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Sunday, 24 June 2012

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Saturday, 23 June 2012

WNBA President Laurel Richie and hoops legend Anne Meyers Drysdale talk Title IX, state of WNBA, US women's Olympic GK Hope Solo

Laurel Richie, WNBA?President, and Ann Meyers Drysdale, Phoenix Suns and Mercury vice president and overall basketball legend, took some time to talk with The Republic/azcentral.com/ Inside The Lines?on Saturday, which marked the 40th anniversary of Title IX (the education amendment that gave women more opportunities in sports, forever changing the sports landscape).

Up first, Laurel Richie:

On Title IX and the WNBA: I think Title IX was a significant piece of legislation. Though it happened 40 years ago. It's so important to tell that history and tell that story. ? The one thing I know for certain, without Title IX, we wouldn't have such? great talent pool to draw from."

Title IX's significance: There's a positive and negative for girls today, when you say 'Title IX,' they don't know what it means. They are not aware of the legislation. The good part about that is they're growing up in a world where they feel the benefits of Title IX and the opportunities that are there for them. But we're not finished with it yet. I'm encouraged that we can use this anniversary to continue to tell the story so that they realize what went before them and the people who went before them.

Title IX's future: Tiitle IX is about opportunity. We have to stay aware of it to make sure we keep those opportunities available. If we don't continue to focus on it and be aware of it, you may se at the university level, the opportunities grow smaller and not grow larger. ... I think the real beauty of Title IX is not just the opporuntites for athletes. It creates opportunities for coaches and trainers as well. The individual athletes are getting much better training and much better coaching. They come through that process and upon graduation, they have obtained such skill that bring them to a greater level when they come into the WNBA.

How Title IX impacted her: I would not describe myself as a professional athlete but when I look back, I was a synchronized swimmer and a cheerleader. I don't know this for a fact but I think that's not a coincidence that as a young girl, those were either the vehicles that were available to me or the vehicles that I was steered into.
I look at my nieces now, who are the next generation, they play tennis, basketball, soccer. I feel like Title IX has done a lot for my generation. but it has done more for the next generation.

How it's going so far as the WNBA president: I think I'm 13 months in. It's great. I think last year it was an incredible experience just getting to know players and sponsors and fans. Just getting to know the basketball side and the business side. There's still a lot more learning to do. And I feel even more optimistic about the future of the WNBA. It's nice to not be a rookie anymore.

On the big disparity right now among good WNBA teams and the bottom teams: I think that Minny (Minnesota Lynx) had a great end of the year and it continued that momentum through the offseason and into the start of this year. I'm encourage by Chicago. I thnk they made some interesting trades. You just hope that all teams find their stride and sort of come into their own. Even Tulsa, where their record is not impressive but there were games where they would come within one point, two points or went into overtime. Sometimes the record doesn't tell the full story. Thankfully, this being in an Olympic year, some teams have an opportunity to regroup a little bit during that break and I think we're going to have an exciting second-half of the season.

And now Ann Meyers Drysdale:

On the media coverage 40th anniversary of Title IX is getting: It's been a great buildup to be involved with so many women who have opened the doors for us. I've been back east in New York and Connecticut. ESPN and ESPNW have really stepped up in working with us.
To have Hope Solo here in Phoenix, a modern-day athlete who worked real hard to where she was at and the scholarships were already there for her. Title IX has opened the door for not just girls but for parents and fathers who are having daughters and mothers who are supporting their daughters too, husbands who have wives, brothers who think it's OK for their sister to go out and play.
In some states, it was against the law for girls to comepte in sports. Certianly some things have changed. 40 years in, there are still some schools who are not in compliance with Title IX. There are still a lot of fights to be done. And the ones who will stand up for it will make a difference. ... Media makes such a huge difference in the sports world today with males and females. The WNBA now in its 16th season, a lot ot of young girls didn't know that there was a time that there was no WNBA. So those are things that really make a difference. That it was around long enough that those kids didn't know it didn't exist.

On an early beneficiary of Title IX: Iwas the first woman to receive a basketball scholarship at UCLA. I'm sure my story is a lot different than others. In '72 I was in high school, my brother David was at UCLA and played for coach John Wooden. UCLA was a university. I have five brothers and five sisters. My family couldn't afford for all of us to go to major universities. Probably junior colleges and state schools and so forth. In 72, my brother brought his roommate, who was Kenny Washington, the (UCLA) women's coach, to our house. He was on coach Wooden's first two championship teams. He came and said we would like to offer you a full athletic scholarship to UCLA. I thought, 'I'm getting an education? At UCLA? Where my broth is going? Where coach Wooden is?' I wouldn't have dreamed of that. So for me to get an education at a school was phenomenal.

