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Friday, December 30, 2011
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Weather Underground Forecast for Thursday, December 29, 2011.
Active weather will continue across the northern tier of the nation on Thursday as a very active jet stream sends more disturbances across the North. A cold front extending through the Pacific Northwest and moist westerly flow will move through the Northern Intermountain West, bringing showers, periods of heavy rain, high elevation snowfall, and strong winds to parts of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming Wednesday night through Thursday. Snow accumulations in the mountains are expected to range from about 10 to 20 inches, while snow totals of about 2 to 8 inches are expected in the lower valleys. Sustained winds of 25 to 45 mph with gusts to 60 mph may accompany precipitation in Montana and Wyoming. These conditions may create periods of blowing and drifting snow, reduced visibilities, slick roads, and ultimately hazardous road conditions for travelers. Precipitation from this system is expected to spread into the Dakotas and Nebraska Thursday evening.
Meanwhile, precipitation will continue in the Pacific Northwest through the day, before the next and last system in this series of storms arrives Thursday night into Friday. Expect wet and windy weather with locally heavy rainfall and significant snowfall above 3,500 feet to accompany this system.
In the Midwest, a clipper will slide across North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Lake Michigan with a mix of rain, freezing rain, and snow through the afternoon. Areas of snow will be possible in parts of North Dakota in the morning and in Michigan. Snowfall amounts from this system are not expected to be very impressive. Up to 1 to 2 inches will be possible in parts of northern Michigan.
In the East, a cold blustery day is expected in the Northeast on Thursday as cold air continues to surge in on brisk west winds. Precipitation in region should taper off as high pressure builds in Thursday. Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Wednesday have ranged from a morning low of -13 degrees at Grand Marais Airport, Minn. to a high of 80 degrees at Ramona, Calif.
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New Hampshire ?Scientists? Urge GOP Contenders To Embrace Climate Change Hoax
New Hampshire ?Scientists? Urge GOP Contenders To Embrace Climate Change Hoax
The Warmists just won?t give up their cultish beliefs, and The Hill is there to run with the story without any fact checking
Fifty New Hampshire scientists Thursday called on the Republican presidential candidates to accept the ?overwhelming? scientific evidence behind climate change.
The scientists issued the joint statement just weeks before the Jan. 10 New Hampshire primary, a key early test for the GOP White House hopefuls.
?We urge all candidates for public office at national, state, and local levels, and all New Hampshire citizens, to acknowledge the overwhelming balance of evidence for the underlying causes of climate change, to support appropriate responses to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, and to develop local and statewide strategies to adapt to near-term changes in climate,? the scientists said.
?Ignoring the issue of climate change places our health, our quality of life, our economic vitality, and our children?s future at risk.?
Funny how these ?scientists? are worried about our children?s future, considering that the majority of the Believers are left of center and back the huge spending of Big Government, which will destroy the future of our kids through unsustainable debt, deficits, and unpaid liabilities. Also, if they were being precise, they would at least call it global warming, instead of the catch all ?climate change?, which allows the Warmists to embrace everything that happens under the banner of someone (else) having driven a car.
And then there is this, as explained by Drew Cline at the Union Leader
It is a funny little bit of propaganda made all the more humorous by its labeling as ?scientists? a historian, a sociologist, two political scientists, a professor of health economics, several civil engineers, two medical doctors, and some Ph.D. candidates.
Nothing says ?We are serious scientists; heed our doomsday predictions!? quite like the overstating of credentials. If they?ll overstate their credentials, then why wouldn?t they overstate the connection between recent weather events and human behavior?
Nonetheless, the petition got written up in The Hill, which lent it some undue legitimacy. Voters ought to ignore it.
Hence the reason I put scientists in quotes. But, then, the majority of people that bloviate about the need to Do Something about anthropogenic global warming aren?t climate scientists. Al Gore isn?t. Nor is James Hansen. Nor most of the people who work on the UN IPCC panel and write their press releases and documents. Nor most that attend the yearly UN climate change (hoax) conferences in exotic vacation spots, as well as all the other conferences.
But, anyhow, if we are supposed to listen to these 50 ?scientists? on the issue, why are we supposed to ignore the 31,000 who signed the petition against AGW?
