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An international team of researchers led by the University of Melbourne has used new technology to fast track the discovery of a breast cancer risk gene and could assist in the discovery of other cancer genes.
Professor Melissa Southey of the Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology at the University of Melbourne, who led the study, said it was a significant discovery and the first breast cancer risk gene to be discovered using the latest genetic sequencing technology.
"The mutations in the newly identified gene XRCC2, although rare, explain another proportion of breast cancers that run in families where there is no known genetic cause and that particularly occur at an early age," she said.
"We identified this gene quite quickly using genetic technology called massively parallel sequencing, which enables sequencing of large amounts of human DNA at high speed.'
"Due to these results and our methodology we believe that further risk genes will be identified at a faster rate than before and potentially for other cancers such as colorectal and prostate cancers," she said.
Professor Southey said the discovery could help manage the risk of breast cancer for families with a strong history of the disease and no known genetic cause.
"This discovery will assist some families to determine individual risk and which family members are at high risk of contracting the disease," Professor Southey said.
"Unaffected relatives of people with a mutation in this gene could also be offered predictive testing, subsequent genetic counselling and ongoing clinical management on the basis of their mutation status.'
"People whose breast cancer is associated with XRCC2 mutations could also benefit from specific treatments that target the genetic fault," she said.
Currently, only about 30 per cent of the familial risk for breast cancer has been explained, leaving the substantial majority still unaccounted for.
"Research indicates that no single gene is likely to account for a large proportion of the remaining unexplained genetic susceptibility to breast cancer," Professor Southey said.
"Although mutations in XRCC2 are rare, it is most likely that the remaining unknown breast cancer susceptibility genes will account for similar small proportions of the disease."
Initially, using massively parallel sequencing, researchers identified XRCC2 mutations in two families (in Melbourne and the Netherlands). This was followed by a larger series of studies using DNA from blood samples of 689 families with multiple members affected by breast cancer, and from 1308 women who were affected at an early age by breast cancer and recruited from the general population, as well as 1120 controls.
More XRCC2 mutations were detected in the breast cancer cases but not in the controls. These additional studies were conducted in Melbourne and at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in France.
Co-first author Dr Daniel Park of the University's Department of Pathology (with Dr Fabienne Lesueur of IARC) said the study demonstrated the power of massively parallel sequencing for discovering susceptibility genes for common, complex diseases like breast cancer.
"Our study approach could be applied to many other common, complex diseases with components of unexplained heritability, such as colorectal and prostate cancers," he said.
Professor Southey oversaw this work with two long-standing collaborators and experts in the field of breast cancer genetics, Associate Professor Sean Tavtigian and Professor David Goldgar at the University of Utah.
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Frank Caliguiri Jr. ordered to repay $15,000 for motorcycle claim
A former Pittsburgh-area police officer was sentenced Wednesday to four months under house arrest as part of his two-year probation sentence for filing a bogus claim that his motorcycle had been stolen.
Frank Caligiuri Jr., 42, of McKees Rocks, was also ordered by a federal judge to repay insurer Geico nearly $15,000 it had paid on the claim.
Caligiuri was a 13-year veteran of the Kennedy Township police department when he staged a theft of his motorcycle in July 2009 and filed the claim when he had, instead, taken the motorcycle to West Virginia and sold it to undercover federal agents.
Caligiuri and his federal public defender, Thomas Livingston, declined to comment after the 25-minute sentencing hearing, when he was asked directly what motivated him to file the bogus claim.
Senior U.S. District Judge Maurice Cohill Jr. mentioned that he considered that Caligiuri "had suffered some financial issues prior to committing this crime" but didn't detail what they were and Assistant U.S. Attorney Lee Karl didn't explain them either.
Karl asked the judge to consider Caligiuri's position of public trust in imposing the sentence and said, "When a police officer commits this kind of crime ... it runs the risk of eroding the public trust."
The sentence was at the low end of federal guidelines which take into account a defendant's criminal history and the seriousness of his crime. The guidelines called for confinement of between four and 10 months, with the flexibility to impose home detention as opposed to prison, which Cohill granted.
Although Caligiuri committed the insurance fraud in 2009, it wasn't publicized until he was indicted in November 2011.
By then, he had already been suspended from the police force for an arrest on charges of drunken driving and aggravated assault by vehicle when he hit a pedestrian at about 2:30 a.m. Aug. 27, 2010 in the city's bar-laden South Side neighborhood. A breath test showed his blood-alcohol content was more than one-and-a-half times the state's legal limit, court records show.
An Allegheny County judge dismissed the vehicular assault charge, however, agreeing with Caligiuri's attorney that the officer hit the pedestrian largely because he was wearing dark clothing, which would have made him hard to see whether or not Caligiuri had been drinking.
The drunken driving charge was later withdrawn after another judge ruled that police didn't have probable cause to administer a breath test because Caligiuri didn't appear drunk after the accident.
Despite the favorable outcome in the DUI case, Caligiuri resigned his police job shortly after he was indicted last year for mail fraud.
His motorcycle has since been seized and sold at auction for $5,800, which will go to Geico. Caligiuri must repay the rest of the bogus $14,925 claim out of his pocket at a rate of at least 10 percent of his gross income each month.

