Wednesday, February 27, 2013
MetroPCS widens Rich Communications Services to all North American carriers
There's been a degree of irony to MetroPCS' support for Rich Communication Services when it's been limited to the one carrier's network in the US -- where's that universal chat and sharing we were promised? The carrier plans to live up to those lofty expectations with word that its Jibe Mobile-developed Joyn service will talk to devices on any North American carrier that supports the spec. That currently doesn't equate to ubiquitous access when RCS isn't widespread, but it's a start. We'll just have to wait for the expanded service to deploy later this year, and for more hardware to hit the streets.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Hands-on with the ASUS Fonepad
Android has a long history of playing host to ridiculously large smartphones. First there was the Dell Streak. Next came the original Samsung Galaxy Note. And now in 2013 we have the ASUS Fonepad, a 7-inch tablet that's also a 7-inch phone. On first inspection the Fonepad looks a little bit like a another 7-inch ASUS tablet, the Nexus 7. But unlike that device it's also a full 3G/HSPA phone, complete with earpiece and microphone. That's right, you can hold this seven-inch slab of electronics to your head and make telephone calls.
Where other large smartphones -- including Huawei's gigantic Ascend Mate -- trim down their bezels to make them more pocket and hand-friendly, ASUS has chosen to incorporate a tablet-sized screen trim on the Fonepad. As a result, using the device as a telephone in the usual way is the binary opposite of ergonomic. If you felt awkward making phone calls on a Galaxy Note, that's nothing by comparison. Assuming you posses digits large enough to palm the Fonepad to your ear, you're going to feel like an idiot walking around with it pressed to your face.
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Oscars Musicals Tribute: From 'Chicago' To 'Les Miserables'
Oscar-winning actors from the past decade's celebrated movie musicals perform their show-stopping numbers.
By Brett White
Hugh Jackman at the 2013 Oscars
Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Celebs, Kimmel join forces in faux movie trailer
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By Randee Dawn, TODAY contributor
What do you do after the trailer for a movie you never made gets 20 million hits on YouTube? That's a question Jimmy Kimmel had to answer after his "Movie: The Movie" star-studded parody racked up huge numbers of clicks following its post-2012 Oscars premiere.
But he knew what had to be done: Make another one!
"When you have a big success in Hollywood, there's only one reasonable thing you can do, and that is is cheapen it with a sequel," he told his "Live!" audience Sunday night after the 2013 awards fest. Then he premiered ... "Movie: The Movie: 2V."
Yet again the world is in danger, and it's up to Kimmel to organize the forces of good to save everybody. But this time there's no meteor hurtling toward the planet -- instead, sexy, deadly vampires, mummies and leprechauns have unleashed the "sexpocalypse," and no one is safe. Kimmel plays the double-eyepatch-wearing leader of an "Avengers"-esque task force that is the Earth's only hope.
Here's what you can expect from the 7-minute-plus trailer:
- Jessica Chastain, watching the carnage, noting "Teenage girls and their weird moms don't stand a chance."
- Gerard Butler imitating Liam Neeson's fierce, family-saving character from "Taken."
- Brian Cranston playing the piano with his face.
- John Krasinski morphing into a crime-fighting crustacean. "It's shrimpin' time," he gloats.
- President Oprah Winfrey.
- Kimmel's nemesis Matt Damon, in a full-body motion-capture suit eating a sandwich, kind of.
- Amanda Seyfried singing and breakdancing in a "Les Miserables" dress.
- A giant Channing Tatum saving the world.
- Samuel L. Jackson toppling over an even more enormous Jenga game, also to save the world.
Yes, there's some swearing, but it's bleeped out. And, as Kimmel promises at the end of the video, Monday night's show will feature "a special behind-the-scenes look at the making of 'Movie: The Movie: 2V' for film buffs."
"Jimmy Kimmel Live!" airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on ABC.
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Women's Exposure to Chemicals May Explain Unexpected Breast Cancer
Women attend a fundraiser for breast cancer in San Francisco. Image: Flickr/cpurl
Deep in a laboratory freezer, 100,000 vials of blood have been frozen for the better part of five decades.
For scientist Barbara Cohn, it?s a treasure trove. Collected from more than 15,000 San Francisco Bay Area women after they gave birth in the 1960s, each vial of blood holds a woman?s lifetime of secrets.
Scientists say these vials could help them unravel one of the most enduring medical mysteries: Why do some women, with no family history, develop breast cancer?
The blood bears the chemical signature of environmental pollutants, some long banned, that the women were exposed to decades ago. Cohn, who directs the research in Berkeley, Calif., believes these early-life exposures may hold the key to understanding a woman's risk of breast cancer today.
The women's blood is being tested for traces of dozens of pollutants???used by industry and found in many consumer products???that can impersonate estrogen and other hormones. The theory is that early exposure to these chemicals, even before birth, inside the mother?s womb, may fundamentally alter the way that breast tissues grow, triggering cancer decades later.
Cancer patients and their doctors have long puzzled over what factors in a woman?s environment may raise her risk of breast cancer. One of every eight women in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime, with more than 232,000 new cases diagnosed yearly, according to the American Cancer Society. Only five to 10 percent can be accounted for by genetics; other known risk factors include age, obesity and low physical activity.
Earlier this month, a science advisory panel?urged the federal government to fund more projects aimed at uncovering the environmental causes of breast cancer because eliminating these factors may provide the greatest opportunity to prevent it.
It?s particularly vexing for scientists because it?s difficult to unlock a woman?s exposures during her most critical times for breast development: in the womb and during puberty and pregnancy.
