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Introducing Dunbar?s Number

Dunbar?s number?is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable?social relationships.?Relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person.

Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restricted rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive?group. No precise value has been proposed for?Dunbar?s number,?but a commonly cited approximation is 150.

update contacts note When It Comes To Influential Contacts, Less Is MoreDunbar?s number?was first proposed by?British anthropologist?Robin Dunbar. He?theorized that??this limit is a direct function of relative?neocortex?size, and that this in turn limits group size ? the limit imposed by neocortical processing capacity is simply on the number of individuals with whom a stable inter-personal relationship can be maintained.??

On the periphery, the number also includes past colleagues such as high school friends with whom a person would want to reacquaint themselves if they met again (Reference: See this Wall Street Journal article).

Put in context: We now have?tools such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and the like, that enable us to create and renew thousands of relationships. That?s fine, but Dunbar suggests a reality we should probably understand, if only subconsciously.?A friend on Facebook, a connection on LinkedIn, or a follower on Twitter are not relationships of the highest order.

Sit down and made a list of 100-150 people in your world that are important to you, at both a personal and business level. If you really endeavored to stay in regular communication with them (on the phone, by letter, in person), how much room would there be for anyone else, at a meaningful.

Your personal relationships would be more complete. Your business relationships would be deeper and have true strength.

Go ahead, make the list, and a communications plan for 2013.

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Parents of missing baby jailed as cops find remains

By Hank Tester, Donna Rapado, Diana Gonzalez, Steve Litz and Juan Ortega, NBCMiami.com

Police investigating the disappearance of a Hallandale Beach, Fla., boy last seen about 18 months ago have found remains that are consistent with an infant's, authorities said Friday.

Police Chief Dwayne Flournoy said it was too early to say whether the remains are those of Dontrell Melvin, who was 5 months old when he went missing around July 2011.

Flournoy said the missing person case has turned into a homicide investigation. Police are arranging for a specialist to further examine the remains, which were found in the backyard of a house where the parents once lived, in the 100 block of Northwest First Avenue in Hallandale Beach.

"We are investigating a homicide,"?Flournoy said. "Are the parents suspects??Yes."?


The arrests of Calvin Melvin Jr., 27, and Brittney Sierra, 21, were announced by police earlier Friday, before the remains were found. The parents were held on child neglect charges after they allegedly admitted they failed to provide adequate care for the child, Flournoy said.

Each parent implicated the other in the child's disappearance, and police soon after went to the Hallandale Beach site to conduct a search with cadaver-sniffing dogs, Flournoy said.

?After lengthy interviews over the last 12 hours, they both have intimated that the child has been harmed in some way by each other,? Flournoy said. ?So in essence, they are blaming each other as it relates to the child?s disappearance.?

Little Boy Has Been Missing Since July 2011: Hallandale Beach Police

Dontrell?s disappearance didn?t become known to authorities until Wednesday, when an investigator with the Broward County sheriff?s Child Protective Investigations Section spoke to Sierra regarding a child neglect case, according to Hallandale Beach police Maj. Thomas Honan.

Instead of finding three children at the home, the CPIS investigator saw that Dontrell was missing, Honan said.

Sierra then contacted Melvin, who told the investigator that the boy was with Melvin?s parents in Pompano Beach, Fla., police said.

But when the investigator went to verify the story, the boy?s grandparents said they hadn?t seen the boy in more than a year, Honan said. The investigator notified Hallandale Beach police, Honan said.

Though police questioned Melvin and Sierra, neither has said what happened to the boy. Sierra told police that if the boy disappeared and was harmed, then Melvin did it, Flournoy said. Melvin said the same thing about Sierra: If the child was harmed, Sierra did it, Flournoy added.

The police chief said that the parents individually described ?an area of interest and concern? where police could search to determine whether ?the child has been harmed.?

?The evidence has led us to believe that their conspiracy -- to hide the whereabouts of the child after the child was missing -- is apparent,? Flournoy said.

Before the remains were found Friday, Flournoy said an area had been identified by the parents.

By Friday afternoon, Hallandale Beach police cruisers were parked outside a home where residents said the parents used to live.

