Jan. 30, 2013 ? Comforting a friend or relative in distress may be a more hard-wired behavior than previously thought, according to a new study of bonobos, which are great apes known for their empathy and close relation to humans and chimpanzees. This finding provides key evolutionary insight into how critical social skills may develop in humans.
The results are published in the online journal PLOS ONE.
Researchers from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, observed juvenile bonobos at the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo engaging in consolation behavior more than their adult counterparts. Juvenile bonobos (ages 3 to 7) are equivalent to preschool or elementary school-aged children.
Zanna Clay, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Emory's Department of Psychology, and Frans de Waal, PhD, director of the Living Links Center at Yerkes and C.H. Candler Professor of Psychology at Emory, led the study.
"Our findings suggest that for bonobos, sensitivity to the emotions of others emerges early and does not require advanced thought processes that develop only in adults," Clay says.
Starting at around age two, human children usually display consolation behavior, a sign of sensitivity to the emotions of others and the ability to take the perspective of another. Consolation has been observed in humans, bonobos, chimpanzees and other animals, including dogs, elephants and some types of birds, but has not been seen in monkeys.
At the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary, most bonobos come as juvenile or infant orphans because their parents are killed for meat or captured as pets. A minority of bonobos in the sanctuary is second generation and raised by their biological mothers. The researchers found bonobos raised by their own mothers were more likely to comfort others compared to orphaned bonobos. This may indicate early life stress interferes with development of consolation behavior, while a stable parental relationship encourages it, Clay says.
Clay observed more than 350 conflicts between bonobos at the sanctuary during several months. Some conflicts involved violence, such as hitting, pushing or grabbing, while others only involved threats or chasing. Consolation occurred when a third bonobo -- usually one that was close to the scene of conflict -- comforted one of the parties in the conflict.
Consolation behavior includes hugs, grooming and sometimes sexual behavior. Consolation appears to lower stress in the recipient, based on a reduction in the recipient's rates of self-scratching and self-grooming, the authors write.
"We found strong effects of friendship and kinship, with bonobos being more likely to comfort those they are emotionally close to," Clay says. "This is consistent with the idea that empathy and emotional sensitivity contribute to consolation behavior."
In future research, Clay plans to take a closer look at the emergence of consolation behavior in bonobos at early ages. A process that may facilitate development of consolation behavior is when older bonobos use younger ones as teddy bears; their passive participation may get the younger bonobos used to the idea, she says.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - A newly married South Florida man who opted to take his wife's last name is fighting the state's Department of Motor Vehicles after it suspended his driving license on grounds of fraud.
Real estate investor Lazaro Sopena offered to change his name following his 2011 marriage to Hanh Dinh in order to help his wife's Vietnamese family perpetuate their family surname.
Shortly after their marriage, Lazaro Dinh obtained a new passport and Social Security card and changed his bank account and credit cards before applying to update his drivers license.
"It was an act of love. I have no particular emotional ties to my last name," said Dinh, 40, who was born in Cuba and came to the United States at the age of 11 in 1984.
His wife, Hanh Dinh, 32, has four sisters and came to the U.S. in 1990, after a family odyssey involving living in refugee camps and being separated from her father for 7 years.
Lazaro Dinh was initially issued a new license after presenting his marriage certificate at his local DMV office and paying a $20 fee, just as newly married women are required to do when they adopt their husband's name.
"It was easy. When the government issues you a new passport you figure you're fine," he said.
More than a year later Dinh received a letter from Florida's DMV last December accusing him of "obtaining a driving license by fraud," and advising him that his license would be suspended at the end of the month. Ironically, it was addressed to Lazaro Dinh.
"I thought it was a mistake," he said.
But when he called the state DMV office in Tallahassee he said he was told he had to go to court first in order to change his name legally, a process that takes several months and has a $400 filing fee.
When he explained he was changing his name due to marriage, he was told 'that only works for women,'" he said.
"Apparently the state of Florida clings to the out-dated notion that treats women as an extension of a man," said Lazaro's lawyer, Spencer Kuvin, with Cohen & Kuvin in West Palm Beach. While it was unusual for a man to seek to be considered an extension on his wife, Dinh's case raised important issues for gay marriage, he noted.
"If Lazaro isn't allowed to change his name, what is going to happen when a gay couple seeks a name change?"
Only a few states have made their marriage name change policy gender neutral, Kuvin said. In Florida's case it has no law, although the DMV's website does not specify gender.
According to Kuvin, 9 states enable a man to change his name upon marriage: California, New York, Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, Iowa, Georgia and North Dakota.
The Florida DMV did not respond to a request for comment.
Following a DMV hearing, Dinh was issued a Final Order on January 14 confirming that his license had been properly suspended for fraud.
He is now appealing that order but has not dared get behind the wheel.
"I don't understand. I'm being treated like a highway criminal," said Dinh, who said he has a perfect driving record and now is struggling to carry out his job, begging his wife and friends for rides.
(In 10th paragraph, this story corrects quote to read "women" instead of "men")
Drugmaker Pfizer gave the Dow a lift after posting a strong earnings report. That helped push the index closer to 14,000.?