?As researchers looking at adult outcomes of disease processes such as breast cancer, one of the biggest challenges we face is trying to get a handle on prenatal exposures and what is going on in the prenatal environment,? said Shanna Swan, an environmental health scientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Many scientists have been looking for connections between various environmental exposures and the disease???with mixed results. Some findings suggest links to a few chemicals, including the banned pesticide DDT. But others have found no link.
For example, experts from the American Cancer Society, reviewing previous studies, in 2002 found no association between breast cancer and chlorinated chemicals including DDT.
And in 2011, an institute of the National Academies of Sciences reported ?a possible link? between breast cancer and some common ingredients of vehicle exhaust, benzene and 1,3-butadiene. But the report?said the jury is still out for most other widespread chemicals, such as pesticides, ingredients of cosmetics and bisphenol A (BPA).
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
CONCACAF Under-20 Championship in Mexico continues today
The young Reggae Boyz will face Panama in a Group ?C? top-of-the-table clash at 3:30 p.m. Jamaica time.
Both teams, who are on three points from a game, have already booked their spot in the quarterfinals and will now play for group honours.
In the second game at the venue, Group D teams Mexico and El Salvador will face off. Those teams are also through to the quarterfinals.
The CONCACAF Championship comprises four groups.
The top two teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals, the winners of which will progress to the competition's semifinals and qualify for the 2013 FIFA Under 20 World Cup in Turkey.
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Abercrombie Blames GOP Inaction For Looming Sequestration
The Huffington Post has the story. Excerts:
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) is placing blame for the looming sequester firmly at the feet of Republicans in Congress, saying legislative inaction on their part is putting the nation at risk of severe cuts to defense and domestic spending.
?The whole idea of a representative body is to do legislation,? he said. ?We have people now who don?t want to do legislation.?
Speaking at the annual winter meeting of the National Governors Association, Abercrombie told reporters that the current battles in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives are a follow-up to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich?s work in the 1990s.
?The Tea Party is the son of the Contract with America,? Abercrombie said. ?This ideological approach to government itself, particularly in the House of Representatives, needs to be eliminated. ??
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Source: http://hawaii.news.blogs.civilbeat.com/post/43832353387
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Sequester and public opinion? Advantage Obama. (+video)
With just days until the 'sequester' and its automatic spending cuts kicks in, President Obama seems to have the advantage with high poll ratings and a message seen as more compelling.
President Barack Obama speaks about the sequester as he stands with emergency responders, a group of workers the White House says could be affected if state and local governments lose federal money as a result of budget cuts.
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Polls and pundits aren?t everything, of course. Most Americans this weekend likely are far more interested in Sunday night?s Oscar extravaganza.
And most would likely agree with Atlantic associate editor Matthew O'Brien when he writes ? with as much truth as irony ? on the magazine?s web site: ?There is nothing more tedious in the world today than the sequester. The word itself sounds like a prescription sleeping aid.? There is, after all the gnashing of teeth over the ?fiscal cliff? last month, a bit of ?The Boy Who Cried Wolf? here for most people.
Still, if the sequester kicks in, thousands of federal workers could be furloughed, some national park programs could be curtailed, and things could be ?very painful for the flying public,??as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned Friday.
The sequester no doubt will dominate the Sunday morning TV news shows as Republicans and Democrats angle for rhetorical advantage over the sequester?s $85 billion in budget cuts this fiscal year, split evenly between defense and non-defense programs.
At the moment, that advantage seems to be with President Obama and the White House. Just to flesh out those headlines cited above?.
Bloomberg News put it starkly this week: ?President?Barack Obama?enters the latest budget showdown with Congress with his highest job-approval rating in three years and public support for his economic message, while his Republican opponents? popularity stands at a record low.?
Specifically, 55 percent of those polled by Bloomberg last week approve of Obama?s performance in office, his strongest level of support since September 2009. But only 35 percent have a favorable view of the?Republican Party, the lowest rating over the same period. The GOP?s brand slipped six percentage points in the last six months, the poll shows.
Asked who is more to blame for ?what?s gone wrong? in?Washington, those surveyed picked Republicans over Obama 43-34 percent.
Similarly, Gallup finds public approval of Congress ? just 15 percent ? is ?at the low end of the historical spectrum.? It?s not great news for either party, but Democrats have a slight edge in public approval ? 19 percent to 12 percent for the GOP.
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Oscar Pistorius gets bail as murder trial looms
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) ? Oscar Pistorius walked out of a South African court Friday a free man ? for now ? after a magistrate agreed to release him on bail ahead of his premeditated murder trial over the shooting death of his girlfriend.
But even as he was driven away from court and chased by videographers and photographers, questions continued to hound the Paralympian about what actually happened when he opened fire on Valentine's Day inside his home and killed Reeva Steenkamp.
Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair, who agreed to bail with harsh restrictions for the athlete, expressed his own doubts about Pistorius' story. Those questions, highlighted at a four-day bail hearing that at times foreshadowed his coming trial, come from Pistorius' account that he felt threatened and mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he fired the four shots at her in his bathroom.
"Why would (Pistorius) venture further into danger?" Nair asked.
Pistorius' supporters shouted "Yes!" when Nair made his decision after a nearly two hour explanation of his ruling to a packed courtroom in Pretoria, South Africa's capital. Yet when prosecutors and the defense said they agreed to bail terms, Nair more than doubled those conditions for the 26-year-old runner to be free ahead of trial.
Nair set the bail at 1 million rand ($113,000), with $11,300 in cash up front and proof that the rest is available. The magistrate said Pistorius must hand over his passports and also turn in any other guns that he owns. Pistorius also cannot leave the district of Pretoria without the permission of his probation officer, Nair said, nor can he take drugs or drink alcohol.
Pistorius' family members hugged each other after the decision was read, with tears in their eyes.
