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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Carbon: A Better Looking Twitter Interface
Monday, February 4, 2013
HP debuts new Pavilion 14 Chromebook for $329
The last few months have brought us quite a bit of new hardware on the Chrome OS front, and that's continuing today with HP's Pavilion 14 Chromebook. This is HP's first entrance into the Chromebook market, which has been rumored for some time, with this nicely affordable machine. As the name implies we're looking at a 14-inch 1366x768 display, stuffed in a black chassis that's under an inch thick and just 3.96 lbs. On the specs front, we're looking at a 1.1GHz Intel Celeron processor, 2GB (or 4GB) of RAM, 16GB flash storage, HDMI video out and 3 USB 2.0 ports.
The new Pavilion 14 is on sale for $329.99, which is a bit more expensive than the offerings from Samsung and Acer at $249.99 and $199.99. We're not sure how HP is looking to position this product, but its clear now that Google isn't giving up on its vision of having Chromebooks become a mainstream product.
Source: Google Chrome Blog; HP
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French planes pound Islamist camps in north Mali desert
PARIS/BAMAKO (Reuters) - French warplanes pounded Islamist rebel camps in the far north of Mali on Sunday, military sources said, a day after French President Francois Hollande was hailed as a savior during a visit to the West African country.
Thierry Burkhard, spokesman for the French army in Paris, said the overnight raids targeted logistics bases and training camps used by the al Qaeda-linked rebels near the town of Tessalit, close to the Algerian border.
"These were important air strikes," Burkhard told Reuters.
Tessalit, some 200 km (125 miles) north of the regional capital Kidal, is one of the main gateways into the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains where the rebels have sought refuge after fleeing major towns.
France says the rebels are also holding hostage in these mountains seven of its citizens, seized in recent years in the Sahara region.
Malian military sources said French and Chadian troops had clashed with members of the Ansar Dine militant group in the region around Kidal on Saturday.
French attack helicopters and transport planes carrying special forces left the city of Gao to reinforce the French and Chadian contingent stationed at the airport in Kidal.
The town of Kidal itself is under the control of the pro-autonomy MNLA Tuareg rebel group, which occupied it after Ansar Dine fighters fled six days ago.
France has deployed 3,500 ground troops, fighter jets and armored vehicles in the three-week-old Operation Serval (Wildcat) which has broken the Islamists' 10-month grip on the towns of northern Mali, where they violently imposed sharia law.
"Never has a foreign intervention in Africa been as popular as the French one in Mali," the president of neighboring Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, told Radio France International on Sunday, asking France to maintain its military presence.
"The object of this war should be not just to liberate Mali but to free the whole Sahel from this menace, which threatens not just us but also Europe, France and the world."
MALIANS MOB HOLLANDE
Cheering, grateful Malians mobbed Hollande during his one-day visit to Mali on Saturday, when he congratulated French forces and pledged that they would finish the job of restoring government control in the Sahel region state.
Thousands of residents in the capital shouted "Thank you France!" as Hollande addressed the crowd. "Hollande Our Saviour" read one banner.
"There are risks of terrorism, so we have not finished our mission yet," Hollande told a news conference at the French ambassador's residence in the capital Bamako.
He said France would withdraw its troops from Mali once the West African country had restored sovereignty over all its national territory and a U.N.-backed African military force, which is being deployed, could take over from the French.
"We do not foresee staying indefinitely," he said, but he spelled out no specific timeframe for the French mission.
The United States and the European Union are backing the Mali intervention to counter the threat of Islamist jihadists using the lawless Sahara as a launch pad for attacks.
They are providing training, logistical and intelligence support, but have ruled out sending their own ground troops.
Malian Foreign Minister Tieman Coulibaly welcomed the success of France's military operation but added his voice to those urging the former colonial power not to scale back its mission.
"Faced with hardened fighters whose arsenals must be destroyed, we want this mission to continue. Especially as the aerial dimension is very important," he told France's Journal Du Dimanche newspaper.
Paris has pressed Bamako to open negotiations with the MNLA, whose uprising last year triggered a military coup in Bamako in March, as a step toward political reunification of north and south Mali.
