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Friday, December 28, 2012
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The internet has become a vital tool for research, communications and even marketing. Almost every company out there probably has an official website and there?s a continuous increase of businesses setting up a virtual office by launching online stores. It has transformed the way people shop and provided the public with a number of benefits. But along with these pros are a set of disadvantages as well and one of them is being exposed to a possible identity theft or online fraud due to poor internet security.
The rising number of cases arising from the lack of proper website security has forced companies to enforce stronger measures in order to ensure that the information provided by their customers are safe and protected. Establishing a strong website security gives the internet users the peace of mind but hiring the services of the professionals can be quite expensive. Most small scaled businesses and home owners often don?t have the budget to utilize the services of companies that specialize in web security.
The idea that only the websites of multinational companies and large scaled businesses are prone to hacking and other forms of security attack is entirely wrong. Your home computer might also be at risk and if you don?t take the necessary precautions, there?s a possibility of encountering a bigger problem in the future. Hackers do not discriminate and they can attack any website where information is unsecured. There are simple measures that home owners and small businesses can use in order to make sure that their wireless security network is safe and secured, the best part is that you won?t need to spend money to do this.
1.??? Change the default name and password. Routers come with a default username which is normally the brand name. It is very important to change such information once you have set up your wireless network. Having a password or a security key also keeps unauthorized computers from accessing your wireless connection.
2.??? Keep your MAC address filtering option enabled. This will prevent hackers from getting access to your internet connection as it only allows known users or devices to gain internet access.
3.??? Secure your network by turning on the WPA/WEP Encryption. Encryption transforms information shared over the internet into codes that cannot be easily decoded or understood by humans. This ensures that any data transferred online are secured and protected.
These are just some of the basic measures that home and business owners can take as an initial step towards having a secured wireless network. In situations where you feel that your connection might have been compromised, it will be best to seek the help of computer and network security experts.
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Ivy Bateman ? A Night of Writing Improv Style
A Night of Writing Improv Style
By Ivy Bateman
I have tendonitis. Whoop dee-do right? I?m sure a lot of writers do, but we soldier on because not even swollen andbordering on immobile hands will stop us from writing our prose. However, in the summer, when I wrote Baby, You?re Cold, my tendonitis was particularly bad. As well as a freelance writer, at the time, I was also a copywriter for a website company and between the fun writing and work writing I spent most of my waking hours workingaway atthe computer. In order to give my hands a break, when I was copywriting, I often used a program called ?Dragon Naturally Speaking?. It?s a voice recognition program and is wonderful. I just speak into a mic on a head set and Bob?s your Uncle, it puts my words on the screen.
Now, no matter how handy it was for work related writing, I was always hesitant to use this program for my book writing. What I write often tends to be fairly graphic sexually and I sometimes cringe at the content as I type it. When I tried to image saying these explicit words out loud?well my office walls will tell you that even alone, my face can turn various shades of red in a fit of embarrassment.
However, deadlines push you do things you didn?t know you were capable of! It was a Friday night, my book was due the next day around noon, I had 6OOO words to go and my hands were killing me. As a side note, I have a daughter and I sometimes find it awkward to write erotica while she?s at home. On the night in question my daughter had a friend over: double awkward.
So, to get back to it, my hands were killing me, the deadline was looming and I knew that I didn?t have the strength in my hands to type the last 6K. With a grimace and a heavy sigh, I got to work finishing my book using the Dragon Program.
Let?s just say it?s a good thing the microphone on the headset is very sensitive! While the girls played loudly down the hall, I whispered my saucy, storytelling nothings to my dear Dragon. It was an intense night because of the situation I was in and because I didn?t know whether I could write a good enough story if it was going from my head to my mouth to the screen. When I first started writing more seriously, I had to go from mybrain to a pen to paperto typing into the computer. It took me a while to hone creative paths that ran from my brain to my hands to the keyboard and into the computer. That accomplishment was freeing; it cut a step, but this was a miracle! To go from my brain to voice to computer was euphoric! I took acting in school and am a stickler for a script.Improv was a nightmare for me. My mind would go blank! I would just stand on the stage and stare at the other actors, waiting for inspiration to whack me on the side of the head. After I slipped on the head set and got ready to dictate my book, at first, speaking my book into the computer felt like improv only with writing on the side. But, eventually I got into the same groove I usually get into while typing a story. I felt as though the story already existed and I was just reciting the actions being played out in my head.
Now, when I write, I listen to my hands first before I put the ideas on the screen. If they say ?We?re good!? it?s a typing day. If they say ?Ow! For the love of?? then I fire up the Dragon and speak my deepest, spiciest thoughts into its waiting ears.
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Blurb for Baby, You?re Cold Inside, By Ivy Bateman
Lily Sinclair isn?t in the Christmas spirit.
Successful, sexy and headstrong; being nice is too overrated when being naughty is so much more fun. However, there are those who believe that her cool interior stands in her way of true happiness. On the night when something a little bit colder than Lily takes her on a journey to her past, she goes along for the ride, but?