Several officers were seen there searching the grounds. Assisting were Broward Sheriff?s Office crime-scene specialists, as well as Miramar police cadaver dogs, Flournoy said.

The current tenant of the home, Natalie Garrido, said her Labrador retriever used to dig in the same spot where the remains were found Friday.

?He would always go back there to sniff in that area. And he would disappear there," she said. "I?m like what is he smelling back there? Nothing was ever sketchy to me.?

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Melvin previously told police that he had dropped off Dontrell at a Miami Gardens fire station in 2011, but ?he has since recanted that story,? Flournoy said. ?He said that that?s not true.?

Thursday, Melvin provided a different account of events, police said. Before the boy vanished in 2011, Melvin said he had gotten into a verbal argument with Sierra and left the residence, Flournoy said.

Melvin said when he returned to the residence weeks later, Sierra told him the boy was living with her parents out of state, the police chief said.

Melvin said that when he pressed Sierra for answers at the time, Sierra asked for his forgiveness and told Melvin that if he loved her, he should no longer ask about the boy, Flournoy said.

Meanwhile, Sierra told police that Melvin had taken the boy away from the home in July 2011, police said.

After the disappearance, it was clear from questioning the parents that no family member had the child and that the parents knew of no one who had the child since either July 2011 or August 2011, police said.

Additional relatives of the boy likely didn?t investigate the boy?s disappearance because they were assured he was OK, police said.

?Perhaps the parents were able to spin stories to different segments of the family, that they believed the child was possibly being taken care of by another segment of the family,? Flournoy said. ?But they never connected or talked.?

The police chief said relatives probably thought financial hardships had led to the boy being elsewhere. ?The family believed that if someone else was providing for the child, that it was a better situation for the child to be in,? Flournoy said.

In October 2012, Melvin and Sierra had a child-custody issue that led Hallandale Beach police to notify the state Department of Children and Families.

The child-custody case stemmed from the mother making ?the assertion that the father is keeping the child away from her and not allowing her to see the child,? Flournoy said.

Police at the time told DCF that the family was having a child-custody issue and said they may require their services.

DCF Secretary David Wilkins said in a statement on Friday that DCF had last year ?worked with the officer at that time regarding the police department?s ongoing investigation into a custody dispute between the two parents arrested today.?

Wilkins said DCF couldn?t discuss specifics, but replied that ??missing child cases and situations where a crime is alleged to have occurred remain under the investigatory authority of local law enforcement.?

DCF is working ?very closely? with Hallandale Beach police and the Sheriff?s Office in the inquiry, Wilkins added.

Dontrell?s two siblings now are in the custody of DCF, Wilkins said. ?We are providing them with the safety and security they need,? he said.

The boy's parents were taken to a Broward County jail on Friday and were expected to make their first court appearances as early as Saturday, Flournoy said.

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Health News - Physical Rehabilitation in the Intensive Care Unit is ...

In a study evaluating the financial impact of providing early physical therapy for intensive care patients, researchers at Johns Hopkins found that the up-front costs are outweighed by the financial savings generated by earlier discharges from the intensive care unit and shorter hospital stays overall. An article describing the findings, "ICU Early Physical Rehabilitation Programs: Financial Modeling of Cost Savings," is published online ahead of print in the March issue of Critical Care Medicine.

"The evidence is growing that providing early physical and occupational therapy for intensive care patients - even when they are on life support - leads to better outcomes. Patients are stronger and more able to care for themselves when they are discharged," says Dale M. Needham, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of medicine and critical care specialist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author of the study.

Needham says a major barrier to early rehab programs in the ICU has been concern among hospital administrators about the cost. "However, our study shows that a relatively low investment up front can produce a significant overall reduction in the cost of hospital care for these patients," Needham says. "Such programs are an example of how we can save money and improve care at the same time."

For the study, the researchers developed a financial model based on actual experience at The Johns Hopkins Hospital's medical intensive care unit (MICU), as well as on projections for hospitals of different sizes with variable lengths of stay.

