Badgers football: Russell Wilson returns to Camp Randall

Russell Wilson first thought about establishing a football camp aimed at inner-city kids when he was a junior in high school.

That reveals a few things about the Seattle Seahawks? second-year quarterback: he?s mature beyond his years; his vision has always extended beyond his current circumstances; and he has a strong desire to give back for the many blessings he believes have been bestowed on him.

Wilson hatched the idea with his best childhood friend, who now serves as the camp?s chief business officer. The first one was held when Wilson was a junior at the Collegiate School in Richmond, Va., where he grew up.

The idea was shelved momentarily, while Wilson was pursuing two sports ? baseball and football ? for most of his college career. But the idea was quickly resurrected after Wilson was a third-round pick of the Seahawks in 2012, following a phenomenal senior season with the Badgers.

?As soon as I got to the pros, that?s the first thing I said I wanted to do,? Wilson said.

The Russell Wilson Passing Academy arrived in Madison on Saturday for the first of two days, with about 220 kids registered to attend. The morning rain sent them inside the McClain Athletic Facility, but they were scheduled to go on the Camp Randall Stadium field in the afternoon.

American Family Insurance is the primary sponsor and Wilson solicits online contributions to defray the costs for underprivileged kids to attend.

?Over this 2?-week period, basically, I?ll meet 1,400 kids,? Wilson said while meeting with the media during a lunch break. ?If I can change one of those kids? lives, inspire one of those kids, that makes the difference and goes a long way.?

Wilson has five camps, all in different cities. The order of the stops ? Richmond; Raleigh, N.C.; Madison; Spokane, Wash.; and Seattle ? pretty much follows Wilson?s life arc.

Each of those cities represents a key stage in his life. He spent three years in Raleigh, at North Carolina State, before transferring to UW. He played two years of minor-league baseball in the Spokane area and finally landed in Seattle, where he took the NFL by storm as a rookie.

After beating out Matt Flynn, a former Green Bay Packers backup who was brought in as a free agent to be the starter, Wilson led the Seahawks to an 11-5 record and beat the Washington Redskins in an NFC wild card game.

He threw for 3,118 yards and tied Peyton Manning?s rookie record with 26 touchdown passes.

?I just think playing one play at a time, one game at a time, staying in the moment,? Wilson said of the skyrocketing expectations he faces this season. ?I?ve done a pretty good job of that so far. How much further can I take that??

That quote was vintage Wilson, something UW fans grew accustomed to hearing in his thrilling season at UW.

He spent only about six months in Madison, arriving on July 1 and leaving shortly after the Rose Bowl, to begin training for the NFL in Florida.

Yet clearly this place means a great deal to Wilson, who ran with the current team during a conditioning workout after he arrived.

?Just having a family like this at the University of Wisconsin is really something special and something you cherish,? he said.

Wilson set a Football Bowl Subdivision record for passing efficiency at 191.78 with the Badgers. One of the few things that went wrong for him that season was a 45-38 loss to Oregon in the Rose Bowl, when he failed to get off a final snap from the Ducks? 25-yard line before time expired.

He thinks of that play whenever he runs into Oregon fans, who are plentiful in the Northwest, or Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell brings up the Rose Bowl he won as UW?s quarterback during the 1993 season.

?You learn from those lessons. ... You have to be precise on every play,? Wilson said. ?Everyone has to be tuned in on every play.?

Those are some of the lessons Wilson attempts to pass along to the kids at camp.

?Just trying to influence as many kids as I can ? that?s what?s really important, especially with this platform,? he said of being an NFL quarterback.

About the only one who wasn?t astonished by Wilson?s first-year NFL success was him.

?I think I worked so hard at it, I make sure I prepare the right way and I?m always mentally focused,? he said. ?I think that?s what allows me to be successful.?

Former Badgers safety Chris Maragos got an up-close view last season as one of Wilson?s teammates in Seattle.

?The most impressive thing I saw him do was to be able to handle all of the pressure, all of the things thrown on him and really just be able to manage and run the team, in such a short amount of time,? Maragos said.

Going into the draft, Wilson had plenty of doubters who didn?t think a 5-foot-11 quarterback could have success in the NFL. While he doesn?t forget those doubters, he doesn?t revel in proving them wrong, either.

?I?m never satisfied,? he said. ?I don?t worry about the critics. Like I used to always say, as you guys know, I ignore the noise. You just focus on the things you can control, stay in the moment and continue to get better.?

