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Saturday, September 29, 2012
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Pa. college revives sororities after 79-year ban
In this Sept. 24, 2012 photo, Swarthmore College student Maya Marzouk poses for a photo on the campus of Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore, Pa. Nearly 80 years after women at Swarthmore College voted to ban sororities because they were too exclusive, a group of female students will reinstate Greek life this spring after weathering months of polarizing debate on campus.(AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
In this Sept. 24, 2012 photo, Swarthmore College student Maya Marzouk poses for a photo on the campus of Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore, Pa. Nearly 80 years after women at Swarthmore College voted to ban sororities because they were too exclusive, a group of female students will reinstate Greek life this spring after weathering months of polarizing debate on campus.(AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
In this Sept. 24, 2012 photo, Swarthmore College student Julia Melin poses for a photo on the campus of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa. Nearly 80 years after women at Swarthmore College voted to ban sororities because they were too exclusive, a group of female students will reinstate Greek life this spring after weathering months of polarizing debate on campus.(AP Photo/Matt Slocum)(AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? Nearly 80 years after women at Swarthmore College voted to ban sororities because they were too exclusive, a group of female students will reinstate Greek life this spring after weathering months of polarizing debate on campus.
The future sisters of Kappa Alpha Theta pledge that members will be welcoming, diverse and dedicated to civic engagement and community service. The sorority will also provide valuable national networking opportunities, supporters say.
But some students at the liberal arts school near Philadelphia contend not much has changed since 1933. Sororities are still elite clubs, they say, and flout the college's Quaker roots emphasizing inclusion.
"It's just a really stupid system that shouldn't exist," senior Maya Marzouk said. "I think Swarthmore is better than that."
The highly selective college with about 1,500 students prides itself on rigorous academics, open dialogue and a commitment to social justice. It was co-founded in 1864 by Lucretia Mott, a prominent abolitionist and activist for women's rights.
Campus officials said they are simply facilitating the creation of a group that students want and that Title IX demands. The federal regulations require colleges to provide equal opportunities for men and women, and Swarthmore has two fraternities.
College senior Julia Melin said she helped to start Not Yet Sisters ? the group that will become Kappa Alpha Theta ? out of a sense that female students needed better mentoring and wider professional connections. Swarthmore's alumni association is relatively small, Melin noted.
Sorority critics "thought it was more about having a space to party in, and it's really not about that at all," said Melin, from nearby Abington, Pa. "It's about having a social support system during college and after college."
The Greek revival at Swarthmore appears to be unique, said Nicki Meneley, executive director of the National Panhellenic Conference. But she also noted that, as higher education enrollment has grown, sorority membership overall is at an all-time high: More than 300,000 undergraduates belong to chapters at about 665 campuses across the U.S. and Canada.
At Swarthmore, a Kappa Alpha Theta chapter originally established in 1891 was the first sorority on campus. Several other sororities followed, and by 1931 about 77 percent of the college's female students belonged to the Greek system, according to school archives.
Yet some groups discriminated against Jews. That led student Molly Yard ? who later became president of the National Organization for Women ? to campaign for a campus-wide female vote on abolishing sororities. It passed in 1933. (A male vote in 1951 to abolish fraternities was defeated.) This year, sorority opponents including Marzouk, a psychology major from Great Neck, N.Y., circulated a petition to demand a similar referendum; they say the student body had little input in the decision to revive the clubs. Heated discussions in campus news outlets have included suggestions to form a "women's union" instead, or even to ban Greek groups entirely.
But Title IX is the sorority's trump card, school officials said.
Liz Braun, the dean of students, noted Swarthmore has a written agreement with the national Kappa Alpha Theta organization to ensure the new chapter will uphold the college's founding principles of diversity and inclusivity. In this case, that includes allowing students who identify as female to join the sorority, regardless of their actual gender, Braun said.
"Each chapter takes on kind of its own flair ... based on the campus it's embedded in," she said.
That's partly why concerns about possible hazing and binge drinking have not been a large part of the conversation. Swarthmore is not considered a party school; Braun noted that Kappa Alpha Theta is dry and has a strict anti-hazing policy.
Also, the college's two fraternities are not residential, though they host events at rented houses on campus. About 6 percent of male students are affiliated with the groups.
Melin said about 30 to 40 students have expressed an interest in joining the sorority, which will have its first official intake in the spring. The group won't have on-campus housing, and leaders are still looking for dedicated meeting space.
The chapter's campus adviser, Satya Nelms, said she expects the controversy will eventually quiet down.
"I'm really confident that once the sorority is actually on campus, a lot of the concerns that people have ... will be eased," Nelms said.
A national spokeswoman for Kappa Alpha Theta said the organization is pleased to return to Swarthmore, but referred all other questions to the college.
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Occupy protester can't keep tweets from DA
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NEW YORK???An Occupy Wall Street protester has lost his latest bid to prevent the Manhattan district attorney's office from using his tweets against him, clearing the way for the judge overseeing the case to unseal the tweets and give them to prosecutors.
In a case that has drawn the attention of electronic privacy advocates, a New York judge denied a request from the protester, Malcolm Harris, to put the tweets on ice while his appeal is pending.
Harris, 23, was arrested along with hundreds of others during a mass march across the Brooklyn Bridge in October 2011 for obstructing vehicular traffic.
Prosecutors subpoenaed Twitter for several months of his tweets, which are no longer available online, to combat his argument that police appeared to lead the protest onto the bridge before turning around and arresting them for walking on the roadway.
Electronic privacy advocates worry a precedent could be set that would make it more difficult for social media users to challenge law enforcement's use of their online words against them.
