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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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Bomb damages Panathinaikos fan club in Greece
Associated Press Sports
updated 12:35 p.m. ET Jan. 30, 2012
PATRAS, Greece (AP) -Greek police say an improvised explosive device has exploded outside a Panathinaikos fan club, causing extensive damage but no injuries.
A police statement on Monday says the pre-dawn explosion in the southern city of Patras smashed windows in surrounding homes and shops and severely damaged five parked cars.
Police are investigating the possible involvement of rival fans.
Panathinaikos currently leads the Greek league.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
RINO: 'Denial' a cancer on conservatism | JunkScience.com
More projection from the alarmists.
RINO Mike Stafford writes:
? The abuse directed at climate researchers sheds light on a tragic political truth ? a cancer is consuming the soul of American conservatism. Conservatism is taking on many of the hallmarks of a cult ? one in which information and doctrine are received, without question, from recognized authority figures or sources, and in which dissent cannot be tolerated. The conservative cult views the political process in apocalyptic terms, and sees its opponents as demonically evil. Sadly, climate denial is a key pillar in this cult?s ideology?
Stafford is the Delaware coordinator for Republicans for Environmental Protection.
But as Steve Milloy asked in a September 2010 Washington Times op-ed:
Just who are the Republicans against environmental protection?
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Celebrity Birthdays January 29: Oprah Winfrey, Sara Gilbert, Heather Graham & More!
Happy Sunday, readers! I hope you all are having a fabulous weekend! Sigh, it’s almost over and the work week begins yet again. In today’s edition of celebrity birthdays, “Mrs. Robinson” is 72, “Magnum, P.I.” is 67 and “Mary Ellen Walton” is 54. Guess who? Find out below! Happy Birthday, Oprah Winfrey! The talk show host is 58 years old today. Winfrey, as you can see in the pic above, recently took a trip to India (her first) and visited the Taj Mahal. She was there for five days and shot some scenes for her new show, “Next Chapter”. She took to Twitter yesterday and expressed her sentiments, “Happy Saturday tweeps. Great to travel, but even greater to back in beautiful USA. India experience was AWEsome. Expands your humanity.” In other Oprah news, rumor has it that she has been chosen by Beyonce and Jay-Z as their daughter’s godmother. Oh Blue Ivy, what a lucky little girl you are! Happy Birthday, Sara Gilbert! The former “Roseanne” star is 37 years old today. Yep, Darlene Conner is all grown up! You can currently catch her as one of the co-hosts on CBS’ “The Talk”, where she also serves as Executive Producer. [...]
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
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Source: http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/the-legal-investigator-should-not-rely-upon-pretext-or-subterfuge/
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Dancing with wolves -- prestigious award goes to a scientist at the Vetmeduni Vienna
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University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna
The American Psychological Association, the largest psychological society in the world, will grant its 2012 "Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology" to Dr Friederike Range of the Messerli Research Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (Vetmeduni Vienna). The award is recognition of Range's ground-breaking research on animal cognition and will be made in August 2012 at a ceremony in Orlando, Florida. The American Psychological Association grants the award each year to excellent young scientists whose work has already contributed substantially to the field of psychology.
Animal behaviour and cognition
From the very start of her scientific career, Range's research has focused on animal behaviour and cognition, with her most recent work addressing social and physical cognition in dogs and wolves. Her results have invariably been thought-provoking and frequently spectacular. As an example, she showed by means of sophisticated tests that dogs have some form of sense of fairness. In a further study, she and her colleagues discovered that male and female dogs perceive some features of their environments in a different way. The majority of Range's work with dogs has been undertaken in the so-called Clever Dog Lab in Vienna, while her work on wolves has been performed at the Wolf Science Center in Ernstbrunn, Lower Austria. Range is a co-founder of both of these research institutes. Nevertheless, her research has not been restricted to dogs: she has also studied various species of monkeys as well as ravens, keas and even man.
International career
Friederike Range studied at the University of Bayreuth, where her diploma work related to the social behaviour of the sooty mangabey, a primate species found in West African forests. For her doctoral project she went to the University of Pennsylvania, where the distinguished behavioural scientists Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney helped her continue her investigations. She then spent six months at the Konrad Lorenz Research Station in Grnau, Upper Austria, studying the intelligence and social behaviour of corvids. In 2005 she moved to Ludwig Huber's group at the Department of Cognitive Biology in the University of Vienna. In this period she also started to work with dogs and wolves. On 1 September 2011 Range and Huber moved together to the new Messerli Research Institute at the Vetmeduni Vienna, where she is continuing her successful work on animal behavior and cognition.
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Clever Dog Lab: http://www.cleverdoglab.at/
Wolf Science Center: http://www.wolfscience.at
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Messerli Research Institute, Vetmeduni Vienna
M +43 676 930 8094
E freiderike.range@vetmeduni.ac.at
Alternative contact
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Messerli Research Institute, Vetmeduni Vienna
T +43 1 25077-2656
E ludwig.huber@vetmeduni.ac.at
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Public release date: 27-Jan-2012[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Dr. Friederike Range
freiderike.range@vetmeduni.ac.at
43-676-930-8094
University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna
The American Psychological Association, the largest psychological society in the world, will grant its 2012 "Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology" to Dr Friederike Range of the Messerli Research Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (Vetmeduni Vienna). The award is recognition of Range's ground-breaking research on animal cognition and will be made in August 2012 at a ceremony in Orlando, Florida. The American Psychological Association grants the award each year to excellent young scientists whose work has already contributed substantially to the field of psychology.
Animal behaviour and cognition
From the very start of her scientific career, Range's research has focused on animal behaviour and cognition, with her most recent work addressing social and physical cognition in dogs and wolves. Her results have invariably been thought-provoking and frequently spectacular. As an example, she showed by means of sophisticated tests that dogs have some form of sense of fairness. In a further study, she and her colleagues discovered that male and female dogs perceive some features of their environments in a different way. The majority of Range's work with dogs has been undertaken in the so-called Clever Dog Lab in Vienna, while her work on wolves has been performed at the Wolf Science Center in Ernstbrunn, Lower Austria. Range is a co-founder of both of these research institutes. Nevertheless, her research has not been restricted to dogs: she has also studied various species of monkeys as well as ravens, keas and even man.
International career
Friederike Range studied at the University of Bayreuth, where her diploma work related to the social behaviour of the sooty mangabey, a primate species found in West African forests. For her doctoral project she went to the University of Pennsylvania, where the distinguished behavioural scientists Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney helped her continue her investigations. She then spent six months at the Konrad Lorenz Research Station in Grnau, Upper Austria, studying the intelligence and social behaviour of corvids. In 2005 she moved to Ludwig Huber's group at the Department of Cognitive Biology in the University of Vienna. In this period she also started to work with dogs and wolves. On 1 September 2011 Range and Huber moved together to the new Messerli Research Institute at the Vetmeduni Vienna, where she is continuing her successful work on animal behavior and cognition.
