Wayne State University professor selected for prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship

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DETROIT Wen Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry in Wayne State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was one of 126 researchers selected to receive a $50,000 Sloan Research Fellowship for 2013 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships, awarded annually since 1955, are given to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars the next generation of scientific leaders.

Li's research focuses on the most exquisite details of chemical reactions. "Many things in everyday life come down to chemical reactions," said Li. "In my lab, we study the motion of nuclei and electrons during such reactions. While people have been studying the nuclear motion of chemical reactions for a while, we are focusing on electrons, which for a long time people considered too fast to study. To date, no technique has been developed to track down their motions in real time, and this is what my research program aims to do in the next few years. This ultimately could help control chemical reactions."

"The Sloan Research Fellows are among the best of the best of young scientists," said Hilary Ratner, vice president for research at Wayne State University. "Dr. Li is most deserving of this award along with the many other accolades he has received in his young career."

In late 2012, Li received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), which is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Li will receive a $1 million grant for that achievement, which will aid his Department of Defense research in providing a dynamic picture of how lasers interact with matter.

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Wayne State University is one of the nation's pre-eminent public research universities in an urban setting. Through its multidisciplinary approach to research and education, and its ongoing collaboration with government, industry and other institutions, the university seeks to enhance economic growth and improve the quality of life in the city of Detroit, state of Michigan and throughout the world. For more information about research at Wayne State University, visit http://www.research.wayne.edu.

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DETROIT Wen Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry in Wayne State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was one of 126 researchers selected to receive a $50,000 Sloan Research Fellowship for 2013 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships, awarded annually since 1955, are given to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars the next generation of scientific leaders.

Li's research focuses on the most exquisite details of chemical reactions. "Many things in everyday life come down to chemical reactions," said Li. "In my lab, we study the motion of nuclei and electrons during such reactions. While people have been studying the nuclear motion of chemical reactions for a while, we are focusing on electrons, which for a long time people considered too fast to study. To date, no technique has been developed to track down their motions in real time, and this is what my research program aims to do in the next few years. This ultimately could help control chemical reactions."

"The Sloan Research Fellows are among the best of the best of young scientists," said Hilary Ratner, vice president for research at Wayne State University. "Dr. Li is most deserving of this award along with the many other accolades he has received in his young career."

In late 2012, Li received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), which is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Li will receive a $1 million grant for that achievement, which will aid his Department of Defense research in providing a dynamic picture of how lasers interact with matter.

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For more information about the Sloan Research Fellowship, visit http://www.sloan.org/fileadmin/media/files/press_releases/2013_SRF_Press_Release_vf.pdf

Wayne State University is one of the nation's pre-eminent public research universities in an urban setting. Through its multidisciplinary approach to research and education, and its ongoing collaboration with government, industry and other institutions, the university seeks to enhance economic growth and improve the quality of life in the city of Detroit, state of Michigan and throughout the world. For more information about research at Wayne State University, visit http://www.research.wayne.edu.

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Sony Xperia SP appears again reinforcing mid-range credentials

Details on the Sony Xperia SP have popped up again on the world wide web, with a new source seemingly confirming various mid-range specifications.

The details were sent to XperiaBlog by a 'trusted source', who was apparently able to confirm features such as screen size, case materials and camera on the Xperia SP.

According to the source, the Sony Xperia SP will sport a 4.6-inch 720p display, 8GB of internal storage, 8MP Exmor RS camera and feature an aluminium frame surrounding a plastic rear and glass-covered front.

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Previous rumours suggest that the Xperia SP will also feature a 1.7GHz dual-core processor and run Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2.

We've also seen leaked photos claiming to show the Xperia SP sporting a similar design to the flagship Sony Xperia Z, which was launched at CES 2013.

