'Firefly' marks milestone in Science TV special

FILE - In this June 13, 2012 file photo, Canadian actor Nathan Fillion poses during a photocall at the 2012 Monte Carlo Television Festival, in Monaco. Fillion starred in the series ?Firefly,? which is marking the 10th anniversary of its brief TV run with ?Firefly: Browncoats Unite,? a special airing 10 p.m. EST Sunday, Nov. 11, on the Science Channel. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

FILE - In this June 13, 2012 file photo, Canadian actor Nathan Fillion poses during a photocall at the 2012 Monte Carlo Television Festival, in Monaco. Fillion starred in the series ?Firefly,? which is marking the 10th anniversary of its brief TV run with ?Firefly: Browncoats Unite,? a special airing 10 p.m. EST Sunday, Nov. 11, on the Science Channel. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

This July 2012 publicity photo provided by the Science Channel shows the cast of "Firefly," from left, Nathan Fillion, executive producer Tim Minear, Alan Tudyk, Summer Glau, Sean Maher, Adam Baldwin and executive story editor Jose Molina, reuniting for the 10 year anniversary of the series in the Science Channel Special, "Firefly: Browncoats Unite," airing on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012 at 10PM ET/PT. (AP Photo/Science Channel, James Aronovsky)

FILE - In this June 13, 2012 file photo, Canadian actor Nathan Fillion poses during a photocall at the 2012 Monte Carlo Television Festival, in Monaco. Fillion starred in the series ?Firefly,? which is marking the 10th anniversary of its brief TV run with ?Firefly: Browncoats Unite,? a special airing 10 p.m. EST Sunday, Nov. 11, on the Science Channel. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The "Firefly" saga consists of 14 TV episodes, one big-screen movie and the undiminished passion of the space Western's fans, stars and producers.

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Fox show's abbreviated 2002-03 run, the Science Channel is airing the hourlong "Firefly 10th Anniversary: Browncoats Unite" at 10 p.m. EST Sunday.

The special will be preceded by a marathon showing of all the "Firefly" episodes starting at 7 a.m. EST.

For "Firefly" devotees, only one word can describe the prospect of seeing star Nathan Fillion, other cast members and creator Joss Whedon talk about making and missing their baby: "shiny," which is "Firefly"-speak for cool or good.

Fillion, who came down to Earth successfully in ABC's detective series "Castle," is happy to wallow in nostalgia and fan fervor. This summer, he took part in a packed San Diego Comic-Con tribute to "Firefly."

"The sheer volume of people is just the first part of it," Fillion said recently of the event. "Then you have to get down to how excited these people are. It's incredible energy. It's a very visceral feeling."

"The way I see it is there are people who love 'Firefly' as much as I do. 'Firefly' has a very special meaning to me, so I share in that excitement. It's easy for me to understand it," the 41-year-old actor said.

The series, a 26th-century adventure leavened with droll humor, followed the misfit crew of the Firefly-class spaceship Serenity. (The 2005 movie that rose, improbably, from the ashes of the low-rated "Firefly" was titled "Serenity." Comic books are among the other spinoffs.)

The ship's captain, Fillion's dashing but discontented Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds, fought with the losing, good-guy Browncoats in a civil war and now lives and works on the fringes of a repressive society.

For Fillion, the drama was the start of a leading-man career that he makes plain he owes to Whedon, whose cult-inducing credits range from online sensation "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" to TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" to blockbuster "The Avengers."

Fillion savored the experience.

"I remember the first time I put on my costume, walked onto the ship for the first day of work ... and the director of photography, David Boyd, saw me and hollered out, 'Captain on deck!' and everyone stopped and clapped."

"That's a moment I'll never forget," the Canadian-born actor said. Add the chance to be a classic Western hero and he was in heaven.

"Nothing makes you feel tougher than putting a gun on your hip in the desert and getting on the back of an animal and riding. There's something very manly about that," he said.

Fillion shares this tidbit: No matter what planet he ended up on while in the saddle, he always rode the same horse, Fred.

