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I live in Forde and I?m looking at renewing my house insurance. App?$500 for hounse insurance+flood cover Vs app $360 for house insurance with no flood cover.
I am rather new to Canberra so any info about flood history, sort of floods that damage homes, will be appereciated.
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The latest PS4 has been receiving much hype and attention. Following the release of its competitor, Xbox One, all eyes are on Sony (NYSE: SONY) to see what the company will bring on the table. Reports indicate that Sony is trying its hardest to deliver possibly the best gaming console on the market yet.
Sony wants to make sure that PS4's release and reception goes smoothly and successfully as possible. The gaming console's CPU and GPU go beyond its competition while the high-quality GDDR5 memory takes gaming to a whole new level. Sony is well aware that their next PS4 will add something valuable to the table.
The company earned every right to claim they have the most powerful gaming device yet. Fergal Gara, Sony VP and managing director, said in an interview to Techradar: "But secondly to design a piece of technology like that it's very easy to deliver one or the other, in particular I'm talking about the price and the performance trade off. It's very hard to deliver both and for me the balance that's been delivered across those two is outstanding. "
"So it's great to be going to market with what we believe is the most powerful gaming device ever conceived and certainly ever developed and at a price that feels very acceptable, certainly based on the pre-order volumes that we're seeing, " Mr. Gara added.
Sony is not stopping there. The hardware also caters to developers with X86 architecture. This allows the device to channel memory in one unified unit. Prices for the consol start at $399 in the United States.
PS4 sounds impressive but the market is not dominated just by being the best hardware. In fact, the best hardware always finds it hard to win the generation. Nintendo 64 was a standout and even had a better hardware compared to PlayStation 1 but PlayStation outsold it by 3:1. Sony PlayStation 3 had the best features but it was Nintendo's Wii that became a household staple all over the world.
The latest PS4 is one gaming console hard to miss. However, Sony will have to make sure it has a generation to cater to.
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Parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 when it crashed at San Francisco International Airport, while they gather and wait for news of their children at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday July 7, 2013. Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, 16-year-old students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
Parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 when it crashed at San Francisco International Airport, while they gather and wait for news of their children at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday July 7, 2013. Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, 16-year-old students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
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A fire truck sprays water on Asiana Flight 214 after it crashed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, July 6, 2013, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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This photo provided by Wei Yeh shows what a federal aviation official says was an Asiana Airlines flight crashing while landing at San Francisco airport on Saturday, July 6, 2013. It was not immediately known whether there were any injuries. (AP Photo/Wei Yeh)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? A federal safety official said the cockpit voice recorder from Asiana Airlines Flight 214 showed the jetliner tried to abort its landing and come around for another try 1.5 seconds before it crashed at San Francisco airport.
National Transportation Safety Board chief Deborah Hersman said at a news conference Sunday the recorder also showed there was a call to increase airspeed roughly two seconds before impact.
Before that, she said, there was no indication in the recordings that the aircraft was having any problems before it crashed Saturday, killing two passengers and injuring scores of others.
Investigators took the flight data recorder to Washington, D.C., overnight to begin examining its contents for clues to the last moments of the flight, officials said. They also plan to interview the pilots, the crew and passengers.
"I think we're very thankful that the numbers were not worse when it came to fatalities and injuries," Hersman told NBC's "Meet the Press." ''It could have been much worse."
Hersman said investigators are looking into what role the shutdown of a key navigational aid may have played in the crash. She said the glide slope ? a ground-based aid that helps pilots stay on course while landing ? had been shut down since June.
She said pilots were sent a notice warning that the glide slope wasn't available. Hersman told CBS' "Face the Nation" that there were many other navigation tools available to help pilots land. She says investigators will be "taking a look at it all."
Since the crash, clues have emerged in witness accounts of the planes approach and video of the wreckage, leading one aviation expert to say the aircraft may have approached the runway too low and something may have caught the runway lip ? part of a seawall at the foot of the runway.
San Francisco is one of several airports around the country that border bodies of water that have walls at the end of their runways to prevent planes that overrun a runway from ending up in the water.
Since the plane was about to land, its landing gear would have already been down, said Mike Barr, a former military pilot and accident investigator who teaches aviation safety at the University of Southern California.
It's possible the landing gear or the tail of the plane hit the seawall, he said. If that happened, it would effectively slam the plane into the runway.
Noting that some witnesses reported hearing the plane's engines rev up just before the crash, Barr said that would be consistent with a pilot who realized at the last minute that the plane was too low and was increasing power to the engines to try to increase altitude.
Barr said he could think of no reason why a plane would come in to land that low.
"When you heard that explosion, that loud boom and you saw the black smoke ... you just thought, my god, everybody in there is gone," said Ki Siadatan, who lives a few miles away from the airport and watched the plane's "wobbly" and "a little bit out of control" approach from his balcony.
"My initial reaction was I don't see how anyone could have made it," he said.
Inside the plane, passenger Vedpal Singh, who had a fractured collarbone and whose arm was in a sling, was sitting in the middle of the aircraft with his family. He said there was no forewarning from the pilot or any crew members before the plane touched down hard and he heard a loud sound.
"We knew something was horrible wrong," said a visibly shaken Singh. He said the plane went silent before people tried to get out anyway they could. His 15-year-old son said luggage tumbled from the overhead bins.
