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PFT: Steelers president sends message to Wallace

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Giants coach Tom Coughlin admitted Wednesday he was ?very disappointed? to lose tight end Jake Ballard on waivers, while New England coach Bill Belichick sloughed off the idea he violated one of the league?s unwritten rules in picking up the injured tight end.

?First of all, there aren?t any unwrittens,? Belichick said, via ESPNBoston.com. ?You can?t negotiate a contract, release him, and then re-negotiate another contract with him that was already done in advance. I?m sure the Giants weren?t doing that. So the player is on waivers, he?s on waivers ? ours or anybody else?s. I don?t know what unwrittens you?re talking about.

?Any time you put a player on waivers, you know there are 31 teams out there that can take him if they want him. We all know that. There is no secrets about that.?

Belichick?s explanation comes as no surprise.

Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News wrote that Coughlin ?clearly wasn?t pleased,? but the question remains who he?s aggravated at.

The facts in the case are fairly simple.

The Giants were trying to stash a talented but injured player on IR, but they didn?t want to carry him on the roster until cuts started in August. Assuming the league would allow them to do so was, in hindsight, a mistake. Ballard tore his ACL in the Super Bowl (and also needed microfracture surgery), and won?t be ready until 2013. For paying him $540,000 to not play this season, New England retains his exclusive rights next year.

So in exchange for one of their 90 spots in June, the Giants lost a player who caught 38 passes for 604 yards and four touchdowns last year.

?Discouraged is a minor description,? Coughlin said. ?Very disappointed. I don?t have a lot to say about that. Just the fact that we?re disappointed. Very disappointed.?

Asked why they didn?t just carry him for another two months, Coughlin replied: ?Don?t ask me those questions. I don?t have the answers for you. We?re all disappointed. That?s all.?

Giants General Manager Jerry Reese wasn?t quoted, but two things seem clear from this point: The Giants won?t take any chances anytime soon when trying to stash a player, and the Patriots better not try the same tactic, having alerted the league to their indifference to the ?unwritten rules.?

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Homeless man finds $77,000, gets to keep it

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Timothy Yost, who is homeless, stumbled on $77,000 in a city park along the Colorado River in Texas.

By Isolde Raftery, msnbc.com

A homeless man who stumbled on $77,000 in a city park in a Texan town may keep the money, the City Council decided Tuesday evening.

In January, Timothy Yost, who is homeless, was walking through Fisherman?s Park in Bastrop, Texas, heading for a spot along the Colorado River to wash his feet. He spotted a bag, which jingled when he kicked it, according to the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. When he opened the bag, he found damp bills and 40 gold Krugerrand coins from South Africa.

When Yost, 46, tried to exchange the money at a nearby bank, the teller told him he would have to wait until the bills dried, the Statesman reported. That?s when the teller called police, who placed the money in evidence.


Bastrop Mayor Terry Orr told msnbc.com that Detective Tamera Brown launched a lengthy investigation to find the money?s owner. She reached out to the FBI and a bank fraud investigation team and placed an ad in the local newspaper, per the law. Several people said the money was theirs, Orr said, but their claims were dubious.

Ultimately, Brown determined that the money was found ? under Texas state law, a finder may be a keeper, so long as the original owner can?t be located.

?I hope this man can find some benefit in this; I hope it gives him an opportunity to change his particular circumstances,? Orr said. ?That?s just Terry talking as a human being. But I think the rest of the council would feel the same way.?

The story has been a spot of good news for a small town that recently had a spate of bad luck. In September, wildfires hit the area, destroying 70 homes. The fires burned 1.5 million trees in the area.

?It?s just one individual but hooray for him,? Orr said.

As for Yost, he was in jail Tuesday night for being intoxicated. But he told Austin?s Fox 7 news that his first purchase would be a car.

"I've been walking for so long; the first thing I want is a vehicle," he said.

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Nature or nurture? It may depend on where you live

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The extent to which our development is affected by nature or nurture ? our genetic make-up or our environment ? may differ depending on where we live, according to research funded by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.

In a study published today in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, researchers from the Twins Early Development Study at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry studied data from over 6,700 families relating to 45 childhood characteristics, from IQ and hyperactivity through to height and weight. They found that genetic and environmental contributions to these characteristics vary geographically in the United Kingdom, and published their results online as a series of nature-nurture maps.

Our development, health and behaviour are determined by complex interactions between our genetic make-up and the environment in which we live. For example, we may carry genes that increase our risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but if we eat a healthy diet and get sufficient exercise, we may not develop the disease. Similarly, someone may carry genes that reduce his or her risk of developing lung cancer, but heavy smoking may still lead to the disease.

The UK-based Twins Early Development Study follows over 13,000 pairs of twins, both identical and non-identical, born between 1994 and 1996. When the twins were age 12, the researchers carried out a broad survey to assess a wide range of cognitive abilities, behavioural (and other) traits, environments and academic achievement in 6,759 twin pairs. The researchers then designed an analysis that reveals the UK's genetic and environmental hotspots, something which had never been done before.

"These days we're used to the idea that it's not a question of nature or nurture; everything, including our behaviour, is a little of both," explains Dr Oliver Davis, a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry. "But when we saw the maps, the first thing that struck us was how much the balance of genes and environments can vary from region to region."

"Take a trait like classroom behaviour problems. From our maps we can tell that in most of the UK around 60% of the difference between people is explained by genes. However, in the South East genes aren't as important: they explain less than half of the variation. For classroom behaviour, London is an 'environmental hotspot'."

The maps give the researchers a global overview of how the environment interacts with our genomes, without homing in on particular genes or environments. However, the patterns have given them important clues about which environments to explore in more detail.

