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Thursday, June 6, 2013
Stars don't obliterate their planets (very often)
June 6, 2013 ? Stars have an alluring pull on planets, especially those in a class called hot Jupiters, which are gas giants that form farther from their stars before migrating inward and heating up.
Now, a new study using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope shows that hot Jupiters, despite their close-in orbits, are not regularly consumed by their stars. Instead, the planets remain in fairly stable orbits for billions of years, until the day comes when they may ultimately get eaten.
"Eventually, all hot Jupiters get closer and closer to their stars, but in this study we are showing that this process stops before the stars get too close," said Peter Plavchan of NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. "The planets mostly stabilize once their orbits become circular, whipping around their stars every few days."
The study, published recently in the Astrophysical Journal, is the first to demonstrate how the hot Jupiter planets halt their inward march on stars. Gravitational, or tidal, forces of a star circularize and stabilize a planet's orbit; when its orbit finally become circular, the migration ceases.
"When only a few hot Jupiters were known, several models could explain the observations," said Jack Lissauer, a Kepler scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, Calif., not affiliated with the study. "But finding trends in populations of these planets shows that tides, in combination with gravitational forces by often unseen planetary and stellar companions, can bring these giant planets close to their host stars."
Hot Jupiters are giant balls of gas that resemble Jupiter in mass and composition. They don't begin life under the glare of a sun, but form in the chilly outer reaches, as Jupiter did in our solar system. Ultimately, the hot Jupiter planets head in toward their stars, a relatively rare process still poorly understood.
The new study answers questions about the end of the hot Jupiters' travels, revealing what put the brakes on their migration. Previously, there were a handful of theories explaining how this might occur. One theory proposed that the star's magnetic field prevented the planets from going any farther. When a star is young, a planet-forming disk of material surrounds it. The material falls into the star -- a process astronomers call accretion -- but when it hits the magnetic bubble around it, called the magnetosphere, the material travels up and around the bubble, landing on the star from the top and bottom. This bubble could be halting migrating planets, so the theory went.
Another theory held that the planets stopped marching forward when they hit the end of the dusty portion of the planet-forming disk.
"This theory basically said that the dust road a planet travels on ends before the planet falls all the way into the star," said co-author Chris Bilinski of the University of Arizona, Tucson. "A gap forms between the star and the inner edge of its dusty disk where the planets are thought to stop their migration."
And yet a third theory, the one the researchers found to be correct, proposed that a migrating planet stops once the star's tidal forces have completed their job of circularizing its orbit.
To test these and other scenarios, the scientists looked at 126 confirmed planets and more than 2,300 candidates. The majority of the candidates and some of the known planets were identified via NASA's Kepler mission. Kepler has found planets of all sizes and types, including rocky ones that orbit where temperatures are warm enough for liquid water.
The scientists looked at how the planets' distance from their stars varied depending on the mass of the star. It turns out that the various theories explaining what stops migrating planets differ in their predictions of how the mass of a star affects the orbit of the planet. The "tidal forces" theory predicted that the hot Jupiters of more massive stars would orbit farther out, on average.
The survey results matched the "tidal forces" theory and even showed more of a correlation between massive stars and farther-out orbits than predicted.
This may be the end of the road for the mystery of what halts migrating planets, but the journey itself still poses many questions. As gas giants voyage inward, it is thought that they sometimes kick smaller, rocky planets out of the way, and with them any chance of life evolving. Lucky for us, our Jupiter did not voyage toward the sun, and our Earth was left in peace. More studies like this one will help explain these and other secrets of planetary migration.
The technical paper is online at http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/769/2/86/ .
NASA Ames manages Kepler's ground system development, mission operations and science data analysis. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., managed Kepler mission development. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo., developed the Kepler flight system and supports mission operations with JPL at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore archives, hosts and distributes the Kepler science data. Kepler is NASA's 10th Discovery Mission and is funded by NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington.
NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech manages time allocation on the Keck telescope for NASA. JPL manages NASA's Exoplanet Exploration program office. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
More information about the Kepler mission is at http://www.nasa.gov/kepler .
More information about exoplanets and NASA's planet-finding program is at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov .
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/most_popular/~3/F4D8N1_w9HE/130606134722.htm
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BMW's New App Unlocks Your Car's Secret Data To Make You Faster
Modern cars are more sophisticated than they let on. Loaded down with sensors and other electronic equipment, they record and process a ton of data that you never really see. But what if you could harness that data to become a better driver?
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Bonds Introduces Bill Exempting Some Seniors From Paying ... - DCist
The Office of the Chief Financial Officer projects Bonds' bill will reduce the District's property tax revenue by $16 million over four years. David Meadows, a spokesman for Bonds, calls it a "drop in the bucket."
Bonds' bill would apply to homeowners who are at least 75 years old and earn less than $60,000 a year. The District, through its Lower Income Homeownership Exemption Program, abates property taxes for qualifying residents for up to five years after closings.
A spokesman for Mayor Vince Gray says the mayor's office is open to to Bonds' bill. "We support the goal of the legislation but need to review the legislative language," Pedro Ribeiro, a Gray spokesman, tells DCist in an email.
As far as ensuring that the tax break only goes to people who meet the residency requirement, Meadows says people would sign an affidavit claiming they have been in D.C. for at least 25 years. "Let's say it goes into effect in for 2014 taxes, which are filed in 2015," Meadows says. "That's 1990. Property tax records are on file."
Bonds' bill is being referred to the Council's Committee on Finance and Revenue, which is led by Jack Evans (D-Ward 2). Evans plans to announce on Saturday that he will run for mayor in the 2014 election.
Source: http://dcist.com/2013/06/bonds_introduces_bill_exempting_som.php
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Report: 25 detained in Turkey for inciting protest
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained 25 people for "spreading untrue information" on social media and provoking protests.
The Anadolu Agency says Wednesday the people were detained in the city of Izmir for allegedly "inciting the people to enmity and hate." It said police were still looking for 13 others.
Tens of thousands of Turks have joined anti-government protests expressing discontent with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 10-year rule.
Turkey's main broadcast media have been criticized for shunning the coverage of police brutality at the protest onset on Friday. Many people turned to social media to keep up to date with the developments.
