Press Release: Carnegie Mellon and Pitt Professors Share ...

Monday, April 29, 2013

Contacts: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu / Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Kovach / 412-624-0265 / pkovach@pitt.edu / University of Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH-Carnegie Mellon University's David A. Dzombak and the University of Pittsburgh's Radisav D. Vidic were recently recognized by the American Academy of Environmental Scientists and Engineers (AAEES) at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., for helping to address the global water shortage for use in power plant cooling systems.

Dzombak and Vidic received the 2013 Grand Prize in the University Research category of the AAEES Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science competition for a project titled "Use of Treated Municipal Wastewater as Power Plant Cooling System Makeup Water."

"This is a wonderful honor for seven years of work, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, to develop an integrated approach for use of municipal wastewater for cooling systems in electric power plants," said Dzombak, the Walter J. Blenko, Sr. University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research at CMU.

"We need a great deal of water for electric power production to condense steam in the power plant steam cycle. Air cooling is possible but is more costly and less efficient. Water will continue to be the preferred coolant for new thermoelectric power plants," said Vidic, the William Kepler Whiteford Professor and chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Swanson School of Engineering at Pitt.

The CMU-Pitt research shows that treated municipal wastewater is a common and widely available alternative source of cooling water for thermoelectric power plants across the U.S. However, the biodegradable organic matter, ammonia, carbonate and phosphates in the treated wastewater pose challenges, including fouling and corrosion issues. The researchers along with their graduate students from both CMU and Pitt investigated how to address these challenges.

Dzombak and Vidic noted that the results of their work show the need to evaluate the growing competition among the energy industry, farmers and residents for scarce water supplies. Every day, water-cooled thermoelectric power plants in the U.S. withdraw more than 200 billion gallons of fresh water from rivers, lakes, streams and aquifers. Freshwater withdrawals for cooling thermoelectric power production alone account for about 40 percent of all withdrawals, essentially the same amount taken for agricultural irrigation, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

"Our research shows that alternative sources of water are needed for new power production in regions without new sources of available freshwater," Dzombak said. "Our research will not only help promote the use of properly treated municipal wastewater at cooling plants, but help contribute to economic development." ?

For more information about the research project and topic investigated, see http://cooling.ce.cmu.edu or http://www.waterreuse.pitt.edu/.

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Source: http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2013/april/april29_dzombakvidic.html

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New gloves, more time: What rule change could help MMA?s eye poke problem?

Alan Belcher. Gian Villante. Anthony Johnson. Wagner Prado. Waachiim Spiritwolf. Constantinos Phillippou. These fighters have all been on the wrong end of an inadvertent eye poke and the inadequate set of rules that accompany eye pokes. What can be done in a sport where open-fingered gloves are used and strikes to any part of the face are allowed?

The UFC's vice president of regulatory affairs Marc Ratner has one idea that he thinks will help situations like the one that arose during Villante's loss. Ovince St-Preux inadvertently poked Villante in the eye. Referee Kevin Mulhall didn't see the poke, but Villante stepped back and said he was poked in the eye. Mulhall asked Villante if he could see, Villante responded he couldn't, and in accordance with MMA rules, the fight was stopped.

What Ratner wants to do is take the referee out of the decision to stop the fight. Since it's a medical decision, let the fight doctor make it. It will also give fighters time to recover as they wait for the doctor to come into the cage.

"I think by bringing the doctor in, just the whole operation will take a couple of minutes, and I think that should alleviate most of the pain and give us enough time to make sure the guy can fight," Ratner said.

Ratner will introduce this change to the Association of Boxing Commissions, the national oversight group of state MMA and boxing associations.

Referee John McCarthy also favors this approach:

From the eye poke. U can use the doctor 2 help in giving the fighter time 2 clear their vision.There is no need to rush in this situation

? Big John McCarthy (@JohnMcCarthyMMA) April 28, 2013

A change to allow some extra time would also keep fighters out of the weird position of possibly lying to officials. Villante honestly answered the question, "Can you see?" He didn't think Mulhall would stop the fight because of it. This situation could make fighters think twice about how they answer the question, which could put their health in danger.

The open-fingered gloves don't help. Fighters use sparring gloves that are smaller than boxing gloves in training, but the gloves' size would get in the way during ground fighting and submission attempts. UFC commentator Joe Rogan has spoken during many fights about the need for a better design for fight gloves, but none have surfaced among high-level fighting.

How can MMA fix this problem? We want to hear your ideas. Great ideas don't have to come from executives or state commissioners. If you have an idea to combat eye pokes, share it on Cagewriter's Facebook page. We'll feature the best ones in a post.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/gloves-more-time-rule-change-could-help-mma-161900052.html

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Health Care: Center for Well Being, Petaluma district collaborate ...

The Northern California Center for Well Being is expanding its wellness services into Petaluma.

Working with the Petaluma Healthcare District, which owns Petaluma Valley Hospital, the Center for Well Being will offer classes in diabetes self-management, chronic disease self-management, childhood obesity prevention and smoking cessation.

