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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

New tool for CSI? Geographic software maps distinctive features inside bones

ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? A common type of geographic mapping software offers a new way to study human remains.

In a recent issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, researchers describe how they used commercially available mapping software to identify features inside a human foot bone -- a new way to study human skeletal variation.

David Rose, a Captain in the Ohio State University Police Division and doctoral student in anthropology, began the project to determine whether the patterns of change inside the bones of human remains could reveal how the bones were used during life.

"Our bones adapt to the load that's placed on them. Patterns of tension and compression show up in our internal bone structure, and this software lets us look at those patterns in a new way," Rose said.

Julie Field, study co-author and assistant professor of anthropology at Ohio State, explained that archaeologists frequently use geographic information system (GIS) software to map the location of objects uncovered at an excavation site.

"We try to identify important clusters of objects such as household tools or agricultural tools that would indicate patterns of human activity," Field explained. "Based on certain scientific criteria that you give it, the software gives you a statistical measure of whether the objects you're looking at actually constitute a cluster."

In this case, the researchers used a program called ArcGIS. But similar types of mapping software can analyze any kind of spatial data, such as crime statistics or flood models, Rose added. He usesthe same program to map line-of-site views to develop security plans for events on campus.

This is the first time anyone has used GIS software to map bone microstructure.

Co-author Sam Stout, professor of anthropology at Ohio State and Rose's advisor, explained why the study of internal bone structure is important.

"Dave's work allows us to visualize, analyze, and compare the distribution of microscopic features that reflect the development and maintenance of bones, which we can relate to skeletal health and disease -- for example, bone fragility in osteoporosis," Stout said.

Advances that relate to the study of foot bones in particular would be useful in forensics, Rose explained, because of one grisly fact: when unidentified human remains are discovered today, the foot bones are sometimes intact, having been protected by the deceased person's shoes. Any information about the person, such as age, sex, or body size could ultimately aid law enforcement in identifying a body.

For this study, the researchers studied the cross-section of a metatarsal -- a long bone in the foot -- from a deceased woman who generously gave her body to the Division of Anatomy's Body Donation Program. Using this bone cross-section, they demonstrated how the software could be used to show the loads experienced in the foot during gait.

Rose recorded an extremely high-resolution image of the bone cross-section under a microscope, and used the software to map the location of key structures called osteons.

Osteons are microscopic structures created throughout life to fix small cracks or to maintain mineral levels in our blood. The size and shape of osteons, along with the direction of the collagen fibers from which they are made inside bone, are influenced by the loads we place on our bones during life.

In this case, the donor's metatarsal bone showed the predicted pattern of normal bone remodeling, with concentrations of particular types of osteons along the top and bottom of the bone which could have been formed by forces experienced as she walked -- just where researchers would expect to see telltale signs of foot flexure and compression.

This study provides a proof of concept, Rose cautioned, and many more bones would have to be studied before GIS software could provide meaningful insight into bone biology.

"Really, we're just combining very basic principles in GIS and skeletal biology," he said. "But I believe that there is a tremendous opportunity for advancements at the intersection of both disciplines. The real advantage to this method is that it offers a new scale for the study of human variation offering to shed light on how we adapt to our surroundings."

Co-author Amanda Agnew, assistant professor of anatomy, agreed and added that the work "combines bone biology, biomechanics, and biomedical informatics to explore new methods to evaluate old questions."

Timothy Gocha of the Department of Anthropology also contributed to this research.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

U.S. court revives ex-Chrysler executives' age bias claims

(Reuters) - Hundreds of former Chrysler LLC executives claiming they lost retirement benefits because of age bias can sue the company's former parent Daimler AG, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

More than 450 former auto executives have said they lost retirement benefits in Chrysler's 2009 bankruptcy.

The decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals partially revives a lawsuit against Germany's Daimler and a unit of State Street Corp, the trustee of the former executives' retirement plan.

The appeals court upheld the dismissal of other claims of breaches of fiduciary duties by the defendants.

Mayer Morganroth, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said reinstatement of the age discrimination claims would allow his clients to pursue "hundreds of millions of dollars" in damages.

Daimler spokeswoman Andrea Berg said the company was still reviewing the decision but was pleased that the appeals court had upheld most of the lower court's ruling. "In any event, Daimler intends to continue to defend this case vigorously," she said.

A State Street representative did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The former executives claimed that following the bankruptcy, they lost much or all of their benefits under a supplemental executive retirement plan.

They also claimed Daimler and State Street hid the true state of Chrysler's finances before selling its majority stake in the company to the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP in 2007.

Daimler owned Chrysler from 1998 to 2007 and kept a minority interest in the No. 3 U.S. automaker when Cerberus took over in 2007.

