Welcome to the Overnight News Digest (OND) for Tuesday, July 26, 2011.
OND is a regular
community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing near 12:00AM Eastern Time.
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This diary is named for its "Hump Point" video: (Tabla solo) by Siar Hashimi
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Top News |
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Debt-irked voters shut down Congress' websites, phones
By Erika Bolstad
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President Barack Obama asked Americans to reach out to Congress to make their voices heard on the debt ceiling debate — and so they did.
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"It's been pretty busy today," said Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C. "The poor interns are having a good time."
The Capitol, which typically handles 20,000 calls per hour, saw spikes of up to 40,000 Tuesday, rivaling the 50,000-an-hour rate of the health care debate.
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The details of their opinions varied widely, but callers and emailers across the country seemed to agree with the president, who warned Congress that even if Americans voted for divided government last fall, they didn't vote for a dysfunctional government. Those heeding the president's advice to make their voices heard on the debate had one common refrain: Get it done.
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Tony Hayward Gets His Life Back
By Kate Sheppard
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Remember when Tony Hayward said he wanted his life back, shortly after BP unleashed 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico? Well, first the wayward CEO was relocated to Siberia. But then he was released, with a severance package worth at least $1.56 million salary. Now he appears to be getting his life back up in the wilds of northern Minnesota.
As MinnPost's Don Shelby reports today, Hayward has been hired as the head of environment and safety at Glencore, the multinational mining and commodities trading company. Glencore, perhaps best known because it was founded by Marc Rich, the wealthy Democratic donor indicted for violating federal law in making oil deals with Iran, who was pardoned by Bill Clinton on his last day in office.
As Shelby notes, Glencore recently became the principal investor in a hard rock mining operation in Hoyt Lakes, Minn. This is probably bad news for the Land of 10,000 Lakes—just like his reign at BP was for the Gulf of Mexico.
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Software patents 'gumming up innovation', warns chief Google lawyer
By Charles Arthur and agencies
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Google's chief lawyer Kent Walker says that the smartphone industry is using patents in an arms race that is "gumming up the works of innovation" and that the US government needs to rein in their use.
The company is facing a huge lawsuit from database company Oracle, which is claiming billions in damages over what it says is infringement in Google's widely-used Android operating system, while handset makers such as HTC and Samsung face claims from companies including Microsoft that their Android devices infringe its software patents.
"It's hard to find what's the best path – there's so much litigation," Walker said in an interview with the wire agency Bloomberg. "We're exploring a variety of different things."
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But the problem of software patents in particular is increasingly seen as a drag on innovation within the US. After a US-based company, Lodsys, which holds some patents that may be infringed in smartphone apps, sued independent developers, a number of British developers withdrew their products from US sale, saying the cost of business there was too high.
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Generosity built into human nature
By (UPI)
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Generosity is likely more than a result of social pressure and may be built in to human nature, U.S. researchers suggest.
Max M. Krasnow, a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Santa Barbara's Center for Evolutionary Psychology, says acts of generosity -- incurring a cost to benefit someone else when no future return is likely -- are seen as maladaptive by biologists and irrational by economists.
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"Believing that you will never meet this individual again, you might choose to benefit yourself at his expense -- only to find out later that the relationship could have been open-ended," the researchers say. "If you make this error, you lose out on all the benefits you might have had from a long-term, perhaps lifelong, cooperative relationship."
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Visa, PayPal, MasterCard Continue to Work with Copyright Groups
By Michael Hatamoto
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The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is now working with PayPal and other money services to try and put the squeeze on organized internet music websites.
A coordinated effort by copyright groups; governments; and PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard are now limiting how some torrent sites are able to collect funds from members. Since many file sharing sites operate from collected online donations, prohibiting some payment plans helps disrupt these services and forces them out of business.
In the U.S. and select markets, copyright groups are targeting specific groups to try and fight online piracy. Recently, the IFPI reached agreements with Visa and MasterCard, and the City of London Police are then called in to enforce any court documents. After the IFPI notifies local police authorities and credit card companies, the payments are interrupted after the police further investigate the case.