?We?re trying to instill long-standing behavior change,? said Alena Wall, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Well Being.

Funding for the expansion is provided by the Petaluma Healthcare District. The classes will be taught at Petaluma Valley Hospital, the Boys & Girls Club and the Petaluma Senior Center.

The Center for Well Being, based in Santa Rosa, said it?s focused on increasing access to its courses and resources in southern Sonoma County, with additional expansion plans down the road.

The nonprofit also said it has increased its diabetes services offered in Spanish, as well as developing a diabetes peer mentor group.

?It?s a more integrated approach to patient self-care working more closely with the patient centered medical home model,? Ms. Wall said.

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Sausalito-based Sanovas Inc. announced the launch of MicroCam, its micro imaging platform for endoscopic device applications.

The technology features proprietary software, electronics, sensors and optics that Sanovas said can provide autonomous imaging capability to most any surgical instrument.

Sanovas will offer its imaging technology for integration with medical device makers? existing portfolios, which will allow for improved clinical capabilities in its products. The system was developed to evolve and, eventually displace large, cumbersome and expensive cart based systems with leaner, more efficient and cost effective designs.

?This is significant innovation that will fundamentally transform the paradigm of endoscopy,? Sanovas CEO Larry Gerrans said.

The MicroCam is an integrated imaging platform inspired to enable a new generation of ?plug and play? devices that eliminate the need for camera consoles, camera heads, camera couplers, light sources, fiber optic light cables, rod lens endoscopes and cart based systems.

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Rick Jones of Jones Family Vineyard and the E. Richard Jones Family Foundation joined the board of directors at Clinic Ole in Napa.

Previously, Mr. Jones has held successful careers at McKinsey & Company and Safeway. In 1996, after retiring form Safeway, he founded Jones Family Vineyard, where he is now the chief executive officer.

Mr. Jones also serves on the boards of St. Helena Hospital, the Napa Valley Community Foundation, the Napa Valley Vintners, Napa Learns and Raising a Reade

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St. Helena Hospital Napa Valley was recognized by Becker?s Hospital Review with the fifth-lowest rate of serious blood clots after surgery of over 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals in the U.S.

The blood clot rate is based on an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality patient safety indicator ? postoperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rate. The rate is the number of postoperative serious blood clots per 1,000 surgical discharges from July 2009 through June 2011, according to the hospital.

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Ukiah Valley Medical Center?s Family Birth Center has received the IBCLC Care Award by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners and the International Lactation Consultant Association.

It?s one of 20 health care organizations in California to receive the award, according to Ukiah Valley, an Adventist Health affiliate.

The IBCLC Care Award is a recognition given to hospitals and community based agencies that staff an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant as part of the care team serving new families. To be eligible, the facility must have a currently certified IBCLC on staff, a professional lactation support program available five-to-seven days a week, evidence of having completed a breastfeeding or lactation consultant promotion/support project, and breastfeeding training for staff within the last two years.

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Santa Rosa-based REACH Air Medical Services announced it received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to use its own GPS approaches and routes, directly to hospitals and landing sites in Western Oregon.

REACH ? short for Redwood Empire Air Care Helicopter ? said it was the first helicopter emergency management service program to commit assets serving the Oregon Coast and Willamette Valley. In 2000, REACH was the first air ambulance company in the U.S. to receive similar approval for routes in its Northern California response area.

REACH said it has invested more than $200,000 and over two years in the design and FAA approval process of unique GPS instrument routes and approaches, in order to improve its ability to serve customers during inclement weather.

REACH was acquired by Texas-based Air Medical Group Holdings in late 2012.

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Source: http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/72476/health-care-column-for-april-29-2013/

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PFT: SEC accounts for 63 picks ? a quarter of the draft

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The Steelers plunged to 8-8 in 2012.? Some think they?ll be worse in 2013.? Here?s a look at the quality of a draft class aimed at helping them get better.

What they needed:? Running back, receiver, linebacker, quarterback, cornerback, tight end, offensive line.

Who they got:
Round 1: Jarvis Jones, LB, Georgia.
Round 2: Le?Veon Bell, RB, Michigan State.
Round 3: Markus Wheaton, WR, Oregon State.
Round 4: Shamarko Thomas, S, Syracuse.
Round 4: Landry Jones, QB, Oklahoma.
Round 5: Terry Hawthorne, CB, Illinois.
Round 6: Justin Brown, WR, Oklahoma.
Round 6: Vince Williams, LB, Florida St.
Round 7: Nick Williams, DT, Samford.

Where they hit:? They needed a high-impact pass rusher, and they got the guy with both potential and production.? Jones could be the next great Steelers linebacker, and they wisely waited for him to fall into their laps at No. 17.? Bell gives them a guy who could instantly become the starting running back, and they?ve once again taken receivers in the two rounds (three and six) where they found Mike Wallace, Emmanuel Sanders, and Antonio Brown.

