Welcome to the Overnight News Digest (OND) for Tuesday, September 04, 2012.
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This diary is named for its "Hump Point" video: Waterfront by Simple Minds
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CHARTS: Yes, We’re Better Off Than We Were Four Years Ago
By Pat Garofalo
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While the economy is only recovering slowly, the trend lines when it comes to jobs, wealth, and the success of American business are all moving in the right direction, as these charts by the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Christian Weller show:
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See more charts here. Four years ago, the economy was gripped by financial panic, with hundreds of thousands of jobs being shed each month. Now, the economy is adding jobs (too slowly), while the government has new powers to rein in the financial sector and hopefully prevent a repeat of the 2008 crisis.
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Health-Care Costs Hit the Elderly Hard, Diminish Financial Wellbeing
By (ScienceDaily)
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The protection of the savings of the elderly -- one of the primary goals of Medicare -- is under threat from a combination of spiraling healthcare costs and increased longevity. As the government attempts to reduce Medicare costs, one suggestion is that the elderly could pay a larger proportion of the costs of their healthcare. But exactly how much would this be and what impact would it have on their finances?
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Medicare provides nearly universal health care coverage to the population over 65. However it does not pay for everything. There are co-payments and deductibles, and more importantly, homecare services and non-rehabilitative nursing home care, which are not covered. If proposals suggest the elderly should make even larger contributions to care, it is important to know more about patients' out-of-pocket spending under the current Medicare program.
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Thus far, attempts to promote legislation to help with long-term care requirements have all been deemed too expensive. Until someone comes up with a financially viable scheme, the authors speculate that the financial outlook for the elderly in coming decades is discouraging. They conclude that, "as more baby boomers retire, a new generation of widows or widowers could face a sharply diminished financial future as they confront their recently-depleted nest egg following the illness and death of a spouse."
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The futility of climatespotting: No matter what he says, Obama can’t make big moves on climate
By David Roberts
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After the lurid death of the cap-and-trade bill in Congress, global warming more or less disappeared from the national political landscape. Since there’s no climate legislation on the table and none proposed, no ongoing debate on the subject, nothing real to talk about, climate hawks have been reduced to a form of analysis I call “climatespotting.” It amounts to counting the number of times the term “climate change” is uttered by a politician (especially Obama) or political organization. It’s as though the very term is an endangered bird — every time it flitters across a screen somewhere, it’s met with great excitement.
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I suspect the Democratic convention will serve as an occasion for a great deal more climatespotting. We know now that the term “climate change” appears 18 times in the Democratic Party Platform (as opposed to once, mockingly, in the Republican Platform). Hero! But according to National Journal, “[i]nterviews with campaign staff and a look at the lineup of convention speakers indicate that climate change won’t be a top-tier issue during the convention.” Failure!
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So now we have a party of radicals who vowed, even as Obama took office, that they would make his defeat their top priority. Their Senate leader even announced it publicly. And since early 2010, they have had more than 40 votes in the Senate, so they can filibuster, and have filibustered, everything. Washington reporters are still obliged to pretend that there’s some way Obama could have overcome this determined opposition, but no one’s offered a plausible story about how.
What will Obama accomplish in a second term? As long as Republicans have 40 votes in the Senate, much less a majority in one or both houses, the likelihood is: very little. They won’t let him! They’ve shown no willingness to compromise for four years and there’s no reason to think that will change. In fact, they are explicitly pledging to continue with total opposition. That is the depressing baseline fact that defines this election.
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US prison inmate Michelle Kosilek to get taxpayer-funded sex change operation
By Allison Jackson
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Massachusetts prison officials have been ordered to pay for a convicted murderer’s sex change operation, the Associated Press reported today.
District Judge Mark Wolf said Michelle Kosilek, who lives as a woman in an all-male prison, was entitled to the state-funded sex realignment surgery because it was the “only adequate treatment” for Kosilek’s “serious medical need.”
