The Europa Report: A Report

I have to say, being asked to review a film for Scientific American has to be one of the most randomly awesome things that's happened to this scientist, especially since the film is about Europa. As a UCLA PhD, most of my friends were graphics and production guys, so I've got to try to put in my former Los Angelino-$0.02. As someone totally, completely UTTERLY obsessed with Europa, I've thought through the moment of first contact myself thousands of times. What could it be like to see under that ice??? How would I feel? So, imagine my absolute joy to learn that there was a full-length feature film coming out that centered on exactly this scenario...what might happen if we sent people to Europa? Mind you, I've always imagined a robots-first scenario, but I would volunteer tomorrow for a one-way trip to see Europa in all its icy glory orbiting Jupiter with my own eyes. So premise? Check. Then I found out: it's a horror movie. SWEET!! I've often kidded, in fact, and only half-jokingly, that with my luck, we'll send a sub down, and in the first live pictures, a huge sea spider will crawl across the view and I'll have a heart attack right there. I'm an arachnophobe but I would still love to see that happen...so of course that's what I imagined would crawl out of the ice in the Europa Report . If I think about sci-fi movies, Mars has gotten it's fair share of the press--Mission to Mars, Total Recall, Mars Attacks! You get my drift. Little Europa has starring in indie films and making quick appearances waiting for the big break, for a cameo as one of the sister moons to Pandora in James Cameron's Avatar. In 2010: A Space Odyssey, we got to hear these ever-ominous words (to which NASA seems to be listening), "all these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there." But this didn't stop the team who wrote and filmed The Europa Report. The movie is set in the not-so-distant future, with exciting new science results compelling humanity to make Europa its first stop in space. We hear from the director of a private corporation, with international membership, which has decided that Europa is too compelling to ignore, and have chosen it as the first target for human exploration (By now I'm cheering, since I agree!!!!) The movie sets up the way we set up for any space mission...press conferences, talking about the science, introducing the intrepid crew who've been training for years for this moment, commentary from mission directors, images of crew capsules being towed down city streets. But we also get the picture...something has gone terribly wrong. We're to be left for most of the film wondering just what has happened to Europa One. In fact, the whole beginning of the film was incredibly exciting. The reasons that the Europa One team cites for going to Europa are a mixture of ripped from the headlines science about lakes on Europa, (OMG that's our paper, our lakes on the silver screen! Bucket list, check!) and a fictional heat signature emanating from Conamara Chaos that the whole world agrees are too compelling to ignore. The film feels more like a documentary, and for the most part, pretty believable. You could imagine what it would be like to be one of these crew members. The eerie and beautiful scene of the spacecraft passing the moon, becoming the farthest out that humanity has ever gone, and then realizing that there are years of travel ahead, just puts into perspective how far we have left to go as a species, and that moment isn't lost on the film. I'm not going to ruin the movie for you by describing in detail all of what comes next--a flight to Europa, loss of data relay to the ground, the launch of a crew vehicle down to the surface, Blair Witch-style photography mixed with crew interviews and commentary from mission control after the fact are all spliced together in a kind of back-and-forth in time that builds suspense for the landed mission. And, spoiler alert, a cameo by a creepy, apparently evil and radioactive version of one of my favorite animals. So onto the science. The producers said they cared about the science, and they proved it. I've made a list of the things they've gotten right and the few they've gotten wrong. The Good: The launch of Europa One is particularly well done--it's a mix of footage from the cape and Apollo-reminiscent external camera views as the rocket launches, and then as the boosters fall away. There's nothing more enthralling than standing at Cape Canaveral, waiting for the moment your mission is going to leave this world and head for another--I'm not sure I can describe it well enough, but the film does a great job of capturing the experience. The flyovers use actual images from NASA spacecraft. I choked up at the first flyover of Europa (seriously, heart in throat). They took the Galileo images that I know so well and brought them to life. I've had that dream so many times...flying past beautiful Jupiter, with its flowing atmosphere like a real life Monet, and glimpsing the bright glittering surface of Europa speckled with brown indications of a hidden dynamic world. I could feel the awe bubbling up. They correctly represent the scientists--unlike what you might guess from the Big Bang Theory or from Michael Bay movies, scientists aren't all pocket protector nerds and certainly aren't sex-starved supermodel-hot-yet-misunderstood blondes (I can barely afford my student loan payments, you won't be seeing me in a Gucci suit at the office anytime soon). We're mostly excited, slightly obsessive people with average wardrobes (ok perhaps slightly worse than average) who just want to tell you how awesome it is that we