Digital 3-D atlas of brain reveals tiny details

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Digital 3-D atlas of brain reveals tiny details
By MALCOLM RITTERBy MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer??

In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers use a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into slivers 20-micrometers thick, resulting in over 7,400 slices. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)

In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers use a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into slivers 20-micrometers thick, resulting in over 7,400 slices. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)

This image made from video provided by researchers shows a highly-detailed image of the hippocampus region of the human brain. The digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections made from the brain of a 65-year-old woman. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Montreal Neurological Institute/McGill University, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine/Research Centre Juelich, and National Research Council of Canada)

In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers use a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into slivers 20-micrometers thick, resulting in over 7,400 slices. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)

In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers arrange sections made from a brain preserved in paraffin wax. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Scientists have a new brain atlas to help them study their favorite organ. It's a digital, three-dimensional model called "BigBrain."

Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world.

To make the atlas, researchers sliced a cadaver brain from a 65-year-old woman into 7,400 thin sections, stained them to reveal tiny features, and photographed each one. Then they used computers to combine the data into a 3-D digital model.

The idea of thin-slicing a brain to study its anatomy is not new. In fact, complete bodies of a man and a woman were sliced and photographed about 20 years ago to create an anatomy reference called the Visible Human Project.

For the new brain-mapping project, the researchers chose the woman's brain for no special reason other than it was basically healthy, said Katrin Amunts of Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf in Germany.

She is lead author of a report on the atlas published Thursday in the journal Science. Scientists have begun mapping data from other brain studies onto the new model to gain new insights, said senior author Karl Zilles of the Juelich Aachen Research Alliance in Juelich, Germany.

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Engadget Podcast 349 - 06.21.13

"You don't have Facebook? Then how do you get on Farmville?," asks Brian as Peter explains his disdain for the world's largest social network. While Tim was relatively mum on that subject, it turns out he broke his Google Glass... somehow. So, while the aforementioned bearded wizard works on getting a replacement -- and 3D printing a better case -- feel free to hear about this week's biggest stories in consumer electronics by streaming our newest episode below.

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UK to charge 2 journalists for The Sun newspaper

LONDON (AP) ? British officials are charging two journalists for The Sun newspaper as part of an investigation into bribery of public officials.

The Crown Prosecution Service said Friday that The Sun's Jamie Pyatt and John Edwards will be charged along with Robert Neave ? a former healthcare assistant at Broadmoor, Britain's hospital for the criminally insane ? with conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office.

Prosecutors allege that over nearly nine years, The Sun paid more than 30,000 pounds ($46,500) to public officials ? including Neave ? for information including about the health and activities of Broadmoor patients and details about a royal family member's work.

The charges are being brought as part of Operation Elveden, an investigation being run in conjunction with probes into phone hacking.

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Danish chemists in molecular chip breakthrough

Public release date: 20-Jun-2013
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Electronic components built from single molecules using chemical synthesis could pave the way for smaller, faster and more green and sustainable electronic devices. Now for the first time, a transistor made from just one molecular monolayer has been made to work where it really counts. On a computer chip.

The molecular integrated circuit was created by a group of chemists and physicists from the Department of Chemistry Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. Their discovery "Ultrathin Reduced Graphene Oxide Films as Transparent Top-Contacts for Light Switchable Solid-State Molecular Junctions" has just been published online in the prestigious periodical Advanced Materials. The breakthrough was made possible through an innovative use of the two dimensional carbon material graphene.

Kasper Nrgaard is an associate professor in chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. He believes that the first advantage of the newly developed graphene chip will be to ease the testing of coming molecular electronic components. But he is also confident, that it represents a first step towards proper integrated molecular circuits.

"Graphene has some very interesting properties, which cannot be matched by any other material. What we have shown is that it's possible to integrate a functional component on a graphene chip. I honestly feel this is front page news", says Nrgaard.

The molecular computer chip is a sandwich built with one layer of gold, one of molecular components and one of the extremely thin carbon material graphene. The molecular transistor in the sandwich is switched on and of using a light impulse so one of the peculiar properties of graphene is highly useful. Even though graphene is made of carbon, it's almost completely translucent.

The hunt for transistors, wires, contacts and other electronic components made from single molecules has had researchers working night and day. Unlike traditional components they are expected to require no heavy metals and rare earth elements. So they should be cheaper as well as less harmful to earth, water and animals. Unfortunately it has been fiendishly difficult to test how well these functional molecules work. Until now.

