Friday, April 26, 2013

Paul Ryan's Intern Was an Even More Calculating Cyberstalker Than Imagined

Twenty-one-year-old Adam Savader, the main operations intern for vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan on the Mitt Romney campaign last year, was charged last week with cyberstalking and extorting fifteen women by the U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan. After his much-discussed arrest on Tuesday, the charges against Savader were unsealed on Wednesday afternoon, and they are disturbing reflections of a young man with access to power, turned very pushy?and very sexually aggressive. Indeed, a copy of?the criminal complaint against Savader (pictured with Ryan above) alleges that during the fall of 2012, he used a virtual toolbox of Google Voice numbers, fake Facebook profiles, and burner email accounts to threaten 15 women, including several of his college classmates, with distributing nude photos of them to their parents and friends. (Savader supposedly obtained the photos by hacking into some of the victims' email accounts at AOL and Gmail.) The charges carry a maximum punishment of five years in prison.

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Before being charged today, Savader was making a name for himself in the Republican Party, taking jobs on the campaigns of Mitt Romney and, before him, Newt Gingrich. On his well-followed Twitter profile, Savader describes himself as a "Reagan Republican" and an "American Patriot." His public Facebook profile features hundreds of photos of conservative politicians and personalities ? including Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Tucker Carlson, Ann Coulter, Steven Crowder, and Andrew Breitbart ? smiling next to Savader. "Savader is/was one of those young D.C. go-getters ? there are legion ? who made sure to get photographed with as many famous people as possible," suggested Slate columnist David Weigel, who met Savader on the campaign trail in 2012.

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It was a different story for the photographs of others, the complaint against Savader alleges. Over several episodes with more than a dozen women, Savader is charged with threatening to ruin his victims' reputations with compromising photographs if they did not comply with his various requests. In one exchange, Savader allegedly demanded that a woman accept his friend request on Facebook:

The writer threatened to send the photos to Victim 11's parents and friends unless she told him not to: "Do it from ur phone RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! I swear to god don't be stupid. U don't want every1 [sic] including your parents seeing your tits ass and pussy. Accept it now!! This is what I will send ur mom with the pics unless u accept now "thought u would want to see these pics of your baby girl. They're very revealing. About to send them to every1 so she is a star"

(The FBI special agent who filed the complaint collected a total of five different Google Voice numbers, each of which was programmed to forward texts to a cell phone belonging to Savader.)

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Savader appears to have been a dedicated staffer. According to Yahoo News, he enjoyed dressing up as 'Ellis the Elephant,' the protagonist of two children's books written by Newt Gingrich's wife, Callista. (The Wire's Elspeth Reeve reported in December 2011 on?the number of similarities between Ellis and Newt Gingrich.) A February 2012 profile on the website of George Washington University, to which Savader transferred in 2010,?detailed his dedication in even more detail:

Mr. Savader began working for the campaign last June after writing to Callista Gingrich, the candidate?s wife, who put him in touch with the national campaign director. As special assistant to the chief operating officer for the campaign, Mr. Savader works full time at the campaign headquarters and is responsible for sending Mr. Gingrich a daily report. Before primary season began, Mr. Savader was still in classes at GW full time, but this semester he?s only able to take two night classes ? a sacrifice Mr. Savader says has definitely been worth it.

?It?s been a great opportunity,? said Mr. Savader. ?I?m having a great experience, and I?m meeting lots of good people. It?s important to get hands-on experience in politics, and that?s what I?m getting.?

Savader remains in FBI custody in New York. The full complaint against him is embedded below:

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Did brotherly bond play role in Boston bombings?

This Monday, April 15, 2013 photo provided by Bob Leonard shows bombing suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, center right in black hat, and his brother, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, center left in white hat, approximately 10-20 minutes before the blasts that struck the Boston Marathon. It's a vexing puzzle about the Boston Marathon bombings: The younger of the two accused brothers hardly seemed headed for a monumental act of violence. How could he team up with his older brother to do this? Nobody knows for sure, but some experts in sibling research say the powerful bonds that can develop between brothers may have played a role. (AP Photo/Bob Leonard)

This Monday, April 15, 2013 photo provided by Bob Leonard shows bombing suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, center right in black hat, and his brother, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, center left in white hat, approximately 10-20 minutes before the blasts that struck the Boston Marathon. It's a vexing puzzle about the Boston Marathon bombings: The younger of the two accused brothers hardly seemed headed for a monumental act of violence. How could he team up with his older brother to do this? Nobody knows for sure, but some experts in sibling research say the powerful bonds that can develop between brothers may have played a role. (AP Photo/Bob Leonard)

(AP) ? It's a vexing puzzle about the Boston Marathon bombings: The younger of the two accused brothers hardly seemed headed for a monumental act of violence. How could he team up with his older brother to do this?

