Sunday, 27 November 2011

Divorce in the Age of Twitter

shutterstock_67550296Divorce.? It happens to the best of us.? As emotionally heart wrenching as it can be, it?s even worse now that we?re living out our lives on the public stages of Facebook, Twitter and the like.? If the recent very public separation of Ashton and Demi is any indication, it?s only going to get worse.? As a former physician, current internet entrepreneur, and ever-curious observer of the human condition, I?m fascinated by how the internet is broadly shaping our culture, and the day-to-day implications this has on our interpersonal relationships.

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Mice with fewer insulin-signaling receptors don't live longer

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Scientists studying longevity thought it might be good to lack a copy of a gene, called IGF1 receptor, that is important in insulin signaling. Previous studies showed invertebrates that lacked the copy lived longer, even if their bodies were less responsive to insulin, the hormone that lowers blood sugar.

A new study from The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio challenges this. Knocking out one copy of the gene failed to increase the life span of male mice, and it only modestly increased the life span of female littermates.

Martin Adamo, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry, and Arlan Richardson, Ph.D., professor of cellular and structural biology, lead the laboratories that conducted the study. "Our data show insufficiency of this insulin-signaling gene does not produce a robust increase in life span as previously reported in invertebrates," Dr. Richardson said.

Dr. Adamo said: "This demonstrates that reducing insulin signaling through the IGF1 pathway in mammals does not play the same role in aging that is observed in invertebrates."

A receptor is a molecule on a cell's membrane that receives chemical signals. Knocking down the genetic instructions that make IGF1 receptors results in reduced insulin signaling.

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The study is described Nov. 23 in the journalPLoS ONE.

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio: http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews

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Saturday, 26 November 2011

Author JK Rowling says "spiteful" UK press hounded her (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling told a public inquiry into British media standards on Thursday she was forced to move house because of tabloid harassment and had been made to feel like a hostage in her home after she gave birth.

During two hours of evidence, Rowling revealed a note had been slipped into her young daughter's schoolbag by a journalist and that she had chased a paparazzo photographer down the street when he tried to take a picture of her with her children.

Rowling, who is protective of her three children's privacy and has regularly complained to the press, said if you did stand up to certain newspapers about their behavior, they could be "spiteful" and seek retribution.

"This doesn't apply to the whole of the press but the attitude seems to be utterly cavalier, indifference, what does it matter, you're famous, you're asking for it," she said.

The Leveson inquiry, held in London's High Court, has proved compelling viewing this week as a host of public figures from actor Hugh Grant to families involved in notorious murders have explained how they have suffered at the hands of newspapers.

It has shone a critical light on Britain's aggressive tabloid press, which engages in a ruthless hunt for stories to prop up otherwise flagging sales, splashing on the sex lives of politicians and the stars of film, TV and sport, to whet the appetite of celebrity-obsessed Britons.

Appearing nervous at first and speaking softly, Rowling revealed that two years after the launch of the first of the hugely successful Harry Potter books in 1997, she had been forced from her home.

UNTENABLE

"It had become untenable to remain in that house," she said, saying photographers and journalists had besieged her home, details of which had been published by papers. "I was a sitting duck for anyone trying to find me."

She spoke of her fury at finding a letter from a journalist in her 5-year-old daughter's schoolbag and her outrage when the headteacher at one of her children's schools was contacted to try to glean details about the final book in the Potter series.

Clearly what angered her most were photos taken of her children, particularly one of her eldest daughter in a swimsuit.

"A child, no matter who their parents are, deserves privacy," said Rowling, whose seven Harry Potter books have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide and spawned a record-breaking film franchise, and has been billed as the world's first author billionaire.

The inquiry was ordered by Prime Minister David Cameron after it emerged that people working for the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World tabloid had hacked into the phones of thousands to secure stories, prompting a national outcry.

But the probe has already broadened its focus to look at wider ethical issues. At the heart of the dispute between the press and those it reports on is what constitutes public interest and whether a person's presence in the public eye justifies a wider invasion of their privacy.

HYPOCRISY

The press argues that it needs minimal regulation to enable it to expose wrongdoing and hypocrisy, but those appearing have said that freedom of speech has been seen as a green light to report anything, so long as it boosts sales.

One of those most damaged by Britain's tabloid press was Max Mosley, the former head of Formula One, who appeared on the front page of the News of the World in 2008 engaged in what the paper falsely described as a Nazi-themed sex orgy.

Mosley, 71, later won a payout from the newspaper and has publicly led the debate on the right to privacy.

The result of the story, he said, was that his son returned to taking drugs and died in May 2009. Photographers then took pictures as he entered his son's house shortly afterwards.

"What to me was so horrifying was there was no sense that this matters," he said of the photographers, explaining that the story had severely affected his son, who was struggling with drug abuse. "They have no human feeling at all," he said.

Earlier actress Sienna Miller said she had been placed under a "web of surveillance" by a tabloid newspaper which listened into her messages and read emails, prompting her to accuse family and friends of leaking stories to the press.

The 29-year-old star of movies such as "Layer Cake" and "Alfie" whose on-off relationship with actor Jude Law became staple tabloid fodder said she had been spat at and abused by paparazzi seeking a reaction.