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Absurd Stock Photos Made The First Silicon Alley Billionaire

Photos of garbage or (fully clothed) people posing with fruit are big business. Stock photo sites, which provide images for news organizations, blogs, corporate campaigns and all manner of low-budget advertising, have been growing for years. And Shutterstock, founded in 2003 by Jonathan Oringer, has expanded from hosting 30,000 of Oringer's own photos to distributing about 28 million licensed photos/illustrations/videos. And all those cats riding merry-go-rounds have made Oringer a billionaire.

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Father of NSA leaker says he would return to US

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The father of NSA leaker Edward Snowden acknowledged Friday that his son broke the law but doesn't think he committed treason.

"If folks want to classify him as a traitor, in fact, he has betrayed his government. But I don't believe that he's betrayed the people of the United States," Lonnie Snowden told NBC's "Today" show.

Snowden said his attorney has informed Attorney General Eric Holder that he believes his son would voluntarily return to the United States if the Justice Department promises not to hold him before trial and not subject him to a gag order, NBC reported.

The elder Snowden hasn't spoken to his son since April, but he said he believes he's being manipulated by people at WikiLeaks. The anti-secrecy group has been trying to help Edward Snowden gain asylum.

"I don't want to put him in peril, but I am concerned about those who surround him," Lonnie Snowden told NBC. "I think WikiLeaks, if you've looked at past history, you know, their focus isn't necessarily the Constitution of the United States. It's simply to release as much information as possible."

Lonnie Snowden declined to comment when reached Friday by The Associated Press.

Edward Snowden, who fled to Russia, is charged with violating U.S. espionage laws for leaking information about National Security Agency surveillance programs.

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Young Imbeciles Destroy Largest Lego Helicopter Ever

Yesterday a group of idiotic teens destroyed the largest Lego helicopter in the world, the 100,000-piece Erickson Air-Crane. Built by Ryan McNaught over the course of six weeks, the pieces alone are valued at $25,000.

The massive 13-foot-long (4 meters), 3.2-foot-tall (1 meter) model was on display at Cairns Central Shopping Centre in Cairns, Australia, when a group of stupid youngsters approached it and deliberately pushed it from its display. They fled right after the helicopter crashed, spreading most of its pieces over the mall's floor. The police are now examining the CCTV footage to determine the identity of these vandals, may they end in a hell in which every time they walk they step barefoot onto the sharpest Lego bricks in the universe.

Talking to Cairns.com.au, McNaught said: "I was disappointed that my six weeks' worth of work was not going to be able to be appreciated by the community but more so I was upset for the kids."

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Molecule drives aggressive breast cancer

June 27, 2013 ? Recent studies by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University's Kimmel Cancer Center have shown a gene known to coordinate initial development of the eye (EYA1) is a powerful breast tumor promoter in mice. The gene EYA1 was also shown to be overexpressed in a genetic breast cancer subtype called luminal B.

The scientists found that excess activity of this gene -- EYA1 -- also enhances development of breast cancer stem cells that promote resistance to cancer therapy, recurrence, and poor survival.

Because EYA1 is an enzyme, the scientists are now working to identify a natural compound that could shut down EYA1 activity, says Richard Pestell, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Kimmel Cancer Center.

"It was known that EYA1 is over-expressed in some breast cancers, but no one knew what that meant," he says. "Our studies have shown the enzyme drives luminal B breast tumor growth in animals and the enzyme activity is required for tumor growth."

In a mouse model of aggressive breast cancer, the research team targeted a single amino acid on the EYA1 phosphatase activity. They found that inactivating the phosphatase activity of EYA1 stopped aggressive human tumors from growing.

"We are excited about the potential of drug treatment, because it is much easier to develop a drug that targets a phosphatase enzyme like EYA1, than it is to target a gene directly," he says.

Tracing how EYA1 leads to poor outcomes

The study, which was published in the May 1 issue of Cancer Research, examined 2,154 breast cancer samples for the presence of EYA1. The researchers then linked those findings to patient outcomes. They found a direct relationship between increased level of EYA1 and cyclin D1 to poor survival.

They then chose one form of breast cancer -- luminal B -- and traced the bimolecular pathway of how EYA1 with cyclin D1 increases cancer aggressiveness. Luminal B breast cancer, one of five different breast cancer subtypes, is a hormone receptor-positive form that accounts for about 20 percent of human breast cancer. It is more aggressive than luminal A tumors, a hormone receptor-positive cancer that is the most common form of breast cancer.

