ICBI TVC | Image Consulting Business Institute

ICBI has taken yet another first-of-its-kind initiative by going on air with its TV ad, projecting First Impressions and Image Consultants. Appearing very aptly during the show ?What Not to Wear India? over TLC, the ICBI commercials were launched on 19th September at 10 pm with the repeat show appearing the subsequent afternoon.

?What Not to Wear?, hosted by actress Soha Ali Khan and stylist Aki Narula, is just the right vehicle to bring ICBI close to the wide audience that television can reach. The programme is about image management and clothing based on body shape, skin tone and the occasion.

ICBI?s TV commercial appears for a total of ten days, twice initially, after which it will appear thrice during the episode. We expect the juxtaposition of the commercial with the show will send the message across to audience that they can create positive first impressions either by turning to an image consultant?s advice or by becoming an image consultant themselves.

ICBI is the pioneer institute, training image consultants in the art and science of image management. In addition, the institute provides comprehensive business, marketing and technical support for consultants to set up a successful image consulting business.

Source: http://www.imageconsultinginstitute.com/2012/09/22/icbi-tvc/

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Watch Joe Benavidez?s win over Miguel Torres (VIDEO)

With Joe Benavidez fighting Demetrious Johnson for the UFC's first flyweight title at UFC 152 on Saturday, spend some time watching Benavidez in the fight that earned him his first title shot. After Benavidez won this fight over Miguel Torres at WEC 47, he fought (and lost to) Dominick Cruz for the WEC bantamweight title.

If you want to skip past the introductions, go to the 2:10 mark. The second round starts about seven minutes in, and the finish is around the nine-minute mark.

Something to remember about this fight is that at this point, Torres had just shockingly lost the bantamweight title to Brian Bowles. He was still considered a top pound-for-pound fighter. Stephan Bonnar and Todd Harris, who were calling the fight, were surprised as Benavidez dominated the bout.

Will Benavidez score another big win on Saturday night? Speak up in the comments, on Facebook or Twitter.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/watch-joe-benavidez-win-over-miguel-torres-video-134056406--mma.html

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Bright Lights, Big Dreams

Bright Lights, Big Dreams

After graduating, most young adults go to college. But, these eight friends decided to all move to the big city to live their dreams. Some for fame, education, love. Will that get derailed?

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I know you're still updating this, but I so call a spot! :D

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TwiliXDragon
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Even though it is still a WIP, would it be possible to go ahead and reserve a spot. I love these ideas for RPs ;)

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amilee_lee
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I would also like to reserve a spot, if I can. This sound like it will be fun!

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pandalover
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Awesome! Reserved and do you three have an idea for who you'd like as your face claim and if you don't use them. No problem just tell me that and just wait and see.

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I call Avril Lavigne! :D My character will be a punk/rocker girl.

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This roleplay looks like a very interesting one. I can see it taking a lot of different directions! If possible, can I reserve a male spot? I need to brainstorm on a face claim though.

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Aradia
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Ok, no problem and i'll have a default on up there if you want to us one of them that fine or just keep on brain storming and tell who'd you like me to change it to.

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Hmm...I was thinking of Alex Pettyfer when he was younger, since he kind of seems the attitude and charmer personality I was leaning toward. Between Alex Pettyfer, Zac Efron, Zayn Malik, Michael Fjordbak, or Hunter Parrish?

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Aradia
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Amanda Seyfried, she has a good girl look to her like my character will :).

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Oh! Id love to reserve a spot as well please? o.o

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EvoL
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Sure, guy or gal? OMG, I love that band--well, singing group..... Do you happen to listen to K-Pop?

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Gal please! And I do. I actually got the name from them. :D

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EvoL
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I'm actually was born and raised in Seoul, so everytime I see something doing with K-Pop I just have to point it out. XD Reserved!

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Lol thats awesome!

Cant wait to start >.<

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Replacing ObamaCare: Insurance Across State Lines (Part 2 ...

Let?s take a closer look at how interstate insurance sales would impact another important element of consumer-driven health care reform: true insurance. If you?ve forgotten, true insurance is individual insurance. Most people receive their health insurance as the result of a group insurance plan provided by their employer. Some of the benefits of true, individual insurance include portability, better coverage of pre-existing conditions, and greater choice and freedom for consumers.?