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Links
American Psychological Association: http://www.apa.org
Clever Dog Lab: http://www.cleverdoglab.at/
Wolf Science Center: http://www.wolfscience.at
Contact
Dr Friederike Range (currently on maternity leave)
Messerli Research Institute, Vetmeduni Vienna
M +43 676 930 8094
E freiderike.range@vetmeduni.ac.at
Alternative contact
Prof Ludwig Huber
Messerli Research Institute, Vetmeduni Vienna
T +43 1 25077-2656
E ludwig.huber@vetmeduni.ac.at
Released by
Mag. Klaus Wassermann
T +43 1 25077-1153
E klaus.wassermann@vetmeduni.ac.at
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Hacker group Anonymous targets Mexican websites (Reuters)
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ? The activist hacker group Anonymous attacked three Mexican government websites on Friday in protest at a proposed bill that seeks to toughen local laws about online file-sharing.
The affected sites belong to the Interior Ministry, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. The homepage of the Interior Ministry remained offline by mid-afternoon.
"We demand the Mexican government not continue with this law because they will take away our freedom of speech and file sharing," Anonymous said in a video posted on Youtube ahead of Friday's action.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Thursday's College Basketball
EAST
Becker 60, Regis 49
Dominican (NY) 76, Nyack 72
Fairleigh Dickinson 66, Bryant 63
Goldey Beacom 65, Philadelphia 54
Lehigh 71, Navy 60
Monmouth (NJ) 58, CCSU 56, OT
Quinnipiac 69, Mount St. Mary's 66, OT
Rider 90, St. Peter's 55
Robert Morris 75, LIU 66
St. Francis (NY) 75, St. Francis (Pa.) 65
Wagner 73, Sacred Heart 54
SOUTH
Asbury 78, Indiana-Southeast 75
Bellarmine 67, S. Indiana 53
Belmont Abbey 82, North Greenville 71
Campbellsville 68, Shawnee St. 57
Chowan 80, Elizabeth City St. 72
Claflin 77, Benedict 58
Coastal Carolina 52, Presbyterian 49
Davidson 64, Chattanooga 63
Elon 71, W. Carolina 63
FAU 67, W. Kentucky 66
Florida 64, Mississippi 60
Furman 69, Coll. of Charleston 63
Gardner-Webb 78, Campbell 72
Jacksonville St. 63, E. Illinois 45
James Madison 59, William & Mary 47
Kentucky Wesleyan 74, N. Kentucky 57
King (Tenn.) 85, Limestone 75
LeMoyne-Owen 73, Fort Valley St. 68
Louisiana Tech 59, Fresno St. 58
Loyola NO 72, William Carey 60
Middle Tennessee 71, Troy 58
Miles 60, Albany (Ga.) 56
Mobile 79, Spring Hill 73
North Carolina 74, NC State 55
Pikeville 67, Cumberlands 56
Samford 57, Georgia Southern 55
Shaw 80, Livingstone 77, OT
St. Catharine 93, Georgetown (Ky.) 87, OT
Tennessee St. 72, UT-Martin 59
Tennessee Tech 82, E. Kentucky 65
Texas-Dallas 82, Centenary 58
UNC Asheville 90, High Point 70
UNC Greensboro 77, Appalachian St. 73, OT
Union (Tenn.) 67, Trevecca Nazarene 60
VMI 65, Radford 60
Virginia 66, Boston College 49
Winthrop 65, Liberty 63
Wofford 62, The Citadel 55
Young Harris 93, Tenn. Temple 86
MIDWEST
Drury 79, William Jewell 56
Findlay 80, Lake Erie 55
Green Bay 75, Valparaiso 60
Hillsdale 89, N. Michigan 41
IPFW 75, N. Dakota St. 66
Indiana-East 103, Cincinnati Christian 89
Lake Superior St. 71, Ohio Dominican 66
Lakeland 94, Maranatha Baptist 65
Michigan Tech 66, Northwood (Mich.) 62
Milwaukee 53, Butler 42
Missouri Valley 67, Culver-Stockton 46
Nebraska 79, Iowa 73
North Dakota 80, NJIT 63
Oakland 92, S. Dakota St. 87
Oklahoma Christian 64, Oklahoma City 63
SE Missouri 65, Austin Peay 60
St. Joseph's (Ind.) 94, Wis.-Parkside 85
Tiffin 84, Saginaw Valley St. 77
Wayne (Mich.) 79, Ashland 71
Wisconsin 57, Indiana 50
SOUTHWEST
Abilene Christian 88, Paul Quinn 70
Mary Hardin-Baylor 83, Howard Payne 62
McMurry 115, Schreiner 111, OT
Oral Roberts 97, South Dakota 64
S. Nazarene 75, Wayland Baptist 62
UALR 75, South Alabama 50
FAR WEST
Arizona 85, Washington St. 61
Cal St.-Fullerton 70, CS Northridge 68
Colorado 74, Southern Cal 50
Denver 66, Arkansas St. 52
Gonzaga 74, Portland 62
Idaho 74, San Jose St. 66
Idaho St. 99, N. Colorado 94, 2OT
Long Beach St. 77, UC Riverside 70, OT
Montana 74, E. Washington 60
Montana St. 70, Portland St. 65
Montana St.-Billings 79, W. Oregon 57
Nevada 68, New Mexico St. 60
Pacific 61, Cal Poly 51
S. Utah 57, UMKC 47
Saint Mary's (Cal) 71, Loyola Marymount 64
San Diego 65, Pepperdine 56
San Francisco 90, Santa Clara 77
UC Santa Barbara 86, UC Davis 59
UCLA 76, Utah 49
Utah St. 77, Hawaii 72
Utah Valley 65, Chicago St. 56
Washington 60, Arizona St. 54
Weber St. 75, Sacramento St. 60
Source: http://www.modbee.com/2012/01/26/2043439/thursdays-college-basketball.html
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Celeb birthdays for the week of Jan. 29-Feb. 4 (omg!)
Jan. 29: Actor-singer Noel Harrison is 78. Actress Katharine Ross is 72. Actor Tom Selleck is 67. Singer Bettye LaVette is 66. Actor Marc Singer is 64. Actress Ann Jillian is 62. Drummer Tommy Ramone of The Ramones is 60. Drummer Louie Perez of Los Lobos is 59. Singer Charlie Wilson of The Gap Band is 59. Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey is 58. Country singer Irlene Mandrell is 56. Actress Diane Delano ("The Ellen Show," ''Northern Exposure") is 55. Actress Judy Norton Taylor ("The Waltons") is 54. Guitarist Johnny Spampinato (NRBQ) is 53. Drummer David Baynton-Power of James is 51. Bassist Eddie Jackson of Queensryche is 51. Actor Nicholas Turturro is 50. Singer-guitarist Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera is 48. Director-actor Ed Burns is 44. Actress Heather Graham is 42. Actor Sharif Atkins is 37. Actress Sara Gilbert is 37. Actor Andrew Keegan ("Party of Five") is 33. Guitarist Jonny Lang is 31.
