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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
India launches asteroid-hunting spacecraft, tiny telescopes
India launched seven satellites on Monday, including?the first spacecraft designed to hunt large space rocks.
An artist's illustration of the NEOSSat asteroid-hunting satellite in Earth orbit. The Canadian Space Agency mission will search for large asteroids near Earth and track space debris.
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EnlargeA rocket carrying seven new satellites, including the first spacecraft designed to hunt huge asteroids and two of the world's smallest space telescopes, launched into space Monday (Feb. 25) from an Indian spaceport.
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The Indian?Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off?at 7:31 a.m. EST (1231 GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on a mission to deliver its muti-national payloads into Earth orbit.
Monday's rocket flight primarily aimed to launch the new ocean-monitoring SARAL satellite into orbit for the Indian Space Research Organisation and French Space Agency. The satellite is the first in a series of satellites created by ISRO to image the Earth, conduct space science, and carry out oceanic and atmospheric studies, ISRO officials said.
Several other payloads rode piggyback on the PSLV rocket, including the $25 million?Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite?(NEOSSat), a small spacecraft designed to seek out large asteroids in orbits that may stray near the Earth.
The suitcase-size satellite cannot track small space rocks like asteroid 2012 DA14, the 130-foot (40 meters) object that buzzed the Earth on Feb. 15, but scientists working with NEOSSat will use it to search for a specific types of asteroids that are at least 31 million miles (50 million kilometers) from Earth, mission scientist said. [See how NEOSSat tracks asteroids (Video)]
"NEOSSat will probably reduce the impact hazard from unknown large NEO?s [near-Earth objects] by a few percent over its lifetime, but is not designed to discover small?asteroids?near the Earth that may be on collision courses," NEOSSat co-principal investigator Alan Hildebrand of the University of Calgary wrote in a statement.
Two smaller nanosatellites developed in Canada also hitched a ride into orbit alongside SARAL and NEOSSat in what their builders have billed as the?world's smallest space telescope mission. The twin satellites make up the BRIght Target Explorer (BRITE) mission, which includes two tiny cubes, each just 8 inches (20 centimeters) across and weighing less than 15.5 pounds (7 kilograms). The satellites are expected to study the brightest stars in the night sky by measuring how their brightest changes over time.
The compact satellites were designed at the Space Flight Laboratory at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. One of the satellites was built at the laboratory while the other was assembled by a partner team in Austria, university officials said.
"As their name suggests, the BRITE satellites will focus on the brightest stars in the sky including those that make up prominent constellations like Orion the Hunter," university officials explained in a statement. "These stars are the same ones visible to the naked eye, even from city centers. Because very large telescopes mostly observe very faint objects, the brightest stars are also some of the most poorly studied stars."
The two BRITE?nanosatellites?are part of a planned constellation that is expected to eventually number six satellites in all once complete.
Another Canadian satellite was launched today as well. SAPPHIRE, Canada's first military satellite is a small spacecraft designed to monitor space debris and satellites within an orbit 3,728 to 24,855 miles (6,000 to 40,000 kilometers) above Earth. The satellite is expected to augment the U.S. military's existing Space Surveillance System.
"It is with great pleasure that I announce that Canada?s Sapphire satellite has been successfully launched," Defense Minister Peter MacKay said in a statement. "Sapphire is a sound investment that will help safeguard billions of dollars of space assets, in fields such as telecommunications, weather, search and rescue, and global positioning systems."
The other satellites launched on India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Monday were a mixed bag of spacecraft and missions. They included:
AAUSAT3:?A small science satellite developed in Denmark and built by students from Aalborg University.
STRaND-1:?The first smartphone-powered satellite ever launched into space. ?The Android phone that functions as the satellite's brain will run four apps that will take photos from the satellite, test the Earth's magnetic field, monitor the health of the satellite, and allow people around the world to upload videos that will play in space on the phone.
Monday's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C20 mission is India's first rocket launch of 2013.
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
2 people injured in Chicago mall disturbance
CHICAGO (AP) ? A manager at a Chicago mall where the boy band Mindless Behavior signed autographs for fans says a disturbance that left two people with minor injuries was "totally unrelated" to the event.
Ford City Mall senior general manager John Sarama says a group of older youths caused Saturday's disturbance, not the young girls and parents who attended the boy band appearance.
Police spokesman Veejay Zala says multiple arrests were made but none for serious charges. He says officers evacuated the mall and closed it for the rest of the day.
Sarama says the Mindless Behavior event ended about 45 minutes before the disturbance. Fans who bought the group's new CD during a pre-sale were given posters for band members to sign.
The group's publicist couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
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NKorea warns US commander in SKorea over drills
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) ? North Korea warned the top American commander in South Korea on Saturday of "miserable destruction" if the U.S. military presses ahead with routine joint drills with South Korea set to begin next month.
Pak Rim Su, chief of North Korea's military delegation to the truce village of Panmunjom inside the Demilitarized Zone, sent the warning Saturday morning to Gen. James Thurman, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said, in a rare direct message to the U.S. commander.
The threat comes as the U.S. and other nations discuss how to punish North Korea for conducting an underground nuclear test on Feb. 12 in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning Pyongyang from nuclear and missile activity.
North Korea has characterized the nuclear test, its third since 2006, as a defensive act against U.S. aggression. Pyongyang accuses Washington of "hostility" for leading the charge to punish North Korea for a December rocket launch that the U.S. considers a covert missile test.
The U.S. and North Korea fought on opposite sides of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953, not a peace treaty, and left the Korean Peninsula divided by a heavily fortified border monitored by the U.S.-led U.N. Command.
