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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Union threatens Lufthansa with further strikes in wage dispute
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A German trade union has threatened Lufthansa
"If Lufthansa continues to refuse to present a negotiable offer that secures jobs and increases wages appropriately, there will be more strikes," Verdi wage negotiator Christine Behle said on Friday.
On April 22, Lufthansa was virtually grounded by a second strike in a month after Verdi rejected an improved offer by the airline. Analysts estimated that walkout alone cost Lufthansa more than 15 million euros ($19.5 million).
Verdi has been demanding a 5.2 percent pay rise over 12 months and job guarantees for about 33,000 cabin crew and ground staff at Lufthansa Cargo, Lufthansa Technik, Lufthansa Systems and LSG Sky Chefs.
Lufthansa argues it needs to cut costs to cope with higher fuel prices and cut-throat competition. It is slashing 3,500 jobs worldwide as part of a programme to boost operating profit to 2.3 billion euros by 2015.
Initially, it wanted to push through a pay freeze, plus longer working hours. But last week, the airline made an offer that the union said represented a salary increase of about 0.5 percent over a 12-month period, with no job guarantees, which it rejected as insufficient before calling on workers to walk out.
A spokesman for Lufthansa said on Friday the airline had already made an offer which was representative of the company's business situation. "A solution can only be found together at the negotiating table," he said.
Meanwhile, pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) said it had asked Lufthansa this week for a 4.6 percent pay increase for the 2013/2014 period.
VC has been demanding a 5.2 percent pay rise for 2012/2013 but said talks with Lufthansa have yielded no results so far.
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(Reporting by Peter Maushagen; Writing by Marilyn Gerlach; Editing by Mark Potter)
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Bradley Cooper Thanks Jennifer Lawrence For 'Best Kiss' At MTV Movie Awards
'Silver Linings Playbook' actor also nabbed Best Male Performance at Sunday night's show.
By Jocelyn Vena
Bradley Cooper wins at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards
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Louvre Abu Dhabi gives peek at collection
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ? Abu Dhabi's new branch of the Louvre considers no artistic subject to be off limits but will not "shock for the sake of shocking", a top overseer said Tuesday. She spoke as the museum prepared to open a sample of its growing collection to public view, shedding light on the choices the city makes as it expands its international profile while testing how far to open its conservative culture.
Objects including a medieval nude sculpture and Christian icons suggest the Abu Dhabi Louvre will not steer clear of themes such as sexuality and religion that could draw fierce criticism in many other parts of the Islamic world.
The Abu Dhabi Louvre is building its collection to open in 2015, one of the centerpieces of a planned cultural district that will also include a branch of New York's Guggenheim and a national museum.
But recent UAE moves described by rights groups as a crackdown on expression and academic freedom, including closing international research groups and arresting online activists discussing Arab Spring reforms, have raised concerns about possible artistic red lines at the museums as well.
Laurence Des Cars, curatorial director of Agence France-Museums, said there are no "sensitive issues" that are out of bounds. She spoke to reporters during an early viewing of 130 works acquired for the future museum ranging from ancient Persian artifacts to 20th century paintings.
The works include a 1940 primitive-style painting by French artist Yves Klein that suggests naked male and female forms, and a 13th century North African wood carving of an anatomically correct man. An illuminated medieval Quran from Damascus shared a display case with 14th century European diptych showing scenes from the life of Christ.
Des Cars, whose agency is part of a cultural exchange between Paris' Louvre and Abu Dhabi, said the goal of the new collection is similar to the globe-spanning collections of the great museums of the late 18th century in Europe: to seek cultural connections as well as rifts and misperceptions.
"We are really talking about the same questions here," she said. "But we will approach it in our globalized time."
Museum officials gave few details of the process of buying the collection on behalf of oil-rich Abu Dhabi, saying only that it was through "normal channels" such as private collectors, galleries and auctions. Among the more modern acquisitions are works from famed impressionists Paul Gaugin and Edouard Manet, the 1928 ink-and-collage "Portrait of a Lady" by Pablo Picasso and mural-size abstract panels by American-born Cy Twombly.
Early photographs include an 1843 daguerreotype of a veiled Egyptian woman and an 1853 image by British photographer Roger Fenton entitled "Pasha and Bedouin" ? but really models posing in costumes in his London studio.