Jan. 30: Actor Gene Hackman is 82. Actress Tammy Grimes is 78. Actress Vanessa Redgrave is 75. Country singer Jeanne Pruett is 75. Country singer Norma Jean is 74. Singer Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship is 70. Horn player William King of The Commodores is 63. Musician Phil Collins is 61. Actor Charles S. Dutton ("Roc") is 61. Comedian Brett Butler ("Grace Under Fire") is 54. Singer Jody Watley is 53. Country singer Tammy Cochran is 40. Actor Christian Bale is 38. Singer Josh Kelley is 32. Actor Wilmer Valderrama is 32. Actor Jake Thomas ("Lizzie McGuire," ''AI") is 22.
Jan. 31: Actress Carol Channing is 91. Actor Stuart Margolin ("The Rockford Files") is 72. Actress Jessica Walter ("Arrested Development") is 71. Actor Glynn Turman ("The Wire," ''A Different World") is 66. Singer Harry Wayne Casey of KC and the Sunshine Band is 61. Singer Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols is 56. Actor Anthony LaPaglia is 53. Actress Kelly Lynch is 53. Singer-guitarist Lloyd Cole is 51. Guitarist Jeff Hanneman of Slayer is 48. Bassist Al Jaworski of Jesus Jones is 46. Actress Minnie Driver is 42. Actress Portia de Rossi is 39. Actress Kerry Washington ("Ray") is 35. Singer Justin Timberlake is 31.
Feb. 1: Actor Stuart Whitman is 84. Actor-comedian Garrett Morris is 75. Singer Don Everly of The Everly Brothers is 75. Singer Ray Sawyer of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show is 75. Actor Sherman Hemsley is 74. Jazz pianist Joe Sample is 73. Bluegrass singer Del McCoury is 73. Actor-writer-director Terry Jones (Monty Python) is 70. Guitarist Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is 62. Actor-writer-producer Billy Mumy ("Lost in Space") is 58. Singer Exene Cervenka of X is 56. Keyboardist Dwayne Dupuy of Ricochet is 47. Actress Sherilyn Fenn is 47. Singer Lisa Marie Presley is 44. Comedian Pauly Shore is 44. Drummer Patrick Wilson of Weezer is 43. Actor Michael C. Hall is 41. Rapper Big Boi of Outkast is 37. TV personality Lauren Conrad is 26.
Feb. 2: Actress Elaine Stritch is 87. Actor Robert Mandan ("Soap," ''Three's a Crowd") is 80. Comedian Tom Smothers is 75. Singer Graham Nash is 70. Actor Bo Hopkins is 70. Singer Howard Bellamy of the Bellamy Brothers is 66. TV chef Ina Garten ("Barefoot Contessa") is 64. Actor Brent Spiner ("Star Trek: The Next Generation") is 63. Bassist Ross Valory of Journey is 63. Model Christie Brinkley is 58. Actor Michael Talbott ("Miami Vice") is 57. Actress Kim Zimmer ("Guiding Light") is 57. Bassist Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots is 46. Actress Jennifer Westfeldt ("Kissing Jessica Stein") is 42. Rapper T-Mo (Goodie Mob) is 40. Actress Marissa Jaret Winokur is 39. Singer Shakira is 35.
Feb. 3: Comedian Shelley Berman is 87. Actress Blythe Danner is 69. Singer Dennis Edwards (The Temptations) is 69. Guitarist Dave Davies of The Kinks is 65. Singer Melanie is 65. Actress Morgan Fairchild is 62. Actor Nathan Lane is 56. Guitarist Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth is 56. Actor Thomas Calabro ("Melrose Place") is 53. Actress Michele Greene ("L.A. Law") is 50. Country singer Matraca Berg is 48. Actress Maura Tierney ("ER," ''NewsRadio") is 47. Singer Daddy Yankee is 36. Singer Jessica Harp (The Wreckers) is 30. Rapper Sean Kingston is 22.
Feb. 4: Actor Conrad Bain ("Diff'rent Strokes") is 89. Comedian David Brenner is 76. Actor Gary Conway ("Burke's Law") is 76. Drummer John Steel of The Animals is 71. Singer Florence LaRue of the Fifth Dimension is 68. Singer Alice Cooper is 64. Actor Michael Beck is 63. Actress Lisa Eichhorn is 60. Singer Tim Booth of James is 52. Country singer Clint Black is 50. Guitarist Noodles of The Offspring is 49. Country bassist Dave Buchanan of Yankee Grey is 46. Bassist Rick Burch of Jimmy Eat World is 37. Singer Natalie Imbruglia is 37. Rapper Cam'ron is 36. Singer Gavin DeGraw is 35.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Spectacular Northern Lights From Solar Storm Wow Skywatchers (SPACE.com)
A dazzling display of auroras lit up the far northern skies Tuesday night (Jan. 24) in a supercharged light show captured on camera by skywatchers around the world.
"I was screaming from excitement like a small kid at Christmas," said skywatcher Jens Buchmann, who watched the northern lights dance across the sky from Kiruna, Sweden.
The northern lights show was sparked by an intense solar flare that erupted from the sun late Sunday (Jan. 22). The flare unleashed a wave of charged particles, triggering the strongest solar radiation storm since 2005, NASA scientists said, adding that some minor satellite interference was possible.
Buchmann and a friend booked a last-minute flight from Stockholm to Kiruna after hearing about the solar storm. They braved freezing temperatures of about minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 30 degrees Celsius) in order to see the aurora display, moving inside only to thaw off before heading out again. Their photos show wispy green ribbons of energy rippling across the sky over a snow-covered landscape. [See video and photos of the solar storm's northern lights]
"After the main show was over I just continued lying in the snow for nearly two hours and watched the fainter, but fast-pulsating auroras that were everywhere," Buchmann told SPACE.com in an email. "All faint stars just lost their meaning behind these auroras."?
The auroras from the solar flare could potentially be seen at latitudes as low as Maine or Montana, they added.
"The trip was totally worth it!" Buchmann said.
Delta Airlines officials said the commercial airline rerouted some planes from polar routes as a precaution to avoid any interference from the solar storm, according to press reports.
Buchmann and his friend were not the only skywatchers to make a special trip to see the auroras.
In Muonio, Lapland in Finland, skywatcher and photographer Antii Pietk?nen made a special snowmobile ride with companion Thomas to try to catch the display. They posted one photo to the skywatching website Spaceweather.com, which received several others from different observers.
"The show started slowly and after 15 [minutes] the landscape was green!" Pietk?nen told Spaceweather.com. "This was the first time for Thomas to see the northern lights, and he was very happy."