Washington also stations 28,500 American troops in South Korea to protect its ally against North Korean aggression.
South Korea and the U.S. regularly conduct joint drills such as the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercises slated to take place next month. North Korea calls the drills proof of U.S. hostility, and accuses Washington of practicing for an invasion.
"You had better bear in mind that those igniting a war are destined to meet a miserable destruction," KCNA quoted Pak as saying in his message to Thurman. He called the drills "reckless."
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, meanwhile, has been making a round of visits to military units guiding troops in drills and exercises since the nuclear test, KCNA said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nkorea-warns-us-commander-skorea-over-drills-094438933.html
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A land of militias, Libya struggles to build a military
The Libyan government wants a professional standing army, but the many militias still on the streets are too good at their job to be replaced with a fledgling, inexperienced military.
Libyan National Congress President Mohammed Magarief (second r.) shakes hands with officers of the Libyan National Army during a graduation ceremony for students of military academies in Tripoli February 20.
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EnlargeIn the seventeen months since Muammar Qaddafi was killed, Libya has made building an army a top national priority. But progress toward achieving this goal has been slow at best, with an official admitting that he does not even know how many soldiers are currently in the army.
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Public statements by senior Libyan leaders suggest that there is little disagreement over the notion that the country desperately needs a functioning military to ensure a peaceful transition ??and a clean break from the Qaddafi legacy of a weak army dwarfed by powerful brigades loyal to the autocrat?s sons. However, political will alone hasn't been enough to effect serious reforms.?
The decrepit, near nonexistent, state of the army two years after Libyans rose up against Qaddafi is a symbol of the interim government?s failure to begin developing institutions to guide Libya?s path toward a democratic state.?The hurdles to building an army reflect the broader struggles facing Libya as it seeks to define its national identity in the wake of 42 years of a regime based solely on the whims of one man.?
Over the past year, Libyan authorities have largely entrusted the revolutionaries who overthrew Qaddafi with the task of maintaining security across the country, punting on the responsibility of building new army and police forces. Militia fighters in a rainbow of uniforms?? not soldiers or police officers???remain the predominant public face of security in Tripoli and in other cities and towns throughout the country.
Absent a strong central command to manage the conduct of the thousands of local militias participating in security provision, many of the militias that overthrew Qaddafi remain intact and continue to operate outside the confines of law.??
The ?revolutionary legitimacy? of the local brigade members and their leaders far outweighs that of Qaddafi-era army officials.
In some cases, the government has authorized the creation of semi-formal umbrella groups for the militias like the Libyan Shield Forces; in others, local militias simply govern themselves.?
'In name only'
When Prime Minister Ali Zeidan took office last October, he declared that building professional army and police forces was his highest priority. But in the case of the army in particular, this goal remains out of reach.
Some Libyans describe it as existing ?in name only.? Many soldiers who served during Muammar Qaddafi?s rule and remained on the autocrat?s side during the 2011 uprising either were killed, fled the country, or have attempted to conceal their past loyalties in order to avoid persecution.
This raises the question of who exactly remains in the army. When asked to estimate how many soldiers there are, Giuma Sayeh, the head of the defense committee for the temporary General National Congress elected in July told The Christian Science Monitor he had ?no idea.?
Meanwhile, militia fighters remain as well-armed as soldiers. Research by the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey found that in Misurata, Libya?s third-largest city and the scene of some of the fiercest battles of the 2011 uprising turned civil war, revolutionary brigades control more than 90 percent of the city?s weapons.
"The primary security challenge facing Libya is how to transform a decentralized revolutionary force ? which is made up of hundreds if not thousands of separate units ? into state security structures that have democratic checks and balances,? says Brian McQuinn, an Oxford University doctoral student who has been studying Libyan armed groups since Qaddafi?s fall and is the author of a recent Small Arms Survey report on the same topic.?
Mr. McQuinn says that Libyan leaders are grappling with the need to build a new national army while also recognizing the importance of?accommodating?the many local groups of revolutionary fighters "who?sacrificed a great deal."
As for the efficacy of the current security arrangements ? overlapping and parallel forces operating independently of each other ? McQuinn expressed a widely held view: "What is the alternative at this point?"
Impossible task
Army chief of staff Yussef al-Mangush, a former colonel in Qaddafi?s army who retired from the army just before the revolution began, was appointed by the interim cabinet early last year and is now facing mounting opposition from GNC members.
?We are trying to nominate another chief of staff,? Mr. Sayeh
"He has tried to do something, but he is not capable because he is weak," he added, criticizing his management skills but stopping short of any comments about the colonel?s past role in Qaddafi?s regime.
Army chief of staff Yussef al-Mangush is in the unfortunate position of being increasingly unpopular among parliamentarians for his failure to make quick progress, while at the same time being tasked by the government with an ever-growing raft of responsibilities.
"People are calling for his dismissal but he keeps getting handed more responsibilities," says a Western official in Libya who spoke on condition of anonymity.? "Land, air, naval forces, border security. In theory he is powerful, but he is working with the shells of institutions."
Analysts say that aside from facing the tall task of rebuilding these institutions, al-Mangush is also grappling with the demands of powerful local militia commanders, few of whom are interested in ceding power to his authority.
Who can serve?
With Libya focused on?building new institutions, both in the security sector and elsewhere, and with the constitution-drafting process yet to begin, the question of who will be permitted to lead this process is being decided by the congress. In Tripoli this week, the 200-member General National?Congress is debating a draft of the Political Isolation Law, which will specify which Libyan citizens are ineligible to run for political office based on their past service of the Qadaffi government over 42 years.
