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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
MallWeGo Is A Social Shopping And Gaming Platform To Make Buying Stuff More Fun
MallWeGo is launching at the Disrupt NY 2013 Startup Alley today with a social, gaming shopping experience for web and mobile. The company has built a virtual world for socialising with friends in avatar form, which looks like a simplified Second Life or The Sims, but the kicker is it's built for ecommerce, with a virtual mall where people can buy real-world products.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/qEzvve53JV0/
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Physicists, biologists unite to expose how cancer spreads
Monday, April 29, 2013
Cancer cells that can break out of a tumor and invade other organs are more aggressive and nimble than nonmalignant cells, according to a new multi-institutional nationwide study. These cells exert greater force on their environment and can more easily maneuver small spaces.
The researchers report in the journal Scientific Reports that a systematic comparison of metastatic breast-cancer cells to healthy breast cells revealed dramatic differences between the two cell lines in their mechanics, migration, oxygen response, protein production and ability to stick to surfaces. The researchers discovered new insights into how cells make the transition from nonmalignant to metastatic, a process that is not well understood.
The resulting catalogue of differences could someday help researchers detect cancerous cells earlier and someday prevent or treat metastatic cancer, which is responsible for 90 percent of all cancer deaths, according to the study. It was conducted by a network of 12 federally funded Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers (PS-OC) sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. PS-OC is a collaboration of researchers in the physical and biological sciences seeking a better understanding of the physical and chemical forces that shape the emergence and behavior of cancer.
"By bringing together different types of experimental expertise to systematically compare metastatic and nonmetastatic cells, we have advanced our knowledge of how metastasis occurs," said Robert Austin, professor of physics and leader of the Princeton PS-OC, along with senior co-investigator Thea Tlsty of the University of California-San Francisco.
Researchers with the Princeton PS-OC, for instance, determined that metastatic cells, in spite of moving more slowly than nonmalignant cells, move farther and in a straighter line, Austin said. The investigators studied the cells' behavior in tiny cell-sized chambers and channels etched out of silicon and designed to mimic the natural environment of the body's interior.
"The mobility of these metastatic cells is an essential feature of their ability to break through the tough membrane [the extracellular matrix] that the body uses to wall off the tumor from the rest of the body," Austin said. "These cells are essentially jail-breakers."
The tiny silicon chambers were built using Princeton's expertise in microfabrication technology ? typically used to create small technologies such as integrated circuits and solar cells ? and are an example of the type of expertise that physicists and engineers can bring to cancer research, Austin said. For the current study, the Princeton team included physics graduate students David Liao and Guillaume Lambert, and postdoctoral researchers Liyu Liu and Saurabh Vyawahare. They worked closely with a research group led by James Sturm, Princeton's William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and director of the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) where the microfabrication was done.
The Princeton PS-OC also includes collaborators at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California-Santa Cruz.
The nationwide PS-OC program aims to crack the difficulty of understanding and treating cancer by bringing in researchers from physics, engineering, computer science and chemistry, said Nastaran Zahir Kuhn, program manager for the PS-OC at the National Cancer Institute.
Other notable findings from the paper include that metastatic cells recover more rapidly from the stress of a low-oxygen environment than nonmetastatic cells, which is consistent with previous studies. Although the low-oxygen environment did kill many of the metastatic cells, the survivors rebounded vigorously, underscoring the likely role of individual cells in the spread of cancer. The study also looked at total protein production and detected proteins in the metastatic cells that are consistent with the physical properties such as mobility that malignant cells need to invade the extracellular matrix.
"The PS-OC program aims to bring physical sciences tools and perspectives into cancer research," Kuhn said. "The results of this study demonstrate the utility of such an approach, particularly when studies are conducted in a standardized manner from the beginning."
For the nationwide project, nearly 100 investigators from 20 institutions and laboratories conducted their experiments using the same two cell lines, reagents and protocols to assure that results could be compared. The experimental methods ranged from physical measurements of how the cells push on surrounding cells to measurements of gene and protein expression.
"Roughly 20 techniques were used to study the cell lines, enabling identification of a number of unique relationships between observations," Kuhn said.
For example, a technique known as atomic force microscopy indicated that metastatic cells are softer than nonmalignant cells whereas a different technique, traction force microscopy, suggested that metastatic cells exert more force on their surroundings, Kuhn said. Together these two findings may indicate that metastatic cells can exert force to stick to, migrate on and remodel the tough extracellular matrix that surrounds the tumor, while remaining flexible enough to squeeze through small spaces in that membrane.
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Monday, April 29, 2013
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
The Best Eyeglasses At The Hackathon
We decided to feature nerd fashion at this year's hackathon at Disrupt NY, and what better statement is there these days than eyeglasses? Obligatory Google Glass sighting aside, these hackers definitely had noteworthy eyewear. We've showcased some of our favorites below.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/j2Vqv0Q9i8s/
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Apps of the Week: Scam School, Sixaxis Controller, House of the Dead Overkill and more!
Your weekly look at the apps we're using from day to day
You probably know it by this point, but every week we take just a little time for each of the Android Central writers to show off one of the apps they've been using on their own device in the previous week. They may not be the most popular or well-known, but they work for us, and we think that merits letting the readers know about them as well.
Another great random assortment of apps awaits you after the break, so stick around and see how we did with our picks this week.