Erdogan, who has dismissed the protests as demonstrations organized by an extremist fringe, has referred to the social media as "the worst menace to society."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/report-25-detained-turkey-inciting-protest-075930843.html
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Federer loses quick French QF; Williams back in SF
Switzerland's Roger Federer leaves the court after losing to France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga during their quarterfinal match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Tuesday, June 4, 2013 in Paris. Tsonga won 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
Switzerland's Roger Federer leaves the court after losing to France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga during their quarterfinal match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Tuesday, June 4, 2013 in Paris. Tsonga won 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
Switzerland's Roger Federer answers reporters during a press conference after losing to France's Jo-Wilfried Tsinga in their quarterfinal match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Tuesday, June 4, 2013 in Paris. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga celebrates defeating Switzerland's Roger Federer in three sets 7-5, 6-3, 6-3, in their quarterfinal match at the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Tuesday June 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Serena Williams of the U.S. clenches her fist after scoring against Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova in their quarterfinal match at the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Tuesday June 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga celebrates defeating Switzerland's Roger Federer in three sets 7-5, 6-3, 6-3, in their quarterfinal match at the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Tuesday June 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
PARIS (AP) ? A point from losing the first set of his French Open quarterfinal, Roger Federer shanked a routine forehand, sending the ball 10 feet beyond the opposite baseline.
The Court Philippe Chatrier crowd roared with approval, then loudly chanted the last name of Federer's opponent, Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
That shot was a clear indication that Federer was hardly Federesque on this day. There were plenty of others: He argued with the chair umpire about a call. He dumped overhead smashes into the net. And in a truly rare ungraceful moment, he failed to put a racket to ? or get out of the way of ? a backhand flip by a sliding Tsonga, instead getting hit on the back.
All in all, Federer looked lost out there Tuesday against the sixth-seeded Tsonga, who pounded his way to a 7-5, 6-3, 6-3 victory over the 17-time Grand Slam champion in a 1-hour, 51-minute mismatch remarkable for its lopsidedness and brevity.
"I struggled a little bit everywhere. To be honest, personally, I'm pretty sad about the match and the way I played. But that's how it goes. I tried to figure things out, but it was difficult. And Jo does a good job keeping the pressure on," Federer said.
"He was just ... better in all areas," continued Federer, whose lone French Open title, in 2009, allowed him to equal Pete Sampras' then-record of 14 major championships. "He returned better than I did. Served better than I did. I struggled to find my rhythm."
While Federer quickly faced a big deficit Tuesday and never recovered, Serena Williams was able to get out of a much smaller spot of trouble.
Like Federer, Williams is 31. Like Federer, she's won more than a dozen Grand Slam titles, 15. And like Federer, only one of those trophies came at Roland Garros, in 2002. Trailing in the third set against 2009 French Open winner Svetlana Kuznetsova, the No. 1-seeded Williams won five games in a row en route to a 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 victory that put her back in the semifinals at Paris after a decade's absence.
Williams had lost four consecutive quarterfinals at Roland Garros ? in 2004, 2007, 2009 (to Kuznetsova), 2010 ? and so when she was serving while down 2-0 in the final set Tuesday, "I thought, you know, 'Can't go out like this again.'"
That was a pivotal game, featuring 16 points and three break chances for Kuznetsova, who flubbed the last with a drop shot that floated wide. After finally holding in that game with an inside-out forehand winner as Kuznetsova stumbled to the clay, Williams broke right away with a backhand winner that had her yelling and shaking her fist.
"Unbelievable competitor," Kuznetsova said. "She turns on (her) game when she needs it."
Kuznetsova winced a few times after slow serves, and said afterward she strained an abdominal muscle earlier in the tournament.
"I did push her to the limit, I think, today, even without my serve," Kuznetsova said. "I was serving like, I don't know, a grandmother."
It was the first challenge of the tournament for Williams, who lost 10 games against Kuznetsova after dropping that same number across her first four rounds combined.
"When you don't have tough matches, once you have one, then you are a bit shocked, you know? You don't react well immediately all the time," said Williams' coach, Patrick Moratouglou. "But I'm very proud of her, because she was really, really in a bad situation."
Since a first-round exit at Roland Garros a year ago, Williams is 72-3, and she's currently on a career-long 29-match winning streak. In Thursday's semifinals, she'll face No. 5 Sara Errani, last year's runner-up to Maria Sharapova. Errani reached the semifinals for the third time in the last five major tournaments by beating No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4, 7-6 (6).
Williams is 5-0 against Errani.
"She forces you to play at a very high level to have any chance of winning. I'll have to hit shots hard and deep and make her move," said Errani, who was 0-28 against women ranked in the top five before Tuesday. "As soon as you hit a short ball, Serena gets right on top of you, and she has enough power to end the point."
Next for Tsonga will be No. 4 David Ferrer, who stopped the wild ride of No. 32 Tommy Robredo 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 in an all-Spanish quarterfinal. Robredo won each of his previous three matches despite dropping the first two sets, the first man since 1927 to do that a Grand Slam tournament.
"I wasn't 100 percent ready to fight" on Tuesday after so many lengthy matches, Robredo said, adding: "And playing with a guy like David, who is a machine, it's very tough to be like that."
Ferrer reached his sixth major semifinal; he has yet to win one.
Noting that Tsonga so easily beat Federer, Ferrer said: "I was a bit surprised."
Federer hadn't lost in straight sets before the semifinals at any Grand Slam tournament since a third-round defeat against Gustavo Kuerten in the 2004 French Open.
Starting a month later, when he won Wimbledon, Federer began a stretch of nearly eight full years in which he was unbeaten in Grand Slam quarterfinals, reaching the semifinals at a record 23 major tournaments in a row. Since that run ended, though, quarterfinal exits are becoming a regular occurrence: He has lost at that stage in five of the past 13 Slams, twice to Tsonga, who was the runner-up at the 2008 Australian Open and is trying to give France its first men's champion at Roland Garros since Yannick Noah 30 years ago.
"Everybody's expecting a lot from me," Tsonga said.
The other quarterfinal setback against Tsonga came at Wimbledon in 2011, when Federer lost for the first time in 179 matches after taking the opening two sets.
"He's got a big game. He takes time away from you," Federer said. "He can change defense to offense very quickly. Similar traits to what I have, I guess, really."
Quite a compliment.
This is a guy who reached 10 straight Grand Slam finals from 2005-07, winning eight titles. He also appeared in eight major finals from 2008-10, winning four. But since that run ended, Federer has played in two of the last 13 Slam title matches, winning one, Wimbledon last year.
He actually began well Tuesday, leading 4-2. But that's where he got broken for the first of six times by Tsonga, who let four match points slip away in a quarterfinal loss to Novak Djokovic at Roland Garros in 2012.
