Maya Posch: Dreams: Relationships And Sexuality

Yesterday while taking a nap due to feeling exhausted and somewhat sick, I had a nightmare, one in which I had somehow met this guy and I found myself in his room which I knew to be inside his mother's house. I never saw her. The guy was kind of lonely so I wanted to help, yet throughout this all he exhibited a weird mean streak. Only afterwards did I realize that he had just been cruel. I eventually managed to sneak away and hide in a pile of firewood ("becoming the wood"). I woke up from this dream with one of my arms crossed over my chest, and both hands more or less clenched into a fist and my heart pounding like crazy.

Today I felt very agitated and depressed. After deciding to go take a nap again I got to my bed where something inside me kind of snapped. I felt so frustrated that I began to hit myself on the head over and over again until it started hurting so much that I could only drag myself into bed where I fell asleep. I then had another nightmare.

The initial part of the dream I do not remember well. I was apparently in the house in which I grew up, and yet it wasn't really. It was more light and spacious. There was something going on with food. Dinner, I think. I didn't feel like eating yet, until at one point I told my mother that she could warm up some of the pasta for me. Shortly after that I decided to go upstairs to my room. Nearing the top of the stair I could see that my room's door wasn't fully open as I had left it, but slightly ajar. Pushing it open I went into my room, which again wasn't really like my room of the past. Again more light and spacious. To my left was my bed, but in it was already someone. A woman. First she looked like Jeri Ryan, who was wriggling about under the blankets, seemingly amused. As I got closer and slid into the bed as well, she changed into a more African looking woman.

The moment I first saw a woman in my bed I didn't really feel anything, it was more a matter of observing a fact. Sliding into the bed next to her I found it to be a comforting thought to be next to her. Nice and cozy. Lying next to her she suddenly proposed getting intimate with me, which caught me by surprise. Working in my head through the logistics of such a thing, I found no problems there. Preparing, I had just changed from fully clothed into wearing the same but my pink pyjama pants instead of my jeans, when my mother came into the room to tell that dinner was ready. At this point I thought it would be a good idea to lock the door, so I got out and wandered over the other side of the room where I knew that the key probably was. I didn't find it, however.

Meanwhile the woman was just wandering about near the bed, talking with my mother or such. Her presence didn't incite anything negative, which I think meant that she was supposed to be there. Maybe she was my girlfriend after all. I decided to ditch the locked door idea and walked back over to her. My mother and the shadowy male figure I had sensed near her had left. As the woman and I came close we embraced. As we stood there, I started trembling. The really bad kind of shaking when you're either nervous or anxious enough to nearly bolt away to safety, or stricken with fear. I held her tightly as I said to her in a trembling voice that I felt so nervous, more than I had ever felt before. The image then suddenly distorted into nonsense.

As I woke up from that nightmare, I found both my arms firmly crossed on my chest and both hands tightly clenched into fists. I was crying.

Thanks to today's nightmare I think I now know what yesterday's nightmare was about, namely my experiences living together with that person. The second nightmare was for me a frightening look into how traumatizing sexuality has always been to me. I have actually experienced such trembling before with a real-life experience, though I chose to ignore it at the time. In the nightmare I chose to finally admit to myself that there's nothing which fills me more with terror than the thought of sexuality. I have just been forcing myself to try and accept it as something normal, while further damaging myself that way. My experiences the past months more so.

This all taken together it seems quite clear where some of my worst traumas are, and the worst roadblocks on the way to recovery. It's in some ways infuriating that a good, healthy relationship could be so beneficial to me, while the possibility of such a thing happening is sheer random chance. I could run into the perfect person tomorrow, or never. Maybe a plan B is in order, with a shrink specializing in sexuality poking and prodding me. Maybe.

Or maybe that's plan C and plan B is to become a bloody hermit.

Maya

Source: http://mayaposch.blogspot.com/2013/04/dreams-relationships-and-sexuality.html

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IRL: Skullcandy Crusher headphones and ASUS' G74SX gaming ...

Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment.

It's true; most Engadget editors would prefer some sort of Ultrabook-type laptop for attending pressers and schlepping around trade shows. But at least one of us has chosen a nine-pound gaming laptop for hitting posts. (It even says "Republic of Gamers" on it.) Speaking of schlepping, Michael has taken back (almost) everything he's ever said about over-the-ear headphones after swapping in the Skullcandy Crushers on his long commute. Hit the break to find out what he thinks of them.

Skullcandy Crusher

I've always been an earbud guy, despite the fact that over-the-ear headphones can offer a more comfy and higher-quality listening experience. Why? I travel a lot for work, and I like to travel lean -- the thought of a bulky headset taking up precious cargo space in my tote bag is, shall we say, less than appealing. After spending a brief time with Skullcandy's Crusher headphones back at CES, however, I was ready to see what they could do to enhance my listening experience on the hour-plus train rides between Mountain View and San Francisco I regularly endure.

Hip-hop comprises a considerable portion of my music collection, which is why the Crushers, with their bass vibration system, held particular appeal to me. At face value, the rumble feature seems a gimmick, but it really does round out the low end of music in a way that no earbuds (or headphones costing less than $100) I've ever used can. And, you can increase or reduce the effect with the slider on the left earcup -- which is crucial, because while it's a boon listening to Lloyd Banks, it becomes obnoxious when taking a phone call or listening to a podcast. My only quibble with the feature: the slider's too snugly fitted and takes more effort to adjust than it should.

As for wearing the Crushers, well, they're about as comfortable as such headphones can be. The faux-leather earcups are soft and supple, but I couldn't get through more than a couple hours of listening before needing to give my lobes a break. While the plastic construction isn't the most luxurious look, it does keep the Crusher lightweight, and it handles the rigors of travel well (read: these things can take a beating). Will I be replacing my earbuds with them? No, simply because they're still too cumbersome on many occasions, but when I've got room in my bag, I'll be taking them along for the ride.

