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Monday, May 20, 2013
How a Trumpet Works Explained In One Animated GIF
Compared to electric gadgetry, something like a trumpet is a pretty simple contraption, but the way it actually works is super clever when you see it in action. The principle is very straight-forward, but the construction of the actual pieces that re-route your hot air are damn cool to see at work.
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Ed Carpenter earns Indy 500 pole
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Ed Carpenter turned Pole Day into a family celebration.
The stepson of IndyCar founder Tony George became the first member of the Hulman family to win the biggest pre-race event in the series ? the Indianapolis 500 pole.
Carpenter produced a stunning finish to a day that was rife with suspense but lacked surprise. His four-lap average of 228.762 mph was quick enough to break up what appeared to be a Team Penske-Andretti Autosport lock on the front three rows in the nine-car shootout for the pole.
Somehow, Carpenter, who owns his team, beat out the big-name guys.
"To be a single-car team in this Chevy shootout, I am going to call it fighting with the Penske and Andretti guys," said Carpenter, whose pit crew carried him off pit road on their shoulders after an agonizing wait to see if his time would hold up.
The soft-spoken Carpenter grew up around the world-famous 2.5-mile Brickyard, dreaming of the moment he could stand in Victory Lane. Perhaps that will happen May 26.
For now, Carpenter will savor the highest-profile achievement of his career and during a month in which he has strengthened his area ties. His sponsor, golfer Fuzzy Zoeller's Fuzzy's Vodka, is based in Indiana and this week Carpenter added decals to his car from his alma mater, Butler University ? the little school that made two straight NCAA championship game appearances.
He also took a little time out for his family and friends, who believe this could be his big year at Indy.
After producing the fastest lap in the opening practice session last Saturday, Carpenter gave away his tickets to watch the Eastern Conference semifinals between the hometown Pacers and New York Knicks so he could spend some time with his wife before another working Mother's Day.
And during Friday night's qualifying draw, Carpenter had one of his young children pull out the number.
Then Carpenter went out and beat all those big-name guys to the punch, setting off a celebration that isn't likely to end any time soon.
"I felt like coming in that we had a chance to be on the pole," Carpenter said. "To sit on the pole for this race is really a dream come true, and I hope it is a start to what has already been a great month of May. The car has been great and I can't thank my team enough. The sponsors, a lot of great people helped us get here. This is just the first part of what we are here to do."
Carpenter was followed by three of Michael Andretti's five drivers ? rookie Carlos Munoz of Colombia, Marco Andretti and Venezuelan E.J. Viso took the next three spots. Munoz's average of 228.342 was just a tick better than Marco Andretti's 228.261.
"We knew he was a factor, but those laps were really stout," said Andretti, who congratulated Carpenter on pit road. "We didn't see that kind of pace out of him earlier, but he went for a trim and balanced the car, so it rewarded him."
Another Indy rookie, AJ Allmendinger, will start fifth, the highest qualifier for Roger Penske's team.
Will Power went into the shootout as the favorite after going 228.844 but wound up starting sixth, the outside of Row 2 after slowing to 227.246 mph on the final run of the day.
"We took everything off and went for it," Power said. "Even the last two corners, you're like, man, I don't know whether this thing is going to stick. But good fun, and it's good to be starting on the second row and we'll see what we can do."
It was yet another frustrating moment for Power, who thought he might eclipse 230 after his early afternoon run. That came just 48 hours after Power seemed resigned to not even be in pole contention.
But racing has not always been good to Power. Despite winning 21 poles and 14 races from 2010-12, Power finished second in the points to Dario Franchitti all three years.
Indy has followed the same trend line. In five previous starts on the oval, Power has only started on the front row once ? when he started second in 2010 when he was overshadowed by his pole-winning teammate, Helio Castroneves. Power has never finished better than fifth on race day even though he completed 799 of 800 laps in his first four starts. Last year, he went out in a crash after 78 laps.
The team's dramatic improvement over the previous 48 hours had some thinking that Penske would extend his own record by winning an 18th pole.
Others expected Andretti to top the list.
Carpenter never bought into it.
"That's an accomplishment in itself," Carpenter said. "For this team to put in the hard work to give me what I needed to put it on the pole is great. I think a whole lot of prayers went into this day."
