2 - Friday, February 7, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.cam 2 - Friday, February 7, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom g1ihid$igan0aUji 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETERSHAHIN KIRBY VOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 734-418-4115 ext.1241 pjshahin@michigandaily.com kvoigtman@michigandaily.com UPPER LEFT Johnnyswim performs at the A2 Folk Festival at Hill Auditorium Saturday. (Lilly Angell/Daily) BOTTOM LEFT Professional musicians Mei Han and Randy Raine-Reusch play traditional Chinese instruments at the Confucius Institute's Lunar New Year Celebration Concert Saturday. (Rebecca Kephart/ Daily) RIGHT Protesters gather out- side the Federal Building to protest the Keystone Pipeline Monday. 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WHERE: Michigan Union WHEN: Wednesday at about 1:35 p.m. WHAT: A subject lost his debit card in the food court of the Union, University Police reported. The card was recovered the next day - with some charges. WHERE: Lot N-8 900 Huron WHEN: Wednesday at about 3 p.m. WHAT: A vehicle was towed after being declared as abandoned by the owner, University Police reported. Iced Tee WHERE: University Golf Course WHEN: Wednesday at about 2:30 p.m. WHAT: Ice from a snow plow struck a vehicle's windshield, University Police reported. There were no injuries. WHAT: Duo David Tamu- levich and Michael Hough head back to the place where they started in 1974 for a nostalgic gig. WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHERE: The Ark WHAT: West-African duo Bassekou Kouyate and Fatoumata Diawara play an American influenced set. WHO: University Musical Society WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Theater T H R[ T HINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TOAY/ Nerf has detailed a new prototype, the N-Strike Elite Cam ECS-12, which will sport a camera to record your best "kills," Gizmodo reported. A four gigabyte memory card will be able to hold 2,000 photos or three hours of video. Katie Steen comments on the University's late reponse on the Gib- bons case. "There's a kind of learned helplessness that seems to have developed in regard to the Gibbons case." >4 FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4 Robots can feel, sort of European researchers have given a man back the ability to feel the sensation of touch through a new prosthetic hand, USA Today reported. The prosthetic is a landmark achievement in sensory feedback. 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New Facebook app 'Paper' garners positive reviews Obama to sign Farm Bill at Michigan State University int kee sit B Proc book h to keep mobile( "Pap Monday from th it featu view ar ries to d user see book c: about f other n "headli' "creator Simplified Clifford Lampe specializes in Social Media applications and erface aims to has collaborated with Facebook, s Google, YouTube and LinkedIn 11p social media on how the design of tools with- in these systems affect human e competitive interaction. "I think that the main strat- y WILLIAM LANE egy is to have a more compelling Daily StaffReporter mobile application," Lampe said. "The original app isn't optimized rastinators beware, Face- for the mobile touch interface; as developed a new way it's basically a smaller version of its users glued to their their site." devices. The release of the app came at er", which launched a landmark time for Facebook as y, is drastically different they celebrated their 10th anni- ie original Facebook app. versary the day after Paper's ires a simple, full-screen release. Now, more people nd makes use of catego- access social media sites through livide the information the mobile devices than they do es. These include a "Face- through their desktop computer, ategory" for information Lampe said. riends, as well as various "I think the new user inter- sews categories such as face is trying to leverage the new nes," "enterprise" and trend of mobile access," Lampe rs." said. only addition. The app also now features traditional news catego- ries. The app draws from major news sources for easier access to stories for users, similar to the Google alert feature. "They recognize that their users are incredibly heteroge- neous," Lampe said. "They are tryingto support old cranky pro- fessors' use and young students' use by dividing up the app into categories ... It's a careful balanc- ing act". Although Facebook is one of the world's most used social networks, other mobile apps have provided significant com- petition recently, such as Snap- chat and Instagram. Lampe said Facebook's new app was likely inspired by newer interface designs like Instagram's. While the app was released Feb. 2, students who have down- loaded it so far are happy with the results. Business