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By Helping Big Pharma Better Understand Your Local Doctor, Medikly May Just Be Tapping Into A Goldmine

Medikly, a startup that aims to help pharmaceutical companies reach and better understand physicians, announced today that it has raised $1.2 million in series A financing from Easton Capital. A recent graduate of the Blueprint Health accelerator in New York City, Medikly has developed an enterprise-grade platform that provides Big Pharma with a multi-channel marketing solution, combining content, Big Data analytics and social in an effort to help them reduce campaign spend and get better insight into your local physician.

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Why no glimpse of PS4 console? It's about the brains, not the plastic

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After months of rumor and speculation, Sony has revealed its new game machine ? the PlayStation 4 ? as well as a new controller with a touch... Read more

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Why didn't Sony show the PlayStation 4 console at the PlayStation 4 unveiling? The truth is, it did. You might say to yourself that we didn't see what the shell of the PlayStation 4 looks like, so how can we be excited by a device which has yet to take physical form? Because this isn't an iPad, folks. The PlayStation 4 is not a device you store in your pocket and touch lovingly everyday (unless you know something I don't). This is about what the PlayStation 4 can do, and Sony spent two hours telling us exactly that.

The real PlayStation 4 is about the guts, and can be seen in the complex beauty of games such as "Killzone: Shadow Fall." It can be seen in the dedication to unprecedented sharing tools for gamers and stunning graphics engines being produced by people like Quantic Dream's David Cage.

I didn't expect we would see the plastic case of the PlayStation 4 at the event, and that's certainly not the only surprise that Sony is holding back. Showing the PlayStation 4 hardware would mean tipping their hand. So while we contemplate the PlayStation 4's inner beauty, let's also feel the thrill that there's more to come, and not just a molded plastic case.

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11 killed in explosions in southern Indian city

HYDERABAD, India (AP) ? At least 11 people were killed and 50 injured Thursday in a pair of explosions in a crowded area of the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, officials said.

Federal Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the bombs were attached to two bicycles about 150 meters (500 feet) apart in Dilsukh Nagar, a residential and commercial district. He said eight people died in one explosion and three in the other. He spoke to reporters in New Delhi, the Indian capital.

The blasts occurred about two minutes apart outside a movie theater and a bus station, police said.

"This is a dastardly attack, the guilty will not go unpunished," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. He appealed to the public to remain calm.

Television images showed the injured being taken to nearby hospitals.

The last major bomb attack in India was a September 2011 blast outside the high court in New Delhi that killed 13 people.

Federal Home Secretary R.K. Singh said officials from the National Investigation Agency and commandos of the National Security Guards were leaving New Delhi for Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh.

India has been in a state of alert since Mohammed Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri, was hanged in a New Delhi jail nearly two weeks ago. Guru had been convicted of involvement in a 2001 attack on India's Parliament that killed 14 people including five gunmen.

Many in Indian-ruled Kashmir believe Guru did not receive a fair trial, and the secrecy with which the execution was carried out fueled anger in a region where anti-India sentiment runs deep.

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The end of doomsday predictions isn't near

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Two men dressed in tinfoil stand in the French village of Bugarach. The mountain near Bugarach was touted as a haven from the Maya apocalypse last December. The mountain survived, as did everything else.

By Stephanie Pappas
LiveScience

Y2K? A bust. Judgment Day 2011? As quiet as a mouse. The Mayan apocalypse? Certainly not now.

As they have throughout history, failed doomsday predictions come and go. But with the Pope resigning, an asteroid whizzing near the planet Friday?and a completely unrelated space rock exploding over Russia, it seems a good time to ask: What's next?

Plenty, as it turns out. Previous failures have in no way shut down doomsday predictors, and dates are set for possible apocalypses in 2020, 2040, 2060 and 2080 (zeros have an appeal, apparently). One of these doomsdays was even predicted by Sir Isaac Newton himself.

"It's clear that these kinds of scenarios return over and over and over again," said John Hoopes, an archaeologist at the University of Kansas who has studied doomsday predictions.

