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Authorities appear to be giving no quarter in their case against file-sharing website Megaupload. A New Zealand judge denied bail to the website's founder, Kim Dotcom, on Wednesday. Authorities in the Netherlands also arrested a fifth suspect in the case.
Multiple news reports have identified the latest arrestee as programmer Andrus Nomm, a 32-year-old Estonian citizen.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week charged Dotcom and six others with running Megaupload as a "massive worldwide online piracy" operation. American authorities have been able to lead the charge because Megaupload was run in part from servers in the United States. The DOJ accuses Megaupload's operators of enabling the illegal downloads of millions of films, music, TV shows, software and other content to earn more than $175 million for themselves while costing more than $500 million in damages to copyright holders.
The first wave of arrests of Dotcom and three other alleged accomplices came last week, days after major websites including Wikipedia and Google blacked-out all or parts of their content in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Soon after the arrests, the hacker group Anonymous claimed credit for attacks that temporarily disabled the DOJ website.
Dotcom was denied bail on Wednesday pending his first extradition hearing on Feb. 22 because he is believed to pose a flight risk. Prosecutors said that has access to large monetary funds and a history of avoiding criminal charges.
Dotcom was arrested after authorities forced him out of a safe-room in his New Zealand mansion.
Born in Germany as Kim Schmitz, Dotcom has led an extravagant life as an Internet rogue, according to widespread news reports.
He was accused of a major insider-trading case in Germany at the peak of the Internet boom in 2001. He fled the country but was arrested in Thailand, then extradited and convicted in Germany, where he spent five months in jail after appearing on a popular late-night talk show to publicly defend himself, according to The New York Times.
Multiple photos posted online show him with beautiful women, jetliners and fancy automobiles while decked out in his trademark sunglasses and black garb. He flew helicopters and paid for the city of Aukland's 2010 New Year's fireworks celebration, according to the Wall Street Journal. Authorities reportedly seized more than a dozen luxury cars when they arrested him last week.
What do you think? Is Kim Dotcom up the creek without a paddle? Or can he wiggle out of this? Let us know in the comments.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method for creating elastic conductors made of carbon nanotubes, which will contribute to large-scale production of the material for use in a new generation of elastic electronic devices.
"We're optimistic that this new approach could lead to large-scale production of stretchable conductors, which would then expedite research and development of elastic electronic devices," says Dr. Yong Zhu, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State, and lead author of a paper describing the new technique.
Stretchable electronic devices would be both more resilient and able to conform to various shapes. Potential applications include devices that can be incorporated into clothing, implantable medical devices, and sensors that can be stretched over unmanned aerial vehicles.
To develop these stretchable electronics, one needs to create conductors that are elastic and will reliably transmit electric signals regardless of whether they are being stretched.
One way of making conductive materials more elastic is to "buckle" them. Zhu's new method buckles carbon nanotubes on the plane of the substrate. Think of the nanotubes as forming squiggly lines on a piece of paper, rather than an accordion shape that zigs up and down with only the bottom parts touching the sheet of paper. Zhu's team used carbon nanotubes because they are sturdy, stable, excellent conductors and can be aligned into ribbons.
The new process begins by placing aligned carbon nanotubes on an elastic substrate using a transfer printing process. The substrate is then stretched, which separates the nanotubes while maintaining their parallel alignment.
Strikingly, when the substrate is relaxed, the nanotubes do not return to their original positions. Instead, the nanotubes buckle creating what looks like a collection of parallel squiggly lines on a flat surface.
The carbon nanotubes are now elastic they can be stretched but they have retained their electrical properties.
The key benefit of this new method is that it will make manufacturing of elastic conductors significantly more efficient, because the carbon nanotubes can be applied before the substrate is stretched. This is compatible with existing manufacturing processes. "For example, roll-to-roll printing techniques could be adapted to take advantage of our new method," Zhu says.
A paper describing the new approach, "Buckling of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes as Stretchable Conductors: A New Manufacturing Strategy," was published online Jan. 23 in Advanced Materials. The paper was co-authored by Feng Xu, a Ph.D. student at NC State. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
In another new paper, Zhu's team has demonstrated for the first time that carbon nanotubes can be buckled using a technique in which the elastic substrate is stretched before the nanotubes are applied. The substrate is then relaxed, forcing the nanotubes to buckle out of plane. The nanotubes form a ribbon that curves up and down like the bellows of an accordion. This second technique has been used before with other materials. This second paper, "Wavy Ribbons of Carbon Nanotubes for Stretchable Conductors," was published Jan. 19 in Advanced Functional Materials.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method for creating elastic conductors made of carbon nanotubes, which will contribute to large-scale production of the material for use in a new generation of elastic electronic devices.
"We're optimistic that this new approach could lead to large-scale production of stretchable conductors, which would then expedite research and development of elastic electronic devices," says Dr. Yong Zhu, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State, and lead author of a paper describing the new technique.