The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 13,954. The index has advanced seven of the past eight days. The Standard and Poor's 500 gained 7 points to 1,507. The Nasdaq composite fell less than a point to 3,153.?
Stocks are approaching record levels after a January rally that has pushed the Dow 6.5 percent higher this month and the S&P 500 up 5.7 percent, to its highest level since December 2007. Demand was bolstered after lawmakers reached a deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" at the start of the year.?
Advancing stocks outpaced declining ones on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was above average at 3.9 billion shares.??
The S&P 500 is on track to post its best monthly performance since October 2011 and its best January since 1997 as investors poured $55 billion in new cash into stock mutual funds and exchange-traded funds in January, the biggest monthly inflow on record.?
Among rising defensive shares, which are companies relatively immune to economic swings, were Pfizer?and AT&T .?
"After the kind of rally that we had since the beginning of the year, many investors are becoming more cautious but there is fundamental reasons to be moving in the direction that we are moving in," said Joseph Tanious, global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Funds.?
"The 1,500 on the S&P is the psychological barrier but there are still more tailwinds than headwinds in the market."?
"Cyclical were moving very nicely, now you see balance with some of the defensive. Many managers use that as an internal hedge in equity portfolios," said Quincy Krosby, market strategist at Prudential Financial in Newark, New Jersey.?
She said the market is cautious ahead of Wednesday's statement following the Federal Reserve's two-day meeting. In addition, defensive stocks would hold up better if Friday's payrolls report surprises on the downside.?
The S&P hovered near 1,500, and market technicians say the benchmark is at an inflection point which will determine the overall direction in the near term.?
"The public is pouring in now," said Carter Worth, chief market technician at Oppenheimer & Co in New York. "It reflects complacency and that typically leads to hubris, and hubris leads to trouble. Everyone's buying."?
The energy sector also advanced, on the back of strong earnings from Valero Energy Corp and a hedge fund move to break up Hess Corp to boost investor returns.?
Valero shares jumped 10.8 percent to $42.99 and Hess gained 8.1 percent to $67.56.?
The equity gains have largely come on a strong start to earnings season, though results were mixed on Tuesday with Pfizer rising but Ford Motor Co down after its report.?
Both companies reported profits that topped expectations, but Ford also forecast a wider loss in its European segment. Ford dropped 5.6 percent to $13.01 as one of the biggest percentage losers on the S&P 500.?
Thomson Reuters data showed that of the 174 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings this season, 68.4 percent have been above analyst expectations, which is a higher proportion than over the past four quarters and above the average since 1994.?
Disappointing outlooks from Seagate Technology and BMC Software pressured their shares. Seagate lost 9.6 percent to $33.82 and BMC fell 8.5 percent to $40.70.?
Software maker VMware Inc lost 21 percent to $77.71 also after a cautious 2013 outlook.?
Amazon was the biggest drag on the Nasdaq with a 3.2 percent drop to $267.17 before its results, expected after the closing bell.?
U.S. home prices rose in November to rack up their best yearly gain since the housing crisis began, a further sign that the sector is on the mend, but consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in more than a year in the wake of higher taxes for many Americans.?
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.?
Our?pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.
Apple just?released a software update?? iOS 6.1 ? which gives you the ability to purchase movie tickets through?Fandango using Siri, supports LTE?capabilities?for a bunch of carriers around the world?and adds the ability to download individual songs from iCloud.
Also,?Facebook updated its iOS app with voice messages, video recording and?sharing.
Meanwhile, we've heard plenty of rumors?about Apple's intentions to start offering a higher capacity fourth-generation iPad, but now the new gadget is official: You can snag a 128GB iPad with Retina Display beginning on Feb. 5.
Oh, darn??Twitter is making it less easy to find porn on its new video-sharing service, Vine.?
Oh, hey!?Canon's new point-and-shoot gets improved with both?Wi-Fi and zoom.
Check out this supersonic ping-pong gun fires balls at Mach 1.2?... because why now??
Google is?pledging to fight over government access to users' email.?
And?Twitter turns over user info to the U.S. feds in 69 percent of requests.
I don't know about you, but I'm super psyched about Gawker's old tech rumor blog, Valleywag, rising from the dead.?
In closing, a pug outsmarts winter! Go pug!?
Compiled?by?Helen A.S. Popkin,?who invites you to?join her on?Twitter?and/or?Facebook. Also,?Google+.
A man takes a picture of an electric stock price display of a securities firm with a smartphone in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Asian stock markets posted modest gains Tuesday as the feel-good factor lingered from near-record highs on Wall Street and signs of an upswing in U.S. manufacturing. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
A man takes a picture of an electric stock price display of a securities firm with a smartphone in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Asian stock markets posted modest gains Tuesday as the feel-good factor lingered from near-record highs on Wall Street and signs of an upswing in U.S. manufacturing. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
People walk by an electric stock index display of a securities firm in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Asian stock markets posted modest gains Tuesday as the feel-good factor lingered from near-record highs on Wall Street and signs of an upswing in U.S. manufacturing. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
People walk by an electric stock index display of a securities firm in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Asian stock markets posted modest gains Tuesday as the feel-good factor lingered from near-record highs on Wall Street and signs of an upswing in U.S. manufacturing. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
LONDON (AP) ? Markets were relatively becalmed Tuesday for the second day running as investors awaited key data on the U.S. economy that could indicate whether the optimistic start to the year will continue.
