Eyes-on with Cornell University's laser tag dunebots (video)

Cornell University may be the host of the Cornell Cup competition, but that doesn't mean it can't bring its own robots to join in on the fun. This year, students brought along a few bots, dubbed dunebots, outfitted with all-terrain wheels and equipped with laser tag turrets. The rugged rig features a pair of cameras, a dustproof and water resistant chassis, air intakes capped with filters, and other custom components for suspension and steering. Not only does the team plan on releasing code and documentation for the project, but the hardware was designed with modularity in mind, so others can build their own modified versions.

Taking the robot into battle requires two pilots armed with Xbox 360 controllers: one directing where it travels, and another aiming the turret and firing. Driving the buggy over the web is also possible, though it takes a few seconds for it to react. The group also baked in voice controls, to boot. If you're not watching the car duke it out in person, you can even tune in over the web and watch a live video stream from one of its onboard cams. Its top speeds haven't been firmly nailed down, but the team says the bot was running at approximately 35 percent of its full potential, since it was deemed too fast for conference attendees. Hit the jump to catch us talk with the effort's Computer Science lead Mike Dezube, and to see a dunebot in action.

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Here's What The Large Hadron Collider Looks Like Through Google Glass

If Google is worried about Google Glass being too "nerdy", they probably wouldn't be sending people rockin' the Glass into the heart of the most gloriously nerdy thing in the world, the Large Hadron Collider. Fortunately, Google doesn't seem to care (nor should they) if their amazing little experiment gets a few knocks along the way. As a result, we get videos like this one.

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TODAY.com: Celebrities

http://www.today.com/id/9409919/TODAY is America's favorite morning show on TV and the Internet. Get recipes and fashion tips, health and entertainment news, parenting, travel, and decorating advice and watch video clips any time from TODAY.com.Copyright 2013 msnbc.comen-ushttp://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/TVNews/Today%20show/Miscellaneous/2008/TODAYContribs_Interactive/tdy-logo.vsmall.jpghttp://www.today.com/Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:37:45 GMTNews60The extensive witness lists in the wrongful civil death trial brought by Michael Jackson's family includes some serious star power ? and his children.
]]>http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/29/17969739-michael-jackson-trial-witness-lists-star-studded-include-his-kids?liteThe extensive witness lists in the wrongful civil death trial brought by Michael Jackson's family includes some serious star power ? and his children.Copyright msnbc.com 2013
]]>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:34:30 GMTNewshttp://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/29/17969739-michael-jackson-trial-witness-lists-star-studded-include-his-kids?liteAnother girl, and with the same birthday as their 2-year-old, for Ian Ziering and wife Erin.
]]>http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/29/17968237-90210s-ian-ziering-welcomes-second-daughter-with-wife-erin?liteAnother girl, and with the same birthday as their 2-year-old, for Ian Ziering and wife Erin.Copyright msnbc.com 2013
]]>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:53:23 GMTNewshttp://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/29/17968237-90210s-ian-ziering-welcomes-second-daughter-with-wife-erin?liteDuring a recent visit to 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show,' the actor revealed he and his wife Kyla will soon have another little one in the house.
]]>http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/29/17968230-vince-vaughn-and-wife-kyla-expecting-second-child?liteDuring a recent visit to 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show,' the actor revealed he and his wife Kyla will soon have another little one in the house.Copyright msnbc.com 2013
]]>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:45:08 GMTNewshttp://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/29/17968230-vince-vaughn-and-wife-kyla-expecting-second-child?liteImpressive! Jane Fonda left her prints in cement alongside her father Henry Fonda's outside the former Grauman's Theatre.
]]>http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/29/17968178-jane-fonda-leaves-her-prints-in-cement-at-chinese-theatre-ceremony?liteImpressive! Jane Fonda left her prints in cement alongside her father Henry Fonda's outside the former Grauman's Theatre.Copyright msnbc.com 2013
]]>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:37:49 GMTNewshttp://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/29/17968178-jane-fonda-leaves-her-prints-in-cement-at-chinese-theatre-ceremony?liteOn Saturday night, politicians and Hollywood broke bread together at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, but in speeches given by President Barack Obama and Conan O'Brien, the gloves came off.
]]>http://entertainment.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/28/17949026-5-fantastic-moments-from-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner?liteOn Saturday night, politicians and Hollywood broke bread together at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, but in speeches given by President Barack Obama and Conan O'Brien, the gloves came off.Copyright msnbc.com 2013
]]>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:21:26 GMTNewshttp://entertainment.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/28/17949026-5-fantastic-moments-from-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner?liteAccording to the NYPD, officers pulled the actor over after they saw him driving erratically, and detected an alcohol odor coming from his vehicle early Saturday.
]]>http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/28/17957780-jeffrey-wright-busted-for-dwi-in-new-york?liteAccording to the NYPD, officers pulled the actor over after they saw him driving erratically, and detected an alcohol odor coming from his vehicle early Saturday.Copyright msnbc.com 2013
]]>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:52:03 GMTNewshttp://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/28/17957780-jeffrey-wright-busted-for-dwi-in-new-york?liteAmanda Bynes' bizarre behavior has been tabloid fodder for years now, and the former child star has been fanning the flames on her personal Twitter account.
]]>http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/26/17931975-amanda-bynes-shaves-half-of-her-head?liteAmanda Bynes' bizarre behavior has been tabloid fodder for years now, and the former child star has been fanning the flames on her personal Twitter account.Copyright msnbc.com 2013
]]>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:44:50 GMTNewshttp://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/26/17931975-amanda-bynes-shaves-half-of-her-head?litePeaches Geldof, the daughter of singer and poverty campaigner Bob Geldof, welcomed her second child with husband Thomas Cohen on Wednesday, according to Hello! magazine.
]]>http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/26/17934125-peaches-geldof-names-son-phaedra?litePeaches Geldof, the daughter of singer and poverty campaigner Bob Geldof, welcomed her second child with husband Thomas Cohen on Wednesday, according to Hello! magazine.Copyright msnbc.com 2013
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PTSD research: Distinct gene activity patterns from childhood abuse

