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Friday, May 31, 2013

Alec Baldwin to host Nat Geo's weekly 'Night of Exploration'

By Tony Maglio

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Alec Baldwin will host National Geographic Channel's weekly "Night of Exploration" beginning Friday, June 14, the network announced on Thursday.

The Emmy-award winning actor's first on-air hosting duty will be "Crossing the Ice," an adventure across Antarctica.

"Alec has the perfect combination of energy and gravitas that we think our Night of Exploration viewers will love," said David Lyle, CEO, National Geographic Channels. "Each week, he will introduce the compelling stories of people around the globe whose drive to climb higher, dive lower or dig deeper never cease to amaze."

This is not the first time Baldwin has appeared on National Geographic Channel. In 2010, he served as narrator for the miniseries, "Great Migrations."

Nat Geo's "Night of Exploration," airing Fridays at 8 p.m.ET/PT, is being rolled out along with five new series: "Battleground Afghanistan," "Eyewitness War," "Inside Secret America," "Inside the American Mob" and "The Castle." Returning series include: "Ultimate Survival Australia," "Life Below Zero," "Taboo USA," "Diggers" and "Doomsday Preppers."

Below is the network's description of each new series.

"Battleground Afghanistan" (Markus Vernon Davies)

Premieres Monday, July 1, at 9 PM ET/PT

Following the critically acclaimed series Inside Combat Rescue, NGC looks inside the latest chapter of the Afghan Conflict as seen by the American Marines in Afghanistan. Capt. Ben Middendorf and his men take the fight directly to the Taliban with a mission to locate, disrupt and destroy the enemy.

"Eyewitness War" (Karga Seven Pictures)

Premieres Monday, July 1, at 10 PM and 10:30 PM ET/PT

Follow the men and women of the Army, Navy, Drug Enforcement Administration, Coast Guard and other forces through the chaos of battle with real-life, first-person footage. It's their vision, their words, their war.

"Inside Secret America" (National Geographic Television)

Series Premieres Wednesday, July 10, at 10 PM ET/PT

Investigative journalists Mariana van Zeller and Darren Foster take you inside the nation's underground networks to the heart of America's most controversial issues, from guns to drugs to the paranormal.

"Inside the American Mob" (Left/Right)

Series Premieres Sunday, July 28, at 9 PM ET/PT

Take a look at the little-known but pivotal escapades, capers and cadavers that truly compose the history of the mob in America.

"The Castle" (Sharp Entertainment)

Series Premieres in August

With his 10 kids, American prepper Brent Bruns builds a castle deep in the South Carolina woods that will serve as a bunker in case an electromagnetic burst results in a massive power outage.

Below is the full schedule for "Night of Exploration."

"Crossing the Ice"

Premieres Friday, June 14, at 8 p.m. ET/PT

No one has ever walked without any assistance across the wasteland of Antarctica to the South Pole and back ? until now. In a special documentary, NGC follows Australian explorers Justin "Jonesey" Jones and James "Cas" Castrission on their excruciating journey to set a world record. Not only do these daring adventurers have to battle freezing weather, serious injuries, hypothermia and gear failures, but along the way they learn that a Norwegian skier is also attempting to achieve the exact same goal. See how these men, delirious with starvation and pain, test their boundaries of endurance on a nail-biting journey from which no man has ever come out alive before.

"Mystery Bear of the Arctic"

Friday, June 14, at 9 p.m. ET/PT

High above the Arctic Circle, on a remote Canadian island, an American sports hunter shoots what he believes is a polar bear. He is mistaken. His Inuit guide has never seen an animal like this before. The killing unleashes an investigation by the Canadian authorities. But no one can tell exactly what he has shot. The hunter is under threat of prosecution for a crime he says he didn't commit. Scientists pore over the only evidence they have ? the corpse of an animal they've never seen before. With each new discovery, the mystery deepens as they try to discover the exact species of this animal.

"Secrets of the Lost Gold"

Friday, June 21, at 8 p.m. ET/PT

NGC obtained exclusive access to one of the most important ancient discoveries of modern times: the amazing story of how an amateur metal-detecting enthusiast discovered a gold hoard of more than 3,000 artifacts dating back nearly a millennium, and valued at more than $5 million. Now, an international team of experts is on a global quest to unearth the hoard's secrets.

"The 400 Million Dollar Emerald"

Friday, June 21, at 9 p.m. ET/PT

Thought to be the world's largest emerald - 840 pounds' worth - is unearthed in Brazil in 2001. The resulting tale of deceit, obsession and folly is almost too bizarre to be believed. A California businessman claims to have bought it in Brazil for a mere $60,000, only to see his proof of purchase vanish in a house fire. A businessman obtains title to the emerald, only to lose it in a diamond deal that falls through, he says, because he was kidnapped by the Brazilian mafia. In between, the emerald spends weeks submerged underwater in a New Orleans vault after Hurricane Katrina floods the city. By the time the stone finds its way into the California judicial system in 2008, no fewer than eight claimants are tussling for control of a specimen appraised at around $400 million.

"Journey to the Edge of the Universe"

Friday, June 28, at 8 p.m. ET/PT

In one single epic camera move, we journey from two people studying the night sky, accelerate up through the atmosphere, past the moon and neighboring planets, and out of our solar system to the stars, galaxies and beyond. Traveling all the way to the edge of the universe itself, NGC goes on a breathtakingly grand tour of the cosmos to explore newborn stars, distant planets, black holes and galaxies beyond. With the help of the world's most famous telescope and cinema-quality computer-generated images, we'll journey to the edge of time to visualize the powers that forged and constantly renew the universe.

"Waking the Baby Mammoth"

Friday, July 5, at 8 p.m. ET/PT

"Mammoth: Back From the Dead"

Friday, July 5, at 9 p.m. ET/PT

It's a mammoth doubleheader for this week's "Night of Exploration", starting with "Waking the Baby Mammoth" at 8 p.m. Lyuba, a 1-month-old baby that walked the tundra about 40,000 years ago before dying mysteriously, is the most perfectly preserved woolly mammoth ever discovered. She has mesmerized the scientific world with her arrival, creating headlines across the globe. NGC sets out around the world on a cutting-edge forensic investigation into her life and death, 10,000 years after her species began to die out. In the second hour, "Mammoth: Back From the Dead," we follow a team of international scientists on an ambitious quest to clone a mammoth. The Russian government has granted leading cloning scientists from South Korea access to the best mammoth graveyards on the planet and permission to take frozen samples directly from the permafrost to a high-tech lab in Seoul. If the samples remain frozen on their journey, work can begin on finding the DNA necessary to try and resurrect the iconic ice age mammoth.

