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Friday, August 31, 2012
Blue moon shines around the world
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A boy rides his bicycle over a stretch of sand on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar as the "blue moon" shines above in Aug. 31.
By Alan Boyle
Tonight's blue moon may not be as rare as it sounds, but it's still special?? as is every glorious full moon, whichever color you use to describe it.
Actually, the term "blue moon" is something of a misnomer. There's no reason for the full moon to be any bluer than usual (though it's certainly possible for the moon to take on a blue tinge). Instead, it has to do with the extra occurrence of a full moon in a given calendar cycle.
Various cultures have used different terms to describe that extra lunar cycle ? Adhik Maas for Hindus, or an extra month of Adar for the Jewish calendar. The Maine Farmers' Almanac used the term "blue moon" to describe an extra moon in a particular quarter of the year.
Then,?in 1946, an amateur astronomer named James Hugh Pruett wrote about the phenomenon for Sky & Telescope magazine, in the context of the old saying that a rare occurrence happened only "once in a blue moon."
Only problem was, he got it wrong.
Pruett described the blue-moon phenomenon as the second full moon in a calendar month. Sky & Telescope stuck with that, and the definition has been used (and hotly debated) ever since. If you go along with the definition, then tonight's full moon is blue due to the fact that it follows a full moon on the night of Aug. 1.
There's another long-debated issue surrounding blue moons: You could argue that they happen way too often to be considered as rare as a "blue moon" in the proverbial sense. The interplay of the lunar and solar calendars dictates that a blue moon should occur, on average, every 2.7 years.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson summed up the issue a couple of days ago in a Twitter update: "A month's second full moon is the blue moon. Not rare. More frequent than presidential elections, yet nobody calls them rare."
Technically speaking, the moon is already a few hours past its full phase???but it's still well worth taking note of, and not just because it's the last blue moon until July 31, 2015. It provides a fitting opportunity to pay tribute to history's first moonwalker, Neil Armstrong, who passed away last weekend. In fact, Armstrong's family is urging you to look at the moon in Neil's honor.
"The next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink," the family said.
Photographers around the world have already been getting great moon shots. Here's a sampling of the "blue moon" views:
Muhammad Hamed / Reuters
A full moon shines over Amman, the capital of Jordan, on Aug. 31.
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A full moon is seen behind tree branches in the Macedonian city of Skopje on Aug. 31. According to NASA, this is the second time in August that a full moon has been seen. The first was on the night of Aug. 1-2. This phenomenon is referred to as a "blue moon."
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Vesa Vauhkonen created this multiple-exposure photographic view of the moon rising over Rautalampi, Finland, on Aug. 30.
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The clouds over Kobe, Japan, take on a fittingly blue hue in this picture taken by Daisuke Tomiyasu on Aug. 31.
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Greeks and tourists gather at the Roman Agora in Athens, which is open all night as part of a full-moon celebration on Aug. 31. A number of archaeological sites and museums around Greece opened at night, with events and concerts celebrating the second full moon of August, known as a "blue moon."
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A picture taken on Aug. 31 shows the full moon above the ancient Acropolis hill in Athens.
Inge Harsten
Inge Harsten, who lives in Fredrikstad, Norway, used a filter to add an appropriate color to this picture of the "blue moon."
Petros Karadjias / AP
The full moon rises over the sea at Konnos beach near Ayia Napa and Protaras resort in the southeast of the island of Cyprus on Aug. 31.
For still more blue-moon pictures, check out SpaceWeather.com's photo gallery and NASA's Flickr site for blue-moon imagery. If you snap a great picture of the moon tonight, please consider sharing it with us. Use our FirstPerson upload tool to send us your moon shot, and we'll pass along a sampling of the photos we receive.
Where in the Cosmos
Vesa Vauhkonen's moonrise montage served as the subject of this week's "Where in the Cosmos" photo quiz on the Cosmic Log Facebook page. It took a while this time, but John Culp and Brian Svacina eventually guessed that the photo was taken in Finland. To reward their geographical smarts (or was it just plain luck?), I'm sending them pairs of 3-D glasses, provided courtesy of Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope project. Those red-blue glasses will add an extra dimension to moon pictures like this one. Got 3-D? Click the "like" button for the Cosmic Log Facebook page and get ready for next Friday's quiz.
Update for 8:20 p.m. ET: The Phrase Finder delves deeply into the origins of the phrase "blue moon," meaning a rare event, and appears to have come up with a sensible explanation. In 16th-century England, the expression was apparently used to describe an impossible event, like pigs flying. The phrase pops up in a sarcastic context in a 1528 work by William Barlow, Bishop of Chichester, titled "Treatyse of the Buryall of the Masse": "Yf they saye the mone is belewe, we must beleve that it is true."
It took centuries longer for the phrase to describe something that hasn't happened in quite a while. The Phrase Finder cites this quote in Pierce Egan's "Real Life in London" (1821): "How's Harry and Ben??? haven't seen you this blue moon." Meanwhile, the Maine Farmers' Almanac put its own astronomical twist on the term, going back to the 19th century.
