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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Charlotte drops ODU from football schedule; Monarchs respond by adding Campbell
Scrambling to fill a last-minute open football date, Old Dominion replaced the Charlotte 49ers with Campbell for the upcoming season, ODU officials announced Wednesday night.
ODU now has just five home games and an 11-game schedule as it transitions into the Football Bowl Subdivision and Conference USA.
Charlotte officials last week informed the Monarchs that they were canceling their Nov. 16 game in Norfolk, just days after ODU canceled what was supposed to be the second game of a home-and-home series, next year in Charlotte.
?Following the release of the ODU-Charlotte game from the 2014 schedule, both institutions believed it was in the best interest for our programs that we drop the series until we meet as Conference USA members in 2015,? ODU athletic director Wood Selig said in a statement released through the athletic department. ?We look forward to initiating our rivalry in two years in the league.?ODU has played Campbell in each of its first four seasons, winning each game. In the past three meetings, ODU has outscored the Camels 155-41.
ODU on Wednesday also announced its 2014 nonconference schedule: against Hampton University on Aug. 30, at N.C. State on Sept. 6, against Eastern Michigan on Sept. 13 and at Vanderbilt on Nov. 1.
After canceling its 2013 game with ODU, Charlotte filled one of its two vacancies this season with a Sept. 21 game at James Madison, according to sources. That's the first of a home-and-home series, with JMU going to Charlotte in 2014.
Neither ODU nor Charlotte officials would confirm that this season's game was canceled. But at Conference USA football media day in Irving, Texas, on Wednesday, the Monarchs' media guide listed the Nov. 16 opponent as TBA, and did not mention Charlotte as an opponent.
ODU now has just five home games and an 11-game schedule as it transitions into the Football Bowl Subdivision and Conference USA.
The cancellation may have financial repercussions for ODU, which sold 15,000 season tickets and stadium signage predicated on a six-game home schedule.
Scheduling home games was particularly difficult for ODU this season, because the Monarchs are technically still a Football Championship Subdivision program and don't begin playing a full C-USA schedule until 2014.
Charlotte's startup football program is in its first season, and the 49ers will join C-USA in 2015. That's a major component of the scheduling dispute.
Charlotte officials and coaches didn't want to play an established program on its way to FBS while its own program was in its infancy. When the contract was originally signed, both schools believed they would be playing at the FCS level in 2013 and '14.
Earlier this month, ODU officials told Charlotte that they were canceling the 2014 game because they sought another FBS opponent and agreed to pay the 49ers $60,000.
But that still left Charlotte looking for a home game, which JMU was able to provide.
Monarchs settle with Blaine Taylor
Old Dominion settled its contract issues with former men's basketball coach Blaine Taylor on Wednesday, the Virginian-Pilot reported.
According to senior associate athletic director Debbie White, Taylor was paid $37,580 to settle. He also was paid his salary from the date he was dismissed, Feb. 5, to July 31 ? the final day of his annual contract. His annual salary from the school was $212,160. The estimated pro-rated payment would be about $102,300.
Taylor's compensation package was much higher, with a majority of it coming from the ODU Athletic Foundation. According to the Pilot, in 2010, the last year numbers were available through Internal Revenue Service filings, his total compensation package was $743,428.
Old Dominion announced Taylor's firing Feb. 5, and the Monarchs were 2-20 with eight games left in the season. ODU athletic director Wood Selig said at the time, the dismissal was not a result of the losing record, but because the team needed a change in leadership. Taylor was 239-144 in nearly 12 seasons at ODU.
Source: http://www.dailypress.com/sports/dp-spt-odu-charlotte-fb-sked-20130724,0,4737087.story?track=rss
Nasdaq stocks posting largest volume decreases
NEW YORK (AP) -- A look at the 10 biggest volume decliners on Nasdaq at the close of trading:
American River Bankshares : Approximately 200 shares changed hands, a 97.9 decrease from its 65-day average volume. The shares remained unchanged at $9.21.
Autobytel Inc. : Approximately 500 shares changed hands, a 98.3 decrease from its 65-day average volume. The shares rose $.02 or .4 percent to $5.27.
CTI Industries Corp. : Approximately 100 shares changed hands, a 95.9 decrease from its 65-day average volume. The shares rose $.01 or .2 percent to $5.26.
Cheviot Financial Corp. : Approximately 400 shares changed hands, a 97.5 decrease from its 65-day average volume. The shares remained unchanged at $11.39.
First South BanCorp. Inc. : Approximately 100 shares changed hands, a 98.7 decrease from its 65-day average volume. The shares rose $.17 or 2.6 percent to $6.73.
First United Corp. : Approximately 200 shares changed hands, a 97.0 decrease from its 65-day average volume. The shares remained unchanged at $7.48.
Naugatuck Valley Financial Corp. : Approximately 100 shares changed hands, a 98.2 decrease from its 65-day average volume. The shares rose $.03 or .4 percent to $7.93.
Oconee Federal Financial Corp. : Approximately 100 shares changed hands, a 97.9 decrease from its 65-day average volume. The shares fell $.03 or .2 percent to $16.05.
TAT Technologies Ltd. : Approximately 100 shares changed hands, a 97.2 decrease from its 65-day average volume. The shares remained unchanged at $7.04.
Transcat Inc. : Approximately 600 shares changed hands, a 95.6 decrease from its 65-day average volume. The shares fell $.11 or 1.5 percent to $7.40.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nasdaq-stocks-posting-largest-volume-230826852.html
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Evolutionary Band being featured at Canada's Walk of Fame
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Explosion rocks Beijing airport in China, terminal evacuated
An explosion hit the Beijing airport in China Saturday, prompting police to order people to leave a terminal. TODAY's Jenna Wolfe reports
By Ed Flanagan and Ian Johnston, NBC News
An explosion hit Beijing airport in China on Saturday, prompting police to order people to leave one terminal, a witness said.
Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, of the International Crisis Group think tank, was at the airport when the blast happened at about 6:30 p.m. local time (6:30 a.m. ET).
