Ziphius aquatic drone hits Kickstarter, we go hands-on with an updated prototype

If you followed our Insert Coin: New Challengers contest at our first-ever Expand event, you may recognize this guy. The Ziphius, an WiFi-enabled aquatic drone powered by a Raspberry Pi, won $25,000 in prize money back in San Francisco, and three months later it's taking the next big plunge: launching on Kickstarter. The bot launched its crowd-funding campaign tonight -- at Engadget+ gdgt live in NYC, no less -- and the Ziphius team says the $125,000 in requested money will go toward refining the device's mold for the final-production version. As you can see from our gallery below, the package already looks sleeker, and it comes in pink along with several other new colors. Backers of all pocket sizes will be rewarded with everything from their name on the website ($1 pledge) to a Ziphius of their own ($195 and up). Click the source to check out the Kickstarter page for yourself and donate if you're so inclined; the project has 29 days to meet that lofty funding goal.

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Brazil: Thousands protest anew, but crowds smaller

People march toward the Mineirao stadium during a protest in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Saturday, June 22, 2013. Demonstrators once again took to the streets in Brazil on Saturday, continuing a wave of protests that have shaken the nation and pushed the government to promise a crackdown on corruption and greater spending on social services. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

People march toward the Mineirao stadium during a protest in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Saturday, June 22, 2013. Demonstrators once again took to the streets in Brazil on Saturday, continuing a wave of protests that have shaken the nation and pushed the government to promise a crackdown on corruption and greater spending on social services. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

A man wearing a mask depicting Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, holds a banner criticizing her yesterday speech during a protest in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Saturday, June 22, 2013. Demonstrators once again took to the streets of Brazil on Saturday, continuing a wave of protests that have shaken the nation and pushed the government to promise a crackdown on corruption and greater spending on social services. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

People march toward the Mineirao stadium, before the start of the Confederations Cup soccer match between Japan and Mexico, during a protest in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Saturday, June 22, 2013. Demonstrators once again took to the streets of Brazil on Saturday, continuing a wave of protests that have shaken the nation and pushed the government to promise a crackdown on corruption and greater spending on social services. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

A riot police officer uses his front teeth to hold onto to a non-lethal grenade during an anti-government protest near the Cidade de Deus, or City of God slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, June 21, 2013. City centers around Brazil were still smoldering on Friday after 1 million protesters took to the streets amid growing calls on social media for a general strike next week. While most protesters were peaceful, some small groups clashed violently with police, who responded in some cases with tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

A message by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is broadcast live at the bus station in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, June 21, 2013. The Brazilian ended her near-silence about more than a week of massive, violent protests, saying in a prime time TV broadcast Friday that peaceful demonstrations were part of a strong democracy but that violence could not be tolerated. She promised to make improvements to public services, but said it couldn't be done overnight. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

SAO PAULO (AP) ? Tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators again took to streets in several Brazilian cities Saturday after the president broke a long silence to promise reforms, but the early protests were smaller and less violent than those of recent days.

Police estimated that about 60,000 demonstrators gathered in a central square in the city of Belo Horizonte, largely to denounce legislation that would limit the power of federal prosecutors to investigate crimes in a country where many are fed up with the high rate of robberies and killings. Many fear the law would also hinder attempts to jail corrupt politicians and other powerful figures.

In Belo Horizonte, police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who tried to pass through a barrier and hurled rocks at a car dealership.

President Dilma Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla who was tortured during Brazil's military dictatorship, made a televised 10-minute appearance on Friday night backing the right to peaceful protest but sharply condemning violence, vandalism and looting.

She promised to be tougher on corruption and said she would meet with peaceful protesters, governors and the mayors of big cities to create a national plan to improve urban transportation and use oil royalties for investments in education. Much of the anger behind the protests has been aimed at costly bus fares, high taxes and poor public services such as schools and health care.

Many Brazilians, shocked by a week of protests and violence, hoped that Rousseff's words would soothe tensions and help avoid more violence, but not all were convinced by her promises of action.

A rapidly growing crowd blocked Sao Paulo's main business street, Avenida Paulista, to press their demands.

Victoria Villela, a 21-year-old university who joined the crowd, said she was "frustrated and exhausted by the endless corruption of our government."

"It was good Dilma spoke, but this movement has moved too far, there was not much she could really say. All my friends were talking on Facebook about how she said nothing that satisfied them. I think the protests are going to continue for a long time and the crowds will still be huge."

Around her, fathers held young boys aloft on their shoulders, older women gathered in clusters with their faces bearing yellow and green stripes, the colors of Brazil's flag.

In the northeastern city of Salvador, where Brazil's national football team was set to play Italy in a match for the Confederations Cup, some 5,000 protesters gathered about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the stadium, shouting demands for better schools and transportation and denouncing heavy spending on next year's World Cup.

About 1,000 demonstrators trying to reach the stadium were kept at bay by police firing rubber bullets and using pepper spray.

Rodrigo Costa, a 32-year-old civil engineer in the city, said that it was good just to see a popular movement force "a head of state to go on TV and talk about the problems of the country."

