CBS acaba de comprar una comedia a varias c?maras escrita por dos actores de 'The
Big Bang Theory', John Ross Bowie (Barry Kripke, el enemigo de Sheldon
y Leonard) y Kevin Sussman (Stuart, el gerente de una tienda de comics).
Titulado The Second Coming of Rob, el proyecto, libremente inspirado en la vida de Bowie, girar? alrededor de un tipo recientemente divorciado que tiene previsto volver a su vida de joven sin problemas cuando reanuda el contacto con sus amigos de la universidad despu?s de siete de 'encarcelamiento marital'.
Kevin Sussman, que se hizo muy popular tras su papel en 'Ugly Betty', tiene poca experiencia como escritor pero el neoyorquino John Ross Bowie, que tambi?n trabaja en la serie 'Retired at 35' dando vida a Jared, ya ha hecho sus pinitos como guionista en dos cap?tulos de 'The Mighty B!'.
Its not just overweight people (especially women) that suffer from cellulite, according to Fitness magazine reports, nearly 90 percent of all women have cellulite. Cellulite is the bumpy, crumpled skin that shows up most commonly on the thighs and rear. Though there?s no real cure for cellulite, there are several ways to make it temporarily disappear.
First though, let?s look at how cellulite develops?
Beneath the outer lining of our skins we have a very fatty tissue that sits over a firm layer of collagen connective muscle. Before cellulite shows in place, the outer surface of the skin is smooth and supple (no bumps and no ridges).The fatty tissue underneath the skin is also smooth which in turn causes no bumps to show. The fatty layer just below your skin is (and remains) smooth and flexible so long as the fat cells remain robust, healthy and elastic inside.
The dimply, bumpy texture we call cellulite begins to happen when the structure of the fat cells continue to weaken. When the cellular walls weaken, the cells continue to ?sag? and this ?sagging? is what makes up for ?orange peel? look of cellulite to develop. The weaker the cell tissue become, the worse the sagging and the worse the cellulite looks.
How to make cellulite disappear..
Losing weight does not make cellulite vanish, but building muscle in the right places makes it look that way. When you?re exercising, add strength training to your current workout, and look for exercises of which build muscle in areas where you could have cellulite. Adding muscle in those spots can make your skin look tighter in addition to firmer.
Creams containing caffeine are known to make cellulite vanish for a few hours. Caffeine tightens your skin, while the strong rubbing you use to apply it increases blood flow to minimise lumps and bumps. Unfortunately this is a short term fix so you will need to reapply the cream later in the day if you want to keep cellulite hidden for the evening.
Your skin will respond easier to cellulite treatments if you exfoliate first, it is important that dead skin cells do not get with respect to ingredients trying to enter cellulite-prone places. Though you can use the scrub, a natural-bristle brush is very good as it means that you can rub vigorously over the cellulite-dimpled parts of your skin before your bathe.
This deep-tissue massage makes cellulite temporarily disappear. It does this by breaking up the lumpy sections of fat into a smoother mass.
It is claimed that increased circulation makes fat less noticeable. By doing deep knee-to-chest stretches 3 times a week you can help in reducing cellulite lumps.
What can cause cellulite? What causescellulite is not well understood, but there are several theories that have been put forward as explanations. These include: Hormonal factors, Genetics, Diet,Lifestyle factors.
Third-party navigation apps still tend to fall apart when the keys are out of the ignition -- try to cut back on car use and you're often kicked over to another app with its own set of rules. Both Garmin's StreetPilot Onboard app and its Navigon equivalent are getting a much more holistic experience through respective upgrades due this fall. Android and iOS users alike can soon buy an Urban Guidance pack that factors buses, subways and other forms of public transportation into their on-foot routes. The playing field is leveling off for drivers willing to stretch their legs, too: iPhone owners with Navigon's app get the same last-mile walking directions and parking finder as their Android counterparts. StreetPilot iPhone app users are left out of this last addition, but they'll see compensation in the form of an optional Panorama View 3D mode and the Google Street View they're about to lose from Maps in iOS 6. The updated titles will still cost $30 for Navigon-only regional packs, $50 for editions with US-wide maps and $60 for all of North America, although you'll need to spend $5 more ($3 during the first two weeks) for Urban Guidance and $10 for the Panorama View 3D pack.
The former editor of the Scottish edition of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid was arrested on Wednesday and charged in connection with the defamation action of a former lawmaker.
Bob Bird, 56, was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice over Tommy Sheridan's successful legal action against the newspaper in 2006.
Bird was held for questioning at a police station in Glasgow before being released around four hours later.
"I just want to say I'm really sad and disappointed that things have come to this today," Bird told broadcasters after his release.