?Huge explosion followed by panic, smoke and dust at Terminal 3,? she said on Twitter.
?Lots of excitement, police v angry, shouted crowds back and told everyone to leave,? she added.
She posted a photograph of the scene, showing the air clouded with dust after the blast:
The official Xinhua News Agency said a man in a wheel chair was responsible for the explosion, just outside the arrivals exit of Terminal.
The Sina Weibo microblog of state broadcaster China Central Television said the bomb consisted of black gunpowder used to make firecrackers.
A photograph posted on?China's official Xinhua news agency's English-language website showed medical staff treating someone who was lying on the ground.
Chinese state television reported that the only person taken to hospital after the blast was the suspected bomber. However local media said a police official also suffered a minor injury.
Beijing International Airport Authority later said that arrivals and departures were operating normally.
Reuters contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Sat Jul 20, 2013 7:42 AM EDT
Friday, July 19, 2013
Online series, movie stars hope for Emmy honors
This image released by Netflix shows Kevin Spacey as U.S. Congressman Frank Underwood in a scene from the Netflix original series, "House of Cards." If Netflix's "House of Cards" and "Arrested Development" become the first online shows to reap Emmy nominations Thursday, July 18, it will be a watershed moment for programs that don't need television sets to make a splash. (AP Photo/Netflix, Melinda Sue Gordon)
This image released by Netflix shows Kevin Spacey as U.S. Congressman Frank Underwood in a scene from the Netflix original series, "House of Cards." If Netflix's "House of Cards" and "Arrested Development" become the first online shows to reap Emmy nominations Thursday, July 18, it will be a watershed moment for programs that don't need television sets to make a splash. (AP Photo/Netflix, Melinda Sue Gordon)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Groundbreaking Internet series and movie actors could be the headliners in the upcoming Emmy Awards contest.
"House of Cards" and "Arrested Development," which Netflix delivered to viewers on the Internet, not on TV, may become the first online programs to receive top series and acting bids when the Emmy nominations are announced early Thursday.
A 6-year-old TV academy rules change allows online entries to compete with cable and broadcast programs, although so far Internet shows have popped up only in lower-profile categories. That could change with the 65th Primetime Emmys.
"It certainly is a marker of the new era. ... It will send shock waves through the industry," said Tim Brooks, a TV historian and former network executive.
"House of Cards," a tale of political intrigue, is aiming for a best drama series bid and nods for stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright. "Arrested Development," the sitcom revived by Netflix after Fox canceled it, may get a best comedy series nod and nominations for cast members including Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor and Jessica Walter.
Spacey and Wright also are part of a movement that keeps growing: prominent film actors finding good reason to work on the small screen.
With theaters dominated by blockbuster movies that are heavy on action and light on acting, performers are seeking out juicy roles in well-crafted series and made-for-TV flicks. Women, in particular, are being welcomed, even after passing the ing?nue stage of their career.
Movie stars with a shot at Emmy gold include Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in "Behind the Candelabra"; Al Pacino and Helen Mirren in "Phil Spector"; Holly Hunter in "Top of the Lake"; Shirley MacLaine in "Downton Abbey," Jeff Daniels in "The Newsroom" and Kevin Bacon in "The Following."
There are so many big names it could put the squeeze on TV-centric actors, even those who have collected multiple trophies like three-time winner Bryan Cranston of "Breaking Bad."
British stage, screen and TV star Maggie Smith, for instance, didn't even have to grace the Emmy ceremonies in 2011 and '12 to nab awards for "Downton Abbey," while more traditional TV nominees in the category showed up.
Potential behind-the-camera nominees from the industry's movie side include filmmakers Jane Campion for "Top of the Lake," Steven Soderbergh for the Liberace biopic "Candelabra" and David Fincher for "House of Cards."
A "House of Cards" best drama nod would weaken cable's near-monopoly on the category last year, aside from PBS contender "Downton Abbey." The 2012 winner, "Homeland," likely will be back to defend its crown, with other possible nominees including "Breaking Bad," ''Game of Thrones" and "Downton" again.
"Mad Men," which last year missed out on the best drama trophy that would have been its record-setting fifth, eclipsing fellow four-time winners "Hill Street Blues," ''L.A. Law" and The West Wing," will get another shot this time if nominated.
Comedy series nominees could include three-time winner "Modern Family," along with "The Big Bang Theory," ''Girls," ''Louie," ''Veep" and "Parks and Recreation."
A previous champion, "30 Rock," is looking for a last hurrah for its last season, and so is "The Office."
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Emmy ceremony will be hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and air Sept. 22 on CBS.
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Egypt: ousted president's supporters demonstrating
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Posted on July 12, 2013 at 5:00 AM
Updated today at 6:05 AM
CAIRO (AP) ? Thousands of supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood are demonstrating in a Cairo square, waving pictures of ousted president Mohammed Morsi.
They're chanting anti-military slogans, calling the army chief a traitor. He led the military's removal of Morsi from office last week.
The unseating of Morsi followed demonstrations by millions of Egyptians against his rule. It was a bitter blow to the Brotherhood, which won a string of ballots, including Morsi's election as president.
One speaker at the Friday demonstration pledged to stay on the streets until Morsi is reinstated.
"We are ready to stay for a month, two months, a year or even two years," ultraconservative Islamist Salafi cleric Safwat Hegazi told protesters.
This week more than 50 pro-Morsi protesters were killed in a clash with the military.
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Sanaa Lathan, Denzel Washington Deny Mistress Cheating Affair Report
LOS ANGELES (LALATE) ? Sanaa Lathan and Denzel Washington previously denied mistress cheating affair allegations several years ago. But now Star Magazine, which once reported Britney Spears got married to a photographer in Mexico, claims that Denzel is off allegedly cheating with an unidentified woman and that Denzel Washington?s wife is seeking a divorce.