"She didn't touch on all the issues that the people want to see improved," Costa said. "But I think that just in general it was a good message."

Brazil's news media, which had blasted Rousseff in recent days for her lack of response to the protests, seemed largely unimpressed with her careful speech, but noted the difficult situation facing a government trying to understand a mass movement with no central leaders and a flood of demands.

With "no objective information about the nature of the organization of the protests," wrote Igor Gielow in a column for Brazil's biggest newspaper, Folha de S. Paulo, "Dilma resorted to an innocuous speech to cool down spirits."

At its height, some 1 million anti-government demonstrators took to the streets nationwide on Thursday night with grievances ranging from public services to the billions of dollars spent preparing for international sports events.

Outside the stadium in Belo Horizonte where Mexico and Japan met in a Confederations Cup game, Dadiana Gamaleliel, a 32-year-old physiotherapist, held up a banner that read: "Not against the games, in favor of the nation."

"I am protesting on behalf of the whole nation because this must be a nation where people have a voice ... we don't have a voice anymore," she said.

She said Rousseff's speech wouldn't "change anything."

"She spoke in a general way and didn't say what she would do," she said. "We will continue this until we are heard."

Social media and mass emails were buzzing with calls for a general strike next week. But Brazil's two largest unions, the Central Workers Union and the Union Force, said they knew nothing about such an action, though they do support the protests.

At the protest in Salvador, 32-year-old public worker Mariana Santos said that demonstrators want Rousseff and the rest of Brazil's government to be held accountable if they fail to keep their promises.

"Dilma said she was going to make a pact with unions, students, with everyone, to fix things," Santos said. "If they hold the World Cup and she has not done what she said she will do, the people may decide they don't want the Cup."

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Associated press writers Tales Azzoni and Ricardo Zuniga in Salvador and Rob Harris in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, contributed to this report.

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Chimp victim faces battle in appeal of $150M suit

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) ? Blocked in her bid to sue the state for $150 million, the woman mauled and disfigured by a chimpanzee in 2009 faces an uphill battle as she appeals to the legislature.

Charla Nash, who was blinded, lost both hands and underwent a face transplant, argues that officials knew the chimp was dangerous but didn't do anything about it.

While Nash has lawmakers' sympathies, they deny most appeals of decisions by the state's claims commissioner. Nash would also have to overcome a ban on laws that benefit one person and, experts say, a reluctance to authorize a potentially costly lawsuit in a state with financial woes.

"I would say there's a pretty strong burden of proof on a party that's seeking to challenge the claims commissioner's determination," said Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, D-New Haven. "There's a fairly high threshold in order to hold the state accountable."

The commissioner on June 14 approved the state's motion to dismiss Nash's claim, saying the law at the time allowed private ownership of chimpanzees and didn't require officials to seize legal animals. The state generally is immune to lawsuits, unless allowed by the claims commissioner.

Nash's lawyer, Charles Willinger Jr., said the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection should be held responsible for not seizing the chimpanzee before the attack. Several months before the attack, a biologist warned state officials in a memo that the chimpanzee could seriously hurt someone if it felt threatened, saying "it is an accident waiting to happen."

That letter helps Nash's case, said state Rep. Arthur O'Neill, a Southbury Republican and member of the Judiciary Committee that will hear her appeal.

"I think there are some interesting questions about what the role of the Department of Environmental Protection was and the degree to which they have any kind of responsibility for people who have these relatively exotic animals," O'Neill said. "Clearly there are issues. It's not like she has no claim on either our sympathies or on the potential for a sense of responsibility by the state towards her."

But O'Neill said sympathy alone would not be enough for Nash to prevail. He recalled a losing appeal by a man who won $5.8 million in the lottery but missed the deadline to collect it by days in 1996.

O'Neill said lawmakers also could approve a financial award for Nash, but he noted her claim is for $150 million. "I really don't know that the legislature is going to award that kind of money," he said.

Nash reached a $4 million settlement last year with the estate of the chimp's owner, Sandra Herold, who died in 2010.

Nash had gone to Herold's home on Feb. 16, 2009, to help lure her friend's 200-pound chimpanzee, named Travis, back inside. But the chimp went berserk and ripped off Nash's nose, lips, eyelids and hands before being shot to death by a police officer.

Nash, 59, now lives in a nursing home outside Boston and requires extensive 24-hour care.

Even if lawmakers vote to allow Nash to sue, there would be legal problems with that decision, said New Haven lawyer Joel Faxon, who is not involved in Nash's case. He said the legislature would have to pass a special act pertaining to one person and that kind of law has been deemed unconstitutional. Many cases rejected by the claims commissioner but later approved by lawmakers have been dismissed by courts because of that issue, he said.

Nash would need to show that granting her the right to sue would serve a larger public purpose, such as protecting others endangered, as well, O'Neill said.

"As a practical matter, if she's going to come to the legislature asking us to pass a law giving her permission to sue the state, she needs to show there is more to it than just her own personal benefit," O'Neill said.

