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Lawmakers in California have faced a number of setbacks in their push to legalize online poker in california. Senator Roderick Wright introduced an online gaming bill more than a year and a half ago. Wright?s bill stalled in the state legislature as many interest groups conflicted over varying interests.

The California Online Poker Association was formed nearly two years ago to help stakeholders find common ground and lobby for an online gaming bill that would benefit them all. However, the group disbanded last month due to infighting amongst its members.

Sen. Wright has been disappointed that lawmakers never voted on his bill. However, he believes the bill still has a chance of passing in the legislature. Wright said that he intends to reintroduce it in January 2013.

Many experts were disappointed when they heard that COPA has dissolved. They were convinced that the coalition would make it easier for the bill to pass. However, other industry experts disagree. COPA members were insisting on numerous amendments to the bill that could have taken months to read. Many lawmakers may not have agreed to many of those revisions either.

Another issue was that there too many conflicting interests among COPA members. There were 60 members of COPA, which comprised of both card rooms and Native American casinos. These groups all had varying interests and many tribes couldn?t agree on whether or not they wanted to support online gaming in the first place. Some experts feel that COPA?s dissolution was inevitable and a necessary occurrence before lawmakers could proceed with their efforts to legalize online poker.

Wright?s online gaming bill may have a better chance of passing now that more tribes and card rooms are willing to support online gaming legislation.

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Light used to remotely trigger biochemical reactions

Friday, December 14, 2012

Since Edison's first bulb, heat has been a mostly undesirable byproduct of light. Now researchers at Rice University are turning light into heat at the point of need, on the nanoscale, to trigger biochemical reactions remotely on demand.

The method created by the Rice labs of Michael Wong, Ramon Gonzalez and Naomi Halas and reported today in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano makes use of materials derived from unique microbes ? thermophiles ? that thrive at high temperatures but shut down at room temperature.

The Rice project led by postdoctoral fellow Matthew Blankschien and graduate student Lori Pretzer combines enzymes from these creatures with plasmonic gold nanoparticles that heat up when exposed to near-infrared light. That activates the enzymes, which are then able to carry out their functions.

This effectively allows chemical processes to happen at lower temperatures. Because heating occurs only where needed ? at the surface of the nanoparticle, where it activates the enzyme ? the environment stays cooler.

Blankschien thinks that's fascinating.

"Basically, we're getting the benefits of high-temperature manufacturing without needing a high-temperature environment," said Blankschien, who won the Peter and Ruth Nicholas Postdoctoral Fellowship two years ago to work on these ideas. "The challenge was to keep the higher temperature at the nanoparticle, where the enzyme is activated, from affecting the environment around it."

The technique holds great potential for industrial processes that now require heat or benefit from remote triggering with light.

"The implications are pretty exciting," said Wong, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of chemistry. "In the chemical industry, there's always a need for better catalytic materials so they can run reactions more inexpensively, more 'green' and more sustainably. You shouldn't run through gallons of solvent to make a milligram of product, even if you happen to be able to sell it for a lot of money."

For industry, the potential energy savings alone may make the Rice process worth investigating. "Here we're using 'free' energy," Wong said. "Instead of needing a big boiler to produce steam, you turn on an energy-efficient light bulb, like an LED. Or open a window."

The particle at the center of the process is a gold nanorod about 10 nanometers wide and 30 long that heats up when hit with near-infrared light from a laser. The rods are just the right size and shape to react to light at around 800 nanometers. The light excites surface plasmons that ripple like water in a pool, in this case emitting energy as heat.

Halas' Rice lab is famous for pioneering the use of gold nanoshells (a related material) to treat cancer by targeting tumors with particles that are bulk heated to kill tumors from the inside. The therapy is now in human trials.

The new research takes a somewhat different tack by heating nanoparticles draped with a model thermophilic enzyme, glucokinase, from Aeropyrum pernix. A. pernix is a microbe discovered in 1996 thriving near hot underwater vents off the coast of Japan. At around 176 degrees Fahrenheit, A. pernix degrades glucose, a process necessary to nearly every living thing. The enzyme can be heated and cooled repeatedly.

In their experiments, Blankschien and Pretzer cloned, purified and altered glucokinase enzymes so they would attach to the gold nanoparticles. The enzyme/nanoparticle complexes were then suspended in a solution and tested for glucose degradation. When the solution was heated in bulk, they found the complexes became highly active at 176 degrees, as expected.

