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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Taste preference changes in different life stages of rats
[unable to retrieve full-text content]In humans and animals aging decreases dietary and energy requirements and it is generally believed that reduced consumption is related to alterations in taste preference. However, the mechanisms underlying an age-induced shift in taste preference remain unclear. Thus, the researchers investigated differences in fluid intake and taste nerve responses across different age groups of rats.
Guided growth of nanowires leads to self-integrated circuits
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Teaching nanowires self-control from the outset enabled scientists to produce complex electronic nanocomponents.
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Pentagon: Adult magazines ok for military bases; don't meet standards for 'indecent material'
A top Pentagon official, answering a question from an anti-pornography group, says adult magazines are allowed for sale on military installations because they do not meet the definition of "indecent material."
According to a story in The Military Times, Frederick Vollrath, assistant secretary of defense for readiness and force management, in response to a complaint from Morality in Media, said publications such as Playboy, Penthouse and Nude, do not meet the federal definition of indecent material, and are thus allowed for sale on Department of Defense property.
Morality in Media released the response letter from Vollrath, saying his response ?would be hilarious if it were not so tragic.? The group said it does not understand ?why the Pentagon will continue to sell porn magazines despite being in the midst of its unprecedented sexual exploitation scandal.?
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Offspring of mothers stressed during pregnancy with a passive stress coping style more prone to obesity
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Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior
7/30/13, New Orleans, LA. Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, shows that passively coping offspring of mothers stressed during their pregnancy were at risk to develop obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Previous research in rodents suggested that both prenatal stress exposure and passive stress coping style might predispose offspring to develop type 2 diabetes later in life. Passive stress coping is typically seen in more introverted personality types whereas, proactive stress coping is typically seen in more extroverted personalities. The research team at Johns Hopkins exposed pregnant rats to different stressors during the third week of their pregnancy. The study found there was a difference in risk for diabetes and obesity in offspring from stressed mothers depending on the coping style of the offspring. Stressed dams' offspring that had been characterized by a passive stress coping style, showed increased weight gain and developed impaired glucose tolerance, an early indicator of diabetes, whereas prenatally stressed offspring characterized by proactive stress coping did not.
Lead investigator Gretha Boersma says: "These results may imply that in our efforts to prevent obesity and its associated disorders we need to advise pregnant women to reduce stress exposure during their pregnancy. In addition, these data may lead to the identification of at-risk offspring by looking at their stress coping style and prenatal environment, and then tailoring a prevention strategy accordingly."
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Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior
7/30/13, New Orleans, LA. Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, shows that passively coping offspring of mothers stressed during their pregnancy were at risk to develop obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Previous research in rodents suggested that both prenatal stress exposure and passive stress coping style might predispose offspring to develop type 2 diabetes later in life. Passive stress coping is typically seen in more introverted personality types whereas, proactive stress coping is typically seen in more extroverted personalities. The research team at Johns Hopkins exposed pregnant rats to different stressors during the third week of their pregnancy. The study found there was a difference in risk for diabetes and obesity in offspring from stressed mothers depending on the coping style of the offspring. Stressed dams' offspring that had been characterized by a passive stress coping style, showed increased weight gain and developed impaired glucose tolerance, an early indicator of diabetes, whereas prenatally stressed offspring characterized by proactive stress coping did not.
Lead investigator Gretha Boersma says: "These results may imply that in our efforts to prevent obesity and its associated disorders we need to advise pregnant women to reduce stress exposure during their pregnancy. In addition, these data may lead to the identification of at-risk offspring by looking at their stress coping style and prenatal environment, and then tailoring a prevention strategy accordingly."
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Simulations aiding study of earthquake dampers for structures
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers have demonstrated the reliability and efficiency of "real-time hybrid simulation" for testing a type of powerful damping system that might be installed in buildings and bridges to reduce structural damage and injuries during earthquakes.