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Airless, Springy ?Energy Return Wheel? Tire Promises To Improve Gas Mileage
The wheel may be one of humankind?s first inventions, but that doesn?t keep us from continuing to tinker with it. The Energy Return Wheel or ERW is a radical redesign of the common tire that promises to improve any vehicle?s handling and mileage ? the suspended ?wheel within a wheel? is essentially a spring that absorbs energy from bumps and returns it back to the road. The design is a unique take on tire dynamics ? traditional tires and even newer designs simply absorb energy of traveling over bumps.
Like Bridgstone?s Tweel The ERW wheel looks completely different from the tires we?ve been using since Charles Goodyear discovered vulcanized rubber. It is made from two steel hoops ? one is nestled within another and suspended by a series of springs. The outer hoop has a rubber casing like a typical tire and an inner membrane. The inner hoop has studs attaching the springs to the wheel, which can be torqued to make the tire more or less springy.
The inventor likens the dynamic of the tire to a garage door, which while very heavy, is balanced with springs to significantly reduce the energy of moving the door up and down. The outer ring of the ERW moves upwards over a bump and springs back while the inner ring stays in relatively in the same place. This means that at cruising speed all those little bumps and vibrations in the road are absorbed and returned to the road by the tire in the form of forward momentum. A typical inflated tire simply absorbs the bumps by flexing the sidewall, creating friction, which reduces efficiency.
It?s not clear how far development on the technology has progressed, or even how it handles on the open road. One potential pitfall is that the open space between the two hoops looks like a mud magnet (although this appears to be?addressed?in new renderings). Another concern is whether the steel hoop will be able to maintain structural integrity after hitting a major pothole. One thing is certain ? ERW tires will definitely turn heads, especially if they are mounted on a Tesla Roadster or a Fisker Karma.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
"Hot" Sandra Bullock Dines in Wyoming With Louis, Sister, Male Pals (omg!)
It wasn't the North Pole, but it sure was chilly for Louis Bardo Bullock and his mom Sandra Bullock in Jackson Hole, Wyoming two days before Christmas!
The actress, 47, was spotted coming in from the cold with her little boy -- who turns 2 in January --? at the trendy Rendezvous Bistro Dec. 23 for an early dinner.
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But the Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close star wasn't the only grown-up at the corner booth for that pre-Christmas Eve dinner: Bullock was joined by her sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, an older gentleman and two men in their 30s and 40s. (According to an onlooker, Bullock was strictly platonic with all of the men present.)
With understated makeup and sunglasses on her head, the Oscar-winning mom wore all black: black leather pants, sweater, scarf, boots and fur-lined parka, with her auburn locks swept up into a messy updo.
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Once little Louis warmed up from the cold outside, he giggled throughout the hour-long meal as the small group doted on him and his mom bounced him on her lap.
Serene and happy (she shared a grilled cheese with Louis and sipped her own glass of red wine), Bullock looked "very hot!" and "maternal," according to a fellow diner.
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Later on in the meal, Louis played with other youngsters -- two blonde toddler girls! -- dining across the way.
Bullock recently admitted on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno that her little boy is a huge "flirt" who "appreciates the fairer sex."
"He doesn't flirt with me like that, and someone told me that's probably a good thing," she joked. "He's got a look where he just cuts the eyes at the ladies, and I'm like, 'I'm so sorry! I don't know what's happening.'"
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Risking new Turkish ire, Israel debates recognition of the Armenian genocide
The Israeli parliament on Monday held its first public debate on whether to commemorate the Turkish genocide of Armenians a century ago, an emotionally resonant and politically fraught topic for Israel, founded on the ashes of the Holocaust and trying to salvage frayed ties with Turkey.
The session resulted from a rare confluence of political forces ? a decades-long effort by some on the left to get Israel to take a leading role in bringing attention to mass murder combined with those on the right angry at the way Turkey has criticized Israel over its policies toward the Palestinians.
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Previous efforts to declare one day a year a memorial for ?the massacre of the Armenian people? have failed, and hearings on the topic were restricted to closed sessions of the Knesset?s defence and foreign affairs committee because of concerns over Turkey?s reaction, especially at a time when relations were friendlier.
