Donnie Collins, a transgender student at Emerson College in Boston, Mass., uploaded a message to YouTube on Monday thanking his fraternity brothers for launching a campaign to raise funds for his gender confirmation surgery.
By Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC News
A fraternity at Emerson College in Boston, Mass., has raised thousands of dollars for a transgender member's sex change surgery after the procedure was denied by his student health insurance plan.
The brothers of Phi Alpha Tau have received more than $16,000 in donations for Donnie Collins, 20, a sophomore pledge seeking female-to-male gender transition surgery to remove his breasts.
"It's been an amazing experience, these last few weeks," Collins said in a video (above) uploaded to YouTube on Monday. "My life has been absolutely changed by pledging this fraternity."
After his insurance company reportedly denied his claim for gender transition surgery, Collins' fraternity brothers banded together to help. They launched a pledge campaign Feb. 9 on IndieGoGo, a crowd-funding website, setting an initial goal of $4,800 -- later boosted to $8,000 -- to cover Collins' chest reconstruction.
"We care deeply about each and everyone, and rely on the entire active brotherhood to stand behind any one individual when they are in need," the participating brothers wrote on the IndieGoGo campaign page.
The Phi Alpha Tau brothers took in $2,000 in online donations in just over a week, Collins said in his YouTube video. By Tuesday, they were at $12,000, and the campaign crossed $16,000 Wednesday.
The campaign's managers announced Wednesday morning that they plan to donate all the excess cash to the Jim Collins Foundation, a group that "raises money to fund gender-confirming surgeries for those transgender people who need surgery to live a healthy life," according to the organization's website.
Collins came out as transgender while a student at a Windsor, Conn., boarding school, he told WHDH, an NBC affiliate in Boston.
"Coming out was a huge relief to me," Collins said.
"I knew right away that I wanted a name change, hormone replacement treatment" and gender reassignment surgery, he said.
Collins told WHDH that the procedure, which is scheduled for May, marks an important step in his gender transition.
"You're the one that puts your head down on the pillow at night," Collins said. "You have to be able to look in the mirror at yourself every day for the rest of your life. So, make choices for you first and then other people second."
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One radio station, like many other businesses affected by Hurricane Sandy, say they're struggling to survive because of unfair insurance claim denials. NY1's Susan Jhun has the story.
120 Wall Street was home to Progressive radio station WBAI for more than a decade until Hurricane Sandy hit. The building, located in Zone A, was evacuated a day before the hurricane and shut down for another three weeks after.
A closure that cost the station severely.
It happened as we were finishing our last week of a very important fundraising campaign. We are listener only supported, we rely on those pledges," WBAI Interim Development Director Andrea Katz said. "We lost $150,000 in money that we rely on to pay our rent."
Even after the building was reopened, there was no internet or phone service, and WBAI was forced to continue broadcasting from the remote location it used following Sandy.
The station filed a claim for loss of revenue with it's insurance company, Chubb.
Katz says Chubb declared the claim was water related, and since the company didn't have flood insurance, it would only be covered for three days of lost business.
"My argument back was it was not water related, it was a restricted building that we were not allowed entry to and therefore could not do business as usual," Katz said.
It's a complaint we've been hearing over and over from small businesses hit by Hurricane Sandy, who claim their insurance companies are worming their way out of paying out.
"There are hundreds and hundreds of businesses down here who are all experiencing the same thing," Katz said. "The city has done what they can to help us but we really feel at this point that we may have to take a class action suit to the attorney general."
We called Chubb for comment but haven't heard back.
We then contacted the Department of Financial Services, which regulates insurance companies, and a spokesman said the agency is working to resolve these disputes with it's new mediation program.
Help that may not come soon enough for WBAI.
"We're really afraid we're going to have to close the doors," Katz said.
MIAMI (AP) ? LeBron James had 40 points and a career-high 16 assists, Dwyane Wade scored 39 and the Miami Heat pushed their winning streak to 12 games by outlasting the Sacramento Kings 141-129 in double overtime on Tuesday night.
Ray Allen added 21, Chris Bosh finished with 15 and Chris Andersen had 10 for the Heat, who remained six games clear of second-place Indiana in the Eastern Conference standings.
Miami's 12-game winning streak is the longest in the NBA and matches the second-longest in franchise history.
"Our ball club, we don't get rattled, no matter what's going on during the course of the game," James said. "If it's overtime, double-overtime, we find a way to win."
Marcus Thornton scored 36 points for Sacramento, the most by any reserve in the NBA this season. DeMarcus Cousins finished with 24 points and 15 rebounds, Tyreke Evans added 26 points, John Salmons 15 and Isaiah Thomas 14 for the Kings.
James became the first NBA player to finish with at least 40 points and 16 assists since Kevin Johnson ? now the mayor of Sacramento ? had 42 and 17 for Phoenix against Denver on April 3, 1994.
"Even with a double-overtime game, those are video game numbers," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said, noting that he told Wade the same after his 19-for-28 shooting effort in 46 minutes.
And for the month, James finished 139 for 217 from the floor ? 64.1 percent, by far the best of his career.
Kings coach Keith Smart said before the game that sometimes "great teams get a little bored with the regular season and they need something to get them going."
The Heat didn't seem to be bored by the second overtime.
After a late non-call that James wanted, he simply seemed mad.
James scored inside to open the second extra session, yelling "and one" at referees as his way of insisting he was fouled as well. But after one sensational sequence, the game was pretty much sealed.
Thornton had a chance to give the Kings the lead after a Heat turnover, but his shot at the rim was blocked by Wade, who came down and set up James for a 3-pointer ? a five-point swing, in essence, and the Heat had a 131-127 lead. James scored again, then added two free throws and found Bosh for a dunk and 10-point lead with 1:29 remaining.
Sacramento lost its sixth straight and fell to 1-16 against Miami since March 2004.
"No matter what their record is, they made plays just like us. They gave everything they had and more," James said.
The Heat missed key free throws late in both regulation and the first overtime ? Wade missing a pair with 21 seconds left in the fourth, and James missed one of two with 29.3 seconds left in the opening extra session.
In the first OT, the Kings had a chance for the late lead and potentially the win, but Thomas had a layup blocked by Bosh, and Allen grabbed the rebound for the Heat with 5.7 seconds left.
Miami put the ball in Wade's hands, and he found James near the basket. James' shot missed, and he complained he was fouled by Salmons on the attempt. Referees disagreed with that, but after a lengthy review to determine possession, they awarded Miami the ball with 0.4 seconds remaining. It was much ado for nothing, as Bosh's shot sailed long and the teams went to double overtime.
The game was tied at 92 midway through the fourth before Wade ? with six points and an assist ? led a 13-4 run that looked like it would give Miami breathing room. Miami was up 105-96, and still led 112-104 when James scored with 1:40 remaining.
Sacramento roared back, scoring the final eight points of regulation. Thornton hit a pair of 3-pointers, the second coming with 23 seconds left to get the Kings within 112-110. And after Wade missed a pair of free throws, Cousins grabbed an offensive rebound and laid it back with 8.5 seconds remaining to knot the game at 112-all.
Out of a timeout, the Heat went to Wade, whose step-back 20-footer bounced off the rim as time expired, sending it to overtime.
They were just getting started. And when it was over, the Heat streak survived.