Twitter and Harris have unsuccessfully fought the subpoena, which has been repeatedly upheld as lawful by Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino. The San Francisco-based company finally surrendered the tweets earlier this month after Sciarrino threatened it with contempt and a hefty fine.
Sciarrino had agreed to seal the tweets until a state Supreme Court judge ruled on Harris' latest request for a stay of Sciarrino's order upholding the subpoena. The judge, Carol Huff, denied the request this week.
Martin Stolar, Harris' attorney, said he was "disappointed" but would continue to pursue other legal challenges.
Sciarrino is reviewing the tweets and will provide to prosecutors those that appear relevant to the criminal case.
Twitter still has an appeal of Sciarrino's order pending in an intermediate appellate court, scheduled to be heard in November.
Harris also has a separate civil action pending, claiming Sciarrino overstepped his authority; prosecutors have asked a court to dismiss that lawsuit as an improper attempt to circumvent the normal appellate procedure.
Harris' criminal trial is scheduled for December.
The case is People v. Harris, Criminal Court of the City of New York, No. 2011NY080152.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Moving up in Nelson 26/09/2012 | Nelson Fine Homes for Buying or ...
Nice to experience the rapid onset of Spring here.? We?re back to gorgeous sunny skies and fair winds. I?m looking forward to a terrific summer and I bet you are too.
Our two new listings are both homes that will appeal even on the coldest days, but they are certainly designed around summer fun and both have been created with sun, views and outdoor enjoyment in mind.
31 Redwood Park Road, Appleby is a 10 year old home on 2.06 hectares (4.96 acres). For the boys there?s 3 car garaging, carport and office. For the family there?s a lot of space for everyone and paddocks for specialist stock and pets, and for the chef in the family there?s a stunning kitchen designed for entertaining or equally suited to a quiet night in.
28 Korepo Road, Ruby Bay is one of the stand-out homes of the region.? It has an asking price of $2.9 m, which reflects not only its position, privacy and size, but also the absolute top quality of the home.? On just over an acre of land, with 470 m2 of house, including a fully self-contained guest wing and triple garaging, this is an enduring home of quality you would be proud to call your own.
With the listings rolling in over the last week or two, we truly do have something for almsot everyone, and so if you are in the market to buy and be in your new home before Christmas, now?s a good time to get things underway.
We have 3 new listings to bring to you next week once photos are done, but in the meantime we look forward to seeing you in the weekend.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Home Staging Success: Do Your Best? and Forget the Rest | CSP ...
Running a business ? any business ? can be very stressful at times. Between managing employees, keeping customers happy, and trying to pay the bills, there is plenty for a business owner to worry about on a daily basis. Home staging is certainly no exception ? stress is a fact of life. But while it?s normal to experience stress from time to time, when stress becomes constant and debilitating, you have a serious problem. If you?re too stressed out to function effectively, let alone make the right decisions for the future, your business is at serious risk.
If you can identify with any of these feelings, here?s a solution that works for many people. Focus on doing your best? and forget the rest. Now what does that really mean? It means acknowledging there are certain factors beyond your control, and stressing about those factors is literally a pointless waste of time and energy. When you learn to differentiate between the factors you can control and those you can?t, it becomes much easier to focus your energies and avoid stress.
Now, it is vital that you don?t take this philosophy too far. Don?t start to categorize things that you CAN control as things that are beyond your control. For instance, let?s say you?re launching a direct mail campaign. What CAN?T you control? Ultimately, you can?t make the recipients pick up the phone and call you. But you can control a whole lot of important details, such as?
- Targeting the right audience.
- Creating a visually effective mailing.
- Choosing an appealing offer.
- Timing the mailing properly.
- Proofreading, etc.
In this example, there are a variety of details that you must worry about. (This is the ?Do your best? portion of the equation.) But ultimately, once you?ve done your due diligence, you have to sit back and wait for the phone to ring. At this point, stressing about your response rate and second-guessing your decisions is unproductive? and you shouldn?t do it! (?Forget the rest!?)
So how can you apply this philosophy to your life as a home staging professional? By breaking down? goals into short-term action items?so you can do the work that must be done, without worrying about the ?big picture? outcome. For instance, assume that one of your long-term goals is to boost your revenue to $50,000 annually. Rather than spending your day aimlessly hoping your business will grow, or even worse, becoming stressed about the LACK of growth, make a plan. Identify the factors? you can control, and set to work performing each of them to the best of your ability. Once you?ve done all that you can do, sit back, relax, and trust that you will reap the benefits of your hard work !
Stress can be debilitating for a small business owner. It?s important to learn to keep stress to a minimum in order to run your home staging business effectively. So the next time you feel stress creeping into your day, remember? do your best, and forget the rest!
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Life in the extreme
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Life in extreme environments ? hot acids and heavy metals, for example ? can apparently make very similar organisms deal with stress in very different ways, according to new research from North Carolina State University.
One single-celled organism from a hot spring near Mount Vesuvius in Italy fights uranium toxicity directly ? by eating the heavy metal and acquiring energy from it. Another single-celled organism that lives on a "smoldering heap" near an abandoned uranium mine in Germany overcomes uranium toxicity indirectly ? essentially shutting down its cellular processes to induce a type of cellular coma when toxic levels of uranium are present in its environment.
Interestingly, these very different responses to environmental stress come from two organisms that are 99.99 percent genetically identical.
In a paper published this week online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, NC State researchers show that these extreme organisms ? basic life forms called Archaea that have no nucleus and that are so tiny they can only be seen under a microscope ? can teach us a lot about how living things use different mechanisms to adapt to their surroundings.