"Touching the Dragon"

Premieres Friday, July 19, at 8 p.m. ET/PT

Photojournalist Roger Horrocks has long felt connected to and fascinated by crocodiles. After an experience in Africa brought him very close to one crocodile that almost seemed to welcome the human presence, Roger wondered if it was possible for a crocodile to form a bond with a human. This simple thought took him halfway around the world to Costa Rica on a mission to find Chito, a man many referred to as the "crocodile shaman." Many years ago, Chito nursed an injured crocodile, which he calls Pocho, back to health. Since then, the two formed an unthinkable bond. "Touching the Dragon" examines this astonishing relationship between the earth's most ancient predator and a unique man, one that defies the boundaries of the natural world.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/alec-baldwin-host-nat-geos-weekly-night-exploration-005625685.html

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Kofi to undergo surgery following a Ryback attack during SmackDown taping

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Libya: 2 killed in an attack on police patrol

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? Libya's official news agency says unidentified attackers hurled an explosive device at a security patrol in the eastern city of Benghazi, killing two and injuring several others.

LANA quoted military spokesman Col. Ali al-Shekhli as saying that armed men in a car threw a bomb at a security patrol late Tuesday. He said that authorities were investigating.

Benghazi has witnessed a string of attacks on police stations and assassinations of security officials over the past months, as the central government struggles to maintain law and order less than two years after the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi's regime.

Libya's former head of parliament, Mohammed el-Megarif, who resigned Tuesday because of a law that bans Gadhafi-era officials from holding senior posts, warned that weapons and militias are endangering Libya's democratic transition.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/libya-2-killed-attack-police-patrol-172321101.html

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Omega-3 fatty acids may help heal a broken heart

May 30, 2013 ? Procedures like angioplasty, stenting and bypass surgery may save lives, but they also cause excessive inflammation and scarring, which ultimately can lead to permanent disability and even death. A new research report appearing in The FASEB Journal, shows that naturally derived compounds from polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3s) may reduce the inflammation associated with these procedures to help arteries more fully and completely heal.

"Our study suggests that biologically active, naturally occurring compounds derived from omega-3 PUFAs reduce inflammation and improve the healing of blood vessels after injury," said Michael S. Conte, M.D., a researcher involved in the work from Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and the Heart and Vascular Center at the University of California, in San Francisco, CA. "They suggest a new opportunity to improve the long-term results of cardiovascular procedures such as bypass surgery and angioplasty by the therapeutic application of this class of agents or their dietary precursors."

To make this discovery, Conte and colleagues studied the effects of the compounds (resolvin or RvD) first in cultured vascular cells taken from patients who had undergone bypass operations, and then in rabbits who were treated with a balloon angioplasty procedure in the arteries of the hind limb. In the human cells, treatment with RvD dramatically reduced features that are associated with the typical vascular injury response -- inflammation, cell migration, and cell growth in vascular smooth muscle cells. The potency of these compounds corresponds to concentrations that have been measured in the blood of human subjects taking high dose fish oil supplements for short periods of time. In rabbits, researchers treated the artery with RvD at the time of the balloon angioplasty procedure by infusing the drug directly into the vessel, and found that this one-time treatment reduced inflammation and subsequent scarring of the vessel after one month.

"If successful in further studies, this finding could be a huge benefit to patients undergoing these procedures," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "What's even better, is that these potentially lifesaving compounds are already available in any fish market or grocery store."

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T. Miyahara, S. Runge, A. Chatterjee, M. Chen, G. Mottola, J. M. Fitzgerald, C. N. Serhan, M. S. Conte. D-series resolvin attenuates vascular smooth muscle cell activation and neointimal hyperplasia following vascular injury. The FASEB Journal, 2013; 27 (6): 2220 DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-225615

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Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/heart_disease/~3/PGZa9EYaQKE/130530111155.htm

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Column: A nation of co-existing, conflicted values

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration kills four U.S. citizens in counterterrorism drone strikes overseas. It helps pay for the New York Police Department's controversial surveillance program against Muslim Americans. It says a journalist seeking national security information may have been a criminal "co-conspirator."

All this as it wages the war on terrorism at certain, perhaps necessary, costs to our rights. This president offers no apologies.

"Americans are deeply ambivalent about war, but having fought for our independence, we know a price must be paid for freedom," Barack Obama said last week. Even so, he added, "Our commitment to constitutional principles has weathered every war, and every war has come to an end."

Every American president has faced the same central questions: What is the appropriate relationship between security and liberty? When should the scales tip one way or the other? We have never found a universal answer, which says as much about the enormous challenge our elected leaders accept as it does about who we are and what we value.

Presidents often do what they insist needs to be done to protect their people ? and gamble that they'll be forgiven for the inevitable erosion of rights. Congress and the public typically fall in line, particularly in the post-9/11 world. And the nation moves on until the next situation flares.

In general, both presidents and their people inherently believe in America's ability to remain true to its identity and not let others define it, as long as it abides by the country's founding principles. The trouble, or perhaps the gift, is that the framers of our Constitution made sure to include leeway in the ability for leaders to tip the security-vs.-liberty scales when the situation demands.

Benjamin Wittes, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, is among those who don't believe in an exact balance even though a lot of political rhetoric suggests each value carries equal weight.

"Presidential actions to ensure the security of the country do have implications in both directions for people's liberty," Wittes says. "Most things that make you more secure, make you more free. And most things that make you less secure, also make you less free."

This debate inevitably intensifies in wartime.

During 1798 and following the French Revolution, John Adams, the second president, signed into law the Alien and Sedition Acts. That move gave him powers to restrict speech critical of the government and, without a hearing, detain or deport immigrants considered dangerous to the U.S.

In 1862, as the Civil War raged, Abraham Lincoln wanted to deter people from helping the Confederacy. So he suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, which ensures prisoners their rights to appear before a judge. He also said Southern sympathizers disrupting Union activities would be subject to martial law.

Just weeks after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created a censoring operation and allowed the government to use private census information to round up Japanese-Americans in internment camps ? authority granted by Congress' passage of the first and second War Powers Acts.

