TuneIn launches TuneIn Live, hopes to encourage radio station discovery through custom UI

With around 70,000 stations from around the world in its database, TuneIn is rightly one of the more popular radio apps out there. Unfortunately, it also means customers don't always have the easiest time finding what they want, something the Palo Alto firm plans to fix with a new update it's rolling out today. The key new feature is TuneIn Live, which aims to encourage content discovery through a customized interface. By culling eight favorite genres from about 100, users can build a custom tile layout that, when activated, hunts down a station playing the appropriate tune -- be it in Los Angeles, New York or even Iceland.

On top of that, the company introduced integration with Google+ Sign-in so you can immediately place a reminder for scheduled audio events on your Google Calendar. Radio stations broadcasting live sporting events or special in-studio concerts can add "@tunein" to their tweets to prompt TuneIn's servers to add them to the roster. This move towards improved discovery also includes a recently launched Trending feature that lets listeners know the most popular audio content at any given time.

TuneIn marketing director Ryan Polivka and director of product Kristin George told us that the refocus toward discovery will get users addicted to new stations they would never have heard of before. "What's best about radio [instead of algorithms like Pandora] is that there's a human on the other end hand-picking those songs," Polivka said. "Hopefully this will bring a bigger fanbase to those stations, no matter where they are in the world." The new TuneIn features should be available on the iPad app and TuneIn.com today, while other platforms will get them later in the year. For more information about the update, check out the press release and a full gallery of TuneIn Live screenshots after the break.

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Overseas Hackers Have Been Snatching More Than 1TB of Data Per Day

According to a report obtained by The Verge, analysts from Florida-based Internet security firm Cymru have uncovered a massive foreign hacking enterprise that has somehow managed to steal more than a terabyte of data per day. Confirmed international targets include military and academic facilities in addition to a major search engine, among others. More »

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Benedict begins quiet final day as pope

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict slips quietly from the world stage on Thursday after a private last goodbye to his cardinals and a short flight to a country palace to enter the final phase of his life "hidden from the world".

In keeping with his shy and modest ways, there will be no public ceremony to mark the first papal resignation in six centuries and no solemn declaration ending his nearly eight-year reign at the head of the world's largest church.

His last public appearance will be a short greeting to residents and well-wishers at Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence south of Rome, in the late afternoon after his 15-minute helicopter hop from the Vatican.

When the resignation becomes official at 8 p.m. Rome time (02.00 p.m. EST), Benedict will be relaxing inside the 17th century palace. Swiss Guards on duty at the main gate to indicate the pope's presence within will simply quit their posts and return to Rome to await their next pontiff.

Avoiding any special ceremony, Benedict used his weekly general audience on Wednesday to bid an emotional farewell to more than 150,000 people who packed St Peter's Square to cheer for him and wave signs of support.

With a slight smile, his often stern-looking face seemed content and relaxed as he acknowledged the loud applause from the crowd.

"Thank you, I am very moved," he said in Italian. His unusually personal remarks included an admission that "there were moments ... when the seas were rough and the wind blew against us and it seemed that the Lord was sleeping".

CARDINALS PREPARE THE FUTURE

Once the chair of St Peter is vacant, cardinals who have assembled from around the world for Benedict's farewell will begin planning the closed-door conclave that will elect his successor.

One of the first questions facing these "princes of the Church" is when the 115 cardinal electors should enter the Sistine Chapel for the voting. They will hold a first meeting on Friday but a decision may not come until next week.

The Vatican seems to be aiming for an election by mid-March so the new pope can be installed in office before Palm Sunday on March 24 and lead the Holy Week services that culminate in Easter on the following Sunday.

In the meantime, the cardinals will hold daily consultations at the Vatican at which they discuss issues facing the Church, get to know each other better and size up potential candidates for the 2,000-year-old post of pope.

There are no official candidates, no open campaigning and no clear front runner for the job. Cardinals tipped as favorites by Vatican watchers include Brazil's Odilo Scherer, Canadian Marc Ouellet, Ghanaian Peter Turkson, Italy's Angelo Scola and Timothy Dolan of the United States.

BENEDICT'S PLANS

Benedict, a bookish man who did not seek the papacy and did not enjoy the global glare it brought, proved to be an energetic teacher of Catholic doctrine but a poor manager of the Curia, the Vatican bureaucracy that became mired in scandal during his reign.

He leaves his successor a top secret report on rivalries and scandals within the Curia, prompted by leaks of internal files last year that documented the problems hidden behind the Vatican's thick walls and the Church's traditional secrecy.

After about two months at Castel Gandolfo, Benedict plans to move into a refurbished convent in the Vatican Gardens, where he will live out his life in prayer and study, "hidden to the world", as he put it.

Having both a retired and a serving pope at the same time proved such a novelty that the Vatican took nearly two weeks to decide his title and form of clerical dress.

He will be known as the "pope emeritus," wear a simple white cassock rather than his white papal clothes and retire his famous red "shoes of the fisherman," a symbol of the blood of the early Christian martyrs, for more pedestrian brown ones.

(Reporting By Tom Heneghan; editing by Philip Pullella and Giles Elgood)

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PFT: Pats extend Brady for 3 years, $27 million

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Last year, the NFL stripped $36 million in cap space from the Redskins, who along with the Cowboys apparently took the term ?uncapped year? too literally in 2010.

In response, the Redskins employed half-measures to recover the cap dollars, filing a grievance under the labor deal that did nothing other than stir up a cockeyed collusion claim from the NFLPA.

This year, with half of the penalty due to hit the 2013 salary cap, the Redskins could be opting for a more complete assault on the league?s position.? Or at least threatening it.

According to Mark Maske and Mike Jones of the Washington Post, the Redskins are spreading the word in Indianapolis that they?re considering legal action aimed at delaying the start of free agency while litigation proceeds regarding the question of whether the Redskins? legal rights were violated.? The Redskins are telling agents that any contract talks will be delayed until the situation is resolved.

If the Redskins proceed, it would be a big deal.? And if they delay the start of free agency until their claims are resolved, it would be a huge deal.