Then the complexes were encapsulated in a gel-like bead of calcium alginate, which helps keeps the heat in but is porous enough to allow enzymes to react with materials around it. Under bulk heating, the enzymes' performance dropped dramatically because the beads insulated the enzymes too well.

But when encapsulated complexes were illuminated by continuous, near-infrared laser light, they worked substantially better than under bulk heating while leaving the solution at near-room temperature. The researchers found the complexes robust enough for weeks of reuse.

"As far-fetched as it sounds, I think chemical companies will be interested in the idea of using light to make chemicals," Wong said. "They're always interested in new technologies that can help make chemical products more cheaply."

He sees other possible uses for the new approach in the production of fuels from degradation of biomass like lignocellulose; for drug manufacture on demand ? maybe from nanoparticle-infused tattoos on the body; or even for lowering blood sugar concentrations as a different way to manage diabetes.

"That we can now make these particles is great," Wong said. "The next exciting part is in thinking about how we can deploy them."

Ryan Huschka, a co-author of the paper, is a former Rice graduate student and now an assistant professor of chemistry at Newman University. Halas is the Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, a professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, physics and astronomy and director of Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics. Gonzales is an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and also of bioengineering

The research was supported by the Peter and Ruth Nicholas Postdoctoral Fellowship Program administered by the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the Rice University Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering Hamill Innovations Award Program, the Rice University Faculty Initiatives Fund, the Robert A. Welch Foundation, the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation.

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L.A. Reid: 'I will not return to 'X Factor' next year'

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"X Factor" judge L.A. Reid.

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L.A. Reid is leaving ?The X Factor,? Access Hollywood can reveal. ?I have decided that I will not return to ?The X Factor? next year,? he told Access? Shaun Robinson in an exclusive interview. ?I have to go back and I have a company to run that I?ve kind of neglected and it saddens me a little bit, but only a little bit.??

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L.A. said he needs to get back to business as the chairman and CEO of Epic Records.?

?It was a nice break, it was a nice departure from what I?ve done for the past 20 years, but now I gotta go back to work,? he said.?

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The exiting reality show judge said he needs to focus on his musical performers.?

?I have a huge responsibility to a roster of artists and it?s kind of time for me to stop doing the ?me? show,? he said.?

L.A. insisted he is not leaving the show on anything but good terms with boss (and fellow judge this season) Simon Cowell.?

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?I love Simon. We have a great relationship, we have fun together, we talk, we laugh, we do bad things, we?re friends. I owe so much to Simon,? L.A. said. ?I really have a lot [of] respect for him and I always will. I support him, I support the show and I?ll always be in business with him.??

Looking back on his two-season tenure, which is about to wrap up, L.A. said he has no regrets.?

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?It was fun! I had a great time,? he told Shaun.?

And as he leaves, L.A. said he has some knowledge he can apply to his business.?

?I probably have to say its understanding television a little bit better. I do everything sort of as a strategist, so really, the idea was go and learn television. I know a little bit about it, so now let?s go produce some shows,? he said.?

With a seat about to become vacant on the FOX reality show, L.A. offered his suggestion on who should fill the spot.?

?You know who I would love to see take it, and by the way I have nothing to do with it, but my choice would be like Jon Bon Jovi,? he said. ?That?s who I would pick.??

L.A. also told Shaun he could be back somewhere down the line.?

?I?m not ruling ever coming back, but I?m definitely not coming back next year,? he said. ?I have a job to do and once I get some work done and get some momentum then maybe I?ll revisit the idea a little later.??

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Tesla to open a European distribution center for EVs in the Netherlands this month

Tesla to open a European distribution center for its EVs in the Netherlands this month

Tesla has wanted to spread its EV wings beyond North America for awhile, and we now know exactly where its European nest will be. Later this month, the automaker plans to open a distribution center in Tilburg, The Netherlands. The hub will serve as a point of assembly for the continent's cars while also handling imports, parts, repairs and training, including for the Model S and Roadster. Tilburg will be put to full use when it starts manufacturing left-hand drive Model S models in March. As long a wait as that might seem, it could lead to fewer headaches and quicker deliveries for Old World drivers who want a truly new ride.

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New Android apps worth downloading: The New York Times update, Contre Jour, Broken Sword II Smoking Mirror

The New York Times has updated and optimized their mobile offering for Android tablets, which is great for subscribers and pedestrian readers alike. We?ve also got a pair of great games ? Contre Jour, a Cut The Rope-like puzzler, and Broken Sword II Smoking Mirror, a solid Android re-release of a classic adventure game.

What?s it about? The mobile app version of The New York Times just received a big overhaul that optimizes it for Android tablets.