Cerberus Capital was the majority owner and ran Chrysler until 2009, when the company was restructured in a government-sponsored bankruptcy that led to its management control by Italy's Fiat SpA. Fiat since has become majority owner of Chrysler Group LLC.

The former executives claimed Daimler discriminated against them in 2005 and 2006 when the company and State Street used retirement plan trust assets to buy annuities for some active Chrysler executives and selected retirees to protect them from future shortfalls.

The plaintiffs said that because the company did not also buy them annuities, they suffered when the retirement plan did not survive the bankruptcy intact.

In June 2011, the lawsuit was dismissed entirely by U.S. District Judge Julian Cook in Detroit.

Tuesday's decision was issued by a three-judge panel of the appeals court, which sits in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In dismissing the claims over fiduciary duty, the appeals court said the plaintiffs' allegations, which arose out of Michigan state law, were trumped by the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a federal law regulating employee benefit plans.

In Tuesday's decision, Judge Jeffrey Sutton wrote that the state law-based claims of age discrimination were not preempted by the ERISA.

He also found that the discrimination claims were not "implausible" because the executives who got the annuities were younger than the ones who did not.

The case is Loffredo v. Daimler AG, 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 11-1824.

(Reporting By Nate Raymond in New York; Editing by Martha Graybow)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-court-revives-ex-chrysler-executives-age-bias-204906531--finance.html

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What a Monday night. What a controversial ending.

On the final play of a back-and-forth Monday Night Football game, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson chucked a Hail Mary into the end zone, where Seahawks receiver Golden Tate and Packers defensive back M.D. Jennings both leapt into the air and grabbed for it, then tumbled on the ground together, both with their hands on the ball. The officials ruled that it was simultaneous possession, which goes to the offense. Therefore, according to the officials, it was a Seahawks game-winning touchdown with no time left.

But should it have been a touchdown? Or should it have been an interception? Jennings appeared to have a firm grasp on the ball, while Tate just had an arm on the ball ? which would make it a Packers interception, and a Packers win. But the officials standing in the end zone said Tate had the ball, too, and the referee confirmed that call after a replay review. Touchdown, Seattle, on the final play of the game.

But was it the final play of the game? Or would the Seahawks have to try an extra point after that touchdown? Both teams and the officials left the field after the touchdown, and it appeared that the final score would be Seahawks 13, Packers 12. But after a long delay the officials finally told both teams that they had to come back on the field for the Seahawks to attempt an extra point. Seattle made it, and the final was 14-12.

Under the crazy circumstances of the final play it seemed like a lucky win for the Seahawks, but Wilson said after the game that there was nothing lucky about Tate?s catch.

?We practice that all the time and Golden Tate made a play,? Wilson said after the game.

The Seahawks had controlled the first half, sacking Aaron Rodgers eight times and forcing the Packers to punt on all five of their first-half possessions, but Green Bay took control in the second half. The Packers started the second half with a 13-play, 70-yard drive that resulted in a field goal, then had an 11-play, 66-yard drive that resulted in another field goal, then had a 16-play, 81-yard drive that resulted in the go-ahead touchdown. Rodgers was in complete control, and the offensive line was keeping him upright and opening holes for Cedric Benson.

But the Seahawks got the ball with less than a minute left in the fourth quarter, trailing 12-7, and they still had a prayer. That?s all they needed. Wilson got Seattle close enough for that one final play, and he made the throw Seattle needed him to make on that one final play.

Even if you think the officials got the final play right (and Packers fans will insist that they didn?t, and Jennings intercepted the pass, not to mention the fact that Tate appeared to push off before jumping up for the ball), the replacement officials were every bit as bad as we?ve all come to expect. An absolutely horrible pass interference call on Packers cornerback Sam Shields late in the fourth quarter sticks out as the worst mistake in a game full of them. This was a crazy game ? a crazy amount of pressure on Rodgers in the first half, a crazy Green Bay comeback in the second half, a crazy Hail Mary on the last play, and crazy officiating. Let?s all go to bed and talk more about this one in the morning.

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Health insurers begin to provide user-friendly plan guides

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French vintners want US chateaux kept out of EU

BRUSSELS (AP) ? Drinking a Bordeaux wine from a "chateau" is as French as swigging Kentucky bourbon is American.

But now tempers are flaring across the vineyards of France. The United States wants to sell some of its wines in the European Union with ? sacrilege ? a "chateau" or "clos" label.

Cheating. Misappropriation. Distortion ? the issue has the Bordelais turning claret with anger.

"What is at stake is the respect for tradition and quality," Laurent Gapenne of Chateau de Laville and president of the Federation des Grand Vins de Bordeaux told the Associated Press.

