Babies as young as nine months appear to approve of people who like what they like ? and approve of being mean to those who don't share their tastes. Kiley Hamlin, lead author of a study in the journal Psychological Science, discusses the importance of similarity to young children.
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0I am speaking with Mr. Rick Rozoff, the Owner and Manager of the Stop NATO website and international mailing list.?
0Robles: NATO has been very active lately. Can you give us a few details about what they are up to and maybe a little bit about this new Cyber-War Directive where NATO is declaring hackers military targets?
0Rozoff: That is exactly what the new NATO manual identifies hackers as being: as fair game for military attacks, both cyber and otherwise, incidentally.
0So, it is not so much retaliation in the cyber sphere strictly, as potentially launching a cruise missile at them, I?m sorry, a drone-fired missile, as one of your guests recently, Bill Blum said about Julian Assange. I believe his words were that; ??there is drone with Julian Assange?s name on it.?
0And NATO then reserves the right to launch attacks, cyber and otherwise, on anyone they identify as being a hacktivist, that is hacking into military and even civilian sites in Europe and this is coordinated through what is called a ?NATO Center of Excellence on Cyber Affairs? and ?cyber warfare? really, in the capital of Estonia, Tallin which was set up directly to confront Russia several years ago after an alleged Russian-based series of attacks on websites in Estonia.
0But NATO has been active on a number of other fronts too, as you mentioned in your question. First of all, they have crafted the third or the latest annual national program for the nation of Georgia.
0Robles: I am sorry. Can I ask you one question regarding the cyber manual? Is this an official part of military operations or is this just some sort of ?draft guidelines? or something?
0Rozoff: No, it is official NATO doctrine as of the publication of the manual.
0Robles: So, can they actually, seriously, physically, ?target? anyone they deem to be a hacker threat with a drone missile?
0Rozoff: I didn?t hear them specify they would use ?a Hellfire Missile fired from a Predator Drone? but the terminology I?ve seen is that the attacks against the hackers, incidentally anywhere in the world, could be done either: fighting fire with fire, that is through ?cyber denial of access? or other attacks, on the hacktivists, or other measures deemed ?legal?, is the language I am familiar with.
0But we have to keep in mind that the major military power, the founder of NATO and the ?prime mover" to this day within it, the United States, reserves a right to use drone missile attacks within its own borders against its own citizens, according to Attorney General Eric Holder of late.
0So, it shouldn?t surprise us that the military bloc headed by the United States arrogates to itself the right to launch military attacks, and this is quite in keeping also incidentally, with the US Cyber Command, which has set up in 2010, the first ?Cyber Warfare Command? set up in the world, and wherever the US goes, NATO is sure to follow, and very quickly thereafter, so it shouldn?t surprise us.
0This was discussed, incidentally, roughly a year ago at the NATO summit in Chicago; that cyber warfare was one of the major components, one of the major emphases that NATO was placing, in the addition to things, ?matters? like so-called missile defense: that is interceptor missile programs and the development and extension of the NATO Response Force, for military interventions globally.
0It is worth noting that today news also quotes Supreme Allied Commander of Europe for NATO, who was also the commander of US-European Command, Admiral James Stavridis, stating that NATO essentially has contingency plans for replicating the Libyan scenario inside Syria. This is as of today.
0As I was about to explain NATO has crafted the latest annual national program for the nation of Georgia. So, NATO is active on a number of fronts, and some of the stories I?ve mentioned indicate: they are way out of the territorial area of responsibility for the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization, if they are talking about military actions in Syria, which incidentally follows the report of a couple of days ago, that the US is considering drone strike inside Syria.
0So, once again US and NATO are working in tandem. Georgia of course is in the South Caucasus and nowhere near the North-Atlantic Ocean, and hackers anywhere around the world, who are fair game for NATO attack, cyber and otherwise, extend the pervue for NATO operations globally, which is what they have striven for, and what they have arrived at.
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0Robles: This manual, it says: ??a private citizen, who on his or her own, initiates, engages in hacking for, inter alia: ideological, political, religious or patriotic reasons?, if the hacktivist isn?t working directly within an ?official military organization?, NATO says they could ?still? be targeted. So, does that mean that ?Anonymous? members could be targeted, or bloggers?
0Rozoff: I would certainly draw that conclusion, but you see, I would go a step further: when they mention that; if the motives are ideological, political, moral and so forth, then what is to prevent them considering somebody who is selling what they consider to be disinformation, or ?inconvenient but accurate? information, then from being a target themselves.
0Robles: I could be a target! I mean my views, I think, would fall into all of those areas but?
0Rozoff: That is right, any political adversary who is using the Internet in any capacity, counter to what NATO, how NATO envisions the world being structured, technically I suspect. You know as you mentioned, even an individual hacker with no organizational affiliation could, according to the terminology of the excerpt you just read, be considered a target, a potential target.
0Robles: Hacking could be almost anything really! I mean it could be someone who?s just downloaded a picture from NATO?s site and added some words to it, or something.
0Rozoff: On the NATO website itself it expressly forbids the use of any material, print or image, if in anyway it mocks or ridicules NATO.
0So, now it is apparently a crime (copyright laws would be used) but in essence, this is political censorship. If anyone used material, garnered or gleaned, from the NATO site in a way that NATO didn?t approve.
