10 Things to Know for Tuesday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times EDT):

Late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories of interest (times EDT):

1. UN SAYS DEAL STRUCK WITH IRAN TO PROBE SUSPECTED NUCLEAR ARMS

Allowing inspections could give Iran leverage in talks later this week to get the U.S. and Europe to roll back economic sanctions.

2. LAUNCH OF PRIVATE CARGO ROCKET OPENS NEW ERA OF SPACEFLIGHT

A SpaceX company rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral this morning, marking the first time a private business has launched a vessel to the International Space Station. It is to dock Friday to unload 1,000 pounds of supplies.

3. JOPLIN, MO., MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF TORNADO THAT KILLED 161

Obama's speech praising residents for their "bigness of spirit" precedes events today that include a community walk through the path of the twister and a moment of silence at 6:41 p.m., the precise time it hit.

4. YEMEN BRACES FOR HOLIDAY IN THE WAKE OF AL-QAIDA ATTACK

The country's leaders say today's National Day celebrations will go on despite the suicide bombing that killed 96 soldiers rehearsing for a military parade.

5. FACEBOOK STOCK PLUNGES AFTER IPO

It fell 11 percent Monday to $34.03, even as the rest of the stock market rallied. Some analysts say Facebook may still be overpriced.

6. SENATE OPENS HEARINGS INTO JPMORGAN'S TRADING LOSS

At 10 a.m., the Senate Banking Committee questions regulators about the $2-billion-plus loss and whether Wall Street banks need tougher oversight.

7. EIGHT SHOT AFTER NBA PLAYOFF GAME

Police in Oklahoma City say at least eight were wounded, one critically, in a late-night scuffle and shooting just blocks from the arena where the Thunder eliminated the Los Angeles Lakers.

8. DOCTORS SEEING MORE BAREFOOT RUNNING INJURIES

They say runners who transition too quickly to minimalist "barefoot running shoes" or no shoes at all risk pulled muscles, tendinitis and stress fractures.

9. FOURTH CLIMBER FOUND DEAD ON MOUNT EVEREST

All of them died while descending the 35,035-foot summit. Some experts blame climate change for increasingly dangerous conditions on the world's highest mountain, with little fresh snow making the rocks icy and unstable.

10. HUNDREDS OF U.S. MUSEUMS WILL BE FREE FOR MILITARY FAMILIES

At 10 a.m., organizers plan to announce that their two-year-old program has grown to 1,600 museums offering free summer admission to active-duty military and their families.

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Quantum condensate of the thirteenth kind

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Contact: Francesca Ferlaino
francesca.ferlaino@uibk.ac.at
43-512-507-6340
University of Innsbruck

First Bose-Einstein condensate of erbium produced

This press release is available in German.

Ultracold quantum gases have exceptional properties and offer an ideal system to study basic physical phenomena. By choosing erbium, the research team led by Francesca Ferlaino from the Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck, selected a very exotic element, which due to its particular properties offers new and fascinating possibilities to investigate fundamental questions in quantum physics. "Erbium is comparatively heavy and has a strongly magnetic character. These properties lead to an extreme dipolar behavior of quantum systems," says Ferlaino. Together with her research group, she found a surprisingly simple way to deeply cool this complex element by means of laser and evaporative cooling techniques. At temperatures close to absolute zero, a cloud of about 70,000 erbium atoms forms a magnetic Bose-Einstein condensate. In a condensate, the particles lose their individual properties and synchronize their behavior.

"Experiments with erbium enable us to gain new insights into the complex interaction processes of strongly correlated systems and, in particular, they offer new starting points to study quantum magnetism with cold atoms," says Francesca Ferlaino. The young scientist was awarded the Austrian START prize in 2009 and she received an ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant in 2010. "With attaining the Bose-Einstein condensate barely a year after we started, we have already achieved one of the most important goals of the project," says a proud Francesca Ferlaino. "This shows the importance of grants for young scientists and how crucial the support from the University of Innsbruck and the Institute for Experimental Physics has been for me and my team." Also Nobel laureate Eric Cornell congratulated the Innsbruck researchers: "Lovely new baby. Its parents must be very proud!"