More moon shots:
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Japan demands investigation into attack on ambassador's car in China
The attack by a group of men in Beijing came as nationalist sentiment deepens in both China and Japan over ownership of islands in the South China Sea.
Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba speaks to journalists at his office in Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 28. Gemba on Tuesday demanded an investigation into an incident in which a man in Beijing ripped the Japanese flag off of a car carrying the country's ambassador to China.
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Beijing apologized for the embarrassing incident on Monday, in which an unidentified man ripped the Japanese flag from the ambassador?s car amid rising tensions over disputed islands in the East China Sea.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said the government was undertaking a ?serious investigation? and would guarantee foreign diplomats? safety. That did not stop Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba from formally demanding an investigation on Tuesday, calling the incident ?deplorable.?
Thousands of anti-Japanese protesters took to the streets of cities across China last weekend for the second straight week, burning Japanese flags and vandalizing Japanese restaurants and businesses.
The violence is the latest flare-up of a long-simmering row between Beijing and Tokyo over ownership of a handful of uninhabited rocky islands known here as the Diaoyu and in Japan as the Senkaku islands. The islands are surrounded by fishing grounds, and sovereignty would confer rights over nearby undersea oil and gas deposits.
The most recent war of words broke out between the two Asian neighbors a month ago, when Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda appeared to suggest that his government might seek to buy the islands from their private Japanese owner, an idea championed by maverick Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara.
That prompted a sharp response from Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei, who expressed Beijing?s ?strong displeasure? with what he called Mr. Noda?s ?highly irresponsible? remarks.
Tensions rose further when a group of Chinese activists from Hong Kong landed on one of the disputed islands on Aug.15, the 67th ?anniversary of Japan?s surrender at the end of World War II.
After they had been arrested by the Japanese coast guard and expelled from Japan, a group of right wing Japanese activists landed on another of the islands to make their own point for a couple of hours, before coast guard officials persuaded them to leave.
Nationalist and anti-Japanese sentiment is strong in China, where the authorities have long encouraged it in their citizens from an early age through history books that often inflame resentment against the former invaders.
The Chinese government faces a delicate task, however, not wanting to appear soft on Japan yet anxious to keep protests from turning into expressions of dissatisfaction with the Chinese authorities themselves, or from spilling over into violence that might seriously harm relations with Tokyo.
The Japanese authorities too appear anxious not to let the dispute get out of hand. The government yesterday refused a request from the Tokyo municipality for permission to land a delegation on the islands.
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From: Bargaineering - 2:10pm - August 29, 2012More and more people find themselves staying in their homes for longer than they had planned thanks to a depressed housing market.? However, there are plenty of small projects you can do yourself that just might make you fall in love with your home all over again and potentially increase your home?s value.? Even if [...]Home Improvement Projects You Can Do Yourself from personal finance blog Bargaineering.com. The post Home Improvement Projects You Can Do Yourself appeared first on Bargaineering.
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Syrian opposition group not up to job, says ex-member
DUBAI/AMMAN (Reuters) - Egypt called on Thursday for intervention to halt bloodshed in Syria, telling a meeting of 120 nations it was their duty to stand against the "oppressive regime" of Bashar al-Assad, prompting a Syrian walkout.
President Mohamed Mursi, elected two months ago after a popular uprising toppled Egypt's long-standing leader Hosni Mubarak, said Assad had lost legitimacy in his fight to crush a 17-month-old revolt in which 20,000 people have been killed.
Mursi's scathing speech to a summit of non-aligned leaders, hosted by Assad's Shi'ite ally Iran, prompted Syria's foreign minister to accuse the moderate Sunni Islamist leader of inciting further bloodshed in Syria.
The political broadside against the Syrian president came as rebels said they shot down a fighter plane in northern Syria, where his air force has been bombarding opposition-held towns in a fierce counter-offensive against insurgents.
It was the latest strike by Assad's foes on the air power he has increasingly relied on to crush the uprising. Rebels said this week they attacked a northern military air base and shot down a helicopter that was bombarding a district of Damascus.
"The bloodshed in Syria is our responsibility on all our shoulders and we have to know that the bloodshed cannot stop without effective interference from all of us," Mursi said.
"We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom."
His comments prompted Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem to storm out of the meeting, complaining that Mursi was inciting fighters to "continue shedding Syrian blood", Syrian state television said.
ASSAD SAYS NEEDS TIME
Assad, in his first television interview since rebels took their fight into the heart of Damascus and the country's biggest city, Aleppo, said on Wednesday his fight to put down the uprising was going well but needed more time.
"Everyone wants this battle to be completed in days or weeks but this isn't reasonable, because we are in the middle of a regional and international struggle and it needs time to be resolved," he said.
Mainly peaceful protests were met with force by Assad's military, and the uprising has degenerated into a civil war with sectarian overtones and regional dimensions. The mainly Sunni Muslim rebels are backed by regional Sunni powers, particularly Gulf Arab states and Turkey.
Assad, whose Alawite community is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, has support from Iran, a rival of Gulf Arab states and Western powers. Lebanon's Shi'ite militia Hezbollah has also shown solidarity with the Syrian president.
The role of regional powers has assumed greater significance because of deadlock at U.N. Security Council, where diplomatic stalemate has marginalized the major powers.
