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LG VS980 emerges at FCC, could be the Optimus G Pro for Verizon
If this recent FCC filing is any indication, it looks like AT&T won't have US exclusivity over the LG Optimus G Pro for much longer. The document points to a LG VS980 that's clearly headed for Verizon; it supports the carrier's LTE bands and the model number is in line with other Verizon LG smartphones like the LG Intuition (VS950). Seeing as the AT&T model is marked as the E980, our Magic 8 Ball says that all signs point to the VS980 being the Big Red version of the Optimus G Pro. So that'd make at least a couple of ways Americans can get their hands on the LG smartphone, which is two more than anyone in the UK.
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Israel Palestine Peace Talks: Pre-1967 Borders? Recognizing Israels Right to Exist? Netanyahu Isn?t Ehud Olmert
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New peace talks between Israel and Palestine have been announced. What excitement. Another mortar in Obama?s arsenal against Israel. Historically, the biggest obstacle for Palestinian leadership was an agreement to recognize Israel?s right to exist. That should be an easy one for any member of the human race, but not so with most Muslim countries or the people who call themselves Palestinians. Maybe this time Israel isn?t asking to recognized? Do you think Netanyahu and the Jewish people will accept that? Then there are the pre-1967 borders that our president boldly came forward and laid out for our only ally and the only Democracy in the Middle East, Israel. With those borders, it has been well-proven there is no defense for the Israeli people if those borders return. Return they will not, so what are these ?peace talks? other than a way to credit new Secretary of State John Kerry and face-building for Barack Obama? Let?s begin the conversation by saying that Israel?s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not his predecessor, Ehud Olmert.
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Right now, if you are Liberal and reading this you need to be schooled in what Israel offered to do in the ?peace talks? of 2008, and as you read it, don?t ignore the part where Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says, ?I?m still waiting for Abbas to call? (May 24, 2013):?
The Tower May 24, 2013 interview with Ehud Olmert (much more to the story here):
Revealing never before heard details of talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Olmert was referring to the proposal for a peace agreement that he presented to Abbas in the afternoon hours of a Tuesday, September 16, 2008 meeting in the Prime Minister?s residence in Jerusalem?
OLMERT: ?In the last meeting I brought a big map, like the size of this whole table,? recalls Olmert. ?With colors for all the regions that go over to us and the reverse. We would receive 6.3%, they would get 5.8%, but they also get a safe passage in a tunnel between Gaza and the West Bank that was the equivalent in territory of the remaining half percent. Territories that were considered no-man?s-land before 1967 would be divided 50-50. Ariel would stay with us, and a network of tunnels would go under the Trans Samaria Highway to ease the passage of Palestinians in that area. Similarly for the areas of A-Zaim and Hizmeh, since I was insisting on E-1. There would be a tunnel that would enable Palestinians to have quick passage between Bethlehem and Ramallah, despite our control over the territory, and so their territorial contiguity would not be impaired.?
?At the same time, I gave Abbas territories in the Beit Sh?ean Valley, next to Tirat Zvi, not far from Afula, in the area of Lachish, in the area of Katna (next to Har Adar), the northern Judean desert and the area around the Gaza Strip. I completely gave up on having an Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley. That was because I could protect the line of the Jordan River through an international military force on the other side of the Jordan RIver. There was no opposition on the Palestinian side to our having a presence in warning stations along the mountain range.?
THE TOWER: But you essentially gave up on Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount?
OLMERT: ?Correct, I proposed a compromise on sovereignty over the Temple Mount. There would be no sovereignty for anyone else. There would be the joint administration of the five states.?
THE TOWER: Where did this idea come from?
OLMERT: ?It came from my head. I was thinking about it day and night. I grew up among the Beitar-ist movement [cultivating the land and Israeli communities]. It was a movement that didn?t see settlements as a means for achieving political ends. Many of the ?Likud Princes? think as I do, and their path is like mine. Salai and Dan Meridor for example.?
THE TOWER: So what did Abu Mazen say about that proposal? Did he accept your ideas?
OLMERT: ?[In the meeting] he didn?t say he opposed my idea. It was clear to me that he agreed. He said to me, ?Listen, it makes a very serious impression.? I said to him, ?Come on, let?s initial the map. In a day or two we?ll fly to the U.S. [for the annual UN General Assembly meetings which were taking place the following week] and convene the U.N. Security Council and tell them that it?s a peace deal between us. The whole Security Council will approve it, and then we will go the General Assembly and ask for a vote. About 190 out of the 193 states will vote for it, maybe except for Iran and Syria. After that we?ll convene a joint session of Congress and we?ll appear everywhere together. We?ll gather a summit of all the world?s leaders at the connecting point of the Holy Basin. They will all come.? He said to me again, ?It?s serious, it?s serious, but I have to be sure. I want the map experts from both sides to sit together because I?m not an expert. We called over Turjeman and Saeb, I said to Shalom that he should call Danny Tirza, our map expert, so they should sit together the next day.?