The MNLA seized north Mali in April, before being pushed aside by a better-armed Islamist alliance composed of al Qaeda's north African wing AQIM, splinter group MUJWA and Ansar Dine.
Coulibaly played down the possibility of direct talks with the MNLA but said it was clear that there needed to be a greater devolution of power from the mainly black African south to northern Mali, an underdeveloped region home to many lighter-skinned Tuaregs and Arabs.
He called for northern armed groups to lay down their weapons before peace negotiations could begin and said Mali would press ahead with national elections scheduled for July 31.
(Additional reporting by David Lewis in Timbuktu and Daniel Flynn in Dakar; Writing by Daniel Flynn; Editing by Stephen Powell)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/french-planes-pound-islamist-camps-northern-mali-desert-131121579.html
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
Ask Engadget: best email phone?
We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from Arthur, who has asked one of the most dangerous questions it's possible to ask the internet.If you're looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
"I'm out of contract, and my employer is offering me a company phone of my choice. I'm currently using a BlackBerry Bold 9700 and I handle a lot of e-mails on any given day. What phone would you recommend for someone who needs to send and receive plenty of emails during travel and downtime? I'm not tied to an ecosystem and I don't care about app libraries or anything else -- I just need the best email phone on the market. Please help me!"
What a question! Your first concern should be comfortable typing and if it'll play well with your work server. If you're wedded to a physical keyboard, then you should probably wait for the BlackBerry Q10. If not, then Windows Phone's keyboard is pretty good, but the added real estate offered by the Galaxy Note 2 might be more your scene. What do you think, friends? Give the man some options by filling in the comments below.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/02/ae-email-phone/
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Does Shared Parenting Cause Divorce? (And Other Questions I Am ...
Something I was reading the other day made reference to this article discussing a Norwegian study finding a higher divorce rate among married couples who shared housework, when compared to couples with clearly delineated traditional gender roles.? In other words, the implication is that when the woman does everything around the house, and the man is the breadwinner, the divorce rate drops.? There is nothing in here about gay and lesbian couples, so I?m afraid I can?t comment on that.? And in any event, I know junk science when I see it, so I?m not putting too much stock in this report anyway.? The article itself cautions that correlation does not necessarily equate causation, and that the supposed predisposition to divorce arises from different, although perhaps related, factors, such as a tendency to view marriage less as a sacred union, which in turn would make divorce more likely (so the theory goes).
While I?m still not sold, I find this interesting, because I have been reading a lot of blogs lately by religious women from traditional families who seem to be claiming exactly the same thing:? that the household, and marriages, run more smoothly when the woman stays home and does all the housework, and the man is the primary or sole source of family income.? These women don?t need a Norwegian study to tell them this, because, well, God says so.
Also not needed, apparently.
To be fair, the Norwegian study doesn?t seem to say anything specifically about child-rearing duties, as opposed to plain old housework.? But what the study and the religious blogs seem to have in common is this basic idea:? that when peace and order follows when separate responsibilities are well-defined and accepted in the household.? The inverse theory is that when both spouses make an effort to split both work outside the home and work inside the home evenly, life is bound to get chaotic due to misperceptions over how much work the other spouse is doing and miscommunications over who should be doing what.
I do know one thing is for sure:? shared parenting (and by implication, shared responsibility for family income), is not the foolproof, simple solution.? I know this, because my husband and I are both full-time working professionals (he?s in IT and I?m an attorney), and in theory, we also bear equal responsibility for our children and keeping up the house.? And it is absolutely chaotic, and stressful, and the source of lots of arguments and grief for both of us.
This is where you expect me to say that I hold a grudge against my husband because I feel like I?m doing most of the work at home and with the kids.? Surprise!? In our house, it?s the other way around.? He has been pleading with me to get home at a reasonable hour (like 7:00 instead of 9:00) so that I can help him at least clean up after dinner and get the kids bathed and in bed.? It is really, really hard for him to do it almost every night without me.? And I should know ? because in the morning, from about 6:30 on, I am all by myself, getting the kids dressed and myself caffeinated and out the door to do the daycare shuffle before work.
