Man jailed for creating 35 blogs insulting ex lover

38-year-old Stephen Andreassen ended a relationship with 36-year-old Rebecca Pattinson, and immediately started creating websites to insult, embarrass, and terrorize her. Andreassen was apparently annoyed that Pattinson said no when he asked her to look at an apartment together after four weeks of dating, so he created up to 35 blogs to get back at her.

Pattinson has been given counselling because of her ordeal and now drives everywhere in case she bumps into Andreassen in the street. "I fear that Stephen will never stop and I can't understand why he is doing this," she told The Telegraph.

After the breakup, Andreassen began bombarding her with calls, e-mails, texts, and Facebook messages begging to be taken back. Pattinson reacted by threatening to call the police, removing all her contact details from her online profiles, and deactivating her Facebook account. Andreassen then set up a series of blogs, posting messages to warn all men about her and listing links to his other websites giving his account of their affair.

At that point, which was sometime last year, he avoided jail by admitting harassment. Instead, he was served with a lifetime restraining order and banned from mentioning Pattinson on any website. Two months later, he was arrested again after he posted another entry on his blog detailing the court case and calling her a liar as well as a sociopath. He was spared a prison sentence once more.

Andreassen went further downhill after he set up a new obsessive website with various pages, including sections labeled The Relationship, My Story, and Court Appearance. He then booked into a hotel in Scotland where he attempted to commit suicide by taking 200 sleeping tablets. Andreassen has finally been jailed for 18 weeks after admitting he violated the restraining order.

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Blog - Physicists Build Single Atom Memory For Quantum Information

One of the building blocks for the next generation of quantum computing and communications systems is a way of storing and regenerating photonic qubits. These are generally encoded in the polarisation of photons.

To date, physicists have done this by transferring the qubit from a photon to an ensemble of quantum particles such as a crystal lattice or a small cloud of atoms.

Today, Holger Specht and pals at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, have gone one better. They've found a way to store the qubit from a polarised photon in a single atom of rubidium and then release it again later.

The trick here is first to find an atom with the suitable two-level state that will absorb photons in the right way and second, to find a way to force the photon to give up its qubit to the atom.

It turns out that rubidium has the just right energy levels. Specht and co force the atom and photon to interact by trapping them in a high quality mirrored cavity in which the photon can enter but not easily escape. It then rebounds inside until it gives up its goods to the atom.

To accept the qubit, the atom first has to be placed in the right state by a weak laser beam. A second laser beam later forces the atom to spit out the qubit in the form of an identical polarised photon.

The result is a single atom memory that can read, store and write quantum information.

That's a useful piece of kit. For example, such a device could form the basis of a quantum repeater, an enabling technology for a quantum internet that could be vastly more capable than the one we have today.

And although the device can store qubits for only 180 microseconds and has an overall efficiency of 9 per cent, Specht and co say they know how to make significant improvements, "with the prospect of storage times exceeding several seconds".

This is a crowded field with many groups working on similar devices. It's not clear whether the German team has the edge over its competitors but they're certainly in the running.

Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1103.1528: A Single-Atom Quantum Memory

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Honest Tea tests America?s honesty in its latest brand campaign

Ad Agency SS+K?s latest marketing campaign for Honest Tea is pretty brilliant. Raising awareness in the form of a social experiment to find the most honest city in America, Honest Tea set up popup stores in 6 U.S. cities, asking people to pay for tea bottles based on the honor system. The campaign proved that our country?s tea drinkers are 87% honest. Yay, humanity. And yay, hidden cameras.

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An On-Off Switch for Anxiety

With the flick of a precisely placed light switch, mice can be induced to cower in a corner in fear or bravely explore their environment. The study highlights the power of optogenetics technology?which allows neuroscientists to control genetically engineered neurons with light?to explore the functions of complex neural wiring and to control behavior.

In the study, Karl Deisseroth and collaborators at Stanford University identified a specific circuit in the amygdala, a part of the brain that is central to fear, aggression, and other basic emotions, that appears to regulate anxiety in rodents. They hope the findings, published today in the journal Nature, will shed light on the biological basis for human anxiety disorders and point toward new targets for treatment.

"We want to conceptualize psychiatric disease as real physical entities with physical substrates," says Deisseroth. "Just like people who have asthma have reactive airways, people with anxiety disorders may have an underactive projection in the amygdala."

The researchers engineered mice to express light-sensitive proteins in specific cells in the amygdala that send out neural wires, known as axons, to different substructures. Using a specially designed fiber-optic cable implanted in the animal's brain, researchers found that aiming the light to activate one specific circuit had an immediate and potent effect on the animal's behavior.

"I've never seen anything like it," says Kay Tye, a postdoctoral researcher in Deisseroth's lab and lead author on the study. Mice are naturally fearful of exploring open areas, she explains. Under normal circumstances, the animal "will poke its nose out and then scurry into a corner," says Tye. "But when you turn on the light, the animal begins exploring the platform with no visible signs of anxiety. Then you turn the light off, and it scurries back in to the corner."