Stretchable electronic devices would be both more resilient and able to conform to various shapes. Potential applications include devices that can be incorporated into clothing, implantable medical devices, and sensors that can be stretched over unmanned aerial vehicles.
To develop these stretchable electronics, one needs to create conductors that are elastic and will reliably transmit electric signals regardless of whether they are being stretched.
One way of making conductive materials more elastic is to "buckle" them. Zhu's new method buckles carbon nanotubes on the plane of the substrate. Think of the nanotubes as forming squiggly lines on a piece of paper, rather than an accordion shape that zigs up and down with only the bottom parts touching the sheet of paper. Zhu's team used carbon nanotubes because they are sturdy, stable, excellent conductors and can be aligned into ribbons.
The new process begins by placing aligned carbon nanotubes on an elastic substrate using a transfer printing process. The substrate is then stretched, which separates the nanotubes while maintaining their parallel alignment.
Strikingly, when the substrate is relaxed, the nanotubes do not return to their original positions. Instead, the nanotubes buckle creating what looks like a collection of parallel squiggly lines on a flat surface.
The carbon nanotubes are now elastic they can be stretched but they have retained their electrical properties.
The key benefit of this new method is that it will make manufacturing of elastic conductors significantly more efficient, because the carbon nanotubes can be applied before the substrate is stretched. This is compatible with existing manufacturing processes. "For example, roll-to-roll printing techniques could be adapted to take advantage of our new method," Zhu says.
A paper describing the new approach, "Buckling of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes as Stretchable Conductors: A New Manufacturing Strategy," was published online Jan. 23 in Advanced Materials. The paper was co-authored by Feng Xu, a Ph.D. student at NC State. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
In another new paper, Zhu's team has demonstrated for the first time that carbon nanotubes can be buckled using a technique in which the elastic substrate is stretched before the nanotubes are applied. The substrate is then relaxed, forcing the nanotubes to buckle out of plane. The nanotubes form a ribbon that curves up and down like the bellows of an accordion. This second technique has been used before with other materials. This second paper, "Wavy Ribbons of Carbon Nanotubes for Stretchable Conductors," was published Jan. 19 in Advanced Functional Materials.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says Newt Gingrich's freshly released contract with mortgage giant Freddie Mac shows that he was not merely a historian as he first suggested.
Romney is charging during Monday night's GOP debate that the former House speaker made millions as an "influence peddler."
Romney says that companies don't spend that much money for history lessons and that Gingrich's time since leaving office has been spent trading on his connections. Gingrich is adamant that he never lobbied.
Gingrich says that his consulting firms made that money, not him personally. He says his annual share was only about $35,000 and that the accusations he lobbied are defamatory and false.
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"Saturday Night Live" alumni Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon have reunited on the small screen once again for NBC's "Up All Night," and the "Bridesmaids" star says she couldn't be happier to be working with her former "SNL" mentor.
"I think I asked [Molly] and Will Ferrell how to read the cue cards because no one explained anything to me, because I came in at the end of my season," Maya explained to AccessHollywood.com's Laura Saltman of how she and Molly first became friends on the late night sketch show back in 2000, during a visit to the "Up All Night" set in Los Angeles on Friday. "It was really scary to come in like that and not know anyone.
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"It was like starting school with three weeks left and everybody knew where to sit in the cafeteria and I was really scared and overwhelmed and [Molly] was just so great and she said, 'This is how I do it,'" Maya recounted. "Molly really beats to her own drum. She doesn't do it like anybody else."
The hilarious pair teamed up again on Molly's show, "Kath & Kim," and again when Molly returned to host "Saturday Night Live" while Maya was still a castmember.
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"I was lucky enough to work with her when she came back to host the show and it was really neat to finally know how to do the show and then watch her do it," she said. "She's just so one of a kind... she's so good."
In addition to Maya's over-the-top daytime talk show host character on "Up All Night," fans of the comedienne are anxiously awaiting a sequel to her side-splittingly funny big screen hit, "Bridesmaids."
Unfortunately, the actress says has "no pull" when it comes to a possible follow-up film.
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"I'm not in charge of whether we do a sequel. I'm fine whatever anybody wants to do," she told Laura. "I love that group so much, so if we end up doing something together in a different way that would be great too."
Adding, "I think that by now it's established we loved working together and I can't imagine doing a movie like that without one of us -- that would just be bizarre and strange."
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Catch Maya and Molly, along with Christina Applegate and Will Arnett, when "Up All Night" airs at its new time - Thursdays at 9:30 PM on NBC.
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Two projects aim to harness renewable energy using cutting-edge technology and engineering. AltaRock's Susan Petty discusses plans to turn hot rocks at a dormant volcano into a source of power. University of Maine's Habib Dagher talks about the potential of deepwater floating wind turbines.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/01/20/145525010/innovative-projects-tap-renewable-energy-sources?ft=1&f=1007
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Jerry Bruckheimer's drama "Trooper" has been given the go-ahead for a pilot by CBS, an individual familiar with the order confirms to TheWrap.