But with Turkey having recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv, the hearing was moved this year to the education committee where sessions are open. The debate was carried on live television.
?As a people and as a country we stand and face the whole world with the highest moral demand that Holocaust denial is something human history cannot accept,? Reuven Rivlin, the speaker of the Knesset, who has favoured official recognition of the genocide, said in his testimony. ?Therefore we cannot deny the tragedy of others.?
More than 15 countries have officially labelled as genocide the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the chaos surrounding the First World War and the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. Its denial is a crime in Switzerland and Slovenia.
The lower house of the French parliament just approved legislation requiring a fine of nearly $60,000 and a year in jail for denying it, prompting Turkey to recall its ambassador from Paris and cancel permission for French military planes to use Turkish airspace and French naval vessels to enter Turkish harbours.
Turkey acknowledges atrocities occurred but without any specific death toll and says the killings were not genocide but part of the inevitable tragedy of war.
At Monday?s hearing, attended by an official of the Armenian patriarchate of Jerusalem and members of Israel?s Armenian minority, some advocates of commemorating the massacre said their efforts had nothing to do with politics or with the Turkey of today. Rather, they said, the goal was to face history, educate young Israelis about genocide and publicly assert the need to prevent such acts.
But officials from the Foreign Ministry said relations with Turkey are currently fragile and that passing such a resolution could have bad strategic consequences. They did not take a stand on the commemoration but said the discussion could not be disentangled from regional developments.
After Israel invaded Gaza three years ago to stop rocket fire by Palestinian militants, Turkey expressed anger. A year and a half ago, the Israeli navy stopped a Turkish-sponsored flotilla from going to Gaza, killing nine activists aboard. Turkey demanded an apology and compensation and when Israel refused, ties were downgraded.
Otniel Schneller, a parliamentarian from the opposition Kadima Party and himself the son of Holocaust survivors, spoke against the commemoration, saying the region was growing more hostile to Israel in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings and that Israel had to be pragmatic.
?This is the time when we must rehabilitate our relations with Turkey because this is an existential issue for us,? he said. ?We have to integrate into the Middle East. Sometimes our desire to be right and moral overcomes our desire to exist, which is in the interest of the entire country.?
The politics of the debate have been head-spinning. The session was launched by the combined efforts of Alex Miller of the ultranationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party and Zahava Gal-On of the left-wing Meretz party. Enthusiastic advocates include many members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?s hawkish Likud party ? yet Mr. Netanyahu?s national security adviser, Yaakov Amidror, telephoned Mr. Rivlin of Parliament on Sunday and tried to get the session cancelled.
Ori Orbach, a parliamentarian from the right-wing Habayit Hayehudi party, challenged the government?s concerns about what Turkey might do and spoke for many conservatives here.
?How many times can they recall their ambassador?? he asked rhetorically. ?What can Turkey do to us? It?s our duty to teach what happened to the Armenian people.?
Many Jews argue for the unique nature of the Nazi Holocaust and efforts to view it in the context of other genocides have sometimes met with resistance. But Yehuda Bauer, a longstanding historian of the Holocaust, spoke at Monday?s session in strong support of commemorating the Armenians.
Later, by telephone, he said that the Nazi Holocaust was unprecedented in that it was the most extreme and thorough form of genocide so far in history ? the aim was to kill every single Jew everywhere in the world even though the Jews had no army, no government and their property had already been taken. Still, he noted, the Armenians lost two-thirds of their people in the killings that started in 1915 and the Jews only one-third in the Second World War. The Armenian genocide, he said, deserved wide discussion and education.
?As Jews, we have a special moral obligation and in my book that comes before any political consideration,? he said. He urged the study of the Armenian genocide throughout Israeli schools and naming April 24, when mass killings of Armenians began in 1915, as a date when Parliament would mark the deaths.
The committee took no action, agreeing to meet again.
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Sun Storms May Super-Charge Northern Lights Wednesday (SPACE.com)
Particles ejected by recent solar storms are due to slam into Earth over the next few days, possibly causing super-charged northern lights displays and temporary radio blackouts in some areas, experts say.
