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Tension headaches have become increasingly common with up to 40% of Americans affected at any one time. About 3% of adults suffer from persistent headaches which recur on a regular basis. Analgesic medications taken to dull the pain do nothing to resolve the underlying problem. A Manhattan Beach chiropractor alleviates tension headaches with safe and effective, drug-free techniques.
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The majority of tension headaches are ultimately caused by prolonged contraction of the shoulder and neck muscles. People unconsciously and instinctively tense their muscles in reaction to stress. Those with stressful lives or jobs are prone to experience recurring headaches. Maintaining the same position for long periods can also lead to tense neck muscles. Office workers are more likely to suffer from headaches than construction workers.
When neck muscles are constantly tense, they do not provide adequate support and stabilization for the upper cervical spine. If vertebrae in the neck become misaligned, they can shift into spaces occupied by the spinal cord and compress delicate nerve tissue. The irritated nerves respond by broadcasting pain signals and a tension headache results.
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By Stephen Grey and Michele Kambas and Douglas Busvine
NICOSIA (Reuters) - When the Cyprus bank run began earlier this year, Russians set much of the pace. Documents seen by Reuters show that as the Mediterranean island headed towards financial meltdown in March, most notable among companies transferring money from the country's two main banks were Russians and East Europeans.
At least 3.6 billion euros ($4.67 billion) was removed in two weeks by big depositors, according to the documents. Though many companies listed initially appear obscure, a Reuters analysis shows a significant proportion are vehicles for foreign investors more at home in Moscow or Kiev than Nicosia.
The lists give an insight into the March crisis and how the tax haven, with a population of just 1.1 million, had amassed bank deposits that peaked at 72 billion euros - more than four times the island's GDP.
Prepared in April by private sector lenders Bank of Cyprus and Laiki Bank, and passed to lawmakers by the island's central bank, the documents list 5,323 transactions, most previously undisclosed. They detail transfers of 100,000 euros or more from Bank of Cyprus and Laiki Bank in the two weeks before Cyprus closed its banks on March 16 as it desperately negotiated an international rescue.
Reuters analyzed 129 companies that each transferred 5 million euros or more over the two-week period, collectively accounting for 1.9 billion euros. Of those companies, 95 could be traced.
Out of that group, 34 have links to Russia, five have links to Ukraine and two to Kazakhstan. The remainder comprise companies from Cyprus and other countries including tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and the Dutch Antilles. By value, more than half the transactions were made in dollars.
"This list verifies as well-founded Cyprus' reputation as an offshore economy used as a conduit for people, particularly Russians, to hold large sums of money, often to avoid paying tax and without too much scrutiny," said Michael McIntyre, professor of law and a tax expert at Wayne State University in the United States.
While the transfers appear mostly related to moving money out of Cyprus, Reuters could not establish where the funds went. It is possible some transfers were between banks within Cyprus.
Deposits that did flow out of the country had to be funded by emergency liquidity assistance from the European Central Bank, according to analysts. In effect, the ECB was paying for depositors, many of them Russian, to remove money from Cyprus before those depositors could be compelled to contribute to the international rescue of the island.
BIGGEST TRANSFER
As debts threatened to overwhelm Cyprus early this year, money began to flow out of the country in fluctuating amounts. In January 1.7 billion euros left the island and a further 900 million in February, according to Central Bank of Cyprus figures.
The run accelerated in March as Cyprus found it had few friends among international institutions suffering bail-out fatigue. Many of the biggest transfers were by firms linked to Russia.
One of the largest was listed under the name of UCP Industrial Holdings, which is recorded as moving 80.2 million euros out of the Bank of Cyprus on March 7. UCP Industrial Holdings is part of United Capital Partners, a $3.5 billion Russian investment firm led by Ilya Sherbovich, a former head of investment at Deutsche Bank Russia and now a board director of the oil giant Rosneft.
Sherbovich, whose UCP fund recently acquired a stake in VKontakte, a fast-growing social network known as the "Russian Facebook", told Reuters: "Our group has several dozen legal entities, and some of them have accounts at Bank of Cyprus, but we don't use those as primary accounts.
"Anybody serious who works on financial markets wouldn't have left any significant amounts in the Cyprus banks. Very simple reason: Look at the share price chart of the Bank of Cyprus. It went to zero many months before the freeze happened."
He could not confirm the transaction listed in the Cypriot documents and said his companies did not keep big deposits in Cyprus. A spokeswoman for UCP said the transaction "must be a mistake or incorrect information".
On March 16, the Cyprus government shut banks amid discussions over imposing losses on depositors as the price for an international rescue. On the day before, a company called Trellas Enterprises moved 2 billion roubles ($63.85 million) out of Bank of Cyprus. Trellas Enterprises is majority-owned by Maxim Nogotkov, an entrepreneur who controls Svyaznoy, one of the biggest retailers of cell phones in Russia. Nogotkov, 36, is listed by Forbes as having a net worth of $1.3 billion.
Nogotkov confirmed that he controlled his mobile phone and banking interests in Russia through Trellas, but declined to comment on the transfer recorded in the bank list.
"We never comment on financial transfers or mergers and acquisitions activity," Nogotkov said by telephone.
Asked whether he was considering restructuring his business interests in light of Cyprus' financial meltdown, Nogotkov said: "Not actively. We don't have any urgent decisions to restructure (the business)."
