Saturday, December 31, 2011

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Test-firing of Iran long-range missiles in Gulf delayed-TV (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters) ? Iran's senior navy commander denied state media reports that the Islamic Republic had test-fired long-range missiles during a naval drill on Saturday, saying the missiles would be launched in the coming days.

Mahmoud Mousavi told Iran's English-language Press TV "the exercise of launching missiles will be carried out in the coming days."

The semi-official Fars news agency had earlier reported that Iran had test-fired long-range and other missiles during the exercise on Saturday.

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Friday, December 30, 2011

Gov't to pay family $17.8M for military jet crash

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. government to pay $17.8 million to a family that lost four members when a Marine Corps fighter jet crashed into their San Diego home in 2008.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller's ruling came after a nonjury trial between the Department of Justice and the family, who sought $56 million for emotional and monetary loss.

Don Yoon lost his 36-year-old wife, Youngmi Lee Yoon; his 15-month-old daughter, Grace; his 2-month-old daughter, Rachel; and his 59-year-old mother-in-law, Seokim Kim Lee, who was visiting from Korea to help her eldest daughter take care of their children.

Yoon said in a statement that Miller's ruling was "thoughtful, reasoned and just." Yoon broke down crying throughout his testimony, which came three years to the day when he buried his wife and baby girls in the same casket. He told the judge he only looks forward to the day when he can join them.

"Our family is relieved this part of the process is over, but no sum of money will ever make up for the loss of our loved ones," he said.

The Marine Corps has said the plane suffered a mechanical failure but a series of bad decisions led the pilot ? a student ? to bypass a potentially safe landing at a coastal Navy base after his engine failed on Dec. 8, 2008. The pilot ejected and told investigators he screamed in horror as he watched the jet plow into the neighborhood, incinerating two homes.

The case was unique in that the government admitted liability but disputed how much should be paid to Yoon and his extended family. Government lawyers had put economic losses at about $1 million but left it up to Miller to decide how much should be paid for the loss of love and companionship.

Department of Justice attorneys offered their condolences during the trial but questioned how much the family members depended on each other. The law does not allow victims to be compensated for grief, suffering or punitive damages.

The judge said the deaths of the two girls deprived Yoon of "the comfort, companionship, society and love a young child is capable of providing to a new parent and, then, in later life. By all accounts, the Yoon girls would have been raised with traditional cultural and family values emphasizing love and devotion to parents and family."

He ordered Yoon to be awarded nearly $10 million, and his father-in-law to be given nearly $4 million. The rest should go to the father-in-law's three adult children for the loss of their mother, Seokim Kim Lee.

Miller called Seokim Kim Lee an "extraordinary woman whose profound and loving influence greatly molded, directly or indirectly, virtually every plaintiff in this case," after hearing the testimonies of her husband and children, who flew in from Korea to testify.

"And it's that remarkable influence which informs and helps to measure what fair and reasonable compensation should be awarded in this case," Miller said in his written ruling.

Government attorneys could not be immediately reached for comment Wednesday.

During the trial, the family's attorney, Brian Panish, showed photographs and videos depicting a close-knit farming family whose lives were shattered on two continents by the crash. Youngmi Lee came to the United States in 2004 to marry Yoon.

Yoon said he harbors no ill will toward the Marine pilot "who did everything he could to prevent this tragedy," but added that his family believes "that misguided attempts by the military to save money and cut costs" contributed to the crash.

"If the cost of paying fair compensation as ordered by this court will be factored into the daily decisions by our military in its operations that affect both military and civilian safety," other families may be saved, the family's statement said.

The military disciplined 13 members of the Marines and the Navy for the errors.

In court filings, Panish noted a case in which San Diego Gas & Electric Co. awarded $55.6 million to the heirs of four U.S. Marines who died in a 2004 accident when their helicopters crashed into power lines at Camp Pendleton. Justice attorneys said during the trial that case was one of the highest claims awarded in California and did not fairly represent this kind of case.

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2 planes make emergency landings at Vt. airport

A Vermont airport has responded to two emergency landings on one day.

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A Delta plane carrying about 36 passengers landed safely Wednesday afternoon. No injuries were reported.

Airport officials say the plane was headed from Detroit to Burlington, Vt., when the pilot reported an unexplained banging noise.

Earlier in the day a Chicago-bound United Airlines regional jet made an emergency landing at the two-runway Burlington International Airport shortly after takeoff after a report of smoke in the cargo hold. No injuries were reported among the 66 passengers and four crew members.

United spokesman Rahsaan Johnson says a cockpit indicator light erroneously alerted the flight crew to smoke in the cargo hold. He says passengers flew in a different plane to Chicago and landed safely.

Delta Air Lines Inc. hasn't commented.

