The trouble with do-it-yourself planning is that even if your situation seems simple, there are many oddball things a layman wouldn?t think of that can go wrong, especially with wills and trusts.
No one wants to pay for something he or she can do themselves. Right? Refinishing your deck may be one thing, but preparing your own estate plan may be a horse of a completely different color.
Forbes addressed this matter last month in an article titled ?What Could Happen If You Write Your Own Living Trust?? As the title suggests, estate planning is not a DIY project to take lightly and the article recounts several ?horror? stories of layman-driven estate planning gone awry. I recommend reading the article, if this is a project you are considering.
Admittedly, whenever an estate planning attorney sounds the alarm against DIY estate planning, he or she runs the real risk of coming across as self-serving. I get that. Nevertheless, your estate plan is not your deck. No, your estate plan is the legally binding roadmap to protect everyone you love and everything you have when you cannot. Period.
If you botch the deck project, there usually is a fix. In a worst case scenario, you re-sand and re-stain (perhaps with a darker stain). If you botch your estate plan, on the other hand, your minor children may not be reared by the guardians (backup parents) of your choosing, may squander or lose their inheritance, and your spouse?s next spouse may take it all anyway. The list goes on.
Additionally, if you botch the estate plan, to whom will your loved ones turn for relief when you are gone? Unless you carry ?errors and omissions? insurance, no one.
With many of life?s DIY projects, life will go on for your loved ones regardless. When it comes to your estate plan, however, is it really worth the risk?
Reference: Forbes (August 16, 2012) ?What Could Happen If You Write Your Own Living Trust??
A new report from the National Park Service finds the stretch of the Mississippi River that flows through Minneapolis, Minn., to be in better shape than it was 40 years ago. Good news aside, the report also finds challenges lurking just around the?river bend.
By Steve Karnowski,?Associated Press / September 27, 2012
Eric Thorson drives his boat to a new fishing spot on the Mississippi River in Brainerd, Minn., in this September 2012 file photo. The river has become a world-class fishery for walleyes, smallmouth bass and mussels, although mercury, PCB and PFC contamination has forced restrictions on fish consumption.
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A 72-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that flows through the Twin Cities is in better shape than it was before the Clean Water Act was passed 40 years ago, although new risks have emerged, according to a report released Thursday.
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The State of the River Report compiled by the National Park Service and the Friends of the Mississippi River looks primarily at the health of the waterway in the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. The report also examines the river further downstream where it widens into Lake Pepin and as far south as the Gulf of Mexico.
Some area residents wrongly believe the river is still "hobbling along" as it was decades ago, even though it is cleaner and hosts more wildlife these days, said co-author Lark Weller.
"We are really heartened to see some of the good news stories that can come out of this data," said Weller, the national recreation area's water quality coordinator. "We've made great improvements in a number of ways. But we know that there is still work to be done."
The 48-page report found significant improvement in several of 13 key indicators of the river's health, including a resurgence of bald eagles, whose population is strong and stable. Nonetheless, the report cited concerns that pollutants, including DDT and lead, could harm the birds and said more tall trees are needed to encourage nesting in the area.
Furthermore, the river, which was nearly devoid of fish in the 1920s, has become a world-class fishery for walleyes, smallmouth bass and mussels, although mercury, PCB and PFC contamination has forced restrictions on fish consumption.
Several other indicators are cause for alarm, the report says:
?Urban runoff, drainage from farm fields, and climate change including an increase in snow and rainfall, have boosted the speed of the river by 25 percent since 1976, as measured at the Hastings Dam. The faster flow results in more erosion, a high risk of flooding and an increase in sediment that can choke aquatic life.
?Nitrate levels have risen at least 47 percent in the same period. The river still meets drinking water standards, but the nitrates ? mostly from farming ? feed algae blooms that suffocate marine life in the Gulf of Mexico.
?Invasive Asian carp species are advancing upstream and could have a disastrous impact on aquatic life, boating and fishing. It's not clear if the carp have established breeding populations in the metro area yet but there's DNA evidence that they've reached the Coon Rapids Dam.
?Pharmaceuticals and industrial contaminants could threaten human and aquatic health in ways that aren't yet fully understood. They include triclosan, a germ-killer used in disinfectant soaps, toothpaste and cosmetics, which can contribute to the emergence of resistant strains of bacteria and whose presence in the river has increased by up to 300 percent since 1963.
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Frogs have a reputation, earned or not, of being skittish creatures. Their physiology would almost seem to make the case by itself. With quads like that, you?d be jumpy, too, right?
This week, I hung around Oregon spotted frogs ? in truth, I?d never actually seen one before ? for an article about a prison program in Washington State that pays inmates to work with threatened and endangered species. The Oregon spotted frog, once common from Northern California to British Columbia, has disappeared from much of its territory, and the federal government plans to consider granting it protection as an endangered species.
What the inmates are learning there is that too much jumpiness, at least for a spotted frog, may not be a good thing.
Last year, in raising the frogs from egg to tadpole to adult, the prisoners were encouraged to be around the tanks a lot on the theory that the frogs ? which tend to jump more actively when people come by, for whatever reason ? might be better prepared for the real world once they were released in the wild, where they will be hunted by river otters, bullfrogs and birds.
But upon further reflection and research, biologists suggested that spotted frogs also need to know how to hide and remain motionless so hungry hunters can?t see them, and that too much excitement in the prison could be a bad thing. So with this year?s hatch of about 250 frogs, the inmates kept a greater distance, letting the little animals find their inner stillness.
This?article by Cate Czarnecki?is reposted from the literary news site?Press Street: Room 220.
Lucy Fricke and Khaled al-Berry are among members of University of Iowa's International Writer's Program fall residency visiting New Orleans. Fricke and al-Berry will read on Thursday.