Another company illustrating the Russia connection is O1 Properties Limited, which moved 10.1 million euros out of Bank of Cyprus. The company is controlled by Boris Mints, a Russian politician turned businessman, and this year bought the White Square business center in Moscow for $1 billion.
In the 1990s Mints was a state official handling issues relating to property and local authorities. From 2004 until 2012 he was chairman of the board of Otkritie Financial Corporation, which describes itself as Russia's largest independent financial group by assets. He is now president of the firm.
Mints was not available for comment. A spokesman for O1 Properties said: "O1 Properties keeps an account at the Bank of Cyprus to use it for regular business activities. We didn't know that Cyprus banks (would) shut. O1 Properties suffered losses. We do not comment (on the) total loss."
EXPENSIVE WORDS
The troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund insisted on tough terms for providing billions to stop Cyprus going bust. As talks progressed, speculation began to spread that any package for Cyprus would include levying money from bank depositors - an unprecedented move that came to be known as a bail in, rather than a bail out.
The impact of what politicians and officials said - and did not say - is reflected in the pattern of fund outflows.
On March 4, depositors withdrew 261 million euros from the two banks, according to the transfer lists. Late that day, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the Eurogroup of finance ministers in the euro zone, was asked whether the rescue of Cyprus would affect bank depositors. He did not give a clear answer. The next day depositors yanked 315 million euros out of the banks.
Account holders were further unnerved on March 5 when Panicos Demetriades, the island's central bank governor, publicly acknowledged for the first time that depositors might lose some of their money. Over the next two days transfers leapt to 342 million euros and 491 million euros; the latter figure including the 80.2 million euros withdrawn by UCP Industrial Holdings.
NON-RUSSIANS
As fears of losses mounted, Russians were not the only depositors who transferred large sums of money from the tax haven's banks. There were also Cypriot companies, individuals both Cypriot and foreign, and the occasional well-known international firm.
These included Apax Partners, a private equity group based in London. A subsidiary, Apax Mauritius Holdco Ltd, moved 68.8 million euros from the Bank of Cyprus on March 8. A spokeswoman for Apax Partners confirmed that it controlled Apax Mauritius Holdco but declined to comment further.
Previous news reports have noted how the Electricity Authority of Cyprus transferred 19 million euros out of Laiki Bank just days before it was closed. The documents seen by Reuters show the authority also transferred 22 million euros out of Bank of Cyprus between March 1 and 15.
The Electricity Authority said there was nothing unusual in the transfers. "This represented payments for heavy fuel oil ... our annual fuel costs are 650 million," said Costas Gavrielides, a spokesman for the authority.
MYSTERY COMPANIES
While some readily identifiable companies appear on the lists of transfers, what is striking is the complex nature of many entries.
Glenidge Trading, which transferred 22.5 million euros out of the Bank of Cyprus, is registered in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven often favored because of its British-based legal system and lack of transparency. Glenidge was the vehicle through which a Cypriot company called DCH Investment UA Limited acquired an interest this year in the Karavan group of shopping malls in Ukraine, according to local reports and Cypriot and Ukrainian corporate filings.
In turn DCH Investment UA Limited is controlled by one of Ukraine's richest men, Oleksander Yaroslavsky, according to corporate filings. A representative for Yaroslavsky did not respond to requests for comment about Glenidge and the Cypriot bank transfer.
Some companies that made several of the largest transfers could not be traced. They include Jarlath Limited, which moved 76 million euros, and Accent Delight International, which moved 27 million.
Also on the list is Rangeley Services Limited, which transferred 9.3 million euros from Bank of Cyprus on March 15. A company of that name is registered at an address near Leeds in Britain and owned by Jason Rangeley, who is described in company records as an agricultural contractor.
But when asked if the transfer of 9.3 million euros was anything to do with him, Jason Rangeley said: "No ... I wish it was."
Rangeley, a self-employed farmer, said he had set up his company because he had hoped to buy a few sheep. "It just never came off." He said his company is dormant. It remains unclear who owns the company involved in the Cypriot transfer. ($1 = 0.7705 euros) ($1 = 31.3252 Russian roubles)
(Stephen Grey and Michele Kambas reported from Nicosia; Douglas Busvine reported from Moscow. Additional reporting by Himanshu Ojha and Natalie Huet in London, Olga Sichkar in Moscow and Olzhas Auyezov in Kiev; Editing By Richard Woods and Simon Robinson)
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DNA databases might help identify victims of crime and human trafficking, but how do we safeguard the personal privacy of innocent victims and family members? A new report online May 15 in the Cell Press journal Trends in Genetics identifies a number of key challenges to consider as experts develop such programs.
Identifying victims of human trafficking remains a challenge around the world; between 12 million and 27 million individuals are currently enslaved. "If ever there is a justifiable use of DNA, it is the protection of victims of human rights violations and human trafficking," says coauthor Sara Katsanis, of Duke University. "DNA will not be useful for many types of human trafficking, but if it can be used to identify just a small percentage of victims, then we have made progress in the fight against modern slavery."
Katsanis and her coauthor Joyce Kim, also of Duke University, note that although DNA is a powerful forensic tool that has great potential to identify and protect victims of human trafficking and other human-rights violations, many people fear the use of DNA against them and worry that authorities could use victims' DNA to control private information concerning citizens.