For American vintners it is a question of selling more wine in their top export market, unshackled by historic language or restrictive terms in the world of 21st century globalization.

"People use words in different ways," WineAmerica chief operation officer Cary Greene told the AP, arguing there should be no ban on U.S. bottles carrying the word "chateau."

The French, on the other hand, argue that hundreds of years of craft are at stake. They're worried that the cachet a mention of "chateau" or "clos" ? which shows the origin of the wine ? carries is diluted if other winemakers started to stick it on their bottles in Europe.

On Tuesday, EU experts from the different member states will investigate whether that should be permitted, with a decision imminent.

"I cannot understand that they would yield on this," Gapenne said, setting high stakes for the latest skirmish in a trans-Atlantic wine war that has seen the United States growing from upstart to an increasingly confident competitor on world markets.

U.S. founding father Thomas Jefferson was enamored with French wines and the French held dominance over world wine traffic until well after World War II. Then came the 1976 "Judgment of Paris," when, to French astonishment, California won a major blind taste test over French wines. To this day, that event is considered the "tasting that changed the wine world."

That never sat well with the French, and since then wine relations have often had an edge to them.

So when the European Commission decided to act on a U.S. request to regain permission to export 'chateau' and 'clos'-labeled wines to Europe ? including France ? the anger was palpable.

"The European Commission is bartering our heritage and our economic clout at the expense of globalization," said Gapenne.

For the U.S., the benefits of tapping the European market are clear. Even though it is declining, the 27-nation European Union still accounts for 57 percent of the global wine consumption.

Last year, 34 percent of U.S. wine exports by value went to the EU, accounting for $478 million. And the industry is counting on removing trade barriers worldwide to push exports even more.

In comparison, the EU said its exports to the United States stood at ?2.2 billion ($2.86 billion) last year, boosted by many of the top-edge chateau and clos vintages that have come to define the continent's best wines. The global turnover of France's Bordeaux wines stood at ?4.2 billion and 55,000 jobs while the Burgundy region added ?1 billion and 20,000 jobs last year.

While the Americans feel they are unfairly locked out of a market, the French feel centuries of careful cultivation is being thrown up for grabs.

"There would not be a level playing field," Gapenne said.

While French chateau bottles find their origins in wines made at the estate from grapes belonging to the chateau, the U.S. definition for export would use less stringent conditions on provenance. It could include grapes from "vines that have been traditionally used by this wine producer or producer group."

"We think the definition we presented is fair and reasonable," said Greene. "The definitions we put forward, we believe accurately reflect what we think the market place can stand and what consumers can understand."

For the French, the very francophone origins of the name, argue differently. "The Americans could create 'chateau' wines from grapes from all over and prices would of course be much lower," Gapenne said. "The consumer would be buying a 'chateau' wine with the idea of quality that represents our definition," while in fact it doesn't, he argued.

Several dozen premium wineries in the United States have already used the 'chateau' and 'clos' designation in the past. They were allowed to export wines bearing such labels for three years in the wake of a 2006 trans-Atlantic wine agreement, but that loophole was closed in 2009.

Names and denominations of origins have a long tradition to create trade friction, affecting everything from Greek feta cheese to Lebanese hummus. In the 2006 agreement, for example, the EU said it was able to contain the use of such terms like Champagne and Port in the United States.

Any dilution of the typical French winery terms would undermine their standing in the world, said Gapenne.

Once the United States breaks the French hold on the term in Europe, it would set a bad precedent. "It would become extremely difficult to stop other producing countries" to use the term, Gapenne's FGVB said in In a statement.

"In the midterm, the notion would be totally discredited and empty of any meaning," the FGVB said.

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MGM Pro-gambling Campaign Spending Rises To $8. 4 Million

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MGM pro-gambling campaign spending rises to $8. 4 million
By John Wagner

Developer Milt Peterson stands at the site where he desires to create a high-end casino at National Harbor in Prince George? s County. (Astrid Riecken ? For The Washington Post) MGM Resorts, the organization angling to operate a casino at National Harbor, has kicked within $3 million to a campaign to expand gambling in Maryland, bringing its total contributions to $8. 4 million.

With MGM? s newly disclosed donation to some pro-gambling group, For Maryland Jobs and Schools, which became public Tuesday, the 2 sides are actually near to parity about what has changed into a full-on television ad war.

At issue is a intend to allow a brand new casino in Prince George? s County, and also Las Vegas-style table games at Maryland? s five previously authorized slots locations. The program can look as Question 7 about the state? s November ballot.

Penn National Gaming, which opposes the expansion plan, has reported giving probably the most: $9. 5 million.