"We're coming together," James said. "We're doing it the right way. We're executing offensively. We're sharing the ball. And we're not getting rattled. We've been in some crazy games. We just stay the course and figure out a way to get the victory."
NOTES: Miami finished February with a 12-1 record, with the one loss to start the month. ... The Heat have allowed 68 third-quarter points in their last two games, both at home. They gave up 67 third-quarter points in their previous three games, all on the road. ... One day after celebrating his 24th birthday, Kings G Jimmer Fredette did not play. ... The Heat played without F Shane Battier, sidelined by right hamstring tightness. He's day-to-day.
We've seen some big Leap Motion deals announced, and some fairly impressive demos, but we haven't yet heard of many big-name apps that will support the gesture control technology. While not the biggest around, Realmac has today confirmed that the Mac version of its Clear to-do app -- itself noted for its novel interface -- will indeed support the motion controller "later this year." Details are light beyond that, but the company's offered a peek at what you can expect in the brief video after the break.
iPhone 5 owners aren't exactly hurting for battery life, but what if you could double up the endurance and protect your handset at the same time? Mophie's just released the Juice Pack Air promising it'll do just that thanks to a 1,700 mAh backup battery embedded in the edge-to-edge case, only two weeks after launching the slender Juice Pack Helium with a 1,500mAh battery. On top of an extra 10 hours of 3G talk time and edge-to-edge protection, Mophie's touting lightning pass-through capability, enhanced sound thanks to its speaker redirection, an LED battery indicator and faster charge times thanks to a 1A charging upgrade. You'll be able to grab it in black now, with the red and white color options shipping by March 22nd. For more info, check the video and PR after the break.
The Weather Channel's Kim Cunningham has the latest on a storm that's headed to New England and a second storm that's coming out of the Rockies.
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Ross Kerber, Reuters
BOSTON - A weather system threatening New England with a third straight weekend of winter storms appeared to be weakening on Saturday night, promising less snowfall than expected.?
Another storm was rolling out of the Rocky Mountains in the Western United States and could create blizzard conditions in Colorado over the weekend, according to a National Weather Service advisory.?
Forecasters were also predicting blizzard conditions from Oklahoma through Missouri early next week when another snowstorm hits an area of the Northern United States from the Plains to the Great Lakes.?
But by Saturday evening, the East Coast storm was moving more east and offshore than anticipated - potentially leaving areas like Boston with much less snowfall than originally expected, said Eleanor Vallier-Talbot of the National Weather Service in Taunton, Massachusetts.?
"The further south you go, the less snow. Boston proper might not even see an inch of snow," she said. "The forecast models have been slowly but surely backing off this thing."?
Related:?Snow, freezing rain to lash New England through Sunday
Much of the Midwest is already blanketed with snow, with more than a foot reported in Kansas on Thursday, forcing airports to cancel hundreds of flights and leaving motorists stranded on highways.?
On Colorado's high plains, up to a foot of snow was possible overnight and throughout Sunday, with winds gusting up to 45 miles an hour, said Frank Cooper, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder.?
A spokeswoman for the Denver International Airport said passengers could expect delays on Sunday as crews de-iced aircraft and cleared runways, and a Southwest Airlines spokeswoman, Olga Romero, said 46 flights in and out of Denver had been canceled until 11 a.m. on Sunday.?
States of emergency? The New England coast - from northern Connecticut to southern Maine - was expecting an extended mix of snow and rain, according to a National Weather Service advisory. Residents were taking it in stride.?
"Look, it's winter, it's New England, it snows. Happens every time!" said Steve Scardino, a software sales executive and lifelong New Englander from Hopkinton, Massachusetts.?
Farther north, near Portland, Maine, the heaviest snow was not expected until Sunday, with accumulations up to 8 inches farther inland.?
The weather service said the storm may bring sleet and freezing rain to the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic states as well, with thunderstorms expected in the Southeast. It likely will dump rain from New York City to Philadelphia, it said. The storm barreled eastward after pummeling the Midwest during the week. In Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Sly James said about 60 buses were stuck on snowbound streets on Friday, and even tow trucks were immobilized.?
After a storm last week dumped some 14 inches of snow on Wichita, Kansas, and 11 inches on Kansas City, residents from Texas to Nebraska were bracing for another one early next week, according to AccuWeather.com.?
Forecasters predicted heavy snow developing on Sunday night and increasing to a rate of 2 inches an hour from northern Oklahoma through central Kansas.?
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and Kansas Governor Sam Brownback declared states of emergency because of possible power outages and generally hazardous travel.?
Drought-stricken farmers in the Great Plains, one of the world's largest wheat-growing areas, welcomed the moisture, although experts said even more rain or snow would be needed to ensure healthy crops.?
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ROME (AP) ? Will Italy stay the course with painful economic reform? Or fall back into the old habit of profligacy and inertia? These are the stakes as Italy votes in a watershed parliamentary election Sunday and Monday that could shape the future of one of Europe's biggest economies.
Fellow EU countries and investors are watching closely, as the decisions that Italy makes over the next several months promise to have a profound impact on whether Europe can decisively put out the flames of its financial crisis. Greece's troubles in recent years were enough to spark a series of market panics. With an economy almost 10 times the size of Greece's, Italy is simply too big a country for Europe, and the world, to see fail.
Leading the electoral pack is Pier Luigi Bersani, a former communist who has shown a pragmatic streak in supporting tough economic reforms spearheaded by incumbent Mario Monti. On Bersani's heels is Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul seeking an unlikely political comeback after being forced from the premiership by Italy's debt crisis. Monti, while widely credited with saving Italy from financial ruin, is trailing badly as he pays the price for the suffering caused by austerity measures.
Then there's the wild card: comic-turned-politician Beppe Grillo, whose protest movement against the entrenched political class has been drawing tens of thousands to rallies in piazzas across Italy. If his self-styled political "tsunami" sweeps into Parliament with a big chunk of seats, Italy could be in store for a prolonged period of political confusion that would spook the markets.
While a man of the left, Bersani has shown himself to have a surprising amount in common with the center-right Monti ? and the two have hinted at the possibility of teaming up in a coalition. Bersani was Monti's most loyal backer in Parliament during the respected economist's tenure at the head of a technocratic government. And in ministerial posts in previous center-left governments, Bersani fought hard to free up such areas of the economy as energy, insurance and banking services.
But it's uncertain that Monti will be able muster the votes needed to give Bersani's Democratic Party a stable majority in both houses of Parliament.
"Forming a government with a stable parliamentary alliance may prove tricky after elections," said Eoin Ryan, an analyst with IHS Global Insight. "A surge in support for anti-austerity parties is raising chances of an indecisive election result and post-vote political instability."
Another factor is turnout. Usually some 80 percent of the 50 million eligible voters go to the polls but experts are predicting many will stay away in anger, hurting mainstream parties.
When Berlusconi stepped down in November 2011, newspapers were writing his political obituary. At 76, blamed for mismanaging the economy and disgraced by criminal allegations of sex with an underage prostitute, the billionaire media baron appeared finished as a political force.
But Berlusconi has proven time and again ? over 20 years at the center of Italian politics ? that he should never be counted out.
The campaign strategy that has allowed him to become a contender in these elections is a simple one: please the masses by throwing around cash.