The Sanaa Lathan, Denzel Washington nonsense was disputed by the co-stars several years ago. In 2006, she first dispute the allegations in a news interview with Vibe. ?[The rumor] got started because the movie had a love scene with Denzel, and people took that and translated it to real life. They said I was pregnant with Denzel?s child, and people were calling my mother, saying I?m having his baby. It?s frustrating. People are going to talk no matter what.? The two appear in the 2003 thriller movie ?Out of Time.?
Now this week Star is reporting that the Denzel is having an affair with someone else. His rep calls this ?nonsense?. Star also claims that the Washingtons are divorcing. But Denzel and wife Pauletta ?are not divorcing, not separating?, their rep tell news.
Star claims it has photographers of Denzel ?touching the hands and legs? of the new woman. The false claim reads ?Four photographs, seen by Radar and shopped to other media outlets, show him sitting on a couch with a young lady, and then throughout the series of pictures he grabs her arm and pulls her in for a kiss on the lips in one. The woman is not identified and Radar was not able to verify the authenticity of the photographs.? Pauletta tells news that she is not leaving Denzel, nor divorcing nor separating.
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Taking Antarctica's temperature
Frozen continent may not be immune to global warming
By Erin Wayman
Web edition: July 11, 2013
Print edition: July 27, 2013; Vol.184 #2 (p. 18)
Enlarge Various types of ice form off the coast of East Antarctica, as shown in this satellite image. In contrast to the rest of the continent, this region has seen no significant warming.
Credit: Jesse Allen, Robert Simmon/NASA Earth Observatory
Antarctica is a land of extremes: the driest, windiest, coldest place on Earth. The ice sheet that blankets the continent is, on average, 2 kilometers thick and covers nearly 14 million square kilometers. Antarctica is so remote and so isolated that as recently as 2007 scientists thought that it might be unaffected by global warming.
That year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in its Fourth Assessment Report that Antarctica was the only continent where anthropogenic temperature change had not been detected. In contrast to the Arctic, the report said, ice in the far south wasn?t experiencing alarming, widespread melting. Some data even suggested that the continent was moderately cooling. ?As best we knew,? says David Bromwich, a climate scientist at Ohio State University, ?there was not much changing.?
Climate change skeptics latched onto the report to bolster their own conclusions. But in truth scientists didn?t really know much about Antarctica?s climate, past or future, at the time. Few long-term, on-the-ground temperature records exist, and those that do date back only to the 1940s and ?50s. And most of the long-running research stations that collected these data line the coastal perimeter; just a handful dot the expansive interior. It?s like trying to measure what?s happening on the coasts of the United States to determine what?s going on in North Dakota, Bromwich says.
Yet, over the last six years researchers have found clever ways to take Antarctica?s temperature and piece together its complicated climate history. Those efforts reveal that the continent is home to some of the most rapidly warming places on Earth. Whether natural or human-caused, Antarctica?s changing climate makes it clear that the continent isn?t as isolated as was once thought.
Enlarge Comparing the poles
The Antarctic ice sheet (bright white, left, surrounded by sea ice) is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. Should recent warming trends there continue, the glacial ice could begin sliding into the oceans and raise global sea level. Seasonal melting of sea ice (bright white, right) in the Arctic is more dramatic, but has little impact on sea level. Last summer, the Arctic?s sea ice reached the smallest extent ever recorded by satellites.
Credit: From left: NASA/Wikimedia Commons; GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio/NASA
If these warming trends continue, what happens in Antarctica will have important consequences for the rest of the world. The Antarctic ice sheet stores roughly 70 percent of the planet?s freshwater. If it melted entirely and drained into the ocean, global sea level would rise more than 60 meters ? enough to submerge New York City, London, Copenhagen, Bangkok, all of Florida, much of the Netherlands, Bangladesh and many other low-lying coastal and island locales.
Fortunately, researchers don?t expect the massive ice sheet to disappear anytime soon. But to plan for the future,officials need to know how much ice will melt and how quickly sea level will rise. When it comes to these sorts of estimates, Antarctica is the biggest unknown.
Geographic differences between Antarctica and the Arctic help explain why it has been easier to spot signs of climate change in the North. The Arctic is naturally warmer than the Antarctic ? Greenland, for example, sits at a lower latitude than Antarctica ? so it doesn?t require as much warming to thaw out. Thus, rising Arctic temperatures have already caused startling changes. Last summer, 97 percent of Greenland?s ice sheet experienced some degree of surface melting.
Another difference is that Antarctica is land surrounded by ocean while the Arctic is ocean surrounded by land. Much of the Arctic?s melting ice is sea ice, or frozen seawater. When sea ice melts, nothing happens to sea level because the ice is already in the ocean and its melting doesn?t change the ocean?s volume. Disappearing sea ice does lead to more warming, however. As the white ice thins and reveals the darker ocean below, the Arctic absorbs more solar radiation, leading to more warming and ultimately more melting.
Enlarge View larger image | Satellite images show the rapid collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in 2002. As air temperature warmed, ponds of meltwater formed on the ice shelf surface, flowing into cracks and splitting the shelf apart. Warmer oceans may also have contributed. Credit: Courtesy of Ted Scambos/NSIDC and Univ. of Colorado, based on data from MODIS
The Arctic is also just simpler to study. A trip to the far north is effortless compared with the journey to Antarctica. And people live in the Arctic, so scientists have a much longer history of climate observations and measurements, including knowledge from native cultures that have inhabited the region for thousands of years.
?Antarctic science tends to lag at least a decade behind Arctic science,? says climate scientist David Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. But Antarctic researchers are beginning to catch up.
Uneven warming
Almost twice the size of Australia, Antarctica is divided into three regions. East Antarctica accounts for two-thirds of the continent and touches the Indian and Atlantic oceans. With a higher elevation than the rest of Antarctica, the region is like a giant, flattened mountain, says Eric Steig, a geochemist at the University of Washington in Seattle. So far, scientists haven?t found much warming here. The east?s tall, steep coastline helps keep out warmer air coming from the north, he says. The westerly winds that flow around the continent also seem to prevent warmth from penetrating.