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My son is two years old, and a child psychiatrist just made us "official" today. She did say that since he's so young, she can't tell us where on the spectrum he's going to end up, but the signs are clear and she's confident in the diagnosis. We've been involved with Early Childhood Intervention since he was 20 months old, when his pediatrician noticed some missed milestones and referred us to them. ECI has been very helpful, providing us with an occupational therapist, a speech therapist, and we'll be starting with an ABA therapist in a couple weeks. I can't say enough good things about them, they've provided us with the tools and support we needed and my son has done well with them.

My concern is that he'll be turning three soon, and we'll no longer be able to stay there. Our case manager tells us that the school district will be taking over, but I am strongly resistant to the idea of turning my child over to strangers in a strange environment and expecting them to give him the same level of care and attention he receives at home from his own family. I homeschool my daughter, and I'd really rather take the bulk of the responsibility for my son's education as well. That being said, I know that there are some things I'm going to need a specialist to help with.

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The governments of the UK and Malaysia have agreed a deal to end restrictions on flights between the two countries.

All previous limits on the number of services between the UK and Malaysia have been removed as have restrictions on flights to onward destinations from the two countries. Airlines can also operate services within each other?s countries.

Aviation minister Simon Burns (pictured) announced the deal today (June 21) and added that he hoped the liberalised agreement would lead to greater choice and lower fares for travellers.

Currently only Malaysia Airlines operates between the UK and Malaysia with twice-daily flights from Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur. Air Asia X cancelled its service from Gatwick to Kuala Lumpur in March 2012 ? only six months after switching the flights from Stansted.

Burns said: ?This is excellent news for consumers and the aviation industry alike. I very much hope that it will generate competition among airlines, allowing passengers to reap the benefits of greater choice and lower airfares.

?It is one of the most liberal agreements of its type worldwide and I am pleased that the UK continues to set the standard in aviation liberalisation.?

The removal of the limit on the number of services between the two countries will come into effect from October 27, 2013.

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Feds: Nuclear waste may be leaking into soil from Hanford site

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Government officials said radioactive waste might be leaking into the soil from a nuclear site in Hanford, Washington state. Governor Jay Inslee said the situation should be treated with the "utmost seriousness."

By Shannon Dininny, The Associated Press

An underground tank holding some of the worst radioactive waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site might be leaking into the soil.

The U.S. Energy Department said workers at Washington state's Hanford Nuclear Reservation detected higher radioactivity levels under tank AY-102 during a routine inspection Thursday.

Spokeswoman Lori Gamache said the department has notified Washington officials and is investigating the leak further. An engineering analysis team will conduct additional sampling and video inspection to determine the source of the contamination, she said.

State and federal officials have long said leaking tanks at Hanford do not pose an immediate threat to the environment or public health.

The largest waterway in the Pacific Northwest ? the Columbia River ? is still at least 5 miles away and the closest communities are several miles downstream.

However, if this dangerous waste escapes the tank into the soil, it raises concerns about it traveling to the groundwater and someday potentially reaching the river.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said in a statement that the situation "must be treated with the utmost seriousness."

Inslee said additional testing is expected to take several days.

"Our state experts confirm that there is no immediate public health threat. Given the relatively early detection of this potential leak, the river is not at immediate risk of contamination should it be determined that a leak has occurred outside the tank," he said.

Tom Carpenter, executive director of the Seattle-based advocacy group Hanford Challenge, said, "this is really, really bad. They are going to pollute the ground and the groundwater with some of the nastiest stuff, and they don't have a solution for it."

AY-102 is one of Hanford's 28 tanks with two walls, which were installed years ago when single-shell tanks began leaking. Some of the worst liquid in those tanks was pumped into the sturdier double-shell tanks.

The tanks are now beyond their intended life span. The Energy Department announced last year that AY-102 was leaking between its two walls, but it said then that no waste had escaped.

Two radionuclides comprise much of the radioactivity in Hanford's tanks: cesium-137 and strontium-90. Both take hundreds of years to decay, and exposure to either would increase a person's risk of developing cancer.

At the height of World War II, the federal government created Hanford in the remote sagebrush of eastern Washington as part of a hush-hush project to build the atomic bomb. The site ultimately produced plutonium for the world's first atomic blast and for one of two atomic bombs dropped on Japan, and it continued production through the Cold War.

Today, it is the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, with cleanup expected to last decades. The effort ? with a price tag of about $2 billion annually ? has cost taxpayers $40 billion to date and is estimated will cost $115 billion more.

The most challenging task so far has been the removal of highly radioactive waste from the 177 aging, underground tanks and construction of a plant to treat that waste.

The Energy Department recently notified Washington and Oregon that it may miss two upcoming deadlines to empty some tanks and to complete a key part of the plant to handle some of the worst waste.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz visited the site Wednesday for the first time since being confirmed by the Senate in May. He said he intends to have a new plan by the end of the summer for resolving the technical problems with the waste treatment plant.

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Iraqis vote in 2 Sunni-dominated provinces

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) ? Iraqis in two Sunni-dominated provinces voted Thursday in provincial elections marked by tight security that left streets in former insurgent strongholds largely deserted for much of the day.