Berlusconi has promised to give back an unpopular property tax imposed by Monti as part of austerity measures. Even his purchase of start striker Mario Balotelli for his AC Milan soccer team was widely seen as a ploy to buy votes. Berlusconi has also appealed to Italy's right-wing by praising Italy's former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini during a ceremony commemorating Holocaust victims.
The most recent polls show Bersani in the lead with 33 percent of the vote, against 28 percent for Berlusconi's coalition with the populist Northern League. Grillo's 5 Star movement was in a surprise third place, with 17 percent support, while Monti's centrist coalition was notching 13 percent. The COESIS poll of 6,212 respondents had a margin of error of plus or minus 1.2 percent.
Pollster Renato Mannheimer said among his biggest clients heading into the elections were foreign banks seeking to gauge whether to hold or sell Italian bonds.
"They are worried mostly about the return of Berlusconi," Mannheimer said.
Uncertainty over the outcome of the vote has pushed the Milan stock exchange down in the days running up to the vote and bumped up borrowing costs, as investors express concern that Italy may back down from a reform course to pull the country out of recession.
Mannheimer said many undecided voters ? who comprise around one-third of the total electorate ? identify with the center-right, and that may help Berlusconi. He said that the undecided vote may also tilt heavily toward Grillo's protest movement.
The professorial Monti looked uncomfortable at first as a candidate but has recently warmed to the role. Like the others, he has not shied away from name calling, warning that Berlusconi is a "charlatan" and saying his return would be "horrific."
Bond analyst Nicholas Spiro said the election "will deliver the most important verdict on the eurozone's three-year-old austerity focused policies."
But he is betting on a period of political instability after the vote.
"An upset victory by Mr. Berlusconi may be markets' nightmare scenario," he said, "but the prospects for a stable and harmonious Bersani-Monti coalition government ? still the mostly likely outcome in our view ? are bleak."
There?s the?woman who seems to know the ?secret? ways into a man?s heart. She may not be pretty or sexy, she may be downright plain ? but she gets the guy and she keeps him hooked right from her very first word. Then there?s the woman who is beautiful, confident, and smart ? seemingly the ?perfect package?. She may even be a fantastic speaker, but falls woefully short when it comes to talking to the guys in her life and more importantly getting heard.?
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(Reuters) - Paul McIlhenny, the chairman and chief executive of the Louisiana company that makes Tabasco brand pepper sauce, has died at age 68, the McIlhenny Co said on Sunday.
McIlhenny died on Saturday, the family-owned company said in a news release that described him as "a true bon vivant" whose passions included hunting, fishing, wine-tasting and game cooking.
He was a sixth-generation member of the McIlhenny family to live on Avery Island in the southern Louisiana bayou, and a fourth-generation member to produce pepper sauces sold worldwide under the Tabasco brand.
The McIlhenny company was founded in 1868 on Avery Island. It supplies hot sauce to the U.S. presidential plane Air Force One and to Britain's royal family, the Times-Picayune newspaper said on its website.
Paul McIlhenny joined the company in 1967 and directly oversaw the production of its sauces for 13 years, expanding both its line of spicy sauces and the array of aprons, neckties and other merchandise bearing the familiar red-and-green Tabasco logo.
He spent much of his time in New Orleans and in 2006 he reigned as Rex, the first King of Carnival during Mardi Gras celebrations after the city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
"All of McIlhenny Company and the McIlhenny and Avery families are deeply saddened by this news," said Tony Simmons, president of McIlhenny Co and fifth-generation McIlhenny family member. "We will clearly miss Paul's devoted leadership but will more sorely feel the loss of his acumen, his charm and his irrepressible sense of humor."
Feb. 24, 2013 ? In research that could one day improve the success of stem cell transplants and chemotherapy, scientists have found that distinct niches exist in bone marrow to nurture different types of blood stem cells.
Stem cells in the blood are the precursors to infection-fighting white blood cells and oxygen-carrying red blood cells.
The research, by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is reported Feb. 24 in the advance online edition of Nature.
The new findings, in mice, suggest that it may be possible to therapeutically target support cells in a particular niche. On the one hand, a drug that nourishes support cells could encourage blood stem cells to establish themselves in the bone marrow, enabling patients who have had stem cell transplants to more quickly rebuild their immune systems.
On the other, tumor cells are known to hide in the bone marrow, and a drug that disrupts the niche environment may drive cancer cells into the bloodstream, where they are more vulnerable to the damaging effects of chemotherapy.
?Our results offer hope for targeting these niches to treat specific cancers or to improve the success of stem cell transplants,? says senior author Daniel Link, MD, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Medicine. ?Already, we and others are leading clinical trials to evaluate whether it is possible to disrupt these niches in patients with leukemia or multiple myeloma.?
Working in the mice, the researchers selectively deleted a critical gene, CXCL12, which is known to be important for keeping blood stem cells healthy. Rather than knock out the gene in all of the support cells in a niche, the researchers deleted the gene in specific types of support cells. This led to the discovery that each niche holds only certain blood stem cells that are nourished by a unique set of support cells.
?What we found was rather surprising,? Link says. ?There?s not just one niche for developing blood cells in the bone marrow. There?s a distinct niche for stem cells, which have the ability to become any blood cell in the body, and a separate niche for infection-fighting blood cells that are destined to become T cells and B cells.?
The findings provide a strong foundation for investigating whether disrupting these niches can improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy.
In a phase II pilot study led by Washington University medical oncologist Geoffrey Uy, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Link is evaluating whether the drug G-CSF can alter the stem cell niche in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia whose cancer has recurred or is resistant to treatment. The drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration more than 20 years ago to stimulate production of white blood cells in patients undergoing chemotherapy, who often have weakened immune systems and are prone to infections.
But Uy and colleagues will evaluate the drug when it is given before chemotherapy. Patients enrolled in the trial at the Siteman Cancer Center will receive G-CSF for five days before chemotherapy, and the investigators will determine whether it can disrupt the protective environment of the bone marrow niche and make cancer cells more sensitive to chemotherapy.
While it?s too early to know whether the treatment approach will be successful, Link?s new research in mice is bolstered by a companion paper in the same issue of Nature. In that research, Sean Morrison, PhD, director of the Children?s Medical Center Research Institute at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, used similar molecular methods to also discover distinct niches in the bone marrow for blood stem cells.
?There?s a lot of interest right now in trying to understand these niches,? Link adds. ?Both of these studies add new information that will be important as we move forward. Next, we hope to understand how stem cell niches can be manipulated to help patients undergoing stem cell transplants.?
The research is supported by the National Institutes of Health (grants RO1 HL60772 and F30 HL097423)
Greenbaum A, Hsu Y-MS, Day RB, Schuettpelz LG, Christopher MJ, Borgerding JN, Nagasawa T, Link DC. CXCL12 production by early mesenchymal progenitors is required for haemoatopoietic stem-cell maintenance. Nature. Advance online publication Feb. 24, 2013.
Washington University School of Medicine?s 2,100 employed and volunteer faculty physicians also are the medical staff of Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children?s hospitals. The School of Medicine is one of the leading medical research, teaching and patient care institutions in the nation, currently ranked sixth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Through its affiliations with Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children?s hospitals, the School of Medicine is linked to BJC HealthCare.