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Samsung Galaxy S 4 now available online at Sprint, in stores today at AT&T
Samsung's latest and greatest smartphone, the Galaxy S 4, is making a big move into the US today with an online arrival at Sprint and in-store availability at AT&T. If you're a Now Network subscriber and happened to miss out on the carrier's pre-order action, you might want to make some quick moves onto Sprint's website in order to secure your new handset, which goes up for sale at midnight Central Time. In a not-so-cool move, however, only those porting their number to Sprint are eligible for the carrier's $100 price break, which means all of you who've stuck through the dark days of EV-DO will need to pony up $249.99 for the Galaxy S 4. Meanwhile, if you're aching to lay your hands on Samsung's 1080p handset, you can finally get some gratification, as AT&T is now offering the smartphone for in-store purchase and play. Here, you'll pay $199.99 for the handset, and while it's potentially more expensive, at least AT&T's pricing scheme doesn't involve fine print shenanigans.
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Helping Boston stay strong: ?We Will Finish the Race?
>>> visa signature. your idea of what a card should be. is it.
>>> the two explosions that ripped into the city's iconic event, bringing people together to give comfort to each other in the hour of need. and a makeshift memorial in a sign of solidarity. this week, a marine who lost both legs in combat visited a hospital to inspire a mother and daughter. who never imagined how their lives would change. they both suffered serious injuries. celeste lost both legs.
>> i can't do anything right now.
>> right now, yes. but i'm telling you, with all my heart that you are going to be more independent than you ever were. this is basically the start. this is the new beginning for the both of you. and so many opportunities is going to come your way.
>> you look good. you look real good.
>> thank you.
>> this doesn't matter. this is just a change of scenery. it really is.
>> i know.
>> he's moving, running, doing the paralympics.
>> really?
>> you may want to do that one day.
>> the start of a new beginning. the marines help show both women the possibilities ahead. another victim, heather abbott found hope in a bedside visit from someone she did not know.
>> if someone had told me that i was going to have half a leg at the age of 38 before this happened, i think i would have never believed it. i think i would have been devastated and i really haven't had a moment yet of being devastated because i've gotten so much support from the hospital. i mean, the hospital's brought in individuals who are in the same situation as i am, they live normal lives, they were able to tell me about that, which has been great.
>> we've heard so many inspiring stories this week. including the story victoria who suffered life-altering injuries. she left the hospital this week. she's already on the road to recovery and ready to get back to normal life .
>> i want to go and have a home-cooked meal. i want to see my pets. i want to sleep in my own bed.
>> earlier this week, victoria had an emotional reunion with the stain injuries who risked their lives to save hers.
>> thanks for seeing us.
>> thank you.
>> they saved my life. you saved my life. otherwise, i would have bled out because it hit the artery.
>> wow.
>> boston reminds us of the greatest parts of the american story, that no matter what happened, whatever the crisis, whatever adversity, get up, stand up, finish the race. we've come too far to turn around now. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton t "hardball" starts right now.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Stocks stall on tepid US economic growth
In this Tuesday, April 16, 2013, photo, Specialist Michael O'Mara, left, and trader Fred Demarco work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. World stock markets fell Friday April 26, 2013 after Japan faced an unwelcome drop in consumer prices. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
In this Tuesday, April 16, 2013, photo, Specialist Michael O'Mara, left, and trader Fred Demarco work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. World stock markets fell Friday April 26, 2013 after Japan faced an unwelcome drop in consumer prices. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
NEW YORK (AP) ? The stock market stalled Friday after the U.S. economy didn't grow as much as hoped and earnings from a handful of big companies failed to rev up investors.
The economy grew at a 2.5 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, the government said. That was below the 3.1 percent forecast by economists.
The shortfall reinforced the perception that the economy is grinding, rather than charging, ahead. Investors have also been troubled by reports in the last month of weaker hiring, slower manufacturing and a drop in factory orders. Many economists see growth slowing to an annual rate of around 2 percent a year for the rest of the year.
U.S. government bonds, where investors seek safety, rose after the report.
"There are some concerns as we head into the summer," said JJ Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist for TD Ameritrade. "In the last three weeks, we've have seen numbers that weren't exactly what you'd love to see."
Corporate earnings this week have also contained worrisome signs. Many companies missed revenue forecasts from financial analysts, even as they reported higher quarterly profits. For example, Goodyear Tire slipped 3.3 percent to $12.51 Friday after revenue fell short of analysts' estimates, hurt by lower global tire sales.
Of the companies that have reported earnings so far, 70 percent have exceeded Wall Street's expectations, compared with a 10-year average of 62 percent, according to S&P Capital IQ. However, 43 percent have missed analysts' revenue estimates. Just over half of the companies in the S&P 500 have reported quarterly results.
The S&P 500 index dropped 2.92 points, or 0.2 percent, to close at 1,582.24.
The Dow rose 11.75 points, or 0.1 percent, at 14,712.55. The index got a big lift from Chevron. Profit for the U.S. oil company beat expectations of financial analysts in the first quarter, pushing shares up 1.3 percent to $120.04.
Three stocks fell for every two that rose on the New York Stock Exchange.
Both indexes were up for the week and remain slightly below their all-time highs reached April 11. The Dow index rose 1.1 percent this week while the S&P gained 1.7 percent.
The market has been bolstered by the Federal Reserve's easy money policy. The disappointing growth figure for the economy will ensure that the Fed sticks with its stimulus policy, providing a support for stocks, said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital.
"The economic data that we've been getting points to no early exit for the Fed's stimulus," Cardillo said.
