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Chrome for Android gets major update as ver. 25 graduates from beta
The stable version of Chrome for Android has received a major upgrade, from version 18 all the way up to 25 -- the version that was in beta until recently. Major changes include significantly improved scrolling performance, improved JavaScript and HTML5 processing speed and speedier pinch-to-zoom.
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Rosa Parks statue set to be unveiled at Capitol
FILE -- In a June 15, 1999 file photo Rosa Parks smiles during a Capitol Hill ceremony where Parks was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal in Washington. Parks will become the first black woman to be honored with a full-length statue in the Capitol?s Statuary Hall on Wednesday Feb. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Khue Bui, file)
FILE -- In a June 15, 1999 file photo Rosa Parks smiles during a Capitol Hill ceremony where Parks was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal in Washington. Parks will become the first black woman to be honored with a full-length statue in the Capitol?s Statuary Hall on Wednesday Feb. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Khue Bui, file)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there's plenty about the rest of her experiences that she deliberately withheld from her family.
While Parks and her husband, Raymond, were childless, her brother, the late Sylvester McCauley, had 13 children. They decided Parks' nieces and nephews didn't need to know the horrible details surrounding her civil rights activism, said Rhea McCauley, Parks' niece.
"They didn't talk about the lynchings and the Jim Crow laws," said McCauley, 61, of Orlando, Fla. "They didn't talk about that stuff to us kids. Everyone wanted to forget about it and sweep it under the rug."
Parks' descendants now have a chance to be first-hand witnesses as their late matriarch makes more history, this time becoming the first black woman to be honored with a full-length statue in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. The statue of Parks joins a bust of another black woman, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, which sits in the Capitol Visitors Center.
President Barack Obama, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner are among the dignitaries taking part in the unveiling Wednesday. McCauley said more than 50 of Parks' relatives traveled to Washington for the ceremony.
In a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus in segregated Montgomery, Ala. She was arrested, touching off a bus boycott that stretched over a year.
Jeanne Theoharis, author of the new biography "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks," said Parks was very much a full-fledged civil rights activist, yet her contributions have not been treated like those of other movement leaders, such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Rosa Parks is typically honored as a woman of courage, but that honor focuses on the one act she made on the bus on Dec. 5, 1955," said Theoharis, a political science professor at Brooklyn College-City University of New York.
"That courage, that night was the product of decades of political work before that and continued ... decades after" in Detroit, she said.
Parks died Oct. 24, 2005, at age 92. The U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in her honor on Feb. 4, which would have been her 100th birthday.
Parks was raised by her mother and grandparents who taught her that part of being respected was to demand respect, said Theoharis, who spent six years researching and writing the Parks biography.
She was an educated woman who recalled seeing her grandfather sitting on the porch steps with a gun during the height of white violence against blacks in post-World War I Alabama.
After she married Raymond Parks, she joined him in his work in trying to help nine young black men, ages 12 to 19, who were accused of raping two white women in 1931. The nine were later convicted by an all-white jury in Scottsboro, Ala., part of a long legal odyssey for the so-called Scottsboro Boys.
In the 1940s, Parks joined the NAACP and was elected secretary of its Montgomery, Ala., branch, working with civil rights activist Edgar Nixon to fight barriers to voting for blacks and investigate sexual violence against women, Theoharis said.
Just five months before refusing to give up her seat, Parks attended Highlander Folk School, which trained community organizers on issues of poverty but had begun turning its attention to civil rights.
After the bus boycott, Parks and her husband lost their jobs and were threatened. They left for Detroit, where Parks was an activist against the war in Vietnam and worked on poverty, housing and racial justice issues, Theoharis said.
Theoharis said that while she considers the 9-foot-statue of Parks in the Capitol an "incredible honor" for Parks, "I worry about putting this history in the past when the actual Rosa Parks was working on and calling on us to continue to work on racial injustice."
Parks has been honored previously in Washington with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999, both during the Clinton administration.
But McCauley said the Statuary Hall honor is different.
"The medal you could take it, put it on a mantel," McCauley said. "But her being in the hall itself is permanent and children will be able to tour the (Capitol) and look up and see my aunt's face."
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Scientists link extreme weather to giant atmospheric waves
A new study links extreme weather events to interference in global air-flow patterns.
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The Northern Hemisphere has taken a beating from?extreme weather?in recent years ? the 2003 European heat wave, the 2010 Pakistan flood and the 2011 heat wave in the United States, for example. These events, in a general sense, are the result of the?global movement of air.
Giant waves of air in the atmosphere normally even out the climate, by bringing warm air north from the tropics and cold air south from the Arctic. But a new study suggests these colossal waves have gotten stuck in place during extreme weather events.
"What we found is that during several recent extreme weather events these planetary waves almost freeze in their tracks for weeks,"?lead author Vladimir Petoukhov, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany, said in a statement. "So instead of bringing in cool air after having brought warm air in before, the heat just stays."
How long these weather extremes last is critical, the researchers say. While two or three days of 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) pose little threat, 20 days or more can lead to extreme heat stress, which can trigger deaths, forest fires and lost harvests. [The World's 10 Weirdest Weather Events]
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The researchers created equations to model the motion of the massive air waves, determining what it takes to make the waves plough to a stop and build up. The team then used these models to crunch daily weather data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
During extreme weather events, the waves were indeed trapped and amplified, the scientists found. They also saw a significant increase in the occurrence of these trapped waves.
Here's how the waves may be getting trapped: The burning of fossil fuels causes?more warming in the Arctic?than in other latitudes, because the loss of snow and ice means heat gets absorbed by the darker ground, not reflected (as it would by the white snow). This warming lessens the temperature difference between the Arctic and northern latitudes like Europe. Since these differences drive air flow, a smaller difference means less air movement. Also, land areas warm and cool more easily than oceans. The result is an unnatural pattern of air flow that prevents the air waves from circulating over land.
