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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Astronomers witness birth of Milky Way's most massive star
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Scientists have observed in unprecedented detail the birth of a massive star within a dark cloud core about 10,000 light years from Earth.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Local energy consumers advised to watch for peak hour
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NEW BEDFORD ? Commercial electricity consumers should dial back during summer's hottest days, as usage during the hour of highest demand could impact future bills by thousands of dollars.
That's the message of Brant Davis of SourceOne, an energy consultant for the SouthCoast Electric Power Group, a consortium of consumers including the cities of Fall River and New Bedford and area companies.
Capacity charges are set each year based on a company's consumption during the hour of peak demand, which usually occurs on one of the hottest days between 2 and 5 p.m. The set rate is then charged for a company's consumption throughout the year, only for the rate to be reset the following summer.
Davis said there are ways to respond during peak hours, such as lowering air conditioners, shifting production, scheduling maintenance or even shutting down a factory. Some New Bedford companies such as fish processing plants or ice makers can take advantage of this, he said, while consumers like hospitals or municipalities are less flexible.
Davis said though the numbers vary between companies, it's common to save 5 percent on a total bill by cutting back during peak hours. An example he provided showed a company cutting consumption by 100 kilowatts during the peak hour and saving $4,500 a year.
Davis' firm messages clients on the five or six summer days when a peak event is likely to occur.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Survey shows limited use of sex offender registry
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HUNTSVILLE, TX (7/9/13) -- Texas has the second largest sex offender registry in the country, but relatively few people are accessing it or using it to develop protective actions against future sex crimes, a study by the Crime Victims' Institute at Sam Houston State University found.
Texas began its sex offender registry in 1991 to inform citizens about sex offenders living and working in communities throughout the state and to encourage the public to adopt preventive measures against sex crimes. The Texas Department of Public Safety maintains the registry and as of October 2012 there were more than 72,600 active offenders listed. The registry, which can be searched by name, address, zip code, county or institute of higher education, is located at https://records.txdps.state.tx.us/SexOffender.
In "Familiarity with and Uses of Sex Offender Registries," a report on a research study that utilized an online survey of 652 individuals from a Texas university found that while 74 percent of participants were familiar with the state's sex offender registry, only 43 percent have ever accessed the service. The main reasons for using the registry were curiosity, followed by concern for their safety or the safety of children.
Of those who had used the registry, only 17 percent took any protective measures, such as regularly locking doors, advising others about a registered sex offender living in the neighborhood, or not walking alone in the neighborhood. Protective measures for children, including not allowing children to stay home alone or go outside unsupervised, were relatively uncommon, but may be reflective of the age and familial status of those surveyed.
Crime victims were more likely to use sex offender registries and take protective measures, but it was the victims of identity theft that were the most active users, with sexual assault victims using it least, the study found.
"This study revealed two areas in which findings were contrary to the hypothesized results: minimal effect on registry use when sex crimes occurred in neighborhood and sex offenders lived in neighborhood, and sexual assault victims accessed the registry less than victims of other crimes," the study found.
There was little or no difference in the reported use of the registry if participants knew of sex offenders living in their neighborhood or if a sex crime occurred while they were living there, although participants were more likely to use the registry when they knew someone in the neighborhood had been arrested on a sex offense. Most respondents learned about the sex offender registry through word of mouth, internet searches or television reports.
As a result of these findings, the Crime Victims' Institute recommended that strategies be developed to increase awareness about the sex offender registry and what residents can do to protect themselves if a sex offender is living in their neighborhood. The full report can be found at http://www.crimevictimsinstitute.org/publications/
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HUNTSVILLE, TX (7/9/13) -- Texas has the second largest sex offender registry in the country, but relatively few people are accessing it or using it to develop protective actions against future sex crimes, a study by the Crime Victims' Institute at Sam Houston State University found.
Texas began its sex offender registry in 1991 to inform citizens about sex offenders living and working in communities throughout the state and to encourage the public to adopt preventive measures against sex crimes. The Texas Department of Public Safety maintains the registry and as of October 2012 there were more than 72,600 active offenders listed. The registry, which can be searched by name, address, zip code, county or institute of higher education, is located at https://records.txdps.state.tx.us/SexOffender.
In "Familiarity with and Uses of Sex Offender Registries," a report on a research study that utilized an online survey of 652 individuals from a Texas university found that while 74 percent of participants were familiar with the state's sex offender registry, only 43 percent have ever accessed the service. The main reasons for using the registry were curiosity, followed by concern for their safety or the safety of children.
Of those who had used the registry, only 17 percent took any protective measures, such as regularly locking doors, advising others about a registered sex offender living in the neighborhood, or not walking alone in the neighborhood. Protective measures for children, including not allowing children to stay home alone or go outside unsupervised, were relatively uncommon, but may be reflective of the age and familial status of those surveyed.
Crime victims were more likely to use sex offender registries and take protective measures, but it was the victims of identity theft that were the most active users, with sexual assault victims using it least, the study found.
"This study revealed two areas in which findings were contrary to the hypothesized results: minimal effect on registry use when sex crimes occurred in neighborhood and sex offenders lived in neighborhood, and sexual assault victims accessed the registry less than victims of other crimes," the study found.
There was little or no difference in the reported use of the registry if participants knew of sex offenders living in their neighborhood or if a sex crime occurred while they were living there, although participants were more likely to use the registry when they knew someone in the neighborhood had been arrested on a sex offense. Most respondents learned about the sex offender registry through word of mouth, internet searches or television reports.