0Keeping in mind that North-Atlantic Treaty Organization is a consortium of western military powers that is funded through those governments, of the respective member states of the country, the United States overwhelmingly, and that as a citizen of one of those countries, you do not have the right to use information on those sites even though your tax monies are being used to support it, if NATO determines that you are in some manner, not treating them with proper respect.
0So, this is another instance, another example, of the US dominated military bloc, essentially letting the world? ?putting the world on notice? rather, that you either toe-the-line or you could be punished!
0Robles: This last phrase here, it says; that anyone who initiates, (in hacking), which could be almost anything, for ?patriotic? reasons: so that would mean, any person, on the planet, who loves their own country, if it is not a NATO member and who does something on the Internet, could be targetted for NATO assassination?
0Rozoff: That certainly how I would interpret that comment and I think you are right to highlight, or to emphasize the world ?patriotic?, as though somehow that is an evil motivation, ipso facto, that in the globalized militarized world envisioned by the United States and its NATO allies, if their patriotic sentiments are in opposition to having their country destroyed by NATO rockets and bombs, then they are, by that very fact ?criminals?, I suspect, and can be targeted appropriately or correspondingly.
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Astrophotographer Victor C. Rogus sent in a photo of Comet Pan-STARRS taken March 20, 2013, in Jadwin, Mo. He writes: "As I look over my collection of images starting with March 11 until now, I see nightly changes in the comet. The direction of the tail comes to mind first, always away from the sun. Changes in color, at times, and also changes in the size of the coma."
By Joe Rao
Space.com
The newfound Comet ISON has the potential to be one of the brightest ever seen when it streaks through the inner solar system this November, but whether it will live up to the hype is anybody's guess.
Astronomers have a tough time forecasting the brightness of incoming comets. Ballyhooed "comet of the century" candidates sometimes fizzle out, as Kohoutek did in 1973, while some icy wanderers put on a surprisingly good show for skywatchers.
Why is it so difficult to predict?comet?behavior? For starters, comets are like snowflakes ? no two are alike.
Dirty snowballs
While comets have been called "dirty snowballs," recent observations by unmanned space probes suggest that they may not be too different from?asteroids?on the outside. Comets appear to have rocky surfaces that in most cases are probably not much more than several miles across. [Amazing Comet Photos of 2013]
What makes them much different from asteroids, however, is that frozen reservoirs icy material are hidden beneath the crust or contained in fissures and craters that pockmark the surface.?
Such comet "snow" is composed of ordinary water ice plus frozen ammonia and some other more exotic compounds, with dust grains of different sizes and compositions mixed in. These pools of volatile materials are called "active regions."?
Comets spend most of their time far out in space, billions of miles from?the sun. Out there, the nucleus is completely stable because it?s in a state of deep freeze where temperatures barely hover above absolute zero (minus 460 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 273 degrees Celsius). ?
But when a?comet nears the sun, its frozen gases react to the increasing heat by vaporizing and expanding into a huge tenuous cloud around the nucleus called the coma. The nucleus and the coma make up the head of the comet, which may swell to more than 100,000 miles across.
It is sunlight that causes the comet's head to shine, in much the same manner that luminous paint reacts to ultraviolet light. The comet?s tail is produced by the?solar wind?? a thin supersonic breeze of atomic particles blowing from the sun ? and the pressure of sunlight, which pushes the gas and dust out ahead of the coma.
Old versus new
One clue about how a comet will ultimately perform is whether it?s a "new" comet, making its very first approach to the sun, or whether it?s an "old" one that has zoomed close to our star before.?
New comets might be covered with a load of very light, volatile material such as frozen nitrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Such ices can vaporize far from the sun, giving a distant comet a short-lived surge in brightness that can raise unrealistic expectations. This happened with ultimately disappointing comets such as Cunningham in 1940, Kohoutek 1973 and Austin in 1990.
But some new comets live up to the hype. In January 2007, for instance, Comet McNaught became the brightest comet in more than 40 years, eventually becoming luminous enough to be visible in broad daylight.
Unpredictable!
Some small, faint comets have suddenly and unexpectedly become incredibly bright literally overnight. In October 2007, Comet Holmes brightened by a factor of 500,000 in less than two days, going from an object visible only with very large?telescopes?to becoming easily visible to the naked eye.?
Its sudden flare may have been caused by a buildup of gas inside the comet's nucleus that eventually broke through its surface, astronomers say. Incredibly, this all took place far out in space when the comet was nearly 230 million miles (370 million kilometers) from the sun. Who knew?
Even the most recent skywatching sight,?Comet Pan-STARRS,?had some surprises in store. When the comet was discovered in June 2011, forecasts indicated it might get as bright as first or even zero magnitude ? in other words, as bright as the brightest stars.?
Then, it was surmised that the comet was "new" and might possibly lag behind the original optimistic predictions. Until recently, that seemed to be the case; PanSTARRS was running about one-quarter as bright. Some suggested it might not get much brighter than third magnitude, which would be less than half as bright as Polaris, the North Star.?
Then without fanfare, in late February, it made a surprising comeback, reaching first magnitude as it rounded the sun on March 10.
Be careful!
While you might have gotten the idea by now that comets are notoriously bad actors and do not always follow their scripts, I should stress that many of them are well-behaved and do what is expected in a broad sense. Still, caution is advised when reading any predictions of their brightness.