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Bradley Manning acquitted of aiding the enemy
FILE - In this Monday, July 29, 2013, file photo, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted to a security vehicle outside of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md. U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted Tuesday, July 30, 2013, of aiding the enemy for giving classified secrets to WikiLeaks. The military judge hearing the case, Army Col. Denise Lind, announced the verdict. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
FILE - In this Monday, July 29, 2013, file photo, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted to a security vehicle outside of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md. U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted Tuesday, July 30, 2013, of aiding the enemy for giving classified secrets to WikiLeaks. The military judge hearing the case, Army Col. Denise Lind, announced the verdict. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, left, is escorted to a security vehicle outside of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Monday, July 29, 2013, after the third day of deliberations in his court martial. Manning faces charges including aiding the enemy, espionage, computer fraud and theft for admittedly sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents and some battlefield video to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted to a security vehicle outside of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Monday, July 29, 2013, after the third day of deliberations in his court martial. Manning faces charges including aiding the enemy, espionage, computer fraud and theft for admittedly sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents and some battlefield video to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, right, is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Tuesday, July 30, 2013, before a hearing in his court martial. The military judge hearing Manning's trial is expected to announce her decision Tuesday afternoon. Manning faces 21 counts including espionage, computer fraud and theft charges, but the most serious is aiding the enemy, which carries a possible life sentence. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) ? More than three years after U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was arrested for giving classified secrets to WikiLeaks, a military judge acquitted the former intelligence analyst Tuesday of aiding the enemy but convicted him of espionage, theft and computer fraud charges.
The judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, deliberated for about 16 hours over three days before reaching her decision in a case that drew worldwide attention as supporters hailed Manning as a whistleblower. The U.S. government called him an anarchist computer hacker and attention-seeking traitor.
Manning stood and faced the judge as she read the decision. She didn't explain her verdict, but said she would release detailed written findings. She didn't say when she would do that.
The charge of aiding the enemy was the most serious of 21 counts Manning faced and carried a potential life sentence. His sentencing hearing on the convictions begins Wednesday. He faces up to 128 years in prison.
Manning's court-martial was unusual because he acknowledged giving the anti-secrecy website more than 700,000 battlefield reports and diplomatic cables, and video of a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack that killed civilians in Iraq, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver. In the footage, airmen laughed and called targets "dead bastards."
Manning pleaded guilty earlier this year to lesser offenses that could have brought him 20 years behind bars, yet the government continued to pursue the original, more serious charges.
Manning said during a pre-trial hearing in February he leaked the material to expose the U.S military's "bloodlust" and disregard for human life, and what he considered American diplomatic deceit. He said he chose information he believed would not the harm the United States and he wanted to start a debate on military and foreign policy. He did not testify at his court-martial.
Defense attorney David Coombs portrayed Manning as a "young, naive but good-intentioned" soldier who was in emotional turmoil, partly because he was a gay service member at a time when homosexuals were barred from serving openly in the U.S. military.
He said Manning could have sold the information or given it directly to the enemy, but he gave them to WikiLeaks in an attempt to "spark reform" and provoke debate. A counterintelligence witness valued the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs at about $5.7 million, based on what foreign intelligence services had paid in the past for similar information.
Coombs said Manning had no way of knowing whether al-Qaida would access the secret-spilling website and a 2008 counterintelligence report showed the government itself didn't know much about the site.
The defense attorney also mocked the testimony of a former supervisor who said Manning told her the American flag meant nothing to him and she suspected before they deployed to Iraq that Manning was a spy. Coombs noted she had not written up a report on Manning's alleged disloyalty, though had written ones on him taking too many smoke breaks and drinking too much coffee.
The government said Manning had sophisticated security training and broke signed agreements to protect the secrets. He even had to give a presentation on operational security during his training after he got in trouble for posting a YouTube video about what he was learning.
The lead prosecutor, Maj. Ashden Fein, said Manning knew the material would be seen by al-Qaida, a key point prosecutor needed to prove to get an aiding the enemy conviction. Even Osama bin Laden had some of the digital files at his compound when he was killed.