The Nasdaq composite fell 10.72 points to 3,279.26, a decline of 0.3 percent. The index is still 2.3 percent higher this week.
The tech-heavy index has lagged the Dow and the S&P 500 this year, but it led the way higher this week, boosted by Microsoft. The software giant, which makes up 5.3 percent of the Nasdaq, recorded its biggest weekly gain since January last year, 6.8 percent, after reporting earnings April 19 that beat Wall Street's expectations. The company also rolled out an aggressive push into the computer tablet market.
Even Apple, the largest stock in the Nasdaq, had a good week. Apple rose 6.8 percent to $417.20, its best weekly gain since November, despite posting a decline in quarterly profit Tuesday. Apple accounts for 7.6 percent of the Nasdaq composite.
Among other big names investors were focusing on, Amazon.com fell 7 percent to $254.81 after the company warned of a possible loss in the current quarter. The online retailer also reported lower income for the first quarter as it continued to spend heavily on rights to digital content. Expedia fell 10 percent to $58.56 after the online travel company reported a quarterly loss.
Homebuilder D.R. Horton surged 8.7 percent to $26.66 after its income nearly tripled thanks to a continuing recovery the housing market. The results handily beat the forecasts of financial analysts who follow the company.
J.C. Penney jumped 12 percent to $17 after the billionaire financier George Soros disclosed that he had taken a 7.9 percent stake in the struggling company.
In government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note slipped to its lowest rate of the year, 1.67 percent, from 1.71 percent the day before. The yield has fallen from 2.06 percent six weeks ago as traders move money into lower-risk investments.
The dollar weakened against the euro.
The European currency bought $1.3029 at the end of day, compared with $1.3002 the day before. The ISE dollar index, which measures the U.S. currency against a group of other world currencies including the Japanese yen and the euro, dropped 0.3 percent, to 82.48.
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Samsung Galaxy S 4 (T-Mobile)
Samsung has something for everyone in the Android-powered Galaxy S 4 ($149.99). It's this year's no-brainer: the phone to get if you don't want to worry about which phone to get. No matter what you want to do, the Galaxy S 4 can get it done. That makes it our Editors' Choice for full-touch smartphones on T-Mobile.
Physical Features and Phone Calls
The Galaxy S 4 looks like a refined Galaxy S III at 5.4 by 2.75 by .31 inches (HWD) and 4.6 ounces. It's still plastic, in white or black, with chrome trim, and a subtly patterned, smooth back. The edges are squarer, forgoing the 'pebble in your hand' metaphor that ruled the S3. It doesn't taper. But it's almost exactly the same size as the S3, with the new phone's larger screen made possible by a smaller bezel.
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On the front, a 1,920-by-1,080, 5-inch Super AMOLED HD display boasts a spectacular viewing angle and shimmering colors. The physical Home button, below it, joins the traditional Android Menu and Back buttons. I like this setup a lot more than the perplexing two-button approach on the HTC One.
The Galaxy S 4's back is removable, giving you access to the battery and microSD card slot. You can also replace the back with an optional flip cover that sports a window near the top; when the cover is flipped closed, you see the time and alerts through the window. I had trouble getting the flip cover to stay closed when sitting on a desk, though. The front just wouldn't lie flat.
An excellent voice phone, the S 4 is really, really good, and that's not just because of T-Mobile's new HD Voice. In my tests, call quality was unusually sharp and clear, and the earpiece and speakerphone both got quite loud. Transmissions were sharp, too, with excellent noise cancellation that doesn't damage the quality of the voice. Transmissions from the speakerphone were a touch tinny, but very clear. Just like on the Galaxy S III, you can personalize the call sound profile to your own sense of hearing, which is one of the phone's best hidden features. The S 4 also supports T-Mobile's excellent Wi-Fi calling system.
Basic Performance and Networking
The Galaxy S 4 is the fastest smartphone we've benchmarked so far, thanks to its 1.9GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor. Yes, some other international S 4 models will get the Samsung Exynos octo-core, but that processor isn't necessarily any faster or better, it just takes a different approach to a low-power mode.?
Along with the processor, Samsung gets props for running Android 4.2.2, the latest version of Google's mobile OS. Some of the newest features aren't available here, though: Multi-user mode is for tablets, and Samsung's custom camera app omits Google's Photo Spheres.
The 1.9GHz Snapdragon torched the processor-dependent Antutu benchmark, but it also did unusually well on Basemark OS, which launches real applications, and on the GLBenchmark graphics benchmark. Even pushing all the pixels on a 1080p screen, this is the fastest Android phone available. I topped off performance testing with the hideously heavy Need for Speed: Most Wanted game, which ran like butter on the S 4.
Spectacular speed results carried over to network testing, too. The Galaxy S 4 is an LTE phone, although you can switch it off if you aren't in one of T-Mobile's few LTE cities. You don't lose much, either. On T-Mobile's HSPA+ network in midtown Manhattan I got speed up to 14Mbps down and 2.3Mbps up using Ookla's Speedtest.net application. That's solid 4G by anyone's measure.
The S 4 also supports GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, and NFC. I connected a Plantronics Voyager Legend Bluetooth headset ?and media playback and voice dialing went off without a hitch.
Battery life isn't extraordinary, but it's good. I got 10 hours, 50 minutes of talk time, and?4 hours, 48 minutes streaming constant video over HSPA+ with the screen set to maximum brightness. As we've seen with these 1080p phones, that high-res screen really takes a toll.?
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Samsung Galaxy S4: When is it too much?