get to work on something we'd probably do for free. We would certainly walk the extra hundred meters to get that once in a lifetime sample of figure out what the glowing light is. They captured the reality of spaceflight in our current time: with funding for science and space at its lowest point since the 80's and with increasing risk aversion, there are things public spaceflight just may not accomplish. Hopefully, the rise of private space flight will lower launch costs and let the public sector do what it does best--frontier, fundamental research. But unless priorities change soon, there are things we just can't--and really won't--with public space programs. The movie shows exactly what we all know--technology is incredible and moving fast, but there are things we just can't do with robots, tasks for which a human is still required. The "Meh" I'm guessing the rockets they launched from are not large enough, despite being well done. Visually, the launch looks like an Atlas V with more boosters, though perhaps they are going for the new SLS-style launch. But I was still underwhelmed. Ok, we have to talk about gravity. Every movie has its way of dealing with gravity. In this one, we've got actors at least trying to raise their arms like they are in zero G. There's the spinning spacecraft to "simulate" gravity. And there are some shots where the actors go flying about through the cabin, so ok, I'll give it to them. Ice thickness is a debate (I'd argue mostly solved) in the science community. The preponderance of evidence says the ice shell is really think, at least 10 km and probably closer to 20 km (But don't worry, there is still water up close to the surface and the ice shell thickness probably doesn't matter the way we once thought for the possibility of life there). And while we think there are places where the ice shell disrupts, it's probably NEVER thin enough that a spacecraft would crack the ice, much less a person. But, this is a horror movie, so I guess we can let them have that. Ice 11: there's a point where the actor playing the landing module pilot describes, "we've landed on Ice 11." Ice 11 is pretty cool, literally, forming at a temperature below about 80 K, which I might add is much, much colder than Europa's surface. It's been reported in some very ancient ice in Antarctica, at temperatures higher than that, so maybe it's possible on Europa as well. And while it can be formed in high radiation, that assumes the temperature hasn't cycled past the stability point for ice 11. If you go to Europa to land on a warm spot, I'd wager it's not too likely that the dynamic, recycling surface, especially where it's warm (and apparently thin), is made of Ice 11. At least they didn't say Ice 6, then we'd have to throw down. As much as I hate to say it, launching people to Europa as a first deep space target is pretty insane. The amazing complexity of life support, planning, logistics, etc, would just not be well suited to going there first, not to mention the travel times and complexity of the orbital tour into Europa orbit (which would have been really cool to see in the film!! Hi there, Ganymede!). The Ugly Clich? crazy Russian scientist...I'm getting sick of this one. But there's only one part of the movie I absolutely hated: light coming down through the ice (because of the horrifically cool radiationopus, I'll give them the light going up through the ice, who am I to know what monsterpusses might be capable of?). As I can tell you first hand, precious little light makes it through even the eight meters of sea ice, common off the coast of Antarctica. And there is just no way Europa's ice is that thin, anywhere. Might there be cracks? Sure. But not translucent ice. So at 5 AU, with less intense solar flux than here at Earth, there's certainly not going to be light transmitted through the ice. Just put some headlights on your subs, like we do, and it will STILL look as cool. And by the way, if you go all the way to Europa, melt or drill into the ice with a probe, and let it swim around, wouldn't it occur to you to have a way of measuring when you broke through? I have to say, "I guess the ice must be thinner than we thought" just doesn't cut it for this scientist. But lets not leave it on a bad note. The movie is fun. It's beautiful. The acting is alright actually, in fact at times, it's rather personal (well, except the landing module pilot who has the emotion of a sandwich, and that awkward moment when one of the crew is lost and everyone just stands around, as if waiting to hear "cut"). What I think the film does well is transmit the sense of what could be. From the crew who sacrifice themselves to send back proof of life, to the awe that the folks on the ground feel at the grandeur of the moment, to the documentary-style crew interviews, the movie shows why we study space, and why we dream of going there. As explained by James Corrigan (played by Sharlto Copley of District 9 fame), we're trying to understand ourselves, our place in the universe, and if we are alone. Space science inspires the kind of awe that might lift humanity up, asking us to look outside our selves to a bigger and better sense of who we are and our connection to this amazing universe where we find ourselves. Overall, the film is an enjoyable voyage not short on awe for those who care to jump on board. Images: Europa: NASA/JPL/DLR; movie still, courtesy of Magnet Releasing. Follow Scientific American on Twitter @SciAm and @SciamBlogs. Visit ScientificAmerican.com for the latest in science, health and technology news.
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Fly London To Brno From Just ?19.99

