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Friday, March 29, 2013
The Engadget Podcast is live at 3:30PM ET!
Hey you! We're back! Join Tim, Brian, Peter a bunch of mics and maybe a stuffed animal or two for this latest episode of the Engadget Podcast. Chat and video after the break!
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Marquette marches on with 71-61 win over Miami
WASHINGTON (AP) ? After sweating through a pair of edge-of-your-seat comebacks, Marquette's first Sweet 16 victory in a decade was as straight and smooth as the 15-foot step-back jumper that Vander Blue nailed at the end of the first half.
It helped that the Golden Eagles ran into an out-of-sorts Miami team that, in an echo of its bus ride to the Verizon Center, was able to make as much headway as a frustrated commuter in rush-hour traffic.
Marquette is in the Elite Eight for the first time since 2003, getting there with an emphatic 71-61 win over Miami on Thursday night. The Golden Eagles were never threatened after taking a double-digit lead in the first half, quite the contrast from their rallies that beat Davidson by one and Butler by two earlier in the NCAA tournament.
"It's fantastic. It feels good not to have to worry about, are you going to lose on a last-second shot or are you going to win on a last-second shot?" said Jamil Wilson, who had 16 points and eight rebounds. "To have a cushion like that, these guys played with tremendous heart, and we did it all game."
Blue, who made the shot that beat Davidson and led the comeback against Butler, finished with 14 points. He wasn't Marquette's leading scorer, but his offensive and defensive energy pushed the Golden Eagles to a big lead early. It's a good thing he got his buzzer-beater before halftime ? for a change, Marquette didn't need one at the end of the game.
"We're so used to people not giving us credit. ... That fuels our fire," Blue said.
The third-seeded Golden Eagles (26-8) will face Big East rival Syracuse, the No. 4 seed, in the East Regional final on Saturday, aiming for a spot in the Final Foul for the first time since the 2003 team led by current Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade. Marquette was knocked out in the round of 16 the past two years.
"after 3 tries in the sweet 16 we finally figured it out. Congrts," Wade tweeted after the game.
Syracuse beat top-seeded Indiana 61-50 in the other East Regional semifinal.
This one wasn't hard to decipher. Marquette could shoot; Miami couldn't. The Hurricanes (29-7) had sentiment on their side, returning to the arena where coach Jim Larranaga led mid-major George Mason to the Final Four seven years ago, but they made only 35 percent of their field goals and missed 18 of 26 3-pointers.
"You ever have days where you're just out of sync or things just don't run along smoothly?" Larranaga said. "Almost like our trip over here. Our hotel is a mile and a half, it took us 45 minutes to get here. We had to go on nine different streets, weaving our way in and out of traffic and everything. And that's the way it seemed on the court. We were trying to find our way and never could. Never could get in rhythm offensively, and defensively. I don't think we communicated like we have been doing all season long."
Shane Larkin scored 14 points to lead the No. 2 seed Hurricanes, whose NCAA run to the round of 16 matched the best in school history.
"I think what we did this year was lay a foundation of what the program could be like," Larranaga said. "We're not anywhere near where I would like to be."
Marquette, meanwhile, shot 54 percent, a stark turnaround from its 38 percent rate from the first two games in the tournament. Davante Gardner added 14 points, with 12 coming in the second half when the Golden Eagles were comfortably ahead.
Comfortable being a relative term. Coach Buzz Williams, who relishes the Golden Eagles' underdog status, hardly seemed to know how to take such an easy win. He didn't look or sound like a winning coach afterward.
"Because of my path to this point, I do have an edge, and I probably need to have better wisdom as to how to handle that edge," Williams said. "But it's really delicate because our edge is why we win."
Blue got going when he picked off a pass and converted the steal into a one-handed jam to give Marquette an 8-4 lead. His running one-hander made it 12-4. Blue and Junior Cadougan forced a steal, getting Larkin to commit his second foul in the process.
Blue ended the half with an exclamation point, hitting the jumper just before the horn to give Marquette a 29-16 lead at the break. He drained the shot, strutted backward downcourt, cocked his right arm and gave Wilson a chest bump.
Meanwhile, the Hurricanes couldn't sink anything. They started 2 for 12, including 0 for 6 from 3-point range, and Larkin's 3-pointer more than 11 minutes into the game was the first Hurricanes field goal scored by anyone other than Kenny Kadji.
In the second half, Blue's basket with 10:03 to play gave Marquette a 51-30 lead. The Hurricanes, who by then had started to press full court, then put together their best sequence of the night, a 7-0 run that cut the lead to 14 with 8? minutes left.
But Wilson's dunk and Gardner's inside basket stretched the lead back to 18. Gardner became the scene-stealer late, thumping his chest to the Marquette fans after a dunk in the final four minutes.
The Hurricanes played without backup center Reggie Johnson, who had surgery Tuesday for a minor knee injury. Johnson was averaging seven rebounds, but he would have helped only if he could've put the ball in the basket.
"There are only two things you have to do in basketball ? one, put the ball in the basket, two, stop the other team from putting the ball in the basket. We weren't able to do either," Larranaga said.
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Microsoft showcases Windows Phone middleware partnerships at GDC, we go hands-on (video)
Building on yesterday's announcement that Temple Run and several other games are coming to Windows Phone, Microsoft's been actively courting developers at GDC 2013. To that end, the company's booth showcases several games that highlight cross-platform development and middleware. Now that WP8 and Windows 8 share the same NT kernel, DirectX APIs and tools, it's easier than ever to write games that use the same code base for both platforms. Microsoft is sweetening the deal with a few significant middleware partnerships -- Unity, Marmalade and Havok, to be specific. We talked with Larry Lieberman, Senior Product Manager for Windows Phone development, who was kind enough to explain what these partnerships mean for developers and to give us a tour of the games. Hit the break for our hands-on video.