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Friday, 25 November 2011

92% Drive

Driver: If I drive for you, you give me a time and a place. I give you a five-minute window, anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours no matter what.I tend to spend most of my time during a film figuring out what is flawed about it, but every once in a while, I am graced with a film where I can sit down and enjoy every minute of it. That's exactly what I got from Drive, a hyper-violent, gruesome, tense, and throughly entertaining film throughout. Not only was it supremely entertaining, it is also wholly original; as well as a masterful lead from indie-guru Ryan Gosling, stylish direction from Nicolas Winding Refn, who all contribute to making Drive one of the best films of the year. Ryan Gosling stars as Driver, who spends his days as a Hollywood stunt driver and a worker and a car repair shop. By night, Driver drives (yep, there will be probably hundreds of uses of the word "drive" in this review) criminals to and from their heist. When a heist involving his neighbors husband who was recently released from prison goes wrong, and the criminals find out who Driver really is, it's time for him to take charge of the situation and to do whatever it takes to get payback and stay alive. I guess the first thing I'll talk about is the fact that it in no way is an action film. It is a tense drama that features some strong violence. There are some defining action moments, but this is mostly a slow paced thriller, which was definitely a brilliant aspect pertaining to the film's style. The first hour or so consists only of strong character development, and a lot of leading up to the last forty minutes where a lot of mindless yet awesome action occurs. The action sequences are arranged quite well. The whole film itself has sort of an art house feel to it, and this action seems pretty gritty, and pretty realistic if I may say. Don't mistake this for another Fast and Furious film, this is its own movie, and the action here is something [similar] to what would really happen in a situation like this. The only thing that was over exemplified was the blood, there was a lot of blood. For anyone who enjoys gruesome films, this is right up your alley. Even if you are into superhero movies, this is for you; according to actor Ryan Gosling (found HERE).Speaking of Ryan Gosling, 2011 seems to be the year of Gosling, as he's starred in the hit romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love (my review can be found HERE), and the upcoming Clooney film The Ides of March. He was also in Blue Valentine, The Notebook, and Lars and the Real Girl. Drive is his best film so far. Even judging by the original trailer, you could tell Gosling would be great. He was spectacular. Seeing Gosling's character strolling down the street, blood stains all over his super-cool Scorpion Jacket is a pleasure to watch. The supporting cast are also definitely great too. I'll start with my favorite of them; Albert Brooks, who switched over from his usual good guy character to a bad-ass man-in-charge, and Brooks' performance is masterful, scary, and sheds some blood. Hellboy star Ron Perlman is also a favorite of mine in this, and is a great addition to an already well-picked cast. The film featured other great performances from Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks, and Carey Mulligan.The film gets it's amazingly original arthouse style due to the fantastic direction from acclaimed Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Valhalla Rising, and another Ryan Gosling film Only God Forgives). Nicolas's directing style is wholly unique, and wholly original, as well as wholly entertaining, and wholly beautiful. What I love the most about his directing style, as far as indie films go, was not only his lack of complexity (I mean that in a good way), but his arthouse style was very unique. I was absolutely mesmerized by it; it is almost impossible to describe, you have to see it to believe it.Drive is one of the best experiences I've had watching a film. It's always good when a movie ends, and you realize that it was flawless (as well as giving it a huge round of applause, as my theater did). Drive is a very fun, gory, gruesome, but has a sense of tense drama moments (which basically consists of the entire first hour until the hyper-violent era of the film occurs), as well as a mesmerizing performance from Ryan Gosling, and great direction from Nicolas Winding Refn, who all make this film that is destined to become a classic.Driver: When you get your money, his debt's paid. He's out for good and you never go near his family again. You understand?

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McCreery says 'Idol' win seems like yesterday

By Ree Hines

The past year has been a whirlwind for ?American Idol? champ Scotty McCreery. After all, he went from singing for a shot at success to winning big to releasing his debut album in just a matter of months.

Before topping all of that off with a Thursday performance at the Macy?s Thanksgiving Day Parade, McCreery stopped by TODAY to talk about how far he?s come.

?Just a year ago, we were packing for Hollywood week,? McCreery recalled. ?Just to make it past that, let alone be here? It seems like yesterday. I?m telling you, this has been the fastest year. It?s like I was just here with Lauren (Alaina), and we were singing here. It?s been cool though. I?ve been enjoying every minute of it.?

But despite the rush of new opportunities and celebrity obligations, the 18-year-old high-school senior hasn?t left the basics behind.

?I was at school yesterday,? he said with a smile. ?We left from school to go to the airport to fly out here. I enjoy it. They treat me like I never left.?

Still, McCreery knows he?s not the typical school kid, which is one of the reasons he?s decided to remain girlfriend-free ? for now.

?I?m a busy guy right now, and I try to really focus on the music and stuff,? he explained. ?That?ll happen. It?ll sort of take care of itself. I?m just trying to lay low.?

Will you tune in to Thursday?s parade to see McCreery sing? Tell us on our Facebook page.

