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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Mayor Len Brown Says More Retirement Homes Needed... | Stuff.co.nz
GRAND DESIGN: Mayor Len Brown gets a tour of the Mt Eden Lifestyle Care and Village which is under construction from Oceania Group chief executive Guy Eady. Mr Brown says Auckland needs more retirement villages.
Building more retirement villages would free up homes for younger families and alleviate the housing crisis, mayor Len Brown says.
But not everyone is buying into the idea.
Upping the city's stock of aged care facilities to meet an increasing demand would have the added knock-on effect of freeing up family-sized homes, Mr Brown says.
"It's the circle of life. When you get into your senior years you're looking to mow less lawns, have a maintenance-free lifestyle and to just enjoy your years.
"You move out of stand-alone homes and you're freeing them up for younger families to take in their years of productivity," he says.
But Age Concern Auckland executive officer Grant Withers says retirement villages aren't the answer for many older people.
"They are very costly to buy into. They do fill a need for certain people with capital, but we don't see an overwhelming response."
Mr Withers says most people Age Concern works with are looking for an apartment with very low rent.
He says many of their clients would like to stay in their own homes but are finding they can't afford to.
"Many older people are being rated out of their houses.
"I've got one woman whose husband built her house in 1943 and now she can't afford to stay," Mr Withers says.
He says single elderly men have the toughest time finding rental accommodation.
"Private landlords don't seem to want to know them."
According to the Auckland Plan, those in their retirement years are among those crying out the loudest for suitable places to live.
One review suggests as many as 20,000 more facilities will be needed as the number of people aged over 65 increases to almost one million by 2026.
Mr Brown was touring Mt Eden Lifestyle Care and Village, which is under construction, when he made the comments.
The centre has 105 units across three levels in the heart of the suburb where residents can live independently or in an assisted living suite which is closer to traditional hospital care.
Mr Brown says the design fits with the principles of the draft Unitary Plan which is open for public consultation.
"It is an intensification of the community, but it's done in a very sympathetic way that tends to blend very well," Mr Brown says.
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Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/8609241/More-retirement-homes-needed
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Colorado music promoter Barry Fey dies at 73
This Nov. 14, 2011 photo shows music promoter Barry Fey in Denver. Fey, who brought some of the biggest names in the business to Colorado, including as the Doors, the Rolling Stones and U2, died Sunday, April 28, 2013 at his home. He was 73. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Cyrus McCrimmon)
This Nov. 14, 2011 photo shows music promoter Barry Fey in Denver. Fey, who brought some of the biggest names in the business to Colorado, including as the Doors, the Rolling Stones and U2, died Sunday, April 28, 2013 at his home. He was 73. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Cyrus McCrimmon)
DENVER (AP) ? A music promoter who brought some of the biggest names in the business to Colorado, including as the Doors, the Rolling Stones and U2, has died. Barry Fey was 73.
The Arapahoe County coroner's office says he died Sunday at his Cherry Hills Village home. An autopsy was planned Monday.
Among the tens of thousands of shows he promoted during his 30-plus year career was U2's legendary performance at Red Rocks Ampitheatre in 1983, captured in the "Under a Blood Red Sky" video. It increased the outdoor venue's popularity and Fey was eventually able to get Bruce Springsteen to play there.
In the forward to Fey's memoir, Ozzy Osbourne said Fey was the first to book Black Sabbath.
The Denver Post (http://bit.ly/152EOih ) reports Fey was recovering from hip replacement surgery.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Israeli army breaks up Palestinian march on Jewish settlement
By Noah Browning
DEIR JAREER, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse about 500 Palestinian villagers marching toward a Jewish settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank on Friday.
The procession, the largest of its kind for years, followed charges by Palestinians that the Israeli settlers, whose caravans abut village land, had attacked them twice this week.
Around half a million settlers have moved to the West Bank and East Jerusalem since Israel captured the area, along with the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Middle East War. Palestinians want the settlements gone from what they see as their future state.
Men from Deir Jareer, including Christian and Muslim clerics, gathered for Friday prayers on a craggy outcrop between their village and a cluster of half a dozen makeshift settler homes surrounded by Israeli army jeeps and soldiers.
Their march, preceded by a group of stone-throwing youths, was repeatedly pushed back by salvoes of Israeli tear gas. Young boys howled from the effects of the tear gas and old men hitched up their robes to flee, holding onion slices to their noses.
Medics treated several men for gas inhalation and rubber bullet wounds.
A few Palestinian villages hold weekly protests against the Israeli army and settlements, usually involving a score of rock-throwing youngsters, and unrest has mounted this year.
But political gatherings are rare around Deir Jareer, and was sparked after villagers say settlers torched around ten of their cars on Monday night, after planting an Israeli flag on a derelict church on Friday and pelting village youth with stones.
"This was a peaceful area. We're gathered today to say we refuse to be attacked and driven off our own land," said Sami Issa, a resident. "We want their army to pull the settlers out."