On Monday (Dec. 26), the sun unleashed a massive eruption of solar plasma known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME's fast-moving charged particles should squarely strike Earth's magnetic field at about 3:20 p.m. EST (2020 GMT) Wednesday, give or take seven hours, according to the website Spaceweather.com.
The particles from another CME could deliver a glancing blow to our planet a few hours earlier on Wednesday, Spaceweather.com reported.
The two impacts will likely spawn minor and/or moderate geomagnetic storms at high latitudes on Wednesday and Thursday. If they're powerful enough, geomagnetic storms can temporarily disrupt GPS signals, radio communications and power grids.
"Category G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storms are expected 28 and 29 December due to multiple coronal mass ejection arrivals," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center wrote in an update Tuesday (Dec. 27). "R1 (Minor) radio blackouts are expected until 31 December."
Geomagnetic storms can also trigger dramatic aurora displays, which are also known as the northern and southern lights. So skywatchers at higher latitudes may want to look up after sunset over the next few days.
The sun's recent eruptions are part of a pattern.
After remaining surprisingly quiet from 2005 through 2010, our star has come alive in 2011, spouting off numerous powerful flares and CMEs. An August flare, for example, was the strongest one seen in more than four years.
Most experts expect such outbursts to continue over the next few years. Solar activity waxes and wanes on an 11-year cycle, and scientists think the current one ? known as Solar Cycle 24 ? will peak in 2013.
You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter: @michaeldwall. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Dozens die as Christmas bombings sweep Nigeria
ABUJA?? Islamist sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a wave of Christmas Day bombings on Sunday, including an attack on a Catholic church that killed at least 35 people.
Boko Haram spokesman Abu Qaqa claimed the bombings in a statement to the journalists' association of Maiduguri, capital of the group's heartland.
The Christmas Day attacks show the growing national ambition of Boko Haram, which is responsible for at least 491 killings this year alone, according to an Associated Press count. The assaults come a year after a series of Christmas Eve bombings in Jos claimed by the militants left at least 32 dead and 74 wounded.
The first explosion on Sunday struck St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, a town in Niger state close to the capital, Abuja, authorities said.
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The first explosion on Sunday struck St. Theresa Catholic Church just after 8 a.m. The attack killed 35 people and wounded another 52, said Slaku Luguard, a coordinator with Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency.
"We were in the church with my family when we heard the explosion. I just ran out. Now I don't even know where my children or my wife are,'' Timothy Onyekwere told Reuters. "I don't know how many were killed but there were many dead.''
"I want to know if my wife is dead or alive," a man yelled as he tried to enter the area holding dead and wounded.
Story: Clashes between sect, police kill 61 in NigeriaNigeria's National Emergency Management Agency already has acknowledged it didn't have enough ambulances immediately on hand to help the wounded. Luguard also said an angry crowd that gathered at the blast site hampered rescue efforts as they refused to allow workers inside.
"We're trying to calm the situation," Luguard said. "There are some angry people around trying to cause problems."
President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south who is struggling to contain the threat of Islamist militancy, called the incident "unfortunate" but said Boko Haram would "not be (around) for ever. It will end one day."
The White House condemned the violent attacks, which it said appeared to be acts of terrorism.
"We condemn this senseless violence and tragic loss of life on Christmas Day," the White House said in a statement released from Hawaii, where President Barack Obama is vacationing.
"We have been in contact with Nigerian officials about what initially appear to be terrorist acts and pledge to assist them in bringing those responsible to justice," it said.
Jos, Yobe attacks
In Jos, a second explosion struck near a Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church, government spokesman Pam Ayuba said. Ayuba said gunmen later opened fire on police guarding the area, killing one police officer. Two other locally made explosives were found in a nearby building and disarmed, he said.
"The military are here on ground and have taken control over the entire place," Ayuba said.
The city of Jos is located on the dividing line between Nigeria's predominantly Christian south and Muslim north. Thousands have died in communal clashes there over the last decade.
There were also three attacks targeting a church, the police and army in Yobe in the north of the country, BBC News reported. Yobe has been at the center of clashes between militants and Nigeria's security forces, according to the BBC.
The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria's capital of Abuja had issued a warning Friday to citizens to be "particularly vigilant" around churches, large crowds and areas where foreigners congregate.