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After a failed attempt to directly sue individual peer-to-peer pirates, copyright groups shifted gears and found a new anti-piracy approach. Along with working with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal programs, copyright groups strong-arm ISPs to police their own subscribers. The United States is quickly catching up to other governments that have already launched three-strikes laws and similar legislation to slow down piracy.
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DNA test developed in Glasgow links ageing and poverty
By (BBC)
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Work by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health has confirmed the link between social factors and the rate at which people age.
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The Glasgow researchers found that, over a 10-year period, telomeres shortened by an average of 7.7% in people whose household income was below £25,000. For those on higher incomes, the shortening averaged 0.6%.
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This study is a first for Glasgow and indicates that socio-economic conditions do affect the rate at which you age”
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"This effect is exacerbated by diet - simply not eating your five portions of fruit and veg a day."
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Gaddafi can't be left in Libya, says international criminal court
By Richard Norton-Taylor and Chris Stephen
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The international criminal court has dismissed suggestions by Britain and France that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi could be allowed to remain in Libya as part of negotiated deal to remove him from power, insisting that a new government would be obliged to arrest the dictator under warrants issued by the court.
The ICC, which Britain and France have signed up to, said that Gaddafi could not be allowed to escape justice. "He has to be arrested," said Florence Olara, spokeswoman for the court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo.
On Monday the foreign secretary, William Hague, said Britain was prepared to agree to a political settlement in Libya that would see Gaddafi remain in the country after relinquishing his hold on power.
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Lockerbie bomber shows up on Libyan TV
By (UPI)
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Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the ailing Lockerbie bomber freed by Scotland nearly two years ago, showed up on Libyan TV Tuesday at a pro-government rally in Tripoli.
Al-Megrahi, who was sent home to Libya because he was said to have terminal cancer, appeared frail and was seated in a wheelchair at a gathering in support of embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, The Guardian reported.
The British newspaper said the broadcast, said to be live, showed a Libyan television presenter introducing al-Megrahi at the rally and saying his conviction was the product of a "conspiracy."
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More online surveillance needed, officials in Europe say
By Cyrus Farivar
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In the wake of the bombing and shooting spree in Norway last week, some nations in Europe are now calling for increased Internet surveillance as a possible preventive measure.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, a Twitter message, a YouTube video, and a 1,500-page manifesto have been found online written by Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who has confessed to the crimes.
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This week, politicians from Germany, Finland and Estonia have all called for more extensive online monitoring, which, they argue, could in the future possibly prevent these types of attacks.
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Yukiya Amano: Japan crisis will not end nuclear age
By (BBC)
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The UN's top nuclear official says the world's reliance on atomic power will continue to grow, despite the crisis at Japan's Fukushima plant.
Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said many countries believed nuclear power was needed to combat global warming.
Mr Amano visited the Fukushima plant on Monday for the first time since it was crippled by the earthquake and tsunami.
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Somalia famine: WFP delays airlift of food to Mogadishu
By (BBC)
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It was to be the first airlift of food aid since the UN declared a famine in two areas of Somalia last week.
Islamists, who control most of Somalia, have banned the WFP from their areas and thousands of people are fleeing towards the capital in search of food.
Somali Foreign Minister Mohamed Ibrahim has warned more than 3.5 million people "may starve to death" in his country.
Al-Shabab, which has ties to al-Qaeda, has accused the groups it has banned from its territories of being political.
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Afghan lawmakers tackle Karzai on US deal
By Maiwand Safi
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President Hamid Karzai is in conflict with Afghanistan's rebellious parliament again, this time over plans for a "loya jirga" or national congress to discuss future relations with the United States.
First floated in April, the idea is to convene the traditional congress to underpin the legitimacy of a possible long-term strategic agreement whereby the US military would retain a significant presence in Afghanistan long past the projected pullout of combat troops in 2014.