The project, written by "Heroes" scribe Aron Eli Coleite, will chronicle the adventures of a common-sense mother who turns New York State trooper. Bruckheimer and Coleite are executive-producing, along with Jonathan Littman ("CSI"; "The Amazing Race"). Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Warner Bros. Television are producing.
"Trooper" joins the Sherlock Holmes revamp "Elementary," the legal drama "Baby Big Shot" and an as-yet-untitled comedy from "Muppets" writer Nick Stoller as recent pilot acquisitions by CBS.
Deadline first reported the news.
(Editing by Chris Michaud)
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BANGKOK ? One of the world's most endangered turtles has been released into a Cambodian river with a satellite transmitter attached to its shell to track how it will navigate through commercial fishing grounds and other man-made hazards.
The 75-pound (34-kilogram) southern river terrapin ? one of only about 200 adults remaining in the wild ? waddled into the Sre Ambel river in southwestern Cambodia this past week to the cheers of local residents and conservationists.
The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society said the female terrapin was given to the group last year instead of being sold to traffickers who have decimated the country's population of turtles and other species to cater to demand for exotic wildlife in China.
The southern river terrapin, once considered the sole property of Cambodia's kings, only survives in the wilds of Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia, the group said in a statement. The population in the Sre Ambel river is estimated at less than 10 nesting females.
But it said the terrapins there have an excellent chance of recovery because coastal mangrove forests in the region are among the largest and most pristine in Southeast Asia, spanning some 175 square miles (45,000 hectares).
The first-ever satellite monitoring of the species hopes to determine how the turtle will fare among fisherman as well as in areas threatened by sand mining and conversion of mangrove forests into shrimp farms.
A small population of the species was found in 2000 in Sre Ambel after being considered locally extinct for many years.
Following the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge in the mid-1970s which left the country devastated, poor rural dwellers scoured the forests for wildlife, much of which was sold to traders connected to China, where many wild animals ? from turtles to tigers ? are believed to possess medicinal and sex-enhancing properties.
The turtle project is being run by the Wildlife Conservation Society in cooperation with the Cambodian government and Wildlife Reserves Singapore, a zoological enterprise.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) ? EBay Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly profit as the e-commerce company saw solid growth in its online marketplaces and an increase in transactions processed through its PayPal electronic payments business.
The operator of the world's largest online marketplace reported fourth-quarter net income of $2 billion, or $1.51 a share, compared with $559 million, or 42 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 35 percent to $3.38 billion.
EBay recognized a big gain from the sale of its remaining stake in Skype during the fourth quarter. Excluding that and other items such as stock-based compensation expenses, profit was $788.6 million, or 60 cents a share, in the latest period, the company said.
Analysts, on average, expected eBay to earn 57 cents a share on revenue of $3.32 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
EBay is riding a strong e-commerce growth wave as shoppers buy more items online and through smart phones and tablet computers.
The company benefits from this trend because its online marketplaces charge fees on transactions and other activity. The company's PayPal unit takes a small cut of a rising volume of electronic payments processed on its network.
EBay shares were up slightly at $30.93 in after-hours trading. The stock closed at $30.34 earlier on Wednesday.
(Reporting By Alistair Barr; Editing by Andre Grenon, Bernard Orr)
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Newt Gingrich has surged to No. 2 before the South Carolina primary. But on Thursday night, ABC airs an interview with his second ex-wife, Marianne, who has previously said, 'I don?t think he should be' president.
Until now, Newt Gingrich?s troubled marital past has been airbrushed in the 2012 presidential race. If mentioned at all, it?s referred to as ?baggage.?
Skip to next paragraphThat changes with ABC?s decision to air an exclusive interview with the former speaker?s second ex-wife on Thursday night, just two days before the South Carolina primary.
In a clip of the interview, released in advance of the broadcast, Marianne Gingrich tells ?Nightline? that her then-husband ?asked me to have an open marriage ... and accept the fact that he has someone else in his life.?
?I refused,? she said, in her first television interview since the couple?s divorce in 2000.
The interview hits just as the Gingrich campaign is gaining on the front-runner, former Gov. Mitt Romney. With a lift from a strong performance in Monday?s GOP presidential debate, Mr. Gingrich has surged to No. 2, within 10 points of Mr. Romney. Adding to the momentum is Texas Gov. Rick Perry?s decision, announced Thursday, to pull out of the GOP presidential race and back Gingrich.
But as in Iowa, the surge could stall or be reversed by a spike of negatives. In Iowa, Gingrich?s momentum was derailed by $3.5 million in negative campaign ads by a ?super political-action committee? backing Romney.
The issue now is whether an interview with an ex-wife can have the same impact.
?People are looking for some non-Romney person, and Gingrich is emerging because of how well he did in the debate,? says David Woodard, a political science professor at Clemson University in South Carolina and author of ?The America That Reagan Built.? ?But he's got two hours with the ex-wife on national TV tonight, and there's nothing like a woman scorned to take the wind out of your sails.?