Residents of the northeastern city of Damaturu also reported two blasts but there were no details immediately available.
Several days of fighting in and around Damaturu between the sect and security forces already had killed at least 61 people, authorities said.
On Sunday, local police commissioner Tanko Lawan said two explosions had struck Damaturu, including a suicide car bombing. Lawan said that blast happened around noon, targeting the headquarters of Nigeria's secret police in the area. There was no immediate information about casualties, he said.
Video: Suicide bomber strikes U.N. in Nigeria (on this page)In the last year, Boko Haram has carried out increasingly bloody attacks in its campaign to implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria, a nation of more than 160 million people.
Boko Haram, which is loosely modeled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for a Nov. 4 attack on Damaturu, Yobe state's capital, that killed more than 100 people. The group also claimed the Aug. 24 suicide car bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Nigeria's capital that killed 24 people and wounded 116 others.
The sect came to national prominence in 2009, when its members rioted and burned police stations near its base of Maiduguri, a dusty northeastern city on the cusp of the Sahara Desert. Nigeria's military violently put down the attack, crushing the sect's mosque into shards as its leader was arrested and died in police custody. About 700 people died during the violence.
While initially targeting enemies via hit-and-run assassinations from the back of motorbikes after the 2009 riot, violence by Boko Haram now has a new sophistication and apparent planning that includes high-profile attacks with greater casualties.
Boko Haram has splintered into three factions, with one wing increasingly willing to kill as it maintains contact with terror groups in North Africa and Somalia, diplomats and security sources say.
Sect members are scattered throughout northern Nigeria and nearby Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Parolee gets 10 years in animal abuse case
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Sacramento judge has sentenced a parolee convicted of animal abuse to serve 10 years in state prison and ordered him to register as a sex offender.
Robert DeShields was ordered to serve the maximum prison sentence Friday after being convicted of felony animal cruelty for the sexual abuse of a Chihuahua mix named "Shadow," the Sacramento Bee reported (http://bit.ly/t2zYlG).
The dog suffered severe injuries that required surgery and now lives in a foster home, the newspaper said.
DeShields, 55, described by the prosecution as a chronic methamphetamine user, was convicted after a trial that included graphic testimony.
During Friday's hearing, Sacramento County Deputy District Attorney Hilary Bagley-Franzoia argued that DeShields be should treated as a sexual offender for the rest of his life because he is a danger to society.
"The public needs to be on alert," she said.
In sentencing DeShields, Superior Court Judge Thadd Blizzard said the nature of the case was "inherently sexual in nature."
Bagley-Franzoia said it may be the first time that Jessica's Law has been applied in a case involving sexual abuse of an animal.
The law, approved by California voters in 2006, lengthened sentences for sex offenders and placed other restrictions on them, including prohibiting them from within 2,000 feet of a park or school.
Defense attorney Jennifer Stoneburner said she would appeal.
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Mass. man gets 14 years for Obama-inspired fire (AP)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. ? A white man convicted of burning down a predominantly black church because he was angry about President Barack Obama's election was sentenced Thursday to nearly 14 years in prison.
Michael Jacques was convicted in April of various charges in connection with the fire, including conspiracy against civil rights and damage or destruction of religious property. He was sentenced Thursday to 13 years and 10 months in federal prison.
A federal judge also ordered the 27-year-old Jacques to pay nearly $1.6 million in restitution to the church and its insurance company.
Prosecutors say Jacques and two friends burned down the Macedonia Church of God in Christ in Springfield the night of Obama's 2008 election in an act of racism. Jacques has said he was at his parents' house that night.
Benjamin Haskell and Thomas Gleason pleaded guilty to the civil rights charges. Haskell was sentenced to nine years in prison. Gleason is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 18.
Prosecutors said the men burned down the church on Nov. 5, 2008, hours after Obama was elected as the nation's first black president. The church was under construction at the time of the fire and no one was inside. A few firefighters suffered minor injuries fighting the blaze.
Prosecutors said all three men confessed to the crime and implicated each other. But Jacques later recanted, saying authorities wore him down during a long interrogation as he suffered withdrawal from addictions to Percocet painkillers and cigarettes.
