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GOP field leaves SC's religious right uninspired (AP)
GREENVILLE, S.C. ? The Greenville-Spartanburg area, home to many of South Carolina's evangelical voters, should be prime political ground for Rick Santorum, a longtime anti-abortion crusader who was embraced by a group of Christian leaders meeting last weekend in Texas.
Or perhaps for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who led more than 30,000 people in prayer in Houston last August. Or maybe for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who talks forcefully of his conversion to Catholicism and his hope for redemption for past sins, including infidelity.
Yet none of these candidates seems to have captivated this area's religious conservatives ahead of Saturday's Republican presidential primary. That may help explain why former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Mormon and former abortion-rights supporter, appears to be doing reasonably well, although politicians warn that the game isn't over.
South Carolina's religious conservatives are deeply worried about the country, and thoroughly convinced that President Barack Obama must go. But in interviews this week at several religious and political events, nearly all GOP voters expressed greater interest in God and the Christian community than in politicians and government. They exhibited only the vaguest hopes that this year's elections will make a real difference.
"I'm concerned that we don't have anyone that can fix this problem," said Charlie Davis of Anderson, who carried a Bible into a prayer gathering that drew about 400 people to Greenville Tuesday night.
Like virtually everyone interviewed in the region, Davis, a 30-year-old elementary school physical education teacher, said he will vote Saturday. And like virtually all the others, he said he was undecided, and he showed little enthusiasm for anyone.
"I am standing back, watching," said Dan Benham, 67, who also attended the prayer gathering, called "The Response."
"I'm concerned about life in America," he said, especially what he sees as an epidemic of abortions.
All the GOP candidates oppose legalized abortion, and Santorum is especially forceful on the issue. So it would seem that Benham, who owns a small auto parts assembly company, has a wealth of choices.
But when nudged on how democracy might improve the nation, Benham said: "I'm here to pray. I'm looking to ask the Lord."
Even Perry, the only candidate to address the prayer group, suggested that elections are not the answer. The nation's hope, he said, "is not in government. That hope is in a loving God."
God's agenda, Perry told the crowd of 400, "is not a political agenda. He's smarter than that."
Organizers of "The Response" also seemed ambivalent about the proper role of religion and politics. They invited all the candidates to speak, and encouraged political reporters to attend.
But David Sliker of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City told the audience: "America's solution isn't coming through a politically brilliant idea. It's going to come through the righteousness of its people."
He said people should tell God "you're the leader we want."
Interviews with two dozen GOP voters over two days in no way constitute a scientific survey. But they give a flavor of political conversations in the campaign's final days here in the home of the fundamental Christian Bob Jones University.
Time after time, religious conservatives expressed alarm and sadness at what they see as the country's drift from righteousness and from taking responsibility for one's self and one's neighbors. Yet almost no one was able to point to a presidential candidate with enthusiasm.
"I'm hoping that whoever is in power will be the one that Jesus wants," said Andrew Ratchford, 23, who studied political science in college and knows the campaign issues well.
Tian Ware, 45, of Prosperity, S.C., went to see Santorum on Wednesday at the Beacon Drive-In restaurant, a Spartanburg landmark.
She might vote for him, she said. Or maybe Gingrich. Ware said she would make her decision "on just a feeling. I get feelings about people."
She likes Perry, she said, but feels he cannot win. If Ware, who has three grandchildren, is lukewarm about the candidates, she is passionate about the issues.
"I'm offended that my children couldn't pray in public schools if they wanted to," she said. "If I say `Oh my God' in front of the wrong person, I'll get arrested."
Standing nearby was Jim McCabe, who recently retired as chief information officer for Milliken, a major textile and chemical company. "I just came to see," he said of Santorum. "I'm not really pleased with any of them."
McCabe said he wants "an alternative to Mitt Romney," and probably will vote for Gingrich or Santorum. He sounded underwhelmed.
McCabe and Ware are the type of socially conservative voters that one of Romney's rivals needs to inspire, excite, set on fire. In exit polls from the 2008 South Carolina GOP primary, 60 percent of voters said they were evangelical.
