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Cells in a second lithium-ion battery on a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner forced to make an emergency landing in Japan last month showed slight swelling, a Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) official said on Tuesday.
The jet, flown by All Nippon Airways Co, was forced to make the landing after its main battery failed.
"I do not know the exact discussion taken by the research group on the ground, but I heard that it is a slight swelling (in the auxiliary power unit battery cells). I have so far not heard that there was internal damage," Masahiro Kudo, a senior accident investigator at the JTSB said in a briefing in Tokyo.
Kudo said that two out of eight cells in the second battery unit showed some bumps and the JTSB would continue to investigate to determine whether this was irregular or not.
The plane's auxiliary power unit (APU) powers the aircraft's systems when it is on the ground. National Transportation Safety Board investigators in the United States are probing the APU from a Japan Airlines plane that caught fire at Boston's Logan airport when the plane was parked.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Authority grounded all 50 Boeing Dreamliners in commercial service on January 16 after the incidents with the two Japanese owned 787 jets.
The groundings have cost airlines tens of millions of dollars, with no solution yet in sight.
Boeing rival Airbus said last week it had abandoned plans to use lithium-ion batteries in its next passenger jet, the A350, in favor of traditional nickel-cadmium batteries.
Lighter and more powerful than conventional batteries, lithium-ion power packs have been in consumer products such as phones and laptops for years but are relatively new in industrial applications, including back-up batteries for electrical systems in jets.
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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/swelling-found-second-battery-japanese-dreamliner-1C8417252
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Cells in a second lithium-ion battery on a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner forced to make an emergency landing in Japan last month showed slight swelling, a Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) official said on Tuesday.
The jet, flown by All Nippon Airways Co, was forced to make the landing after its main battery failed.
"I do not know the exact discussion taken by the research group on the ground, but I heard that it is a slight swelling (in the auxiliary power unit battery cells). I have so far not heard that there was internal damage," Masahiro Kudo, a senior accident investigator at the JTSB said in a briefing in Tokyo.
Kudo said that two out of eight cells in the second battery unit showed some bumps and the JTSB would continue to investigate to determine whether this was irregular or not.
The plane's auxiliary power unit (APU) powers the aircraft's systems when it is on the ground. National Transportation Safety Board investigators in the United States are probing the APU from a Japan Airlines plane that caught fire at Boston's Logan airport when the plane was parked.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Authority grounded all 50 Boeing Dreamliners in commercial service on January 16 after the incidents with the two Japanese owned 787 jets.
The groundings have cost airlines tens of millions of dollars, with no solution yet in sight.
Boeing rival Airbus said last week it had abandoned plans to use lithium-ion batteries in its next passenger jet, the A350, in favor of traditional nickel-cadmium batteries.
Lighter and more powerful than conventional batteries, lithium-ion power packs have been in consumer products such as phones and laptops for years but are relatively new in industrial applications, including back-up batteries for electrical systems in jets.
Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/swelling-found-second-battery-japanese-dreamliner-1C8417252
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Samsung has taken the Galaxy brand image to a whole new level that it's reportedly mulling pricing its new Galaxy tablet even higher than its close rival Apple's tablet. While it's no big surprise that Samsung is launching an 8-inch version of its Galaxy Note line of tablets, the latest rumors have it that the Galaxy Note 8.0 will be priced slightly higher than Apple's iPad Mini and that the device will hit the European market around the end of March.
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The new reports have emerged from Bulgaria where a local gadget retailer,?Tablet.bg?has claimed to have obtained the details on the price and release date of Galaxy Note 8.0,?Phone Arena?reports. According to the report, Samsung will launch its Galaxy 8.0 tablet at a price of some 699 Bulgarian leva (equivalent of 358 euro or $478.93). This is the 16GB Wi-Fi version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, the cheapest model. In comparison, the 16GB Wi-Fi only model of Apple iPad Mini costs 349 euro.
The 3G + Wi-Fi version of the Galaxy Note 8.0 is reportedly priced at around 869 leva, which is around 445 euros or $595.32 while the 3G version of iPad Mini is priced at 429 euros or $570. 92.
Though the rumored 'iPad Mini' killer is expected to arrive in European market by end-march, we should be looking at a U.S. release date sometime in April.