U.S., Russian and Chinese ministers are not expected to attend Thursday's U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria, underlining the fact that both Assad's critics and backers on the council see little prospect of it taking any action.
"We wanted a resolution on humanitarian issues, but we faced a double refusal," said a French diplomat, whose country will chair the meeting in New York.
"The United States and Britain believe we have reached the end of what can be achieved at the Security Council, and Moscow and Beijing said that such a resolution would have been biased."
Nearly a year and a half after the uprising erupted, Assad's political foes are equally divided.
A member of the Syrian National Council, which once hoped to win international endorsement as the country's leadership-in-waiting, resigned this week complaining it was not doing enough to back the revolt and must be replaced by a new political authority.
"My sense was that the SNC was not up to facing the increasing challenges on the ground," Basma Kodmani, the latest council member to break from the SNC, told Reuters.
PLANE "SHOT DOWN"
The Syrian Martyrs Brigade said on Thursday it brought down a plane near the town of al-Thayabiya. Video footage on Al Arabiya television showed what appeared to be smoke in the sky and a person parachuting down. An army helicopter hovered over the area, apparently in search of the pilot.
"The brigade has started targeting the regime's air assets, including military airports," a member of the group said from Idlib, declining to give further details.
As well as targeting rebels, Assad's jets and artillery have also struck at least 10 bakeries in Aleppo province in the last three weeks, killing dozens of people as they waited in line to buy bread, the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said.
It said the attacks were either deliberate or done without care to avoid the hundreds of civilians forced to queue outside a dwindling number of bakeries in Syria's biggest city, a front line in the civil war.
One attack two weeks ago killed around 60 people and wounded more than 70, it said.
The fighting around Aleppo, Damascus and the southern province of Deraa, where protests against Assad first erupted in March 2011, has prompted waves of refugees to flood into neighboring Turkey and Jordan.
Turkey urged the United Nations to protect displaced Syrians inside their own country, to take the pressure off its crowded refugee camps, and France said it was studying the issue of buffer zones in Syria, an idea Assad dismissed as unrealistic.
(Additional reporting by John Irish at the United Nations, Erika Solomon in Beirut, Marcus George in Dubai; Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Jon Boyle)
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David Mamet political comedy opens Studio season ? Minnesota ...
The Department of Theatre & Dance will open the 2012-13 season with David Mamet?s ?November.?
2012-08-29
Minnesota State, Mankato Department of Theatre & Dance News Release 8-29-2012
?The Minnesota State University, Mankato Department of Theatre & Dance will open its 2012-13 seasons with David Mamet?s ?November,? 7:30 p.m. Sept. 19-22 in the Andreas Theatre of the Earley Center for Performing Arts. It is the first show of the Studio season.
It?s November in a Presidential election year and incumbent Charles Smith?s chances for re-election are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money?s running out and nuclear war might be imminent. With Pulitzer Prize-winning Mamet?s characteristic no-holds-barred style, ?November? is a scathingly hilarious take on the state of America today and the lengths to which people will go to win. This is its Minnesota State Mankato debut; it contains mature language and themes.
Individual tickets for ?November? are $10 regular, $9 for senior citizens, youth 16 and under and groups of 15 or more, $8 for current Minnesota State students. Individual tickets for this show, as well as all shows in the season, go on sale Monday, Sept. 17, at MSUTheatre.com
The Theatre & Dance Box Office will be open 4-6 p.m. in the lobby of the Earley Center for Performing Arts that day. Subscriptions are also on sale for the 2012-13 Mainstage season.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Is Motorola announcing a Intel Medfield-powered phone on September 18th?
Our calendar in September is starting to fill up rather rapidly, with Motorola asking us to come to its second announcement in a month on September 18th. Intel's co-signed the ticket, with the partnership offering to "take us to the edge" for an exciting announcement from the pair. We're kinda assuming it's got something to do with Santa Clara's mobile chip offerings, since the companies teamed up for a "multi-year, multi-device" partnership in January that promised fresh hardware from the pair arrive in the second half of 2012.
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This is broken in one of two ways: 1) He doped, 2) He didn?t dope but lots of people are out to get him
Has Armstrong confessed to anything?
No. He has passed up his right to contest the charges levelled at him by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Armstrong maintains that Usada does not have the right to sanction him, and that only cycling?s world governing body ? the?UCI ? or the court of arbitration for sport (Cas) does have that right.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Howard Stern says NBC exec reprimanded him for Jay Leno dig
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Howard Stern might be part of the NBC family with his "America's Got Talent" judging gig, but he certainly seems to be the black sheep among his new relatives.
Stern claimed on his radio show last Tuesday that an NBC executive made a "threatening kind of comment" to Stern after he blasted NBC late-night host Jay Leno as a "spineless maggot."
Stern slammed Leno last Monday on his show, following reports that Leno had taken a pay cut to save staffers' jobs after 20 employees were laid off from "The Tonight Show." The next day, Stern claimed on his Sirius XM Radio show that his attack on Leno was met with a chilly reception by one network executive.
"I got sort of a threatening kind of comment from one of the executives," Stern said. "I was done with Jay Leno, now I'm all fired up again."
