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During a chock-a-block event at Computex 2013, ASUS just announced the VivoPC, a compact Windows 8-based home theater PC that can also double as your primary desktop. It'll let you stream HD video via a newfangled 802.11ac WiFi connection, and has a similar spun metal design to the freshly announced VivoMouse. The mini-PC will also feature ASUS's SonicMaster audio, but that's all we know so far in terms of specs -- of course, as soon as we find out such minor details as, say, processor, RAM and storage, we'll update you right here.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has told Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc it cannot resume production at its huge copper mine until the result of an investigation into an accident is complete, a government official said on Saturday, adding to doubt about how long the company can supply the metal.
The investigation is expected to take two months, a company official said.
Freeport suspended operations at its remote Grasberg complex in eastern Indonesia on May 15, a day after a training tunnel collapsed killing 28 people in one of Indonesia's worst mining accidents.
Another Freeport mine worker died on Saturday evening after a safety breach on Friday that prompted a union leader to tell members to stop work at the world's second-largest copper mine.
"We will do all we can to help his family get through the loss of their husband and father," Freeport Indonesia President Director Rozik B. Soetjipto said in an emailed statement on Saturday, adding that the causes of this incident were also being investigated.
"(Freeport must) stop all production activities except for maintenance until the results of the independent investigation are completed," Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry director of minerals Dede Suhendra told Reuters by text message on Saturday.
A Freeport spokeswoman confirmed that an independent investigation had begun and that the company was not allowed to resume production until after the investigation was complete.
"The investigation team formed by the government arrived in Tembagapura yesterday morning and I hear reports from the site that they have started by going to ground zero and doing investigations there," Freeport Indonesia Corporate Communications chief Daisy Primayanti told Reuters.
"They are indicating to us that they will be completing the investigation in two months," she said.
Primayanti declined to comment on the subject of ore stockpiles and shipments.
Prolonged closure could hit Freeport's ability to supply its customers and global supplies of copper.
Freeport has not said how long its stockpiles of ore might last.
Industry sources say large miners typically have three to four weeks of ore stockpiled at port, and about three days on site.
Freeport declared a force majeure on some concentrate sales about one month into a 2011 strike.
After the latest accident on Friday, in which a truck driver was seriously injured, Freeport union official Virgo Solossa asked the company to stop all activities at the remote complex in west Papua, and to review safety systems.
The accidents could have a bearing on contract renegotiations between the Indonesian government and the company, which is trying to obtain an extension beyond 2021.
The Arizona-based company wants to turn Grasberg into the world's biggest underground mining complex after 2016 when its open pit operations are due to end. Open-pit mining currently accounts for two-thirds of production.
Freeport said on Wednesday it had resumed some operations at the mine, which also holds the world's largest gold reserves.
Freeport Indonesia's sales are expected to reach 1.1 billion lb of copper and 1.2 million ounces of gold in 2013, up 54 percent and 31 percent over 2012, respectively.
Open-pit mining at Grasberg normally produces about 140,000 metric tons of copper ore a day, while underground operations yield 80,000 metric tons.
The problems at the mine have helped underpin copper prices, although a prolonged shutdown would be necessary to hit world supplies, which are still seen in a small surplus this year.
(Additional reporting by Yayat Supriatna and Michael Taylor; Writing by Jonathan Thatcher; Editing by Robert Birsel/Catherine Evans)
NEW YORK (AP) - CC Sabathia's fastball was hitting 94 mph. Mark Teixeira walked and scored the first run. Kevin Youkilis singled in another.
The Yankees started to look a little more like the Yankees.
Sabathia (5-4) matched his season high with 10 strikeouts following two months of a puzzling drop in velocity, and New York got two key bats back Friday night in a 4-1 win over the Boston Red Sox that stopped a season-high, five-game losing streak.
"Any time you get two guys like that back to your team, it's going to add something to our lineup," said Sabathia, who ended a five-start winless streak, one short of his career high.
Out since injuring his right wrist March 5, Teixeira worked out a seven-pitch walk in the second inning in his first plate appearance of the season and scored on Jayson Nix's single.
"It's going to take a few days, but you're knocking some rust off," Teixeira said after an 0-for-3 night. "Great first at-bat, just getting to run around the bases and score a run. That really just kind of breaks you in a little bit. You want to feel like you're helping the team out as soon as you get out there."
Sidelined by a back injury since April 27, Youkilis was 1 for 4 as the designated hitter with a fifth-inning single that boosted the lead to 3-0.
"Felt great. Just glad to get a win," he said.
While New York still is missing shortstop Derek Jeter, regular third baseman Alex Rodriguez, left fielder Curtis Granderson and catcher Francisco Cervelli, the batting order had a different feel. The Yankees had gone three straight games without a walk for the first time in 1991. Brett Gardner walked leading off the first against Jon Lester (6-2), who issued four free passes in all.
"These guys grind out at-bats," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "I think their impact is big, and we need to keep them healthy."
After getting swept by the Mets over four games, Girardi was fired up and got ejected in the fifth inning for arguing a forceout call against New York by second base umpire Vic Carapazza. Replays showed Carapazza made the correct call.