What?s cool? NYT?s updated app should work better on just about any Android device out there, adapting to different screen sizes and providing new options for handling notifications for breaking news updates. The app already includes some cool features if you?re a subscriber. If not, you still get access to the Top News section of the paper for free through the app, and subscribing gets you full access to each day?s paper, including blog posts and other cool content.

Who?s it for? Readers of The New York Times and anybody interested in news, both free and paid, would benefit from a look at its mobile app.

What?s it like? Try also The Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY.

What?s it about? Puzzler Contre Jour has players trying to navigate a round, one-eyed creature to the end of each of the game?s levels, by adjusting the world around him and using physics to their advantage.

What?s cool? In each stage of Contre Jour, you cannot control the main ?character,? a strange alien life form, but you can control the world around it. You alter the ground so that the creature rolls in one direction or another, or attach it to stretchy ropes that allow it to swing around the level. You have to think critically about what the best path is in each stage, as well as have the reflexes for some of the more well-timed maneuvers. It also features a great black-and-white art style.

Who?s it for? Puzzler fans, this one is not to be missed.

What?s it like? Contre Jour has a similar vibe to games such as Cut the Rope and Slice It!

What?s it about? The sequel to one of the best adventure games available on Android, Broken Sword II sees the return of the first game?s main characters for another story-driven point-and-click experience.

What?s cool? If you?re into adventure games, Broken Sword II is a must. The ?adventure? genre is heavy on puzzle-solving, character interaction and story, and light on things like combat and explosions. That said, Broken Sword II will keep you busy with plenty of puzzles to solve and an engaging, fully animated story updated from the PC-based original. There?s also a new comic created by ?Watchmen? co-creator Dave Gibbons, and you can integrate the game with a Dropbox account that allows you to transfer your saved games between devices and even platforms.

Who?s it for? Adventure game fans and those who enjoyed the original are definitely going to want to sit down for Broken Sword II.

What?s it like? You?ll also want to try the first Broken Sword game, as well as other solid adventure games like Yesterday and Machinarium.

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Chabon ties it all together in 'Telegraph Avenue'

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? The way Michael Chabon sees it, he took the cowardly way out early in his career.

It's a startling admission from one of modern American literature's unquestioned giants. And it's a little bit true.

As a grad student in his early 20s, Chabon was held in the intoxicating sway of giants like Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, and perhaps most of all J.G. Ballard. He wanted to write science fiction like they did, literate stories without ray guns or limits on the depth of your imagination.

He soon found no one wanted to read it.

"I at that point was obliged to absorb and kind of subscribe ? without really meaning to or wanting to ? to all those prevailing biases in the literary world," Chabon said. "Like, for example, people in the workshop would say, 'I've read this but I can't really help you. I don't read science fiction.' Or, 'I don't like science fiction.' That was startling to me. That was the first time I'd ever encountered that kind of mindless bias among what I considered to be intelligent, literate people.

"I could've been rebellious, but it's really not in my nature. So I said here I am at this fancy writing program for two years and I want to get the most out of it, so I just won't write that stuff anymore."

And he didn't, turning out instead two literary fiction novels that brought him major attention, but not the satisfaction that comes with taking risks.

Nearly a quarter century later, Chabon has delivered "Telegraph Avenue," named one of 2012's notable books by The New York Times. His first novel in five years, its release was one of the literary events of 2012.

It was a major event as well for Chabon, who sees "Telegraph Avenue" as a defining novel, and it's hard to argue as the author acts as conductor, moving a large group of characters and ideas through a complicated world with countless moving parts in a fearless way, and doing it with style and intensity.

Chabon calls it a "unification" of all the genre-bending work he's done since his third novel, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Started as a failed television pilot, "Telegraph Avenue" lovingly explores the esoteric worlds of soul jazz vinyl album collecting, blaxploitation films, nonsports card collecting and all the other addictive and encyclopedic pulp cultural flavors that set "Kavalier & Clay" apart. And there is a crime buried in its layers that's as much about culture as it is criminality, like Hugo- and Nebula-winning "The Yiddish Policeman's Union."

As in "Gentlemen of the Road," two men are at the novel's heart ? a black man and a white man in an unusual partnership. There are moments of magical realism as found in "Summerland," but also the conventional narrative of his first two novels, "Mysteries of Pittsburgh" and "Wonder Boys."