Passenger Benjamin Levy said it looked to him that the plane was flying too low and too close to the bay as it approached the runway. Levy, who was sitting in an emergency exit row, said he felt the pilot try to lift the jet up before it crashed.
He said he thought the maneuver might have saved some lives. "Everybody was screaming. I was trying to usher them out," he recalled of the first seconds after the landing. "I said: 'Stay calm, stop screaming, help each other out, don't push.'"
Wen Zhang said she could feel the plane's tail hit the ground. Baggage was falling around her, people were screaming and the aisle window broke.
Zhang picked up her 4-year-old son, who had hit the seat in front of him and broke his leg. Unhurt, she carried him through the hole where the bathroom was and went out onto the tarmac.
"I had no time to be scared," she said.
Shi Da, a product manager at an Internet company in Hangzhou, China, said he was sitting with his wife and teenage son near the back of the plane. When he felt the plane hit the ground, he said, oxygen masks dropped down.
And when he stood up in a cabin, he could see the tail where the galley was torn away, leaving a gaping hole through which he could see the runway. After escaping, they watched the plane catch fire, and firefighters hose it down. They suffered some cuts and have neck and back pain.
"I just feel lucky," he said. "We are so lucky we sit beside the tail and we can leave the plane in the first place."
By the time the flames were out, much of the top of the fuselage had burned away. The tail section was gone, with pieces of it scattered across the beginning of the runway. One engine appeared to have broken away.
The flight originated in Shanghai, China, and stopped over in Seoul, South Korea, before making the nearly 11-hour trip to San Francisco, airport officials said. The airline said there were 16 crew members aboard and 291 passengers. Thirty of the passengers were children.
San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White said 19 people remain hospitalized, six of them in critical condition.
She said at a news conference outside San Francisco General Hospital the two 16-year-old girls who died were found on either side of the plane near the "front middle." Investigators are determining whether they were alive or dead when rescuers reached the scene.
Hayes-White said first responders told her they saw people at the edge of the bay dousing themselves with water, possibly to cool burn injuries.
San Francisco General Hospital Chief of Surgery Margaret Knudson said at least two people injured that were treated there are paralyzed and two others suffered road rash-type injuries suggesting they were dragged.
She said doctors at the hospital have also seen abdominal and orthopedic injuries and head trauma. Patients with severe abdominal injuries and spinal fractures appear to have suffered them from being thrown forward and back while restrained by seat belts.
South Korean government said the passengers included 141 Chinese, 77 South Koreans, 61 Americans, three Canadians, three from India, one Japanese, one Vietnamese and one from France, while the nationalities of the remaining three haven't been confirmed.
Chinese state media identified the dead as two 16-year-old girls from China's eastern Zhejiang province. China Central Television cited a fax from Asiana Airlines to the Jiangshan city government. They were identified as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia.
At least 70 Chinese students and teachers were on the plane heading to summer camps, according to education authorities in China.
Asiana President Yoon Young-doo said at a televised news conference that it will take time to determine the cause of the crash. But when asked about the possibility of engine or mechanical problems, he said he doesn't believe they could have been the cause.
He said the plane was bought in 2006 but didn't provide further details. Asiana officials later said the plane was also built that year.
Yoon also bowed and offered an apology, "I am bowing my head and extending my deep apology" to the passengers, their families and the South Korean people over the crash, he said.
Four pilots were aboard the plane and they rotated on a two-person shift during the flight, according to The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in South Korea. The two who piloted the plane at the time of crash were Lee Jeong-min and Lee Gang-guk.
Yoon, the Asiana president, described the pilots as "skilled," saying three had logged more than 10,000 hours each of flight time. He said the fourth had put in almost that much time, but officials later corrected that to say the fourth had logged nearly 5,000 hours. All four are South Koreans.
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Lowy reported from Washington, D.C. Associated Press writers Terry Collins, Terry Chea and Sudhin Thanawala in San Francisco, Scott Mayerowitz in New York, Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, and Louise Watt in Beijing contributed to this report.
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An independent Scotland is to have an expert commission on energy regulation, the energy minister has announced.
The commission, to be chaired by energy lawyer Robert Armour, will be tasked with finding options for consideration in finding the best operation model for the gas and electricity industry post independence.
It will explore various issues such as the role of a Scottish regulator; how an independent Scotland can efficiently participate in an integrated GB market and how to promote fairer energy prices and improve energy efficiency.
This work will build on proposals set out in the Scottish Government document Economic and Competition Regulation in an Independent Scotland, published in February this year.
The commission is to produce interim findings to inform the Scottish Government's White Paper on independence in autumn 2013 and a full report by the end of the year.
Scottish Government proposals show that an independent Scotland would look to continue a market for electricity and gas across Great Britain with Scotland gaining greater control over regulatory, fiscal and legislative aspects. A new strategic partnership with the rest of the UK on energy would also be sought according to the Scottish Government.
Fergus Ewing said: "Scotland's contribution to the UK's energy requirements is already considerable. And as we have witnessed by the figures released by Ofgem last week which show that projections for spare capacity in the GB system are now more critical than ever, Scotland's energy will be even more important in the future.
"Our position of a continued GB-wide market is therefore based on sound reasoning and is a model that will be in all parties' interests. It is important that we are in possession of all available detail, including independent advice, as the constitutional debate develops and the work of this commission will be a welcome contribution to that process."
