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Saturday, December 31, 2011
The art of molecular carpet-weaving
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Even the costliest oriental carpets have small mistakes. It is said that pious carpet-weavers deliberately include tiny mistakes in their fine carpets, because only God has the right to be immaculate. Molecular carpets, as the nanotechnology industry would like to have them are as yet in no danger of offending the gods. A team of physicists headed by Dr. Markus Lackinger from the Technische Universit?t M?nchen (TUM) und Professor Thomas Bein from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen (LMU) has now developed a process by which they can build up high-quality polymer networks using boron acid components.
The "carpets" that the physicists are working on in their laboratory in the Deutsches Museum M?nchen consist of ordered two-dimensional structures created by self-organized boron acid molecules on a graphite surface. By eliminating water, the molecules bond together in a one-atom thick network held together solely by chemical bonds ? a fact that makes this network very stable. The regular honey-comb-like arrangement of the molecules results in a nano-structured surface whose pores can be used, for instance, as stable forms for the production of metal nano-particles.
The molecular carpets also come in nearly perfect models; however, these are not very stable, unfortunately. In these models the bonds between the molecules are very weak ? for instance hydrogen bridge bonds or van der Waals forces. The advantage of this variant is that faults in the regular structure are repaired during the self-organization process ? bad bonds are dissolved so that proper bonds can form.
However, many applications call for molecular networks that are mechanically, thermally and/or chemically stable. Linking the molecules by means of strong chemical bonds can create such durable molecule carpets. The down side is that the unavoidable weaving mistakes can no longer be corrected due to the great bonding strength.
Markus Lackinger and his colleagues have now found a way to create a molecular carpet with stable covalent bonds without significant weaving mistakes. The method is based on a bonding reaction that creates a molecular carpet out of individual boron acid molecules. It is a condensation reaction in which water molecules are released. If bonding takes place at temperatures of a little over 100?C with only a small amount of water present, mistakes can be corrected during weaving. The result is the sought after magic carpet: molecules in a stable and well-ordered one-layer structure.
Markus Lackinger's laboratory is located in the Deutsches Museum M?nchen. There he is doing research at the Chair of Prof. Wolfgang Heckl (TUM School of Education, TU M?nchen). Prof. Bein holds a Chair at the Department of Chemistry at the LMU. The research was conducted in collaboration with Prof. Paul Knochel's work group (LMU) and Physical Electronics GmbH, with funding by the Excellence Cluster Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) and the Bavarian Research Foundation (BFS).
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Mortgage rates for the past 52 weeks, at a glance (AP)
By The Associated Press The Associated Press ? Thu?Dec?29, 11:50?am?ET | The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage rose slightly to 3.95 percent this week, Freddie Mac said Thursday. Last week's average 3.91 percent rate was the lowest on records dating back to the 1950s. Here's a look at rates for fixed- and adjustable-rate mortgages over the past 52 weeks. |
| Current week's average Last week's average 52-week high 52-week low |
| 30-year fixed 3.95 3.91 5.05 3.91 |
| 15-year fixed 3.24 3.21 4.29 3.21 |
| 5-year adjustable 2.88 2.85 3.92 2.85 |
| 1-year adjustable 2.78 2.77 3.40 2.77 |
| All values are in percentage points. |
| Source: Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey. |
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TV show on Muslims takes on Sept. 11 attacks
NEW YORK (AP) ? A television show about members of a Muslim community in Michigan is focusing what may be its second-to-last episode almost entirely on the conflicted feelings that its featured participants have about marking anniversaries of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The episode of TLC's "All-American Muslim" airs Sunday (10 p.m. EST). The series attracted attention earlier this month when a conservative Christian group called on advertisers to boycott the series, calling it "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values."
Two companies, the Lowe's home improvement chain and travel planning website Kayak.com, announced they were pulling ads. TLC hasn't said how many companies responded to the Florida Family Association's call to stop sponsoring the show. The controversy prompted a backlash of people protesting against Lowe's. Some new advertisers have signed on since then, TLC General Manager Amy Winter said Thursday.
Filming for the reality TV series took place during commemorations for the 10th anniversary of the attacks. Both TLC and the show's characters, Muslims living in and around Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit at the heart of one of the largest Arab-American populations outside the Middle East, wanted to address the topic, Winter said.
"I'm very proud of it," she said. "What you'll see in there is a community with a range of emotions that they express over what was probably one of the most pivotal moments in our nation's history."
Mike Jaafar, a deputy sheriff who participated in a Sept. 11 memorial service at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, helped law enforcement prepare for any problems related to the anniversary. He choked up when recalling how police officers in New York City were killed as they tried to rescue people at the World Trade Center.
"You think about your guys who work for you, going into a building and not coming home," he said.
Nawal Auode was a high school sophomore on Sept. 11, 2001, when her mother called to say she was picking her up at school. Her mother found out about the attacks as she was passing out flyers to advertise a day care center and a man spit at her and ordered her off his porch.
"It was the first time I realized that people looked at me as less American," said Suehaila Amen. "As a person who was born and raised in this country, it was very difficult."
Auode said she dreads the anniversary of the attacks because of a sense that members of her community have to defend themselves for something they had nothing to do with.
That's at the root of the biggest conflict in Sunday's episode. One woman talks about how important it was to attend a Sept. 11 commemoration, but her adult-age children didn't want to go.