The Samsung Galaxy S4, the followup to the most successful phone in the world, is now in stores.?Chock full of new features, applications, and widgets, did Samsung over-do it?
Attendees try out the new Samsung Galaxy S4 during the Samsung Unpacked event at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
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EnlargeI've seen Android phones get better and more powerful over the years, as Google and phone manufacturers pack devices with more and more features. There comes a time, though, when less is more. I'm afraid we've reached that time.
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Samsung's new Galaxy S4 smartphone is an excellent device from a hardware standpoint. Measuring 5 inches diagonally, the screen is slightly larger than that on its predecessor, the Galaxy S III. Yet the S4 is a tad lighter and smaller overall. The S4's display is also much sharper, at 441 pixels per inch compared with 272 on the S III. The S4 has one of the sharpest screens out there.
The Android operating system it runs is excellent, too, and in recent years the Google-made system has become a healthy competitor to Apple's iOS system for iPhones. Like most Android phones, the S4 comes with a suite of useful Google apps, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps and the voice assistant Google Now. Because Google lets device makers customize Android to suit their needs, Samsung and others have been adding their own distinguishing features.
And that's the source of the problem. Packed with bags of tricks, phones have become way too complicated for many people to use. In some cases it's because these custom features work only some of the time. In other cases, you're confronted with too many ways to do similar things.
As much as Apple can be criticized for exerting control over what goes on its iPhones, it wins on simplicity. There are no competing agendas ? just Apple's.
By contrast, Android has turned into a free-for-all. For instance, the Sprint version of the S4 phone has at least four different ways to watch video ? one that comes standard with Android, one added by Sprint and two added by Samsung. Some content works with one but not the others.
And to watch video on one of the Samsung apps, the one called Samsung Hub, you have to navigate through two screens trying to sell you video that I couldn't get to work on the other apps. As much as it adds to the clutter, Samsung would rather you use its service and not the standard Android one. That way, Samsung rather than Google gets revenue from video sales. Samsung Electronics Co. has its own app store, too, to rival Google's own Play store on the same device.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't consider buying the S4.
Another highly praised phone, HTC Corp.'s One, has a lot of clutter as well. The display on the One is slightly smaller than S4's, but it has a higher resolution. The One sounds better, too, with front-facing speakers, while the S4 has a speaker on the back. The One might be the one for you if you watch a lot of video and listen to a lot of music. But the One feels heavier and bulkier, and its battery holds less charge than the S4.
The four national wireless carriers, plus U.S. Cellular, Leap Wireless' Cricket and C Spire, will sell the S4 in the United States. Release dates vary, and some announced Wednesday that they expect delays until next week because of inventory problems. Expect to pay $150 to $250 up front with two-year contracts (T-Mobile calls them installment plans as it markets contract-free service).
Despite my complaints with all the add-ons on the S4, a number of them show promise:
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Seeing Red
A man runs among buildings damaged by what activists said were missiles fired by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet Photo by Hamid Khatib/Reuters
It seemed for a moment today that we might soon be at war with Syria.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told reporters that, according to new intelligence analyses, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has likely used chemical weapons, specifically sarin, against rebel forces.
At least five times in the last eight months, President Obama has declared that any such use of chemical weapons would cross ?a red line.? These are fighting words, or very close to them. If a president describes a possible action as ?crossing a red line,? then does nothing about it, no future declaration of red lines?no threat to respond with force to some horrible action?will be taken seriously by anyone, friend or foe.
Obama has said as much while issuing his ?red line? warnings against Syria?s use of chemical weapons. ?There would be enormous consequences,? he said on one occasion. It would mark ?a game-changer from our perspective,? he said on another. It would be ?totally unacceptable? and Assad would be ?held accountable,? he warned on still another.
So, with Hagel?s statement this morning, has the red line been crossed? And what is Obama going to do about it?
The White House response this afternoon: Whoa, wait, not so fast.
Hagel?s remarks, while laced in stern tones, noted that U.S. intelligence agencies had made this assessment ?with varying degrees of confidence.? A letter written by the White House congressional liaison, to various senators, re-emphasized this caveat.
A senior White House official, speaking on a conference call with reporters, went further. He allowed that there is ?physiological evidence? of sarin in Syria (whether on people or soil, he didn?t say), but before declaring that the red line has been crossed, the president needs more facts, especially concerning the ?chain of custody??that is, who released the sarin and did they do so deliberately. It?s likely that Assad or some element of his regime is responsible, the official allowed, but ?likely? isn?t enough. Given the seriousness of the issue, and the ?recent history? of mistaken intelligence assessments (a clear reference to the false WMD alarms that justified the invasion of Iraq), this president needs more. He needs conclusions reached ?with certainty.?
It doesn?t take a war hawk to wonder if this standard might be raising the bar too high. In the annals of intelligence analysis, very few assessments have ever been offered with certainty. And the notion of determining the ?chain of custody? with certainty?some proof that the traces of sarin found in the blood samples of Syrian rebels (as intelligence reports now indicate) definitely came from weapons fired by forces loyal to President Assad?is also a bit of a stretch.
At the same time, it?s hard to blame Obama for demanding a high bar of evidence. Stating that Assad has used chemical weapons would mean that he did cross that dread red line, and that would mean Obama now has to do something about it. It wouldn?t necessarily mean that he has to send in the Marines, but he probably would have to take some action that could easily escalate to sending in the Marines or special forces, jet fighters, cruise missiles, or armed drones?that could very quickly mean war.
