People with mental disorders more likely to have experienced domestic violence

Dec. 26, 2012 ? Men and women with mental health disorders, across all diagnoses, are more likely to have experienced domestic violence than the general population, according to new research from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, in collaboration with the University of Bristol. Previous studies into the link between domestic violence and mental health problems have mainly focused on depression, but this is the first study to look at a wide range of mental health problems in both male and female victims.

In this study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and published December 26 in PLOS ONE, researchers reviewed data from 41 studies worldwide. Compared to women without mental health problems, women with depressive disorders were around 2 and a ? times more likely to have experienced domestic violence over their adult lifetime (prevalence estimate 45.8%); women with anxiety disorders were over 3 and a ? times more likely (prevalence estimate 27.6%); and women with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were around 7 times more likely (prevalence estimate 61.0%).

Women with other disorders including obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, common mental health problems, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were also at an increased risk of domestic violence compared to women without mental health problems. Men with all types of mental disorders were also at an increased risk of domestic violence. However, prevalence estimates for men were lower than those for women, indicating that it is less common for men to be victims of repeated severe domestic violence.

Professor Louise Howard, senior author of the study from King's Institute of Psychiatry, says: "In this study, we found that both men and women with mental health problems are at an increased risk of domestic violence. The evidence suggests that there are two things happening: domestic violence can often lead to victims developing mental health problems, and people with mental health problems are more likely to experience domestic violence."

This study is part of PROVIDE, a 5-year research programme on domestic violence funded by NIHR. Professor Gene Feder, co-author of the study from the University of Bristol's School of Social and Community Medicine and chief investigator of PROVIDE says: "We hope this review will draw attention to the mental health needs of survivors of domestic violence and remind general practitioners and mental health teams that experience of domestic violence may lie behind the presentation of mental health problems."

Internationally, the lifetime prevalence of physical and/or sexual partner violence among women ranges from 15-71%. In the UK, the2010/11 British Crime Survey reported that 27% of women and 17% of men had experienced partner abuse during their lifetime, with women experiencing more repeated and severe violence than men. From March 2013, the UK Home Office will be amending its definition of domestic violence to include 16 and 17 year olds, and will be defined as "any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are or have been intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality. This can encompass, but is not limited to, psychological, physical, sexual, financial or emotional abuse."

Professor Howard concludes: "Mental health professionals need to be aware of the link between domestic violence and mental health problems, and ensure that their patients are safe from domestic violence and are treated for the mental health impact of such abuse."

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1. Kylee Trevillion, Si?n Oram, Gene Feder, Louise M. Howard. Experiences of Domestic Violence and Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE, 2012; 7 (12): e51740 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051740

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Remains of the Day: Google Calling to Be Free Through 2013

Google extends its free calling service, Google Music's scan-and-match has a bit of a mix-up, and Netflix's US customers will get new social features next year.

• Free calling within the US and Canada through 2013 If you already use Gmail to make free calls, then here's some good (though perhaps expected) news: Google will continue to support free calling within the US and Canada through 2013. If you don't already take advantage of this, here are a few ideas on how to use it. [Official Gmail Blog]
• Google's Music Matching Reportedly Replacing Explicit Songs with Clean Versions Some Google Music users are reporting that the service's new scan-and-match feature has been replacing explicit songs in their collections with clean versions. Other users have reported the exact opposite scenario?clean versions being replaced with explicit ones. Commenters have been quick to point out that this sort of problem happens a lot with many scan-and-match services. Google has yet to respond. [The Verge]
• Netflix ?Social Features' Coming In 2013, Once President Signs Bill Netflix will be introducing new social features for its US customers next year which will allow them to link their Netflix and Facebook accounts and share their recently watched list with friends. Canadian and Latin American Netflix customers have already had this feature for some time, but the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act prohibited companies from disclosing customers rental histories. A bill amending the act was passed by the Senate last Thursday and will allow companies like Netflix to share such information provided they obtain "informed, written consent." [Talking Points Memo]

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Toward a new model of the cell: Everything you always wanted to know about genes

Dec. 16, 2012 ? Turning vast amounts of genomic data into meaningful information about the cell is the great challenge of bioinformatics, with major implications for human biology and medicine. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues have proposed a new method that creates a computational model of the cell from large networks of gene and protein interactions, discovering how genes and proteins connect to form higher-level cellular machinery.

The findings are published in the Dec. 16 advance online publication of Nature Biotechnology.

"Our method creates ontology, or a specification of all the major players in the cell and the relationships between them," said first author Janusz Dutkowski, PhD, postdoctoral researcher in the UC San Diego Department of Medicine. It uses knowledge about how genes and proteins interact with each other and automatically organizes this information to form a comprehensive catalog of gene functions, cellular components, and processes.

"What's new about our ontology is that it is created automatically from large datasets. In this way, we see not only what is already known, but also potentially new biological components and processes -- the bases for new hypotheses," said Dutkowski.

Originally devised by philosophers attempting to explain the nature of existence, ontologies are now broadly used to encapsulate everything known about a subject in a hierarchy of terms and relationships. Intelligent information systems, such as iPhone's Siri, are built on ontologies to enable reasoning about the real world. Ontologies are also used by scientists to structure knowledge about subjects like taxonomy, anatomy and development, bioactive compounds, disease and clinical diagnosis.

A Gene Ontology (GO) exists as well, constructed over the last decade through a joint effort of hundreds of scientists. It is considered the gold standard for understanding cell structure and gene function, containing 34,765 terms and 64,635 hierarchical relations annotating genes from more than 80 species.