We addressed the situation a couple of weeks ago, reporting that the Redskins were still upset about the situation but explaining that their options are limited.? They could bebluffing about going to court in order to get, for example, half of their cap money back (i.e., the $18 million that would apply to this year?s cap).? But the NFL could choose to call their bluff and go to court.

Either way, Daniel Snyder could be inching toward ground previously occupied by the late Al Davis:? Snyder could soon be suing his partners.

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Bringing tactical and civilian communications systems together ...

Story and photos by Capt. Andi Hahn, Kentucky National Guard Public Affairs Office?

FRANKFORT, Ky.?Approximately 40 Kentucky National Guard Soldiers from the 149^th Signal Co. and Joint Forces Headquarters participated in a communications exercise testing tactical networks with civilian networks at Boone National Guard Center in Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 15-17.

1st Lt. Paige Young, 149th Signal Co., Kentucky National Guard, observes a 106-ft mobile radio tower during a communications exercise in Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 15. The tower would be used during emergencies in Kentucky where it could be placed atop a mountain in remote areas to expand mobile and portable communication capabilities.

?For the first time ever, we are testing our tactical communications systems with civilian systems to see if we can get them to talk,? said Chief Warrant Officer Dave Barker, Wireless Communications Manager for the Kentucky National Guard.

Barker said this is important because when there is a natural disaster in Kentucky, the state has limited deployable communication assets.

?If everything goes down, say during an earthquake, all we have is satellite,? said Barker. ?We end up using primarily civilian communication networks, but we have all this tactical communications not being utilized at all.?

Soldiers from the 149th Signal Company, Kentucky National Guard, set up a satellite dish during a joint communications exercise in Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 15-17.

The communication specialists spent the entire weekend testing both networks, civilian and tactical, to be able to intercommunicate with each other by making phone calls, doing video teleconferences, sending emails and ultimately, sharing all data with each other.

?We have a tactical command post set up, a civilian satellite truck, the emergency management truck and we are seeing how well we can send data between all three systems,? said Barker.

One of the biggest systems the Soldiers were testing over the weekend was a 106-ft mobile radio tower that can be set up on a mountaintop in remote locations that would extend the range of portable and low power radios, a huge capability in certain areas of Kentucky.

?This is such a unique exercise, expanding our capabilities and testing civilian and military networks,? said Sgt. Caleb Riggs, a communications specialist with Joint Forces Headquarters and full-time Visual Information Manager at Boone Center. ?I love this kind of work and for our state it?s new territory,? he said.

Sgt. Caleb Riggs, Visual Information Manager and communications specialist, participates in a joint exercise testing civilian and tactical communication systems at Boone National Guard Center in Frankfort, Ky., Feb 15.

?Not only are we (full-time staff) training with the signal company, but they are training with us,? said Barker.? ?We are short personnel on the full-time staff so the signal company can help us out come any emergency.?

?It was excellent training; a lot of high-tech equipment went into this and we were able to troubleshoot issues or detect a lot of problems during this exercise,? said Barker. ?That?s why we do this, so during a real-world disaster, we will know exactly what to do.?

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Personal Finance Can Be Easily Managed By Following This Great ...

Do you want to change your financial future from here on out? Well, you can do it, but it is going to take a little bit of knowledge and research. Thankfully, the suggestions in this article can get you off to a good start.

Purchasing a house can serve as a valuable investment in the long run. If you buy, you need to pay for a mortgage, maintenance, property taxes and insurance each month, but you will own the property. Renting your living space puts you in the situation of indefinitely paying for a piece of property that you are never going to own.

It might be smarter to establish an emergency fund prior to paying off existing debt. Consider common costly occurrences when considering how much to put in the fund.

Your FICO score is based on the balances of your credit cards. A higher card balance means a worse score. Your score will go up as the balance goes down. All balances should be under 20% of any stated credit card maximum limit.

Don?t neglect a flexible spending account, if you have one. Flexible spending accounts can help you save money on medical costs and daycare bills. These accounts let you put some money to the side before takes to pay for these expenses. There are limits to the amount allowed to be placed in a flex spending account, so you should consult a tax professional.

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Cellar victim Kampusch raped, starved in film of ordeal

VIENNA (Reuters) - A new film based on the story of Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch shows her being repeatedly raped by the captor who beat and starved her during the eight-and-a-half years that he kept her in a cellar beneath his house.

Kampusch was snatched on her way to school at the age of 10 by Wolfgang Priklopil and held in a windowless cell under his garage near Vienna until she escaped in 2006, causing a sensation in Austria and abroad. Priklopil committed suicide.

Kampusch had always refused to respond to claims that she had had sex with Priklopil, but in a German television interview on her 25th birthday last week said she had decided to reveal the truth because it had leaked out from police files.

The film, "3,096 Days" - based on Kampusch's autobiography of the same name - soberly portrays her captivity in a windowless cellar less than 6 square metres (65 square feet) in area, often deprived of food for days at a time.

The emaciated Kampusch - who weighed just 38 kg (84 pounds) at one point in 2004 - keeps a diary written on toilet paper concealed in a box.

One entry reads: "At least 60 blows in the face. Ten to 15 nausea-inducing fist blows to the head. One strike with the fist with full weight to my right ear."

The movie shows occasional moments that approach tenderness, such as when Priklopil presents her with a cake for her 18th birthday or buys her a dress as a gift - but then immediately goes on to chide her for not knowing how to waltz with him.

GREY AREAS

Antonia Campbell-Hughes, who plays the teenaged Kampusch, said she had tried to portray "the strength of someone's soul, the ability of people to survive... but also the grey areas within a relationship that people don't necessarily understand."

The British actress said she had not met Kampusch during the making of the film or since. "It was a very isolated time, it was a bubble of time, and I wanted to keep that very focused," she told journalists as she arrived for the Vienna premiere.

Kampusch herself attended the premiere, looking composed as she posed for pictures but declining to give interviews.

In an interview with Germany's Bild Zeitung last week, she said: "Yes, I did recognize myself, although the reality was even worse. But one can't really show that in the cinema, since it wasn't supposed to be a horror film."

The movie, made at the Constantin Film studios in Bavaria, Germany, also stars Amy Pidgeon as the 10-year-old Kampusch and Danish actor Thure Lindhardt as Priklopil.

