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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Is It OK To Cry At Work - Business Insider
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg gave a speech to Harvard Business School in which she said it was OK to cry at work.
Work can be stressful, and people do cry. That goes double in the advertising business, where clients can be capricious with deadlines and creative types often have huge, fragile egos (and the tempers that go with them).
Not everyone agrees with Sandberg that the occasional meltdown is OK. When someone starts sobbing at their desk it can bring the entire office to a halt. It's tough to ignore. People want to know: Has there been a death in the family? Is work too stressful? Is this person unable to handle the job?
Crying at work has, traditionally, been regarded as a weakness. It's especially something that men don't do. Forty-one percent of women have done it, but only 9 percent of men.
So we asked a handful of senior female ad execs in the agency biz what they thought of the issue.
Before we get to them, here's what Sandberg told Harvard:
I?ve cried at work. I?ve told people I?ve cried at work. And it?s been reported in the press that Sheryl Sandberg cried on Mark Zuckerberg?s shoulder, which is not exactly what happened. I talk about my hopes and fears and ask people about theirs. I try to be myself. Honest about my strengths and weaknesses and I encourage others to do the same. It is all professional and it is all personal, all at the very same time.
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Yahoo axing six more apps and services as part of streamlining effort
Get ready to say goodbye to another another batch of Yahoo products at the end of this month. As the company continues to streamline and focus its services, March 31st will be the last day of stand-alone existence for Upcoming, Yahoo Deals, Yahoo Kids, Yahoo SMS Alerts, Yahoo Mail and Messages for feature phones. Noting an aim to slim down to roughly 15 offerings from 75, as The Register points out, this follows a few weeks after the company nixed other services like its BlackBerry app. Additionally, if you've been hanging onto the old version of Yahoo! mail, you'll have no choice but to switch to the new version by June 3rd. Yahoo! There's not word on what we can expect next, although EVP of Platforms Jay Rossiter notes that cuts like these are needed so it can focus on the likes of its new Mail and Weather apps. You'll find the details for each cut at the source link.
Update: The total number of offerings being killed is six, not seven as initially reported.
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
How to quickly access your browsing history in Safari for iPhone or iPad
It's arguable that mobile Safari on the iPhone and iPad is one of the best mobile browsers out there. Not only do you have a great browsing experience but the ability to sync iCloud tabs, search for text within web pages, and much more.
When it comes to browsing history, while you can always navigate to your browsing history the regular way, there's actually a much faster way to get there...
- Launch the Safari app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
- In the bottom navigation menu, you have controls to move back and forward pages. Hold down on the back button.
- Your Safari browsing history will appear just like it would if you manually went to it, but you've saved yourself several menu taps.
Try it out and let us know how it works for you!
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Friday, April 19, 2013
FAA approves resumption of Boeing 787 flights
FILE - This Feb. 11, 2013 file photo shows a Boeing 787 flight test jet taxing following a test flight, at Boeing Field, in Seattle. Boeing's beleaguered 787 Dreamliners will be able to resume flights under an order expected to be issued Friday by the Federal Aviation Administration, although the root cause of battery failures on two of the planes is still unknown, according to congressional sources briefed by the agency. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
FILE - This Feb. 11, 2013 file photo shows a Boeing 787 flight test jet taxing following a test flight, at Boeing Field, in Seattle. Boeing's beleaguered 787 Dreamliners will be able to resume flights under an order expected to be issued Friday by the Federal Aviation Administration, although the root cause of battery failures on two of the planes is still unknown, according to congressional sources briefed by the agency. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Federal officials intend to lift the order grounding the beleaguered 787 Dreamliner after accepting Boeing's revamped battery system even though the root cause of battery failures that led to a fire on one plane and smoke on another remains unknown.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it would send airlines instructions and publish a notice next week lifting the 3-month-old grounding order that day. Boeing will then have the go-ahead to begin retrofitting planes with an enhanced lithium ion battery system.
Dreamliner flights could resume within a week, the agency told members of Congress. Boeing said it has stationed teams around the world to begin installing the fix.
The FAA gave Boeing permission last month to test the revamped system, which includes additional insulation around each of the battery's eight cells to prevent a short circuit or fire in one of the cells from spreading to the others. The new system also includes enhanced venting of smoke and gas from inside the battery to outside the plane. A strengthened box to hold the battery is an effort to ensure that if a fire were to occur, it wouldn't escape to the rest of the plane.