sophomore Andrew Padula recently started using the app and said it should reshape students' access to and consump- tion of news. "I like the interface, it seems very interactive and I think a lot of kids in college don't check the news as much as maybe they should, so having it there readily available with Facebook is a ben- efit for students by making them more worldly," Padula said. Engineering sophomore Th6o Benigeri grew to like the new app quickly. "It took a bit of time to get used to, but now I prefer it to the old Facebook," Benigeri said. New five-year authorization will extend food assistance programs DETROIT (AP) - A group of scientists at Michigan State Uni- versity huddled around a com- puter screen earlier this week - not poring over scientific data but watching a webcast of the U.S. Senate. Among them was Rufus Isaa- cs, an entomologist who leads a team of U.S. and Canadian scientists working to enhance bee pollination of crops. Isaacs was anxious to see if the Senate would approve the long-delayed farmbill, andwith itcontinue the $8.6 million federal grantcritical to his pollen project's survival. The Senate passed the legislation and Congress sent it to President Barack Obama, who is expected to sign the bill Friday on Isaacs' campus in East Lansing. "It was a great relief and cel- ebration in my lab," Isaacs said of the rare moment when pollen took a backseat to politics. "It's been a long wait for this." The nearly $100 billion-a-year federal farm bill, passed after 2 % years of legislative wrangling, does two main things: Almost 80 percent of the money goes to food stamps for the needy, and around 15 percent is designat- ed for farm subsidies and crop insurance subsidies. The pledge of hundreds of millions of dol- lars for agricultural research is a relative drop in the bucket, but it's pumping money into univer- sities across the country, partic- ularly for advanced agricultural research. Obama's visit to Michigan State is a nod to the primary role a fellow Democrat, Michi- gan U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, chairwoman of the Senate's Agriculture Committee, played in authoring the bill and getting it passed. But Tom Coon, director of the university's extension program, also said the signing is appropri- ate in a state where agriculture is the second-largest industry, behind only manufacturing, and at a school founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan. It's not clear exactly how much is going to universities, since much of the five-year farm bill's budget represents money authorized to be spent but not yet appropriated in the annual budgeting process. And other funding will come in the form of competitive grants that must be matched by the private sector. Still, experts say, it appears to represent an overall increase to public research schools. All of the research funding from the last farm bill continues and grows in some areas, such as spe- cialty crop research, including work on citrus diseases. Another addition is $200 mil- lion to create the Foundation for Food Agriculture Research. The money for the nonprofit orga- nization is guaranteed but also has to be matched through pri- vate investment. The aim of the foundation is to boost coopera- tion between industry, academia and private foundations, and research will focus on safe, effi- cient and sustainable food pro- duction, innovations to boostthe economy and fightglobalhunger. Ian Maw, vice president for food, agriculture and natural resources with the Washington, D.C.-based Association of Pub- lic and Land-Grant Universities, said mostofhis advocacyorgani- zation's priorities were incorpo- rated into the bill. "Bottom line, I think it's a good bill and we're glad it's final- ly done," Maw said. "It was a long and torturous trip to come to this point." The bill's mere passage might be the best news of all to the university researchers, many of whom found themselves inlimbo as the legislation foundered. For instance, the pollen project led by Michigan State's Isaacs lost its funding when the farm bill passed in 2007 expired at the end of 2012. Congress voted to extend the bill for one year in January 2013, but new projects in the original bill with mandatory funding weren't authorized, and "if it's not authorized, Congress can't spend the money," said Coon, the extension program director. Coon said several university departments "patched together" money to maintain the work of Isaac's team, which is studying what growers can do about pol- linating crops in the wake of col- lapsingbee colonies. Associate Information Prof Paper's new interface isn't the WANT TO WRITE FOR A NEWSPAPER? HEY GUYS! WE'RE HERE! JOIN ARTS, SPORTS, NEWS, DESIGN PHOTO, OPINION, COPY OR VIDEO QUESTIONS? E-MAIL US AT: www.michigandaily.com/join-us A