And in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush ? with overwhelmingly bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and throughout the terror-stricken nation ? signed into law the USA Patriot Act. It loosened restrictions on wiretapping, searches and seizures.

It also quickly became controversial. Backers argued that the government needed sweeping powers to root out terrorists; critics claimed civil liberties were needlessly restricted.

Obama inherited the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and many of Bush's policies. Some, like torture and secret prisons, Obama rejected. But he largely kept intact the Patriot Act, signing a four-year extension in 2011.

Both the Bush and Obama administrations have said America is in a war with no foreseeable end. What does that mean for the tension between safety and rights?

Outlining the next phase of America's posture against terrorism, Obama last week said some of the policies "compromised our basic values" while others "raised difficult questions about the balance that we strike between our interests in security and our values of privacy."

A day after his administration acknowledged that it had killed four American citizens abroad in drone strikes since 2009, Obama said, "For the record, I do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any U.S. citizen ? with a drone, or with a shotgun ? without due process." Yet, he also said citizenship should not "serve as a shield" when a U.S. citizen goes abroad to actively plot to kill Americans.

Left unsaid: According to the government, three of the four killed were not specific targets.

Obama also talked about the need to review law-enforcement powers to ensure the government can intercept new types of communication while also protecting against privacy abuses.

He didn't mention that large federal anti-terrorism grants have gone to the New York Police Department, and that a White House anti-drug program helped pay for some surveillance equipment used in the controversial ? and, some Muslims say, unconstitutional ? targeting by the NYPD of entire Muslim neighborhoods.

At the same time, the president referenced multiple investigations into the unauthorized disclosure of classified national security information to journalists, saying both that some information must be kept secret and the tenets of a free press should be upheld.

"Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs," Obama added.

He made those comments as his administration took bipartisan heat over the Justice Department's secret seizure of Associated Press journalists' phone records and following the disclosure by The Washington Post that the FBI, in court documents, said a Fox News journalist, whose records it also took, had broken the law, "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator."

After Obama's speech, Republicans complained that he generally wasn't taking the security challenges seriously enough, while the American Civil Liberties Union suggested that he had much further to go to ensure rights are protected.

Of course, neither complete safety nor absolute freedom is ever truly plausible. Nor would a nation want either; that could produce unforeseen, even more consequential, problems.

So, like most presidents, Obama straddled the issues.

"He aligned himself rhetorically with critics of his administration as much as he could while not backing off his administration's ability to do the things it needs to do ? and that is a difficult dance," Wittes says. "He really identifies with the conscientious objectors to his policies even as he pursues those policies and in some senses defends those policies."

That could be precisely what the founders wanted presidents to do ? be mindful of both sides, while tipping toward security when necessary. After all, they set up a system with perpetual tension baked into the responsibilities of government: Keep us safe and keep us free, or ? depending on your philosophy ? keep us free and keep us safe.

Or maybe they were even more calculated. Maybe the framers thought that by ensuring a continual debate between security and freedom, they would ensure that Americans would always need to discuss who we are at our core, and let those principles guide us as we monitor our leaders, regardless of who might be living in the White House at any particular moment.

If that was their intent, it's still working today.

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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Liz Sidoti is the national politics editor for The Associated Press. Follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/lsidoti

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/column-nation-co-existing-conflicted-134724512.html

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Link between domestic violence and perinatal mental health disorders

May 28, 2013 ? Women who have mental health disorders around the time of birth are more likely to have previously experienced domestic violence, according to a study by UK researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.

The researchers, led by Louise Howard from King's College London, found that high levels of symptoms of perinatal* depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder were linked to having experienced domestic violence either during pregnancy, the past year, or over a woman's lifetime.

The researchers (also the authors of the published study) reached these conclusions by reviewing 67 relevant studies (in a systematic review) and combining the results.

They found that around 12-13% of postnatal depression (i.e. high levels of postnatal depressive symptoms) is linked with experiences of domestic violence during pregnancy. In a further analysis, the authors found that women with antenatal and postnatal depression were three times more likely to have experienced domestic violence in the past year and 5 times more likely to have experienced domestic violence when pregnant. Women with antenatal anxiety disorders were also three times more likely to have experienced domestic violence over her lifetime but this figure was less in women with postnatal anxiety disorders.

However, it is important to note that these findings cannot prove that domestic violence can cause perinatal mental health disorders or provide evidence that perinatal mental health disorders can lead to subsequent domestic violence, and there is no information on other perinatal mental disorders, such as eating disorders and puerperal psychosis.

The authors say: "Our finding that women with high levels of symptoms of a range of perinatal mental disorders have a high prevalence and increased odds of having experienced domestic violence both over the lifetime and during pregnancy highlights the importance of health professionals identifying and responding to domestic violence among women attending antenatal and mental health services."

They continue: "Further data is? needed on how maternity and mental health services should best identify women with a history or current experience of domestic violence, respond appropriately and safely, and thus improve health outcomes for women and their infants in the perinatal period."

*Note: the perinatal period refers to the period before, during, and after pregnancy

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/depression/~3/KW6uU5JIa_w/130528181026.htm

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Family studies suggest rare genetic mutations team up to cause schizophrenia

May 28, 2013 ? Using a novel method of analyzing genetic variations in families, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that individually harmless genetic variations affecting related biochemical processes may team up to increase the risk of schizophrenia. They say their findings, reported May 28 in Translational Psychiatry, bring some clarity to the murky relationship between genetics and schizophrenia, and may lead to a genetic test that can predict which medications will be effective for individual patients.

"It's long been clear that schizophrenia runs in families, but schizophrenia as a simple inherited disease didn't make sense from an evolutionary point of view because people with the disease tend to have fewer children and the disease-causing genetic variants shouldn't survive," says Dimitri Avramopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of psychiatry in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine. Moreover, he says, studies searching for schizophrenia-linked gene variants have found only weak connections to a few genes -- nothing that would explain the persistent prevalence of the disease, which affects about 1 percent of the population.

Most geneticists believe that the culprit in so-called complex genetic diseases such as schizophrenia is not just one genetic variant, but more than one acting in concert. It's also likely that individual cases of the disease are caused by different combinations of variants, Avramopoulos says. He and fellow researchers took this hypothesis a step further, theorizing that while our bodies can usually compensate for one faulty gene that affects a particular system, more than one hit to the same system is likely to tip people toward disease.

