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Friday, March 29, 2013
Military tuition assistance program lives on
By Courtney Kube and Jim Miklaszewski , NBC News
The military?s tuition assistance program will not be suspended after all.
The Department of Defense will pay for the program for all four military branches, George Little, the Pentagon?s press secretary, said Wednesday.
Citing budget constraints, the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force announced earlier this month that they would suspend paying new claims. The recently passed continuing resolution, however, prevents DoD from eliminating the funding.
The Pentagon will comply with the law and maintain the same level of funding that each service was providing before the suspensions, Little said.
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Gas prices dip in West Virginia by 3 cents
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The cost of gas is leveling off in West Virginia after months of rising fuel prices.
The Triple A's weekly fuel gauge reports a 3-cent decline in the price per gallon of gas. The statewide average is $3.72 a gallon, which remains higher than the national average of $3.65.
While the U.S. average is down 12 cents from a month ago, the auto club said it's still too soon to say whether gas prices have peaked.
In West Virginia, pump prices range from a low of $3.65 in Parkersburg to a high of $3.78 in Martinsburg.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gas-prices-dip-west-virginia-150128462.html
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Logitech announces the Keyboard Folio for iPad and for iPad mini
Logitech is expanding their line of keyboard cases for the iPad and iPad mini with their new Keyboard Folio cases. ?The cases will have a fabric exterior available in a variety of colors (color selections may vary by region). ?Hidden magnets keep the case securely closed to protect the touchscreen when you aren’t using the [...]
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Cigarette labels may educate about bladder cancer
By Andrew M. Seaman
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Graphic warning labels on packs of cigarettes may convince some people that smoking ups the risk of bladder cancer, says a new study from Canada.
A survey of 291 people at doctors' offices in Toronto found less than half knew that smoking cigarettes is tied to an increased risk of bladder cancer, but three quarters said a graphic warning label would help raise awareness.
"Clearly patients do understand the association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but we found in this little survey that only about 45 percent knew there was any risk of cigarette smoking associated with bladder cancer," said Dr. Robert Stewart, the study's senior author from St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
Bladder cancer is one of the most common cancers in U.S. men. The American Cancer Society estimates that 72,570 Americans will be diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2013 and 15,210 will die from it.
The researchers say that past research had suggested between 30 percent and 50 percent of all bladder cancers are caused by cigarette smoking.
In Canada, cigarette and little cigar manufacturers have to cover 75 percent of their product's packages with warnings that include graphic images of people with various cancers and conditions linked to smoking.
For the new study, published in The Journal of Urology, the researchers surveyed patients at a urology office and a family practice at St. Michael's Hospital between January and February 2011. Of 300 people who were given a survey, 291 returned them. About half were current or former smokers.
Overall, less than half knew a person's risk of bladder cancer was linked to smoking, compared to 98 percent who knew of a link between smoking and lung cancer.
After seeing a mock warning label that featured a graphic picture of a malignant bladder tumor, about 58 percent said it had changed their opinions on smoking and bladder cancer.
That meant the people were probably more convinced of the association - not that they would quit smoking, but about 75 percent thought the label would help get the message across, Stewart said.
LABELS AND CESSATION
He added that it's important to get people to quit smoking, because a person's risk of cancer will continue to fall over time.
According to the researchers, the risk of bladder cancer falls by about 40 percent about one to four years after a person quits smoking, and is back to average risk about 20 to 30 years after quitting.
"As time accumulates, the risks do fall off," Stewart said.
As of June 2012, cigarette manufacturers are required to display a number of new graphic warning labels on the packs of cigarettes they cell in Canada, according to Health Canada, the agency that regulates tobacco sales.
One of the labels warns buyers that "cigarettes cause bladder cancer," and features a picture of bloody urine, which is a symptom of the cancer.
A comment from Health Canada on how it selects which warnings to include on packaging could not be provided by deadline.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it would require similar labels on the cigarette packs it regulates, but recently abandoned that plan after legal challenges (see Reuters story of March 19, 2013 here: http://reut.rs/14yZgWD.)
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/ZZRSyY The Journal of Urology, online March 7, 2013.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cigarette-labels-may-educate-bladder-cancer-202919286.html
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YouTube API will allow video games to more easily stream in-game content
What's YouTube doing at the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco? Talking about integration with video games, obviously. More specifically, the company is hoping to expand an idea we first noticed in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, whereby users could easily stream in-game content to YouTube. Clearly, the company worked in concert with Activision to make that possible, but forthcoming APIs will enable game developers far and wide to add the same functionality to other titles. Unfortunately, details remain murky regarding availability, but we are told that these new tools won't be limited to just consoles -- it sounds as if PC and mobile games will too be able to take advantage.
Source: The Slanted, CNET
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/28/youtube-video-game-streaming-api-gdc-2013/
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David Petraeus: Too soon for a comeback?
David Petraeus resigned in disgrace as CIA director last November after an affair. Now, he suggests he's ready to get back into public life. Recent history has plenty of role models.
