Friday, 31 May 2013

RAW compatibility update for OS X 10.8 adds support for a host of new cameras

Apple is currently pushing out a small, but not insignificant, RAW compatibility update for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion that adds support for a whole host of new digital cameras in Aperture 3 and iPhoto. The update is necessary for both programs to make use of RAW image files from the newly supported digital cameras.

The full list of additions:

  • Canon EOS-1D C
  • Canon EOS Rebel SL1 / 100D / Kiss X7
  • Canon EOS Rebel T5i / 700D / Kiss X7i
  • Hasselblad Lunar
  • Nikon COOLPIX A
  • Nikon D7100
  • Nikon 1 J3
  • Nikon 1 S1
  • Sony Alpha NEX-3N

If you've got any of these cameras, head into the Mac App Store or hit the Software Update menu to download the update.

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Peterson Feeder Birds of North America | Best Apps for Kids ...

What better way to explore the great outdoors than to do a little bird watching? Peterson Feeder Birds of North America is one of our featured apps in our At-A-Glance: Outdoor Apps For Kids post and encourages children to learn a ton of information about various types of birds and to use that information out in the field. With over 150 species included this app allows parents and children to identify and log the birds they find on nature walks, hikes, or those birds lurking in their own backyard.

Features include:

  • 160 Different species
  • Range maps
  • Species detail
  • Bird checklist

This app is full of great information, pictures, maps, and awesome bird calls in a set-up similar to what you might see in a textbook, but with more features. Not only are there high quality illustrations of each bird species, but there are also photographs, quick facts, and an audio file of the species bird call. With so much detail for each bird, children will learn to identify birds in a variety of ways.

The species are divided into categories such as hummingbirds, birds of prey, chicken-like birds etc., which provides for nice organization for the ample information included. There is also a checklist, sightings page, and a link for extra articles that go above and beyond what is included in each species highlight. All-in-all, the developers have done a wonderful job of organizing and illustrating this educational app.

There is so much wonderful information in this app that it might be a bit overwhelming at first, however with the strategic organization the developers have created, it makes this app much more manageable.

Children will not only learn about 160 different bird species, they also have a platform to check off birds they have seen as well as log the specifications for each sighting. This allows them a hands-on approach to learning in addition to sharing their knowledge with parents and getting a lot of fresh air while they learn.

In addition to the general facts about each bird, there are high quality illustrations, photos, and highlighted defining characteristics about each bird in addition to the bird calls. This provides a variety of ways children can learn about each bird. Whether they are more visual or audio learners there is something here for everyone.

While this app is primarily an educational app it is also one that can easily make bird-watching a hobby for your little explorer. The sightings and checklist features create a goal oriented task for children to accomplish as they set out on their outdoor adventures.

This app is absolutely free and is a wonderful deal. With so much information, images, audio, and other features, this app could be one of the best values I have seen. Not only does it provide a ton of information for free, but it also inspires children and parents to get out into nature and enjoy the beautiful birds that live there.

The developers have organized a great deal of information in a fairly easy to use platform, however it is likely school-age children will get the most out of the written information for each entry. Parents can include pre-readers in the learning and bird-watching process by utilizing the various pictures and images as well as reading the information to them. The bird calls for each bird are also a great way to help little ones get involved.

In addition to the great organization there are no social media links or in app advertisements to clutter this app so parents don?t need to worry about that. They can allow their children to enjoy this wonderfully informative app all on their own.

APP DETAILS

Peterson Feeder Birds of North America by Appweavers Inc.
Price: $ free | DOWNLOAD
Content Rating: 4+
User Rating: (241 store ratings)
App Categories: Reference, Education
Works on: all
This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
App Store Description:
Enjoying Peterson Feeder Birds? For a limited time, download the award-winning Peterson Birds app for .99! Peterson Birds includes illustrations, songs, maps, and much more on over 800 North American birds. Now .99 (was .99). Peterson Feeder Birds of North America includes all the features of our award-winning Peterson Birds of North America app, including Roger Tory Peterson illustrations, range maps, bird songs, checklists, sightings, search, QuickFind index, free lists showing every bird recorded for counties across the US and Canada, and information from 8 Peterson field guide books. ??? Peterson Birds: Winner 2011 Best Outdoors App Ever Award ??? "a must for bird watchers" Appolicious.com ? ? ? ?-----Reviews ... [read more on the App Store]

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File Size: 125.37 MB
Current Version: 1.0.1

Source: http://bestappsforkids.com/2013/05/peterson-feeder-birds-of-north-america/

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What My Father Taught Me: Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger

May 29, 2013 4:00 PM Text Size: A . A . A We did lots of things together as father and son. Once he got a boating magazine and found plans for building a very simple plywood dinghy. We built it together one summer, according to plan. We painted it red with a white stripe. It had a small centerboard for a keel and we used a bamboo pole for a mast, and a white cotton bedsheet for the sail. I taught myself to sail that summer.

My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As I was growing up, he taught me the responsibility of command: A leader is ultimately responsible for every aspect of the welfare of people under his or her care. That was a deeply felt obligation in his generation.

So when I chose to volunteer for the Air Force during the Vietnam era, I felt it was my generation's turn to do our duty, to serve our country, to serve a cause greater than ourselves. And I felt as an airline captain an intense obligation to make sure I did everything I could to keep everyone I was responsible for from harm. That's an obligation I felt on US Airways Flight 1549.

