When I was in middle school there was nothing I wanted more in the entire world than to learn how to program my own computer games. So, armed with Foundations of Mac Programming, I spent weeks chugging along sporadically, doing my best to understand the concepts. Ultimately, I gave up. And I don't regret it one bit.
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Japan's prime minister is expected to sign a nuclear cooperation deal with the Czech Republic this month, a report said Saturday, as Tokyo looks to build up its exports of the technology.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Czech President Milos Zeman have all but agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding on mutual nuclear technology cooperation when they meet in Poland on June 16, the Nikkei business daily said.
Nuclear power has been a sensitive issue in Japan since a quake and tsunami wiped out the Fukushima atomic plant in 2011, sparking the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years, but Abe has been keen to promote the industry since taking office in December.
The memorandum is expected to include a statement that the Czech Republic will use Japanese nuclear technology.
It will also make US nuclear plant builder Westinghouse Electric, a unit of Japan's Toshiba Corp., the top candidate to win a $10 billion contract to build two nuclear reactors in the Central European country, the daily said.
Abe is due to meet the leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary in Poland while on his way to the June 17-18 Group-of-Eight summit in Northern Ireland, the Nikkei added.
The Czech nuclear project entails adding a third and fourth reactor to the Temelin nuclear power station in South Bohemia.
Czech national power producer CEZ AS is looking to start operating the new reactors in 2020 or later.
The report said that Westinghouse's proposal had received the highest evaluation in a pre-screening process.
Japan has stepped up efforts to export its nuclear technology since Abe's conservative Liberal Democratic Party won a landslide election in December, toppling the centre-left Democratic Party.
The Democrats had been reluctant to restart nuclear power plants and continue with nuclear technology exports after the Fukushima disaster.
In May, Japan and Turkey signed a deal to build a sprawling nuclear power plant on Turkey's Black Sea coast. Japan also signed a nuclear cooperation deal with the United Arab Emirates.
Tokyo has also agreed with India to accelerate talks on civil nuclear cooperation.
After talks in Tokyo on Friday, Abe and French President Francois Hollande said they would cooperate in developing nuclear power technologies and promoting the sector's exports to emerging economies.
Source: http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Japan_PM_to_step_up_nuclear_export_drive_report_999.html
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Spoiler alert: the country that requests the most data from tech companies is the US. We're number one! We're number one! This should really be no surprise for anyone who's been following the news lately but our dominance is actually pretty admirable. Take that you Frenchies! Try to catch us Aussies!
We're horrible. Actually the United Kingdom and France might be just as horrible since they have nearly half our requests with a significantly smaller population. Though of course we have PRISM.
Reuters cooked up this graphic by culling all the data from Google's 2012 Transparency Report, Microsoft and Skype's 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report and Twitter's Transparency Report. You can see in the graphic how most of the requests were disclosed. [Reuters Tumblr]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/the-top-10-countries-who-request-data-from-tech-compani-513056340
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ? A sheriff says remains of two people have been found in an area burned by a wildfire northeast of Colorado Springs, Colo.
El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa says one person who was reported missing Wednesday was found safe, but crews on Thursday found the remains of another person reported missing. About an hour later they found the remains of a second person.
The Black Forest Fire has destroyed at least 360 houses, and an estimated 40,000 people, including some in Colorado Springs, have been ordered to leave their homes.
The blaze is now the most destructive in Colorado history.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/2-found-dead-area-burned-colo-wildfire-232012202.html
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June 12, 2013 ? More than half of middle-aged women who still have regular cycles have hot flashes. Asian and Hispanic women are less likely to have them than white women, but compared with previous studies, the figures are surprisingly high, showed a survey of some 1,500 women published online today in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
The survey, conducted by researchers at Group Health (a large healthcare system in the Pacific Northwest) and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, consisted of a diverse group of women, including whites, blacks, Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders, women of mixed ethnicity, Vietnamese, Filipinos, Japanese, East Indians, Chinese, and other Asians. The women were 45 to 56 years old, had regular cycles, had no skipped periods, and were not taking hormones.