Previously the testing of the microscopic components had researchers resort to a method best compared to a lottery. In order to check whether or not a newly minted molecule would conduct or break a current, they had to practically dump a beakerfull of molecules between two live wires, hoping that at least one molecule had landed so that it closed the circuit.

Using the new graphene chip researchers can now place their molecules with great precision. This makes it faster and easier to test the functionality of molecular wires, contacts and diodes so that chemists will know in no time whether they need to get back to their beakers to develop new functional molecules, explains Nrgaard.

"We've made a design, that'll hold many different types of molecule" he says and goes on: "Because the graphene scaffold is closer to real chipdesign it does make it easier to test components, but of course it's also a step on the road to making a real integrated circuit using molecular components. And we must not lose sight of the fact that molecular components do have to end up in an integrated circuit, if they are going to be any use at all in real life".

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Electronic components built from single molecules using chemical synthesis could pave the way for smaller, faster and more green and sustainable electronic devices. Now for the first time, a transistor made from just one molecular monolayer has been made to work where it really counts. On a computer chip.

The molecular integrated circuit was created by a group of chemists and physicists from the Department of Chemistry Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. Their discovery "Ultrathin Reduced Graphene Oxide Films as Transparent Top-Contacts for Light Switchable Solid-State Molecular Junctions" has just been published online in the prestigious periodical Advanced Materials. The breakthrough was made possible through an innovative use of the two dimensional carbon material graphene.

Kasper Nrgaard is an associate professor in chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. He believes that the first advantage of the newly developed graphene chip will be to ease the testing of coming molecular electronic components. But he is also confident, that it represents a first step towards proper integrated molecular circuits.

"Graphene has some very interesting properties, which cannot be matched by any other material. What we have shown is that it's possible to integrate a functional component on a graphene chip. I honestly feel this is front page news", says Nrgaard.

The molecular computer chip is a sandwich built with one layer of gold, one of molecular components and one of the extremely thin carbon material graphene. The molecular transistor in the sandwich is switched on and of using a light impulse so one of the peculiar properties of graphene is highly useful. Even though graphene is made of carbon, it's almost completely translucent.

The hunt for transistors, wires, contacts and other electronic components made from single molecules has had researchers working night and day. Unlike traditional components they are expected to require no heavy metals and rare earth elements. So they should be cheaper as well as less harmful to earth, water and animals. Unfortunately it has been fiendishly difficult to test how well these functional molecules work. Until now.

Previously the testing of the microscopic components had researchers resort to a method best compared to a lottery. In order to check whether or not a newly minted molecule would conduct or break a current, they had to practically dump a beakerfull of molecules between two live wires, hoping that at least one molecule had landed so that it closed the circuit.

Using the new graphene chip researchers can now place their molecules with great precision. This makes it faster and easier to test the functionality of molecular wires, contacts and diodes so that chemists will know in no time whether they need to get back to their beakers to develop new functional molecules, explains Nrgaard.

"We've made a design, that'll hold many different types of molecule" he says and goes on: "Because the graphene scaffold is closer to real chipdesign it does make it easier to test components, but of course it's also a step on the road to making a real integrated circuit using molecular components. And we must not lose sight of the fact that molecular components do have to end up in an integrated circuit, if they are going to be any use at all in real life".

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JM 2013 - Football - Tunisie - Italie 2-2 : un d?but prometteur

La s?lection tunisienne de football U20 a fait match nul (2-2), mercredi soir, avec son homologue italienne, ? Mersin, en match comptant pour la premi?re journ?e (Groupe B) du tournoi de football des Jeux M?diterran?ens de Mersin 2013.
Au terme d'une premi?re mi-temps, qui s'est sold?e par un score vierge, la seconde manche a ?t? prolifique d?s lors que les attaquants des deux ?quipes ont fait parler la poudre ? 4 reprises.
Idriss M'hirsi a ouvert la marque d?s la 49?me minutede jeu.

Une joie de tr?s courte dur?e, dans la mesure o? l'Italie a ?galis?, dans un premier temps, deux minutes plus tard (51') par le biais de Guido Gomez et pris le dessus, dans un second temps, ? la 63?me minute, par Danilo Cataldi.

