Sony flaunts portable, social aspects of PS4 with high-res screenshots

To keep the buzz going from its recent PS4 pseudo-launch in New York, Sony's just released some high-res screenshots from the upcoming console's user interface. While we already saw many of them at the big event, there's a few intriguing images showing how the tablet or smartphone interface might look, along with shots of the social and video editing aspects of the UI. Other screens show the home, sharing, game streaming, user profile and friend feed pages, so hopefully the gallery below will whet your appetite until we can all actually see, you know, the console.

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Study identifies growth factor essential to the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor

Feb. 28, 2013 ? A multi-institutional team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has identified a molecular pathway that appears to be essential for the growth and spread of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor in children. In their report in the Feb. 28 issue of Cell, they show that blocking this pathway -- which involves interactions between tumor cells and the surrounding tissues -- leads to regression of all four molecular subtypes of medulloblastoma in several mouse models.

"Our finding that a pathway carrying signals from host cells to tumor cells via placental growth factor and its receptor neuropilin 1 is critical to the growth of medulloblastoma, regardless of molecular subtype, strongly supports evaluating antibodies against these proteins as a novel therapeutic approach to this pediatric cancer," says Rakesh K. Jain, PhD, director of the Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology at MGH and corresponding author of the study.

A highly malignant tumor that originates in the cerebellum, medulloblastoma accounts for about 20 percent of all pediatric brain tumors and is ten times more common in children than in adults. While aggressive treatment with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation significantly improves patient survival, those treatments can have long-term developmental, behavioral, and neurological side effects, particularly in the youngest patients, making the need for less damaging therapies essential.

Impetus for the current investigation began with studies by Peter Carmeliet, MD, PhD, of the Vesalius Research Center in Belgium, a co-author of the current study. Carmeliet found that an antibody against placental growth factor (PlGF) could block angiogenesis in a number of adult tumors. Since PlGF, unlike other angiogenic proteins, is not required for normal postnatal development, Jain and his Steele Lab colleague Lei Xu, MD, PhD, proposed targeting PlGF as anti-angiogenic treatment for pediatric tumors. Matija Snuderl, MD, of the Steele Lab, a co-lead author of the current study, then found that PlGF was highly expressed in all types of medulloblastoma. Other members of Jain's team found that high expression of the P1GF receptor neuropilin 1 (Nrp1) was associated with poor survival in medulloblastoma patients.

To investigate mechanisms behind the potential role of PlGF in medulloblastoma, the MGH investigators collaborated with colleagues in the U.S., Belgium, Canada and Germany. They first confirmed that PlGF is expressed in patient samples of all subtypes of medulloblastoma and that expression of Nrp1 was more significant than that of PlGF's more common receptor, VEGFR1. Experiments in several mouse models revealed that the presence of PlGF is essential for the progression of medulloblastoma and that treatment with several antibodies against the growth factor reduced tumor growth and spread, increasing animal survival even without substantially inhibiting angiogenesis

The researchers were surprised to find that most PlGF was produced by surrounding supportive tissue called stroma and not by the tumor cells. Further investigation revealed that release of the developmental protein Shh (sonic hedgehog) by tumor cells induces expression in nearby stromal cells of PlGF, which then binds to the Nrp1 receptor on tumor cells, leading to further tumor growth. The authors note that therapies that block the interaction between PlGF and Nrp1 are less likely to lead to treatment resistance than are therapies directly targeting mutations that drive tumor growth.

"The importance of tumor-stromal interactions has been recognized for decades, especially the formation of new blood vessels to supply tumors," says Jain, the Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology (Tumor Biology) at Harvard Medical School. "Our discovery of an entirely different way that tumor-stromal interactions drive cancer progression supports the exciting possibility that targeting that pathway in medulloblastoma could be more broadly effective with fewer side effects for patients. Antibodies against both PlGF and Nrp1 have been developed and tested in adult patients. There is hope that they could be safe in pediatric patients, but that needs to be established in clinical trials."

In addition to Snuderl, co-lead authors of the Cell article are Ana Batista, PhD, and Nathaniel D. Kirkpatrick, PhD, of the Steele Lab, and Carmen Ruiz de Almodovar, PhD, of the Vesalius Research Center. Collaborating institutions include Children's Hospital Boston, the Vesalius Research Center, University of Leuven, Belgium; Genentech, Inc.; the University of British Columbia; and University Hospital, M?nster, Germany. Support for this study includes a grant from Hoffmann-La Roche and National Institutes of Health grant R01CA163815. Carmeliet has patent applications for intellectual property related to this study, and Jain is on the boards of trustees of H&Q Healthcare Investors and H&Q Life Science Investors.

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Responsible Pet Ownership Blog: How to Massage an Arthritic Dog

By Langley Cornwell

My friend Karen recently adopted a senior dog with general arthritis and hip dysplasia. Good for her, right? It started with a conversation we were having about the high number of senior dogs in shelters, and how sad it was for an older dog to live out his or her days behind bars. In our local shelter, senior dogs make up about 10% of the overall population at any given time. When trying to understand why, a shelter worker told us that oftentimes families surrender their senior dogs when they reach an age where they require extra care. What a shame.

Karen?s goal is to provide her new dog, Goldie Girl, with a safe and comfortable home during her twilight years. Their union is heartwarming; it?s amazing how quickly Goldie Girl and Karen have bonded. And the dog seems to have turned back the clock several years. She holds her head a bit higher and her limp is less pronounced. Karen attributes the quick bonding and Goldie Girl?s improved physical state to massage.