-- Michael Gorman

ASUS G74SX-3DE

After seeing my old, overmatched laptop suffer the electronics equivalent of a myocardial infarction when I tried viewing a 1080p video, one truth became self-evident. Mr. Hidalgo -- no relation to Viggo Mortensen's horse -- needed a new computer. Given my work demands and personal preferences, I had some hard and fast requirements. Naturally, one was running 1080p video without looking like it needed the Heimlich maneuver. It also had to be portable so I could take it on the go or easily move it around my house when I want to work on the kitchen table or hook it up to my Mitsubishi WD-82740 TV. It had to be able to run photo- and video-editing software at the same time. Lastly, it had to run PC games using relatively good settings.

A few weeks later, I became the owner of an ASUS G74SX-3DE "Republic of Gamers" laptop. The tacky ROG name aside, there's a lot to like about the G74SX-3DE. The dark, stealth-fighter-style design looks cool, but is still subdued unlike the Technicolor Dreamcoat approach of some competitors. Having the huge fans vent from the back also keeps the bottom nice and cool. Another plus is that the G74SX-3DE is easily upgradeable for a laptop. I had the original 12GB of RAM replaced with 16GB, for example. The dual-hard-drive configuration also gives added flexibility, allowing me to swap out, say, one of the drives for an SSD if I want to. Meanwhile, the 1080p matte display does a good job of cutting back reflections (I don't really use the 3D feature, though) and also gets a lot of positive comments from onlookers when I'm playing games. So far, I've been able to play everything I've thrown at it in either medium or high settings. The G74SX-3DE is also great with multitasking. It easily handles multiple Adobe Creative Suite programs at the same time even without Mercury Playback GPU acceleration enabled.

Downsides include one of the most annoying collections of bloatware I've seen in a laptop. ASUS Live Update is especially horrible and I uninstalled that sucker pronto. The touchpad can be wonky as well, and it's easy to hit by accident when you're typing unless you disable it. The keyboard, meanwhile, feels a bit shallow and the laptop also lacks a slot for a FireWire ExpressCard, which I normally use to grab footage from my tape-based Canon HV20. Battery life is laughable, but this thing is meant to be plugged in at all times so that's fine. It's freaking heavy, though, and requires a large bag. Still, I'm quite happy with the G74SX-3DE overall. I can take it with me to play local sessions with friends and relatives, and it handles pretty much anything I throw at it with aplomb. In short, I really like it.

-- Jason Hidalgo

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EPA methane report further divides fracking camps

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate that has divided environmentalists: Does the recent boom in fracking help or hurt the fight against climate change?

Oil and gas drilling companies had pushed for the change, but there have been differing scientific estimates of the amount of methane that leaks from wells, pipelines and other facilities during production and delivery. Methane is the main component of natural gas.

The new EPA data is "kind of an earthquake" in the debate over drilling, said Michael Shellenberger, the president of the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental group based in Oakland, Calif. "This is great news for anybody concerned about the climate and strong proof that existing technologies can be deployed to reduce methane leaks."

The scope of the EPA's revision was vast. In a mid-April report on greenhouse emissions, the agency now says that tighter pollution controls instituted by the industry resulted in an average annual decrease of 41.6 million metric tons of methane emissions from 1990 through 2010, or more than 850 million metric tons overall. That's about a 20 percent reduction from previous estimates. The agency converts the methane emissions into their equivalent in carbon dioxide, following standard scientific practice.

The EPA revisions came even though natural gas production has grown by nearly 40 percent since 1990. The industry has boomed in recent years, thanks to a stunning expansion of drilling in previously untapped areas because of the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which injects sand, water and chemicals to break apart rock and free the gas inside.

Experts on both sides of the debate say the leaks can be controlled by fixes such as better gaskets, maintenance and monitoring. Such fixes are also thought to be cost-effective, since the industry ends up with more product to sell.

"That is money going up into the air," said Roger Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, adding he isn't surprised the EPA's new data show more widespread use of pollution control equipment. Pielke noted that the success of the pollution controls also means that the industry "probably can go further" in reducing leaks.

Representatives of the oil and gas industry said the EPA revisions show emissions from the fracking boom can be managed.

"The methane 'leak' claim just got a lot more difficult for opponents" of natural gas, noted Steve Everley, with Energy In Depth, an industry-funded group.

In a separate blog post, Everley predicted future reductions, too.

"As technologies continue to improve, it's hard to imagine those methane numbers going anywhere but down as we eagerly await the next installment of this EPA report," Everley wrote.

One leading environmentalist argued the EPA revisions don't change the bigger picture.

"We need a dramatic shift off carbon-based fuel: coal, oil and also gas," Bill McKibbern, the founder of 350.org, wrote in an email to The Associated Press. "Natural gas provides at best a kind of fad diet, where a dangerously overweight patient loses a few pounds and then their weight stabilizes; instead, we need at this point a crash diet, difficult to do" but needed to limit the damage from climate change.

The EPA said it made the changes based on expert reviews and new data from several sources, including a report funded by the oil and gas industry. But the estimates aren't based on independent field tests of actual emissions, and some scientists said that's a problem.

Robert Howarth, a Cornell University professor of ecology who led a 2011 methane leak study that is widely cited by critics of fracking, wrote in an email that "time will tell where the truth lies in all this, but I think EPA is wrong."

Howarth said other federal climate scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have published recent studies documenting massive methane leaks from natural gas operations in Colorado and other Western states.