Abu Dhabi hopes to open its cultural district in 2015 but has faced repeated construction delays.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/louvre-abu-dhabi-gives-peek-collection-101857747--finance.html
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Monday, April 15, 2013
Kobo Launches Aura, A High-Res E-Reader, As It Preps For Its Own App Store This Summer
Kobo, the Canadian e-reader, tablet and e-book company owned by Japan's e-commerce giant Rakuten, today unveiled its newest device, the Aura HD, a limited-edition e-reader it's aiming it at power bookworms, with a 265dpi resolution on a 6.8-inch screen, 4 gigabytes of storage and a two-month battery life for the premium price of $169.99 (?139.99). The announcement, made in London to coincide with this week's London Book Fair, comes as Kobo doubles down on its business, with a stronger retail operation and now plans to launch its own app store later this year to build out content for its devices.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Cy0MuUlwt4k/
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Investment Firm Expects AWS Will Hit $20 Billion In Revenues By 2020
Bernstein Research has issued a research report saying it expects AWS will have an estimated $20 billion in revenues by the end of the decade. In a separate report, RW Baird & Co.?projects $10 billion in revenue for AWS by 2016 and up to $40 billion in losses from the traditional IT market. The estimates reflect Wall Street’s growing confidence in cloud services and the need that analysts see in letting their customers know that a shift is underway that will lead to continued flat revenues or even losses for enterprise companies and systems integrators. In times of disruption, something like AWS may actually exceed investment analyst projections. Conversely, AWS success is not a certainty. Technologies may advance that will flatten AWS advantages or Amazon can’t scale the group’s services fast enough to keep its edge. These are the factors that investment research houses consider when making corporate financial projections. Overall, Baird and Bernstein cite a number of reasons that account for why AWS will do so well. The reasoning is sound but not without weaknesses, such as why AWS success will be harder to come by with large enterprises. A Turning Point The public cloud reached a turning point last year. As Baird states in its report, the top 10 cloud providers grew 37 percent while more traditional technology companies grew by 2 percent. AWS does not break out its revenues. Bernstein, based on its own research, estimates that AWS grew 100 percent year-over-year. Bernstein estimates AWS is worth $24 billion, 13 times its approximate $1.8 billion in revenue (Amazon does not break out revenues for AWS). ?In contrast, Bernstein reports that Rackspace, as of April 1, trades at about 5.3 times 2012 revenue. Its revenue grew 28 percent compared year-over-year. Its public cloud service revenues of $309 million account for 23 percent of total revenues. Rackspace, it should be noted, has aggressive expansion plans of its own and has been one of the founders of OpenStack, the open cloud effort. Developer interest has grown consistently in OpenStack since its unveiling. Google is a more concerning foe with Google Compute Engine and Google Apps. And Microsoft’s Windows Azure puts the company in position to compete in the cloud space. How The Market Breaks Down Enterprise Software: Baird Analyst Steve Ashley, quoted in the AWS report, “views client/server vendors like… SAP and BMC as most likely disintermediated, and SaaS companiesSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/9Yjl7WWczvU/
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
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Beijing reports its 1st case of the new bird flu virus
BEIJING (AP) ? A 7-year-old girl has become Beijing's first confirmed case of a new strain of the bird flu virus that has killed 11 people and sickened 37 others in eastern China, officials said Saturday.
The girl, whose parents are in the live poultry trade, was admitted to a hospital Thursday with symptoms of fever, sore throat, coughing and headache, the Beijing Health Bureau said. She was confirmed to be infected with the H7N9 virus on Saturday after tests by disease control and prevention centers, the bureau said.
The case in China's capital is the first one reported outside eastern China, where the virus was first spotted in late March, prompting massive slaughtering of live fowl and bans on the poultry trade in several cities, including the financial hub of Shanghai. Shanghai, the center of the outbreak, has reported 21 cases, including seven fatalities. One person was discharged after recovering, the local government has said.
The Beijing Health Bureau said the girl was recovering in a hospital and was in stable condition.
Shanghai authorities said Saturday that a 56-year-old man, the husband of a woman hospitalized with the virus earlier this month, became the city's latest case after testing positive for H7N9, but that it was inconclusive as to whether he had been infected by his wife.
Health officials believe people are contracting the H7N9 virus through direct contact with infected fowl and say there is no evidence the virus is spreading easily among people.
Neighboring Jiangsu province on Saturday confirmed two more cases ? a 77-year-old woman and a 72-year-old man, both in critical condition. The province has reported 14 cases, including one fatality.
Zhejiang province has reported 11 cases, including two reported Saturday by state media, and Anhui province has had two.
China has been more open in its response to the new virus than it was a decade ago with an outbreak of SARS, when authorities were highly criticized for not releasing information.
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Feline fanciers uncover cat's secret second life, thanks to GPS and science
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When Tibia the house cat went missing from his comfortable San Francisco home in 2009, his doting owner Caroline Paul thought he was dead.
Five weeks later Tibby came back, fat and content.
"I think most people would be happy," Paul's partner Wendy MacNaughton, who was brought up with small dogs, told NBC News. But "that's when Caroline went a little crazy."
The mysteries of cats' second lives have haunted cat owners for years. But roaming habits of felines have tickled the fancy of animal behavior scientists as well. As technology becomes more sophisticated, both researchers and obsessive cat fanciers like Paul are learning about those secret cat excursions.
Tech is exactly what Paul turned to after Tibby came back, but still wasn't eating at home. He was being fed elsewhere, Paul was sure, but where, and by whom?
"I was dismayed," Paul told NBC News. "I thought I knew my cat ? I thought he loved only me." She was stuck on the couch with stitches in her head, a bandaged arm, and a smooshed left ankle, recovering from crashing her experimental aircraft. She'd known MacNaughton a mere six months at that point. "The only thing I was sure of were my cats," Tibby and Fibula, she said. But Tibby? Tibby was seeing someone else.
And so, "like millions of betrayed women before her," MacNaughton says, Paul began to stalk her cat. She found a German maker of cat-sized GPS devices, bought one on the Internet, and strung it around Tibby's neck. He brought back 22 sets of data over a month, but mostly, MacNaughton says, "It was gobbledygook."
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In Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation and GPS Technology, MacNaughton (illustrations) and Paul (words) describe their attempts to investigate Tibby the cat's second life, listing encounters with pet detectives, various tracking devices, even attempts at straight questions in an animal communications class. In the end, MacNaughton and Paul found answers (you'll have to read the book to know those). But they also found each other.
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Wendy MacNaughton, Caroline Paul and Tibby the cat.
Though not nearly as personal as the couple's adventure with Tibby, the discoveries made by scientists who study cats can be just as illuminating.