Boeing has completed 20 separate tests of the new system, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told Congress earlier this week.
Boeing had delivered 50 planes to eight airlines in seven countries when a fire erupted in a battery aboard a Japan Airlines 787 parked at Boston's Logan International Airport on Jan. 7. The FAA and other authorities grounded the entire fleet after a second incident nine days later led to an emergency landing by an All Nippon Airways 787 in Japan.
Boeing said new batteries and kits with the parts for the new battery systems are ready to be shipped immediately. The 787s will get the fix in approximately the order they were delivered, Boeing said.
"The Boeing team is ready to help get our customers' 787s back in the air where they belong," said Ray Conner, who runs Boeing Co.'s commercial airplane division.
The grounding also halted 787 deliveries. They were expected to resume "in the weeks ahead," after it installs the changes on planes at the two factories where they're assembled, Boeing said. It still expects to hit its target of delivering at least 60 787s this year, and that the battery issue "will have no significant impact" on its financial guidance for the year, the company said.
The FAA's action directly affects United Airlines, which is the only U.S. airline with 787s in its fleet. But aviation authorities in other countries are expected to follow suit swiftly.
United Airlines already has domestic 787 flights scheduled for May 31. Spokeswoman Christen David said no other schedule changes have been made yet. Its launch of Denver-to-Tokyo Narita flights is still planned for June 10, but that will depend on installing the battery fix by then, she said.
"We are mapping out a return-to-service plan, and we look forward to getting our 787s back in the air," she said by e-mail.
LOT Polish Airlines spokesman Marek Klucinski noted that they need permission from the European Aviation Safety Agency to resume flights. He said they hope that a decision on Friday would mean they can resume flights in the middle of next week. LOT has two planes, one in Warsaw and one that was stranded in Chicago by the grounding.
The 787 is Boeing's newest and most technologically advanced plane. It is the world's first airliner made mostly from lightweight composite materials. It also relies on electronic systems rather than hydraulic or mechanical systems to a greater degree than any other airliner. And it is the first airliner to make extensive use of lithium ion batteries, which are lighter, recharge faster and can hold more energy than other types of batteries.
Boeing has billed the plane to its customers as 20 percent more fuel efficient than other midsized airliners. That's a big selling point, since fuel is the biggest expense for most airlines
The plane's grounding on Jan. 16, an enormous black eye for Boeing, marked the first time since 1979 that FAA had ordered every plane of a particular type to stay out of the air for safety reasons.
UBS analyst David Strauss estimated last month that the 787 will cost Boeing $6 billion this year. Besides the battery problems, the plane already costs more to build than it brings in from customers.
United has six Dreamliners, plus another 44 on order. American and Delta have also ordered 787s. Boeing has orders for more than 800 of the planes from airlines around the globe.
The 787 has two identical lithium-ion batteries, one of which is located toward the front of the plane and powers cockpit electrical systems, the other toward the rear and used to start an auxiliary power unit while the plane is on the ground, among other functions. It was the battery toward the rear that caught fire and gushed smoke on the plane in Boston, which had recently landed after an overseas flight. It was the other battery toward the front that failed on the plane in Japan.
Every item that is part of an airplane, down to its nuts and bolts, must be certified as safe before FAA approves that type of plane as safe for flight. The two events have raised questions about why the FAA and Boeing didn't uncover problems with the batteries before the FAA certified the plane as safe for flight in 2011. In recent years, the FAA has relied to a greater extent on designated employees of aircraft makers to conduct the safety testing necessary of certification. Some aviation safety experts have questioned whether FAA has the in-house expertise to oversee the safety of cutting-edge technologies that haven't been in planes before.
Lithium batteries are much more likely to experience uncontrolled high temperatures that can lead to fires if they are damaged, exposed to excessive heat, overcharged or have manufacturing flaws. Despite their safety risks, they are increasingly attractive to aircraft makers as a way to cut weight and thus improve fuel efficiency.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the Boston battery fire and the process by which the FAA certified the 787's batteries were certified as safe. The board has scheduled a two-day hearing beginning Tuesday at which FAA and Boeing officials are slated to testify.
NTSB officials have said the Boston battery fire began with a short circuit in one of the battery's eight cells, leading to uncontrolled temperatures and short-circuits in the rest of the battery's cells. Firefighters who responded to the incident reported dense clouds of white smoke and two small flames on the outside of the box that contained the battery cells.