Sabathia allowed six hits and no walks in 7 1-3 innings. Coming back from offseason elbow surgery, he entered with an average fastball velocity of 90.2 mph this season, according to fangraphs.com. That was down from 92.4 mph last year and 93.9 mph in 2011.
"I haven't seen any 94s until tonight, and there were a lot of 92s to 94s, where we've seen a lot of 89s to 91s," Girardi said.
Sabathia used to focus on velocity but says he doesn't any more.
"When I was younger, I did, I thought that was the way I was getting guys out," he said. "But as I got older I know it's more location than it is velocity."
On an 86-degree night, he mixed in a slider and changeup he threw with authority and precision, helping the Yankees close within a game of first-place Boston in the AL East.
"I understand why people have some cause for concern, but he's a guy that a lot of times when it warms up he gets on a roll," Girardi said. "And today was really the first hot night that he's pitched in, and it was the best stuff we've seen from him."
Given a 2-0 lead in the second on RBI singles from Nix and Ichiro Suzuki, Sabathia improved to 9-2 with a 2.63 ERA in 13 starts following Yankees losses since the start of the 2012 season. He threw 73 of 109 pitches for strikes and allowed his only run on Mike Napoli's RBI double in the seventh.
Sabathia reached double digits strikeouts for the 17th time with the Yankees and 36th overall. He got three called strikeouts from plate umpire Lance Barksdale, who appeared to have a generous strike zone, and was backed by two double plays. There were 10 caught lookings in all, and players from both teams argued with the ump.
"Any time he was in a fastball count, he'd go to his breaking ball or his changeup to keep us off stride," Red Sox manager John Farrell said.
Lester, who won at Yankees Stadium on opening day, lost his second straight decision. Struggling with his control - he had 48 pitches through two innings - he gave up four runs, six hits and a hit batter in 6 1-3 innings. He left with two on, and Gardner greeted Andrew Miller with an RBI single.
David Robertson followed Sabathia, and Mariano Rivera rebounded from Tuesday's blown save at the Mets to pitch a two-hit ninth for his 19th save in 20 chances. He entered to a standing ovation.
With the losing streak over, the Yankees seemed to exhale and relax.
"I think it was an important game after the little stretch that we've been in," Girardi said.
NOTES: The Yankees' May 19 rainout against Toronto will be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader on Aug. 20. ... New York optioned RHP Ivan Nova and LHP Vidal Nuno to Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes-Barre. Girardi said a position player likely would be moved off the active roster when LHP Andy Pettitte is activated Monday to start against Cleveland.
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Stefan Milosevic grabs Men?s 200m butterfly gold ? Swimming news
Stefan Milosevic of HYACK grabbed gold medal of Men?s 200m butterfly on day one of the 2013 Mel Zajac Jr International at UBC Aquatic Centre on Sunday, May 26.
The 17-year-old Milosevic crushed hopes of his opponents in the 200m race and cemented his place on the finishing end for gold medal. With his impeccable efforts, he dictated terms to his opponents in the 200m discipline and tapped the wall for first position.
Milosevic faced tough challenge from his closest competitor but with his strong determination, he managed to ascend on the finishing end for gold medal. He showed no leniency to his opponents in the 200m discipline and tapped the wall for the title with
the timing of 2 minutes and 05.40 seconds.
Jon McKay of UVIC-PCS, who was 0.32 seconds slower from his former finisher and concluded his race in second place by posting a time of 2 minutes and 05.72 seconds, followed the champion.
The second best finisher was chased by Thomas Jobin of CASC, who was one and a half body length slower from his foregoing finisher and touched the wall with an effort of 2 minutes and 07.27 seconds for bronze medal.
Fourth fastest spot of the event was obtained by Rob Hill of Chena, who stayed 1.08 seconds away from his former finisher and surfaced on the wall with an effort of 2 minutes and 08.35 seconds.
Fifth position of the race was secured by Mathias J Oh of KING-PN, who was 0.09 seconds apart and transpired on the finishing end with the timing of 2 minutes and 08.44 seconds.
Oh was traced by Justin Kiedrzyn of HYACK, who was 0.33 seconds apart and tapped the wall with an effort of 2 minutes and 08.77 seconds for sixth position.
Seventh fastest spot of the race was obtained by Woute Terpstra of VKSC, who remained 0.38 seconds slower and touched the wall with the timing 2 minutes and 09.15 seconds.
Last position of the race was secured by Nicolaa Dekker of RAPID, who as unable to upset any of his challengers and concluded his race in eighth place with the timing of 2 minutes and 12.78 seconds.
Furthermore, Milosevic expressed happiness over his victory in the 200m butterfly discipline. In addition, the winners received awards and accolades for their relentless efforts at the victory ceremony of the tournament after the conclusion of session.
Apple has just quietly launched a budget-friendly new iPod touch: a 16GB model, with a 4-inch Retina display and a price tag of $230.
Replacing the last-gen 3.5-inch version, which hung around Apple's store for a while, the new budget offering loses some of the more advanced features found on the more expensive models?such as the rear camera. It does, however, pack a dual-core Apple A5 processor and the same screen as the four-inch iPhone and iPod Touch. It can also handle FaceTime thanks to a front-facing camera on the front.