Howarth wrote that the EPA seems "to be ignoring the published NOAA data in their latest efforts, and the bias on industry only pushing estimates downward ? never up ? is quite real. EPA badly needs a counter-acting force, such as outside independent review of their process."

The issue of methane leaks has caused a major split between environmental groups.

Since power plants that burn natural gas emit about half the amount of the greenhouse gases as coal-fired power, some say that the gas drilling boom has helped the U.S. become the only major industrialized country to significantly reduce greenhouse emissions. But others believe the methane leaks negate any benefits over coal, since methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas.

The new EPA figures still show natural gas operations as the leading source of methane emissions in the U.S., at about 145 million metric tons in 2011. The next biggest source was enteric fermentation, scientific jargon for belches from cows and other animals, at 137 million metric tons. Landfills were the third-biggest source, at 103 million metric tons.

But the EPA estimates that all the sources of methane combined still account for only 9 percent of greenhouse gases, even taking into account methane's more potent heat-trapping.

The EPA said it is still seeking more data and feedback on the issue of methane leaks, so the report may change again in the future.

The EPA revisions have international implications, too. The agency says the new report, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, was submitted to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change by an April 15 deadline.

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Instant View: Amazon profit beats Street view; sales forecast weak

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's first-quarter revenue jumped 22 percent to $16.1 billion, propelled by growing sales of digital content, cloud-computing services and gains in retail. But it forecast weak sales this quarter, raising concerns about a slowing international business.

Commentary:

TOM FORTE, ANALYST, TELSEY ADVISORY GROUP

"This quarter is a bit of a 'tweener' so to speak: the company gave you a favorable margin, which is evident in both gross-margin performance and the upside in earnings, and then sales while not spectacular were good.

"Increase in third-party unit sales has been funding their gross margins.

"When I read the guidance for Q2 for operating margins, it suggests to me they're telegraphing that the company is going to continue a heightened rate of investment.

"Looking at the international performance, I think the message there is North America was better than expected but international was softer. The questions is: is this a reflection of macro trends in Europe, or is there something else going on there?"

VICTOR ANTHONY, ANALYST, TOPEKA CAPITAL MARKETS

"The fundamentals of the business improved significantly. So you saw a material improvement in gross margins, as well as a significant upside to estimates for their pro-forma operating margins. The trends are moving in the right direction fundamentally for the company.

"The high end of the guidance for revenue was above the Street. The pro-forma operating margins were slightly below the Street on the high end but they typically guide conservatively on that. Net, net it was a good print.

"The margins in international declined and that was a weak post.

"What we're seeing is that Amazon is really getting leverage from shipping costs. AWS is becoming a big part of their mix. They are also benefiting from a greater mix of advertising revenues. We'll continue to see that improve."

KEN SENA, ANALYST, EVERCORE

"The numbers came in relatively in-line.

"Guidance was maybe slightly disappointing. But when you look at the gross profit for the quarter, it beat expectations. They grew gross profit at 35 percent year-over-year.

"At the end of the day, at least on that basis, they are showing some very good progress. You are seeing benefit from the higher-margin Amazon Web Services business, and also higher-margin third-party marketplace business."

KERRY RICE, ANALYST, NEEDHAM & CO

"Gross margin is definitely better than expected. That is something that investors are certainly keen on.

"Guidance was light, both top- and bottom-line. That certainly won't help the stock perform, although they have over the last several quarters exceeded expectations on the operating income side. So for the guidance, people are more concerned about revenue than operating income."

(Reporting By Malathi Nayak and Poornima Gupta)

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Twitter?s Vine video sharing app coming soon to Android

(Ends first round) NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - Selections in the first roundof the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday (picknumber, NFL team, player, position, college): 1-Kansas City, Eric Fisher, offensive tackle, Central Michigan 2-Jacksonville, Luke Joeckel, offensive tackle, Texas A&M 3-Miami (from Oakland), Dion Jordan, defensive tackle, Oregon 4-Philadelphia, Lane Johnson, offensive tackle, Oklahoma 5-Detroit, Ezekiel Ansah, defensive end, Brigham Young 6-Cleveland, Barkevious Mingo, linebacker, LSU 7-Arizona, Jonathan Cooper, guard, North Carolina 8-St. ...

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Amanda Bynes Denies Smoking Weed in Planet Fitness Bathroom

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Boeing sees early-May restart of 787 deliveries

FILE - This Feb. 11, 2013 file photo shows a Boeing 787 flight test jet taxing following a test flight, at Boeing Field, in Seattle. Boeing's beleaguered 787 Dreamliners will be able to resume flights under an order expected to be issued Friday by the Federal Aviation Administration, although the root cause of battery failures on two of the planes is still unknown, according to congressional sources briefed by the agency. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

FILE - This Feb. 11, 2013 file photo shows a Boeing 787 flight test jet taxing following a test flight, at Boeing Field, in Seattle. Boeing's beleaguered 787 Dreamliners will be able to resume flights under an order expected to be issued Friday by the Federal Aviation Administration, although the root cause of battery failures on two of the planes is still unknown, according to congressional sources briefed by the agency. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Boeing reported a better-than-expected first-quarter profit even as it scrambled to fix its grounded 787.

The company said on Wednesday that deliveries of the 787 should resume in early May. Most of the 50 planes that have been delivered to airlines will be fixed by the middle of the month, Chairman and CEO Jim McNerney said on the company's quarterly earnings conference call.

Resuming deliveries and passenger flights would cap a notable turnaround for Boeing. The three-month grounding over battery problems frustrated airlines and turned a spotlight onto the way commercial planes are designed and regulated. Putting the problem behind it will let Boeing focus on building new versions of its best-selling 737 and 777.