However, excessive state regulatory mandates can make true insurance outright unaffordable. Consider this excerpt from a 2008 report?by the Council for Affordable Health Insurance:

?Access to affordable coverage can vary significantly from state to state, depending on state regulation. For example, community rating and guaranteed issue have made policies in the individual market unaffordable except for the wealthiest residents of Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York. If residents living in states with unaffordable health insurance could purchase policies currently being sold in other states, they too would have access to affordable coverage.? (Emphasis added)

There are significant disparities between the states in the number and extent of their regulatory mandates. While Virginia and Rhode Island residents are required?to purchase insurance plans burdened with a stunning 70 state mandates, Idaho insurers are only restricted by 13. As health care policy expert Avik Roy explains, ?Insurance mandates can raise the costs?of premiums by 30-50 percent. If I could buy insurance from another state, where regulations are less onerous, I might not be forced to buy a policy that covers drug-abuse counseling.? (Emphasis added)

Also, let me be clear on one thing: We want to lift the barriers to the interstate sale of health insurance, but we do not want the federal government to begin laying down regulatory mandates (such as guaranteed issue or community rating) on insurance. We believe that the regulation of insurance remains the duty of state legislatures and regulators, not the federal government. Whereas the federal government has the power to remove barriers to commerce among the states, we do not believe that it has the power to regulate insurance sales in each individual state.?

Increasing market competition by allowing Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines will lead to lower costs, greater choice, and better quality of care. Representative Paul Broun?s (R-GA) Patient OPTION Act?is just one of several conservative bills that will allow Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines. It?s an essential piece of the conservative plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare with affordable, consumer-driven, patient-centered health care.?

In order to learn more about ending ObamaCare, check out our ?Five-Point Plan? for full repeal!

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National Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month | Razoo ...

September 21st, 2012 by Christian Brink

Razoo fundraiser Lori Hartmann as a Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training participant for the April 2012 Nashville Country Music Marathon

Creating Awareness

While the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society reports that new treatments have doubled and tripled, and in some cases quadrupled survival rates for blood cancer patients, these diseases still affect more than an estimated 1 million people in North America.

This month, please consider supporting some of the organizations on Razoo that are working to fight these cancers and provide support to those either living with, or in remission from, leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma or myeloma.

Your support could be a donation, sharing the work of these organizations on Facebook or Twitter, or even increasing your own awareness by taking a moment to read about the prevalence of blood cancers and the work being done to cure them.

You can also start your own fundraiser on Razoo for the organization of your choice!

Where You Can Give

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the largest voluntary health organization that funds blood cancer research, education and patient services. Founded in 1949, the mission of LLS is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin?s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life for patients and their families.

Be the Match Foundation

Be the Match Foundation helps patients who need a marrow transplant find a donor and receive treatment. With the income loss and uninsured expenses that come with many marrow transplants, Be the Match Foundation is also working to increase patient assistance grants offered to families.

Lymphoma Research Foundation

The Lymphoma Research Foundation is dedicated exclusively to funding lymphoma research and treatment, raising public awareness of the disease, and providing support to people living with lymphoma, their families and caregivers.

International Myeloma Foundation

The International Myeloma Foundation fosters advocacy and provides diagnoses and patient support initiatives focused on improving the quality of life for myeloma patients.

Hosts for Hospitals

Hosts for Hospitals works to provide free lodging and care to out-of-town patient-families coming to receive treatment at hospitals in Philadelphia and nationwide.

From July 2000 through August 2010, 347 host-families provided over 1,700 patient-families coming to Greater Philadelphia hospitals close to 50,000 nights of lodging! This saved these patient-families a combined $2.95 million in equivalent hotel expenses.

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Doing extensive Internet marketing research is one of the essential steps in building a successful online business. This is the first phase of any business, web site or marketing campaign and can make the difference between making money or wasting a lot of time to get poor or no results.

As an Internet marketer you must define a market that you will market to. You need to have a clear definition of that market so that you can determine the needs of that market. It is those needs that you will address in your marketing and without a clear understanding of the market, you cannot provide the answer that your potential customers are looking for.

Whether your intention is to build an authority web site or blog, or you plan to build an affiliate marketing campaign, you have to do the research to establish what market you will address and what their needs are. Once you have this information you can target all of your efforts at addressing the needs of the market that you are working in. This will translate into more traffic and exposure and more sales and profits for your business.