A l'approche de la fin de la confrontation, la Tunisie est parvenue ? remettre les pendules ? l'heure en inscrivant le but ?galisateur ? la 88?me minute, par le m?me M'hirsi qui a transform? un penalty siffl? par l'arbitre de la rencontre.

Rappelons que la Tunisie ?volue lors de ce tournoi de football des JM 2013 dans le groupe B, aux c?t?s de la Libye, de la Mac?doine et de l'Italie et qu'elle donnera la r?plique, vendredi (19H45 H.T) lors de la deuxi?me journ?e, ? la Libye avant d'achever sa participation dimanche, en croisant le fer avec la Mac?doine (19H45, H.T).

Lors du premier match du groupe disput? un peu plus t?t, la Libye et la Mac?doine ont fait, ?galement, match nul avec le m?me score que celui du match des Aiglons, 2-2.

Les quatre ?quipes du groupe B sont, ainsi, ? ?galit? parfaite, aussi bien en termes de points (un point chacune) qu'au niveau des buts inscrits et encaiss?s.

Classement Pays Pts J BC BP
1.Tunisie 1 1 2 2
.Libye 1 1 2 2
.Italie 1 1 2 2
.Mac?doine 1 1 2 2

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Michael Froman Confirmed As U.S. Trade Representative

WASHINGTON -- Michael Froman, a senior White House economic adviser and classmate of President Barack Obama at Harvard Law School, on Wednesday won Senate confirmation to be the next U.S. trade representative.

The confirmation vote was 93-4, elevating the 50-year-old Froman to the head of an agency now involved in two of the most significant trade deals in recent history.

"In his new position, Mike will stay focused on our primary economic goals - promoting growth, creating jobs and strengthening the middle class," Obama said in a statement lauding the Senate's action. "And he will continue to help open new markets for American businesses, level the playing field for American workers, farmers and ranchers, and fully enforce our trade rights."

Voting against From were an independent, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and three Democrats: Carl Levin of Michigan, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Warren said in a floor speech that she was voting against the nominee because he would not commit to more transparency on positions taken by the United States and other countries in trade negotiations.

"I believe we need a new direction from the trade representative, a direction that prioritizes transparency and public debate," she said.

Froman, nominated by Obama in May, succeeds former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, who resigned as USTR in February after serving through Obama's first term and finalizing free trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia.

Froman has been serving as deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs and has been involved in coordinating White House policy on international trade, investments and energy.

When he announced Froman's nomination, Obama credited him with helping negotiate the three free trade agreements.

One of his main responsibilities as USTR will be meeting a goal to complete negotiations this year on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an Asian-Pacific trading bloc that includes the U.S., Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, Vietnam, Chile, New Zealand, Brunei, Singapore, Peru and Japan.

The trade office will also be at the forefront of just-initiated trade liberalization talks with the European Union known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

"He's very smart, he's very tough, he's the right person for the job as the United States begins to negotiate trade agreements with Asia, the so-called TPP, as well as trade agreements with the Europeans," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., in support of the nominee.

Froman worked as Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin's chief of staff during the Bill Clinton administration, He was a managing partner at Citigroup and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations before joining the Obama administration.

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What's that thing in Uranus's orbit ? and how did it get there?

Scientists have located three Centaurs ? asteroid-comet hybrids ? in Uranus's orbit, including one that's moving oddly in the planet's wake.

By Pete Spotts,?Staff writer / June 18, 2013

This view of Uranus reveals the planet's faint rings and several of its satellites.

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The planet Uranus ? already an odd duck for its upended rings and spin axis that means it is spinning on its side ? is being chased by two asteroids and is chasing another. One of the asteroids is in an unexpected orbit, by some estimates

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As a group, the trio presents a puzzle, because these co-orbiting objects are far fewer than those found orbiting with two other gas giants, Neptune and Jupiter, according to a new study. Some calculations have suggested Uranus shouldn't have any at all.

Solving that riddle could yield additional insights into processes that took place early in the solar system's history as well as test ideas about the evolution of the motions of solar system objects humans see today, notes Scott Kenyon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics whose work focuses on star and solar-system formation.

Depending on the objects' composition and orbital traits, asteroids co-orbiting a planet could represent building blocks left over from the formation of the planet itself, or they may have migrated from somewhere else, only to occupy their current orbits until something disturbs their trajectory and they move on.

