Saturday, December 31, 2011

Ex-Cop Expert Witness Says Unarmed Black Teen Who Had Committed No Crime Was ?Illogical? To Run Away From the Three Cops Who Nearly Beat Him to Death (Theagitator)

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New York Times email misfire sets off firestorm (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? A New York Times employee misfired an email offering discounted subscriptions to customers who had recently cancelled the newspaper, sending it to more than 8 million people instead of the 300 intended recipients.

Questions about the emails hit Twitter on Wednesday, but it took the newspaper several hours to figure out what happened.

Initially the newspaper said it had not sent out those emails.

"The email is spam and was not sent from The New York Times," company spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha had told Reuters.

She later apologized for the mix-up: "We regret this error and we regret our earlier communication noting that this email was spam."

The incident spawned a parody Twitter account, NYTSpam. "Ci@ali$, anyone? I'm tired of trying to sell papers," it said in one of its early Tweets.

(Reporting By Jim Finkle; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)

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Friday, December 30, 2011

50 Cent, Common, Others Share New Year's Resolutions

'My New Year's resolution is to quit smoking ... it's a very dirty, filthy habit,' Travie McCoy tells us.
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Wondering what some of the biggest names in the music industry are resolving to do come 2012? Well, wonder no more. MTV News asked some of those folks just that, and they are dishing on what their New Year's resolutions are for the next 12 months.

"Ah man, so many. So many new things to work on myself. I just got to be conscious, more conscious of myself," 50 Cent explained. "And try and be a better judge of character with others."

Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy seems to be taking a page from Fiddy's handbook and looking to better himself in the new year. "My New Year's resolution is to quit smoking ... it's a very dirty, filthy habit," he said. "But not [only] is it my New Year's resolution to quit, but it's also my New Year's resolution to get my friends to quit as well."

Common opened up about the philosophical goal he hopes to achieve in the coming year. "I haven't thought deeply on it, but I would say I just want to be great at everything I do," he said. "Greatness."

Some celebrities are planning to look inward in the new year, and others, it seems, want to physically broaden their horizons. Jill Scott said, "I'd like to visit Europe more often next year."

Meanwhile, Evanescence's Amy Lee wants to travel in order to meet more of her devoted fans. "We're gonna make it a goal to just go to all those countries where we have fans going, 'Hey come to my country. You've never been here.' That's sort of our goal for next year is to go everywhere and tour all the places we've never been and see the world," she said. "Have some fun."

Before making those resolutions a reality, many celebrities will be out and about on New Year's Eve looking to break loose at a number of big New Year's parties. And MTV will also be getting in on the fun during "NYE in NYC 2012," which will feature Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Mac Miller and more. The show airs live at 11 p.m. ET on Saturday from Times Square, where the famous ball drops.

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Hottest travel destinations of 2012

From an unexpected art-laden town in Arkansas to the historic and exotic shores of Greece, Travel + Leisure's Nilou Motamed reveals which locations around the world you should check off your places-to-see list.

By Jennifer Chen, Travel+Leisure

Imagine lazing in a hammock on a remote beach in Panama, where boldface names like Angelina Jolie and Michael Jordan have been spotted. It?s a trip within reach ??rustic-but-stylish hotels start at $99 ? and a country that?s remaking itself for 2012.

Slideshow: Hottest travel destinations of 2012

Discovering new destinations might seem next to impossible, but one of the wonders of travel is that there?s always someplace new on the horizon. And even when you think you know a place, there?s a hidden side ripe for exploration. To uncover 2012?s most exciting destinations, Travel+Leisure crisscrossed the globe, bringing back everything from Toronto?s new hot spots to secluded resorts in northern Mozambique.

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Some of the picks reflect travelers? increasing thirst for adventure and desire to immerse themselves in local ways. ?Our clients are interested in remote, off-the-beaten-path destinations that still retain their traditional culture,? said Scott Wiseman, president of Abercrombie & Kent USA.

Take Xishuangbanna, at the foot of the Himalayas in China?s southern Yunnan province. Though often overlooked in favor of Lijiang and Tibet, it?s home to an ethnically diverse population that still follows age-old customs ? making it the place to get a cultural fix without the crowds. And a luxurious new Anantara resort means roughing it is not required.

Looking for something even more remote? It?s hard to top Corumbau in Brazil?s southern Bahia. The original inhabitants named it "far from everything" for good reason: a sojourn requires a bone-rattling, four-hour drive from the nearest airport. The rewards ? deserted beaches, super-fresh seafood ? make up for the journey.

For each destination, T+L provided a breakdown of the kind of traveler it?s well suited to, the best time to go, and how to get there. Not all the destinations for 2012 are exotic and far-flung. Cutting-edge architecture and youthful creative energy are driving a renaissance in Guimar?es, one of Portugal?s oldest cities.

Culture is also making over places such as Bentonville, Ark., which Walmart heiress Alice Walton has graced with a free world-class museum of American art on 120 wooded acres.

Whether you?re a jet-setting sybarite, a design buff, or a thrill-seeking flashpacker, these places will inspire you to make 2012 a year of new discoveries.

Sarah Spagnolo, digital projects editor at Travel + Leisure magazine, shares great travel deals and must-see places for 2012.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Alzheimer's: Diet patterns may keep brain from shrinking

ScienceDaily (Dec. 29, 2011) ? People with diets high in several vitamins or in omega 3 fatty acids are less likely to have the brain shrinkage associated with Alzheimer's disease than people whose diets are not high in those nutrients, according to a new study published in the December 28, 2011, online issue of Neurology?, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Those with diets high in omega 3 fatty acids and in vitamins C, D, E and the B vitamins also had higher scores on mental thinking tests than people with diets low in those nutrients. These omega 3 fatty acids and vitamin D are primarily found in fish. The B vitamins and antioxidants C and E are primarily found in fruits and vegetables.