Also, collecting DNA for human-trafficking purposes might be outside of the law-enforcement purview when it involves persons who are neither criminals nor deceased. Some governments already test DNA of immigrants, refugees, adoptive children, and their biological mothers, but the authors note that in some cases collecting DNA to identify the victims of human-rights violations might be better handled by nongovernmental authorities. On the other hand, DNA collected today could serve as court evidence in the future, so authorities must have proper legal control over the handling of samples.
"Combatting human trafficking is going to require creativity and collaboration amongst government authorities, law enforcement, social services, academics, and victim advocates," says Kim. "We envision multiple approaches and solutions and would like to see the perspectives of the participants and victims be considered as approaches develop," she adds.
Related Duke University initiatives include a series of workshops to bring together experts to discuss relevant scientific, policy, and human-rights issues pertaining to the collection of DNA to identify victims of human trafficking.
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DNA databases might help identify victims of crime and human trafficking, but how do we safeguard the personal privacy of innocent victims and family members? A new report online May 15 in the Cell Press journal Trends in Genetics identifies a number of key challenges to consider as experts develop such programs.
Identifying victims of human trafficking remains a challenge around the world; between 12 million and 27 million individuals are currently enslaved. "If ever there is a justifiable use of DNA, it is the protection of victims of human rights violations and human trafficking," says coauthor Sara Katsanis, of Duke University. "DNA will not be useful for many types of human trafficking, but if it can be used to identify just a small percentage of victims, then we have made progress in the fight against modern slavery."
Katsanis and her coauthor Joyce Kim, also of Duke University, note that although DNA is a powerful forensic tool that has great potential to identify and protect victims of human trafficking and other human-rights violations, many people fear the use of DNA against them and worry that authorities could use victims' DNA to control private information concerning citizens.
Also, collecting DNA for human-trafficking purposes might be outside of the law-enforcement purview when it involves persons who are neither criminals nor deceased. Some governments already test DNA of immigrants, refugees, adoptive children, and their biological mothers, but the authors note that in some cases collecting DNA to identify the victims of human-rights violations might be better handled by nongovernmental authorities. On the other hand, DNA collected today could serve as court evidence in the future, so authorities must have proper legal control over the handling of samples.
"Combatting human trafficking is going to require creativity and collaboration amongst government authorities, law enforcement, social services, academics, and victim advocates," says Kim. "We envision multiple approaches and solutions and would like to see the perspectives of the participants and victims be considered as approaches develop," she adds.
Related Duke University initiatives include a series of workshops to bring together experts to discuss relevant scientific, policy, and human-rights issues pertaining to the collection of DNA to identify victims of human trafficking.
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A Christian Science perspective: We each have built-in good-judgment equipment.
Recent events ? the Boston Marathon bombings, the escape of three women from years of captivity in a Cleveland neighborhood, and other happenings ? have sounded alarm bells for citizens of all ages.
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The questions are, How can we be more alert to signs of trouble and respond in ways that can help prevent or correct harmful situations? And what can we do to help children and adolescents think and act in ways that will keep themselves and others safe?
I?ve read enlightening reports offered by the media that address these issues ? illustrating with examples how innocent adults and children can be lured into a trap and how they can avert it, and explaining how character education can prepare young people to make good judgments even under peer pressure. It?s heartening to see the media engaging in this kind of public education. It?s helpful, and greatly needed. The more the better ? and I want to do all I can to support it.
I find it natural to turn to prayer for guidance in this endeavor. What?s been coming to the forefront of my prayers is this idea: We are all God?s sons and daughters, and, as such, we each (children and adolescents included) have built-in good-judgment equipment. Let me explain.
What I?m talking about is something that already exists within everyone ? our inseparable connection with God, the infinite and unerring divine Mind, and our God-given ability to know and do what?s right and good under any circumstance. We live in God?s presence. In actual fact, God, good, is presence itself ? the only real presence ? in which we live and move, and from which it is impossible to be disconnected. Consequently, the wisdom of God is with us in every situation, for us to discern and respond to. The Bible's book of Isaiah, a book that Jesus referenced often in his ministry, gives us this assurance: ?If you go the wrong way ? to the right or to the left ? you will hear a voice behind you saying, ?This is the right way. You should go this way? ? (Isaiah 30:21, New Century Version).
This doesn?t mean, of course, that we will necessarily hear God speaking to us in an audible voice, or in words detailing exactly what we should do. It does mean, though, that we each have within us the spiritual intuition to discern the direction in which divine Love is leading us ? and that we have the ability to follow it even if human opinions and pressures are urging us in other directions that we intuitively know are wrong.
This connection with God and His ever-available and unerring guidance can be nurtured and practiced. It?s a solid foundation to build upon in our own lives, and in our efforts to help children and young people. It is sure to make these efforts increasingly successful. And our example is a sure help to others. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, makes that point clear in this way: ?A musician demonstrates the beauty of the music he teaches in order to show the learner the way by practice as well as precept? (?Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,? p. 26).
In addition, though, we can know that no child, young person, or adult can ever be without God?s guidance and the ability to respond to it. For whether or not one has been taught this truth or been supplied with living examples, the ability to hear and follow the guidance of divine Love is spiritually inherent in each man, woman, and child. Here is the basis for effective prayer for those we love, all humanity, and ourselves.
