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Friday, February 22, 2013
SHS freshman girls basketball sisters raise money, awareness for pancreatic cancer research
Katie and Krissy Italiano, eighth graders at the Belmonte Middle School who play on the Saugus High School freshman girls basketball team, have donated $1,000 to Mass. General Hospital Pancreatic Cancer Research.
The girls sold purple bracelets with the inscribed words ?No One Fights Alone? on them to raise funds for this worthwhile cause. On Dec. 31, they presented a check to the oncology team at Mass. General Hospital. Beth and Steve Tichy helped fund the venture by donating the cost of the bracelets.
The Italiano?s father, the inspiration behind this endeavor, has been battling pancreatic cancer since his diagnosis in July 2011.
On Feb. 14, the Italiano girls and their SHS freshman teammates donned purple shirts with the cancer ribbon in an attempt to raise awareness for pancreatic cancer. The girls designed and made the shirts with help from Krissy Davey. The team looked awesome, and appropriately closed out the season with a big win against Winthrop.
How you can get your hands on Google Glass early (update)
So when can you get your very own slice of Google future? Perhaps sooner than you thought. The company's just outlined a competition that will put its Glass device in the hands of non-developer types. Using Twitter or Google+, you'll need to outline what you would do if you had the device -- we're guessing they want to see some big ideas. Applications need to be less than 50 words and tagged with #ifihadglass. Media-wise, you can include photos and even a short video to support your application. Alas, for now at least, the process is only for those over 18 and is currently US-only. The deadline is February 27th and winners will be made a Glass Explorer -- quite the title. The best 8,000 applicants will still have to preorder their own Glass Explorer Edition ($1,500 plus tax) but there'll be special pick-up sessions held in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Until then, Google's offered up a whole new gallery of images to help you imagine how you might look with its high-tech wearable.
Update: Google's also crafted a meatier video for the UI within Glass. It's embedded after the break, but we've taken a closer look here.
Filed under: Wearables, Google
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The Witness is headed exclusively to PlayStation 4, the next game from Braid creator Jonathan Blow
Nothing could've been more delightful than Braid creator Jonathan Blow suddenly appearing on-stage at Sony's big PlayStation 4 reveal only to make fun of all the explosions the event had already featured. Oh sure, he was also at the event to reveal that his latest game, The Witness, is headed exclusively to Sony's PlayStation 4, but the first statement was much funnier. Anyway, the game looks much, much better than the various demos we've played across the past few years -- Blow's been developing The Witness for quite some time, and showing it publicly, albeit never on a PlayStation 4. We'll hopefully hear more in the coming days, so keep an eye out.
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Huseyin Savas from Google's Mobile Search Ads Product Lead for North and Central Europe posted a picture of the view from Google's new Istanbul office.
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We don't support cyber-attacks: Chinese military
Beijing, Feb 20
p>China's military Wednesday said the country's armed forces had never backed any hacking activities and denounced as "groundless both in facts and legal basis" US cybersecurity firm Mandiant's report that it was behind cyber-attacks against US companies.China's laws ban any activities disrupting cyber security and Chinese government always cracks down on cyber crimes, Geng Yansheng, spokesman with Ministry of National Defense, said at a briefing.
Mandiant Monday released a report which alleged that a secret Chinese military unit in Shanghai was behind years of cyber-attacks against US companies, reported Xinhua.
The spokesman said Mandiant's report was groundless because the report came into the conclusion that the source of attack came from China only with the discovery that attacks were linked to IP addresses based in China.
First, as known to all, it is a common sense and method on the Internet to conduct hacking attacks by peculating IP addresses, the spokesman said. "It happens almost everyday."
Second, there has been no clear and consistent definition on cyber-attacks around the world. The report is lack of legal basis to assert cyber espionage only by collecting some routine cyber activities, Geng said.
Third, cyber-attack is transnational, anonymous and deceptive with its source often difficult to be identified. Releasing irresponsible information will not help solve problems, he said.
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Aromatherapy is fast becoming one of the most popular complementary therapies available to combat the stresses and strains of modern day life and, although every high street shop selling beauty products has a range of merchandise labelled aromatherapy, there is a lot more to this subject than scented bubble bath or fragranced candles!
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Rome man charged with DWI after taking out power lines with his vehicle
ROME>> According to Sheriff Robert Maciol, A Rome man was arrested for driving while intoxicated after a motor vehicle accident on Feb. 17.
Kirk Cartner, 45, or Rome, drove off of Route 46, Rome New London Road in Rome where his vehicle struck several trees and took down a power pole.