The article I wrote titled The Benefits of Massage Therapy for Pets helped convince Karen that her new dog would get a lot out of regular massages, but she didn?t want to cause Goldie Girl any additional pain. Having no experience with massage, Karen went looking for advice on how to massage an older, arthritic dog. She found what she was looking for on The Dog Channel, where there is a helpful tutorial on massaging a senior dog. Here are some simple pointers.

Why massage an arthritic dog?

Arthritis is a degenerative disease that causes pain and soreness in a dog?s joints, specifically the hips, lower spine and knees, and, less severely, to the elbows and shoulders. Massaging your senior dog?s aching muscles a few minutes every day will help slow down the degenerative process of arthritis. Furthermore, massage can help relieve some of your dog?s arthritis pain and reduce some of the muscle tension associated with the disease.

How do you do it?

Start by lightly petting your dog all over, then slowly concentrate your efforts on the area you are about to massage. Continue to lightly stroke the area with very little pressure ? this is called effleurage ? which helps to increase circulation in the area.

Next, begin lightly kneading the tight muscles. Then rub your hands against your dog?s skin to create light friction which will loosen the tight muscle fibers and encourage deeper circulation. Continue to alternate light kneading with light hand friction. About every 10 seconds, use light effleurage strokes to assist drainage. Avoid putting any direct pressure on the dog?s painful joints, but do work the area around the joints to stimulate circulation and drainage. ?

During the massage, you may want to perform some gentle stretching exercises on your dog, to increase the elasticity of the tissue you are working on. When your massage and stretching session is over, softly stroke your dog?s entire body to help her relax. Then you may want to give your sweet dog a soft and tasty CANIDAE TidNips treat.

How long should the massage last?

The massage should last about 10 minutes for smaller breeds and between 15 - 20 minutes for larger breeds. Start with less time and increase the duration gradually, otherwise you risk overworking a specific part of the dog?s body and exacerbating the inflammatory process often present with an arthritic condition.

Does time of day matter?

If you can manage it, try to massage your dog twice a day: once in the early morning and then again in the evening. A massage first thing in the morning is useful because it helps reduce the soreness and stiffness resulting from the previous night?s inactivity. A second massage in the evening will relieve muscle aches brought about by the day's activities.

While massage isn?t a cure for arthritis, it will certainly help your older canine friend feel better. The added bonus is that the bonding experience will benefit both of you!

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Pacers beat Warriors after 4th-quarter scuffle

Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert, right, skirmishes with Golden State Warriors forward David Lee during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Lee received a technical foul; Hibbert received two technical fouls and was ejected from the game. The Pacers won 108-97. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert, right, skirmishes with Golden State Warriors forward David Lee during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Lee received a technical foul; Hibbert received two technical fouls and was ejected from the game. The Pacers won 108-97. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert, center, is pushed by Golden State Warriors guard Jarrett Jack (2) during an altercation with Warriors forward David Lee (10) during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Lee received a technical foul; Hibbert received two technical fouls and was ejected from the game. The Pacers won 108-97. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

Indiana Pacers guard Orlando Johnson, left, pulls down a rebound in front of Golden State Warriors center Festus Ezeli during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, right, drives in front of Indiana Pacers guard George Hill during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? If the Indiana Pacers learned anything from their 108-97 win over the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday, it's exactly how close they are as a team.

Team unity and having each other's back has been a theme for the Pacers, and they had a chance to show it when center Roy Hibbert got involved in a fourth-quarter scuffle.

Hibbert was ejected following the skirmish that began when he and David Lee exchanged shoves under the basket after a missed shot.

"There were two or three guys coming after (Hibbert)," Pacers forward David West said. "We preach and talk about togetherness, so that's part of what we're going to do. We're going to defend one another. They came after him too many times."

West, who had 28 points and seven rebounds, also was called for a technical foul, along with the Warriors' Lee, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, for the altercation.

No players left the bench.

Curry tried to push Hibbert away and was shoved twice to the court as the fight went from the key to the baseline.

"Seriously, I didn't even feel him," Hibbert said of Curry. "I saw some light-skinned guy. I don't know if it was Klay Thompson or Steph Curry, I just knew there was a light-skinned guy by me."

Hibbert believes he will face a suspension.

"Indiana's a very physical team," Lee said. "They're one of the most physical teams, if not the most physical team in the East."

George Hill had 23 points and seven assists, and Paul George had 21 points and 11 rebounds for the Pacers (36-21), who have won five straight.

Curry scored a season-high 38 points and Thompson had 13 for the Warriors (33-24), who had a three-game winning streak snapped.

"It was just physical play," Curry said. "Teams are gearing up for playoff basketball and amping up the intensity a little bit."

The Pacers built a 95-85 lead midway through the fourth quarter and not even the scuffle shook them up as they ended a three-game skid against Western Conference teams.

When play resumed, Ian Mahinmi made a free throw and later West had three baskets, Lance Stephenson hit a 3-pointer and George scored on a jumper to give the Pacers a 104-87 lead with 3:28 left to play.

"We knew we had to (close it out) with Roy going out," George said. "We knew we had to close that game. We're happy about this, but it's one game."

Indiana's Danny Granger played 18 ? minutes and scored five points off the bench in his first home game this season.

He wasn't in the locker room for media availability after the game.

Pacers coach Frank Vogel said he wants to get Granger back in the starting lineup and is looking at a possible two-week timetable, but said he will review it week-by-week.

"My expectations are that we'll get him back into the starting lineup as soon as possible," Vogel said.

Curry hit a jumper and a 3-pointer and the Warriors took a 5-0 lead to start the game. Hill, who had 15 points in the first quarter, hit two 3-pointers, including one to tie the game with 4:19 left in the period.