Their work delineated a string of genes and proteins that are affected by EYA1, and they also discovered that EYA1 pushes an increase in formation of mammospheres, which are a measure of breast cancer stem cells.

"Within every breast cancer are breast cancer stem cells, which give rise to anti-cancer therapy resistance, recurrence and metastases," Dr. Pestell says. "We demonstrated in laboratory experiments that EYA1 expression increase the number of mammospheres and other markers of breast cancer stem cells."

"As the EYA1 phosphatase activity drove breast cancer stem cell expansion, this activity may contribute to worse survival," he says.

This study was supported in part by the NIH grants RO1CA132115, R01CA70896, R01CA75503, R01CA86072 and P30CA56036 (RGP), a grant from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (RGP), a grant for Dr. Ralph and Marian C. Falk Medical Research Trust (RGP), Margaret Q. Landenberger Research Foundation, the Department of Defense Concept Award W81XWH-11-1-0303.

Study co-authors are, from Kimmel Cancer Center: first author Kongming Wu, Zhaoming Li, Shaoxin Cai, Lifeng Tian, Ke Chen, Jing Wang and Adam Ertel; Junbo Hu, from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China; and Ye Sun, and Xue Li from Boston Children's Hospital.

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Square Hires AdSense ?Godfather? Gokul Rajaram Away From Facebook

While Square has seen several top senior people leave over the last year, it’s also making up for them with some notable hires. Today Gokul Rajaram, dubbed the “Godfather of AdSense,” is joining Square from Facebook, where he was the product director of ads. At Facebook, he oversaw the company’s aggressive monetization push over the past year, including incorporating better ad units on mobile devices. The company says he’ll oversee Square Register, the point-of-sale system that the startup designed for small and medium businesses to use from tablets and smartphones. ?I?ve been fortunate to work for two mission-driven, world-changing companies, and Square?s vision and passion for helping businesses grow is inspiring,? Rajaram said in a statement. He joined Facebook through the sale of his startup Chai Labs to the social network back in August 2010. Before that, he also was a key leader in developing Google’s AdSense network. While Square has lost recent executives like COO Keith Rabois and other senior people like Jared Fliesler to the world of venture capital, Rajaram is a win for the company as it figures out its strategy going forward. The company picked up Francoise Brougher from Google as Business Lead in April. It also hired former U.S. trade representative Demetrios J. Marantis as head of international government, regulatory and policy work last month.

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Texas woman receives death penalty

On Wednesday, Kimberly McCarthy became the 500th person executed by the state of Texas since the death penalty was reinstated more than three decades ago. McCarthy had been convicted of killing Dorothy Booth and stealing her diamond ring.?

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Donna Aldred, left, and daughter, Leslie Lambert, right, listen during a news conference after the execution of Kimberly McCarthy Wednesday in Huntsville, Texas. McCarthy was convicted of killing Aldred's mother, Dorothy Booth.

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Texas?on Wednesday executed by lethal injection a woman convicted of stabbing her elderly neighbor to death in 1997, the first U.S. execution of a woman in nearly three years, the?Texas Department of Criminal Justice?said.

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Kimberly McCarthy, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:37 p.m. CDT (2337 GMT) at a?Texas?state prison, the department said. She was convicted of killing?Dorothy Booth, 71, in 1997, cutting off her ring finger and stealing a diamond ring that she then pawned.

McCarthy was the eighth person executed in?Texas?this year and the 500th put to death in the state since the?United States?restored capital punishment in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Executions of women remain rare in the?United States. Of the 1,338 inmates executed since the death penalty's reinstatement, only 13 have been women. Before McCarthy, the last woman executed was?Teresa Lewis?by?Virginia?in September 2010.

(Reporting by Lisa Maria Garza; Editing by Dina Kyriakidou and Eric Beech)

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Celebrity chef Paula Deen denies she is a racist, dropped by Walmart

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. celebrity chef Paula Deen, under fire after she admitted using a racial slur, said in a tearful TV interview on Wednesday that she is not a racist, as retailer Walmart said it was cutting ties with the chef.

In an interview on NBC's "Today" show, the Southern food doyenne said she never intentionally hurt anyone and that it was important for her to tell "everyone out there what I believe and how I live my life."