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New Florida Atlantic coach Carl Pelini talks staff, recruiting and other topics

Carl Pelini had his first sit down with the media since taking over at Florida Atlantic two weeks ago.

Here are some of the highlights:

* Pelini has hired three coaches, DC Marvin Sanders, secondary coach Ross Watson and Jeff Sims, who will coach an offensive position yet to be determined. He said he the rest of the staff will fall into place once an offensive coordinator is hired. He has spoken to four candidates and hopes to hire one soon.

* On Sanders, Pelini said: ?What it allows me to do is to be a head coach. I?ll still have some involvement with the defense, to not feel like I have to micro manage things over there. I got a guy over there I trust, knows the system. It will allow me to be a head coach, which was my vision, to have involvement on the defense, on the offense, special teams, recruiting. I didn?t want to be a coordinator I wanted to be a head coach. Hiring Marvin was just huge for that.?

* The Owls will return to a 4-3 base defense after switching from a 4-3 to the 3-4 for 2010. Pelini said he did use a three-man front at Nebraska but more as a pressure package on third down.

* Pelini said a coach or two could come from Howard Schnellenberger?s staff. The best bet is Jared Allen, who has been recruiting in Palm Beach County and has been going on the road with Pelini.

* On the reception from the local high schools, Pelini said: ?Very good. We got out and hustled in a lot of schools. The high school coaches are telling me the same thing I believe that there?s great potential here. Our visit weekends in January are filling up fast. We got kids who want to come see what we?re all about. We?ve had some unofficial visits, mid-year kids, junior college kids, really working hard in that respect.?

* Pelini is excited about the recruiting class, one that including three oral commitment from Palm Beach County players: American Heritage RB Jeremy Gaskins, Forest Hill athlete Mikey Bullard and Atlantic receiver Chad Ward.

* Pelini said he?s brought in a lot of kids on unofficial visits. ?That?s going to be a huge part of this process is to sell them on the opportunity to sell them. But that?s what having such a great local recruiting base gives you an opportunity to do.?

* On bringing in Junior College players, Pelini said: ?That is part of the evaluation process. You look at your team and evaluate where you are. We are not going to be a junior college based football team. What you do is look at potential junior college recruits and say, ?Could this guy come in and help us immediately?? The last thing you ever want to do is bring in a bunch of junior college players who can?t play for you right away.?

* Don?t make the mistake of mentioning the Owls were 1-11 this season. ?I made it clear to my players that that is history. I don?t think of this as a 1-11 team. This is the next year?s team. We are going to approach it as winners and with that philosophy. The 1-11 is gone.?

* Pelini once again said he is coming in with a wrecking ball. ?I plan on improving every aspect. Everything is being evaluated. Strength program, conditioning program, academic side, football specific, everything is going to be different. Not commenting on the last staff, it is going to marry my philosophy. For me it is a matter of changing the entire culture. In order to do that, you just can?t start making quick decisions.?

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

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Smallest-ever exoplanets found, one step closer to Earth-twin

These planets, while roughly the size of our planet Earth, are circling very close to their star, giving them fiery temperatures that are most likely too hot to support life, researchers said.

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Two planets orbiting a star 950 light-years from Earth are the smallest, most Earth-size alien worlds known, astronomers announced today (Dec. 20). One of the planets is actually smaller than Earth, scientists say.

These planets, while roughly the size of our planet Earth, are circling very close to their star, giving them fiery temperatures that are most likely too hot to support life, researchers said. The discovery, however, brings scientists one step closer to finding a?true twin of Earth?that may be habitable.

"We've crossed a threshold: For the first time, we've been able to detect planets smaller than the Earth around another star," lead researcher Fran?ois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., told SPACE.com. "We proved that Earth-size planets exist around other stars like the sun, and most importantly, we proved that humanity is able to detect them. It's the beginning of an era."

To discover the new planets, Fressin and his colleagues used?NASA's Kepler space telescope, which noticed the tiny dips in the parent star's brightness when the planets passed in front of it, blocking some of its light (this is called the transit method). The researchers then used ground-based observatories to confirm that the planets actually exist by measuring minute wobbles in the star's position caused by gravitational tugs from its planets.

"These two new planets are the first genuinely?Earth-sized?worlds that have been found orbiting a sunlike star," University of California, Santa Cruz astronomer Greg Laughlin, who was not involved in the new study, said in an email to SPACE.com. "For the past two decades, it has been clear that astronomers would eventually reach this goal, and so it's fantastic to learn that the detection has now been achieved." [Gallery: Smallest Alien Planets Ever Seen]

Chances for life

The two Earth-size planets are among five alien worlds orbiting a star called Kepler-20 that is of the same class (G-type) as our sun, and is slightly cooler.