A surprising 55% of them reported having hot flashes or night sweats. (Previous studies pegged the highest rates at below 50%.) The groups with the highest proportions reporting hot flashes or night sweats were Native Americans (67%) and black (61%) women, but the differences between these groups and white women weren't statistically significant. Fifty-eight percent of white women, the largest ethnic group, reported having hot flashes or night sweats.
Compared with them, Asian and Hispanic women were significantly less likely to have these symptoms. Among Asian women, 31% of Filipino, 26% of Japanese, 25% of East Indian, 23% of "other Asian," and 18% of Chinese women reported having hot flashes or night sweats. Twenty-six percent of Hispanic women reported these symptoms.
Interestingly, white women who had symptoms were more likely to include soy in their diet, and white women who never had symptoms were more likely to have no soy in their diet.
This study should help ease a worry for women who have been surprised by hot flashes and night sweats while they are still having regular cycles. It doesn't necessarily mean they are in menopause yet, and it's perfectly normal. "Some women even have a hot flash the first couple of nights after childbirth," said Dr. Margery Gass, NAMS Executive Director.
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Shortly after wrapping up its annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, Apple made an early version of iOS 7 available to developers. This version of the mobile operating system isn't final ? nor is it flawless. Videos posted by some early users show off a few of the joys and annoyances which'll come this fall.
"It's already clear that existing iOS users will be in for a big shock," one user declares. From the initial setup menu, everything is dramatically different. Gone is the lacquered look. Gone is all that fake leather, wood grain and yellow notebook paper found in iOS 6. Gone is the shading and the sheen used to make icons pop.
Everything ? app icons, menu options, switches, buttons, toggles, and so on ? seems to float on the screen now. That'll take some adjustment, particularly if you're a longtime iOS user.
Your home and lock screens will react to motion in iOS 7. Tilt your phone from side to side and you'll see a parallax effect. If you opt to use one of the "live" wallpapers, this'll means that there's constantly some subtle motion on key screens. In theory, and in the demo videos, this seems fine and dandy ... but could it perhaps get annoying over time? (And how does it affect battery life? We've known for live wallpapers to quickly drain the batteries of devices running other mobile operating systems.)
Swiping up from the bottom of the lock screen can present you with either the Camera app or with the Control Center, depending on which part of the screen you swipe on. Now and then, this is bound to lead to frustration, particularly since swiping up from the center of the screen while the device is unlocked will put you into the device's global search.
But somehow the Control Center makes up for this mess of swipes.
For the first time since the original iPhone was released, iOS users don't have to dig through the Settings app when they want to tweak their phone's brightness or turn off Wi-Fi. The Control Center puts all the most important settings front and center, with a quick swipe up ... no matter where you are within iOS.
Switching between apps no longer involves a weird drawer-like interface at the bottom of the screen. Instead, cards appear in the center of the screen and show a preview of the open apps. The downside is that the music controls no longer live together with the app switching interface (though they are easily reached in the Control Center).
Overall, the first peeks at iOS 7 ? the first peeks which didn't come straight from Apple's marketing team, that is ? make the mobile operating system look mostly "as advertised." It's dramatically different from anything we've seen in iOS before and it shifts things. Whether it crosses into the realm of "too different" remains to be seen. Only first-hand use will reveal whether all the changes make iOS 7 awkward in the hands of those who loved the earlier iOS, as it was before Apple's design king Jony Ive brought it up to date.
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Jonathan Amos reports on the Shenzhou-10 mission lift-off
China has launched its latest Shenzhou manned space mission.
Three astronauts blasted away from the Jiuquan base in Inner Mongolia on a Long March 2F rocket at 17:38 Beijing time (09:38 GMT).
The commander, Nie Haisheng, and his crew, Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping, plan to spend just under two weeks at the orbiting Tiangong space lab.
Wang is China's second female astronaut and she will beam the country's first lesson from space to students on Earth.
The crew's capsule was ejected from the upper-stage of the rocket about nine minutes after lift-off. Mission controllers clapped enthusiastically once the ship's solar panels had been deployed.