The end is nigh
Doomsday prophecies date back thousands of years. The ancient Persians kicked off the hobby of apocalypse predictingin the Western world, Saint Joseph's University professor Allen Kerkeslager told LiveScience in December 2012. When the Zoroastrian Persians conquered the ancient Jews, they passed their end-of-the-world beliefs into Jewish culture, which subsequently handed them to Christianity. Now, everyone from Protestant preachers such as Harold Camping, who predicted Armageddon in 2011, to UFO cultists and New Age mystics occasionally jump on the doomsday train.?

The most recent apocalypse prediction was tied to the Mayan calendar, even though actual Mayans and scholars who study ancient Maya culture pointed out repeatedly that the calendar was never meant to predict the end of the world. The appointed day (Dec. 21, 2012) came and went without fire and brimstone.

But failures haven't stopped aspiring doomsday prophets in the past. In one of the most notorious apocalypse failures ever, American Baptist preacher William Miller predicted the return of Jesus Christ on March 21, 1844. Nothing happened, so Miller and his followers revised the prediction to Oct. 22. When that day, too, passed without incident, it was dubbed the Great Disappointment. [Oops! 11 Failed Doomsday Predictions]

Likewise, Camping predicted the Rapture three times in 1994 before his 2011 predictions.

The Pope's doomsday
So it should come as no surprise that doomsday believers have plenty of dates to fixate on in the future. Friday's ultimately harmless asteroid flyby may trigger more anxiety about world-ending asteroid impacts in the near future, Hoopes told LiveScience. A Friday morning meteor explosion that shattered windows and injured more than 1,000 in Russia is likely to do the same.

The surprise announcement of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI last week has also triggered doomsday chatter.

In 1595, a Benedictine monk published a series of prophecies he claimed came straight from the pen of a 12th-century archbishop, Saint Malachy. The prophecies are short phrases, each said by future interpreters to match up with a particular pope. For example, the phrase "out of the guardian goose" has been linked to Pope Alexander III (1159-1181), because his family coat of arms sported an image of a goose.

Pope John Paul II (1978-2005) is said to match the 110th phrase on the list, "from the labor of the sun," because he was born and entombed on days when there were solar eclipses. That makes Benedict XVI number 111, "the glory of the olive." A monastic order founded by the saint from whom Benedict took his name has a branch known as the Olivetans, though Benedict himself is not one of them.

Here's where the prophecies ? which are completely discredited by the Catholic Church and suspected to be forgeries ? get fun. Line 112 reads, "In the extreme persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will sit Peter the Roman, who will nourish the sheep in many tribulations; when they are finished, the city of seven hills will be destroyed and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The end." [End of the World? Top Doomsday Fears]

So is the next Pope the last before the apocalypse? History may not bear out any doomsday predictions, but prognosticators such as Thomas Horn and Cris Putnam, authors of "Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope is Here" (Defender, 2012) certainly think this one has legs. The theory has the advantage of involving the Catholic Church, an institution often accused of conspiracy. Conspiracy theoriesare often a component of popular doomsday theories, Hoopes said.

Successful predictions have to "hook into some deeper fears," he said.

Any day now
If the Pope prophecies don't pan out, there's plenty more to see. Numerologists have placed bets on both 2040 and 2080, interpretations that come from the Jewish text the Talmud and the Islamic holy book the Quran.

Psychic Jeane Dixon, who became famous through her newspaper astrology column and who often touted herself as having predicted John F. Kennedy's assassination, claimed that Armageddon would come in 2020. But though Dixon did occasionally make predictions that seemed to pan out, she was frequently wrong, as a 1980 article in the Lakeland Ledger pointed out. For example, Dixon predicted that Fidel Castro's days were numbered in 1968 (Castro is still alive and remained in office until 2011). She also said the two-party system of government would vanish from the United States by 1978, which would come as news to today's Democrats and Republicans.

Dixon, who died in 1997, was so famous that Temple University mathematician John Allen Paulos named the phenomenon of someone advertising correct predictions while ignoring many more failed ones the "Jeane Dixon effect."

