Federal probe launched in NM-Texas border town

ANTHONY, N.M. (AP) ? Officials say federal and local agents issued several warrants in an early morning sweep in a small New Mexico border town.

Anthony police spokeswoman Mary Hall says a team of local and federal law enforcement agents, including SWAT teams, served warrants Wednesday morning in a number of areas. She did not know what type of warrants were served.

FBI spokesman Frank Fisher confirmed that a law enforcement operation was underway but declined to give detail.

The El Paso Times reports (http://bit.ly/11j0tS1 ) several residents reported waking to the sound of loud bangs around 5 a.m. Wednesday. And at least two helicopters were seen flying over the town, with one shining a spotlight over some areas.

Anthony straddles New Mexico and Texas and is 21 miles north of El Paso, Texas.

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AT&T's jumping on the no-contract bandwagon with its new BYOD, pre-paid AIO brand.

AT&T's jumping on the no-contract bandwagon with its new BYOD, pre-paid AIO brand. For $40 a month you can get unlimited talk and text and 250MB of data. 2GB is $55 and 7GB is $70. No LTE though. Welcome to the party, guys.

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World-first study predicts epilepsy seizures in humans

May 1, 2013 ? A small device implanted in the brain has accurately predicted epilepsy seizures in humans in a world-first study led by Professor Mark Cook, Chair of Medicine at the University of Melbourne and Director of Neurology at St Vincent's Hospital.

"Knowing when a seizure might happen could dramatically improve the quality of life and independence of people with epilepsy," said Professor Cook, whose research was today published in the medical journal Lancet Neurology.

Professor Cook and his team, with Professors Terry O'Brien and Sam Berkovic, worked with researchers at Seattle-based company, NeuroVista, who developed a device which could be implanted between the skull and brain surface to monitor long-term electrical signals in the brain (EEG data).

They worked together to develop a second device implanted under the chest, which transmitted electrodes recorded in the brain to a hand-held device, providing a series of lights warning patients of the high (red), moderate (white), or low (blue), likelihood of having a seizure in the hours ahead.

The two year study included 15 people with epilepsy aged between 20 and 62 years, who experienced between two and 12 seizures per month and had not had their seizures controlled with existing treatments.

For the first month of the trial the system was set purely to record EEG data, which allowed Professor Cook and his team to construct individual algorithms of seizure prediction for each patient.

The system correctly predicted seizures with a high warning, 65 percent of the time, and worked to a level better than 50 percent in 11 of the 15 patients. Eight of the 11 patients had their seizures accurately predicted between 56 and 100 percent of the time.

Epilepsy is the second most common neurological disease after stroke, affecting over 60 million people worldwide. Up to 40 percent of people are unable to control their seizures with existing treatments.

"One to two percent of the population have chronic epilepsy and up to 10 percent of people will have a seizure at some point in their lives, so it's very common. It's debilitating because it affects young people predominantly and it affects them often across their entire lifespan," Professor Cook said.

"The problem is that people with epilepsy are, for the most part, otherwise extremely well. So their activities are limited entirely by this condition, which might affect only a few minutes of every year of their life, and yet have catastrophic consequences like falls, burns and drowning."

Professor Cook hopes to replicate the findings of the study in larger clinical trials, and is optimistic the technology will lead to improved management strategies for epilepsy in the future.

Collaborators on the study included the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Austin Health, Australia

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Twitter 4.1 brings better notification support to legacy BlackBerry devices

We get it, your old BlackBerry smartphone isn't getting any newer, but thanks to today's Twitter update, it'll at least be a bit more useful. Most importantly, Twitter 4.1 can now provide notifications whenever you gain new followers, or whenever someone retweets or favorites one of your tweets. The update also adds swiping panels in the bio banner and makes it easier for first time users to sign up. Naturally, the software lacks some of the niceties that you'll find in the BlackBerry 10 version, but that's no reason to pass over the improvements. Twitter 4.1 can be found in BlackBerry World, and is supported by BlackBerry 5 OS and above.

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NASA Selects U.S. Small Business Technology Transfer Projects for ...

WASHINGTON (NASA PR) ? NASA has selected 14 proposals from small business and research institution teams to continue development of innovative technologies that are needed for future NASA missions and could become viable commercial products and services.

The Phase II selectees in NASA?s Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program may enter negotiations for possible contract awards, worth a combined total of approximately $9.8 million. High-tech firms in seven states submitted proposals in partnership with research institutions in nine states.

?As teams in our Small Business Technology Transfer Program move into their second phase of development, we?ll see innovative concepts mature into viable technologies that can be incorporated into NASA?s exploration plans and benefit our technology based economy,? said Michael Gazarik, NASA?s associate administrator for space technology in Washington. ?Through modest investments in technology development among American small business and research institution teams, we?re planting the seed corn that will keep NASA leading the way forward in space exploration, and America leading the world in high-tech business enterprises.?

Technologies selected for further development under Phase II will demonstrate the feasibility of new propellants for in-space propulsion, increased capabilities to perform autonomous robotic operations and in-situ robotic planetary analysis, and new methods for the manufacturing of advanced alloys.

The STTR Program uses a highly competitive, three-phase award system that provides collaborative opportunities between qualified small businesses, including women-owned and disadvantaged firms, and research institutions to address specific technology gaps in NASA?s programs. Selected projects provide a foundation for future technology developments and are complementary to other NASA research investments.

Firms and research institutions that participated in Phase I of the STTR program submitted 38 Phase II proposals. Selection criteria included technical merit and innovation, Phase I results, value to NASA, commercial potential and company capabilities.