"GO is very influential in biology and bioinformatics, but it is also incomplete and hard to update based on new data," said senior author Trey Ideker, PhD, chief of the Division of Genetics in the School of Medicine and professor of bioengineering in UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering.

"This is expert knowledge based upon the work of many people over many, many years," said Ideker, who is also principal investigator of the National Resource for Network Biology, based at UC San Diego. "A fundamental problem is consistency. People do things in different ways, and that impacts what findings are incorporated into GO and how they relate to other findings. The approach we have proposed is a more objective way to determine what's known and uncover what's new."

In their paper, Dutkowski, Ideker and colleagues capitalized upon the growing power and utility of new technologies like high-throughput assays and bioinformatics to create elaborately detailed datasets describing complex biological networks. To test the approach, the scientists pulled together multiple such datasets, applied their method, and then compared the resulting "network-extracted ontology" to the existing GO.

They found that their ontology captured the majority of known cellular components, plus many additional terms and relationships, which subsequently triggered updates of the existing GO.

Neither Ideker nor Dutkowski say the new approach is intended to replace the current GO. Rather, they envision it as complementary high-tech model that identifies both known and uncharacterized biological components derived directly from data, something the current GO does not do well. Moreover, they note a network-extracted ontology can be continuously updated and refined with every new dataset, moving scientists closer to the complete model of the cell.

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Even the smallest stroke can damage brain tissue and impair cognitive function

Dec. 16, 2012 ? Blocking a single tiny blood vessel in the brain can harm neural tissue and even alter behavior, a new study from the University of California, San Diego has shown. But these consequences can be mitigated by a drug already in use, suggesting treatment that could slow the progress of dementia associated with cumulative damage to miniscule blood vessels that feed brain cells. The team reports their results in the December 16 advance online edition of Nature Neuroscience.

"The brain is incredibly dense with vasculature. It was surprising that blocking one small vessel could have a discernable impact on the behavior of a rat," said Andy Y. Shih, lead author of the paper who completed this work as a postdoctoral fellow in physics at UC San Diego. Shih is now an assistant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Working with rats, Shih and colleagues used laser light to clot blood at precise points within small blood vessels that dive from the surface of the brain to penetrate neural tissue. When they looked at the brains up to a week later, they saw tiny holes reminiscent of the widespread damage often seen when the brains of patients with dementia are examined as a part of an autopsy.

These micro-lesions are too small to be detected with conventional MRI scans, which have a resolution of about a millimeter. Nearly two dozen of these small vessels enter the brain from a square millimeter area of the surface of the brain.

"It's controversial whether that sort of damage has consequences, although the tide of evidence has been growing as human diagnostics improve," said David Kleinfeld, professor of physics and neurobiology, who leads the research group.

To see whether such minute damage could change behavior, the scientists trained thirsty rats to leap from one platform to another in the dark to get water.

The rats readily jump if they can reach the second platform with a paw or their snout, or stretch farther to touch it with their whiskers. Many rats can be trained to rely on a single whisker if the others are clipped, but if they can't feel the far platform, they won't budge.

"The whiskers line up in rows and each one is linked to a specific spot in the brain," Shih said. "By training them to use just one whisker, we were able to distill a behavior down to a very small part of the brain."

When Shih blocked single microvessels feeding a column of brain cells that respond to signals from the remaining whisker, the rats still crossed to the far platform when the gap was small. But when it widened beyond the reach of their snouts, they quit.

The FDA-approved drug memantine, prescribed to slow one aspect of memory decline associated with Alzheimer's disease, ameliorated these effects. Rats that received the drug jumped whisker-wide gaps, and their brains showed fewer signs of damage.

"This data shows us, for the first time, that even a tiny stroke can lead to disability," said Patrick D. Lyden, a co-author of the study and chair of the department of neurology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. "I am afraid that tiny strokes in our patients contribute -- over the long term -- to illness such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease," he said, adding that "better tools will be required to tell whether human patients suffer memory effects from the smallest strokes."

"We used powerful tools from biological physics, many developed in Kleinfeld's laboratory at UC San Diego, to link stroke to dementia on the unprecedented small scale of single vessels and cells," Shih said. "At my new position at MUSC, I plan to work on ways to improve the detection of micro-lesions in human patients with MRI. This way clinicians may be able to diagnose and treat dementia earlier."

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LIFE: The photo that changed the face of AIDS

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No charges against Chris Brown in Fla. phone grab

MIAMI (AP) ? Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown will not face criminal charges for snatching a woman's cellphone when she tried to snap a photo of him outside a Miami Beach club, prosecutors said Friday.

A memo released Friday by Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle concludes there is no evidence that Brown intended to steal the phone in February or that he deleted any photos. One or the other is necessary for him to be charged with robbery or theft.

Prosecutors said that Brown tossed the phone from his limo and that it was picked up by Devon Blanche, head of security for rapper Tyga, who had performed with Brown at the Cameo club that night. According to the memo, Blanche tried to find out if someone had lost the phone, ultimately took it with him to Atlanta during the rapper's tour and said he intended to find its owner.

A felony charge against Brown, 24, might have triggered a violation of his probation for his 2009 assault on singer Rihanna, who was his girlfriend at the time. The two have recently collaborated on a new duet, "Nobody's Business," and have been spotted out together in recent weeks.

Rundle said the investigation's findings would be forwarded to probation officials in Los Angeles for review.

"We are grateful for the decision and the thorough investigation," Brown's attorney Mark Geragos said in an email.