That brings us back to?Comet ISON, which is expected to sweep less than three-quarters of a million miles above the sun?s surface on Thanksgiving Day, ?Nov. 28. Already there have been a plethora of articles promoting ISON as the ?Comet of the Century.?
For an interesting analogy, baseball scouts like to catalog the talents of players by looking at five general areas of performance in which one may define potential talent. Great ballplayers can hit for average, hit with power, field, run and throw. [Photos of Comet ISON in Night Sky]
Similarly, astronomers who catalog potential great comets look at four general areas of performance: comets that closely approach the sun, closely approach Earth, have a favorable projection angle for viewing the tail and high intrinsic brightness.?
From these criteria, Comet ISON certainly appears to be a "can't miss" prospect, though it is a new comet, which makes it more of a wild card.
But then again, like countless numbers of young ballplayers who had unlimited potential but failed to make the big leagues, ISON too could falter.?
It could unexpectedly exhaust all of its volatile material, leaving just a small, dark solid lump to ultimately swing around the sun ? meaning we may not see it all. Or perhaps upon passing through the sun?s outer atmosphere and being subjected to a temperature of around 1 million degrees Fahrenheit (555,000 degrees Celsius) or more, the comet nucleus might shatter or disintegrate.?
The saga of ISON is not yet fully written, and it could still go either way. We?ll keep track of its progress in the weeks and months to come.
In the meantime, it might be worth ending with an oft-quoted axiom by the legendary comet expert Fred Whipple: ?If you must bet, bet on a horse, not a comet!???
Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for The?New York Times and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York.?Follow us?@Spacedotcom,?Facebook?or?Google+.?Originally published on?SPACE.com.
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Your imaginary (and seemingly arbitrary) social media score just got that much more credible -- by the same company calculating it. Klout's launching an offshoot of its influencer index to target businesses, turning individual social media data into metrics companies can use to better their brands. The service, which will continue to rollout into April, will arm big business with info culled from its Perks program (brand feedback provided by Klout's user base), highlighting hot topics, relevant social networks and other intangible "buzz" data so highly sought after by marketers. The sign-up page is live now on Klout's site, so any companies eager to abuse benefit from willfully divulged social data should do so with haste.
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Failure to clean and properly maintain an air conditioning system is linked to more than half of all A/C failures.? Before starting your air conditioning system this spring, consider these topics for preventative maintenance and troubleshooting?
Troubleshoot: Low Refrigerant Levels?
Under ideal conditions, an air conditioning system should not need refrigerant fills or changes.? Air conditioners don?t consume refrigerant the way a car consumes oil.? If your system is low on refrigerant it probably indicates another problem such as a leak.? If you experience this issue, you should have the system checked and repaired before adding more.? Units that are more than 10 years old can be especially susceptible to leaks due to mechanical flared fittings, which can loosen over time from vibrations.
Detail the Condenser Unit
The condenser unit is the part of the A/C system that is installed outside.? Make sure this equipment is clear of any yard debris such as sticks or leaves.? You can use a pressurized air system or the blowing feature of a shop vac to clean the coils and remove any leaves or debris that might be lodged inside. Also make sure that no lawn furniture or toys are sitting on or very near the equipment.? You want to make sure that the condenser unit can properly remove hot air from the coils when air passes over them.
Replace or Clean Filters
A clean filter is extremely important for the proper operation of your A/C system.? It will improve the efficiency of your system, prevent frozen evaporator coils, and improve the air quality in your home.? Replace disposable filters or clean electrostatic filters every month during both heating and cooling seasons.
Remove and Clean the Drain Line
The drain line for your system is necessary for allowing water to drain away from the evaporator coil.? Calcium deposits and mold can build up in the line and cause clogs.? To prevent damage to the system, the drain line should be removed and cleaned regularly to ensure proper drainage.? You can use a solution of hot water and bleach to remove mold or minerals that have accumulated.? If there is a more serious clog, use a wire with bristles to scrub the line and force the clog out, then rinse with the bleach solution.
Clear Buildup on Blower Fan
If any dust, hair, or greasy substance has accumulated on the fan?s surface, be sure to clean it off thoroughly before starting your system.? Proper operation of the fan requires plenty of clear air circulation to produce effective cooling power.
Remove Dust from Evaporator Coil
Over time, the evaporator coil in your system can get filled with dust or other debris.? This slows airflow and can potentially lead to freezing the coil and damaging your unit.? A professional will have access to the proper equipment to make sure the evaporator coil is thoroughly cleaned without causing any damage to the system.
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See Inside How an almost massless particle has shaped the large-scale structure of the universe
WARPED: Cosmic microwave background radiation collected by telescopes on the earth and in space has been subtly distorted by dark matter. By tracing the distortions, physicists can chart the dark matter's structure, which has been shaped by neutrinos and can, in turn, place strict limits on neutrino mass. Image: George Retseck
Measuring the minuscule mass of neutrinos has so far proved impossible?and not for lack of trying. Numerous laboratory experiments over the past few decades have succeeded only in placing loose limits on the three neutrino masses.
We have very compelling reasons to expect that the best way to measure the mass of these tiny particles is, surprisingly, to look for their influence at the largest scales of the universe. For although neutrinos are virtually massless and nearly invisible, their sheer numbers?some 10
This article was originally published with the title The Neutrino's Secrets, Written on the Sky.
