Dogs, humans affected by OCD have similar brain abnormalities

June 4, 2013 ? Another piece of the puzzle to better understand and treat obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) has fallen into place with the publication of new research that shows that the structural brain abnormalities of Doberman pinschers afflicted with canine compulsive disorder (CCD) are similar to those of humans with OCD. The research suggests that further study of anxiety disorders in dogs may help find new therapies for OCD and similar conditions in humans.

Published online in advance of print on April 13 in Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, the findings are a collaboration between veterinarians at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and researchers at the McLean Imaging Center at McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Mass.

The causes of OCD, which affects about 2 percent of the population, are not well understood and the disorder often goes untreated or undiagnosed for decades. People with OCD often exhibit repetitive behaviors or persistent thoughts that are time consuming and interfere with daily routines. Dogs with CCD engage in repetitious and destructive behaviors such as flank- and blanket-sucking, tail chasing, and chewing. However, both OCD and CCD often respond to similar treatments.

"While the study sample was small and further research is needed, the results further validate that dogs with CCD can provide insight and understanding into anxiety disorders that affect people. Dogs exhibit the same behavioral characteristics, respond to the same medication, have a genetic basis to the disorder, and we now know have the same structural brain abnormalities as people with OCD," said Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, DACVB, professor of clinical sciences at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.

The Tufts/McLean research team, led by Niwako Ogata, BVSc, Ph.D., who was a behavior researcher at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and is now an assistant professor of animal behavior at Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, examined a sample of 16 Dobermans. Comparing MRI brain images of eight Dobermans with CCD to the control group, Ogata found that the CCD group had higher total brain and gray matter volumes, lower gray matter densities in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and right anterior insula, and higher fractional anisotropy in the splenium of the corpus callosum (the degree of which correlated with the severity of the behavioral traits). These findings are consistent with those reported in humans with OCD.

"It has been very gratifying to me to use our imaging techniques developed to diagnose human brain disorders to better understand the biological basis for anxiety/compulsive disorders in dogs, which may lead to better treatments for dogs and humans with these disorders," said Marc J. Kaufman, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the McLean Hospital Translational Imaging Laboratory.

"Canines that misbehave are often labeled as 'bad dogs' but it is important to detect and show the biological basis for certain behaviors," said Ogata. "Evidence-based science is a much better approach to understanding a dog's behavior."

The study builds on existing research to better understand the etiology of compulsive disorders in animals such as CCD, which affects Doberman pinschers and other canine breeds. In 2010, researchers from the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Broad Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology identified a genetic locus on canine chromosome 7 that coincides with an increased risk of OCD.

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Seeing our errors keeps us on our toes

June 4, 2013 ? If people are unable to perceive their own errors as they complete a routine, simple task, their skill will decline over time, Johns Hopkins researchers have found -- but not for the reasons scientists assumed. The researchers report that the human brain does not passively forget our good techniques, but chooses to put aside what it has learned.

The term "motor memories" may conjure images of childhood road trips, but in fact it refers to the reason why we're able to smoothly perform everyday physical tasks. The amount of force needed to lift an empty glass versus a full one, to shut a car door or pick up a box, even to move a limb accurately from one place to another -- all of these are motor memories.

In a report published May 1 in the The Journal of Neuroscience, the Johns Hopkins researchers describe their latest efforts to study how motor memories are formed and lost by focusing on one well-known experimental phenomenon: When people learn to do a task well, but are asked to keep doing it while receiving deliberately misleading feedback indicating that their performance is perfect every time, their actual performance will gradually get worse.

It had been assumed that the decline was due to the decay of memories in the absence of reinforcement, says Reza Shadmehr, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

But when Shadmehr and graduate student Pavan Vaswani asked volunteers to learn a simple task with a few twists designed to deliberately manipulate the brain's motor control system, they learned otherwise.