In another finding, the study showed that people with diets high in trans fats were more likely to have brain shrinkage and lower scores on the thinking and memory tests than people with diets low in trans fats. Trans fats are primarily found in packaged, fast, fried and frozen food, baked goods and margarine spreads.

The study involved 104 people with an average age of 87 and very few risk factors for memory and thinking problems. Blood tests were used to determine the levels of various nutrients present in the blood of each participant. All of the participants also took tests of their memory and thinking skills. A total of 42 of the participants had MRI scans to measure their brain volume.

Overall, the participants had good nutritional status, but seven percent were deficient in vitamin B12 and 25 percent were deficient in vitamin D.

Study author Gene Bowman, ND, MPH, of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland and a member of the American Academy of Neurology, said that the nutrient biomarkers in the blood accounted for a significant amount of the variation in both brain volume and thinking and memory scores. For the thinking and memory scores, the nutrient biomarkers accounted for 17 percent of the variation in the scores. Other factors such as age, number of years of education and high blood pressure accounted for 46 percent of the variation. For brain volume, the nutrient biomarkers accounted for 37 percent of the variation.

"These results need to be confirmed, but obviously it is very exciting to think that people could potentially stop their brains from shrinking and keep them sharp by adjusting their diet," Bowman said.

The study was the first to use nutrient biomarkers in the blood to analyze the effect of diet on memory and thinking skills and brain volume. Previous studies have looked at only one or a few nutrients at a time or have used questionnaires to assess people's diet. But questionnaires rely on people's memory of their diet, and they also do not account for how much of the nutrients are absorbed by the body, which can be an issue in the elderly.

The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute on Aging and National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Portland VA Medical Center.

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Visualized: IBM's 1956 HDD packs 5MB of storage, requires forklift for installation

Check out IBM's 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) hard disk and those gripes about dragging around that USB thumb drive soon evaporate. This 1956 HDD was composed of 50 24-inch discs, stacked together and taking up 16 sq ft of real estate. The once-cutting-edge monstrosity was capable of commanding an annual fee of $35,000 and stored up to 5MB of data. Sure, by modern standards it's a pretty modest capacity, but the RAMAC still weighed in at just shy of a ton. Our technological forefathers could have done with that exoskeleton prototype.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

A's ship Gio Gonzalez to Washington

Oakland, CA (My Sportsbook) - The Oakland Athletics have traded left-handed starting pitcher Gio Gonzalez to the Washington Nationals for four of their top prospects.

The 26-year-old Gonzalez went 16-12 last season with a 3.12 earned-run average and 197 strikeouts in 202 innings pitched.

Gonzalez, a four-year veteran, has spent his entire big-league career with Oakland and has compiled a 38-32 record with a 3.93 earned-run average and 511 strikeouts in 535 innings pitched.

The A's included pitcher Rob Gilliam in the deal. The 24-year-old right-hander went 12-7 with a 5.04 ERA in 28 starts for Single-A Stockton last year.

In exchange for Gonzalez and Gilliam, the Nationals dealt right-handed pitchers A.J. Cole and Brad Peacock, catcher Derek Norris and left- handed pitcher Tom Milone.

According to MLB.com, Peacock is the Nationals' No. 2 prospect behind Bryce Harper, with Cole third and Norris fifth.

Milone made five starts for the Nationals last season and went 1-0 with a 3.81 earned-run average and 15 strikeouts in 26 innings pitched.

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

China wants to preserve Korean interests post-Kim (AP)

BEIJING ? Kim Jong Il's death conjures up several nightmares for China, including turmoil in neighboring North Korea or ? equally unpleasant in Beijing's eyes ? a political pivot that puts Pyongyang into the embrace of South Korea and the U.S.

China has deep concerns over the kind of chaos in North Korea that could send a surge of starving, desperate refugees across its border. But it also fears any eventual Korean unification dominated by South Korea, which would put a pro-Western government on China's northeast border, and end its near-total dominance of the North Korean economy.

"If North Korea becomes less intransigent and even slightly more open, then China will be greatly worried about the possible warming up, or even reunification, between North and South Koreas," said U.S. Naval Academy China scholar Yu Maochun.

Those concerns are prompting Beijing to take a strong behind-the-scenes role in the North Korean succession in hopes of heading off any changes that challenge its pre-eminence there, Yu said.

Publicly, China has sought to reassure North Korea of Beijing's continuing support in an apparent bid to ensure a stable transition of power from from Kim ? the country's ruler for 17 years ? to his son and anointed successor, Kim Jong Un.

A day after Monday's announcement of Kim's death, Chinese President Hu Jintao and other top leaders visited North Korea's embassy in Beijing to offer condolences. China called Kim a "close friend" and hailed Kim Jong Un as North Korea's new leader.

China even invited the next leader to visit soon.

A visit by the younger Kim would offer yet another chance for Beijing to convince the North of the attractions of its own model of market-oriented economic reform accompanied by iron fisted one-party political control. The elder Kim never fully embraced that approach ? despite numerous visits to China ? because he was unwilling to risk losing his absolute political grip.