The accident cause live power lines to land on Carter?s 2004 Dodge Ram. Carter fled the scene after his accident, running behind homes located near the accident site.
Sheriff Deputies pursued Carter on foot and forced him back out onto Rome New London Road and was taken into custody.
Carter was transported to St. Elizabeth?s Hospital by AmCare Ambulence and treated for head and leg injuries. Carter was charged with driving while intoxicated.
After respondents from the State Police helped maintain traffic control National Grid was able to take care of the downed wires and restore power to several area residents.
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Former Ivory Coast president faces charges
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ? Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was prepared to go to any lengths ? including using lethal force ? to cling to power after losing elections in 2010, and should stand trial for his alleged involvement in post-election violence, the International Criminal Court's prosecutor said Tuesday.
Fatou Bensouda said the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal must mete out justice to Gbagbo for victims of the violence that plunged his country, once a beacon of democracy in West Africa, into bloody chaos.
"We will show that Mr. Gbagbo and forces under his control are responsible for the death, rapes, serious injuries to, and arbitrary detention of, countless law abiding citizens" considered supporters of his rival Alassane Ouattara, Bensouda said.
She was speaking on the opening day of a hearing to judge whether prosecutors' evidence is strong enough to merit putting on trial Gbagbo, 67, the first former head of state to appear before the 10-year-old court.
Bensouda said prosecutors will focus on just four incidents to paint a picture of the violence that erupted after Ouattara was declared the election winner and Gbagbo refused to accept his defeat, declaring himself president and allegedly unleashing his forces and supporters to target his rival's backers.
The four incidents "will show that Mr. Gbagbo is responsible for the killings of at least 166 persons, the rapes of at least 34 women and girls, the infliction of serious bodily injury and suffering on at least 94 persons and for committing the crime of persecution against at least 294 victims," Bensouda said.
She called them "brutal, revolting acts" that amount to crimes against humanity.
Prosecutors say some 3,000 people died in violence by supporters of both Ouattara and Gbagbo in five months of violence after the election.
The current Ivory Coast government sent Gbagbo to The Hague for prosecution by the International Criminal Court, but his lawyers have urged its judges to rule that they have no authority to put him on trial on charges of murder, rape, persecution and inhuman acts.
Lawyer Dov Jacobs told the ICC judges on Tuesday that Gbagbo, a former history professor, is under investigation in Ivory Coast for his role in violence and that authorities in his homeland should be the ones to try him.
Gbagbo, wearing a suit and tie, sat silently in court listening to proceedings through a headset and made no immediate comment. He sometimes waved and smiled to supporters in the public gallery and looked healthy.
Gbagbo, who is charged as an "indirect co-perpetrator" in the violence, insists he is innocent.
He was arrested in Ivory Coast in April 2011 by forces loyal to Ouattara and extradited to The Hague eight months later.
Some 300 supporters demonstrated outside the court Tuesday, chanting "Free Gbagbo!" and insisting that he is their country's rightful ruler and not Ouattara. "The one who lost is controlling the country. That is ridiculous," said Patrice Koute, who traveled from London to The Hague to show his support.
The court's judges have already ruled that they have jurisdiction to hear the case, but a case can be ruled inadmissible if Ivory Coast is investigating or prosecuting Gbagbo for the same alleged offenses.
Ivorian officials say they have charged Gbagbo only with "economic crimes."
The Hague-based tribunal is a court of last resort, which only tries suspects if countries are unwilling or unable to prosecute them.
"Ivory Coast is neither unable nor unwilling to prosecute President Gbagbo," Jacobs said.
Human rights activists welcomed the start of the hearing, but also used the occasion to urge the court to press charges against supporters of Ouattara allegedly involved in months of post-election violence.
"Holding Gbagbo to account is a critical step for victims in (Ivory Coast)," Param-Preet Singh, senior international justice counsel at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. "But the slow pace of investigations against pro-Ouattara forces feeds the perception that the ICC is going along with victor's justice."
While Gbagbo is in a jail cell in The Hague, his wife Simone, who also has been charged by the ICC in the post-election violence, remains in custody in Ivory Coast, where officials have charged her with crimes including genocide.
Gbagbo is not the only official who has served as a head of state to be charged by the court, but he is the only one to have been sent to The Hague.
Prosecutors also have indicted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges including genocide in Darfur, but he refuses to recognize the court's jurisdiction and the ICC has no police force to arrest suspects.
Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi also was indicted for killing and persecuting civilians protesting against his regime, but the case was dropped after he was captured and killed by rebels during the uprising that toppled him from power.
