Saturday, December 31, 2011

Stanford University archives offer window into Apple?s roots

Published: 12/30/11 @ 12:00

Associated Press

PALO ALTO, Calf.

In the interview, Steve Wozniak and the late Steve Jobs recall a seminal moment in Silicon Valley history ? how they named their upstart computer company some 35 years ago.

?I remember driving down Highway 85,? Wozniak says. ?We?re on the freeway, and Steve mentions, ?I?ve got a name: Apple Computer.? We kept thinking of other alternatives to that name, and we couldn?t think of anything better.?

Adds Jobs: ?And also remember that I worked at Atari, and it got us ahead of Atari in the phone book.?

The interview, recorded for an in-house video for company employees in the mid-1980s, was among a storehouse of materials Apple had been collecting for a company museum. But in 1997, soon after Jobs returned to the company, Apple officials contacted Stanford University and offered to donate the collection to the school?s Silicon Valley Archives.

Within a few days, Stanford curators were at Apple headquarters in nearby Cupertino, packing two moving trucks full of documents, books, software, videotapes and marketing materials that now make up the core of Stanford?s Apple Collection.

The collection, the largest assembly of Apple historical materials, can help historians, entrepreneurs and policymakers understand how a startup launched in a Silicon Valley garage became a global technology giant.

The collection is stored in hundreds of boxes taking up more than 600 feet of shelf space at the Stanford?s off-campus storage facility. The Associated Press visited the climate-controlled warehouse on the outskirts of the San Francisco Bay area but agreed not to disclose its location.

Interest in Apple and its founder has grown dramatically since Jobs died in October at age 56, just weeks after he stepped down as CEO and handed the reins to Tim Cook. Jobs? death sparked an international outpouring and marked the end of an era for Apple and Silicon Valley.

?Apple as a company is in a very, very select group,? said Stanford curator Henry Lowood. ?It survived through multiple generations of technology. To the credit of Steve Jobs, it meant reinventing the company at several points.?

Apple scrapped its own plans for a corporate museum after Jobs returned as CEO and began restructuring the financially struggling firm, Lowood said.

Job?s return, more than a decade after he was forced out of the company he co-founded, marked the beginning of one of the great comebacks in business history. It led to a long string of blockbuster products ? including the iPod, iPhone and iPad ? that have made Apple one of the world?s most profitable brands.



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Mark Wahlberg: Justin Bieber Has the Talent to Be a Good Actor

Justin Bieber and Mark Wahlberg might seem like an odd pairing at first, but when it comes to the Canadian pop star making his big-screen acting debut, Wahlberg might actually be the perfect mentor.

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Coach Tom Thibodeau has a message for Derrick Rose: Attack

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SACRAMENTO ? Derrick Rose has spent the first quarter of the Bulls? first two games trying to get his teammates involved. No more.

The message has been delivered. Coach Tom Thibodeau only needs one word to describe what he wants Rose to do to opposing defenses in an effort to jolt his team out of its offensive doldrums: Attack.

Thibodeau is unleashing his MVP.

?We?re a lot better when he?s aggressive,? Thibodeau said after practice Wednesday at the Golden State Warriors? facility. ?It puts enormous pressure on our opponent?s defense. When he?s attacking, we?re getting easy baskets, we?re getting to the line, he?s getting people into foul trouble. It helps us in so many different ways. When we talk about him attacking, we want him attacking on both ends. We want him attacking on defense, also. That?s when he?s at his best. Right now, he?s trying to get others involved early, which is good, but when they put two on the ball, that?s good for us. That?s easy offense.?

Rose isn?t going to fight it. He already had diagnosed the problem after the 99-91 loss Monday against the Warriors. He only has attempted four shots in the first quarters of the first two games. He only has been to the free-throw line twice.

?As long as we win,? Rose said when asked if he minds being a score-first point guard. ?My teammates realize that. The shots I take, I don?t take that many bad shots. They know for us to win, I have to attack. Coach already told them. Everybody on the team is cool with it and comfortable with it. That?s all I have to do.?

The Bulls watched game film from last season, and Rose was all over the place, driving to the basket, collapsing the defense, kicking the ball out to wide-open teammates and leading the break. They looked at film of the first two games this season against the Los Angeles Lakers and Warriors, and Rose was trying to get his teammates involved or settling for long jumpers.

More shots by Rose means fewer for forward Carlos Boozer, but Boozer was emphatic about the team being at its best when Rose is a blur on the way to the basket.

