When James Speed Hensinger was 22, he'd already spent nine months fighting in Vietnam, spending his nights in perpetual fear of snipers hiding in the mountains above. So come April of 1970, after fielding multiple nighttime attacks from a single sniper and his AK47, the 173rd Airborne Brigade?of which Hensinger was a part?decided to hit back with an arsenal of insane proportions.
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Adding to the component leaks pertaining to the iPhone 5S, we may have our first close-up look at the possibly A7 chipset inside it. According to MacRumors, model numbers printed on it may indicate a switch in supplier as well.
Aside from the photos featuring a possible dual-LED flash, the most interesting photo MacRumors managed to snag was a close-up of the actual chipset of the prototype. While it doesn't have a clear A7 marking, it does indeed carry a simliar model number scheme to what Apple currently uses.
The chip in question is shown with a model number of A0698. Its predecessor, the A6 chip carries a model number of A0598. The tradition with chipsets over the past few years have been for the second digit to be a new family of processors while the first digit will distinguish between chips in a certain family. For example, an A6X chip carries A5598 model number.
More interesting yet is the K1A0062 marking. Typically Samsung manufactured chipsets are branded with an "N" marking. It has been rumored that Apple would perhaps switch to TSMC over Samsung but we weren't sure as to when.
Given these are very early prototypes that MacRumors thinks were produced in December 2012, a lot has probably changed. For now, this does look like a legitimate Apple chipset that could make an appearance in the iPhone 5S come this fall.
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FILE - Vietnam veteran and author Tim O'Brien is seen in an undated photo provided by himself. O'Brien, known for such books as "The Things They Carried" and "In the Lake of the Woods," on Tuesday, July 25, 2013 received the $100,000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. O'Brien is the first fiction writer to win. (AP Photo/Meredith O'Brien, File)
FILE - Vietnam veteran and author Tim O'Brien is seen in an undated photo provided by himself. O'Brien, known for such books as "The Things They Carried" and "In the Lake of the Woods," on Tuesday, July 25, 2013 received the $100,000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. O'Brien is the first fiction writer to win. (AP Photo/Meredith O'Brien, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? A $100,000 prize for military writing has been awarded to an author of fiction.
Tim O'Brien, known for books such as "The Things They Carried" and "In the Lake of the Woods," has received the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award.
The honor, announced Tuesday, has previously been given to acclaimed historians such as James McPherson and Rick Atkinson. O'Brien is the first fiction writer to win.
The 66-year-old O'Brien served in the Vietnam War from 1968-70 and often draws directly on his experiences as a soldier.
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Lebanese army soldiers patrol Syria street in Tripoli's Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh to restore a tense calm four hours after the clash broke out between Salafists who support the revolt in Syria and pro-Damascus fighters, on June 7, 2013 in Lebanon.
By Ben Gilbert, Contributor, NBC News
TRIPOLI, Lebanon ? An armored personnel-carrier rolls through the city center, its 50-caliber machine gun at the ready as sniper fire cracks in the distance.
?I had to move out of my home last night because of the fighting,? says resident Mida Mohammad, her 3-year-old daughter Youmma clutching a teddy bear by her side. ?Young guys with guns told me to leave my home so they could use it as a firing position.?
It could be a scene from war-ravaged Syria. But this is actually in Lebanon, whose second-largest city, Tripoli, has become a simmering reflection of the ethnic and religious divisions in the neighboring civil war.
On one side are the Alawites (an offshoot of Shiite Islam) of Jebel Mohsen, a hill on the northern edge of the city, filled with supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and thus allied with Hezbollah.
Just a few hundred yards down the hill is the Sunni neighborhood of Beb al-Tabaneh, where people support the Syrian opposition and are against Hezbollah.?
The aptly-named Syria Street divides the two neighborhoods, and serves as a frontline during fighting.
?We can?t tell from where the snipers are shooting from,? said a Sunni fighter who came out of Bab al-Tabbaneh?to meet two reporters on the edge of the neighborhood.? He did not want to be identified.?
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Lebanese Sunni gunmen take up position with their weapons in Bab Al Tabbaneh, a Sunni district, in the northern Lebanese town of Tripoli May 26, 2013.
The 41-year-old fighter runs a bakery on Syria Street in calmer times, but says he is now commanding 40 local fighters.?
He wore camouflage pants and a black shirt with the Muslim ?shahadah? on it ? the Islamic?creed?that declares belief in a single God. He arrived on a motorbike with another young man, both openly carrying Kalashnikov automatic rifles.?
The fighter says he?s a Salafi, and that he first started fighting in 2008, after Hezbollah steamrolled the Sunni community in Lebanon.? Now, he says he fights because someone has to defend his neighborhood against Syria?s allies, Hezbollah and the Alawites. He says today?s clashes have a root in the past, and also in the current situation in Syria. ??
?The clashes date back 30 years ago, when the Syrian army, with the help of Alawites in Jebel Mohsen, committed massacres against the people of Bab al-Tabaneh,? he said. ?But, of course, the situation in northern Tripoli is an extension of what?s going on in northern Syria, because the Alawites are fighting in Syria, and people from Bab al-Tabbaneh are also fighting in Syria.?
?Tonight we will fight here,? he added, as sniper fire cracked in the distance.?