Sudeep Das is a David Schramm postdoctoral fellow at Argonne National Laboratory.
Tristan L. Smith is a Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Mar. 18, 2013 ? Engineers will be able to design better fuel systems for everything from motorcycles to rockets faster and more inexpensively because of a mathematical fuels model developed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
The fuels model will increase the pace of injector design for greater efficiency, better gas mileage and more horsepower in cars and trucks. But the beauty of this approach is that it works for all combustion processes and fuels, from mopeds to missiles and from gasoline, ethanol and diesel fuel to decane/hexadecane.
Instead of costly real-world modeling, which requires the design, machining and production of parts before they can be bench tested and performance modeled, the mathematical model lets designers test their ideas on computers first. The model also brings research into alternative fuels into the computer before it needs to be prototyped.
"That's the reason we are so excited about this research, is that it cuts down on the expense of the calculations to model fuel efficiency," said Dr. Chien-Pin Chen, chair of UAHuntsville's chemical engineering department, who along with graduate student Omid Samimi Abianeh wrote a research paper on the fuels model ("A discrete multicomponent fuel evaporation model with liquid turbulence effects," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 55, Issues 23-24, November 2012, Pages 6897-6907). Chemical engineering professor, Dr. Ramon Cerro (see also: "Batch disillation: The forward and Inverse Problems," Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Vol. 51, 12435-12488, 2012) and Dr. Shankar Mahalingam, dean of the College of Engineering, are also involved in the research.
"If somebody wants to do a numerical diagram of an internal combustion engine -- and I'm a numbers guy? -- the first thing they need to study is the fuel," Dr. Chen said. But because fuel is a highly complex substance, a researcher would need a supercomputer to do that. Gasoline, for example, contains hundreds of substances with different evaporation rates and ignition points.
"So we designed a surrogate fuel with three components instead of hundreds," Dr. Chen said. "It performs the same but it is not as complex to study." While it can be created as a physical substance, in the model the fuel is represented mathematically. "That model is our contribution," he said, and it works across all fuels, from rocket fuel to common ethanol/gasoline mixtures and the new E85 ethanol fuels. Their research has been funded by NASA and Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative grants.
In modern engines, injectors spray fuel into the combustion chamber at precisely timed intervals for combustion. The size, composition, behavior, temperature and pressure of those droplets all determine how efficiently the fuel will perform, Dr. Chen said. The model can demonstrate how fuel droplets from different injector designs will behave as far as their evaporation characteristics and combustion efficiency in the combustion chamber. All fuel types are certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and that was the database used to validate the research results, Dr. Chen said.
"We are already changing the injector designs," Dr. Chen said, adding that the fuels model allows engineers to better answer the question, "What is the best injector design to give you the best flame propagation?
The new model has led to additional research in fuel turbulence, the rich to lean swirl of fuel in a combustion chamber that provides for even flame propagation.
In car and truck engines, it is important that fuel burns and expands in a controlled fashion rather than exploding. Explosions cause detonation, that pinging or clunking sound drivers sometimes hear that leads to premature engine wear and failure.
To accomplish even propagation, modern gasoline engines are designed to layer the fuel so that it has a higher density in relation to the available air (a rich mixture) near the spark plug and swirls to a lower density (a lean mixture) near the top of the piston. The plug's spark can more easily start combustion in the rich fuel, and the leaner mix underneath is more efficiently burned. Injector nozzle design and placement in the chamber are both important to this process. This summer at a Korean conference, Dr. Chen will present a paper and discuss the research done at UAHuntsville on how the turbulent swirling process affects the fuel droplet evaporation process.
The UAHuntsville researchers are also working to develop a combustion flame propagation model that could bring that process, too, inside the computer first before real-world testing is undertaken and result in gains in efficiency. "We are studying the flame front and how they wrinkle as the fuel burns," said Dr. Chen, who plans to submit a proposal to the U.S. Dept. of Energy to further that study. The research could increase the efficiency of future combustion chamber designs.
"The long-term goal," Dr. Chen said, "is to find a way to burn fuel more efficiently for more power and cleaner combustion."
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OXON HILL, Md. (AP) ? Florida Sen. Marco Rubio implored fellow Republicans to reconnect with middle-class voters.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul basked in the glow of his lengthy filibuster as he scanned a sea of "Stand With Rand" signs.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush held out the prospect of the nation's greatest century if the GOP were to evolve into the party of "inclusion and acceptance."
Only months after President Barack Obama's re-election, an annual gathering of conservatives served as an audition for Republicans looking to court conservative activists and raise their profile with an eye on greater political ambitions.
It may seem early, but the diehard activists who attended the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference are already picking favorites in what could be a crowded Republican presidential primary in 2016.
After telling The Associated Press that a presidential run is "an option," first-term Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker thrilled activists Saturday by declaring: "In America, we believe in the people and not in the government."
"It is precisely why, in America, we take a day off and celebrate the Fourth of July and not the 15th of April," he said.
The conservative summit was to release its straw poll results late Saturday afternoon, offering a symbolic boost to one of the high-profile Republicans on the ballot even though none has made his or her 2016 intentions known.
That doesn't mean they're not thinking about it. They've all injected their prescriptions for the future of the wayward GOP.