Air safety authorities around the world grounded 787s after two different planes suffered from smoldering batteries ? one of them including a fire, one of them in-flight ? in January. The Federal Aviation Administration has approved Boeing's redesigned battery system, which the company says should sharply reduce the risk of a fire.

Once the FAA approves the fix on individual planes, airlines can start flying them again. United Airlines, the only U.S. airline with the planes, moved one of its six 787s to a Boeing facility in San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday so it can get the battery fix. Neither of the battery incidents involved a United jet.

The new battery system includes extra insulation between the battery's individual cells, a box designed to contain any fire and changes that Boeing says will extinguish any fire almost instantly. The fix should keep any battery problems "from affecting the airplane or even being noticed by passengers," McNerney said.

The new battery setup has been installed on 10 787s that belong to airlines, and on nine more that have been built but not delivered, he said. Each installation takes about five days.

Boeing wouldn't say how much the 787 issue has cost. Much of the expense was soaked up by its research and development budget, Chief Financial Officer Greg Smith said.

Boeing's net income rose 20 percent in the quarter to $1.11 billion, or $1.44 per share. Excluding pension-related charges, Boeing would have earned $1.73 per share, well above analyst expectations.

The 787 troubles showed up in other places besides Boeing's bottom line. Revenue fell 3 percent to $18.89 billion in part because Boeing delivered just one 787 before the grounding. Airlines make their final payment for the plane when it's delivered. And Boeing generated almost no cash in the quarter. Free cash flow, a measure of cash generated by a business, dropped to $3 million, from $413 million a year ago.

Boeing loses money on each 787 it builds now. Smith said it should be breaking even on each plane in about two years.

Boeing still expects to meet its financial and delivery targets this year. That includes delivering at least 60 787s. It delivered 137 planes during the quarter, because faster production of 737s and 777s offset the lack of 787 deliveries.

Operating profit rose 12 percent in its defense unit as its space business grew sharply.

Shares of Chicago-based Boeing Co. rose $2.65, or 3 percent, to $90.83 in trading Wednesday after rising as high $92.65 earlier. That was the highest level for the shares since December 2007, according to FactSet.

Associated Press

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Nintendo returns to profit on weak yen boost

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2013 file photo, visitors try out the Mario Kart Arcade GP DX racing game exhibited by Namco Bandai and Nintendo on the business day of the Japan Amusement Expo in Makuhari, near Tokyo. Nintendo Co. reported Wednesday, April 24, the Kyoto-based maker of Super Mario and Pokemon games returned to profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 as a lift from the weak yen offset sales struggles caused by software delays for its latest home console Wii U. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2013 file photo, visitors try out the Mario Kart Arcade GP DX racing game exhibited by Namco Bandai and Nintendo on the business day of the Japan Amusement Expo in Makuhari, near Tokyo. Nintendo Co. reported Wednesday, April 24, the Kyoto-based maker of Super Mario and Pokemon games returned to profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 as a lift from the weak yen offset sales struggles caused by software delays for its latest home console Wii U. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo, Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata speaks during a news conference in Tokyo. Nintendo reported Wednesday, April 24, the Kyoto-based maker of Super Mario and Pokemon games returned to profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 as a lift from the weak yen offset sales struggles caused by software delays for its latest home console Wii U. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

TOKYO (AP) ? Nintendo Co. returned to profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 as a lift from the weakening yen offset sales struggles caused by software delays for its latest home console Wii U.

The Kyoto-based maker of Super Mario and Pokemon games reported Wednesday an annual profit of 7.1 billion yen ($72 million), a reversal from a 43 billion yen loss the previous year.

Annual sales dipped 1.9 percent to 635.4 billion yen ($6.4 billion).

Both profit and sales results were slightly worse than the projections of analysts surveyed by FactSet.

The dollar has been trading at 95 yen levels in recent months, and is now above 99 yen, up dramatically from 80 yen a year earlier ? a boon for Japanese exporters like Nintendo.

Nintendo gained 39.5 billion yen ($399 million) from a favorable exchange rate for the year.

Nintendo expects profit to balloon to 55 billion yen ($555 million) this fiscal year ending March 2014. It did not break down quarterly results.

Still, Wii U sales at 3.45 million units fell short of Nintendo's target for the fiscal year of 4 million units.

That had been lowered from an earlier more optimistic projection of 5.5 million units.

The Wii U, which went on sale late last year, was the first major new game console to arrive in stores in years.

Game machines have lost some of their appeal with the arrival of smartphones that also offer gaming, and other pastimes such as social networking that are vying for people's leisure time.

Nintendo has repeatedly boasted it appeals to so-called casual gamers, unlike its rivals Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. But those are precisely the people who may be switching to playing games on other devices.

Sony is promising the PlayStation 4 before the year-end holidays, a critical sales period for game makers. Microsoft may also have a new home console.

Nintendo acknowledged it had failed to keep the momentum going on the Wii U because of a lack of game software, and promised to do better in the latter half of the year.

Nintendo posted its second straight annual operating loss, reporting 36 billion yen ($364 million) of red ink for the fiscal year ended March.

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Reporter at Murdoch's The Sun charged over bribery

LONDON (AP) ? A senior reporter at Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper is being charged with conspiring to pay 23,000 pounds (roughly $35,000) in bribes in return for tips about the royal family, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The Sun's Chief Royal Correspondent Duncan Larcombe is alleged to have conspired with employees of Sandhurst ? Britain's prestigious military academy ? to secure royal gossip. Although the statement does not go into detail, Princes William and Harry both trained at Sandhurst several years ago and the younger royals have long made tempting targets for scandal-hungry tabloids.

Larcombe joins a growing list of Sun staff who have found themselves in the dock over the paper's shaky ethics.