Some of Manning's supporters attended nearly every day of two-month trial, many of them protesting outside the Fort Meade gates each day before the court-martial. They wore T-shirts with the word "truth" on them, blogged, tweeted and raised money for Manning's defense. One supporter was banned from the trial because the judge said he made online threats.
Hours before the verdict, about two dozen demonstrators gathered outside the gates of the military post, proclaiming their admiration for Manning.
"He wasn't trying to aid the enemy. He was trying to give people the information they need so they can hold their government accountable," said Barbara Bridges, of Baltimore.
The court-martial unfolded as another low-level intelligence worker, Edward Snowden, revealed U.S. secrets about surveillance programs. Snowden, a civilian employee, told The Guardian his motives were similar to Manning's, but he said his leaks were more selective.
Manning's supporters believed a conviction for aiding the enemy would have a chilling effect on leakers who want to expose wrongdoing by giving information to websites and the media.
Before Snowden, Manning's case was the most high-profile espionage prosecution for the Obama administration, which has been criticized for its crackdown on leakers. The espionage cases brought since Obama took office are more than in all other presidencies combined.
The WikiLeaks case is by far the most voluminous release of classified material in U.S. history. Manning's supporters included Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, who in the early 1970s spilled a secret Defense Department history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
The 7,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers showed that the U.S. government repeatedly misled the public about the Vietnam War.
The material WikiLeaks began publishing in 2010 documented complaints of abuses against Iraqi detainees, a U.S. tally of civilian deaths in Iraq, and America's weak support for the government of Tunisia ? a disclosure that Manning supporters said helped trigger the Middle Eastern pro-democracy uprisings known as the Arab Spring.
The Obama administration said the release threatened to expose valuable military and diplomatic sources and strained America's relations with other governments.
Prosecutors said during the trial Manning relied on WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange for guidance on what secrets to "harvest" for the organization, starting within weeks of his arrival in Iraq in late 2009.
Federal authorities are looking into whether Assange can be prosecuted. He has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex-crimes allegations.
Associated PressTuesday, July 30, 2013
Android 4.3 supports TRIM, improves performance on Nexus devices
It's no secret that many Android phones and tablets show a decrease in performance over time. Nexus devices are not immune -- it's particularly noticeable with the original Nexus 7. Our friend Brian Klug over at AnandTech discovered an interesting tidbit while testing the new and improved Nexus 7: Android 4.3 supports TRIM. What this means is that Google's mobile OS can now instruct the flash storage controller when to collect / recycle unused data pages / blocks. The net result is that devices running Android 4.3 will no longer become sluggish with time -- in fact, existing Nexus handsets and tablets will see performance improve after the update. It also looks like Jelly Bean invokes TRIM maintenance once within a 24-hour window (after one hour of inactivity), and only if the battery is 80% full (30% when charging). Follow the source link below for all the details.
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The Rookies: Why Falcons Rookie Is the Most Compelling Story in NFL
There's a documentary being produced about his life story. He was featured on CNN, 60 Minutes and many other news magazine shows.
It's hard to ever get over the Brian Banks story.
In case you don't know, Banks was a standout athlete at Poly High School in Long Beach, Calif., back in 2002. The 6'4", 225-pound linebacker committed to USC with Pete Carroll.
Everything was looking up until a classmate falsely accused Banks of rape. He faced a possible 41-year sentence but eventually agreed to a plea deal of five years' prison time, probation and being a registered sex offender.
In 2012, his accuser was secretly recorded admitting to her lie. The courts set Banks free. He was exonerated at the age of 27. His life had been stolen from him for five years. It would have broken most of us.?
But Banks worked out both mentally?and physically in prison. He was not going to let his accuser win. In 2012, he signed with the Las?Vegas Locomotives of the UFL.
In mini-camp, he had a tryout with Pete Carroll's Seahawks.
