Yemen: Intelligence officer killed in shooting

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Today's Scuttlebot: iPhone 5 Thieves, and Business Tech Start-Ups ...

Some interesting items that the tech reporters and editors of The New York Times found on the Web recently. See more here.

MySpace Shows Off Sleek New Skin
Vimeo.com |? The decaying social network surprised the Internet with a chic new look. But will anyone care? ??Jenna Wortham

The Indomitable Mary Meeker
Wired.com |? Q&A with ?the queen of the Internet? Mary Meeker (and a clue to how she made it in a man?s business world:she plays golf!) ??Claire Cain Miller

New York Police Fighting iPhone 5 Thieves Pre-emptively
Yahoo! News |? New York police were asking iPhone owners to register serial numbers. Because this works so well with recovering stolen bikes? ??Damon Darlin

Flatlining User Base Spells End of RIM?s Growth Story
The Globe and Mail |? Analysts predict that RIM will report no growth in the current quarter. ??Damon Darlin

Even Sleeping Smartphones Could Soon Hear Spoken Commands
Technologyreview.com |? Get ready for ?persistent listening? apps on your smartphone that are always on, even while in ?sleep? mode. ??Nick Bilton

Storage Is Cool
Online.wsj.com |? Business technology entrepreneurs become popular in Silicon Valley. ??Suzanne Spector

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Texas police kill amputee in wheelchair

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • NEW: The owner of the home said he gave Brian Claunch a pen two days earlier
  • Claunch lost an arm and a leg in a train accident
  • Claunch used his wheelchair to corner a police officer, authorities said
  • He attempted to stab the officers with a pen, authorities said

(CNN) -- A Houston police officer shot and killed a schizophrenic, wheelchair-bound double amputee threatening people with a pen at a group home for the mentally ill after authorities said the man advanced on the officer's partner.

The shooting occurred early Saturday morning after police responded to a call that resident Brian Claunch was acting aggressively after his caretaker refused to give him a cigarette and a soda, the owner of the home and police said.

"The officers made verbal commands for the suspect to drop whatever he had in his hand, to stay still and to speak with the officers, but the suspect continued to make threats," Jodi Silva, a police spokeswoman, told CNN affiliate KTRK in Houston.

Claunch, who lost an arm and a leg in a train accident, trapped one of the officers with his wheelchair in the corner of a room and attempted to stab the officer with an object that turned out to be a pen.

Officer Matt Marin, "in fear of the safety of his partner and the safety of himself, discharges his duty weapon, striking the suspect," Silva said.

Marin shot Claunch once. He died at the scene, according to investigators.

It was the second time Marin was involved in a shooting. In October 2009, he shot and killed a knife-wielding man who stabbed his girlfriend and a neighbor, according to published reports at the time. Marin joined the Houston Police Department in 2007.

CNN could not reach the department for comment, but Houston police said the officer was placed on administrative leave per policy.

Claunch, who was in his 40s, had been at the Healing Hands home for 18 months, John Garcia, the owner of the group home, told KRTK.

Houston police have not released the identity of the man, though Garcia identified him as Claunch.

Garcia told the Houston Chronicle that Claunch liked to "doodle."

Two days earlier, Garcia gave Claunch a black felt pen to draw. Garcia told the newspaper he did not know if it was that pen or another one that Clauch had in his hand when he was shot.

Garcia said Claunch suffered from schizophrenia and a bipolar disorder.

"He had a temper. He could fly off once in awhile," he told CNN affiliate KHOU.

Claunch was capable of making people in the house feel threatened during an outrage, even though he was confined to a wheelchair, Garcia said.

"Emotionally disturbed individuals, when threatened, are going to react in most instances, excessively," Dr. Ed Reitman, a clinical psychologist, told KRTK.

"This was an incident that didn't have to take place if the individual -- a police officer -- had been trained in dealing with emotionally disturbed individuals."

The Houston Police Department has officers trained to deal with the mentally ill, though the department would not say whether Marin received training, according to KRTK.

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Tom Hanks related to President Abraham Lincoln

Tom Hanks is related to one of America's most famous presidents, Abraham Lincoln, it has been revealed.

The Oscar-winning actor is the third cousin, four generations removed, of the assassinated leader through the president's mother, Nancy Hanks.

Lincoln's great-great-grand-father was John Hanks, who was also Tom's great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.

Details of the genealogical link were revealed by Hanks, 56, as it was announced he will narrate a film called Killing Lincoln.

"It's odd to say the killing of Abraham Lincoln is an unknown story but it may as well be," the Daily Express quoted him as saying.

"The depth of the intrigue, the breadth of the conspiracy and the bare-naked exposure of human nature is so timeless, it's a wonder how that seminal tragedy in our history could ever be explained in a few sentences: 'Ford's Theater...John Wilkes Booth, etc'."

Hanks has known since he was a child that he was related to Lincoln.