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Thursday, 24 November 2011

CAS completes hearing into Contador doping case

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador, center, and his lawyer Andy Ramos, left, wait at the world sport's highest court for a hearing to decide if he doped when winning the 2010 Tour de France, at the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador, center, and his lawyer Andy Ramos, left, wait at the world sport's highest court for a hearing to decide if he doped when winning the 2010 Tour de France, at the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

The judges of the Court of Arbitration, CAS, with German law professor Ulrich Haas, Israeli chairman Efraim Barak and Geneva-based lawyer Quentin Byrne-Sutton, from left, ahead of a hearing to decide if Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador doped when winning the 2010 Tour de France, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador, right, talks to his lawyer Andy Ramos as they wait at the world sport's highest court for a hearing to decide if he doped when winning the 2010 Tour de France, at the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador, left, and his lawyer Andy Ramos, leave the world sport's highest court after a four-day hearing to decide if he doped when winning the 2010 Tour de France, at the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. The Spanish rider likely will find out in January if the Court of Arbitration for Sport panel believed his defense that eating contaminated steak caused positive tests for clenbuterol during his third Tour victory. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador, center, is surrounded by journalists in his car, after leaving the world sport's highest court after a four-day hearing to decide if he doped when winning the 2010 Tour de France, at the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. The Spanish rider likely will find out in January if the Court of Arbitration for Sport panel believed his defense that eating contaminated steak caused positive tests for clenbuterol during his third Tour victory. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

(AP) ? Sport's highest court completed a four-day hearing into Alberto Contador's doping case on Thursday, and the Spanish rider must now wait until early next year to find out if he will be stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title.

Contador made a final, personal appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport panel to complete his defense that eating contaminated steak caused his positive tests for clenbuterol during his third Tour victory.

"He spoke for about 15 minutes," CAS secretary general Matthieu Reeb told reporters after Contador left the court. "He took the case very seriously. He was present for all the case and attended all the discussions."

Reeb said the three-man panel would need "six to eight weeks" to reach a verdict and explain its decision.

Contador did not comment as he left court with members of his legal team and got into a waiting taxi.

Lawyers for the International Cycling Union and World Anti-Doping Agency also declined comment.

Cycling's governing body and WADA appealed to CAS for Contador to get a two-year ban after he was cleared by a Spanish cycling federation tribunal last February.

If found guilty of doping, Contador can expect to receive a two-year ban and be stripped of his 2010 Tour win and other victories including the 2011 Giro d'Italia. He finished fifth when defending his Tour title in July.

Contador was cross-examined on Wednesday, according to reports in Spanish newspapers which published daily updates of evidence presented in the closed-door sessions.

Spanish media also reported that the CAS panel asked for those involved in the case to stop leaking information.

About 20 witnesses were called to testify in sessions held mostly at the International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne.

They included the Spanish butcher who sold the steak to a friend of Contador from his store in Irun; Louis Rovner, an American polygraph expert who performed a lie detector test on Contador; and the rider's former teammates on the Astana squad, Benjamin Noval and Paolo Tiralongo.

Expert witness called by WADA and the UCI included Australian scientist Michael Ashenden, to analyze results from Contador's blood samples, and Hans Geyer from the laboratory at Cologne, Germany, which found the tiny amount of clenbuterol in his urine samples from the Tour.

WADA was expected to argue that the fat-burning, muscle-building drug was reintroduced into Contador's body on July 20-21 last year by a blood transfusion, which itself would have been a doping offense.

The decision now rests with three experienced CAS arbitrators: Israeli chairman Efraim Barak, German law professor Ulrich Haas and Geneva-based lawyer Quentin Byrne-Sutton.

Contador's team nominated Haas to the panel. The UCI and WADA nominated Byrne-Sutton and the court appointed chairman Barak.

The CAS verdict could be challenged later at Switzerland's supreme court if any party believes that legal process has been abused.

"The Swiss Federal Tribunal can review the decision on procedural and formal issues, but it will not review the merits of the case," Reeb said.

The federal court has sent back three cases to CAS for review in the sports court's 27-year history.

Associated Press

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Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Chris Daughtry: 'Idol' Has Gone Soft

It's been five years since Chris Daughtry took fourth place on "American Idol" and was catapulted to stardom on the rock scene.

He's been pretty busy since then, becoming the third-highest selling former "Idol" contestant and releasing three albums with his band, simply named "Daughtry," including this week's "Break This Spell."

But amidst all the madness, Chris Daughtry has managed to keep up with the franchise that made him a star. He told The Huffington Post he thinks the show has lost some of its edge.

"I think last season everyone was being a little too fluffy with their comments," Daughtry said yesterday while kicking off Duracell's Holiday Insurance program. "I really felt like they were too nice overall. Criticism is a welcome thing and I think it was necessary for me to grow. Sometimes you have got to get to the truth."

So far, the "truth" surrounding Daughtry's new album has been pretty stellar. Several reviewers have compared the band to Bon Jovi, who Daughtry covered during his "Idol" days. A handful have even boldly said that the new album is better than Bon Jovi.

"I can't comment on that," the singer said. "I respect those guys in so many ways. They have been doing this for 26 years and selling out stadiums and we're not. I am flattered though."

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AP Enterprise: Todd Palin repaid for hacker trial (AP)

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ? The government paid nearly $2,500 for Sarah Palin's husband to come to the trial of a Tennessee college student who hacked into her email ? even though Todd Palin never testified, court records show.

In all, the government paid more than $29,000 to fly members of the Palin family and other witnesses to Knoxville, send a prosecutor to Alaska for research and pay other travel expenses, according to the Department of Justice records obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request. Air travel totaled about $18,600, and hotel bills amounted to nearly $3,300.

The thousands of dollars spent by prosecutors helped them win a conviction on one felony and one misdemeanor charge against David Kernell, who finishes his 10-month sentence on Wednesday. Prosecutors have said that Kernell's punishment for the hacking during Palin's failed 2008 vice presidential bid should deter any hackers who considered targeting candidates in next fall's presidential election.