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Associated Press writers Monika Scislowska in Warsaw, Poland, and Joshua Freed in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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Karl Deisseroth, Gero Miesenböck and Edward Boyden win Brandeis' Gabbay Award in Biotechnology
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Trio win for optogenetics advances
Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Gero Miesenbck of the University of Oxford and Edward S. Boyden of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been awarded Brandeis University's 16th Annual Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine.
The researchers are being honored for their contributions to the discovery and applications of optogenetics, a technology that allows scientists to control the brain's activity by genetically engineering neurons to fire in response to light. Hundreds of labs have started using the technique to manipulate brain activity in experimental animals, exploring the neurobiology of phenomena such as decision-making and neurodegenerative diseases. The technique is expected to have significant impact on the brain initiative just announced by President Obama.
Karl Deisseroth is the D. H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He received his M.D., Ph.D from Stanford University School of Medicine, where he also did his internship and residency. He has been on the faculty of Stanford since 2004.
Gero Miesenbck is the Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College. He studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck and did postdoctoral work at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He was on the faculty of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Cornell University and Yale University before coming to Oxford in 2007. He is the founding director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour.
Ed Boyden is Associate Professor, Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in neurosciences from Stanford University and did postdoctoral work there with Karl Deisseroth. He moved to MIT in 2006 where he is now a member of the faculty.
The Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine was created by the Jacob and Louise Gabbay Foundation, and is given in recognition of scientists in academia, medicine, or industry whose work has outstanding scientific content and significant practical consequences in the biomedical sciences. The history of science suggests that most scientific revolutions are sparked by advances in practical areas, such as instrumentation and techniques. This year's honorees exemplify the spirit of this award in that their laboratory observations have led to significant practical consequences.
The award, given annually, consists of a $15,000 cash prize (to be shared in the case of multiple winners) and a medallion. The recipients travel to Brandeis University in the fall of each year and present a lecture on their work, followed by a dinner at which the formal presentation takes place. Nominations were solicited from selected scientists in industry and academia. A panel of distinguished researchers representing the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, as well as universities and schools of medicine, are assembled to consider nominations.
This year's symposium will take place on Thursday, October 10, at 3:30 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center theater. The talks are free and open to the public.
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Trio win for optogenetics advances
Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Gero Miesenbck of the University of Oxford and Edward S. Boyden of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been awarded Brandeis University's 16th Annual Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine.
The researchers are being honored for their contributions to the discovery and applications of optogenetics, a technology that allows scientists to control the brain's activity by genetically engineering neurons to fire in response to light. Hundreds of labs have started using the technique to manipulate brain activity in experimental animals, exploring the neurobiology of phenomena such as decision-making and neurodegenerative diseases. The technique is expected to have significant impact on the brain initiative just announced by President Obama.
Karl Deisseroth is the D. H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He received his M.D., Ph.D from Stanford University School of Medicine, where he also did his internship and residency. He has been on the faculty of Stanford since 2004.
Gero Miesenbck is the Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College. He studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck and did postdoctoral work at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He was on the faculty of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Cornell University and Yale University before coming to Oxford in 2007. He is the founding director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour.
Ed Boyden is Associate Professor, Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in neurosciences from Stanford University and did postdoctoral work there with Karl Deisseroth. He moved to MIT in 2006 where he is now a member of the faculty.
The Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine was created by the Jacob and Louise Gabbay Foundation, and is given in recognition of scientists in academia, medicine, or industry whose work has outstanding scientific content and significant practical consequences in the biomedical sciences. The history of science suggests that most scientific revolutions are sparked by advances in practical areas, such as instrumentation and techniques. This year's honorees exemplify the spirit of this award in that their laboratory observations have led to significant practical consequences.
The award, given annually, consists of a $15,000 cash prize (to be shared in the case of multiple winners) and a medallion. The recipients travel to Brandeis University in the fall of each year and present a lecture on their work, followed by a dinner at which the formal presentation takes place. Nominations were solicited from selected scientists in industry and academia. A panel of distinguished researchers representing the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, as well as universities and schools of medicine, are assembled to consider nominations.
This year's symposium will take place on Thursday, October 10, at 3:30 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center theater. The talks are free and open to the public.
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Resurgence of endangered deer in Patagonian 'Eden' highlights conservation success
Resurgence of endangered deer in Patagonian 'Eden' highlights conservation success
Wednesday, April 17, 2013The Huemul, a species of deer found only in the Latin American region of Patagonia, is bouncing back from the brink of possible extinction as a result of collaboration between conservationists and the Chilean government, says a new study.
