US vessel fires on boat in Gulf, killing one

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The USNS Rappahannock opened fire on a small boat, possibly a pleasure craft, about 10 miles offshore from Dubai in the Persian Gulf, U.S. officials told NBC News.

By Jim Miklaszewski, NBC News chief Pentagon correspondent

WASHINGTON ? U.S. officials tell NBC News that at least one person was killed and three others injured when a U.S. Navy ship, the USNS Rappahannock, opened fire on a small boat about 10 miles offshore from Dubai in the Persian Gulf on Monday.

The U.S. officials say the boat, possibly a pleasure craft, ignored warnings and was closing in on the U.S. Navy supply ship in an "aggressive and threatening manner."

The crew aboard the Navy ship sent out repeated warnings, including radio calls, flashing lights, lasers and ultimately warning shots from a 50-caliber machine gun.? When the boat failed to heed the warnings, the crew was ordered to open fire with the 50-caliber gun.

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According to a press release from the Navy, ?in accordance with Navy force protection procedures, the sailors on the USNS Rappahannock (T-AO 204) used a series of non-lethal, preplanned responses to warn the vessel before resorting to lethal force.?

U.S. officials say as of now it's unclear whether the dead and injured are from the United Arab Emirates or India, but they stress there is no indication that Iran or Iranians were in anyway involved in Monday's incident.

A potential showdown is looming over Iran's nuclear program after word that Tehran's new bargaining position could split Israel and the United States. The Washington Post's David Ignatius reports.

A U.S. Navy investigation is under way.

Iran: We can destroy US bases 'minutes after attack'?

Rising tensions
The Pentagon also announced Monday that it is sending the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis to the Persian Gulf region ? four months earlier than previously scheduled. The Stennis strike group, which also includes the Aegis guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay and some 5,500 sailors, will also be on an eight month deployment ? twice as long as the group was originally scheduled to be deployed.?

This major shift in the Stennis deployment is a response to the steadily rising tensions over Iran's nuclear program, Iran's threat to shut down the Strait of Hormuz over tighter international sanctions, and the possibility that Israel may launch preemptive airstrikes against Iran's nuclear facility.

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The shift and extension of the Stennis deployment will allow CENTCOM to keep two aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf region, Gulf of Oman and North Arabian Sea, not only as a hedge against Iran, but to support combat air operations over Afghanistan.

The aircraft Carrier USS Lincoln left the Persian Gulf area Monday.

Aircraft carrier USS Stennis going to Persian Gulf early, staying longer

The carriers Enterprise and Eisenhower will remain in the region until the Stennis relieves the Enterprise about five months from now.???

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?NBC News' Jim?Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube at the Pentagon, and The Associated Press?contributed?to this report.

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Artificial pores mimic key features of natural pores

ScienceDaily (July 17, 2012) ? Inspired by nature, an international research team has created synthetic pores that mimic the activity of cellular ion channels, which play a vital role in human health by severely restricting the types of materials allowed to enter cells.

The pores the scientists built are permeable to potassium ions and water, but not to other ions such as sodium and lithium ions.

This kind of extreme selectivity, while prominent in nature, is unprecedented for a synthetic structure, said University at Buffalo chemistry professor Bing Gong, PhD, who led the study.

The project's success lays the foundation for an array of exciting new technologies. In the future, scientists could use such highly discerning pores to purify water, kill tumors, or otherwise treat disease by regulating the substances inside of cells.

"The idea for this research originated from the biological world, from our hope to mimic biological structures, and we were thrilled by the results," Gong said. "We have created the first quantitatively confirmed synthetic water channel. Few synthetic pores are so highly selective."

The research will appear July 17 in Nature Communications. The information in this release is embargoed until Tuesday, July 17 at 11 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time.

The study's lead authors are Xibin Zhou of Beijing Normal University; Guande Liu of Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Kazuhiro Yamato, postdoctoral scientist at UB; and Yi Shen of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Other institutions that contributed to the work include the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Argonne National Laboratory. Frank Bright, a SUNY Distinguished Professor of chemistry at UB, assisted with spectroscopic studies.

To create the synthetic pores, the researchers developed a method to force donut-shaped molecules called rigid macrocycles to pile on top of one another. The scientists then stitched these stacks of molecules together using hydrogen bonding. The resulting structure was a nanotube with a pore less than a nanometer in diameter.