Solid Internet marketing research starts with an idea.

Begin with a general topic or broad market in mind. This gives you a place to start and from there you can drill down to find the specific niches and topics that you can target.

Perhaps you are an affiliate marketer and you have a product that you want to promote. You might start your research with the product page. As you read the page ask yourself, who is this product for? Who will benefit from it? Who is this product vendor targeting?

Now that you have an idea who your target market is, it?s time to do a little keyword research to find out what that market is looking for. Use your favorite keyword suggestion tool and type in the broad search phrase related to your market. Now look at the search phrases that were generated and see if there are any that your chosen product are related to. If you find some terms that apply, make a note of them and start to drill deeper.

What you are looking for is a smaller targeted market or niche that is looking for the answers that your chosen product offers.? The reason that you want these smaller niches is that they are more defined and it?s easier to target their needs. The more small markets or niches that you can find, the more profitable your campaign can be.

As an Internet entrepreneur much of your time will be spent doing Internet marketing research. It?s an important part of doing business online so you might as well learn to enjoy it. Even if you have a sold business, you will always be searching for ways to expand your business and readership which will equate to more profits. Internet marketing research is the foundation that every profitable Internet based business is built on.

Dale East is an entrepreneur with 30 years in sales and marketing and publisher of multiple web sites.

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Documenting women's experiences with chromosome abnormalities found in new prenatal test

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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Responses range from 'needing support' to worried about 'toxic knowledge'

PHILADELPHIA We often hear that "knowledge is power." But, that isn't always the case, especially when the knowledge pertains to the health of an unborn child, with murky implications, at best. A new study, led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, begins to document this exception to the general rule.

Barbara Bernhardt, MS, CGC, a genetic counselor at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues contacted a small group of women who are participating in a larger Columbia University study investigating the use of a genetic test called a DNA microarray to identify the possibility of prenatal chromosomal abnormalities. Bernhardt is also co-director of the Penn Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies.

The study's goal: To document a woman's experience upon learning that her child's genetic material contained chromosomal abnormalities. The women's responses to this type of news were mostly negative, ranging from saying they "needed support" after getting the results to describing the results as "toxic knowledge," that they wish they hadn't received.

DNA microarrays represent a relatively new approach to genetic testing. Classically, chromosomal abnormalities are detected with karyotyping, which uses DNA staining and microscopy to identify such large-scale abnormalities as trisomy 21, associated with Down's syndrome. Yet the technique lacks the resolution to detect smaller yet still significant -- chromosomal changes.

That's where DNA microarrays come in. Microarrays use an array of DNA "probes" to search for matching bits of DNA from across the genome. In theory, if a piece of DNA is missing or duplicated, that change can be detected on a microarray, even if it is too small to be detected by karyotyping.

DNA microarrays are often used by physicians following birth to identify chromosomal abnormalities in children with unexplained developmental delays or congenital defects. However, the technique is also being applied prenatally. The problem, though, unlike some genetic changes that definitely lead to disease, is that the significance of the changes DNA microarrays identify (called copy-number variants) isn't always clear. Nor is it necessarily obvious what actions parents, doctors, and genetic counselors should take in light of the findings.

Bernhardt set out to document the experiences of women receiving such information. Of the 4,450 women enrolled in the Columbia University trial, Bernhardt and her team selected 54 who had received chromosome microarray results that showed abnormalities in the previous six months. Of those, they interviewed 23 regarding the subjects' recollections of their informed-consent discussions, genetic counseling, test results, and follow-up.

The team identified five "key elements" that describe the women's experiences:

"An offer too good to pass up." Many of the women accepted the offer for testing because it was offered at no cost and posed no additional risk to them or their unborn child. Yet they did so without necessarily considering the potential significance and ambiguity of the information they could receive.

"Blindsided by the results." Women reported being caught off-guard by the microarray data, which generally arrived one to two weeks after preliminary (and seemingly normal) karyotype information.

"Uncertainty and unquantifiable risks." Women had difficulty making sense of the test results, as copy-number variants are often of either uncertain clinical significance, or produce a wide array of possible developmental outcomes. As a result, the women's time-critical and emotionally charged decisions about whether to terminate a pregnancy, for instance, were complicated.