There weren't many surprises.
Each of the nine drivers in the shootout were powered by the strong Chevrolet engines. That left the Honda teams, including all four drivers for Chip Ganassi's heavyweight team ? Australian Ryan Briscoe, New Zealand's Scott Dixon, Scotland's Franchitti and American Charlie Kimball ? out of the front three rows. Franchitti, like Castroneves, is trying to become the fourth member of the four-time winners club and will start from the middle of the sixth row, 17th, after going 226.069.
Also out of pole contention was points leader Takuma Sato of Japan. He posted a four-lap average of 225.892 and will start 18th, the outside of Row 6.
Eight drivers qualified but were later bumped out of the top 24 starting spots. Jakes and Briscoe were the only ones to make it back in.
The list of drivers still trying to make the field includes 1996 Indy winner Buddy Lazier, British driver Pippa Mann, who hasn't raced since suffering injuries in the tragic season-ending race at Las Vegas in 2011 and Brazil's Ana Beatriz. Mann and Beatriz, who drive for Dale Coyne Racing, are trying to become the first female teammates to start the 500.
Two drivers, Conor Daly and Michel Jourdain Jr., weren't quick enough to even qualify for the 33-car starting field and James Jakes' first qualifying attempt was later disqualified after failing post-qualifying inspection. Jakes tried to re-qualify two more times, finally making it into the 24th spot late in the day.
The final nine starting spots will be filled during the second and final day of qualifications Sunday ? a day Britain's Katherine Legge is expected to complete her first laps since being hired by Schmidt Peterson Motorsports to drive the No. 81 car. The late addition gives race organizers 34 driver-car combinations, meaning one driver won't start May 26.
And now Carpenter will be leading them into the first turn.
"I love it here," he said. "I love racing here. I love going fast here. ... But this track means a lot to the other 32 guys that are going to start the race, too. I don't think it's just special to me."
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AP Sports Writer Gary Graves contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ed-carpenter-earns-indy-500-pole-234535495.html
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$590M-plus Powerball: 1 winning ticket sold in Fla.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials said Sunday.
The single winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. She told The Associated Press by telephone that more details would be released later.
"This would be the sixth Florida Powerball winner and right now, it's the sole winner of the largest ever Powerball jackpot," O'Connell told AP. "We're delighted right now that we have the sole winner."
She said Florida has had more Powerball winners than any other state.
The winner was not immediately identified publicly and O'Connell did not give any indication just hours after Saturday's drawing whether anyone had already stepped forward with that winning ticket.
With four out of every five possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, lottery executives said earlier that someone was almost certain to win the game's highest jackpot, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars ? and that's after taxes.
Saturday night's winning numbers were 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball of 11.
Estimates had earlier put the jackpot at around $600 million. But Powerball's online site said Sunday that the jackpot had reached an estimated $590.5 million.
Terry Rich, CEO of the Iowa Lottery, initially confirmed that one Florida winning ticket had been sold. He told AP that following the Florida winner, the Powerball grand prize was being reset at an estimated jackpot of $40 million, or about $25.1 million cash value.
The chances of winning the prize were astronomically low: 1 in 175.2 million. That's how many different ways you can combine the numbers when you play. But lottery officials estimated that about 80 percent of those possible combinations had been purchased recently.
While the odds are low for any one individual or individuals, O'Connell said, the chance that one hits paydirt is what makes Powerball an "exciting game to play."
"There is just the chance that you will have the opportunity and Florida is a huge Powerball state. We have had more winners than any other state that participates in Powerball."
Such longshot odds didn't deter people across Powerball-playing states ? 43 plus Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands ? from lining up at gas stations and convenience stores Saturday for their chance at striking it filthy rich.
Calls by AP to the Publix supermarket outlet in Florida where the winning ticket was sold were not answered Sunday.
Elsewhere, Rich said, lottery officials reported 33 winning tickets for a $1,000,000 prize each were sold around 17 states, led by six tickets in New York. He said lotteries reported 2 winning tickets each for the $2,000,000 PowerPlay, one in New York and the other in South Carolina.
Before the drawing, there was a rush for tickets around the country.