"This nanotube can be viewed as a stack of many, many rings," said Xiao Cheng Zeng, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ameritas University Professor of Chemistry, and one of the study's senior authors. "The rings come together through a process called self-assembly, and it's very precise. It's the first synthetic nanotube that has a very uniform diameter. It's actually a sub-nanometer tube. It's about 8.8 angstroms." (One angstrom is one-10th of a nanometer, which is one-billionth of a meter.)

The next step in the research is to tune the structure of the pores to allow different materials to selectively pass through, and to figure out what qualities govern the transport of materials through the pores, Gong said.

The research was funded largely by the National Science Foundation, and X-ray work was done at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.

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How to walk on water

Secrets of cornstarch fluid unveiled

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Dump enough cornstarch into a swimming pool, and you can walk across the water?s surface. Scientists have now revealed the secret of this YouTube party trick.

When struck by a foot, the particles suspended in the water jam together like snow piling up in front of a snowplow. The compaction forms a hard patch that can push back with the same amount of bone-crushing pressure concentrated at the tip of a high heel, researchers report in the July 12 Nature.

?If you were to punch the suspension, you might break your wrist,? says Scott Waitukaitis, a physicist at the University of Chicago who was inspired to study the goop after watching videos of people running on top of it.

Water added to equal or larger quantities of cornstarch has long been a staple of science fair demos, thanks to the mixture?s Jekyll-and-Hyde personality. A non-Newtonian fluid, it doesn?t behave like regular liquids. A hand eased into it slides in gently, without much resistance. But smack the surface hard, and it smacks back.

To understand the forces at work, the researchers struck the mix soundly with a metal rod and monitored the repercussions. Previous experiments had rubbed the material between two plates instead ? a common technique for testing the properties of liquids, but one that shears the fluid sideways instead of producing a direct impact.?

X-rays of the opaque muck revealed how the stuff moved beneath the surface. Simulations based on the data suggested that the initial impact squeezed water out of the spaces between the particles. Friction between the particles then took over. They stuck together in an expanding front that behaved like a solid, pushing back against the rod.

?I was not extremely surprised by the results,? says Daniel Bonn, a physicist at the University of Amsterdam who suspected a similar mechanism after shooting bullets into cornstarch suspensions. ?But the experiment was interesting because they?re able to look inside the cornstarch as it thickens.?

Both Bonn and Waitukaitis hope that understanding how cornstarch behaves will help other researchers who are trying to make ?liquid? body armor by soaking Kevlar in similar suspensions. But they both caution that what happens in one suspension may not happen in another.

Despite decades of study, no one yet understands why cornstarch thickens when perturbed but quicksand and ketchup thin, even though all are simply particles suspended in liquids.

An aluminum rod striking a mix of cornstarch and water fails to penetrate as particles in the ooze jam together like snow compacted by a plow.
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In Proposed Small-Business Rules, Big Seems to Be the New Small ...

The Agenda

How small-business issues are shaping politics and policy.

When Congress passed a law late last year reauthorizing the Small Business Innovation Research program after a long fight, many small-business advocates weren?t exactly thrilled ? the new law made controversial changes that explicitly opened the program to companies backed by venture capital and other investment funds. But these advocates were willing to accept the changes because the new law would bring stability to the program for five years. Now the Small Business Administration has stirred fresh outrage by proposing new rules that allow foreign companies into the program for the first time and create a loophole that could open it to big businesses as well.

The changes would be adopted as part of proposed regulations putting the law into effect. But the changes seem to run contrary to the explicit intent of Congress, which said in the law that it expected the S.B.A. to draft regulations that ?preserve and maintain the integrity of the S.B.I.R. program as a program for small-business concerns in the United States by prohibiting large businesses or large entities or foreign-owned businesses or foreign-owned entities from participation in the program.?

The S.B.I.R. program directs 11 government agencies that spend more than $100 million on research grants to set aside 2.5 percent of that pool for companies with fewer than 500 employees ? companies like?Qualcomm and Symantec, both of which won grants in their formative years. In the 30 years the program has been on the books, it has won a reputation as an effective tool for spurring technological advances. In 2010, S.B.I.R. awards totaled $2.2 billion, according to the S.B.A.

