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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Shifting sands: Force is the key to granular state-shifting
Feb. 15, 2013 ? Ever wonder why sand can both run through an hourglass like a liquid and be solid enough to support buildings? It's because granular materials -- like sand or dirt -- can change their behavior, or state. Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that the forces individual grains exert on one another are what most affect that transition.
Physicists have explored the changing behavior of granular materials by comparing it to what happens in thermodynamic systems. In a thermodynamic system, you can change the state of a material -- like water -- from a liquid to a gas by adding energy (heat) to the system. One of the most fundamental and important observations about temperature, however, is that it has the ability to equilibrate: a hot cup of tea eventually cools to match the temperature of the room.
Physicists thought they could use thermodynamics' underlying ideas to explain the changes in granular materials, but didn't know whether granular materials had properties which might equilibrate in a similar way. In other words, instead of temperature being the change agent in a granular system, it might be a property related to the amount of free space, or the forces on the particles. But no one had really tested which of the two might exhibit this property of equilibration.
NC State physicist Karen Daniels and former graduate student James Puckett devised a way to do just that. Puckett used two different types of plastic "granules" with different properties that floated atop a layer of air on a small table. Puckett and Daniels wanted to see what would bring the two types of particles into equilibrium with one another. In order to make their measurements, they used a plastic material that indicated a change in force by a change in brightness.
First, they measured compactivity, which describes the number of ways particles can arrange themselves inside a given space, or volume, by reducing the physical space around the granules, but the two types of particles failed to achieve equilibrium. When they measured the ways that the forces between the particles could rearrange, they saw the equilibrium they were looking for.
Their findings appear in Physical Review Letters.
"Physicists often have ideas that are theoretically elegant, such as the idea that there might be new temperature-like variables to be discovered, and then it's exciting to go into the lab and see how well these ideas work in practice," says Daniels. "In this case, we found it is possible to take the temperature of a granular system and find out more about what makes it change its state. The 'thermometer' for this temperature is actually the particles themselves."
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- James G. Puckett, Karen E. Daniels. Equilibrating Temperaturelike Variables in Jammed Granular Subsystems. Physical Review Letters, 2013; 110 (5) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.058001
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[News] Bugs & Fixes: iPhone fails to pair to Bluetooth device
Last September, a new thread in Apple Support Communities briefly noted that a user was unable to get his iPhone 5 to pair with other Bluetooth devices. As it turned out, he was not alone. Cut to the present: this thread is now 29 pages long, with several hundred confirmations of the symptom.
Here's the problem: In the most common scenario, users are unable to pair an iPhone 5 to a Bluetooth car audio system. In some other cases, users are unable to pair an iPhone 5 to a Bluetooth headset. Pairings to other devices may or may not work. Typically, problems begin after upgrading from an older iPhone model (which was working just fine) to an iPhone 5, running iOS 6. In a few instances, the same sort of pairing problems have been reported for the iPhone 4S.
If this has happened to you, one or more of the following fixes should get you connected again:
Update the car audio firmware: Several postings in the above Communities thread cite confirmations from automobile manufacturers that their cars' audio systems are "not compatible with iPhone 5." In particular, the older Bluetooth drivers in these systems are not compatible with the Bluetooth 4.0 standard used by the latest iPhones. A firmware update to the audio system eliminates the problem. Check with the manufacturer of your car or audio system for details.
Apple has confirmed that some car audio systems require a firmware update to work with AVRCP 1.4 Bluetooth. However, the symptoms described in the Apple article refer only to an inability to perform certain music playing functions--not an inability to pair devices. So I doubt this is a cause of the problems described in the Communities thread.
Follow the instructions: Several users were able to pair their new iPhone to their car's audio system only after they made sure to precisely follow instructions. In particular, pairing required a confirming action from both the iPhone and the car audio system. Users, apparently having forgotten how they originally paired their older iPhone model, were erroneously attempting to pair their new iPhone 5 by confirming only on one device. Similarly, when attempting to pair an iPhone to a Bluetooth headset, some users didn't realize that it was necessary to hold down the headset's call button.
In other words, RTFM. If you can no longer locate the manual for your device, check the thread cited above. Numerous posts offer step-by-step instructions for how to pair different devices to an iPhone.
