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Friday, May 17, 2013
Matter: Dogs: From Fearsome Predator to Man?s Best Friend
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Scientists are zeroing in on some of the genes that were crucial to the rewiring of canine brains in the transition from wolves to domesticated dogs.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Lil Wayne To Jason Collins: 'Be You'
Weezy sits with MTV News and picks the Miami Heat to win the 2013 NBA championship and says Jason Collins' coming out is opening a lot of doors in sports.
By Rob Markman
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1706823/lil-wayne-jason-collins-nba-advice.jhtml
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Israeli warplanes strike Syria in escalation
BEIRUT (AP) ? Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to be on their way to Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, officials and activists said.
The attack, the second in three days, signaled a sharp escalation of Israel's involvement in Syria's bloody civil war. Syrian state media reported that Israeli missiles struck a military and scientific research center near Damascus and caused casualties.
An intelligence official in the Middle East, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to disclose information about a secret military operation to the media, confirmed that Israel launched an airstrike in the Syrian capital early Sunday but did not give more precise details about the location. The target was Fateh-110 missiles, which have precision guidance systems with better aim than anything Hezbollah is known to have in its arsenal, the official told The Associated Press.
The airstrikes come as Washington considers how to respond to indications that the Syrian regime may have used chemical weapons in its civil war. President Barack Obama has described the use of such weapons as a "red line," and the administration is weighing its options ? including possible military action.
Iran, a close ally of the Assad regime, condemned the airstrikes but gave no other hints of a possible stronger response from Tehran.
Israel has said it wants to stay out of the Syrian war, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly stated the Jewish state would be prepared to take military action to prevent sophisticated weapons from flowing from Syria to Hezbollah or other extremist groups.
Israel and Hezbollah fought a monthlong war in mid-2006 that ended in a stalemate.
Syria's state news agency SANA reported that explosions went off at the Jamraya military and scientific research center near Damascus and said "initial reports point to these explosions being a result of Israeli missiles." SANA said there were casualties but did not give a number.
Damascus-based activist Maath al-Shami said the strikes occurred around 3 a.m. "Damascus shook. The explosion was very, very strong," said al-Shami adding that one of the attacks occurred near the capital's Qasioun mountain that overlooks Damascus.
He said the raid near Qasioun targeted a military position for the elite Republican Guards that is in charge of protecting Damascus, President Bashar Assad's seat of power.
Mohammed Saeed, another activist who lives in the Damascus suburb of Douma, said "the explosions were so strong that earth shook under us." He said the smell of the fire caused by the air raid near Qasioun could be felt miles away.
There has been no official statement from the Syrian military.
The strikes put the Assad regime in a tricky position. If it fails to respond, it looks weak and leaves itself open to such airstrikes becoming a common occurrence. But if it retaliates militarily against Israel, it risks dragging the Jewish state and its powerful military into a broader conflict.
After the airstrikes overnight, Israel's military on Saturday deployed two batteries of its Iron Dome rocket defense system to the country's north. It described the move as part of "ongoing situational assessments."
The Iron Dome protects against short-range rockets. Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets at Israel during the 2006 war, while Israeli warplanes destroyed large areas of south Lebanon.
Amos Yadlin, a former head of Israel's military intelligence, said the strike is a signal to Syria's ally, Tehran, that Israel is serious about the red lines it has set.
"Syria is a very important part in the front that Iran has built. Iran is testing Israel and the U.S. determination in the facing of red lines and what it sees is in clarifies to it that at least some of the players, when they define red lines and they are crossed, take it seriously," he told Army Radio.
In Tehran, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast condemned an Israeli airstrike against Syria and urged countries in the region to remain united against Israel, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency. The brief statement gave no details.
The Fateh-110, or Conqueror, is a short-range ballistic missile developed by Iran and first put into service in 2002. The Islamic Republic unveiled an upgraded version in 2012 that improved the weapon's accuracy and increased its range to 300 kilometers (185 miles).
Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said at the time that the solid-fueled missile could strike with pin-point precision, making it the most accurate weapon of its kind in Iran's arsenal.