By controlling cattle farming and policing to prevent poaching in the Bernardo O'Higgins National Park ? a vast "natural Eden" covering 3.5 million hectares ? conservation efforts have allowed the deer to return to areas of natural habitat from which it had completely disappeared.
Researchers are hailing the findings as an example of collaborations between local government and scientists leading to real conservation success, and a possible model for future efforts to maintain the extraordinary biodiversity found in this part of Chile.
The study by researchers from Cambridge, the Wildlife Conservation Society and CONAF, the Chilean national forestry commission, is released today in the journal Oryx, published by conservation charity Fauna and Flora International.
A national symbol that features on the Chilean coat-of-arms, Huemul deer are estimated to have suffered reductions of 99 per cent in size since the 19th century, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Researchers believe 50 per cent of this decline has come in recent years, with only 2,500 deer now left in the wild.
The Huemul is a naturally tame and approachable animal, which led to it becoming easy prey for hunters, particularly with the arrival of European colonists in the area who would hunt Huemul for meat to feed their dogs.
Recent increases by local farmers in the practice of releasing cattle indiscriminately into national parkland for retrieval later in the year has damaged the habitats of endemic wildlife such as the Huemul, and, coupled with continued hunting of the species, deer populations plummeted.
The joint efforts of conservationists and researchers with government and private initiatives created a small number of field stations in this remote natural paradise on the tip of South America ? one of the least populated areas of the world, requiring a boat trip of two days along the region's stunning fjords to reach.
This created a base for monitoring endangered species and natural habitats, as well as a team of park rangers enforcing conservation laws that ? although they had been in place since the late sixties ? had never been policed on the ground.
The impact was almost immediate, within five short years ? from 2004 to 2008 ? the Huemul population in the national park not only stabilised but also began to increase, with deer coming down from the hostile mountain areas it had sought refuge in and back to the sea-level valleys where it naturally thrives.
"National parks are at the heart of modern conservation, but there has to be an investment in management and protection on the ground. You can't just have a 'paper park', where an area is ring-fenced on a map but physically ignored," said Crist?bal Brice?o, a researcher from Cambridge's Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, who co-authored the study.
"Our results suggest that synergistic conservation actions, such as cattle removal and poaching control, brought about by increased infrastructure, can lead to the recovery of species such as the threated Huemul."
For Brice?o, the "scattering" of endangered species as habitats are encroached on creates not only external threats - but also extremely limited mating diversity.
This leads to levels of inbreeding that can reach "a critical extent from which there's no return", causing susceptibility to disease and increased extinction risk, as with another Chilean mammal that Brice?o is researching called Darwin's Fox ? named for the scientific genius that first discovered it ? with barely 500 now left in the world.
The Huemul's success offers encouragement for Brice?o and others in the field: "I think it's beautiful that this has turned out to be an example of real hope for an endangered species, an example we would like to replicate."
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You may have recently purchased a web domain, but are at a loss as to where to host your content. With so many options, it may seem impossible to figure out where to begin. What should you be looking for in a host? How can you assess a web hosting company's reliability? Thankfully, the below article will place you on the right track towards knowing what the different web hosting companies can offer you.
Check whether the hosting company you are considering has more than one Internet connection. If your host runs on a single internet connection, the risk of downtime is greatly increased because there is no redundancy. Make sure that the hosting service has redundant connections and that they are able to provide your site with the required bandwidth.
The guaranteed uptime statistics that web hosting companies offer may not be as good as you think. They may offer refunds as a guarantee. Usually, you won't receive but a few cents, but potential sales lost could harm your business. Seek a host that has a good uptime as opposed to one that gives refunds.
Ensure that your web host has multiple contact avenues available to you. A company with good customer service will be able to be contacted 24 hours a day, either through phone, email or chat support. This will save you a lot of headaches, if something should happen.
As your website gets more visitors, you may want to upgrade your service plan. Choose a host that already has a system in place to easily upgrade your service as needed. If you need to ask for more bandwidth, your request should be responded to in a speedy manner. This switch should be seamless, limiting problems and saving time.
For whichever web host you consider, learn which uploading method they use, especially if you expect to transfer a lot of data. It is conceivable you will need entry to a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server. It is also important that there is an online manager available for technical help.
