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Rainy days took a toll as well. The odds of reporting mental health problems were 2 percentage points higher in extremely rainy months with more than 25 days of precipitation than they were in months with no precipitation at all.
Next, the researchers considered the effect of warming that occurred over the course of several years.
They divided their data into two time periods: 2002 through 2006, and 2007 through 2011. Among the 156 cities with data from both periods, they found that when the average maximum temperature increased by 1.8 degrees between the earlier and later years, the prevalence of mental health problems increased by 2 percentage...
Obradovich and his colleagues tweaked their analysis in several ways to make sure that this result was not a fluke. For instance, when they focused on the 78 cities that had data for all 10 years, they found the effect was slightly larger.
The researchers noted that the effects of multiyear warming were most pronounced in the spring and summer.
Finally, the team considered the toll of hurricanes on mental health. They said they singled out this type of natural disaster because climate change is expected to make these storms more frequent and more intense.
The CDC data showed that after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast region in August 2005, reports of mental health problems increased in places with declared disasters. Meanwhile, in places that weren’t affected by the hurricane, the mental health of study participants improved after the storm.
By comparing hurricane victims with other Americans, the researchers were able to estimate just how much the exposure to Katrina was associated with changes in mental health. Their result: The occurrence of mental health problems was 4 percentage points higher among those who were hit by the hurricane than among those ...
While all three factors were significantly associated with worse mental health, there was a clear hierarchy among them — hurricanes were the worst, followed by long-term warming and short-term temperature changes.
The CDC surveys used in this study did not provide the kind of detail researchers would need to explain exactly how climate change translates into worse mental health. But there are plenty of possibilities.
The researchers named a few, including the fact that rising temperatures may force some people to move, uprooting their entire lives. Others may work in industries threatened by climate change and wind up unemployed. Hot weather discourages people from exercising and makes it harder to get a good night’s sleep, and stu...
If you're not content with theGalaxy S6andGalaxy S6 Edge, we have some new details for Samsung's next top-end phones, the Note 5 and S6 Edge Plus.
These are Samsung's larger-screen alternatives to the current top-end crop. Both phones have 5.7-inch screens, of 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution just like the S6.
The main difference between the two is that while the Note 5 has a flat screen, the S6 edge Plus has one that curves at the sides, just like the S6 Edge.
According to SamMobile, the phones both have glass backs. There's no back-tracking from Samsung's new phone design style here.
The Note 5 sounds like the more powerful of the two, expected to use a new Samsung Exynos 7422 SoC, while the S6 Edge will apparently use the Snapdragon 808 CPU. This sits one step below the Snapdragon 810 used by the HTC One M9, but doesn't have the same reputation for overheating.
The S6 edge Plus is also expected to have a 16-megapixel main camera with OIS, 32GB storage and a 3000mAh battery.
SamMobile says these phones are known as the Noble and Zen internally, but we'll just know them as the Note 5 and S6 edge Plus when they're announced officially later this year.
We're expecting some big news from Samsung at IFA 2015.
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PlaySugarHouse.com has now launched an online sports betting platform for New Jersey sports bettors significant in that it integrates the new sports wagering opportunity for state residents with its already operating online casino. This also makes the mobile/online sports betting platform the third available in New Jer...
New Jersey gambling regulators had approved the site to go live Thursday morning and the company said it was taking sports wagers as of 6 a.m.
The SugarHouse Online Sportsbook & Casino is the first online sports betting site operated under the aegis of the Golden Nugget Atlantic City, which has an online and fully licensed affiliation with Philadelphia’s SugarHouse Casino. The site is operated by Rush Street Interactive (RSI), the SugarHouse parent company. R...
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ASH FORK, Ariz. (AP) - A closure of eastbound Interstate 40 east of Ash Fork is over after crews cleared wreckage and cleaned up spilled fuel oil from a crash involving a tractor-trailer rig.
State Trooper James Carne says the truck struck a construction barrier, blocking I-40’s eastbound lanes for about an hour Saturday morning before the closure was lifted shortly before 9 a.m.
Carne says there were no injuries.
The Arizona Department of Transportation says the closure at the junction of State Route 89 caused a traffic backup that’d take some time to clear.