Enlarge The Transantarctic Mountains stretch 3,500 kilometers between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea and form the boundary between East Antarctica and West Antarctica. The summits (the tallest is 4,500 meters above sea level) are some of the few places on the continent not covered by ice. East Antarctica?s higher elevation helps keep warm air out and stabilizes climate.
Credit: From top: GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio/NASA; Rose Dominguez/UC Santa Cruz, NASA
Separated from the east by the Transantarctic Mountains, West Antarctica abuts the Pacific Ocean, and much of the region lies below sea level. The warming that?s been observed in Antarctica has occurred here and on the mountainous Antarctic Peninsula, the most northern part of the continent that sticks up from West Antarctica like a tail pointing toward South America.
The peninsula was the site of one of the earliest clues that warming might have reached Antarctica. Over 35 days in 2002, a chunk of floating ice covering an area larger than Rhode Island crumbled into countless icebergs that broke free from the coast. Tracked by satellite imagery, the breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf was Antarctica?s largest ice collapse in three decades. Scientists blamed surface melting for the demise of the ice shelf, an extension of an ice sheet or glacier that floats on the ocean. Pools of water on the surface probably filtered through cracks in the ice, triggering more melting. The water?s weight further fractured the shelf.
Scientists had corroborating data of warming elsewhere on the peninsula, where average temperatures in some areas have risen almost 3 degrees Celsius since the 1950s. Still, many researchers considered the region an outlier. Just looking at a map, Steig says: ?It?s pretty easy to connect East and West Antarctica as one thing and the peninsula as something else.?
But maps can deceive.
Enlarge Windy continent
View larger image | The westerly winds circle Antarctica, bringing warm air to the Antarctic Peninsula while shielding the higher eastern reaches. Starting in the 1940s and '50s, a handful of research stations (shown) began collecting weather data, providing the continent's few long-term climate records. Today, scientists keep better tabs on the far south with satellites and more than 160 automated weather stations.Credit: Sources: COMNAP, P. Fretwell et al/The Cryosphere 2013; Map: Geoatlas/Graphi-Ogre, adapted by S. Egts
In 2009, Steig and colleagues reported in Nature that Antarctica as a whole has warmed about 0.12 degrees per decade since 1957, although warming across the continent hasn?t been uniform. The team found a statistical way to make up for the lack of long-term records. Since the 1980s, satellites have peered down on the South Pole to remotely take temperature measurements across all of Antarctica.
The team compared those data with ground-based measurements compiled at a few dozen weather stations from the same time period and figured out a mathematical relationship that links the satellite and ground data. Looking at ground data back to the 1950s, the researchers used the mathematical relationship to infer what satellite data would have looked like all across Antarctica had there been satellites focused on the continent back to that time.
The results were striking: West Antarctica has been warming along with the peninsula, about 0.17 degrees per decade since the late ?50s. Other studies relying on an assortment of methods have confirmed this, although the magnitude of the heat-up varies by study.
Most recently, Bromwich, Julien Nicolas, also of Ohio State, and colleagues calculated a temperature rise for West Antarctica that?s almost triple what Steig?s team found. They used a more direct approach to assess trends, analyzing temperatures collected by various methods at Byrd Station over the last half-century. Because Byrd Station sits on an exposed, flat area near the top of the ice sheet, its weather is representative of a large chunk of West Antarctica, Bromwich says. The team estimated that the region warmed an average of 0.47 degrees per decade from 1958 to 2010, for a total rise of 2.4 degrees. That puts both West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula in the race for fastest-warming place on Earth, the researchers reported in February in Nature Geoscience. The global average is only 0.13 degrees of warming per decade over the same time period.?
Enlarge An ice core from James Ross Island records thousands of years of climate history off the Antarctic Peninsula's northeast coast. In recent years, average air temperature has risen quickly (top shows long-term temperature difference from recent average). At the same time, ice on the island is melting more than in any other period over the last 1,000 years (bottom).
Credit: N. Abram et al/Nature Geoscience 2013
The warming trend is most notable in West Antarctica during the spring, but temperatures are also on the rise in winter and summer. Summer warming is crucial, Bromwich says, because if the trend continues air temperatures could climb above freezing ? and West Antarctica could begin to melt. ?If we get a lot more melting in West Antarctica than we?ve got today, that may become a significant issue for the health of the ice sheet itself,? he says.
Frozen in time
With only 50 or 60 years of data, it?s difficult for scientists to gauge whether current temperature trends are the result of human activity or just natural climate patterns. ?If anything varies [naturally] on a timescale of decades, we have a problem because we have very short records,? Bromwich says.
To clarify the situation, polar researchers have found ways to travel back in time by looking for clues trapped in Antarctica?s ice. Ice sheets grow as layers of snow are compacted over time and turn to ice. The chemistry of the ice layers and air bubbles trapped in them archive information about climate at the time they formed. So scientists can drill long tubes of ice out of an ice sheet to assess changes in temperature over thousands of years.?
Enlarge Warming may threaten both Antarctica's coastal ice shelves and the glaciers behind them. When shelves disintegrate, glacial flow can accelerate, delivering more ice to the ocean. Colors represent speed of ice movement, where brown to green are slowest (1 meter per year) and blue and red are fastest (3,000 meters per year).
Credit: GSFC/NASA
In 2008, researchers drilled an ice core from James Ross Island, off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. The 364-meter-long tube records climate history back 50,000 years. Last September, researchers led by Robert Mulvaney of the British Antarctic Survey reported in Nature that temperatures were as warm as they are today during a stable period 9,200 to 2,500 years ago. The rate of temperature rise over the last century, however, is unusual. In the last 100 years, the average temperature on the island shot up nearly 1.6 degrees; over the last 50 years, the rate increased to 2.6 degrees per century. These are among the fastest known temperature increases for the peninsula, ranking in the top 0.3 percent of all century-scale warming events in the region over the last 2,000 years. If the warming continues at this pace, researchers warn, temperatures will surpass those of the previous warm period that ended 2,500 years ago.