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Ryanair, Europe?s only ultra-low cost carrier (ULCC), announced that from midnight (24:00hrs) tonight (Thur 1 Aug), passengers can fly from London Stansted to Brno from just ?19.99 in September, October and November as part of its weekly ?Bargain Thursday? promotion.

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Ryanair is releasing 100,000 seats across its European network at prices starting from just ?19.99 for travel on Mon, Tue, Wed & Thur in September, October and November and these ?all in? low fares will be available on over 1,000 of Ryanair?s European routes, but must be booked on www.ryanair.com before midnight (24:00hrs) Mon, 5 Aug.

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Ryanair?s ?19.99 sale fare includes all non-optional taxes, charges and fees, so passengers who only travel with carry-on luggage and decline our priority boarding service can book, check-in online and fly for this advertised ?19.99 fare on these ?Bargain Thursday? flights.

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From midnight tonight (1 Aug), passengers can book 100,000 ?Bargain Thursday? seats on over 1,000 European routes, including London Stansted to Brno, at prices starting from just ?19.99, for travel in September, October and November.?These seats are only available until midnight (24:00hrs) Monday (5 August) and at these mad prices are sure to be snapped up fast, so we urge passengers to book them on www.ryanair.com before they sell out.?

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Dorian regenerates into depression near Florida

Dorian has regenerated into a tropical depression just east of Cape Canaveral

By Ken Kaye Sun Sentinel

10:14 a.m. EDT, August 3, 2013

Tropical Depression Dorian, Saturday, 5 a.m. advisory

OUTLOOK: Dorian, the system that just won't go away, re-strengthened into a depression in the Atlantic off the coast of Cape Canaveral on Saturday morning.

The former tropical storm is projected to remain a depression, aim northeast out to sea and finally die early next week.

WHAT FLORIDA CAN EXPECT: Dorian continues to spread clouds over much of the eastern part of the state, increasing the rain chance to 50 percent in South Florida and to 40 percent in the Orlando area on Saturday.

PARTICULARS: Even if Dorian re-strengthens into a tropical storm, it's unlikely that any watches or warnings will be posted because the strongest winds are in its southeast quadrant, or over the ocean, said senior hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart of the National Hurricane Center.

Dorian initially grew into a tropical storm on July 24 in the eastern Atlantic and fell apart last Saturday, the result of wind shear and dry air.

LOCATION: 85 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral

STRENGTH: 35 mph sustained winds

MOVEMENT: North at 6 mph

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U.S. declares new push to defuse Egyptian crisis

By Tom Perry and Michael Georgy

CAIRO (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it would work with other nations to resolve Egypt's crisis peacefully, injecting new energy into a push to end a bloody standoff since the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

A day after saying the army had restored democracy by removing Mursi, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Egyptian authorities to give demonstrators the space to protest in peace - a warning against dispersing pro-Mursi sit-ins.

"We will work very, very hard together with others, in order to bring parties together to find a peaceful resolution that grows the democracy and respects the rights of everybody," Kerry said before a meeting United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed in London.

The meeting appeared to signal a new diplomatic effort to end the crisis in which more than 300 people have been killed. The army removed Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood from power on July 3 in response to mass protests against his rule.

With the European Union already mediating, the new push will rely on the United Arab Emirates to work with the army-backed interim government and Qatar, which supported the Mursi administration, to liaise with the Brotherhood.

Analysts say civilian members of the interim cabinet are trying to promote a political solution despite resistance from security services that want to crack down on the Brotherhood, encouraged by an outpouring of public anger at the movement.

Mohamed ElBaradei, vice president in the new administration, said he was lobbying for talks with the Brotherhood, while others advocated crushing it.

"People are very angry with me because I am saying, 'Let's take time, let's talk to them'. The mood right now is, 'Let's crush them, let's not talk to them'," he said. "I hope the Brotherhood understands that time is not on their side. I'm holding the fort, but I can't hold it for very long."

