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Glass can do a lot of cool stuff, but on a number of levels it’s just a blooper reel waiting to happen. If iOS’s autocorrect could produce that many tumblrs, a face-mounted, voice-controlled smart camera is just an accident waiting to happen. Weekend Update’s tech correspondent Randall Meeks is certainly having some issues . . .

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>> we will revisit this.

>>> chilling details surrounding the tsarnaev brothers alleged plot to attack the heart of new york city after causing so much damage in boston . according to city officials, the two marathon bombing suspects discussed driving to new york to detonate their remaining explosives in a spontaneous assault on times square . at the time, their arsenal included five pipe bombs and one pressure cooker bomb similar to the ones used in last monday’s deadly attack. police say the younger brother had visited times square once last year but their plan fell apart after realizing the mercedes-benz car they hijacked did not have enough car to get to new york . a pre- miranda rights interrogation of 19-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev it appears the younger brother has stopped answering questions about the bombing since he was read his rights on monday night and that has sparked a debate among lawmakers how the government should handle domestic terror cases.

>> we can’t have, in a case like than, the judiciary deciding because it’s on tv and it might look bad for them to allow the public safety exemption that is deemed legal by the united states supreme court that they would somehow intercede in this, it is confusing and it’s horrible god awful policy and danger to the greater community and we have got to get to the bottom of this and we have got to fix it right now.

>> tsarnaev was reportedly questioned by investigators up to 16 hours over the course of two days and answering questions mostly in writing due to the severe injury to his neck.

>> jane harman , there would be some people that would look at the fact that the plot in times square was foiled because they didn’t have enough gas in their tank to get down to new york as a sign — as a good sign that this was half-baked plot. it actually scares me that guys — this ill-prepared could be running around with bombs. it’s the sort of thing you’re not going to pick up chatter. you’re not going to pick up any clues from overseas. this is a sort of a random violence that we should all really be child by even more so than if they had some contacts overseas.

>> i agree. mike hayden said the other day, the former director of the cia , that this is the new normal. in this case, i think we will learn that some mistakes were made. we should have been on these guys earlier than we were, but this type of thing, self-radicalized people, in this case, maybe this fellow misha had a lot to do with radicalizing these kids. self-radicalized people who go on the internet and you can find the recipe for building pressure cooker bombs or pipe bombs or other kinds of small weapons can maybe sometimes get lucky and pull it off in this country. they have to be right once. we have to be right 100% of the time but on something that mika said just before, joe, she said mike rogers , among other things, perhaps, are complaining that this fellow was mirandaized. a liberal named george will had an op-ed in “the washington post ” yesterday talking about incarcerating the japanese during world war ii and made the point if we live by our values and we follow the rule of law, we do better and, in this case, i think when we look back on all of this, the way we handled the investigation and the prosecution of this fellow who for sure, i think based on the evidence we know who likely will be convicted, will be a model for the world and it will show people that we followed the rule of law here and that is what we have to do.

>> as congresswoman harmon is talking we are getting word that dzhokhar tsarnaev has been transported from beth israel hospital to prison. we are talking about his physical condition. apparently it’s upgraded to the point they have taken him out of the hospital new and he has been moved to a prison in massachusetts. one of the people we haven’t talked about a lot but we have heard about is this guy who was car-jacked a week ago. he is a 26-year-old chinese man in this black mercedes suv and come to boston to go to grad school and now working on a start-up. he lives in boston . he gets car-jacked around 11:00 last thursday night and taken on an interview with “the boston globe ” a 90-minute ride. remember it was reported 30 minutes ? he says it’s 90-minute ride. you have to talk about this key to these two brothers being caught. he said finally after this 90 minutes they realized they don’t have enough gas to get to manhattan and pull up to a gas station and turns out it’s cash only. so they have to go inside. one of the brothers has to go inside the gas station to pay. at that point, this guy who calls himself danny, didn’t want to give his real name, makes a decision even though the other brother is in the back seat that is going to bolt. this is life and death . he unbuckles the seat belt and he said he ran in an angle that would be hard for the brother to shoot him. he runs across the street to another gas station and tells the attendant to call 911. he left his iphone in the car so it could be tracked and traced. it’s a remarkable account if you have a chance to read “the boston globe ” about two and a half hour interview where he gives a moment-by-moment recap and he is critical to these two guys being caught.

>> no doubt. that is when everything started unraveling for them and there was even the moment where his friend kept calling him up and he said if you speak in mandarin, i’m going to kill you right here. you get to the part where the brother was doing an english mandarin translation to tell him what to text back to his friend and the guy just kept his head and was responsible for these two terrorists being caught.