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NSF collaborates with federal partners to plan for comprehensive public access to research resultsPublic release date: 22-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Deborah Wing dwing@nsf.gov 703-292-5344 National Science Foundation
Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF), along with federal partners, announced its commitment to expand public access to the results of its funded research. Public access is intended to accelerate the dissemination of fundamental research results that will advance the frontiers of knowledge and help ensure the nation's future prosperity.
This announcement follows a memorandum issued from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy directing science-funding agencies to develop plans to increase access to the results of federally funded research and improve the management of digital data produced through such research.
"Scientific progress depends on the responsible communication of research findings, and NSF has been engaged in efforts to expand public access for several years," said NSF Director Subra Suresh. "Full public access will require changes in policies, procedures and practices from the many stakeholders who participate in NSF's broad research portfolio spanning all scientific and engineering disciplines. We stand with our federal science colleagues, as well as our non-governmental partners, to collaborate in accomplishing this transition on behalf of science and our nation's future."
"The logic behind enhanced public access is plain. We know that scientific research supported by the federal government spurs scientific breakthroughs and economic advances when research results are made available to innovators," said White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John P. Holdren. "Policies that mobilize these intellectual assets for re-use through broader access can accelerate scientific breakthroughs, increase innovation, and promote economic growth."
"The National Science Board, as the policy making body for the National Science Foundation, endorses the agency's commitment to public access and looks forward to working with its colleagues and stakeholder communities to support and broaden the availability of federally-funded research data and results," said National Science Board (NSB) Chairman Dan Arvizu. "The NSB understands the importance to the American people that public access brings to the taxpayer and the scholarly community, and that progress in science accelerates when researchers share and build on each other's results."
Quotes from federal partners:
"Collaboration, transparency and open access to scientific findings accelerate discovery and innovation," said Director of DOE's Office of Science Bill Brinkman. "The Department of Energy has been working for years with our colleagues in other science agencies and our stakeholders to advance open access. So we fully support the goals of the OSTP memorandum and will work quickly to develop and implement policies and procedures so that peer-reviewed journal articles funded by the Office of Science are available to the public."
"Publicly funded agricultural research is essential to finding the solutions needed to meet the challenges of providing food, fiber and fuel to an increasing global population, and improved access to these publicly funded research findings enhances our efforts," said Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics at U.S. Department Agriculture, Catherine Woteki. "USDA already makes much of its research available and transparent today, and we look forward to working with the wide range of scientists in the many disciplines and institutions that contribute to our work, to make these policies effective and beneficial to all."
"NASA welcomes this initiative to promote broader dissemination of our research results," said Marc S. Allen, Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for Research at NASA. "We already make data from our space missions available in the public domain, so it's a natural next step to make the exciting scientific results obtained from these data as available as possible to organizations and the public at large."
"Innovation in our country is driven by scientific discovery," said Under Secretary for Standards and Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Pat Gallagher. "By making federal scientific research more broadly available we will help stimulate future innovation and economic growth."
NSF Implementation:
With the breadth of NSF and other federal support across the scientific community, the implementation details for public access could vary by discipline, and new business models for universities, libraries, publishers, and scholarly and professional societies could emerge. Those details will emerge as NSF consults with its stakeholders and with other government agencies, and as it develops its plans. NSF has already laid out a tentative timeline for consultation, planning, systems development, and changes to its policies, which will be fine-tuned over the coming months.
"We expect our approach to evolve over time," said Suresh. "This transition will result in innovative, cost-effective and sustainable approaches. With science becoming an increasingly global enterprise, we will also work with international science funding agencies through forums such as the Global Research Council to enable public access across borders."
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NSF collaborates with federal partners to plan for comprehensive public access to research resultsPublic release date: 22-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Deborah Wing dwing@nsf.gov 703-292-5344 National Science Foundation
Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF), along with federal partners, announced its commitment to expand public access to the results of its funded research. Public access is intended to accelerate the dissemination of fundamental research results that will advance the frontiers of knowledge and help ensure the nation's future prosperity.
This announcement follows a memorandum issued from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy directing science-funding agencies to develop plans to increase access to the results of federally funded research and improve the management of digital data produced through such research.
"Scientific progress depends on the responsible communication of research findings, and NSF has been engaged in efforts to expand public access for several years," said NSF Director Subra Suresh. "Full public access will require changes in policies, procedures and practices from the many stakeholders who participate in NSF's broad research portfolio spanning all scientific and engineering disciplines. We stand with our federal science colleagues, as well as our non-governmental partners, to collaborate in accomplishing this transition on behalf of science and our nation's future."
"The logic behind enhanced public access is plain. We know that scientific research supported by the federal government spurs scientific breakthroughs and economic advances when research results are made available to innovators," said White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John P. Holdren. "Policies that mobilize these intellectual assets for re-use through broader access can accelerate scientific breakthroughs, increase innovation, and promote economic growth."
"The National Science Board, as the policy making body for the National Science Foundation, endorses the agency's commitment to public access and looks forward to working with its colleagues and stakeholder communities to support and broaden the availability of federally-funded research data and results," said National Science Board (NSB) Chairman Dan Arvizu. "The NSB understands the importance to the American people that public access brings to the taxpayer and the scholarly community, and that progress in science accelerates when researchers share and build on each other's results."
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"Collaboration, transparency and open access to scientific findings accelerate discovery and innovation," said Director of DOE's Office of Science Bill Brinkman. "The Department of Energy has been working for years with our colleagues in other science agencies and our stakeholders to advance open access. So we fully support the goals of the OSTP memorandum and will work quickly to develop and implement policies and procedures so that peer-reviewed journal articles funded by the Office of Science are available to the public."
"Publicly funded agricultural research is essential to finding the solutions needed to meet the challenges of providing food, fiber and fuel to an increasing global population, and improved access to these publicly funded research findings enhances our efforts," said Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics at U.S. Department Agriculture, Catherine Woteki. "USDA already makes much of its research available and transparent today, and we look forward to working with the wide range of scientists in the many disciplines and institutions that contribute to our work, to make these policies effective and beneficial to all."
"NASA welcomes this initiative to promote broader dissemination of our research results," said Marc S. Allen, Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for Research at NASA. "We already make data from our space missions available in the public domain, so it's a natural next step to make the exciting scientific results obtained from these data as available as possible to organizations and the public at large."
"Innovation in our country is driven by scientific discovery," said Under Secretary for Standards and Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Pat Gallagher. "By making federal scientific research more broadly available we will help stimulate future innovation and economic growth."
NSF Implementation:
With the breadth of NSF and other federal support across the scientific community, the implementation details for public access could vary by discipline, and new business models for universities, libraries, publishers, and scholarly and professional societies could emerge. Those details will emerge as NSF consults with its stakeholders and with other government agencies, and as it develops its plans. NSF has already laid out a tentative timeline for consultation, planning, systems development, and changes to its policies, which will be fine-tuned over the coming months.
"We expect our approach to evolve over time," said Suresh. "This transition will result in innovative, cost-effective and sustainable approaches. With science becoming an increasingly global enterprise, we will also work with international science funding agencies through forums such as the Global Research Council to enable public access across borders."
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Shia LaBeouf is out. Ben Foster is in.
A day after LaBeouf stepped away from the play that would have marked his Broadway debut, he was replaced by Foster.
Foster, whose film roles include "3:10 to Yuma" and "The Messenger" and who was on TV in "The Laramie Project" and "Six Feet Under," had auditioned for the revival of Lyle Kessler's play "Orphans" but had lost the role to the star of the "Transformers" franchise.