The asteroids co-orbiting Uranus belong to a class known as Centaurs. Centaurs, discovered in the 1920s, tend to orbit among the outer planets ? those beyond Mars. They represent a cross between asteroids and comets, with two showing halos of gas similar to a comet's coma. By some estimates, the solar system hosts 44,000 of these objects larger than 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) across. The largest is 260 km (160 miles) wide and orbits between Saturn and Uranus.

Two of the three objects co-orbiting Uranus were discovered between 2002 and 2010. A team of Canadian and French astronomers reported the discovery of the third in March.

Of the three objects, 83982 Crantor was the target of the new study, conducted by researchers Carlos and Raul de la Fuente Marcos at The Complutense University in Madrid.

The object turns out to be one of the ruddiest bodies in the solar system ? its reddish hue suggesting the presence of hydrocarbon particles known as tholins, similar to those on Saturn's moon Titan. In addition, 83982 Crantor appears to have water ice and methanol on its surface.

The two researchers were particularly interested in the object's orbit. After running their calculations, the scientists found that, as seen from Uranus's orbital path, 83982 Crantor appears to trace an enormous corkscrew pattern during its travels. When the orbit of this 41-mile wide object is traced relative to the sun and Uranus, it takes on the appearance of loop bent into the shape of a giant horse shoe, rather than forming an ellipse.

The odd shape results from changes in the asteroid's acceleration as it travels. The orbit is ?controlled by the sun and Uranus but is unstable due to disturbances from nearby Saturn,? said Carlos de la Fuente Marcos in a prepared statement. It's the close encounters with Uranus, however, that affect the orbit in ways that make it appear as a horse shoe along a path in which the asteroid appears to catch up with, then lag the planet.

In 2006, Uruguayan astronomer Tabar? Gallardo suggested that 83982 Crantor had the same orbital period Uranus did. But another pair of scientists calculated that Uranus was incapable of attracting and holding ? even temporarily ? anything in an orbit that would share the planet's orbital period. That would help explain the paucity of co-orbiting objects that are far more abundant with Neptune and Jupiter.

But the calculations by the de la Fuente Marcoses indicate that Dr. Gallardo was correct. Indeed, the object reported by the Canadian and French team in March also appears to be co-orbiting with the same orbital period Uranus has ? caught in a gravitational sweet spot between Uranus and the sun stable enough to maintain the asteroid's relative position ahead of Uranus throughout their orbits.

Indeed, the de la Fuente Marcoses suggest 83982 Crantor could represent "a Rosetta Stone" for solving the mystery of outer-planet co-orbiting asteroids.

The duo's calculations also suggest that the 83982 Crantor is a transitory object on cosmic timescales, not one that is part of the debris left over from Uranus's formation.

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Funds Focus on Mineral Exploration, Jobs in Nova Scotia

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The province is investing more funds in Nova Scotian mineral exploration projects that will create more jobs and improve the rural economy.

"Through the province's mineral incentive program, we are increasing and promoting mineral exploration, which can lead to new discoveries, new mines, and good-paying jobs in Nova Scotia," said Natural Resources Minister Charlie Parker. "The program improves the province's competitiveness and meets one of the goals of the natural resources strategy by attracting new investment to Nova Scotia from a global minerals industry."

About $600,000 in grants will be distributed. Fifteen companies received $412,000 in funding for advanced exploration projects. Sixteen Nova Scotian prospectors, mostly locally based, received $180,000 in grants for preliminary mineral exploration activities. Advanced exploration grants are matched by funding from the company.

"The mineral incentive program supports mineral exploration that can lead to new mines, providing good jobs and economic development in rural Nova Scotia," said Sean Kirby, executive director of the Mining Association of Nova Scotia. "It is an important tool for encouraging exploration and attracting investment, and we are very pleased that the government is continuing the program."

The province announced support for a mineral incentive program in March 2012. Under the program, grants of up to $100,000 are available for advanced exploration projects. Grants of up to $15,000 are available to eligible prospectors for preliminary mineral exploration activities.

Prospectors are also eligible for funding to support introductory and continuing training on exploration techniques, safety, regulations and business development.

Program details and information on the funded projects are available at www.gov.ns.ca/natr/meb/nsmip/nsmip.asp .

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Remember When Big Brother's Only Weapon Was CCTV?

When I was a kid, there was no image more closely associated with surveillance than the CCTV camera. Big Brother is watching, we were warned. The government is keeping tabs on you with video cameras on every street corner. Soon they may even install cameras in your home, they insisted. Honestly, that may have been preferable to what we ended up getting.