Jeff Horn, now a land steward specialist at the Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation in Illinois, surveyed the roaming habits of 52 wild cats and house cats in the suburban farmland near Champaign-Urbana, stringing radio transmitters on the necks and tracking their roaming patterns within a 10-square-mile area for about a year and a half.
Horn and his team found that both kinds of cats wandered, but the wild cats wandered much further. "The owners, they were very surprised ... they didn't realize [their cats] were going as far as they were at times," even though the "home ranges" in that study compared to similar cat wandering studies done before, horn says.
In 2011, Kerrie Loyd, then a grad student at the University of Georgia, got urban cat owners near Atlanta to attach small cameras to the collars to their cats when they went out. Over about 11 months, she collected hours and hours of footage of their cats' secret alone time.
When the cameras came back, the cat, so to speak, was out of the bag.
Some owners were a little spooked to find that reptiles (like lizards) were a favorite snack among their cats. Because they were eating them on their outings and not bringing them home, the owners never found out, Kerrie Loyd, now a lecturer at Arizona State University told NBC News in an email. And more icky discoveries: "Twenty percent of our kitties went exploring down in the storm drain system regularly (yuck!)."
Curiously, the Kitty Cams caught "several" cats that were inexplicably seeking out other families for affection and food.
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As to why cats wandered, both Loyd and Horn were stumped. But Roland Kays, a zoologist at North Caroline State University, has a guess.
"That's their million-year wild heritage that's in their DNA expressing itself," Kays told NBC News. Kays, whose feline tracking resume extends from house cats to ocelots to African lions, says that in the wild, cats' behavior and movement is shaped by three things: finding food, finding a mate, and crucially, not being eaten by something else.
But neutered, well-fed house cats want for none of those things. "It's puzzling what their motivation would be in that situation, if they didn't want to find a food or mate," he told NBC News.
Curious cat owners can check out Paul and MacNaughton's handy list of cat-tracking devices on their website, which ranges from cameras and GPS devices to drones. If they wanted to share that data, Kays, for one, would be thrilled. "This cat movement data could be very valuable to compare with other wild animals as well," he said.
If you chose to take on this adventure with your cat, Tibby's owner Paul advises that it's best to do it with an open heart.
"You have to accept that you can't know everything about the creature that you love, be it your girlfriend or your cat," Paul says. "And you just trust that love is enough ... When you give your heart to someone, when you love someone, lost is always implicit. And you just hope they come back. And Tibby came back."
For a full list of cat tracking devices, visit Paul and MacNaughton's How to track your cat page.
Cat owners are invited to share their tracking data with Roland Kays on movebank.org, a crowdsourced data base of wild animal roaming patterns.
Nidhi Subbaraman is a cat person. Follow her on Twitter and Google+.
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Turntable.fm's Piki for iOS shapes streaming music around friends' tastes
Turntable.fm's live music rooms are great for inflicting our questionable choices in music on others, with one major catch: everyone has to be in a virtual room at the same time. The company's new Piki social music app for iOS won't let those friends (or soon to be ex-friends) get away so easily. Rather than rely on the professional recommendations of a radio provider like Pandora, the service automatically generates a stream of music based on the collective selections of those you follow. Piki will also auto-recommend friends based on personal selections, and everyone can message each other or tag tunes with reactions -- we'd be careful about revealing that love of polka dubstep to the world. While copyright licenses prevent Piki from offering friend-specific streams, or listening outside of the US, we won't complain too much when the service is free and will get an Android port. Our friends' ears, however, won't be so fortunate.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Home Improvement Advice That Is Sure To Please! | Understanding ...
April 7th, 2013 by Sehehr Laferir
A lot of people think they could never handle a home improvement project on their own. People are always tackling home improvement projects and failing. Home improvement is actually not have to be a giant pain in the neck. This piece describes several simple approaches you can use to update your home.
Motion detectors are a good exterior lighting choice.These lights operate only when they sense movement. This saves you a lot of money and energy.
Use clear totes to organize your garage by type and frequency of use. Label these boxes and stack them. This is a great way to clean your garage cleaned while keeping pests away from your items.
Be certain to seal the grout once tile has been laid. Without sealing grout, moisture can creep in, giving way to mildew and mold. By sealing grout, it will be easier to clean the tiles and you are less likely to battle mildew.
You need PVC cement and PVC primer to attach two PVC pipes.You need to use these products designed for PVC so they?ll hold and not leak. Make sure the pipes is dry when you begin.
You can use those baby food jars to organize your workspace! You can screw or superglue the lids under a wall shelf. You can use these jars to store different items in the jars. This will help maximize your shelf and efficiency.
A cheap way to boost your house is by planting a tree. Landscaping can really enhance your yard will significantly increase your home?s value.The trees you grow make great mature shade feature. You can also save when it comes to cooling costs with a tree in the right place.
Be flexible with your home renovation projects. You may hope to finish a project in a specific time frame, but it can take longer than you thought. You may expect to spend a given amount of money, but it could cost you more than you think.
Do you have a spotty lawn where grass is not grow? Purchase grass seeds to rejuvenate your yard. A lawn that looks bad will make your yard. Make sure your lawn look beautiful and green today.
Be flexible when it comes to home improvement plans.You may have a date in mind, but it can take longer than you thought. You might have a budget, but it could cost you more than you think.
It is incredible how people often simply accept mundane paint that?s in their homes.
You might not be able to use the kitchen equipment.
Adding in a new sink can really change the appearance of your kitchen.This can instantly transform your kitchen?s look.Sinks nowadays are available in a number of colors, styles and shapes.
Solar powered lights are great, but they are mainly good for just decoration.