But allies of MGM have ponied up. The Peterson Cos., the developer of National Harbor, has contributed $400, 000.

And a group that features Caesars Entertainment, that has a license to build a Baltimore casino, has contributed $1. 1 million. Though Caesars would not welcome additional competition from the Prince George? s facility, the business says it wants table games, as well as a lower tax rate that is certainly also area of the plan.

The campaign has been coordinated by competing ballot-issue committees, create to take care of the donations of gambling companies along with other interested parties.

The gambling-expansion plan would invite bids for any Prince George? s casino to get a swath from the county which includes both National Harbor and Rosecroft Raceway, a harness track in Fort Washington owned by Penn National.

Penn has argued that this deck is stacked against them, but because Prince George? s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D) has championed the National Harbor site, a 300-acre mini-city about the banks of the Potomac River.

The pro-expanded gambling group has accused Penn of acting to safeguard a large-scale casino the business owns in West Virginia, arguing business there can be threatened by another large-scale casino in Maryland. Penn has denied that as a rationale.

Penn also owns a current Maryland venue, Hollywood Casino Perryville in Cecil County.

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Hands-On With Apple's New Maps for iPhone and iPad

With the release of the latest version of its software for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, Apple has made a number of big changes to the way you use your mobile devices. One of the most notable has been to the Maps app ? a go-to resource for iPhone-toting, road warrior entrepreneurs. Originally powered by Google technology, Maps has been redesigned to pull in data from a variety of sources, including popular navigation system maker TomTom and business review site Yelp.

From 3-D visualizations to turn-by-turn directions, here's a rundown of what you need to know about using Maps to get you where you're going:

The new look: The default view in Apple's new Maps app is the same as before: A birds-eye view from above with basic two-dimensional visuals. It looks a lot like what you're used to seeing from any variety of mobile or online mapping services, but it uses vector graphics, so it loads and moves much more smoothly than previous versions.

Maps options display: As with previous versions of Maps, tapping the bottom right-hand corner of the map will peel back the screen and display new basic options. They'll be familiar if you've used maps before. There's Drop Pin, for instance, which lets you place a pin on the map and move it freely, using it as a start or destination marker. "Standard" is two-dimensional with a hand-drawn look while "Hybrid" displays scenery as satellite images with overlaid roads and other info. "Satellite," as you might guess, is pure satellite imagery without annotations.

Related: Guide to iOS 6: Everything you need to know about Apple's new mobile operating system

3-D aerial maps: The standard aerial maps look similar to what you've seen in the past, but have more icons for businesses and points of interested overlaid on them. They also load, pan and rotate much faster.

On supported devices -- the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or better -- you can activate a 3-D mode that renders buildings and other features that can be zoomed and rotated.

Traffic information: You can turn traffic information on and off, just as in past versions. But now you'll see icons indicating accidents and other traffic hazards. Turn-by-turn directions can use the traffic data to display accurate travel times and automatically reroute you around problems.

Tap on a traffic accident or hazard icon in the new Maps and you'll get a detailed account of what the problem is and where it's located.

Related: How to upgrade your iPhone or iPad to iOS 6

Turn-by-turn directions: If you have an iPhone 4S or iPad 2 (or later) you can take advantage of the new Maps app's full turn-by-turn directions. If you have an older device, you can still get directions but they won't update automatically as you drive or feature voice prompts.

Using turn-by-turn maps, you'll be automatically alerted by voice-overs about accidents, hazards and more optimal routes. You can then choose if you want your device to calculate a new route.

It should be noted that Maps has lost a couple of things now that Google is no longer involved. The first is Street View, or the ability to see what the area you're looking at looks like from street level. It also doesn't have walking or public transit directions anymore, something that non-drivers are up in arms about.

Business information from Yelp: Another new feature of Maps is more detailed business information provided by Yelp. Tapping on a business brings up its name, review rating on Yelp, and a shortcut icon to get driving directions. There's also an info icon that, when tapped, expands the business info to include the phone number, address, and other, more detailed information.

Now's a great time to update your information on Yelp, if you haven't already, to make sure your business is accurately found by customers using Maps.

Selecting the Reviews tab from within the business info display brings up the most recent Yelp reviews of the business you're looking at. If you'd like to read more, you can tap More Reviews on Yelp. You can also check in via Yelp or post a tip on Yelp using two other buttons available on the Reviews display.

You can tap on the Photos tab on a business popup to see Yelp photos taken there by customers. They're pretty small thumbnails, actually, but you can touch them to load larger ones. They'll pop up in Safari or, if you have it installed on your device, within the Yelp app itself (get it for iPhone and iPad). Tapping the Add Photo button also takes you to the Yelp app to upload your own photos of the business.