At a mini market in the heart of Los Angeles' Chinatown, employees broke the steady stream of customers into two lines: One for Powerball ticket buyers and one for everybody else. Some people appeared to be looking for a little karma.
"We've had two winners over $10 million here over the years, so people in the neighborhood think this is the lucky store," employee Gordon Chan said as he replenished a stack of lottery tickets on a counter.
The world's largest jackpot was a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot in March 2012. If $600 million, the jackpot would currently include a $376.9 million cash option.
Clyde Barrow, a public policy professor at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, specializes in the gaming industry. He said one of the key factors behind the ticket-buying frenzy is the size of the jackpot ? people are interested in the easy investment.
"Even though the odds are very low, the investment is very small," he said. "Two dollars gets you a chance."
That may be why Ed McCuen has a Powerball habit that's as regular as clockwork. The 57-year-old electrical contractor from Savannah, Ga., buys one ticket a week, regardless of the possible loot. It's a habit he didn't alter Saturday.
"You've got one shot in a gazillion or whatever," McCuen said, tucking his ticket in his pocket as he left a local convenience store. "You can't win unless you buy a ticket. But whether you buy one or 10 or 20, it's insignificant."
Seema Sharma doesn't seem to think so. The newsstand employee in Manhattan's Penn Station purchased $80 worth of tickets for herself. She also was selling tickets all morning at a steady pace, instructing buyers where to stand if they wanted machine-picked tickets or to choose their own numbers.
"I work very hard ? too hard ? and I want to get the money so I can finally relax," she said. "You never know."
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Associated Press Radio Correspondent Julie Walker and AP writers Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, S.C., Betsy Blaney in Lubbock, Texas, Russ Bynum in Savannah, Ga., John Rogers in Los Angeles and Verena Dobnick in New York contributed to this report.
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
AP PHOTOS: College commencements across nation
People sit in the rain and listen as President Barack Obama delivers the President Barack Obama gestures as he delivers the Morehouse College 129th commencement speech at Morehouse College Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
People sit in the rain and listen as President Barack Obama delivers the President Barack Obama gestures as he delivers the Morehouse College 129th commencement speech at Morehouse College Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Rutgers University President Robert L. Barchi gestures to students in the rain at Rutgers University's football stadium in Piscataway, N.J., Sunday, May 19, 2013, during graduation ceremonies. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
The Dalai Lama receives an honorary degree at Tulane University's 179th commencement ceremony at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on Saturday, May 18, 2013. He also delivered the commencement address. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
University of Minnesota, Rochester chancellor Stephen Lehmkuhle, left, watches as the first-ever class of undergrads poses for a photo outside the Mayo Civic Center, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Rochester, Minn., before the start of the graduation ceremony. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, David Joles) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT.
Stephen Colbert delivers the 2013 Valedictory Address during the University of Virginia's 2013 Valedictory Exercises at John Paul Jones Arena, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/The Daily Progress, Sabrina Schaeffer)
In a commencement address at Atlanta's historically black Morehouse College, President Obama said graduates should "find time to defend the powerless."
The president said his own success was due to "the special obligation I felt, as a black man like you, to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had ? because there but for the grace of God, go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed."
In New Jersey, Rutgers University graduated the largest class in school history ? an estimated 14,302 students.
At New York's Hofstra University, students wore white ribbons at their graduation ceremony in honor of Andrea Rebello, one of their colleagues killed by a gunshot early Friday morning. A police officer accidentally killed 21-year-old Rebello as an armed intruder held her in a headlock.
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The EPA Could Lose Its Power to Fight Climate Change Before Using It
Advocates of forceful action on climate change have long held a trump card. The primary source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. is coal plants, and ??since the Supreme Court has determined that those emissions are a pollutant ??the EPA is mandated to regulate them. At some point, then, whether whatever president likes it or not, the agency had to make a rule limiting carbon dioxide?emissions.
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But, what the court giveth, the court can rescind in a tightly contested vote. And with a barrage of petitions raining down on a conservative-leaning Supreme Court, it's possible that the EPA's pollution-control mandate could be eradicated well before the threat of climate change is.
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Among large, developed countries, only Australia emits more carbon dioxide per person than the United States. China emits the most overall, of course, but as greenhouse gas polluters, we're still in the top tier. For decades, environmentalists have pushed to cut the country's overall emissions levels, winning a significant victory in 2007 when the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts vs. EPA that carbon dioxide was an air pollutant. Under the Clean Air Act, that required that the EPA take action.