But Dixon's fame has nothing on Sir Isaac Newton, the famed mathematician who figured out the principals of gravity. Newton had a side interest in apocalypse speculation, it turns out. A devout Christian, Newton was wary of human fallibility in interpreting prophecies, according to Stephen Snobelen of the University of King's College in Nova Scotia, who has researched Newton's writings. But he did muse in private about the date of doomsday, adding up important biblical numbers to arrive at 2060.

On the other hand, Newton would not have wanted a reputation as a doomsday predictor, Snobelen wrote in a statement. In his musing on 2060, Newton wrote, "It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, & by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail."

Follow Stephanie Pappas on Twitter @sipappasor LiveScience @livescience. We're also on Facebook? and? Google+.

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Syracuse Crunch coach Jon Cooper could be in the mix for Buffalo Sabres job

Update: The Buffalo News is reporting that Ron Rolston has been named interim coach of the Sabres for the rest of the season.

Could Syracuse Crunch Jon Cooper be the next coach of the Buffalo Sabres?

It's likely he's certainly in the mix of candidates to replace the fired Lindy Ruff.

Sabres beat writer John Vogl of the Buffalo News speculated that Cooper could be on the short list of possibilities.

Cooper, no doubt, will be somewhere in the NHL very soon. He was the AHL coach of the year last season for taking Norfolk to the Calder Cup and has the Crunch in first place this year.

He was also a candidate for the Washington Capitals position last summer, perhaps among opportunities as well.

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Obama to apply fresh pressure on Republicans to avoid cuts (reuters)

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Health Insurance Exchanges Create State Problems

Opposition to state-based health insurance exchanges may be politically convenient in the short term but in the long-term, opposition should rely on a sounder theoretical basis, says Tom Miller, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

• Exchange opponents should root themselves in the fundamentals of choice and free-market competition.
• Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), regulatory control of the health insurance market is expanded, which facilitates substantial income redistribution through new taxes and subsidies.
• The mandate also invokes greater voter loyalty from constituencies who are increasingly reliant on the government to provide health care.

The costs and complexities involved with implementing the state-based health exchanges kept many governors from embracing the new system, which will limit competition from private-market alternatives. The exchanges create the appearance of private-sector delivery but instead create politically favored monopolies.

• Despite hundreds of pages of regulations, Miller expresses skepticism that exchanges will be free of deceptive marketing, untested mechanisms and unchecked bureaucratic discretion.
• The Obama administration has reiterated that it will be able to install exchanges in the states unwilling to establish their own.
• There are doubts about whether federally-created exchanges will be able to track data, handle payments or provide adequate customer service after 2014.

Miller makes three recommendations for those states that oppose the exchanges and for those states that do not want to take the blame when poorly-administered federal exchanges impact their citizens.

• States should initiate litigation that challenges the Internal Revenue Service's ability to distribute the ACA's premium assistance tax credits to enrollees.
• States should insist that rulemaking for ACA exchanges operate through more formal and final legal channels.
• States should refuse to be tax-collecting branch offices for the federal welfare state's new insurance mandate.

Source: Tom Miller, "Bumpy Rise Ahead for Insurance Markets," The Hill, February 12, 2013.

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Commercial cyber spying offers rich payoff

BEIJING (AP) ? For state-backed cyber spies such as a Chinese military unit implicated by a U.S. security firm in a computer crime wave, hacking foreign companies can produce high-value secrets ranging from details on oil fields to advanced manufacturing technology.

This week's report by Mandiant Inc. adds to mounting suspicion that Chinese military experts are helping state industry by stealing secrets from Western companies possibly worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The Chinese military has denied involvement in the attacks.

"This is really the new era of cybercrime," said Graham Cluley, a British security expert. "We've moved from kids in their bedroom and financially motivated crime to state-sponsored cybercrime, which is interested in stealing secrets and getting military or commercial advantage."