Earlier in the day, Chinese TV carried pictures of President Xi Jinping wishing the crew luck.
"You have made Chinese people feel proud of ourselves,'' Xi told Nie and his colleagues. "You have trained and prepared yourselves carefully and thoroughly, so I am confident in your completing the mission successfully. "I wish you success and look forward to your triumphant return.''
It should take just over 40 hours to raise the craft's orbit to the operating altitude of Tiangong some 335km (210 miles) above the planet's surface.
Continue reading the main storyThis mission, the fifth manned venture by China and scheduled to be the longest, is designated Shenzhou-10.
It is the latest step in China's plan to eventually put a permanently manned station above the Earth.
Tiangong-1 is the demonstrator. It was launched in 2011 to provide a target to test rendezvous and docking technologies.
The Shenzhou-9 crew - which included China's first female astronaut, Liu Yang - hooked up with the module for nearly 10 days in June 2012.
Nie's team aims to stay a few days longer, and like the crew of Shenzhou-9 will practise both manual and automatic dockings during the mission.
Beijing hopes to launch its fully-fledged station at the turn of the decade.
It is expected to have a mass of about 60 tonnes and comprise a number of interlocking modules.
Like the International Space Station (ISS), it will have long-duration residents and be supplied by robotic freighters.
China's human spaceflight programme is conducted largely in isolation to the ISS partners. But this could change in the next few years.
Europe in particular has opened a dialogue that could eventually result in flight opportunities for its astronauts on the proposed Chinese space station.
"We are looking at possibilities to use this space station," the European Space Agency's human spaceflight director Thomas Reiter told the BBC last month.
"The way ahead is that we will likely see first an exchange of experiments. And there are now also a few colleagues at the European Astronaut Centre who have started Chinese language training."
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22843318#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? South Korea says its planned talks with North Korea have been scrapped a day before they were supposed to begin because of a stalemate over who will lead each delegation.
A spokesman for Seoul's Unification Ministry told reporters Tuesday that North Korea said it wasn't sending its officials because of the disagreement. South Korea had wanted each country's top official for inter-Korean affairs to meet. Pyongyang wouldn't commit to that.
The two-day meeting had been set to start Wednesday in Seoul. It would have been the Koreas' first high-level meeting in six years and had briefly raised hopes of an improvement in ties. Recent relations have been marked with war threats.
The rivals were to discuss restarting two high-profile economic projects that were started during a past era of rapprochement.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/skorea-says-considers-talks-north-scrapped-112630338.html
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On June 5, 2013, Bloodvein RCMP and local emergency services were dispatched to the scene of a residential fire on Bloodvein First Nation. Firefighters were unable to save the two-storey structure. There was no one in the residence at the time of the fire, and no injuries were reported. RCMP investigators have arrested two female youths, age 12 and 14, who reside in the community. They are both facing charges of arson.
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A Manitoba girl arrested by RCMP for intentionally torching a family?s home on the Bloodvein First Nation last week laughed about the fire and hinted she may burn down others, prosecutors say.
The 12-year-old?s display of levity in an interview with police has prompted the Crown to seek a full assessment of her mental state before she applies for bail, court heard at a Monday court hearing in Winnipeg.
At the time of last Wednesday?s fire, the girl was out on bail accused in a separate April 10 blaze at another home, Judge Dale Schille was told.
The girl and a 14-year-old co-accused were arrested not long after a two-storey home in the remote community burned to the ground in what photos showed to be a dramatic blaze.
?What?s particularly concerning from the Crown?s point of view is that when she spoke with the police, she was laughing about the matter (and) making other comments about another house she was going to burn down as well,? Judge Dale Schille was told.
A family of seven lived at the home. It was unoccupied at the time of the blaze. There were no injuries.
Schille approved the Crown request for the girl to undergo a psychological assessment.
Arsons in Bloodvein have been ?out of control,? for some time now justice officials have previously said. Boredom among the community?s youth is cited as a major contributing factor.