One man, Bilal Amen, traveled to New York City to visit the Sept. 11 memorial because, he said, "I want to see the place that changed my life."
Another woman, Nina Bazzy, spoke angrily about the Sept. 11 terrorists and said they weren't real Muslims because "a real Muslim would not do anything like that." She said Osama bin Laden made life difficult for many Muslims in the United States.
"He ruined it for us," Bazzy said. "He ruined it for our kids. He made us scared in our own homes."
"All-American Muslim" ends its eight-episode first season on Jan. 8. Its ratings are considered disappointing for TLC, and the attention caused by this month's controversy didn't improve them. Based on ratings alone, a second season would be considered unlikely. Working in its favor is TLC's pride in a series that spotlights communities that many viewers aren't familiar with.
TLC hasn't made a decision on the show's future and its executives will meet soon to consider it, Winter said.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Tina Fey for President?
As the race heats up for the republican nominee, we take a look at the women we wish would run in 2012.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Occupy activists meet in Iowa, plan caucus events (AP)
DES MOINES, Iowa ? Already they have interrupted Michele Bachmann and drawn a withering putdown from Newt Gingrich as "all noise, no thought."
Now, to the dismay of Iowa Republicans, Occupy activists in Des Moines are vowing to expand their protests as GOP presidential hopefuls converge on the state that speaks first in the race for the party's presidential nomination.
"The 99 percent have woken up and we're not going to take it anymore," Occupy activist Stephen Toothman, of Des Moines, said as an advance guard met Tuesday to decide which candidates to target in the coming week.
Hundreds of Occupy activists from at least 10 states were expected to participate in a "People's Caucus" near the Capitol to plot activities between now and the Jan. 3 caucuses. The activists are promising to interrupt candidates at events and camp out at their Iowa campaign offices. They say they want to change the political dialogue, but critics fear their tactics could tarnish Iowa's reputation for civil political discourse ahead of the contest. Activists say mass arrests are possible.
They planned to break up into preference groups based on which candidates they want to target and present with a list of grievances.
Organizers are encouraging activists who live in Iowa to show up on caucus night and vote "no preference" as a protest but say they have no plans to interfere with the voting itself. Nonetheless, state Republican Party officials have instructed precinct leaders to report any disruption to police and the party.
Iowa GOP Chairman Matt Strawn criticized Occupy activists for targeting the caucuses, which have long been held up as a model of democracy where citizens in the months leading up to the event can directly question candidates and then gather with their neighbors on caucus night. Strawn said he worried most of the problems would be caused by those from out of state.
"It would be an absolute shame if outside agitators ruin the Iowa caucus experience," he said.
Occupy activists, who came from as far away as New York and Seattle, said the caucuses were largely meaningless because the parties and candidates were overly influenced by wealthy, special interests that led them to ignore key issues.
"The caucuses are really a statement as to where the nation is as a whole. I think this occupation is really a statement that they are dissatisfied with all the choices that we've been given," said Ivan Burghart, an activist from St. Louis who mingled with others at the group's Des Moines headquarters.
Occupy Des Moines organizer Jess Mazour, 24, said protesters wanted candidates to address issues ranging from campaign finance reform to college debt to the home foreclosure crisis. She said the weeklong set of actions marked a new phase for the nationwide Occupy movement, and would be a test of whether activists could flex political muscle as one group.
The group insists it will practice non-violence, and activists were going through civil disobedience training Tuesday. Still, police fear scuffles could break out between frustrated candidates' supporters and protesters at events.
Already, the tactics have annoyed candidates and angered supporters.
When Occupy activists started chants against Bachmann at an Iowa City diner last week, campaign aides blared Christmas songs from a sound system to drown them out. That prompted one activist to yell in the face of a Republican organizer to turn down the music, and the restaurant manager called police as tensions rose. Bachmann soon departed ? and her supporters left upset by what had transpired.
Stephany Hoffelt, a member of Occupy Iowa City, said protesters believed the in-your-face tactics were justified because their message hasn't gotten through in the past.
"It's perfectly appropriate if you were listening to what we were saying," Hoffelt said of the group's chant blasting Bachmann's positions on health care and taxes. "She is part of the 1 percent."
Protesters with Occupy Des Moines startled Gingrich when he started speaking at a news conference at the Capitol this month, surprising him from behind and shouting "put people first," before being ushered out. Protesters later trailed Gingrich through the Capitol halls and taunted him. "You can run but you can't hide," one said.
Gingrich dismissed them as the "one-tenth of one percent" and noted he'd been similarly heckled during an earlier stop in Iowa City. "All noise, no thought, tried to drown out conversation," he said.
In the Des Moines suburb of Urbandale, where Gingrich, Bachmann and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, have campaign offices, police met with staffers to discuss how to handle protests.
Urbandale police Lt. Kent Knopf said offices may keep their doors locked to prevent sit-ins, and he advised campaign aides to call his department if they want protesters to leave. Knopf said protesters would be cited for trespassing if they ignore orders to leave or camp directly outside offices instead of a public space within 15 feet of the street.
"It's a waste of everybody's energy for what they are trying to accomplish," Knopf said. "They think they're doing something. We'll see if it makes a difference or not, but it hasn't yet."