When asked if she felt she had racist tendencies, she replied, "No."

It was her first TV interview since The Food Network said Friday it would drop her show after she was sued for discrimination and admitted in a legal deposition that she had used a racial slur in the past.

Deen, who has built a business empire that includes cookbooks, restaurants and kitchen supplies, was also dropped by pork giant Smithfield Foods Inc last week. On Wednesday, Walmart was the latest company to sever ties.

"We are ending our relationship with Paula Deen Enterprises," Walmart spokeswoman Danit Marquardt told Reuters.

Marquardt said Walmart, the biggest division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, will not place new orders beyond those already committed with Deen's company for branded products including groceries, cookware and candles.

The controversy surrounding Deen erupted last week when a deposition was released in transcript form in which Deen, who is white, was asked if she had used the "N-word," and responded, "Yes, of course."

The "N-word" is a euphemism for "nigger," an epithet for black people.

The deposition related to a racial and sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by a former employee, Lisa Jackson, who worked for Paula Deen Enterprises.

The lawsuit alleges that when Deen discussed plans for her brother Earl "Bubba" Hiers' 2007 wedding with Jackson, Deen said she wanted a "true Southern plantation-style wedding."

"Well, what I would really like is a bunch of little niggers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around," Deen said, according to the lawsuit.

Asked about the epithet in the deposition on Wednesday, Deen said she had used the slur when describing, probably to her husband, how a black man robbed a bank where she was working in the 1980s. She said she had used the word since, "but it's been a very long time."

Deen recalled the bank robbery and said: "I had had a gun put to my head, a shakin' gun." She did not give a full description of that incident.

DEEN SAYS SHE IS "HEARTBROKEN"

On "Today," Deen said she was thankful for the support she has received, and also heartbroken because she has had to comfort friends distressed about things being said about her that she said were untrue.

"If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back, if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please, I want to meet you. I want to meet you," she said, sobbing.

The 66-year-old celebrity chef had called off a scheduled interview with NBC on Friday to discuss the situation and instead released a video defending herself.

The Food Network, which is owned by Scripps Network Interactive Inc, later said it would not renew her contract when it expires at the end of June.

Deen's fans have voiced their support for the chef online, expressing anger on the Facebook pages for the Food Network and Walmart, with many saying they'll boycott both companies for severing ties with Deen. The story was corrected to add dropped words in 11th paragraph

(Reporting by Patricia Reaney and Jessica Wohl; Editing by David Storey, Piya Sinha-Roy and Stacey Joyce)

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No Hex Wrench Needed: Ikea Designs a Smarter Flatpack Refugee Shelter

If there's any company on earth with an expertise in designing things that are easy to transport and assemble, it's Ikea. So it makes perfect sense that the Swedish furniture manufacturer would team up with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees?or the UNCHR for short?to redesign the temporary shelters that millions of refugees around the world call home.

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DIY Tip: Jack up your tablet?s volume with a Styrofoam cup

Gadgeteer reader Gary Henderson sent in a great tip for anyone who wants to increase the volume on their tablet without spending money on portable speakers or other accessories. All you need is a simple paper, plastic or Styrofoam cup and a pair of scissors or a knife. Cut a slot in the cup and [...]

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Pop Rocks to Slurpees: The Science of America's Wackiest Summer Treats

Decades before molecular gastronomists were hocking vodka mist and caviar foam, we had food that was just plain fun: Pop Rocks, Magic Shell, and countless other strange creations that required a science lab to invent.

We took a look into the origins of these wacky treats, and what we found were lab experiments gone wrong, bizarre patent applications, and tons of illicit basement chemistry. Read about three of the most interesting stories below, from the lab accident that spawned Pop Rocks to the unquenchable American thirst for frozen booze that spurred the margarita machine.

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Pop Rocks

During his 35-year career as a famed food chemist at General Foods, William Mitchell registered at least 44 patents and invented dozens of ubiquitous foods, including powdered eggs, Jell-O, and Tang. He was also responsible for dozens of lesser-known curiosities, like ice infused with carbonation and an 140-proof alcohol in powder form.

Mitchell?s best known invention was actually a food chemistry failure. In 1956, he was toying with transforming carbon dioxide into solid sugar. The idea? To develop a carbonated drink powder. But Mitchell?s gas-infused lumps fell flat?at least where soda is concerned. One day during a taste test, though, the project took a turn for the Willy Wonka-esque. A bit of the powder made its way into Mitchell?s mouth, where moisture from his saliva caused the carbon dioxide to pop and fizz. Today, most of us would recognize the explosive sensation as Pop Rocks.