The Israeli map maker was never able to ?sit down? with the Palestinian map maker, because?on the map, Israel still existed. Deceit and deception are the drivers of Arab negotiations. In Olmert?s proposal, he also agreed to take-in 5,000 Palestinians over a 5-year period.
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In other words, Olmert offered a territorial proposal based on the 1949 armistice lines ?often incorrectly referred to as the 1967 borders? with ?land swaps?, contiguity between Gaza and the West Bank, no Israeli military presence in the Jordan Valley, relinquishing Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount, and absorption of some Palestinian refugees. This amounts to basically meeting all of the demands Abbas claims he seeks in final status negotiations. And yet, what was his response to Olmert? Olmert says, ?I am still waiting for a phone call from him.?
Anyone notice: no one is talking about this.
Neither the Bush administration or the Obama administration was/is willing to speak plainly on the issue and put Palestine and it?s supporters on the edge of the abyss of no-statehood ? ever, and make it clear we are not deceived about Palestine?s only goal, to rid the Middle East of a Jewish nation. For more information on Israel?s border history, see this.
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San Diego mayor to face harassment lawsuit
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is about to face at least one sexual harassment lawsuit as a series of allegations against him roils City Hall.
A city employee will announce the lawsuit Monday, attorney Gloria Allred's office said.
The woman's identity was not immediately revealed.
Filner has denied sexual harassment claims, and said last week that he believes "a full presentation of the facts will vindicate me."
But he has also acknowledged, "I need help," and added, "I'm clearly doing something wrong."
"I am embarrassed to admit that I have failed to fully respect the women who work for me and with me, and that at times I have intimidated them," Filner said in a statement earlier this month. "It's a good thing that behavior that would have been tolerated in the past is being called out in this generation for what it is: inappropriate and wrong."
No alleged victims of sexual harassment have come forward publicly.
But former city councilwoman Donna Frye -- a Democrat, like Filner -- and two attorneys who say they represent accusers held a news conference announcing allegations against the mayor.
One of the attorneys, Marco Gonzalez, who represents an unidentified accuser, said last week that he intends to file a sexual harassment claim with the city and may also file civil lawsuits against San Diego.
Some of Filner's longtime backers are urging him to step down. But he has said he will not resign.
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Kerry Washington wedding guest tells all
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Kerry Washington's wedding was "simple and sweet".
The 36-year-old actress married American football star and actor Nnamdi Asomugha in a quiet ceremony in Idaho last month.
News of the nuptials only broke on July 3.
A purported friend of the couple who attended the ceremony is now offering details about the elegant affair.
"Everything was held at one of Kerry's friend's houses," the insider told People magazine.
"They flew a few people out on this little private plane. The house was beautiful."
The ceremony was held outdoors, according to the source.
Loved ones stayed at the home afterward to continue celebrations with the bride and groom.
"It was small, just family and close friends. They said their own vows, people stayed at the house. It was really simple and sweet," the insider added.
Kerry's dress was reportedly very traditional.
The actress is said to have shunned her usual daring red carpet style in favour of something more "plain".
"The dress was plain white, slim-fitting, like it could have been off a rack. It was really regular," the insider added.
Kerry recently gushed to People about her feelings of joy following the wedding.
While she hasn't addressed the nuptials publicly, the Scandal star hinted at being over-the-moon with her personal life when asked about her recent Emmy nomination.
"I'm blessed. I'm really happy in all areas of my life," she said.
Kerry and Nnamdi reportedly dated for a year before exchanging vows.
It is her first marriage.
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Q&A with Helen Dragas, former rector of the University of Virginia governing board
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Helen Dragas of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors sat down for an interview with The Washington Post in late June as she prepared to make the transition from leading the board to being a regular member. She also answered the following questions in writing: Read full article >> ? ? ? ? ...
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Tweeting, Muslim, policy-wonk mayor wins over 'cow town' Calgary
As other Canadian mayors suffer scandal, Naheed Nenshi is wildly popular in this western city.
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi (r.) talks to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper after a news conference in Calgary, Alberta last month. Mr. Nenshi, the first Muslim elected mayor in a major North American city, was a ubiquitous presence during the recent June 2013 floods ? at media briefings, on Twitter, updating the status of city services, reminding Calgarians to stay safe and praising emergency workers.