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Foursquare's Dennis Crowley To Join Us At Disrupt NY
Only three days left to scoop up TechCrunch Disrupt NY tickets! You can get them here. And view our amazing speaker lineup here.? Foursquare's Dennis Crowley has had a helluva April. The company just closed a $41 million debt round from Silver Lake Partners and Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, O?Reilly AlphaTech and Union Square Ventures, and released a re-vamped iOS app. Yahoo M&A has also reportedly been sniffing around.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/RzG_pEzPGt4/
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Obama Admin Slams UN Official for Blaming Boston Bombings on U.S. Mideast Policy and ?Tel Aviv?
Ambassador Susan Rice (File Photo: Getty Images)
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice took to Twitter Tuesday evening to slam a UN human rights official for suggesting the Boston bombings were an expected result of U.S. foreign policy.
Richard Falk, a Special Rapporteur with the UN Human Rights Council wrote in the Foreign Policy Journal that "the American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world."
"The United States has been fortunate not to experience worse blowbacks, and these may yet happen, especially if there is no disposition to rethink U.S. relations to others in the world, starting with the Middle East," he wrote.
Ambassador Rice tweeted: "Outraged by Richard Falk's highly offensive Boston comments. Someone who spews such vitriol has no place at the UN. Past time for him to go."
Outraged by Richard Falk's highly offensive Boston comments. Someone who spews such vitriol has no place at the UN. Past time for him to go.The Geneva-based watchdog group UN Watch, which first reported on Falk's article, sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, asking him to condemn Falk's "odious and preposterous" remarks.
The Times of Israel reports:
Falk, named by the United Nations Human Rights Council a United Nations Special Rapporteur in 2008 and tasked with monitoring the situation "in the Palestinian territories," has a history of provocative and outrages statements, both supporting Islamic terror and bashing Israel.
The 83-year-old statesman said he was not alone in thinking American actions around the world and in the Middle East specifically were connected to the bombings, which deeply scarred the country and Boston. He cited a PBS call-in program in the hours after the bombing in which people said the US was responsible for "officially sanctioned torture," and suggested the attack was "retribution for torture inflicted by American security forces."
"It is horrible, but we in this country should not be too surprised, given our drone attacks that have killed women and children attending weddings and funerals in Afghanistan and Pakistan," Falk quoted one of the people as saying following the attack. American politicians don't "have the courage to connect some of these dots," Falk said.
"Should we not all be meditating on W.H. Auden's haunting line: 'Those to whom evil is done/do evil in return.'"
Auden's poem, "September 1, 1939," referred to a German justification for launching World War II following the Treaty of Versailles.
UN official Richard Falk (File Photo: Getty Images)
UN Watch highlighted this quote in its letter to Ban Ki-Moon: "How many canaries will have to die," asks Falk, "before we awaken from our geopolitical fantasy of global domination?"
Falk suggests that the U.S. will continue to be targeted due what he describes as a belligerent and Israel-friendly foreign policy. He writes: "The war drums are beating at this moment in relation to both North Korea and Iran, and as long as Tel Aviv has the compliant ear of the American political establishment, those who wish for peace and justice in the world should not rest easy," he stated.
Falk was widely criticized in 2011 for posting what was viewed to be an anti-Semitic cartoon on his blog depicting a dog wearing a Jewish yarmulke and a "USA" sweater urinating on Lady Justice. At the same time, the dog is devouring a bloody skeleton.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-admin-slams-un-official-blaming-boston-bombings-171623771.html
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Scientists image nanoparticles in action
Apr. 25, 2013 ? The macroscopic effects of certain nanoparticles on human health have long been clear to the naked eye. What scientists have lacked is the ability to see the detailed movements of individual particles that give rise to those effects.
In a recently published study, scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute invented a technique for imaging nanoparticle dynamics with atomic resolution as these dynamics occur in a liquid environment. The results will allow, for the first time, the imaging of nanoscale processes, such as the engulfment of nanoparticles into cells.
"We were stunned to see the large-ranged mobility in such small objects," said Deborah Kelly, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute. "We now have a system to watch the behaviors of therapeutic nanoparticles at atomic resolution."
Nanoparticles are made of many materials and come in different shapes and sizes. In the new study, Kelly and her colleagues chose to make rod-shaped gold nanoparticles the stars of their new molecular movies. These nanoparticles, roughly the size of a virus, are used to treat various forms of cancer. Once injected, they accumulate in solid tumors. Infrared radiation is then used to heat them and destroy nearby cancerous cells.
To take an up-close look at the gold nanoparticles in action, the researchers made a vacuum-tight microfluidic chamber by pressing two silicon-nitride semiconductor chips together with a 150-nanometer spacer in between. The microchips contained transparent windows so the beam from a transmission electron microscope could pass through to create an atomic-scale image.
Using the new technique, the scientists created two types of visualizations. The first included pictures of individual nanoparticles' atomic structures at 100,000-times magnification -- the highest resolution images ever taken of nanoparticles in a liquid environment.
The second visualization was a movie captured at 23,000-times magnification that revealed the movements of a group of nanoparticles reacting to an electron beam, which mimics the effects of the infrared radiation used in cancer therapies.
In the movie, the gold nanoparticles can be seen surfing nanoscale tidal waves.
"The nanoparticles behaved like grains of sand being concentrated on a beach by crashing waves," said Kelly. "We think this behavior may be related to why the nanoparticles become concentrated in tumors. Our next experiment will be to insert a cancer cell to study the nanoparticles' therapeutic effects on tumors."
