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Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson did not play this past Sunday because he was deactivated by his team after being indicted for abusing one of his sons. The Vikings owners, Zygi Wilf and Mark Wilf, announced yesterday that Peterson, the teams best player, will be activated for this Sundays game against the New Orleans Saints.
No sane person wants to hurt a child and I have no reason to believe Peterson or NFL commissioner Roger Goodell do not want to do what is best for children. The leagues idea to create a team of four women to combat domestic violence is a step in the right direction. But as uncomfortable and sensitive it may be to discuss, the league needs to include fathering children with single women as part of the conversation.
As study after studyafter study has shown, children raised by a single parent are far more likely to be abused than children raised by two parents. In this article in Psychology Today,David Popenoe, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University, says Fatherless children have a risk factor of two to three times that of fathered children for a wide range of negative outcomes, including dropping out of high school, giving birth as a teenager and becoming a juvenile delinquent.
This is a broader societal problem40.7% of U.S. births in 2012 were to single mothersand its not clear that football players are any worse than the rest of us. But there seems to be little doubt that the NFL has its share of players who have fathered multiple children with different women to whom they were not married.
A good time to have started this discussion could have been five years ago, when New England Patriots All-World quarterback Tom Brady sired a child with actress and girlfriend Brigitte Moynahan. Brady, who subsequently married model Gisele Bundchen, is more than the face of the Patriots, he is a key ingredient to the NFL brand. But no discussion ensued.
Peterson splitting defenders in the 2008 Pro Bowl. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
As former Pro Bowl cornerbackTroy Vincent, who retired after the 2006 season, told ESPN two years ago: By the time the player is drafted, theres a pretty good chance hes thoroughly spoiled and surrounded by enablers. Any potential problemwhether its fathering children out of wedlock, shaky financial investments or just irresponsible spending habitscan be overcome because, well, things have always worked out in the past.
Until they dont.
A year ago, Petersons two-year-old sonwhom the All-Pro had only recently learned was hisdied afteralleged abuseby a man who was dating the boys mother. I cannot imagine the pain of losing a child and I am by no means trying to pick on the Vikings star and his family. I am simply saying that the NFL needs make fatherhood part of its program to help children. Tom Brady would have been a great place to start. But better late than never.
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3 hours ago by Beth Miller A video polarimetry image of a large male northern swordtail in false color shows the differences in polarization on its surface.
We have all seen a peacock show its extravagant, colorful tail feathers in courtship of a peahen. Now, a group of researchers have used a special camera developed by an engineer at Washington University in St. Louis to discover that female northern swordtail fish choose their mates based on a similar display.
Marine biologists at the University of Texas at Austin used a bioinspired polarization camera developed by Viktor Gruev, PhD, associate professor of computer science & engineering at Washington University, to make the discovery. His camera has been used in other applications in marine biology and also is now being used at the School of Medicine to help physicians and researchers see cancer cells very early in development.
In the new study, the researchers found that female swordtail fish are attracted to certain patterns, called polarization ornaments, visible in polarized light in large male swordtail fish.
"There is a lot of social interaction among the fish," Gruev said. "We saw the female fish checking out the large males and looking at their polarization ornaments. During the whole courting behavior, the more polarization a male has, the higher the chance for mating."
Various animals can detect polarization, or the alignment of light waves in a plane. Previous research found polarization sensitivity in invertebrate animals, including octopus, but this is the first research to find polarization behavior in vertebrate animals.
The research was published online Sept. 2, 2014, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.
Gruev's camera is similar to polarized sunglasses, which reduce glare by blocking polarized light. The camera is built with nanomaterials inside the camera, allowing it to capture the polarization properties of light in real time.
"We changed the polarization so that the large males with high contrast showed good contrast in their polarization ornaments," Gruev says. "When we suppressed the polarization ornaments externally with light, the females didn't pay attention to the males. When we changed the light sources to change the polarization signals on the fish body, the social interactions between female and male swordfish significantly increase."
Gruev is an expert in polarization and signal processing. The camera is a replication of the visual system of the mantis shrimp, which is among the most sophisticated vision of all animals.
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We have all seen a peacock show its extravagant, colorful tail feathers in courtship of a peahen. Now, a group of researchers have used a special camera developed by an engineer at Washington University in St. Louis to discover that female northern swordtail fish choose their mates based on a similar display.
Marine biologists at the University of Texas at Austin used a bioinspired polarization camera developed by Viktor Gruev, PhD, associate professor of computer science & engineering at Washington University, to make the discovery. His camera has been used in other applications in marine biology and also is now being used at the School of Medicine to help physicians and researchers see cancer cells very early in development.
In the new study, the researchers found that female swordtail fish are attracted to certain patterns, called polarization ornaments, visible in polarized light in large male swordtail fish.
"There is a lot of social interaction among the fish," Gruev said. "We saw the female fish checking out the large males and looking at their polarization ornaments. During the whole courting behavior, the more polarization a male has, the higher the chance for mating."
Various animals can detect polarization, or the alignment of light waves in a plane. Previous research found polarization sensitivity in invertebrate animals, including octopus, but this is the first research to find polarization behavior in vertebrate animals.
The research was published online Sept. 2, 2014, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.