The volunteers were told to push a joystick quickly toward a red dot on a computer screen. But the volunteers' hands were placed under the screen, where they couldn't see them, and their starting point was shown on the screen as a blue dot. In addition, as the volunteers moved the joystick toward the red dot, a force within the contraption would suddenly push the joystick to the left. So the volunteers practiced until they could move the blue dot straight to and past the red dot by compensating for the leftward push with pressure toward the right.

Once the volunteers had mastered the task, Shadmehr and Vaswani changed it up without their knowing. For one group of 24 volunteers, they added a stiff spring to the joystick device that would guide the user straight to the target, but would also measure the amount of rightward force the volunteers were applying. To the volunteers, it looked as though they were now doing the task perfectly every time, and, as in previous experiments, they gradually stopped pushing to the right, apparently "forgetting" what they had learned.

For a different group of 19 volunteers, though, the researchers not only added the spring, but also changed the feedback on the screen not to reflect what was actually happening during each task, but to show feedback similar to reruns of earlier efforts. The volunteers weren't seeing the errors they were actually making, but feedback that looked convincingly like errors they might have made. This group continued to do the task as they'd learned, applying the right amount of force to the joystick hundreds of times.

This shows that decline in technique "isn't just a process of forgetting," says Vaswani. "Your brain notices that you are doing this task perfectly, and you see what you can do differently."

Adds Shadmehr, "Our results correct a component of knowledge we thought we understood. Neuroscientists thought decay was intrinsic to motor memories, but in fact it's not decay -- it's selection."

The study was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (grant number NS078311) and the Human Frontier Science Program.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_science/~3/RggCWIqZFrE/130604153331.htm

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Holy Crap, This Crazy New Wireless Plan Is Totally Free

We've been seeing a whole bunch of hungry little alternative service providers trying to cut into the big boys with low, low prices, but how about free? FreedomPop, the folks behind hotspots and routers that come with free data, just announced the first free wireless service plan. No, really. Free minutes, free texts, and free data. For free. Freeeee.

People who sign up for the new service will receive 200 free anytime minutes (FreedomPop to FreedomPop calls are unlimited), 500MB of free 4G data, and unlimited free texts every month. If they go over, users can pick up unlimited minutes for any given month for $10. Data's just slightly more complicated: it's $.02 per additional MB ($20 per GB) if the user has a free plan, or $.01 per additional MB if the user opts for a $18 for 2GB or a $29 for 4GB monthly plan.

Of course there are a couple of catches. To get on FreedomPop's plan, you'll have to buy a special (doubtlessly unsubsidized) phone loaded with custom OS-level software up front. And that's bound to cost you a few hundred dollars. FreedomPop says the stable will include "select, popular Android handsets," but if other, similar MVNOs are any indication, this probably means aging LG devices (like the trusty Optimus). We're hoping against hope for something a little more enticing than that.

Then of course there's the network. FreedomPop will be hopping on Sprint's fledgling LTE network eventually, but until then its WiMax and CDMA, and WiMax is preeeeeeeeetty spotty. CDMA, on the other hand, is sluggish but ubiquitous.

The service has only just been announced and won't actually but up and running until sometime later this summer, but users can sign up for early access on FreedomPop's website. Discount providers have yet to really unseat major carriers so far, but sliding that monthly cost all the way down to free is pretty insane. Here's to hoping there's no bad news hiding in the details, because this looks like it could be one hell of a shakeup.

Image credit: Shutterstock/Christian Delbert

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Is There a Limit to How Tall a Tree Can Grow?

It seems like the towering Redwoods and Sequoias of the Pacific Northwest could grow to the edge of space, had they enough time. But it turns out that's not the case. Like with the enormous skyscrapers man has built, trees can only grow so high because of the logistics imposed by gravity.

In theory, we could build a skyscraper that's over a mile tall. But it would take so many elevators to move humans to the highest floors that there would be little usable space left, and with no space for businesses, it simply wouldn't be a profitable venture. And similar issues with gravity limit tree growth. Instead of moving humans, however, they have to move water to their highest branches. And with every foot this gets increasingly difficult, resulting in smaller and smaller leaves on its highest branches that are less effective at evaporation which is what pulls the water up the trunk.