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Declaring a truce with our microbiological frenemies
Mar. 28, 2013 ? Managing bacteria and other microorganisms in the body, rather than just fighting them, may be lead to better health and a stronger immune system, according to a Penn State biologist.
Researchers have historically focused on microbes in the body as primarily pathogens that must be fought, said Eric Harvill, professor of microbiology and infectious disease. However, he said that recent evidence of the complex interaction of the body with microbes suggests a new interpretation of the relationship.
"Now we are beginning to understand that the immune system interacts with far more beneficial bacteria than pathogens," said Harvill. "We need to re-envision what the true immune system really is."
Harvill said that this reinterpretation leads to a more flexible approach to understanding how the immune system interacts with microbes. This approach should balance between defending against pathogens and enlisting the help of beneficial microbes.
While the role that some bacteria play in aiding digestion is better known, microbes assist in improving body functions, including strengthening the immune system and responding to injuries.
In some cases, attacking pathogens can harm the beneficial effects microbes have on immune system, according to Harvill. For example, patients on antibiotics have an increased risk of contracting yeast infections and MRSA.
"Viewing everything currently considered immunity, including both resistance and tolerance, as aspects of a complex microbiome management system that mediates interactions with the sea of microbes that surround us, many of which are beneficial, can provide a much more positive outlook and different valuable perspectives," Harvill said.
The system that includes bacteria and other microbes in the human body, or the microbiome, is much larger and more integrated into human health than most people suspect, according to Harvill.
"The human body has 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells," said Harvill.
Adding to the complexity is the adaptive capacity of the human immune system. The immune system can develop antibodies against certain pathogens, which it can reuse when threatened by future attacks from the same pathogen.
Harvill, who described his alternative viewpoint in the latest issue of mBio, said that some researchers have not yet accepted this broader approach to the immune system.
"Among immunologists or microbiologists this is an alien concept," said Harvill. "It's not part of how we have historically looked at the immune system, but it's a useful viewpoint."
Other researchers who study plant and nonhuman biology are already starting to embrace the concept. For example, plant biologists are beginning to recognize that viruses can help plants resist drought and heat.
"Within nonhuman immunology, this is not an alien concept because they have seen many examples of beneficial relationships between the host and its microbial commensals," Harvill said.
Harvill said adopting this new perspective could be the first step toward new medical treatments.
"This new viewpoint suggests new experiments and results will published," said Harvill. "And, hopefully, the concept becomes more and more mainstream as supporting evidence accumulates."
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences supported this work.
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Israeli Military Responds After Patrols Come Under Fire From Syria
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The Israeli Military said it destroyed a machine-gun post in Syria after two patrols were fired on from across the cease-fire line in the Golan Heights. ...
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Analysis: Budget balance is in eye of the beholder
WASHINGTON (AP) ? When it comes to budgets, balance is in the eye of the congressional beholder.
To House Republicans, it means a balanced budget in a decade, achieved by $4.6 trillion in spending cuts and without any tax increases.
To Senate Democrats, it means a balanced plan, about $975 billion in higher taxes and a spending reduction of about $875 billion, not counting cancellation of $1.2 trillion in existing across-the-board-cuts.
That makes the two plans polar opposites as President Barack Obama and the two political parties begin maneuvering toward yet another round of deficit-reduction negotiations.
"Ultimately the key to this lock is in their (Republican) hands and they've got to decide if they want to turn it, and that means taking a balanced approach," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat who is his party's chief budget strategist in the House.
Across the Capitol, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky offered a rebuttal.
He said that under the plan Democrats favor, "We won't get more jobs or a better economy or sensible reforms to prevent Medicare or Social Security from going bankrupt. And we certainly won't get a balanced budget."
Even with the deep differences between the two parties, there's plenty of time before the next make-or-break moment in divided-government's pursuit of lower deficits.
That won't come until late July, when Obama probably will be forced to ask Congress for an increase in borrowing authority so the Treasury can finance the nation's $16 trillion national debt. Republicans have said they will use the request as leverage to gain concessions on spending cuts in Medicare and other benefit programs.
"Going back to the 1950s, debt ceiling requests of presidents have been used to bring about major changes, Gramm-Rudman, the Congressional Review Act, the 1997 Clinton-Republican Congress deficit reduction package, the Budget Control Act," McConnell said, summoning the ghosts of budget compromises past.
"All of those came in the context of the budget ? of the request of the president to raise the debt ceiling," he said.
Well before then, on April 8 in fact, Obama will present a budget of his own. It is long overdue, to the disappointment of Republicans who had hoped to make it an object of ridicule in the just-completed budget debates in the House and Senate.
It gives Obama the chance to align himself entirely with his Democratic allies, or possibly to edge away when it comes to government benefit programs that have largely escaped cuts in earlier compromises.
Republicans will watch to see what steps, if any, the White House is willing to recommend to slow the growth of Medicare or perhaps Social Security.
Given Obama's recent series of meetings with Republicans, some GOP lawmakers say privately it would be a positive sign for him to include a proposal curtailing the rise in cost of living increases in benefit programs.
It's a change he has supported since his aborted deficit-reduction negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, nearly two years ago. But many Democrats in Congress oppose it and the administration has never included it in its budget.
Republicans also are hoping Obama will back steps to slow the long-term growth in Medicare, even if they phase in gradually and produce relatively little deficit savings in the next decade.
