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Friday, July 12, 2013
Jagged graphene edges can slice into cell membranes
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers have shown how tiny graphene sheets can be big trouble for cells. Sharp corners and jagged edges on the sheets puncture cell membranes, allowing the sheet to enter the cell and disrupt function. The new understanding of how graphene interacts with cells could lead to safer production of this important nanomaterial.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Pistorius lawyers appeal bail conditions
FILE - In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 Olympian Oscar Pistorius stands following his bail hearing, as his brother Carl, center, and father Henke look on, in Pretoria, South Africa. The family of Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympian charged with murdering his girlfriend, is feuding publicly about whether guns are a necessary protection against crime in South Africa. British newspapers quoted Pistorius' father, Henke Pistorius, as saying the family owned handguns for self-defense and suggesting that South Africa's government shares blame for "white crime levels" in the country. In a statement Tuesday March 5, 2013 quoting the runner's uncle, Arnold Pistorius, the family subsequently distanced itself from the father's comments. (AP Photo/Masi Losi/Pretoria News) SOUTH AFRICA OUT
FILE - In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 Olympian Oscar Pistorius stands following his bail hearing, as his brother Carl, center, and father Henke look on, in Pretoria, South Africa. The family of Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympian charged with murdering his girlfriend, is feuding publicly about whether guns are a necessary protection against crime in South Africa. British newspapers quoted Pistorius' father, Henke Pistorius, as saying the family owned handguns for self-defense and suggesting that South Africa's government shares blame for "white crime levels" in the country. In a statement Tuesday March 5, 2013 quoting the runner's uncle, Arnold Pistorius, the family subsequently distanced itself from the father's comments. (AP Photo/Masi Losi/Pretoria News) SOUTH AFRICA OUT
FILE - In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 Olympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius, in court in Pretoria, South Africa, for his bail hearing charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Even if Pistorius is acquitted of murder, firearms and legal experts in South Africa believe that, by his own account, the star violated basic gun-handling regulations by shooting into a closed door without knowing who was behind it, exposing himself to the lesser but still serious charge of culpable homicide. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)
FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 file photo Reeva Steenkamp's casket arrives ahead of her funeral ceremony in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Steenkamp, the model and law graduate shot and killed by Pistorius, was statistically just one of three women killed on Valentine's Day by an intimate partner, according to a study on violence against women that damns South Africa as having "the highest rate ever reported in research anywhere in the world." (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? Lawyers for Oscar Pistorius have filed an appeal in a South African court against bail restrictions imposed on the Olympian, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend, according to papers released by the Pistorius family on Monday.
"The conditions appealed against are unwarranted and not substantiated by the facts," said the appeal, which was filed Friday in Pretoria, the South African capital.
The appeal reflected the robust defense strategy of lawyers for Pistorius, who has been staying at his uncle Arnold's home in a Pretoria suburb since he was released on bail on Feb. 22.
It is a delicate balance because the Pistorius family has also sought to keep a low profile, expressing sorrow for the death of Reeva Steenkamp on Feb. 14. Pistorius says he mistakenly shot Steenkamp, thinking she was an intruder in his home. Prosecutors believe he killed her intentionally after an argument.
The Associated Press received a copy of the court papers by email from representatives of the Pistorius family. The appeal was prepared by Ramsay Webber, a legal firm based in Johannesburg.
In the papers, lawyers for the double-amputee athlete argued against the requirement that he surrender all passports and travel documents, and refrain from applying for such documents pending the end of his case.
The lawyers said evidence presented at the athlete's bail hearing showed he is not a flight risk and should have the option of traveling outside South Africa as long as he has official permission.
The appeal also said there was "no basis in fact or in law" justifying terms under which Pistorius must be supervised by a probation officer and a correctional official.
Officials will visit Pistorius at his uncle's home at least four times a month, according to James Smalberger, chief deputy commissioner of the department of correctional services, who spoke to The Associated Press last month.
"He's not under house arrest, but his movements need to be known to us so that we don't pitch there and he's not there," Smalberger had said. "We agree on 'free time' normally during the course of the day, and in the evening we expect him to be home."
The appeal against the bail conditions also objected to the requirement that Pistorius refrain from using alcohol or any banned substance, even though he had no intention of doing so.
"The mere use of any substance with alcohol in it will give rise to a transgression of the wide condition imposed," the appeal said.
In addition, the runner should be allowed access to the property at Silverwoods Country Estate where he shot Steenkamp, once the state completes its investigations there within a "reasonable time limit," according to Pistorius' legal camp.
"A blanket restriction on speaking to residents is unfair" and infringes on Pistorius' rights to consult people on the estate to prepare for his trial, the appeal said.
Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair had set bail at 1 million rand ($113,000). The 26-year-old track star was also ordered to turn in any guns he owns, and cannot leave the district of Pretoria without his probation officer's permission.
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FBI Makes Odd Sequester Claim Regarding Wall Street Crime | FDL ...
In a letter to lawmakers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation claims that the across the board cuts in the sequester will damage their ability to pursue financial crimes.
Sequestration will cause current financial crimes investigations to slow as workload is spread among a reduced workforce. In some instances, such delays could affect the timely interviews of witnesses and collection of evidence. The capacity to undertake new major investigations will be constrained. Left unchecked, fraud and malfeasance in the financial, securities, and related industries could hurt the integrity of U.S. markets.
In addition, the public will perceive the FBI as less capable of aggressively and actively investigating financial fraud and public corruption, which would undercut the deterrence that comes from strong enforcement.
Are you done laughing yet? I know I?m not.
The public already rightly sees the FBI as complete screw-ups regarding the bureau?s handling of financial crime due to the fact that not one major Wall Street criminal that caused the 2008 financial crisis has gone to jail. Not one. A public perception not at all altered by a recent Frontline expose on the incredible failures of the FBI and Justice Department in taking on blatant crime on Wall Street.