The research team devised a technique for analyzing gene-sequencing data that explores whether variants cluster in a subset of cases in a non-random way. After finding support for their hypothesis in previously obtained data on 123 families with at least two schizophrenia-affected members, they decided to sequence genes connected through a biochemical chain reaction that has been linked to the disease in 48 inpatients. Known as the neuregulin signaling pathway, that chain reaction relays signals within the nervous system.

As they had predicted, the researchers found that some of the families had multiple neuregulin signaling-related variants while others had none, a distribution that was highly unlikely to result from chance. Moreover, the schizophrenia patients with neuregulin signaling variants experienced more hallucinations but less impairment than the other schizophrenia patients in the study.

"These results support the idea that there's no single genetic recipe for schizophrenia, but that a buildup of mutations in a pathway related to the disease -- like neuregulin signaling -- can be the culprit," Avramopoulos says. "The results are also evidence for the current theory that schizophrenia isn't a single disease at all, but a suite of related disorders." Those patients in the study who did not have neuregulin signaling-related variants likely carried variants in a different pathway instead, he notes.

While the results of the study were surprisingly clear-cut given the small number of families in the study, Avramopoulos cautions that larger studies are needed to confirm the results before drawing any firm conclusions. He also plans to study the exact roles of the schizophrenia-linked variants the team identified. Finally, the encouraging results mean it would be worthwhile to apply the new analytic method to other common diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease, which also appear to have complex genetic roots.

Other authors on the study were Alex Hatzimanolis, John A. McGrath, Ruihua Wang, Tong Li, Philip C. Wong, Gerald Nestadt, Paula Wolyniec, David Valle and Ann Pulver, all of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

The study was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (grant numbers R01MH057314, R01MH068406, R01MH092515 and R01MH085018) and the Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/8FleqpV3ZfI/130528105238.htm

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Plex releases 3.0 overhaul for Android, 3.2 update for iOS

Plex's Android app revamp has been brewing for awhile, but it's at last ready: the 3.0 app is out of beta and available for everyone. The remake provides a much more polished interface, PlexSync support and speedier access to large libraries. It's facing a rocky start, however. The initial 3.0 release required a myPlex account and didn't include a remote control widget, and those have only just been fixed with a quick follow-up patch. We wouldn't lean on earlier versions of Android, regardless of what features you like -- the interface rewrite cuts off support for OS releases before Android 3.2.

iOS users aren't left out of the upgrades. Version 3.2 isn't as dramatic a makeover, but it does offer tangible improvements over 3.1 that include the Android version's faster media access and fixes for conspicuous PlexSync bugs. Quick updaters even get a reward for their trouble: the 3.2 client lets the iOS app serve as a remote playback target for other Plex-equipped devices. Whichever platform you prefer, the app update (or a fresh $5 copy) is waiting at one of the source links.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Why the Nexus 4 is a Great First Computer for Kids - All App News

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The post-PC world is already dumbing young people down. Way down.

I?m hearing accounts by hiring managers that new applicants right out of school often lack not only basic ?computing? skills (for example, they don?t really know how to do a Google search), but they lack the imagination, creativity or curiosity to even learn those skills.

There may be multiple causes for this phenomenon, but I?m here to throw the post-PC world under the school bus.

The Great Delusion

There?s a common delusion that existed since home computers first came on the market, which is that using a computer teaches kids about computers.

I?ll never forget the look of satisfaction I?ve seen on the face of some non-technical teachers watching their students typing a story on a PC and believing that kids using computers ?prepares them for a high-tech workforce.?

Nowadays, teens, kids and even toddlers are using tablets and phones at ever younger ages. Teachers and parents marvel at their skill with these devices and believe falsely that this builds a foundation for science or technology.

In fact, it does the opposite. It prepares them to be passive consumers and users of consumer products and their apps.

The problem is increased with post-PC devices, info appliances like the iPhone and iPad, which are the default devices that many parents are giving their kids.

Now, don?t get me wrong. I love the post PC world. I just don?t think the easy-to-use, locked-down, our-way-or-the-highway iOS platform is good for young minds.

Post-PC Breeds Passivity

One of the most underappreciated ironies in technology is found in the history of Apple.

The company started with Steve Wozniak building what was arguably the world?s first personal computer, the Apple II. Before that he build the Apple I, which was more of a computer for other hackers.

Woz was and is a super-genius. His first two Apple computers were marvels of efficiency and simplicity in the use of components (which lowered the cost).

Woz was able to invent the future because he had a hacker mentality, that combination of burning curiosity, patience and creativity that enables people to figure things out though epic trial-and-error. He was a tweaker, solderer, tester, reverse-engineer, dumpster diver and code experimenter.

The irony is that the company that this super-hacker co-founded would evolve into the company that?s evolving toward unhackable products. (You can still jailbreak an iPhone, but for how long?)

But jailbreak or no, the fact is that kids raised on iOS are unlikely to develop an appreciation of what?s possible with technology. It drives them to become consumers of apps and accessories where every problem is solved by downloading someone else?s app.

And the effects of this are being seen now as Post-PC kids are entering the workforce. These kids grew up in a world in which consumer electronics hand them everything on a platter.

We do have options for kids who are naturally inspired to explore and hack with technologies. And it helps enormously when parents and schools facilitate these impulses by making the right kinds of resources available.

But the default mode now is that kids see their parents using phones. They beg them to try it. Parents hand them the phone and that?s where the trouble begins. They learn right away that technology is a black box, a magic place to shop for passive entertainment.

The most extreme version of this mode is the iPhone. But the best Android phones aren?t far behind. The Samsungs and the HTC Ones all custom design a user interface designed with the same purpose in mind as the iOS interface ? to push entertainment, social networking and shopping at the user and distract the user from the fact that they could be exploring the machine itself and figuring out how it works.

And that?s one reason why a Nexus 4 is a nice option for kids? first ?computer.?

3 Reasons Why a Nexus 4 is a Great First ?Computer?

There are three reasons why the Nexus 4 is a great first phone or even first computer.

The first is that it?s a fun device to use. It has a big screen and appealing design. (Do get a protective case for it.) Kids will like it. And it?s important that kids are excited about their personally owned technology.

The second reason is that it?s cheap. At $300 unlocked, it won?t be such a big disaster if it?s lost, stolen or broken.

