Source: www.ibtimes.com --- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Samsung lining up range of Galaxy smartphones for release. ...
jackie robinson Coachella 2013 Scary Movie 5 MTV Movie Awards 2013 masters masters leaderboard Psy Gentleman
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Galaxy Mega, Galaxy S4 Mini, Galaxy S4 Active and Galaxy S4 Zoom Release Dates Leaked
[unable to retrieve full-text content]
2013 NBA Draft Prospect Profile Video: Anthony Bennett, UNLV (PF)
Anthony Bennett was highly recruited coming out of high school, but the 6-foot-7 forward made the decision to attend UNLV over the likes of some of the top collegiate programs in the country.
Bennett, who is an original native of Ontario, Canada, attended Findlay Prep in Nevada during his time at the high school level, so his decision to attend UNLV was simply based on that ?close to home? feel.
Well, that?s all about to change because there is no NBA franchise located in Nevada and Bennett is a sure-fired lottery selection here in 2013. After one season in which he averaged 16.1 points and 8.1 rebounds per game, Bennett is making the switch to the professional ranks, entering his name within the 2013 NBA Draft pool.
Bennett is an on-the-rise prospect who can be a handful inside given his size and physicality. Look for him to hear his name called within the top five of this year?s draft, but at worst case scenario, there?s no way Bennett slips outside of the top ten here in 2013.
?
Draft Projection: Top Five
?
Click here to visit Bennett?s official 2013 NBA Draft Prospect Profile and learn more about his strengths and weaknesses moving forward.
Click here to visit the official Rant Sports 2013 NBA Draft page and view other prospect profiles for this year?s class.
?
Follow Paul Seaver on Twitter: @PaulSeaverRS
?
Tagg Romney Bosses Day Cabin Fever 2 Alexis Wright Zumba binder full of women Microsoft Surface Candy Crowley
Monday, May 6, 2013
How greenhouse gases might make humongous super-Earths habitable (+video)
On Earth, greenhouse gases are blamed for climate change, but elsewhere in the cosmos, they could help a planet not at all like Earth be habitable, one scientist suggests.
This artist's impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. The brightest star in the sky is the red dwarf Gliese 667 C, which is part of a triple star system.
L. Cal?ada/Handout/ESO/Reuters/File
EnlargeThe search for life outside our solar system can, at times, sound a bit like a broken record. We are looking for planets not too much bigger or smaller than ours, circling stars not too different from our sun, orbiting at a distance not too far out or close in.
Skip to next paragraph' +
google_ads[0].line2 + '
' +
google_ads[0].line3 + '
Subscribe Today to the Monitor
A newly discovered 'super-Earth' planet is in the 'Goldilocks Zone;' just the right place to support liquid water.This, astronomers say, is the "Goldilocks zone," where everything is just right for life. For that reason, finding an Earth-like planet orbiting a sun-like star remains, in many ways, the holy grail of exoplanet research. After all, we know it works here.
Now, a new paper in the journal Science is suggesting that the actual Goldilocks zone might be much different from what we earthlings imagine. Indeed, habitable planets could be much farther out than Earth or significantly closer in if other factors are taken into account, writes Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.
The point, she says, is to remember the spectacular variability of nature and consider all the different ways life might find a foothold in the cosmos.
Take greenhouse gases, for example. Here on Earth, as humans introduce more into the atmosphere, these gases are mostly blamed for heating up the climate at unusually fast rates. But, in the right regulation, they serve a vital purpose to life on Earth: They keep the planet warm.
Earth's mass has helped it hold on to these gases, but it's not nearly massive enough to hold on to hydrogen ? a much more potent greenhouse gas than the ones at work here. Yet other planets ? super-Earths several times more massive ? perhaps could hold on to their stocks of hydrogen. If so, they could orbit their stars much farther out than Earth does and still have a warm surface.
In other words, such a super-Earth would receive less heat from its star than we do from ours, but it would hold onto whatever heat it does receive much more effectively.
The same process could also work in reverse, with close-in planets with little atmosphere warmed sufficiently by their star's heat.
Venus, Dr. Seagar suggests, could have been just such a planet ? but it had too much moisture. That moisture ended up causing a greenhouse effect so intense that the surface of Venus is now 860 degrees F and the atmosphere is so thick that pressures on the surface are the equivalent of those one kilometer deep in Earth's oceans.
With less moisture ? less of an atmosphere and a greenhouse effect ? Venus could have been habitable, Seagar says.
"If there is one important lesson from exoplanets, it is that anything is possible within the laws of physics and chemistry," writes Seagar.