Two of the star system's planets, Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are 0.87 times and 1.03 times the width of Earth, respectively, making them the smallest exoplanets yet known. They also appear to be rocky, and have masses less than 1.7 and 3 times Earth's mass, respectively. Scientists think that they are composed mainly of silicates and iron, much like the Earth, though they lack our planet's atmsophere.

Kepler-20e makes a circle around its star once every 6.1 days at a distance of 4.7 million miles (7.6 million kilometers) ? almost 20 times closer than Earth, which orbits the sun at around 93 million miles (150 million km).

The planet's sibling, Kepler-20f, makes a full orbit every 19.6 days, at a distance of 10.3 million miles (16.6 million km). Both planets circle closer to their star than Mercury does to the sun. [Infographic: Earth-Size Alien Planets Explained]

These snuggly orbits around their star give the newfound planets steamy temperatures of about 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit (760 degrees Celsius) and 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius) ? way too warm to support liquid water, and probably life, researchers said.

Fressin said the chance of life on either of these planets is "negligible," though the researchers can't exclude the possibility that they used to be habitable in the past, when they might have been farther from their star. There is also a slim chance that there are habitable regions on the planets in spots between their day and night sides (the planets orbit with one half constantly facing their star and the other half always in dark). But astronomers aren't holding out hope.

"The chances of liquid water and life as we know it on Kepler-20e and f are zero," Laughlin said.

Flip-flopped planets

The planetary system around Kepler-20 is an unusual one.

For one thing, scientists say the rocky planets can't have formed in their current locations.

"There's not enough rocky material that close to the host star to form five planets," Fressin said. "They didn't form here; they probably formed farther from their star and migrated in."

Furthermore, the five planets are in an odd order, with the rocky worlds alternating with their gaseous, Neptune-size siblings. That's quite different from most solar systems, including our own, which keeps the rocky terrestrial worlds in close to the sun, with the gas giants farther out.

"The architecture of that solar system is crazy," science team member David Charbonneau of Harvard University said during a Tuesday telecon announcing the finding. "This is the first time that we've seen anything like this."

Scientists will likely have to revise their theories of how planets form to fully understand the Kepler-20 system.

"How did that form?" Fressin said. "I think it's a puzzle the theorists will have to try to explain."

The star's other planets are called Kepler-20b, 20c, and 20d. Their diameters are 15,000 miles (24,000 km), 24,600 miles (40,000 km), and 22,000 miles (35,000 km), respectively, and they orbit Kepler-20 once every 3.7, 10.9, and 77.6 days.

The largest of these, Kepler-20d, weighs a little under 20 times Earth's mass, while Kepler-20c is 16.1 times as heavy as Earth, and Kepler-20b is 8.7 times our planet's mass.

Evolving effort

Scientists say finding the smallest exoplanets yet represents a significant milestone in the fast-evolving effort to learn about planets beyond the solar system.

The first alien planet was discovered in 1996, and the first planet found through the transit method came just 11 years ago. Both of those planets were roughly the size of Jupiter.

"I think we're living in special times," Fressin said. "This was unfeasible 10 years ago, and just with the quality of detectors and the quality of the treatment is it possible now."

The total tally of?known alien planets is above 700. Kepler alone has discovered 28 definite alien planets, and 2,326 planet candidates, since its launch in March 2009.

Earlier this month, the Kepler team announced another landmark find, the?first planet known to occupy the habitable zone?around its star where liquid water, and perhaps life, could exist.

That planet, called Kepler-22b, is about 2.4 times as wide as Earth.

The dream now is for astronomers to combine the two discoveries and find an Earth-size planet that's also orbiting its star in an Earth-like orbit that puts it in the habitable zone.

"The holy grail of the search for other worlds is to find an Earth analogue, a true Earth twin," Fressin said. "We just need to have these two pieces of the puzzle together."

While the newfound planets orbit with periods of 6.1 and 19.6 days, Fressin estimated the habitable zone around Kepler-20 begins at orbits that take roughly 100 days to make a circuit.

Astronomers think it's only a?matter of time before they finally find one?that's just right.

"These discoveries are a great technological step forward ? to detect small planets, in size like Earth ? but these planets are very hot and not in the habitable zone around their star," astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics wrote in an email. Kaltenegger, who studies the habitability of exoplanets, was not involved in the new study. "If we can already find these small planets with radii around Earth's now, some future ones could be in the habitable zone of their stars and THOSE future ones would be great targets to look for liquid water and signatures for life."

A paper detailing the discovery was published online in the journal Nature Dec. 20.