The study's results help explain the spike in summer weather extremes. Previous research had shown a link between?climate change and extreme weather, but did not identify the mechanism.
"This is quite a breakthrough, even though things are not at all simple ? the suggested physical process increases the probability of weather extremes, but additional factors certainly play a role as well, including natural variability," study co-author Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, also of PIK, said in a statement.
The 32-year period studied provides a good explanation of past extreme weather events, the researchers say, but is too short to make predictions about how often such events may occur in the future.
The findings were reported online today (Feb. 25) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Jaidah Automotive announces arrival in Doha of Chevrolet's all-new ...
The Camaro - popularly known as a 'muscle car' - debuted back in 1966 and is now in its fifth generation, which was launched in 2009 with a striking new look.
The new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 - the most technically advanced car ever developed in its class - has arrived in Jaidah Automotive's Doha showroom.
Powered by a supercharged 6.2-liter V8 engine producing a mammoth 580 horsepower, the Camaro ZL1 is the fastest Camaro ever offered by Chevrolet, with a top speed of 296 km/h, accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.9 seconds (delivered through newly-design, 20-inch forged aluminum wheels).
It is also packed with performance technologies, highlighted by Magnetic Ride Control, and advanced materials such as a vented carbon fiber hood insert.
There is a lot more to the car than just power, though. The ZL1 features technologically-advanced and highly developed chassis and suspension systems that help it deliver balanced, track-ready handling and braking power to complement its high engine output. Power is delivered to the rear wheels through either a six-speed manual or automatic transmission. With either transmission, the Camaro ZL1 delivers supercar performance.
The manual transmission has been tuned for improved shift feel, with a dual-mass flywheel, twin-disc clutch, and triple synchros for smooth, precise shifts. Similarly, the '6L90' automatic transmission has been strengthened to handle the torque and horsepower produced by the supercharged engine.
To make the ZL1 perform equally well on street and track, the 6L90 features three distinct drive modes: Drive, where the shift pattern is calibrated for optimal fuel economy; Sport, where the shift pattern is calibrated for more aggressing driving, and Manual, where the 6L90 offers the driver true manual control and maximum performance.
The Camaro ZL1 is the first sports car to feature the third-generation of Magnetic Ride. This advanced suspension system employs valveless damping and Magneto-Rheological (MR) fluid technology to match the suspension firmness to match the road and driving conditions. With Magnetic Ride Control, customers enjoy the best of both worlds: a comfortable ride that makes the ZL1 appropriate as a daily driver and the incredibly precise body control that makes the ZL1 so enjoyable on the track.
Also standard on the Camaro ZL1 is Performance Traction Management, which integrates magnetic ride control, launch control, traction control, electronic stability control and electric power steering response to enhance all aspects of performance.
Everything about the ZL1's visual design is directly related to its technology and performance, especially aerodynamics. Chevrolet's designers' goal was to execute function-oriented design with beautifully sculpted forms, creating an imposing, powerful persona. ZL1's signature from the front is the redesigned fascia and aluminum hood with a raised, carbon fiber insert. The fascia includes a front splitter and new vertical fog lamps, this area includes air intakes designed for brake cooling.
High-intensity discharge headlamps and fog lamps are standard and the rear of the car includes a diffuser and spoiler - functional elements that enhance the car's aerodynamics.
The interior of the Camaro ZL1 features standard leather seating surfaces with suede microfiber inserts and heated, powered-adjustable front seats. Microfiber suede is repeated as an accent on the instrument panel. Standard technologies include a nine-speaker Boston Acoustics audio system; USB and Bluetooth connectivity; and rear-park assist with a rear-view camera display in the 7 inch color touch screen, which is located on the dashboard. Other enhancements include a redesigned steering wheel, alloy pedals and a 'Head-Up Display with unique performance readouts.
Mr Mark Jenkins, General Manager of Jaidah Automotive, commented, "Jaidah Automotive is delighted to bring the new Camaro ZL1 to Qatar. The Camaro ZL1 is an exceptional automobile which is about high-tech performance and design, and is a type of car no one has ever brought to this segment previously. It's a car, in fact, which has never been seen in Qatar before."
"It's the most technically-advanced Camaro ever created and can only be seen in Qatar at Jaidah Automotive showrooms. It's simply stunning to look at - a real head-turner - and the stunning looks are matched by the outrageous performance coming from the 6.2-liter engine, not to mention the raft of technological improvements that have been made to the car," he added.
"Since the Camaro was reborn in 2009 with its incredible new look, the marque has gone from strength to strength, and the ZL represents the pinnacle of this particular model. When I say that the Camaro ZL1 can only be seen at the Jaidah Automotive showrooms that is true - but not for long. We anticipate that a lucky few 'owners to be' will soon be showing off the ZL1 on Doha's streets," he concluded.
"Chevrolet has somehow made what was already a fantastic automobile even better and, as a result, we are certain that there is going to be a huge level of interest in the ZL1. Believe me, when you do see a Camaro ZL1 pass you in Doha, you'll know it," added Mr Jenkins.
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London City Travel Tips
One of the worlds largest and premier destinations is London. Every year millions of people come and visit the city. Whatever your purpose is, there is always an activity and a place for you to go in London.
But before you pack your bags and get giddy about it, you have to make certain preparations first. Its good to wander and be spontaneous but there are some things that need to be planned for the sake of safety and convenience.