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So far, it hasn't. When Barack Obama came into office, pledging to be the president who oversaw the moment when "the rise of the oceans began to slow,"?advocates hoped he'd move quickly to curb?carbon dioxide?emissions. In 2009, the House passed a measure to institute a market-based system to reduce emissions; it wasn't voted on in the Senate. Last January, Obama called for a similar solution, saying he'd act if the Congress wouldn't. That declaration, however belated, was interpreted as meaning he would ask the EPA to regulate coal-burning plants, even though his staff seemed unprepared to do so.
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While Obama and the EPA have delayed, opponents of regulating greenhouse gas emissions ??largely fossil fuel companies ??have filed a number of challenges to the Court's ruling. To date, they've failed; in both July and December last year, lower courts upheld the EPA's right to regulate. But each lower court decision makes an appeal to the highest court more inevitable. Reuters indicates that a case could arrive at the Supreme Court as soon as this October.
Some of the challengers specifically ask the court to consider overturning Massachusetts v. EPA. They point out that the Clean Air Act, which passed in 1970, was not designed to tackle climate change. At least one brief, by the state of Virginia, challenges the EPA's evaluation of the climate change science that underpinned its decision to regulate greenhouse gases. Others contend the Supreme Court's holding in the 2007 ruling, which specifically addressed automobile emissions, did not give the EPA the authority to issue greenhouse gas rules that affect such a broad cross-section of the economy.
If the justices were to accept one of these broad petitions and side with challengers, they could make it impossible for the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases and could open the door to attacks on the air pollution regulations the agency has formulated for 30 years, according to Dru Stevenson, a law professor at the South Texas College of Law.
That last point is even more alarming. The EPA uses the Clean Air Act as its mandate to regulate air pollution. If the Court says that it can't use the law to regulate carbon dioxide, it will not take long for companies that emit pollution of various types to challenge other Clean Air Act regulations.
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There were two dissenting opinions filed in the five-to-four Massachusetts vs. EPA, written by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia. The make-up of the Court hasn't changed much; there are two new justices ??Sotomayor and Kagan ??who replace two that voted to support the majority opinion. In other words, it's not clear that the Court hearing the case means that the EPA's ability to regulate carbon dioxide emissions will be revoked.
But it's another sign of the lack of progress made in addressing climate change over the last six years. In 2007, a five-to-four vote established a critical tool that the EPA could use to tackle global warming. In 2013 ? without that having happened and facing a much weaker political position ? environmental advocates can only hope to keep that trump card in the deck.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Weller SP25NUS LED-lit Soldering Iron review
Like many hobbyists, I rely on a good soldering iron. ?I’ve been soldering since the 3rd grade, and I’ve had quite a few soldering irons over the years. ?I’m currently using a Weller soldering station that I’ve had over 20 years (still going strong), so when I had a chance to try a new?Weller [...]
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'The English Teacher' review: Agile performances elevate this pleasant comedy
By Leah Rozen
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Pleasant" is one of those words that English teachers and editors always put on their verboten lists for aspiring writers as being too vague and namby-pamby.
But pleasant is the perfect word with which to describe "The English Teacher," an ingratiating little comedy that aims to please and succeeds at its modest goal.
The movie's heroine is Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore), a 40something English teacher at a high school in Kingston, Pa., a suburban town in northwest Pennsylvania. A single woman, she spends her days in the classroom and her nights either out on what invariably turn out to be lousy dates - she mentally grades each of her hapless suitors - or happily at home reading Jane Austen while sipping a glass of wine.
Jason Sherwood (Michael Angarano), a former student, returns to town from New York after failing to launch himself as a playwright following college. He is now contemplating enrolling in law school at the behest of his domineering father (Greg Kinnear), widowed doctor.
Linda reads Jason's play and decides to mount it (and, ahem, later him) at the high school, a decision that leads to complications and trouble. Productions costs rise and Linda finds herself writing personal checks to cover the budget gaps, the playwright objects to textural cuts the principal insists upon, and the student actors (including Lily Collins) act out - and not just on stage.