The North has made a few halfhearted stabs at a more market-oriented economy, recently agreeing to set up a joint economic development zone on an island in the Yalu River along the border with China.

Beijing now hopes reforms will be launched in earnest, although experts expect a period of caution and policy paralysis while the younger Kim consolidates his rule.

Despite the sickly nature of the North's economy, Chinese businesses have found opportunities, and few or no competitors.

Such advantages snowballed after economic links with South Korea were severed in recent years. China now accounts for about 83 percent of North Korea's international commerce, up from about 53 percent in 2005, according to the Seoul-based Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency.

Chinese companies are the main investors in North Korean mining, and key players in the country's infrastructure.

At the sprawling free trade market in the North Korean city of Rason near the border with China, most of the goods sold ? from slippers and lipstick to refrigerators and mobile phones ? are Chinese, hauled from China on a road Chinese construction workers repaved this year.

Possible Chinese investment in a coal-fired power plant is being hammered out and Rason is exploring how to buy electricity directly from the Chinese side by snaking power lines across the river border.

Such economic influence augments China's political leverage over North Korea.

China is North Korea's biggest source of food and fuel assistance and helps water down or deflect sanctions over the North's nuclear programs. Beijing refused to criticize Pyongyang over the deadly sinking of a South Korean navy ship and bombardment of a front-line island.

But China's influence over the fiercely independent and highly unpredictable North Korean regime should not be overstated, said David Reeths, a former U.S. Naval intelligence officer and senior adviser with IHS Jane's Consulting.

Beijing was unable to deter Pyongyang from its provocations against the South, and the North still harbors "tremendous suspicion about China's ultimate aims," Reeths said.

Another major question is to what degree China would be willing to coordinate with South Korea, the U.S. and Japan in responding to any turmoil in North Korea, an issue over which Chinese scholars are deeply divided.

Out of suspicion and fear of tainting relations with Pyongyang, Beijing never joined in any multinational contingency planning over a potential North Korean crisis, said Gong Keyu, a Korea expert at Shanghai's Institute for International Studies.

"China doesn't want its secrets leaked," Gong said.

While the nationalist media have called on China to go its own way on North Korea, some scholars have said China should discuss possible responses to an emergency, saying that was the best way to avoid friction and potential conflicts. China officially eschews military alliances, but holds joint drills and regular military consultations with a wide range of nations.

An implosion of North Korea's government could not only bring a flood of refugees crossing into China, it could threaten the entire region by leaving the North's nuclear facilities vulnerable, leading to what Carla Freeman of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies called "loose nukes."

A response to either scenario could see Beijing doing something it hasn't done since the 1950-53 Korean War: send troops onto North Korean soil, to deal with the refugees or secure the country's nuclear facilities.

That could further inflame regional tensions, if the Chinese forces should come into contact with South Korean or American forces without any prior coordination, Freeman warned.

"One can only hope that the major stakeholders ? China, South Korea, and the U.S. ? will communicate with each other about how they work together in such a scenario," she said.

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Associated Press reporter Alexa Olesen contributed to this report.

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Cowboys build early lead, then coast to victory

Dallas Cowboys tight end Martellus Bennett (80) and wide receiver Laurent Robinson (81) celebrate a 9-yard touchdown reception by Robinson during the first half of an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Margaret Bowles)

Dallas Cowboys tight end Martellus Bennett (80) and wide receiver Laurent Robinson (81) celebrate a 9-yard touchdown reception by Robinson during the first half of an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Margaret Bowles)

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Laurent Robinson (81) celebrates a touchdown reception as Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive back Elbert Mack (33) walks off the field during the first half of an NFL football game on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Margaret Bowles)

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo (9) throws a pass over Tampa Bay Buccaneers middle linebacker Mason Foster (59) during the second quarter of an NFL football game on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco)

Dallas Cowboys running back Felix Jones (28) dives over teammate center Phil Costa (67) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers outside linebacker Geno Hayes (54) on a run during the first quarter of an NFL football game on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Margaret Bowles)

Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back LeGarrette Blount (27) is stopped after a short gain by Dallas Cowboys outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware, left, and inside linebacker Sean Lee during the first half of an NFL football game on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

(AP) ? Tony Romo made it look easy, shredding Tampa Bay's secondary at will and helping the Dallas Cowboys get back on track in the NFC East.

"This was an important game," Romo said after throwing for three touchdowns and running for a fourth first-half score Saturday night to lead the first-place Cowboys to a 31-15 rout of the struggling Buccaneers.

"Really the playoffs started for us; that's the way we approached it. Guys came out with great energy and it was a great week of practice. We just had to go forward."

Dallas stopped a two-game losing streak in which it blew fourth-quarter leads to allow a seemingly solid grip on the division lead slip away.

The victory gave the Cowboys (8-6) a half-game lead over New York. Although the Giants hold a tiebreaker advantage after beating Dallas 37-34 last week, the Cowboys can claim the division title and host a playoff game by finishing with wins the next two weeks over Philadelphia at home and the Giants on the road.

"I think it showed our character, our resolve, what we're made of," Dallas linebacker Keith Brooking said. "It was obviously doom and gloom around Valley Ranch for the past couple of weeks ? kind of the world was caving in on us. But we just kept fighting and kept plugging away, and we still control our own destiny."

The Bucs (4-10), meanwhile, lost for the eighth straight time and played a miserable first half that certainly didn't do anything to help coach Raheem Morris make a case for keeping his job.

