America's Real Criminal Element: Lead

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New research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing.

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Henri Matisse Birthday: Celebrating The Master Painter With A Survey Of His Artwork (PHOTOS)

Today is the birthday of French painter, printmaker and sculptor, Henri Matisse. The Fauvist painter, famous for his mastery of expressive color, would turn 143 years old if he were miraculously still alive today.

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Matisse began his artistic career in 1891 when, after abandoning his job as a court administrator in northern France, he enrolled in Paris's Academie Julian to study traditional still lifes and landscape painting techniques. At the turn of the 20th century, the budding painter became involved with Fauvism, a style of painting that involved wild and discordant color schemes that rarely reflected the subject's natural appearance. Masterworks like "Open Window" and "Woman with the Hat" are highly regarded examples of this daring movement.

Despite the fact that Fauvism began to lose traction after 1910, the work of Matisse remained popular. Many of his paintings were grounded in classical French figure work, mixed with elements of Primitivism and Islamic art, amounting to an aesthetic most often compared to Pablo Picasso. In fact, Matisse and Picasso met at Gertrude Stein's Parisian salon, and embarked on a decades-long friendship and artistic relationship. In his later years, Matisse dabbled in collage, creating simpler, cutout works. The series "Blue Nudes" and art book "Jazz" originated during this period, demonstrating the artist's self-professed style -- "painting with scissors."

The beloved French artist died in 1954, leaving a wealth of artwork in museums like New York's Museum of Modern Art, London's Tate and Paris's Pompidou Centre. To celebrate his birthday, we've put together a slideshow of some of his best works. Scroll through the collection below and let us know which Matisse is your favorite in the comments section.

  • Henri Matisse, "The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room)," 1908, oil on canvas, 180.5 cm x 221 cm, The Hermitage Museum

  • Henri Matisse, "Woman with a Hat," 1905, oil on canvas, 31 1/4 x 23 1/2 in. (79.4 x 59.7 cm) San Francisco Museum of Art, Bequest of Elise S. Haas, ?Succession H. Matisse, Paris / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.

  • Henri Matisse, "Les toits de Collioure," 1905, oil on canvas, The Hermitage Museum

  • Henri Matisse, "Crockery on a Table," 1900, oil on canvas, 97 x 82 cm, State Hermitage Museum

  • Henri Matisse, "The Conversation," 1908-1912, State Hermitage Museum

  • Henri Matisse, "Vase of Sunflowers," 1898-1899, oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm, State Hermitage Museum

  • Henri Matisse, "Madras Rouge," 1907, oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, Paris

  • Henri Matisse, "Vase, Bottle and Fruit," 1906, oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm, State Hermitage Museum

  • Henri Matisse, "La danse," 1909, oil on canvas, 8' 6 1/2" x 12' 9 1/2" (259.7 x 390.1 cm), Museum of Modern Art

  • Henri Matisse, Self-Portrait, 1906, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Business Manager, Office of International Affairs - HigherEdJobs

The Office of International Affairs is comprised of six units; Administration, International Student & Scholar Services, Study Abroad Programs; AHA International, the Mills International Center and the component units of the forthcoming Global Studies Institute. The Vice Provost for International Affairs reports to the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs.

Responsibilities: The Business Manager reports to the Vice Provost for International Affairs and works closely with the heads of the individual units. This position is responsible for office management, the daily financial operations of the office, oversees the accounting functions and manages all personnel matters. Serves as a resource to the Vice Provost on all matters relating to personnel and financial matters.

Duties: Serve as a resource for all personnel issues to include managing searches, conducting yearly evaluations, insuring that OIA is in compliance with UO rules and regulations pertaining to employee evaluations, discipline, timely notice and contract extensions. Maintain personnel records and job description file for all OIA employees. Supervise unit accountants, computer technician and other employees as assigned by the Vice Provost. Analyze workload and recommend staff changes as needed. Develop and implement office procedures. Manage the Office of International Affairs to include arranging offices for all personnel; purchase, maintain, and repair office equipment; responsible for overall condition of the unit, liaison with other departments on campus (printing, mail room, facilities, telecommunications, business affairs, etc.). Solve problems regarding space issues.
Manage the accounting functions for the Office International Affairs to include responsibility for accounting policies and practices consistent with UO policies, supervision of fiscal records and preparation of financial reports, assist the Vice Provost with yearly budget preparation, supervise reconciliation of all OIA funds and audit fiscal records: responsible for all payroll functions of the unit. Serve as credit card custodian for International Affairs.