Related: Users react to Apple's latest software update for iPhone and iPad, and it's not all roses
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

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Saturday, September 22, 2012

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LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Drop in the Big Law Median Salary is only Half the Story. ?NALP just announced that the median salary for first year associates in Big Law has dropped from $160K to $145K. I think that is very significant. We are now back to to the entry level price point of 2007. But to my mind, there is much bigger story here. In 2011, firms of 500+ attorneys hired 2,856 entry level lawyers. In 2007, that figure was 4,745. So, after five years, Big Law is paying the same wage but hiring 40% fewer lawyers.?

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Friday, September 21, 2012

VERSUS IO Sees 3X Traffic In 120 Days, Launches Comparisons For Cameras, Camcorders, Mobile Apps

Natural language-styled comparison engine VERSUS IO is boasting some decent growth today, along with adding new verticals -- cameras, camcorders and apps -- to its initial offering which targeted?buying decisions around smartphones and tablets. Specifically, the Berlin-based startup says that it's seen traffic treble in the last four months -- 1.5 million uniques in September, up from 520k uniques in June -- and that more recently, it's been further buoyed by the launch of Apple's iPhone 5, helping the site?reach 100k unique visits per day.

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If I Were Google, I Wouldn?t Release A Native iOS 6 Maps App For Six Months

So, iOS 6 is upon us and people are going to start getting their new iPhones this week as well. What they'll soon (maybe) realize is that Maps for iOS is no longer powered by Google. And it sucks something fierce. I'm not going to go into tons of technical detail as to why this is, but let me just say that when consumers are used to an experience for, oh, five years, and you all of a sudden change it, people are going to be angry or confused. I'm betting on both happening with the Maps app.

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

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Improve group uses humor to teach about overindulging in Shot of Reality

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Audience members learn the pitfalls of drinking alcohol

Benjamin Wilks, Staff Reporter
September 20, 2012
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Shot of Reality, an interactive alcohol prevention program, was sponsored by LC-CAB on Sept. 5 in the Pub.

Shot of Reality is performed by a team called Mission IMPROVable and produced by M.i. Productions. There are four two-person teams in the M.i. Productions company. Their purpose is to make students aware of the problems overdrinking may cause, and to show how to be safe while drinking.

They deliver the information in a way that engages people so they remember it. They figured out that having people, especially college students, sitting in one place for an hour or so would have them wondering when it would be over. Right away Byron Kennerly and Adam Higgins, the two performers, jumped into being goofy. They made hilarious song lyrics about alcohol, wore wigs, and impersonated possible stereotypes of students seen around campus. Higgins and Kennerly reminded the audience that the content of the performance was serious while both jokingly and stringently telling the information.

The two agreed that it is rough always being on the road, but since it is for a good cause, they can endure it. Kennerly has just started the program, while Higgins has been with it for about four years. They were surprised by the way the audience participated and with how many people showed up.

?The audience was great, by the way,? said Higgins.

?Sometimes we have to stop the show because the audience won?t participate. That wasn?t a problem here,? said Kennerly. ?We?ve never done that [performed in a pub] before. It?s kind of new to us.?

Students thought the performance was great. Dika Emmaculet, sophomore international business and economics major, said, ?I learned that drunken people can easily be fooled. Generally, I would not recommend drinking now.?

?It didn?t tell me not to drink, but to just drink responsibly and to drink water because alcohol does dehydrate you,? said Stephanie Burgardt, freshman English major.

The show entertained and informed a room full of possible drinkers. Shot of Reality taught the audience one thing: You can?t stop anyone from drinking, but you can suggest they drink safely.

Source: http://www.lakelandmirror.com/news/2012/09/20/improve-group-uses-humor-to-teach-about-overindulging-in-shot-of-reality/

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The iPhone 5 reviews reviewed: It's a hit (but...)

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Every time an Apple product comes out, a select few reviewers get first dibs on testing it first. On Tuesday night, the iPhone 5 reviews went live, and by and large, they were positive. There was one consistent gripe throughout ? a change in how the iPhone connects to chargers and accessories ? but reviews overall carried the "best iPhone ever" theme.

David Pogue, at the New York Times, identifies the three factors that have made the iPhone a success ? design, components and compatibility ? and says that while the iPhone 5 excels at the first two, its new connector, which makes older docks and chargers obsolete, takes away points in the compatibility department. (Pogue does point out, however, that the new connector is smaller, sturdier and easier to use than the old one, because it doesn't matter which side is up when you plug it in.)