During closing arguments at Jacques' trial, prosecutors said his racism reached the "boiling point" when Obama was elected. They said he often used racial epithets and expressed anger that minorities were taking over the country.
Jacques' attorney, Lori Levinson, called the sentence "extraordinarily heavy" and said Jacques plans to appeal.
"He continues to maintain his innocence," Levinson said.
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said in a statement that she hopes the sentence "sends a strong message that we will bring all of our resources to bear in order to protect the civil liberties of every citizen."
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Readers Respond to "Bigger Cities Do More with Less" and Other Articles
September 2011
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WHY CITIES SUCCEED
In ?Bigger Cities Do More with Less,? Lu?s M. A. Bettencourt and Geoffrey B. West assert that a high-rent city allows only greatly value-adding activities to be profitable, which leads to a cycle in which more talent is attracted, ?pushing rents higher still, fueling the need to find yet more productive activities.? The serious downside of higher commercial property rents is that many small businesses, such as barbershops, dry cleaners and convenience stores, are forced out of residential neighborhoods. There are many services that cannot be acquired through the Internet.
Ronald Bourque
Brooklyn
Bettencourt and West seem perplexed that the San Francisco Bay Area and the Boston region outperform other, similar urban conglomerations. They attribute this to ?cer?tain intangible qualities of social dynamics?rather than the development of material infrastructure.? I would suggest that although Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, do instill certain intangible qualities in their students, these institutions are very much ?material infrastructure? and probably explain a lot of the difference in economic development.
Lee Otterholt
Laguna Beach, Calif.
The correlation Bettencourt and West make between patents and population confuses cause and effect. Cities mostly grow because innovative companies are successful and attract employees from all over the world, not because an urban environment spurs innovation. Here in Silicon Valley most of the innovation comes from midpeninsula suburban cities between San Francisco and urban San Jose. And companies here and in Dallas strive for an informal campus style of construction with open spaces. Innovation comes from synergy among entrepreneurship, available venture capital, access to universities, a mobile and diverse workforce, and a place where people want to live.
Ben Roberts
Sunnyvale, Calif.
SUPERTALL SCRUTINY
In presenting the changes that have occurred in the design of skyscrapers since September 11, 2001, in ?Castles in the Air,? Mark Lamster notes three threats: aircraft impact, earthquakes and wind. He correctly claims that structural engineers are now able to effectively design against them.
Unfortunately, the Twin Towers collapsed primarily because of fire, and nowhere in the article is fire explicitly mentioned as a structural threat. On 9/11 we clearly saw that fire can cause entire modern high-rise buildings to collapse. (Indeed, 7 World Trade Center, a steel-framed high-rise, was not struck by an aircraft but collapsed because of fire ignited by debris from the Twin Towers.) To ensure safety in ever taller buildings, the potential impacts of uncontrolled fire need to be explicitly considered during the structural design process with the same care as earthquakes and wind. While changes in escape-stair width, firefighter communications systems and the addition of sky bridges (all noted by Lamster) can only improve life safety in tall buildings, they do not prevent structural collapse resulting from fire.
Preventing another 9/11 requires that the structural engineering and architecture communities own up to the reality of what uncontrolled fire can do to tall buildings and take the necessary actions.
Luke Bisby
Senior Research Fellow in Structures and Fire
University of Edinburgh
Lamster mentions that the Bank of America Tower in New York City ?creates two thirds of its own energy? with a gas generator. But it depletes our unquestionably finite supply of natural gas to generate that energy.
Bill Christian
North Bennington, Vt.
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2011) ? In its latest issue, Nature Photonics, a journal published by the Naturegroup, includes an article by researchers from the Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia on the most significant advances worldwide in the field of light-slowing techniques applied to microwave photonics, which open the door to integrating multiple functionalities into optical chips in the short and medium term, and also to marketing these functionalities.
The article, written by Jos? Capmany, Salvador Sales and Gasulla Ivana, from the optical and quantum communications group of the UPV's ITEAM institute, is included in the section "Technology Focus." It summarizes the work done in recent years by researchers from the UPV and other research centres within the European project GOSPEL, which aims at "governing the speed of light," using "innovative and pioneering" technologies.