The FBI instead spent its time and resources in the wake of the financial crisis investigating Aaron Swartz as well as treating Occupy Wall Street protesters as ?terrorists.? With some truly asine agent provocateur activity that even judges considered pretty stupid. The FBI is rightly losing much of its social cache and has damaged its reputation from the incompetence and corruption it demonstrates when the bureau targets innocent people while letting the clearly guilty walk. So the FBI is rapidly losing credibility with the public due to its obvious disinterest in holding Wall Street accountable not for lacking the resources to do so.
There are many good reasons to oppose the sequester, the claim that it will prevent the FBI from doing a job it isn?t doing anyway is not one of them.
Source: http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/03/05/fbi-makes-odd-sequester-claim-regarding-wall-street-crime/
Friday, March 1, 2013
Sears 4Q loss narrows as co. reduces expenses
FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2012, photo, an employee walks through the appliance department at a Sears in North Olmsted, Ohio. Sears posted a smaller loss in the fourth quarter as it reduced its inventory and expenses while sales at its namesake stores rose slightly. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2012, photo, an employee walks through the appliance department at a Sears in North Olmsted, Ohio. Sears posted a smaller loss in the fourth quarter as it reduced its inventory and expenses while sales at its namesake stores rose slightly. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) ? Sears posted a smaller loss in the fourth quarter as it reduced its inventory and expenses while sales at its namesake stores rose slightly.
The retailer's stock climbed more than 3 percent in premarket trading on Thursday.
The company that also owns the Kmart store chain lost $489 million, or $4.61 per share, for the period ended Feb. 2. That compares with a loss of $2.4 billion, or $22.63 per share, a year earlier.
Excluding certain items, earnings from continuing operations were $1.12 per share.
Revenue fell 2 percent to $12.26 billion from $12.48 billion. Sears said this was mostly due to the separation of its Sears Hometown and Outlet businesses; the impact of having fewer Kmart and Sears stores in operation and lower revenue from stores open at least a year. This was somewhat offset by having an extra week in the period.
Revenue at U.S. stores open at least a year dropped 1.6 percent in the quarter.
This metric is a key gauge of a retailer's health because it excludes results from stores recently opened or closed.
Revenue at domestic Sears stores open at least a year edged up 0.8 percent, helped by strength in the clothing, home appliance and home categories. The figure dropped 3.7 percent for Kmart locations and fell 3.8 percent for Sears Canada.
A good part of the drag on results was softness in consumer electronics. Removing this category, total revenue at U.S. stores open at least a year dipped 0.2 percent while Sears rose 2.4 percent and Kmart declined 2.5 percent.
Like many retailers, Sears Holdings Corp. saw growth in its online business, with sales climbing 25 percent.
Edward Lampert, chairman and CEO of the Hoffman Estates, Ill., company, said in a statement that Sears has invested significantly in its online operations as well as its rewards program and the technology needed to support the two initiatives.
Total costs and expenses declined to $12.88 billion from $13.18 billion.
Merchandise inventories at quarter's end were $7.6 billion compared with $8.4 billion a year earlier. Domestic inventory dropped $895 million to $6.8 billion.
Chief Financial Officer Rob Schriesheim said that Sears anticipates lowering its 2013 peak domestic inventory by $500 million from the $8.6 billion level at the end of the third quarter of 2012.
Total debt at quarter's end was $3.1 billion. This is down from $3.5 billion in the prior-year period.
Shares of Sears gained $1.53, or 3.2 percent, to $49 two hours before the market open.
For the full year, Sears lost $930 million, or $8.78 per share. In the prior year it lost $3.14 billion, or $29.40 per share.
The company's adjusted loss from continuing operations was $2.03 per share.
Annual revenue fell 4 percent to $39.85 billion from $41.57 billion.
Sears has more than 2,500 stores in the U.S. and Canada.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Anonymous Hack Of Bank Of America - Business Insider
Anonymous hackers have released 14 gigabytes of information allegedly related to Bank of America and a web intelligence firm it hired to spy on hackers and social activists last year.
Emails detail how employees of TEKSystems actively watched hacker forums and social media sites for any remotely relevant pieces of "intelligence."
The leak includes a list of more than 10,000 words, phrases, and references ? everything from "jihad" to "keg stand" to "I Wish That I Had Duck Feet" ? that was used to match for entries on forums like anonops and sites including Twitter (including Tweetdeck),?pastebin, Facebook,?and various blogs.
A press release from Par:AnoIA (aka Anonymous Intelligence Agency) states that the data "clearly shows that the research was sloppy, random and valueless."
But the emails include "Daily Cyber Threat Highlights" that list events and stories from all over the world.
And the data dump adds a new element to what is known about public and private entities surveilling protestors of Occupy Wall Street.
We knew that web intelligence firm Ntrepid mapped online relationships between anarchists and the leaders of Occupy. These documents reveal that TEKSystems assembled "intelligence" reports on both Occupy and hackers for (at least) the first 11 months of 2012.
Anonymous insists it was not a hack:
"[T]he data was not acquired by a hack but because it was stored on a misconfigured server and basically open for grabs. Even more alarming, the data was retrieved from an Israeli server in Tel Aviv."