Rep. Ron Paul doesn't play well with these voters, largely because they see him as unwilling to defend Israel, a land that holds special meaning to many devout Christians. That leaves Santorum, Gingrich and Perry, all of whom can make legitimate arguments to the Christian right.
And they have tried. All three, for example, attended an anti-abortion forum Wednesday in Greenville, declaring their conviction that human life begins at conception.
Santorum, who endeared himself to many Christian activists in Iowa, seemed to catch a big break last week. A loose-knit group of prominent social conservatives voted in Texas to back him as the best alternative to Romney.
In this week's interviews with Greenville-Spartanburg Republicans, however, no one mentioned the event.
Gingrich, meanwhile, seemed to get a bump from Monday's debate in Myrtle Beach, according to polls and anecdotal evidence. But if there was a rising tide for Gingrich in the Spartanburg-Greenville region, it wasn't obvious.
"I'm very concerned about this country," said Blaine Nuckolls, 71, a retired police officer who lives in Greenville. "We need leadership, starting at the top," he said.
He said he's trying to decide between Perry and Santorum. Nuckolls said he likes Gingrich, "but I don't think he's got enough backing to get elected."
Bill Campbell, a retired minister from Greenville, said he fears for the nation's future. Americans are crushing future generations with federal debt, he said.
"Most candidates seem not to have a grasp on how serious it is," Campbell said. Paul comes closest, he said, although he hasn't ruled out Santorum or Perry.
"Gingrich is interesting, but too insiderish," Campbell said, and Romney is far too establishment.
"We need someone to make big waves in Washington," Campbell said. He stared solemnly. He didn't look optimistic.
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France mulls early Afghanistan pullout as 4 killed (AP)
KABUL, Afghanistan ? France suspended its training operations in Afghanistan and threatened to withdraw its entire force from the country early, after an Afghan wearing an army uniform shot and killed four French troops Friday and wounded others.
The attack ? the second time this month an Afghan soldier has killed French forces ? came during a particularly deadly 24 hours for the international military coalition. Six U.S. Marines also died in a helicopter crash late Thursday.
It was the latest in a series of attacks by members of the Afghan security forces, or those dressed in their uniforms, against coalition partners that have raised fears of increased Taliban infiltration of the Afghan police and army as foreign combat forces prepare to withdraw from the country by 2014. The impact of the French suspending training operations is unclear, but it would result in a major setback for the U.S.-led coalition if other troop-contributing nations stopped training Afghan national security forces or decided to pull out earlier than planned.
French officials said the attack happened during a training exercise at a base jointly operated by French and Afghan forces.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the French deaths in Paris and the suspension of training programs. He did not specify how many French forces or which programs would be affected.
"The French army is in Afghanistan at the service of the Afghans against terrorism and against the Taliban. The French army is not in Afghanistan so that Afghan soldiers can shoot at them," Sarkozy said.
He added that if security for troops is not restored, "then the question of an early withdrawal of the French army would arise."
Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said the French soldiers were unarmed when the attacker opened fire in Gwan in the Kapisa province during a very difficult training exercise at high altitude.
"We don't know at the moment whether it's a Taliban member who infiltrated, or someone who decided (to attack) for reasons that we don't know," he said on France-2 television.
He said the Afghan was in custody of the Afghan army's 3rd brigade, held by a general "whom we trust."
A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, praised the Afghan attacker but did not claim he was an infiltrator or provide other details.
Afghan Ministry of Defense spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi also said the shooting occurred while Afghan and French forces were on a joint operation in Tagab district. He also did not confirm whether the shooter was an Afghan soldier or a militant dressed as one.
"An individual in an Afghan army uniform opened fire over the French troops," he said. "This happened outside the base while they were on an operation."
The ministry sent a delegation to the area to investigate the shooting, he said, confirming that the attacker was arrested and was being questioned.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed deep regret over the attack.
The number of wounded in the attack was unclear.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said 15 troops were wounded but did not indicate their nationalities. Longuet said eight French troops were wounded, and the commanding officer was in serious condition.
Friday was among the most deadly days for French forces in the 10 years they have been serving in the international force in Afghanistan. The latest deaths bring to 82 the number of French troops killed in the Afghan campaign.