?He?s a natural-born scorer,? Boozer said. ?We know that. One thing he?s trying to learn as he continues to grow as a player is how to use his teammates. Honestly, he?s been doing a great job of trying to figure it out, but at the same time, his first instinct is to score. We?re a better team when he attacks and makes plays off what he sees. I?d rather him stay aggressive.

?Let?s be honest, what person, what team have you seen that has been able to stop it? Nobody. We?re a better team when we?re attacking and playing fast and playing off his instincts because teams are at a disadvantage because he?s going to make a play or a shot or set something up for one of us. Him staying aggressive makes us a better team.?

Thibodeau wants the entire team to play more aggressively in an effort to get more layups, second shots and free throws. Too often players have been settling for long jumpers. He remembers what it was like to try to defend Rose and an aggressive Bulls team when he was an assistant with the Boston Celtics and wishes that experience on others.

?I know what it?s like when you?re sitting on the opposing bench and he?s attacking,? Thibodeau said. ?That?s something you don?t want to see. His shooting has improved greatly from his first year, but if you?re sitting on the opposing bench, that?s what you?d rather have. You don?t want him attacking and getting into the paint and breaking you down.

?There?s nobody faster in the league from end line to end line, so we?ve got to take advantage of that.?

Knowing when to take over a game and when to involve teammates is a balancing act. Rose is still learning. Having only a two-week training camp and two preseason games limited the time spent with his teammates on the floor, but he doesn?t have to worry about that balance now that the decision has been made for him.

?I?ll do it the same way I did it last year, where they follow after me,? Rose said. ?The first two games in the first quarter, we were kind of sluggish. We didn?t start off well. The only thing I can think of between last year and this year is this year I shot less shots in the first quarter. Last year, it was at least eight or nine shots in the first quarter just to get a groove going. That?s the difference.?

Rose seemed delighted by the idea of being told to score more.

?That can easily be fixed,? he said with a grin. ?Me shooting the ball, me attacking, trust me, I?m all right.?

Source: http://www.suntimes.com/sports/9693015-579/coach-tom-thibodeau-has-a-message-for-derrick-rose-attack.html

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Debra Messing Is Dating 'Smash' Costar Will Chase

Once again, Debra Messing has linked up with a guy named Will! The former Will & Grace star, who only recently announced that she was separated from husband Daniel Zelman, is reportedly dating actor Will Chase, her costar on the upcoming NBC musical drama Smash.

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Friday, December 30, 2011

NASCAR's Kasey Kahne Apologizes for Controversial Tweets

NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne has won his share of races, but he's a little behind the curve when it comes to a mother's rights. On Tuesday, Kahne, 31, posted a series of tweets criticizing a stranger for breastfeeding her child in public. In light of fan backlash, he has now issued an apology.

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Lacey woman to ride organ donation float at Rose Parade

LACEY, Wash. -- Janice Langbehn considers herself an accidental activist. And this year, she is being honored greatly for her efforts.

Langbehn will be on the Donate Life float at the Rose Parade Monday morning. She will ride in honor of her partner, Lisa Pond, an organ donor who died nearly five years ago from a brain aneurysm while they were vacationing. Their story received national attention because Langbehn and their children were not allowed to visit Pond as she passed away in a hospital.

Following Pond's death, Langbehn worked tirelessly to change the laws. President Obama recently revised hospital visitation rights for same-sex couples at hospitals receiving federal Medicare or Medicaid funds. For her efforts, Langbehn received the prestigious Presidential Citizens Medal in October, an honor that was awarded to only 13 people this year.

Langbehn is now preparing to honor her partner by riding in the Rose Parade. The Donate Life float will feature dozens of organ donors by displaying giant pictures of the donors that are made of flowers -- known as floragraphs.

"I'm sure it'll be emotional," Langbehn said. "I still miss her. We were together 18 years."

Langbehn wanted Jerry Lawrence, the Florida man who received Pond's heart, to be in the grandstand during the parade. Lawrence was prepared to make the trip, but other health issues, not connected to his heart, kept him from flying.

So he will watch the parade on TV. And Langbehn knows her partner will be watching from above.

"I'm just honored they asked us," she said. "To continue Lisa's legacy."