Professor Jos? Capmany, the head of the UPV's ITEAM, explains that the possibilities that will arise in the telecommunications field if we can control the speed of light are really broad: "we will be able to make very versatile processors with a high bandwidth, to efficiently interconnect systems using optical fibres as a transmission medium, and, generally speaking, to improve performance in other fields of application, such as sensor development, the processing of high-resolution images for biomedical and space sector applications, and the manufacturing of high-precision parts."
Within the GOSPEL project, researchers from the UPV's ITEAM are working towards an efficient phase shifter that can be transferred to the industry, based on light slowing in semiconductors and optical fibres. About a year and a half ago, Professor Jos? Capmany's team, in collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark, achieved a world record in the telecommunications field by developing the first complete phase shifter with record bandwidth (50 GHz). It was a pioneering device for slowing down the pace and speed of light, thus improving the information transmission flow, avoiding congestion and ensuring optimum performance of the entire communication system.
In August this year, UPV researchers presented the first broadband radio frequency (RF) photonic phase shifter which is tunable and based on a single semiconductor element. Its advantages are that producing it will be cheaper and that it will provide a saving in energy consumption of up to 80%.
Future applications: biomedical imaging and quantum communications
According to the ITEAM researchers, although initially the microwave photonics field focused on applications closely related to telecommunications for defence, in recent years it is becoming increasingly oriented towards the civilian sector. In particular, an area of ??activity which arouses much interest is that of high bandwidth (1-2 Gbit/s) wireless access networks, in which optical fibre is combined with pico- and femtocells providing coverage. "These cells use antennas with a very low power consumption, which favours the deployment of telecommunication networks that are greener than current macrocell-based networks. High-speed information transmission through pico- and femtocells requires using a millimetre frequency band (60-100 GHz). And it indispensably requires using optical fibres, as a transmission medium to the antenna with a very low loss," says Jos? Capmany.
Among the emerging applications in which microwave photonics is to play an important role are biomedical imaging systems using optically generated waves in the terahertz band. "These waves can be used to examine samples and tissues without causing the damage that, for instance, X-rays cause; besides, they are able to find out more sophisticated information about processes involving molecules, radicals and ions," Jos? Capmany points out.
Another field of application is the so-called "Internet of things," in which a global network connects physical objects with virtual objects through the combination of data capture techniques and communication networks. An instance of this may be radio frequency identification (RFID) sensor networks.
Looking farther into the future, Capmany highlights the applications of microwave photonics in communications and quantum logic, "a field in which very promising advances are being made."
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Wahoo Fitness? iPhone 4S-compatible Blue HR heart rate monitor ships in ? -?
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What Does Tom Cruise Do With His iPad? [VIDEO] (Mashable)
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Mashable doesn?t get invited to a lot of red carpet events, so we took advantage of our primo spot at the Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol premiere to ask big-name stars and celebrities what they do with technology. Tom Cruise was one of our last victims and he gave us approximately 28 seconds of wonder or is it wonderment? The action star admitted to owning an Apple iPad, but was flummoxed when we asked about his favorite app. Eventually, Tom noted that he likes looking at pictures of his family on the device. That?s actually a favorite activity for many iPad owners, who are also snapping photos with their iPhones. No word on whether or not Cruise has one of those. If he does, then iCloud is busy syncing all those pics between devices and he probably has a fresh batch of Suri pics to ponder every single day.
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Tom Cruise is on Twitter, which means he could have selected Twitter as a favorite iPad App. However, most of the @TomCruise account Tweets are from Team Tom and not the star himself. At one point during our Red Carpet adventure, Tom Cruise actually retweeted us, or should I say, his account did since, at the time, Cruise was busy greeting the hundreds of fans huddled in the cold outside the premiere tent.
We also learned that the Jerry Maguire star is not on Facebook. Sorry, Cruise fans, no subscribing to the Tom Facebook feed for now.
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Plus, don?t miss our chat with Ghost Protocol Director Brad Bird, who shared memories of the late Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Verizon in the midst of yet another major data outage
Well, that's no good. Verizon Wireless is dead in the water this morning for what appears to be, well, most everybody this morning. 3G data ... dead. 4G data ... dead. Pick a phone. It's dead. Phone calls can still be made, which means we're not overly worried about public safety. But it's yet another outage for Verizon, which already is the subject of much signal scrutiny these days.