"Give him credit: He's playing in his home Grand Slam, in the quarterfinals, against ... the all-time great, and was a break down at the start of the first set. And then was able to stick with it," said Roger Rasheed, who began coaching Tsonga last October.
Federer struggled in the fourth round Sunday against another Frenchman, 15th-seeded Gilles Simon, taking an awkward tumble and falling behind 2-1 in sets. But Federer said after Tuesday's loss he was fine physically.
His game was not fine, not at all, on this day. And Tsonga took full advantage.
Federer had won nine of their previous 12 matches. When they met at the net for a handshake after this one, Tsonga kiddingly thanked Federer for letting him win this time, and both men chuckled.
"Sports, it's beautiful, because you can always do something. Even if you play, you know, the best player in the world ... you have a chance," Tsonga said. "Because the guy in front of you (has) two legs, two arms, one head."
These days, Federer sure does seem more human on a tennis court than he used to.
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Wikipad's $249 Android Gaming Tablet Will (Finally) Make Its U.S. ...
Remember the Wikipad, the Android-powered gaming tablet/hefty controller rig combo that was supposed to launch in 2012 before suffering delay after delay? Well, the wait is just about over ? the company announced earlier today that the $249 gaming tablet will be available on U.S. store shelves starting on June 11, and that a global launch is being prepped for the summer.
The road to an official release has been nothing if not eventful for the Wikipad team. The Android gaming device was originally touted as a 10-inch tablet that was shown off at CES last year and a media tour ahead of a launch slated for the end of October? a deadline that was ultimately pushed back a few times. For a while there it seemed as though the Wikipad might have met its demise, but the tablet re-emerged earlier this year with a 7-inch display running at 1,200 x 800 and the same quad-core Tegra 3 chipset under the hood.
Make no mistake: that 10-inch version is still in the works, but the company hasn?t yet said when it hopes to push the thing out the door save for a vague ?Christmas 2013? window. For better or worse, this more portable 7-inch model will be the vanguard of the Wikipad product line, and some early impressions haven?t exactly been bullish on the tablet?s prospects.
To make things worse, the Android gaming scene just isn?t what it was when Wikipad first decided to take a stab at a game-centric tablet. Sure, the quality of these games has only gotten better as time has passed, but the prospect of churning out dedicated Android gaming hardware has been embraced by some prominent hardware players. Take NVIDIA for instance: it recently joined the fray with the ambitious (if pricey) SHIELD handheld, which will feature (among other things) the ability to stream select PC games, as well as play the usual slew of Android titles. If anything, the Wikipad?s big advantage is the relatively small price tag attached to it, but we?ll soon see if it?s enough to enthrall the masses.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Bomb kills 9 Afghan children, 2 US troops
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A suicide bomber targeting U.S. troops outside an Afghan government office killed nine children walking home from school and two of the Americans on Monday, the latest sign that this year's fighting season could be one of the deadliest of the 12-year-old war.
An increase in casualties among Afghan civilians and security forces reinforces fears that foreign combat forces will be leaving behind a country in the throes of relentless violence when they withdraw next year.
An Afghan official insisted that despite the escalating carnage, the insurgents have made no advances.
With peace talks apparently dead in the water, the Taliban and other militants have fiercely stepped up attacks in recent weeks, unleashing multiple bombings, sieges of international aid groups' compounds and armed attacks on police posts nationwide, and testing the ability of Afghan soldiers and police to hold their ground by themselves.
"The level of violence this year is the highest it has been since the war started in 2001," said Thomas Ruttig of the Afghan Analysts Network, who conducted a detailed study of the first two months of the annual Taliban spring offensive. His analysis of attacks over two months puts the violence on par with 2011, the deadliest year of the war up to now.
Afghan officials say the insurgents have won no new territory or advantage, beyond causing mayhem. But the death toll has soared. In the past two weeks alone, violence has killed 125 Afghan civilians and injured 287, a 24 percent increase in casualties from the same period last year, the United Nations' mission said.
Monday's civilian death toll reached 16 when a family in another eastern province drove their vehicle over a roadside bomb, killing all seven people inside.
The U.N. blamed militant attacks for 84 percent of the recent civilian casualties, saying that tactics like suicide bombings near schools and planting roadside bombs around the country may amount to war crimes.
The Afghan army and police are fighting the insurgency with little or no help from international forces set to pull out next year after fighting in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion to topple the Taliban for sheltering al-Qaida's terrorist leadership after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Apparently to test the Afghan forces mettle, or rattle a nervous populace, the insurgents have chosen to ratchet up attacks rather than join a halting peace talk effort ? or simply wait until after most international troops leave by the end of next year.
In the latest attacks, a bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives in the eastern province of Paktia, said Gen. Zelmia Oryakhail. The apparent target was a U.S. delegation, but children were the main victims.
A local school had just let pupils, between 10 and 16 years old, out for the day. Nine students were killed, along with an Afghan policeman, he said.
Many of the children's bodies were burned beyond recognition, he said.
A U.S. military delegation had just attended a security briefing at the district administrative office, said district chief Saleh Mohammad Ahsas, who was in the meeting. He said the bomber appeared to have been waiting for the delegation and struck as the Americans left the compound.
The U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan said that two of its service members died in the explosion. A Defense Department official in Washington confirmed they were Americans. He could not be identified because he was not authorized to discuss the nationalities with reporters.
Seven more Afghan civilians were killed Monday in the eastern province of Laghman, where the provincial government said four women and two children had gone with a male driver into the hills to collect firewood. On their way back, their vehicle detonated a bomb, killing all seven.
Ruttig said the latest Taliban "spring offensive" differs from previous years in that the violence, which usually drops sharply during winter months, never really slowed. Since April's official launch of the offensive, militants have used a broad range of tactics, including suicide bombings, assassinations of key anti-Taliban figures and roadside bombs.
Militants also have attacked buildings used by two international aid groups ? the International Committee of the Red Cross and the U.N.-affiliated International Organization for Migration ? raising concerns the insurgency now views humanitarian groups as fair game.
In the past two weeks, hundreds of Taliban fighters have attempted to take over more territory with attacks on police posts.
Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi confirmed the Taliban have launched multiple assaults ? assisted, he said, by al-Qaida and the Pakistan-based Haqqani terrorist network ? but he insisted Afghan forces were holding their ground.
"The enemy was not able to get control of a single district, not even a police checkpoint," Sediqi said, noting that in the last week alone, security forces have killed 196 Taliban and arrested 117.