David Petraeus, former Army general and head of the Central Intelligence Agency, speaks at the annual dinner for veterans and ROTC students at the University of Southern California, in downtown Los Angeles, on Tuesday. It marked Petraeus's first public remarks since he retired as head of the CIA after an extramarital affair scandal.
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But are we ready? Chances are, yes.
The storied general, who resigned as director of the CIA on Nov. 9 after revealing an extramarital affair with biographer Paula Broadwell, spoke Tuesday night at a dinner at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for veterans and ROTC students.
Right up front, General Petraeus apologized for the affair, citing ?extremely poor judgment.?
"I know that I can never fully assuage the pain that I inflicted on those closest to me and on a number of others," Petraeus said, according to news reports. "I can, however, try to move forward in a manner that is consistent with the values to which I subscribed before slipping my moorings and, as best as possible, to make amends to those I have hurt and let down."
And he signaled he?s ready to move on: ?One learns after all that life doesn't stop with such a mistake. It can and must go on."
The question is, what is Petraeus?s next chapter and does it still possibly include politics? Before Petraeus?s dramatic fall, he was often mentioned as a potential candidate for president ? a line of speculation he never fully discouraged. He may be thinking more along the lines of corporate boards and lucrative speeches, but history suggests he needn't rule out a run for office. ?
After all, there is a long, bipartisan tradition in American politics of sexual indiscretion followed by redemption. Take Republican Mark Sanford, who faced emotional turmoil in 2009 as governor of South Carolina when he revealed an extramarital affair with his Argentinian mistress (now fianc?e). He served out the remainder of his term but was censured by the state legislature. He may well be on the verge of winning a special election for Congress, after coming in first in the GOP primary earlier this month.
There?s also Sen. David Vitter (R) of Louisiana, caught consorting with prostitutes in 2007, but won reelection anyway and could be his state?s next governor. Politico recently lauded his skill in reinventing himself as a Senate insider.
And then there?s former President Clinton, who survived impeachment after lying under oath about an affair, and, as an ex-president, enjoys an image as an elder statesman with public popularity ratings in the high 60s.
Petraeus, of course, has never run for office, and being a novice politician with personal baggage may be a heavy lift. But we still don?t rule out that he might give it a shot. He is still married to Holly Petraeus, admired in her own right for her work on behalf of veterans (and not present at the speech in L.A.). We can assume that she has a say in how they chart their future path. Another possibility is a high-level government appointment. But if he wants to avoid pesky reporters, he might find the private sector more agreeable.
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88% Beyond The Hills
All Critics (64) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (8)
The film offers rewards for the patient viewer as it examines conflicting visions of love played out in a remote faith-based community.
An austere but subtly textured retelling of a 2005 news story in which a young woman died during an exorcism.
Fascinating [and] anguishing ...
Cristian Mungiu's "Beyond the Hills" moves so effortlessly through the gnarly intersection of love, loss, God and godlessness that you barely notice how much he's doing, and with such effortless grace.
Of all the movies culminating in a rite of exorcism, Romanian writer-director Cristian Mungiu's remarkable "Beyond the Hills" stands alone.
One of the year's most powerful films.
Such is the rigorous and high-minded nature of Romanian cinema that even a real-life exorcism story can inspire something loftier than a horror movie.
Heartbreak at a Romanian convent
...Cristian Mungiu has taken a real life event...to consider deeply human philosophies such as freedom vs. discipline, love vs. security, the choices facing those without financial recourse and the hypocrisies of organized religions.
I found it riveting to watch and fascinating to think about afterwards.
An undeniably tough watch.
Stark, deadpan, and darkly dry.
With this viscerally involving drama, acclaimed Romanian filmmaker Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) tells another strikingly original story of women caught between old and new world beliefs.
Mungiu is not preaching - he is telling us what can happen when people are trapped within their own emotions and circumstances. Remarkable.
Mungiu's human comedy leaves off where it begins (spoiler alert): out in the middle of nowhere, no direction home.
...if Beyond the Hills is an exorcism movie, the scariest thing about it is that there isn't a demon to be found.
The film's final shot goes straight to the story's heart and the spectator's. Amazing grace. Now at last we know what those words mean.
...quiet, but also quietly devastating, with detours down the roads of intolerance, mercilessness, cold rejection of outsiders' experiences, mystical and subjective interpretation of "signs," overt woman-on-woman misogyny and brutally strict penance...
A slowly, quietly riveting passion play for a nation grappling with secularism and modernity.
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Microsoft reportedly selling its MediaRoom IPTV unit to Ericsson
It's not been a great few years for Ericsson, but the company is looking to cheer itself up by bidding for one of Microsoft's cast-offs. According to Bloomberg's usual cabal of persons familiar with the matter, the beleaguered networking giant is gunning for Redmond's MediaRoom IPTV Unit. As Microsoft's home entertainment ambitions now center around the Xbox, MediaRoom, which powers AT&T's U-Verse, is deemed surplus to requirements. Spokespeople for both companies declined to comment, but we're left wondering whatever happened to Microsoft's grand plans for Project Orapa (sic).