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Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s (February 13)
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Holding: The political question doctrine does not bar courts from deciding whether § 214(d) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, which permits U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem to request that their passports state "Israel" as their place of birth, impermissibly intrudes on the President's powers under the Constitution.
Judgment: Vacated and remanded, 8-1, in an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts on March 26, 2012. Justice Sotomayor filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, in which Justice Breyer joined as to Part I. Justice Alito filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. Justice Breyer filed a dissenting opinion.
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Football fans are a tribal bunch – we love our teams and love to hate others – but fans are also a part of a far wider footballing community and at certain times come together. This is such a time I think.
A young professional footballer, Alhassan 'Ally' Bangoura, who has made 50 appearances for Watford, is facing deportation having been turned down for asylum and ordered to return to Sierra Leone four years after leaving.
The situation has been championed by local Labour MP Claire Ward, who addressed Watford fans this afternoon. She says that the 19-year-old's life could be in danger if he was forced to return to his home country.
She has also called on the Immigration Minister to use his discretionary powers to stop Bangoura's deportation.
Watford Football Club have said on their official site:
'We would urge all supporters of Watford Football Club and Al Bangura to continue to maintain the pressure built up in the last four to five days. It is imperative that we continue to have our voice heard and ensure that Al remains an integral part of the Watford family.'
David Blunkett and Sir Elton John have both written letters to Gerry Sutcliffe, Minister in the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the Professional Footballer's Association have also made representation to the minister.
Blunkett said: "Like Claire Ward MP, I am at a loss to understand why, given the circumstances of Al Bangura's presence in the country and the fact that in other circumstances and forms of employment (including under any new points system for immigration) he would have been able to apply from Sierra Leone as 'highly-skilled', and of course fulfils existing rules in relation to income and contribution. However, the simple fact remains that Al Bangura came here as minor, has put his time here to good use and is a valued member of the community. On these grounds I offer my support even in circumstances where Watford are playing my home team of Sheffield Wednesday on December 22nd – and if the decision were reversed I might live to regret it!'
Bangoura explained: 'I came here when I was 15, with no friends or family. Everything I have now is what I've made for myself and I don't mean just my home, but my relationships.' Adding 'I would love to be a citizen here, if I was given the chance to be British I would take it with both hands. I know that these people are doing their jobs, but they need to look at my situation individually. I'm doing everything right. I'm here, I have my family and my job – I'm not doing anyone any harm. I'm happy to be here, I see this as my home, my country.'
'People from all over the country are supporting me, English people. People from the country I want to live in and that makes me happy to know that. I'm glad they want me to be one of them as well. I want to thank them for what they've done for me. I only hope that I am able to see them soon and show my thanks to all of them. I am just praying every night that the Home Secretary will review this and allow me to stay because inside of me, I know I'm supposed to be here.'
There is a petition set up by a Watford fan site, Click Here To Sign If we all spread the word and get as many family, friends and fellow fans to sign it and if the press pick up on the situation more and more, maybe the pressure will pile on the Government to reverse this decision. It costs you just one minute of your time to add your name and although think that such actions don't have an affect, there is nothing to lose in trying.
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The Devil Rays have already made one trade sending Joey Gathright to the Royals for a promising pitching prospect, J. P. Howell. There are also rumors that several teams (Angels, Rockies, others?) are pursuing Carl Crawford (more on that later). In addition, the Rays have several veterans that are slated to be free agents at the end of the season, including Aubrey Huff, Julio Lugo and Travis Lee. Now the Tampa Tribune is reporting that the Rays are close to completing a deal that would send Mark Hendrickson and Toby Hall to the Dodgers for catching prospect Dioner Navarro.
Navarro was one of the prospects sent to the Dodgers in the three-way trade that sent Randy Johnson to the Yankees and Shawn Green to the Diamondbacks. Navarro is young (22) and is considered a very strong defensive catcher, that is yet to develop as a hitter. He was named the Yankees 2003 minor league player of the year after splitting the season between Tampa and Trenton where he hit .341 with 3 home runs in 58 games. He is considered the Dodger's catcher of the future and has played 25 games in Dodger Blue this season batting .280 with 2 home runs. Navarro is considered expendable with the emergence of Russell Martin. Navarro recently spent a stint on the DL with a bone bruise in his foot and when he was activated was optioned to AAA Las Vegas where his hitting .175 in 11 games.
The question is…Is Hall and Hendrickson too big a price to pay for a catching prospect? We have no trouble trading Hendrickson, who just turned 32, and would be considered to be worth a lot on the trade market as a left handed starter who eats up innings and has a strong ERA if not a record to reflect how well he has pitched this season. His contract for this season is reasonable at approximately $2 million. The problem is Hendrickson is arbitration eligible at the end of the season and likely would command a hefty raise. Toby Hall is in a similar boat making slightly more this season ($2.3 million) and is also arbitration eligible at the end of the season. We can't see Hall increasing his salary too much, but he will command a raise. Where our concern lies is in how the loss of Huff will affect the pitching staff. A pitching staff as young as the Rays' with the likes of Kid K, James Shields, Tim Corcoran, Edwin Jackson and company, needs a veteran presence behind the plate. In addition, Hall is starting to develop into a solid offensive contributor. He will never be an all-star at the plate, but we can see him becoming a .280-20-80 hitter. Then again, Hall is 31 himself, and his shelf-life as a catcher we begin to decline in the next couple of years. But by then, the staff will have matured
So…is Hendrickson and Hall too big a price? Hard to say. The team will save a lot of money from the 2007 payroll. We would guess that team would save $8-12 million by moving both players, which could be used to bring in one or two veteran pitchers. The other reason this trade makes sense, is that catcher is the one position in the minors that the Devil Rays lack a strong major league prospect. Navarro would likely immediately step in and become the Rays' starting catcher for the next decade. The move would make more sense if the team can bring in a veteran backup catcher for the 2007 season at a cheap price.
Of course there could be a small bidding war for Hendrickson and Hall. The Yankees have shown interest in Hall, having scouted him several times. Now that Vince Naimoli is no longer running the team, there is a better chance of the Rays and Yankees working together, considering the animosity between George Steinbrenner and Naimoli. However, we find it hard to believe that the Yankees can generate a package that would be strong enough to entice the Tampa Brass.
So then who is next if this trade goes through? The logical and obvious choices are Huff and Lugo and to a lesser extent, Travis Lee. Huff has started his traditional second half surge in the last couple of weeks, in which he has raised his average from below the Mendoza Line to .242, batting .325 in June after a .175 May and .182 April. Huff and Lugo have been the object of other team's affections for over a year and will be moved before the July 31 trading deadline. Huff could be a target for the Detroit Tigers who could use a DH. Moving Lugo (several teams are interested) would open the door for B. J. 'Don't Call Me Melvin' Upton. The team needs to see if Upton is a Major League shortstop and could use the second half of this season to make that determination. His bat and speed are ready, and need to be in the bigs. The wildcard is Travis Lee. Lee could command a mid-level minor league prospect from a contending team, looking for a solid defensive first baseman that could come off the bench late in games (New York Yankees?).
As the calendar is about to turn to July, the next 5 weeks could be the busiest trading month ever for this young franchise. The new regime has already shown that they are not afraid to pull the trigger on a trade and we would not be surprised if on August 1st, Lugo, Huff, Hendrickson, Hall and Lee are all playing elsewhere.
Rays May Trade Hall, Hendrickson [tbo.com]
Trade bait lures Nats, Brewers [Newsday]
As Upton waits, trading Lugo makes sense [St. Pete Times]


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I just got a 4th gen Time Capsule for my wife to use as her own backup server, and I'm potentially interested in using it as the main router and Wifi AP on my home network. My current router and AP is running OpenWrt and I'm used to it providing several useful services. Can the Airport/Time Capsule provide enough functionality?
I see that it can take a list of MAC addresses and reserve IP addresses for each in its DHCP config. I can also set up arbitrary TCP and UDP port forwarding although not other protocols :-/. But what about local DNS?
My OpenWrt router is configured to be a caching recursive DNS resolver for the local network, and to inject a few records in the results for static assignments I've made (that go along with static DHCP assignments) for various hosts on the local network.
I don't want to hear anything about how Bonjour/mDNS should be the answer to all my problems. It isn't.
I suspect the answer is no (that's too complicated to be "Appley"), and that I'll need to leave the OpenWrt box as the router, and simply add the Time Capsule to the LAN, maybe also serving 5GHz Wifi.


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DALLAS (AP) -- Carmelo Anthony scored 15 of his 19 points in the first quarter to jump-start the New York Knicks' 92-80 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday night.
New York led by as many as 19 points and held off a second-half rally that pulled the Mavericks within six. The Knicks went 2-1 on a four-day trip through Texas.
Dirk Nowitzki had 18 points and nine rebounds for the Mavericks, who lost their fourth consecutive home game. Their previous low score had been 87 points twice this season. The Knicks had allowed a season-low 78 in a victory at Chicago on Dec. 11.
Anthony scored six points during a 12-0 run in the first that gave the Knicks a 24-13 lead. He also led New York with four rebounds, three assists and two steals in the quarter. He finished with seven rebounds, five assists, three steals and a blocked shot.
Kenyon Martin scored six points in a 1:13 span early in the third quarter that gave New York a 58-39 lead. Filling in after starting center Tyson Chandler left because of illness, Martin had 10 of the Knicks' 15 points in the quarter and finished with a season-high 14.
Anthony didn't score in the second quarter, but New York outscored Dallas 23-18 to lead 52-35 at the intermission.
The Mavericks shot 36 percent (13 for 36) from the field in the first half and were 0 for 8 on 3-pointers. Dallas missed 8 of 17 free throws, including four by Nowitzki. He was 3 for 7 from the field and 5 for 9 from the foul line to finish with 11 points and seven rebounds in the half.
The 35 points were the Mavericks' fewest in the first half this season. The Hawks held them to 34 in the second half of an 88-87 loss at Atlanta Nov. 29.
The Mavericks rallied from the 19-point deficit at 58-39 with an 18-7 run that reduced New York's lead to eight. The third quarter ended 67-57.
NOTES: Knicks starting center Tyson Chandler left because of an upper respiratory illness after playing the first 4:25. Martin replaced Chandler after missing Friday's game at Houston because of a sore left ankle. . Metta World Peace was not with the Knicks for the fourth consecutive game. He has said he would undergo platelet-rich plasma therapy Monday in New York. New York coach Mike Woodson said, "We'll know more when we get back." . This was just the fourth time the Knicks have won as many as two games in a three-game trip to Texas. They defeated San Antonio on Thursday before losing at Houston. . The Mavericks' Vince Carter played in his 1,100th NBA game. . Nowitzki had one steal, leaving him one short of 1,000 for his career.