On last Monday's radio show, Stern cast doubt on accounts that Leno was attempting to save staff members' jobs, suggesting to the contrary that Leno had wanted the staff cuts, and was hiding behind NBC.
"It's a smokescreen... Here's what it really means, and you can take this to the bank: Jay Leno is a scumbag, said Stern. "That's what that means. He's a spineless maggot. Jay wanted to cut staff. He's embarrassed to do it. He didn't want to come off as a bad guy."
While Stern - who's had harsh words for Leno in the past - declined to offer specifics about the alleged threat, he did assert that he won't be swayed by intimidation.
"Take my job away from me - who cares?" Stern said. "I will never, ever, ever endorse Jay."
Stern said that the executive accused him of not knowing anything about the "Tonight Show" budget cuts.
"Of course I don't!" Stern admitted. "I have theories."
Warning NBC not to threaten him, Stern continued, "I don't answer to anybody, everyone knows that. That's part of the game. And that's why I'm a great judge - I would tell people if they sucked."
Stern stressed, however, that it's not all hard feelings - at least between him and NBC.
"I love my job on 'AGT,' I love working for the people at NBC, they've been nothing but wonderful," Stern said.
"But please don't tell me what to say. I'd rather leave than not talk about Jay Leno."
Stern joined "America's Got Talent" for its current seventh season, which premiered in May.
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Monday, August 27, 2012
Ditch the Tray at the Buffet to Keep Your Portions in Check [Food]
Buffet restaurants and hotel breakfasts offer steam trays full of heaping deliciousness, but they're also tempting opportunities to throw moderation out the window and eat too much. One way to keep your meal size in check at a buffet is one of the easiest to remember: skip the tray and eat only what you can carry in your hands.
The folks at Greatist have a wealth of solid, common-sense tips to help avoid buffer binging at the link below, but one that stood out to us was to skip the stack of trays and pick up a single plate. We've all seen people walking around buffets with three or four plates on a tray?this trick will help you eat in moderation from the getgo. Combine it with another of their suggestions: sit as far from the buffet as possible, and you can give yourself the mental pause needed to keep your meal in check.
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established channel partners (heavy equipment manufacturers often call them ?dealers? whereas companies which manufacture technology products have VARs or Value-Added Resellers) across the globe.
OK, so you?re not a multi-billon dollar a year manufacturer, but there are channel partner best practices that you can learn from these best-in-class companies.? A simple Google search of ?channel partners vs direct sales? will provide numerous reference articles extolling the virtues and pitfalls of using channel partners.? But you have probably already done your homework regarding the pros and cons, as you are moving ahead with signing up channel partners.
No doubt your research turned up words like ?mindshare?, ?collaboration?, and ?engagement.? ?It did not take much convincing for you to agree that it is vital to any partnership to have open and frequent collaboration and engagement.? Furthermore, you realized that to manage such critical relationships, you would need to seriously consider implementing some type of technology solution.? More research on the web brought you to channel management software solutions.? A little more digging and you discovered the term partner relationship management (PRM), which is defined by Wikipedia as ?a system of methodologies, strategies, software and web-based capabilities that help a company to manage partner relationships.? The general purpose of PRM is to enable companies to better manage their partners through the introduction of reliable systems, processes and procedures for interacting with them.?Web-based PRM systems typically include a content management system, a partner and customer contact database, and the notion of a partner portal which allows partners to login and interact with a company?s sales opportunity database and obtain product, pricing, and training information.?
A PRM solution can help in establishing and maintaining trust and open communication across your entire sales channel. PRM processes seek to identify and resolve conflict in every area of the channel partnership, creating a more efficient system of conducting business. As a result of this improved collaboration and engagement is better sales performance.
LogicBay CEO John Panaccione comments on the digital evolution of partner programs:?
PRM systems are a set of tools that allow you to better organize and manage channel relationships. A PRM system can be looked at as both a technology solution and a business philosophy. The core functional components of PRM should include:
Today?s web based partner relationship management solutions are very cost effective and should be considered an integral part of any successful channel partner strategy.? The right PRM solution should be scalable and easy to implement.? To ensure the success of your channel partner strategy (success is defined a reaching or exceeding your revenue targets), you need to seriously consider implement a PRM solution sooner than later.
[If you would like to learn more about PRM best practices,?click here?for a free white paper.]
LogicBay Vice President of Marketing Todd Grant leverages a successful track record of launching numerous business development initiatives for technology-enabled business service companies and brings a proprietary business acquisition process to LogicBay often referred to as Diagnosis Selling. Utilizing this methodology he will consult with LogicBay Enterprise prospects collaborating with? View?full?profile
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
Video: Roundtable discusses previous conventions
A Second Take on Meeting the Press: From an up-close look at Rachel Maddow's sneakers to an in-depth look at Jon Krakauer's latest book ? it's all fair game in our "Meet the Press: Take Two" web extra. Log on Sundays to see David Gregory's post-show conversations with leading newsmakers, authors and roundtable guests. Videos are available on-demand by 12 p.m. ET on Sundays.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/vp/48794658#48794658
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Tropical Storm Isaac drenches Haiti, swipes Cuba
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac dumped torrential rains on Haiti and flattened tent camps housing survivors of a devastating earthquake, then began an assault on eastern Cuba on Saturday.