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Monday, March 25, 2013
EU chief to try to get last-minute Cyprus deal
Bank employees protest outside the ministry of finance on Saturday, March 23, 2013. Thousands of bank employees took part in a protest that ended outside the Cypriot parliament. Politicians in Cyprus were racing Saturday to complete an alternative plan raising funds necessary for the country to qualify for an international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away. Banner at right reads: "Who voted for you members of parliament? The Troika?" (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Bank employees protest outside the ministry of finance on Saturday, March 23, 2013. Thousands of bank employees took part in a protest that ended outside the Cypriot parliament. Politicians in Cyprus were racing Saturday to complete an alternative plan raising funds necessary for the country to qualify for an international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away. Banner at right reads: "Who voted for you members of parliament? The Troika?" (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Bank employees protest outside the ministry of finance on Saturday, March 23, 2013. Thousands of bank employees took part in a protest that ended outside the Cypriot parliament. Politicians in Cyprus were racing Saturday to complete an alternative plan raising funds necessary for the country to qualify for an international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away. Banner at left reads: We fight not only for our jobs but also for people's savings" and banner at right reads: "Dimitriadis resign, you and your consultants". (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A bank employee holds a placard that reads in Greek: ''Bums, Traitors, Politicians, Same'' protest on Saturday, March 23, 2013. Thousands of bank employees took part in a protest that ended outside the Cypriot parliament. Politicians in Cyprus were racing Saturday to complete an alternative plan raising funds necessary for the country to qualify for an international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Bank employees protest in Nicosia, on Saturday, March 23, 2013. Thousands of bank employees took part in a protest that ended outside the Cypriot parliament. Politicians in Cyprus were racing Saturday to complete an alternative plan raising funds necessary for the country to qualify for an international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Bank employees protest outside the ministry of finance on Saturday, March 23, 2013. Thousands of bank employees took part in a protest that ended outside the Cypriot parliament. Politicians in Cyprus were racing Saturday to complete an alternative plan raising funds necessary for the country to qualify for an international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
BRUSSELS (AP) ? The EU says a top official will chair a high-level meeting on Cyprus in a last-ditch effort to seal a deal before finance ministers decide whether the island nation gets a 10 billion euro bailout loan to save it from bankruptcy.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Finance Minister Michalis Sarris were flying to Brussels early Sunday.
Spokesman Preben Aaman couldn't confirm who would participate in the meeting, but said it would be led by European Council President Herman Van Rompuy.
Cyprus has been told it must raise 5.8 billion euros ($7.5 billion) in order to secure the loan from the IMF and other eurozone countries. The IMF, European Central Bank and European Commission will determine whether any Cypriot plan meets its requirements.
Finance ministers would have to approve the deal Sunday evening.
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Glass-blowers at a nano scale
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EPFL researchers are using the electrical properties of a scanning electron microscope to change the size of glass capillary tubes -- Their method has already been patented as it could pave the way to many novel applications
Have you ever thrown into the fire - even if you shouldn't have - an empty packet of crisps? The outcome is striking: the plastic shrivels and bends into itself, until it turns into a small crumpled and blackened ball. This phenomenon is explained by the tendency of materials to pick up their original features in the presence of the right stimulus. Hence, this usually happens when heating materials that were originally shaped at high temperatures and cooled afterwards.
EPFL researchers realized that this phenomenon occurred to ultrathin quartz tubes (capillary tubes) under the beam of a scanning electron microscope. "This is not the original microscope's purpose. The temperature increase is explained by an accumulation of electrons in the glass. Electrons accumulate because glass is a non-conductive material." explains Lorentz Steinbock, researcher at the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology and co-author of a paper on this subject published in Nano-letters.
As the glass shrinks, it can be seen live on the microscope screen. "It's like a glass-blower. Thanks to the possibilities provided by the new microscope at EPFL's Center of Micronanotechnology (MIC), the operator can adjust the microscope's voltage and electric field strength while observing the tube's reaction. Thus, the person operating the microscope can very precisely control the shape he wants to give to the glass", says Aleksandra Radenovic, tenure-track assistant professor in charge of the laboratory.
At the end of this process, the capillary tube's ends are perfectly controllable in diameter, ranging from 200 nanometers to fully closed. The scientists tested their slimmed down tubes in an experiment aiming to detect DNA segments in a sample. The test sample was moved from one container to another on a microfluidic chip. Whenever a molecule crossed the "channel" connecting the containers, the variation of the ion current was measured. As expected, the EPFL team obtained more accurate results with a tube reduced to the size of 11 nm than with standard market models. "By using a capillary tube costing only a few cents, in five minutes we are able to make a device that can replace "nano-channels" sold for hundreds of dollars!" explains Aleksandra Radenovic.
These nano-fillers have a potential beyond laboratory usage. "We can imagine industrial applications in ultra-high precision printers, as well as opportunities in surgery, where micro-pipettes of this type could be used at a cell's scale", says the researcher.
For the time being, the method for manufacturing nano-capillary tubes is manual, the transition to an industrial scale will take some time. However, the researchers have been able to demonstrate the concept behind their discovery and have registered a patent. Therefore, the road is already paved.
