Thursday, August 8, 2013

Code for Kids teaches value of computer programming | Metro

What started out as a way to keep a colleague?s kid occupied during a PD day turned into a bright idea, says the Code for Kids non-profit founder.

?I was at Shopify and our head of talent acquisition had his kid in on a PD day. He got bored pretty fast,? said Julian Nadeau, 21, who has been working for the Ottawa-based e-commerce company as a co-op student since January.

Using a Raspberry Pi computer and a credit-card sized 700?MHz device often used to teach?basic computer science in schools,?Nadeau quickly showed the boy how work with the visual programming language Scratch.

?A moment later I thought: ?Why don?t we do this for a bunch of kids,?? said Nadeau, who runs the course from Shopify?s event space.

The next session, which is the third of the series, will teach kids aged seven to 12 about designing user interfaces. Based on past workshops, the sessions seem to be growing.

?In May?we had an event where we brought the kids in and taught them Scratch,? said Nadeau, pointing out that 35 to 40 per cent of the kids who showed up were girls. The first three hour event brought in 20 kids, the second in July roughly 60 for the morning and afternoon course where they learned how to create a webpage using HTML.

By teaching kids to code, even if it?s at a basic level, it will help them to adapt and understand how to harness the true potential and power of technology, he said.

?Even if you?ve gone through school as an English major, in your job you end up using computers all the time,? said Nadeau of his reason for founding the program. ?We have this world where everything is controlled by technology.?You probably use a computer in ways that aren?t using them to their full potential.?

Though he?s only running workshops in Ottawa, Nadeau said he to hopes bring the program to other Canadian cities.

?The kids come out and?they?re ecstatic because they now have a website to show their friends.?

The next session runs on September 14th at Shopify?at a cost of?$55.

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Source: http://metronews.ca/news/ottawa/756514/code-for-kids-teaches-value-of-computer-programming/

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Monday, July 29, 2013

Sports Minister pledges additional support for women's football

Women's football is to receive additional support from the Scottish Government, Sport Minister Shona Robison has pledged.

The boost for Scotland's fastest growing sport was announced as Ms Robison attended the Women's Football Conference in Stockholm as a guest of UEFA.

She will take part in a panel discussion where the 54 football associations will talk about how to develop the sport.

Scotland's women's football team has climbed the Fifa world rankings from 29th to 20th, and from 17th to 11th in the UEFA European rankings since the appointment of Anna Signeul as the national team manager.

Ms Robison said: "Women's football in Scotland is going from strength to strength and the Scottish Government is a committed supporter. We have an excellent working relationship with the Scottish FA and Scottish Women's Football, and have played a key role in the growth of girl's and women's football in Scotland. That has helped the national team reach its highest ever ranking and the Glasgow City team reach the latter stages of Uefa Women's Champions League competition.

"Girls' and women's football is the fastest growing sport in the world. The Scottish FA and national team are raising the profile of women's football by winning games and providing positive role models. That's why it is now the top team sport for girls in Scotland, with over 200,000 girls trying football through our Active Schools Programme last year.

"Sportscotland have invested more than ?2.2m into women's football to fund the national coach, assistant national coach, under 19s coach and a number of other posts, with the sportscotland institute of sport providing strength and conditioning, performance lifestyle and physiotherapy support.

"So we are in good shape, but the heartbreak of the national team just missing out on the Euro 2013 finals in the dying moments of a playoff encourages us to do more to build on this success. I plan to offer additional support to improve the current training environment for national players to help them to deliver on the international stage."

Ms Robison said full details of the support package would be made available in autumn.

She added: "I am confident that it will help our national team compete with the best in the world."

Source: http://news.stv.tv/scotland/234247-scotlands-sports-minister-pledges-additional-support-for-womens-football/

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Ouch! Beyonce's hair gets caught in stage fan

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Beyonce's Mrs. Carter World Tour has fans flocking to see her performances, but during a Monday night concert in Montreal, one fan just couldn't get enough of her.

While the singer belted out her hit "Halo," she stepped a little too close to a stage-side wind machine and suddenly found her long, blond locks locked in the blades. But it's likely enough that the other fans at the show ? the ones who paid to get in ? didn't even notice Beyonce's tress distress.

That's because despite the alarming and no doubt painful situation, Beyonce never stopped singing. Sure, she discreetly tugged at her hair a bit ? and welcomed a helping hand from security ? but the show went on without a hitch.

Eventually, Beyonce found relief and later in the evening, she even found the humor in the situation.

After posting a clip of the hair-raising drama on Instagram, the hitmaker revealed an aptly rewritten version of the "Halo" lyrics.

Monday night wasn't the only time a fan tried to steal the show while Beyonce sang "Halo" on the Mrs. Carter tour. In May, the singer turned the microphone on an eager member of the audience (as she often does) and that fan delivered one very big note.

As for the mishap in Montreal, Beyonce's halo of hair seemed just fine after the incident.

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/ouch-beyonces-hair-gets-caught-stage-fan-6C10713869

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New Google Earth Hack Lets You Nuke Any City in Devastating 3D

New Google Earth Hack Lets You Nuke Any City in Devastating 3D

A perverse fascination with nuclear fallout and blast radii isn't that weird. Don't you want to know how hard you and everything you know is going to disappear from the face of the Earth in the unlikely case that some maniac drops twenty kilotons of atomic death on your front door? Now you can see a simulation of the mushroom cloud that will claim your life?in three dimensions.