Yes, we landed that plane despite the fact that we had no thrust, and even though we were over one of the most densely populated and densely developed areas of the planet. But even at that point, it was obvious to me that I should take nothing for granted after. We couldn't have any casualties. So I went to the cabin twice to make sure there was nobody left on board; to make sure we had successfully evacuated. And after the rescue was completed I was still trying to fulfill my professional responsibility and try to account for everyone. It was about 4 hours before I got the word officially that they knew everyone was safe, and only then could I finally relax and know that I'd done all I could, and that my professional responsibility was completed. I think that sense of professional obligation was something that I clearly got from my father.

?As told to Jennings Brown

Previously: What My Father Taught Me: Boing Boing Editor and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow

What My Father Taught Me: NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/safety/what-my-father-taught-me-chesley-sully-sullenberger-15530714?src=rss

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Thursday, 30 May 2013

The Retrofuture of Outdoor Advertising Was Even Worse Than What We Got

The Retrofuture of Outdoor Advertising Was Even Worse Than What We Got

Outdoor advertising is at least 5,000 years old (the ancient Egyptians used to hang papyrus notices advertising rewards for runaway slaves), and fears about how invasive it could be have been around nearly as long. For every glitzy video billboard you curse at today, know that your forbearers dreamed up much, much worse.

Drive through just about any populated area in the U.S. and you'll see billboards dominating the landscape. Ads for beer, restaurants, movies, strip clubs and scary tea kettles all share the same space in my neighborhood. The ads all desperately demand your attention in the form of huge traditional billboards that tower above the street, bus stop displays that attempt to seduce the pedestrian at street level, and so-called "wild postings" that pop up on construction sites and abandoned buildings. We even have some "supergraphics," a controversial type of billboard that overtakes the entire side of multi-story buildings and parking structures.

However contentious a topic outdoor advertising has become, it's hard to imagine the major cities of the world without it ? unless you're in Vermont, which has banned roadside ads since 1968 ? be it large billboards, small posters or even sky-writing. But in the late 19th and early 20th century, just as outdoor ads began to take the modern forms that we're familiar with today, popular magazines of the time lampooned the increasingly innovative ads that were being unleashed upon the new American consumer.

The image above came from an 1891 issue of Life magazine and depicted an "American landscape of the future." The corsets and trunks being advertised may have gone out of style, but the true anachronism appears to be this future couple's mode of transportation ? there's not a single car in sight.

The Retrofuture of Outdoor Advertising Was Even Worse Than What We Got

The image above comes from a 1904 issue of Life magazine and predicts the ad-dotted skies of the future. As powered aircraft were becoming a practical reality (the Wright Brothers had just taken off the previous year) dreams of advertising on flying machines in the sky seemed more and more likely for the future.

The Retrofuture of Outdoor Advertising Was Even Worse Than What We Got

This illustration appeared in an 1893 issue of Life magazine and showed the sky-writing of the future. Pants and soap seem reasonable enough, but advertising cigarettes probably wouldn't go over so well here in the year 2013.

The Retrofuture of Outdoor Advertising Was Even Worse Than What We Got

According to the cartoonists of the late 19th century, nothing was sacred nor spared from the advertiser's message. Not even the Statue of Liberty. This illustration ran in an 1885 issue of Puck magazine, the year before the sculpture was even erected in New York City. The Statue of Liberty wasn't exactly a sacred symbol of freedom in the 1880s, but it's a pretty jarring image for Americans living the 21st century.

The Retrofuture of Outdoor Advertising Was Even Worse Than What We Got

Few things more dramatically altered the size and character of outdoor advertising than the car. The speed of the car meant that billboards had to get much larger ? with easy-to-read, bold lettering and in many cases brightly colored graphics. The illustration above was published in a 1917 issue of Life magazine and bemoaned the recent surge of huge outdoor ads brought on by the automobile. Soon, they thought, you'd have to pull over and grab a ladder just to take in the scenery.

In some areas of the country, I wouldn't say their prediction was altogether wrong.

All images were scanned from the 1956 book Predictions by John Durant.

Source: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-retrofuture-of-outdoor-advertising-was-even-worse-t-510281164

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National Spelling Bee will now include a vocab test

The National Spelling Bee is now requiring contestants to know what the words mean rather than just the letters for each one.

By Joseph White,?Associated Press / May 29, 2013

National Spelling Bee contestant Jae Canetti pauses before spelling the word 'punctilio.'

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Jae Canetti said he screamed "No!" when he learned the National Spelling?Bee would be introducing a vocabulary test. He started changing the way he prepared, studying definitions of words on the bus ride to school each day.

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At least the extra work appeared to have paid off. When the 11-year-old from Fairfax, Va., took the test Tuesday morning, he felt he did just fine.

"I knew a lot of the words," Jae said. "It definitely was not, like, painstaking."

The 86th edition of the Scripps National Spelling?Bee took on new meaning ? or rather, lots of meanings ? with organizers having decreed that the precocious youngsters need to prove they know more than just how to spell. The 281 competitors took a 45-minute computer test that probed their knowledge of both spelling and vocabulary, with the results to be combined with Wednesday's onstage round to determine who advances to the semifinals Thursday.