The question whether this seemingly simple high school production (the few scenes we see make the play seem like pretentious hogwash) will ever open becomes as fraught as if it were a multi-million dollar Broadway extravaganza, as least for those involved.
"English Teacher" is all in good fun, helped enormously by agile performances from the major cast members. Neither they nor first-time features director Craig Zisk, a veteran of such TV shows as "Parks and Recreation" and "Smash," push too hard or seek to give excessive weight or meaning to the slender but competently constructed screenplay by Dan and Stacy Chariton (a married duo).
Moore imbues her English teacher with just the right mix of sincere commitment and self-delusion. Angarano nails the moral slipperiness of a young man still trying to define himself, and Kinnear brings a relaxed charm to his not-so-nasty-after-all dad.
The movie also boasts a strong supporting cast, with real life Broadway stalwarts Nathan Lane, Jessica Hecht and Norbert Leo Butz showing up to humorous effect as, respectively, the high school's self-dramatizing drama teacher, principal and vice-principal.
"English Teacher," which has been available on video on demand since mid-April, opens in Los Angeles on May 17 and in New York on May 24.
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Friday, May 17, 2013
World's melting glaciers making large contribution to sea rise
May 16, 2013 ? While 99 percent of Earth's land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world's glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets combined from 2003 to 2009, says a new study led by Clark University and involving the University Colorado Boulder.
The new research found that all glacial regions lost mass from 2003 to 2009, with the biggest ice losses occurring in Arctic Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes and the Himalayas. The glaciers outside of the Greenland and Antarctic sheets lost an average of roughly 260 billion metric tons of ice annually during the study period, causing the oceans to rise 0.03 inches, or about 0.7 millimeters per year.
The study compared traditional ground measurements to satellite data from NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, or ICESat, and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or GRACE, missions to estimate ice loss for glaciers in all regions of the planet.
"For the first time, we've been able to very precisely constrain how much these glaciers as a whole are contributing to sea rise," said geography Assistant Professor Alex Gardner of Clark University in Worcester, Mass., lead study author. "These smaller ice bodies are currently losing about as much mass as the ice sheets."
A paper on the subject is being published in the May 17 issue of the journal Science.
"Because the global glacier ice mass is relatively small in comparison with the huge ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica, people tend to not worry about it," said CU-Boulder Professor Tad Pfeffer, a study co-author. "But it's like a little bucket with a huge hole in the bottom: it may not last for very long, just a century or two, but while there's ice in those glaciers, it's a major contributor to sea level rise," said Pfeffer, a glaciologist at CU-Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
ICESat, which ceased operations in 2009, measured glacier changes using laser altimetry, which bounces laser pulses off the ice surface to determine changes in the height of ice cover. The GRACE satellite system, still operational, detects variations in Earth's gravity field resulting from changes in the planet's mass distribution, including ice displacements.
GRACE does not have a fine enough resolution and ICESat does not have sufficient sampling density to study small glaciers, but mass change estimates by the two satellite systems for large glaciated regions agree well, the scientists concluded.
"Because the two satellite techniques, ICESat and GRACE, are subject to completely different types of errors, the fact that their results are in such good agreement gives us increased confidence in those results," said CU-Boulder physics Professor John Wahr, a study co-author and fellow at the university's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
Ground-based estimates of glacier mass changes include measurements along a line from a glacier's summit to its edge, which are extrapolated over a glacier's entire area. Such measurements, while fairly accurate for individual glaciers, tend to cause scientists to overestimate ice loss when extrapolated over larger regions, including individual mountain ranges, according to the team.
Current estimates predict if all the glaciers in the world were to melt, they would raise sea level by about two feet. In contrast, an entire Greenland ice sheet melt would raise sea levels by about 20 feet, while if Antarctica lost its ice cover, sea levels would rise nearly 200 feet.
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Boston Symphony names Latvian conductor to succeed James Levine
BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Symphony Orchestra has hired Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons to succeed James Levine, an iconic American conductor known for his wild hair and dramatic manner, who left in 2011 due to health problems, it said on Thursday.
Nelsons will be the leading U.S. symphony's youngest conductor in more than a century when he begins the 2013-14 season as "music director designate." He will assume the full title of music director for the 2014-15 season.