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Afghanistan, trade dominate Biden talks in India

NEW DELHI: US Vice President Joe Biden held talks with Indian leaders Tuesday as he sought to calm fears over the exit of American troops from Afghanistan and capitalise on growing investment opportunities.

Biden met his counterpart Hamid Ansari at the start of a round of talks that will include sessions with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, President Pranab Mukherjee and a top opposition figure.

The vice president, the most senior US official to visit India since President Barack Obama in 2010, has said the world's two largest democracies share common goals on a range of regional security issues.

But there is widespread unease among Indian leaders over what will happen in Afghanistan once US troops have left in 2014, with many fearing that Pakistan has most to gain from the withdrawal.

India has spent more than two billion dollars of aid in Afghanistan since the Taliban, hardline Islamists who were strong allies of Pakistan, were toppled in the 2001 US-led invasion.

Even though planned talks between the US and Taliban collapsed last month, the possible return to power of the Taliban alarms many in India.

Writing in The Times of India on Tuesday, Washington-based commentator Seema Sirohi reflected a widespread feeling in New Delhi that the departure of US troops would be a major boost for Pakistan.

"Biden, as one of the original proponents of the pullback of US troops from Afghanistan, is well positioned to explain why the Americans have handed the keys to Kabul to Pakistani generals," she wrote.

"Americans may close their eyes to the reality but it is impossible for India to do so. Biden should understand that."

In an interview ahead of his arrival, Biden said the Taliban had a part to play in the political process as long as they renounced violence.

"Our goal is for Afghans to be talking to Afghans about how they can move forward, end the violence and start rebuilding their country," he told The Times of India.

"We have been clear that if the Taliban are to have any role in Afghanistan's political future, they will need to break ties with Al-Qaeda, stop supporting violence and accept the Afghan constitution as part of the outcomes of any negotiated peace settlement."

Indian and US officials have pointed to Biden's visit as a chance to heat up the investment climate and crank up the levels of bilateral trade, which are on course to reach around US$100 billion a year.

But in a sign of the frustration among American investors over the obstacles they face in doing business in India, a Washington-based lobby wrote an open letter to Biden urging him to address what it called "India's unfair trade and intellectual property practices".

Biden "has a unique opportunity to show the administration's commitment to protecting US innovative and creative sectors by raising this important issue during his high-level meetings in India", Mark Elliot, a co-chair of the Alliance for Fair Trade with India, wrote in the letter.

The issue of intellectual property has been a major bone of contention in trade ties for years, with the American pharmaceutical industry consistently accusing India's huge generics industry of riding roughshod over patents.

India, in turn, has voiced dismay about US Congress proposals to curb visas for high-tech workers employed by the flagship Indian outsourcing industry working for US clients on-site.

The Hindu newspaper however said Biden's visit was taking place at a "happier moment in India-US relations" after recent moves by Singh's government to open up the economy to outside investors.

"Since last month, India has largely met the US wish list for higher foreign direct investment in many sectors and agreed to work towards kick-starting an ambitious US investment proposal in the civil nuclear sector by September this year," said the daily.

Efforts to build up trade are expected to feature not only in his talks with Singh but also form the cornerstone of a keynote speech he is scheduled to make in Mumbai on Wednesday.

Biden arrived in India on Monday evening, heading straight to a museum celebrating Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi. He leaves on Thursday for Singapore.

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/afghanistan-trade/753076.html

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NBA D-League Champion Executive Gersson Rosas Hired As GM of Dallas Mavericks

NBA D-League championship winning executive Gersson Rosas will leave the Houston Rockets after being hired as General Manager of the Dallas Mavericks.

Gersson Rosas has spent the past few years as Executive Vice President of the Houston Rockets. Under the umbrella of such a position was serving as General Manager of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.

Rosas helped build quite the relationship between the affiliates, merging them as one through an array of different player assignments, NBA call-ups, and flat out prospect development. Speaking to RidiculousUpside.com earlier in the season, the highly regarded executive discussed not only the importance of developing the Rockets' current players through the D-League, but also developing those sole playing for the Vipers, in hopes of keeping an eye on the future.

The man is a great judge of talent, and knows how to develop and help those raw young guns along as well. Over the course of this past season, Houston assigned the likes of Donatas Motiej?nas, Terrence Jones, Patrick Beverley, (the since traded) Royce White, and (the since waived) Scott Machado to RGV. What's more, the NBA team also ended up calling up Vipers players like Tim Ohlbrecht and Greg Smith.

But Rosas' eye for potential doesn't simply stop there. He traded for NBA D-League M.V.P. Andrew Goudelock and NBADL All-Star D.J. Kennedy, drafted (current Wizards' first round draft choice) Glen Rice Jr. in the later rounds of last year's minor league draft, and also hired (the since promoted Raptors' assistant coach) Nick Nurse as head coach.

Such a resume (even at the minor league level) is quite impressive, and it showed. The team that Rosas assembled in Rio Grande Valley lived up to its potential, bringing home an NBADL championship this year.

Rosas' hard work and due diligence as an executive with the Rockets has paid off, and as it turns out, he won't have to go very far to reap the benefits of a new promising position. He's been hired by the Dallas Mavericks as their General Manager.