After LaBeouf left the production on Wednesday due to creative differences, Foster was picked. After the change was announced, LaBeouf tweeted: "Ben Foster is a beast. He will kill it," in all capital letters. Foster will be making his Broadway debut.
The play, which premiered in 1983, tells the story of two orphaned brothers living in a decrepit Philadelphia row house who decide to kidnap a wealthy man. LaBeouf was to play one brother and and Tom Sturridge the other; Baldwin will be the target.
The switch in actors hasn't delayed the show. Producers said "Orphans" will still open March 19 at the Schoenfeld Theatre.
LaBeouf apparently stepped away from the play without burning too many bridges ? at least according to the messages he's posted on Twitter. The actor published email messages between him, Baldwin and director Daniel Sullivan that indicated a somewhat amicable, if anguished, split.
"Sorry for my part of a dis-agreeable situation," he wrote to Baldwin in an email posted on LaBeouf's Twitter feed. LaBeouf also posted his audition video.
Baldwin apparently wrote to the younger actor: "I don't have an unkind word to say about you. You have my word."
As for Sullivan, the director apparently wrote to LaBeouf after the decision was made that the actor leave the show: "This one will haunt me. You tried to warn me. You said you were a different breed. I didn't get it."
A press representative for the show said the messages were legitimate.
LaBeouf seemed still somewhat shaken by the whole experience Thursday, writing on Twitter a series of slogans with opaque meanings.
"The theater belongs not to the great but to the brash. acting is not for gentlemen, or bureaucratic-academics. what they do is antiart," he wrote in one tweet.
He also posted an image of a commiserative email apparently from Rick Sordelet, a veteran fight director, who said, "It was obvious you were going to turn in a fantastic performance." In the same message, Sordelet wrote: "It must have been difficult for others in the room to be schooled by someone who's raw talent and enthusiasm out matched theirs." It was likely a note not intended for the rest of the company to see.
LaBeouf, whose other films include "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," was also recently seen in John Hillcoat's crime drama "Lawless."
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Hoss is fantastic. Barbara is ice cold at the start, understandably so. Yet Hoss makes her sympathetic.
[Leaves] you drained and horrified.
Sometimes, the sun shines and the wind blows fresh and the very elements that make for intense hardship also open a window on intense joy.
Hoss is mesmerizing as a woman who holds it all together to the point of losing herself.
It's one terrific film, as smart, thoughtful and emotionally involving as just about anything that's out there.
It's a quiet film built of careful details.
Hoss' outstanding performance is a deep well of subtle yet unmistakable motives and reactions.
A crafty filmmaker, Petzold gives us information in increments. During the first half of his movie, which he co-wrote, we are all but left to our own devices; yet it is fascinating, and appropriate.
Worth seeing ... both for Petzold's singular aesthetic and for Hoss, who as usual is a riveting presence.
A well-observed, compelling, and evocative character piece, haunted by the ghosts of Germany's recent past.
Feels like total immersion into the sights, stresses, and the subtle solidarity among middle-class professionals living in the workers' paradise that Petzold's parents fled.
[R]esides somewhere in an unsatisfying borderland between drama and thriller, never quite catching fire as either...
A superbly crafted low-boil drama that gets its hooks into you the old-fashioned way, through character, and highlights the difficulties and cost of living by principles.
Subtly intriguing and ambiguous, it's filled with suspicion and subterfuge.
Despite the limited scope of its predictable narrative, "Barbara" remains a compelling character study thanks to Nina Hoss's enigmatic performance in the title role.
Christian Petzold's latest thriller threatens to cross over the line from minimalism to nihilism.
Both insightful and poignant, but not mawkish...an intriguing character study set against the backdrop of a dark time in history.
The plotting, the planning and the deepening relationships don't make for kinetic action, but they are the foundation for a smart, engrossing film.
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The Pentagon says Maine could be facing about $41 million in Defense Department civilian payroll cuts if automatic government spending cuts kick in March 1.
Maine U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King toured Bath Iron Works Thursday morning and talked about the potential cuts.
They voiced their support for the workers at BIW, and said they hope a temporary reprieve could be reached to avoid the so called "sequester."
"It's an embarrassment that our government has put us in this position," said King
Hundreds of technical jobs at the ship building facility hang in the balance if Congress can't agree on a defense department budget.?
A union representative for technical employees said several hundred BIW workers are anxious and frustrated with the prospect of losing their jobs within the next six to nine months.
"We will continue to do everything we can to ensure we have the funding to build these ship," said Collins.
According to the Navy, 1,121 temporary workers would lose their jobs nationwide, mostly in shipyards. And if Congress fails to negotiate on a plan, the USS Miami repairs at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard could be deferred.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress on Wednesday that if a budget deal isn't reached, he may have to shorten the workweek for the "vast majority" of the Defense Department's 800,000 civilian workers. They'd lose one day of work per week, or 20 percent of their pay, for up to 22 weeks, probably starting in late April. ?? ? Pentagon figures show its civilian payroll in Vermont for the 2012 fiscal year was $486 million and about $445 million for 2013. ?? ? The biggest potential civilian payroll losses would be in Virginia, California, Maryland, Texas and Georgia.
Collins and King were scheduled to visit the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Thursday afternoon.
According to an anonymous source that spoke to Kotaku, the PlayStation 4, codename Orbis, will be coming out in November and will have two different price points, versions costing $429 and $529. These numbers and release date are preliminary and Sony will provide real answers during its launch event in New York on Wednesday. Price points for the two versions of the console could change as the year goes on and Sony could announce retail prices in June at E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which is the video game industry?s largest trade event.
Many features of the PS4 have been discussed, but much about the new console remains unknown. While the controller will feature a touchpad in the center, there have been several prototype photos that have leaked online, each varying slightly. One of the more interesting aspects of the PS4 that was discussed by Kotaku?s source is the integration of smartphones for use with it. According to the source, the PS4 can be controlled using a smartphone or tablet. There also will be a chat function and the ability to buy games from your phone that will automatically download on the PS4. Each console will include a Playstation Eye, says the source, which could allow users to interact with one another and could also include a ?spectator? system that allows users to watch a friend play a videogame.
The social aspects of the PS4 match previous reports of Gaikai, the streaming videogame company that Sony purchased in July 2012, having registered website domains centered on PlayStation Cloud, reports IGN. The cloud function of the PS4 was also reported on by the Wall Street Journal, which stated that the new system would be able to stream PlayStation 3 games. Sony is investing heavily in the social component of the PS4, with the WSJ reporting the new system will include options to post achievements on Facebook, upload videos to YouTube and possibly compete against other players across different platforms.
Some information regarding the PS4, such as the controller and emphasis on social media and streaming support, seems confirmed, but there is still plenty of speculation surrounding Sony?s new system and there should be answers, and maybe some surprises, on Wednesday.
Sure, it's possible to get remote access to home theater devices through raw methods like a Slingbox, but KDDI has a slightly more elegant solution for those living in Japan. Its tiny Remote TV box puts a Blu-ray DVR on the local WiFi network to both schedule recordings while away and stream the video itself. Locals can watch from a Mac, Windows PC or Android device, although they'll be limited to 480p when they're outside of the home. iOS support is coming soon, the carrier says. KDDI ships the device on February 23rd for an estimated ¥19,800 ($213) and is keen to note that it doesn't require a subscription -- it sees Remote TV more as an incentive to splurge on smartphone data, which just might work for commuters wanting to catch up on their shows.