Mr Armour, chairman of the expert commission, said: "Investment in low carbon generation and a modern grid, delivering meaningful advances in energy efficiency and tackling the growing problem of fuel poverty all depend on a clear, coherent and consistent policy environment.
"The Energy Expert Commission will draw on the extensive expertise of its diverse membership and the lessons from models in other jurisdictions in giving independent and considered views on what will deliver most for Scotland in the coming decades. The Commission welcomes evidence and submissions from parties interested in delivering the best outcomes for Scotland's energy future."
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) ? Shaquille O'Neal says the Los Angeles spotlight was too bright for Dwight Howard.
Speaking at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, Shaq hammered his former colleague as if they were battling in the post.
O'Neal opened his mouth agape when asked about Howard, who chose to leave the Lakers for the Houston Rockets late Friday, and joked about cheering on Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Danica Patrick in Saturday's race.
A few seconds later, he threw an elbow Howard's way.
"It was expected," Shaq said. "We've all been in LA, and not a whole lot of people can handle being under the bright lights. Everybody wants to do it, but when you get there, there are certain pressures. I think it was a safe move for him to go to a little town like Houston. That's right, little town. I said it."
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The virus is transmitted most commonly by bats in Washington State. It is very rare for a person to get rabies. Proper treatment can prevent rabies in a person who is exposed. Without treatment, rabies is always fatal to humans.?
If you find a bat in your home, do not touch the bat. Wear thick or leather gloves and capture the bat in a can or box. Seal the container and call your local health department. The staff will help you determine if any people or pets in your home may have been exposed. Human rabies is controlled by vaccinating dogs and cats and by giving a series of vaccines to people after they have been exposed.Source: http://www.crisisforums.org/discussion/1075/washington-bat-tested-positive-for-rabies
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Energy drink companies are promoting organic ingredients and making claims of cleaner caffeine. (Denver Post file)
ALBANY, N.Y ? Energy drinks are busting out of the convenience-store cooler and into the health-food aisle.
As energy drink sales soar like a caffeine-fueled rocket, more drinks are promoting organic ingredients, added juices, natural caffeine and so-called "clean" energy. A jolt from Rockstar not your speed? There's the "natural energy drink" Guru, and Steaz Energy, which, according to the can, is "good for the mind, body and soul." Or there's Runa's energy drink, made from something called Amazonian guayusa leaves.
Claims of cleaner caffeine boosts come as energy drinks find themselves under increasing scrutiny, particularly for their effects on children and adolescents. The word "organic" in front of "energy drink" might seem as incompatible as yoga pants with a backward tractor cap, but analysts say that as the market for energy drinks grows, it's diversifying too.
"I think we're going to see more beverages that offer energy functionality, but in nontraditional energy drinks," Beverage Digest publisher John Sicher said.
Energy drink sales hit $12.6 billion last year, representing a 14 percent jump from 2008, according to market research firm Packaged Facts. While Red Bull, Monster and Rockstar still dominate the U.S. market, part of the recent growth comes from new kinds of products, including diet and natural energy drinks.
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Do you ever find yourself impatiently typing out all three letters in the word the, over and over again? Or maybe you're just tired of and and its ampersand hogging all of the typographical shorthand. Well, surprisingly ? shockingly, even ? you are not the only one.
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Australian restauranteur and the?activist Paul Mathis has just introduced ?, a combination of a capital T and lowercase h.?Pronounced th, the new symbol would stand in for the, elevating the word to the level of its haughty, &-flaunting cousin and.?In addition to designing and promoting the symbol Mathis has introduced several new keyboard apps?featuring??, available in the Google Play store.
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This may very well be the first time someone has decided to advocate on behalf of the. Linguist and language columnist Ben Zimmer told The Atlantic Wire that, while he could think of similar campaigns to popularize ? (aka?the interbang, that very unpopular combination of question mark and exclamation point) as well as marks to denote sarcasm, no one has ever tried to shorten th before. And?probably for good reason. "I'm not sure that this is something that people are crying out for," Zimmer told us in a phone interview Friday. "People seem to be just fine using the word the."
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Mathis, and the $65,000 he invested into the development of his new symbol, would argue otherwise. Using the ? symbol will save you time, energy and, most appealingly, Twitter real estate. When you only get 140 characters, those extra two count. The is also the most commonly used word in the English language. Meanwhile and, possibly the most pretentious word in the English language, is only the fifth most common word after be, to, and of. Yet the has been neglected for centuries, apparently, and the ampersand has been around for centuries as a monument to the word's usefulness. As the ? promotional video below asks, "What has and ever done to deserve that?"
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As the video makes clear, despite being present in over 80 percent of all written paragraphs, "The hasn't got a special symbol, the remains three letters long, and the has never been recognized for its impressive usage." The has long been the ugly stepchild of the articles-and-prepositions family; it might always be.
"The ampersand developed organically over centuries," Zimmer said. "It wasn't suddenly introduced one day." With the exclusion of tech-era symbols like @, the natural development of symbols increases their staying power. Even Mathis, the ??inventor, knows this. In an interview with Australia's The Age, he dates the origins of the ampersand back to over half a millennium ago:
The Benedictine monks developed the modern version of the ampersand in the Middle Ages, when they were hand-copying religious texts. I'm not putting myself in the same league, but who knows ? maybe in 500 years' time people will be amazed that there was a time when we didn't use 'th'.