"From now on, all the operations of training and combat help by the French army are suspended," Sarkozy said.
The defense minister and the chief of staff of the French army are heading Friday to Kabul. Once they report back, Sarkozy said, the French government will decide how to proceed.
A big part of the French role in Afghanistan recently has been training Afghan troops and police ahead of an expected pullout of the around 3,600 French troops currently there in 2014.
Unpopular at home, Sarkozy is facing a potentially tough re-election campaign for elections in April and May and appeared determined Friday to act swiftly and sternly to the latest troop deaths.
The candidate who tops opinion polls ahead of France's elections, Socialist Francois Hollande, said in a statement Friday that he would aim to pull out French forces by the end of this year if he becomes president.
Friday's attack was all the more painful for the French because it came just weeks after an Afghan army soldier shot and killed two members of the French Foreign Legion serving in the NATO force on Dec. 29. French forces fired back and killed the assailant.
It remained unclear how likely or swift a French pullout could be. France has the fourth-largest force in the international coalition.
"Today there is clearly a new truth. It is not the first time that an Afghan soldier ... assassinates French soldiers," Foreign Minister Juppe said. He called it a question of "responsibility to adapt our timetable for withdrawal by taking into account these new circumstances."
Longuet was more cautious, saying French officials should maintain calm when making any decisions.
Sarkozy said he'd discuss France's role in Afghanistan with Karzai when he visits Paris next week.
Afghan security forces or insurgents dressed in their uniforms have attacked and killed international troops or civilian trainers more than a dozen times in the past two years, according to an Associated Press count.
Earlier this month, a U.S. service member was killed when a man in an Afghan army uniform opened fire at a base in the south of the country.
In one of the worst incidents, a veteran Afghan military pilot opened fire at Kabul airport on April 27, 2011, killing eight U.S. troops and an American civilian contractor.
In Riga, Latvia, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said this was "a very sad day for our troops in Afghanistan and for the French people," but insisted that such incidents are "isolated."
The helicopter crash, which occurred in the southern Helmand province, was the deadliest in Afghanistan since August, when 30 American troops died after a Chinook helicopter was apparently shot down in Wardak province in the center of the country.
The cause of Thursday's crash is still being investigated, but a coalition statement said there was no enemy activity in the area when it happened.
A senior U.S. defense official said all six reported killed were U.S. Marines and there was no indication that the helicopter had been hit by enemy fire. The defense official spoke on condition of anonymity because the U.S. command in Afghanistan had not yet publicly released details, including the nationalities of the dead.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef claimed insurgents shot down the helicopter, a Chinook, in Musa Qala district of Helmand province, killing all on board. The Taliban frequently exaggerate the number of people they claim to have killed.
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Corbet reported from Paris. Associated Press writers Angela Charlton, Jamey Keaten and Samantha Bordes in Paris, and Robert Burns in Washington contributed to this report.
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Ulcer-causing bacteria baffled by mucus: Researchers discover impact of viscoelasticity on collective behavior of swimming microorganisms
ScienceDaily (Jan. 18, 2012) ? Even the tiniest microscopic organisms make waves when they swim. In fact, dealing with these waves is a fact of life for the ulcer-causing bacteria H. pylori.
The bacteria are known to change their behavior in order to compensate for the waves created by other bacteria swimming around in the same aquatic neighborhood. From the relatively simple actions of these individual bacteria emerges a complex, coordinated group behavior.
A new study by engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute demonstrates how introducing certain polymers -- like those found in human mucus and saliva -- into the environment makes it significantly more difficult for H. pylori and other microorganisms to coordinate. The findings raise many new questions about the relationship between the individual and group behaviors of bacteria. The study also suggests that human mucus, saliva, and other biological fluid barriers may have evolved to disrupt the ability of harmful bacteria to coordinate.