Isaac killed at least two people in Haiti and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane before hitting the Florida Keys on Sunday and crossing into the Gulf of Mexico.
Fueled by warm Gulf waters, it was forecast to strengthen into a Category 2 hurricane with 100-mph (160-kph) winds and hit the U.S. coast somewhere between the Florida Panhandle and New Orleans at midweek.
Isaac's march toward the Gulf comes as U.S. Republicans prepare to gather in Tampa, on Florida's central Gulf Coast, for Monday's start of their national convention ahead of the November presidential election. The convention is expected to proceed as planned.
Energy operators in the Gulf of Mexico were shutting down offshore oil and gas rigs ahead of Isaac. The storm could spur short-term shut-downs of 43 percent of U.S. offshore oil capacity and 38 percent of its natural gas output, according to forecasters at Weather Insight, an arm of Thomson Reuters.
Isaac's rain and winds lashed Haiti's southern coast on Saturday, flooding parts of the capital Port-au-Prince and ripping through flimsy resettlement camps that house more than 350,000 survivors of the 2010 earthquake.
A 10-year-old girl was killed in Port-au-Prince when a wall fell on her and a woman in the southern coastal city of Jacmel was crushed to death when a tree fell on her house, government officials said.
At a tent camp in the seaside slum of Cite Soleil, corrugated plastic shacks were broken apart and water gushed in.
"We had never seen anything like this. Everyone fled to the church, but I didn't want to leave my home. All my things are wet," said Edeline Trevil, 47, who survived with her cat.
"I'm cold! I've been wet since last night," the shoeless woman added.
The storm caused power outages and flooding and blew off roofs as it moved across the hilly and severely deforested Caribbean country. Winds had died down by Saturday afternoon but forecasters said rains would continue in Haiti.
EMERGENCY IN FLORIDA
Damage had so far been less than feared, said George Ngwa, Haiti spokesman for the United Nations Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
"We don't have any serious reports of major flooding or mudslides so far," he said.
By mid afternoon on Saturday, Isaac's center was over eastern Cuba, 40 miles north of Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
The storm had top winds of 60 mph and would become a hurricane if those swirling winds reach 74 mph. A hurricane warning was in effect for the Florida Keys and the southwest coast of Florida.
In Haiti, the United Nations mission said it was prepared to distribute food and emergency supplies for more than 300,000 people, and 10,000 U.N. troops, including several engineering units, stood ready to clear roads for emergency response teams.
The government and aid groups tried to evacuate thousands of tent camp dwellers on Friday but many Haitians chose to remain in their flimsy, makeshift homes, apparently fearing they would be robbed, said Bradley Mellicker, head of disaster management for the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Flooding and mudslides were still a threat in Haiti, where many people scrape by on less than $1 per day in the poorest country in the Americas. Flooding could also reignite a cholera epidemic, which has killed more than 7,500 people in Haiti since the disease first appeared in October 2010, aid workers said.
In the Dominican Republic, Isaac felled power and phone lines and left at least a dozen towns cut off by flood waters. The most severe damage was reported along the south coast, including the capital Santo Domingo, where more than half the city was without power.
Rising winds and waves whipped eastern Cuba on Saturday afternoon, prompting government alerts for 11 provinces. In Cuba's easternmost city of Baracoa, water crashed over the seawall and ran ankle-deep through the nearby streets.
More than 1,000 people were evacuated to the homes of friends and family ahead of possible flooding, Cuban TV said.
"We fear the sea and the flooding a lot more than the rain and wind. It rains frequently here all year long, but when the sea comes in everything floods," said Baracoa housewife Yamila Sanchez.
The storm was expected to pass directly over the town of Moa, the center of the Cuban nickel mining industry, but officials said they expected no major problems and had enough ore on hand to continue processing for up to five days. Cuba is one of the ten largest nickel producers in the world.
In Florida, Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency, an administrative step aimed at streamlining disaster preparations.
Emergency managers urged tourists to leave the Florida Keys if they could do so safely on Saturday. A single road links the chain of low-lying islands to the Florida Peninsula and the Key West airport was expected to halt flights on Saturday evening.
At Cape Canaveral on Florida's east coast, squalls from the storm delayed until next week the launch of a pair of NASA satellites to study Earth's radiation belts.
Isaac has drawn especially close scrutiny because of the Republican Party's convention, a four-day meeting during which former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will receive the party's presidential nomination.
Party officials insist the convention will go ahead, even if they have to alter the schedule. But Hurricane Center meteorologist Rick Danielson said Tampa could be hit by coastal flooding and driving winds or rain.
"There is still a full range of possible impacts on Tampa at this point," he said.
(Writing by Jane Sutton; Additional reporting by David Adams and Michael Connor in Miami, Irene Klotz in Cape Canaveral, Jeff Franks and Nelson Acosta in Havana, Manuel Jimenez in Santo Domingo and Erwin Seba in Houston; Editing by Vicki Allen)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/isaac-bears-down-haiti-south-florida-under-storm-011629692.html
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Book on Environment, Society and Sustainable Development ...