The Galaxy tablet has been leaked extensively in the past and is one of the most expected devices at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) later this month. Galaxy Note 8.0 is rumored to feature an 8-inch screen with a 1280x800 resolution display, a 1.6GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, options of 16/32GB as internal storage, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, HSPA+ and LTE support and the S-Pen. On the other hand, iPad Mini has a 7.9-inch screen with a lesser 1024 x 768-pixel resolution. Galaxy Note 8.0 may run on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and may feature a 4,600mAh battery. The tablet will come with connectivity options such as Bluetooth 4.0, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n and A-GPS.
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I have a comics website, Hitting Trees with Sticks that I'd like to add the Facebook liking button to.
As you can see, the homepage has thumbnails that you can click on... the thumbnail will load the full-sized comic on viewcomic.php based on that comic's ID. I thought it'd be easy enough to add the xfbml following their tutorial. I've tried adding the xfbml and the html5 versions.
Then I added the following like button code to my viewimage.php page where the unique $imgid will be:
<div class="fb-like" id="fb" data-href="http://www.hittingtreeswithsticks.com/?action=viewimage&site=<?php echo $site; ?>&id=<?php echo $imgid; ?>" data-send="false" data-layout="button_count" data-width="60" data-show-faces="true"></div> When I initially click on a comic to view full size, it gives me the correct like count for that $imgid and URL (should be 0): http://www.hittingtreeswithsticks.com/?action=viewimage&site=comics&id=62
But, for some reason, even when I go to the next comic id, and force a URL and page reload (I have to reload this way because I'm using javascript to allow users to press keys to navigate through images and need it to reload the page and ID)...
window.history.pushState(null, null, '.?action=viewimage&site=<?php echo $site; ?>&id=<?php echo $imgid ?>); window.location.reload(); It will give me the total likes for the entire site, and not that unique $imgid for that URL: http://www.hittingtreeswithsticks.com/?action=viewimage&site=comics&id=61
I've even tried forcing the href attribute to update with the following javascript following Elure's tutorial:
<script type="text/javascript"> var sUrl = window.location; document.getElementById('fb').setAttribute('href', sUrl); </script> Any ideas why?
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Millions of Americans will be honoring the legacy of America?s presidents on Monday?even though a national Presidents Day holiday is pure fiction.
The annual event is also pegged to a gigantic motor vehicle sales push in neighborhoods across the country, which is definitely not fictional.
To set the record straight, the third Monday in February is a federal holiday, meaning that federal employees get the day off and federal offices are closed.
Officially, the holiday is called Washington?s Birthday, to honor the first American president, George Washington. The date for the annual federal holiday was established by Congress with the Monday Holidays Act, which went into effect in 1971.
But dozens of states celebrate the presidential legacy, or the hope of getting a really great deal on a car, on the same day.
One website, Geometrx, went to the trouble of looking at the official holiday calendars for all 50 states, in a quest to see who actually calls the holiday ?Presidents? Day,? or ?President?s Day,? or ?Presidents Day.? Or something else.
The tally shows that approximately 16 states celebrate Presidents Day, and another 15 states observe Washington?s Birthday. Nine states don?t observe a holiday on the third Monday in February. The other celebrated a holiday that includes the words President, Washington, Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Daisy Gatson Bates, in some combination.
The real challenge is sorting through the varying punctuation of ?presidents??it?s enough to make any copy editor dizzy. In 17 states it?s Presidents? Day (plural possessive), in five states it?s Presidents Day (plural), and in four states it?s President?s Day (singular possessive). Much to the chagrin of copy editors, there is nothing close to national consensus on the pseudo-holiday?s name.
Whatever it?s called, though, car dealers are all over it. The industry latched onto the holiday in the 1970s and, through a grassroots effort, promoted the name as synonymous with savings. Of course, department stores and numerous other retailers have promoted sales over the weekend, much like other three-day holiday weekends.
The holiday?s timing, after the Monday Holidays Act was passed, was perfect. Mid-February was a good time for dealers to launch the spring sales line, and people were off from work with some free time to spare.
While the advent of online car sales and fixed pricing may have diminished some of the sales hype for Presidents Day (or President?s Day or Presidents? Day), it?s still a big deal for the industry.
Editor?s Note: After much debate, National Constitution Center staff have opted to use Presidents Day as our preferred usage for the holiday. Learn more about the Center?s Presidents Day educational resources and programs here.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Vernon Hugh Bowman seems comfortable with the old way of doing things, right down to the rotary-dial telephone he said he was using in a conference call with reporters.