"In the human body, microorganisms are always moving around in mucus, saliva, and other systems that exhibit elasticity due to the presence of polymers. Our study is among the first to look at how this elasticity impacts the collective behavior of microorganisms like H. pylori," said lead researcher Patrick T. Underhill, assistant professor in the Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer. "What we found is that polymers do in fact have a substantial impact on the flows created by the swimming bacteria, which in turn makes it more difficult for the individual bacteria to coordinate with each other. This opens the door to new ways of looking at our immune system."
Results of the study are detailed in the paper "Effect of viscoelasticity on the collective behavior of swimming microorganisms," recently published by the journal Physical Review E.
Underhill's study, based on large-scale computer simulations, leveraged the power of the Rensselaer Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI), one of the world's most powerful university-based supercomputers. These simulations involved creating a computer model of more than 110,000 individual H. pylori bacteria simultaneously occupying a small volume of polymer-infused liquid. The simulations captured all of the individual actions and interactions created as the bacteria swam through the liquid. The most difficult aspect of this kind of simulation, Underhill said, is to identify collective behaviors and extract relevant conclusions from the massive amount of data generated.
See a video of a simulation at: http://youtu.be/Yvc_3xncpME
In addition to computer simulations, Underhill employed theoretical models to understand how the addition of elasticity to liquid impacts the waves created by swimming H. pylori and, in turn, the collective behavior of a large group of the bacteria. Bacteria like H. pylori are known as pushers, as they propel themselves through water by twisting the long helical filaments that trail behind them.
Rensselaer chemical engineering graduate student Yaser Bozorgi is a co-author of the paper.
The study was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). In 2010, Underhill received a prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) to support his transport phenomena research.
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- Yaser Bozorgi, Patrick Underhill. Effect of viscoelasticity on the collective behavior of swimming microorganisms. Physical Review E, 2011; 84 (6) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.061901
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Seidio's 3800mAh battery turns the Galaxy Nexus into Quasimodo
1. arcq12 posted on 4 11
The phone is already ugly, and that extended battery made it even uglier.. lmao..
2. andro. posted on 3 0
The nexus is a very popular and well designed phone so i cant see anyone using a battery like this in it!! People are better off getting an extended battery which does not need a replacement back cover.
looking at this battery from seido really does make the 3300 mah battery from Motorola in the droid razor maxx with only a mm or so size enlargement of the phone looking an incredible effort
6. c.hack posted on 1 4
Haha. The best part of the Nexus battery is making the Razr Maxx look good. That's great.
11. andro. posted on 3 1
You obviously have a very small mental capacity,What was meant was 3rd party companies need to make huge battery and back cover sizes to create battery with capacity of 3000mah + while Motorola has managed it in the droid max with only a mm or so of size increase so its a feat of engineering. Perhaps your ifan brain can't comprehend this and you should go back to spending ages again trying to unlock the lockscreen of your iphone.........hint for you: you slide the unlock slider bar to the right to unlock!!
3. roscuthiii posted on 0 0
Is there a 2600mAh version? Because that's just... Yeah, that's just a flat out "no" for me right there.
Maybe, slight maybe, if I traveled as much as I used to I'd consider this.
4. McLTE posted on 0 0
Seriously? Did Seidio sit down and brainstorm over the ugliest way to implement an extended battery? Good gawd!
I think many of us would be happy with a 25-2700 extended battery that wouldn't result in such an atrocity of a back cover! I bet they'd sell far more as well..
While I'd love to have the run time, I wouldn't be caught dead out in the wild with this on my phone!
I agree with the previous poster.. this makes what Moto did with the Maxx and AMAZING engineering feat! I hope what Moto did will find it's way into many many more phones to come, though with removable batteries! :)
19. Synack posted on 0 0
Looks like HTC got a hold of this battery.
5. nastynaps posted on 0 0
Looks like moto needs to go into the battery business as this is atrocious. Moto would probably make a bundle selling 3rd party batteries.
7. c.hack posted on 0 6
And Android phones keep getting uglier and uglier......
9. protozeloz posted on 3 0
Do you bother reading? This is an extended battery, an accessory for your phone not a phone and many phones are quite good looking.
8. protozeloz posted on 2 0
That on my sexy gnex no way!
14. iamcc posted on 0 0
Have you seen the 3M carbon fiber skins? I put mine on last week I absolutely love it:
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16. iamcc posted on 0 0
Apparently that link isn't working...