Islamabad ?-?The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) would launch a book on selected research articles and papers on Environment, Society and Sustainable Development on August 27.
The book ?Environment, Society and Sustainable Development?, is authored by eminent writers and published in various editions of Pakistan?s premier environmental Journals during the last twenty years.
These writings not only summarized important environmental concerns during the last two decades but also showcase SDPI?s twenty years of struggle for conservation of nature and sustainable socio-economic development in the country. Dr. Anwar Ahmad, chairman of National Language Authority (NLA) would be chief guest at the launching ceremony, said a news release issued here on Friday.
Engineer Asif S. Khan, director general of Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) would be key speaker on the occasion.
The book is part of SDPI?s twentieth years anniversary celebrations which includes publication of special books on various aspects of sustainable development.
Source: http://pakmed.net/college/forum/?p=54633
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Balloon Juice ? Blog Archive ? Gamer Question
By John Cole August 24th, 2012
Did the STEAM database just go completely tits up? I tried to install a Civ 5 expansion, and steam no longer recognized my username or email, which really honks me off, because I have multiple games that run through steam. If they have lost all of them, I am going to go ape.
Source: http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/08/24/gamer-question/
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Mexico investigates why federal cops fired at U.S. govt. car
MEXICO CITY (AP) ? Mexican authorities are trying to sort out why a U.S. Embassy vehicle was shot up by federal police on a rural back road in mountains south of the capital, leaving two U.S. government workers wounded.
Officials from both nations said the federal officers were chasing criminals Friday morning when a hail of bullets was fired at the embassy sport utility vehicle, but the accounts left many questions unanswered.
The two American workers were taken to a hospital in the nearby resort city of Cuernavaca. One had a gunshot wound in his leg and the other was wounded in the stomach and a hand, said a Mexican government official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Hospital officials in Cuernavaca said the wounded were later transferred to a hospital in Mexico City in stable condition.
The U.S. Embassy did not release the names of the injured workers, who it said were heading to a military training base south of Mexico City. Its statement said the employees and a Mexican naval captain traveling with them were fired on by a group of men, and were chased when they tried to escape. The naval officer was not seriously injured.
Mexico's federal police agency acknowledged that its own officers fired on the embassy's SUV, which appeared to be armored and has diplomatic plates. It said the officers were in the area hunting for criminals, but it did not explain what happened.
Its statement said at least four vehicles fired at the embassy vehicle on a road south of the capital, but it did not clarify whether any or all of them were federal police units. Federal police spokesmen did not respond to The Associated Press requesting further comment.
A U.S. official who was briefed on the shooting said later that all the shots were fired by federal police.
Mexican prosecutors said in a statement late Friday that 12 officers based in Mexico City were being held for questioning. Officers based in the capital have jurisdiction only in Mexico City and in four suburbs of neighboring Mexico State, not in Cuernavaca.
The embassy employees were on their way to do training or related work at a military base, the U.S. official said.
"Apparently the police were looking for some bad guys and they ran into each other," said the official, who agreed to discuss the incident only if his name was not used. "It looks like it was just a bad mistake ... they just shot and kept shooting."
The shooting broke out in an area that has been used by common criminals, drug gangs and leftist rebels in the past.
Mexican officials said the Americans' vehicle initially was fired on by a carload of gunmen who first displayed their weapons as the embassy SUV drove along a stretch of dirt road off a highway that connects Mexico City to Cuernavaca. The U.S. driver of the Toyota tried to escape, but three other vehicles joined the original one in pursuing them down the dirt road and onto the highway.
Passengers in all four vehicles fired, and the Mexican naval captain called for help, government officials said. Federal police officers and Mexican soldiers then showed up on the road.
The SUV stopped on the highway, but it wasn't clear if the driver was halted by the chasers or stopped because of the wounds.
The vehicle was riddled with bullets, most concentrated around the passenger-side window. The area was cordoned off and guarded by more than 100 heavily armed marines and soldiers, and the highway was closed for hours. Investigators examined what appeared to be shell casings.
The U.S. Embassy said it was helping Mexico's government in its investigation of the incident. It said the wounded were not agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration or the FBI, but officials for neither country identified what agency they work for.
"They are receiving appropriate medical care and are in stable condition. We have no further information to share at this time," said Victoria Nuland, a State Department spokeswoman in Washington.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas who closely follows the affairs with Mexico, said both countries appeared to be working together to find out what went wrong.
"If the Mexicans are cooperating with U.S. officials to find out exactly what happened here then I don't think this will affect the U.S.-Mexico relationship," he said.
Attacks on diplomatic personnel in Mexico were once considered rare, but this was the third shooting incident in two years.
In 2011, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another wounded in a drug gang shooting in northern Mexico.
A drug-gang shooting in 2010 in the border city of Ciudad Juarez killed a U.S. consulate employee, her husband and another man.
While Mexico City has largely been spared the drug violence that hits other parts of the country, Cuernavaca has been the scene of drug gang turf battles involving remnants of the Beltran Leyva cartel.