The president's 2013 budget called for $305 billion in Medicare savings, but only a fraction of that would come directly from patients or seem likely to change the demand for care.
In his State of the Union address in February, the president said he would change "the way our government pays for Medicare, because our medical bills shouldn't be based on the number of tests ordered or days spent in the hospital ? they should be based on the quality of care that our seniors receive."
Considerably more sensitive is a suggested increase in the age of eligibility for Medicare.
During the recent round of meetings, Republicans asked Obama if he would support it, and he sidestepped, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing private conversations.
It's another idea that the president supported once before, when he was negotiating with Boehner, and one that many congressional Democrats oppose strenuously.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California, who says she is "agnostic" on a change in the cost of living formula, recently wrote that an increase in the Medicare eligibility age above 65 is "a reflection of the broader Republican plan: an assault on the middle class, seniors and our future."
On the other side of the divide, Obama and Democrats want Republicans to agree to higher taxes as part of any deal that wrings savings from Medicare. That was a tough sell before Jan. 1, the date Congress raised rates on upper-income taxpayers with votes of some Republicans and the acquiescence of others.
It will be an even tougher one now.
"Taking more money from hard-working families to fuel more spending in Washington is not going to solve our budget crisis," Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan told the House recently as he advocated for the Republican budget that he wrote.
This time, Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina provided the Democratic rebuttal.
"There are many words that can be used to describe the Ryan budget," he told the House. "But the one word that cannot be used is 'balanced.'"
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EDITOR'S NOTE ? David Espo is AP's chief congressional correspondent.
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For Israelis, Obama has finally arrived
President Obama hit all the right notes for winning over skeptical Israelis during his first state visit to the critical ally.?
President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres are photographed through a window and the crowd as they are greeted by children waving Israeli and American flags upon their arrival at the Peres' residence, March 20, in Jerusalem.
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As Obama moved into a carefully scripted speech that swept back millenniums to recognize Abraham and Sarah as the ancient claimants to the land of Israel, Amir Mizroch, editor of the English edition of Israel Hayom, tweeted: "Stop it, stop it, you had me at Shalom."?
?Obama even trotted out a bit of Hebrew, telling his listeners:?tov l'hiyot shuv b'aretz ??It's good to be back again in "the land," the colloquial term for Israel. It was the first clip played in an unusually long evening news program about his visit.
To be sure, there were hiccups as well. Obama's "beast," the super-duper secure limo that ferries him around even on foreign visits, broke down when someone ? the Israelis insist it was the Americans ? put in the wrong kind of gas. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's joke about preparing Obama a fake moustache so he could ditch his security people and secretly sample Tel Aviv's bars fell flat. And there were complaints that several ministers in the new government had asked Obama to free Israeli spy Jonathan?Pollard, to which he reportedly responded: "Nice to meet you," or "Nice to see you again."
Unlike a wedding, state visits have to be orchestrated without the benefit of the main actors rehearsing ? and sometimes it shows. Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres, a Nobel laureate now in a largely ceremonial position, bumped into each other more than once as protocol officers pulled and prodded them into the proper formation and they tried to smoothly insert themselves into photo ops with cute kids waving the Star of David and the Stars and Stripes.?
But overall, Obama managed to sail right through the awkward moments and hit all the notes Israelis wanted to hear. He outlined his vision of a two-state solution as a strong?Jewish?state next to a sovereign Palestinian one, without mentioning anything about curbing Israeli settlements in the West Bank; promised continued foreign aid; insisted on calling Netanyahu by his nickname, Bibi; complimented his wife Sara, saying the Netanyahu boys must have gotten their good looks from her; and, in a more serious moment, recognized the sacrifice of Netanyahu's family, who lost his brother Yoni in the 1976 Entebbe operation to rescue more than 100 Israeli and Jewish passengers whose plane had been hijacked.
One senior Israeli official who was asked ahead of time about what Obama would have to do to make his visit a success, reportedly replied simply, "Land." Indeed, before Obama even addresses the Israeli public in a speech tomorrow; before he visits the Dead Sea Scrolls, thus implicitly acknowledging that Israel's right to exist here dates back thousands of years before the Holocaust; before he visits the grave of Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism ... in the eyes of many Israelis, his mission is already accomplished.
For the Palestinians, the feelings are quite the reverse. But more on that tomorrow.
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Severe U.S. storm to bring heavy snow, possible tornadoes
By Mary Wisniewski
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The calendar says spring but the forecast looked like winter as a major storm this Palm Sunday weekend was forecast to bring heavy snow, flooding rain and severe thunderstorms as it moved east across the United States.
Snow had already started falling in eastern Colorado and parts of Kansas early on Saturday, according to AccuWeather.com senior meteorologist Tom Kines.
Interstate-70 was closed from east of Denver to the Kansas state line because of blowing and drifting snow, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. Snow delayed arriving flights at Denver International Airport, said spokesman Heath Montgomery.
The snow was expected to move east to Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio, over the next 24 hours, before moving into the mid-Atlantic states, he said.
The snow could measure from three to six inches in the Midwest, but accumulations in the Baltimore-Washington area could be much less due to higher temperatures, Kines said.
A potential for "tremendous rainfall" could hit areas south of the snow line, according to AccuWeather.com.
Rough weather is expected in the Gulf Coast region from Florida to eastern Texas through Saturday, with large hail, damaging winds and possible tornadoes, Kines said. The system was already affecting the Tallahassee region of Florida on Saturday morning.
"All in all, this is a pretty nasty storm," Kines said.