So, while the world's tallest tree measures in at an impressive 377 feet, researchers believe that in ideal conditions with enough room to spread out their roots, a Redwood or Sequoia could reach a mind boggling 400 to 426 feet.

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Keen On? Stephen Wolfram: Confessions Of The Most Quantified Person On The Planet

Stephen Wolfram, the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research, may well be the smartest and most interesting guy in tech. A PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech at the age of twenty, the youngest ever recipient of the MacArthur "genius" fellowship, the inventor of both Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram's life has been dedicated to the capture and organization of all the knowledge in the world.

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Lawmakers seek better cooperation from Russia after Boston bombs

By Steve Gutterman

MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on a mission to Russia said on Sunday they had found no evidence that an American intelligence error enabled the Boston bombings, but that closer cooperation between Washington and Moscow might have helped to thwart the attack.

U.S. investigators suspect two brothers who emigrated from Russia, one since shot dead by police, staged the attack at the Boston Marathon on April 15 that killed three people and wounded 264 others.

Two congressmen on the fact-finding visit said the countries - former Cold War foes now at odds over issues from Syria to President Vladimir Putin's treatment of opponents - had to work together better against a shared threat from Islamist militants.

"Radical Islam is at our throat in the United States, and it is at the throat of the Russian people," said Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher, who led a group of six U.S. lawmakers on the weeklong visit to Russia.

President Barack Obama's administration and U.S. intelligence have faced scrutiny over claims they failed to see the danger from the suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechens who emigrated with their parents a decade ago.

"We've been asked a number of times, do we believe that the Boston Marathon massacre could have been thwarted - could it have been prevented? And the answer is, there's nothing specific that could have been done that we can point to that, had it been done differently, would have prevented this," Rohrabacher said.

"But we can say that had we had a much higher level of cooperation all along, so that the whole situation would have been different, I believe that would have been one of the type of things we could have thwarted," he told a news conference at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

The U.S. lawmakers met Federal Security Service (FSB) officials and visited the North Caucasus town of Beslan, scene of a deadly 2004 school siege some Russians call their country's equivalent of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

"The Cold War is over now, so we have to make friends with the Russians and recognize there is a mutual threat to both of us," Rohrabacher told the news conference. It was attended by U.S. action film actor Steven Seagal, a friend of Putin's who helped arrange the representatives' meetings in Russia.

U.S. officials have said Russian security services asked the FBI about Tamerlan Tsarnaev in early 2011 out of concern he had embraced radical Islam and would travel to Russia to join insurgents.

FBI agents interviewed him in Massachusetts in 2011 but said they found no serious reason for alarm. U.S. officials say Russia's FSB security services later failed to respond to the FBI's requests for more information about him.

SECURITY AND RIGHTS

Reading from notes from a briefing with FSB officials, Republican Representative Steve King said they indicated the FSB had told the FBI that Tamerlan was "very close to radical Islam and very religious".

"I suspect that he was raised to do what he did," King said of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who died in an April 19 shootout with police. Dzhokhar, 19, is in a Massachusetts prison hospital awaiting trial on charges that can carry the death penalty.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev travelled to Russia early in 2012 and spent six months in Dagestan, a North Caucasus province that is now at the centre of the Islamist insurgency rooted in two post-Soviet separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya.

The FBI did not tell the FSB that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had returned to Russia, the congressmen said. Representative Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, said it appeared the FSB had been unaware that he was in Dagestan.

Rohrabacher, asked whether U.S. authorities reacted appropriately to the information conveyed by Russia, said: "I think that given the circumstances and the level of cooperation, I would say they did - but I would also say that the level of cooperation was unacceptable."

He said some in the U.S. intelligence community are "still playing Cold War games" and that Putin is overly demonized.

The Kremlin has called for closer intelligence cooperation after the Boston bombings and high-level meetings have been held, but Russia's expulsion of an alleged U.S. spy recruiter last month underscored persistent tension.

