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GREENWOOD COUNTY, S.C. (AP) — Police found the bodies of six people ranging in age from 9 to the early 50s when they responded to a call from a man who said he was thinking about hurting himself.
SWAT team members who entered the house late Tuesday found the remains of four adults and two children, including the body of the man they believe called police, Greenwood County Sheriff's Office spokesman John Long said. Investigators didn't immediately release the identities or causes of death, but Long said the situation appeared to be "domestic-related."
Authorities planned a news conference for Wednesday afternoon. In the morning, yellow police tape surrounded the one-story home on a rural stretch of road south of Greenwood, a city of about 23,000 in northwestern South Carolina.
Officers first went to the home in Greenwood County after receiving a call from a man who said he was thinking about hurting himself, Long said. He said while police were on their way, one of the man's neighbors called 911 saying four children from that address had arrived at her house and told her a shot had been fired. He said the children remained at her house.
After about an hour and "several unsuccessful attempts" by officers to make contact with anyone in the home, the SWAT team entered and discovered the bodies, Long said.
The county coroner's office did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
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Associated Press writers Meg Kinnard in Columbia and Lisa J. Adams in Atlanta contributed to this report.
Researchers from device security firm Skycure have unearthed an unnerving vulnerability in iOS that can be used to hijack a number of apps when used on an insecure Wi-Fi network. And it might not just be an iOS issue, either.
Skycure calls the problem "HTTP Request Hijacking," or HRH for short, and it exploits the way many iOS applications deal with receiving an HTTP 301 status code ("Moved Permanently") from a server.
"Most mobile apps do not visually indicate the server they connect to," says Skycure, "making HRH attacks seamless, with very low probability of being identified by the victims."
At its core, the attack is essentially a variant on a standard man-in-the-middle attack. If an app is used on an insecure Wi-Fi network, an attacker can intercept requests sent by the app, reply to the requests with a 301, and trick the app into being redirected to a hostile server.
This is bad enough, but iOS apps have a behavior quirk that makes them particularly vulnerable to the attack: Whenever they receive a 301 redirection request, that request is cached indefinitely. In other words, once an attacker uses a request hijack on an iOS app, its requests are redirected continuously to the hostile server until the cache is cleared ... and the user may never know about it.
HRH attacks do require a few conditions to be met before they can be pulled off successfully. Most crucially, they need to be "physically near the victim for the initial poisoning," meaning that the attacker has to know where the user is connecting via Wi-Fi and hijack that specific connection.
Skycure has declined to name specific apps that are affected by this bug, as part of its responsible disclosure policy. Instead, the company has created a sample application that demonstrates the problem in action, along with a short video demonstrating the hijack. Most importantly, Skycure has published code in its article that allows concerned iOS developers to fix the problem quickly.
The New York Times Bits Blog was one of the first third-party sources to spread the word, noting that the same researchers also found another iOS-related security issue, back in 2012, in which LinkedIn's iOS app turned out to be leaking sensitive information when it collected meeting details from users' iOS calendars. LinkedIn has long since fixed that problem, but more recently it's come under fire yet again for another iOS app, LinkedIn Intro.
In a final note to its post, Skycure adds that "HRH isn’t necessarily a problem of iOS applications alone; it may apply to mobile applications of other operating systems too." In the abstract, the mechanism of an HRH attack isn't specific to iOS. If another platform -- Android, for instance -- behaves the same way in caching 301 requests, the same attack could conceivably be performed there as well.
Let's hope that's not the case -- but better yet, let's find out if it is true and do something about it.
Novel technique for suturing tissue-engineered collagen graft improves tendon repair
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New Rochelle, NY, October 30, 2013The repair of ruptured tendons often requires the use of a graft to bridge gaps between the torn tendon and bone. A tissue-engineered collagen graft can reduce the complications associated with other types of tendon grafts, but it may not be able to support full load bearing until integrated into the surrounding tissue. A new suture technique designed to support this tissue-engineered tendon is described in BioResearch Open Access, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the BioResearch Open Access website.
The article "Development of a Surgically Optimized Graft Insertion Suture Technique to Accommodate a Tissue-Engineered Tendon In Vivo" presents an innovative interlocking suture technique that distributes suture tension away from the cut end of the injured tendon provides adequate mechanical strength to allow for weight bearing as healing progresses.
Coauthors Prasad Sawadkar et al., University College London and University of Manchester, UK, describe the suture technique and present the results of mechanical stress tests and image analysis of tendons repaired using either standard graft insertion methods or their novel suture technique. "We now have ex vivo proof of concept that this suture technique is suitable for testing in vivo, and this will be the next stage of our research," state the authors.
"Advances in tendon repair and bioengineering are essential for improved management and outcomes of tendon injuries," says BioResearch Open Access Editor Jane Taylor, PhD, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. "This article shows exciting 'proof of concept' ex vivo data, which will be useful for improving current tendon repair techniques."
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BioResearch Open Access is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access journal led by Editor-in-Chief Robert Lanza, MD, Chief Scientific Officer, Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. and Editor Jane Taylor, PhD. The Journal provides a new rapid-publication forum for a broad range of scientific topics including molecular and cellular biology, tissue engineering and biomaterials, bioengineering, regenerative medicine, stem cells, gene therapy, systems biology, genetics, biochemistry, virology, microbiology, and neuroscience. All articles are published within 4 weeks of acceptance and are fully open access and posted on PubMedCentral. All journal content is available on the BioResearch Open Access website.
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in promising areas of science and biomedical research, including, DNA and Cell Biology, Tissue Engineering, Stem Cells and Development, Human Gene Therapy, HGT Methods, and HGT Clinical Development, and AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 80 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available on the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers website (http://www.liebertpub.com).