"I focused mainly on playing the human being because... we have to remember it was a human being. Monsters do not exist, they're only in cartoons," Lindhart said.

"It became clear to me that it's a story about survival, and it's a story about surviving eight years of hell. If that story can be told then I can also play the bad guy."

The director was German-American Sherry Hormann, who made her English-language debut with the 2009 move "Desert Flower", an adaptation of the autobiography of Somali-born model and anti-female circumcision activist Waris Dirie.

"I'm a mother and I wonder at the strength of this child, and it was important for me to tell this story from a different perspective, to tell how this child using her own strength could survive this atrocious martyrdom," Hormann said.

The Kampusch case was followed two years later by that of Josef Fritzl, an Austrian who held his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her.

The crimes prompted soul-searching about the Austrian psyche, and questions as to how the authorities and neighbors could have let such crimes go undetected for so long.

The film goes on general release on Thursday.

(Reporting by Georgina Prodhan, Editing by Paul Casciato)

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PM Note: 'Scaring' People Over Sequester, Oscar Opts for Happy Ending Political Movie, Hagel's Mulligan

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Spoiler Alert: In Field of Political Films, Hollywood Opts for Happy Ending-Michelle Obama's surprise appearance via satellite from the White House to give the Oscar for Best Picture was perfectly fitting: Hollywood was choosing among three front-runners that portrayed very different views of U.S. presidents and history - high drama, gritty suspense and a stylish thriller. Set aside the costumes and the score and the editing and all that - the whole storytelling part of each movie - you can argue that by giving the Oscar to "Argo," Hollywood made a choice about U.S. history, too. And it chose a happy ending regardless of how distant it feels from reality. Here's a fuller version of this argument. Hopefully some people will disagree - http://abcn.ws/XUNksB

And for all the facts? National Journal's Jill Lawrence has an epic look at the Iran Hostage Crisis vs. Argo? and interviews with former hostages? Click here - http://bit.ly/13iMOtp

Tuesday: Senators take a Hagel Mulligan, Panetta will watch from home - http://abcn.ws/XUVj8X McCain heads to White House for immigration meeting. Obama Heads to Norfolk to apply sequestration pressure, Supreme Court hears really interesting DNA vs. privacy case.

Three days left? do you know where your lawmakers are?

Jindal to Obama: "Stop Scaring the American People"- It is still not clear what will happen when the sequester kicks in (although it is more sure that the sequester will kick in). Lawmakers will have about a month to tie the sequester into solutions for other looming fiscal issues like the debt ceiling and funding the government.

Jon Karl points to the words of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who told the White House and President Obama to stop scaring people.

Karl: "Governor Bobby Jindal (R-LA) barely had time to finish dessert in the State Dining Room before he came to cameras on the North Drive of the White House to accuse his lunch host of fear-mongering about impending spending cuts. "He's trying to scare the American people. He's trying to distort the impact," Jindal said. "The president needs to stop campaigning. Stop trying to scare the American people.

"The Louisiana Republican delivered his criticism of President Obama just steps away from the Oval Office following a lunch hosted by the president for governors of all 50 states. He used the opportunity to talk about the looming across-the-board spending cuts scheduled to go into effect on Friday. '"To me that's a lack of leadership - for him to send out his cabinet secretaries to warn about all kinds of devastating consequences when we're talking about a federal budget that will still be larger than last year's budget," Jindal said.

"While Jindal was speaking, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was about 50 feet away talking to reporters in the White House briefing room - warning that the spending cuts could make America less secure.

'"I'm not here to scare people," Napolitano said when asked about Jindal's comments. "If people are scared, it's because the full impact of this is finally being made evident. And so people now are saying, oh my gosh, what do I need to do?"

Napolitano said the cut - which she said would force her to trim the Homeland Security budget by about 5 percent - would force dramatic cuts across the department, including reductions in the number of border security and TSA agents. http://abcn.ws/XWWrpH (More K arl)

Boehner Not Blinking In Budget Deal - With sequestration set to strike on Friday, House Speaker John Boehner returned to the Capitol after a nine-day recess with no apparent change in his political posture: If the $85 billion cuts are going to be averted, Boehner insists, it's up to the Senate to act. http://abcn.ws/Zw3fOc (John Parkinson)

Only in Washington Tweets - from Politico's @mkady: 5th grader at my kid's school, upon getting popcorn in a plastic bag instead of fancy white/red stripes: "Is this b/c of sequestration?"

GOP Sea Change - as noticed by the NY Times Weisman and Parker - "The fiscal stalemate is highlighting a significant shift in the Republican Party: lawmakers most keenly dedicated to shrinking the size of government are now more dominant than the bloc committed foremost to a robust national defense, particularly in the House. That reality also underscores what Republicans, and some Democrats, say was a major miscalculation on the part of President Obama. He agreed to set up the automatic cuts 18 months ago because he believed the threat of sharp reductions in military spending would be enough to force Republicans to agree to a deficit reduction plan that included the tax increases he favored. http://nyti.ms/Weh9al

Former Romney Strategist 'Obsessive' About Twitter, But Warns Technology Is Not The GOP's Panacea - It's not over yet. The 2012 presidential campaign, that is. At least not if you ask Mitt Romney's former top strategist, Stuart Stevens, who has been writing and talking a lot about blame lately. http://abcn.ws/Ywuw46 (Michael Falcone)

DNA Dragnet - When the Supreme Court hears a case challenging a Maryland DNA law this week, one former prosecutor will be remembering the dormant rape case she says was solved because of the law. http://abcn.ws/Yw1qO8 (Ariane De Vogue) U.S. Census Bureau Drops 'Negro' From Surveys - The U.S. Census Bureau is bidding farewell to "Negro" on its surveys and forms after more than 100 years of use. http://abcn.ws/YwmQil (Jilian Fama)

NY Pol Under Fire For Blackface Costume - A New York politician is under fire for wearing blackface for the Jewish holiday of Purim - in which people traditionally wear costumes - over the weekend. http://abcn.ws/YTDuoT (Shushannah Walshe)