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I've just been reading up on Shor's algorithm, and I find it both fascinating and baffling. I don't really understand much about it, other than that it can factor semiprimes in polynomial time.
Could someone provide a layman's terms explanation of how it works, and why it is reliant on quantum computing?
Keep in mind that whilst I kinda understand the basics of quantum computing (i.e. it uses photons instead of electrons, and bits are replaced with quibits that can be 0, 1 or a superposition of both) I don't know anything in-depth about it. I just know it's supposedly super-fast, compared to classical computing mechanisms.


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RENO — Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said Saturday President Barack Obama and Congress should learn from him and other Republican governors who have put aside partisanship to work with Democratic lawmakers to grow their economies through spending cuts and business tax exemptions.
"Like Washington, Nevada has a politically divided government, but that hasn't stopped our efforts to grow Nevada's economy," Sandoval said in the GOP's response to Obama's weekly radio address.
The former state attorney general and federal judge said no state had been hit harder by the nation's economic recession than Nevada when he first was elected in 2010.
"At our peak, Nevada's unemployment rate was almost 15 percent, and we led the nation in foreclosures and bankruptcies," he said. "Jobs disappeared almost overnight, leaving behind steel skeletons of half-built buildings to memorialize the day the economy froze and the work stopped."
In the face of a potential $3 billion state budget deficit, Sandoval said he and the Democratic-controlled Legislature worked to reduce spending by $500 million, eliminate about 600 state positions and merged or eliminated more than a dozen state agencies.
"Unlike Washington, we had to balance our state budget as Nevada could not borrow its way out of problems," Sandoval said.
"And despite having a politically divided government, in the last two years, Nevada has been able to accomplish much. We have strengthened employment, our economy, and education in our state — in large part because we sit down, put partisanship aside, talk through our disagreements, and find common ground," he said.
Sandoval said state economies respond positively when the size of government is reduced, budgets are balanced and taxes are kept as low as possible.
Chief executives must expect opposition when making difficult decisions, he added.
"But executives must engage those that disagree with them," he said. "They must listen to all ideas, persuade when possible, and respectfully and firmly disagree when necessary."
"Can you just imagine what our economy would look like today if Washington would just take that approach?"


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Teaching STEM As Part Of Early Childhood Skill Development
As the world quickly evolves into a much more digitally-driven landscape, the jobs that we do are changing. There is less need for certain occupations whose work can be done with a computer, some Wi-Fi and even chatbots these days. There is, however, growing need for other jobs, and STEM jobs are in particularly high command.
STEM jobs are on the rise across the globe including Australia. According to the US Department of Commerce, STEM jobs have more than tripled in number over the last ten years. And while most careers are set to grow by 9.8% – STEM based jobs are set to expand by a whopping 17% into the future.
So it is important that our kids get the fundamental grasp of STEM skill development from as early on in their lives as possible. It can be difficult to know exactly how to teach your child STEM skills, so here is a brief overview.
What is STEM?
According to LiveScience, STEM "...is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. Rather than teach the four disciplines as separate and discrete subjects, STEM integrates them into a cohesive learning paradigm based on real-world applications."
So in early childhood development teaching your child STEM skills is all about getting to grips with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in order to give them a solid handle on the subjects before they reach school.
Why do we need to teach STEM to young children?
There has been a fundamental shift in education facilities to provide STEM learning from an early age to ensure that children will be able to develop to their full potential in these subjects. By making it more available all over the nation, educators are also helping to eliminate the gender and ethnic gaps that are generally found in these industries.
In December 2015, the Australian Federal Government announced a National Innovation and Science Agenda. The mantra was to "inspire all Australians – from pre-schoolers to the broader community – to engage with STEM".
The program was given almost $65 million for the professional development of teachers, and to pay for specialised STEM programs in classrooms. There was $5 million in the 2014-15 Budget for similar programs, called "Primary Connections" and "Science by Doing". State governments have also committed significant money to the STEM program.
By teaching children STEM, we are equipping them with the necessary skills to join in making the world a better and more exciting place. Science is all around us and in everything that we do. Engineering is becoming more prominent as we look for green energy solutions and buildings, technology is simply growing bigger in our everyday lives and mathematics is used numerous times a day.
How to teach STEM to children
Teaching STEM to young kids doesn't have to be as complicated as you think it is! Simply teaching children about the world around them and getting them actively involved is teaching them essential science and maths skills will help prepare them for a the future. Using educational toys that encourage engineering, maths or technology is a great way to encourage children to take an interest in these subjects.
Top Toy Picks:
This clock helps to illustrate the evolution of time! The clock has a transparent face with easy-to-read numbers and coloured hands activated by a wheel at the top of the clock. The set comes with 12 colour activity cards which relate to daily activities to help the child learn. For ages 3-6.
Designed to work on the differentiation between sizes, colors, and textures with different themes and rings. These activities are grouped in different levels of difficulty and challenge. For ages 2-5.
This game teaches children how to differentiate between colours, spatial orientation and notions of topology! The activities cards cover a series of exercises to help children identify the orientation and colour of the turtles by placing the plastic figures in the correct position. For ages 2-5.