As a result of these findings, the Crime Victims' Institute recommended that strategies be developed to increase awareness about the sex offender registry and what residents can do to protect themselves if a sex offender is living in their neighborhood. The full report can be found at http://www.crimevictimsinstitute.org/publications/
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Report: US Mulling 'Zero Option' Afghanistan - Business Insider
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Senior administration officials tell The New York Times that the U.S. is actually considering the idea of a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan before the official 2014 pull out.The campaign has been fraught with recent disappointment, from the failure of peace talks in Doha, Qatar, and what seems to be a rapidly deteriorating security situation. To make matters worse, the consistent and growing intransigence of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has now led officials to lean on the less popular "zero option" ? complete withdrawal.
?There?s always been a zero option, but it was not seen as the main option,? said a senior Western official in Kabul to the Times. ?It is now becoming one of them, and if you listen to some people in Washington, it is maybe now being seen as a realistic path.?
Leaving the country isn't so easy though. First, the logistics alone would be a nightmare. Like Iraq, the U.S. is likely to leave several billion dollars worth of equipment behind.
Furthermore, the security agreement with Pakistan is likely to be a sticking point. Many analysts say Pakistan has grown to depend on American military assistance.
Furthermore, recent Taliban attacks on the capital, on judges, and even on schools, prompt one to believe that the extremist group is poised now more than ever to take over once the U.S. leaves.
The final question comes down to Afghan security forces: are they really ready to take over, or is the confidence coming from military leaders just more smoke and mirrors?
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Concert at Stourhead to raise funds for theft-hit church
Concert at Stourhead to raise funds for theft-hit church
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St Peter?s Church at Stourhead is to host a summer evening of choral music on Saturday July 27. Music will be performed by The St David?s Singers at 7.30pm, to raise essential funds for this picturesque church.
Thieves in the night recently stole the lead off the roof of St Peter's Church in Stourton. All proceeds raised from this concert will be used to restore the roof.
Visitors can first relax and unwind with a glass of wine on the Church Lawn overlooking Stourhead?s landscape gardens, before heading inside the historic St Peter?s Church to enjoy these talented and much respected singers.
Mike MacCormack, general manager at Stourhead, said: ?This musical event is a great opportunity to hear a really professionally group of singers in this picturesque and unique setting. Come along, enjoy the singing, have fun and help raise funds for this beautiful Grade 1 listed church.?
Formed more than 40 years ago, the St David?s Singers consist of over two dozen performers, and their Director of Music is Mark Perry. They will be performing several popular and secular musical pieces from a variety of composers including Byrd, Rutter, Tallis, Tippett and Whitacre.
The concert is to be held on Saturday July 27 at St Peter?s Church Stourton. Visitors can arrive from 6.45 pm onwards and the concert will begin at 7.30pm Ticket prices are ?10 and include a glass of wine. To purchase tickets and for more information please contact Jane Joyce on 01747 840149 or email j-joyce@dircon.co.uk
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Doctors develop $260 test-tube baby system for poor world
By Ben Hirschler
LONDON (Reuters) - Belgian doctors have developed a low-cost version of test-tube baby technology for use in developing countries, where sophisticated Western systems are unaffordable for most couples.
The researchers said on Monday their simplified process cost around 200 euros ($260) per cycle of treatment and delivered results that were not much different to those seen with conventional in-vitro fertilization (IVF) program.
The price is just 10 to 15 percent of the current cost of Western-style IVF and suggests infertility care could one day become universally accessible, Elke Klerkx from the Genk Institute for Fertility Technology told a medical meeting.
Around 5 million babies have been born around the world since the birth of the first test-tube baby in 1978 - but the treatment remains largely the preserve of developed countries because of its high cost.
"Infertility care is probably the most neglected healthcare problem of developing countries, affecting more than 2 million couples according to the WHO (World Health Organisation)," Klerkx said.
In order to slash the price, Klerkx and her colleagues used an embryo culture method that removes the need for much of the expensive laboratory equipment found in European or North American IVF clinics.
Results from a study showed similar success rates between the standard and low-cost system - and two-thirds of the top quality embryos from 35 cycles as assessed by an independent expert came from the simplified system.
"Our initial results are proof of principle that a simplified culture system designed for developing countries can offer affordable and successful opportunities for infertility treatment where IVF is the only solution," said Klerkx. "This is a major step towards universal fertility care."
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Fertility experts attending the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual meeting in London, where her results were presented, said the system could bring IVF to many corners of the world, including much of Africa, where there is a huge unmet need.
But they cautioned that it had, as yet, only been shown to work in a developed world setting, using a laboratory in Belgium, and larger trials in one or more developing country were now needed to test the process fully.
Infertility is a serious problems in some countries in Africa and other resource-poor settings, where infections are a common cause of tubal blockages in women, leading to often high rates of infertility and social isolation.
Many cases of infertility in the developing world are due to infectious diseases like chlamydia, gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
Richard Kennedy, general secretary of the International Federation of Fertility Societies, said the Belgian team's work had great potential.
"Infertility is a disease which does not respect national boundaries. Until now it has been unaffordable for many in the developing world," he said in a statement.
ESHRE estimates the prevalence of infertility that lasts for at least 12 months to be around 9 percent worldwide for women aged 20-44.
Klerkx and the Genk team are now working to build a low-cost IVF laboratory that could be a used as a template for use in poorer countries. The cost of setting up a high-quality IVF lab is between 1.5 million and 3 million euros, but she expects the low-cost version to cost less than 300,000 euros.