"Need for support." The women reported needing support from counselors, spouses or partners to digest and consider the information they had received and to make critical decisions regarding their pregnancies.

"Toxic knowledge." The women noted that in many cases the array results constituted "toxic knowledge" that they, in retrospect, wish they hadn't learned, because it negatively impacted their pregnancy, birth, and postnatal experiences. As Bernhardt describes it, "They watch their babies like hawks, always waiting for the other shoe to drop."

According to Bernhardt, chromosomal microarrays pose the same ambiguities after birth as prenatally. The difference is that postnatal testing is done because the child already exhibits an unexplained abnormality, and physicians hope the test can pinpoint its cause. "But when you find [an abnormality] in a fetus it puts the woman and couple into a tailspin because they have no clue what to expect," she says. "And the couple is immediately faced with whether or not to terminate the pregnancy."

The take-home message, Bernhardt says, is that genetic counselors must be prepared to spend more time with parents to help them explore their reasons for wanting microarray testing. Counselors also need to emphasize to parents the potentially ambiguous nature of the microarray results, how to consider potential responses, and how to make the best decisions they can based on both available scientific data and the clients' beliefs.

The study, "Women's experiences receiving abnormal prenatal chromosomal microarray testing results," was published online September 6 in the journal Genetics in Medicine. Additional authors include Penn researcher Danielle Soucier; as well as Karen Hanson, Melissa Savage, and Ronald Wapner from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; and Laird Jackson, Drexel University College of Medicine.

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This work was supported by funding from the National Human Genome Research Institute, National (P50HG004487) and from the National Institute of Child Health and Development (R01HD055651-01 and R01HD055651-03S1).

Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.

The Perelman School of Medicine is currently ranked #2 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $479.3 million awarded in the 2011 fiscal year.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -- recognized as one of the nation's top "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.

Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2011, Penn Medicine provided $854 million to benefit our community.


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Contact: Karen Kreeger
karen.kreeger@uphs.upenn.edu
215-349-5658
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Responses range from 'needing support' to worried about 'toxic knowledge'

PHILADELPHIA We often hear that "knowledge is power." But, that isn't always the case, especially when the knowledge pertains to the health of an unborn child, with murky implications, at best. A new study, led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, begins to document this exception to the general rule.

Barbara Bernhardt, MS, CGC, a genetic counselor at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues contacted a small group of women who are participating in a larger Columbia University study investigating the use of a genetic test called a DNA microarray to identify the possibility of prenatal chromosomal abnormalities. Bernhardt is also co-director of the Penn Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies.

The study's goal: To document a woman's experience upon learning that her child's genetic material contained chromosomal abnormalities. The women's responses to this type of news were mostly negative, ranging from saying they "needed support" after getting the results to describing the results as "toxic knowledge," that they wish they hadn't received.

DNA microarrays represent a relatively new approach to genetic testing. Classically, chromosomal abnormalities are detected with karyotyping, which uses DNA staining and microscopy to identify such large-scale abnormalities as trisomy 21, associated with Down's syndrome. Yet the technique lacks the resolution to detect smaller yet still significant -- chromosomal changes.

That's where DNA microarrays come in. Microarrays use an array of DNA "probes" to search for matching bits of DNA from across the genome. In theory, if a piece of DNA is missing or duplicated, that change can be detected on a microarray, even if it is too small to be detected by karyotyping.

DNA microarrays are often used by physicians following birth to identify chromosomal abnormalities in children with unexplained developmental delays or congenital defects. However, the technique is also being applied prenatally. The problem, though, unlike some genetic changes that definitely lead to disease, is that the significance of the changes DNA microarrays identify (called copy-number variants) isn't always clear. Nor is it necessarily obvious what actions parents, doctors, and genetic counselors should take in light of the findings.

Bernhardt set out to document the experiences of women receiving such information. Of the 4,450 women enrolled in the Columbia University trial, Bernhardt and her team selected 54 who had received chromosome microarray results that showed abnormalities in the previous six months. Of those, they interviewed 23 regarding the subjects' recollections of their informed-consent discussions, genetic counseling, test results, and follow-up.

The team identified five "key elements" that describe the women's experiences:

"An offer too good to pass up." Many of the women accepted the offer for testing because it was offered at no cost and posed no additional risk to them or their unborn child. Yet they did so without necessarily considering the potential significance and ambiguity of the information they could receive.