Egypt is more polarized than at any time since the downfall of autocratic president Hosni Mubarak in 2011, complicating mediation efforts in a pivotal Arab state fraught with unrest.

The Brotherhood, decrying what it sees as a coup against the country's first freely-elected head of state, escalated its protest campaign by announcing two new sit-ins and three marches to sensitive security facilities.

Its supporters clashed with police during a protest near a complex of television studios outside Cairo. Police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. State media reported army helicopters overhead and said two policemen were wounded by birdshot in what it described as an attempt to storm the complex.

The Brotherhood said the security forces had fired tear gas on peaceful protesters. Seven Mursi supporters were also injured, security sources said.

State TV reported that the Interior Ministry would impose a cordon around two large pro-Mursi Cairo sit-ins within 48 hours and that the police did not want to break them up by force.

Following the deaths of around 80 Mursi supporters on Saturday when security forces opened fire near one of the sit-ins, government pledges of action have raised concerns of more casualties. By pushing back any move to break up the sit-ins, the government has given the mediation effort a chance.

With the United States supplying Egypt with $1.3 billion in military aid each year and the United Arab Emirates having pledged $3 billion to the new administration, the countries may be able to help force a compromise with Qatar's help.

In London, Sheikh Abdullah said a peaceful resolution required "inclusive dialogue".

The government has drawn up a transition plan envisaging parliamentary elections that will start in about six months.

But the Brotherhood protests are threatening to rob the government of a semblance of normality it needs to revive an economy which is in deep in crisis.

SISI SEES NEED FOR POLITICAL SOLUTION

Mursi has been in detention since he was deposed and is facing a judicial inquiry into accusations of murder and conspiring with the Palestinian group Hamas.

The authorities have also rounded up many other Brotherhood leaders accused of inciting violence, feeding international fears of a plan to uproot a group that was suppressed for decades until Mubarak's overthrow. The government accuses Mursi's supporters of taking up arms, alleging they engage in terrorism.

ElBaradei, former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, outlined ideas for a political deal that might include a pardon for Mursi and guarantees that the Brotherhood would have a place in political life. He said army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi understood the need for a political solution.

"But of course he has a responsibility to protect the country in terms of security. And the army is on the edge."

He said dialogue was the way to end the Brotherhood sit-ins. The government has promised to deal with protests it sees as a threat to national security. "I do not want to see any more bloodshed. Nobody wants that," ElBaradei said.

"They need to cooperate," he added, in reference to the Brotherhood. "But they need of course to feel secure, they need immunity, they need to feel that they are not excluded. It's things we are willing to provide."

He added that Sisi, who has gained enormous popularity since deposing Mursi, was not thinking of running for president.

"WE'RE NOT TERRORISTS"

The biggest sit-in is in northeast Cairo, where several thousand Mursi supporters have been camped out for more than a month in a protest that at times swells to tens of thousands.

"We are here with our wives and children. We don't want violence," said Ali el-Shishtawi, a government employee at the sit-in. "We're not afraid. We're not terrorists like they say."

Amnesty International issued a report saying Mursi supporters had tortured some of their political rivals, saying anti-Brotherhood protesters had reported being been captured, stabbed, beaten and subject to electric shocks.

It said eight bodies had arrived at the morgue in Cairo bearing signs of torture, five of which had been found near pro-Mursi sit-ins, and called for an investigation.

The new government gained a U.S. seal of approval late on Thursday when Kerry said the army had been "restoring democracy" when it toppled Mursi - Washington's strongest endorsement yet for the new leadership.

"The military was asked to intervene by millions and millions of people, all of whom were afraid of a descent into chaos, into violence," Kerry told GEO TV in Pakistan. "And the military did not take over, to the best of our judgment - so far."

Washington's efforts to avoid calling Mursi's overthrow a "military coup" has left it open to charges of sending mixed messages about events in Egypt, long a bulwark of U.S. Middle East policy.

Mohamed Ali Bishr, a senior Brotherhood leader, said the movement was disappointed by Kerry's statement. "The United States is a country that speaks of democracy and human rights and they say something like that. I hope that they rethink their position and correct it," he told Reuters.