"As a bonus," the hackers released 4.8 gigabytes of data containing the salary information top executives around the world, including Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/anonymous-hack-of-bank-of-america-google-2013-2
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Watson ponders careers in cooking, drug research as IBM makes it earn its keep
While mad game show skills are nice and all, IBM has started to nudge Watson toward the door to begin paying its own freight. After a recent foray into finance, the publicity-loving supercomputer has now brought its number-crunching prowess to the pharmaceutical and pastry industries, according to the New York Times. If the latter sounds like a stretch for a hunk of silicon, it actually isn't: researchers trained Watson with food chemistry data, flavor popularity studies and 20,000 recipes -- all of which will culminate in a tasting of the bot's freshly devised "Spanish Crescent" recipe. Watson was also put to work at GlaxoSmithKline, where it came up with 15 potential compounds as possible anti-malarial drugs after being fed all known literature and data on the disease. So far, Watson projects haven't made Big Blue much cash, but the company hopes that similar AI ventures might see its prodigal child finally pay back all those years of training.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/28/ibm-watson-pastry-drug-research/
Leon Lai happy as ambassador for HK entertainment
Hong Kong actor Leon Lai appears at the news conference on the annual Entertainment Expo in Hong Kong Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Lai appointed Entertainment Expo ambassador promoting Hong Kong?s film, TV and entertainment industry. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Hong Kong actor Leon Lai appears at the news conference on the annual Entertainment Expo in Hong Kong Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Lai appointed Entertainment Expo ambassador promoting Hong Kong?s film, TV and entertainment industry. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
HONG KONG (AP) ? Leon Lai says he's delighted to be the ambassador for Entertainment Expo Hong Kong.
The veteran entertainer says he wanted to do something and Hong Kong has a lot of singers and actors, "who are making albums and shooting films here, they're supporting this industry as well."
He spoke Tuesday before the expo starting March 18 that covers film, television, digital entertainment and music.
Lai also says he enjoyed Taiwanese director Ang Lee's "Life of Pi." The special effects-heavy film was made mostly in Taiwan and won four Academy Awards.
But Lai says comparisons to the government support offered in Taiwan are not useful for Hong Kong's film industry.
It depends on what filmmakers ask. He says, "If we have a reasonable request, I think the government will support us."
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PST: US U-20 men beat Canada, qualify for WC
Final verdict for U.S. under-20 men?s national team in its drive for redemption, after the notorious qualification failure for the FIFA U-20 World Cup last time out: not the best performance in the world, and not exactly pretty, but job done.
Tab Ramos? young bunch of Yanks downed Canada tonight in Mexico, 4-2, qualifying for this summer?s FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Turkey.
The CONCACAF qualifying tournament goes on, but this was the money match; all four quarterfinal winners move on Turkey.
While the run has been less-than-perfect, Ramos? side has managed to improve each time out, which is certainly something to take away from the team?s trip into Mexico. Further credit, too, for not getting undone by Canada?s 23rd-minute goal Tuesday.
U.S. attacker Luis Gil was strong once again, recording the equalizer six minutes after Canada?s first-half strike. We told you about him earlier today on the blog, about this being a big year for the young man at Real Salt Lake.
The LA Galaxy?s Jose Villarreal had two goals for the United States.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Insight: Syria rebels bolstered by new arms but divisions remain
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels have received advanced weapons aimed at narrowing the arms gap with President Bashar al-Assad's forces and reinforcing a new rebel military command which Western countries hope can dilute the strength of Islamist fighters.
Several rebel commanders and fighters told Reuters that a shipment which reached Syria via Turkey last month comprised shoulder-held and other mobile equipment including anti-aircraft and armor-piercing weapons, mortars and rocket launchers.
Rebels told Reuters the weapons, along with money for cash payments for fighters, were being distributed through a new command structure, part of a plan by foreign backers to centralize control over rebel units and check Islamists linked to al-Qaeda. However, in a sign of the difficulty in uniting disparate fighting groups, some rebels said they had turned down the arms and refused to submit to the new command.
While not nearly enough to tip the military balance against Assad, who is able to deploy air power, missiles and artillery to devastating effect against rebel areas, any significant arms shipment is a boost to rebels who have long complained about the lack of international support.
The rebels refused to specify who supplied the new weapons, saying they did not want to embarrass foreign supporters, but said they had arrived openly via Turkey "from donor countries".
"We have received this shipment legally and normally. It was not delivered through smuggling routes but formally through Bab al-Hawa crossing," said a rebel commander in Homs province, referring to a rebel-held crossing with Turkey.
"But it is not enough to help us win," he told Reuters by Skype. "Another shipment has arrived in Turkey but we haven't received it yet," he added, saying he believed foreign donors were waiting for the Syrian opposition to form a transitional government to work with the rebel command.
The political opposition will meet in Istanbul on Saturday to choose a prime minister in the transitional government, which is also supposed to choose a civilian defense minister - creating the basic structure for a future state and army.
The Syrian revolt erupted nearly two years ago, starting with peaceful protests for reform but developing into an armed insurgency and then civil war as Assad responded to the uprising with ever-growing force. The United Nations estimates that 70,000 people have been killed in the relentless violence.
Although many countries backed Assad's opponents, few have actively supported arming the rebels, fearing that weapons might end up in the hands of hardline Sunni Muslim militants and lead to a repeat of Western conflicts, such as the wars against the Taliban in Afghanistan and al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Iraq.
So far rebels have relied mainly on light weapons smuggled from neighboring countries, many of them financed or sent from sympathizers in Gulf states, and from supplies seized from captured army bases inside Syria.
But video footage and pictures from across the country appear to support assertions that advanced weapons - with origins as varied as the former Yugoslavia and China - have ended up in rebel hands.
A Reuters photographer in Damascus over the last month saw several Western-built rebel firearms- including U.S. pattern M4 and Austrian Steyr assault rifles - that almost certainly came from outside the country.
STRENGTHENING REBEL COMMAND
Assad's strongest regional supporter has been Shi'ite Muslim Iran, while the leading campaigners for arming the rebels are the Sunni Muslim Gulf Arab powers Qatar and Saudi Arabia, reflecting the strong sectarian currents of the Syrian uprising.
Although Saudi Arabia and Qatar do not discuss specific weapons shipments to the rebels, both countries have been open about their support for arming them in principle.
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal bluntly told a news conference in Riyadh on February 12: "My country believes that the brutality of the Syrian regime against its own people requires empowering the people to defend itself."