Such a hiring is a great one, and a well-deserved one at that. Still, the timing of the hire appears to be rather strange. After signing the likes of Monta Ellis, Jose Calderon, Devis Harris, and Samuel Dalembert, the roster appears to have just filled out. Why choose to bring Rosas after all that is already done, rather than before?

After losing out on the likes of Deron Williams and Dwight Howard, the Mavericks' main goal appears to be staying competitive long enough to keep Dirk Nowitzki in town.

As Nowitzki grows older, he'll surely want to be on a contending team. Dallas could have opted to begin a rebuilding process now and subsequently traded Nowitzki to a playoff team. Instead, they've opted to keep him in town and surround him with slightly better than decent role players all around.

This keeps them competitive, but for what will they contend for? The seventh or eighth seed in the Western Conference? It may not be much, but the short two to three year plan is enough to keep Nowitzki aboard and avoid uproar from their fan base.

It'll be interesting to see what, if any, of his own spin Rosas puts on this roster leading up to training camp. Either way, it's a fantastic hire for the Mavericks organization.

Source: http://www.ridiculousupside.com/2013/7/22/4546006/nba-d-league-champion-executive-gersson-rosas-hired-as-gm-of-dallas

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DTE Energy: Crews working hard to restore power

DETROIT -

Utility officials say crews have been working with help from neighboring states to restore power to customers in southeastern Michigan after severe storms.

As of 4:30 p.m. Sunday, DTE Energy says about 24,000 customers remain in the dark after the strong winds and rain moved through Friday afternoon and overnight.

Viewer images of Friday's storm damage.

Majority of the outages:

  • Oakland County: 8,000
  • Wayne County: 7,000
  • Macomb County: 6,000

The remainder are scattered throughout southeast Michigan.

DTE Energy says about 145,000 customers lost power when the storms brought winds up to 45 mph. The utility says 90 percent of customers are expected to have their power back on by Sunday night. All available crews are working 16-hour shifts around the clock to restore service.?

DTE Energy says they understands how difficult it is to be without power, and they are asking customers to remain patience while repairs are made.

Customers are encouraged to call DTE Energy at (800) 477-4747 to report power outages or downed lines.

Customers can use the mobile website at dteenergy.com, or their iPhone or Android phone to report a power problem using the DTE Energy Outage Center app. The app is available free of charge from the Apple Store or Google Play.

Customers can report an outage, check on the status of an outage, and view our outage map, all from their smart phones.

Additional information on the current storm ? including our on-line Power Outage Map ? is available at www.dteenergy.com/outage.

Stay away from downed power lines and anything with which they come in contact, especially metal fences. Treat every downed power line as if it were energized

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/clickondetroit/local/~3/FCpG_avhtcE/index.html

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To savor the flavor, perform a short ritual first

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Blowing out the candles on birthday cake isn't just for fun. New research reveals that the rituals we perform before eating can actually change our perception of the food.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/most_popular/~3/Y4MFEG6XePc/130722072037.htm

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Eyeing Google Glass -- Packed in a frame not much larger than bulky sunglasses,...

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The Business Side Of Building Your API Platform ? Co.Labs ? code ...

Ten years ago, if two companies wanted to work together, they would need to get their technical teams in the same room and figure out how to mate their two technologies. Then came the API.

API stands for Application Programming Interface and is a specification of how some software components should interact with each other in order to marry two technologies. Once a company builds an API, other companies are able to plug in their technology (whether it be for maps, SMS, or something else).

Why You Need An API

There are typically two use cases for APIs. The first is building a developer community to extend the ability of your platform--these are usually free to use. The second is building a service that other people can use and pay you for; sometimes APIs as a service are free and monetized by other means. Both use cases make it much easier for a company to get functionality they need and/or partner with another company without the heavy lifting of custom integrations for each partnership.

I?ve worked for two companies in a business development role emphasizing the API platform: first at Aviary, a photo editing API platform for web and mobile, and now at Dwolla, a payment network, helping companies plug in a cheap and secure way to send and receive money. The two companies have different offerings in their API and I have learned a great deal about how to successfully manage these relationships to further each startup and build the business side of building your API platform.

At Aviary, we made it easy for any developer to plug in photo editing to their website or mobile app. They now power the editing and filters ability for a slew of apps, including Walgreens, Twitter, Flickr, Squarespace, Box, Edmodo, MailChimp, and more. When I left the company in April 2012, they had around 6M MAU; in May they announced 50M MAU. They have one of the best scalable APIs, and helping to work on the infrastructure for its growth taught me a lot. We are still in the infancy of the API at Dwolla, but there are some big things in the works and the rest of the year should be very exciting.

Below are a few things I have learned about building the business side of an API and dealing with getting companies to use your API.

Got An API? You Need A Dev Portal

One of the first things a company must think about when developing an API is a website dedicated to the use of that product; most people call it a developer portal. A big misconception about developer portals is that they are only for developers. This is not always the case! More often than not, it is a business or non-technical founder who stumbles upon the API section of the website, looking to see if that company might have specific functionality and be the right fit for their company. If all that exists are documentation, sample code, and helper libraries, you will probably lose this type of lead. You need to cater to both technical and non-technical people alike.