On his iPhone, he scrolled through dozens of photos of Sunni fighters killed in Syria. He says he knows of around 90 Lebanese Sunnis fighting in Syria now.? He says he knows of 12 who have been killed there, including three Tripoli natives killed in the recent battle for Qusair.?
The Syria-aligned Alawites, meanwhile, scoff at Sunni allegations that they start every fight. They are vastly outnumbered by the Sunnis in Tripoli and are encircled.
?The people of Jebel Mohsen are in danger from the people around them ? there?s an attack on the Alawite sect,? said Ali Faddah, spokesman for the Alawite political party in Lebanon, the?Arab Democratic Party. Sunni extremists started this latest round of fighting in Tripoli, he said.
Just down the street, Mayez al-Dahmee, a Sunni, runs a newspaper called Al-Inshaa.
He argues that the Sunnis have no leadership in Lebanon ? and that extremist conservative Islamist groups and preachers are filling the void.
?These young men are being misled and pushed into jihad,? Dahmee said. ?So that any religious person can convince them it is their duty to do that.?
Tripoli?s violence has erupted with a previously unseen intensity. And although the Lebanese Army has tried to crack down, fighting has spread to other parts of the city, in part because weapons and ammunition are available, residents and officials say.?
Earlier this month, fighting erupted in Tripoli?s old market ? a neighborhood that hasn?t seen such violence since 2008 ? while in Beb al-Tabaneh six people died in sniper fire that the Lebanese army was helpless to contain.
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Ali Faddah, a senior official with the pro-Syrian Arab Democratic Party, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the party's offices on April 30, 2013, in the predominantly Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon.
In May, two dozen people were killed and more than 200 injured during a week of fighting that Lebanese security forces said saw more than 1,000 rocket propelled grenades and mortars explode in the city.
Even downtown Tripoli has felt the effects of the tensions and fighting.
At an Alawite-owned caf? on Tripoli?s main street, employee Hannan Tarraf, 35, said she wasn?t afraid. But she said the caf? was closing earlier than usual because young men riding by on motorcycles ? assumed to be involved in the fighting - were intimidating her.
?We usually stay open until 1 a.m., but tonight we?ll close at 9 p.m. or 9:30 p.m., because of the guys on motorcycles,? she said. ?
Many are sick of the fighting and the tension that comes along with it.?
??The government isn?t doing anything to stop it, the state is totally absent.? We are fed up with the fighting,? said a Tripoli-based lawyer, Khaled Merheb. ??
The Lebanese Army last week moved into both Beb al-Tabanay and Jebel Mohsen to remove makeshift barricades and establish checkpoints in order to stop the fighting.
Many residents hope it will, but the army is spread thinly across the country and lacks the resources to impose a ceasefire.
?They should live in peace together,? said Mida Mohammad, the young mother who ventured out onto the nearly deserted main street near Beb al-Tabaneh. ?They?re not going to get rid of the other side. No one is going to win.?
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DEL NORTE, Colo. (AP) ? Tourists and business owners forced to flee a popular summer retreat in the southwestern Colorado mountains resigned themselves to a long wait as fire officials declined to speculate when they might be able to reign in an unprecedented and erratic blaze raging through the Rio Grande National Forest.
The fire more than doubled in size over the weekend, growing to an estimated 114 miles by Sunday night, authorities said.
And heavy winds fanning drought-stricken, beetle-killed forest showed no signs of relenting before Tuesday, fire officials said.
"They just said they had no idea how long it would be before we could back in South Fork," said Mike Duffy, who owns the South Fork Lodge.
Duffy said he and his wife, Mary, were able to get their personal possessions before fleeing fast-advancing flames that officials on Friday feared would overtake the town. But with the fire still within three miles of South Fork, they are worried about the long-term impact of a prolong evacuation and news reports about the massive blaze threatening the tourism-dependent town.
Summer visitors include many retirees from Texas and Oklahoma who come to the mountains to flee the heat.
"Here we are the 23rd of June. We had to tell people not to come because we are not there," Duffy said. "I just don't how much more of an affect it will have. Everyone's bottom line is going to get tagged by this. ... You still have to pay your property taxes whether you make money or not."
The town has 400 permanent residents, but South Fork Mayor Kenneth Brooke estimates that between 1,000 to 1,500 people were in town when the evacuation was ordered . More than 600 firefighters were battling the blaze, and more are coming every day.
As of Sunday night, officials said they knew of no structures lost and their efforts remained focused on protecting South Fork, the Wolf Creek ski area and homes along Highway 149 as the newest arm of the fire crept through beetle kill toward the historic mining town of Creede.
Creede, near the headwaters of the Rio Grande River, was the last silver boom town in Colorado before the industry went bust in the late 1800s. It has since dwindled in population, making way for a thriving tourist industry that relies on the town's colorful past. The town also is known for such characters as Robert Ford, who ran a tent saloon there and was best known for shooting and killing outlaw Jesse James in Missouri in 1882.
Pete Blume, a commander with the Rocky Mountain Type 1 Incident Command Team, said the wildfire is the worst ever known to hit the Rio Grande National Forest.
"It's not typical to have these kinds of fires here," said Blume. But he said the 30 to 40 mile-an-hour winds, beetle-killed trees and drought are "also not the norm."
