Broncos' turn: Elway, Fox travel to see Manning

FILE - In this March 9, 2012 file photo, NFL football quarterback Peyton Manning, center, takes a tour with executive vice president of football operations for the Denver Broncos John Elway, left, and Broncos coach John Fox, rear right, at the Broncos' training facility in Englewood, Colo. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, John Leyba) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET OUT

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Fans wait outside the Tennessee Titans NFL football team offices for a glimpse of former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning while Manning meets with team officials inside on Wednesday, March 14, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ? Denver Broncos executive John Elway and coach John Fox traveled to North Carolina on Friday to watch Peyton Manning work out at Duke, while the Miami Dolphins dropped out of the running to sign the NFL's only four-time MVP.

The Broncos officials landed at Raleigh-Durham airport about 1:15 p.m. EDT and got into a white van near the plane. They arrived at Duke about 30 minutes later and drove through a gate outside the football team's practice facilities.

A person told The Associated Press that Manning was going to work out at Duke facilities Friday afternoon for the Broncos. He was seen leaving the Blue Devils' indoor facilities wearing blue shorts, a gray t-shirt and no helmet heading to the outdoor practice field followed by Elway and Fox.

The view of the practice field from the parking lot where reporters were gathered is partially obscured by a building that houses the visiting team's locker room and a nine-foot, black gate.

Manning has been rehabilitating in North Carolina after a series of neck surgeries.

Another person confirmed to the AP that Manning phoned the Miami Dolphins on Thursday to advise them he'll sign elsewhere. The team has now turned its attention to free agent quarterback Matt Flynn.

The people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because Manning's workouts have remained private and the Dolphins haven't talked publicly about their negotiations.

Duke coach and longtime Manning friend David Cutcliffe told The Tennessean that Manning has made good progress throwing the football following operations that forced him to miss the entire 2011 season.

Manning's uncertain health led the Indianapolis Colts to balk at paying a $28 million roster bonus to the 35-year-old quarterback, which in turn started a race for the most prized free agent of the offseason and maybe ever.

Along with the Broncos, the Tennessee Titans and Arizona Cardinals remain in contention for Manning.

But not the Dolphins, who met with the record-setting QB for several hours Monday in Indianapolis and made signing him their top priority. Now the Dolphins will court Flynn, who visited the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday. Flynn was the backup last year for Green Bay and has a good relationship with new Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin, the Packers' offensive coordinator the past five seasons.

Time is a factor for the Cardinals, who must decide by 4 p.m. EDT on Friday whether or not to release quarterback Kevin Kolb. He's due $7 million if he is on the roster Saturday.

Manning's whirlwind free agency tour officially kicked off soon after he bid farewell to the Colts in an emotional press conference last week.

The Broncos had the first crack at wooing him, rolling out the red carpet for his visit. Team officials flew him in and he spent the spent the day chatting with Elway, the Hall of Fame QB turned team executive. Manning also was escorted around the team's building by coach John Fox and general manager Brian Xanders as he listened to their sales pitch.

After that, Manning journeyed to nearby Castle Rock, Colo., and spent the evening with good friend Brandon Stokley, who played catch with Manning the next morning and spoke highly of his former teammate in an interview on a local radio show.

Manning's next stop was Arizona, where he met with the Cardinals for nearly 6? hours.

Then Tennessee entered the picture. Manning has a big fan in 89-year-old Titans owner Bud Adams, and the former Tennessee Volunteer spent nearly eight hours with team executives on a plane and at the club's headquarters.

The NFL Network reported that Manning was expected to work out for the Titans, but there was no immediate confirmation from the team or word on when that would happen.

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AP Sports Writers Steve Wine in Miami and Pat Graham in Denver contributed to this report.

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Novel plastics and textiles from waste with the use of microbes

Public release date: 16-Mar-2012
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New biotechnological and chemical methods will facilitate efficient production of chemicals, materials and fuels from renewable natural resources. The Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence (CoE) in White Biotechnology Green Chemistry Research focuses on the research and development of microbial cells, or cell factories, for producing new useful compounds from sugars in plant biomass. These compounds can be used, for example, for manufacturing bioplastics or in medical applications.