Will her guide show her just what it will take to melt her icy soul?
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Excerpt from Baby, You?re Cold InsideBy Ivy Bateman
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?Why?d you bring me here?? I gesture to the circle of trees.
?So you assume that I arranged this??
?Well, I don?t see any other magic, frost people around,? I say, trying to keep my sarcastic tone in check.
?Well, yes?it was me, but why aren?t you more shocked? A lot of people freak out when this kind of thing happens to them! I thought for sure that even you would be impressed to be taken back to a point in your past. But no, you?re just as full of attitude watching your past as you are in the present! The guys and I really thought we?d be able to break your hostile exterior.? He genuinely seems hurt, but it doesn?t faze me.
?The guys? What guys?? I put my hands on my hips and face him.
?Yes, the guys, well and some girls, my co-workers, we who work for St. Jude.?
?St. Jude.?
?Yes,? he says, his voice filled with pride
?The saint for hopeless cases??
?Exactly.?
Our banter is interrupted by a loud groan. We look over at Cory the rutting wonder and past Lily. I can tell Phillip assumes the noise came from Cory, but I remember it was me, expressing my sour mood. This guy had one move; put it in, pull it out and repeat. It got old fast.
I shake my head and look back at Phillip. ?They can?t see us, right??
?No, they can?t see us, or hear us, or anything like that. So getting back to St. Jude??
?Yes, ok?you work for the saint of hopeless causes, Phillip. I got that. So why are you here? Oh wait!? I put my hand up to stop him from talking. ?You and the guys think I am a hopeless case or cause or whatever! That?s a riot! Are you here to help me??
Frozen Phillip momentarily transitions into assistant Phillip. He looks down at his feet and scrunches his face. He appears embarrassed. I laugh loudly.
?You are! That?s insane! I don?t need any help!?
?Well, Lily, we disagree,? he starts speaking very slowly, as if he was talking to a child. ?We?ve been watching you for quite a few years. Your attitude toward your fellow man has been a bit?off kilter for more than a little while and we think it?s time to intervene. Most people who are not very nice eventually have an epiphany, a sort of a wakeup call and change their ways, but not you. You seem to thrive on making people miserable, but in the end it?s not going to help you.? Phillip stops and looks into my eyes. He?s probably trying to see if this is moving me at all. I stare blankly back at him, crossing my arms under my breasts.
?And?? I snap at him.
Phillip swallows before he continues. ?And every Christmas season, because at this time of the year people are often at their kindest, we are all given a ?hopeless case,? a person to turn around. This year I was given you as my project. I?ve been sent by the powers that be to help you find your kinder side. We think that somewhere under your cold exterior lies a warm heart, a gentler person and we?d like to bring that out in you.?
I howl with laughter. ?Wow, Phillip, do I feel sorry for you! How?d you get stuck with me? Did you draw the short straw?? I?m laughing so hard I?m in tears, but I stop soon after. The snow suit is too tight for a lot of mirth.
?Lily, I?m quite serious.?
?Oh I believe you, my dear. Don?t worry. The icy get up, the trip to the past, it?s all very dramatic, but come on, Phillip! Why on earth do you and your guys care about one bitchy woman? Besides, I don?t think I?m a hopeless case. I think I?m fabulous. You?re wasting your time. Aren?t there people who have seriously hopeless cases that you could be working on??
He smiles brightly. ?See right there! The fact that you can think of people other than yourself, that you can imagine there are suffering people who need help shows that you have a bit of warmth in your soul.?
I scoff at him. ?No it doesn?t. Phillip, I think most people are hopeless. If you helped people based on what I think, you?d never stop working. The only person I care about is me.? I pat his frozen cheek and walk over to watch the action in the center of the trees.
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Pilgrims mark Christmas in Bethlehem
At midnight mass in the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, the cradle of Christianity, the message was of peace, love and goodwill to all mankind. NBC's Martin Fletcher reports.
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Pilgrims and locals celebrated Christmas Day on Tuesday in the ancient Bethlehem church where tradition holds Jesus was born, candles illuminating the sacred site and the joyous sound of prayer filling its overflowing halls.
Overcast skies and a cold wind didn't dampen the spirits of worshippers who came dressed in holiday finery and the traditional attire of foreign lands to mark the holy day in this biblical West Bank town. Bells pealed and long lines formed inside the fourth-century Church of the Nativity complex as Christian faithful waited eagerly to see the grotto that is Jesus' traditional birthplace.
Duncan Hardock, 24, a writer from MacLean, Va., traveled to Bethlehem from the republic of Georgia, where he had been teaching English. After passing through the separation barrier Israel built to ward off West Bank attackers, he walked to Bethlehem's Manger Square where the church stands.
"I feel we got to see both sides of Bethlehem in a really short period of time," Hardock said. "On our walk from the wall, we got to see the lonesome, closed side of Bethlehem ... But the moment we got into town, we're suddenly in the middle of the party."
Bethlehem lies 6 miles south of Jerusalem. Entry to the city is controlled by Israel, which occupied the West Bank in 1967.