On her older sister, Patty, who was an athlete but missed those opportunities: My sister Patty is the oldest of 11. And she was breaking down doors way before I was. I think too, that's where the media comes into play. Not being able to see her play and the other girls. Patty would put teams together. She would go to the principal and say we want to put a volleyball team together, we want to do this. And thety did it. Because she and some of the girls her age, just stormed in there and said you have to do what's right. To me, those are the girls who had to fight and were denied a lot of things. I just had to come along when the media started to notice. I came right after Billie Jean King. I think my tryout with the Pacers absolutely stands in history with Title IX, what happened and with women in sports.

On the big difference now for women's sports then and what is now: If you go back to when I was a freshman, sophomore, junior at UCLA, our games were local. Not until I was a senior, were we able to fly out of state. Today, you take a Tennessee, a Connecticut, a Baylor, they're flying all over the country and out of the country to play games and tournaments vs. teams in Italy and Spain.
To even have that budget to fly. And now you have two uniforms and even four uniforms. You have several pairs of shoes. When I was at UCLA, we were lucky to have one pair of shoes.

On Hope Solo as the Mercuy's Woman of Inspiration: Certianly being an Olympian and going into the 2012 Olympics, struck a chord. Of course, Dancing with the Stars helped. It gave her a lot of recognition and it gave the women's soccer team a lot of recognition. That's a plus. We've had some terrific women and strong role models (in previous seasons). Not only do women see it but men see it, how positive sports can be.

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Friday, 22 June 2012

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Avian flu viruses which are transmissible between humans could evolve in nature

ScienceDaily (June 21, 2012) ? t might be possible for human-to-human airborne transmissible avian H5N1 influenza viruses to evolve in nature, new research has found. The findings, from research led by Professor Derek Smith and Dr Colin Russell at the University of Cambridge, were published 22 June in the journal Science.

Currently, avian H5N1 influenza, also known as bird flu, can be transmitted from birds to humans, but not (or only very rarely) from human to human. However, two recent papers by Herfst, Fouchier and colleagues in Science and Imai, Kawaoka and colleagues in Nature reveal that potentially with as few as five mutations (amino acid substitutions), or four mutations plus reassortment, avian H5N1 can become airborne transmissible between mammals, and thus potentially among humans. However, until now, it was not known whether these mutations might evolve in nature.

The Cambridge researchers first analysed all of the surveillance data available on avian H5N1 influenza viruses from the last 15 years, focusing on birds and humans. They discovered that two of the five mutations seen in the experimental viruses (from the Fouchier and Kawaoka labs) had occurred in numerous existing avian flu strains. Additionally, they found that a number of the viruses had both of the mutations.

Colin Russell, Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, said: "Viruses that have two of these mutations are already common in birds, meaning that there are viruses that might have to acquire only three additional mutations in a human to become airborne transmissible. The next key question is 'is three a lot, or a little?' "

The scientists explored this key question using a mathematical model of how viruses replicate and evolve within a mammalian host and assessed the influence of various factors on whether the remaining three mutations could evolve in a single host or in a short chain of transmission between hosts

The factors that increased the likelihood of mutations evolving are:

1. Random mutation. The replication mechanisms of influenza viruses don't make perfect copies. On average, every time an influenza virus replicates itself it makes approximately one mutation somewhere in the genome of each new virus. In each infected human there will be billions of viruses, and thus with many viruses replicating, multiple mutations can accumulate within a single host. 2. Positive selection. If some of the remaining mutations help the avian virus to adapt to mammals, then those mutations will make the viruses more fit and thus will be positively selected and preferentially accumulate.

3. Long infection. The longer someone is infected and producing new viruses, the more time there is for mutations to accumulate.

4. Functionally equivalent substitutions. The sets of substitutions identified by Fouchier and Kawaoka are unlikely to be the only combinations of substitutions capable of producing an aerosol transmissible virus. The probability of emergence increases with the number of combinations.

5. Diversity in the within-bird virus population. Given all of the mutations there are likely to be within a host due to random mutation, it is possible that the viruses from a bird that infect a human might have a mutation that would not be detected by routine surveillance. For example, if 100 virus particles from a bird infect a human and one of those particles had a key mutation, it would increase the probability of the mutation reaching high levels within a host even though routine sequencing would not detect it.

6. Transmission between mammals. If mammals are capable of transmitting viruses that have some but not all of the necessary substitutions it could increase the probability of an airborne transmissible virus evolving.

The factors that decreased the likelihood of mutations evolving are:

1. An effective immune response. An effective immune response would shorten the length of an infection and thus decrease the time available to accumulate mutations.