The Israeli military has said it is investigating the events leading up to the march. Asked about Friday's incidents, an army spokesman said: "Soldiers responded to a group of some 250 stone-throwing youths with riot dispersal means near Ofra."
Israel cites Biblical and historical claims to the land, but the United Nations considers the settlements illegal and most world powers say they are an obstacle to peace.
Israel has sanctioned the building of 120 settlements, but around 100 unauthorized outposts, considered illegal even under Israeli law, dot the West Bank.
The United States is trying to revive long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress this month that these efforts were urgent because the chance to create a viable Palestinian state was fast receding.
"I believe the window for a two-state solution is shutting," Kerry said. "I think we have some period of time, a year to a year and a half to two years or it's over."
(Reporting By Noah Browning)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-army-breaks-palestinian-march-jewish-settlement-141307677.html
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MTV piping up for 'Scream' series to air in 2014
NEW YORK (AP) ? MTV is getting ready to blast viewers with a brand-new "Scream."
The network says it will produce a pilot for a TV-series adaptation of the wildly popular slasher films. The series would reinvent the horror-comedy franchise that began with the original release in 1996 and spawned three sequels, the most recent in 2011.
MTV said the films' original director, Wes Craven, is in discussions to direct the one-hour pilot.
The "Scream" series is planned to debut in summer 2014.
The announcement was made Thursday at MTV's presentation of its upcoming schedule to advertisers in New York.
MTV also said "Snooki & JWOWW" has been renewed for a third season. The reality show stars "Jersey Shore" pals Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Jenni "JWOWW" Farley.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mtv-piping-scream-series-air-2014-210903410.html
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Artist Richard Prince didn't infringe photo copyrights: U.S. court
By Nate Raymond
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a closely watched case in the art world, American artist Richard Prince won a federal appeals court order Thursday holding that he did not infringe the copyrights of a photographer by incorporating his images into 25 paintings and collages.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York reversed a lower court's finding that Prince must hand over artwork using the photos to Patrick Cariou, whose pictures of Rastafarians in Jamaica were incorporated into art, exhibited in 2007 and 2008.
"These twenty-five of Prince's artworks manifest an entirely different aesthetic from Cariou's photographs," U.S. Circuit Judge Barrington Parker wrote.
The court battle has been considered a test to what extent the appropriation of artists' works is protected from claims of copyright infringement.
The appeal drew friend-of-the-court briefs from a wide range of parties, from the Whitney Museum of American Art to Google Inc, which warned the lower court's ruling deviated from standard copyright analysis in "dangerous" ways.
The ruling is a "huge win for Richard Prince and an entire genre of modern art," said Anthony Falzone, a lawyer for The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which filed a brief backing Prince.
"It recognizes the broad range of meaning that artists create by incorporating existing images into their work," he said.
Prince is a prominent appropriation artist and photographer whose works have appeared in New York's Guggenheim Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Joshua Schiller, a lawyer for Prince at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, said his client was pleased with Thursday's ruling.
Cariou sued Price and the Gagosian Gallery in December 2008 after learning about a show held at the gallery featuring 22 works from a series Prince titled Canal Zone. Thirty of the pieces Prince created for the series incorporated all or part of photos by Cariou that appeared in a 2000 book, "Yes Rasta."
Some of Prince's works sold for more than $2 million. He sold eight for $10.5 million and traded seven others for works by painter Larry Rivers and sculptor Richard Serra, according to the appeals court decision.
Prince argued that his use of the photographs was protected under the theory of fair use, saying his work was "transformative."
Thursday's ruling reverses an order by U.S. District Court Deborah Batts in Manhattan, who had concluded that Prince was not protected from liability because his paintings did not "comment on" or critically refer back to the original works.
Daniel Brooks, a lawyer for Cariou at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, said he believed the court got the law wrong "in a number of ways," and said he was considering his options.
He said the ruling does not provide any guidance for future cases to figure out if an artist violates copyright laws through appropriation.
"It just seems somewhat subjective," he said.
The appeals court sent the dispute over five of Prince's works back to the trial court to determine whether some alterations were enough to avoid a finding of infringement.
Hollis Gonerka Bart, a lawyer for the Gagosian Gallery and owner Larry Gagosian, said the case will now likely proceed as a trial on the five remaining works. Her client intends to "defend vigorously" itself, she said.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York; Editing by Bernard Orr and Richard Chang)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/artist-richard-prince-didnt-infringe-photo-copyrights-u-182257589--sector.html
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Senate bill jeopardizes tax-free online shopping
WASHINGTON (AP) ? States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that overwhelmingly passed a test vote in the Senate Monday.
Under current law, states can only require stores to collect sales taxes if the store has a physical presence in the state. As a result, many online sales are essentially tax-free, giving Internet retailers a big advantage over brick-and-mortar stores.
The bill would allow states to require online retailers to collect state and local sales taxes for purchases made over the Internet. The sales taxes would be sent to the states where shoppers live.