"I felt I could bring it all together, that it would be OK," Chabon said. "I could do whatever I wanted to do in this book and it would be OK even if it verged on crime fiction, even if it verged on magic realism, even if it verged on martial arts fiction, whatever it might be, that I was open to all of that and yet I didn't have to repudiate or steer away from the naturalistic story about two families living their everyday lives and coping with pregnancy and birth and adultery and business failure and all the issues that might go into making a novel written in the genre of mainstream quote-unquote realistic fiction, that that was another genre for me now and I felt free to mix them all in a sense."

As he speaks in a rapid style that's as dazzling as his prose, the 49-year-old author is the perfect picture of this union of genres. He's wearing professorial tortoiseshell glasses, a well-cut black suit that speaks to his success and a Western-style shirt that adds a sly sense of hipness and humor. He's eating a country fried steak during a break from book tour in Nashville in Rotier's, the restaurant that inspired Jimmy Buffett to write "Cheeseburger in Paradise."

It was the kind of pop cultural mosaic ? finery leavened with whimsy ? he thrives on. The kind his father, Robert, taught him early on to appreciate.

"He just knew everything about everything about quote-unquote high art, but he also loved Japanese monster movies and 'Star Trek' and comic books and The Marx Brothers, Ray Milland in 'The Man With The X-Ray Eyes,' and growing up he never seemed to me to try to draw a distinction between those things. If he took an interest in it, it was worthy of interest."

He was soon disabused of the notion that anything he was passionate about is "worthy of art" at the University of California-Irvine, and he admits he wasn't hard to convince.

"Yes, I want to be loved," he said with a laugh. "Also, I could see their point in a sense."

But in retrospect, he sometimes wishes he'd gone the other way ? instead of starting in the mainstream, crossing over to it.

Not to say he didn't enjoy those first two novels. "Pittsburgh" was an homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Phillip Roth and Marcel Proust and a part of literature that he also loved. But emboldened by his success, he returned to his earlier ideas and began working on "Kavalier & Clay," one of a handful that helped open the door for so-called genre fiction to be taken seriously as literature.

Author Chris Offutt thinks we owe Chabon something for that. Offutt, a self-described "comics super freak" who calls Chabon the best writer of his generation, remembers being astounded at the open discussion of comics when he attended a "Kavalier & Clay" reading.

"There we were in a bookstore, surrounded by literary fans, talking comics," he said. "... Chabon's work proves that the line between genre writing and literary writing is mostly a marketing ploy. Like Graham Greene, he proves that a writer can entertain readers with high-quality prose."

Chabon believes it's a little easier today for young authors and his contemporaries to experiment and get published by serious literary houses. He points to several examples of fence jumping, like Colson Whitehead's zombie novel "Zone One" and Rick Moody's "The Four Fingers of Death." Junot Diaz is working on a post-apocalyptic novel and Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer for his own, "The Road."

The shift, though still small, feels permanent.

"The gatekeepers of culture are people who are younger and more comfortable with mashups and crossovers," he said, "and the idea of a literary writer writing a zombie novel doesn't faze them as much as it probably would have fazed them earlier."

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At least 27 dead, mostly children, in Conn. school shooting

More than two dozen people, mostly children, were shot and killed at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school this morning by a heavily armed man who was killed inside the building, federal and state sources tell ABC News.

"The shooter is deceased inside the building," Connecticut State Police spokesman Lt. Paul Vance said at a news conference. "The public is not in danger."

The gunman has been identified as Ryan Lanza, 24, of New Jersey. A dead body has also been found in his home, officials said. Sources said Lanza was armed with four weapons and wearing a bullet-proof vest when he opened fire in the elementary school.

Among the dead was the gunman's mother, found in the school, sources told ABC News.

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Authorities initially believed that there were two gunmen and were searching cars around the school. It is currently unclear whether there is still a suspect at large.

The massacre prompted the town of Newtown to lock down all its schools and draw SWAT teams to the school, authorities said today.

President Obama was briefed on the shooting by FBI Director Robert Mueller.

It's unclear how many people have been shot, but 27 people, mostly children, are dead, multiple federal and state sources tell ABC News. That number could rise, officials said.

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It is the second worst mass shooting in U.S. history, exceeded only by the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 when 32 were killed before the shooter turned the gun on himself. Today's carnage exceeds the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in which 13 died and 24 were injured.

The Newtown shooting comes three days after masked gunman Jacob Roberts opened fire in a busy Oregon mall, killing two before turning the gun on himself.

Today's shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, which includes 450 students in grades K-4. The town is located about 12 miles east of Danbury.