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Foley reported from Iowa City, Iowa.
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Japan, China look to trade talks, debt buys (Reuters)
BEIJING (Reuters) ? Japan and China agreed to start formal talks early next year on a free trade pact that would also include South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Sunday after talks that showed the deepening bonds between Asia's two biggest economies.
Japan also said it was looking to buy Chinese treasury debt, and the two governments agreed to enhance financial cooperation.
"On a free trade agreement among Japan, China and South Korea, we've made a substantial progress for an early start of negotiations," Noda told reporters after his meeting with Premier Wen Jiabao.
China's central bank, the People's Bank of China, said on its website (www.pbc.gov.cn) that the two leaders agreed to strengthen bilateral financial market cooperation and "encourage the use of the renminbi and Japanese yen in international trade transactions between the two countries."
The renminbi is another name for China's yuan currency.
The trade talks announcement builds on an agreement between the three countries last month also to seek a trilateral investment treaty and finish studies on the proposed free trade agreement by the end of December so that they could start formal negotiations on the trade pact.
"China is willing to closely coordinate with Japan to promote our two countries' monetary and financial development, and to accelerate progress of the China-Japan-Republic of Korea free-trade zone and East Asian financial cooperation," Wen told Noda at the meeting, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry's official website (www.mfa.gov.cn).
But the regional trade negotiations could also compete for attention with Washington's push for a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), after Japan said last month it wants to join in the talks over the U.S. proposal.
CLOSER ECONOMIC TIES
Despite sometimes rancorous political ties between the two neighbors, Japan's economic fortunes are increasingly tied to China's economic growth and consumer demand.
China and Japan are also the world's first and second-biggest holders of foreign reserves. Wen told Noda that closer economic ties were in both countries' interests.
"The deep-seated consequences of the current international financial crisis continue to spread, and the complexity and severity of global and world developments have exceeded our expectations," Wen said.
"China and Japan both have the need and conditions to join hands more closely to respond to challenges and deepen mutually beneficial strategic relations."
China has been Japan's biggest trading partner since 2009.
In 2010, trade between the two nations grew by 22.3 percent compared to levels in 2009, reaching 26.5 trillion yen ($339.3 billion), according to the Japan External Trade Organization.
In a statement issued after the two leaders' meeting, the Japanese government said it would seek to buy Chinese government bonds -- a tentative step toward diversification of Tokyo's large foreign exchange reserves that are believed to be mostly held in dollars.
China central bank said the two governments agreed to support Japanese businesses issuing yuan bonds in Tokyo and other markets outside of China, and Japan Bank for International Cooperation would begin a pilot scheme for issuing yuan-denominated bonds in mainland China.
The People's Bank of China also said it will support Japan in using the yuan for direct investment in China.
But Japanese officials have stressed that Japan's trust in dollar assets remains unshaken, and the scale of the planned purchase of Chinese government bonds will be small.
Wen and Noda also agreed to set up a framework to discuss maritime issues after diplomatic ties deteriorated sharply last year following Japan's arrest of a Chinese fishing boat captain near disputed isles in the East China Sea.
Bilateral meetings attended by vice ministers and senior officials from relevant ministries will be held periodically to exchange views, in an effort to prevent a similar row from happening.
"On maritime matters, we have successfully set up a channel to solve problems through multi-layered dialogue," Noda told reporters.
(Additional reporting by Koh Gui Qing; Writing by Chris Buckley; Editing by Yoko Nishikawa)
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Japan probe finds nuclear disaster response failed (AP)
TOKYO ? A Japanese government report has found that the response to the nuclear crisis that followed the March 11 tsunami was confused and filled with errors.
The report submitted Monday outlined a government investigation into the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. The investigation will be finished by mid-2012.
The report found workers at Tokyo Electric Power Co. were untrained to handle emergencies like the power shutdown that struck when the tsunami destroyed backup generators ? setting off the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
It also found that workers had mistakenly assumed an emergency cooling system had been working.
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Watch Out Yammer And Jive, Google Is About To Enter The Social Enterprise Space
The social enterprise has been growing as more and more companies look to incorporate Facebook-like communications among workers. Jive (which just debuted on the Nasdaq), Yammer, and Salesforce are all betting on the social as an integral part of productivity and business processes in the future. And it looks like Google will be entering the space soon. Google's Vice President of Enterprise Amit Singh tells us that Google will soon bring a more in-depth Google+ social experience to businesses and institutions using Google Apps. In October, Google announced that Google Apps users could sign up for Google+, allowing businesses and educational institutions to share posts directly to other users within their workgroups and/or universities.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/01sv1-OE0Ac/
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Monday, December 26, 2011
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NY sheriff hawks naming rights for helicopter (AP)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. ? A high-tech helicopter has helped Sheriff Kevin Walsh chase down fugitives, airlift accident victims and spearhead search-and-rescue missions in the Syracuse region of central New York since 1999. In 2012, Air-1 could be grounded by budget cuts.
Walsh's proposed solution? Slap a corporate logo on the Bell 407 chopper to raise ad revenue and keep her flying.
"We (police) have put up with donut jokes for our entire existence. I think we can tolerate jokes about the Price Chopper chopper or the Wegmans whirlybird showing up," Walsh said, referring to two supermarket chains. "I don't like the idea of our having to fund public services with private donations, but the option is not to have that public service."