Rubio drew thunderous applause by proclaiming that the Republican Party doesn't need any new ideas.
"There is an idea. The idea is called America, and it still works," he said in a speech aimed squarely at middle-class voters.
Paul, a favorite of younger libertarians who packed the hall, called for a new direction in Republican politics: "The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered."
Bush, perhaps the highest-profile establishment figure as the son and brother of presidents, pushed for a more tolerant party in a Friday night speech.
"The face of the Republican Party needs to be the face of every American," he said, and called on conservatives to move beyond "divisive and extraneous issues."
Earlier Friday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal urged Republicans to "recalibrate the compass of conservatism."
The stage was emblazoned with the words "America's Future: The Next Generation of Conservatives," making clear the party's interest in showcasing a new wave of talent. The gathering evoked the ending of one period and the beginning of another.
Mitt Romney, the party's 2012 presidential nominee, offered a valedictory of sorts, thanking activists for supporting his campaign. In a nod to the next generation, he urged conservatives to learn lessons from "some of our greatest success stories," the nation's 30 Republican governors.
Romney specifically pointed to governors who have sought a larger national profile, including Bob McDonnell of Virginia, Chris Christie of New Jersey and Walker.
Christie was not invited to the conference after rankling some conservatives by complimenting Obama's response to Superstorm Sandy. That move, some Republicans said, undermined Romney in the campaign's closing days.
The former Massachusetts governor also heaped praise on his running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, pointing to Ryan's "clear and convincing voice."
Ryan made no reference to the 2012 campaign in his speech Friday, instead focusing on congressional efforts to tame the deficit. His speech pointed to his professed interest in policy matters rather than future national campaigns.
Other 2012 presidential contenders, including former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, appeared at the conference to help maintain their place in the national conversation as the Republican Party looks for leadership.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who excited many conservatives before withdrawing from the 2012 presidential contest, questioned the conservative credentials of the GOP's last two presidential nominees.
Walker, who won conservative admiration for challenging his state's labor unions, said that Republicans "need to be relevant" by shifting their focus away from Washington debates and to the issues facing middle-class Americans in the states.
He told The Associated Press late last month that a 2016 presidential bid "would be an option," although it wasn't something he was "actively pursuing."
Walker's comments illustrate a dance the potential presidential candidates undertake as they contemplate their political futures.
Paul has said he's "seriously considering" running for the White House. But others have been more circumspect.
Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, has avoided such questions and instead continued his central role in one of Capitol Hill's most significant policy debates.
Jindal laughed off questions about his future. "Any Republican that's thinking about talking about running for president in 2016 needs to get his head examined," he said last month. "We've got a lot of work to do."
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Emergency and rescue crews respond to the scene of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. Authorities say the tour bus crashed on the freeway at mile marker 227 in central Pennsylvania, and serious injuries have been reported. Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department says the crash in the eastbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was reported just before 9 a.m. Saturday. She says there are reports of multiple injuries, including that some are serious. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Malmont ) MANDATORY CREDIT
Emergency and rescue crews respond to the scene of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. Authorities say the tour bus crashed on the freeway at mile marker 227 in central Pennsylvania, and serious injuries have been reported. Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department says the crash in the eastbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was reported just before 9 a.m. Saturday. She says there are reports of multiple injuries, including that some are serious. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Malmont ) MANDATORY CREDIT
Members of the Cumberland County Coroners Office investigate the scene of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. Authorities say the tour bus crashed on the freeway at mile marker 227 in central Pennsylvania, and serious injuries have been reported. Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department says the crash in the eastbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was reported just before 9 a.m. Saturday. She says there are reports of multiple injuries, including that some are serious. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Malmont ) MANDATORY CREDIT
Emergency and rescue crews respond to the scene of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. Authorities say the tour bus crashed on the freeway at mile marker 227 in central Pennsylvania, and serious injuries have been reported. Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department says the crash in the eastbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was reported just before 9 a.m. Saturday. She says there are reports of multiple injuries, including that some are serious. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Malmont ) MANDATORY CREDIT
Emergency and rescue crews respond to the scene of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. Authorities say the tour bus crashed on the freeway at mile marker 227 in central Pennsylvania, and serious injuries have been reported. Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department says the crash in the eastbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was reported just before 9 a.m. Saturday. She says there are reports of multiple injuries, including that some are serious. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Malmont ) MANDATORY CREDIT
Emergency rescue crews remove a victim of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. Authorities say the tour bus crashed on the freeway at mile marker 227 in central Pennsylvania, and serious injuries have been reported. Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department says the crash in the eastbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was reported just before 9 a.m. Saturday. She says there are reports of multiple injuries, including that some are serious. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Malmont ) MANDATORY CREDIT
CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) ? A tour bus carrying a college's women's lacrosse team to a game veered off the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, hit a guardrail, rolled about 70 yards and crashed into a tree, killing the driver and one passenger and sending others to hospitals, authorities said.
Lacrosse players from Seton Hill University and three coaches were among the 23 people aboard when the bus crashed at about 9 a.m., turnpike spokeswoman Renee Colborn said. It's not clear what caused the bus to go off the road, but state police were investigating, said Trooper Rob Hicks.
The driver died at the scene, authorities said. Three people were flown by helicopter to Penn State Hershey Medical Center, where one of them died, hospital spokeswoman Danielle Ran said. She did not give the conditions of the other two. Officials said all other passengers were taken to hospitals as a precaution.