Activists say the law is too expansive and will prevent many Libyans who had no choice but to serve in the government from playing a role in the building of the new state.
?We have educated people from the [former] navy, army, and air force,? says Sayeh. ?To be honest, some were with Qaddafi and they escaped, they are now outside the country. But some [from the former army] were clearly against Qaddafi under the table,? he says, expressing concern that experienced officers who could help lead the new armed forces would be prevented from doing so if the bill passes.
Revolutionaries who are still manning checkpoints and performing security duties on behalf of the state ?should go back to their jobs or be trained in military academies," he says.
A government program offering such choices to the tens of thousands of young Libyans who played roles in the revolution could be an appealing alternative to holding on to their weapons and their positions of local power.
Until such a program is created, however, the structure of security forces in Libya may continue to model that of the highly decentralized revolution.?
The current reality is a glaring reminder that although Libyans rose up in unison to bring down Qaddafi, there is less unity of purpose when it comes to the hard work of managing the country while it remains awash in arms and rife with militias that are not eager to return to civilian life.
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Southcross Energy completes major extension into the Eagle Ford Shale
Southcross Energy Partners, L.P. declared the completion of its new 57-mile, 20-inch diameter Bee Line pipeline that will transport liquids rich gas from the central Eagle Ford shale area to Southcross' Woodsboro and Bonnie View processing and fractionation complex. The Bee Line pipeline has capacity of 320 MMcf/d.
'This is another important step in our strategy of providing integrated natural gas gathering, processing, fractionation and transportation services in the high-growth Eagle Ford shale area,' said David Biegler, Southcross' Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. 'The completion of the Bee Line pipeline provides us with significant additional pipeline capacity for liquids rich gas to meet the growing needs of our customers in the Eagle Ford shale, as well as capacity for expansion of our Woodsboro processing plant.'
With the completion of the Bee Line pipeline, Southcross will have approximately 2,730 miles of pipeline.
Source: http://www.scandoil.com/moxie-bm2/news/southcross-energy-completes-major-extension-into-t.shtml
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Bidding is at $2500 for Johnny Manziel football - bid to help a sick ETX student
Van Jr. High School student Byron Jones found out in January that he had leukemia and had to leave school. Now he has to get regular costly chemotherapy, bone marrow and blood transfusions.
"I drive to Dallas every Thursday to get chemotherapy, and if I need blood or anything, I do that," he said.
Van Jr. High School has rallied behind Byron. The students started collecting donations, selling t-shirts and bracelets, and now they're having a silent auction, and they invite everyone to be a part!
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If you are interested in bidding on an autographed Jonny Manziel football,? the? silent auction is occurring this week, Feb. 18-22.
The bidding will start at $2500.00 and the auction will end at 3:00pm, Friday, February 22, 2013.? You will need to email Paige Redmond your bid at redmondp@van.sprnet.org to place your bid.
An email to each bidder will go out daily at 3:00pm to give them an update on the highest bid and bidder. On the final day Paige will send an email out at 12:00pm stating who is currently in the lead and at what amount.?
In the event of a tie bid at the deadline on Friday, February 22, 2013, she will notify the parties involved with the tie to give them an opportunity to place one final bid.? If the winning bidder cannot follow through on the promise to pay, then the second place bidder will be notified.?
Cashier checks and money orders are the only forms of payment that can be accepted.?
The monies received will go directly to the family to help pay cover costs incurred from weekly medical treatments.
You can also donate in any amount to Byron at Texas Bank and Trust. Just go to any Texas Bank and Trust and donate to the Byron Jones fund.
There will be a blood drive for Byron at the Van Jr. High gymnasium on February 26 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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Kentucky atwitter, Judd's Twitter reveals positions
LOUISVILLE, Ky (WHAS11) -- As actress Ashley Judd considers whether to run for U.S. Senate against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, she is saying very little to the media, but saying a lot to her nearly 161-thousand followers on Twitter.
Judd's intensity for her humanitarian efforts and political activism may be exceeded only by her zeal for the UK Wildcats. Those passions are all reflected in her tweets, including the first campaign-oriented tweet on Wednesday to WFPL Radio's Phillip Bailey.
"And every candidate must have their first race.? No incumbent began as an incumbent," Judd tweeted, later deleting the post.
A review of hundreds of Judd's tweets over the last year reveals her political positions:
October 16, 2012
"Okay, Romney on coal? Wow. Misleading. The era of coal plant is over, unacceptable. It's the dirties(t) and we as USA can do better. Innovate".?
September 30, 2012,
"Flying over mountain top removal coal mining sites - & getting madder than ever. Appalachians deserve better.?
November 3, 2012
"Thank you, Mr President:? "Weapons designed for soldiers and the theatre of war do not belong on the streets."
November 7, 2012
"Its okay to love whim you love. Maryland legalizes same-sex marriage in historic vote"
"She's in tune with national Democrats and that's why the national Democratic party is foaming about her candidacy," said Bob Gunnell, a Louisville-based Democratic strategist.? "but she's not necessarily with Kentucky Democrats.'
Gunnell said he has no doubt that McConnell's campaign has already dug into a gold mine of Judd's past statements to use against her if she decides to run.
September 29, 2012
?Looking for details about why to support Pres. Obama? ?It's time for a new economic patriotism.?? His economic plan.
"If you're Mitch McConnell or a Republican or even a Democrat potentially to challenge her, which I wouldn't count out just yet, you would use that against her to show that she's not in touch with being a senator from Kentucky," Gunnell said.