The researchers could induce the opposite effect using a light-sensitive protein that silences the cells instead of activating them.

Shining light on the bodies of the cells, which in turn activates axons in multiple circuits, had no effect on the animals' behavior, highlighting how important it is to be able to target individual circuits in the brain.

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Wisconsin Senate Limits Bargaining by Public Workers

After a three-week stalemate, Republican senators pushed the measure through in less than half an hour even as the Senate?s Democrats remained many miles away, trying to block the vote. Democrats in the State Assembly complained bitterly, and protesters, who had spent many days at the Capitol, continued their chants and jeers.

The Republicans control the Senate but had been blocked from voting on the issue after Senate Democrats left the state last month to prevent a quorum. But the Republicans used a procedural maneuver Wednesday to force the collective bargaining measure through: they removed elements of Governor Walker?s bill that were technically related to appropriating funds, thus lifting a requirement that 20 senators be present for a vote. In the end, the Senate?s 19 Republicans approved the measure, 18 to 1, without any debate on the floor or a single Democrat in the room.

The remaining bill, which increases health care and pension costs and cuts collective bargaining rights for public workers in the state, still needs approval from the State Assembly on Thursday morning, but that chamber approved the measure once before, and many in Wisconsin?s Capitol now consider approval a foregone conclusion.

Mr. Walker, a Republican whose efforts to diminish collective bargaining rights have placed him firmly in the national spotlight during his less than three months in office, applauded the Senate?s move on Wednesday night, and said it brought the state a step closer to balancing its budget. ?The action today will help ensure Wisconsin has a business climate that allows the private sector to create 250,000 new jobs,? Mr. Walker said, in a statement released minutes after the unexpected vote.

Democrats, meanwhile, condemned the move as an attack on working families, a violation of open meetings requirements (most of them did not know there was to be a vote until not long before), and a virtual firebomb in state that already found itself politically polarized and consumed with recall efforts, large scale protests and fury from public workers.

?In 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in Wisconsin,? said Mark Miller, the leader of the Senate Democrats who fled to Illinois on Feb. 17 to block just such a vote from occurring. ?Their disrespect for the people of Wisconsin and their rights is an outrage that will never be forgotten.?

The 14 Democrats ? many of whom watched a live stream of the vote on the Web from their undisclosed locations in Illinois ? said they did not intend to return to Wisconsin on Thursday; some said that they suspected the Republicans might yet have additional voting maneuvers planned, and that they needed to assess all that had occurred.

?Tonight, 18 Senate Republicans conspired to take government away from the people,? Mr. Miller said. ?Tomorrow we will join the people of Wisconsin in taking back their government.?

The Democrats complained angrily that the manner of the move directly contradicted what the Republicans had contended all along: that collective bargaining rights had to be cut not for philosophical reasons but merely for financial ones, to fix the state?s budget gap.

?To pass this the way they did ? without 20 senators ? is to say that it has no fiscal effect,? said Timothy Cullen, another of the Democratic senators. ?It?s admitting that this is simply to destroy public unions.?

The bill makes significant changes to most public-sector union rules, limiting collective bargaining to matters of wages and limiting raises to changes in the Consumer Price Index unless the public approves higher raises in a referendum. It requires most unions to hold votes annually to determine whether most workers still wish to be members. And it ends the state?s collection of union dues from paychecks.

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WhitePages launches Hiya for easy contact management on the Web and iPhone

With so many online services and devices out there, it can be difficult to keep all your contacts up to date across them all. Online directory company WhitePages has today launched a new product aimed at making this a lot easier.

Hiya is available as a web app and an iPhone app and allows you to import contacts from Google. These are then compiled into a central list, removing duplicates and pulling in any additional information about them from White Pages? directory listings. This will be especially useful for those with American contacts, as the company says it holds public listings for more than 90% of US adults.

Users will receive automatic updates when any contact information changes and can choose whether they want 1 or 2-way sync between sources, or to not sync at all.

At present Hiya is simply a useful way of tidying up your Google Contacts list, removing any duplicates and adding missing data. However, WhitePages says that it will be expanded to support Yahoo!, Facebook, MSN Live, LinkedIn, CSV files and more in the coming months, with an Outlook plugin and Android and Blackberry apps also on the way later in the year. Once these are introduced, Hiya could very likely become an ideal central hub for all your contacts? information.

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Wisconsin Senate Limits Bargaining by Public Workers

After a three-week stalemate, Republican senators pushed the measure through in less than half an hour even as the Senate?s Democrats remained many miles away, trying to block the vote. Democrats in the State Assembly complained bitterly, and protesters, who had spent many days at the Capitol, continued their chants and jeers.

The Republicans control the Senate but had been blocked from voting on the issue after Senate Democrats left the state last month to prevent a quorum. But the Republicans used a procedural maneuver Wednesday to force the collective bargaining measure through: they removed elements of Governor Walker?s bill that were technically related to appropriating funds, thus lifting a requirement that 20 senators be present for a vote. In the end, the Senate?s 19 Republicans approved the measure, 18 to 1, without any debate on the floor or a single Democrat in the room.