Forecasters expect severe weather in the Gulf Coast region during this time of year, he said, but the swath of heavy snow across the country's mid-section in late March is unusual.
An Ohio prosecutor fed up with the continued cold and snow issued a mock indictment this week for fraud against Punxsutawney Phil, the famed prognosticating Pennsylvania groundhog, who had forecast an early spring.
(Reporting by Mary Wisniewski and Keith Coffman; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Doina Chiacu)
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Italy's Bersani tapped to form new government
ROME (AP) ? Italy's center-left leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, was given the tough task Friday to form a new and viable government, which is badly needed to steer the country out of recession and get more Italians back to work.
National elections last month produced no clear winner, but President Giorgio Napolitano said the 61-year-old Bersani was best positioned to create a government given "the most difficult circumstances" ? a reference that while the political leader has a comfortable majority in the lower house, the Senate is split.
The vote made plain may voters were disenchanted with mainstream parties and largely divided over which forces should lead Italy at this delicate moment.
Bersani's forces finished first, but he has ruled out a coalition with the next-biggest vote-getter, former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's conservative alliance. Such a move would risk further alienating the voting base of Bersani's Democratic Party.
But if he shuns Berlusconi, Bersani will need to win support from Parliament's new third bloc, a populist, anti-euro movement founded by comic-turned-political leader Beppe Grillo.
Grillo has rejected a vote of confidence to support any established party ? and in the required vote of confidence for a new government to go forward. Still, some Grillo lawmakers broke ranks over the weekend and voted to support Bersani's candidate as Senate speaker, indicating the comic's grip on his lawmaker's might not be iron-clad.
Nevertheless, "I don't think Bersani has a chance to put together a government," said political scientist Robert D'Alimonte.
If Bersani fails, Napolitano could tap someone else, a fresh face to politics, like newly chosen Senate President Piero Grasso, a widely respected former anti-Mafia prosecutor, said D'Alimonte, a professor at LUISS university in Rome. Grasso could be tasked to form a technical government with a specific mandate, including rewriting the electoral law.
Bersani pledged dialogue with political forces in the coming days, seeking a balance between "a government seeking the change expected by the Italians and one able to carry out reforms."
Outgoing Premier Mario Monti's centrist forces finished fourth with around 10 percent of the vote. Monti, whose government was appointed in late 2011 to enact reforms and austerity measures to safeguard Italy from the continent's debt crisis, continues as caretaker premier until a new one is in place.
Investors are watching closely to see if Italy can form a stable government to continue on the course of reform. Italy's load of public debt has been growing, but borrowing rates have not come under pressure yet. Sentiment will be tested in a pair of bond sales next week.
Another political affairs analyst, James Walston, said the odds were against Bersani's succeeding, but predicted if the center-left leader does manage to cinch the confidence votes, the government stands a chance of lasting till spring 2014.
"It's unlikely they'd want to vote in summer. And in the fall there's business to attend do," including nailing down Italy's budget, he said.
Bersani would boost his prospects of winning over Grillo lawmakers by packing his proposed Cabinet with non-political names, said Walston, a professor at American University of Rome. Bersani has said "very explicitly that he will not use old political hacks in his Cabinet," Walston said.
So far Bersani has resisted Berlusconi's overtures for a "grand coalition" with his own party, which combines heirs of Italy's former Communists with more centrist forces. Bersani knows if he makes any sort of alliance with Berlusconi's forces "he'll be toast in the next election," Walston said.
Napolitano dismissed criticism that too much time has elapsed before tapping a potential leader. He noted that Israel and the Netherlands each took nearly two months to form governments. Italian elections were held Feb. 24-25, but Napolitano could not consult with leaders until after the new Parliament was seated last week and caucus leaders were chosen.
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Colleen Barry reported from Milan.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/italys-bersani-tapped-form-government-180158015.html
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IRS calls 'Star Trek' parody video a mistake
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Nobody's going to win an Emmy for a parody of the TV show "Star Trek" filmed by Internal Revenue Service employees at an agency studio in Maryland.
Instead, the IRS got a rebuke from Congress for wasting taxpayer dollars.
The agency says the video, along with a training video that parodied the TV show "Gilligan's Island," cost about $60,000. The "Star Trek" video accounted for most of the money, the agency said.
The IRS said Friday it was a mistake for employees to make the six-minute video. It was shown at the opening of a 2010 training and leadership conference but does not appear to have any training value.
The video features an elaborate set depicting the control room, or bridge, of the spaceship featured in the hit TV show. IRS workers portray the characters, including one who plays Mr. Spock, complete with fake hair and pointed ears.
The production value is high even though the acting is what one might expect from a bunch of tax collectors. In the video, the spaceship is approaching the planet "Notax," where alien identity theft appears to be a problem.
"The IRS recognizes and takes seriously our obligation to be good stewards of government resources and taxpayer dollars," the agency said in a statement. "There is no mistaking that this video did not reflect the best stewardship of resources."
The agency said it has tightened controls over the use of its production equipment to "ensure that all IRS videos are handled in a judicious manner that makes wise use of taxpayer funds while ensuring a tone and theme appropriate for the nation's tax system."
The agency also said, "A video of this type would not be made today."
The video was released late in the day Friday after investigators from the House Ways and Means Committee requested it.
"There is nothing more infuriating to a taxpayer than to find out the government is using their hard-earned dollars in a way that is frivolous," said Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., chairman of the Ways and Means oversight subcommittee. "The IRS admitted as much when it disclosed that it no longer produces such videos."
The film was made at an IRS studio in New Carrollton, Md., a suburb of Washington. The agency said it uses the studio to make training films and informational videos for taxpayers.
