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Attack of the jellyfish
?| November 20, 2011?|
Image: Courtesy of Acu Na Fotograf?a and Gij?n Aquarium
As predators, jellyfish appear to be slow and passive. Unable to swim to and chase their prey, most drift along, creating tiny eddies to guide food toward their tendrils. Yet in waters from the Sea of Japan to the Black Sea, jellyfish, like those pictured here, are thriving as many of their competitors are eliminated by overfishing and other human impacts. How have these drifters reversed millions of years of fish dominance, seemingly overnight? Writing in the journal Science, biologist Jos? Luis Acu?a of the University of Oviedo in Spain and his colleagues suggest that jellyfish are just as effective at catching prey and turning it into energy as fishes. In fact, they have set the stage for a takeover?dubbed the ?gelatinous ocean? by some scientists. ?We need research to be sure of what new ecological scenarios are arising,? Acu?a says. ?It is time to take [jellyfish] seriously.?
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Sgt. Scott Moore and his guest, actress Mila Kunis stand during the National Anthem at the 236th Marine Corps birthday ball for 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division in Greenville, N.C., on Friday Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Marine Corps., Cpl. Johnny Merkley)
Sgt. Scott Moore and his guest, actress Mila Kunis stand during the National Anthem at the 236th Marine Corps birthday ball for 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division in Greenville, N.C., on Friday Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Marine Corps., Cpl. Johnny Merkley)
Sgt. Scott Moore and his guest, actress Mila Kunis stand during the National Anthem at the 236th Marine Corps birthday ball for 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division in Greenville, N.C., on Friday Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Cpl. Johnny Merkley)
GREENVILLE, North Carolina (AP) ? Film star Mila Kunis has made good on her promise to a Marine who had been serving in Afghanistan.
Kunis and Marine Sgt. Scott Moore attended the annual Marine Corps Ball on Friday in Greenville, North Carolina. The annual event marks the founding of the Marines in 1775.
Back in July, the data systems technician asked Kunis to be his date for the ball in a YouTube video. He was deployed to Afghanistan at the time.
Kunis accepted his invitation soon after the video was posted.
The actress' appearance comes just days after "Friends With Benefits" co-star Justin Timberlake attended a Marine Corps Ball with Cpl. Kelsey De Santis in Richmond, Virginia.
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Selon les derni?res informations du groupe NPD, Apple s'appr?terait ? battre (encore une fois) de nouveaux records, en ce qui concerne la vente de ses ordinateurs Mac.
Selon les analystes Gene Munster et Piper Jaffray, les ventes d'ordinateurs de la firme ? la pomme, pendant le mois d'octobre, ont augment? de 19 pour cent, comparativement ? la m?me p?riode l'ann?e pass?e.
Si ?a continue comme ?a, Apple aura vendu de 5,1 millions ? 5,3 millions d'unit?s pour le trimestre de No?l. Ce serait une hausse de 23 pour cent ? 28 pour cent comparativement ? l'ann?e derni?re.
On se rappelle qu'au dernier trimestre, Apple avait battu un autre record en ?coulant pas moins de 4,89 millions de produits Mac.
Personnellement, je trouve ces chiffres tr?s encourageants pour Apple. Que dis-je? Ils sont excellents! La gamme Mac b?n?ficie peut-?tre de moins de publicit? que les iPod, iPhone et iPad, mais, comme on peut le voir, elle se vend encore tr?s bien.
De nouveaux horizons pour Apple
Il faut dire que les appareils Mac deviennent petit ? petit plus en demande dans certaines r?gions du monde, comme en Chine. Un sondage de Morgan Stanley a r?cemment d?montr? que les ordinateurs d'Apple ?taient de plus plus d?sir?s par les Chinois.
21 pour cent des r?pondants ont affirm? que la marque de leur prochain ordinateur serait celle de la pomme. Lenovo, la marque nationale, est toujours premi?re, mais a beaucoup baiss?. Elle repr?sente seulement 23 pour cent des prochains achats. C'est une baise de pr?s de 10 pour cent (23 pour cent).
Si on consid?re les ordinateurs portables seuls, Apple arrive en t?te. En effet, 22 pour cent choisiraient Apple, contre 21 pour cent pour Lenovo. La firme de Cupertino pourra, dans les prochaines ann?es, profiter d'un nouveau bassin de consommateurs potentiel puisque la Chine est maintenant le premier march? pour les ordinateurs personnels, devant les ?tats-Unis.
Il reste n?anmoins la question du prix. Les Mac sont souvent plus chers que les autres mod?les...
par Philippe Michaud
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A half-century in the making, Joe Paterno's impeccable reputation was shattered in a matter of days.