Photographer Chad Blakely in Lapland, Sweden recorded an eye-popping time-lapse video of the northern lights display, showing auroras swirling over a snowy meadow while observers alternate between snapping photos and staying warm at a campfire.
A streaming camera at the Aurora Sky Station in Sweden's Abisko National Park, an observing post for aurora hunters, beamed real-time photos of the northern light show every few minutes. The images revealed stunning hues of red and green across the northern night sky.
Auroras are created when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth's upper atmosphere, causing an energy release that can be seen as lights. Because the charged solar particles are typically funneled to Earth's poles by the planet's magnetic field, the most dazzling displays occur in the far north and south. The so-called northern lights are known as the aurora borealis, while their southern counterpart is dubbed the aurora australis.
Tuesday's aurora display was sparked by a powerful solar flare on Sunday night that triggered an eruption of solar plasma, called a coronal mass ejection. The flare was classified as an M9-class solar flare, a moderate ? but still powerful ? sun storm. This eruption flung charged particles out into space, which delivered a glancing blow to Earth.
The sun storm is only the latest solar weather to ignite dazzling auroras on Earth. A series of flares late last week made for a great weekend northern lights show for some observers, even as the sun was unleashing its latest solar tempest.
The sun is currently in an active phase of its 11-year solar cycle, which is called Solar Cycle 24. Solar activity is expected to peak in 2013.
You can follow Tariq Malik on Twitter?@tariqjmalik.?Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter?@Spacedotcom?and on?Facebook.
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Will Sunscreen Protect You From the Solar Flares? (SPACE.com)
An explosion in the sun's atmosphere called a "solar flare" sent a huge burst of matter and energy hurtling into space Monday (Jan. 23), and some of the material is now raining down upon Earth. Solar flares are difficult to predict, but they often come in clusters, so more floods of solar radiation are likely to hit Earth soon.
During another recent period of extreme solar activity, Kobus Olckers, a forecaster at the South African Space Weather Office in Cape Town, advised members of the public to avoid going outside and to wear high-SPF sunscreen if they do. But will some SPF 45 really protect you from the extra radiation?
Yes ? sunscreen will block the radiation. But there isn't actually that much extra to worry about.
"Ultraviolet radiation from the sun briefly goes up by factors of thousands during solar flares," said Todd Hoeksema, a solar astronomer at Stanford University. "That's outside the Earth's atmosphere, though. The amount of UV radiation that gets to the ground is about the same as normal," Hoeksema told Life's Little Mysteries.
Most of the high-energy radiation coming from the sun during a solar flare gets absorbed by our atmosphere. "UV light is very energetic so it interacts with the atmosphere , breaking molecules apart and ionizing atoms. As it goes though the air, more and more gets absorbed. Most of it gets absorbed 80 or 100 miles above us," he said.
The extra UV light that does make it through the atmosphere ? and onto your skin ? isn't enough to worry about, Hoeksema said.? "The increase in the amount of UV on the ground is minimal."
These radiation showers are actually fairly common, happening a few times a year during the active part of the sun's 11-year cycle. And while they pose no real risk to Earth-bound humans, the high-velocity protons , gamma rays,? X-rays and other types of ionizing radiation they eject can be hazardous to astronauts in orbit. (In case you're wondering, sunscreen won't block high-velocity protons or the like.)
The normal daily influx of UV light is the real concern. "What matters is the cumulative dose of UV radiation you get, not a small increase here and there," Hoeksema said. Regular exposure to UV radiation causes genetic mutations to occur in skin cells that can lead to skin cancer. "Since the effect is cumulative,? he said, ?I think that people should wear sunscreen all the time."
This story was provided by Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to SPACE.com. Got a question? nattyover.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
US ambassador to Yemen: Saleh's absence positive (AP)
SANAA, Yemen ? The U.S. ambassador to Yemen said Tuesday that President Ali Abdullah Saleh's absence from the battered country will help its political transition.
Gerald Feierstein also denied reports the U.S. was looking for a country where Saleh could live in exile, saying Saleh can return to Yemen if he chooses.
Saleh left Yemen Sunday for the Gulf sultanate of Oman on his way to the U.S. for medical treatment related to burns sustained after a bomb blast in his palace mosque last year.
Before leaving, Saleh passed power to his deputy as part of a U.S.-backed deal brokered by Gulf nations seeking to end the country's nearly year-old political crisis. Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi is set to be rubber-stamped as the country's new leader in a presidential election on Feb. 21.
Feierstein said Saleh will leave Oman for the U.S. in the next few days and that the length of his stay will be determined by doctors. Saleh was granted a visa solely for medical reasons, Feierstein said, adding that his absence at this time is positive.
"We think that him not being here will help the transition," he said. "This is not the reason he asked for the visa and this not the reason we gave the visa. We gave the visa for medical treatment."
White House officials said previously that Saleh's request to travel to the U.S. caused a dilemma. Saleh, who has ruled Yemen for 33 years though a combination of sly politics and violence, was long considered a U.S. ally in the battle against Yemen's active al-Qaida branch, which has been linked to attacks on U.S. soil.
At the same time, officials worried the U.S. would face criticism in the Arab world for appearing to harbor an autocrat whose security forces have repeatedly used deadly force to repress demonstrations.
Before granting Saleh a visa, Washington sought assurances that he would not seek to remain in the U.S. after his treatment.
And on Tuesday, Feierstein denied previous reports that the U.S. was looking for a third country where Saleh could live in exile.
"In terms of where he goes afterward, we do not have any information on that," he said. "The only thing that we have heard from him is that he intends to come back to Yemen. We are not involved in any discussion with any countries where he might go after his treatment."
Feierstein also spoke highly of the Gulf plan to remove Saleh from power, saying it could prevent further violence the Arab world's poorest country.
Human rights groups have criticized the deal because it granted Saleh and anyone involved in his government immunity from prosecution. Many of the protesters who have taken to the streets for nearly a year to call for his ouster want to see him tried for his alleged role in deadly crackdowns on demonstrations.
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have worked to ensure a peaceful transition of power, fearing that further chaos could destabilize the region and allow al-Qaida to operate freely. The group has already seized a number of towns in Yemen's south and last week occupied the town of Radda, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of the capital Sanaa.
Late Tuesday, however, a tribal leader involved in negotiating with the militants said they had withdrawn, leaving the town in the control of two prominent sheiks.
Tribal leaders have been trying to negotiate a peaceful withdrawal for the al-Qaida-linked militants for days.
Negotiator Ahmed Ali Kalaz said the group's leader, Tariq al-Dahab, originally refused to leave unless authorities released 15 detained members of the group and declared the area an "Islamic emirate."
Authorities said they could release the men, and al-Dahab and his 200 armed men surprised everyone by leaving the city Tuesday.
While much of Saleh's regime has remained in tact throughout the uprising, with many of his relatives still in charge of government institutions, mutinies have been spreading calling for the ouster Maj. Gen. Mohammed Saleh, the head of Yemen's air force and Saleh's half brother.