The former Alaska governor, her daughter Bristol and an aide were among the witnesses called to the stand, but the chief prosecutor said he decided Todd Palin's testimony wasn't needed. Sarah and Bristol Palin told jurors that they harassed and their lives were disrupted after Kernell hacked into Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Email account and made screenshots public that included personal email addresses and cell phone numbers.

Records show Todd Palin received $2,244.30 as reimbursement for airfare from Alaska to Tennessee, along with $122 for meals and incidentals and an attendance fee of $120. He was listed as a fact witness.

"We subpoena a lot of witnesses that we think we might need," Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Weddle said, adding about a dozen witnesses in all were subpoenaed. "We decided his testimony was no longer necessary for purposes of trial."

An attorney for the Palins, John Tiemessen of Fairbanks, Alaska, said in an email that Todd Palin was under subpoena and flew to Knoxville prepared to testify. Tiemessen declined to make Todd Palin available for comment, and an email seeking comment sent to Sarah Palin's political action committee wasn't immediately returned.

The 34 pages of Justice Department expense documents obscured the names of witnesses 58 times, making it impossible to discern how much in travel expenses was incurred by Bristol and Sarah Palin and the other witnesses. It also wasn't clear if any other witnesses who flew in from Alaska wound up not testifying.

But one three-page form that authorized reimbursement of unusual expenses showed payment was made to Todd Palin. The section of the form where Weddle provided justification for the unusual expense was blanked out.

Records also show it cost $2,461 for the prosecutor to take a September 2009 trial preparation trip to Alaska.

Weddle said Todd Palin received the "same allowance anybody else would be entitled to," based on a contract rate of $40 per day. The form specifies that attendance days include travel.

"There's no bonus because you've written a book or you are married to a former vice presidential candidate," Weddle said.

Several former prosecutors who weren't involved in the case said it's difficult to compare the cost of a case with the gravity of the charges or the outcome.

"You don't know exactly how things are going to take shape," said former Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Humble of Chattanooga. "It's just the nature of trials. Unfortunately you have to bring witnesses in from a long way."

He said there are cost-benefit analyses after some cases but: "There's a lot of subjectivity in that and it's a hard line to draw."

Still, Humble described the felony conviction as a "complete win."

Aside from travel expenses, the Justice Department said there were no records for the overall cost of the trial.

J. Tom Morgan of Decatur, Ga., a former district attorney, said that when former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis made a comment about sunshine as the best disinfectant "he wasn't talking about the federal court system."

"It sounds like a lot of money on a hacking case, but once you go to trial you've got to be prepared for anything and everything," he said.

Morgan said prosecutors have discretion in spending and typically if they have a family member tag along they will also have them testify to justify it. Though Morgan couldn't speak to the circumstances of the Palin case, he said sometimes family members do get a "free ride."

Kernell, 24, who was a University of Tennessee student when arrested, was scheduled for release Wednesday after getting credit for good behavior. He was tried on four felony charges. Jurors acquitted him of one, deadlocked on another and reduced a third to a misdemeanor illegal access charge. He was convicted of obstructing an investigation by trying to hide his computer activity.

Defense attorney Wade Davies declined to comment about the trial expenses. Kernell's father, state Rep. Michael Kernell, D-Memphis, said an appeal of the conviction is pending and declined comment.

Davies contended during the trial that Kernell had no criminal intent and that the hacking amounted to a prank. Kernell tapped into the Alaska governor's widely publicized Yahoo! email account by correctly answering a series of personal security questions. He didn't testify at the trial.

Sarah Palin told jurors that the hacking disrupted the lives of her family and close friends when their e-mails and phone numbers were publicized on the Internet. Bristol Palin testified that she received harassing calls and text messages.

Palin has remained highly visible since she and running mate U.S. Sen. John McCain lost the 2008 general election. That star power was on display at the trial in 2010, when she attracted smiles from jurors on the way to the witness stand. The first questions from Weddle was, "May I call you Governor Palin?"

Palin, who quit the Alaska governorship in 2009 midway through her term, was considered a possible GOP presidential candidate this year until ? with polls showing her popularity with voters had waned ? she announced that she was passing on the race.

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Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Danish royal couple visit Australian capital

In this photo released by the Royal Australian Navy, Danish Crown Prince Frederik, in a khaki coat, and invited guests, onboard an ADF RHIB tour Sydney Harbour in Australia Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. Denmark's Prince Frederik and Princess Mary are in Australia with their four children for an official weeklong visit. (AP Photo/Royal Australian Navy, Brenton Freind)

In this photo released by the Royal Australian Navy, Danish Crown Prince Frederik, in a khaki coat, and invited guests, onboard an ADF RHIB tour Sydney Harbour in Australia Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. Denmark's Prince Frederik and Princess Mary are in Australia with their four children for an official weeklong visit. (AP Photo/Royal Australian Navy, Brenton Freind)

In this photo released by the Royal Australian Navy, Danish Crown Prince Frederik, center, poses with member from the 2nd Commando Regiment in Australia Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. Denmark's Prince Frederik and Princess Mary are in Australia with their four children for an official weeklong visit. (AP Photo/Royal Australian Navy, Brenton Freind)

(AP) ? Danish Crown Prince Frederik and his Australian-born wife, Crown Princess Mary, have arrived in the national capital to meet Australia's leaders during their official weeklong visit.

The couple were guests of honor at a lunch at Parliament House on Tuesday after a private meeting with Prime Minister Julia Gillard in her office.

The couple and their four children landed in Australia on Saturday and spent the next two days in Sydney, where they met in a nightclub during the 2000 Olympics.