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New Rochelle, NY, October 30, 2013The repair of ruptured tendons often requires the use of a graft to bridge gaps between the torn tendon and bone. A tissue-engineered collagen graft can reduce the complications associated with other types of tendon grafts, but it may not be able to support full load bearing until integrated into the surrounding tissue. A new suture technique designed to support this tissue-engineered tendon is described in BioResearch Open Access, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the BioResearch Open Access website.
The article "Development of a Surgically Optimized Graft Insertion Suture Technique to Accommodate a Tissue-Engineered Tendon In Vivo" presents an innovative interlocking suture technique that distributes suture tension away from the cut end of the injured tendon provides adequate mechanical strength to allow for weight bearing as healing progresses.
Coauthors Prasad Sawadkar et al., University College London and University of Manchester, UK, describe the suture technique and present the results of mechanical stress tests and image analysis of tendons repaired using either standard graft insertion methods or their novel suture technique. "We now have ex vivo proof of concept that this suture technique is suitable for testing in vivo, and this will be the next stage of our research," state the authors.
"Advances in tendon repair and bioengineering are essential for improved management and outcomes of tendon injuries," says BioResearch Open Access Editor Jane Taylor, PhD, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. "This article shows exciting 'proof of concept' ex vivo data, which will be useful for improving current tendon repair techniques."
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About the Journal
BioResearch Open Access is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access journal led by Editor-in-Chief Robert Lanza, MD, Chief Scientific Officer, Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. and Editor Jane Taylor, PhD. The Journal provides a new rapid-publication forum for a broad range of scientific topics including molecular and cellular biology, tissue engineering and biomaterials, bioengineering, regenerative medicine, stem cells, gene therapy, systems biology, genetics, biochemistry, virology, microbiology, and neuroscience. All articles are published within 4 weeks of acceptance and are fully open access and posted on PubMedCentral. All journal content is available on the BioResearch Open Access website.
About the Publisher
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in promising areas of science and biomedical research, including, DNA and Cell Biology, Tissue Engineering, Stem Cells and Development, Human Gene Therapy, HGT Methods, and HGT Clinical Development, and AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 80 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available on the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers website (http://www.liebertpub.com).
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FILE - In this April 7, 2009 file photo, Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista attends a ceremony in which Batista donated about $4.5 U.S. million dollars for the the Rio 2016 Olympic games bid, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The oil company of Brazil's one-time richest man Eike Batista has filed for bankruptcy protection on Oct. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Ricardo Moraes, File)
FILE - In this April 7, 2009 file photo, Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista attends a ceremony in which Batista donated about $4.5 U.S. million dollars for the the Rio 2016 Olympic games bid, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The oil company of Brazil's one-time richest man Eike Batista has filed for bankruptcy protection on Oct. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Ricardo Moraes, File)
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The oil company of Brazil's one-time richest man filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday, marking a humbling blow for Eike Batista, a flamboyant former champion speedboat racer who has been his nation's biggest economic cheerleader in recent years.
Brazilians and analysts alike struggled to understand the rise and fall of Batista, who largely bankrolled Rio's winning bid to host the 2016 Olympics, and whether it could be linked to Brazil's own economic sluggishness of the past three years.
Some said the story of Batista's failure to deliver on producing offshore oil and resulting inability to obtain more investor credit was a byproduct of bad luck and a toughening overall economic environment.
Others feared it's just the latest sign that Brazil won't soon see an end to its economic slide.
"What's the phrase? When the tide goes out, you can see the man who is not wearing a bathing suit?" said Jefferson Finch, a Latin America analyst with the New York-based consulting firm Eurasia Group. "That's what's happened with Eike Batista."
Finch said that "investor enthusiasm started turning on Brazil around 2011" after five years of high hopes South America's biggest nation had finally turned a corner and would make good on its longtime promise to become a perennial power with repeated years of strong growth.
"But if you look at the overall context, Brazil was never as promising as people said it was in 2006, when a lot of commentators were effervescent on Brazil, ignoring the structural challenges it faced," he said. "Now, Brazil is not as bad as all the negative commentary."
Among the indicators that Brazil is heading in the right direction, Finch pointed to the government's slow but steady efforts to boost infrastructure investment, push tax reform and send tens of thousands of college science students abroad to get better training to eventually fill a gap in skilled labor.
But with economic growth of just 0.9 percent last year, a long fall from the 7.5 percent growth seen in 2010 amid a global financial crisis, others expressed doubts.
"The entire thing has had a really negative impact on Brazil's image and reinforces the need for stronger corporate governance in this country," said Cassia Pontes, an oil industry analyst with the Rio-based Lopes Filho consulting firm. "Reality didn't live up to the exaggerated expectations created by Batista."
OGX, created in 2007, didn't deliver on its promises to produce significant amounts of offshore oil even though it reported many finds since 2010, when its market-value reached $34 billion. In the first half of this year, the company averaged output of just 8,500 barrels a day and racked up more than $2.5 billion in losses.
Critics contend Batista lied to investors, citing a correction made earlier this month for a promising OGX offshore field. In 2012, OGX said the field held nearly 1 billion barrels, but a few weeks ago it lowered that projection to 285 million barrels, too late for those who plowed cash into buying the company's stock.
Miriam Leitao, one of Brazil's top economic columnists, wrote on her blog for the O Globo newspaper Wednesday that Batista's "main error was to declare that he had what he didn't, to mislead the investor."
"Today, it's easy to see the entrepreneur's errors," Leitao wrote. "But earlier it was, too. He's always exaggerated the potential of his companies and thus increased his stock. ... He built a house of cards."
