News Summary: Japan bank to pay $250M to NY State

EXPENSIVE LAUNDRY: The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi-UFJ Ltd. will pay $250 million to the state of New York for laundering billions of dollars in transactions that violated economic sanctions against countries including Iran, Sudan, and Myanmar, New York financial regulators said.

THE CHARGES: The state's Department of Financial Services said the bank agreed to the fine and a year of special monitoring for handling the 28,000 U.S. dollar transactions totaling about $100 billion through its New York operation between 2002 and 2007.

REPORTED ITSELF: The bank said Thursday it reported the violations to its regulators and stopped the practice in 2007. It said it will continue to cooperate with regulators.

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10 Things to Know for Thursday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday:

1. BERNANKE SPEAKS, DOW DROPS

His announcement that the Fed will likely end its extraordinary bond-buying program next year sends the Dow down more than 200 points.

2. JAMES GANDOLFINI, MAGNETIC 'SOPRANOS' STAR, DIES

The actor, most famous for his role as the tormented mob boss Tony Soprano, dies while vacationing in Rome. He was 51.

3. KERRY TRIES TO GET AFGHAN TALKS BACK ON TRACK

He calls Karzai twice in 24 hours, trying to soothe the Afghan leader's anger over the Taliban's high-profile opening of an office in Qatar.

4. STUDENTS, TAKE NOTE

A compromise taking shape in the Senate would prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling on July 1.

5. HOW OBAMA PLANS TO WIELD HIS EXECUTIVE POWERS

Fulfilling a campaign pledge, he's aiming to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming.

6. FBI DRAWING UP GUIDELINES FOR DRONES

Mueller tells Congress that his agency now uses the unmanned aircraft only rarely, but privacy concerns are still "worthy of debate."

7. BRAZIL RESCINDS HIGHER BUS, SUBWAY FARES

The mayors of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro pull back the increases, but demonstrations over the fees and other money issues continue across the country.

8. SEARCH FOR UNION BOSS COMES UP EMPTY ? AGAIN

Federal and local authorities wrap up an excavation near Detroit that fails to turn up anything that could be linked to Jimmy Hoffa, missing since 1975.

9. 'STRIKING' RESULTS FROM A MEDICAL STUDY

A vaccine against a cervical cancer virus cut infections in teen girls by half, researchers report.

10. WHY PAULA DEEN'S FEELING HEAT OUTSIDE THE KITCHEN

The celeb cook acknowledges in a deposition for a lawsuit that she has used racial slurs.

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Maria Menounos Interviewed ?Peeples? Star Kerry Washington at The Grove

The paparazzi?s Maria Menounos Booty Cam was in the mix once again yesterday afternoon as the ?Extra? hottie interviewed actress Kerry Washington. The beautiful actress, who most recently starred in last year?s Oscar winning ?Django Unchained,? was on the show to promote her new comedy ?Peeples.?

The Tyler Perry-produced film also stars the hilarious Craig Robinson. Check the plot & trailer below:

Sparks fly in the Hamptons when ?regular guy? Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) crashes the preppy Peeples family reunion to ask for their precious daughter Grace?s (Kerry Washington) hand in marriage. Wade might be a fish out of water among this picture-perfect East Coast clan always trying to keep up appearances, but he?s not about to let himself sink. Instead, in a wild weekend of fun, dysfunction and hilarious surprises, Wade is about to discover there?s room for all kinds of Peeples in this family, no matter their differences. [Source]

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Smart dust computers are no bigger than a snowflake

Thousands of tiny computers that scavenge power from their surroundings could one day be used to monitor your world

THOUGHT your smartphone or tablet packed a big punch for its size? Pah, that's nothing. The next generation of computers will be able to carry out complex calculations but will be little bigger than a snowflake.

Such tiny computers ? nicknamed smart dust ? would work much like their larger cousins, says Prabal Dutta at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. They will have tiny CPUs that run programs on a skeleton operating system and be able to access equally small banks of RAM and flash memory. The plan is for such sensor-packed machines to be embedded in buildings and objects in their hundreds or even thousands, providing constant updates on the world around us.

Dutta's group is creating the first prototypes, which they have dubbed Michigan Micro Motes. These devices, a cubic millimetre in size, come equipped with sensors to monitor temperature or movement, say, and can send data via radio waves.

But how do you charge something so small? "The vision of blanketing the world with smart sensors is very compelling," says Joshua Smith, head of the Sensor Systems Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle. "But a lot of sensor networks researchers found themselves surrounded by mountains of depleted batteries and dead sensor nodes."