Under the new law, a small business in which a group of funds together own a majority stake can now compete for up to 25 percent of S.B.I.R. grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, and up to 15 percent at the eight other agencies. The law directed the S.B.A. to write rules that would define eligibility requirements specifically for fund-controlled companies applying for an S.B.I.R. grant under the new law?s terms.

Instead, the S.B.A. rewrote the eligibility requirements for all applicants competing for all S.B.I.R. grants, and also extended them to a separate, smaller initiative, the Small Business Technology Transfer program. Where the existing rules require that an applicant to either program be majority-owned by an American person or company, or a permanent resident, the proposed new rules eliminate that requirement by creating a new type of eligible company: the ?domestic business concern.? A domestic business concern must be organized in the United States and primarily operate here, but it need not be majority-owned by American citizens or permanent residents. The S.B.A. said that it considered making ownership requirements part of the definition of a domestic business concern but concluded that this would place ?an extra burden on the small business and an added complexity that is not necessary.?

The proposed changes also loosen the rules defining when a minority investor effectively controls a company ? rules that help the S.B.A. determine whether an applicant is a small business. For the S.B.I.R. program, the S.B.A. adds up the employees at all of a business? affiliates when calculating its size, and a company that controls another is deemed an affiliate. Currently, when no owner has a majority stake, the S.B.A. determines who controls the company on a case-by-case basis. The proposal would establish a clear-cut rule: if there?s no majority stake, the board controls the company. In most cases, the company will be deemed not to have any affiliates that might make it too big for a grant.

This, says Bob Clarkson, a lawyer in the Palo Alto, Calif., office of the law firm Jones Day, opens the door to big companies getting grants intended for small businesses. Mr. Clarkson points out that a minority shareholder with a stake as small as 25 percent can very easily control a board even if it does not formally control a majority of the seats, especially when its holdings dwarf the other shareholders. ?In a widely dispersed group of stockholders, lots of times, not all the stockholders vote,? he said. ?And it?s not that hard for the stockholder to find two or three other stockholders to line up with them.? In other words, if the new rules are adopted, large companies could effectively win S.B.I.R. grants through their smaller, unacknowledged, affiliates.

?Within 30 days of enactment, there will be articles telling big businesses and foreign companies how to get around the rules,? said Jere Glover, executive director of the Small Business Technology Council, an advocacy group affiliated with the National Small Business Association, and a top S.B.A. official in the Clinton administration.

The S.B.A. official responsible for drafting the regulations, Sean Greene, said in an interview the agency fully intended to comply with the wishes of Congress. But he said that not expanding the new rules to the entire program would give an edge to companies majority-owned by investment funds.

As for domestic business concerns, Mr. Greene said the agency had to make an exception to the ban on majority foreign ownership so funds with overseas investors could participate under the new law. ?What?s very clear in all of this is that the people actually receiving the awards have to be U.S.-based businesses doing the bulk of the research in the United States,? Mr. Greene said. Moreover, there?s nothing to keep an American-owned grant winner from licensing its government-funded invention to a foreign manufacturer.

But Mr. Glover said that if foreign-owned or big businesses did get into the program, it would do more damage than simply cheating legitimate small companies out of grant opportunities ? it could cast doubt on the program?s integrity. ?My worst nightmare is if a reauthorization fight occurs again, and some good reporter finds one or two examples of a foreign-owned firm taking millions of federal R&D dollars, developing a technology and taking the product back to their country of origin to manufacture the product, and create jobs overseas, that will hurt the reputation of the program,? he said. ?Likewise, when you allow big business to participate, that will also leave a black mark on the program.?

Mr. Glover said that should the rules allowing foreign-owned and big companies into the program become final, they would be vulnerable to a legal challenge. But, he said, he believes that it is ?inconceivable? that S.B.A. and the White House will let that happen. And in fact, several times in a long conversation, the S.B.A.?s Mr. Greene emphasized that these are proposed rules ? and that the agency was eager for feedback from interested parties. ?If we missed anything, if this is wrong, identify your concerns,? he said. ?But more importantly, give us concrete, specific input on how we should fix it.? Interested parties have until July 16 ? Monday ? to submit a comment.

The S.B.A. is required to issue final regulations by the end of the year.