In many ways, the CCTV camera is a terribly inefficient device to monitor a population. Sure, they're handy after the fact, like in the case of the tragic bombing at the Boston Marathon. But if you really want to stop someone from doing something violent and horrendous, you need indications of what that person is going to do in the future. Cameras on every street corner may help identify patterns of behavior, but they're obviously less valuable than monitoring electronic communication like emails, instant messages, phone calls and texts.

Revelations in the past month that the NSA has been monitoring domestic electronic communications?beyond any idea of what the American public had come to expect?has rendered idea of persistent surveillance via TV images downright quaint. But that was certainly the surveillance future in 1960.

The May 15, 1960 edition of Arthur Radebaugh's Sunday comic "Closer Than We Think" imagined the police station of tomorrow as a sort of always-connected war room. The dispatch officer might have dozens of TV cameras in front of him, each showing different parts of a given city. A terrifying image of police overreach? Sure. But somehow less terrifying than our reality here in the 21st century.

In the world of tomorrow, transistors and diodes will do more than squad cars to enforce the law. In fact, the day of the electronic policeman is already at hand!

Television is now monitoring expressways in Detroit and reporting on ticket availability at Pennsylvania Station in New York. In the future, similar systems will help smash crime, using sunlight when available and infrared "snooper" rays the rest of the time. All findings will be transmitted automatically to police dispatch rooms, where one officer will see his entire precinct in a cluster of closed circuit TV screens.

It's funny how quickly the imagery of what constitutes a total surveillance state can change. Security cameras aren't the symbol that they once were. Of course, CCTV monitoring by police is still an issue for privacy advocates around the world. And who knows precisely what will happen when a broad network of security cameras teams up with the NSA supercomputers running programs like PRISM and PRISM's (yet unknown) dystopian brothers? But no matter what the police and government surveillance initiatives of the future look like, the camera all by its lonesome will feel like a comically impotent symbol.

The government may always be watching. It's just that now know that it's not with a camera, but with code.

Image: May 15, 1960 edition of Closer Than We Think

Source: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/remember-when-big-brothers-only-weapon-was-cctv-514083555

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Samsung Galaxy Ring arrives at Virgin Mobile, delivers Jelly Bean for $180

Jelly Bean has been making its way to ever cheaper phones in recent months, and that's very conspicuous with the launch of Virgin Mobile's new Samsung Galaxy Ring. For $180, you're getting Android 4.1 in a price range where 4.0 is still common. You're also getting a surprisingly capable device under the hood -- while there's no LTE, the prepaid handset carries a reasonably quick 1.4GHz processor, a 4-inch screen, a 5MP rear camera and a 1.3MP front-facing sensor. We'd still consider shelling out a little more cash for a future-ready 4G device, but Virgin users determined to scrimp and save can pick up the Galaxy Ring today.

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Appreciation Can Have a Positive Impact on Your Memory | Blog on ...

Each day is filled with so many gifts, simple blessings that are filled with wonder. Your busy schedule often hastens your pace and those little things sometimes may go unnoticed.

Taking the time these last few weeks to work in my yard, cleaning up and weeding and planting has a way of settling my mind and my soul. For me it has also brought me a great appreciation for the ability to be able to do that again.? A few months ago I was experiencing some difficulties that limited my flexibility and squelched my desire to tackle some of the more strenuous tasks. Now most things are back to normal and my gratefulness has expanded. I notice what I avoided for awhile and am filled with appreciation. The flowers look brighter, the yard daily invites me to make some changes or switch some?pots around. I may be tired after several hours of bending and digging and hauling, but it was fun and I get to smile every time I come up my driveway or look out one of the windows. I will be moving next year and in my plan to simplify, I will not have such a large area to play in so I linger longer in the appreciation.

As a speech-language pathologist, my clients are often those who were leading normal lives and then had a stroke or received a diagnosis which will begin to limit them physically and/or cognitively. Modifications become necessary. Because of that, I am particularly sensitive to how life has changed and what that can mean on many levels for others and what might bring them some pleasure under changing circumstances.

What do you take for granted? ?Whether it is being able to see well enough to read the labels on a bottle, or hear so you can enjoy your favorite music or attend a church service, or the ability to be able to clean the house or wash the car, you tap into a lot of skills.