?To write is maybe the biggest and most beautiful mutuality you can share,? writes German novelist Lucy Fricke. ?It doesn?t matter in which country, in which culture you live, how old are you, which language you speak?if you are writer, you have a special view on life, on yourself, and a special way of living.?
Fricke is one of 14 residents in the University of Iowa?s?International Writing Program?(IWP) who have made a pilgrimage to New Orleans this fall?the program?s sixth annual visit?bringing writers from around the world to the Crescent City for a week of readings, tours, and classroom visits.?On Thursday, Sept. 27, at 7 p.m. at Melvin?s (2112 St. Claude Ave.), Fricke and ?fellow resident writer Khaled al-Berry will help?launch the fall 2012 season of Room 220?s LIVE PROSE reading series?along with New Orleans native and University of Iowa MFA graduate T. Geronimo Johnson.
?The inclusion of New Orleans for this mid-residency travel period was a no-brainer: a culturally foundational city for the U.S. with its food, music, and literature,? says Joe Tiefenthaler, the IWP?s Fall Residency Coordinator. ?The writers are brought to the U.S., in part, to experience a range of American cultures and audiences, and New Orleans offers its own unique opportunity.?
Fricke and al-Berry are both distinguished writers of nonfiction as well as prose, and they have been the recipients of accolades and acknowledgements both here and abroad. Egyptian-born al-Berry, who currently works as a journalist in London, has written for numerous publications, including the BBC, and is a columnist for the?Tahrir Newspaper. He is the author of the autobiography?Life?is More Beautiful Than Paradise, and his 2010 novel?An Oriental Dance?was shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize. Fricke is the author of two novels (in German). She has also worked as an organizer for such events as the Berlin International Poetry Festival and is the current director of the HAM.LIT festival in Hamburg.
?At the age of thirteen, I wrote poems about unlucky loves?my whole youth I wrote this stuff and?stopped?after becoming an adult, more or less,? Fricke says. ?I started again at 27 with fiction, short stories in the beginning. I did it and still do it in a very serious way. Being a writer was the childhood dream and I had forgotten this for many years. After this memory came back, I started immediately to walk this way.?
Regarded as one of the premier writing institutions in the country, the University of Iowa has long served as both a creative incubator for young writers as well as a nexus for some of the country?s finest literary minds. As the university?s international writing residency, the IWP is the largest and longest-running program of its kind, hosting hundreds of writers from more than 140 countries since its inception in 1967. Through the program?s Fall Residency, select writers are granted the opportunity to live, work, and experience the greater American literary community both in Iowa City as well as other national literary destinations.
?At its simplest, the IWP is a writing residency where authors are given the space and time to write, as well as an outlet for writers to travel, physically or digitally, to reach young creative writing students,? explains Tiefenthaler. ?In larger scope, the IWP is a hub for cultural diplomacy. The residency has been referred to as a ?United Nations for Writers,? and that level of exchange and dialogue is at the core of the IWP, as well as the mission of the UI.?
Although first-time visitors to New Orleans, both Fricke and al-Berry have been able to form distinct connections with the city in their writing abroad.
?I was working for BBC World Service in London when Hurricane Katrina happened,? explains al-Berry. ?I used to call numbers that I got from ?white pages,? random numbers of pubs and other businesses, in an attempt to get hold of people to interview for radio and let the world hear their experiences. So I was keen on visiting New Orleans when there was a chance.?
The writers? participation in the LIVE PROSE reading is part of a relationship between?Room 220?and the IWP that began last year. Residents from the 2011 program took part in a?round-table discussion?at the Community Book Center hosted by?Room 220, which also acted as a liaison to have writers visit local high-school classrooms. This year, IWP residents will make classroom appearances at the Bard?Early College program as well as NOCCA, observing as well as sharing their writing experiences with a new generation of aspiring American writers.
?America is a different world for me,? says al-Berry. ?There is something about the American character that I love, namely optimism, daring, and looking forward to tomorrow. As a foreigner, I appreciate it. For the IWP in particular, listening to the experiences of fellow writers and guests is invaluable. I learn at least one new thing every day, whether in a conversation over tea or in a lecture room. Can you imagine being in the same place with people from more than 30 countries? It?s a writer?s heaven.?
Fricke and al-Berry are joined in New Orleans by writers from Greece, New Zealand, Singapore, Burma, Mauritius, South Korea, Iraq, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and the Philippines. All will be in attendance at the reading on Thursday, so anyone who wishes to make contact with this veritable UN delegation of writers can buy one of them a drink (Melvin?s will be offering a drink special during the event) or simply engage in a cross-cultural exchange the likes of which most dive bars in New Orleans don?t generally offer.
T. Geronimo Johnson will read along with Khaled al-Berry and Lucy Fricke at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 27, at Melvin?s (2112 St. Claude Ave.) as part of the?Room 220?LIVE PROSE reading series. To read Kristina Robinson's review of Johnson's novel "Hold It Til It Hurts," click here.
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For film tech nerds the world over, this documentary about the advent of digital filmmaking and what it means for the old school film purists is an engaging must-see. Keanu Reeves narrates and interviews an impressive roster of directors, cinematographers, editors, actors, and execs through this highly technical history and many of the subjects are truly game. I think their candidness is largely due to Reeves being there. Most seem to feel really comfortable around him, which is essential to getting some of the gold that comes out of the likes of Steven Soderbergh and David Fincher in particular. Editor Anne Coates, the 86-year-old editor of such classics as LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) and OUT OF SIGHT (1998) brings a refreshing and surprising perspective. Just when you expect the film vs. digital argument to have lines drawn depending on age, Ms. Coates shows a delightful openness to the new technology. This is an astounding time capsule piece which demonstrates how truly far we've come in digital image quality, particularly just in the past few years. There are times where you'll go back and forth about how you feel, because ultimately, both sides make great points. I couldn't believe how terrible some of the earlier digital films looked (TADPOLE or CHUCK AND BUCK anyone?). This may feel really too inside baseball for the layperson, but if you have any interest in how we experience filmed stories, this is essential viewing.
ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2012) ? If you were a bacterium, the virus M13 might seem innocuous enough. It insinuates more than it invades, setting up shop like a freeloading houseguest, not a killer. Once inside it makes itself at home, eating your food, texting indiscriminately. Recently, however, bioengineers at Stanford University have given M13 a bit of a makeover.
The researchers, Monica Ortiz, a doctoral candidate in bioengineering, and Drew Endy, PhD, an assistant professor of bioengineering, have parasitized the parasite and harnessed M13's key attributes -- its non-lethality and its ability to package and broadcast arbitrary DNA strands -- to create what might be termed the biological Internet, or "Bi-Fi." Their findings were published online Sept. 7 in the Journal of Biological Engineering.
Using the virus, Ortiz and Endy have created a biological mechanism to send genetic messages from cell to cell. The system greatly increases the complexity and amount of data that can be communicated between cells and could lead to greater control of biological functions within cell communities. The advance could prove a boon to bioengineers looking to create complex, multicellular communities that work in concert to accomplish important biological functions.
Medium and message
M13 is a packager of genetic messages. It reproduces within its host, taking strands of DNA -- strands that engineers can control -- wrapping them up one by one and sending them out encapsulated within proteins produced by M13 that can infect other cells. Once inside the new hosts, they release the packaged DNA message.
The M13-based system is essentially a communication channel. It acts like a wireless Internet connection that enables cells to send or receive messages, but it does not care what secrets the transmitted messages contain.
"Effectively, we've separated the message from the channel. We can now send any DNA message we want to specific cells within a complex microbial community," said Ortiz, the first author of the study.
It is well-known that cells naturally use various mechanisms, including chemicals, to communicate, but such messaging can be extremely limited in both complexity and bandwidth. Simple chemical signals are typically both message and messenger -- two functions that cannot be separated.
"If your network connection is based on sugar then your messages are limited to 'more sugar,' 'less sugar,' or 'no sugar'" explained Endy.
Cells engineered with M13 can be programmed to communicate in much more complex, powerful ways than ever before. The possible messages are limited only by what can be encoded in DNA and thus can include any sort of genetic instruction: start growing, stop growing, come closer, swim away, produce insulin and so forth.
Rates and ranges
In harnessing DNA for cell-cell messaging the researchers have also greatly increased the amount of data they can transmit at any one time. In digital terms, they have increased the bit rate of their system. The largest DNA strand M13 is known to have packaged includes more than 40,000 base pairs. Base pairs, like 1s and 0s in digital encoding, are the basic building blocks of genetic data. Most genetic messages of interest in bioengineering range from several hundred to many thousand base pairs.
Ortiz was even able to broadcast her genetic messages between cells separated by a gelatinous medium at a distance of greater than 7 centimeters.
"That's very long-range communication, cellularly speaking," she said.
Down the road, the biological Internet could lead to biosynthetic factories in which huge masses of microbes collaborate to make more complicated fuels, pharmaceuticals and other useful chemicals. With improvements, the engineers say, their cell-cell communication platform might someday allow more complex three-dimensional programming of cellular systems, including the regeneration of tissue or organs.
"The ability to communicate 'arbitrary' messages is a fundamental leap -- from just a signal-and-response relationship to a true language of interaction," said Radhika Nagpal, professor of computer science at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, who was not involved in the research. "Orchestrating the cooperation of cells to form artificial tissues, or even artificial organisms is just one possibility. This opens a door to new biological systems and solving problems that have no direct analog in nature."
Ortiz added: "The biological Internet is in its very earliest stages. When the information Internet was first introduced in the 1970s, it would have been hard to imagine the myriad uses it sees today, so there's no telling all the places this new work might lead."
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Monica E Ortiz, Drew Endy. Engineered cell-cell communication via DNA messaging. Journal of Biological Engineering, 2012; 6 (1): 16 DOI: 10.1186/1754-1611-6-16
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Well, that didn't take too long -- Google has just announced that it now has another app-related milestone under its proverbial belt. According to a new post on the official Android blog, the Google Play Store has crossed 25 billion app downloads; in case you're the type to keep track of these things, the news comes just six months after Apple's App Store hit that same milestone.
This is war in 2012—you can literally see a soldier under fire in Afghanistan. The soldier was shot but suffered no permanent injuries. It's insane. More »
[unable to retrieve full-text content]The gene that produces the striking dark stripes on tabby cats is also responsible for the spots on cheetahs, a new study reports.
Says Industry Fears Agreement Would Cement A Broken Marketplace
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Restaurant Association today issued the following statement, expressing opposition to the terms contained within a proposed swipe fee antitrust settlement.
"After careful and deliberative considerations, the National Restaurant Association Board of Directors' Executive Committee decided unanimously to reject the proposed settlement agreement on interchange swipe fees," said Dawn Sweeney, President and CEO of the National Restaurant Association. "There is strong concern that the proposed settlement agreement will not achieve the litigation's most critical goal ? to fundamentally change a broken marketplace in which swipe fees are set."
"Without meaningful reform, there is concern that restaurateurs ? many of whom are small businesses - will continue to be negatively impacted by the unfair, non-transparent system that exists today," said Sweeney.
The National Restaurant Association is one of nineteen named class plaintiffs, which includes six trade associations and thirteen individual companies in In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation.?On July 13th, the proposed settlement agreement between the plaintiffs and defendants (Visa, MasterCard, and many large U.S. banks) was announced and filed in federal district court.
"The current payments system is so convoluted, the average restaurateur has no idea exactly what they are paying and why they are paying large amounts to accept credit and debit cards, which are necessary in today's marketplace.?The proposed settlement does not address those issues," said Sweeney.