"By means of gene technology, we can modify microbial metabolism and thereby produce organic acids for a wide range of industrial applications. They can be used, among other things, for manufacturing new plastic and textile materials, or packaging technologies," explains Merja Penttil, Research Professor and Director of the Centre of Excellence from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.

New methods play a key role when various industries are developing environmentally friendly and energy-efficient production processes. Use of renewable natural resources, such as agricultural or industrial waste materials, to replace oil-based raw materials will make industries less dependent of fossil raw materials and, consequently, reduce carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.

The CoE also develops highly sensitive measuring methods and investigates microbial cell functions at molecular level. "We need this information to be able to develop efficient bioprocesses for the future. For instance, we build up new micro- and nanoscale instruments for measuring and controlling microbial productivity in bioreactors during production."

Alternatives for oil

The metabolism of microbes is modified so that they will convert plant biomass sugars into sugar acids and their derivatives. These compounds can potentially serve as raw materials for new types of polyesters, whose properties such as water solubility and extremely rapid degradation into natural substances can be used, for example, in medicine. By modifying sugar acids, it is also possible to produce compounds that may replace oil-based aromatic acids in the manufacture of thermosetting plastics and textiles.

"Sugar acids can be used to produce biodegradable technical plastics, including polyamides, or functional components that increase the ability of cellulose to absorb water. Novel materials could replace the currently available non-biodegradable absorbent components in hygiene products. Sugar acids are also a source of hydroxy acids, such as glycolic acid, whose oxygen-barrier properties make it suitable for food packaging," explains Professor Ali Harlin, the head of the CoE Green Chemistry team.

In order to be able to replace, in the future, industrial production that is based on petrochemicals with new production processes based on waste biomass, such new processes must be extremely efficient. "A major challenge is how make the production organisms used in bioprocesses, that is, the microbes, to utilise the sugars of the biomass and to convert them into desired compounds in the most effective manner. This development work calls for multidisciplinary competence ranging from biosciences to engineering."

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Contact: Merja Penttila
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358-407-000-163
Academy of Finland

New biotechnological and chemical methods will facilitate efficient production of chemicals, materials and fuels from renewable natural resources. The Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence (CoE) in White Biotechnology Green Chemistry Research focuses on the research and development of microbial cells, or cell factories, for producing new useful compounds from sugars in plant biomass. These compounds can be used, for example, for manufacturing bioplastics or in medical applications.

"By means of gene technology, we can modify microbial metabolism and thereby produce organic acids for a wide range of industrial applications. They can be used, among other things, for manufacturing new plastic and textile materials, or packaging technologies," explains Merja Penttil, Research Professor and Director of the Centre of Excellence from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.

New methods play a key role when various industries are developing environmentally friendly and energy-efficient production processes. Use of renewable natural resources, such as agricultural or industrial waste materials, to replace oil-based raw materials will make industries less dependent of fossil raw materials and, consequently, reduce carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.

The CoE also develops highly sensitive measuring methods and investigates microbial cell functions at molecular level. "We need this information to be able to develop efficient bioprocesses for the future. For instance, we build up new micro- and nanoscale instruments for measuring and controlling microbial productivity in bioreactors during production."

Alternatives for oil

The metabolism of microbes is modified so that they will convert plant biomass sugars into sugar acids and their derivatives. These compounds can potentially serve as raw materials for new types of polyesters, whose properties such as water solubility and extremely rapid degradation into natural substances can be used, for example, in medicine. By modifying sugar acids, it is also possible to produce compounds that may replace oil-based aromatic acids in the manufacture of thermosetting plastics and textiles.

"Sugar acids can be used to produce biodegradable technical plastics, including polyamides, or functional components that increase the ability of cellulose to absorb water. Novel materials could replace the currently available non-biodegradable absorbent components in hygiene products. Sugar acids are also a source of hydroxy acids, such as glycolic acid, whose oxygen-barrier properties make it suitable for food packaging," explains Professor Ali Harlin, the head of the CoE Green Chemistry team.