At Dwolla, we thought of it as a decision tree. When you get to the developer portal you are asked if you can or cannot code. If you code, you go directly to the documentation. If not, you head over to the side of the portal that tells you why you should use Dwolla, how you can use Dwolla, who else is using it, and FAQs. We have had a lot of success with this.

One of my favorite API-focused companies is Twilio. Twilio lets you build voice, VoIP, and SMS applications. They fall into the second bucket of use cases (API as a service). They?ve built a great website that is very simple and clear to find exactly what you need, whether you are a business/product person or developer looking to build SMS, voice, or VoIP into your application.

Your API?s Rocket Fuel: Hackathons

I am often asked about sponsoring and participating in hackathons in relation to a company?s API. I?ve been involved, organized, and attended more hackathons then I can count on two hands. I?ve been on all sides of the table and seen it all.

From the outset I should say that hackathons are useful for jump-starting platforms. Coming from the business standpoint, I?ve had the most success when organizing the event. When you and your company are the center of attention, it is very easy to get all your targets in the same room for 24 hours so you can build a meaningful relationship with each one. I think if you are looking to make a name for yourself in a specific vertical, organizing a hackathon is a great way to do it.

Another thing to mention is that it is very rare to see a return on investment for a sponsorship at a hackathon. If you?re hoping that whatever developers build that weekend will end up going the distance, think again. For me, the most beneficial thing that comes out of a hackathon, as a sponsor, is meeting the other companies who are sponsoring. I have met many eventual partners for the first time at a hackathon.

If you are not organizing, my advice is to participate at the lowest sponsorship level and offer a slick prize for people to use your API. This usually has the best results in terms of engagement with developers. On top of that, hackathons are a great opportunity to talk to developers about your offering and get honest feedback to make it better. A lot of companies use hackathons to release early versions of their API or features in their API so they can get this key developer input.

Validate Your Endpoints With Partners Before Designing An API

When building out an API platform, one of the first things to do (even before building the API offering or a specific feature set) is to talk to prospective partners about different functionalities they might use from a hypothetical API.

Talking to prospective clients/users seems obvious, but until you actually figure out their problems and needs, you may be building something that nobody wants or cares about. For example, when I was at Aviary, Avi Muchnick, the cofounder, would always have the business team liaise with potential API integrators before he would pull the trigger on building a new product. Every time we launched something, we had already garnered interest and attention from several companies who were ready to use the product from day 1.

Getting a lay of the land not only helps figure out what to build, it also helps launch the API with partners who will publicize.

Work With Your Partners To Launch Killer Integrations

Hopefully you?ve built something other companies really want. The best way to get usage of your API is to initially launch it in conjunction with a few other companies as partners.

In my experience, if you deliver the right product and have a few great use cases to point to, there is typically a compounding effect that takes place. At Aviary, we launched our web API around Thanksgiving 2010 with 12 companies, and then a mobile SDK in September 2011 with 30 companies. You can see on the Aviary homepage that they now have 4,500 integrations.

I?ve also seen scenarios where you follow this formula and the opposite occurs. It?s usually when the product doesn?t match what people actually want or there is a scaling problem (i.e., the product is meant for a niche group but you want it to work for everyone). A surefire way to fail with your API (as a service) is to go build it without ever talking to any prospective integrators.

It shouldn?t be a surprise, but if you don?t talk to anyone, have no pipeline of companies waiting to use it, your expectations should be zero. The harsh reality is that by the time you get the API ready to use, you will have internal expectations that will be nearly impossible to hit unless you get insanely lucky. That?s no way to run a business and should be a cautionary tale for anyone looking to build a business around an API as a service.

Plan For Your API?s Next Horizon

Everything in this article will put you on the right direction when thinking about the business side of your API platform. While every piece is important, just remember to listen to what companies really want. If you listen and come back with a product that solves the issues for them, you will be in a great position to build and scale the business side of your API.

The final thing you should consider when opening up an API to the outside world is how well those endpoints will serve your business as it grows. Many companies only open up API access to functionality or data that is not core to the platform, and which doesn?t dilute the brand. The danger, of course, is that you don?t want third parties competing with you on your own platform. Closing down API access can create developer backlash, so think carefully before you build, and keep your dev community happy.

[Image: Flickr user Archibald2002]

Source: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3014493/open-company/the-business-side-of-building-your-api-platform

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Neil Patrick Harris steps in as host for Emmy noms

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A host had gone missing for the 2013 Emmy nominations on Thursday, so in stepped ? who else? ? Neil Patrick Harris.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said actress Kate Mara from "House of Cards" was unable to make it because her plane had a mechanical malfunction and couldn't take off from Santa Fe, where she is on location. So Harris stepped in to co-host with Aaron Paul of "Breaking Bad."

"Special thanks to Kate Mara for getting me out of the house before my children wake up screaming and crying," Harris joked as the early morning announcements began. "I actually appreciate that."

Harris, who has signed up to host the Emmys broadcast in September, joked after the announcement about all the awards shows he hosts. He hosted the Tony Awards in June and was nominated for an Emmy as producer and host of last year's Tonys.

"The Telemundo Awards keep trying to get me and I say 'no gracias' because that's pretty much all the Spanish I speak," Harris said. "The Westminster dog show is constantly wanting me to be a part of it, but I don't know how to do the fast walk. ... And I'm not comfortable touching the loins of animals, it just doesn't seem like it fits into my skill set.