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani said last week: "As there is no clear international opinion to end the crisis in Syria...we are supporting the opposition with whatever it needs, even if it takes up arms for self-defense."
Western countries have been more cautious, and have so far committed publicly to sending only "non-lethal" aid, like radios and body armor.
International powers are alarmed by the growing influence of Islamist hardliners in a country which lies at the crossroads of the Middle East between Iraq, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. They have made efforts to unite Syrian rebels under a clear leadership. A body was formed in December to bring the rebel units, or brigades, together under a unified command.
"One of the reasons for the change in the donors' minds is that they want to empower the new military command. They want to help it organize the weapons and the fighters," said an aide to a rebel commander in a province which has seen some of the heaviest fighting.
"If the brigades join then they get their share of these weapons and also monthly payment for the fighters."
The new military command divides Syria into five fronts - southern, western, eastern, northern and central.
"Each front has received its share. All equally distributed," the rebel said, adding that 'payment' for the weapons would come in the form of post-conflict reconstruction contracts in Syria awarded to countries that helped.
"So basically it's like we have paid in advance. It is funded by the countries that will be involved in reconstruction of Syria," he said.
But in a sign of the continued divisions among Assad's foes, some rebels complain that the "military councils" who received the weapons - and are seen by the West as more likely allies than the hardline Islamists - were the wrong groups to arm.
"There is a dispute in Damascus. The people who received these weapons are not the real fighters. They gave it to the military council which is not fighting," said a rebel commander operating around the Syrian capital. "We are the ones that are on the frontline and we are the fighters."
He said his fighters had rejected an offer of weapons in return for their allegiance to the military councils.
"There was a meeting and they asked for our brigade to join so they will give us between 10 to 20 rockets and armor-piercing ammunition and other stuff," he said. "They wanted everything to be under their supervision, but we refused."
"They are giving these weapons to people to allow them to create a (fighting) presence on the ground. Why don't they give it to people who already have a presence?"
Another commander said he would have no qualms about seizing weapons destined for rebels nominally fighting on the same side as him, if he knew they were passing through his territory.
REBELS NEED "ARMS, NOT MEN"
Several fighters from across the country who spoke to Reuters in February said they feared the ultimate plan of outside powers was to push the rebel Free Syrian Army and other "moderate" Islamist fighters into confrontation with radicals.
Fighters from hardline groups such as Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham have waged some of the deadliest attacks in Syria, including car bombings in Damascus, Aleppo and elsewhere. Their ranks have been swollen by jihadi fighters from around the Muslim world.
The chief of staff of the rebel military command, Brigadier Selim Idris, said the presence of foreign fighters was hindering international support for the battle against Assad.
"We call all brothers from all the countries. Please, my brothers: we do not need men. Stay in your own countries and do something good inside your own countries," he told Reuters.
"If you want to help us just send us weapons or funding - or even pray for us. But you do not have to come to Syria. We have enough Syrian men fighting."
Idris denied receiving weapons from donors and said that weapons are still entering Syria through the black market - apparently reluctant to put foreign powers in the spotlight.
"We are not receiving weapons from the Europeans, we do not want to embarrass them, we do not want to embarrass anyone with the weapons issue," he said.
Previous attempts to unify Syria's divided rebels have foundered on local rivalries and competition for money and influence. Some have grown rich and powerful by smuggling weapons, medical supplies, food and diesel, while the lack of civil administration in rebel controlled areas has also encouraged the proliferation of autonomous rebel groups.
Seeking to address those divisions, the military councils hope to pay fighters a symbolic monthly salary of $100, funded in part by donations from the Gulf. The Homs commander said one Gulf state had recently paid $15 million towards their wages.
"They want to organize the rebels and have them all under one command - who joins will be eligible to receive the money and the weapons," he said. "This is all for organization purposes."
"If a brigade joins then it will take its share, if it doesn't, then no weapons. We want to be organized," he said.
(Editing by Dominic Evans and Peter Graff)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/insight-syria-rebels-bolstered-arms-divisions-remain-175254030.html
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Italy parties seek way out of election stalemate
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's stunned political parties searched for a way forward on Tuesday after an inconclusive election gave none of them a parliamentary majority and threatened prolonged instability and a renewal of the European financial crisis.
The results, notably the dramatic surge of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement of comic Beppe Grillo, left the center-left bloc with a majority in the lower house but without the numbers to control the upper chamber, the Senate.
Financial markets fell sharply at the prospect of a stalemate that reawakened memories of the crisis that pushed Italy's borrowing costs toward unsustainably high levels and brought the euro zone to the brink of collapse in 2011.
"The winner is: Ingovernability," ran the headline in Rome newspaper Il Messaggero, reflecting the deadlock the country will have to confront in the next few weeks as sworn enemies are forced to work together to form a government.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's said on Tuesday that policy choices of the next Italian government would be crucial for the country's creditworthiness, underlining the need for a coalition that can agree on new reforms.
Pier Luigi Bersani, head of the center-left Democratic Party (PD), has the difficult task of trying to agree a "grand coalition" with former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, the man he blames for ruining Italy, or striking a deal with Grillo, a completely unknown quantity in conventional politics.
The alternative is new elections either immediately or within a few months, although both Berlusconi and Bersani have indicated that they want to avoid a return to the polls if possible: "Italy cannot be ungoverned and we have to reflect," Berlusconi said in an interview on his own television station.
For his part, Grillo, whose movement won the most votes of any single party, has indicated that he believes the next government will last no more than six months.
"They won't be able to govern," he told reporters on Tuesday. "Whether I'm there or not, they won't be able govern."
He said he would work with anyone who supported his policy proposals, which range from anti-corruption measures to green-tinted energy measures but rejected suggestions of entering a formal coalition: "It's not time to talk of alliances... the system has already fallen," he said.