While hawking naming rights for municipal stadiums, parks, mass-transit stations and other public entities is nothing new for the nation's cash-strapped cities, sponsorship deals with police agencies are much less common, and typically less lucrative.
On top of that, watchdog groups ? and many in uniform ? are wary about potential conflicts when law enforcement cozies up with advertisers, such as officers possibly looking the other way on matters involving corporate sponsors.
"I feel very confident my officers wouldn't be compromised," said John Kelly, police chief of Littleton, Mass. A town-approved $12,000-a-year contract with a grocery chain pays for one of Kelly's five patrol cars. In return, the cruiser has been adorned for nine years with a modest Donelan's Supermarkets bumper sticker.
Kelly said he's endured plenty of flack, but "my position is I have to give my officers tools to provide the necessary services our citizens paid for. At 2:30 in the morning, someone laying out on a local highway because of an accident really doesn't care who's paying for the cruiser or what it says on its side."
In 2002, dozens of cities jumped at an offer by a Charlotte, N.C., company to provide new police cars for $1 each in exchange for festooning them with race car-style logos. The venture fizzled, in part because the line between tactful and tacky advertising can be a narrow one, and the company has gone out of business.
"We can't let cutesy things" subtract from "making us look serious," said police Chief Philip Thorne in Springfield, Fla., which turned down a chance to save $500,000 over three years.
"It sounded like a good idea," recalled Bruce Owens, police chief in Summerville, S.C. "But the main concern is the potential ethical issues you might encounter, because no one gives something for nothing."
Russ Haven of the New York Public Interest Research Group fears the drive to find sponsorship arrangements in budget-strapped times "may in some instances seem unseemly or feel like it's going too far.
"When it comes to law enforcement, you have this additional layer of concerns," Haven said. "If the sponsor becomes a target of an investigation, does the public have confidence they'll be treated equally under the law?"
In addition, "what's the appropriate valuation for naming rights?" Haven said. "Does it put government in the position of deciding what is an inappropriate sponsor, which could raise First Amendment issues?"
In Syracuse, the sheriff's budget woes in recent years deepened this fall when the county Legislature eliminated $591,000 in taxpayer aid in 2012 for the helicopter known by its radio call sign. Bought for $2.3 million, Air-1 costs around $500,000 on average to operate and maintain each year.
Walsh has appealed for private donations and hopes to secure federal grants to help pay for Air-1's four-pilot roster. Getting a commercial operator's license from the Federal Aviation Administration to allow him to charge fees for medical flights might come through soon, potentially raising $125,000 to $200,000 a year.
Selling naming rights could prove vital in filling the gap. Talks are under way with two potential sponsors who remain unidentified, and Walsh's administrative chief, John Balloni, hopes to add at least $100,000 a year in advertising revenue.
While conceding that Air-1 might have to stop operations in 2012, Balloni said: "There will be some revenue streams coming in and we have full expectation we'll keep it in the air. The extent of our success in 2012 will determine how much we fly in 2013."
Landing private funding wouldn't be a first for a police airborne unit. In Missouri, St. Louis County police got cash donations and electronic equipment worth upward of $200,000 from three helicopter manufacturers in 2004 in exchange for putting the companies' decals on three of its six choppers, said Capt. Kurt Frisz, a pilot.
"It kept us flying at a critical time and got us equipment we wouldn't have been able to afford otherwise," said Frisz, who says the decals are hardly visible from the ground. "The value for the vendor is if a picture of our helicopter shows up in a law enforcement trade magazine such as Air Beat."
Onondaga County sheriffs have deployed helicopters of their own since snapping up a Korean War-era bubble model in 1975.
Supporters praise the new chopper's versatility and credit it as a vital public safety tool not only in the county but in emergencies across a five-county metro area of 640,000 people along Lake Ontario's southeast corner.
Air-1 and its crew logged hundreds of hours of missions in 2011. It airlifted a badly injured toddler who was run over by a lawnmower, alerted sheriff's deputies to a rifle-toting fugitive hiding up a tree and rescued a man whose snowmobile plunged through the ice on a lake.
Opponents view it as a financial burden that duplicates services already provided at no cost to taxpayers by private medevac helicopters and a state police chopper stationed in Syracuse that runs missions farther afield in upstate New York.
A county Legislature resolution to auction off Air-1 was voted down 18-1 on Dec. 6. Walsh will likely renew his funding request when the Legislature returns Jan. 1 with seven new members.
"Short of robbing banks," said Balloni, his deputy, "any way we can keep this ship flying is the way we're going to do it. I took an oath to protect and serve and, to me, the lives it saves are what's sacred."
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
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Facebook Timeline is here!
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Take a?deep breath. Facebook timeline has officially rolled out to all users? and it?s actually quite intriguing. You read that correctly, a Facebook change that is fun, interesting and pretty easy to adapt to. As for businesses, you?ll still have to wait a bit, but we anticipate the new timeline replacing the fan page down the road.
Here are three main points on what to expect as you?re transitioning to your new personal timeline:
- Think of your new timeline as a scrapbook. It?s simply a collage of photos and post updates since you first signed on to Facebook. It?s now an easy way to flip through time, and you can even create photos and stories that can be categorized from when you were born. I also love the map feature, pinning the different places you?ve moved, traveled, and checked-in to. It?s basically like having your entire life organized into a fancy timeline.