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45813207/ns/local_news-seattle_wa/

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Video: Iran oil threat



>>> developing now, the pentagon firing back against iran 's threat to choke off a vital passage, it carries one sixth of the world's oil. iranian officials say they will close the strait of hormuz if the west follows through on promised harsh sanctions on its oil shipments. the pentagon says any disruption along the straight will not be tolerated. the proposed sanctions are in response to iran 's refusal to stop its suspected nuclear program. iran has the nafrnal power to block the strait. there is concern over a possible military conflict with u.s. forces if iran tries to make good on those threats. we're joined now by the deputy editor for "time" magazine. how serious should we be taking these threats at this point?

>> i think we should take our cues from the oil markets. as soon as iran made this announcement, oil prices shot up by $10 a barrel. is the oil experts are making the calculations that this is a bluff. they're doing the right thing by making it clear that this will not be tolerated. but the best guess is that this is the iranian's rattling --

>> bluster?

>> exactly.

>> if iran does follow through on the threats, what could that potentially mean for the u.s. naval forces that are based right there?

>> the u.s. has sizable ?forces, as you pointed out. the iranian navy is not, in military terms any match for any western navy, least of all the u.s. navy . but it is -- any kind of conflict, even if it's small skirmish on that straight would send oil prices soaring, because something like 40% of all the oil that's moved by tankers comes flew that straight. and eight or nine major oil producers moved anywhere oil through there. it is a choke point. it is a place where even a little bit of ripples in the water can have major seismic effects down the line. but the best guess is, that's not how it's going to play.

>> how do you think it's going to play out?

>> i think the iranians have made their bluff. the u.s. has called it. the saudis have said they will pump out more oil to compensate for any more choking oil. i think a week from now, we're talking about something else in that part of the world.

>> let's talk about another part of that. let's talk about syria for a moment. at least six people killed in violent clashes between the government and anti-government forces there. any indication at this point that syria 's president is going to step down at some point soon?

>> no, not at all. he seems to be determined to fight it out. and although the arab league has now sent monitors into syria , to try to get firsthand information of what's going on, the foreign media is not allowed. all we're seeing is youtube videos and cell phone pictures that have been posted online. those monitors are going to get a sense of what's going on in the country. the fact that his forces continue to kill people while the monitors are% the country. that says that he's not about to be backing down, he wants to go all the way.

>> bobby ghosh, thank you, sir. happy new year.

>> and to you.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Cincinnati airport evacuated after fire alarm

Officials briefly evacuated the Cincinnati airport after a fire alarm went off, requiring a few hundred passengers to leave and go through security again.

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Barb Schempf, spokeswoman for Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, says there was no fire and officials don't know why the alarm went off.

She says the airport's Terminal 3 was evacuated at about 7:30 a.m. Monday and reopened about an hour later. Between 800 and 1,000 passengers were affected.

She says all 10 security lines were open to process travelers and the maximum wait time was 15 minutes.

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Information from: The Cincinnati Enquirer, http://www.enquirer.com

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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About that left-libertarian alliance thing (Unqualified Offerings)

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

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A rare white Christmas in the Texas panhandle


AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A light dusting of snow in north Texas will bring a rare white Christmas to this drought-stricken state, but the majority of the nation was seeing mild weather on Sunday.

A few snow showers were expected in parts of the Northeast as well, but weather forecasters said 99 percent of Americans would see more green and brown for their Yuletide celebrations - along with plenty of rain, according to Accuweather.com.

The wet Christmas in the Texas Panhandle and Permian Basin brought cheer for drought-weary Texans, who were seeing snow in Lubbock and Amarillo on Christmas morning and rain in the eastern part of the state.
The worst one-year drought in the state's history this year sparked devastating wildfires, killed as many as half a billion trees, and prompted the most serious urban water use restrictions ever.

Meanwhile, in points north, the lack of snow was welcome news in Minneapolis, where last year's winter storm 12 days before Christmas dumped 17 inches of snow on the city, causing the roof of the Metrodome, the Minnesota Viking's football stadium, to collapse.

This year, Minneapolis has no snow and will have temperatures in the high 30s over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

Very little new snow is expected to accumulate anywhere throughout the day on Sunday, according to Accuweather.com. But a snowstorm in southern Ontario is forecast to move into Quebec on Sunday night and drop snow near the Great Lakes, with some accumulation happening overnight.

Residents from Watertown, N.Y. to Bangor, Maine - many of whom are off work on Monday in observance of the Christmas holiday - could wake up to an inch of snow on the ground Monday as the storm moves East.

Most of the Pacific Northwest were seeing mild weather on Christmas Day, while states like Colorado and New Mexico had lingering snow leftover from a pre-Christmas storm. Still, very few areas across the nation were seeing fresh snow on Sunday.