Nobody knows for sure, but some experts in sibling research say the powerful bonds that can develop between brothers may have played a role.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died last week at age 26 in a shootout with police, and his 19-year-old sibling Dzhokhar are hardly the first brothers involved in criminal acts. Three pairs of brothers were among the 9/11 terrorists, for example, and three brothers were convicted in 2008 for planning to attack soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey.

"There are a lot of criminal enterprises where you have brothers involved," said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. "It is almost always the older brother who is the leader. ... Typically the younger brother looks up to the older brother in many ways."

Friends and relatives paint markedly different pictures of the Tsarnaev pair. Tamerlan could be argumentative and sullen, saying at one point he hadn't made a single American friend since immigrating years earlier, and he was arrested in 2009 for assault and battery on a girlfriend before those charges were dismissed. Dzhokhar appears to have been well-adjusted and well-liked in both high school and college.

Tamerlan seemed to be the dominant sibling in the family.

"He was the eldest one and he, in many ways, was the role model for his sisters and his brother," said Elmirza Khozhugov, 26, the ex-husband of Tamerlan's sister, Ailina. "You could always hear his younger brother and sisters say, 'Tamerlan said this,' and 'Tamerlan said that.' Dzhokhar loved him. He would do whatever Tamerlan would say."

Federal officials say their initial questioning of Dzhokhar suggests both brothers were motivated by a radical brand of Islam without apparent connections to terrorist groups. Their uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, has blamed their alleged bombing partnership on Tamerlan, saying Dzhokhar has been "absolutely wasted by his older brother ... He used him ... for what we see they've done."

Research shows that older brothers can have a direct influence on younger ones, says Katherine Conger, an associate professor of human development and family studies at the University of California-Davis.

"Sometimes it's through having a high quality relationship. So they spend time together, they enjoy doing things together and kind of hang out," she said. But other times, she said, it's through coercion and threats.

Studies show that children and adolescents can be influenced toward theft, vandalism and alcohol use by their older siblings. The influence is even more pronounced when parenting is harsh, inconsistent or absent, and when the two siblings share the same friends, experts said.

So how might that apply to the Tsarnaev brothers? There are several reasons to be wary about extrapolating the research to this case: So little is known about the brothers' family lives and other details. And most sibling research examines more ordinary infractions occurring in Western cultures ? not the extreme behavior believed carried out by the Tsarnaevs, who shared both an American culture and an ethnic Chechen background.

Still, from the sketchy details in press reports, some experts said it makes sense that Tamerlan could have had a major influence on his younger brother. That may have been through a close relationship or coercion, Conger said. "It's really hard to know."

Lew Bank of Portland State University in Oregon said Dzhokhar may have looked up to his older brother and wanted to please him. "It was very likely exciting for the younger brother to be so intensively at work with his big brother at something that seemed so important to them both," Bank said.

The relationship may have intensified when both parents left the country within the past year or so, leaving Tamerlan as Dzhokhar's dominant family member, he said. Tamerlan may have taken on a father-like role, said Avidan Milevsky of Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.

But for Laurie Kramer of the University of Illinois, a key question remains. Why couldn't Dzhokhar tell his older brother, "This isn't right, this isn't acceptable?" she asked. "This seems to be a case where a little bit more sibling conflict might have been useful."

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Scientists provide 'new spin' on emerging quantum technologies

Apr. 23, 2013 ? An international team of scientists has shed new light on a fundamental area of physics which could have important implications for future electronic devices and the transfer of information at the quantum level.

The electrical currents currently used to power electronic devices are generated by a flow of charges. However, emerging quantum technologies such as spin-electronics, make use of both charge and another intrinsic property of electrons ? their spin ? to transfer and process signals and information.??

The experimental and theoretical work, carried out by researchers from York?s Department of Physics, the Institute of Nanoscience in Paris and the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, could have important implications for spintronics and quantum information technologies.

The team looked at semiconductors? structures ? the base of current electronic devices and of many spintronic device proposals - and the problems created by internal fields known as spin-orbit fields. In general, these tend to act differently on each electronic spin, causing a phenomenon referred to as ?spin-decoherence?. This means that the electronic spins will behave in a way which cannot be completely controlled or predicted, which has important implications for device functionalities.

To address this problem, the scientists looked at semiconductor structures called ?quantum wells? where the spins can be excited in a collective, coherent way by using lasers and light scattering. ?????

They demonstrated that these collective spin excitations possess a macroscopic spin of quantum nature. In other words, the electrons and their spins act as a single entity making them less susceptible to spin orbit fields, so decoherence is highly suppressed.

The theoretical work was led by Dr Irene D?Amico from York?s Department of Physics, and Carsten Ullrich, an Associate Professor from Missouri-Columbia?s Department of Physics. The project began with their prediction about the effect of spin Coulomb drag on collective spin excitations, and developed into a much larger international project spanning over three years, which was funded in the UK by a Royal Society grant, with additional funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Dr D?Amico said: ?This work has developed into a strong international collaboration which has greatly improved our understanding at fundamental level of the role of many-body interactions on the behaviour of electron spins.