Obama Enlists Governors To Help Get Sequester Deal - With less than five days to prevent $85 billion in sweeping, automatic budget cuts, President Obama today asked the nation's governors to help pressure Congress to compromise on a deal to avert the sequester. "There are always going to be areas where we have some genuine disagreement," the president told a meeting of the National Governors Association at the White House. "But there are more areas where we can do a lot more cooperating than I think we've seen over the last several years." http://abcn.ws/13KvtW0 (Mary Bruce)

Lawmakers Angry with Facebook Over Newtown Comments -A trio of lawmakers representing Newtown, Conn., where Sandy Hook Elementary School is located, wrote a letter to Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to complain on behalf of families and victims who say they may have been exploited for their loss by bad actors on the popular social media site. http://abcn.ws/V2gJT4 (John Parkinson)

Michelle Obama's Image Altered By Iranian News Agency-A semi-official Iranian news agency called Fars altered an image of Michelle Obama at the Academy Awards to appeal to their more conservative readers. http://abcn.ws/X6JrSH (Jilian Fama)

If Washington Chose the Oscar Winners ? According to OpenSecrets.org, if Washington had given out Oscars, the winners might have been (slightly) different. With a combined total of more than $3.6 million in donations to Democrats over the past 12 years, Hollywood continues its historical association with that party. Amounts of the donations vary, but many nominees across major categories contributed to Democratic political campaigns in some way. http://abcn.ws/XTRNM1 (Alisa Wiersema)

This Week In History Feb. 25- March 1-Does this week seem like any other week? Well, think again. Check out some of the most important political events that happened this week in history. http://abcn.ws/V1AzxN (Jilian Fama)

Michelle Obama Names 'Best Picture' in Surprise Oscars Appearance-The first lady named the Best Picture winner Sunday night. Michelle Obama announced the big award in a surprise appearance live from the White House at Sunday's Academy Awards, naming Hollywood hit "Argo" as Best Picture of the year. http://abcn.ws/YSIf1R (Jilian Fama)

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Retrieve redundant radio frequency licences Communications ...

The Minister of Communications, Dr Edward Omane-Boamah, has advised the National Communications Authority (NCA) to retrieve radio frequency licences from people and institutions that are not using them and re-issue same to those interested in owning and operating radio stations in the country.

That, he said, would help reduce the number of redundant radio frequency licenses in the hands of the public while ensuring that those interested and ready to set up and operate radio stations were given the legal backing and frequencies to do so.

The minister gave the advice after paying familiarisation visit to the offices of the NCA in Accra Wednesday.

The visit was to give him first-hand information on the operation of the authority, the regulator of the local communication industry having assumed office last two weeks.

?My interaction with the management earlier showed that there are a number of redundant radio frequency licenses out there. Meanwhile, there are several people who come knocking at the doors of the NCA for licenses to operate,? the minster said in a short interaction with the staff of the authority.

His observations come in the midst of reports from the NCA that frequencies for the setting up and the operation of radio stations in the country have been exhausted, thereby making it impossible for new operational licenses to be issued to interested people and institutions.

That notwithstanding, many people and institutions, according to NCA data, continued to have radio station frequencies and licenses that they were yet to make use of.

To Dr Omane-Boamah, such a disconnect was not good for the development of the communication industry.

?If someone has acquired the license and is not using it yet someone wants a license to operate, I think it will be proper to go through the process, retrieve that license and re-license it to the one interested in operating.?

?That, I think, NCA can do and if we do that we will be helping to reduce the number of redundant licenses in the system and ensure that more radio stations are set up to educate our people,? the minister added.

On the migration from analogue to digital television, Dr Omane-Boamah said it was impressive to know that the Communications Authority had set 2014 as the deadline for Ghana to migrate compared to the international community?s mid-2015 deadline.

He later urged the staff and management of the authority to develop mutual respect for one another so as to promote a cordial working relationship among themselves.

He called on them to give up their best in a bit to improve regulatory activists in the industry.

The Director-General of the NCA, Mr Paarock VanPercy, thanked the minister for the visit and assured him of his outfit?s full backing towards the implementation of the ministry?s policies.

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Prostate cancer research underway in NI - UTV Live News

Published Monday, 25 February 2013

The Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, at the university's Coleraine campus, is developing drugs that target prostate tumours in a new way.

The research will focus on the key areas of understanding risk, improving diagnosis and treatment options for men living with the disease.

To fund their work, they have won a share of ?11m from the charity Prostate Cancer UK.

As part of its MANifesto, the charity has pledged to find answers, through research, into what they have described as a "neglected disease." Currently very few treatments are available.

Across the UK, prostate cancer kills around 10,000 men every year. Despite this, scientists know relatively little about the disease partly because, historically, research into prostate cancer has been underfunded.

Dr Tom Black, a family GP, said the disease is becoming more common because people are living longer.

"So if you live longer then you get diseases that are more common in old age. Prostate cancer is a disease that would mostly occur in men over 65 - in fact, 85% would be in men aged over 65."

Dr Jenny Worthington is leading the team making exciting progress developing a new type of treatment.

"We have done some preliminary studies so we know that our treatment works," she explained.

"We've done those experiments, what we need to do is take that next step to do a clinically relevant treatment schedule that can be used to inform clinical trials say within the next five years."

She continued: "The area that we are interested in is hypoxia because there are areas in tumours that are very low in oxygen concentrations and these are really important in terms of treatment because these areas are resistant to chemotherapy and resistant to radiation.

"What we have is a drug that specifically kills these cells, so by combining it with normal treatments we hope to be able to control the disease for much longer."

Dr Worthington said that if the disease is detected early enough, as with all cancers, prostate cancer can be treated.

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New England storm may pack less punch than feared

BOSTON (Reuters) - A weather system threatening New England with a third straight weekend of winter storms appeared to be weakening on Saturday night, promising less snowfall than expected.

Another storm in the Western United States was rolling out of the Rocky Mountains and could create blizzard conditions in Colorado over the weekend, according to a National Weather Service advisory.

Forecasters were also predicting blizzard conditions from Oklahoma through Missouri early next week when another snowstorm hits an area of the Northern United States from the Plains to the Great Lakes.