The idea of foreign troops remaining in Afghanistan for the long term is hugely controversial, as people weigh their natural suspicion of foreign intervention against the fear that without it, neighboring states like Pakistan and Iran would seek to Loya jirgas - "grand assemblies" drawn from people across the country - are periodically convened in Afghanistan to debate important national issues and arrive at a consensus view. The idea is that with broad-based participation, the congress will produce decisions that by definition will be accepted by everyone and can therefore be made binding.
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USA Politics, Economy, Major Events |
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Gun maker to pay Brady Center $600,000
By (UPI)
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U.S. gun maker Kahr Arms will pay nearly $600,000 to settle a lawsuit in a fatal shooting involving a gun a worker took from its factory, the Brady Center said.
The non-profit Washington gun control lobbying group said in a release Tuesday the settlement is the largest damages payment ever by a gun manufacturer accused of negligence leading to the criminal use of a gun.
The Brady Center said it brought the case on behalf of families of a father of two daughters who was killed and another man who was wounded with a 9mm handgun taken from the Blauvelt, N.Y., company's factory in Worcester, Mass., by a drug-addicted employee.
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Obama courts Hispanic vote, blames GOP for their frustration
By Lesley Clark
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President Barack Obama promised a Hispanic group Monday that he’d continue to push for sweeping immigration reform even as he acknowledged frustration with his administration on the matter.
Speaking before the National Council of La Raza, Obama noted he had promised during the campaign “to work tirelessly to fix immigration laws and make the Dream Act a reality” so that the children of undocumented immigrants could stay in the U.S. and study.
He blamed Republicans and the Washington climate where “compromise is becoming a dirty word” for blocking the legislation last December.
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ATF official apologises over Mexico gun probe
By (BBC)
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A US official has apologised and told Congress he shares responsibility for a botched operation to track the illegal movement of guns to Mexico.
William McMahon of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said he failed to properly monitor Operation Fast and Furious.
At least 122 weapons recovered at crime scenes in Mexico have been linked to the sting, a Congressional report said.
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But the sting did not lead to any arrests and many of the smuggled guns were later found at crime scenes.
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Welcome to the "Hump Point" of this OND.
News can be sobering and engrossing - at this point in the diary, an offering of brief escapism:
Random notes related to this video:
. . . Siar who was born in 1981 in Kabul Afghanistan, started the school of music at the age of 4 in his homeland Afghanistan. Further he followed his music studies in India working with the most famous Tabla instructors such as Zakir Hussain, Anindo Chaterjee. Siar mixes different regional Tabla styles in a wonderful artistic manner. His new techniques opened a wider world to the role of Tabla in many different music stages. Siar performs with recognized Afghan artist such as Farhad Darya, Indian famous bansori (Indian classical flute) player Hariprasat Chaurasia, African musician Bob Marley group as well as Romina Power a well known Italian singer. . . He also mixes Tabla, duff (tambourine) and Zir Baghali (tumbek) in one piece, which is very special and unique to his own style and has never been mixed or performed in this way before.
Back to what's happening:
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Environment and Greening |
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Reanalyses ‘R’ Us
By gavin
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There is an interesting new wiki site, Reanalyses.org, that has been developed by a number of groups dedicated to documenting the various reanalysis products for atmosphere and ocean that are increasingly being made available.
For those that don’t know, a ‘reanalysis’ is a climate or weather model simulation of the past that includes data assimilation of historical observations. The observations can be very comprehensive (satellite, in situ, multiple variables) or relatively sparse (say, sea level pressure only), and the models themselves are quite varied. Generally these models are drawn from the weather forecasting community (at least for the atmospheric components) which explains the odd terminology. An ‘analysis’ from a weather forecasting model is the 6 hour (say) forecast from the time of observations. Weather forecasting groups realised a decade or so ago that the time series of their weather forecasts (the analyses) could not be used to track long term changes because their models had been updated many times over the decades. Thus the idea arose to ‘re-analyse’ the historical observations with a single consistent model. These sets of 6 hour forecasts using the data available at each point are then more consistent in time (and presumably more accurate) that the original analyses were.