The Senate voted 74 to 20 to begin debating the bill. If that level of support continues, the Senate could pass the bill as early as this week.
Supporters say the bill is about fairness for businesses and lost revenue for states. Opponents say it would impose complicated regulations on retailers and doesn't have enough protections for small businesses. Businesses with less than $1 million a year in online sales would be exempt.
"I believe it is important to level the playing field for all retailers," said Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., the bill's main sponsor. "We should not be subsidizing some taxpayers at the expense of others."
In many states, shoppers are required to pay unpaid sales tax when they file their state income tax returns. However, states complain that few people comply.
"I do know about three people that comply with that," Enzi said.
President Barack Obama supports the bill, but its fate is uncertain in the House, where some Republicans regard it as a tax increase. Heritage Action for America, the activist arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, opposes the bill and will count the vote in its legislative scorecard.
Many of the nation's governors ? Republicans and Democrats ? have been lobbying the federal government for years for the authority to collect sales taxes from online sales, said Dan Crippen, executive director of the National Governors Association. Those efforts intensified when state tax revenues took hit from the recession and the slow economic recovery.
"It's a matter of equity for businesses," Crippen said. "It's a matter of revenue for states."
The bill pits brick-and-mortar stores like Wal-Mart against online services such as eBay. The National Retail federation supports it. And Amazon.com, which initially fought efforts in some states to make it collect sales taxes, supports it, too.
"Amazon.com has long supported a simplified nationwide approach that is evenhandedly applied and applicable to all but the smallest volume sellers," Paul Misener, Amazon's vice president of global public policy said in a recent letter to senators.
On the other side, eBay has been rallying customers to oppose the bill.
"I hope you agree that imposing unnecessary tax burdens on small online businesses is a bad idea," eBay president and CEO John Donahoe said in a letter to customers. "Join us in letting your Members of Congress know they should protect small online businesses, not potentially put them out of business."
The bill is also opposed by senators from states that have no sales tax, including Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.
"Supporters of this online sales tax bill are trying to muscle it through before senators find out how disastrous it would be for businesses in their states," Ayotte said. "I will fight this power grab every step of the way to protect small online businesses in New Hampshire and across the nation."
Baucus said the bill would require relatively small Internet retailers to comply with sales tax laws in thousands of jurisdictions.
"This legislation doesn't help businesses expand and grow and hire more employees," Baucus said. "Instead, it forces small businesses to hire expensive lawyers and accountants to deal with the burdensome paperwork and added complexity of tax rules and filings across multiple states."
But Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said the bill requires participating states to make it relatively easy for Internet retailers to comply. States must provide free computer software to help retailers calculate sales taxes, based on where shoppers live. States must also establish a single entity to receive Internet sales tax revenue, so retailers don't have to send them to individual counties or cities.
"We're way beyond the quill pen and leger days," Durbin said. "Thanks to computers and thanks to software it is not that complex."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/senate-bill-jeopardizes-tax-free-online-shopping-190904262--politics.html
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'Teen Mom 2' star arrested for heroin
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What a difference a day makes for "Teen Mom" Jenelle Evans.
By Ashley Majeski, TODAY contributor
Less than 24 hours after she told a fan on Twitter Monday that she was "doing great...and I'm sober!" "Teen Mom 2" star Jenelle Evans was arrested in Brunswick County, N.C., and charged with possession of heroin, simple possession of a Schedule II controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The troubled MTV star's lawyer, Dustin Sullivan, tells TODAY.com that Evans also was charged with simple assault, and failure to pay her child support payment to her mother, Barbara Evans.
Evans' husband, Courtland Rogers, was also arrested Tuesday, and has been charged with possession of heroin, as well as assault on a female.
"Courtland is currently on probation for the assault on a female charge that Jenelle filed against him in January," Sullivan said. "He recently pleaded guilty to that charge and was on probation for it when he was arrested today."
Sullivan said that Evans' charges were split up and that she received two separate court dates: one in May for the misdemeanor charges, and one in June to deal with the felony drug charges.
"She was very upset when I saw her in court," Sullivan tells TODAY.com. "She was crying in court and she denies having any involvement with the drugs that were found."
Evans, who has made two trips to rehab in the past two years, was shown on Monday night's episode of "Teen Mom 2" discussing her drug use, and took to her Twitter account Monday night to defend herself.
Sullivan said that while Evans has been bonded out of jail, Rogers was still behind bars when Evans left jail. Coincidentally, Evans' former fiance, Gary Head, turned himself into the Brunswick County Jail today to begin serving a sentence for a DWI charge.
"At one point today, Gary, Jenelle and Courtland were all in the jail behind bars at the same time," Sullivan said.
According to Sullivan, Evans wasn't on probation at the time of her arrest, but is currently prohibited from having any contact with Rogers.?
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The Two Most Important Words Managers Should Say Regularly
"Thank you." It's such a simple thing to say, yet incredibly powerful, especially in the office. If you're a supervisor or in a similar leadership position, a show of appreciation for your team can be even more motivating and loyalty-building than money.