Modify iPhone Settings: A number of users had success by making a change in the iPhone's Settings app. Specifically, navigate to General > Accessibility > Physical & Motor. From here, change the Incoming Calls setting from Default to Headset. This change ensures that the iPhone creates a Bluetooth headset pairing to your car's audio system, which is needed for phone calls to work as expected. When you are not in your car, the iPhone reverts to its "normal" behavior.
Clear the device's memory: A few users claimed that, when trying to pair an iPhone 5 to their car's audio system, the system would instead continue to attempt to connect with a previously paired, now absent, iPhone model. To fix this, wipe the car system's memory clean, having it "forget" all previously paired devices. After doing so, pairing with the new iPhone should succeed.
Update to iOS 6.1: In some cases, the culprit may be a bug in the iOS 6.0 software. At least for Honda CR-V owners, upgrading to iOS 6.1 seemed to eliminate Bluetooth pairing problems.
Consider the hardware: As it happens, my wife's iPhone 4 fell victim to an intermittent Bluetooth failure. About half the time, the phone would successfully pair with the aftermarket Sony Bluetooth audio system in her car. At the other times, the iPhone would fail to pair. None of the above suggested solutions had any effect. What did work was dumping the iPhone 4 and moving up to an iPhone 4S. In this case, I suspect there was a Bluetooth hardware failure in the iPhone 4.
Source: http://www.pcworld.in/news/bugs-fixes-iphone-fails-pair-bluetooth-device-94072013
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World's largest trove of tiny cars goes to auction
Like many of the wealthy, Bruce Weiner likes to collect things.
The candy entrepreneur who made his fortune from Double Bubble and Razzles gum, wax lips and other confections collects radios, watches, vintage motorcycles and Volkswagens.
But his real passion in recent years has been collecting small cars. Very small cars. Over 11 years, Weiner has built the world's largest collection of "microcars" ? three- and four-wheeled cars made after World War II that are the early predecessors of today's increasingly popular Smart cars, MINI Coopers and Fiat 500s.
Today and tomorrow, Weiner and RM Auctions will be selling off the collection of more than 200 cars and 300 car-related collectibles. The collection is expected to fetch more than $6 million.
Read more: 10 Cars That Just Sold for More Than $2 Million
Weiner said he's selling the collection as part of a broader downsizing of his lifestyle and desire to share the cars with others after spending years hunting them down.
"I'm 54 and I'm starting to simplify," he said. "I don't want my stuff to own me. "
He said that it took 11 years to build the collection. While microcars have always been the poor cousin to vintage muscle cars and exotics, they have a cult following among collectors. Many microcars were built in Europe and Asian after World War II, when money, gasoline and raw materials were scarce. In many countries, cars with three wheels didn't require a driver's license, making them more attractive.
"They are very rare," Weiner said. "And they're part of history."
Weiner said much of the joy of building the collection was "the thrill of the hunt."
Take, for example, his ordeal in buying the 1955 Kroboth Allwetter-Roller, a three-wheel convertible designed by car-design legend Gustav Korboth. Weiner heard that a prized example of the car was owned by an older man in Bavaria. Weiner traveled to the man's house every three months for three years, but the seller adamantly refused.
"He chased me off the property every time," he said. "He either met me with a shot gun or German shepherds."
Read more: Must-Have, $1.6 Million Supercar Isn't Street Legal
Eventually, the owner died and Weiner befriended the man's sister and brother, and convinced them to sell. The car could sell for $40,000 to $50,000 (there are no reserves in the sale).
Among the most valuable cars to be sold in the auction is a 1958 F.M.R. Tg 500 "Tiger," which could sell for more than $150,000. A modified 1959 BMW Isetta, called "Whatta Drag," could fetch $100,000. The car was commissioned by Weiner to look like a famous Hot Wheels drag-racer. It's only one of four Hot Wheels to be turned into real cars.
The smallest production car ever built will also be sold. The 1964 Peel P50 could sell for $35,000 to $40,000. The sales slogan for the three-wheeler used to be "Almost cheaper than walking!" Apparently, not anymore.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/worlds-largest-trove-tiny-cars-goes-auction-1C8394499
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
David Plouffe: "Bigger Problem [GOP Has] Got With Latinos Isn?t Immigration. It?s Their Economic Policies ..."