Phase I is a feasibility study to evaluate the scientific and technical merit of an idea. Phase II will expand on the results of last year?s projects, with as much as $700,000 to support research for as long as two more years. Phase III is for the commercialization of the results of Phase II and requires private sector or non-STTR federal funding.

NASA?s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., manages the STTR Program with executive oversight by the Space Technology Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA?s field installations manage individual projects.

For a complete list of selected companies, visit:

http://sbir.nasa.gov

NASA?s Space Technology Mission Directorate is innovating, developing, testing and flying hardware for use in NASA?s future missions. For more information about NASA?s investment in space technology, visit

http://www.nasa.gov/spacetech

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Applied NanoFemto Technologies, LLC
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Lowell,?MA 01851-5201
Jarrod Vaillancourt (978) 761-4293
University of Massachusetts ? Lowell
600 Suffolk Street, Second Floor
Lowell,?MA 01854-2827
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Photonic Antenna Enhanced Middle Wave and Longwave Infrared Focal Plane Array with Low Noise and High Operating Temperature

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University of Texas ? Center for Electromechanics
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Canfield Joint ? Vibration Isolation System for High Precision Pointing

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University of California, Santa Barbara
552 University Rd.
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Materials and Structures Optimization / Process Development for the Mega-ROSA / ROSA Solar Array

Exquadrum, Inc.
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Glen Goede (760) 246-0279
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Hybrid Propulsion for Upper-Stage Boosters

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Florida Institute of Technology
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Sustainable Innovations, LLC
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VectorNav Technologies, LLC
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Did Asteroid Impacts Spark Life's 'Left-Handed' Molecules?

The mysterious bias of life on Earth toward molecules that skew one way and not the other could be due to how light shines in star- and planet-forming clouds, researchers say.

If correct, these findings suggest the molecules of life on Earth may initially have come from elsewhere in the cosmos, scientists added.

The organic molecules that form the basis of life on Earth are often chiral, meaning they come in two forms that are mirror images, much as right and left hands appear identical but are reversed versions of each other.

Strangely, the amino acids that make up proteins on Earth are virtually all "left-handed," even though it should be as easy to make the right-handed kind. Solving the mystery of why life came to prefer one kind of handedness over the other could shed light on the origins of life, scientists say. [7 Theories on the Origin of Life]

One possible cause for this bias might be the light shining on these molecules in space. One can think of all light waves as corkscrews that twist either one way or the other, a property known as circular polarization. Light circularly polarized one way can preferentially destroy molecules with one kind of handedness, while light circularly polarized the other way might suppress the other handedness.

To see how much light is circularly polarized in outer space, astronomers used a telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory to detect how light is polarized over a wide field of view across the sky encompassing about a quarter diameter of the moon.

The scientists focused on the Cat's Paw Nebula about 5,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. The nebula is one of the most active star-forming regions known in the Milky Way.

The researchers discovered that as much as 22 percent of light from the nebula was circularly polarized. This is the greatest degree of circular polarization yet seen in a star-forming region, and suggests circular polarization may be a universal feature of star- and planet-forming regions.

"Our findings show circular polarization is common in space," study lead author Jungmi Kwon, an astronomer at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, told SPACE.com.

Computer simulations the astronomers developed suggest this large amount of circular polarization is due to grains of dust around stars. Magnetic fields in the nebula align these dust grains, and light that scatters off these aligned grains end up circularly polarized ? dust on one side of the magnetic field gives light scattering off it one kind of circular polarization, while grains on the other side have the opposite effect.

"Until now, the origin of circular polarization was unclear and circular polarization was basically considered a rare feature," Kwon said.

Chemical reactions inside nebulas can manufacture amino acids. These molecules end up possessing a certain handedness depending on the light shining on them. The researchers suggest left-handed amino acids may then have rained down on Earth by piggybacking on space rocks, resulting in one handedness dominating the other.

"Left-handed amino acids produced by circular polarization in space can be delivered by meteorites," Kwon said.

The researchers will continue to look for circular polarization in other star- and planet-forming regions. They detailed their findings March 1 in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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Haptic Seat Tech Offers Good Vibrations - PickupTrucks.com News

Posted by Mark Williams | April 30, 2013

The science of touch is about to get personal. GMC announced it will offer "haptic" safety technology on the 2014 GMC Sierra 1500 pickup truck as part of a class-leading safety strategy with the new vehicle, which will be available this summer

The optional Active Alert Seat is tied into the lane departure warning system and the collision alert program. It is controlled by sophisticated camera technology that sits behind the rearview mirror. When the computer detects you wandering out of your lane (without your turn signal on), it will cause the seat to vibrate on the side you are wandering toward. Likewise, if the system sees another vehicle approaching at an unsafe speed and determines a collision could be possible, it will alert you with an appropriate amount of vibration along with warning lights and chimes.

This is just another in a series of new technologies found in both the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500; GM recently announced the all-new midlevel EcoTec3 5.3-liter V-8 engine that powers the pickups will offer the best highway fuel economy in the half-ton segment.

This haptic seat technology is a first for any pickup truck and currently is only available in the newest Cadillacs.

We'll have more to say about this groundbreaking technology when we get to drive the new Sierra later this summer. Pricing for the new safety alert technology will be released closer to the truck's on-sale date.

To read the full GM press release, click here.

Source: http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2013/04/haptic-seat-tech-offers-good-vibrations.html

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