Instead of credit card numbers and other consumer data sought by crime gangs, security experts say cyber spies with skills and resources that suggest they work for governments aim at higher-value but better-guarded information.

A state-owned energy company in a bidding war for access to oil and gas fields abroad can save huge sums if it can find out what foreign rivals are willing to pay. Stealing formulas for chemical processing can save hundreds of millions of dollars in research costs. Suppliers can negotiate higher prices if they know their customers' internal discussions.

"There are a lot of hackers that are sponsored by the Chinese government who conduct cyber attacks," said Lim Jong-in, dean of Korea University's Graduate School of Information Security.

Mandiant said it found attacks on 141 entities, mostly in the United States but also in Canada, Britain and elsewhere. It said attackers stole information on pricing, contract negotiations, manufacturing, product testing and corporate acquisitions.

It said multiple details indicated the attackers, dubbed APT1 in its report, were from a military cyber warfare unit in Shanghai, though there was a small chance someone else might be responsible.

"We do believe that this stolen information can be used to obvious advantage" by China and Chinese state-owned enterprises, said Mandiant. Target companies were in four of the seven strategic industries identified in the Communist Party's latest five-year development plan, it said.

China's ruling party has ambitious plans to build up state-owned corporate champions in industries from banking and telecoms to oil and steel. State companies are flush with cash from the country's boom and benefit from monopolies and other official favors but lag global rivals in skills and technology.

Last year, a group of Chinese state companies were among defendants charged in U.S. federal court in San Francisco in the theft of technology from DuPont Co. for manufacturing titanium dioxide, a chemical used in paints and other products.

In 2011, another security company, Symantec Inc., announced it detected attacks on 29 chemical companies and 19 other companies that it traced to China. It said the attackers wanted to steal secrets about chemical processing and advanced materials manufacturing.

China has long been cited by security experts as a center for a global explosion of Internet crime. They say some crimes might be carried out by attackers abroad who remotely control Chinese computers. But experts including Mandiant say there is growing evidence Chinese attackers are behind many of them.

China's military is a leader in cyber warfare research, along with its counterparts in the United States and Russia. The People's Liberation Army supports hacker hobby clubs with as many as 100,000 members to develop a pool of possible recruits, according to security consultants.

Few companies are willing to confirm they are victims of cyber spying, possibly for fear it might erode trust in their business.

"When companies admit their servers were hacked, they become the target of hackers. Because the admission shows the weakness, they cannot admit," said Kwon Seok-chul, president of Cuvepia Inc., a security firm in Seoul.

An exception was Google Inc., which announced in 2010 that it and at least 20 other companies were hit by attacks traced to China. Only two other companies disclosed they were targets in those attacks. Google cited the hacking and efforts to snoop on Chinese dissidents' email as among reasons for closing its mainland China-based search service that year.

Mandiant cited the example of an unidentified company with which it said a Chinese commodity supplier negotiated a double-digit price increase after attackers stole files and emails from the customer's chief executive over 2? years beginning in 2008.

"It would be surprising if APT1 could continue perpetrating such a broad mandate of cyber espionage and data theft if the results of the group's efforts were not finding their way into the hands of entities able to capitalize on them," the report said.

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AP Technology Writer Youkyung Lee in Seoul, South Korea contributed.

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Sorry Apple: Sony Patents 'EyePad'

Sorry Apple - Sony has filed a patent on the EyePad.

According to a parent application filed in Europe in 2012, the electronics giant registered the innovation of a tablet device with glowing edges.

The device - named in line with Sony's "EyeToy" and "PlayStation Eye" gaming peripherals, would work as a motion-tracking controller.

It is possible the device could be announced on Wednesday when Sony unveils 'the future of PlayStation', widely expected to be its next generation gaming console.

A host of on-board sensors on the EyePad would track its position, its six-direction orientation and any trackable nearby objects. The illuminated edges would tell the PlayStation where the device was in the room, and how close it is to other players.

This would work in a similar way to the existing PlayStation Move motion-tracked controller, which also uses illumination to pinpoint a device in 3D space.