Soldiers at an air base in the Hadramawt province joined the mutiny Tuesday, bringing to five the number of bases across the country calling for the commander's removal.
The continued turmoil has aggravated Yemen's humanitarian situation.
UNICEF said Tuesday that the number of malnourished children under the age of five has risen in the last year to around 750,000. In some parts of the country of 20 million people, the number of children suffering from malnutrition has doubled from the level in 2000, the group said.
Out of the 300,000 people displaced inside the country, 60 percent are children, UNICEF said.
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Associated Press writer Aya Batrawy contributed reporting from Cairo.
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Rand Paul 'detained' by TSA. Does that happen to other senators?
TSA could hardly have singled out a worse person for pat-down treatment than Sen. Rand Paul, up-and-coming libertarian standard-bearer and son of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul. He's not the only one on Capitol Hill to complain about pat-downs.
Sen. Rand Paul (R) of Kentucky was detained by the Transportation Security Administration Monday at the Nashville airport, in case you haven?t heard. A millimeter wave scanner detected an ?anomaly? in the area of his knee, according to Senator Paul, and TSA agents then said he?d have to undergo a full-body pat-down. Paul said he wouldn?t submit to such a search and offered to show agents his knee, instead. They said that wouldn?t suffice.
Skip to next paragraphThis stand-off apparently escalated to the point where Paul was cornered in a cubicle for a bit ? that?s where the ?detained? allegations come in.
Eventually the TSA allowed Paul to board another flight for Washington. The second time through, the scanner didn?t see anything in the vicinity of the senatorial kneecap, apparently. This has led Paul to believe that the scanner never saw an ?anomaly? at all, and that it is set to go off randomly?so as to pick out unwitting travelers for extra-close inspection.
?Two people from the TSA told me there are random bells and whistles that go off,? said Paul Monday afternoon during an interview with CNN?s Wolf Blitzer on ?The Situation Room.?
TSA officials confirmed such an incident occurred Monday, but declined to identify the passenger involved as Paul, citing privacy concerns. White House spokesman Jay Carney took a similar approach, and then defended TSA actions.
?Passengers, as in this case, who refuse to comply with security procedures are denied access to the secure gate area,? Mr. Carney said. ?I think it is absolutely essential that we take necessary actions to ensure that air travel is safe, and I believe that is what TSA is tasked with doing.?
Hmm. Well, we?ve got a few points to make here. The first, and obvious, one is that the TSA could hardly have singled out a worse person for pat-down treatment. Rand Paul is an up-and-coming libertarian stalwart, the son of presidential contender Ron Paul, and he?s not going to go quietly off after this and buy magazines in the gift shop. He?s going to do what he did: go on CNN and accuse TSA of not protecting America.
?I don?t feel more safe [because of TSA protection],? Paul told Mr. Blitzer.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The First Woman To Go 'Round The World Did It As A Man
She was the first woman ever to circumnavigate the globe, but she did it dressed as a man. For more than two years she traveled on a French naval vessel with linen bandages wrapped tightly around her upper body to flatten her chest. It was a small ship with 300 men who knew her as "Jean." But she wasn't Jean. She was Jeanne. Then one day, they found her out.
Leemage/Getty Images/Universal Images Gr Jeanne Baret in loose-fitting clothes.
The first woman to go all the way around the world was born in France in 1740, in the Loire Valley. Her family taught her to identify plants to treat wounds and diseases and so she became "an herb woman," a peasant schooled in botanical medicine. In this she was not unusual. People didn't have to read or write to "botanize." Most of the learning was passed down orally. Jeanne Baret was, apparently, very good at it, and she was also very lucky.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images Philibert de Commerson
It turns out, in her neighborhood, there was a young man, a nobleman, whose young wife had died in childbirth, and one day, maybe while roaming the fields collecting plants ? also his obsession ? he met Jeanne. They began to collect together. He then hired her as his teacher, assistant and "all-around aide," says biographer Glynis Ridley. After that, she moved in and became his lover.
Two years later, they hatched a plan. The French government announced it would send two ships around the world to discover new territories for the glory of France, and they needed a plant hunter-botanist on board. Philibert de Commerson got the job. He, in turn, needed an assistant, and though the French Navy expressly prohibited women on its ships, Philibert agreed to dress Jeanne like a man. She (or, rather "he") would show up, as if by accident, at the gangplank on the day of departure, offer "his" services, and be hired on the spot. It was a bizarre, dangerous, crazy idea, but that's what they did, and it worked.
She was allowed to share a small cabin with Philibert, but they had to be careful. The chest bandages had to go on every day, which made it hard for her to take deep breaths, and the sailors began to notice that "Jean" never relieved himself with the rest of the crew, always carried a loaded pistol, and never, ever undressed with the others.
?The Castrati Cover Story
When pressed, Jean suggested that "he" had been captured by Ottoman Turks, that he'd been castrated, and that he was embarrassed to be seen publicly. That story had, at the time, a certain plausibility, plus "Jean" worked hard at the physical work on ship, and "he," not his boss, carried the tools, sacks and heavy wooden plant press, and did much of the exploring when hunting plants on land. So, for a while, he passed as a man.
Biographer Ridley says it was "Jean" who, when in Brazil, probably discovered the dazzling vine, all pink and mauve, that they named after their captain, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, a plant that became their greatest find.
A year into the journey, the ruse was still working, though several members of the crew were more than suspicious. Still, gender can be a slippery thing when mixing cultures and company. There was a prince onboard this ship who insisted on wearing high-heeled shoes, green velvet and a wig ? one of those piled-high, courtly wigs, filled with blond ringlets ? even while tramping around the pebbled beaches of Tierra del Fuego.
High Heels On The Beach
One day when "Jean," Philibert, the prince and some officers were hiking along a beach, a group of Patagonians came by, gathered round the prince, and, writes Glynis Ridley:
...the Patagonian men and women began stroking his velvet jacket and pulling at the wig. As the prince tried to maintain his typical insouciance, officers moved quickly to save him from the inspection before the Patagonians started patting down his breeches.
The Patagonians, Philibert wrote in his diary, "thought the prince was a woman due to his youth and beauty," not suspecting that one of the men in the group was not a man. It's all very topsy-turvy when you think that these folks were often surrounded by 2-foot-tall Magellanic penguins zigzagging across the beach, dodging between people and enormous sea lions. Confusion often reigned.
But not forever.
How They Figured Out Jean Was Jeanne
It happened in the South Pacific. How it happened is in dispute. In her book, Glynnis Ridley gives several contradictory accounts. In one version, we are in Tahiti. "Jean" gets off the boat, and the Tahitians right away smell that she's a woman. (That's Capt. Bougainville's version.) They point, they exclaim, she confesses.