Since their last official visit as guests of the Australian government in 2005, the couple have made private visits to Australia in 2006 and 2008.

Associated Press

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Monday, 21 November 2011

Western NY churchgoers receive $100 in envelopes (Providence Journal)

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Here In Silicon Valley, Are We Killing Jobs And Making The Rich Richer?

Occupy Jobs SignAs the Occupy Wall Street movement keeps growing, many of the issues raised by the protestors continue to gain support from the average American. In particular, the erosion of the middle class due to job losses and the increasingly large income gap have become key issues in the 2012 presidential elections. At the moment, Wall Street and big corporations are getting the lion?s share of blame for these issues, but the reality is that no single region or industry is solely responsible for our current woes. In fact, we?re all doing our part ? including us here in Silicon Valley.

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Sunday, 20 November 2011

Mobile Nations 11: Cheap tablets and cloud music

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A New Creation Story

The God of the Gaps must be feeling mightily squeezed these days. Is it any surprise that someone wants to give him/her/it a whole new universe in which to hang out?

Clay Farris Naff tries to do just that in a post today on the Scientific American guest blog titled, ?A Secular Case for Intentional Creation.? The post isn?t about the creation of Earth or humanity, which Naff kindly considers settled, but about the creation of our universe itself. It?s one of those happy-middle arguments that insists that both extremes must be wrong.

Unfortunately, as is often the case with these arguments, the position of one side is pushed a bit further in order to make room in that middle.

In this case, Naff is unhappy with the usual suspects, the New Atheists. (In the interests of disclosure, I consider myself a New Atheist and derive a small income from blogging as one.) Where are the New Atheists wrong about the origin of the universe?

The ?New Atheist? position, by contrast, demands serious consideration. It has every advantage that science can provide, yet it overreaches for its conclusion. The trouble with the ?New Atheist? position, as defined above, is this: it commits the fallacy of the excluded middle. I will explain.

After presenting his credentials as a nonreligious person in the hopes that he will be taken more seriously, Naff does so.

Science indeed excludes many possibilities. The conservation laws rule out ghosts who deploy photons to be visible, electromagnetic force to hurl objects, and kinetic wave energy to moan. Miracles are bunk. Like LaPlace, we?ve no need for a Creator to explain how the world works. But we might in searching for our ultimate origins.

The claim I aim to rebut is that science forces us to conclude that life is accidental, purposeless, and doomed. It?s a stance with quite a claque.

There, in the ?might,? is that pesky God of the Gaps. It?s there, too, in the idea that science is a process of exclusion.

Excluding possibilities that don?t fit our observations is, of course, part of science. Just as critical, however, is making the observations to begin with, so that our hypotheses and our tests are based in the best approximation of reality we have. Science is a finite enterprise; it behooves us to manage it well. We do not have so many scientists and so much funding that anyone is writing grant proposals aimed at finding the orbit of Russell?s china teapot.

Note that we don?t say the teapot has been proven to not exist. We simply say that without evidence, we are comfortable dismissing it as one person?s fantasy, unworthy of the time and attention of scientists as they work to uncover the reality behind those events we can and do observe.

So what observations does Naff make or cite that would require us to spend time and attention on the idea of intentional creation? Well, actually, none at all. What we are presented with instead is a story about one possible creation scenario.

Darwinian evolution compels most of us to act as if the persistence of life into the future is good. In fact, for those of us in advanced nations, life has become really good in just the last few generations. (Consider how few of us starve to death, lose a child to infectious disease, or risk enslavement.) Assuming that civilization persists, it is reasonable to infer that life will be even better in the future, and that our descendants will want to keep it going.

In the long run, that will require moving beyond Earth (Brace yourselves, Trekkies!), and eventually into the kind of galactic colonization whose absence Fermi famously noted. (?Where are they??/a>)

But in the very long run, as John Maynard Keynes wryly observed, we are all dead. Everything we know about the Universe, with its dark energy and its goshdarn Second Law, tells us so.

Faced with this inevitability, what will our descendants do? If possible, they will follow the Darwinian imperative: Keep life alive! They will attempt to create a Baby Universe capable of giving rise to life like us.

That?s it. A little science fictional story is the reason we shouldn?t dismiss the idea of a creator for our universe as a fantasy. Sadly, it isn?t even a story based in good science. Evolution doesn?t ?compel? us to do anything. Standards of life in modern industrial nations rely on a use of resources that appears to be unsustainable. Stories of galactic travel rely on hand-waving to get around the problems of moving astronomical distances with only the resources we can carry. Similar hand-waving is required to move from the need for a new universe to the possibility of creating one.

All that is fine for a science fiction story, but Nash isn?t asking us simply to be entertained. For making a compelling case that an intelligent creator may be more than fiction? Well, like Russell?s teapot, there just isn?t much here to go chasing after. It?s just a story.

I could write you a story about accidental creation of the universe, rather than intentional. I could posit a grand orgy of energy beings creating so much tension that its release cannot be contained in a single universe and creates a new one. I could also write you a story about a universe that is collapsing, with a single strain of life that tragically views events backward and doesn?t understand that it?s actually in decline. I could write about a petulant child who creates a universe because no one else wants to spend time with it.

I can write all the stories I want (though they?re not likely to get published, as creation is a hoary old science fiction trope). That doesn?t make any of them true. It doesn?t make any of them worth paying particular attention to, except as artistic endeavors that tell us more about us than about the nature of the world. It doesn?t give us any means to choose between them. The only thing that can do that is our observations of the real world, which is where we come back to Naff?s irritation with us New Atheists.