Many stock indexes around the world have hit multi-year highs and the Dow Jones industrial average is not far off its all-time peak, achieved in 2007 just before the financial crisis started baring its teeth.
One of the reasons why markets have enjoyed such a strong start to the year is optimism over the U.S. economy. Over the coming days, investors will be inundated with a raft of figures, culminating on Friday with the monthly nonfarm payrolls report for January. The payrolls figures often provide the markets direction for a week or two after their release.
In the run-up to that statement, markets around the world have so far traded this week in fairly narrow ranges, particularly in Europe and the U.S. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 0.2 percent at 6,304 while Germany's DAX fell 0.1 percent to 7,826. The CAC-40 in France was 0.2 percent lower at 3,774.
There's a lot to get through before Friday, though, most notably on Wednesday when the U.S. Federal Reserve concludes its latest two-day policy meeting. At their last meeting, there were signs that some rate-setters were poised to bring an end to the era of super-loose monetary policy.
"The Fed statement tomorrow is likely to be the most eagerly anticipated news of the week," said Rebecca O'Keeffe, head of investment at Interactive Investor.
Wall Street was poised for modest losses at the open Tuesday, with both Dow futures and the broader S&P 500 futures down 0.1 percent.
The main point of interest later Tuesday may be the monthly U.S. consumer confidence report from the Conference Board ? particularly as the recent budget agreement between the White House and Congress has led to some tax rises.
U.S. earnings statements continue, with more than one-fifth of the companies in the S&P 500 reporting this week. Ford and Amazon are due to report Tuesday.
"Traders' resolve to keep building out this rally certainly has the potential to be tested yet again," said Fawad Razaqzada, market strategist at GFT Markets.
Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.4 percent to 10,866.72 but Hong Kong's Hang Seng slipped less than 0.1 percent to 23,655.17.
Japanese banks surged on expectations they will beat earnings estimates for fiscal 2012, the Nikkei newspaper reported. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group advanced 3.8 percent. Mizuho Financial Group gained 2.9 percent and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group rose 4.4 percent.
It was fairly quiet in other financial markets too, with the euro 0.1 percent lower at $1.3441 and the dollar flat at 90.51 yen.
In the oil markets, a barrel of benchmark New York crude was 15 cents higher at $96.58.
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Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.
Political evolutions are commonplace. The liberal college student becomes a conservative adult. The conservative adult grows more liberal on gay rights. The French orator Francois Guizot said of the anti-monarchists of his day "Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head". It?s a quote that?s been reworked a gazillion times since. It?s one dear to the heart of neoconservatives many of whom began as devotees of Trotsky and ended up embracing Reagan.
There are conversions that we may not like--Arianna Huffington from right to left or Norman Podhoretz from left to right--but which are considered and understandable. And then there are conversions that seem harder to fathom. See the cover of Newsweek where the much lauded playwright, author and producer David Mamet challenges gun control.
There are any number of coherent, intellectual and constitutional arguments to be made against the president?s proposals to limit magazine size and ban certain types of weapons as well as to expand the background check program. ?Mamet foregoes any reasonable argument for a piece that likens Obama to Marx and his proposals to totalitarianism. ?For it is, again, only the Marxists who assert that the government, which is to say the busy, corrupted, and hypocritical fools most elected officials are (have you ever had lunch with one?) should regulate gun ownership based on its assessment of needs.? ?Apparently the Marxists now include Joe Scarborough and Joe Manchin, if not Reagan and the Bushes.
Anyone who?s listened to Michael Savage, the talk radio host, is familiar with the zealotry of the convert. His Savage Nation program is among the most popular in the conservative talk show firmament and his conversion from San Francisco liberal to conservative provocateur ?is well known to his listeners. His incendiary rhetoric, though, has led even conservative broadcasters to distance themselves from him. Fox News contributor Bernard Goldman cited him as one of the ?people who are screwing up America.? He?s been lambasted for remarks about gays, muslims and even autism: ??Now, the illness du jour is autism. You know what autism is? I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, ? ?Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.? ? Savage has a Ph.D. in nutritional ethnomedicine so he should know.
I couldn?t help think of Savage and Mamet when I read that ?Max Kampelman died this week at 92. If you were involved in politics and policy in Washington in the last quarter of the 20th century you?ve probably heard of Kampelman. Otherwise, it?s less likely. Born to Jewish immigrant parents, he was a longtime aide to Hubert Humphrey during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. An accomplished attorney whose name was on the smoked glass at the great firm Fried, Frank, he was asked by Jimmy Carter to be lead the talks to bring the Soviet Union and some of its satellites into compliance with the Helsinki human rights accords. This seems almost quaint now but the talks in Madrid, where he led the American delegation, were an important diplomatic forum for confronting the Soviets, one of the major avenues for cataloguing and confronting their abuse of liberty. Like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Kampelman was an eloquent and fearless voice for human rights.