In the second version, a Tahitian visitor named Aotouru goes onboard the Etoile, "Jean's" ship, looks at "him," calls him a name, which the French translate as "girl," there's a hubbub and she's discovered. But, Ridley says, the word Aotouru used is not Polynesian for "girl"; it's their word for "transvestite," and what Aotouru was saying is, "Oh, here's a person who is cross-dressing. We have them, too." Either way, in these versions, the Tahitians tell the French the truth about this "sailor."
A third narrative, and this is the one Ridley favors, is that by the time the ship left Tahiti, a number of officers and probably many in the crew were pretty sure that Jean was really a Jeanne, and when they arrived at the next port of call, they waited till "Jean" was alone and unprotected by officers, grabbed her pistols, undressed her and then gang-raped her. True or not (and there is no hard evidence of such a crime, no suggestion of a rape in any of the diaries), she did go into seclusion after re-boarding the ship, and nine months later, she did have a baby.
Peter Piper Picked A Peck Of Pickled Peppers
However it happened, when the ship docked at the French colony of Mauritius, Capt. Bougainville arranged for Jean, now Jeanne, to be left with Philibert onshore. He clearly didn't want to return to France with an inexplicable and totally illegal mother and child to explain to naval authorities. Instead, everyone worked out a cover story that Philibert was needed on Mauritius by the French civil governor of the island and "had" to stay.
It's just a delicious extra tidbit that the French governor, the one who "ordered" the couple to stay, is the most famous person in this story. He was none other than Pierre Poivre, a French botanist who became, in English translation, the Peter Piper of "Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers," the tongue twister that was published in 1813 as Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation. In 1768, that Peter was Pierre Poivre, and he hadn't yet become immortal.
In any case, Jeane and Philibert moved in with Pierre Poivre and spent seven years in Mauritius. She had her baby and gave it up for adoption. Philibert died. She (and by now she was definitely a she) married a French soldier, and together, she and her new husband sailed back to France.
Did Anyone Realize What She'd Done?
When she arrived sometime in late 1774 or 1775, she became the first woman known to have circumnavigated the globe. There was no one at the dock to welcome her. No one (except perhaps her husband) knew what she had done, but she'd done it.
Enlarge Hulton Archive/Getty Images Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesLouis Antoine de Bougainville
Still, she wasn't entirely ignored. Her lover's family, the Commerson family, honored her contract and paid her a handsome sum for her services, but most surprisingly, unbidden, the French Navy bestowed "upon this extraordinary woman" a pension of 200 livres per annum for her work gathering plants. Ridley figures she must have had a secret admirer. And her guess is, it was Capt. Bougainville, whose name has been famous ever since.
But the last word should go to the Prince of Nassau-Siegen, the young gentleman in velvet and heels who hiked with her. In his memoirs, he says of Jeanne Baret:
I want to give her all the credit for her bravery, a far cry from the gentle pastimes afforded her sex. She dared confront the stress, the dangers, and everything that happened that one could realistically expect on such a voyage. Her adventure, should, I think, be included in a history of famous women.
And one day, I think, she will be famous.
Glynnis Ridley's biography of Jeanne Baret was published in 2010. It's called The Discovery of Jeanne Baret, A Story of Science, The High Seas, And The First Woman To Circumnavigate The Globe.
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Joe Paterno, revered coach tainted by scandal, dies (Reuters)
STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) ? Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, the winningest coach in major college football history who was fired in November over a child sexual abuse scandal involving an assistant that rocked America, died on Sunday of lung cancer. He was 85.
Paterno won adoration from fans of the highly successful and profitable Penn State football program and they unleashed invective at the university board of trustees who fired him unceremoniously after 46 years as head coach, tarnishing his outsized legacy.
Equally outraged were his critics and advocates for victims of sexual abuse who faulted Paterno for his relative inaction upon hearing an accusation that former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused a young boy in the Penn State football showers in 2002.
Paterno told university officials but not police, opening him to criticism that he protected an accused child molester for nine years.
Sandusky, 67, who has maintained his innocence, faces 52 criminal counts accusing him of sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years, using his position as head of a The Second Mile, a charity dedicated to helping troubled children, to find his victims. The court placed him under house arrest.
Waves of mourners descended on a makeshift shrine to Paterno outside the university's Beaver Stadium. They draped an American flag on a statue of Paterno and wrapped its neck with a Penn State scarf.
Sobbing at the statue's feet was Dana Gordon, a 1982 graduate who blamed the school's Board of Trustees for hastening Paterno's death by firing him in a "callous way."
"The way the board treated him took a lot of the fight out of him," Gordon said.
The case raised questions about the measures the university took to protect Sandusky and a football program that Forbes magazine estimated made a profit of $53 million in 2010, especially since accusations against him first surfaced in 1998. At that time a university police detective admonished Sandusky to stop showering naked with boys but stopped short of bringing criminal charges.
One of the biggest scandals in college sports history, it provoked a national discussion about pedophilia in the same way charges involving Roman Catholic priests did years earlier.
The matter also drew impassioned arguments about the balance between protecting the young and the rights of criminal defendants, who are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
"I hope his passing and the controversy surrounding Sandusky will deter other people, especially powerful people, from covering up child sex crimes," said David Clohessy, director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, a support group.
"Even decades of professional achievement should not obscure dreadfully reckless and callous inaction that results in child sex crimes," Clohessy said.
Sandusky issued a statement sending condolences to the Paterno family that did not mention the investigation.
"Nobody did more for the academic reputation of Penn State than Joe Paterno. He maintained a high standard in a very difficult profession," Sandusky said.
Paterno won a reputation for making sure his players graduated and one of the program's mottos was "Success With Honor."
Paterno's downfall was spectacular. For decades he was a symbol of vitality who patrolled the Penn State sidelines with unchallenged authority, easily recognizable by his thick eyeglasses and jet-black hair that only showed a hint of gray in his later years. His two national championships, in 1982 and 1986, won him enduring loyalty from fans who affectionately called him "JoePa."
In the end, he was confined to a wheelchair upon breaking his hip in a fall one month after being fired, and he wore a wig after losing his hair to chemotherapy, according to the Washington Post, which interviewed Paterno about a week before his death.
Paterno was surrounded by family when he died 9:25 a.m. on Sunday of metastatic small cell carcinoma of the lung, Mount Nittany Medical Center said in a statement.
IMPACT ON CRIMINAL CASE
Paterno's death may not significantly affect the case against Sandusky, but was more likely to weaken the criminal case against two university officials charged with perjury, at least one legal expert said.
Paterno learned of at least one accusation against Sandusky in 2002, when graduate assistant Mike McQueary told Paterno he witnessed Sandusky molesting a boy of about 10 years old in the showers of the Lasch Football Building.
Paterno told university officials but not police, a decision that ultimately led to his downfall.
Paterno, in an interview with the Washington Post published on January 14, said he was uncertain how to handle the matter and trusted the university administration.