May 1, 2013 ? Abuse during childhood is different.

A study of adult civilians with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) has shown that individuals with a history of childhood abuse have distinct, profound changes in gene activity patterns, compared to adults with PTSD but without a history of child abuse.

A team of researchers from Atlanta and Munich probed blood samples from 169 participants in the Grady Trauma Project, a study of more than 5000 Atlanta residents with high levels of exposure to violence, physical and sexual abuse and with high risk for civilian PTSD.

The results were published Monday, April 29 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Early Edition.

"These are some of the most robust findings to date showing that different biological pathways may describe different subtypes of a psychiatric disorder, which appear similar at the level of symptoms but may be very different at the level of underlying biology," says Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine and Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

"As these pathways become better understood, we expect that distinctly different biological treatments would be implicated for therapy and recovery from PTSD based on the presence or absence of past child abuse."

Ressler, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, is co-director of the Grady Trauma Project, along with co-author Bekh Bradley, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory and director of the Trauma Recovery Program at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

The first author of the paper is Divya Mehta, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Munich. The senior author is Elisabeth Binder, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory and group leader at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany.

Mehta and her colleagues examined changes in the patterns of which genes were turned on and off in blood cells from patients. They also looked at patterns of methylation, a DNA modification on top of the four letters of the genetic code that causes genes to be 'silenced' or made inactive.

Study participants were divided into three groups: people who experienced trauma without developing PTSD, people with PTSD who were exposed to child abuse, and people with PTSD who were not exposed to child abuse.

The researchers were surprised to find that although hundreds of genes had significant changes in activity in the PTSD with and without child abuse groups, there was very little overlap in patterns between these groups. The two groups shared similar symptoms of PTSD, which include intrusive thoughts such as nightmares and flashbacks, avoidance of trauma reminders, and symptoms of hyperarousal and hypervigilance.

The PTSD with child abuse group displayed more changes in genes linked with development of the nervous system and regulation of the immune system, while the PTSD minus child abuse group displayed more changes in genes linked with apoptosis (cell death) and growth rate regulation. In addition, changes in methylation were more frequent in the PTSD with child abuse group. The authors believe that these biological pathways may lead to different mechanisms of PTSD symptom formation within the brain.

The Max Planck/Emory scientists were probing gene activity in blood cells, rather than brain tissue. Similar results have been obtained by researchers studying the influence of child abuse on the brains of people who had committed suicide.

"Traumatic events that happen in childhood are embedded in the cells for a long time," Binder says. "Not only the disease itself, but the individual's life experience is important in the biology of PTSD, and this should be to be reflected in the way we treat these disorders."

This work was supported by the Max-Planck Society, the Behrens-Weise Foundation, the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (MH071537 and MH085806) and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

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Genetic factor predicts success of weight-loss surgery

May 2, 2013 ? More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese, and some of these individuals undergo gastric bypass surgery to shed the extra pounds. A genome-wide association study published by Cell Press May 2nd in The American Journal of Human Genetics reveals that the amount of weight loss after this surgery can be predicted in part by a DNA sequence variation found on chromosome 15. The findings explain why the success of gastric bypass surgery varies so widely and could help clinicians identify those who would benefit the most from this type of surgery.

"Surgery is the most effective therapy for severe obesity, but these procedures are invasive, and not all patients get the same degree of benefit," says senior study author Lee Kaplan of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. "If we can identify those patients who are likely to lose more weight after surgery from those who do less well, we could help steer patients towards the therapy that best suits them."

Individuals who undergo gastric bypass surgery lose on average about 35%-40% of their initial weight and keep most of this weight off. But the amount of weight lost by different patients varies by a factor of four, and it is not understood what causes this wide difference in response.

To identify specific genetic factors that might play a role, Kaplan and his team examined the genomes of more than 1,000 individuals undergoing gastric bypass surgery. They found that individuals with two copies of a specific variant on chromosome 15 lost on average about 39% of their body weight, whereas those without a copy of this variant lost less than 30% of their body weight. Moreover, the activity of the gene located closest to this variant also predicted weight loss.

"This is the first instance where a genome-wide search has identified genetic predictors of weight loss after gastric bypass surgery," Kaplan says. "Since the genes identified in this report have not previously been known to be involved with body-weight regulation and obesity, their identification may suggest new approaches that could be used to develop novel therapies for obesity, diabetes, and related metabolic disorders."