According to the memo, after Brown and Tyga ? real name Michael Stevenson ? finished their performances, both got into separate limos to head for their hotels. Witnesses told prosecutors about 30 female fans gathered outside Brown's vehicle, at least one of whom reached inside to take a photo. Brown was accompanied by at least two women in the limo.

Stevenson told prosecutors that he saw Brown throw a white cellphone out of the limo. The phone's owner, Christal Spann, said Brown used a derogatory term for women and said "this will not run the website" when he grabbed the phone. Spann began beating on the limo's windows, according to the memo, until someone in a front seat told her the phone had been tossed out. She could not find it, however.

"She used to be a fan of Brown's, but no longer," the memo notes of Spann.

Blanche, the security man, told investigators he thought Brown was upset because "if photographs of himself with two females got out, it might cause him problems with Rihanna."

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CDA's hub of a high-tech dream : North Idaho Business Journal

By MIKE PATRICK
NIBJ writer

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Rob Berger, president of HubWorks Interactive, left, and Aaron Gabriel, vice president of the Coeur d?Alene technology company.

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The spacious offices occupying the third floor of McEuen Terrace look like the owners couldn?t make up their minds if this would be a place to work or play.
Or maybe merging the two was the whole idea.
A putter leans against a wall with an electronic golf hole a potential two-putt away. In the heart of the main office, a ping-pong table and silver Foosball game are framed by attractive furniture. You can see a couple of guitars from that central vantage point; big screen TVs and a Polk sound system are off at the moment, but you can imagine the HubWorks team huddled around to watch The Big Game or blasting tunes when the mood strikes.
Against a wall adorned with inspirational quotes is an un-Heismanlike trophy, honoring company President Rob Berger as the two-time defending fantasy football champ of the HubWorks world.
Everything about the place smacks of success, of laboring in the lap of luxury. But the truth is, this high tech rocket is yet to take off. Started in 2009 by three Coeur d?Alene guys who knew each other from their days at Lake City High School, HubWorks has developed an iPad-delivered customer order product for restaurants and bars that is being piloted in the Minneapolis area and in Hollywood, Calif.
?We?ve put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this,? said the 29-year-old Berger, son of Nighthawk Radiology founder Paul Berger. ?There was a time we lacked a little confidence, I?ll admit. But now it?s not a matter of if it?s going to happen anymore. It?s when.?
Behind Berger in the glass-enclosed HubWorks conference room is a whiteboard with the names of nine restaurant chains. The HubWorks braintrust, primarily Berger and his fellow co-founders, Aaron Gabriel and Sam Winter, project annual revenue from their product will range from $1.2 million to $10 million or more ? per chain. That?s based on roughly $1,000 per establishment per month. In the case of Buffalo Wild Wings, which has been piloting the product at two of its Minneapolis-area restaurants for about four months, a successful test run could lead to HubWorks-powered iPads in many of its 800-plus locations.
But the multiplier could be even greater.
?This is a conservative industry that?s often stuck in their ways,? Berger said. If you can un-stick just one chain, he said, its competitors are likely quick to follow suit.
Ever since they played baseball together at LCHS ? Gabriel was a pitcher and Berger, the catcher ? they stayed in touch even though college took them in different directions. A bad customer experience as an undergrad in Boston started an idea for a new product germinating in Berger?s brain.
?In Boston you?ll go to a sports bar and you can?t get a drink,? he explained of packed places where wait staff was stretched way too thin. ?Later on I thought, ?This is a broken system and there?s a chance for us to change it.??
The pitcher/catcher combo joined up with Winter ? ?at Lake City he was our geeky friend? ? and they dove into researching the feasibility of a product that would not only speed up customers? orders, but enrich the customers? overall experience.
?We?ve all seen the kiosks that have been around since the 1990s, but our idea was different,? said Gabriel. Unfortunately, it wasn?t unique. The young men learned that one other company was doing something very similar.
?I called my dad and said, ?Somebody?s already doing this,?? said Berger. But rather than suggest his son aim in a different direction, the elder Berger encouraged him to pursue it, pointing out that what their research showed was proof of market demand.

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HubWorks has a hefty appetite for restaurant and bar business and a tablet-based product that has several chains drooling.

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With Rob putting up seed money and Paul Berger stepping in as one of three primary angel investors ? another is Bill Allen, former CEO of Outback Steakhouse ? HubWorks had enough capital to build a solid foundation. The Coeur d?Alene-based staff is 20 people, a dozen of them designers and developers who are constantly honing the product while the others are geared to sales and service.
With orders going directly to someone at the bar or in the kitchen, fears of servers being replaced are unfounded, Berger said. In fact, tips at the pilot sites have gone up since the devices were employed, he said. The reason: Servers have more time to actually help their guests, rather than constantly running back and forth on fools? errands.
?it?s a shift in job description, with the focus on high-quality service,? Berger said.
More importantly, overall sales receipts have increased significantly: 10 to 20 percent, Berger said. Gabriel and Berger say sales have gone up because customers don?t have to wait for a server to come to their table to order another beer, for instance; they order whenever they?re ready. Further, the device prompts customers to add bacon to a burger for another buck, or order some other add-on that directly boosts the business?s bottom line.
While they?re young ? the oldest employees at HubWorks are 41 and 39, respectively ? the team at HubWorks is old enough to think beyond their own success. They?re hoping to be part of something great on the Coeur d?Alene economic front. Gabriel and Berger spoke enthusiastically about how Bozeman, Mont., has become a powerful incubator for innovative tech start-ups.
?Some people with a little bit of money in Bozeman said, ?Let?s make some jobs,?? Gabriel said of start-up investors there. ?Hopefully, that?s what happens here: We create a hub.?