- A seven day preview. Once you switch over to the timeline, you?ll have seven days to adjust your timeline making it just the way you like. This includes changing basic information, featuring stories, hiding stories, building your map and tweaking privacy settings. And of course creating a ?face? for your scrapbook ? the cover photo.
- Privacy, privacy, privacy. All of the main privacy settings from your old profile will transfer to your timeline. For example, if your privacy is set to only you seeing tagged photos of yourself, or someone cannot check you in to a place, the same will be in effect on your new timeline. You have the ability to change the privacy settings for your entire page; as well, you?ll have the ability to change privacy settings for each story: whether it?s hiding the story from your timeline altogether, making it public, or featuring it (which will make it into a bigger box on your wall). It?s best to browse through old stories and make sure privacy settings are set to your liking.
Keep in mind, functionality of Facebook will be similar: the homepage will be the same, you?ll still be able to post an update from your timeline and comment on your friends? timelines. This new change is simply a new way to organize your digital life. So jump in, utilize the seven day preview, check to make sure all of your privacy settings are set, and have fun taking a trip down memory
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Three U.S. citizens killed in Mexico attacks (Reuters)
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ? Three U.S. citizens were among those killed when gunmen attacked buses in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, said a U.S. State Department official said on Saturday.
The three were traveling for the holidays when they and several other passengers on the bus were killed by gunmen on Thursday, according to the U.S. official and local media.
The incident was one of several that day in which gunmen attacked busses in the eastern state, a major oil export hub that has lately become a flashpoint for drug gang violence.
On Friday, the tortured bodies of 10 people were found in northern Veracruz, local media reported, as attacks in the region intensify between the Zetas gang and Gulf drug cartels.
In September, 35 bodies were dumped along a downtown highway in the Veracruz city of Boca del Rio.
More than 45,000 people have been killed in cartel-related violence since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006.
(Reporting by Patrick Rucker)
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What will happen after sun vaporizes Earth? Scorched planets hold clues.
Scientists say they've found two planets that survived being swallowed by a red-giant star. Earth won't be so fortunate when our sun becomes a red giant in 5 billion years, but the find shows what can happen to solar systems after such dramatic events.
Forget this season's final episode of "Survivor." The ultimate survivors appear to be two small planet-candidates engulfed for a billion years inside the searing envelope of a red-giant star. And they emerged to tell the tale.
Skip to next paragraphThe planets are a glimpse at what can happen to a solar system when a star begins its death throes, becoming bloated and red as it consumes the last of the hydrogen fuel in its core. The same fate awaits our sun in about 5 billion years.
The two planet-candidates announced Tuesday are among the tiniest yet revealed by data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft. And they hold the potential to shed light not only on how planets could survive such a torching, but also how they might affect the evolution of red-giant stars themselves.
"On many levels, it's very cool," says Elizabeth Green, a researcher with the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory and a member of the team reporting its observations in the Dec. 22 issue of the journal Nature.
A red giant originates as a star roughly like our sun ? between 0.5 and 8 times the sun?s mass. As the star exhausts its hydrogen fuel, its core collapses. The heat of that event causes remaining hydrogen in the outer shell to begin fusion, and the star?s outer layer, or photosphere, expands.
By the time the red-giant phase of our sun ends, the Earth, Venus, and Mercury are likely to be vaporized. But scientists have examples of other objects ? planets and brown-dwarf stars ? that survived being enveloped by red-giant stars they orbited.
None of them, however, is like the ones reported Tuesday. All the previous examples were bigger objects that orbited farther from their parent stars to begin with. For that reason, they didn't spiral as deeply into their stars? photospheres. When these stars? red-giant phase ended ? and the stars shrank back to become helium-burning so-called subdwarf B stars ? the planets survived.
By contrast, the objects reported Tuesday appear to have traveled far deeper into the red-giant's photosphere and survived only as tiny remnants.
Indeed, the planet-candidates orbit so close to their subdwarf B star, named KIC 05807616, that their years are 5.8 hours and 8.2 hours long, respectively. With one side constantly facing the star, the planets? sun-side faces would roast at between 14,000 and 16,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
So how did the planet-candidates survive such a blistering? The team suggests that the objects may represent the rocky cores of stripped-down gas-giant planets that once orbited farther away.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Jen Stirrup: 'Mobile Business Intelligence and the iPad'
Start date/time: ?Thursday 5th January 2012: 7.30pm
End date/time: ?Thursday 5th January 2012: 9pm
Venue: ?Fountain Inn 12 Regent Street, CB2 1DB, Cambridge.
Organiser name: ?Sobia Hamid
Organiser email: ?sobia.hamid@cantab.net
Organiser tel: ?07814 580583
End date/time: ?Thursday 5th January 2012: 9pm
Venue: ?Fountain Inn 12 Regent Street, CB2 1DB, Cambridge.
Organiser name: ?Sobia Hamid
Organiser email: ?sobia.hamid@cantab.net
Organiser tel: ?07814 580583
'Mobile Business Intelligence and the iPad' - Data Insights Cambridge?Meetup with Jen Stirrup.