So far, the Gingrich campaign has avoided responding in kind. ?Intruding into family things that are more than a decade old is simply wrong,? said Gingrich, in an interview on NBC?s ?Today? show on Thursday morning.
In a letter to ABC executives, Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman, Gingrich?s daughters from his first marriage, criticized the network for opting to run such an interview at this time.
?ABC News or other campaigns may want to talk about the past, just days before an important primary election. But Newt is going to talk to the people of South Carolina about the future,? they wrote. ?We are confident this is the conversation the people of South Carolina are interested in having.?
?Things are crazy right now, but couldn?t be going better,? said Gingrich campaign manager Michael Krull, in a fundraising appeal released Thursday afternoon. ?Bottom line is, we?re surging and in position to win South Carolina.?
It all turns on how South Carolina GOP primary voters digest two events Thursday night: another debate, where Gingrich is expected again to do well, and the televised interview with his former wife, where he is not. Sixty percent of likely GOP primary voters in South Carolina describe themselves as socially conservative.
Marital infidelities, past or present, aren?t lethal in politics. But how candidates deal with them can be. Responding to rumors of infidelity, former Sen. Gary Hart challenged the press to ?follow me,? then dropped out of the 1988 presidential race less than a week later, after The Miami Herald substantiated the rumors. Sex-related scandals also clouded presidential bids of Sen. John Edwards (D) of North Carolina in 2008 and, most recently, GOP hopeful Herman Cain, who suspended his campaign on Dec. 3.
By contrast, Gingrich?s infidelities have been public record for decades. But the interview puts a new face on it ? and new details ? just as the candidate is vying for social conservative voters, who place importance on issues such as same-sex marriage and family values.
?There?s an element of hypocrisy with Mr. Gingrich that?s hard for people to take,? says Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). Weathering sex-related scandals are ?much harder when you have been claiming the mantle of family values,? she adds.
In a 1995 Vanity Fair interview, then-wife Marianne Gingrich quipped that if she didn?t support Gingrich?s decision to run for president, ?I just go on the air the next day and I undermine everything.... I don?t want him to be president, and I don?t think he should be.?
In a sense, Thursday night?s interview is an unexpected test of that boast. ?The Marianne Gingrich interview tonight may have an impact? on Newt Gingrich's candidacy, says Matt Towery, a former Gingrich campaign chairman and co-author of ?Mean Business: The Insider's Guide to Winning Any Political Election.?
?I knew Marianne, I knew their marriage, and I can tell you definitively it was broken from the start,? he adds. ?Both of them, without getting into specifics, have things they need to be really sorry about.?
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Today, Codecademy in conjunction with The White House announced a new program to educate the country's youth: Code Summer Plus. The announcement was made at an event held by Twilio and hosted by United States CTO Aneesh Chopra. There, Codecademy's founder Zach Sims explained that as part of Obama's larger Summer Jobs Plus initiative,?Code Summer Plus will offer a "condensed version of our curriculum and get [youth] on track to become engineers." Additionally, partners including Foursquare, Twilio, and any other company can work with Codecademy?to create lessons that will be distributed to the kids.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/L-hclkz3ldA/
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A woman I know -- let's call her Joan -- recently took a leave of absence from work in order to focus on her son's college search. "His choice of school will determine the outcome for at least the first part of his adult life," she explains. "I want him to give him every chance to succeed."
Joan isn't talking about Stanford vs. Princeton. Her son is a B student, on a good day, and would rather play video games than go out for varsity sports. At 16, "he hasn't shown much interest in college yet," Joan admits. But she's convinced this will change when he finds the right "fit."
Another parent of a 16-year-old, New York nonprofit executive Barbara Heisler, is also concerned with fit. "I care less about which school my daughter picks than that it offers (her) opportunities to figure out where she wants to make her mark, and support to help her get there."
Heisler adds, "Name schools don't impress me. Having worked in higher education for 15 years, I know that a bad fit at any level can disillusion an otherwise passionate learner."
For a humanities professor doing the college search with her daughter, it's all about options. "If my kid decides at age 18 that she wants to throw pots and sell them at craft fairs, I'd support that," she says. "But let her throw pots at Williams, so that if at age 32 she decides she wants to be a civil engineer, she will have the degree and network to succeed without being penalized for choices she made as a teenager."
Still others worry about return on investment. As one dad puts it, "I'm not going to pay $60,000 a year for a school no one's heard of." These parents want a name that will open doors when employers see it on a resume.
With one child immersed in the college search and a second on deck, I've shared many of these concerns. Furthermore, I believe that my own college choice -- made much more casually -- influenced my life in important and long-lasting ways.
Still, I can't help thinking that Joan is over the top. And I'm wondering if I'm right there with her.
Full disclosure: If there was a master's degree in Naviance, I would qualify. I have spent hours comparing "scattergrams" and compiling lists of potential schools for my daughter to visit. I am a power user on College Confidential, although I mostly lurk. I've read Princeton Review's Best 373 Colleges cover to cover.