Many tweets reveal Judd's personality, from the arts to recipes.
January 4
Watching "the Impossible" and have stopped trying not to cry - giving in and going full snot slinging cry.
February 15
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February 16
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Friday, February 22, 2013
McKenzie: Yes, the debt does matter
We Americans are stuck in domestic purgatory for reasons other than raw partisanship, although the Cain-like desire to dominate is part of the reason our political system is not working so well. We also are in economic limbo because of competing views of our problems.
One camp believes the growth of our federal debt is the biggest worry. This group contends Washington should start curbing growth in spending.
Another camp believes the economy needs more pump-priming, not budget-squeezing. These advocates promote Keynesian measures, such as government spending to juice up growth.
A third camp contends economic inequality trumps other worries. Its disciples believe the gap between not only the rich and poor but also affluent and middle class threatens our stability.
GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Dallas, head of the House's financial services committee, epitomizes the first camp. He summarizes the problem this way: "The consequence of failing to address our spending-driven debt crisis is no less than the economic freedom and security of future generations."
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman leads the second camp. He's writing that Washington should spend more to rejuvenate the economy.
President Barack Obama embodies the third camp. National health care. Higher minimum wages. Taxing the rich. They're Obama's ways to create greater equality.
The debt camp has the best arguments. We're getting to where it will be very hard to make the spending and tax choices required to pay down the debt held by the public in relation to our overall economy.
Public debt now makes up roughly 73 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. Economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have produced a study that shows economies grow less when public debt burdens get beyond 90 percent of GDP.
That figure should get our attention. The spending the Krugmans want could help temporarily, but it also could run up the debt and make it harder to sustain growth.
Debt loads aren't easily reduced when they get big. At lower levels of debt, an economy produces enough goods and services to generate the revenues needed to pay off creditors and still invest in the technologies, roads and schools that help grow an economy.
But at higher levels of debt, the goods and services an economy produces generate tax revenues that go almost solely to pay back the debt. It becomes a sponge.
Fortunately, we're not there yet, but we're headed that way. The sensible Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget explained last week that America is on course to a 79 percent debt-to-GDP ratio by 2023 and more than 100 percent in the early 2030s.
In short, the debt remains a big challenge, even if the Keynesian camp contends otherwise. A day of reckoning is coming because we haven't shown any will to confront the underlying causes that will keep growing the debt.
Even if you've read this a million times, it's still true: The growth in entitlement programs like Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid is our real problem. Until we confront it, we won't combat the expensive concoction of more seniors needing more services that keep costing more.
The other camps have legitimate arguments. But the debt is our biggest problem because it limits our ability to sustain economic growth.
William McKenzie is a columnist for The Dallas Morning News.
Source: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130221/OPINION01/302210326/1007/rss07
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Red Sox open exhibition season with sweep of Northeastern, Boston College
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Source: www.nashuatelegraph.com --- Friday, February 22, 2013
FORT MYERS, Fla. ? Joel Hanrahan last started a regular-season game in 2007, so pitching the top of the first was an unusual experience for Boston?s new closer. About a half-hour before the Red Sox took on Northeastern in the first game of a doubleheader Thursday, Hanrahan wasn?t completely sure what to do. ?Should I get going? Should I wait? But I took it kind of as a real game when I was warming up,? he said. ?I took my normal 18 pitches to get ready for a game, walked in the dugout, grabbed a drink of water and went out. It wasn?t bad.? Hanrahan struck out two hitters in the first inning, and the Red Sox beat Northeastern 3-0 in the first exhibition game of spring training. ...
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The winners of the 2012 Engadget Awards -- Editors' Choice
Yesterday, we announced your picks for the 2012 Engadget Awards, and today it's our turn. The Editors' Choice selections below cover the same 15 categories you voted on earlier this month, but the results weren't limited to reader-selected finalists. (In other words, it's a favorite gadget free-for-all for this bunch of geeks.) Without further ado, we present our top products of 2012 -- click past the break for the full list.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/21/winners-2012-engadget-awards-editors-choice/
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UAE group funds wedding of 100 couples in Bahrain
Arab Herald (IANS) Thursday 21st February, 2013
The Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation from the UAE has provided financial support for the wedding of 100 couples in Bahrain.
The financial support was aimed at alleviating wedding expenditures and helping the couples start a stable family life, that will contribute in the development and progress of the society.
Ahmed Shabib Al Dhahiri, director-general of the foundation, said they offer support for the "needy segments" of the society.
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
NFL exec: HGH testing resolution needed
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? NFL senior vice president Adolpho Birch says the league and players association need to reach agreement soon on HGH testing.
The NFL and the union agreed in principle to HGH testing when a new 10-year labor agreement was reached in August 2011. But protocols must be approved by both sides and the players have questioned the science in the testing procedures, stalling implementation.
Speaking at the scouting combine Thursday, Birch says the NFL has full confidence in the test and "should have been a year into this by now." He calls the delays "a disservice to all of us."
On Tuesday, the union said in a conference call it favors HGH testing, but only with a strong appeal process. Otherwise, NFLPA spokesman George Atallah said, "it's just a nonstarter."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nfl-exec-hgh-testing-resolution-needed-210212718--nfl.html
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Is the Apple iWatch the next big thing? : TreeHugger
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After the news leaked out that a new smart watch is under development by Apple, a wide divergence in opinions have been expressed by both fans and critics. The potential future release of an Apple smart watch will either be remembered as a pivotal point in wearable computing, or as a shark-jumping moment for the tech giant.
