, eggplants and petunias.

In addition, this work shows that the newly discovered gene is active only in one specific cell of one trichome type.

"Not only will we be able to potentially engineer heartier tomatoes, but understanding how to specifically target trichome gene expression without affecting the fruit, we'll also be able to add other important chemicals for insect resistance and possibly other beneficial traits to the surface of the plants," Schilmiller said.

The research was funded by the National Science Foundation.

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DentalVibe Takes the Pain out of Root Canals

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The Bright Side of Anxiety

Time magazine senior editor Jeffrey Kluger speaks to the "Early Show" anchors about the magazine's new cover story, "Why Anxiety is Good For You," and explains why stress doesn't have to be all bad.
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Anxiety Can Kill Your Sex Drive

Sex therapist and educator Miriam Baker talks about one negative consequence of the g-spot debate.
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Tia & Tamera Season: 2 Episode: 6 As a precaution, Tia wants to go to a doctor to get the mole on her neck checked out. Could it be cancerous? Find out!
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Interview With Author of When Baby Brings the Blues

WatchMojo.com speaks to a leading expert on postpartum depression
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Anxiety Attack

What an anxiety attack can feel and look like.
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Brain Boosters : Food That Make You Smarter
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updated 12:13 p.m. ET Sept. 15, 2012

LONDON (AP) - Anton Ferdinand's snub of John Terry in the pre-match handshake overshadowed Chelsea's 0-0 draw at Queens Park Rangers on Saturday.

The result ended the European champions' perfect start in the English Premier League on a day when Arsenal and Manchester United enjoyed big home wins.

Terry was jeered throughout a game played in a hostile atmosphere at Loftus Road in London. The match came two months after he was acquitted of racially abusing Ferdinand in a league game last year.

After opening with three straight wins, Chelsea was fortunate to escape with a draw. Park Ji-sung and Bobby Zamora wasted excellent chances for QPR in the second half. Eden Hazard came closest to scoring for Chelsea, which stays in first place with 10 points.

Arsenal thrashed Southampton 6-1 while United, sparked by Paul Scholes' goal on his 700th game for the club, routed Wigan 4-0. The results allowed both winners to leapfrog defending champion Manchester City, which drew 1-1 at Stoke.

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Sevilla struck early and held on to deal Real Madrid a 1-0 loss as the defending Spanish champions fell eight points behind pacesetter Barcelona.

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Madrid, which has won just once in four rounds, was unsettled at the start at Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium and Piotr Trochowski capitalized to score from a corner two minutes in, breaking Sevilla's streak of seven straight defeats to Madrid.

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MILAN (AP) - AC Milan lost to Atalanta 1-0 on Luca Cigarini's shot from the top of the penalty area in the 64th minute. This was Milan's second consecutive home defeat in the Italian league, following a 1-0 defeat to Sampdoria in the home opener.

Milan is three points behind the three co-leaders, each playing on Sunday. Defending champion Juventus visits Genoa, Napoli hosts Parma and Lazio plays Chievo Verona.

Atalanta, which began the season with a two-point penalty from a betting scandal, moved into positive territory with two points.

Cagliari scored a late equalizer in a 1-1 draw at Palermo. Cagliari has two points through three rounds while Palermo earned its first point after getting shut out in its opening two matches.

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Sounders, Timbers fight to tie

Rodney Wallace headed in a corner kick in the 78th minute and the Portland Timbers stalled the Seattle Sounders' playoff push with a 1-1 draw Saturday.

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(Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brian McInerney, a hydrologist for the National Weather Service and member of the Burned Area Emergency Response, gives a recent tour of a Seeley Fire-devastated area that is a concern for debris slides.

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"We?re concerned about flooding on homes located near steep slopes affected by the wildfires," said Joe Dougherty, Utah Division of Emergency Services and Homeland Security. "Heavy rains can bring a torrent of mud down a hillside, and areas scared by fire this year are of particular concern. We urge people to be aware of dangers in their own backyards and to purchase flood insurance."

To qualify for the waiver, residents must get insurance within 60 days of a wildfire?s containment date. In the case of the Seeley fire, containment was announced July 18 ? making Sunday the deadline for getting insurance, said Laurie Hassell, spokeswoman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Residents in other areas may learn of their deadlines by contacting an insurance agent or visiting the National Flood Insurance Program at www.FloodSmart.gov.

The waiting-period exemption was signed into law by President Barack Obama July 6. The waiver is part of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, which allows residents access to insurance whose homes were impacted by flooding from federal land scarred by wildfires.

Flood damage is not typically covered by homeowner?s insurance.

Before the reform act was passed, Congress had been extending the National Flood Insurance Program a few months at a time since 2008. Twice this led to shut downs, including one that stalled more than 40,000 home sales in June 2010 alone, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Anyone can be financially vulnerable to floods, so it?s a good idea to consider flood insurance even if you live in a moderate- or low-risk area, federal officials say. For instance, people outside of high-risk areas file more than 20 percent of flood insurance claims, and receive one-third of disaster assistance for flooding. But when it?s available, disaster assistance is typically a loan that residents must repay with interest.

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To qualify for federal flood insurance, residents must live in a community that participates in the National Flood Insurance Program.

Residents also may qualify for the Preferred Risk Policy (a lower-cost flood insurance program), which provides contents coverage beginning at $49 per year and building plus contents coverage beginning at $129 a year. The average policy is about $600 annually.

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U.S. says sanctions slash Iran's oil exports

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. economic sanctions against Iran have slashed the country's crude exports and oil revenue, the U.S. Treasury said on Wednesday as it vowed to keep up the pressure on Tehran to prevent the Iranian government from getting nuclear weapons.

Since the beginning of the year, the United States has threatened to block certain foreign financial entities from U.S. markets unless Iran's major trading partners reduced their purchases of Iranian crude.

U.S. efforts have paid off with Iranian crude exports down to about 1 million barrels of oil per day from the approximately 2.4 million barrels last year, the U.S. Treasury said.

This hit to exports is costing Iran about $5 billion a month, "forcing the Iranian government to cut its budget because of a lack of revenue," Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen said at the New York University School of Law.

"Our goal isn't to affect their GDP growth, it's to affect their political calculus," added Cohen, the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.

Iran denies that it is seeking nuclear weapons, saying its atomic program is solely for peaceful purposes such as power generation and medical uses.

U.S. sanctions were designed to crimp Tehran's oil revenues by stopping financial institutions from conducting oil transactions with Iran's central bank, which handles most of the country's oil payments.

However, if countries significantly reduced their Iranian oil imports, they won a temporary reprieve from the U.S. law. More than a dozen countries, including Iran's biggest oil buyers China and India, earned exemptions.

"Sanctions have effectively terminated international access for most Iranian banks," said Cohen. "Today, the Iranian government is relegated to the backwaters of the international financial system, and they know it."

Although U.S. sanctions have squeezed Iran from global markets, Israel has demanded that the Obama administration take a tougher line against Iran. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has accused the administration of being too tough on Israel and not hard enough on Iran.

Cohen said the window for a diplomatic solution with Iran is not "indefinite," but he declined to be more specific.

The Obama administration recently unveiled new sanctions that target foreign banks that handle transactions for Iranian oil or handle large transactions from the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) or Naftiran Intertrade Company (NICO), two players in Iran's oil trade.

Citing sanctions the United States has imposed on Iran, Syria and, last year, on Libya, Cohen said the strategy is "a heck of a lot better than a war."

(Reporting by Jonathan Spicer and Rachelle Younglai; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer and Lisa Shumaker)

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