?By combining experimental and theoretical work, we were able to demonstrate that through many-body interactions, a macroscopic collection of spins can behave as a single entity with a single macroscopic quantum spin, making this much less susceptible to decoherence. In the future, it may be possible to use these excitations as signals to transport or elaborate information at the quantum level.?

After reporting their results in the journal Physical Review Letters last year, the team of scientists confirmed and extended the results by considering different materials and type of excitation. The second set of experiments, were recently reported in Physical Review B (Rapid Communication) and highlighted by the Journal as an ?Editor?s Suggestion?.

Dr Florent Perez, who led the experimental work with Florent Baboux, at the CNRS/Universit? Paris VI, says the results strongly suggest that the quantum nature of the macroscopic spin is universal to collective spin excitations in conductive systems.

He said: ?The collaboration with Irene D?Amico and Carsten Ullrich has been particularly powerful to disentangle the puzzle of our data. In our first joint work we constructed an interpretation of the phenomenon which was confirmed in a second investigation carried out on a different system. This paved the way for a universality of the effect.?

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  1. F. Baboux, F. Perez, C. A. Ullrich, I. D?Amico, J. G?mez, M. Bernard. Giant Collective Spin-Orbit Field in a Quantum Well: Fine Structure of Spin Plasmons. Physical Review Letters, 2012; 109 (16) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.166401
  2. F. Baboux, F. Perez, C. A. Ullrich, I. D'Amico, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz. Coulomb-driven organization and enhancement of spin-orbit fields in collective spin excitations. Physical Review B, 2013; 87 (12) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.121303

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Nanowires grown on graphene have surprising structure

Nanowires grown on graphene have surprising structure [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 23-Apr-2013
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Contact: Liz Ahlberg
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217-244-1073
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. When a team of University of Illinois engineers set out to grow nanowires of a compound semiconductor on top of a sheet of graphene, they did not expect to discover a new paradigm of epitaxy.

The self-assembled wires have a core of one composition and an outer layer of another, a desired trait for many advanced electronics applications. Led by professor Xiuling Li, in collaboration with professors Eric Pop and Joseph Lyding, all professors of electrical and computer engineering, the team published its findings in the journal Nano Letters.

Nanowires, tiny strings of semiconductor material, have great potential for applications in transistors, solar cells, lasers, sensors and more.

"Nanowires are really the major building blocks of future nano-devices," said postdoctoral researcher Parsian Mohseni, first author of the study. "Nanowires are components that can be used, based on what material you grow them out of, for any functional electronics application."

Li's group uses a method called van der Waals epitaxy to grow nanowires from the bottom up on a flat substrate of semiconductor materials, such as silicon. The nanowires are made of a class of materials called III-V (three-five), compound semiconductors that hold particular promise for applications involving light, such as solar cells or lasers.

The group previously reported growing III-V nanowires on silicon. While silicon is the most widely used material in devices, it has a number of shortcomings. Now, the group has grown nanowires of the material indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) on a sheet of graphene, a 1-atom-thick sheet of carbon with exceptional physical and conductive properties.

Thanks to its thinness, graphene is flexible, while silicon is rigid and brittle. It also conducts like a metal, allowing for direct electrical contact to the nanowires. Furthermore, it is inexpensive, flaked off from a block of graphite or grown from carbon gases.

"One of the reasons we want to grow on graphene is to stay away from thick and expensive substrates," Mohseni said. "About 80 percent of the manufacturing cost of a conventional solar cell comes from the substrate itself. We've done away with that by just using graphene. Not only are there inherent cost benefits, we're also introducing functionality that a typical substrate doesn't have."

The researchers pump gases containing gallium, indium and arsenic into a chamber with a graphene sheet. The nanowires self-assemble, growing by themselves into a dense carpet of vertical wires across the surface of the graphene. Other groups have grown nanowires on graphene with compound semiconductors that only have two elements, but by using three elements, the Illinois group made a unique finding: The InGaAs wires grown on graphene spontaneously segregate into an indium arsenide (InAs) core with an InGaAs shell around the outside of the wire.

"This is unexpected," Li said. "A lot of devices require a core-shell architecture. Normally you grow the core in one growth condition and change conditions to grow the shell on the outside. This is spontaneous, done in one step. The other good thing is that since it's a spontaneous segregation, it produces a perfect interface."

So what causes this spontaneous core-shell structure? By coincidence, the distance between atoms in a crystal of InAs is nearly the same as the distance between whole numbers of carbon atoms in a sheet of graphene. So, when the gases are piped into the chamber and the material begins to crystallize, InAs settles into place on the graphene, a near-perfect fit, while the gallium compound settles on the outside of the wires. This was unexpected, because normally, with van der Waals epitaxy, the respective crystal structures of the material and the substrate are not supposed to matter.

"We didn't expect it, but once we saw it, it made sense," Mohseni said.

In addition, by tuning the ratio of gallium to indium in the semiconductor cocktail, the researchers can tune the optical and conductive properties of the nanowires.