"Sought after by the top orchestras and opera houses of the world, Maestro Nelsons, at age 34, is already considered one of the most brilliant conductors of our time," said Chairman of the BSO Board of Trustees Ted Kelly in a press release.
Nelsons, who is currently conducting the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the United Kingdom, said in the release that his appointment to the BSO marked "one of the highest achievements a conductor could hope for in his lifetime."
The Boston Symphony has been without a permanent music director since 2011, when Levine - one of the leading forces in U.S. classical music for the last four decades - left after seven seasons because of back problems and other health issues.
Levine, who also serves as music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, is due to return Sunday to the podium in New York, where he will conduct excerpts from Wagner's Lohengrin and Schubert's "Great" Symphony.
Nelsons is scheduled to make his first official appearance at the head of the orchestra in Boston in October, leading Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, and Brahms's Symphony No. 3.
(Writing by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by Scott Malone and Gunna Dickson)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/boston-symphony-names-latvian-conductor-succeed-james-levine-195752787.html
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NASA spacecraft's planet-hunting days may be over
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? NASA's planet-hunting telescope is broken.
NASA said Wednesday the Kepler spacecraft lost the second of four wheels that control the telescope's orientation in space.
If engineers can't find a fix, the failure means Kepler won't be able to look for planets outside our solar system anymore.
Kepler was launched in 2009 in search of Earth-like planets. So far, it has confirmed 132 planets and spotted more than 2,700 potential ones.
While ground telescopes can hunt for exoplanets, Kepler is much more advanced.
Deputy project manager Charles Sobeck says there's a backlog of data that scientists still need to analyze even if Kepler's planet-hunting days may be numbered.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Britney Another Baby: ?I Want A Girl?
Britney another baby? Yes, the singer just admitted that she is longing for another baby, and she really wants a little girl! It is rumored to be what Brintey and her former fiance ? broke up about, her longing to have another child. And today the princess of pop revealed that she indeed does want another child, and with two beautiful little boys, she wants a girl. I can feel ya sister, we are in the same boat. (If I do get another little boy I will be thrilled, don’t misunderstand, but I feel the need for pink and dresses in my life!) In a chat with Extra’s Mario Lopez she revealed that she’d love another baby after Mario, the father of 2-year-old daughter Gia, mentioned that he was “very jealous” that Spears has boys, she replied, “Awww, I want a girl!” “Oh, you do want a girl! So later on, maybe a little girl?” he said. To which Spears replied simply, “Yes! Definitely!” But for right now, that is on hold. Britney has a huge Vegas deal for which she is getting ready to put on an amazing show. And she just started dating David Lucado, and I doubt [...]
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
CA-BUSINESS Summary
TSX up on energy and industrials; BlackBerry falls
TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index rose on Tuesday, as energy and industrial stocks rose in tandem with gains in U.S. stocks, more than offsetting pullbacks in key stocks such as BlackBerry
Boeing resumes deliveries of 787 Dreamliners
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Exclusive: EU to warn China it may levy duties against Huawei - sources
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission plans to send a formal warning to China that it is ready to levy sanctions against telecoms equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corp over illegal subsidies, people close to the matter said. EU trade chief Karel De Gucht is set to win support from the bloc's executive on Wednesday to send the warning letter and show China's new president, Xi Jinping, that Brussels is serious about countering what it says is state support.
Two unions seek to combine in American, US Air merger
(Reuters) - Two unions that represent ground workers at American Airlines and US Airways Group
Canadian house prices edge higher in April
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian home prices rose in April from March as three strong cities in Western Canada more than offset weak showings elsewhere, while the annual gain in prices slowed, the Teranet-National Bank Composite House Price Index showed on Tuesday. The index, which measures price changes for repeat sales of single-family homes, showed overall prices rose 0.2 percent in April from a month earlier, but the weakest April gain in 15 years except for the 2009 recession.
Big Sony options action before Loeb stake raises eyebrows
(Reuters) - A surge in option market bets on Sony Corp just before a large hedge fund investor announced a big stake and called for a major restructuring of the company has raised concerns that some traders may have had advance word of the news. U.S.-listed shares of Sony Corp
EU probes oil majors on price manipulation
LONDON/OSLO (Reuters) - European authorities have raided offices of oil majors Shell, BP and Statoil in an investigation of suspected manipulation of oil prices, one of the biggest cross-border actions since the Libor rigging scandal. Authorities have sharpened scrutiny of financial benchmarks around the world since slapping large fines on some of the world's biggest banks for rigging interest rate benchmarks.