In filing for bankruptcy protection before a Rio de Janeiro state court, Batista's OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA, part of his EBX Group conglomerate, now has 60 days to come up with a restructuring plan. Investors holding $3.6 billion in debt will then have 180 days to accept or reject the plan. If it's not accepted, the company will be liquidated.
OGX is the backbone of a Batista empire that also includes steel, mining, infrastructure and real estate companies. All are struggling as Batista has come up short on his bet that he could deliver riches with offshore oil finds.
Batista was in talks for months with OGX's creditors, but earlier this month the company missed a $45 million interest payment on the bonds and hopes of working out a deal evaporated.
OGX reported on its website that it needs $250 million "to satisfy near-term liquidity through the first quarter of 2014." The company said that if the restructuring plan isn't accepted, and with no new funding, it will run out of cash before year's end.
For Henrique Matias Lorenzo, a 27-year-old graphic designer in Sao Paulo who sipped a coffee while reading about Batista on his iPad, the fall of Brazil's best-known business playboy should serve as a slap of reality for his country.
"What happened was that Eike had excessive optimism, and that spread to others who came to believe in a project that wasn't based on solid figures and facts," Lorenzo said. "I think it reflects the overall slowdown on Brazil, because the economy is also based on an optimism that isn't strongly supported by reality."
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Associated Press writer Stan Lehman in Sao Paulo contributed to this report
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The U.S. National Security Agency has penetrated the main communication links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, giving it access to the accounts of hundreds of millions of people including U.S. residents, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
By tapping the links, the agency is able to collect at will a wide range of content such as metadata -- indicating the recipients of emails and when the messages were sent -- as well as actual content like text, audio and video, according to the report.
The NSA does not store all of the content permanently, but it keeps a lot, the newspaper reported, based on documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden as well as interviews with what the Post called "knowledgeable" officials.
Through the program, millions of records are sent every day from Yahoo and Google's internal networks to data warehouses at the NSA's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, the report said. In the past 30 days alone, more than 181 million records containing various data had been processed by field collectors, according to the report.
The data links are exploited using a tool called Muscular, which is operated in partnership with the NSA's British counterpart, GCHQ, the Post reported. Together, the NSA and HCHQ can copy entire data flows across fiber-optic cables carrying information between Yahoo and Google data centers, the report said.
The interception points were not disclosed.
The revelation constitutes the latest in a series of high-profile leaks of information about U.S. surveillance programs since the Post and the Guardian newspaper first reported the existence of a program known as Prism in June. That program allows the NSA to access data stored within the servers at major Internet companies like Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others.
Zach Miners covers social networking, search and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow Zach on Twitter at @zachminers. Zach's e-mail address is zach_miners@idg.com
Intuit is acquiring FullSlate, an online scheduling company that allows clients to offer their customers the ability to make appointments directly to web sites and Facebook pages. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The service will become part of Intuit demandforce, a marketing platform for small businesses. Demandforce has tools for communications, to help clients keep in touch with their customers through email and SMS messaging. It also has online reputation tools that help clients reach out to their customer base for reviews that then get distributed to top sites. The scheduler from FullSlate will become part of this portfolio, along with its e-commerce platform that allows for payments to be made that are tied to a particular appointment.
The FullSlate service has a host of scheduling services. It allows for customers to use an embed code for the online appointment scheduler that they can place on their web site. The company also offers a Facebook app that allows for scheduling to a Facebook business page so clients and their friends can make appointments without leaving Facebook.
Customers can also create a landing page for a business with a logo, business hours, map and online scheduling. The service works on iOS and Android devices, calendar syncing, a client database and email marketing capabilities.
BOSTON (AP) — A look at Game 6 of the World Series at Fenway Park on Wednesday night as the St. Louis Cardinals take on the Boston Red Sox:
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CHAMPS: Koji Uehara closes it out with a strikeout and the Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1 in Game 6, clinching a championship on their own field at Fenway Park for the first time in 95 years.
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THREE OUTS AWAY: Brandon Workman pitches a perfect eighth inning to protect a 6-1 lead for the Red Sox.
Singing, chanting crowd can hardly wait.
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JOB WELL DONE: John Lackey exits with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh inning, tips his cap to the cheering crowd at Fenway.
Cardinals had cut it to 6-1 on Carlos Beltran's run-scoring single, but Junichi Tazawa keeps it right there by retiring Allen Craig on a grounder.
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RUNNING OUT OF TIME: Matt Holliday flies out with runners at the corners to end the fifth, and the Cardinals are 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position tonight. That makes them 6 for 40 (.150) in the Series. They've stranded six overall tonight.
St. Louis caught a break in the fourth when Gold Glove second baseman Dustin Pedroia botched a grounder that should have been an inning-ending double play. John Lackey, however, pitched out of trouble again by retiring Matt Adams on a liner to left and throwing a called third strike past David Freese.
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OPENING UP: Even slumping Stephen Drew gets in on the act with a home run on the first pitch of the fourth. Red Sox lead 4-0 against Michael Wacha.
Jacoby Ellsbury also tees off for a rocket that hits the low wall in right-field near the 380-foot sign. It's a double, and Wacha gets pulled after an intentional walk to Big Papi that puts runners at the corners with two outs.
It's the third walk for Ortiz tonight — two intentional. Cardinals have obviously seen enough of him in this Series.
Ellsbury scores on Mike Napoli's single off Lance Lynn, and a walk to Jonny Gomes brings up Shane Victorino with the bases loaded again. Just an RBI single this time to make it 6-0.
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BOBBY V: Wonder what Bobby Valentine is thinking tonight. Bet he's watching, maybe at his restaurant in Connecticut?
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BAGS FULL: Shane Victorino does it again with the bases loaded.
His three-run double high off the Green Monster gives Boston a 3-0 lead in the third inning. It was Victorino's first hit since that go-ahead grand slam in the ALCS clincher against Detroit.