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Loblaw raises dividend, plans $7-billion REIT | Investing | Financial ...

Loblaw Cos. Inc. saw a big boost in first-quarter earnings due to changes in its retirement plan and a resulting gain.

The Canada?s biggest grocery chain earned $171-million, or 60? per share on a fully diluted basis in the first quarter ended March 23, compared with $122-million (43?) in the same period of 2012.

The quarterly profit includes a gain of $51-million, or 13? per share, related to defined benefit plan changes made during the quarter. Loblaw said it will realize annual pre-tax savings of about $14-million related to the retirement plan changes.

The company also hiked its dividend for the second time in six months, from 22? per common share to 24?, a rise of 9.1%.

Revenue was $7.2-billion, up 3.8% from $6.9-billion in 2012 and same-store sales, a key measure of performance in retail, were up 2.8%.

Loblaw shares rose 5.26% to $45.00 in TSX trading at 10:51 a.m. ET Wednesday.

?The first quarter showed continued evidence of momentum in our core business,? Galen Weston, Loblaw?s executive chairman, said in a statement. ?Greater assortment and an improved in-store experience are resonating with customers, translating into same-store sales growth and positive trends in tonnage and market share.

?Despite the increasingly competitive environment, I believe that our improving customer experience and demonstrated ability to create leverage by driving cost savings and efficiencies will enable us to win in the marketplace and deliver value to our shareholders.?

This quarter marks the start of a pivotal year for the grocery retailer, which is in the final phase of a massive IT systems overhaul, and has plans to create a $7-billion real estate investment trust for its properties. The company said Wednesday it expects to file a preliminary prospectus for its real estate investment trust in late May and complete an initial public offering in early to mid-July.

The company has also taken a bruising in the public eye for an association to the Bangladesh factory collapse last week, where some of its low-priced Joe Fresh apparel line was made. Along with British retailer Primark, Loblaw has said it will compensate the families of the victims.

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Peres invites Pope Francis to Israel

May 1 (Reuters) - Post position for Saturday's 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs after Wednesday's draw (listed as barrier, HORSE, jockey, trainer) 1. BLACK ONYX, Joe Bravo, Kelly Breen 2. OXBOW, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas 3. REVOLUTIONARY, Calvin Borel, Todd Pletcher 4. GOLDEN SOUL, Robby Albarado, Dallas Stewart 5. NORMANDY INVASION, Javier Castellano, Chad Brown 6. MYLUTE, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss 7. GIANT FINISH, Jose Espinoza, Tony Dutrow 8. GOLDENCENTS, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill 9. OVERANALYZE, Rafael Bejarano, Todd Pletcher 10. PALACE MALICE, Mike Smith, Todd Pletcher 11. ...

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Italy's new premier to push growth agenda in Europe after winning vote

By Roberto Landucci and Steve Scherer

ROME (Reuters) - New Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta won a final confidence vote in his broad coalition government on Tuesday before setting off on a European tour to push his agenda of growth rather than austerity to revive the recession-hit economy.

Even before departure, Letta came under pressure from the partners in his right-left government to re-negotiate Rome's commitment to keeping its budget within European Union rules. It was an early indication of the difficult juggling act he faces at the head of an uneasy coalition.

Letta, who was sworn in on Sunday, easily won a confidence vote in the Senate after a similar victory in the lower house on Monday.

He immediately set off for Berlin to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel, the champion of Europe's increasingly unpopular tight budget policies.

On Wednesday, Letta travels to Paris where he is likely to find an ally in French President Francois Hollande, who is also pushing for a switch of emphasis towards growth rather than austerity. Letta will go to Brussels, where he plans talks with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

The 46-year-old Letta took the helm of an economy, the euro zone's third biggest, in the midst of a severe crisis, with unemployment at 20-year highs and the recession, already matching the longest since World War Two, seen dragging on all year.

In a sign of the intense pressure he will face, four-times Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi threatened to pull his center-right People of Freedom party out of the coalition if it does not abolish an unpopular housing tax.

Berlusconi, who is not in cabinet but is playing a decisive role behind the scenes, added that the government must re-negotiate EU deficit commitments, echoing similar comments made earlier by two of Letta's own ministers.

DISAGREEMENT OVER BUDGET CHANGES

But Foreign Minister Emma Bonino, a former European commissioner, responded that Italy cannot alter its targets, a view repeated by a spokesman for the European Commission in Brussels.

"The targets, the objectives remain those that have been agreed," Commission spokesman Simon O'Connor said.

Speaking in the Senate before the confidence vote, Letta argued that Italy's need to ease austerity during the economic slump was shared by many European countries.

"What is happening in Italy is happening all over Europe," Letta said. "Either there is a common European destiny or each country will eventually decline on its own."

On Tuesday Industry Minister Flavio Zanonato and Regional Affairs Minister Graziano Delrio said Italy would seek to exempt public investments from budget calculations, which would in effect allow increased spending.

Italy's 2013 deficit target now stands at 2.9 percent of gross domestic product target, just a notch below the EU ceiling.