In order to be able to replace, in the future, industrial production that is based on petrochemicals with new production processes based on waste biomass, such new processes must be extremely efficient. "A major challenge is how make the production organisms used in bioprocesses, that is, the microbes, to utilise the sugars of the biomass and to convert them into desired compounds in the most effective manner. This development work calls for multidisciplinary competence ranging from biosciences to engineering."

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More information
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Academy of Finland
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Iranian in Malaysia denies Thai terror accusations

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ? An Iranian man held in Malaysia and accused of involvement in an alleged terror plot in Bangkok resisted extradition on Thursday, claiming he had been in Thailand only for a vacation.

A handcuffed Masoud Sedaghatzadeh appeared briefly in a Kuala Lumpur court, saying through an interpreter that he had nothing to do with the accusations and wanted to know why has was there.

Sedaghatzadeh was arrested at a Malaysian airport soon after an apparently accidental explosion rocked a residential Bangkok neighborhood Feb. 14. Thai police say bombs were found in the house where the blast occurred, and that Sedaghatzadeh and two Iranian men now in Thai custody were seen leaving the building.

Thai officials have said Israeli diplomats may have been the target of the alleged plot.

Sedaghatzadeh's Malaysian lawyer, Nashua Hussin, said he insists he was in Malaysia to buy automobile parts and then flew for a holiday in Thailand, where he went to the beach town of Pattaya.

"He met a lot of Iranians there, took pictures, said hello and goodbye," Nashua told reporters. "He does not know any of them, he can't remember anyone. He is incriminated by the pictures."

The court scheduled a hearing for April 16 after government lawyers said they were waiting for photos and security camera footage from Thailand.

Sedaghatzadeh's parents attended Thursday's hearing but refused to speak to reporters.

Israel has blamed Iran for the Feb. 14 explosion, as well as two incidents the day before: a bombing in India that wounded an Israeli diplomat's wife and driver, and an attempted bombing in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Iran has denied involvement.

Thai authorities want Sedaghatzadeh to be handed over, but Malaysia has said the process must go through the courts because the countries have no formal extradition agreement.

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Canon Pixma MX372 Office All-in-One

As the Canon Pixma MX372 Office All-in-One?s $79.99 (direct) price suggests, it's very much a personal printer. It's also one of Canon's office inkjets?as indicated by the MX designation. Aimed primarily at home and micro offices, but also a potential choice for one person's use in any size office, it delivers a lot more capability than you might expect from a sub-$100 MFP. However, its high running cost makes it much less attractive than it would otherwise be.

Like most inkjet MFPs today, the MX372 can serve in a dual role for home and home office, or even as a strictly home printer. However, much like the Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J430w ($100 street, 4 stars), it's unusual for the price in focusing more on the office side of that dual role.

In addition to printing from and scanning to a PC, it can fax from a PC and work as a standalone copier and fax machine. And unlike typical home-oriented printers, it can scan multi-page documents and legal-size pages easily thanks to a 30-page automatic document feeder (ADF) that supplements the letter-size flatbed. Missing from the MX372 are such photo-centric features as the ability to print directly from memory cards and PictBridge cameras.

Also missing is both Wi-Fi and wired network support, which makes it hard to share the printer easily, and largely limits it to personal use. The paper handling is also best reserved for a single person's use, with only a 100-sheet paper capacity, manual duplexing, and no paper handling upgrade options.

Setup and Speed
Setting up the MX372 is standard fare. For my tests, I installed it on a Vista system using a USB connection?the only choice. The speed is best described as lackadaisical even for the price, but not too much slower than most of its competition.

On our business applications suite I timed the MX372 (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing) at an effective 2.0 pages per minute (ppm). That?s essentially a tie with the HP Officejet 4500 All-in-One ($99.99 direct, 3.5 stars) at 2.1 ppm, but a bit slower than the Editors' Choice Kodak ESP C310 All-in-One Printer ($99.99 direct, 4 stars) at 2.7 ppm. It's also a lot slower than the Brother MFC-J430w , at 4.3 ppm, but keep in mind that the Brother printer's fast speed for business applications is a big part of why it is Editors' Choice.