But the 75-year-old Indiana farmer figured out a way to benefit from a high-technology product, soybeans that are resistant to weed-killers, without always paying the high price that such genetically engineered seeds typically bring. In so doing, he ignited a legal fight with seed-giant Monsanto Co. that has now come before the Supreme Court, with argument taking place Tuesday.
The court case poses the question of whether Bowman's actions violated the patent rights held by Monsanto, which developed soybean and other seeds that survive when farmers spray their fields with the company's Roundup brand weed-killer. The seeds dominate American agriculture, including in Indiana where more than 90 percent of soybeans are Roundup Ready.
Monsanto has attracted a bushel of researchers, universities and other agribusiness concerns to its side because they fear a decision in favor of Bowman would leave their own technological innovations open to poaching. The company's allies even include a company that is embroiled in a separate legal battle with Monsanto over one of the patents at issue in the Bowman case.
The Obama administration also backs Monsanto, having earlier urged the court to stay out of the case because of the potential for far-reaching implications for patents involving DNA molecules, nanotechnologies and other self-replicating technologies.
Monsanto's opponents argue that the company has tried to use patent law to control the supply of seeds for soybeans, corn, cotton, canola, sugar beets and alfalfa. The result has been a dramatic rise in seed prices and reduced options for farmers, according to the Center for Food Safety. The group opposes the spread of genetically engineered crops and says their benefits have been grossly overstated.
"It has become extremely difficult for farmers to find high-quality conventional seeds," said Bill Freese, the center's science policy analyst.
Consumer groups and organic food producers have fought Monsanto over genetically engineered farm and food issues in several settings. They lost a campaign in California last year to require labels on most genetically engineered processed foods and produce. Monsanto and other food and chemical companies spent more than $40 million to defeat the ballot measure.
Monsanto says the success of its seeds are proof of their value. By and large, "farmers appreciate what we do," David Snively, Monsanto's top lawyer, said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Herbicide-resistant soybean seeds first hit the market in 1996. To protect its investment in their development, Monsanto has a policy that prohibits farmers from saving or reusing the seeds once the crop is grown. Farmers must buy new seeds every year.
Like almost every other farmer in Indiana. Bowman used the patented seeds for his main crop. But for a risky, late season crop on his 300 acres in Sandborn, about 100 miles southwest of Indianapolis, Bowman said, "I wanted a cheap source of seed."
He couldn't reuse his own beans or buy seeds from other farmers who had similar agreements with Monsanto and other companies licensed to sell genetically engineered seeds. And dealers he used to buy cheap seed from no longer carry the unmodified seeds.
So Bowman found what looked like a loophole and went to a grain elevator that held soybeans it typically sells for feed, milling and other uses, but not as seed.
Bowman reasoned that most of those soybeans also would be resistant to weed killers, as they initially came from herbicide-resistant seeds, too. He was right, and he repeated the practice over eight years.
He didn't try to keep it a secret from Monsanto and in October 2007, the company sued him for violating its patent. Bowman's is one of 146 lawsuits Monsanto has filed since 1996 claiming unauthorized use of its Roundup Ready seeds, Snively said.
A federal court in Indiana sided with Monsanto and awarded the company $84,456 for Bowman's unlicensed use of Monsanto's technology. The federal appeals court in Washington that handles all appeals in patent cases, upheld the award. The appeals court said that farmers may never replant Roundup Ready seeds without running afoul of Monsanto's patents.
The Supreme Court will grapple with the limit of Monsanto's patent rights, whether they stop with the sale of the first crop of beans, or extend to each new crop soybean farmers grow that has the gene modification that allows it to withstand the application of weed-killer.
The company sees Bowman's actions as a threat both to its Roundup Ready line of seeds and to other innovations that could be easily and cheaply reproduced if they were not protected.
"This case really is about 21st century technologies," Snively said.
Bowman and his allies say Monsanto's legal claims amount to an effort to bully farmers.
The Center for Food Safety's Freese points out that Monsanto's biggest moneymaker is corn seed, which cannot be replanted. "So seed-saving would have no impact on the majority of Monsanto's seed revenue," he said.
The case is Bowman v. Monsanto Co., 11-796.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/high-stakes-fight-over-soybeans-high-court-140546296--finance.html
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers complained on Sunday that President Barack Obama had failed to protect Iranian dissidents from persecution by Tehran following a deadly attack on their camp near Baghdad, and urged they be allowed back to their long-time base in Iraq.