Robert Draper writes a long article in the New York Times called "Can the Republicans Be Saved from?Obsolescence?" that mostly consists of younger GOP operatives like Patrick Ruffini explaining how they aren't to blame for the Romney Campaign and how they would have been awesome if anybody had hired them, what with their digital wizardry and all.
I presume there's a good story out there somewhere about the Romney campaign and its multitudinous consultants that would involve the terms "conflict of interest" and "financial malfeasance," but this isn't it.?
However, when you finally get to p. 8, there's an interview with David Plouffe, manager of the 2008 Obama campaign and who just retired from being Senior Adviser to the President to go make money. Plouffe, who has just about the best track record in American politics of knowing what he's talking about when it comes to winning elections, points out that everything you've read since the election is wrong:
But, I asked Plouffe, wasn?t the G.O.P. just one postmodern presidential candidate ? say, a Senator Marco Rubio ? away from getting back into the game??
Pouncing, he replied: ?Let me tell you something. The Hispanic voters in Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico don?t give a damn about Marco Rubio, the Tea Party Cuban-American from Florida. You know what? We won the Cuban vote! And it?s because younger Cubans are behaving differently than their parents. It?s probably my favorite stat of the whole campaign. So this notion that Marco Rubio is going to heal their problems ? it?s not even sophomoric; it?s juvenile! And by the way: the bigger problem they?ve got with Latinos isn?t immigration. It?s their economic policies and health care. The group that supported the president?s health care bill the most? Latinos.?
All this Rubio / "path to citizenship" talk, it's just a Democratic honey trap to lure Republicans in to their destruction. Ask Plouffe.
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Friday, February 15, 2013
These MTA Snow Trains Fight Old Man Winter with Jet Engines
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Wristwatch Positioning Device Uses Gemalto's Cinterion M2M ...
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AMSTERDAM ? Wednesday, February 13th 2013 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)? Regulatory News :
Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces that its Cinterion? M2M technology is powering the innovative TRiLOC? GPS Personal Locator Device (PLD) used to locate people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), dementia and Alzheimer?s disease. The easy-to-wear wristwatch solution uses an ultra-slim Cinterion module to provide 24/7 global cellular communications and Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking. The TRiLOC device helps caregivers locate and safeguard people with special needs while minimizing the need for constant physical supervision. Worldwide there are more than 30 million individuals suffering from autism or Alzheimer?s disease and more than 60 million caregivers are looking for solutions to improve their independence and safety1.
Developed by iLOC Technologies, the TRiLOC PLD integrates Gemalto?s Cinterion PHS8 M2M module to provide simultaneous high-speed data and voice communications as well as GPS location data. Gemalto?s solution transmits an individual?s precise location to the designated caretaker?s cell phone or computer while enabling hands-free two-way voice calling when needed. A remote listening feature allows caretakers to detect when immediate help is required, and the wearer has access to an SOS button in case of emergencies. With Bluetooth? 4.0, the TRiLOC PLD can sync with mHealth devices, smart home appliances and security solutions to send status updates to caregivers. An optional accessory worn by caregivers enables proximity detection and electronic tethering sending immediate text messages and audio alarms if an individual strays too far. In addition, an alert can be sent when the device?s lockable strap is tampered with. Gemalto?s Cinterion M2M advanced power management technology extends the device?s battery life for longer operation before recharging is necessary.
?We created TRiLOC GPS Personal Locator after two years of research and many discussions with care giving associations and parents of children with ASD,? said Tony Fama, iLOC President, CEO and father of a son with ASD. ?TRiLOC gives my son greater autonomy and reduces the need of constant supervision. With the tethering accessory, families or caregivers can plan trips to museums, shopping centers, and even busy theme parks without the enormous stress of the individual wandering off.?