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"In this case Kosilek has proven that he still has a severe gender identity disorder. Although female hormones have helped somewhat, he continues to suffer intense mental anguish because of his sincere and enduring belief that he is a female trapped in a male body," Wolf wrote in the landmark 126-page judgment.
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Kosilek is serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole for the murder of his wife in 1990. He killed her after she caught him wearing her clothes.
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We’re Now Pretty Certain Life on Earth Is 3.5 Billion Years Old
By Leslie Horn
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The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. But what about the life that exists on it? We've thought since 2006 that biological activity in the form of stromatolites—ancient layered geological structures—first appeared here 3.5 billion years ago, and now we have even more evidence to prove it.
Scientists took to the Strelley Pool Formation in Australia to check out the sulfur some rock formations that got there as a result of biological activity. They've looked at these deposits before, but this time they analyzed them through a different technique—analyzing the distribution of isotopes in each layer rather than on the whole—and their findings corroborated previous conclusion.
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Quebec's Parti Quebecois set for election victory
By (BBC)
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Preliminary results indicate the party is on course to win 58 of the 125 seats and form a minority government after nine years in opposition.
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Popular support within Quebec for a similar referendum is low, says the BBC's Lee Carter in Toronto, but PQ leader Pauline Marois says she would still hold one if the "winning conditions are right".
She has listed a series of demands for Canadian PM Stephen Harper if her party gains power, including further strengthening of laws to protect Quebec's French language and identity.
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Ms Marois now looks likely to become the province's first female premier.
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Death toll soars in Syria since U.N. monitors stopped their work
By David Enders
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The number of people killed in violence in Syria has skyrocketed since U.N. efforts to broker a peace agreement fell apart in June, with the total number of dead, including both government loyalists and opponents, now likely surpassing 30,000 since demonstrations against President Bashar Assad began nearly 18 months ago, according to recently available statistics.
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The rising violence also has driven more people from their homes, with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reporting that more than 200,000 Syrians now have sought refuge outside Syria. Thousands more are waiting to do so but have not been allowed to cross borders, as neighboring countries have tightened border controls in anticipation of a surge of refugees.
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Syrian anti-government activists claim that the regime has recently instituted a “shoot-on-sight” policy, and they reported a number of mass executions in August, particularly in and around Damascus. The numbers of executed ranged from four or five at a time to more than 150 in one instance.
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Al-Jazeera websites hacked by Assad loyalist group
By Alexander Hotz
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The websites of the Arabic news network, Al Jazeera, were hacked on Tuesday, apparently by a group sympathetic to the Syrian regime.
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In a statement, the network said its external services had been "compromised". It added: "The company that operates them quickly resolved this, though some users may continue to experience issues for a while longer. We thank our online community for their patience and support."
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A number of staff resigned from al-Jazeera earlier this year, accusing it of being biased against the Syrian regime but in favor of Bahrain, a Gulf state neighbor of Qatar, where the network is based.
Al-Jazeera is funded by the Qatari government; critics say it follows its sponsor's foreign policy objectives, although the broadcaster says it is independent of government control.
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'Coalgate' row: India police raid coal firms
By (BBC)
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Police in India have carried out raids across 10 cities as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in the allocation of coalfields.
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State auditors say India lost $33bn (£20bn) allotting coalfields at below market rates in the years up to 2009.
The controversy has sparked a political crisis with parliament deadlocked for days over demands by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that the government should cancel the allocations and order an independent probe into the matter.
Although the report by government auditors does not mention Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, BJP leaders say he must step down as he also had direct responsibility for the coal ministry when most of the coalfields were granted to companies between 2006 and 2009.
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Liberia's failed logging promises
By (BBC)
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More than 60% of Liberia's virgin rainforest has been granted to logging companies since Nobel Prize winning President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, came to power in 2006, according to a Global Witness report. It says the majority of these have been unregulated private contracts. Tamasin Ford reports from Liberia.
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The agreements are part of the requirements for firms to be granted a Private Use Permit (PUP).