Last week?s fire at the Johnson home was the sixth confirmed arson case in the community of 1,000 so far in 2013.
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Source: http://www.winnipegsun.com/2013/06/10/girl-laughed-about-torching-bloodvein-familys-home-crown
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If you accept at face value the fact that Tim Tebow?s only going to be a quarterback when he gets to Patriots minicamp today, then the question becomes how well he can play the position.
According to a tutor who?s been working with him recently, that shouldn?t be a problem.
?Do I think he can play the quarterback position in the NFL? Yeah, no question,? IMG?s Chris Weinke told Jim Corbett of USA Today. ?Like I told Tim when I found out [Monday] that he signed, ?You?re locked and loaded, ready to go.??
Tebow also spent time this offseason working with Vinny Testaverde in Florida, and both the former Heisman winners said they saw marked improvement, after working with Tebow on his footwork.
Weinke said making those adjustments made Tebow a more accurate quarterback, which has always been one of the biggest hurdles (47.9 career completion percentage).
?I made an adjustment to his lower half and invariably that?s where the quickness came from,? Weinke said. ?What I saw was, when his feet were in good position, he was throwing the ball with great accuracy, great velocity. And the ball was coming out much quicker.?
Weinke also praised Tebow?s work ethic, and said that he had to pull the reins back at times to keep Tebow from over-working when he got tired, so that he didn?t slip back into bad habits.
?The guy has played quarterback his whole life,? Weinke said. ?None of us has a crystal ball. But that?s what he?s done his whole life.
?He?s proven he can win at that position. He has had great success. He does things the right way and has a guy in Tom who is one of the elite quarterbacks to ever play the game that he?ll be able to spend time with every day.
?The things we worked on down here are going to pay dividends in New England.?
If they truly do, then the Patriots will have an improved backup quarterback, and Weinke will have established himself as a guru, and will have to turn aspiring passers away.
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By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) - A former Bristol-Myers Squibb Co
Robert Ramnarine, 46, admitted to one count of securities fraud for trading in Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc options before Bristol-Myers agreed to buy that company last June for $5.3 billion, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman in New Jersey said.
Federal prosecutors had last August charged Ramnarine with three counts of securities fraud.
They said he made $311,361 of illegal profit from August 2010 to July 2012 from options trading in Amylin and two other companies that Bristol-Myers sought to buy - Pharmasset Inc and ZymoGenetics Inc.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a parallel civil fraud case against Ramnarine.
Investigators said Ramnarine learned about the takeovers while working as a director and later as an executive director in Bristol-Myers' pension and savings investments office in Princeton, New Jersey.
They also said the East Brunswick, New Jersey resident did Internet searches on insider trading detection prior to some of his trades, including a review of an article titled "Ways to Avoid Insider Trading."
Ramnarine entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Anne Thompson in Trenton, New Jersey.
He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and $5 million fine when he is sentenced on September 26. Ramnarine agreed to forfeit $311,361, and Fishman said the sentence can take into account his trades in Pharmasset and ZymoGenetics, as well as Amylin.
Douglas Jensen, a lawyer for Ramnarine, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Ramnarine had worked for Bristol-Myers for 15 years, the last of which as assistant treasurer for capital markets. His employment with the New York-based company ended last August after criminal charges were announced, court records show.
Bristol-Myers bought ZymoGenetics for $885 million in October 2010. Gilead Sciences Inc
The cases are U.S. v. Ramnarine, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, No. 12-mj-08121; and SEC v. Ramnarine in the same court, No. 12-04837.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Bernard Orr)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/former-bristol-myers-executive-admits-insider-trading-203424210.html
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June 10, 2013 ? For patients managing cancer and other chronic health issues, painkillers such as morphine and Vicodin are often essential for pain relief. The body's natural tendency to develop tolerance to these medications, however, often requires patients to take higher doses -- increasing risks of harmful side effects and dependency.