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Lyons Township vs Waubonsie Valley – Girls Soccer
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Stress in high school student athletes is the subject of our featured segment, presented by Edward-Elmhurst Health.
The boys cross country regional takes off at Oswego East high school. Three heats of races as the season enters its final two weeks.
We examine boys sectional golf, including how each of our six area schools have fared in the IHSA sectionals in this Fast Facts.
The Oswego East girls cross country regional held on a sunny but chilly Saturday morning. Oswego East, Oswego, Moline, East Moline, Rock Island, and West Aurora make up the rest of the field with the five DuPage Valley Conference schools.
It is time for the 2020 DVC girls swimming championships. Naperville Central hosts as two-time defending state champs Neuqua Valley come in to the meet as the favorite.
Maggie Gamboa and Dan Iverson visit the NSW set for Sports Sitdown to discuss their season, presented by BMO Harris Bank.
Aparna Ramakrishnan's created Beyond Charity to help her peers cope with stress and depression in this Off the Field.
Neuqua Senior Trey Borske clocking in at 20 mile per hour! At 215 pounds, that's no small feat and it earns NSW's Fan Play of the Week.
Neuqua Valley welcomes in opponents Waubonsie Valley , Naperville North, Naperville Central, and Metea Valley for this year's DVC girls diving meet.
Benet Academy's Daniella Nenadovich caps a great career with an intense sectional finals match, in which she hits this beauty of a back hand
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The merely superrich buy land. The ultrarich make their own, using special ships called trailing suction hopper dredgers. These leviathans can hoover up to 835,000 cubic feet of sand per hour from the ocean floor and spit it out in a new location with the precision of an engineer. The vessels were originally designed to dredge waterways and repair storm-damaged coastlines. But the Rotterdam, owned by Dutch dredging firm Van Oord, is "rainbowing" sand into the Persian Gulf off the coast of Dubai to help build The World, an artificial archipelago of privately owned islands that will eventually resemble a map of Earth. Next up: Van Oord will terraform Palm Deira, another island destination for Dubai's elite. "Instead of buying half of Manhattan or London, they've decided to invest in their own country," says Bert Groothuizen, Van Oord's marketing and PR manager. When it's finished, Palm Deira will cover 57 square miles – requiring a cool 35 billion cubic feet of sand. The cost: $3.2 billion. But check out the location!
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Seib & Wessel: Obama Sets Overseas Priorities
Speaking at the U.N., President Obama defended America's forceful role in foreign affairs, putting Iran's nuclear program and Israeli-Palestinian peace at the center of his agenda. WSJ's Colleen McCain Nelson reviews the speech.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Posted by Editoress on 01/26/12
In the latest edition of the American publication Outside, writer Bill Gifford has a piece that is creating a stir. Called It's Not About the Lab Rats, the feature article investigates the relationship between Lance Armstrong and his cancer foundation, Livestrong.
Gifford points out that, contrary to what many people believe, Livestrong does not fund research - it has been phasing out that side of its program since 2005, and stopped accepting proposals in 2010. What Livestrong does do, is provide support services; such as helping cancer sufferers access resources, develop financial plans and negotiate through the healthcare system. These services, as Gifford admits, are in short supply, and that Livestrong is providing a valuable service.
Lance Armstrong holding a press conference before the start of the 2010 5th stage of the ATOC
He also states that every investigation undertaken supports Armstrong's contention that he (Armstrong, personally) has never taken monies from the foundation for his personal use or expenses. However, Gifford suggests that the foundation (and Armstrong) continue to perpetuate the myth that they are fighting cancer, at the research level, and that this fallacy helps raise money for Livestrong.
Further, Gifford suggests that Livestrong helps to burnish Armstrong's image, very helpful now that he has left cycling, and is fighting allegations of a systematic program of doping. Gifford provides facts and figures showing that Armstrong receives significant fees for his appearances at events, such as rides and speaking engagements.
In the article, Gifford says "In a sense, Livestrong and Lance are like conjoined twins, each depending on the other for survival. Separating them - or even figuring out where one ends and the other begins - is no small task. The foundation is a major reason why sponsors are attracted to Armstrong; as his agent Bill Stapleton put it in 2001, his survivor story "broadened and deepened the brand ... and then everybody wanted him." But the reverse is also true: Without Lance, Livestrong would be just another cancer charity scrapping for funds."
Further on, he is even more blunt: "Armstrong benefits from his foundation in another, less tangible way: everything he does in connection with Livestrong gets him good press, diluting the flow of scandal stories."
Already, the article has generated huge press - CBC Radio's flagship national morning show - Q - had Bill Gifford on this morning for a nearly 30 minute discussion, and the article has been referenced in most major news sources.
In the end - like most things involving Lance Armstrong - It's Not About the Lab Rats provides yet another complex and confusing glimpse at a man that is a hero to many, and considered the worst kind of cheater by others.
Read the full Bill Gifford article from Outside magazine Here.
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RINGWOOD, N.J., July 1 (UPI) -- A 6-month-old black bear cub in Ringwood, N.J., had to be rescued on Friday night, after he was caught up a tree with his head stuck in a jar.
Officials said they had to help the hungry cookie-lover, who must have found the large plastic jar of animal crackers in the trash.
"He was trying to eat what remained in the jar and pulled the jar over his head," said New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Larry Ragonese. "He got spooked and went up into the tree."
Workers from the Department of Environmental Protection climbed up the tree, tranquilized the bear and brought him back down to safety. Then they cut the jar off of his head.
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'The Voice' Recap: Seventeen-Year-Old Caroline Pennell Dominates the Second Night of Live Rounds
Tonight marked the second evening of the live rounds on 'The Voice' with the members of Team Cee Lo and Team Christina taking their turns in the spotlight.
A Great Big World kicked off the show, performing their single 'Say Something' with additional vocal support from coach Christina Aguilera. After her second performance in two nights, it seems 'The Voice' producers are really making that girl work hard for her paycheck.
The first half of the show showcased the talent on Team Cee Lo, with Amber Nicole the first one to take the stage. Amber was tasked with singing country song 'Wasting All These Tears' by former 'Voice' champ Cassadee Pope. The performance started off promising, but then quickly went downhill, with more off-key screams than substance.
Adam and Blake, shockingly, gave a bit of critique, commenting on the missed "big" note, but overall all the coaches told Amber she did a great job, again showing us that this panel lacks the courage to tell the harsh truth. Nothing but big hugs and hearty pats on the back on this show.
Jonny Gray was next, doing 'Bittersweet Symphony' by the Verve, which was a tad boring to watch, and slightly sleep-inducing. The coaches loved his voice, but overall, it was evident they weren't overly wowed by Mr. Gray. Better luck next time, Jonny… if there is a next time (zing!).
Then it was Tamara Chauniece's turn, who was assigned 'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor. Kind of a risky choice, since this song has "karaoke" written all over it, but despite this, Tamara did a decent job and showed some major attitude. But overall, in comparison to last night's live show, these first few performers were majorly underwhelming.
Blake thanked Tamara for looking so beautiful, and Cee Lo made sure to comment on her looks as well. For a show that is supposed to be only about "the voice," the coaches sure spend a lot of time commenting on appearance…
Next was rocker Kat Robichaud, slowing it down a bit with the heartfelt 'She Keeps Me Warm' by Mary Lambert. After her performance, Kat knelt down and gave a long embrace to a girl in the audience. When Carson asked if she knew the girl, Kat replied, "No! There she is, she's here, she's experiencing this with everybody!" Umm. Okay. So Kat's a bit of an oddball. Maybe that will work in her favor? Only time will tell.
The coaches appreciated her performance and her bizarre hugging of a stranger, but ultimately felt she didn't fully reach her potential. Kat was unphased by their comments, continuing to show gratitude, and likely planning her next attack on an unsuspecting female audience member.
Next it was time for fan favorite, Caroline Pennell, the adorable 17 year-old with the voice of an angel. Cee Lo chose 'We're Going to Be Friends' by the White Stripes, because he felt the song spoke about him and Caroline: "If we went to school together, we would have been friends and I would have protected you from bullies and carried your books." Ladies and gentleman, Cee Lo, The Protector!
Caroline did a gorgeous rendition of the song, with her voice as pristine and perfect as always. Sigh. We love you Caroline. Hopefully America agrees and we will see this girl all the way until the finale.
Blake said, "I could literally be getting an amputation, and listening to your singing, and all I would be thinking about would be cotton candy." A strange visualization there, Blake, but no arguments. We are totally Team Caroline.
Team Christina started off their half with Josh Logan doing 'Crazy' by Gnarls Barkley. The pressure was on, since Cee Lo Green, the original 'Crazy' artist, was sitting right in front of Josh while he performed. But Josh looked extremely relaxed and in his element on the stage, channeling more Stevie Wonder than Cee Lo in his version of the song. Cee Lo commented that since he wrote the song in more of a rap-style, it takes someone specially trained to sing it, and Adam wished he would have scaled the song back a little. Yikes. Considering the coaches don't offer up criticism too easily, it looks like our pal Josh might be in a bit of trouble.
Next was southern belle Olivia Henken, taking on Katy Perry's enormous hit 'Roar.' There's no doubt that Olivia has some strong vocal chops, but unfortunately, she missed several of the big notes and didn't live up to the original. Although who could ever hold a candle to Katy Perry, queen of all pop?
Stephanie Ann Johnson sang the Ray Charles classic 'Georgia On My Mind.' Stephanie was a huge fan of the song to begin with, so her familiarity with the tune gave her a slight edge going in to the live performance.
Adam admitted he was nervous for Stephanie's take on the song, as it is a favorite of his, but he was impressed and felt she made it her own. There is something undeniably adorable about Stephanie, and it's hard not to be charmed by her big smile and sweet personality. Although she did a fair job, it is difficult to see her making it to the end of this competition. But it's still very early days in Voice Land and anything could happen.
Next up from Team Christina: Matthew Schuler. This week, Matthew sang the very pop culturally relevant 'Wrecking Ball' by Miley Cyrus. Matthew actually distracted us enough to make us forget about Miley swinging naked on a wrecking ball, which we'd say is a fairly solid testament of his talent. His voice fizzled a bit on the last note, but we can forgive him for that small snag in what was otherwise a good performance. Based on the screams from the many girls in the audience, Matthew should live to see another week.
Ending the show was Jacquie Lee singing 'I Put a Spell On You' by Screamin' Jay Hawkins. And screamin', she did, belting her way through the entire song. Adam noted that her emotion and connection to the song went way beyond her 16 years and coach Christina was beaming with pride. And with that, week one of live rounds came to a close. Let the voting begin!