With the Warriors trailing 52-43, Curry hit a 3-pointer and two more field goals before Lee scored on a layup to get them within 54-53 at halftime.

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Good as Gold

Theo James as Walter Clark Jr. in Golden Boy

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Every procedural needs a gimmick these days, and Golden Boy, the new cop drama from CBS that premieres Tuesday night, has a doozy: It transports viewers into the future. Each episode begins and ends with a flash-forward to the time, seven years hence, when 34-year-old Walter Clark (Theo James) is installed as New York City?s youngest police commissioner. After landing this exalted position at an impossibly early age, Clark seems weary and scarred. The series promises to reveal how he came to possess the high office, prematurely gray hair, and a pronounced limp.

Clark is a former street kid who grew up with an addict mom, an absent father, and a troubled younger sister. After only three years on the beat, an act of heroism allows him to parachute into the homicide division, where he serves alongside far more experienced detectives. Seven years from now, Clark will be the city?s top cop. Does he get there thanks to shrewd political maneuvering, exemplary police work, or low-down dirty tricks?

Judging from the first few episodes, the answer is ?all of the above.? Clark can be a suck-up and a shameless publicity hound, but he has the makings of a good cop, especially when he listens to his new partner, Don Owen (Chi McBride). If Clark is a show pony, Owen is a workhorse. Just two years shy of retirement, Owen is already making plans for a new life in Florida, but the chance to shape the career of a talented but impulsive young detective revives his own ambition. There?s something comfortingly old-fashioned about this mentor-mentee relationship. For all his drive, Clark still has a lot to learn, and it?s a sign of his potential that he quickly realizes he should heed Owen?s advice.

Of course, not all of Clark?s colleagues in the homicide division are overjoyed to have a new star in their midst. Christian Arroyo (Kevin Alejandro), homicide?s alpha dog until the pup showed up, is threatened by the young upstart. Arroyo?s attempts to sideline Clark?s progress are just as much a part of his education as Owen?s morality tales. They?re the angel and devil on the young cop?s slender shoulders.

Golden Boy?s creator, Nicholas Wootton, says he got the idea for the show while watching The Social Network, a movie about how ferociously ambitious young men with big ideas can overturn long-established ways of doing business. Successful tykes are currently having a moment on television?think singer Juliette Barnes ruling the charts on ABC?s Nashville or reporter Zoe Barnes raising hell on Netflix?s House of Cards. But the Barneses work in fields that have been revolutionized by the Internet. In music and journalism, YouTube, digital downloads, and blogging have smashed career ladders into firewood. So far at least, police work has escaped disruption. No matter how talented, well-connected, or entrepreneurial they may be, detectives are still expected to earn their bones on tough cases. Fortunately, the investigations that provide Clark?s life lessons are as accomplished as you?d expect from Wootton, who spent 11 years on NYPD Blue and a couple of seasons at Law & Order.

Perhaps because he?s 28 and as fit as a fiddle (his best-known role to date is Downton Abbey?s Kemal Pamuk, the Turkish gentleman who died in Lady Mary?s bed), James has to slather on aging makeup and affect a broken gait just to pass for a man in his mid-30s. Consequently, there?s something not quite convincing about the scenes set in the future. And the New York City of 2020 looks a lot like the 2013 version, other than the completed Freedom Tower at 1 World Trade Center, visible from the commissioner?s office.

As much as I would?ve loved to see Manhattanites kitted out in Google Glass, Golden Boy is about the past, not the future. Clark?s journey matters more than his destination. It?s an old-fashioned, low-tech case-of-the-week exploration of the ?give me a boy at 7, and I?ll show you the man? philosophy that fuels Michael Apted?s 7 Up series of movies: Give me the golden boy at 27, and I will show you the 34-year-old man in the corner office of 1 Police Plaza. When I look into my own future, I see years spent watching Walter Clark grow up, one hour at a time.

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A New York assemblyman who at first vigorously defended wearing blackface, an Afro wig and a basketball jersey to a costume party apologized Monday, saying he didn?t mean to hurt anyone.

Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind wore the basketball garb at his own party in his home to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim, for which costumes are commonly part of the celebration. For hours on Monday, Hikind was assailed by criticism that he initially dismissed as ?political correctness to the absurd.?

At a news conference outside his Brooklyn home, however, Hikind pledged to be ?a little more careful, a little more sensitive.? He added: ?I repeat, it was not meant to in any way hurt anyone. And those that were? I?m sorry. That was not my intention.?

Assemblyman Karim Camara of the state Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus had called Hikind?s actions at the party ?callous and repugnant.?

?It brings back the memories of African-Americans being reduced to buffoonery just to gain access to the entertainment industry,? said Camara, who is also a Brooklyn Democrat and a black leader in the New York state Legislature.

The powerful leader of the Democrat-led Assembly, Speaker Sheldon Silver, weighed in shortly after Hikind?s news conference, calling Hikind?s actions ?inappropriate and offensive.? No action against Hikind was announced.

Earlier this month, Hikind criticized the fashion designer John Galliano, who was recently photographed in New York City dressing as a Hasid with a long jacket and curly sidelocks. Two years ago, Galliano was fired from Christian Dior after his anti-Semitic rant was caught on video.

Hikind demanded an explanation from Galliano for his costume.

?If it was just anyone else, I wouldn?t know what to say. But considering who this guy is, considering his background and what he?s said in the past, let him explain it to all of us: Are you mocking us?? Hikind told the New York Post.

On Jan. 31, Hikind asked the president of Brooklyn College to resign for failing to stop an event he said had a racist agenda. He wrote on his blog at the time that the ?BDS Movement Against Israel? event called for a unilateral boycott against Israel and Israeli businesses.