Romo threw a pair of 8-yard TD passes to Miles Austin and Dez Bryant in the first quarter, then finished a seven-play, 89-yard drive with a 9-yarder to Laurent Robinson to make it 21-0 with just under 5 minutes remaining in the second quarter. Romo increased the lead to 28 points on a quarterback sneak in the closing seconds of the opening half.

"I thought he just had a good feel for what we were doing against what they were doing," Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said. "I thought he got back quickly and got the ball out of his hands, and when he had to move and make plays, he was able to do that too. He made a lot of big plays and not many bad plays."

Tampa Bay managed just one first down and was outgained 279 yards to 55 in the first two quarters, yet found a way to make it more interesting in the second half.

The Bucs, who had yielded 69 consecutive points dating to the second quarter of the previous week's 41-14 loss at Jacksonville, finally got on the scoreboard in the third quarter when rookie Adrian Clayborn sacked Romo from behind, forcing a fumble that linebacker Dekoda Watson returned 4 yards for a TD for a much-needed spark.

Josh Freeman's 13-yard TD pass to Dezmon Briscoe and a two-point conversion throw to Kellen Winslow cut it to 31-15 heading into the final quarter.

The Cowboys have led in the fourth quarter in five of their six losses, however there wouldn't be a late collapse this time. Tampa Bay turned the ball over on downs twice in the last 6 minutes, and Sammy Morris picked up a first down inside the Bucs 10 to give the Cowboys an opportunity to run out the clock.

"Too little, too late," Morris said about Tampa Bay's comeback. "Not enough ... at the beginning. You can't dig holes like that for yourself."

Austin's TD midway through the first quarter was set up by Tampa Bay's NFL-leading 32nd turnover, a fumble by Freeman on the fifth play of the game.

The Tampa Bay quarterback scrambled 25 yards on third-and-5 to march the Bucs near midfield, but the opening possession of the night came to an abrupt halt on the next play when Freeman took off again for a 7-yard gain and was stripped of the ball at the Cowboys 44.

Linebacker Bradie James recovered and it took Romo seven plays to get Dallas in the end zone for the first time. The Cowboys marched 69 yards in 10 plays on their next possession, with Romo finishing the drive by finding a wide-open Bryant in the back of the end zone to make it 14-0.

In three career games against Tampa Bay ? all lopsided victories ? Romo has thrown for 908 yards, 11 touchdowns and no interceptions. He was 23 of 30 for 249 yards and was sacked twice Saturday night.

"I was just finding guys who were open and the guys do the rest," Romo said. "I thought the offense played good as a whole."

Felix Jones, back in the starting lineup after DeMarco Murray broke his right ankle last week in a 37-34 loss to the Giants, broke a 38-yard run on the drive leading to Robinson's TD and finished with 108 yards on 22 carries ? his second straight 100-yard performance had 67 yards rushing on 12 carries at halftime.

Freeman, making his second start since missing a game because of an injured throwing shoulder, was 17 of 27 for 148 yards and no interceptions. He led the Bucs in rushing with 37 yards on four attempts and was sacked three times, once by DeMarcus Ware, who notched his 16th of the season.

Thanks to a large contingent of Cowboys fans, the Bucs played before a sellout crowd at home for just the second time in two seasons. Judging by all the blue and white jerseys scattered throughout the 65,000-seat stadium, at least half the house appeared to be rooting for Dallas.

The Bucs have lost eight straight following a 4-2 start that included wins over NFC South rivals New Orleans and Atlanta. The skid has Morris on the hot seat just a year after the NFL's youngest head coach led his team to a surprising 10-6 finish that heightened expectations coming into this season.

Tampa Bay finishes up with games at Carolina and Atlanta. Freeman said Morris' status is out of his hands, but that he and his teammates intend to give maximum effort the rest of the way.

"If you're not going out and giving everything you have for these last two games, you don't really deserve to be out there," Freeman said. "You've got to take some pride in what you're doing."

Notes: Tampa Bay CB Aqib Talib started after sitting out the previous week because of a sore right hamstring, however he aggravated the injury in the first half and did not return. ... By building an early lead, the Cowboys essentially took leading rusher LeGarrette Blount out of Tampa Bay's lineup. Blount, who rarely plays in passing situations, was limited to 21 yards on nine carries. ... Morris finished with 53 yards rushing on 12 attempts for the Cowboys.

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Miss. man sentenced for threatening president (Providence Journal)

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String theorists simulate the Big Bang

Japanese physicists have created a string theory model that simulates the birth of the universe. In their model, the Big Bang was a "symmetry-breaking event" ? a fluctuation that caused three spatial dimensions to break free from the other six dimensions of string theory, then rapidly unfurl to produce our universe's observed 3-D structure.

String theory ? a proposed "theory of everything" that unites quantum mechanics and general relativity together in one complete picture ? models elementary particles as oscillating lines ("strings") rather than dimensionless points. In order for the math to work, string theory requires that there be 10 dimensions: nine of space and one of time. Our universe only appears to have three spatial dimensions, string theorists say, because the other six are curled up in undetectably tiny bundles called Calabi-Yau manifolds, which are a minuscule 10^-33 centimeters across.

Like many other underlying aspects of string theory, there's no feasible experiment that could verify that these manifolds exist, and thus that the universe really does have a nine-dimensional spatial structure. And if it does, physicists wonder why three of those dimensions would be enormous and the other six extremely small. Nonetheless, the string theory framework is compelling because it gracefully explains most aspects of the universe that we do observe, from electromagnetism to gravity to the thermodynamics of black holes.