This kind of prayer is practical because individuals are often placed under the stress of circumstances in which there is an urgent need requiring an immediate decision, with no time to ponder all the possible courses of action and their consequences. But everyone is actually good-judgment equipped with the inherent ability to tap into and follow the divine wisdom that trumps mere human reasoning and is immediately at hand. Prayer that acknowledges this fact is an anchor promoting sound judgments and actions to keep individuals and communities safe and secure. Let us pray.
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Kevin Lunny of the Drakes Bay Oyster Company is fighting to keep his farm (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
INVERNESS, Calif.?It is coming up on planting season at Drakes Bay Oyster Company, a tiny family-owned oyster farm located on a inlet nestled within the lush grassy cliffs that run along the Pacific Ocean here just north of San Francisco.
For more than 50 years, the modest farm, which looks like nothing more than a cluster of shacks, has been one of California?s leading producers of shellfish. Grown in the clear blue waters of what is known as Drakes Estero, Drakes Bay oysters make up a third of California?s annual shellfish production and are on the menu at some of the Bay Area?s top restaurants.
But the Lunny family, which purchased the farm in 2004, has been reluctant to begin planning cultivation for future seasons because they aren?t sure they will be here for much longer. For months, the Lunnys have been locked in an intense legal fight to keep the Interior Department from closing their farm?a closely watched case that heads before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Tuesday.
At issue is a decision made last November by then-Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who declined to extend Drakes Bay?s 40-year-lease, which allowed it to operate on public land within the Point Reyes National Seashore that was created decades after the oyster farm?s inception.
The Lunnys, who had been pressing for an extension of their lease for years, sued?arguing Salazar based his decision on flawed environmental impact studies produced by the National Park Service, which oversees the land. They also contend he ignored a 2009 bill championed by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and approved by Congress that would allow the farm?s lease to be extended by another 10 years.
Kevin Lunny, who owns the farm with his brothers, casts the fight as a battle between his family and an overzealous federal agency that is bowing to pressure from a powerful lobby of environmentalists who refuse to see benefits of farming on federal land. He says the government is ignoring the concerns from local residents who see his farm an important local sustainable food source.
?We are a part of a working landscape, the agriculture which is a key part of the fabric, the history and the culture that was always expected to be preserved here on the seashore,? Lunny said in an interview with Yahoo News. ?What we are doing is fighting for our business, our employees and our community against a federal bureaucracy that seems to want to ignore the will of the people.?
But his opponents argue it?s more important to restore the land to protected wilderness and that extending the Drakes Bay oyster lease would set a dangerous national precedent that would allow commercial operations on other federal park lands.
?It?s a contract issue, a deal?s a deal,? said Amy Trainer, head of the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, one of the farm?s most outspoken opponents. ?If (Lunny) is allowed to stay, then we think that hurts the integrity of all our national parks and wilderness areas.?
Both Lunny and his opponents insist they are each trying to be the best stewards of the land along the Pacific seacoast?and both claim to have science on their side to prove they are doing just that. At the same time, both claim to be speaking for the majority of residents in the region.
The case has become something of a local soap opera in Marin County, where the farm is located?dividing local residents and elected officials, many of whom refused to be interviewed because of fear of retribution. The local newspapers in recent weeks have been full of warring op-eds from interested parties on both sides of the debate, which has split people who have traditionally been allies like Feinstein and the environmental lobby. There have been rallies and petitions circulated by both sides--and even snarky bumper stickers issued, including one that read, ?Shuck you, Secretary Salazar.?
More recently, the fight has gone national. In December, Lunny?s cause was picked up by Cause of Action, a Washington-based conservative watchdog group, that has been handling his case pro bono.
The farm?s opponents quickly seized on that development, pointing out that the group?s executive director, Dan Epstein, once worked for a foundation financed by Charles Koch, who, along with his brother David, has spent tens of millions of dollars to boost conservative candidates and causes. But Cause of Action has said it has not taken any money directly or indirectly from the Koch Brothers.
Lee Rubinstein, a spokesman for the group, said they were drawn to the case because of flawed science in a Park Service impact study on Drakes Bay?including a claim that the farm?s operations were hurting harbor seals. The Park Service later retracted the claim after criticism from outside scientists who said their study was inaccurate.
?When you get an agency that is playing really very fast and loose with the science, that is engaging in a whole variety of very questionable practices, where it is going to astounding lengths? to prove there is some sort of disturbance with seals, from a policy standpoint, this is tremendously worrisome because we depend on agencies to do things in a transparent manner (and) a professional manner,? Rubinstein told Yahoo News.
The case also has gotten attention from Republican members of Congress, including Louisiana Sen. David Vitter, who included a provision to extend Drakes Bay?s lease another decade in a GOP energy bill that primarily aimed to speed up production of the Keystone XL pipeline?an anathema to environmental groups. That attracted the attention of other national environmental lobby, including the Sierra Club and the National Resources Defense Council, that has mentioned the oyster farm fight in fundraising emails to their members and pumped funds into the region to lobby the debate.
In a situation that created even more strange bedfellows in the case, a group of well-known chefs recently submitted a legal brief in support of keeping Drakes Bay Oysters open. Among the signers was Alice Waters, the famed chef at Berkeley?s Chez Panisse who is one of the nation?s best known proponents for using locally sourced food.