Only available in silver, it should be in Apple stores from May 31st for $230. [Apple via Verge via Slash Gear]
When language switching has no apparent cost: Lexical access in sentence context
Bilinguals have the remarkable ability to switch from one language to the other. In a new study, Jason Gullifer and colleagues from Pennsylvania State University, USA, looked at whether language switching incurs a processing cost. They show that the mind has little difficulty in preventing such mix-ups between languages. When 26 North American Latino people were asked to read aloud an underlined word within a text that mixed English and Spanish, they did not think longer or make more mistakes than when the text was in a single language. Gullifer et al. conclude that voluntary language switching is a natural feature of bilingualism that requires little additional processing time by the mind.
Jason Gullifer
Department of Psychology
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Phone: +1 9782738062
Email: jwg20@psu.edu
Frontiers in Microbiology
Contrasting genomic properties of free-living and particle-attached microbial assemblages within a coastal ecosystem
In terms of environmental and economic impact, the Columbia River is the most important river in the US Pacific Northwest. To characterize the microbial diversity within its estuary, Holly M. Simon and colleagues from Oregon Health & Science University's Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction and the J. Craig Venter Institute, sequenced total DNA from water in four habitats: the Columbia River's immediate outflow; the river plume that extends into Pacific Ocean; upwelling low-oxygen water off the coast; and the ocean bottom. They show that the Columbia River estuary is a complex region characterized by high turbidity ("cloudiness"), in which bacteria attached to solid particles suspended in the water are crucial for recycling organic matter.
Paradoxically, the turbidity blocks sunlight in these estuarine waters and makes it difficult for photosynthetic algae to grow there, yet light-dependent bacteria dominate these waters. These bacteria are known as photoheterotrophs because they use both organic substrates and light energy for growth and survival. They employ a protein that is related to light-sensitive pigments in mammalian eyes to generate energy from light, which helps them survive when nutrients are scarce. Habitat diversity, in the form of local variation in size and type of suspended particles, maintains the considerable bacterial biodiversity in the estuary of the Columbia River.
Holly M. Simon
Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction and Division of Environmental & Biomolecular Systems
Oregon Health and Science University, USA
Email: simonh@ebs.ogi.edu
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Age-related similarities and differences in brain activity underlying reversal learning
Memories are constantly updated because surroundings are not static. One way that researchers have investigated memory updating is with "reversal learning" tasks in which participants learn as association (e.g., Mary is angry) and then update their response when contingencies change (e.g., Mary is no longer angry). Kaoru Nasiro at the Center for Vial Longevity at the University of Texas, Dallas and colleagues from the University of Southern California, USA, examined brain activity in younger (19-35 years) and older (61-78 years) adults while they were engaged in two types of reversal learning tasks in an fMRI scanner; one involved emotion and the other did not (e.g., who is angry? vs. who wears eye-glasses?).
During emotional reversal learning, both groups showed similar activity in the amygdala, a region critical for emotional memory, and the frontopolar/orbitofrontal cortex, which updates old emotional memory. During neutral reversal learning however, older adults showed greater activity in regions that control attention than did younger adults. The results suggest that brain mechanisms underlying emotional memory updating is little affected by age.
Kaoru Nashiro
Center for Vital Longevity
University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Email: kxn130030@utdallas.edu
Also of interest, Frontiers research not under embargo:
Frontiers in Psychology
Music training, cognition, and personality
Two key personality traits openness-to-experience and conscientiousness predict better than IQ who will take music lessons and continue for longer periods, according to a new study. A team of researchers, led by Glenn Schellenberg at the University of Toronto Mississaug, also found that when personality traits and demographic factors are considered, the link between cognitive ability and music training disappears. In separate groups of 167 10-12-year-olds and 118 university undergraduates, the researchers looked at how individual differences in cognitive ability and personality predict who takes up music lessons and for how long. They found that pre-existing differences in personality could explain why musically trained children have substantially higher IQs and perform better in school than other children.
E. Glenn Schellenberg
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
Email: g.schellenberg@utoronto.ca
Also of interest, Frontiers research not under embargo:
Frontiers in Neuroscience
The role of the primary auditory cortex in the neural mechanism of auditory verbal hallucinations
How can healthy people who hear voices help those with schizophrenia? In a recently pubished study, Kristiina Kompus and colleagues analyzed data from a functional magnetic reasonance imaging (fMRI) study, to show that those with schizophrenia have a reduced ability to regulate the primary auditory cortex using cognitive control compared to those who hear voices but are otherwise healthy.
Kristiina Kompus
Department of Biological and Medical Psychology
University of Bergen, Norway
Email: kristiina.kompus@psybp.uib.no
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About Frontiers
Frontiers, a partner of Nature Publishing Group, is a scholarly open access publisher and research networking platform. Based in Switzerland, and formed by scientists in 2007, it is one of the largest and fastest growing publishers and its mission is to empower all academic communities to drive research publishing and communication into the 21st century with open science tools.
The "Frontiers in" series of journals publish around 500 peer-reviewed articles every month, which receive 5 million monthly views and are supported by over 25,000 editors and reviewers. Frontiers has formed partnerships with international organizations, such as, the Max Planck Society and the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS). For more information, please visit: http://www.frontiersin.org.