But by Saturday evening, the East Coast storm was moving more east and offshore than anticipated - potentially leaving areas like Boston with much less snowfall than originally expected, said Eleanor Vallier-Talbot of the National Weather Service in Taunton, Massachusetts.

"The further south you go, the less snow. Boston proper might not even see an inch of snow," she said. "The forecast models have been slowly but surely backing off this thing."

Much of the Midwest is already blanketed with snow, with more than a foot reported in Kansas on Thursday, forcing airports to cancel hundreds of flights and leaving motorists stranded on highways.

The New England coast - from northern Connecticut to southern Maine - was expecting an extended mix of snow and rain, according to a National Weather Service advisory. Residents were taking it in stride.

"Look, it's winter, it's New England, it snows. Happens every time!" said Steve Scardino, a software sales executive and lifelong New Englander from Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

Farther north, near Portland, Maine, the heaviest snow was not expected until Sunday, with accumulations up to 8 inches farther inland.

The weather service said the storm may bring sleet and freezing rain to the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic states as well, with thunderstorms expected in the Southeast. It likely will dump rain from New York City to Philadelphia, it said.

STATES OF EMERGENCY

The storm barreled eastward after pummeling the Midwest during the week. In Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Sly James said about 60 buses were stuck on snowbound streets on Friday, and even tow trucks were immobilized.

"It's still an ongoing process to get people off the roads," he told CNN.

After a storm last week dumped some 14 inches of snow on Wichita, Kansas, and 11 inches on Kansas City, residents from Texas to Nebraska were bracing for another one early next week, according to AccuWeather.com.

Forecasters predicted heavy snow developing on Sunday night and increasing to a rate of 2 inches an hour from northern Oklahoma through central Kansas.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and Kansas Governor Sam Brownback declared states of emergency because of possible power outages and generally hazardous travel.

Drought-stricken farmers in the Great Plains, one of the world's largest wheat-growing areas, welcomed the moisture, although experts said even more rain or snow would be needed to ensure healthy crops.

(Additional reporting by Kevin Murphy, Ian Simpson, Kevin Gray, Kewith Coffman, Steve Gorman and Chris Francescani; Editing by Peter Cooney)

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3 Easy Recipes Of Pasta - ArticlesWide.com

Great Italian pasta recipes are usually very easy to make. Knowing how to make pasta can be a blessing when you have unexpected guests. These three easy pasta recipes will save your day anytime!

Vegetarian Tomato Basil Pasta with Asiago Cheese

Ingredients:

6 ounces fettuccine

1 tablespoon olive oil

teaspoon fresh minced garlic

teaspoon salt

6 ounces sliced cherry tomatoes

1 tablespoon fresh basil leaves, chopped in thin strips

Less than 1/4 cup Asiago cheese

Preparation:

1. Boil pasta al dente and drain.

2. Saut the garlic in olive oil in a small pan and add the tomatoes and basil. Stir all the ingredients till theyre warm.

3. In a large serving bowl, mix the pasta with the sauted ingredients and cheese. Garnish with extra basil. The easiest pasta recipe youll find!

Alpine Mushroom Pasta

Ingredients:

4 ounces fettuccine

3 cups shredded Savoy cabbage

1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil

2 medium portobello mushroom caps with removed gills and sliced thinly

chopped onion (small)

1 minced garlic cloves

1 cups dry white wine

1 teaspoon all-purpose flour

teaspoon salt

teaspoon freshly ground pepper

cup halved grape tomatoes

cup diced smoked cheese

teaspoon dried sage

Preparation:

1. Now to start with the making of your pasta recipe. Cook pasta for 4 minutes in boiling water. Add cabbage, and stir frequently till both pasta and cabbage are tender. Keep aside cup of the cooking liquid and drain the pasta-cabbage mixture.

2. Heat oil in a pan over a medium flame. Add mushrooms, onion, garlic and cook, stirring until the mushrooms are tender and beginning to release their liquid.

3. The best part about this Italian pasta recipe: whisk wine and flour in a bowl, add to the pan with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, until the mixture thickens. Add tomatoes, cooking till they just start breaking down.

4. Return the pasta and cabbage to the pot. Add the mushroom sauce, the reserved cooking liquid, cheese, and sage; gently toss to combine. A recipe of pasta thats mouthwatering!

Knowing how to cook pasta means that you have the best dishes in your home at your finger tips. Enjoy the deliciousness by trying the pasta recipes in your very own kitchen right now!

Rajiv Tiwari is an out and out gourmet whose love of food has made him travel to all top food destinations. Italian pasta recipes, how to cook pasta

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White House orders wider access to research

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The White House directive seeks to make federally funded research easier to get to.

By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News

Responding to calls for more open access to publicly supported research, the White House has directed a wide range of federal agencies to come up with plans to make the studies they fund freely available within 12 months of publication.

In a memo issued Friday, White House science adviser John Holdren also called on agencies to develop better digital systems for managing research data. The memo comes in response to a "We the People" online petition that was created last May and has since garnered more than 65,000 signatures.

The debate over access to federally funded studies has been simmering for years. Some in the scientific community have argued that such studies should be made freely and publicly available immediately because taxpayers have footed the bill for the research. Others have voiced concern that a government requirement to distribute the studies at no cost would deal a blow to the scientific publishing industry.

"We wanted to strike?the balance between the extraordinary public benefit of increasing public access to the results of federally-funded scientific research and the need to ensure that the valuable contributions that the scientific publishing industry provides are not lost," Holdren wrote in his response to the online petition. "This policy reflects that balance, and it also provides the flexibility to make changes in the future based on experience and evidence."

Policy changes required
The 12-month deadline for open access applies only to agencies that spend more than $100 million a year on research and development. The National Institutes of Health have already been following that policy, but now other agencies such as the Defense Department, the Energy Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the National Science Foundation will as well. Exemptions to the policy may be made for national security or legal reasons.

"Full public access will require changes in policies, procedures and practices from the many stakeholders who participate in NSF's broad research portfolio spanning all scientific and engineering disciplines," NSF Director Subra Suresh said in a statement. "We stand with our federal science colleagues, as well as our non-governmental partners, to collaborate in accomplishing this transition on behalf of science and our nation's future."