Where they missed:? Thomas, an undersized safety whose best attribute is his ability to deliver big hits, suffered multiple concussions last season.? It?s too much of a risk to take with a fourth-round draft pick.? Ditto for Jones; if the Steelers are looking for a backup, they could have waited until a later round than four.? The decision not to take a tight end could be a problem, if Heath Miller suffers a setback while recovering from a torn ACL.

Impact rookies:? Jones and Bell likely will instantly be added to the starting lineup.? Barring injury, each could become a candidate for rookie of the year on their respective sides of the ball.

Long-term prospects:? A solid draft class with a couple of guys who could become contributors and leaders in the near future.? And if the Steelers are still as good at scouting receivers as they were when finding Wallace, Sanders, and Brown, Thomas and Justin Brown could become difference makers, too.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/28/with-63-draft-picks-sec-produces-a-quarter-of-the-nfls-talent/related/

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Yahoo Chairman Resigns - Business Insider

Fred Amoroso, Yahoo's chairman, has resigned.

Yahoo said Amoroso will continue to serve on the board through the next shareholders meeting on June 25, but he will not seek reelection.

Maynard Webb, Jr. will serve as interim chairman of Yahoo's board.

In a statement, Amoroso said it was always his intention to serve as chairman for just one year.

Amoroso is the former CEO of Rovi corporation and led the investigation against former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson after it was discovered Thompson listed a college degree on his resume that he didn't actually earn. Thompson eventually left Yahoo and the board hired Marissa Mayer to replace him.

Here's the full statement from Yahoo:

Yahoo! Inc. today announced that?Fred Amoroso?has decided not to seek reelection to the board of directors at the upcoming 2013 annual meeting of shareholders. Amoroso will continue to serve on the board through the shareholders meeting on?June 25, but has resigned as chairman of the board. The board has appointed?Maynard Webb, Jr. to serve as interim chairman.

"Fred has been a wonderful chairman for?Yahoo! over the past year, and I'm personally grateful for his trust and guidance as I took on the role as?Yahoo! CEO," said?Yahoo! CEO?Marissa Mayer. "Fred's mentorship and perspective has proved truly valuable to me in my first few months here at Yahoo!."

"I'm very grateful and proud of the progress?Yahoo! has made over the past year," said Amoroso. "When I took the position as chairman, I told the board that my intention was to serve for one year, in order to help?Yahoo! during a critical time of transformation. In that time,?Yahoo! hired a great new CEO, brought on a fantastic management team, revitalized the employee base, and has begun to release top notch new products. With Marissa at the helm and the leadership team in place, this is a natural time for me to transition off the board, consistent with what I said a year ago."

Following the completion of Amoroso's term at the annual meeting, the board will comprise 10 members.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-chairman-2013-4

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Join TC In DC On Friday For Our White House Correspondents Dinner Weekend Party

As partygoers decend into DC for the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, TechCrunch wanted to remind the nation’s policy wonks of the startups that are keeping America on the cutting edge of innovation. So, we’re inviting proud geeks to party with us at the swanky new headquarters of startup incubator, 1776. On Friday, April 26th from 8pm-11pm, Aol founder Steve Case co-hosts the 1776 grand opening with patriotic-themed desserts, a full bar, and a (brief) thoughtful discussion on immigration, Internet taxes, and startups with Congressman Darrell Issa–after which there will be a rocking band and a lot of great friends who geek out over both open source and open government. It turns out that the technology industry is kind of the cool kid in the nation’s capitol. Word got out about the event before this announcement and it was so popular, we sold out of our initial round of 600 tickets in 48 hours. So, we’re opening up a few hundred more. Go to 1776.Eventbrite.com and sign up as quickly as you can or you’ll miss out. Thanks to Sponsors Steve and Jean Case, AT&T, and the Consumer Electronics Association.

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The 11 best promposals of 2013

Jake Davidson, a 17-year-old from Los Angeles, realized prom season was fast approaching and he didn?t have a girlfriend. That could prove troubling for some, but not Jake. He?s got an easy out. He?ll just use his video editing skills and social media network to make a humble plea for super model Kate Upton to be his prom date.

The promposal seen round the web spread from online person to online person faster than a One Direction music video release.

In the video, Jake says going to prom with Ms. Upton pre-ordained, it is destiny. She?s the yin to his yang. Why? While doing pushups, Jake makes his case which would, if we?re honest, easily pass the muster of Standford?s doctorate thesis committees: She likes sports, he likes sports. She likes fine dining, he likes fine dining. She?s on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and he reads Sports Illustrated.

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?Upton?s first response was through Twitter. It was only a maybe, but gave Jake more hope for success than the cross-town Los Angeles Clippers ever had. The media soon caught up and Jake was invited for an interview on the Today Show. Discarding formal attire and the first two buttons of the casual plaid shirt he did wear, Jake reminded everyone why he asked Upton (again, a common interest in sports). Then, surprise, Upton came on and stunned Jake with a formal ?I do? to his promposal.