Construction of the centre in Genk is expected to be completed by November this year and it will provide training for clinicians from developing countries. ($1 = 0.7792 euros)
(Editing by Louise Heavens)
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Proposal to Split Farm Bill Divides Congress
How the House Republican leadership tries to salvage the failed farm bill is becoming a test of the leadership of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and it will also pit the power of the farmers and antihunger activists against the conservative groups that want to dismantle both the farm and food-stamp programs.
But the real political and policy issue is whether House members have become more responsive to national conservative groups than to farmers and antihunger advocates in their own districts who know the importance of the farm bill to a major industry and to providing food to jobless and low-paid people.
Since June 20, when the bill failed to pass the House by a vote of 234 to 195, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va. , the Heritage Foundation, and the Club for Growth seem to be using the farm bill as a tool in a campaign to portray Boehner as a weak leader and make the more conservative Cantor the speaker. Like Boehner, Cantor voted for the farm bill, but since its failure, Cantor has promoted the idea of splitting the bill in two, which would allow separate votes on the nutrition and farm programs.
Whether Cantor can assemble the votes to pass the two separate measures is uncertain. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., who wants separate votes, said last week that the momentum was going his way. But Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said he doubts there is support for splitting the bill, and Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa, said that the way to get the bill passed may be to bring it up without the amendment sponsored by Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla., to which antihunger advocates and Democrats objected most. That amendment would allow states to impose work and training requirements to food stamps. If the applicants couldn't meet them, the states could deny benefits and keep half the money.
But even if the farm bill is split in two, it looks like Heritage and the Club for Growth would still recommend that members vote against it, because they object to the underlying programs. Heritage said in a memo that its six principles for farm-bill reform are separating food stamps from the farm program, turning food stamps into a "work activation" program, adding no new farm programs, avoiding any increase in the cost of crop insurance, capping premium subsidies, and repealing the sugar and dairy programs on the grounds that they raise food prices. Since there is no way that a single farm bill or two bills will contain all those provisions, there seems no possibility that lawmakers who vote for the farm bill can get relief from a barrage of conservative criticism.
Last week the relentlessness of the conservative campaign became apparent when House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., was back in his district. On July 1, the Tulsa World reported that conservative activists, some of whom do not live in Lucas's 3rd District, had shown up that day at a town-hall meeting in Skiatook, Okla. "If you want the conservative Republican vote, you need to come forward with a conservative Republican bill," said Ronda Vuillemont-Smith, a conservative activist from Broken Arrow, which is in the 1st District, where tea-party groups in 2012 ousted Republican Rep. John Sullivan in favor of now-Rep. Jim Bridenstine, who voted against the farm bill.
Lucas, who has also been the target of Heritage Action radio ads threatening to recruit a "real conservative" to run against him, fought back. "I'm under attack by those people," Lucas said. "They're coming after me. They are all special interest groups that exist to sell subscriptions, to collect seminar fees, and to perpetuate their goals."
Lucas continued, "You've got to understand: They don't necessarily want a Republican president or a Republican Congress," he continued. "?They made more money when [Democrat] Nancy [Pelosi] was speaker.? It's a business."
Vuillemont-Smith replied: "That's a perverted way to look at it."
"I'm sorry. I have to deal in the real world," Lucas said, adding that by opposing the bill, conservatives were turning their back on the bill's $40 billion in savings over 10 years, including a $20 billion cut in food stamps.
When Congress comes back to Washington on Monday, members will find that farm and nutrition groups are much better organized than they were when the House voted on the bill. In retrospect, it appears that farm groups were so focused on amendments on crop insurance, the commodity title, and the sugar and dairy programs that they did not rally votes for final passage, while nutrition groups voiced opposition to all food stamp cuts.
But on July 2, a coalition of 532 farm groups?almost the entire rural establishment from farm groups to conservationists to bankers?sent Boehner a letter urging him to bring up the farm bill again as soon as possible and not to split it into two. "This important legislation supports our nation's farmers, ranchers, forest owners, food security, natural resources and wildlife habitats, rural communities, and the 16 million Americans whose jobs directly depend on the agriculture industry," wrote groups ranging from the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Farmers Union to the American Bankers Association and the World Wildlife Fund. "We believe that splitting the nutrition title from the rest of the bill could result in neither farm nor nutrition programs passing, and urge you to move a unified farm bill forward," the coalition added.
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, which represents smaller, environmentally minded farmers, also sent a letter to Boehner and Pelosi urging them "to work together" to bring the bill back to the floor as soon as possible. "This is critical legislation that should not be allowed to continue to drift further into uncertainty," the group wrote. "Nor should it be split up into narrower component parts, a move that dooms its completion."
The Environmental Working Group, which had sided with the conservative and nutrition groups in opposing the bill, also said it favors keeping it intact. "Dividing and passing separate bills will not make it any easier for the House and Senate to reconcile competing bills and send a final bill to the president for signature," Scott Faber, an EWG vice president, told National Journal Daily.
Antihunger advocates, which had praised the failure of the bill because it would have made cuts to food stamps, initially stayed out of the fray, but led by Robert Greenstein of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, they have begun coming out against splitting the bill. Greenstein said in an interview that all antihunger, religious, and civic groups involved in fighting hunger should tell members of Congress to vote against both bills if the Republican leadership splits them up. Although he has often criticized some parts of the farm bill, Greenstein said the multidecade history of bipartisan, comprehensive farm bills has achieved "sounder policy and more sustainable policy" than taking up the issues separately. Separating out food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, "would take the SNAP bill farther to the right and make bigger cuts," Greenstein said. If the bill gets to conference with the Senate and there is no agreement on SNAP, "I worry that it sets the program up for a ceaseless attack over time because it is unauthorized," he added.