>> the reason the i phone was left in the car? the two brothers wanted to listen to music so he plugged in his iphone to the car.

>> oh, my lord!

>> so the phone was not on his body, it was plugged into the car.

>> runs across the street to a mob mobil station and they call 911.

>> it speaks to a new normal which congresswoman harman was touching on. i find your sentiment far more alarming than anything else. deval patrick , the governor, i thought handled it so well. he said the next day the young tsarnaev went to school and went to the gym and paertrtied with friends as if nothing had happen. going forward for law enforcement , how do you track this and what steps to prevent this from going forward? an e in the course challenge for law enforcement and intelligence officials going forward.

>> one of the tragedies, though, is president kennedy saw this. he said if someone wants to trade their life for mine, no way i can be protected. men with guns change history, whether it’s sarajevo or memphis in 1968 . the day before, you broke in and you said this guy, these people are going to do than, everybody would go, come on, they could never pull this off, but they did.

>> jane?

>> yeah. the nypd has a lot of tools that other local police departments may have to learn about. of course, new york is a much bigger target and so is washington. perhaps than boston or someplace in the midwest. but they have a thousand intelligence officers . they have a huge police department . 35,000 people compared to 2,000 in boston . i think that’s the number. obviously, a bigger population. but they can detect signs early. for example the older brother was thrown out of his mosque and there was behavior there they would pick up because they built trust with the muslim community . let’s be clear that all would-be radicalized people are not muslim but nonetheless they can pick up signs and follow these people much more closely and they have thwarted a lot of plots. we have been successful more than we have failed in blocking plots against our country.

>> yes.

>> and these small bore plots, i know a lot of people were hurt but this is nothing like 9/11, are going to be in our future and if we have better intel in our local police departments, we’re going to do better getting ahead of the curve, even with people like this who are substantially invisible.

>> jane harman , thank you so much. on monday, we will be marking six months since superstorm sandy devastated the eastern seaboard . we will be live from some of the hardest hit spots and see how they are recovering.

>>> coming up, mike florio will join us to break down the nfl draft .

>> thanks, willie.

>> trickalso chemical war fare in syria. richard haass weighs in on the significant developments in that conflict. chadwick boseman describes his role as the great jackie robinson .

>> great movie.

>> a new article “the atlantic” says changing technology means we may never run out of oil. james bennett is here to explain.

>> there you go!

>> the top stories coming up next and the political playbook.

>>> first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill?

>> good morning. it’s a nice happy forecast for so many people in this country as we head to a nice, warm weekend for once. just about everywhere on the map. we are going to have some rain to deal with but first recap yesterday. one of the warmest days we have seen in montana, colorado through the central plains . it was beautiful. the last spot to warm up is minneapolis, north wards and up through the great lakes. that warm air coming your way this weekend. we do have a little bit of rain this morning. kansas city and st. louis that’s going to head for louisville, nashville, memphis, little rock and tulsa during the day today so you need your umbrellas. tomorrow a lot of that rain will be in kentucky and tennessee. although it’s warm, it will be, unfortunately, a little bit wet. here is your forecast into the weekend. starting with today, another great day from new york to boston to d.c. it is a little chilly in the northeast this morning but this afternoon, perfect. then the weekend forecast look at minneapolis. about time! 72 warm degrees! you’re going to be the same temperature as atlanta because the southeast you’re going to be dodging the raindrops all weekend long and maybe even a few thunderstorms mixed in too and wrap it up with your sunday forecast and notice kansas city , you deserve that after the spring you had. 74 and sunny beautiful degrees! overall, this is a thumb’s up weekend. the only exception being the rain in the southeast. you’re watching “ morning joe ,” brewed by starbucks.

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By Drusilla Moorhouse, TODAY contributor

Jim Carrey’s “awkward spiritual journey” took him to Elton John’s annual Oscars bash Sunday night — in giant prosthetic feet.

And just in case he tripped, the goofy actor also accessorized his casual suit with tiny angel wings.

“Goin’ to Elton’s party. Great cause!” he tweeted about the 21st AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party. “Wearing the perfect outfit to express my awkward spiritual journey. ;^}”

He reiterated his remarks later that night: “Elton’s party was fun,” he wrote. “My big feet and little angel wings were an expression of my somewhat awkward spiritual journey.”

Signing off with a halo emoticon, the “Yes Man” star added, “I’m a #Strangel.”

It’s unclear whether he’s referencing the new animated short film “Strangel: The Angel of the Odd,” but Carrey sure makes for one strange angel.

