Iran police confiscate over 11 tons of narcotics

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iran's state TV says the country's border police have confiscated over 11 tons of narcotics after fierce clashes with drug traffickers in southeastern Iran, the biggest single consignment ever seized in Iran's war against drugs.

It quoted provincial border police chief, Gen. Qolam Nabi Kouhkan, as saying Saturday that the various narcotics were seized from traffickers Friday night.

One of the drug traffickers was killed and several others injured in the armed clashes that took place on Iran's border with Pakistan.

Kouhkan said the operation was helped by tips from locals, and that traffickers had carried the drugs on camels from Pakistan.

Iran lies on a major drug route between Afghanistan and Europe, as well as the Persian Gulf states, where the confiscation of large amounts of narcotics is common.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-police-confiscate-over-11-tons-narcotics-193252235.html

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Apple and Google Are Reportedly Joining Forces To Buy $500 Million of Kodak Patents

It's not often that you hear that Apple and Google?both fighting for utter smartphone dominance?have teamed up on anything, but reports from Bloomberg say it's the case. And they're both going in on a half a billion dollars worth of Kodak patents.

Kodak is selling that patents as part of its bankruptcy liquidation, and apparently there are valuable enough to cause Apple and Google to make temporary peace. At least, that's what Bloomberg's unnamed sources are saying. And while it might seem like an odd pairing, the alliance makes sense. This way both companies will get some patents, pay less for them, and not have to worry about being sued by a rival. It's a better bet than paying a fortune to outbid a competitor and then maybe still losing.

Apparently both Google and Apple had put up offers separately, with their own groups of allies. Now, with their powers combined, they can offer a higher sum and have a greater guarantee of snagging the 1,100 patent portfolio. And then they can go right back to fighting for market-share, as usual. [Bloomberg]

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Drought revives old water wars among river states

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The water wars are raging again in America's heartland. Drought-stricken states are competing for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River and have taken their case to the White House.

Officials from more than 30 states have written President Barack Obama urging him to intervene ? or not ? in a dispute about whether water in the Missouri River's upstream reservoirs should be released to flow down to the Mississippi River.

Officeholders in downstream states say the water is needed to help raise low levels on the Mississippi that are threatening to halt barge traffic.

But if the water is released, officials in upstream states warn that the toll of the drought could worsen for farms and towns that depend on the Missouri River.

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Scheduled for June 11-14 Las Vegas Nevada Join industry experts and professionals at this year?s conference and expo. ?If you haven?t been to an NFPA Expo this is a show to try to attend. ?The conference has over 350 classroom sessions, a large expo, and you can help shape the next round of codes issued [...]

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Call for Nominations: Excellence in Fire & Life Safety March 18, 2012

The Fire & Life Safety Section of the IAFC is now accepting nominations for the 6th Annual Excellence in Fire and Life Safety Award, sponsored by the International Code Council (ICC). The award was developed by the ICC and the Fire & Life Safety Section to honor individuals who have dedicated themselves to saving lives [...]

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Collinwood School Fire March 5, 2012

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Spartans to battle U-M in NCAA tourney

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The MSU volleyball team is slated to play against Michigan today, but this time, the match will be anything but the usual.

The Spartans and Wolverines will clash for the third time this season in Berkeley, Calif., but it isn?t the long distance that is the biggest oddity of the match ? it?s the stakes.

?Winners go on, losers go home,? junior outside hitter Lauren Wicinski said.

And Wicinski is exactly right, since tonight will be a do-or-die match in the regional semifinal of the NCAA Tournament.

The Spartans? first Sweet 16 appearance since 2007 also will be the first time they play the Wolverines three times in the same season since 1994, where they squared off in a preseason tournament before two conference matchups.

Making a correct prediction for the match has the same difficulty as stopping a Wicinski kill shot. The teams split their matches on the year, with the Spartans sweeping the Wolverines in Ann Arbor, only to have the Wolverines return the favor in Jenison Field House on Nov. 21.

Although a win by either team is no guarantee, junior middle blocker Alexis Mathews knows that the Spartans will perform better than they did in their last match against Michigan.

?We are going to play better, obviously,? Mathews said. ?We know what they are going to do, so we are working on cleaning up what we didn?t do last time.?

If the Spartans continue their roll, they will play the winner of the Stanford-Iowa State match.
No. 2 Stanford, who went 19-1 in the Pac-12 to win their conference title, have been 26-1 since starting their season on a rocky 3-3 record. Their success has been contributed to their balanced style of play, and owning the nation?s 11th-best blocks per set rate of 2.93.

No. 15 Iowa State is not a team to count out either, as they are carrying a 12-match winning streak into today?s match. During that run, Iowa State knocked off then-No. 20 Kansas State and, more impressively, then-No. 3 Texas, ending their 17-match winning streak.

The Spartans will have a chance to take one step closer to the Final Four at 8 p.m. EST tonight in University of California-Berkeley?s Haas Pavilion.

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Visualizing the structures of molecules

ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2012) ? Hitoshi Goto and colleagues have developed high performance molecular simulation tools to study the 3D arrangement of molecules, enabling better design of medicinal and agricultural drugs.

"We've developed high performance molecular simulation tools and a graphical user interface for researchers to study the conformation -- the three-dimensional structural arrangement of molecules, and this is enabling us to design medicinal and agricultural drugs that are more effective and have fewer side-effects," says Goto. The tool-set has been commercialized under the brand name CONFLEX/BARISTA, for which Goto wrote the algorithms.

He explains that CONFLEX, together with its graphical user interface BARISTA, enables researchers to visualize the possible spatial arrangements of atoms in a molecule and therefore more easily study their chemically important (energetically stable) molecular formations. This in turn can reveal how a particular arrangement or conformation influences a molecule's chemical behavior. For instance, HIV inhibitors can be better understood and studied with the aid of 3-D graphical representations provided by the software.

Another area of Goto's research involves the development of methods to predict crystal structures in instances of molecular structures having more than one crystalline form: a phenomenon known as polymorphism.

"When a molecule can be crystallized with different packing forms, a part of the grown crystal may show unexpected physical, chemical and biological (medicinal) properties," says Goto. For instance, a second crystal structure of aspirin has recently been discovered, which is slightly different to the commonly known standard structure. Goto's crystal simulation technology can be used to calculate the energies bound up in such a polymorphic structure, an understanding that can help research chemists predict its medicinal effects.

CONFLEX is currently available at version 6. Goto and his lab co-workers have been working on new algorithms that will help researchers search for new crystal structures, an endeavor that normally requires the use of expensive X-ray equipment. "This function will be available in a few months in version 7 of CONFLEX," says Goto. "Developing these algorithms is very complex and time consuming. In fact, I've been working on them for over a decade, for it's involved a lot of trial and error. So I'm pleased this feature is now ready to be distributed."

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