For those of us who prefer to have a watch instead of using our phone to check the time (full disclosure: I have an iPhone, but I only check the time on my analog pocketwatch), it's hard to imagine a mini-computer taking the place of a watch. But for those of us who like to be on the cutting edge of tech, having a smart watch made by Apple, the king of mobile computing, might just be too much of a temptation to resist.
On the favorable side, the development of a tough, touchable, curved glass to house a smart watch is a big step forward, as current options (Pebble, iPod Nano watch, Cookoo), all rely on fairly flat and clunky display screens. If these new smart watches are basically wristwatch computers, then they need to be comfortable to wear on our wrists, and fit easily under a cuff or glove.
Another big point that Apple has in its favor is their mobile iOS, which integrates almost seamlessly with apps and other devices. In the long run, having a smart watch that can easily expand its functionality through compatible apps would be much more usable than a more basic version, and app developers could begin to extend its reach.
Possible extensions for a smart watch might include biometric sensors for fitness or health tracking/monitoring, use of smart gestures (activating a function through a specific body motion, similar to how Siri gets activated), as a passcode device, use as a controller for games or smart home appliances (thermostat), data gathering for mapping or for athletic performance, as a remote control for the stereo or TV, or use as an MP3 player.
Wirelessly connected devices are fairly well tested, as a quick glance around the local coffee shop may confirm. So having an iWatch that connects via Bluetooth to your iPhone in a pocket or bag is a logical next step for our modern tendency to be hyperconnected. Imagine being able to check text messages, social media updates, emails, or stock prices by just glancing at a watch instead of pulling out your phone. Or being able to stream music from your smart watch to your Bluetooth headphones, while also clocking your morning run with a fitness app. Or perhaps you'd like to take phone calls by talking into your watch, just like Dick Tracy.
Siri seems to be the key component to making an iWatch a reality, as voice control is probably the preferred method for ease of use. Anyone with big fingers that has to type on a small screen will testify that it's a nightmare, so giving users access to Siri's virtual assistance via voice commands will help to solve that. And of course, users with a heavy accent may need to think long and hard about a Siri-dependent device.
The brand cachet itself might be enough to draw quite a few fans to stand in line to get the first iteration of an Apple smart watch, just as they did with all of the previous iPhone and iPad releases, but to be able to attract and keep potential smart watch buyers, the company will also need to address the weak points of such a device, such as battery life.
One big issue for a smart watch is packing enough processing power and screen resolution into a device small enough to wear on the wrist, while also supplying enough power so that it doesn't have to be plugged into a charger every day. That's a tough obstacle to overcome, but advances in smaller and faster chips, in converting kinetic energy into power, as well as innovations in wireless charging technology, may help solve those issues.
Another tech issue or decision may arise with the launch of an iWatch, similar to the difference in available iPad versions. If the basic smart watch is Bluetooth only, meaning you'd need to already have an iPhone to use it, then it's only an added Apple accessory for current fans, not really a wearable computer on its own. But if there was an option for a standalone iWatch that connected independently, via a data network, and a version with a lot more storage space for music or documents, then the door has just opened for a whole new kind of device - a true wristwatch computer phone.
But with the team of 100 people reportedly working at Apple on the project, chances are we'll see a steady stream of leaks of developments, guesses as to design, and plenty more speculation on the tech capabilities of an iWatch, but no hard dates for release.
On the one hand (the tech and gadget loving hand), I really can't wait to see how the Apple smart watch plays out, but on the other hand (the treehugging and eco-friendly hand), I cringe when I think about its impact on our growing mountains of ewaste and the increased demand for conflict minerals once this new gadget hits the mainstream.
What do you think? Would a smart watch like this one be useful to you, or just another gadget you need to keep up with the Jones'?
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Synthetic circuit allows dialing gene expression up or down in human cells
Feb. 11, 2013 ? Scientists who built a synthetic gene circuit that allowed for the precise tuning of a gene's expression in yeast have now refined this new research tool to work in human cells, according to research published online in Nature Communications.
"Using this circuit, you can turn a gene from completely off to completely on and anywhere between those two extremes in each cell at once. It's a nice tool if you want to know what happens at intermediate levels of gene expression. There has been no such system so far, but now it is available for mammalian cell research," said senior author G?bor Bal?zsi, Ph.D., associate professor in The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Department of Systems Biology.
Present options for altering gene expression in human cells are blunt instruments by comparison. Knocking out a gene eliminates its expression completely. Inhibiting it with RNA interference dials it partially down and can affect other genes. Inserting a gene expression vector into cells overexpresses the gene, but it's usually uncontrolled. Commercially available versions can switch a gene on or off, but cannot precisely dial between these extremes.
"For cancer research, the system will allow scientists to test the boundaries of a gene known to confer resistance to a drug in cancer cells by dialing its expression to different levels and treating the cells with the drug," said first author Dmitry Nevozhay, M.D. Ph.D., instructor in Systems Biology.
"Likewise, such a system would allow personalized gene therapy, by precisely tuning the therapeutic gene level expression depending on disease progression and the patient's need," Nevozhay said.
In microbial or yeast biology research scientists have started to understand and manipulate gene function quantitatively, almost like we understand electronic circuits, Bal?zsi said. "This makes research in those areas more amenable to engineering and mathematical characterization, -- but that's not true for human cells, and part of the problem is that tools that tune gene expression have been lacking."
A step-by-step guide for others to build mammalian synthetic gene circuits By refining their circuit to work in a human breast cancer cell line, the team demonstrated that their approach can be used in mammalian cells while offering a step-by-step guide that other researchers could follow to build other synthetic circuits for use with other genes.
