Sunday 7 April 2013

Aide: Pakistan's Musharraf can run for parliament

ISLAMABAD (AP) ? A close aide to Pakistan's former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf says elections officials have approved his candidacy for parliament in a remote northern district after it was rejected in two other parts of the country.

Rashid Qureshi said officials in Chitral near the Afghan border accepted Musharraf's nomination papers on Sunday.

Musharraf seized power in a military coup in 1999 but was forced to step down nearly a decade later. He returned to Pakistan from exile last month to run for the National Assembly in May 11 elections.

Two other applications for southern and central Pakistani districts were rejected while a third in Islamabad is pending. Opponents have filed objections on based on actions he took while ruling Pakistan.

Chitral officials could not be reached for comment.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/aide-pakistans-musharraf-run-parliament-085652465.html

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Google Fiber's Next Stop Could Be Austin, Texas

google_fiber_03Back in early 2011, Austin, Texas lost to Kansas City, Kansas for the distinction of being the first city in the United States to get wired up with Google's high-speed Fiber internet service despite mounting a campaign to catch the search giant's eye. While the average tech-savvy Austinite has probably forgotten that campaign, it looks like Google didn't -- local ABC affiliate KVUE reported earlier this evening that Google will indeed announce its Austin Fiber rollout early next week citing multiple sources from within the city's government.

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Thursday 4 April 2013

Carnival cruise ship secured following Alabama wind storm

Hurricane-strength gusts set loose a Carnival cruise ship which had been tethered to a dock in Mobile, Alabama on Wednesday. The ship, known as Triumph, is undergoing repairs following a February engine fire. No one was injured in Wednesday's incident; all crew members and contractors were accounted for.?

By Melissa Nelson-Gabriel,?Associated Press, Phillip Lucas,?Associated Press / April 3, 2013

The Carnival cruise ship Triumph rests against a dock on the east side of the Mobile River after becoming dislodged from its mooring at BAE Shipyard during high winds Wednesday in Mobile, Ala.

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The crippled cruise ship whose sewage-filled breakdown in the Gulf of Mexico subjected thousands to horrendous conditions tore loose Wednesday from the dock where it's being repaired, lumbered downriver and crunched into a cargo ship.

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Wind gusts near hurricane strength shoved the 900-foot?Carnival?Triumph free from its mooring in downtown Mobile, Ala., where the ship was brought in a five-day ordeal that began when an engine fire stranded it off of Mexico in February. Hours later, four tug boats used several mooring lines to secure the ship to the cruise terminal.

A 20-foot gash about 2 to 3 feet wide was visible about halfway up the hull from the water and it wrapped partway around the stern. Underneath the gashed area, two levels of railing were dangling and broken. Electric cables that had been plugged in on shore were dangling from the port ? or left ? side of the ship. Carnival?said damage, though, was limited.

The violent weather Wednesday also blew a nearby guard shack into the water. One shipyard worker was rescued and crews were searching for another, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said, but the cruise ship's mishap was unrelated.

Some crew members and workers had been staying on the ship while it was being repaired and people could be seen looking out the windows and on the deck of the ship Wednesday.?Carnival?said all 800 of its crew members and contractors who were working aboard were safe.

An engine fire disabled the Triumph on Feb. 10 and thousands of passengers were disabled for days. Passengers say they endured terrible conditions on board, including food shortages, raw sewage running in corridors and tent cities for sleeping on deck.

Tugs slowly towed the ship into port in Mobile, Ala., where it has remained under repair.

After the ship escaped, it rested against a cargo vessel. It drifted for a couple of hours before being secured as of 5 p.m., and moved to the Mobile Cruise Terminal,?Carnival?spokesman Vance Gulliksen said.

Coast Guard officials said they saw no sign late Wednesday of the missing BAE Systems employee who was knocked into the water with a co-worker when near hurricane-strength winds blew their guard shack over. The other man was rescued.

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Bill Colclough said the missing man worked for BAE Systems that runs the shipyard. Authorities are unsure of how deep the water is where the men fell in, but the company's website mentions its ship-repairing operation is adjacent to a 42-foot deep ship channel.