? has some serious hurdles to overcome before becoming the next big thing in typography. Besides being unnecessary and ridiculous, the combination of T and?h as a substitute for the only makes sense in the English language. As Zimmer notes, a large part of the ampersand's popularity is its universal appeal. Symbols such as @, %, and parentheses also have that "it factor" that lead to international appeal. ? may have to wait a while for its big break.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/really-shorten-word-170853356.html
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VERNON, B.C. ? B.C. Supreme Court has confirmed a $440,000-settlement for the family of an Alberta mother of four who was accidentally poisoned at a B.C. hospital.
Forty-year-old Brenda Gaida died in 2007 when she was given excessive doses of methotrexate ? a drug that can be used to treat cancer patients ? at Vernon?s Jubilee Hospital for a pre-existing skin condition while on vacation with her family.
According to court documents, Gaida was mistakenly given the medication daily rather than weekly.
After spending 16 days at the hospital, her family arranged for her to be flown to a hospital near her home in Edmonton, where she died two months later.
The Vernon hospital and the Interior Health Authority, admitted that Gaida died from poisoning, and that four doctors were at fault for negligent care and treatment.
Court documents say the parties sought a settlement in 2011, and while the hospital said both sides had agreed to $440,000, Gaida?s husband Brian Gaida said no binding settlement had ever been concluded.
Gaida, who had wanted a settlement of more than $1 million, said his former lawyer urged him to accept the $440,000 because it was likely the most he could get.
The a high school teacher said he ?just gave in,? and said yes. But he told the lawyer immediately after that he was concerned, and that the $440,000 would only be acceptable if certain conditions, such as a breakdown of the offer, were met.
?I sincerely felt and believe that I was unreasonably pressured and rushed into accepting the defendants? proposal of $440,000 without the benefit of information that was important to me and the time to thoroughly consider my position,? he said in an affidavit.
According to Gaida, the lawyer defied his instructions and accepted the offer, leaving him to feel like his concerns were ignored.
?It must be emphasized that when Brenda was dying in the Vernon Hospital, all of my efforts to voice my concerns about her plight to hospital and medical staff were simply not heard or understood. The ?experts? all knew what was appropriate for her care. I was just a husband,? he said in the affidavit.
?Sadly, my experience with the settlement negotiations was rather similar. I felt my concerns were simply not heard or understood. I was just a claimant unsophisticated in the complexities of the law.?
But B.C. Supreme Court Justice Paul Pearlman found that there was no misapprehension or defiance on the lawyer?s part, and has ruled that the settlement agreement is enforceable.
Gaida?s current lawyer, Rosanna Saccomani, said the woman?s death six years ago has been devastating for her four kids, who range in age from 13 to 22.
?When Brenda Gaida died, she was 40 years of age and she left a very young family,? said Saccomani. ?To grow up without the love and care and guidance of your mother, it?s very difficult to quantify what kind of loss that means for these children.?
Court documents say the woman had developed a non-life threatening condition in 2001 that caused open sores to form on her skin. The family was on holiday in the Okanagan in 2007 when her skin became inflamed and she went to the hospital.
Gaida said in his affidavit that hospital staff appeared not to take his wife?s condition seriously, and ignored his concerns about the quality of care.
?Contrary to their assertions, Brenda?s condition continued to deteriorate at an alarming rate,? the affidavit said.
?She soon could no longer eat or speak due to the many large open sores in her mouth and throat,? he said. ?Never in my life have I felt so helpless.?
When Gaida was transported to the Edmonton hospital, the chief of the intensive care unit told Brian that Gaida had been given a significant overdose of methotrexate during her time in the Vernon hospital, and that it may not have been detected because staff did not do adequate blood work.
The daily dosage caused ?irreparable harm to Brenda?s immune system,? and destroyed her white blood cell count. Soon after, Gaida suffered from multi-organ failure and a heart attack, leaving her in a comatose state.
?I maintained a bed side vigil and have never prayed so hard and for so long in my life pleading with God for a miracle,? he said in the affidavit.
No one from the Interior Health Authority was available for comment.
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The NSA leaker is traveling to Moscow en route to a third country. Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman told journalists Sunday that he knows nothing of Snowden's travel plans.
A giant screen at a Hong Kong shopping mall shows Edward Snowden, the former contractor accused of leaking information about NSA surveillance programs. He left Hong Kong on Sunday.
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EnlargeThe fugitive National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has sprung yet another surprise. He's on the move, and reportedly traveling to Cuba, and then perhaps on to Venezuela or Ecuador, via Moscow.
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Mr. Snowden left his temporary refuge in Hong Kong?Sunday?morning, just one day after the US government charged him with espionage and launched an urgent effort to extradite him from the former British colony. He boarded an Aeroflot flight to Moscow, and news reports say he has an onward ticket with the Russian national airline to fly to Cuba?on Monday.
In addition to the clear suggestion of official Russian aid with the fleeing whistleblower's logistics, Snowden appears to have received help from a more kindred source. WikiLeaks tweeted?Sunday?that it had "assisted Mr. Snowden's political asylum in a democratic country, travel papers and safe exit from Hong Kong."
Kremlin authorities earlier hinted that Russia might be willing to grant asylum to Snowden. But President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists?Sunday?that he knows nothing about the NSA leaker's travel plans.