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When language switching has no apparent cost: Lexical access in sentence context
Bilinguals have the remarkable ability to switch from one language to the other. In a new study, Jason Gullifer and colleagues from Pennsylvania State University, USA, looked at whether language switching incurs a processing cost. They show that the mind has little difficulty in preventing such mix-ups between languages. When 26 North American Latino people were asked to read aloud an underlined word within a text that mixed English and Spanish, they did not think longer or make more mistakes than when the text was in a single language. Gullifer et al. conclude that voluntary language switching is a natural feature of bilingualism that requires little additional processing time by the mind.
Jason Gullifer
Department of Psychology
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Phone: +1 9782738062
Email: jwg20@psu.edu
Frontiers in Microbiology
Contrasting genomic properties of free-living and particle-attached microbial assemblages within a coastal ecosystem
In terms of environmental and economic impact, the Columbia River is the most important river in the US Pacific Northwest. To characterize the microbial diversity within its estuary, Holly M. Simon and colleagues from Oregon Health & Science University's Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction and the J. Craig Venter Institute, sequenced total DNA from water in four habitats: the Columbia River's immediate outflow; the river plume that extends into Pacific Ocean; upwelling low-oxygen water off the coast; and the ocean bottom. They show that the Columbia River estuary is a complex region characterized by high turbidity ("cloudiness"), in which bacteria attached to solid particles suspended in the water are crucial for recycling organic matter.
Paradoxically, the turbidity blocks sunlight in these estuarine waters and makes it difficult for photosynthetic algae to grow there, yet light-dependent bacteria dominate these waters. These bacteria are known as photoheterotrophs because they use both organic substrates and light energy for growth and survival. They employ a protein that is related to light-sensitive pigments in mammalian eyes to generate energy from light, which helps them survive when nutrients are scarce. Habitat diversity, in the form of local variation in size and type of suspended particles, maintains the considerable bacterial biodiversity in the estuary of the Columbia River.
Holly M. Simon
Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction and Division of Environmental & Biomolecular Systems
Oregon Health and Science University, USA
Email: simonh@ebs.ogi.edu
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Age-related similarities and differences in brain activity underlying reversal learning
Memories are constantly updated because surroundings are not static. One way that researchers have investigated memory updating is with "reversal learning" tasks in which participants learn as association (e.g., Mary is angry) and then update their response when contingencies change (e.g., Mary is no longer angry). Kaoru Nasiro at the Center for Vial Longevity at the University of Texas, Dallas and colleagues from the University of Southern California, USA, examined brain activity in younger (19-35 years) and older (61-78 years) adults while they were engaged in two types of reversal learning tasks in an fMRI scanner; one involved emotion and the other did not (e.g., who is angry? vs. who wears eye-glasses?).
During emotional reversal learning, both groups showed similar activity in the amygdala, a region critical for emotional memory, and the frontopolar/orbitofrontal cortex, which updates old emotional memory. During neutral reversal learning however, older adults showed greater activity in regions that control attention than did younger adults. The results suggest that brain mechanisms underlying emotional memory updating is little affected by age.
Kaoru Nashiro
Center for Vital Longevity
University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Email: kxn130030@utdallas.edu
Also of interest, Frontiers research not under embargo:
Frontiers in Psychology
Music training, cognition, and personality
Two key personality traits openness-to-experience and conscientiousness predict better than IQ who will take music lessons and continue for longer periods, according to a new study. A team of researchers, led by Glenn Schellenberg at the University of Toronto Mississaug, also found that when personality traits and demographic factors are considered, the link between cognitive ability and music training disappears. In separate groups of 167 10-12-year-olds and 118 university undergraduates, the researchers looked at how individual differences in cognitive ability and personality predict who takes up music lessons and for how long. They found that pre-existing differences in personality could explain why musically trained children have substantially higher IQs and perform better in school than other children.
E. Glenn Schellenberg
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
Email: g.schellenberg@utoronto.ca
Also of interest, Frontiers research not under embargo:
Frontiers in Neuroscience
The role of the primary auditory cortex in the neural mechanism of auditory verbal hallucinations
How can healthy people who hear voices help those with schizophrenia? In a recently pubished study, Kristiina Kompus and colleagues analyzed data from a functional magnetic reasonance imaging (fMRI) study, to show that those with schizophrenia have a reduced ability to regulate the primary auditory cortex using cognitive control compared to those who hear voices but are otherwise healthy.
Kristiina Kompus
Department of Biological and Medical Psychology
University of Bergen, Norway
Email: kristiina.kompus@psybp.uib.no
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For copies of embargoed papers, please contact: Gozde Zorlu, Communications Officer: tel: +41 (0) 21 693 9203. Interview requests should be directed to the corresponding author and appropriate contact details are provided above.
For online articles, please cite "Frontiers in xxx" followed by the name of the field as the publisher and include a link to the paper; URLs are listed.
About Frontiers
Frontiers, a partner of Nature Publishing Group, is a scholarly open access publisher and research networking platform. Based in Switzerland, and formed by scientists in 2007, it is one of the largest and fastest growing publishers and its mission is to empower all academic communities to drive research publishing and communication into the 21st century with open science tools.
The "Frontiers in" series of journals publish around 500 peer-reviewed articles every month, which receive 5 million monthly views and are supported by over 25,000 editors and reviewers. Frontiers has formed partnerships with international organizations, such as, the Max Planck Society and the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS). For more information, please visit: http://www.frontiersin.org.