Solar lights come in different styles and are inexpensive, but most will be extremely weak.
Safety first is the number one rule when you?re doing home improvement work. There is some danger in any home improvement project you do, so make sure to read the instructions on power tools and ask for help from store associates if you need it. You can also find many online tutorial which can help.
White or red cedar fences can be great if you are in dry climates. Cedar wood is well-loved for its durability and distinctive fragrance; it is also rated highly for safety in area that are prone to wildfires.
Think adding some solar energy panels on your roof. The initial outlay can be a little expensive, but it can save you money in the long run. This can help you to save your money your electric bills. This is also a good way to reduce your impact on the power it needs.
As stated in the introduction, there are many people that believe that it is impossible to improve their homes. People try bettering their home but usually fail. Still, home improvement can be done. Just keep the advice you?ve read here in mind, and you can succeed in your home-improvement projects.
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Antarctic ice samples: What do they say about global warming?
Antarctic ice core samples, up to 150,000 years old, may help scientists estimate whether it will take 50 years - or 500 years - for the Ross Ice Shelf to collapse at the current rate of climate change.
Scientist Nancy Bertler holds the final section of ice she collected from a half-mile under Antarctica's surface in a laboratory freezer, near Wellington, New Zealand. Antarctica's pristine habitat provides a laboratory for scientists studying the effects of climate change.
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EnlargeNancy Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic darkness, to go get ice ? ice that records our climate's past and could point to its future.
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They drilled out hundreds of ice cores, each slightly longer and wider than a baseball bat, from the half-mile-thick ice covering Antarctica's Roosevelt Island. The cores, which may total 150,000 years of snowfall, almost didn't survive the boat ride to New Zealand because of a power outage.
Bertler hopes the material will help her estimate how long the Ross Ice Shelf would last under the current rate of climate change before falling apart.
Evidence from the last core her team hauled out needs further study, but it contains material that Bertler said appeared to be marine sediment that formed recently ? at least in geological terms measured in thousands of years.
That would bolster scientists' suspicions that the shelf could collapse again if global temperatures keep rising, triggering a chain of events that could raise sea levels around the world.
"From a scientific point of view, that's really exciting. From a personal point of view, that's really scary," said Bertler, a senior research fellow at the Antarctic Research Centre at the Victoria University of Wellington.
The ice shelf acts as a natural barrier protecting massive amounts of ice in West Antarctica, and that ice also could fall into the ocean if the shelf fell apart. Scientists say West Antarctica holds enough ice to raise sea levels by between 2 meters (6.5 feet) and 6 meters (20 feet) if significant parts of it were to collapse.
Ted Scambos, the lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, said that even under the worst case scenario he thinks it would take at least 500 years for West Antarctica's ice to melt.
However, he said a discovery of sediment would indicate a significant portion of the ice shelf is under threat of becoming unstable again, and that the implications were "huge."
Bertler hopes the material she recovered will help her to estimate by the end of this year whether it will take 50 years or 500 years for the ice shelf to collapse at the current rate of climate change. Those answers should prove important for policymakers who, she said, may need to decide whether to build sea walls or move populations to higher ground.
Bertler's project is one of scores that take place on Antarctica every Southern Hemisphere summer. To scientists, the continent's pristine habitat offers a unique record of the planet's weather and a laboratory for studying the effects of climate change.
Studies indicate that while the Arctic has suffered what scientists consider to be alarming rates of ice loss in recent years, the Antarctic ice shelf has remained relatively stable despite having have lost ice in recent decades.
Research in Antarctica creates huge logistical and personal challenges.
Bertler's camp on Roosevelt Island is a three-hour flight from the nearest permanent Antarctic outposts, Scott Base and McMurdo Station. The island is surrounded by the Ross Ice Shelf, the world's largest mass of floating ice, covering an area the size of Spain.
Even during the spring and summer months when Bertler's team was working there, the temperature sometimes dropped to minus 25 C (minus 13 F) and there were frequent storms and thick fog.
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How carbon moves within planet plays big role in planetary atmosphere formation
Apr. 8, 2013 ? A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the way carbon moves from within a planet to the surface plays a big role in the evolution of a planet's atmosphere. If Mars released much of its carbon as methane, for example, it might have been warm enough to support liquid water.
A new study of how carbon is trapped and released by iron-rich volcanic magma offers clues about the early atmospheric evolution on Mars and other terrestrial bodies.
The composition of a planet's atmosphere has roots deep beneath its surface. When mantle material melts to form magma, it traps subsurface carbon. As magma moves upward toward the surface and pressure decreases, that carbon is released as a gas. On Earth, carbon is trapped in magma as carbonate and degassed as carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that helps Earth's atmosphere trap heat from the sun. But how carbon is transferred from underground to the atmosphere in other planets -- and how that might influence greenhouse conditions -- wasn't well understood.
"We know carbon goes from the solid mantle to the liquid magma, from liquid to gas and then out," said Alberto Saal, professor of geological sciences at Brown and one of the study's authors. "We want to understand how the different carbon species that are formed in the conditions that are relevant to the planet affect the transfer."
This latest study, which also included researchers from Northwestern University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, indicated that under conditions like those found in the mantles of Mars, the Moon and other bodies, carbon is trapped in the magmas mainly as a species called iron carbonyl and released as carbon monoxide and methane gas. Both gasses, methane especially, have high greenhouse potential.
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that when volcanism was widespread early in Mars' history, it may have released enough methane to keep the planet significantly warmer than it is today.