The team is also testing the resolution of the microfluidic system with other reagents and materials, bringing researchers one step closer to viewing live biological mechanisms in action at the highest levels of resolution possible.
The study appeared in the April 14 print edition of Chemical Communications in the article "Visualizing Nanoparticle Mobility in Liquid at Atomic Resolution," by Madeline Dukes, an applications scientist at Protochips Inc. in Raleigh, N.C.; Benjamin Jacobs, an applications scientist at Protochips; David Morgan, assistant manager of the Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy Facility at Indiana University Bloomington; Harshad Hegde, a computer scientist at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute; and Kelly, who is also an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech.
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Dearborn Animal Shelter Prepares For 8th Annual Mutt Strut & Pet ...
Dogs large and small attend Mutt Strut, including these Chihuahuas with their owner. (Credit: Dearborn Animal Shelter)
DEARBORN (WWJ) -?Preparation is underway for the Dearborn Animal Shelter?s eighth annual Mutt Strut & Pet Expo ? which?takes place on Saturday, May 11 at Ford Field Park in Dearborn.
According to Elaine Greene, Executive Director of?Friends For the Dearborn Animal Shelter,?the Mutt Strut & Pet Expo is the largest gathering of pet fans in the area. She said several thousand attendees converge each?year?for Mutt Strut to take part in the walk,?enjoy family entertainment and help raise funds for adoptable animals in the care of the shelter.
?Each year we introduce new activities to keep the day fresh and exciting for returning supporters and appeal to more new attendees as well. Mutt Strut & Pet Expo brings so many people together for fun of course, but to spotlight the joy of pet companionship and to help homeless animals,? Greene said.
Sponsored by Dearborn Family Pet Care, Mutt Strut commences with a 2.3 mile pledge-driven walk for all skill levels to leash up their dogs and strut with family and friends. The leisurely walk runs adjacent to Michigan Avenue and provides businesses a chance to showcase themselves to new visitors to the city.
During the first seven years, Mutt Strut supporters raised over $400,000 benefiting more than 15,000 rescued animals. This year, the fundraising goal is $65,000.
Participants can register in advance online; otherwise walk-up registration begins at 9:00 a.m., with ribbon cutting and the walk starting at 11:00 a.m.; activities continue to 3:00 p.m.
The expo portion is a community-wide animal celebration that features an array of free, fun activities, including:
? An array of metro Detroit Food Trucks serving gourmet street fare
? Fastest Mutt in the Midwest competition
? The Yelp.com VIP Hound Lounge for walkers who raise $300 or more
? Celebration tent with an adopted dog birthday ?pawty? and meet new adoptable pets
? Former Detroit Tiger Milt Wilcox and his Ultimate Air Dogs in dock-diving competition
? K-9 Fun Run, a luring-style race for family pets to unleash their energy
? Doggie Fun Zone offering games and contests galore
? Health Zone focusing on healthy lifestyles for people and pets
? Midway of local and eco-friendly vendors with pet-related items
Mutt Strut & Pet Expo takes place at Ford Field Park in Dearborn, near Michigan Avenue and Brady street on Saturday, May 11. For more information, visit www.dearbornmuttstrut.com.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Jason Segel working on middle-grade book series
NEW YORK (AP) ? Jason Segel is becoming an author.
The star of the TV series "How I Met Your Mother" and "Freaks and Geeks" has a deal with Random House Children's Books for a middle-grade series set in a haunted town. The series is called "Nightmares!" and will debut in the fall of 2014.
Random House announced Wednesday that best-selling children's author Kirsten Miller will collaborate with Segel. The publisher is calling the series a story of kids "overcoming their fears."
The 33-year-old Segel is also known for the films "Knocked Up" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jason-segel-working-middle-grade-book-series-144200424.html
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The New York Times Is Getting a Cheaper Paywall Because It Has To
The business drama behind the New York Times paywall is, at its core, this: can the news organization find new subscription revenue faster than it loses advertising revenue? And, while it has pioneered the paywall, signing up?676,000 subscribers through the end of the fourth quarter, the announcement that it will offer new, cheaper tiers shows that is not enough paying customers. As its most recent earnings report?show, while advertising revenues fell?11.2 percent in the first quarter while circulation revenues, including digital subscriptions, rose only 7 percent?not fast enough to keep up with the changing business model.
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The problem, as this chart from Zach Seward a Quartz shows, seems to be that?The Times may have signed up most of the people willing to pay at least $180 a year (which is currently its lowest priced digital subscriptiob) for the Times journalism they read.?
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That means that while digital subscriptions continues to grow, it's not on track to grow explosively from its current level around 700,000 (which, incidentally, is not too much lower than the 1 million-ish print circulation The Times had?before the big, bad Internet changed everything).
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The solution to the problem is to expand the universe of potential subscribers, and the new lower-priced tiers in the paywalls are an attempt to do just that. The paper hasn't given exact pricing details, but in its "New Strategy for Growth" note it touted adding a "lower-priced paid product" that will offer a selection of the "most important and interesting stories" from the Times. (So, maybe top news, but not every story the paper publishes.) They will also offer other subscriptions, "also at lower price points," which will just cover certain subjects (the press release mentions, "politics, technology, opinion, the arts and food").?
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The Times is also creating subscriptions that cost more than its current offerings ("an enhanced tier") but those are more about getting some subset of the current 676,000 to pay more rather than expanding subscribers overall, so that's not where the big growth opportunity lies.?The Times will also maintain its free offering of a metered access to set number of stories a month ? currently set at ten ? according to a spokesperson.?