"We are relieved at the fact that Oscar got bail today but at the same time we are in mourning for the death of Reeva with her family," said Pistorius' uncle, Arnold Pistorius. "As a family, we know Oscar's version of what happened on that tragic night and we know that that is the truth and that will prevail in the coming court case."
Sharon Steenkamp, Reeva's cousin, had said earlier that the family wouldn't be watching the bail decision and hadn't been following the hearing in Pretoria.
"It doesn't make any difference to the fact that we are without Reeva," she told The Associated Press.
Nair set Pistorius' next court appearance for June 4. The Olympian left the courthouse in a silver Land Rover, sitting in the rear, just more than an hour after the magistrate imposed the bail conditions. The vehicle, tailed by motorcycles carrying television cameramen aboard, later pulled into the home of Pistorius' uncle.
Pistorius left behind more than a dozen international and local television crews at the red-brick courthouse. It's a sign of the growing global fascination with a case involving an inspirational athlete and his beautiful, law-school graduate girlfriend, who was a model and reality TV show contestant.
During Friday's long session in Pretoria Magistrate's Court, Pistorius alternately wept and appeared solemn and more composed, especially toward the end as Nair criticized police procedures in the case and as a judgment in Pistorius' favor appeared imminent. He showed no reaction as he was granted bail.
Before the hearing, Pistorius' longtime coach Ampie Louw said he hoped to put his runner back into his morning and afternoon training routine if he got bail.
"The sooner he can start working the better," said Louw, who was the person who convinced the double-amputee to take up track as a teenager a decade ago. But he acknowledged Pistorius could be "heartbroken" and unwilling to immediately pull on his carbon-fiber running blades, the reason behind his "Blade Runner" nickname.
There is one place, however, where Nair ordered that Pistorius cannot go: His upscale home in a gated community in the eastern suburbs of Pretoria, where he killed Steenkamp in the predawn hours of Feb. 14.
Pistorius said in a sworn statement to the court that he shot his girlfriend accidentally, believing she was an intruder in his house. He described "a sense of terror rushing over" him and feeling vulnerable because he stood only on his stumps before opening fire.
Prosecutors, however, say he intended to kill Steenkamp, saying the shooting followed a loud argument between the two. Yet despite poking holes in Pistorius' statement ? they questioned why he didn't notice his girlfriend missing despite walking past the bed and brought up incidents that they said highlighted his temper ? their case unraveled through testimony by the police's lead investigator in the case, Detective Warrant Officer Hilton Botha.
Botha, who faces seven charges of attempted murder in an unrelated incident, was removed from the case Thursday. His replacement, the nation's top detective Vinesh Moonoo, stopped briefly by the hearing Friday. Prosecution spokesman Medupe Simasiku said later Friday: "We're still confident in our case."
While Nair leveled harsh criticism at Botha for "errors" and "blunders," he said one man does not represent an investigation and that the state could not be expected to put all "the pieces of the puzzle" together in such a short time. The magistrate questioned whether Pistorius would be a flight risk and be prepared to go "ducking and diving" around the world when he stood to lose a fortune in cash, cars, property and other assets.
Pistorius faced the sternest bail requirements in South Africa because of the seriousness of the charge. His defense lawyers had to prove that he would not flee the country, would not interfere with witnesses or the case and his release would not cause public unrest. They also had to show "exceptional" circumstances for his release as well, something Nair said could be found in the "weak" case offered by prosecutors.
Yet the magistrate still anticipated the shape of the state's case at trial. Nair said he had serious questions about Pistorius' account: Why didn't he try to locate his girlfriend on fearing an intruder was in the house? Why didn't he try to determine who was in the bathroom? And why would he venture into perceived "danger" ? the bathroom area ? when he could have taken other steps to ensure his safety?
Touching those unanswered questions, Nair said: "There are improbabilities which need to be explored."
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AP Sports Writer Gerald Imray contributed to this report from Johannesburg.
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Jon Gambrell can be reached at www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP .
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FDA Approves Breast-Cancer Drug
By JENNIFER CORBETT DOOREN
WASHINGTON?The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new type of drug that will be marketed by Roche Holding AG to treat breast cancer.
The drug called, Kadcyla, combines Roche's existing cancer drug, Herceptin, with a powerful chemotherapy agent and is meant to treat certain types of breast cancer that have spread to other parts of the body.
The FDA on Friday approved a powerful new type of drug from Roche to treat breast cancer. WSJ's Jennifer Corbett Dooren joins The News Hub with a look at what this means for patients, and some insight into the drug approval process. Photo: Getty Images.
Herceptin targets a protein called HER2 found on tumors in about 20% to 25% of breast-cancer patients. The two other components of Kadcyla, both developed by ImmunoGen Inc., are a chemotherapy agent called emtansine that is too potent to be delivered as a conventional medicine, and a linker that connects the two drugs. Herceptin then delivers the package to the tumor cell, where it releases the toxic cargo to kill the cancer.
The FDA's approval of Kadcyla, which was previously known as T-DM1, triggers a $10.5 million payment to ImmunoGen by Roche. ImmunoGen will also receive royalties on sales of up to 5%.
Analysts said the approval was broader than expected. The drug can be marketed for initial treatment rather than just in patients who have tried other therapies, creating a "significantly larger patient population," said Simos Simeondis, an analyst at Cowen and Company.
Roche's Genentech unit said Kadcyla will be available to patients in about two weeks. The drug will be priced at $9,800 a month. The company said there will be a patient-assistance program to help pay for the product.
Agents like Kadcyla are called antibody-drug conjugates and they are the focus of intense interest in the pharmaceutical industry. Roche's Genentech unit has 25 such agents under development for different cancers, including eight in human studies.