The bus came to a stop upright on the side of the road with part of its left side shorn off, photos from the scene showed, though it's unclear whether that was from the impact or rescue operation.
The bus operator, Mlaker Charter & Tours, of Davidsville, Pa., sent investigators to the scene, company dispatcher Kelly Hay said. The company had no information yet from the investigators and could not comment, she said.
State environmental officials were also sent to the scene because of a diesel fuel spill from the bus.
Seton Hill is a Catholic school of about 2,500 students near Pittsburgh. The team was to play Saturday afternoon at Millersville University, about 50 miles from the crash site in central Pennsylvania.
Another bus carrying college lacrosse players from a Vermont team was hit Tuesday by a sports car that spun out of control on a wet highway in upstate New York, sending the bus toppling onto its side, police said. One person in the car died.
And last month, a bus carrying 42 high school students from the Philadelphia area and their chaperones slammed into an overpass in Boston, injuring 35. Authorities said the driver had directed the bus onto a road with a height limit.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- News agency Reuters has suspended with pay a deputy social media editor after he was indicted on federal charges of conspiring with the hacking group Anonymous to deface an online story of the Los Angeles Times.
Reuters spokesman David Girardin told The Associated Press Friday in an email that Matthew Keys, 26, was suspended on Thursday with pay. He did not elaborate.
Federal authorities allege that in December 2010, Keys provided hackers with login information to access the computer system of the Tribune Co., the parent company of the Times that also owns a Sacramento television station Keys was fired from months before. Keys' Facebook page says he worked as an online news producer for FOX affiliate KTXL from June 2008 to April 2010.
Reuters hired Keys in 2012 as a deputy editor for social media. He didn't return a phone call or respond to email messages seeking comment.
"I'm okay," he tweeted Friday in response to a journalism colleague wondering how he was doing.
Investigators allege that Keys gave a hacker named "Sharpie" the login information in an Internet chat room frequented by hackers and urged the hacker to do some damage to the Tribune Co.
According to the indictment, Sharpie altered a Times news story posted Dec. 14 and 15, 2010, to read "Pressure builds in House to elect CHIPPY 1337," a reference to another hacking group. "Chippy 1337" claimed responsibility for defacing the website of video game publisher Eidos in 2011.
A second attempt to hack the Times was unsuccessful, according to the indictment.
Federal prosecutors allege in court papers that a legendary hacker and Anonymous leader named "Sabu" offered advice on how to infiltrate Tribune's systems. The FBI unmasked Sabu when it arrested Hector Xavier Monsegur on June 7, 2011. Monsegur secretly worked as an FBI informant until federal officials announced that he helped them arrest five other alleged hackers on March 6, 2012.
Federal officials declined to comment on whether Sabu assisted in the investigation of Keys.
The day after it was announced that Sabu was an FBI informant, Keys wrote a story for Reuters about "infiltrating" the hackers' chat room.
Keys is charged with one count each of conspiracy to transmit information to damage a protected computer, as well as transmitting and attempting to transmit that information. If convicted, the New Jersey native faces a combined 25 years prison and a $500,000 fine if sentenced to the maximum for each count. He is scheduled for arraignment April 12 in Sacramento.
The indictment comes after recent hacks into the computer systems of two other U.S. media companies that own The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Both newspapers reported in February that their computer systems had been infiltrated by China-based hackers, likely to monitor media coverage the Chinese government deems important.
Anonymous and its offshoot, Lulz Security, have been linked to a number of high-profile computer attacks and crimes, including many that were meant to embarrass governments, federal agencies and corporate giants. They have been connected to attacks that took data from FBI partner organization InfraGard, and they've jammed websites of the CIA and the Public Broadcasting Service.
A computer security specialist said the LA Times attack would be an unusual hack if the government's charges are accurate.
"This is first case where I've heard of someone leaking stuff to Anonymous to have a site defaced, instead of defacing it himself," said Clifford Neuman, director of University of Southern California Center for Computer Systems Security. "He found some way to achieve his ends of defacing the website without having to do it himself."
A spokesman for the Chicago-based Tribune Co. declined to comment.
According to Keys' Facebook profile, he is single, lives in New York City and works at Reuters' New York office, where "I get paid to use Twitter and Facebook at work."
Reuters, a unit of New York-based Thomson Reuters Corp., has been expanding its business in the United States. This year, six of the Tribune's seven newspapers dropped The Associated Press for Reuters, citing cost savings. The Los Angeles Times stayed with AP.
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AP National Writer Martha Mendoza in Santa Cruz contributed to this report
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/journalist-charged-hacking-conspiracy-suspended-155749018.html
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Joining the handful of Insert Coin finalists at Expand is Azorean's cute Ziphius aquatic drone. While Fort Mason is located by the seaside, the folks actually brought their own little pool along to let their Raspberry Pi-powered robot splash around in; though it can happily operate in seawater as well and thus adding more use case possibilities -- be it for entertainment (including autonomous ball-chasing, for instance) or for environmental monitoring. Through a direct WiFi connection we were able to use an Android tablet to control both the Ziphius' surprisingly powerful motors and its camera's vertical position, as well as watching a live video feed at the same time.