A key difference between conditions in Earth's mantle and the mantles of other terrestrial bodies is what scientists refer to as oxygen fugacity, the amount of free oxygen available to react with other elements. Earth's mantle today has a relatively high oxygen fugacity, but in bodies like the Moon and early Mars, it is very low. To find out what how that lower oxygen fugacity affects carbon transfer, the researchers set up a series of experiments using volcanic basalt similar to those found on the Moon and Mars.
They melted the volcanic rock at varying pressures, temperature, and oxygen fugacities, using a powerful spectrometer to measure how much carbon was absorbed by the melt and in what form. They found that at low oxygen fugacities, carbon was trapped as iron carbonyl, something previous research hadn't detected. At lower pressures, iron carbonyl degassed as carbon monoxide and methane.
"We found that you can dissolve in the magma more carbon at low oxygen fugacity than what was previously thought," said Diane Wetzel, a Brown graduate student and the study's lead author. "That plays a big role in the degassing of planetary interiors and in how that will then affect the evolution of atmospheres in different planetary bodies."
Early in its history, Mars was home to giant active volcanoes, which means significant amounts of methane would have been released by carbon transfer. Because of methane's greenhouse potential, which is much higher than that of carbon dioxide, the findings suggest that even a thin atmosphere early in Mars' history might have created conditions warm enough for liquid water on the surface.
Other authors on the paper were Malcolm Rutherford from Brown, Steven Jacobson from Northwestern. and Erik Hauri from the Carnegie Institution. The work was supported by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Deep Carbon Observatory.
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Monday, April 8, 2013
As Obama presses Congress on gun controls, McConnell says he'd join GOP filibuster
President Obama renewed his plea for gun control Monday on the heels of a "60 Minutes" interview featuring the families of Newtown. ?NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
By Kasie Hunt, Political Reporter, NBC News
With the families of children killed in last year?s Newtown school shooting looking on, President Barack Obama on Monday made an emotional plea for Americans to urge Congress to pass new gun control measures.
"We all have to stand up," Obama said in a speech in Hartford, Conn., where he flew to try and maintain faltering momentum for a package of new gun laws the Senate could take up this week.?"If you want the people you send to Washington to have just an iota of courage that the educators at Sandy Hook showed when danger arrived on their doorstep, then we'll all have to stand up."
As Obama was speaking -- and the crowd was chanting, "we want a vote" -- the Senate's top Republican announced he would join a GOP filibuster of gun control legislation and oppose allowing a Democratic gun control bill to come to the Senate floor for debate
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell did leave the door open to allowing a gun control compromise bill to come to the floor, but his office said in a statement that he will oppose the version of the legislation that Reid outlined before the Senate's just-concluded two week recess.
Eleven parents and spouses of Newtown victims were set to board Air Force One to fly to Washington after the speech, where they'll spend three days lobbying Congress to pass the new gun safety laws.
The Senate is poised to start debating and voting on gun laws as early as this week.
But after weeks of negotiations, the gun bill is a much less ambitious proposal than what Obama and Vice President Joe Biden first pushed for in the days after Newtown, where 20 schoolchildren and 6 adults were killed.
Legislation proposed in the wake of the shooting included a renewal of a lapsed assault weapons ban and measures to limit high capacity magazines. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has pledged that the upper chamber will vote on those measures, but both are likely doomed to fail.
Now, lawmakers are fighting over expanding background checks to cover most gun sales. Under current law, Americans can buy firearms at a gun show or online without getting a background check.
"We have to tell Congress its time to require a background check for anyone who wants to buy a gun so people who are dangerous to themselves and others cannot get their hands on a gun," Obama said Monday.
Senators are still negotiating a compromise proposal on background checks, and Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania is in talks with Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia to try and find a bipartisan agreement.
But with the upper chamber set to begin debating gun control soon, they're running out of time.
This story was originally published on Mon Apr 8, 2013 5:57 PM EDT
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Thatcher played polarizing role in pop culture
By Randee Dawn, TODAY contributor
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday at age 87, inspired pop culture for decades. Her politics and her presence had a special influence on the British music scene, as she rose to power just as a new generation of musicians were making their mark on the art form. In the U.S., she may be best remembered for the 2011 film "The Iron Lady," which won Meryl Streep an Oscar and was not without controversy itself, inventing memories and thoughts for an elderly Thatcher. ?
Here's a quick look at some of the ways Thatcher was portrayed in the arts world.
Iron Lady, big screen
Thatcher may be most recently remembered from her 2011 portrayal in "The Iron Lady," which won Meryl Streep her third Oscar. But the movie received mixed reviews, and was criticized by some for not taking a stand on Thatcher's politics. "Was she a monster? A heroine? The movie has no opinion," late critic Roger Ebert wrote?in the Chicago Sun-Times. "She was a fact. You leave the movie having witnessed it. Whatever your feelings were about Thatcher were before you saw it, you now have some images to accompany it."
Streep issued a statement on Monday, which read in part, "To me she was a figure of awe for her personal strength and grit. To have come up, legitimately,? through the ranks of the British political system, class bound and gender phobic as it was, in the time that she did and the way that she did, was a formidable achievement. ...?I was honored to try to imagine her late life journey, after power; but I have only a glancing understanding of what her many struggles were, and how she managed to sail through to the other side. I wish to convey my respectful condolences to her family and many friends."
Thatcher's time in office provided the backdrop for the 2000 film "Billy Elliot," which took place amid a 1984-87 coal miner's strike that gave Thatcher a solid victory and more or less broke the trade unions. The musical version that hit Broadway featured an Elton John song, "Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher," in which children sang, "We all celebrate today/'Cause it's one day closer to your death."?