The paper's executive editor, Fergus Shanahan, faces a bribery-related charge. The Sun's deputy editor, Geoff Webster, The Sun's defense editor, Virginia Wheeler, and The Sun's former chief reporter, John Kay, also face charges. So too does The Sun's former editor, Rebekah Brooks.

The Sun's crime editor, Mike Sullivan, was arrested last year but recently learned he would not face charges.

The wave of legal action is linked to the phone hacking scandal which exploded at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire in 2011. The scandal shook Britain's establishment with revelations of industrial-scale espionage, phone hacking, bribery, blackmail, and influence peddling. Scores of journalists, police officials, and executives have been arrested or lost their jobs.

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Virus kills melanoma in animal model, spares normal cells

Apr. 23, 2013 ? Researchers from Yale University School of Medicine have demonstrated that vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is highly competent at finding, infecting, and killing human melanoma cells, both in vitro and in animal models, while having little propensity to infect non-cancerous cells.

"If it works as well in humans, this could confer a substantial benefit on patients afflicted with this deadly disease," says Anthony van den Pol, a researcher on the study. The research was published online ahead of print in the Journal of Virology.

Most normal cells resist virus infection by activating antiviral processes that protect nearby cells. "The working hypothesis was that since many cancer cells show a deficient ability to withstand virus infection, maybe a fast-acting virus such as VSV would be able to infect and kill cancer cells before the virus was eliminated by the immune system," says van den Pol. And indeed, the virus was able to selectively infect multiple deadly human melanomas that had been implanted in a mouse model, yet showed little infectivity towards normal mouse cells, he says.

Many different mechanisms are involved in innate immunity, the type of immunity that combats viral infection. van den Pol plans to investigate which specific mechanisms are malfunctioning in cancer cells, knowledge that would be hugely beneficial both in understanding how cancer affects immunity, and in enhancing a virus' ability to target cancer cells, he says.

Melanoma is the most deadly skin cancer. Most melanomas are incurable once they have metastasized into the body. The incidence of melanoma has tripled over the last three decades, and it accounts for approximately 75 percent of skin cancer-related deaths.

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Street Art the Focus of New Documentary | Stuff.co.nz

It is easy to think of street art as something that sprawls naturally through a city. Like ivy, one rarely gets to witness the aerosol cans being sprayed by artists in hoods and overalls and filter masks scaling buildings in all weather with ropes, stepladders, scissor lifts and buckets and cans of colours.

In October 2011, film-maker Karl Sheridan and artist Cinzah Merkens began exploring the people behind New Zealand's urban murals and graffiti art, conducting 22 interviews with 26 artists over 12 months, including on artists Jon Drypnz, Mica Still and BMD in Wellington.

The resulting documentary, Dregs, premiered in Wellington in November last year. It is the first time a feature-length documentary had been made about Kiwi street art.

"It hadn't been done before," says Sheridan, who also runs a shared studio and gallery called Monster Valley in Auckland. "Dregs was about uncovering a scene that hadn't been researched much by an outsider, and I thought it was important to give some insight to people who didn't really know the street art scene."

Sheridan hopes that through the doco, viewers might gain a greater understanding of the street art community "and possibly not be as prejudice towards aerosol art".

To fund Dregs, Sheridan and Merkens ran a campaign through crowd-funding website PledgeMe, exceeding their target of just under $5500. "We were always going to do it as a self-funded film . . . it was always a project that we were going to do on our own terms," says Sheridan.

Crowd funding allowed the co-directors to complete a three-week road trip through the length of the country. "After the road trip people started to see that we were serious about the project and we got a bit more [corporate] sponsorship from there."

During the trip, Sheridan says the pair filmed and spent time with as many artists as they could, "meeting their friends and families as well as going and staying in their homes, seeing work places and hanging out around painting spots". Several of the artists interviewed also reflect the street artist penchant for using a pseudonym including Flox, Cracked Ink, Ghostie, and Merkens himself, who for street art goes under the name of Seekayem.

In Dregs, the audio from the resulting interviews runs over Sheridan's footage of these artists at work in studios and out on walls in public spaces. There are slick shots of artists working with scalpels and spray cans from studios and scaffolding to a soundtrack of Kiwi music. Through the documentary, each artist tells their story, including how they got into street art.

Many have the same starting point, doodling in exercise books while at school. There is no shortage of fast cars, "babes", ninjas and aliens drawn in the margins. The artists also reveal how they make their living, many of whom are professional illustrators, students and teachers. One artist talks about how being able to paint legally, in daylight, with "gorgeous paint" while on a community service sentence was a "game changer" for him.

Each interview also includes artists' perspectives on the New Zealand street art scene in relation to the rest of the world. Many have visited the hotspots: Berlin, Melbourne, New York and Mexico, and speak of the pros and cons of our isolation. One artist comments that having smaller and spread-out groups of street artists results in a scene that is perhaps less cohesive, but with a distinct artistic style. Another wants to see business owners more open to murals on their buildings.

Though he sees advantages and disadvantages to isolation, Sheridan shares the belief with his interviewees that "our work here stands up to anywhere else in the world".

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Dregs on DVD is available from dregs.co.nz

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Newtown families: We'll keep fighting for gun law

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Disappointment. Disgust. Grossly unfair.

That's how some families who lost loved ones in December's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school view the Senate's defeat this past week of the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades, as they pledged to keep fighting for measures to prevent gun violence.

Neil Heslin, Erica Lafferty and Carlee Soto were among the Newtown, Conn., family members who spent a week on Capitol Hill describing how their loved ones died at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. But their stories of horror and heroism were no match for a threat from the National Rifle Association to rate the vote, and concern from Republicans and a small band of rural-state Democrats.