HubWorks for happy customers

Here?s how it works:
The server comes to the customers? table where a HubWorks iPad is anchored or passed around. The server shows how the device is used, if the customers are unfamiliar with it, and builds rapport while answering questions.
In addition to offering everything on the menu from drinks and appetizers to main courses, the HubWorks iPad integrates other elements from the restaurant, including memorabilia and music. At each step of the ordering process, the customer sees pictures and descriptions of the menu items and their prices. When done ordering, not only is the total including taxes listed, but an adjustable bar allows the customer to add the tip, which defaults to 20 percent if no other number is selected. If paying by credit card the customer can check out without delay. A final page encourages the customers to rate their experience, and a low rating prompts managers instantly so they can talk to dissatisfied customers before they leave.
But one of the most intriguing features from HubWorks is that while customers are waiting for their food and drinks, the iPad offers Facebook and other social media, video games, access to stock quotes and news from CNN and sports from ESPN. After enjoying their drinks or meals, customers can reach a local taxi service from their HubWorks device.
?It?s a captive environment for the restaurant,? said HubWorks President Rob Berger.
And yes, Berger says the company is likely to use the devices at some point for other lucrative revenue streams, like data mining from customers? email addresses to using the iPads for advertising.

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North India power failure; Metro outage

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Posted: Monday, Jul 30, 2012 at 0853 hrs IST

New Delhi: Most parts of North India are reeling under severe power outage since early morning today, due to collapse of Northern electricity transmission grid.

The collapse of the Northern power grid impacted public transport systems including, Railways and Delhi Metro, while normalcy is likely to return by afternoon.

"The fault is not known as yet... somewhere near Agra, a failure has happened. We will enquire that," Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said.

Even though the exact reason for the grid failure is yet to be ascertained, official sources that many lines tripped and there could be even be the possibility of over withdrawal of power by some states.

"A lot of load has been restored, especially for the essential services such as Railways. The connectivity of thermal plants (supplying power to Northern region) to the grid is expected to be fully restored in the next four to five hours," POSOCO Chief Executive Officer S K Soonee

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NYC movie, pin-up collection slated for auction

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NYC movie, pin-up collection slated for auction
By ULA ILNYTZKYBy ULA ILNYTZKY, Associated Press??

In this Wednesday, July 25, 2012 photo, Ira Kramer, nephew of the original Movie Star News founder Irving Klaw, holds a boot that once belonged to pin-up legend Bettie Page, at the New York shop. Movie Star News, a New York institution since 1939 credited with creating the concept of pin-up art, has been shuttered, and with it nearly 3-million Hollywood-related posters, vintage photographs and original negatives are destined for a different future. Last week, the Manhattan store announced it had sold its entire inventory, including 1,500 original bondage images of the ?Queen of Pin-Ups? Bettie Page, to two partners of a Las Vegas collectibles company for an undisclosed sum. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

In this Wednesday, July 25, 2012 photo, Ira Kramer, nephew of the original Movie Star News founder Irving Klaw, holds a boot that once belonged to pin-up legend Bettie Page, at the New York shop. Movie Star News, a New York institution since 1939 credited with creating the concept of pin-up art, has been shuttered, and with it nearly 3-million Hollywood-related posters, vintage photographs and original negatives are destined for a different future. Last week, the Manhattan store announced it had sold its entire inventory, including 1,500 original bondage images of the ?Queen of Pin-Ups? Bettie Page, to two partners of a Las Vegas collectibles company for an undisclosed sum. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

In this Wednesday, July 25, 2012 photo, Ira Kramer, nephew of the original Movie Star News founder Irving Klaw, looks over movie posters packed for transport, at the shop in New York. Movie Star News, a New York institution since 1939 credited with creating the concept of pin-up art, has been shuttered, and with it nearly 3-million Hollywood-related posters, vintage photographs and original negatives are destined for a different future. Last week, the Manhattan store announced it had sold its entire inventory, including 1,500 original bondage images of the ?Queen of Pin-Ups? Bettie Page, to two partners of a Las Vegas collectibles company for an undisclosed sum. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

In this Wednesday, July 25, 2012 photo, Ira Kramer, nephew of the original Movie Star News founder Irving Klaw, looks over movie posters packed for transport, at the shop in New York. Movie Star News, a New York institution since 1939 credited with creating the concept of pin-up art, has been shuttered, and with it nearly 3-million Hollywood-related posters, vintage photographs and original negatives are destined for a different future. Last week, the Manhattan store announced it had sold its entire inventory, including 1,500 original bondage images of the ?Queen of Pin-Ups? Bettie Page, to two partners of a Las Vegas collectibles company for an undisclosed sum. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

In this Wednesday, July 25, 2012 photo, Ira Kramer, nephew of the original Movie Star News founder Irving Klaw, poses for photos outside the New York shop. Movie Star News, a New York institution since 1939 credited with creating the concept of pin-up art, has been shuttered, and with it nearly 3-million Hollywood-related posters, vintage photographs and original negatives are destined for a different future. Last week, the Manhattan store announced it had sold its entire inventory, including 1,500 original bondage images of the ?Queen of Pin-Ups? Bettie Page, to two partners of a Las Vegas collectibles company for an undisclosed sum. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

This Wednesday, July 25, 2012 photo shows an open file cabinet containing images of actress Marilyn Monroe at Movie Star News in New York. Movie Star News, a New York institution since 1939 credited with creating the concept of pin-up art, has been shuttered, and with it nearly 3-million Hollywood-related posters, vintage photographs and original negatives are destined for a different future. Last week, the Manhattan store announced it had sold its entire inventory, including 1,500 original bondage images of the ?Queen of Pin-Ups? Bettie Page, to two partners of a Las Vegas collectibles company for an undisclosed sum. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Movie Star News amassed a staggering amount of film stills, posters and negatives over the past 73 years ? nearly 3 million, including 1,500 prints of Bettie Page, known as the queen of pin-ups. But last week, the once-lively store in lower Manhattan was lifeless. The classic movie posters that once covered its narrow 2,000-square-foot space were rolled up or covered in cellophane, its bins and racks empty. Everything was packed up in cardboard boxes that lined the floor.