?It is really rewarding to see our technology truly changing the lives of people with special needs, in this case those who are prone to getting lost,? said Norbert Muhrer, Senior Vice President of Gemalto M2M. ?As a result of our miniaturization efforts we have produced our slimmest module to date, the Cinterion PHS8, which is small and powerful enough to drive this innovative wristwatch. With this solution, Gemalto is again helping to improve the security and convenience of citizens by leveraging the full potential of the wireless and digital worlds around us?.
1 ? Autism Wandering Awareness Alerts Response Education (AWAARE) and American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF)
About iLOC Technologies
iLOC Technologies Inc. is a privately held corporation located in Montreal, Canada. Its mission is to provide leading edge, cost effective and innovative personal safety & security products and services that promote end user peace-of-mind.
Contact Information iLOC Technologies Inc. 1870 Boul. Des Sources, suite 205 Pointe-Claire, Qu?bec Canada H9R5N4 website: http://www.iloctech.com email: info@iloctech.com 1.855.456.4562 (iLoc) 1.514.987.4562 (iLoc)
About Gemalto
Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) is the world leader in digital security with 2011 annual revenues of ?2 billion and more than 10,000 employees operating out of 74 offices and 14 Research & Development centers, located in 43 countries.
We are at the heart of the rapidly evolving digital society. Billions of people worldwide increasingly want the freedom to communicate, travel, shop, bank, entertain and work ? anytime, everywhere ? in ways that are enjoyable and safe. Gemalto delivers on their expanding needs for personal mobile services, payment security, authenticated cloud access, identity and privacy protection, eHealthcare and eGovernment efficiency, convenient ticketing and dependable machine-to-machine (M2M) applications.
Gemalto develops secure embedded software and secure products which we design and personalize. Our platforms and services manage these secure products, the confidential data they contain and the trusted end-user services they enable. Our innovations enable our clients to offer trusted and convenient digital services to billions of individuals.
Gemalto thrives with the growing number of people using its solutions to interact with the digital and wireless world.
For more information visit www.gemalto.com, www.justaskgemalto.com, blog.gemalto.com, or follow @gemalto on Twitter.
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NKorea nuke test may offer intelligence windfall
South Korean army soldiers walk on a snow covered road during an exercise near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. Defying U.N. warnings, North Korea on Tuesday conducted its third nuclear test in the remote, snowy northeast, taking a crucial step toward its goal of building a bomb small enough to be fitted on a missile capable of striking the United States. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
South Korean army soldiers walk on a snow covered road during an exercise near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. Defying U.N. warnings, North Korea on Tuesday conducted its third nuclear test in the remote, snowy northeast, taking a crucial step toward its goal of building a bomb small enough to be fitted on a missile capable of striking the United States. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
A North Korean military guard post, right bottom, in North Korea's Kaepoong is viewed from the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. North Korea's neighbors bolstered their military preparations and mobilized scientists Wednesday to determine whether Pyongyang's third nuclear test, conducted in defiance of U.N. warnings, was as successful as the North claimed. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
TOKYO (AP) ? North Korea's underground nuclear test shows it is making big strides toward becoming a true nuclear power. But the test may also reveal key clues the secretive nation might have hoped to hide about how close, or how far away, it is from fielding a nuclear weapon capable of striking the United States or its allies.
Hoping to capitalize on a rare opportunity to gauge North Korea's nuclear capabilities, intelligence and military officials around the region are scrambling to glean data to answer three big questions: how powerful was the device Pyongyang tested, what sort of device was it, and what progress does the test indicate the nation has made.
North Korea hailed Tuesday's test as a "perfect" success, saying it used a device that was stronger and more advanced than those in its past two attempts. Add that to its successful rocket launch in December and the threat of a North Korea ready to strike at the United States, which it sees as its arch-enemy, would appear to be more real than ever.
But just how close is it?
The main thing intelligence officials want to figure out is what kind of device was used. Was it a plutonium bomb, like the ones it tested in 2006 and 2009, or one that used highly enriched uranium?
James Acton, an analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said North Korea's plutonium stockpile is small and it would be difficult and expensive for the North to produce more. But a test using highly enriched uranium, which is cheaper and easier to produce, would raise the threat that North Korea can expand its nuclear arsenal quickly.
"A highly enriched uranium test would be a significant development," he said. "Unfortunately, we don't yet have any evidence as to the device's design yield or whether it was made from plutonium or highly enriched uranium."