For the most part, the spellers had the same reaction to the vocabulary test: Good idea, but they wished they had known about it sooner.

"I think everybody wasn't expecting it, because it was something you weren't thinking they were going to put in," said 12-year-old Mary Elizabeth Horton from West Melbourne, Fla. "But it definitely changes everything."

Organizers announced the addition of vocabulary seven weeks ago, saying it reinforces the bee's mission to encourage students to broaden their knowledge of the English language. They waited until all of the qualifying bees had been completed so that the spellers would be on equal footing in their preparation.

"Before they announced the vocabulary, I paid attention to the definitions but I didn't focus too much," said 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali of New York. "But then after they announced it, I occasionally had my dad quiz me on vocabulary words, and I studied the definitions once in a while."

Arvind is one of the favorites, having finished third last year, and as he took the vocabulary test he was grateful for a trick everyone learns at school: the process of elimination.

"It was good that they gave multiple choice, so that you could eliminate incorrect answers," Arvind said. "I had to guess at one or two in vocabulary. ... I think it's not too bad of a change, actually. The vocabulary words, they're pretty easy to someone who studies well enough."

There will be another vocabulary test for those who make it to the semifinals, but Thursday night's finals will look the same as always ? with spellers taking turns tackling incredibly difficult words under the bright lights of prime-time television until only a champion remains. The winner takes home more than $30,000 in cash and prizes.

The environment Tuesday morning was more low-key. Still, the tension and pressure were evident. The test took place inside a large hotel ballroom, where about 50 spellers at a time sat at a long, rectangular table staring at computer screens. They emerged one by one, greeted with pats on shoulders from parents and whispers of "How'd it go?" There was also a blind speller who took her test in Braille.

The scoring system has the complexity usually associated with something like Olympic gymnastics: 24 words to spell and 24 words to define, although only 12 of each count toward the total score. There was also a pair of extra vocabulary words worth three points each. The spellers were asked to choose among four possible definitions for each vocabulary word.

The lists of words on Tuesday's tests will be announced Wednesday, after the final scores are tabulated.

Organizers might tinker with the format in future years, but there's little doubt that the vocabulary test is here to stay.

"I really like the intended purpose, which is to emphasize vocabulary," said 1999 champion Nupur Lala, who was featured in the documentary "Spellbound."

"I think the level of competition has reached such an apex at this point that they need something else to differentiate spellers ? and still keep the bee an educational exercise."

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Weightlessness of space used to design better materials for Earth

May 29, 2013 ? Researchers from Northeastern University are among the many scientists helping NASA use the weightlessness of space to design stronger materials here on Earth.

Structural alloys might not sound familiar, but they are an integral part of everyday materials, such as aircraft wings, car bodies, engine blocks, or gas pipelines. These materials are produced through solidification? -- a process similar to the making of ice cubes. "Solidification happens all around us, either naturally, as during the crystallization of familiar snow-flakes in the atmosphere, or in technological processes used to fabricate a host of materials, from the large silicon crystals used for solar panels to the making of almost any human-made object or structure that needs to withstand large forces, like a turbine blade," said Northeastern University Prof. Alain Karma, who was a collaborator in this study.

The transition of a structural alloy from liquid to solid is morphologically unstable, meaning that the interface between solid and liquid evolves from a planar morphology to a non-planar cellular structure during solidification -- essentially, the same instability is responsible for the branched star shape of snow flakes.

But what if you could take gravity out of the mix? Researchers say by observing the solidification process in a microgravity environment -- in this case, the International Space Station -- they were able to study how this morphological instability develops in three dimensions to shape the structure of materials on a micron scale. "Without gravity, there is no buoyancy force to mix the atomic constituents in the melt by fluid flow," said Prof. Karma. "As a result, solidification creates unique, more organized, structures that cannot be observed on earth. Understanding how those structures form in space gives insight for designing lighter and stronger materials that can be made on earth."

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130529133505.htm

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Wednesday, 29 May 2013

France analyzing samples of suspected Syrian chemical weapon elements

By John Irish

PARIS (Reuters) - France is testing samples of suspected chemical weapon elements used against Syrian rebel fighters and smuggled out by reporters from Le Monde newspaper and will divulge the results in the next few days, a senior French official said on Monday.

The official also said Paris recently carried out its own tests on other samples it had obtained that had indicated the use of battlefield gas.

"Samples were handed to our intelligence services by the Le Monde journalists," the senior official said on condition of anonymity. "Tests will be done on these samples and the results made known in the coming days."

The newspaper, in a report issued on its website earlier on Monday, said one of its photographers had suffered blurred vision and respiratory difficulties for four days after an attack on April 13 on the Jobar front, just inside central Damascus.

President Bashar al-Assad's government and the rebels fighting to oust him have accused each other of using chemical weapons. U.N. investigators have been ready for weeks, but diplomatic wrangling and safety concerns have delayed their entry into Syria.

Undercover in and around the Damascus area for two months alongside Syrian rebels, a Le Monde reporter and photographer said they witnessed battlefield chemical attacks and also talked to doctors and other witnesses about their aftermath.

The French official, who was speaking after talks among U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Paris, said the three ministers had agreed that any use of chemical weapons would be a game changer.

"The question of chemical weapons can create a different situation because the divisions on that are not the same as on the Syrian conflict," the official said.

