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Friday, March 29, 2013
OUYA updates backers about launch titles, day-one software update
The OUYA Tegra 3-powered Android game console is having quite a day, but now that it's shipping, CEO Julie Uhrman is informing early recipients of what to expect when they open the packaging. According to an email sent out to Kickstarter backers this evening, their new box will have a software update required as soon as it's plugged in. After the Wii U we hope this isn't a trend (but fear it is) although the Ouya promises to take only seconds or at most minutes to complete. Also detailed are the 104 games already available from the 8,000 registered developers including Beast Boxing Turbo, Stalagflight, and Knightmare Tower, plus entertainment apps like XBMC and Flixster. The games are all free to try out, but a credit/debit card is required upfront.
We've already offered our opinion of the shipping hardware after a quick hands-on, although backers are encouraged to contribute their own during the preview period before it officially launches. To that end, the company is planning a Reddit AMA next month and will have its own forums available for feedback soon. Until then, you can get the rest of the info directly at the source link below.
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
FedEx Is Shipping 2 Pandas Across The Globe. Here's How
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FedEx Is Shipping 2 Pandas Across The Globe. Here's HowWeird, giant, endangered stuff sometimes must be shipped. Meet the "loadmaster" who has FedExed tigers, gorillas, eagles, penguins, lions, rhinos, and even beluga whales across the globe. On March 25, he's shipping a couple of Pandas from China to Canada.
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Resident work hour limits introduce new concerns
By Genevra Pittman
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Restrictions on work hours for doctors-in-training may end up inadvertently limiting their educational opportunities and increasing errors, new research suggests.
Long shifts and lack of sleep among medical residents have long been a concern, leading the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to introduce restrictions on work hours in 2003 and again in 2011.
The most recent regulations limit work shift lengths for first-year residents, called interns, to 16 hours.
But those rules may mean trainees spend less time in the hospital during the day, when they have the most opportunity to learn from attending doctors, and could increase the number of times a patient's care is passed between residents, researchers said.
"There was a lot of worry about increasing the number of hand-offs from physician to physician, but on the other side was the growing evidence that we just don't function very well after being up for 20 hours straight and this could be related to the high number of errors we've seen in hospitals," said Dr. Srijan Sen, from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
For their study, Sen and his colleagues analyzed surveys of 2,300 first-year residents in 51 programs before the newest regulations went into place in 2009 and 2010 and after the rule change in 2011.
Residents' weekly on-duty hours dropped slightly, from 67 before the 2011 regulations to 64 after, the study team found.
There was no improvement in residents' reported sleep and general well-being in 2011, however, and the proportion of medical trainees who said they'd made a serious error in the past few months rose from 20 to 23 percent.
In addition to a larger number of hand-offs with shorter shifts, one concern is that hospitals didn't bring on more staff after the rule change - so residents may have been expected to do a similar amount of work in less time, the researchers wrote Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
"At a lot of these hospitals, there weren't funds available to really hire new staff or find a way to alleviate the extra work caused by limiting shift length," Sen told Reuters Health. "A lot of the interns, it seems, were asked to do 24 hours' worth of work in 16 hours."
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Other reports released in the same journal also suggest unintended consequences stemming from the regulations.
Dr. Sanjay Desai and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore randomly assigned their own residents to work shifts that followed the 2003 or 2011 ACGME rules.
They found the 2011 schedule led to a more consistent sleep pattern among doctors-in-training but also to more hand-offs between residents and a reduced quality of patient care, in the eyes of both nurses and the residents themselves.
Trainees following the new regulations spent less time at the hospital during daytime hours and admitted fewer patients than those operating under the 2003 guidelines, which allowed for work shifts of up to 30 hours.
Desai said the most concerning work model was the one most hospitals have turned to under the new restrictions - when residents work the night shift for five or six days straight, known as a "night float."
"With the night float model, there were such frequent hand-offs of care... that the patients, and the physicians, felt as if nobody owned the care of this patient," Desai told Reuters Health.
"The idea that we turned over care so often introduces inherently a concern for safety that hasn't been tested."
Researchers didn't have direct data on patient errors and other outcomes under the different resident schedules.
ACGME Chief Executive Officer Dr. Thomas Nasca told Reuters Health via email that the new studies "provide valuable insight into certain dimensions of the ongoing discussion within and outside the profession related to resident education, sleep, well-being, and patient care delivery.