President Reagan asked Kampelman to lead arms control talks with the Soviets that led to the START agreements cutting nuclear weapons. In his later years, he was a staple of international affairs and human rights organizations like Freedom House and the U.S. Institute of Peace, a lawyer diplomat of the likes of John J. McCloy or James Baker. He was a hawk with ties to neoconservative groups like the Committee on the Present Danger but he was a flexible one, willing to adapt to changing times. In 2007, he joined Sam Nunn and George Shultz in their efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. His tone was civil and courtly. Richard Sauber, once a partner at Fried Frank and and who Kampelman tapped to offer legal advice to Freedom House remembers one particularly heated board meeting where Kampelman had the patience of Job. ?The board was filled with a who's who of foreign policy, and Max was like an adult among children: the most reasonable person with exquisite judgment.? (For the record, Sauber is my attorney, too.)
The interesting thing about Kampelman that relates to Mamet and Savage is that he had a political conversion. He began as a conscientious objector, so much so that he had a deferment not during Vietnam or Korea but during World War II-- the Good War, the one that helped save the Jewish people from extermination. As part of his ?CO? status, he went to the University of Minnesota where he participated in tests where he was voluntarily subjected to near starvation. And it?s in Minnesota where he found a job with Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey that Kampelman?s pacifism faded and he came to see the merits of a strong defense--a position that echoed that of Humphrey himself and the Democrats of a bygone era like the late Henry ?Scoop? Jackson, the Senator from Washington and leading voice for what was called guns and butter.
Presidents of both parties understood Kampelman?s greatness. Carter brought him in and Reagan kept him even though Kampelman had helped the 1984 Mondale campaign. Bill Clinton gave Kampelman the presidential medal of freedom even though he was Reagan?s negotiator. They saw in him a steady hand and a reasonable mind. For the rest, of us he?s a role model on how to manage our own political evolutions. Evolving from pacifist to hawk is about as big a pendulum swing as can be imagined but Kampelman did it in a way that made him beloved. See a bipartisan tribute to him here when he was awarded the 2008 Democracy Service Medal by the National Endowment for Democracy.
Jan. 28, 2013 ? Using an exotic form of silicon could substantially improve the efficiency of solar cells, according to computer simulations by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and in Hungary.
The work was published Jan. 25 in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Solar cells are based on the photoelectric effect: a photon, or particle of light, hits a silicon crystal and generates a negatively charged electron and a positively charged hole. Collecting those electron-hole pairs generates electric current.
Conventional solar cells generate one electron-hole pair per incoming photon, and have a theoretical maximum efficiency of 33 percent. One exciting new route to improved efficiency is to generate more than one electron-hole pair per photon, said Giulia Galli, professor of chemistry at UC Davis and co-author of the paper.
"This approach is capable of increasing the maximum efficiency to 42 percent, beyond any solar cell available today, which would be a pretty big deal," said lead author Stefan Wippermann, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis.
"In fact, there is reason to believe that if parabolic mirrors are used to focus the sunlight on such a new-paradigm solar cell, its efficiency could reach as high as 70 percent," Wippermann said.
Galli said that nanoparticles have a size of nanometers, typically just a few atoms across. Because of their small size, many of their properties are different from bulk materials. In particular, the probability of generating more than one electron-hole pair is much enhanced, driven by an effect called "quantum confinement." Experiments to explore this paradigm are being pursued by researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., as well as at UC Davis.
"But with nanoparticles of conventional silicon, the paradigm works only in ultraviolet light," Wippermann said. "This new approach will become useful only when it is demonstrated to work in visible sunlight."
The researchers simulated the behavior of a structure of silicon called silicon BC8, which is formed under high pressure but is stable at normal pressures, much as diamond is a form of carbon formed under high pressure but stable at normal pressures.
The computer simulations were run through the National Energy Research Scientific Supercomputing Center at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, which granted the project 10 million hours of supercomputer time.
The simulations demonstrated that nanoparticles of silicon BC8 indeed generate multiple electron-hole pairs per photon even when exposed to visible light.
"This is more than an academic exercise. A Harvard-MIT paper showed that when normal silicon solar cells are irradiated with laser light, the energy the laser emits may create a local pressure high enough to form BC8 nanocrystals. Thus, laser or chemical pressure treatment of existing solar cells may turn them into these higher-efficiency cells," said co-author Gergely Zimanyi, professor of physics at UC Davis.
Other authors of the paper are Marton Voros and Adam Gali at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
The work was funded by a National Science Foundation Solar Collaborative grant awarded to Zimanyi, Galli and colleagues at UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz in 2011. The project brings together experts in material science, chemistry, computer simulations and statistics to develop new approaches to solar power.
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?The needs and wants of today?s consumer have changed drastically over the past few years. Consumers expect everything to be smaller, faster, thinner, lighter and aesthetically pleasing,? says Henri Crohas, Founder and CEO of ARCHOS. ?In order to meet this demand we feel that we should share our innovation and design across a number of different platforms.?