Tim Foley, a fire behavior expert with the same incident command as Blume, said beetles have killed most of the forest's hundreds of thousands of acres of mature spruce.
Elsewhere in Colorado, about a dozen fires also continued to burn. Firefighters were making progress on a 19-square-mile wildfire near Walsenburg in southern Colorado. The fire was 10 percent contained.
And a wildfire in foothills about 30 miles southwest of Denver was expected to be fully contained Sunday evening. That fire burned 511 acres and forced 100 people to leave their homes.
In the Rio Grande forest, firefighters are hoping for a break in the high winds as well as the anticipated July monsoons to help them fight back the flames. They also want to reduce the number of new spot fires being sparked by wind-whipped ashes.
Until then, Blume said, "with that much beetle kill and drought we could have every resource in the country here and still not put in a containment line."
Pressed during a media briefing for an estimate on when evacuees might be able to return to South Fork, he said "we are probably looking at five days to a week."
Still, he said, portions of the blaze will likely burn all summer, with full extinguishment probably not coming until "late in the year."
Evacuees, meantime, tried to make the best of it.
Leilani and Ralph Harden, a retired couple from Victoria, Texas, were waiting it out with their RV in a parking lot adjacent to the roadblock, which allowed only firefighters and others with official business through.
"We are just sitting here watching the show," said Leilani Harden said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-colo-town-sees-long-evacuation-081110338.html
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Jerusalem, June 23, 2013 Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in California have achieved a breakthrough in understanding how and why a promising anti-cancer therapy has failed to achieve hoped-for success in killing tumor cells. Their work could lead to new insights into overcoming this impasse.
The problematic therapy investigated involves suppression of the protein mTOR (mammalian target Of Rapamycin). MTOR plays an important role in regulating how cells process molecular signals from their environment, and it is observed as strongly activated in many solid cancers.
Drug-induced suppression of mTOR has until now shown success in causing the death of cancer cells in the outer layers of cancerous tumors, but has been disappointing in clinical trials in dealing with the core of those tumors.
Reduced oxygen supply -- hypoxia -- is a near-universal feature of solid tumors that can alter how tumors respond to therapies. It was known that the behavior of mTOR signaling is influenced and altered by the condition of hypoxia, but the mechanism to explain this was unknown.
A research team, which included Prof. Emeritus Raphael D. Levine of the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, investigated whether the influence of hypoxia on mTOR signaling in model brain cancer systems could explain the poor performance of mTOR drugs. Their work appeared in a recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in the US.
For their investigation, they employed a new microchip technology that allowed them to measure the mTOR protein signaling network in individual cancer cells, and they interpreted the results using a new set of theoretical tools derived from the physical sciences. The combined approach permitted the simplification of an otherwise complex biological system.
They found that at a particular level of oxygen starvation (hypoxia) that is common in solid tumors, the mTOR signaling network switches between two sets of properties. At the switching point, the theoretical models predicted that mTOR would be intrinsically unresponsive to drugging.
Furthermore, the combined experiment and theory results indicated that the switch could be interpreted as a type of phase transition, which has not been previously observed in biological systems.
This phase transition is the point of the switch between the two signaling networks and happens very abruptly. The change in signaling means that the body of cells studied no longer responds in the way it did before. In the case of the tumor, the "drugging" of the mTOR ceases, meaning that the tumor is no longer inhibited.
These results have several implications. First, they may explain the poor clinical performance of mTOR inhibitors. Second, they indicate that certain complex biological behaviors, which often confound scientists who are seeking to find effective therapies for human diseases, may be understood by the effective application of experimental and theoretical tools derived from the physical sciences.
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, June 23, 2013 Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in California have achieved a breakthrough in understanding how and why a promising anti-cancer therapy has failed to achieve hoped-for success in killing tumor cells. Their work could lead to new insights into overcoming this impasse.
The problematic therapy investigated involves suppression of the protein mTOR (mammalian target Of Rapamycin). MTOR plays an important role in regulating how cells process molecular signals from their environment, and it is observed as strongly activated in many solid cancers.
Drug-induced suppression of mTOR has until now shown success in causing the death of cancer cells in the outer layers of cancerous tumors, but has been disappointing in clinical trials in dealing with the core of those tumors.
Reduced oxygen supply -- hypoxia -- is a near-universal feature of solid tumors that can alter how tumors respond to therapies. It was known that the behavior of mTOR signaling is influenced and altered by the condition of hypoxia, but the mechanism to explain this was unknown.
A research team, which included Prof. Emeritus Raphael D. Levine of the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, investigated whether the influence of hypoxia on mTOR signaling in model brain cancer systems could explain the poor performance of mTOR drugs. Their work appeared in a recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in the US.
For their investigation, they employed a new microchip technology that allowed them to measure the mTOR protein signaling network in individual cancer cells, and they interpreted the results using a new set of theoretical tools derived from the physical sciences. The combined approach permitted the simplification of an otherwise complex biological system.
They found that at a particular level of oxygen starvation (hypoxia) that is common in solid tumors, the mTOR signaling network switches between two sets of properties. At the switching point, the theoretical models predicted that mTOR would be intrinsically unresponsive to drugging.
Furthermore, the combined experiment and theory results indicated that the switch could be interpreted as a type of phase transition, which has not been previously observed in biological systems.