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Associated Press writers Mark Stevenson and Adriana Gomez Licon contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-probe-why-federal-cops-fired-us-gov-053931124.html
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Friday, August 24, 2012
Greek PM in Germany: need 'time to breathe'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras, step on a podium to listen to the national anthems during a welcome ceremony prior to a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras, step on a podium to listen to the national anthems during a welcome ceremony prior to a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras, right, shake hands after a joint news conference as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
In this picture provided by the German Government German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras, right, on the terrace of the federal chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Building in the background is the German parliament Reichstag. (AP Photo/Bundesregierung/Guido Bergmann)
A German, Greek and an EU flag wave at the federal chancellery with the German parliament, the Reichstag building in the background during the visit of Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/dapd, Oliver Lang)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, talks to Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras, during a welcome ceremony at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Maja Hitij)
BERLIN (AP) ? Greece made little immediate progress in its quest for more time to carry out painful cuts during talks between its Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday.
But the German leader did offer some support to the stricken country, stressing that Berlin wanted to keep Greece in the euro and that it won't rush to make any premature judgments about its reform efforts.
In German and French media this week, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has been arguing that his country should have more time beyond the mid-2014 deadline to complete reforms that are a condition of it continuing to receive bailout loans. Without the help, Greece would be forced into a chaotic default on its debts and could be forced out of the eurozone.
Leading German politicians have voiced deep skepticism about granting Greece any concessions. Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, meeting a day before Samaras came to Berlin, put the onus squarely on Greece to fulfill its pledges.
Athens has faltered in the speed and effectiveness of implementing the reforms ? irritating creditors, notably Germany, which is the single largest contributor to its ?240 billion ($300 billion) bailout packages. Weeks of political wrangling in Greece that ultimately brought a coalition government under Samaras to power didn't help.
Greece's continued access to the bailout packages hinges on a favorable report next month from the so-called "troika" of the country's debt inspectors ? the European Union, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. If Greece is found to have failed on key economic reforms that are conditions of the bailout loan, vital funds could be halted.
"To win back confidence, we must fulfill expectations, and so I made clear in the talks that we of course expect from Greece that the commitments that were made be implemented, that deeds follow words," Merkel said after meeting Samaras.
"But fulfilling expectations also means that Greece can rightly expect from Germany that we do not pass premature judgments," Merkel said, adding that Germany needs to wait for the debt inspectors' report.
Merkel didn't address Samaras' hopes of winning more time to carry out reforms, which he reiterated at Friday's joint news conference, emphasizing that stimulating economic growth is a priority.
"We don't want more aid, we did not ask for more money; but we need time to breathe ? it is a big leap that Greece is making," he said. He didn't specify how long that "time to breathe" might be.
Germany's finance minister has argued that giving Greece more time wouldn't solve the country's problems, and the parliamentary caucus leader of Merkel's conservative bloc poured more cold water on the idea Friday. Both question Samaras' assertion that giving Greece more time doesn't have to mean giving it more money.
And Merkel would need approval for any extra funding in Parliament, where lawmakers in her center-right coalition have no appetite for another Greek rescue program.
Merkel said there are "two realities" that need to be reconciled by European leaders.
In Greece, she said, there is the perspective of having suffered through years of recession and being asked now for more painful cuts. "And then there's the other reality expressed by many in Germany that we have for more than two years guaranteed programs, support and a lot of money for Greece and it always comes to that point where what we have expected has not happened, and from that has grown a lot of impatience."
Some German politicians have talked openly about the possibility of Greece leaving the euro. The vice chancellor, Economy Minister Philipp Roesler, has said the idea of a Greek exit has "lost its horror."
However, Merkel repeated on Friday that Germany wants Greece to keep the shared currency.
"I want to say very clearly here ... (and) this is also the aim of the entire German government, that Greece is a part of the eurozone and I would like Greece to remain part of the eurozone," she said.
Friday's meeting "was a good beginning, but it also became clear in the talks that there is a lot to do," Merkel said.
Greece "will stay true to its commitments," Samaras insisted. "To be precise, we are already doing so. I am convinced that the report of the troika will signal that the new coalition government in Greece will soon lead to results."
Samaras will meet Hollande in Paris on Saturday. Continuing a round of financial diplomacy, Merkel will meet next Wednesday with Italian Premier Mario Monti, whose country is struggling with high borrowing costs.
Earlier Friday, the parliamentary leader of Merkel's conservative bloc said he was "very skeptical" about giving Greece more time. "My position is that neither the time nor the position in substance can be renegotiated; Greece must now fulfill its duties," Volker Kauder told ZDF television.
Asked whether the euro would fail if Greece leaves, Kauder replied that rescue funds are in place to help prevent contagion of other countries, so "I would say that this wouldn't be a problem for the euro."
Samaras said it time for an end to talk about Greece leaving the euro.
"Can there be any businessman who invests in this country if he knows that he will invest in euros and get drachma back? No," Samaras said.
"You can imagine that this cacophony ... creates such big problems that one has the impression of fighting for nothing."
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David Rising and Frank Jordans contributed to this story.
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Intercollegiate Boxing: Olympic Boxing: Do We Even Care?