Jen Stirrup is a newly-awarded SQL Server Most Valuable Professional?(MVP). Specialising in Data Integration and Business Intelligence, Jen?believes passionately in getting the right data to the right people, at the right time. Jen's specific focus is on Data Visualisation.?For this talk, Jen will present how?Apple?s cutting edge usability, along with PowerPivot?s accessibility, can be combined to enhance productivity for mobile business users. Together these?technologies can support Mobile Business Intelligence as an essential tool?for end users who need data 'on the go'.
For more information and to register, please visit?http://www.meetup.com/Data-Insights-Cambridge/
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Kass: GOP in Ron Paul denial in Iowa
With the Iowa presidential caucuses just a few days away, the Republican establishment is busy with some frightening new themes, like:
What happens in Iowa stays in Iowa.
Or:
Who cares what happens in Iowa ? if anything ? anyway?
My personal favorite comes direct from the unyielding mind of Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a Republican who insists that American voters don't care which candidate wins the Iowa caucuses Jan. 3.
"People are going to look at who comes in second and who comes in third," said Branstad. "If (Mitt) Romney comes in a strong second, it definitely helps him going into New Hampshire and other states."
Losing Iowa helps in New Hampshire? So it's not winning that counts, its losing? What the?
Is he high?
Just what the devil is wrong with the Republican bigwigs these days? Their minds can't be besotted by Hopium. That's a liberal Democratic leaf for Democratic pipes depressed that Chicago's City Hall has run the country into the ground. So Republicans must be smoking something else, something just as potent: Dopium, a leaf so powerful that it allowed many Republicans to call themselves "conservatives" while embracing a series of big government programs and federal bailouts from the Bush administration, not to mention two wars.
These days, Gov. Branstad isn't alone. The entire Republican establishment is babbling similar nonsense about the importance of being earnest and a loser in Iowa.
Meanwhile, the Republican-media high priests ? yes, the GOP has its own hierarchs ? are now in full-throated roar. From the secular pulpits they predict unending torment and Obamanation for anyone foolish enough to embrace the current heretical teachings.
And the name of this heretic?
Ron Paul, the Texas congressman and libertarian who is leading most polls in Iowa with a message of cutting government, including the defense budget, and staying out of wars.
The problem isn't that he's saying it. Paul has been consistent for years. The problem for the GOP establishment is that the American people are now listening. And this threatens the coalition that can put Karl Rove and Wall Street and the Religious Right at the same table to slice the pie of power.
The fact that voters, particularly younger voters, are edging toward Paul has sent the GOP into a panic.
"His supporters are younger and more likely to (use) a cellphone, so he's probably going to perform better than his polling suggests," Iowa State associate professor Dave Peterson told cbsnews.com. "His supporters are also dedicated and will likely turn out on caucus night and not change their minds."
Republicans sure changed their minds about Mitt Romney, a moderate who yearns to be conservative during party primaries. Republicans pegged him for what he is, a corporate stiff, every hair in place, who'll run left the second he secures the nomination. Tim Pawlenty? Just another can of Spam. Rick Perry stuck both boots in his mouth and kept them there. It's a wonder he has any lips left.
Michele Bachmann had her troubles with American history, and Rick Santorum seems ready to punch anyone who won't let him attack Iran tomorrow morning. And Herman Cain? With so many "girlfriend" stories buzzing around him, he was tagged on the Internet with an M.C. Hammer-type parody theme song: "Cain Touched This."
Now it's Newt Gingrich's turn to drop his blossoms. What was it exactly? Was it that $1.6 million chunk that his consulting firm took from federal mortgage giant Freddie Mac as it was getting a massive federal bailout? Or that pledge of marital fidelity he signed the other day, suggesting that his oath to his third wife wasn't nearly enough?
And as he inked it, his campaign was infected by a terrible political virus, Newtonian Ego Interruptus.
Since August, the media has desperately avoided mentioning Paul, a fact noted during the summer in a hilarious rip by liberal comic Jon Stewart and a few days ago by the conservative journalist Neil Cavuto, proving that intellectual honesty is not and never has been a partisan affair. Yet for every Stewart or Cavuto there are dozens of eager clerics of the Church of Common Wisdom, desperate to become bishops.
I'm not endorsing Paul here. But you'd have to be blind not to see Republican bosses in panic. Because if Paul wins Iowa, his ideas might catch fire. And then the bosses won't be able to feed as easily.
Once there was no more amusing sight for me than watching Democratic mouthpieces appearing on TV, claiming then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Rezko, ? backed by all those guys from Chicago's City Hall ? would bring hope and change as he transcended the broken politics of America's past.
The journalistic high priests, their brains swollen by several bowls of Hopium, chattered and repeated the slogans of City Hall's favorite mouthpiece, David Axelrod. So Americans never quite realized that the man they were electing president had been an earnest but inexperienced back-bencher in the Illinois Legislature who spent his entire career taking orders from machine bosses while trying to get ahead.
Hopium was bad enough. But what worries me are all those clouds of Dopium wafting across Iowa, where the Republican establishment remains in Ron Paul denial.