The Harvard Business Review quotes Mary Kay Ash, who put it this way: "There are two things people want more than sex and money: recognition and praise."
Saying thanks isn't mind-blowing advice, but I bet there are plenty of organizations where "thank you" could be said much more often. HBR offers these tips for showing appreciation more effectively:
- Set aside time every week to acknowledge people?s good work.
- Handwrite thank-you notes whenever you can. The personal touch matters in the digital age.
- Punish in private; praise in public. Make the public praise timely and specific.
- Remember to cc people?s supervisors. ?Don?t tell me. Tell my boss.?
- Foster a culture of gratitude. It?s a game changer for sustainably better performance.
For more on the magic of these two words in the workplace, check out the article below.
The Two Most Important Words | Harvard Business Review
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Google's new Places for Business app lets you verify and update listings on your iPhone
When you run your own business, time is money and sometimes you don't have the excess minutes to return to your PC and tweak your Google Place Google+ Local listing, right? Fortunately, if you're carrying an iPhone in your pocket and have Google's new Places for Business app, you can adjust those opening times, verify your establishment (and more) on the go. Other features include web traffic tracking, plus the ability to beautify your Google+ listing with fresh images and handle multiple branches from one place. Google's latest business-facing software is available to US-based business owners on iTunes -- it's Apple-only for now.
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Source: Google Places for Business (iTunes)
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Dempsey sparks Tottenham past Man City 3-1
LONDON (AP) ? American midfielder Clint Dempsey tied the game in the 75th minute with the first of three Tottenham goals in a seven-minute span, and Spurs rallied past Manchester City 3-1 Sunday to move the defending Premier League champions to the brink of elimination.
Manchester United (26-4-3) can clinch a record 20th English league title when it hosts Aston Villa on Monday night. City (20-5-8), which led after Samir Nasri's fifth-minute goal, trails by 13 points and has five games remaining.
Dempsey slid to poke in Gareth Bale's cross with his left leg from 2 yards, beating goalkeeper Joe Hart. In his first season with Spurs, Dempsey has six league goals and 11 overall. Jermain Defoe put Tottenham ahead in the 79th, and Bale scored in the 82nd.
Arsenal (18-7-9) is third with 63 points, one ahead of Chelsea (18-7-8), which allowed Luis Suarez's goal in the seventh minute of second-half stoppage time in a 2-2 draw at Liverpool. Trying to finish among the top four and earn a berth in next season's Champions League, Tottenham (18-8-7) is fifth with 61.
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India Child Rape: 2nd Man Arrested In Sexual Assault, Torture Of 5-Year-Old
NEW DELHI -- A second suspect was arrested Monday in the rape of a 5-year-old girl who New Delhi police say was left for dead in a locked room, a case that has brought a new wave of protests against how Indian authorities handle sex crimes.
Pradeep Kumar was arrested Monday in the eastern state of Bihar, about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from New Delhi, and was being brought to the capital, police said.
Police said questioning of the first man arrested in the case, Manoj Kumar, led them to the second suspect. Manoj Kumar, 24, was arrested Saturday in Bihar and has since been flown back to New Delhi. Kumar is a common last name in India and the two men are not related.
The men are accused of abducting, raping and attempting to murder the 5-year-old, who went missing April 15 and was found two days later by neighbors who heard her crying in a locked room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her family. The girl was alone when she was found, having been left for dead by her attackers, police say.
The girl was in critical condition when she was transferred Thursday from a local hospital to the largest government-run hospital in the country. D.K. Sharma, medical superintendent of the state-run hospital in New Delhi where the girl was being treated, said Monday that she was responding well to treatment and that her condition had stabilized.
"She is much better today and her wounds are healing well," Sharma told reporters.
The attack came four months after the fatal gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus sparked outrage across India about the treatment of women in the country.
For the second consecutive day, hundreds of people protested Sunday outside police headquarters in the capital, angry over allegations that police failed to act after the girl's parents told them she was missing.
About 100 supporters of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party protested outside the home of the chief of the ruling Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi, demanding that the government ensure the safety and security of women and girls in the city.
The protesters also demanded that the Delhi police chief be removed from office and that police officials accused of failing to act on the parents' complaint be dismissed.
"Police and other officials that fail to do their jobs and instead engage in abusive behavior should know that they will be punished," said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director of New York-based Human Rights Watch.
Police said they detained more than 50 protesters when they tried to break down barricades on the road leading to Gandhi's house. The protesters were released after a few hours.
Police also placed restrictions on gatherings of more than four people on the main avenue in the heart of New Delhi after university students said they planned to hold a demonstration there. Despite the police order, about 100 students gathered at New Delhi's iconic India Gate monument and held a peaceful protest late Sunday.
Sexual crimes against women and children are reported every day in Indian newspapers, and women often complain about feeling insecure when they leave their homes.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for changes in attitudes toward women in India.
"The gruesome assault on the little girl a few days back reminds us once again of the need to work collectively to root out this sort of depravity from our society," Singh said Sunday at a meeting with civil servants.