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Affordable Solar has teamed up with Sunnova Energy Corp. to lease solar panels to residents in New Mexico.
The business will compete directly with utility electricity by providing solar energy for less than the cost of monthly electricity bills.
For example, Affordable Solar would lease a 4.5-kilowatt residential solar system, typical for a 3 bedroom home, that would cost $79 a month with no upfront cost. Without a lease, that same system would cost a resident $18,000. Currently, 75% of Americans have access to solar energy through a solar lease, the company reports.
From the article:?
?Now New Mexicans can lock in their cost of electricity, paying for tomorrow's electricity at yesterday's prices.?
Building your perfect business may be challenging and at the onset, chaotic. Being in control of so many things and at the same time, your thoughts about where you are headed is a lot easier when you keep in mind several necessary things that will help you stay focused and on track.
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Get busy and relax. While the two may not sound like they belong together, what works for one person doesn?t necessarily work for another. Concentrating fully on one task in particular, completing it and getting it out of your way keeps business worries at bay. At the same time, if you tend to be the type that gets anxious and/or nervous, if demands have you stressed to the point where you can?t concentrate, relaxation is probably the best choice. Give yourself a holiday, even if only for one day.
Don?t pay attention to the opinions of others. Always think about where the opinion came from. Most business owners know when they are doing their best. Listen to others who have experience in your field but don?t feel you have to take into consideration the comments of those who probably have no idea what is in your best interest. Seek knowledge from those who have it and learn to navigate around any pitfalls that could arise from the negative messages of others.
Be original. Though imitation is a form of flattery, when it?s your business that?s involved, being different and being the best at what you?re doing it more important. Take some time to discover which options are available to you that can make your product or service stand out from the rest. The most famous businesses didn?t become that way by being carbon copies of all of the others that were out there. Being afraid to take big steps in your business is normal. If there?s something you?re not sure of or don?t have knowledge of, consider outsourcing certain tasks to a virtual team with experience.
Scrap the small stuff. Business owners tend to worry away at the smallest things that in the long run will have absolutely no effect on their business. If you are one of these, take a note of what is it that is bothering you and put it away until later. You aren?t looking for perfection, you are looking at the big picture and what will work best for both you and your customers. In the same vein, if it has already happened, then it?s over. Once again, take a note and if you have made a mistake, ensure that it doesn?t happen again. Sometimes you just have to be able to let things go.
Don?t limit yourself. Most of the time when we think we can?t do something, it isn?t that we can?t do it, it?s more likely that we just can?t believe we could ever climb that high. Putting boundaries on your business will slow your growth and keep you from expanding. Listen to that inner voice that tells you what you really can accomplish.
An important part of managing any business means keeping in mind that knowledge means power. A business owner who is not learning about new technology or business practises becomes stagnant. But more importantly, it means learning about yourself and the way you think. Learning to trust yourself is the most important step you need to take, ahead of all of the others.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.? -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every time she bounces on the bed, I see stitches," she says in Glamour's June issue. "Being a parent is a Jedi mind f---. It's also the raddest thing ever."
BOSTON (AP) ? Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and accused Wednesday of removing a backpack containing fireworks emptied of gunpowder from Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the attack to try to keep him from getting into trouble.
In court papers, the FBI said one of them threw the backpack in the garbage ? it was later found in a landfill by law enforcement officers ? after they concluded from news reports that Tsarnaev was one of the bombers.
Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev were charged with conspiring to obstruct justice by concealing and destroying evidence. A third man, Robel Phillipos, was charged with lying to investigators about the visit to Tsarnaev's room.
A court appearance for the three was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. Their lawyers refused to comment ahead of the hearing.
Three people were killed and more than 260 injured on April 15 when two bombs exploded near the finish line. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with police days later. His younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, was captured and lies in a prison hospital.
Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev, who are from Kazakhstan, have been held in jail for more than a week on allegations that they violated their student visas by not regularly going to class at UMass. All three men charged Wednesday began attending UMass with Tsarnaev at the same time in 2011, according to the FBI.
The three were not accused of any involvement in the bombing itself. But in a footnote in the court papers, the FBI said that about a month before the bombing, Tsarnaev told Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev that he knew how to make a bomb.
Investigators have not said whether the pressure cooker bombs used in the attacks were made with gunpowder extracted from fireworks.
If convicted, Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov could get up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Phillipos faces a maximum of eight years behind bars and a $250,000 fine.
Authorities allege that on the night of April 18, after the FBI released surveillance-camera photos of the bombing suspects and the three men suspected their friend was one of them, they went to Tsarnaev's dorm room.
Before Tsarnaev's roommate let them in, Kadyrbayev showed Tazhayakov a text message from Tsarnaev that read: "I'm about to leave if you need something in my room take it," according to the FBI.
When Tazhayakov learned of the message, "he believed he would never see Tsarnaev alive again," the FBI said in the affidavit.
It was not clear from the court papers whether authorities believe that was an instruction from Tsarnaev to his friends to destroy evidence.
Once inside Tsarnaev's room, the men noticed a backpack containing fireworks, which had been opened and emptied of powder, the FBI said.