In Albany, Hikind has championed some conservative and religion-based issues. In 2009, he opposed an early vote to legalize same-sex marriage

?It is about what I believe God wants,? Hikind said then. ?God doesn?t flip-flop on an issue.?

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Exclusive: Goldman to begin fresh round of job cuts - sources

(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc plans to begin a fresh round of job cuts as early as this week, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday, with its equities business bracing for bigger cuts than fixed-income trading.

The cuts come at the time of year in which the Wall Street bank typically gets rid of its weakest 5 percent of employees across the entire firm. But as the trading business continues to suffer from weak volumes and earnings, the losses are expected to be deeper in some businesses.

Equities trading will likely see cuts bigger than 5 percent, while fixed-income trading, which took big hits last year and has had better volumes, will likely see cuts of less than 5 percent the sources said.

Goldman's latest round of dismissals follows the bank's layoffs of 3,300 employees, or 9 percent of its workforce, over the past two years.

(Reporting By Lauren Tara LaCapra and Katya Wachtel; Editing by Maureen Bavdek)

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Can We Really Stop Bullying?

What do you do if your kid is a bully?

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Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy is Slate senior editor Emily Bazelon's in-depth look at bullying and a blueprint for how to reduce it. She tells compelling stories from the perspective of both the bullied and the bullies, explores the new world of online bullying, looks deep into the academic literature, and provides answers to the problem. She discussed it all with Slate's ?Dear Prudence? columnist, Emily Yoffe.

Emily Yoffe: What was the most surprising thing your reporting turned up?

Emily Bazelon: One piece of research in particular helped me understand why kids bully?how that can be a rational, if unfortunate, choice. Robert Faris at U.C. Davis mapped social networks in a few different high schools, and he showed that kids behaving aggressively?not physically, but socially?use gossip, exclusion, and attacks on other kids? reputations to help themselves move up the social ladder. It turned out that for most kids, it didn?t work, in terms of increasing status, to attack someone much weaker. But if you picked on someone near you in the social hierarchy who was a possible rival, that often had a social benefit. It is sort of depressing but important to understand, I think. People ask: Why do kids act this way? But kids are doing what anyone would do: maximizing their social influence. So then the question is: How do we upend this?

Yoffe: Is it even realistic to think you can upend it? Aren?t you talking about a pervasive part of human nature?

Bazelon: Aggression is endemic to human nature, and we wouldn?t want to stamp it out. Kids are not always going to be nice to one another. But bullying is a certain kind of harmful aggression. The agreed-upon definition is that it?s verbal or physical aggression that is repeated over time and involves a power differential. It?s one kid lording it over another, and because it persists, the victim can find it particularly devastating. We can help kids realize this kind of aggression is not the norm, and in the end, it?s not the best way to advance socially, either.

One school I write about did a survey, and the results showed that 90 percent of students there did not exclude other kids at the lunch table. So they put this information on posters around the school, and the incidence of exclusion dropped even further. There?s an analogy here to the campaign against drunk driving. When I was in high school, I felt it was a tiny bit cool to drink and drive. There wasn?t a strong message about how dangerous and wrong it was. But parents, schools, and the media have succeeded in impressing that on kids, and now they are less likely to do it?and the death rate from drunk driving among young people has gone down significantly. There are social problems that seem intractable, but when we put energy into pushing back, we are able to change things.

Yoffe: You write about your own experience being bullied in middle school, when you say your friends ?fired? you. Did your parents handle the situation correctly when they told you to ignore the mean girls and make new friends? Or do you now realize there was something else they should have done?

Bazelon: My parents were pretty good. They were clued into what was going on, they didn?t minimize or say I was being silly to be so upset. They gave good advice to make new friends. The notion that you can walk away from a toxic social situation, take yourself out of it, and find a new social group is right, even if it?s hard to do. What my parents didn?t do was ask the school for help. At that time, in the 1980s, I don?t think that would have occurred to many parents. And I probably would have said no if they had wanted to! So in my case, and more tellingly in the case of another girl in my class I write about, who really was bullied, there was no suggestion that this was the school?s affair. If this were happening to my kid, I would try to find someone at school to help. But even now the research shows most kids don?t tell adults at school, and sadly those that do report that their situations don?t necessarily improve. That has to change so that the kids who go for help really get it.

Yoffe: Is there a danger in adults getting too involved in this? Have you found that adults can overreact and then make the kids think of themselves as damaged victims?

Bazelon: Yes, and that?s why I think it?s important to use the bullying label sparingly. Lots of psychological literature shows that seeing oneself only as a victim doesn?t help people advance in life. In a well-intentioned effort to help kids treat one another better, we do have to be careful not to overpolice or overprotect them. They have to make mistakes and experience adversity, and we can?t fix everything along the way. In some upper- and middle-class communities, we can veer too far in that direction. But some real mistreatment does get swept under the rug, so I worry about the opposite problem at the same time.

Yoffe: You write at length about how social media, texting, etc. has changed the nature of bullying. Suddenly the record is permanent, everyone can read the nasty things being said. Has social media made kids meaner? Has it enabled bullying the way the Internet gave new life to the spread of child pornography??

Bazelon: Cyberbullying is mostly a new expression of an old phenomenon. Most kids caught up in it are kids who are also involved in in-person bullying. The cyberbully is not a new creature. And moving online hasn?t caused the rate of bullying to rise, so much as make the meanness feel more prevalent, because it can be 24/7. When kids go home they don?t get a break anymore. Because if they?re going online, they can see what other kids are saying about them at any time, in front of an audience. It can also elevate the meanness. The spoken word is ephemeral, but the written word, once posted, can be permanent and even go viral. Also, the act of posting can block kids? sense of empathy. They can push send without thinking through the consequences. (Adults can, too.)