Fraud claims versus Goldman over Abacus CDO are dismissed
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Analysis: Japan government-bond selloff sparks fears of too much, too fast
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Why insider attacks are down in Afghanistan
The gunfire that pierced the night in Afghanistan?s Zabul Province last September was a troubling surprise to the 20 US soldiers manning a fortified checkpoint near the Pakistan border.
Before long, the soldiers would know the terrifying truth: that it was Afghan police officers who, after climbing the wall of a hillside observation post assigned to keeping an eye out for Taliban movement, had emptied their weapons on their American comrades inside.
That night, four Americans died at the hands of their Afghan assailants, making it the deadliest of a string of insider attacks that added up to the worst year for what the military calls ?green-on-blue? violence of the Afghanistan war. Last year 61 international forces ? at least 34 of them Americans ? were killed by Afghan security forces, nearly half of the 132 killed by insider attacks since 2008.
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The Zabul incident intensified an already growing sense of crisis in the US and Afghan militaries over the problem of insider attacks. The result has been a series of steps on both the Afghan and international sides that officials say are having an impact in addressing a particularly demoralizing form of violence.
Yet while initial evidence seems encouraging -- so far in 2013, six US and other international soldiers have been killed in insider attacks ? there is also reason for caution. For one thing, those six deaths represent 13 percent of total coalition deaths this year, about the same as the 15 percent of total coalition fatalities they represented last year, according to statistics compiled by the Long War Journal. And the summer fighting season is just getting under way.
On the other hand, well over half of 2012?s 34 insider killings occurred in the first five months of the year. By comparison, this year?s six killings through mid-May represent a reduction of about two-thirds.
(NATO Command in Afghanistan reports slightly different inside-attack figures than Long War Journal: 129 coalition forces killed since 2008, 62 in 2012, and four this year.)
No one claims the problem is solved, but officials are cautiously hopeful that the lower number of ?green-on-blue? killings so far this year means that steps ? ranging from increased vetting of Afghan security forces and reduced occasions where Afghans are armed while in the company of US and other foreign forces, to enhanced cultural awareness training ? are having an impact.
?This violence is an embarrassment for both sides, it?s an issue that can create a lot of mistrust between us ? and in the last months we have taken a lot of measures against this issue,? says Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, chief of Army staff in the Afghan military.
Among the measures implemented: The Afghan Army has added hundreds of counterintelligence officers to keep an eye on recruits for signs of ?anti-foreigner? sentiment, soldiers returning from leave are interviewed and watched for signs of Taliban indoctrination. Like the US and other NATO countries, Afghanistan has put more emphasis on religious and cultural-sensitivity training.
On the coalition side, the US has implemented a ?guardian angels? program under which units designate soldiers to provide security to troops who are training, overseeing, and accompanying Afghan security forces.
The US has also reinforced its counterintelligence capabilities, and augmented cultural awareness training among its troops. The cultural sensitivity effort is tacit acknowledgment, some military experts say, that events of 2012 like the unintentional Quran burnings at Bagram Air Base and the video posted on the Internet of US soldiers urinating on dead Taliban fighters helped incite the rage behind some of the attacks.
The Taliban issued a statement shortly after the Zabul attack, for example, claiming it was carried out by police officers it had recruited to retaliate for a US-made anti-Muslim video that denigrates the prophet Muhammad.
Still, NATO officials say steps taken by the Afghan Army in particular have been critical in reducing the threat.
?We?ve enhanced training in how to guard against it, and there is a decrease,? says Lt. Gen. Kenneth Tovo, commander of the Afghan Training Mission-Afghanistan. ?But most important is what the government of Afghanistan is doing? with enhanced vetting and intelligence efforts, he says. ?That?s a critical part of it.?
NATO?s second in command in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Nick Carter, says that while insider attacks ?in the last six months have been ably contained,? they remain ?a problem that needs continued focus and attention.?