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EPFL researchers are using the electrical properties of a scanning electron microscope to change the size of glass capillary tubes -- Their method has already been patented as it could pave the way to many novel applications
Have you ever thrown into the fire - even if you shouldn't have - an empty packet of crisps? The outcome is striking: the plastic shrivels and bends into itself, until it turns into a small crumpled and blackened ball. This phenomenon is explained by the tendency of materials to pick up their original features in the presence of the right stimulus. Hence, this usually happens when heating materials that were originally shaped at high temperatures and cooled afterwards.
EPFL researchers realized that this phenomenon occurred to ultrathin quartz tubes (capillary tubes) under the beam of a scanning electron microscope. "This is not the original microscope's purpose. The temperature increase is explained by an accumulation of electrons in the glass. Electrons accumulate because glass is a non-conductive material." explains Lorentz Steinbock, researcher at the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology and co-author of a paper on this subject published in Nano-letters.
As the glass shrinks, it can be seen live on the microscope screen. "It's like a glass-blower. Thanks to the possibilities provided by the new microscope at EPFL's Center of Micronanotechnology (MIC), the operator can adjust the microscope's voltage and electric field strength while observing the tube's reaction. Thus, the person operating the microscope can very precisely control the shape he wants to give to the glass", says Aleksandra Radenovic, tenure-track assistant professor in charge of the laboratory.
At the end of this process, the capillary tube's ends are perfectly controllable in diameter, ranging from 200 nanometers to fully closed. The scientists tested their slimmed down tubes in an experiment aiming to detect DNA segments in a sample. The test sample was moved from one container to another on a microfluidic chip. Whenever a molecule crossed the "channel" connecting the containers, the variation of the ion current was measured. As expected, the EPFL team obtained more accurate results with a tube reduced to the size of 11 nm than with standard market models. "By using a capillary tube costing only a few cents, in five minutes we are able to make a device that can replace "nano-channels" sold for hundreds of dollars!" explains Aleksandra Radenovic.
These nano-fillers have a potential beyond laboratory usage. "We can imagine industrial applications in ultra-high precision printers, as well as opportunities in surgery, where micro-pipettes of this type could be used at a cell's scale", says the researcher.
For the time being, the method for manufacturing nano-capillary tubes is manual, the transition to an industrial scale will take some time. However, the researchers have been able to demonstrate the concept behind their discovery and have registered a patent. Therefore, the road is already paved.
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Gun evidence links Ebel, Clements' death
FILE - This undated image provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows its director Tom Clements. Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Kramer says Clements was shot to death around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night March 19, 2013 when he answered his front door in Monument, north of Colorado Springs. Personal safety is always on the mind of most correctional officers and prison administrators when they?re working the prison tower or shaking down inmate cells for contraband. But increasingly it?s also a concern at the end of their shifts and off prison grounds. The slaying of Clements has officers checking their review mirrors more often and industry experts recommending a closer look at security off the job. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections)
FILE - This undated image provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows its director Tom Clements. Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Kramer says Clements was shot to death around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night March 19, 2013 when he answered his front door in Monument, north of Colorado Springs. Personal safety is always on the mind of most correctional officers and prison administrators when they?re working the prison tower or shaking down inmate cells for contraband. But increasingly it?s also a concern at the end of their shifts and off prison grounds. The slaying of Clements has officers checking their review mirrors more often and industry experts recommending a closer look at security off the job. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections)
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows paroled inmate Evan Spencer Ebel. Ebel, 28, the former Colorado inmate and white supremacist at the center of a two-state mystery is dead after a high-speed chase and shootout with Texas deputies March 21, 2013. Now investigators are trying to piece together whether he killed the chief of Colorado prisons and a pizza delivery man. Tom Clements, the Colorado prisons chief who was gunned down, is being remembered at a memorial service, Monday, March 25, 2013 at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections, File)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ? Gun evidence links a Colorado parolee fatally shot in Texas with the death of Colorado's corrections' chief, investigators said Monday.
The El Paso County sheriff's office said that "unique and often microscopic markings" found on shell casings in Texas and Colorado leads investigators to conclude that the gun Evan Ebel used to shoot at authorities in Texas was the same gun used to kill Tom Clements at his home on Tuesday.
It had been known that the casings found at both scenes were of the same caliber and brand but Monday's announcement was the first time Colorado investigators made a direct link between Ebel and Clements' death.
What remained unknown though was why Clements was killed when he answered his front door Tuesday night and whether Ebel acted alone.
"There are no answers at this time surrounding motive and gaining these answers could be a lengthy process for investigators," sheriff's spokesman Lt. Jeff Kramer said in statement.
The announcement came just hours after hundreds of people, including corrections officials and guards from as far away as Morocco, gathered for a memorial service to honor Clements.
The crowd at New Life Church included 39 current and former corrections' chiefs as well as guards from 14 states. A delegation of corrections officials from Morocco also attended along with dignitaries including Gov. John Hickenlooper and U.S. Attorney John Walsh.