He's out of a job, and his name has been scraped off the Big Ten title trophy. He's been taken to task by everyone from the president of the United States to his good friend, Bobby Bowden. Flaws in his program, once barely whispered about, are now an open topic. Although Penn State says it isn't touching Paterno's statue outside Beaver Stadium, the fact that someone even asked indicates how far his stock has fallen.
The admirable graduation rates, the players who were as good off the field as they were on, the financial support for Penn State that had nothing to do with football ? all of it has been undone by the one thing Paterno did not do. Go to the police with an abuse allegation.
"This is a scandal large enough that this is going to hang on his legacy," said Frank Fitzpatrick, a Philadelphia Inquirer columnist and author of two books on Paterno and Penn State, including the new biography, "Pride of the Lions."
"It's incredibly sad, I think. That's not to excuse what he did or say he doesn't deserve it," Fitzpatrick added. "It's still sad for a guy who, I think, really did try. ... To see it all end so unceremoniously and so ugly, it's just hard to take."
The tumult isn't over, either. Penn State said Friday that the NCAA will examine the school's handling of the child sex-abuse scandal involving former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, invoking that dreaded question of "institutional control."
Later that day, Paterno's son Scott announced that his father is being treated for lung cancer. The cancer, diagnosed during a follow-up visit last weekend for a bronchial illness, is treatable, and Scott Paterno said doctors are "optimistic he will make a full recovery."
Even before the news about Paterno's health, those who admired him had started to view the 84-year-old coach as a tragic figure.
"This is difficult for everybody who knows Joe or anybody who cares about Joe," former Nebraska coach Tom Osborne, a close friend of Paterno's, said last week. "I feel bad about him and his family. I feel bad about the people who were victimized ? very bad about them."
It's been two weeks since Sandusky, Paterno's one-time heir apparent, was accused of sexually abusing eight boys in a 15-year span, setting off a child sex-abuse scandal that stunned Penn State and forever altered the image of major college football's winningest coach.
Paterno is not the target of any criminal investigation. But Penn State's board of trustees fired him Nov. 9 because it felt the coach did not go far enough in alerting authorities after then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary told Paterno he witnessed an alleged assault in March 2002.
McQueary, now Penn State's wide receivers coach, told a grand jury he saw Sandusky raping a boy of about 10 in the showers at the Penn State football building. McQueary went to Paterno, though it is not clear if he described the alleged attack in as graphic detail as he did to the grand jury. Paterno then told athletic director Tim Curley and university vice president Gary Schultz, whose responsibilities included oversight of the campus police.
No one called police.
"Did he make a mistake? Sure, he made a mistake," former Ohio State coach John Cooper said. "And is he paying the price. Absolutely and rightfully so. ... But I'm not going to forget all the good things he did."
But public opinion quickly turned against the man who for so long had been the moral compass of college athletics, the one person who could always be counted on to do the right thing in a business where so many others have gone wrong.
A day after Paterno was fired, two Pennsylvania senators announced they were rescinding their support for Paterno's nomination for the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Big Ten announced Monday it was renaming its trophy for the conference title game, saying it would be "inappropriate" to keep Paterno's name on it.
"The trophy and its namesake are intended to be celebratory and aspirational, not controversial," Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said.
Much of the anger stems from disillusionment, said psychologist Stan Teitelbaum, author of "Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols."
Society has a need for heroes, Teitelbaum said, and Paterno fit the bill perfectly with his "Success with Honor" philosophy. He steered Penn State clear of the tawdry scandals that sullied the reputations of high-profile programs such as Ohio State, USC and Miami, and demanded that his players conduct themselves with high character and morals.
He prized education ? his name is on a library at Penn State, not an athletic facility ? and Penn State could talk about "student-athletes" without drawing snickers. The Nittany Lions had 47 academic All-Americans under Paterno, a national-best 15 in the past five years alone. Penn State's graduation rate consistently ranks among the best in the Big Ten; in 2010, its 84 percent rate trailed only Northwestern's 95.
When Paterno was revealed as flawed ? as human ? people who had invested so much faith in him felt betrayed, Teitelbaum said.
"Joe Paterno was perceived as a very benign father figure. Father figures are supposed to protect us from the dangers of the world," Teitelbaum said. "As more and more things came out, people became more and more disappointed and disappointment turns to anger. He was supposed to have spared us."
There is an element of schadenfreude in Paterno's humbling, too.
Paterno was proud of being able to claim the moral high ground and made no attempt to hide it. He once said he wouldn't retire because he didn't want to leave coaching to the Jackie Sherrills and Barry Switzers of the world.