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Before choosing your web host, you should get a good idea of what the control panel looks like. Good web hosts should offer tutorials or a detailed help menu, that walks you through the steps of uploading your site. If you find it difficult getting familiar with the control panel, search for something a little simpler.
Web hosting directories can be a good place to start your search. This can afford you the ability to see what services and features are offered for each provider, so that you can eliminate the ones that do not meet your needs. In doing this, you can look at the prices of them all, and then compare the reviews and see what's right for you.
While you own your domain name and have your website designed and built, hosting it is still a necessary evil. Launching your website isn't hard if you know how to find and evaluate web hosting providers. Use what you've read here and you'll be well on your way to reaching your goals!
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Pressure-cooker bombs suspected in Boston blast
FBI agents gather near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston Tuesday, April 16, 2013. The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing at least three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with shards of metal, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
FBI agents gather near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston Tuesday, April 16, 2013. The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing at least three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with shards of metal, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
Investigators in haz-mat suits examine the scene of the second bombing on Boylston Street in Boston Tuesday, April 16, 2013 near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, a day after two blasts killed at least three and injured over 170 people. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
In this Monday, April 15, 2013 photo, a race official assists Bill Iffrig, 78, of Lake Stevens, Wash., as Iffrig lies on the ground after the first explosion, as police officers react to a second explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Iffrig, of Lake Stevens, Wash., was running his third Boston Marathon and near the finish line when he was knocked down by one of two bomb blasts. (AP Photo/MetroWest Daily News, Ken McGagh) MANDATORY CREDIT
One of the blast sites on Boylston Street near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon is seen in Boston, Tuesday, April 16, 2013, one day after bomb blasts killed three and injured over 140 people. FBI agents searched a suburban Boston apartment overnight and appealed to the public for amateur video and photos that might yield clues to who carried out the Boston Marathon bombing. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
In this Monday, April 15, 2013 photo, Boston Firefighter James Plourde carries an injured girl away from the scene after a bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston. The FBI's investigation into the bombings at the Boston Marathon was in full swing Tuesday, with authorities serving a warrant on a suburban Boston home and appealing for any private video, audio and still images of the blasts that killed at least three and wounded more than 170. (AP Photo/MetroWest Daily News, Ken McGagh) MANDATORY CREDIT
BOSTON (AP) ? The bombs that ripped through the Boston Marathon crowd appear to have been fashioned out of ordinary kitchen pressure cookers, packed with nails and other fiendishly lethal shrapnel, and hidden in duffel bags left on the ground, investigators and others close to the case said Tuesday.
President Barack Obama branded the attack an act of terrorism, whether carried out by a solo bomber or group, and the FBI vowed to "go to the ends of the Earth" to find out who did it.
Scores of victims remained in Boston hospitals, many with grievous injuries, a day after the twin explosions near the marathon's finish line killed three people, wounded more than 170 and reawakened fears of terrorism. A 9-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy were among 17 victims listed in critical condition.
Officials found that the bombs consisted of explosives put in common 1.6-gallon pressure cookers, one containing shards of metal and ball bearings, the other packed with nails, according to a person close to the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still going on. Both bombs were stuffed into duffel bags, the person said.
At a news conference, FBI agent Richard DesLauriers, FBI agent in charge in Boston, confirmed that investigators had found pieces of black nylon from a bag or backpack and fragments of BBs and nails, possibly contained in a pressure cooker. He said the items were sent to the FBI for analysis at Quantico, Va.
Pressure-cooker explosives have been used in international terrorism, and have been recommended for lone-wolf operatives by Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen. But information on how to make the bombs is readily found online, and U.S. officials said Americans should not rush to judgment in linking the attack to overseas terrorists.
DesLauriers said that there had been no claim of responsibility for the attack, and that the range of suspects and motives was "wide open."
Throughout the day, he and other law enforcement authorities asked members of the public to come forward with any video or photos from the marathon or anything suspicious they might have witnessed, such as hearing someone express an interest in explosives or a desire to attack the marathon, or seeing someone carrying a dark heavy bag at the race.
"Someone knows who did this," the FBI agent said.
The bombs exploded 10 or more seconds apart, tearing off victims' limbs and spattering streets with blood, instantly turning the festive race into a hellish scene of confusion, horror and heroics.
The blasts killed 8-year-old Martin Richard of Boston, 29-year-old Krystle Campbell of Medford, Mass., and a third victim, identified only as a graduate student at Boston University.