One challenge both the coalition and the Afghans will be watching out for is Taliban success in encouraging not just ?green-on-blue? but also ?green-on-green? insider violence.
In an April statement proclaiming the start of the 2013 fighting season, the Taliban encouraged Afghans in the security forces to turn against both the ?foreign transgressors? in Afghanistan and their Afghan compatriots cooperating with foreign troops. The Taliban have also been known to threaten violence against the families of Afghan soldiers and police officers who resist pressure to carry out an attack.
?We shouldn?t be surprised to see the enemy encouraging this tactic again, because it saw last year as being successful,? says Fred Kagan, a military expert and Afghan war specialist at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.
Last year?s spike in attacks prompted the US to suspend joint patrols for a short time, and to temporarily pull advisers from Afghan ministries. After a deadly insider attack that left five of its troops dead, France announced it would pull its combat forces out of Afghanistan early.
NATO officials acknowledge that the Taliban will try to boost insider attacks again. ?They?re trying to drive a wedge between ISAF [international forces in Afghanistan] and the Afghans, and to drive a wedge between members of the coalition,? says Brig. Gen. Adam Findlay, a deputy to NATO Afghanistan Commander Gen. Dennis Dunford.
Perhaps one encouraging note coming out of investigations into last year?s attacks, General Findlay says, is that none of 2012?s 47 attacks appears to have been the result of personal animosity ? no attacks ?by people who were person-to-person offended,? he says.
?What we heard in questioning the perpetrators was ?They don?t respect our women?? or references to the Quran burnings, says Findlay.
In other words, US troops may want to keep an eye out for Afghans who might return to training radicalized or under pressure from the Taliban after a long leave.
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A look at how Russia, US still spy on each other
The Cold War is long over, but espionage is forever. Russian spies still operate in the U.S. and American ones in Russia. On Tuesday, Russia's security services said they had caught a U.S. diplomat who they claim is a CIA official trying to recruit a Russian agent.
Here are some other cases of apparent spying between the old rivals:
THE ANNA CHAPMAN RING
These Russian spies lived in suburban U.S. homes and worked at jobs like real estate brokers or travel agents, quietly inserting themselves into American life and trying to penetrate U.S. policy circles. Court papers said Chapman and nine others assumed the identities of people who had died, swapped bags in passing at train stations and communicated with invisible ink and coded radio transmissions. After their 2010 arrests, all 10 pleaded guilty to spying charges. An 11th man was arrested in Cyprus but jumped bail.
Dubbed a femme fatale, the red-headed Chapman, 28 at the time, became the most notorious member of the ring, partially because of glamorous photos she posted on social networking sites of her international travels. She has stayed in the limelight since her deportation to Russia, hosting a reality TV show, modeling lingerie and becoming the face of a Moscow bank.
SERGEI TRETYAKOV
Tretyakov once called the United Nations a nest of spies. And he would know. For five years in the 1990s, Tretyakov worked at Russia's diplomatic mission at the U.N. ? recruiting and running spies. He also found Canada to be fertile ground for finding people willing to rat on the U.S.
Tretyakov claimed his agents helped Russia siphon nearly $500 million from the U.N. oil-for-food sanctions program for Iraq. Then in 2000, he defected to the U.S. It's thought that Tretyakov handed significant information over to Washington, although he never specifically confirmed that he became a double agent. He died in Florida in 2010 at age 53 of a heart attack.
STANISLAV BORISOVICH GUSEV
Gusev, a Russian diplomat, planted a bug inside the State Department in Washington, D.C., and then hung around on a bench outside the building or in his car to listen, according to U.S. authorities. Agents became suspicious when they spotted him feeding a parking meter outside State Department headquarters without ever going inside. He was arrested in 1999 and expelled from the U.S.
ALDRICH AMES
As a CIA officer in Turkey, Ames worked to turn Russians against their government. But in 1985, he switched sides himself, offering his services to the Soviets. He continued working for the Russians after the Soviet Union broke up in 1991. He communicated with his handlers by leaving chalk marks on a Washington, D.C., mailbox. He eventually passed along to Moscow dozens of names of Russians who were spying for the U.S. The Soviet Union executed 10 of them. The FBI arrested Ames in 1994 and he pleaded guilty to spying that same year.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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