The researchers, led by Dr. Robert Kelly, Alcoa Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State, exposed two very close relatives of thermoacidophilic Archaea ? they live in highly acidic environments with temperatures of more than 70 degrees Celsius, or about 160 degrees Fahrenheit ? to pure uranium. One, Metallosphaera sedula, metabolized the uranium as a way to support its energy needs.
That in itself was surprising to Kelly and his fellow researchers, as it was the first report that an organism can directly use uranium as an energy source.
"This could be a new way to mine uranium using microorganisms to release the metal from ores ? a process referred to as bioleaching," Kelly says of M. sedula.
Its genetic twin, Metallosphaera prunae, reacted very differently. When faced with pure uranium, it went into a dormant state, shutting down critical cellular processes that enable it to grow. When the toxic threat was removed, M. prunae rebooted its cellular processes and returned to its normal state.
Kelly hypothesizes that M. prunae is an offshoot of M. sedula, with just a small number of mutations, or changes, to its genome that allow it to react differently when faced with heavy-metal toxicity.
Kelly says the findings could also have implications for understanding how antibiotic resistance develops and operates in pathogens.
"We have come across a new model for how organisms learn how to live in an environment that would otherwise be deadly for them," he says.
Kelly adds that the study calls into question the ways that scientists classified living things before the rise of the genomic era.
"How do we classify microorganisms now that we can compare genomes so easily?" Kelly asks. "These are not different species by the classical definition because their genomes are virtually identical, but they have very different phenotypes, or lifestyles, when faced with stress."
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FOR KIDS: Pathways to research: Connecting with scientists
Budding researchers get ahead by spending their free time working side by side with real scientists
Web edition : Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
Not many scientists begin their careers with a busted knee. But that?s exactly how Evan Olin, now 18, got his start. While a freshman at Ossining High School in New York, this competitive runner ran so fast and so hard that he sustained serious injuries to both legs. It kept him off the track for months. Rather than becoming discouraged by his limping gait, however, Olin turned to science. He started exploring how intense activities ? like his long jogs ? could harm the human body.
The summer before his sophomore year, Olin landed a spot working in the lab of Gregory Gutierrez at New York University. Gutierrez studies how human joints develop and function. Eventually Olin started plopping experienced joggers onto treadmills to see how they ran when forced to jog barefoot ? a type of running that?s become popular among exercise fiends.
He and other students profiled here show how even high school students can begin to participate in interesting and important research.
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Stocks advance amid growth hopes
By NBC News wire services
Updated at 9:35 a.m. ET: Stocks advanced Tuesday as a pessimistic outlook from multinational manufacturer Caterpillar was offset by hopes the boost from central banks' stimulus will sustain economic growth and markets.
Just minutes before markets closed on Monday, Caterpillar Inc cut its 2015 profit outlook, warning that weaker commodity prices would result in a bigger-than-expected decline in demand, sending its shares down.
The news follows lowered forecasts by transportation companies FedEx Corp and Norfolk Southern.
"Caterpillar is another global-reaching firm that's speaking negatively to the pace of the economy, and with slowdowns in Europe and Asia this is something we should get used to," said Art Hogan, managing director of Lazard Capital Markets in New York.
In economic news, U.S. single-family home prices rose for a sixth month in a row in July, though the improvement was not as strong as expected, a closely watched survey showed.
Equities have rallied in recent months on expectations of stimulus from central banks around the world, and announcements of easing earlier this month from the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank have kept the S&P 500 near multiyear highs.
San Francisco Fed President John Williams said on Monday he expected the central bank to expand its bond-buying program next year to more aggressively combat the unemployment rate. He also expects the program to end before the close of 2014.
"Monetary policy has been enough to offset a lot of what we've been worried about lately," Hogan said. "It is acting as a backstop for corporate warnings and Europe fears and keeping us higher in a historically weak month."
The S&P 500 is on track for a 7.6 percent gain for the quarter, a rally largely tied to central banks' actions to stimulate their economies. After those gains, many market participants are looking for new catalysts to keep pushing shares higher.
Analysts said investors are probably now participating in "window dressing," where fund managers add some of the latest outperformers to their portfolio.
Paychex Inc reported a first-quarter profit that narrowly beat estimates, helped by higher revenue from its human resource services business.
Red Hat Inc reported a lower-than-expected adjusted profit as costs rose, and lowered the top end of its full-year revenue outlook on slow growth in its services business.
U.S. stocks closed flat on Monday as an index of German business sentiment declined for a fifth consecutive month in September, showing Europe's strongest economy was moving closer toward recession as the euro zone's debt crisis remains unresolved. Caterpillar's outlook further pressured sentiment going into the close.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Report: More fees, less choice for air travelers
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Monday, September 24, 2012
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Researchers develop editing toolkit for customizing zebrafish genomes
ScienceDaily (Sep. 23, 2012) ? Mayo Clinic researchers and an international team of scientists have developed a highly-efficient means of editing zebrafish genomes for research purposes, eliminating a bottleneck that has stymied biomedical scientists from using the fish as a model for human disease.
The details appear online today in the journal Nature.
For many researchers, zebrafish are becoming the model of choice for genetic studies. However, the inability to efficiently target genetic modifications has delayed their use by some. The Mayo team used an improved variant of artificial transcription activator-like effector nucleases, or TALENs, to provide a new approach.
"By using genetic engineering tools called TALENs and synthetic DNA to make defined changes in the genomes of our fish, we are able to make small changes (just a few nucleotides) as well as add a specific sequence for biological gene switch applications," says Stephen Ekker, Ph.D., senior author and head of Mayo's zebrafish core facility. "This is the first time we've been able to make custom changes to the zebrafish genome."
Dr. Ekker says this toolkit opens the door to a range of new experiments in zebrafish, including modeling of human disease by introducing small point mutations, designing regulated gene alleles, and developing classical structure/function experiments using an animal model system.