Hardock's girlfriend, 22-year-old Jennifer Gemmell of Longmont, Colorado, compared the festive spirit in Manger Square on Christmas Eve, saying "it's like being at Times Square at New Year's."
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The cavernous church was unable to hold all the worshippers who had hoped to celebrate Christmas Day Mass inside. A loudspeaker outside the church broadcast the service to the hundreds in the square who could not pack inside.
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In churches and bus stations, on water skis and bicycles, people from the Middle East to middle America celebrate Christmas.
Pope's prayer for peace
Tourists in the square posed for pictures as vendors hawked olive wood rosaries, nativity scenes, corn on the cob, roasted nuts, tea and coffee.
An official from the Palestinian tourism ministry predicted 10,000 foreigners would visit Bethlehem on Christmas Day and said 15,000 visited on Christmas Eve ? up 20 percent from a year earlier. The official, Rula Maia'a, attributed the rise in part to the Church of the Nativity's classification earlier this year as a U.N. World Heritage Site.
Christians from Israel ? Arab citizens and others ? also boosted the number of visitors.
Germany's latest big export: Christmas markets
On Christmas Eve, thousands of Christians from all over the world packed the square, which was awash in light, resplendent with decorations and adorned by a lavishly decorated, 55-foot fir tree. Their Palestinian hosts, who welcome this holiday as the high point of their city's year, were especially joyous this season, proud of the United Nations' recognition of an independent state of Palestine just last month.
On Monday evening, Pope Benedict XVI prayed that Israelis and Palestinians live in peace and freedom, and asked the faithful to pray for strife-torn Syria as well as Lebanon and Iraq.
He urged people to reflect upon what they find time for in their busy, technology-driven lives.
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"The great moral question of our attitude toward the homeless, toward refugees and migrants takes on a deeper dimension: Do we really have room for God when he seeks to enter under our roof? Do we have time and space for him?" the pope said.
"The faster we can move, the more efficient our time-saving appliances become, the less time we have. And God? The question of God never seems urgent," Benedict lamented.
Later Tuesday, the world's Christmas focus will shift to Vatican City, where the pope will deliver his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" speech ? Latin for "to the city and the world" ? from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to thousands of pilgrims, tourists and Romans gathered in the piazza below.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Adele Trademarks Her Name? | Adele | News | MTV UK
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Record-breaking singer Adele has reportedly trademarked her name in order to stop fans being tricked into buying unofficial merchandise.
The Sun newspaper suggests the move will prevent people from misusing her name on items such as perfume and jewellery.
A source told the tabloid: "She doesn't want anyone exploiting her name by using it on products which may trick punters into thinking she's involved with it."
The trademark would mean her identity is protected, and make it easier for the superstar singer to take legal action against anyone using her name to dupe fans.
Adele has enjoyed an incredible year, having been named Billboard's Top Artist Of The Year for the second time, won countless awards, recorded the James Bond Skyfall theme, and welcomed her first child into the world.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Richard Baum dies at 72; China expert at UCLA
Richard Baum, a leading China expert at UCLA who founded a lively and influential Internet forum used by hundreds of scholars, diplomats, journalists and government officials to follow ideas and trends in contemporary Chinese politics, died Friday at his Westwood home. He was 72.
Baum had cancer, said his son, Matthew.
The political scientist was the author of five books, including "Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping" (1994), considered a definitive work on the transformation of China in the decades immediately after the communist revolutionary leader's 1976 death.
During an academic career spanning four decades, Baum traveled to China more than three dozen times, including for a period leading up to the violent clashes at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Earlier that year he had been among a small group of scholars consulted by President George H.W. Bush before his first presidential visit to the country.
In the 1990s, building on a small email network of professional contacts, Baum launched Chinapol, a private, Web-based discussion group that has become required reading for China watchers around the world. With more than 1,300 members in 27 countries, including China, it has fostered debates on hot topics like China's economic recovery, spurred news coverage of human rights cases and provided early information on fast-breaking events like the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
Chinapol's admirers include New Yorker correspondent Evan Osnos, who described it as a "peerless" resource for professionals interested in Chinese affairs. "I'm one of the many who rely on it as a sort of continuous kaffeeklatsch with knowledgeable people around the globe," he wrote in a 2009 blog post for the magazine.
Baum was "somebody who from a very early point understood the potential networking power of the Internet," said Clayton Dube, executive director of USC's U.S.-China Institute, who knew Baum for 25 years and now will help moderate the electronic forum with Richard Gunde, a retired UCLA China expert. "What is taught in so many places and also what is read, heard or seen about China has been profoundly impacted by Chinapol."
The former director of UCLA's Center for Chinese Studies, Baum was a popular media commentator whose insights on the intricacies of Chinese politics were often heard or seen on CNN, the BBC, Voice of America and National Public Radio and in newspapers from the South China Morning Post to the Los Angeles Times.