"They do not, however, address other relevant questions, such as supervision by faculty and senior residents, actual clinical outcomes, preparedness of entering Interns for the duties assigned, and other dimensions of the learning environment that are relevant to the complex interactions inherent in the teaching and learning environment."
A research letter from Dr. Brad Spellberg of the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical School in Torrance and his team points out that reducing the workload of first-year residents may mean second-years have to fill in and work more hours. And having fatigued second-years may be a bigger problem, they noted, because the more advanced residents are often the ones making important patient decisions.
In a commentary published along with the three studies, Dr. Lara Goitein from Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Dr. Kenneth Ludmerer of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis called the 2011 limitations "too inflexible."
Sen and Desai agreed that allowing residents to work an unlimited number of hours isn't very safe. But Desai said he hoped ACGME would allow more residency programs to do studies like his to determine what type of work schedule is safest and most conducive to learning.
"I think it's pretty clear that there are problems with this new system, and we have to find a way to tweak it or change it to really improve the outcomes for both the residents and the patients," Sen said.
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Mets plan to put Santana on DL
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JUPITER, Fla. (AP) - The New York Mets say they plan to put pitcher Johan Santana on the disabled list for the start of the season.
Mets manager Terry Collins announced the team's intention on Friday.
Santana hasn't pitched in a spring training game this year and hasn't thrown a bullpen session since March 3. He went 6-9 last season and was shut down in August because of back problems.
The 33-year-old Santana is a two-time Cy Young winner. He'll stay at the Mets' spring camp when the season begins. The Mets open at home on April 1 against San Diego.
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
New RV's give modern edge to classic camping : News ...
GRAND TRAVERSE -- The 21st Annual Northwest Michigan Camper & RV Show offers a wide array of camping equpiment varying in prices. The show is great for anyone looking to buy, upgrade, or just curious about recreational vehicles and travel trailers.
Over 35 units will be on display and more than 15 brands represented. There will also be booths featuring parts and accessories, campground information, financing options, and RV rentals available.
Find more information about upcoming RV shows by visiting www.marvag.org.
Admission for adults is $5 and kids 12 and under are free.
Hours of the show are Friday 11 a.m.-9p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Friday, March 22, 2013
Planck satellite creates most detailed map ever of cosmic microwave background radiation
The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has been gathering data since its launch in 2009, slowly building up a map of the cosmic microwave background radiation -- a distant remnant of the Big Bang. The resulting image, seen above, is the most detailed ever put together of the cold glow that uniformly covers the universe, taking us all the way back to just a 380,000 years after the explosive inflation that gave birth to all matter, energy and time. There were some surprises, including more extreme temperature fluctuations between hemispheres than predicted by the standard model and confirmation of a pronounced cold spot that can no longer be dismissed as an artifact of previous satellite instruments. For more about just what Planck has taught us, along with a few more visualizations, check out the source link.
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Biodiversity does not reduce transmission of disease from animals to humans
Mar. 20, 2013 ? More than three quarters of new, emerging or re-emerging human diseases are caused by pathogens from animals, according to the World Health Organization.
But a widely accepted theory of risk reduction for these pathogens -- one of the most important ideas in disease ecology -- is likely wrong, according to a new study co-authored by Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Senior Fellow James Holland Jones and former Woods-affiliated ecologist Dan Salkeld.
The dilution effect theorizes that disease risk for humans decreases as the variety of species in an area increases. For example, it postulates that a tick has a higher chance of infecting a human with Lyme disease if the tick has previously had few animal host options beyond white-footed mice, which are carriers of Lyme disease-causing bacteria.
If many other animal hosts had been available to the tick, the tick's likelihood of being infected and spreading that infection to a human host would go down, according to the theory.
If true, the dilution effect would mean that conservation and public health agendas could be united in a common purpose: to protect biodiversity and guard against disease risk. "However, its importance to the field or the beauty of the idea do not guarantee that it is actually scientifically correct," Jones said.
In the first study to formally assess the dilution effect, Jones, Salkeld and California Department of Public Health researcher Kerry Padgett tested the hypothesis through a meta-analysis of studies that evaluate links between host biodiversity and disease risk for disease agents that infect humans.
The analysis, published in the journal Ecology Letters, allowed the researchers to pool estimates from studies and test for any bias against publishing studies with "negative results" that contradict the dilution effect.
The analysis found "very weak support, at best" for the dilution effect. Instead, the researchers found that the links between biodiversity and disease prevalence are variable and dependent on the disease system, local ecology and probably human social context.