Next, Li's group plans to make solar cells and other optoelectronic devices with their graphene-grown nanowires. Thanks to both the wires' ternary composition and graphene's flexibility and conductivity, Li hopes to integrate the wires in a broad spectrum of applications.

"We basically discovered a new phenomenon that confirms that registry does count in van der Waals epitaxy," Li said.

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This work was supported in part by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. Postdoctoral researcher Ashkan Behnam and graduate students Joshua Wood and Christopher English also were co-authors of the paper. Li also is affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab, and the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab, all at the U. of I.

Editor's note: To contact Xiuling Li, call 217-265-6354; email xiuling@illinois.edu.

The paper, "InxGa1xAs Nanowire Growth on Graphene: van der Waals Epitaxy Induced Phase Segregation," is available online.


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Contact: Liz Ahlberg
eahlberg@illinois.edu
217-244-1073
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. When a team of University of Illinois engineers set out to grow nanowires of a compound semiconductor on top of a sheet of graphene, they did not expect to discover a new paradigm of epitaxy.

The self-assembled wires have a core of one composition and an outer layer of another, a desired trait for many advanced electronics applications. Led by professor Xiuling Li, in collaboration with professors Eric Pop and Joseph Lyding, all professors of electrical and computer engineering, the team published its findings in the journal Nano Letters.

Nanowires, tiny strings of semiconductor material, have great potential for applications in transistors, solar cells, lasers, sensors and more.

"Nanowires are really the major building blocks of future nano-devices," said postdoctoral researcher Parsian Mohseni, first author of the study. "Nanowires are components that can be used, based on what material you grow them out of, for any functional electronics application."

Li's group uses a method called van der Waals epitaxy to grow nanowires from the bottom up on a flat substrate of semiconductor materials, such as silicon. The nanowires are made of a class of materials called III-V (three-five), compound semiconductors that hold particular promise for applications involving light, such as solar cells or lasers.

The group previously reported growing III-V nanowires on silicon. While silicon is the most widely used material in devices, it has a number of shortcomings. Now, the group has grown nanowires of the material indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) on a sheet of graphene, a 1-atom-thick sheet of carbon with exceptional physical and conductive properties.

Thanks to its thinness, graphene is flexible, while silicon is rigid and brittle. It also conducts like a metal, allowing for direct electrical contact to the nanowires. Furthermore, it is inexpensive, flaked off from a block of graphite or grown from carbon gases.

"One of the reasons we want to grow on graphene is to stay away from thick and expensive substrates," Mohseni said. "About 80 percent of the manufacturing cost of a conventional solar cell comes from the substrate itself. We've done away with that by just using graphene. Not only are there inherent cost benefits, we're also introducing functionality that a typical substrate doesn't have."

The researchers pump gases containing gallium, indium and arsenic into a chamber with a graphene sheet. The nanowires self-assemble, growing by themselves into a dense carpet of vertical wires across the surface of the graphene. Other groups have grown nanowires on graphene with compound semiconductors that only have two elements, but by using three elements, the Illinois group made a unique finding: The InGaAs wires grown on graphene spontaneously segregate into an indium arsenide (InAs) core with an InGaAs shell around the outside of the wire.

"This is unexpected," Li said. "A lot of devices require a core-shell architecture. Normally you grow the core in one growth condition and change conditions to grow the shell on the outside. This is spontaneous, done in one step. The other good thing is that since it's a spontaneous segregation, it produces a perfect interface."

So what causes this spontaneous core-shell structure? By coincidence, the distance between atoms in a crystal of InAs is nearly the same as the distance between whole numbers of carbon atoms in a sheet of graphene. So, when the gases are piped into the chamber and the material begins to crystallize, InAs settles into place on the graphene, a near-perfect fit, while the gallium compound settles on the outside of the wires. This was unexpected, because normally, with van der Waals epitaxy, the respective crystal structures of the material and the substrate are not supposed to matter.

"We didn't expect it, but once we saw it, it made sense," Mohseni said.

In addition, by tuning the ratio of gallium to indium in the semiconductor cocktail, the researchers can tune the optical and conductive properties of the nanowires.

Next, Li's group plans to make solar cells and other optoelectronic devices with their graphene-grown nanowires. Thanks to both the wires' ternary composition and graphene's flexibility and conductivity, Li hopes to integrate the wires in a broad spectrum of applications.

"We basically discovered a new phenomenon that confirms that registry does count in van der Waals epitaxy," Li said.

###

This work was supported in part by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. Postdoctoral researcher Ashkan Behnam and graduate students Joshua Wood and Christopher English also were co-authors of the paper. Li also is affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab, and the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab, all at the U. of I.

Editor's note: To contact Xiuling Li, call 217-265-6354; email xiuling@illinois.edu.

The paper, "InxGa1xAs Nanowire Growth on Graphene: van der Waals Epitaxy Induced Phase Segregation," is available online.