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ISSN : 0976 ? 1764 (Online); 0976 ? 2205 (Print)
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Scope & Topics

International Journal of Ad hoc, sensor & Ubiquitous Computing (IJASUC) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Ad Hoc & Ubiquitous computing. Current information age is witnessing a dramatic use of digital and electronic devices in the workplace and beyond. Ubiquitous Computing presents a rather arduous requirementof robustness, reliability and availability to the end user. Ad hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous computing has received a significant and sustained research interest in terms of designing and deploying large scale and high performance computational applications in real life.

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Authors are solicited to contribute to this journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to

Ad Hoc Computing

* Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems
* Addressing and location management
* Architectures, protocols, and algorithms
* Data management issues
* Distributed technology
* Mobile ad hoc learning
* Mobile and wireless ad hoc networks
* Mobile agents for ad hoc networking
* Network design and planning
* Novel Architectures for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
* Performance Analysis and Simulation of Protocols
* Power-aware and energy-efficient designs
* Quality of service
* Resource allocation
* Security and privacy
* Self-configuring and self-healing schemes
* Services and applications
* Wireless & Mobile network Security
* Wireless sensor network

Sensor Networks

* Architectures, protocols and algorithms
* Data allocation and information
* Deployments and implementations
* Embedded, network-oriented operating systems
* Energy optimization
* Hardware aspects of sensor design
* Location management and placement
* MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks
* Middleware and software tools
* Modeling and Performance evaluation
* Radio Issues with other wireless/mobile systems
* Resource allocation, services, QoS and fault tolerance
* Scalability of wireless sensor networks
* Security and dependability issues
* Sensor circuits and devices
* Software, applications and programming
* Under water sensors and systems
* Visualization of sensor data
* Work models

Ubiquitous Computing

* Architectural structure, design decisions and philosophies
* Autonomic management of ubiquitous systems
* Context and location awareness, context based and implicit computing
* Distributed Computing
* Ubicomp Human-computer Interaction for devices
* Intelligent devices and environments
* Internet Computing and Applications
* Interoperability and large scale deployment
* Middleware services and agent technologies
* Personalized & special field applications
* Security Issues and Applications
* Service discovery mechanisms and protocols
* Software infrastructures
* System support infrastructures and services
* Ubiquitous systems and trust
* User interfaces and interaction models
* Virtualization over networks of devices
* Wearable computers and technologies
* Wireless networking and mobile, pervasive and ubiquitous computing
* Wireless/mobile service management and delivery
* Mobile Computing
* Network Protocols & Wireless Communication

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Authors are invited to submit papers for this journal through E-mail : ijasucjournal@airccse.org or ijasucjournal@yahoo.com. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Journal.

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This year’s Chinese New Year falls on February 10. A couple days ago, PolicyMic political editor Michael McCutcheon asked me to consider why Chinese do or don’t do it better than us. This was actually a good exercise, as we are so used to reading about China bashing that we even feel numb when Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt harped on the old tune in his new book labeling China as “the most dangerous superpower on Earth.”

This article is going to pinpoint one area which the Chinese are doing far better than us, that is, in K-12 education. By looking at how China has done better than us in education, it throws some light into why we have been behind in this area.

China’s success story was often attributed to the immense supply of cheap labor, which is only part of the story. The other part of China’s success is her achievement in education, which, I believe, has been and will continue to be the driving force for China’s success.

Based on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) given by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), China ranks first on all three parts of the exams: reading, math, and science. Some suggest that “China has an education system that is overtaking many Western countries.”

For that year, the U.S. came off 23rd place in science, 17th in reading, and 25th in Math, causing the Associated Press to report, “United States students are continuing to trail behind their peers in a pack of higher performing nations….” Andrew Romano drew attention to the alarm in his article, “How Dumb Are We?” stating, “NEWSWEEK gave 1,000 Americans the U.S. Citizenship Test – 38% failed. The country’s future is imperiled by our ignorance.” Nothing confirms this trailing trend more soundly than the college graduation number. Sean Coughlan wrote in BBC News last year, “Downward mobility haunts U.S. education…The U.S. has slipped to 14th in university graduation rates.”

China’s academic accomplishments result not from heavy government spending or any superior educational system. It is widely accepted in China that parents are a child’s first teachers and the family is always the place where children’s education is nourished and fully supported. Nicholas Kristof says in his article, “China’s Winning Schools?,” attesting, “Education thrives in China and the rest of Asia because it is a top priority ? and we?ve plenty to learn from that.” Education has always been a top priority in a Chinese family.