This new approach has implications for other model systems, including mice, rats, flies and worms, and possible applications in stem cell research.
"To our knowledge, this TALEN toolkit also is the most active described to date," says Dr. Ekker. "This has important implications for the growing TALEN field, whether used in fish or any other cells. We used this higher activity for genome editing applications. We also used it to conduct a series of somatic gene function assessments, opening the door to an array of non-germline experiments in zebrafish."
Other authors include Victoria Bedell, Jarryd Campbell, Tanya Poshusta, Randall Krug, Sumedha Penheiter, Ph.D., Alvin Ma, Ph.D., and Karl Clark, Ph.D., all of Mayo Clinic; Ying Wang, Ph.D., and Jeffrey Essner, Ph.D., of Iowa State University; Colby Starker, Ph.D., Wenfang Tan, Ph.D., Scott Fahrenkrug, Ph.D., Daniel Carlson, Ph.D., and Daniel Voytas, Ph.D., all of the University of Minnesota; and Anskar Y. H. Leung, M.D., Ph.D., of Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong.
Support for the research came from the State of Minnesota, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Research Grant Council of the University of Hong Kong and the Tang King Yin Research Fund.
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6 Signs Your Marriage May Be in Trouble | Relationships in Balance
In order to make improvements in our relationships, it?s necessary to figure out what?s not working well?and in order to figure out what?s not working well, we first have to recognize the signs of trouble (the symptoms that suggest there is an underlying issue).
There are certain more obvious cues that suggest something is wrong in a relationship, such as abuse, or emotional and/or sexual affairs. But it?s often a combination of less obvious issues that can eat away at a relationship.
Here are six signs that your relationship may be in trouble:
1) You or your partner regularly opts to be with friends or family even when you both have free time.?The key word here is ?regularly?. Occasional alone time, or time with friends and family is important to have. But if this becomes the regular option when you both have free time, it may be a sign that the relationship is in the mental and emotional backseat. This includes regularly?taking the kids and leaving you out (unless this is a previously agreed arrangement for other reasons ? e.g. one partner takes the kids out for the partner to work; or for an arranged self-care break. This would actually be a healthy sign of working together and being supportive).
2) Little or no sex.?Some couples are able to function without sex, and may be perfectly willing to do so. However, when one or both partners wants to have sex, but not with each other, or with each other but it?s just not happening (whether due to friction, emotional blocks, or lack of time or energy), lack of sex can lead to significant frustration and resentment in the overall relationship.
3) Lots of negativity.?We all experience a negative thought or emotion towards our partners from time to time. But constant negativity is often a sign of general dissatisfaction and frustration, which can lead to urges to criticize and be judgmental. Sometimes couples thrive on relating and sharing in negativity. But more often than not, the longer a relationship maintains this type of dynamic, the more likely it becomes that the negativity eventually turns toward each other. (See ?7?Tips to Help Your Relationship Get Over a Bad Day? for ways to create more positivity in your relationship).
4) Complaining about your partner to others.?There are different levels to this one. People often have a close friend that they?ll go to when they need to talk about frustrations in a relationship. This can be a decent outlet at times (though ideally, being open with your partner and discussing issues together is encouraged ahead of this). However, if you?re complaining about your partner to a new friend, or a less close acquaintance, and doing this often, there may be some significant anger and resentment from your relationship. Also, if you?re complaining about your partner and confiding in someone you?re attracted to, this is also a sign that something needs to be addressed in your relationship. Individual or relationship counseling would be a recommended place to go for help.
5) Lack of Respect.?Disrespect, lack of appreciation, lack of support, and others in this general category are the foundation for resentment and dissatisfaction. People often believe that because they are together that they no longer need to be conscious of showing respect when they speak to each other, or no longer need to express appreciation, or be supportive of their partner. While it can be comforting to be able to let go of all cares when we find somebody we connect with, neglecting to uphold these foundations of a healthy relationship can be catastrophic for a long-term relationship.
6) Lack of Trust.?If you don?t trust your partner ? if you find yourself checking their emails, following them, checking up on what they do and where they go, who they talk to, or even just wondering if they?re being faithful, etc. ? there may be underlying concerns that need to be addressed.
If you?re noticing several of these coming up in your relationship, or if one specifically has caused significant tension between you and your partner, and there?s a general sense that your relationship is struggling, couples counseling could be a worthwhile consideration for help. Couples counseling is there to help couples figure out what the underlying issues are, and what?s leading to the issues, while also creating a plan to repair and move forward. It is possible to get a struggling relationship re-balanced and back on track.
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
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Lew Wolff, the owner of the Oakland Athletics, said his team needed a new stadium in San Jose, Calif., to keep the club above Baseball?s poverty line. ...
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Libyan army tackles rogue militias as two disband
TRIPOLI/DERNA, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's army on Sunday ordered rogue armed groups in and around Tripoli to leave state and military premises or be ejected by force, apparently seeking to capitalize on the withdrawal of militias from Benghazi and Derna.
The two main Islamist militias in Derna, a town in eastern Libya known as an Islamist stronghold, said on Saturday they were disbanding after one of them, Ansar al-Sharia, was driven out of Libya's second city, Benghazi.
The many militias that still control the streets more than a year after rebels toppled Muammar Gaddafi are the clearest challenge to the authority of a central government forced to co-opt many of them to provide security.
However, the killing of four Americans including the ambassador in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on September 11 seems to have given the nascent democratic administration a cue to rally support and channel public frustration with the militias.
Some U.S. officials have accused the Islamist Ansar al-Sharia of involvement in the attack, a charge it denies.