And the third and best reason is that the Nexus 4 is less likely to turn your child into an airhead than an iPhone or another phone with a handset-maker designed interface.

The Google-designed user interface invites customization, for starters. Customization can be a gateway drug to exploration and hacking.

If a child is inclined to follow curiosity about the device, they can go pretty far with a Nexus 4 because it?s rootable, ROMable and therefore hackable.

The combination of owning a Nexus 4 and a parent that nudges that kid toward online information for how to modify, optimize, customize, alter and ultimately hack their phone will truly give kids an early advantage over kids handed in iPhone and told to go shopping.

Later, if you get them a laptop of some kind, don?t give them the home WiFi password. Tell them if they want Internet connectivity they need to root their Nexus and figure out tethering.

Software that actively encourages coding and hacking is great. But there?s no substitution for simply leaving a curious kid alone with a hackable device and letting that child explore unguided.

Who knows? Maybe your kid will grow up to found the next Apple. After all, the Apples of the world are started by hackers, not kids who grew up on today?s Apple.

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CSN: Four-run 9th lifts Red Sox? |? Same for Jays

BOSTON ? The Red Sox saved their best for last Sunday afternoon. A four-run eruption in the ninth inning gave them a 6-5 walk-off win over the Indians. It was the only lead the Sox had all day.
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It was the Sox? fourth walk-off win this season, just their second when trailing after eight innings, and 12th come-from-behind win. It was the first time they have scored four runs in an inning to win in a walk-off since overcoming a 5-0 deficit to win 6-5 against the Orioles on May 13, 2007.
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Left-hander Felix Doubront started and gave up two runs in the first inning. He settled down, though, at one point retiring a string of 10 straight Indians batters, five on strikeouts.
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Doubront? was not involved in the decision. He went six innings, giving up four runs, two earned, on five hits and two walks with eight strikeouts and two home runs.
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Craig Breslow, who pitched the final two innings, earned the win. He gave up one run on two hits,? improving to 2-0 with a 1.69 ERA.
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The Indians got to Doubront for two unearned runs in the first. Michael Bourn opened the game with a single and stole second and Jason Kipnis reached on a Jacoby Ellsbury error. After Asdrubal Cabrera struck out, Nick Swisher singled to load the bases.? After Mark Reynolds struck out, Carlos Santana singled, scoring Bourn and Kipnis. But, Santana was thrown out trying to stretch a double.
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The Red Sox got a run in the third when Stephen Drew led off with a ground-rule double, scoring on a two-out single by Daniel Nava, who was thrown out trying to stretch a double.
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Solo home runs by Kipnis with two outs in the fifth, just beyond the Pesky Pole, and Swisher leading off the sixth extended Cleveland?s lead.
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With one out in the second, Doubront allowed back-to-back walks to Cleveland?s Nos. 8 and 9 hitters, Mike Aviles and Drew Stubbs, Doubront then retired the next 10 batters ? five on strikeouts ? before Kipnis? home run.
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With Craig Breslow in for the eighth, Kipnis led off with a double to right-center, taking third on Cabrera?s single to center, and scoring on Swisher?s sacrifice fly, as Cabrera was caught off first base, giving the Indians a 5-1 lead.
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The Sox added a run in the eighth when Drew led off with a triple, scoring on Jose Iglesias? sacrifice fly.
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Trailing by three the Red Sox sent eight batters to the plate in the ninth to face Chris Perez. Dustin Pedroia led off with a walk, followed by a David Ortiz double. Pedroia scored on Napoli?s ground out. With Saltalamacchia batting, Ortiz stole third base ? for the second time in his career and second time in less than a week ? and scored on Saltalamacchia?s groundout. After Gomes walked, Drew singled sending Gomes to third, and Drew stole second base. Iglesias walked, loading the bases for Ellsbury. But on a 2-and-1 pitch to Ellsbury, Perez was injured, bringing in Joe Smith.
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Ellsbury needed just one pitch, slamming a double into center field, scoring the tying and winning runs.
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Alex Wilson pitched a scoreless seventh, giving up one walk with a strikeout.
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Perez? (2-1, 4.32) took the loss, while Smith was charged with his first blown save.
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The Sox won the season series against the Indians, 5-2.

STAR OF THE GAME: Jacoby Ellsbury
Ellsbury took the first pitch he saw from Joe Smith - entering the game as an injury replacement for Chris Perez, with two outs, the bases loaded, two runs already in, the Sox trailing by a run, with a 2-and-1 count - and drilled it into center field for a walk-off double.
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It was Ellsbury's fourth career walk-off hit, and first since Sept. 11, 2012 (his birthday) against the Yankees. Three of his four walk-off hits have come against the Indians, including back-to-back games in 2011, a single on Aug. 2 and a home run ? also off Smith ? on Aug. 3.
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Ellsbury has driven in the game-winning run in each of Boston?s last three walk-off wins against the Indians.
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HONORABLE MENTION: Stephen Drew
Drew went 3-for-4 with three runs scored, a double, a triple and a stolen base? ? a home run shy of the cycle. He raised his average from .205 to .222, and scored the game-tying run on Ellsbury?s walk-off double.
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Drew matched his season high in extra-base hits for the third time. The triple was his third of the season, all at Fenway Park. Since 1978, the only other Sox shortstop with at least three triples in a season is Nomar Garciaparra, who did it four times.
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THE GOAT: Chris Perez
Given a three-run lead in the ninth, Perez entered for what could have been his seventh save of the season. Instead, he gave up four runs and the game, facing eight batters. Perez left with a shoulder injury, and a 2-and-1 count to Ellsbury. The situation Smith inherited from Perez could not have been more difficult for a reliever. Perez was charged with the loss, falling to 2-1 with a 4.32 ERA.
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THE TURNING POINT
In his first three plate appearances, Iglesias was hit by a pitch, grounded out, and hit a sacrifice fly. In the ninth inning, he went to the plate with two outs, a runner on first and the Sox trailing by two runs. After being down 0-and-1 and then fouling off a couple of pitches, he worked a seven-pitch walk, to bring up Ellsbury. Ellsbury?s game-winning double scored two runs, with Iglesias as the game-winner.