Paterno testified before the grand jury that he informed former athletic director Tim Curley about what McQueary told him. About 10 days later, McQueary testified, he was called to a meeting with Curley and university finance official Gary Schultz to discuss what happened.
Curley and Schultz both face perjury charges based on their inaction. Schultz also testified before the grand jury he was aware of the 1998 investigation of Sandusky.
University President Graham Spanier was fired along with Paterno, and Curley and Schultz stepped down.
"If he (Paterno) had known the devastation that this means, he would have reacted differently," said Peter Pelullo, founder of Let Go, Let Peace Come In, a support group helping some of Sandusky's accusers with counseling.
"If there had been an auto accident on the Penn State campus and a kid had been run over, everybody would have called 911. That boy was being crushed at the moment he was in the shower with Sandusky. It's not just Joe Paterno but the rest of the country that didn't understand this," Pelullo said.
Because Paterno was not believed to have witnessed any purported abuse, his testimony would not have been crucial to Sandusky trial, said Paul Callan, a former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney.
But his death could set back the criminal case against Curley and Schultz.
"The Confrontation Clause (of the constitution) guarantees that criminal defendants will have the right to confront and cross-examine the witnesses against them at the time of trial," Callan said. "No defense attorneys were present at the grand jury proceedings to do such a cross-examination."
Max Kennerly, a Philadelphia trial lawyer who has followed the case, said Paterno's death was unlikely to alter any civil litigation being contemplated by Sandusky's accusers. If any were considering suing Paterno, they could just name his estate.
"Death doesn't change your status as a party," Kennerly said.
(Additional reporting by Ian Simpson, Barbara Goldberg and Noeleen Walder; Writing by Daniel Trotta and Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Reality-TV winner just might go into space
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Reality-TV impresario Simon Cowell poses for photos with fans as "Britain's Got Talent" kicks off its annual talent search Friday with an event at the Lyric Theatre in Manchester.
By Alan Boyle
More than a decade after the first effort to blend reality TV with real-world spaceflight,?talent-show impresario Simon Cowell says the winner of "Britain's Got Talent" could go into outer space on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane.
"I love the idea that if they are up for it they have the option of performing in space,"?Cowell told?Britain's Daily Star. The comment comes as Cowell is ramping up for a new season of the show that?inspired "America's Got Talent."
Cowell has already signed up for his own flight on SpaceShipTwo, which could start flying passengers beyond the 100-kilometer (62-mile) boundary of outer space on $200,000 suborbital rides as early as next year. The longtime record producer, who left an enduring mark on reality-TV history as the black-garbed, brutally frank judge on "American Idol," hinted that he's worked out a deal with British?billionaire Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic.
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"It's tens of millions of pounds, but Richard genuinely is up for doing it," Cowell told the Star. "I am being serious, I swear to God and on my mum?s life. Don?t worry about the details, we?ll make it happen."
If Cowell is to make it happen anytime soon, the winner would?most?probably have to travel to New Mexico to follow through on the flight plan. And it seems unlikely that going into space would be a requirement placed on the winner, whoever?he or she?turns out to be.
Producers have tried for years to put together a reality-TV show focusing on spaceflight. The highest-profile effort was "Survivor" executive producer Mark Burnett's plans?in 2000?for a?show that would follow contestants through?the training routine for spaceflight. The winner would have?been sent?to?Russia's Mir space station ? but that concept fizzled out even before Mir was deorbited in 2001.
Other proposed entertainment?projects have revolved around?pop singer Lance Bass and film director James Cameron. Just last week, Beyonce and Jay-Z were said to be interested in doing a music video aboard SpaceShipTwo.
No Hollywood space effort has yet gotten off the ground, but if anyone has the required combination of guts, glitz and gold, I suppose that'd be Branson. Like Cowell, Branson is a veteran of reality TV, having starred in "The Rebel Billionaire," a series that aired on Fox in 2004-2005.
Who knows? In the next year or two, there may be more than one way for reality-TV contestants to get into outer space. Andrew Nelson, chief operating officer for XCOR Aerospace, says his company is moving ahead with its own Lynx rocket plane ? and he's not shy about courting Cowell's attention.
"If Simon wants to take a more exciting ride at half the price, I'd take his call," Nelson told me today.
More about commercial space:
Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.?
Source: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/20/10202380-britains-got-talent-in-space
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
North Korea credits new leader with nuke testing (AP)
PYONGYANG, North Korea ? North Korea on Friday credited new leader Kim Jong Un with spearheading past nuclear testing, as it adds to a growing personality cult that portrays the young son of late leader Kim Jong Il as a confident military commander.
Kim Jong Un's youth ? he's believed to be in his late 20s ? and quick rise have spurred questions in foreign capitals about his readiness for leadership. But North Korea has dismissed such worries in recent days, saying Kim Jong Un worked closely with his father on military and economic matters.
The North's official Uriminzokkiri website said Friday that Kim "frightened" the country's enemies by commanding nuclear testing in the past. North Korea tested nuclear devices in 2006 and 2009, but the website didn't specify which tests Kim oversaw.
Uriminzokkiri described Kim Jong Un as "fully equipped" with the qualities of an extraordinary general, even during his years at Kim Il Sung Military University. The website also repeated the North's claim that he was involved in satellite launching but didn't elaborate.
North Korea's linking of Kim Jong Un to past nuclear testing comes as it pushes for the resumption of long-stalled six-nation aid-for-nuclear disarmament talks that also include China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States. Washington and its allies want the North to first show it is serious about previous disarmament commitments.
North Korea last week questioned Washington's generosity and sincerity, but suggested it remains open to suspending its uranium enrichment program if it can get the food aid it wants.
Kim Jong Un took over after his father and longtime ruler Kim Jong Il died in mid-December and has quickly been given many of the country's most important titles.
He was introduced as heir only in September 2010. Before that he had been kept out of the public eye for most of his life. He was quickly promoted to four-star general and named a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Some of North Korea's neighbors and Washington have expressed worry about whether he can lead a nation of 24 million with a nuclear program as well as chronic trouble feeding all its people.
Kim Jong Il had 20 years of training under his own father, Kim Il Sung, before taking over. Even after his father's 1994 death, Kim Jong Il observed a three-year mourning period before formally assuming leadership.
A senior official told The Associated Press recently that Kim Jong Un spent years working closely with his late father and helped him make key policy decisions on economic and military affairs.
North Korea has also made it clear that Kim Jong Un will continue Kim Jong Il's "songun," or military-first, policy, and a steady stream of reports and images from state media has sought to show him as a fearless military commander who is comfortable with leadership.
North Korea also reported Friday that Kim Jong Un inspected two more military units.
Earlier this month, North Korea's state-run broadcaster aired a documentary that showed Kim Jong Un observing an April 2009 launch of a long-range rocket. It was the first indication of his involvement in the launch.