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We are a team of three Realtors serving the Haliburton and Muskoka Lakes area in Ontario's Cottage Country. With a wealth of experience in senior management, marketing and real estate, the Chestnut Park Cottage Country team, comprised of Greg McInnis, Shirley Rule and Rob Serediuk, have come together to provide the ultimate package of comprehensive real estate services. Whether you are looking at buying or selling a property in Haliburton or Muskoka, we are confident that you will be 100% satisfied with our services.
We are committed to helping our clients realize their real estate objectives. What separates us from the pack is our unique team approach to real estate services. As experienced real estate professionals, we work together, utilizing all of our individual strengths, skills and expertise to sell your home or cottage fast, or to help you purchase the perfect Haliburton or Muskoka cottage in your price range. We want to be your Realtor and would sincerely appreciate the opportunity to discuss in depth, how working together, we can help you achieve your real estate goals.
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Chestnut Park Real Estate Ltd., an exclusive affiliate of Christie's International Real Estate, is one of Ontario's leading luxury real estate companies. At Chestnut Park Haliburton, we are proud to be associated with this exceptional real estate company that is recognized for its integrity, superlative customer service and outstanding sales record. You can rest assured that our real estate office will deliver the same level of exceptional service that you have come to expect from the Chestnut Park brand.
With our in-depth knowledge of the Haliburton and Muskoka real estate market, professional expertise, and company resources, let us develop a custom marketing plan to sell your Haliburton or Muskoka Lakes property. We will evaluate your home and compare it to similar homes sold in the area, to determine what it is worth in today's market in order to arrive at the best listing price. We will present to you a comprehensive and detailed marketing plan, outlining how we will market your home. We can offer advice on any number of real estate topics such as when to sell, costs that may be involved in selling your home, what to do to get your home ready for showings, how to stage your home to make it look its best to potential buyers, and more.
We will be with you every step of the way through the selling process, providing timely feedback from potential buyers and other real estate agents. As one of the top realtors of waterfront properties, our agency offers the best Haliburton and Muskoka waterfront homes for sale, making shopping for real estate in cottage country a pleasure.
Selling waterfront homes and cottages in both the Haliburton Highlands and Muskoka Lakes, Chestnut Park's cottage country team has listings of lakefront properties for sale on many of the best lakes in cottage country, including Haliburton's Redstone, Kennisis, Drag, Maple, Boshkong, Twelve Mile, Mountain Lake, Horseshoe, Halls, Gull, Soyers, Lake Kashagawigamog, Koshlong, Kushog, and many of beautiful smaller Haliburton lakes and rivers. And cottages throughout Muskoka, including on the magnificent Big Three L of Rosseau, Joseph, and Lake Muskoka, as well as other popular Muskoka lakes and rivers. As full-time cottage country residents, Rob, Greg, and Shirley are extremely knowledgeable about Muskoka and Haliburton and their lakes and can offer invaluable advice to those considering the purchase of lakefront property in Muskoka or Haliburton.
What sets the Chestnut Park Cottage Country team of Greg McInnis, Shirley Rule and Rob Serediuk apart from other Haliburton and Muskoka real estate agents is our strong drive to succeed and our resolute commitment to ensure the complete satisfaction of every client we serve. We work together as a team, employing all our resources to deliver Haliburton and Muskoka realty services that are second to none.
The Chestnut Park Cottage Country Team lists and sells many wonderful high-end Muskoka and Haliburton properties, as well as midrange and entry level cottages and lakefront homes. Whether you are shopping for an executive waterfront home in Muskoka or selling a modest family lakefront cottage in Haliburton, we will provide the same exceptional level of service. We invite you to call us for an appointment; so that we can meet and discuss in depth your specific real estate needs and how we can help to make them a reality, or you can drop by the Cottage Country Team's Haliburton real estate office on Kennisis Lake Road in Haliburton.
When buying a lakefront home, cottage or recreational property in Ontario, there are many things that buyers must take into consideration. Before you even begin your search, it is important to assess your needs. What is your budget? Do you prefer Haliburton, Muskoka, or the Kawarthas? How many bedrooms and bathrooms? Do you want your cottage to be on a big lake like Lake Muskoka or Kashagawigamog, or would you be happy on a smaller lake? Is deep water off the dock important or is a shallow entry waterfront fine? Do you want a turn-key vacation home or a fixer-upper cottage? Must the cottage be winterized? These are just a few of the things that Ontario cottage buyers should think about before they begin shopping for a cottage property. Your Cottage Country Team agent can help you with you cottage wish list, and perhaps offer suggestions that you might not have considered. With all the necessary information in hand, the search for your ideal vacation property can begin.
In the case of recreational properties, lakefront cottages and waterfront homes in Muskoka and Haliburton, finding comparable listings or sales is often much harder to do as the types of lakefront properties in Ontario can be quite diverse. There are some Haliburton and Muskoka vacation homes and cottage properties that are so unique that finding a similar property with which to compare would be next to impossible. This is where an experienced cottage country realtor can be your most important resource when buying or selling a recreational property in Muskoka, Lake of Bays, Kawartha Lakes, and Haliburton.
For all your Ontario cottage country real estate needs, let the experts at Chestnut Park Haliburton guide you through the waterfront home or cottage buying and selling process. We are the Haliburton and Muskoka real estate specialists. Seasoned professionals, with many years of combined experience in the sale and marketing of lakefront homes, executive cottages and prime Haliburton and Muskoka waterfront properties most sought after lakes in cottage country, including Lake Muskoka, Joseph, Rosseau, Fairy, Mary, Lake of Bays, Kawagama, Kennisis, Soyers, Kashagawigamog, Gull, Boshkong, Drag, and Redstone.
When many people think of Ontario cottage country, the first place that comes to mind is Muskoka. And no wonder. With towering pines, clear blue lakes, bold granite outcroppings, charming towns, and endless variety of attractions and recreational opportunities, Muskoka, Ontario will instantly have you under its spell. Here in Canada's most prestigious tourist region and best known cottage country destination, you will be enthralled with the natural beauty of the landscape, with its abundant forests, parks and wetlands, and the predominance of pink granite rock of the Canadian Shield. As well, Muskoka has a thriving arts community, offering many arts and cultural events and attractions. Home to vibrant towns and villages, including Huntsville, Gravenhurst, Bracebridge, Port Carling, Bala, Dorset, Bayville, Rosseau and Port Sydney, Muskoka offers the best of both town and country.
There are many reasons to consider the Haliburton Highlands when you are thinking of purchasing an Ontario cottage property or second home in cottage country. Haliburton is a great place to own a vacation home. It is also a wonderful place to live and is becoming a very desirable retirement community to retire to. Haliburton is a top Ontario year-round vacation destination because of its unsurpassed natural beauty and wide variety of outdoor recreational opportunities for everyone to enjoy, even the most avid sportsman. It's a pleasant drive to get to the Highlands from the GTA. Located just 2.5 hours, north east of Toronto, you can drive to Haliburton via scenic routes that avoid the bumper to bumper weekend traffic found on Highways 400 and 11.
Two other very important reasons that you may want to seriously consider the Haliburton Highlands when shopping for your next lakeside cottage or executive waterfront home are Haliburton's lower real estate prices and lower taxes. Compared to longer-established cottage country areas like the Muskoka Lakes region, Haliburton real estate is a true bargain. Cottage and home buyers get much more for their money in Haliburton than they would in Muskoka. As well, taxes are lower here, even though Haliburton has all the services found in Muskoka, including two brand new hospitals.
For generations, Muskoka has been regarded as North America's quintessential cottage country destination. Ontario's premier cottage country and resort area, Muskoka's popularity is due to its breath-taking landscape, abundance of clean lakes, and its close proximity to the major urban centres of Ontario's Golden Horseshoe region and the northern states. Located in central Ontario, Muskoka is just two hours north of Metropolitan Toronto, via major highways, Highway 400 and Highway 11. Muskoka encompasses an area which extends from Georgian Bay in the west, Lake Couchiching in the south, and the western border of Algonquin Provincial Park in the east. Muskoka covers approximately 2,500 square miles (6,475 sq. km.) and boasts more than 1,600 lakes.
There are a few reasons why some cottage country buyers restrict their search for waterfront property strictly to the Muskoka area. Generally, Muskoka buyers are drawn to the area's Algonquin setting and clean clear lakes. With its large interconnecting lakes that extend for miles, Muskoka is particularly attractive to boaters who like to spend time on the water and have the ability to cruise to shops and restaurants. Many pick Muskoka because they have a personal connection to the area. Cottaging in Muskoka has been a tradition for several generations. Others prefer Muskoka because they like that there are larger towns with more to do. Some lean toward Muskoka because they believe that the drive to and from the GTA is shorter. For the high-end waterfront buyer, there seems to be no substitute for Muskoka. While other cottage country areas like Haliburton and Lake of Bays have their share of spectacular $1M-plus executive cottages, most buyers at this price point want Muskoka, and specifically Lake Joseph, Lake Rosseau, or Lake Muskoka.
Retire in cottage country? Now is the perfect time to make the move to cottage country. With GTA house prices at record highs, sell your equity-rich Toronto home and buy a beautiful lakeside home in Muskoka or Haliburton and have plenty of money left over to travel and do the things you want to do. The dream of retirement living in cottage country is alive and well. Every year, more and more people choose to leave the city and live the good life by the lake in Muskoka and Haliburton. Compared to Toronto, real estate prices in both Muskoka and Haliburton are still reasonable. Although Haliburton and Muskoka real estate prices are also on an upswing, there are still many areas where you can buy an affordable waterfront home.
Haliburton has a large population of active seniors and is becoming a very popular community for retirement living in Ontario. Every year, more and more people move to Haliburton County to make the most of their retirement years, and it's no wonder. Aside from low real estate prices; where you can get much more house for your money, and low property taxes, Haliburton is simply a great place to live. Haliburton has all the shops and services you could possibly need. Haliburton has a thriving arts community and a wide variety of service clubs and dozens of social organizations so you can be as busy and involved as you like. This beautiful Ontario cottage country destination has a theater company, snow mobile club, bridge club, multiple music clubs, outdoor associations, quilt guilds, ATV Club, men and ladies golf leagues, University Women Group, Friendship Force Group, cycling club, Haliburton Grannies for Africa, book clubs, curling clubs, CARP, photography clubs, and so much more. You may be surprised at the diversity and variety of things to do in Haliburton. No matter where your interests lie, there are more than enough activities and events in Haliburton for fun and satisfying retirement living in Ontario. The Haliburton Highlands seems to have it all. Here you can curl, swim, ski, hunt, attend alive opera performances, golf, take a yoga class, hike, boat, join a theatre group, dogsled, play in an orchestra or sing in a choir, fish, or simply enjoy the peace and quiet of this rugged, yet charming Ontario lake area.
If you are thinking about buying a Muskoka cottage or Muskoka lakefront home, why not consider including the Haliburton Highlands region as well in your property search for the ideal lakefront cottage or waterfront home in Ontario cottage country. Haliburton, with large tracks of forested wilderness, hundreds of beautiful clear, clean lakes, charming towns and villages that provide all the shops, services and entertainment options that you could possibly need, is not only less expensive than Muskoka, but, depending where you are traveling from in the GTA, Haliburton is often easier to drive to. And, when the 404 Highway extension to Keswick is completed, the drive to Haliburton will be even faster.
Keeping their real estate clients in the know is just one of the many ways that the realtors of Chestnut Park Haliburton deliver a level of service that is well above the competition. Timely communications with all of their clients, both buyers and sellers, is all part of the top-notch service this successful Haliburton real estate company provides on an ongoing basis. Sellers who list their properties with Chestnut Park Real Estate Limited Haliburton can sign in online to review a personal activity report on their property for sale. The activity report contains weekly updates on how your real estate agent is marketing your property, property showings, open houses, and feedback from prospective buyers and other agents. As well, your Haliburton realtor team mails out regular updates on local market conditions to provide buyers and sells with all the latest information. To help Haliburton property buyers find the ideal property in their price range, a weekly mailing that lists all properties available in their desired price category and new listings for properties that fit the buyer's criteria is emailed to Chestnut Park Real Estate Haliburton clients. The system provides current property information, including updates like price changes and properties that have sold. A direct link to each listing is provided for buyers to learn more about each property and to view photos and/or virtual tours.
Naturally, a Chestnut Park agent is just a click or a phone call away if a buyer has any further questions or would like to arrange a showing. Chestnut Park Real Estate Haliburton likes to keep their home sellers well-informed too. Haliburton property owners who have their property listed with Chestnut Park also receive weekly mailings about all the recent real estate activity in the area that would be of interest to them. The mailings include all comparable properties for sale in Haliburton, with updates when a property sells or when there has been a reduction in the listing price. This way, sellers can see the properties that they are competing against, compare their property with others that are for sale, and get a better idea of what is selling in Haliburton.
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An established Ontario cottage country area, the Haliburton Highlands is also popular Central Ontario resort and vacation destination. In addition to its many inhabitants of the feather, fowl and four-legged variety, Haliburton is home many artists and craftspeople. The magnificent scenery inspires artist and photographers alike. Haliburton's thriving arts community grows every year as more people are drawn to the area. The Haliburton School of the Arts, located at the beautiful new Fleming College Haliburton Campus offers dozens of certificate programs and workshops. Its summer program which offers a variety of weekly art courses has been attracting students to the Highlands for over 25 years. The long-running Highlands Fall Studio is another popular draw to the area.
Once a well-kept secret, the Highlands of Haliburton is slowly becoming one of the most up-and-coming locations in Ontario for recreational property and cottage ownership. In the summer months, Haliburton lakes are warm and inviting; offering so many amazing ways to enjoy time on the water. In the wintertime, few places in Ontario can rival Haliburton's many kilometers of Nordic ski trails and groomed snowmobile trails. And with an almost guaranteed abundance of snow each year, Haliburton trails generally remain snow-covered longer than other areas in the province for more wintertime fun.