It was an immediate hit among the food science set. In an interview with People Magazine in 1979, Mitchell explained that ?it became a game?who could swallow the biggest chunk. It was a fun afternoon and we wasted a lot of time, but I thought it was a good thing from the start."

It may have been a hit with scientists, but food that explodes wasn't the most intuitive sell. Mitchell?s crystals utterly stumped the General Foods marketing and mass production departments, and the product was shelved for nearly two decades. (Meanwhile Pop Rocks were still a lively presence in Mitchell?s social circle?he enclosed them in his family?s Christmas cards for years.)

In 1974, though, a Canadian subsidiary finally put Pop Rocks on shelves, promoting them as a gag. The US market caught on two years later, and enthusiasm for the rocks hit the sky. By 1978, 500 million packets had been sold.

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Eskimo Pies and Magic Shell

The story of the chocolate covered ice cream bar starts in a tiny confectionery shop owned by Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa in 1920. According to the Smithsonian, a boy came into the shop and ?started to buy ice cream, then changed his mind and bought a chocolate bar. Nelson inquired as to why he did not buy both. The boy replied, ?Sure I know?I want 'em both, but I only got a nickel.??

That eternal conundrum?hey, we?ve all been there!?sparked a delicious idea, and Nelson quickly took to his home laboratory in search of a way to combine chocolate bars and ice cream. Now, anyone with ice cream sundae experience knows that melted chocolate poured over and frozen ice cream quickly turns into a messy puddle of goo. Was it possible for chocolate and ice cream to co-exist without compromising the integrity of either?

After much experimentation, Nelson finally found the answer in cocoa butter. It turns out that the cocoa bean?s fat is unique, in that it?s rigid at room temperature, but melts just below the temperature of our bodies. In other words, it?s easy on the ice cream. The butter proved to be the perfect adherent?so much so that Nelson immediately (and successfully) poured his new-fangled chocolate sauce over 500 bricks of ice cream, which were beta tested at a fireman?s picnic. The positive response prompted Nelson to partner with Russell C. Stover, the Chicago-based chocolate maker, in order to get his invention to market. Within the first 24 hours, the team sold 250,000 units of what they?d rebranded as the Eskimo Pie.

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Eskimo Pies turned out to be the precursor to another ice cream innovation, too: Magic Shell, the syrup that transforms from a liquid to a solid within seconds of hitting the soft serve. It?s not really so much magic as science; Magic Shell employs a fat-filled ingredient that, like cocoa butter, freezes easily but doesn?t require much heat to melt. Other brands have replaced that oil with similarly unconventional ingredients: For example, Mister Softee employs an ?edible-grade paraffin wax.? Mmm.

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The Slurpee and the Frozen Margarita

When Omar Knedlik purchased a Dairy Queen franchise in Coffeyville, Kansas in the late 1950s, his location lacked a soda fountain. So he faked it. To chill cola quickly, Knedlik used the freezer. It was an imprecise system, and customers would sometimes end up with half-frozen drinks?just the way they liked it.

His freezer trick was a hit, but kind of a pain to manage, so Knedlik began experimenting with machines that would simplify the process on a larger scale. In his 1958 patent for a ?Process for the Preparation of a Beverage,? Knedlik details a cold, hermetically-sealed chamber that?s kept under superatmospheric pressure to maintain carbonation. Inside, the ingredients?CO2, flavored syrup, and water?would need ?vigorous and continuous? agitating to preserve a constant slushy state.

The machines were purchased by 7-Eleven in 1965, where they served to chill the chain?s ubiquitous Slurpee. And six years later, they inspired another invention in Dallas, Texas, where a local inventor and restaurateur named Mariano Martinez was struggling to keep up with demand for his blended booze cocktails.

One day, on a coffee run at the convenience store, Martinez had an epiphany: why not use the Slurpee machine for alcohol? The only hitch, unsurprisingly, was that the convenience store refused to sell him a machine. So Martinez?just like Knedlik and so many other food chemists?elected to build his own. Using a modified soft-serve ice cream maker, Martinez engineered an frozen margarita machine that served 34 years of duty, churning out tequila slush until it was inaugurated into the Smithsonian's collection, in 2010.