Minimum Qualifications:
Requires bachelor's degree and extensive accounting experience, three years of progressively responsible and relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Demonstrated skills in personnel management, requires ability to communicate with a diverse group of individuals and exceptional organizational skills. Experience in supervising office support staff. Must have demonstrated experience in office management as well as demonstrated knowledge of finance, accounting, internal controls and generally accepted accounting principals. Knowledge of federal, state and OUS financial regulations. Ability to communicate financial information to an audience that does not have a financial background. Experience supervising staff with financial responsibilities. Finalist for the position must be able to successfully complete a criminal background check.

Preferred:
Master's degree, experience working in a higher education environment; international or cross-cultural experience; ability to converse in foreign language.
Salary: $60,000 - $70,000 (full time annual rate)

Application Procedure:
Prefer electronic submission of letter of application, resume, and answers to supplemental questions to intlaffjobs@uoregon.edu as one single PDF or Word document. Paper applications may be sent c/o Nancy O'Brien, Office of International Affairs, 5209 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403. Application deadline is 5 PM, January 15, 2013.

Supplemental Questions:
1) Describe your experience in office management including size of the office, number of professionals served by the office, and nature of the work performed. Specify your experience establishing office procedures, resolving problems with space and equipment, and analyzing and improving workflow.
2) Describe your experience managing budgets and preparing financial reports including size of budgets, type of financial reports prepared, experience using automated financial information systems and experience supervising staff with financial responsibilities.
3) Indicate your experience handling personnel matters including search and affirmative action procedures, personnel evaluations, and standard rules regarding maintaining personnel files.
4) Explain your experience communicating with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures; include travel to other countries as well as volunteer work.
APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5 PM on January 15, 2013.

The University of Oregon is an equal-opportunity affirmative action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the American Disabilities Act.

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Christmas storms all over US blamed for 2 deaths

A house in Tioga, La., is severely damaged after an apparent tornado tore through the area Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/The Daily Town Talk, Melinda Martinez) NO SALES

A house in Tioga, La., is severely damaged after an apparent tornado tore through the area Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/The Daily Town Talk, Melinda Martinez) NO SALES

Members of the Alpine Volunteer Fire Department and the VA Fire Department clear debris from U.S. 71 in the Tioga, La. area, after an apparent tornado tore through the area Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/The Daily Town Talk, Melinda Martinez) NO SALES

Storm clouds roll past Barksdale Pavilion at Jones Park in Gulfport, Miss., Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. After most of spending Christmas Day with a blustery day and occasional blue skies, storm clouds arrived on the Coast at 4 p. m. The strong south breeze blew most of the bad weather north of the immediate coast line. (AP Photo/The Sun Herald, Tim Isbell)

Debris sits on the frontage road near I-49 in downtown Alexandria, La., after an apparent tornado tore through the area Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/The Daily Town Talk, Melinda Martinez) NO SALES

A Lawton, Okla., police cruiser tries to navigate the snow as blizzard conditions hit southwest Oklahoma at midday Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/The Lawton Constitution, Brandon Neris)

(AP) ? A Christmas Day twister outbreak left damage across the Deep South while holiday travelers in the nation's much colder midsection battled sometimes treacherous driving conditions from freezing rain and blizzard conditions.

Conditions were volatile throughout the afternoon and into the night with tornado warnings in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. The storms were blamed for two deaths, several injuries, and left homes from Louisiana to Alabama damaged.

In Mobile, Ala., a tornado or high winds damaged homes and knocked down power lines and large tree limbs in an area just west of downtown around nightfall, said Nancy Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Mobile County Commission. WALA-TV's tower camera captured a large funnel cloud headed toward downtown.

"We haven't verified what it was, but we have an area that we heard has damage to homes," she said.

Meanwhile, blizzard conditions were hitting the nation's midsection.

Earlier in the day, winds toppled a tree onto a pickup truck in the Houston area, killing the driver. Icy roads already were blamed for a 21-vehicle pileup in Oklahoma, and the Highway Patrol says a 28-year-old woman was killed in a crash on a snowy U.S. Highway near Fairview.

The snowstorm that caused numerous accidents pushed out of Oklahoma late Tuesday, carrying with it blizzard warnings for parts of northeast Arkansas, where 10 inches of snow was forecast. Freezing rain clung to trees and utility lines in Arkansas and winds gusts up to 30 mph whipped them around, causing about 71,000 customers to lose electricity.

Blizzard conditions were possible for parts of Illinois, Indiana and western Kentucky with predictions of 4 to 7 inches of snow.

No injuries were confirmed immediately, but fire crews were still making door-to-door checks in the hardest hit areas of Mobile. The Mobile Fire-Rescue Department, which was providing storm updates through Twitter, said Murphy High School was damaged and that there was a gas leak at a nearby apartment building.