A congressional delegation led by Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the Republican-controlled House subcommittee on Europe, said that the Obama administration should not have backed the movement of members of Iranian dissident group Mujahadin-e-Khalq, or MEK, to a place where they would not be safe.
At least five people were killed in a February 9 rocket attack on their base in the former U.S. military compound "Camp Liberty" in the western part of the Iraqi capital. The attack was condemned by the United Nations.
"It was unethical for the United States to have endorsed the relocation of the people whom we promised to protect to Camp Liberty, where we knew they would not have proper protection, just because it wants to please Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the ruling mullahs of Iran," the delegation said in statement after meeting Iranian dissident leaders in Paris.
The MEK, which calls for the overthrow of Iran's clerical rulers and fought alongside the forces of former Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, was relocated last year from its long-time Iraqi home in exile at Camp Ashraf.
The MEK is no longer welcome in Iraq under the Shi'ite Muslim-led government, which came to power after U.S.-led forces invaded and toppled Saddam in 2003.
But some U.S. politicians view it as a potential opposition force to replace Tehran's rulers and have taken up their cause in Washington. The congressional delegation issued its statement after meeting with Maryam Rajavi, who heads the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
"Iran needs regime change and the MEK can help bring it about," the congressional delegation said, sharply criticizing the U.N. mission in Iraq for failing to grant more MEK members in Camp Liberty the status of refugees.
"The U.S. Government, the Secretary General of the United Nations, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees should give top priority to resolving the security situation of the residents of Camp Liberty - which can be ensured by their return to Camp Ashraf."
(Reporting By Alister Bull; Editing by Philip Barbara)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-lawmakers-chide-obama-not-protecting-iranian-dissidents-210227812.html
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The Sand Sharks' best score didn't count toward their team total, as freshman Bradford Curren posted a 1-under-par 71 playing as an individual to earn medalist honors.
Travis Cashion and Brian Langley led USCB's scoring players with matching 73s.
Billy Nisbet and Julian Dinsing each shot 72 to lead the Bees.
The teams will complete the home-and-home series with a dual match at Oldfield Golf Club on March 1.
USC Beaufort Scores
Travis Cashion 73, Brian Langley 73, Cory Cottrell 75, Andrew McCullough 79, Alex Mihai 80
Bradford Curren 71, Chris Finke 75, Owen Bell 77, Ryan Clancy 78 and Tyler Jacobs 79
Source: http://www.islandpacket.com/2013/02/16/2382665/usc-beaufort-mens-golf-team-drops.html
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OTTAWA - The Harper government is planning to announce its long-awaited Office of Religious Freedom in an event at a Toronto-area mosque next Tuesday.
The announcement ? which the government refuses to discuss ? comes 22 months after the Tories first promised to create a modest, religious freedom branch within the Foreign Affairs Department.
The pledge was unveiled in the Conservative campaign platform during the last federal election, but Foreign Affairs has been unable to find a commissioner to take job.
Human rights groups and opposition critics have said the office is a misguided attempt to inject religion into foreign policy.
They also question what exactly the new office can accomplish with a modest $5 million budget.
However, a spokesman for a major Jewish organization that has been invited to Tuesday's event says the fact that the Harper government is holding it at a mosque shows its commitment to persecuted religious minorities the world over.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A strike by New York City school bus drivers ended on Friday, capping a five-week-long transit nightmare for 152,000 students in the largest public school system in the United States.
Students will get back on the yellow buses when classes resume on Wednesday following a February break cut short to make up for school days lost during Hurricane Sandy.
Deciding to end the first bus driver strike in 34 years, the Amalgamated Transit Union appeared to hand a victory to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who refused to give in to demands for job security and instead sought new, less expensive contracts for routes, many of them serving children with special needs.
Only 152,000 of the city's 1.1 million public school children ride yellow buses.
"Yesterday, I urged the union leaders to end the strike and made clear that the City would not be held hostage. Tonight, they agreed," Bloomberg said in a statement.
Union leader Michael Cordiello said the strike's end was prompted less by the mayor and more by a letter from several candidates who hope to succeed him next year. In the letter, the candidates held out the promise that if elected, they would revisit the job security issue.
"Our bus drivers and matrons look forward to getting back to work and doing the important job of safely transporting the students, who are like our own children, to and from school each day," Cordiello said in a statement.
During the strike, students received free subway passes and reimbursement for taxi fares from the city but travel complications especially in wintry weather resulted in school absences for some students and missed work days for their parents.