The escalation has also taken a toll on Afghan forces. At least 441 security forces have died in fighting or bombings in the first five months of this year, more than twice the number killed during the same period last year, according to statistics compiled by The Associated Press.
Even as the violence soars, there are tentative efforts to encourage negotiations.
The Taliban confirmed on Monday that it sent a delegation to Iran for three days of talks, signaling that Tehran could be seeking the role of regional mediator in attempts to end its neighbor's war.
Spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi said that emissaries from the Taliban's political office met with Iranian officials over the weekend. It was an unprecedented development, since the Sunni Muslim Taliban have long been enemies of Iran's ruling Shiite clerics.
The Taliban have indicated in the past they are open to peace talks, but negotiations have always sputtered because the insurgents are unwilling to talk with the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whom they deem a puppet of the U.S.
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Associated Press writer Rahim Faiez contributed from Kabul.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bomb-kills-9-afghan-children-2-us-troops-204138595.html
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IBM to buy website hosting service SoftLayer
By Jennifer Saba
(Reuters) - International Business Machines said on Tuesday it would acquire Web hosting company SoftLayer Technologies and create a new division for clients interested in so-called cloud services, a move to better compete with larger rivals in the space.
Executives with IBM and SoftLayer declined to comment on the terms of the deal on a call with reporters.
Reuters reported in March that IBM, among others, had been in talks to buy SoftLayer in a deal that could fetch more than $2 billion.
Dallas-based SoftLayer, which leases online storage space to companies, was founded in 2005 and has become what it says is the world's largest privately held website hosting service. The company provides its 25,000 customers, including AT&T Inc and Citrix Systems Inc, with cloud infrastructure.
The company competes with Amazon.com Inc's Web services business and Rackspace Hosting Inc.
Like rivals Hewlett Packard Co and Microsoft Corp, IBM has increasingly invested in cloud services as corporate users move away from costly internal information technology infrastructure.
IBM has traditionally specialized in assisting large corporate and government users but has been trying in recent years to expand into smaller businesses.
AIMING BIG
But Erich Clementi, senior vice president of IBM Global Technology Services, said on a call with reporters that IBM is shooting squarely for the large business segment with this acquisition.
"We are the largest infrastructure provider to the enterprise world on the planet," he said "That is our focus."
Over the last few years, Web hosting companies have been considered attractive takeover candidates as technology and telecom companies look to improve the performance and cost efficiencies of their cloud computing services for businesses.
Wells Fargo analyst Gray Powell estimated that the transaction was worth 11.1 times SoftLayer's projected 2013 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.
That compares with Rackspace, which is currently trading at 11 times 2013 estimated EBITDA, Powell noted.
IBM said it expected to gain $7 billion annually in revenue from cloud services by the end of 2015. It created a new division called Cloud Services, which will combine SoftLayer and IBM's existing offerings into a global platform.
SoftLayer is majority held by GI Partners, which purchased all of the equity in partnership with the company's management in August 2010.
Data storage equipment maker EMC had been approached about SoftLayer as well. An EMC spokesman said on Tuesday, "EMC was initially approached, uninterested and decided not to bid."
IBM said it expected the deal to close in the third quarter.
Shares of IBM were down about 1 percent at $206.78.
(Reporting by Jennifer Saba in New York; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Carol Bishopric)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ibm-buy-website-hosting-softlayer-134620596.html
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Monday, June 3, 2013
Video: Glenn Close: With mental health in mind, I'd do "Fatal Attraction" "totally differently" (cbsnews)
Tim Samaras Dead: Storm Chasers Star Dies in Oklahoma Tornado ...
Storm Chasers star Tim Samaras was among nine people killed in the storms that struck Oklahoma on Friday, May 31, CNN reports, citing relatives. He was 55 years old.
PHOTOS: Stars we've lost
The Discovery Channel personality and his 24-year-old son, Paul Samaras, died while chasing a tornado in El Reno, family members told the news organization. They were accompanied by fellow storm chaser Carl Young, 45, who also passed away.
"Thank you to everyone for the condolences. It truly is sad that we lost my great brother Tim and his great son, Paul," brother Jim Samaras wrote on Facebook.
PHOTOS: Stars gone too soon
"Our hearts also go out to the Carl Young family as well, as they are feeling the same feelings we are today," he added. "They all unfortunately passed away but doing what they LOVED. Chasing tornadoes. I look at it that he is in the 'big tornado in the sky...'"
PHOTOS: Reality TV tragedies
Storm Chasers aired on the Discovery Channel for five years. Shortly after Samaras' death, the network expressed its condolences in a statement.
"We are deeply saddened by the loss of Carl Young, Tim Samaras, and his son," the statement read. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families."
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The Scientific Mystery of How Sound Explodes into Light
We've seen the Pistol shrimp snap its claws so fast that you can only see it at 10,000 frames-per-second
As MinutePhysics explains, the phenomenon, called "sonoluminescence," is easy to reproduce, but way more difficult to understand. The flashes of light last a mere .0000000001 seconds, and are hotter than the surface of the sun, but what goes on in there is still up for grabs. Is it a flash of plasma? Burning Argon? Exploding H20? All are possibilites. Time to round up those Pistol shrimp and get them talking.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/the-scientific-mystery-of-how-sound-explodes-into-light-511056600
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'Mars rat' taking Internet by storm
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Once seen, it cannot be unseen. The "Mars rat" captured by Curiosity's lens.
By Mike Wall, Space.com
A Mars rock that bears a passing resemblance to a rodent is scuttling across the Internet with gusto, even inspiring some fans to set up a Twitter account in its name.
UFO buffs spotted the purported "Mars rat" in a panoramic photo snapped in September 2012 by NASA's Curiosity rover. Zooming in on a portion of the image reveals what appears to be a rodent crouching between two rocks, its nose to the ground.
"It's a cute rodent on Mars. Note its lighter-color upper and lower eyelids, its nose and cheek areas, its ear, its front leg and stomach," Scott Waring wrote at UFO Sightings Daily ?back in December. "Looks similar to a squirrel camouflaged in the stones and sand by its colors." [ 'Mars Rat' Photographed by Curiosity Rover (Video) ]
In an update to that post, Waring raised the possibility that NASA flew the rat/squirrel to Mars ?secretly, as part of an experiment testing out the Red Planet's ability to support life as we know it.
"Why would they not tell us about it?" Waring wrote. "Because the squirrel would be expected to die eventually and that would get PETA [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals] to fight against them in a court of law."