"My kids are now in preschool so I suspect I'll be asked to host their graduation," he continued. "I don't think I'll be able to find the time. It's just that there's no teleprompter."

Last year, Nick Offerman of "Parks and Recreation" was unable to co-host the Emmy nominations with Kerry Washington of "Scandal" because of travel delays and Jimmy Kimmel filled in, wearing pajamas.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Emmy ceremony will air Sept. 22 on CBS.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/neil-patrick-harris-steps-host-emmy-noms-143719854.html

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

New London Airport Shortlist Revealed

By Enda Brady, Sky News Correspondent

Boris Johnson has unveiled a shortlist of three locations on which a new London airport will be built.

He put forward his outer Thames Estuary, artificial island plan - dubbed "Boris Island" - for a new four-runway hub airport in a report published on Monday.

He also said that a new, four-runway airport on the Isle of Grain on the?Hoo Peninsula in Kent - a plan already outlined by architect Lord Foster - should be considered and was his first choice.

And Mr Johnson's third proposal for a four-runway hub would be at Stansted in?Essex, where the existing airport would be expanded.

Mr Johnson's plans, which rule out expansion at Heathrow airport in west London, will be submitted later this week to the Government-appointed Airport Commission headed by Sir Howard Davies.

A list of 20 options were whittled down to the final three.

Mr Johnson said that a new hub airport would be able to support more than 375,000 new jobs by 2050 and add ?742bn to the value of goods and services produced in the UK.

He said a new hub airport could be delivered by 2029, with a hybrid bill being passed by parliament to secure approval for the airport, the surface access and the acquisition of Heathrow.

He also wants to shut Heathrow at a cost of ?15bn and create a new London borough for 250,000 residents, with housing and a university.

"This is a global race and we can still win it," Mr Johnson told reporters as he unveiled the plans at City Hall.

"Ambitious cities all over the world are stealing a march on us and putting themselves in a position to eat London's breakfast, lunch and dinner by constructing major airports that plug them directly into the global supply chains that we need to be part of.

"Those cities have moved heaven and earth to locate their airports away from major centres of population in areas where they have been able to build airports with four runways or more."

Source: http://news.sky.com/story/1115942

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Singer Randy Travis recovering from brain surgery

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? Country music stars and fans joined together to urge prayers for Randy Travis overnight as he recovered from brain surgery following a stroke at a Texas hospital.

Travis remained in critical condition after surgery Thursday morning to relieve pressure on his brain, publicist Kirt Webster said. The 54-year-old Grammy Award-winning singer had been improving while being treated for heart failure caused by a viral infection when he had the stroke.

Stars including Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum and Martina McBride and the Grand Ole Opry used Twitter to express their concerns and join Webster's call for prayers for Travis, a popular and pivotal figure in country music. Hundreds posted messages with the hashtag PrayforRandy.

"We're all pulling for you Randy," Brad Paisley said via Twitter.

The setback occurred hours after doctors said Travis was showing signs of improvement since the start of treatment Sunday for congestive heart failure and the insertion of a pump to help his heart increase blood flow.

His doctors said Wednesday in a video statement that his heart problem stemmed from an upper respiratory infection caused by a virus, but they have not released any information since.

Infections, both viral and bacterial, may start elsewhere in the body but sometimes can affect the heart, either because the infection itself spreads or because immune cells that are fighting it enter the heart and cause inflammation.

About 20 different viruses, including the flu, can lead to this so-called myocarditis, and there's no way to predict who is at particular risk, said Dr. Justine Lachmann of Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y. When younger people develop heart failure, it's usually for this reason.

Most people recover from myocarditis, but a small number rapidly develop life-threatening illness ? experiencing a domino effect as the inflammation weakens the heart muscle, leading to congestive heart failure, in which the heart can't pump properly. Doctors treat them with supportive care, trying to allow the heart muscle to rest and recover, sometimes by inserting devices such as the one Travis received to help the heart pump.

His heart problems in turn led to the stroke and can cause other complications.

It was not clear what kind of stroke Travis suffered. The most common type of stroke is caused by a blood clot that travels to the brain. The other kind happens when a blood vessel in the head bursts or leaks. Stroke patients who get treatment quickly are usually given a drug to dissolve the clot that caused the stroke.

Drs. William Gray and Michael Mack of the Baylor Health Care System in Texas described Travis' condition and hospitalization for the first time in a video statement earlier Wednesday, noting his condition had stabilized and he had "shown signs of improvement."

Hours later, he was in the operating room. Doctors had not yet addressed Travis' current condition Thursday.

The "Three Wooden Crosses" singer was in good health until three weeks before he was hospitalized, when he contracted a viral upper respiratory infection, Gray said.

Travis was admitted to Baylor Medical Center McKinney near his home in Tioga, about 60 miles north of Dallas, through the emergency room Sunday. He was transferred to The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano after having the pump installed via catheter.

Travis' illness comes as he's been trying to put his life back together following a series of embarrassing public incidents involving alcohol. Travis pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in January following an arrest last year and received two years of probation and a $2,000 fine. He was required to spend at least 30 days at an alcohol treatment facility and complete 100 hours of community service.