Lucas reported from Atlanta.

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Viet-Mom | Cody Gough's Creative Writing

Welcome to CodyGough.com! This may be your first visit, because it?s my birthday, and I?m using the powers of Facebook to trick people into visiting promote my web site. Welcome, and enjoy. I host episodes of Unqualified: A Video Game Podcast here, as well as post stories and poems that are ten years old. I will eventually do more stuff, but I wanted to start simple in 2013.

With that out of the way: exactly 10 years ago, I had an idea. Inspiration like you would never expect. In addition to incredibly artistic drawings of characters from Super Smash Brothers: Melee, I came up with the premise to a story of epic proportions. Observe!

A CHILLING TALE INDEED.

A CHILLING TALE INDEED.

Transcript:

VIET-MOM
The chilling tale of one Asian woman who bore an entire nation, only to one day be betrayed by her own uterus. Witness the gripping re-enactment of one pedophiliac cannibal?s quest for her ?golden children? through the exotic jungles of such countries that start with the letter ?T? as Tahiti, Tijuana, and Taiwan. You?ll laugh, you?ll cry, and you?ll cry some more, as the journey takes you through four hundred years of tragedy, comedy, romance, and satire.

A few things:

  • Yes, I know I didn?t originally write ?Asian,? but the word I DID use wasn?t politically incorrect yet when I wrote it. So sue my 10-years-ago-self. I actually am sorry if that offended you, though? just keep in mind, this was written by a high schooler in a different time. That?s all.
  • I?m pretty sure that tragedy, comedy, romance and satire were like, the 4 types of stories we studied in English class. We had also watched Apocalypse Now in class, which I?m sure inspired this entire poem.
  • I have no idea where Tahiti is. And I hate myself for ending the previous sentence in a preposition. But at least now I?ve shown that I did learn something in school, so I?ll call that a win.

Look, I never said that none of my stuff would be offensive (DAMN YOU, DOUBLE NEGATIVES), so please keep in mind that a high schooler wrote this stuff and that the ?big picture? of my entire 10-year project is to entertain. Sometimes that includes shaking your head in my general direction. Other times, that means seeing my INCREDIBLY ARTISTIC ARTISTRY, especially applied to video games.

Anyway, I went on a kind of sabbatical from my web site in March, but you can look forward to seeing a lot more of my high school genius in April. Thanks for visiting! I hope you enjoy my little project and decide to check out other parts of my site, and more importantly, I hope I can entertain you again soon, because I honestly think making people smile is why I was put on God?s Green Earth?? even if only because I have no other real skills.

Speaking of earth, I like how on my Apple keyboard, I can simply type Option+R to make the ? symbol, but on my Windows 8 laptop, I have to type Alt+0174. HOW DOES THAT EVEN MAKE SENSE

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This post is part of Cody?s ?10-Year Idea Reunion? series, in which Cody revisits his creative writing class assignments exactly 10 years after writing them. Learn more about Cody?s Idea Reunion and follow him on WordPress to follow along!

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Mineral analysis of lunar crater deposit prompts a second look at the impact cratering process

Mineral analysis of lunar crater deposit prompts a second look at the impact cratering process

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Despite the unimaginable energy produced during large impacts on the Moon, those impacts may not wipe the mineralogical slate clean, according to new research led by Brown University geoscientists.

The researchers have discovered a rock body with a distinct mineralogy snaking for 18 miles across the floor of Copernicus crater, a 60-mile-wide hole on the Moon's near side. The sinuous feature appears to bear the mineralogical signature of rocks that were present before the impact that made the crater.

The deposit is interesting because it is part of a sheet of impact melt, the cooled remains of rocks melted during an impact. Geologists had long assumed that melt deposits would retain little pre-impact mineralogical diversity.

Large impacts produce giant cauldrons of impact melt that eventually cool and reform into solid rock. The assumption was that the impact energy would stir that cauldron thoroughly during the liquid phase, mixing all the rock types together into an indistinguishable mass. Identifying any pre-impact mineral variation would be a bit like dumping four-course meal into a blender and then trying to pick out the potatoes.

