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Australia Meth Bust Nets Record $440 Million Worth Of The Drug (VIDEO)
Police intercepted a record amount of meth in Australia, estimating its worth at $440 million, the BBC reports.
Authorities said in a press conference video distributed by ITN that the 1,290 pounds of the drug were hidden in a shipment of cleaning chemicals from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. Officials believed it to be the most ever recovered Down Under.
The massive seizure and the arrests of three suspects -- from Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong -- would not have happened if not for a tip by the public, New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione told reporters. Suspicious activity at a storage facility near Sydney sparked the four-month investigation, the commissioner said.
New Zealand news outlet Stuff.co.nz reported on the suspects' court appearance on Thursday, in which all were formally denied bail. The organization identified the trio as Kiwi-born Australian national Tony Ming Ly, 21, the alleged driver; Cheung Tuen, 51, of Hong Kong; and Boon Cheng Leow, 32, of Singapore.
According to CNN, the final stage of the arrest involved police secretly confiscating the methamphetamine (often made with ephedrine and pseudoephedrine as main ingredients) and replacing it with an "inert substance." When the traffickers came on Wednesday to take away their haul, police converged.
Meth has become a serious global problem. The Associated Press, citing the most recent data provided by the United Nations, reported that nearly 10,200 meth labs globally were shut down in 2009. "Nearly half of all people seeking drug treatment in East and Southeast Asia in 2009 were methamphetamine users," the AP writes.
Australia seems to be a popular destination for smugglers. In June, Australian authorities found 1,230 pounds of crystal meth and heroin hidden in terracotta pots.
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Living through a tornado does not shake optimism
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March 1, 2013 - Even in the face of a disaster, we remain optimistic about our chances of injury compared to others, according to a new study. Residents of a town struck by a tornado thought their risk of injury from a future tornado was lower than that of peers, both a month and a year after the destructive twister. Such optimism could undermine efforts toward emergency preparedness.
After an F-2 tornado struck his town in Iowa, Jerry Suls, a psychologist at the University of Iowa who studies social comparison, turned his attention to risk perception. "I had dinner as a guest in a home that was destroyed by the tornado the next evening," he recalls. "It was hard not to think about future weather disasters while helping with the clean-up in the following weeks."
So Suls and colleagues set out to survey three different populations in his town about their perceptions of risk from future tornadoes. They recruited college students, local residents contacted through random-digit dialing, and residents in neighborhoods affected by the tornado and, over a period of one year, asked them questions about both "absolute" and comparative risk.
"Although risk can be framed in absolute terms, for example, a 1 in 100 chance of being injured in an automobile accident, people are particularly interested in their risk relative to other people," he says. Comparative questions included "How likely is it you will be injured by a tornado in the next 10 years, compared with the average Iowan (-2 = much less likely to +2 much = more likely)?"; questions of absolute risk included "How likely, from a statistical or scientific point of view, is it you would experience a tornado injury in the next ten years (0% to 100%)?"
As reported in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, students and community residents reported being less vulnerable than their peers at 1 month, 6 months, and 1 year after the disaster, while absolute risk estimates were more optimistic with time. Surprisingly to the researchers, people who lived in neighborhoods that had directly been affected by the storm having experienced damaged windows, roofs, automobiles, etc. were actually more optimistic for the first 6 months than people living in neighborhoods that had no visible damage from the storm.
"We speculate that for a while, they felt 'lightning wouldn't strike twice in the same place,'" Suls says. "A year later, their optimism was comparable to the people in the undamaged neighborhoods."
Also surprising, Suls says, was that although participants reported being less likely than others to be injured in the future from tornadoes, their objective numerical estimates tended to be pessimistic compared to the estimates of weather storm experts. People believed they had approximately a 1-in-10 chance of injury from future tornadoes which is an overestimate of the scientifically calculated risk of less than 1 in 100.
"People tend to maintain an optimistic view, particularly with regard to their fate compared to other people," Suls says. "Even the proximity of a significant weather disaster seems to do little to shake that optimism." While this may seem counterintuitive, he explains, it is the norm, and may help explain why some people are so reticent to seek shelter during natural disasters.
It is possible that living for a long period of time among the rubble from a disaster, as was the case for the Iowan residents for two years after the tornado, increases defensiveness and perhaps denial about the risks from future storms, Suls says. With weather disasters seeming to become more frequent in recent years, he says, it is also possible that there is a cumulative effect on peoples' optimism and feelings of vulnerability. More research is necessary to examine how these attitudes influence emergency preparedness.
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The paper, "Optimism Following a Tornado Disaster," Jerry Suls, Jason P. Rose, Paul D. Windschitl, and Andrew R. Smith, was published online on March 1, 2013, in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, a journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). The research is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, BCS-SGE-0634901.
SPSP promotes scientific research that explores how people think, behave, feel, and interact. The Society is the largest organization of social and personality psychologists in the world. Follow us on Twitter: @SPSPnews
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March 1, 2013 - Even in the face of a disaster, we remain optimistic about our chances of injury compared to others, according to a new study. Residents of a town struck by a tornado thought their risk of injury from a future tornado was lower than that of peers, both a month and a year after the destructive twister. Such optimism could undermine efforts toward emergency preparedness.