The Food Research Action Center, Feeding America, Share Our Strength, and Bread for the World all said in e-mails they are opposed to splitting the bill. Key consumer leaders Carol Tucker Foreman of the Consumer Federation of America and Patty Lovera of Food and Water Watch also said the programs should be kept together.
History shows that it is wise for nutrition advocates to keep nutrition programs within the farm bill. In 1996, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., had proposed turning food stamps over to the states as part of his Contract with America. In order to get enough votes that year to pass a new farm bill, then-House Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., made sure that the farm bill maintained the structure of the program, but the farm bill reauthorized food stamps for only two years and left the major changes to the program in the welfare reform act. Absent the farm bill, Congress made the biggest cuts to food stamps in the history of the program, and it took antihunger advocates years of action on subsequent farm legislation to claw back the benefits.
Whether all this unity convinces Congress to bring up a single bill may depend on whether the farm and nutrition advocates can persuade freshmen and sophomore members of Congress who are not primarily from rural areas to do so. While farm advocates and political analysts have expressed shock that some members of the House Agriculture Committee and some committee chairmen voted against final passage even though they won their amendments, most of the 62 Republicans who voted against final passage were freshman and sophomore members.
When the Waterways Council, which represents ports and inland waterways, held a news conference shortly after the failure of the farm bill to announce that its members expect to convince the House to pass a reauthorization of the Water Resources Development Act this year, their lobbyists said they believe they can beat the odds by establishing better relationships with the more recently elected members of Congress than the farm lobbyists did.
Randy Russell, an agriculture lobbyist who served in the Reagan administration and has close ties to Republicans, said that if the Republican leadership "makes a calculation" that splitting the bill is a way to get conference, he would try to rally votes for the bills. But Russell added that he is not a fan of splitting the bill because it would make conference with the Senate so difficult.
It's unclear how Democrats would vote on the bill. House Agriculture Committee ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., said he would vote against a single food-stamp bill, but he has not said how he would vote on the farm-program bill.
But the real battle is among the Republicans. An analysis of the most competitive House districts in 2014 by James Carville and Stan Greenberg of Democracy Corps shows the importance for advocates of a single bill of reaching Republicans who are not vulnerable to Democrats. Almost all of the most vulnerable 24 Republicans voted for the farm bill.
Whatever happens, the farm bill has become part of the stratosphere of today's national politics.
Contributing Editor Jerry Hagstrom is the founder and executive director of The Hagstrom Report, which may be found at www.HagstromReport.com.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/proposal-split-farm-bill-divides-congress-052423872.html
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
The Army's Insurgent Tracking Software Is Now Being Used to Track Gangs
We all know that social media is the criminal's worst enemy. But this summer, a group of MIT researchers are collaborating with police to test software that can reliably predict whether a person is part of a gang based on their social networks, building on similar software used to track insurgents in Afghanistan.
For the past decade or so, the Army has used a number of similar pieces of software to visualize the relationships between suspected and known insurgents involved with the development of improvised explosive devices. It works by grouping many individuals by levels of association?and by doing so, gives researchers a way to recognize system-wide patterns and predict who might be involved in a particular operation.
According to MIT's Technology Review, there are plenty of sociological similarities between insurgents and American street gangs. "In the last 10 years or so, researchers have revolutionised the way military analysts think about insurgency and the groups of people involved in it," explains the Review. "Their key insight is that insurgency tends to run in families and in social networks that are held together by common beliefs."
So it makes sense that the insights gleaned by Army intelligence could help out police officers at home. That hunch was confirmed on June 28th, when a group of MIT researchers published a paper in Physics and Society that details how a similar software is being used to track gang violence.
The software is called Organizational, Relationship, and Contact Analyzer, or ORCA, and it groups people in a particular community by their known relationships, as well as their arrest records. Based on the algorithm, they can predict whether a particular person is likely to be a gang member; It's also able to map "corner crews," which operate hyper-locally, and "seed sets," or individuals who are highly influential.
For this particular study, ORCA was tested on a three-year history of 5,400 arrests. Based on those numbers, it revealed 11,000 relationships, created a network map of 468 members belonging to about 20 gangs. The analysis is continuing through this summer in a "major metropolitan area," though they won't name which one. Eventually, the software could become ubiquitous in police stations nation-wide. It seems that crime, just like business, all comes down to relationships. [Technology Review]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/the-armys-insurgent-tracking-software-is-now-being-use-695363334
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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg nearly on plane that crashed at SFO
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg took to Facebook to let friends and others know she, her family and colleagues were booked on the Asiana flight that crashed and burned at San Francisco International Airport Saturday morning, but had switched to United to get frequent-flyer miles.
"Taking a minute to be thankful and explain what happened,'' Sandberg posted on her Facebook page. "My family, colleagues Debbie Frost, Charlton Gholson and Kelly Hoffman and I were originally going to take the Asiana flight that just crash-landed. We switched to United so we could use miles for my family's tickets.
"Our flight was scheduled to come in at the same time, but we were early and landed about 20 minutes before the crash. Our friend Dave David Eun was on the Asiana flight and he is fine.