"Restaurateurs also have no ability to negotiate fees or terms of card acceptance, and after digging into the details of the proposed agreement, we have serious concerns that rather than correct those fundamental flaws, it cements those flaws for decades to come."
Over the past few years, the National Restaurant Association has worked to foster a fairer payments system for restaurateurs.?There have been significant achievements, with increased transparency of card network rules and rates, and the passage of federal legislation in 2010 that included debit card fee reforms.?However, the Association continues to pursue changes that will create a fairer, more transparent system.
Founded in 1919, the National Restaurant Association is the leading business association for the restaurant industry, which comprises 970,000 restaurant and foodservice outlets and a workforce of nearly 13 million employees. Together with the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, the Association works to lead America's restaurant industry into a new era of prosperity, prominence, and participation, enhancing the quality of life for all we serve.
ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) ? The process for preparing frozen, par-fried potato strips -- distributed to some food outlets for making french fries -- can influence the formation of acrylamide in the fries that people eat, a new study has found.
Published in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the study identifies potential ways of reducing levels of acrylamide, which the National Toxicology Program and the International Agency for Research on Cancer regard as a "probable human carcinogen."
Acrylamide forms naturally during the cooking of many food products. Donald S. Mottram and colleagues explain that while acrylamide formation in fried potato products is inevitable, this research aims to better understand the chemistry involved, and to use computer models to determine how to minimize acrylamide levels in practice. The special feature of this approach is that, for the first time, it has been possible to link changes in natural potato components (glucose, fructose, amino acids, moisture) occurring during preparation and cooking with the extent of acrylamide formation. Such a rigorous approach has only been possible through collaboration between the food industry and food chemists from different disciplines.
The commercial process (which includes potato selection and sorting, cutting, blanching, sugar augmentation, drying, frying and freezing), in combination with final cooking, generates the color, texture and flavor that consumers expect in french fries. This model facilitates evaluation of various processing and final cooking parameters to develop products with lower acrylamide. Additionally, the authors confirm previous reports, which found that minimizing the ratio of fructose to glucose in cut potato strips can reduce the amount of acrylamide that ends up in the french fries.
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Jane K. Parker, Dimitrios P. Balagiannis, Jeremy Higley, Gordon Smith, Bronislaw L. Wedzicha, Donald S. Mottram. Kinetic Model for the Formation of Acrylamide during the Finish-Frying of Commercial French Fries. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2012; 60 (36): 9321 DOI: 10.1021/jf302415n
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Oscillating microscopic beads could be key to biolab on a chipPublic release date: 25-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Caroline McCall cmccall5@mit.edu Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT team finds way to manipulate and measure magnetic particles without contact, potentially enabling multiple medical tests on a tiny device
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- If you throw a ball underwater, you'll find that the smaller it is, the faster it moves: A larger cross-section greatly increases the water's resistance. Now, a team of MIT researchers has figured out a way to use this basic principle, on a microscopic scale, to carry out biomedical tests that could eventually lead to fast, compact and versatile medical-testing devices.
The results, based on work by graduate student Elizabeth Rapoport and assistant professor Geoffrey Beach, of MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), are described in a paper published in the journal Lab on a Chip. MIT graduate student Daniel Montana '11 also contributed to the research as an undergraduate.
The balls used here are microscopic magnetic beads that can be "decorated" with biomolecules such as antibodies that cause them to bind to specific proteins or cells; such beads are widely used in biomedical research. The key to this new work was finding a way to capture individual beads and set them oscillating by applying a variable magnetic field. The rate of their oscillation can then be measured to assess the size of the beads.
When these beads are placed in a biological sample, biomolecules attach to their surfaces, making the beads larger a change that can then be detected through the biomolecules effect on the beads' oscillation. This would provide a way to detect exactly how much of a target biomolecule is present in a sample, and provide a way to give a virtually instantaneous electronic readout of that information.
This new technique, for the first time, allows these beads each about one micrometer, or millionth of a meter, in diameter to be used for precise measurements of tiny quantities of materials. This could, for example, lead to tests for disease agents that would need just a tiny droplet of blood and could deliver results instantly, instead of requiring laboratory analysis.
In a paper published earlier this year in the journal Applied Physics Letters, the same MIT researchers described their development of a technique for creating magnetic tracks on a microchip surface, and rapidly transporting beads along those tracks. (The technology required is similar to that used to read and write magnetic data on a computer's hard disk.) An operational device using this new approach would consist of a small reservoir above the tracks, where the liquid containing the magnetic beads and the biological sample would be placed.
Rather than pumping the fluid and the particles through channels, as in today's microfluidic devices, the particles would be controlled entirely through changes in applied magnetic fields. By controlling the directions of magnetic fields in closely spaced adjacent regions, the researchers create tiny areas with extremely strong magnetic fields, called magnetic domain walls, whose position can be shifted along the track. "We can use the magnetic domain walls to capture and transport the beads along the tracks," Beach says.
In the researchers' most recent paper, Rapoport explains, they have now shown that once a bead is captured, a magnetic field can be used to shake it back and forth. Then, the researchers measure how fast the bead moves as they change the frequency of the oscillation. "The resonant frequency is a function of the bead size," she says and could be used to reveal whether the bead has grown in size through attachment to a target biomolecule.
Besides being potentially quicker and requiring a far smaller biological sample to produce a result, such a device would be more flexible than existing chip-based biomedical tests, the researchers say. While most such devices are specifically designed to detect one particular kind of protein or disease agent, this new device could be used for a wide variety of different tests, simply by inserting a fresh batch of fluid containing beads coated with the appropriate reactant. After the test, the material could be flushed out, and the same chip used for a completely different test by inserting a different type of magnetic beads. "You'd just use it, wash it off, and use it again," Rapoport says.