The U.S. government spends 4.8% of its GDP on education, more than double that of the Chinese government. Of 12 countries, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Mexico, Russia, and Brazil, the U.S. spent most, with $809.6 billion total, $7,743 per school age child. Even with those numbers, math test scores are only above those of Mexico and Brazil.

While Chinese parents take on as their responsibility the education of the next generation, in the U.S., people see government as the solution for their education problem as it is evidenced in seeking more government spending and in the fact that teachers, schools, or the system are often blamed for students’ school failure, as if parents are totally inculpable in their children’s low academic performance.

There is a true story about a mother in rural China and how she sent her son to a top university. Every day she would get her work done before her son came back from school. After her son got home, this mother would sit by her son with a book in her hand. ?I read my book, and you do your school work,? she would remind her son. Year after year, the mother never failed to be there with her offspring while the boy studied.

After the boy was admitted into a hard-to-reach top university in China, people interviewed him about his success. He said: ?My mother was reading all the time. She set a good example for me for these years.?

The boy had no idea that his mother was illiterate. The mother told the news media that she wanted her son to study well. Because she couldn?t help her child with his study, she would do all she could by setting a good example for him. She typifies the average responsible Chinese parents.

Chinese parents’ heavy involvements in their children’s education is the key to China’s education achievement. Conversely, it is safe to say that American parents’ inadequate involvements contribute to the U.S. trailing behind in education.

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From left, actors Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Eddie Redmayne pose at the photo call of the film Les Miserables at the 63rd edition of the Berlinale, International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

From left, actors Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Eddie Redmayne pose at the photo call of the film Les Miserables at the 63rd edition of the Berlinale, International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

Actress Anne Hathaway arrives at the photo call of the film Les Miserables at the 63rd edition of the Berlinale, International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

From left, actor Hugh Jackman, actor Eddie Redmayne, actress Anne Hathaway and director Tom Hooper pose at the photo call of the film Les Miserables at the 63rd edition of the Berlinale, International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

BERLIN (AP) ? Anne Hathaway says she’d like to do more musicals after the Oscar-nominated “Les Miserables” ? but don’t expect her to launch into a singing career.

Director Tom Hooper on Saturday presented his movie, an adaptation of a Broadway musical based on Victor Hugo’s novel, at the Berlin film festival.

Hathaway’s role as an outcast mother reduced to prostitution has won her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress.

She told reporters she hopes to do more musicals and would like more to be made ? “I’m a big fan of them, so that would make me very happy both as an actress and as an audience member.”

But Hathaway says the experience hasn’t made her more comfortable singing in public. She says: “I have no plans for recording an album.”

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Making comments about someone?s illness is both rude and unprofessional. It may also be the basis for a lawsuit.

That?s reason enough to warn supervisors and managers against discussing medical problems related to FMLA leave?and certainly grounds for prohibiting tasteless insults.

Recent case: William, a prison guard, got excellent reviews and choice assignments. His supervisors praised his hard work. Because of his performance, he was assigned to guard a unit housing the worst of the worst, including inmates convicted of murder.

Then William became depressed and began seeing a psychiatrist. After his doctor added anxiety and bipolar disorder to his list of problems, he took FMLA leave so he could undergo treatment.

When William returned to work, he learned he had been reassigned to a different, less prestigious unit.

Then the comments began. He heard managers refer to him as ?crazy? and detected new hostility.

William sued, alleging interference with his right to take FMLA leave.

The court agreed he had a case. It said comments calling someone ?crazy? may constitute interference with the right to take FMLA leave. The court?s rationale: Being labeled insane and removed from prestigious assignments are things that could discourage an employee from taking leave in the first place. (Dove v. Community Education Centers, et al., No. 12-4384, ED PA, 2012)

Final note: Calling someone crazy may also violate the ADA and create a hostile work environment for disabled workers.

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PHOENIX (Reuters) – A prominent Phoenix lawyer has died after being shot following a legal mediation meeting in an Arizona office building this week, a spokeswoman for his law firm said on Friday.

Mark Hummels, a 43-year-old litigator who was president of the Federal Bar Association‘s Phoenix chapter, had not been expected to survive his injuries from the shooting on Wednesday that also left another man dead.

“I regret to inform you that our friend, Mark Hummels, died last night. He was declared brain dead and taken off life support,” said Athia Hardt, spokeswoman for his law firm, Osborn Maledon.

She asked that Hummels‘ family be given time to grieve in private.

The man suspected in the fatal shooting was found dead on Thursday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in the suburb of Mesa, police said.