Born in Los Angeles on July 8, 1940, Baum was the son of a film technician and a seamstress. Growing up, he wrote in his 2010 memoir "China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom," his closest encounters with Chinese culture involved Saturday matinees featuring Charlie Chan and Fu Manchu and "the egg rolls at Madame Wu's Cantonese Garden."
He stumbled into his life's work while a UCLA senior, when he took a class on Chinese government and politics to fulfill a major requirement. He wound up teaching that class years later after joining the faculty in 1968.
After earning his bachelor's degree in political science from UCLA in 1962, Baum went to UC Berkeley, where he received a master's in 1963 and a doctorate in 1970, in political science.
While working on his doctorate, he spent a year in Taiwan to study Mandarin, his mastery of which he soon found was sorely deficient. He, his then-wife, Carolyn, and their infant son spent their first night in a brothel, which Baum had mistaken for a hotel.
The highlight of his Taiwan sojourn came at a Taipei think tank, where he discovered a "dirty books" room reserved for intelligence reports on the Chinese Communist Party. The documents that he found most riveting described struggles at the highest levels of the party over Mao's Cultural Revolution. Realizing the potential for original scholarship, Baum "borrowed" the documents without permission, made copies and returned them before the librarian noticed they were missing. He launched his scholarly career with a paper analyzing the conflicts detailed in the reports.
In 1994, Baum was teaching a course in Japan when he created a small email network of about 30 China scholars in various countries. Within a year the network had 100 members. He converted it to a listserv in 1999.
Members were admitted after careful screening and were kept in line by what Kenneth Lieberthal, a Brookings Institution senior fellow who worked in the Clinton administration, called Baum's "strong whip hand" ? rules that require users to keep Chinapol discussions confidential and refrain from personal attacks.
To maintain civil discourse, Baum "often handed out 'yellow cards' and 'red cards' to those who violated the rules," said James Mann, a former Times correspondent and author of three books about U.S.-China relations. "His obsession was to make sure that, amid the intense arguments about China, everyone was polite to everyone else."
Xiao Qiang, a MacArthur Award-winning human rights activist and founder of China Digital Times, a bilingual news aggregator based at UC Berkeley, said Baum's vigilance helped Chinapol thrive. "I have seen disputes and conflicts on other lists that have become very disruptive and the quality of information goes downhill. But Chinapol has been kept useful for more than 15 years. That's amazing."
Baum's first marriage, to Carolyn Paller, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, Karin Joffe, whom he married in 2008; two children from his first marriage, Matthew, of Boston, and Kristen, of San Diego; a brother, Steven, of Los Angeles; and three grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at UCLA's Faculty Center at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Chemical that fends off harm to organs: Purines fend off surgery-related damage
Dec. 17, 2012 ? Anesthesia is quite safe these days. But sometimes putting a patient under to fix one problem, such as heart damage, can harm a different organ, such as a kidney.
Now a group of researchers led by Holger Eltzschig, MD, PhD, a professor of anesthesiology at the University Colorado School of Medicine, has found a group of molecules that fend off damage during anesthesia.
"This is a promising discovery," says Eltzschig, who practices at University of Colorado Hospital. "It suggests a new way to promote healing."
In an article published Dec. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine, Eltzschig and colleagues at Harvard Medical School and Northeastern University report hopeful findings about a group of molecules called purines. Purines are basic molecular building blocks in the body -- they help produce DNA and RNA and they assist with short-term storage of energy. One variety of purine is called adenosine.
The researchers determined that generating adenosine outside of cells can help protect organs from damage. And they saw that activating adenosine receptors on the lungs, the intestine, or the heart can help protect these organs.
Eltzschig and his fellow researchers looked at adenosine and related chemical processes in cancer, lung injury, bowel inflammation and platelet function, among others.
For patients who might face surgery with anesthesia, the findings are good news.
"Increasing developments in this arena will open up several new avenues for the treatment," the article says.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Showers to stabilize U.S. river water levels, aid Plains wheat
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Widespread rainfall expected over the weekend in the U.S. Midwest may help stabilize falling water levels on key river shipping routes in the United States, but more rain will be needed to bring water levels back to normal, an agricultural meteorologist said on Friday.
The moisture also may help slow deterioration of conditions in the U.S. Plains hard red winter wheat region and in portions of the dry Delta/Southeast soft red winter wheat region.
Light showers are expected in most of the dry U.S. Plains hard red winter wheat region Friday and Saturday, but little relief is expected from the worst drought in more than 50 years, said World Weather Inc meteorologist Andy Karst.
"Most areas will receive 0.25 inch to 0.35 inch, with the heaviest amounts in the east," he said. "It may help some."
Karst said the storm system would also bring rain to the Midwest late Friday into the weekend, with up to an inch possible in some areas from northern Missouri, Iowa, southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
"It may help stabilize water levels on the Missouri and Mississippi, but it won't be enough to eliminate the barge shipping problem," Karst said. The showers will extend into the Delta and Southeast later in the weekend, he said.
The summer drought, billed as the worst in the United States in 56 years, and a continued lack of moisture into the fall months has caused U.S. winter wheat conditions to decline and has dropped water levels on the Mississippi River to a point that barge shipments have been slowed or stopped.