Bloomberg has said the city has no choice but to seek alternatives because it pays $1.1 billion a year to school-bus contractors, roughly $6,900 for each student - more than any other U.S. city. Los Angeles, which pays the next highest rate, spends $3,100 for each student, Bloomberg said.
The city has already begun to look for a more cost-efficient solution.
"Earlier this week, the City accepted the first bids on school bus contracts in more than 30 years, with the potential to cut costs, transfer the savings to classrooms and secure quality service from certified drivers and matrons for our students," New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said.
Contracts to provide school bus services had not been renegotiated in more than three decades before the city began seeking competitive bids in December.
Last year, a re-bidding of pre-kindergarten bus contracts, a much smaller system, ended up saving the city $95 million over five years, the officials said. New York City bus drivers last went on strike in 1979. The strike lasted three months.
(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Mohammad Zargham)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/york-city-school-bus-strike-ends-031345655.html
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MANILA, Philippines ? Matt Laurel hit a homer in the seventh inning and Ateneo blasted defending champion National University, 6-2, in game one of the UAAP season 75 men?s baseball tournament Friday at the Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium.
The Blue Eagle Batters moved into a game of reedeming itself from last season?s missed swing at the title against the Bulldogs.
Ateneo also triumphed in the series opener last season, only to wilt in the ensuing matches in the face of fiery efforts from MVP Aries Oruga and the Bulldogs.
Laurel lived up to his title as the league?s reigning homerun king, and head coach Emer Barandoc couldn?t help but marvel at his ability to make the big plays.
Laurel gave the Blue Eagles a 4-2 lead and never looked back.
?May one-time, big-time siya sa paluan,? said Barandoc, who hopes to avoid any meltdowns and wrap the series up in game two set on Tuesday.
?We won?t let what happened last year happen again. If we play this way, we have a chance,? said Barandoc.
An RBI from rookie Ryon Tionloc in the bottom sixth allowed Ateneo to overhaul a two-run deficit to a 3-2 advantage.
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How do we re-establish the credibility and value of public education in the United States? Many?believe that the public educational system is in trouble. It struggles under the weight of politically-charged and competing priorities, controversial new accountability strategies and deep funding inequities. Voices from the?left, right and center, from academia, from corporate America, and from philanthropy disagree about?what is wrong with public schools and how to fix them.? It is crucial that we have a meaningful conversation about what`s best for our students. The future of this country depends on our ability to produce an effective and innovative public educational system for America?s youth.
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You wait years for a space rock and then two come along at once. Just hours before an asteroid is due to almost graze Earth, a meteor has exploded over the Russian region of Chelyabinsk, injuring hundreds of people and damaging nearby buildings.
Studying the impact could give clues to future hits from rarer, bigger space rocks, which are bound to occur.
The impact occurred at 0320 GMT today, the very day that astronomers are anticipating the close fly-by of asteroid 2012 DA14, although there is thought to be no connection between the two events. "This is a remarkable coincidence," says Stephen Lowry, an astronomer at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK.
Details of the strike are still emerging, but pictures and video shared on social media offer clues to the meteor's make-up and origin. "It's certainly smaller than 50 metres and larger than a metre," says Simon Green of the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. It appears to have exploded as it entered the Earth's atmosphere, creating a shock wave that shattered windows, damaged buildings and apparently collapsed the roof and walls of zinc factory.
The Russian Academy of Sciences says the meteor weighed 10 tons and entered the atmosphere at a speed of at least 54,000 kilometres per hour, exploding between 30 to 50 kilometres above the ground. Reports from Russia also say that more than 900 hundred people have been injured, mostly by broken glass. Reports also suggest there are no fatalities, although two people are in intensive care.
Astronomers will want to recover any fragments of the meteorite that hit the ground. "You'll find them strewn over a large area. There may be some very large fragments but there will be many smaller ones spread over kilometres," says Green. "We can study the science of the bodies and learn more about the bigger ones, which are the real threat."
The much smaller Sutter's Mill meteorite that fell on California last year yielded many fragments that showed it was a very rare type of rock called a CM chondrite.
It is not unusual for meteors the size of the one that fell in Chelyabinsk to hit the Earth, though most end up falling into the sea unnoticed. "Depending on its size, it might be something that hits every few years or every few decades," says Green.