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Located some 200 miles north of Montana, the western city has long been condescended to by eastern elites in metropolitan cities like Toronto and Montreal, who cringed at its cowboy heritage, oil corporations, and conservative politics.
But these days, with Toronto's mayor stumbling through scandal and the now ex-mayor of Montreal facing corruption charges, many in the east look with envy at the wildly popular Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, a Harvard Kennedy School graduate, the first Muslim mayor of a major North American metropolis, and symbol of a city moving from cow-town stereotypes to something more cosmopolitan.
?Probably people who didn?t even vote for Mr. Nenshi love the idea that Toronto is now looking at Calgary covetously,? says Todd Hirsch, chief economist with ATB Financial in Calgary. ?We just can?t get enough of this.?
An unlikely mayor
It's been a rough couple of months for Canadian mayors, at least in the press.
Last month, Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum resigned after being charged with 14 counts of corruption-related counts, including fraud. And in May, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, no stranger to controversy himself, was the subject of headlines over his alleged appearance in a video supposedly smoking crack cocaine.
In contrast, Mayor Nenshi has been scandal-free and is wildly popular with his constituents ? recent polls put his support at over 70 percent. He tweets about food trucks and his new ?addiction,? Saskatoon berry perogies; meets and greets at the annual Folk Fest; and rides in the city's gay pride parade.
Nenshi was born in Toronto, but moved west at a young age. A former McKinsey & Company consultant, professor, and urban affairs columnist, he wasn?t supposed to win in the last mayoral election. He started at a mere 2 percent in the polls, but Nenshi ??prone to wearing purple and portraying himself as a policy wonk with a heart ? rallied young voters and made smart use of social media to rise in the polls to become the winner of a three-way race.?
He won fans fast for his frequent public appearances at community events, festivals, and farmers? markets, along with embodying the image of changing city and promoting a more consultative style of politics, says Keith Brownsey, a political science professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Alt-weekly FFWD summed up the adulation by naming the mayor its sexiest Calgarian, prompting the stout Nenshi to tweet,??In related news, eye doctor shortage!?
Under his direction, the city implemented a pilot project for food trucks. And Nenshi outlined a vision of the city growing upward instead of outward ? moving against the trend of subdivisions sprouting up at ever increasing distances from a downtown that turned dead in the evening.
The spotlight on Nenshi coincides with Calgary?s rapid expansion ? fueled over the past decade by a red-hot resource sector and the population racing past 1 million residents.?It also comes as the west?s clout in the Canadian confederation increases,?both economically and politically. As the magazine Toronto Life noted in a 2012 article comparing mayors, ?The centre of the universe? ? as some Canadians call the country?s biggest city ? ?seems to have shifted westward recently.?
Responding to crisis
Nenshi was put into the national spotlight again recently for his work during Calgary's flood, which required the evacuation of an estimated 75,000 residents.
His scorn for canoeists who set out on the city?s swollen rivers amid the danger even spurred a Twitter trending topic. Speaking of the canoeists, Neshi told reporters, ?I have a large number of nouns I could use to describe [them].?
But ?I am not allowed to use any of them,? he said ? spurring the creation of a #NenshiNouns hashtag, where supporters could fill in the mayor's blanks.
And just last week he blasted Canadian Pacific Railway?? a company sharply cutting costs since last year ? after one of its bridges over the Bow River buckled and tanker cars carrying toxins were left teetering over one of the city's rivers. Although city repair crews were called in to handle the emergency, which put Calgary at risk, Nenshi pointed out that the railway refused to allow the city to inspect the bridge ? something he says must change.
Although it initially objected, the railway quickly backed down and reached out to Nenshi, preferring not pick a fight with the popular politician.
?Nenshi has been everywhere,? says Mr. Brownsey, who described the mayor?s crisis management as textbook. ?He was very forthright. There?s trouble: evacuate, we?ll do our best.?
His ubiquitousness even launched a second Twitter hashtag: #Nap4Neshi ??an admonishment for the mayor to break briefly after several all-day, all-night shifts. Some citizens imposed his face over Superman?s on Man of Steel posters in bus shelters, such was his stature.
Pushback
Nenshi is not without his critics, despite his popularity.
Many of his proposals have fallen short, such as legalizing basement suites (a possible solution for housing shortages during a population boom) and having the provincial government give cities expanded revenue-generating authority. Property taxes have increased, conflicts with the city council have been common, and homebuilders have pushed back against anti-sprawl fees.
He was even the subject of a leaked secret video of his own. In April, a video recorded last November was released showing Calgary developers ? unhappy with his anti-sprawl agenda ??strategizing to stack the city council against him. Though the video showed nothing illegal, it did highlight the resentment Nenshi has fostered in some circles.