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(CNN) - Elizabeth Edwards is surrounded by family and friends in her North Carolina home after being informed by her doctors that further cancer treatment would be unproductive.
"Elizabeth has been advised by her doctors that further treatment of her cancer would be unproductive," the Edwards family said Monday in a statement. "She is resting at home with family and friends and has posted this message to friends on her Facebook page."
"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces – my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. The days of our lives, for a...
"But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful. It isn't possible to put into words the love and gratitude I feel to everyone who has and continues ...
Edwards was told by her doctors last week that additional cancer treatments were futile, said a source close to the family. Her prognosis was described in terms of weeks, not months, the source said.
She is receiving treatment and medications, however, for symptoms and side effects.
"She is not in pain, Elizabeth is in good spirits," said the source. "She has prepared for this"
John Edwards and their children are at her side, along with Elizabeth's brother and sister.
Let her final moments be without pain and suffering.
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Elizabeth, May Our Heavenly Father be with you & your family. Amen. We shall meet to part no more.
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Knowing kids well is a key part of education - and it can make the difference in a school's atmosphere.
Watch. Report threats. Control guns, video games, and the Internet. Ask questions when students want to copy school keys marked "Do Not Duplicate."
"Alert" is the watchword across the United States since the April 20 killings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. Many schools are closing early or often this spring in response to a spike of bomb threats. Tips on alleged copycat plots led to arrests of teens in Wimberly, Texas, and Port Huron, Mich.
But some school officials caution that communities should not rush to break out junior-sized prison jumpsuits when kids start to talk tough. Overreacting to Littleton could undermine a key educational asset: schools where students see that they are known and that someone recognizes in them a potential for good.
The value of strong and high expectations is one of the most consistent findings in educational research - and the quality most at risk if a siege mentality settles in.
"After each incident of school violence, we'd hear about the need to do a better job of screening our kids ... and keeping guns off the premises," says Laura Lee Geraghty, director of national initiatives for the Minneapolis-based Search Institute.
"But after Littleton, we're hearing a larger voice than we've ever heard beginning to talk about the need for a total culture change in this country around youth. This isn't just about blaming the schools. We need to take a new look at the way young people are treated and respected in this country."
Fewer than 1 in 5 high school seniors say that their schools are encouraging or that they can share concerns with parents, according to a 1999 Search Institute survey.
But, Ms. Geraghty says, that culture can change. She ticks off anecdotal evidence that even small steps, such as learning the names of the kids on your block, or greeting the kid with green spiky hair, can make a difference. "We are finding that communities can rebuild the assets around children. We can change how kids...
Rebuilding such connections is part of how many big-city schools are solving security problems.
"I hope districts and school boards don't react by making high schools hard, cold places just like prisons," says Jeffrey Miller, principal of Braddock High School in Miami. With 5,200 students, Braddock is one of the largest schools in the US and making sure that each student is known and feels respected is a top prio...
"The [Littleton] shootings opened our eyes more to the fact that there are a lot of kids out there on the fringe," says Braddock's activities director David Lenoble, who graduated from Columbine High School in 1979 and lost a friend in last month's shooting. "It's really hard. You can look at kids that exhibit differen...
In the 1980s and early '90s, you might have been able to spot potential shooters by gang insignia. But the boys firing on small-town and suburban schools in recent years didn't look like killers.
*The 14-year-old who shot a teacher and two classmates in an algebra class in Moses Lake, Wash., on Feb. 2, 1996, was a straight-A student. He had told friends that it would be "cool" to go on a killing spree like the characters in the film "Natural Born Killers."
*The ninth-grader who fired 10 shots at a school prayer group in West Paducah, Ken., played the baritone saxophone in the Heath High School band. Teachers said he was bright and unremarkable. "It was kind of like I was in a dream, and then I woke up," he told his principal, after the Dec. 1, 1997, shooting.
*The 13- and 11-year-olds who fired on teachers and classmates from the woods along the schoolyard in Jonesboro, Ark., on March 24, 1998, ran around in camouflage gear and made threats. But no one took them seriously. Nor did anyone pay much attention when a 15-year-old in Springfield, Ore., bragged about torturing ani...