The Archos Design Bluetooth Keyboard for iPad certainly looks the part with its super slim design, aluminium construction, long battery life and magnetic connection to the iPad. It is slated to be released in March this year with a suggested price of $79.
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Heat rising up from cities such as New York, Paris and Tokyo might be remotely warming up winters far away in some rural parts of Alaska, Canada, and Siberia, a surprising study theorizes.
In an unusual twist, that same urban heat from buildings and cars may be slightly cooling the autumns in much of the Western United States, Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, according to the study published Sunday in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change.
Meteorologists long have known that cities are warmer than rural areas, with the heat of buildings and cars, along with asphalt and roofs that absorb heat. That's called the urban heat island effect and it's long been thought that the heat stayed close to the cities.
But the study, based on a computer model and the Northern Hemisphere, now suggests the heat does something else, albeit indirectly. It travels about half a mile up into the air and then its energy changes the high-altitude currents in the atmosphere that dictate prevailing weather.
"Basically, it changes the flow." said Guang Zhang of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. He wrote the paper with Aixue Hu at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.
This doesn't change overall global temperature averages significantly, unlike man-made greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Instead it redistributes some of the heat, the scientists said.
The changes seem to vary with the seasons and by region because of the way air currents flow at different times of the year. During the winter, the jet stream is altered and weakened, keeping cold air closer to the Arctic Circle and from dipping down as sharply, Hu explained.
The computer model showed that parts of Siberia and northwestern Canada may get, on average, an extra 1.4 degrees to 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 to 1 degree Celsius) during the winter, which "may not be a bad thing," Zhang said. The effect isn't quite as much in northern North Dakota and Minnesota, where temperatures might be about half a degree warmer (0.3 degrees Celsius), and even less along the East Coast.
In contrast, Europe and the Pacific Northwest are cooled slightly in the winter from this effect. The jet stream changes prevent weather systems from bringing warmer air from the Atlantic to Europe and from the Pacific to the U.S. Northwest, thus cooling those areas a bit, he said.
The biggest cooling occurs in the fall, but Hu said he's not quite sure why that happens.
Several outside scientists said they were surprised by the study results, calling the work "intriguing" and "clever." But they said it would have to be shown in more than one computer model and in repeated experiments before they could accept this theory.
"It's an interesting and rationally carried out study," said David Parker, climate monitoring chief of the United Kingdom meteorology office. "We must be cautious until other models are used to test their hypothesis."
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Former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown raised eyebrows on Twitter Friday night when his verified account published a succession of three inscrutable messages -- the first of which appears to have been a severe misspelling of the word "whatever," and the last referring to a "brilliant," but as-yet-unidentified acquaintance named Matt.
The first tweet was published at 12:46 a.m. ET. The final tweet went out two minutes later.
Note: The above tweets appear in reverse-chronological order
UPDATE: As Slate's Dave Weigel points outs, the three tweets sent out to Brown's entire following were shortly preceded by a series of curt replies to Twitter accounts who had earlier in the evening tweeted critical statements at Brown.
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Kyle Biggs, Staff writer January 24, 2013 Filed under Sports
Northern Kentucky University intramurals hosted a BASEketball tournament for a second consecutive year at the campus recreation center on Wednesday.
The game, a unique mash-up of two sports, combines the action of basketball with the scoring system of baseball. The game is scored over nine innings, and the inning ends after each team gets three ?outs,? like in baseball.
An ?out? occurs when the offensive team shoots the basketball but misses, which is where the basketball action takes place. If the shot is made, a runner reaches base. When a baserunner reaches ?home,? a point is awarded.
While some players participated last year and were familiar with the rules, others had to adjust to playing the odd game for the first time.
Chase Wiler, a member of Pike B?s winning team, said his first experience with BASEketball was enjoyable.
?It?s a pretty fun game,? he said. ?It?s something different.?
Cody Foley and Harlan Barker, also members of Pike B, noted some of the skills needed to be successful.
Barker credited tip-ins, the act of following a missed shot with an immediate made shot without touching the ground, as a skill necessary to playing defense.
Foley discussed some of the pure basketball skills needed to succeed that ultimately resulted in his team winning the tournament.
?It really shows who the shooters are in the gym,? he said.
Switzerland is latest to partner with NSF through GROWPublic release date: 25-Jan-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Maria C. Zacharias mzachari@nsf.gov 703-292-8454 National Science Foundation
Research collaboration between NSF and Switzerland offers new international opportunity for NSF Graduate Research Fellows
National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Subra Suresh and Swiss State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation Mauro Dell'Ambrogio announced today a new research partnership with Switzerland through Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW). The agreement was signed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. GROW is a coordinated effort that enhances international collaborative research opportunities for NSF Graduate Research Fellows. There are currently GROW agreements between NSF and science agencies in nine countries.
GROW was announced in Dec. 2012, at the 60th anniversary celebration of the Graduate Research Fellowship Program, NSF's flagship program for graduate students in the science and engineering fields within NSF's mission.