Although the odds of an unrelated meteor impacting on the same day as an asteroid fly-by seem astronomically high, experts seem sure the two objects are not linked, especially as the meteor hit over 12 hours before the expected fly-by. "2012 DA14 approaches from the south at quite a steep angle relative to the Earth's equatorial plane, so Russia being in the northern hemisphere makes [a link] extremely unlikely," says Lowry. "If this had been a southern hemisphere impact, serious questions would have been being asked."
One of the European Space Agency's satellites managed to spot the vapour trail of the meteor as it entered the atmosphere. The agency itself has also confirmed that there is no link with asteroid 2012 DA14, on course to fly past Earth at height of around 27,000 kilometres at 1925 GMT.
There are a large number of videos of the Russian meteor strike because it is common for Russian drivers to use dashboard-mounted cameras to prove liability in car accidents. The footage should allow astronomers to retrace the meteor's flight path and identify its origin, as well as any other space rocks that might be related. One possibility is that the meteor split off from a larger object. "It is possible that a collision could have happened further back in its orbit," says Lowry.
If the remnants remained on the same orbit, then they too could impact Earth, although that is unlikely as the planet has most likely moved out of the path of any potential secondary strike by now. "It is possible a parent fragment could hit Earth, but the probability decreases rapidly as time passes."
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Being prepared is an important part of having a successful interview, but the anticipation of preparing can cause you to overlook something that'll make you stand out. Business blog Inc. has a tip that could help you at your next interview.
When you're at an interview, don't forget to pay attention to your interviewer. It's easy to get caught up recalling all the points you studied the night before, but remember that an interview is a dialogue.
Start-up CTO Kevin Morrill has one question he uses to gauge how well that dialogue is going?and how well he thinks candidates will perform. He asks every candidate to explain a topic of their choosing to him in five minutes.
"As they start explaining, I make sure to have the most vacant look on my face possible," writes Morrill. "I do not give any ?uh huh' or ?I see' kind of interjections that underlie most conversations. A star candidate will pick up on this and ask if I understand so far.
While your interviewer may not ask you to explain something in five minutes per se, picking up on their demeanor?and responding to it?can help you sell yourself in an interview.
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Before they sought to persuade voters last year to raise taxes, Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic legislative leaders agreed on sweeping changes in pension law they said would save California government significant money over time.
Just months after the election, however, the overhaul is under attack on two fronts across the state, as labor unions challenge elements of the package in one local agency after another.
In January, a measure surfaced in the Legislature to exempt thousands of regional public transportation workers from the law after mass transit unions began filing objections to the changes with the federal Labor Department. The unions argue that agencies receiving federal money must bargain such changes.
Separately, lawsuits are now challenging aspects of the pension law in a handful of the quasi-independent 20 county retirement systems that operate from Mendocino to Los Angeles.
Unions are suing pension boards in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin and Merced counties to overturn parts of the new law that restricted how pensions are calculated for workers in the systems before the changes took effect on Jan. 1.
A leading pension reform advocate, Dan Pellissier, said Tuesday the legal challenges by labor unions expose a thousand-cuts strategy intended to eviscerate the law. He said they are seeking to undermine the law via judges and union-backed politicians.
"The unions have been throwing a bunch of weak arguments at the wall and seeing which ones stick, hoping to give sympathetic decision-makers something to latch on to," he said.
Steve Maviglio, spokesman for a public employee union coalition that publicly opposed pension reform last year, said labor leaders in his group have moved on.
Members of the coalition, Californians for Retirement Security, are focused on upcoming labor negotiations for their combined 1.5 million members, he said, and any notion that the unions have a coordinated plan to legally undercut the law is "pure helicopter theory."
The pension law requires that all state and local employees pay at least half the normal cost of their pensions. Those hired on or after Jan. 1 will have to work longer to retire and receive less generous benefits, including a cap on their pay for pension purposes.
The new law is projected to save up to $60 billion over 30 years.
But supporters of the changes have been concerned that Democratic politicians won't stand up for the new pension rules they created last year. State government is benefiting from higher taxes voters agreed to in November when they approved Proposition 30, change supporters say, eliminating political pressure to prove they are good stewards of public money.
Neither the pension boards targeted by the lawsuits, Attorney General Kamala Harris nor Gov. Jerry Brown -- who championed the law -- have yet sent attorneys to counter those unions' complaints in court.
After staying out of the fray for several months, Brown this week told the counties that he has asked Harris to defend the public pension law.