Switzer won three national titles at Oklahoma, but his Sooners were college football's renegades. Oklahoma was slapped with three years' probation for major recruiting violations, and five players were arrested on felony charges before Switzer stepped down in June 1989. Sherrill had brushes with the NCAA at both Texas A&M and Mississippi State.
"There were a lot of people who felt Joe was sanctimonious and holier than thou and pious when there wasn't any reason to be," Fitzpatrick said. "In that sense, that attitude set him up for a fall like this. People aren't cheerful that Joe's going through something like this but some are thinking, `See, I told you. Even at mighty blessed Penn State.'
"But I don't think anyone expected it going wrong to this extent."
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MANILA, Philippines ? Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was arrested in her hospital room on electoral fraud charges Friday in a high-profile tug of war set off by her attempts to leave the country ostensibly for medical treatment.
Arroyo became the second ex-Philippine president to face trial, after her ousted predecessor Joseph Estrada was sentenced to life imprisonment on corruption charges and later pardoned by her.
Arroyo denies any wrongdoing and accuses the government of political persecution when it stopped her from leaving the Philippines for overseas medical treatment for a bone ailment. Her lawyer, Ferdinand Topacio, said the government had filed fabricated charges with "indecent haste."
The Supreme Court earlier Friday upheld her right to travel, but a lower court where the formal charges were filed later issued an arrest warrant that effectively bars her from leaving.
Arroyo has been recovering in a hospital since her failed attempt to leave the country Tuesday, and Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said she will remain confined to her hospital room.
"They are not going to, let's say, handcuff her and take her out of the room," de Lima said. "We will not object to hospital arrest."
In a drama that has galvanized the Philippines, Arroyo, 64, sitting in a wheelchair and wearing a head and neck brace, was turned back Tuesday night from boarding a flight out of Manila. Authorities said she was still under investigation and might become a fugitive.
Her successor and staunch critic, President Benigno Aquino III, was overwhelmingly elected on promises to rid the Philippines of corruption and has said he wants to start with Arroyo.
The former president sought help from the Supreme Court, which issued a temporary clearance for her to travel and reaffirmed it Friday. But the government ignored the order, saying national interest and uncovering the truth were more important than an individual's right to travel.
"It is our desire that truth and accountability prevail and that the Filipino people be given the justice they truly deserve," de Lima told reporters.
"Justice has been served. It's very relieving," she said.
The election fraud charges filed Friday by the Commission on Election carry a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison. Arroyo legal spokesman Raul Lambino said the case against her "is a high form of injustice."
The charges stem from allegations that Arroyo conspired with officials to tamper with results of 2007 congressional polls to favor her candidates.
She was accused of having direct knowledge of massive cheating in an autonomous Muslim region in the southern Philippines, the country's poorest and notoriously corrupt region, where ballot boxes are switched en masse and voters paid or threatened to abstain.
A probe this year by the Senate Electoral Tribunal found that an Arroyo ally, Miguel Zubiri, benefited from fake ballots. He resigned his Senate seat in favor of an opposition candidate.
Two witnesses ? an election supervisor and a former governor of the Muslim region ? have alleged that Arroyo and her husband ordered election rigging to favor administration candidates like Zubiri.
Also charged Friday were ex-election supervisor Lintang Bedol, who is in government custody and wants to turn state witness, and Andal Ampatuan Sr., the former Muslim regional governor and patriarch of a powerful clan. Ampatuan, a former Arroyo ally, is on trial for allegedly ordering the 2009 massacre of 57 people, including 32 journalists and political opponents in the country's worst political bloodbath.
During her tumultuous nine-year presidency from 2001 to 2010, Arroyo ranked as the country's least popular leader and faced down several coup and impeachment attempts over corruption allegations.
Her most serious crisis came a year after she was elected in 2004, when a wiretapped recording surfaced of her talking to an election official allegedly about securing a vote margin for herself. She later apologized but said she did nothing wrong.
After stepping down last year, Arroyo, 64, was elected to the House of Representatives and immediately faced at least half a dozen legal complaints, including allegations that she diverted state funds for her campaign effort and benefited from foreign contracts.
The Justice Department is still investigating the other complaints.
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Associated Press writer Teresa Cerojano contributed to this report.