Hickenlooper and his widow both spoke about Clements' strong belief in redemption. His family said he decided as a teenage to work in corrections after visiting his uncle in prison, and he worked to reduce the use of solitary confinement in Colorado prisons.
Standing with her two daughters, Lisa Clements said her husband of 28 years would want justice as well as forgiveness.
"We want everyone who hears Tom's story to know that he lived his life believing in redemption, in the ability of the human heart to be changed. He would want justice certainly but moreover he'd want forgiveness. Our family prays for the family of the man who took Tom's life and we will pray for forgiveness in our own hearts and our own peace," said Lisa Clements, a psychologist who oversees Colorado's state mental health institutes.
Hickenlooper, who hired Clements about two years ago, told mourners that Clements was both pragmatic and principled.
"He had common sense and he had courage," Hickenlooper said.
Authorities say the car Ebel had in Texas is also similar to one seen not far from Clements' home the night he was killed.
A federal law enforcement official said Ebel had been a member of the 211s, a white supremacist prison gang in Colorado. El Paso County sheriff's spokesman Lt. Jeff Kramer said Monday that investigators are trying to determine whether there was any gang involvement in the killing, but he stressed that's only one aspect of a broad investigation.
Denver police say Ebel is also a suspect in the March 17 slaying of pizza delivery man Nathan Leon.
Hickenlooper is a longtime friend of the suspect's father, attorney Jack Ebel, who testified two years ago before state lawmakers that solitary confinement was destroying his son's psyche.
Hickenlooper confirmed he mentioned the case to Clements as an example of why the prison system needed reform before the job was offered, but the governor said he did not mention Evan Ebel by name.
There was no indication that Hickenlooper's relationship with Jack Ebel played a role in the shooting. Hickenlooper said he did not having any role in Evan Ebel's parole in January.
Jack Ebel issued a statement offering condolences to all those who have suffered from his son's actions.
Clements, born in St. Louis, worked for 31 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, both in prison and as a parole officer, before taking the top corrections' job in Colorado just over two years ago. He began a review of the state's solitary confinement system and eventually reduced the number of prisoners being held in solitary. He closed a new prison built specifically to hold such prisoners ? Colorado State Penitentiary II.
His work won praise from groups including the American Civil Liberties Union and the union representing prison workers, which called him a "leader who looked out for those he led."
Officials took additional security measures after Clements' death and placed the state prisons on lockdown Friday.
Following Clements' killing, corrections professionals said their jobs have grown more dangerous for themselves and their families because of the growing influence of prison gangs, their ability to communicate with affiliates on the outside through smuggled cellphones and the ease with which people can be found and tracked online.
Clements is at least the second head of a state prison system to be killed. The top administrator of the Oregon Department of Corrections, Michael Francke, was stabbed to death outside his office in 1989 in what prosecutors described as a bungled car burglary. A former state prison inmate was found guilty of aggravated murder in 1991 and sentenced to life in prison.
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Nature versus nurture: Better looking birds have healthier babies, finds study of great tits
Mar. 25, 2013 ? A female great tits' (Parus major) appearance is shown to signal healthy attributes in offspring in a paper in BioMed Central's open access journal Frontiers in Zoology. The black stripe across her breast and white patches on her cheeks correlate to a chick's weight at two weeks and immune strength respectively -- though the former seems to signal a genetic benefit and the latter can affect an 'adopted' chick's health, suggesting nurture is involved.
Taking two mothers with different patterning, and swapping their chicks, researchers from Palacky University in the Czech Republic were able to investigate the growth and health of the infants and the 'ornamentation' of their mothers. They compared the offspring's weight, size and immune strength and found a correlation between the chick's weight at two weeks and the size of black breast stripe on the genetic mother.
The immaculateness of both genetic and foster mother's white cheek patch was related to the strength of chick's immune response suggesting that this was due to both nurture and genetics. In contrast the body size of a chick was related only to the body size of its genetic mother and not to ornamentation at all.
In these socially monogamous birds both the males and females are brightly coloured, however neither the cheek patch nor the stripe in males affected the health of the babies.
Talking about how the ornaments can have evolved to signal reproductive fitness, Vladim?r Reme? and Beata Matysiokov? who performed this study explained, "Bigger healthier babies are important to the reproductive success of individuals, because they are more likely to survive to adulthood -- so it is useful for birds to be able to work out which potential mates will produce the best babies. Maintaining bright colouration uses up resources which could otherwise be invested in reproduction or self-maintenance -- consequently the evolution and maintenance of ornamentation in female great tits is probably due to direct selection by males."
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Israel Fires into Syria Following Golan Attack on Troops
Reuters
March 24, 2013
Israel said it fired into Syria on Sunday and destroyed a machinegun position in the Golan Heights from where shots had been fired at Israeli soldiers in a further spillover of the Syrian civil war along a tense front.
It was not immediately clear whether Israel held Syrian troops or rebels responsible for what a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said had been a deliberate attack on Israeli patrols in the occupied territory.