The new research ? by Sang-Woo Kim of Osaka University, Jun Nishimura of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Asato Tsuchiya of Shizuoka University ? shows that string theory plausibly accounts for the universe's origin and its apparent 3-D structure. "We have been able to see how three directions start to expand at some point in time," Nishimura told Life's Little Mysteries.

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To do the calculation, the physicists used a reformulation of string theory called the IIB matrix model, which couches the theory in the form of matrices ? rectangular grids of mathematical expressions that describe the properties of the universe. The elements of the matrices can be mathematically combined to simulate how strings might have interacted to form the universe as it's seen today.

"In the matrix model formulation for superstring theory, matrices are supposed to be the fundamental degrees of freedom, and the string picture emerges when one takes the limit of infinitely large matrix size," Nishimura wrote in an email. Infinitely large matrices being unwieldy, the physicists approximated the structure of the universe by working with finite matrices, the largest of which had 32 rows and 32 columns.

The usual method of doing string theory calculations is to use perturbation theory, in which all possible interactions between strings are considered together in a calculation of a single interaction. But the equations describing string interactions are so complicated that this method only works when all the possible interactions between strings are very weak ? small perturbations rather than the high-energy collisions and compactifications that would have happened in the early universe. Matrices, on the other hand, can be numerically simulated by supercomputers, and so the reformulation of string theory into a matrix model is enabling physicists to calculate how events would unfold at extremely high energies, such as those at the moment of the Big Bang. "This was not possible with the conventional formulation of superstring theory," Nishimura wrote.

"What we do in this simulation is to generate hundreds or thousands of matrices, each of which describes the whole history of the universe during some finite time interval. We then have to take an average over the matrices to get the physical information as to how the universe evolves in time," Nishimura explained.

Larger matrices offered glimpses of larger windows in time. Simulations using 32 x 32 matrices, the largest in the experiment, took two months to complete on a supercomputer, and allowed the researchers to watch the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang until the onset of inflation ? a period of exponential expansion ? just 10^-36 seconds later.

A key result of the experiment was that, all by itself, the nine-dimensional model universe spontaneously ballooned in three directions, while its six other spatial dimensions remained tightly wrapped. This symmetry-breaking event was described by the changing rows and columns of variables in the matrices; mathematical operations on the matrices produced the coordinates of space, and with each time step, the coordinates increased in three directions (while remaining unchanged in the other six). To those who could interpret them, the changing matrices expressed, in mathematical terms, the birth of space-time.

The researchers said the spontaneous symmetry-breaking resulted from a quantum fluctuation ? a momentary violation in the law of conservation of energy, which is permitted by the rules of quantum mechanics. "The space-time has certain uncertainties ? as dictated by Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. One of our important findings is that this quantum nature of space-time indeed favors three extended spatial directions rather than other cases. How the quantum space-time evolves into a classical one as we perceive now is an important issue we are planning to address in the near future," Nishimura wrote.

To investigate this and other questions about the evolution of the universe according to string theory, the researchers must probe a window of time beyond the start of inflation, and to do this, they must simulate even larger matrices. "We are working on it now," he noted.

The new research will be detailed in a forthcoming paper in the journal Physical Review Letters.

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Monti wins vote on Italian austerity package (Reuters)

ROME (Reuters) ? Italy's government easily won a confidence vote on its tough austerity package on Friday, the first step in parliamentary approval for sweeping measures aimed at saving the euro zone's third-largest economy from financial disaster.

The Chamber of Deputies approved the 33-billion euro ($43 billion) package, which affects everything from pensions to home ownership taxes, by 495 votes to 88.

The plan, contested by Italy's unions and the opposition Northern League, has been in effect since Monti's government approved it on December 4. But it needed full parliamentary approval within 60 days to remain in force.

The upper house, where Monti is a life senator, is expected to approve the package definitively next week, most likely in another confidence vote.

Monti, a former European commissioner, called the vote in the lower house to speed the package through parliament and avoid debate on dozens of amendments, mostly tabled by the League which has tried to obstruct the measures.

The package, which has been hailed by Italy's European partners, will cut costs, raise taxes and reform pensions in a bid to restore market confidence in Italy's finances and balance its budget by 2013.

The collapse of investors' confidence during the summer under the previous government of Silvio Berlusconi thrust Italy to the centre of the euro zone debt crisis and pushed its borrowing costs to untenable levels on bond markets.

While Monti has seen his popularity slip slightly in opinion polls since he formed his technocrat government nearly one month ago, his overall support in parliament is strong.

The two biggest groups, Berlusconi's centre-right People of Freedom Party (PDL) and the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), support the government although both want it to soften the plan's impact on their core supporters.

Both parties know they cannot sabotage the government despite their misgivings without risking an economic catastrophe that would probably lead to a sovereign default and destroy the euro currency.

"We would have wanted more but we will continue our battle ... to support those who don't have a voice," Dario Franceschini, lower house PD leader, said in his pre-vote address to parliament.

"This is just the beginning. Our aim is to save our country," he said.

PDL parliamentary leader Fabrizio Cichitto, speaking as Berlusconi sat next to him in the cramped party benches instead of the government dais he occupied until last month, said: "We are entering a recession and we realize this calls for extraordinary measures."

"STALINIST-STYLE" DECISIONS

But Cichitto asked Monti to introduce more measures to stimulate growth and called some of his proposals to liberalize closed professions, "Stalinist style."

Pressure from the centre-right has forced Monti to delay plans to liberalize some sectors, such as pharmacies, taxis, lawyers and notaries, which are still protected by unions and guilds which want to keep their numbers low.