Now, new research from the University of Michigan Health System and a major pharmaceutical company has identified a novel approach to moderate and severe pain therapy that paves the way for lower dosage painkillers. The findings appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Drugs such as hydrocodone (the main ingredient of Vicodin) and oxycodone (Oxycontin) are often the best options for the treatment of moderate to severe pain for patients facing medical conditions ranging from a wisdom tooth extraction to cancer. The drugs bind to specific molecules (opioid receptors) on nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to prevent the feeling of pain.
"We have for the first time discovered compounds that bind to an alternative site on the nerve opioid receptors and that have significant potential to enhance the drug's positive impact without increasing negative side effects," says co-author John Traynor, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology at the U-M Medical School.
"We are still in the very early stages of this research with a long way to go, but we believe identifying these compounds is a key step in revolutionizing the treatment of pain. This opens the door to developing pain relief medications that require lower doses to be effective, helping address the serious issues of tolerance and dependence that we see with conventional pain therapy."
Conventional drug treatments for pain work by targeting the so-called orthosteric site of the opioid receptor that provides pain relief. Targeting this site, however, is a double-edged sword because it is also responsible for all of the drug's unwanted side effects, such as constipation and respiratory depression. Tolerance also limits chronic use of the drugs because higher doses are required to maintain the same effect.
Using cell systems and mouse brain membranes, researchers have identified compounds that bind to a physically distinct and previously unknown "allosteric" site on the opioid receptor- a site that fine-tunes the activity of the receptor. Not only do these compounds act at a location that hasn't been studied as a drug target before but they bind to the receptor in a new way to enhance the actions of morphine -- which means lower doses can have the same impact.
"The newly-discovered compounds bind to the same receptor as morphine but appear to act at a separate novel site on the receptor and therefore can produce different effects. What's particularly exciting is that these compounds could potentially work with the body's own natural painkillers to manage pain," Traynor says.
"We know that conventional strong pain medications ultimately increase the risk of withdrawal symptoms and addiction, which is an especially serious issue with the current prescription drug abuse epidemic in our country. The implications of this work, if it translates to animal studies and then to humans, are highly significant to this area of study."
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/S7LBKSEkcBM/130610192553.htm
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Nik Wallenda trains for his upcoming walk across the Grand Canyon during Tropical Storm Andrea on June 6, 2013 in Sarasota, Fla.
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda has accomplished several daring feats already at only 34 years of age, including becoming the first person to walk across Niagara Falls. Now, he's ready for an even bigger challenge: walking across the Grand Canyon -- live on TV.
The event will be broadcast on the Discovery special "Skywire Live With Nik Wallenda." In a clip of the pretaped portion of the show that the network is sharing exclusively with TODAY.com, the daredevil talks about the drive behind his feats, and how he's preparing for the big walk.
"The reason I have seven world records is because of the passion I have for what I do," Wallenda says in the clip. "A lot of it is to honor my great-grandfather, honor my family." He explains that tightrope walking is "in his blood," as his family has been doing it for seven generations in 200 years.
For the Grand Canyon walk, Wallenda's father is the head rigger for the tightrope, in charge of making sure that it's absolutely perfect for the walk.
"I'm the one on the ground worrying about you and making sure that everything is fine," his dad says in the video. "I want you to be prepared for anything."
And that wire will need to be fine, because the 34-year-old is making the trek 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River (that's taller than the Empire State Building) -- and he's doing it without a harness.
"The only thing that stands between me and the bottom of the canyon is a two-inch thick wire," Wallenda said in a statement. "I'm looking forward to showing the audience a view of the canyon they've never seen before."
As for why he's attempting this particular feat, "This is a dream of mine," he said during a June 4 appearance on TODAY.
For more info on the walk and to see a 360-degree panoramic view of the walk site, visit SkywireLive.com. Tune into Discovery Channel on June 23 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT to watch Wallenda attempt his feat on live TV.
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This week, CrunchBase released the?May Excel Export Sheet, which includes charts and graphs that illustrate recent U.S. investments, acquisitions, IPOs and more. Though the charts and graphs focus on May's data, the spreadsheet includes historical data on all U.S.-based companies that have received funding.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/-cWQql8M8kQ/
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With every Bond edition comes the inevitable question: Who will play the action hero's leading lady? It's probably a more important discussion than who will play Bond himself.