"Thank you to everyone who is reaching out - and sorry if we worried anyone,'' she added. "Serious moment to give thanks."
Sandberg, who wrote the best-selling book "Lean In,'' her manifesto for women in the workplace, posted photos from South Korea showing women with "Lean In'' messages.
Most of the 303 passengers on the Asiana flight from South Korea managed to escape, but there are reports that two people died and dozens were injured. The crash occurred about 11:30 a.m.
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
Political Standoff Causes Concern over Future of Science in Russia
Many fear a new bill making its way through the Russian parliament will cripple science in that nation, handing it over to government bureaucrats with no scientific background
Russia?s scientific community is in turmoil. This week has seen protests, tense Kremlin negotiations and even a police raid. President Vladimir Putin has warned scientists that they need to come up with ?big, good, socially useful results? as part of a sweeping overhaul of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a centuries-old network including hundreds of research institutions, which many fear could spell the end of academic independence.?Physicist Vladimir Fortov, acting head of the Academy as well as editor in chief of?Scientific American?s Russian-language edition?V Mire Nauki, has been leading the charge to minimize the impact of a controversial reform bill. In in early versions, the bill mentioned the word ?liquidation? about the academy; the current version would see three unrelated academies merged into one state organization and all of the Academy?s assets (including 434 scholarly institutes) would be handed over to a newly created government agency headed by the academy.
Russia may have sent the first man to orbit, but two decades after the breakup of the Soviet Union, when many researchers emigrated in a ?brain drain,? the scientific community is still struggling. As part of revitalization efforts, the government funded ?mega-grants? to encourage researchers to return.
The Academy, founded by czar Peter the Great in 1724, is undoubtedly in need of reform. But many believe this bill is less about reform and more about what one academician called ?corporate raiding.? There have been rallies, and threats of a nationwide strike. But Fortov?s negotiations with Putin, who has become personally involved in the controversial legislation, may be leading to a compromise. In amendments adopted Friday, several academies will merge without liquidating their governing bodies, and the Academy of Sciences?not bureaucrats?will continue to oversee their own scientific projects. But the budget and property, while overseen by the president of the Academy, would still be transferred to a new state agency, prompting fears of corruption. Speaking by phone from Moscow with Scientific American, Fortov discussed the tumultuous week.
It appears as if the Russian parliament on Friday is making some compromises to this controversial bill. Did your talks with Putin change the situation?
We had a very honest and very detailed discussion with President Putin about the proposed law. I conceded to his concerns, but told him that in our opinion this document would destroy the Russian Academy of Sciences. He listened and was highly concerned, and he?s been speaking with many Russian scientists and academic leaders. The results were some shifts in his position and in the Duma?[Russia?s parliament] as well. There will be a third reading of the bill in September and over the next two and a half months we?ll try to work toward an optimal solution, but the situation is shifting in a more positive direction now.
What is it about the current version of the bill that worries you most?
There are some details that are unclear to us and we?d like to analyze it carefully. This whole project was submitted in a great hurry and we can?t understand why. But the most dangerous points of the bill?which would included killing the Academy of Sciences and other non-optimal outcomes are not included now.
During your meeting with Putin he said you and your scientists needed to come up with some ?big? and ?useful? results. Is that not happening now?
Source: http://rss.sciam.com/~r/sciam/history-of-science/~3/NThALfnEnXA/article.cfm
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Appeals court rules California healthcare limits invalid
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday ruled invalid a California law that eliminated coverage of some healthcare services for the poor, including adult dental, podiatry, optometry and chiropractic care.
The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the federal Medicaid program for the poor prohibits the changes imposed by the California law.
The decision could have budgetary implications for the nation's most populous state. A spokesman for Governor Jerry Brown had no immediate comment on the ruling.
Medicaid benefits are funded jointly by the federal government and individual states. Faced with a budget crisis in 2009, California state lawmakers limited a variety of healthcare services covered by Medicaid, a decision ultimately approved by the federal agency that oversees the program.
An association of rural health clinics sued to block the changes.
A lower court ruled that the limits were not in conflict with Medicaid, but a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court unanimously reversed that decision on Friday.
Federal law "unambiguously defines" those benefits as among the healthcare that Medicaid must provide, 9th Circuit Judge Dorothy Nelson wrote.
Recently, California lawmakers restored some of the dental benefits in a state budget that represented a turnaround from several years of cutting. More than $130 million in healthcare benefits had been eliminated in 2009. The dental benefit restorations comprise about $77 million, said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, an advocacy group.
The case in the 9th Circuit is California Association of Rural Health Clinics vs. Douglas, 10-17574.
(Reporting by Dan Levine; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and John Wallace)
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Little League District 24 11s Baseball: It's Great Kills American vs. Mid-Island for the title
A seven-run second inning propeled host Great Kills American to a 14-3 Little League District 24 11s elimination victory over South Shore National on Wednesday.
GKA hosts undefeated Mid-Island in the championship round on Saturday at 11 a.m.
The victors sent 13 batters to the plate in the turnaround second.
Leading 1-0, Anthony Bruno singled and Steve Buchheit?s fielder?s choice plated a run. A walk preceded Joe Lanza?s two-run double. John Huntzinger added a two-run two-bagger, Mike Biuso stroked a RBI hit and Bruno ended with a RBI sacrifice fly for an 8-0 lead.
Nick Cippoletti, T.J. DiGiacomo, Lanza (three RBI), Huntzinger (four RBI) and Biuso (two RBI) finished with multi-hit games.