(Additional reporting by Maggie Fick and Noah Browning in Cairo and Lesley Wroughton in London; editing by David Stamp)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-gives-seal-approval-egypts-leaders-111611555.html

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India's first indigenous aircraft carrier to be launched on August 12

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India's first indigenous aircraft carrier will be formally launched on August 12 at Kochi Harbour. Designed by Indian naval architects and built using Indian made steel, the carrier displaces more than 32,000 tonnes. When fully operational in 2018 it will have early warning radar and two runaways for launching aircraft.

Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/411309/indias-first-indigenous-aircraft-carrier-to-be-launched-on-august-12.html

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Flaws in UEFI Implementation Can Be Abused to Bypass Windows 8 Secure Boot

Security researchers have found a way to bypass the Secure Boot system implemented in Windows 8. The attack method doesn?t rely on flaws in Secure Boot, but in the way some companies have implemented the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).

Present at Black Hat 2013 in Las Vegas, Andrew Furtak, Oleksandr Bazhaniuk and Yuriy Bulygin have demonstrated two attack methods that can be used to bypass the Secure Boot in an effort to install a UEFI bootkit, PCWorld reports.One of the attack techniques relies on security holes in the device?s firmware. However, in this case, the exploit that alters the code responsible for enforcing the Secure Boot mechanism needs to be launched in kernel mode.

This makes the attack more difficult to pull off because cybercriminals would need to find a way to execute code in the part of the OS that has the most privileges.

This exploit method was reported to impacted vendors, one of which is Asus, around one year ago. The company has released some BIOS updates, but products such as the VivoBook laptop ? on which the experts have made their presentation ? are still vulnerable.

The second method is not as limited. Cybercriminals can leverage it to bypass Secure Boot simply by using vulnerabilities in common applications such as Microsoft Office, Java or Adobe Flash.

Since the exploited security holes have been discovered only recently, the experts haven?t named any of the impacted vendors and they haven?t provided any technical details regarding the attacks.

While security experts from all around the world try to find ways to bypass Secure Boot, Bulygin admits that the system is an important step forward in keeping computers bootkit free.

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Flaws-in-UEFI-Implementation-Can-Be-Abused-to-Bypass-Windows-8-Secure-Boot-372798.shtml

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A Brief History of Tech Companies Talking to Women Like Total Assholes

No matter how far technology might advance, there's always been one little area that the reigning powers-that-be have never quite managed to figure out. Or more specifically, an area they've never quite figured out how to talk to. Tech companies, meet women. And then stop treating them like idiots.

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Imaging to Go: Technology That Comes to You ? The Health Journal ...

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For people living in rural areas, or with limited access to health care facilities, mobile health vans that carry technology within them can make a huge difference. Sometimes it?s not what you?d think though?the people using mobile health technology have a variety of different needs that make easier access a godsend.

Eric Young, the director of operations at Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk, Va., oversees the Sentara Mammography Mobile Van, a 38-foot long RV. This mammography suite on wheels is fully equipped with two dressing rooms and a complete digital mammography unit, just like you?d find in a brick and mortar facility.?

?We drive it and set it up. Patients come in, get greeted by a registrar, get changed and get their mammography,? Young says. ?A lot of times it?s more convenient because breast centers are not near them. For example, in Portsmouth, there are access issues.??

Having the mammography van means ready access to mammograms for large concentrations of women who need it. Young says that screenings like these are so important because many women would not take the time to make the appointment and go get one. So they look for areas where they can serve a group of people by bringing the van to them.

?We are constantly looking for areas to provide access, where there is a concentration of people who need access to the service. The mobile van is a great way to do that,? he says.

The van visits around 60 different sites a year, including large employers in the area. Young says that human resources departments announce the date to staff and offer online registration to save a time slot.

?We often heard that women don?t think they have time to do it. So we take the mammogram to them,? Young says.?

The van provided screenings for 4,000 women last year, primarily in South Hampton Roads, but also in, Hampton, Newport News and Williamsburg. In addition, women visiting the mammography van get information on self-screening, the importance of annual mammograms and follow-up care as needed.?

At the end of the day, the mammography van plugs in back at the hospital and all of the images are securely transferred to each patient?s electronic medical record so that their individual doctors can follow up as needed.

It?s a testament to the advances in technology that this is even possible. Many people remember when doctors made house calls, but the portability of technology has made many more services possible. A Richmond-based company, Dynamic Mobile Imaging, has based their entire business model on it.