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It has been rumoured that the new PS4 gamepad will also have this functionality built-in.

According to the filing, the EyePad would have a touchscreen in the centre, but also be able to detect motion happening above the surface due to its dual-mounted cameras.

Sony suggests the possibility of an 'EyePets' game, where the EyePad could be used to stroke and groom virtual animals.

The patent says:

"The user may then carry the EyePad and the superposed EyePet around their room, with the EyePet being scaled and rotated accordingly to appear to remain sat upon the EyePad."

"This gives the user the precision to stroke the EyePet's ear, tap its nose, tickle its tummy or otherwise interact with it in very specific ways, and moreover to do so for whatever arbitrary."

Sony also images a virtual fishtank, a 3D roller coaster or a normal adventure game, which could all be controlled via the touchscreen and its stereoscopic cameras.

There's no firm details on when - or if - the EyePad will make it to market, and whether that will be the final name (we imagine Apple might contest that...) But it's an intriguing glimpse into the more central role that motion tracking could play in the next generation of gaming.

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Wall Street Blocked Elizabeth Warren From Her Consumer Protection Board And This Is What They Got

WASHINGTON -- A clip of Massachusetts freshman Sen. Elizabeth Warren posing a simple question to bank regulators this past week has been viewed more than 1 million times, putting it on pace to become the consumer advocate's most-viral video hit to-date.

Three separate clips of the back-and-forth on YouTube combine for over 900,000 views, and a clip by HuffPost, which was the first to report on the exchange, has generated well over 200,000 views. It was Warren's first foray on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.

The question that flummoxed the bank regulators: When was the last time you took a Wall Street bank to trial?

Heartbreaking hilarity ensued:

"We do not have to bring people to trial," Thomas Curry, head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, assured Warren, declaring that his agency had secured a large number of "consent orders," or settlements.

"I appreciate that you say you don't have to bring them to trial. My question is, when did you bring them to trial?" she responded.

"We have not had to do it as a practical matter to achieve our supervisory goals," Curry offered.

Warren turned to Elisse Walter, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who said that the agency weighs how much it can extract from a bank without taking it to court against the cost of going to trial.

"I appreciate that. That's what everybody does," said Warren, a former Harvard law professor. "Can you identify the last time when you took the Wall Street banks to trial?"

"I will have to get back to you with specific information," Walter said as the audience tittered.

Warren asked if any of the other regulators, representing the FDIC, SEC, OCC, CFTC, Fed, Treasury and the newly minted Consumer Financial Protection Board, could answer the question. None could.

"There are district attorneys and United States attorneys out there every day squeezing ordinary citizens on sometimes very thin grounds and taking them to trial in order to make an example, as they put it. I'm really concerned that 'too big to fail' has become 'too big for trial,'" Warren told them in what appeared to be a reference to a Warren constituent, open-Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who recently committed suicide after being hounded by federal prosecutors who reportedly said they wanted to make an example of him. Warren had met and said she admired Swartz. After he died, she expressed her concern by attending his memorial in Washington.

Wall Street responded angrily to Warren's questioning, denouncing the senator and suggesting that she would lose "credibility" if she continued interrogating regulators in such a way.

The financial regulators can blame, at least in part, those very same angry Wall Street lobbyists (along with outgoing Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Senate Republicans) for their embarrassing turn at the hearing. Warren would have been on the panel herself representing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, instead of a sitting senator, if her nomination to head the agency hadn't been thwarted in 2011.

Before her exchange with the regulators, Warren's previous top Internet hit was a clip of her articulating the social contract, arguing that nobody has gotten rich on their own. President Obama later picked up the theme during the campaign, which devolved into the GOP rallying cry of "You didn't build that."