The court has only successfully prosecuted one suspect, Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, who was found guilty of using child soldiers.
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Associated Press writer Robbie Corey-Boulet in Abidjanm, Ivory Coast, contributed to this report.
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For struggling sea lion pups, a lot of healthy attention
The sea lion pups jostled with one another in the small pool, diving for the herring and capelin being thrown at them and popping up with fish tails poking out of their little mouths.
"The difference a month makes!" JoAnn Smith, a volunteer at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, remarked as the pups tangled in the water. "Amazing!"
The months-old sea lions had come to the care center starving and struggling to survive. They were malnourished, lethargic, ribs and hip bones showing through their smooth dark fur. Their mothers had left them to forage for food, and they were stranded, fending for themselves.
PHOTOS: Caring for sea lion pups
"When they come in," Smith said, "they're so sick, so fragile."
From Santa Barbara to San Diego, marine mammal sanctuaries have taken in waves of emaciated sea lion pups at rates significantly higher than the norm for this time of year. At the Laguna Beach care center, almost 40 pups are in their care; last year, only six were. At Ft. MacArthur in San Pedro, one wildlife official said, a care center's load is 10 times higher than it was this time last year.
Some of the pups found on Southern California beaches were eight months old but still weighing what they did at birth. Some of them have hypoglycemia and other ailments related to malnutrition, but no disease has emerged as a possible explanation, wildlife officials said.
"They just haven't been eating," said Sarah Wilkin of the National Marine Fisheries Service.
It isn't an uncommon occurrence. Care centers typically take in more pups in the fall ? in the months after they're born each year ? and in the spring, as they're weaned from their mothers' care.
But it's unusual to have so many in the months in between.
Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist for the fisheries service, said one possibility is that mothers are forced to venture farther out to sea to find food, leaving their pups alone for longer stretches. Another explanation could be that even if the mothers are staying closer to their young, they aren't eating enough themselves for their milk to have sufficient nutrition for the pups to grow.
"Either they're not getting enough to make milk, or they're taking too long," Melin said. As a result, pups are showing up about 20 pounds lighter than they should be.
The mortality rate for pups born last summer could be close to 60% and could take a toll on the birth rate for this year. (But Melin noted that in the past, other particularly bad seasons were followed by productive ones.)
Only a small number of the young sea lions, she said, find their way to care centers.
In Laguna Beach, care workers brought in sea lions that had beached themselves. They were too late to save some of the pups; others were barely clinging to life.
The new arrivals start off in what could pass as a couple of emptied-out laundry rooms, where the pups snuggle on blankets or splay out their flippers to warm their emaciated bellies on the heated tile floors.
One pup was especially vocal, yapping in a back corner. "We've got one who likes to express himself," said Melissa Sciacca, the care center's director of development. "He's feeling left out."
As their condition improves, they move farther down the hall, where they can splash about in a pool.
"They were really skinny and dehydrated," Smith said of this bunch when they first arrived about a month ago. "These guys now, they've probably doubled in weight.... They're healthy. They're putting on weight. They look like real sea lions."
More than being healthy, though, it seems they've really come alive. "They have such personalities," she said, "more than people know."
Smith named this group after the characters of "NCIS," her favorite crime procedural: Tony, Ziva, Abby and Ducky, among them. She's noticed ? coincidentally? ? that they've buddied up in the same pairs as their namesakes on the show. They slip and slide on the concrete around the pool. At feeding time, one was crafty enough to sneak up and snag a few fish from the pail before the others.
In a few weeks, after they've bulked up in weight and their health has improved, they are moved to the final stage. At this point, caretakers watch how they behave at feeding time, how they fend for themselves and whether they're close to being ready to return to the wild.
The pups' stays can last for a few months, and the caretakers come to know them as they mature.
"The biggest thing," said Michele Hunter, director of animal care, "is seeing them released back into their natural habitat."
But the workers make a concerted effort to avoid conditioning the sea lions to being around humans. They keep their distance ? feeding them from behind shields, for instance ? even as they come to care about the pups as they get healthy and prepare to return to the wild.
They have to.
When the workers load the young sea lions into crates and take them to the water's edge, they do so with the hope the pups never have to come back.
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Mortgage bill faces tough road in Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A sharply divided Congress isn't likely to jump at President Barack Obama's challenge for quick passage of a mortgage refinancing bill that supporters say could help millions of homeowners save big each year and boost the economy.
Obama praised the legislation in his State of the Union speech last week, saying the proposal would help more homeowners with mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac take advantage of low interest rates and refinance their loans.