"If we have enough elements that converge to say that chemical weapons were used, then we will have to take a decision with our partners to examine the possible consequences."

Syria, which is not a member of the anti-chemical weapons convention, is believed to have one of the world's last remaining stockpiles of undeclared chemical arms.

The French official said the three men discussed the chemical weapons issue and the latest developments on the Syrian peace talks over dinner in a Paris restaurant after Lavrov and Kerry met earlier in the day.

"All three countries want the talks to take place," the official said. "We move forward, but it remains very difficult. If we want to meet by June 10 in Geneva, then there has to be serious advance. We're hoping as soon as possible, but there are a number of subjects that still need to be resolved."

The proposed conference reflects the first serious diplomatic effort in nearly a year to end the conflict in which more than 80,000 people are believed to have died and millions have fled their homes.

But the official said the opposition coalition still refused to negotiate with names put forward by Assad's government, there had yet to be an accord on whether Iran or Saudi Arabia would be represented at the talks, and what exactly the conference aimed to achieve.

(Reporting By John Irish; Editing by Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/france-analyzing-samples-suspected-syrian-chemical-weapon-elements-003355330.html

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Skagit River bridge collapses in Washington State; I-5 closed near Mount Vernon

*Photos below are courtesy of the Everett Herald and HeraldNet.com, and credit to photographers Jennifer Buchanan and Jon Bauer...

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The Skagit River bridge collapsed on Thursday night, around 7 p.m. PST, leaving cars in the river and a highway closure between Burlington and Mount Vernon, in Washington State.

Two men and one woman were rescued from the water and all are in stable condition at nearby hospitals, so it doesn't appear anyone has received life-threatening injuries. Rescue boats were also sent to recover a car and a pickup truck (towing a trailer) that went off the bridge and into the river.

Traffic on the Interstate-5 highway has been stopped in both directions, and is now completely closed (as of 9:57 a.m. PST). The Skagit River bridge is a four-lane section of the highway, located on the I-5 between Burlington and Mount Vernon, Wash.

This weekend (May 24-26) figures to be very busy for traffic in the area and along the I-5, as thousands of people are heading south for Memorial Day weekend and attending the Sasquatch Music Festival near George, Wash.

Travelers from B.C. to Sasquatch and to anywhere else south of the accident (such as Seattle, Tacoma, or Bellevue) are being advised to take alternate routes.

Southbound traffic intended to cross the bridge is now being rerouted at Highway 20 to Burlington Boulevard (Burlington) and northbound traffic is being rerouted at College Way to Riverside Drive (Mount Vernon).

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I-5 Skagit River Bridge Alternate Routes ? Washington State Department of Transportation (May 24, 2013)

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The stretch of the I-5 that crosses the bridge carried over 70,000 vehicles per day and is a major route for travel and trade between Seattle and Vancouver and British Columbia and the United States. There is currently no timetable for traffic to return to normal, with some saying it could be weeks.

"Now we begin the recovery stage dealing with a major interstate highway that is nonfunctional at the moment," said Marcus Deyerin, a spokesman for the Northwest Washington Incident Management Team. "We were extremely lucky that it wasn't worse."

News 1130 reported on Friday morning that a caller to Komo News Radio blamed the collapse on a truck driver whose vehicle struck the bridge.

"That caused the collapse," the caller said. "It hit the steel girder. It was in the right-hand lane, I was in the left-hand lane about 50 feet in front of the truck. The truck struck the very first steel girder on the right-hand side. When it got over in the right-hand lane it started to get down in height, if he would have been in the fast lane, he would have cleared. The right-hand top corner of the box struck the corner of the bridge and made it collapse. I watched the whole thing in my mirror."

Washington State Patrol confirms they are inspecting to the truck and speaking with the driver, who has been identified as William Scott of Spruce Grove, Alberta and drives for Mullen Trucking.

"He's a little bit bewildered," said Ed Scherbinski, vice president of Mullen. "He looks in the (rearview) mirror and the bridge is coming down behind him."

State Patrol blamed the accident ? which occurred on the northbound side of the bridge ? on the height of the load, which was a housing for drilling equipment. The trucking company, however, said it had a state permit to carry their load across the bridge.

According to the Everett Herald, the website NationalBridges.com "classifies the Skagit River bridge over the I-5 as 'functionally obsolete', which indicates the design is not ideal, but it is not rated as 'structurally deficient.'"

In September, 2011, the Skagit River bridge was listed on the Washington State Department of Transportation's "Structurally Deficient Bridges" list.

According the Department of Transportation, "Structurally deficient means that a bridge requires repair or replacement of a certain component, such as cracked or spalled concrete or the entire bridge itself.

"Being structurally deficient does not imply that the bridge is in danger of collapse or unsafe to the traveling public."

The photo below is a screenshot from the WSDOT's report (last updated in September, 2011):

Washington State Structurally Deficient Bridges List

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*More photos below and media, courtesy of the Everett Herald and HeraldNet.com, a publication of Sound Publishing. All photos credit to Jennifer Buchanan and Jon Bauer, of The Herald.

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'Rock Around the Clock' bassist Lytle dies

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Bassists don't get enough respect in rock 'n' roll; it's not traditionally a flashy position on the musical stage. But Marshall Lytle secured his legacy in rock's pantheon early on when he laid down the bass line on Bill Haley and His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock," the iconic tune widely considered to have kicked off the rock 'n' roll era.