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These products should definitely not be assumed to have the status of ‘real observations’, but they are very useful as long as people are careful to take the caveats seriously, and be clear about the structural uncertainties. Results that differ enormously across different reanalyses should be viewed with caution
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Why the UK must choose renewables over nuclear: an answer to Monbiot
By Jonathon Porritt
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This is not the place to go into the voluminous literature on hidden subsidies on nuclear power, but the committee makes only passing reference to perhaps the most egregious distortion: the indirect subsidy in the form of insurance liability.
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Does Monbiot – or anyone, for that matter, on the Committee on Climate Change – actually understand the scale of this subsidy? Recent research by Versicherungsforen Leipzig GmbH (summary in English), a company that specialises in actuarial calculations, shows that full insurance against nuclear disasters would increase the price of nuclear electricity by a range of values - €0.14 per kilowatt hours (kWh) up to €2.36 per kWh – depending on assumptions made.
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As Monbiot is aware, there are a growing number of voices arguing that we can indeed provide almost all the energy we need from renewable resources. The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (adopted by 194 governments on 9th May 2011) shows how we could get up to 80% of the energy we need from renewable energy sources.
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But I readily acknowledge that this combination of renewables and efficiency will take some time to deliver. There will need to be some "generating bridge" to get us to that 2050 point. For me, this comes down to a straight choice between his "least worst option", namely nuclear, and my "least worst option", gas plus carbon capture and storage (CCS). Both nuclear and CCS are hugely expensive, and CCS is still unproven at scale. But we're almost certainly going to need CCS anyway (installed even on biomass plants) given the speed at which greenhouse gases continue to build up in the atmosphere. And at least gas is relatively cheap, relatively easily available, and relatively easy to build. Gas-powered stations built over the next five to 10 years could be economically retired from 2035 onwards.
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The Atlanta BeltLine: The country’s most ambitious smart growth project
By Kaid Benfield
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The challenge with writing about the BeltLine is that the massive public/private undertaking is so enormous, so multifaceted, so ambitious and potentially transformative, and so complicated that it is difficult to know where to start, how much to say, and what comments are fair. . .
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To briefly review the basics, the city is seeking to invest some $2.8 billion in a new, 22-mile public transit, trails, and parks loop around the heart of the city of Atlanta on the site of an abandoned rail and industrial corridor. Because the BeltLine passes through some of the inner city's most distressed neighborhoods, the intent is for this major public investment to leverage substantial private investment in revitalization, particularly workforce housing. The transit is to be either light rail or streetcars, connecting in several places along the loop to the MARTA regional rail transit system.
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The hoped-for economic impacts include 5,600 units of workforce housing, 30,000 permanent jobs, and 48,000 person-years of construction jobs, and a $20 billion increase in the city's tax base over 25 years. It's an incredible bundle of related public benefits if the city and its partners can pull this off.
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Thomas Wheatley is an Atlanta journalist who covers transportation and land use for the publication Creative Loafing. Wheatley believes that the BeltLine's prospects for success need to be boosted by "big, bold ideas" that will be highly visible and can restore public confidence in the project. . .
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China dives deeper in resource race
By (Al Jazeera)
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A Chinese submersible has conducted the country's deepest manned dive in the latest technological milestone for China, which theoretically puts most of the ocean floor's vast resources within its reach.
The Jiaolong undersea craft - named after a mythical sea dragon - reached 5,057 metres below sea level in a test dive on Tuesday in the northeastern Pacific, China's oceanic administration said.
Though less than half as deep as a record dive by the US Navy in 1960, the achievement highlights China's push to catch up with advanced nations in space, sea, and polar exploration, and points to its fast-growing technical capabilities.
Chinese scientists aim to complete the world's deepest dive in a manned submersible in 2012 by going to 7,000 metres, state news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
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Physicists Recreate 'End Of Time' in Lab
By The Physics arXiv Blog
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The idea is straightforward (no really!). Metamaterials can be made to behave like ordinary space with two dimensions of space and one of time. But they can also be made to behave like other types of spaces, with two dimensions of time and one of space, for example.