After two years of easing people into a paywall, The?Times has slowly normalized the idea of paying for news. And even outside the Times, digital readers who seek out quality reporting and writing as other outlets look to mimic the success of?The Times and The?Wall Street Journal. The Washington Post recently announced it would experiment with a paid model, and The New Yorker, which charges for none of its digital content right now, recently emailed out a survey asking readers how they felt about different digital models, both metered and not. So while there is little question that the future of news won't be free, the bigger question is just how many paying readers are out there.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/york-times-getting-cheaper-paywall-because-143212639--finance.html
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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood Education. Reference ...
Job Description
Full time (37.5 hours per week), permanent
Kei te w?tea te t?nga kaiako i te Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa, mo te whakangungu kaiako.
Mehemea i ? koe te tohu kaiako, e matatau ana ki te reo M?ori me ng? tikanga M?ori, tukua mai to tono mo tenei mahi.
Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa / NZ Childcare Association (NZCA) is a dynamic bicultural organisation, committed to supporting high quality early childhood education through initial teacher education. Our Bachelor of Teaching students need a passionate Lecturer to assist them to become confident and professional early childhood teachers.
Put into practice your enthusiasm for teaching adults and undertaking research while using your skills and experience to inspire cohorts of student teachers to uphold their responsibilities arising from Te Tiriti o Waitangi through their teaching and learning.
Work as part of a collaborative team at the Wellington base and join a vibrant team of Lecturers located throughout Aotearoa who share your commitment to a bicultural early childhood curriculum.
You will have:
- Knowledge of te reo M?ori me ona tikanga M?ori
- A PhD or Masters degree in education or relevant discipline
- Experience or strong interest in teaching and/or mentoring adults at a tertiary level
- Enthusiasm for undertaking research within a collaborative framework
- A commitment to growing bicultural practice
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
- A current full driver?s licence and vehicle for work use
- Teacher registration is desirable
We can offer you a competitive salary, generous study leave and professional development provisions, plus opportunities to be involved in research activities, while working in a supportive and collaborative team environment.
Overseas applicants MUST provide evidence that they have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand. Applications without this evidence will not be considered.
How to Apply
Applications close: 5 pm Friday 10 May 2013.
Please apply online by visiting our website or contact Leigh Thurston via email quoting Reference: REC002.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
PFT: Jags unveil uniforms? |? Vikes, Phins leaked
APQuarterback Matt Flynn has already been guaranteed something with the Oakland Raiders that he never received while with the Seattle Seahawks last year.
The right to be named the team?s starting quarterback.
Even though Flynn likely thought he?d win the starting job last year with the Seahawks after signing a three-year deal with the team last offseason, head coach Pete Carroll never said that would be the case.
Carroll said Flynn would have to compete with Tarvaris Jackson, and later on rookie Russell Wilson, for the starting job and that he wasn?t going to be handed the job. When the offseason work and training camp began, it was Jackson that was taking the first-team snaps in practice with the team. Flynn would earn the starts for Seattle in their first two preseason games before Wilson supplanted Flynn as the starter for the regular season.
But Flynn already has a leg up in Oakland. According to Vic Tafur of the San Francisco Chronicle, Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie has named Flynn the starting quarterback as offseason workouts are set to begin. McKenzie said Flynn would have to compete with Terrelle Pryor and any quarterback the Raiders may select in the draft this week but it?s more that he was given in Seattle.
McKenzie was with Flynn in Green Bay for the only two starts he?s made in his NFL career and feels he can be a solid quarterback in the league.
?Two things that I feel are important and that?s presence, as far as leadership and knowing how to move a team down the field, and knowing how to do it,? McKenzie said.
?He has all the intangibles and I think he can play the position. He can throw the ball. I think he?s going to be a solid quarterback. Now how good can he be? We?ll figure that out, but I think he?s got a chance to be a good, solid quarterback.?
Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/23/jaguars-unveil-new-uniforms/related/
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A look at immigrant patients deported by hospitals
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? Over the last five years, American hospitals have sent at least 600 immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally back to their home countries to avoid paying for long-term care after serious illness or injury.
The Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall University has documented "medical repatriation" cases in 15 states involving patients from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Lithuania, Mexico, the Philippines and South Korea.
Here's a look at some of the most dramatic examples from a report issued in December:
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Quelino Ojeda Jimenez was working atop a building at Chicago's Midway Airport in 2010 when he fell, suffering injuries that left him nearly quadriplegic and reliant on a ventilator.
Advocate Christ Medical Center cared for Jimenez for four months, absorbing more than $650,000 in costs, according to a 2011 Chicago Tribune story.
Three days before Christmas that year, the hospital put him aboard a medical flight and sent him to Mexico, even though his family protested. Crying and unable to speak, Jimenez could do nothing to prevent his removal.
The receiving hospital in Mexico lacked rehabilitation services and could not afford new filters for his ventilator. After suffering two heart attacks and a septic infection, Jimenez died on Jan. 2, 2012.
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Luis Alberto Jimenez was working as a landscaper in Florida when the car he was in was struck by a drunk driver in February 2000.
Jimenez, then 35, suffered brain damage and other injuries and was treated at Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart, Fla., until June, when he was transferred to a nursing home.
The following January, he was readmitted to the hospital with an infection that doctors feared could be fatal. He stayed at the hospital for a year because no other long-term care provider would take him.