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Michael Don Mitchell

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Kelsey Smith

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Kola J. McGrath

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Houaka Yang

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Clyde Hobbs

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Patricia Krentcil

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Joseph Hannah

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Ray Woods

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Raymond Foley

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Jesse James Thomas

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William Bliss

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Christina Lopez

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SNL?s Marco Rubio Attempts To Explain His State Of The Union Thirst

SNL actor Taran Killiam tackled the controversy that erupted when Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) took a drink of water during his rebuttal to the State of the Union address on Tuesday. SNL?s Rubio explained that he was nervous, had eaten an entire bag of dry roasted peanuts, and was wearing a burlap unitard at the time ? exacerbating his thirst.

SNL?s Rubio then went on to continue his rebuttal to the president?s address, but was again overcome with a powerful thirst that eventually forced him to abandon the task again. Rubio explained that he had just completed a ?cinnamon challenge.? He attempted to reach for a bottle of water to help alleviate the thirst, but his effort was as awkward as it was the first time.

Watch the sketch below via NBC:

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Re-enactors tell story of Florida's lost tribe ? the Calusa

By KEITH MORELLI | The Tampa Tribune
Published: February 16, 2013
Updated: February 16, 2013 - 2:40 PM

PORT CHARLOTTE --

After Ponce de Leon landed near St. Augustine 500 years ago, then sailed beneath "La Florida" and north up the Gulf Coast, he found the land of flowers was populated and defended by a tribe of Native Americans whose name, translated into English, was "Fierce People."

Members of that thriving Calusa civilization fished, hunted, traded and even had a natural remedy to keep mosquitoes from biting. They ran an empire stretching to the East Coast and south into the Keys. Charlotte Harbor was their Rome.

Today in Port Charlotte, history came to life with more than a dozen Calusa-crazy volunteers intent on showing how the lost tribe of Florida lived before Europeans consigned the indigenous people to the dust of history.

Braving a chilly breeze off Charlotte Harbor, the re-enactors hunted for fish with spears, cooked fake seafood and snakes on an open pit with imaginary fire, and even greeted emissaries from neighboring tribes in a living, interactive exhibit.

"This is as authentic as possible, of Florida's pre-history," said April Watson, an archaeological doctoral student at Florida Atlantic University. She is consulting on the exhibit, which is one of more than 100 such events planned throughout the state to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Florida's recorded history.

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People in Tampa interested in catching a glimpse of this history are out of luck, even though the Tampa Bay area played a significant role in the discovery of La Florida.

None of the 130 commemorative events, collectively known as Florida 500, takes place in Tampa. Other than the Florida State Fair, which this year has adopted a Spanish conquistador theme, and an exhibit at the Tampa Bay History Center, the region has been bypassed by organizers of the events.

Still, there is Fort De Soto State Park and DeSoto County; there is the Hernando De Soto Trial that marks the Spanish conquistador's overland trek from Manatee County north to the Mississippi River; there is Hernando County, the city of Hernando and various schools named in honor of the explorers.

But no local historical group has organized an event marking the 500th anniversary.

"It's pretty shocking," said J. Michael Francis, Hough Family Chair of Florida Studies at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg, whose field of study focuses on the last days of the indigenous people and the beginning of the Spanish influx in Florida.

"I wish I knew why," he said. "It's difficult to comment on because I've only been here a short time, but it's surprising there is not something going on here because this was probably the landing spot of two of the most important expeditions of the 16th Century."

Dozens of events are scheduled to the south, though, and with good reason.

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The Calusa numbered in the thousands, covering Central and South Florida from coast to coast with their influence.

Calusa meant "Fierce People," Watson said, and they were among the first to survive, and thrive, through efforts other than tilling the soil. They hunted and fished, and subsisted on and traded what they caught with others, she said. They developed a political and commercial structure, she said, well before the Spanish arrived.

"They were the only tribe the Spanish were not able to conquer," she said. "And it was a Calusa arrow that killed de Leon.

"They were one of the most powerful groups in Florida," she said. "Most people don't know how tough these people were."

A paper published by Darcie MacMahon, director of exhibits; and William Marquardt, curator of archaeology, both at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, states: "The Calusa were a fascinating but little-known Native American people who controlled the entire southern half of Florida when Europeans first arrived in the early 1500s."