As Hollywood works to solidify the 24th entry in the indelible series, wheels are turning about who will take over for B?r?nice Marlohe and Tonia Sotiropoulou, the ladies who nabbed the coveted roles in "Skyfall." Penelope Cruz emerged as a viable frontrunner -- and an excellent choice, if we do say so ourselves -- but now her reps are reportedly denying the actress's involvement with the Bond series.
So if not Cruz, who will take the reins and don the coveted title of the next official Bond girl? We've rounded up 20 actresses (of all ages, mind you -- who says a Bond girl has to still be suckling on the teat of Young Hollywood?) who are among the hottest in the business today and could easily bear the Bond crown.
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Intel confirmed
Reuters cites anonymous sources who say Intel is offering as much as 175 percent of the going rate to rights-owners whose content it's looking to plop on the service. That extra cash has apparently gotten CBS, News Corp and Viacom on board, and Comcast's NBC Universal is still in the works.
According to Reuters' sources, media companies will often give better deals to distributers with more viewers. Intel has none, so it should come as no surprise that the chipmaker needs a little cash to grease things up a bit. And speaking of skads of cash, Intel is positioning this service as a premium one?not some cut-rate alternative?so it's only reasonable to expect they'll ask a hefty fee of customers once it's off the ground.
The service is set to be announced sometime later this year, and the more cash that's thrown at it, the earlier that's likely to be. We'll just have to wait and see if the gilded service was worth all that expense. [Reuters]
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/report-intel-is-throwing-a-fortune-at-its-streaming-tv-512083320
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President Obama defends once-secret counterterrorism programs, such as NSA data-mining, and decries leaks, even as he welcomes public debate over how to balance security with civil liberties.?
President Barack Obama leaves after speaking in San Jose, Calif., on Friday. The president defended his government's secret surveillance, saying Congress has repeatedly authorized the collection of America's phone records and US internet use.
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But in remarks to reporters Friday, the president also defended such programs as necessary for national security ? and said he welcomed a public debate over the tradeoffs involved in keeping the public safe while also protecting privacy. ?
?I think it's important to recognize that you can't have a hundred percent security and also then have a hundred percent privacy and zero inconvenience,? Mr. Obama said in San Jose, Calif., before heading to southern California to meet with China's president. ?You know, we're going to have to make some choices as a society.?
His comments followed the second major leak this week about a classified government program aimed at thwarting terrorism. On Friday, the Washington Post published a story describing how the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading US Internet companies as they track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by the newspaper.?A separate article in Friday?s Wall Street Journal discussed NSA data-mining of purchase information from credit-card companies.
On Wednesday, the British newspaper the Guardian exposed a top-secret court order that requires Verizon to provide the NSA with records on phone calls on an ?ongoing, daily basis.? It has since come out that other telecommunications providers are subject to the same requirements, and that the 90-day orders are regularly renewed by a special court.
The exposure of key elements of the federal government?s antiterrorism apparatus put the White House on the defensive, as civil libertarians expressed outrage over what they see as an overzealous interpretation of the Patriot Act. As a senator and presidential candidate with a background in constitutional law, Obama had railed against the aggressive antiterror tactics of President George W. Bush. In a 2005 floor speech, then-Senator Obama decried Americans? lack of legal recourse in court against a government ?fishing expedition? into private records.
But as president, Obama has continued his predecessor?s antiterrorism programs, and in some cases ? such as in the use of unmanned aircraft to go after suspected terrorists ? he has expanded them.
In his remarks Friday, Obama acknowledged his evolving view, and said he had strengthened the protections to average citizens.
?You know, I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs,? Obama said. ?My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of the safeguards. But my assessment and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks.?
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June 7, 2013 ? Security takes top priority in laboratories and in production. In the future, employees exposed to risks will only have to put on a glove in order to receive a toxic substance warning: This textile identifi es poisonous substances, and points them out immediately.