This phase transition is the point of the switch between the two signaling networks and happens very abruptly. The change in signaling means that the body of cells studied no longer responds in the way it did before. In the case of the tumor, the "drugging" of the mTOR ceases, meaning that the tumor is no longer inhibited.
These results have several implications. First, they may explain the poor clinical performance of mTOR inhibitors. Second, they indicate that certain complex biological behaviors, which often confound scientists who are seeking to find effective therapies for human diseases, may be understood by the effective application of experimental and theoretical tools derived from the physical sciences.
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They look sleek, sexy and dapper in their 1960s finery, but the cast of "Mad Men" isn't always so polished. In fact, sometimes when the stars who bring Don Draper, Roger Sterling and the rest of the characters to life aren't playing the roles they're most famous for, they're barely recognizable.
Before you say "so long" to the Sterling Cooper & Partners gang for the season on Sunday night, take a look at our roundup of some of the (not-so-) familiar faces.
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Jon Hamm as Don Draper on "Mad Men" and Abner on "30 Rock."
Don Draper's made some serious mistakes on "Mad Men" this season, but thankfully, the look on the right isn't one of them. No, that's just John Hamm spoofing old-timey, distasteful comedies in an "Alfie and Abner" skit from a live episode of "30 Rock."
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John Slattery as Roger Sterling on "Mad Men" and Dr. Norman on "Arrested Development."
If it looks like Roger Sterling has seen better days in the second shot, that's because the actor who plays him, John Slattery, took on the part of a washed up, dirty doctor in the recent return of "Arrested Development."
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Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson on "Mad Men" and Cynthia Parks on "Picket Fences."
Peggy Olson's grown into quite the copywriter at Sterling Cooper & Partners, but way before that, actress Elisabeth Moss hit the small screen when she was still small. She made her first appearance in the quirky dramedy "Picket Fences" in 1992.
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Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell on "Mad Men" and Connor on "Angel."
Even Pete Campbell -- or rather Vincent Kartheiser -- had a fresh-faced look on TV back in the day. Long before joining "Mad Men," Kartheiser played Connor, the non-vamp son of the fang-bearing lead, on "Angel."
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Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris on "Mad Men" and Saffron on "Firefly."
If you're a fan of Joan Harris' just-so hair, tailored dresses and crimson lipstick, then Christina Hendricks' turn on "Firefly" might not interest you. But if you want to see Hendricks' range (and don't mind seeing her in far fewer clothes), then be sure to catch both of her decade-old episodes.
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Jessica Pare as Megan Draper on "Mad Men" and Jennifer on "Suck."
Yikes! Megan Draper goes from Don's secretary to wife on "Mad Men," but actress Jessica Pare went from alive to undead in the movie "Suck."
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Alison Brie as Trudy Campbell on "Mad Men" and Annie Edison on "Community."
When actress Alison Brie isn't playing the part of Pete's long-suffering wife, Trudy Campbell, she's laughing it up as the brainy and beautiful Annie on the sitcom "Community."
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Jared Harris as Lane Pryce on "Mad Men" and Moriarty in "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows."
Rest in peace, Lane Pryce. Fans of the fallen character can see actor Jared Harris back in action in the 2011 film "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," playing the ultimate match for the sleuth -- the devious Professor Moriarty.
The season six finale of "Mad Men" airs Sunday at 10 p.m. on AMC.
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/mad-men-stars-not-so-60s-roles-6C10411625
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Sometimes it's a whisper. Other times, it's a scream.
But in all of us, there is a voice of wisdom to help guide us. It's called our intuition. We are all born with it, but like everything else, if we don't use it we lose it.
The secret to living wisely is to live intuitively.
So often, my students say to me, "I'm such a bad decision maker."
I tell them, "Life isn't made up of decisions; life is made up of experiences."
It is time to change our vocabulary. The root of "decision" -- literally, from a linguistic perspective -- is "to kill off." What we really need to talk about are choices: The ones we make, and how to make the right ones.
We all have the right to choose. If that choice doesn't work, or no longer resonates with us, we also have the right to choose again. Many of us are so fearful of making the wrong choice that instead of accessing our own wisdom, we take a poll.
When we stand at one of the great crossroads of life, instead of listening to our intuition, we listen to everyone else.
"What do you think I should do?"
We ask our mothers, our partners, even our therapists. The result? We get 20 different answers to the same question. Then we end up confused, stuck and unable to move forward in the best possible direction.
Even more frustratingly, we often hear competing advice from our own inner voice, too. We might hear "Follow your heart; go for it!" one moment and "Don't be a fool; that's too risky and you'll never succeed" the next.
That second voice is our inner critic, or what I lovingly refer to as our "Itty Bitty Shitty Committee." The committee, and our voice of wisdom, are fighting in a constant back-and-forth. It then becomes challenging to distinguish which voice is the one we should follow.
But, alas, there is hope!
There are many wonderful ways to cultivate your intuition and differentiate between the two. Once you clearly identify your intuitive voice, you can always trust it. It is mistake-free, and will never lead you astray.
You can cultivate that intuitive voice by journaling and meditating. When you give the intuitive voice a blank page to write on -- or a blank space of silence to center on -- you create a space for the voice to reveal itself to you.