You can follow SPACE.com assistant managing editor Clara Moskowitz on Twitter @ClaraMoskowitz. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter?@Spacedotcom?and on?Facebook.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Last-minute holiday shopping gives lift in finale

A last-minute shopper leaves the Toys R Us flagship store in New York's Times Square, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. As the clock counts down to Christmas Day, retailers have begun a big push to snare procrastinating shoppers searching frantically for last-minute gifts and hoping for final-weekend deals. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

A last-minute shopper leaves the Toys R Us flagship store in New York's Times Square, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. As the clock counts down to Christmas Day, retailers have begun a big push to snare procrastinating shoppers searching frantically for last-minute gifts and hoping for final-weekend deals. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

(AP) ? The holiday shopping season turned out to be two seasons split by a big lull.

A surge in buying in the two weeks before Christmas coupled with a record-breaking Black Friday gave retailers a solid season. The doldrums between the buying binges show how shoppers have learned to wait for the discounts they know will come.

For Dec. 1-24, spending rose 4.7 percent compared with the same period last year, according to research firm ShopperTrak. In November, it rose 4.1 percent. A 4 percent increase is considered a successful season. A combined figure for the whole season won't be available until after Dec. 31.

The increase is good news for the economy, because it shows shoppers were willing and able to fund a holiday splurge. Consumer spending, including major items such as health care, accounts for 70 percent of the economy.

Still, plenty of shoppers are pinched for cash in the slow economic recovery, and were seeking the best deals. Stores have trained even shoppers who are primed to spend to look for a discount.

In the week before Christmas, last-minute shoppers gave retailers a 4.5 percent increase in revenue at stores open at least a year with the same week last year, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers-Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Store Sales Index.

The index estimates sales at 24 major stores including Macy's Inc. and Costco Wholesale Corp. Revenue at stores open at least a year is an important measurement of a retailer's performance because it excludes the effects of stores that open or close during the year.

Total retail revenue for the week ended Saturday rose 14.8 percent compared with the year ago, ShopperTrak estimates.

Gift buyers gained steam as the season went on. The store revenue figure rose 0.9 percent last week from the week before, building on a 3.4 percent increase the week before that.

"The downs and ups were much more accentuated," said Michael P. Niemira, chief economist at the trade group. "It just shows how cautious the consumer is. Consumers are bargain hunters more today than ever before."

The post-Black Friday lull was deeper than usual this year. The two weeks after Thanksgiving weekend showed the biggest percentage sales decline since 2000. Then, during the final two weeks before Christmas, sales surged again, by the highest rate since 2005, Niemira said.

"The holiday season was good but uneven," Niemira said.

Stores are expected to benefit when shoppers come back to spend their gift cards, because people often spend more than the cards' value. In addition, gift card sales are recorded only when shoppers redeem them.

People have more money on their cards to spend. According to an ICSC-Goldman Sachs survey of shoppers conducted Sunday, 18 percent of holiday spending went toward gift cards, up from 14.6 percent last year.

ICSC said it expects holiday sales for November and December to rise in line with its forecast of 3.5 percent.

The week after Christmas, which includes six shopping days, should be strong. But it's being compared with seven days last year because the week as retailers measure it ends on Saturday.

As proof that consumers are timing their spending to when they know they'll get the best bargains, Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, was the biggest sales day, as expected, generating sales of $11.4 billion, up 6.6 percent from a year ago, according to ShopperTrak.

But based on preliminary data, Christmas Eve and Dec. 26 were the second- and third-heaviest spending days of the season, according to ShopperTrak founder Bill Martin. He had originally expected Saturday, Dec. 17, to be the second-largest. Christmas Eve wasn't even forecast to be among the top 10 days.

"Shoppers are willing to spend when they know the biggest discounts are available," said Martin.

ShopperTrak measures foot traffic in 25,000 stores in the U.S. and blends those figures with economic data along with proprietary sales figures from merchants. The data excludes sales from auto dealers, gas stations, restaurants and grocery stores.

A fuller holiday spending picture will come Jan. 5, when stores including Target Corp. and Macy's will release December sales figures.

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Military Wives take out Xmas No.1

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A choir of wives of soldiers serving in Afghanistan topped the British singles charts this week, beating X Factor winners Little Mix to the Christmas No. 1 spot and outselling the rest of the top 12 put together.

Wherever You Are by Military Wives, a song written using excerpts from letters sent between military couples, sold 556,000 copies, the Official Charts Company said.

All proceeds from the single go to The Royal British Legion and the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen Families Association.

"It's a testament to the Military Wives' hard work and the nation's support of them as well as the power of choral singing," said Gareth Malone, the choirmaster who put the group together for a BBC television series, The Choir.

"I'm delighted they have found their voice."

The 100-strong Military Wives choir dislodged from the top spot a cover of Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice's Cannonball by Little Mix, a group of four girls that won this year's X Factor television singing contest.