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Study: Parents pulling back on college spending

CHICAGO (AP) ? Families have implemented more cost-saving strategies to cut college spending in the past academic year, choosing less expensive schools and finding more economical ways for students to attend.

More students also are living at home in order to help afford college, according to new survey results.

The findings are from an annual study released Monday by Sallie Mae, the country's largest student lender.

They show that the average amount spent on college by families responding to the survey declined by 5 percent in the 2011-12 school year. More parents and students alike said they make their college decisions based on the cost they can afford to pay than in the previous four studies.

"This really reflects the economic conditions that we see today," said Sarah Ducich, senior vice president at Sallie Mae. "We are seeing families make adjustments, saving more money and being more cost-conscious."

The survey, conducted for Sallie Mae by the Ipsos polling firm, was based on telephone interviews in April and May with 1,601 college undergraduates and parents.

Parents spent an average $5,955 on college from their income and savings, results showed. That was down from $6,664 a year earlier and $8,752 the year before. They also borrowed slightly more ? $1,832 compared with $1,573 in the 2010-11 survey ? although that was still less than they did two years ago.

Students took on more of the burden by digging deeper into their own funds. They spent an average $2,555 on college from their savings and income in the last academic year, up from $1,944 the previous year. But their spending wasn't enough to make up for cutbacks by their parents.

All told, parents funded 37 percent of college costs through spending or borrowing, down from 47 percent two years ago. Students accounted for 30 percent; grants and scholarships footed 29 percent; and relatives and friends paid for 4 percent, according to the survey.

Just over half of the students in the survey lived at home while they attended college this year, up almost 9 percent from a year ago. Most of that increase was accounted for by families with income of more than $100,000.

A shift toward two-year colleges also was evident for a second straight year, Salllie Mae said. Respondents included 29 percent who attended two-year public schools, up from 21 percent the previous year.

"American families are frustrated by the cost but they're being creative and employing different solutions to make sure their students can go to college," said Ipsos pollster and managing director Clifford Young.

The survey also found a decline in credit card use among college undergrads since the Credit Card Act took effect 2? years ago. That legislation barred those under age 21 from having credit cards without a qualified co-signer or proof of sufficient income to repay the debt.

Although few used them to pay for college costs, 35 percent of students owned a credit card this academic year. That was down from 42 percent in 2010, the first year the survey asked about credit cards. The median outstanding balance was $196.

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10 things you need to know today: July 15, 2012

The Red Cross says Syria is now in civil war, Oprah sits down with the Romneys, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion

1. RED CROSS: SYRIA NOW IN FULL-BLOWN CIVIL WAR
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Sunday that it considers Syria to be in a full-blown civil war, meaning that international humanitarian laws now apply throughout the country. The law gives parties to a conflict the right to use "appropriate force" to achieve their goals, and also gives them a reference point from which to determine how much and what type of force to use. The assessment could also create a basis for war crimes prosecutions, especially if civilians are attacked or detainees are abused or killed. Meanwhile, the Syrian government denied Sunday that it had used tanks and helicopters to attack the village of Tremseh in the Hama province on Thursday. Activists reported mass civilian killings in the town, but a government spokesman said two civilians were killed. U.N. observers are in Tremseh investigating the event. [Christian Science Monitor, Voice of America]
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2. OPRAH WINFREY INTERVIEWS THE ROMNEYS
Reports over the weekend confirmed that Oprah Winfrey interviewed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife Ann at their New Hampshire home on Friday. The interview is set to be published in O, The Oprah Magazine. Winfrey is one of President Obama's highest-profile supporter, having stumped for him in 2007, and raising money for his campaign. Earlier this year she said she would not be returning to the trail for Obama because she is busy working on her OWN network. [CBS News]
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3.?AFGHAN SUICIDE BOMB KILLS PROMINENT MP
A well-known Afghan lawmaker, Ahmad Khan Samangani, was killed along with 20 other people at his daughter's wedding in the northern province of Samangan following a suicide attack. The bomber posed as a guest and hugged Samangani before detonating his explosives, which also injured 40 people. The Taliban has denied responsibility for the assault. President Hamid Karzai appointed a team to investigate the killings. [BBC]
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4. RIM LIABLE FOR $147M IN PATENT CASE
A federal jury has ordered Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) to pay $147.2 million in damages to Mformation Technologies Inc for patent infringement. Mformation, of Edison, N.J., sued RIM in October 2008, alleging that it had infringed on an invention for remotely managing wireless devices. Mformation's software allows companies to access employee cell phones for upgrades, to change passwords, or to wipe data from stolen phones. [USA Today]
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5.?GROUP RECOMMENDS ANNUAL PTSD TESTS FOR TROOPS
The Institute of Medicine has recommended that military service members be screened every year for post-traumatic stress disorder, and that the government conduct more research to find out how well various treatments are working. Of the 2.6 million service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, an estimated 13 to 20 percent have symptoms of PTSD, but barely more than half of those affected are ever treated. [Associated Press]
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6.?RETAILERS WIN $7.25B CREDIT CARD FEE SUIT
A settlement, on behalf of 7 million retailers, requires Visa, Mastercard, and 13 of the country's biggest banks to pay $7.25 billion to settle accusations by retailers that the banks engaged in price-fixing on credit-card transaction fees. The case could be the largest antitrust class-action settlement in U.S. history, and is expected to alter the price structure around credit cards. The banks are expected to appeal. [Knight Ridder/Tribune]
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7. SPACE WORKERS STRUGGLE TO FIND WORK
A year after NASA ended the Space Shuttle program, thousands of Kennedy Space Center workers in Florida are struggling to find jobs. More than 7,400 people lost their jobs in the shutdown. Some of the former NASA employees who have been able to find work have gone to South Carolina to build airplanes, or have taken lower-paying, lower-skilled jobs in Florida to avoid relocation. [Associated Press]
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8. BEAUTY PRODUCTS MAY UP DIABETES RISK?
A new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives suggests that chemicals in beauty and personal care products may boost women's risk of diabetes. After testing the urine of 2,350 women, researchers found that elevated levels of phthalates ? hormone-disrupting chemicals found in soaps, nail polishes, hair sprays, moisturizers, and perfumes ? are associated with an increased risk of developing diabetes. Scientists warned that the study did not prove a direct cause-and-effect relationship, but did call this "an important first step in exploring the connection between phthalates and diabetes." [Health Day]
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9. SAGE STALLONE DEATH LIKELY AN ACCIDENT
A lawyer for Sage Stallone, one of actor Sylvester Stallone's sons, says that his client likely died of an accidental overdose. The 36-year-old's body was found in his Los Angeles home on Friday just days before he was to marry his longtime girlfriend. No suicide note was found near Sage's body, and his attorney said there was "no indication that there was anything wrong in [Sage's] life."?[Daily News]
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10. VIDEO SPOTS HARD-TO-FIND SNOW LEOPARD DEN
A video has surfaced of two snow leopards with their cubs in a den in Mongolia, a finding that's an important step in learning more about the reproductive behavior and the young of the endangered species. Snow leopard dens are difficult to find because of the animals' secretive, elusive nature and the difficult, mountainous terrain in which they live. [MSNBC]

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Football: Blatter defends stance on bribes case

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has defended his stance on bribery after Swiss court documents accused his predecessor Joao Havelange of taking bribes.

Blatter, who succeeded Havelange as the head of world football's governing body in 1998, insisted in midweek he did not have the power to punish Havelange after the accusations against the Brazilian.

Court documents released revealed that Havelange, now 96 and FIFA president for 24 years before Blatter replaced him, pocketed at least 1.5m Swiss francs (?986,000) and FIFA executive committee member Ricardo Teixeira at least 12.74m.

The bribes, made by International Sport and Leisure (ISL), were detailed in documents made public by Switzerland's supreme court and published by the BBC on Wednesday.

FIFA's discredited Swiss-based marketing partner collapsed in 2001 with debts of around $300 million.

Blatter insisted Thursday he was powerless to sanction his predecessor and added that such payments were not illegal under Swiss law at the time.

On Saturday, Blatter told Swiss newspaper Sonntagsblick in an interview for publication Sunday: "I did not know until later, after the collapse of ISL in 2001, about the bribery.

"When I now say that it is difficult to measure the past by today's standards, this is a generic statement. To me bribery is unacceptable and I neither tolerate nor seek to justify bribery. But this is what I am accused of now.