When you travel to London, there are several things that you need to be ready for. Here are some tips that can help in your preparation:
Pick a flight
London has airports that are great points of entry from everywhere around the world. The price usually varies depending on your point of origin, airline and travel date. Its cheaper to travel during off peak seasons under promo rates of airline companies. You can also cut costs by booking the flight early. If you book near your travel period, the rates are usually higher than normal. You can start booking as early as six months before the flight to get a discounted rate.
Book other transport
As soon as you;ve got your flight booked, the next thing you need o think about is ground transport like the airport transfers. With the way things are in London, its difficult to get a cab at a good rate from the airport. Its good to book London city airport transfers ahead of time. This way you wont have to worry about going to and from the airport upon arrival and departure.
Choose a good hotel
Another common problem for tourists is the rate of accommodations. London is generally an expensive place to travel in. Most of the hotels are high end and expensive. But there are also some that are less expensive. You just have to book early.
Plan your destinations
Make sure you make a plan and itinerary for your trip. Make a list of all the sites you want to visit. Check out some other recommended sites. Make a detailed itinerary of the schedule and the places that youre going to go to. Hiring a tour guide would be helpful.
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Facebook agrees to remove some Newtown pages
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ? Facebook has agreed to remove some so-called tribute pages related to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting over concerns they're being used to exploit the tragedy, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Monday.
Echoing complaints already brought by some Sandy Hook families, Blumenthal and fellow Connecticut Democrats U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty requested the removal of offending pages in a letter to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg Monday morning.
The lawmakers said some pages purportedly set up to honor the victims of the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown have been used to exploit or harass the victims' families and could be used as vehicles for financial fraud.
The lawmakers also said the pages also appear to violate Facebook's own terms of use, which prohibit users from creating accounts for anyone other than themselves.
In the letter, the lawmakers said they know of more than 100 pages dedicated just one of the victims, slain teacher Victoria Soto.
Some of those contain postings from conspiracy theorists who claim the shootings were staged, and that Soto and others were actors.
"Certainly there have been many, too many, of these pages that are intimidating or harassing or exploitive," Blumenthal said. "I'm pleased that Facebook has responded positively."
The lawmakers said Facebook also had received complaints from Soto's family and the family of Kaitlin Roig, a first-grade teacher who survived the shooting and has been credited with saving the lives of her students by locking the class in a small bathroom and barricading the door.
A Facebook page titled "Kaitlin Roig is a Hero" contains numerous well-wishes but also prompted abusive posts, such as one that reads, "Congratulations Kaitlin or whatever your name is.. Now you're famous and got to meet the 'President.' You ought to be ashamed of yourself."
Blumenthal said his office received a phone call Monday from Facebook officials saying they had already begun removing abusive pages.
Facebook did not immediately reply to an email request for comment.
There has been one fraud arrest already connected to a Sandy Hook Facebook posting.
Nouel Alba, a 37-year-old New York City woman, is accused of using her Facebook account, telephone calls and text messages to seek donations for what she called a "funeral fund." She allegedly told one donor that she had to enter the scene of the mass shooting in Newtown to identify her nephew, according to the criminal complaint. Jury selection in her trial has been scheduled for March.
Blumenthal said they are not asking that all Sandy Hook-related tribute or donation pages be removed, just the ones that are not authorized by the families.
"Facebook needs to follow its own rules, and enforce those rules," Blumenthal said.
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Court won't hear campaign contributions appeal
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal of a decision upholding a century-old ban on corporate campaign contributions in federal elections.
The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from William P. Danielczyk Jr. and Eugene R. Biagi, who wanted the courts to say the ban violates corporations' free-speech rights.
A federal judge agreed with them, but the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., overturned that decision. The Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision struck down a prohibition against corporate spending on campaign activities by independent groups but left untouched the ban on direct contributions to candidates.
The judge said independent expenditures and direct contributions were both political speech, but the appeals court said they must be regulated differently.
The justices will not review that decision.
This comes one week after the justices decided to hear a challenge to limits on how much an individual can give to political campaigns. In that case, an Alabama man argues that it's unconstitutional to stop a donor from giving more than $46,200 to political candidates and $70,800 to political committees and PACs.
Shaun McCutcheon says he accepts that he can only give $2,500 to a single candidate but says he should be able to give that amount to as many GOP candidates as he wants.
The justices will hear that case later this year.
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It's personal and business in GOP fight over Hagel
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The fierce Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary is personal and business.
The nasty fight long has been seen as a proxy for the never-ending scuffles between the Democratic president and congressional Republicans, with barely any reservoir of good will between the White House and lawmakers, and the GOP still smarting over the November election results.
Barring any surprises, the drawn-out battle over Hagel's nomination probably will end this coming week with his Senate confirmation. But his fellow Republicans have roughed him up.
A vote is expected on Tuesday.
In the weeks after Obama secured a second term, Republicans knocked out a presidential favorite, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, and dashed her secretary of state hopes over her widely debunked remarks about protests precipitating the assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya on Sept. 11.
Emboldened Republicans then set their sights on Hagel, whose GOP classification won him no points with the party.
The former two-term Nebraska senator was widely viewed as a political heretic. He disagreed with President George W. Bush over the Iraq war, stayed on the sidelines in the 2008 president race between Obama and the Republican nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, and endorsed fellow Vietnam veteran and former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey in last year's Nebraska Senate race.
Republicans remember it well.
"There's a lot of ill will toward Sen. Hagel because when he was a Republican, he attacked President Bush mercilessly, at one point said he was the worst president since Herbert Hoover, said the surge (of U.S. troops in Iraq) was the worst blunder since the Vietnam War, which is nonsense, and was anti-his own party and people," McCain said in an interview on Fox News on the day Republicans stalled Hagel's nomination.