Other ways of finding your voice of wisdom include taking some "alone time" in nature, to contemplate and listen. If your voice of wisdom is at work, you will feel calm, centered and relaxed. You'll soon learn the stark difference between this place of piece and the negative emotional charge that accompanies your "Itty Bitty Shitty Committee."
Remember: You always have the ability to guide yourself toward a destiny filled with what you desire and need. Just trust, and understand. The secret lies in three little letters: Y.A.K.: You Always Know.
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As far as post-apocalyptic, steampunk-themed trading ships go, this MOC build is pretty impressive. Jason Allemann's landship, Amagosa, is based on the "Strandbeest," a badass kinetic sculpture created by Theo Jansen. It's mesmerizing to watch this Lego machine in action, but the tarantula-esque movements of the walker sorta freak me out (in the sense that I'm reminded of the giant mechanical spider from that terrible film, Wild Wild West).
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A Tokyo court ruled on Friday that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd had infringed rival Apple Inc's patent for a so-called bounce-back feature on earlier models of its popular smartphones.
Samsung and Apple, the world's top two smartphone makers, are fighting patent disputes across the globe as they compete to dominate the lucrative mobile market and win customers with their latest gadgets.
Apple claimed that Samsung had copied the feature, in which icons on its smartphones and tablets quiver back when users scroll to the end of an electronic document. Samsung has already changed its interface on recent models to show a blue line at the end of documents.
The Japanese court's decision comes after the U.S. Patent and Trademark office judged earlier this year that Apple's bounce-back patent was invalid, allowing older Samsung models that had a similar feature to remain on sale.
However, the U.S. agency subsequently decided that several aspects of the bounce-back feature were actually patentable, according to documents filed by Apple in U.S. court last week.
(Additional reporting by Dan Levine in San Francisco; Editing by Richard Chang)
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) ? Flooding forced the western Canadian city of Calgary to order the evacuation of its entire downtown Friday, as the waters reached the 10th row of the city's hockey arena.
Overflowing rivers washed out roads and bridges, soaked homes and turned streets into dirt-brown waterways around southern Alberta. Police say as many as four people might have died. A spokesman for Canada's defense minister said 1,300 Army soldiers from Edmonton were being deployed to the flood zone.
About 350,000 people work in downtown Calgary on a typical day. However, officials said very few people need to be moved out, since many heeded warnings and did not go to work Friday.
Twenty-five neighborhoods in the city, with an estimated population of 75,000, have already been evacuated due to floodwaters in Calgary, a city of more than a million people that hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics and serves as the center of Canada's oil industry.
Outside the city, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said two men were seen floating lifeless in the Highwood River near the hard-hit community of High River on Thursday, but no bodies have been found. They also say a woman who was swept away with her camper has not been located. And it wasn't clear whether a man who was seen falling out of a canoe in the High River area was able to climb back in.
In downtown Calgary, water was inundating homes and businesses in the shadow of skyscrapers. Water has swamped cars and train tracks.
The city said the home rink of the National Hockey League's Calgary Flames flooded and the water inside was 10 rows deep.
"I think that really paints a very clear picture of what kinds of volumes of water we are dealing with," said Trevor Daroux, the city's deputy police chief.
At the grounds for the world-famous Calgary Stampede fair, water reached up to the roofs of the chuck wagon barns. The popular rodeo and festival is the city's signature event. Mayor Naheed Nenshi said it will occur no matter what.
About 1,500 have gone to emergency shelters while the rest have found shelter with family or friends, Nenshi said.
Nenshi said he's never seen the rivers reach so high or flow so fast, but said the flooding situation was as under control as it could be. Nenshi said the Elbow River, one of two rivers that flow through the southern Alberta city, has peaked.
The mayor suggested that levels on the Bow River ? which, in Nenshi's words, looked like an ocean ? would remain steady for the rest of the day as long as conditions didn't change.
Police urged people to stay away from downtown and not go to work.
The flood was forcing emergency plans at the Calgary Zoo, which is situated on an island near where the Elbow and Bow rivers meet. Lions and tigers were being prepared for transfer, if necessary, to prisoner holding cells at the courthouse.
Schools and court trials were cancelled Friday and residents urged to avoid downtown. Transit service in the core was shut down.
Residents were left to wander and wade through streets waist-deep in water.
"In all the years I've been down here, I've never seen the water this high," resident John Doherty said.
"I've got two antique pianos in the garage that I was going to rebuild and they're probably under water," he said. "We're shell-shocked."
Alberta Premier Alison Redford promised the province would help flood victims put their lives back together and provide financial aid to communities that need to rebuild. The premier said at a briefing that she had spoken to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who travelled to Calgary and promised disaster relief. Harper met with the premier and mayor.
Redford urged people to heed evacuation orders, so authorities could do their jobs. She called the flooding that has hit most of southern Alberta an "absolutely tragic situation."
The premier warned that communities downstream of Calgary had not yet felt the full force of the floodwaters.
It had been a rainy week throughout much of Alberta, but on Thursday the Bow River Basin was battered with up to four inches (100 millimeters) of rain. Environment Canada's forecast called for more rain in the area, but in much smaller amounts.
Calgary was not alone in its weather-related woes. Flashpoints of chaos spread from towns in the Rockies south to Lethbridge.