The country is confronting its worst outbreak of violence in years and relations between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite Muslims remain fraught.

The two provinces where the voting was taking place ? Anbar and Ninevah ? have seen some of the largest rallies in a months-long wave of Sunni protests against the Shiite-led government.

Authorities imposed a vehicle ban in major cities in the two provinces to protect against car bombings as voting got underway for candidates who will serve on provincial-level councils. Thousands of policemen and soldiers were deployed to secure the vote.

In Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of the Iraqi capital, security forces sealed off the city with checkpoints that prevented cars from getting in. Streets in the morning were empty except for ambulances, police and army vehicles, and a small number of cars permitted by electoral authorities.

Voters trickling into polling centers were searched twice before being allowed in. Police offered some voters rides to the polls in pickup tricks, as did political parties using minibuses emblazoned with pictures of candidates.

Fallujah voter Fuad Enad Mohammed, 26, said he wanted to see change for his Sunni sect in Anbar.

"With these elections, we will try to bring officials better than the ones in the previous council who didn't offer anything and were not real defenders of Sunnis," he said.

Local authorities eventually lifted the vehicle bans in the afternoon, apparently to encourage people to head to the voting centers by car instead of walking under the scorching sun.

Iraqis voted in 12 of Iraq's 18 provinces two months ago. Officials had delayed elections in Anbar and Ninevah because of what they said were security concerns, though some Iraqis questioned that rationale and dismissed it as a political ploy related to the unrest in the provinces.

Some 2.8 million Iraqis are eligible to vote in more than 1,200 polling centers the two provinces. That figure includes nearly 100,000 members of the security forces, many of whom voted in special elections on Monday so they could be on hand to secure the balloting.

Hundreds of candidates from 28 political blocs in Ninevah and 16 in Anbar are hoping to secure seats. There are 39 seats up for grabs in Ninevah and 30 in Anbar.

Among the groups hoping for a strong showing are Sunni parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi's United bloc, Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Al-Mutlaq's Arab Iraqiya coalition and the secular but Sunni-dominated Iraqiya bloc headed by Shiite politician Ayad Allawi.

The provincial councils have some say over regional security matters and have the ability to negotiate local business deals and allocate government funds. But provincial council members frequently complain that they are hamstrung by restrictions from federal authorities over how to spend the money.

The councils also choose provincial governors and have the right under Iraq's constitution to call for a referendum to organize into a federal region ? a move that could give them considerable autonomy from the central government in Baghdad.

Some protesters and political leaders in Sunni areas, including Anbar and Ninevah, have been agitating for the creation of an autonomous Sunni region, though it is unclear if they could generate broad support for such a move.

Muhieddin Abid, a 45-year old supermarket owner and father of two, cast his vote while wearing the traditional white Arabic shirtdress in Fallujah.

He said he hoped to "prevent the corrupt politicians, the thieves and the officials who care only about their personal interests" from winning seats on the next provincial council.

The April vote was Iraq's first election since the U.S. military withdrawal, and was carried out without major bloodshed on voting day. But insurgents have tried to undermine the electoral process by killing candidates.

A total of 17 candidates have been assassinated ahead of this year's election, with the bulk of them from Ninevah, according to Jose Maria Aranaz, the chief electoral adviser at the United Nations mission to Iraq.

No major violence was reported Thursday morning.

But police and hospital officials said seven people were killed and 24 were wounded when two bombs exploded simultaneously on a soccer field the previous night while teenagers and young adults were playing. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.

Iraq's largely autonomous northern Kurdish region, which comprises three provinces, will hold its own local elections in September. No vote is scheduled in the ethnically disputed province of Kirkuk, which has not had a chance to elect local officials since 2005 because residents cannot agree on a power-sharing formula there.

Results from Thursday's vote are not expected for several days.

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Schreck reported from Baghdad. Associated Press writer Sinan Salaheddin contributed reporting.

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Hope Solo?likely to get?1st start since surgery

By TOM CANAVAN

AP Sports Writer

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updated 6:50 p.m. ET June 18, 2013

MONTCLAIR, N.J. (AP) - Hope Solo appears ready to return to the starting lineup for the United States women's soccer team.

While Tom Sermanni isn't ready to say whether Solo will start Thursday against South Korea at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J., the U.S. coach said Tuesday that just having his goaltender - less than four months after having wrist surgery - back on the field is a plus for his team.

It showed last weekend, when Solo played for the first time since appearing in a game against Scotland in February.

Taking over in the second half of a 4-1 win over South Korea at Foxborough, Mass., on Saturday night, the 31-year-old and two-time Olympic gold medalist returned in style. With the U.S. leading 2-1, Solo dove to her right and pushed a shot by Ji Soyun.

"It's just her presence," Sermanni said of Solo. "She was barely on the field for a minute the other night and came up with a fantastic save. That's the kind of thing that sets her apart from a lot of other goalkeepers and makes her probably No. 1 in the world. She has done especially well with her rehab to get back this quick and just having her presence gives everybody a lift, and raises that level of confidence another step."