Arthur Douglas Harmon, 70, was suspected of opening fire in an office building in central Phoenix after a settlement conference involving a legal dispute, police said.

Also killed in the shooting was Steve Singer, 48, who was the chief executive of Fusion Contact Centers, a Scottsdale-based call center.

News reports about the Arizona shooting said that Harmon had filed a lawsuit against the Scottsdale call center, and police said the two men appeared to be his intended targets.

“For whatever reason, the litigating hearing did not go as planned or in favor of Mr. Harmon, and we believe that is probably the motive in this incident,” Phoenix police spokesman Tommy Thompson said.

(Reporting by Tim Gaynor; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Vicki Allen)

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Army chief Gen. Jean Qahwaji traveled to Paris on Wednesday to appeal for military aid and discuss ways to improve cooperation between the two countries.

Qahwaji’s official visit at the invitation of chief of staff Guillaud Edouard will include talks with top French military officials on measures to provide aid to the Lebanese army.

The talks will also focus on ways to consolidate relations between the two armies in the fields of training and logistics.

Qahwaji last visited France at the head of a military delegation in 2011.

The army chief traveled to Britain in September to discuss ways to boost military cooperation between the two countries.

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Jan. 27, 2013 ? The connection between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration as we grow older has been elusive. But for the first time, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a link between these hallmark maladies of old age. Their discovery opens the door to boosting the quality of sleep in elderly people to improve memory.

Postdoctoral fellow, Bryce Mander, demonstrates how the sleep study was conducted.

UC Berkeley neuroscientists have found that the slow brain waves generated during the deep, restorative sleep we typically experience in youth play a key role in transporting memories from the hippocampus — which provides short-term storage for memories — to the prefrontal cortex’s longer term “hard drive.”

However, in older adults, memories may be getting stuck in the hippocampus due to the poor quality of deep ‘slow wave’ sleep, and are then overwritten by new memories, the findings suggest.

“What we have discovered is a dysfunctional pathway that helps explain the relationship between brain deterioration, sleep disruption and memory loss as we get older — and with that, a potentially new treatment avenue,” said UC Berkeley sleep researcher Matthew Walker, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at UC Berkeley and senior author of the study to be published Jan. 27, in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

The findings shed new light on some of the forgetfulness common to the elderly that includes difficulty remembering people’s names.

“When we are young, we have deep sleep that helps the brain store and retain new facts and information,” Walker said. “But as we get older, the quality of our sleep deteriorates and prevents those memories from being saved by the brain at night.”

Healthy adults typically spend one-quarter of the night in deep, non-rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep. Slow waves are generated by the brain’s middle frontal lobe. Deterioration of this frontal region of the brain in elderly people is linked to their failure to generate deep sleep, the study found.

The discovery that slow waves in the frontal brain help strengthen memories paves the way for therapeutic treatments for memory loss in the elderly, such as transcranial direct current stimulation or pharmaceutical remedies. For example, in an earlier study, neuroscientists in Germany successfully used electrical stimulation of the brain in young adults to enhance deep sleep and doubled their overnight memory.

UC Berkeley researchers will be conducting a similar sleep-enhancing study in older adults to see if it will improve their overnight memory. “Can you jumpstart slow wave sleep and help people remember their lives and memories better? It’s an exciting possibility,” said Bryce Mander, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at UC Berkeley and lead author of this latest study.

For the UC Berkeley study, Mander and fellow researchers tested the memory of 18 healthy young adults (mostly in their 20s) and 15 healthy older adults (mostly in their 70s) after a full night’s sleep. Before going to bed, participants learned and were tested on 120 word sets that taxed their memories.

As they slept, an electroencephalographic (EEG) machine measured their brain wave activity. The next morning, they were tested again on the word pairs, but this time while undergoing functional and structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans.

In older adults, the results showed a clear link between the degree of brain deterioration in the middle frontal lobe and the severity of impaired “slow wave activity” during sleep. On average, the quality of their deep sleep was 75 percent lower than that of the younger participants, and their memory of the word pairs the next day was 55 percent worse.

Meanwhile, in younger adults, brain scans showed that deep sleep had efficiently helped to shift their memories from the short-term storage of the hippocampus to the long-term storage of the prefrontal cortex.

Co-authors of the study are William Jagust, Vikram Rao, Jared Saletin and John Lindquist of UC Berkeley; Brandon Lu of the California Pacific Medical Center and Sonia Ancoli-Israel of UC San Diego.

The research was funded by the National Institute of Aging of the National Institutes of Health.

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