The FBI said that Kadyrbayev knew when he saw the empty fireworks that Tsarnaev was involved in the bombings and decided to remove the backpack from the room "in order to help his friend Tsarnaev avoid trouble."
Kadyrbayev also decided to remove Tsarnaev's laptop "because he did not want Tsarnaev's roommate to think he was stealing or behaving suspiciously by just taking the backpack," the FBI said in court papers.
After the three men returned to Kadyrbayev's and Tazhayakov's apartment with the backpack and computer, they watched news reports featuring photographs of Tsarnaev.
The FBI affidavit said Kadyrbayev told authorities the three men then "collectively decided to throw the backpack and fireworks into the trash because they did not want Tsarnaev to get into trouble."
Kadyrbayev said he placed the backpack and fireworks along with trash from the apartment into a large trash bag and threw it into a garbage bin near the men's apartment.
When the backpack was later found in a landfill last week, inside it was a UMass-Dartmouth homework assignment sheet from a class Tsarnaev was taking, the FBI said.
Meanwhile, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's relatives will claim his body now that his wife has agreed to release it, an uncle said. The body of Tsarnaev, 26, has been at the medical examiner's office in Massachusetts since he died after a gunfight with authorities more than a week ago.
Amato DeLuca, an attorney for his widow, Katherine Russell, said Tuesday that his client had just learned that the medical examiner was ready to release Tsarnaev's body and that she wants it released to his side of the family.
Tsarnaev's parents are still in Russia, but he has other relatives in the U.S.
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Michelle R. Smith in Providence; Rodrique Ngowi in Boston; Lynn Berry in Moscow; Arsen Mollyaev in Makhachkala, Russia; and Eric Tucker, Alicia A. Caldwell, Eileen Sullivan and AP Intelligence Writer Kimberly Dozier in Washington.
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HONOLULU (AP) ? Authorities are investigating why a baby girl was found abandoned on a Hawaii beach hours after birth.
State Department of Human Services Director Patricia McManaman says the newborn was abandoned immediately after birth.
Police say a woman parked at Sandy Beach in east Honolulu sometime between 11 p.m. Sunday and midnight heard several people screaming. A few minutes later the screaming stopped and the woman heard a baby crying.
She walked toward the ocean and saw an infant on the sand. The woman took the baby to a hospital. Police are investigating the case as endangering the welfare of a minor and child abandonment.
McManaman says the baby was born full term and was found naked. She says the 8-pound newborn is doing well and drinking formula at a hospital.
A close-up of a 1.9-billion-year-old Gunflint chert, which contain tiny fossilized evidence of microbes consuming other microbes in the black zones.
By Stephanie Pappas LiveScience
Kids like to taunt each other with the cry, "Last one there is a rotten egg!" In Earth's case, that might be more true of the first ones there, according to a new study suggesting that millions of years ago, the planet emanated such a stench.
The research, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds fossil evidence of microbes?snacking on other microbes, a form of feeding called heterotrophy. Heterotrophs can't make their own organic nutrients, so they have to eat other life forms. This is in contrast with autotrophs (think plants), which can synthesize their own food from sunlight or inorganic chemicals.
Researchers suspected that organisms have been eating other organisms for a very long time ? about 3.5 billion years, said study researcher Martin Brasier, a professor at Oxford University's department of earth sciences. The new study clarifies the process about 1.9 billion years ago. [Extreme Life on Earth: 8 Bizarre Creatures]
"In this study, for the first time, we identify how it was happening and 'who was eating who,'" Brasier said in a statement. "In fact, we've all experienced modern bacteria feeding this way, as that's where that 'rotten egg' whiff of hydrogen sulfide comes from in a blocked drain."
David Wacey
A three-dimensional reconstruction of tubular Gunflintia microbes being consumed by smaller rod- and sphere-shaped bacteria.
Early Earth may also have been purple, according to a 2007 study that found that ancient microbes may have shone a purplish hue.
Brasier and his colleagues analyzed fossils of a bacterium called Gunflintia. These fossils measured just 3 to 15 microns in diameter; in comparison, the eye of a needle is about 1,230 microns across. Compared with other bacterial fossils, the tubular outer sheath of Gunflintia were more likely to show perforations, a sign that other bacteria had been snacking on them.
Another clue that early Earth was a bacteria-eat-bacteria world was the discovery of iron sulfide replacing some segments of the Gunflintia sheaths. Iron sulfide, the compound that makes up fool's gold, is a waste product of certain heterotrophic bacteria that breathe sulfate. These sulfate-reducing bacteria, which ultimately produce sulfides, date back 3.5 billion years, according to previously researched fossils.
"Whilst the Gunflintiafossils are only about half as old, they confirm that such bacteria were indeed flourishing by 1,900 million years ago," researcher David Wacey, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Western Australia, said in a statement, referring to the fossils from this study. "And that they were also highly particular about what they chose to eat."
The sulfate-breathers may not have been the only ones chowing down. The researchers also found clusters of 1-micron-sized rod and sphere bacteria in the Gunflintia fossils that may have died while in the process of consuming the larger microbes.
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ROME (AP) ? An unemployed bricklayer shot two Italian policemen in a crowded square outside the premier's office Sunday just as the nation's new government was being sworn in, investigators said.
The gunman's intended target was politicians, a top Italian official said after interviewing him.