The December gang rape on a New Delhi bus sparked outrage and spurred the government to pass tough laws for crimes against women, including the death penalty for repeat offenders or for rape attacks that lead to the victim's death.
Activists say passing strong laws is not enough, and that the government must ensure that police and the justice system crack down on crimes against women.
"Enacting strong laws are simply a first step, but it needs the government to focus urgently on implementation if it is serious about protecting children and other victims of sexual abuse," Human Rights Watch's Ganguly said.
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Apple adds "Download Later" option to iTunes in the Cloud
Apple has added a new option for iTunes in the Cloud users, allowing them to defer large downloads of movies, TV shows, and music box sets for a later time. Currently, this new option does not work for apps, and is available only in places where iTunes in the Cloud is live. This option is available on iOS 6 and in iTunes 11, and can be used on things like whole seasons of television shows.
Clicking the Later button will not download any episodes. You'll be able to download your episodes at any time from iTunes in the Cloud.
When you purchase a television show or movie, you will be presented with three options for movie sets and TV seasons: Later, Download, and Download All. For individual episodes and movies, as well as music box sets, the Download All option is not present. This option is great if you find a TV season or collection of movies you want to buy, but you don't want to use up the space on your current device, or are on a cellular network with a data cap to worry about. You will find any items that you choose to download later in the Purchased section of the iTunes 11 store and the Purchased tab of the iOS 6 store.
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Inhabitat's Week in Green: Ekinoid, HDlive ultrasound and the world's lightest electric vehicle
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.
It's been an exciting week for green building as Inhabitat reported that some of the world's top architects unveiled plans for high-tech developments with light environmental footprints. Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) won an international design competition for Europa, a new green-roofed city outside of Paris. Construction began last week on a new solar-powered stadium for the Euro 2016 football championship designed by Herzog & de Meuron. San Francisco celebrated the reopening of the Exploratorium this week in a new net-zero building along the city's waterfront. In Mexico City, a helipad on the roof of an office building was converted into a co-working space with a gorgeous rooftop garden. And we also profiled the Ekinoid, a spherical, self-sufficient home that sits on stilts and is built to withstand disaster.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Report: One bombing suspect captured
Police search for suspects in Watertown, Mass. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
BOSTON?A late-night police chase and shootout has ended with one marathon bombing suspect being captured here, the Boston Globe reported. Meanwhile, an intense manhunt is underway for a second suspect in the terror case.
Federal agents swarmed neighboring Watertown after local police were involved in a car chase and shootout with at least two suspects. During the pursuit, officers could be heard on police radio traffic describing the suspects as having grenades and other explosives.
One reportedly escaped capture, and another was shot by police and taken to a local hospital. Another man was seen sprawled on the ground in footage shown on WHDH-TV.
The FBI has not confirmed a connection between the events in Watertown to the twin explosions that killed 3 people and injured 170 others at the Boston Marathon on Monday. But according to an alert sent issued to fellow officers, the suspect who remained at large was referred to as the "one with the white hat" seen in the photos released by the bureau on Thursday.
The suspect, described on scanner traffic as a "white male wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with black curly hair, possibly with an assault rifle and explosives," as police in Watertown, Newton, Brighton and Cambridge were put on high alert.
Worried residents in Watertown, a suburb about 10 miles from downtown Boston, were ordered to stay indoors and turn off their cell phones out of fear that they could trigger improvised explosive devices.
Dozens of police officers, many of them off-duty, searched backyards in search of the second suspect, and a police perimeter of several blocks was established. K9 units and SWAT teams searched homes on Spruce Street as officers searched an SUV the suspects had abandoned.
The Watertown shootout occurred after a shooting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology late Thursday. A police officer was shot and taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. The campus was placed on lockdown for several hours, and students were told to remain indoors.
Shortly before 2 a.m. Friday, MIT issued a statement on its website saying that the suspect "in this evening's shooting is no longer on campus. It is now safe to resume normal activities. Please remain vigilant in the coming hours."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/boston-mit-shooting-explosion-suspect-watertown-064355149.html
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Friday, April 19, 2013
What makes a day great for you? | Life School Pune
We have realised people not only want answers, they also want questions where ?they? will search for the answers. Hence, this effort.
- Has anyone ever got a solution without asking a Question?
- Right questions give right direction to life.
- People, who ponder on questions, discover insights.
- The five W?s (who, why, what, when and where) and a H (how) area human being?s best friends, right?
My Dearest Darling Readers,
We in Life School are always searching for ways and means by which we can play our role in guiding you in living a purposeful, impactful, successful and joyous life. Hence, this new initiative.
We have realised people not only want answers, they also want questions where ?they? will search for the answers. Hence, this effort.
Starting this Friday, for our readers, we will be posting, sometimes a wonderful thought provoking question, sometimes a intelligence stimulating question, sometimes a rib tickling question, sometimes a grimacing question, sometimes an inspiring question.