The first such agent to gain FDA approval was Seattle Genetics Inc.'s Adcetris, for Hodgkin lymphoma and another rare cancer. That company and ImmunoGen are each collaborating with big pharmaceutical firms including Bayer AG, Eli Lilly & Co., GlaxoSmith Kline PLC, Pfizer Inc. and Sanofi to develop several types of new cancer drugs.
The approval of Kadcyla was based on a study of about 1,000 women with HER2-positive breast cancer who had been treated previously with Herceptin and a traditional chemotherapy drug. About half of the women were then treated with T-DM1, and the other half were treated with a combination of Xeloda, another Roche drug, and GlaxoSmithKline's Tykerb. The study showed women receiving Kadcyla lived for an average of 31 months, which was about six months longer than women being treated with Xeloda and Tykerb.
Like other cancer drugs, Kadcyla has the potential to cause serious and life-threatening side effects from liver damage or heart problems. The drug can also cause severe birth defects, so doctors need to make sure women of childbearing age aren't pregnant before administering the product.
?Joseph Walkercontributed to this article.
Write to Jennifer Corbett Dooren at jennifer.corbett-dooren@dowjones.com
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Three mega-trends fuelling investor interest in Africa
Anthony Thunstrom
How we made it in Africa | 18 February 2013BY KATE DOUGLAS
In November 2011, professional services firm KPMG officially launched their Global Africa Project (GAP). The formation of GAP added Africa on KPMG?s global high growth market investment programme, alongside markets like India, China and Brazil.
Last year KPMG announced that it will invest US$100 million in Africa to build up their capacity to serve global and regional clients that were investing in the continent?s growth markets.
KPMG?s chief operating officer for GAP, Anthony Thunstrom, told How we made it in Africa that when KPMG South Africa?s CEO Moses Kgosana pitched the business case for GAP to their global board, it wasn?t hard to sell. This was mainly because the firm had received an increased number of calls from their big clients to discuss an Africa strategy.
?To be honest it wasn?t necessarily crystal ball thinking,? said Thunstrom. ?I think the impetus came from the clients talking to us. When you sat back and kind of analysed what the trends were, it was really what we call the ?three Africa mega-trends?.?
The first mega-trend identified by KPMG?s GAP is the growing resources industry. For Thunstrom this doesn?t only include oil, gas and minerals, but also agricultural investment, which he said is currently gaining momentum across the continent.
?From a global food security and a biofuels perspective, from a local foods security perspective, to the point that we are now starting to see a lot of activity both from a government to government level, and equally even at a private equity level with people buying up significant agriculture interest in Africa really because that is the remaining arable land on the planet,? explained Thunstrom.
The second mega-trend catching the eye of KPMG?s clients is Africa?s demographics and expanding population. With roughly a billion people on the continent, Africa?s population is close to China?s and India?s. What is more appealing to companies targeting consumers is that this population is young and urbanising fast.
?If you play this forward in the next five to 10 years from a consumer demand point of view, it actually starts to put up in a level that rivals, if not surpasses, anywhere in the world,? continued Thunstrom. ?You are looking at at least half a billion new consumers that aren?t really spending any money today, [but will be] in a fairly comfortable consumer position in the next five, six, seven years. And that really feeds into so many different sectors. It is going to drive financial services from a bank?s perspective, it talks to mobile phones, it talks to food, FMCG, motor vehicles, and then ultimately on to the third mega-trend, which is really around infrastructure.?
According to Thunstrom, infrastructure investment is the third mega-trend for two reasons. Firstly, Africa suffers historically from an infrastructure deficiency from post-colonial days and a number of civil wars.
?Then, secondly, with the degree of urbanisation that we?re seeing at the moment together with the [pace] that people are developing new mines, new oil fields, new gas finds, the reality is that there is a whole lot of new infrastructure that wasn?t needed two years ago, that is going to be needed over the next 10 years. And already we are just seeing Africa globally as having the biggest potential for infrastructure spend anywhere in the world from the next 10 to 20 years. So that is really the basis of how we have seen the opportunity in Africa,? added Thunstrom.
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Siberian Caves Reveal Advancing Permafrost Thaw
Melting of significant portions of Arctic permafrost could accelerate climate change into a catastrophe
PERMAFROST CAVE: The frost crystals at the entrance to the Ledyanaya Lenskaya cave in Russia denote the region's permafrost, which has been in place for roughly 400,000 years, according to the cave's speleothems. Image: Vladimir V Alexioglo
Permafrost is not so permanent. Across the Arctic, swathes of once-frozen-solid ground have begun to thaw. If the records preserved in Siberian caves are accurate, much more of the region could melt if temperatures continue to warm.
Geoscientist Anton Vaks of the University of Oxford led an international team of experts?including the Arabica Caving Club in Irkutsk?in sampling the spindly cave growths known as stalagmites and stalactites across Siberia and down into the Gobi Desert of China. Taking samples of such speleothems from six caves, the researchers then reconstructed the last roughly 500,000 years of climate via the decay of radioactive particles in the stone. When the ground is frozen above a cave no water seeps into it, making such formations "relicts from warmer periods before permafrost formed," the researchers wrote in a study published online in Science on 21 February.
The details of the study reveal that conditions were warm enough even in Siberia for these mineral deposits to form roughly 400,000 years ago, when the global average temperature was 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than present. It also suggests that there was no permafrost in the Lena River region at that time, because enough water seeped into the northernmost cave to enable roughly eight centimeters of growth in the formations.
That was, in fact, the last time the formations in the Ledyanaya Lenskaya Cave grew, although other caves further south showed multiple periods of growth coinciding with other warmer periods. "That boundary area of continuous permafrost starts to degrade when the mean global temperature is 1.5 degrees C higher than present," Vaks explains. "Such a warming is a threshold after which continuous permafrost zone starts to be vulnerable to global warming."