He recently made several public appearances, including a spot on the Country Music Association Festival's nightly concert lineup and a poignant performance at George Jones' funeral.

Webster said from the hospital Travis' fiancee Mary Beougher was at his side and that he is surrounded by family and friends, including his brother, Dennis Traywick, and his pastor, Jeff Perry. Kenny Rogers, the Oak Ridge Boys, Chuck Norris, Lyle Lovett, Ray Price and several others have called to check in on Travis.

The North Carolina-born Travis is a traditional country purist known for hits "Forever and Ever, Amen" and "I Told You So." His 1986 Warner Bros. debut album "Storms of Life" sold 3 million copies, and helped return country music to the sound of Hank Williams and George Jones.

"I always feel like he's part of our family, he's in our family," Keith Urban said in an interview Wednesday morning in Nashville. "And I was one of those guys in Australia that bought 'Storms of Life' and became a Randy fan very quickly in late '80s, and I really feel for him right now."

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Associated Press writer Kristin M. Hall in Nashville and AP Medical Writer Lauran Neergaard in Washington contributed to this report.

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Parent must be told before teen abortion in Illinois: court

By Brendan O'Brien

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A parent must be notified 48 hours before a girl under the age of 18 gets an abortion in Illinois, the state Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, ending nearly two decades of legal wrangling over the issue.

The Illinois court decision is the latest in a series of state measures adopted recently to restrict abortion. Texas and North Carolina are currently considering more restrictions on abortion and Republicans across the United States have championed similar measures.

The earliest the court's ruling can be enforced is 21 days, according to Paul Linton, an attorney representing the Thomas More Society, an anti-abortion law firm that has been involved in the case.

The plaintiff in the case, the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois, can appeal Thursday's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Minors from other states traveled to Illinois to get abortions because it was the only Midwestern state where a parental notification law was not enforced, the Thomas More Society said in a statement.

There are now 22 states that require parents be notified when a minor seeks an abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, the nonprofit sexual health research organization.

"This is a huge victory for the rights of parents not only in Illinois but in all Midwestern states," said Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Society.

Planned Parenthood of Illinois, which opposed the Parental Notice of Abortion Act, said it was disappointed by the decision. The organization provides health counseling and services including abortion.

The law is based on "outdated, ideological and unsupported assumptions about the purported harms of abortion which have been shown to be inaccurate," said Lorie Chaiten, reproductive rights project director at the ACLU of Illinois, which represented the clinic in the case.

Illinois passed a law in 1995 requiring doctors who perform abortions to notify a parent 48 hours before the procedure unless there was a medical emergency or in cases of incest or abuse.

In 1996, a federal judge stopped enforcement of the law because no rules had been adopted that allowed a girl to seek permission from the courts to undergo an abortion without notifying a parent. The law has been the subject of legal sparring ever since.

While the law requires the doctor to notify a parent, the girl does not need parental consent to get an abortion.

The long delay implementing the 1995 law is unusual, according to Kurt Lash, a constitutional law professor at the University of Illinois.

"I'm not aware of a similar situation where resolution was pending for so many years," Lash said.

Lash said one explanation was that lawmakers and judges in the 1980s and 1990s were still trying to sort out the political and legal implications of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision granting women the right to abortion in the United States.

(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Greg McCune, Gerald E. McCormick and Lisa Shumaker)

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'Of course' Dragon Quest 10 is leaving Japan

Dragon Quest 10 has been out for almost a year in Japan, making for a long wait for North American fans. Executive producer Yuu Miyake recently renewed hope for a domestic release, with remarks that indicate that releases for other countries are currently in the works.

Asked if the game will release outside Japan, Miyake told Japanese magazine Famitsu (via Polygon): "Of course." That's not much, but it's certainly more confirmation than we've had before. Miyake did note, though, that "every nation has its own play style and sensibilities, so I don't think it'll be a single game worldwide like with Final Fantasy XI."

Producer Yosuke Saito added that they're thinking about using separate servers for each country, to facilitate different consumption habits, speeds, and the way communities are run. "Even the way people enjoy seasonal events is different, so I think we need to divide the running of it by country or region." Saito also implied that they're in this for the long haul, saying it would be "great" to keep the game running and creating new stories for 10-20 years.

The two didn't specify whether the releases outside Japan would be on the Wii U as originally designed, the PC port announced earlier this year, or both.

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Friday, July 12, 2013

Hackers ask feds to skip Defcon to ease tension over Snowden?

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The annual Defcon hacking convention has asked the federal government to stay away this year for the first time in its 21-year history, saying Edward Snowden's revelations have made some in the community uncomfortable about having feds there.

"It would be best for everyone involved if the feds call a 'time-out' and not attend Defcon this year," Defcon founder Jeff Moss said in an announcement posted Wednesday night on the convention's website.

An irreverent crowd of more than 15,000 hackers, researchers, corporate security experts, privacy advocates, artists and others are expected to attend the Las Vegas convention that begins August 2.

Moss, who is an advisor on cyber security to the Department of Homeland Security, told Reuters that it was "a tough call," but that he believed the Defcon community needs time to make sense of the recent revelations about U.S. surveillance programs.

"The community is digesting things that the feds have had a decade to understand and come to terms with," said Moss, who is known as The Dark Tangent in hacking circles. "A little bit of time and distance can be a healthy thing, especially when emotions are running high."