"I have always tried to do the right thing throughout my 30, 40-odd years in journalism and I will be denying the charge that has been made against me today.
"On legal advice, I can't say any more at the moment."
Bird edited the now-defunct tabloid when it reported allegations about the flamboyant Sheridan's private life.
The former member of the Scottish Parliament sued the newspaper for defamation and was awarded ?200,000 ($315,000, 250,000 euros) in damages.
Sheridan was subsequently charged and convicted of perjury and jailed for three years, but was released after serving one year of his sentence.
In May, British Prime Minister David Cameron's former media chief Andy Coulson was arrested and charged over evidence that he gave at Sheridan's perjury trial.
Coulson is a former editor of the London-based edition of the News of the World.
Murdoch shut down the News of the World in July last year amid a storm of allegations that it had hacked the phones of a murdered schoolgirl and accessed the voicemails of hundreds of celebrities and politicians.
The end of the summer season brings many things?cooler weather, a change in produce, the start of school? and with all of that comes busier schedules. The crisp weather leaves us wanting warm, comforting dishes, but with jam-packed days it can often be difficult to get something like that on the table by dinner time.
That?s exactly why this week I took to the kitchen to recreate this warm, comforting Pesto Fettuccine with Chicken dish that not only tastes great, but comes together in less than 20 minutes. An added bonus? I made it gluten-free, and you?d never know the difference!
Whether you?re dealing with a food intolerance or just looking for something new to put on the dinner table, this meal is sure to please everyone at the table.
Follow the few simple substitutions below to be serving up a gluten-free pasta dish so satisfying you?ll have everyone begging for the recipe!
1 pound fettuccine, linguine or spaghetti (In order to make this dish gluten-free, I used a brown rice-based fettuccine such as Tinkyada)
1 tbsp. unsalted butter (To cut the cholesterol down slightly, I replaced butter with vegan, dairy-free butter spread, such as?Earth Balance)
1 tbsp. vegetable oil (To further increase the heart healthy aspects of this dish, I replaced the vegetable oil with canola oil which is a great source of Omega-3 fatty acids)
This recipe was a definite crowd-pleaser. Not one person guessed that the entire dish was gluten free! The brown rice noodles served as a great substitute for the noodles in the original recipe, and I happily gobbled up my portion knowing there was a nice boost from some heart-healthy ingredients!
Contact: Bjorn Carey, Stanford News Service bccarey@stanford.edu 650-725-1944 Stanford University
On the surface, ants and the Internet don't seem to have much in common. But two Stanford researchers have discovered that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of the nest in much the same way that Internet protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for the transfer of data. The researchers are calling it the "anternet."
Deborah Gordon, a biology professor at Stanford, has been studying ants for more than 20 years. When she figured out how the harvester ant colonies she had been observing in Arizona decided when to send out more ants to get food, she called across campus to Balaji Prabhakar, a professor of computer science at Stanford and an expert on how files are transferred on a computer network. At first he didn't see any overlap between his and Gordon's work, but inspiration would soon strike.
"The next day it occurred to me, 'Oh wait, this is almost the same as how [Internet] protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for transferring a file!'" Prabhakar said. "The algorithm the ants were using to discover how much food there is available is essentially the same as that used in the Transmission Control Protocol."
Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, is an algorithm that manages data congestion on the Internet, and as such was integral in allowing the early web to scale up from a few dozen nodes to the billions in use today. Here's how it works: As a source, A, transfers a file to a destination, B, the file is broken into numbered packets. When B receives each packet, it sends an acknowledgment, or an ack, to A, that the packet arrived.
This feedback loop allows TCP to run congestion avoidance: If acks return at a slower rate than the data was sent out, that indicates that there is little bandwidth available, and the source throttles data transmission down accordingly. If acks return quickly, the source boosts its transmission speed. The process determines how much bandwidth is available and throttles data transmission accordingly.
It turns out that harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) behave nearly the same way when searching for food. Gordon has found that the rate at which harvester ants which forage for seeds as individuals leave the nest to search for food corresponds to food availability.
A forager won't return to the nest until it finds food. If seeds are plentiful, foragers return faster, and more ants leave the nest to forage. If, however, ants begin returning empty handed, the search is slowed, and perhaps called off.
Prabhakar wrote an ant algorithm to predict foraging behavior depending on the amount of food i.e., bandwidth available. Gordon's experiments manipulate the rate of forager return. Working with Stanford student Katie Dektar, they found that the TCP-influenced algorithm almost exactly matched the ant behavior found in Gordon's experiments.
"Ants have discovered an algorithm that we know well, and they've been doing it for millions of years," Prabhakar said.