Barge operators eased shipping restrictions early this week on the lower Mississippi after rains last weekend lifted water levels, but shipping curbs, which have created a backlog of vessels, continued on a critical stretch further north.
(Reporting by Sam Nelson; Additional reporting by Tom Polansek in Chicago; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
With successful launch, Kim and allies cement rule in North Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) - When North Korea's Kim Jong-un commemorates a year of his rule next week, he will be able to declare he has fulfilled the country's long-held dream of becoming a "space powerhouse".
In a mass parade in Pyongyang on Friday, tens of thousands of soldiers dressed in olive green and standing in serried ranks, as well as bareheaded civilians, celebrated this week's successful rocket launch, hailing Kim's "victory".
"Under the great leadership of Kim Jong-un, we are carrying out a sacred task towards our last victory so as to build strong and prosperous nation," Kim Ki-nam, a politburo member from the Workers Party of Korea, told the applauding and cheering crowds that turned out in freezing temperatures.
Sharing the kudos with the 29-year old leader will be three civilians who have grown stronger in the past year and have helped Kim exert control over the country's powerful military, which may edge the country closer to an attempt to reopen dialogue with the United States.
Wednesday's launch, in which North Korea put a satellite in space for the first time, may have helped cement the position of Kim's uncle Jang Song-thaek and Choe Ryong-hae, the military's top political strategist, as well as Ju Kyu-chang, the 84-year-old head of the country's missile and nuclear program.
"The rocket launch is a boost politically to the standing of Jang Song-thaek and Choe Ryong-hae, who have been around Kim Jong-un," said Baek Seung-joo of the Korea Institute of Defense Analyses, a government-affiliated think tank in South Korea.
While Washington has condemned the rocket launch and called for tougher sanctions on North Korea it was, as recently as February, willing to offer food aid to Pyongyang. At that time it was just over a year since the North shelled a South Korean island, killing civilians, and sank a South Korean warship.
The rise of Jang and Chae especially, once ridiculed as "fake" military men by army veterans, together with the country's aging chief missile bureaucrat, could also mean the renegade state will try its hand at using what is now stronger leverage in negotiations to extract aid and concessions.
Jang is the brother-in-law of Kim Jong-il and was the chief promoter of his son Kim Jong-un when the elder Kim died on December 17 last year. Jang has further increased his prominence in recent weeks with high-level public appearances, at times in unprecedented proximity to the leader of a country where appearance and formality are rigidly controlled.
Jang accompanied Kim to the rocket command centre to watch the successful launch on Wednesday, the North's state news agency KCNA said.
He is officially a vice chairman of the ruling National Defence Commission and an army general in name only, but is widely believed to be the North's second-in-command in reality.
Jang is considered a pragmatist who is willing to engage both allies and enemies abroad, but also one who understands the challenge of cementing the position of the young and relatively untested grandson of the state's founder.
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Baek noted that comments by the North's Foreign Ministry, customarily the channel used by the leadership to wage war of words with the United States, had been tempered recently, indicating Pyongyang may seek a way back into negotiations.
"The North may start to send active indications to the United States and China that it is willing to talk, even to go back to the six-party talks, and to say that its pledge for a missile test moratorium still stands," Baek said.
The six-party talks are aimed at halting North Korea's nuclear program and involve the North, the United States, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea. They have been held since 2003 but have stalled since 2008.
Choe is another Workers' Party faithful now donning army uniform. He is head of the General Political Department of the North's 1.2-million strong Army, and is seen as the other major beneficiary of this week's rocket launch.
Jang and Choe are anomalies in a country that claims its roots in the armed struggle against Japan, in that they have not risen through the army's ranks but have received military titles that are said to be a source of ridicule among their opponents.
"Choe and Jang will benefit from the launch because they are the ones who will have undermined the military's influence and strengthened the party's status," said Moon Hong-sik of South Korea's Institute for National Security Strategy, a government-linked thinktank.
The surprise success of Wednesday's launch after a failure in April will be credited to Jang and Choe while Kim will boost his credibility as a leader who gets the job done, said Suh Choo-suk, who was chief national security advisor to former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.
"I think Kim Jong-un's overall control is already solid. His control will be even stronger through the rocket launch."
The technical aspects of the North's longstanding missile program and possibly its nuclear project are led by a quiet and elderly engineer Ju Kyu-chang, another civilian in army garb.
Ju has been around since the North first tested its long-range missile technology in the summer of 1998 and is still believed to be in charge of the day-to-day running of the project to develop missiles and possibly nuclear weapons.
Recognition appears to have come relatively late in life for the silver haired technocrat Ju, who is believed to have trained as a metal alloy specialist, as he started to appear in public with the country's top leader only when he turned 70.
Officially, Ju is the head of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea's oddly named Machine-Building Industry Department. He was also named to the National Defence Commission, the country's top military body, after the North's 2009 long-range missile test.
Ju is among the North's most heavily sanctioned individuals, personally named in several government blacklists.