So there you have it: A little frustration, an adventurous palate, and a whole lot of tinkering can spark some surprisingly far-reaching inventions. Just stay away from the cinnamon challenge, ok?

Lead image, from left to right, via Pepper.Ch and 52 Kitchen Adventures.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - R&B singer Chris Brown, on probation for beating his former girlfriend, was charged on Tuesday with a hit-and-run and driving without a valid license in connection with a May 21 traffic accident in Los Angeles. Brown, 24, allegedly rear-ended another car and faces up to six months in jail on each misdemeanor charge, L.A. City Attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan said. He will be arraigned in Los Angeles Superior Court on July 15, Mateljan said. ...

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Ingested nanoparticle toxicity

June 26, 2013 ? Ingestion of commonly encountered nanoparticles at typical environmental levels is unlikely to cause overt toxicity, according to US researchers. Nevertheless there is insufficient evidence to determine whether chronic exposures could lead to subtle alterations in intestinal immune function, protein profiles, or microbial balance.

Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, researchers have compared existing laboratory and experimental animal studies pertaining to the toxicity of nanoparticles most likely to be intentionally or accidentally ingested. Based on their review, the researchers determined ingestion of nanoparticles at likely exposure levels is unlikely to cause health problems, at least with respect to acute toxicity. Furthermore, in vitro laboratory testing, which often shows toxicity at a cellular level, does not correspond well with in vivo testing, which tends to show less adverse effects.

Ingrid Bergin in the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Frank Witzmann in the Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, at Indiana University School of Medicine, in Indianapolis, explain that the use of particles that are in the nano size range (from 1 billionth to 100 billionths of a meter in diameter, 1-100 nm, other thereabouts) are finding applications in consumer products and medicine. These include particles such as nano-silver, which is increasingly used in consumer products and dietary supplements for its purported antimicrobial properties. Nanoparticles can have some intriguing and useful properties because they do not necessarily behave in the same chemical and physical ways as non-nanoparticle versions of the same material.

Nanoparticles are now used as natural flavor enhancers in the form of liposomes and related materials, food pigments and in some so-called "health supplements." They are also used in antibacterial toothbrushes coated with silver nanoparticles, for instance in food and drink containers and in hygienic infant feeding equipment. They are also used to carry pharmaceuticals to specific disease sites in the body to reduce side effects. Nanoparticles actually encompass a very wide range of materials from pure metals and alloys, to metal oxide nanoparticles, and carbon-based and plastic nanoparticles. Because of their increasing utilization in consumer products, there has been concern over whether these small scale materials could have unique toxicity effects when compared to more traditional versions of the same materials.

Difficulties in assessing the health risks of nanoparticles include the fact that particles of differing materials and shapes can have different properties. Furthermore, the route of exposure (e.g. ingestion vs. inhalation) affects the likelihood of toxicity. The U.S. researchers evaluated the current literature specifically with respect to toxicity of ingested nanoparticles. They point out that, in addition to intentional ingestion as with dietary supplements, unintentional ingestion can occur due to nanoparticle presence in water or as a breakdown product from coated consumer goods. Inhaled nanoparticles also represent an ingestion hazard since they are coughed up, swallowed, and eliminated through the intestinal tract.

Based on their review, the team concludes that, "Ingested nanoparticles appear unlikely to have acute or severe toxic effects at typical levels of exposure." Nevertheless, they add that the current literature is inadequate to assess whether nanoparticles can accumulate in tissues and have long-term effects or whether they might cause subtle alterations in gut microbial populations. The researchers stress that better methods are needed for correlating particle concentrations used for cell-based assessment of toxicity with the actual likely exposure levels to body cells. Such methods may lead to better predictive value for laboratory in vitro testing, which currently over-predicts toxicity of ingested nanoparticles as compared to in vivo testing.

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By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Taking medications containing caffeine was tied to a doubled or even tripled risk of having a stroke in a new Korean study that might seem to contradict recent evidence suggesting coffee and tea exert protective effects. But the results may be in fact be in line with that research, according to the study authors, who point out that people who drank the least coffee were most at risk when taking caffeinated drugs. The products included mostly over the counter pain relievers, cold medicines and alertness aids containing small amounts of caffeine. ...