Finding that out is a race against time.
Joseph De Trani, former head of the National Counterproliferation Center, predicted U.S. intelligence would determine the size and composition of the nuclear device in one to three days based partly on radioactive elements released into the environment.
"Highly enriched uranium is something that degrades quickly, so you would have to collect within a 24-hour period," especially because the traces from an underground explosion will be minimal, he said.
Neighboring Japan may provide some of those answers.
Its fighter jets were dispatched immediately after the test to collect atmospheric samples. Japan has also established land-based monitoring posts, including one on its northwest coast, to collect similar data.
But experts caution such monitoring doesn't always work because test sites can be sealed to prevent tell-tale leaks. They also note that North Korea has proven it has the ability to mask its tests quite well. No radioactivity was detected after North Korea's test in 2009.
The first indication of the latest test was seismic activity at the test site, which U.S. officials estimated at roughly magnitude 5.1. That would be equivalent to a medium-sized earthquake. North Korea's two previous tests registered at magnitude 4.3 and 4.7.
Working off that data, South Korean officials estimate the yield of the device ? a measure of how strong its explosion is in comparison to TNT ? to be between 6 and 7 kilotons. The United States has estimated it at "several kilotons." Either way, it would be North Korea's biggest yield yet but far less than that of the weapon dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, which was about 20 kilotons.
"Because the depth of the test is not known and the geology of the test site is uncertain, translating the seismic magnitude into yield is difficult," said Acton, the Carnegie analyst. "My own back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests a yield of between 4 and 15 kilotons."
The size of the blast suggests it was, as North Korea claims, a success.
North Korea's first test is largely believed to have fizzled, with a yield of less than 1 kiloton, and the second was between 2 and 7 kilotons.
"The first test almost failed. The second one showed they could basically do it. The third one showed that this is really working," said Won-Young Kim, a seismologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
The final intelligence task will be confirming or debunking North Korea's claim that this time around it tested a smaller, more advanced bomb. That is important because if the North is to field a nuclear weapon on the tip of a long-range missile, it must be lightweight. Making this determination will also depend on what materials leaked from the test, which experts can use to understand what kind of a device was detonated and infer how it was designed.
Experts have long been divided on whether North Korea has made much headway on clearing that hurdle, though the general consensus is they are not there yet. David Albright and Andrea Stricker, of the Institute for Science and International Security, said the latest test could be a measure of progress.
"Although more information is needed to make a sound assessment, this test could, as North Korea has stated, demonstrate this capability," they said in a statement. "ISIS has also assessed that North Korea still lacks the ability to deploy a warhead on an ICBM, although it shows progress at this effort."
Even so, they stressed North Korea could be years away from having a credible nuclear weapon that it could launch at the United States.
They said North Korea will need to conduct missile flight tests with a re-entry vehicle and mock warhead, increase the explosive yield of its warheads, possibly working to make them smaller, and improve the reliability of both its warheads and missiles.
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Associated Press writers Foster Klug in Seoul, South Korea, and Kimberly Dozier in Washington contributed to this report.
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Study questions kidney cancer treatment in elderly
In a stunning example of when treatment might be worse than the disease, a large review of Medicare records finds that older people with small kidney tumors were much less likely to die over the next five years if doctors monitored them instead of operating right away.
Even though nearly all of these tumors turned out to be cancer, they rarely proved fatal. And surgery roughly doubled patients' risk of developing heart problems or dying of other causes, doctors found.
After five years, 24 percent of those who had surgery had died, compared to only 13 percent of those who chose monitoring. Just 3 percent of people in each group died of kidney cancer.
The study only involved people 66 and older, but half of all kidney cancers occur in this age group. Younger people with longer life expectancies should still be offered surgery, doctors stressed.
The study also was observational ? not an experiment where some people were given surgery and others were monitored, so it cannot prove which approach is best. Yet it offers a real-world look at how more than 7,000 Medicare patients with kidney tumors fared. Surgery is the standard treatment now.
"I think it should change care" and that older patients should be told "that they don't necessarily need to have the kidney tumor removed," said Dr. William Huang of New York University Langone Medical Center. "If the treatment doesn't improve cancer outcomes, then we should consider leaving them alone."