"Today's graduate students being trained as scientists and engineers in the U.S. will increasingly collaborate and compete with their peers from around the globe throughout their career," said Suresh. "Through GROW, we are connecting NSF Graduate Research Fellows (GRFs) with leading scientists and research infrastructure around the world. GROW will thus provide the NSF GRFs with new opportunities for research collaboration during their graduate training, and will prepare them to engage in the global research enterprise."
Under GROW, a streamlined and well-coordinated process has been developed to connect NSF GRFs to a number of strategically selected educational and research institutions around the world.
"This partnership will open new mobility opportunities for young, talented researchers while strengthening the academic ties between our two countries, said Mauro Dell'Ambrogio, the Swiss Secretary of State for Education, Research and Innovation. "This new partnership is in line with the strategic goals defined by the scientific and technological cooperation agreement signed in Washington on April 1, 2009, between Switzerland and the United States. It will definitely contribute to establishing new relationships among young researchers of both countries, thus paving the way to long-term Swiss-American collaboration at a very high level of excellence."
The Fellows, selected through the normal process through the NSF GRF Program and invited to participate in GROW, are hosted by a science agency in a partner country for a period of three to 12 months. While overseas, they receive a living allowance from the host country as they pursue their research in a host institution. They are also eligible to receive an international travel allowance from NSF. This partnership with Switzerland adds to existing collaborations with NSF partner agencies in Denmark, Finland, France, Japan, Norway, Singapore, Sweden and South Korea. It is anticipated that additional partners from other countries will join GROW in the months ahead.
GROW supports NSF's broader commitment to address the internationalization of science and engineering and to provide multiple pathways to engagement with top researchers worldwide. GROW joins other recent NSF efforts such as Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) and Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) in providing mechanisms to foster international partnerships and address global challenges.
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program has continued to evolve over six decades, and is now providing opportunities for students to conduct research that is increasingly interdisciplinary. Today's Graduate Research Fellows can also gain experience and mentoring outside the lab--in entrepreneurship, business, industry or government.
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Switzerland is latest to partner with NSF through GROWPublic release date: 25-Jan-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Maria C. Zacharias mzachari@nsf.gov 703-292-8454 National Science Foundation
Research collaboration between NSF and Switzerland offers new international opportunity for NSF Graduate Research Fellows
National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Subra Suresh and Swiss State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation Mauro Dell'Ambrogio announced today a new research partnership with Switzerland through Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW). The agreement was signed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. GROW is a coordinated effort that enhances international collaborative research opportunities for NSF Graduate Research Fellows. There are currently GROW agreements between NSF and science agencies in nine countries.
GROW was announced in Dec. 2012, at the 60th anniversary celebration of the Graduate Research Fellowship Program, NSF's flagship program for graduate students in the science and engineering fields within NSF's mission.
"Today's graduate students being trained as scientists and engineers in the U.S. will increasingly collaborate and compete with their peers from around the globe throughout their career," said Suresh. "Through GROW, we are connecting NSF Graduate Research Fellows (GRFs) with leading scientists and research infrastructure around the world. GROW will thus provide the NSF GRFs with new opportunities for research collaboration during their graduate training, and will prepare them to engage in the global research enterprise."
Under GROW, a streamlined and well-coordinated process has been developed to connect NSF GRFs to a number of strategically selected educational and research institutions around the world.
"This partnership will open new mobility opportunities for young, talented researchers while strengthening the academic ties between our two countries, said Mauro Dell'Ambrogio, the Swiss Secretary of State for Education, Research and Innovation. "This new partnership is in line with the strategic goals defined by the scientific and technological cooperation agreement signed in Washington on April 1, 2009, between Switzerland and the United States. It will definitely contribute to establishing new relationships among young researchers of both countries, thus paving the way to long-term Swiss-American collaboration at a very high level of excellence."
The Fellows, selected through the normal process through the NSF GRF Program and invited to participate in GROW, are hosted by a science agency in a partner country for a period of three to 12 months. While overseas, they receive a living allowance from the host country as they pursue their research in a host institution. They are also eligible to receive an international travel allowance from NSF. This partnership with Switzerland adds to existing collaborations with NSF partner agencies in Denmark, Finland, France, Japan, Norway, Singapore, Sweden and South Korea. It is anticipated that additional partners from other countries will join GROW in the months ahead.
GROW supports NSF's broader commitment to address the internationalization of science and engineering and to provide multiple pathways to engagement with top researchers worldwide. GROW joins other recent NSF efforts such as Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) and Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) in providing mechanisms to foster international partnerships and address global challenges.
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program has continued to evolve over six decades, and is now providing opportunities for students to conduct research that is increasingly interdisciplinary. Today's Graduate Research Fellows can also gain experience and mentoring outside the lab--in entrepreneurship, business, industry or government.
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More information about NSF international opportunities is available on the Office of International Science and Engineering website.