Since Vaks's present is the "preindustrial late Holocene," that means the planet is already more than halfway there, having experienced 0.8 degree C warming to date. Such a thaw is no small matter, given that permafrost covers nearly a quarter of the land in the Northern Hemisphere and holds roughly 1,700 gigatonnes of carbon?or roughly twice as much carbon as is currently trapping heat in the atmosphere. Much of that carbon would end up in the atmosphere if the permafrost was to thaw further.
That may not have occurred during the warm period 400,000 years ago, known as Marine Isotope Stage 11 to scientists, which featured elements such as boreal forest on Greenland and higher sea levels. "The thawing was probably very brief because the layer deposited in the northernmost cave stalactite was relatively thin," Vaks says?too thin in fact to determine how long the warm period lasted. "We don't see any extraordinary increase in atmospheric CO2 or methane during MIS-11." And the Gobi Desert might benefit, enjoying wetter conditions in the future if the record in these caves is accurate.
It's not clear how far north such thawing might extend if global average temperatures continue to warm until they match those from long ago. "Now we are looking for caves with speleothems in northern Siberia to answer this question," Vaks notes, adding that the northernmost cave is already much warmer than in the late 18th century based on historical reports. Further research could be done by taking sediment cores from Arctic river deltas or lakes, though this remains an epic task given the vastness and remoteness of the region. But, already, it is clear that global climates not much warmer than present are enough to thaw even more permafrost?as far north as 60 degrees latitude.
"The potential impact of these results extends to global policy: these results indicate the potential release of large amounts of carbon from thawed permafrost even if we attain the 2 degree [C] warming target under negotiation," says Kevin Schaefer, a scientist at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, who has also studied permafrost but was not involved in this, in his words, "great science" effort. "Permafrost thaws slowly and the carbon will be released into the atmosphere over two to three centuries."
Already, such thawing Arctic ice?whether underground or at sea?has further opened up the territory to exploration for resources, particularly oil. At the same time, the big thaw will make getting the oil out more expensive?billions of dollars in infrastructure investments in pipelines, roads and the like will be damaged as the ground shifts beneath them.
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Galaxy Elementary students place first in water rockets competition at SECME
Students from Galaxy Elementary in Boynton Beach placed first in a water rockets competition at the Palm Beach County SECME Elementary Olympiad competition that took place Feb. 9 at Santaluces High School.
Photo courtesy the Palm Beach County School District
During the event, nearly 700 students from 51 schools took part in competitions that included building bridges and mousetrap cars, writing poems and making banners.
According to a press release from the Palm Beach County School District, SECME stands for Science, Engineering, Communication, Mathematics, and Enrichment.
Six Galaxy Elementary students participated in the competition: Janaya Manuel, second grade; Nehemie Perpilus and Alexis Benitez, fourth grade; Mykyaia Byrd, Obed Vital and Marlens Elysee, fifth grade.
?We are very proud of our students? accomplishments in the SECME competition,? Galaxy Principal Edmund Capitano said in a statement.
Tim Burke, Executive Editor, The Palm Beach Post.
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London Fletcher says he?s still deciding whether to play next season
Redskins linebacker London Fletcher said Wednesday he has not yet decided whether to
London Fletcher (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
return to the team and play next season.
?It?s still a process,? Fletcher said. ?Understand I do this every year,? probably the last four or five years. It?s just when you get older in your career, you have to evaluate everything. Health is one thing. Can I still do it at the level that I want to do it at and play at?? So this year is no different than those years in the past.?
Fletcher spoke at an appearance for a financial video game. He was asked if he could imagine himself not playing football.
?I think we all, as athletes, have to imagine ourselves not playing football,? he said. ?If you don?t picture yourself not playing, then you won?t be prepared. So obviously I have thought about that. I have thought about that for a number of years. So it?s just a matter of taking it one day at a time. It?s a process, again. I?m not going to rush anything, just continue to see how I feel.?
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Software firms go to Washington to defend patents
Software patents, facing new scrutiny in the U.S., drive innovation and protect huge investments by developers, representatives of software companies said during a Capitol Hill briefing.
The U.S. patent system isn't perfect, but lawmakers and judges shouldn't solve current controversies by eliminating software patents altogether, executives with Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Covia Labs and Procter & Gamble said during a briefing Thursday before congressional staffers in Washington, D.C.
"As my grandmother used to say, you don't throw the baby out with the bath water," said Dorian Daley, senior vice president and general counsel at Oracle.
Instead, lawmakers should look at ways to improve patent quality, make it tougher for patent licensing firms to file infringement lawsuits and require companies to be transparent about the patents they hold, Daley said during the briefing, sponsored by software trade group BSA and the National Association of Manufacturers.
But companies can be transparent about the patents they hold without congressional action, said Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel and executive vice president. Microsoft will publish information on all the patents it holds by April 1, Smith announced.
Congress passed the America Invents Act, a patent reform bill, in late 2011, but it can do more, panelists said. Smith called on Congress to look into requiring the loser of a patent infringement lawsuit to pay the winner's legal expenses. That change would give pause to so-called patent trolls -- patent licensing companies that produce no products -- before they file lawsuits, he said.
Microsoft and Oracle were among the companies supporting patent reform efforts during the last seven years that some critics say would have weakened patent protections and made it harder for patent holders to collect huge damage awards. But Smith and Daley argued Thursday that software patents need to be protected.
Software patents have been under fire for several years, with some tech lawyers and advocacy groups calling on Congress to scrap or weaken them. The Free Software Foundation has long advocated for an end to software patents, saying they threaten a wide range of companies.
But just this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard a case that could have a broad impact on software patents. In the case, CLS Bank v. Alice Corp., the court is considering whether companies should be able to get patents on abstract ideas when they combine those ideas with a computer process.