"The use of video training and video outreach through the in-house studio has become increasingly important to the IRS to reach both taxpayers and employees," the agency said. "In the current budget environment, using video for training purposes helps us save millions of dollars and is an important part of successful IRS cost-efficiency efforts."
IRS YouTube videos have been viewed more than 5 million times, the agency said. A video on the IRS website called "When Will I Get My Refund?" has been seen 950,000 times this filing season.
The disclosure of the "Star Trek" video comes as agencies throughout the federal government face automatic spending cuts, including employee furloughs at many of them.
Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller has told employees they could be furloughed five to seven days this summer. The furloughs, however, will be delayed until after tax filing season so refunds should not be affected.
The agency said the "Star Trek" video "was a well-intentioned, light-hearted introduction to an important conference during a difficult period for the IRS."
Congressional investigators initially sought both the "Star Trek" video and the "Gilligan's Island" video but after viewing them determined that the "Gilligan's Island" video was a legitimate training video. The IRS did not release the "Gilligan's Island" video.
"The video series with an island theme provided filing season training for 1,900 employees in our Taxpayer Assistance Centers in 400 locations," the IRS said. "This example of video training alone saved the IRS about $1.5 million each year compared to the costs of training the employees in person."
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Friday, March 22, 2013
iMore show. Today. 9am PT. 12pm ET. Be here!
Come our usual time slot on Sunday, I'll be on a plane to San Francisco and the Game Developers Conference (GDC) so we're doing the iMore show early this week. And our very special guest will be Dieter Bohn of The Verge! We'll be talking about Apple's new hire, Kevin Lynch, the current competitive landscape, the idea of Google Now on iOS, and trying to read the Jony Ive tea leaves.
9am PT. 12pm ET. Be here!
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Rovio Opens Angry Birds Space Encounter Exhibit After Announcing Global Theme Park Plans
Rovio is yet again breaking into new businesses with the introduction of the first Angry Birds interactive attraction, as the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is opening an Angry Birds Space Encounter Exhibit. The whole thing measures up to 4,500 square feet of pure Angry Birds wonder. Six stations are set up to let visitors interact with Angry Birds space-related activities and games. This is part of a slow build into Angry Birds-themed consumer attractions for Rovio, who has gone from a mobile game maker to merchandise phenom, with a newly released animated cartoon series being distributed through the games themselves.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/tFTbbH5sCpU/
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India court upholds conviction of Bollywood actor
NEW DELHI (AP) ? India's Supreme Court upheld the weapons conviction of Bollywood leading man Sanjay Dutt and ordered him to report to prison within four weeks in a case linked to the deadliest terror attack in Indian history.
Dutt's failed appeal of his conviction was part of a broader ruling by the Supreme Court on cases stemming from the 1993 bombings that killed 257 people in the financial hub of Mumbai. A total of 100 people were convicted of involvement in the blasts.
The court also Thursday upheld the death sentence given to Yakub Memon, who is a brother of Ibrahim 'Tiger' Memon, a suspected mastermind of the bombings who remains at large. However, the court commuted to life in prison the death sentences given to 10 other men convicted of carrying out the blasts. Some of the men have been in prison for nearly two decades.
Dutt, 53, originally had been sentenced to serve six years in prison on the charge of possessing an automatic rifle and a pistol that were supplied to him by men subsequently convicted in the bombings. He served 18 months in jail before he was released on bail in November 2007 pending an appeal to the top court.
The Supreme Court shaved one year off his sentence and ordered him imprisoned within a month to finish out the remaining 3 1/2 years of his sentence. Dutt had earlier been acquitted of the more serious charges of terrorism and conspiracy.
In a statement released to the Indian media, Dutt said he was "heart-broken" and "shattered and in emotional distress."
"If they want me to suffer more I have to be strong," he said.
Dutt told reporters that he was consulting experts to explore his legal options.
The actor's case is part of a sprawling Mumbai bombings trial that has lasted 18 years. Dutt maintains he knew nothing about the bombing plot and that he asked for the guns to protect his family ? his mother was Muslim and his father Hindu ? after receiving threats during sectarian riots in Mumbai.
The 1993 bombings were seen at the time as the world's worst terrorist attack, with 13 bombs exploding over a two-hour period across Mumbai. Powerful explosives were packed into cars and scooters parked near India's main Bombay Stock Exchange and other sites in the city. In addition to the 257 dead, more than 720 people were injured in the attack.
The bombings were believed to have been acts of revenge for the demolition of a 16th century mosque by Hindu nationalists in northern India in 1992. After the demolition, religious riots erupted, leaving more than 800 people dead, most of them Muslims.
The court's ruling on Dutt comes as a blow for Mumbai's film industry, putting several films he was working on in limbo.
Despite his brush with the law and his stint in jail, Dutt's Bollywood career flourished over the past two decades. He gained enormous popularity for a series of Hindi films in which he played the role of a reformed thug who follows the teachings of nonviolence advocate and Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi.
Industry estimates said Dutt was currently involved in projects worth at least $20 million. The actor recently completed two movies which were being readied for release.
Investigators said the weapons found in Dutt's home were part of a consignment of guns and explosives brought to India for the serial blasts.
"The nexus between Bollywood and the underworld was exposed during the investigation in this case," said Rakesh Maria, the head of the Anti-Terrorist Squad in Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital.
Links between Bollywood and the Mumbai criminal underworld were especially strong during the two decades before the government recognized the film industry as legitimate in 2000.
Filmmakers looking for funds often turned to Mumbai's shadowy building and criminal mafia bosses, who pumped their undeclared earnings into the country's fast-growing movie industry.