After an F-2 tornado struck his town in Iowa, Jerry Suls, a psychologist at the University of Iowa who studies social comparison, turned his attention to risk perception. "I had dinner as a guest in a home that was destroyed by the tornado the next evening," he recalls. "It was hard not to think about future weather disasters while helping with the clean-up in the following weeks."
So Suls and colleagues set out to survey three different populations in his town about their perceptions of risk from future tornadoes. They recruited college students, local residents contacted through random-digit dialing, and residents in neighborhoods affected by the tornado and, over a period of one year, asked them questions about both "absolute" and comparative risk.
"Although risk can be framed in absolute terms, for example, a 1 in 100 chance of being injured in an automobile accident, people are particularly interested in their risk relative to other people," he says. Comparative questions included "How likely is it you will be injured by a tornado in the next 10 years, compared with the average Iowan (-2 = much less likely to +2 much = more likely)?"; questions of absolute risk included "How likely, from a statistical or scientific point of view, is it you would experience a tornado injury in the next ten years (0% to 100%)?"
As reported in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, students and community residents reported being less vulnerable than their peers at 1 month, 6 months, and 1 year after the disaster, while absolute risk estimates were more optimistic with time. Surprisingly to the researchers, people who lived in neighborhoods that had directly been affected by the storm having experienced damaged windows, roofs, automobiles, etc. were actually more optimistic for the first 6 months than people living in neighborhoods that had no visible damage from the storm.
"We speculate that for a while, they felt 'lightning wouldn't strike twice in the same place,'" Suls says. "A year later, their optimism was comparable to the people in the undamaged neighborhoods."
Also surprising, Suls says, was that although participants reported being less likely than others to be injured in the future from tornadoes, their objective numerical estimates tended to be pessimistic compared to the estimates of weather storm experts. People believed they had approximately a 1-in-10 chance of injury from future tornadoes which is an overestimate of the scientifically calculated risk of less than 1 in 100.
"People tend to maintain an optimistic view, particularly with regard to their fate compared to other people," Suls says. "Even the proximity of a significant weather disaster seems to do little to shake that optimism." While this may seem counterintuitive, he explains, it is the norm, and may help explain why some people are so reticent to seek shelter during natural disasters.
It is possible that living for a long period of time among the rubble from a disaster, as was the case for the Iowan residents for two years after the tornado, increases defensiveness and perhaps denial about the risks from future storms, Suls says. With weather disasters seeming to become more frequent in recent years, he says, it is also possible that there is a cumulative effect on peoples' optimism and feelings of vulnerability. More research is necessary to examine how these attitudes influence emergency preparedness.
###
The paper, "Optimism Following a Tornado Disaster," Jerry Suls, Jason P. Rose, Paul D. Windschitl, and Andrew R. Smith, was published online on March 1, 2013, in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, a journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). The research is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, BCS-SGE-0634901.
SPSP promotes scientific research that explores how people think, behave, feel, and interact. The Society is the largest organization of social and personality psychologists in the world. Follow us on Twitter: @SPSPnews
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Boeing, battery maker at odds over 787 fix: WSJ
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Battery maker GS Yuasa Corp believes the fix for the battery should include a voltage regulator that could stop electricity from entering the battery, the Journal said.
Boeing proposed its fix to the FAA on Friday, but on Thursday, Yuasa told the agency that its laboratory tests indicated a power surge outside the battery, or other external problem, started the failures on two batteries, according to the newspaper.
The FAA confirmed the meeting with Yuasa, but did not give any details.
A Yuasa spokesman declined to comment. Boeing spokesman Marc Birtel said that the investigation has not showed that overcharging was a factor and that the 787 had quadruple-redundant protection against overcharging in any case.
"Our proposal includes multiple layers of protection covering the known potential probable causes of the events," Birtel said by email.
He did not respond directly to the comments about Yuasa, although he added that Boeing was coordinating with key suppliers.
No comment was immediately available from Securaplane, the company that makes the charger for the battery.
(Reporting By Jim Wolf, Andrea Shalal-Esa, Mari Saito and Peter Henderson; Editing by M.D. Golan and Andre Grenon)
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AP: 185K spyware images sent to Aaron's computers
PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Court documents in a class-action lawsuit against furniture rental company Aaron's Inc. allege spyware installed on rented computers secretly sent more than 185,000 emails back to the company, including some capturing webcam images of naked children and people having sex.
The documents filed Wednesday in federal court in western Pennsylvania say the Atlanta-based rental company hasn't informed at least 800 customers whom plaintiffs say were targeted by spyware made by a Pennsylvania company.
Attorneys for the rental customers say the emails sometimes contained pictures secretly taken by the computers' webcams or other sensitive information including Social Security numbers and customer keystrokes.
Aaron's said it was preparing a statement in response to the lawsuit that would be released later Wednesday.