?He?s being attacked by big money,? says Bill Kaufmann, a reporter with the Calgary Sun, who describes Mr. Nenshi as sometimes being too sensitive to criticism.
The mayor?s increasing national profile after the flood may make such conflicts moot. Nenshi insists he?ll stay in municipal politics, but some observers say he could unseat one of the federal Conservative Party?s members of parliament in a city that tilts to the right, hasn?t elected a Liberal Party MP in decades, and is home to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The flood "has made him unassailable,? Brownsey says. ?He can now choose his political future.?
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Plaintiffs in gay marriage case wed in SF, LA
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? The four plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned California's same-sex marriage ban tied the knot Friday, just hours after a federal appeals court freed gay couples to obtain marriage licenses in the state for the first time in 4 1/2 years.
State Attorney General Kamala Harris presided at the San Francisco City Hall wedding of Kris Perry and Sandy Stier as hundreds of supporters looked on and cheered. The couple sued to overturn the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban along with Jeff Katami and Paul Zarrillo, who married at Los Angeles City Hall 90 minutes later with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa presiding.
"By joining the case against Proposition 8, they represented thousands of couples like themselves in their fight for marriage equality," Harris, who had asked the appeals court to act swiftly, said during Stier and Perry's brief ceremony. "Through the ups and downs, the struggles and the triumphs, they came out victorious."
Harris declared Perry, 48, and Stier, 50, "spouses for life," but during their vows, the Berkeley couple took each other as "lawfully wedded wife." One of their twin sons served as ring-bearer.
Although the couples fought for the right to wed for years, their weddings came together in a flurry when a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a brief order Friday afternoon dissolving, "effective immediately," a stay it had imposed on gay marriages while the lawsuit challenging the ban advanced through the courts.
Sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban, known as Proposition 8, called the appeals court's swift action "outrageous." Under Supreme Court rules, the losing side in a legal dispute has 25 days to ask the high court to rehear the case, and Proposition 8's backers had not yet announced whether they would do so.
"The resumption of same-sex marriage this day has been obtained by illegitimate means. If our opponents rejoice in achieving their goal in a dishonorable fashion, they should be ashamed," said Andy Pugno, general counsel for a coalition of religious conservative groups that sponsored the 2008 ballot measure.
"It remains to be seen whether the fight can go on, but either way, it is a disgraceful day for California," Pugno said.
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that Proposition 8's sponsors lacked authority to challenge the ban after Harris and Gov. Jerry Brown, both Democrats, refused to defend the ban in court.
The decision lets stand a trial judge's declaration that the ban violates the civil rights of gay Californians and cannot be enforced.
The Supreme Court said earlier this week that it would not finalize its ruling in the Proposition 8 case until after the 25-day period, which ends July 21. But San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who joined the two couples in the lawsuit, said Friday that the 9th Circuit panel had the power to lift the stay it imposed.
"The fact of the matter is the only thing holding up the weddings was the stay that the 9th Circuit had in place," Herrera said. "The fact that there is a separate 25-day period allowing the petition to go for a rehearing is separate and apart from that stay."
Brown directed California counties to start performing same-sex marriages immediately after the appeals court's order. A memo from the Department of Public Health said "same-sex marriage is again legal in California" and ordered county clerks to resume issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.
Given that word did not come down from the appeals court until mid-afternoon, most counties were not prepared to stay open late to accommodate potential crowds. The clerks in a few counties announced that they would stay open a few hours later Friday.
A jubilant San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced that same-sex couples would be able to marry all weekend in his city, which is hosting its annual gay pride celebration.
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Associated Press writers Jason Dearen, Paul Elias and Mihir Zaveri contributed to this story.
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Breakthrough in Internet bandwidth: New fiber optic technology could ease Internet congestion, video streaming
June 27, 2013 ? As rapidly increasing demand for bandwidth strains the Internet's capacity, a team of engineers has devised a new fiber optic technology that promises to increase bandwidth dramatically. The new technology could enable Internet providers to offer much greater connectivity -- from decreased network congestion to on-demand video streaming.
Described in the June 28 issue of the journal Science, the technology centers on donut-shaped laser light beams called optical vortices, in which the light twists like a tornado as it moves along the beam path, rather than in a straight line.
Widely studied in molecular biology, atomic physics and quantum optics, optical vortices (also known as orbital angular momentum, or OAM, beams) were thought to be unstable in fiber, until BU Engineering Professor Siddharth Ramachandran recently designed an optical fiber that can propagate them. In the paper, he and Alan Willner of USC demonstrate not only the stability of the beams in optical fiber but also their potential to boost Internet bandwidth.