Victorino was 0 for 10 in the Series before connecting. He sat out the previous two games with a stiff back, but returned for this one and was dropped from his regular No. 2 spot to sixth in the lineup.
Jonny Gomes was hit by a pitch to load the bases — the first batter rookie Michael Wacha had ever hit in his career.
Victorino, the master of getting hit by pitches, standing almost on top of the plate. He gets ahead 2-0 in the count before pouncing on a 2-1 fastball.
Wacha doesn't have it tonight. In truth, his stuff didn't look as sharp in Game 2 at Fenway as it did during the NL playoffs, but he held Boston in check and won 4-2.
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DIDN'T MISS A BEAT: Is anyone else amazed at how consistently hard Allen Craig has hit the ball in this Series after missing so much time with that sprained foot? DH, pinch-hitting, hasn't mattered. He's been right on Red Sox pitching. Now 2 for 2 in Game 6 and 6 for 14 in the Series.
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QUICK WORK: John Lackey needs only five pitches to get through the third inning — even though Matt Carpenter singled with one out.
Daniel Descalso looked at three straight strikes to start the inning. After the single by Carpenter, Carlos Beltran grounded into a double play.
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EARLY ESCAPES: Both starters pitch out of trouble in the second inning.
St. Louis put two on with none out but failed to score. John Lackey threw a two-out wild pitch that pushed the runners to second and third, then struck out Jon Jay.
That left the Cardinals 6 for 36 with runners in scoring position during the Series after setting a franchise record with a .330 mark in those situations during the regular season.
You get the feeling if the Cardinals can break through for one big hit at the right time in this game, the floodgates might open. But without it, they'll go home lamenting their lack of clutch hitting in this Series.
Matt Adams flied out to deep left, but David Freese skied to shallow center on a hittable breaking ball. Tim McCarver on Fox notes Freese, the hometown star for St. Louis in the 2011 Series, has stranded 15 runners this postseason.
Forgive us, but Freese has looked frozen all Series.
Lackey and Boston manager John Farrell all fired up.
Boston put two on to start the bottom of the second and failed to score, too. Chose not to bunt with rookie Xander Bogaerts. Not a surprise — the Red Sox don't like to sacrifice.
Wacha got two foul popups and a strikeout to keep it scoreless.
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PACKED HOUSE: Man, oh man, are they fired up in Boston.
Red Sox looking to clinch a World Series title on their own field at fabled Fenway Park for the first time in 95 years, a stretch that's lasted from Babe Ruth to Big Papi.
Needless to say, tickets have been going for quite a pretty penny.
To do it, Boston will have to overcome rookie sensation Michael Wacha, who is 4-0 with a 1.00 ERA in four postseason starts. Can the kid do it again — under save-the-season pressure in this electric environment — and force a Game 7?
Red Sox right-hander John Lackey is trying to become the first pitcher to start and win the clinching game of a World Series for two teams. He won Game 7 of the 2002 World Series for the Anaheim Angels as a rookie against San Francisco.
And we're underway in Game 6. Lackey works a 1-2-3 first inning, helped out by a tough play from second baseman Dustin Pedroia in short right field.
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BALLPARK BUZZ: Fenway Park was jumping early as fans poured into the old yard, hoping for a big night. Program vendors loudly reminded folks to pick up their souvenirs on the way in.
The ballpark organist tried to set a lucky tone, playing "This Magic Moment" and "Daydream Believer" and "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" during batting practice.
Great version of the national anthem by local band The Dropkick Murphys. Felt like last call at a packed Irish pub.
That came right after Red Sox greats Carlton Fisk and Luis Tiant threw out the first balls. Fisk, still a king at Fenway for the home run that won Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, got right in the spirit that has taken over this team — before his toss, he put on a playful beard for the ceremonies.
Google is using U.S.-based servers to answer website address queries from Brazil after the country's president proposed stronger privacy laws, according to an Internet monitoring company.
Renesys wrote on Wednesday that Google began pushing DNS (Domain Name System) queries from Brazil to U.S.-based servers around Sept. 12, the same day President Dilma Rousseff expressed support for a law requiring Internet companies to hold data collected on the country's citizens locally.
Her comments came after documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden showed that she and Brazil were spied on by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
When queried, a Google spokeswoman wrote via email on Oct. 23 that "these two events are unrelated" but did not further explain the shift.
DNS translates website domain names into the IP addresses of servers requested by a Web browser. Many ISPs (Internet service providers) and organizations run their own DNS servers. Google offers a free service, Public DNS.
Google has been vague about the change. On Sept. 25, a Google software engineer who works on Public DNS, Shen Wan, wrote on a public forum that "queries to Google DNS from Brazil (and maybe other South American countries as well) are handled by resolvers in the United States."
"Consequently you may experience longer latency than before," Wan wrote. "We are sorry about this inconvenience to you and are working to restart resolvers in Brazil in the near future."
When a forum user asked if the changes resulted from Brazil's interest in keeping local data in-country, Wan wrote that the question was off-topic. Wan didn't answer a query from IDG News Service.
People can use Google's DNS service by changing their computer's network settings to its public servers, which are at the IP addresses "8.8.8.8" and "8.8.4.4." If they do that, Google has total visibility on what websites are visited, which is advantageous for serving advertising, wrote Doug Madory, a Renesys senior analyst.
"By gaining visibility into the Internet usage of its users, Google can use this data to improve its commercial applications, such as the placement of advertisements," he wrote. "It is this user data that would presumably make Google Public DNS subject to the more stringent privacy laws proposed by President Rousseff."
Before the change, Google Public DNS answered queries from Sao Paulo in about 50 milliseconds, a metric called latency. Those queries now take more than 100 milliseconds, Madory wrote.