There are dozens of types of magnetic beads commercially available now, which can be coated to react with many different biological materials, Beach explains, so such a test device could have enormous flexibility.
The MIT team has not yet used the system to detect biological molecules. Rather, they used magnetic beads of different sizes to demonstrate that their system is capable of detecting size differences corresponding to those between particles that are bound to biological molecules and those that are not. Having succeeded in this proof of concept, the researchers' next step will be to repeat the experiment using biological samples.
"We now have all the elements required to make a sensing device," Beach says. The next step is to combine the pieces in an operational device and demonstrate its performance.
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The research was partly funded by MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, and the test devices were made at the MIT NanoStructures Laboratory.
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Oscillating microscopic beads could be key to biolab on a chipPublic release date: 25-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Caroline McCall cmccall5@mit.edu Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT team finds way to manipulate and measure magnetic particles without contact, potentially enabling multiple medical tests on a tiny device
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- If you throw a ball underwater, you'll find that the smaller it is, the faster it moves: A larger cross-section greatly increases the water's resistance. Now, a team of MIT researchers has figured out a way to use this basic principle, on a microscopic scale, to carry out biomedical tests that could eventually lead to fast, compact and versatile medical-testing devices.
The results, based on work by graduate student Elizabeth Rapoport and assistant professor Geoffrey Beach, of MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), are described in a paper published in the journal Lab on a Chip. MIT graduate student Daniel Montana '11 also contributed to the research as an undergraduate.
The balls used here are microscopic magnetic beads that can be "decorated" with biomolecules such as antibodies that cause them to bind to specific proteins or cells; such beads are widely used in biomedical research. The key to this new work was finding a way to capture individual beads and set them oscillating by applying a variable magnetic field. The rate of their oscillation can then be measured to assess the size of the beads.
When these beads are placed in a biological sample, biomolecules attach to their surfaces, making the beads larger a change that can then be detected through the biomolecules effect on the beads' oscillation. This would provide a way to detect exactly how much of a target biomolecule is present in a sample, and provide a way to give a virtually instantaneous electronic readout of that information.
This new technique, for the first time, allows these beads each about one micrometer, or millionth of a meter, in diameter to be used for precise measurements of tiny quantities of materials. This could, for example, lead to tests for disease agents that would need just a tiny droplet of blood and could deliver results instantly, instead of requiring laboratory analysis.
In a paper published earlier this year in the journal Applied Physics Letters, the same MIT researchers described their development of a technique for creating magnetic tracks on a microchip surface, and rapidly transporting beads along those tracks. (The technology required is similar to that used to read and write magnetic data on a computer's hard disk.) An operational device using this new approach would consist of a small reservoir above the tracks, where the liquid containing the magnetic beads and the biological sample would be placed.
Rather than pumping the fluid and the particles through channels, as in today's microfluidic devices, the particles would be controlled entirely through changes in applied magnetic fields. By controlling the directions of magnetic fields in closely spaced adjacent regions, the researchers create tiny areas with extremely strong magnetic fields, called magnetic domain walls, whose position can be shifted along the track. "We can use the magnetic domain walls to capture and transport the beads along the tracks," Beach says.
In the researchers' most recent paper, Rapoport explains, they have now shown that once a bead is captured, a magnetic field can be used to shake it back and forth. Then, the researchers measure how fast the bead moves as they change the frequency of the oscillation. "The resonant frequency is a function of the bead size," she says and could be used to reveal whether the bead has grown in size through attachment to a target biomolecule.
Besides being potentially quicker and requiring a far smaller biological sample to produce a result, such a device would be more flexible than existing chip-based biomedical tests, the researchers say. While most such devices are specifically designed to detect one particular kind of protein or disease agent, this new device could be used for a wide variety of different tests, simply by inserting a fresh batch of fluid containing beads coated with the appropriate reactant. After the test, the material could be flushed out, and the same chip used for a completely different test by inserting a different type of magnetic beads. "You'd just use it, wash it off, and use it again," Rapoport says.
There are dozens of types of magnetic beads commercially available now, which can be coated to react with many different biological materials, Beach explains, so such a test device could have enormous flexibility.
The MIT team has not yet used the system to detect biological molecules. Rather, they used magnetic beads of different sizes to demonstrate that their system is capable of detecting size differences corresponding to those between particles that are bound to biological molecules and those that are not. Having succeeded in this proof of concept, the researchers' next step will be to repeat the experiment using biological samples.
"We now have all the elements required to make a sensing device," Beach says. The next step is to combine the pieces in an operational device and demonstrate its performance.
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The research was partly funded by MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, and the test devices were made at the MIT NanoStructures Laboratory.
Written by David Chandler, MIT News Office
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Hubble goes to the 'eXtreme' to assemble the deepest ever view of the universePublic release date: 25-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Richard Hook rhook@eso.org 49-893-200-6655 ESA/Hubble Information Centre
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small area of space in the constellation of Fornax (The Furnace), created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004. By collecting faint light over one million seconds of observation, the resulting image revealed thousands of galaxies, both nearby and very distant, making it the deepest image of the Universe ever taken at that time.
The new full-colour XDF image is even more sensitive than the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, thanks to the additional observations, and contains about 5500 galaxies, even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness that the unaided human eye can see [1].
Magnificent spiral galaxies similar in shape to the Milky Way and its neighbour the Andromeda galaxy appear in this image, as do large, fuzzy red galaxies in which the formation of new stars has ceased. These red galaxies are the remnants of dramatic collisions between galaxies and are in their declining years as the stars within them age.
Peppered across the field are tiny, faint, and yet more distant galaxies that are like the seedlings from which today's magnificent galaxies grew. The history of galaxies -- from soon after the first galaxies were born to the great galaxies of today, like the Milky Way -- is laid out in this one remarkable image.