Quantum capital Innsbruck adds another superlative

Cesium, strontium and erbium are the three chemical elements that the physicists in Innsbruck have condensated successfully in the last few years. An important breakthrough was made by Rudolf Grimm and his research group in 2002 when they achieved condensation of cesium, which led to numerous scientific findings in the years to follow. START awardee Florian Schreck, a member of Rudolf Grimm's research group, was the first to realize a condensate of strontium in 2009. And now Francesca Ferlaino accomplished this feat with the element erbium. Until now a total of 13 elements have been condensated worldwide. Ten of these condensates were created by ten different international research groups. In 2001 Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl Wieman were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for producing the first Bose-Einstein condensates. The new condensate of erbium, now produced for the first time in Innsbruck, is an excellent model system for miming fascinating effects arising from long-range interaction. This type of interaction is, for instance, at the basis of complex dynamics present in nature, such as occurring in geophysical vortices, in ferrofluids or in proteins while folding.

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Contact: Francesca Ferlaino
francesca.ferlaino@uibk.ac.at
43-512-507-6340
University of Innsbruck

First Bose-Einstein condensate of erbium produced

This press release is available in German.

Ultracold quantum gases have exceptional properties and offer an ideal system to study basic physical phenomena. By choosing erbium, the research team led by Francesca Ferlaino from the Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck, selected a very exotic element, which due to its particular properties offers new and fascinating possibilities to investigate fundamental questions in quantum physics. "Erbium is comparatively heavy and has a strongly magnetic character. These properties lead to an extreme dipolar behavior of quantum systems," says Ferlaino. Together with her research group, she found a surprisingly simple way to deeply cool this complex element by means of laser and evaporative cooling techniques. At temperatures close to absolute zero, a cloud of about 70,000 erbium atoms forms a magnetic Bose-Einstein condensate. In a condensate, the particles lose their individual properties and synchronize their behavior.

"Experiments with erbium enable us to gain new insights into the complex interaction processes of strongly correlated systems and, in particular, they offer new starting points to study quantum magnetism with cold atoms," says Francesca Ferlaino. The young scientist was awarded the Austrian START prize in 2009 and she received an ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant in 2010. "With attaining the Bose-Einstein condensate barely a year after we started, we have already achieved one of the most important goals of the project," says a proud Francesca Ferlaino. "This shows the importance of grants for young scientists and how crucial the support from the University of Innsbruck and the Institute for Experimental Physics has been for me and my team." Also Nobel laureate Eric Cornell congratulated the Innsbruck researchers: "Lovely new baby. Its parents must be very proud!"

Quantum capital Innsbruck adds another superlative

Cesium, strontium and erbium are the three chemical elements that the physicists in Innsbruck have condensated successfully in the last few years. An important breakthrough was made by Rudolf Grimm and his research group in 2002 when they achieved condensation of cesium, which led to numerous scientific findings in the years to follow. START awardee Florian Schreck, a member of Rudolf Grimm's research group, was the first to realize a condensate of strontium in 2009. And now Francesca Ferlaino accomplished this feat with the element erbium. Until now a total of 13 elements have been condensated worldwide. Ten of these condensates were created by ten different international research groups. In 2001 Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl Wieman were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for producing the first Bose-Einstein condensates. The new condensate of erbium, now produced for the first time in Innsbruck, is an excellent model system for miming fascinating effects arising from long-range interaction. This type of interaction is, for instance, at the basis of complex dynamics present in nature, such as occurring in geophysical vortices, in ferrofluids or in proteins while folding.

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Screening for Lung Cancer Might Benefit Those at Highest Risk

SUNDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Using low-dose CT scans to screen for lung cancer might save the lives of patients at the greatest risk for the disease, a new analysis suggests.

However, the risks of screening for others aren't clear, the researchers added.