As the worst Olympic showing in U.S. history fades in our rear view mirrors, we are struggling to explain what has gone wrong with men?s boxing and how we can fix it. A generation ago the USA ruled; now, after a nearly three-decade nosedive, the program has finally crash-landed. We?ve gone from nine Gold Medals in 1984 to none in 2012; in fact, no men?s medals period.??
USA Boxing, the sport?s governing body is broken, shattered into failure?s familiar fragments: ego, politics, self-interest, blame, and ego (did I already say ego? good.). Barring the appointment of an old style boxing dictator, the kind of leader who damns torpedoes, raises funds, and tells prima donna athletes and coaches how it?s done, it won?t get fixed. Yet that?s not apt to happen. Instead, the 2016 Games will likely be one more fiasco that tumbles out of the USA Boxing clown car.??
But there?s no point in writing the same column you can find by the dozen through a Google search. There are darker questions fans seem afraid to ask, like do we, as a nation, still care about amateur boxing? Have the sport?s nagging stereotypes permanently muddied over the truth that boxing is still the most wholesome and honorable sport of all???
Youth boxing teaches violence and causes brain damage. Nobody wants these things.
The trouble is, that?s nonsense. Anyone close to the sport knows that amateur boxers are the last to take their skills to the streets. And it doesn?t matter that the National Safety Council ranks amateur boxing dead last among injury producing sports. The sight of someone getting punched in the head trumps the truth. Inveighing against boxing?s barbarity is practically a conversation starter at cocktail parties, alongside the weather.
??It wasn?t always this way. Our support of amateur boxing used to be unwavering. The sport was supported by a national infrastructure of community-based organizations like YMCAs, JCCs and city recreation programs. We used to know that boxing promotes youth development and even prevents delinquency.??
Now, Albany?s Quail Street Gym is the only entirely municipally funded boxing gym in the country. In its 12-years of operation, it?s produced 11 nationally ranked boxers, two of whom missed spots on Olympic Teams by one point in the Trials. Imagine if every municipality had such a gym. Imagine the effect it would have on the skill level of Team USA.??
Now imagine something else, which is what got me writing today?s column in the first place. Somebody asked me last weekend what happened to college boxing. Good question.??
A generation ago kids who came out of those community programs were rewarded for their dedication. They went to college on boxing scholarships. College boxing started in 1919, holding its first NCAA tournament in 1937. Three years later, when the University of Wisconsin hosted Washington State University, 15,000 fans dropped by. That same night at Madison Square Garden, only two-thirds as many saw Joe Louis defend his title against Johnny Paycheck. By the 1950s, over 200 colleges had boxing teams.??
But it all came crashing down on April 9, 1960. Charlie Mohr, a middleweight from the University of Wisconsin, was dropped in the second round of a national championship bout. Although the referee stopped the contest and Mohr walked to the locker room, he collapsed, dying eight days later of a brain hemorrhage. Yup, bad things happen in boxing, same as in other sports, just not as frequently.
Nonetheless, Sports Illustrated predicted back then that such a tragedy will ?doom the sport? (SI, 5/25/60). They were right. Boxing lost its NCAA status. Within a few years it resumed as a club sport here and there, but with no varsity standing, no paid coaches, and no scholarships.??
That club sport evolved into the National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA). It?s comprised of only 35 schools, but let me tell you, it?s an amazing league. I got to feature it in Ring Magazine a year ago - mature athletes trained by the best coaches you will find.
???We may be the red-headed stepchildren on college campuses,? said Jim McNally, coach at the United States Naval Academy, ?but at our brigade championship we?ll get 5,000 people in the arena.?
???What happened to Charley Mohr hasn?t happened in, what, 50 years?? said Dr. Ray Barone, Director of Boxing at West Point. ?That says something.???
In fairness, ?There was more to the NCAA?s decision than Charlie Mohr?s death,? noted McNally. ?Some schools were giving scholarships and some weren?t. We started to see more and more mismatches.? That?s where boxing can become dangerous.??
?Colleges started dropping their programs, and people weren?t comfortable with boxing in the first place. They associated it with the stereotypes,? said McNally.??
NCBA?s solution was to require that incoming freshmen have no more than 10 amateur bouts, effectively eliminating mismatches. Everyone is a beginner in the NCBA.??
But what stops a full return of NCAA college boxing, only with a system to prevent mismatches? As a USA Boxing official, I can tell you that we do that right now and very carefully. No kid with 30 bouts takes on a beginner ? ever.??
And forget Title IX concerns, the federal legislation mandating gender equality in academic and athletic opportunities. USA women brought home our only boxing hardware from London. Women are gloved up and ready.??
So imagine a young person, coming out of Albany?s Quail Street Gym to compete on Siena College?s Boxing Team, on full scholarship of course, not the $2000/year pittance USA Boxing gives its athletes.
And what if this happened at universities throughout the nation? What a feeder program for Team USA.??
Make no mistake, folks, we?d be back in the medal business. But do we want it? I asked three college athletic directors if they?d be excited about such an eventuality. Nobody answered the question, but simply referred me to NCAA governance procedures.
Source: Michael Rivest, The Record
Source: http://www.intercollegiateboxing.com/2012/08/olympic-boxing-do-we-even-care.html
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