The honeymoon was, as it always is, too short. Upton, once the media hullabaloo subsided, soon reneged. She won?t be going with Jake after all. Publicity doesn?t care whose heart it breaks.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/rSvEIs-9cPI/The-11-best-promposals-of-2013

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New light shed on ancient Egyptian port and ship graveyard

Apr. 7, 2013 ? New research into Thonis-Heracleion, a sunken port-city that served as the gateway to Egypt in the first millennium BC, will be discussed at an international conference at the University of Oxford (15-17 March).

This obligatory port of entry, known as 'Thonis' by the Egyptians and 'Heracleion' by the Greeks, was where seagoing ships probably unloaded their cargoes to have them assessed by temple officials and taxes extracted before transferring them to Egyptian ships that went upriver. Before the foundation of Alexandria, it was one of the biggest commercial hubs in the Mediterranean because of its geographical position at the mouth of the Nile. The conference will also explore the wider maritime trading economy during the Late Period (664 BC until 332 BC).

The first traces of Thonis-Heracleion were found 6.5 kilometres off today's coastline by the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM) under the direction of Franck Goddio in 2000. The Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford is collaborating on the project with IEASM in cooperation with Egypt's Ministry of State for Antiquities.

In the ports of the city, divers and researchers are currently examining 64 Egyptian ships, dating between the eighth and second centuries BC, many of which appear to have been deliberately sunk. The project researchers say the ships were found beautifully preserved, lying in the mud of the sea-bed. With 700 examples of different types of ancient anchor, the researchers believe this represents the largest nautical collection from the ancient world.

'The survey has revealed an enormous submerged landscape with the remains of at least two major ancient settlements within a part of the Nile delta that was crisscrossed with natural and artificial waterways,' said Dr Damian Robinson, Director of the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Dr Robinson, who is overseeing the excavation of one of the submerged ships known as Ship 43, will discuss his first findings about the Egyptians' unique shipbuilding style. He will also shed new light on why the boats appear to have been deliberately sunk.

'One of the key questions is why several ship graveyards were created close to the port. Ship 43 appears to be part of a large cluster of at least ten other vessels in a large ship graveyard about a mile from the mouth of the River Nile,' explained Dr Robinson. 'This might not have been simple abandonment, but a means of blocking enemy ships from gaining entrance to the port-city. Seductive as this interpretation is, however, we must also consider whether these boats were sunk simply to use them for land reclamation purposes.'

The port and its harbour basins also contain a collection of customs decrees, trading weights, and evidence of coin production. The material culture, for example, coin weights, will also be discussed at the conference, placing this into the wider narrative of how maritime trade worked in the ancient world.

Elsbeth van der Wilt, working on the project from the University of Oxford, said: 'Thonis-Heracleion played an important role in the network of long-distance trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, since the city would have been the first stop for foreign merchants at the Egyptian border. Excavations in the harbour basins yielded an interesting group of lead weights, likely to have been used by both temple officials and merchants in the payment of taxes and the purchasing of goods. Amongst these are an important group of Athenian weights. They are a significant archaeological find because it is the first time that weights like these have been identified during excavations in Egypt.'

Sanda Heinz from the University of Oxford will share her findings on over 300 statuettes and amulets from the Late and Ptolemaic Periods, including Egyptian and Greek subjects. The majority depict Egyptian deities such as Osiris, Isis, and their son Horus. She said: 'The statuettes and amulets were all found underwater, and are generally in excellent condition. The statuettes allow us to examine their belief system and at the same time have wider economic implications. These figures were mass-produced at a scale hitherto unmatched in previous periods. Our findings suggest they were made primarily for Egyptians; however, there is evidence to show that some foreigners also bought them and dedicated them in temples abroad.'

Franck Goddio, Director of the European Institute of Underwater Archaeology and Visiting Senior Lecturer in Maritime Archaeology at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, commented: 'The discoveries we have made in Thonis-Heracleion since 2000 thanks to the work of a multidisciplinary team and the support of the Hilti Foundation are encouraging. Charts of the city's monuments, ports and channels are taking shape more clearly and further crucial information is gathered each year. The conference at Oxford University will present interesting results and might bring new clues and insights of the fascinating history of Thonis-Heracleion."

Franck Goddio will make a comprehensive presentation of the sacred topography of Thonis-Heracleion resulting from12 years of archaeological works on site.

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Utah cabin burglar ends long run in wilderness

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? Troy James Knapp was dodging authorities, again.

The fugitive with a fondness for whiskey and a dislike of living near people had been wanted for a string of break-ins for years at cabins in Utah's mountains. With each near miss, each wanted poster and each threatening note left behind for law enforcement, the legend of him only grew.

Knapp survived by holing up inside the cabins, sleeping in the owners' beds, eating their food and listening to their AM radio for updates on the manhunt. And then, authorities say, he would take off, stealing items such as guns and high-end camping equipment and vanishing into the woods where he lived off dandelions and wild game.