State Police received the first 911 call at 9:41 a.m. and immediately began sending emergency units from the western part of the state. Initial 911 calls stated that multiple students were trapped in a classroom, possibly with a gunman, according to a Connecticut State Police source.

Vance said that on-duty and off-duty officers swarmed to the school and quickly checked "every door, every crack, every crevice" in the building looking for the gunman and evacuating children.

A photo from the scene shows a line of distressed children being led out of the school.

Three patients have been taken to Danbury Hospital, which is also on lockdown, according to the hospital's Facebook page.

"Out of abundance of caution and not because of any direct threat Danbury Hospital is under lockdown," the statement said. "This allows us simply to focus on the important work at hand."

Newtown Public School District secretary of superintendent Kathy June said in a statement that the district's schools were locked down because of the report of a shooting. "The district is taking preventive measures by putting all schools in lockdown until we ensure the safety of all students and staff," she said.

State police sent SWAT team units to Newtown.

All public and private schools in the town were on lockdown.

"We have increased our police presence at all Danbury Public Schools due to the events in Newtown. Pray for the victims," Newtown Mayor Boughton tweeted.

State emergency management officials said ambulances and other units were also en route and staging near the school.

A message on the school district website says that all afternoon kindergarten is cancelled today and there will be no midday bus runs.

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Study: People worldwide living longer, but sicker

LONDON (AP) ? Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with the diseases and disabilities of modern life, according to the most expansive global look so far at life expectancy and the biggest health threats.

The last comprehensive study was in 1990 and the top health problem then was the death of children under 5 ? more than 10 million each year. Since then, campaigns to vaccinate kids against diseases like polio and measles have reduced the number of children dying to about 7 million.

Malnutrition was once the main health threat for children. Now, everywhere except Africa, they are much more likely to overeat than to starve.

With more children surviving, chronic illnesses and disabilities that strike later in life are taking a bigger toll, the research said. High blood pressure has become the leading health risk worldwide, followed by smoking and alcohol.

"The biggest contributor to the global health burden isn't premature (deaths), but chronic diseases, injuries, mental health conditions and all the bone and joint diseases," said one of the study leaders, Christopher Murray, director of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

In developed countries, such conditions now account for more than half of the health problems, fueled by an aging population. While life expectancy is climbing nearly everywhere, so too are the number of years people will live with things like vision or hearing loss and mental health issues like depression.

The research appears in seven papers published online Thursday by the journal Lancet. More than 480 researchers in 50 countries gathered data up to 2010 from surveys, censuses and past studies. They used statistical modeling to fill in the gaps for countries with little information. The series was mainly paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

As in 1990, Japan topped the life expectancy list in 2010, with 79 for men and 86 for women. In the U.S. that year, life expectancy for men was 76 and for women, 81.

The research found wide variations in what's killing people around the world. Some of the most striking findings highlighted by the researchers: ? Homicide is the No. 3 killer of men in Latin America; it ranks 20th worldwide. In the U.S., it is the 21st cause of death in men, and in Western Europe, 57th.

? While suicide ranks globally as the 21st leading killer, it is as high as the ninth top cause of death in women across Asia's "suicide belt," from India to China. Suicide ranks 14th in North America and 15th in Western Europe.

? In people aged 15-49, diabetes is a bigger killer in Africa than in Western Europe (8.8 deaths versus 1 death per 100,000).

? Central and Southeast Asia have the highest rates of fatal stroke in young adults at about 15 cases per 100,000 deaths. In North America, the rate is about 3 per 100,000.

Globally, heart disease and stroke remain the top killers. Reflecting an older population, lung cancer moved to the 5th cause of death globally, while other cancers including those of the liver, stomach and colon are also in the top 20. AIDS jumped from the 35th cause of death in 1990 to the sixth leading cause two decades later.

While chronic diseases are killing more people nearly everywhere, the overall trend is the opposite in Africa, where illnesses like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis are still major threats. And experts warn again shifting too much of the focus away from those ailments.

"It's the nature of infectious disease epidemics that if you turn away from them, they will crop right back up," said Jennifer Cohn, a medical coordinator at Doctors Without Borders.

Still, she acknowledged the need to address the surge of other health problems across Africa. Cohn said the agency was considering ways to treat things like heart disease and diabetes. "The way we treat HIV could be a good model for chronic care," she said.

Others said more concrete information is needed before making any big changes to public health policies.

"We have to take this data with some grains of salt," said Sandy Cairncross, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

He said the information in some of the Lancet research was too thin and didn't fully consider all the relevant health risk factors.

"We're getting a better picture, but it's still incomplete," he said.

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