The remaining bill, which increases health care and pension costs and cuts collective bargaining rights for public workers in the state, still needs approval from the State Assembly on Thursday morning, but that chamber approved the measure once before, and many in Wisconsin?s Capitol now consider approval a foregone conclusion.

Mr. Walker, a Republican whose efforts to diminish collective bargaining rights have placed him firmly in the national spotlight during his less than three months in office, applauded the Senate?s move on Wednesday night, and said it brought the state a step closer to balancing its budget. ?The action today will help ensure Wisconsin has a business climate that allows the private sector to create 250,000 new jobs,? Mr. Walker said, in a statement released minutes after the unexpected vote.

Democrats, meanwhile, condemned the move as an attack on working families, a violation of open meetings requirements (most of them did not know there was to be a vote until not long before), and a virtual firebomb in state that already found itself politically polarized and consumed with recall efforts, large scale protests and fury from public workers.

?In 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in Wisconsin,? said Mark Miller, the leader of the Senate Democrats who fled to Illinois on Feb. 17 to block just such a vote from occurring. ?Their disrespect for the people of Wisconsin and their rights is an outrage that will never be forgotten.?

The 14 Democrats ? many of whom watched a live stream of the vote on the Web from their undisclosed locations in Illinois ? said they did not intend to return to Wisconsin on Thursday; some said that they suspected the Republicans might yet have additional voting maneuvers planned, and that they needed to assess all that had occurred.

?Tonight, 18 Senate Republicans conspired to take government away from the people,? Mr. Miller said. ?Tomorrow we will join the people of Wisconsin in taking back their government.?

The Democrats complained angrily that the manner of the move directly contradicted what the Republicans had contended all along: that collective bargaining rights had to be cut not for philosophical reasons but merely for financial ones, to fix the state?s budget gap.

?To pass this the way they did ? without 20 senators ? is to say that it has no fiscal effect,? said Timothy Cullen, another of the Democratic senators. ?It?s admitting that this is simply to destroy public unions.?

The bill makes significant changes to most public-sector union rules, limiting collective bargaining to matters of wages and limiting raises to changes in the Consumer Price Index unless the public approves higher raises in a referendum. It requires most unions to hold votes annually to determine whether most workers still wish to be members. And it ends the state?s collection of union dues from paychecks.

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Blog - Physicists Build Single Atom Memory For Quantum Information

One of the building blocks for the next generation of quantum computing and communications systems is a way of storing and regenerating photonic qubits. These are generally encoded in the polarisation of photons.

To date, physicists have done this by transferring the qubit from a photon to an ensemble of quantum particles such as a crystal lattice or a small cloud of atoms.

Today, Holger Specht and pals at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, have gone one better. They've found a way to store the qubit from a polarised photon in a single atom of rubidium and then release it again later.

The trick here is first to find an atom with the suitable two-level state that will absorb photons in the right way and second, to find a way to force the photon to give up its qubit to the atom.

It turns out that rubidium has the just right energy levels. Specht and co force the atom and photon to interact by trapping them in a high quality mirrored cavity in which the photon can enter but not easily escape. It then rebounds inside until it gives up its goods to the atom.

To accept the qubit, the atom first has to be placed in the right state by a weak laser beam. A second laser beam later forces the atom to spit out the qubit in the form of an identical polarised photon.

The result is a single atom memory that can read, store and write quantum information.

That's a useful piece of kit. For example, such a device could form the basis of a quantum repeater, an enabling technology for a quantum internet that could be vastly more capable than the one we have today.

And although the device can store qubits for only 180 microseconds and has an overall efficiency of 9 per cent, Specht and co say they know how to make significant improvements, "with the prospect of storage times exceeding several seconds".

This is a crowded field with many groups working on similar devices. It's not clear whether the German team has the edge over its competitors but they're certainly in the running.

Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1103.1528: A Single-Atom Quantum Memory

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Canonical to kill off Ubuntu editions as of version 11.04

Canonical has announced that the next release of Ubuntu, version 11.04, will no longer have separate netbook or desktop editions. With the introduction of the new shell for Ubuntu, the company insists that one user interface will work equally well with all PC form factors and that the underlying technology will work on a range of architectures, including those in netbooks, notebooks, or desktops.

This change is part of a broader push from the company to remove the word "Edition" from its releases. As of version 11.04, Ubuntu Desktop Edition and Ubuntu Notebook Edition will simply be known as Ubuntu. At the same time, Ubuntu 10.04 Server Edition will simply be succeeded by Ubuntu Server 11.04.

Ubuntu Desktop Edition arose in 2005 as a response to the launch of Ubuntu Server Edition and Canonical's desire to distinguish between the two. Now that laptops are more popular than desktops, and netbooks are surging, the company is changing its strategy.

"User feedback also told us that people thought the edition was not for them as they had a laptop and spent time looking for a 'Laptop Edition'," a Canonical spokesperson said in a statement. "So we are going back to our roots. We think this will make things simpler. When we mean Ubuntu for notebooks we will say just that rather than the more confusing, 'Ubuntu Desktop Edition for notebooks'."

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