On what planet do people actually have time to hand-wash a dozen bags each week? Not on mine... So nobody I know ever washes these things. When they *look* dirty (which might be too late) people throw them away.
Even when you use a reusable bag, the sensible thing to do with certain kinds of food - especially uncooked meat - is to put them in a plastic bag. This plastic bag will protect the reusable bag, your car, and your fridge, from being contaminated.
In any case, this whole ban on plastic bags is nothing short of idiocy. Plastic bags *are* reusable, and people (e.g., me) do reuse them all the time, for anything from collecting garbage, carrying wet clothes from the pool, collecting dog excrement or cat litter, etc., etc. If people won't have these bags from the supermarket, they would buy them anyway. Heck, when was the last time you saw anyone throwing away plastic shopping bags, without reusing them first?
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Amid calls at national and state levels for more Americans to pursue higher education in science and technology fields, in part to serve advanced manufacturing?s job-skills needs, some educators have warned that colleges are not paying enough attention to fields that require some postsecondary training but not a four-year degree. Legislators in Texas are considering bills backed by a business coalition that wants to see more groundwork for that training laid in high school, a move that would involve loosening the state?s rigorous graduation requirements, The Austin American-Statesman reports.
Business leaders who back the legislative efforts say that workers with the skills their companies need are in short supply. They lay the blame in part on a high-school curriculum in which they say career training takes a back seat to college preparation. Measures the business leaders support would reduce the number of required courses in math, science, and social studies, the Austin newspaper reports, and create several specialized paths toward graduation. Students choosing a ?business and industry? track, for instance, could fulfill one of their required science courses by taking a state-approved diesel-mechanics course instead of physics.
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Weekend Highlights: Eddy Cue is "Apple's most important internet executive", so argues Owen Thomas at Business Insider; Apple scores iPad education deal worth nearly $1.5 million in Chicago; Mark Gurman at 9 to 5 Mac reviews a couple of iPad mini cases from Marware, and TUAW reviews the leather X-Doria Dash iPad mini folio; Digital Trends looks at the T&C of new Mailbox app service, says it's worth the wait; Greenlight Capital, Einhorn investment firm, says Apple is breaking "law by packaging a measure to limit the offering of preferred shares with other matters up for a shareholder vote"; Apple and Samsung have finally identified products in their patent infringement case; Mike Elgan thinks Samsung so wants to be like Apple that their envy could ultimately wreck them; 9 to 5 Mac posts videos from inside Apple's reseller program from 2007; iMore presents their "ultimate guide" to the Calendar app, also offers a tutorial on creating, editing, deleting evens; Tim Cook is not the reason for Apple's stock decline argues Ashraf Eassa over at Seeking Alpha, rather, it is "the harsh competitive realities of the consumer electronics market"; MG Siegler at TechCrunch believes Apple's fall Apple TV lineup will see Nat Brown's belief that Apple could rule gaming come true, not by directly challenging the consoles, but by changing the rules; Andrew Stevenson of Neowin prognosticates Apple's future, expresses concern the current executive direction is "going down the same path that got Apple in trouble" requiring Microsoft bailout in the 90's; Apple files 21 page document explaining to court why Einhorn lawsuit is a waste of time; Adobe releases Photoshop 1 source code; yet another Mac Gmail client reviewed: Email Pro for Gmail; Mactuts+ explains how to boost performance of your Mac; got kids? The Mac Observer walks through setting up iTunes allowances for them; memeburn explains WebKit; Jony Ive receives BBC's gold Blue Peter badge, "the greatest accolade in UK children's TV"; analyst says Microsoft passing up a boatload of cash by not releasing an Office for iPad app; Staples next retail stores to start selling Apple kit in Canada, US; John Browett lands on his feet from Cupertino to the UK as CEO of Monsoon Accessorize; Technology Review feature on the Nest thermostat boys, former iPhone/iPod creators, and how they plan to connect the rest of your house; Piper Jaffray believes Apple will release new iPad body styles in April, still thinks media event likely; Apple to release iOS 6.1.2 on 20 Feb, according to German site, ifun, fixing passcode unlocking flaw, more on the hack in our Hardware/Software section.
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"At UCI, iPad has helped turn the page on med-school teaching: The first medical-school class to be given textbook-loaded tablets has posted significant test-score improvements; applications have surged." Orange County Register
9:09 PM
"Dist. 211 OKs iPad program expansion" ["Between 6,000 and 7,000 Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 students will get their own fourth-generation Apple iPad to use next school year, paid for by the district at a cost of between $1.25 and $1.43 million for a three-year lease."]?Chicago Daily Herald?8:26 AM
"At UCI, iPad has helped turn the page on med-school teaching: The first medical-school class to be given textbook-loaded tablets has posted significant test-score improvements; applications have surged."?Orange County Register [Free Registration Required]?9:09 PM
"Will Apple's plans for an iWatch herald a new era of wearable tech? Apple and Google are just two of the giants working on gadgets that were once the realm of sci-fi ? but that also push the frontiers of the privacy debate"?The Observer?2/16
"Apple Beware, Samsung Plans Smartwatch Too: Mere days after reports surface about an Apple-made smartwatch, leaked screenshots purport to reveal what Samsung's smartwatch will look like."?InformationWeek?2/16
"Future PCs threat to Apple? Yes, says Citibank analyst: New hybrid laptop-tablet devices based on Intel's fast but power efficient Haswell chip may threaten Apple's tablet dominance, says a Citibank analyst."?CNET News?2/16
"Apple's Not a Hardware Company"?TheStreet?2/16
"Apple seeking new blood to lead 'High Priority' next gen Apple TV development"?iMore?2/16
"Apple Hires Engineers to Bring 'Next-Generation Features' to Apple TV."?X-bit labs?2/16
"Apple releases peppy new 'Alive' and 'Together' TV ad spots for iPad and iPad mini"?The Next Web?9:06 PM
"Apple airs new 'Alive' and 'Together' iPad TV ads to showcase reading, gaming, various App Store apps"?9 to 5 Mac?8:56 PM
"Apple Posts Two New iPad Television Ads, 'Alive' and 'Together'"?MacRumors?9:27 PM