The Johns Hopkins MICU admits about 900 patients each year. In 2008, the hospital created an early rehabilitation program with dedicated physical and occupational therapists, which added about $358,000 to the cost of care annually. However, by 2009, the length of stay in the MICU had decreased an average of 23 percent, down from six-and-a-half days to five days, while the time spent by those same patients as they transitioned to less-intensive hospital units fell 18 percent. Using their financial model, the authors estimated a net cost saving for the hospital of about $818,000 per year, even after factoring in the up-front costs. ??

The researchers then analyzed the potential impact of early rehabilitation services in 24 different scenarios, accounting for variations in the number of ICU admissions, cost savings per day and reductions in length of stay.

"We were very conservative in creating the financial model to avoid overstating the potential net cost savings," says Robert Lord, A.B., lead author of the study. "We found that in 20 out of the 24 scenarios, hospitals would have an overall cost savings by providing early rehabilitation to their intensive care unit patients, and in the four remaining scenarios, using the most conservative assumptions, there was a modest net cost increase of up to $88,000 per year," adds Lord.

Needham says their financial model can serve as a resource for hospitals throughout the United States to estimate their own net cost impact for providing early physical rehabilitation to ICU patients. He says length of stay is the biggest driver of cost to a hospital, which typically gets paid a fixed amount for caring for patients with specific diagnoses.

"The bottom line is that early rehabilitation in the ICU helps patients play an active role in their recovery and can make a big difference in their quality of life when they leave the hospital," says Needham. "More patients are surviving their ICU stay than ever before, yet many lose muscle strength during treatment for a critical illness because of long periods of bed rest." Early rehabilitation therapy, he says, can prevent muscle weakness that impairs patients? ability to care for themselves after hospital discharge.

The researchers conclude that with their conservative projections, investment in early rehabilitation for ICU patients can generate substantial net cost savings for hospitals while improving patient outcomes.

The study was funded by the Johns Hopkins Critical Care Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Program.

Other study authors were: Christopher R. Mayhew, B.S., Earl C. Mantheiy, B.A., Michael A. Friedman, P.T., M.B.A., and Jeffrey Palmer, M.D., from Johns Hopkins, and Radha Korupolu, M.B.B.S., M.S., from the University of Kentucky.

Source: http://www.healthcanal.com/public-health-safety/35314-Physical-Rehabilitation-the-Intensive-Care-Unit-Better-For-Patients-and-the-Hospitals-Bottom-Line.html

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A snapshot of pupfish evolution in action

Friday, January 11, 2013

Chris Martin has bred more than 3,000 hybrid fish in his time as a graduate student in evolution and ecology at UC Davis, a pursuit that has helped him create one of the most comprehensive snapshots of natural selection in the wild and demonstrated a key prediction in evolutionary biology.

"We can see a surprisingly complex snapshot of natural selection driving the evolution of new specialized species," said Martin, who with Professor Peter Wainwright published a paper on the topic in the Jan. 11, 2013, issue of the journal Science.

The "adaptive landscape" is very important for evolutionary biology, but rarely measured, Martin said. He's been fascinated with the concept since high school.

An adaptive landscape takes variable traits in an animal or plant, such as jaw size and shape, spreads them over a surface, and reveals peaks of success (what evolutionary scientists call fitness) where those traits become most effective, or adaptive.

It is a common and powerful idea that influences thinking about evolution. But while the concept is straightforward, it is much harder to map out such a landscape in the wild.

For example, about 50 species of pupfish are found across the Americas. The tiny fish, about an inch or so long, mostly eat algae on rocks and other detritus. Martin has been studying species found only in a few lakes on the island of San Salvador in the Bahamas, where some of the fish have evolved different-shaped jaws that allow them to feed on hard-shelled prey like snails or, in one case, to snatch scales off other fish.

In a paper published in 2011, Martin showed that these San Salvadoran fish are evolving at an explosively faster rate than other pupfish.

Martin brought some of the fish back to the lab at UC Davis and bred hybrids with fish with different types of jaws. He created about 3,000 hybrids in all, which were measured, photographed and tagged. Martin then took about 2,000 of the fish back to San Salvador.

"It was the craziest thing I've done," Martin said. "I was leaning on the stack of them in the middle of Miami airport."