"The nature-nurture maps help us to spot patterns in the complex data, and to try to work out what's causing these patterns," says Dr Davis. "For our classroom behaviour example, we realised that one thing that varies more in London is household income. When we compare maps of income inequality to our nature-nurture map for classroom behaviour, we find income inequality may account for some of the pattern.

"Of course, this is just one example. There are any number of environments that vary geographically in the UK, from social environments like health care or education provision to physical environments like altitude, the weather or pollution. Our approach is all about tracking down those environments that you wouldn't necessarily think of at first."

It may be relatively easy to explain environmental hotspots, but what about the genetic hotspots that appear on the maps: do people's genomes vary more in those regions? The researchers believe this is not the case; rather, genetic hotspots are areas where the environment exposes the effects of genetic variation.

For example, researchers searching for gene variants that increase the risk of hay fever may study populations from two regions. In the first region people live among fields of wind-pollinated crops, whereas the second region is miles away from those fields. In this second region, where no one is exposed to pollen, no one develops hay fever; hence any genetic differences between people living in this region would be invisible.

On the other hand, in the first region, where people live among the fields of crops, they will all be exposed to pollen and differences between the people with a genetic susceptibility to hay fever and the people without will stand out. That would make the region a genetic hotspot for hay fever.

"The message that these maps really drive home is that your genes aren't your destiny. There are plenty of things that can affect how your particular human genome expresses itself, and one of those things is where you grow up," says Dr Davis.

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Sleep And Diet: Too Few Hours Of Shut-Eye Clouds Food Judgment, Studies Find

Scientists have taken another big step in understanding why sleep deprivation can lead to weight gain.

At an annual meeting hosted by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society, scientists presented two studies that used brain imaging to show how a lack of sleep can affect neuronal responses and make it harder for people to chose healthy food options.

"In general, we know that losing sleep impairs decision making, and we know that it impairs metabolism. What these studies show is that they're not two totally separate things," said Michael Grandner, who was not involved in the studies, but works as a research associate at the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, part of University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine.

In one study from the University of California, Berkley, researchers used MRI scans to monitor 16 adults who rated their desire for 80 foods after a normal night of sleep and after being awake for 24 hours.

The images revealed that sleep deprivation affects areas of the brain that help us sort through and weigh the many factors -- from how good food tastes to how healthy it is -- that influence our decision to eat a certain food.

"For a number of years now, we've started to realize that there's a potential link between sleep loss and obesity," said Matt Walker, an associate professor of psychology and principal investigator at UC Berkley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab. He said that to date, much of that research has focused on what is happening or failing in the body, such as changes in the hormones that influence hunger and satiety.

"What we're finding is that there are not only differences that occur in the body in terms of metabolism and hormones, but also a failure in the brain," Walker said. "It's a failure in the ability to integrate signals that help you make appropriate food choices."

In a separate but similar study out of New York, researchers used MRIs to track responses to images of unhealthy foods (like candy and pizza) and healthy foods (like fruits and vegetables) after several nights of just four hours of sleep. They compared those results to the participants' responses after getting a full night of sleep.

The images revealed that when participants only got a few hours of sleep, they had increased activation in the parts of the brain associated with reward and motivation. But when they got plenty of sleep, there were no substantial changes in the brain's activity patterns, suggesting that sleep deprivation may result in increased susceptibility to unhealthy foods -- as well as poor decision making.

"What's interesting is that these two studies overlap. You have two different groups, on two different coasts finding essentially the same thing, which is good," Grandner said.

He pointed out that the study's do have limitations -- chief among them, their small sample size. He said future research would hopefully include more patients and compare people who are overweight and obese with those who aren't.

Overall, the research could help provide a better, more nuanced understanding of how sleep affects weight and general well-being.

"Sleep is a very important aspect of health. We think a lot about how our diet affects health, and how physical activity affects our health, but we tend not to think about how sleep affects our health," Grandner said. "Hopefully these types of studies will help change that perspective."

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Earlier birth, at 37 weeks, is best for twins, study suggests

ScienceDaily (June 13, 2012) ? University of Adelaide researchers say women pregnant with twins should elect to give birth at 37 weeks to avoid serious complications.

The advice is based on the world's biggest study addressing the timing of birth for women who have an uncomplicated twin pregnancy, the results of which are published June 13 in the British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology.

Studying 235 women in Australia, New Zealand and Italy, researchers found that babies born to women in the early birth group (37 weeks) were significantly less likely to be small for their gestational age compared with babies born to women in the standard care group (38 weeks or later).

Lead researcher Professor Jodie Dodd from the University of Adelaide's Robinson Institute and the Women's & Children's Hospital says: "Infants of a twin pregnancy are recognized to be at risk of problems during pregnancy, particularly from a slowing of the rate of growth in one or both twins.

"This slowing of the growth rate can result in low birth weight, which is associated with an increased need for care in the neonatal nursery in the short term and increased risk of health problems in later life, including heart disease and diabetes. There is also the risk of one or both twins being stillborn.

"This is why we've taken such a great interest in the optimal time for twins' birth," Professor Dodd says.

"We found that at 37 weeks, elective birth is associated with a significant reduction in the risk of serious morbidity for infants, without increasing complications related to immaturity or induction of labor."

Professor Dodd says there has been a lot of uncertainty in clinical practice about the optimal time for twins' birth.

"We hope this study will help clinicians to make recommendations to women with healthy twin pregnancies that lead to less complications at birth, and therefore lead to happier, healthier lives for their babies.

"While this is the biggest study of its kind so far, our research supports the evidence shown in previous studies, and it also supports the guidelines of care released by the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists in September 2011. These guidelines recommend that women who have uncomplicated twin pregnancies should elect to give birth at 37 weeks."

This study was supported by a grant from the Women's and Children's Hospital Foundation.

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