"We have insight into risks, but they are hard to weigh and estimate," said lead researcher Dr. Peter Bach, from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

"It's clear that when you screen you find cancers that otherwise wouldn't appear, and that leads to overtreatment," he said. "It is clear that CTs find lots of things that aren't cancer. About one in five people have something found that will require some sort of follow-up."

There is also an excess radiation risk. In one trial, screening prevented about three deaths per 1,000 people screened, while one in 2,500 might develop cancer from the CT scan, Bach said.

However, in the right population it could theoretically prevent thousands of deaths a year, he explained.

Namely, that population is the heaviest smokers, those who smoke for 30 pack-years or more. A pack-year is the number of cigarettes smoked over time. This means at least a pack a day for 30 years or two packs a day for 15 years.

"For these patients, we recommend that doctors might suggest screening and discuss the risks and benefits," Bach said. "But, no one should be telling people that they must have this test or advertise that it's a lifesaving procedure that will prevent you from dying from lung cancer."

In the end, "there is no substitution for smoking cessation in terms of health benefits," Bach noted.

The report was published online May 20 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

For the study, Bach's team reviewed 21 studies about the benefits and risks of low-dose CT screening for lung cancer.

One of the studies, the National Lung Screening Trial, included more than 53,000 people and found that screening reduced deaths from lung cancer by 20 percent, the researchers said.

The results of that trial were published last June in the New England Journal of Medicine.

However, the other, smaller trials found no benefit from screening, Bach's team noted.

The study authors found that, overall, 20 percent of patients had a scan that needed follow-up, but only 1 percent had lung cancer.

The studies were done in teaching hospitals with experienced radiologists and cancer doctors, Bach noted.

This report is the basis of the screening recommendations adopted by the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

The recommendations state that heavy smokers aged 55 to 74, and those who have quit in the past 15 years, should be offered screening.

But screening should only be done at hospitals that do a lot of this kind of screening. These are usually large or teaching hospitals, because the value of this screening at community hospitals is not known, Bach added.

Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer at the American Lung Association, called the new study a "thoughtful analysis of an important topic."

The American Lung Association conducted a similar review and came to similar conclusions, he said.

The data suggest that screening heavy smokers is likely to reduce death from lung cancer by about 20 percent and all-cause mortality by about 10 percent, he said.

"Given the large cohort to which it pertains, this would be a significant public health achievement," Edelman stated.

However, there remain many unsettled issues, he said.

"One major issue is whether the same results would be observed in the community as opposed to the controlled academic settings in which the study was done," Edelman said. "Accordingly, the American Lung Association report emphasizes the need for screening to be done in centers which can provide low-dose CT screening and a comprehensive multi-specialty environment, so that finding of suspect nodules can be followed up with appropriate [care] rather than undue risk."

Robert Smith, director of cancer screening at the American Cancer Society, said, "These recommendations are consistent" with screening guidelines from similar medical groups.

However, he believes these guidelines will be refined over the years as new data become available.

"The question remains, who else might you endorse lung cancer screening for," Smith said. "Suppose someone had a 35 pack/year history and they were 35 years old, or what if they were 45 years old and had started smoking at the age of 12."

There may be other levels of risk where screening might be beneficial, Smith said: "We will probably learn a lot from trials that are currently under way."

More information

For more on lung cancer, visit the American Lung Association.

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$150,000 Is Up For Grabs At Stanford?s BASES Finale This Week

hoover towerStanford has been a hotbed of startup activity for what seems like forever, and one reason for that is its Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) program. The group, which has been instrumental in promoting startup activity at the university for the last 15 years, will be awarding $150,000 in prizes to participants from four different funding competitions this Tuesday. The BASES Finale brings together four different funding competitions for one full-day event. From 10:00 am to 7:00 pm at the Arrillaga Alumni Center, groups will present as part of the E-Challenge, Social E-Challenge, Product Showcase, and Forge program.

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the Manner of Happiness: Connect with People

Chad, Troy and me out to dinner after work one day; just say Yes! when you have an opportunity to connect with people^^

It is not good for man to be alone, I know.