The legendary Manhattan store credited with creating pin-up art had sold its entire inventory to a Las Vegas collectibles company.

The collection, regarded as one of the largest of its kind, is headed for the auction block. It will be sold in a series of sales slated to begin next year. The bulk of the collection covers the years 1939 to 1979; 11,500 movies and 5,000 actors are represented.

"This is the most important photo archive of Hollywood in existence. There are tens of thousands of negatives that have never been reproduced," said Stuart Scheinman, co-owner of Entertainment Collectibles, which bought the collection. "There are images here that have never been seen by the public."

There are 2,000 original prints and negatives of Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando, 1,000 of Gary Cooper, 400 of Bette Davis, hundreds of movie images of "The Godfather" and "Gone With the Wind."

"This could literally take five to 10 years to go through it all," Scheinman said. He would only say the company purchased the collection for "seven figures." Its true value was anyone's guess, but he believed it easily was worth $150 million.

Movie Star News produced 8-by-10 glossy prints from the negatives, selling each for a few dollars in the store and through the mail. But the Internet has significantly cut down on demand.

"I make references to things when customers come in, and they have no idea what I'm talking about," said Ira Kramer, who took over the business that his mother, Paula, and uncle Irving Klaw, started in 1939. "Today, if you want a picture of a star you can go on the computer and download it. So what do you need me for?"

"The maintenance of the collection has been fastidious ... the way a fine library would maintain material," said Arlan Ettinger, president of Guernsey's and in charge of selling the collection.

As far back as the 1940s, Movie Star News had a mailing list of 100,000 names. World War II soldiers were big customers, buying prints for their lockers, Kramer said.

The entrepreneurial Klaw, who died in 1966, hit on the idea of selling pictures of Hollywood stars while operating a movie bookstore.

"He noticed that kids were tearing out the pictures of the movie stars, so he decided to sell their pictures rather than the books," Kramer said. Klaw started dealing directly with movie studios, RKO, Columbia and others, located in those days along Eleventh Avenue.

"He made arrangements to buy from them whatever they didn't want ... original negatives, original prints of 'Citizen Kane,' 'Three Stooges,'" he said. The studios were more than happy to be rid of the stuff for which they had no room.

Kramer's mother was the one who took the pin-up shots. But it was Klaw who launched that side of the business after a man approached him about making him a set of photographs of skimpily-clad girls posing with whips and ropes, said Kramer.

Page was Klaw's favorite model, and a suitcase of the 7-inch heels she wore in the photos, plus other bondage props, will be included in the auction.

The photos were tame by today's standards. In fact, the models were required to wear two pairs of underwear. But the FBI continuously harassed Klaw and he had to appear before the 1955 Senate Subcommittee on Obscene and Pornographic Materials.

"It was a big headache," Kramer said. Klaw finally decided to burn all the pin-up material ? but Paula Klaw saved a lot of it.

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Denise Belk was one of the 20 team member is San Jorge, Nicaragua last week. Below, she talks about some things she was learning about cross-cultural ministry while they were still abroad. The Grace Church members were in Nicaragua for a full week of ministering through medical clinics, construction projects, children's ministry, and pastoral training. At debrief this week, the question was raised, "Why do we care about cross cultural missions?" As I was reading my Bible, God led me to Romans 1:8-15. I was surprised and amazed to find an example of cross cultural missions, penned by Paul, nearly two thousand years ago. It was really cool to think about this passage in light of my experience in Nicaragua this week. Even before sophisticated communication, the fate of the Roman church was discussed throughout the world. Now through technology, word of the Nicaraguan church is being spread in SC, Kenya and anywhere else that folks look at the Grace Church website. What a testimony to the breadth and depth of God's family. What a testimony to the faith of the Nicaragua church and the faithfulness of the God we serve. Paul was connected to the Roman church in several ways. Even though he was Jewish, he was committed to praying for these believers. The Jewish culture and the tradition of Paul was vastly different from that of the Gentile Romans. Yet they found a common bond through Christ. Longing to visit the Roman believers, Paul had spiritual gifts to offer the Romans. He desired to help the believers to grow stronger in their faith. He desired to encourage them and to see them produce spiritual fruit. But it wasn't from a position of superiority that he made his offer. He expected to receive encouragement as well. He was willing to work among them and help them succeed. He was committed to a deep connection with these people who in so many ways were different from himself. I have been part of the team this week that looks very much like Paul's mission. We have mature believers teaching Pastors to lead churches to a stronger faith in the Lord and thus produce spiritual fruit. Our teachers are committed to praying for these local leaders and are forging strong relationships across geographical, linguistic, and cultural divides. We have people helping to construct a wall for the physical church, ministering to fatherless children and meeting medical needs. All of this work is being done alongside the Nicaraguan believers--the educated and uneducated alike. And have I been encouraged? YES! The love, joy and contentment that flow from these believers have been extraordinary. The blessings they receive from a slower and simpler life have led me to analyze my own life. The strength of their relationships to one another and their willingness to include me have been humbling. I only know Sesame Street Spanish and yet love and acceptance have been clearly communicated as we work together to the common goal of spreading the good news of Jesus Christ. So why do cross cultural missions? We do it to give a blessing, to receive a blessing and to be united for the purpose of giving God glory by proclaiming his Son to the world.