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BY THE NUMBERS
It was the 1st time the Sox have scored four runs in an inning to win in walk-off fashion since overcoming a 5-0 deficit to win 6-5 on May 13, 2007, against the Orioles, in a game that was known as the ?Mother?s Day Miracle.? It was the Sox fourth walk-off win this season, and their second win when trailing after eight innings (they are now 2-15 in such situations) and 12th come-from-behind victory.
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QUOTE OF NOTE
?I?ve never really been in that situation.? But I know him coming in, his mindset is to throw a strike and try to make it 2-2. I figured I?d be aggressive, if I got my pitch.? -- Jacoby Ellsbury, on his walk-off double, after a pitching change during his at-bat.

Source: http://www.csnne.com/blog/red-sox-talk/red-sox-walk-6-5-win-over-tribe

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Monday, May 27, 2013

Coca-Cola 600: Kevin Harvick Wins Crash-Filled NASCAR Race (VIDEO/PHOTOS)

Coca-Cola 600

CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Danica Patrick, driver of the #10 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet, hits the wall with Brad Keselowski, driver of the #2 Miller Lite Ford, after an incident in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Cars race as the sunsets during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

Coca-Cola 600

CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Danica Patrick, driver of the #10 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet, leads a group of cars during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Cars race through turn 4 during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Kevin Harvick, driver of the #29 Budweiser Folds of Honor Chevrolet, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: The field restart during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Track workers clean up cable from an aerial Fox Sports camera on the front stretch during a red flag in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. The red flag was due to a rope that helps hold a aerial Fox Sports camera hanging above the 1.5-mile layout at Charlotte Motor Speedway snapped during the Coca-Cola 600. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Cars race as a cable hangs over the infield from an aerial Fox Sports camera on the front stretch during a Yellow Flag in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. The red flag was due to a rope that helps hold a aerial Fox Sports camera hanging above the 1.5-mile layout at Charlotte Motor Speedway snapped during the Coca-Cola 600. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

Coca-Cola 600

CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: A view of the aerial Fox Sports camera on the front stretch during a red flag in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. The red flag was due to a rope that helps hold a aerial Fox Sports camera hanging above the 1.5-mile layout at Charlotte Motor Speedway snapped during the Coca-Cola 600. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images)

Coca-Cola 600

CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Red-White-Blue M-Prove America Toyota, walks around his car on pit road during a red flag in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. The red flag was due to a rope that helps hold a aerial Fox Sports camera hanging above the 1.5-mile layout at Charlotte Motor Speedway snapped during the Coca-Cola 600. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

Coca-Cola 600

CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Red-White-Blue M-Prove America Toyota, leads a group of cars during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Office Toyota, leads the field to the green flag to start the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Red-White-Blue M-Prove America Toyota, and Kasey Kahne, driver of the #5 Time Warner Cable Chevrolet, race during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Red-White-Blue M-Prove America Toyota, looks over his car as crew members work on it in the pits during a red flag in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. The red flag was due to a rope that helps hold a aerial Fox Sports camera hanging above the 1.5-mile layout at Charlotte Motor Speedway snapped during the Coca-Cola 600. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

Coca-Cola 600

CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Office Toyota, leads David Stremme, driver of the #30 Lean 1/Swan Energy Inception, during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Danica Patrick, driver of the #10 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet, pits during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Danica Patrick, driver of the #10 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet, leads Mark Martin, driver of the #55 Aaron's Dream Machine Toyota, during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Clint Bowyer, driver of the #15 5-hour ENERGY Toyota, leads Kurt Busch, driver of the #78 Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet, during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Cars race during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Cars race during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images)

Coca-Cola 600

CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Clint Bowyer drives the #15 5-hour ENERGY Toyota during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #56 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota, leads a of cars during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Matt Kenseth, driver of the #20 Home Depot/Husky Toyota, pits during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

Coca-Cola 600

CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Kyle Busch drives the #18 M&M's Red-White-Blue M-Prove America Toyota during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images)

Coca-Cola 600

CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #56 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota, pits during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images)

Coca-Cola 600

CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Martin Truex Jr. drives the #56 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images)

Coca-Cola 600

CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Office Toyota, pits during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell-Pennzoil Ford, pits during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Joe Nemechek, driver of the #87 NEMCO Motorsports Toyota, and Aric Almirola, driver of the #43 US Air Force Ford, race during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the #88 National Guard Chevrolet, speaks with the media after having engine trouble during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

Coca-Cola 600

CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Matt Kenseth, driver of the #20 Home Depot/Husky Toyota, leads Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Red-White-Blue M-Prove America Toyota, during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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CONCORD, NC - MAY 26: Crew members work on the #18 M&M's Red-White-Blue M-Prove America Toyota, driven by Kyle Busch, in the garage after an incident in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

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Teen planned attack: Bombs in bedroom under floorboards linked to school plot

Teen planned attack against an Oregon school with bombs hidden in bedroom, a prosecutor says. But the plot was foiled in the same way many such plots are uncovered.

By Mark Sappenfield,?Staff writer / May 26, 2013

A 17-year-old student in Albany, Ore., built several bombs and had a detailed plan ? including checklists and diagrams ? as part of a Columbine-style plot to attack West Albany High School, a local prosecutor says.

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Mark is deputy national news editor for the Monitor.

New analysis yields improvements in a classic 3-D imaging technique

May 25, 2013 ? Research conducted at Curtin University in Perth has enabled significant increases in image quality in a widely used 3D printing technique that is more than 100 years old.

Anaglyph printing -- think of the red-and-blue 3D glasses used to transform 2D images to 3D images in comics, magazines, books, and newspapers -- came into being when the continuous-tone printed anaglyph was invented by French physicist Louis Ducos du Hauron in 1891.

The technique works by combining the left and right images of a stereoscopic image pair into the red and blue color channels of the output anaglyph image. With the red/blue 3D glasses, the left eye sees only the red channel of the anaglyph image, and the right sees only the blue. If the anaglyph 3D image has been constructed correctly, the viewer sees a pleasing 3D image on the printed page.

The project team, led by Curtin research engineer Andrew Woods, targeted crosstalk problems which are visible as ghost-like shadows. Their paper published recently in the SPIE journal Optical Engineering details seven recommendations for overcoming crosstalk.

"The largest reduction in crosstalk is likely be achieved by using inks which have a better spectral purity than current process inks used in color printers," Woods said. "We found that an 80% reduction in crosstalk was potentially achievable just by changing the cyan ink."