I spent far less time learning about the school district where my children have spent the past twelve years. When we moved, I remember thinking, "If there's a problem, we can always pull them out."
Other potentially high-impact choices that didn't involve years of research included buying a house, choosing a pediatrician, and deciding on a religious community. Some of these worked out better than others. When mistakes were made, we changed direction as soon as we could.
So why does part of me believe that this one decision -- where my kids attend college -- will make or break their future lives?
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MONROVIA (Reuters) ? Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's main rival fled his party headquarters in the capital Monrovia Sunday when it was besieged by dozens of supporters angry at his decision to recognize her government after a disputed November election.
Winston Tubman, who had alleged vote-rigging in favor of Johnson-Sirleaf, made his decision before the Nobel peace laureate's inauguration for a second term Monday in front of regional leaders and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"The youths stormed the party's headquarters ... We had to get him out of the compound," said Acarous Gray, secretary-general of Tubman's CDC party.
An aide to Tubman said he was not injured but had relocated to a local hotel and would return when calm had returned.
Tubman and his running mate, former soccer star George Weah, boycotted the November 8 run-off election, allowing Johnson-Sirleaf to cruise home with 90.8 percent of the vote. Turnout was a mere 38 percent.
According to Gray, Tubman and Weah met Johnson-Sirleaf over the weekend about calling off a planned January 16 opposition demonstration and finally recognized her government, something CDC supporters said was a betrayal.
"This lady is not good ... (Tubman's) action has shown to us that he sold the party to President Johnson-Sirleaf," Sylvester Perry, one of the CDC supporters, said.
Tensions have been running high in Liberia since Johnson-Sirleaf's re-election. Late payment by the government for part-time jobs prompted thousands of youths to rampage through Monrovia on Dec 23, smashing the windows of parked cars.
Fourteen years after a civil war that left it in ruins and its people mired in poverty, Liberia is key to the fragile security of a region that includes Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast.
Johnson-Sirleaf, accused by critics of having little to show for her first term, has vowed to use her new term to cut poverty in half, create jobs, nurture double-digit economic growth and build up infrastructure and basic utilities.
(Reporting by Alphonso Toweh; Writing by Mark John; Editing by Ralph Gowling)
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One of Europe's largest cruise ships, the Costa Concordia, carrying 4200 passengers and crew, suffered a fatal and spectacular accident on Saturday. The vessel was holed on rocks off the Italian island of Giglio ? and then quickly keeled over, preventing lifeboats on its port side from being lowered and trapping some passengers and crew in the bowels of the ship. At 12:00?GMT today, six people had been confirmed dead and a further 15 were missing. So how stable and safe are these vertiginous floating multistorey hotels?
Why was this massive ship so close to shallow rock outcrops?
Mark Staunton-Lambert, technical director of the London-based Royal Institution of Naval Architects, says this is the main question investigators will want answering. GPS and sonar instruments should have warned of the danger, he says.
Why might the Costa Concordia's depth-sounding sonar have been ignored?
Like aviation, seafaring is in the midst of major computerisation, with bridges in modern ships like Costa Concordia becoming "glass cockpits". The transnational maritime trade union Nautilus International says that the technology at the heart of this ? the Electronic Charts Display and Information System (ECDIS), which marries GPS and seabed sonar data in one screen ? can be a problem. First, it says that the data on seabed obstacles can be out of date; second, the system generates too many alarms that can lead mariners to ignore them. "The ECDIS screens are only as good as the data that goes into them," says Nautilus spokesman Andrew Limington. "And there are major problems with their user interfaces and ergonomics."
So is that what went wrong on this occasion?
Possibly. The captain Franceso Schettino is under arrest and could face manslaughter charges, though he claims his electronic charts showed the rocks to be 100 to 150 metres away when his ship struck them. The BBC quotes his boss, Costa Cruises' chief executive Pier Luigi Foschi, saying the vessel ran aground after making an "unapproved, unauthorised" course deviation.
The ship keeled over pretty quickly. It's 13 storeys high yet only 8.2 metres of the vessel sit below the waterline. How can that be stable?
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) specifies the stability that ships must have ? and if a vessel complies with those rules it should be fine, says Staunton-Lambert. All the heavy stuff ? the engines, water ballast tanks and fuel oil ? are kept low in the hull, and the tall accommodation blocks above are largely empty space peppered with much lighter contents: people and furniture. "These cruise ships may seem high," says Staunton-Lambert. "But the trick is to ensure that the weight distribution is correct, focusing on where the centre of gravity is."
How is the degree of stability of such a ship decided?
The IMO regulations specify how quickly the vessel must return to upright when it has been upset by freak weather, a grounding or a collision ? and is has to do this even if damaged.
What is done to certify that a ship is stable and properly rights itself?
When a vessel is near completion in a shipyard, tests are undertaken in which massive steel weights or tanks full of water are moved from one side of the ship to the other while the boat is in the water. "This centre-of-gravity shifting is done to check that the ship moves only to angles theoretically predicted on paper, in computer designs and in simulations," says Staunton-Lambert. Damage to watertight compartments is also simulated, he adds, with often hundreds of cases of such damage considered.