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Why are all these conservatives beating up on Mitt Romney?

Mitt Romney has been taking flak from some prominent conservatives. They want to see a specific plan for the economy, and some say the fancy vacation home feeds the rich-guy image.

By Brad Knickerbocker,?Staff writer / July 8, 2012

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife Ann have Bailey's Bubble ice cream in Wolfeboro, N.H., with family as they continue their vacation from the campaign trail.

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?With friends like these,? Mitt Romney must be thinking, ?who needs enemies??

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Probably not, because it looks like the Romney clan is having too much fun boating and barbecuing at their vacation compound up on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.

But the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has been taking flak from some prominent sources among his normally-supportive fellow conservatives.

On ?Fox News Sunday,? it was Weekly Standard editor William Kristol. He said Romney needs to do more than just cite the nation?s economic woes as reason enough to oust President Obama. He needs to articulate a plan, Kristol said, not only on the economy but on other key issues including health care.

Mitt Romney: top 5 attacks on President Obama

It worries him, he said, that Obama is ?holding his own? in polls despite three months of disappointing jobs figures. More to the point, Kristol pointed out, only 27 percent of those polled by Fox News think Romney has a clear plan for improving the economy.

?I don't think you can beat an incumbent president even if the economy?s slow if 27 percent of the voters think you as the challenger don't have a clear plan for improving the economy,? he said.

Earlier in the week, Kristol was more explicit in his Weekly Standard blog.

?Voters?want to hear what Romney is going to?do?about the economy,? he wrote. ?He can ?speak about? how bad the economy is all he wants ? though Americans are already well aware of the economy's problems ? but doesn't the content of what Romney has to say matter? What is his economic growth agenda? His deficit reform agenda? His health care reform agenda? His tax reform agenda? His replacement for Dodd-Frank??

Kristol isn?t the only one poking Romney.

The headline on a piece by Forbes columnist John Tamny (which was mainly critical of Obama) reads ?It's Time For Mitt Romney And His Economic Team To Grow Up.?

"When is Romney going to look like a?challenger? Seems to play everything safe,? conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch recently tweeted. Obama ?will be hard to beat unless [Romney] drops old friends from team and hires some real pros.?

Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch concurred, tweeting ?Hope Mitt Romney is listening to Murdoch advice..playing in league with Chicago pols..No room for amateurs.?

Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham wondered why Romney was taking time off for a vacation when ?we have a country to save,? suggesting that he should ?get out there on the trail and?get off the jet ski.?

In its response to the question of whether the health care mandate penalty is a ?tax? on those who chose not to have health care insurance, the Wall Street Journal charged, ?the [Romney] campaign looks confused in addition to being politically dumb.?

In a tough editorial which startled many observers, the Wall Street Journal echoed the criticism of Kristol and other conservatives that Romney needs to get more specific about how he?d be a better president than Obama.

?The Romney campaign thinks it can play it safe and coast to the White House by saying the economy stinks and it's Mr. Obama's fault. We're on its email list and the main daily message from the campaign is that ?Obama isn't working.? Thanks, guys, but Americans already know that. What they want to hear from the challenger is some understanding of why the President's policies aren't working and how Mr. Romney's policies will do better.?

?Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is assailing Mr. Romney as an out-of-touch rich man, and the rich man obliged by vacationing this week at his lake-side home with a jet-ski cameo,? the editorial continued. ?Mr. Romney promised Republicans he was the best man to make the case against President Obama, whom they desperately want to defeat. So far Mr. Romney is letting them down.?

Mitt Romney: top 5 attacks on President Obama

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UNH, Michigan Aerospace Corp to bring radiation detector to market

Public release date: 9-Jul-2012
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University of New Hampshire

DURHAM, N.H. Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and the Michigan Aerospace Corporation have signed an exclusive option agreement to commercialize instrumentation originally developed at UNH's Space Science Center for space-based missions and now being re-engineered for homeland security purposes.

Three U.S. patent applications have been filed related to the Portable Neutron Spectroscope, or NSPECT, a highly sensitive instrument that will detect illicit radioactive and fissile (capable of sustaining a chain reaction) materials with pinpoint accuracy from a safe distance. Such materials, which could be located in shipping ports, train stations, truck stops or warehouses, could potentially be used to make "dirty bombs" or associated with a nuclear device itself.

To build the instrument, UNH is leveraging 40 years of experience conducting space-based neutron and gamma-ray detection, with university scientists and engineers developing all the related instrument hardware and software. Michigan Aerospace is responsible for the support engineering that will turn the bench-top instrument into a rugged field-deployable device equipped with a nimble graphical user interface and live video imaging capability.

A Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has been instrumental in enabling development of the technology. DTRA is the U.S. Department of Defense's official combat support agency for countering weapons of mass destruction.

NSPECT employs the same techniques used by the NASA Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, a mission that involved UNH scientists and looked at radiation emanating from black holes, solar flares, gamma-ray bursts, and pulsars.