The country's biggest labor unions on Tuesday said they would hold a joint protest on June 22 to push for more job creating policies. The danger from rising social tensions was highlighted on Sunday in a dramatic gun attack on Rome.

An unemployed man opened fire on two police officers in front of the prime minister's office as Letta's government was being sworn in at the presidential palace. He told investigators he had wanted to strike at politicians before being stopped at a police cordon.

To ease the pain of austerity, Letta has proposed freezing a planned increase in sales tax and suspending the housing levy opposed by Berlusconi, although he has not said he would scrap it altogether as the center-right is demanding.

Those two measures alone will cost about 4 billion euros ($5.24 billion) in lost revenue this year, and labour unions are asking that the government set aside another billion euros to fund benefits for idled factory workers. Letta has not given details of how he would raise revenue to fund tax reductions.

($1 = 0.7634 euros)

(With additional reporting by Giuseppe Fonte; writing by Steve Scherer; editing by Barry Moody)

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Hungarian government accused of illegally funding political party for ...

The Hungarian government is accused of disregarding Romanian law by using state-owned companies and institutions to finance political parties serving that country?s ethnic Hungarian minority, Hungarian-language portal Transindex.ro reported last week.

Transindex found that state-controlled Hungarian institutions such as MVM Hungarian Electricity, the Hungarian Development Bank, and Hungarian National Asset Management Inc. channeled roughly EUR 1 million to newly-established civil society groups whose founders and staff members are either close associates or political candidates of the Hungarian People?s Party of Transylvania (Erd?lyi Magyar N?pp?rt).

Activists from the Hungarian National Council of Transylvania, under the leadership of MEP L?szl? T?k?s (above left), helped establish the party in 2011 as a rival to existing ethnic Hungarian political organizations.

Romanian campaign financing regulations prohibit foreign funding of domestic political parties.

Zsolt N?meth, state secretary at Hungary?s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Friday denied the allegations, saying that Hungary ?respects Romania?s laws? regarding political financing. According to N?meth, all official funding from Hungary to Transylvania is used for providing assistance to the region?s Hungarian minority.

Meanwhile, the Conservative Party of Romania has alerted the Romanian electoral authorities of the investigation?s conclusions.

According to Transindex, its report was published with financial assistance from Freedom House Romania, the local unit of the US-funded rights group, as well as the US State Department and the French Embassy in Bucharest.

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ITC tosses Motorola's sensor-based complaint against Apple

If you thought the patent war between Motorola (Google) and Apple was already over, you were mistaken. Though, today's decision by the ITC to toss Moto's complaint against Cupertino regarding the use of sensors to control the interface of a phone, might be one of the final blows struck. The claim over patent No. 6,246,862, was the last patent-in-suit standing from its 2010 complaint against Apple. Now it's been completely invalidated. The decision can still be appealed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and we can almost guarantee the company will take advantage of that option. (In fact, it already is with previous decisions that did not go in its favor.) With courts tossing out complaints left and right, and some companies even willingly withdrawing them, we certainly keep hoping that the era patent Risk is coming to an end.

The ITC tossing out yet another complaint is a big loss for Motorola and Google. But, Apple has lost plenty of its own suits recently. It seems that both sides are settling into a stalemate. And ultimately pushing these competitors to innovate in the market instead of the courtroom is good for consumers.

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We want your UFC 159 picks

After months and months of build-up, UFC 159 is (almost) here. The light heavyweight championship is on the line, along with other fights that have some animosity behind them. We want your picks, but we're doing things a little differently this time.

Go to Cagewriter's Facebook page and vote for who you think will win. Click on the fight for the poll that bout:

Jon Jones vs. Chael Sonnen
Alan Belcher vs. Michael Bisping
Cheick Kongo vs. Roy Nelson
Phil Davis vs. Vinny Magalhaes
Pat Healy vs. Jim Miller

If you want your picks to show up on Cagewriter next to picks from Kevin Iole and me, write in the comments why you think your choice will win. On Friday, we'll run picks and results of the poll.

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In the practicePRO Lending Library: Non-legal Careers for Lawyers

April 22, 2013 By: TimLemieux Category: Law Practice Management

Perhaps you are a law student who realizes that practicing law is not what you want to do. Or maybe you are a practicing lawyer who no longer feels satisfied with your work. If you feel it?s time for a change, this newly revised guidebook will show you what you can do with your law degree, besides practice law. More importantly, this book will illustrate how to use your legal skills to rise above the competition.

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• Business and Industry?jobs in corporations; accounting firms; media companies; health care and pharmaceutical companies; engineering firms; real estate sales; high-tech companies; and more.
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The practicePRO Lending Library is a free resource for Ontario lawyers of more than 100 books on a wide variety of law practice management related topics. You can see a full listing of our books here. You may borrow a book in person or via e-mail.

The practicePRO Library is located in our office at 250 Yonge Street, Suite 3101 in Toronto and can be visited during our regular business hours (Mon to Fri, 8:30 to 5:00). We invite you to come by anytime (please email in advance)to peruse our selection. All titles in the practicePRO Lending Library can be shipped to Ontario lawyers at our expense, and returned at yours after three weeks.

If you would like to borrow this or any other book please email us. Most of our titles are also available from the American Bar Association Web Store or the major booksellers here in Canada.