So maybe in a sense that counts as equal, or at least the definition of ?shared parenting? you hear thrown around.? Maybe life would be easier if one of us (?You!? sings the chorus of traditional mom bloggers) did stay home with the kids full-time while the other one focused solely on breadwinning.? But then again, I have a sneaking suspicion that this solution is too simple of a theory to bear out in actual practice.? At least 100% of the time.? But shared parenting also is not a 100%, foolproof guarantee that everything ? the house, the kids, the marriage ? is going to be ok.? So maybe the true answer is this:? just figure out what works for you and your family.
Right now, it is 9:30 p.m., my two-year-old is crawling all over me instead of in bed, the kitchen is still a mess, and my blog post is WAY overdue.? Why?? The husband texted me while I was still at work at 5:00.? He asked if I would please come home early tonight, because today was terrible at work and the evening was sure to be exhausting.
So I did what I had to do:? I put off the blog for a couple hours so I could be home early.? At 8:00.
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Scientist at Work Blog: Living Reefs, Under Fire
Drew Harvell is associate director for environment at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University. She is studying the health of coral reefs and marine ecosystems in Indonesia.
Friday, Jan. 18
It was hardly a cheerful group that settled onto the flight from Ujung Padang (also known as Makassar, Sulawesi) to Biak, Papua, at 1:30 in the morning, nor that trooped off the plane 2 1/2 hours later. But we snapped awake when we reached the hotel at 5 a.m. to find grass-skirted, bare-chested and head-dressed men gathered in a lovely old Kipling-esque hotel, signaling that we had reached a remote place in the world.
Biak is an island to the far north east of Papua, exposed directly to the fetch of the Pacific. It is both a site for a collection of COREMAP village-based Marine Protected Areas and one of three possible sites in Indonesia for the new Capturing Coral Reef Ecosystem Services project.
We had arrived to interview stakeholders about how to enhance ecosystem services, like the health of mangroves, seagrasses and coral reefs, and develop eco-based businesses. An eco-based business is one that contributes to sustaining ecosystems while simultaneously increasing their economic value.
All four people on our dive team have dedicated their lives to studying, managing and now conserving coral reefs. Peter Mumby is the president of the Australian Coral Reef Society and principal investigator on C.C.R.E.S. Jamaluddin Jompa from Indonesia is the executive director of COREMAP, one of the largest coral reef management programs in the world. And Andrew Hooten is coordinator of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network.
Our goal for today was to visit the best and the worst reefs near Biak. We wanted to see the best reefs to consider their tourism and ecosystem services potential. For example, we had to assess: how healthy are the corals, how apparent is the biodiversity, and would the area support a sustainable reef fishery?
Even though Biak?s coral reefs are remote from oppressive, population-related stresses, like pollution and regular over-fishing, the reefs near Biak have been affected by dynamite fishing.
We had to travel more than an hour by boat to reach the best reef. Above water, we stopped near a stunning, deserted tropical rock island.
Underwater, our site, like many that I?ve seen in Indonesia, was a steep drop-off reef, with a wall stretching from 15 feet below the surface to more than 200 feet. The current was rapid, so this was going to be a drift dive, and by the end we managed to cover nearly a kilometer underwater.
As I edged over the drop-off, I could see this was a spectacular reef from anyone?s perspective ? clear, clean water and a dazzling array of coral reef fish.
Let?s talk about the fish, because this is how a reef should be, especially one near the center of coral and fish biodiversity in Indonesia. The makers of ?Finding Nemo? had it right when they picked the clownfish as their star ? nothing is as enchanting as a family group of brightly colored clownfish nestled restlessly in the tentacles of a giant anemone. The image says so clearly, ?This reef is my home.?
And there was a non-stop succession of giant anemones, with their resident clownfish, arrayed along the top of the wall. But there is nothing ordinary about seeing three different species of clownfish. By the end of the dive, I had about 30 pictures of the different species, but in most pictures the shy clownfish had ducked into an anemone?s tentacles as I shot.
But this was only the beginning, since there were so many bright fish at all levels of the food chain. From the parrotfish grazing on algae to the coral-eating butterflyfish to the spectacularly bright plankton-eating chromis hiding nervously in the branching corals to the lurking moray eels, the scene was a multihued circus of fish. And below us in deeper water lurked a cadre of much larger predatory fish that I couldn?t even identify.