Protest songs
Musicians coalesced around songs that beat down Thatcher and her policies, and that anti-government feeling arguably helped fuel the growth of the country's punk and ska music scenes. Many songs actively looked forward to her death, and singers like Billy Bragg and Morrissey typified some of the angriest lashings out at their leader, with songs like "Margaret on the Guillotine" (Morrissey) and Elvis Costello's "Tramp the Dirt Down." Sinead O'Connor sang about the shooting of a black British man that allegedly was covered up by police in "Black Boys on Mopeds"?while Genesis used a "Spitting Image" puppet of Thatcher in their "Land of Confusion" video (which also satirized other world leaders, including Ronald Reagan).
A large number of influential British bands got their start?during Thatcher's time in office, including The Clash, Gang of Four and The Jam. Her time in office provided lyrical inspiration as well as the impetus for songwriting. Musician Billy Bragg told?The Guardian, "Whenever I'm asked to name my greatest inspiration, I always answer, 'Margaret Thatcher.' ... Try as I might to resist her, she provided the backdrop for all the songs I wrote in that turbulent period."
Live from New York, it's Maggie Thatcher
At home in England, the prime minister was the inspiration for any number of TV series -- including the original version of "House of Cards" in 1990, which features a fictional successor to Thatcher. As recently as 2009, two productions, "Margaret" and "The Queen" offered up modern looks at Thatcher, but for sheer American satire it's hard to beat late-night television. "Monty Python" member Michael Palin hosted "Saturday Night Live" in 1979 just a week after Thatcher's election as prime minister, and appeared as Thatcher. Palin's Thatcher even?got to utter the catchphrase of the day, "Jane, you ignorant slut," after a grilling by Jane Curtin on the show's "Weekend Update" segment. And in the early 1980s, "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson played a practical joke on Joan Rivers, hiring a Thatcher lookalike to talk to her about her jokes about the royal family.?
Comic strips and books
Thatcher was ripe for cartooning and caricaturing.?She popped up in hundreds of political comics over the years, and even got space in Bloom County. Any number of books about her rule -- including a few written by Thatcher herself -- gave her a significant non-fictional section on the shelf. But for those savvy readers who grew up during her time in office, few fictional takes encompass what it was like to live in the Thatcher years like Sue Townsend's?"Adrian Mole" young adult book series. Mole even wrote a poem to his prime minister, called "Mrs. Thatcher": "Do you weep, Mrs. Thatcher, do you weep?" he asked.
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Ware has spot on Louisville's Final Four bench
Fans cheer as Louisville's Kevin Ware takes to the court before the first half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game against Wichita State, Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Fans cheer as Louisville's Kevin Ware takes to the court before the first half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game against Wichita State, Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Fans cheer as Louisville's Kevin Ware takes to the court before the first half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game against Wichita State, Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Fans cheer as Louisville's Kevin Ware takes to the court before the first half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game against Wichita State, Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
A fan holds a photo of Louisville's Kevin Ware before the first half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game between Louisville and Wichita State, Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
ATLANTA (AP) ? Kevin Ware was with his teammates Saturday on Louisville's Final Four bench.
There was a loud cheer when Ware, on crutches and surrounded by a crowd of photographers, followed his teammates onto the floor before the Cardinals' matchup against Wichita State. He sat in a chair by the Louisville bench, with his injured leg resting on a stack of towels in another chair.
Ware said he feels "great."
"Obviously, it's great to be home," he said in a brief, pregame interview on CBS.
"I've had a lot of support, and I really appreciate it."
Ware signed with Louisville from Rockdale County High School, about 30 miles east of Atlanta.
Throughout much of a back-and-forth first half, Ware watched the game passively. He was unable to join the Cardinals during timeouts, with the team huddled on the raised court above the bench at the Georgia Dome.
Ware's right tibia snapped and broke through his skin in last Sunday's Midwest Regional victory over Duke. The brutal injury ended his postseason as a player but didn't end his role as a teammate. Before he was taken off the court that evening, he told the shocked Louisville players to "win this game."
Louisville players paid tribute to Ware, No. 5, before their national semifinal, wearing T-shirts over their jerseys in pregame warmups with the words "Ri5e to the Occasion." Louisville's pep band also wore the T-shirts.
A Louisville fan held a sign reading "Wa5e them out!"
Ware had surgery Sunday night, was released two days later and on Wednesday flew with the team to Atlanta.
He also found time to read the top 10 list of "Thoughts going through Kevin Ware's mind" on David Letterman's TV show after he broke his leg. His No. 1 item: "At least my bracket's not busted."
The surgery, travel and sudden celebrity combined to leave the sophomore drained by the time he reached Atlanta.
Ware was so exhausted he fell asleep at the team's dinner table on Thursday night. That convinced team officials to decide he needed a full day of rest Friday so he would be able to attend Saturday's game.