Solo believes she still has a long way to go to get her left wrist back to 100 percent. The good news is that she still has about two years to get ready for the 2015 World Cup.

"Everything is average or above average, but I want to be great, whether it's distribution, left foot, right foot, my technique catching, diving," Solo said after the team finished a two-plus hour workout at Montclair State University. "All across the board, I want my game to be the best it can be.

"Right now, I am OK."

Solo said 2012 has been somewhat of a slow year after winning the gold medal at the Olympics in London. Even the 10-game tour after winning gold, the team wasn't working on much.

"Maybe we were drinking too much. Maybe we were going on vacation," she said. "That's what people tend to do. You take yourself away and you come out driven and ready to work hard leading into the next event. I think everyone is getting back into things."

To some, the comments might sound controversial. That's Solo though. She has spoken her mind throughout her career, whether it was not playing in a World Cup game in 2007, or pondering the conduct of some fans. She is refreshingly blunt.

The United States has been impressive in this so-called off year. The team is 8-0-2 in 2013, and the game on Thursday will be the last until September. The women will bring a 33-game unbeaten streak into the contest and a 71-game home unbeaten streak.

Solo smiled when asked about her return, including the big save right off the bat.

"Yeah, goalkeepers want to make saves," she said. "At the same time, I have so much more respect for the game now. I feel like I am involved in the game when I am organizing our defense (or) when I am coming out for crosses. I don't need that big-time save to feel like I am a part of the game. My bread and butter is coming out for crosses in a pack of people and our one-vs.-ones.

"At the end of the day, what happens in the 89th minute or the first minute, I think - at this level - I have to stay focused for the entire 90-some minutes."

The wrist still gives Solo some problems, but it is nothing in comparison to the shoulder surgery and rehab she underwent in 2010 to get ready for the World Cup the following year.

"That was the worst agonizing thing I had ever had," Solo said of the eight-hour rehab sessions. "The wrist was a lot easier, so to speak. Now I am feeling pain a lot more and I am trying to figure out exactly how to tape it. My strength isn't where it should be, but I am overall pleased with the surgery."

Solo laughed when asked if she knew whether she would start Thursday since Sermanni deferred to goaltending coach Paul Rogers.

"Maybe," she said, "he'll tell us before the game."

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Iran wins at S.Korea, both teams qualify for WCup

By JOHN DUERDEN

Associated Press

Associated Press Sports

updated 11:04 a.m. ET June 18, 2013

ULSAN, South Korea (AP) -Iran beat South Korea 1-0 on Tuesday in a match that secured both teams a spot at next year's World Cup, though the Asian hosts only just scraped through and had to wait until after the final whistle to know their fate.

Iran finished top of Group A in the final stage of Asian qualifying, with South Korea in second place - level on points with Uzbekistan but ahead on goal difference.

Uzbekistan came from behind to win 5-1 at home against Qatar. However, the storming finish ultimately came up just short, leaving the Uzbeks with a goal difference of plus-five and South Korea on plus-six.

Iran's winner came in the 60th minute, when Kim Young-gwon failed to clear a speculative ball forward down Iran's right wing. Reza Ghoochannejad robbed him of possession, sprinted clear and sent a curling left-foot shot beyond goalkeeper Jung Sung-ryeong.

South Korea, not wanting to put its fate in the hands of the game in Uzbekistan, pressed forward for the remainder of the game but failed to find an equalizer.

Kim almost made up for his mistake, but his close-range shot in the 86th minute produced a reflex save from keeper Rahman Ahmadi and Jang Hyun-soo's follow-up effort was also blocked.

"My team played with a realistic approach, to try and wait for a weak point in the Korean team and with a counter-attacking attitude," Iran coach Carlos Queiroz said.

"The goal came in one of those situations and fortunately, when Korea created opportunities, our players fought for our lives. The team played with fantastic team spirit with great practical discipline and enormous determination."

The win set off celebrations across Iran, where the government had given a rare approval for supporters to spill into the streets. Outgoing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and president-elect Hasan Rowhani in separate messages congratulated the team for reaching the World Cup.

As Iran players and officials celebrated wildly on the pitch, the South Korean squad and fans were kept in suspense while the last couple of minutes of the Uzbekistan game were played out, before they knew they were also through to next year's tournament in Brazil.

"We qualified but didn't finish with a satisfactory result," said outgoing coach Choi Kang-hee. "Today was a disappointing defeat but the players gave their best and I wish them luck in Brazil."

South Korea, missing a number of European-based stars, dominated the first half and despite going close through Son Heung-min and Lee Myung-joo, were unable to break down a well-drilled Iranian backline.

Son, who recently joined German team Bayer Leverkusen for 10 million euros, shot over from close range while Lee broke free of the Iran defenders but was unable to dribble around the goalkeeper.

After Iran's successful smash-and-grab goal in the 60th, South Korea's players were made aware Uzbekistan was rapidly closing the goal-difference gap, so pushed forward relentlessly in search of an equalizer.