Ansar al-Sharia, opposed to democracy, is one of the groups that have operated outside the nominal Defense Ministry umbrella that covers ex-rebels approved - and needed - by the government.
"The army chief Yussef al-Mangoush and (national assembly leader) Mohammed Magarief have ordered all illegitimate militias should be removed from compounds and hand over their weapons to the national army," said Adel Othman al-Barasi, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry.
"A committee made up by the military police has been formed to take over the compounds and the weapons and hand these over to the army."
Similar edicts have come and gone in the past, with little or no effect on the militias, but the growing frustration of the public may be tipping the balance at street level.
In Derna, a man in a forklift truck came to the base vacated by the town's Abu Slim Martyrs brigade and drove away with a giant 105 mm rocket launcher to take it to a scrap yard.
Many people have resented Derna's reputation as a jihadi recruitment centre. Slogans painted on the wall of a school in English read: "Yes to pluralism! No to Qaeda! No to extremism!"
EVICTIONS AROUND TRIPOLI
Barasi said the army had already evicted a militia from a base on the highway leading to Tripoli airport on Sunday, and all such handovers had been done peacefully.
A member of the army's National Mobile Force said it had been clearing rogue militias out of the western Tripoli district of Sarraj for days and on Sunday seized a tank and heavy and light weapons in evicting one from a military base.
"They tried to stop us but we managed to convince them to leave," he said, declining to be named. "We have taken control of 11 locations in Sarraj."
In a second operation later on Sunday, members of an armed group which had settled into a couple of western Tripoli villas, once home to foreign workers, were evicted, he said.
Slim Derby, leader of the Abu Slim Martyrs brigade, which is based in Derna, said "civil society groups came to our camps, and the youth demonstrators asked us to evacuate the place and disband".
"Our members have their own normal lives, so everyone will go back to their normal lives and their regular jobs."
Ansar al-Sharia made a similar announcement in Derna after protesters forced its Benghazi brigade out of its bases in that city on Friday.
Those invasions, which followed a mass demonstration in support of democracy and against Islamist militias, met little resistance and appeared to be part of a sweep of militia bases by police, army and activists.
Siraj Shennib, a 29-year-old linguistics professor, said protesters had been maintaining a vigil against the militias in Derna for 10 days, and the protests became much larger after a car-jacking three days ago.
Lieutenant-Colonel Mohamed Ali Qasim, a military police officer in sandals and civilian clothes, arrived with a group of soldiers to inspect the base vacated by the Abu Slim Martyrs.
"Yesterday the people and the crowd and civil society groups came here and peacefully took over the place," he said.
"The people of Derna are peaceful ... There may be some who are hot blooded, but they are not extremists ... They suffered a lot under Gaddafi: they were treated violently."
However, at another, much larger Abu Slim camp on the outskirts, there was no sign of weapons but a group of about 10 unarmed fighters confronted a Reuters news crew at the gate and confiscated a photo memory card and two mobile phones.
"We are al Qaeda! We are al Qaeda!" one shouted.
"Get out of Derna!" shouted another.
Derna, set in green hills overlooking the Mediterranean, is known across the region as a recruitment centre for fighters who joined the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
VETERAN GUERRILLAS
Unlike most of the Libyan militias, which were formed for last year's civil war, the Derna groups, especially the Abu Slim Martyrs, are veteran guerrilla fighters with many years of history fighting Gaddafi in the hills of eastern Libya.
The group is named after the Tripoli prison where Gaddafi's jailers killed around 1,200 prisoners in 1996.
The head of Libya's national congress, Mohammed Magarief, met government and security officials in Benghazi late on Saturday and then announced the formation of a "security operations room".
He said this would bring together the army and interior ministry forces with Defense Ministry brigades made up of former rebels and work to secure Benghazi.
Besides saying he wanted to dissolve rogue militias, he said the government wanted the army to take over pro-government militias' compounds as a step towards integrating them into regular forces.
Other problems associated with the militias were dramatically illustrated on Friday when the protesters who had pushed Ansar al-Sharia out of Benghazi moved on to another compound believing that it, too, harbored an Islamist militia.
It turned out to be the base of the powerful pro-government Rafallah al-Sahati group, which opened fire in an attempt to protect a large weapons store it had been asked to guard.
Eleven people were killed and more than 60 injured before the militia pulled back and left the arsenal to be looted.
Nasser Abdelhaaq, a Rafallah al-Sahati commander, suggested the crowd had been manipulated to turn on his group, an officially approved militia that also has Islamist leanings.
Six of the dead were bodyguards of a colonel in the regular Libyan army who went missing on Friday, suggesting a kidnapping that may have been the work of a militia group.
(Additional reporting by Omar al-Mosmary, Mohammed Al-Tommy in Benghazi and Ali Shuaib in Tripoli; Writing by Kevin Liffey; Editing by Sophie Hares)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-army-gives-rogue-militias-ultimatum-two-disband-144336533.html
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Want A Character Theme?
Hey, everyone.
In my spare time, I produce a lot of music, and thought I could get some entertainment by delivering something cool to you guys. If you've got a character and you want them to have a theme song, then this is the place to come.
All I need is a link to a character sheet, and make sure there's a good enough description of the character, their personality and stuff, to help me craft a better theme. Can't wait to see what I come up with.
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http://tetsuod.bandcamp.com/album/ultracolour-2 (most recent work, probly a better example of production skills/mastering and whatnot)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCRhHQ66y5A (An old character theme I did for a machinima project that never saw the light of day)
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
Shuttle Endeavour takes to California skies on farewell tour
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Space shuttle Endeavour took off Friday morning on a sightseeing tour of California, the last aerial hurrah before retiring to a Los Angeles museum.