The upside is that parents have a chance to monitor what their kids are writing and to get clued in. But that?s tricky, too, of course, because parents have to figure out how much to keep track of their kids online. I don?t think there?s much consensus about that. My own feeling is that it?s best to start off stricter, as your kid gets his first phone or social media account. Explain that you?re overseeing this the way you would any whole new world he is entering. And then you can ease up as he gets the hang of it.

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Weather extremes provoked by trapping of giant waves in the atmosphere

Feb. 25, 2013 ? The world has suffered from severe regional weather extremes in recent years, such as the heat wave in the United States in 2011 or the one in Russia 2010 coinciding with the unprecedented Pakistan flood. Behind these devastating individual events there is a common physical cause, propose scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The study will be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and suggests that man-made climate change repeatedly disturbs the patterns of atmospheric flow around the globe's Northern hemisphere through a subtle resonance mechanism.

"An important part of the global air motion in the mid-latitudes of the Earth normally takes the form of waves wandering around the planet, oscillating between the tropical and the Arctic regions. So when they swing up, these waves suck warm air from the tropics to Europe, Russia, or the US, and when they swing down, they do the same thing with cold air from the Arctic," explains lead author Vladimir Petoukhov.

"What we found is that during several recent extreme weather events these planetary waves almost freeze in their tracks for weeks. So instead of bringing in cool air after having brought warm air in before, the heat just stays. In fact, we observe a strong amplification of the usually weak, slowly moving component of these waves," says Petoukhov. Time is critical here: two or three days of 30 degrees Celsius are no problem, but twenty or more days lead to extreme heat stress. Since many ecosystems and cities are not adapted to this, prolonged hot periods can result in a high death toll, forest fires, and dramatic harvest losses.

Anomalous surface temperatures are disturbing the air flows

Climate change caused by greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning does not mean uniform global warming -- in the Arctic, the relative increase of temperatures, amplified by the loss of snow and ice, is higher than on average. This in turn reduces the temperature difference between the Arctic and, for example, Europe, yet temperature differences are a main driver of air flow. Additionally, continents generally warm and cool more readily than the oceans. "These two factors are crucial for the mechanism we detected," says Petoukhov. "They result in an unnatural pattern of the mid-latitude air flow, so that for extended periods the slow synoptic waves get trapped."

The authors of the study developed equations that describe the wave motions in the extra-tropical atmosphere and show under what conditions those waves can grind to a halt and get amplified. They tested their assumptions using standard daily weather data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). During recent periods in which several major weather extremes occurred, the trapping and strong amplification of particular waves -- like "wave seven" (which has seven troughs and crests spanning the globe) -- was indeed observed. The data show an increase in the occurrence of these specific atmospheric patterns, which is statistically significant at the 90 percent confidence level.

The probability of extremes increases -- but other factors come in as well

"Our dynamical analysis helps to explain the increasing number of novel weather extremes. It complements previous research that already linked such phenomena to climate change, but did not yet identify a mechanism behind it," says Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of PIK and co-author of the study. "This is quite a breakthrough, even though things are not at all simple -- the suggested physical process increases the probability of weather extremes, but additional factors certainly play a role as well, including natural variability." Also, the 32-year period studied in the project provides a good indication of the mechanism involved, yet is too short for definite conclusions.

Nevertheless, the study significantly advances the understanding of the relation between weather extremes and human-made climate change. Scientists were surprised by how far outside past experience some of the recent extremes have been. The new data show that the emergence of extraordinary weather is not just a linear response to the mean warming trend, and the proposed mechanism could explain that.

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Pope changes conclave rules, allows earlier start if all cardinals in Rome before 15-day delay

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI has changed the rules of the conclave that will elect his successor, allowing cardinals to move up the start date if all of them arrive in Rome before the usual 15-day transition between pontificates.

Benedict signed a legal document, issued Monday, with some line-by-line changes to the 1996 Vatican law governing the election of a new pope. It is one of his last acts as pope before resigning Thursday.

The date of the conclave's start is important because Holy Week begins March 24, with Easter Sunday March 31. In order to have a new pope in place for the church's most solemn liturgical period, he would need to be installed by Sunday, March 17 ? a tight timeframe if a conclave were to start March 15.

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With Kyocera, Sprint Faces None of Apple's Quality Control

Sprint will soon begin selling the rugged Kyocera Torque. A new Kyocera ad suggests there will be none of the fussiness Sprint faces from Apple.