The Mars rat has now gone viral, jumping from the pages of UFO Sightings Daily to more mainstream publications such as Discovery News, Fox News and a host of other outlets (including, of course, SPACE.com).
The rodent has even picked up its own Twitter account, @RealMarsRat. Just 49 people were following the rat as of Friday afternoon (May 31), but that's still pretty good for a rodent.
While some people seem to really believe that a squirrel is crawling around on the Red Planet (or was in September, anyway), the Mars rodent is actually an example of a psychological phenomenon called pareidolia.
Pareidolia refers to the tendency of the human brain to perceive animals or other familiar shapes in vague or random images. The phenomenon has fueled a great deal of excited speculation about the Red Planet over the years, most famously after some people saw a humanoid face on Mars in photos taken by NASA's Viking 1 orbiter in 1976.
And just this March, UFO Sightings Daily reported that an apparent animal, perhaps a rat or a lizard, lurked in another one of Curiosity's photos.
It's highly unlikely that a rat, squirrel, lizard or any other organism could survive on the cold, dry Martian surface today, researchers say, though some scientists think the Red Planet may still be able to support microbial life in select underground pockets.
Things were likely different in Mars' wetter and warmer past, however. Curiosity's observations led mission scientists to announce earlier this year that microbes could have survived on the Red Planet billions of years ago.
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ARE OUR FAMILY COURTS ENABLING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSERS?
BATTERED MOTHERS TAKE THEIR CASE TO WASHINGTON
When 16-year-old Damon Moelter took advantage of Nevada?s liberal marriage laws and tied the knot at one of Reno?s iconic kitsch ?chapels? recently, his ceremony marked the start of something remarkable. It wasn?t his age or the fact that he had only met his bride in person a few hours prior to the wedding that was most significant.
What distinguishes this marriage and this groom from any other who might travel to Nevada to experience its offbeat brand of wedding services was that Damon chose to marry to protect himself from Family Court custody decisions stemming from his parents longstanding divorce battle. A marriage certificate gave him legal emancipation from his father, whom he claims has repeatedly sexually molested him, and from Family Court rulings that stripped his protective mother of custody and forced him to live under the sole confines of his abusive father.
Damon?s mother, Cindy Dumas, explained:
?I have never doubted my son. I fought for 10 years to protect him in the Family Court system. I did everything I could but the judges wouldn?t listen to me. They wouldn?t listen to my son. So when he?d turned 14, he ran away from his father and was in hiding for a year and a half.?
Unlike most custody battles that are played out privately behind the closed doors of Family Court, Damon?s story captured public attention when, from the age of 13, he began to upload videos to YouTube calling for recognition that he was a victim of his sexually abusive father whom he said had threatened to kill him if he spoke out. His father, Eric Moelter, has persistently denied the accusations, maintaining his son and former wife are delusional.
Phyllis Chesler, Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women?s Studies at City University, New York, has spent at least three decades observing cases such as Damon?s.
She says no one would argue that all mothers are perfect, but most are ?good enough? and very few go to court with a record that suggests they are genuinely ?unfit? to parent. Yet, she says, increasingly, mothers are losing custody to fathers they allege are abusing the children.
Chesler is also a psychotherapist, expert courtroom witness and author of the recently updated, seminal treatise on abuse and child custody, ?Mothers on Trial.? In her opinion:
?The courts don?t seem to realize a good father, by definition, doesn?t launch the custody battle from hell. Battles can take tens of years ? like going through a war. No one emerges unscathed, least of all the children whom the courts are supposed to protect.?
Over the years, Chesler has seen a pattern emerging:
As she explains:
?Some mothers lost custody of their children to their batterers. Many battered mothers lost their children when they alleged their violent husbands had also been sexually abusing their child. Often such mothers are seen as ?crazy,? and as ?alienating? the child from their ?perfectly nice? father.
The court system does not want to believe that a well-spoken, charismatic man could really be a savage wife-beater or child abuser. It is easier to believe that his traumatized, sleepless, frightened and rapidly impoverished wife is lying, exaggerating or imagining things. I have interviewed many such mothers.?
In 1986, after eight years of researching, Phyllis Chesler was the first academic to debunk the common misconception that mothers are more likely to win custody battles than fathers. She makes the significant distinction that mothers are usually the primary parent caring for children during the marriage, therefore they do not ?win? custody as such, they ?retain? it when fathers chose not to fight and custody of the children is agreed upon between parents. Chesler vouches for an increasing body of statistical research that demonstrates when fathers do fight for custody, and divorces goes to trial - contesting fathers win custody at least 70 percent of the time.
Many mothers might have cracked under the pressure of losing custody to a man they believe is molesting their child, but Cindy Dumas has shown remarkable tenacity and held her nerve. Likewise, over the course of proceedings, Damon came under the scrutiny of several judges, and an array of court appointed evaluators and therapists. Some tried to persuade him the abuse never happened; yet, he never veered from his molestation claims. He?s remained adamant that he has no wish to live with his father. He said he would not feel safe.
While on the run from his father, Damon moved between secret havens provided by Good Samaritans. He conducted a social media campaign and petitioned the court to honor his right to be safe, to grant custody to his mother or give him emancipation. All avenues failed to bring him the security he desperately sought.
An unlikely champion stepped forward, and Damon?s story was taken up by Fox 11-LA which followed the fugitive. His attorney, Pat Barry, told Fox 11:
?The legal system refuses to acknowledge just how much, how badly they botch these cases for children.?
Typically, mainstream media exhibit extreme reticence to cover divorce and custody cases that are not celebrity focused, often citing privacy issues or limited resources to investigate the complexities of highly contentious cases and deliver balanced, objective reports. Even cases considered newsworthy because they involve the death of a child at the hands of a parent previously identified by a former spouse as abusive, tend to be treated as isolated incidents.
Significant stories and trends that should be newsworthy are therefore being missed, and in some cases - ignored. Crimes, such as the kidnappings of three women in Cleveland and Jaycee Dugard, draw huge response from media and public. But, crimes of equal depravity and ongoing cruelty that are Family Law based don?t get the scrutiny they deserve.
Fox11 is, so far, one of the few media outlets to cover what is emerging as a tragedy of epidemic proportions in the U.S., mirrored by equally disturbing cases around the world.
Figures released by the Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence (a nonprofit independent scientific organization composed of scientists, clinicians, educators, legal scholars, and public policy analysts), show as many as 58,000 U.S. children a year are being taken from their protective parent and placed into custody or unsupervised visitation with molesters and batterers.