The devolutionist League and the small centrist Italy of Values party voted against Monti. The Northern League heckled him in the Senate earlier this week, holding up placards saying, "This is not a budget, but a hold-up."

At Friday's vote, League parliamentarian Emanuela Munerato turned up dressed as a factory worker to suggest the working class is most hurt by the austerity package, which the government says is necessary to prevent economic ruin.

Analysts say soaring borrowing costs and the prospect of a fast-deepening recession still threaten to undermine Italy's fiscal consolidation efforts, while much of the country's fate is out of its hands, as investors react to a lack of decisive action by European leaders to face the broader debt crisis.

Underlining the depth of the crisis, the main employers' lobby Confindustria on Thursday slashed its growth forecast for Italy next year to minus 1.6 percent from a previous estimate of plus 0.2 percent and said the country was already in recession.

It said even this forecast was based on Italian bond yields dropping to below 5 percent by April compared to around 7 percent now -- the level at which Ireland, Greece and Portugal were forced to take bailouts.

(Reporting By Philip Pullella; editing by Barry Moody)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111216/wl_nm/us_italy_vote

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Woman denied food stamps kills self, shoots children (Reuters)

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) ? A woman in the border city of Laredo, Texas who was angry because she had been denied food stamps killed herself and shot and critically wounded her two children late on Monday, authorities said on Tuesday.

The 38-year-old woman entered the Texas Health and Human Services Commission office in downtown Laredo on Monday afternoon and demanded to speak to a supervisor, said investigator Joe Baeza of the Laredo Police Department.

The woman, whom he declined to identify, pulled out a handgun and started walking through the office, threatening several employees, he said.

"She had issues and felt that she had been let down by social services in general," Baeza told Reuters on Tuesday. "She was making all sorts of outlandish claims."

She took an office supervisor hostage in a room in the office, he said, and a SWAT team managed to evacuate the other three dozen people in the office and clear the area.

After two hours of negotiations, the woman allowed the male supervisor to go free, but she remained in the office with her two children, a 10-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl.

"About 11:45 last night, she hung up the phone with negotiators, and a little bit later, negotiators heard three shots," Baeza said on Tuesday. "What had happened was that she had shot each of her children once and herself once."

The children were airlifted to a hospital in San Antonio in extremely critical condition, he said. The mother was dead at the scene, he said.

Baeza said the woman, who was from Ohio, arrived in Laredo about eight months ago and had lived with her children in several locations around the border city of 236,000.

Stephanie Goodman, a spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services Commission, confirmed that the woman applied for food stamps in July and was denied. Goodman said the woman's application was incomplete and that she was not sure whether the woman qualified for assistance.

"We're still trying to track down exactly what happened with the case," she told Reuters. "As you can probably imagine, I think she had a lot of other issues she was dealing with as well."

Baeza credited the supervisor with remaining calm and allowing officers to evacuate the other employees and members of the public who were in the building.

He had been with the state agency for 24 years and had been a supervisor since 2000, Goodman said. She said the commission will provide counseling for its workers.

"They go into this profession because they really want to help people, so when something like this happens, it's doubly traumatic for them," she said.

She also said the commission will look at what it needs to do to ensure its offices are safe for staff and the public. She said there was an unarmed security guard on duty on Monday at the Laredo office, where Texans can go to apply for food stamps and other programs.

"This is the kind of thing you hear of happening in other places, but not in our quiet home town," Baeza said.

(Additional reporting by Corrie MacLaggan in Austin; Editing by Greg McCune)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111206/us_nm/us_crime_foodstampoffice_texas

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Marlins boost offer to Pujols

UPDATE II: It?s fair to say that Pujols? agent walked away from tonight?s meeting happy. Scott Miller of CBSSports.com reports that the Marlins have ?boosted? their nine-year offer to the free agent first baseman.

No word on the specific terms, but ?one person with knowledge of the talks? said negotiations will likely play out more before a decision is reached. The Marlins? initial reported offer was said to be for significantly less than the nine-year, $198-210 million deal offered by the Cardinals earlier this year, so this may not mean a lot yet.

UPDATE: Jayson Stark of ESPN.com confirms that the Marlins and Pujols? agent will indeed meet again tonight.

8:03 PM: It appears that the Marlins and Dan Lozano, the agent for Albert Pujols, are already setting up another meeting, having met already once this afternoon.

The Cardinals, too, are due to meet again with Lozano. According to Newsday?s Ken Davidoff, they view the Marlins as a real threat to land the three-time MVP.

St. Louis isn?t known to have made a new offer to Pujols since he turned down a nine-year, $198 million extension in January, and reports indicate that they?re not willing to go much higher now. While $200 million sounds nice, the $22 million per year would put Pujols behind Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Howard, CC Sabathia, Cliff Lee, Joe Mauer, Johan Santana and Mark Teixeira in terms of annual salary.

Despite having already spent $106 million on Jose Reyes and $27 million on Heath Bell, the Marlins look like legitimate suitors for Pujols. They?d certainly have to eclipse the Cardinals? offer to have a shot, but as much as Pujols is believed to enjoy playing in St. Louis, he may not take kindly to the perceived lack of respect being displayed in contract negotations. Pujols has never come close to earning what he?s worth, and while it?s true that the Cardinals don?t rake in dollars like the Yankees and Red Sox, they did outbid everyone for a premier talent in Matt Holliday two years ago.