He led the study and will give results at a medical meeting in Orlando, Fla., later this week. The research was discussed Tuesday in a telephone news conference sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and two other cancer groups.
In the United States, about 65,000 new cases of kidney cancer and 13,700 deaths from the disease are expected this year. Two-thirds of cases are diagnosed at the local stage, when five-year survival is more than 90 percent.
However, most kidney tumors these days are found not because they cause symptoms, but are spotted by accident when people are having an X-ray or other imaging test for something else, like back trouble or chest pain.
Cancer experts increasingly question the need to treat certain slow-growing cancers that are not causing symptoms ? prostate cancer in particular. Researchers wanted to know how life-threatening small kidney tumors were, especially in older people most likely to suffer complications from surgery.
They used federal cancer registries and Medicare records from 2000 to 2007 to find 8,317 people 66 and older with kidney tumors less than 1.5 inches wide.
Cancer was confirmed in 7,148 of them. About three-quarters of them had surgery and the rest chose to be monitored with periodic imaging tests.
After five years, 1,536 had died, including 191 of kidney cancer. For every 100 patients who chose monitoring, 11 more were alive at the five-year mark compared to the surgery group. Only 6 percent of those who chose monitoring eventually had surgery.
Furthermore, 27 percent of the surgery group but only 13 percent of the monitoring group developed a cardiovascular problem such as a heart attack, heart disease or stroke. These problems were more likely if doctors removed the entire kidney instead of just a part of it.
The results may help doctors persuade more patients to give monitoring a chance, said a cancer specialist with no role in the research, Dr. Bruce Roth of Washington University in St. Louis.
Some patients with any abnormality "can't sleep at night until something's done about it," he said. Doctors need to say, "We're not sticking our head in the sand, we're going to follow this" and can operate if it gets worse.
One of Huang's patients ? 81-year-old Rhona Landorf, who lives in New York City ? needed little persuasion.
"I was very happy not to have to be operated on," she said. "He said it's very slow growing and that having an operation would be worse for me than the cancer."
Landorf said her father had been a doctor, and she trusts her doctors' advice. Does she think about her tumor? "Not at all," she said.
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Online:
Kidney cancer info: http://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/kidney-cancer
and http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/kidney
Study: http://gucasym.org
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Marilynn Marchione can be followed at http://twitter.com/MMarchioneAP
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/study-questions-kidney-cancer-treatment-elderly-230653882.html
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Retiring pope faces uncharted territory
VATICAN CITY (AP) ? For months, construction crews have been renovating a four-story building attached to a monastery on the northern edge of the Vatican gardens where nuns would live for a few years at a time in cloister.
Only a handful of Vatican officials knew it would one day be Pope Benedict XVI's retirement home.
On Tuesday, construction materials littered the front lawn of the house and plastic tubing snaked down from the top floor to a cargo container. The restoration deadline has become even more critical following Benedict's stunning announcement that he will resign Feb. 28 and live his remaining days in prayer.
From a new name to this new home to the awkward reality of having a reigning pope and a retired one, Benedict is facing uncharted territory as he becomes the first pontiff in six centuries to retire. The 85-year-old Benedict said Monday he was stepping down because he simply no longer had the strength in mind or body to carry on.
Although no date for a conclave has been announced, it must begin within 20 days of his Feb. 28 retirement. That means a new pope will likely be elected by the College of Cardinals by Easter ? March 31 this year.
The decision immediately raised questions about what Benedict would be called, where he would live ? and how that might affect his successor.
The Vatican's senior communications adviser, Greg Burke, said Tuesday the fact that Benedict had chosen to live in a monastery is significant.
"It is something that he has wanted to do for a while," Burke said. "But I think it also suggests that his role is going to be a very quiet one, and that is important so you don't have a situation of ... two different popes at the same time, and one influencing the other.
"I think the obvious thing is when he says retirement, it really means retiring," he said.
As for his name, Burke said Benedict would most likely be referred to "Bishop of Rome, emeritus" as opposed to "Pope Emeritus." The Vatican's spokesman, The Rev. Federico Lombardi, also said Benedict would take some kind of "emeritus" title.