And yet, I have a tendency to go to movies, eat at restaraunts, read in Barnes & Noble by myself. I like relishing? fun?outings in my own company....

...and, oh yeah, I get nervous making new friends or inviting people I know to come along.

For a friendly, outgoing person, I am super silly about asking people to do things.

I always think, "I can't just invite someone to do something! What would we do??"

As part of my Be The Best Version of Myself project, I wanted to connect with people.

That meant three things:

1. Reconnecting with people to strengthn relationships with current friends and family

2. Making new friends

3. Being present and kind to strangers

Why make an effort to connect with the people in my life?

Reading the latest issue of one of my favorite magazines, Success, I came across this little gem while flying to Denver this week: "Social connection is the key to happiness, all the experts agree. In fact, meta-analyses of happiness studies show that, above all, the quantity and quality of our personal relationships with friends, family and acquaintances determine our spirits. People who have healthy bonds--and enjoy frequent quality time--with family and friends are much likelier to be happy...It follows, then, that if you want to be happier, you've got to nuture your social relationships."

After I read that, I opened up the contact list in my phone and texted a personal message to every person with whom I wanted to have a closer relationship, but for whatever reason--I was too busy, living in another state, I was shy and thought they might not want to be close friends--I hadn't recently contacted.

I had excellent responses, and some really great conversations sparked by those messages. It reaffirmed an idea that I had been trying to convince myself was true: people like you.

Does anyone else assume that they have to win people over, that for whatever reason people probably won't like you unless you try really, really hard?

I don't know why I feel like that, but I've realized it isn't true;

people do like me, genuinely.

I've just got to reach out and be friendly and they'll respond.

I also called several people just to catch up and left messages if they didn't answer.

A few of them returned my phone calls, including a professor from college and an old roommate.

Our talks made my day feel special, I had more energy, and I felt excited....all because I had connected with people I cared about--but I wouldn't normally speak with unless I ran into them somehow.

Since that day I've made it sort of a rule of thumb to send a quick message to anyone who might pop into my head. This resolve has resulted in a lot more phone calls with my youngest brother, texting my step-mother, and I sent cards to some other family members. Reaching out, no excuses, has brought me closer to even the people I was already closest with.

I took this challenge a step further.

My freshman roommate Holly lives in South Carolina with her husband and two children. I just moved to North Carolina...we were living closer than we had in years and yet, I hadn't even called her to tell her.

I called her one day and asked her if I could come visit for the night. It was?a long drive, but if I could stay the night at her house, I'd be able to come for the afternoon and then leave the next morning for work.

At first, I almost didn't follow through with the idea. What if she didn't have time for my visit and I made her feel obligated? What would we talk about after all these years? We've only had the occasional phone conversation, would we still have fun together? Am I imposing upon her time with her kids and her husband?

Real talk: people like being remembered and imposition is often overly exaggerated in my mind. I bought her daughter a toy and drove down.

Holly and me just before her wedding about five years ago.

She was delighted to have me visit. I got to play with both of her kids, we went out to dinner, her husband blew up the air mattress for me, and we laughed and talked with ease. It was great. Plus, we've spoken much more frequently since then. Friendship: strengthened.

I had such a great experience with Holly, I decided to take the time to try to reconnect with my friend Barb when I would be working in Colorado this last week. We performed in the same summer stock theatre in 2005, but I hadn't really seen her since then.

I left her a Facebook message and was disappointed when she told me that she no longer lived in Colorado, she had moved to Oregon.

But wait for it....she happened to be visiting her family in Colorado the very week I would be there for work. And what's more, she would be visiting because her brother was coming home from his mission in Pusan, Korea, the very same mission I served in 2 years ago. How great would it be to talk to him about the mission??

Barb, far left, and me, far right, as dancing courtesans many, many years ago.

I had a lovely time.

She made dinner, I met her family, her two kids (do all my old friends have two kids now??), we played with yo-yos out on the lawn. We snuck outside in the dark after?dinner with her aunt to eat cake-pops; we were hiding from the kids because there weren't enough left to share. As we sat on the stoop chewing chocolate cake, laughing, and trying to be quiet?simultaneously, I thought, "I am so glad I didn't miss this. This is great."