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FocusTwist app for iOS gives you Lytro-esque refocusable images

Focus Twist for iPhone gives you Lytosesque selective focus

Arqball has just released the FocusTwist app for iOS that lets you selectively focus after taking an image -- without investing $400 in a Lytro light field camera. It works by automatically taking several shots with different focus points from your iPhone's camera, delivering the best results if you hold very still and have subjects in the near foreground and far background. You can then change focus by clicking different parts of the resulting image, which is hosted on the company's server and can be shared via a link. After playing with the app ourselves for a bit (see the More Coverage link), we've got to admit we're stupidly hooked -- you can grab it at the source for $1.99.

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Music review: One giant leap for Paramore | The Salt Lake Tribune

(Courtesy photo) Paramore.

Grade ? B+

CD ? In late 2010, the two Farro brothers of Tennessee pop-rock band Paramore bitterly and angrily quit the band, leaving behind singer Hayley Williams, guitarist Taylor York and bassist Jeremy Davis. The world was left wondering whether the band would continue on, especially since Williams and Josh Farro co-wrote the band?s songs.

But with the band?s new album "Paramore," it is apparent that York is perhaps an even better songwriting partner for Williams, the firecracker-haired frontwoman. The expansive, 17-song album shows maturity, ambition and sophistication ? while keeping the band?s inherent sense of fun and adventure intact.

The album showcases lyricism focused on a journey from a near-death experience: "There?s a time and a place to die but this ain?t it," Williams sings in the lead single "Now." With dynamic variation and guitars blazing, this is Paramore?s finest (64-minute) hour.


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Friday, April 19, 2013

LG Optimus G sequel coming Q3 2013, will stick close to 5-inch screen size

LG's been teasing a big reveal for the start of May over in the US and we reckon it'll mark the official launch of the Optimus G Pro. But what about the not-so-humble Optimus G and the rest of the world? Well, we've been told that a (global-bound!) sequel flagship from LG will appear sometime in Q3. Direct from LG's HQ in Seoul, Won Kim, Head of Mobile Marketing says that we can expect "something different and something unique", which all sounds good to us. It'll also be something that won't skirt near the 5.5-inch screen size of the Optimus G Pro, and will instead stick closer to the five-inch mark. Unfortunately, he kept his explanation of new device tantalizingly vague for now, but it looks like LG will wait for the current flagship phone fight to settle a bit before it reveals its new weapon.

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Iraq executes 21 men convicted of terrorism

BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraq has executed 21 prisoners convicted on terrorism charges and links to al-Qaida, the Justice Ministry said Wednesday, setting off fresh criticism from a human rights expert over Baghdad's insistence on enforcing capital punishment.

The prisoners were executed by hanging in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, according to a statement posted on the ministry's website. All the convicts were Iraqi al-Qaida operatives who were involved in bombings, car bomb attacks and assassinations, the statement said.

The hangings brought the number of prisoners executed in Iraq so far this year to 50, according to Deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim. The latest group was the biggest this year, Ibrahim added.

According to the London-based Amnesty International, Iraq ranked fourth among the top five executioners in the world in 2011, after China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. Last year Iraq executed 129 people, triggering concerns among rights groups over whether defendants had received fair trials.

After the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, coalition officials suspended Iraq's death penalty, but it was reinstated in 2004 by Iraq's transitional government. Since 2005, Iraq's government has executed 422 people, including women and foreigners convicted on terrorism charges.

Erin Evers, a Middle East researcher at Human Rights Watch, said the number of those executed and the timing of the latest announcement were cause for concern. On Saturday, Iraqis vote in local elections, the country's first vote since the withdrawal of the last U.S. forces in December 2011.

The country has seen intensifying violence in recent weeks, some of it directly related to the elections, in an apparent attempt by insurgent to derail the voting. On Monday, at least 55 people were killed in a wave of bombings and other killings across the country.

"The fact that this they announced this huge number (of executions) just after the attacks and just before elections is raising questions about what their motives are," Evers told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

Nine people were killed and 32 were wounded in four separate attacks in Iraq on Wednesday.

In one attack, gunmen in two SUVs opened fire early in the morning on a military checkpoint in Baghdad's western suburb of Abu Ghraib, killing two soldiers and wounding five, a police officer said. Another police officer said a parked car bomb went off shortly afterward in another part of Abu Ghraib, killing two civilians and wounding six people.

Around noon, a parked car bomb exploded in a commercial area in Baghdad's western neighborhood of Jihad, killing three civilians and wounding 12. In a Baghdad southeastern suburb, a Sunni lawmaker escaped an assassination attempt when a roadside bomb hit his convoy. Three of his guards were wounded.

In the western Anbar province, police said a bomb attached to a car exploded in a parking lot near the main Sunni protest area on a highway near the provincial capital, Ramadi, killing two people and wounding six others.

Members of Iraq's Sunni minority have been staging weekly rallies to protest perceived second class treatment by the Shiite-led government.

After sunset, police said gunmen assassinated a judge, Maarouf Ahmed, in a drive-by shooting in the western city of Fallujah.