In a related study, published in May in Nature Geoscience, Mulvaney?s team considered the impact of warming. It assessed summer melting trends by looking at the thickness of melt layers ? ice that melts and refreezes. ?The current high levels of melting on the Antarctic Peninsula are unprecedented over at least the last 1,000 years,? says study leader Nerilie Abram of the Australian National University in Canberra. In line with rising temperatures, melting has particularly sped up over the last half-century.
Scientists have also collected ice cores in West Antarctica. As on the peninsula, recent temperatures have been anomalously warm compared with the norm over the last 2,000 years. But, as observed with the James Ross Island core, the temperatures haven?t yet surpassed the upper limit of natural variability, Steig and colleagues reported in May in Nature Geoscience. For example, warm spikes in the 1830s and 1940s come close to recent temperature hikes.?
For some researchers, the fact that Antarctica?s temperatures haven?t yet tipped beyond the realm of natural variation means it?s still too soon to say with certainty that the changes there are driven by people. Others are more confident. Since places all over the globe are simultaneously being pushed near or past normal variability, it strengthens the case that Antarctica has also been influenced by anthropogenic climate change, Steig says. But that doesn?t mean human activity is the only, or even the strongest, force shaping the region?s climate. ?It?s the details of what that [human] impact will be and how large it will be relative to other things ? that?s really the important question,? he says. Disentangling the anthropogenic and natural forces responsible for Antarctica?s recent temperature changes is now the focus of intense scrutiny.
Devil in the climate details
During the last few years, researchers have identified several drivers of Antarctica?s warming. The most surprising influence: the tropics. Through statistical analyses and climate simulations, Steig and colleagues have linked West Antarctica?s rising temperatures to unusual warmth in the central tropical Pacific relative to nearby parts of the ocean. When the sea surface heats up, warm air rises, boosting activity in the atmosphere above. The atmospheric changes alter circulation in such a way that more heat is transported to the South Pacific near West Antarctica, Steig and colleagues reported in 2011 in Nature Geoscience.
That means the fate of West Antarctica depends on how the tropical Pacific responds to global warming. Unfortunately, the ocean?s climate future is just as murky as Antarctica?s. It?s possible, Steig notes, that as global temperatures continue to climb, the central tropical Pacific may or may not keep warming relative to other parts of the tropics. So far, climate simulations have predicted both scenarios. ?The uncertainty about future changes in the tropics translates to uncertainty in changes all over the globe,? Steig says. But, he adds, ?If I had to bet, I?d say it will keep warming in West Antarctica.?
If Steig is right, parts of the Antarctic Peninsula will continue to warm, too. The western side of the peninsula faces the South Pacific, and winter, fall and spring temperatures there also appear to be governed by changes in the tropical Pacific, Steig and his University of Washington colleague, Qinghua Ding, reported in May in the Journal of Climate.
Summer warming on the eastern side of the peninsula, however, ?seems to be a different beast,? Steig says. Stronger westerly winds seem to push warm air over the peninsula to its eastern side, says climate scientist Gareth Marshall of the British Antarctic Survey. As the air sinks, it heats the surface. This process is probably what caused the catastrophic collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf, he says.
Summer?s stronger westerly winds are one phenomenon that scientists have definitively tied to human activity. The seasonal depletion of the ozone layer above Antarctica, and to a lesser extent the influx of greenhouse gases, have lowered atmospheric pressure over the South Pole relative to the mid-latitudes. This has boosted the westerly winds and shifted them farther south toward the Pole. With global restrictions on ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons, scientists expect the ozone hole to recover during the 21st century. The recovery could weaken the winds and halt the peninsula?s warming ? unless rising greenhouse gases compensate for the ozone hole?s disappearance. ?Which of these two effects will win out adds another layer of uncertainty? to Antarctica?s future, Marshall says.
That uncertainty extends to East Antarctica, where the westerly winds have a very different effect. Here the westerlies act as a barrier to warm air. But in the last decade, Marshall and his colleagues have uncovered an unexpected relationship between East Antarctica?s temperatures and the winds encircling the continent. Before 2000, when atmospheric pressure above East Antarctica was low relative to the mid-latitudes and the westerlies were enhanced, temperatures remained cool, the researchers noted in February in the Journal of Climate. During most of the first decade of the 21st century, the team found the opposite effect: summer and fall warming in East Antarctica despite strong westerly winds. Marshall suspects some type of natural climate variability accounts for the reversal. Better predictions for the future will rely on figuring out the source of this climate variability and how it interacts with anthropogenic activity to modify the region?s temperatures. ?What it does really is make life more complicated,? he says.?
Time will tell
The only way to unravel Antarctica?s complicated climate and predict its future will be to gather more observations over time. But polar researchers aren?t waiting to consider the consequences of warming. If the trend continues in West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula, the continent could see more ice shelf breakups like Larsen B. The ice shelves that ring the continent act like dams to keep Antarctica?s ice sheets in place. If those dams break, glaciers from the continent?s interior can surge into the ocean and raise sea level.
Melting on the tops of ice shelves is not the only concern. Scientists estimate that the oceans around Antarctica have warmed at a rate twice the global average over the last few decades. The warmer water can melt ice shelves from below. In June, researchers reported in Science that this is indeed happening: Slightly more than half of Antarctica?s ice shelf losses from 2003 to 2008 were the result of ocean warming. The basal melting isn?t limited to West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula; it?s occurring in East Antarctica, too.
Along with sea level rise, scientists fear that climate change will interfere with the ocean?s ability to store carbon dioxide. The ocean surrounding Antarctica soaks up about 40 percent of the oceans? anthropogenic carbon and transports much of it to the deep sea, where the element can stay put for centuries. Earlier this year, researchers documented that the fiercer winds around the continent are, in some parts of the southern oceans, bringing deep water to the surface faster than they once did, raising concerns about the release of sequestered carbon. Another worry, Schneider notes, is that stronger winds could also disrupt the ocean currents in the Antarctic that circulate heat to other parts of the world.
Although the ramp-up in research hasn?t yet provided a detailed climate forecast for Antarctica, the work does reveal that the remote landmass is not as isolated as once thought. Its fate is linked with every corner on Earth.