"The Swiss Federal Court has this week proven wrong all those people, who for years have accused me of having taken bribes.

"Now it is on record what I have always said: I have never taken nor received any bribes. Now the same people are trying to attack me from a different angle: Okay, he has not taken any bribes but he must have known.

"Once again I only knew after the collapse of ISL years later. And this is because we instigated the whole matter. The people who attack me now know this is the case but still they persist. They want me out."

Earlier Saturday, the German football federation (DBF) expressed dismay over the whole issue, which it deemed portrayed Blatter in a negative light.

DFB chairman Wolfgang Niersbach said he was "shocked" at Blatter's comments about the payments not being illegal under Swiss law at the time.

"The reaction of the president of FIFA shocked me. If FIFA people, and not the lowest among them, received money and the response is that that this was not illegal at the time then we at the DFB can only distance ourselves," Niersbach said on the sidelines of a meeting of Bundesliga referees.

Responding to comments from Bundesliga chairman Reinhard Rauball, who wants Blatter to resign, Nirsbach said: "That is a decision for him."

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African Union Seeks Way Forward on Mali Crisis

African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping says the crisis in Mali is one of the biggest threats to regional stability. A.U. heads of state met in Addis Ababa Saturday to consider efforts to resolve the situation in Mali and other regional conflicts.
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Mali topped the agenda at an A.U. Peace and Security Council meeting in the Ethiopian capital, ahead of an A.U. summit.
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At the start of the closed-door meeting, A.U. Commission Chairman Ping stressed the urgency of stabilizing the country.
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?The situation in Mali is one of the most serious we are confronting on the continent,? he said. ?It's persistence is posing a threat to the viability of the state of Mali and the stability and security of the region,? said Ping.
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Islamist militants have seized control of towns in northern Mali, in the wake of a political rebellion launched by Tuareg separatists.
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The militant groups have carried out severe beatings in towns under their control, and have destroyed ancient Muslim shrines they claim are sacrilegious.
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The African Union is working with the western regional bloc ECOWAS to support Mali's interim government, installed after a March 22 coup, and to discuss options for confronting the Islamist insurgency.
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ECOWAS is considering a military intervention by African forces, and is awaiting a formal request by the Malian government and official backing from the United Nations Security Council.
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In prepared remarks for the A.U. Peace and Security Council meeting, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said military action ?should only be considered if all avenues for dialogue have been exhausted.?
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Chairman Ping said the council is also reviewing progress in negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan on disputes left unresolved following their separation last year.
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He said progress in talks has been ?slow and uneven? but added he was pleased by the willingness of both sides to return to dialogue in a ?spirit of partnership.?
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Negotiators from the two countries resumed talks Thursday on security and border issues, but have so far failed to reach agreement.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir both attended Saturday's meeting.

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It's Now L-E-G-A-L To Hands-Free Text And Drive In California ...

LOS ANGELES (CBS) ? While it is still officially illegal to text or email while driving in California, there?s now a high-tech catch.

Lawmakers in Sacramento just updated the rules to allow hands-free texting while driving, reports Carter Evans for CBS2 and KCAL9.

While it doesn?t matter what device you use as long as it can take dictation and read text back, you can still get pulled over for distracted driving.

Take an experienced tip from CHP Officer Andre de Los Reyes, who has seen it all behind the wheel: De Los Reyes says he doesn?t have to see what you?re doing inside your car to know if you?re distracted.

?Applying make-up, shaving, brushing their teeth even,? he said.

State Assembly member Jeff Miller from Orange County sponsored the voice texting bill, citing that since Californians spend so much time on the road, it?s not fair to keep them out of touch for too long.

Miller says this new law ?will allow Californians to communicate safely and responsibly while on the road? thanks to technology.

Not everyone is so sure.

?Even though it may be less distracting than typing, it?s still a distraction and you can still have accidents,? said motorist Samantha Harper.

Dr. Richard Krop agrees and says he always pulls over when he needs to text or talk. Early on in his career, he saw many distracted drivers end up in hospital emergency rooms.

?It?s a matter of just missing something over a split second,? he said. ?Someone hits the brakes ahead of you and you?re not paying attention, that?s all it takes.?

Last August, a young driver who was charged with killing an elderly pedestrian in Glendale while she was texting pleaded no contest to gross vehicular manslaughter.