PUPs, which now cover 40% of Liberia's best forests according to a report by the Global Witness campaign group, were designed to allow private landowners to cut trees on their property.
Activists say that instead they are being used by companies to avoid the new, stricter forest regulation brought in when Ellen Johnson Sirleaf came to power in 2006.
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Wanxiang purchase upsets US legislators
By Benjamin A Shobert
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A123, an American lithium ion battery company, was the recipient of a US$249 million grant in 2009 from the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program (ATVM). Designed to foster a thriving electric vehicle manufacturing sector domestically, including ancillary technologies like batteries such as those A123 makes, the loan program was designed to bridge the gap between venture capital financing and more traditional loans, a chasm that many promising American companies like A123 had not been able to cross in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
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Wanxiang, an automotive parts manufacture that has been operating in the North American market through its Chicago facility for many years, has a history purchasing distressed automotive parts manufacturers. Seeing an opportunity, Wanxiang has offered to make further investments to A123. The investment would allow A123 to stay open, but would essentially make A123 owned by Wanxiang.
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In most other periods, the A123 story would have made for some temporary fodder for pundits, but in the summer of 2012 it has added further to the sense in the American political scene that the United States is ill- prepared to compete with China's model of economic development.
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As otherwise straight forward stories like that of A123 and Wanxiang continue to come to light, rather than have a rational discussion as a nation about how to better evaluate, monitor and structure national investments, conservatives seem bent on using A123's failures to repudiate a President they loathe and a nation they increasingly are coming to distrust.
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GOP raps Dem. platform on Israel, God
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Top Republicans, including presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Tuesday accused the Democratic Party of "a radical shift" on Israel in the party's 2012 platform.
In a statement issued by his campaign, Romney said the Democratic platform adopted Tuesday in Charlotte, N.C., removed pro-Israel language that had been included in previous platforms.
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A DNC official told ABC News: "The Obama administration has followed the same policy towards Jerusalem that previous U.S. administrations of both parties have done since 1967.
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The Democratic platform also came in for criticism after the Christian Broadcasting Network said the word "God" had been removed.
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CBN noted the platform contains a paragraph saying faith "has always been a central part of the American story, and it has been a driving force of progress and justice throughout our history," and that "our nation, our communities, and our lives are made vastly stronger and richer by faith and the countless acts of justice and mercy it inspires."
A Democratic Party official told ABC the 2008 platform reference to God came in a section about "growing the middle class and making America fair, not actually about faith." The official noted the 2012 platform "includes an entire plank on the importance of faith-based organizations and the tremendous work that they do."
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Factlet of the Day: Prosecuting Bribery Leads to More Prosecutions for Bribery
By Kevin Drum
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Here's a fascinating little factlet. The New York Times reports today that most big prosecutions under America's anti-bribery law are against foreign companies. Siemens, for example, paid a fine of $800 million even though it's a German company and the bribes in question were paid to Argentinians. Their American presence, however, was big enough to make them liable under U.S. law. American companies argue that this is a matter of leveling the playing field: they're at a disadvantage competing against companies that feel free to pay bribes, so they're eager for the Department of Justice to use its authority to put a stop to it.
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"In other words," says Henry, "many countries that have anti-bribery legislation on their books are disinclined to enforce this legislation against their firms, until the US makes an issue of prosecuting their firms for them. This results in a remarkably large rise in the likelihood of subsequent enforcement."
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Barney Frank: In Crisis Time, Dems Worked With Bush – But GOP Shunned Obama
By Sahil Kapur
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Appearing on CNN during the opening night of the Democratic convention, retiring longtime Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) argued that his party was willing to help President Bush weather the 2008 economic crisis -- unlike Republicans, who he said refused to lift a finger to assist President Obama when he needed them.
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"Unfortunately, from the very beginning -- look, look at the contrast. George Bush came to us on the Democratic side in late '08 and said, we're in a crisis, we need your help -- and we gave it to him, very openly, very fully. Then Obama comes in to try to deal with the terrible situation he inherited from bush and the republican media went into full partisan attack. [Senate Republican Leader] Mitch McConnell announcing his number one goal was to defeat the president. . ."