Cippoletti (four strikeouts) toiled the first innings and T.J. Chow closed with a 1-2-3 fourth. ?
Source: http://www.silive.com/youthsports/index.ssf/2013/07/little_league_district_24_11s.html
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Friday, July 5, 2013
Bluebox reveals Android security hole, may affect 99 percent of devices
Researchers at Bluebox Security have revealed a disturbing flaw in Android's security model, which the group claims may affect up to 99 percent of Android devices in existence. According to Bluebox, this vulnerability has existed since Android 1.6 (Donut), which gives malicious app developers the ability to modify the code of a legitimate APK, all without breaking its cryptographic signature -- thereby allowing the installation to go unnoticed. To pull off the exploit, a rotten app developer would first need to trick an unknowing user into installing the malicious update, but hackers could theoretically gain full control of a user's phone if the "update" posed as a system file from the manufacturer.
Bluebox claims that it notified Google of the exploit in February. According to CIO, Bluebox CTO Jeff Forristal has named the Galaxy S 4 as the only device that's currently immune to the exploit -- which suggests that a security patch may already exist. Forristal further claims that Google is working on an update for its Nexus devices. In response to our inquiry, Google told us that it currently has no comment. We certainly hope that device manufacturers do the responsible thing and distribute timely security patches to resolve this issue. Absent that, you can protect yourself by installing updates through the Play Store and Android's built-in system update utility.
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Source: Bluebox Security, CIO
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Brain cancer doesn't stop a Lufkin boy from playing baseball - KTRE ...
LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) -
A Lufkin boy learned about cancer at the young age of six after doctors discovered a tumor on his brain. The now nine-year-old and his family are grateful his tumor was removed in time to spare his young life. Titus Grigg is happy to get back on the baseball field after doctors said he would possibly never play sports again.
Titus has survived a brain surgery, 6 weeks of radiation and four months of chemotherapy. He's cancer free now and enjoying priceless blessings he's given each day.
"Nobody is ever prepared for it in any way. It's a gut punch. There's just nothing that will prepare you to see your child suffer," Amy Grigg, Titus' mother, said.
In 2009, things started off as what seemed to be migraines but the MRI showed differently.
"The radiologist came in and pulled us aside and said that he had a brain tumor; and that we needed to make our way to Texas Children's as quick as we could," Amy Grigg said.
Their church family and the Lufkin community rallied around them to support Titus as he spent months in the hospital.
"Seeing the smile on his face brings a smile to ours," Donnie Grigg, Titus' father, said.
Three years ago, the Griggs were unsure when Titus would smile again, or even talk, or walk.
"One of the things that they kept saying to us was that most likely and probably he will wake up and not be able to speak," Amy Grigg said.
Titus didn't lose his speech but he did lose one important thing.
"I lost my balance," Titus said.
It was certainly a very sad time for the then six-year-old who had to stay in bed all day.
"We're just extremely blessed that the possibilities that could've happened to Titus that god protected him from those," Donnie Grigg said.
Watching Titus on the baseball field now you'd never know how sick he once was.
"I get to run and play with my friends now," Titus said.
The Griggs watched their son lose weight and his hair, but today they are grateful to watch their son enjoy life while being able to play sports again.
"Seeing how sick he was from the chemo and radiation treatments, and to see how really weak he was, and to see him today years down the road just brings joy to you because of what he went through," Donnie Grigg said.
"To now be on this side of it and to see him riding bikes, riding scooters, playing ball is just an immense feeling of just being so thankful," Amy Grigg said.
Looking back on having a child survive cancer Amy Grigg can't thank doctors enough for finding the tumor and not ruling out her son's problems as migraines.
"We were told several times down there that over and over pediatricians miss medulloblastoma until it's too late," Amy Grigg said.
Today, Titus wants to assure one thing to the 175,000 plus children worldwide that are diagnosed with cancer each year.
"That god loves them," Titus said.
Copyright 2013 KTRE. All rights reserved.
Source: http://www.ktre.com/story/22758521/lufkin-boy-happy-to-be-playing-baseball-again-after-brain-cancer
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EU and Japan gun for 100Gbps fiber optic internet speeds via new research projects
The European Commission and Japan have just announced a series of research projects to help speed up replacement of their soon-to-be-antiquated internet backbones. One of them, the STRAUSS project, will be shooting for 100Gbps fiber optic speeds -- a whopping 5,000-fold gain over current Euro data rates. It'd do so by combining new optical packet switching technology, optical transceivers and other hardware with updated controlling software. The next step will be testing it on a large scale at sites across the EU and Japan. That project, along with five others aimed at boosting terrestrial and wireless bandwidth security and capacity, will receive ?18 million in funding from the two nations. They estimate that traffic will increase 12-fold in the next five years, so if you don't want any more internet lag than you already have, you may want to wish them Godspeed.
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
Barnes & Noble drops Nook prices to ?99/?149 in the UK, US price drops extended
The latest Nook tablets, now with Google Play access, receive price drops
We've known about the impending demise of the Nook hardware division of Barnes & Noble for some time now, but that's not stopping them from putting out some killer deals on their not-long-for-this-world tablet hardware. Starting today, B&N is dropping the price of the Nook HD and HD+ in the U.K. to just £99 and £149, respectively. The current sale in the U.S. is being extended as well to $129 and $149 for the two versions, which start at 8GB of storage on the Nook HD and 16GB on the HD+.