The final version of the drone will come with an interchangeable chassis to suit different purposes or simply for personalization, and internally it'll be equipped with Raspberry Pi's upcoming high quality camera module, which will enable even better streaming and onboard 1080p 30fps capture. According to CEO Edmundo Nobre, the Kickstarter campaign will launch before the end of the month, and he's hoping to bring the Ziphius to the mass market with a price point at around $200 to $250. Not bad, huh? Stay tuned for our hands-on video.
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Cambridge, Mass. March 14, 2013 Geoengineering, the use of human technologies to alter the Earth's climate system such as injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to scatter incoming sunlight back to space has emerged as a potentially promising way to mitigate the impacts of climate change. But such efforts could present unforeseen new risks. That inherent tension, argue two professors from UCLA and Harvard, has thwarted both scientific advances and the development of an international framework for regulating and guiding geoengineering research.
In an article published March 15 in the journal Science, Edward Parson of UCLA and David Keith of Harvard University outline how the current deadlock on governance of geoengineering research poses real threats to the sound management of climate risk. Their article advances concrete and actionable proposals for allowing further research but not deployment and for creating scientific and legal guidance, as well as addressing public concerns.
"We're trying to avoid a policy train wreck," said Keith, a professor of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. "Informed policy judgments in the future require research now into geoengineering methods' efficacy and risks. If research remains blocked, in some stark future situation, only untested approaches will be available."
"Our proposals address the lack of international legal coordination that has contributed to the current deadlock," said Parson, a professor of law and faculty co-director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law. "Coordinated international governance of research will both provide the guidance and confidence to allow needed, low-risk research to proceed and address legitimate public concerns about irresponsible interventions or a thoughtless slide into deployment."
In their paper, the authors state that progress on research governance must advance four aims:
Parson and Keith argue that scientific self-regulation is not sufficient to manage risks and that scientists need to accept government authority over geoengineering research. They emphasize that initial steps should not require new laws or treaties but can come from informal consultation and coordination among governments.
The authors also propose defining two thresholds for governance of geoengineering research: a large-scale threshold to be subject to a moratorium and a separate, much smaller threshold below which research would be allowed. Keith, for example, is currently developing an outdoor experiment to test the risks and efficacy of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering, which would fall below the proposed allowable threshold.
The authors emphasize that this article proposes only first steps. In the near term, these steps frame a social bargain that would allow research to proceed; in the long term, they begin to build international norms of cooperation and transparency in geoengineering.
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Cambridge, Mass. March 14, 2013 Geoengineering, the use of human technologies to alter the Earth's climate system such as injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to scatter incoming sunlight back to space has emerged as a potentially promising way to mitigate the impacts of climate change. But such efforts could present unforeseen new risks. That inherent tension, argue two professors from UCLA and Harvard, has thwarted both scientific advances and the development of an international framework for regulating and guiding geoengineering research.
In an article published March 15 in the journal Science, Edward Parson of UCLA and David Keith of Harvard University outline how the current deadlock on governance of geoengineering research poses real threats to the sound management of climate risk. Their article advances concrete and actionable proposals for allowing further research but not deployment and for creating scientific and legal guidance, as well as addressing public concerns.
"We're trying to avoid a policy train wreck," said Keith, a professor of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. "Informed policy judgments in the future require research now into geoengineering methods' efficacy and risks. If research remains blocked, in some stark future situation, only untested approaches will be available."
"Our proposals address the lack of international legal coordination that has contributed to the current deadlock," said Parson, a professor of law and faculty co-director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law. "Coordinated international governance of research will both provide the guidance and confidence to allow needed, low-risk research to proceed and address legitimate public concerns about irresponsible interventions or a thoughtless slide into deployment."
In their paper, the authors state that progress on research governance must advance four aims:
Parson and Keith argue that scientific self-regulation is not sufficient to manage risks and that scientists need to accept government authority over geoengineering research. They emphasize that initial steps should not require new laws or treaties but can come from informal consultation and coordination among governments.
The authors also propose defining two thresholds for governance of geoengineering research: a large-scale threshold to be subject to a moratorium and a separate, much smaller threshold below which research would be allowed. Keith, for example, is currently developing an outdoor experiment to test the risks and efficacy of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering, which would fall below the proposed allowable threshold.
The authors emphasize that this article proposes only first steps. In the near term, these steps frame a social bargain that would allow research to proceed; in the long term, they begin to build international norms of cooperation and transparency in geoengineering.
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The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences serves as the connector and integrator of Harvard's teaching and research efforts in engineering, applied sciences, and technology. Through collaboration with researchers from all parts of Harvard, other universities, and corporate and foundational partners, we bring discovery and innovation directly to bear on improving human life and society.
The Harvard Kennedy School maintains an abiding commitment to advancing the public interest by training skilled, enlightened leaders and solving public problems through world-class scholarship and active engagement with practitioners and decision makers.
The UCLA School of Law, founded in 1949, is the youngest major law school in the nation and has established a tradition of innovation in its approach to teaching, research and scholarship. With approximately 100 faculty and 1,100 students, the school pioneered clinical teaching, is a leader in interdisciplinary research and training and is at the forefront of efforts to link research to its effects on society and the legal profession.
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There were never any how-to instructions tucked into the pockets of my parents during my growing up. That they grew plants seemed a natural part of my life in Wisconsin; I am not even sure if they ever expected me to garden, too. But hey, what are you going to do when your dad shows up on your doorstep with paper bags and cardboard boxes of plants on each visit?