The election, a massive rejection of the austerity policies applied by Prime Minister Mario Monti with the backing of international leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, caused consternation across Europe.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble put a brave face on it, saying "that's democracy".
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo was more pessimistic.
"This is a jump to nowhere that does not bode well either for Italy or Europe," he said.
A long recession and growing disillusionment with mainstream parties and tax-raising austerity fed a bitter public mood and contributed to the massive rejection of Monti, whose centrist coalition was relegated to the sidelines.
Projections by the Italian center for Electoral Studies showed that the center-left will have 121 seats in the Senate, against 117 for the center-right alliance of Berlusconi's PDL and the regionalist Northern League. Grillo would take 54.
That leaves no party with the majority in a chamber which a government must control to pass legislation.
"THE BELL IS RINGING"
On a visit to Germany, President Giorgio Napolitano said he would not comment until the parties had consulted with each other and Bersani called on Berlusconi and Grillo to "assume their responsibilities" to ensure Italy could have a government.
He warned that the election showed austerity policies alone were no answer to the economic crisis and said the result carried implications beyond Italy.
"The bell is ringing for Europe as well," he said in his first public comments since the election.
He said he would present a limited number of reform proposals to parliament, focusing on jobs, institutional reform and European policy.
However forming an alliance may be long and difficult and could test the sometimes fragile internal unity of the mainstream parties.
"The idea of a majority without Grillo is unthinkable. I don't know if anyone in the PD is considering it but I'm against it," said Matteo Orfini, a member of Bersani's PD secretariat.
"The idea of a PD-PDL government, even if it's backed by Monti, doesn't make any sense," he said.
For his part, Berlusconi won a boost when his Northern League ally Roberto Maroni won the election to become regional president of Lombardy, Italy's economic heartland and one of the richest and most productive areas of Europe.
For Italian business, with an illustrious history of export success, the election result brought dismay that there would be no quick change to what they see as a regulatory sclerosis that has kept the economy virtually stagnant for a decade.
"This is probably the worst possible scenario," said Francesco Divella, whose family began selling pasta under its eponymous brand in 1890 in the southern region of Puglia.
Berlusconi's campaign, mixing sweeping tax cut pledges with relentless attacks on Monti and Merkel, echoed many of the themes pushed by Grillo and underlined the increasingly angry mood of the Italian electorate.
But even if the next government turns away from the tax hikes and spending cuts brought in by Monti, it will struggle to revive an economy that has scarcely grown in two decades.
Monti was widely credited with tightening Italy's public finances and restoring its international credibility after the scandal-plagued Berlusconi, who is currently on trial for having sex with an under-age prostitute.
However, Monti struggled to pass the kind of structural reforms needed to improve competitiveness and lay the foundations for a return to economic growth. A weak center-left government may not find it any easier.
The view from some voters, weary of the mainstream parties, was unrepentant: "It's good," said Roger Manica, 28, a security guard in Rome, who voted for the center-left PD.
"Next time I'll vote 5-Star. I like that they are changing things, even if it means uncertainty. Uncertainty doesn't matter to me, for me what's important is a good person who gets things done," he said. "Look how well they've done."
(Additional reporting by Barry Moody, Gavin Jones, Lisa Jucca, Steven Jewkes, Steve Scherer, Catherine Hornby and Massimiliano Di Giorgio, Annika Breidthardt in Berlin. Writing by Philip Pullella and James Mackenzie; Editing by Peter Graff)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/italy-parties-seek-way-election-stalemate-020012577.html
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Retirement investing: A little goes a long way | College Park ...
Scott Brown
Every year I attend an event for all the surveyors and surveying companies in the Central Florida area. All the companies get together to meet one another and see the latest products available for surveyors. I realize your first question is ?Why were you there?? Well, we handle the retirement plans for some of the surveying companies in Orlando, so we were supporting their event.
I was walking around among the booths marveling at all the gadgets. Most of the time I had no idea what I was looking at, but everyone around me tended to know (or at least seemed as if they knew) what they were talking about. One demo was showing some new equipment that allowed surveyors to drive by in a truck and get all the potential data about the site. This allowed the surveying crew to do the job faster and in a safer manner since they weren?t exposed to the traffic while standing on the side of the road. After about five minutes of watching this, one of the sales guys came up to me and asked, ?Do you do a lot of surveying?? I paused for a second and said, ?No, not at all.? I then told him what I did, that I do retirement planning. He responded with a comical statement, ?Well, if I sell enough of these I will give you a call.? We both laughed, and I went back to watching the demo.
I was thinking about that statement on the way home, ?If I sell enough of these I will give you a call.? Now, I realize this was a joke from this guy, but too many people feel that way about retirement planning. I?ve heard, ?When I can save $100 a month I?ll start saving. I can only afford to save $50 right now, and that won?t really make a big difference, right?? Actually, the little amounts add up. The smaller amounts with an earlier start have a bigger impact than most people can imagine. Let?s look at some math.
We have two people who want to have $1 million at age 65. If they both earn 9%, how much will each of them have to save each month if one is 25 and the other is 45? Go ahead, I?ll give you a minute ?
Well, of course the 45-year-old will have to save more because he doesn?t have as much time to benefit from growth, and he is approaching age 65 much sooner than the 25-year-old. You would think since the 45-year-old only has 20 years (instead of 40 years like the 25-year-old) he would have to save twice or maybe three times the amount of his younger counterpart. Would you believe that the 45-year-old would have to save seven times the amount of the 25-year-old to reach the same goal? It?s true. The 45-year-old actually has to save over 700% more per month than the 25-year-old to reach the million-dollar mark at age 65. The 25-year-old will have $1 million in this example at age 65 by putting away $213.61 per month. The 45-year-old will have to put away $1,497.26 per month to reach the same goal of $1 million. It?s pretty crazy when you think about it.