"His rise coincided with the escalation of pace in the North's missile and nuclear programs," said an expert with a South Korean state-run think tank who did not want to be named.
"It could very well have been as a reward for his contribution."
(Additional reporting by Narae Kim and Jane Chung; Editing by David Chance and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/successful-launch-kim-allies-cement-rule-north-korea-054559199.html
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Guillermo Del Toro's 'Pacific Rim' Trailer: Watch Now!
Giant robots battle giant monsters in trailer for horror filmmaker's brand new 3-D epic.
By Josh Wigler
Charlie Hunnam in the "Pacific Rim" trailer
Photo: Warner Bros.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Late BBC star Savile suspected of 199 crimes: UK police
LONDON (Reuters) - British television star Jimmy Savile is suspected of carrying out an unprecedented number of sex offences including 31 rapes, police said on Wednesday in their most comprehensive review of the scandal.
Revelations about Savile, who died last year, provoked outrage across Britain where he had been a household name since the 1960s.
News of Savile's crimes threw his main employer the BBC into turmoil, led to resignation of the BBC's director general just 54 days into his job and provoked awkward questions for his predecessor Mark Thompson, who recently took over as chief executive of the New York Times.
Detectives launched their inquiry 10 weeks ago following reports in a TV documentary that Savile had abused young girls on BBC premises and at hospitals where he did charity work.
Since then, 450 people had come forward with allegations about Savile, mostly dealing with sexual abuse, said police.
Savile was now a suspect in 199 crimes, the vast majority of them involving children or young people, the force added.
"These levels of reporting of sexual abuse against a single individual are unprecedented in the UK," the police said in a statement.
Detectives have been examining three categories of alleged offences: those involving only Savile, which make up the majority of cases; those involving Savile and others; and those which had no direct link to Savile.
So far six men have been arrested and another questioned by London police.
Those quizzed include Max Clifford, Britain's most high-profile celebrity publicist, former BBC radio DJ Dave Lee Travis and former glam-rock singer Gary Glitter.
They have all denied any wrongdoing.
"Our officers will continue to investigate allegations made against those who potentially can be brought to justice," the police statement said. "More arrests nationally will be forthcoming."
A one-time professional wrestler with a penchant for garish outfits, Savile became famous as a pioneering DJ in the 1960s before hosting prime-time TV shows until the 1990s.
He ran about 200 marathons for charity, raising tens of millions of pounds for hospitals, leading some to give him keys to rooms where victims now allege they were abused.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bbc-star-savile-suspected-199-crimes-uk-police-191618836--finance.html
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Dumbest People Of 2012?
Dumb As A Blog:
Dumb people come and go every year, and 2012 was no different.
The past 12 months saw some epic stupidity, and not just from famous generals who had affairs with their biographers, men still dating the women who bit off their testicles, or the CEO who oversaw the death of the Twinkie.
The folks at Dumb As A Blog were smart enough to find those people and 17 more.
Read the whole story at Dumb As A Blog
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Mann -vs- NRO legal battle, heating up | Watts Up With That?
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By?Jack Fowler
We?re being sued, and we need your help.
Let me recap: A lawsuit has been formally filed by Professor Michael Mann against National Review and Mark Steyn. You know Mann: The Penn State academic and self-proclaimed (and bogus) Nobel Peace Prize awardee best known, famously and infamously, for the ?hockey stick? graph that allegedly proves that recent years were the hottest on record for more than a millennium.
Of course, he is also known for the scandal about embarrassing e-mails, pried out of the University of East Anglia?s Climate Research Unit.
(Anything you want to know about ?Climategate? can be found at the great site WattsUpWithThat.com. And if you want to get a load of Mann, visit his Facebook page for kicks and giggles and a look at self-promotion on steroids.)
In July, Mark wrote on the Corner about Penn State, much in the news for its institutional cover-ups, and Professor Mann. It was a Steyn classic, so it must have really smarted, and soon thereafter NR received notification of a pending lawsuit (here?s our response).
Like his claim to be a Nobel laureate, the charges against NR are baseless and very much worth fighting. National Review doesn?t look to get itself sued, but neither does it shy from a fight, especially one like this. Rich Lowry?s response to Mann?s legal threats exactly captures our mood and determination.
As many of you know, National Review is not a non-profit ? we are just not profitable. A lawsuit is not something we can fund with money we don?t have. Of course, we?ll do whatever we have to do to find ourselves victorious in court and Professor Mann thoroughly defeated, as he so richly deserves to be. Meanwhile, we have to hire attorneys, which ain?t cheap.
The bills are already mounting.
This is our fight, legally. But with the global-warming extremists going all-out to silence critics, it?s your fight too, morally. When we were sued, we heard from many of you who expressed a desire to help underwrite our legal defense. We deeply appreciated the outpouring of promised help.
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Cairo faces rival protests over constitution crisis
CAIRO (Reuters) - Opponents and supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi's plans to vote on a new constitution will take to the streets in central Cairo later on Tuesday, risking more violent confrontation after last week's deadly clashes.