The National Safe Child Coalition (NSCC) has appealed to the Surgeon General to have child sexual abuse declared an epidemic, and are in communications with the Victims? Rights Caucus to raise concern about Human Rights violations of child victims.
While there are protective fathers, and couples in same sex relationships battling over child custody and visitation rights, these cases are comparatively small in number. It is evident from reports and statistics emerging from The Leadership Council, various domestic violence agencies and the Center for Disease Control - vast numbers of children are being taken from ?good enough? mothers and placed in harm?s way in the custody or care of their abusive fathers.
Statistics on domestic violence and child sexual abuse show that perpetrators are, most likely, male - usually the child?s father or someone who is part of the child?s familial circle of trust. In the case of child sexual abuse, the Leadership Council examined law enforcement as well as victim self-report data. As a result, it is estimated up to 90% of the perpetrators are male.
When divorce rates over time are factored in, Dr. Joy Silberg, Executive Vice President of the Leadership Council says;
?A conservative estimate, based on available research leads us to conclude: at any point in time, it is likely that half a million children are left unprotected from a violent parent after their parent?s divorce and this parent is, more often than not - their father.?
Many of these children are said to be held captive -psychologically and sometimes physically -by their abusive father, restrained from contact with their healthy, protective mother and subjected to subversive reasoning powers.
The behavior has been termed ?Domestic Violence By Proxy.? It was first coined by Dr. Alina Patterson in her book ?Health and Healing,? published in 2003, and is used in Leadership Council reports.
In these cases, it is said, the father might threaten to harm the children if they display a positive bond with their mother. He might destroy favored possessions given by the mother, or use emotional torture; telling the child the mother doesn?t want to see them because she doesn?t love them. In reality the mother may be court ordered not to see her children or may have severely restricted contact. The father may coach the children to make false allegations against their mother and combine this with creating and presenting fraudulent documents to the court to disadvantage the mother further.
In the most severe cases, DV By Proxy may lead to a child becoming trapped in a state of emotional mind that psychologists trained in domestic violence describe as: ?traumatic bonding? ? similar to Stockholm syndrome.
The Fox 11 series ?Lost in the System? refers to specific cases, whereas, the Washington Post published an editorial based on developments at the tenth, annual Battered Mothers? Custody Conference (BMCC X). This year, it was held in Washington DC at the George Washington University Law School over the Mothers? Day weekend, in a bid to bring battered mother?s child custody concerns to the heart of government.
The conference offers a national, public forum to explore and expose the many complex issues facing battered women and the children they seek to protect when facing the machinations of Family Court Law and those practitioners involved in the cottage industry associated with divorce and child custody matters.
For ten years, speakers, representing many of the keenest minds in research and advocacy for battered mothers and their children have gathered to share ideas and push for change. They represent the vanguard of the fight for improved outcomes from the justice system, with child safety the paramount objective.
The lessons learned from this year?s conference will be carried forward over the months ahead.
Currently, custody rulings are made on a judge?s arbitrary interpretations of legal tenets relating to the ?Best Interests of the Child.? Findings from studies conducted by Phyllis Chesler, The Leadership Council and others, have been confirmed by Barry Goldstein and Dr. Mo Therese Hannah, co-editors of ?Domestic Violence, Abuse and Child Custody.? The authors agree that Family Court judges show a marked deference to fathers? rights and a casualty of this practice has been child safety.
I attended the conference and listened to several speakers explain how millions of taxpayer dollars have been poured into the federally funded ?Fatherhood Initiative? to encourage fathers to become more involved in child rearing. It seems a tragic and unforeseen result has been the reunification of children with their abusive fathers, to the detriment of child safety concerns.
Likewise, Adjunct Professor of Sexual Violence at New England Law, Boston, impact litigator, former prosecutor and author of ?And Justice for Some,? Wendy Murphy, told how judges - faced with the decision of whether to put sex offenders and abusers behind bars -are pressured to put them back on the street to take advantage of questionable treatment programs funded by public money.
One of the most striking revelations came from Camille Cooper, Director of Legislative Affairs for ?Protect,? which spearheaded two successful acts of Congress to further child protection. Cooper unveiled an interactive map produced by the ?Internet Crimes against Children Taskforce.? She said law enforcement knows the whereabouts of 500,000 individual IP addresses trading in sadistic images. 
She said it was the first time in the history of this issue that such a map had ever been shown to the American public showing the magnitude of child sexual abuse. But even with the tools to nail sex offenders through their Internet activity, it emerged there is a gross disparity between known offences and actual prosecutions in criminal or family court. Due to lack of resources to fund an adequate response, only 2% of cases identified have been investigated.
Cooper said the evidence gives the lie to claims that incidences of child sexual abuse are on the decline. And she insisted it is not appropriate to refer to the 30 million images produced simply as child pornography.
?These are crime scene images of very young children being tortured and raped.?
Combined with CDC findings that there is an incidence reported of overall child abuse or neglect every 10 seconds, the clear record of criminal Internet activity involving child sexual abuse casts a dim light on the trend of family court judge?s to automatically doubt the validity of mothers? claims when they make allegations of domestic violence and child sexual abuse.
Phyllis Chesler, who was keynote speaker for the conference, used strong language to define her frustration:
?There is now a toxic bias in the family courts, resulting in court enabled incest and the legal torture of protective mothers.?
Some solutions were suggested by Murphy. She argued that domestic violence and child sexual abuse should be handled by criminal court and not left to the intervention of social workers and family court judges. She also argued for civil rights, regarding gender discrimination, and human rights issues to be brought to the fore. She stressed that violence against any person based on who they are in society is a crime against the fabric of civilized democracy.
I met with Damon and his mother. They had both come to the conference and appeared calm and collected and very relieved Damon is now free to take up a more ?normal? life. Conference events concluded with a march and vigil with advocacy group, Mothers of Lost Children outside the White House, followed by a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill at the invitation of the NSCC.
Damon?s mother, Cindy Dumas, addressed a crowd outside the White House:
?I?m here to speak out for other kids and hope the public become aware that this is a very serious and prevalent problem in our courts. Our Family Court judges every day give custody of children to abusers and molesters. This is not an accident. It is not out of ignorance and incredulity. It is a systematic, methodical cover-up of abuse, especially of sexual abuse. Just like Penn State, the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts. We have to do something about it. Kids are suffering. There are thousands and thousands of children suffering because our Family Court judges are handing them over to abusers.?