An airstrike in January also targeted weapons apparently bound for Hezbollah, Israeli and U.S. officials have said. The White House had no immediate comment on Sunday's reported missile strikes.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group, also reported large explosions in the area of Jamraya, a military and scientific research facility northwest of Damascus, about 15 kilometers (10 miles) from the Lebanese border.
Hezbollah's al-Manar TV said the research center in Jamraya was not hit. It added that an army supply center was targeted by the strike. It quoted unnamed Syrian security officials as saying that three sites including military barracks, arms depots and air defense center were targeted by the strike.
The station aired footage of what it said was a facility in Jamraya that was hit in the airstrike. It showed a heavily damaged building as well as what appeared to be a chicken farm with some chickens pecking around in debris scattered with dead birds.
The raid appeared to have taken place next to a major road that was filled with debris, and shell casings were strewn on the ground. A blue street sign on the side of the road referred to the direction of the Lebanon border and the Syrian town of Zabadani near the frontier.
Lebanon's Al-Mayadeen TV, that has several reporters around Syria, said one of the strikes targeted a military position in the village of Saboura, west of Damascus and about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the Lebanon border.
An amateur video said to be shot early Sunday in the Damascus area showed fire lighting up the night sky. The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting.
Uzi Rubin, a missile expert and former Defense Ministry official, told the AP that if the target were Fateh-110 missiles as reported then it is a game changer as they put almost all Israel in range and can accurately hit targets.
Rubin emphasized that he was speaking as a rocket expert and had no details on reported strikes.
"If fired from southern Lebanon they can reach Tel Aviv and even (the southern city of) Beersheba." He said the rockets are much five times more accurate than the scud missiles that Hezbollah has fired in the past. "It is a game changer because they are a threat to Israel's infrastructure and military installations," he said.
Israel's first airstrike in Syria, in January, also struck Jamraya.
At the time, a U.S. official said Israel targeted trucks next to the research center that carried SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles. The strikes hit both the trucks and the research facility, the official said. The Syrian military didn't confirm a hit on a weapons shipment at the time, saying only that Israeli warplanes bombed the research center.
Israeli lawmaker Shaul Mofaz, a former defense minister and a former chief of staff, declined to confirm the airstrike but said Israel is concerned about weapons falling into the hands of the Islamic militant group amid the chaos of Syria's civil war.
"We must remember that the Syrian system is falling apart and Iran and Hezbollah are involved up to their necks in Syria helping Bashar Assad," he told Israel Radio. "There are dangers of weapons trickling to the Hezbollah and chemical weapons trickling to irresponsible groups like al-Qaida."
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Deitch was reporting from Jerusalem. Associated Press writer Brian Murphy contributed to this report from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-warplanes-strike-syria-escalation-073408782.html
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
'Iron Man 3' Blasts Through Fan Expectations
MTV News caught up with a group of Iron Fans at Thursday's late-night screening.
By Brett White
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1706767/iron-man-3-fan-reviews.jhtml
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Friday, May 3, 2013
Afghan policeman killed in Pakistan border clash
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? An Afghan border policeman was killed in an exchange of fire with Pakistani troops along the country's contested eastern border, an Afghan security official said Thursday, in an incident that threatens to further inflame tensions between the neighboring countries.
Pakistani forces fired artillery rounds late Wednesday at Afghan border police in the Goshta district of eastern Nangarhar province, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi. In an ensuing five-hour firefight, one border policeman was killed, he said.
Pakistan's government blamed Afghan forces for opening fire at a border post and described the incident as one of many "repeated violations" of the borderline. A statement said two Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were wounded.
"This is not the first time that the heavy fire was initiated from the Afghan side causing heavy injury and damage to the Pakistani structures," the Pakistani Foreign Office said in a statement. It added that the Afghan ambassador to Islamabad was summoned to the ministry and a complaint was filed.
Earlier, a Pakistani military official who confirmed the exchange of fire had said it involved Afghan militants firing at his country's border forces.
Ties between the two neighbors have been severely strained in recent months, and the mountainous region where the latest shooting took place has seen acrimonious exchanges between the two sides over the demarcation of their border.
The two neighbors often trade accusations that each side is firing across the border, and Pakistan has said in the past that it is targeting insurgents who are seeking to enter its territory.