Hagel didn't help his cause with his past opposition to unilateral penalties against Iran, his comment about the influence of the "Jewish lobby" in Washington, his support for reducing the nation's nuclear arsenal and remarks that created widespread doubts about his backing for Israel.
His halting and uneven performance at his confirmation hearing also hurt his nomination.
McCain, one of Hagel's friends during their years in the Senate, would have been a crucial vote to help sway other Republicans to back the nominee. Instead, he is one of more than a dozen opposing Hagel.
"I think he will have been weakened, but having said that, the job that he has is too important," McCain told reporters Friday during a visit to Mexico. "I know that I and my other colleagues, if he's confirmed, and he very likely will be, will do everything we can to work with him."
The nomination fight also is about the business of re-electing Republicans in 2014. Challenging the Democratic president over his nominations and policies is clearly a winner with the conservative base, a point not lost on GOP incumbents wary of challenges from the tea party.
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who's up for re-election next year, is getting high marks from Republicans for his relentless effort to get more information about the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, and his fierce opposition to Hagel.
"Most people down here think he's dead-on in his arguments and hope that he continues to press the issues," said Warren Tompkins, a longtime GOP strategist.
The Libya attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans has been a political flashpoint for Republicans who accused the Obama administration of an election-year cover-up of a terrorist assault.
An independent review conducted by respected former diplomats failed to mollify the GOP, who demanded testimony from Hillary Rodham Clinton, secretary of state when the attack occurred, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
Graham has been at the forefront in seeking emails, communiques and videos while threatening to delay both Hagel's nomination and that of CIA Director-nominee John Brennan, who also has become entangled in the Libya dispute.
During a stop in Easley, S.C., this past week, Graham insisted that his effort has nothing to do with politics.
"It's not because he's a Democrat and I'm a Republican," he said, referring to Obama. "It's because it really was system failure and we need learn from it. We have not gotten the information, and we're going to get it if I have to die trying."
The White House has agreed to give the Senate Intelligence Committee additional documents related to the Benghazi attack, according to a congressional aide said. The material includes emails between national security officials showing the debate within the administration over how to describe the attack.
Graham also has been intense in opposing Hagel, portraying the former GOP senator as an out-of-the-mainstream radical. Some of the toughest questions of Hagel during his confirmation hearing last month came from Graham, who seized on Hagel's "Jewish lobby" remark and asked him to "name one dumb thing we've been goaded into doing due to pressure by the Israeli, Jewish lobby."
Hagel was often tentative in his response in the face of GOP grilling.
"He's leading, he's governing," Glenn McCall, the chairman of the York (S.C.) County Republican Party and a GOP committeeman, said of Graham. "More and more I talk to Republicans ? and even those that are conservative Democrats ? I think folks are looking for leadership."
Both Tompkins and McCall cited a Winthrop University poll released last week that showed Graham with strong support from registered Republicans in the state, with 72 percent holding a favorable opinion of the senator.
It's a turnaround from several years ago when Graham's work with Democrats on climate change and immigration as well as his votes for Obama's nominees for the Supreme Court angered South Carolina Republicans, with some calling him out of touch and Charleston and Lexington counties voting to censure him over his bipartisan work.
"It might be the right thing to do ... but when you partner with Hillary Clinton or you partner with John Kerry, you're going to be looked upon with a lot of suspicion in South Carolina," Tompkins said. "You have to be careful who you dance with."
Kerry, a former Democratic senator from Massachusetts, has just replaced Clinton as secretary of state.
Graham still may face a primary challenge, but he and other GOP incumbents are determined to head off any conservative uprising as Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch successfully did in his 2012 race. They want to avoid the fate of the only GOP primary loser last year ? Indiana's longtime Sen. Dick Lugar.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the No. 2 Republican and a candidate next year, took the lead on the Senate floor to block a vote on Hagel on Feb. 14 and was one of 15 Republicans last week to call for Obama to withdraw the nomination.
Cornyn got a primary challenger last week.
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Cypress Bay High School Girls Nekkid Photo Scandal Goes Viral On Twitter & Has Sparked A Criminal Investigation! (Dangers Of "Sexting")
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Around the country, some teens who have sent or received explicit pictures have been charged with possession of child pornography.
Some Twitter users in fact forwarded the photos apparently unaware that doing so could make them a target for criminal prosecution.
Around the country, some teens who have sent or received explicit pictures have been charged with possession of child pornography.
Some Twitter users in fact forwarded the photos apparently unaware that doing so could make them a target for criminal prosecution.
Janet Johnson, a Jacksonville criminal defense attorney, said adults who tweeted the photos or even forwarded the website link could wind up facing longer jail time than the teens who actually posted the pictures online. A key reason: Those teenagers, while still potentially facing the charge of disseminating child porn, would likely be tried in a more lenient juvenile court proceeding.