The role of individual host species and their interactions with other hosts, vectors and pathogens are more influential in determining local disease risk, the analysis found.
"Lyme disease biology in the Northeast is obviously going to differ in its ecology from Lyme disease in California," Salkeld said. "In the Northeast, they have longer winters and abundant tick hosts. In California, we have milder weather and lots of Western fence lizards (a favored tick host) that harbor ticks but do not transmit the Lyme disease bacterium."
So, these lizards should be considered unique in any study of disease risk within their habitat. Or, as Salked put it, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
Broadly advocating for the preservation of biodiversity and natural ecosystems to reduce disease risk is "an oversimplification of disease ecology and epidemiology," the study's authors write, adding that more effective control of "zoonotic diseases" (those transmitted from animals to humans) may require more detailed understanding of how pathogens are transmitted.
Specifically, Jones, Salkeld and Padgett recommend that researchers focus more on how disease risk relates to species characteristics and ecological mechanisms. They also urge scientists to report data on both prevalence and density of infection in host animals, and to better establish specific causal links between measures of disease risk (such as infection rates in host animals) and rates of infection in local human populations.
For their meta-analysis, the researchers were able to find only 13 published studies and three unpublished data sets examining relationships between biodiversity and animal-to-human disease risk. This kind of investigation is "still in its infancy," the authors note. "Given the limited data available, conclusions regarding the biodiversity-disease relationship should be regarded with caution."
Still, Jones said, "I am very confident in saying that real progress in this field will come from understanding ecological mechanisms. We need to turn to elucidating these rather than wasting time arguing that simple species richness will always save the day for zoonotic disease risk."
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- Daniel J Salkeld, Kerry A Padgett, James Holland Jones. A meta-analysis suggesting that the relationship between biodiversity and risk of zoonotic pathogen transmission is idiosyncratic. Ecology Letters, 2013; DOI: 10.1111/ele.12101
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
How proteins read meta DNA code
Mar. 19, 2013 ? Scientists have accurately calculated the sliding mechanism for deciphering the second genetic code written within the DNA base pair sequence.
Three-quarters of the DNA in evolved organisms is wrapped around proteins, forming the basic unit of DNA packaging called nucleosomes, like a thread around a spool. The problem lies in understanding how DNA can then be read by such proteins. Now, Arman Fathizadeh, a physicist at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, and colleagues have created a model showing how proteins move along DNA, in a paper just published in EPJ E.
The problem is that until now, we did not clearly understand the physical mechanisms of how to "open the book" to read the genetic text contained in DNA. Studying the dynamics of the nucleosome over reasonable time scales by means of molecular dynamics simulations is out of the question, as it would be too complex. Instead, the authors developed a basic computer model of the nucleosome in which DNA is described by a sequence of rigid blocks representing the base pairs. By introducing flexible binding sites of the DNA to the protein core, it provides a more physical representation of the system.. It also makes it possible to identify the sliding mechanism of nucleosomes along the DNA.
The idea is that a small defect in the form of a missing or extra base pair enters the DNA section wrapped around a nucleosome. This defect can then diffuse through the wrapped DNA and once it leaves the other end of the wrapped section, the nucleosome moves by the extra or missing length that the defect carried with it. This model supports the idea of a second genetic code, previously suggested in 2006. This would consist of a mechanical code written down within the base pair sequence and multiplexed with the traditional genetic code.
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- Arman Fathizadeh, Azim Berdy Besya, Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi, Helmut Schiessel. Rigid-body molecular dynamics of DNA inside a nucleosome. The European Physical Journal E, 2013; 36 (3) DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2013-13021-4
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Sunday, March 17, 2013
In Conversation with Sheldon Brown from Toyota Technical Center, USA liveblog
Toyota is no stranger to the hybrid realm and it has already introduced the fully-electric RAV4 EV SUV. Join us for this session where editor-in-chief Tim Stevens chats up Sheldon Brown, executive program manager of the product development office, Toyota Technical Center, USA, Inc. There's sure to be some talk of hybrids and EVs -- and perhaps a glimpse that what the future holds for us road warriors.
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Humane group probing death of shark in Kmart commercial shoot ...
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says a whistleblower took this photo of a shark in a California pool where a commercial was shot. The shark later died. The American Humane Association, which was on the set, could not confirm if the shark in the photo was the one that died.