Martin released the young fish into enclosures in the lakes of their grandparents. Three months later, he returned to check on the survivors and plotted them out on the adaptive landscape.

Most of the surviving fish were on an isolated peak adapted to a general style of feeding, with another peak representing fish adapted for eating hard-shelled prey. Competition between the fish had eliminated the fish whose jaws put them in the valleys between those peaks. The scale-eating fish did not survive.

The results explain why most pupfish species in America have pretty much the same diets, Martin said. The generalists are essentially stranded on their peak -- variants that get too far out fall into the valley and die out before they can make it to another peak.

"It's stabilizing selection," he said. An early burst of variation when fish entered a new environment with little competition could have allowed the shell-eaters and scale-eaters to evolve on San Salvador.

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Kelly decides to stay at Notre Dame, pass on NFL

After interviewing with the Philadelphia Eagles, Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly has decided to stay in South Bend, SI.com?s Pete Thamel is reporting.

Kelly began talking with the Eagles about replacing Andy Reid shortly after his Fighting Irish lost the BCS National Championship Game to Alabama on Monday. He earned coach of the year honors for the second time after leading Notre Dame to a 12-0 record.

In 22 years as a college head coach, Kelly has compiled a 199-67-2 record with Grand Valley State, Central Michigan, Cincinnati and Notre Dame. His resume includes two Division II national championships and two Big East titles.

CBSSports.com?s Bruce Feldman first reported the news.

Kelly and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbick issued statements following the announcement, via ESPN.com?s Joe Schad and Yahoo! Sports? Pat Forde.

Schad is also reporting that the school is working toward an extension and raise for Kelly.

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A few of our favorite things: The coming year's most thrilling technologies

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Every January,?reporters on the tech beat kiss their families goodbye and?surrender a week of their lives to the concrete fauxtopia of Las Vegas, in exchange for knowledge of the?things to come.

This year, at that Consumer Electronics Show of which I speak, we saw?forks that track what you eat, robots that cling to windows, chairs that block out unwanted?noise, and other wonders. We also learned that your next TV may well have four times the resolution of your current one, and that "smart TV" may not be so dumb after all.

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We might not have been to every corner of the 1.4?million square feet of show floor (though?our feet sure feel like they've walked it all) but we used our reporting powers to seek out the best inventions and evolutions of CES 2013, and here they are:

Ultra high definition TV - The next wave of TVs will be UHD, with four times the resolution of "full" 1080p high def. You can't see the pixels from three feet away, and since?TVs keep getting bigger, it almost just makes sense. Samsung put out a 110-inch model that will ship to very rich people later this year, but even those among us without suites in the Burj Al Dubai will probably be able to afford a smaller UHD TV within a year or two.

Sony Xperia Z smartphone?- What's better than a beautiful 5-inch 1080p phone with tempered?glass on the front and back? How about a 13-megapixel camera and "intelligent auto" shooting? And what if it were water- and dust-resistant? That's the Xperia Z.

Silentium Quiet Bubble prototype chair - You can take a load off of your ears when you sit in this chair. It's flanked with noise-canceling speakers much like what you might find in popular travel headphones, and can cut down loud annoying ambient sounds.

LG laser projector - The best way to get a 100-inch picture right now is not to email Samsung and beg for their huge TV. No, it's to use LG's Laser TV, a projection system that can sit right as close as 22?inches from the specially designed screen and blast a picture so bright you can watch it in the daytime.

Evado Filip Vivoplay kid watch?- A cellphone embedded in this small kids' watch means that you can use GPS, Wi-Fi and cellular towers to track the little ones, but if they do get lost or run into trouble, they push the little red button: The watch starts calling family members until one picks up.

Winbot window cleaner - Roomba got nothing on Winbot, the cleaning robot that has enough suction to stick to windows as it cleans. You still have to move it from window to window, and the version we saw doesn't have a battery, but the concept is bound to take off ... er, to stick.

WheeMe massage robot - What do you do while one robot is cleaning the house? Enjoy a relaxing massage from another robot. This semi-autonomous vibrating car thingy that drives all over your back is surprisingly comforting, though it's so lightweight, a?deep-tissue rubdown is out of the question. ??