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A Weekly Roundup of Small-Business News - NYTimes.com

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A weekly roundup of small-business developments.

What?s affecting me, my clients and other small-business owners this week.

The Big Story: Consumer Confidence

Consumer confidence surges in November. Cyber Monday sales were up 33 percent over 2010, and up 29.3 percent over Black Friday. Retail e-mail volume also hit a record on Cyber Monday. President Obama supports a very successful Small Business Saturday. Black Friday increased car sales to their best rate since ?cash for clunkers.? Consumer debt fell in the third quarter. But Nathan A. Martin doesn?t believe that retail sales rose as much as reported: ?sales are measured in dollars, not units, thus the outrageous production of money creates inflation ? inflation does not equal growth in sales, it equals growth in money production!?

The Data: Job Numbers Improve

Unemployment falls to 8.6 percent. Non-farm private business sector employment increased by 206,000 from October to November. Small businesses created 55,000 jobs in November. The Restaurant Performance Index stayed unchanged in October. New home sales increased in October but home prices weakened. More than 10 million properties now have negative equity. American Airlines files for Chapter 11, and Caitlin Kenney explains why airlines keep going bankrupt ? but no one can explain why we have to turn off our devices upon takeoff and landing. Fun fact of the week: engineered avian flu could kill half the world?s humans.

The Economy: Central Banks Get Involved

Shares jump as central banks try to ease Europe?s financial woes. Here are five things to know about the deal. But Nigam Arora says the intervention raises questions: ?The only explanation for the massive action is that central banks were concerned about a pending failure that is not publicly known.? Peter Boockvar says another round of quantitative easing is ?all but guaranteed.? Meanwhile, our money supply goes through the roof. Extensions of unemployment benefits and the payroll tax reduction are likely. And this guy wins cubicle of the year.

The Economy 2: Are Small Businesses Surging? Or Dwindling?

Entrepreneur reveals its 10 leading business sectors for 2012 amid ?the strongest entrepreneurial surge in 15 years.? Meanwhile, small businesses dwindle in 97 of 100 markets, but Madeline Schnapp says pockets of strength remain. Marijuana.com sells for $4.2 million. A Web site lists 10 huge engineering projects that could help turn our economic and environmental crises around. The Economist says that shale gas has turned the American energy market on its head, and the United States becomes a net energy exporter for the first time since World War II. Salon explains why this small bookstore matters.

Finance: Wait! Barney, Come Back!

Trendcentral discusses trends in banking that will affect small businesses. Wall Street executives are bracing for the possibility that Maxine Waters will take over for Barney Frank as the senior Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee. The Empire State Building plans an initial public offering. A Wall Street executive says the financial services industry faces ?a paradigm shift.? Booz Allen Hamilton lists 10 cybersecurity trends for financial services in 2012. NASA selects 300 small-business research and technology projects. American Express and some online merchants are giving away $20 million.

Marketing: It?s All About Mobile

Jonathan Farrington offers advice on generating referrals. Heinz Marketing suggests 10 best practices for cold calling, including: ?get comfortable with rejection and have a short memory.? Online ad spending is up 22 percent over last year. Ad-ology 2012 says mobile is the next advertising frontier, and more than 20 percent of small-business owners say they plan to commit more resources to mobile marketing in 2012. A Tech Trends columnist reviews two services that convert regular Web sites into mobile sites. WordPress introduces an alternative to Google AdSense. Lucy Waweru gives advice for getting the best rank in Google places. Matt Zoller Seitz explains why he hates ?I Hate My Teenage Daughter.?

Managing: Do Not Micromanage

Dave Thomas discusses what makes a good manager: ?You hired your respective manager/s for a reason, let them do their job.? Carol Tice shares a small-business owner?s guide to year-end sales success with advice like ?get smart about pricing.? David R. Butcher believes that starting a ?lean initiative? from the position that it?s all about cost reduction is often a recipe for failure. Consultants explain the image theory of decision-making. The Dumb Little Man names 27 productivity killers. Terry Starbucker suggests 10 essential steps to leadership excellence, including: ?Your first three to six months on the job should be more listening than talking. Period.?

Ideas: Dunder Mifflin Makes a Comeback

Chris Burch, founder of J. Christopher Capital, explains how anyone can turn an idea into a business. Now you can buy Dunder Mifflin paper. The Outsourcing Institute plans a Dec. 12 webinar on optimizing your outsourcing relationships. Fred Wilson explains why he hates reception desk nondisclosure agreements: ?They don?t offer you a call to your lawyer to find out what the hell you are signing. It is just sign this or don?t come into our offices.? A man is shot by his own dog.

Start-Up: Bypassing Unemployment

A 27-year-old builds one of the fastest growing apps without spending a dime on marketing. Participants at a Washington Start-Up Weekend develop start-up plans. Millennial entrepreneurs bypass the unemployment line by starting their own companies. Chapman University introduces an eVillage facility with dedicated resources for entrepreneurs and start-up companies. Monica Mehta says that before you start your business you should organize your own finances.

Red Tape: Is the I.R.S. Looking for You?

The United States ranks 69 of 183 nations in tax compliance. Paul Krugman suggests a few things we could tax. Cigar lovers and the industry unite to against the Food and Drug Administration?s regulatory agenda. Health care?s auto-enrollment for smaller companies faces an indefinite delay. Here?s a house made entirely of plastic bottles. One hundred and fifty Web sites are seized in a counterfeit crackdown. The Internal Revenue Service can?t find 100,000 taxpayers who are owed refunds. Bow Wow owes a little money to the I.R.S.