For adults convicted of spreading the images, a couple of years of prison time is a real possibility, Johnson said, even for first-time offenders. That conviction would also carry the label of being a registered sex offender" - Miami Herald
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AP PHOTOS: Portraits of Pakistani Taliban victims
AP PHOTOS: Portraits of Pakistani Taliban victims
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?In this Saturday, July 7, 2102, photo, Pakistani daily worker Mufeed Ali, 48, who was injured by a remote control bomb at Lahore train station, on April, 24, 2012, reacts while posing for a picture in Lahore, Pakistan. Hazratullah Khan's right leg was amputated below the knee after he survived a car bombing as he was on his way home from school. His response when asked whether peace talks should be held with the Taliban leaders who ordered attacks like the ones that maimed him is simple: Hang them alive. Slice their flesh off their bodies and cut them into pieces. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
In this Saturday, July 7, 2102, photo, Pakistani daily worker Mufeed Ali, 48, who was injured by a remote control bomb at Lahore train station, on April, 24, 2012, reacts while posing for a picture in Lahore, Pakistan. Hazratullah Khan's right leg was amputated below the knee after he survived a car bombing as he was on his way home from school. His response when asked whether peace talks should be held with the Taliban leaders who ordered attacks like the ones that maimed him is simple: Hang them alive. Slice their flesh off their bodies and cut them into pieces. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
In this Thursday, Feb. 21, 2012, photo, Pakistani student Hazratullah Khan, 14, who was injured in a car bombing on December 17, 2012 in Peshawar, poses for a picture in Peshawar, Pakistan. Hazratullah Khan's right leg was amputated below the knee after he survived a car bombing as he was on his way home from school. His response when asked whether peace talks should be held with the Taliban leaders who ordered attacks like the ones that maimed him is simple: Hang them alive. Slice their flesh off their bodies and cut them into pieces. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
In this Sunday, July 15, 2012 photo, Pakistani student Tahir Wilayat, 17, who was injured on June, 12, 2012, by a bomb planted on a donkey cart in Peshawar, poses for a picture in Peshawar, Pakistan. To many victims of Taliban violence, the idea of negotiating with people responsible for so much human pain is abhorrent. Their voices, however, are rarely heard in Pakistan, a country where people have long been conflicted about whether the Taliban are enemies bent on destroying the state or fellow Muslims who should be welcomed back into the fold after years of fighting.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
In this Thursday, July 12, 2012, photo, Pakistani Bachir Gul, 42, who was injured by a remote control bomb in Peshawar on October, 9, 2007, reacts while posing for a picture, in Peshawar, Pakistan. To many victims of Taliban violence, the idea of negotiating with people responsible for so much human pain is abhorrent. Their voices, however, are rarely heard in Pakistan, a country where people have long been conflicted about whether the Taliban are enemies bent on destroying the state or fellow Muslims who should be welcomed back into the fold after years of fighting.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
In this Sunday, July 15, 2012, photo, Pakistani student Farouq Aftab, 12, who was injured on June, 12, 2012, by a bomb planted on a donkey-cart in Peshawar, reacts while posing for a picture in Peshawar, Pakistan. To many victims of Taliban violence, the idea of negotiating with people responsible for so much human pain is abhorrent. Their voices, however, are rarely heard in Pakistan, a country where people have long been conflicted about whether the Taliban are enemies bent on destroying the state or fellow Muslims who should be welcomed back into the fold after years of fighting.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
In recent weeks, the Pakistani government and Taliban forces fighting in northwestern tribal areas have expressed an interest in peace talks to end the years-long conflict. An estimated 30,000 civilians and 4,000 soldiers have died in terrorist attacks in Pakistan since Sept. 11, 2001 ? many at the hands of the Pakistani Taliban. Many of those victims are angry at the prospect of peace talks with their attackers.
"Hang them alive," said 14-year-old Hazratullah Khan, who lost his right leg below the knee in a car bombing on his way home from school. "Slice the flesh off their bodies and cut them into pieces. That's what they have been doing to us."
AP's chief photographer for Pakistan, Muhammed Muheisen, made a series of portraits of some of these victims of Taliban violence.
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Sooners Shut Out No. 23 Florida State
Feb. 23, 2013
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In defeating No. 23 Florida State, 6-0, on Saturday at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, the Sooners improved to 15-0 on the season and 7-0 against ranked teams. In those seven wins, Oklahoma has outscored its opponents 47-0.
Oklahoma opened the scoring on Saturday in the second inning.
Shelby Pendley led off with a double that got under the glove of a diving Morgan Bullock in center field. After moving to third on a groundout, Pendley came home when Destinee Martinez doubled into the gap in left center.
Martinez came all the way around to score on the play when Florida State left fielder Kirstin Austin committed a throwing error as she threw the ball out of play.
The runs proved to be all the support that Keilani Ricketts needed in the circle.
In improving to 7-0, the senior struck out 11 and allowed just a lone single in the first inning as she threw her sixth shutout of the season and lowered her earned run average to just 0.78.
Ricketts and the Sooners retired the final 16 Seminoles batters of the game, not allowing a base runner beyond the second inning.
The Sooners' 2-0 lead doubled in the third inning as Georgia Casey reached on a one-out bunt single and came all the way around to score when Jessica Shults followed with a sharp grounder through the left side that ran to the wall for a double.
In the fifth inning, Lauren Chamberlain ripped a line drive home run over the fence in left center field for her eighth homer of the year and 38th of her career.
Oklahoma took advantage of a Florida State error in the fifth to make it 6-0.
Shults reached on a throwing error by Seminoles third baseman Briana Hamilton. After a wild pitch and a groundout, Pendley advanced Shults to third with a single through the right side. Williams then grounded out to first base, unassisted to plate Shults.
After playing their first 15 games away from Norman, the Sooners play their first home game this Friday as part of its Spring Preview Tournament. OU faces Nebraska on Friday in Norman at 6 p.m., before taking on Houston and the Cornhuskers in Oklahoma City on Saturday. A final contest against the Cougars rounds out play on Sunday.
