Golf tournament benefiting Arc set for July 13 in R.I.

The Arc of Quinebaug Valley will host its 25th Annual Gardner Johnson Memorial Golf Tournament July 13 at the Foster Country Club in Foster, R.I.

Participants can win $25,000 or a 2012 Buick Regal in hole-in-one contests on designated holes. In addition to the golf prizes being offered, raffle items are also available. A continental breakfast will be served during registration, and a steak supper will be served after the game.

For more information, call Linda Lamoureux, Sandi Reimann or Emily Groves at (860) 774-2827.
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Calcium carbonate templates for drug delivery

ScienceDaily (July 4, 2012) ? Microcontainers for medical substances can be produced in different sizes using calcium carbonate microspheres as templates.

The fast and targeted delivery of drugs to the focus of a disease could soon be made easier. Helmuth M?hwald and his colleagues from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam-Golm have developed a simple technique for the production of drug containers which can be channelled to a selected target in the body. The researchers use porous calcium carbonate microspheres as templates for the production of hollow three-dimensional balls. These can absorb medically effective substances and allow signalling molecules to be attached to their surface, with the help of which the spheres can then find their way to the diseased tissue.

Chemotherapy is a successful weapon in the fight against cancer; however, it poses one major problem: the toxic substances not only inhibit the growth of the tumour cells, they also damage healthy tissue. Doctors often face this situation in their use of drugs. Microspheres or nanospheres that deliver drugs to targeted areas of the body and only release them there could help to overcome this problem. The method developed by the researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces makes it possible to produce such spheres in a broad range of sizes and to equip them with different functions.

The researchers start by selecting the calcium carbonate templates in the size that their drug containers should be at the end of the process. These CaCO3 particles can be produced in precisely defined sizes ranging from a few hundred nanometres to several micrometres. The scientists then fill the pores of the calcium carbonate spheres with nanoparticles and, if required, with medical substances. The nanoparticles can thus display different characteristics. They can, for example, consist of a material that is decomposed by light or certain substances and therefore act as openers for the drug vehicle.

The Potsdam-based researchers then surround the filled CaCO3 spheres with a web consisting of long protein chains -- alternatively, they can also use polymer threads for this purpose. The next step involves dissolving the CaCO3 template using an acid. The nanoparticles then arrange themselves into a porous sphere that is encased in the protein web. "We can very easily combine substances to form a multifunctional unit and tailor their chemical and physical properties to the required function," says M?hwald.

The protein web not only covers the hollow sphere, it also makes it biocompatible and can contain biochemical signalling substances that send the spheres directly to their target in the body.

Researchers also use other methods for the production of micro- and nanocontainers that could be suitable for drug delivery. For example, they cause molecules and nanoparticles to cluster together to form such structures using a "bottom-up" approach. "However, our process is easier to control, quicker to implement and more cost-effective than the other techniques developed up to now," says Helmuth M?hwald.

The Max Planck researcher and his colleagues in Potsdam have achieved an important step in enabling drugs to be delivered in a targeted way to the focus of disease in the body. In Helmuth M?hwald's view, this fulfils the task of basic research in this area: "Whether or not industry will adopt the method and develop it further to application maturity remains an open question."

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Video: Kids cross border alone, fleeing drugs and gangs

>>> it's not surprising, every year several hundred thousand immigrants cross into the u.s. illegally. what is surprising is the growing number of kids crossing the border alone. most fleeing troubled lives, putting new stresses on government and social service agencies here trying to help them. nbc's mark potter reports.

>> reporter: in texas, two months ago police found hundreds of immigrants stashed in houses.

>> they were being treated like animals, they were locked in.

>> reporter: immigrants lost, exhausted and thirsty, including two girls, ages 10 and 13.

>> they probably didn't really understand how close they were to being statistics and being dead .

>> reporter: federal authorities say the number of children detained after illegally entering the u.s. without their parents is skyrocketing. more than 8,000 migrant children have been taken into custody this year compared to 4,000 last year. most are teenaged buys from central america , where they are fleeing drug and gang violence .

>> it can turn into a very abusive situation.

>> reporter: the dramatic rise of unaccompanied minors crossing the border into the u.s. is putting a lot of stress on the federal agencies once they're detained. they are required to house the children until guardians are found. legal aide groups are trying to find enough lawyers to help.

>> we need to remember to treat these children as kids first and immigrants second.

>> reporter: she endured a grueling six-week trek to the u.s., where she was held in a government shelter until relatives were found in boston. can you tell me about the trip you made to come to this country? is there anything you want to tell me about it.

>> i can't.

>> reporter: is it tough to talk about that?

>> yeah.