U.S. officials have said they consider counterterrorism information from the North Caucasus suspect because Russian "watch lists" often include dissidents and rights activists mixed together with militants.

Cohen said the United States must not give Russia a free ride on human rights, an issue that has clouded relations since Putin started his third Kremlin term last year.

He disagreed with Rohrabacher and King over the jailing of members of punk band Pussy Riot for a protest in a church, calling the trial unfair and the two-year sentences excessive.

"We have a role in the world and we need to continue to observe that role as a place of ... due process and justice and fairness," Cohen said of the United States.

(Editing by David Stamp and Christopher Wilson)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lawmakers-seek-better-cooperation-russia-boston-bombs-031105143.html

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Cut Costs On Home Improvement With One Of These Helpful ...

If you?re considering an improvement project, you likely have questions and feel unsure. What is some thing goes wrong? Well, this article contains may tips to help you on the way. It?ll tell you how to easily avoid errors and get great benefits while saving time and money.

If you should be getting tools and equipment for a home improvement project, don?t cheap from the requirements. For making ugly marks on the walls, example, a cheaply-built ladder will frequently falter while being used and bristles may be shed by low-quality paintbrushes in to the color. Goal for middle-grade equipment if you?re on a, otherwise, you could be in for some nasty injuries.

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Turkish PM, president clash over reply to protests

A Turkish boy looks at destroyed shops in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, June 3, 2013. Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Monday again dismissed street protests against his rule as actions organized by extremists, qualified them as a temporary blip, and angrily rejected comparisons with the Arab Spring uprisings. Appearing defensive and angry, and cutting a disconnected figure, he lashed out at reporters who asked whether the government had understood "the message" by protesters airing grievances or whether he would soften his tone.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

A Turkish boy looks at destroyed shops in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, June 3, 2013. Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Monday again dismissed street protests against his rule as actions organized by extremists, qualified them as a temporary blip, and angrily rejected comparisons with the Arab Spring uprisings. Appearing defensive and angry, and cutting a disconnected figure, he lashed out at reporters who asked whether the government had understood "the message" by protesters airing grievances or whether he would soften his tone.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

High school students chant slogans during a protest at Gezi park, Taksim square in Istanbul, Monday, June 3, 2013. The demonstrations that grew out of anger over excessive police force have spiraled into Turkey's biggest anti-government demonstrations in years, challenging Prime Minister's Recep Tayyip Erdogan power. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaks to the media in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, June 3, 2013. Erdogan on Monday again dismissed street protests against his rule as actions organized by extremists, qualified them as a temporary blip, and angrily rejected comparisons with the Arab Spring uprisings. Appearing defensive and angry, and cutting a disconnected figure, he lashed out at reporters who asked whether the government had understood "the message" by protesters airing grievances or whether he would soften his tone.(AP Photo)

Riot police positioned near the office of the Prime Minister in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, June 3, 2013. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday again dismissed street protests against his rule as actions organized by extremists, qualified them as a temporary blip, and angrily rejected comparisons with the Arab Spring uprisings. Appearing defensive and angry, and cutting a disconnected figure, he lashed out at reporters who asked whether the government had understood "the message" by protesters airing grievances or whether he would soften his tone. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Municipality workers collect garbage from the last protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul, Monday, June 3, 2013. The demonstrations that grew out of anger over excessive police force have spiraled into Turkey's biggest anti-government demonstrations in years, challenging Prime Minister's Recep Tayyip Erdogan power. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? As riot police used tear gas against protesters for a fourth straight day in Istanbul, Turkey's president and prime minister displayed wide differences Monday in their responses to those taking to the streets. One death was reported.

Turkey has seen violent demonstrations since Friday, when police launched a pre-dawn raid against a peaceful sit-in protesting plans to cut down trees in Istanbul's main Taksim Square. Since then, the demonstrations by mostly secular-minded Turks have spiraled into Turkey's biggest anti-government disturbances in years.

The protests are seen as a display of frustration with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom critics say has become increasingly authoritarian. Many accuse him of forcing his conservative, religious Islamic outlook on the lives of secular Turks.