Google Public DNS "still works just fine for Latin American users, just much more slowly," Madory wrote.
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The U.S. National Security Agency has penetrated the main communication links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, giving it access to the accounts of hundreds of millions of people including U.S. residents, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
By tapping the links, the agency is able to collect at will a wide range of content such as metadata -- indicating the recipients of emails and when the messages were sent -- as well as actual content like text, audio and video, according to the report.
The NSA does not store all of the content permanently, but it keeps a lot, the newspaper reported, based on documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden as well as interviews with what the Post called "knowledgeable" officials.
Through the program, millions of records are sent every day from Yahoo and Google's internal networks to data warehouses at the NSA's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, the report said. In the past 30 days alone, more than 181 million records containing various data had been processed by field collectors, according to the report.
The data links are exploited using a tool called Muscular, which is operated in partnership with the NSA's British counterpart, GCHQ, the Post reported. Together, the NSA and HCHQ can copy entire data flows across fiber-optic cables carrying information between Yahoo and Google data centers, the report said.
The interception points were not disclosed.
The revelation constitutes the latest in a series of high-profile leaks of information about U.S. surveillance programs since the Post and the Guardian newspaper first reported the existence of a program known as Prism in June. That program allows the NSA to access data stored within the servers at major Internet companies like Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others.
Zach Miners covers social networking, search and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow Zach on Twitter at @zachminers. Zach's e-mail address is zach_miners@idg.com
There's a good chance you're already well-acquainted with most of the launch titles for the PlayStation 4 by now, but Sony has today made things official and confirmed the complete list of titles that'll be available on day one. That list totals 17 21 retail and download-only games in all (compared to 23 for the Xbox One, ten of which overlap between the two consoles), including five first-party titles, eleven third-party games, and five from indie developers.
Sony does note the list is still subject to change -- we just saw Angry Birds: Star Warsadded to both the PS4 and Xbox One launch line-ups yesterday -- but time is obviously fast running out for any major additions. Also, while this is the launch day line-up, Sony has of course announced a number of other games that are set to roll out by the end of the year or early next year, some of which were pushedback from launch due to delays. You can find the complete launch line-up after the break.
Update: It looks like we spoke a bit too soon. Sony has just added a few more titles to the list, boosting the total to 21. UK gamers can also look forward to two additional games not on the North American list: Escape Plan and Flow.
Sony Computer Entertainment Titles
Flower
Killzone Shadow Fall
Knack
Resogun
Sound Shapes
Third-Party Titles
Angry Birds Star Wars, Activision
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Ubisoft
Call of Duty Ghosts, Activison
FIFA 14, EA Sports
Battlefield 4, Electronic Arts
Just Dance 2014, Ubisoft
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Lego Marvel Super Heroes, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
"The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world," The Washington Post reported at midday Wednesday.
"By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from among hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans," the Post adds.
Its source for this report: "documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials."
In just 30 days ended Jan. 9, the Post says, the documents indicate that "field collectors had processed and sent back 181,280,466 new records — ranging from 'metadata,' which would indicate who sent or received e-mails and when, to content such as text, audio and video."
Google issued a statement says it is "troubled" by the news. Yahoo said it has not given the NSA or another other agency access to its data centers. White House officials "declined to confirm, deny or explain why the agency infiltrates Google and Yahoo networks overseas," according to the Post report.
Google and Yahoo thought their systems were secure. But the Post says that:
"In an NSA presentation slide on 'Google Cloud Exploitation' ... a sketch shows where the 'Public Internet' meets the internal 'Google Cloud' where their data resides. In hand-printed letters, the drawing notes that encryption is 'added and removed here!' The artist adds a smiley face, a cheeky celebration of victory over Google security.
"Two engineers with close ties to Google exploded in profanity when they saw the drawing."
The program the Post is reporting about — reportedly called MUSCULAR — is said to be separate from the PRISM program that was disclosed earlier this year. Under PRISM, as we wrote in June, "Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, AOL, Apple and Paltalk all negotiated with the government under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to provide the National Security Agency with user data."
According to The New York Times, under PRISM such data are shared only after the companies' lawyers review the government's requests and determine that they meet the FISA requirements. But MUSCULAR, writes the Post, "appears to be an unusually aggressive use of NSA tradecraft against flagship American companies."
Barton Gellman, one of the two reporters who wrote today's Post story, talked with Fresh Air last month about how he came into contact with Snowden and about the effectiveness of post-Sept. 11 surveillance programs.
If you needed more proof that our nation's industrial surveillance complex has gone completely off the rails, look no further than today's Washington Post. There you will find another blockbuster story on NSA spying that should make your blood boil, assuming it isn't already hot enough to cook an egg.
Bottom line: The spooks are tapping into private fiber backbones operated overseas by Google and Yahoo, decrypting all the traffic before it gets into their private clouds, storing copies, and re-encrypting it before sending it on its way. And yes, this is another gift from Edward Snowden.
Per the Post's Barton Gellman and independent security wonk Ashkan Soltani:
According to a top secret accounting dated Jan. 9, 2013, NSA's acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the agency's Fort Meade headquarters. In the preceding 30 days, the report said, field collectors had processed and sent back 181,280,466 new records -- ranging from "metadata," which would indicate who sent or received e-mails and when, to content such as text, audio and video.
The story is accompanied by a hand-drawn illustration showing how and where the wires get tapped, along with a smiley face indicating (one assumes) a happy NSA agent now swimming in unencrypted data.