Their domain included more than 50 villages.

"They were headquartered in the Charlotte Harbor area," said MacMahon in an interview, "but their political influence and dominance spread from south of Tampa Bay on the West Coast to Cape Canaveral on the East Coast through the Florida Keys."

They literally held an empire, she said, and collected tribute from all the indigenous tribes in that area.

"It was not exactly like trade," MacMahon said, "It was almost like taxation. The Calusa commanded tribute from all over South Florida."

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Their civilization was doomed when the lumbering Spanish ships arrived, she said. Within 200 years, the Calusa were gone, victims of European diseases, slavery and being driven from their homeland.

"The Calusa were not happy about Europeans coming into their domain and they must have learned about the Spanish presence in the Americas because when the Spanish first arrived, they were ready for them," MacMahon said.

"Unlike native people in North Florida, they managed to remain fairly aloof from the Spaniards," she said. "The population decimation and cultural decimation that happened earlier in European contact, really took a couple hundred years to profoundly affect the Calusa."

Much of what is known of the tribe's culture comes through writings of European explorers. The rest is derived from what archaeologists have dug up in burial mounds or in excavations of village sites, some of which are submerged in shallow tidal basins along the coast of Southwest Florida.

The Calusa left no written record, and their history is spoken best through the artifacts they left behind. Those artifacts indicate the culture began more than 1,500 years ago; they were "an inventive, artistic and spiritual people who prospered from the immense bounty of their coastal world," said the paper written by MacMahon and Marquardt. "They harvested more than 50 fish species and more than 20 kinds of mollusks and crustaceans. They ate shellfish, crabs, land and aquatic turtles, ducks, deer, rodents, and other animals; but fish were the main staple food."

Their influence did not reach Tampa Bay, MacMahon said.

"The Tocobaga people lived in the Tampa Bay area," she said, "and they were competitive with the Calusa."

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Both cultures were forced to deal with Spanish invaders half a millennium ago.

The Spanish explorers and subsequent waves of European missionaries had differing interactions with the indigenous cultures -- sometimes peaceful; sometimes not.

De Leon probably was the first to make contact with the Calusa. Historians say he likely came ashore near Charlotte Harbor and then farther north, probably on Anna Maria Island near Bradenton.

The welcome was not cordial. Calusa warriors attached his landing party, and drove the Spanish from the region.

In 1521, de Leon returned to Florida with a charter to establish a colony, landing near Sanibel Island on the Southwest Florida coast. Again he was driven off by the Calusa. In the battle he received a leg wound that became infected and killed him.

A few years later, P?nfilo de Narv?ez led the first known exploration of Tampa Bay.

Launching his expedition from Cuba in 1528, de Narv?ez landed on the Pinellas peninsula and marched overland to Tampa Bay, where he met and irked the Tocobaga. The locals told Narv?ez that gold could be found farther north, in the land of Apalachee, and that's what it took to be rid of the Spanish conquistadors, at least for the time being.

Part of the living history exhibit in Port Charlotte today was a visit from a Tocobaga warrior to the Calusa village. The Tocobaga had materials to make arrowheads, and the Calusa didn't, so the two tribes traded what they had.

Monty Watson played the part of the Tocobaga warrior, greeting the Calusa chief and his wife beneath swaying palms on the shore of Charlotte Harbor. The chief and his wife were portrayed by Scot and Jill Shively of Punta Gorda, both docents at a local museum. They had 21st century clothes under grass skirts and shirts.

"We have to be more modest that the Calusa probably were," Scot Shively said.

Watson explained what was happening to the modern onlookers, later adding:

"Contact with the Spanish was a life-changing event for the Calusa. That was the beginning of the end for them."

Source: http://www2.centrotampa.com/news/breaking-news/2013/feb/16/1/re-enactors-tell-story-of-floridas-lost-tribe-the-ar-636422/

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