Erdogan rejects the accusations, insisting he respects all sections of Turkish society and has no desire to infringe on different lifestyles. He has also rejected accusations of being authoritarian, saying: "I am not a master but a servant" of the people.

Turkey's main stock exchange dropped 10.5 percent Monday as investors worried about the destabilizing effect of the demonstrations on the economy. On the ground, a Turkish doctors' group said one protester died after a vehicle slammed into a crowd in Istanbul.

Erdogan, in power since 2003 after winning three landslide elections, has inflamed tensions by calling the protesters "a bunch of looters" and a "minority" who are trying to force demands on his majority.

In contrast, President Abdullah Gul took a more conciliatory line, celebrating peaceful protest as a democratic right.

The two men could compete against each other next year in Turkey's presidential election.

On Monday, Erdogan again dismissed the street protests as being organized by Turkey's opposition and extremist groups and angrily rejected comparisons with the Arab Spring uprisings.

"We already have a spring in Turkey," he said, alluding to the nation's free elections. "But there are those who want to turn this spring into winter.

"Be calm, these will all pass," he said.

Erdogan also played down the drop in the markets, saying: "It's the stock market, it goes down and it goes up. It can't always be stable."

Appearing defensive and angry, he lashed out at reporters who asked whether the government had understood the message by protesters.

"What is the message? I want to hear it from you," Erdogan retorted. "What can a softened tone be like? Can you tell me?"

He spoke to reporters before leaving on a four-day trip to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

Gul said democracy was more than just going to the ballot box.

"When we speak of democracy, of course the will of the people is above all," Gul said. "But democracy does not mean elections alone. There can be nothing more natural for the expression of various views, various situations and objections through a variety of ways besides elections."

He added: "The views that are well-intentioned have been read, seen and noted and the messages have been received."

Some protesters clashed with police, but most demonstrated peacefully, chanting calls for Erdogan to resign. Those who did not take to the streets banged on pots and pans from windows.

There was scattered violence in areas close to Erdogan's offices in Istanbul and in Ankara. The Dogan news agency said police fired tear gas at one protest near Erdogan's Istanbul office, and protesters responded by hurling stones.

The agency said as many as 500 people in Ankara were detained overnight after police clashed with more militant protesters and then moved in to break up several thousand people who were demonstrating peacefully.

Turkey's Fox television reported 300 others were detained in a similar crackdown in Izmir, Turkey's third-largest city.

Social media was awash with reports and videos of police abuse. Turkey's Human Rights Foundation claimed more than 1,000 protesters were subjected "to ill-treatment and torture" by police.

Authorities said police excesses would be investigated, but they appeared to continue unabated.

Fox showed footage of police telling one group by the side of a building to come out, reassuring them that nothing would happen, then shooting a gas canister at them.

Turkish television stations have been criticized for providing very limited coverage of the protests, with media moguls apparently wary of upsetting the government. On Monday, dozens of people demonstrated in front of the Istanbul offices of private NTV television.

Another group of protesters took control of a large bulldozer in Istanbul and drove it toward police water cannons, Dogan news agency footage showed. Medics were seen tending to people injured in the skirmishes or affected by gas at a mosque close to the palace.

Erdogan also blamed the protest on "internal and external" groups bent on harming Turkey. He said the country's intelligence service was working on identifying them and threatened to hit back at them.

"We shall be discussing these with them and will be following up, in fact we will also settle accounts with them," he said.

In neighboring Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said on his official website that his government was worried about the security implications of the situation in Turkey, saying the country was "an essential part of the stability of the region."

"We believe that resorting to violence will widen the circle (of violence) ... in the region, and we call for restraint," he said.

Iraq and Turkey share a long, mountainous border. Iraq is home to an ethnic Turkomen minority, centered around the disputed Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

The two countries' relationship has been increasingly strained over growing Turkish ties to Iraq's largely autonomous northern Kurdish region, and over Turkey's support for the Sunni rebels fighting to topple the Syrian regime.