With a fleet of 30 vans equipped with radiography (X-ray machines) and other portable technologies, like ultrasound, Doppler, echocardiogram, EKG and halter monitors, they serve a large area of Virginia and Maryland, including the Eastern Shore.?

?The technology was the tipping point,? says Dean Berger, chief operating officer of DMI. In 2005, other mobile businesses existed, but DMI launched as 100-percent digital, and that made the quality of the images and the ease of transmitting them much more feasible.?

The company serves people in nursing homes, jails, assisted living facilities, adult day care centers and their own homes. There are many reasons to take the technology to the patient rather than transporting the patient.

?For some people, being transported to and from the ambulance is traumatic, and when the weather is bad, it can be even more difficult. It?s quicker to take it to them, and when time is of the essence, it can really help,? says Debbie Berger, the president and CEO of DMI.

For example, elderly people are susceptible to lung infections like pneumonia. Rather than lifting them from bed, down the stairs to an ambulance, in bad weather, to go and wait in an emergency room, they can have what they need come to them. Having the X-ray machine make a house call is more comfortable for them, and their doctor can review the X-ray and treat them accordingly. They may be prescribed antibiotics and get started on treatment in the same amount of time it would have taken to get to a hospital for an X-ray.

At jails, many of the chest X-rays are to screen for TB, if skin tests have come back positive. This avoids the cost of transportation and additional security for prisoners. Another potential situation is the swallowing of foreign objects, and mobile radiography can quickly identify whether an item was ingested or not.?

The company started as a family business, with Debbie, her husband Dean and her mom Clara Burrows, who are all radiology techs. ?We understood the ins and outs of radiology,? Burrows says.?

Her husband was the one who thought the family should jump into the mobile X-Ray business because he was excited about the new technology. The old process involved chemically developing X-Rays, and that meant same-day results weren?t possible. Other advantages that come with the new technology include seeing the image immediately, and if it?s not good quality, the tech can retake it right away. They can also send the files wirelessly so no time is wasted in transit.

Mobile services are growing, mainly because of the advances in technology, but also because of a growing awareness of the lack of access for people living in rural areas. One of the leaders in this push for improved rural health care access is the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. According to the department, about 41 percent, or 3.3 million veterans enrolled in the Veterans Affairs Department health system live far from a VA hospital. They have a fleet of more than 70 ?mobile vet centers? to bring mobile technology and other services to rural veterans. There are satellite systems installed in every mobile unit to allow remote access to a range of the department?s medical and benefit systems, including referrals, stored medical records and counseling.?

In addition, mobile services may be shared by facilities to cover the far-reaching areas of a metropolitan area. Sharing a resource helps provide coverage and increase access because the equipment is a significant investment and one location may not have the volume to make it worthwhile. Another use is taking mobile technology to locations in need of disaster assistance.

Other types of services that are offered on the road: lithotripsy, which uses sound waves to break up stones in the urinary system (such as kidney, bladder or ureter), and PET/CT scans. The PET/CT is to help diagnose a number of different diseases including brain disorders and cancers. By comparing images from the scans, the spread of cancer and the effectiveness of current therapy methods can be determined.?

With all of these options, people who are short on time, need to remain where they are or who live in rural areas can be helped. Whatever the need, medical technology is more likely to be where it?s needed than ever before.

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Court of Appeals Rejects EA's First Amendment Claim in NCAA Lawsuit

Today a U.S. court of appeals handed down a ruling in the case against Electronic Arts (EA) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) over the use of student-athletes? likenesses in video games. Electronic Arts argued that using a player's likenesses was a practice protected by the First Amendment. In a 2-1 decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed, and remanded the case back to the trial court to proceed against all defendants, including the NCAA.

The case, which was originally filed on May 5, 2009 in U.S. District Court in Northern California, was brought by former starting quarterback for Arizona State University and University of Nebraska, Sam Keller. Keller, represented by law firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, claim that EA?s NCAA games use athletes? likenesses, including height, age, weight, and other information, without permission.

"EA?s use of the likenesses of college athletes like Samuel Keller in its video games is not, as a matter of law, protected by the First Amendment," read the decision.