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Lakers are not even fit for Kings in falling to 0-2 for first time since 2002-03 NBA season

Lakers forward Josh McRoberts, right, goes to the basket against Sacramento center DeMarcus Cousins during the first quarter of Monday's game. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

SACRAMENTO - One game into the shortest season of many of their professional lives, and the Lakers were already hurting when they took the court Monday night at the Power Balance Pavilion to face the Sacramento Kings.

By now you probably know all about the torn ligament in Kobe Bryant's right wrist. Then came word an hour or so before the game that Pau Gasol suffered a sprained right shoulder and Josh McRoberts had a sprained left thumb.

It was double trouble since the Lakers were already without Andrew Bynum, who served the second game of his four-game suspension Monday.

It was just the sort of thing the Kings could exploit en route to a 100-91 victory, dropping the Lakers to 0-2 for the first time since the 2002-03 season.

Gasol and McRoberts were injured during the Lakers' come-from-ahead loss Sunday afternoon to the Chicago Bulls at Staples Center, the first of three games in as many days to start the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season.

The Lakers complete their only stretch of back-to-back-to- back games when they play host to the Utah Jazz tonight at Staples Center. It's only part of a grueling period in which they play six times in eight days, however.

Gasol, who shifted to center from power forward to replace Bynum, was ineffective early but found a better rhythm to start the third quarter. He wore a black neoprene sleeve to protect his shoulder.

McRoberts, who moved from a backup role to the starting

power forward job, couldn't remember how he hurt his thumb. He didn't believe it would trouble him and he contributed some energetic play from the opening tip.

The Lakers looked like a tired and injured team against the Kings, falling behind in the first half and staying behind in the second. Some inspired bench play kept them close in the first half, before Bryant and Gasol fueled a fourth-quarter comeback.

Sacramento led by as many as 15 points in the fourth, then put the game away in the closing minutes.

Bryant scored 29 points on 10-for-24 shooting, including two on a thunderous dunk off a lob pass from Devin Ebanks on a third-quarter fastbreak. Gasol scored all but two of his 15 points in the second half. He also grabbed nine rebounds.

McRoberts had two points, five rebounds and three assists.

Marcus Thornton scored 27 points for the Kings, who were playing their season opener. Rookie Jimmer Fredette had six points in his NBA debut, leaving little doubt that he can be an effective player in the pros after a stellar college career at BYU.

Meanwhile, Devin Ebanks made his second consecutive start at small forward for the Lakers, keeping veterans Matt Barnes, Luke Walton and Metta World Peace on the bench. World Peace (the former Ron Artest) will remain with the second unit.

"It's a job interview," coach Mike Brown said of starting Ebanks, a second-year player. "I have the right to terminate that interview at any time, especially when I have some pretty good veterans sitting and waiting and pushing the guys in front of them."

World Peace then went out and scored 10 points on 5-for-7 shooting in 12 minutes, 25 seconds in the first half, helping to keep the Lakers close to Sacramento before a late collapse enabled the Kings to take a 49-40 lead by halftime.

World Peace finished with 19 points on 8-for-14 shooting.

By game's end, Barnes and Walton also would play.

The Lakers went into the game with five consecutive victories over the Kings in Sacramento, including what many assumed would be their final visit to the place Phil Jackson rather famously called a cow town.

The Kings were close to swapping the state capital for the suburbs of Orange County, but a last-gasp effort by mayor Kevin Johnson and other city officials kept the team from leaving the outdated and renamed Power Balance Pavilion for Anaheim.

"You have to give credit to Kevin Johnson and the city of the Sacramento for doing what they needed to know to give this thing another go," Brown said when asked about the possibility the Lakers might have played Monday at the Honda Center.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Donating An Automotive ? EraNostra

If in case you have an automotive that you understand longer use you will have to imagine donating it to a good cause. Many people are unaware that it is even conceivable to donate cars. In flip they just finally end up taking their car to the junkyard instead. Why give your automotive to the junkyard for pennies, whilst you?ll be able to donate it to help other people which can be in want?

The benefit of donating an automobile is that there are a lot of advantages that pass in conjunction with it which you can no longer even keep in mind of. First of all, it is important to recognise that you?ll be able to donate your automotive even if it is not in very best working condition. With a bit bit of labor your automotive can probably get working again and lend assistance in more ways than one. In addition, you never have to fret about using your automotive to the donation heart or purchasing towing. They are going to at all times come to you to select the car up; no questions asked.

To take provider a step further, donation facilities are also willing to paintings with you in an effort to ensure that the whole thing goes off easily from the start. They provide fast carrier and prompt attention in order that you would not have to head out of your approach to make sure that your automobile is picked up on time, etc. While you donate your automotive there could also be a minimal amount of bureaucracy that you need to maintain; this makes the process even quicker.