He said that the move was not designed to create tension, but to defuse it. "We are not going on a witch hunt or checking IDs and kicking people out," he said.

In previous years the conference has attracted officials from federal agencies including the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI, Secret Service and all branches of the military.

Last year, four-star General Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency, was a keynote speaker at the event, which is the world's largest annual hacking conference.

The audience was respectful, gave modest applause and also asked about secret government snooping. Alexander adamantly denied that the NSA has dossiers on millions of Americans, as some former employees had suggested before the Snowden case.

"The people who would say we are doing that should know better," Alexander said. "That is absolute nonsense."

Alexander is scheduled to speak in Las Vegas on July 31 at Black Hat, a smaller, two-day hacking conference that was also founded by Moss. It costs about $2,000 to attend and attracts a more corporate crowd than Defcon, which charges $180.

Moss said that he believes Alexander will still speak at Black Hat and that his call for a "time out" only applies to Defcon. Officials with the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security could not be reached for comment late on Wednesday.

The feds have previously always been welcome at the event.

Moss says he invited them the first year because he figured they would come anyway. They politely declined, then showed up incognito, he said. And they have attended every year since.

"We created an environment where the feds felt they could come and it wasn't hostile," Moss said in an interview a year ago. "We could ask them questions and they wanted to ask the hackers about new techniques."

Some feds have even worked among the motley crew of Defcon volunteers who run the conference and walk around wearing T-Shirts that identify them as "goons."

It has also become a fertile ground for recruiting. The U.S. military, intelligence agencies and law enforcement typically compete with corporations to find new talent at Defcon.

Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.

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Xperia Z for T-Mobile available from Sony today, T-Mobile on July 17th

Sony Xperia Z reaches T-Mobile July 17th for $100 down, $580 up front

T-Mobile teased last month that it would bring an LTE version of the Sony Xperia Z to the US, and it's following through on its promise. The glass-backed flagship is on sale now at Sony's online and retail stores for $25 a month on an installment plan or $580 outright. As rumored, the phone reaches T-Mobile's stores on July 17th; wait until then and you can either pay the full $580 price or put $100 down for the installment option. While you'll want to read our review of the Xperia Z on T-Mobile before you fork over any cash, you'll get to pick up the device very soon if you like what you see.

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Transfer DVD VOB videos to Galaxy S4 for watching anywhere


The Galaxy S4 looks something like a cross between the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Note 2. It comes in ?black mist? and ?white frost? colours which look pretty standard but still stylish. It has 5-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display that has 441ppi. This maybe a great highlight to attract more people spending money on it. I believe that you have learned enough information about the most powerful android smartphone. Here i won?t talk more about it. This article is written for movie lovers, easpecially for who have issues to play DVD VOB videos on Galaxy S4.

Many people find way cracking and ripping DVDs to VOB format, hoping to save the time hunting for favorite movie among tons of discs, but then they have problems with the VOB clips ? the main movie is divided into a set of .VOB files rather than one big file. Moreover, the VOB will neither play in Windows Media Player nor by iPad or Android tablet. Now with Galaxy S4, playing VOB is still a problem.

Suppose you?re a Galaxy S4 user, and would like to put some .vob videos to the Galaxy S4 tablet for watching, here?s a workaround. Other than ripping a DVD to a set of .VOB files, you can also convert the entire DVD into one .MP4 file, which is naturally supported by all tablets and phones. If you have .vob clips in the original file structure, you can load the folder to Pavtube Blu-ray Video converter ultimate and convert them into MP4 ? the software will read DVD structure and combine all the VOB streams into one file in the proper order.

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Step-by-step Guide: Converting DVD/VOB folder to Windows 8 tablet (Microsoft Galaxy S4)

1. Click ?Load DVD? to import movies from DVD-ROM to the program.
2. Select main movie.

3. Click ?Format? bar and select "Samsung > Microsoft Surface Windows RT H.264 Video (*.mp4)" profile from the drop-down list of Format bar. This format is specialized for both Galaxy S3 and other galaxy s phones, which guarantee fluent and perfect video playback on Galaxy S4.

4. Press the big Convert button to start ripping DVD to Microsoft Surface Windows RT video.
5. When conversion completes, click ?Open? to locate the DRM-free movies. Now you?re ready to transfer movies to Galaxy S4 for watching on board or wherever you like.

Some Tips in DVD/VOB conversion
1. When ripping DVD to Galaxy S4 video you can have the subtitles hardcoded to the screen. Just select desired language from drop-down box of ?Subtitle? box.

2. You can click ?Settings? button to set advanced settings before conversion starts. Once you click the button, the Settings window shows up, where you are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters in your own ways, include codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel.

If you prefer a smaller file size, set bit rate up to get better video quality and it will looks better on screen. Do remember to click ?OK? button to confirm your selection before you start converting VOB to Galaxy S4.

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Saving One Species At The Expense Of Another

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    Antelopes stand at alert at the presence of a human visitor in the sparsely populated Centennial Valley of Montana.

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    A red-tailed hawk takes flight in the wilds of Montana.

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    Trumpeter swans cruise a lake in Centennial Valley. Swan populations recovered in the valley years ago after ecologists dammed streams to enlarge wetland habitat.

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    The valley contains the Centennial Sandhills Preserve, home to the sandhill crane.