Employees in chemical production, the semiconductor industry or in laboratories are frequently exposed to harmful substances. The problem: Many of these aggressive substances are imperceptible to human senses, which makes handling them so risky. That's why there is a broad range of solutions that employers can use to protect their staff from hazardous substances -- from highly sensitive measuring equipment to heat imaging cameras. Soon, this spectrum will be enhanced by one more clever solution that is easy to handle, and that dispenses with a power supply. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Modular Solid State Technologies EMFT in Regensburg have engineered a glove that recognizes if toxic substances are present in the surrounding air.
The protective glove is equipped with custom-made sensor materials and indicates the presence of toxic substances by changing colors. In this regard, the scientists adapted the materials to the corresponding analytes, and thus, the application. The color change -- from colorless (no toxic substance) to blue (toxic substance detected), for example -- warns the employee immediately. "By synthesizing the adapted color sensor materials, we can detect gases like carbon monoxide, for example, or hydrogen sulfide. Still, this protective gear represents only one potential area of application. Sensor materials could also be deployed for the quick detection of leaks in gas lines," explains Dr. Sabine Trupp, head of the Fraunhofer EMFT Sensor Materials group. The researcher and her team will exhibit this occupational safety article of clothing at Fraunhofer's joint exhibition booth (Hall 12, Booth 537) at the Sensor + Test trade show in Nuremberg from May 14 to 16.
Tailor-made indicator dyes
The warning signal is triggered by an indicator dye integrated into the glove that reacts to the presence of analytes, in this case, the toxic substances. The experts at EMFT used a variety of techniques in order to furnish textiles with sensor-activated dyes. The sensor-activated dyes are applied to the clothing with the customary dye and print process, for example, by affixing them in an immersion bath. Previously, the researchers used targeted chemical modification to adapt the color molecules to the fiber properties of the respective textile. Alternatively, the textiles can also be coated with sensor particles that are furnished with sensor dyes. For this purpose, the scientists integrated the dye molecules either into commercial pigments or they built them up on an entirely synthetic basis. The pigments are then manufactured according to the customary textile finishing process, for instance, the sensor particles are also suitable for silkscreening. "Which version we opt for depends on the requirements of the planned application," says Trupp.
The challenge lies foremost in the tailored development of sensor dyes. "The dye molecule must detect a specific analyte in a targeted manner -- only then will a chemical reaction occur. Moreover, the dye must adhere securely; it cannot disappear due to washing. We aim for the customer's preferences in the color selection as well. All of these aspects must be kept in mind when developing the molecule and pigment properties," explains Trupp.
The expert already has new ideas about how the solution could be developed further. For example, a miniaturized sensor module, integrated into textiles, could record toxic substances, store the measurement data and even transmit them to a main unit. This way, you could document how frequently an individual within a hazardous environment was exposed to poisonous concentrations over a longer period of time.
The researchers also envision other potential applications in the foodstuffs industry: In the future, color indicator systems integrated into foils or bottle closures are intended to make the quality status of the packaged foods visible. Because the sell-by date does not represent a guarantee of any kind. Foodstuffs may often spoil prematurely -- unnoticed by the consumer -- due to a packaging error, or in the warehousing, or due to disruptions in the refrigeration chain. Oil-based and fat-containing products are specifically prone to this, as are meats, fish and ready meals.