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Orange Acquired Dailymotion For $168 Million By Buying Out Remaining 51% Stake [Update: Orange Confirms]
Back in January 2011, Orange acquired 49 percent of Dailymotion for $78 million (?59 million), and declared that they wanted to buy out the remaining 51 percent. But Dailymotion had to wait two years before further talks. By spending $80.6 million (?61 million) for the remaining stake, Orange acquired 100 percent of Dailymotion for $168 million (?127 million).Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/-Yl_ktB8SqU/
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Apple called a ?bubble? that will likely follow Microsoft
AppleOnce the darling of Wall Street, Apple (AAPL) shares have plummeted in recent months as investor sentiment turned sour. Many analysts believe the company?s current slump will be reversed as new products like the ?iWatch? and Apple?s rumored HDTV launch ? even Apple bulls who have pumped the brakes a bit?still hold sky-high price targets ? but one industry watcher believes Apple?s glory days in the market are behind us.
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?Apple is a bubble. It looks like a bubble, acts like a bubble and is falling like a bubble,??ADVFN.com CEO Clem Chambers?wrote in a contribution to Forbes. ?A bubble doesn?t have to be created by total fantasy, a bubble is just something inflated by circumstances real or otherwise, that must deflate to some kind of ?normality.? Bonds are a bubble at the moment and that bubble will burst too.?
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He continued, ?Bubbles have their reasons but the law of averages when combined with the law of large numbers means that bubbles go pop!?
Chambers believes that the path Microsoft (MSFT) shares took, represented in the chart below, is ?the likely shape of the future of Apple.?
But he warns that bears see Apple following in Dell?s (DELL) footsteps, or even BlackBerry?s (BBRY):
Recent regulatory filings revealed that the massive dive Apple took after hitting a record high ahead of the iPhone 5 launch was?driven largely by huge hedge funds that pulled in billions while selling off Apple shares. Each of those funds still holds a large position in Apple, however, so it stands to reason that they would like to see Apple rebound from its current dip.
Apple closed down 0.62% at $446.06 on Thursday, off nearly 37% in the five months since it hit a record high of $705.07.
This article was originally published on BGR.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/apple-called-bubble-likely-microsoft-152025495.html
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NASA deciphering the mysterious math of the solar wind
Feb. 21, 2013 ? Many areas of scientific research -- Earth's weather, ocean currents, the outpouring of magnetic energy from the sun -- require mapping out the large scale features of a complex system and its intricate details simultaneously.
Describing such systems accurately, relies on numerous kinds of input, beginning with observations of the system, incorporating mathematical equations to approximate those observations, running computer simulations to attempt to replicate observations, and cycling back through all the steps to refine and improve the models until they jibe with what's seen. Ultimately, the models successfully help scientists describe, and even predict, how the system works.
Understanding the sun and how the material and energy it sends out affects the solar system is crucial, since it creates a dynamic space weather system that can disrupt human technology in space such as communications and global positioning system (GPS) satellites.
However, the sun and its prodigious stream of solar particles, called the solar wind, can be particularly tricky to model since as the material streams to the outer reaches of the solar system it carries along its own magnetic fields. The magnetic forces add an extra set of laws to incorporate when trying to determine what's governing the movement. Indeed, until now, equations for certain aspects of the solar wind have never been successfully devised to correlate to the observations seen by instruments in space. Now, for the first time, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has created a set of the necessary equations, published in Physical Review Letters on Dec. 4, 2012.
"Since the 1970s, scientists have known that movement in the solar wind often has the characteristics of a kind of wave called an Alfv?n wave," says Aaron Roberts, a space scientist at Goddard. "Imagine you have a jump rope and you wiggle one end so that it sends waves down the rope. Alfv?n waves are similar, but the moving rope is a magnetic field line itself."
The Alfv?n waves in this case tended to have great consistency in height -- or amplitude, which is the common term when talking about waves -- but they are random in direction. You might think of it like a jump rope twirling, always the same distance from center, but nonetheless able to be in many places in space. Another way scientists have envisioned the waves is as a "random walk on a sphere." Again, always the same distance from a given center, but with a variable placement.
Such metaphorical descriptions are based on what instruments in space have, in fact, observed when they see magnetic waves go by in the solar wind. But it turns out that the equations to describe this kind of movement -- equations necessary to advance scientific models of the entire system -- were not easily found.
"The puzzle has been to figure out why the amplitude is so constant," says Roberts. "But it's been very difficult to find equations that satisfy all the characteristics of the magnetic field."
Similar waves are, in fact, seen in light, known as polarized waves. But magnetic fields have additional constraints on what shapes and configurations are even possible. Roberts found a way to overlap numerous waves of different wavelengths in such a way that they ultimately made the variation in amplitude as small as possible.
To his surprise, the equations Roberts devised matched what was observed more closely than he'd expected. Not only did the equations show waves of constant amplitude, but they also showed occasional random jumps and sharp changes -- an unexplained feature seen in the observations themselves.
"Overlapping the waves in this way gives us a way of writing down equations that we didn't have before," says Roberts. "It also has this nice consequence that it is more realistic than we expected, since it shows discontinuities we actually see in the wind. This is important for simulations and models where we want to start with initial conditions that are as close to the observed solar wind as we can get."
Of course, having an equation doesn't yet tell us the reason why the waves in the solar wind are shaped in this way. Nonetheless, equations that describe how the waves move open the door to increasingly accurate simulations that may well help explain such causes. By alternately improving models and improving observations, scientists continue the cyclic nature of such research, until just what physical action on the sun causes these curiously-shaped Alfv?n waves someday becomes clear.
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The Keystone XL pipeline will only add to Canada's environmental downfall | Heather McRobie
Syncrude Canada Ltd's tar sand production facility in Alberta Photograph: Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images
The choice President Obama has faced in recent weeks ? whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline ? has been framed as a choice between losing the support of environmentalists or alienating America's key ally, Canada. Here's a better approach: President Obama should use the Keystone XL pipeline issue to send a message to Canada that its environmental policies are damaging to both Canada and the world.