Medical officials confirmed the causalities in Wednesday's attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters.

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Associated Press writer Adam Schreck and Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report.

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

TSX gains as gold recovers from sell-off

By John Tilak

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index advanced on Tuesday, as U.S. economic data supported the case for continued stimulus measures from the Federal Reserve and shares of gold miners rose with a rebound in price of bullion a day after its biggest-ever daily loss.

U.S. consumer prices fell in March for the first time in four months while factory output slipped.

Other data suggested the U.S. housing market recovery was losing momentum. Although housing starts jumped in March to their highest level since 2008, gains were driven by the volatile multi-family sector, while groundbreaking for single-family homes fell.

Shares of gold producers made a tentative recovery after slumping 9 percent on Monday as the price of the precious metal lost 8.5 percent.

The broader Toronto market firmed after Monday's 2.7 percent fall, its biggest one-day percentage drop since June.

"It's a reflex bounce," said Stan Wong, vice president and portfolio manager at Macquarie Private Wealth. "I don't believe there's a real opportunity in gold or gold equities in the near term."

"It's unlikely that gold will continue its previous upward trend without a strong catalyst, and I really don't know where that catalyst could come from."

News that the central bank of Cyprus might sell gold reserves to finance its European Union bank bailout was one of the triggers for the plunge in the price of gold on Monday.

Wong said investors need to watch out for the possibility of other European nations such as Italy and Portugal coming under pressure to sell their gold reserves, which are much bigger than those of Cyprus.

The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index <.gsptse> was up 57.92 points, or 0.48 percent, at 12,062.80.

The benchmark Canadian index is down 3 percent since the start of the year, a sharp contrast to the record rallies seen in its peers south of the border.

Eight of the 10 main sectors of the index were higher on Tuesday.

The materials sector, which includes mining stocks, added 1.1 percent. Gold shares were up 1.5 percent, with gold prices gaining 1.8 percent.

First Quantum Minerals Ltd jumped 7.3 percent to C$16.71 and played the biggest role of any single stock in leading the market higher.

Financials, the index's most heavily weighted sector, climbed 0.5 percent.

BlackBerry shares rose 1.5 percent to C$14.21 after Jefferies & Co analyst Peter Misek said no abnormally high return rates have been seen for the new Z10 touchscreen device, which underpins the company's attempt to reinvent itself. Demand for the device appears to be positive in Asia, he wrote in a report.

(Editing by Leslie Adler)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tsx-may-open-higher-gold-rebounds-124320242--finance.html

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

HP's Slate 7 set to hit UK on May 1st for ?129

HP's Slate 7 set to hit UK May 1st for 129

After concern about a slipped shipping date proved erroneous, HP's Android-packing Slate 7 has popped up at the company's UK store with a £129 price tag and a promise of availability on May 1st. That's pretty much in line with the date originally scheduled for the 7-inch, 1,024 x 600, 1GB RAM, dual-core A9 Jelly Bean device, though the VAT brings the price up to roughly $200, while HP said would it be $170 in the US before taxes. There's no word yet on exactly when you'll be able to grab the Slate 7 stateside, but HP's US site (at the More Coverage link) is still saying April. Meanwhile, Brits can pre-order at the source link.

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Aurora Borealis tonight? Dazzling northern lights forecast

Aurora Borealis tonight? Yes, New York, Pennsylvania, and parts of the US Midwest could see a rare spectacular aurora borealis light show tonight, based on the forecasts.

By David Clark Scott,?Staff writer / April 13, 2013

Accuweather is forecasting that the northern lights, aka, the aurora borealis, will be visible in parts of the United States tonight.

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You don't have to be in chilly Fairbanks, Alaska or Yellowknife, Canada, to see the Aurora Borealis tonight.

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Seattle, New York, Pittsburgh, and Washington might see a display of the northern lights after sunset. At least that's what some forecasting models are saying.

Thanks to a big solar flare that left the Sun Thursday, Accuweather.com is generating some buzz online by predicting a "dazzling" light show tonight:

"The flare is also expected to cause vibrant northern lights from the Arctic as far south as New York, the Dakotas, Washington and Michigan, with a smaller possibility of it going into Pennsylvania and Iowa, even Kansas. The lights are currently estimated for 8 p.m. EDT Saturday arrival, with a possible deviation of up to seven hours. If the radiation hits much after dark settles on the East Coast the lights may be missed and will instead only be visible for the West."

They've also provided a pretty cool map (see above) that may or may not prove accurate.

Solar flares are waves of charged plasma that come streaming toward our planet at about four million miles per hour. When they hit the Earth's upper atmosphere they release visible light and are channeled toward the Earth's poles by the planet's magnetic field. The norther aurora borealis is called the northern lights. The displays over the southern pole are called the southern lights or aurora australis.?

This particular blast of plasma may also put on a light show over parts of Europe and Russia too. Accuweather says the British Isles, and as far south as the northern parts of Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia and Estonia may see the northern lights.