Sprint has enlisted Bear Grylis, a chisel-cheekboned extreme adventurer, former British Special Forces agent and star of the television show "Man vs. Wild," to help promote the Kyocera Torque, a rugged Android smartphone it will begin selling March 8. The "live more, fear less" handset," as Sprint has taken to calling it, is 4G Long-Term Evolution- (LTE-) enabled, supports next-generation push-to-talk (PTT) technology, has an impact-resistant 4-inch In-Plane Switching (IPS) touch-screen and what Kyocera calls a "smart sonic receiver" that helps to make calls clear in even super-noisy environments. It can also be submerged in 3 feet of water for 30 minutes and meets military standards for surviving in temperature extremes, blowing rain, low pressure, high humidity and vibration, shock and dust. Kind of like Grylis.? It's a good phone for outdoorsy-types who subject their phones to raging rapids or muddy mountainsides, and indoorsy-types who are subjected to incredibly energetic children?again like Grylis, who is the father of three boys. What might have been a marketing home run, however, instead started a reporter remembering a comment that Sprint CEO Dan Hesse made during Sprint's Feb. 7 earnings call. "We got the iPad for the first time pretty late in the year, and of course Apple?to their credit, they protect their brand very well?but it takes some time to get advertising in the market that meets Apple's approval," said Hesse. "So we really didn't have much of a marketing quarter in the fourth quarter, with respect to tablets. We hope that will improve; we need to increase awareness out there in the marketplace that Sprint carries the iPad, and we intend to work on that in 2013," Hesse said. Translation: Apple thinks our ads stink, so we haven't been able to run anyway. One has to imagine that between Sprint and Kyocera, the green light is always on. In a video Kyocera posted to YouTube, Grylis, in an opening shot, appears to be in a dark, dripping cave. But no, time reveals that he's at an awful indoor water park with his kids?or rather, a lot of people's kids?and a lot of splashing and phone-drenching ensues. (Even the potential perk, for the over-12-year-old crowd, of Grylis in bathing trunks was undone by the wardrobe person who gave Grylis a shirt to wear in the pool.) The point, of course, is that while Grylis and the Torque can cross the Artic and scale peaks, these aren't life's only adventures. "Torque, the rugged 4G Android for your extreme and every day," said Grylis, in his appealing British accent?truly all that's appealing about the ad. There's a reason that Apple is Apple and the iPhone is the world's top-selling smartphone. Sprint and Kyocera may want to take notes. ?

Source: http://www.eweek.com/mobile/with-kyocera-sprint-faces-none-of-apples-quality-control/

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NVIDIA Tegra 4i Phoenix reference phone hands-on (video)

NVIDIA's latest venture in the mobile world, called the 4i, was introduced last week ahead of Mobile World Congress, and fortunately the chipset maker brought the product to Barcelona embedded in a reference phone known as "Phoenix." The 8mm-thick handset, which will find a home in the labs of manufacturers and carriers (as well as the desks of many third-party devs), sports a 5-inch 1080p display, 13MP rear-facing camera, PRISM 2, Chimera, DirectTouch and LTE (we're told that most major bands are included for testing purposes). As it's not geared for general consumer use, so it's not the thinnest, sleekest or best-looking device, and the back doesn't even seem to snap completely shut. Units are being sampled as we speak, and we should expect to see devices hit the market in nine to twelve months. Since it's still pretty early in the process, we weren't able to turn on the phone or benchmark the chipset; the only exception to this rule, as you'll see in the video, was when a rep showed a gaming demo on his particular unit.

While the 4i is the smaller brother of the Tegra 4 family, it's still expected to be quite powerful. The chip, which is designed specifically for smartphones (tablets will take advantage of Tegra 4 instead), features four 28nm Cortex-A9 r4 (beefed-up from the standard A9) cores that can be clocked up to 2.3GHz, 60 GPU cores (compared to 72 on the T4) and an integrated i500 LTE baseband modem. For additional comparison, NVIDIA showed us the two sibling boards side-by-side. Head below to check out our galleries of Phoenix and the two chipsets, as well as a brief video that shows off the graphics prowess of the 4i.

Gallery: NVIDIA Tegra 4i Phoenix reference phone hands-on

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Malloy joins critics of GOP on budget impasse

WASHINGTON -- Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other Democratic governors got a pep talk Friday from President Obama about the impact of the looming March 1 sequestration, and they joined in pinning the blame for the impasse on Republicans.

Malloy, in town for the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, told reporters that Obama was finding it difficult to negotiate with congressional Republicans.

"There is no leadership in the Republican Congress or the Senate and maybe that's the big problem -- there's nobody to deal with anymore," Malloy said, adding that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have problems within their own party caucuses.

Some Republican lawmakers are adamantly opposed to Obama's approach to the budget deficit, saying the president doesn't want to cut spending sharply enough but instead wants to rely on tax increases. They've also expressed anger that, in their view, he's unfairly portraying them as the side that is refusing to compromise.

Malloy stood bare-headed in sleet and freezing rain outside the White House as he and other Democratic governors -- Peter Shumlin of Vermont, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Martin O'Malley of Maryland and John Hickenlooper of Colorado -- held a news conference after meeting with Obama.

Shumlin, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, said Democratic governors should urge Republican governors to press their GOP colleagues in Congress to adopt the Obama approach.

The message to Republican governors, he said, is: "Speak up! Don't be part of the problem."

The NGA convenes here Saturday for two days of conferences.

Sequestration means that $85 billion in phased federal spending cuts kick in starting March 1. The reductions are the result of a 2011 law that Obama and Congress enacted as a draconian incentive for the administration and Congress to reach agreement on a deficit-cutting plan. Lacking an agreement, sequestration would kick in automatically.

No agreement has been reached.

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Source: http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Malloy-joins-critics-of-GOP-on-budget-impasse-4301450.php

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How do you unlock the zombie cow level in the Age of Zombies app for iphone?

About Age of Zombies

Age of Zombies is a humorous top-down shooter filled with typical bad zombie jokes and plenty of bloody, cartoonish graphics. The game relies on quick reflexes and reactions to enemy spawns. It was originally released for PSP, but later arrived for the iPhone and iPad for $2.99.

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Jennifer Lawrence, 'Silver Linings' Win Big At 2013 Indie Spirits

The 'Silver Linings Playbook' star's win was one of four awards the dramedy took home a day before the Oscars.
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Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and David O. Russel at the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards
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Apple thefts inspire NYPD smartphone squad

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As New York City thieves steal smartphones and tablets in ever greater numbers, the NYPD has assigned a group of officers to hunt down the devices.

The NYPD launched the team about a year ago "when we saw a spike in (thefts of) Apple products specifically," Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said.