Says professor James Ryan of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space and principle scientist for NSPECT, "Basically, what people have to do now is go into a building or a container and fish around in hopes of finding the source. The expertise that has been acquired over many years in the space program can now be brought to bear on this problem to better find and locate nuclear bomb-making material."

Common radioactive sources emit gamma rays while nuclear bomb material emits both gamma rays and neutrons. Because neutrons and gamma rays are electrically neutral, it is difficult to ascertain properties like direction of origin or energy level of the radioactive source. Knowing the direction allows inspectors to pinpoint the location of the illicit material while the particle's energy provides important information about the nature of the material such as what radioactive isotope is emitting the radiation.

"Michigan Aerospace is pleased to work with UNH on accelerating the commercialization of this technology and moving toward a product that can be deployed in the field," says Peter Tchoryk, CEO of Michigan Aerospace, "NSPECT is a unique technology that is critical to protecting the country from nuclear threats."

The completed instrument will fit in the back of an SUV and be self-powered and remotely controlled. The image and spectral signature data will be collected and processed on a laptop located either near the instrument or at a distance. Compact versions of the instrument are also planned.

The patent applications apply to three aspects of the technologies developed at UNH: the neutron and gamma-ray detection system that allows a full, 360-degree survey of a room or volume without having to move the instrument; an innovative power supply that is highly efficient and compact thereby allowing the detector to be modular and robust; and the NSPECT instrument itself. The SSC inventors include Ryan, John Macri, Mark McConnell, Ulisse Bravar, and Christopher Bancroft.

"The partnership with Michigan Aerospace to bring this innovative technology to market will capitalize on a longstanding research relationship between our two organizations," says Maria E. Emanuel, senior licensing manager with the UNH Office for Research Partnerships and Commercialization.

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For more information, visit www.eos.unh.edu and www.MichAero.com.

Editors and reporters: Lead scientist James Ryan can be reached at (603) 862-3510 or james.ryan@unh.edu. Inquiries about commercialization aspects should be directed to Peter Tchoryk of Michigan Aerospace Corporation at ptchoryk@michaero.com.

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Contact: David Sims
david.sims@unh.edu
603-862-5369
University of New Hampshire

DURHAM, N.H. Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and the Michigan Aerospace Corporation have signed an exclusive option agreement to commercialize instrumentation originally developed at UNH's Space Science Center for space-based missions and now being re-engineered for homeland security purposes.

Three U.S. patent applications have been filed related to the Portable Neutron Spectroscope, or NSPECT, a highly sensitive instrument that will detect illicit radioactive and fissile (capable of sustaining a chain reaction) materials with pinpoint accuracy from a safe distance. Such materials, which could be located in shipping ports, train stations, truck stops or warehouses, could potentially be used to make "dirty bombs" or associated with a nuclear device itself.

To build the instrument, UNH is leveraging 40 years of experience conducting space-based neutron and gamma-ray detection, with university scientists and engineers developing all the related instrument hardware and software. Michigan Aerospace is responsible for the support engineering that will turn the bench-top instrument into a rugged field-deployable device equipped with a nimble graphical user interface and live video imaging capability.

A Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has been instrumental in enabling development of the technology. DTRA is the U.S. Department of Defense's official combat support agency for countering weapons of mass destruction.

NSPECT employs the same techniques used by the NASA Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, a mission that involved UNH scientists and looked at radiation emanating from black holes, solar flares, gamma-ray bursts, and pulsars.

Says professor James Ryan of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space and principle scientist for NSPECT, "Basically, what people have to do now is go into a building or a container and fish around in hopes of finding the source. The expertise that has been acquired over many years in the space program can now be brought to bear on this problem to better find and locate nuclear bomb-making material."

Common radioactive sources emit gamma rays while nuclear bomb material emits both gamma rays and neutrons. Because neutrons and gamma rays are electrically neutral, it is difficult to ascertain properties like direction of origin or energy level of the radioactive source. Knowing the direction allows inspectors to pinpoint the location of the illicit material while the particle's energy provides important information about the nature of the material such as what radioactive isotope is emitting the radiation.

"Michigan Aerospace is pleased to work with UNH on accelerating the commercialization of this technology and moving toward a product that can be deployed in the field," says Peter Tchoryk, CEO of Michigan Aerospace, "NSPECT is a unique technology that is critical to protecting the country from nuclear threats."

The completed instrument will fit in the back of an SUV and be self-powered and remotely controlled. The image and spectral signature data will be collected and processed on a laptop located either near the instrument or at a distance. Compact versions of the instrument are also planned.

The patent applications apply to three aspects of the technologies developed at UNH: the neutron and gamma-ray detection system that allows a full, 360-degree survey of a room or volume without having to move the instrument; an innovative power supply that is highly efficient and compact thereby allowing the detector to be modular and robust; and the NSPECT instrument itself. The SSC inventors include Ryan, John Macri, Mark McConnell, Ulisse Bravar, and Christopher Bancroft.

"The partnership with Michigan Aerospace to bring this innovative technology to market will capitalize on a longstanding research relationship between our two organizations," says Maria E. Emanuel, senior licensing manager with the UNH Office for Research Partnerships and Commercialization.

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For more information, visit www.eos.unh.edu and www.MichAero.com.

Editors and reporters: Lead scientist James Ryan can be reached at (603) 862-3510 or james.ryan@unh.edu. Inquiries about commercialization aspects should be directed to Peter Tchoryk of Michigan Aerospace Corporation at ptchoryk@michaero.com.

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Bitterroot College UM Offers Oil Field Basics Class

HAMILTON ?