For his part, Lunny insists he?s stunned to be in the middle of a debate that he said increasingly seems to be ?less and less about a little oyster farm and more about issues that have nothing to do with us.?
?All we are trying to do is stay open, to keep our way of life,? said Lunny, who has lived on the coast near the Point Reyes seashore his entire life.
His family first came to the coast in the 1940s, when his grandparents opened a cattle ranch in the hills near the oyster farm. His family still owns the ranch, but Lunny says if the oyster farm closes, the cattle operation could be at risk, as well, because they would still be obligated to pay back bank loans they took out on the oyster farm.
?We are facing bankruptcy,? Lunny said.
But he quickly added that it?s more than just about his family, pointing to his farm?s 30 employees and their families?about half of whom live on site. He said the workers would not only be out of jobs, but would be homeless and with a skill set that would likely force them to start all over with new careers or to move to other areas where oyster operations are flourishing, like Washington State.
Yet the irony in Lunny?s legal battle is that even if he succeeds in court, the farm may still be forced out of business. At issue Tuesday is whether Drakes Bay can stay open while the Lunny family?s case against the Interior Department and the Park Service is being litigated. If the panel says no, the farm could be evicted within weeks?and Lunny would be forced to remove and destroy in upwards of 20 million oysters growing in the water. That would effectively kill his business, Lunny said.
But even if Lunny can get a reprieve and wins his case in court forcing the Interior Department to reconsider its decision not to extend his lease, it doesn?t mean he will win that battle either.
?We could go through this whole process and still not get another lease,? Lunny said. ?It all very nerve-wracking and depressing to not know what your future is going to be. You try to hope for the best, but you can?t help but feel anxious.?
But Lunny?s opponents have shown him no sympathy. In an interview, Trainer accused Lunny of polluting the waters in Drake?s Estero, flouting local environmental regulations and treating his employees badly by not giving them adequate health insurance and overtime pay (allegations he denies). And she slammed Lunny and his supporters for putting out what she described as ?misinformation? in an effort to boost their cause.
?The story has been, ?This poor farmer, and he?s a victim of the government,? and it?s just complete nonsense,? Trainer said. ?He?s getting all kinds of free legal advice, hundreds of thousands of dollars in free legal help. He?s working with all these ultra-conservative members of Congress.?
But Lunny counters that while he has accepted help from those willing to help, it doesn?t mean he agrees with all of their views. He, in turn, accuses Trainer and local environmentalists of being unwilling to even try to find common ground and for personal attacks that aren't true.
?I have never been treated like the enemy before, and it?s been an uncomfortable position,? Lunny said, adding that he?s invited his opponents to come view his operation, but none have.
Sighing, he added, ?I am a farmer. That?s all I want to do.?
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Google's making it easy for educators and their students to discover and recommend applications and books with Play for Education. Announced onstage at this year's I/O by Chris Yerga, Google's Android Engineering Director, the new Play storefront organizes content by education type, age and various other criteria to make the content discovery process simple for higher learning institutions. What's more, all of the content that appears within this curated portal bears educators' stamps of approval, so users know that what they're accessing is tried-and-tested for quality.
Play for Education also makes use of Google+ groups, so schools and universities can quickly push apps, books and other content out to their students and even bill to one central account. A pilot program for the service has already been underway with six New Jersey schools ranking as current participants. Despite Google making the service official today, the actual sign-up window for general access won't be until sometime later this fall. Though, developers can start submitting their applications right now.
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Amidst increasing concern about cybersecurity, researchers at North Carolina State University have taken one step closer to guarding America's infrastructure from Cylon attack. Well, almost. Dr. Mo-Yuen Chow and Ph.D candidate Wente Zeng have developed an algorithm that detects cyber attacks aimed at distributed network control systems (D-NCSs), which differ from their more vulnerable counterparts in that they don't rely on a centralized brain to coordinate the network's activities. Essentially, then, D-NCSs are nervous systems comprised of several mini-brains working together. In the event of a cyber attack, the algorithm isolates the infected brain before the contamination can spread across the network's pathways. This software solution will be a good first line of defense when vengeful A.I. inevitably rises up in revolt. In the words of Admiral William Adama, so say we all.
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May 14, 2013 ? Pregnant mothers' exposure to the flu was associated with a nearly fourfold increased risk that their child would develop bipolar disorder in adulthood, in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings add to mounting evidence of possible shared underlying causes and illness processes with schizophrenia, which some studies have also linked to prenatal exposure to influenza.
"Prospective mothers should take common sense preventive measures, such as getting flu shots prior to and in the early stages of pregnancy and avoiding contact with people who are symptomatic," said Alan Brown, M.D., M.P.H, of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, a grantee of the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). "In spite of public health recommendations, only a relatively small fraction of such women get immunized. The weight of evidence now suggests that benefits of the vaccine likely outweigh any possible risk to the mother or newborn."
Brown and colleagues reported their findings online May 8, 2013 in JAMA Psychiatry.
Although there have been hints of a maternal influenza/bipolar disorder connection, the new study is the first to prospectively follow families in the same HMO, using physician-based diagnoses and structured standardized psychiatric measures. Access to unique Kaiser-Permanente, county and Child Health and Development Study databases made it possible to include more cases with detailed maternal flu exposure information than in previous studies.