"There is no sure way of identifying who the shooter might be. And we don't want to spend all our time on symptoms. We need to get at the root causes. We need to make sure kids are known," says Ron McGee, the principal of Bethel High School in Bethel, Ala., where a 16-year-old killed the former principal and another st...
"Teachers and staff are picking up on overt problems. The challenge is to find out if somebody is getting teased or harassed outside of the school building or when they are not being observed. We have to keep pushing this notion with students that there is a way to address inappropriate behavior," says Mr. McGee.
"What's changing at Bethel High is the willingness of students to share their concerns about what is not going well in school," he adds.
In both the Jonesboro and Springfield cases, some students knew about threats, but did not pass this information along to adults. In response, some schools are hiring private companies to set up tip lines to make such exchanges less threatening.
For example, in Seminole County, Fla., student calls to the Save a Friend tip line are transcribed by a third party before being passed along to the school.
More private companies are getting involved. "There's probably a whole cottage industry that's going to be developed to help schools be safer," says June Arnette, associate director of the National School Safety Center in Westlake, Calif. But "the problem is that while we have more information now, we're not really sur...
Parents and courts are sending mixed messages about how much probing schools should do into the personal lives of students. There has been a flood of cases by allegations of sexual harassment involving school officials in the last five years. In addition, some parents insist that any questions to children involving fam...
"It's not an easy process anymore. There's a movement that feels that there should not even be counselors in school, because it is an invasion of privacy to families," says Nancy Perry, executive director of the American School Counselor Association, based in Alexandria, Va.
Teachers can also find a world of trouble by trying to figure out whether references to guns and coffins in a creative essay are the tip of a massacre plot or just another school assignment.
"Teachers are getting ... mixed messages about what is expected. But it's obvious that teachers need to pay attention to what kids are feeling as well as ... learning," says Kathleen Lyons, spokesman for the National Education Association.
This issue is about to heat up, say conservative groups such as the St. Louis-based Eagle Forum. In the 1980s, the group circulated form letters challenging schools for probing too deeply into the private lives of students.
"These letters haven't circulated in many years, but we're about to open a new front," says Eagle Forum leader Phyllis Schlafly. A recent Texas case (Lisa T., et al. v. San Antonio Independent School District, et al.) gives parents the option to refuse consent to personal journals or any other method of obtaining infor...
The case, which was resolved by voluntary mediation on April 27, is not binding outside of the San Antonio School District. But the agreement could set "an important precedent" for activists in other school districts, Mrs. Schlafly says.
What's needed is an approach to knowing kids that both caring teachers and parents can support, educators say. "I came back from Littleton [funerals] hugging my kids a lot more," says Braddock's Mr. Lenoble. "The kids know it's not inappropriate. [But] there are teachers who have a genuine caring and want to show that ...
The University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center have mutually agreed to phase out operation of the 4-year-old embryonic stem cell bank in Shrewsbury, saying the facility has largely outlived its usefulness.
It was set up at a time when the federal government had banned use of federal funds on research using embryonic stem cells. That ban put in place by President George W. Bush, was withdrawn by President Barack Obama after he took office in 2009.
State funding for the bank came as part of a larger state effort to expand life science research across Massachusetts using targeted state grants, tax benefits and support facilities like the stem cell bank.
Angus G. McQuilken, spokesman for the Life Sciences Center that awarded the project $8.6 million to open and operate, said today that school and Life Sciences officials have agreed to wind down the bank's operations by the end of this year.
He said the stem cell registry, which received $1.7 million in start-up and operational funding from the Life Sciences Center, remains a valued center for compilation of stem cell research and will remain in operation and continue receiving funds from the Life Sciences Center.
A spokesman for the medical school said closing the stem cell bank is expected to eliminate about nine jobs. Those displaced will be encouraged to seek other positions at the medical school, officials said.
Dr. Terence R. Flotte, dean of UMass Medical School, said the closing of the stem cell bank marks a move into new areas of research, and he said the very costly equipment installed at the center, and the 3,000 vials of stem cell lines accumulated since it opened will all continue to be used by medical researchers.
One is the registry itself, he said, which will continue in use, with Dr. Kelly Smith maintaining the searchable data base on stem cell lines and research for use by researchers around the world.
He said the stem cells collected for use in research, which include 18 different stem cell lines, will be transferred back to the institutions that provided them to the UMass bank, where they will be maintained and distributed to researchers in the future.