"Two New iPad Ads: 'Alive' and 'Together'"?MacStories?9:27 PM
"Apple Airs New Ads With Beating Hearts, Sharks and All That Jazz"?AllThingsD?9:27 PM
"Staples to start carrying Apple products in the U.S.?"?ZDNet?4:14 PM
"New Stats Show Apple's iPhone Dominance in Web Traffic due to Savvier users"?Patently Apple?11:35 AM
"Norfolk Apple Shop changes name: We sell cider, not iPads!"?Crave @ CNET?8:30 AM
"New Apple ad focuses on the 300,000 apps available for the iPad"?SlashGear?4:22 PM
"Apple's new iPad ad campaign promotes 300,000 apps 'for everything you love'"?AppleInsider?2/16
"How Apple got serious about style: 'Design Forward,' a book debuting in the U.S. today, reveals Frog Design founder Hartmut Esslinger's challenges helping to transform Apple product design in the 1980s and beyond. Here, a look inside."?CNET News?2/16
"A look at Apple's reseller program circa 2007 [Video]?9 to 5 Mac?2/16
"Apple's Jony Ive Picks Up The Ultimate Accolade... A Gold Blue Peter Badge"?Forbes?2/16
"The Best Apple Reporter In The World Is A 19-Year-Old College Freshman At Michigan"?Business Insider?2/16
"In Terms Of Web Traffic, iPhone 5 Leads Samsung Galaxy S III ... But Just Barely"?App Advice?2/16
"Staples to begin carrying Apple devices"?SlashGear?2/16
"Apple Wouldn't Give Its Blessing, So Two Guys Built An Apple Museum On Their Own"?Business Insider?2/16
"China New Year Retail Sales Growth Slows on Austerity" ["Sales of 'high end' electronics, including Apple Inc.'s iPad and iPhone, jumped 36 percent in shops monitored by the ministry in the eastern city of Nanjing, according to the statement."]?Bloomberg?2/16
"Portland's 'financial technology' cluster aims to simplify online commerce" ["Taking design cues from Apple and inspiration from social media, a Portland startup called Simple Finance Technology Corp. hopes to create a more straightforward, low-fee form of banking designed for a generation accustomed to continuous connectivity, their gadgets always within arm's reach."]?The Oregonian?2/16
"Apple's Sir Jonathan Ive gets gold Blue Peter badge"?Telegraph?2/15
"Apple's Jony Ive receives the greatest accolade in UK children's TV: A golden Blue Peter badge"?The Next Web?2/15
"Apple's Sir Ive honored with BBC kids TV's greatest honor, the gold Blue Peter badge (Video)"?Engadget?2/15
"Samsung starting to catch up to Apple on the mobile web as iPhone traffic share drops"?VentureBeat?2/15
"Android and iOS have a duopoly in the smartphone marketplace."?Digital Trends?2/15
"Apple tech Found On Android: Passbook gets pay-by-bonk/While Apple and its Android rivals fight like cat and dog over smartphones, one piece of mobile technology from the iPhone maker has wound up on Google-powered devices."?The Register?2/15
"Kiwi cops to buy 6,500 iPhones, 3,900 iPads: Smartphones and fondleslabs will do the work of 345 officers"?The Register?2/15
"Staples Likely To Begin Selling Apple Products In Canada And US Soon"?App Advice?2/15
"Apple Products May Finally Go On Sale at Staples Stores in US"?Mashable?2/15
"Cider store The Apple Shop forced to change name after numerous calls from disgruntled iPhone and iPad owners"?Digital Trends?2/15
"Apple store forced to change its name"?CNET News?2/15
"Apple Customers Push Cider-Selling 'Apple Shop' to Change Name"?The Mac Observer?2/15
"Australia Is Killing 1,300 iMac G4s After They Lasted A Full Decade"?Cult of Mac?2/15
"Ousted Apple retail boss John Browett becomes chief executive at Monsoon Accessorize"?Macworld UK?2/15
"Former Apple Executive Browett Joins Fashion Chain Monsoon"?Bloomberg?2/15
Non-Apple News
"Bungie's 'Destiny' Is A Shared-World Shooter, With Journey-Style Multiplayer For Xbox 360 And PS3"?Forbes?4:14 PM
"Report: Google Will Open Its Own Branded Stores by Year End"?MacTrast?2/16
"The iPod of ThermoStats: The iPod is a tough act to follow. But Tony Fadell, one of its creators, and a team of other Apple vets have used a holistic software and hardware approach to design?of all things?the iPod of home thermoStats."?Barron's?2/16
"Preparing for War, Valve Launches Steam for Linux"?Wired?2/15
"Archos unveils 116 Platinum Android tablet with 11.6-inch IPS display for $349"?ZDNet?2/15
"Control your office door lock from cloud, smartphone"?ZDNet?2/15
"Finally, a Trash Can on Wheels That Automatically Catches Your Trash"?Techland?2/15
"Firm moves to trademark 'Python' name out from under the language: Open-sourcers struggle against hostile snake snatch"?The Register?2/15
"Two Linux tablet projects take a step forward: As the PengPod line begins shipping, the KDE-powered 'Vivaldi' tablet sets a May target."?PCWorld?2/15
"Take your smartphone to lunch and let it pay for you"?TechHive?2/15
"Google CFO: We want to fix 'broken' world"?ZDNet?2/15
"Google Play shares too much personal info, app developer says"?CSO?2/15
"Buffalo sets Feb. launch date for 'world's fastest' external PC hard drive"?IDG News Service?2/15
"Steam lands on Linux, revving up for a living room battle"?PCWorld?2/15
"Valve opens Linux video game store"?BBC?2/15
"Amazon Takes Redshift, Its Cloud-Based Data Warehouse Killer, Global"?TechCrunch?2/15
"Amazon's cloud-based data warehouse Redshift becomes generally available: The data warehouse service costs from US$0.85 per hour on-demand"?IDG News Service?2/15
"Facebook highlights privacy protection for minors on Graph Search"?CNN?2/15
"iMore show. Tonight. 6pm PT. 9pm ET. Be here!"?iMore?4:21 PM
"Macworld 2013 ? Ted Landau Picks His Show Favorites and Discusses the Event's Success"?MacVoicesTV?12:47 PM
"Readdle talks Documents at Macworld|iWorld 2013"?iMore?11:48 AM
"Kashoo shows off simple online accounting at Macworld|iWorld 2013"?iMore?11:48 AM
"Podcast: Inside the world of a prolific iPhone app maker"?GeekWire?2/16
"Macworld 2013 ? Kanex' mySpot Gives You A Simple, Private WiFi Network In Your Hotel Room"?MacVoicesTV?2/16
"Projectbook Organizes and Integrates Your Project Documents and Assets"?MacVoicesTV?2/16
"Gene Steinberg meets Adam Engst, of TidBITS and Take Control Books, and Daniel Eran Dilger, of Roughly Drafted and AppleInsider, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?2/15
"iWatch Fever: Why This Round Of Rumors Might Actually Be True On The CultCast"?Cult of Mac?2/15
"Macworld 2013 ? BigDay Helps You Give and Get The Gifts You Really Want On Special Occasions"?MacVoicesTV?2/15
"Macworld 2013 ? Dolly Drive Expands Into Dolly Space, on MacVoices"?MacVoicesTV?2/15
"iOS 6.1.2 to launch next week and fix bugs, report says"?Crave @ CNET?8:31 AM
"Map of the day: Apple Inc.'s Asian supply chain"?Fortune?2/16
"New Model (Early 2013) Retina MacBook Pros use some upgraded internal parts"?9 to 5 Mac?2/16
"Analyst sees new iPad design in April 2013"?TG Daily?2/16
"Full-size iPad redesign coming this spring?"?T3?2/16
"Apple Software Update Could Disable Counterfeit Lightning Connectors"?iPhone Alley?2/16
"New iMac Now Being Offered In Apple Refurbished Program"?AppleBitch?2/16