The special includes clips from the drama, a round-table conversation with cast members including Fillion, Jewel Staite (who played Kaylee), Sean Maher (Simon) and Summer Glau (River), along with snippets from the Comic-Con panel headed by Whedon.

"I just wanted to make something that felt real, like a piece of history," Whedon told the convention. "I wanted to tell an American immigrant story. I wanted to tell a Western story. But I need spaceships or I get cranky."

The writer-director-producer grew emotional, telling the crowd at one point that "the story is alive" because of them.

The enduring popularity of a show that couldn't get ratings traction in its first time around is something Fillion has pondered.

"There's certainly more fans now than there's ever been. It's interesting that the show, being this brief moment in time, it didn't have an opportunity to suck, to get bad," he said. "So it's this wonderful contained unit of what I like to think of as quality storytelling."

The show has left its mark on a new and unsuspecting generation.

"'Firefly' fans are out there and they're breeding," Fillion said. "I'll be scanning Twitter and someone will show a baby and say, 'This is Kaylee.'

"So I'm going to be out one day and someone will walk up and say, 'I am Kaylee.'"

Shiny!

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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Lynn Elber is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. She can be reached at lelber(at)ap.org.

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Soap Dish: Give Arianne Zucker An Emmy!

It is a special edition of Soap Dish and I am dishing all about how Arianne Zucker deserves an Emmy! I just finished watching Days of Our Lives and her performance blew me away. Since last week’s column did not happen thanks to Hurricane Sandy I decided to give Ari her shout out now. I have been watching Zucker as Nicole Walker lie, cheat, scheme, and basically be the villain you love to hate for years on DOOL. I have always been a huge fan of hers even when I didn’t like the character of Nicole so much. However the past few weeks my heart has gone out to Nicole and it is all due to the stellar performance of Ari. Seriously ever since the episode that Nicole lost her baby Zucker has been making me cry with her heartfelt performance, even when her alter ego accused Jennifer of killing her baby. I could not help but feel bad for her. Although the past few weeks have been awesome it was today’s performance by the super talented actress that made me write this column. Spoiler alert here so if you haven’t watch today’s show you might want to skip to [...]

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2012 Primetime Emmy? Engineering Awards ? video highlights ...

Toon Boom Animation would like to share the video of the award ceremonies with you. ?The event took place on Wednesday, October 24th at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood. It was hosted by actress Olivia Munn. Thanks to the Academy for sharing this on their website.

Toon Boom won a?2012?Primetime Emmy? Engineering Award for Storyboard Pro digital storyboarding software.

Click on the Emmy picture to watch highlights from 64th Primetime Emmy? Engineering Award ceremony including Toon Boom?s acceptance speech.

Read more about the Toon Boom award here

Toon Boom would also like to congratulate all of the winners of the?64th Primetime Emmy? Engineering Awards:

• Eastman Kodak Company, this year?s recipient of the Philo. T. Farnsworth Award.
• Dr. Richard Green, the founder and, until recently, the president and CEO of Cable Television Laboratories. Dr. Green is this year?s recipient of the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award.
• Colorfront, Ltd.
• FilmLight, Ltd.
• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Color Encoding System (ACES)
• American Society of Cinematographers Color Decision List (ASC CDL)
• Dolby Laboratories Inc.
• Sony Electronics Inc.
• Netflix Inc. ?
• Adobe Systems

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Analysts View: Markets react to the election

(Reuters) - Results are coming in for the U.S. Presidential election between Democratic incumbent Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. S&P 500 futures have dipped since polling results started to come in, and are now down 9.7 points.

President Obama is projected by U.S. television networks to have won in both Wisconsin, a Midwest swing state, and Pennsylvania, where Romney made a late play to try to grab the state.

COMMENTS:

JOHN CANALLY, INVESTMENT STRATEGIST AND ECONOMIST, LPL FINANCIAL, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS:

"Rumors floated in the market that the polls were skewed and Romney was going to win and I think that may have sent the market up, and now that the polls are showing that President Obama will win or that it's too close to call, that may be a part of it (the decline in futures)."