Hubble pointed at a tiny patch of southern sky in repeat visits made over the past decade with a total exposure time of two million seconds [2]. More than 2000 images of the same field were taken with Hubble's two primary cameras: the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3, which extends Hubble's vision into near-infrared light. These were then combined to form the XDF.
"The XDF is the deepest image of the sky ever obtained and reveals the faintest and most distant galaxies ever seen. XDF allows us to explore further back in time than ever before," said Garth Illingworth of the University of California at Santa Cruz, principal investigator of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2009 (HUDF09) programme.
The Universe is 13.7 billion years old, and the XDF reveals galaxies that span back 13.2 billion years in time. Most of the galaxies in the XDF are seen when they were young, small, and growing, often violently as they collided and merged together. The early Universe was a time of dramatic birth for galaxies containing brilliant blue stars far brighter than our Sun. The light from those past events is just arriving at Earth now, and so the XDF is a time tunnel into the distant past when the Universe was just a fraction of its current age. The youngest galaxy found in the XDF existed just 450 million years after the Universe's birth in the Big Bang.
Before Hubble was launched in 1990, astronomers were able to see galaxies up to about seven billion light-years away, half way back to the Big Bang. Observations with telescopes on the ground were not able to establish how galaxies formed and evolved in the early Universe.
Hubble gave astronomers their first view of the actual forms of galaxies when they were young. This provided compelling, direct visual evidence that the Universe is truly changing as it ages. Like watching individual frames of a motion picture, the Hubble deep surveys reveal the emergence of structure in the infant Universe and the subsequent dynamic stages of galaxy evolution.
The planned NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (Webb telescope) will be aimed at the XDF, and will study it with its infrared vision. The Webb telescope will find even fainter galaxies that existed when the Universe was just a few hundred million years old. Because of the expansion of the Universe, light from the distant past is stretched into longer, infrared wavelengths. The Webb telescope's infrared vision is ideally suited to push the XDF even deeper, into a time when the first stars and galaxies formed and filled the early "dark ages" of the Universe with light.
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Notes
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
The HUDF09 team members are G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), M. Carollo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH)), M. Franx (Leiden University), I. Labbe (Leiden University), D. Magee and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), M. Stiavelli (Space Telescope Science Institute), M. Trenti (University of Cambridge), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and V. Gonzalez (University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory).
[1] The faintest objects detected in the XDF are 31st magnitude.
[2] The total exposure time is approximately two million seconds, or 23 days. Because Hubble can only observe for about 45 minutes of every 97-minute orbit, the observations that make up the XDF represent 50 days of telescope time.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team
Links
* Images of Hubble: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/category/spacecraft/
* NASA release: http://hubblesite.org/news/2012/37
Contacts
Garth Illingworth
University of California
Santa Cruz, California, USA
Tel: +1-831-459-2843
Email: gdi@ucolick.org
Richard Hook
ESO
Garching, Germany
Tel: +49-89-3200-6655
Email: rhook@eso.org
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, USA
Tel: +1-410-338-4514
Email: villard@stsci.edu
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Hubble goes to the 'eXtreme' to assemble the deepest ever view of the universePublic release date: 25-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Richard Hook rhook@eso.org 49-893-200-6655 ESA/Hubble Information Centre
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small area of space in the constellation of Fornax (The Furnace), created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004. By collecting faint light over one million seconds of observation, the resulting image revealed thousands of galaxies, both nearby and very distant, making it the deepest image of the Universe ever taken at that time.
The new full-colour XDF image is even more sensitive than the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, thanks to the additional observations, and contains about 5500 galaxies, even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness that the unaided human eye can see [1].
Magnificent spiral galaxies similar in shape to the Milky Way and its neighbour the Andromeda galaxy appear in this image, as do large, fuzzy red galaxies in which the formation of new stars has ceased. These red galaxies are the remnants of dramatic collisions between galaxies and are in their declining years as the stars within them age.
Peppered across the field are tiny, faint, and yet more distant galaxies that are like the seedlings from which today's magnificent galaxies grew. The history of galaxies -- from soon after the first galaxies were born to the great galaxies of today, like the Milky Way -- is laid out in this one remarkable image.
Hubble pointed at a tiny patch of southern sky in repeat visits made over the past decade with a total exposure time of two million seconds [2]. More than 2000 images of the same field were taken with Hubble's two primary cameras: the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3, which extends Hubble's vision into near-infrared light. These were then combined to form the XDF.
"The XDF is the deepest image of the sky ever obtained and reveals the faintest and most distant galaxies ever seen. XDF allows us to explore further back in time than ever before," said Garth Illingworth of the University of California at Santa Cruz, principal investigator of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2009 (HUDF09) programme.
The Universe is 13.7 billion years old, and the XDF reveals galaxies that span back 13.2 billion years in time. Most of the galaxies in the XDF are seen when they were young, small, and growing, often violently as they collided and merged together. The early Universe was a time of dramatic birth for galaxies containing brilliant blue stars far brighter than our Sun. The light from those past events is just arriving at Earth now, and so the XDF is a time tunnel into the distant past when the Universe was just a fraction of its current age. The youngest galaxy found in the XDF existed just 450 million years after the Universe's birth in the Big Bang.
Before Hubble was launched in 1990, astronomers were able to see galaxies up to about seven billion light-years away, half way back to the Big Bang. Observations with telescopes on the ground were not able to establish how galaxies formed and evolved in the early Universe.
Hubble gave astronomers their first view of the actual forms of galaxies when they were young. This provided compelling, direct visual evidence that the Universe is truly changing as it ages. Like watching individual frames of a motion picture, the Hubble deep surveys reveal the emergence of structure in the infant Universe and the subsequent dynamic stages of galaxy evolution.