The NSCC is supporting Mothers of Lost Children in asking for a Federal Oversight Hearing into the violation of civil rights when protective parents lose custody of the children they are trying to protect.
Compelling evidence was presented to senators and congressmen outlining the failure of family courts in the 50 States to protect victims of domestic abuse and their children during divorce and custodial hearings. The follow-through from these meetings is expected to gather pace in the coming weeks as the mothers continue to organize and hone their campaign for justice and safety for their children.
Members of the NSCC met with staff members from the offices of Senators Durbin, Franken, Boxer, Feinstein, Casey, Gillibrand, Hagan, Brown, Portman, Menendez, Schumer, Toomey, Thune, Leahy, Sanders, Kaine, Lautenberg, Reid, and Merkley, along with Congress members Conyers, Hoyer, Cardenas, Maloney, Neal, Poe, and Costa. Initial responses were encouraging, and behind the scenes, the work goes on.
A strong supporter of improved justice and safety for protective mothers and their children is White House advisor to the Vice President on the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Lynn Rosenthall. She has openly acknowledged the high levels of discrimination against women in family courts. Rosenthall is encouraging protective mums to petition for change. She has offered to use her position to pass on any targeted recommendations stemming from the conference and its aftermath to Congress. She said a Federal task force was being convened to respond to the Family Court crisis.
One, wheelchair-bound mother told representatives of the Congressional Judiciary Committee her back had been broken by her violent former husband and her eldest son had committed suicide while in the care of his family. She said the combined trauma and tragedy had limited her ability to maintain employment and yet she?d been court ordered to pay child support to her custodial ex. She described how she?d been put in jail for accepting and smoking a cigarette after the judge told her she was under order to hand any gifts over to her ex in lieu of child support. She said he told her she should have sold the cigarette and given the income to her former husband.
Hearing her story and others, Ron Legrand, Democratic Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary said:
?I?m truly shocked and disturbed. Once in a lifetime something comes along that you feel you have to go out on a limb and give your all to support. This is such a cause.?
Likewise, for Nevada, Senator Reid?s office promised to do whatever it took to bring some satisfactory resolution to the dire state of custody rulings in the Family Court and the clear failure of the court system to keep children safe.
Dumas? story is typical of protective mothers around the nation. Lobbyist, Connie Valentine, a vocal member of the California Protective Parents Association (CPPA), said she?s observed over the years of attending the conference:
?One mother can start her story and another can finish it. Specific details may be different but the general stories are all the same.?
Since the inception of BMCC, ten years ago, mothers have shared how they and their children suffer, often years, of abuse from their partners. They?ve described domestic violence that can manifest as physical, psychological or sexual in nature. They?ve agreed all forms are interrelated, equally threatening and totally unacceptable. They?ve told how they are wrongfully profiled by judges, attorneys, and an assorted variety of custody evaluators as being the parent most responsible for the collapse of the marriage, the hostility of the divorce and any detrimental effects on the children.
Victimized mothers injured first by their abusers and then again by court processes, have persistently identified the act of making an allegation of abuse as the trigger that results in an onslaught of false accusations and misrepresentation from the opposing party. Too many times, protective mothers have sought to defend themselves and fight for the safety of their children, only to be undermined by court practices.
They?ve found no alternative but to take the child into hiding and face very serious charges of abduction. When mothers have chosen not to run, but to continue in a seemingly never ending fight for custody of their child, they have found themselves forced into bankruptcy or facing jail sentences when they cannot pay child support to the custodial father.
Phyllis Chesler?s advice to battered mothers is stark and dramatic. She said:
?Battered mothers need excellent court representation and the best lawyers, often exemplified by those prepared to represent a mother pro bono. These lawyers are prone to ?burn-out.? Helping a custodial embattled mother is very demanding.?
?The police do not rescue abused children. In fact, the courts often award custody to their abusers and severely limit or cut altogether the ?crazy? mothers? visitation. When such mothers finally run away to save their children, they are routinely captured, imprisoned and lose access to them for a very long time.?
Chesler likened the plight of battered mothers to: ?the days of battling for Jews wanting to escape Nazi torture and control.? Conference attendees asked her whether it was necessary to launch another world war to keep children safe in America.
Luckily for Damon, in Nevada a marriage license can be obtained with notarized permission from one parent only. He could therefore pursue emancipation through marriage without seeking his father?s approval.
The worst of his personal war is over and yet he is keen to stress he does not see this as a victory:
?I didn?t beat the system, I circumnavigated it,? he said. ?I spoke to numerous professionals and none of them protected me.?
His experience has led him to become a staunch advocate for children?s rights and his closing comment, aimed at protective mothers and other child victims of abuse, was chilling:
?One in five kids is sexually abused. It?s not as if the professionals don?t know what they?re doing, they deliberately cover-up abuse. They are entrenched. If you don?t recognize it?s deliberate, you may make the wrong choices and then you won?t be able help yourselves.?
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Hera McLeod, is a special education teacher and mother of Prince McLeod Rams who was murdered by his father on an unsupervised court ordered visit has given a moving testimony.
In an open letter to Jude Michael J. Algeo of Montgomery County (full text at cappuccinoqueen.com); the bereaved, battered mother writes:
?Dear Judge Algeo,
You may not remember me, but I will remember you for the rest of my life?.
I was the woman who came into your court room begging you to keep my son safe from his father?
I watched my son?s body slowly shut down for nearly two days as I waited for the doctors to officially declare him brain dead. As I watched my innocent baby boy die, I thought about you. I remembered how you told us you hated Family Court.I remembered how you blamed me for falling in love with a con man. I remembered how you talked about fairy dust and how you explained that my son would need to come home with cigarette burns before you would believe Luc was abusive. I remember how you rolled your eyes, appeared to fall asleep on the bench, and opened up your computer as if to read your email ? you did all of this as I pleaded with you to keep visitations supervised?..
You told us that you made your Custody decision based on what you would do if he was your child?.
How terribly sad it is that you have become so jaded that when a mother comes to you pleading for your help, you dismiss her concerns as merely those of a scorned woman. Prince deserved better. He deserved to live just as your own child would have?..I can?t stop thinking about how my life would be different if I hadn?t trusted you ? if I had fled the country ? if I had simply refused to comply with the court order.