"With all of our steps reported, if someone wants to build another type of gene expression switch, or oscillator, they could build the circuit in fast-growing yeast cells, where it can be engineered and optimized quickly and reliably," Bal?zsi said. "Once you know it works in yeast, you know the steps to make it function in human cells. This process is similar to extensive testing of NASA's space operations on Earth before actually carrying them out in space."
Synthetic biologists apply engineering principles to design and build new biological systems for predefined purposes.
In yeast, Bal?zsi and colleagues synthesized a gene circuit designed to control the level of gene expression precisely using the tetracycline repressor.
They made the promoter for the repressor identical to the promoter for the reporter gene yEGFP encoding the green fluorescent protein. This caused a negative feedback loop, creating a linear dependence of the yEGFP level on the tetracycline analog in the growth medium.
Tunable control of gene expression in mammalian cells
The researchers modified the synthetic network, which initially did not work at all in human cells. A computational model suggested a strategy to optimize the network for mammalian cells.
Several modifications improving transcription, translation and intracellular localization of the regulator protein were added to the synthetic network one at a time. Each one bolstered the network's output in human cells, until it finally achieved a linear dose response of gene expression to the tetracycline analog doxycycline.
Among the additions made to the circuit:
* Addition of an intron (non-coding DNA), which when inserted into genes can increase their expression in mammalian cells.
* Codon optimization in the repressor and reporter genes.
* Introduction of a nuclear-localization sequence, to take the circuit into the cell nucleus, where it can influence gene expression.
* Addition of the Kozak sequence, which improves gene expression in mammalian cells by enhancing translation.
* Promoter optimization, which maximizes the gap between full and basal expression.
Finally, they used the same circuit to control expression of an additional red fluorescence protein gene called mCherry as proof of concept for regulating other genes.
His synthetic gene circuit research won Bal?zsi a National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award in 2009, one of only 54 such grants made nationally that year to fund bold ideas with the potential to quickly translate research into improved human health.
"This research is not possible without the New Innovator Award," Bal?zsi said. "It allows you to explore off the beaten path. We aren't looking directly at the next obvious step towards curing cancer or discovering new molecular interactions.
"Yet, we believe steps that don't seem obvious today are crucial for tomorrow's therapies. We've outlined a set of engineering steps that will help us better understand and control gene expression to improve cancer treatment or develop new approaches to gene therapy," he said. "Traditional funding mechanisms would not have done it."
He also received an MD Anderson seed grant to launch his research.
Co-authors with Bal?zsi and Nevozhay is Tomasz Zal, Ph.D., of MD Anderson's Departments of Immunology and of Molecular and Cellular Oncology.
Research was funded by the NIH Director's New Innovator Award (1DP2 OD006481-01), a grant from the National Cancer Institute (R01 CA137059) and an MD Anderson Institutional Research Grant.
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Reducing Violent Crime in the US From the ... - Right Wing News
Written By : Chuck Norris
February 12, 2013
In the past few weeks, I?ve highlighted ways we can reduce violent crime in the U.S. But I?ve saved the best and most powerful solutions for last because they work from the inside out.
In Part 1, I revealed how rational and rewarding it would be to post armed guards at our schools. In Part 2, I showed how reducing the number of firearms in the U.S. would not curb violent crime. In Part 3, I began to discuss the first of two ways in which our Founding Fathers expected to produce and maintain civility and decency in society. They esteemed all human life as equal and possessing intrinsic value far above the rest of creation, albeit while struggling with executing their beliefs as much as any generation ? e.g., with slavery and the treatment of Native Americans and women.
The second thing our founders did was embed that value and care of humanity via the freedom yet accountability of moral absolutes ? codes of ethics, namely through religion. They believed in the absolute and imperative role of religion in society and that without it, civility and decency would vanish.
For our founders, moral fortitude was dependent upon the foundation of religion, not the laws of men. As John Adams, our second president, explained, ?religion and virtue are the only foundations, not only of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all governments and in all the combinations of human society.?
Gouverneur Morris, who, in 1787, represented Pennsylvania at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and subsequently signed the U.S. Constitution, said, ?Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore, education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God.?
Benjamin Franklin put it this way: ?That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People.?
Because our founders firmly believed that religion prevents liberty from turning into licentiousness, President George Washington warned the nation in his Farewell Address to beware of the time when leaders dismantle society?s basis of morality: ?And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.?
Unfortunately, in our day, we have discarded Washington?s warning by not respecting and cherishing the role of religion, and in so doing, we?ve abandoned moral absolutes in lieu of personal expediency and selfishness. We?ve confused liberty and licentiousness. We?ve discarded the high value of human life in exchange for lower life forms. And we?re paying the price for it, as Washington predicted; the ways we treat one another prove it.
So should we really be so shocked with the degradation in our own modern society?
My great friend Mike Huckabee said something very similar after the tragic massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. Huckabee asked: Why should we ?be so surprised? at the violence in society when ?we have systematically removed God from our schools?? Yet many in the mainstream media assailed Mike for repeating exactly what our founders believed.
That is why I believe that youths today need to return to America?s core values. As Benjamin Rush ? a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a member of the presidential administrations of Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison ? wrote, ?I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mohammed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles. But the religion I mean to recommend in this place is that of the New Testament.?
We must return to being a nation where mutual respect is king ? where I am my brother?s keeper and we agree to disagree agreeably. It?s time to renew our commitment to the basic premises of humanity: Do unto others as you would have them do to you, and love your neighbor as yourself.