Credit: Washington Post
Yahoo & Google: Not happy campers Unlike PRISM, in which major tech firms respond to legal requests for data from the spooks, this program, known in NSA parlance by the code name "Muscular," appears to be a complete surprise to both Google and Yahoo, who sound none too happy about it. The difference between each tech company's fierce denial of the original claims about PRISM -- that they had allowed the NSA "direct access" to their networks -- and their response to this revelation is pretty telling. Per the Post article:
In a statement, Google said it was "troubled by allegations of the government intercepting traffic between our data centers, and we are not aware of this activity...."
At Yahoo, a spokeswoman said: "We have strict controls in place to protect the security of our data centers, and we have not given access to our data centers to the NSA or to any other government agency...."
Two engineers with close ties to Google exploded in profanity when they saw the drawing. "I hope you publish this," one of them said.
So this is completely terrifying. In a you will probably pee a little bit as you watch this GIF kind of way. In a holy crap wait a minute this isn't a video game right kind of way. No, no it is not. This is what it looks like to take a direct hit from a tank shell in real life. You can see it blast out of the barrel and head straight for your face.
(CNN) -- Conservatives are expressing shock and outrage that the Obama administration knew that many people in the individual insurance market would not be able to keep their plans once the Affordable Care Act took effect. Such shock is not surprising; overblown outrage is the stock and trade of conservative politics these days.
But here's what conservatives won't tell you, lest it undermine their theatrics: Many insurance plans are shutting down because they don't meet the higher bar of quality benefits required under Obamacare, and of those people who lose access to their plans, many will pay less and all will have better and more comprehensive options.
Extensive study on concussions in youth sports finds 'culture of resistance' for self-reporting injury
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WASHINGTON -- Young athletes in the U.S. face a "culture of resistance" to reporting when they might have a concussion and to complying with treatment plans, which could endanger their well-being, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. The report provides a broad examination of concussions in a variety of youth sports with athletes aged 5 to 21. Overall, reported concussions rates are more frequent among high school athletes than college athletes in some sports -- including football, men's lacrosse and soccer, and baseball; higher for competition than practice (except for cheerleading); and highest in football, ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, soccer, and women's basketball. Concussion rates also appear higher for youths with a history of prior concussions and among female athletes.
Although the committee that wrote the report examined useful scientific information to inform its study, it discovered that research about youth concussions is limited. To address these gaps in knowledge, the committee identified several areas for further research, including establishing a national surveillance system to accurately determine the number of sports-related concussions, identifying changes in the brain following concussions in youth, conducting studies to assess the consequences and effects of concussions over a life span, and evaluating the effectiveness of sports rules and playing practices in reducing concussions.
"The findings of our report justify the concerns about sports concussions in young people," said Robert Graham, chair of the committee and director of the national program office for Aligning Forces for Quality at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. "However, there are numerous areas in which we need more and better data. Until we have that information, we urge parents, schools, athletic departments, and the public to examine carefully what we do know, as with any decision regarding risk, so they can make more informed decisions about young athletes playing sports."
The committee found little evidence that current sports helmet designs reduce the risk of concussions. It stressed that properly fitted helmets, face masks, and mouth guards should still be used, because they reduce the risk of other injuries -- such as skull fractures; bleeding inside the skull; and injuries to the eyes, face, and mouth. The marketing for some protective devices designed for youth athletes, such as mouth guards and headbands for soccer, has advertised that these devices reduce concussion risk, but there is a lack of scientific evidence to support such claims, the committee said.
The committee examined scientific literature on concussion recognition, diagnosis, and management and found that the signs and symptoms of concussion are usually placed into four categories -- physical, cognitive, emotional, and sleep -- with patients experiencing one or more symptoms from one or more categories. Typically, youth athletes recover from a concussion within two weeks of the injury, but in 10 percent to 20 percent of cases concussion symptoms persist for a number of weeks, months, or even years. A potentially concussive injury requires removing the athlete from play, caring for the injury appropriately in both the acute stage and during the recovery process, and returning to play only when he or she has recovered demonstrably and is no longer having any symptoms, the committee said. An individualized treatment plan that includes physical and mental rest may be beneficial for recovery from a concussion, but current research does not indicate a standard or universal level and duration of rest needed. Athletes who return to play before their brain has fully healed may place themselves at increased risk for prolonged recovery or more serious consequences if they sustain a second brain injury.
The committee examined data on the effects of single and multiple concussions and found some observed impairments in the areas of memory and processing speed. It also determined that a history of previous concussions is a predictor of increased risk for future concussions, although the extent to which the risk is increased is unknown. In several studies, the number and severity of concussion symptoms is greater in athletes with a history of two or more concussions. Additionally, athletes with a history of prior concussions may have more severe subsequent concussions and may take longer to recover. The time interval between concussions may also be an important factor in the risk for and the severity of subsequent concussions. Whether repetitive head impacts and multiple concussions sustained in youth lead to long-term neurodegenerative disease, such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), remains unclear.
The committee reviewed surveys of retired professional athletes, which provided some evidence that a history of multiple concussions increases risk for depression. In a survey of more than 2,500 retired professional football players, approximately 11 percent reported having a prior or current diagnosis of clinical depression. Very little research has evaluated the relationship between concussions and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. There currently are no data to evaluate this relationship because existing post-concussion symptom evaluations do not assess suicidal thoughts.
Some studies have shown that enforcement of sports rules by coaches and officials and adherence to these rules by players may help reduce the incidence and severity of sport-related concussions in youths. Several organizations have called for a "hit count" in youth sports to limit the amount of head contact a particular player should experience over a given amount of time. While the concept of limiting the number of head impacts is fundamentally sound, the committee found that implementing a specific threshold for the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season is without scientific basis.
The committee included additional noteworthy findings in the report:
The reported number of individuals aged 19 and under treated in U.S. emergency departments for concussions and other non-fatal, sports- and recreation-related TBIs increased from 150,000 in 2001 to 250,000 in 2009.