BONNIE BAHA, HEAD OF GLOBAL DEVELOPED CREDIT AT DOUBLELINE CAPITAL LP, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA:

"China equities trading down as are U.S. equities. Curious. China pricing in a Romney win and U.S. pricing in an Obama win. Still too close to call. Don't know what bond futures are doing. That's the key. Florida and Ohio still not in yet but Pennsylvania just called for Obama. This election has the potential for three or more Floridas."

TODD SCHOENBERGER, MANAGING PRINCIPAL AT THE BLACKBAY GROUP IN NEW YORK:

"Futures are selling off right now because there's a feeling we may not have an absolute winner as we go through the night. We don't want Florida to be the decision maker again, and right now it looks like we may be going back to what we had between Bush and Gore in 2000.

"It's like, here we go again. One of the issues is that Florida has an automatic recount if the margin is 1 percent or less between the two candidates. We don't want to have to wait several days for a result. What we hate on Wall Street is uncertainty. We rallied today (Tuesday's session) because we thought this mess would be put behind us.

"I'm paying some attention to the legislative races, but we would've needed to see a change in the control of the Senate in order for Obamacare to have any chance of being overruled, that's even if Romney wins. It doesn't look like that will happen, and if both houses stay under the same leadership, that suggests we will see continued gridlock."

DAVID JOY, CHIEF MARKET STRATEGIST AT AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL IN BOSTON:

"I expect a short-term reaction no matter who ends up winning. If Romney wins, the reaction will probably be positive, and if Obama wins it might be slightly negative, but no matter what, it will be short-lived. Soon investors will start focusing on the fiscal cliff and what progress will be made there.

"The next day or so should wash out the impact of the election, but we'll be in a state of limbo until we know the results. We've seen some volatile trading lately, but I'm not concerned about legal challenges to state results. That would really leave markets in a bind, but I don't think this is such a close race that we're counting ballots by hand. It doesn't look like Romney will win Ohio, and if he loses Florida early on, it probably won't be a late night.

"Almost as important is what happens in terms of the make-up of the congress. If we have a divided government like we do now, that will be viewed as a modest disappointment since that configuration has resulted in gridlock and there's no clear path towards unlocking that. Though this is a long-shot, if the Republicans do really well in state races and they control both houses, they might just veto everything over the next four years. That wouldn't be constructive at all. So the composition of congress is extremely important in all this, and it holds implications for how quickly we resolve the fiscal cliff issue, or whether it gets resolved at all."

(Americas Economics and Markets Desk; +1-646 223-6300)

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Stem cells and nanofibers make promising nerve research

ScienceDaily (Nov. 7, 2012) ? Every week in his clinic at the University of Michigan, neurologist Joseph Corey, M.D., Ph.D., treats patients whose nerves are dying or shrinking due to disease or injury.

He sees the pain, the loss of ability and the other effects that nerve-destroying conditions cause -- and wishes he could give patients more effective treatments than what's available, or regenerate their nerves. Then he heads to his research lab at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, where his team is working toward that exact goal.

In new research published in several recent papers, Corey and his colleagues from the U-M Medical School, VAAAHS and the University of California, San Francisco report success in developing polymer nanofiber technologies for understanding how nerves form, why they don't reconnect after injury, and what can be done to prevent or slow damage.

Using polymer nanofibers thinner than human hairs as scaffolds, researchers coaxed a particular type of brain cell to wrap around fibers that mimic the shape and size of nerves found in the body.

They've even managed to encourage the process of myelination -- the formation of a protective coating that guards larger nerve fibers from damage. They began to see multiple concentric layers of the protective substance called myelin start to form, just as they do in the body. Together with the laboratory team of their collaborator Jonah Chan at UCSF, the authors reported the findings in Nature Methods.