The Pakistani Foreign Office asked Afghanistan to use procedures already in place, and set out in a recent agreement, that allow forces on both sides of the border to communicate with each other to avoid such incidents
A Pakistani official had earlier said that a group of militants from the Afghan side of the border attacked a Pakistani post in the Mohmand tribal region, sparking the gunbattle. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with Pakistani military policy.
A western military official, speaking anonymously because he was not authorized to speak publicly, said the Pakistanis fired tank rounds into the Afghan side of the border as part of the exchange of fire. The official said it was not clear what started the skirmish, which was observed remotely by the U.S.-led coalition.
Afghan accusations that Pakistan is allegedly trying to torpedo efforts to start peace talks with the Taliban have also contributed to deteriorating relations. Both countries have also accused each other of providing shelter for insurgents fighting on the other side of the border.
Last month, Afghan President Hamid Karzai charged that Pakistan was setting up a border gate in the Goshta district without asking Kabul's permission. He ordered his ministries of foreign affairs, defense and interior to remove the gate and all installations around it.
However, it remains unclear how they would do that as Pakistan claims the facility is on its territory. But Afghanistan does not recognize the disputed Durand Line, the 19th century demarcation between present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan as its border. Pakistan accepts the line as the boundary between the two sides.
Also, Afghanistan has been deeply suspicious of the motives of a government in Islamabad that long backed the Taliban regime and has since seemed unable or unwilling to go after militant leaders taking refuge inside its borders. The killing of al-Qaida chief, Osama bin Laden, in Pakistan only strengthened Afghan wariness of his neighbor.
The contested border has created problems for the United States.
In late 2011, the Pakistani government closed all land routes to NATO cargo traffic after U.S. airstrikes along the border killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The routes were reopened more than seven months later after the U.S. apologized for the incident. During the closure, the U.S. was forced to use more costly and lengthy routes into Afghanistan through Central Asia.
In an effort to defuse tensions, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry brought Karzai and Pakistani military chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani together in Brussels last month for security talks aimed at improving relations ahead of next year's withdrawal of most NATO combat forces from Afghanistan.
The meeting lasted about three hours but apparently did little to ease Afghanistan-Pakistan tensions as all sides try to lure the Taliban to peace negotiations.
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Associated Press writer Anwarullah Khan in Khar, Pakistan, and AP Intelligence Writer Kimberly Dozier in Washington contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-policeman-killed-pakistan-border-clash-095237592.html
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Italy's Letta names austerity critic Fassina as junior minister
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta named a leading critic of Europe's austerity programs as deputy economy minister, directly below the orthodox former Bank of Italy official chosen to head the ministry.
The appointment of Stefano Fassina, who has called for Italy to re-negotiate budget targets agreed with the European Union, provides a figurehead for critics of fiscal rigor within government and parliament.
But as one of two deputy economy ministers, it is unclear how much policymaking weight he will carry.
He will serve under Fabrizio Saccomanni, the former director general of the Bank of Italy.
Saccomanni, an orthodox policymaker considered close to European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, ruled out trying to win extra leeway on the budget as recently as Thursday, saying it would endanger Italy's efforts to exit the EU's excessive deficit procedure.
Fassina, economic affairs spokesman of the center-left Democratic Party, was a persistent critic of the austerity policies of former Prime Minister Mario Monti.
He has repeatedly called for more European authorities to switch their focus from budget rigor to promoting growth.
Like many of his counterparts in Europe, Letta faces the challenge of meeting his country's fiscal commitments while trying to coax a sickly economy back to life. He has pledged to cut taxes but has not said how he will pay for it.
Fassina was one of a series of appointments announced late on Thursday that completed the line-up of Letta's new coalition government.
Luigi Casero, a lawmaker from Silvio Berlusconi's center-right People of Freedom (PDL) party who served as economy undersecretary during Berlusconi's last government, becomes the other deputy economy minister.
(Reporting By James Mackenzie; Editing by John Stonestreet)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/italys-letta-names-austerity-critic-fassina-junior-minister-111535864.html
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No need to accommodate when absence goes beyond all available ...