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
Kerry struggles to get Turkey to mend Israel ties
US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a news conference with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, unseen, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 7, 2013. Kerry is in the Middle East, his third trip to the region in two weeks, in a fresh bid to unlock long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. And in Istanbul, the first leg of a six-nation trip that goes on to Europe and East Asia, Kerry will coordinate with Turkey's Prime Minister and other Turkish officials on efforts to halt the violence in neighboring Syria's civil war.(AP Photo)
US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a news conference with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, unseen, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 7, 2013. Kerry is in the Middle East, his third trip to the region in two weeks, in a fresh bid to unlock long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. And in Istanbul, the first leg of a six-nation trip that goes on to Europe and East Asia, Kerry will coordinate with Turkey's Prime Minister and other Turkish officials on efforts to halt the violence in neighboring Syria's civil war.(AP Photo)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the West Bank city of Ramallah Sunday, April 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohamed Torokman, Pool)
US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shake hands with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu after a news conference in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 7, 2013. Kerry is in the Middle East, his third trip to the region in two weeks, in a fresh bid to unlock long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. And in Istanbul, the first leg of a six-nation trip that goes on to Europe and East Asia, Kerry will coordinate with Turkey's Prime Minister and other Turkish officials on efforts to halt the violence in neighboring Syria's civil war.(AP Photo)
In this photo released by the Turkish Prime Minister's Press Office, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and US Secretary of State John Kerry shake hands as they pose for cameras before a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 7, 2013. Kerry is in the Middle East, his third trip to the region in two weeks, in a fresh bid to unlock long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. And in Istanbul, the first leg of a six-nation trip that goes on to Europe and East Asia, Kerry will coordinate with Turkey's Prime Minister and other Turkish officials on efforts to halt the violence in neighboring Syria's civil war.(AP Photo/Kayhan Ozer, Turkish Prime Minister's Press Office, HO)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the West Bank city of Ramallah Sunday, April 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohamed Torokman, Pool)
ISTANBUL (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry struggled Sunday to convince Turkey's leaders they should promptly restore full diplomatic ties with Israel, two American allies counted on by President Barack Obama to help calm the turbulent Middle East.
But Turkey demanded that Israel first end all commercial restrictions against the Palestinians before the once-close partners could end their estrangement, which stems from an Israeli raid in 2010 on a flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip. Eight Turks and a Turkish-American died.
Obama revived the rapprochement during a visit to Israel last month, and Kerry aimed to firm that up in Istanbul, the first stop in a 10-day trip.
The stakes are high, given that the U.S. sees Turkey and Israel as anchors of stability in a region riven by Syria's civil war, Arab Spring political upheavals and the potential threat posed by Iran's nuclear program.
"We would like to see this relationship that is important to stability in the Middle East and critical to the peace process ... get back on track in its full measure," Kerry told reporters at a news conference with Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
Kerry said that meant promises of "compensation be fulfilled, ambassadors be returned and that full relationship be embraced."
He also met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and then went to Israel.
Obama, before leaving Israel two weeks ago, arranged a telephone conversation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Erdogan. Netanyahu apologized for the flotilla incident; compensation talks are expected to begin this week.
But Davutoglu suggested that full normalization of ties would probably take some time.
"There is an offense that has been committed and there needs to be accountability," Davutoglu said.
He signaled that Turkey would pursue a "careful" advance toward a complete restoration of relations, with compensation and an end to Israeli trade restrictions on the Gaza Strip as the stumbling blocks.
"All of the embargoes should be eliminated once and for all," he said through an interpreter.
Fixing the relationship long has been a goal of the Obama administration, and the U.S. desperately wants significant progress by the time Erdogan visits the White House in mid-May.
The Turks have reveled somewhat in what they view as a diplomatic victory, with billboards in Ankara celebrating Netanyahu's apology and praising Erdogan for bringing pride to his country.
Perhaps seeking to add to his leverage, Erdogan indicated shortly after the call that he was in no hurry to finalize the deal and pledged to visit the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory soon.
From a U.S. strategic sense, cooperation between the American allies has only become more important as Syria's 2-year conflict has grown ever deadlier.
More than 70,000 people have died in the war, according to the United Nations, but the U.S. fears it could get even worse, by spilling into neighboring countries or through the use of chemical weapons.
Both potential scenarios have led to intense contingency planning among Washington and its regional partners, including Israel and Turkey.
Kerry, who noted his twice-weekly telephone chats with Davutoglu, spoke of shared U.S. and Turkish efforts to support Syria's opposition coalition.
The opposition has suffered from poor coordination between its political leadership and the military factions leading the fight against the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and from intense infighting among those who seek to guide the amorphous movement's overall strategy.
Turkey has gone further than the U.S. in its assistance, accepting some 180,000 Syrians as refugees and sending advanced weaponry to rebels fighting to overthrow Assad.
The U.S. is only providing nonlethal aid to the rebels in the form of meals, medical kits and training.
Kerry praised Turkey for its generosity toward refugees and commitment to keeping its borders open, an issue of growing U.S. concern as the outflow of Syrians stretches the capacities of neighboring countries to accommodate them.
"The United States and Turkey will continue cooperating toward the shared goal of a peaceful transition in Syria," he said.
After arriving in Israel for his trip there in two weeks, Kerry went directly to the West Bank city of Ramallah, where he met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
He planned to see Netanyahu and other senior Israeli and Palestinian officials Monday and Tuesday as part of a fresh American bid to unlock the long-stalled Middle East peace process.
Conversations in Israel will also cover shared U.S. and Israeli concerns over Iran's nuclear program.
Representatives from the U.S. and other world powers met the Islamic republic in Kazakhstan for another round of negotiations, but no breakthrough was announced on a proposed deal that would see international penalties eased on Iran if Tehran convinces the world that it is not trying to develop nuclear weapons.
Kerry said the "door is still open" for a negotiated agreement, but that the onus was on the Iranians.
"If you have a peaceful program for nuclear power, as a number of nations do, it's not hard to prove that," he said. "They have chosen not to live up to the international requirements and standards with respect to verification of their program."
The other stops on his trip are Britain, South Korea, China and Japan. He returns to Washington on April 15.