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Penn State board chair Keith Masser, left, and outreach chair Joel Myers respond to questions during a news interview Wednesday, June 5, 2013, in New York. Penn State's trustees are on a mission to promote the reforms they have enacted as a result of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, hoping their record might persuade the NCAA to reconsider its crippling penalties against the university before they are due to expire in 2018. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Penn State board chair Keith Masser, left, and outreach chair Joel Myers respond to questions during a news interview Wednesday, June 5, 2013, in New York. Penn State's trustees are on a mission to promote the reforms they have enacted as a result of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, hoping their record might persuade the NCAA to reconsider its crippling penalties against the university before they are due to expire in 2018. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Penn State board chair Keith Masser speaks during a news interview Wednesday, June 5, 2013, in New York. Penn State's trustees are on a mission to promote the reforms they have enacted as a result of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, hoping their record might persuade the NCAA to reconsider its crippling penalties against the university before they are due to expire in 2018. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Penn State board chair Keith Masser, left, and outreach chair Joel Myers listen to questions during a news interview Wednesday, June 5, 2013, in New York. Penn State's trustees are on a mission to promote the reforms they have enacted as a result of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, hoping their record might persuade the NCAA to reconsider its crippling penalties against the university before they are due to expire in 2018. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Penn State outreach chair Joel Myers responds to questions during a news interview Wednesday, June 5, 2013, in New York. Penn State's trustees are on a mission to promote the reforms they have enacted as a result of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, hoping their record might persuade the NCAA to reconsider its crippling penalties against the university before they are due to expire in 2018. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ? A federal judge on Thursday threw out the Pennsylvania governor's lawsuit against the NCAA over sanctions against Penn State related to Jerry Sandusky, calling his argument "a Hail Mary pass" that easily warranted dismissal.
U.S. Middle District Judge Yvette Kane's decision puts an early end to the antitrust lawsuit Gov. Tom Corbett filed in January in which he sought to overturn a $60 million fine, a four-year bowl ban, scholarship limits and other penalties.
She said she could not "find any factual allegations supporting (Corbett's) allegation of 'concerted action' that might nudge its conspiracy claim into 'plausible' territory."
The NCAA said it was "exceedingly pleased" and hoped the ruling would help heal divisions caused by the Sandusky scandal. Corbett's office said it was working on a statement.
Kane said that even if the penalties make it harder for Penn State to recruit quality football players, that would not make it an antitrust case.
"The fact that Penn State will offer fewer scholarships over a period of four years does not plausibly support its allegation that the reduction of scholarships at Penn State will result in a market-wide anticompetitive effect, such that the 'nation's top scholastic football players' would be unable to obtain a scholarship in the nationwide market for Division I football players," Kane wrote.
She said the questions the case raises are important matters of public debate but are not antitrust grounds.
"In another forum the complaint's appeal to equity and common sense may win the day, but in the antitrust world these arguments fail to advance the ball," Kane said.
Penn State, which agreed to the NCAA penalties, was not a party to the case.
Kane produced a "thorough analysis and thoughtful opinion," said Donald Remy, the NCAA's chief legal officer.
"Our hope is that this decision not only will end this case but also serve as a beginning of the end of the divide among those who, like Penn State, want to move forward to put the horror of the Sandusky crimes behind the university and those who want to prolong the fight and with it the pain for all involved," Remy said.
During arguments last month, the NCAA's lawyer said the sanctions were not likely to harm the overall market for higher education or for top-flight football players. He said antitrust law did not apply and that the organization acted to enforce rules about honesty, sportsmanship and conduct.
Sandusky, a former university assistant football coach, is serving a decades-long prison sentence for sexual abuse of 10 boys. He has maintained his innocence.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a report detailing that the amount companies spent on U.S. research and development (R&D) during 2010 was essentially unchanged from the amount spent in 2009.
In 2009, businesses spent $282 billion on R&D performed in the United States, compared with $279 billion in 2010. Of the $279 billion, the U.S. federal government provided $34 billion of funding for company-performed domestic R&D.
In 2010, businesses in manufacturing industries performed $197 billion of domestic R&D; those in nonmanufacturing industries performed $82 billion.
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703-292-5344
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a report detailing that the amount companies spent on U.S. research and development (R&D) during 2010 was essentially unchanged from the amount spent in 2009.
In 2009, businesses spent $282 billion on R&D performed in the United States, compared with $279 billion in 2010. Of the $279 billion, the U.S. federal government provided $34 billion of funding for company-performed domestic R&D.
In 2010, businesses in manufacturing industries performed $197 billion of domestic R&D; those in nonmanufacturing industries performed $82 billion.
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Please visit the NSF's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) for more reports and other products.
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