So, like microscopic Robinson Crusoes, the motes will live off the power they can scavenge from their surroundings. A mote near a light source might use a tiny solar panel, while a mote running somewhere with greater temperature extremes can be built to tap into that, by converting the heat energy that flows between hot and cold into electricity.

So what will be smart dust's killer app? The Michigan team says Micro Motes could be used to monitor every tiny movement of large structures like bridges or skyscrapers. And motes in a smart house could report back on lighting, temperature, carbon monoxide levels and occupancy. With motes embedded in all of your belongings it might be possible to run a Google search in the physical world. For example, asking Google "where are my keys?" would give you the right answer if they have been fitted with a mote.

Smart dust computers could make efficient medical implants too. The idea is that motes placed inside the body would monitor a patient's vital signs. For example, in as-yet-unpublished research, the Michigan team has implanted a Micro Mote inside a mouse tumour so that it can report back on its growth.

Smith is also working on miniature computing, with his wireless identification and sensing platforms (WISPs). Further along in development than Micro Motes ? albeit larger ? WISPs communicate via radio frequency identification devices, using the same computer language that your next-generation credit card uses. Like Micro Motes, WISPs don't need batteries and only consume what they can scavenge ? stray signals from a nearby TV tower might do the trick, for instance.

But communication remains a key bottleneck for the next wave of computer miniaturisation, says Dutta. For the same chunk of energy a mote could perform 100,000 operations on its CPU but only transmit one bit of information to the outside world, he says.

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Sprint sets tentative date for investor vote for SoftBank deal

LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - Arsenal will keep with tradition and form a guard of honour for new Premier League champions Manchester United when the sides meet at The Emirates on Sunday. "That is part of the tradition of English football and I want that, of course, to be respected," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told a news conference on Friday. "I'm French, I work in England and the English tradition should be respected. When you work somewhere abroad you have to respect the culture of the country," he added. ...

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Increased brain activity predicts future onset of substance use

Apr. 17, 2013 ? Do people get caught in the cycle of overeating and drug addiction because their brain reward centers are over-active, causing them to experience greater cravings for food or drugs?

In a unique prospective study Oregon Research Institute (ORI) senior scientist Eric Stice, Ph.D., and colleagues tested this theory, called the reward surfeit model. The results indicated that elevated responsivity of reward regions in the brain increased the risk for future substance use, which has never been tested before prospectively with humans. Paradoxically, results also provide evidence that even a limited history of substance use was related to less responsivity in the reward circuitry, as has been suggested by experiments with animals.

The research appears in the May 1, 2013 issue of Biological Psychiatry.

In a novel study using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Stice's team tested whether individual differences in reward region responsivity predicted overweight/obesity onset among initially healthy weight adolescents and substance use onset among initially abstinent adolescents. The neural response to food and monetary reward was measured in 162 adolescents. Body fat and substance use were assessed at the time of the fMRI and again one year later.

"The findings are important because this is the first test of whether atypical responsivity of reward circuitry increases risk for substance use," says Dr. Stice. "Although numerous researchers have suggested that reduced responsivity is a vulnerability factor for substance use, this theory was based entirely on cross-sectional studies comparing substance abusing individuals to healthy controls; no studies have tested this thesis with prospective data."

Investigators examined the extent to which reward circuitry (e.g., the striatum) was activated in response to receipt and anticipated receipt of money. Monetary reward is a general reinforcer and has been used frequently to assess reward sensitivity. The team also used another paradigm to assess brain activation in response to the individual's consumption and anticipated consumption of chocolate milkshake. Results showed that greater activation in the striatum during monetary reward receipt at baseline predicted future substance use onset over a 1-year follow-up.

Noteworthy was that adolescents who had already begun using substances showed less striatal response to monetary reward. This finding provides the first evidence that even a relatively short period of moderate substance use might reduce reward region responsivity to a general reinforcer.

"The implications are that the more individuals use psychoactive substances, the less responsive they will be to rewarding experiences, meaning that they may derive less reinforcement from other pursuits, such as interpersonal relationships, hobbies, and school work. This may contribute to the escalating spiral of drug use that characterizes substance use disorders," commented Stice.

Although the investigators had expected parallel neural predictors of future onset of overweight during exposure to receipt and anticipated receipt of a palatable food, no significant effects emerged. It is possible that these effects are weaker and that a longer follow-up period will be necessary to better differentiate who will gain weight and who will remain at a healthy weight.

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1. Eric Stice, Sonja Yokum, Kyle S. Burger. Elevated Reward Region Responsivity Predicts Future Substance Use Onset But Not Overweight/Obesity Onset. Biological Psychiatry, 2013; 73 (9): 869 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.11.019

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