And this vessel will have passed such tests?
Yes, it must have. The vessel would not have been been given clearance to sail unless it complied with all stability regulations, so the fact it tipped over so quickly is alarming.
So what went wrong?
"The question investigators have to ask now is: how long did Costa Concordia stay upright? And how soon did it take that large angle of heel? That's what people will be concerned with ? stability is meant to give the crew time to get people off in an orderly manner," says Staunton-Lambert.
Why was the evacuation, so close to land, seemingly so chaotic?
They lost one side of the ship for lifeboat launches when the ship listed so much the boats could not be lowered into the water. Such ships are not designed to launch lifeboats at high angles ? one reason, says Staunton-Lambert, why there are often twice as many lifeboat and life-raft places on a ship as passengers and crew.
Are evacuation tests involving real people undertaken ? like those aircraft makers have to undertake?
No ? the sheer number of people involved would make it difficult to do that for every ship ? but there has to be a solid plan to get people off within an hour of an incident if the ship cannot get to port. This 1-hour ruling dates back to the Titanic inquiry a century ago. It's hard to meet, but as New Scientist reported in 2001, efforts to make physical simulators that improve evacuation procedures are under way.
What else don't we know?
There was a power outage during the incident. Investigators do not know what caused it, how long it lasted, nor what effect it may have had on the crew's reliance on the ECDIS electronic navigation data.
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CARSON, Calif. - Los Angeles Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez will be out seven to nine months after undergoing surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left knee.
Gonzalez had surgery Friday in Los Angeles.
The injury leaves the Galaxy without the player voted MLS' top defender last season after he helped Los Angeles claim the league title. The 23-year-old Gonzalez is the youngest player to win the award.
Gonzalez was injured while on loan to FC Nuremberg of the Bundesliga last week, getting hurt on his first day of training with the club on a trip to Turkey.
Gonzalez has twice been selected to MLS' Best XI while starting 87 games over the past three seasons with the Galaxy.
Gonzalez will begin rehabilitation later this month. Los Angeles opens defense of its title in March.
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Italian Premier Mario Monti attends a debate at the lower chamber in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. Monti says he would support a new tax on financial transactions so long as it applies to the European Union as a whole. Speaking after meeting Wednesday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Monti indicated his preference for such a tax for the whole 27-nation bloc, rather than just the 17 countries that use the euro as their currency. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Italian Premier Mario Monti attends a debate at the lower chamber in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. Monti says he would support a new tax on financial transactions so long as it applies to the European Union as a whole. Speaking after meeting Wednesday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Monti indicated his preference for such a tax for the whole 27-nation bloc, rather than just the 17 countries that use the euro as their currency. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
ROME (AP) ? Italy saw its borrowing costs drop for a second day in a row Friday as it easily raised euro4.75 billion ($6.05 billion) in a bond auction that indicated improved investor confidence in the country's financial future and the 17 countries that use the euro.
The auction caps a rare week of good news in Europe, which on Thursday saw successful bond auctions in Spain and Italy and upbeat comments from the European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi. He noted "tentative signs of stabilization" in the region's economy and said the ECB had prevented a serious credit contraction in the eurozone with a massive injection of cheap funds in December.
However, investors and markets recognize that, while some progress has been made this week, a long haul to full European economic recovery lies ahead.
Investors demanded an interest rate of 4.83 percent to lend Italy three-year money, down from an average rate of 5.62 percent in the previous auction and far lower than the 7.89 percent in November, when the country's financial crisis was most acute.
While Italy paid a slightly higher rate for bonds maturing in 2018 which were also sold in Friday's auction, demand was between 1.2 percent and 2.2 percent higher than what was on offer.
The results were not as strong as those of bond auctions the previous day, when Italy raised euro12 billion ($15 million) and Spain saw huge demand for its own debt sale.
"Overall, it underscores that while all the auctions in the eurozone have been battle victories, the war is a long way from being resolved (either way)," said Marc Ostwald, strategist at Monument Securities. "These euro area auctions will continue to present themselves as market risk events for a very protracted period."
Italy's euro1.9 trillion ($2.42 trillion) in government debt and heavy borrowing needs this year have made it a focal point of the European debt crisis. Fitch Ratings Agency, which has said it would consider whether to downgrade Italy's credit rating by the end of the month, estimates the country needs to borrow euro360 billion ($458 billion) this year.
Italy has passed austerity measures and is on a structural reform course that Premier Mario Monti claims should bring down Italy's high bond yields, which he says are no longer warranted.
Analysts have said the successful recent bond auctions were at least in part the work of the ECB, which has inundated banks with cheap loans, giving them ready cash that at least some appear to be using to buy higher-yielding short-term government bonds.
Some 523 banks took euro489 billion in credit for up to three years at a current interest cost of 1 percent.