Iowa: where winning isn't as important as losing.
jskass@tribune.com
Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-met-kass-1222-20111222,0,4540198.column?track=rss
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Video: Woodward and Bernstein on Meet the Press
October 30: Plouffe, roundtable
Nearly a year away from the 2012 election, we?ll talk to the president?s 2008 campaign manager, now White House Senior Adviser, David Plouffe. Then author of the definitive new biography on the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson; Author of the new book ?The Time of Our Lives,? NBC News Special Correspondent, Tom Brokaw; Former Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm; and Republican strategist, Mike Murphy.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/vp/45656962#45656962
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Bahrain police crack down on highway protest
Anti-government protesters with Bahraini flags react to tear gas Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, in the Shiite village of Diraz, Bahrain, that was fired by riot police to prevent them from joining an opposition sit-in along a northern highway. Riot police blocked exits from the numerous Shiite villages all along the highway as protesters converged for the sit-in. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
Anti-government protesters with Bahraini flags react to tear gas Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, in the Shiite village of Diraz, Bahrain, that was fired by riot police to prevent them from joining an opposition sit-in along a northern highway. Riot police blocked exits from the numerous Shiite villages all along the highway as protesters converged for the sit-in. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
Anti-government protesters with Bahraini flags run through tear gas Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, in the Shiite village of Diraz, Bahrain, that was fired by riot police in an attempt to prevent them from joining an opposition sit-in along a northern highway. The sign, carried by a young man wearing a shirt with an image of a youth who died during the unrest, reads: "Humiliation of us is impossible." (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
An anti-government protester carries a Bahraini flag through tear gas Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, in the Shiite village of Diraz, Bahrain, that was fired by riot police in an attempt to prevent protesters from joining an opposition sit-in along a northern highway. The sign, carried by another protester at left, reads: "Humiliation of us is impossible." (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
Anti-government protesters with Bahraini flags react to tear gas Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, in the Shiite village of Diraz, Bahrain, that was fired by riot police to prevent them from joining an opposition sit-in along a northern highway. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
Anti-government protesters with Bahraini flags run through tear gas Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, in the Shiite village of Diraz, Bahrain, that was fired by riot police in an attempt to prevent them from joining an opposition sit-in along a northern highway. The sign, carried by a young man wearing a shirt with an image of a youth who died during the unrest, reads: "Humiliation of us is impossible." (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) ? Bahraini security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters attempting to protest alongside a highway leading to the island kingdom's capital Thursday.
The clashes follow 10 months of unrest between Bahrain's Sunni monarchy and an opposition movement led by the country's majority Shiites. They came during a visit by the U.S. State Department's top human rights envoy, who expressed concern about the government's use of tear gas and other tough tactics against protesters.
Thursday's clashes erupted near the town of Diraz and other opposition stronghold villages west of the capital, Manama. Riot police were seen chasing protesters away from entrances to the key highway and back into the largely Shiite communities that line the road.
Online activists have issued calls on Twitter and other social media for protesters to occupy the highway, seeking to maintain momentum for protests in the strategically important Gulf nation that hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.
Hundreds of protesters, some waving red and white Bahraini flags, were seen along the side of the highway when the clashes broke out in the afternoon.
Witnesses described a heavy police presence in the area ahead of the protest, with security forces dressed in riot gear and helicopters hovering low overhead.
The highway connects a string of largely Shiite villages west of Manama. It leads to a junction that is roughly half a kilometer (a quarter of a mile) south of Manama's Pearl Square, where this year's uprising originated. Government forces evicted protesters and tore down the pearl sculpture that marked the site in March.
The now heavily guarded square holds great symbolic value for the opposition movement, and protesters have repeatedly tried to retake it.
The clashes erupted during a visit by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner, head of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
In prepared remarks to reporters, he praised the king for taking steps to implement reforms recommended in a report last month that outlined human rights abuses carried out by the government. He called on both the government and protesters to refrain from violence.
Posner urged the government to do more.
He cited "the need for tangible action on several urgent issues," including reinstating workers unfairly dismissed from their jobs. He also raised concerns about court cases involving doctors and others that he said appear to be based at least in part on their criticism of the government, as well as proposed media laws that could stifle political debate.
Washington also remains concerned about the government's "excessive use of force, including tear gas, in response to ongoing street protests," he said.
More than 35 people have died in clashes and protest-related violence since February, inspired by other Arab Spring revolts. Bahrain's protests are the largest and most sustained to have hit the Arab monarchies and sheikdoms that line the Persian Gulf.
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Racing fan builds incredible five-screen simulator at home (Yahoo! News)
Chad Smith is what you would call a racing game aficionado. He represents a subset of gamers so devoted to their favorite genre, they'll go to great extremes to ensure the most realistic experience possible. To that end, Smith outfitted his home PC with five monitors, arranged them like the windows on a car, fired up his head-mounted camera, and posted a video of himself playing on the setup to YouTube.
In the video, Smith is playing a popular massively multiplayer online racing simulation called iRacing, on an authentic recreation of the real-life Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course track. His point of view is being pumped out across the five screens at a whopping total 9600x1080 resolution. According to Smith's comments on a second video, his graphics card ? an AMD Radeon HD 6870 ? is able to deliver the action at a fairly consistent 84 frames-per-second, ensuring an assuredly white-knuckle sense of speed.
To round out the setup, Smith is using the iRaceDash app for iOS on an iPhone he has mounted to his force-feedback steering wheel. The $4.99 app provides real-time data on his car's performance, including speed, fuel level, and tire condition. You can check out another very realistic video of his setup being used to play Richard Burns Rally on YouTube ? just make sure you don't do it on a full stomach.