Doctors who treated the wounded corroborated reports that the bombs were packed with shrapnel intended to cause mayhem.
"We've removed BBs and we've removed nails from kids. One of the sickest things for me was just to see nails sticking out of a little girl's body," said Dr. David Mooney, director of the trauma center at Boston Children's Hospital.
At Massachusetts General Hospital, all four amputations performed there were above the knee, with no hope of saving more of the legs, said Dr. George Velmahos, chief of trauma surgery.
"It wasn't a hard decision to make," he said. "We just completed the ugly job that the bomb did."
Obama plans to visit Boston on Thursday to attend an interfaith service in honor of the victims. He has traveled four times to cities reeling from mass violence, most recently in December after the schoolhouse shooting in Newtown, Conn.
In the wake of the attack, security was stepped up around the White House and across the country. Police massed at federal buildings and transit centers in the nation's capital, critical response teams deployed in New York City, and security officers with bomb-sniffing dogs spread through Chicago's Union Station.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urged Americans "to be vigilant and to listen to directions from state and local officials." But she said there was no evidence the bombings were part of a wider plot.
Pressure-cooker explosives have been used in Afghanistan, India, Nepal and Pakistan, according to a July 2010 intelligence report by the FBI and the Homeland Security Department. One of the three devices used in the May 2010 Times Square attempted bombing was a pressure cooker, the report said.
"Placed carefully, such devices provide little or no indication of an impending attack," the report said.
Investigators said they have not yet determined what was used to set off the Boston explosives. Typically, these bombs have an initiator, switch and explosive charge, according to a 2004 warning from Homeland Security.
"We will go to the ends of the Earth to identify the subject or subjects who are responsible for this despicable crime, and we will do everything we can to bring them to justice," the FBI's DesLauriers said.
The Pakistani Taliban, which claimed responsibility for the 2010 attempt in Times Square, has denied any part in the Boston Marathon attack.
Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen gave a detailed description of how to make a bomb using a pressure cooker in a 2010 issue of Inspire, its English-language online publication aimed at would-be terrorists acting alone.
In a chapter titled "Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom," it says "the pressurized cooker is the most effective method" for making a simple bomb, and it provides directions.
Naser Jason Abdo, a former U.S. soldier, was sentenced to life in prison last year after being convicted of planning to use a pair of bombs made from pressure cookers in an attack on a Texas restaurant frequented by soldiers from nearby Fort Hood. He was found with the Inspire article.
Investigators are also combing surveillance tapes from businesses around the finish line and asking travelers at Boston's Logan Airport to share any photos or video that might help.
"This is probably one of the most photographed areas in the country yesterday," said Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis. He said two security sweeps of the marathon route had been conducted before the bombing.
Boston police and firefighter unions announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to arrests.
Obama said officials do not know who carried out the attack or why ? "whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organization, foreign or domestic, or was the act of a malevolent individual."
But he said "any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror." And he declared: "The American people refuse to be terrorized."
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Sullivan reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Steve LeBlanc, Bridget Murphy, Rodrique Ngowi and Meghan Barr in Boston; Julie Pace and Lara Jakes in Washington; Paisley Dodds in London; Lee Keath in Cario; and Marilynn Marchione in Milwaukee contributed to this report along with researcher Randy Herschaft in New York.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Malawi civil society leaders fault TA Chitera on by-laws against early ...
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?Email This Post Some civil society leaders in Malawi are speaking against a bye-law introduced by traditional authority (TA) Chitera of Chiradzulu district barring her subjects under the age of 21 from getting married.
According to Chitera the by-law is a form of reducing increased cases of early marriage in her area a situation she says has previously led to the highest levels of school dropout among girls.
Early marriage?in particular marriages of under-15s?is more common in rural communities. This is because rural households tend to have more entrenched traditional attitudes and customs, are less affected by external influences and have fewer livelihood options for young women.
The by-laws penalize any traditional leader or parent who authorizes the marriage of a girl younger than 21 years of age.
A young mother carrying her baby gets water at a well at St Luke s District Hospital in Zomba, Malawi, where the rate of child marriage is 50%. Photograph: Simon Rawles/Alamy
For example the chiefs who authoritise early marriage are penalized by paying seven goats to the traditional authority while parents who force their children into marriage are fined to pay three chickens to their village headman and a goat to the traditional authority.
However Projects Officer for Civil Liberties Committee Felix Chikalira told Malawi?s Capital radio that the move will infringe upon people?s rights because under the country?s laws anyone above the age of 16 can get married with the consent of parents.