According to a survey released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in June, 58 percent of high school seniors said they had texted or emailed while driving during the previous month.

Source: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/07/13/its-now-l-e-g-a-l-to-hands-free-text-and-drive-in-california/

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Flipbook alternatives for Android Tablets

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I like flipbook on my Android phone, because in collects and mixes popular news coming from different sources like twitter, facebook, news feeds, ..
It's also very fast and has a decent layout.
But its not available for Android tablets ;-(

I tried Currents, Pulse and Tapto, but all lack the possibility to mix social feeds and news feeds.

Any alternatives?

Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1772801&goto=newpost

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Want to lose weight? Keep a food journal, don't skip meals and avoid going out to lunch

Want to lose weight? Keep a food journal, don't skip meals and avoid going out to lunch

Friday, July 13, 2012

Women who want to lose weight should faithfully keep a food journal, and avoid skipping meals and eating in restaurants ? especially at lunch ? suggests new research from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

The findings by Anne McTiernan, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues ? from the first study to look at the impact of a wide range of self-monitoring and diet-related behaviors and meal patterns on weight change among overweight and obese postmenopausal women ? are published online in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the Journal of the American Dietetic Association).

"When it comes to weight loss, evidence from randomized, controlled trials comparing different diets finds that restricting total calories is more important than diet composition such as low-fat versus low-carbohydrate. Therefore, the specific aim of our study was to identify behaviors that supported the global goal of calorie reduction," McTiernan said.

Specifically, McTiernan and colleagues found that:

• Women who kept food journals consistently lost about 6 pounds more than those who did not
• Women who reported skipping meals lost almost 8 fewer pounds than women who did not
• Women who ate out for lunch at least weekly lost on average 5 fewer pounds than those who ate out less frequently (eating out often at all meal times was associated with less weight loss, but the strongest association was observed with lunch)

"For individuals who are trying to lose weight, the No. 1 piece of advice based on these study results would be to keep a food journal to help meet daily calorie goals. It is difficult to make changes to your diet when you are not paying close attention to what you are eating," said McTiernan, director of the Hutchinson Center's Prevention Center and a member of its Public Health Sciences Division.

Study participants were given the following tips for keeping a food journal:

• Be honest ? record everything you eat
• Be accurate ? measure portions, read labels
• Be complete ? include details such as how the food was prepared, and the addition of any toppings or condiments
• Be consistent ? always carry your food diary with you or use a diet-tracking application on your smart phone

"While the study provided a printed booklet for the women to record their food and beverage consumption, a food journal doesn't have to be anything fancy," McTiernan said. "Any notebook or pad of paper that is easily carried or an online program that can be accessed any time through a smart phone or tablet should work fine."

In addition to documenting every morsel that passes one's lips, another good weight-loss strategy is to eat at regular intervals and avoid skipping meals. "The mechanism is not completely clear, but we think that skipping meals or fasting might cause you to respond more favorably to high-calorie foods and therefore take in more calories overall," she said. "We also think skipping meals might cluster together with other behaviors. For instance, the lack of time and effort spent on planning and preparing meals may lead a person to skip meals and/or eat out more."

Eating out frequently, another factor associated with less weight loss, may be a barrier for making healthful dietary choices. "Eating in restaurants usually means less individual control over ingredients and cooking methods, as well as larger portion sizes," the authors wrote.

The analysis was based on data from 123 overweight-to-obese, sedentary, Seattle-area women, ages 50 to 75, who were randomly assigned to two arms of a controlled, randomized year-long dietary weight-loss intervention study: diet only and exercise plus diet. Study participants filled out a series of questionnaires to assess dietary intake, eating-related weight-control strategies, self-monitoring behaviors and meal patterns. They were also asked to complete a 120-item food-frequency questionnaire to assess dietary change from the beginning to the end of the study.

At the end of the study, participants in both arms lost an average of 10 percent of their starting weight, which was the goal of the intervention.

"We think our findings are promising because it shows that basic strategies such as maintaining food journals, eating out less often and eating at regular intervals are simple tools that postmenopausal women ? a group commonly at greater risk for weight gain ? can use to help them lose weight successfully," McTiernan said.

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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: http://www.fhcrc.org

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