The hospital eventually filed a lawsuit in state court seeking permission to transport him to a hospital in his native Guatemala. A judge approved the flight in June 2003, and Jimenez was flown to Guatemala before the court could rule on an appeal filed by his legal guardian.
In mid-2004, the Florida District Court of Appeals overturned the lower court's order, declaring that state courts do not have the authority to permit deportations, which are regulated by federal immigration law. But by then Jimenez had been returned home, bedridden and suffering from seizures, to live with his elderly mother in a remote area of Guatemala.
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Barbara Latasiewicz was working as a housekeeper in the Chicago area in 2009 when she had a stroke while scrubbing a bathtub. The Polish woman was paralyzed on her left side and needed around-the-clock care.
Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital tried to find her long-term care, but 30 facilities refused to take her because she was undocumented. Latasiewicz had overstayed a temporary visa after arriving in the U.S. in 1990.
The hospital allowed her to stay without insurance or any other way to pay for 2? years at a cost of more than $1.4 million.
In early 2012, arrangements were made to transfer her to a stroke-specialty unit in Poland. She refused to consent to the transfer, which would permanently separate her from her son and grandchildren. The hospital obtained a judge's order allowing her transfer to Poland.
A March 1 story in the Chicago Tribune says the 60-year-old woman cried while sitting in the airport awaiting a flight out, knowing she would probably never return to the U.S., which had been her home for more than 20 years.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/look-immigrant-patients-deported-hospitals-071427622.html
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New calls to rename Higgs boson
22 April 2013
Last updated at 13:00 ET
One of the scientists who helped develop the theory of the Higgs boson says the particle should be renamed.
Carl Hagen believes the name should acknowledge the work of others - not just UK physicist Peter Higgs.
The long-running debate has been rekindled following speculation that this year's Nobel Prize for Physics will be awarded for the Higgs theory.
The detection of a particle thought to be the Higgs was announced at the Large Hadron Collider in June last year.
American Prof Hagen told BBC News: "I have always thought that the name was not a proper one.
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End Quote Prof Carl Hagen Rochester University, New YorkPeter Higgs was treated as something of a rock star and the rest of us were barely recognised. It was clear that Higgs was the dominant name because his name has become associated with the boson?
"To single out one individual marginalises the contribution of others involved in the work. Although I did not start this campaign to change the name, I welcome it."
Prof Peter Higgs developed a theory of how other sub-atomic particles came to have substance, or mass, and published his work in 1964.
However, other researchers independently came up with similar ideas and they, along with Prof Higgs, have long argued for the name of the particle to be changed.
People have spoken of key contributions being made by Francois Englert, Peter Higgs, Gerald Guralnik, Tom Kibble, Robert Brout and Carl Hagen. Five spoke at a press conference last year to announce the discovery of a particle thought to be the Higgs, but it was only Prof Higgs who received a huge round of applause from the researchers present.
"Peter Higgs was treated as something of a rock star and the rest of us were barely recognised by most of the audience. It was clear that Higgs was the dominant name because of the fact his name has become associated with the boson," Prof Hagen told BBC World News.
A spokeswoman from Cern - which operates the Large Hadron Collider - told BBC News that it was not up to the laboratory to determine the name of newly discovered particles.
"Particles have generally been named by theorists who predict them, an example being the 'quark'; or by experimentalists who discover unpredicted particles such as the neutron," she said.
"In all cases, the name eventually takes on common usage and is accepted by the particle physics community, and nowadays by the Particle Data Group who refer to Higgs bosons."
At at a physics conference in March to discuss the discovery of the Higgs, researchers were encouraged to refer to the particle as the "SM Scalar Boson".
At the time, it was thought that this was because physicists wanted to be absolutely sure that the claimed particle really was the Higgs before naming it as such.
Although six theorists are connected with developing the theory of the Higgs, many scientists believe that naming the particle after all of these individuals would be too much of a mouthful. Even acronyms created from the names of all six are inelegant. An example would be "BEHGHK", which would be pronounced "berk".
Prof Hagen, who is affiliated to the University of Rochester, New York, suggests that it be called the Standard Model Scalar Meson, or SM Squared.
Nobel PrizeA maximum of just three individuals can be named as winners of a Nobel Prize.
Those winners also have to be alive, and the five scientists who developed the Higgs theory that are still eligible for the award are in their 70s and 80s. Prof Brout died in 2011.
There is therefore considerable pressure on the Nobel committee determining the physics prize to award it for the Higgs before potential winners die.
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End Quote Prof Jordan Nash Imperial College LondonNames are given to predicted particles, and eventually one name sticks. This shouldn't been seen as a slight on the others who also contributed to developing this theory?
But which three? Prof Hagen believes all six credited with the theory should be recognised along with the huge team of scientists and engineers at the LHC.
"It is unfortunate that the Nobel committee's bylaws prevent this. I hope some way can be found around it. If not then we will have to live with whatever decision is made".
Prof Jordan Nash, also at Imperial College London and who is among those who helped detect and characterise the particle at the LHC last year, said it might be impractical to change the name at this stage.
"I think it is healthy that the scientific community is having a careful look at the really groundbreaking work that was done by this group of scientists, especially now that we know their work 50 years ago has led to predicting something we can see experimentally.
"That said, the name of the 'Higgs particle' has been in common scientific use for decades.
"Names are given to predicted particles, and eventually one name sticks. This shouldn't been seen as a slight on the others who also contributed to developing this theory."
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22250092#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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