Authorities in Hong Kong announced Snowden's departure?Sunday?in an official statement?that noted he had left "on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel," and added that US authorities had already been informed.
The statement said the urgent US warrant to arrest Snowden could not be carried out "since the documents provided by the US Government did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law.... ?As the HKSAR [Hong Kong] Government has yet to have sufficient information to process the request for provisional warrant of arrest, there is no legal basis to restrict Mr Snowden from leaving Hong Kong."
The statement included an extraordinary passage that may go far toward explaining why Hong Kong, which does have an extradition treaty and good relations with the US, appears to have turned so uncooperative in Snowden's case: "Meanwhile, the HKSAR Government has formally written to the US Government requesting clarification on earlier reports about the hacking of computer systems in Hong Kong by US government agencies. The HKSAR Government will continue to follow up on the matter so as to protect the legal rights of the people of Hong Kong."
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said in a statement?Sunday?that his organization was providing legal and logistical help to move Snowden to a safe haven in a "democratic country."
"Mr. Snowden is flying in an Aeroflot aircraft over Russian airspace, accompanied by WikiLeaks legal advisers," Mr. Assange said.
Upon arrival in Moscow he will be "met by diplomats from the country that will be his ultimate destination. Diplomats from that country will accompany him on a further flight to his destination," he added. The third country is still not named, but experts say it's most likely to be Venezuela or Ecuador.
"Owing to WikiLeaks' own circumstances, we have developed significant expertise in international asylum and extradition law, associated diplomacy and the practicalities in these matters," Assange said.?"I have great personal sympathy for Ed Snowden's position. WikiLeaks absolutely supports his decision to blow the whistle on the mass surveillance of the world's population by the US government."
Snowden's latest revelations, published in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post?on Sunday, indicate that US intelligence agencies have been hacking Chinese mobile phone companies to steal millions of text messages.
Russian security expert Andrei Soldatov, who edits Agentura.ru, an online journal that focuses on the secret services, says that in addition to granting Snowden safe passage to Cuba on an Aeroflot jetliner, Russia may have played a deeper role in helping to arrange his flight.
He suggests that the Kremlin's English-language satellite news network, RT, which enjoys very close relations with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, could have used its offices to help Wikileaks hook up with Snowden in Hong Kong,?
"There are reports that Assange's assistant, Sarah Harrison, is flying on the same plane with Snowden," says Mr. Soldatov.?"Involvement of RT would make sense, since RT has close cooperation with Assange, and he did a series of programs for them last year [Russia gives WikiLeaks' Julian Assange a TV platform]. The involvement of WikiLeaks requires no explanation. It wants to maintain itself as the key center for all disclosures of the kind that Snowden brought to the world," he adds.?
Soldatov says Russian assistance is also logical, for wider reasons than just an opportunity to stick it to Uncle Sam.
"Russia and China have been involved in a so-far unsuccessful struggle to change the rules of the Internet, by taking control of it away from the US-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and giving its functions to a wider, non-US-based entity," he says.
"The Russians and Chinese have been posing, for these purposes, as big defenders of Internet freedom. This political context helps to explain RT's close relations with WikiLeaks as well.... So, it makes sense for them to help Snowden too. Russian authorities see an opportunity to present themselves as the new center of refuge for whistleblowers against US dominance in Cyberspace. It's a coup for them," he adds.??
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Critics say the sequel is not as strong, but still very entertaining.
By Todd Gilchrist
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1709977/despicable-me-2-movie-reviews.jhtml
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"The world of video game design is a mysterious one," Double Fine's Kickstarter pitch reads. "What really happens behind the closed doors of a development studio is often unknown, unappreciated or misunderstood."
Those words were written around February 2012, ahead of the longtime adventure game developer's Kickstarter campaign launch in order to introduce its latest effort to the world. The project required $400,000, Double Fine's Tim Schafer said -- a goal eventually shattered by more than $3 million in pledges -- and would unfold "over a six-to-eight-month period." A "small team" led by Schafer promised to create a point-and-click adventure game in the vein of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. That game, first known as Double Fine Adventure, is now Broken Age -- a fitting title considering what came next.
Last evening, Schafer took to the Kickstarter backer page to explain what's going on with Broken Age (now well beyond the "six-to-eight-month period" originally promised): "I designed too much game," he said. That means it's not ready, in case that isn't clear. Moreover, a half-done version of the game -- pared down from its original scope -- will launch on Steam's "Early Access" section long before the full game's planned launch, and long before Kickstarter backers will play what they paid for, in order to fund the final half.
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A few big changes underway in the automated retail space: Coinstar, the operator of coin-counting kiosks that has now rebranded as Outerwall, is acquiring ecoATM for $350 million in cash. EcoATM operates its own kiosk network focused on taking used mobile phones, tablets and MP3 players for cash and has positioned itself, coincidentally, as the "Coinstar for used devices." Outerwall was already an investor in ecoATM, which had raised $31.4 million in VC financing, plus another $40 million in debt. Because of the 23% stake that it already owns, that will be deducted from that $350 million pricetag.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/e7MC0vx0qqc/
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Traveling this summer? Don't forget to pack the suntan lotion. And check in to your flight online. And check if your flight is delayed using your flight number. Speaking of, how the hell do airplanes come up with flight numbers? Apparently there's a system! Like did you know flights that go east or north are usually given even numbers while west and south flights have odd flight numbers.