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Deal of the Day ? CD Quality iPhone Microphone

LogicBUY’s Deal for Sunday is a?CD Quality iPhone Microphone for only?$69.95. ?Features: Analog-to-digital converter that handles up to 125 dB SPL Attaches to iPhone’s 30-pin dock connector $89.95 – $20 savings = $69.95. ?This is the lowest price LogicBUY has found for this iPhone accessory. This deal expires April 24, 2013 or sooner. Check the [...]

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Gun background check amendment fails

The Senate on Wednesday rejected a bipartisan amendment that would have expanded background checks on gun purchases, a blow to advocates calling for more strict firearm laws after the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., late last year.

The measure, the product of intense negotiations between Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey and West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, would have extended background check requirements on gun owners. It needed 60 votes to pass, but failed 54-46.

Democratic Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana voted against it. (Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada switched his vote to no at the end, a procedural tactic that allows him to bring it up for a vote later.) In addition to Toomey, Republicans who supported the amendment were Sens. Mark Kirk of Illinois, Susan Collins of Maine and John McCain of Arizona.

Scores of onlookers filled the Senate gallery to watch the vote. When Vice President Joseph Biden read the final tally and announced the amendment had not passed, Patricia Maisch, who helped disarm the man who shot former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in 2011, yelled, "Shame on you!" before walking out of the chamber.

When the vote finished, families with loved ones killed by gun violence who had attended the vote consoled one another outside the Senate floor. Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York, Reid and Manchin joined them later. The parents of Jessica Ghawi, who was murdered last year in Aurora, Colo., during the November shooting at a movie theater, handed Reid a picture of their deceased daughter. When he spoke to the press he placed it on the lectern in front of him and left it there so that the speakers after him could see her picture.

"In the beginning of this process, I made it clear that any legislation that passes the Senate must include background checks to be effective. That is still the case," Reid told reporters. "I'm going to do everything that I can to fight for meaningful background check legislation. The fight has just begun. It's not going away."

After Reid's remarks, Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, the state where 27 people--most of them children--were killed at a school in Newtown last year, approached the lectern.

"Today was a heart-breaker," Blumenthal said. "Probably the saddest day of my years in public life."

Despite the setback, the senators vowed that they would continue to press for overhauling the nation's federal gun laws.

After the vote, President Barack Obama spoke in the White House Rose Garden alongside family members who lost loved ones at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and Vice President Joe Biden. P

Obama chastised Congress, saying ?All in all, this was a pretty shameful day in Washington.?

The president placed most of the blame on Republicans, 90 percent of whom, he said, voted against the Manchin-Toomey amendment.??It came down to politics,? Obama said. ?They caved to the pressure.??He also blamed the gun lobby for spreading ?misinformation? about the amendment, saying the lobby and its allies ?willfully lied about the bill? and claimed it would work to establish a gun registry.

He asked all Americans who support background checks to express their disappointment to their representatives in Washington, adding that those who want gun reform ?have to sustain the same passion about this? as the powerful gun lobby.

And he vowed to keep up the fight.

?I see this as just round one,? Obama said. He added that?his administration will continue to work towards reducing gun violence, but ?we can do more if Congress gets its act together.?

He also thanked Toomey and Manchin for their ?courage? in introducing the amendment.

Throughout Obama's remarks, some of the Newtown family members, including Jimmy Greene, Nicole Hockley, Jeremy Richman, Neil Heslin, Mark Barden, Jackie Barden, Natalie Barden and James Barden, were visibly emotional, and Obama and Biden comforted some of them with hands on their shoulders.

The president also addressed accusations from Republican Sen. Rand Paul and others that he's using Newtown family members as ?props? in the gun control debate.

?Are they serious?? he asked, daring them to question the rights of family members of victims to voice their opinions in the gun debate.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/senate-rejects-gun-bill-compromise-204629005--politics.html

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Restaurant Gems: Calabash Bistro - Vancity Buzz | Vancouver Blog ...

If you haven?t been to?Calabash Bistro, you are missing out on a Gastown restaurant gem that has it all. This vibrant Caribbean restaurant? allows one to comfortably dine, drink, dance and enjoy live music all in one location. Located on the corner of Hastings and Carrall, Calabash offers a warm, inviting and energetic atmosphere that typically transpires to some of the most memorable nights out.

?The Calabash brand and its staff

Sam Willcocks, co-owner of Calabash best explains the restaurant concept. ?We?re just trying to sort of bridge that gap a bit between restaurants, clubs and [the] pretentious feeling you get in Vancouver,? explains Willcocks. He also added that when people go to restaurants or clubs, there is this uncomfortable feeling, and people don?t really talk to their neighbours. ?We?re just trying to create a melting pot. People come in and they feel relaxed. We don?t push through tables. We let them take their time.? When people come in to the restaurant, there is a sense of belonging, as if everyone is part of a family. It just can?t be helped that conversations will be extended to other tables, whether it?s about other guest?s food, or their attire for the night. In addition, the servers make it easy for the customers to get into the spirit of things, sort of like an icebreaker. They come to the table and actually take the time to converse.