More than a dozen towns declared states of emergency. Entire communities, including High River and Bragg Creek, near Calgary, were under mandatory evacuation orders.
Some of the worst flooding hit High River, where an estimated half of the town's residents experienced flooding in their homes.
Military helicopters plucked about 30 people off rooftops in the area. Others were rescued by boat or in buckets of heavy machinery. Some even swam for their lives from stranded cars.
Further west, in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, photos from the mountain town of Canmore depicted a raging river ripping at house foundations.
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Associated Press writer Rob Gillies contributed from Toronto.
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By Nobuhiro Kubo
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Tokyo court ruled on Friday that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd had infringed rival Apple Inc's patent for a so-called bounce-back feature on earlier models of its popular smartphones.
Samsung and Apple, the world's top two smartphone makers, are fighting patent disputes across the globe as they compete to dominate the lucrative mobile market and win customers with their latest gadgets.
Apple claimed that Samsung had copied the feature, in which icons on its smartphones and tablets quiver back when users scroll to the end of an electronic document. Samsung has already changed its interface on recent models to show a blue line at the end of documents.
The Japanese court's decision comes after the U.S. Patent and Trademark office judged earlier this year that Apple's bounce-back patent was invalid, allowing older Samsung models that had a similar feature to remain on sale.
However, the U.S. agency subsequently decided that several aspects of the bounce-back feature were actually patentable, according to documents filed by Apple in U.S. court last week.
(Additional reporting by Dan Levine in San Francisco; Editing by Richard Chang)
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CHICAGO (AP) ? Lawyers for a U.S. citizen charged with terrorism in Chicago said Friday in a filing that the government is purposely dodging questions about whether it used expanded secret surveillance programs against their client in a calculated bid to ensure the hotly debated practices can't be challenged in the Supreme Court.
The claim came in an early morning filing at federal court in Chicago by attorneys for Adel Daoud. The 19-year-old, of Hillsdale, is accused of trying to ignite what he thought was a car bomb outside a bar last year in Chicago. Daoud, whose trial is set for Feb. 3, has pleaded not guilty to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and other charges.
In their own filing last week, federal prosecutors refused to say whether they used far-reaching surveillance programs to launch their two-year investigation of the suburban teenager, saying they were under no legal obligation to spell out just what led to an FBI sting focused on Daoud.
Recent leaks by a former National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden, revealed that a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISA court, authorized one program that gathers U.S. phone records and another that tracks the use of U.S.-based Internet servers by foreigners with possible links terrorism.
Friday's 13-page defense filing argues the government's refusal to confirm or deny whether it used those programs left defense attorneys legally hamstrung: With no answer, they have no grounds to mount a challenge to the programs' constitutionality, and yet prosecutors could still use the evidence at trial.
"Whenever it is good for the government to brag about its success, it speaks loudly and publicly (about its surveillance methods)," the filing says. "When a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are at stake, however, it quickly and unequivocally clams up under the guise of state secrets."
A message seeking comment was left early Friday with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago. Federal prosecutors typically do not comment on pending cases.
U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, who is overseeing Daoud's case, has said she will hear oral arguments soon on the dispute. She could order government attorneys to state clearly if they used the expanded surveillance or she could agree with prosecutors that they are under no obligation to do so.
The main point of contention in Daoud's case, as in much of the national debate over U.S. surveillance, is the secret FISA court ? set up by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
FISA amendments adopted by Congress in 2008 allow the government to obtain broad intercept orders from the court ? raising the prospect that calls and emails between foreign targets and innocent Americans could also be subject to surveillance.
In February, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to throw out an attempt by U.S. citizens to challenge the 2008 expansion of FISA on grounds they could not prove the government will monitor their conversations along with those of potential foreign terrorist and intelligence targets.
But the high court added that its decision did not insulate the FISA expansion from judicial review, and it suggested a couple of ways a challenge could be brought, including a scenario in which an American lawyer did get swept up in FISA monitoring.
Prosecutors have said the investigation of Daoud began in 2011 when the FBI detected he was active on extremist Internet forums and sites in which he inquired about killing Americans. By 2012, undercover agents posing as terrorists had engaged Daoud in email conversations, telling him they would help him stage an attack. On Sept. 14, 2012, Daoud allegedly drove a Jeep Cherokee to the Chicago bar with what he thought was a bomb inside. After he pushed a mock triggering device, FBI agents moved in and arrested him.
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ROME -- James Gandolfini and his teenage son were on a special celebration trip when the actor suddenly died on Wednesday. Gandolfini, who was being honored at a film festival in Sicily, turned the trip into a commemoration of his son, Michael, who had just graduated from junior high school and won a soccer championship.
"He was going to combine the two things and they were going to spend some time together there," said screenwriter and actor Pat Healy (?Compliance? and ?The Innkeepers?), who met with Gandolfini on Friday at HBO offices in Santa Monica, Calif., about an upcoming film Gandolfini was going to star in. "He was very excited about it. We had a lot of laughs that day. It was a really fun afternoon."
Gandolfini and his son were last publicly seen having dinner at Sabatini Restaurant in the Trastevere section of Rome on Tuesday, WXIA in Atlanta reported. An Atlanta man told the TV station that he saw the actor and his son sitting at an outdoor table and both appeared to be in great spirits.