I might play a tough guy who protects victims from bad guys on screen, but in real life, I?m an advocate for those who are at-risk, too, particularly through my KickStart Kids foundation. My wife, Gena, and I consider KickStart Kids our lives? mission. KickStart Kids means building strong moral character in our youth through the martial arts. Its purpose is to help raise self-esteem and instill discipline and respect, which so many children are lacking today.
Two other warriors who are raising the bar of societal and youth decency are our dear friends Darrell and Sandy Scott, who spearheaded Rachel?s Challenge and Columbine Redemption in memory of their beautiful and kind daughter, Rachel, who was murdered at Columbine High School more than a decade ago. Rachel said, ?I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same.?
KickStart Kids and Rachel?s Challenge recently partnered to further help American youth and families, and we?re doing it with a core values curriculum that reinstates civility and decency back into the souls of individuals and, hence, the soul of society.
On May 27, 1999, a month after the tragic shootings at Columbine High School, Darrell appeared before a House Judiciary Committee subcommittee to discuss what he believed could reduce violent crime in our country. In the midst of his eloquent and moving statement, he cited a poem he wrote that perfectly describes where the blame lies and our answers must come from:
(SET ITAL) Your laws ignore our deepest needs.
Your words are empty air.
You?ve stripped our heritage.
You?ve outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere
And ask the question, ?Why??
You regulate restrictive laws
Through legislative creed.
And you fail to understand
That God is what we need. (END ITAL)
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Gilbert High senior Davis Farmer signs to play football for Old Dominion University in Virginia. Joining him for the signing include: (back row) GHS Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Barry Harley, Offensive Line Coach John Bass, Kendall Farmer, Riley Farmer, GHS Principal Ann O?Cain, (front row) Russell Shealy, Darryl Farmer, Ellen Farmer and Pat Shealy.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Some autism behaviors linked to altered gene
Feb. 12, 2013 ? Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a genetic mutation that may underlie common behaviors seen in some people with autism, such as difficulty communicating and resistance to change.
An error in the gene, CELF6, leads to disturbances in serotonin, a chemical that relays messages in the brain and has long been suspected to be involved in autism.
The researchers identified the error in a child with autism and then, working in mice, showed that the same genetic alteration results in autism-related behaviors and a sharp drop in the level of serotonin circulating in the brain.
While the newly discovered mutation appears to be rare, it provides some of the first clues to the biological basis of the disease, the scientists report Feb. 13 in the Journal of Neuroscience.
"Genetically, autism looks very complicated, with many different genetic routes that lead to the disease," says lead author Joseph D. Dougherty, PhD, an assistant professor of genetics at Washington University. "But it's not possible to design a different drug for every child. The real key is to find the common biological pathways that link these different genetic routes and target those pathways for treatment."
Autism is known to have a strong genetic component, but the handful of genes implicated in the condition so far explain only a small number of cases or make a small contribution to symptoms.
This led Dougherty and senior author Nathaniel Heintz, PhD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Rockefeller University, to speculate that some of the most common behavioral symptoms of autism may be caused by disruptions in a common biological pathway, like the one involved in serotonin signaling.
Some 30 percent of patients with autism have abnormal blood levels of serotonin. The chemical messenger plays an important role throughout the body, helping to regulate breathing, temperature and sleep as well as mood and learning. But it is produced by only a limited number of neurons in the brain.
Using a new molecular technique, the researchers exclusively targeted serotonin-producing neurons in healthy mice to look for genes that are "turned on" in these cells. They found nearly 200 genes involved in this process.
Then, they searched for variations in these genes in some 400 autistic children, whose DNA was made available to the scientists through the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange.
The scientists found alterations in a gene, CELF6, which had never been linked to autism. CELF6 makes a protein that binds to DNA's chemical cousin, RNA, and appears to regulate levels of serotonin in the brain. When they looked more closely at CELF6, they found a copy of the gene was severely mutated in one patient, to the extent that it would no longer function in the neurons that produce serotonin or in other cells.
Because the mutation seemed rare, the researchers didn't know whether its occurrence was a coincidence or whether the defect could, in fact, cause autism. So, they looked for mutations in the same gene in another 860 children with autism, whose DNA was provided by Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. While none of them had the mutation in CELF6, neither did some 5,000 normal, healthy individuals whose DNA they examined.
Yet, having earlier found the genetic error in one child with autism suggested that it may be rare and, perhaps, have a link to the condition through the serotonin pathway. To understand its potential influence, the researchers again turned to the mice.
"If this gene has some influence on whether a person gets autism, then mice with the same genetic mutation should have some behavioral features of autism," Dougherty says.
Indeed, when the researchers bred mice that didn't have the CELF6 gene, they had far less serotonin circulating in the brain, compared with healthy mice, and they exhibited some of the same behaviors seen in children with autism.
For example, when newborn mouse pups are separated from their mothers, they typically emit a high-pitched cry -- a call to their mothers to bring them back to the nest. But mice without CELF6 experienced severe deficits in their vocalizations, an indicator of communication difficulties.
And other experiments showed how the autistic-like mice resisted changing their patterns of behavior. Mice are natural explorers and are drawn to odors. In one experiment, the researchers exposed mice to a variety of odors, including one novel scent for them -- chocolate.
Later, the mice were allowed to eat the chocolate, typically a highly rewarding experience. And the next day, when the mice were exposed to various odors, including chocolate, the healthy mice dramatically increased their exploration -- especially of the chocolate. But the mice without CELF6 continued to investigate each scent, showing no changes in their behavior.