MentalFloss decided to crack the mystery of flight numbers (they aren't just random lottery picks) and found a few patterns. Along with the odd and even distinction, return flights on troundtrip tickets are given a number one higher/lower than the original flight. Also, the lower the number (we're talking single or double digit flight numbers), the more money it makes for the airplane.
Four-digit flight numbers bring a whole 'nother set of rules like different airlines running particular flights purchased from another airline. It's pretty confusing. There are always exception to the "rules" of flight numbers but in general, they can stay the same forever. Read more about it here. [Mental Floss]
Image Credit: AP
Source: http://gizmodo.com/what-your-flight-number-actually-means-665020356
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By Andrew Osborn and Alexei Anishchuk
LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden broke his silence on Monday for the first time since fleeing to Moscow over a week ago, blasting the Obama administration and saying he remained free to make new disclosures about U.S. spying activity.
Snowden, who faces espionage charges in the United States and is believed to be staying in a transit area at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, surfaced with a letter to the Ecuadorean government and in a statement released through anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, which has taken up his cause.
WikiLeaks also released another statement saying Snowden was asking for asylum in several countries, including Russia, China, Brazil, India and Ireland. Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa was quoted in Britain's Guardian newspaper as saying his country could not consider an asylum request unless Snowden was on Ecuadorean territory.
In his WikiLeaks statement, Snowden accused the Obama administration of deception in a campaign to prevent him from finding political asylum and of "leaving me a stateless person" by revoking his U.S. passport.
Snowden, 30, had not been heard from in the eight days since he flew to Moscow from Hong Kong, where he had first taken refuge after fleeing Hawaii.
Snowden has sought asylum in Ecuador and in an undated letter sent to Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa seen by Reuters, said the United States was illegally persecuting him for revealing its electronic surveillance program, Prism, but made it clear he did not intend to be muzzled.
'UNEQUAL WORLD'
"I remain free and able to publish information that serves the public interest," Snowden, who had been a contract employee for the U.S. National Security Agency, said in the letter.
"No matter how many more days my life contains, I remain dedicated to the fight for justice in this unequal world. If any of those days ahead realize a contribution to the common good, the world will have the principles of Ecuador to thank."
But in an interview published on the Guardians website on Monday, Correa said giving Snowden a temporary travel pass to fly to Moscow was "a mistake on our part" and that Snowden was now Russia's problem.
"Are we responsible for getting him to Ecuador? It's not logical," he said.
Asked if he would like to meet Snowden, Correa said: "Not particularly. He's a very complicated person. Strictly speaking, Mr. Snowden spied for some time."
Snowden said the U.S. government was persecuting him.
"While the public has cried out support of my shining a light on this secret system of injustice, the Government of the United States of America responded with an extrajudicial man-hunt costing me my family, my freedom to travel, and my right to live peacefully without fear of illegal aggression," Snowden wrote.
In his WikiLeaks statement, Snowden lashed out at President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for pressing Ecuador to turn him away.
"This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is the extralegal penalty of exile," he said.
"Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right," Snowden said. "A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum ... Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me."
U.S. Justice Department spokeswoman Nanda Chitre rejected Snowden's allegation that he was marooned, "since he is still a United States citizen and his country is willing to take him back."
"As the State Department has already said, the U.S. government is prepared to issue individuals wanted on felony charges a one entry travel document to return home," she said.
LONG LIST OF COUNTRIES
WikiLeaks disclosed on Monday that Snowden had prepared requests for asylum in countries including Austria, Bolivia, Cuba, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and Venezuela. The requests were given to a Russian official at the airport and were to be delivered to the appropriate embassies in Moscow.
Snowden already has sought asylum in Ecuador and Iceland.
Russian Foreign Ministry and Kremlin officials declined immediate comment.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Snowden could stay in Russia on one condition.
"He must stop his work aimed at harming our American partners, as strange as that sounds coming from my lips," he told reporters after a gas exporters' conference in Moscow.
Putin said he suspected that Snowden would continue leaking information because "he feels himself to be a human rights activist."
"So he must choose a country of destination and go there," he said, speaking before the asylum request to Russia was reported. "Unfortunately, I don't know when this will happen."
Putin said Russia was not working with Snowden and had no intention of handing Snowden over to the United States.
"Russia has never given up anyone to anybody and does not plan to. And nobody ever gave anyone up to us," Putin said.
Shortly after Snowden fled the United States for Hong Kong in May, and long before he arrived in Russia, Putin suggested the surveillance methods he revealed were justified in fighting terrorism, if carried out lawfully.
Although Russia has sometimes exchanged captured spies with the United States, Putin suggested on Monday that this was not on the cards for Snowden. "As for Mr. Snowden, he is not our agent and he is not working with us," Putin said.
Obama, at a news conference in Tanzania, repeated that the United States was working through law enforcement channels to prod Russia to extradite Snowden.
Obama said there had been "high-level discussions with the Russians about trying to find a solution to the problem."
(Additional reporting by Lidia Kelly, Alissa de Carbonnel in Moscow, Mark Hosenball, Alina Selyukh and David Ingram in Washington and Jeff Mason in Dar Es Salaam; Writing by Steve Gutterman and Andrew Osborn; Editing by Ralph Boulton, Tim Dobbyn and Bill Trott)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/snowden-threatens-leaks-applies-russian-asylum-004454372.html
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Public release date: 2-Jul-2013
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The ability to predict corn yields would benefit farmers as they plan the sale of their crops and biofuel industries as they plan their operations. A new study published in the July-August issue of Agronomy Journal describes a robust model that uses easily obtained measurements, such as plant morphology and precipitation, collected specifically at the silking growth stage of the plant. The new model could help both growers and industry maximize their profits and efficiency.