Smolyaninov points out that an interesting situation occurs when these two materials are place end on. If a time dimension is perpendicular to a space dimension, it simply hits a dead end. In other words, time runs out.
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So what happens at the end of time? Smolyaninov says that the electromagnetic field simply diverges, which is something of an anticlimax in an experiment so pregnant with sci-fi potential.
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Researchers Capture Breakthrough Data On Cervical Spine Injuries
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Swartz and lead author Steven Broglio of the University of Michigan captured this groundbreaking spinal fracture data while studying concussions. Broglio had fitted the helmets of football players at a high school in the Midwest with padded sensors as part of the Head Impact Telemetry System (HITS), which measures the location and magnitude of impacts to the helmet. During a head-down tackle, an 18-year-old cornerback in the study suffered both a concussion and a fracture of his cervical spine, or neck. (He has since fully recovered.)
"This is really novel," says Swartz, explaining that all previous research on cervical spine injuries have been done on cadavers, animals, or via mathematical modeling. "You can't create a cervical spine fracture in a healthy human, but here you have an actual event where we captured data during an actual cervical spine injury," he says.
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The authors see far-reaching implications for this work in the quest for greater safety in youth sports. In the journal letter, they note that sports and recreation activities are the second most common cause of cervical spine injuries for people under age 30, with an average lifetime cost of more than $3 million.
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To Help Doctors and Patients, Researchers Are Developing a 'Vocabulary of Pain'
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"Pain research is very difficult because nothing allows the physician to see the patient's pain directly," says Werner Ceusters, MD, professor of psychiatry in UB's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and principal investigator on a new National Institutes of Health grant, An Ontology for Pain and Related Disability, Mental Health and Quality of Life.
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That is a serious shortcoming, Ceusters says, because each patient's subjective experience of pain is different. Descriptions of pain therefore lack the precision and specificity that is taken for granted with other disorders, where biomarkers or physiological indicators reveal what health-care providers need in order to assess the severity of a particular disorder.
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Ceusters says that in much the same way, definitions of pain and especially of chronic pain need to be much more precise; ontology provides methods of distinguishing among categories and describing data in uniform and formal ways.
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Some obsessive about checking smartphone
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The repetitive and obsessive checking of smartphones for news, e-mail, contacts and social apps is dubbed "checking habits" by U.S. and Finnish researchers.
The study, published in the journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, found a typical checking lasts less than 30 seconds and involves opening the screen lock and accessing a single application.
Antti Oulasvirta of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology says the researchers were surprised to find users engaging in checking behaviors throughout the waking hours and a sizable proportion of smartphone use consists solely of checkings.
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Fast-food study finds calories count for little for most customers
By Sarah Boseley
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Only a minority of people eating at fast-food outlets such as McDonald's or KFC are put off the more fattening options when the menu shows the calories of each meal, research in New York has found.
Some fast-food chains such as McDonald's, Pizza Hut, KFC and YO! Sushi have signed up to the UK government's public health responsibility deal on food, which includes a commitment to labelling their meals with the calories they contain from September. The UK deal is entirely voluntary. In New York, on the other hand, calorie labelling on the menus of fast-food restaurant chains has been compulsory since 2007.
But a study carried out at lunchtime in 11 fast-food chains before and after the New York legislation came in has found that calorie labelling does have an effect – although only on about one in six customers and only in certain food outlets. At McDonald's, KFC and the sandwich store Au Bon Pain, customers cut down on the calories. But overall, there was no reduction in the calorie intake of more than 8,000 customers, and at Subway the calorie intake actually went up by 17.8%.
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Bionic Vision for the Blind
By David Zax
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Blindness isn't a binary thing. For many people, it's a matter of vision impairment—even if that impairment is severe. What if there were a way, though, to somehow translate all the complex, nuanced data in a person's field of vision and reduce it to something that even someone with severe visual impairment could process? A clinical neurologist at Oxford, Stephen Hicks, is working on just that question. The demonstration on his bionic glasses—which include tiny cameras and LED-embedded lenses—was a hit at the Royal Society's recent Summer Science Exhibition.