"Our results suggest that we have found a mechanism by which a genetic mutation can disrupt serotonin signaling and lead to behavior that is characteristic of autism," Dougherty says. "Serotonin signaling is just one biological pathway that can be interrupted in patients with autism. We think similar investigations can find other pathways that may be important in this disease."
The research is supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Simons Foundation, the Mallinckrodt Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants 4R00NS067239-03 and P3 HD062171.
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- Dougherty JD, Maloney SE, Wozniak DF, Rieger MA, Sonnenblick L, Coppola G, Mahieu NG, Zhang J, Cai J, Patti GJ, Abrahams BS, Geschwind DH, Heintz N. The disruption of Celf6, a gene identified by translational profiling of serotonergic neurons, results in autism-related behaviors. Journal of Neuroscience, February 13, 2013
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Study: Diet Soda Increases the Risk of Diabetes - Health & Fitness ...
A new study shows that drinking diet soda increases the risk of diabetes - and it doesn't take much.
Yet another study confirms what people have been saying for ages: Stop drinking diet soda. Like, right now. Drinking just one 12-ounce can of an artificially sweetened fizzy drink per week can increase your risk of Type 2 diabetes by 33 percent, French researchers found. And given that most people don't stop at a single weekly serving, your real risk for diabetes could actually be much higher. Read more
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Sunday, February 10, 2013
Obama's State of the Union will focus on the economy
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama will focus his State of the Union address on boosting job creation and economic growth at a time of high unemployment, underscoring the degree to which the economy could threaten his ability to pursue second-term priorities such as gun control, immigration policy and climate change.
Obama also may use Tuesday's prime-time address before a joint session of Congress to announce the next steps for concluding the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
Obama's State of the Union marks his second high-profile speech to the nation in about three weeks, after his inaugural address Jan. 21 that opened his second term. White House aides see the two speeches as complementary, with Tuesday's address aimed at providing specifics to back up some of the Inauguration Day's lofty liberal rhetoric.
The president previewed the address during a meeting Thursday with House Democrats and said he would speak "about making sure that we're focused on job creation here in the United States of America." Obama said he would try to accomplish that by calling for improvements in education, boosting clean energy production, and reducing the deficit in ways that don't burden the middle class, the poor or the elderly.
While those priorities may be cheered by some Democrats, they're certain to be met with skepticism or outright opposition from many congressional Republicans, especially in the GOP-controlled House. The parties are at odds over ways to reduce the deficit. Republicans favor spending cuts; Obama prefers a combination of spending cuts and increasing tax revenue.
The president said he would address taxes and looming across-the-board budget cuts, known as the sequester, in the speech. The White House and Congress have pushed back the automatic cuts once, and Obama wants to do it again in order to create an opening for a larger deficit reduction deal.
"I am prepared, eager and anxious to do a big deal, a big package that ends this governance by crisis where every two weeks or every two months or every six months we are threatening this hard-won recovery," he said last week.
The economy has rebounded significantly from the depths of the recession and has taken a back seat for Obama since he won re-election in November. He's instead focused on campaigns to overhaul the nation's patchwork immigration laws and enact stricter gun control measures following the massacre of 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., in December.
The president also raised expectations for action this year on climate change after devoting a significant amount of time to the issue in his address at the inauguration.
But the unemployment rate is persistently high at 7.9 percent, economic growth slowed last quarter and consumer confidence is falling, so the economy could upend Obama's plans to pursue a broader domestic agenda in his final four years in office.
Tony Fratto, who worked in the White House during President George W. Bush's second term, said Obama has to show the public that he's still focused on the economy before he can get their full support for his other proposals.
"We're not in a position where he can blame anybody else for the economy now," Fratto said, "Now it's his economy."
Obama is expected to use his address to press lawmakers to back his immigration overhaul, which includes a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants, and his gun control proposals, including universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons.
Voting rights groups expect the president to call for changes that would make it easier for people to vote.
"I think it's important to be able to do more than one thing at a time," said David Axelrod, who served as senior adviser in the White House and Obama's re-election campaign. "But the economy is an ongoing and significant challenge that you have to keep working on."
While the centerpiece of Obama's address is expected to be his domestic agenda, the president sees a chance to outline the next steps in bringing the protracted war in Afghanistan to an end. He's facing two pressing decisions: the size and scope of the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after the war formally ends late next year, and the next phase of the troop drawdown this year.
More than 60,000 U.S. troops are in Afghanistan.
The president could update the public on cuts to the number of U.S. nuclear weapons, a priority for his administration. Vice President Joe Biden recently told a security conference in Germany that Obama probably would use the State of the Union to discuss "advancing a comprehensive nuclear agenda to strengthen the nonproliferation regime, reduce global stockpiles and secure nuclear materials."
White House allies are nudging Obama's team to move forward on a plan to expand education for children before they enter kindergarten. They are reminding Obama's political aides that female voters gave the president a second term, serving up a 10-point gender gap.
Obama carried 55 percent of female voters, many of whom are looking to the White House for their reward. While groups such as Latinos and gays have seen policy initiatives since Election Day, women's groups have not received the same kinds of rollouts.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising Republican star and potential 2016 presidential candidate, will deliver the GOP response following Obama's address to Congress.
The president will follow up his speech with trips across the country to promote his calls for job creation. Stops are planned Wednesday in Asheville, N.C., and Thursday in Atlanta.
Obama's speechwriters started working on Tuesday's address shortly after the November election. The process is being led for the first time by Cody Keenan, who is taking over as the president's chief speechwriter.
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Associated Press writers Philip Elliott, Robert Burns and Josh Lederman contributed to this report.
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