Sadly, the story of Prince McLeod Rams is not unique. The testimonies of protective mothers who have lost their children in disturbing custody battles are increasing in volume. At the annual BMCC, on the Internet, among advocacy groups and catalogued by legal researchers, their stories of injustice are gaining ground. They tell of courts dismissing or trivializing material evidence of abuse, favoring fathers? rights over child safety and displaying entrenched prejudice toward mothers.
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Wildfire: NM fights blazes; Calif. area evacuated
The Powerhouse Fire burning in the Angeles National Forest northwest of Los Angeles sends up a huge plume of smoke on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Smoke from the fire made visibility hazy in the San Fernando Valley, foreground. The blaze has burned thousands of acres of brush since it erupted Thursday afternoon near a utility powerhouse. (AP Photo/John Antczak)
The Powerhouse Fire burning in the Angeles National Forest northwest of Los Angeles sends up a huge plume of smoke on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Smoke from the fire made visibility hazy in the San Fernando Valley, foreground. The blaze has burned thousands of acres of brush since it erupted Thursday afternoon near a utility powerhouse. (AP Photo/John Antczak)
The Thompson Ridge fire burns in an area just north of the town of Jemez Springs, New Mexico, Saturday, June 1, 2013. Fire crews in New Mexico on Saturday fought two growing wild blazes that have scorched thousands of acres, spurred evacuation calls for dozens of homes and poured smoke into the touristy state capital. (AP Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Roberto E. Rosales) SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN OUT
Jemez Springs resident Richard Middleton watches as the Thompson Ridge fire burns in an area just north of the town of Jemez Springs, New Mexico, Saturday, June 1, 2013. Fire crews in New Mexico on Saturday fought two growing wild blazes that have scorched thousands of acres, spurred evacuation calls for dozens of homes and poured smoke into the touristy state capital. (AP Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Roberto E. Rosales) SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN OUT
A helicopter hovers over Monastery Lake as it takes on a load of water, Saturday, June 1, 2013 near Pecos, N.M. Fire crews in New Mexico on Saturday fought two growing wild blazes that have scorched thousands of acres, spurred evacuation calls for dozens of homes and poured smoke into the touristy state capital. (AP Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Eddie Moore) SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN OUT
U.S Sen. Tom Udall, left, talks with Barbara Miller after a news conference about the Tres Lagunas Fire burning north of Pecos, N.M., Saturday June 1, 2013. Fire crews in New Mexico on Saturday fought two growing wild blazes that have scorched thousands of acres, spurred evacuation calls for dozens of homes and poured smoke into the touristy state capital. (AP Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Eddie Moore) SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN OUT
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ? Firefighting teams in California and New Mexico are battling early season wildfires that have blackened thousands of acres and threatened homes and building, spurring numerous evacuations.
Residents of more than 1,000 homes were ordered to leave as erratic winds pushed a wildfire closer to two foothill communities, where officials said five structures, possibly homes, were destroyed Saturday.
Meanwhile, an uncontained blaze near Santa Fe, N.M., had spread to nearly 10 square miles by Saturday night, making it apparently the largest of several wildfires burning in the West as it placed the city under a blanket of haze. The thick smoke also covered the Gallinas Canyon and Las Vegas, N.M.
The fire in New Mexico's Santa Fe National Forest is burning just 25 miles from the city, prompting the Red Cross to set up an emergency shelter at a nearby high school.
Officials asked residents in about 140 homes, mainly summer residences, to evacuate as a crew of more than 400 battled the flames near the communities of Pecos and Tres Lagunas.
Crews also cleared out campgrounds and closed trailheads in the area as they worked to prevent the fire from moving toward the capital city's watershed and more populated areas.
The state Department of Health warned residents in the Pecos, Santa Fe and Espanola areas to prepare for smoke and take precautions by avoiding prolonged or physical activity outdoors.
"Potentially unhealthy conditions could occur in these communities overnight and into the early morning," a statement released by health officials said.
Another New Mexico blaze, the Thompson Ridge fire near Jemez Springs, grew to nearly two square miles by Saturday night, state forestry officials said. Between 40 and 50 homes in the area were evacuated as more than 200 crew members and a helicopter were fighting the blaze burning through pine forests and brush.
Forecasters said some rain was possible in both fire areas on Sunday as well as gusty winds.
Elsewhere in the West, fire crews worked to beat several other fires, including one in California and another in southwest Colorado.
North of Los Angeles, the wind shifted in several directions, fanning the fire in the Angeles National Forest to nearly 9 square miles, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Nathan Judy.
It marched downhill toward Lake Hughes and Lake Elizabeth, west of Lancaster, triggering the evacuation of nearly 1,000 homes, he said.
"It's burning very intensely," he said.
Matt Corelli, also of the Forest Service, told The Associated Press early Sunday that five structures had been destroyed. He said they could be homes but crews were waiting for daylight to make a positive determination.
"That's the only number we have confirmed right now," he said.
Corelli said daylight would also provide the Forest Service with a better idea about the size of the blaze.
Officials say the fire was likely larger but thick smoke and darkness Saturday made it difficult for officials to map its actual size.
He did not know whether any structures had been burned, but Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Keith Mora told the Los Angeles Times that the blaze has destroyed five homes in the Lake Hughes area.
Daytime temperatures that topped at 105 degrees and the erratic winds worked against the nearly 1,000 firefighters on the line. Judy said the wind pushed the fire up and down steep slopes, creating embers that sparked spot fires in different directions.
In Colorado, Mike Blakeman, a spokesman for the Rio Grande National Forest, said a fire 15 miles southwest of the small town of Creede was reported. No structures have been damaged, but three homes and several outbuildings were threatened Saturday.
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Intel sets Haswell launch for June 4th, details bold battery life claims
Haswell is hardly a secret at this point: there's been a steady drip-drip of demos and technical leaks since as far back as 2011, and just a month ago we brought you the low-down on its integrated graphics. But today, finally, we have official pricing for a number of variants, a concrete date for availability (this coming Tuesday, June 4th) and, perhaps most importantly, some detailed benchmark claims about what Haswell is capable of -- particularly in its mobile form.
Sure, Intel already dominates in MacBooks, Ultrabooks (by definition) and in hybrids like Surface Pro, but the chip maker readily admits that the processors in those portable PCs were just cut-down desktop chips. Haswell is different, having been built from the ground up with Intel's North Cape prototype and other mobile form factors in mind. As a loose-lipped executive recently let slip, we can look forward to a 50 percent increase in battery life in the coming wave of devices, with no loss of performance. Read on and we'll discover how this is possible and what it could mean for the dream of all-day mobile computing.
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