Accuweather's Hunter Outten has been updating this latest aurora borealis watch on the company's Facebook page. At 3:35 p.m., he wrote:

"Still have not seen any key signs yet of the CME close to hitting the planet. Looks like the time is shaping up right on schedule for anywhere from 5-9PM EDT."

CME refers to the Coronal Mass Ejection, the burst of plasma released from the Sun. Mr. Outten shares how he's tracking the arrival of the plasma burst via the compression of the magnet field with this NOAA chart..

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has its own forecasting model, including a chart, which is a lot harder to parse. You can check out the Ovation Auroral Forecast here.

The opportunity to see the northern lights at many of these latitudes is a rare treat, but the usual caveats for celestial events still apply. A successful sighting will be dependent on a variety of local factors, such as cloud cover, full moon, and urban light pollution.

And if you happen to be in Fairbanks or Yellowknife tonight, the?University of Alaska Geophysical Institute says the prospects are also good for viewing? the aurora borealis.

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Online tools help people reconnect after bomb blasts

Following the confusion and panic caused by the Boston Marathon bomb blasts, websites have been set up for people to report that they're safe, or check in on a loved one.

The best mainstream resource is the Red Cross' Safe and Well site, where you do two things: register yourself as being "safe and well," or find out other people's status. Those people will have to register with the site first, of course.

Google has activated its Person Finder service to help people locate each other. The search giant has used this in the past, for both U.S. and international crises, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Japan's 2011 tsunami strike.

If you have loved ones who ran in the Boston Marathon, you can check on their last check-ins at the marathon's website here. (A marathon enthusiast set up an independent Facebook page where some are checking in, too.)

Families searching for loved ones can call this number at the Boston mayor's office for information: 1-617-635-4520. Anyone with information about the blasts that can lead to an arrest are encouraged to call 1-800-494-TIPS.

Hotlines aside, if you can avoid using your cellphones to call in and out of Boston, and instead use text messaging and social media, you will reduce strain on the cellular networks, and help improve essential communication.

If you do live in the Boston area, update your own status on Twitter or Facebook, to let others know you're OK.

On Twitter, the #runchat hashtag can be used to learn about updates about runners, as well as more information from the Red Cross by following the organization on Twitter using @RedCrossEastMA and @MassEMA. And on Reddit, a user set up a resource page, continuously aggregating many sources and tools from around the Web.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Art crashes into authority in play about Ai Weiwei

LONDON (AP) ? Ai Weiwei appears to be standing in front of a London theater, which would be some trick, even for the provocative and unpredictable Chinese artist.

The sculptor, photographer and installation artist renowned for his bicycles and sunflower seeds spent almost three months in detention in 2011 and remains barred from leaving China.

At second glance the burly, bearded figure turns out to be British actor Benedict Wong, who is about to star as the artist in a stage play about his incarceration. The play was Ai's idea, and though he won't be there for Wednesday's opening night at the Hampstead Theatre, it's the latest act in his artistic campaign for freedom of expression.

"The play is part of his project," said Howard Brenton, the British playwright who has scripted "(hash)Aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei."

"Early in the rehearsals we were having a discussion and we suddenly thought, 'Oh, we've all been sucked into his project.' Which is fine. He asked for the play, we've delivered it."

Brenton is a little worried about reaction to the play ? though not from the critics. Ai's long history of needling the Chinese authorities has often had serious consequences.

"I was very aware that it's not dangerous for me to write it," Brenton said. "It could be dangerous for him for me to write it."

The 55-year-old Ai is one of the world's most famous artists, celebrated abroad with exhibitions from Tokyo to London to Washington, D.C. At home, he has been alternately encouraged, tolerated and harassed by officialdom.

He helped design the striking "Bird's Nest" stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but the next year was beaten so badly by police he needed surgery for bleeding on the brain.

He was encouraged to open a studio in Shanghai ? but officials later ordered it knocked down.

In April 2011 he was arrested at Beijing airport and held for 81 days without explanation during a wider crackdown on dissent that coincided with the international ferment of the Arab Spring. On his release, it was announced that he had confessed to tax evasion and been slapped with a $2.4 million bill.

Brenton's script is based on interviews Ai gave to British journalist Barnaby Martin shortly after his release, and published in book form as "Hanging Man."

The script captures both the fear and the absurdity of being detained without charge. Ai was first questioned by Beijing murder squad detectives, who had no idea who he was and began their interrogation by demanding: "Who did you kill?"

"It may have been deliberate that they didn't want people who were in any way sophisticated, so he couldn't get at them," Brenton said. "The extraordinary thing is that he did end up discussing art with his interrogators."

Ai never learned what his questioners were after, or why he was eventually released. He suspects the detention was related to a series of works made in response to the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, in which more than 5,000 children died when poorly constructed schools collapsed.

His release came after international pressure from artists, politicians and human rights activists? and, possibly, a shifting balance of power inside the Chinese Communist Party.