Lytle died on May 25 at his home in New Port Richey, Fla., at age 79 of lung cancer, reported the New York Times.

He was just a teen playing guitar at a Pennsylvania radio station when Haley recruited him -- and didn't know how to play bass (and in those days, that meant stand-up bass). No problem: 30 minutes and one lesson later, Haley had given him enough instruction to get him started. Lytle went on to play several hits with Haley and the Comets including "Shake, Rattle and Roll," but it was the 1954 release of "Rock" that secured the band and the song a place in history.

Lytle left the band in 1955, forming the Jodimars with two other former Comets. He eventually changed his name to Tommy Page to distance himself from his days with the Comets. But he couldn't escape his legacy forever: The Comets re-formed in 1987 (Haley died in 1981) and performed from time to time until 2009. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/rock-around-clock-bassist-marshall-lytle-dies-79-6C10109734

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Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Neighbors in Lebanese city fight Syrian proxy war

(AP) ? In a rundown district of Lebanon's second largest city, residents have adapted to waging war with their neighbors.

Whenever violence breaks out, they string large cloths across intersections to block snipers' view, sleep in hallways to take cover from mortar shells and abandon apartments close to the front line.

Sectarian fighting between the two Tripoli neighborhoods, Bab Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, goes back several decades, but these days it's a proxy battle of the rival sides in Syria. Bab Tabbaneh is largely Sunni Muslim, like Syria's rebels, while most people in Jabal Mohsen are Alawites, or followers of an offshoot of Shiite Islam, like Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The fighting between them has intensified since the start of the Syrian conflict more than two years ago. The latest round over the past week has been the bloodiest yet, leaving at least 28 dead and more than 200 wounded.

The escalating conflict in Tripoli is just one of the signs that the Syria fighting is increasingly spilling over into Lebanon, which is home to a fragile mosaic of more than a dozen religious and ethnic groups. Gunmen from rival religious sects have also gone to Syria to fight on opposite sides there.

Over the weekend, Lebanon's Shiite militia Hezbollah, which has been fighting alongside Assad's forces, said it would do battle until victory over Syria's rebels. On Sunday, two rockets struck Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut, in apparent retaliation for Hezbollah's support of Assad.

In Bab Tabbaneh, many say they are caught in the proxy war between the region's Sunni and Shiite powers; Shiite-dominated Iran backs Assad, while influential Sunni state Saudi Arabia supports the rebels.

"Their problems are being played out here," said Bab Tabbaneh resident Mohammed Bukhari, 53.

Bukhari's second-floor apartment faces Jabal Mohsen, just a few dozen meters (yards) away. On May 19, when fighting broke out again, Bukhari moved with his wife, five children and two grandchildren into an empty apartment facing away from Jabal Mohsen.

"My own apartment is very dangerous," he said, pointing to bullet holes in a wooden cabinet and an interior door.

Many leave for safer areas during the fighting.

Those who remain behind try to cope. They've strung large sheets of tarpaulin across streets that are otherwise exposed to snipers from Jabal Mohsen, blocking their aim.

One family, near the Bukharis, climbs out a second-floor back window and down a ladder to reach the street because the front entrance faces the front line.

Tempers flare quickly. On a recent morning, a young bread vendor who tried to set up his tray of goods near the local Harba mosque was quickly spotted as an outsider. A crowd of men, shouting and pushing him, accused him of being a Syrian spy and marched him to the mosque, where he was locked in a room.

Jabal Mohsen sits on a slope above Bab Tabbaneh. The Lebanese army has set up checkpoints around the Alawite neighborhood. Heading there is risky because of snipers.

Bab Tabbaneh is more safely accessible from the center of Tripoli. The Lebanese army moved two armored vehicles to the edge of Bab Tabbaneh over the weekend, but the deployment seemed largely symbolic.

During a visit Friday, local gunmen controlled the streets.

Some sat in groups on plastic chairs along the sidewalk of Syria Street, a main thoroughfare just a block from Jabal Mohsen. They were on a break, smoking and talking. Most of the fighting takes place after dark, when combatants fire machine guns, mortar shells and rocket-propelled grenades at each other.

Their current battle coincides with an offensive by Syrian troops and Hezbollah on Qusair, a predominantly Sunni town in western Syria.

The fighters offered a range of reasons for shooting at their neighbors, from defending their district to taking revenge for previous bloodshed or letting off steam against Assad and Hezbollah. But beyond inflicting as much pain as possible on the other side, there seemed to be no clear objective to the fighting.

Khaled Shahsheer, a 42-year-old taxi driver wearing camouflage, said unemployment and poverty in Bab Tabbaneh are feeding sectarian tensions.

Two others, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said they are also settling old scores.

"We have a long blood account open with them," said a 28-year-old money changer with a sniper rifle. "It's not just about Qusair."

The neighborhood forces clashed repeatedly during Lebanon's 15-year civil war that ended in 1990. They fought again in 2008, after Hezbollah overran several Sunni neighborhoods in Beirut for a week and Tripoli's Sunnis retaliated. Since the start of the Syria conflict, there have been more than a dozen rounds of fighting.