More on the Next Great Data Outage of 2012 as we get it.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Obama welcomes tax cut deal (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? President Barack Obama welcomed a deal on Saturday worked out by divided lawmakers to extend a payroll tax cut for U.S. workers by two months and to continue emergency jobless aid.
"This is spending money that also benefits families and businesses and the entire economy, and (the jobless aid is) a lifeline that would have been lost for more than 2.5 million people in the first two months of next year if Congress had not acted," Obama said in brief remarks at the White House.
He urged Congress to move quickly when it returns from its winter recess to extend the tax cut for a full year, saying it would be "inexcusable" to allow the reduction to lapse.
"It should be a formality and hopefully it's done with as little drama as possible when they get back in January," Obama said.
(Reporting By Caren Bohan, Laura MacInnis and Dave Clarke; Editing by Philip Barbara)
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Prosecution to present its case against Manning (AP)
FORT MEADE, Md. ? The prosecution is laying out its charges against the young soldier blamed for the largest leak of classified material in American history in a case that may hinge on whether the U.S. government overzealously stamped "secret" on material posing no national security risk.
The long-awaited military court case against Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the accused source for the WikiLeaks website's trove of U.S. military and diplomatic secrets, is moving ahead. The defense requested that the presiding officer, Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, step aside because of alleged bias. Almanza, an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and Justice Department prosecutor, rejected the request and refused to suspend the hearing pending an appeal.
Manning, a one-time intelligence analyst stationed in Baghdad, is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive items including Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, State Department cables and a classified military video of a 2007 American helicopter attack in Iraq that killed 11 men, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver.
The Obama administration says the released information has threatened valuable military and diplomatic sources and strained America's relations with other governments.
Friday was Manning's first appearance in public after 19 months in detention. He appeared slight but serious in his Army camouflage fatigues and dark-rimmed glasses, taking notes during the proceedings and answering straightforwardly when called upon by Almanza.
Manning, a native of Crescent, Okla., who turns 24 on Saturday, is relying on a defense that will argue much of the classified information posed no risk.
In addition to claims of partiality, his lawyer, David Coombs, argued that Almanza wrongly denied the defense's request to call as witnesses the officials who marked as secret the material WikiLeaks later published. Instead, the officer accepted unsworn statements from those people, Coombs said.
Friday's tangling, however, centered primarily on Almanza's Justice Department job. "I don't believe I'm biased," Almanza said, explaining that his government work concerns child exploitation and obscenity. He said he hasn't talked about WikiLeaks or Manning with anyone in the department or FBI.
The Justice Department has a separate criminal investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A U.S. grand jury is weighing whether to indict Assange on espionage charges, even as he is in Britain fighting a Swedish request that he be extradited because of rape allegations.
Manning's hearing at this Army post outside Washington is open to the public, with limited seating. No civilian recording equipment is allowed. Instead of a judge, a presiding officer delivers a recommendation as to whether prosecutors have enough evidence to bring a suspect to trial. A military commander then makes the final decision.
Coombs said Friday he'd ask the Army Court of Criminal Appeals to recuse Almanza from the case. It was unclear when the court would decide on hearing the appeal.
The case has spawned an international support network of people who believe the U.S. government has gone too far in seeking to punish Manning, and a few dozen showed up outside Fort Meade on Friday to rally on his behalf.
"I plan to march all night tonight and bring as much attention as I can to put the entire country on notice that we have a hero who's standing trial for nothing more than telling the truth," said Dan Choi, a gay West Point graduate discharged from the military for revealing his sexual orientation. He wore a bright orange "Bradley Manning Support Network" sticker on the lapel of his uniform jacket.
Others were less supportive.
"That man did something very wrong," said Mandie Stanley, a 19-year-old who lives on the Army post with her husband, a member of the Air Force. She spotted the protesters and decided to come out with a sign that said: "Don't leak classified information, stupid!"
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Avatar Brings Actual Special Features to iTunes Special Features [Video]
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