"We've been waiting and waiting," said Vincent Brown, chief executive officer of the Alameda County Employees' Retirement Association.
Brown spokesman Gil Duran said the governor "will take all necessary steps to preserve the pension reform enacted in 2012."
While the lawsuits vary in the particulars, they share a common union contention that the types of pay considered for pension purposes can't be altered for existing members.
In Merced, for example, a union representing county sheriff's employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees filed suit after the local pension board said the new law would not use accumulated vacation pay when calculating retirement benefits for anyone who retired after Jan. 1.
The unions argue that employees have worked with the understanding that the pay would count. Many saved up vacation days in anticipation of higher pensions.
For years, in fact, the Merced County Employees' Retirement Association encouraged employees to build up their vacation time before they retired. Its member handbook included a section titled "Optimizing Your Retirement," which reminded employees that "you will receive up to 160 hours of your vacation payoff amount applied towards your final compensation in addition to getting paid for it, which will increase your final average salary."
The new law led to "a rash of people retiring" before the year's end so they could get the leave credit, said Merced pension plan administrator Maria Arevalo.
In Marin County, the lawsuit specifics differ since the local pension system didn't allow accrued vacation to figure into pensions.
Instead, public employee unions there have sued the county pension board to keep other kinds of compensation in pension calculations, such as the extra payments employees receive if they don't take their employer's health insurance. The unions also want to keep on-call pay and similar after-hours money in their retirement formulas.
Last month the Teamsters and two other unions backed the bill that would exclude 20,000 local and regional mass-transit workers statewide from Brown's pension reform package.
Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, introduced the measure after the unions complained to federal authorities that the new pension law violated their collective bargaining rights. Under federal law, an agency must preserve employees' bargaining rights or similar workplace processes or forfeit mass-transit grant money.
About $2 billion in annual funding for mass transit upkeep and construction is at stake, according to Alejo. The unions' complaints so far have held up roughly $40 million for Sacramento Regional Transit District's light-rail extension into Elk Grove.
Source: http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2013/2/14/labor_unions_move_to_challenge_california.htm
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Microsoft's trying to address the recent shortfall of Surface Pro models, and has vowed via its Surface Pro blog to get more into the market "as quickly as we can." As such, it's begun dispatching 64GB SKUs to Best Buy, Staples and its own Microsoft Store in the US, with Canada to follow in a few days. 128GB SKUs will ship "later this week" to retailers, according to Redmond, "with some units available by the end of the week." All flavors of the tablet-cum-laptop disappeared from shelves shortly after they arrived in retail stores and online, both stateside and north of the border. The company said it'll fulfill orders for customers who made a reservation first, but that your local retailer "should have (stock) soon," too.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/13/microsoft-starts-shipping-surface-pros-again-promises-more-to-m/
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We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow in SPRU to play a leading role in a new research project funded by the ESRC in association with a multi-institution European ?Open Research Area? initiative. The initiative as a whole will research ?the governance of technological discontinuity?. Within the initiative, this specific project will examine the particular issues around nuclear power. The role holder will work closely with Professor Andy Stirling at SPRU and Professor Frank Geels at the University of Manchester. The wider initiative also involves leading researchers at TU Dortmund (Germany), IFRIS (France) and the University of Twente, (Netherlands).?
The successful candidate will have:
-????? A? track record of excellent research and publication
-????? Good knowledge of key relevant aspects in the governance of technology
-????? Good knowledge of STS or other relevant disciplinary approaches
-????? Good knowledge of policy and political debates around nuclear power
-????? Highly developed skills in communication with diverse audiences?
The appointment is in the first instance for a fixed term 3-year period.? There will be opportunities to develop collaborative research activities with SPRU colleagues.
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School district costs for teachers? health insurance rose at an average annual rate of 4 percent above inflation from 2004 to 2012
Early results from Wisconsin?s Act 10 indicate promise of significant savings
CAMBRIDGE, MA?Rising health insurance costs for teachers have placed increasing pressures on school budgets, but specific quantification of those costs has been scarce.? Now a new study, analyzing published and unpublished data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), has found that health insurance costs for teachers in 2012 were, on average, 26 percent above those for private-sector professional employees ($8,559 for teachers versus $6,803 in the private sector); when adjusted for higher participation rates in health care plans among teachers versus private-sector professionals, the costs are 16 percent higher for teachers ($9,838 versus $8,490 in the private sector).? School district costs for teachers? insurance rose at an average annual rate of 4 percent above inflation from 2004 to 2012.