It would be their last dinner together. The next afternoon, Gandolfini?s son, Michael, called for help after discovering his father collapsed in a bathroom, according to the manager of the Italian hotel where the ?The Sopranos? star was staying. The Emmy-winning actor was later pronounced dead Wednesday at age 51.
Gandolfini, who rose to fame as mob boss Tony Soprano on the hit HBO show, was still alive when the ambulance arrived, according to Antonio D'amore, who runs the Hotel Boscolo in Rome.
Gandolfini suffered a suspected heart attack in the bathroom of his hotel room at about 10 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET) Wednesday, according to D?amore.
He said Gandolfini?s son was with him in the room and called for help. Hotel staff rushed to the room and found the actor on the bathroom floor, D'amore said.
Workers tried to resuscitate him and he was taken to the nearby Policlinico Umberto I hospital. Michael Kobold, who lived with Gandolfini years ago and considered him a "big brother," spoke to reporters Thursday outside the hotel and confirmed that hotel workers called an ambulance and first aid was administered on Gandolfini before he was transported to the hospital.
?Our prayers and condolences go to Mr Gandolfini's family and firends," Kobold said, referring to himself as a family spokesman. "We ask you all to respect the family's privacy at this difficult time.?
Kobold said Gandolfini died of "an apparent heart attack."
Claudio Modini, head of the hospital's emergency room said that Gandolfini was admitted at 10:40 p.m. (4:40 p.m. ET) and doctors tried to resuscitate him. But he was declared dead at 11 p.m. (5 p.m. ET), 20 minutes after being admitted. He said an autopsy would be performed Friday, as required by local law.
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A view of the hotel where actor James Gandolfini was staying while vacationing in Rome.
Gandolfini and his family were visiting Rome prior to his scheduled appearance on Saturday as guest of honor at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily. The actor was going to participate in a roundtable with Italian director Gabriele Muccino. Now, the festival organizers said they will pay him tribute instead.
"He was a genius," said "Sopranos" creator David Chase. "Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time."
Edie Falco who played Carmela Soprano, the unforgettable mobster's wife, said Gandolfini was "a man of tremendous depth and sensitivity, with a kindness and generosity beyond words."
"My heart goes out to his family," she added. "As those of us in his pretend one hold on to the memories of our intense and beautiful time together. The love between Tony and Carmela was one of the greatest I've ever known."
Jamie Lynn Sigler spent 10 years playing Gandolfini's daughter on the HBO ground-breaking series and said she was "heartbroken" to hear of his passing.
"I spent 10 years of my life studying and admiring one of the most brilliant actors , yes, but more importantly one of the greatest men," she said. "Jim had the ability, unbeknownst to him, to make you feel like everything would be alright if he was around. I treasure my memories with him and feel so honored that I was an up close witness to his greatness."
Michael Imperioli, who played Tony Soprano's nephew, called working with Gandolfini a "pleasure and a privilege" in a statement. "Jimmy treated us all like family with a generosity, loyalty and compassion that is rare in this world...I will be forever grateful having had a friend the likes of Jimmy."
Federico Castelluccio, who played Furio Giunta on the series, described Gandolfini as "really well-naunced" and "one of the greatest actors of our time."
"He was a soft-spoken guy, but a warm guy," New York Times TV writer Bill Carter told TODAY's Matt Lauer. "When he hugged you, it was genuine."
Gandolfini won critical acclaim, three Emmy Awards and three Screen Actors Guild awards for playing Tony Soprano from 1999-2007.
"We're all in shock and feeling immeasurable sadness at the loss of a beloved member of our family," HBO said in a statement. "He was a special man, a great talent, but more importantly a gentle and loving person who treated everyone no matter their title or position with equal respect. He touched so many of us over the years with his humor, his warmth and his humility. Our hearts go out to his wife and children during this terrible time. He will be deeply missed by all of us."
Although a New Jersey native, Gandolfini didn't expect to land the role of Tony Soprano. "I thought that they would hire some good-looking guy, not George Clooney but some Italian George Clooney, and that would be that," he told Vanity Fair in 2012.
But instead, it was Gandolfini who got the nod, and he made viewers care about a mob boss who could order the murder of a family member one minute and turn around and tenderly feed the ducks that swam in his estate's swimming pool the next.
"I think you cared about Tony because David was smart enough to write the Greek chorus, through (Soprano's psychiatrist) Dr. Melfi," Gandolfini said. "So you sat there and you got to see his motives, what he was thinking, what he was trying to do, what he was trying to fix, what he was trying to become. And then you saw it didn?t really work out the way he wanted it to."
Actress Lorraine Bracco, who played Melfi, said in a statement, "We lost a giant today. I am utterly heartbroken."
Chef Mario Batali, one of Gandolfini's oldest friends, said he was "shocked and devasted" by the actor's death. "I only hope to help his family any way I can in their grief and mourning."
Despite being globally associated with Tony Soprano, Gandolfini went on to play quite different roles including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden-hunt docudrama "Zero Dark Thirty." He also played a tortured alcoholic on "Killing Them Softly" and starred in the remake of "The Taking of Pelham 123."