Developing complex enterprise-level software takes time and money, and patents help protect that investment, Daley said. "In today's environments, where hundreds of thousands of apps are just a click away on all of our mobile devices, it's pretty easy to see how some assume that software development is easy," she said. "I'm here to tell you it's not. It requires highly skilled engineers and incredible investments."
Oracle spent US$4.5 billion on research and development in 2012, she said, and a weakening of software patents would hurt the company, its investors and customers.
Software patents aren't just important to IT companies but also to Procter & Gamble, the large maker of household goods, said Thomas Lange, director of modeling and simulation in the R&D division of the company. Lange's division uses computer modeling to help Procter & Gamble design toilet paper that tears correctly, diapers that leak less and laundry soap containers that don't break when dropped, he said.
The company uses software to design products and to manufacture them in automated factories, he said.
"Innovation is our lifeblood," Lange said.
Grant Gross covers technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for The IDG News Service. Follow Grant on Twitter at GrantGross. Grant's e-mail address is grant_gross@idg.com.
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Behind Incoherent GOP Spin on the Sequester
Conservative Byron York today blasts the Republicans, and Speaker Boehner in particular, for incoherent spin on the sequester.
I basically agree with him?the GOP message is that the sequester is (1) terrible and all Barack Obama?s fault; and (2) better than smaller cuts, with or without additional revenues; and, (3) just a small down payment on the size of the cuts that are really needed?basically makes no sense.
The question is: why? And I think the answer is the same as the answer for why Mitt Romney?s campaign was incoherent much of the time: the effects of the GOP-aligned press and the conservative information feedback loop. Basically, it?s just too easy for Republicans. They compose talking points, feed them to Fox News and the rest, and partisan Republicans eat them up. The only real danger is that someone in the GOP press seeking to one-up everyone else will deem the talking points insufficiently conservative. That?s the beauty of the otherwise insipid ?the sequester was Obama?s idea? line: if there?s one thing that?s pretty safe from being labeled ?RINO,? it?s bashing Barack Obama.
Notice that coming up with spin that might be effective outside the conservative loop not only is a lot harder ? but also risks that RINO tag.
But mostly?as I?ve said before, for those who compose the talking points, it must just be so rewarding to decide today that ?the sequester was Obama?s idea? and then in a week see it show up ?spontaneously? in the mouths of rank-and-file Republicans ? in talk-show callers, blog commenters, in letters to your boss, even in regular conversation with your conservative friends and family outside Washington. It must really feel like you?ve accomplished something.
And, in turn, not only does that make picking a message that will be unquestioningly accepted by Rush Limbaugh and the rest of them very tempting, but it also removes most of the incentives for fashioning an actually persuasive message.
Now: all that said, as you may suspect I still don?t think it matters very much. If the sequester hits, most of the political effect will not be determined by who has the most coherent spin. But as far as it goes, that sure seems to be what?s at work.
[Cross-posted at A plain blog about politics]
Jonathan Bernstein is a political scientist who writes about American politics, especially the presidency, Congress, parties, and elections.Source: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2013/02/behind_incoherent_gop_spin_on043126.php
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Harry Styles Calls Post-Breakup Taylor Swift A 'Sweet Girl'
One Direction singer says Grammy show (and supposed dis) 'just another good Taylor Swift performance' when he spoke to Capital FM.
By Jocelyn Vena
Harry Styles and Taylor Swift
Photo: Getty Images
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1702181/harry-styles-taylor-swift-breakup.jhtml
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Caribbean cell phone company asks South Florida relatives to buy minutes for family back home
An Irish billionaire?s telecommunications company, which has revolutionized cell phone usage in some of the world?s poorest countries, is bringing it?s latest marketing pitch to South Florida.
Digicel is tapping into South Florida?s close ties to Haiti and Jamaica in a campaign that asks families stateside to send minutes home.
Irish billionaire Denis O?Brien has staked a claim in the telecommunication industry by building his cell phone company in developing countries in the Caribbean and South America The South Florida Digicel campaign includes bus bench ads, billboards and television spots. The message is simple: ?Send minutes home.?
Customers stateside can pay to send airtime minutes to family and friends? pre-paid cell phones in the Caribbean. The concept is not new, but Digicel is seeking to broaden it?s reach.
It is a nod to South Florida?s ties to the Caribbean and the financial influence of the region?s diaspora. Families in Haiti and Jamaica rely heavily on remittances from abroad.
Haiti received $2.1 billion in remittances in 2011, which represents more than one quarter of the national income, according to the Inter-American Development Bank . In 2011, Jamaica received nearly $2 billion in remittances.
?We understand the value of the diaspora,? said Valerie Estim?, CEO of Digicel?s diaspora division. ?They are our lifeline.?
Typically the company relies on ethnic media outlets like radio programs and niche publications for advertising, but there was a gap in reaching second- and third- generation Caribbean Americans, who are more plugged in to mainstream media, said Andreina Gonzalez, head of marketing in Digicel?s diaspora division.
?There was an opportunity to step up and go a little further,? Gonzalez said.
The campaign comes at a time when the company is facing some public relations backlash in Haiti and Jamaica. Customers from both islands have taken to social media to decry shoddy connections and poor customer service.
In Haiti, the problems were so acute that Digicel released an apology letter to its customers in December. When the company tried to integrate Voil?, a competitor Digicel acquired, into its network, the integration caused system failures.
?Quite simply, we did not deliver what we promised and we did not communicate effectively with customers through the problem times,? Damian Blackburn, Digicel?s Haiti CEO wrote in the apology.. ?We apologize for letting our customers down and want to thank them for their patience and understanding.?