The two-year Syrian civil war, which has already killed 70,000 people and sent hundreds of thousands fleeing the country, is exacerbating sectarian divisions within Iraq. Baghdad has warned that the fall of the Iranian-backed Syrian government could ignite a wider conflict in the region.

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Associated Press writer Adam Schreck in Baghdad contributed to this report.

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Angel evokes tragedies at service for N.Y. teen

WARWICK, N.Y. (AP) ? After Joseph and Betty Ginley's firefighter son was killed in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, they found some solace in the tall steel angels crafted as memorials by sculptor Lei Hennessy-Owen.

The Pennsylvania artist had been erecting them to commemorate tragedies including the 2001 terror attacks, a pipeline explosion in Washington and the friendly fire death of former NFL star Pat Tillman.

The Ginleys, of Warwick, were on hand in 2011 when Hennessy-Owen unveiled an angel honoring the youngest victim of the mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., that injured then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

On Thursday, they helped dedicate another angel, this time to their granddaughter, killed in March in a car accident in Virginia.

"I never thought we'd get an angel for my granddaughter," Joseph Ginley said. "I take some comfort in it."

Christina Ginley's death at age 18, on her way to a soccer tournament, was not a high-profile tragedy like the others. But her grandparents had befriended Hennessey-Owen over the years, and the artist was struck by their double loss.

"It was terrible for the Ginleys, losing Christina after losing their son," Hennessy-Owen said before the dedication.

She said making an angel "was the only good thing I could think of. I thought it might give the Ginleys something to focus on after this awful thing."

Hennessy-Owen, originally a painter and landscape artist, got into memorial sculptures in 1999, crafting an angel when two 10-year-old boys were killed in a pipeline explosion in Bellingham, Wash.

"I like to show angels rising out of wreckage," said Hennessy-Owen, 55, who works in Somerset County, Pa. "People like the message."

The angel she made for the World Trade Center attack was 30 feet tall.

When she made one as a memorial for Christina-Taylor Green, the 9-year-old victim of the Tucson shootings, she invited the Ginleys to join the girl's parents at the unveiling because they, too, had lost a child when John Ginley was killed in 2001.

The ceremony, at an Oro Valley, Ariz., park, was inspiring, Joseph Ginley said.

"That little girl was amazing, and the show of support for her was incredible," he said.

For Thursday's memorial ceremony in Warwick, a 90-minute drive north of New York City, the angel was decorated with roses and ribbons. A baking sun glinted off the dark grey sculpture as a priest blessed it with holy water.

Christina Ginley, John Ginley's niece, had been active in charity fundraising at Warwick Valley High School, where she was a senior. Principal Richard Linkens said, "She was a selfless individual, always working to make the world around her better." And her father, also named Joseph Ginley, said, "She was a perfect little girl, and people warned me, 'Wait until she's a teenager,' and then she was a perfect teenager."

Hennessy-Owen told the crowd of Christina's friends and relatives that the angel, which has bits of World Trade Center steel in it and is 9 feet, 11 inches tall to commemorate the 9/11 attack, was a "healing angel."

She said she tried to make "an angel that looked like she was comforting."

She confided afterward that, "I am always dealing with tragedies as I make these angels, but this one was really hard."

Eventually, the angel will be surrounded by a low stone wall bearing a plaque with an inscription Christina wrote for a time-capsule project, her grandfather said: "If I had all the time in the world I would travel and spend time with the people I love."

"It's almost like the angel is telling us," the grandfather said, "that everything can be overcome, even when it seems like too much."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/angel-evokes-tragedies-ny-teen-154239930.html

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There's 60 Percent Off SanDisk SSDs and SD Cards on Amazon Today

Amazon's having a one-day sale on SanDisk storage?and that makes some of the products insanely good value for the next few hours.