He does not boast about his lineage but did once say: "I'm related to Abraham Lincoln and the members of my branch of the family are either cousins or in-laws or poor relations.

"So when I was at school, guess which president I was always doing essays on," he added.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/news-interviews/Tom-Hanks-related-to-President-Abraham-Lincoln/articleshow/16514532.cms

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Giuliana back at work 3 weeks after son's birth

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By Us Weekly

Less than a month after she welcomed son Edward Duke via gestational surrogate, Giuliana Rancic reported for work Sept. 23 to host the E! network's Primetime Emmy Awards "Countdown to the Red Carpet" special.

PHOTOS: The most memorable Emmy Awards looks of all time

Wearing an ivory Rafael Cennamo dress that matched co-hosts Kelly Osbourne (in Marcia Lucia Hohan) and George Kotsiopoulos (in Brooks Brothers), the new mom admitted it was hard getting back into the swing of things. "I've missed you so much," Rancic told her "Fashion Police" cohorts.

"It's so different not having you there," Osbourne said. "Not that we haven't had amazing guests, but I missed you so much."

VIDEO: How infertility made Giuliana and Bill Rancic closer

During her maternity leave, Rancic tuned into the Joan Rivers-hosted show weekly. "I still acted like [a critic]," Rancic told Osbourne, 27, and Kotsiopoulos, 43. "Sometimes you cut me off and I get very offended!"

PHOTOS: How stars get red carpet ready

Rancic then shared several photos of her son, who was born in Colorado Aug. 29. "I always vowed I would never be one of those moms who brought pictures, but I'm one of those moms!" she laughed. "It's hard to believe he's almost a month old."

Rancic and Ryan Seacrest, 37, will co-host E!'s live red carpet pre-show beginning at 6 p.m. ET.

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Android turns four, enthusiasm for dessert foods unabated

There's nothing quite like having your birthday on a weekend. And while we're sure that Android was out late last night, dining on sweets with its fellow mobile operating systems, we'd like to wish Google's OS a very happy birthday. It was this day in 2008 that the Android team unveiled its 1.0 SDK, release 1 -- a milestone that coincided with the announcement of T-Mobile's G1, which would get the new OS into consumer hands around a month or so later, finally delivering the promise of a long rumored "Googlephone." Android was a bit of a late bloomer, but now, toward the end of 2012 with 4.1 Jelly Bean beginning to bloom, it's hard to remember a time when it wasn't a dominate player in the ever more crowded mobile space. With that in mind, we're raising a glass to you, Android -- a glass of something sweet, naturally.

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Author R&R with Dorian Paul - In Reference to Murder

Dorian Paul #2 72dpiI'm taking a break this week from the regular Friday's "Forgotten" Books feature to take some Author R&R (Research and Reference) with Dorian Paul, a/k/a Dorrie Parini and Paul LaFerriere, author of the biological thriller Risking the World. Dorrie and Paul have always finished each other's sentences and shared an entrepreneurial passion. For nearly three decades they have worked with Fortune 500 pharmaceutical and biotech companies to explain breakthroughs in genetic engineering, immunology, cancer research and many other areas. Dorrie has a BS in English and Biology and an MA in English (Penn State) with advanced courses in science writing. Paul has a BS from Amherst College where he studied English and Mathematics.

From Dorrie and Paul:

Risking the world coverAs our world advances, so do our chances of coming up against catastrophic disaster and every new cure has the potential to turn deadly. Ancient agents ? the bubonic plague, smallpox, and botulism ? lie dormant in laboratories, ever ready to emerge in new, potentially bioengineered forms. This is how the stage has been set in Risking the World.

The heroine, American scientist Claire Ashe, finds herself thrust into the middle of a massive terrorist plot not even the global intelligence community is prepared for. The terror plot at the heart of Risking the World revolves around a rapidly lethal bioengineered form of tuberculosis designed to purposely infect kids.? The science used to foil the horror is not only plausible, but the technology has already garnered Nobel prizes.

Risking the World is a biological thriller.? For starters, that meant we had to get the science right for it to be plausible enough to grip and hold the reader.

On that score we had a leg up, because we'd worked together to build a science writing company of 100+.? We'd interviewed experts who developed cutting edge medical advances, and knew from experience how to sift through peer-reviewed journals to find articles with a spark of originality and promise.? So, the research tools were familiar to us.

The challenge lay in using those tools to pluck the very best from the published research, and extend that knowledge into unknown realms.? Our aim was to create a fictional world in which all the science we described was real, but the terrifying ways in which it was put to use had yet to be seen.

Selecting the right disease for our bio-threat was our first and most central research question.? We put aside writing about a biological agent everyone's already heard of, like anthrax or plague, as old hat.? Instead, we looked for a disease that our readers would recognize?but not think of as dangerous.