?I think there is no basis for her to say that because this is contrary to the constitution which is the supreme law of the land because anything that somebody says should at least go by the constitution,? he said.
But reports show that since the enactment of the bylaws mid last year there has been no cases of child marriage in Chitera?s area where??girls as young as 11-years-old were forced into marriage.
It has been argued that children should be protected from early marriages considering the physical and mental burdens these relationships entail and the need to develop the child intellectually, physically and psychologically. Child marriages undermine almost all the foundational principles of child rights?non-discrimination, the right to life, survival and development, participation and the child?s best interests.
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Ants 'Use Math' to Find Fastest Route
Just as light does, ants traveling through different materials follow the fastest path, not the shortest one.
A recent study found that when fire ants (Wasmannia auropunctata) crossed different surfaces, the insects chose the route that would minimize their total walking time, rather than the distance traveled. The ants' behavior offers a window into how groups of social insects self-organize, the scientists say.
In optics, a ray of light traveling between two points takes the path that requires the least amount of time, even if it's not the shortest distance ? which is known as "Fermat's principle of least time." For example, imagine a lifeguard rushing to save someone in the ocean some distance down the beach. The quickest way for her to get to the victim would be to run along the beach first, in order to minimize the time she would have to spend swimming, which usually takes longer than running. [Album: The 11 Most Beautiful Math Equations]
In the study, researchers collected colonies of the little fire ant ? one of the world's 100 most invasive species ? at sites in Israel. Each colony contained a few thousand worker ants and several queens. The ants were placed in a corner of an enclosure, and cockroaches were provided as a food source in the opposite corner. To get to the cockroaches, the ants had to cross a foraging area covered with different materials: smooth felt, rough felt or a glassy surface. The scientists tested the ants on surfaces composed of pairs of these materials next to each other (glass and rough felt, glass and smooth felt, smooth felt and rough felt).
The ants traveled more quickly over the glassy material than they did over either type of felt, and they moved more rapidly over the smooth felt than over the rough felt.
En route to their roach banquet, the ants did not follow the most direct travel path, the study found. Rather, they followed an angled path, traveling over more of the smoother material in order to reach the food morsels in the shortest amount of time. The findings demonstrate that Fermat's principle of light travel also applies to living creatures, the researchers conclude.
The ants rely on trails of pheromones to find their way. The researchers suggest that the chemical trail might initially be random, but converges on the optimum route over time. This process illustrates self-organization and evolution, in which all possible routes are whittled down to the fastest one.
"We found that a general rule applies to a dynamic system that relies solely on communication [pheromones] and social cooperation," lead study author Jan Oettler of the University of Regensburg, Germany, told the news site Phys.org.?
However, the ants have their limits. Over shorter distances, the ants didn't perform as well in choosing the fastest path, possibly because there was more of the pheromone in each area.
Scientists have long known that ants choose the shortest of several paths to get to a food source, in order to minimize travel time or conserve energy. For example, harvester ants avoid paths with more vegetation, and wood ants prefer horizontal bridges to vertical ones.
The new findings were published March 20 in the journal PLOS ONE.
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'Blazar' flare-up stuns physicists
16 April 2013
Last updated at 03:51 ET
The skies are currently being flooded with the brightest display of gamma rays - the Universe's highest-energy light - ever seen by astronomers.
The culprit is a staggering flare-up of Markarian 421, a "blazar" that hosts a supermassive black hole.
By sheer coincidence, a programme to study it had just begun, so dozens of the world's telescopes - from visible to radio to gamma-ray - were watching.
And it came just in time for a meeting of many of the world's astrophysicists.
The name of Markarian 421 is cropping up in many talks at the American Physical Society meeting in Denver.
"It's really quite exciting because we can exchange ideas about it while we're here at the meeting in the same place," said Greg Madejski of the Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Blazars are a special case of "active galaxies" - those whose supermassive black holes spray out great quantities of light across the whole electromagnetic spectrum as they feed on surrounding matter.
Active galaxies emit jets of light - up to trillions of times more energetic than the light we see - and a blazar is one with a jet pointing toward the Earth.
What remains a mystery is how gamma rays are created at such extraordinary energies.
'Miraculous'Markarian 421 was already in the known catalogue of blazars, being somewhat variable and having had something of a brightening, or flare, in 1996.