Oh well.
21. protozeloz posted on 0 0
I'll check out the name brand and find some info :D thanks
22. iamcc posted on 0 0
http://www.xgearlive.com/produ?cts/catalog/android
It wasn't that hard to put on and after 2-3 days of it settling it seriously feels/looks like it came that way from the factory.
Definitely recommend it!
10. som posted on 0 0
They should shrink it to standard size battery and boost power to 3800mAh not this big and ugly external battery.
13. McLTE posted on 0 0
LOL
yeah. They should. Gee.. I wonder why they haven't already?!?!?! (sarcasm off)
12. iamcc posted on 0 0
Yiiikessss.. I'm set with my standard battery thankkkk you very much.
15. atheisticemetic posted on 0 0
might as well buy a tablet for that size!
thats the motherload right there, and an ugly one at that
Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Seidios-3800mAh-battery-turns-the-Galaxy-Nexus-into-Quasimodo_id26019
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
The Science Nerd Home Screen [Featured Home Screen]
SubEffect explains his setup:
The main screen is my most used apps and settings. The left screen houses less used settings, as well as links to folders and entertainment apps. On the right screen is my schedule?touching it opens up the calendar (and I use Calendar Pro for that because it's nicer than the stock Sense 3 one).
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Montana students pick winning names for moon craft
ScienceDaily (Jan. 18, 2012) ? Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year's Eve and New Year's Day have new names, thanks to elementary students in Bozeman, Mont. Their winning entry, "Ebb and Flow," was selected as part of a nationwide school contest that began in October 2011.
The names were submitted by fourth graders from the Emily Dickinson Elementary School. Nearly 900 classrooms with more than 11,000 students from 45 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia participated in the contest. Previously named Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL-A and -B, the washing machine-sized spacecraft begin science operations in March, after a launch in September 2011.
"The 28 students of Nina DiMauro's class at the Emily Dickinson Elementary School have really hit the nail on the head," said Maria Zuber, GRAIL principal investigator from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. "We were really impressed that the students drew their inspiration by researching GRAIL and its goal of measuring gravity. Ebb and Flow truly capture the spirit and excitement of our mission."
Zuber and Sally Ride, America's first woman in space and CEO of Sally Ride Science in San Diego, selected the names following the contest, which attracted 890 proposals via the Internet. The contest invited ideas from students ages 5 to 18 enrolled in U.S. schools. Although everything from spelling and grammar to creativity was considered, Zuber and Ride primarily took into account the quality of submitted essays.
"With submissions from all over the United States and even some from abroad, there were a lot of great entries to review," Ride said. "This contest generated a great deal of excitement in classrooms across America, and along with it an opportunity to use that excitement to teach science."
GRAIL is NASA's first planetary mission carrying instruments fully dedicated to education and public outreach. Each spacecraft carries a small camera called GRAIL MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students). Thousands of students in grades five through eight will select target areas on the lunar surface and send requests for study to the GRAIL MoonKAM Mission Operations Center in San Diego.
The winning prize for the Dickinson students is to choose the first camera images. Dickinson is one of nearly 2,000 schools registered for the MoonKAM program, which is led by Ride and her team at Sally Ride Science in collaboration with undergraduate students at the University of California in San Diego.
"These spacecraft represent not only great science, but great inspiration for our future," said Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division in Washington. "As they study our lunar neighbor, Ebb and Flow will undergo nearly the same motion as the tides we feel here on Earth."
Launched in September 2011, Ebb and Flow will be placed in a near-polar, near-circular orbit with an altitude of about 34 miles (55 kilometers). During their science mission, the duo will answer longstanding questions about the moon and give scientists a better understanding of how Earth and other rocky planets in the solar system formed.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., manages the GRAIL mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The GRAIL mission is part of the Discovery Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.
To read the winning submission visit: https://moonkam.ucsd.edu/about/spacecraft_names . Information about MoonKAM is available online at: https://moonkam.ucsd.edu . For more information about GRAIL visit: http://www.nasa.gov/grail or http://grail.nasa.gov .
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