"For several decades since optical fibers were deployed, the conventional assumption has been that OAM-carrying beams are inherently unstable in fibers," said Ramachandran. "Our discovery, of design classes in which they are stable, has profound implications for a variety of scientific and technological fields that have exploited the unique properties of OAM-carrying light, including the use of such beams for enhancing data capacity in fibers."
The reported research represents a close collaboration between optical fiber experts at BU and optical communication systems experts at USC. "Siddharth's fiber represents a very unique and valuable innovation. It was great to work together to demonstrate a terabit-per-second capacity transmission link," said Willner, electrical engineering professor at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Ramachandran and Willner collaborated with OFS-Fitel, a fiber optics company in Denmark, and Tel Aviv University.
Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the technology could not come at a better time, as one of the main strategies to boost Internet bandwidth is running into roadblocks just as mobile devices fuel rapidly growing demands on the Internet. Traditionally, bandwidth has been enhanced by increasing the number of colors, or wavelengths of data-carrying laser signals -- essentially streams of 1s and 0s -- sent down an optical fiber, where the signals are processed according to color. Increasing the number of colors has worked well since the 1990s when the method was introduced, but now that number is reaching physical limits.
An emerging strategy to boost bandwidth is to send the light through a fiber along distinctive paths, or modes, each carrying a cache of data from one end of the fiber to the other. Unlike the colors, however, data streams of 1s and 0s from different modes mix together; determining which data stream came from which source requires computationally intensive and energy-hungry digital signal processing algorithms.
Ramachandran's and Willner's approach combines both strategies, packing several colors into each mode, and using multiple modes. Unlike in conventional fibers, OAM modes in these specially designed fibers can carry data streams across an optical fiber while remaining separate at the receiving end. In experiments appearing in the Science paper, Ramachandran created an OAM fiber with four modes (an optical fiber typically has two), and he and Willner showed that for each OAM mode, they could send data through a one-kilometer fiber in 10 different colors, resulting in a transmission capacity of 1.6 terabits per second, the equivalent of transmitting eight Blu-RayTM DVDs every second.
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Chapman University unearths data in animal habitat selection that counters current convention
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When common loons settle down to breed, they pick sites like the ones they hatched in, even if better habitat is vacant
ORANGE, Calif. Chapman University's Walter Piper, Ph.D., has published research this week in a leading science journal that shows animals choose habitat similar to where they were raised rather than that likely to maximize reproductive success. This finding runs counter to current tenets of habitat selection theory.
The paper is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B on June 26 and includes co-authors Michael Palmer, Nathan Banfield and Michael Meyer. Dr. Piper's research focuses on his long-term study of loons.
"The basic finding is that young loons chose to settle on territories that are very similar to their natal territories," noted Dr. Piper, professor in Chapman's Schmid College of Science and Technology. "This behavioral pattern seems to indicate that loons choose habitat so as to promote their survival, not their breeding success. This is exciting because it flies in the face of current dogma in field of habitat selection."
Here is the abstract from the research: Scientists have long presumed that animals settle on breeding territories according to the ideal free model, which presumes that animals select habitat that maximizes the number of offspring they can produce. But settlement data often show that, in fact, animals do not select high quality habitat. Indeed, here we report that young common loons have a striking tendency to settle on breeding lakes that resemble their natal lake in terms of both size and pH. Preference for natal like rather than high quality habitat, might allow a young animal to feed on familiar prey and, hence, increase its likelihood of surviving its early breeding years.
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To see the paper, titled Can settlement in natal-like habitat explain maladaptive habitat selection?, click here: http://www.chapman.edu/scst/_files/piper-research-paper-2013.pdf.
More information on Dr. Piper's research on loons can be found at The Loon Project website: http://loonproject.org/.
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When common loons settle down to breed, they pick sites like the ones they hatched in, even if better habitat is vacant
ORANGE, Calif. Chapman University's Walter Piper, Ph.D., has published research this week in a leading science journal that shows animals choose habitat similar to where they were raised rather than that likely to maximize reproductive success. This finding runs counter to current tenets of habitat selection theory.
The paper is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B on June 26 and includes co-authors Michael Palmer, Nathan Banfield and Michael Meyer. Dr. Piper's research focuses on his long-term study of loons.
"The basic finding is that young loons chose to settle on territories that are very similar to their natal territories," noted Dr. Piper, professor in Chapman's Schmid College of Science and Technology. "This behavioral pattern seems to indicate that loons choose habitat so as to promote their survival, not their breeding success. This is exciting because it flies in the face of current dogma in field of habitat selection."