Recognizing that recent battles over collective bargaining in Wisconsin and other states have focused significantly on health insurance costs, the study also examines new data from Wisconsin to quantify the impact of that state?s recent change in collective bargaining law, finding a reduction in district health insurance costs of 13 to 19 percent.
Robert M. Costrell and Jeffery Dean conducted the study, which will appear in the Spring, 2013 issue of Education Next as ?The Rising Cost of Teachers? Health Care,? and is now available online at www.educationnext.org.
Comparing unionized and non-unionized workers in both the public and private sectors, the authors find that ?unionization is associated with higher total premiums, higher employer costs and lower employee contributions in both the public and private sectors.?? Widely varying teacher unionization across states helps explain large differences in employer and employee health insurance costs.
In states with strong unions, such as Wisconsin, note the authors, ?district insurance costs can be very expensive.?? With the passage of Governor Scott Walker?s proposed Act 10 into law, Wisconsin can be seen as a ?natural experiment in changing teacher union strength,? they state. ?Wisconsin?s teacher health insurance costs have long been very high; average employer costs for participating teachers in 2011 were $8,311 and $19,356 for single and family coverage, respectively, or about 50 and 80 percent higher than the national averages for teachers.? At the same time, Wisconsin teachers? contributions to insurance premiums have been low:? in 2011 they made no contribution at all for single coverage in 43 percent of the state?s districts, nor for family coverage in 31 percent (among private sector professionals, the non-contributory rates for single and family plans were 17 percent and 9 percent).
Act 10 removed benefits from local collective bargaining, giving districts greater freedom to shop for less expensive plans and establish higher employee contributions.? Using data from the Wisconsin Association of School Boards (WASB), the researchers examined the change in health insurance costs in 2012, after implementation of the Act.? They found a sharp drop in employer premiums from 2011 to 2012.? When they adjust their savings estimates to account for the expected growth in premiums that would have occurred (using average growth from 2007 to 2011) they estimate savings of $2,614 for family coverage and $1,304 for single coverage, or savings of 13 to 19 percent from the projected district premiums for 2012.
The authors note that the Wisconsin results from the first year of Act 10 are likely to be underestimates of school district savings, as some districts are under insurance contracts that predate the Act.
About the Authors
Robert Costrell is professor of education reform and economics at the University of Arkansas and fellow at the George W. Bush Institute.? Jeffery Dean is distinguished doctoral fellow at the University of Arkansas.? The authors are available for interviews.
About Education Next
Education Next is a scholarly journal published by the Hoover Institution that is committed to careful examination of evidence relating to school reform.? Other sponsoring institutions are the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, part of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.? For more information about Education Next, please visit:? www.educationnext.org.
For more information on the Program on Education Policy and Governance contact Antonio Wendland at 617-495-7976, pepg_administrator@hks.harvard.edu, or visit www.hks.harvard.edu/pepg/.
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The world has been at peace for a little while now and most of everyone has been driven into a false sense of security. Now the Witch trimulative has been formed, and they are after the DWMA. (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
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The Most basic type of Kishin Eggs, Evil humans are those who have committed evil deeds, like murder, and their soul gets tainted in the process. A human who has become a Evil human usually doesn't keep their human characteristics. They can become giants, shrink to midgets, anything you could think of. There are some evil humans who keeps some of their human characteristics, like Alcapone.
Undead Kishin
These are Undead corpses that have been brought back by a Witch to go wreak havoc on whatever crosses it's path. These require a human soul, a ritual, and the magic of a Witch to create. They can be tricky to get rid of because they move slow and are extremely resilient, but they are usually just cannon fodder and used for distractions. Easy souls for your weapon though.
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This type of Kishin Egg is a weapon gone crazy devouring Human Souls. They can vary anywhere between a giant monster with razor blade hands or a normal dark human with blaster fingers. They are considered betrayers to the Academy, and are one of the top priorities to deal with when one is discovered.
Egg Leader
These guys are the closest to becoming a full blown Kishin and are the ones who are usually leading other Kishin Eggs. They are considerably more powerful than their other Egg subordinates. They are considered one of the most dangerous Kishin Eggs there are, and fighters should beware.
Black Blood Fighters
Not always Evil, but they are considered to have a considerable bit more madness than most other normal people, and those who are able to control the Black Blood are extremely powerful. If they are Evil, they are top priority for the DWMA right behind witches.
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