In South Florida, the marketing pitch is family-centered and draws on the diaspora?s need to stay connected. Digicel representatives say airtime minutes are as valuable as the cash remittances families send to the Caribbean.
The advertising features members of a culturally ambiguous animated family smiling and talking on cell phones.
The ads that appear in Little Haiti, North Miami and North Miami Beach are largely targeting the Haitian community. In South Broward, the focus shifts to the Jamaican population.
A similar campaign has also been launched in New York.
Prices range for $7 to $60 to add minutes to a relative?s Digicel account. Transactions can be made online or at participating stores in South Florida.
?You?re able to make a very big difference with a very small amount of your disposable income,? said Estim?. ?We know how important it is to be able to get in touch with a mother, a sister or a brother.?
The company recognizes that some of its older customer base prefer the retail model, while younger and more savvy consumers would rather send pay for minutes directly from their computers or cell phones.
?It was really impressive to see Digicel online,? said Geralda Pierre, a Miami Gardens resident who sends minute to Haiti. ?It?s so convenient to add minutes for my dad in Haiti who is sick. It makes it easier for me to get in touch with him.?
For now, Digicel says it will continue to mix the old and new. The Creole-language advertisements on Haitian radio and Island TV, a Creole language cable network, are here to stay.
?We are bringing first world convenience in some cases to third world countries,? Estim? said. ?Digicel has in a way improved the lives of our loved ones back home.?
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Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/20/3244910/caribbean-cell-phone-company-asks.html
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Winners of the 2013 Brit music awards
LONDON (AP) ? Winners of the 2013 Brit Awards, announced Wednesday:
British Female ? Emeli Sande
British Group ? Mumford & Sons
British Breakthrough Act ? Ben Howard
British Male ? Ben Howard
Critics' Choice ? Tom Odell
International Female ? Lana Del Rey
British Live Act ? Coldplay
British Single ? "Skyfall," Adele
International Group ? The Black Keys
International Male ? Frank Ocean
Special Recognition Award ? Warchild
British Album ? Emeli Sande, "Our Version of Events"
Global Success ? One Direction
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/winners-2013-brit-music-awards-222325221.html
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Facebook, Apple hacks could affect anyone: Here's what you can do
If you or someone connected to your network ? a family member or an employee, for instance ? visited one particular malware-ridden website in the last few months, you may be in a lot of trouble.
Facebook and Apple have both suffered at the hands of hackers, thanks to a zero-day vulnerability in Java that led to hackers infiltrating both of the companies' internal networks in recent weeks. While there was "no evidence" to suggest that company or user data had been stolen, the companies said in separate statements, it sent a shiver down the spine of many who had invested their trust in the companies to keep their data safe.
The root cause is reportedly one iPhone development website that became infected with malware, which was then able to dump its malicious payload on vulnerable machines. If those infected machines were then connected to a corporate network, that network would likely have been infected.
Other technology news sites have reported that the mobile development site "iPhoneDevSDK" is the source of both Apple and Facebook's internal network breaches, according to AllThingsD and The New York Times, which both confirmed the source of the malware.
It's absolutely vital that you do not visit this site in any way, shape, or form, as it may still contain active malware that could lead to infection.
(Image: ZDNet)
According to AllThingsD, which spoke to Facebook sources under the condition of anonymity, a number of the company's employees visited the site more than a month ago. The site, laden with malware that was injected into the website's code, used an exploit in the Java web plugin to gain access to the employee laptops.
This "watering hole" technique attacks a centralized website with many visitors, and secretly attacks and infects vulnerable machines using an unpatched exploit. This is different from a targeted attack, such as emailing a malware-laden attachment to a certain user.
While Apple's laptops were clearly MacBook machines running the latest (if not pre-release) version of OS X, it most certainly would not be limited to these devices. PCs and devices running Windows would also be at risk if they were running a vulnerable version of Java.
Facebook confirmed that the internal network breach was a result of a zero-day exploit in the Java plugin, as did Apple in a statement on Tuesday. Law-enforcement agencies were informed in both cases.
Java developer Oracle patched the vulnerability in a February 1 security update.
Twitter suffered a similar hack earlier this month, but the microblogging company did not identify exactly what the root cause for the breach was. It was believed at the time that it was connected to Chinese hackers, which may have been associated with the country's government or military. It's now looking more likely that a Twitter employee visited the "root" infected website that led to the company's network being hacked.
Exactly who is behind this threat is unknown. Many are looking at the Chinese, who have been known to carry out cyberattacks on networks and infrastructure before. In 2010, Google pulled out of China altogether, after its networks were compromised by the Chinese government.
However, sources speaking to Bloomberg are pointing the finger in an entirely different direction. The publication reported that "at least 40 companies", including Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, were targeted by Eastern European hackers who were "trying to steal company secrets".
So, now what?
Here's the troubling thing: You may not have accessed the allegedly infected website, but have your employees? Do you run onsite iPhone application or service development? And can you be absolutely sure that your company, network, or individual computer has not been compromised in some way?
Of course not. Here's what you can do. (This list is far from exhaustive, but it's a start.)
1. Remove Java immediately
The chances are that you are running Java on your machine, or, at the very least, someone on your network is.
You can either disable Java or remove it completely, thus lowering the attack vector considerably. Java has been known to contain flaw after flaw, even after numerous updates, and is commonly used by hackers to gain access to computers, devices, and networks.
Oracle released yet another update to its Java plugin on Tuesday. Apple has also released a Java patch ? this can be downloaded here, if it hasn't already appeared in your software updates window ? that should patch any vulnerabilities currently being exploited in the wild.
Run updates on your system through the Java Control Panel item on Windows, or check System Preferences on OS X.
2. Check your logs, history, browsing records
While it may not be the easiest thing to do, you may need to trawl through your DNS logs and other browsing records to determine whether anyone on your network ? be it a single family member, or a thousand employees ? has visited this "root" infected website in the past two months.