Gruev's camera is similar to polarized sunglasses, which reduce glare by blocking polarized light. The camera is built with nanomaterials inside the camera, allowing it to capture the polarization properties of light in real time.
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When kids misbehave, some parents choose to spank. (Thinkstock)
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WASHINGTON -- The Adrian Peterson case has started a discussion about spanking.
Allegations that the Minnesota Vikings running back injured his son by hitting him with a tree branch have sparked conversations about corporal punishment and spanking, what it is and if it's OK.
Nationwide, spanking is legal as long as the force is reasonable. But the definition of reasonable varies by state. In some states, a jury gets to make the decision. But the general consensus in most places is if there's an injury, the punishment has crossed the line.
Also, it seems as a country, the views are changing about if spanking is acceptable. The use of spanking has been on the decline for the past few decades.
A 2011 study by the University of Texas at Austin found African Americans were most likely to spank, with 89 percent of black parents saying they had spanked their children. Eighty percent of Hispanic, 79 percent of white parents and 73 percent of Asian parents said they spanked their kids.
Regionally, a Harris Interactive study found people are more likely to be in favor of spanking if they live in the South and Midwest than in the West or East.
Also, the older a person is, the more likely they are to favor spanking. Eighty-eight percent of baby boomers are supportive of spanking compared to only 72 percent of echo boomers.
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Menlo Park, Calif. A comprehensive look at how tiny particles in a lithium ion battery electrode behave shows that rapid-charging the battery and using it to do high-power, rapidly draining work may not be as damaging as researchers had thought and that the benefits of slow draining and charging may have been overestimated.
The results challenge the prevailing view that "supercharging" batteries is always harder on battery electrodes than charging at slower rates, according to researchers from Stanford University and the Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences (SIMES) at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
They also suggest that scientists may be able to modify electrodes or change the way batteries are charged to promote more uniform charging and discharging and extend battery life.
"The fine detail of what happens in an electrode during charging and discharging is just one of many factors that determine battery life, but it's one that, until this study, was not adequately understood," said William Chueh of SIMES, an assistant professor at Stanford's Department of Materials Science and Engineering and senior author of the study. "We have found a new way to think about battery degradation."
The results, he said, can be directly applied to many oxide and graphite electrodes used in today's commercial lithium ion batteries and in about half of those under development.
His team described the study September 14, 2014, in Natural Materials. The team included collaborators from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sandia National Laboratories, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology America and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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A three-year artists residency at the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University, where she met clinicians, research scientists, psychiatrists and their patients, enabled her to explore her ideas further and culminated in Reassembling the Self, a series of exhibitions that she curated across the city, including her own work and that of other artists. A selection of the work opens in London this week.
As an artist, I focus on what it means to be human, she says. In that sense, I work a little like a scientist exploring brain conditions and problems that might clarify who we are. Schizophrenia sheds light on all our experiences it is just at one end of the spectrum of being human.
One series of her lithographs starts with an ear, reflecting the idea of voices, then progresses to reassembled figures with body parts in the wrong places; the work is inspired by the Evelyn Tables, remarkable 17th-century depictions of human anatomy in the Hunterian Museum in London. They were physically dismantled and reassembled body parts, stuck down on boards, built up layer by layer into one finished form, Aldworth explains.
Two other artists in the exhibition, Camille Ormston and Kevin Mitchinson, have schizophrenia. They are both untrained, but art is a vital means of expressing what goes on inside their heads. Aldworth met them once a month for two years, when they told her about delusions, being hospitalised, and how medication numbs them.
Self Portrait by Kevin Mitchinson, 2014 (Courtesy the artist and GV Art Gallery, London)
Camille wanted to be a doctor, but psychotic episodes that started when she was only 16 put an end to that, Aldworth explains. Mitchinson hears voices that tell him what he should paint; although some of these are terrifying, he says he would feel lost without them. Schizophrenia has literally taken them both apart and reassembled them, Aldworth comments.
The project did not end with Aldworths residency. Ormston and Mitchison now regularly attend Newcastle and Gateshead Arts Studio which supports artists with mental health difficulties, and they will join Aldworth in London to see their work on show a reassembly of the best possible kind.
'Reassembling the Self opens tomorrow at GV Art Gallery, 49 Chiltern Street, London W1, until Oct 11; susanaldworth.com
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In this June 18, 2014, file photo, Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice stretches during NFL football practice at the team's training facility in Owings Mills, Md.AP
Published: 5:46 PM - 09/15/14 Last updated: 5:56 PM - 09/15/14
MIDDLETOWN The second video and its fallout are still hot topics on sports and news shows: Ray and Janay Rice in an elevator, arguing; the punch, the immediate aftermath.
The first video showed only the aftermath of the punch, as Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice dragged his then-fiancees limp, unconscious form from the elevator. Along with the details of the domestic violence case Atlantic County prosecutors put Rice into a diversion program for first-time offenders that will leave him with a clean record public commentary was split.
Some argued that the two-game suspension the NFL imposed upon Rice was far too little. Others questioned whether Janay Rice was also culpable, and why she stayed with him. After the second video came out last week, the Ravens cancelled Rices contract and the NFL suspended him indefinitely.
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