By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News
The death of a shark that was flown from New York to Los Angeles to film a Kmart commercial is under investigation, but the American Humane Association is denying accusations the creature was mistreated.
The 5-foot white-tipped shark fell ill on March 6 after a film shoot in a 60,000-gallon pool, and oxygen and a shot of adrenaline failed to save its life, the association said in a statement.
"There was absolutely no abuse or neglect involved," said the association, which was on the set to monitor the animal's well-being.
The animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claimed two whistleblowers on the set ?-- one anonymous -- reported the shark's health was jeopardized while it was kept in a "small above-ground pool" in a Van Nuys, Calif., backyard.
PETA, which opposes the use of wild animals in ads, said human actors jumped in and out of the water, causing it stress. Julia Gallucci, an animal behavior specialist for the group, said the tipsters reported filming continued for an hour after the shark started to slow down and roll on its side.
The humane association flatly denied the charges.
"We were there. We did not allow any people in the pool with the shark," said Karen Rosa, senior adviser to the film and television unit.
She said the moment the shark showed signs of distress, it was treated. When it continued to struggle, the shark was sent to an aquatic animal specialist and died later that day.
Rosa said the association has enlisted an independent marine animal expert to investigate the shark's death because "this really troubled us."
In a statement, Kmart said it was "saddened" by the incident.
?We take this matter seriously and safety is always our paramount concern," said Howard Riefs, a spokesman for Sears Holdings, which owns Kmart.
"We have been advised by our agency that the production company responsible for this shoot worked with professional animal handlers and a representative of the American Humane Association for the purpose of monitoring the shark?s welfare."
It's unclear who owned the shark or why and exactly how it was shipped from one coast to the other. Critters of the Cinema -- which procured the shark for the production, according to PETA -- said it signed a confidentiality agreement and could not comment.
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Friday, March 15, 2013
Samsung Galaxy S 4 drafts in Swiftkey to power its keyboard
We'd heard rumors that Swiftkey might have assisted Blackberry on its well-received (and often prescient) BB10 keyboard, but the app maker has now confirmed that its software is behind the Galaxy S 4's native keyboard. It's the first time that the company's publicly admitted to powering a handset manufacturer's keys and will sidestep the need for S 4 users to download its standalone app. Though, there's still plenty of reasons to download the app from Google play if you dig the customization options and themes of the original. Swiftkey's CTO Ben Medlock said that the keyboard is "at the heart of [Samsung's] flagship smartphone" and is hopefully just the first of many Android devices arriving with the company's voodoo already built in. We've added Ben's full statement after the break.
Update: The company reached out to us to clarify that while its prediction engine is at the heart of Samsung's keyboard it is not Swiftkey in the purest sense. The natural comparison it reached for? Android and TouchWiz.
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
'The Croods' game from Rovio and DreamWorks now available
Right on schedule, Rovio has just released its latest game "The Croods" into the Play Store to coincide with the upcoming release of the DreamWorks movie. In the game you get to play as the characters of the movie, getting through your prehistoric world, hunting and gathering to survive. The gameplay will remind you a lot of recent casual RPG games, with "chores" (quests) to go on and an expanding world that you can manipulate. It'll be good fun for those who want to kill some time and play as the characters from the movie.
The game is free -- as is the case with recent Rovio titles -- and there are some in-app purchases to generate revenue, but that's usually the tradeoff when you have a free game with no ads. The Croods is available from the Play Store at the link at the top of this post if you're interested in giving it a try.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Pope Francis: A prelate who has preached against 'huge inequities'
The first pope from Latin America has highlighted in recent years the region's yawning gap between rich and poor.?
This Feb. 14 photo shows Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis I, leading a mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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EnlargeThe next leader of the Roman Catholic church combines a Jesuit intellectual mind with a life spent advocating for social justice and the poor, and in 2009 he made headlines for criticizing the government of Argentina for allowing ?huge inequities? between the rich and the poor to develop.
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After only five rounds of votes in the Sistine Chapel and at roughly 8:30 tonight, the phrase "Habemus Papam" or ?We have a pope,? was spoken on the plaza balcony in Vatican City ??and Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina appeared, dressed in white, to say the Lord?s Prayer.
The man that believing Roman Catholics call the ?successor? of the apostle Peter, and ?the vicar of Christ? will go by the name of Pope Francis. He speaks three languages, and is both the first non-European pope in modern times and the first from a developing country.