Forecasting crop yield can be extremely useful for farmers. If they have an idea of the amount of yield they can expect, they can contract their corn prior to harvest, often securing a more competitive price than if they were to wait until after harvest. Likewise, industry can benefit from yield predictions by better planning the logistics of their business. But dependable forecasts can be difficult to find.
Several methods of predicting and modeling crop yields have been used in the past with varying success. Statistical models often don't take into account characteristics of the plants, the weather, or the management practices limiting their usefulness. Some models are based on information from just a single year or location.
"When you develop a model using single location or year data, it will have limited practical applications," explains Spyridon Mourtzinis, lead author of the study. "You don't include variability from multiple environments."
The new study from Mourtzinis and his co-authors from Auburn University found a more robust model for predicting both corn grain and stover yield. The model uses equations calculated with information about nitrogen fertilization rates, precipitation, and plant morphology, such as plant height, stem diameter, height of the first ear, number of forming ears, and plant population.
"Previous attempts were mainly looking at weather factors," says Francisco Arriaga, co-author of the study and now an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "This approach has other factors included in the model, and that is an important strength."
The timing of the measurements is also an important aspect of the model. Mourtzinis took weekly measurements from over 100 plots throughout the growing season to find the best window during which to collect data to be used in the equations. The time-consuming work paid off.
"We looked at all the vegetative states to see which one was best, and it turned out to be the R1 growth stage," explains Arriaga. "Other models tried to take measurements earlier, but that may be why they had poor results. Things change as the season goes by, and the stage we found was the critical one."
The R1 or silking growth stage, when silks are first visible outside the husks, is about two to two and half months before harvest. This model, then, would provide predictions early enough to affect crop prices and to allow industries to plan their operations. While even earlier predictions might be possible, they would depend on better forecasting of weather, which can greatly affect yields. Weather changes significantly throughout the growing season, and current forecasts are not dependable.
Another reason that the new model is robust is because data was collected at two different sites in Alabama over three years. The equations used in the current model, then, translated over six sets of data suggesting that it could be used in a variety of environments. Whether that is true is a goal of future experiments.
"It would be interesting to test the equations across a lot more environments now that we know which growth stage to target," says Arriaga.
Future studies will also test the model with other corn hybrids and management practices. As more data is collected from a variety of environments and growing conditions, the authors are hopeful that the model will continue to be an accurate predictor of corn yield.
"We need to be open-minded," says Mourtzinis. "The equations might change a bit when we get more data from more environments, but I think we can build on the current model."
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View the abstract at http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.2134/agronj2012.0393 .
To obtain a copy of the complete article, please contact Madeline Fisher at 608-268-3973, mfisher@sciencesocieties.org or Caroline Schneider at 608-268-3976, cschneider@sciencesocieties.org.
The full article is available for no charge for 30 days following the date of this summary. View the abstract at http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.2134/agronj2012.0393.
A peer-reviewed international journal of agriculture and natural resource sciences, Agronomy Journal is published six times a year by the American Society of Agronomy, with articles relating to original research in soil science, crop science, agroclimatology and agronomic modeling, production agriculture, and software. For more information visit: http://www.agronomy.org/publications/aj
The American Society of Agronomy (ASA) http://www.agronomy.org, is a scientific society helping its 8,000+ members advance the disciplines and practices of agronomy by supporting professional growth and science policy initiatives, and by providing quality, research-based publications and a variety of member services.
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Public release date: 2-Jul-2013 Share ] Contact: Spyridon Mourtzinis
szm0020@tigermail.auburn.edu
American Society of Agronomy
The ability to predict corn yields would benefit farmers as they plan the sale of their crops and biofuel industries as they plan their operations. A new study published in the July-August issue of Agronomy Journal describes a robust model that uses easily obtained measurements, such as plant morphology and precipitation, collected specifically at the silking growth stage of the plant. The new model could help both growers and industry maximize their profits and efficiency.
Forecasting crop yield can be extremely useful for farmers. If they have an idea of the amount of yield they can expect, they can contract their corn prior to harvest, often securing a more competitive price than if they were to wait until after harvest. Likewise, industry can benefit from yield predictions by better planning the logistics of their business. But dependable forecasts can be difficult to find.
Several methods of predicting and modeling crop yields have been used in the past with varying success. Statistical models often don't take into account characteristics of the plants, the weather, or the management practices limiting their usefulness. Some models are based on information from just a single year or location.
"When you develop a model using single location or year data, it will have limited practical applications," explains Spyridon Mourtzinis, lead author of the study. "You don't include variability from multiple environments."
The new study from Mourtzinis and his co-authors from Auburn University found a more robust model for predicting both corn grain and stover yield. The model uses equations calculated with information about nitrogen fertilization rates, precipitation, and plant morphology, such as plant height, stem diameter, height of the first ear, number of forming ears, and plant population.
"Previous attempts were mainly looking at weather factors," says Francisco Arriaga, co-author of the study and now an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "This approach has other factors included in the model, and that is an important strength."