Over Easter weekend, authorities were on his trail, again.

By Tuesday, his life on the lam came to an end, done in by an educated guess by searchers who had grown to know his tendencies, the tracks he left with his snowshoes and the sounds of him chopping wood outside a cabin near a mountain reservoir.

A team of 14 officers approached him on snowshoes ? the only way to quietly sneak up on him ? and called in reinforcements to help corner the bearded and camouflage-clad fugitive, a trim 45-year-old standing 5-foot-8.

Now in police custody, Knapp is telling authorities how he managed to evade them for so long across a mountainous region stretching for 180 miles. "He really has a fascinating story to tell, and right now he's willing to tell it," Sanpete County Sheriff Brian Nielson said.

Knapp, born in Saginaw, Mich., got into trouble with the law early. As a teenager, he was convicted of breaking and entering, passing bad checks and unlawful flight from authorities, according to court records. His most serious offense, an arrest for felony assault in Michigan, was reduced in 1994 to a charge of malicious destruction of property after he agreed to plead guilty.

"He says, 'I don't hate people. I just don't like living with them,'" Sevier County Sheriff Nathan Sheriff Curtis said.

With no known occupation, Knapp drifted across the country and ended up in prison in California for burglary. He fell off the radar in 2004 when he "went on the run" while on parole, said Bobby Haase, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

By 2007, Utah authorities began investigating a string of cabin burglaries they believed were tied to one person. It wasn't until early 2012 that they identified Knapp as the suspect from cabin surveillance photos and fingerprints lifted from one cabin. In one photo, he was wearing camouflage, a rifle was slung over his shoulder and he had purple-colored aluminum snowshoes on his feet. Knapp appears to have aged considerably from a 2001 California mug shot.

Tracy Glover, chief deputy sheriff in Kane County, said it was fairly easy to identify Knapp's cabin habits. Knapp would drink any coffee and alcohol he could find, authorities say. Unlike typical burglars, he never took large or expensive appliances such as TVs or stereos. He took only what he could carry, mostly camping gear and weapons he stashed in abundance in the woods. He returned to burglarize cabins more than once, even swapping one stolen rifle for another, officials said.

A few years ago, investigators found an abandoned camp they linked to Knapp. It had a doomsday supply of dehydrated foods, radios, batteries, high-end camping gear, 19 guns and a copy of Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," a book about a young man who died after wandering into the Alaskan wilderness to live alone off the land.

It was in Kane County, near Zion National Park, where authorities lifted Knapp's fingerprints from items in a cabin. The prints matched sets in criminal databases, giving law enforcement confidence that he was their guy.

Knapp is believed to have left that area in early 2012. He started to make his way north from Kane into Sevier, Sanpete and Emery counties, where he was occasionally spotted by hunters. Knapp has told detectives he was feeling stressed trying to hide from hunters last fall, said Brian Nielson, the sheriff in Sanpete County.

Court records from multiple Utah counties indicate Knapp regularly spent several days in snowbound cabins, exhausting the food and firewood before moving on. Authorities say the signature clue of his presence was an empty bottle of whiskey. In summer, he retreated to makeshift camps deep in the backcountry.

He sometimes tidied up a cabin, but other times left it a mess or riddled with bullets, authorities say. He was known to deface religious icons. He scrawled notes for cabin owners, alternatively thanking them or demanding they "get off my mountain." He also warned sheriffs he was "gonna put you in the ground!"

Even authorities have found something to admire in Knapp's knack for survival and evasion. He stepped on saplings to avoid leaving discernible boot tracks and changed stolen footwear often to confuse searchers. He walked alongside trails instead of on them and kept mostly to backcountry.

He used some of those tactics in his final flight, which started more than a dozen miles away from his capture site. At Joe's Valley in the Manti-LaSal National Forest, deputies found boot prints around two burglarized cabins. The tracks led in no apparent direction, Emery County sheriff's Cpt. Jeff Thomas said.

Deputies copied his silent mode of travel on snowshoes over three days and nights as they tried to track Knapp across rugged terrain, first losing his size-10 shoe prints, then regaining his tracks on snowshoe as he ventured higher on the 10,000-foot Wasatch Plateau.

"They stayed quiet and built no fires ? and they were very cold," Thomas said.

To get this far, deputies had to think like Knapp. He moved often and swiftly across the backcountry, covering 20 miles in a day "and that was nothing for him," Curtis said.

They had to imagine where Knapp might have taken off. They guessed it was a collection of cabins a dozen miles away at a high-altitude reservoir. They believe Knapp had visited there before. Along the way, they picked up his snowshoe tracks.

With 13 cabins at the reservoir, "we didn't know exactly where he was," U.S. Forest Service officer Scott Watson said. "We couldn't just go knocking on doors."

By 10 a.m. Tuesday, 40 officers took positions around the 9,000-foot reservoir. Knapp fired off a handful of shots at a helicopter that flushed him out of a cabin. He tried to escape into the woods, but ran into three armed officers. He laid down his rifle and surrendered.