Even the Texas Panhandle, which was under a winter weather advisory, was not expecting the snow to accumulate - though transportation officials were warning of ice on the roads and cautioning drivers to be careful.

(Editing by Tim Gaynor)

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Monday, December 26, 2011

Exclusive: Afghanistan sets ground rules for Taliban talks (Reuters)

KABUL (Reuters) ? Afghanistan will accept a Taliban liaison office in Qatar to start peace talks but no foreign power can get involved in the process without its consent, the government's peace council said, as efforts gather pace to find a solution to the decade-long war.

Afghanistan's High Peace Council, in a note to foreign missions, has set out ground rules for engaging the Taliban after Kabul grew concerned that the United States and Qatar, helped by Germany, had secretly agreed with the Taliban to open an office in the Qatari capital, Doha.

U.S. officials have held about half a dozen meetings with their insurgent contacts, mostly in Germany and Doha with representatives of Mullah Omar, leader of the Taliban's Quetta Shura, this year to prepare the way for face-to-face talks between the group and the Afghan government.

A representative office for the group is considered the starting point for such talks and Doha has in the past served as a meeting ground for initial contacts.

But the Afghan peace commission which has suffered a series of setbacks including the assassination of its head in September said that negotiations with the Taliban could only begin after they stopped violence against civilians, cut ties to al Qaeda, and accepted the Afghan constitution which guarantees civil rights and liberties, including rights for women.

The council, according to a copy of the 11-point note made available to Reuters, also said any peace process with the Taliban would have to have the support of Pakistan since members of the insurgent group were based there.

"The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is in agreement regarding the opening of an office for the armed opposition, but only to move forward the peace process and conduct negotiations," the council said.

The government would prefer such an office in either Saudi Arabia or Turkey, both of which it is close to, but was not averse to Doha as long as the authority of the Afghan state was not eroded and the office was only established for talks, officials said.

"We are saying Saudi or Turkey are preferable, we are not saying it has to be there only. The only condition is it should be in an Islamic country," said a government official.

President Hamid Karzai's administration recalled its ambassador from Doha last week, apparently angry that it had been kept in the dark about the latest round of contacts with the insurgent group.

Officials said Kabul was also deeply concerned about reports that the United States was considering the transfer of a small number of Afghan prisoners from Guantanamo Bay military prison to Doha as a prelude to the talks.

"We are a sovereign country, we have laws. How can you transfer our prisoners from one country to another. Already it's a violation to have them in Guantanamo Bay," the official said.

The Afghan government wanted the prisoners to be returned to its custody, the official said.

Reuters reported this month that the United States was considering the transfer of an unspecified number of Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay into Afghan government custody as part of accelerating, high-stakes diplomacy.

"We have no problem with this. In fact we have been demanding this for a while. These are Afghan prisoners," said the official, who declined to be identified.

The tension between the Karzai administration and the United States over engaging the Taliban underscores the challenges of seeking a political settlement as the West prepares to withdraw most combat troops from the country by 2014.

Efforts to engage the insurgent group have faced a string of setbacks, the most recent being the assassination of the head of the peace council and former president, Burhanuddin Rabbani, in September at the hands of a suicide bomber who pretended to be a Taliban emissary.

HARDENING OF POSITIONS

It led to a hardening of positions with Karzai saying the government could not talk to suicide bombers and that there should be an address for the Taliban so that negotiators know they are talking to the right representatives.

"We are committed to the reconciliation process, the experience of the last 10 years shows no military solution is possible. Talking to the armed opposition is the key in this regard," said presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi.

The peace council, laying down the markers for engagement with the Taliban, said well known figures from both the Taliban and the government had to be involved in talks.

It said that "before any negotiations can take place, violence against Afghan people must stop and that the armed opposition must cut ties to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups."

It also said that the Taliban must accept the constitution and honor the gains made in the last 10 years since they were ousted from power, conditions that the Taliban have shown no sign of accepting.

The Taliban do not accept the constitution and have vowed to carry on fighting until all foreign troops have left the country.

The peace council said Pakistani support was necessary for talks to take place, another condition that makes the task harder because of fraught ties between the United States and Pakistan which fears it is being shut out of the process.

Opening a Taliban office in a third country is seen as a way to create distance from Pakistan which has longstanding ties to the insurgent group.

But the government official said he did not think the peace council had laid down such tough conditions that the talks would fail even before they started.