Obviously, we all have different goals and saving habits, but it is true: the earlier and sooner you start the better. It?s easy to be the guy who says, ?I?ll give you a call if I sell enough of these,? because human nature is to think things are going to get easier and better. What if the time never comes when you can save your ideal amount per month? Getting started now with any amount you can save could reap long-term benefits with greater rewards than you ever thought possible.
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Cablevision sues Viacom for making it pay for low-rated networks
(Reuters) - New York-based cable operator Cablevision Systems Corp
The case is the latest flare up in the contentious relationships between distributors and program makers as the Pay TV industry's growth appears to have peaked. Viacom and its media company rivals regularly sell bundles of cable channels to operators as a common practice.
"Viacom effectively forces Cablevision's customers to pay for and receive little-watched channels in order to get the channels they actually want," Cablevision said in a statement.
The case is under seal and not available for public viewing.
A spokesman for Viacom did not immediately respond to a request for a comment on the lawsuit.
Cablevision is seeking to have its latest carriage agreement with Viacom voided and it also wants Viacom banned from making similar deals involving networks it calls "ancillary." Cablevision says these less popular channels include CMT, MTV Hits, Nick Jr, Nicktoons, Palladia and VH1 Classic.
Last summer, Viacom blacked out its networks from the biggest U.S. satellite provider, DirecTV
The case is Cablevision Systems Corporation, et al., v. Viacom International Inc, et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 13-1278.
(Reporting By Liana B. Baker in New York. Editing by Andre Grenon)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cablevision-sues-viacom-making-pay-low-rated-networks-175828819--finance.html
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
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Ontario NDP want auto insurance rates cut 15% | iPolitics
TORONTO ? Car insurance companies in Ontario should be forced to cut rates 15 per cent to pass along savings from regulation changes that drastically lowered industry costs, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said Monday.
Major changes to auto insurance regulations in 2010 ?dramatically? reduced benefits for drivers and turned out to be a huge ?bonus? for companies, added Horwath.
?In 2011, the value of statutory accident payouts fell by just under $2 billion, an astonishing 50 per cent reduction from 2010, but that same year Ontario?s auto insurance rates still increased by five per cent,? she told reporters.
?Fifteen per cent is reasonable when you consider that their payouts were reduced by 50 per cent.?
Drivers have yet to see any real reductions in their rates, so if the industry [...]
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Texas judge rules against state's school finance system
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas school finance system violates the state constitution because it is inequitable and is not adequately funded, a state district judge ruled on Monday.
District Court Judge John Dietz also declared that the system prevents school districts from exercising meaningful discretion in setting tax rates as required by the constitution.
Lawyers for hundreds of Texas school districts besieged by rapid population growth and deep budget cuts argued in a massive school finance trial that the state has not adequately funded public education or resolved inequities among districts.
The legal action was brought on behalf of about 650 of the state's 1,000-plus school districts, accounting for some 3.7 million of Texas's 5 million school children.
Similar battles are playing out across the country. Active school finance lawsuits are pending in 16 states, including Texas, according to the National Education Access Network, which tracks such court action across the country.
In Kansas, a three-judge panel ruled in January that the state was unconstitutionally short-changing its students by underfunding education needs and must increase spending by about $400 million.
(Reporting By Corrie MacLaggan; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Leslie Adler)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/texas-school-finance-system-violates-state-constitution-judge-215236771.html
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Sunday, January 13, 2013
End of the line. Inaugural Parade rehearsal. Time to find some hot coffee. #apatthehouse
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Huawei Ascend Mate ? a cheap, Samsung Galaxy Note alternative?
Huawei Ascend Mate ? what is it?
This is a huge phone ? its 6.1-inch screen makes the 4-inch Apple iPhone 5 (see pic below) look like a dwarf. This puts it in direct competition with the popular Samsung Galaxy Note II in the niche (if it?s fair to call it that anymore) for exceedingly large, almost tablet-size smartphones, sometimes referred to as ?phablets? if the English language is too boring for you.
Visit the?smartphones at CES 2013?news page for the latest on smartphones due for release in 2013 ? see our?CES 2013 news page?for updates on all products announced at the world?s largest technology trade show.
The following is not a review, but our first impressions of the product based on a short time using it. Pricing and availability is tentative and subject to change.
Huawei Ascend Mate ? what are the key features?
- It?s very big, but also light
This one?s pretty obvious ? Huawei has pushed the size envelope a little further with this 6.1-inch screen. Is it too much? Once a you?ve already reached 5.5-inches, as rival the Galaxy Note II has, what?s a few more decimals? It still weighs less than 200g, however. - Fast quad-core?processor
Huawei is known as a budget brand, so we?d expect to the Ascend Mate to undercut rivals. Make no mistake, however, this is still a high-spec phone. A quad-core processor (cores mean prizes, or in this case speed) should ensure snappy operation, and it has all the basics of a high-end smartphone. - High capacity battery
That includes a huge, 4,050mAh battery. To put into perspective, Samsung?s equivalent has a 3,100mAh battery and it?s one of the best for battery life around, so the Ascent Mate could sweep all before it here.
Which? expert first impressions
The tech snob in me doesn?t want to like this, but on first inspection there?s little to dislike about this tabphone (surely better than ?phablet??). It?s nothing special to look at, but it seems well-made, has all the features you could want of a high-end smartphone ? the screen looks very nice ? and that massive battery could be a serious pro in its favour.
The biggest question is whether we?ll see it on these shores outside eBay and no-SIM phone shops ? Huawei is yet to gain a serious foothold with UK phone carriers. It would be a shame if it didn?t.
Andy Vandervell, Deputy technology editor
CES 2013 FAQ
What is CES 2013?
CES is short for Consumer Electronics Show ? it?s the largest trade show of its type in the world and the place where major technology brands announce their new products and discuss the future of technology.
Why does Which? attend?
It gives us an insight into what?s coming in the year ahead, so we can ensure we?re testing the right products in the right way. We also use the time to speak to technology companies to ensure they?re listening to consumer needs.