But this distinct feature found at Copernicus suggests that pre-existing mineralogy isn't always blended away by the impact process.

"The takeaway here is that impact melt deposits aren't bland," said Deepak Dhingra, a Brown graduate student who led the research. "The implication is that we don't understand the impact cratering process quite as well as we thought."

The findings are published in online early view in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Copernicus is one of the best-studied craters on the Moon, yet this deposit went unnoticed for decades. It was imaging in 83 wavelengths of light in the visible and near-infrared region by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper ? M3 ? that made the deposit stand out like a sore thumb.

M3 orbited the Moon for 10 months during 2008-09 aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and mapped nearly the whole lunar surface. Different minerals reflect light in different wavelengths at variable intensities. So by looking at the variation at those wavelengths, it's possible to identify minerals.

In the M3 imaging of Copernicus, the new feature appeared as an area that reflects less light at wavelengths around 900 and 2,000 nanometers, an indicator of minerals rich in magnesium pyroxenes. In the rest of the crater floor, there was a dominant dip beyond 950 nm and 2400 nm, indicating minerals rich in iron and calcium pyroxenes. "That means there are atleast two different mineral compositions within the impact melt, something previously not known for impact melt on the Moon," Dhingra said.

It is not clear exactly how or why this feature formed the way it did, the researchers say. That's an area for future study. But the fact that impact melt isn't always homogenous changes the way geologists look at lunar impact craters.

"These features have preserved signatures of the original target material, providing 'pointers' that lead back to the source region inside the crater," said James W. Head III, the Scherck Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences and one of the authors of the study. "Deepak's findings have provided new insight into the fundamentals of how the cratering process works. These results will now permit a more rigorous reconstruction of the cratering process to be undertaken."

Carle Pieters, a professor of geological sciences at Brown and the principle investigator of the M3 experiment, was one of the co-authors on the paper, with Peter Isaacson of the University of Hawaii.

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Obama, in Colorado, to press for gun measures

WASHINGTON (AP) ? In danger of losing congressional momentum, President Barack Obama is drawing attention to Colorado's newly passed gun control laws as he applies public pressure on Congress to pass similar federal measures.

Obama was traveling to the Denver suburbs Wednesday, stepping up his call for universal background checks for gun buyers as well as his demands for Congress to at least vote on an assault weapons ban and limits on large-capacity ammunition magazines.

The trip is heavy with political symbolism. Colorado expanded background checks and placed restrictions on magazines despite being a state with a deep-rooted hunting tradition, where gun ownership is a cherished right. Moreover, Obama will meet with law enforcement officials and community leaders at the Denver Police Academy, not far from the Aurora suburb where a gunman last summer killed 12 people in a movie theater. The president's trip is occurring in the same week that prosecutors announced they would seek the death penalty for James Holmes, accused of carrying out the Aurora rampage.

With Congress due to return to Washington after a two-week Easter break, Obama has been scheduling high-profile events on gun legislation to push lawmakers and sustain a drive for some kind of action aimed at curbing gun violence more than three months after the massacre at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.

Last week Obama called for legislation while flanked by 21 mothers who have lost children to gun violence. "I haven't forgotten those kids," he declared then.

On Monday, just ahead of the planned start of the Senate's debate on gun legislation, Obama is scheduled to go to Hartford, Conn., where state lawmakers have announced a bipartisan agreement on gun legislation as a response to the shootings at Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School, which took the lives of 20 first-graders and six adult staff.

"If it were simple to pass measures through Congress that are very common sense but would reduce gun violence in America, those measures would have passed already," White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday. "And the president has always recognized that this is something that would be a challenge."

In selecting Colorado, Obama is showcasing a state with a long centrist tradition that prizes its Western frontier heritage. But an influx of young coastal transplants and growing Hispanic voter clout have helped Democrats win a string of victories in the state. Even before the Sandy Hook massacre energized gun control proponents, Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper said he was open to new gun control measures in the state.