Among nearly a third of all children born in a northern California county during 1959-1966, researchers followed, 92 who developed bipolar disorder, comparing rates of maternal flu diagnoses during pregnancy with 722 matched controls.
The nearly fourfold increased risk implicated influenza infection at any time during pregnancy, but there was evidence suggesting slightly higher risk if the flu occurred during the second or third trimesters. Moreover, the researchers linked flu exposure to a nearly sixfold increase in a subtype of bipolar disorder with psychotic features.
A previous study, by Brown and colleagues, in a related northern California sample, found a threefold increased risk for schizophrenia associated with maternal influenza during the first half of pregnancy. Autism has similarly been linked to first trimester maternal viral infections and to possibly related increases in inflammatory molecules.
"Future research might investigate whether this same environmental risk factor might give rise to different disorders, depending on how the timing of the prenatal insult affects the developing fetal brain," suggested Brown.
Bipolar disorder shares with schizophrenia a number of other suspected causes and illness features, the researchers note. For example, both share onset of symptoms in early adulthood, susceptibility genes, run in the same families, affect nearly one percent of the population, show psychotic behaviors and respond to antipsychotic medications.
Increasing evidence of such overlap between traditional diagnostic categories has led to the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project, which is laying the foundation for a new mental disorders classification system based on brain circuits and dimensional mechanisms that cut across traditional diagnostic categories.
The research was also funded by NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
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The Smithsonian's been a fan of 3D scanning and printing for some time
Vince Rossi and Adam Metallo lead the project, which will see a team work through a prioritized list of 14 million objects??from artworks to lab specimens?which need scanning over the coming years. The video above shows how the team went about capturing a digital copy of the Philadelphia gunboat?America's oldest fighting craft. [Engagdet]
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CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) ? Changing his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity is seen as James Holmes' best hope of avoiding the death penalty. His lawyers have avoided taking the step, though, because it also carries risks for Holmes, charged with killing 12 people and injuring 70 on July 20 at a packed midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora.
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I seem to be in a never ending storm of feeling blue, tired, run down, fed up, lonely and sad and I?m having a tough time finding the sunshine again.
I always knew my big trip abroad would be an incredible experience but difficult for me health wise. However, I never knew it would set me back so far. I went way for a three-week adventure of work, play and friends. I had a five-day beach trip, a five-day work trip and a seven-day visit to friends booked in Malaysia and Australia.
It was great but it was hard too; there were battles with the airline over seat changes; there were battles with hotels over bad service, bad rooms and bad smells; there were lots of long haul flights; there were lots of carrying too many bags; there were dodgy stomachs and a poorly digestive system; there were lots of tears. Challenging enough for a healthy person but for someone with secondary breast cancer, it?s doubly hard.
Don?t get me wrong, I?m glad I went and the highlight was seeing one of my best friends get married, a memory I will cherish for a lifetime. Seeing him so settled, happy and in love made me a very happy lady indeed.
The journey home from Australia was an ordeal and left me totally spent and exhausted, to such an extent that I haven?t left my house much in three weeks. I?ve done everything I?ve needed to do such as keep up with friends, go to hospital appointments and business meetings but I haven?t done any of the extra stuff: the earn money stuff, the get fresh air stuff.
My counsellor described my home as my safe place and she is right, I feel safe here and the world outside feels very scary right now. Big, harsh and scary. It?s frustrating and annoying and I want to give myself a shake and a good kick up the bum but I don?t seem to have the energy.
I think about how you shouldn?t have to do all this life and cancer stuff on your own and I realise how tired I am, not sleepy tired but tired to my core.
Tired of going to the hospital on my own for all the tests and treatments; tired of making all my own food and sorting my house out; tired of finding the energy to get up every morning and face each day, trying to smile and make the world think everything is okay; tired of pretending that I might see that wonderful friend in Australia again and that wasn?t the last time we said goodbye; tired of carrying this weight on my shoulders around on my own.
And then there is the guilt. I know I am one of the lucky ones, I am stable again, my tumours are under control. There are so many women and men who aren?t in my position, so I should be out there, seizing life by the hands and having fun. I just can?t find the energy at the moment, I will but alright now it feels too hard.
I do have hope though? I know this is just a phase and I have good moments as well as bad ones. In a few weeks time I?ll read this blog and groan at how self pitying it is. I will find my strength, gumption and power again but right now it all feels too big. This is my life, this yo-yo from active cancer to controlled cancer to active cancer, and each time it changes I have to change with it, my world has to change with it until there are no more changes. So I?m having some difficulty with this latest change even though it?s a good change, that my tumours are under control once more. So I?m resting in my safe place because I don?t believe the saying that a change is as good as rest, I think this change needs a rest.
For more information on secondary breast cancer visit?www.breastcancercare.org.uk/secondary
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Photosynthesis isn't very efficient, but it is very convenient. If you want the maximum possible conversion rate from solar energy, it's a terrible choice. If, however, you want something that can be cheaply deployed, then something that can self-assemble from light, water, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and a few trace nutrients is quite attractive in comparison to photovoltaics.
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By Tim Kenneally
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - On Wednesday, NBC handed out several pilot passes, declining to pick up the high-profile "Hatfields & McCoys," "Bloodline" and five other pilots. (The network also axed its freshman drama "Deception.") Now it's time to fire up the greenlights.
The network picked up a number of pilots Thursday, including "About a Boy" and "Crisis," an individual familiar with the pickups told TheWrap.