Tuberculosis had much to offer.? Book lovers might recognize it as the disease that killed John Keats, and some might even know that George Orwell used the royalties from 1984 to import streptomycin for his TB treatment.? While these historical examples echo a distant past, not a dangerous present, the current situation is not at all rosy.? TB ranks second only to HIV/AIDS as the cause of death from infectious disease globally, and the WHO estimates that as of 2010 nearly one-third of the world's population was infected with TB.

Fortunately, most of these individuals have a latent (dormant) form of this slow growing disease.? But what if an evil genius were to discover what our leading researchers have yet to elucidate ? the secret to the switch that turns TB's reproduction cycle on and off?? Could the good guys who are investigating protein kinases and messenger molecules be on the right track, but a step behind the bad guys?? And what if those bad guys succeed in bio-engineering an explosively lethal form of TB that kills just about every young kid exposed to it?

Now the scientists in our novel who wear the white hats must play catch up, big time. ?The heroine, Claire Ashe, is an immunobiologist who's spent her budding career trying to uncover the reproductive secrets of TB in hopes of developing a viable vaccine.? She's leading the team tasked with finding an antidote to the deadly TB strain created by the man who solved the scientific puzzle she failed to unravel ? and used the knowledge to kill rather than cure.

Why choose a brainy female as our heroine? ?Because we believe in promoting women in science.? You might not know this, but even though women represent about 60% of college graduates in the U.S., men represent about 60% of those in science.? Since women are over 50% of the U.S. population, it's time we took advantage of all the female brainpower out there to keep our science position in the world.? Unbelievably, a UNESCO report indicates 13 Muslim countries produce a higher percentage of women science graduates than the U.S.?

We'd served with women like Claire on deadline driven international teams, so we knew what she was up against as team leader.? This allowed us to populate our pages with a group of the best and brightest ? and endow them with appropriately cantankerous personalities.? But the scientific team assembled in Risking the World needed to be equipped with the right weapons to fight back ? and nanotechnology fit the bill.

Nanotechnology has garnered multiple Nobel prizes in recent years.? It refers to techniques in which scientists manipulate matter on the atomic and molecular levels to create wholly novel structures not found in nature.? Whoa, you say, that sounds scary.? Except, of course, it's not at all scary to the scientists involved, who've named one of their earliest creations 'Bucky Balls' after Buckminster Fuller, the inventor of the geodesic dome.? But Bucky Balls become scary to Claire Ashe when she sees how her nemesis has used them.

Of course, we've only touched on the science research here, but other research was required for our villain, whose motivation lay within the world of the personal.? Even while plotting to unleash his TB bioweapon on children in Paris, London Tel Aviv, and New York, he remains obsessed with reconstituting his grandfather's antique weapon collection, which was confiscated after he was murdered when the Shah of Iran was deposed.? Research relating to this weapon collection came from the epic Persian poem, Shahnameh, as well as collections detailed in books and visited by us at the Wallace Musuem in London.

In the age of the crusades, European armorers struggled to create swords that could stand up against the watered steel blades forged by their Persian foes.? In Risking the World, evil scientists use nanotechnology to create a protective shell for their lethal TB.? Claire's team, seeking a cure, uses it to penetrate those defenses. Scientists such as Claire are the modern day armorers, waging war at the molecular level on our behalf.

We hope you take a risk on Risking the World by Dorian Paul.? It is available through Amazon.com as an eBook and trade paperback.? For more information about us, and the science behind Risking the World, visit our website at www.dorianpaul.com.


Risking the World
is available in print and ebook format from Amazon.com. Your purchase of Risking the World helps support TB research via contributions by Dorian Paul, who donates a portion of the revenue from book sales to organizations fighting this deadly disease.

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House bill ends funding of party conventions

WASHINGTON (AP) ? House Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday came together on at least one way to reduce government spending ? by eliminating federal assistance for the two parties' increasingly expensive and stage-managed presidential conventions.

The vote was 310-95.

Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla, who sponsored the legislation, says the government has spent about $224 million on the quadrennial gatherings of party faithful since 1976, when in the post-Watergate era it was considered a way to reduce the influence of money in politics.

He says this year federal assistance for the two conventions was about $35 million, slightly more than 20 percent of the total costs as the parties turn to private donors to pay for the lavish events. In 1980 federal grants paid for nearly 95 percent of convention costs.

"There's no need to be writing checks to the Democratic Party and the Republican Party," Cole said. "Clearly it's an idea whose time has come and gone."

"American taxpayers should not be subsidizing political party conventions," added House Administrations Committee chairman Dan Lungren, R-Calif, characterizing the events as "weeklong televised movie sets and almost entirely symbolic."

One voice of dissent came from Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, who said public financing was designed to restore confidence in the political process and the bill would "inject more private influence over elections even though the current level is already appallingly high."

The Senate has approved similar legislation and the two sides must now resolve differences in the two bills.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/house-bill-ends-funding-party-conventions-231506261.html

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