The money changer's sniper position ? a sandbag-reinforced hole poked into the wall of the neighborhood's dilapidated "Andalus" cinema ? goes back to the 2008 fighting. He said his grandfather was killed in clashes with Jabal Mohsen in 1979.

An 18-year-old with a patchy black beard and a Kalashnikov assault rifle had nothing good to say about Jabal Mohsen. "They don't fear God, they are bad people," he said of his neighbors.

The teen said he is one of 10 brothers who have taken up arms, including one who tried to join the Syrian rebels but was captured and killed by Assad's troops.

Tripoli's Alawites feel they face an existential threat. "The Alawites are being subjected to an organized campaign that aims to eliminate them on all levels," Ali Feddah, a community leader, said earlier this month.

Alawites make up just 2 percent of the population in Lebanon and are surrounded by a large Sunni majority in Tripoli, a city of half a million people about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Beirut.

In Bab Tabbaneh, some said they can empathize with those on the other side.

"They also have children," 45-year-old Bab Tabbaneh housewife Sahar Ashrafiyeh said of the Alawites. Bullets have hit her balcony and bedroom wall, and her exposed kitchen has made it hard for her to cook for her family of nine.

The Ashrafiyehs fled the neighborhood in 1985, after her husband Mahmoud was shot in the leg, she said. The family settled in Germany but returned in 1992, a decision her husband now bitterly regrets, she said.

Lebanese leaders have expressed concern about the risk of escalation. Referring to the clashes in Tripoli, President Michel Suleiman warned last week that "with our own hands we are turning Lebanon into an arena (of conflict)."

The Lebanese army has not been able to act decisively, in part because of Lebanon's complex political constellations and because it does not have a monopoly on power ? Hezbollah's militia is a powerful rival.

In Tripoli, the government is particularly weak and the army, perceived here as Shiite-dominated, has to ensure local political support before moving in.

Some in Bab Tabbaneh take the fighting in stride. A Syrian refugee family living in two small rooms next to the Andalus cinema said Tripoli is still preferable to Homs, the battered Syrian city they fled 18 months ago.

In Homs, no one was safe from raids by pro-regime forces, said the father, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not want to endanger relatives back home.

"It's better here," he said. "They attack each other, but everyone stays in their place."

Associated Press

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Monday, 27 May 2013

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Neighbors in Lebanese city fight Syrian proxy war

(AP) ? In a rundown district of Lebanon's second largest city, residents have adapted to waging war with their neighbors.

Whenever violence breaks out, they string large cloths across intersections to block snipers' view, sleep in hallways to take cover from mortar shells and abandon apartments close to the front line.

The sectarian fighting between the two neighborhoods stretches back four decades to Lebanon's civil war. But it has become more frequent and increasingly lethal since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011. The two districts support opposite sides.

The latest round between Bab Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen over the past week has been the bloodiest yet, leaving at least 28 dead and more than 200 wounded.

Bab Tabbaneh is mostly Sunni, while Jabal Mohsen is home to most of Tripoli's Alawites, followers of an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

An 18-year-old with a patchy black beard and a Kalashnikov assault rifle had nothing good to say about Jabal Mohsen. "They don't fear God, they are bad people," he said of his neighbors.

The teen said he is one of 10 brothers who have taken up arms, including one who tried to join the Syrian rebels but was captured and killed by Assad's troops.

Lebanon, a fragile patchwork of more than a dozen religious and ethnic groups, has withstood many sectarian flare-ups since its 15-year civil war ended in 1990.

But there are signs the spillover from the Syria conflict is getting more serious. In addition to the Tripoli fighting, gunmen from rival religious sects are increasingly engaged on opposite sides in Syria.

Over the weekend, Lebanon's Shiite Muslim Hezbollah, which has been fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces, said it would do battle until victory over Syria's rebels, most of them Sunni Muslims. On Sunday, two rockets struck Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut, apparent retaliation for Hezbollah's support of Assad.

In Syria, Shiite-dominated Iran and Hezbollah have lined up behind Assad, an Alawite, while Sunni states like Saudi Arabia support the rebels.

In Bab Tabbaneh, many say they are caught in the same kind of proxy war between the region's Sunni and Shiite powers.

"Their problems are being played out here," Bab Tabbaneh resident Mohammed Bukhari, 53, said.

Bukhari's second-floor apartment faces Jabal Mohsen, just a few dozen meters (yards) away. On May 19, when fighting broke out again, Bukhari moved with his wife, five children and two grandchildren into an empty apartment facing away from Jabal Mohsen.

"My own apartment is very dangerous," he said, pointing to bullet holes in a wooden cabinet and an interior door.

Many leave for safer areas during the fighting.

Those who remain behind try to cope. They've strung large sheets of tarpaulin across streets that are otherwise exposed to snipers from Jabal Mohsen, blocking their aim.

One family, near the Bukharis, climbs out a second-floor back window and down a ladder to reach the street because the front entrance faces the front line.

Tempers flare quickly. On a recent morning, a young bread vendor who tried to set up his tray of goods near the local Harba mosque was quickly spotted as an outsider. A crowd of men, shouting and pushing him, accused him of being a Syrian spy and marched him to the mosque, where he was locked in a room.

Jabal Mohsen sits on a slope above Bab Tabbaneh. The Lebanese army has set up checkpoints around the Alawite neighborhood. Heading there is risky because of snipers.