Lafferty, whose mother, school principal Dawn Hochsprung, lunged unarmed at the gunman to stop him from firing the assault weapon, said she was "honestly disgusted that there were so many senators that are doing nothing about the fact that my mom was gunned down in her elementary school, along with five other educators and 20 6- and 7-year-old children."

The Senate rejected on Wednesday a series of gun control bills that would have tightened background checks for buyers, banned assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, and loosened restrictions on carrying concealed weapons across state lines, the last measure backed by the NRA.

Within hours of the votes, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords accused senators who opposed the new regulations of "cowardice" in a piece published in the New York Times' op-ed page. Giffords was among 13 people wounded two years ago when a lone gunman opened fire as she met with constituents in a Tucson, Ariz., shopping mall, killing six others. She and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, had lobbied for the bills' passage.

On CBS' "Face the Nation," moderator Bob Schieffer asked Heslin, Lafferty and Soto Sunday whether the words "cowardice" and "cowards" were appropriate to describe Wednesday's vote.

"I do," said Heslin, who's 6-year-old son Neil Lewis died at Sandy Hook. "I feel they're not standing up for what they should be."

Carlee Soto, recounted her sister Victoria's courage to try to save her students, Neil Lewis among them.

"My sister wasn't a coward that day. My sister pushed the kids up against the wall, out of sight," she said, adding, "She protected her kids. Why aren't they protecting us?" referring to the senators who voted against the gun bills.

The families say the gun legislation would have strengthened laws already in effect rather than undercut the Second Amendment, which provides a constitutional right to bear arms.

"It's beyond me how these congressmen cannot stand up and support something that would prevent ? or help prevent ? something like this from ever occurring again," Heslin said.

"We aren't going to go away. I know I'm not," he added. "We're not going to stop until there are changes that are made."

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Is it legal to exclude out-of-state employees from our annual outing ...

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Jennifer Lawrence Presents at GLAAD Media Awards, Botches Bill Clinton's Name

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FBI: US teen tried to join al Qaeda-linked Syrian group

By Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters

An 18-year-old Chicago-area man accused of planning to join an al Qaeda-linked group fighting in Syria has been arrested by the FBI, the agency said on Saturday.

Abdella Ahmad Tounisi of Aurora, Illinois, was taken into custody late on Friday as he prepared to board a plane at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport bound for Turkey, the FBI said in a statement.

It added that Tounisi was a friend of Adel Daoud, an American accused of trying to stage a bombing outside a downtown Chicago bar last year. The agency said Tounisi had not been involved in that plot.

Tounisi appeared before a U.S. magistrate on Saturday on one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He was ordered held until his next court appearance on Tuesday, the FBI said.

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A criminal complaint accused Tounisi of making online contact in March with a person he thought was a recruiter for Jabhat al-Nusrah, the militant Islamist Syrian group that the U.S. government calls a foreign terrorist organization operating as a wing of al Qaeda in Iraq.

The supposed recruiter was an FBI employee working undercover, the agency said.

Tounisi said in emails to the FBI employee that he planned to get to Syria via Turkey and was willing to die in the Syrian struggle, the complaint said.

Syria is in the grips of a civil war that began in 2011 as a revolt against President Bashar Assad and has killed more than 70,000 people.

On April 10, Tounisi bought an airline ticket for a flight from Chicago to Istanbul. On Thursday, the undercover FBI employee gave him a bus ticket for travel from Istanbul to Gaziantep, Turkey, near the border with Syria, the complaint said.

Tounisi's attorney, Michael Madden, of the federal public defender program could not be reached for comment.

Tounisi faces a maximum of 15 years in prison if convicted.

The 2012 arrest of Daoud, 19, also involved his alleged communication with an undercover member of the FBI. The fake bomb that Daoud tried to detonate outside a Chicago bar was provided to him by an undercover FBI agent, authorities said.

Daoud was indicted on two counts of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and maliciously attempting to use an explosive to destroy a building. He pleaded not guilty in October in federal court.

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Facebook Blast: Threaded group chat could be coming soon to Messenger app

iMore has learned that, following Facebook Home, Chat Heads, and other recent releases, Facebook has additional, incremental updates in the works for their Messenger app as well. One of the updates in the pipeline is Facebook Blast, an enhancement to how users can send messages to multiple recipients.

Currently, if a message is sent to multiple friends in Facebook, it will start a group chat between all of the friends. In a lot of cases this is great, as everybody can share and coordinate ideas for the topic at hand. Other times it?s not so great. Maybe you want to get some input on a big life decision and you have several people you want to ask, but don?t necessarily want them all seeing one another?s replies. Currently you?d have to send the same message to each person individually. With Facebook Blast, you don't.

Blasts behave more like old school multiple recipient text messages. You can specify multiple recipients, send the same message to all of them at the same time, and have it start separate conversations with each of them. But group messaging lovers, fret not. Group messaging isn?t going away. In its current incarnation, users are shown a split bar with both ?Group Chat? and ?Blast? options at the top of their messages. Depending on what?s more ideal for the message you want to send, you can choose the best option.

While not quite as exciting as the newly available Chat Heads and stickers features, Blast will offer a slightly better messaging experience where users have more control over how they send messages.

No word yet on when this feature might be released. We've reached out to Facebook for more information and will update if/when we learn more.

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SAP's cloud computing push stalls in Asia

By Harro Ten Wolde

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - SAP AG's Asian business stumbled at the start of 2013 when top sales managers left the business software company, giving rivals an edge just as customers were switching from hardware to cloud computing.

The German company vowed to get its Asia Pacific business back on track after the problems pushed its first-quarter earnings and revenue below analyst forecasts. Its shares fell 2.8 percent on Friday.