>> reporter: both u.s. customs and the department of health and human services declined on camera interviews to discuss the issue many customs said child immigration numbers are cyclical as more children this year make the perilous journey to the united states alone. mark potter , nbc news, hidalgo, texas.

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APNewsBreak: Proof of 'God particle' found

FILE - In this May 20, 2011 file photo, a physicist explains the ATLAS experiment on a board at the European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN, outside Geneva, Switzerland. The illustration shows how the long-presumed Higgs boson particle is thought to look like. Scientists at CERN plan to make an announcement on Wednesday, July 4, 2012 about their hunt for the elusive sub-atomic particle. Physicists have said previously they are increasingly confident that they are closing in on it based on hints at its existence hidden away in reams of data. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

FILE - In this May 20, 2011 file photo, a physicist explains the ATLAS experiment on a board at the European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN, outside Geneva, Switzerland. The illustration shows how the long-presumed Higgs boson particle is thought to look like. Scientists at CERN plan to make an announcement on Wednesday, July 4, 2012 about their hunt for the elusive sub-atomic particle. Physicists have said previously they are increasingly confident that they are closing in on it based on hints at its existence hidden away in reams of data. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

FILE - In this May 20, 2011 file photo, a wall painting by artist Josef Kristofoletti is seen at the Atlas experiment site at the European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN, outside Geneva, Switzerland. The painting shows how a Higgs boson may look. On Wednesday, July 4, 2012, CERN plans to announce the status of their long-running hunt for the elusive subatomic particle, whose existence has only been presumed until now. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

(AP) ? Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher plan to announce Wednesday that they have gathered enough evidence to show that the long-sought "God particle" answering fundamental questions about the universe almost certainly does exist.

But after decades of work and billions of dollars spent, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, aren't quite ready to say they've "discovered" the particle.

Instead, experts familiar with the research at CERN's vast complex on the Swiss-French border say that the massive data they have obtained will essentially show the footprint of the key particle known as the Higgs boson ? all but proving it exists ? but doesn't allow them to say it has actually been glimpsed.

It appears to be a fine distinction.

Senior CERN scientists say that the two independent teams of physicists who plan to present their work at CERN's vast complex on the Swiss-French border on July 4 are about as close as you can get to a discovery without actually calling it one.

"I agree that any reasonable outside observer would say, 'It looks like a discovery,'" British theoretical physicist John Ellis, a professor at King's College London who has worked at CERN since the 1970s, told The Associated Press. "We've discovered something which is consistent with being a Higgs."

CERN's atom smasher, the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider, has been creating high-energy collisions of protons to help them understand suspected phenomena such as dark matter, antimatter and ultimately the creation of the universe billions of years ago, which many theorize occurred as a massive explosion known as the Big Bang.

For particle physicists, finding the Higgs boson is a key to confirming the standard model of physics that explains what gives mass to matter and, by extension, how the universe was formed. Each of the two teams known as ATLAS and CMS involve thousands of people working independently from one another, to ensure accuracy.

Rob Roser, who leads the search for the Higgs boson at the Fermilab in Chicago, said: "Particle physicists have a very high standard for what it takes to be a discovery," and he thinks it is a hair's breadth away.

Rosen compared the results that scientists are preparing to announce Wednesday to finding the fossilized imprint of a dinosaur: "You see the footprints and the shadow of the object, but you don't actually see it."

Though an impenetrable concept to many, the Higgs boson has until now been just that ? a concept intended to explain a riddle: How were the subatomic particles, such as electrons, protons and neutrons, themselves formed? What gives them their mass?

The answer came in a theory first proposed by physicist Peter Higgs and others in the 1960s. It envisioned an energy field where particles interact with a key particle, the Higgs boson.

The idea is that other particles attract Higgs bosons and the more they attract, the bigger their mass will be. Some liken the effect to a ubiquitous Higgs snowfield that affects other particles traveling through it depending on whether they are wearing, metaphorically speaking, skis, snowshoes or just shoes.

Officially, CERN is presenting its evidence at a physics conference in Australia this week, but plans to accompany the announcement with meetings in Geneva. The two teams, ATLAS and CMS, then plan to publicly unveil more data on the Higgs boson at physics meetings in October and December.

Scientists with access to the new CERN data say it shows with a high degree of certainty that the Higgs boson may already have been glimpsed, and that by unofficially combining the separate results from ATLAS and CMS it can be argued that a discovery is near at hand. Ellis says at least one physicist-blogger has done just that in a credible way.

CERN spokesman James Gillies said Monday, however, that he would be "very cautious" about unofficial combinations of ATLAS and CMS data. "Combining the data from two experiments is a complex task, which is why it takes time, and why no combination will be presented on Wednesday," he told AP.