Leftists, liberals and other opposition groups have called for marches to the presidential palace in the afternoon to protest against the hastily arranged referendum planned for Saturday, which they say is polarizing the country.
Islamists, who dominated the body that drew up the constitution, have urged their followers to turn out "in millions" the same day in a show of support for the president and for a referendum they feel sure of winning and that critics say could put Egypt in a religious straitjacket.
Seven people were killed and hundreds wounded last week in clashes between the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and opponents besieging Mursi's graffiti-daubed presidential palace.
The elite Republican Guard has yet to use force to keep protesters away from the palace, now ringed with tanks, barbed wire and concrete barricades, but a decree issued by Mursi late on Sunday gives the armed forces the power to arrest civilians during the referendum and until the announcement of the results.
Leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahy, one of the most prominent members of the National Salvation Front opposition coalition, said Mursi was driving a wedge between Egyptians and destroying prospects for consensus.
As well as pushing the early referendum, Mursi has angered opponents by taking sweeping temporary powers he said were necessary to secure the country's transition to stability after a popular uprising overthrew autocratic former president Hosni Mubarak 22 months ago.
"The road Mohamed Mursi is taking now does not create the possibility for national consensus," said Sabahy.
If the constitution was passed, he said: "Egypt will continue in this really charged state. It is certain that this constitution is driving us to more political polarization."
The National Salvation Front also includes Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei and former Arab League chief Amr Moussa.
The opposition says the draft constitution fails to embrace the diversity of 83 million Egyptians, a tenth of whom are Christians, and invites Muslim clerics to influence lawmaking.
But debate over the details has largely given way to noisy street protests and megaphone politics, keeping Egypt off balance and ill equipped to deal with a looming economic crisis.
Lamia Kamel, a spokeswoman for Moussa, said the opposition factions were still discussing whether to boycott the referendum or call for a "no" vote.
"Both paths are unwelcome because they really don't want the referendum at all," she said, but predicted a clearer opposition line if the plebiscite went ahead as planned.
Mahmoud Ghozlan, the Muslim Brotherhood's spokesman, said the opposition could stage protests, but should keep the peace.
"They are free to boycott, participate or say no; they can do what they want. The important thing is that it remains in a peaceful context to preserve the country's safety and security."
The army stepped into the conflict on Saturday, telling all sides to resolve their disputes via dialogue and warning that it would not allow Egypt to enter a "dark tunnel".
The continuing disruption is also casting doubts on the government's ability to push through tough economic reforms that form part of a proposed $4.8 billion IMF loan agreement.
(Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Will Waterman)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-mursi-gives-troops-security-role-referendum-160712567.html
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Wind and solar power paired with storage could power grid 99.9 percent of the time
Dec. 10, 2012 ? Renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030 at costs comparable to today's electricity expenses, according to new research by the University of Delaware and Delaware Technical Community College.
A well-designed combination of wind power, solar power and storage in batteries and fuel cells would nearly always exceed electricity demands while keeping costs low, the scientists found.
"These results break the conventional wisdom that renewable energy is too unreliable and expensive," said co-author Willett Kempton, professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy in UD's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment. "The key is to get the right combination of electricity sources and storage -- which we did by an exhaustive search -- and to calculate costs correctly."
The authors developed a computer model to consider 28 billion combinations of renewable energy sources and storage mechanisms, each tested over four years of historical hourly weather data and electricity demands. The model incorporated data from within a large regional grid called PJM Interconnection, which includes 13 states from New Jersey to Illinois and represents one-fifth of the United States' total electric grid.
Unlike other studies, the model focused on minimizing costs instead of the traditional approach of matching generation to electricity use. The researchers found that generating more electricity than needed during average hours -- in order to meet needs on high-demand but low-wind power hours -- would be cheaper than storing excess power for later high demand.
Storage is relatively costly because the storage medium, batteries or hydrogen tanks, must be larger for each additional hour stored.
One of several new findings is that a very large electric system can be run almost entirely on renewable energy.
"For example, using hydrogen for storage, we can run an electric system that today would meeting a need of 72 GW, 99.9 percent of the time, using 17 GW of solar, 68 GW of offshore wind, and 115 GW of inland wind," said co-author Cory Budischak, instructor in the Energy Management Department at Delaware Technical Community College and former UD student.
A GW ("gigawatt") is a measure of electricity generation capability. One GW is the capacity of 200 large wind turbines or of 250,000 rooftop solar systems. Renewable electricity generators must have higher GW capacity than traditional generators, since wind and solar do not generate at maximum all the time.
The study sheds light on what an electric system might look like with heavy reliance on renewable energy sources. Wind speeds and sun exposure vary with weather and seasons, requiring ways to improve reliability. In this study, reliability was achieved by: expanding the geographic area of renewable generation, using diverse sources, employing storage systems, and for the last few percent of the time, burning fossil fuels as a backup.