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Welcome to the "Hump Point" of this OND.
News can be sobering and engrossing - at this point in the diary, an offering of brief escapism:
Random notes related to this video:
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"'Waterfront' is one of the most realistic songs we've ever written – that's the irony of the whole thing. For years people said to us 'why do you never write a song about Glasgow or something that's realistic to Britain' instead of all our cosmopolitan stuff. The easy answer was that we were not there at the time, whereas we were in these other places.
"But then going back to Glasgow, I realised that I was never ever really removed from there. You have to go away to realise the goodness of a place. When I got back my mental block had gone and I started to write. I went for a walk one night and ended up literally on the banks of the Clyde. I went right to where the town ends to what were once the shipyards. It was eerie, I could just hear my own footsteps, and I was surrounded by factories which are just shells now.
"I just started to think about what it was like in its day. Some of my people, my grandfather and stuff, had worked there. There was a predominant bleakness but the great thing was actually being able to see the water. It was still moving and it seemed to hold some sort of symbol. Everyone now comes up with figures of unemployed and industries that are all dead and the human race becoming redundant. I don't believe any of that.
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"There was no European in it, no president getting shot, no fugitives, but it was important for me and for anyone listening to the song. I'm confident they can feel uplifted, because that's how I felt at the time."
Back to what's happening:
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Environment and Greening |
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Federal protection of wolves to be ended
By (UPI)
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U.S. officials say a successful return of once-endangered wolves to Wyoming justifies removing their federal protection, a move criticized by environmentalists.
The removal of gray wolves from the rolls of the Endangered Species Act, to take effect Oct. 1, and their reclassification as predators means Wyoming ranchers and hunters will be allowed to shoot the animals on sight in about 85 percent of the state, ABC news reported.
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"This isn't good wildlife management," . . . "There will be no regulation whatsoever on killing wolves in most of the state."
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Why biodiversity increase from global warming is not good news
By Flora Malein
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Periods of the earth's warming are associated with an increase in biodiversity, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While this may sound like good news, the timescales involved cancel out any benefits they might experience from the rising temperatures.
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They found that biodiversity increases over periods of warming in the earth's climate with many new species emerging, although these are simultaneously accompanied by extinctions of existing species.
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"I don't think that there is any good news here", says Mayhew. "If what we need for diversity to improve in these warm climates is time for those organisms to evolve, then that time is going to be much longer than the lifetime of the human race. The lifetime of a species tends to be 1-10m years in the record. So that's how long we can expect humans maybe to survive ... if we get a fair chance at life.
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So while the study does give us an insight into what happened to species when the planet warmed millions of years ago, it doesn't contradict predictions of greater species extinctions due to current rates of climate change.
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Biofuel Waste Product Recycled for Electricity
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A by-product of biofuel manufacture can power microbial fuel cells to generate electricity cheaply and efficiently, according to scientists presenting their work at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn Conference. The work could help develop self-powered devices that would depollute waste water and be used to survey weather in extreme environments.
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As well as being low-cost, microbial fuel cells that use DDGS are very environmentally friendly. The waste that is left following electricity extraction is of greater value, as it is less reactive with oxygen, making it less polluting. "We've found something really useful from a waste product without affecting its value as animal feed and at the same time improving its environmental status. This is something we place great importance on and within our group we have a team solely dedicated to reducing polluting potential," said Professor Mike Bushell who is leading the group.
A lot of microbial fuel cell research focuses on developing environmental sensors in remote locations. "Self-powered sensors in remote places such as deserts or oceans can be used to provide important data for monitoring weather or pollution. Other applications in focus for microbial fuel cells include treating waste water to produce green electricity and clean up the water at the same time," explained Professor Bushell.
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U.S. teens injured walking up 25 percent
By (UPI)
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As children return to school, those driving should be on the lookout for teens phoning or texting while walking, a U.S. non-profit group warns.