Here is the abstract from the research: Scientists have long presumed that animals settle on breeding territories according to the ideal free model, which presumes that animals select habitat that maximizes the number of offspring they can produce. But settlement data often show that, in fact, animals do not select high quality habitat. Indeed, here we report that young common loons have a striking tendency to settle on breeding lakes that resemble their natal lake in terms of both size and pH. Preference for natal like rather than high quality habitat, might allow a young animal to feed on familiar prey and, hence, increase its likelihood of surviving its early breeding years.
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To see the paper, titled Can settlement in natal-like habitat explain maladaptive habitat selection?, click here: http://www.chapman.edu/scst/_files/piper-research-paper-2013.pdf.
More information on Dr. Piper's research on loons can be found at The Loon Project website: http://loonproject.org/.
Consistently ranked among the top universities in the West, Chapman University provides a uniquely personalized and interdisciplinary educational experience to highly qualified students. Our programs encourage innovation, creativity and collaboration, and focus on developing global citizen-leaders who are distinctively prepared to improve their community and their world. Visit http://www.chapman.edu.
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Engadget + gdgt NYC wrap-up
Well, that's fun. We've wrapped up Engadget and gdgt's first-ever combined New York City event, and boy howdy did we have a heck of a night. A whole bunch of readers braved the heatwave to queue up hours in advance, forming a line that snaked around the block. When the doors opened, they were greeted with gear-packed event space, including lounges from Sony and Samsung and booths from companies like Toshiba, Qualcomm, Nokia and Sling, plus some smaller outfits like our first-ever Insert Coin winner, Ziphius.
The event also featured panels throughout the night, including conversations with Samsung Mobile VP Nick DiCarlo and Sony Electronics senior manager, Ray Hartjen, plus a roundtable discussion on the state of the industry featuring Jordan Crook from TechCrunch, Kevin Tofel from GigaOm and Harry McCracken from Time. IK Multimedia closed things out with performances by prog band Sound of Contact and Living Color leader Vernon Reid. All in all, not a bad night, if we do say so ourselves. We can't wait to do it again!
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Unlikely Planets Found In Violent Star Clusters
And here we thought we know it all.
I find it funny, but if you can find that planets can survive in extreme conditions, how the hell can you not think that life can't also? This always reminds me how the experts are experts on nothing, because we really know nothing about the universe.
But hey, let's spend more money then all the combined totals of the income of all 3rd world nations (totally making that figure up, too lazy to check) on killing people instead of advancing human knowledge.
Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/PVe_bD63mWU/story01.htm
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Jimmy Wales Is Only Worth $1 Million
A million dollars is a lot of money for a normal person, but that's pretty low if you founded the fifth most visited website on the planet, and only pretty good if you were a CEO in 1965. Nonetheless, Wikipedia chief Jimmy Wales just barely cracks six figures in total net worth, despite the 20 billion page views behind his 12-and-a-half-year-old do-gooder website, according to Amy Chozik's?big new profile in The?New York Times Magazine.?Wales makes less than "car dealers in Ohio," he admits in interview. But he's okay with that: "Their jobs are much, much less interesting than mine," he added. "Can you imagine Howard Roark saying, 'I just want to make as much money as possible?'" asked Wales, a libertarian Ayn Rand fan ? like any good Internet tycoon.?
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This 46-year-old entrepreneur has a higher purpose, apparently. Wales pulls in his real money by way of $70,000 in speaking engagement fees and the stock options in his for-profit arm, Wikia. Wikipedia, however, is a non-profit and part of a larger movement that Wales evangelizes in his many talks about "Internet rights."?But maybe the whole doing-good thing happened more by accident: "Like many Internet entrepreneurs of the early aughts, Wales aimed to create something cool first and worry about a business model later," writes Chozik. But the bubble had popped by the time he got around to thinking about money and now it's too late to slap ads on the site. "Were Wikipedia to accept banner and video ads, it could, by most estimates, be worth as much as?$5 billion," reports Chozik.?"But that kind of commercial sellout would probably cause the members of the community, who are not paid for their contributions, to revolt."