Even with mortgage rates near a 50-year low, Obama said, too many families that have never missed a payment and want to refinance are being turned down.
"That's holding our entire economy back, and we need to fix it," the president said. "Right now, there's a bill in this Congress that would give every responsible homeowner in America the chance to save $3,000 a year by refinancing at today's rates. Democrats and Republicans have supported it before."
The economy's slow recovery from the recession gives the idea urgency, Obama said. "Send me that bill," he told members of Congress listening to his speech in the House chamber.
The proposal is part of a push by Democrats and the White House to help homeowners take advantage of low interest rates as a way to help the housing market recover and to give the economy a shot in the arm.
While the bill could gain traction in the Democratic-controlled Senate, it faces a rough road in the GOP-run House, where many Republicans favor scaling back the government's role in the housing market as a way of aiding the economy. Similar versions of the measure died in the House and Senate's lame duck sessions last year.
"At the moment, it's an uphill battle," said Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., who plans to file the House version of the bill.
Welch said he will reach out to Republicans this year in hopes of building more support, but the bill's association with the government-controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the federal housing agencies partly blamed for the collapse of the housing market, hurts its support base among GOP lawmakers.
"The American taxpayers have already sunk $190 billion dollars into the operations of Fannie and Freddie," said Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, a member of the House Financial Services Committee. "It's time that we wind their operations down instead of using them as a piggy bank for failed programs that further delay the housing recovery. "
In the Senate, Democrats Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Barbara Boxer of California have legislation to aid borrowers who are current on their loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but who are not able to refinance because their home values have declined too much.
Nearly 12 million homeowners have Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans and stand to benefit refinancing, the two senators said. Many can't refinance at a lower rate because of red tape and high fees. The red tape has reduced competition among banks, so borrowers pay higher interest rates than they would if they were able to shop around more, according to the senators.
The bill also would reduce up-front fees that borrowers pay on refinances and eliminate appraisal costs for all borrowers. The measure seeks to expand the Obama administration's Home Affordable Refinancing Program, which saves an average homeowner about $2,500 per year, they said.
"Homeowners will have more money in their pockets, Fannie and Freddie will see fewer foreclosures, and the housing market and economy will continue building momentum," Boxer said.
Among the bill's supporters are the Mortgage Bankers Association, the National Association of Realtors and the National Association of Home Builders.
"It is another tool that can be out there to help stabilize the housing market and kick start the economy if consumers can, in fact, put another $100 bucks in their pockets every month," said John Hudson, government affairs chairman of the Association of Mortgage Professionals.
Similar proposals by Boxer and Menendez last year got bogged down in the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Republican attempts to add amendments on other housing issues beyond refinancing led to a stalemate.
Twenty Senate Democrats are co-sponsors of this year's bill, but no Republicans have signed on.
"I support finding ways to smartly streamline the refinance process, but I'm not sure that eliminating all documentation requirements makes sense," said GOP Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, a committee member. "I also think we need to quickly move beyond short-term stimulus and start focusing on the structural issues in our housing finance system."
Sen. Mike Crapo, the committee's top Republican, declined through a spokeswoman to comment on the bill.
Welch's House bill also died during the last Congress. Welch accused Republicans of not wanting to give Obama an election-year boost by passing the mortgage refinance measure.
"Last year was even tougher because it was an election year," said Welch. "The Republican leadership wanted Obama to fail."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mortgage-bill-faces-tough-road-congress-124330053.html
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Sony looks back on PlayStation's past with an eye on its future (video)
If Sony doesn't announce the PS4 at Wednesday's blockbuster press conference, then this reminiscipackage will seem oddly out of place. The company has cut together three videos charting the history of the console from its (not so) humble beginnings in 1993 to the present day. If you'd like to wistfully remember the genesis of the console that's probably still lurking beneath your TV, head on past the break.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/18/sony-playstation-history/
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China takes control of strategic Pakistani port
ISLAMABAD (AP) ? China has taken operational control of a strategic deep-water Pakistani seaport that could serve as a vital economic hub for Beijing.
Control of Gwadar port on Pakistan's southwest coast was transferred to a state-owned Chinese company in a signing ceremony Monday in Islamabad that was broadcast on TV.
China paid much of the $250 million originally needed to construct the port, which was previously run by a Singaporean company. It has been a commercial failure since it opened in 2007 because Pakistan never completed the road network to link Gwadar to the rest of the country.
China's interest is driven by concerns about energy security as it seeks to fuel its booming economy. It wants a place to anchor pipelines to secure oil and gas supplies from the Persian Gulf.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-takes-control-strategic-pakistani-port-143718896--finance.html
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