Israeli forces ?destroyed a Syrian machine gun nest that fired twice in the last 24 hours on Israeli patrols operating to safeguard the border,? the spokesman, Ofir Gendelman, said on his Twitter page.
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West Virginia Lawmaker Seeks To Ban Drivers From Wearing Head Mounted Displays Like Google Glass
I don't see any problem with this. In short, a West Virginia lawmaker wants to make wearing head mounted displays while driving against the law in his state. The devices would join other banned electronic communication devices like cell phones. The bill, while perhaps a bit laughable at first, is logical and smart. It makes a lot more sense than banning the use of Google Glass in dive bars.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/TSRVzCNsFeE/
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Octogenarian widow becomes the face of the legal fight for same ...
By Agence France-Presse
Saturday, March 23, 2013 15:07 EDT
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An 83-year-old widow will carry the hopes of America?s gay community on her frail shoulders when she takes her landmark same-sex marriage case before the US Supreme Court next week.
Edie Windsor, a lesbian who married in Canada, is seeking to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which has defined marriage as a union ?between one man and one woman? since it became law in 1996.
Windsor is challenging DOMA on the basis that it discriminates against same-sex couples, noting that Section 3 of the law denies gay and lesbian couples the same rights enjoyed by married heterosexuals.
The former IBM executive was forced to pay $363,000 in federal inheritance taxes when her partner of more than 40 years, Thea Spyer, died in 2009 ? money she would not have had to pay if she?d been married to a man.
One of the elderly plaintiff?s lawyers, James Esseks, described the determined octogenarian, who has a recent history of heart problems, as a hero of the fight for same-sex marriage.
?Edie is a rock star in my world, and she?s getting an increasing recognition within the gay and lesbian community because she?s been so brave to put the details of her personal life to the public inspection to be judged, also because of the strength of character that she brought in her relationship,? Esseks said. ?She?s my hero.
?She?s quite a character, a wonderful story? she wants to be married like everybody wants to get married.?
In a 62-page brief to the Supreme Court, Windsor lays out the details of a moving personal journey that began when she fell in love with Spyer in the early 1960s.
This, she says, was an era ?when lesbians and gay men risked losing their families, friends and livelihoods if their sexual orientation became known.?
After a brief union with a man ? ?because she did not believe that it was possible for her to live openly as a lesbian? ? while she worked as a computer programmer for the US Atomic Energy Commission, she began her relationship with Spyer in 1965. The pair had first met two years earlier.
The relationship lasted 44 years. The two New Yorkers married in Toronto, Canada in 2007, when Edie was 77. New York did not legalize same-sex marriage until 2011.
However, two years after tying the knot, Spyer died from multiple sclerosis ? leaving Edith facing hefty taxes to inherit the couple?s apartment, because US federal law did not recognize their Canadian marriage.
?She wouldn?t have had to pay if she had been a straight widow instead of a gay widow,? Esseks said.
?We have here a couple that has been together for four decades, that has helped each other through very serious illness and sickness, as we say in the marriage vows.?
President Barack Obama?s administration had opposed Windsor?s bid to repeal Section 3 as it progressed through the lower courts, where the legislation was twice ruled as unconstitutional.
But the White House has since switched sides and is now calling for the law to be overturned, leaving DOMA to be defended by a group of Republican lawmakers, along with a coalition of religious and conservative groups.
Windsor said she will be thinking of her late spouse when her Supreme Court hearing gets underway, noting the scenario was unthinkable when the couple first met in the 1960s.
?I think she?d be so proud and happy and just so pleased at how far we have come,? Windsor said.
?It?s a culmination of an engagement that happened between us in 1967 when we didn?t dream that we?d be able to marry.?
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Corel VideoStudio Pro X6
Doing fun things with video you shoot: Isn't that what it's all about? Corel has a tradition of delivering video-editing software that's easy-to-use yet powerful, including all the latest fun effects and techniques. VideoStudio Pro X6 ($79.99) is no exception, with cool new features like motion tracking for moving effects, even better stop-motion tools, an enhanced screen-capture utility, and a subtitle editor with voice detection. It's one of the few apps that already support 4K Ultra HD video, and it's the only game in town for creating HTML5 interactive web movies. But do all these goodies make VideoStudio the editor for you? Read on to find out.
Installing
Like any powerful video editor, VideoStudio takes a bit of disk space: The installer program was a 1.3GB download, and the installed application took up 1.5GB on my test system, a 3.4GHz quad-core Windows 7 Ultimate PC with 4GB RAM. You can use VideoStudio on PCs running Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP with latest service packs installed?sorry, no Mac version. The regular Pro version includes all the new features, but the Ultimate edition ($99.99 direct) adds pro-level effects from NewBlue, proDAD, and Boris.
I tested on a 3.4GHz AMD quad core Windows 7 Ultimate PC with 4GB RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 4290 graphics adapter?not state of the art, but not too shabby. After okaying the license agreement and entering my serial number, I had to select my country and video output format?NTSC or PAL. The installation took longer than most programs, at a solid 20 minutes. On first run, a dialog tells you that you have to sign into a Corel Community account to use Corel Guide, the splash screen offering tips and tutorials that appears whenever you start the app.