The questions will be released every Friday at 3 pm. from October 12th.
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Breaking Into The 'Department Of Mad Scientists'
What happens when scientific research borders on science fiction? Michael Belfiore, author of the new book The Department of Mad Scientists, talks about the bizarre projects happening behind the scenes at DARPA ? the secretive research arm of the Department of Defense.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/04/19/177944078/utahs-fossil-finds-describe-an-ancient-world?ft=1&f=1007
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
A Gaming Miasma: Plazma Being | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
By John Walker on April 17th, 2013 at 5:00 pm.
You need a new puzzle platformer to fill four hours of your life. I have one. This is synergy. High fives in an orderly queue. Plazma Being is the terrible name for a deceptively tricky little puzzler from first-time dev, Felix Wunderlich. (Also, coincidentally, winner of Today?s Best Name.) You, as you may have guessed, play a blob of plasma. What you might not have intuited is that you?re captured by aliens, cast on a planet with an unfamiliar force called ?gravity?, and trying to find your way out of there.
Your blob, called Zeb, has the ability to telekinetically (or probably a word more to do with physics) move objects within a radius of his current position, letting you build pathways, flick switches, deflect laser beams, and all the like. Later you can ?possess? objects too ? you know ? it?s a puzzle platformer.
But what stands out here is that it?s smart. For a first time project, it?s impressively smart. And almost immediately very tricky. Made using L?VE, a free software framework for Lua, it?s inevitably on Greenlight. But you can already buy it from Desura for just ?1.50, or ?3 on IndieCity, and ?3 directly from Wunderlich.
Source: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/17/a-gaming-miasma-plazma-being/
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Pakistani army evacuates injured from quake area
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ? The Pakistani army said Wednesday that it evacuated 16 seriously injured people by helicopter from the site of a deadly earthquake near the Iranian border.
There were conflicting reports about the death toll from Tuesday's magnitude 7.8 earthquake, which was centered in southeastern Iran but also hit Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province.
Initially, a Pakistani military official said 34 had died in Pakistan, but the head of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Baluchistan, Maj. Gen. Obaidullah Khattak, later told reporters in the hard-hit Mashkel area that 10-12 people were killed and about 30 injured.
Iran's state-run Press TV initially said 40 people were killed in Iran but later backed away from that figure.
Iran's main state TV channel said Wednesday that only one person was killed ? a woman who was struck by falling rocks while she was collecting herbs ? and that 12 people were injured.
The discrepancies and apparent backtracking in the reports could not be immediately reconciled. It was the second earthquake to hit Iran in less than week and the area struck Tuesday is remote and difficult to reach.
The quake toppled homes and shops on both sides of the Iran-Pakistan border and caused skyscrapers to sway in Dubai. It also forced Iranian officials ? for the second time in less than a week ? to issue assurances that its main nuclear reactor wasn't damaged.
Over 300 Pakistani soldiers, including doctors and engineers, were helping with the rescue and relief effort, the army said. The soldiers have set up a field hospital in the Mashkel area and have distributed food, medicine and blankets. Five army helicopters were participating in the relief operation, and some of them flew the more seriously injured to Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan, the army said.
The population of the affected area in Pakistan is up to 15,000 people, and most houses are built of mud, the army said. Estimates of the numbers of homes destroyed in the Mashkel area have varied, with some officials saying the number is over 1,000.
A Pakistani policeman, Azmatullah Regi, said Tuesday that nearly three dozen homes and shops collapsed in just one village in the Mashkel area. Rescue workers pulled the bodies of a couple and their three children, ages 5 to 15, from the rubble of one house, he said.
The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude of the earthquake at 7.8 and said it occurred at a depth of 82 kilometers (51 miles). Press TV said the quake was centered near Saravan, about 50 kilometers (26 miles) from the Pakistani border. The website of Tehran Geophysics Center said the quake lasted 40 seconds and called it the strongest in more than 50 years in one of the world's most seismically active areas.
The quake was felt over a vast area from New Delhi ? about 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) from the epicenter ? to Gulf cities that have some of the world's tallest skyscrapers, including the record 828-meter (2,717 -foot) Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Officials ordered temporary evacuations from the Burj Khalifa and some other high-rises as a precaution.
Pakistani news channels showed buildings shaking in the southern city of Karachi, where people in panic came out from offices and homes.
In 2003, some 26,000 people were killed by a magnitude 6.6 quake that flattened the historic southeastern Iranian city of Bam. Two years later, a magnitude 7.6 quake killed about 80,000 people in northwestern Pakistan and Kashmir and left more than 3 million homeless.
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Associated Press writer Ali Akbar Dareini contributed to this report from Tehran, Iran.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pakistani-army-evacuates-injured-quake-area-074112581.html
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
A happy nucleus
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This Mayorella?s (?) nucleus is smiling and wishing you a very happy day =) The auspicious pattern is formed by heterochromatin clumps. To the right of the nucleus is a contractile vacuole ? devoid of any emotion this time. Cells do speak to you from time to time. In your head. Pareidolia is fun!