The planned NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (Webb telescope) will be aimed at the XDF, and will study it with its infrared vision. The Webb telescope will find even fainter galaxies that existed when the Universe was just a few hundred million years old. Because of the expansion of the Universe, light from the distant past is stretched into longer, infrared wavelengths. The Webb telescope's infrared vision is ideally suited to push the XDF even deeper, into a time when the first stars and galaxies formed and filled the early "dark ages" of the Universe with light.
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Notes
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
The HUDF09 team members are G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), M. Carollo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH)), M. Franx (Leiden University), I. Labbe (Leiden University), D. Magee and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), M. Stiavelli (Space Telescope Science Institute), M. Trenti (University of Cambridge), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and V. Gonzalez (University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory).
[1] The faintest objects detected in the XDF are 31st magnitude.
[2] The total exposure time is approximately two million seconds, or 23 days. Because Hubble can only observe for about 45 minutes of every 97-minute orbit, the observations that make up the XDF represent 50 days of telescope time.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team
Links
* Images of Hubble: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/category/spacecraft/
* NASA release: http://hubblesite.org/news/2012/37
Contacts
Garth Illingworth
University of California
Santa Cruz, California, USA
Tel: +1-831-459-2843
Email: gdi@ucolick.org
Richard Hook
ESO
Garching, Germany
Tel: +49-89-3200-6655
Email: rhook@eso.org
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, USA
Tel: +1-410-338-4514
Email: villard@stsci.edu
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The 2012 New York Film Festival begins Friday, Sept. 28 and? marks the 50th anniversary of this influential film series produced by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. It?s also the last lineup Program Director Richard Pe?a will shape. The life-long movie buff has headed the festival?s selection committee for the past 25 years, watching it grow, evolve and adapt to the digital age. He?ll continue teaching Film Studies at Columbia University and host Reel13 on THIRTEEN, but his next summer will most likely be spent in Brazil instead of the Upper West Side. Here he talks with NYC-ARTS about what?s in store for the big 5-0, how the American audience has changed, and how this shift in movie culture creates the biggest challenge films have ever faced.
Q: You have represented NYFF for half of its existence. Were you able to meet all of your expectations?
A: Here we are 25 years after I got here and the lights are still on ? that?s what I?m most proud of. I?m not only glad the festival has survived, but also that it has evolved with the times. At its core I like to think it?s remained the same festival ? committed to trying to present what we consider the cutting edge in the world.
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Q: What areas would you like to see the new director transform that you weren?t able to?
A: There?s this whole growing area of what one might call ?media arts? where artists use movie imagery but often within installations. We haven?t really been able to address this and it would be interesting for the Film Society to figure out how to. As time goes on, the festival should think of new platforms because we now live in an age where people watch movies on their phones. I don?t necessarily think we should move in that direction, but it?s a reality that we need to consider, whether we decide to interface with it or not.
Q: When you became director, did you push for more representation of international films since that?s your expertise?
A: The reality of working for a film festival before 1988 was that it was very difficult to get access to those films. I came into the festival just as we were coming into the video age, when we began to get VHS submissions from different parts of the world. So people began to say the festival became broader and more international after I came on, but I had much greater access to a wider variety of films than my predecessors did. They would have to go see films at film festivals or travel to various countries to see them. People didn?t send heavy, precious 35mm copies halfway around the world.
Q: Even with technological advances, is there still an area in film being under-represented today?
A: It?s less by area than by levels of production. We?re not seeing enough lower-level, lower-budget work. Take Chinese films for example. When we began showing them in the ?90s, they were excellent but reasonably budgeted, and usually period films done with a certain amount of commercial wherewithal. It was only by the beginning of the new millennium that we began seeing Chinese underground films that were simply made and more about everyday life. In fact, ?Memories Look at Me? is a good example of that kind of cinema in the festival this year. Over time we became aware of other kinds of Chinese cinema, but that?s what we?re still missing in many other parts of the world. We see the better-known films but haven?t burrowed deep enough to see less-acclaimed work.
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Q: What do you have special planned for the 50th?
A: One series I?m very proud to present is based on two French television shows. One is called ?Cin?aste: Filmmakers of Our Time? and the other ?Cinema of Our Time.? They were basically the same series but on different channels. Since 1964, this series has made incredible shows in which a recognized filmmaker makes a film about another filmmaker. There would be a meeting of minds and often great revelations about their work. We managed to put together 34 of these programs, many of which have never been shown in the U.S., and I think people will be delighted. These shows offer an exciting way for film to talk about film.
Q: You?ve been attending NYFF since you were a young boy.
A: Yeah, I started attending the festival in 1965. I often say that I went to the ?University of the New York Film Festival? because going each year taught me so much about cinema. I?m old enough that I went to university during a time when film studies were at a really infant stage, so I didn?t get much academic training in film. It made up for a lot of what I didn?t get in the classroom.
Q: How has the general movie-going audience evolved?
A: One of the things I?ve noticed is how America has become more conservative in its taste, whereas in the ?60s and ?70s, when I grew up, there was a very wonderful interest in foreign films; it was considered a general part of culture. I can?t tell you how often I have students in my class tell me it?s their first time seeing a subtitled film. It?s astounding. It?s sad to me that we?ve lost that bit of our culture. In the past 30 years, Americans have closed in on themselves and become less interested in what?s going on in the rest of the world. I also often complain that my students are less patient than they should be. They expect movies to deliver right away.
Q: Are these trends in consumption affecting the art form?
A: Television is a huge competition, even though it?s been around for a long time, because people like me who were snobs used to look down on it. We considered it pure entertainment or pastime. That?s just not true anymore ? probably was never totally true ? but certainly anyone who sees ?The Sopranos? or ?The Wire? or ?Mad Men? knows that these are shows that are extremely well done with some of the best writing and acting in America. We never saw this coming 20 years ago.
Q: Is there a NYFF pick that you feel hasn?t gotten the praise it deserves, but will be more appreciated as time goes on?