Cool New Features
As I noted, VideoStudio is a pioneer in offering innovative tools that let you create cool new video effects, and the X6 version only builds on these. Before digging into the program's interface and features, let's take a look at what's new:
Motion Tracking. If you've seen high-profile sporting events that show players with on-screen identifying labels that follow them, or even just seen any show that's had to cover up some moving body part or license plate, you've seen motion tracking effects like those VideoStudio X6 now makes possible. You don't need to dig into menus: Just click the Track Motion icon on the toolbar, move the tracker pointer to the object you want to track.
The program creates a path, to which you can apply an overlay that follows your moving object. There are two tracker types?point and area?the latter gave me better results for following a face. Once you have a motion track, you can fine-tune it manually, name it, and save it. So how do you use the track? The easiest thing is to apply a mosaic overlay by clicking a button right in the Motion Tracking dialog; this is good for those body parts or license plates.
For more sophisticated overlays, look to the Match Motion tool. This lets you add not only text or objects that will follow your motion track, but even another video clip! A simple right-click choice from the text or object gets you there, and lets you position it relative to the track.
What impresses me is that Corel didn't just toss in a rudimentary motion-tracking tool in this first introduction of the feature, but rather a sophisticated one with deep customization. You can even have multiple motion tracks with different overlays following them.
Variable speed with key frames. With a clip selected and the Options panel showing, a new choice is Variable Speed. This displays a two-panel window in which you mark key frames to indicate where you want speedups or slowdowns. But note that these speed changes remove the clip's audio. There's no simple freeze-frame effect, though, but you can have a clip (but not a selected part of a clip) play in reverse.
Even more Stop-Motion. VideoStudio was the first major consumer video editor to offer a built-in stop-motion tool, and with X6 this gets even better. The really nifty thing added is that now you can actually control a DSLR from within the software, for hands-off-camera stop-motion shooting. Controls include white balance, image quality/size, exposure settings, and ISO. In my hands on it was actually a little difficult to get the desired results with autofocus using this remote control, but manual focus is also available. These unmatched tools let you create really high quality stop motion movies.
Ultra HD?4K. Sure, there aren't many video cameras that record at this resolution?the most popular is the GoPro Hero3 Black, the next one up in price is a five-grand model from JVC. I had no trouble importing 4K sample clips into Corel VideoStudio Pro X6, even in the base version?CyberLink requires the more expensive version of PowerDirector for this capability. Performance of both preview and program actions slows down considerably, though, when you're editing 4K footage?not surprising, given the very large file sizes. You can also output to 4K with this program.
Captions with voice detection. VideoStudio X6's new Subtitle Editor can detect where in your video speaking occurs, and prompt you to enter subtitle text. You can also manually mark in and out points where the subtitles should appear, or add a time offset for them. The Editor shows waveform to help you know where to add the subtitles. Maybe even cooler is its ability to ingest a subtitle text file and add the subtitles automatically. But the program doesn't tell you how to create one of these (in either UTF or SRT file format), and it doesn't automatically match captions to audio using speech recognition and accept plain text files, the way YouTube's editor does.
HTML5 Support. Still the only major consumer video software with this capability, VideoStudio X5 added HTML5 web code creation for your movies. It lets you add interactive controls to a webpage display of your video so that a viewer using an HTML5-capable web browser can click on linkable overlaid graphics and DVD-like chapters. You can't simply convert an existing movie edit to HTML5; you have to start the project as an HTML5 Video project. There are five templates for HTML5 projects (four of which require downloading), if you don't want to start from scratch. Once you output to a .HTML file, you can tweak the page with your own web-editing tools.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Ex-Detroit mayor Kilpatrick convicted of racketeering
Rebecca Cook / Reuters file
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gets into a vehicle in front of the federal courthouse in Detroit on Feb. 12.
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted Monday of racketeering conspiracy after prosecutors said he presided over a breathtaking profit machine by rigging contracts and demanding bribes.
The racketeering count carries up to 20 years in prison.
Kilpatrick was convicted of at least six other criminal counts and acquitted of one, and jurors said they were unable to reach a verdict on two. Kilpatrick was charged with 30 federal crimes. The verdict was still being delivered in federal court in Detroit.
Jurors began deliberating Feb. 18.
Kilpatrick, 42, was charged with bribery, extortion and tax evasion
Prosecutors said that Kilpatrick, a Democrat, steered $83 million in city contracts to Ferguson in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks. They also told jurors that the ex-mayor raided his own nonprofit for personal expenses.
Kilpatrick?s lawyer told jurors that Kilpatrick never extorted anyone and that he only helped Ferguson win city business because he knew Ferguson would hire people who live in Detroit.
Kilpatrick was considered a rising Democratic star when he was elected in 2001, but his tenure was scarred by allegations of cronyism, nepotism and out-of-control spending.