If you're interested in picking up a cheap tablet that now has access to all of the apps on Google Play with some solid hardware, now may be the time to jump on a Nook. Hit the appropriate source links below to check them out.
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Apple's New Google Docs Competitor Is Now in Beta
Apple's long-overdue stab at a cloud editing service has finally come to, well, some of the masses. If you happen to be an Apple developer, iWork for iCloud
The new, cloud-dwelling incarnation of the iWork suite will finally catch Apple up to Google and Microsoft office, which have long been dominating the field. Plus, iWork should even work much more smoothly with Microsoft Office, letting Apple slowly but surely get their claws in wherever they can.
Since the service is still in beta?a very early beta, at that?Apple recommends backing everything up, which you should probably be doing anyway. You can head over here to claim it for your very own.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/apples-new-google-docs-competitor-is-now-in-beta-662081894
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
North Korea seeks talks with US to ease tensions
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (AP) ? North Korea's top diplomat said Tuesday that the U.S. must "unconditionally" accept its offer for dialogue if it wants to ease tensions on the divided Korean Peninsula, saying that hostile policies by Washington against his country make war a possibility.
North Korea surprisingly offered to talk with the U.S. and rejoin long-stalled international nuclear disarmament talks last month after weeks of tension following its February nuclear test. The country also recently eased its warlike rhetoric, but has still vowed to bolster its nuclear arsenal, citing what it calls U.S. military threats. U.S. officials have coolly responded to North Korea's overtures, saying Pyongyang must first demonstrate its sincerity on nuclear disarmament with concrete actions.
The North's nuclear weapons program was a key topic at the 27-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum, held Tuesday in Brunei, joining other hot-button regional issues such as South China Sea territorial disputes. Asia's largest security forum includes the U.S., North Korea and the four other countries involved in six-nation nuclear talks on ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions in return for aid.
During the conference, North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun appealed again for direct talks with the U.S.
"The U.S. must unconditionally accede to ... our goodwill gesture if it is truly interested in ending the vicious circle of intensifying tension on the Korean Peninsula and safeguarding peace and stability," Pak said, according to North Korean delegation official Choe Myong Nam.
Pak said that "a touch-and-go situation in which a war can break out anytime is fostered" on the Korean Peninsula, and that U.S. hostility against the North was primarily responsible for that, Choe told reporters. Pak said the U.S. must normalize relations with North Korea and lift sanctions against the country, saying the North Korean nuclear standoff won't be resolved unless the U.S. changes its tone, according to Choe.
It's unlikely the U.S. would accept North Korea's dialogue offer anytime soon. On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry stepped up pressure on the North to abandon its atomic ambitions, saying key regional powers, including North Korean ally China, are all "absolutely united" in demanding nuclear disarmament.
After meeting with his counterparts from China, South Korea and Japan, Kerry told reporters that "I want to emphasize ... all four of us are absolutely united and absolutely firm in our insistence that the future with respect to North Korea must include denuclearization."
"China made clear to me they have made very firm statements and very firm steps that they have taken with respect to the implementation of that policy," Kerry said.
China, North Korea's longtime ally and main aid provider, was angered by the North's ramping up of tensions and has since supported tightening U.N. sanctions and cracked down on North Korean banking activity.
The nuclear disarmament talks ?which involve the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Japan and Russia ? have been stalled since North Korea quit the negotiations in 2009 to protest international condemnation over a rocket launch.
Since the ASEAN security forum includes all six countries involved in the talks, it has previously provided a chance to use informal discussions to break stalemates over the nuclear standoff. In 2011, top nuclear envoys from the two Koreas met on the sidelines of the forum in Bali, Indonesia, and agreed to work toward a resumption of the six-nation talks.
But there have been no reports that North Korea had similar talks with the U.S. or South Korea in Brunei. U.S. and South Korean officials have said they have no plans to meet privately with North Korea.
The Korean Peninsula officially remains in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The U.S. keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea as deterrence against potential aggression from North Korea.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-seeks-talks-us-ease-tensions-085223674.html
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Tree rings reveal El Ni?o tied to recent global warming
El Ni?o, the notoriously capricious weather phenomenon, has a clear pattern of unusually aggressive behavior throughout the past century. Scientists see a link to global warming.
Shoppers and vendors protect themselves and their merchandise from the sudden downpour in March 2010 in Manila, Philippines. The rain was a great relief to farmers experiencing El Nino-triggered drought in the agricultural areas of the country.
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EnlargeEvery seven years ? or sometimes every two years, or maybe four years ? El Ni?o turns a bucket of rainfall over western South America, sending floodwaters cascading over coastal Ecuador and typhoons spiraling into Peru. Other parts of countries get no rain at all, withering in a crippling dry heat. Fish die, and so do the birds that live off them. The economy of those coastal countries buckles. Nations wait for respite.
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For all the damage it does, El Ni?o, a rise in water temperatures off western South America's coast, is difficult to track, a fickle phenomenon that arrives unannounced and gives little notice as to when it might depart ? maybe a year later, or maybe two years.
But new research suggests that the phenomenon was uncharacteristically active in the late 20th century, relative to the previous seven centuries. That in turn suggests that El Ni?o is more responsive to climate change than previously believed and that it might be possible to better predict future conditions.
El Ni?o is not a well-understood phenomenon. So, pinning its capricious behavior on manmade global warming is challenging, since El Ni?o waxes and wanes like a fair-weather friend over short lengths of time. Those short busts and booms could be pegged to short-term, natural weather fluxes, as opposed to a long-term, the warming of the Earth.