Football, ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, and soccer are associated with the highest rates of reported concussions for U.S. male athletes at the high school and college levels.
Soccer, lacrosse, and basketball are associated with the highest rates of reported concussions for U.S. female athletes at the high school and college levels. Women's ice hockey at the collegiate level has the highest rate of reported concussions.
Youths with a history of prior concussion have higher rates of reported sports-related concussions.
Among military personnel, mild traumatic brain injuries, of which concussions are one category, represent about 85 percent of all TBIs.
Among military personnel, about 80 percent of mild TBIs do not occur in the deployed setting and are commonly caused by automobile crashes involving privately owned and military vehicles, falls, sports and recreation activities, and military training.
###
The report was sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Education, Health Resources and Services Administration, National Athletic Trainers' Association Research and Education Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the CDC Foundation with support from the National Football League. The Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council are part of the National Academy of Sciences, a private, nonprofit institution that provides independent, evidence-based advice under an 1863 congressional charter. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies.
Pre-publication copies of Sports-Related Concussions in Youth: Improving the Science, Changing the Culture are available from the National Academies Press on the Internet at http://www.nap.edu or by calling tel. 202-334-3313 or 1-800-624-6242. Reporters may obtain a copy from the Office of News and Public Information (contacts listed below).
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE and NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Committee on Sports-Related Concussions in Youth
Robert Graham, M.D. (chair)
Director
National Program Office
Aligning Forces for Quality
Department of Health Policy
School of Public Health and Health Services
George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
Frederick P. Rivara, M.D., M.P.H. (vice chair)
Seattle Children's Guild Endowed Chair in Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics
School of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle
Kristy Arbogast, Ph.D.
Engineering Core Director
Center for Injury Research and Prevention
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia
David A. Brent, M.D., M.S.
Academic Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, and
Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Epidemiology
School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
B.J. Casey, Ph.D.
Director, Sackler Institute and
Sackler Professor of Developmental Psychobiology
Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neuroscience
Weill Medical College
Cornell University
New York
Tracey M. Covassin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, and
Director
Undergraduate Athletic Training Program
Department of Kinesiology
Michigan State University
East Lansing
Joe Doyle
Regional Manager
American Development Model
USA Hockey
Rocky Mountain and Pacific Districts
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Eric J. Huang, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology and Neuropathology
Department of Pathology
University of California
San Francisco
Arthur C. Maerlender, Ph.D.
Director
Pediatric Neuropsychological Services, and
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Geisel School of Medicine
Lebanon, N.H.
Susan S. Margulies, Ph.D.
George H. Stephenson Term Chair, and
Professor of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Dennis L. Molfese, Ph.D.
Mildred Francis Thompson Professor, and
Director
Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior
Department of Psychology
University of Nebraska
Lincoln
Mayumi L. Prins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Residence, and
Director
Education Program
Brain Injury Research Center
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California
Los Angeles
Neha P. Raukar, M.D., M.S., FACEP
Director
Sports Medicine Fellowship Program and Center for Sports Medicine
Warren Alpert Medical School
Brown University
Riverside, R.I.
Nancy R. Temkin, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Biostatistics and Neurological Surgery
University of Washington
Seattle
Kasisomayajula Viswanath, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health
Boston
Kevin D. Walter, M.D., FAAP
Associate Professor
Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Pediatrics
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Joseph L. Wright, M.D., M.P.H.
Senior Vice President for Community Affairs and Head
Child Health Advocacy Institute
Children's National Medical Center
Washington, D.C.
STAFF
Morgan Ford
Study Director
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Contact: Jennifer Walsh news@nas.edu 202-334-2138 National Academy of Sciences
WASHINGTON -- Young athletes in the U.S. face a "culture of resistance" to reporting when they might have a concussion and to complying with treatment plans, which could endanger their well-being, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. The report provides a broad examination of concussions in a variety of youth sports with athletes aged 5 to 21. Overall, reported concussions rates are more frequent among high school athletes than college athletes in some sports -- including football, men's lacrosse and soccer, and baseball; higher for competition than practice (except for cheerleading); and highest in football, ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, soccer, and women's basketball. Concussion rates also appear higher for youths with a history of prior concussions and among female athletes.
Although the committee that wrote the report examined useful scientific information to inform its study, it discovered that research about youth concussions is limited. To address these gaps in knowledge, the committee identified several areas for further research, including establishing a national surveillance system to accurately determine the number of sports-related concussions, identifying changes in the brain following concussions in youth, conducting studies to assess the consequences and effects of concussions over a life span, and evaluating the effectiveness of sports rules and playing practices in reducing concussions.
"The findings of our report justify the concerns about sports concussions in young people," said Robert Graham, chair of the committee and director of the national program office for Aligning Forces for Quality at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. "However, there are numerous areas in which we need more and better data. Until we have that information, we urge parents, schools, athletic departments, and the public to examine carefully what we do know, as with any decision regarding risk, so they can make more informed decisions about young athletes playing sports."
The committee found little evidence that current sports helmet designs reduce the risk of concussions. It stressed that properly fitted helmets, face masks, and mouth guards should still be used, because they reduce the risk of other injuries -- such as skull fractures; bleeding inside the skull; and injuries to the eyes, face, and mouth. The marketing for some protective devices designed for youth athletes, such as mouth guards and headbands for soccer, has advertised that these devices reduce concussion risk, but there is a lack of scientific evidence to support such claims, the committee said.