Mr. Bergoglio was elected in a swift five votes of a conclave of 115 cardinals.
According to John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter, Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires in 1936 to an Italian immigrant family. He was educated as a theologian in Germany, cooks his own meals, and?eschews the ornate trappings of church power ? he travels by bus. He became?widely known for his analysis of the negative effect of globalization on parts of the developing world. At the same time, he opposed the once-powerful liberation theology movement that previous popes denounced as flirting with Marxism.
At a gathering of Latin American bishops in 2007, Bergoglio offered that,?"We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most yet reduced misery the least. The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers."
Like his predecessor Pope Benedict, who resigned last month ? the first head of the Catholic church to do so in 600 years ? Pope Francis is said to be a strict conservative on personal morality. He has opposed Argentina?s gay marriage laws, and has been fiercely pro-family.?In church terms, though, he is seen as a master conciliator who will be adroit at healing many of the rifts and scandals over finances and pedophile priests that have dogged the Vatican in recent years.
Since 1998 he has been the Archbishop of Buenos Aires.
The conclave appeared to steer away from popular choices like the cardinals of New York and Boston, Timothy Dolan and Sean O?Malley, as well as the local Italian favorite Angelo Scola.
Bergoglio was elected by a conclave that overwhelmingly shares the conservative views of Benedict, who has held sway as an enforcer of orthodoxy in the Vatican since 1982.
As Mr. Allen of the National Catholic Reporter writes, ?Either John Paul II or Benedict XVI appointed each of the ... cardinals who will cast a ballot, including 11 Americans, so there will be little ideological clash. No matter what happens,?the church almost certainly won't reverse its bans on abortion, gay marriage or women priests.?
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Nathan Safferstein: Supermarket manager, atomic spy
Nathan?Safferstein went from a supermarket manager to a counterintelligence agent for the Manhattan Project based on a customer's recommendation. He passed away on Tuesday.
This May 2010 family photo provided by the Safferstein family shows Nathan Safferstein and his wife, Bernice Safferstein in New York. Nathan Safferstein, a native of Bridgeport, Conn., was a counterintelligence agent on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
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A customer at the Connecticut market had told her brother ? an Army intelligence commander ? about a bright young prospect. Soon, paperwork was filled out, recommendations made.
Wartime security being paramount,?Safferstein?eavesdropped on phone calls of scientists and engineers in Los Alamos, N.M., to make sure no Manhattan Project secrets were leaked, and delivered bomb-making uranium and top-secret messages. He also scrawled his signature on the first A-bomb, called "Little Boy," dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945. A second bomb leveled Nagasaki on Aug. 9, and Japan surrendered six days later.
Safferstein?died Tuesday night at his home in the Bronx after a long illness, his family said.?
"We had that feeling right from day one that this was the instrument that was going to end this war,"?Safferstein?said in a 2005 interview conducted by one of his sons, Michael, along with an oral history project moderator. "In my heart, I know that it saved us from the invasion of Japan and millions of casualties that would have come about."
The Washington-based National World War II Memorial online registry includes a photo of Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, who ran the top-secret Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Los Alamos, presenting?Safferstein?with a Bronze Star medal after the war.
Safferstein, a native of Bridgeport, Conn., had been working as a supermarket manager in nearby Fairfield when his life took the extraordinary turn. One day, he was ordered to join about 100 other men in New York City's Grand Central Terminal.
"It seemed like a thing out of a Bond movie," he recalled years later. "We were all dressed in our Adam hats and cover cloth coats. ... Ten or 12 agents would drop off: Syracuse, Buffalo, Chicago. The train kept going west."
Safferstein's?group disembarked in New Mexico. Two cars took them to a wooded area where they met Maj. Peer DeSilva, the laboratory's commander.
"He explained to us for the first time this ultra top secret mission, that they were working on a bomb that would be able to dig a hole into the ground some 80 to a hundred feet deep and perhaps 5, 10 miles long. And that from this point on, you are in the Manhattan Project,"?Safferstein?recalled.
Most of?Safferstein's?activities remained a mystery to his family and friends, including his future bride, Bernice Klein.
Duty later called?Safferstein?to the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific, where U.S. forces had built airfields to launch long-range raids on Japan itself, and in mid-1945 the two bombs from Los Alamos had been secretly delivered by Navy ship.
About 12 hours before "Little Boy" was placed aboard the aircraft Enola Gay, a scientist appeared at a Quonset hut on the island of Tinian to make final adjustments.