Though it never came, South Korea had done enough in earlier games to secure an eighth-straight World Cup appearance.

Iran's berth in Brazil will be its fourth appearance at football's main event, having last reached the final tournament in Germany in 2006.

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Jozy Altidore scored for the fourth-straight game and the United States defeated Honduras 1-0 to stay atop CONCACAF qualifying with 13 pts.

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Gun control opponents 'will pay a price?

Vice President Joe Biden (Fernando Vergara/AP)

Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday, seeking to revive efforts to pass gun-reform legislation in Congress, warned lawmakers opposed to reform that Americans aren't on their side.

"The country has changed" since the deadly shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Biden said during remarks delivered on Tuesday afternoon in the White House's South Court auditorium. Lawmakers "will pay a price?a political price ... for not getting engaged and dealing with gun safety."

Two months after the Senate failed to support the expansion of background checks for gun purchasers despite intense pressure from the administration, victims rights groups and others, the White House announced on Tuesday that the issue remains a top priority for the administration and its supporters in Congress and elsewhere.

"This fight isn?t over. Far from it," Biden said.

Before Biden's remarks, the White House, in an attempt to demonstrate commitment to the issue of reducing gun violence, announced on Tuesday that the administration has completed or made progress?Biden later described it as "major progress"?on 21 out of 23 executive actions. The actions were produced by a gun violence task force the vice president led after the Newtown shooting and were issued by President Barack Obama in January.

Progress, Biden said, has been made on ending the ban on government research of gun violence, creating incentives for states to share information about potentially dangerous gun purchasers, enhancing the tracking of guns recovered in criminal investigations and more.

He also announced that guides from the departments of Education, Justice, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services that can help develop "high-quality emergency operations plans" for K-12 schools, higher-education institutions and places of worship have been released. He said 100 school districts nationwide now have increased access to resources including federal training on shooter situations.

?The Administration has more work to do to complete the remainder of the executive actions that the President announced in January," a progress report released on Tuesday by the White House reads. "But Congress must also act. Passing common-sense gun safety legislation, including expanding background checks and making gun trafficking a federal crime, remains the single most important step we could take to reduce gun violence.?

The report repeats a line often used during the Senate?s debate of expanded background checks: "A vast majority of the American people? support these steps.

?It is time for Congress to take action and get this done," the report adds.

Many stakeholders in the gun debate believed the administration?s best chance to get Congress to pass gun-reform measures died with the failed vote for expanded background checks in April, when Newtown was fresh in the minds of the public and politicians and many interest groups were active in the debate over gun violence.

But the administration and Senate Democratic leaders were unable to wrangle support from key Democrats from guns rights states in addition to select Republicans.

?It came down to politics,? Obama said as he chastised Congress from the Rose Garden the night of the April 17 vote. ?They caved to the pressure.?

Obama added, ?All in all, this was a pretty shameful day in Washington."

The White House says it has continued to publicly court Congress, but other than Biden?s recent event on mental illness, it has held few public events related to gun violence.

When pressed about whether the administration is pursuing potential swing Democrats in the Senate on the issue of background checks with the same intensity as it did during the Senate?s spring gun debate, the White House has mostly declined to offer any specifics other than to confirm that conversations are ongoing.

On Monday, a senior administration official once again declined to release details about these types of meetings, saying the White House remains "engaged with members of Congress" on the issue.

During his remarks on Tuesday, Biden declined to mention lawmakers by name, but said that "he knows" some senators who voted against expanded background checks "wonder now whether that was a prudent vote."

He added that he's received "phone calls from those members of Congress?many of whom voted no" asking for the administration to "find a way for us to revisit this."

The vice president said, "We need to make sure the voices of those we lost are the loudest ones we hear in this fight."

The two executive actions where progress has not been made, according to the report, are confirming a director to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (something up to Congress as the administration has already nominated Todd Jones, who has served as acting director) and hashing out mental health benefits with Health and Human Services.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/biden-tout-progress-executive-actions-reduce-gun-violence-114010300.html

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Protein essential for normal heart function identified

June 17, 2013 ? A study by researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, shows that a protein called MCL-1, which promotes cell survival, is essential for normal heart function.

Their study, published in the June 15 online issue of the journal Genes & Development, found that deletion of the gene encoding MCL-1 in adult mouse hearts led to rapid heart failure within two weeks, and death within a month.

MCL-1 (myeloid cell leukemia-1) is an anti-apoptotic protein, meaning that it prevents or delays the death of a cell. It is also a member of the BCL-2 family of proteins that regulate mitochondria -- the cell's power producers -- and cell death. Aberrant expression of anti-apoptotic BCL-2 family members is one of the defining features of cancer cells, and is strongly associated with resistance to current therapies. Thus, these proteins are currently major targets in the development of new therapies for patients with cancer.

But, while MCL-1 is up regulated in a number of human cancers, contributing to the overgrowth of cancer cells, it is found at high levels in normal heart tissue. Additionally, the researchers found that autophagy -- a process which deals with mitochondrial maintenance and is normally induced by myocardial stress -- was impaired in mice with MCL-1 deficient hearts.