But if the calculations are indeed correct, said John Guinon, a longtime physics professor at the University of California at Davis and author of the book "The Higgs Hunter's Guide," then it is fair to say that "in some sense we have reached the mountaintop."

Sean M. Carroll, a California Institute of Technology physicist flying to Geneva for the July 4th announcement, said that if both ATLAS and CMS have independently reached these high thresholds on the Higgs boson, then "only the most curmudgeonly will not believe that they have found it."

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Borenstein reported from Washington.

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Romney planning to visit Israel over summer

FILE - In this March 6, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, is displayed on screen as he speaks before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), via satellite in Washington. Romney is planning a trip to Israel this summer, an aide to the likely GOP nominee said Monday, July 2, 2012. Details about exactly when and where Romney will visit were not immediately available, and the aide spoke on the condition of anonymity because the aide was not authorized to speak publicly about the plans. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

FILE - In this March 6, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, is displayed on screen as he speaks before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), via satellite in Washington. Romney is planning a trip to Israel this summer, an aide to the likely GOP nominee said Monday, July 2, 2012. Details about exactly when and where Romney will visit were not immediately available, and the aide spoke on the condition of anonymity because the aide was not authorized to speak publicly about the plans. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

(AP) ? Mitt Romney is planning a trip to Israel this summer, an aide to the likely GOP nominee said Monday.

Details about exactly when and where Romney will visit were not immediately available, and the aide spoke on the condition of anonymity because the aide was not authorized to speak publicly about the plans. But Romney was expected to meet during the trip with top Israeli leaders including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The summer jaunt will take Romney away from the campaign trail during a key period of his general-election fight against President Barack Obama. But the trip could help Romney shore up support among Jewish voters, evangelicals and foreign policy hawks. It's also an opportunity for Romney, whose credentials in foreign affairs are limited, to bolster his image as a competent leader capable of navigating in one of the thorniest regions of the globe.

Romney, who has vowed that his first trip as president would be to Israel, relentlessly hammered Obama during the GOP presidential primary on his stance on Israel, accusing the incumbent president of throwing the Jewish state "under the bus" for stating that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians should be based on Israel's 1967 borders.

"I think, by and large, you can just look at the things the president has done and do the opposite," Romney said in June when asked about Israel.

Obama and Democrats have vigorously defended his support for Israel, and the president argued in December he had done more for the critical U.S. ally than any other president. Democrats have summarily dismissed GOP claims that Obama is hemorrhaging support from Jewish voters, who also make up an important part of Obama's donor base.

Obama campaign spokesman BenLaBolt said Romney's upcoming visit would force him to explain what he meant about doing the opposite of Obama.

"Does that mean he would reverse President Obama's policies of sending Israel the largest security assistance packages in history?" said LaBolt. "Does it mean he would let Israel stand alone at the United Nations, or that he would stop funding the Iron Dome system? Does it mean he would abandon the coalition working together to confront Iran's nuclear ambitions?"

Iron Dome is an air-defense system designed by Israel to intercept short-range rockets and mortars frequently lobbed at Israel from the Gaza Strip. The U.S. has provided more than $200 million for the system.

Obama has yet to travel to Israel as president, but did visit in 2008 during his first presidential campaign.

Romney has made the trip on multiple occasions ? most recently in January 2011, when he met with Netanyahu as part of a Mideast swing that also brought him to Afghanistan and Jordan. He also spoke in 2007 at a prominent security conference in the Israeli coastal city of Herzliya.

Romney's relationship with the U.S.-educated Netanyahu dates back decades. Romney and the Israeli leader have a longstanding friendship stemming from their brief overlap in the 1970s at Boston Consulting Group. Both men worked as advisers for the firm early in their careers, before Romney co-founded his own private-equity firm.

Although Netanyahu has carefully avoided taking sides in the U.S. election, he has had a frosty relationship with Obama. Netanyahu has been jokingly referred to in the Israeli media as "the Republican senator from Israel," and is considered to be much closer ideologically to Republicans than Democrats on economic and foreign policy issues.

The New York Times first reported plans of Romney's upcoming visit.

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Associated Press writer Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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Reach Josh Lederman on Twitter at http://twitter.com/joshledermanAP.

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Maybach Music Group perform a medley of street hits, including 'Bag of Money,' 'So Sophisticated' and 'Black Magic.'
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Rick Ross performs at the 2012 BET Awards
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Far side of the moon offers quiet place for telescopes

To peer back to the universe's earliest years will need sensitive telescopes in a place where Earth's ionosphere and radio chatter cannot interfere

FORTY years after NASA ditched the idea of landing Apollo 17 on the far side of the moon, the forbidden fruit is being sought once again. Not by astronauts this time, but by astronomers seeking a quiet spot from which to observe the universe's "dark ages".