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Sweeping anti-abortion bill goes to Kansas gov.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ? Kansas legislators gave final passage to a sweeping anti-abortion measure Friday night, sending Gov. Sam Brownback a bill that declares life begins "at fertilization" while blocking tax breaks for abortion providers and banning abortions performed solely because of the baby's sex.
The House voted 90-30 for a compromise version of the bill reconciling differences between the two chambers, only hours after the Senate approved it, 28-10. The Republican governor is a strong abortion opponent, and supporters of the measure expect him to sign it into law so that the new restrictions take effect July 1.
In addition to the bans on tax breaks and sex-selection abortions, the bill prohibits abortion providers from being involved in public school sex education classes and spells out in more detail what information doctors must provide to patients seeking abortions.
The measure's language that life begins "at fertilization" had some abortion-rights supporters worrying that it could be used to legally harass providers. Abortion opponents call it a statement of principle and not an outright ban on terminating pregnancies.
"The human is a magnificent piece of work at all stages of development, wondrous in every regard, from the microscopic until full development," said Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, a Leavenworth Republican who supported the bill.
Abortion opponents argue the full measure lessens the state's entanglement with terminating pregnancies, but abortion-rights advocates say it threatens access to abortion services.
The declaration that life begins at fertilization is embodied in "personhood" measures in other states. Such measures are aimed at revising their constitutions to ban all abortions, and none have been enacted, though North Dakota voters will have one on the ballot in 2014.
But Kansas lawmakers aren't trying to change the state constitution, and the measure notes that any rights suggested by the language are limited by decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. It declared in its historic Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 that women have a right to obtain abortions in some circumstances, and has upheld that decision while allowing increasing restrictions by states.
Thirteen states, including Missouri, have such language in their laws, according to the National Right to Life Committee.
Sen. David Haley, a Kansas Democrat who opposed the bill, zeroed in on the statement, saying that supporters of the bill were pursuing a "Taliban-esque" course of letting religious views dictate policy limiting women's ability to make decisions about health care and whether they'll have children.
And in the House, Rep. John Wilson, a Lawrence Democrat, complained that the bill was "about politics, not medicine."
"It's the very definition of government intrusion in a woman's personal medical decisions," he said.
Brownback has signed multiple anti-abortion measures into law, and the number of pregnancies terminated in the state has declined 11 percent since he took office in January 2011.
The governor said he still has to review this year's bill thoroughly but added, "I am pro-life."
This year's legislation is less restrictive than a new North Dakota law that bans abortions as early as the sixth week of pregnancy and a new Arkansas law prohibiting most abortions after the 12th week. But many abortion opponents still see it as a significant step.
"There is a clear statement from Kansas with respect to the judgment on the inherent value of human life," said Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee Chairwoman Mary Pilcher-Cook, a Shawnee Republican and leading advocate for the measure.
The bill passed despite any solid data on how many sex-selection abortions are performed in Kansas. A 2008 study by two Columbia University economists suggested the practice of aborting female fetuses ? widespread in some nations where parents traditionally prefer sons ? is done in the U.S. on a limited basis.
But legislators on both sides of the issue said the practice should be banned, however frequent it is.
The bill also would require physicians to give women information that addresses breast cancer as a potential risk of abortion. Advocates on both sides acknowledge there's medical evidence that carrying a fetus to term can lower a woman's risk for breast cancer, but doctors convened by the National Cancer Institute a decade ago concluded that abortion does not raise the risk for developing the disease.
The provisions dealing with tax breaks are designed to prevent the state from subsidizing abortions, even indirectly. For example, health care providers don't have the pay the state sales tax on items they purchase, but the bill would deny that break to abortion providers. Also, a woman could not include abortion costs if she deducts medical expenses on her income taxes.
"Every taxpayer will be able to know with certainty that their money is not being used for abortion," Pilcher-Cook said.
But Jordan Goldberg, state advocacy counsel for the New York City-based Center for Reproductive Rights, called the tax provisions "appalling and discriminatory."
"It's probably, if not definitely unconstitutional, and it's incredibly mean-spirited," she said.
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The anti-abortion legislation is HB 2253.
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Associated Press Writer Maria Fisher in Kansas City, Mo., also contributed to this report. Follow John Hanna on Twitter at www.twitter.com/apjdhanna
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sweeping-anti-abortion-bill-goes-kansas-gov-055505494.html
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Friday, April 5, 2013
New Zealand Withdraws Its Troops From Afghanistan, Grants Afghan Interpreters Residency
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The Chamber ? West Fargo Public Schools Seeks Business ...
April 5th, 2013 by Katie Hutton
West Fargo Public Schools is looking for business professionals in our community to do mock interviews for high school seniors on May 13, 14, and 15. You will have 10 minutes with each student in which you will hear them present for three minutes about themselves (their project this year was to write a paper about their next step after high school), and then you will ask them job interview questions.
The following dates are currently available:
Monday, May 13,
7:45 am ? 8:35 am (6 people needed)
9:40 am ? 10:30 am (7 people needed)
1:45 pm ? 2:40 pm (6 people needed)
Tuesday, May 14
7:45 am ? 8:35 am (5 people needed)
10:35 am ? 11:25 am (5 people needed)
12:54 pm ? 3:35 pm (6 people needed)
Wednesday, May 15
8:40 am ? 11:25 am (5 people needed)
12:54 pm ? 2:40 pm (6 people needed)
For more information, or to help out, contact:
Penny Aipperspach
Career Education Coordinator, 6-12
West Fargo Public Schools
701-499-1855 | paipperspach@west-fargo.k12.nd.us
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