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When Google receives government requests for personal data, does it spit in the G-Man's face or invite him in for tea and crumpets? The search giant's transparency report reveals that, 88 percent of the time, the US will be able to rifle through your emails while eating baked goods. The States tops the chart, demanding Mountain View release information on 14,791 users in the last three months -- with 3,152 requested with a search warrant, 10,390 with a subpoena and 1,249 from processes including EDPA court orders. The list of the top five nosiest countries is rounded out by India, France, Germany and the UK. Tour the report and you may notice that, breaking with tradition, content takedowns are no longer mentioned -- Google is planning to break out that data as a separate filing in the future.
Posted by Tiffany Hinton on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Loud and obnoxious interrupt marketing and advertising practices of things such as TV and radio commercials are quickly becoming a thing of the past.
Today in order to gain a customer, keep that customer and turn that customer into a positive advocate it requires cultivating a?meaningful relationship.
The companies that are winning big and will dramatically breakaway from the competitive herd going forward will be those that learn how to master the tools, platform and?relational skills of social media. Excerpt:?http://darrenhardy.success.com/2012/06/stop-yelling/
A 2011 Nielsen group report on social media usage and the findings were a bit surprising. We all know ?U.S. Internet users spend more time on Facebook more than any other site,? although buried in the report were some fascinating tidbits.
1. Americans spend most of their time online on social network and blogs
We all knew that Americans spent a lot of time on Facebook, but to put this into perspective, we only spend about 7.6 percent of our time checking e-mail. We spend almost three times (23 percent) more time on blogs and social networks than checking e-mail.
2. Seventy percent of active online adult social networkers shop online
If an adult is on a social network, odds are she is somewhat computer savvy. She?ll spend more time online than the ?average Internet user,? doing things like checking e-mail, reading news sites and blogs, chatting and shopping.
3. Fifty-three percent of active adult social networkers follow a brand?only 32 percent follow a celebrity
Most people still subscribe to the myth that Twitter and Facebook are only for teens to follow celebrities talking about the daily activities of their cats. Not true. The people who likely will be buying your products, (or are at least old enough to have a credit card), are looking for your brand on sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Adults have made it clear that they want to follow brands across social networks.
4. Sixty percent of social media users create reviews of products or services
Consumers on social media rely on the recommendations of their friends or peers. They?re also more likely to write reviews of your product or service. Active social media users greatly influence the shopping habits of their friends. It?s not a question of are they talking about your brand. They?re talking about you. The question is: How are they talking about your products? Are you listening? Are you communicating with them?
5. The number of mobile Internet users is up 47 percent from last year
Is your site optimized for mobile? Mobile usage is exploding across social networks. Twice as many people aged 55+ visit social networking sites on their mobile phone than did last year. Mobile Internet audience for social networking sites is up 62 percent since last year. Two in five social media users access these services from their mobile phones.
Action Step:?If your business doesn?t have a strong presence in social media or blogging, Start Today!
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? The Upper Midwest remained locked in a deep freeze Wednesday as the bitter temperatures crept eastward where at least one mountain resort warned it was too cold even to ski.
Overnight, ice-covered Chicago firefighters spent hours fighting a massive fire at a warehouse on the city's South Side, hindered by the single digit chill.
The cold snap arrived Saturday night as waves of Arctic air swept south from Canada, pushing temperatures to dangerous lows and leaving a section of the country well-versed in winter's pains reeling. The National Weather Service said states from Ohio through to the far northeast of Maine could expect to be slammed by that Arctic blast on Wednesday.
The numbers so far are chilling in themselves: 35 below at Crane Lake, Minn., on Tuesday; Embarrass, Minn., at 36 below on Monday; and Babbitt, Minn., at 29 below on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
The weather service issued a wind chill warning for Wednesday in the far north of Maine. In Presque Isle and Caribou, temperatures are not expected to rise above 7 below. And the wind chill could make it feel more like 40 below. Vermont was similarly afflicted, with wind chill advisories and highs peaking in the single digits. Forecasters said Boston and New York City could expect temperatures in the double digits, but that the wind chill would make it feel 5 below. And in mid-Massachusetts, high winds up to 30 mph in Worcester will add to the weather misery.
At least one ski resort in New Hampshire was planning to close Wednesday and Thursday because of the extraordinary cold. Wildcat Mountain in the White Mountains region said it was expecting temperatures in the negative double digits and a wind chill of 48 degrees below zero ? conditions that would not be safe for guests or employees on the slopes.
Late Tuesday, some 170 Chicago firefighters ? approximately one third of the city's fire department ? turned out in frigid temperatures to battle a blaze at a warehouse on the South Side. Officials said the fire prompted the department's biggest response in recent years, according to The Chicago Sun-Times. Despite the scale of the fire, firefighters' soaked jackets and hats froze, and icicles formed and dangled from hoses and hydrants.
Authorities said exposure has played a role in at least four deaths.
On Sunday, a 70-year-old man was found frozen in his unheated home in Des Plaines, Ill. And in Green Bay, Wis., a 38-year-old man was found dead outside his home Monday morning. Authorities in both cases said the victims died of hypothermia and cold exposure, with alcohol a possible contributing factor.