About the Author: Psi Wavefunction is a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia working as a researcher at Indiana University, Bloomington, and blogs about protists and evolution at The Ocelloid as well as at Skeptic Wonder. Follow on Twitter @Ocelloid.More??
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
LG Lucid 2 (Verizon Wireless)
The Verizon LG Lucid?was a solid budget smartphone? that sold like gangbusters. Now, a year later, LG brings us the Lucid 2, which is bigger and better than the original in every way. It's even free this time around. But the times are a-changin', and with lots of solid, well-priced options to choose from, the LG Lucid 2 isn't quite as killer a deal this time around.
Design and Call Quality
There are some budget phones where you'd barely be able to tell the difference next to a phone that costs hundreds of dollars more. The LG Lucid 2 is not one of them. It doesn't feel shoddy or poorly made, but the textured plastic finish gives off an unmistakably bargain bin vibe. The phone is predominantly black, with silver accents around the buttons on the sides and a glass front panel. The front feels slightly off balance, with extra bezel space at the top to make room for the pronounced Verizon and LG logos.
The phone measures 4.82 by 2.51 by 0.39 inches and weighs 4.55 ounces, which makes it light and comfortable to hold. The 4.3-inch, 960-by-540 LCD is a step up in terms of size and resolution from the original, but not in terms of overall quality. Some details, like text, can look a little jagged compared with much of the ultra-high-res competition, and there's a faint vertical pattern that runs through the screen, which is particularly visible in lighter areas. There's plenty of room for typing, which feels comfortable on the Swype-enabled onscreen keyboard.
The Lucid 2 taps into Verizon's 4G LTE network where it's available, and 3G everywhere else. Verizon LTE is very fast, and received top honors in our?Fastest Mobile Networks?tests last year. The phone can also be used as a mobile hotspot to connect up to 10 devices simultaneously with the proper service plan. The Lucid 2 has good reception, but sometimes had trouble pulling in a 4G signal. You can also connect the phone to 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi networks.
Call quality is mixed. Voices are understandable in the phone's earpiece, but volume is a problem. Even at the halfway mark the phone's case begins to rattle; at higher volumes it can be painful to listen to. Calls made with the phone sound clear but a little muted, with decent noise cancellation. And calls sounded fine through a Jawbone Era?Bluetooth headset, though I had a lot of trouble using the standard Android voice dialer over Bluetooth; it often took multiple attempts before getting it right. The phone's very large 2,460mAh battery was good for an impressive 13 hours and 43 minutes of talk time. The phone also supports wireless charging, but requires you to buy a special battery cover and a wireless charging pad.
User Interface, Hardware, and Apps
The Lucid 2 is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core Quaclomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 processor, which makes for speedy, responsive performance. It's not as fast as any of the new quad-core chips, or even the 1.5GHz processor in the Samsung Galaxy S III, but it turned in solid benchmarks scores, and is fast enough to run any of the 800,000+ apps in the Google Play store without a problem.
The Lucid 2 runs Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean), along with LG's Optimus UI 3.0 customizations. There's no word on an update to Android 4.2.2 (the most recent version of Jelly Bean), but 4.1.2 is close enough. Optimus UI is a very heavy layer over Android that won't please purists, but will look appealing to newbies.
Speaking of newbies, LG has created a Starter mode for first-time users. It places all of your important apps on the main home screen, like your Web browser, email, and Google Play store. There's another screen to add eight quick contacts, then another screen for your settings. It's not a radical change from your standard Android layout, but it's helpful to have all the important stuff up front.
Back in Standard mode, you get five customizable home screens to swipe between that come preloaded with a few apps and widgets. LG has added four themes to the phone that change your wallpaper and icons. In addition to Optimus, which is what you get out of the box, there's Adventure, Fancy, and my favorite, the particularly weird Monsterland. Verizon has loaded the Lucid 2 with a good amount bloatware, none of which can be deleted.
You get all the usual Android goodies, like a fast Chrome Web browser, excellent email support, and voice-enabled, turn-by-turn GPS directions via Google Maps. You also get QuickMemo, which is LG's system-wide note taking service that lets you annotate screenshots with handwritten notes and sketches, which you can then share. And SmartShare lets you display music, photos, and video on your HDTV or monitor via DLNA.
Multimedia, Camera, and Conclusions
The Lucid 2 comes with 3.74GB of free internal storage, so you'll probably want to pop a microSD card into the slot underneath the battery cover to expand your storage options. My 32 and 64GB SanDisk cards worked fine. The phone was able to play all of our audio test files except FLAC, and sound quality was good over both wired 3.5mm headphones as well as?Altec Lansing BackBeat?Bluetooth headphones, though there was a faint hissing sound in the background. All of our test videos played back at resolutions up to 1080p, but audio fell out of sync over Bluetooth.