Mired in recession and suffering from soaring unemployment, Italy has been in political paralysis since an inconclusive February election. Social and political tensions have been running high among voters divided between center-left, conservative and anti-government political parties.
Sunday was supposed to be a hopeful day when debt-ridden Italy finally got new government to solve its many problems. But shots rang out in Colonna Square near a busy shopping and strolling area shortly after 11:30 a.m. just as Premier Enrico Letta and his new ministers were taking their oaths at the Quirinal presidential office about a kilometer (half mile) away.
The suspected gunman, dressed in a dark business suit, was immediately grabbed by other police outside Chigi Palace, which houses the premier's office and other government offices. The politicians were supposed to have met at the palace later Sunday for their first Cabinet meeting.
Rome Prosecutor Pierfilippo Laviani told reporters he had questioned the alleged assailant, who was taken to a hospital with bruises after being wrestled to the ground. He identified the man as Luigi Preiti, 49, from Calabria, a southern agricultural area plagued by organized crime and chronic unemployment.
Laviani said Preiti had "confessed everything" and didn't appear mentally unbalanced.
"He is a man full of problems, who lost his job, who lost everything," the prosecutor said. "He was desperate. In general, he wanted to shoot at politicians, but given that he couldn't reach any, he shot at the Carabinieri" paramilitary police.
One of the policemen, shot in the neck, was in critical condition. The other, shot in the leg, suffered a fracture, doctors said.
The shooting "was the tragic gesture of a 49-year-old unemployed man," Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told reporters after briefing Letta and his new Cabinet.
A woman passing by during the shooting was slightly injured, Rome's mayor said. It was unclear if she was grazed by a bullet or hurt in the panic sparked by the gunfire.
The 46-year-old Letta had nailed down a coalition deal only a day ago between two bitter political enemies ? his center-left forces and the conservative bloc of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi. Letta will speak to Parliament on Monday, laying out his strategy to reduce joblessness while still sticking to the austerity measures needed to keep the eurozone's No. 3 economy from descending into a sovereign debt crisis. He will then face confidence votes.
A video surveillance camera on the Parliament building caught the attacker on film just before and during the shooting, Italian news reports said.
The attacker was walking at a steady pace along a narrow street that leads from the square outside Parliament's lower house to the square outside the premier's office, when police officers appear to have stopped him to ask where he was going.
About 90 minutes later, Letta and his ministers were due to enter Chigi Palace. It was not immediately known if the attacker knew about their arrival.
Shortly after police approached him, he began firing, according to the surveillance camera.
An AP television producer saw the two wounded Carabinieri officers in the square outside the palace. One of them lay on the pavement with blood pouring out of his neck.
Alfano said the alleged gunman wanted to kill himself after the shooting but ran out of bullets. He said six shots were fired in all. The gunman used a semi-automatic pistol whose serial number had been scraped off, Sky TG24 TV said.
The interior minister said security was immediately stepped up near key venues in the Italian capital, but added authorities were not worried about possible related attacks.
"Our initial investigation indicates the incident is due to an isolated gesture, although further investigations are being carried out," he said.
Doctors at Rome's Umberto I Polyclinic said a 50-year-old brigadier had been hit in the neck by a bullet that damaged his spinal column and was lodged near his shoulder. The doctors said it wasn't yet known if the spinal column injury had caused any paralysis.
The head of St. John's Hospital, Gianluigi Bracciale, told Sky TG24 TV the second officer suffered a broken leg from a gunshot. He said Prieti didn't appear to have any injuries other than bruises.
Preiti's uncle, interviewed by Sky, said the alleged gunman had moved back to his parents' home in Calabria because he could no longer find work as a bricklayer. "He was a great worker. He could build a house from top to bottom," said the uncle, Domenco Preiti.
The shooting sparked ugly memories of the 1970s and 1980s in Italy, when domestic terrorism plagued the country during a time of high political tensions between right-wing and left-wing blocs.
The new Cabinet ministers were seen smiling in a group photo as news of the shooting broke.
"The news arrived after the swearing-in," said Dario Franceschini, one of the new ministers.
The ministers were kept briefly inside for security reasons until it was clear there was no immediate danger.
Rome was jammed Sunday with tourists and residents enjoying a warm sunny morning on the last day of a four-day weekend.
Apr. 29, 2013 ? A team of American and Italian neuroscientists has identified a cellular change in the brain that accompanies obesity. The findings could explain the body's tendency to maintain undesirable weight levels, rather than an ideal weight, and identify possible targets for pharmacological efforts to address obesity.
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition this week, identify a switch that occurs in neurons within the hypothalamus. The switch involves receptors that trigger or inhibit the release of the orexin A peptide, which stimulates the appetite, among other behaviors. In normal-weight mice, activation of this receptor decreases orexin A release. In obese mice, activation of this receptor stimulates orexin A release.
"The striking finding is that you have a massive shift of receptors from one set of nerve endings impinging on these neurons to another set," said Ken Mackie, professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington. "Before, activating this receptor inhibited the secretion of orexin; now it promotes it. This identifies potential targets where an intervention could influence obesity."