Pebble smartwatch - Smartwatches are all the rage at CES 2013, which is a bit surprising because they look as?chunky as ever. But we can see the allure in the Pebble, with?e-paper?screen and the ability to pair with iPhones and Android phones via Bluetooth to tell you who's calling or texting you.

iPotty from CTA Digital - Show this to any parent who's recently endured their toddler's?potty training, and we bet?they'll say, "I'll take it!" Pairing a training toilet with an iPad case is about the best innovation in potty training since the Potty Watch.

ZBoard?electric skateboard - Once?fearless NBC News reporter Rosa Golijan mastered the basics of this sturdy machine, she proved its ease?of?use by wearing 4-inch heels. Don't try that at home, but it is a great alternative to the car; the skateboard can take you up to?10 miles on a charge.

Samsung and Panasonic?smart TVs - Everybody has smart TVs now, but we liked Samsung's redesign,?based on five separate intuitive screens. Panasonic won us over because its new smart TVs will have home screens you can customize with your favorite apps and content.

Lenovo?table PC - No, don't call it a tablet PC, the?IdeaCentre Horizon is a?table PC, one that is meant to sit flat so that, in group settings, more than one person can multitouch at the same time. We're not sure who's going to use it, and for what, but it's definitely an eyebrow-raising?innovation.

Hapifork?digital utensil?- How many times do you stab a bit of chicken and suddenly?wonder ? in the split second before it goes into your mouth ? how much it weighs? No longer will this plague you, thanks to the Hapilabs smart fork, intended for geeks on diets.

Nvidia Project Shield gaming console - CES isn't really a gaming show, so Nvidia's announcement of an Android-based handheld gaming console came as a surprise. But?what better way to launch its smokin' fast Tegra 4 processor??

Whirlpool Fireplace concept - In the not too distant future, we'll be cooking with light. At least that's what Whirlpool researchers in Italy are working on as part of their attempt to rethink the traditional hearth. After all, in many homes, cooking and socializing have become one and the same.

Canon PowerShot N camera?- A cute square?point-and-shoot?meant to feed the?Instagram craze, the PowerShot N has Wi-Fi and a touchscreen, and only a few buttons. Take a shot by pressing on the bezel around the lens, and it instantly creates a bevy of shots with all kinds of crops and filters.

TrackingPoint rifle?- A hunting rifle gets the "Top Gun" makeover with a heads-up display and smart trigger. Once you've picked your target, the system calculates the best trajectory based on wind,?humidity and other factors.?Squeeze the trigger, but the gun won't fire until you're in perfect position.

Wilson Rothman is the Technology & Science?editor at NBC News Digital. He's been at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas?all week?so?his feet are sore.?Feel free to tweet him?up?at?@wjrothman, and?join our conversation on Facebook.

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Groupon Acquires Realtime Location-Aware Service Glassmap To Help You Find Deals

5972816602_9475fdd0ec_zYCombinator company, Glassmap, a location-aware app that was big back in the day (last year), has just announced that is has been acquired by Groupon. This makes total sense, because Groupon needs to know where you are, who you’re with and what you’re doing and like, so that it can push more relevant deals to you. This is something that companies like Google are also working on. Here’s what the company had to say: Today, we?re happy to announce that Glassmap has been acquired by Groupon! Our goal when we started building Glassmap was to help people find what was interesting and relevant around them. But in plainer terms, we just really wanted to mold all these fancy ideas and innovations of Silicon Valley into a simple and useful tool for the real world. Groupon has revolutionized how people today use technology to interact with the real world, and that?s why we?re so excited to join them. Together, we?ll be able to create even more amazing products. Most importantly, we want to thank all our loyal users for riding with us for these past two years. It?s been really fun for us, and we hope to continue delighting you with our efforts with Groupon. The Glassmap application will wind down and close on February 15, 2013. As the team mentions, it now has an opportunity to take what it has built, and put it in front of a more mainstream audience, like outside of San Francisco. When the service launched, I spoke with its team, and it told me about some pretty interesting location technology it was building, which didn’t tax your phone’s battery like other apps. This is developing. [Photo credit: Flickr]

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