You have probably read that once a disabled employee has exhausted his FMLA and other sick leave, you should still consider offering a brief leave extension as a reasonable accommodation. That?s true to a point.
However, once you have allowed additional leave and the employee still isn?t cleared to return to work, it may be time to terminate him despite his disability.
Recent case: Horace, a custodian for the Fresno school system, developed several health problems, and used up all his paid and unpaid leave. His doctors told him he would be off for many months. Because he needed to work just 30 more days before he was eligible to retire, the school system invited Horace back.
However, the very next day, he had a stroke. Lacking any more leave, he was terminated.
Horace sued, alleging disability discrimination. He claimed he should have been accommodated with a few more weeks of leave, presumably so he could retire.
The court dismissed his lawsuit. It reasoned that, because Horace?s stroke left him unable to work for an indefinite period, he wasn?t a qualified disabled individual under the ADA. Plus, the school system had already provided more time off than it was legally required to. No accommodation was due. (Brown v. Fresno Unified School District, No. 1:12-CV-01597, ED CA, 2013)
Final note: For more on this case, see "Court: Only employee?not his spouse?can sue for disability discrimination."
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Apple expands SSD options for configure-to-order iMacs
If you're in the market for a new iMac and you value raw speed over storage capacity, you may be interested in a recent change at Apple's online store. Apple is offering new storage options for iMac buyers interested in configuring their systems with Solid State Drives (SSDs), according to Eric Slivka at MacRumors. Now Apple will configure 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMacs with 256GB and 512GB SSDs. You'll add $300 or $600 to the cost of your machine, respectively.
This is particularly good news for 21.5-inch iMac customers, who up until now have been limited to two choices: either a 1TB SATA hard disk drive, or a 1TB "Fusion" drive that mixes 128GB of SSD storage and a conventional hard disk together to improve performance. Going pure SSD should speed things up even further.
Apple continues to offer a 768GB SSD as a $900 option on the 27-inch iMac, but the other two SSD sizes allow users with tighter purse strings to jump on the SSD bandwagon without paying such a heavy premium.
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Intel picks insider as CEO, dashing hopes for shakeup
By Noel Randewich and Sinead Carew
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Intel Corp's board elected three-decade insider Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive, disappointing some investors looking for aggressive change as the world's largest chipmaker increasingly finds itself left out of the mobile revolution.
The board also elected software honcho Ren?e James, 48, to be president of Intel. Her appointment signaled to some that Intel, while likely intending to stick with its formula of intense investment to keep it ahead in the microchip technology game, is willing to explore new growth areas.
Intel's shares fell 1.3 percent in early trading but later recovered. The company said last November that it might go external for the next CEO, raising hopes that it might find someone to shake it out of recent doldrums.
Seen as a frontrunner for the job since November, Krzanich inherits a company with margins of almost 60 percent that has all but extinguished rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc in the past few years and is now the dominant maker of microprocessors for computers and servers.
But the company is in danger of finding itself sidelined as mobile devices such as tablets and ever more powerful smartphones accelerate a contraction of the personal computer market. The majority of gadgets today run processors based on rival ARM Holdings Plc's power-saving chip architecture.
"An external candidate might have been a better choice - with no negative reflection on Brian - simply because of the juncture Intel is at with what's happening in the PC market and the need to take major action outside of PCs," said Cody Acree, an analyst at Williams Financial Group.
"Brian may very well come in and make those same very difficult dramatic choices, but it's less likely."
Krzanich, 52, has worked at Intel since 1982 and will take on the top job at the company's annual shareholder meeting on May 16, replacing Paul Otellini.
James, who in 2011 spearheaded Intel's $7.7 billion acquisition of No. 2 security software firm McAfee Inc, ran software product and service sales as well as a team of engineers focused on improving the performance of Microsoft Corp's Windows 8 and Google Inc's Android software when run on the company's microchips.
Her elevation "puts emphasis on the many businesses Intel is in beyond just chips. This is an important promotion, and it clearly signals the board wants to make Intel a much broader company," said Jack Gold, who runs research outfit Jack Gold Associates.