In summary, the study demonstrated that the loss of MCL-1 led to rapid dysfunction of mitochondria, impaired autophagy and heart failure, even in the absence of cardiac stress.

"Cardiac injury, such as a heart attack, causes levels of MCL-1 to drop in the heart, and this process may increase cardiac cell death," said ?sa B. Gustafsson, PhD, an associate professor at UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. "Therefore, preserving normal levels of this protein in cardiac tissue could reduce damage after a heart attack and prevent progression to heart failure."

By compromising both autophagy and mitochondrial function, MCL-1 inhibitors are likely to affect the cells' energy supply. "Our findings raise concerns about the potential cardiac toxicity of drugs that block MCL-1 -- drugs that have entered clinical trials because they increase cancer cell death," said the study's first author, Robert L. Thomas.

Additional contributors to the paper include David J. Roberts, Dieter A. Kubli, Youngil Lee, Melissa N. Quinsay, Jarvis B. Owens and Shigeki Miyamoto, UC San Diego; and Kimberlee M. Fischer, Mark A. Sussman, San Diego State University.

The study was supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health (grants R01HL087023 and 715 R01HL101217).

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/oLzPaLOztVo/130617122504.htm

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Hugs And Tears At Lafayette's Last String Orchestra Concert

DNAinfo Chicago:

HUMBOLDT PARK ? It was an emotional 90 minutes, but that was to be expected.

The much-loved Lafayette Elementary School string orchestra performed its final concert for other students and parents Friday afternoon, capping off a long, passionate battle to save the school.

"It's shocking," said parent Rosemary Vega, choking up as she spoke. "I have no more words. We fought and fought and fought to keep this going, something so good for these kids, and it was snatched from under them."

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Mandela remains in South African hospital

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? Relatives of Nelson Mandela have visited the former South African president in a hospital where he is being treated for a lung infection.

Zenani Dlamini, one of Mandela's daughters, was among those visiting the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader on Saturday, his eighth day in a Pretoria hospital.

President Jacob Zuma said Thursday that Mandela was continuing to improve but remains in serious condition.

Mandela spent 27 years in prison during white racist rule. He was freed in 1990 and became South Africa's first black president in elections in 1994.

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Paul Ryan: ?I will debate anybody? who says immigration bill is ?amnesty?

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Earlier this year, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul warned lawmakers not to trip over loaded phrases like "pathway to citizenship" and "amnesty" to describe the effort to overhaul immigration. Doing so, Paul said, would polarize the debate over reform?and he was right.

Not surprisingly, opponents of the immigration bill regularly refer to it as an offer of amnesty to immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, while proponents throw around the loosely defined term "pathway to citizenship" to see who is for it and, so, on their "side."

Now that there's actually an immigration bill making its way through the Senate and a similar version coming in the House, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who support the effort are pushing back against opponents who use the A-word to frame the bill.

On Wednesday, Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, who has supported forms of immigration reform since he was a House staffer in the 1990s, declared that he would "debate anybody" who calls the current bipartisan effort "amnesty."

"Earned legalization is not amnesty," Ryan said during a forum on immigration sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers. "I will debate anybody who tries to suggest that these ideas that are moving through Congress are amnesty. They're not. Amnesty is wiping the slate clean and not paying any penalty for having done something wrong."

Ryan pointed to provisions baked into the Senate bill from the beginning that require those in the United States to pay a fine, back taxes, undergo background checks and enter a years-long probationary period before earning citizenship, a process that can take up to 15 years.

"That," Ryan said, "is not amnesty."

During the forum, Paul also said he was confident a bill offering unauthorized immigrants a path to citizenship could pass the Republican-majority House. He added, however, that instead of passing the comprehensive bill as one package like in the Senate, the House may need to break it into different parts to secure passage.

"One big bill usually crashes under its own weight. That's what we had in 2006. But if we had a bill that's broken up into a few pieces, all of which can join in the end of a process, then you can get all of these things moving," Ryan said. "That's what I think we'll end up doing in the House. I think an earned legalization?not amnesty?an earned legalization process which deals with all of these issues, including the undocumented population, is something that I believe the House can and will deal with."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-debate-anybody-says-immigration-bill-amnesty-195916824.html

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Putin says Assad could have avoided war, criticizes West

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could have avoided civil war by responding more quickly to demands for political change, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.

In comments to Russia's English-language state television network RT, Putin repeated that Russia is not acting as an advocate for Assad and blamed the West for violent upheaval in the Middle East.

Putin's remarks signaled no change in Russia's position on Syria. Moscow says it is not trying to prop up Assad but that his exit must not be a precondition for a negotiated resolution of a conflict that has killed more than 80,000 people so far.

"The country was ripe for serious changes, and the leadership should have felt that in time and started making changes. Then what is happening would not have happened," Putin said.

Pointing to violence in Iraq, Libya, Syria and other states, Putin said: "Why is this happening? Because certain people from outside think that if you shape the whole region under the same style, which some people like and some call democracy, then there will be peace and order. That is not so at all."