The anaglyph technique is easy to implement and the anaglyph 3D glasses are relatively cheap, so the technique is used very widely, Woods said.

However, printed anaglyph images often suffer from a number of image quality limitations. When the 3D image is viewed through the colored glasses, there is often a significant amount of crosstalk (or ghosting), an undesirable property of some 3D techniques whereby the left eye sees some of the image intended for only the right eye, and vice-versa. Crosstalk is usually visible as ghost-like shadows throughout the image. If crosstalk levels are too high, the quality of the 3D experience can be significantly reduced.

"The printed anaglyph is 121 years old, but this appears to be the first time that a detailed technical simulation of crosstalk in printed anaglyphs has been developed," Woods said. "We started by measuring the spectral characteristics of various printing inks, 3D glasses, light sources, and papers. From there we developed a simulation which models the viewing of an anaglyph 3D image, and subsequently performed an experiment to validate the accuracy of the model. We hope this work will help provide a 21st-century improvement to the 19th-century invention."

In addition to changing the cyan ink, recommendations include using high-quality anaglyph glasses, an optimized light source, and improved image processing algorithms.

The full paper is available via open access in the SPIE Digital Library: "Characterizing and reducing crosstalk in printed anaglyph stereoscopic 3D images."

The work was originally presented in the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference during the 2013 IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging symposium in Burlingame, California, USA. The call for papers has been released for Electronic Imaging 2014 which will be held 2-6 February in downtown San Francisco.

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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Pathometry Newsletter, June 1 | - Safe Relationships Magazine

Copyrighted? Sandra L. Brown, MA 2012
Issue 1

Background Info on The Institute
The Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education has been an early pioneer in the research and treatment approaches for Pathological Love Relationships (referred to as PLRs). For close to 25 years we have been involved in developing model- of- care approaches for survivor treatment. Additionally, we have been promoting public pathology education for prevention and intervention for survivors, awareness for the general public, and as advanced education for victim service providers.
In those 25 years, we have:
* Created and run our own Trauma Disorder Program
* Provided consultations for other programs
* Trained victim service providers in our model-of-care
* Treated hundreds and hundreds of survivors
* Spoken to thousands in the general public
* Reached millions with the message of ?inevitable harm? related to Pathological Love Relationships (PLRs), through television and radio, print publications, our extensive product line of books, articles, e-books, CDs, DVDs and guest blogging on websites such as Psychology Today.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/pathological-relationships
http://www.saferelationshipsmagazine.com

Our mission for the new Pathometry Lab Newsletter is simple:

?? ~In order to help more survivors, we need to train more professionals.~

The mental health professionals that have been intricately trained by The Institute have lamented that graduate school, face-to-face counseling, and reading about Pathological Love Relationships (PLRs) did not prepare them for the treatment challenges of the survivor of a PLR or +the understanding of the disorders of the partner. Professionals have indicated that by far the most frustrating type of counseling cases have been the Pathological Love Relationship couple, the wounded partner of one of these relationships, and the ?identified? problem pathological partner. To help professionals maneuver the challenging ?obstacle course? of PLRs, we have dedicated a newsletter solely for you.

This is our kickoff newsletter, so we welcome you to The Pathometry Lab, and are glad you are considering becoming part of the educated solution for these perplexing counseling cases of inevitable harm. So let?s get started?

What Is a PLR?

A Pathological Love Relationship (PLR) is a relationship in which at least one of the partners has serious psychopathology which is likely to negatively affect his or her mate. The Institute specializes in support and treatment of the partners who are/were in relationships with those who have pathology of Axis II, Cluster B Personality Disorders, which include:
?? Borderline Personality Disorder
?? Narcissistic Personality Disorder
?? Anti-Social Personality Disorder
?? And the additional disorders of Sociopathy and Psychopathy

This year we will focus on these Cluster B disorders in our newsletter, and then in the following years we will discuss other pathologies that also can impact relational harm.
(The changes in the upcoming DSM will not derail our discussion of these trait disorders and their effect on others. While diagnostic criteria may change, their behaviors do not consequently their impact on others does not change.)

Why a Closer Look?

In the recent past, PLRs were undifferentiated as the ?unique? treatment challenge they have always been.? They typically were often lumped together with other:
* Relationship counseling issues
* Domestic Violence (DV) problems (if that was applicable)
* Other forms of trauma
* Anger Management/Batterer Intervention Mandates
* Addictions.

Over the past 25 years, and hundreds and hundreds of survivors later, we have found PLR?s were continually being treated unsuccessfully with conventional associated theories and treatments. Some PLRs flew completely under the radar depending on how convincing, charming, or deceptive the pathological was. Or the PLR was missed because of the hand wringing paranoia the partner appeared to have, which lead to the belief that there was mutual pathology in the relationship.

Regardless, there has been little relationship theory, or even differentiating trauma theory to understand these complex dynamics within PLR couples and the aftermath experienced by those closest to the disordered partner.

Our research supports that pathology impacts the relational dynamics, victim injury, and future risk, resulting in the need for different treatment modalities. Simply put:
??The relationship dynamics are different
??The (pathological) partner is different
??The victim?s aftermath is different.

Attempted Approaches

What has consistently been at the forefront of problems in treatment for the couple, the survivor of PLR, or the partner, is the missed factor of the existing ?pathology.? This simple fact of existing pathology can drastically change what needs to be done differently, and will greatly impact treatment outcomes and client safety.

Historically, when pathology is unrecognized, professionals tend to utilize the theories and approaches most known for their general effectiveness but which do not work with the survivor, the couple, or the pathological partner. In fact, some of the more popular ?approaches? are damaging, or even place the survivor at risk of future harm.

The problem is of course, that few of us received training on how to identify and work with partners of the personality disordered while in graduate school. I don?t know about your training on personality disorders, but mine was combined into a Psychopathology class with all the other types of psychopathological disorders. Personality Disorders was given one lecture period to discuss all ten disorders, and of course nothing about their impact on others was even brought up. The lack of applied information in the classroom certainly contributes to the problems mental health professionals find once they are in the field.

To add to that issue, personality disorders are not rare so each of us is likely to have clients, couples, or others, affected by the disorder.? The latest numbers from the NIMH indicated ?1 in 5? in a college setting have a personality disorder. This is not ?1 in 5 has a Cluster B Disorder?? but 1 in 5 for any of the clusters.? However, this should alert us to the high probability that as mental health professionals we will be dealing with this issue.