The Keystone pipeline feels like a reward for Canada's worst practices. Last year was perhaps the nadir of Canada's dwindling track record on environmental issues. Not only has Stephen Harper's government amended the Coastal Trade Act to explicitly encourage oil companies to drill for oil in the Gulf of St Lawrence ? the world's largest estuary and home to a unique ecosystem that would likely be damaged by the process ? but the $160m cuts to environmental spending in last year's budget decimated the projects set up to monitor and mitigate against the damage caused by tar sand refining and drilling. For example, one victim of the federal cuts is oil spill response units, which means that drilling and pipeline projects will become even riskier. For the Keystone XL project to go ahead under these circumstances looks to be courting disaster.
Canadian oil industry advocates argue that the Keystone XL pipeline, the proposed $7bn pipeline that would run nearly 2,000 miles from Canada's oil sands to the Gulf of Mexico, is crucial for Canada, where oil is a key factor in Canada's economic growth. But criticism has come not just from environmental activists, but those concerned about the safety of the pipeline, especially in light of government cuts to the bodies that would regulate it.
In his resignation this month, outgoing Commissioner of the Environment Scott Vaughan pointed to, amongst other "gaps" in Canada's environmental policies, a concerning lack of preparedness in the face of an offshore oil spill. Yet it is unlikely that Harper will pay attention, which is why it's important that President Obama does.
Harper is the man who derailed the Kyoto Protocol, dismissing it as a "socialist scheme". In his years of minority-government rule through the 2000s, Harper pushed both Albertan tar sand projects and Arctic drilling, landing Canada last in a World Wildlife Fund ranking for G8 countries in tackling climate change. Since gaining a majority government in 2011, his increased power has given him a stronger hand in a relatively strong Canadian economy to push oil interests and cut support for climate research.
Earlier this month, Obama, through America's ambassador to Canada, encouraged the country to do more to tackle climate change. America "lecturing" Canada on the environment is hard to stomach, given the profligate environmental damage enacted in the US, particularly under the Bush administration. But Obama, at least, had the high ground of being largely on track to meet his 2020 climate goals. The Keystone XL pipeline would only set both countries back and put them further at risk.
Canadians are concerned about the environment and support action on climate change, but the narrative generated by the government sets environmental concerns against economic ones, sidelining the necessity of addressing the issue and ignoring the fact that the economic costs of climate change will be high for Canada.
It has been argued that, if America does not go ahead with the Keystone XL pipeline, the pipeline will instead be a deal between Canada and China, as Harper went to Beijing to expound the benefits of Canadian oil the last time Obama rejected the pipeline deal. However, rightly or wrongly, America remains a strong influence on Canada, and in this case a high-profile and public rejection of the scheme, combined with a criticism of Canada's environmental policies, may be the wake-up call Harper needs.
It's worth bearing in mind that oil companies still operate with little check for the damage they cause. On Wednesday, the American Justice Department reduced the maximum fine BP may face for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster by $3.4bn a week before the trial is due to begin on what may well be one of the worst environmental disasters in history. Protesters against the Keystone XL pipeline have urged Obama to "keep his promise" to tackle climate change. Stephen Harper has also reiterated his commitment to tackling climate change ? he has an opportunity now to turn over a new leaf.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/21/keystone-xl-pipeline-bad-for-canada
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Stocks fall following Federal Reserve minutes
Stocks closed down on Wall Street Wednesday as details of the Fed's?January meeting seemed to catch stock investors by surprise.
Specialist Anthony Confusione, right, works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks surged at the start of the year then drifted slightly higher in recent weeks with few major events to drive trading one way or another.
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EnlargeMinutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting spurred a late drop in the stock market Wednesday. Weaker worldwide sales from Caterpillar also helped pull the market lower.
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The Dow fell 100 points to 13,935 shortly before the closing bell. Caterpillar slid $2.50 to $93.10.
Details of the Fed's January meeting seemed to catch investors by surprise. Several Fed policymakers worried that the bank's bond-buying effort could eventually unsettle financial markets or cause the bank to take losses. Even so, most of the Fed officials thought the economy faced fewer risks than in December.
Judging by the market's reaction, the Fed appears to be closer to ending its support for the economy than traders had expected, said Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at the brokerage BTIG. "We're at a point now where we're discussing how we're going to end this, not whether it's going to end," he said.
News that Apple's major supplier, Foxconn, stopped hiring at its largest plant in China helped push down Apple's stock. Foxconn reportedly said the hiring freeze was not caused by slumping orders for iPhones. Apple fell $10.39 to $449.45.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 18 points to 1,512. The Nasdaq composite fell 46 points to 3,167.
The stock market surged at the start of the year then drifted slightly higher in recent weeks with few major events to drive trading one way or another. That could change as soon as Congress returns from vacation next Monday. Deep federal spending cuts are scheduled to start March 1 unless Congress and the White House find a way to avoid them.
Both the Dow and the S&P 500 have gained 6 percent for the year. The Nasdaq is up 5 percent.
Phil Orlando, the chief market strategist at Federated Investors, believes the stock market has climbed too quickly this year. He's looking for it to get knocked down by 3 percent or more in the coming weeks. Another budget battle in Washington could be the trigger.
"There are a lot of us who say, 'We're a little bit ahead of ourselves here,'" Orlando said. "I still expect an all-time high for the S&P 500 this year, but it's going to get there in fits and starts."
Even though housing construction slowed down in January, the Department of Commerce reported Wednesday that new housing starts remained strong. Builders started construction at an annual rate of 890,000 last month, down 8.5 percent from December. Applications for building permits increased.
The Dow closed at its highest level of the year Tuesday, bringing it within one percent of 14,164, the record high reached more than five years ago.