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The restaurant name came about during a brainstorming exercise. A calabash is a gourd that grows on a tree, which has a variety of uses such as for drinking, cooking and making instruments. According to Willcocks, ?[Calabash] represents a lot of what we do. We have music, we have art, we got food. With a calabash, you can cook with it, you can drink out of it and you can do art with it.?

Calabash Menu

Calabash?s head chef, Cullin David, described the food as ?food from the soul, from your heart. Food your grandma used to make.? Having a home cooked element is key to bringing the authentic flavours of the Caribbean to the place, as well as introducing it to the North American palette. David said that it?s easy to do that here in Vancouver because ?people here are really open to food and different flavours, and they?re excited about trying new stuff.? There?s always something for everyone.

For small groups, the regular menu is available, filled with favourites such as the free-range chicken with their delicious jerk sauce. For bigger groups, the set group and family-style menus are the route to go, with four different sets to satisfy the Caribbean taste buds. If the group just wants something to snack on with a pint of beer or a rum cocktail, there are two late night snack menus to look at. ?Along with the food, Calabash also boasts the ?biggest rum collection in the city,? according to Willcocks.

The social climate?and interior

Live music?

If the food and the rum cocktails aren?t enough, Calabash also has live music about four nights a week.

The entertainment features live performances of reggae, hip-hop, funk, and poetry. These are usually covered by talented local artists.

Calabash Bistro?s resident DJ Carlyle Mark, known as ?the record player? ?spins an all?vinyl?set most days of the week, and hosts a ?old school?vinyl?night the first Friday of every month. ?Carlyle mixes up a set of?old school/funk, soul, R&B, disco, rare grooves, classic hip hop,?original breaks and slow jams from the 70?s, 80?s and early 90?s.

Guests can either sit and relax while enjoying their meal and listening to good music, or after two glasses of cocktails, they can go downstairs to the basement where they can immerse themselves on various local artworks on display and strut their stuff on the dance floor. This is part of bridging the gap between restaurants and clubs, and a definite reflection of Calabash.

The crowd

Part of creating that melting pot is the different mix of people that come in to the restaurant. ?We get a lot of ethnicities coming here from all around the world. People really enjoy walking in and seeing that balanced cultural place,? explains Willcocks. The crowd is extremely multi-cultural and in tern, full of energy and good vibes.

Art

The gallery space located in the downstairs lounge is an integral component of the Calabash concept. Taking art out of the white cube of private galleries, and bringing it into everyday interaction. Local and community artists are given a forum to display their work.

Calabash is definitely a place to go to if people just want to relax and chill with friends and family. It?s also a place to casually dine and have the option to dance if you so desire. It?s great for birthdays or dates where one can conveniently experience art, food, drink, and music in one evening of fun.

Calabash Bistro

Address: 428 Carrall Street, Vancouver

Ph: (604) 568-5882

Much like VcB, Tangoo?s mission is to make the city more connected,?accessible, and ultimately, more fun. By leading the resto-cocktail hop?movement and always being in the knowhow, we rely on them to enrich your?night-out compass with Vancouver?s greatest food and drink happenings.?Follow the movement at?www.tangoo.ca?and?@TangooNights

Written by Jose Reyes, a contributor for Tangoo. Follow him on Twitter @jlsreyes?

Images from Calabash Bistro?s Facebook Page

Source: http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2013/04/restaurant-spotlight-calabash-bistro/

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Panasonic Lumix GF6 announced for the US, shipping in June for $600

Panasonic's latest entry-level Micro Four Thirds cam appears to follow the design language (and perhaps usability) of its GF predecessors, but at least it's got WiFi, right? We'll hold out on passing further judgement until we have the camera in hand, but if past models are any indication, you'll definitely want to try the Lumix GF6 on for size in a retail store before handing over a cool 600 bucks. That said, there are some major improvements here -- there's NFC and WiFi functionality, as we mentioned, and the 1,040k-dot LCD is certainly a step up from the GF5, as is the top sensitivity of ISO 25,600. There's also a dedicated mode dial (always a plus), a pop-up flash and a bundled manual-zoom 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. The new MFT camera, which was announced for Japan just last week, will be hitting US retailers in June.

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Iran: Quake kills at least 40 near Pakistan border

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iranian state TV says at least 40 people have been killed by a major earthquake near the Iran-Pakistan border.

Press TV gave no further details on the extent of damage in the sparsely populated areas. But the quake shook buildings as far away as New Delhi and Gulf cities of Dubai and Bahrain.

Iran's seismological center said the 7.5 magnitude earthquake was centered near Saravan, a sparsely populated area about 48 kilometers (26 miles) from the Pakistani border. The U.S. Geological Survey put the preliminary magnitude at 7.8 and at a depth of 15.2 kilometers (nine miles).

The quake struck less than a week after a 6.1 magnitude quake hit near Bushehr, on Iran's Persian Gulf coast, killing at least 37 people.

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Analysis: Gene swapping makes new China bird flu a moving target

By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent

LONDON (Reuters) - A new bird flu virus that has killed 13 people in China is still evolving, making it hard for scientists to predict how dangerous it might become.

Influenza experts say the H7N9 strain is probably still swapping genes with other strains, seeking to select ones that might make it fitter.