"Blindsided by the results." Women reported being caught off-guard by the microarray data, which generally arrived one to two weeks after preliminary (and seemingly normal) karyotype information.

"Uncertainty and unquantifiable risks." Women had difficulty making sense of the test results, as copy-number variants are often of either uncertain clinical significance, or produce a wide array of possible developmental outcomes. As a result, the women's time-critical and emotionally charged decisions about whether to terminate a pregnancy, for instance, were complicated.

"Need for support." The women reported needing support from counselors, spouses or partners to digest and consider the information they had received and to make critical decisions regarding their pregnancies.

"Toxic knowledge." The women noted that in many cases the array results constituted "toxic knowledge" that they, in retrospect, wish they hadn't learned, because it negatively impacted their pregnancy, birth, and postnatal experiences. As Bernhardt describes it, "They watch their babies like hawks, always waiting for the other shoe to drop."

According to Bernhardt, chromosomal microarrays pose the same ambiguities after birth as prenatally. The difference is that postnatal testing is done because the child already exhibits an unexplained abnormality, and physicians hope the test can pinpoint its cause. "But when you find [an abnormality] in a fetus it puts the woman and couple into a tailspin because they have no clue what to expect," she says. "And the couple is immediately faced with whether or not to terminate the pregnancy."

The take-home message, Bernhardt says, is that genetic counselors must be prepared to spend more time with parents to help them explore their reasons for wanting microarray testing. Counselors also need to emphasize to parents the potentially ambiguous nature of the microarray results, how to consider potential responses, and how to make the best decisions they can based on both available scientific data and the clients' beliefs.

The study, "Women's experiences receiving abnormal prenatal chromosomal microarray testing results," was published online September 6 in the journal Genetics in Medicine. Additional authors include Penn researcher Danielle Soucier; as well as Karen Hanson, Melissa Savage, and Ronald Wapner from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; and Laird Jackson, Drexel University College of Medicine.

###

This work was supported by funding from the National Human Genome Research Institute, National (P50HG004487) and from the National Institute of Child Health and Development (R01HD055651-01 and R01HD055651-03S1).

Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.

The Perelman School of Medicine is currently ranked #2 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $479.3 million awarded in the 2011 fiscal year.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -- recognized as one of the nation's top "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.

Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2011, Penn Medicine provided $854 million to benefit our community.


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NASA's solar fleet peers into coronal cavities

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The sun's atmosphere dances. Giant columns of solar material made of gas so hot that many of the electrons have been scorched off the atoms, turning it into a form of magnetized matter we call plasma leap off the sun's surface, jumping and twisting. Sometimes these prominences of solar material, shoot off, escaping completely into space, other times they fall back down under their own weight.

The prominences are sometimes also the inner structure of a larger formation, appearing from the side almost as the filament inside a large light bulb. The bright structure around and above that light bulb is called a streamer, and the inside "empty" area is called a coronal prominence cavity.

Such structures are but one of many that the roiling magnetic fields and million-degree plasma create in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, but they are an important one as they can be the starting point of what's called a coronal mass ejection, or CME. CMEs are billion-ton clouds of material from the sun's atmosphere that erupt out into the solar system and can interfere with satellites and radio communications near Earth when they head our way.

"We don't really know what gets these CMEs going," says Terry Kucera, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "So we want to understand their structure before they even erupt, because then we might have a better clue about why it's erupting and perhaps even get some advance warning on when they will erupt."

Kucera and her colleagues have published a paper in the Sept. 20, 2012, issue of The Astrophysical Journal on the temperatures of the coronal cavities. This is the third in a series of papers -- the first discussed cavity geometry and the second its density -- collating and analyzing as much data as possible from a cavity that appeared over the upper left horizon of the sun on Aug. 9, 2007 (below). By understanding these three aspects of the cavities, that is the shape, density and temperature, scientists can better understand the space weather that can disrupt technologies near Earth.

The sun's atmosphere dances. Giant columns of solar material made of gas so hot that many of the electrons have been scorched off the atoms, turning it into a form of magnetized matter we call plasma leap off the sun's surface, jumping and twisting. Sometimes these prominences of solar material, shoot off, escaping completely into space, other times they fall back down under their own weight.