How can I find out more?
Visit our CES 2013 page?for our first impressions of all the major new products from the show. Click the links below to find out more about specific products:
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
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Kate Winslet's space wedding gift
Kate Winslet's space wedding gift
www.exposay.comKate Winslet's new husband has given her a trip to space as a wedding gift. The 37-year-old actress wed Ned RocknRoll in a private ceremony in New York earlier this week, and the newlyweds will celebrate their union with the extraordinary
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Students foreshadowed Taft shooting on Twitter
Many students in Taft wonder if?Thursday's shooting at their school could have been avoided. They point to warning signs online, long before shots were fired. As investigators continue to piece together the suspected gunman's motive, 17 News got a look at some of the revealing tweets that foreshadowed the tragedy at Taft Union High School. Students took to Twitter last month, to tweet their worries about 16-year-old Bryan Oliver. A girl who identified herself as 'Allie Who' wrote " If Brian Oliver shoots up the school, I swear to God. I have like four classes with him." As students returned to school Friday to pick up their belongings, some had seen the tweets online. "I feel unsafe about it. I don't like it at all," said Tara Kelley. " It makes me kind of uneasy. It's unsettling, but what can you do?" asked Ashley Carr. The disturbing tweets are from December 15th, almost a month before students say Oliver walked into a classroom and opened fire. Another student on Twitter wrote "He made a hit list. Why is he still allowed in school and he always talks about murder like he's obsessed with it." The girl goes on to say "Yeah, he told Bowe (the victim of the shooting) that he watched five serial killer movies and thought of Bowe the whole time...?creepy." 17 News wanted to know if the school monitors social media. Did they know about these tweets? But, the district wasn't talking Friday. "They check all of our Twitters and our Facebook, and if you get caught doing something you get called up to the office," said student Meghan Clark. "You can't hide anything from this school," explained Kelley. "The vice principal and the supervisors, they go through it," noted Carr. Students told 17 News Oliver was caught last year with a hit list and was suspended for a few days. Investigators could not confirm the list. "I heard about it when I moved here, but I thought he was just a kid messing around, ya know?" said Juan Barbosa. "Everybody knew about it. I honestly don't think someone who chooses to openly voice that they want to cause other students ill will, should not be able to be re-admitted to the school," said Carr. Sierra Curry told 17 News she was on Oliver's hit list. She said the shooting was especially hard on her. We asked Curry what she thought when she heard Oliver was the suspected gunman. "He was coming to get me. I was still on his list. That I was the next one," she explained.
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Scientists urge end to limits on gun safety research
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Research restrictions pushed by the National Rifle Association have stopped the United States from finding solutions to firearms violence, more than a hundred scientists from virtually every major U.S. university told Vice President Joe Biden's task force on gun violence in a letter on Thursday.
In the wake of the December school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, and other mass homicides, the group of economists, health researchers, educators, doctors and criminologists said funding should be restored to a range of study areas, from gun safety to tracking illegal guns.
President Barack Obama has asked Biden to head a task force to come up with gun policy proposals, and Biden was to meet with NRA representatives on Thursday. He said the task force will have recommendations ready for the president by Tuesday.
"While mortality rates from almost every major cause of death declined dramatically over the past half century, the homicide rate in America today is almost exactly the same as it was in 1950," the academics wrote in a letter organized by scholars at the University of Chicago Crime Lab research center.
"Politically-motivated constraints" left the nation "muddling through" a problem that costs American society on the order of $100 billion per year, it said.
The federal Centers for Disease Control has cut firearms safety research by 96 percent since the mid-1990s, according to one estimate. Congress, pushed by the gun lobby, in 1996 put restrictions on CDC funding of gun research into the budget. Restrictions on other agencies were added in later years.
The NRA, the main lobbyist for gun rights, has taken credit for the research halt. "These junk science studies and others like them are designed to provide ammunition for the gun control lobby by advancing the false notion that legal gun ownership is a danger to the public health instead of an inalienable right," it said in 2011.
Research into links between teenagers' use of guns and alcohol, and firearm storage practices, were examples the gun rights group cited, arguing that the studies were meant to show gun ownership was a "disease."
The NRA did not respond to a request for comment ahead of the letter's release.
'ANTI-GUN PROPAGANDA'
A political fight over firearms research has waxed and waned for years. Public health researchers began digging into gun violence in the late 1980s as homicides surged. By 1996, the NRA and allies had concluded that the work was producing "anti-gun propaganda."
Congress in 1996 nearly cut the CDC budget by $2.6 million, the amount the agency spent on firearms research at the time, researchers say. The funds were later restored, but a restriction was added to the budget and remains.
"None of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control," the budget read.
Similar language was added to the budget in 2011 for the National Institute of Health and other federal health agencies.
Officials have largely pulled the plug on gun research.
A forthcoming study by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's group, estimates that CDC funding for such research was cut to $100,000 a year in 2009-2012 from an average of $2.5 million, in current dollars, in 1992-1996.
Gun related studies as a percentage of total peer-reviewed research dropped 60 percent, the mayors' group estimates.
"Scientific inquiry in this field has been systematically starved, and as a result almost no one does it," said emergency room physician and University of California, Davis, professor Garen Wintemute, who signed the letter. He estimated that there were fewer than a dozen researchers in the country whose primary commitment was to firearm violence prevention.
Separate federal actions have stopped federal law enforcement officials from collecting, keeping and distributing gun ownership data. Wintemute said that made it much more difficult to effectively study gun trafficking.
Without the research, there is no clear evidence of what to do to curb gun-related violence, the scientists said. Gun rights advocates put the matter differently, saying there is no evidence that gun control works.
The letter will be available on the University of Chicago Crime Lab's Web site, http://crimelab.uchicago.edu.