The work is part of a longstanding collaboration between Mackie's team at the Gill Center for Biomolecular Science at IU Bloomington and Vincenzo Di Marzo's team at the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry in Pozzuoli, Italy. Both teams study the endocannabinoid system, which is composed of receptors and signaling chemicals that occur naturally in the brain and have similarities to the active ingredients in cannabis, or marijuana. This neurochemical system is involved in a variety of physiological processes, including appetite, pain, mood, stress responses and memory.
Food consumption is controlled in part by the hypothalamus, a portion of the brain that regulates many essential behaviors. Like other important body systems, food consumption is regulated by multiple neurochemical systems, including the endocannabinoid system, representing what Mackie describes as a "balance of a very fine web of regulatory networks."
An emerging idea, Mackie said, is that this network is reset during obesity so that food consumption matches maintenance of current weight, not a person's ideal weight. Thus, an obese individual who loses weight finds it difficult to keep the weight off, as the brain signals the body to eat more in an attempt to return to the heavier weight.
Using mice, this study found that in obesity, CB1 cannabinoid receptors become enriched on the nerve terminals that normally inhibit orexin neuron activity, and the orexin neurons produce more of the endocannabinoids to activate these receptors. Activating these CB1 receptors decreases inhibition of the orexin neurons, increasing orexin A release and food consumption.
"This study identifies a mechanism for the body's ongoing tendency to return to the heavier weight," Mackie said.
The researchers conducted several experiments with mice to understand how this change takes place. They uncovered a role of leptin, a key hormone made by fat cells that influences metabolism, hunger and food consumption. Obesity causes leptin levels to be chronically high, making brain cells less sensitive to its actions, which contributes to the molecular switch that leads to the overproduction of orexin.
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JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel's prime minister says Iran is edging closer to nuclear-weapons capability but has not yet reached the "red line" he laid out in a speech to the United Nations last fall.
Benjamin Netanyahu told his Likud Party on Monday that Iran is "systematically" getting closer to developing a weapon. He says Israel cannot let Iran cross this point.
Israel says a nuclear-armed Iran would pose a threat to the existence of the Jewish state, citing Iran's repeated calls for the destruction of Israel. Netanyahu has repeatedly hinted that Israel would be prepared to attack Iran unilaterally if international pressure fails to curb the Iranian nuclear program.
In his U.N. speech last September, Netanyahu said the international community has until the summer of 2013 to stop Iran from getting a bomb.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) ? In a dramatic about-face, Icelandic voters have returned to power the center-right parties that led the national economy to collapse five years ago.
With all votes counted Sunday, the conservative Independence Party and rural-based Progressive Party ? who governed Iceland for decades before the 2008 crash ? each had 19 seats in Iceland's 63-seat parliament, the Althingi.
The parties, who are promising to ease Icelanders' economic pain with tax cuts and debt relief, took 51 percent of the vote between them, and are likely to form a coalition government.
Voters shunned the Social Democrat-led coalition that has spent four years trying to turn the country around with painful austerity measures. The Social Democrats took nine seats and their former coalition partners the Left-Greens seven.
The pro-Europe Bright Future party took six seats and online freedom advocates the Pirate Party three.
"We are very happy, we are very grateful for the support that we see in the numbers," said Independence Party leader Bjarni Benediktsson.
Either 43-year-old Beneditksson or Progressive Party chief Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, 38, is likely to be Iceland's next prime minister.
The shift to the right following Saturday's parliamentary election will almost certainly shelve Iceland's plans to join the European Union, with which it has begun accession talks. Both the Progressives and Independents oppose joining the 27-nation bloc.
The two parties governed Iceland for several decades, often in coalition, overseeing economic liberalization that spurred a banking and business boom ? until Iceland's economy crashed spectacularly during the 2008 credit crisis.
A volcano-dotted North Atlantic nation with a population of just 320,000, Iceland went from economic wunderkind to financial basket case almost overnight when its main commercial banks collapsed within a week of one another.
The value of the country's currency plummeted, while inflation and unemployment soared. Iceland was forced to seek bailouts from Europe and the International Monetary Fund.
Since then, Iceland has in many ways made a strong recovery. Unemployment has fallen and the economy is growing.
But inflation remains naggingly high, and many Icelanders still struggle to repay home and car loans they took out ? often in foreign currencies whose value soared after the crash ? in the years of easy credit.
Some blamed the outgoing government of Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir for agreeing to internationally approved austerity measures and accused it of caving in to pressure to compensate Britain and the Netherlands for their citizens' lost deposits in the failed online bank Icesave. Icelanders have twice rejected Icesave repayment deals agreed to by Sigurdardottir's government.
Despite being widely blamed for the financial meltdown, the Independents and Progressives say they are now best placed to lead the economic recovery.
The Progressives have promised to write off some mortgage debt, taking money from foreign creditors. Benediktsson's Independence Party is offering lower taxes and the lifting of capital controls that he says are hindering foreign investment.
"I think people knew that hard times were ahead in 2009," Benediktsson said. "But they were hopeful, and they were introduced to a plan that would bring us quicker out of the crisis than has been the reality.
"So people are now looking forward and asking themselves ... what kind of a plan is the most likely one to bring more growth, more job creation, to close the budget deficit, and have Iceland grow into the future? These are the issues that I think these elections are all about."
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Lawless reported from London. Associated Press writer David Mac Dougall in Reykjavik contributed to this report.
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