The prominences are sometimes also the inner structure of a larger formation, appearing from the side almost as the filament inside a large light bulb. The bright structure around and above that light bulb is called a streamer, and the inside "empty" area is called a coronal prominence cavity.

Such structures are but one of many that the roiling magnetic fields and million-degree plasma create in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, but they are an important one as they can be the starting point of what's called a coronal mass ejection, or CME. CMEs are billion-ton clouds of material from the sun's atmosphere that erupt out into the solar system and can interfere with satellites and radio communications near Earth when they head our way.

"We don't really know what gets these CMEs going," says Terry Kucera, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "So we want to understand their structure before they even erupt, because then we might have a better clue about why it's erupting and perhaps even get some advance warning on when they will erupt."

Kucera and her colleagues have published a paper in the Sept. 20, 2012, issue of The Astrophysical Journal on the temperatures of the coronal cavities. This is the third in a series of papers -- the first discussed cavity geometry and the second its density -- collating and analyzing as much data as possible from a cavity that appeared over the upper left horizon of the sun on Aug. 9, 2007 (below). By understanding these three aspects of the cavities, that is the shape, density and temperature, scientists can better understand the space weather that can disrupt technologies near Earth.

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The sun's atmosphere dances. Giant columns of solar material made of gas so hot that many of the electrons have been scorched off the atoms, turning it into a form of magnetized matter we call plasma leap off the sun's surface, jumping and twisting. Sometimes these prominences of solar material, shoot off, escaping completely into space, other times they fall back down under their own weight.

The prominences are sometimes also the inner structure of a larger formation, appearing from the side almost as the filament inside a large light bulb. The bright structure around and above that light bulb is called a streamer, and the inside "empty" area is called a coronal prominence cavity.

Such structures are but one of many that the roiling magnetic fields and million-degree plasma create in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, but they are an important one as they can be the starting point of what's called a coronal mass ejection, or CME. CMEs are billion-ton clouds of material from the sun's atmosphere that erupt out into the solar system and can interfere with satellites and radio communications near Earth when they head our way.

"We don't really know what gets these CMEs going," says Terry Kucera, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "So we want to understand their structure before they even erupt, because then we might have a better clue about why it's erupting and perhaps even get some advance warning on when they will erupt."

Kucera and her colleagues have published a paper in the Sept. 20, 2012, issue of The Astrophysical Journal on the temperatures of the coronal cavities. This is the third in a series of papers -- the first discussed cavity geometry and the second its density -- collating and analyzing as much data as possible from a cavity that appeared over the upper left horizon of the sun on Aug. 9, 2007 (below). By understanding these three aspects of the cavities, that is the shape, density and temperature, scientists can better understand the space weather that can disrupt technologies near Earth.

The sun's atmosphere dances. Giant columns of solar material made of gas so hot that many of the electrons have been scorched off the atoms, turning it into a form of magnetized matter we call plasma leap off the sun's surface, jumping and twisting. Sometimes these prominences of solar material, shoot off, escaping completely into space, other times they fall back down under their own weight.

The prominences are sometimes also the inner structure of a larger formation, appearing from the side almost as the filament inside a large light bulb. The bright structure around and above that light bulb is called a streamer, and the inside "empty" area is called a coronal prominence cavity.

Such structures are but one of many that the roiling magnetic fields and million-degree plasma create in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, but they are an important one as they can be the starting point of what's called a coronal mass ejection, or CME. CMEs are billion-ton clouds of material from the sun's atmosphere that erupt out into the solar system and can interfere with satellites and radio communications near Earth when they head our way.

"We don't really know what gets these CMEs going," says Terry Kucera, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "So we want to understand their structure before they even erupt, because then we might have a better clue about why it's erupting and perhaps even get some advance warning on when they will erupt."

Kucera and her colleagues have published a paper in the Sept. 20, 2012, issue of The Astrophysical Journal on the temperatures of the coronal cavities. This is the third in a series of papers -- the first discussed cavity geometry and the second its density -- collating and analyzing as much data as possible from a cavity that appeared over the upper left horizon of the sun on Aug. 9, 2007 (below). By understanding these three aspects of the cavities, that is the shape, density and temperature, scientists can better understand the space weather that can disrupt technologies near Earth.

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