During the hours when there was not enough renewable electricity to meet power needs, the model drew from storage and, on the rare hours with neither renewable electricity or stored power, then fossil fuel. When there was more renewable energy generated than needed, the model would first fill storage, use the remaining to replace natural gas for heating homes and businesses and only after those, let the excess go to waste.
The study used estimates of technology costs in 2030 without government subsidies, comparing them to costs of fossil fuel generation in wide use today. The cost of fossil fuels includes both the fuel cost itself and the documented external costs such as human health effects caused by power plant air pollution. The projected capital costs for wind and solar in 2030 are about half of today's wind and solar costs, whereas maintenance costs are projected to be approximately the same.
"Aiming for 90 percent or more renewable energy in 2030, in order to achieve climate change targets of 80 to 90 percent reduction of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the power sector, leads to economic savings," the authors observe.
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Freezing Weather Reaches Texas, Some Power Outages
AUSTIN (AP) ? Freezing weather has reached parts of Texas as strong winds cut electricity to about 3,000 homes and businesses in central parts of the state.
Austin Energy spokesman Ed Clark says windy conditions caused the outages before dawn Monday.
Clark says about 2,300 customers in Austin lost electricity when a power pole was damaged. The rest lost power when strong winds blew tree limbs into power lines. Crews restored electricity to about two-thirds of those customers by 8 a.m. Monday.
Temperatures dipped into the teens in parts of the Panhandle. The National Weather Service says light snow associated with the cold front was reported in parts of North Texas, including Decatur, Denton and Fort Worth.
Some schools in the Lubbock area delayed the start of classes Monday due to weather.
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
Video: How to avoid the holiday season?s social dilemmas
>>> this morning on "today's countdown to the holidays" we are tackling your awkward dilemmas. it's that time of year for parties and gift-giving and awkwardness, politics, family feuds can lead to sticky situations. philip galanes of "social qs" how to survive the quagmires of today. good morning, glad to have you here. we'll get right into this one with a viewer e-mail from teresa in chicago "i'm engaged and getting married next fall. we want to keep the wedding very small. this christmas we'll be seeing a lot of my family, many of whom we do not plan on inviting to the wedding. if the subject of the wedding comes up, details are discussed, should i make it clear they're not invited or just gloss it over and not mention specifics."
>> clarity is so important so i think you tell them we're having a very small wedding but a great thing to do is to have a party with the family later, so we'll celebrate together, do something together but not --
>> no way. i say you say that it's a tiny wedding, you move along. you don't talk about the guest list, you don't talk about anything.
>> absolutely, i agree with you.
>> because think about it, how much do you want to hear about a party you're not invited to. i see willie welling up and he's not even a member of the family.
>> i'm never invited so i can speak from experience. i'm with you, hariette, you got to take it head-on, because things where people are whispering behind each other's backs.
>> tiny is the watch word.
>> next one is a viewer video. let's take a look.
>> i get lots of christmas cards from other families. all of a sudden the card comes in from a family that's not really inner circle . do i have to now send a card from my family to them to reciprocate?
>> that's a good one. you get this a lot every holiday, ooh, i didn't send them one.
>> a christmas card is not like an invoice, pay on demand. it doesn't need to be --
>> are you sure?
>> doesn't need to be reciprocated. if you like the folks go for it. one caveat that really comes into my mailbox, if you're going to send christmas cards , write three or four words personally.
>> not just the actual card.
>> otherwise it feels like you're getting a mass mailing.
>> cute pictures myself kids on a card, do i still have to write something?
>> yes, love erica .
>> hey, you wanted to have kids. it's on your plate.
>> you've been asking to borrow my kids, lady.
>> it's like you're spamming people.
>> you don't have to send a card if you've received, you say thank you. thank you is so underrated.
>> wait, can you send an ecard if you get a real card?
>> total.
>> really?
>> and then erica can type in a few, merry, here are the kids this year.
>> she doesn't have time for that.
>> people loo w.h.o. liho like ecards and appreciate them.
>> know your audience. dylan is outside on the plaza, another question from someone from the crowd.
>> ali from davidson, north carolina about regifting.
>> what if the person you gave the regift to likes the present but wants it in a different size so they ask for the gift receipt?
>> oh, that's a really good question.
>> this is why you shouldn't give clothing unless -- sometimes not even to your family, you just say i don't have the receipt, i'm so sorry.
>> ali is probably a little young to watch clint eastwood but when it comes to regifting it's very "are you feeling lucky?" i don't care about clothing. they can have read the book, they can already have that quasi-pen, but if you can help a gift that can't be traced back find a happy home, go for it.
>> it's such an awkward thing. i feel like don't touch the whole concept of regifting because somehow, some way it will be a "seinfeld" moment and it will come back to you.
>> clothing in general is a tough gift i think. it's just a tough thing.
>> more importantly make sure you inspect it like a csi investigator to get the original christmas card out of there.
>> you don't want it inscribed to somebody else.
>> make sure it doesn't say 2011 on it.
>> like erica h. 2011 .
>> it's almost described like a drug transaction, make sure you can't trace it back.
>> happy holidays , right?
Source: http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/50135770/
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