Banks may also be buying up government bonds to use as collateral so they can tap another unlimited offering of three-year ECB credit to banks that is to be handed out on Feb. 29.
That factor could fade after the February credit allotment, however, said Rabobank analyst Jane Foley.
But use of the 3-year ECB loan money could mean that "the implications are more positive for the periphery and successful peripheral debt issuance is likely to last longer," she said.
Peter Schaffrik, head of European rates strategy for RBC Capital Markets, said the ECB had helped scale back fears prevalent late last year of an imminent European financial collapse.
"A good deal of credit should be assigned to the ECB, which has been, and will be, we argue, supporting the European financial system, its sovereigns, and to some degrees the European economies via significant liquidity injections and lower rates," Schaffrik wrote in a note to investors.
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David McHugh in Frankfurt contributed.
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 13, 2012) ? A constellation of defective proteins suspected in causing a malfunction in the body's ability to repair its own DNA could be the link scientists need to prove a new class of drugs will be effective in treating a broad range of ovarian cancer patients, an Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute study found.
These research results, published this week in PLoS ONE, have prompted additional exploration into whether the patient population included in clinical trials for drugs that target the enzyme poly ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) should be expanded. Several forms of cancer are more dependent on PARP for their growth than regular cells, which means that targeting these enzymes when they go haywire is a potentially effective way to treat ovarian cancer. Currently PARP inhibitors are being tested with patients who have two types of malfunctioning proteins, BRCA1 or BRCA2. But, the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute study of additional proteins, beyond BRCA proteins, suggests that they too are playing a role in driving ovarian cancer.
Tapping into the potential of PARP inhibitors could change the dynamics of ovarian cancer treatment. There has not been a substantial increase in treatment options for ovarian cancer in the past two decades, said Tanja Pejovic, M.D., Ph.D., gynecologic oncologist at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. Pejovic, who led the study of these additional defective proteins, added that the results provide evidence that further research into the role of multiple proteins is warranted.
Only about 10 to 15 percent of women with ovarian cancer have BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 mutations. Pejovic's study of 186 patients with nonhereditary cancer found that 41 percent who had an early recurrence of the disease also had abnormal levels of the other proteins tracked. In contrast, only 19.5 percent of patients who hadn't yet had a recurrence of the disease in three years had abnormal levels of these proteins.
"If we are able to identify the proteins that differentiate these patients at risk for early recurrence, this would open up a new direction in ovarian cancer treatment," Pejovic said.
The study -- which was supported by the Sherie Hildreth Ovarian Cancer (SHOC) Foundation -- focused on proteins that are supposed to assist cells in repairing harmful breaks in DNA strands, a process called homologous recombination (HR). The malfunctioning of HR is not well understood in ovarian cancers where there is no family history of the disease. However, there is evidence that these proteins influence a patient's ability to respond to drugs and their survival rates after treatment.
Ovarian cancer is the second most common gynecologic cancer and the most common cause of death among women with a gynecologic cancer. About 21,000 ovarian cancer cases are diagnosed annually and about 14,000 deaths occur each year from the disease.
The OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, which helped pioneer the field of personalized cancer medicine, is committed to research that identifies the specific mutations driving each individual patient's cancer. Other researchers at the Knight Cancer Institute who contributed to the study are: Weiya Z. Wysham, M.D.; Hong Li, M.S., M.D.; Laura Hays, Ph.D.; Jay Wright; Nupur Pande, Ph.D.; and Maureen Hoatlin, Ph.D.
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WEDDINGTON, NC (WBTV) - A major golf tournament which was slated to be played in Ohio is apparently moving to Union County, a webpage for the tournament revealed.
According to the Welcome page for the 2012 Chiquita Classic, the Nationwide Tour event will be played at The Club at Longview, which is in Weddington, North Carolina.
The webpage, which is currently cloaked on the Chiquita Classic site, was discovered by WBTV.
"It is with excitement that I write to you about our partnership with the PGA Tour and our title sponsorship of the 2012 Chiquita Classic at The Club at Longview," Chiquita Chairman & CEO Fernando Aguirre wrote on the site. "This is a fantastic opportunity to once again host an event of this caliber in our new hometown."?
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In November 2011, Chiquita announced that it was moving its global corporate headquarters from Cincinnati to Charlotte. Chiquita expects to create more than 400 jobs over the next three years and invest $14.1 million in Mecklenburg County.
The Chiquita Classic was started in 2010 and has been played at TPC River's Bend, a private golf club located in Maineville, Ohio.
The tournament is a part of the Nationwide Tour, which is part of the PGA Tour,?and was played for the first time in July 2010. The 2011 purse was $550,000.
The 2010 inaugural tournament was four rounds and was aired internationally including China, Japan, Korea and parts of Latin America and Europe.
"We are thrilled that the net proceeds of the event will benefit charities in our regional community; nonprofit organizations receive 100 percent of money from ticket sales," Aguirre's letter on the website stated. "Over the past two years we were able to jointly raise more than $265,000 for local charities."