Naff can?t seem to understand why more scientists don?t entertain the possibilities he mentions, unless it is because they fear ridicule. He?s particularly unhappy with Dawkins on this score:

Indeed, any talk of teleology seems to infuriate Dawkins: ?What is the purpose of a mountain? What is the purpose of a tsunami? What is the purpose of bubonic plague? Surely you can see that these are just silly questions? Same with the universe.?

Even granting for the sake of argument that this typed text is Dawkins being infuriated, Naff is mischaracterizing this as ?any talk of teleology.? The question to which Dawkins was responding was, ?Richard, one might as well ask, equally, why assume there is no purpose?? That question is central to the debate in which Naff is inserting himself. It is, in fact, the question on which his entire post hinges. Why not assume there is a purpose instead of none?

Naff?s answer is, in essence, that we can imagine a purpose. So why not assume a purpose exists and study it?

The best reason not to go chasing about after a purpose for the universe is simple. It?s already there in Dawkins? answer, if you read it for content instead of simply as an emotional outburst.

The universe is, according to everything we have already observed and tested, a natural phenomenon, like a mountain or a tsunami or Yersinia pestis. At one time, we considered mountains to be gods or the abodes of gods. Tsunamis and plague were considered the visitations of unhappy spirits. We imagined many things about these natural phenomena. It was then, as it is now, easy to do.

What we did not do was learn much. Knowledge didn?t come until we began to treat all these things as natural occurrences. Until then, all we had was imagination.

Don?t get me wrong. Imagination is a very powerful tool of science, but science puts constraints on imagination, requires it to work within the bounds of observation. And like many an artist, science does its best work under constraint.

We could, as Naff does, create stories about the origin of our universe, because we hope that we have a purpose, or in order to get along better with those who are certain that we do. However, if we want to know how the natural phenomenon of the universe came into being?to understand those origins rather than to gaze at them wistfully or chat about them free of conflict?then we are better off doing what we do when we study all natural phenomena and reining in our imagination. We are better off treating other stories as fantasies until they are supported by observation.

Even if someone thinks we?re overreaching when we do so.

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Saturday, 19 November 2011

APNewsBreak: Demi Moore to divorce Ashton Kutcher (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Demi Moore is ending her marriage to fellow actor Ashton Kutcher, she told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Moore, 49, and Kutcher, 33, were wed in September 2005.

The couple's relationship became tabloid fodder in recent months as rumors swirled about Kutcher's alleged infidelity.

"It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life. This is a trying time for me and my family, and so I would ask for the same compassion and privacy that you would give to anyone going through a similar situation," she said in her statement to the AP.

The pair frequently used Twitter to communicate with each other as millions of fans followed along.

"I will forever cherish the time I spent with Demi," Kutcher tweeted Thursday. "Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail."

Moore said in 2007 that her relationship with the star of "That `70s Show" and "Punk'd" ? who is 15 years younger than Moore ? "caught us both by surprise."

"If somebody would have said, `OK, here is the prediction: You're going to meet a man 25 years old and he's going to see being with you and having your three kids as a bonus,' I would have said, `Keep dreaming,'" Moore said in a 2007 interview with Vanity Fair. "I think it caught us both by surprise, and particularly him."

Kutcher became a stepfather to Moore's three daughters ? Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Belle ? from her 13-year marriage to actor Bruce Willis. Moore and Willis divorced in 2000 but remained friendly. Moore and Kutcher were photographed socializing with Willis, and the couple attended Willis' wedding to model-actress Emma Heming in 2009.

Moore and Kutcher created the DNA Foundation, also known as the Demi and Ashton Foundation, in 2010 to combat the organized sexual exploitation of girls around the globe. They later lent their support to the United Nations' efforts to fight human trafficking, a scourge the international organization estimates affects about 2.5 million people worldwide.

Moore can be seen on screen in the recent films "Margin Call" and "Another Happy Day." Kutcher replaced Charlie Sheen on TV's "Two and a Half Men" as is part of the ensemble film "New Year's Eve," set for release next month.

Kutcher's publicist did not immediately respond to an e-mail and phone call seeking comment. No divorce papers had been filed in Los Angeles Superior Court as of Thursday afternoon.

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Friday, 18 November 2011

Cambodian genocide defendant ruled unfit for trial (AP)

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia ? Cambodia's U.N.-backed tribunal on Thursday ruled a former senior Khmer Rouge leader unfit to stand trial for genocide and other crimes because she has Alzheimer's disease.

The tribunal said the illness diminishes Ieng Thirith's mental capacity and ordered the 79-year-old defendant freed from detention. She behaved erratically at earlier court appearances, and her lawyers had requested the medical exams.

Tribunal spokesman Lars Olsen said Ieng Thirith would be freed from the tribunal's detention facility within 24 hours of the ruling if prosecutors do not appeal.

The ruling came just four days before the start of her trial with three co-defendants, one of whom is her husband, Ieng Sary, foreign minister in the late 1970s Khmer Rouge regime. He informed the tribunal last month that he intends to exercise his right not to testify.

Ieng Thirith was minister for social affairs and is accused of involvement in the "planning, direction, coordination and ordering of widespread purges" and has been charged with crimes against humanity, genocide, homicide, torture and religious persecution.

The U.N.-backed tribunal is seeking justice for an estimated 1.7 million people who died of starvation, exhaustion, lack of medical care or execution during the communist Khmer Rouge's rule.