2. Deleterious substitutions. If any of the substitutions necessary for airborne transmission were harmful to the virus it would, on average, slow the accumulation of mutations.

3. Order of acquiring mutations. It is not currently known if the mutations for airborne transmissibility need to be acquired in a specific order. If they do, it would, on average, slow the accumulation of mutations.

"With the information we have, it is impossible to say what the exact risk is of the virus becoming airborne transmissible among humans. However, the results suggest that the remaining three mutations could evolve in a single human host, making a virus evolving in nature a potentially serious threat," said Derek Smith, Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics at the University of Cambridge. "We now know that it is in the realm of possibility that these viruses can evolve in nature, and what needs to be done to assess the risk more accurately of these mutations evolving in nature."

The scientists recommend the following activities be considered high priority for estimating and ameliorating the risk of emergence of aerosol transmissible H5N1 viruses.

First, additional surveillance in regions where viruses with airborne transmission enabling substitutions have been observed and in regions connected to those regions by bird migration and trade. Also, increased surveillance for mutations that might have the same function as those found by the Fouchier and Kawaoka labs.

Second, related to surveillance, some targeted sequencing of H5N1 viruses should be done by "deep sequencing" where the lab sequences many viruses from an individual host to look for viruses that might have accumulated the critical mutations, even if those viruses are just a small proportion of the viruses within an animal.

Third, further investigations are needed to determine which substitutions and combinations of substitutions that are not the same as, but have the same function as, the substitutions identified by the Fouchier and Kawaoka labs are capable of making viruses airborne transmissible between mammals.

Fourth, further studies are needed to elucidate the changes in within-host fitness and between-host transmissibility associated with each airborne transmission enabling substitution and combination of substitutions.

Professor Smith added: "The situation is similar to assessing the risk of an earthquake or tsunami. We don't know exactly when and where, but by increasing monitoring and research -- some of which is already underway -- scientists and public health officials will be able to increase the accuracy with which the risk can be assessed and to minimise those risks."

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Colin A. Russell, Judith M. Fonville, Andr? E. X. Brown, David F. Burke, David L. Smith, Sarah L. James, Sander Herfst, Sander van Boheemen, Martin Linster, Eefje J. Schrauwen, Leah Katzelnick, Ana Moster?n, Thijs Kuiken, Eileen Maher, Gabriele Neumann, Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Ron A. M. Fouchier, and Derek J. Smith. The Potential for Respiratory Droplet?Transmissible A/H5N1 Influenza Virus to Evolve in a Mammalian Host. Science, 22 June 2012 DOI: 10.1126/science.1213362

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Thursday, 21 June 2012

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What to Expect from Advanced Hearing Center

Realizing you or a loved one may be experiencing hearing loss is often a very startling and unsettling discovery. Many people see hearing loss as a concrete sign of aging or of the body starting to fail. People become afraid that their lives are going to change forever and worry what others will think of them when they are seen wearing hearing aids.

Many of these negative connotations associated with hearing loss and the need to wear hearing instruments are based on the older models of hearing instruments. They were large, ugly and uncomfortable. They were embarrassing to wear and often emitted loud squeals at the most inappropriate of times. Fortunately, today?s hearing aids are completely different. They are small, sleek and discrete. They also feature the latest technological advances in bringing sound to people who have experienced hearing loss.

The first step to take if hearing loss is suspected is to schedule an exam and hearing test.

An audiologist, or hearing specialist, will assess the information gathered at your visit to access if hearing loss has occurred and if so the reason, the extent of damage that has occurred and the best course of action for treatment. If hearing devices are recommended, the audiologist will suggest the best types for your specific situation.

The hearing test is quick, simple and painless. The hearing specialist may start by whispering words to you at various levels from around the room to get a baseline for your hearing capabilities. A tuning fork is often used by gently tapping on the knee or elbow. This is to determine if you can hear the vibrations the tuning fork makes when it is tapped.

A small device placed behind the ear helps audiologists find the exact location and extent hearing loss that has occurred.

Once the hearing specialist analyzes the results and makes a diagnosis it is time to move on towards a solution to bringing back the gift of sound. Hearing aids are typically suggested as the course of action for hearing loss. There are dozens of hearing instrument manufacturers, each with a long list of models on the market. There are many possibilities available. Some of the features hearing devices have included digital, wireless and water resistant technology. There are even hearing aids available that are so tiny they are worn completely inside the ear, making them invisible to the outside world.

Your hearing specialist will explain the advantages and challenges each type of hearing aid presents. They will help you find the unit that best fits your needs. They will then explain to you how to operate it, as well as the proper care and maintenance.

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