According to the Nationwide Tour's website, the Chiquita Classic was initially slated to be held Thursday, September 27 through Sunday, September 30, 2012.
A press conference is scheduled for Wednesday morning at The Club at Longview, where the PGA Tour promises "an important announcement about professional golf in Charlotte."
"I invite you to not only experience the excitement on the course, but to also get an exclusive sneak peek at some Chiquita innovations we'll be bringing to market in 2012," Aguirre's statement said.
The 2012 Chiquita Classic will become the third Nationwide Tour tournament to be played in the Carolinas, including the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by SYNNEX Corporation in Greenville, South Carolina and The Rex Hospital Open in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Charlotte already hosts the top-level PGA Tour with an annual event, the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club. The current agreement for the Wells Fargo-sponsored tournament runs through 2014.
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Not content with claims that bears have been crying woefully and magpies are hovering mournfully, North Korean propagandists continue to outdo themselves in building a cult of personality around new leader Kim Jong Un, the son of, and heir to, recently departed dictator Kim Jong Il.
The latest occasion for some unashamed "great successor" worship: the young man (nobody's sure quite how young) reportedly had a birthday Jan 8, so it presented the ideal moment to air a documentary -- excerpts above -- hailing him as "the genius among the geniuses" in military strategy. In case there are any doubts, Kim's seen climbing inside a tank and riding a strapping gray horse.
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The state TV documentary also lauded Kim Jong Un's "excellent military leadership" and showed him giving orders to troops in artillery, navy and air force units. "The respected comrade Kim Jong Un is perfectly versed in all military strategies and...displays excellent military leadership," said the film, over images of soldiers jumping in joy at seeing him on field trips, according to the AFP.
Other snippets to emerge about North Korea's new dictator include that he wrote his first thesis on military strategy at the age of 16, after sleeping only three to four hours a night and often skipping meals to study. Perhaps most worrying, though, is that the Associated Press reports the footage also shows Kim vowing in 2009 to wage war if the country's enemies shot down its long-range rocket.
Meanwhile, it appears Kim's Jan. 8 birthday -- pinpointed using testimonies from a Japanese chef who worked for the family, defectors and his childhood friends at a Swiss school where he briefly studied as a teenager -- was not a national holiday like those of his father and grandfather, according to the Telegraph. Yang Moo-jin, from the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, told the Korea Times newspaper that the date might not have been celebrated because the country is supposedly still in mourning for Kim Jong Il, making a celebration inappropriate.
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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Monday said it was reopening an offshore voluntary disclosure program for U.S. taxpayers who have evaded taxes by hiding money in secret bank accounts.
Two previous IRS programs, which ran in 2009 and 2011, brought in more than $4.4 billion in taxes from tens of thousands of tax evaders, said the tax collection agency.
"This new program makes good sense for taxpayers still hiding assets overseas and for the nation's tax system," said IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman in a statement.
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Computerworld - Samsung and Verizon Wireless announced the Galaxy Tab 7.7 at CES to run on the carrier's 4G LTE network.
The 7.7 is the thinnest 4G LTE tablet on the market, at 7.9 mm wide (just under half an inch). It features a 1280-by-800-pixel resolution screen, and weighs about 12 ounces.
The new tablet will available in the coming weeks, the carrier said, without offering a specific release date. It runs Android 3.2, has 16GB of internal storage, runs on a 1.4GHz dual-core processor and features an HTML5 Web browser.
Pricing was not announced.
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LOS ANGELES ? U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly, who has represented California's Ventura County for 25 years, said Saturday he won't seek re-election and will retire at the end of the current Congress.
New maps approved last year by the state's independent redistricting commission had placed the 67-year-old Gallegly in the same district as Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, a fellow Republican who is chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
Gallegly could have taken on McKeon or tried to win an adjacent district that is decidedly more Democratic and Latino.
Instead, he announced in a written statement that he and his wife are looking forward to spending more time with their family and friends.
"Working with our country's leadership on a daily basis in striving to move toward a better, stronger and more vibrant America for more than two decades has been a dream come true," Gallegly said. "The decision to step aside at this time did not come lightly."
A former real estate broker, Gallegly was elected to Simi Valley's City Council in 1979 and later became the city's mayor. He ran for Congress in 1986 and was re-elected 12 times. He now serves as the chairman the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement and as vice chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee,
Gallegly said last year he didn't understand the logic behind some of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission's moves in determining which communities landed in which districts.
Voters approved the citizen-led commission to create California's legislative and congressional districts in response to decades of gerrymandering by lawmakers that preserved districts for incumbents and the parties.
"As bad as the process has been in the past, at least the politicians that were drawing the lines had to stand up and be accountable for them," Gallegly said in June. "At this point, the commissioners don't."
Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, praised Gallegly's service on Capitol Hill.
"Elton has helped make America safer through his tireless work for national security, border security, and support for the military and veterans in his district and around the world," he said in a statement.
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