If at any point that website appears ? again, do not visit this website: "iPhoneDevSDK" ? then there is a significant chance that certain machines, if not others on that network, may have been infected with malware.
3. Run a full, network-wide malware sweep
Even if nothing has shown up, run a full, network-wide malware sweep using an up-to-date network malware or antivirus solution. If you can set server-side IT policies to force users connecting to your network to run an antivirus scan before connecting (such as Network Access Protection on Windows machines, for instance), this may help mitigate the spread of such malware across your network.
Vulnerable machines are those running unpatched versions of Java, particularly those not running the latest version ? Java 7 (Update 15) and Java 6 (Update 41) ? and the malware can infect both Mac and Windows machines.
4. Take future precautions: Virtualize and isolate risky software
Many companies rely on Java ? even if many websites do not use the plugin anymore ? thus, removing it may not be an option. Patching the software to the latest version is the best you're going to get, at least for now, but adding an extra layer between the Java plugin and the host machine can mitigate any network-wide malware attacks.
Java is the zero-day king, and more and more flaws will likely be found with the software. By using a virtual machine that's not connected to the host or the host's network (but still connected to the internet), Java-based web applications and Java-enabled websites can be run in an isolated and sandboxed environment, away from company files and other machines.
Updating the software may not have prevented the attack on Facebook, Apple, and others, but keeping it sandboxed may have lessened the risk of any data being stolen.
Source: http://www.zdnet.com/facebook-apple-hacks-could-affect-anyone-heres-what-you-can-do-7000011520/
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Thousands of Shiites protest 84 killed in Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ? Thousands of Shiite Muslims took to the streets in southwest Pakistan on Monday in a second day of protests following a bombing that killed 84 people. Relatives of the victims refused to bury their loved ones until the army takes action against the militants targeting the minority sect.
Meanwhile, militants wearing suicide vests and disguised as policemen attacked the office of a senior political official in northwest Pakistan, killing six people, police said.
Pakistan has been besieged by militant attacks in recent years, many of them carried out by the Pakistani Taliban, who have been waging a bloody insurgency against the government. The country's Shiites have also increasingly become a target of radical Sunni militant groups allied with the Taliban who don't believe the Shiites are real Muslims.
Many of these sectarian attacks have occurred in southwest Baluchistan province, which has the largest concentration of Shiites in Pakistan. Many are Hazaras, an ethnic group that migrated from Afghanistan over a century ago.
The bomb that ripped through a produce market Saturday in Baluchistan's provincial capital of Quetta was the second mass-casualty attack targeting Shiites in the city in a little over a month. A double bombing of a billiards hall in January killed 86 people.
The death toll from the most recent blast, which was caused by a bomb hidden in a water tank, rose to 84 on Monday after three people died of their wounds, said senior police officer Fayaz Saumbal.
Outrage over the attacks has grown in Pakistan, and protests were held in over a half dozen cities Monday in addition to Quetta. But it's unclear whether the demonstrations will spark action that will make the Shiites any safer.
Rights groups have criticized the government for not doing enough to crack down on the attacks. They explain this apathy by pointing to past connections between the country's military and anti-Shiite militants, and also allege the sectarian groups are seen as less of a threat than the Taliban because they are not targeting the state.
Despite this criticism, the Shiites in Quetta see the Pakistani army as their only potential savior and are demanding the generals be given control of the city. They blame the provincial government and police for failing to protect them and want the army to take targeted action against sectarian militant groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which claimed responsibility for both the recent bombings in the city.
"We will not bury our martyrs until our demands are fulfilled," a top Shiite leader in the country, Amin Shaheedi, told reporters Monday at the site of the protest in Quetta.
Thousands of Shiites poured into streets near where the attack occurred, while others remained inside a mosque beside the bodies of their relatives, which were covered with white sheets. One young girl wrote on her face, "Don't kill me. I am Shia."
After the bombing in January that killed 86 people, Shiites camped out in the street for four days alongside the coffins of their loved ones. Eventually the country's prime minister ordered a shake-up in the regional administration, putting the local governor in charge of the whole province. But the governor has expressed frustration, saying the recent bombing was the result of a failure of the provincial security and intelligence services.
The most significant protests outside Quetta on Monday occurred in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, located on the country's southern coast. Hundreds of protesting Shiites paralyzed key areas of the city by blocking major roads, including the one that leads to the airport.
The target of Monday's attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar was the office of the top political official for the Khyber tribal area, a major militant sanctuary in the country. The militants were disguised in the same type of uniform worn by the tribal policemen who protect the compound.
Four militants opened fire on the policemen protecting the compound and managed to get inside, said senior tribal policeman Sajad Hussain. Once inside, three of the attackers detonated their suicide vests, said Hussain. It's unclear what happened to the fourth attacker.
Six people were killed in the attack, including four tribal policemen and two civilians, said senior police officer Shafqat Malik. Thirteen people were wounded, including some who were inside an office that collapsed from the force of the explosions.
An eyewitness, Shahid Shinwari, said the militants launched the attack when a van carrying prisoners arrived at the office compound. The militants tried to free the prisoners from the van, he said.
The compound is open to members of the public on Mondays, and it was filled with dozens of people who became trapped inside by the attack. Soldiers and police responded to the attack, and the people trapped inside were eventually freed.
Local TV footage showed them walking out of the compound with their hands raised as they were led out of the compound to an area for screening. White smoke from the explosions billowed out of the compound.
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Khan reported from Peshawar, Pakistan. Associated Press writer Adil Jawad in Karachi, Pakistan, and Zarar Khan in Islamabad contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-shiites-protest-84-killed-pakistan-131405435.html
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