Bab Tabbaneh is more safely accessible from the center of Tripoli. The Lebanese army moved two armored vehicles to the edge of Bab Tabbaneh over the weekend, but the deployment seemed largely symbolic.

During a visit Friday, local gunmen controlled the streets.

Some sat in groups on plastic chairs along the sidewalk of Syria Street, a main thoroughfare just a block from Jabal Mohsen. They were on a break, smoking and talking. Most of the fighting takes place after dark, when combatants fire machine guns, mortar shells and rocket-propelled grenades at each other.

Their current battle coincides with an offensive by Syrian troops and Hezbollah on Qusair, a predominantly Sunni town in western Syria.

The fighters offered a range of reasons for shooting at their neighbors, from defending their district to taking revenge for previous bloodshed or letting off steam against Assad and Hezbollah. But beyond inflicting as much pain as possible on the other side, there seemed to be no clear objective to the fighting.

Khaled Shahsheer, a 42-year-old taxi driver wearing camouflage, said unemployment and poverty in Bab Tabbaneh are feeding sectarian tensions.

Two others, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said they are also settling old scores.

"We have a long blood account open with them," said a 28-year-old money changer with an M-16 sniper rifle. "It's not just about Qusair."

The neighborhood forces clashed repeatedly during Lebanon's civil war. They fought again in 2008, after Hezbollah overran several Sunni neighborhoods in Beirut for a week and Tripoli's Sunnis retaliated. Since the start of the Syria conflict, there have been more than a dozen rounds of fighting.

The money changer's sniper position ? a sandbag-reinforced hole poked into the wall of the neighborhood's dilapidated "Andalus" cinema ? goes back to the 2008 fighting. He said his grandfather was killed in clashes with Jabal Mohsen in 1979.

Tripoli's Alawites feel they face an existential threat. "The Alawites are being subjected to an organized campaign that aims to eliminate them on all levels," Ali Feddah, a community leader, said earlier this month.

Alawites make up just 2 percent of the population in Lebanon and are surrounded by a large Sunni majority in Tripoli, a city of half a million people about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Beirut.

In Bab Tabbaneh, some said they can empathize with those on the other side.

"They also have children," 45-year-old Bab Tabbaneh housewife Sahar Ashrafiyeh said of the Alawites. Bullets have hit her balcony and bedroom wall, and her exposed kitchen has made it hard for her to cook for her family of nine.

The Ashrafiyehs fled the neighborhood in 1985, after her husband Mahmoud was shot in the leg, she said. The family settled in Germany but returned in 1992, a decision her husband now bitterly regrets, she said.

Lebanese leaders have expressed concern about the risk of escalation. Referring to the clashes in Tripoli, President Michel Suleiman warned last week that "with our own hands we are turning Lebanon into an arena (of conflict)."

The Lebanese army has not been able to act decisively, in part because of Lebanon's complex political constellations and because it does not have a monopoly on power ? Hezbollah's militia is a powerful rival.

In Tripoli, the government is particularly weak and the army, perceived here as Shiite-dominated, has to ensure local political support before moving in.

Some in Bab Tabbaneh take the fighting in stride. A Syrian refugee family living in two small rooms next to the Andalus cinema said Tripoli is still preferable to Homs, the battered Syrian city they fled 18 months ago.

In Homs, no one was safe from raids by pro-regime forces, said the father, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not want to endanger relatives back home.

"It's better here," he said. "They attack each other, but everyone stays in their place."

Associated Press

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By Jeff Mason

MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Moore, Oklahoma, on Sunday to tour the town that was hammered last week by a powerful tornado that killed 24 people and assure its residents that the federal government would provide long-term help.

His first stop was Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children died and several students and teachers were injured by the May 20 afternoon storm.

Piles of boards, brick and cinder blocks that used to be buildings and houses lined the side of the street. Rare items that survived the disaster - a television set, a pink baby carriage - stood in contrast to the wreckage.

Cars with their bodies dented and windows smashed lay under debris or twisted on their sides. Rising above the wasteland were at least three American flags that had been attached to the rubble, waving in the wind.

"The president's message is that support is not winding down," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Air Force One. "As demonstrated by our efforts in Tuscaloosa, in Joplin, and those communities in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey that were affected by Sandy, we'll be standing with the people of these resilient communities as they come back stronger than ever."

Obama has been repeatedly called on in recent months to comfort shaken U.S. communities, from a visit last month to Boston in the wake of the marathon bombings, to Newtown, Connecticut, the site of a December mass school shooting.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Joplin, Missouri, were hard-hit by tornadoes two years ago.

The Moore tornado, which rated the most powerful on the five-step scale used to measure the destructive power of twisters, ripped a 17-mile (27-km) long corridor of destruction through the suburb of Oklahoma City, flattening entire blocks of homes, two schools and a hospital in some 50 minutes on May 20.

It was the most powerful of a spate of 76 twisters that touched down in 10 states from May 18 through 20, causing an estimated $2 billion to $5 billion in insured losses, according to disaster modeling company Eqecat.

Some 377 people were injured by the Moore tornado, the deadliest such windstorm to hit the United States in two years.