Increasing your desire to notice the little things can indirectly help your memory because you shift from automatic pilot to awareness. Since awareness promotes paying attention, one of the benefits is that you may notice ?what you put where? more often.

TO DO THIS WEEK:
Count your blessings and then observe others close to you who may be less active, or have trouble with hearing, vision, memory or speech. What can you do to make something a little easier for them? Maybe go to visit a friend in person who does not hear well on the phone and have an uninterrupted conversation, or read some articles from the newspaper of interest to the person who no longer has steady hands or able to read the small print.

?The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quick Link to all blogs?and Memory Toolkit. ?For more tips?refer to Walking the Path to Memory Fitness?One Week at a a Time.

Kathryn Kilpatrick received her Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology in 1968 from the University of Massachusetts. She has worked in a variety of settings, primarily in Ohio, including hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and for decades in the area of home health care. Kathryn is president of Memory Fitness Matters (www.memoryfitnessmatters.com) and Communication Connection(www.connectionsincommunication.com). She offers memory coaching for all ages and has a geriatric consulting practice. She is a national motivational speaker and author of more than 30 products to enhance communication and connection as well as a Memory Fitness Toolkit. Kathryn brings her decades of experience as a speech-language pathologist to all those wanting to enhance their quality of life, particularly when there are communication, memory and cognitive challenges. Her websites offer information on a wide variety of topics related to elder care concerns as well as memory fitness and successful aging.

Source: http://connectionsincommunication.com/blog/2013/06/appreciation-can-have-a-positive-impact-on-your-memory/

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Mars rover engineer to give us LEGO version (+ video)

One of the Curiosity rover?s designers has won a fan-based competition to create LEGO version of the Curiosity Mars rover.

By Elizabeth Barber,?Contributor / June 18, 2013

See the much-anticipated results of the Fall LEGO Review and the unveiling of the latest LEGO CUUSOO set. Tim Courtney from LEGO CUUSOO gives you the inside scoop of what's coming out next (LEGO).

Mars will soon be within everyone's reach ??or?at least, a LEGO version of one of its visiting rovers will be.

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One of the Curiosity rover?s designers, Stephen Pakbaz,?has created a LEGO version of the space-faring rover, which NASA calls the Mars Science Laboratory.

CUUSOO, which is usually translated from Japanese to either "imagination" or "wish," invites LEGO fans to pitch ideas for new products. Once submitted, models that have accumulated 10,000 votes from visitors to the CUUSOO site win review from LEGO for possible commercial release.

Mr.?Pakbaz, who goes by the username "Perijove" on the CUUSOO website, posted his rover submission to the website in November 2011. A mechanical engineer, Pakbaz was involved in some of the design and testing of Curiosity at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The LEGO rover garnered enough votes to qualify for review in August 2012, just weeks after the rover that inspired it landed on Mars.

Mr. Pakbaz said in his CUUSOO proposal that his goal was to design ?a LEGO model that was as faithful to the actual rover as possible in terms of accuracy, details, and mechanical function, while remaining at a reasonable size and cost.?

The real Curiosity rover is about the size of a small SUV, standing over 7 feet tall and weighing about a ton, according to Mr. Pakbaz's write-up. This LEGO version is one twentieth of the size.

Mr. Pakbaz said in his proposal that he has also designed the complicated descent stage equipment that LEGO may include in the commercial set.

?The product aligns well with the LEGO Group?s mission to ?inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow,? including those who will build our future in outer space,? said LEGO, on its website.

The rover was one of three projects that won CUUSOO review this summer. CUUSOO turned down one of them, a giant Star Wars Sandcrawler, and is still pending review of one based on the video game "Portals."

LEGO has not yet determined an expected release date or price for the rover.

The real Curiosity is still investigating on Mars and is slated to begin chugging about five miles over to the planet?s Mount Sharp this month.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/science/~3/KcziizL62OA/Mars-rover-engineer-to-give-us-LEGO-version-video

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G8 exposes rift among leaders on Syria

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) ? Deep differences over Syria's fierce civil war clouded a summit of world leaders Monday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly rejecting calls from the U.S., Britain and France to halt his political and military support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad's regime.

But there were also fissures among the three Western nations, despite their shared belief that Assad must leave power. Britain and France appear unwilling ? at least for now ? to join President Barack Obama in arming the Syrian rebels, a step the U.S. president reluctantly finalized last week.