An apparent tornado caused damage in the west Alabama town of Grove Hill, located about 80 miles north of Mobile.

Mary Cartright said she was working at the Fast Track convenience store in the town on Christmas evening when the wind started howling and the lights flickered, knocking out the store's computerized cash registers.

"We've had some pretty heavy weather," said Cartright in a phone interview. "Our cash registers are down so our doors are closed."

Trees fell on a few houses in central Louisiana's Rapides Parish but there were no injuries reported and crews were cutting trees out of roadways to get to people in their homes, said sheriff's Lt. Tommy Carnline. Near McNeill, Miss., a likely tornado damaged a dozen homes and sent eight people to the hospital, none with life-threatening injuries, said Pearl River County emergency management agency director Danny Manley.

Fog blanketed highways, including arteries in the Atlanta area, which was expected to be dealing with the same storm system on Wednesday. In New Mexico, drivers across the eastern plains had to fight through snow, ice and low visibility.

At least three tornadoes were reported in Texas, though only one building was damaged, according to the National Weather Service. Tornado watches were in effect across southern Louisiana and Mississippi.

More than 400 flights nationwide were canceled by the evening, according to the flight tracker FlightAware.com. More than half were canceled into and out of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport that got a few inches of snow.

Christmas lights also were knocked out with more than 100,000 customers without power in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.

In Louisiana, quarter-sized hail was reported early Tuesday in the western part of the state and a WDSU viewer sent a photo to the TV station of what appeared to be a waterspout around the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in New Orleans. There were no reports of crashes or damage.

Some mountainous areas of Arkansas' Ozark Mountains could get up to 10 inches of snow, which would make travel "very hazardous or impossible" in the northern tier of the state from near whiteout conditions, the National Weather Service said.

The holiday may conjure visions of snow and ice, but twisters this time of year are not unheard of. Ten storm systems in the last 50 years have spawned at least one Christmastime tornado with winds of 113 mph or more in the South, said Chris Vaccaro, a National Weather Service spokesman in Washington, via email.

The most lethal were the storms of Dec. 24-26, 1982, when 29 tornadoes in Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi killed three people and injured 32.

In Mobile, a large section of the roof on the Trinity Episcopal Church is missing and the front wall of the parish wall is gone, said Scott Rye, a senior warden at the church in the Midtown section of the city.

On Christmas Eve, the church with about 500 members, was crowded for services.

"Thank God this didn't happen last night," Rye said.

The church finished a $1 million-plus renovation campaign in June 2011, which required the closure of the historic sanctuary for more than a year.

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Associated Press writers Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Ala., Ramit Plushnick-Masti in Houston, Chuck Bartels in Little Rock, Ark., and AP Business Writer Daniel Wagner in Washington, contributed to this report.

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Bad weather prompts flight cancellations, delays at SFO

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Stormy weather was complicating air travel at San Francisco International Airport Sunday, a duty manager said.

As of 12:30 p.m. Sunday, 25 flights -- nine departures and 16 arrivals -- had been cancelled, SFO duty manager Lily Wang said.

Most other flights were running between 45 and 90 minutes behind schedule, she said.

Regional flights were most heavily impacted by cancellations, Wang said.

With bad weather forecast for the remainder of the day, flight delays at SFO were expected to accumulate and worsen into tonight, Wang said.

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Chinese Catholic domain first drawn in ICANN lottery

Internet name regulator ICANN has revealed the results of a lottery to determine the order in which generic top level domain (gTLD) names will be considered for approval, with the Vatican first in line.

The first gTLDs were chosen using a raffle process in Los Angeles on Monday, determining which will be given an initial evaluation, before potentially being granted next year. The old fashioned raffle-style selection process was favoured following concerns over a 'Digital Archery' method.

Of the 1,930 applicants which applied for the suffixes, 1,000 were picked for the approval process, with the the Catholic Church the first to be considered. This means it is likely that the Church's application for a suffix of the Chinese translation of 'Catholic' will be the first time a new gTLD is granted.

There were no English language gTLDs in the first 100 drawn, with the likes of Amazon's ".play" further down the ICANN list. Others such as ".cisco", ".vip" and ".fishing" also made it into the top 1,000 that are up for consideration.

ICANN announced plans to allow the use of gTLDs last year, opening up new domain names such in addition to the common ".com", ".org" and other country specific domain names. The organisation previously stated that it is only able to process 1,000 applications at a time, with more to be considered for approval next year.

Applicants had to pay $100 to enter into the raffle, in addition to a $185,000 registration fee, but there is no guarantee that their submissions will be approved.