(Reporting by Alexei Anishchuk; Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Andrew Roche)

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PET medical image analysis improved in order to optimize radiotherapy treatments

Public release date: 11-Jun-2013
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Elena Prieto-Azkarate, a graduate in Telecommunications Engineering at the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre and member of the Nuclear Medicine Service of the University College Hospital of Navarre, has implemented 12 algorithms to process medical images produced by means of PET (Positron Emission Tomography). As she points out in her PhD thesis, read at the NUP/UPNA, the results obtained are highly promising and this technique could be very useful indeed.She has also developed a graphics interface that will enable the doctor or oncologist to use this technique in clinical practice comfortably, rapidly and intuitively.

The research comes within the field of biomedical engineering and was carried out through collaboration between the Nuclear Medicine Service of the University College Hospital of Navarre and the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre. The thesis is entitled "Segmentacin mediante umbralizacin automtica en tomografa por emisin de positrones" (Segmentation through automatic thresholding in positron emission tomography).

The PET technique makes it possible to gather molecular images that provide information about the biological and metabolic behaviour of tumours.Recent years have seen the emergence of great interest in the potential of images of this type in the planning of courses of radiotherapy treatment.In this planning the most critical process is the exact delimitation of the volume of the tumour requiring treatment.

So Elena Prieto has improved the segmentation technique of PET images."The segmentation of an image," she explains, "is an image processing technique that allows objects to be delimited; tumours, in this case.This thesis sought to conduct research into and develop new segmentation techniques to turn PET (Positron Emission Tomography) into a reliable alternative for treatment planning in Radiotherapeutic Oncology."

Promising results

Specifically, the researcher has worked on one particular image segmentation technique:thresholding."Automatic thresholding allows the edges of the tumour to be automatically delimited over the image, which is of tremendous importance since the spatial resolution of images of this kind hampers manual delimitation."

The analysed images taken from patients were obtained at the University College Hospital of Navarre thanks to funding from the Carlos III Institute of Health (Spanish Ministry of Health and Consumption)through a FIS project, and the company Siemens HealthCare. Two different PET tomographs were used in the work to acquire the images so that the automatic thresholdingcould be evaluated under a broad range of conditions.All the images obtained have been made available over the Internet in order to provide a common validation framework for any segmentation technique.

"The results on experimental images have been highly promising," she concludes,"and it has been possible to achieve an improvementoverthe standard technique in the clinical images coming from high-resolution PET tomographs." What is more, "the technique used could be highly useful when segmenting images obtained in the state-of-the-art clinical PET/CT tomographs."

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Contact: Oihane Lakar Iraizoz
o.lakar@elhuyar.com
34-943-363-040
Elhuyar Fundazioa

Elena Prieto-Azkarate, a graduate in Telecommunications Engineering at the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre and member of the Nuclear Medicine Service of the University College Hospital of Navarre, has implemented 12 algorithms to process medical images produced by means of PET (Positron Emission Tomography). As she points out in her PhD thesis, read at the NUP/UPNA, the results obtained are highly promising and this technique could be very useful indeed.She has also developed a graphics interface that will enable the doctor or oncologist to use this technique in clinical practice comfortably, rapidly and intuitively.

The research comes within the field of biomedical engineering and was carried out through collaboration between the Nuclear Medicine Service of the University College Hospital of Navarre and the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre. The thesis is entitled "Segmentacin mediante umbralizacin automtica en tomografa por emisin de positrones" (Segmentation through automatic thresholding in positron emission tomography).

The PET technique makes it possible to gather molecular images that provide information about the biological and metabolic behaviour of tumours.Recent years have seen the emergence of great interest in the potential of images of this type in the planning of courses of radiotherapy treatment.In this planning the most critical process is the exact delimitation of the volume of the tumour requiring treatment.

So Elena Prieto has improved the segmentation technique of PET images."The segmentation of an image," she explains, "is an image processing technique that allows objects to be delimited; tumours, in this case.This thesis sought to conduct research into and develop new segmentation techniques to turn PET (Positron Emission Tomography) into a reliable alternative for treatment planning in Radiotherapeutic Oncology."

Promising results

Specifically, the researcher has worked on one particular image segmentation technique:thresholding."Automatic thresholding allows the edges of the tumour to be automatically delimited over the image, which is of tremendous importance since the spatial resolution of images of this kind hampers manual delimitation."

The analysed images taken from patients were obtained at the University College Hospital of Navarre thanks to funding from the Carlos III Institute of Health (Spanish Ministry of Health and Consumption)through a FIS project, and the company Siemens HealthCare. Two different PET tomographs were used in the work to acquire the images so that the automatic thresholdingcould be evaluated under a broad range of conditions.All the images obtained have been made available over the Internet in order to provide a common validation framework for any segmentation technique.

"The results on experimental images have been highly promising," she concludes,"and it has been possible to achieve an improvementoverthe standard technique in the clinical images coming from high-resolution PET tomographs." What is more, "the technique used could be highly useful when segmenting images obtained in the state-of-the-art clinical PET/CT tomographs."

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