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So, Wales has run with an entrepreneur image that doesn't include dollar signs and has transformed himself into a kind of benevolent pseudo-celebrity. "I used to be just a guy. Now I'm Jimmy Wales," he said in an interview once. Jimmy Wales sure is famous, but he's famous?for being the guy who puts his face on top of the Internet encyclopedia and asks us for money. He gets to be on Stephen Colbert's show and have the likes of Bono in his cellphone, which by the way is a cheap $85 Huawei. But he'll always be "the?guy who made the sum of the world's information free without making a penny himself."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jimmy-wales-only-worth-1-million-145202622.html
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
JetBlue begins Fly-Fi flight testing, on track for Q3 launch
Adding satellite WiFi to an airplane isn't as simple as mounting an antenna up top and flipping the switch on a router -- even installing a cockpit printer requires FAA approval, so as you can expect, the Federal Aviation Administration won't check off on major modifications without some thorough testing. JetBlue's new Fly-Fi service is well on its way to getting a formal green light, though, and is expected to launch before Q3 is through. This week, the carrier is running through a variety of flight tests with one of its Airbus A320s, including maneuvering the plane with some pretty unusual weight loads, such as the rear center of gravity positioning you can see demonstrated above. After that's complete, it's time to wait for FAA certification before moving onto performance testing, and if all goes well, passengers should expect to hook up to ViaSat-1 from 30,000 feet in mere months. Once Fly-Fi goes online, it'll be by far the fastest commercial in-flight WiFi option -- we really can't wait!
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Heat celebrate with parade through downtown Miami
NBA champion Miami Heat small forward LeBron James reacts as he is introduced, Monday, June 24, 2013 during a celebration at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
NBA champion Miami Heat small forward LeBron James reacts as he is introduced, Monday, June 24, 2013 during a celebration at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
NBA champion Miami Heat's Chris Andersen gestures to fans during a parade honoring the team in Miami, Monday, June 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
NBA champion Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra touches the the Larry O'Brien NBA Championship trophy, Monday, June 24, 2013 during a celebration at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
NBA champion Miami Heat small forward LeBron James, center, touches the the Larry O'Brien NBA Championship Trophy as shooting guard Dwyane Wade, left, and center Chris Bosh, right, look on, Monday, June 24, 2013 during a celebration at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
NBA champion Miami Heat's LeBron James, left, motions to the fans during a parade honoring the team as Juwan Howard, right, looks on in Miami, Monday, June 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
MIAMI (AP) ? The last piece of confetti had landed, the Miami Heat championship celebration was officially over and many in the crowd of revelers were starting to make their way to the exits.
Players and coaches remained on the stage.
They were in no hurry to leave. Every member of the NBA champions stood and watched a giant video board play highlights of Miami's march through the playoffs, from LeBron James' MVP-caliber plays on both ends to Ray Allen's season-saving 3-pointer in Game 6 of the NBA Finals and countless moments in between.
"It's a special group," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "You know what? This season started over nine months ago with that trip to China and we were able to experience so many cool things together in the regular season. But at times, it just seems to be going by so fast."
So maybe that's why the Heat aren't ready to stop celebrating this title just yet.
With an estimated 400,000 people lining the downtown Miami streets, the Heat held their parade and an in-arena rally afterward Monday. James stood atop a double-decker bus with a cigar in his mouth for the parade. Shane Battier blew kisses to the crowd, Dwyane Wade raised three fingers aloft and Chris Andersen flapped his arms in a nod to his "Birdman" moniker.
"It's the ultimate," James told Sun Sports, the Heat broadcast partner. "It's the ultimate. This is what I came down here, to be able to have a parade at the end of the year. I'm extremely blessed, man. It doesn't get any better than this."
Several players held super-soaker squirt guns and sprayed water on fans, confetti dotted the streets, and horns honked from all directions. Heat managing general partner Micky Arison and team president Pat Riley stood in the front of one bus, while Spoelstra ? his championship cap turned backward ? waved and clapped at fans.
"Miami parties better than any city in the world," Spoelstra said. "But it took nine months, nine months of incredible sacrifice, not only by these men right here but everybody in our organization, grinding it out every single day, ups and downs, highs and lows. And to have a culmination like Game 7 in front of all of you here is incredible."
Wade said that without the fans, Miami wouldn't have found a way to win the title.
"It's humbling. It's very humbling to be here," Wade said, gazing out at the enormous crowd. "I envision a lot of things. I can't say I envisioned this. This parade down Biscayne Boulevard was once a vision by Coach Riley and now we've taken this ride three times. It's special."
When Riley got hired by the Heat, he talked at his introductory news conference about his vision of a parade down Biscayne Boulevard. It took Riley until 2006 to deliver on that hope, but now with three parades in eight seasons, the Heat are getting used to these celebrations.
"Their names are going to be respected and honored," Riley said. "And that's all we have. All we have is the name on the front of the shirt, which is the Heat, and the name on the back of the shirt. And that's why we play."
Miami became the sixth franchise in NBA history to win consecutive championships, after topping the San Antonio Spurs in this year's finals for the third title overall for the Heat franchise, needing a Game 7 to get it done. Wade and Udonis Haslem ? a Miami native who said "this is what it's all about" ? are the only players to be part of all three titles, and Wade insisted Monday that the city is going to be his home now for good.