"Longer term, both Krzanich and James could bring that new reality into clearer focus for Intel and make them more competitive in a rapidly changing market."
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Intel Chairman Andy Bryant said Krzanich is capable of effecting a transformational move.
A chemical engineer by training who went to school in Northern California, he started with Intel in New Mexico as a process engineer before moving on to a series of factory management positions. He holds a patent for semiconductor processing and sits on the board of an industry association.
"You'll see a fairly dramatic change over a period of time," Bryant told Reuters in an interview. "If you look at Intel's past, with every CEO we've had that."
"(Andy) Grove replaced (Gordon) Moore and we got the PC. (Craig) Barrett replaced Grove and we got the communications, which is a foundation of the cellphones we have today. Otellini replaced Barrett - servers didn't exist in those days, now we have the enterprise business, that's a 10-plus billion dollar business growing at double digits."
Intel announced in November that it was looking for a new CEO as Otellini announced plans to retire.
James worked with Krzanich to develop the strategic vision for Intel that he pitched to the board, Bryant said.
"They formed a partnership through the last few months that has blossomed into an extremely powerful pair," he said.
The Santa Clara, California, company came under fire during Otellini's tenure for missing out on the mobile revolution, while underestimating the scale of the eventual drop-off in personal computer demand. The company, which once said emerging markets could offset a dropoff in developed-world demand, orchestrated a push on pricey "Ultrabook" laptops that has so far failed to excite consumers.
Against that backdrop, Intel surprised investors in November by suggesting it could break with tradition and look outside its ranks for a new chief. But analysts said they were not surprised that the board settled on Krzanich.
"I'm not hugely surprised. He was probably in most investors' minds a front runner," said Stacy Rasgon, an analyst at Bernstein Research.
"The strategy that they are on embarking on, the way they are trying to go really involves leveraging their manufacturing technology assets, and he's the guy."
Last month, Intel warned that current-quarter revenue would fall as much as 8 percent, given the drop in PC sales. The company affirmed its full-year revenue growth target, but analysts think that forecast will be hard to hit.
Intel set Krzanich's 2013 compensation package at $10 million including base pay of $1 million, an annual incentive cash target of $2.5 million and equity awards for 2013 with a grant date fair value of $6.5 million.
Intel shares were up 4 cents at $24.03 on Thursday afternoon, off an earlier low at $23.67.
(Additional reporting by Liana B. Baker in New York; writing by Ben Berkowitz and Edwin Chan; editing by Alden Bentley and Matthew Lewis)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/intel-elects-brian-krzanich-ceo-131142247.html
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Mophie Juice Pack for the HTC One now available
If you picked up an HTC One and found that its battery isn't quite cutting it, Mophie may have a solution for your dilemma. The accessory maker is now offering its popular extended battery line for HTC's crown jewel. In addition to its slim protective casing, the freshly minted Juice Pack keeps the party going with an embedded 2,500mAh backup cell. Mophie claims that its added pick me up can increase the One's battery life by two-fold, placing its performance on a par with the marathon-ready RAZR MAXX HD. Available in two colors to match whichever hue you're sporting, the $100 Juice Pack is a surprisingly attractive backup plan for HTC's aluminum marvel.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Chevron announces possible regional HQ
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Chevron Corp. says it plans to buy 61 acres of land near Pittsburgh for possible use as a new regional headquarters.
Chevron's Appalachian unit announced the agreements to purchase the Moon Township land in a Wednesday release. The purchase price wasn't disclosed. Moon Township is about 15 miles outside of downtown Pittsburgh.
Chevron is one of the largest producers of Marcellus Shale natural gas, with holdings in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. The company says a final decision on the use of the land will be made later this year.
Chevron says it already employs about 650 people in Pennsylvania. Nearly 400 of those jobs are already based in Pittsburgh-area office buildings.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chevron-announces-possible-regional-hq-193611947.html
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RIP the World's Largest Infrared Telescope
The Herschel Space Observatory was the world's largest and most powerful infrared telescope, able to see parts of the universe nothing else could. Unfortunately, it met its maker last night when it ran out of the liquid helium coolant it requires to map hidden corners of the cosmos.
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