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In the last five years, injuries among teens ages 16-19 increased 25 percent over the previous five years. Today, those ages 14-19 account for 50 percent of child pedestrian injuries, Carr said.
"We suspect one cause of this disturbing trend is distraction, since the increase in teen injuries seems to correlate with the prevalence of cellphone use, both among walkers and drivers," Carr said in a statement.
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Study Claims Organic Foods Offer Virtually No Benefit -- Or Does It?
By Jason Mick
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Many studies have examined the topic, but according to Dr. Bravata, of the 237 "most rigorous" works, most have confined themselves to looking at the nutrition of organics (produce grown without antibiotics or fungicides/insecticides) versus conventional produce. Dr. Bravata was more interested in the health impact -- specifically whether people absorbed pesticides or whether antibiotic use in livestock gave rise to antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Only 17 studies rigorously tackled these kinds of problems. Two did find that children eating conventional produce appeared to have higher levels of pesticides in their urine, although levels were still low. One of the studies pointed out, though, that it was impossible to rule out that the source of the differences was insecticides used for household pest prevention and not diet.
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But before organic foods are thrown wholesale under the bus, the review did conclude that organic meat is 33 percent less likely to contain germs that are resistant to multiple antibiotics, an undesirable side effect of feeding livestock antibiotics. Meat industry advocates argue that feeding livestock antibiotics is useful not only for fighting disease, but more controversially for promoting weight gain in livestock, which the industry advocates argue is necessary to keep up with demand.
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The report is accurate and interesting. However, there is one big problem with it, as well. The true effects of pesticide exposure on children and adults has not been conclusively and thoroughly quantified due to ethics requirements disallowing human testing, and due to difficulty in obtaining funding for a more comprehensive statistics-based human test, or alternatively tests on animals of similar physiology (pigs or monkeys -- which raise ethical issues of their own).
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Birds hold funerals for their fallen, study says
By Alexander Besant
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Researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that when western scrub jays - similar to blue jays - come across their dead, they hold a strange ritual never seen in birds.
The ritual sees the bird call out to the others and stop their activity - usually flying and foraging.
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Smithsonian said that researchers are unsure whether this is an acknowledgement of the dead or it is a useful way of gathering to repel a threat that may have killed their comrade.
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Giraffes, elephants and polar bears are especially affected by the death of their own species, said Smithsonian.
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Woman has an eyebrow transplant after over plucking hair
By Del Crookes
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A woman who plucked her eyebrows too much when she was younger has spent £3,500 having a hair transplant.
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The trainee dentist, from Whalley in Lancashire, said: "For more than 15 years I plucked my eyebrows weekly in order to get a super slim appearance to my 'brows, not knowing that eventually the hair would not grow back.
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Claire's treatment involved a six-hour operation in which a strip of hair from the back of her head was removed and grafted on to her face.
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"I know that it sounds really superficial to some people but it really did make a difference to my life.
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Congress Questions Why DHS is Obeying RIAA Orders to Seize Legal Sites
By Jason Mick
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The RIAA and the majority of members of Congress, though seem to think it's a fair bargain to suppress free speech and disenfranchize law-abiding citizens in the name of combatting piracy.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (an enforcement arm of the DHS), though views "Operation in Our Sites" to be a big success, claiming it to have taken down over 750 sites since its 2010 launch -- most of which were verified to be hosting or linking to illegal content. The latest phase -- Operation Fake Sweep -- landed in February and took down over a dozen illegal sports streaming sites.
However, it's clear that definition of success vary -- to the DHS and its minion agencies even if a few innocent men and women have their rights robbed from them and are financially harmed, it's worth it to battle the nebulous specter of "piracy". But the Congressional letter writers aren't so willing to call that police state policy a "success" by their criteria.