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    The rare long-billed curlew thrives in the Centennial Valley.

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    A trap set by the Fish and Wildlife Service catches all fish that pass through this stream. Biologists return the Arctic grayling trout to the waterway, while the more numerous and nonnative cutthroat trout are killed for study and later donated to a local food bank.

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    The cutthroat trout gets its name from the bright red streak that slices across its chin.

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    Glacier lilies pepper the landscape of the valley in spring.

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To keep America's wilderness anything like it used to be when the country was truly wild takes the help of biologists. They have to balance the needs of wildlife with those of cattle-ranching and tourism, and even weigh the value of one species against another. Ultimately, they have to pick and choose who makes it onto the ark. And, as scientists in Montana's Centennial Valley have discovered, all that choosing can be tricky.

Take the case of the valley's trumpeter swans. These are the largest waterfowl in North America. They have a 7-foot wingspan. They're ivory-white, curvaceous, and elegant ? and 80 years ago they were almost extinct. Simply put, there were too many people using the same land the swans needed. And there were too many hunters.

The flock of trumpeters I found lounging on a lake in the Centennial Valley belongs to a small population that has struggled back from the brink. In the Centennial, biologists built ponds for the birds, and fed them ? and the swans' numbers recovered.

Unfortunately, what was good for the swans was not so good for the Arctic grayling trout, another rare species in the valley.

What happened was this: To make the swan-friendly valley even more so, the biologists created ponds by damming streams. When they did that, the grayling trout lost streambeds they'd been using for egg-laying and reproduction.

The lost streams were much like Red Rock Creek, a sparkling, braided rivulet that eventually becomes the Missouri River. "This is where the majority of the Arctic grayling in the Centennial Valley spawn," explains Nathan Korb, who has brought me through tall grass along a path to the stream's edge.

Korb is a compact, athletic guy with shoulder-length blond hair and a quick smile. He lives and works in the valley most of the year and works for The Nature Conservancy. Scientists, he acknowledges, sometimes make mistakes.

"They did everything that they knew was best for those birds," Korb says, "but now we have a much broader perspective, so we are thinking about all species. There are lots of examples where we try something that sounds like a good idea, [and it] turns out not to be that good of an idea. Then [we] remedy it and ? hopefully ? never try it again."

Now scientists here are trying to fix things for the grayling in Montana.

Korb takes me to a weir that straddles the narrow stream. It's a trap to catch trout, especially the cutthroat trout, an aggressive intruder. The cutthroat appears to be pushing the grayling out.

The weir is basically a pole-and-screen fence that straddles the stream so fish can't move upstream or downstream unless they go through the one opening, and get trapped. Then biologists collect them ? unless a bear gets there first.

The cutthroat isn't native here; the grayling is. The grayling is distinctive, with its large and colorful dorsal fin. While the cutthroat is widespread and aggressive, the rarer grayling is known as the "lady of the stream." In fact, this is the only population of the lake-dwelling Arctic grayling left in the Lower 48 states. The federal government may soon add the fish to its list of endangered species.

Conservationists inadvertently depleted Arctic grayling trout populations in Montana's Centennial Valley when they dammed streams there to save habitat for the trumpeter swan.

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We drive up a muddy road to see the next step in the experiment to save the grayling, at the headquarters of the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.

Refuge manager Bill West is gutting and cleaning a bucketload of cutthroat trout that have come from the stream trap. "I want to pass on definitively to the next manager whether the cutthroat are part of the problem or are just benign," he says.

Figuring that out isn't easy. When it comes to managing wildlife, each situation is unique: This fish in this valley in these waters is unlike any other. One way to understand the fish better is to open it up. U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist Kyle Cutting spends hours doing exactly that. "Just make one slit in the belly," he demonstrates on a metal table pooled with blood and fish guts. "You hit the spine and break it through, and we just remove the insides."

Trapped cutthroat trout are gutted at the Fish and Wildlife field station in the Centennial Valley. Their stomach contents are studied to determine their diet and whether they are outcompeting the native Arctic grayling.

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Trapped cutthroat trout are gutted at the Fish and Wildlife field station in the Centennial Valley. Their stomach contents are studied to determine their diet and whether they are outcompeting the native Arctic grayling.

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Cutting is trying to find out what the cutthroats are eating. Is it the same stuff the grayling eat? Are they pushing the grayling out? For sure, the cutthroats live up to their name. "In the spring and late fall, their stomachs were just packed full, and oftentimes these cutthroat had fish hanging out of their gills on both sides ? you know, 7-inch-long fish."

The cutthroat trout the biologists kill for examination aren't wasted ? they end up in local food banks. And the information they provide will help the wildlife managers decide the best way to help the grayling without tipping the ecological balance against yet another native species.

Biologists in Montana's Centennial Valley acknowledge they are micromanaging, and that their best efforts derive from an imperfect science. If they forget that, for even a minute, they have the Trumpeter Swan Society to remind them. The society has already warned that the new focus on trout should not jeopardize the swan's tenuous comeback.

The society's Ruth Shea says the trumpeter population in the valley is not out of danger yet and shouldn't be neglected. "Centennial Valley is the single most important breeding area for these swans in the U.S.," she says. "It's huge." Wildlife managers will have to plan carefully to keep both swan and trout in the ark.

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