In the U.S. government bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note slipped to 2.01 percent from 2.03 percent late Tuesday. The yield, used as a benchmark rate for mortgages and other loans, has climbed steadily higher since the start of the year, when it traded around 1.70 percent.
Among companies making moves:
? GPS device maker Garmin slumped 9 percent, the biggest drop in the S&P 500 index, after the company's results missed analysts' forecasts. Demand has waned for handheld navigation devices as more customers use maps on their smartphones. Garmin lost $3.77 to $35.47.
? Food giant ConAgra gained 18 cents to $33.63 after it raised its profit forecast for the year. The company, whose brands include Chef Boyardee, said its acquisition of Ralcorp will add a nickel per share to adjusted earnings this year.
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Yemeni Air Force suffers embarrassing crashes ? and Yemenis get angry at the US
After two recent high-profile military plane crashes, Yemenis are increasingly frustrated with their sub-par Air Force ? and accuse the government for outsourcing Air Force duties to the US.
Military personnel and people gather at the site of a military aircraft crash in Sanaa February 19. A Yemeni fighter jet crashed in the centre of the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, killing at least six people, medical sources said.
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EnlargeFor the second time in less than three months, residents of the Yemeni capital were startled to hear that a military plane had fallen from the sky.
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The pilot of the transport plane that crashed in November was able to steer it towards an empty area before it was brought down by a technical problem, killing all 10 aboard. But yesterday?s crash proved more tragic, as a Yemeni fighter jet crashed directly into a residential neighborhood, killing 12, including two children, as it ignited nearby homes.
The heartrending absurdity of yesterday?s incident has tempered the typically ubiquitous conspiracy theories, while activists have reiterated calls ? first made in the wake of an apparently accidental explosion at an arms depot in the capital last December ? for military installations to be removed from Yemeni cities.
The plane crash has also served as a tragic reminder of the state of Yemen?s dysfunctional, unequipped Air Force. In Yemen itself, the poor state of the Air Force is often embarrassingly cited as a symbol of rampant government corruption, but it is ultimately an issue with international significance.
Yemen is a key focus of US counterterrorism efforts, and in recent years the US has launched a series of air strikes, largely by unmanned drone, against suspected Al Qaeda targets there. The Yemeni government has allowed the strikes, but as their frequency has increased, opposition to the long-controversial policy has grown vocal.
Few Yemenis question the danger that local militants pose, but many argue that the current strategy is flawed. Some accuse the government of violating Yemens' sovereignty by virtually outsourcing the duties of its Air Force to a foreign nation as it fails to bring its own aircraft up to snuff.?
Yemen?s current president, Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi, has openly backed the US strikes ? a break from the quiet consent granted by his predecessor, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Fielding questions at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC last September, Hadi explicitly tied his decision to the state of the country?s Air Force and its inability to battle Al Qaeda-linked militants in the country on its own.
?The Yemeni Air Force cannot carry out missions at night,? he said. ?Even if they did, its highly unlikely they will be successful.?
Misgivings about the drone campaign have been heightened by sporadic cases of civilian casualties, most notoriously a strike last fall that missed its target and killed 13 civilians in a bus whose passengers included women and children.
And as the frequency of the strikes have increased, Yemenis have balked, calling it a violation of the nation?s sovereignty, complaining of the opacity of the operations, and saying the strikes have lead to militant blowback and a public outcry that could destabilize the country.
US officials have pushed back against such claims, but many here insist that the strikes have led to an uptick in anti-American sentiment and fueled further distrust of the government in Sanaa.
Locals in the central province of al-Bayda say resentment over American air strikes has prompted many local tribal leaders to refuse to cooperate with the government?s recently launched military offensive against Al Qaeda-linked militants based in the north of the province. And east of Sanaa, a recent attack on an oil pipeline in the restive province of Mareb has been characterized as the result of the failure of negotiations between the government and local tribesmen seeking compensation for damage caused by recent drone strikes.
?The [Yemeni] State?s lack of capacities has left it dependent on the US. But American airstrikes have killed many civilians ? including women and children; this is totally against human rights,? says Hooriya Mashoor, Yemen?s Minister of Human Rights. ?A good strategy would be [working] to build the capacity of national forces. There are other ways to fight terrorism that have less of a negative impact on civilians.?
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Traktor DJ for iPad Is Better Than Turntables
If you go out and hunt for a DJ app that lets you mix together two different tracks, you're going to come across a lot of really, really, bad design. Even the best stuff is a hell of fake spinning turntable skeuomorphs. After playing with Native Instruments' Traktor DJ for iPad, we're sure there's a better way. It takes advantage of the iPad's tabletness?rather than pretending the iPad is a Technics deck.
Traktor DJ shows you the two tracks you're mixing together the way they exist in the digital world: As linear waveforms. The app finds the beats of your music using the same processing algorithms as Native Instruments' well-respected Traktor computer software. Once you press play, cueing up the next track, setting loops, and syncing tracks from the songs you're playing is simple. The loop function, in particular, is dope: use two fingers to select the part of the song you want to loop, and it'll pull that chunk in real-time with zero interruption.
The app's tap based interface has lots of little smart little touches that makes it feel like the app is working with you rather than the other way around. I've got a lot of experience with music, but I'm not a DJ at all, and I found the app to be an incredibly fast learn. It's intuitive enough that I could see people with no music experience picking it up and fooling around on the couch or on the bus. For example, I have no idea what music to mix together, and luckily the app analyzed my iTunes library and suggested some matches. And there's plenty of advanced features for those with the know-how.
The app is available now for $20. For more tutorials and videos like the one embeded above, check out Native Instruments' website.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5985925/traktor-dj-for-ipad-is-better-than-turntables
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