Of course Reps. Lofgren (D), Polis (D), and Chaffetz (R) may be in the minority, both in the Congress at large and within their own parties. The three reps were among only 31 Senators or Representatives to publicly oppose the Orwellian "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) (H.R. 3261) in the House and "PROTECT IP Act" (PIPA) (S.968) in the Senate. By contrast 80 of their colleagues supported that bill -- which called for similar punitive takedowns -- before some eventually scurried off the ship amid mass public derision.
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Quick Note: Samsung's Galaxy S III Takes U.S. Sales Crown from Apple iPhone 4S
By Brandon Hill
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Samsung has had a pretty rough couple of week following its loss to Apple in a California district court. Samsung was found guilty of infringing on various Apple design patents and was ordered to pay $1.05 billion in damages. . .
Even with all of that bad news swirling around Samsung, the South Korean company can at least take solace in the fact that its Galaxy S III has knocked the Apple iPhone 4S off its perch as the best-selling smartphone in America.
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However, Samsung's victory over Apple may be short-lived. Apple has officially confirmed a September 12 press event to announce the next generation iPhone. Sales will likely start towards the end of September.
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Digital Tip Jar Lets You Leave a Dollar With Your Credit Card
By Andrew Liszewski
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Paying for a quick meal or drink with a debit or credit card is convenient for customers, but the lack of physical currency means there's a less of a chance of waitstaff or baristas getting a tip. . .
It's designed to look and function like the tip jar you'd normally find next to a cash register. But instead of dropping in a few coins or small bills, customers just insert and remove their credit card. Each DipJar unit is programmed with a pre-determined transaction amount, which so far has been around a dollar.
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Your cellphone is a tracking device that lets you make calls
By Cory Doctorow
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Appelbaum: Cell phones are tracking devices that make phone calls. It’s sad, but it’s true. Which means software solutions don’t always matter. You can have a secure set of tools on your phone, but it doesn’t change the fact that your phone tracks everywhere you go. And the police can potentially push updates onto your phone that backdoor it and allow it to be turned into a microphone remotely, and do other stuff like that. The police can identify everybody at a protest by bringing in a device called an IMSI catcher. It’s a fake cell phone tower that can be built for 1500 bucks. And once nearby, everybody’s cell phones will automatically jump onto the tower, and if the phone’s unique identifier is exposed, all the police have to do is go to the phone company and ask for their information.
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You may be saying here, "Huh, I'm sure glad that I'm not doing anything that would get me targeted by US spooks!" Think again. First, there's the possibility that you'll be incorrectly identified as a bad guy, like Maher Arar . . . who got a multi-year dose of Syrian torture when the security apparatus experienced a really bad case of mistaken identity.
But second, remember that whatever governments can do with technology, organized criminals can do too (this is doubly true of back-doors that governments mandate in telecoms equipment and software to make spying easier -- they can be used by anyone, not just "good guys").
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Research reveals uneven playing field in sports
By Anna Halkidis
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The strong showing by U.S. female athletes in the Olympics--who won nearly twice as many gold medals as male counterparts--is one sign of why Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter might think the big part of their job is over.
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But as women's sports have gained, female coaches have been losing out. In 1972, 90 percent of women's athletics coaches were female, but today this number is less than 50 percent.
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"With Title IX, coaching positions began to get paid and paid better. That made them more attractive to men," Carpenter said. Very seldom were these positions paid before and even if they were, it was nowhere near the level of a men's team, she added.
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These numbers trouble Elizabeth Naumovski, the women's basketball head coach at CUNY Queens College, a second division team.
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"The problem is not only in coaching alone, it's in the athletic programs as a whole," Naumovski said. "Until we have more female faces in athletics period, those number won't grow in coaching."
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Senegal floods uncover ancient artefacts in Dakar
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Pieces of jewellery, pottery and iron tools dating back thousands of years have been discovered in Senegal's capital, Dakar, following recent floods, researchers say.
The discovery was made at a construction site, local academic Alioune Deme told the BBC.
A colleague, Moustapha Sall, stumbled across the items after the rains washed away sand, he said.
The objects could date back between 2,000 and 7,000 BC, Mr Deme said.
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