Donating an automobile will also be used as a large IRS tax deduction. Many of us are not aware of this, nevertheless it is without doubt one of the very best purposes to donate your car to charity or some other cause. Tax deductions can go a ways in ensuring that you don?t owe money at the end of the year.

And of course the most important advantage of donating an automobile is that you will be serving to other people that are in need. Your automotive would possibly pass to a family that doesn?t have any transportation, or the organization you donate it to might use it to deliver garments, food, or furniture. Both method, you can be rest confident that your donation is going to be put to just right use.

To discover a charity or organization that accepts automotive donations you?ll be able to merely log on or seek the yellow pages. You should not have any problems finding an organization on your area that may be ecstatic to take your automotive off your hands. And if you cannot in finding anybody on your area, try somebody a little additional out. Chances are high that that they are going to be simply excited that can assist you out.

Total, if in case you have an automotive that you now not use glance into donating it. The benefits that pass at the side of this procedure are endless, and you are going to feel a lot better approximately yourself while everything is over and done.

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Chavez appoints new military intelligence chief

Associated Press

Posted on December 24, 2011 at 8:08 PM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has replaced his military intelligence chief.

Chavez says he is appointing Gen. Wilfredo Figueroa Chacin as the new chief of the country's military intelligence agency.

The new appointee replaces Gen. Hugo Carvajal, one of the president's most trusted security chiefs.

Carvajal was one of three close Chavez allies who in 2008 were accused by the U.S. Treasury Department of helping Colombian rebels by supplying arms and aiding drug-trafficking operations.

Chavez has denied those accusations.

The president announced the change during a speech Saturday. He did not say why he made it or what plans he has for Carvajal.

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Monday, December 26, 2011

Notre Dame heralds paint-on solar cells, wants to smear your home with its goop (video)

Leave it to the Fighting Irish to take a stab at solving the world's energy woes. Notre Dame researchers have successfully developed solar cells that can be easily painted on to any conductive surface. Imagine, for a moment, applying this solution to your home rather than attaching solar panels to the roof. The paint mixture incorporates quantum dots of titanium dioxide, which is then coated with either cadmium sulfide or cadmium selenide, and is then suspended in mixture of water and alcohol to create a spreadable compound that's capable of generating electricity. While its efficiency isn't currently much to crow home about -- which hovers around one-percent -- scientists are now actively pursuing ways to improve this aspect while making a more stable compound. Most importantly, the paint can be made cheaply and in large quantities, which suggests that even if efficiency remains in the doldrums, it may be a very worthwhile pursuit. Touchdown Jesus is already watching the video after the break.

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Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. Names Robert L. Holladay, Jr. Vice President and General Counsel

Dec 26 2011 --- Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has named Robert L. Holladay, Jr. as Vice President and General Counsel of Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.

Prior to joining Cal-Maine, Holladay most recently advised the Company as an outside attorney with YoungWilliams, P.A. in Jackson, Mississippi, where he concentrated his practice in corporate, securities and general business law. He has significant experience advising companies of all sizes in a broad range of areas and industries and has been awarded the "AV" rating by Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest possible rating for legal ability and ethical standards. Mr. Holladay was also named a ?Rising Star? in the 2010 and 2011 editions of Super Lawyers magazine.

Mr. Holladay attended the University of Mississippi and holds a Bachelor of Accountancy, cum laude, 1998, and a Master of Taxation, 1999. He holds a J.D., cum laude, 2002, from the University of Mississippi School of Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Mississippi Bar Association, and the Capitol Area Bar Association.

?We are very pleased to have Rob Holladay join Cal-Maine as our new general counsel,? said Dolph Baker, president and chief executive officer of Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. ?Rob is already very familiar with all aspects of our business and he brings a strong background in corporate and business law to our management team. We look forward to his advice and counsel as we execute our growth strategy.?

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Sunday, December 25, 2011

NBA regular season opens. Back to normal? Not quite.

NBA regular season finally arrives with five games on Christmas Day. But TV and technology are changing league revenues and how America will see the NBA regular season.

The NBA regular season finally begins Christmas Day with a slate of five games: Oklahoma City vs. Orlando, the Golden State Warriors vs. the Los Angeles Clippers, the Boston Celtics vs. the New York Knicks, the Chicago Bulls vs. the Los Angeles Lakers, and, in a rematch of last year?s finals, the Miami Heat will meet up with the Dallas Mavericks.?

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So all is back to normal in professional basketball? Not quite. And it's just not the lockout-shortened season will feature 66 games instead of the usual 80-plus.

TV and TV technology are changing the league's revenue streams. And the NBA will have to catch up, if it wants to capitalize on its potential.