A 77-year-old Illinois woman also was found dead near her car in southwestern Wisconsin on Saturday night, and a 61-year-old Minnesota man was pronounced dead at a hospital after he was found in a storage building Saturday morning.
The bitter conditions were expected to persist into the weekend in the Midwest through the eastern half of the U.S., said Shawn DeVinny, a National Weather Service meteorologist in suburban Minneapolis.
Ariana Laffey, a 30-year-old homeless woman, kept warm with a blanket, three pairs of pants and six shirts as she sat on a milk crate begging near Chicago's Willis Tower on Tuesday morning. She said she and her husband spent the night under a bridge, bundled up under a half-dozen blankets.
"We're just trying to make enough to get a warm room to sleep in tonight," Laffey said.
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Associated Press writers Doug Glass in Minneapolis, Don Babwin and Tammy Webber in Chicago, Jeff Karoub in Detroit, Dirk Lammers in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Dinesh Ramde and Gretchen Ehlke in Milwaukee contributed to this report.
Ben Horowitz, a founding partner of Silicon Valley powerhouse venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, made an interesting point at the DLD conference yesterday.
Horowitz was running through the factors that make a great investment.
One of those factors is "the team"--or, more specifically, the entrepreneur.
Horowitz says the entrepreneur is vastly more important than the idea--because if an idea is lousy, a great entrepreneur will see that quickly and then change the idea. Horowitz ran through several examples of this, which included PayPal, Google, and other massive home runs.
Great entrepreneurs, Horowitz said, have two key qualities:
* Brilliance
* Courage
The reason for the first one is obvious.
The reason for the second one, Horowitz says, is that the other virtues that everyone wants to see in successful people--honesty, integrity, etc.--all flow from courage. And if you don't have courage, in times of stress, honesty, integrity, and other virtues can quickly go by the wayside.
Specifically, Horowitz says, if you don't have courage, you won't be honest when being honest will hurt you (when the idea that you've staked your company and reputation on turns out to be lousy, for example).
And if you don't have courage, you won't have the guts to walk away from a good, safe opportunity to pursue an opportunity that most people think is crazy.
As an example of this, Horowitz pointed to Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, both of whom dropped out of Harvard, and Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison, who dropped out of other colleges.
All four men were on tracks that would lead to success.
And they all walked away.
In hindsight, that looks easy to do--an obvious decision.
At the time, it was likely anything but.
So in addition to brilliance, Ben Horowitz says, Andreessen Horowitz looks for entrepreneurs who have courage.
By Anita Mendiratta, Special to eTN South Africa | Jan 23, 2013
Mr Stanley Tollman, Founder and Chairman of The Travel Corporation, Celebrated for Lifetime Achievement in Global Travel and Tourism
Mr Stanley Tollman, Founder and Chairman of The Travel Corporation, was honoured recently in London with the first ever global Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 Globe Awards.
Born in South Africa in 1930, Tollman has built a multi-billion dollar travel and leisure business which operates in more than 60 countries and regions including the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia and South America.
His first taste of the industry came from his parents? hotel and restaurant near Cape Town, and from the age of 19 he set about building his own portfolio of hospitality businesses.
Despite some challenges, including a severe economic downturn in South Africa in the 1970s which damaged his investments and saw him relocate his family to the UK, Tollman reinvested and rebuilt his family?s business. Over the following decades, he made a series of successful investments around the world which turned this company into what is now The Travel Corporation.
With brands including Trafalgar, Insight Vacations, Contiki Holidays, Red Carnation Hotels and Uniworld Boutique River Cruises, and over 35 offices, across six continents, The Travel Corporation has grown under his leadership to be a truly diverse and global travel company.
Now in his eighth decade, he still takes a very active interest in a business which employs 4,500 people worldwide. Under his guidance the Travel Corporation has demonstrated its commitment to sustainable tourism with its not-for-profit Treadright Foundation, which has to date donated more than 2 million dollars to sustainable tourism projects worldwide and encourages industry best practice by annually supporting the WTTC?s Tourism for Tomorrow awards.
On receiving his award, Tollman said:
?I am honoured to receive this award. I have dedicated my entire life to the travel and tourism industry; an industry in which I and much of my family are lucky and proud to work, an industry which creates remarkable experiences, lifelong memories and broader minds. I am as passionate as ever about the contribution that travel makes to the world and its communities in terms of economic growth, employment and social integration and I remain committed to helping our industry keep as strong and vibrant as possible.
?I?d like to thank my wife and my family, who are at my side and involved in my business for their dedication, passion, creativity and vision, and similarly all those within the wider Travel Corporation family, without whose contribution each and every day I wouldn?t be standing here.?
The Travel Corporation was recognised in a further two categories for its brands Trafalgar and The One Stop Touring Shop as Best Escorted Tours Operator and Best Trade Sales team respectively.
Archos is very well known for its tablets and was one of the first to hit the market with a dedicated personal media player. Now after years of average success with its own products, it is branching out by making accessories for other devices. First out of the gate is the Archos Design Bluetooth Keyboard for iPad, it is a magnetic clip on Bluetooth keyboard designed to be used with the all 9.7-inch iPads with the exception of the first generation.
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