Some have already filed objections to the use of specific gTLDs, with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia attempting to block plans for ".gay" and ".wine", as well as objecting to the use of ".Shia" on the grounds that it would need the approval of the community it represents.

Consumer groups have also raised concerns about large companies owning gTLDs. Consumer Watchdog recently appealed to a US Senator objecting to the use of generic names such as ".book" or ".buy" which Google is hoping to register, along with a number of gTLDs that Amazon has applied for, including ".free", ".game" and ".shop".

It is argued that companies owning domain name strings which are separate from their own corporate branding would "privatise" the internet.

Ben Anderson, head of gTLDs at online brand protection specialists NetNames, said that all companies will benefit from the use of gTLDs once the application process opens up.

"Many brands decided not to apply in this round, and of those that have, some may be upset that they may not see their gTLD launched until 2015 due to the current timeline," Anderson said.

"Once consumers are educated, and understand the new domain name process, it will open up a wave of new opportunities for brands to have a stronger online presence, to engage more effectively with their customers and provide a measurable return on investment."

He added: "Preparation is key to ensure you are ready for when the online marketplace opens up to shape your online digital footprint. Those that act early will be ahead of the game and in a better position to defend their online presence."

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Human history preserved in tree rings of prehistoric wooden wells

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Prehistoric farming communities in Europe constructed water wells out of oak timbers, revealing that these first farmers were skilled carpenters long before metal was discovered or used for tools. The research published December 19 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Willy Tegel and colleagues from the University of Freiburg, Germany, contradicts the common belief that metal tools were required to make complex wooden structures.

The wooden water wells discovered in eastern Germany are over 7000 years old, and suggest that these early farmers had unexpectedly refined carpentry skills. "This early Neolithic craftsmanship now suggests that the first farmers were also the first carpenters", the study reports.

These first Central European farmers migrated from the Great Hungarian Plain approximately 7,500 years ago, and left an archeological trail of settlements, ceramics and stone tools across the fertile regions of the continent, a record named Linear Pottery Culture (LBK). However, much of the lifestyle of these early settlers is still a mystery, including the climate they lived in and technology or strategies they used to cope with their surroundings. According to the study, the oak timbers analyzed in this study are also a new archive of environmental data preserved in the tree rings, which could tell an accurate, year-by-year story of the times these early settlers lived in.

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Tegel W, Elburg R, Hakelberg D, Stauble H, Buntgen U (2012) Early Neolithic Water Wells Reveal the World's Oldest Wood Architecture. PLOS ONE 7(12): e51374.
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Rory McIlroy, Stacy Lewis run away with U.S. golf writers? awards

The only thing mildly surprising about the Golf Writers Association of America?s rewarding Rory McIlroy, Stacy Lewis, and Roger Chapman its Players of the Year trophies on Wednesday was that 2012 five-time global winner McIlroy was not a unanimous decision.

McIlroy, who captured the money titles on both the PGA and European Tours, carded 97.9 percent of the ballots (190 votes), with Brandt Snedeker (3) and Tiger Woods (1) keeping the 23-year-old from Northern Ireland from making it a clean sweep in the men?s division. Lewis won four times on the LPGA Tour this year and was the run-away winner in the women?s bracket, earning 78.8 percent (153 votes) to Na Yeon Choi?s 31 votes and 10 for Inbee Park. Chapman (60 percent / 116 votes) beat out Tom Lehman (44 votes) and Bernhard Langer (33) in the senior tabulations.

The GWAA will honor all three players at its 41st annual awards dinner on April 10, 2013, in Augusta, Ga., ahead of next year?s Masters Tournament.

As we noted on Tuesday, after McIlroy steamrolled his opposition for the European Tour?s Golfer of the Year distinction, the Ulsterman did much the same to his playing partners for much of the season, when he notched his second major by a lop-sided eight shots and took a firm grip on the world No. 1 ranking. McIlroy also won both the PGA Tour?s Byron Nelson Award and PGA of America?s Vardon Trophy for adjusted low scoring average (68.87) and finished the season with 10 top-10s in 16 starts. He birdied the final five holes of his season to cap an outstanding campaign with a win at the World Tour Championship in Dubai.

Lewis, with three runner-up finishes and a third-place slot on the LPGA money list ($1.87 million) was the first American since Beth Daniel in 1994 to cadge the tour's Player of the Year honors. The 27-year-old from Texas, who overcame scoliosis to make it big on the pro tour, also become the first American since Juli Inkster in 1999 to earn the GWAA?s PoY award.

Chapman, 53, began the year with conditional status on the Champions Tour but won the Senior PGA Championship in his first start of the 2012 season. The Englishman also came from four shots back to win the U.S. Senior Open.

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