Around the Country: Brooklyn Gets Its Groove Back

Texas manufacturing output declines as Startup Texas rises. Nebraska is seeing more cash for start-ups. North Carolina?s Small Business Taxpayer Recovery Program claims to have helped more than 1,000 small businesses get back on their feet. Kay S. Hymowitz explains how Brooklyn got its groove back. Small businesses in Tennessee are increasing revenue with their smartphones. Cleveland finishes a six-month experiment with food trucks and puts them on the menu for good. A New York City small-business owner helps combat modern-day slavery. This hotel may have the pinkest Christmas tree ever. More people are leaving California than are moving in.

Around the World: Need Credit? Try Cuba!

China?s factory output shrinks for the first time in three years. Zhixing Xiao says that the country has a small-town problem: ?Law is unevenly applied, while schools and medical services don?t stack up the way they do in Bentonville or Blagnac.? An Australian guy explains why a movie about American baseball is important for business owners. Cuba decides to start a small-business loan program. A British man finds a live frog in his chicken sandwich.

Technology: A Taste of Tech

The jetman flies alongside fighter jets. Salesforce.com introduces a new social search product. Google offers a history of search. LifeHacker explains how to build a smartphone projector for a dollar ? and how to get more pages out of your printer when the toner is low. A Harvard professor says the personal computer is dead. Microsoft claims 90 percent of Office 365 subscribers are small businesses with 50 or fewer employees. Ramon Ray introduces his Taste of Tech? video series. David F. Carr reports that Google?s powerful, free video-chat service may be a business meeting alternative to GoToMeeting or Skype. Om Malik reflects on 10 years of tech blogging. This year, Americans viewed 42.6 billion videos, an all-time high (here?s one of a very excited cat).

The Week?s Bests

Ways to improve your e-mail marketing. John Jantsch offers five suggestions, including ?Serve snacks?: ?Currently, my newsletter format is designed to offer several compelling article abstracts grouped into a set of topics that I believe my readers expect from me. ? When I switched to this snack-sized, scanable format, I immediately noted that my response and engagement increased dramatically.?

Analysis of the financial crisis. Matt Yglesias says: ?Having ensured the basic stability of the banking system, monetary policy makers in America proceeded to forget all about their go-getter attitude and ability to reach deep into the practical and legal toolkit in order to get what they want. ? If in a time of crisis, the right thing to do is to get ?crazy,? then there?s plenty more crazy stuff the Fed could be doing to boost overall spending in the American economy. Or if the right thing to do is to stay orthodox and ignore the human consequences, then there was no reason not to stay orthodox three years ago and refuse to lend at anything other than a penalty rate.?

Reason to sell to your existing customers. Karl Stark and Bill Stewart say, ?The problem is that as the management team?s growth expectations increase, it gets increasingly harder to acquire more customers. ? To solve this growth dilemma, (we) need to ask three key questions: What revenue growth will we achieve if we keep our existing customers for just one additional month, on average? What will it cost us to do this by, say, improving customer service or adding customer benefits? How does this growth compare, both in magnitude and cost, to acquiring new customers?

This Week?s Question: Are you making enough of an effort to sell to your existing customers?

Gene Marks owns the Marks Group, a Bala Cynwyd, Pa., consulting firm that helps clients with customer relationship management. You can follow him on Twitter.

Source: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/this-week-in-small-business-are-consumers-and-jobs-back/

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Kanye West Blames Himself For Album Of The Year Snub

'That's my fault for dropping Watch the Throne and Dark Fantasy the same year,' Yeezy tells fans about coveted Grammy nom.
By Rob Markman


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Everyone knows that Kanye West takes his awards very seriously, but those who were excepting a Yeezy meltdown for his Grammy Album of the Year snub will be disappointed.

On Thursday during the Chicago stop of 'Ye and Hov's Watch the Throne Tour, the hometown MC, who is leading the 2012 nominees with seven Grammy nods, addressed the crowd.

'Something I figured out earlier today, because you know everybody came to me last night like, 'Congratulations,' because you know I'm leading — I have the most Grammy nominations once again, like we always do at this time," Kanye said, drawing thunderous applause from the United Center crowd.

"But, you know, people focus, they say, 'You ain't have Album of the Year or Record of the Year,' " he continued as the fan cheers quickly turned to disapproving boos.

Then the outspoken rap star did the unexpected. Instead of sending shots toward the Grammy committee, Kanye blamed himself: "I figured it out though. That's my fault for dropping Watch the Throne and Dark Fantasy the same year. I should've just spaced it out, just a little bit more."

In November 2010, 'Ye released his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,. The platinum LP was both critically acclaimed and a commercial success thanks to surefire singles like the rambunctious "Power," the reflective sing-along "Runaway" and "All of the Lights," which is nominated for Song of the Year and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.

Nine months after MBDTF, in August 2011, the Louis Vuitton Don hooked up with Jay-Z to release their tag-team album Watch the Throne. Both Yeezy LPs are nominated in the Best Rap Album category, but neither is in contention for the coveted Album of the Year Award. Instead Adele, the Foo Fighters, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and Rihanna will duke it out for the golden gramophone. Surprisingly Kanye West isn't sweating it, though. "Don't worry because me and Hov are gonna keep on making sh--," he said to the crowd.

Does this mean we can expect a Watch the Throne sequel? Guess we'll have to wait till next year to see.

What do you think of Kanye's reaction? Should he have spazzed? Tell us in the comments!

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