"I admire Jimmy as a ferocious actor, a gentle soul and a genuinely funny man," said actor Brad Pitt, who worked with Gandolfini on "The Mexican" and "Killing Them Softly. "I am fortunate to have sat across the table from him and am gutted by this loss."
Gandolfini went on a USO tour to Kuwait and Iraq in 2004, and found himself unable to forget the soldiers and Marines he met there. The result was his 2008 HBO documentary, "Alive Day Memories," in which he spoke with 10 men and women who survived the war. The program was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding nonfiction special, and NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams called it a "powerful and nonpolitical hour of television."
He recently completed shooting Fox Searchlight's "Animal Rescue" with Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace, and was developing "Criminal Justice," a limited series at HBO. The movie that Healy was writing and Gandolfini was going to star in, "Eating with the Enemy," is based on a non-fiction book about a New Jersey restaurant owner and his unexpected friendship with the North Korean deputy ambassador to the United Nations.
Healy only met Gandolfini three times over the course of this year, but said the two men forged a deep connection one night when Gandolfini turned a conversation about the script into a three-hour discussion of both of their personal lives.
"We had a lot in common and I felt very comfortable," Healy said. "I guess he felt very comfortable opening up to me because he certainly did. He was very proud of his son. In fact, he was booking the trip to Italy then and he was very excited about it."
On Friday, when the HBO meeting ended, Healy shook Gandolfini's hand but the actor "grabbed me and he gave me a big hug."
"I felt like this was really the start of a wonderful friendship," he said. "I knew that we knew each other deeply, though it was such a short period of time. I'm just incredibly sad about it. I'm so sad for his family and his little daughter who will only know him from his work and for his wife and son and for everyone who won't get to see great things he was going to continue to do."
Another close friend of Gandolfini's, actor Gilles Marini, took to his Facebook page to express his heartbreak over the death of "my bud." Marini wrote that he saw Gandolfini last weekend at their children's graduations and Gandolfini told him he was excited to go with his son on a boy's trip to Italy.
"It was an honor to have met this man, such a great Dad!" Marini said. "I spent so much time with James' son teaching him soccer. I feel for that kid. It must be so hard right now for little Michael . Guys, say a prayer for him and his family. This is going to be very difficult time for them. I am so so sad!"
TODAY.com's Gael Fashingbauer Cooper and NBC News' Alastair Jamieson contributed to this report.
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The State Department report on slavery notes that more?countries are prosecuting traffickers and providing services to rescued victims. But China and Russia are failing to make progress, the US says.
The US is giving world powers China and Russia a black eye for their failure to make progress against the global scourge of people trafficking ? also known as slavery.
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The slap at the two powers comes at a time when President Obama is seeking to engage the countries? leaders on key divisive issues. Mr. Obama struggled to find common ground this week in Europe with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the crisis in Syria, and last week in California with Chinese President Xi Jinping on cybersecurity.
In its annual report on worldwide trafficking in persons (TIP) the State Department does highlight some bright spots:
? More countries are prosecuting traffickers and providing services to the rescued victims of trafficking and slavery.
? And the number of convictions worldwide in trafficking cases, once rare, jumped by 20 percent last year.
"When we think of the scale of modern-day slavery, literally tens of millions who live in exploitation, this whole effort can seem daunting, but it's the right effort," Secretary of State John Kerry said in releasing the report Wednesday.
"There are countless voiceless people, countless nameless people except to their families or perhaps a phony name by which they are being exploited, who look to us for their freedom," he said.
The report also highlights the cases of individual ?heroes? from around the world who went out of their way to assist trafficking victims, bring violators to justice, or challenge the impunity that too often stymies anti-trafficking efforts.
There?s the case of Mohammed Bassam Al-Nasseri, an Iraqi migrant worker specialist who played a critical role in passage and implementation of Iraq?s 2012 comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation ? and who rescued 35 Bulgarian and Ukrainian construction workers from virtual imprisonment at an Iraqi construction site.
And then there?s Susan Ople, who founded a Philippine non-profit that helps exploited and stranded Overseas Filipino Workers ? so numerous they are referred to as OFWs.
But the annual report is also about signaling the laggards in the global fight against people trafficking, and perhaps also about prompting action as a result of the shame of being labeled as insufficient in anti-trafficking laws and practices.
That?s where cases like those of China and Russia come in. In addition to the two global powers, Uzbekistan was also downgraded to ?tier 3,? the report?s lowest level.
China is ?a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking,? the report finds. It also points out that China has been on the report?s trafficking ?watch list? for the past nine years.
As for Russia, labor trafficking remains the ?predominant? trafficking issue, according to the report, with an estimated 1 million people in Russia subject to conditions ? such as forced labor, withholding of documents, nonpayment for services, physical abuse, or extremely poor living conditions ? characteristic of modern-day slavery.
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Instagram, today at Facebook HQ and in a livestream, announced that it's bringing video to its service. Don't call it Vine, even though it looks and acts just like Vine.
See, Vine is 6-second videos. Instagram is using 15-second clips. So it's totally different.
All kidding aside, you've got the same overall idea as Vine. Tap to record. Only Instagram merges in some basic editing -- a feature sorely missing on Vine -- and throws in a baker's dozen of new filters to boot. In addition, you can choose which video frame you want to serve as the preview thumbnail.
"It's the same Instagram we all know and love," said Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom. "But it moves."
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