"This is my home. They've treated me well since Day One," Wade said. "I'll be here for probably the rest of my life in this amazing city. I thank the Miamians for accepting me as one of their own."
Miami needed to win Games 6 and 7 of the finals to capture the title, and needed a huge late comeback in Game 6 just to force the ultimate game. Down by five with less than a half-minute left in regulation, James and Ray Allen made 3-pointers ? Allen's coming with 5.2 seconds left ? to force overtime, and the Heat ultimately prevailed to get into Game 7.
"I have to say that is the biggest shot I ever hit in my career," Allen said.
Along the parade route, one vehicle carried a number of uniformed military personnel. The Heat have honored military members before every home game in Miami for the past several seasons.
Police reported no major problems, and bomb- and drug-sniffing dogs were spotted working their way through the crowd. City officials banned fans from carrying backpacks, though several were spotted along the route and some people were searched randomly for security reasons. The huge crowds and parking difficulty did not seem to take away from the fans' celebratory mood.
"It's the excitement of something that doesn't come around too often, even though we've been lucky to experience it two years in a row," said Heat fan Blake Thames, who made the trip down from Palm Beach County.
Some fans began arriving before sunrise Monday, and traffic into downtown was extremely heavy as people hoped to get close enough for a glimpse of the celebration.
"It hasn't hit me yet," James said. "This is unbelievable to be a part of such a great franchise and to be able to go back-to-back."
Players spent the weekend celebrating. Some are planning to start vacations later this week, while others will remain in South Florida for at least a few more days.
"All the fans that we're seeing here is who supported us throughout the whole season, man," James said. "This is the least we could do is ride through the city and show our appreciation."
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Associated Press Writers Jennifer Kay and Kelli Kennedy in Miami contributed to this report.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Will new British surveillance revelations fuel another hacking backlash?
British agency GCHQ's involvement in the NSA's global surveillance have some drawing parallels with the phone-hacking scandal that rocked the British media.
Rebekah Brooks (c.), former News International chief executive, leaves Southwark Crown Court in London where she appeared to face charges related to phone hacking earlier this month. Some are drawing parallels between the phone hacking scandal and the revelations of broad surveillance of phone calls and email by British spy agency GCHQ and its US counterpart, the NSA.
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EnlargeThe Guardian newspaper?s allegations that British intelligence agents spied on foreign diplomats at a G20 summit surely comes at an awkward moment in foreign policy circles: just as leaders gathered for the G8 in Northern Ireland.
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But it also comes at a sensitive moment for Britain itself, still reeling from the phone hacking of British media giants that has brought privacy issues to the fore of the public debate.
?The issue of the ease with which organizations can both collect and then publicize information is transforming society?s understanding about what is and what is not confidential,? says?Martin Moore of the London-based Media Standards Trust, a charity advocating more ethical practices in the British press.
The most recent allegations, against the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), are based on documents provided by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward?Snowden. The British newspaper reported Sunday night that the agency?spied on the phone calls and emails of diplomats who were visiting London during a G20 summit in 2009. This included setting up and tapping an Internet?caf??and?hacking the communications of the South African foreign ministry and a Turkish delegation.
The revelation comes after Mr.?Snowden?provided documentation, also to the Guardian and The Washington Post, disclosing the surveillance of common citizens by the US government in its ongoing anti-terrorism fight ? a revelation that had dismayed Europe.
But the GCHQ?scandal raises questions that relate to the 2011 phone-hacking scandal in British media, says Mr. Moore. In the earlier scandal, information that public figures and newsmakers considered private was accessible by corporations, creating a "digital footprint" and the ?potential for misuse,? he says ? much like the GCHQ spying, just with the government, instead of media corporations, doing the hacking of the public's data.
This case will turn attention to the access that governments?have to information considered private. ?We?re going to see many more conversations about what the safeguards ought to be and whether there ought to be greater openness from governments as to what [information] they are collecting and how they are using it,? Moore says.
Just this month, Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, pleaded not guilty in court in London to charges including intercepting voice-mail messages in a scandal that eventually spread to officials and other news organizations.
?The phone-hacking scandal produced massive reaction," says James Curran, director of the media studies center at the University of London, and left a society sensitive to the powers of new technologies.?
?Powerful institutions in society are now enabled through new communications technology to probe private letters without sufficient public-interest justification,? he says. The discontent has spanned the political spectrum, with both the right and left condemning an erosion of privacy. ?My hunch is there will be enormous fuss, like a snowball that gets bigger and bigger.?
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