The 5-megapixel camera is decent. It can take shots automatically, but that often didn't allow for the autofocus to lock in?better to give it a beat before pressing the shutter button. Without the sound turned on, it was hard to tell when a photo was taken, because it happens quickly and there's no animation so it's easy to miss it. You can hold the shutter button down and the camera will fire off a shot every 0.3 to 0.4 second. Photos show decent detail and color but tend to be noisy. The camera also records 1080p video at a smooth 30 frames per second. It's not as sharp as I'd like it to look indoors, but video recorded outside looks quite good. The 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera is fine for self portraits and video chat.
The LG Lucid 2 gets you a lot of phone considering it won't cost you a dime with a contract. But it isn't quite the same steal that the original was because there are so many other reasonably priced options available. We haven't tested it yet, but judging by the specs the Samsung Galaxy Stratosphere II looks very similar to the Lucid 2, with the addition of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The Nokia Lumia 822?is a solid Windows Phone 8 handset, and the Apple iPhone 4?gets you access to the best app catalog on the planet, and they're both free just like the Lucid 2. And if you're willing to spend a little more money, the Droid Razr M?gets you a nicer display, a better camera, and a sharper design than the Lucid 2, for just $50.
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Monday, April 15, 2013
Implantable, bioengineered rat kidney: Transplanted organ produces urine, but further refinement is needed
Apr. 14, 2013 ? Bioengineered rat kidneys developed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators successfully produced urine both in a laboratory apparatus and after being transplanted into living animals. In their report, receiving advance online publication in Nature Medicine, the research team describes building functional replacement kidneys on the structure of donor organs from which living cells had been stripped, an approach previously used to create bioartificial hearts, lungs and livers.
"What is unique about this approach is that the native organ's architecture is preserved, so that the resulting graft can be transplanted just like a donor kidney and connected to the recipient's vascular and urinary systems," says Harald Ott, MD, PhD, of the MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine, senior author of the Nature Medicine article. "If this technology can be scaled to human-sized grafts, patients suffering from renal failure who are currently waiting for donor kidneys or who are not transplant candidates could theoretically receive new organs derived from their own cells."
Around 18,000 kidney transplants are performed in the U.S. each year, but 100,000 Americans with end-stage kidney disease are still waiting for a donor organ. Even those fortunate enough to receive a transplant face a lifetime of immunosuppressive drugs, which pose many health risks and cannot totally eliminate the incidence of eventual organ rejection.
The approach used in this study to engineer donor organs, based on a technology that Ott discovered as a research fellow at the University of Minnesota, involves stripping the living cells from a donor organ with a detergent solution and then repopulating the collagen scaffold that remains with the appropriate cell type -- in this instance human endothelial cells to replace the lining of the vascular system and kidney cells from newborn rats. The research team first decellularized rat kidneys to confirm that the organ's complex structures would be preserved. They also showed the technique worked on a larger scale by stripping cells from pig and human kidneys.
Making sure the appropriate cells were seeded into the correct portions of the collagen scaffold required delivering vascular cells through the renal artery and kidney cells through the ureter. Precisely adjusting the pressures of the solutions enabled the cells to be dispersed throughout the whole organs, which were then cultured in a bioreactor for up to 12 days. The researchers first tested the repopulated organs in a device that passed blood through its vascular system and drained off any urine, which revealed evidence of limited filtering of blood, molecular activity and urine production.
Bioengineered kidneys transplanted into living rats from which one kidney had been removed began producing urine as soon as the blood supply was restored, with no evidence of bleeding or clot formation. The overall function of the regenerated organs was significantly reduced compared with that of normal, healthy kidneys, something the researchers believe may be attributed to the immaturity of the neonatal cells used to repopulate the scaffolding.
"Further refinement of the cell types used for seeding and additional maturation in culture may allow us to achieve a more functional organ," says Ott. "Based on this inital proof of principle, we hope that bioengineered kidneys will someday be able to fully replace kidney function just as donor kidneys do. In an ideal world, such grafts could be produced 'on demand" from a patient's own cells, helping us overcome both the organ shortage and the need for chronic immunosuppression. We're now investigating methods of deriving the necessary cell types from patient-derived cells and refining the cell-seeding and organ culture methods to handle human-sized organs."
Ott's team focuses on the regeneration of hearts, lungs, kidneys and grafts made of composite tissues, while other teams -- including one from the MGH Center for Engineering in Medicine -- are using the decellularization technique to develop replacement livers. Lead author of the Nature Medicine paper is Jeremy Song, MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine; additional co-authors are Jacques Guyette, PhD, Sarah Gilpin, PhD, Gabriel Gonzalez, PhD, and Joseph Vacanti, MD, all of the MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine. The study was supported by National Institute of Health Director's New Innovator Award DP2 OD008749-01.
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- Jeremy J Song, Jacques P Guyette, Sarah E Gilpin, Gabriel Gonzalez, Joseph P Vacanti, Harald C Ott. Regeneration and experimental orthotopic transplantation of a bioengineered kidney. Nature Medicine, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/nm.3154
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