Seagar's points are all accepted within the scientific community. But don't expect scientists to go looking for habitable hydro-giants any time soon.
For one, scientists need a particular type of orbiting telescope to study in detail the telltale chemical signatures in distant planets' atmospheres. But because of costs that would run into the billions of dollars, no such telescope has yet been deployed.
Moreover, even with such a telescope, researchers would likely focus on planets in the Goldilocks zone because they believe that search has the highest prospects for success, James Kasting, an exoplanet expert from Pennsylvania State University, told National Geographic.
For her part, Seager just wants people to embrace the idea that life could exist on many different kinds of planets. "I hope it gets people to realize that so many types of worlds could be habitable, and that our chance of finding one is higher when we accept that," she said of her paper, according to The Register.
honda classic news channel 5 nashville weather jason varitek andrew breitbart dead sheriff joe arpaio limbaugh
Thursday, May 2, 2013
NKorea sentences US man in possible bid for talks
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A Korean American detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for "hostile acts" against the state, the North's media said Thursday ? a move that could trigger a visit by a high-profile American if history is any guide.
Kenneth Bae, 44, a Washington state man described by friends as a devout Christian and a tour operator, is at least the sixth American detained in North Korea since 2009. The others eventually were deported or released without serving out their terms, some after trips to Pyongyang by prominent Americans, including former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
With already abysmal U.S.-North Korean ties worsening since a long-range rocket-launch more than a year ago, Pyongyang is fishing for another such meeting, said Ahn Chan-il, head of the World Institute for North Korea Studies think tank in South Korea.
"North Korea is using Bae as bait to make such a visit happen. An American bigwig visiting Pyongyang would also burnish Kim Jong Un's leadership profile," Ahn said. Kim took power after his father, Kim Jong Il, died in December 2011.
The authoritarian country has faced increasing criticism over its nuclear weapons ambitions. Disarmament talks including the Koreas, the United States, Japan, China and Russia fell apart in 2009. Several rounds of U.N. sanctions have not encouraged the North to give up its small cache of nuclear devices, which Pyongyang says it must not only keep but expand to protect itself from a hostile Washington.
Pyongyang's tone has softened somewhat recently, following weeks of violent rhetoric, including threats of nuclear war and missile strikes. There have been tentative signs of interest in diplomacy, and a major source of North Korean outrage ? annual U.S.-South Korean military drills ? ended Tuesday.
In Washington, the U.S. State Department said it was working with the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang to confirm the report of Bae's sentencing. The United States lacks formal diplomatic ties with North Korea and relies on Sweden for diplomatic matters involving U.S. citizens there. The Swedish ambassador in Pyongyang, Karl-Olof Andersson, referred queries to the State Department.
"While Washington will do everything possible to spare an innocent American from years of hard labor, U.S. officials are aware that in all likelihood the North Korean regime wants a meeting to demonstrate that the United States in effect confers legitimacy on the North's nuclear-weapon-state status," Patrick Cronin, a senior analyst with the Washington-based Center for a New American Security, said in an email.
Cronin called Bae's conviction "a hasty gambit to force a direct dialogue with the United States."
Bae's trial on charges of "committing hostile acts" against North Korea took place in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said. The announcement came just days after KCNA said Saturday that authorities would soon indict and try him. KCNA has referred to Bae as Pae Jun Ho, the North Korean spelling for his Korean name.
Bae, from Lynnwood, Washington, was arrested in early November in Rason, a special economic zone in North Korea's far northeastern region bordering China and Russia, state media said. The exact nature of Bae's alleged crimes has not been revealed.
Friends and colleagues say Bae was based in the Chinese border city of Dalian and traveled frequently to North Korea to feed orphans. Bae's mother in the United States did not answer calls seeking comment Thursday.
There are parallels to a case in 2009. After Pyongyang's launch of a long-range rocket and its second underground nuclear test that year, two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor after sneaking across the border from China.
They later were pardoned on humanitarian grounds and released to Clinton, who met with then-leader Kim Jong Il. U.S.-North Korea talks came later that year.
In 2011, Carter visited North Korea to win the release of imprisoned American Aijalon Gomes, who had been sentenced to eight years of hard labor for crossing illegally into the North from China.
Korean American Eddie Jun was released in 2011 after Robert King, the U.S. envoy on North Korean human rights, traveled to Pyongyang. Jun had been detained for half a year over an unspecified crime.
Jun and Gomes are also devout Christians. While North Korea's constitution guarantees freedom of religion, in practice only sanctioned services are tolerated by the government.