At USA Today, Ed Baig?says that after more than two years with the same 4/4S look, there's pent-up demand for a new Apple design: "What I detect this time is lust," he writes. At the same time, after evaluating the product, he says that Apple has met expectations "with a gem."

The connector issue does come up. "You can't blame folks for making a fuss," writes Baig, but "most of these people will probably buy the darn phone anyway, and do so, I suspect, with glee."

The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg perhaps overstates things with the headline "The iPhone takes to the big screen." After all, a 4-inch 16x9 screen is not big compared to most competitors. Also, Mossberg harps on the new Maps app (which may be problematic, but is a feature of iOS 6 ??available as a free download Wednesday to most iPhone owners ? not the new iPhone).?

Still, his review is generally positive, praising the speed of the new chip and the 4G LTE cellular data connection. Mossberg does have a beef with, you guessed it, that new connector, a "design change that's already rankling people."

CNet's Scott Stein named it an Editors' Choice, and said it "adds everything we want in an iPhone" (4G, bigger screen, new processor) and that it's "absolutely the best iPhone to date."

So what's bad? Stein laments the fact that Sprint and Verizon models can't handle a voice call and data interaction simultaneously. He also blasted that durned connector, and the fact that even the new, larger screen is way smaller than the ones found on competing Android devices. No surprises, but all things to take into consideration.

TechCrunch's MG Siegler calls the phone "an absolute home run" and goes on and on about how light it is, specifically that its lightness "just doesn't seem real." (We also said something to this effect after the launch.)

As for the apps that don't yet fit the 4-inch screen, Siegler says "it's really not a big deal."?

Siegler points out something that hasn't really made the rounds: The headphone jack is on the bottom of the iPhone 5, like it is on an iPod Touch.

Notably absent from the review circus (at time of publication) is tech site The Verge, which is typically among the chosen reviewers.

So while reviewers agree it's the best iPhone yet, the question remains, how does it fare compared to a Samsung Galaxy S III or other competing smartphones? Despite some criticism of the?Android OS and some of Samsung's add-on software features,?nobody seems to want to say the iPhone 5 slays the competition outright. Most reviewers answered instead with an "it's up to you" shrug. That is, if you want a really big screen, then go for one of the Android phones, but, as Mossberg puts it, the iPhone 5 is "an excellent choice."

Wilson Rothman is the Technology & Science?editor at NBC News Digital. Catch up with him on Twitter at @wjrothman, and join our conversation on Facebook.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/iphone-5-reviews-reviewed-its-hit-1B5978659

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Scholars do reality check on Jesus and his 'wife'

Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment appear to provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married. This video from Harvard Divinity School discusses the find.

By Alan Boyle

A fourth-century fragment of papyrus that quotes Jesus telling his disciples about "my wife" has set off a buzz among scriptural scholars?? but this is no "Da Vinci Code" come true. Rather, the "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" is just the latest discovery to suggest how the early Christian church took shape.

Fans of the Dan Brown thriller are already familiar with the theory that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a husband-and-wife relationship. The basis for such speculation lies in Gnostic gospels that came out in the first through third centuries, but were left out of the standardized scriptures ? texts such as the Gospel of Philip, the Gospel of Mary and the recently reconstructed Gospel of Judas.

Even though only a few phrases can be read on the papyrus fragment that's just come to light, those phrases are consistent with the Gnostic view of early Christianity ??which tended to give a more prominent role to women, and particularly to Mary Magdalene. The text, written in the Sahidic Coptic dialect, includes the phrase "Jesus said to them, 'My wife...'" as well as references to a woman named Mary being "worthy of it," and to a woman who "will be able to be my disciple." ?

The marriage debate
Karen L. King, the Harvard Divinity School professor who received the fragment from an anonymous owner, emphasized that the discovery does not serve as evidence that Jesus was married.?Rather, it suggests that there was a debate within the early Christian church on the status of women, and that Jesus' relationship with women figured into the discussion. Revisiting that debate may be unsettling to some believers, but to scriptural scholars, it just comes with the territory.

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a news release from Harvard Divinity School. "This new gospel doesn't prove that Jesus was married, but it tells us that the whole question only came up as part of vociferous debates about sexuality and marriage. From the very beginning, Christians disagreed about whether it was better not to marry, but it was over a century after Jesus' death before they began appealing to Jesus' marital status to support their positions."

Ben Witherington, a New Testament scholar at the Asbury Theological Seminary, noted that the latest find fits King's perspective on scriptural scholarship. "She does have a dog in this hunt," he told me. "She's an advocate for the Gospel of Mary and the Gospel of Judas, telling us of early Christian experiences of various kinds, particularly of the Gnostic kind."