Colorado Republicans fought the new legislation, contending that Democrats overreached and will be punished by the voters in November. Several county sheriffs have vowed not to enforce the new gun restrictions. Democrats contend that the measures are generally popular, especially among the suburban women who decide Colorado elections.

Obama's trip comes a day after a study commissioned by the National Rifle Association, which has opposed Obama's gun control measures, recommended that schools have trained, armed staffers to increase security for students. The American Federation of Teachers denounced the proposal.

With just days left before the Senate begins its debate, there were signs that sweeping congressional efforts to address gun violence have flagged.

A proposed ban on assault weapons has little hope of passage and the prospects for barring large-capacity magazines also seem difficult. Key senators have been unable to reach a bipartisan compromise that would require federal background checks for gun transactions between private individuals. Federal background checks currently apply only to sales handled by licensed gun dealers.

Carney said administration officials were looking for middle ground.

"We are working with lawmakers of both parties, and trying to achieve a compromise that can make this happen. Especially when it comes to the background checks," Carney told reporters. But he reiterated Obama's insistence that other measures get a vote.

In addition to his stop in Denver, Obama will travel to San Francisco to attend fundraisers Wednesday and Thursday for Democratic Party organizations.

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Associated Press writers Nicholas Riccardi in Denver and Alan Fram in Washington contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-colorado-press-gun-measures-070710751--politics.html

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Remains of the Day: T-Mobile Will Enable LTE for Unlocked iPhones April 5th

Remains of the Day: T-Mobile Will Enable LTE for Unlocked iPhones April 5thT-Mobile is turning on its LTE for iPhone users this weekend, the Raspberry Pi Model A sells out within hours of coming to the US, Google Voice adds notifications to its Chrome extension, and spammers have found a way to crash iMessage.

  • T-Mobile Sending Out Carrier Update Enabling LTE For Unlocked iPhone Devices On April 5th T-Mobile is planning to release a carrier update this weekend that will enable LTE on the network's iOS devices. The update is scheduled to roll out over the air on April 5th, but if you can't wait until then you can get it on a jailbroken iPhone now. [TmoNews]
  • $25 Raspberry Pi Comes to U.S., Sells Out in Hours Yesterday, the Raspberry Pi Model A finally went on sale in the US, and sold out in hours. The tiny, hyper-affordable Linux-based computer comes with 256MB of RAM, a USB port, and HDMI, SD, and audio sockets. The previously available Model B doubles up on the Ram and USB and has an ethernet port for an extra $10. If you have one and aren't sure what to do next, check out our Raspberry Pi coverage and get started on some awesome projects. [Mashable]
  • PSA: Google Voice Chrome Extension Updated Yesterday With Desktop Notifications, It's Not Babel The Google Voice Chrome extension received an update yesterday that adds desktop notifications when a message comes in. If notifications aren't something you want, the update comes with the option to toggle them off as well. [Droid Life]
  • iMessage Denial of Service ?Prank' Spams Users Rapidly with Messages, Crashes iOS Messages App Recently several iOS developers have been targeted in a denial of service-like prank, bombarding them via iMessage. However, being spammed by complex strings of constant messages isn't just annoying?it also can crash the app. And until Apple addresses the issue, the only available solution for those affected would be to disable iMessage. [The Next Web]
  • Pandora App Updated, Brings Lockscreen Controls and Reduced Startup Time The latest update to Pandora's Android app brings lock screen controls for devices running 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and up. Also included are elapsed and remaining timestamps for track progress and reduced startup time. [Droid Life]
  • Yahoo! Mail + Dropbox Beginning today, Yahoo! Mail now offers integrated Dropbox support. Users can now send attachments via Dropbox and not worry about the 25MB file limit. [Dropbox]
  • Ubuntu 13.04 To Axe The Wubi Windows Installer The Windows-based Ubuntu Installer ("Wubi"), which allows Windows users to install Linux as a Windows application, will no longer be supported in Ubuntu version 13.04. Canonical is citing the installer's poor performance and inability to work in Windows 8 as the primary reasons for scrapping Wubi. [Phoronix]
  • Microsoft's Windows Blue looks to be named Windows 8.1 Windows Blue, Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 refresh, is now rumored to be named Windows 8.1, which suggests an OS X-inspired yearly update plan. [ZDNet]
  • Check Out a BlackBerry 10 Preview Straight from Your iOS or Android Device iOS and Android users can preview the new Blackberry 10 OS via a mobile web app. You can check it out here. [iPhone-Developers]

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Elaine Stritch movingly says goodbye to New York

NEW YORK (AP) ? Broadway legend Elaine Stritch kicked off a final series of concerts to bid farewell to New York, but refused to be maudlin about it, instead displaying her typical brand of sass and feistiness.