In the last decade, Bollywood film and entertainment companies have become corporations, raising funds from the market and through bank credits and private equity.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/india-court-upholds-actor-sanjay-dutts-conviction-095320616.html
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Planck's new map brings universe into focus
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The Planck space mission has today (March 21) released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe. The universe according to Planck is expanding a bit more slowly than thought, and at 13.8 billion is 100 million years older than previously estimated. There is a bit less dark energy and a bit more of both normal and dark matter in the universe although the nature of dark energy and dark matter remain mysterious.
"Planck's high-precision map of the oldest light in our universe allows us to extract the most refined values yet of the universe's ingredients," said Lloyd Knox, a physics professor at the University of California, Davis and the leader of the U.S. team determining these ingredients from the Planck data. UC Davis graduate student Marius Millea and postdoctoral scholar Zhen Hou also worked with Knox on the analysis.
This May, UC Davis will host back-to-back conferences on "Mining the Cosmic Frontier in the Planck Era" (May 20-22) and "Fundamental Questions in Cosmology" (May 22-24). These will be the first major meetings in the U.S. for researchers to discuss the new data.
Planck is a European Space Agency mission with collaboration from NASA. It was launched in 2009 to a point almost a million miles from Earth where it can look into deep space and map tiny differences in the cosmic microwave background, the faint glow of radiation left over from just after the big bang.
For the first 370,000 years of the universe's existence, light was trapped inside a hot plasma, unable to travel far without bouncing off electrons. Eventually the plasma cooled enough for light particles (photons) to escape, creating the patterns of the cosmic microwave background. The patterns of light represent the seeds of galaxies and clusters of galaxies we see around us today.
Then these photons traveled through space for billions of years, making their way past stars and galaxies, before falling into Planck's detectors. The gravitational pull of both galaxies and clumps of dark matter pulls photons onto new courses, an effect called "gravitational lensing."
"Our microwave background maps are now sufficiently sensitive that we can use them to infer a map of the dark matter that has gravitationally-lensed the microwave photons," Knox said. "This is the first all-sky map of the large-scale mass distribution in the Universe."
These new data from Planck have allowed scientists to test and improve the accuracy of the standard model of cosmology, which describes the age and contents of our universe.
Based on the new map, the Planck team estimates that the expansion rate of the universe, known as Hubble's constant, is 67.15 plus or minus 1.2 kilometers/second/megaparsec. (A megaparsec is roughly 3 million light-years.) That's less than prior estimates derived from space telescopes, such as NASA's Spitzer and Hubble.
The new estimate of dark matter content in the universe is 26.8 percent, up from 24 percent, while dark energy falls to 68.3 percent, down from 71.4 percent. Normal matter now is 4.9 percent, up from 4.6 percent.
At the same time, some curious features are observed that don't quite fit with the current model. For example, the model assumes the sky is the same everywhere, but the light patterns are asymmetrical on two halves of the sky, and there is larger-than-expected cold spot extending over a patch of sky.
"On one hand, we have a simple model that fits our observations extremely well, but on the other hand, we see some strange features which force us to rethink some of our basic assumptions," said Jan Tauber, the European Space Agency's Planck project scientist based in the Netherlands.
Scientists can also use the new map to test theories about cosmic inflation, a dramatic expansion of the universe that occurred immediately after its birth. In far less time than it takes to blink an eye, the universe blew up by 100 trillion trillion times in size. The new map, by showing that matter seems to be distributed randomly, suggests that random processes were at play in the very early universe on minute "quantum" scales. This allows scientists to rule out many complex inflation theories in favor of simple ones.
"Patterns over huge patches of sky tell us about what was happening on the tiniest of scales in the moments just after our universe was born," said Charles Lawrence, the U.S. project scientist for Planck at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.
Planck is the successor to balloon-based and space missions that helped astronomers learn a great deal from the microwave background, including NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), which earned the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics. Complete results from Planck, which still is scanning the skies, will be released in 2014.
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New data to be discussed at UC Davis in May
The Planck space mission has today (March 21) released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe. The universe according to Planck is expanding a bit more slowly than thought, and at 13.8 billion is 100 million years older than previously estimated. There is a bit less dark energy and a bit more of both normal and dark matter in the universe although the nature of dark energy and dark matter remain mysterious.
"Planck's high-precision map of the oldest light in our universe allows us to extract the most refined values yet of the universe's ingredients," said Lloyd Knox, a physics professor at the University of California, Davis and the leader of the U.S. team determining these ingredients from the Planck data. UC Davis graduate student Marius Millea and postdoctoral scholar Zhen Hou also worked with Knox on the analysis.
This May, UC Davis will host back-to-back conferences on "Mining the Cosmic Frontier in the Planck Era" (May 20-22) and "Fundamental Questions in Cosmology" (May 22-24). These will be the first major meetings in the U.S. for researchers to discuss the new data.
Planck is a European Space Agency mission with collaboration from NASA. It was launched in 2009 to a point almost a million miles from Earth where it can look into deep space and map tiny differences in the cosmic microwave background, the faint glow of radiation left over from just after the big bang.
For the first 370,000 years of the universe's existence, light was trapped inside a hot plasma, unable to travel far without bouncing off electrons. Eventually the plasma cooled enough for light particles (photons) to escape, creating the patterns of the cosmic microwave background. The patterns of light represent the seeds of galaxies and clusters of galaxies we see around us today.
Then these photons traveled through space for billions of years, making their way past stars and galaxies, before falling into Planck's detectors. The gravitational pull of both galaxies and clumps of dark matter pulls photons onto new courses, an effect called "gravitational lensing."