But this latest research, published in Nature Climate Change, looks with longer hindsight on the phenomenon, reflecting on some 700 years of its behavior. That long look back revealed some clear patterns that suggest the phenomenon is waltzing in step with global warming.
Scientists compiled some 2,222 tree-ring chronologies of the past seven centuries from both the mid-latitudes in both hemispheres and the tropics. Tree rings can provide an accurate record of historical climate pattern, packing in their width and color information about the precipitation, wind, and temperature conditions at the time at which the tree was growing.
Scientists found that the tree ring patterns in the 20th -century suggested that El Ni?o had been more active then than during the last seven centuries, meaning ?that long-term El Ni?o patterns have dovetailed with the global warming that characterized that century.
?This suggests that many models underestimate the sensitivity to radiative perturbations in greenhouse gases,? said Shang-Ping Xie, co-author and meteorology professor at the International Pacific Research Center. ?Our results now provide a guide to improve the accuracy of climate models and their projections of future ENSO activity.?
?If this trend of increasing ENSO activity continues, we expect to see more weather extremes such as floods and droughts,? she said.
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iOS 7 preview: Camera
iOS 7 Camera brings an all-new interface, along with a new Square photo mode, and a bevy of new, real-time Filters.
The Camera app has gotten the same objectified and gamified makeover as the rest of iOS 7, but Apple also managed to sneak in a few new features as well. First is, um,Square mode. The second is Filters. The bigger news, however, is what was taken away, including the signature shutter animation and button treatments are gone.
Here's how Apple describes it:
Camera in iOS 7 puts all your shooting formats ? still, video, panorama, and now square ? front and center. With a swipe, you can capture what you want the way you want.1 Fast. And new filters let you do even more with each image. Give it a retro feel. Dial up the contrast. Or go black and white. Artistic license is all yours.
And for developers:
Let your users capture and compose photos and videos just the way they want. Capture video at 60fps, so you can replay dramatic scenes in slow motion. Get a closer look by directly controlling the zoom level of the camera. Create video effects and transitions by combining multiple video tracks using the custom video compositing APIs. Scan and recognize barcodes with the camera.
Based on what we've seen so far, here's how the new Camera looks, and the new features appear to work:
- There's still a quick-access slider on the Lock screen, though now it competes for that gesture with Control Center and unless Apple changes it, that could cause some confusion or collision.
- Like the rest of the iOS 7 makeover, Apple seems to have kept controls spatially consistent, so the flash button, front/rear-facing selector, and shutter button, for example, look to be in the same places as they were on iOS 6. The Options button, however, seems to be gone, with HDR moving down to sit atop the shutter button, and the grid button... currently MIA?
- The video toggle and panorama button have likewise moved, to an all new slider control that starts you off on Photo, lets you slide to the left for Video, and slide to the right for Square (think Instagram), and Panorama. The interface for Panorama looks largely unchanged from iOS 6.
Taking a photo in iOS 7 looks to be lightning fast. Absent the shutter animation, which may once have covered lag in the original iPhone camera, it appears to be almost instant now. You take your shot and it gets took.
Switching between modes looks to invoke a real-time blur effect, not dissimilar to those seen elsewhere in iOS 7. It makes for a dynamic, though likely computationally expensive transition.
- The new filters feature sits to the right of the camera shutter button, on the opposite side of the Camera Roll preview tile. Filter effects appear to be live, though they seem limited to Photos and Square, and not available to Video or Panorama. Mono, Tonal, Noir, Fade, Chrome, Process, Transfer, and Instant are the filters shown off the date.
The Camera interface, originally designed by no less than Mike Matas and shown off by Steve Jobs on the very first iPhone in 2007, was delightful, but 6 years later it's earned its visual refresh.
The addition of the new square mode and the new filters highlight the immense influence of Instagram on mobile photography. I don't mind it. When not using Instagram I've still had the urge to square-cut photos, and having to do it in post with the crop tool was slow.
The filters, however, are far more subtle than Instagram's. There appear to be three types of black and white, one desaturated, one over saturated, and three that tint towards blue, red, and green respectively. Nothing blown out, nothing vignetted, and nothing overly dramatic. Depending on your tastes, that's either a huge negative, or a huge plus. I've wanted Apple to co-opt filtering for a while now, given how many other apps were piling on the feature. Whether this helps calm that down, or only spur it on further remains to be seen.
Worth noting, there's no tilt-shift, no frame or border effects, and no sliders for controlling the amount of filter added, at least not that Apple's shown off so far.
The speed of picture taking, if it holds up in real-world use, is amazing. Other platforms have been pushing the speed limits for a while now, and it's fantastic Apple's bringing the same attention and optimization to their software as they've been doing with their hardware for a while now. It'll be interesting to see what the next generation iPhone can do with it.
I do miss the grid dearly, however. Hopefully it's still there and we just haven't seen it yet. But as someone who still wants to be able to visually refer to the rule of thirds at times, if it's gone, it'll be a step backwards for me. There also doesn't seem to be any provision for more advanced photographers; no expert mode. That's not Apple's style, however, so it'll remain the providence of third-party camera apps, and with the new APIs in iOS7, hey could also get a welcome boost.
The updated Camera app will ship as part of iOS 7 this fall. Check out the resources below for more, and let me know - are the square mode and filters filters, along with its new look, enough for Apple's next generation?
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