An Apple-picking problem on New York City's streets and subways has worsened in recent years. The overall crime rate in the city increased 3% last year -- but "if you subtracted just the increase in Apple product thefts, we would have had an overall decrease in crime in New York," Browne said.

Generally, the NYPD team's first step in tracing pilfered gadgets is obtaining the stolen device's serial number. Then "we supply it to Apple, and we say, when that product is activated, we want to know who it is," according to Browne.

The tech giant has largely cooperated with the NYPD's subpoenas. "I would say we're working with them. They're not fighting this," Browne said.

Apple did not respond to a request for comment.

The NYPD's detectives have found that stolen smartphones and tablets don't tend to travel far.

About 75% of them stay in the city of New York, Browne said. And those that cross city limits are still likely to be in the state.

Browne did not quantify how successful the department has been at tracing stolen smartphones and tablets, but he did cite a few cases that had happy endings.

In one, an employee stole three iPads from his workplace, then gave them to two relatives in New York and one in the Dominican Republic. The NYPD was able to return all three to their rightful owners.

Sometimes the trail leads back to the person who swiped the iPhone; other times it leads to an unwitting owner of stolen property.

While the officers on the NYPD's smartphone squad don't focus exclusively on Apple products, they do spend most of their time chasing stolen iPhones or iPads, "simply because the number of Apple thefts is a reflection of their general popularity," Browne said.

Law-enforcement agencies like the NYPD aren't alone in targeting smartphone and tablet theft. The industry is taking steps to address it, too.

In a letter to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, the wireless industry's trade association last year released details of a voluntary effort to "help law enforcement deter smartphone theft."

A major plank of that effort is the creation of a database for smartphones that are reported stolen. Phones on the database, which is scheduled to be up and running at the end of November, would be barred being activated or provided service on an LTE network in the United States.

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Gettysburg College men's lacrosse team has high hopes

An experienced Gettysburg College men's lacrosse team will take to the field with high hopes this season.

Twenty letterwinners and 15 players who started a year ago return for a Bullet squad that is coming off an 11-7 campaign in which it reached the Centennial Conference playoffs and the second round of the NCAA Division III Tournament.

In the preseason, Gettysburg earned three national rankings, checking in at No.12 by Lacrosse Magazine, No. 15 by Inside Lacrosse's "Face-off Yearbook," and No. 16 by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association.

The Bullets are directed by 26th-year head coach Hank Janczyk, who has a career record of 368-115, will be aided by two new assistants in Chris Perzinski and Dan Sharbaugh in addition to student assistant Caldwell Rohrbach, an All-Centennial Conference performer at Gettysburg last season.

Offensively, the Bullets return their starting attack line from the end of last season in junior Martin Manilla, sophomore Robby Maddux and senior Evan Thomas.

Manilla landed second team All-Centennial Conference honors a year ago after leading the Bullets in goals (36) and points (41). Maddux piled up all of his 28 goals over the final 11 games last year. Thomas, a team captain, also returns after starting four games in 2012 and finishing with eight goals and five assists.

Other Bullets who could push for playing time on the attack include junior Henry Tesar and sophomore Adam Narwicz.

In the midfield, the Bullets

return another All-Centennial Conference performer in sophomore Bijan Firouzan, who captured honorable mention last year. Firouzan started the final 16 games of the year and finished as the team's third-leading scorer with 10 goals and 14 assists.

Two additional starters return to the midfield while freshmen could also contend for playing time.

Senior Ryan Fumai is back after finishing third on the team with 15 goals. Classmate and captain Bobby DeWees returns after posting nine goals. Freshmen Mike Distler, Tim Murphy and Jameson Smith will likely see immediate action.

Defensively, two of the team's starting defensive midfielders return in senior Ian Casella and sophomore Andrew Toner. Casella, a team captain, was named second-team All-Centennial Conference as a long pole last season after finishing second on the team in both ground balls (35) and caused turnovers (19). Toner contributed 18 ground balls and three assists as a short-stick middie.

Other Bullets who could see time in the defensive midfield are junior long stick Alec Mitchell and sophomores Nick Alibrandi and Jack Harvazinski.

Three defenseman who started at some point in 2012 also return in senior Matt Canter, senior Phil Thompson and sophomore Alex Lanza. Junior Charlie Whiteley could also see playing time on the back row.

Gettysburg is also equipped with a pair of highly-experienced goalies in senior J.T. McCook and junior Jon Maddalone, who split time between the pipes last season. McCook, who started every game in 2011, finished 5-3 with a 8.70 goals-against average over nine games and eight starts in 2012. Maddalone went 6-4 with a 7.93 GAA and .557 save percentage while playing 12 games and starting 10 times, including all three of the team's postseason contests.

The Bullets will also return two familiar names on face-offs in senior Nick Avedisian and junior Wes Lincoln. A regular at the X since his freshman season, Avedisian, a team captain, won 53.0 percent of his attempts (123-for-232) last year and led the team with 52 ground balls. In 2012, Lincoln finished at 60.7 percent (65-for-107) while picking up 28 ground balls.

Gettysburg kicks off its season on Saturday, when it visits Messiah College at 1 p.m.

Source: http://www.eveningsun.com/localsports/ci_22638189/gettysburg-college-mens-lacrosse-team-has-high-hopes?source=rss

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Are You Going to Buy a PlayStation 4?