He "explained the whole function of this bomb,"?Safferstein?recalled. "And then he left and here I am alone with 'Little Boy.' And so I walked over to it, saw that there were some initials on it ... and added my signature to the bomb."
Though "extremely proud" to be part of history,?Safferstein?was not impervious to the ravages of war.
After the bombs were dropped,?Safferstein?accompanied a team that included U.S. doctors who surveyed the damage in Japan. Deeply moved by its "beautiful people," he recalled thinking: "Let's ... never have to use it again."
He said that after the war, Groves urged him to remain in counterintelligence, but he decided on civilian life. He returned to supermarkets, became president of Storecast Corp., a merchandising and marketing company, then started Long Island-based Supercast and its spinoff, In-Store Distributing.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Good Reads: Saving the Amazon, Kenya?s ?Iron Lady?, drones, Depardieu the Russian
In efforts to reduce deforestation levels in the Amazon region, Brazil is at the forefront of an experimental climate-change prevention strategy known as ?reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation,? or REDD.
In Foreign Affairs, Jeff Tollefson describes the REDD system, which places monetary value on the amount of carbon dioxide that can be stored in trees. Wealthy nations or corporations pay countries to protect their rain forests, and thus offset carbon emissions.
Through its Amazon Fund, Brazil received funding from Norway starting in 2010. Spending almost $152 million, Brazil executed projects that paid landowners to preserve forests and educated farmers and ranchers on sustainable practices. The result: Brazil has seen a plunging rate of deforestation, registering record lows from 2009 to 2012.
Despite the remaining challenges for implementing a universal plan, Mr. Tollefson writes, ?at a time when expectations for progress on climate change are falling, Brazil has given the world a glimmer of hope. In many ways, the hard work is just beginning, but the results so far more than justify continuing the experiment.?
KENYA'S 'IRON LADY'
During the run-up to Kenya?s March 4 presidential election, the media focused on the two front-runners, Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta. But among the six other candidates, there is one to keep watching: Martha Karua, Kenya?s own ?Iron Lady.?
A profile by Al Jazeera details Ms. Karua?s rise in national politics, from a magistrate to a member of parliament and minister for justice under President Mwai Kibaki. She was the only woman to run in this year?s election, during which she pledged to create a universal health-care system and increase Internet access to 50 percent of Kenyans within five years.
?Her manifesto, perhaps reflecting her legal background, emphasises ?a new spirit of constitutionalism?, prioritising the fight against corruption and respect for national diversity,? Al Jazeera writes.
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Her outspoken condemnation of her fellow candidates, particularly those implicated in stoking the postelection violence in 2007, best explains her Iron Lady nickname. She accuses Mr. Odinga of ethnic cleansing, and Mr. Kenyatta is facing charges of crimes against humanity from the International Criminal Court.
She said he should be cleared of those charges before he can be elected president.
?How do you seek votes, yet grave accusations of causing death, arson and mass displacements are on your head?? she told reporters. ?If your cow?s leg is broken, do you strap a plough on it and head to the farm ? or do you first get it treated and allow it time to heal??
FUTURE OF DRONES
Drones have drastically changed the strategy of modern warfare, playing an effective, albeit controversial, role in the US fight against Al Qaeda. The government and private companies are now looking homeward for the next development in drone technology. Potential uses include crop dusting, traffic control, border patrol, and weather forecasting, reports John Horgan in National Geographic. But even with these benefits, people are worried about potential breaches in privacy ? and the possibility for errors.
As new, more sophisticated drones take to the skies in the United States, and in other countries where drones are manufactured (such as China, Israel, and Iran), Mr. Horgan says that limiting risk is crucial.
?The invention that escapes our control, proliferating whether or not it benefits humanity, has been a persistent fear of the industrial age ? with good reason,? Horgan writes. ?Nuclear weapons are too easy an example; consider what cars have done to our landscape over the past century, and it?s fair to wonder who?s in the driver?s seat, them or us."
DEPARDIEU AND INCOME INEQUALITY
As G?rard Depardieu takes up residency in his newly adopted countries (Belgium and Russia), Lauren Collins in The New Yorker explains why the French have dismissed the once beloved actor.
Mr. Depardieu famously renounced his French citizenship after the government promised to impose a new supertax on the wealthy ? 75 percent on incomes greater than 1 million euros. French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called Depardieu?s move ?pathetic.?