The last three nights Knapp spent as a fugitive were in a framed log cabin with a commanding view of forest roads leading to Ferron Reservoir. Owner Eugene Bartholomew said "it was kind of messed up" and "stunk like crazy." It wasn't his only discovery. On television news, Bartholomew took his first look at Knapp.

"That son-of-a-bitch has got my coat on," he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/utah-cabin-burglar-ends-long-run-wilderness-151312517.html

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The Engadget Interview: Mark Setrakian of Syfy's Robot Combat League (video)

From the latest harbinger of the robopocalypse from Boston Dynamics to more friendly looking machines like Romo, Engadget has a longstanding love affair with all forms of robots. Syfy channel's newest show, Robot Combat League (RCL), has provided us with twelve new objects of robotic affection --and the best part is, we get to watch them destroy each other in gladiatorial fashion. RCL isn't the first show to have 'bots do battle on TV, of course, but it is the first to have the robots be humanoid avatars that mimic the movements of the people operating them. Mark Setrakian is the man who designed and built the dozen robots on the show, and we recently got the opportunity to chat with him about how he did it.

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Painful itch of eczema sufferers - timesofmalta.com

A fifth of people who suffer from eczema cannot resist the temptation to scratch an itch at least 10 times a day, a poll suggests.

A survey of 500 sufferers in the UK found that 19 per cent scratch at least 10 times a day.

A third of those questioned by said they go to ?extreme lengths? to hide symptoms ? such as dry, scaly, red and itchy skin ? including trips to the beach fully dressed.

?Eczema can impact on every element of your life both physically and psychologically,? said National Eczema Society chief executive Margaret Cox.

?People with this often very distressing condition can struggle to find an effective solution. It's important for those with eczema to know that they are not alone and that there are lots of options to help them manage their condition.

?For example, we know that 90 per cent of people who use emollients (medical moisturisers) aren't applying them enough, and, if used properly and regularly, at least three times a day, could mean much better control.?

Although generally considered to be a childhood condition, eczema also affects adults and the symptoms can be severe, interrupting sleep and causing painful flare ups.

With effective management, symptoms can be reduced and those with the condition can start to take back control of their life.

Source: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130403/health-fitness/painful-itch-of-eczema-sufferers.463971

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S. Korea Confirms Relocation of North Missile (Voice Of America)

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Japan central bank in fresh bid to revive economy

A man walks by the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Japan's central bank is holding its first policy meeting under a new governor amid expectations of fresh moves to ease monetary policy and spur a recovery in the world's third-largest economy. Haruhiko Kuroda took the helm at the Bank of Japan on March 19, vowing to do whatever it takes to break Japan's economy out of deflation and attain a 2 percent inflation target. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

A man walks by the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Japan's central bank is holding its first policy meeting under a new governor amid expectations of fresh moves to ease monetary policy and spur a recovery in the world's third-largest economy. Haruhiko Kuroda took the helm at the Bank of Japan on March 19, vowing to do whatever it takes to break Japan's economy out of deflation and attain a 2 percent inflation target. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

People cross a street in front of the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Japan's central bank is holding its first policy meeting under a new governor amid expectations of fresh moves to ease monetary policy and spur a recovery in the world's third-largest economy. Haruhiko Kuroda took the helm at the Bank of Japan on March 19, vowing to do whatever it takes to break Japan's economy out of deflation and attain a 2 percent inflation target. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

TOKYO (AP) ? Japan is making a drastic shift in monetary policy in its latest attempt to spur inflation and get the world's third-largest economy out of a long, debilitating slump.

Bowing to demands from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Bank of Japan announced Thursday that it would reconfigure its policies to double the money supply, or the amount of funds in circulation, and achieve a 2 percent inflation target at the "earliest possible time."

The central bank has launched "a new phase of monetary easing both in terms of quantity and quality" that it said would "drastically change the expectations of markets and economic entities."

Financial markets reacted with relief. The Japanese yen, which was trading at about 92.8 yen per U.S. dollar, dropped to about 94.95 yen per dollar by mid-afternoon Thursday after the announcement. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index rebounded from negative territory to close 2.2 percent higher.

New BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has vowed to meet the inflation target within two years, heeding demands from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to once and for all end a long spell of deflation that has hindered investment and economic growth.

Abe's government, which took power late last year, accused the previous central bank governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, of balking at undertaking bold enough monetary easing to get the economy back on track. The steps announced Thursday under the first policy meeting chaired by Kuroda were in line with, or perhaps a bit bolder, than had been expected.

"The first step is to get out of deflation and get a much higher nominal growth rate," Kozo Yamamoto, a senior lawmaker in Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, said Wednesday. A doubling of the money supply was needed to achieve that aim, he said.

The policies announced Thursday are a fundamental shift in how the BOJ conducts monetary policy and appear a major concession to government demands, despite the bank's ostensible autonomy.