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Police Discover New Uses for Old Technology
Radio transmitters help police track stolen items, such as bicycles, laptops, boats and firearms -- even drugs.
The rapid evolution of technology in recent years has put a lot of focus on what cutting-edge technology can do -- but can new ideas and tactics sometimes come from older technology?
For some police departments, the answer is yes. In the past few decades, they have found a specialized use for radio telemetry technology -- a method of transmitting a signal accurately through the air that was first developed in 1930 and subsequently used to track rockets.
These days, many municipalities allow for Alzheimer's patients and people with autism to be equipped with lightweight transmitter bracelets that allow police to find them should they wander away from their caretakers. These same radio transmitters also help police track stolen items, such as bicycles, laptops, boats and firearms -- even drugs.
Telemetry Tracking Beginnings
A small company based in southern Illinois is making much of this tracking possible. Called Wildlife Materials, which started out making transmitters for tracking animals, the company now has a division called Care Trak, which outfits police and sheriffs departments around the country with transmitter bracelets and tracking receivers.
"You see it in the news all the time," said Mike Chylewski, vice president of Care Trak, "where they're looking for some guy that has Alzheimer's disease and wandered away from his house, and they get everybody in the world out there looking for him -- and dogs and helicopters and Boy Scouts and fire departments. This eliminates all that. And within minutes you'll be able to tell what direction you're in."
Radio telemetry is extremely accurate, and with the right equipment, it's literally possible to find a needle in a haystack. Police simply point the antenna in various directions until they get a signal on which direction their person went. "It's like playing hot and cold when you were a kid," Chylewski said.
Old Technology, New Tricks?
Since police got their hands on this technology in 1986, he said, it has been used to find thousands of people, with an average search time of less than 30 minutes. But what's perhaps more interesting is how law enforcement has more recently started using the technology: They don't talk about it often (and none would talk about it on the record), but radio transmitters are used in police and sheriff's departments nationwide to curtail various illegal behaviors.
In one such covert operation, police found a field where a large crop of marijuana was being grown, Chylewski said, but they didn't want to stake out the field for weeks or even months waiting for someone to harvest the crop. So the police department commissioned Wildlife Materials to make a radio transmitter small enough to fit inside a marijuana bud. An officer took the transmitter, which was painted green, and tied it inside a marijuana bud in the field.
Police could then track the harvest, but spend less time staking out the field. Once a day, or every couple of days, police drove within a half-mile of the field and could hear a chirp from their tracking receiver, indicating the plant had not yet been harvested.
Then one day, police turned on their receiver and it was silent, Chylewski said -- the field had been harvested. "Now what they do is either drive around town and see if they pick up a signal somewhere, or they go up in a helicopter," he said. "And that'll give you 10 times the tracking range."
Eventually, Chylewski said, police picked the signal back up in town and tracked it to a man's basement. Police found $250,000 worth of drugs in that basement, and the grower was given a three-year prison sentence. "This guy had been growing dope for about 10 years," he said. "The cops were just tired of playing his game, so we focused on it and took care of it."
The applications of radio telemetry for law enforcement are almost limitless. "Years ago, we used to put transmitters in executives' brief cases that were going down to South America because of the risk of kidnapping," he said.
But what is more common today is using radio transmitters to bait and track high-theft items. Chylewski has worked with police around the country to identify theft of everything from bicycles, laptops and boat motors, to piles of 2x4's on a construction site. Typically police will bait thieves with a commonly stolen item, he said, and hope that they find someone who was a big contributor to local theft. "We've recovered thousands of bicycles from universities by baiting the bicycle," he said, adding that in some cases police use GPS also, but sometimes it doesn't work because of GPS' limitations.
For tracking some things, like cargo or vehicles, GPS can be superior, but when tracking people or trying to find which apartment unit a potential thief is in, telemetry is more accurate, Chylewski said.
GPS also requires a lot more power than telemetry. In the case of the marijuana bud, a GPS transmitter probably would have lost battery power before the field was harvested. The radio transmitter was on for 21 straight days, Chylewski said.
"Sometimes high-tech is great," he said. "But there's other times where low-tech works much, much better."
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Well, I mean, okay, other than the billion people who have told me His Dark Materials is amazing.
This is mostly on me—I'd heard that Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy was good, and had been meaning to read it for a long time. Plus, pretty much the entire world has already gone and said that these books are good. It's really my bad for not listening until now.
All the same, I started the first book in the series, The Golden Compass a couple days ago, and I'm so fully on board it's ridiculous. It has everything:
- A considered fantasy world that instantly feels believable and real
- Ties to the real world that are at once understandable and fantastic
- Lore that is logical and organic
- A dark, sharp take on real-world issues that is appropriate for both kids and adults
- Good writing. Like, really good. Much better writing than certain other popular modern British fantasy series.
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Have you read these books? Are you interested in them? (You should be!) I think that I'll post a few updates in the off topic as I make my way through the series. It can be like a casual Kotaku book club. I'll post again once I've finished The Golden Compass.
In the meantime: What are some other less-super-famous fantasy series that are worth checking out? Is the movie version of The Golden Compass as bad as it sounds? Why on earth would someone try to make a video game out of this?
Feel free to discuss that, or anything else in the comments or over in the off-topic open thread.
I'll be off for the next few days, so don't burn Kotaku down without me. Have a great weekend!