He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in 2008 for lying in a civil trial during which he denied having an affair with his former chief of staff and plotting with her to fire the deputy police chief. He resigned and spent three months in jail.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:00 AM EDT
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Study predicts lag in summer rains over parts of US and Mexico
Mar. 11, 2013 ? A delay in the summer monsoon rains that fall over the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico is expected in the coming decades according to a new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research. The North American monsoon delivers as much as 70 percent of the region's annual rainfall, watering crops and rangelands for an estimated 20 million people.
"We hope this information can be used with other studies to build realistic expectations for water resource availability in the future," said study lead author, Benjamin Cook, a climate scientist with joint appointments at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Much of the arid U.S. Southwest is expected to get even drier as winter precipitation declines under climate change, but the present modeling study predicts that summer rain levels will stay constant over southern Arizona and New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico. What will shift is the arrival of the heaviest rains, from July and August or so, to September and October, the study says. "There still will be a healthy monsoon which is good news for agriculture in the southern U.S. and northwestern Mexico-the timing is the problem here," said study co-author Richard Seager, a climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty.
A delayed monsoon could potentially lower crop yields as rains come later in the growing season, when the days are getting shorter. By prolonging hot and dry conditions during spring, a late monsoon could also trigger more wildfires and force cities to stretch diminished water supplies. The study makes use of the latest climate change models (those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its Fifth Assessment Report due out next fall), to estimate monthly changes in precipitation by the end of the century, 2080-2099. The researchers hypothesize that future warming will make it more difficult to form clouds and rainfall early in the monsoon when soils are dry, followed reduced winter rain and snowfall, thus delaying the onset of the monsoon rains until enough moisture can be moved in from the oceans.
There is some evidence that the monsoon may already be arriving later. A 2007 study in the Journal of Climate led by researcher Katrina Grantz, then at the University of Colorado found a decline in July rainfall since the late 1940s, and a corresponding increase in August to September rainfall. Other scientists are cautious about drawing conclusions from a relatively short instrumental record, given the monsoon's natural year-to-year variability. The second-latest monsoon onset was recorded in 2005, but for three years after, the monsoon came earlier than average or on schedule, said Chris Castro, a monsoon researcher at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the study.
The Sonoran Desert and Sky Islands ecoregion lies at the northern edge of the North American monsoon, where vegetation ranges from saguaro-studded subtropical desert in the lowlands to high-altitude boreal forests. It is unclear how plants finely attuned to the monsoon's arrival will cope with the longer wait. "Will their growth slowdown or will some species grow dormant?" said Jeremy Weiss, a geosciences researcher at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the study.
A delay is bound to have economic impact, whether in northwestern Mexico or Arizona where agriculture and rangelands respectively are mostly rain-fed. The late monsoon in 2005 hindered summer grass development to the point that U.S. ranchers had to buy supplemental feed for their cattle, Andrea Ray, a researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, noted in a 2007 study in the Journal of Climate.
Though total monsoon rainfall is projected to stay the same, warmer summer temperatures under climate change will cause more evaporation, leaving less water for crops, reservoirs and ecosystems. "It is important to look at the big picture before getting too sanguine about monsoon rainfall staying steady," said Jonathan Overpeck, a climate scientist at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the study. "Farmers who rely on summer rain will have a trickier time as the rainfall timing and amounts changes-they like predictability. Ultimately, the jury is still out, but this is a fine study that gives us more information to plan with."
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- B. I. Cook, R. Seager. The response of the North American Monsoon to increased greenhouse gas forcing. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 27 FEB 2013 DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50111
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Cemetery puts brakes on NASCAR-themed headstone
Jason Carr's headstone (Andrew Laker/AP Photo/The Republic)
A Catholic church has put the brakes on a headstone designed with the NASCAR logo.
Sharon Carr, to honor her late husband, Jason Carr, had a a headstone built in the shape of a couch and decorated with images of a dog, a deer, and NASCAR and Indianapolis Colts logos to represent his interests. But according to the Daily Mail, St. Joseph Catholic Church in Indianapolis has refused to let the headstone in, saying it doesn?t meet the requirements of the century-old cemetery.
In turn, Carr is now suing St. Joseph, arguing that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis Properties Inc., which owns the cemetery, never produced any guidelines for headstones until a year after she wanted to add the $9,600 monument. Her husband died in a car accident in 2009.
The Rev. Jonathan Meyer, priest at St. Joseph, disputes this, telling the Daily Mail, ?They told her not to move forward with the purchasing of the monument, but she went ahead anyway.?
He added, ?We have consistently communicated the same message prior to the purchase and after the purchase. We did not think a granite couch was an appropriate monument in our historic cemetery.?
The church, Meyer added, doesn't want a monument that is "secular in nature. ... Faithful Christians know rules and regulations are set up so there can be good for everyone."
The church's decision has apparently caused debate among churchgoers. Sharon Carr's father-in-law, Henry Carr, told the Daily Mail, "I'm told the controversy is splitting the church apart, tearing it in half. But I guess that's what has to be done."
Carr's headstone includes a NASCAR logo (Andrew Laker/AP Photo/The Republic)
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