The research involves oligodendrocytes, which are the supporting actors to neurons -- the "stars" of the central nervous system. Without oligodendrocytes, central nervous system neurons can't effectively transmit the electrical signals that control everything from muscle movement to brain function.

Oligodendrocytes are the type of cells typically affected by multiple sclerosis, and loss of myelin is a hallmark of that debilitating disease.

The researchers have also determined the optimum diameter for the nanofibers to support this process -- giving important new clues to answer the question of why some nerves are myelinated and some aren't.

While they haven't yet created fully functioning "nerves in a dish," the researchers believe their work offers a new way to study nerves and test treatment possibilities. Corey, an assistant professor of neurology and biomedical engineering at the U-M Medical School and researcher in the VA Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center, explains that the thin fibers are crucial for the success of the work.

"If it's about the same length and diameter as a neuron, the nerve cells follow it and their shape and location conform to it," he says. "Essentially, these fibers are the same size as a neuron."

The researchers used polystyrene, a common plastic, to make fibers through a technique called electrospinnning. In a recent paper in Materials Science and Engineering C, they discovered new techniques to optimize how fibers made from poly-L-lactide, a biodegradable polymer, can be better aligned to resemble neurons and to guide regenerating nerve cells.

They're also working to determine the factors that make oligodendrocytes attach to the long narrow axons of neurons, and perhaps to start forming myelin sheaths too.

By attaching particular molecules to the nanofibers, Corey and his colleagues hope to learn more about what makes this process work -- and what makes it go awry, as in diseases caused by poor nerve development.

"What we need to do for multiple sclerosis is to encourage nerves to remyelinate," he says. "For nerve damage caused by trauma, on the other hand, we need to encourage regeneration."

In addition to Corey, the research has been led by Chan, the Rachleff Professor of Neurology at UCSF, VAAAHS lab team member and U-M graduate Samuel J. Tuck, U-M biomedical engineering graduate student Michelle Leach, UCSF's Stephanie Redmond, Seonook Lee, Synthia Mellon and S.Y. Christin Chong, and Zhang-Qi Feng of U-M Biomedical Engineering.

Peripheral nerves, which have neurons at the center surrounded by cells called Schwann cells, can also be studied using the nanofiber technique. The system could also be used to study how different types of cells interact during and after nerve formation.

Toward creating new nerves, Corey's lab has collaborated with R. Keith Duncan, PhD, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology. Published in Biomacromolecules, they found that stem cells are more likely to develop into neurons when they are grown on aligned nanofibers produced in Corey's lab. They eventually hope to use this approach to build new nerves from stem cells and direct their connections to undamaged parts of the brain and to muscle.

Eventually, Corey envisions, perhaps nerves could be grown along nanofibers in a lab setting and then transferred to patients' bodies, where the fiber would safely degrade.

The research was supported by a VA Merit funding grant, the US National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar Award, the Paralyzed Veterans of America and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS062796-02).

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1. Seonok Lee, Michelle K Leach, Stephanie A Redmond, S Y Christin Chong, Synthia H Mellon, Samuel J Tuck, Zhang-Qi Feng, Joseph M Corey, Jonah R Chan. A culture system to study oligodendrocyte myelination processes using engineered nanofibers. Nature Methods, 2012; 9 (9): 917 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2105
2. Erin K. Purcell, Youssef Naim, Amy Yang, Michelle K. Leach, J. Matthew Velkey, R. Keith Duncan, Joseph M. Corey. Combining Topographical and Genetic Cues to Promote Neuronal Fate Specification in Stem Cells. Biomacromolecules, 2012; : 121031134627007 DOI: 10.1021/bm301220k
3. Samuel J. Tuck, Michelle K. Leach, Zhang-Qi Feng, Joseph M. Corey. Critical variables in the alignment of electrospun PLLA nanofibers. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2012; 32 (7): 1779 DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2012.04.060

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It's a constant thing. It happens. - ice pandora

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Here's a post about my stay at auntie's place.

She lives in a flat, which I notice it's a great spot?

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