Other Vatican officials said it would probably be up to the next pope to decide Benedict's new title, and wouldn't exclude that he might still be called "Your Holiness" as a courtesy, much as retired presidents are often referred to as "President." It was not clear whether the retired pope will retain the name Benedict - or revert to being called Joseph Ratzinger again.
Benedict had important unfinished business before his retirement: He has been widely expected to issue his fourth encyclical, concerning faith, before Easter. But Lombardi on Tuesday ruled out that the encyclical would be ready before his retirement.
Already, he was changing his schedule to take into account his new circumstances. He had been scheduled to go to a church on Rome's Aventine hill for the annual Ash Wednesday service this week starting the church's Lenten season; the service will take place in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome instead. The official reason given by Lombardi is that a larger space was needed to accommodate the throngs expected to greet the outgoing pope - but observers suspect the Vatican may also want to spare Benedict from the crowds along the hill.
Immediately after his resignation, Benedict will spend some time at the papal summer retreat in Castel Gandolfo, overlooking Lake Albano in the hills south of Rome where he has spent his summer vacations reading and writing. By March, the weather may start to warm up and he should be able to enjoy the gardens and feed the goldfish in a pond near a statue of the Madonna where he often liked to visit.
If he's interested, he can do some star gazing; The Vatican Observatory is located inside the palazzo, complete with a telescope and a world-class collection of meteorites.
Lombardi said Benedict would eventually return to the Vatican and live at a monastery inside the Vatican gardens. Asked if he might like to go somewhere else, Lombardi said the pope would feel "much safer" inside the Vatican walls.
The Mater Ecclesiae monastery was built in 1992, on the site of a former residence for the Vatican's gardeners. Pope John Paul II had wanted a residence inside the Vatican walls to host contemplative religious orders, and over the years several different orders would come for spells of a few years, said Giovanni Maria Vian, the editor of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.
The last such order of nuns left the residence in October, and renovation work began immediately afterward, Vian told AP. He said Benedict had decided to retire last April after his taxing but exhilarating trip to Mexico and Cuba in March.
"Many people thought they were doing the renovations for new sisters, but it was for the pope," Vian said. He said only a few people knew of the pope's plans, yet the secret didn't get out.
"That shows the seriousness and loyalty of the few senior Holy See officials who were aware," he said ? a reference to the 2012 scandal over leaked papal documents by the pope's own butler.
Benedict has visited the monastery, with its own chapel on the grounds, a handful of times over the years.
There's a garden right outside the front door, where nuns living in the residence would tend to the lemon and orange trees and the roses, which are used in liturgical ceremonies or sent as gifts to the pope. No chemical fertilizers were used, just organic fertilizer sent straight from the gardens at Castel Gandolfo.
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Trisha Thomas and Victor L. Simpson in Rome contributed.
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Latinos Disproportionately Stopped-And-Frisked In Jackson Heights
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QUEENS ? The number of Latinos in the 115th Precinct targeted by the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program was more than three times the number of Latino suspects there in 2011, a new report from the NYPD shows.
Statistics released by the NYPD show that the 115th Precinct, which encompasses Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst and part of Corona, also had the third-most stops overall in the entire city that year and the largest number of stops in Queens.
In some ways, this is unsurprising: Latinos make up more than 65 percent of the precinct, according to Census data for 2010. And they make up 73.4 percent of all known crime suspects in the precinct, according to the NYPD.
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Ted Nugent: Answer to reducing gun violence "so simple, it's stupid"
Rock musician Ted Nugent, a vocally pro-gun rights advocate who attended this year's State of the Union as a guest of Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, told CBS News after President Obama's address that tighter gun laws are not the answer to the nation's escalating gun violence problem; strengthening detection of mental illness is.
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Is Nuance Communications a Bargain Here? | Wall St. Cheat Sheet
With shares of Nuance Communications (NASDAQ:NUAN) trading at around $20.00, is NUAN an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE or STAY AWAY? Let?s analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing framework:
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Nuance Communications didn?t have a memorable day last Friday ? unless you were shorting the stock. The stock got hammered by more than 18 percent. As is usually the case with big downward moves during earnings season, weak guidance was the primary reason for the fall. FY2013 EPS was lowered to a range of $1.76 to $1.87, from $1.84 to $1.94, and FY2013 revenue expectations were lowered by $25 million. Is this bad news? Yes. Is it reason to panic? No.