Now that we've had a firsthand look at the undeniably incredible—although not all that revolutionary—graphics that the PS4's blazing fast guts will be spewing forth, we can actually start considering if its going to be worth shelling out the (currently undisclosed amount of) money required. Granted, we still have no idea what the damn thing is actually going to look like, and regardless of what a projected release of "Holiday 2013" actually means, it's safe to assume we've got some time to mull it over. More »

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European Parliament Planning Cyber Propaganda Blitz Against Skepticism Of The European Union

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Posted by JacobSloan on February 21, 2013

As the Telegraph reports, you never know whom you?re talking to online:

The Daily Telegraph has seen confidential spending proposals and internal documents planning an unprecedented propaganda blitz ahead of and during European elections in June 2014. The European Parliament is to spend almost ?2 million on press monitoring and trawling [discussions] on the internet for ?trolls? amid fears that hostility to the EU is growing.

Key to a new strategy will be ?public opinion monitoring tools? to ?identify at an early stage whether debates of political nature among followers in social media and blogs have the potential to attract media and citizens? interest?.

A confidential document agreed last year said: ?Parliament?s institutional communicators must monitor public conversation in real time, and have the capacity to react quickly, to join in and influence the conversation, for example, by providing facts and figures to deconstructing myths.? Training for parliament officials begins later this month.

Source: http://www.disinfo.com/2013/02/european-parliament-planning-cyber-propaganda-blitz-against-skepticism-of-the-european-union/

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Local Sports Briefs

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T-BIRDS?DOWN?COUGARS

The Algoma University Thunderbirds men?s and women?s team were both victorious against the Sault College Cougars Wednesday as they closed out action in the Ontario Colleges Athletic Assocaition basektball league?s regular season.

The lady T-Birds defeated the Cougars 94-31 while the men downed the Cougars 61-50.

The sebacks spelled the end of the regular season for the Cougars while both Thunderbird teams will now prepare for the post-season.

No scoring details were available in either game.

Soo Hockey Team Wins Nashville Tournament

?The Bantam AA Soo Source for Sports won the Presidents Cup in Nashville, Tennessee this past week. The team, coached by Kevin Panco, went undefeated in round-robin play, beating the Raleigh, North Carolina East Coast Eagles 5-1, the Carolina Junior Hurricanes 2-0 and the Kansas City Stars 3-0.

In the tournament final, Soo Source for Sports met for a rematch with the East Coast Eagles. The team took an early lead and held on to it, with a final score of 4-3.

This is Soo Source for Sports first tournament since winning the Steel City Tournament earlier this winter.

EEC Midget 'AA' Wildcats Eliminated in Challenge Cup Quarter-Finals

The Sault's Earth Energy Concepts Wildcats won three consecutive round-robin games but were eliminated from this weekend's Challenge Cup in Washington, DC following a 3-2 overtime quarter-final loss to the Winnipeg Avros.

Lydia Murray and Lauren Rimmer each scored in the loss.?

In earlier round-robin action, Darcee McCaig fired two goals while Jenna Mitchell and Murray added single markers in an opening 4-0 win over the St Louis Lady Blues. Aleisha Labbe had the shutout.

The Wildcats closed out Saturday's action with a 4-3 win over the Dallas Stars. Chelsea Gaudette had a pair of goals while Brooke Smith and Mitchell fired single markers.?

In Sunday morning action, Mitchell fired four goals and Rimmer a pair in a 12-1 win over the hometown Washington Pride. Jana Longo, Mikayla Ferlaino, Jessica Orazietti, Sarah Bibeau, McCaig and Gaudette added single markers.

The Wildcats closed out tournament action following the quarter-final defeat with a 5-2 loss to St Mary's Academy. Ferlaino and Murray handled the scoring in the meaningless contest.

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In rich and poor nations, giving makes people feel better than getting, research finds

Feb. 21, 2013 ? Feeling good about spending money on someone else rather than for personal benefit may be a universal response among people in both impoverished countries and rich nations, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.

"Our findings suggest that the psychological reward experienced from helping others may be deeply ingrained in human nature, emerging in diverse cultural and economic contexts," said lead author Lara Aknin, PhD, of Simon Fraser University in Canada.

The findings provide the first empirical evidence that "the warm glow" of spending on someone else rather than on oneself may be a widespread component of human psychology, the authors reported in the study published online in APA's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Researchers found a positive relationship between personal well-being and spending on others in 120 of 136 countries covered in the 2006-2008 Gallup World Poll. The survey comprised 234,917 individuals, half of whom were male, with an average age of 38. The link between well-being and spending on others was significant in every region of the world, and it was not affected by other factors among those surveyed, such as income, social support, perceived freedom and perceived national corruption, the study said.

The results were similar in several experiments the researchers themselves conducted with participants in wealthy and poor countries. For one analysis, they compared responses from 820 individuals recruited mostly from universities in Canada and Uganda. The participants wrote about a time they had either spent money on themselves or on others, after which they were asked to report how happy they felt. They were also asked if they spent money on another person to build or strengthen a relationship. People who remembered spending money on someone else felt happier than those who recalled spending money on themselves, even when the researchers controlled for the extent to which people built or strengthened a relationship, according to the study.

The researchers obtained the same results when they conducted an online survey of 101 adults in India. Some respondents were asked to recall recently spending money on themselves or someone else, while others were tested for their happiness level without recalling past spending. Those who recalled spending on someone else said they had a greater feeling of well-being than those who remembered spending on themselves or those who weren't asked about spending.

In another experiment, 207 university students in Canada and South Africa reported higher levels of well-being after purchasing a goody bag for a sick child rather than buying one for themselves. Both groups went to labs where they were given a small amount of money and told to buy a bag of treats for themselves or one for a child at a local hospital.

"From an evolutionary perspective, the emotional benefits that people experience when they help others acts to encourage generous behavior beneficial to long-term human survival," said Aknin.

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