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Virus-hit Saudi Arabia asks pilgrims to wear masks
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) ? Saudi Arabia, the epicenter of a new respiratory virus, asked Friday that pilgrims coming from across the Muslim world to visit its holy sites wear face masks in crowded places.
The list of Health Ministry recommendations carried by the Saudi Press Agency also advised the elderly, or those with chronic diseases, to postpone their pilgrimage.
The main pilgrimage season comes later this year but hundreds of thousands also visit the kingdom during the holy month of Ramadan, which began this week.
Saudi Arabia announced two deaths on Sunday, bringing to 38 the number of deadly cases in the kingdom.
The new virus is related to SARS, which killed some 800 people in a global outbreak in 2003. It belongs to a family of viruses that most often cause the common cold.
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Documents point to ex-NFLer Hernandez as gunman
ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) ? An associate of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez said he was told Hernandez fired the shots that resulted in the death of a semi-pro football player, according to documents filed in Florida.
The records, obtained by The Associated Press, also show that a vehicle wanted in a double killing in Boston a year before had been rented in Hernandez's name.
Together, the revelations provide the most damning evidence yet against the 23-year-old star athlete.
Hernandez has been charged in the June killing of Boston semi-pro athlete Odin Lloyd. The records say Hernandez associate Carlos Ortiz told Massachusetts investigators that another man, Ernest Wallace, said Hernandez shot Lloyd in an industrial park near Hernandez's home in North Attleborough.
The gun used in the killing has not been found.
The documents were filed in court by the Miramar, Fla., police department to justify a search of Wallace's mother's home in that city.
The records also show that police, while investigating Lloyd's killing, searched in Hernandez's hometown of Bristol, Conn., and found a vehicle wanted in connection with a July 2012 double homicide near a Boston nightclub.
Hernandez has pleaded not guilty in Lloyd's killing. His legal team did not return email messages Tuesday. Wallace faces an accessory to murder charge in the case and has pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors say Hernandez, Wallace and Ortiz drove with Lloyd in a rented Nissan Altima to the industrial park where Lloyd was fatally shot.
Ortiz told police that during the drive, Hernandez told Lloyd that Lloyd had been "chilling" with people Hernandez had problems with, the documents say. But Ortiz told police the two men shook hands and the problem seemed smoothed over. However, the Altima soon stopped, and everyone but Ortiz got out to urinate, according to Ortiz's account.
The witness told police he then heard gunshots before Hernandez and Wallace got back into the car without Lloyd and the car sped away.
Ortiz said he couldn't see who fired the shots because it was dark. Back at Hernandez's home, Ortiz said, Wallace asked him to get a small gun out from under the driver's seat. Ortiz said he did and gave it to Hernandez once they were inside.
Ortiz said he then went to sleep. When he woke up in the afternoon, according to his account, the three men returned the Altima and rented a Chrysler 300 before returning to Hernandez's home. Ortiz and Wallace then went to an apartment in the area that Hernandez and other football players used. Wallace let Ortiz in before leaving for a long time, the documents say. The two then drove to Bristol. Ortiz told police that Wallace said Hernandez shot Lloyd.
Hernandez, Wallace and Ortiz appear linked through Bristol. Wallace told Florida police he grew up with Hernandez's father. Ortiz's attorney, John Connors, said Tuesday his client, who's athletic and around the age of Hernandez's older brother, is from Bristol.
Meanwhile, eight search warrants were unsealed in Massachusetts after news organizations sought access to them. The warrants reveal the breadth of the investigation, with authorities scouring through everything from Hernandez's house to his phone to the contents of his team locker, which the Patriots emptied into a container after they released him.
A rifle, ammunition and video surveillance equipment were among the items police seized from Hernandez's home.
Records show Hernandez, who played tight end, became "argumentative" during his first encounter with police at his home about five hours after Lloyd's body was found by a jogger. Hernandez told police he had last seen Lloyd in Boston the day before. He asked, "What's with all the questions?" and locked the door behind him.
He then returned with his attorney's business card but didn't respond when police told him they were investigating a death, the records show.
"Mr. Hernandez slammed the door and relocked it behind him," the records read. "Mr. Hernandez did not ask officers whose death was being investigated. Mr. Hernandez's demeanor did not indicate any concern for the death of any person."
Hernandez came out later and agreed to be questioned at a police station.
The documents also say Hernandez called his girlfriend's cellphone and stopped her from speaking with police after they pulled her over and told her Lloyd was dead.
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Anderson reported from Miami. Associated Press writers Erika Niedowski in Attleboro and Jay Lindsay in Boston contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/documents-point-ex-nfler-hernandez-gunman-131234156.html
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Small business help coming to El Reno | KFOR.com
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EL RENO, Okla. ? Changes are coming to the disaster recovery center in El Reno.
Starting Monday, the recovery center at Jenks Simmons Fieldhouse will transition to a small business administration disaster loan outreach center.
After that, SBA customer service representatives will meet individually with residents and business owners to explain SBA?s low-interest disaster loan program and help with the paperwork.
Loans up to $200,000 are available to homeowners to repair or replace damaged property.
Hours will be Monday ? Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Role of aircraft automation eyed in air crash
The wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed upon landing Saturday at San Francisco International Airport sits on the tarmac Monday, July 8, 2013 in San Francisco. Investigators said the Boeing 777 was traveling "significantly below" the target speed during its approach and that the crew tried to abort the landing just before it smashed onto the runway on Saturday, July 6. Two of the 307 passengers aboard were killed. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
The wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed upon landing Saturday at San Francisco International Airport sits on the tarmac Monday, July 8, 2013 in San Francisco. Investigators said the Boeing 777 was traveling "significantly below" the target speed during its approach and that the crew tried to abort the landing just before it smashed onto the runway on Saturday, July 6. Two of the 307 passengers aboard were killed. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
In this Saturday, July 6, 2013 aerial photo, the wreckage of Asiana Flight 214 lies on the ground after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport, in San Francisco. The pilot at the controls of airliner had just 43 hours of flight time in the Boeing 777 and was landing one for the first time at San Francisco International. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
In this Saturday, July 6, 2013 aerial photo, a United Airlines plane passes on the adjacent runway next to the wreckage of Asiana Flight 214 after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, earlier in the day. The pilot at the controls of airliner had just 43 hours of flight time in the Boeing 777 and was landing one for the first time at San Francisco International. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The crash landing of a South Korean airliner in San Francisco has revived concerns that airline pilots get so little opportunity these days to fly without the aid of sophisticated automation that their stick-and-rudder skills are eroding.