This was an epoch in the development of the cosmos, which lasted for a few hundred million years after the big bang, before stars and galaxies began to form. The only way to observe the dark ages is to look for faint radio signals from neutral hydrogen - single protons orbited by single electrons - which filled the early universe.

Telescopes on Earth, such as the Murchison Widefield Array in Western Australia, are searching for such signals, at frequencies above 100 megahertz. This can probe the universe back to 400 million years after the big bang.

To explore even earlier times, telescopes need to receive radio waves at frequencies below 100 megahertz. Interference from radio sources on Earth such as FM radio and the planet's ionosphere can mess up these signals. "You get to the point where the ionosphere is just a hopeless barrier," says Dayton Jones of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. "You have got to go to space, and the most promising location by far is the far side of the moon."

This is why astronomers were discussing it at an American Astronomical Society meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, this month. Telescopes behind the moon would not have to contend with Earth's ionosphere, and they would also be shielded from our planet's radio chatter. "It is a very pristine environment for low-frequency observation," says Jones.

The first shot at radio astronomy from the moon's far side will probably be a mission called the Dark Ages Radio Explorer, being designed by Jack Burns at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and colleagues.

If selected as a mission by NASA in its review next year, DARE will orbit the moon at an altitude of 200 kilometres. It will collect neutral-hydrogen signals between 40 and 120 megahertz. That corresponds to 80 million to 420 million years after the big bang. Its antenna is designed to pick up signals from the entire sky. The craft will be a little toughie, with parts made from an Astroquartz/Kevlar fibre, which is very thermally stable - particularly handy when moving in and out of sunlight as it orbits the moon.

The DARE team has begun testing the probe's antenna at remote locations on Earth, starting with the National Radio Quiet Zone surrounding the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia. "It may be a radio quiet zone, but it's not quite," says DARE team member Abhirup Datta. "You can still see the FM bands coming in, and of course the ionosphere is a problem."

Not everyone reckons a space-based solution is needed to study the universe's dark ages. "Existing ground-based experiments will yield good progress on this problem at a tiny fraction of the cost of a space mission," says Steven Tingay of Curtin University in Bentley, Western Australia, who headed the construction of the Murchison array.

Burns disagrees. Preliminary tests reveal that the Earth's ionosphere is absorbing signals from space and re-emitting them as noise in frequencies below 80 megahertz. "If we can verify and characterise that, that slams the lid on any attempts to do this kind of experiment from the ground," says Burns.

Once DARE has done its job, his team want to deploy bigger telescopes on the lunar far side to image the first stars and galaxies. These antennas would be made of conducting material imprinted on extremely lightweight films of polyamide, micrometres thick.

In one design, three 100-metre-long arms of such films are attached to a central box of electronics. The arms would be rolled up tight for launch and, once on the moon, a rover sent along with the unit will move it to its required spot and help unfurl the arms. The rover would likely have to be controlled by astronauts orbiting a Lagrange point over the lunar far side.

To test this scenario, Burns's team will work with astronauts based on the International Space Station next year. The astronauts will remotely operate a Mars rover called K-10. It is being outfitted to unwind films of polyamide on a simulated Martian landscape at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

"The ultimate experiment we'd like to do for cosmology on the far side would involve thousands of these antennas," says Burns.

But what if the basic idea proves unfeasible, in terms of cost or in overcoming obstacles in the terrain? At JPL, Jones and his team are working on another solution: rolled-up antennas that inflate like party blowers seconds before they touch the lunar surface. "They are essentially immune to whatever irregularities there are at the surface," says Jones.

Astronomers have their sights set on at least one site for such telescopes: the flat bed of the 180-kilometre-wide Tsiolkovskiy crater, exactly where the Apollo 17 astronauts first wanted to land.

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'Big Hero 6': Disney Animation At Work On New Marvel Movie

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"Big Hero 6" heading to the big screen?

Marvel's "Big Hero 6" is heading to the big screen. According to EW, Disney Animation is at work on the animated film about a Japanese super team.

Created in 1998, "Big Hero 6" is a spin-off of sorts from "Alpha Flight." Assembled by the Japanese government, members have included Sunfire, a one-time member of the X-Men, Silver Samurai, a foe of Wolverine and Fred, a Godzilla-esque monster.

According to EW, "Big Hero 6" is in early development. Its On The Grid reports no writer is attached, but "Kung Fu Panda's" Kristina Reed will produce. Blue Sky Disney, a fan site, reports "Winnie the Pood" director Don Hall will direct.

"Big Hero 6" will likely join "Guardians of the Galaxy" as one of the non-"Avengers" flicks in development. Marvel is already at work on "Iron Man 3" with "Thor 2" and "Captain America 2" also heading for production.

For more on "Big Hero 6," click over to EW.

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