To further boost the economy, the government has increased public spending to help perk up demand, and has promised reforms to help make the economy more competitive in the long-run.

Whether these strategies can work will hinge on expectations of future inflation prompting consumers and companies to begin spending more money sooner to avoid rising prices, as Abe and his backers contend. The past 15 years of deflationary stagnation, they say, is largely due to the tendency of consumers to hold back, waiting for prices to fall further. Expectations of weak demand, especially given Japan's shrinking and aging population, discouraged corporate hiring and investment, pulling prices still lower.

Critics of so-called "Abenomics" say that without wage increases to match the price hikes, frugal consumers may be even less willing to spend.

In any case, the BOJ has delivered on Kuroda's promises for bolder action.

Instead of carrying out money market operations to target an interest rate level, the central bank will focus on increasing the monetary base, or total amount of cash in circulation and funds of commercial banks held by the central bank, by about 60 trillion yen to 70 trillion yen ($637 billion to $744 billion) a year.

The idea is that increasing the amount of cash in circulation will help push prices higher.

At the same time the BOJ plans to increase purchases of Japanese government bonds to total 50 trillion yen ($531 billion) a year to encourage interest rates to decline, which it hopes will facilitate more lending. It will continue to buy commercial paper and corporate bonds up to levels of 2.2 trillion yen ($23 billion) and 3.2 trillion yen ($34 billion), respectively, and maintain that level.

The central bank is also extending the average remaining maturity of the bonds it purchases from slightly less than three years to an average of seven years by making bonds with all maturities, up to 40 years, eligible for purchase.

As expected, the bank also extended the range of assets it can purchase, to include more risky real estate investment trusts and exchange-traded funds.

As part of the new strategy, the BOJ will end its current asset-purchasing program, absorbing it into the future purchases of bonds, it said.

Answering concerns that the stimulus program would further raise Japan's public debt, the statement said that the government bond purchases would be "executed for the purpose of conducting monetary policy and not for the purpose of financing fiscal deficits."

The BOJ will "examine both upside and downside risks to economic activity and prices and make adjustments as appropriate," it said.

Associated Press

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Internet in the Outskirts: Farmers in New York now have Broadband ...

The Adirondack Park of Upstate New York is a unique 6 million acre state reserve that is a mix of private and public (state owned) lands. The governmental Adirondack Park Agency (APA) was enacted by the state legislature in 1971 as a means to protect the mountains, lakes and surrounding forest lands from over development and exploitation. While the APA has largely met its goal, many natives and year-round residents feel it has gone overboard with regulations, resulting in minimized modern services needed in today?s economic environment. Part of this has been the lack of Internet service available in its many rural areas, with a specific impact on farming enterprises.

Given its largely mountainous topography, it doesn?t seem like there would be a lot of farming going out here. The growing season is short; winters are long and rough. Historically, it?s a tough area to sustain a farming enterprise. The geographically beautiful Champlain Valley is dotted with?the sagging barns and weed-filled?yards of failed farms.??Crumbling farmhouses, still displaying their?striking architecture of the era in which they were built, stand empty-eyed and barren.? Driving by these properties, you can?almost hear the echoes and see the ghosts of the families and farmhands who once?worked these lands.

?Though modern farming is a challenge in this mountainous area, there are?fertile valley areas that support vegetable production as well as a handful of large, successful, dairy farms. The farming movement within the park has been slow and steady, with the ?farm to fork? initiative being a driving force. A real game changer has been the advent of CSAs. They?ve given many smaller farming operations the ability to market their offerings in a profitable fashion.?

Firewalls

A significant barrier to almost all potential business within the park is the inconsistency of Internet service. Cell towers have, until very recently, been banned within the park. There?remain?huge swaths of land that have no cell phone or Internet service. In recent years, a happy medium of sorts has been reached with ?Frankenpines? ? cell towers disguised as pine trees ? in order to provide more cell phone coverage without being an eyesore on the countryside.

Yes, DSL and broadband are available in the heart of the more populated communities, but that leaves a very large population with sparse choices. Where I live, for example, my Internet options are poor to none ? dial up (which I have used until very recently), satellite (which is expensive and undependable), or using my husband?s iPhone as a hotspot. Given that reception on his phone is so poor, using it as a hotspot actually works worse than dial up (depending on the weather). We only live three miles from a state route, but due to the low houses per mile ratio, the cable company which provided Internet was not willing to run the lines up our road (we can?t get television, either, unless via satellite).

Bringin? in the broadband

A broadband committee formed a couple of years ago in the effort to secure a piece of a state grant to bring Internet to the masses. Their efforts were finally rewarded last week when they secured a grant of $2.1 million to bring high-speed, low-cost, broadband to our Town of Schroon.

Not only will this be a boon to all local businesses, it will enable local farms?to have?better service and communication with their customers. Farms in the more rural areas will be able to have more affordable and dependable Internet service, letting them reach more customers and increase the profitability of their farms.