Markets are off to the races and this stock is on fire. Click here to discover it now!For Q1, Nuance Communications reported a net loss of $22.1 million, or $0.07 per share. Q1 revenue was $462.3 million. EPS was obviously a disappointment, but revenue increased 27 percent year-over-year. In addition to that, operating cash flow increased 37 percent, healthcare revenue increased 49.6 percent, mobile and consumer revenue increased 21.4 percent, enterprise revenue increased 10.4 percent, and imaging revenue increased 13.7 percent. This hardly looks like a company that?s in trouble when it comes to the long term.
The company?s speech recognition software is used in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhones, which is a big plus. Apple?s growth does seem to be slowing, but it?s important not to put too much weight on that aspect of the business since Nuance Communications is highly diversified. By the way, the same speech recognition software is used in Samsung (SSNLF.PK) smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs.
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Why is 'We are Proud of Ed Sheeran' Trending on Twitter? [PHOTO]
"We are Proud of Ed Sheeran" has gone trending in anticipation of the musician's category being called at the Grammy Awards 2013. His song "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year. The Twitterverse is filled with reasons why Sheeran is enjoying such a strong support from fans.
"Today's gonna be a long day," Sheeran tweeted hours ahead of the pre-telecast Grammys. He stays in touch with his fans, and acknowledges their show of support and affection particularly on a potentially joyous occasion in his career.
Sheeran later posted to Instagram a photo of him with music icon Elton John. They are scheduled to perform at the Grammys.
Trending on Twitterverse: 'We Are Proud Of Ed Sheeran'
Following are some of the Ed Sheeran shout-outs on Twitter, from loving fans standing by the musician whether or not he gets a Grammy nod.
We are proud of Ed Sheeran Cause his talent and heart is bigger than the earth
We are proud of Ed Sheeran is trending i love him so much - saraawilcox
If Ed Sheeran doesnt win .. i think the world is controled by illuminatis.. we are proud of Ed Sheeran .. - jaquepedia
We Are Proud Of Ed Sheeran is trending I am going to start sobbing just please give Ed his grammy already - TheSchroYo
Having written songs for One Direction and taking part in Taylor Swift's Red album, Sheeran is enjoying the support of pop stars together with his own following. The musician tweeted he is "gearing up to perform now."
Stars align for Sheeran tonight as fans continue to cheer him on. To sum up the Twitter shout-outs, here's a tweet from user '@ilovetomyidols:'
"We Are Proud Of Ed Sheeran @edsheeran I love you, lucky tonight. You are already a winner. #GRAMMYs"
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Tornado tears through southern Mississippi
A tornado touched down in southern Mississippi on Sunday, injuring more than a dozen people and causing widespread damage.
So far, no one has been reported killed, which authorities hope will remain true.
"We're really blessed because we don't have a fatality that we know of right now, and no major injuries. But we have a number of major damages to our structures around town," said Johnny DuPree, mayor of Hattiesburg, where the tornado hit.
"If there is a good thing about this, it happened on a Sunday when most of these structures were vacant," he said.
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant declared a state of emergency in four counties: Forrest, Lamar, Lawrence and Marion.
Hattiesburg, which straddles Forrest and Lamar counties, is home to the University of Southern Mississippi. It suffered damage to several buildings, but there were no reports of injuries there. University police declared a state of emergency and urged those not on campus to stay away until further notice.
Nearby Oak Grove High School also suffered damage. Randy Wright posted photographs to his Twitter account of the school, showing debris strewn on what looked to be a parking lot and a truck upside down in a baseball diamond.
The Hattiesburg Public School District canceled classes Monday. The university campus will also be closed.
"There's quite a few homes without power at this point. Quite a few trees on houses, on cars, that type of thing," said Forrest County Sheriff Billy McGee.
He said that from 10 to 15 people were taken to the hospital, but that none suffered serious injuries. Another three were reported injured in nearby Marion County.
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