The documentary quoted Kim as threatening to wage war against any nation attempting to intercept the rocket, which North Korea claimed was carrying a communications satellite but the United States, South Korea and Japan said was really a test of its long-range missile technology.
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Deal of the Day ? Dell Latitude E6520 15.6-inch Intel 2nd Gen Core i3/15/i7 Business Laptops
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
How Large Ships Use Navigation Systems
The International Maritime Organization has decreed that by 2015, all large deep sea ships will be required to carry the latest in electronic navigation equipment. But does state-of-the-art navigation technology prevent shipwrecks like last week's off the Italian coast? University of Southern Mississippi hydrographer Max van Norden talks about the technology.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/01/20/145525012/how-large-ships-use-navigation-systems?ft=1&f=1007
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Gingrich, Santorum spar about years in Congress (AP)
CHARLESTON, S.C. ? Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are sparring over each other's roles in Congress.
In a debate Thursday, Santorum said Gingrich was undisciplined as House speaker and couldn't enact legislation despite coming up with an "idea a minute."
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator and congressman. said he exposed a scandal in the early 1990s involving members of Congress bouncing checks at the House bank. Santorum said Gingrich never spoke out about that at the time.
Gingrich said he challenged his own party to push for reforms that eventually succeeded in Republicans winning a majority in the House in 1994.
Santorum said he wasn't as flashy as Gingrich but was steady and could get things done.
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Protest SOPA/PIPA!
This may be a repeat message that someone else has posted, and it's certainly just an echo of what the admins displayed most of the day, but the more exposure, the better our chance.
Write to your representatives, or do whatever you want to do to make your voice heard! I know you may feel insignificant as an individual, but if everyone used that excuse to avoid speaking up, we will lose! Here on RPG alone we are probably a thousand or more strong (maybe that's a low estimate, I don't know); if each one of us makes a statement, that's a collective voice that is difficult to ignore!
And if every community like ours does the same, then we will beat this nonsense. So don't let this pass without giving your two cents, pence, rupees, reals, yen, or whatever else you've got.
-SF
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| ?1/12/2012?? | Petrobras? Reserves Rise 2.7% |
| ?1/11/2012?? | U.S. to Test Imports of Brazilian Orange Juice for Fungicide |
| ?1/11/2012?? | Germany?s E.ON, Brazil?s MPX Create Energy Joint Venture |
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| ?1/17/2012?? | Cuba Says It Offered to Discuss Alan Gross Case with U.S. |
| ?1/17/2012?? | Cubans Flock to Apply for New Housing Subsidy |
| ?1/17/2012?? | Spanish Journalist Freed by Cuba Now Back in Madrid |
| ?1/16/2012?? | Raul?s Daughter Expects Cuba Communist Party to Accept Gay Rights |
| ?1/16/2012?? | Spanish Journalist to Be Freed from Cuban Prison |
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| ?1/17/2012?? | Drought Threatens Indigenous People in Northern Mexico |
| ?1/17/2012?? | Mexican Cartels Moving Drugs in Armored Vehicles |
| ?1/17/2012?? | Some 18.2 Million People Visited Mexico Cultural Sites in 2011 |
| ?1/17/2012?? | Mexican Navy Recovers Yacht Stolen in U.S. |
| ?1/17/2012?? | Gunmen Kill Police Chief in Central Mexico |
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| ?1/14/2012?? | Puerto Rican Teen Shooting Victim Dies |
| ?1/13/2012?? | ABC Pressed to Apologize for Joke About Puerto Rican Drug Dealers |
| ?1/9/2012?? | Comatose Shooting Victim in Puerto Rico Reacts to Music |
| ?1/9/2012?? | Puerto Rico?s Top Cop Faces Demands for Resignation |
| ?1/9/2012?? | Puerto Rico Seeks More Federal Help to Block Drugs, Guns |
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| ?1/17/2012?? | Shell Denies Argentina?s Fuel Price-Fixing Allegations |
| ?1/16/2012?? | Argentina: Falklands Government Turned Away Cruise Ship |
| ?1/16/2012?? | Argentina Probes Oil Firms for Diesel Price-Fixing |
| ?1/16/2012?? | Argentine Septuagenarian Swims to Shore from Crippled Cruise Ship |
| ?1/14/2012?? | Dismembered Body of English Physicist Found in North Argentina |
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| ?1/13/2012?? | Chile Envisions Integrated Latin America Power Grid |
| ?1/11/2012?? | Chilean Cops Under Scrutiny for Beating of Indian Woman |
| ?1/10/2012?? | Indian Activists Deny Setting Deadly Blaze in Chile |
| ?1/8/2012?? | Masked Assailants Burn Houses in Chile?s Mapuche Region |
| ?1/6/2012?? | Seven Die Fighting Blaze in Chile |
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| ?1/13/2012?? | Peru Court Sentences Van der Sloot to 28 Years for Murder |
| ?1/13/2012?? | Peru Head-On Collision Leaves 10 Dead, 50 Injured |
| ?1/11/2012?? | Van der Sloot Pleads Guilty to Murder of Peruvian Woman |
| ?1/10/2012?? | Important Rebel Captured in Southern Peru |
| ?1/9/2012?? | Five Dead in Attack on Police Station in Peru |
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| ?12/13/2011?? | 20 Hurt in Blast at Government Office in Uruguay |
| ?10/16/2011?? | Clinton Send Congratulations on Uruguay Bicentennial (VIDEO) |
| ?9/29/2011?? | U.S. Partners With Uruguay for TechCamp Montevideo |
| ?8/23/2011?? | Clinton Sends Independence Day Wishes to Uruguay |
| ?7/18/2011?? | Former Uruguayan President Juan Maria Bordaberry Dies |
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| ?1/10/2012?? | Latin America, a ?Capital Priority? for Spain?s New Government |
| ?12/21/2011?? | Latin America Economy to Grow 3.7% in 2012, UN Panel Says |
| ?12/19/2011?? | Another Strong Year for Latin American Exports |
| ?12/12/2011?? | Pope to Visit Cuba and Mexico Before Holy Week |
| ?12/6/2011?? | Mesoamerican Leaders Call on U.S. to Reduce Drug Consumption |
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| ?1/17/2012?? | New York Police Testing Portable Gun Detector |
| ?1/17/2012?? | Spanish Statesman Manuel Fraga Laid to Rest |
| ?1/17/2012?? | Occupy Movement Protests Outside Congress |
| ?1/17/2012?? | Immigrant Objects Document History of Their Crossing into U.S. |
| ?1/17/2012?? | Largest GOP Hispanic Group Endorses Gingrich |
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| ?1/14/2012?? | S&P Downgrades Spain?s Credit Rating 2 Notches |
| ?1/13/2012?? | Chile?s LAN, Brazil?s TAM Raise Synergies Estimate for Merger |
| ?1/13/2012?? | U.S. Trade Deficit Jumped 10.4% in November |
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