The offers applies a wide range of USB Sticks, SD Cards and SSDs, so go take a look if there's anything you need. Or, you know, just want. A quick peek suggests you can pick up a 32GB version of the beautiful new Cruzer memory stick for $22, a 32GB micro SD card for the same price, or their 240GB SSD for $150. Go get 'em. [Amazon via 9to5mac]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/theres-60-percent-off-sandisk-ssds-and-sd-cards-on-ama-510990458

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Inhabitat's Week in Green: bike-powered generator, world's largest wave farm and a DIY lightsaber

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.

What would you give for a working lightsaber? This week Inhabitat reported that a laser hobbyist created an awesome (but totally dangerous) DIY lightsaber that can burn through wood. In renewable energy news, Scotland announced plans to build the world's largest wave farm, and an ingenious inventor created a bike-powered generator hidden inside his patio furniture. On the consumer tech front, Apple announced plans to produce a new line of Macs in Texas, and Intel is set to release its new Haswell chips, which could boost laptop battery life by 50 percent. Scientists discovered Arctic plants that have come back to life after being frozen for 400 years, while ninth graders conducted a science experiment to show that plants don't grow as well near wireless routers. And Ukrainian carpenter Valerii Danevych carves functioning watches -- including the gears -- entirely from wood.

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Hubble sees the messy result of a galactic collision

June 1, 2013 ? A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures an ongoing cosmic collision between two galaxies -- a spiral galaxy is in the process of colliding with a lenticular galaxy.

The collision looks almost as if it is popping out of the screen in 3-D, with parts of the spiral arms clearly embracing the lenticular galaxy's bulge.

The image also reveals further evidence of the collision. There is a bright stream of stars coming out from the merging galaxies, extending out towards the top of the image. The bright spot in the middle of the plume, known as ESO 576-69, is what makes this image unique. This spot is believed to be the nucleus of the former spiral galaxy, which was ejected from the system during the collision and is now being shredded by tidal forces to produce the visible stellar stream.

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British Columbia Opposes Planned Oil Sands Pipeline

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Environmental groups said that British Columbia, which has been concerned about spills, has probably doomed the pipeline.

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Iran presidential debate on economy dissolves into chaos

By Yeganeh Torbati and Zahra Hosseinian

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's first debate between candidates for the presidency degenerated into acrimony live on state television on Friday when, instead of discussing the economy, some of the hopefuls resorted to sniping over the questions and format.

The testy exchange between the moderator and reformist Mohammad Reza Aref, moderate Hassan Rohani, and conservative Mohsen Rezaie was the subject of wide ridicule by Iranian viewers who had tuned in for the four-hour discussion.

They were among eight candidates for the June 14 vote presenting their ideas on an economy buffeted by international sanctions over Iran's disputed nuclear program, rising unemployment, and inflation running at over 30 percent, according to official figures.

The series of three debates are central to trying to build public interest in the presidential vote, the first since 2009, which unleashed months of protests by those who said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's win was fraudulent, demonstrations that were eventually crushed by security forces.

The economy is likely to weigh heavily on Iranians' minds when they head to the polls. Although most major state policies, such as the nuclear issue, are ultimately decided by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian presidents traditionally have greater sway in enacting their economic agendas.

The debate's first half allowed the eight to give a three minute answer, with a 90 second response from the other seven. Then moderator Morteza Heydari asked them an economic question that could only be answered yes, no or with an abstention.

One question was: If you want to select an official for your administration, what is their most important quality? Candidates could choose between a lack of corruption, experience, expertise or prudence.

They were also presented with pictures, such as an agricultural scene, a market, or a cargo ship, and asked to say whatever came to mind.

"INSULTING"

The three, seated with their colleagues in a line of desks in front of a backdrop of flowers and rolling woodland, said the format was farcical and did not allow them to present their plans to the country or engage in dialogue with each other.

Several times they simply refused to answer the question.

"In honor of the dear people of my country I will sit here, but I will answer none of your test questions," said Aref, gesticulating with his pen towards the moderator standing in front of an image of Khamenei.

"I am a patient person and I can tolerate a lot," added Rezaie. "With these repetitive, discontinuous, short, one-to-three minute answers, the people are being harmed and the eight people up here are being insulted."