(Reporting By Peter Henderson; Editing by Martin Howell and Vicki Allen)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-urge-end-limits-gun-safety-research-194015136.html
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Kodak patent sale approved by Judge, Apple, Google to pay $527 million
Despite hammering out the details late last year, Kodak still had to wait for the Bankruptcy court to greenlight its big patent sale. Today, that happened: Judge Allan Gropper has approved the $527 million deal between Kodak, Apple and Google -- giving the floundering photo company final permission to offload more than 1,000 imaging patents. Kodak originally valued its collection of IP at over $2 billion, which Gropper deemed a bit high. Despite hoping for a higher payout, Kodak's attorney admits the deal is probably the best it could have hoped for, explaining that the $525 million the company will collect in the agreement will give it some "patent peace." Apple and Google, once rivals for Kodak's intellectual property, struck a deal to bid on the patents together -- lowering their respective costs and and keeping the bid war out of the courts. Less litigation sounds good to us, even if it's only for a little while. Check out Bloomberg's report at the adjacent source link for more info.
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A review of new interpretations of the tectonostratigraphy, geochemistry and evolution of the Onverwacht Suite, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Cancer screenings at a low in Berkshire County - North Adams ...
Wednesday January 9, 2013
PITTSFIELD -- Across Berkshire County hospitals and clinics, the number of patients getting possible life-saving breast and colonoscopy screenings -- two of the most popular forms of cancer screenings -- has declined from recent highs.
Cancer screenings have become widely adopted in the general population, but there's been an unexplained countywide drop in the number of colonoscopy and mammography tests, according to Berkshire Medical Center spokesman Michael Leary. Locally, the trend seems to follow national statistics since the American Cancer Society recently warned of a decline in the number of cancer screenings nationwide.
The decline could be the result of financial decisions for some people, according to Leary. An American Cancer Society representative said people also could be confused about when they are supposed to get screenings.
Cancer screenings are an invaluable tool for early detection and prevention. In 2009, 40,676 women died in the U.S. from breast cancer and 51,848 people died from colorectal cancer, according to the federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Countywide, colon screenings -- recommended for individuals older than 50 -- has dropped from 66 percent in 2008 to 60.3 percent in 2010. The percentage reflects the number of 50-year-olds eligible for a screening, Leary said.
However, Leary said colon screenings, which includes a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy (a less invasive procedure),
have doubled since 2000 when the rate was only at 31.6 percent.In 2010, the breast cancer screening rate among women over 40 was at 77 percent -- a decline from the 90 percent that were screened in 2002.
Paul Hopkins, the spokesman at North Adams Regional Hospital, said in recent years there's been a decline in the number of people receiving preventive skin cancer screenings at an annual event hosted by the hospital.
Every May for Skin Cancer Awareness Month, Hopkins said that North Adams Regional offers skin cancer screenings. In most years, at least one case of skin cancer has been detected during these screenings, according to Hopkins.
Last May, the skin cancer screening attracted nearly 100 people, according to Hopkins, who said in years past 150 or more would participate in a screening.
"We have seen fewer people last couple of years take advantage of that," Hopkins said. North Adams Regional will increase publicity for the event this year.
Leary said that Berkshire Health Systems offers reduced rates for colonoscopy or mammography screenings. For additional information on the program, individuals are encouraged to call 855-262-5465.
"We would hate to see financial difficulties keep people from benefits need," Leary said. Cancer tips
Here are the American Cancer Society's recommendations of screenings for certain cancers. For more information, call the American Cancer hotline at 1-800-227-2345.
Breast cancer: Annual mammograms recommended starting at age 40. Clinical breast exams recommended about every three years for women in their 20s and 30s.
Colorectal cancer: Beginning at 50, men and women should either receive a flexible sigmoidoscopy every five years or colonoscopy every 10 years.
Cervical cancer: Women between 21 and 29 should have a pap test every three years. Women between 30 and 65 should receive a human papillomavirus (HPV) test every five years and pap test every three years.
Note: A women who has had her uterus removed for reasons not related to cervical cancer who has no history of cervical cancer or serious pre-cancer should not be tested.
Prostate cancer: Starting at 50, men should talk to a doctor about the pros and cons of testing so they can decide if it is an appropriate test for them.
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Herschel spacecraft eyes asteroid Apophis
Jan. 9, 2013 ? Scientists using the Herschel Space Observatory made new observations of asteroid Apophis as it approached Earth this past weekend. The data show the asteroid to be bigger than first estimated, and less reflective.
Discovered in 2004, Apophis was initially thought to have a 2.7 percent chance of impacting Earth in 2029. Additional observations of the asteroid ruled out any possibility of an impact in 2029. However, Apophis is expected to make a record-setting -- but harmless -- close approach to Earth on April 13, 2029, when it comes no closer than 18,300 miles (29,450 kilometers) above Earth's surface. The asteroid will make another approach to Earth in 2036. Data collected by telescopes during today's close approach are expected to refine the asteroid's orbit to the point where an impact in 2036 can be ruled out.
The Herschel Observatory is a European Space Agency mission in which NASA plays an important role.
Over the weekend, Herschel gathered data while observing Apophis for about two hours on its approach to Earth, ahead of today's closest encounter at a little less than one-tenth of the distance from Earth to the sun: about 9 million miles (14.5 million kilometers). The space observatory provided the first thermal infrared observations of Apophis at different wavelengths, which together with optical measurements helped refine estimates of the asteroid's properties. Previous estimates bracketed the asteroid's average diameter at about 885 feet (270 meters). Herschel's observations indicate the space rock is about 1,060 feet (325 meters) across.
By analyzing the heat emitted by Apophis, Herschel also provided a new estimate of the asteroid's albedo -- a measure of its reflectivity-- of 0.23. This value means that 23 percent of the sunlight falling onto the asteroid is reflected; the rest is absorbed and heats up the asteroid. The previous albedo estimate for Apophis was 0.33.
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