"We don't think it's a deal breaker. We are quite optimistic," he said.

(Editing by Robert Birsel and Ed Lane)

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Sunday, December 25, 2011

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Derek Lam Takes Legal Action Against Ivanka Trump -- The Cut

Derek Lam's legal team sent Ivanka Trump a cease-and-desist letter yesterday regarding her Cadie wedge sandals, which look exactly like his Ayami wedge sandals (their retail prices: $150 and $780, respectively). Lam's lawyers have given Trump's company, Ivanka Trump Footwear, and its licensee Marc Fisher Footwear, seven days to pull the shoes from shelves.

?We have seen very similar copies before but we have never seen a shoe that perfectly copied,? said Jan-Hendrik Schlottmann, chief executive officer of Derek Lam. ?It?s such an investment to make a shoe ? we had to protest this.?

Schlottmann said one of his shoe designers, who was shopping on bloomingdales.com, saw Trump?s wedge and alerted him immediately.

?I actually ordered them, but I haven?t received them yet,? he said, noting that the sandal is nowhere to be found on Trump?s Web site. ?I?m sure Ms. Trump doesn?t know her wedge is copy because it?s through a license.?

Meanwhile, Lam's lawyers are combing through sales records of Trump's Cadie wedge, which implies that they might sue for damages.

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The Beautiful Guitar Amp I Won't Have to Hide [Desired]

Guitar amps are heavy and bulky and my wife really doesn't want to see one just hanging out in the living room. But, she hasn't seen the stylish Yamaha THR10 practice amp. More »


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Friday, December 23, 2011

Villain or no villain? Greg Jackson says Jon Jones has little control of what the fans think

Villain or no villain? Greg Jackson says Jon Jones has little control of what the fans thinkGreg Jackson tried to teach Jon Jones a lesson at UFC 140 following his win over Lyoto Machida. He told Jones to tend to the fallen Machida and "go get some fans." Clearly, Jackson misspoke and the intended lesson was lost on most.

"You get to this post adrenaline dump after the fight. Jon did that too," Jackson said of Jones' decision to stoically walk away from the sleeping Machida. "As a coach, I wanted to bring him out of that and make sure that he followed ring decorum. I think it's really important to be a role model for the fans."

Jones' ultimate image is still unknown. A very good guy away from the cage, Jones heard more than a few boos in Toronto. Jackson told ESPN1100/98.9 FM that he doesn't know why Jones was getting it from the boo birds.

"It's for the fans' entertainment. If they want to boo him ... it's like WWE. Then they're going to love him again ... then they're going to hate him again. As long as everybody's having a good time. It is what it is," said Jackson. "For me, I just want him to stay positive, make sure that he can the best role model he can be and then the fans will decide what they want to decide."

Here's the rest of the Jackson conversation. The MMA trainer also spoke about his role in shaping the movie "Warrior." Cagewriter is currently running a "Warrior" DVD giveaway on its Facebook page. The contest ends tomorrow.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Villain-or-no-villain-Greg-Jackson-says-Jon-Jon?urn=mma-wp10980

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Paint company to pay $1.65M in Colo. fire deaths (AP)

DENVER ? A California specialty painting company pleaded guilty Monday to five counts of violating federal workplace safety rules that resulted in the deaths of five workers at a Colorado power plant in 2007.

Under terms of its plea agreement, RPI Coating Inc., of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., will pay $1.65 million in penalties and compensation, with most of that amount going to the victims' families.

A judge sentenced RPI Coating to five years of probation immediately after its plea. A count of obstruction of justice and separate charges against RPI owner Philippe Goutagny and vice president James Thompson were dismissed.

The workers died after a fire broke out inside a pipeline in October 2007 at Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy Inc.'s hydroelectric plant near Georgetown, about 40 miles west of Denver.

They were trapped when a flammable solvent they were using to clean an epoxy paint sprayer ignited. They were in a hard-to-reach part of the tunnel.

A jury in June acquitted Xcel Energy of all criminal charges. The company has paid millions of dollars in compensation to the families of Donald Dejaynes, Dupree Holt, James St. Peters, Gary Foster and Anthony Aguirre.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Xcel and RPI nearly $2 million over the accident. The $1.65 million that RPI Coating agreed to pay under the plea bargain includes $100,000 to OSHA to settle the fines and $275,000 in attorney fees and costs.

"Our heartfelt sympathies go out to the families affected by this needless tragedy," OSHA Regional Administrator Greg Baxter said in a statement. "It never should have happened."