This was the ultimate insult for a man who came from a poor background and built his wealth through acting and entrepreneurial ventures. He?s leaving France, he said in a letter to Mr. Ayrault, ?because you believe success, creation, talent, anything different, to be grounds for sanction.?
But 60 percent of his former countrymen support the supertax, drawing ?on the republican ideal of taxation as an institution that would foster social cohesion,?writes Ms. Collins. Taxes on the rich are seen as a way to prevent income disparities.
?There?s a very egalitarian idea of what society should be, whatever hypocrisy it entails,? Christine Ockrent, a veteran journalist, told Collins. ?It dates back to the French Revolution, which, by the way, was a very bourgeois revolution. The myth of equality is something which strangles any discussion about income.?
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Sunday, March 10, 2013
Jeb Bush: I'm 'in sync' with Graham on immigration reform
During an interview for "This Week," former Florida governor Jeb Bush told me that he was "in sync" with South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on the issue of immigration reform.
Graham, a key member of the bipartisan group of senators pushing for immigration reform, took Bush to task after the former Florida governor said Monday that he did not support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, which is a key component of the plan being pushed by the Senate group. Bush subsequently reversed course and said he could in fact support a plan that included a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants already living in the United States.
"Senator Graham and I talked. He was responding to concerns that were expressed before the book was actually published," Bush said. "I told him that I support his efforts and I applaud what he's doing. And he concluded, after he heard what the thesis of the book is that we're in sync. We're on the same - on the same path."
"The basic premise needs to be that coming to the country legally should be easier with less cost than coming to the country illegally. And if you can create a system like that as is being discussed in the Senate and in the House- through a path to citizenship, that's fine," Bush said. "But my guess is that will take a long, long time to achieve. In the interim, it's important to take people out from the shadows to allow them to have- the dignity of being- having legal status."
Florida governor Jeb Bush told me that he was "very encouraged" about the possibility of comprehensive immigration reform - a legislative achievement that has eluded lawmakers for more than a decade - becoming law by the end of the year.
"I'm very encouraged. There are some big sticking points about how do you deal with making sure that there's enough seasonal workers, temporary worker programs that have been quite successful in the past," Bush said. "There's a lot of work being done, really good work, courageous work, 'cause this is complex and may not be popular, but I think it's- it is possible that comprehensive reform can be done."
Turning to President Obama's new effort to reach out to his colleagues on right - which included inviting the GOP's 2012 vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan to lunch - Bush complimented the president, comparing his actions to those of Ronald Reagan, an icon of the Republican Party.
"I'm very encouraged by the fact the president is trying to restore some personal connection with policymakers in Congress. I'm at the Reagan Library today and that's kind of what Ronald Reagan did. He didn't scorn his adversaries, he embraced them and got a lot done," Bush said. "This is very positive in my mind. It makes it harder to reach agreement when there's not trust. It's just human nature. And so this is maybe a good, positive first step."
Bush qualified his praise for the president, tweaking him for a lack of "seriousness" when it came to the president's efforts to reach a deal to reduce the national debt and specifically his willingness to embrace entitlement reform as part of a potential bargain with Republicans.
"I haven't seen the seriousness of the president's efforts. I'd love to see a specific plan that really did reform- bend the cost curve for Medicare and the entitlement system. I haven't seen it, so if there is through these talks, some kind of consensus that emerged, I don't think you should say, 'no, no, no' about anything'" Bush said.
"Frankly, there was already been one of the largest tax increases in American history a month ago. And frankly, we ought to be focused on sustained economic growth, which grows more revenue for people and for government than any tax increase that's been suggested, so there are a lot of things that could be done to create a real grand bargain. And let the process work. I'm hopeful that the president's sincere about this," Bush said.
Bush also insisted during out conversation that he is not positioning himself for a 2016 presidential run as he promotes his new book "Immigration Wars," even as speculation grows that he aims to be the third member of the Bush family to occupy the oval office.
"I'm not viewing this as a political reentry either. I just don't view it that way," Bush said. "Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington and that's just the nature of the beast and it is what it is."
Finally Bush gave me an update on the health of his father, 88-year-old former president George H.W. Bush, who was released from the hospital earlier this year after a lengthy stay.
"He's doing better. You know, he's got his spectacular chief caregiver, Barbara Bush, taking care of him and he's regaining his strength day by day. And he's out more," Bush said. "He was at the University of Texas, A&M, at the Bush School- twice in the last two weeks, so- we're excited that he seems to be making great progress."