Photo speed for the MX372 was more definitively slow, averaging 2 minutes 9 seconds for a 4 by 6. The Brother MFC-J430w wasn't much faster, at 1:59, but most of the competition leaves both printers in the dust, with the HP Officejet 4500 clocking in at 1:15, for example, and the Kodak ESP C310 taking just 44 seconds.

Output Quality and Other Issues
The MX372's overall output quality is below par, but not enough to be an issue. Text quality in particular is well below par, which translates to few fonts scoring well at sizes below 8 points. As long as you don't have an unusual need for smaller fonts, however, you shouldn't have any complaints.

Graphic output does better, at only slightly below par, but still good enough for any internal business need including PowerPoint handouts and the like. On the other hand, it's a bit short of what I'd want for output going to an important client or customer who I needed to impress with a sense of my professionalism.

Photos were par for an inkjet MFP overall, except for an obvious tint in black and white output. Color photos were generally at the low end of what I'd expect from drugstore prints, making the output acceptable for snapshots. If you want your photos to look their best, you'll want to look elsewhere, but that's pretty much expected from a printer that claims to be office-centric.

One other issue that can matter a lot or a little, depending on how much you expect to print, is the high claimed cost per page, at 6.3 cents for a mono page and 13.8 cents for a color page. That's 2.5 cents more per page than the MFC-J430w for both mono and color. Given the $20 difference in price between the two, you only have to print 800 pages before you've made up the difference. Beyond that, the total cost for the MX372 would be higher than for the Brother MFC-J430w, and the difference would increase with every page you print.

For many people, the high running cost will be enough reason to look elsewhere, since it's hard to imagine anyone printing fewer than 800 pages over the life of a printer. But if you don't expect to print much more than that, or don't mind the cost, or what you really need is some combination of an ADF equipped scanner, fax machine, and the ability to fax files from your PC's hard drive, the Canon Pixma MX372 Office All-in-One can do the job.

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Research aims for better diagnosis of language impairments

ScienceDaily (Mar. 13, 2012) ? Recent studies by a UT Dallas researcher aim at finding better ways to diagnose young children with language impairments.

Dr. Christine Dollaghan, a professor at the Callier Center for Communication Disorders and the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, is author of a paper in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. The study evaluated data collected from a large sample of about 600 children. Some of the participants had specific language impairments, or SLI. She wanted to deterimine whether SLI should be regarded as a discrete diagnostic category.

"One of the most basic and long-standing questions about SLI is whether children with the disorder have language skills that differ qualitatively and nonarbitrarily from those of other children or whether their language skills simply fall at the lower end of a continuous distribution, below some arbitrary threshold but not otherwise unique," she wrote in the October article titled "Taxometric Analyses of Specific Language Impairment in 6-Year-Old Children."

Dollaghan previously reported on this sample of children when they were 3 and 4 years old. The new study included some test results that were not available at the earlier ages. She focused on four common indicators of SLI -- receptive vocabulary, expressive utterance length, expressive vocabulary diversity and nonsense word repetition.

As in the earlier investigation, she found the 6-year-olds with SLI did not represent a distinct group with unique characteristics Instead, they fell at the lower end of a continuous distribution of language skills.

The results of the study could help in developing diagnostic protocols for children with language impairment and tailoring treatments to the characteristics of individual children. Dollaghan said the categorical-continuous question is being examined by investigators interested in many other diagnostic categories, including autism, schizophrenia and ADHD.

Dollaghan also co-authored an article in the November edition of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine with colleagues from UT Dallas' Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, including lead author Keyur Gabani, Yang Liu and Khairun-nisa Hassanali. The team examined the use of automated machine learning and natural language processing methods for diagnosing language impairment in children based on samples of their language.

In "Exploring a corpus-based approach for detecting language impairment in monolingual English-speaking children," the team reported that automated methods performed well. The findings suggested future collaborations between researchers in computer science and communication disorders will likely be useful, Dollaghan said.

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