U.N. and U.S. officials accuse North Korea of treating opponents brutally. Foreign nationals have told varying stories about their detentions in North Korea.
The two journalists sentenced to hard labor in 2009 stayed in a guest house instead of a labor camp due to medical concerns.
Ali Lameda, a member of Venezuela's Communist Party and a poet invited to the North in 1966 to work as a Spanish translator, said that he was detained in a damp, filthy cell without trial the following year after facing espionage allegations that he denied. He later spent six years in prison after a one-day trial, he said.
___
Associated Press writers Jean H. Lee in Seoul and Lou Kesten in Washington contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nkorea-sentences-us-man-possible-135844907.html
taylor swift and zac efron basketball wives manny ramirez easter 2012 jeremy lin espn sassafras mardi gras 2012
This Arctic Spray Freezes Cockroaches For Easy Disposal
If the thought of smooshing, crushing, smashing, squishing, or even touching a cockroach grosses you out, a Japanese company called Fumakilla has come up with a better way to dispose of them. Taking inspiration from Vader's Lando's carbonite chamber, this aerosol can literally freezes them in their tracks.
As durable as they are, unlike Han Solo the roaches probably aren't going to survive getting hit with a blast of gas that's somewhere around minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The freeze ray in a can is apparently odorless, doesn't leave stains, and is less flammable/safer for humans to inhale than a bug spray?with the emphasis being on the safer since it's not necessarily completely safe, particularly if you accidentally blast bare skin. So using this as an emergency air conditioner or an easy way to chill your coffee is probably a terrible, terrible idea. [Fumakilla via RocketNews 24]
Image by Eric Isselee/Shutterstock
Source: http://gizmodo.com/this-arctic-spray-freezes-cockroaches-for-easy-disposal-486245314
jeb bush sherry arnold snooty fox el debarge portland weather clintonville battlestar galactica blood and chrome
MiiPC offers backers double the memory for $15, throws in a free mic
With a week left in an already successful Kickstarter campaign (approaching three times its initial $50,000 goal), the makers of the MiiPC are giving backers the chance to increase their system's memory. Add $15 before the close of the project and you'll be able to double things up, from 1GB to 2GB of RAM and 4GB to 8GB of storage -- the move comes in response to pledger feedback, according to the company. And speaking of listening, the makers of the parental-friendly Android PC are also tossing in a free built-in mic for those who pre-ordered, just for good measure.
Filed under: Desktops
bret michaels bret michaels pekingese tcu football westminster bonnaroo 2012 lineup twisted metal
10-year-old boy among victims as more than 20 shot on one Chicago day
By John Newland, Staff Writer, NBC News
A 10-year-old boy was shot Wednesday in Chicago toward the end of a day that saw at least three people slain and 20 others wounded, police and local media said.
The boy was standing on North Waller Avenue just before 8 p.m. when a group of men on a nearby street corner began fighting, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a Chicago Police Department spokesman.
During the melee, one of the men pulled out a handgun and opened fire, Alfaro said.
?I?m assuming he was shooting at the other individuals,? he added. ?He wasn?t shooting at the child.?
The boy was wounded in the right buttock and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, Alfaro said. No information about his condition was available early Thursday, though Alfaro said he believed the child was ?stable.?
Chicago detectives were continuing their investigation Thursday, and no arrests had been made, Alfaro said.
The city?s first 80-degree day in seven months brought a wave of violence, with an average of one per hour at one point, NBCChicago.com reported.
Three cases were fatal, according to NBCChicago.com:
A man in his 30s was found dead in an alley in the 1900 block of South Drake overnight. After midnight, the first murder of May happened in the South Shore neighborhood where a 27-year-old man was shot in the chest near his home at 68th and Cornell. Neighbors said the man was a father of three.
Another shooting happened in front of the University of Illinois-Chicago police station, where three men were struck around 10:40 p.m. A 19- year-old died. Police said he was a known gang member.
The violence came less than a month after the police department announced that crime in the city had fallen 8 percent in the year?s first quarter, compared with the same period a year earlier, and 15 percent from 2011.
Murders fell by 42 percent in the quarter and shootings by 27 percent, the department said in a news release.
The Austin neighborhood, where the boy was shot, however, saw a rise last year in the numbers of murders and shootings, according to police statistics.
The district, one of 77 in the city of 2.7 million, had 26 murders in 2012, up from 19 the year before, and 116 shootings, up from 98.
big miracle chris kelly blackhawks harry connick jr cher knicks
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)