As I say in the first chapter, ?The garden became a knowable space where I was at home before I ever realized these feelings would even matter.? Take a feature of everyday life, and it is easy for a gardener to turn it on its head to become an oddity of home-life with people who had their hands in soil most days.
My eBook, Garden Truths From My Family?s Stories, tells of the lowly soap dish, probably more often a plastic bottle with a pump these days, ?For as long as I could remember, on the corner of our kitchen sink sat a plastic square with tips bent in meant to hold a bar of soap. In our home, at the rectangular basin that bar of soap was a collection of soap scraps, as the pile would melt together from repeated hand washings. The light brown patina was from soil, or rather dirt, that accumulated in the upper dermis of fingers, hands, arms and, yes, even face, and under nails.?
As gardeners know, there is no one correct style or type of plant grower. My parents liked to grow many kinds of plants, some that had no business in our Midwest climate, as readers find in Chapter Four, ?Fruit Trees in the Back of a Rambler.?
It is a well-guarded maxim that gardeners kill plants. My parents loved roses, and they successfully grew a large fruit and vegetable garden, but my dad did not hesitate to pick up the most bedraggled plant off the sale shelf, just to see if he could make it grow. My mother grew her plants in neat straight rows of similar colors ? she liked the design flowers brought to her garden beds. Neither of them talked about the plants that died at their hands, but they did learn from their demise and went on to grow more and more plants.
Such is the essence of gardening. Garden Truths From My Family?s Stories is a small eBook of eight chapters filled with garden essays, photos and some gardening ideas. It is not a how-to, but rather meant to be enjoyed, if only for a short while. If readers get inspiration to go on gardening from the writing, well, that would be a good thing.
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LONDON (AP) ? World leaders sent in their congratulations and Catholics around the world were celebrating Wednesday after the Vatican announced the election of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to the papacy ? making him the first pontiff from the Americas.
As bells tolled and crowds cheered across Latin America, President Barack Obama offered warm wishes to Pope Francis and said the selection speaks to the strength and vitality of the New World.
"I offer our warm wishes to His Holiness Pope Francis," Obama said. "As a champion of the poor and the most vulnerable among us, he carries forth the message of love and compassion that has inspired the world for more than 2,000 years."
In Europe, British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also issued statements of congratulations.
Wednesday was "a momentous day for the 1.2 billion Catholics around the world," Cameron said in a message posted to Twitter, while Merkel, the daughter of a Lutheran pastor, said millions of Catholics and non-Catholics alike would be looking to the new pope for guidance not just in questions of faith but in matters of peace, justice and protecting creation.
Merkel said she was particularly happy for Christians in Latin America, who now had one of their own called to be pope for the first time. Francis was elected after German-born Pope Benedict XVI stepped down last month, saying he lacked the strength to continue in the job.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he looked forward to cooperation with the Holy See under Pope Francis' "wise leadership," while European Union leaders Herman Van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso wished the new Catholic leader "a long and blessed pontificate."
The atmosphere across Latin America brimmed with excitement and surprise, with people bursting into tears and cheers on streets from Buenos Aires to Caracas, Venezuela.
"It's incredible!" said Martha Ruiz, 60, who was weeping tears of emotion in the Argentine capital. She said she had been in many meetings with the cardinal and said, "He is a man who transmits great serenity."
At the St. Francis of Assisi church in the colonial Old San Juan district in Puerto Rico, church secretary Antonia Veloz exchanged jubilant high-fives with Jose Antonio Cruz, a Franciscan friar.
"It's a huge gift for all of Latin America. We waited 20 centuries. It was worth the wait," said Cruz, wearing the brown cassock tied with a rope that is the signature of the Franciscan order.
Arcilia Litchfield, a 57-year-old tourist from Albuquerque, New Mexico, was walking down the cobblestone streets when they glanced at a TV and saw that a new pope had been chosen. She and her husband then went to the San Juan Cathedral, where the remains of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon are buried.
"It's historic. It's the first time a pope has been chosen from this part of the world," she said. "It hasn't sunk in yet."
Even in Communist Cuba, there was pride as church bells rang to celebrate the news. Elsewhere on the continent, people traded stories about the new pontiff.
"You would see him taking public buses," said Maurizzio Pavia, an Argentine now working in Puerto Rico, who said he was familiar with Bergoglio because they both came from the same region. "He would cook his own food. He would not let anyone serve him."
In the United States, the archbishop of Philadelphia said the new pope is a man of "extraordinary intellectual and cultural strengths."
Archbishop Charles Chaput calls Francis a "wonderful choice" who comes from the "new heartland of the global church."
Despite the overwhelming outpouring of joy and goodwill, not everyone thought the news was positive.
Andrew Reding of the World Policy Institute in New York said the choice of Bergoglio was an example of "superficial change."
"Once again, a conclave has made a bold geographical move while choosing a doctrinal conservative," he said. "To paraphrase an old saying, the more things change in the Roman Catholic Church, the more they stay the same."
On Twitter, the pope's mothballed account was revived and read: "HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM," a reference to the cardinal's new name: Pope Francis.
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Associated Press writers from across the globe contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/catholics-world-leaders-welcome-churchs-pope-201925844.html
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