The committee examined scientific literature on concussion recognition, diagnosis, and management and found that the signs and symptoms of concussion are usually placed into four categories -- physical, cognitive, emotional, and sleep -- with patients experiencing one or more symptoms from one or more categories. Typically, youth athletes recover from a concussion within two weeks of the injury, but in 10 percent to 20 percent of cases concussion symptoms persist for a number of weeks, months, or even years. A potentially concussive injury requires removing the athlete from play, caring for the injury appropriately in both the acute stage and during the recovery process, and returning to play only when he or she has recovered demonstrably and is no longer having any symptoms, the committee said. An individualized treatment plan that includes physical and mental rest may be beneficial for recovery from a concussion, but current research does not indicate a standard or universal level and duration of rest needed. Athletes who return to play before their brain has fully healed may place themselves at increased risk for prolonged recovery or more serious consequences if they sustain a second brain injury.
The committee examined data on the effects of single and multiple concussions and found some observed impairments in the areas of memory and processing speed. It also determined that a history of previous concussions is a predictor of increased risk for future concussions, although the extent to which the risk is increased is unknown. In several studies, the number and severity of concussion symptoms is greater in athletes with a history of two or more concussions. Additionally, athletes with a history of prior concussions may have more severe subsequent concussions and may take longer to recover. The time interval between concussions may also be an important factor in the risk for and the severity of subsequent concussions. Whether repetitive head impacts and multiple concussions sustained in youth lead to long-term neurodegenerative disease, such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), remains unclear.
The committee reviewed surveys of retired professional athletes, which provided some evidence that a history of multiple concussions increases risk for depression. In a survey of more than 2,500 retired professional football players, approximately 11 percent reported having a prior or current diagnosis of clinical depression. Very little research has evaluated the relationship between concussions and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. There currently are no data to evaluate this relationship because existing post-concussion symptom evaluations do not assess suicidal thoughts.
Some studies have shown that enforcement of sports rules by coaches and officials and adherence to these rules by players may help reduce the incidence and severity of sport-related concussions in youths. Several organizations have called for a "hit count" in youth sports to limit the amount of head contact a particular player should experience over a given amount of time. While the concept of limiting the number of head impacts is fundamentally sound, the committee found that implementing a specific threshold for the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season is without scientific basis.
The committee included additional noteworthy findings in the report:
The reported number of individuals aged 19 and under treated in U.S. emergency departments for concussions and other non-fatal, sports- and recreation-related TBIs increased from 150,000 in 2001 to 250,000 in 2009.
Football, ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, and soccer are associated with the highest rates of reported concussions for U.S. male athletes at the high school and college levels.
Soccer, lacrosse, and basketball are associated with the highest rates of reported concussions for U.S. female athletes at the high school and college levels. Women's ice hockey at the collegiate level has the highest rate of reported concussions.
Youths with a history of prior concussion have higher rates of reported sports-related concussions.
Among military personnel, mild traumatic brain injuries, of which concussions are one category, represent about 85 percent of all TBIs.
Among military personnel, about 80 percent of mild TBIs do not occur in the deployed setting and are commonly caused by automobile crashes involving privately owned and military vehicles, falls, sports and recreation activities, and military training.
###
The report was sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Education, Health Resources and Services Administration, National Athletic Trainers' Association Research and Education Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the CDC Foundation with support from the National Football League. The Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council are part of the National Academy of Sciences, a private, nonprofit institution that provides independent, evidence-based advice under an 1863 congressional charter. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies.
Pre-publication copies of Sports-Related Concussions in Youth: Improving the Science, Changing the Culture are available from the National Academies Press on the Internet at http://www.nap.edu or by calling tel. 202-334-3313 or 1-800-624-6242. Reporters may obtain a copy from the Office of News and Public Information (contacts listed below).
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE and NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Committee on Sports-Related Concussions in Youth
Robert Graham, M.D. (chair)
Director
National Program Office
Aligning Forces for Quality
Department of Health Policy
School of Public Health and Health Services
George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
Frederick P. Rivara, M.D., M.P.H. (vice chair)
Seattle Children's Guild Endowed Chair in Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics
School of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle
Kristy Arbogast, Ph.D.
Engineering Core Director
Center for Injury Research and Prevention
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia
David A. Brent, M.D., M.S.
Academic Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, and
Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Epidemiology
School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
B.J. Casey, Ph.D.
Director, Sackler Institute and
Sackler Professor of Developmental Psychobiology
Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neuroscience
Weill Medical College
Cornell University
New York
Tracey M. Covassin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, and
Director
Undergraduate Athletic Training Program
Department of Kinesiology
Michigan State University
East Lansing
Joe Doyle
Regional Manager
American Development Model
USA Hockey
Rocky Mountain and Pacific Districts
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Eric J. Huang, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology and Neuropathology
Department of Pathology
University of California
San Francisco
Arthur C. Maerlender, Ph.D.
Director
Pediatric Neuropsychological Services, and
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Geisel School of Medicine
Lebanon, N.H.
Susan S. Margulies, Ph.D.
George H. Stephenson Term Chair, and
Professor of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Dennis L. Molfese, Ph.D.
Mildred Francis Thompson Professor, and
Director
Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior
Department of Psychology
University of Nebraska
Lincoln
Mayumi L. Prins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Residence, and
Director
Education Program
Brain Injury Research Center
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California
Los Angeles
Neha P. Raukar, M.D., M.S., FACEP
Director
Sports Medicine Fellowship Program and Center for Sports Medicine
Warren Alpert Medical School
Brown University
Riverside, R.I.
Nancy R. Temkin, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Biostatistics and Neurological Surgery
University of Washington
Seattle
Kasisomayajula Viswanath, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health
Boston
Kevin D. Walter, M.D., FAAP
Associate Professor
Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Pediatrics
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Joseph L. Wright, M.D., M.P.H.
Senior Vice President for Community Affairs and Head
Child Health Advocacy Institute
Children's National Medical Center
Washington, D.C.
STAFF
Morgan Ford
Study Director
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