The ailing 88-year-old Tony and Emmy award winner got a sustained burst of applause and wolf-whistles Tuesday night from a standing-room only crowd at the supper club Cafe Carlyle, but immediately tried to cut it off by pounding on the stage.

"You listen to me. This is the most frightening night of my life," she said, dressed in a white shirt, black leather boots, a long black vest and her trademark black leggings. "There's something that really frightens me ? and that's fear."

Stritch plans soon to retire to Birmingham, Mich. ? a suburb of Detroit ? after seven decades in New York City. She ends her five-show farewell on Saturday.

The singer and actress admitted to failing health. She suffers from diabetes ? sipping orange juice on Tuesday to keep her blood sugar in check ? and a broken hip.

"I'm going to kind of take it easy. Every time I leave the building, I fall on my ass," she joked. In Michigan, she said: "I am going to be able to go to sleep at 9 o'clock at night. I've been up all my life."

Stritch had difficulty remembering stories and sometimes found it hard to recall words, but her inner light shone. "I'm not going to be right on the ball here," she warned. "I'm going to be just a little bit shaky. So please stay with me."

She explained that she's been in and out of hospitals but feels great. "I've had a couple of bad falls," she said, and the audience moaned. "Don't you feel sorry for me!" she replied. "Don't you dare feel sorry for me!"

The 188-room Hotel Carlyle on Manhattan's Upper East Side has been a home for Stritch for years and her sold-out engagements there over the past seven years have been legendary. Tickets for her final concerts went for between $85-$175.

On Tuesday, for over an hour she told stories about Rock Hudson, Stephen Sondheim, Jane Fonda, John F. Kennedy, Gregory Peck, Judy Garland and Ethel Merman. She passed around a silver jug with preprinted story ideas, but waved away requests to talk about Marlon Brando, saying, "That takes half an hour. If I were you, I'd go home."

She read her favorite fan letter ? from a third grader from Memphis, Tenn. ? who wanted an autographed photo of Stritch for his sick mother even though he'd much prefer one from NFL star Brett Favre. She closed with a profane joke about Jesus and St. Peter playing golf.

In the audience were Martin Short, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli, Tony Bennett and Tom Hanks, with whom she took particular joy flirting. "Stay in touch, Tom," she said.

With assistance from Rob Bowman on a piano, she sang Eddie Cantor's "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree?)" a filthy version of Cole Porter's "You're the Top" and closed with "He Was Too Good to Me" by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

"There are an awful lot of attractive men in this room," she said wolfishly as the house lights went up. "It's making me crazy."

Stritch became a sort of shorthand for acting longevity since she made her Broadway debut in "Loco" in 1946. Since then, she performed in both musicals and dramas, from Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance" to Noel Coward's "Sail Away" to Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" and "Company," for which she sang a memorable "The Ladies Who Lunch."

She appeared in films such as "Monster-in-Law" and "Out to Sea," and on TV as the Emmy-winning mother of Alec Baldwin in "30 Rock." Her one-woman show "Elaine Stritch at Liberty" won her a second Tony in 2002.

At the cabaret show, she told the crowd, "It's going to be hard to turn my back on you guys, for a little while at least. But I have to. I've just got to take it easy." She added: "Wish me well and I'll do the same to you."

As she was being led away from the stage on the arm of a young, good-looking man, Stritch couldn't resist one last joke.

"Everybody pay their bill?" she asked. "It's a shocker."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/elaine-stritch-movingly-says-goodbye-york-161505400.html

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