Ieng Thirith has said the charges against her are "100 percent false" and said she always worked for the benefit of the people.

She is the sister-in-law of Khmer Rouge supreme leader Pol Pot, who died in 1998. Pol Pot married Ieng Thirith's sister, Khieu Ponnary, who died in 2003.

The other defendants were also part of the ruling inner circle: head of state Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, who was second in command to Pol Pot and the group's chief ideologist. The three remaining defendants assert they are innocent.

The trial may be Cambodia's best chance to hold accountable the accused architects of the "killing fields" and the enslavement of millions of Cambodians.

They and Ieng Thirith formed what the tribunal calls Case 002. The chief Khmer Rouge jailer was convicted last year in the breakthrough Case 001.

Political and financial pressure on the tribunal has raised doubt if a Case 003 will ever exist.

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Brazilian police probe oil spill

Brazilian police are investigating an oil spill in an offshore field operated by the US company Chevron.

Ships are working to disperse the slick 120km (75 miles) off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state, and Chevron says it has plugged the oil well.

Brazil's Energy Minister Edison Lobao has said the company will be "severely punished" if it is found to have failed in its environmental responsibilities.

In recent years Brazil has discovered huge oil reserves in the Atlantic.

The oil is leaking from a well in the Frade oil project, 370km (230 miles) off the Brazilian coast.

Chevron initially estimated that 400-650 barrels of oil had formed a sheen on the water after seeping from the seabed near the well.

But the international environmental group Skytruth said satellite images suggested the spill was many times bigger.

Brazilian energy minister Edison Lobao said the spill "was not as serious as had been announced" and was not moving towards the Brazilian coast.

But he said Brazil's oil agency ANP was monitoring the situation closely and would apply the full force of the law.

"If Chevron is not fulfilling its responsibilities, it will be more severely punished," he said.

ANP said underwater images showed Chevron's effort to permanently seal the well with cement appeared to have been successful, although there appeared to be a residual flow of oil from the seabed.

"The slick is continuing to move away from the coast and dispersing, as is desired," it added.

'Bad faith'

Police environment experts have been sent on navy helicopters to assess the scale of the spill.

Green Party members of the Brazilian parliament have called for a debate on the matter.

MP Sarney Filho said Chevron appeared to have underplayed the scale of the accident.

"What has alarmed us is the lack of transparency on the part of the company and the attempt to minimise the size of the disaster," he told the official news agency Agencia Brasil.

"This is a clear demonstration of bad faith," he added.

Chevron said on Thursday the flow of oil from the ocean floor has been reduced to "infrequent droplets" and the remaining oil sheen on the surface was estimated at less than 65 barrels.

"Chevron continues to fully inform and work with Brazilian government agencies and industry partners on all aspects of this matter," the company said in a statement.

In recent years Brazil has discovered billions of barrels of oil in deep water that could make it one of the world's top five producers.

So far there has been little public debate about the environmental dangers of offshore drilling.

Political discussion has instead focused on how future oil revenues should be divided between different states.

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Thursday, 17 November 2011

House GOP leader Cantor says deficit deal likely (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Sidestepping controversy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., declined to take sides Monday on a proposal for higher taxes backed by fellow Republicans on Congress' supercommittee, yet expressed confidence the panel would agree on a deficit-reduction plan of at least $1.2 trillion by a Nov. 23 deadline.

A proposal for $300 billion in higher taxes has stirred grumbling within the ranks of congressional Republicans, for whom opposition to such measures has been political bedrock for more than two decades.

One prominent conservative, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, said in a published commentary during the day that "our economy will have an even tougher time catching its balance if Washington" raises taxes.

Separately, officials said that Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who outlined the plan last week in a closed-door meeting of four Republicans and three Democrats, has encountered criticism from fellow conservatives despite strong credentials as an opponent of higher taxes. " There's been a little bit, but it's been pretty muted," his spokeswoman, Nachama Soloveichik, said of the response.

Cantor's spokeswoman turned aside several emailed requests for the majority leader's views on the proposal. She said he hadn't seen the plan, and she referred to his comments at a news conference earlier in the day when he told reporters, "I'm not going to be opining as to any reports, hypotheticals or anything connected with their work."

Despite that pledge, Cantor was bullish in predicting agreement before the deadline and adding that a fallback requirement to cut $1.2 trillion from domestic and defense programs wouldn't be triggered.

The committee has been at work for two months, hoping to succeed at a task that has defied the best efforts of high-ranking political leaders past and present.

Despite intense talks late last week, there has been little indication of progress as age-old political divisions have re-emerged.

The principal stumbling blocks revolve around taxes on the one hand, and the large federal programs of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security on the other.

Democrats are unwilling to agree to cuts in benefit programs unless Republicans will accept higher taxes, particularly on the highest-income individuals and families.

Republicans counter that out-of-control spending largely accounts for the government's enormous budget deficits, and they say raising taxes will only complicate efforts to help the economy recover from the worst recession in more than seven decades.

At the same time, each side is grappling with the possible political consequences of the committee's work, with an eye on the 2012 campaign for control of the White House and Congress.

Liberal Democrats are highly reluctant to agree to curbs on programs the party has long been identified with, and last week members on the supercommittee jettisoned an earlier proposal to slow the rise in cost-of-living benefits for Social Security recipients.

The same goes for conservatives, many of whom fear the possible political cost of changing their positions in order to pursue a less-than-certain bipartisan compromise on deficit reduction.