A: Certainly ?Roger and Me.? The impact of the film has gotten even greater since 1989 and launched this era of documentaries that we?re in now. For the first time in history, documentaries are a viable theatrical genre. Many filmmakers did it before him perhaps, but Michael Moore really put it all together in such a way that it had a big impact. Robert Altman?s ?Short Cuts? has become the symbol of the kind of movie where lots of stories are going on at the same time. Again, he didn?t invent that form, but the excellence of his film helped identify that approach. ?Pulp Fiction? is another that we screened in 1994, which started the term ?Tarentino-like,? an adjective people would use to describe other films. These are films that I think were greater on the cinematic level. They established a style that many filmmakers subsequently adopted.
Q: What?s the most exciting development in cinema today?
A: We?re still trying to figure out the overall impact of digital technology. Obviously it?s affected not only production, but also distribution and exhibition. What are the real opportunities of digital distribution? What does that mean for the future of the theatrical spectacle? Cinema was born as a theatrical medium. Up until 1990, that was the experience that most of us defined as watching a movie. That?s no longer necessarily how we watch movies. It?s not that we watch fewer movies, in fact we probably watch more, but we watch them at home on our iPads and phones or airplanes. So how does this affect the nature of how films are made and what kind of films are made? The advent of digital technology is the single greatest event for cinema in the last 20 years.
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This interview has been edited and condensed. The New York Film Festival runs Sept. 28 ? Oct. 14, and includes 17 days of? world premieres, prizewinners from Cannes and Berlin, special retrospective screenings, live performances, panel discussions and more.
Corrie Sanders, the South African southpaw who knocked out Wladimir Klitschko in one of the great upsets in heavyweight boxing, died after being shot by robbers at a restaurant during a family celebration. The former WBO and WBU champion was 46.
Sanders was shot in the hand and stomach at a family member's 21st birthday party at the restaurant in Brits, in South Africa's North West province, on Saturday night, police said. Police Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said three armed men entered the restaurant with the apparent intention to rob it and shot randomly, hitting Sanders. No other injuries were reported. No arrests had been made but a murder investigation has been opened.
Renowned for his hand speed, the 6-foot-4 Sanders retired in 2008 with a 42-4 record, with 31 knockouts. But he was most remembered for the shocking second-round knockout of Klitschko in Germany in 2003 that earned him the WBO title. It is one of only three losses for the Ukrainian and current WBO champion. Sanders agreed to the fight on short notice and was a 40-1 underdog.
NHL
League, players?to meet today
The NHL and NHL Players' Association are set to meet today in Toronto for the first time in nearly two weeks, but a discussion about a new collective bargaining agreement isn't on the agenda.
Instead, the sides will discuss the accounting for last season's hockey-related revenue. It's the first time they've met since Sept. 12, when each side tabled a proposal.
The league enacted a lockout when the CBA expired three days later. The work stoppage has already caused a delay in the start of training camps and prompted the cancellation of September's preseason games.
SOCCER
Terry quits international play
Former England captain John Terry unexpectedly ended his nine-year international career, quitting before he was due to face a racism hearing because his place in the team had become "untenable." Despite being cleared in court of racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during a Premier League match last year, the Chelsea defender was facing a lengthy ban if found guilty by a Football Association panel this week. Terry, 31, became the first England player to be stripped of the captaincy twice when he was fired in February ahead of the criminal trial. But Terry has no plans to stop playing for Chelsea, where he has spent his entire career.
TENNIS
Wozniacki romps? to 19th career title
Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki dominated Kaia Kanepi 6-1, 6-0 to win the KDB Korea Open in Seoul, South Korea. Wozniacki from Denmark needed only an one hour to defeat the third-seeded Kanepi of Estonia. It was Wozniacki's 19th career WTA victory.
? Top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France routed fifth-seeded Andreas Seppi 6-1, 6-2 to defend his Moselle Open title in Metz, France. The seventh-ranked Tsonga needed just 50 minutes to win, breaking the Italian's serve four times. It is Tsonga's second title of the year, after the Qatar Open in January.
? Martin Klizan of Slovakia defeated Fabio Fognini of Italy 6-2, 6-3 to win his first career ATP title at the St. Petersburg Open in Russia. In the past seven months, the 23-year-old Slovak has moved up from No. 121 in the world to a career-high 45th. His breakthrough season included reaching the fourth round of the U.S. Open by beating No. 6-ranked Jo-Wilfred Tsonga.
WNBA
Adams, Silver Stars ?run past Lynx
Danielle Adams scored 28 points and the San Antonio Silver Stars closed the regular season with a 99-84 victory over the visiting Minnesota Lynx. Tangela Smith added 15 points and Danielle Robinson scored 14 for playoff-bound San Antonio (21-13). Seimone Augustus had 18 points, Monica Wright scored 16 and Lindsay Whalen had 14 for defending champion Minnesota (27-7).
? Erin Phillips matched a career high with 21 points, and the Indiana Fever beat the visiting Tulsa Shock 91-58 in the regular-season finale for both teams. Tamika Catchings added 20 points and 10 rebounds for the Fever (22-12). Ivory Latta led the Shock (9-25) with 16 points.
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The 2012 New York Film Festival begins Friday, Sept. 28 and? marks the 50th anniversary of this influential film series produced by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. It?s also the last lineup Program Director Richard Pe?a will shape. The life-long movie buff has headed the festival?s selection committee for the past 25 years, watching it grow, evolve and adapt to the digital age. He?ll continue teaching Film Studies at Columbia University and host Reel13 on THIRTEEN, but his next summer will most likely be spent in Brazil instead of the Upper West Side. Here he talks with NYC-ARTS about what?s in store for the big 5-0, how the American audience has changed, and how this shift in movie culture creates the biggest challenge films have ever faced.