The fragment that King calls the Gospel of Jesus' Wife could well contribute to the study of Gnosticism in the second or fourth century, but Witherington said it's not a game-changer for our view of the first-century Jesus.?"While this fragment is interesting, if you are interested in the historical Jesus, this is much ado about not very much," Witherington said via email.

Witherington noted that experts who have gotten a close look at the papyrus say it's genuine, ?but he cautioned that "we cannot be absolutely sure of its authenticity or origins" as long as scholars can't track down the details surrounding how, when and where it was discovered.

Bart Ehrman, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, voiced similar caution. However, if the document proves authentic, it would represent an important advance in scriptural scholarship, he said.?

"It's certainly not reliable for saying anything about the historical Jesus," Ehrman told me. "But what it is important for is that this would be the first time we have any Christian authority or Christian group indicating that, in their opinion, Jesus was married." Like King, Ehrman suggested that such claims might have figured into early Christian debates over the comparative merits of marriage vs. celibacy.?

Monks and 'sister-wives'?
Witherington said the text could be open to alternate interpretations. "In view of the largely ascetic character of Gnosticism, it is likely that we are dealing with the 'sister-wife' phenomenon, and the reference is to a strictly spiritual relationship, which is close but does not involve sexual intimacy," Witherington said.

During a follow-up phone call, he explained that "during the rise of the monastic movement, you had quite a lot of monk-type folks and evangelists who traveled in the company of a sister-wife." The fellow travelers looked after each other, but celibacy was part of the deal, he said.

"The other question about this is ... were these 'fractured fairy tales' that helped monks in the desert while away the time, or were they serious religious texts?" Witherington said.

Gnostic works proliferated in Egypt's Christian monasteries until Athanasius of Alexandria drew up what became the "official" list of books in the New Testament and condemned the rest in the year 367. Scholars believe that the best-known collection of Gnostic texts, the Nag Hammadi library, was bundled up and buried in the desert as a result.

The debate over the papyrus fragment's authenticity and the meaning of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife is likely to play out for a long time among scriptural scholars ? and among "Da Vinci Code" fans as well. For now, here are links to background material and the initial blog reactions:

The news release from Harvard Divinity School points to a Web page about the papyrus and to the manuscript that King has prepared for publication in January's issue of Harvard Theological Review.
James Tabor, a scriptural scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the co-author of controversial books about Jesus and his family, notes King's research ? and says?Witherington and other scholars should "reconsider the question" surrounding Jesus' marital status.?
Michael Heiser, a scholar in biblical languages, says on his PaleoBabble blog that he tends to agree with the view that church leaders have "manipulated the testimony of Mary Magdalene"?? but he warns against reading too much into the discovery.
Jim West, a biblical scholar at the Quartz Hill School of Theology and pastor of Petros Baptist Church, says on the Zwinglius Redivivus blog that "without more context, both historically and archaeologically, the snippet is valueless."?
James McGrath, a New Testament scholar at Butler University, also voices caution on the?Exploring Our Matrix blog?but adds that there's no reason why people should find the idea that Jesus was married "inherently unbelievable."

Update for 9 p.m. ET: Some observers have pointed out that the New Testament contains multiple allusions to Jesus as a bridegroom, and the church or the collective people of God as his bride. This report from The Atlantic?catalogs the references.?However, Witherington said the Coptic papyrus appears to refer to a different kind of relationship. "A bride is one thing, and a wife is another," he told me. The fragment's additional references to "Mary" and a prospective woman disciple also argue against attaching a purely metaphorical meaning to the word "wife."

For what it's worth, here are all the translated bits from the papyrus:

"'... not [to] me. My mother gave to me li[fe] ...'"

"The disciples said to Jesus, '..."

"deny. Mary is worthy of it" (Or: "deny. Mary is n[ot] worthy of it")?

"...' Jesus said to them, 'My wife...'"

"... she will be able to be my disciple ..."

"Let wicked people swell up ..."

"As for me, I dwell with her in order to ..."

"an image"

"my moth[er]"

"three"

"forth which ..."

More about scripture and history:

Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's?Facebook page, following?@b0yle on Twitter?and adding the?Cosmic Log page?to your Google+ presence. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other stories about science and space, sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter, delivered to your email in-box every weekday. You can also check out?"The Case for Pluto,"?my book about the dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.

Source: http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/18/13945001-reality-check-on-jesus-and-his-wife?lite

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AP Exclusive: Mass. inmate lauds sex-change ruling

BOSTON (AP) ? A convicted murderer in Massachusetts says a judge's decision to grant her request for sex-reassignment surgery is "the right thing to do."