Many GOP office holders have signed a pledge circulated by Americans for Tax Reform not to vote for higher taxes. The organization is led by Grover Norquist, a conservative activist, although in comments to reporters Cantor suggested that influence by an outsider isn't the dominant concern.

"It's not about Grover Norquist. It's about commitments that people made to the electorate they represent, the people that sent them here. That's what it's about," he said.

Republicans on the committee hailed Toomey's proposal last week as a breakthrough and a concession that could open the way to a deal.

But Democrats were dismissive, saying it amounted to a tax cut in disguise for the wealthy ? the very taxpayers that they and Obama say should pay more. According to numerous officials, Toomey's proposal envisioned an additional $250 billion in revenue emerging from a sweeping revision of the tax code that would bring the top rate down from 35 percent to 28 percent while reducing or eliminating many commonly used itemized deductions.

In an interview on Sunday, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, co-chairman of the supercommittee said that while Republicans believe that higher revenues will hurt the economy, "within the context of the bipartisan negotiation with Democrats, clearly they are a reality."

He said that whatever "damage would be done by $250 billion of new taxes we think would be offset by a system that would help create jobs. And as we're dealing with the debt crisis, we don't want to make the jobs crisis even worse. So that's what has been put on the table."

Jordan, R-Ohio, posted his dissent hours later in USA Today, although he refrained from criticizing any Republican directly.

"Balance doesn't mean `half-right, half-wrong,' he wrote, referring to Obama's calls for a deficit-cutting plan that includes higher taxes and spending cuts. "It means you don't fall over." Jordan is chairman of the Republican Study Committee, an organization of conservative GOP members of the House.

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Associated Press writer Andrew Taylor contributed to this story.

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Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Samsung Captivate Glide and DoubleTime hands-on

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Samsung's got a pair of QWERTY-sporting Android handsets heading to AT&T, targeting distinctly different different ends of the smartphone spectrum. Sure, both the Captivate Glide and the DoubleTime attempt to woo messaging addicts with their physical keyboards, but that's about where the similarities end. The Glide is packing a full gig of RAM, a 1GHz Tegra 2 processor, 8GB of internal storage, an 8 megapixel camera (plus a 1.3MP front-facing cam), Gingerbread slathered with TouchWiz and a 4-inch Super AMOLED display. The 800 x 480 panel isn't the best we've ever seen, but it's brightness and superb contrast certainly don't disappoint. Like many Samsung handsets, the Glide is surprisingly light thanks to its all plastic construction, but the textured battery plate and satisfyingly firm sliding mechanism keep it from feeling cheap. The landscape keyboard is quite pleasant. The keys don't have much travel, but they're well spaced and we had no trouble quickly banging out a bunch of texts right away.

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Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Romney criticizes Obama's comments that US is 'a little bit lazy' on attracting business to US (Star Tribune)

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'Immortals' ascends to No. 1 weekend with $32.2M (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? The action adventure "Immortals" claimed the top spot at the weekend box office with $32.2 million, debuting ahead of Adam Sandler's comedy "Jack and Jill," which opened at No. 2 with $25 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

1. "Immortals," Relativity Media, $32,206,425, 3,112 locations, $10,349 average, $32,206,425, one week.

2. "Jack and Jill," Sony, $25,003,575, 3,438 locations, $7,273 average, $25,003,575, one week.

3. "Puss in Boots," Paramount, $24,726,193, 3,903 locations, $6,335 average, $108,035,359, three weeks.

4. "Tower Heist," Universal, $12,773,765, 3,370 locations, $3,790 average, $43,465,615, two weeks.

5. "J. Edgar," Warner Bros., $11,217,324, 1,910 locations, $5,873 average, $11,315,858, one week.

6. "A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas," Warner Bros., $5,915,143, 2,875 locations, $2,057 average, $23,237,525, two weeks.

7. "In Time," Fox, $4,081,881, 2,591 locations, $1,575 average, $30,598,618, three weeks.

8. "Paranormal Activity 3," Paramount, $3,611,283, 2,776 locations, $1,301 average, $100,808,835, four weeks.

9. "Footloose," Paramount, $2,726,736, 2,215 locations, $1,231 average, $48,767,514, five weeks.

10. "Real Steel," Disney, $1,864,688, 1,758 locations, $1,061 average, $81,612,804, six weeks.

11. "Moneyball," Sony, $1,066,267, 813 locations, $1,312 average, $71,857,836, eight weeks.

12. "Courageous," Sony, $1,012,220, 905 locations, $1,118 average, $31,565,808, seven weeks.

13. "The Ides of March," Sony, $944,292, 696 locations, $1,357 average, $38,358,318, six weeks.

14. "The Rum Diary," FilmDistrict, $803,456, 947 locations, $848 average, $12,371,440, three weeks.

15. "Dolphin Tale," Warner Bros., $693,294, 705 locations, $983 average, $69,634,072, eight weeks.

16. "Rockstar," Eros International, $612,235, 112 locations, $5,466 average, $612,235, one week.

17. "Anonymous," Sony, $582,527, 482 locations, $1,209 average, $3,753,918, three weeks.

18. "Margin Call," Roadside Attractions, $545,521, 199 locations, $2,741 average, $3,312,204, four weeks.

19. "50/50," Summit, $507,529, 424 locations, $1,197 average, $33,841,644, seven weeks.

20. "Like Crazy," Paramount Vantage, $504,512, 70 locations, $7,207 average, $1,055,778, three weeks.

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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