"The Court of Appeals confirmed that EA?s defense ? the First Amendment claim ? was fundamentally and fatally flawed,? said Steve Berman, managing partner of Hagens Berman and the attorney who argued Keller?s case on appeal. "We expect that when we appear before the trial court again this fall, the defendants will have a very difficult time mounting a new defense for their blatant exploitation of student-athletes."

"Today?s ruling, combined with the NCAA?s decision not to renew its license, speaks volumes about the actions of the defendants," added Berman. "We are confident that EA and the NCAA made millions of dollars at the expense of student-athletes by improperly taking property belonging to the athletes and the athletes alone. This ruling will give us a chance not only to recover the value of the images for the college athletes, but also to punish EA and the NCAA for intentionally profiting off of things they knew were off limits to them."

A hearing on whether the lawsuit will be given class action status takes place Sept. 5.

Source: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2013/07/31/court-appeals-rejects-eas-first-amendment-claim-ncaa-lawsuit

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AP Source: MLB threatening A-Rod with lifetime ban

NEW YORK (AP) ? Major League Baseball is threatening to kick Alex Rodriguez out of the game for life unless the New York Yankees star agrees not to fight a lengthy suspension for his role in the sport's latest drug scandal, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday on condition of anonymity because no statements were authorized.

Whether Commissioner Bud Selig would actually issue a lifetime suspension was unclear and a permanent ban could be shortened by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz to about 200 games, the person said.

The number of players likely to be disciplined stood at 14 Wednesday.

Front and center is Rodriguez, baseball's highest-paid player and the most prominent one linked in media reports over the past seven months to Biogenesis of America, a closed Florida anti-aging clinic that allegedly distributed banned performance-enhancing drugs.

The Yankees expected Rodriguez to be accused of recruiting other athletes for the clinic, attempting to obstruct MLB's investigation, and not being truthful with MLB in the past. Baseball has considered suspending him for violations of its labor contract and drug agreement.

Even if he is banned from baseball, there is precedent for a shortened penalty: When pitcher Steve Howe was given a lifetime ban in 1992 in his seventh suspension for drug or alcohol use, an arbitrator reduced the penalty to 119 days.

A three-time MVP, Rodriguez acknowledged four years ago that he used performance-enhancing substances while with Texas from 2001-03 but repeatedly has denied using them since.

He's been sidelined all season since hip surgery in January and then a quadriceps strain during a minor league rehabilitation assignment in July. The Yankees say he'll start another rehab Friday ? Double-A Trenton appeared to be the likely destination.

"Hopefully Alex will be back shortly thereafter," Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said.

Rodriguez didn't stop to talk with reporters after his workout Wednesday at the team's minor league complex in Tampa, Fla.

At first, MLB and the union thought talks on the Biogenesis probe could be completed by Friday, but negotiations to avoid grievances are likely to push back announcements until at least Saturday or Sunday.

Others accused in media reports of receiving performance-enhancing drugs from Biogenesis include a trio of 2013 All-Stars: Texas outfielder Nelson Cruz, San Diego shortstop Everth Cabrera and Detroit shortstop Jhonny Peralta.

Most of the players face 50-game bans as first offenders. Both sides felt urgency to complete the process because by the middle of next week, teams will have fewer than 50 games left. And that would force players to complete suspensions during the playoffs or at the start of next season.

Detroit general manager Dave Dombrowski protected against a possible suspension of Peralta by acquiring slick-fielding infielder Jose Iglesias from Boston in a three-team trade Tuesday night.

"If it were a 15-day thing, like a typical injury, I think we could have comfortably dealt with it with the players we already have," Dombrowski said Wednesday. "But when you start to talk about 50 days and a possible playoff run, we feel better going ahead with Jose."

While MLB told the union which players it intends to suspend, it hasn't issued formal notices of discipline. Because of that, the countdown hasn't started under baseball's Joint Drug Agreement, which says the suspensions are effective on the third business day after the notice is issued.

The sides also haven't decided whether suspensions for first-time offenders who challenge the penalty can be announced before an arbitration decision.

If some stars knew their seasons were about to be cut short, they weren't letting on Wednesday, at least publicly.

"I can't talk about nothing right now. Just wait for the news," Cabrera said Wednesday before playing against Cincinnati.

Peralta thinks he shouldn't be on the list of players linked to Biogenesis.

"It's wrong," he said. "But whatever happens, I need to fight and try to move on."