We were rushed along by the current at a pretty good clip ? fast enough that stopping wasn?t possible without grabbing for a rock outcrop. The wall was covered in rich reef-building corals that are solar-powered by their symbiotic algae, but also a myriad of brightly colored marine invertebrates like sponges, and sea squirts and soft corals that were dependent on the current to bring them food. And lots of overhangs and holes creating lobster condominiums, revealed by long antennae poking from the reef matrix.
Up ahead I saw a flash of white on the reef and grabbed an overhang to take a closer look. The coral colony was completely white, with all living tissue newly stripped off. Usually this kind of mortality is caused by either a predatory starfish called the crown of thorns starfish, or COTS, or a predatory coral-feeding snail or some kinds of coral diseases. In this case there were several dead corals of different species, and there lurking on an overhang was the culprit, a spiney COTS. During an outbreak, a group of COTS can devastate a reef, but this one was not causing much damage on this healthy reef.
So that was the good ? a reef inhabited by a brighter diversity of fish and invertebrates than I had ever seen.
And now onto the bad reef, which was just a short hop, one island over from our first dive site. It is interesting how much you can tell about how your buddies feel underwater just by their posture and the way they move. This whole team underwater was visibly subdued, deflated and discouraged by the vast expanse of dead coral rubble that we saw.
This wasn?t just any reef, this was a far remote reef in the center of marine biodiversity. We just looked at the rubble, scattered with occasional fish and solitary coral heads, with very heavy hearts. It was poignant to see that there were still fish clustered in the islands and pockets of still-living reef among the rubble. I only saw one solitary clownfish on its anemone, surrounded by rubble, and it was once again sad that it was even there, still alive, but all alone.
There were those nasty, coral-eating starfish pests, COTS, but the one we pried out of the reef had lost half its arms, so I even felt bad for the COTS. We all felt shell-shocked and devastated.
So much of my work focuses on the ?death by a thousand cuts? problem ? how to make reefs healthy that are subject to many degrading forces that are tough to combat like pollution, over-fishing, and climate change. But here, this reef had been reduced in a matter of minutes to complete rubble by a few people wielding dynamite ? people often from places distant to the bombed location. And it was reduced to rubble, for as far as we swam that day.
This reef no longer has any ecosystem services: it?s not valuable for fishing, for tourism, for filtration and certainly not as a coastal protection against surging waves or tsunamis.
This is the crux of our job here ? to translate and make tangible the value of a living reef, and help all to see how much more valuable a cathedral of nature is than a pile of rubble.
Source: http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/living-reefs-under-fire/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Video: Blues' David Backes ejected after perfectly legal hit - SB Nation
Detroit Red Wings defenseman Kent Huskins was obviously injured after a hit by David Backes, a hit that resulted in a match penalty against the Blues captain.
St. Louis Blues captain David Backes delivered what seemed to be a legal hit on defenseman Kent Huskins in the third period on Friday night, in a hard-fought Central Division showdown. Backes appeared to get Huskins square in the chest with this hit, which came a few steps after Huskins had passed the puck up ice, as Huskins struggled to get to the bench and in obvious pain.
Watch the hit and the aftermath here:
With the game tied 3-3 midway through the third, Backes was hit with a match penalty and ejected for what the officials deemed an illegal hit to the head. Pavel Datsyuk scored on the ensuing power play for the Red Wings and Henrik Zetterberg put the game away -- and securing a hat trick -- with an empty net goal to give the Wings a 5-3 victory.
With the NHL making it a point to focus on illegal hits to the head, supposedly, this is a clear example of the officials on the ice reacting to a an injury resulting from what was a perfectly legal hit on the replay. That such an egregiously bad call directly resulted in turning the tide of the game is downright shameful and just another case of a growing list of questionable calls by the on-ice officials.
Is this another example of the perceived regression of NHL officiating, or the on-ice officials reacting to pressure to punish hits to the head -- a pressure that comes from the fans and media just as much as it does the league?
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Source: http://www.sbnation.com/2013/2/2/3944056/david-backes-hit-kent-huskins-video
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