During these Pathometry Lab Newsletters, we will be going into more depth about the actual model- of- care approach for survivors but for now, let?s look at what has been traditionally attempted with these high- risk couples, survivors and partners.

Traditional Approaches

Please follow along, and think of one of your cases you suspect as a ?PLR? and see if the list below outlines some of the treatment issues you were initially targeting with more traditional theories. Perhaps you were approaching it as a couples counseling issue, a victim of DV (if applicable), a batterer intervention issue (if applicable), an addiction, a divorce, a co-parenting issue, depression from a break- up, or other counseling focus.

??The issue of violence was lumped together with general domestic violence theories and intervention approaches as the primary consideration (not the Cluster B Disorder as the primary consideration).
??The victims of these types of relationships were assessed using existing Victimology theories for both victim etiology and victim treatment approaches. Traditional forms of DV explanation about the perpetrator?s behaviors were given to the partner/victim.
??The unusual relationship dynamics of PLRs were explained with the Power and Control Wheel and the victim response was thought to be related to ?codependency? or ?Dependent Personality Disorder.? Victim personality traits were often associated with levels of dependent disorders, collapsed boundaries, enmeshment, or assumed to be primarily associated with trauma reactions.
??The couples were treated with traditional forms of relationship counseling.
??Relationship and/or sexual addiction were also often a common view of the dynamics of ?intensity of attachment? by the partner/victim. Relationship/sexual addiction were also a possible reason for the cheating/sexual acting out of the partner.
??State dependent learning was sometimes assumed to be dissociation or Stockholm Syndrome.
??Anger management and/or batterer intervention was therapist- recommended or court referred as an accountability approach and an education for the perpetrator on the power dynamics.
??Criminal behavior was mostly equated with familial environments, or sociological and economic factors.
??Drug and alcohol addictions and their impact on relational harm factored in heavily towards understanding the relational dynamics.
??For some, the spiritual abusiveness of relational leadership was also identified and considered as both an individual and marriage problem.
??Traumatology of early childhood, or previous adult unprocessed traumas was searched for.
??Shoring up boundaries, straightening out cognitive distortions, equalizing power distribution, and medication, when applicable, were also considered.
??Communication techniques were used for the struggling couple or approaches like Imago Therapy.
??Co-parenting techniques were attempted with divorcing/divorced couples.

I?d like to say, all of these could be good practices EXCEPT when you are dealing with Pathological Love Relationships. Why is that? How can the pathology of one (or more) partners in the relationship so drastically change the risk factors, treatment approaches, and outcomes?

The reasons behind relational harm in PLRs and solutions for approaches are what we will be systematically approaching through our newsletters.

But intimate partner relational harm is not the only ?harm? that happens from this group of disorders. In our next newsletter we will continue our introduction into the topic of PLRs and why we feel specialized training is necessary, by looking at the systemic impact pathology makes to all major societal systems such as the mental health system, the criminal justice system, social service systems, and health care systems.

To find out more about these issues, please take a moment to check out the related research and resources regarding pathology and PLRs for your practice listed below. Our Pathometry Lab will be an accumulative library of resources for you on pathology beginning with the links listed below. The accumulated library will be housed on our main website www.saferelationshipsmagazine.com.? It is the research and resources that are added to each newsletter that will help you educate yourself more fully regarding PLRs.

Interested In This Topic?

Our Therapist Training for Treating the Aftermath of Pathological Love Relationships Model of Care Approach (next training November 2013) includes further elaboration on items related to this topic:
??Relationship Dynamics of Pathological Love Relationships
??Bonding and Attachment Differentials
??Drama and Communication Triangle
??Event Cycles of PLRS
??What Doesn?t Work in PLR?s
??The Institute?s Model of Care Approach

Next Newsletter
Join us for our next newsletter when we will discuss more pathocentric ideas related to PLRs.

Do Your Part
Public pathology education is everyone?s issue, and if you are learning about pathology, please do your part and teach others what you know.? One way is to share our survivor support-oriented newsletters with your clients. They can sign up on the front page of the main magazine site?there is no cost and it comes out every week. www.saferelationshipsmagazine.com

You can also further public pathology education by sending your colleagues and others who might be working with PLRs to our monthly newsletter. They too can sign up on the front page of the main magazine site and it is complimentary.? www.saferelationshipsmagazine.com
Here?s how we can help professionals?

How The Pathometry Lab Can Help You
This program is designed for professionals who are most likely to encounter the survivors, or the Cluster B partners, in your line of work.? Our Pathometry Lab will offer you:

??Articles on issues of clinical relevancy regarding treating the aftermath of Pathological Love Relationships (no charge)
??Information on pathology and personality disorders as it relates to survivor?s recovery, marital counseling, addictions perspectives, pastoral views, and other mental health disciplines (no charge)
??Recommended reading on pathology (no charge)
??Handouts and other pathocentric tools (no charge)
??Personalized Institute services for your survivor clients (fee for services)
??Products for Professionals related to Pathology (fee for products)
??Case Consultations (fee)
??Yearly Training Conference (fee)
??Tele-Events (fee)
??Personalized services for Professionals Wounded by Pathology (fee for services).

Our goal is to better equip you to be able to spot, intervene, and help the recovery of survivors of PLRs. We hope you will join us monthly for our Pathometry Lab Newsletter.? Most of all let us know if we provide support or education to you in the field of Pathological Love Relationships.

Next Institute Event

Treating the Aftermath of Pathological Love Relationships November 2013 Hilton Head Island, SC.
http://saferelationshipsmagazine.com/services-for-professionals/training

Relational Harm Reduction Radio

www.blogtalkradio.com/relational-harm-reduction
Every Thursday at 8:30 pm starting March 7, 2013
Call in questions taken.

RHR University: Coming soon Online Training for Professionals

JUST FOR FUN!
Patho-Lingo? Word of the Month:
Pathognomonic?distinctive characteristics in a disorder

Narcissus Gazing?

Sincerely,
Sandra L. Brown, M.A.
The Institute for Relational Harm Reduction & Public Pathology Education
Director of Advanced Professional Education Services
Cathy Backlund
Pathometry Lab Newsletter Coordinator
Nancy Bathe
Technical Editor
www.saferelationshipsmagazine.com

Source: http://saferelationshipsmagazine.com/pathometry-newsletter-june-1

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