Hitching a ride on top of a jumbo jet, the pair departed Edwards Air Force Base, 100 miles north of Los Angeles, circling the high desert that gave birth to the shuttle fleet and headed north toward Sacramento.
Thousands of spectators jammed rooftop buildings and streets around the state Capitol for a glimpse as Endeavour soared overhead. School children squealed as the shuttle looped around a second time.
Endeavour was headed for San Francisco Bay area and several Los Angeles-area landmarks including the Santa Monica Pier, Hollywood Sign and Disneyland.
At the Griffith Observatory, overlooking the Hollywood Sign, throngs of people ? many dressed in shorts and flip-flops with kids in tow ? camped out on beach chairs and blankets on the lush lawns, waiting for a flyover later in Endeavor's journey.
The nearly 5-hour flyover will culminate with an afternoon landing at the Los Angeles International Airport for an arrival ceremony ? then, in a few weeks, a slow-speed journey across town through neighborhoods to its final museum home.
Since Endeavour will buzz by some of the Golden State's most iconic sights, law enforcement and transportation authorities warned motorists not to "gawk and drive."
"We want people to take in this majestic show," Los Angeles police Cmdr. Scott Kroeber said earlier this week. "But if you're driving, please drive and don't try to take in the show simultaneously."
Extra officers will be on duty along the freeways near the airport to make sure traffic flows smoothly as the shuttle zooms overhead.
Endeavour returned to its birthplace Thursday after an emotional cross-country ferry flight that made a special flyover of Tucson, Ariz., to honor its last commander, Mark Kelly, and his wife, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Giffords, who is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head, was "hooting and hollering" as Endeavour looped around her hometown, according to her former aide C.J. Karamargin.
NASA's shuttle fleet, which retired last year after three decades of flight, was assembled in Palmdale near Edwards Air Force Base. The military outpost 100 miles north of Los Angeles served as the original shuttle landing strip and remained a backup site in case of stormy weather at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
"We're so excited to be welcoming Endeavour home in grand style with these flyovers," Jeffrey Rudolph, president of the California Science Center, said earlier this week.
The youngest shuttle, Endeavour replaced Challenger, which blew up during liftoff in 1986. NASA lost another shuttle, Columbia, in 2003 when it disintegrated during re-entry. Fourteen astronauts were killed.
During 25 missions, Endeavour spent 299 days in space and orbited Earth nearly 4,700 times, racking up 123 million miles.
On its maiden flight in 1992, a trio of spacewalking astronauts grabbed a stranded communications satellite in for repair. It also flew the first repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope to fix a faulty mirror. But most of its flights ferried cargo and equipment to the International Space Station, which is near completion.
Under White House orders to explore beyond low-Earth orbit, NASA is hitching rides on Russian rockets to the orbiting laboratory until private companies can provide regular service.
Endeavour is the second of three remaining shuttles to head to its retirement home. In April, Discovery arrived at the Smithsonian Institution's hangar in Virginia. Atlantis, which closed out the shuttle program, will stay in Florida where it will be towed a short distance to the Kennedy Space Center's visitor center in the fall.
Endeavour will remain at an airport hangar for several weeks as crews ready the shuttle for its own road trip. Unlike Atlantis, it will creep through city streets to the California Science Center near downtown.
Some 400 trees will be cleared along the 12-mile route to make room, a move that has riled some residents in affected neighborhoods. Museum officials have pledged to replant double the number of chopped trees.
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Online:
Shuttle history: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle
California Science Center: http://www.californiasciencecenter.org
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/space-shuttle-endeavour-takes-california-skies-152533714.html
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Some Questions About The Green Energy | News and Society Tips ...
It?s a fact that using green energy is just too difficult. I can?t find the time to incorporate green energy. A lot of people also do not know where to start. Regardless of your excuse, this article will make it invalid. In this article, you will be presented with several easy to use, and cost effective green energy solutions that can help your home. Click here for more details.
Go green on your coffee break by bringing your own cup. If you usually order a Tall Latte at Starbucks, bring a tall re-usable coffee mug with you. Every time you ask your favorite coffee shop to mix your drink in your own cup, you are helping to green your environment.If you are struggling to maintain low energy costs in your home, you should try putting in a water-efficient flow control washer or shower rose that is Triple A-rated. Triple-A appliances are designed to decrease the amount of energy used in your home, which will ultimately lead to large savings.One can also check masterpainters.co.nz for more details.
The average washing machine uses a lot of hot water. It can use over 30 gallons each load. Cut down on its hot water usage by washing in cold water. Many people struggle with this because they insist on having the water warm. If you?re one of them, try replacing your machine with an Energy Star unit. Many modern detergents clean clothes really well at low temperatures.If your home has a pool or hot tub, look into a solar water heating system. Installing a solar water heating system costs about the same as a conventional system, but operating costs for the system will be much lower. Repair costs for solar heating systems are often lower as well.
Try using a solar oven for your baking needs. You will not even notice this difference in temperature, and you?ll save a lot of money and energy. In addition, the amount of carbon being used will decrease by around 14%.
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Apple iPhone 5 fever rages despite grumbling over maps
SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON (Reuters) - Apple Inc fans queued around city blocks worldwide on Friday to get their hands on the new iPhone 5, pointing to a strong holiday season for the consumer device maker despite grumblings about the mapping app in the new smartphone.
The iPhone 5 -- thinner, lighter and with a 4-inch screen -- went on sale in stores across the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia, with mobile carriers reporting record demand that looked likely to stretch Apple's supply capacity.
"The line for the iPhone 5 was 70 percent greater than the line for the iPhone 4S despite Apple taking two (times) as many online pre-orders," said Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. He expects Apple to sell 8 million of the new smartphones over the weekend.