The timing of the measurements is also an important aspect of the model. Mourtzinis took weekly measurements from over 100 plots throughout the growing season to find the best window during which to collect data to be used in the equations. The time-consuming work paid off.
"We looked at all the vegetative states to see which one was best, and it turned out to be the R1 growth stage," explains Arriaga. "Other models tried to take measurements earlier, but that may be why they had poor results. Things change as the season goes by, and the stage we found was the critical one."
The R1 or silking growth stage, when silks are first visible outside the husks, is about two to two and half months before harvest. This model, then, would provide predictions early enough to affect crop prices and to allow industries to plan their operations. While even earlier predictions might be possible, they would depend on better forecasting of weather, which can greatly affect yields. Weather changes significantly throughout the growing season, and current forecasts are not dependable.
Another reason that the new model is robust is because data was collected at two different sites in Alabama over three years. The equations used in the current model, then, translated over six sets of data suggesting that it could be used in a variety of environments. Whether that is true is a goal of future experiments.
"It would be interesting to test the equations across a lot more environments now that we know which growth stage to target," says Arriaga.
Future studies will also test the model with other corn hybrids and management practices. As more data is collected from a variety of environments and growing conditions, the authors are hopeful that the model will continue to be an accurate predictor of corn yield.
"We need to be open-minded," says Mourtzinis. "The equations might change a bit when we get more data from more environments, but I think we can build on the current model."
###
View the abstract at http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.2134/agronj2012.0393 .
To obtain a copy of the complete article, please contact Madeline Fisher at 608-268-3973, mfisher@sciencesocieties.org or Caroline Schneider at 608-268-3976, cschneider@sciencesocieties.org.
The full article is available for no charge for 30 days following the date of this summary. View the abstract at http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.2134/agronj2012.0393.
A peer-reviewed international journal of agriculture and natural resource sciences, Agronomy Journal is published six times a year by the American Society of Agronomy, with articles relating to original research in soil science, crop science, agroclimatology and agronomic modeling, production agriculture, and software. For more information visit: http://www.agronomy.org/publications/aj
The American Society of Agronomy (ASA) http://www.agronomy.org, is a scientific society helping its 8,000+ members advance the disciplines and practices of agronomy by supporting professional growth and science policy initiatives, and by providing quality, research-based publications and a variety of member services.
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/asoa-cyp070213.php
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July 1, 2013 ? In order to extend forecasting from six months to one year or even more, scientists have now proposed a novel approach based on advanced connectivity analysis applied to the climate system. The scheme builds on high-quality data of air temperatures and clearly outperforms existing methods. The study will be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Enhancing the preparedness of people in the affected regions by providing more early-warning time is key to avoiding some of the worst effects of El Ni?o," says Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-author of the study by Josef Ludescher et al (Justus-Liebig Universit?t Giessen). The new approach employs network analysis which is a cutting-edge methodology at the crossroads of physics and mathematics. Data from more than 200 measurement points in the Pacific, available from the 1950s on, were crucial for studying the interactions between distant sites that cooperate in bringing about the warming.
Extending the forecasting time but also enhancing the reliability
According to Schellnhuber a new algorithm was developed and tested which does not only extend the forecasting time but also enhances the reliability. In fact, the novel method correctly predicted the absence of an El Ni?o-event in the last year. This forecast was made in 2011 already, whereas conventional approaches kept on predicting a significant warming far into 2012.
El Ni?o is part of a more general oscillation of the Pacific ocean-atmosphere system called ENSO, which also embraces anomalous cold episodes dubbed La Ni?a which can inflict severe damages as well. The present study focuses on the warming events only. However, an El Ni?o-year is followed by a La Ni?a-year, as a rough rule.
Climate change: a factor for ENSO changes?
"It is still unclear to which extent global warming caused by humankind's emissions of greenhouse gases will influence the ENSO pattern," says Schellnhuber. "Yet the latter is often counted among the so-called tipping elements in the Earth system, meaning that at some level of climate change it might experience a relatively abrupt transformation." Certain data from the Earth's past suggest that higher mean global temperatures could increase the amplitude of the oscillation, so correct forecasting would become even more important.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/most_popular/~3/Ec_koDwQJvU/130701151822.htm
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Backstreet's back, alright?
As you may have noticed, there's nothing we love more here at Sugarscape than a good boyband. There's just something about those silky smooth tones, perfectly-quiffed bouffants and bulging biceps that do funny things to us. So you can imagine our delight when, last night, The Wanted boys performed at London's Heaven nightclub...WITH THE BACKSTREET BOYS *yelp*.
Yup, Backstreet's officially back - and our fave fivesome off of the 90s took to the stage alongside five of our current faves in a massive boyband sandwich. And it was beautiful.
To celebrate London Pride, the lads stormed the stage as loads of excitable peeps went a bit cray cray over what was happening in front of them. Like...it's not every day you get to see Max George making out with Jay McGuiness, is it?
Or Max being actually mauled, for that matter.
And OBVIOUSLY carnage ensued when Nathan Sykes got his rocket out and was well unapologetic about it...
OOF. Now let's just have a little perv over them all again, shall we? Warning: includes quite frankly RIDICULOUS Siva cheekbone action.
Amazing.
What d'ya reckon? Do you want it that way? We'd have it any way, to be honest. We're not fussy. Comments please. GO.
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