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Why We Forgive Misspelled Emails if They're 'Sent From My iPhone'

Soon after Apple's iPhone went on sale six years ago this week, you probably started spotting hastily-written emails appended by the words "Sent from my iPhone." And then, a bit later, you spotted a lot more. Of course, the iPhone was not the first email-enabled smartphone to attach such a message to outgoing emails. So did various Treo handsets (remember those?) and BlackBerry phones, pre- and post-iPhone. The iPhone's instant success, and its default signature, simply made the practice far more prevalent. Alongside this trend, a different but related one emerged: the iPhone's stock signature, at first deemed a louche emblem of status, became a built-in forgiveness clause.?Please don't judge me for any typos or spelling errors, "Sent from my iPhone"?suggested.?I am very busy. That's according to a chart published on Tuesday by the author?Clive Thompson, who drew data from a 2012 Stanford study on the perceived credibility of misspelled emails sent with (and?without) a "Sent from my iPhone" signature:

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Thompson comments on the findings of the study, which asked a group of Stanford students to assess the credibility of emails, some of which had the signature, others of which did not:

When the message had correct spelling, grammar and punctuation, the sender was rated as being very credible ? and there was little difference between whether the email seemed to have been composed on a computer or a phone. But when the message had errors in it, things changed: Students attributed higher credibility to the person who?d written the lousy message on a phone.

For these results, Thompson credits "linguistic code-switching" ? whereby people speak differently among friends, family, and coworkers ? and theorizes that the prevalence of AutoCorrect software has, paradoxically, made misplaced words and punctuation more acceptable in digital communication. (But no less funny.)

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Indeed, the sociological implications of email signatures go fairly deep, according to others who have studied the subject. In 2006, for example, the technologist Michael Silberman argued that the signature suggested a particular affection for the email's recipient. "If we're responding to you from our phone or BlackBerry, it generally means that we're going out of our way to respond under some inconvenient circumstances," he wrote. "It's not like we took our phone to the cafe to catch up on email. We're risking our life to respond to you while walking, eating, drinking, traveling, or juggling. You can thank us later."

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SKorea says several gov't, private websites hacked

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? South Korea said multiple government and private sector websites were hacked on Tuesday's anniversary of the start of the Korean War, and Seoul issued a cyberattack alert warning officials and citizens to take security measures.

Government websites, including the one for the presidential Blue House, and some media servers were attacked, according to a statement from the science ministry. The statement said the sites were hacked and that a team was investigating.

The government alert is meant to warn officials and citizens of possible cyberattacks and urge them to enhance their server and computer security measures.

The shutdown happened on the 63rd anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War. It wasn't immediately clear who was responsible, but both Koreas have traded accusations of cyberattacks in recent years.

South Korean officials say that North Korea orchestrated a cyberattack in March that shut down tens of thousands of computers and servers at South Korean broadcasters and banks. Seoul said in April that an initial investigation pointed to a North Korean military-run spy agency as the culprit.

North Korea in recent weeks has pushed for diplomatic talks with Washington. But tensions ran high on the Korean Peninsula in March and April, with North Korea delivering regular threats over U.N. sanctions and U.S.-South Korean military drills.

Investigators detected similarities between the March cyberattack and past hacking attributed to the North Korean spy agency, including the recycling of 30 previously used malware programs ? out of a total of 76 used in the attack, South Korea's internet security agency said.

The March 20 cyberattack struck 48,000 computers and servers, hampering banks for two to five days. Officials have said that no bank records or personal data were compromised. Staffers at TV broadcasters KBS, MBC and YTN were unable to log on to news systems for several days, although programming continued during that period. No government, military or infrastructure targets were affected.

South Korea's National Intelligence Service said North Korea was behind a denial of service attack in 2009 that crippled dozens of websites, including that of the presidential office. Seoul also believes the North was responsible for cyberattacks on servers of Nonghyup bank in 2011 and Joongang Ilbo, a national daily newspaper, in 2012.

North Korea also blamed South Korea and the United States for cyberattacks in March that temporarily disabled Internet access and websites in North Korea, where a small number of people can go online.

Experts believe North Korea trains large teams of cyber warriors and that the South and its allies should be prepared against possible attacks on key infrastructure and military systems. If the inter-Korean conflict were to move into cyberspace, South Korea's deeply wired society would have more to lose than North Korea's, which largely remains offline.

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The Only Fragmentation That Matters (In Charts!)

We can argue about Android fragmentation and conflicting standards all day long, but you know what? Those fights are nothing compared to how broken your own digital life is.

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