RPI, formerly known as Robison-Prezioso Inc., had been investigated, cited and fined by California regulators for two deaths that happened during work on the Bay Bridge that connects Oakland and San Franciso. A passing motorist died in 2001 when scaffolding fell and a worker died and four others were injured when a work platform buckled in 2002.

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Humongous plane to serve as flying launch pad for space tourists

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced plans to construct a giant aircraft to launch rockets into orbit, eventually for paying passengers.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced today (Dec. 13) that he is teaming up again with aerospace design mogul Burt Rutan to develop what the pair is calling a revolutionary approach to private space travel for people, cargo or satellites.

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The billionaire investor and philanthropist unveiled the new company Stratolaunch Systems, which aims to create airport-like operations for space travel. The company, headquartered in Huntsville, Ala., will use a giant twin-boom aircraft to launch a rocket and space capsule from the air to carry commercial and government payloads, and eventually paying passengers, into orbit. The first flight is expected to occur within five years.

Once the launch system is proven to be safe and reliable, manned flights will follow, Stratolaunch Systems officials said.

"I have long dreamed about taking the next big step in private space flight after the success of SpaceShipOne ? to offer a flexible, orbital space delivery system," Allen said in a statement. "We are at the dawn of radical change in the space launch industry. Stratolaunch Systems is pioneering an innovative solution that will revolutionize space travel."

This isn't Allen's first foray into the realm of private space travel.

Allen first partnered with Rutan, founder of the aerospace design company Scaled Composites, to bankroll the construction of a manned vehicle capable of reaching the edge of space. In 2004, the?SpaceShipOne suborbital rocket plane?became the first privately built manned craft to reach suborbital space.

In October of that year, SpaceShipOne was piloted to suborbital altitudes of more than 360,000 feet (112 kilometers) on back-to-back flights that helped Rutan and Allen snag the $10 million Ansari X prize.?

Stratolaunch systems will use an aircraft developed by?Scaled Composites?that is expected to be the largest aircraft ever flown, Stratolaunch officials said.

"Paul and I pioneered private space travel with SpaceShipOne, which led to Virgin Galactic?s commercial suborbitalSpaceShipTwo Program," Rutan, who will join Stratolaunch Systems as a board member, said in a statement. "Now, we will have the opportunity to extend that capability to orbit and beyond. Paul has proven himself a visionary with the will, commitment and courage to continue pushing the boundaries of space technology. We are well aware of the challenges ahead, but we have put together an incredible research team that will draw inspiration from Paul?s vision." [Images: Paul Allen's Giant Stratolaunch Air Launch Pad?]

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Scientists may be able to double efficacy of radiation therapy

ScienceDaily (Dec. 16, 2011) ? Scientists may have a way to double the efficacy and reduce the side effects of radiation therapy.

Georgia Health Sciences University scientists have devised a way to reduce lung cancer cells' ability to repair the lethal double-strand DNA breaks caused by radiation therapy.

"Radiation is a great therapy -- the problem is the side effects," said Dr. William S. Dynan, biochemist and Associate Director of Research and Chief, Nanomedicine and Gene Regulation at the GHSU Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics. "We think this is a way to get the same amount of cancer cell death with less radiation or use the same amount and maybe cure a patient that could not be cured before."

Radiation therapy capitalizes on radiation's ability to kill cells by causing double-strand breaks in DNA. But the fact that varying levels of radiation are essentially everywhere -- food, air, the ground, etc. -- means all cells, including cancer cells, have internal mechanisms to prevent the lethal breakage.

GHSU scientists are targeting the natural defense mechanisms by packaging a piece of an antibody against one of them with folate, which has easy access to most cells, particularly cancer cells. Many cancers, including the lung cancer cells they studied, have large numbers of folate receptors so that cancer cells get a disproportionate share of the package.

Previous efforts to destroy cancer cells' ability to avoid radiation damage have focused on receptors on their surface, said Dr. Shuyi Li, molecular biologist, pediatrician and corresponding author on the study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology.

To get a more direct hit, the scientists took advantage of folate receptors as a point of entry by chemically binding folate with the small piece of their antibody, ScFv 18-2. The package heads straight for the cell nucleus where a different chemical environment breaks the bond, freeing ScFv 18-2 to attack the regulatory region of DNA-dependent protein kinase, an enzyme essential to DNA repair.

"We are joining a targeting molecule with a cargo," said Dynan. "This strategy targets one of the key enzymes so it's harder to repair," Li said. This makes cancer cells more vulnerable to radiation.