The comedy "About a Boy," based on the Nick Hornby novel, follows a single guy primary goal in life is avoiding responsibility - until he accidentally befriends the young boy and his needy single mom who live next door.
David Walton ("Happy Endings") and Benjamin Stockham are starring. Jon Favreau directed the pilot, and serves as an executive producer. Robert DeNiro is also among the executive producers on the series.
The drama "Crisis," meanwhile comes from Rand Ravich ("Life"), who's writing and executive producing. Dermot Mulroney, Rachael Taylor and Gillian Anderson star in the series, which chronicles some of the most powerful players in Washington and Corporate America as they're pulled into a chilling international conspiracy when a disgruntled CIA agent threatens what they all hold most dear: their children.
Far Shariat is also executive producing, as is Phillip Noyce ("Salt"), who directed the pilot as well.
Among the other pilot pickups, the drama "Believe," which comes from Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Friedman, centers on a young girl with supernatural powers who's on the run from dark forces who changes the lives of the people she encounters while being protected by an unlikely guardian who was given a reprieve from death row.
J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are also executive producing the series, which is produced by Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
"Will & Grace" veteran Sean Hayes stars in "Sean Saves the World," about a divorced gay father who juggles his career, his employees, his pushy mother ("Alice" star Linda Lavin) and his teenage daughter (played by Sami Isler), who moves in with him full-time. Hayes is executive producing, as is his "Hot in Cleveland" cohort Todd Milliner, James Burrows (who directed the pilot) and Victor Fresco (who handled writing duties). Universal Television and Hazy Mills Productions are producing.
The comedy "The Family Guide" stars Parker Posey and "Law & Order" alum J.K. Simmons, looks at how a couple's breakup affects the family, which also includes a son and daughter.
"Arrested Development" star Jason Bateman is providing voiceover narrative for the series and is also among the show's executive producers, along with D.J. Nash ("Up All Night") and Jim Garavente. "Friends"-ter David Schwimmer directed the pilot for the project, which is produced by Universal Television and Aggregate Films.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-picks-boy-crisis-three-other-pilots-001709188.html
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Boston Celtics forward Jeff Green (8) collides with New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler (6) in the first half of Game 5 of their first-round NBA basketball playoff series at Madison Square Garden in New York, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Boston Celtics forward Jeff Green (8) collides with New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler (6) in the first half of Game 5 of their first-round NBA basketball playoff series at Madison Square Garden in New York, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony (7) is surrounded by Boston Celtics center Kevin Garnett (5), forward Jeff Green (8) and forward Paul Pierce (34) in the first half of Game 5 of their first-round NBA basketball playoff series at Madison Square Garden in New York, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
New York Knicks forward Kenyon Martin, right, fouls Boston Celtics center Kevin Garnett (5) in the first half of Game 5 of their first-round NBA basketball playoff series at Madison Square Garden in New York, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Celtics forward Jeff Green (8) watches the play. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony (7) dunks in the first half of Game 5 of their first-round NBA basketball playoff series against the Boston Celtics at Madison Square Garden in New York, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
New York Knicks guard Jason Kidd (5) defends against a shot by Boston Celtics forward Jeff Green (8) in the first half of Game 5 of their first-round NBA basketball playoff series at Madison Square Garden in New York, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Back in the series, now back to Boston.
The Celtics are two victories from NBA history, and from extending the Knicks' postseason futility in a most improbable manner.
Kevin Garnett had 16 points and 18 rebounds and the Celtics stayed alive in the playoffs, cutting New York's lead to 3-2 with a 92-86 victory Wednesday night.
The Celtics will host Game 6 on Friday night, needing two victories to become the first NBA team to overcome a 3-0 deficit to win a series.
"We're still down. Our mentality has to be all-out," Garnett said. "It can't be anything (else)."
Brandon Bass added 17 points, steadying Boston as it shook off an 11-0 deficit and pulled away in the second half to stop the Knicks again from achieving their first playoff series victory since 2000.
"We didn't panic and that's something we've done, but we didn't," coach Doc Rivers said. "I thought once the game got back to that five, six area, our guys were good again."
J.R. Smith, back from his one-game suspension for elbowing Jason Terry with the Knicks way ahead late in Game 3, missed his first 10 shots and finished 3 of 14 for 14 points.
Terry also scored 17 off the bench.
Jeff Green scored 18 points and Paul Pierce had 16 as he and Garnett, the two franchise stalwarts, extended this season ? and perhaps their Celtics careers ? at least one more game.
"Obviously being down 2-0 or 3-0 or whatever it was, we could have folded shop. Nobody in here is going to quit," Terry said.
Carmelo Anthony scored 22 points but was just 8 of 24 in another dismal shooting night for the Knicks, who blew a big lead in this game and now the series. They face an unwanted trip back to Boston instead of the rest this aging roster could surely use before the second round.
If they get there.
"I think we're fine," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. "Sure we would've loved to close it out and move on, but nobody said it would be easy."
The Knicks would host Game 7 on Sunday.
"I told you from Game 1 that this wasn't going to be a breeze, it wasn't going to be a walk in the park, them guys were going to fight and they're showing some fight right now," Anthony said. "They threw a couple punches at us now and it's time for us to do the same."