Start with the least obvious: Fans are less inclined to go to an actual game.

Oh, they still show up.?Over the past decade, the top attracting team (which changes from year to year) has averaged between 20,000 and 22,000 attendees per game. But except for the top-tier seats, they're less willing to pay for the experience, because it's better watching games at home.

?The gate revenues have been flat and falling since 2006,? says?Kenneth Wilbur, a marketing professor at Duke University?s Fuqua School of Business. So??teams are altering their mix of ticket prices.... Court seat prices are rising just as fast as they ever have. But in the second or third tier of seats in the arena, you get a better view at home. Those prices have been falling in a lot of NBA cities.?

If teams are seeing smaller gate revenues, their TV profits?continue to grow. The NBA has a $485 million annual contract with ABC/ESPN, as well as a $445 million deal with TNT. That works out to about $31 million for each of the league's 30 teams, a deal that wasn?t affected by the games lost during the lockout. Both contracts go through the 2015/16 season.

That's a healthy development, for the most part. The NBA is coming off a strong ratings performance to cap last season. The league finals between the Miami Heat and the Dallas Mavericks netted an average 17.3 million viewers per game. Game 6, in which the Mavericks bested LeBron James and company to win the title, was seen by nearly 24 million people. It was the most watched Game 6 since 2000, and it led to ABC having its best summer week in over a decade.

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AT&T drops T-Mobile bid, Microsoft tries to nix antitrust case

AT&T has dropped its bid to take over T-Mobile USA for $39 billion in the wake of opposition from government regulators who say the deal would violate antitrust laws.

The move by AT&T -- announced Monday afternoon -- was a stunning outcome for the telecom giant that had sought to buy Bellevue-based T-Mobile USA -- an American subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. AT&T had underestimated the opposition it would face from government regulators and from competitors who feared what would become of the highly competitive wireless industry if the merger went through. The deal would have created the nation's largest carrier.

AT&T's decision to scrap its merger plan leaves T-Mobile in limbo. T-Mobile USA?s parent, Deutsche Telekom, is getting $3 billion in cash by the end of the year. And T-Mobile USA will get what Deutsche Telekom calls a ?large package of advanced wireless solutions spectrum? and a seven-year national roaming agreement that will allow T-Mobile to bring faster service to Seattle and other big cities.

The deal gives T-Mobile more time to figure out its future, including upgrading its network and finding a new partner.


Microsoft says that Novell Inc. has insufficient evidence to reasonably support its antitrust lawsuit against the Redmond software giant now that a jury has failed to reach a verdict in the case.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has used the annual Consumer Electronics Show as a platform for CEO Steve Ballmer to showcase his company?s latest hardware and software offerings.

But times are changing, and apparently Ballmer and Microsoft no longer need the exposure from the big tech trade show that it has dominated in the past with presentations and exhibits. Microsoft will make the upcoming 2012 CES show its last because it is relying more heavily on its own marketing campaigns and retail stores to reach its customers.


Here are a few things I am catching up on this week:

The Seattle Mariners are valued at $641 million, according to a Seattle divorce trial judge handling the case of Mariners minority owner Chris Larson, who made his fortune as a programmer at Microsoft

The Seattle Times reports that based on the $593 million sale of the Texas Rangers and $610 million sale of the Houston Astros this year, King Count Superior Court Judge William Downing estimated the Mariners were worth $641 million, considerably higher than the $449 million estimate by Forbes earlier this year.


Amazon?s Lovefilm division and Sony Pictures Television inked a content arrangement giving Lovefilm members in the UK exclusive streaming access to new and upcoming Sony Pictures titles like "The Social Network? and ?Salt.?

The deal between Lovefilm and Sony is the latest in a series of content deals in the UK. Others involve Warner Bros., Entertainment One, STUDIOCANAL, Disney, Momentum and Lionsgate.

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Holiday hazard: Kids turning into spoiled brats

Parents, do you ever get the feeling you've created a monster? Our TODAY Moms/Parenting.com survey shows that most parents fear their kids are spoiled. Psychotherapist Dr. Robi Ludwig shares tips for raising grateful children.

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

DOE researchers achieve important genetic breakthroughs to help develop cheaper biofuels

DOE researchers achieve important genetic breakthroughs to help develop cheaper biofuels [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 22-Dec-2011
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Innovations in RNA manipulation could lead to advances in many products

Washington D.C. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) announced today a major breakthrough in engineering systems of RNA molecules through computer-assisted design, which could lead to important improvements across a range of industries, including the development of cheaper advanced biofuels. Scientists will use these new "RNA machines", to adjust genetic expression in the cells of microorganisms. This will enable scientists to develop new strains of Escherichia coli (E. coli) that are better able to digest switchgrass biomass and convert released sugars to form three types of transportation fuels gasoline, diesel and jet fuels.