(Additional reporting by Heide Brandes; Writing by Scott Malone; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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Sunday, 26 May 2013

Kerry meets with runners from Boston Marathon

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) ? The winner of the men's race at the Boston Marathon says he is returning his winner's medal to honor the city and those killed and injured in the terrorist bombings near the finish line of one of the world's top running events.

Lelisa Desisa says sport should be a pleasure and never a battlefield. He made the announcement Sunday at a ceremony with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry also honored the woman's runner-up and the men's third place finisher. All three athletes are from Ethiopia.

The April 15 explosions killed three people and injured more than 260 others.

Kerry is in Ethiopia to mark the 50th anniversary of the African Union.

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Friday, May 24, 2013

Scientists have uncovered a survival mechanism that occurs in breast cells that have just turned premalignant-cells on the cusp between normalcy and cancers-which may lead to new methods of stopping tumors.

In their Molecular Cell study, the Salk Institute researchers report that a protein known as transforming growth factor beta (TGF-?), considered a tumor suppressor in early cancer development, can actually promote cancer once a cell drifts into a pre-cancerous state.

The discovery-a surprise to the investigators-raises the tantalizing possibility that, with novel treatment, some cancers might be prevented before they even develop.

"Our work suggests it might be possible to halt cancer development in premalignant cells-those that are just a few divisions away from being normal," says the study's lead author, Fernando Lopez-Diaz, a researcher in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory at Salk.

Agents designed to inhibit TGF-? are already being tested against cancers that have already spread, says Beverly M. Emerson, a Salk professor, head of the lab and the study's senior author. "This study offers both significant insights into early cancer development and a new direction to explore in cancer treatment," she says. "It would be fantastic if a single agent could shut down both advanced cancer and cancer that is primed to develop."

Oncologists might also be able to use their discovery to predict whether premalignant cells in a patient are destined to become full-fledged cancer, Emerson adds. "Not all premalignant cells morph into cancer," she says. "Many self-destruct due to cellular protective mechanisms. But some will become tumors and, at this point, there is no way to predict which of these cells are a risk."

The two faces of TGF-?

TGF-? molecules are secreted proteins found in most human tissues. They play a number of different biological roles, including controlling cell proliferation and inflammation and assisting in wound healing.

The prevailing dogma in cancer research is that TGF-? signaling keep cells from morphing into cancer, says Lopez-Diaz. Scientists also recognized that cancer cells that "want" to spread learn how to use TGF-? wound-healing function to break from a tumor, he says.

Another protein, P53 is a known tumor suppressor. During the stress response that occurs as a cell becomes cancerous, and in response to chemotherapy, p53 attempts to repair DNA damage that has occurred, and, if not successful, p53 orders the cell to die. "The p53 pathway must be sabotaged for cells to become cancerous," Lopez-Diaz says. "This happens when its gene becomes mutated, if the p53 protein is exaggeratedly degraded or, less appreciated, if p53 biosynthesis is impeded."

The researchers conducted this study to learn exactly how p53 and TGF-? interact in cancer development. "For the past decade, everyone has believed that these two pathways work together in normal and premalignant cells to stop cancer, even though there was not much data to support this assumption," he says.

The team examined premalignant as well as cancer cells from breast and lung tumors and matched normal and premalignant breast cells from healthy women provided by scientists at the University of California San Francisco.

But no matter how many different ways they did their experiments, the Salk researchers found that TGF-? can interfere with cells' damage responses in premalignant or cancer cells.

In fact, they found that TGF-? halts both the transcription of the p53 gene-the process by which cellular machinery reads the DNA code for a gene-and the subsequent process by which the corresponding p53 protein is produced, known as translation.

This could explain why, in about half of the breast tumors, including premalignant lesions, that the team studied at both UC San Francisco and at Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, when TGF-?1 signaling was highly activated, the levels of p53 were reduced, and vice versa-if the TGF-?1 pathway was reduced, there were high levels of p53. " A similar trend was seen with PUMA, a protein which induces cell death," Fernando Lopez-Diaz adds. "There was rather abundant PUMA protein when little TGF-?1 activation existed and vice versa."

"The bad face of TGF-? emerged within just a few cell divisions away from normality, allowing cells to avoid death," he says.

Filling in the cancer puzzle

This newfound immortality explains many oncologic mysteries, Lopez-Diaz says. "One is that it sheds light on how premalignant and early cancer cells are able to withstand the assault of chemotherapy and other treatments," he says.

It may explain why 77 percent of breast cancers have a normal p53 gene, and it further suggests a way that cancer cells can use both to metastasize and survive the journey to organs where they set up a new home.

"Because it helps cells avoid death, TGF-? can reduce the negative impact that the metastatic process has in the cancer cells," Lopez-Diaz says.

He adds that there is much work yet to do. "We want to understand the signals that turn TGF-? into a bad guy," he says. "If we know that, we might be able to inhibit those signals, and force damaged cells to die, as they should. That may offer us another treatment possibility, along with TGF-? inhibitors now being tested."

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Saturday, 25 May 2013

When Is Call of Duty Going to Look This Good?

If you told me this image was a frame capture from the next Call of Duty game for Xbox One, I could almost believe you. Ish. Thanks to the digital camera and postprocessing work, its unrealistic perfection, dramatic illumination and striking mix of colors make this photo look like a 3D computer render. However, real-time graphic engines need some more firepower to get to this level of perfection. Maybe this will happen in the next next generation.

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