The Celtics were the first of the eight NBA teams that have come from 3-1 down, beating Philadelphia in 1968, and put themselves on the short list of teams that have erased a 2-0 deficit the next year in the NBA Finals.
So perhaps it would be fitting if they were the first to overcome 3-0.
"I think so. I mean, I think that would be wonderful, and someone's going to do it and I want it to be us, obviously, since that's the situation we're in," Rivers said before the game. "Someone will do it, and I really want to be a part of that."
He's still got a chance.
The Knicks limited the Celtics to 75 points per game while winning the first three, and nearly came back to win Game 4 on Sunday even without Smith. So they felt good even after missing their first chance to wrap it up, when Anthony was 10 of 35 in an overtime loss.
Point guard Raymond Felton said the Knicks still feel in control of the series "for sure."
"I mean, this is what playoff basketball is about. Yes, we wish we could have swept them, yes we wish we could have won that game tonight. Sometimes things don't happen that way," he added. "Things aren't always pretty, things aren't always the way you want them to be. We've just got to grind it out and go get a win."
Though few of these players were here for the streak, the Knicks were perhaps a bit overconfident leading into the game for a franchise that lost an NBA-record 13 straight postseason games from 2001-12.
Smith said Tuesday he'd have been playing golf instead of practicing had he played in Game 4, and players wore black to the game Wednesday as if they were heading to the Celtics' "funeral."
The Celtics didn't like it, with reserve Jordan Crawford exchanging words with Anthony and Raymond Felton after the final buzzer.
Forget the funeral. The Celtics are still very much alive.
"Well, we was going to a funeral, but it looks like we got buried," Smith said. "Basketball is a very humbling game."
Smith finally made a 3-pointer to end his drought, and then another cut what had been a 15-point Boston lead to 88-83 with 1:05 remaining. But Garnett made a jumper, then knocked down two free throws to clinch it.
The Knicks were just 5 of 22 from 3-point range, which looked worse until Smith hit three late ones.
The Sixth Man of the Year received a loud ovation when he went to check in during the first quarter, but heard a few boos by the third. They will likely be deafening on Friday, the kind usually reserved in Boston for a Lakers player.
By the time Anthony drove right into the middle of the lane for a dunk that made it 11-0, the Celtics already had three turnovers. But Bass made a pair of free throws and then a dunk to settle them down. He added five more points in the period as Boston climbed within 22-20 even though Pierce missed all six shots in a scoreless 12 minutes.
He made a 3-pointer shortly after returning from a break in the second, and another gave the Celtics their first lead at 34-33 with 5:46 remaining in the half. Then Garnett had two baskets in an 8-0 run that gave Boston a 42-37 advantage, and the Celtics walked off at halftime to mostly stunned silence within Madison Square Garden with a 45-39 lead.
The second halves had belonged to the Knicks in the series, but the Celtics remained steady in the third quarter, opening a 69-60 lead on Terry's 3-pointer with 41 seconds left, and pushed it to 75-60 early in the fourth.
Notes: Woodson said the team will try to get Amare Stoudemire some contact in practice to see if he will be ready to play in the next round. Woodson said Stoudemire, who is recovering from right knee surgery, is "looking pretty good right now." ... Jason Kidd was honored before the game after winning the NBA's Sportsmanship Award on Tuesday. He is the first player to win it in back-to-back years and joins Grant Hill as the only player to win it multiple times.
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May 1, 2013 ? In an effort to determine if conditions were ever right on Mars to sustain life, a team of scientists, including a Michigan State University professor, has examined a meteorite that formed on the Red Planet more than a billion years ago.
And although this team's work is not specifically solving the mystery, it is laying the groundwork for future researchers to answer this age-old question.
The problem, said MSU geological sciences professor Michael Velbel, is that most meteorites that originated on Mars arrived on Earth so long ago that now they have characteristics that tell of their life on Earth, obscuring any clues it might offer about their time on Mars.
"These meteorites contain water-related mineral and chemical signatures that can signify habitable conditions," he said. "The trouble is by the time most of these meteorites have been lying around on Earth they pick up signatures that look just like habitable environments, because they are. Earth, obviously, is habitable.
"If we could somehow prove the signature on the meteorite was from before it came to Earth, that would be telling us about Mars."
Specifically, the team found mineral and chemical signatures on the rocks that indicated terrestrial weathering -- changes that took place on Earth. The identification of these types of changes will provide valuable clues as scientists continue to examine the meteorites.
"Our contribution is to provide additional depth and a little broader view than some work has done before in sorting out those two kinds of water-related alterations -- the ones that happened on Earth and the ones that happened on Mars," Velbel said.
The meteorite that Velbel and his colleagues examined -- known as a nakhlite meteorite -- was recovered in 2003 in the Miller Range of Antarctica. About the size of a tennis ball and weighing in at one-and-a-half pounds, the meteorite was one of hundreds recovered from that area.
Velbel said past examinations of meteorites that originated on Mars, as well as satellite and Rover data, prove water once existed on Mars, which is the fourth planet from the sun and Earth's nearest Solar System neighbor.
"However," he said, "until a Mars mission successfully returns samples from Mars, mineralogical studies of geochemical processes on Mars will continue to depend heavily on data from meteorites."
Velbel is currently serving as a senior fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C.
The research is published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, a bi-weekly journal co-sponsored by two professional societies, the Geochemical Society and the Meteoritical Society.
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