The long lines of excited buyers prompted optimism on Wall Street. Deutsche Bank raised its target on Apple stock to $850 from $775, saying "demand indicators are tracking very strongly."
The iPhone is Apple's highest-margin product and accounts for half of the company's annual revenue. Apple shares were up 0.5 percent to $702 in afternoon trading in New York.
JPMorgan estimates the phone could provide a $3.2 billion boost to the U.S. economy in the fourth quarter - a boost almost equal to the whole economy of Fiji.
Apple's rival and component supplier, Samsung Electronics Co, tried to spoil the party, saying it plans to add the iPhone 5 to its existing patent lawsuits against Apple.
Apple began taking pre-orders for the iPhone 5 last Friday and booked more than 2 million orders in the first 24 hours - double the first-day sales of the previous iPhone, the 4S. Shipping time for online orders is three to four weeks.
Prices for the iPhone 5 start at $199 for a 16 GB model and range as high as $399 for a 64 GB model.
As Apple began delivering the new phone, struggling competitor Research in Motion, which makes the BlackBerry, had to admit that it was once again having service problems in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The iPhone 5 supports faster 4G mobile networks and also comes with a number of software updates, including Apple's new in-house maps feature, which is based on Dutch navigation equipment and digital map maker TomTom's map data.
But not everyone was impressed. Some users criticized the maps feature for a number of geographical errors, missing information, and a lack of features.
And not everyone was thrilled with Apple's success.
Hundreds of French iPhone fans lining up at Apple's main store in Paris got an earful from disgruntled store employees and others protesting against Apple policies.
Marching in front of the Paris store were about 20 former staffers of independent Apple distributors that closed after struggling to compete with Apple's own stores. Joining them were three Apple store employees striking to protest Apple's refusal to offer staffers meal vouchers and a yearly bonus of an extra month's pay - perks that are standard for many French workers.
In San Francisco, Apple store worker Cory Moll, who is seeking to start a union and is the founder of the Apple Workers Retail Union initiative, stood outside the main downtown store with a placard showing his support for the French workers and those who assemble Apple products in Asia.
The line of buyers at the store wound around several blocks.
A FLINTSTONE PHONE
The launch drew crowds of customers at Apple stores worldwide.
Hundreds of people lined up around the block at Apple's store on New York City's swanky Fifth Avenue.
Kadijah Perez, 26, a Bronx resident, had not heard about the map issues. She said she wanted to use the phone for navigation, adding, "Hopefully, they'll just fix it."
In Annapolis, Maryland, customers settled in lawn chairs waiting for the Apple store in Westfield Annapolis Mall to open. A man walking by quipped: "I'm beginning to believe (Mitt) Romney. The economy is bad. People are starving."
Waiting in line for anything was a first for Annapolis resident Robert Delarosa, 37, who skipped buying the iPhone 4 due to bad reviews but is now tired of his iPhone 3GS.
"I'm stuck with this old 3GS, a Flintstone phone," he said.
In London's central Regent Street, about 1,300 people lined up to buy the iPhone 5, nearly twice as many as showed up for the previous iPhone.
The iPhone 5 "is both the fastest and biggest selling iPhone to date on our network. Pre-order sales are up more than 50 percent compared to the iPhone 4S," a Vodafone UK spokesman said.
In Germany, 19-year-old musician Okan Yasin had waited since lunchtime on Thursday to be at the front of the queue at the Frankfurt Apple shop. Proudly holding a sign saying "Ich bin Nummer 1" (I am Number 1), he said:
"I just need to have it. I know that the new iPhone from a new features perspective hardly has anything extra to offer. But I just needed to be here. It's the hype, man!"
In Australia, about 600 people queued around the block at the Apple store in Sydney, the first in the world to hand over an iPhone 5 to a buyer. Customers were limited to buying a maximum of two phones.
In Tokyo, the lines stretched several blocks.
"It's thin and light. I've used Samsung before, but the operation, the feeling, of the iPhone is better," said Wataru Saito, a semiconductor engineer who had been queuing in Tokyo since mid-afternoon on Thursday - with his suitcase, as he had a flight to catch on Friday.
In Hong Kong, people carrying rucksacks filled with cash waited outside the city's main Apple store, hoping to snap up phones for resale. Staff there chanted "iPhone 5, iPhone 5."
Most of those waiting were fans already hooked on Apple's earlier iPhones and best-selling iPad tablet computers.
"I feel like if I leave it at home, I go a bit crazy," said James Vohradsky, a 20-year-old student who queued for 17 hours with his sister. "I can't do my normal day without it."
Vohradsky said the iPhone 5's lack of a mobile payment chip was "a bit of a letdown." Apple did not embed Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, used to turn cellphones into mobile wallets, into the new smartphone.
RUNNING OUT
There was concern that not enough new phones were available to meet demand.
Softbank and Singtel, Singapore's biggest mobile phone operator, said demand had exceeded previous offerings from Apple and there was worry the company would not be able to keep up.
Japanese carrier KDDI Corp said it had already run out of the new phone, and Australia's Telstra Corp Ltd reported online orders sold out in a record 18 hours. Telstra said it was discussing bi-weekly restocking with Apple.
Apple plans to sell the new phone in 100 countries by the end of the year, ramping up competition in a smartphone market that has already reached fever pitch.
Apple is up against phones that run on Google Inc's Android software, which has become the most-used mobile operating system in the world, while Samsung has taken the lead in smartphone sales.