A bill currently under consideration in Congress ??known as the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act, or FASTR?? would set a six-month time limit for providing free online public access to published research. However, the prospects for passage of that bill are uncertain. The Public Library of Science, a non-profit organization that has pioneered the open-access concept with such journals as PLOS ONE, hailed Friday's White House directive but said "we now need to take the next step and make open access the law of the land, not just the preference of the president."

One of PLOS' founders, biologist Michael Eisen of the University of California at Berkeley, delivered a sharper response in a Twitter comment: "That anyone is celebrating 12-month embargoes with no reuse rights to publicly funded research just shows how much further there is to go." He called the White House directive a "massive sellout of public interest to publishers."

The publishers of some of the best-known scientific publications, such as Science and Nature, make most of their money from institutions and individuals who purchase access to the published articles, one way or another. Open-access journals, in contrast, may?charge researchers a fee to publish their studies, and then make the studies freely available online. Alternatively, they may receive subsidies from institutions, or take contributions, or earn revenue from advertising and premium products.

The case of Aaron Swartz
The open-access debate figured in the controversial case of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who faced federal felony charges for surreptitiously downloading more than 4 million academic papers from a controlled-access database at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011 with the intent of making them freely available. If Swartz went to trial and was convicted, he could have been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison and fined as much as $1 million. But Swartz never went to trial. He committed suicide last month at the age of 26.

Swartz's death touched off a series of protests, as well as calls to reform the law under which Swartz was prosecuted. A piece of proposed legislation known as "Aaron's Law" seeks to decriminalize the kinds of terms-of-service violations that Swartz was alleged to have committed. ?At a memorial for Swartz held this month in Washington, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said he backed legislative reforms and declared that access to information is a "human right."

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Scientists make older adults less forgetful in memory tests

Feb. 21, 2013 ? Scientists at Baycrest Health Sciences' Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and the University of Toronto's Psychology Department have found compelling evidence that older adults can eliminate forgetfulness and perform as well as younger adults on memory tests.

Scientists used a distraction learning strategy to help older adults overcome age-related forgetting and boost their performance to that of younger adults. Distraction learning sounds like an oxymoron, but a growing body of science is showing that older brains are adept at processing irrelevant and relevant information in the environment, without conscious effort, to aid memory performance.

"Older brains may be be doing something very adaptive with distraction to compensate for weakening memory," said Ren?e Biss, lead investigator and PhD student. "In our study we asked whether distraction can be used to foster memory-boosting rehearsal for older adults. The answer is yes!"

"To eliminate age-related forgetfulness across three consecutive memory experiments and help older adults perform like younger adults is dramatic and to our knowledge a totally unique finding," said Lynn Hasher, senior scientist on the study and a leading authority in attention and inhibitory functioning in younger and older adults. "Poor regulation of attention by older adults may actually have some benefits for memory."

The findings, published online February 21 in Psychological Science, ahead of print publication, have intriguing implications for designing learning strategies for the mature, older student and equipping senior-housing with relevant visual distraction cues throughout the living environment that would serve as rehearsal opportunities to remember things like an upcoming appointment or medications to take, even if the cues aren't consciously paid attention to.

The study

In three experiments, healthy younger adults recruited from the University of Toronto (aged 17- 27) and healthy older adults from the community (aged 60 -- 78) were asked to study and recall a list of words after a short delay and again, on a surprise test, after a 15-minute delay.

During the delay period, half of the studied words occurred again as distraction while people were doing a very simple attention task on pictures. Although repeating words as distracters had no impact on the memory performance of young adults, it boosted older adults' memory for those words by 30% relative to words that had not repeated as distraction.

"Our findings point to exciting possibilities for using strategically-placed relevant distraction as memory aids for older adults -- whether it's in classroom, at home or in a long term care environment," said Biss.

While older adults are watching television or playing a game on a tablet, boosting memory for goals (such as remembering to make a phone call or send a holiday card) could be accomplished by something as simple as running a stream of target information across the bottom of their tablet or TV.

The study was supported by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

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Bulgaria's prime minister is out, but austerity remains. What's next?

The economic ills that led to mass protests in Bulgaria earlier this week and led Prime Minister Boyko Borisov to quit aren't going to be easy to address.

By Tom A. Peter,?Correspondent / February 22, 2013

Supporters of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov applaud in front of the parliament in Sofia February 20. Bulgaria's government resigned on Wednesday after violent nationwide protests against high power prices, joining a long list of European administrations felled by austerity during Europe's debt crisis.

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Bulgaria's national parliament accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov yesterday, but the protests that drove him from office continue.

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Today's peaceful demonstration, involving just a couple hundred protesters, is much smaller in scale than the earlier, violent protests that led to Mr. Borisov's removal. But the young activists say they are just now getting organized and plan to push for major social changes in the coming weeks to fight the corruption and financial woes that plague Bulgaria.

The last week of turmoil in the country ? initially a response to high electricity bills and an overall declining standard of living, but quickly evolving into calls for an end to government corruption and major reforms ? is in many ways reflective of a shift happening throughout Europe.

Across the continent, residents say austerity measures have cut too deep, and European society ? particularly post-Communist nations in Eastern Europe like Bulgaria ? is struggling to adjust to a new economic reality that can no longer support a wide array of state-sponsored social services. Now Bulgaria and many of its European counterparts must work to find a middle ground that supports economically sustainable social services, but the process will likely not be without its growing pains.?

?There needs to be a balance, otherwise we will face a revolution. But in terms of social policy, this balance will never get back to what it used to be twenty years ago. From now on, and I tell this to my students, they can?t expect to have the same provisions as their parents,? says Emilia Zankina, an assistant professor in political science at the American University in Bulgaria. ?There will be a readjustment of expectations, but also a redefinition of the government role.??

Among those who?ve taken to the streets in protest, one of the central frustrations is that many of the same figures have occupied their government for nearly two decades now. Activists blame an immobile old guard, rooted in the past and short on new ideas, for many of the nation's ills.?