The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the accident, is a long way from reaching a conclusion as to its probable cause. While the focus of their investigation could still shift, information released by the board thus far appears to point to pilot error.
What is known is that Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed short of its target runway Saturday at San Francisco International Airport in broad daylight under near ideal weather conditions. The Boeing 777's engines are still being examined, but they appear to have been receiving power normally. And the flight's pilots didn't report any mechanical issues or other problems.
But the plane was traveling far too slowly in the last half-minute before the crash, slow enough to trigger an automated warning of an impending aerodynamic stall.
The wide-bodied jet should have been traveling at 158 mph as it crossed the runway threshold. Instead, the speed dropped to as low as 118 mph before the plane struck a rocky seawall short of the runway. The plane careened briefly and then pancaked down. Two of the 307 people on board were killed, and dozens more injured.
The pilot, Lee Gang-guk, had a lot of flying experience but was still new to the plane, having clocked only 43 hours at the controls. He was supposed to be flying under the supervision of another experienced pilot. There were two more pilots on board the Seoul-to-San Francisco flight, as is typical on long flights during which two pilots rest while two fly, and then swap out.
Lee was also flying without the aid of the airport's instrument landing system, which provides pilots with a glide slope to follow so that the plane isn't too high or low, too far to the right or left. He was also new to the airport, having never landed there before.
And he was manually flying the plane with the autopilot shut off, which other pilots said is not unusual in the last stage of a landing, although some airlines prefer that their pilots use automated landing systems. Still unclear is whether the auto throttle, which regulates power to the engines to control speed, was shut off or perhaps unintentionally left in an idle mode. That might account for the slow speed, but it wouldn't explain why the pilots didn't recognize their peril and act in time to avoid the crash, pilots and aviation safety experts said.
Investigators have started interviewing the flight's four pilots, and hope to wrap up those interviews Tuesday. Procedures at most airlines would require all four pilots be present in the cockpit during the landing, which is the most critical phase of flight, pilots said. The NTSB hasn't disclosed whether all four were present.
"It sounds like they let the airplane get slow and it came out from under them," said John Cox, a former Air Line Pilots Association air crash investigator. "When airplanes are very slow like that, even if they are not stalled, they can develop a sink rate that it takes a lot of power to arrest."
Rory Kay, a training captain for a major airline who flies internationally, said, "We're all wondering the same thing ? why no reaction?"
Overall, automation has also been a boon to aviation safety, providing a consistent precision that humans can't duplicate. But pilots and safety officials have expressed concern in recent years that pilots' "automation addiction" has eroded their flying skills to the point that they sometimes don't know how to recover from stalls and other problems. Dozens of accidents in which planes stalled in flight or got into unusual positions from which pilots were unable to recover have occurred in recent years.
"If your last dozen landings were autopilot landings and here you are faced with nothing but visual (cues) to deal with, your rust factor would be greater," said Cass Howell, a former military pilot and human factors expert at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. "Too much automation can undermine your flying skills."
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Slovenia Calls on Darden's Lisa Stewart to Help Promote Ethical ...
Re-established in 1991, Slovenia is emerging from the remnants of socialism and is working to re-create its business landscape.
As part of that process, Lisa Stewart, director of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business? Institute for Business in Society, shared recommendations and leading concepts for building an ethical business culture during a talk, ?Cultivating Ethical Leadership,? at the recent Future Ethical Efficiency Leadership conference in Slovenia.
As part of the former socialist Yugoslavia, Slovenia gained its independence and a system of capitalism, and joined the Euro zone in 2007. The mixture of old and new styles of business and government created unique challenges for Slovenian leaders. The conference presented ideas on creating a transparent and ethical path forward.
Darden?s Institute for Business in Society strives to provide a new generation of leaders with the skills needed to guide organizations through volatile social environments. Business ethics are crucial to newly formed countries, thus Slovenia sought the institute as a natural partner.?
To move toward greater openness and ethical dealings, Stewart recommended building trust, establishing mutually shared goals and implementing safeguards to create a balance in power.
?For example, if an NGO and a corporation are working together toward a common goal, there should be a balance in power,? Stewart said in her June 12 address. ?No one group should hold greater sway over the other.?
The human resources consultancy firm Taktika Plus invited Stewart to speak at Slovenia?s ethical leadership conference. Taktika Plus leads in the transformation of ?Slovenian businesses by introducing ethics and stakeholder theory into their corporate landscape.
The group plans to continue working with Darden in the future to gain more knowledge and understanding of the actions needed to thrive in a free market.
In addition to delivering the address, Stewart participated in a panel discussion with Joseph A. Mussomeli, the U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia, and Biljana Weber, CEO of Microsoft Slovenia. Conference participants included more than 250 CEO and senior-level executives from Slovenia. Stewart also delivered a workshop to the leaders of Si.mobil, one of the country?s top mobile phone companies.
?This is the first time that business leaders in Slovenia have embarked upon a deep examination of ethics in business practice and how to transform thinking and transparency from within,? Stewart added. ?It was really nice for Darden to be a part of their efforts and to potentially be part of shaping their future business ethics goals.?
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
How to Start Investing Your Money
Posted on July 09 2013
Small, consistent amounts of money
When beginning to invest, try starting by investing small amounts of money on a set, consistent schedule. This will help you to get into the routine of investing your money. With time, you can start to invest larger amounts of money, as your budget allows. However, carry on investing the minimum amount in order to continue your investing routine.