The debate over the Syria conflict loomed large as the two-day summit of the Group of 8 industrial nations opened Monday at a lakeside resort in Northern Ireland. The lack of consensus even among allies underscored the vexing nature of the two-year conflict in Syria, where at least 93,000 people have been killed as rebels struggle to overtake Assad forces buttressed by support from Hezbollah, Iran and Russia.

Obama and Putin, who already have a frosty relationship, did little to hide their differing views on the matter while speaking to reporters following one-on-one talks on the sidelines of the summit Monday evening. The two-hour meeting marked the first time the leaders have met in person since last year.

"We do have different perspectives on the problem," Obama said of their divergent views on Syria.

The Russian leader, speaking through a translator, agreed, saying, "our opinions do not coincide."

But despite their seemingly intractable differences, Obama and Putin did express a shared desire to stop the violence in Syria and convene a political conference in Geneva, Switzerland. U.S. officials said they were still aiming to hold the summit next month, though that prospect was looking increasingly unlikely given the deepening violence.

It's also unclear who would participate in such a meeting or whether the rebels, given their weakened position, would have any leverage if they did.

U.S. officials say Obama's decision to send the rebels weapons and ammunition for the first time was an attempt to increase their military strength in order to bolster their political bargaining power. But the American inventory for the rebels is not yet expected to include the high-powered weaponry sought by the opposition, raising questions about whether the deepening U.S. involvement will be effective in changing the situation on the ground.

The White House also announced Monday an additional $300 million in humanitarian aid for Syria and neighboring countries absorbing refugees escaping the violence. The new money brings the total U.S. humanitarian assistance to $800 million, according to the White House.

Obama's decision to arm the rebels coincided with the White House's announcement last week that it had definitive evidence of multiple instances of chemical weapons use by Assad's regime against the opposition. Britain and France have also accused Assad of using the deadly agent sarin, while Russia has publicly questioned the credibility of chemical weapons evidence.

"It's necessary to refrain from unproven claims by either party," Putin adviser Alexei Kvasov told reporters at the summit Monday. "We have no evidence proving it."

Moscow's continued support for Assad is based in part on Russia's deep economic and military ties with his regime. Last month, Russia acknowledged it has agreed to sell Syria advanced S-300 air-defense missiles, which are considered to be the cutting edge in aircraft interception technology.

The Russian president's divisions with Western leaders on Syria were also on display in his separate meetings with British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande. Both European leaders have previously indicated a willingness to arm vetted Syrian rebels and successfully pushed for the European Union to allow an arms embargo preventing the flow of weapons to expire.

Still, neither country is yet to join Obama in arming the opposition. Following the U.S. decision, there has been growing public concern in both countries over the wisdom of delivering weapons to a country where groups affiliated with al-Qaida are supporting elements of the rebellion.

"I am as worried as anybody else about elements of the Syrian opposition, who are extremists, who support terrorism and who are a great danger to our world," Cameron said Monday.

Hollande, following his own meeting with Putin, did not commit to sending weapons to the rebels. But he did appear to open the door to some form of deeper involvement from Paris.

"How can you allow Russia to continue to send weapons to the regime of Bashar al-Assad while the opposition gets so few weapons?" Hollande asked. "How can we accept the fact that we have proof of the use of chemical weapons without a unanimous condemnation by the international community, and that includes the G8?"

Obama, who has long signaled a preference for deepening U.S. engagement in Syria in conjunction with international partners, was expected to urge his British and French counterparts to join the U.S. in boosting lethal aid to the opposition. Syria was the primary topic among the G-8 leaders at a working dinner Monday night.

Britain, which is hosting the summit, has pressed leaders to ensure the meeting results in a statement on Syria, including the need for greater humanitarian access. The U.K. floated the possibility of releasing a statement even without Russia's approval, but a British official said the dinner resulted in broad consensus among the leaders on key points.

While Putin did not publicly criticize the U.S. decision to arm the opposition during his meeting with Obama, he exhibited far less restraint Sunday following his meeting with Cameron.

"One hardly should back those who kill their enemies and, you know, eat their organs," he said, referencing a gruesome Internet video purportedly showing a rebel commander committing an act of cannibalism.

"Do we want to support these people?" Putin asked. "Do we want to supply arms to these people?"