(Additional reporting by Thuy Ong in Sydney, Venus Wu and Stefanie McIntyre in Hong Kong, Kevin Lim in Singapore, Harro Ten Wolde in Frankfurt, Gwenaelle Barzic in Paris and Kate Holton in London, Sinead Carew in New York, Tim Kelly in Tokyo and Medina Roshan in Annapolis.; Editing by Angus MacSwan and John Wallace)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/long-queues-greet-apples-iphone-5-sydney-tokyo-014520076--sector.html
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Friday, September 21, 2012
NASA's solar fleet peers into coronal cavities
ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2012) ? The sun's atmosphere dances. Giant columns of solar material -- made of gas so hot that many of the electrons have been scorched off the atoms, turning it into a form of magnetized matter we call plasma -- leap off the sun's surface, jumping and twisting. Sometimes these prominences of solar material shoot off, escaping completely into space; other times they fall back down under their own weight.
The prominences are sometimes also the inner structure of a larger formation, appearing from the side almost as the filament inside a large light bulb. The bright structure around and above that light bulb is called a streamer, and the inside "empty" area is called a coronal prominence cavity.
Such structures are but one of many that the roiling magnetic fields and million-degree plasma create in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, but they are an important one as they can be the starting point of what's called a coronal mass ejection, or CME. CMEs are billion-ton clouds of material from the sun's atmosphere that erupt out into the solar system and can interfere with satellites and radio communications near Earth when they head our way.
"We don't really know what gets these CMEs going," says Terry Kucera, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "So we want to understand their structure before they even erupt, because then we might have a better clue about why it's erupting and perhaps even get some advance warning on when they will erupt."
Kucera and her colleagues have published a paper in the Sept. 20, 2012, issue of The Astrophysical Journal on the temperatures of the coronal cavities. This is the third in a series of papers -- the first discussed cavity geometry and the second its density -- collating and analyzing as much data as possible from a cavity that appeared over the upper left horizon of the sun on Aug. 9, 2007. By understanding these three aspects of the cavities, that is the shape, density and temperature, scientists can better understand the space weather that can disrupt technologies near Earth.
The Aug. 9 cavity lay at a fortuitous angle that maximized observations of the cavity itself, as opposed to the prominence at its base or the surrounding plasma. Together the papers describe a cavity in the shape of a croissant, with a giant inner tube of looping magnetic fields -- think something like a slinky -- helping to define its shape. The cavity appears to be 30% less dense than the streamer surrounding it, and the temperatures vary greatly throughout the cavity, but on average range from 1.4 million to 1.7 million Celsius (2.5 to 3 million Fahrenheit), increasing with height.
Trying to describe a cavity, a space that appears empty from our viewpoint, from 93 million miles away is naturally a tricky business. "Our first objective was to completely pin down the morphology," says Sarah Gibson, a solar scientist at the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. who was an author on all three cavity papers. "When you see such a crisp clean shape like this, it's not an accident. That shape is telling you something about the physics of the magnetic fields creating it, and understanding those magnetic fields can also help us understand what's at the heart of CMEs."
To do this, the team collected as much data from as many instruments from as many perspectives as they could, including observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), ESA and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the JAXA/NASA mission Hinode, and NCAR's Mauna Loa Solar Observatory.
They collected this information for the cavity's entire trip across the face of the sun along with the sun's rotation. Figuring out, for example, why the cavity was visible on the left side of the sun but couldn't be seen as well on the right held important clues about the structure's orientation, suggesting a tunnel shape that could be viewed head on from one perspective, but was misaligned for proper viewing from the other. The cavity itself looked like a tunnel in a crescent shape, not unlike a hollow croissant. Magnetic fields loop through the croissant in giant circles to support the shape, the way a slinky might look if it were narrower on the ends and tall in the middle -- the entire thing draped in a sheath of thick plasma. The paper describing this three-dimensional morphology appeared in The Astrophysical Journal on Dec. 1, 2010.
Next up, for the second paper, was the cavity's density. Figuring out density and temperature was a trickier prospect since one's point of view of the sun is inherently limited. Because the sun's corona is partially transparent, it is difficult to tease out differences of density and temperature along one's line of sight; all the radiation from a given line hits an instrument at the same time in a jumble, information from one area superimposed upon every other.
Using a variety of techniques to tease density out from temperature, the team was able to determine that the cavity was 30% less than that of the surrounding streamer. This means that there is, in fact, quite a bit of material in the cavity. It simply appears dim to our eyes when compared with the denser, brighter areas nearby. The paper on the cavity's density appeared in The Astrophysical Journal on May 20, 2011.
"With the morphology and the density determined, we had found two of the main characteristics of the cavity, so next we focused on temperature," says Kucera. "And it turned out to be a much more complicated problem. We wanted to know if it was hotter or cooler than the surrounding material -- the answer is that it is both."
Ultimately, what Kucera and her colleagues found was that the temperature of the cavity was not -- on average -- hotter or cooler than the surrounding plasma.
However, it was much more varied, with hotter and cooler areas that Kucera thinks link the much colder 10,000 degrees Celsius (17,000 F) prominence at the bottom to the million to two million degrees Celsius (1.8 million to 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit) corona at the top. Other observations of cavities show that cavity features are constantly in motion creating a complicated flow pattern that the team would like to study further.
While these three science papers focused on just the one cavity from 2007, the scientists have already begun comparing this test case to other cavities and find that the characteristics are fairly consistent. More recent cavities can also be studied using the high-resolution images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which launched in 2010.
"Our point with all of these research projects into what might seem like side streets, is ultimately to figure out the physics of magnetic fields in the corona," says Gibson. "Sometimes these cavities can be stable for days and weeks, but then suddenly erupt into a CME. We want to understand how that happens. We're accessing so much data, so it's an exciting time -- with all these observations, our understanding is coming together to form a consistent story."
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