?We didn?t complete our transition to a democratic country with an open market. The transition failed in this country,? says Panayot Nikolov, an unpaid consulting intern and recent graduate who was among the protesters. ?I am part of a new generation and we are waking up.?

Bulgaria is the poorest country in the European Union. The average resident?s monthly salary is less than $550 per month and has not increased for years. The nation was hit particularly hard by the global recession in 2008, which led to a tenfold reduction in foreign investment.?

Like many of its neighbors, Bulgaria has sought to shore up its economy through a number of austerity measures, including freezing government salaries and delaying payments to the private sector.?

?Bulgaria is one of the examples that you cannot revitalize the economy with austerity," says Rumen Gechev, director of the Center on Sustainable Development at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia. "In order to restore economic growth, you have to stimulate investments. There is no other way. How will you stimulate investments with austerity? Decreasing the purchasing power of households, not paying the private companies??

Mr. Gechev adds that there is unlikely to be any serious improvement in the Bulgarian economy without first finding a way to improve citizens? average income. Low wages are what makes a problem such as soaring electric bills crippling for many Bulgarians.?

Jivko Hristov, who spontaneously joined in Friday?s protest, says that his grandmother?s monthly electric bill now exceeds what she receives from her pension. Mr. Hristov, an unemployed plumber, says that even when he had work, many of his clients did not pay him at the end of a job because they simply did not have the funds.?

?The Bulgarian people are poor and we cannot pay our bills,? he says. ?The problem is that we cannot live like this anymore.??

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Check Out The Parade Of Storms

This is going to be quite an active period as the jet stream has set up to be ?what looks to be a very active next 10 days. Here is what we could see:

Friday Night (#2)

The next system that will be coming in will be on Friday night (#2). It looks like this one could be a little stronger than the one that is coming through tonight (#1). The one that is coming through tomorrow night will have a little more cold air aloft, and the flow from the SW will be coming up and over the cold air we will have in place tomorrow from tonight's rain and subsequent cold front.

Monday / Tuesday (#3)

The next system lining up for arrival late Monday into early Tuesday will be a fast moving system that will be tapping into some very warm moist air. If any of these systems has the potential to produce severe weather it will be this one. This system is being forecasted by the EURO to come out very strong Monday night with a negative tilt (bad for severe weather) and give parts of the SE some severe weather. This is the one I will be watching closely over the weekend.

Wednesday / Thursday (#4)

This is a dynamic system that will be 2 parts. Part #1 will be from the Pacific, part #2 will be from Canada. This is the system that I think we could be looking at a potential for winter weather in parts of N Georgia. This is the most uncertain system, but could be the most interesting for the winter weather lovers. I will keep you posted!

Next Weekend (#5)

This one could be another shot of colder winter weather, but there appears to be a block trying to set up in the N Rockies late next week that could shut the cold air down. Again, I will keep you posted!

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AMD Discloses More Details About Sony PS4 System-on-Chip

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Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday revealed additional details about the system-on-chip that powers Sony Corp.?s PlayStation 4 video game console. According to AMD, the accelerated processing unit inside the PS4 is the company?s first design win with semi-custom APU for high-volume applications with multi-year lifespan.

The highly-integrated Sony PlayStation 4 system-on-chip integrates eight AMD x86 Jaguar cores, custom AMD Radeon HD core with unified array of 18 AMD GCN-like compute units (1152 stream processors which collectively generate 1.84TFLOPS of computer power that can freely be applied to graphics, simulation tasks, or some mixture of the two), various special-purpose hardware blocks as well as multi-channel GDDR5 memory controller.

?At the most basic level, an APU is a single chip that combines general-purpose x86 central processing unit (CPU) cores with a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a variety of system elements, including memory controllers, specialized video decoders, display outputs, etc. Our semi-custom solutions take the same treasure trove of graphics; compute and multi-media IP found in our APUs, and customize them for customers who have a very specific high-volume product that could benefit from AMD?s leading-edge technologies,? explained John Taylor, vice president of global communications and industry marketing at AMD.

In the case of the PS4, AMD leveraged the building blocks of its 2013 product roadmap ? the same technologies one will find in the latest AMD APUs powering PCs, ultrathin notebooks and tablets ? to create a solution that incorporates our upcoming, low-power? AMD ?Jaguar? CPU cores with next-generation AMD Radeon graphics. This APU architecture enables game developers to easily harness the power of parallel processing.

?This is going to be a very exciting year for gamers, especially for those with AMD hardware in their PCs and consoles, as we have even more game-changing (pun intended) announcements still to come,? added Mr. Taylor.

The PS4 will come with 8GB of unified GDDR5 memory sub-system (with 176GB/s bandwidth) for both CPU and GPU as well as large-capacity hard disk drive. Sony PS4 will be equipped with Blu-ray disc drive capable of reading BDs at 6x and DVDs at 8x speeds, USB 3.0 connectivity in addition to a proprietary aux port, Gigabit Ethernet port, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR wireless technology as well as HDMI, optical and analog outputs. The new system will also utilize new DualShock 4 game controller with integrated touchpad as well as better motion sensing thanks to new PS4 Eye tracking cameras. Sony PlayStation 4 will be available this holiday season.

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Bombings kill 14, wound more in south India

HYDERABAD, India (AP) ? A day after two bicycle bombs killed 14 people and wounded more than 100, investigators into India's worst bombing in more than a year searched Friday for possible links to anger over the execution of a Muslim militant.

The bombs exploded minutes apart late Thursday in a crowded shopping area in the southern city of Hyderabad ? one of them near a cinema and one near a bus station. The blasts shattered storefronts, scattered food and plates from roadside restaurants and left tangles of dead bodies. Passersby rushed the wounded to hospitals.

"This is a dastardly attack; the guilty will not go unpunished," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. He appealed to the public to remain calm.

India has been in a state of alert since Mohammed Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri, was hanged in a New Delhi jail nearly two weeks ago after being convicted of involvement in a 2001 attack on India's Parliament. The assault killed 14 people, including five of the gunmen.

Many in Indian-ruled Kashmir believe Guru did not receive a fair trial, and the secrecy with which the execution was carried out fueled anger in a region where anti-India sentiment runs deep.

Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said there was a general alert about the possibility of an attack somewhere in India for the past three days. "But there was no specific intelligence about a particular place," he said.

The bombs were attached to two bicycles about 150 meters (500 feet) apart in Hyderabad's Dilsukh Nagar district, Shinde told reporters in New Delhi. He said 14 people died and 119 others were injured, six of them critically.

Top state police officer V. Dinesh Reddy said improvised explosive devices with nitrogen compound were used in the blasts.

Mahesh Kumar, a 21-year-old student, was heading home from a tutoring class when a bomb went off.

"I heard a huge sound and something hit me, I fell down, and somebody brought me to the hospital," said Kumar, who suffered shrapnel wounds.

Hyderabad, a city of 10 million in the state of Andhra Pradesh, is a hub of India's information technology industry and has a mixed population of Muslims and Hindus.

"This (attack) is to disturb the peaceful living of all communities in Andhra Pradesh," said Kiran Kumar Reddy, the state's chief minister.

The explosions were the first major bomb attack to hit India since a September 2011 blast outside the High Court in New Delhi killed 13 people. The government has been heavily criticized for its failure to arrest the masterminds behind previous bombings.

Officials from the National Investigation Agency and commandos of the National Security Guards arrived from New Delhi to help with the investigation in Hyderabad.

The United States, whose Secretary of State John Kerry was meeting Thursday in Washington with Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai, condemned the attack.

"The United States stands with India in combating the scourge of terrorism and we also prepared to offer any and all assistance Indian authorities may need," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told a news briefing.

Rana Banerji, a former security official, said India remains vulnerable to such attacks because there is poor coordination between the national government and the states. Police reforms are also moving very slowly and the quality of intelligence gathering is poor, he said.

"The concept of homeland security should be made effective, on a war footing," he said.

Rajnath Singh, the president of main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, demanded a thorough probe into the blasts. His party called for a general strike in the state on Friday.

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Associated Press writers Ashok Sharma in New Delhi and Matthew Pennington in Washington contributed to this report.

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Radio telescope, GPS use ionosphere to detect nuclear tests

Feb. 19, 2013 ? U.S. Naval Research Laboratory radio astronomer, Joseph Helmboldt, Ph.D., and researchers at Ohio State University Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering analyzed radio telescope interferometry and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) data recorded of the ionosphere during one of the last underground nuclear explosions (UNEs) in the U.S., codenamed Hunters Trophy.

Situated in the Plains of San Agustin, 50 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico, twenty-seven 25-meter parabolic dish antennas collectively make up the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope.

The VLA is an interferometer, meaning it operates by multiplying the data from each pair of telescopes together to form interference patterns. The structure of those interference patterns, and how they change with time as Earth rotates, reflect the structure of radio sources in the sky.

Designed as a radio synthesis telescope, observing bands between 1 and 50 gigahertz (GHz), the VLA is chiefly used to observe cosmic sources. While such observations require detailed calibration schemes to remove the effects of the ionosphere, this calibration data is seldom used to actually study the ionosphere.

During the Hunters Trophy event at the Nevada Test Site, Sept. 18, 1992, the VLA was observing a series of relatively bright cosmic sources at 1.4 GHz and positioned in a compact D-configuration, allowing an increased sensitivity to smaller-scale fluctuations. The data for these observations were retrieved from the VLA archives and self-calibration was performed using each source to obtain differences in total electron content (?TEC) time series for each antenna.

"One can see that between roughly 20 and 25 minutes after the UNE, the signature of disturbances in the ionosphere moving toward the northeast and southwest are nearly perpendicular to the direction from Hunters Trophy," said Helmboldt. "Given their characteristics, it seems likely that these disturbances are associated with small-scale distortions propagating along the larger traveling ionospheric disturbance generated by the Hunters Trophy explosion."

GPS can also contribute to detection and discrimination of UNEs. GPS signals are sensitive to ionospheric disturbance, and this phenomenon can be used to further validate concurrent VLA measurements. By studying the ionosphere, namely Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs) excited by acoustic-gravity waves from surface and underground explosions, the magnitude of the fluctuations greatly increased roughly 30 minutes after detonation -- consistent with GPS-derived propagation speed. The travel time and the travel distance of each event are highly correlated.

"Combining the results of both spectral techniques, we found a class of intermediate and small-scale waves," said Helmboldt. "Our exploration of VHF/UHF observations with the VLA has successfully demonstrated the power of this instrument to characterize a variety of transient ionospheric phenomena."

The resolution of the VLA is set by the size of the array -- up to 36 km (22 miles) across. At its highest frequency (43 GHz) a resolution of 0.04 arcseconds is achieved -- sufficient to see a golf ball being held 150 km (100 miles) away.

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Police: NY TV anchor threatened wife with death

Police say a New York City anchorman made a death threat against his wife as he was being arrested on charges of attacking her at their Connecticut home.

The alleged threat was revealed in a court document released during Tuesday's arraignment of WCBS-TV's Rob Morrison.

Meanwhile, New York City police said they were called to the couple's former Manhattan home 11 times between 2004 and 2009 because of domestic disputes.

They said one call resulted in an arrest, but that case was sealed.

In the Stamford case, a police officer wrote that Morrison said "he would kill his wife" if he were released.

The judge imposed an order keeping Morrison 100 yards away from Ashley Morrison.

Rob Morrison is charged with strangulation, threatening and disorderly conduct.

His lawyer says the allegations have been exaggerated.

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Virgin Mobile announces the Kyocera Event for just $79

Virgin Mobile and Kyocera have teamed up to offer an extremely low-cost Android device, the Event, for just $79.99 without a contract. Now you can't expect high-end specs at this price, but the Event shouldn't be a complete slouch. We're looking at a 3.5-inch HVGA (320x480) display, a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM (SDcard expandable), a 3.2MP camera and it's all running under Android 4.0. The software looks very slightly skinned as well, which is nice.

The Event can be purchased for just $79.99 without a contract, and paired with one of Virgin's plans that offers unlimited data starting at $35 per month for 300 minutes. This device would be a great option for a frugal first-time smartphone user.

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