SAP and rivals such as IBM and Oracle are dashing to meet surging demand for cloud computing, which allows clients to reduce costs by ditching bulky and costly servers for network-based software and storage in remote data centers.

With the cloud services market forecast to grow 18.5 percent this year to $131 billion worldwide, according to research firm Gartner, competition is fierce and software firms face a challenge to adapt.

"We had some leadership changes in the region. That is why we saw some misses in the quarter," said SAP's co-Chief Executive Jim Hagemann Snabe.

He promised the Asia Pacific region would be back on track in the second quarter as the sales pipeline looked good and important sales positions were now taken care of.

SAP shares were down 2.8 percent at 57.95 euros by 0932 GMT, while a broader index of European technology companies was down 0.7 percent.

The biggest disappointment in SAP's quarterly results was SAP's performance in the Asia Pacific Japan region (APJ), said Stacy Pollard, an analyst at JP Morgan.

Its software and cloud subscription revenue there declined 7 percent, lagging the Americas, where revenue jumped 49 percent, and Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where it grew 13 percent.

"While weakness from other software and IT services names over the last month had already pushed down expectations (and the SAP share price), we would still expect another 3 to 4 percent correction to shares today," Pollard said.

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SAP software helps companies to manage supplies, human resources and customers relations. It is reducing its reliance on traditional business software to become a major player in cloud computing.

Snabe said the industry was transforming as customers turned to web-based software products.

"Hardware is in trouble," he told Reuters Insider.

SAP faces competition in Internet-based software from IBM and Oracle and nimbler rivals like Salesforce.com Inc and Workday Inc. It spent $7.7 billion last year to buy Internet-based computing companies Ariba and SuccessFactors.

Its main competitor, Oracle, reported a 2 percent drop in software sales in its fiscal third-quarter ended in February.

SAP said it had snatched market share from Oracle and others as customers turn to cloud services, which are seen as less vulnerable to the global economic downturn as there are no upfront costs for program licenses, hardware or installation.

SAP said it still expected operating profit this year to be 5.85 billion to 5.95 billion euros ($7.65-7.78 billion) at constant currencies, up 12-14 percent from 5.21 billion in 2012.

"Given the ... weak results from competitors, we would not overemphasize the first-quarter results," said Oliver Finger, an analyst at DZ Bank, who rates the stock a "buy". "Moreover, the first quarter is traditionally the least important quarter for SAP and the company remains confident overall."

SAP's first-quarter operating profit excluding special items rose 8 percent to 901 million euros, missing an average forecast of 968 million in a Reuters poll of analysts.

Revenue was also up 8 percent at 3.64 billion euros, but missed even the most pessimistic estimate in the Reuters poll, where individual estimates ranged from 3.73 to 3.9 billion.

(Editing by Christoph Steitz and Tom Pfeiffer)

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Boston travel: Trains, buses halted, planes flying

The Amtrak departures board shows a canceled train to Boston at Penn Station, Friday, April 19, 2013 in New York. Mass transit to and from the Boston area was virtually shut down Friday as police conducted a massive manhunt for a suspect in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

The Amtrak departures board shows a canceled train to Boston at Penn Station, Friday, April 19, 2013 in New York. Mass transit to and from the Boston area was virtually shut down Friday as police conducted a massive manhunt for a suspect in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

An MBTA transit official closes a door at Malden Center station in Malden, Mass. Friday, April 18, 2013 as area MBTA commuter trains are suspended. Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence that left one of them dead and another still at large Friday, authorities said as the manhunt intensified for a young man described as a dangerous terrorist. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Mass transportation to and from the Boston area was virtually shut down Friday while police engaged in massive manhunt before capturing a suspect in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing.

The message from Boston transit authorities ? shared early in the morning via Twitter ? was clear: "Go/stay home."

As the manhunt stretched into the afternoon, Amtrak stopped all trains on the heavily traveled corridor between New York and Boston. Its service from Boston to Maine was also halted. All major intercity bus lines suspended service to the area. Authorities also stopped service on commuter trains into Boston as well as the city's subway ? called the T ? and the city's buses.

After an intensive search yielded no suspect, authorities lifted the stay-indoors warning Friday evening and the transit system started running again. The suspect was later discovered hiding in a boat parked in the backyard of a home in suburban Watertown, Mass.

Amtrak announced it would resume limited service Friday night and regular service would be available Saturday.

Greyhound spokesman Timothy Stokes said that the company's bus service won't resume in Boston until early Saturday morning. The first express bus service into Boston will leave New York City at 2 a.m. Saturday, he said.

Only air travel functioned normally throughout Friday. Planes took off and landed mostly on schedule at Logan International, although passengers entering the airport drew extra scrutiny from state police.

All major highways in the region remained open except in Watertown, the center of the manhunt. But they ? and most city streets ? remained eerily empty as people heeded the government's advice and stayed home.

"I'm just like everybody else in greater Boston, just staying at home, glued to the television," said Bob Trane, an elected alderman in Somerville, Mass., a densely populated city minutes from downtown Boston. "There is nobody out in the streets, very few cars, very few people walking."

Elsewhere, travelers scrambled to find a way home.

Stranded by the Amtrak shutdown, the Rev. Victoria Weinstein passed the time with a beer in a New York bar. She weighed her options for getting home to a Boston suburb.

"I have my Plan A, B, C, and D," she said. There were rides with friends, family or waiting a day. She even considering hitching a ride with a stranger from New England she met at the bar.

"I really just want to be home with my community," said Weinstein, a Unitarian Universalist pastor. "I'm just thinking about all the people whose hearts are broken."

MegaBus, which canceled 35 trips to and from Boston Friday ? affecting about 2,500 passengers ? said it will also cancel its 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. trips out of Boston Saturday.