Dynan and Li say the approach could be used to deliver any number of drugs directly inside cancer cells. Future studies include looking at other cell entry points as well as other targets to ensure they have the most effective package. Studies to date have been in human lung cancer cells in culture, so next steps also need to include animal studies.

Their approach mimics a natural process called endocytosis in which cells engulf proteins and other substances they want to let inside but can't fit through normal doorways.

Folate receptors already are being used as direct entry points for chemotherapeutic drugs, including clinical studies of a new strategy for ovarian cancer. GHSU is participating in clinical trials of a therapy that pairs an agent too toxic to be delivered through the bloodstream with folate to better target one of the most deadly cancers.

Dynan is the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Molecular Biology. Dynan and Li are both faculty members in GHSU's Medical College of Georgia. Dynan also is a faculty member in the College of Graduate Studies.

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Adrian Peterson plans to play vs. Saints

By JON KRAWCZYNSKI

updated 6:31 p.m. ET Dec. 15, 2011

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - Spending three weeks on the sideline watching his Minnesota Vikings appears to be about all Adrian Peterson can take.

Peterson said on Thursday that he plans to play against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday despite being only about 85 percent healed from a sprained left ankle that has caused him to miss three straight games.

He wants to be there for his teammates, who have found a new way to lose seemingly every week to fall to 2-11; for his coaches, who have been receiving plenty of criticism during this massively disappointing season; and for all the fans who are counting on him to help them in their fantasy football leagues.

"It's very important, especially for my fantasy team owners," Peterson joked. "They've been giving me a hard time on Twitter. But just being out ... seeing my guys go out and fall short week after week and just wishing I was out there to help those guys compete."

Peterson suffered the high ankle sprain against the Oakland Raiders on Nov. 20. After making him the highest-paid running back in NFL history in the offseason, the Vikings didn't want to risk their investment by rushing Peterson back in a season in which the playoffs were not an option.

But Peterson never thought about taking the rest of the season off to make sure he's fully recovered.

"I love this game, so no matter if we were 2-11 or whatever, if I'm healthy I'm going to go out and play," Peterson said. "That's been my mindset from the beginning. Three weeks off, I'm going to be a part of it."

His teammates aren't the only ones eager to see him back. Peterson said fantasy owners have pestered him every week with questions on Twitter.

"Should we play you this week? Please!" Peterson said with a chuckle. "Some of the stuff I read on there is crazy."

Quarterback Christian Ponder's hip pointer has improved as well, so coach Leslie Frazier said the Vikings are expecting to have everyone available for the game against the Saints (10-3). Peterson will be evaluated again on Friday, but all signs are pointing to him returning to the field.

"The way he's moving around, some of the things that really concerned him a week ago at this time don't seem to concern him much, nor does it concern us," Frazier said. "So if he has another good day (Friday), we should be in the clear."

Frazier said the fact that Peterson still wants to play even though there is nothing left for the team to play for speaks volumes.

"A superstar like him, he's going to achieve what he wants to achieve," Frazier said. "The fact that he wants to get back and play with this football team speaks very highly of who he is as a person. He wants to finish this season with his teammates."

Peterson said he still feels some soreness when he cuts and plants, but not enough to prevent him from wanting to play.

"I'm like 85 percent," he said. "But I'll be able to take the pain and whatever it is that comes with it."

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High-energy physicists set record for network data transfer

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Researchers have set a new world record for data transfer, helping to usher in the next generation of high-speed network technology. At the SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) conference in Seattle during mid-November, the international team transferred data in opposite directions at a combined rate of 186 gigabits per second (Gbps) in a wide-area network circuit. The rate is equivalent to moving two million gigabytes per day, fast enough to transfer nearly 100,000 full Blu-ray disks?each with a complete movie and all the extras?in a day.

The team of high-energy physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers was led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Victoria, the University of Michigan, the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Florida International University, and other partners.

According to the researchers, the achievement will help establish new ways to transport the increasingly large quantities of data that traverse continents and oceans via global networks of optical fibers. These new methods are needed for the next generation of network technology?which allows transfer rates of 40 and 100 Gbps?that will be built in the next couple of years.

"Our group and its partners are showing how massive amounts of data will be handled and transported in the future," says Harvey Newman, professor of physics and head of the high-energy physics (HEP) team. "Having these tools in our hands allows us to engage in realizable visions others do not have. We can see a clear path to a future others cannot yet imagine with any confidence."