U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled this month that the surgery is the only adequate treatment for Michelle Kosilek's gender-identity disorder, a condition he said is a "serious medical need." The ruling marks the first time a judge has ordered prison officials to provide sex-reassignment surgery.

Wolf's ruling prompted an outcry among some legislative leaders, who say Kosilek isn't entitled to the taxpayer-funded surgery.

Kosilek said she cried tears of relief after learning of the judge's ruling. Kosilek has waged a decades-long battle to complete the transformation from a man into a woman.

"This is who I am. My essence is female," Kosilek told The Associated Press in a recent telephone interview from prison.

"To those who don't understand gender-identity disorder, I understand that there is a reluctance to even think about this in a serious vein because to the average person who is uninformed, it may be truly bizarre, but this is who I am. This is who I have always been."

Kosilek was named Robert when married to Cheryl Kosilek and was convicted of her 1990 murder.

She said she endured decades of pain while growing up with a boy's body but feeling like she was a girl and later fighting to get sex-reassignment surgery. She has received female hormones and lives as a woman in an all-male prison in Norfolk.

Kosilek said she first began asking for the surgery while awaiting trial in the early 1990s but was turned down by county jail officials, even after she offered to pay for it herself. She filed her first lawsuit against the state Department of Correction in 2000. Two years later, Wolf ruled that Kosilek was entitled to treatment for gender-identity disorder but stopped short of ordering surgery.

Kosilek sued again in 2005, arguing that surgery was a medical necessity.

In his Sept. 4 ruling, Wolf found that the Department of Correction had violated Kosilek's Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care.

Prison officials have repeatedly cited security risks in the case, saying that allowing Kosilek to have the surgery would make her a target for sexual assaults by other inmates.

Wolf, however, called the department's security claims a "pretext" and noted that the department's own medical experts testified that they believe surgery was the only adequate treatment for Kosilek, who has twice tried to commit suicide.

Kosilek said she believes corrections officials have taken a "deeply entrenched political stance" over the surgery and have fomented what she calls a "taxpayer rebellion" that has prompted some state lawmakers and U.S. Sen. Scott Brown to speak out publicly against her receiving the surgery.

State Sen. Bruce Tarr and about 50 other lawmakers have asked the department to appeal Wolf's ruling, while Brown called Wolf's decision "an outrageous abuse of taxpayer dollars."

Kosilek said all inmates are entitled to medical care and are routinely provided with heart surgery and treatment for other medical conditions.

"There is a general consensus in prison systems everywhere ? most notably here in Massachusetts ? that certain things just aren't going to be provided because they seem to be distasteful to a certain percentage of the population," Kosilek said.

"Nobody has ever started a taxpayer revolt about other prisoners receiving medical care, and the only consensus me and my sisters can come up with is this is just bigotry related to gender-identity disorder, and it's very troubling," she said.

Diane Wiffin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Correction, declined to comment, saying officials are still reviewing Wolf's ruling. She no decision has been made on whether to appeal Wolf's ruling.

Kosilek, 63, said she sees Wolf's ruling as "bulletproof" with no grounds for appeal. She said she is hoping the department will house her in a female prison after the surgery.

"It's just the right thing to do, to give me congruity," she said of the surgery.

"People need to understand that ? whether it troubles them or not ? it is a valid medical condition."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-mass-inmate-lauds-sex-change-ruling-184225011.html

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Monday, September 17, 2012

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Ryan says nation needs Romney to trim spending

Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R- Wis., greets supporters during a campaign stop, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) ? Just how competitive is Iowa in the presidential campaign? Enough so that both vice presidential candidates were vying for voters on Monday, just 140 miles apart.

Republican Paul Ryan told about 450 people that the nation needed Romney to reduce government spending, which he says makes sense to frugal residents of Iowa or his home state of Wisconsin. Ryan was critical of a decision by the Federal Reserve last week to initiate additional help to keep interest rates low, saying the government was simply printing more money.

"All this money printing, all this creation of money is sugar-high economics," Ryan said. "What we want, what we deserve, what now need in this country is honest money."

Meanwhile, in the Mississippi River town of Burlington, Vice President Joe Biden told about 600 people that Obama has a better understanding of their lives. He contrasted that with Romney, saying the Republican was "totally out of touch with the reality everyday Americans deal with."

The trip by Ryan and Biden came not long after their last Iowa visit. Ryan spoke Sept. 5 in Adel and Biden visited Iowa City with the president on Sept. 7.

Biden will remain in Iowa for two campaign stops Tuesday.

Obama carried Iowa in 2008 and is hoping to do so again in November. Romney is doing his best to claim Iowa for himself.

Early voting begins in the state on Sept. 27.

The vice presidential candidates are scheduled to meet in a nationally televised debate next month.

Associated Press

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