Automatic contributions
When you determine an amount of money to invest each month, you can sign up to have the money automatically taken from your account. This allows you to sit back and watch as your investments grow with little-to-no effort on your part. Automatic contributions are available for investments of $25 or more per month.
Dollar cost averaging
Dollar cost averaging refers to investing a set amount of money in a particular investment or portfolio for a set amount of time. Fewer shares are purchased when prices are high and more shares are purchased when prices are low. This averages out to a lower cost per share in your investment plan.
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Stolen iPad from Manchester tracked by GPS to Neptune
MANCHESTER ? A GPS device helped police track and recover a stolen Apple iPad computer found in a trash can at a Monmouth County gas station trash can, authorities said Monday.
The Apple iPad, which contained the global positioning device, was one of two reported stolen during a burglary in the Ridgeway section of Manchester Township at 7:23 p.m. Tuesday, July 2, police said.
An engagement ring also was reported stolen in the burglary, police said.
The iPad was tracked to an Exxon gas station located at 2000 Rt. 66 in Neptune Township, according to a statement issued by Lt. Vincent Manco, a spokesman for the Manchester Township police department.
After reviewing a security video from the Exxon station, police said they were able to identify a man seen placing the iPad into the trash receptacle, Manco said.
Police say the man in the video is Michael L. Lobue. Charges are pending for Lobue and the investigation is ongoing, Manco said.
Anyone with information about Lobue?s whereabouts should call Manchester Police at 732-657-6111 or leave information on the Manchester Township Police website by clicking on the ?tip-line? banner at www.manchesterpolicenj.com.
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NASA satellites see strong thunderstorms surround Typhoon Soulik's center
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Visible and infrared satellite data show strong thunderstorms surrounding the low-level center of the tropical storm turned Typhoon Soulik. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Soulik in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean on July 9 and two instruments showed the power in the typhoon's center.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Soulik on July 9 at 1:25 UTC (July 8 at 9:25 p.m. EDT). The image shows a tight concentration of thunderstorms around the typhoon's center and feeder bands of thunderstorms wrapping into the center from the northeast and southwest.
An infrared image captured on July 9 at 4:29 UTC (12:29 a.m. EDT) captured the cloud top temperatures of the eastern two-thirds of the typhoon. The infrared data, captured by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument showed that same tight concentration of storms around the center with cloud top temperatures colder than -63F/-52C. That means the thunderstorm cloud tops are high into the troposphere and are likely dropping heavy rainfall. Infrared data shows that Soulik's eye is about 30 nautical miles (34.5 miles/55.5 km) in diameter.
Soulik is also a large typhoon. The AIRS data showed that the storm spans from about 15 degrees north latitude to 23 degrees north latitude. Tropical-storm-force winds extend out 140 miles from the center (or 280 miles in diameter). The typhoon-force winds extend out nautical 40 miles (46 miles/74 km) from the center, or about 80 nautical miles (92 miles/148 km) in diameter.
According to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, on July 9 at 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT), Typhoon Soulik had maximum sustained winds near 95 knots (109 mph/176 kph) and is still strengthening.
Soulik's center was located near 20.3 north latitude and 138.1 east longitude, about 678 nautical miles (780 miles/1,256 km) east-southeast of Kadena Air Base, Japan. Soulik is moving to the west-southwest at 12 knots (13.8 mph/22.2 kph) and generating very rough seas with wave heights to 32 feet (9.7 meters).
Soulik is intensifying as it moves west across the open Pacific and is expected to make a landfall in southeastern China sometime over the weekend of July 13 and 14.
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Visible and infrared satellite data show strong thunderstorms surrounding the low-level center of the tropical storm turned Typhoon Soulik. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Soulik in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean on July 9 and two instruments showed the power in the typhoon's center.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Soulik on July 9 at 1:25 UTC (July 8 at 9:25 p.m. EDT). The image shows a tight concentration of thunderstorms around the typhoon's center and feeder bands of thunderstorms wrapping into the center from the northeast and southwest.
An infrared image captured on July 9 at 4:29 UTC (12:29 a.m. EDT) captured the cloud top temperatures of the eastern two-thirds of the typhoon. The infrared data, captured by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument showed that same tight concentration of storms around the center with cloud top temperatures colder than -63F/-52C. That means the thunderstorm cloud tops are high into the troposphere and are likely dropping heavy rainfall. Infrared data shows that Soulik's eye is about 30 nautical miles (34.5 miles/55.5 km) in diameter.
Soulik is also a large typhoon. The AIRS data showed that the storm spans from about 15 degrees north latitude to 23 degrees north latitude. Tropical-storm-force winds extend out 140 miles from the center (or 280 miles in diameter). The typhoon-force winds extend out nautical 40 miles (46 miles/74 km) from the center, or about 80 nautical miles (92 miles/148 km) in diameter.
According to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, on July 9 at 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT), Typhoon Soulik had maximum sustained winds near 95 knots (109 mph/176 kph) and is still strengthening.
Soulik's center was located near 20.3 north latitude and 138.1 east longitude, about 678 nautical miles (780 miles/1,256 km) east-southeast of Kadena Air Base, Japan. Soulik is moving to the west-southwest at 12 knots (13.8 mph/22.2 kph) and generating very rough seas with wave heights to 32 feet (9.7 meters).
Soulik is intensifying as it moves west across the open Pacific and is expected to make a landfall in southeastern China sometime over the weekend of July 13 and 14.
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Monday, July 8, 2013
The Ivee Sleek Isn't Just An Alarm Clock, It's A Voice-Controlled Hub For Smart Homes
Alarm clocks rarely do much to get people's salivary glands fired up, but Ivee's Sleek may just change that. To be fair though, calling the Sleek an alarm clock is about as accurate as calling Microsoft an OS maker -- the description technically fits, but it's a hell of an understatement. The Sleek may have the right looks to adorn your nightstand, but its big draw is that it's capable of connecting to the internet and interpreting your natural voice commands.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/XsEYEXSvl_c/
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