Among the other options being considered by the U.S. ? though reluctantly is a no-fly zone to stop Assad from using his air power to crush rebel forces of kill civilians. But European nations are so far opposed to that idea, and Obama's own aides have publicly questioned the feasibility, given Assad's air defenses and the significant costs of such a program.

Perhaps signaling another fight to come between the U.S. and Russia, the foreign ministry in Moscow said Russia would veto a motion to set up a no-fly zone if the U.S. sought authorization from the United Nations Security Council.

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Associated Press writers Jim Kuhnhenn, Shawn Pogatchnik, Vladimir Isachenkov and Cassandra Vinograd in Northern Ireland and Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/g8-exposes-rift-among-leaders-syria-210814934.html

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Talk Mobile App Week begins tomorrow; join us for daily Talk Mobile hangouts!

The second week of Talk Mobile 2013 kicks off tomorrow, and the discussion is going to center around mobile apps. With five days of awesome content lined up and sure to be some great conversations in the comments, we really want to expand your interaction with the whole Talk Mobile crew.

Starting tomorrow after fresh Talk Mobile content goes live we're going to do something we wanted to do for the last week of Talk Mobile, but couldn't thanks to everybody traveling for the awesome Talk Mobile launch party: we'll be holding a live video hangout with a rotating cast of Talk Mobile editors, developers, designers, our special guests, and everybody else involved in making Talk Mobile happen. You can expect the hangouts to go live a little bit after we publish the Talk Mobile articles. After all, they're pretty big hunks of text and video, we want you to have some time to digest it all first!

So tune back in to your favorite Mobile Nations site(s) tomorrow for more great Talk Mobile content. It's time to get the conversation about apps started!

p.s. We want to give you (just you, because you're special) a look at the full schedule of what you can expect from Talk Mobile 2013 in the coming months. Here's how the weeks ahead look...

• July 1: Mobile Social
• July 15: Mobile Platforms
• July 29: Mobile Security
• August 12: Mobile Carriers
• August 26: Mobile Life
• September 9: Mobile Creativity
• September 23: Mobile Cloud
• October 7: Mobile You

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Miss Universe contest heads to Moscow

LAS VEGAS (AP) ? This year's Miss Universe pageant will be held in Russia's capital Moscow.

Donald Trump made the announcement Sunday after the Miss USA pageant in Las Vegas.

He added that he would be moving Miss USA out of Las Vegas and to his golf resort in Miami for the next three years.

Trump said 18 different countries were vying to host Miss Universe, which is set for Nov. 9.

Miss Universe was held in Brazil in 2011, and there were talks of moving it to the Dominican Republic for 2012 before it was ultimately held in Las Vegas.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/miss-universe-contest-heads-moscow-084142918.html

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Is Quebec's proposal for assisted suicide law legal? Likely not.

I am writing legally. This note does not consider the "morality" of the issue.?

First, the Criminal Code (Federal law) provides:

241. Every one who
(a)counsels a person to commit suicide, or
(b)?aids or abets a person to commit suicide,
whether suicide ensues or not, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

Quebec law that directly conflicts with Federal law is legally not effective. Federal law has paramountcy over provincial law.?
Accordingly if Quebec says you can aid a suicide and the Criminal Code (which is Federal) says you can't then the criminal/federal law takes precedence.?
What about the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? Could that uphold the Quebec law??
Probably not.?Rodriguez v. British Columbia (Attorney General)?[1993] 3 S.C.R. 519 upheld the ban on assisted suicide in Canada despite strong constitutional arguments.?
Now as a matter of federalism the provincial government in Quebec prosecutes criminal cases. Quebec might decline to prosecute doctors who follow legislation allowing for assisted suicide; but that's a grace and favour sort of thing and might well be challenged. Besides, a provincial policy not to prosecute could change any time and there is no limitation period for serious crimes in Canada.?
So, legally, Quebec's proposal seems a non-starter without Federal agreement.

Source: http://jmortonmusings.blogspot.com/2013/06/is-quebecs-proposal-assisted-suicide.html

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Pavement: The Sutcliffe Catering Song

The days are getting longer, the weather's getting warmer. It's this time of year that anyone and everyone could use some killer strollin' music to strut to. Might I suggest the hidden Pavement not-exactly-a-classic-but-damn-well-should-be "The Sutcliffe Catering Song"? You just have to like it.

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/rT_O_6zeUsw/pavement-the-sutcliffe-catering-song-513602502

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