“Many of the people that will use that equipment are working on stem cells,” he said, including research by professor Rene Maehr, who is studying the possible use of stem cell therapies to treat Type 1 diabetes by recreating pancreatic eyelet cells that produce insulin.
Dr. Flotte said a large portion of the research to be done at the Sherman Center will focus on diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
The short lifespan of the stem cell bank helped advance the school as a genetic research center and filled a vital role for embryonic stem cell research while it has been in use. “I think it was very productive. It filled a gap for a period of time,” Dr. Flotte said.
Working with cryptographic libraries is hard, and a single implementation mistake can result in serious security problems. To help developers check their code for implementation errors and find weaknesses in cryptographic software libraries, Google has released a test suite as part of Project Wycheproof.
"In cryptography, subtle mistakes can have catastrophic consequences, and mistakes in open source cryptographic software libraries repeat too often and remain undiscovered for too long," Google security engineers Daniel Bleichenbacher and Thai Duong, wrote in a post announcing the project on the Google Security blog.
Named after Australia's Mount Wycheproof, the world's smallest mountain, Wycheproof provides developers with a collection of unit tests that detect known weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms and check for expected behaviors. The first set of tests is written in Java because Java has a common cryptographic interface a...
"We recognize that software engineers fix and prevent bugs with unit testing, and we found that many cryptographic issues can be resolved by the same means," Bleichenbacker and Duong wrote.
The suite can be used to test such cryptographic algorithms as RSA, elliptic curve cryptography, and authenticated encryption, among others. The project also has ready-to-use tools to check Java Cryptography Architecture providers, such as Bouncy Castle and the default providers in OpenJDK. The engineers said they are ...
The tests in this release are low-level and should not be used directly, but they still can be applied for testing the algorithms against publicly known attacks, the engineers said. For example, developers can use Wycheproof to verify whether algorithms are vulnerable to invalid curve attacks or biased nonces in digita...
So far the project has been used to run more than 80 test cases and has identified 40-plus vulnerabilities, including one issue where the private key of DSA and ECDHC algorithms could be recovered under specific circumstances. The weakness in the algorithm was present because libraries were not checking the elliptic cu...
"Encodings of public keys typically contain the curve for the public key point. If such an encoding is used in the key exchange, then it is important to check that the public and secret key used to compute the shared ECDH secret are using the same curve. Some libraries fail to do this check," according to the available...
Cryptographic libraries can be quite difficult to implement, and attackers frequently look for weak cryptographic implementations rather than trying to break the actual mathematics underlying the encryption. With Wycheproof, developers and users can check their libraries against a large number of known attacks without ...
The engineers looked through public cryptographic literature and implemented known attacks to build the test suite. However, developers should not consider the suite to be comprehensive or able to detect all weaknesses, because new weaknesses are always being discovered and disclosed.
"Project Wycheproof is by no means complete. Passing the tests does not imply that the library is secure, it just means that it is not vulnerable to the attacks that Project Wycheproof tries to detect," the engineers wrote.
Wycheproof comes two weeks after Google released a fuzzer to help developers discover programming errors in open source software. Like OSS-Fuzz, all the code for Wycheproof is available on GitHub. OSS-Fuzz is still in beta, but it has already worked through 4 trillion test cases and uncovered 150 bugs in open source pr...
Lawmakers and activists promoted a plan at the Capitol on Monday to allow Californians on parole for felony convictions to vote. Dauras Cyprian explains why he should be among the 48,000 who have their voting rights restored.
Low has made voter engagement and access to the polls a top priority.
Low cited data from the UC Davis Center for Regional Change’s California Civic Engagement Project, which found just under 31 percent of California’s eligible voters turned out in the November 2014 midterm elections, with youth voter — 18 to 24 — turnout being the lowest at 8.2 percent, or 285,000 of the 3.5 million eli...
Turnout improved significantly in November’s midterm election, when 64.5 percent of eligible California voters cast ballots. It was California’s highest turnout in a non-presidential election since 1982, according to the Secretary of State’s office.
In light of the U.S. Supreme Court case on the legality of Ohio's process for removing voters from the registration rolls, what is the process in California?

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