Rohani, the most prominent moderate candidate in an election dominated by hardliners, said: "People will see this style of debate as insulting."

Nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili; foreign policy adviser to Khamenei Ali Akbar Velayati and Tehran mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf are considered the frontrunners and mostly kept quiet.

The slate of candidates, vetted last week by Iran's Guardian Council, is dominated by conservatives and hardliners seen as close to Khamenei. The council banned two independent contenders, moderate former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Ahmadinejad ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie.

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Iran's clerical rulers are keen to secure a high turnout that would underpin their legitimacy. They are also wary of a repeat of 2009's protests, and the debate was a rare unscripted moment in an election authorities hope to tightly control.

Iranians spoken to by Reuters were dismissive of the way the debate played out.

"Compared to the debates four years ago, where each candidate could discuss issues in more detail, this one was really bad," said Neda, 27, in Tehran. "They didn't have enough time to go into any details. I know nothing more about them now than before this debate."

"It was not properly planned at all. Candidates didn't have time to go into details and therefore their answers were very vague," said shopworker Ali, 27, by phone from Tehran.

Neither would give their surnames for fear of reprisals for criticizing the government and speaking to a foreign reporter.

The presidential debates in 2009 drew similar attention, although then it was more for the personal insults.

In one live head-to head debate, reformist Mirhossein Mousavi sharply attacked Ahmadinejad, accusing him of enacting an "adventurist" foreign policy marked by "extremism and superficiality". Ahmadinejad accused Mousavi's wife of entering graduate school without taking the required exams.

Yasmin Alem, a U.S.-based expert on Iran's electoral system, said Friday's debate showed that Iran's leadership had tried to introduce a less explosive format.

"After what came to pass in the heated 2009 debates, the leadership in Tehran has decided to dumb down the process to a point where it now borders on ridicule," she said.

In the more orderly first half, the candidates agreed Iran's economy was in crisis and there was a need for greater support for domestic production, though they offered few specifics.

They were also nearly unanimous in criticizing Ahmadinejad's economic management, particularly his government's method of implementing ambitious subsidy reforms, which they said had raised inflation.

Several spoke of the need for more resistance to sanctions. Velayati said changing foreign policies would have an impact, although he did not say what he would change.

Qalibaf, who enjoys a reputation as a pragmatist, gave some of the most specific policy plans.

His government would increase the independence of the central bank, attempt to grow Iran's service economy, for instance in the information technology sector, and refrain from hasty decisions that create instability, he said.

(Editing by Alison Williams)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-presidential-debate-economy-dissolves-chaos-194933806.html

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Samsung's next Galaxy Tab will have Intel inside, says Reuters

This particular rumor has been swirling for a while already, but Reuters says its own sources are now backing it up: Samsung will switch from an ARM-based design and use Intel as the supplier of the processor inside at least one version of its next 10-inch slate, the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1. Word is that Samsung will run Android off Intel's latest x86 Atom architecture, Clover Trail+, which we've so far seen in just a handful of Android smartphones including the Lenovo K900 and ZTE Geek.

By way of corroboration, Korea Times is reporting the exact same Galaxy Tab 3 rumor and has also quoted an anonymous Intel employee who claimed that the number of Atom engineers based in Korea has ballooned from six last year to as many as 50 personnel today. They're said to be working on "Samsung-related projects with a mission to customize circuits for adaptation in Samsung products" -- which certainly doesn't sound like typical Intel behavior. Korea Times specifically says that Samsung is looking to reduce its reliance on the tricky supply of its own ARM-based Exynos processors, while Intel is offering the Korean giant good prices and cooperation in order to build its mobile market share. This all tallies with the idea of Atom coming to some high volume Android products -- and it's very possible that we'll see proof of that at Computex next week.

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Rory Meeks, Rodeo Clown, Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Growing Marijuana In Iowa Farm Fields

A rodeo clown arrest, a superhero brawl and a spot in Heaven for sale? We bring you these stories and more from the world of local news.

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