"Piper Jaffray says Apple media event still likely by April, sees 'new iPad body styles'"?AppleInsider?2/15
"Apple may update iPad design this spring, Munster says: Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster believes Apple will redesign the larger iPad to make its body similar to the iPad Mini. But he doesn't expect any major products this spring."?CNET News?2/15
"New Apple updates likely in spring: Piper Jaffray"?MarketWatch?2/15
"Apple event 'likely' in March or April for iPad, analyst says"?Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required]?2/15
"Apple to release iOS 6.1.2 to address passcode vulnerability by February 20 -report"?AppleInsider?2/15
"iOS 6.1.2 to Address Exchange and Passcode Bugs Reportedly Coming Early Next Week"?MacRumors?2/15
"iOS 6.1.2: Will Fix Exchange, Lockscreen Issues"?Tapscape?2/15
"Apple To Reportedly Fix Lockscreen Exploit Next Week With iOS 6.1.2"?Macgasm?2/15
"You may Rocksteady all night long with this wireless speaker"?AppleDailyReport?2/15
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"Finish is a straightforward and effective iOS app for managing tasks with deadlines"?The Next Web?4:13 PM
"Kickstarter Project Micro-Financing with an iPhone App"?eXtensions?8:02 AM
"Epic iPad RPG Infinity Blade Goes Free, Grab It While You Can ? iPad Game Review"?PadGadget?8:34 AM
"Calendar: The ultimate guide"?iMore?2/16
"NaturalReader Converts Documents & Web Page Text To Natural-Sounding Speech On iPhone"?AddictiveTips?2/16
"Useful Photography App for the iPhone: Wood Camera"?eXtensions?2/16
"Haze: a gorgeous gesture-controlled weather app for minimalists"?iDownload Blog?2/16
"Save battery life at night with AirplaneScheduler"?iDownload Blog?2/16
"TuneIn Radio for iOS review: TuneIn isn't perfect, but it's pretty close"?CNET Reviews?2/15
"Fooducate review: Best food rating app for iPhone"?iMore?2/15
"Kindle App Vs. iBooks. (Spoiler: They're Virtually Identical Now!) [Feature]?Cult of Mac?2/15
"Haze for iOS launches, clears the visual clutter of weather apps (hands-on) Mobile"?Engadget?2/15
"Haze for iPhone is a fun and attractive way to check the weather: Another entrant tries its hand at replacing the age-old Weather app on your iPhone"?The Verge?2/15
"This Is Just What The World Needs. Yet Another Free Photo App For The iPhone (get it anyway)"?Mac 360?2/15
"Tech Minute: Apps to reduce paper waste" [Video Report]?CNET News?2/15
"Appidemic: Cordy 2 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch"?AppleTell?2/15
"Appidemic: Pixel People for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch"?AppleTell?2/15
"Review: 'Dragon' Up for iPhone is disgustingly good"?Digital Trends?2/15
"'QuestLord' Review - A Newbie Friendly First-person Adventure"?Touch Arcade?2/15
How-To/Tutorial
"Conceptualize your compositions to improve your iPhone photography"?iDownload Blog?2/16
"How to create, edit, and delete Calendar events on your iPhone or iPad"?iMore?2/16
"How To Use Mailbox, The New Email App For iPhone Everyone Is Talking About"?Business Insider?2/16
"How to Connect an iPad to a Wi-Fi Network"?Macinstruct?2/15
Tips
"Ask Rick: how can I get emails on my iPad? A reader is having trouble picking up Virgin emails on his iPad."?Telegraph?2/16
"Know Who is Calling Even if iPhone is Silent with Custom Vibration Alerts"?OS X Daily?2/15
"Why Google's stores shouldn't look so much like Apple stores: The problem that Microsoft and Google have as they go into retail is that their stores can look too similar to Apple stores. For Google to be successful, maybe it needs to embrace 'The Big Bang Theory.'"?CNET News?4:24 PM
"Does Anyone Actually Want a Transparent Phone?"?Gizmodo?4:22 PM
"Apple's Tim Cook: 'Shareholder Lawsuit A Silly Sideshow' (And Other Quotes Of The Week)"?Forbes?4:21 PM
"The Incredible Evolution Of App Design" [Slideshow]?Business Insider?11:45 AM
"How to Unparalyze Us: I was struck by one particular moment during President Obama's State of the Union address. The president proposed a $1 billion investment to build a new National Network for Manufacturing Innovation to spur high-tech manufacturing in America. ... Yet sitting up there in the balcony listening to the president's speech was the chief executive of Apple, Tim Cook. Apple is currently sitting on $137 billion of cash in the bank. There are many reasons Apple has not spent its cash horde, but I'll bet anything that one of them is the uncertain economic and tax environment in this country."?New York Times?9:08 AM
"Terms & Conditions: Mailbox app is worth the wait"?Digital Trends?8:21 AM
"New Apple Television Concept [Video]?iClarified?2/16
"Apple iOS: The Best and Worst of"?YugaTech?2/16
"Why An Apple iCar Is Actually a Great Idea"?Cult of Mac?2/16
"The Macalope Weekly: It could've been worse"?Macworld?2/16
"Investing in the Future of Television and Entertainment"?The Motley Fool?2/16
"Tick tock: why timing your Mac hardware upgrades makes good sense"?GigaOM?2/16
"Why would Apple make an iPhone mini? The Ars OpenForum discusses"?Ars Technica?2/16
"The Coming Smartphone Slowdown"?Barron's [Paid Membership Required]?2/16
"Now we know why Apple was leaking stupid iWatch rumors: Samsung's releasing one"?VentureBeat?2/15
"Institutional Selling Demonstrates Depth of $AAPL Ignorance"?The Mac Observer?2/15
"Rumored HTC handset looks even more like an iPhone 5 in leaked photo"?AppleInsider?2/15
"Always Beaten: In thinking about the latest round of rumors of another company supposedly 'beating' Apple to a market in which Apple hasn't entered yet, I remembered how this sort of scenario happened many times in the past. I wanted to understand if 'beating to the punch' is really the parameter we should be looking at."?MacStories?2/15
"Apple Analysts: An Unfortunate Rumor Mill Love Story"?MacTrast?2/15
"How a Fake Story About Apple's Fake Jobs Turned into the Truth"?The Atlantic Wire?2/15
"Does Apple Pay Enough Attention To Security? Maybe Not"?Forbes?2/15
"Apple Stores are prospering, but the SVP of Retail slot seems to be a tough sell"?GigaOM?2/15
"Flaws in iOS 6.1 May Bruise Apple's Business Appeal"?MacNewsWorld?2/15
"Apple iWatch Vs. Smartwatches Past And Present" [Slideshow]?InformationWeek?2/15
"Apple's Next Great Thing(s) Will Revolutionize TV And Watches (but it won't happen overnight)"?Mac 360?2/15
"Rumor: Samsung plans Apple 'iWatch' competition"?Computerworld?2/15
"Opinion: Focusing On Daily Apple Rumors Is A Dangerous Game, But A Popular One"?App Advice?2/15
"TLDR: iMac vs MacBook?" [Video Report]?blip?2/15
"Forget Skeuomorphism: The (Digital) World Is Geting Flatter"?ReadWrite?2/15
"How Lightning Tightens Apple's Control Over Accessories"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?2/15
"Apple TV and the future of gaming"?iMore?2/15
"Third party apps may finally land on the Apple TV this fall"?iDownload Blog?2/15
"Rumor: Apple TV To Spearhead A Major Push Into Television Apps And Games"?AppleBitch?2/15
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