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Saturday, March 9, 2013
Big East completes football-basketball breakup
NEW YORK (AP) ? The Big East is going back to its roots ? and punting football.
The football and basketball schools in the ever-changing conference announced Friday that they have agreed to a settlement that will allow the two sides to go their own ways on July 1.
Commissioner Mike Aresco told The Associated Press the seven Catholic schools that are leaving to form a basketball-centric conference will get the Big East name, along with the opportunity to play their league tournament in Madison Square Garden.
The football members, most of which are newcomers to a conference that has been ravaged by realignment, get a huge cash haul but will have to find a new name for their league.
"It's been an arduous four months but we got to the right place," Aresco said in a phone interview. "I think both conferences have good futures."
Aresco, who will remain commissioner of the football league, would not disclose the financial part of the settlement.
A person familiar with the negotiations told the AP earlier this week that the football schools will receive about $100 million from a $110 million stash the conference had built up over the last two and a half years through exit and entry fees as well as NCAA men's basketball tournament funds.
Aresco said the football schools have not chosen a conference name and there are no favorites yet. "We can get on with reinventing ourselves and re-establishing our brand," he said.
He also said they have not determined how the money from the separation agreement will be split among the members.
The person familiar with the negotiations said the bulk of the money will go to holdover members Cincinnati, Connecticut and South Florida.
The divorce agreement with the basketball members, and the football schools' new TV deal with ESPN, still must be ratified by the school presidents. Aresco said that should come soon and without glitches.
Next up on the agenda for the football schools, Aresco said, is to find a 12th member and venues for future basketball tournaments.
The settlement will bring the Big East back to its origins. When it was formed in 1979, it banded together a group of mostly small, private schools located in and around big Northeast cities.
The seven schools breaking away from the football schools include some of the Big East's founding members and most recognizable teams: Georgetown, St. John's, Providence, Seton Hall, Villanova, Marquette and DePaul. They are expected to sign a television rights deal with Fox, add at least two more schools and have the new league up-and-running by July.
"We are grateful to Commissioner Mike Aresco for spearheading an agreement that truly represents the best path forward for each of our great institutions and the thousands of student-athletes who compete for our schools annually," the presidents of the seven basketball schools said in a joint statement.
The football conference now known as the Big East will consist next season of Connecticut, South Florida, Cincinnati, Temple, Rutgers and Louisville, along with incoming members Memphis, Central Florida, SMU and Houston.
Rutgers and Louisville will likely be playing their last seasons in the conference before switching leagues, to the Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference, respectively.
Tulane and East Carolina are scheduled to join the football league in 2014, and Navy comes aboard in 2015. Tulsa is being targeted as the next addition to the conference.
The Big East started playing football in 1991, when it added Miami, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Rutgers and Temple, to go along with Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Boston College. The relationship between the football and basketball wings was always difficult to navigate, but Big East football was good enough to be a given a reserved spot in the Bowl Championship Series in 1998 and that gave the basketball schools access to millions of dollars in revenue they otherwise would not have had.
In 2004, Miami and Virginia Tech were lured from the Big East to the ACC and Boston College (a founding member), followed the next year.
Those defections looked as if they could kill Big East football, but the conference recovered by adding Cincinnati, Louisville, South Florida to rebuild football and DePaul and Marquette to bolster basketball.
That worked for a while. Big East football more than held its own and Big East basketball, both men's and women's, thrived.
But the conference fell apart over the last two seasons. Starting with Syracuse and Pittsburgh announcing in 2011 that they would join the ACC, 16 schools, including Notre Dame, have bailed on the Big East.
Notre Dame plans to join the ACC, but was expected to spend one more season in the Big East. The breakup could lead the Irish to expedite their move.
The Big East seemed to be on its way toward stabilizing last fall. It hired Aresco, the former CBS executive, and had a plan to build a coast-to-coast football conference with Boise State anchoring a western division.
Then the Big Ten wooed Rutgers away and the ACC came for Louisville and the plan fell apart.
The basketball schools decided to take control of their future, with help from Fox, which will provide them a lucrative TV deal to help fill the network's new all-sports cable channels.
The football schools will still have a basketball league, with Connecticut, Memphis and Cincinnati as the headliners.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/big-east-completes-football-basketball-breakup-172945596--spt.html
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Friday, March 8, 2013
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
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