And Barb actually surprised me; she told me that she had always wanted to be closer friends with me but had had many of the same mental roadblocks I encountered when I thought about reaching out to people.

We had a great conversation that went deep into the night, and we promised to be in touch more often.

It enriched the entire trip.

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G8 vows to supply markets despite Iran oil embargo

G8 leaders sent a strong message to Iran Saturday that tough energy sanctions would be firmly applied, vowing to ensure oil markets are well supplied to prevent crude prices soaring.

The move increased pressure on Iran before its next round of nuclear talks with global powers starting in Baghdad on Wednesday, and came ahead of the imposition of a European Union oil embargo on July 1.

President Barack Obama, leading the Group of Eight summit at his Camp David retreat, meanwhile said that he was "hopeful" that the talks would be productive, and stressed major powers were "unified" against Iran.

In what one official called an "unusual" statement, G8 leaders said they would keep a close watch on oil supplies and would ask the International Energy Agency to take action if needed.

There was however no specific mention the powers would tap strategic oil reserves, a step some analysts had said was possible.

There have been concerns that a dearth of Iranian oil could send prices soaring, harm economic growth, further destabilize reeling European economies in Greece and Spain, and send gasoline prices soaring in the United States.

The leaders noted that there had been increasing disruption to supplies in recent months, posing a substantial risk to economic growth, and said major producers had upped output as a result.

"Looking ahead to the likelihood of further disruptions in oil sales and the expected increased demand over the coming months, we are monitoring the situation closely and stand ready to call upon the International Energy Agency to take appropriate action to ensure that the market is fully and timely supplied," said a joint G8 communique.

Later, G8 leaders pressed Tehran to seize the chance to prove its nuclear program is nothing but peaceful.

"We call on Iran to seize the opportunity that began in Istanbul, and sustain this opening in Baghdad by engaging in detailed discussions about near-term, concrete steps ... towards a comprehensive negotiated solution which restores international confidence that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively peaceful," they said in their final Camp David Declaration.

Obama is trying to navigate the showdown with Iran at a moment of political vulnerability as he runs for a second White House term in November.

White House officials are also trying to head off a possible Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear sites, which they fear could spark a wider regional war and sow chaos in the global economy, harming Obama's reelection prospects.

Obama struck an unusually upbeat note on the talks with Iran in Baghdad, saying world powers were "hopeful" and were agreed on how to tackle the crisis, in an implicit contrast to Iran's deepening isolation.

"We're unified when it comes to our approach with Iran," Obama said, surrounded by leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations club in his Laurel Lodge cabin at the wooded presidential retreat in Maryland.

The US leader also warned that Iran's inability so far to convince the world its nuclear program was peaceful was "of grave concern to all of us."

Washington says it is committed to a peaceful resolution to the nuclear crisis, but has warned that all options, including possible military action, are on the table.

Iran had earlier offered a possible hint that punishing US and European-led sanctions may be having an impact, a factor boosting hopes among foreign powers that the Islamic Republic may take a more conciliatory approach in talks.

Foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told state media that "no one in Iran is happy about the sanctions" and that they "may cause problems."

He insisted, however, that the measures have no legal basis and "do not really have a significant effect," as he demanded they be lifted.

Iran is due to meet representatives of the so-called P5+1 group, comprising five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany, in Baghdad for the second round of talks revived in April after a 15-month impasse.

The New York Times reported that US negotiators were allowing themselves to hope, after years of painstaking and fruitless diplomacy with Iran over its contested nuclear program.

"They're nervous enough to talk. Whether they're nervous enough to act, we don't know yet," the paper quoted a senior Obama administration official as saying.

Tehran denies Western allegations its nuclear program may have a military component to develop weapons.

The European Union embargo is already having an impact, as several major customers of Iranian crude, including India, Japan and Turkey, have announced a reduction in imports.

The G8 club of developed nations includes Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States.

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