For small startups like myself, faster Internet means a lifeline of being able to network and communicate more readily with other agricultural folks. Since I still work away from home full-time during the day, the evening is my prime time for catching up with my farming contacts, related blogs and Internet news. Not being able to do so puts me at a major disadvantage. I can?t load posts or pictures on my homesteading blog, and maintaining a website is out of the question.

When the planets align and the Internet works well, it?s been an asset to our operation.? I found our new tractor ? exactly what we were looking for ? on Craigslist in New Hampshire.? Being able to see what other cheese producers charge has helped me figure out how to competitively price our own cheeses.? I can obtain numerous methods of controlling weeds in my garden, and get varying opinions on them all, enabling me to make an educated decision on how to proceed with my own.? I?ve read many accounts of folks who have dairy goats, which prompted me to inform my husband we?re not getting anything that needs to be milked as long as I?m working full-time.

All of these things (and much more) are?part of expanding our enterprise and staying connected with other agricultural sources.? My husband and I do a full-bore computing session on our laptops once a week or so from our local tavern, which has wireless; while it?s nice, it has the potential to turn us into alcoholics.

Improved Internet is just one part of the whole for successful farming within the park. While it?s a unique environment that offers much to many, it also has some unique challenges. Being able to successfully market ones products or network with others shouldn?t be one of them. We are, after all, on the same team here. This is a huge step in the right direction.

Beti Spangel is a freelance writer and homesteader in Schroon Lake, New York, where she resides with her husband,?forester/soils scientist?Larry Phillips, their horses, chickens and cats, and ever-expanding?gardens.? You can follow her blog at?weefarmgirl.blogspot.com.

Source: http://www.thesocialsilo.com/2013/04/03/internet-outskirts-farmers-york-broadband/

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Should 'Buckwild' Be Canceled After Star's Death?

It was supposed to be the next Jersey Shore, but following the death of cast member Shain Gandee, MTV's Buckwild may not get a second season. Gandee, 21, was found dead in his Ford Bronco truck on Monday, along with a relative and another man; the truck was wrecked in a remote muddy area. Filming on Season 2 of the reality show is already in progress, and has been temporarily suspended -- but should Buckwild really go on after this tragedy?

Source: http://www.ivillage.com/should-buckwild-be-canceled-after-shain-gandees-death/1-a-531821?dst=iv%3AiVillage%3Ashould-buckwild-be-canceled-after-shain-gandees-death-531821

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Tesla Gambles On Lease Or Own Options - 24/7 Wall St.

Buying a Tesla sports car or a Model S sedan is truly a privilege. The cost of the nearly zero-emission electric vehicle is not ridiculous on the surface but is certainly not affordable for much of the public. Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is trying to change that with new financing options.

Tesla?s announcement on Tuesday follows a tease?from Elon Musk today that had investors and consumers wondering what was coming from Tesla. Via a partnership with Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) and U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), Tesla is creating a new financing product that will blend elements of ownership and leasing to Model S customers.

One thing that customers do not really?have to worry about too much is the financial creditworthiness of Wells Fargo and/or U.S. Bank. These were both on our list of the Safest Banks in America for 2013.

This new lease product from Tesla comes with a lower initial payment, tax deductions, lower risk on resale value. Perhaps the most important aspect of all, this will eliminate the risks and efforts for a buyer personally. After 36 months, the new buyers have the right to sell the Model S back to Tesla for the same residual value percentage as the Mercedes S Class. This is a lease to own model, but the buyers are of course not obligated to sell their cars back to Tesla.

U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo have agreed to provide 10% down financing for the purchase of a Model S for those with approved credit. The 10% down payment is said to be covered or more than covered by U.S. Federal and state tax credits ranging from $7,500 to $15,000.

New Jersey, Washington and D.C. also have no sales tax for electric vehicles. These advantages are not available when leasing.

Tesla says that when you tally up the true cost savings here?the entire true net out-of-pocket cost to own a mid-range Model S is said to be dropping down to under $500 per month.

With Tesla effectively guaranteeing the resale value this may take out at least one of the ?what if? questions from the public. 24/7 Wall St. cannot help but wonder what exactly Tesla will do with all the three-year and older cars once they start receiving these cars back. Will they be resold? What if the replacement costs in the future for batteries and technology actually go up rather than down?

Tesla?s move is one which could go either way, and it may depend upon issues that the markets do not really have answers for today. This will certainly drive up sales but it leaves an unknown about the future. Tesla will not just be selling new electric cars in the future. It will also have to figure out what to do with the models returned.

Wall St. investors and traders are having a hard time digesting the news and the implications of how this will impact Tesla?s finances in the future. The stock closed up almost 1% at $44.34 today but the shares have been down 1% to 2% in the after-hours trading session. Tesla shares have traded in a 52-week range of $25.52 to $46.68 and the consensus price target from Thomson Reuters was $41.45 before the effects of this news.

Jon C. Ogg

Source: http://247wallst.com/2013/04/02/tesla-gambles-on-lease-or-own-options/

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