If it succeeds, the world could be facing the threat of a deadly flu pandemic. But it may also fail and just fizzle out.

The virus' instability also raises questions about whether H7N9 might become resistant to antiviral drugs such as Roche's antiviral drug Tamiflu, a possibility already suggested by analyses of genetic data available on the strain so far.

"Even with just the three (gene) sequences we have available, there's some evidence that one doesn't quite fit with the other two. So we might think this virus is still fishing around for a genetic constellation that its happy with," said Wendy Barclay, a flu virologist at Imperial College London.

"Maybe there are other viruses out there that it is still exchanging genes with until it gets to a stable constellation."

To be able to say with any confidence whether this new strain, which before March had never been seen in humans, could go on to cause a pandemic, scientists need to know a lot more.

H7N9 A TRIPLE MIX BIRD FLU

So far, genetic sequence data from samples from three H7N9 victims and posted on the website of GISAID, the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data, show the strain is a so-called "triple reassortant" virus with a mixture of genes from three other flu strains found in birds in Asia.

Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, researchers who conducted a detailed analysis of the strain's origin said it seemed that so far the reassortment of genes to make H7N9 had taken place in birds rather than in humans or in any other mammal - a somewhat reassuring sign.

Barclay said this may continue, and could mean it is some time before the strain finds a form in which it can spread swiftly and efficiently in bird populations.

Yet genetic analyses also show the virus has already acquired some mutations that make it more likely be able to spread between mammals, and more able to spark a human pandemic.

A study in the online journal Eurosurveillance by leading flu experts Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin and Masato Tashiro at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Tokyo, said the H7N9 sequences "possess several characteristic features of mammalian influenza viruses, which are likely to contribute to their ability to infect humans".

These features, the scientists wrote, "raise concerns regarding their pandemic potential".

That sentiment was echoed on Saturday by the World Health Organization (WHO), which said "genetic changes seen among these H7N9 viruses suggesting adaptation to mammals are of concern" and warned: "Further adaptation may occur".

PANDEMIC POTENTIAL

While experts take some comfort in the lack of evidence so far that H7N9 is passing from person to person - a factor that would dramatically increase its pandemic potential - they are find little comfort in not yet knowing how the 60 or so people confirmed as having this flu strain became infected.

"We know H7 viruses can spill over into humans ... and for me the most important thing to find out now is from which species do we think this H7N9 is spilling over," said An Osterhaus, head of viroscience of the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands.

"Is it one species? Are there different species? At this stage we are still lacking a lot of data."

He said rigorous surveillance of wild birds, such as ducks and quail, and poultry such as chickens, as well as well-known flu-carrying mammals such as pigs, should yield answers.

Recent pandemic viruses - including the H1N1 "swine flu" of 2009/2010 - have been mammal and bird flu mixtures. Experts say these hybrids are more likely to be milder, because mammalian flu tends to make humans less severely ill than bird flu.

Pure bird flu strains - like the new H7N9 strain and like the H5N1 strain that has killed around 371 of 622 the people it has infected since 2003 - are generally more deadly for people.

The world's worst known pandemic, the "Spanish flu" of 1918 that killed more than 50 million people, was a bird flu that had picked up gene mutations that enabled it to spread efficiently in humans.

David Heyman, a flu expert and head of Britain's Chatham House Center on Global Health Security, said it is important to put the discovery of H7N9 in humans into the context of modern-day scientific capability.

He said that in the years since the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in China in 2003, there has been a significantly increased focus on detecting and reporting flu-like respiratory infections in Asia and across the world.

The harder scientists look, he said, the more likely they are to find viruses that are potentially threatening but may equally be the sort of events that in the past might have flared up and petered out again under the flu surveillance radar.

That said, he stressed this is no time to relax.

"Influenza viruses are very unstable. And (any) mutation is a random event - so nobody can predict when it will happen," he said. "You can't take your eye off anything. You have to keep your eye on everything."

(Reporting by Kate Kelland, additional reporting by Ben Hirschler in London and Giles Elgood)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-gene-swapping-makes-china-bird-flu-moving-094701739.html

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CHP: Bus at 'unsafe' speed before Yosemite wreck

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? A tour bus carrying visitors from Yosemite National Park was traveling at an unsafe speed when the driver lost control and crashed on a mountain road, leaving 16 people injured, the California Highway Patrol said Sunday.

The bus was about six miles outside of the south entrance of the park when it went off Highway 41, a winding mountain road when it crashed about 6 p.m. Saturday. It came to a stop when it hit a tree, CHP Officer Scott Jobinger said.

Fifteen passengers and a tour guide suffered minor to moderate injuries.

"At this point the cause was the bus was traveling at unsafe speed and went off the road," Jobinger said. He said the accident remained under investigation to determine if other factors played a role.

CHP Sgt. Edward Greene told the Fresno Bee that the impact of the crash caused several passengers to be thrown to the driver's side of the bus, with the bus stopping when it hit the tree.

"If the tree wasn't there to stop the bus, it would have continued down the ravine," Greene said.

The 15 injured passengers, described as mostly elderly, and a tour guide were taken to local hospitals for treatment.