"Our microwave background maps are now sufficiently sensitive that we can use them to infer a map of the dark matter that has gravitationally-lensed the microwave photons," Knox said. "This is the first all-sky map of the large-scale mass distribution in the Universe."
These new data from Planck have allowed scientists to test and improve the accuracy of the standard model of cosmology, which describes the age and contents of our universe.
Based on the new map, the Planck team estimates that the expansion rate of the universe, known as Hubble's constant, is 67.15 plus or minus 1.2 kilometers/second/megaparsec. (A megaparsec is roughly 3 million light-years.) That's less than prior estimates derived from space telescopes, such as NASA's Spitzer and Hubble.
The new estimate of dark matter content in the universe is 26.8 percent, up from 24 percent, while dark energy falls to 68.3 percent, down from 71.4 percent. Normal matter now is 4.9 percent, up from 4.6 percent.
At the same time, some curious features are observed that don't quite fit with the current model. For example, the model assumes the sky is the same everywhere, but the light patterns are asymmetrical on two halves of the sky, and there is larger-than-expected cold spot extending over a patch of sky.
"On one hand, we have a simple model that fits our observations extremely well, but on the other hand, we see some strange features which force us to rethink some of our basic assumptions," said Jan Tauber, the European Space Agency's Planck project scientist based in the Netherlands.
Scientists can also use the new map to test theories about cosmic inflation, a dramatic expansion of the universe that occurred immediately after its birth. In far less time than it takes to blink an eye, the universe blew up by 100 trillion trillion times in size. The new map, by showing that matter seems to be distributed randomly, suggests that random processes were at play in the very early universe on minute "quantum" scales. This allows scientists to rule out many complex inflation theories in favor of simple ones.
"Patterns over huge patches of sky tell us about what was happening on the tiniest of scales in the moments just after our universe was born," said Charles Lawrence, the U.S. project scientist for Planck at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.
Planck is the successor to balloon-based and space missions that helped astronomers learn a great deal from the microwave background, including NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), which earned the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics. Complete results from Planck, which still is scanning the skies, will be released in 2014.
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/uoc--pnm032113.php
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Player lives on as character in favorite game after losing cancer battle
A gamer who lost his life to cancer will be memorialized in the latest version of the "Total War" series of games ? his favorite, and the creators of which he was able to pay a visit thanks to a local charity.
The player, James (whose last name was withheld for his family's privacy) had liver cancer, and was told in mid-2012 that he had only a few months to live. He was a huge fan of the "Total War" series of games. Charity organization The Willow Foundation arranged it so that last summer, James, 24, could stop by Creative Assembly's studios in Horsham, U.K., where the games are developed.
As it turned out, the latest game in the franchise, "Rome: Total War II," was announced the day before James's visit. The Creative Assembly team was "moved, and humbled" by their fan's passion and knowledge of their games, and James was allowed to be the first person to play the new game, taking part in the siege of Carthage ? typical of the large-scale warfare that has made the games so popular.
But the best was yet to come: After James had played the game, provided feedback and asked questions, an artist on the team suggested they actually put James in the game. Needless to say, he accepted.
The image above shows the process of turning James's picture into a 3-D model for use in the game. What rank and position his character occupies in the game likely depends on how people play ? we reached out for more info on this from Creative Assembly, in case future players would like to see the virtual James in action when the game comes out late this year.
James died not long after his visit to the studio. Craig Laycock, Creative Assembly's community manager, said that James's enthusiasm in the face of cancer and death affected the whole team.
"His approach to life was an inspiration ? not only to me, but to the whole studio,"he wrote in a blog post. "When I say that, you have to understand what I mean. I don?t mean inspiration in the throwaway word sense. I mean a genuine inspiration ? altering my perspective permanently."
? Via Eurogamer
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Construction and design new hires - Real Estate Weekly
Michael McDonagh has been named a supervising structural engineer in the Lawrenceville, NJ, office of Parsons Brinckerhoff.
McDonagh, an experienced bridge engineer and project manager, is providing design assistance for a major bridge rehabilitation project and will be responsible for project engineering and project management of upcoming bridge projects.
Prior to joining Parsons Brinckerhoff, he was a project manager for a structural engineering firm in Paris, France, working on bridge projects around the globe.
McDonagh received master of science and bachelor of science degrees in civil engineering from Penn State University.
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Francis Cauffman has hired Jeremiah Hancock, Associate AIA, LEED AP, as a project manager for corporate interiors projects.
Hancock will be responsible for managing several of Francis Cauffman?s New York projects for clients such as AOL and Spotify.
Previously, Hancock was project manager at Mancini Duffy where he designed corporate interiors for prominent clients including A+E Television Networks, NBC Sports Group, and the Columbia University Medical Center.
Hancock received his Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University.
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PWC President Lenore Janis has announced that Dorothy Wasiak, vice president of PCGNY (Professional Construction Group of New York), has joined the board of PWC.
At PCGNY Corp., an exterior restoration firm specializing in roofing and waterproofing, Wasiak is responsible for business development, green roof design and management of LEED projects.
With over 15 years of experience in the construction industry, overseeing many projects in the tri-state area, she has expertise in project management, capital budget development and forecasting, and contract negotiations. She also managed a capital improvements portfolio consisting of over 50 buildings for the second largest senior living provider.
As chair of PWC?s Continuing Education Committee, which offers AIA-HSW CEUs, Wasiak has developed programs presented by PWC chapters in NY, NJ, DC and CT. She is also in charge of PWC?s first Mentorship program for high school students at the Bronx Design & Construction Academy.