They also found that the ants followed two other phases of TCP. One phase is known as slow start, which describes how a source sends out a large wave of packets at the beginning of a transmission to gauge bandwidth; similarly, when the harvester ants begin foraging, they send out foragers to scope out food availability before scaling up or down the rate of outgoing foragers.
Another protocol, called time-out, occurs when a data transfer link breaks or is disrupted, and the source stops sending packets. Similarly, when foragers are prevented from returning to the nest for more than 20 minutes, no more foragers leave the nest.
Prabhakar said that had this discovery been made in the 1970s, before TCP was written, harvester ants very well could have influenced the design of the Internet.
Gordon thinks that scientists have just scratched the surface for how ant colony behavior could help us in the design of networked systems.
There are 11,000 species of ants, living in every habitat and dealing with every type of ecological problem, Gordon said. "Ants have evolved ways of doing things that we haven't thought up, but could apply in computer systems. Computationally speaking, each ant has limited capabilities, but the collective can perform complex tasks.
"So ant algorithms have to be simple, distributed and scalable the very qualities that we need in large engineered distributed systems," she said. "I think as we start understanding more about how species of ants regulate their behavior, we'll find many more useful applications for network algorithms."
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The work is published in the Aug. 23 issue of PLoS Computational Biology.
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On the surface, ants and the Internet don't seem to have much in common. But two Stanford researchers have discovered that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of the nest in much the same way that Internet protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for the transfer of data. The researchers are calling it the "anternet."
Deborah Gordon, a biology professor at Stanford, has been studying ants for more than 20 years. When she figured out how the harvester ant colonies she had been observing in Arizona decided when to send out more ants to get food, she called across campus to Balaji Prabhakar, a professor of computer science at Stanford and an expert on how files are transferred on a computer network. At first he didn't see any overlap between his and Gordon's work, but inspiration would soon strike.
"The next day it occurred to me, 'Oh wait, this is almost the same as how [Internet] protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for transferring a file!'" Prabhakar said. "The algorithm the ants were using to discover how much food there is available is essentially the same as that used in the Transmission Control Protocol."
Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, is an algorithm that manages data congestion on the Internet, and as such was integral in allowing the early web to scale up from a few dozen nodes to the billions in use today. Here's how it works: As a source, A, transfers a file to a destination, B, the file is broken into numbered packets. When B receives each packet, it sends an acknowledgment, or an ack, to A, that the packet arrived.
This feedback loop allows TCP to run congestion avoidance: If acks return at a slower rate than the data was sent out, that indicates that there is little bandwidth available, and the source throttles data transmission down accordingly. If acks return quickly, the source boosts its transmission speed. The process determines how much bandwidth is available and throttles data transmission accordingly.
It turns out that harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) behave nearly the same way when searching for food. Gordon has found that the rate at which harvester ants which forage for seeds as individuals leave the nest to search for food corresponds to food availability.
A forager won't return to the nest until it finds food. If seeds are plentiful, foragers return faster, and more ants leave the nest to forage. If, however, ants begin returning empty handed, the search is slowed, and perhaps called off.
Prabhakar wrote an ant algorithm to predict foraging behavior depending on the amount of food i.e., bandwidth available. Gordon's experiments manipulate the rate of forager return. Working with Stanford student Katie Dektar, they found that the TCP-influenced algorithm almost exactly matched the ant behavior found in Gordon's experiments.
"Ants have discovered an algorithm that we know well, and they've been doing it for millions of years," Prabhakar said.
They also found that the ants followed two other phases of TCP. One phase is known as slow start, which describes how a source sends out a large wave of packets at the beginning of a transmission to gauge bandwidth; similarly, when the harvester ants begin foraging, they send out foragers to scope out food availability before scaling up or down the rate of outgoing foragers.
Another protocol, called time-out, occurs when a data transfer link breaks or is disrupted, and the source stops sending packets. Similarly, when foragers are prevented from returning to the nest for more than 20 minutes, no more foragers leave the nest.
Prabhakar said that had this discovery been made in the 1970s, before TCP was written, harvester ants very well could have influenced the design of the Internet.
Gordon thinks that scientists have just scratched the surface for how ant colony behavior could help us in the design of networked systems.
There are 11,000 species of ants, living in every habitat and dealing with every type of ecological problem, Gordon said. "Ants have evolved ways of doing things that we haven't thought up, but could apply in computer systems. Computationally speaking, each ant has limited capabilities, but the collective can perform complex tasks.
"So ant algorithms have to be simple, distributed and scalable the very qualities that we need in large engineered distributed systems," she said. "I think as we start understanding more about how species of ants regulate their behavior, we'll find many more useful applications for network algorithms."
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