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Mr. Jeremy Bulloch, our beloved actor of big Boba, has recently announced the release of his new book, Flying Solo.
For those of you who haven't been keeping an eye on Mr. Bulloch's new website, he has been keeping people up to date on the progress of his book. This book, limited to only 2000 copies, was just recently announced as finished, and more information is soon to come on how you can order this book directly, online.
More information, including a picture and teaser, can be found at jeremybulloch.com.


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Tue night A&S and Fighter Practice moving to Mon after Festival 2015
Monday night is the new Tuesday night!
A&S and Fighter Practice have been held on Tuesday nights for a really long time… but not any more. A week after Rowany Festival, we are moving those activities to Monday nights instead.
Same venue, same times… but now on a Monday!!! WOW, I know 🙂


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Braun's focus on return, move to right field
Saturday marks slugger's first team workout since serving suspension
PHOENIX -- Two years and some 50 yards removed from the site of a remarkable 2012 news conference in which he proclaimed his innocence and attacked his detractors, Ryan Braun stood in the shade at Maryvale Baseball Park and said he was sorry.
"I made a huge mistake," he said Thursday after reporting to Brewers camp. "I wish that I could change it. I can't change it. My whole life, I've tried to do nothing but good, and just because I made a mistake doesn't mean that [I] will stop doing good."
Referencing that regrettable news conference, Braun said sheepishly, "Different tone today than it was that day."
The Brewers' first full-squad workout is Saturday, and for the first time since last July, when he drew a suspension from Major League Baseball for violating the league's drug policy, Braun will be a full participant.
From a purely baseball standpoint, he is a fascinating player in Milwaukee's camp. Braun is moving to right field after six years in left so the team can make room for slugging prospect Khris Davis. Braun is also something of a health risk, having been compromised in 2013 long before the suspension by a nagging right hand injury. His .498 slugging percentage was the lowest of Braun's career.
Those issues will occupy Braun and the Brewers over the next five-plus weeks. Braun is happy to let the focus shift back to the field.
"It's great. It's exciting," he said. "Obviously, I've had a lot of downtime with my extended offseason. I'm certainly excited to be back, excited to be in Arizona, excited to meet my new teammates, looking forward to the challenge of learning a new position. I'm just excited to be back to playing baseball."
Still facing questions
Braun spoke for 10 minutes in his third press conference since accepting a season-ending suspension from Major League Baseball last July 22 and repeatedly expressed regret for his "mistake," but again refused to provide any additional details beyond his written statement last August. In it, he admitted using banned substances to speed his recovery from an injury.
On Thursday, he was asked what motivated him to accept the suspension instead of mounting another appeal. He was asked whether he took banned substances outside of 2011. He was asked whether he had done anything to mend his friendship with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Each time, Braun referred to his previous statements and declined to elaborate.
He was asked why he succumbed to PED use in the first place.
"If I had a good answer, I would be happy to provide it to you," Braun said. "Like I said, if I could go back, I would do things differently."
Is he troubled by the fact some fans will always suspect him of cheating?
"I have no control over other people's thoughts, ideas, opinions," Braun said. "I am very confident and secure in who I am as a person and my abilities as a baseball player. All I can do is focus on this year, moving forward, and continuing to be one of the best players in baseball, as I have been throughout my career."
That includes 2012, when Braun played all season under suspicion after winning his appeal by arguing the chain of custody of his urine sample. Braun batted .319 with a National League-leading and career-best 41 home runs that year, and finished second in NL MVP balloting to the Giants' Buster Posey.
Braun believes he can be that player again.
"I think I'm pretty strong mentally and emotionally, and I'm able to deal with adversity and challenges," Braun said. "As baseball players, we're all regular people, normal people who all deal with challenges and adversity. I think the biggest challenge sometimes in this game is not having peripheral vision. You want to just focus on the task at hand. I was able to do that pretty well in 2012.
"As a competitor, I enjoy that hostile environment. I enjoy the challenge of going into an opposing team's ballpark and dealing with that hostile environment. I try to use that as fuel, use that as motivation."
Does he expect to be rusty after his long layoff?
"I don't think there's any difference between six months or four or five months, whatever a typical offseason is," Braun said. "At the beginning of Spring Training you're always rusty."
Brewers manager Ron Roenicke hopes his star outfielder can shake that rust in short order. The Brewers face a very challenging early season schedule, beginning with the Braves at home and the World Series champion Red Sox in Boston.
As far as Roenicke is concerned, Braun has served his time and deserves an opportunity to move on.
"We need him on this club, and he's paid the penalty that Major League Baseball has put in place, and it's over with," Roenicke said. "I think we all make mistakes, and we're pretty forgiving people. I think everything will be fine. I think [teammates] will welcome him back really well."
Roenicke reiterated that he has heard everything he needs to hear from Braun, and said he expects the same level of production from a player who produced an NL Rookie of the Year season in 2007, and drove in 100 runs in each of the three subsequent seasons before Braun was ever connected to PEDs. Roenicke indicated he believes Braun only took banned substances in 2011, when he first ran afoul of MLB's drug program.
"So I expect him to be the same player, yes," Roenicke said. "He's in great shape. He's in a good frame of mind. He knows this stuff is behind him, and I expect him to come out and be the kind of guy that he's always been."
Position switch
That guy will be playing a new position.
Davis, a slugger who turned 26 over the winter, did enough last season in Braun's absence (11 home runs, .596 slugging percentage in 136 at-bats) to convince Brewers officials that he deserves a more prominent role in 2014. Davis does not possess a strong arm, so Braun is moving to right field. In the long term, the Brewers believe it is generally easier to find left fielders. In the short term, it opens the opportunity for Davis.
"That's never an easy decision," Roenicke said. "I actually thought about it my first year here [in 2011]. Usually, when you see that good a defensive outfielder, a guy who can throw, you usually think of him as a right fielder. … It won't be that easy of a transition, even though he's a very good left fielder. It's different when that ball turns the other way."
The Brewers will put Braun through more defensive drills to get him up to speed, Roenicke said, and as usual will let Braun have a say in his schedule once Cactus League games begin.
Braun is not sure what to expect in right field.
"I haven't really been out there a whole lot," he said. "I guess everything that I'm accustomed to in left field will be opposite in right field. So I don't anticipate it necessarily being easy."
At Miller Park, Braun will face some challenges in right field. In addition to the 90-degree caroms sometimes produced by grounders down the line, Miller Park features a party area in right field that juts onto what used to be the warning track. The outfield wall takes several unusual turns because of that.
"He'll get used to it," Roenicke said. "You've got to be able to turn your head off the ball and run and see exactly where that cut-out is. The throwing part won't be an issue because he throws well and is accurate. It's a lot easier when you have a straight wall and it's curved nice for you and it's padded and all that. Maybe he plays a little deeper at the beginning to help that out. I know [former right fielder Norichika] Aoki played deeper."
The Brewers will also work to find ways to keep Braun healthy. Before the suspension last year, he was severely diminished by neck and thumb issues that sapped Braun's power. The thumb is something of a long-term concern, Roenicke indicated.
"The trainers are working to pad up either the gloves he puts on or the bat itself in trying to get a little pressure off that," Roenicke said. "I know he doesn't like that, because he really likes to feel the bat on his fingers, and you lose a little bit of feeling [when you pad the bat]. Hopefully they come up with something that will help that and we won't fight with that all year."
Braun said the thumb felt "pretty good," and "a lot better than it was."
"I would imagine with any injury, there is always a chance of recurrence," he said. "So we will do whatever we can to prevent it."
At some point, Roenicke hopes, things will return to normal for Braun.
"I'm hoping he gets off to a great start, and the better he does, the less he's going to hear about things," Roenicke said. "Hopefully he'll have a great year."