For the play, Brenton drew on research trips he had made to China for an abandoned television project. He stuck to Ai's account of the interrogations, but drew on his own imagination for two scenes in which bureaucrats discuss what to do with the troublesome artist.

"I put in a line: 'Maybe Ai Weiwei in jail would be his most powerful work. We must avoid that,'" he said.

Brenton, 70, is one of Britain's best-known playwrights, whose work has ranged from provocative history play "The Romans in Britain" ? the focus of a famous, failed prosecution for obscenity in 1982 ? to journalism satire "Pravda," co-written with David Hare. His recent plays include excursions into British history with Tudor story "Anne Boleyn" and a drama about deposed King Charles I, "55 Days."

Throughout his plays, Brenton has often explored a theme close to Ai Weiwei's heart and work: The relationship between the individual and the state.

Although Ai's art takes varied forms, encompassing architecture, sculpture, photography and video, the importance of free expression ? and the ability of the individual voice speaking up against authority ? is arguably the central theme of all his work.

He has stacked hundreds of bicycles into giant sculptures that spoke of individuality, mass production and Chinese identity, and spread 100 million ceramic sunflower seeds ? seemingly uniform yet subtly different ? across the floor of London's Tate Modern.

One recent piece was a "Gangnam Style" parody video entitled "Grass Mud Horse Style" in Chinese, a sly insult Ai coined as a stab at the country's Internet censors, its Chinese characters homonyms for a vulgar slur. The video, which featured Ai doing a PSY-style horse dance while waggling a pair of handcuffs, was soon blocked on the Internet in China.

"Without freedom of speech there is no modern world ? just a barbaric one," Ai said in a statement released to coincide with the play.

It's not a message intended solely for China. The April 19 performance of the play will be streamed online around the globe in a move, Ai said, to "bring the play's themes of art and society, freedom of speech and openness, the individual and the state to a new, broad and receptive global audience."

It's uncertain whether Internet users in China will be able to see it.

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Online: www.hampsteadtheatre.com

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Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/art-crashes-authority-play-ai-weiwei-093237869.html

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New bird flu strain seen adapting to mammals, humans

Monday, April 15, 2013

A genetic analysis of the avian flu virus responsible for at least nine human deaths in China portrays a virus evolving to adapt to human cells, raising concern about its potential to spark a new global flu pandemic.

The collaborative study, conducted by a group led by Masato Tashiro of the Influenza Virus Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo, appears in the current edition (April 11, 2013) of the journal Eurosurveillance. The group examined the genetic sequences of H7N9 isolates from four of the pathogen's human victims as well as samples derived from birds and the environs of a Shanghai market.

"The human isolates, but not the avian and environmental ones, have a protein mutation that allows for efficient growth in human cells and that also allows them to grow at a temperature that corresponds to the upper respiratory tract of humans, which is lower than you find in birds," says Kawaoka, a leading expert on avian influenza.

The findings, drawn from genetic sequences deposited by Chinese researchers into an international database, provide some of the first molecular clues about a worrisome new strain of bird flu, the first human cases of which were reported on March 31 by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. So far, the new virus has sickened at least 33 people, killing nine. Although it is too early to predict its potential to cause a pandemic, signs that the virus is adapting to mammalian and, in particular, human hosts are unmistakable, says Kawaoka.

Access to the genetic information in the viruses, he adds, is necessary for understanding how the virus is evolving and for developing a candidate vaccine to prevent infection.

Influenza virus depends on its ability to attach to and commandeer the living cells of its host to replicate and spread efficiently. Avian influenza rarely infects humans, but can sometimes adapt to people, posing a significant risk to human health.

"These viruses possess several characteristic features of mammalian influenza viruses, which likely contribute to their ability to infect humans and raise concerns regarding their pandemic potential," Kawaoka and his colleagues conclude in the Eurosurveillance report.

Kawaoka, a faculty member in the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine who also holds a faculty appointment at the University of Tokyo, explains that the majority of the viruses in the study ? from both humans and birds ? display mutations in the surface protein hemagglutinin, which the pathogen uses to bind to host cells. Those mutations, according to Kawaoka, allowed them to easily infect human cells.

In addition, the isolates from patients contained another mutation that allows the virus to efficiently replicate inside human cells. The same mutation, Kawaoka notes, lets the avian virus thrive in the cooler temperatures of the human upper respiratory system. It is in the cells of the nose and throat that flu typically gains a hold in a mammalian or human host.

Kawaoka and his colleagues also assessed the response of the new strain to drugs used to treat influenza, discovering that one class of commonly used antiviral drugs, ion channel inhibitors which effectively bottle up the virus in the cell, would not be effective; the new strain could be treated with another clinically relevant antiviral drug, oseltamivir.

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Justin Bieber's 'Belieber' Comment No 'Big Deal' To Anne Frank House, Howard Stern

'I'm impressed that a young man in that position would even go to the Anne Frank house,' Stern says.
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China Warns Against Foreign Military Buildup in Asia, in Veiled Warning to US (Voice Of America)

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