People interested in working the Bakken oil fields of eastern Montana should attend a new class offered by the Bitterroot College of The University of Montana in Hamilton.

?Bakken Oil and Gas Field Basics? will be offered from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, July 13, or Friday, July 20. The one-day Bitterroot College UM course costs $55 for those registering by July 6 and $65 for those registering thereafter. It will be held in Classroom 1 at 274 Old Corvallis Road in Hamilton.

Call 406-375-0100 or visit http://www2.umt.edu/bcp/documents/BCPContEd-Registration.pdf to enroll.

The BC course is perfect for those wishing to start an oil industry career or simply learn about the current Bakken oil and gas boom. The class offers essential oil-patch terminology, as well as the fundamentals of oil and gas geology.

The course was developed by Plains Energy Technical Resources and originally was offered at Dawson Community College to workers in Glendive. It?s a must for anyone interested in working in eastern Montana or western North Dakota. George Furniss, an adjunct geosciences instructor, will teach the class.

For more information visit http://www2.umt.edu/bcp/conted.aspx.

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'Internet doomsday' impact minimal, service providers say

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Hours after "Internet doomsday" kicked in, major service providers say almost all customers have avoided the shut-off of their Internet service, although there are some who will not be able to read this story online, unless it's on their smartphones.

"Less than 1 percent of Cox customers are infected with the virus," Todd C.?Smith, Cox Communications director of media relations told msnbc.com.

"Since midnight last night, when the FBI (via the Internet Services Coalition) disconnected the servers associated with this botnet, we've only received a miniscule number of calls, but our customer care and security assurance teams are standing by and are ready to help,"?Charlie Douglas, Comcast senior director of corporate communications,?told msnbc.com.?

(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBCUniversal, a unit of Comcast.)

"The number of calls we're seeing today is miniscule," Douglas said. "Going into this, we had estimated that far less than even 1/10th of 1 percent of our customers would be affected."

Verizon said it is not seeing "anything significant thus far."

"Keep in mind we have a very small relative number of customers impacted," Bob Elek of Verizon Communications told msnbc.com. "But we anticipate beginning the process of correcting affected customers as we go forward during July. To do so, we have extended support throughout the month and we are offering customers step-by-step, do-it-yourself remedial steps or access to a third-party for the same if they prefer."

For AT&T customers, there has been "very little impact," Mark Siegel, AT&T executive director, media relations, told msnbc.com. "For the very small number of customers whose computers may have the virus, we are redirecting their traffic to servers we have set up that will enable them to continue use their computers.??This will be in place through the end of the year so these people will have even more time to remove the virus from their computers, which is an easy process.??We have been communicating with these customers for months to let them know how to remove the virus."

At least one security researcher says it's still too early to really know DNS Changer's impact.

"ISPs?are not necessarily in a rush to reveal the number of their customers affected," wrote David Harley,?ESET security senior research fellow, on that company's blog. "Bad news for the customer is bad news for the ISP, even if it's not a problem of the ISP's making."

Internet service providers, he wrote, "may already be redirecting requests to a valid server. Well, that's what I'd be trying to do if I was in that sector.?Helpdesks may be a little too occupied with panicky phone calls to be too concerned right now about publicly releasing figures. In some cases, they may even be able to fix the problem without being fully aware of the cause."

Cox, like other Internet service providers, "worked closely with the FBI on this case in the fall and immediately established a redirect for infected customers to Cox DNS servers," Smith told msnbc.com. "Therefore, no Cox customers are impacted by the FBI transition and we plan to keep the redirect up until we have contacted every customer individually."

Those who are having problems getting online Monday should call their Internet service provider for further instructions on what to do.

At 12:01?a.m. ET, the FBI shut down?Internet servers that had been set up as a temporary safety net to keep infected computers online for the past eight months. The court order the agency obtained to keep the servers running expired, and it was not renewed.

Last fall, the FBI arrested six Estonian nationals who were charged with using malware and rogue DNS servers to hijack millions of computers worldwide.?At that time, it was described as?the "biggest cybercriminal takedown in history."?

Because the malware, known as "DNSChanger"?is so nasty?? it's strong enough to wipe out a computer's anti-virus software ? the FBI?set up a safety net?using government computers to prevent any?Internet disruptions for users whose computers may be infected.

That safety net was set to go away in February, but the date was extended to July 9 because the agency was?concerned that not enough users are aware of the problem.

Security company F-Secure said Monday on its blog?that DNSChanger was still present on about 47,000 U.S. computers, down from what was estimated to be between 250,000 and 300,000 computers in recent months. Worldwide, about 250,000 computers remained infected as of this past weekend, the Associated Press said.

"According to reports, many major Internet Service Providers have configured their own substitute DNS servers and are continuing to work the problem," F-Secure said on the blog.?"The FBI is out ? and ISPs are in. All in all, things are working out as they probably should in a case such as this. The infection count continues to decrease without a major crisis in support calls. (We've only received a couple from our own customers.)"

Comcast's?Douglas said that?for months, "we have been emailing, mailing letters, sending in-browser notifications and calling customers who we thought might be impacted and we urged them to take action by visiting a dedicated website www.xfinity.com/dnsbot where they had two choices.?They could either download a free security update we provided ...?or, if they're not comfortable doing that, then they can call Xfinity Signature Support and, for a fee, have a professional help them remove the malware."

Check out Technolog, Gadgetbox, Digital Life and In-Game on?Facebook,?and on Twitter, follow Suzanne Choney.

Source: http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/internet-doomsday-impact-minimal-service-providers-say-871315

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