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Frederic Rhinelander King, East Elevation, Proposed Library Addition. Dumbarton Oaks Archives (AR.AD.MW.GL.001).
2013 marks the fiftieth anniversaries of the Rare Book Reading Room and the Pre-Columbian Collection pavilion at Dumbarton Oaks. These additions – with their remarkable architectural contrasts – were constructed by Dumbarton Oaks under the patronage of its founders, Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. The Dumbarton Oaks Archives has considerable holdings – including architectural drawings, plans, a model, and correspondence – relating to the design and construction of these two buildings between 1959 and 1963. As with all of the architecture that the Blisses commissioned at Dumbarton Oaks, the Blisses were closely involved with the architects of these additions and their plans. For example, the architect of the Rare Book Reading Room, Frederic Rhinelander King, sent the eighty-year-old Mildred Bliss colored pencil drawings on August 4, 1960, to help her envision his design concepts for the new building, which was to house her collection of some six thousand volumes on garden design. These drawings included one of the east elevation (seen above). King wrote to her:
Dear Mildred, since my visit last week I have been at work on the enclosed sketches which I am sending you for your criticism and comment. No. 1 is a study of the end of the Library (East Elevation). I feel quite strongly that the French doors should remain in the center as I think you should go out of the room on the main axis and not at the sides.
This and other drawings and photographs from the Archives are presently on view in the exhibition Architectural Contrasts in the Orientation and Bliss Galleries until January 5, 2014.


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LOS ANGELES, May 25 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Southern California found a class of pharmaceuticals they say can both prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease in mice.
Lead researcher Christian Pike of the USC Davis School of Gerontology said the drugs, known as "TSPO ligands," are currently used for certain types of neuroimaging.
"We looked at the effects of TSPO ligand in young adult mice when pathology was at an early stage, and in aged mice when pathology was quite severe," Pike said in a statement. "TSPO ligand reduced measures of pathology and improved behavior at both ages."
The team's findings, published online in the Journal of Neuroscience, found four treatments -- once per week over four weeks -- in older mice resulted in a significant decrease of Alzheimer's-related symptoms and improvements in memory, meaning that TSPO ligands may actually reverse some elements of Alzheimer's disease.
Pike and co-authors include USC postdoctoral scientists Anna M. Barron, Anusha Jayaraman and Joo-Won Lee; as well as Donatella Caruso and Roberto C. Melcangi of the University of Milan and Luis M. Garcia-Segura of the Instituto Cajal in Spain, said the data suggested the possibility the drugs could prevent and treat Alzheimer's.
"It's just mouse data, but extremely encouraging mouse data," Pikes said. "There is a strong possibility that TSPO ligands similar to the ones used in our study could be evaluated for therapeutic efficacy in Alzheimer's patients within the next few years."


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The Concession Golf Club may soon have a new majority owner.
Excel Golf, a family partnership operated by Sarasota resident Bruce Cassidy Sr., today announced a tenative agreement to buy a majority interest in the club.
Cassidy will be leading the group, which will focus on the continued development of the club and growing its membership while brining financial stability to the golf side of the golf and residential development.
Excel Golf intends to buy additional interest in The Concession Golf Club but not in the residential portion of The Concession, which will continue to be operated by The Concession Land Development, LLC and owned by Core Development.
Cassidy and Excel Golf will not have any control or investment in The Concession Land Development, against part of which Wachovia filed a foreclosure notice recently. However, Cassidy said he expects the success of The Concession Golf Club will have a positive influence on the residential real estate development. The golf club has not been involved in any foreclosure actions.
"I am extremely pleased to announce our group's intentions to acquire a majority ownership interest in The Concession Golf Club, as it is one of the finest new courses in America and deserves the attention to quality and detail that we pledge will drive our management here," Cassidy said. "I have a vested interest in the success of The Concession, not just in golf but also in the real estate development, as I own residential properties here and fully intend on making the golf side of The Concession a big success."
Cassidy is building a home within The Concession. He expects it will be completed in December.
Cassidy's and Excel Golf's involvement with The Concession dates to 2008. He formed the entity to hold the interests of Excel Family Partners LP following an investment he made that enabled construction of The Concession's 33,000-square-foot golf clubhouse to begin. The clubhouse is expected to open this fall.
According to the terms of the sale, Kevin Daves, who owns Core Development, will retain a minority ownership interest in the golf business. Daves is the original developer of the residential community and golf club.
"Bruce and I share the same goal of making The Concession one of the best golf clubs in the country," Daves said. "I am very excited that Bruce is bringing his financial resources and business experience to ensure the long-range stability of the club."
Cassidy and Daves expect the transaction will close in about 60 days.