Toronto outfielder Melky Cabrera, Oakland pitcher Bartolo Colon and San Diego catcher Yasmani Grandal were all suspended for 50 games last year for positive tests for elevated testosterone. MLB informed the union they won't receive additional discipline for that violation, two people familiar with the probe said. They also spoke on condition of anonymity because no statements were authorized.

"Nothing's been told to me," Melky Cabrera said. "I served my suspension last year, but MLB has never told me that it's OK now. I'm seeing it in the press, but I don't know."

Texas was unable to find a replacement bat to fill a void a suspension of Cruz would create.

"I don't think anybody's comfortable losing a significant part of your club, but it's out of our control," Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said. "We explored some deal like that. They just didn't come to a head. It wasn't for lack of interest or lack of effort. It was more lack of supply and lack of fit, really."

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AP Baseball Writer Janie McCauley, AP Sports Writers Stephen Hawkins, Larry Lage and Bernie Wilson, and AP freelance writer Mark Didlter contributed to this report.

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McCaskill: bill would cut red tape, get projects moving, put people to ...

Sen. Claire McCaskill has unveiled a bill to cut permitting and get projects moving. She says the bill is common-sense and bipartisan.

McCaskill is working with Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio on what they?re calling the Federal Permitting Improvement Act, which she says has the support of the Chamber of Commerce, The Business Roundtable, and the labor community. She says building safe and environmentally structures are a source of American pride, but the current permit process has ?way to many tentacles,? impeding economic growth and job creation.

?When you have that many cooks in the kitchen without a chef it never has a good ending, and what we?re doing with this legislation is putting someone in charge,? she said at a press conference in Washington.??I think this is a terrific piece of legislation. We ought to be able to get it through here quickly, especially with the partners we have, both Republicans and Democrats. I think a lot of members will want to join in on this legislation. There?s nothing new here. There?s nothing different, other than a commitment that the Federal Government can do a more efficient job of permitting projects so we can get more of Americans back to work and we can then hopefully do the other piece of this, which is additional investment in our infrastructure.?

Sen. Roy Blunt agrees with McCaskill when she says the current process is ?laden with uncertainty and unpredictability that hinders investment, economic growth, and job creation,? and says streamlining government and increasing efficiency needs to be a priority.

He wouldn?t say whether he would approve the measure ? yet.

?I?m in favor of the concept,? he said in a conference call. ?I haven?t looked in depth at the act, but it?s something I?ve been talking about for a long time.?

Blunt says businesses who ran like they did 20 years ago would not survive in today?s market, and yet the government still runs like it did 20 years ago, with many policies and regulations that are outdated and outmoded.

In many ways, he said, ?We don?t even have an analog government in a digital world, we have a carbon-paper government in a digital world.?

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Prairie View A&M University Implements Q4 Mobile's TexShare-Approved QRazor Cloud Platform to Amplify Patron Engagement Utilizing QR Codes, NFC Tags and More

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas, July 31, 2013 -- John B. Coleman Library of Prairie View A&M University will implement QRazor by Q4 Mobile ((OTCBB:QFOR)), a TexShare-approved solutions provider. The library will benefit from the easy to use platform to generate and manage augmented reality codes and tags. Patrons will enjoy the expediency at which they can obtain information on mobile devices.

QRazor allows libraries, museums and retail establishments to reach a wider audience, and make a lasting impression by engaging them with instant information on their mobile phone. Patrons, especially tech-savvy youth, will enjoy scanning codes throughout the public space to instantly obtain relevant information. QRazor is a convenient resource that eases a significant burden from institution staff.

Elizabeth Jean Brumfield, Distance Services Librarian at John B. Coleman Library of Prairie View A&M University says, "As technology evolves so does the way patrons utilize the library. By implementing QRazor we foresee that our customers will appreciate the added convenience of the technology."

QRazor is part of Q4 Mobile's Libserra suite of cloud-based Library tools, which serve to boost library efficiency while also reducing costs. The Libserra cloud platform demonstrates the convergence of web, mobile, social media, e-commerce and Internet TV capabilities. The Libserra suite of mobile Library solutions includes the Libserra reference mobile app, 1-way Custom Notifications, 2-way Renewals, LibraryTV, QR Code and NFC technology, mobile and social fundraising, and more.

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