This article was written by Randy Nelson and originally appeared on Tecca
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Friday, December 16, 2011
PFT: Ravens expect to have Lewis back
Getty ImagesIt?s one thing for guys like Dolphins linebacker Karlos Dansby or a pastor to opine that God is working through Tim Tebow.? It?s quite another for Tebow to say it.
And it?s quite another for Tebow to say that God is actually speaking to him.
And while Tebow has yet to say it publicly, he?s saying it to his teammates.
?Tebow came to me and said, ?Don?t worry about a thing,? because God has spoken to him,? linebacker Wesley Woodyard said after Sunday?s win over the Bears, according to Mark Kiszla of the Denver Post.? Woodyard then forced the Marion Barber fumble in overtime, when the Bears were in field goal position.
Even though the story itself is a couple days old (which makes it nearly as old as the New Testament in Internet time), the concept is timeless.? Regardless of whether Tebow actually has a burning bush in his backyard, Tebow?s faith has fueled a level of confidence that could be unprecedented in professional sports.? He truly believes his team is going to win, so his teammates believe it.
And, perhaps most importantly, his opponents believe it, too.
For the teams who play the Broncos, it?s like continuing to try to beat an older brother in ping pong.? No matter what happens, that feeling of doubt inevitably emerges, and it all falls apart.
Many believe that this entire dynamic ? Tebow?s confidence, his teammates? confidence, and the ensuing lack of confidence on the part of the opponents ? faces its biggest test yet on Sunday, when the Patriots come to town.? Win or lose, however, the Tebow/Broncos confidence won?t be going away any time soon.
?It?s not necessarily prophesying,? Tebow has said.? ?But sometimes you can feel God has a big plan.?
If/when the Broncos lose or fail to make the playoffs or lose in the playoffs, Tebow will regard the outcome as part of God?s plan.? And then Tebow will prepare himself for the 2012 season, with the same week-in, week-out confidence that has made his team far better than the sum of the individual pieces.
It?s become fashionable to point out that Tebow has received too much credit for the accomplishments of his teammates.? But those same teammates who are 7-1 under Tebow?s leadership were 1-4 under Kyle Orton.
So regardless of how Tebow is getting his confidence, it?s that confidence that has made him one of the best players in the NFL.? And the Broncos would be crazy not to embrace this guy for the next decade or longer.? Plenty of guys can throw a football, but very few can inspire grown men wearing the same uniform to believe that together they can achieve great things.? Even fewer can cause the grown men wearing a different uniform to sense that, no matter what they do, it?s simply not their day.
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Cricket adds Galaxy Tab 10.1 to the fold, leaps into stores this Friday
Cricket's device portfolio received an infusion of Honeycomb-drenched vitality this week, with the addition of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1. Priced at $500, this WiFi-enabled, 16GB slate will hit the carrier's stores this Friday, where it will also be available as part of a $595 bundle deal that includes Cricket's Crosswave mobile hotspot and one month of broadband service. The new addition, announced yesterday, represents Cricket's first foray into the tablet space, which is exciting news for entomologists everywhere.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Assange to fight extradition in top UK court (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters) ? WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is fighting extradition to Sweden, won the right on Monday to ask Britain's Supreme Court to hear his case, prolonging his stay in Britain.
Swedish authorities want to question the 40-year-old Australian over accusations of rape and sexual assault made by two female former WikiLeaks volunteers in August 2010.
Assange, who has been living in Britain since his arrest here in December last year, denies wrongdoing.
Monday, two High Court judges ruled that he could ask the Supreme Court to look at his case. However, the ruling does not guarantee him a hearing. The Supreme Court, Britain's highest, can decide to hear his case, or reject his petition.
Assange now has 14 days in which to formally lodge an appeal, meaning his stay in Britain is certain to stretch into 2012.
Asked by Reuters as he left the court if he thought the ruling was a victory, the silver-haired Assange said "Yes" before he was whisked away through a crowd of reporters and supporters.
Dressed in a dark grey suit, Assange embraced his lawyer Gareth Peirce after the hearing in London.
The two judges ruled that Assange's case raised a question "of general public importance" that should be decided by the Supreme Court "as quickly as possible."
Assange argues that the European arrest warrant on which he is being held is invalid because it was issued by a prosecutor in Sweden rather than by a court or a judge.
"I am a bit surprised," said Swedish Prosecution Authority spokeswoman Karin Rosander, reacting to the ruling. She maintained the prosecution authority has the right to issue an arrest warrant.
Assange spent nine days in London's Wandsworth prison after his arrest last year. He was freed a week before Christmas on bail and has since been living at the country house of a wealthy supporter in eastern England.
His arrest came shortly after WikiLeaks published thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables that included unflattering views of world leaders and candid assessments of security threats.
Assange says the allegations against him are politically motivated and has fought a complex and expensive legal battle to avoid being sent back to Sweden.
In 2010, WikiLeaks posted 391,832 secret papers on the Iraq war and 77,000 classified Pentagon documents on the Afghan conflict. It has also made available about 250,000 individual cables, daily traffic between the State Department and more than 270 American diplomatic outposts around the world.
(Additional reporting by Keith Weir in London and Patrick Lannin in Stockholm; Editing by Alessandra Rizzo)
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