Travelers whose trains or buses were canceled are getting full refunds. All airlines allowed passengers scheduled for Friday to change flights to other days, although policies varied widely. Grace periods ranged from a few days on airlines like American and Delta, while United Airlines is giving passengers up to a year from the date they purchased their tickets to fly.

Passengers trying to leave Boston by air were met by Massachusetts State Police searching vehicles at entrances to Logan. The airport handles about 1,000 flights a day and has been operating at a heightened level of security since Monday's attack, according to Matthew Brelis, director of media relations for MassPort, the public agency that runs Logan.

Government officials refused to say why flying was the only form of mass transit allowed.

But airports are a very different environment than bus or train stations. Every person and piece of luggage moving through an airport goes through a security screening. Each passenger's name, date of birth and gender is compared to those on terrorism watch lists. And before boarding a plane out of town, each person must pass through a checkpoint where police have ample time to compare them to photos of suspects.

Friday's manhunt capped off a tiring and emotional week for Boston residents.

"This thing just doesn't stop. It's been constant for the past week," said Ian Deason, director of Boston operations for JetBlue, the largest airline in the city with about 120 daily flights.

He noted that pilots and flight attendants resting in a crew lounge prior to their flights were "glued to the TV."

While Friday's mass transit shut down was unusual it wasn't the first closure.

Boston cut off the T for two days in February. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority shut down all bus and train service ahead of Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy. New York also shut down its public transportation system in advance of the storms.

New York's subways shut down after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but limited parts were quickly restored. The first subway car ran just 2 hours and 28 minutes after service was halted, although parts of the system took days to resume.

London's July 7 bombings ? in which four suicide bombers detonated themselves aboard three trains and a double-decker bus in 2005 ? temporarily crippled the European capital's transit system. The next day, the majority of the system reopened.

In Los Angeles, buses, freeways and the airport were shut down following the 1992 riots. Bus service resumed three days later when schools reopened and a dawn-to-dusk curfew was lifted.

Even when Boston's public transportation system starts up again, some Bostonians are likely to change their behavior.

Maria D'Amico, 23, started this week to only sit in the front or back of the subway.

"If anything happened on the train, it would probably happen in the middle," she said.

Back at the airport, passengers had to adapt with no mass transit linking them to the city center. Private cars, taxis and the Logan Express ? a bus service to suburban park-and-ride facilities ? were still able to enter the airport.

The biggest hassle for travelers was waiting for a taxi. Brelis described the lines as "exceedingly long" during the late morning. Officials were asking people to share cabs to nearby location. The backlog cleared by afternoon.

James Kearney, an information technology consultant from East Amwell, N.J. was in town for business and managed to make it home on a United flight at 10 a.m. He said via email that the 15-mile trip from the Marriott in the western suburb of Newton, Mass. to Logan on the Massachusetts Turnpike "was extremely quiet during rush hour."

Once at the airport, he said, the situation was "pretty standard."

"Even security was fast and uneventful," Kearney wrote.

Kacey Brister, a senior at Louisiana State University, was supposed to have an interview for a public relations job in Boston at 3 p.m. Friday. She was flying on Southwest Airlines from New Orleans to Boston via St. Louis.

Before boarding the last leg of her trip, Brister said that everyone was fairly calm at the gate.

"The biggest concern for most people was how they were going to get from Logan to their hotel, home," she wrote in an email, adding that there was "a sense of camaraderie between passengers."

Not everyone was so calm, however. "My mother has begged me" to turn around, she said.

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Associated Press writers Mark Jewell in Somerville, Mass., Raphael Satter in London, Joshua Freed in Minneapolis and Bree Fowler and Anne D'Innocenzio in New York contributed.

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Scott Mayerowitz can be reached at http://twitter.com/GlobeTrotScott.

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Le Camping Alumni Augment Raises ?220K To Take Its Augmented Reality Sales Tool To The U.S.

Despite its potential, the jury is arguably still out on the best use-case for Augmented Reality. But one startup, Augment, thinks it has the answer: helping to sell products by letting customers see what they might look like in the real world. A graduate of the Paris-based accelerator Le Camping, today the company is announcing a ?220k (~$289k) funding round -- capital it will use to take its offering to the U.S., where it has recently hired a biz dev and sales person, and incorporated a local subsidiary.

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Officials: Attacks across Afghanistan kill 24

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? Roadside bombs and insurgent attacks killed at least 24 people in five separate attacks across Afghanistan as violence steadily rises during this year's spring fighting season, officials said Wednesday.

So far, April has been the deadliest month this year for Afghan and foreign civilians and security forces. According to an Associated Press tally, 182 people have been killed in violence around the nation this month.

In western Afghanistan, seven women and children died when their truck hit a roadside bomb near Shindad in Herat province, said Muhiudin Noori, a spokesman for the governor.

In the east, another roadside bomb killed five men who were part of a government security force guarding a convoy of trucks in Ghazni's Qarabagh district, provincial spokesman Fazel Ahmad Sabaoon said.

Also in the east, insurgents attacked a checkpoint in Laghman province, killing four village policemen, provincial spokesman Sarhadi Zawak said.

In northern Jowzjan province, police chief Aziz Ghayrat said insurgents opened fire on elders in a village and two health workers were killed in the crossfire.

Also on Wednesday, six Afghan soldiers ? two officers and four enlisted men ? were found shot to death on a main highway that crosses Jowzjan, police spokesman Abdul Mannan Raoufi said. He said the six had just left their military unit and were headed home for a break to visit their families. He blamed the attack, which he said occurred on Tuesday, on Taliban insurgents.

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AP writers Rahim Faiez and Patrick Quinn contributed.

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