But the one that began late last week was unprecedented in the history of observations.
"I'm in shock and awe at how bright it is," said Julie McEnery, project scientist for the Fermi gamma-ray telescope.
"This thing is blowing us away," she told BBC News.
Fermi and a laundry list of the world's great observatories on the ground and in space were all watching because of a coordinated plan to study Markarian 421 across a number of "colours" of light from radio to gamma-ray.
"It's correlating the increasing intensity in different bands that provides really important clues about the structure of the source," Prof Madejski - a co-investigator on the NuStar X-ray telescope, told BBC News.
"In this case, we actually had designed a campaign to study this source, and it cooperated in a miraculous way. We never know when exactly it's going to get very bright and this time it was kind enough to do just that when we had a very large number of telescopes trained on it."
The hard work now begins, as the observatories share their recordings from recent days. Astrophysicists can determine how the blazar grew brighter in different parts of the spectrum at different times and refine their models of how fast-moving particles within the jets give rise to the high-energy light.
"It's going to give us a lot more info about how those particles get energised to provide this spectacular event," Prof Madejski said. "Now we're drinking from a waterfall."
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Motion Time Lapser Generates Time Lapses From Folders of Photos
Windows: Time lapse videos can be stunning, but they aren't very easy to make, at least not well. Motion Time Lapser is a unique Windows app that automatically crops photos for use in time lapses, complete with advanced panning and rotation animations.
The app has a barebones UI, and is far from intuitive, but the results are worthy of the learning curve. First, specify a source folder with your images. Then, choose which section of the photo you want to use for the first frame. For example, if you're using 3600x2400 10 megapixel images, you could specify a 1280x720 rectangle within the frame to generate an HD video. Once you set the coordinates of this first frame, do the same for your final frame. If the rectangles are in different locations, the final video will pan smoothly between the two locations, as you can see in the video above. You can even add a rotation effect to the animation for even more unique results. Once your photos are cropped, just throw them in a video editor to create the final video.
Be sure to check out the developer's site for some more ideas and examples, then grab your tripod and start shooting!
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How To Stop Code? - Java | Dream.In.Code
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#1 novakasss ?
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I want to make something like this
public static void main(String[] args){ doSomething(); // Wait doSomethingElse(); }
How to stop code? I was thinking about Thread, and sleep method, but then i thought, that i don't know specific sleeping time. Situation is like this:
main class contains jframe window.
I want to add one class which extends JPanel. There ActionListeners would follow user, until he does something, and then I want to came back to the main method and call second method.
Is this even possible? And if yes, then how can I make this?
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#2 pbl ?
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Re: How to stop code?
Posted Today, 11:30 AM
Not really, this happens in two different thread.Your main() is actually finished when the GUI is displayed... this is the nature of Java GUI.
This is not a noce solution but you can always start a thread that does something like
class MyTread extends Thread { private boolean flag = true; public void run() { while(flag} { thread sleep 1 second } ... do what you have to do
so it is the actionPerformed() job to call a setter in MyThread to set the flag to false
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Re: How to stop code?
Posted Today, 11:49 AM
pbl, on 15 April 2013 - 11:30 AM, said:
Your main() is actually finished when the GUI is displayed... this is the nature of Java GUI.
This is not a noce solution but you can always start a thread that does something like
class MyTread extends Thread { private boolean flag = true; public void run() { while(flag} { thread sleep 1 second } ... do what you have to do
so it is the actionPerformed() job to call a setter in MyThread to set the flag to false
Looks good, but how to call setter method of the main class? Do I need to send whole main object to the JPanel class with ActionListener?
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Re: How to stop code?
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I want to came back to the main method and call second method.
Is this even possible?
#5 CasiOo ?
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Re: How to stop code?
Posted Today, 02:02 PM
What is it that you are trying to accomplish? Is it some sort of dialog result you are looking for?
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Re: How to stop code?
Posted Today, 02:10 PM
pbl, on 15 April 2013 - 07:30 PM, said:
Your main() is actually finished when the GUI is displayed... this is the nature of Java GUI.
This is not a noce solution but you can always start a thread that does something like
class MyTread extends Thread { private boolean flag = true; public void run() { while(flag} { thread sleep 1 second } ... do what you have to do
so it is the actionPerformed() job to call a setter in MyThread to set the flag to false
Did I just see pbl call Thread.sleep() without a try/catch clause or a declaration of throws InterruptedException?? 
Surely I was mistaken!
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