A recipient of PWC?s Achievement Award, she holds a B.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University and is an active member of Sigma Beta Delta.
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Thornton Tomasetti announced principal Gunnar Hubbard and senior vice president Lynn N. Simon recently achieved the rank of LEED Fellow, a title held by fewer than 80 professionals worldwide.
Hubbard and Simon were among the 43 professionals in the 2012 class of LEED Fellows, announced at the Greenbuild conference in San Francisco.
Gunnar Hubbard, AIA, LEED Fellow, has been involved in green building efforts across the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
He has played a key role on a wide variety of sustainability projects and project types, including hotels, educational facilities, sports facilities, manufacturing facilities and residential buildings.
He is leader of the Thornton Tomasetti Building Sustainability practice.
His project credits include Las Vegas CityCenter Block C, Harvard University?s Allston Science Complex, more than ten of Vornado Realty Trust?s high-rise buildings in New York, and the Museum of the Built Environment in Saudi Arabia.
Lynn Simon, FAIA, LEED Fellow, joined Thornton Tomasetti in 2013 after 18 years leading green building consulting firm Simon & Associates, Inc. and has more than 20 years of experience in the green building industry.
As a senior vice president, Simon is responsible for leading the firm?s U.S. West Coast building sustainability efforts and for managing complex green design and consulting projects.
She has consulted on LEED projects in California such as the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco; CalPERS Headquarters Expansion Project in Sacramento; Gish Apartments in San Jose; and the recently completed Hunters Point Shipyard-Candlestick Point in San Francisco.
Simon holds a bachelor?s degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and a master?s degree in architecture from the University of Washington.
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PulteGroup, a leading homebuilder, has announced that Steve Schlageter has been named president of the company?s Northeast Corridor division, as well as area president for PulteGroup?s Northeast Area.
Schlageter joined PulteGroup in 2002 as the brand manager for starter homes in the Atlanta market. Most recently, Schlageter served as PulteGroup?s vice president of strategic planning. Based out of the company?s headquarters in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., he led the effort to outline PulteGroup?s path through the recent recession and strategic positioning into the recovery. He believes that experience will aid him in his new role.
Schlageter has also served as president of the company?s Raleigh, N.C. division, where he was responsible for managing the overall operations of the market, including land acquisition and development, sales, marketing, mortgage, construction and customer service.
Prior to joining PulteGroup, Schlageter served as chief operating officer of a Chicago-based eCommerce provider. He began his career at Accenture.
Schlageter, who will be relocating to New Jersey, earned a B.A. in computer science from Boston College.
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Skanska USA has hired Keith Sabol as design build director and project manager for its Civil Business Unit, which delivers civil engineering construction and infrastructure projects.
Sabol will be based in Skanska?s office in Queens, New York.
He brings more than 28 years of experience to Skanska, and has built a reputation for delivering complex transportation infrastructure projects, in the U.S. and Canada.
Throughout his career, Sabol has managed numerous design-build projects. He was a design manager for the reconstruction of Interstate 15 in Salt Lake City, Utah, led the design of the Tacoma Narrows (suspension) Bridge Project in Tacoma, Washington, was the design-build manager of Autoroute 25, the first public-private partnership in Montreal, Quebec, and is currently working on the Midtown Tunnel Project, a $1.6 billion public-private partnership, which is a joint venture between Skanska and Macquarie.
Before joining Skanska, Sabol served as associate vice president and client service leader for HNTB Corporation. He graduated from Michigan Technological University with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering and then went on to receive a Master of Science in management from North Carolina State University.
Most recently, he attended the University of Pennsylvania?s Wharton School, Advanced Management Program.
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Hill International has named two new vice presidents in its Washington, DC office.
Susan E. Schruth has been promoted to vice president with Hill?s Project Management Group.
Schruth has more than 36 years of experience as a project manager, transit expert and management consultant. Prior?to joining Hill, she worked for 22 years for the U.S. Federal Transit Administration (FTA), most recently as associate administrator where she directed the project management oversight (PMO) program for over $50 billion in capital construction and rehabilitation by transit agencies nationwide.
Before that, she served as the FTA?s Regional Administrator. Schruth holds a B.A. in political science from Newton College of the Sacred Heart, an M.A. in government from George Washington University and a J.D. from Suffolk University.
Richard A. D. Vaughan, FRICS, FCIOB, has joined the company as vice president with Hill?s Construction Claims Group.
Vaughan has more than 20 years of international construction experience in various industry sectors such as manufacturing, retail, hotel and leisure, residential, marine and infrastructure, commercial and airports.
He was a lead consultant on Yas Island, one of the world?s largest mixed use projects, and led a large team to negotiate claims on the Palm Jumeirah and Dubai International Airport in the U.A.E.
Prior to joining Hill, he was a pPartner with VSH International and before that he was a director with Davis Langdon.
Vaughan holds a B.Sc. in quantity surveying from Polytechnic of Central London and has completed graduate coursework in international business law from the University of Liverpool.
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Farrell Fritz announced that partner John Racanelli has recently been elected secretary of the Flushing Willets Point Corona Local Development Corporation?s (FWPCLDC) Board of Directors. He has served on the board for several years.
Racanelli, an Oyster Bay, NY resident, focuses his practice on commercial real estate acquisitions, development, leasing, financing and construction.
He is a member of the board of trustees of Dowling College; a director of the Council of Governing Boards for New York?s Independent Education Trustees; a board member of the Long Island Arts Alliance; and an advisory board member of the Energeia Partnership and the LI Index.
He earned his Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University.
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