"The types of poor vision we are talking about are where you might be able to see your own hand moving in front of you, but you can't define the fingers," Hicks recently explained. How could you ever render the visible world useful for such a person? Here's Hicks's vision (so to speak). A pair of glasses would feature tiny cameras on the frames; those cameras would send a live feed to a small pocket computer (like a smart phone), which would extract information from the image—for instance, whether a person or object is nearby, and at what distance. This information can then be translated into a little light show using LED lights embedded on the inside of the lenses. Different light patterns, colors, and intensities might mean different things—a series of dim red lights might indicate a person in the distance, and as the person comes closer, those lights would glow brighter. As relevant technology progresses, the glasses could also do things like scan headlines or read barcodes to retrieve prices.
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China boosts internet surveillance
By Tania Branigan in Beijing
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Police have told cafes, hotels and other businesses in central Beijing to install surveillance technology for Wi-Fi users or face fines and possible closure, in a further tightening of internet controls.
China has the world's largest and most sophisticated web censorship and monitoring system, which it has tightened still further after the Middle Eastern uprisings. Measures included blocking major virtual private networks, which allow people to evade internet controls.
The new software, which costs about 20,000 yuan (£1,900), allows officials to check the identities of users and monitor their activity. Businesses that fail to comply face a fine of the same size and could have their licences revoked.
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Judge Suggests Google's Android was "Brazen" in Infringing Oracle's IP
By Jason Mick
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Oracle Corp.'s (ORCL) efforts to milk billions of dollars in damages out of Google Inc. (GOOG) were likely stymied last Friday, when U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup partially granted a request by Google to throw out Oracle's $2.6B USD in proposed damages.
The suit [Scribd] dates back almost a year to August 12, 2010. Oracle accused Google of infringing upon its intellectual property, based on certain files contained within Google's popular Android operating system. Namely, Android was accused of using source code from the Apache distribution of Java, which did not properly license the Java-related intellectual property of Sun Microsystems. Oracle acquired Sun on January 12, 2010 after a process initiated in April 2009.
Surprisingly, Google did not counter-sue. And Google seemingly admitted to knowing that the Apache code was in violation. However, Google complained that Sun's intellectual property was overly generic and that Sun (and later Oracle) were being anticompetitive in trying to charge prohibitively large licensing fees.
So far, the courts have likely supported Google on the former claim. Approximately 90 percent of the Oracle patents examined were ruled invalid, on par with the standard for patent litigation.
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Cultural |
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A Tradition Shattered: Israelis Play Wagner At Bayreuth
By Robert Siegel
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. . . Wagner's music was the soundtrack to the Holocaust; it was played at Nazi death camps. Advocates of the Israeli ban say it should last until there no more Holocaust survivors alive who might hear it.
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Roberto Paternostro is the conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. He says, "I've always loved the music of Richard Wagner, first when I was a student in Vienna at the Vienna music school, and later when I conducted it a lot."
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The conductor has been described as "a Jew from a family of Holocaust survivors whose grandparents were dispatched to Auschwitz and 80 percent of his family killed." However, some groups of holocaust survivors think he's committed a kind of sacrilege by performing this music, whether in Israel or outside Israel.
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"But in my orchestra," Paternostro explains, "there was a big discussion. We invited people to come speak about the history of Richard Wagner, to explain this history to the orchestra. And the orchestra was really excited to play his music for the first time in their lives."
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Don’t Sell Your Children To Earn Money For Video Games
By Kelly Hodgkins
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We've heard of parents neglecting their kids while engaged in a rousing game of Dungeons & Dragons. And that's awful. But this report from Sanxiang City News defies reason by suggesting parents are selling their children to fund their online gameplay.
The report claims a Chinese couple has sold all three of their children for about RMB 63,000 ($9700) to earn money for online gaming in Internet cafes. They were caught when a grandparent uncovered this money-making scheme and reported it to police.
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