"This is a perfect example of how our investments in basic science innovations can pave the way for future industries and solutions to our nation's most important challenges," said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. "This breakthrough at the Joint BioEnergy Institute holds enormous potential for the sustainable production of advanced biofuels and countless other valuable goods."

A breakthrough with E. coli could make it cheaper to produce fuel from switchgrass or other non-food biomass plants to create advanced biofuels with the potential to replace gasoline. While the work at JBEI remains focused on the development of advanced biofuels, JBEI's researchers believe that their concepts may help other researchers to develop many other desired products, including biodegradable plastics and therapeutic drugs. For example, some researchers have already started a project to investigate how to use the "RNA machines" to increase the safety and efficacy of medicine therapies to treat diseases, including diabetes and Parkinson's.

Biological systems are incredibly complex, which makes it difficult to engineer systems of microorganisms that will produce desired products in predictable amounts. JBEI's work, which will be featured in the December 23rd issue of Science magazine, is the first of its kind to set up and adjust a RNA system in a predictable way.

Specifically, researchers focused their design-driven approach on RNA sequences that can fold into complicated three dimensional shapes, called ribozymes and aptazymes. By using JBEI-developed computer-assisted models and simulations, researchers then created complex RNA-based control systems that are able to program a large number of genes. In microorganisms, "commands" that are sent into the cell will be processed by the RNA-based control systems, enabling them to help develop desired products.

One of the major goals of synthetic biology is to produce valuable chemical products from simple, inexpensive and renewable starting materials in a sustainable manner. Computer-assisted models and simulations like the one JBEI developed are essential for doing so. Up to this point, such tools for biology have been very limited and JBEI's breakthrough in applying computer assisted design marks an important technical and conceptual achievement for this field.

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To view additional details about this research, visit http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/12/22/cad-for-rna/.

JBEI, led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is one of three Bioenergy Research Centers established by the DOE's Office of Science in 2007. For more information, visit www.jbei.org.


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DOE researchers achieve important genetic breakthroughs to help develop cheaper biofuels [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 22-Dec-2011
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Contact: Jeff Sherwood
jeff.sherwood@doe.gov
202-586-4940
DOE/US Department of Energy

Innovations in RNA manipulation could lead to advances in many products

Washington D.C. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) announced today a major breakthrough in engineering systems of RNA molecules through computer-assisted design, which could lead to important improvements across a range of industries, including the development of cheaper advanced biofuels. Scientists will use these new "RNA machines", to adjust genetic expression in the cells of microorganisms. This will enable scientists to develop new strains of Escherichia coli (E. coli) that are better able to digest switchgrass biomass and convert released sugars to form three types of transportation fuels gasoline, diesel and jet fuels.

"This is a perfect example of how our investments in basic science innovations can pave the way for future industries and solutions to our nation's most important challenges," said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. "This breakthrough at the Joint BioEnergy Institute holds enormous potential for the sustainable production of advanced biofuels and countless other valuable goods."

A breakthrough with E. coli could make it cheaper to produce fuel from switchgrass or other non-food biomass plants to create advanced biofuels with the potential to replace gasoline. While the work at JBEI remains focused on the development of advanced biofuels, JBEI's researchers believe that their concepts may help other researchers to develop many other desired products, including biodegradable plastics and therapeutic drugs. For example, some researchers have already started a project to investigate how to use the "RNA machines" to increase the safety and efficacy of medicine therapies to treat diseases, including diabetes and Parkinson's.

Biological systems are incredibly complex, which makes it difficult to engineer systems of microorganisms that will produce desired products in predictable amounts. JBEI's work, which will be featured in the December 23rd issue of Science magazine, is the first of its kind to set up and adjust a RNA system in a predictable way.

Specifically, researchers focused their design-driven approach on RNA sequences that can fold into complicated three dimensional shapes, called ribozymes and aptazymes. By using JBEI-developed computer-assisted models and simulations, researchers then created complex RNA-based control systems that are able to program a large number of genes. In microorganisms, "commands" that are sent into the cell will be processed by the RNA-based control systems, enabling them to help develop desired products.

One of the major goals of synthetic biology is to produce valuable chemical products from simple, inexpensive and renewable starting materials in a sustainable manner. Computer-assisted models and simulations like the one JBEI developed are essential for doing so. Up to this point, such tools for biology have been very limited and JBEI's breakthrough in applying computer assisted design marks an important technical and conceptual achievement for this field.

###

To view additional details about this research, visit http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/12/22/cad-for-rna/.

JBEI, led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is one of three Bioenergy Research Centers established by the DOE's Office of Science in 2007. For more information, visit www.jbei.org.


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