Using a 100-Gbps circuit set up by Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network (CANARIE) and BCNET, a non-profit, shared IT services organization, the team was able to reach transfer rates of 98 Gbps between the University of Victoria Computing Centre located in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Washington State Convention Centre in Seattle. With a simultaneous data rate of 88 Gbps in the opposite direction, the team reached a sustained two-way data rate of 186 Gbps between two data centers, breaking the team's previous peak-rate record of 119 Gbps set in 2009.

In addition, partners from the University of Florida, the University of California at San Diego, Vanderbilt University, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro State University and the S?o Paulo State University), and Korea (Kyungpook National University and the Korean Institute for Science and Technology Information) helped with a larger demonstration, transferring massive amounts of data between the Caltech booth at the SC11 conference and other locations within the United States, as well as in Brazil and Korea.

The fast transfer rate is also crucial for dealing with the tremendous amounts of data coming from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the particle accelerator that physicists hope will help them discover new particles and better understand the nature of matter, and space and time, solving some of the biggest mysteries of the universe. More than 100 petabytes (more than four million Blu-ray disks) of data have been processed, distributed, and analyzed using a global grid of 300 computing and storage facilities located at laboratories and universities around the world, and the data volume is expected to rise a thousand-fold as physicists crank up the collision rates and energies at the LHC.

"Enabling scientists anywhere in the world to work on the LHC data is a key objective, bringing the best minds together to work on the mysteries of the universe," says David Foster, the deputy IT department head at CERN.

"The 100-Gbps demonstration at SC11 is pushing the limits of network technology by showing that it is possible to transfer petascale particle physics data in a matter of hours to anywhere around the world," adds Randall Sobie, a research scientist at the Institute of Particle Physics in Canada and team member.

The key to discovery, the researchers say, is in picking out the rare signals that may indicate new physics discoveries from a sea of potentially overwhelming background noise caused by already understood particle interactions. To do this, individual physicists and small groups located around the world must repeatedly access?and sometimes extract and transport?multiterabyte data sets on demand from petabyte data stores. That's equivalent to grabbing hundreds of Blu-ray movies all at once from a pool of hundreds of thousands. The HEP team hopes that the demonstrations at SC11 will pave the way towards more effective distribution and use for discoveries of the masses of LHC data.

"By sharing our methods and tools with scientists in many fields, we hope that the research community will be well positioned to further enable their discoveries, taking full advantage of 100 Gbps networks as they become available," Newman says. "In particular, we hope that these developments will afford physicists and young students the opportunity to participate directly in the LHC's next round of discoveries as they emerge."

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Katy Perry's 'One That Got Away' Ties Billboard Record

Teenage Dream now has six top-five hits, tying Janet Jackson and George Michael's record.
By Jocelyn Vena


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What do Katy Perry, Janet Jackson and George Michael all have in common? Well, aside from making catchy tunes, they are also the only three artists to spawn six top-five hits from a single album on the Hot 100 chart in Billboard history.

Thanks to Katy's latest Teenage Dream single, "The One That Got Away," jumping five spots from #9 to #4, she tied the two pop stars.

It's been a while since anyone matched George and Janet. Michael did it in the mid-'80s with his album Faith, which included hits like the title track, "I Want Your Sex" and "Father Figure." Jackson followed him several years later with Rhythm Nation 1814, which launched hits like "Love Will Never Do (Without You)," "Escapade" and "Black Cat."

This is hardly Perry's first Billboard record. She previously tied with Michael Jackson and his Bad album when she notched five #1 singles from her 2010 album. Those five chart-toppers are "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)," "California Gurls," "Teenage Dream," "Firework" and "E.T." And now, she's set her latest record with "The One That Got Away."

"This song shows a very different side of me that I haven't shown with my past singles on this record," Perry has previously said about the Teenage Dream midtempo track. "I think that everyone can relate to this song. I wrote this song about when you promise someone forever, but you end up not being able to follow through. It's a bittersweet story — hopefully, the listener learns from hearing it and never has to say they had 'The One' get away."

Another Dream megahit, "Firework," sits at #10 on MTV's Best Songs of 2011 list. Perry's inspirational dance track is joined on the list by LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem," Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now," Rihanna's "We Found Love" and Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," to name a few.

All this week, watch "AMTV" on MTV every day at 8 a.m. ET for our Best of 2011 lists. Then, come to MTVNews.com at 5 p.m. as we reveal our top picks of the year!

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