Now, he is signed with the Atlanta Falcons and will be fighting for a spot on their roster as an inside linebacker.
He still has a long way to go. He's missed out on football for 10 years. He needs to learn terms, concepts and new techniques.?
Check out the video above, as we caught up with Banks when he worked out with Athletic Gaines in West Hollywood getting ready for the Falcons training camp at the age of 28.?
Brian Banks has been very outspoken about his cause and is the spokesperson for the California Innocence Project.?
Let us know in the comments below if you think Banks will have an impact on the Falcons this year.?
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Inside Machinima, The New Video Network For Gamers And Fanboys
As part of our tour of new digital media companies throughout L.A., we checked out Machinima, which is one of the largest multichannel networks on YouTube. Over the course of that tour, we found out how the company has evolved and what its plans are for the future.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/xMOvzfzXa0g/
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Product Type: Samsung Tablet PCs / eBook Readers
Newest Review:?... thing, especially considering its price! Myself is an iPad user and ok this Samsung is not as fast as my iPad, but not by very much th... more
I bought this little machine for my mum recently. She needs it for emails, browsing the net, Skype, eBooks, a few simple games and using it to replace her writing pad. She likes my iPad, but for what she needs it for and she is not a heavy user, I decided to get her this Samsung instead. I set everything up for her. Had a little trouble with Skype - had to uninstall and then install 3 times to get it sorted. 1 most important thing for my mum is that the machine has to be able to let her input Simplified Chinese characters. Unlike my iPad, it took a little fiddling to get the Chinese keyboard installed - you have to install an App which comes with a few different keyboards. But once all these are all sorted I have to admit I was very impressed with this little thing, especially considering its price! Myself is an iPad user and ok this Samsung is not as fast as my iPad, but not by very much though, and for half of the price of my iPad, definitely impressed. Compare to my iPad it is not as easy to navigate (for me anyway), but my mum still got the hang of things pretty quickly. Again, for the price it comes with a half decent front and back camera which great for video calls. One thing I still yet to find the solution for - if you select a different country for settings to that you first set up the device then the machine doesn't like it and the only way I can correct this is to reinstall the whole thing to manufacture settings which I thought is a bit stupid. Over all, considering the price lever, its really not bad for youngsters and grandparents who just need simple usage though. Give it 4 star considering the price.
Summary: Good for the price, good for the light users, maybe not for people aim to replace their iPad or PC
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Nokia frustrated with lack of apps, progress on Windows Phone
A Nokia executive aired out his frustrations with partner Microsoft in a recent interview concerning the company's line of Lumia smartphones.
Nokia's vice president Bryan Biniak told the International Business Times that in order to sell phones, the Microsoft needs to have apps consumers love and make sure they are better on the Windows Phone operating system.
"We are releasing new devices frequently and for every new device, if there is an app that somebody cares about that's not there, that's a missed opportunity of a sale," Biniak said, according to the report.?
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Microsoft has multiple partners for Windows Phone, but Nokia is by far its most important one. The Finnish phone maker has been releasing a new device nearly once a month over the past year. Microsoft, meanwhile, has been updating Windows Phone at a slower pace.
"We are trying to evolve the cultural thinking [at Microsoft] to say 'time is of the essence,' " Biniak said. "Waiting until the end of your fiscal year when you need to close your targets doesn't do us any good when I have phones to sell today."
Biniak said Windows Phone has a great catalog of apps, but there are still a few missing that are essential to consumers. He said consumers don't want to compromise how they live, and without those apps, they won't switch operating systems.
"It's not just about the hardware, it's about the tools that are on the hardware," he said. "You can't sell a phone without the apps, you just can't."
And Biniak has a point. In the past year, Nokia has released some of the most innovative smartphones available on the market, but with some vital apps missing, consumers are holding off from buying.
Its latest device, the Lumia 1020, features perhaps the best camera of any smartphone, but Instagram, the most popular mobile photo social network, isn't available on Windows Phone.
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