Four of the injured were treated at Community Regional Medical Center, and four were treated at Clovis Community Medical Center, said Jennifer Avila-Allen, a spokeswoman for the hospitals. All but one at Community Regional had been released, she said. The conditions of the others, taken to a different hospital, were not known.

The bus was towed to an impound yard where it will be inspected to see if any mechanical problems may have contributed to the crash, Jobinger said.

The bus driver, identified as Changefeng Liu, 49, of Fremont, Calif., was the only person on the bus who was not hurt. He has not been arrested, and alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the crash.

Investigators have not determined the exact speed of the bus at the time it went off the roadway, but the scenic highway has sharp curves where the speed limits drop to 35 miles per hour, Jobinger said.

The bus is operated by Seven Happiness Tour & Charter, a Burlingame, Calif.-based company that specializes in providing tours to the Chinese-American community, said Charles Wu, who works at the company and answered the phone at its headquarters Sunday. He said the owner would not be available to comment until Monday.

"Most of them (passengers) were Chinese people from the Bay Area," Wu said.

Wu said he had not talked to the bus driver since the crash and have few details about the incident, but said Liu had worked for the company for about six years.

Liu could not be reached for comment.

The tour bus company, which operates six motor coaches and six mini-buses or vans, has not had any crashes in the last 24 months, according to records with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chp-bus-unsafe-speed-yosemite-wreck-192700946.html

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Alternative currencies like bitcoin are a mirror of its users

The e-currency bitcoin spiked and then fell last week, sowing doubts about alternative currencies, whether on the Internet or in local communities. Such experiments need a firm basis of trust.

By the Monitor's Editorial Board / April 15, 2013

This photo shows bitcoin tokens at software engineer Mike Caldwell's shop in Sandy, Utah. Caldwell mints physical versions of bitcoins, cranking out homemade tokens with codes protected by tamper-proof holographic seals, a retro-futuristic kind of prepaid cash. With up to 70,000 transactions each day over the past month, bitcoins have been propelled from the world of Internet oddities to the cusp of mainstream use, a remarkable breakthrough for a currency which made its online debut only four years ago.

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A big financial story last week was the sudden rise and fall of a new ?digital currency? called bitcoin. Designed by computer experts as a form of secure electronic cash backed only by its community of users, bitcoin?s value went from less than $100 to $266 and then back again.

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Bitcoin?s bubble-and-burst was not a sign of faith in the future of ?cryptocurrencies,? or money systems that assume encrypting software can outsmart a cheating human in e-commerce.

Still, bitcoin, which is the world?s first online decentralized currency, has already spawned better versions of itself (?litecoin? and ?PPCoin?). As with other ?unofficial? methods of payment, they represent a desire for alternative monetary systems that can be trusted ? as well as build trust.

Faith in the global financial system has remained weak since the 2008-09 crisis, especially as central banks from Tokyo to Washington print more money to pump up their economies. Rather than rely on the dollar, the yen, or the euro, many communities ? either ?virtual? ones on the Internet or real ones on Main Street ? are trying alternative currencies.

Some work, some don?t. Their success can depend on the ethical values, social cohesion, and common goals of the community.?

?Money does not have value in itself. It?s just paper,? says Jem Bender at Britain?s University of Cumbria and an advocate for new types of exchange systems in trade. ?We are the wealth ? us ? our ability and desire to do things for each other.?

In recent years, attempts to develop local currencies have had a mixed record in places from Toronto, Canada, to Ithaca, New York. One of the more successful ones is in western Massachusetts where ?Berkshares,? or locally printed bills named after the Berkshire Hills, have been in use since 2006. The well-designed currency helps support local merchants, keeps out ?big box? store chains, and strengthens community ties.

One flaw in these home-grown currencies is that they are still tied to a national currency in determining value. Mr. Bender and others hope to break totally free from government money by promoting ?credit clearing exchanges.? The practice has been used in Switzerland for decades among thousands of member businesses. Local producers, after all, put most of the value into an economy. Together, they can help set the value in a money exchange.

The ?local economy? movement builds on the ideas of a few famous economists, such as the late E. F. Schumacher (?small is beautiful?) and the late Elinor Ostrom, a Nobel prize winner. Ms. Ostrom is noted for challenging the assumption that humans are inherently selfish, or that they will secretly exploit a shared resource such as a grazing meadow or an ocean fishery. Her study of successful cooperative groups in Nepal, Japan, and elsewhere cast doubt on the long-held theory of ?the tragedy of the commons.?

She also pushed for close-knit communities as the basis for a healthy economy, focusing on the quality of relationships more than presuming a selfish pursuit by the individual.

In all their variations, alternative currencies depend on a view of humanity capable of seeking one?s own good in another?s. Currencies are really a measure of how well a community taps into its abundance of trust and confidence ? in creating goods and services that are needed and in doing business with honesty.

Golden-rule economics may have a long slog to find the right formula. The bitcoin?s ups and downs show that the experiments in new types of currencies have a long way to go. But money is a great mirror on what a community stands for.

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Watching Bats Fly In Slow Motion Reveals Biological Badassery

We all know about echolocation, but way more is happening when a bat takes flight, and some bats don't echolocate at all. So how do they have so much precision in their flying and what's different about bats and birds? More »

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