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IOC panel sets off on visits to 2020 bid cities
FILE - This is a Friday July 20, 2012 file photo of IOC President Jacques Rogge, and the IOC member for Britain Craig Reedie, on Rogge's arrival for the London 2012 Olympic Games at Heathrow Airport, London. Seven months before the vote, an International Olympic Committee panel is setting off on a series of site-inspection visits that could prove influential in the race to host the 2020 Summer Games. The IOC's evaluation commission is heading to Japan this week on the first leg of its three-city tour to assess the bids from Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul. Chaired by IOC Vice President Craig Reedie of Britain, the 14-member panel will meet with bid leaders and government officials and visit potential venues. (AP Photo Paul Gilham, Pool, File)
FILE - This is a Friday July 20, 2012 file photo of IOC President Jacques Rogge, and the IOC member for Britain Craig Reedie, on Rogge's arrival for the London 2012 Olympic Games at Heathrow Airport, London. Seven months before the vote, an International Olympic Committee panel is setting off on a series of site-inspection visits that could prove influential in the race to host the 2020 Summer Games. The IOC's evaluation commission is heading to Japan this week on the first leg of its three-city tour to assess the bids from Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul. Chaired by IOC Vice President Craig Reedie of Britain, the 14-member panel will meet with bid leaders and government officials and visit potential venues. (AP Photo Paul Gilham, Pool, File)
FILE - This is a Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013 file photo of Tsunekazu Takeda, President of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games bid, as he listens to a question from the media during their first international presentation of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games bid in London. The IOC's evaluation commission is heading to Japan this week on the first leg of its three-city tour to assess the bids from Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul. Chaired by IOC Vice President Craig Reedie of Britain, the 14-member panel will meet with bid leaders and government officials and visit potential venues. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
LONDON (AP) ? Seven months before the vote, the International Olympic Committee is sending a panel of experts on a series of site-inspection visits that could prove influential in the race to host the 2020 Summer Games.
The IOC's evaluation commission is heading to Japan this week on the first leg of its three-city tour to examine the bids from Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul ? a key phase in assessing the pros and cons of the multi-billion dollar projects.
Chaired by IOC Vice President Craig Reedie of Britain, the 14-member panel will meet in each city with bid leaders, visit proposed venues and hone in on issues such as finances, accommodations, transportation, security and public support.
The commission will later compile a detailed technical report that will be submitted to the 100-plus IOC members who will select the host city by secret ballot Sept. 7 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
"The interesting thing about this one is that all three have been candidates before on a number of occasions," Reedie said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press before flying to Tokyo on Thursday.
Istanbul is bidding again after four unsuccessful attempts, Madrid is back for a third time in a row and Tokyo for a second consecutive try. Tokyo hosted the 1964 Olympics, and Spain held the games in Barcelona in 1992. Istanbul is seeking to bring the games to a new region and to a predominantly Muslim nation for the first time.
The IOC visits come with all three countries facing serious political or economic challenges.
"The whole evaluation process .... is in some ways a risk assessment," Reedie said.
Spain is still in a deep recession with 25 percent unemployment, and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has been fending off allegations that he received money from a slush fund. Japan is trying to revive a stagnant economy and is engaged in a potentially volatile territorial dispute with China over uninhabited islands. Turkey is dealing with the spillover of the civil war in neighboring Syria, and the U.S. Embassy in Ankara was hit by a suicide bombing Feb. 1 that killed the attacker and a Turkish security guard.
At a time of continuing economic hardship around the world, financial issues will be examined closely by the IOC panel.
Istanbul, with the most to build, has a budget of $19.2 billion for infrastructure, compared to $4.9 billion for Tokyo and $1.9 billion for Madrid.
The commission's working meetings in Tokyo run from next Monday through Thursday. The panel will then visit Madrid from March 18-21 and Istanbul from March 24-27.
The panel's report will be written by the end of April and submitted to IOC members before a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, in early July, where the bid cities will make technical presentations and take questions. As in the past, the report will not rank the cities, providing mainly factual information and data to let the voting members make up their own minds in Buenos Aires.
"There is a narrow line between technical fact and personal opinion," Reedie said. "As individual members, we would want to resist personal opinions. We want to make sure this is the whole view."
How much difference the technical report will make in the end is uncertain. IOC votes are invariably swung by other factors, including politics, sentiment, geography, personal friendships and other intangibles.
Missing from the evaluation panel will be IOC sports director Christophe Dubi. Reedie said Dubi was asked to remain at IOC headquarters in Lausanne to work on the Olympic sports program, a decision made in the wake of the IOC executive board's decision to cut wrestling from the list for 2020.
Wrestling has a high profile in Japan and Turkey, and both countries would want the sport on the program if they get the games.
Reedie said his panel would be willing to meet with opposition groups during the visits if time permits and the requests are made through the bid committees. The Tokyo bid has been targeted by animal rights activists opposed to dolphin hunting and critics of the government's decision to scrap a tuition-waiver program for 10 pro-North Korea high schools.
Reedie said the IOC visit to London in 2005 was key in the British capital's winning bid for the 2012 Olympics.
"It was a seminal moment in terms of encouraging a slightly skeptical British media that this was serious and this was good," he said. "If we can do that in Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul, we serve the Olympic movement and the ambitions of these cities."
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