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Just yesterday, we were applauding online retailer Wine.com for finally figuring out that having a mobile app is not enough - you still need a mobile website, too. Today, another big name announces the launch of its own HTML5 efforts: GetSatisfaction.?The popular customer support company says its new Web app will bring the full functionality of its online community platform to its now 3.1 million users. At launch, the Web app (currently in beta) supports iPhone users, but support for Android and BlackBerry OS 6+ is on its way soon.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/qUNaZv9UDDY/
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NEW DELHI, India ? Four Himalayan nations, faced with erratic weather and the threat of melting glaciers and catastrophic floods, are hashing out a plan for preserving the vast mountain range and helping millions living in the foothills cope with climate change.
But as India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan set to work on a new 10-year management policy, three other major Himalayan nations will be conspicuously absent.
Organizers have downplayed the fact that Pakistan, China and Afghanistan are not attending the Climate Summit for a Living Himalayas, saying the talks Saturday in Bhutan's capital of Thimphu are focused on securing ecosystems, endangered species, forests and food and water sources for only the eastern part of the range.
The summit, to some extent, is the Himalayan answer to an urgent need for action amid the international community's inability to agree on limiting greenhouse gas emissions thought to cause global warming. Expectations are again low for a breakthrough at the next U.N. climate talks, beginning Nov. 28 in Durban, South Africa.
"Climate change is placing extraordinary pressure on the Eastern Himalayas ? its people, iconic landscapes and species are all being hit hard by changing weather patters," Bhutan's Agriculture Minister Pema Gyamtsho said in a statement. "The Eastern Himalayas is now in urgent need of a regional framework of cooperation that combines expertise from governments, NGOs and civil society. Himalayan nations must act now."
But the absence of three key players underscores the difficulty of reaching regional consensus on how best to protect the peaks, known as the "Water Towers of Asia," with snowmelts feeding into the continent's seven largest rivers.
Regional tensions have long prevented Himalayan cooperation, including basic research in the world's largest block of glaciers outside the polar regions, and accounting for 40 percent of the world's fresh water.
"The Himalayas present an opportunity where India and China, for example, could really work together to understand and preserve the glaciers, which are a very important ecosystem not just for the region, but for the global climate," said glaciologist Shakeel Romshoo, head of the geology department at the University of Kashmir.
A first step, scientists say, would be to establish a research framework for the region, where just a few dozen of the tens of thousands of glaciers have been studied.
"There is so much acrimony and mistrust, (the countries) are not able to think logically about what needs to be done," Romshoo said.
Many lower-altitude glaciers are melting faster, with thousands of new lakes appearing and threatening mountain villages and agricultural plateaus with catastrophic floods should they overflow. Weather patterns have changed, with some regions experiencing torrential monsoons and mudslides, and others suffering droughts. The flow of rivers carrying snow melt toward the seas is less predictable.
As populations grow, and economies need more water for agriculture and energy production, establishing and revising water treaties will become a key issue to the seven Himalayan-dependent nations as water is predicted to get more scarce.
But drafting such treaties, experts say, requires a better understanding of the glaciers themselves, how fast they are melting, and what exactly is causing it. Scientists are still unable to say how much of an impact rising world temperatures have versus other influences, including soot coming mainly from Indian and Chinese cities that colors the ice black.
Ramshoo's own study of the Indus glacier system, providing a lifeline downriver in the Pakistani plateaus, has been hobbled by India and Pakistan's rivalry. Ramshoo has access only to small ice caps on the Indian side. "We know they are melting, but we don't know what's happening on the Pakistan side" where reports indicate the larger glaciers at higher altitude are stable or growing, he said. For years, however, Romshoo has been unable even to get meteorological data from Pakistan.
Kashmir's Siachin Glacier, dubbed the world's highest battlefield with Indian and Pakistani troops facing off, remains a question mark for scientists. Despite several wars, the two countries have honored their 1960 Indus Water Treaty, but Pakistan recently has shown concern about its future allotment, twice bringing complaints about Indian hydropower dams to the World Bank for arbitration.
"There are issues, of course, there are areas to improve," Indian Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said. "We are committed to cooperating with the Himalayan countries, but it will take time. On these issues, though, there is perhaps more understanding than on others."
China's neighbors, meanwhile, worry that Beijing's rapid program of damming major rivers flowing from the Tibetan plateau will trigger natural disasters, degrade fragile ecologies and divert vital water supplies. The worries might be lessened if China shared hydrological and other data, but China, along with Turkey, refuse to sign a key 1997 U.N. convention on transnational rivers.
Tiny Nepal, home to Mount Everest, is still recovering from a decade of civil war and the ensuing political instability.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? U.S. industrial production rose in October at the fastest rate in three months. Factories made more cars, electronics and business equipment, a sign that manufacturing is recovering after slowing this spring.
The Federal Reserve says output at the nation's factories, utilities and mines rose 0.7 percent last month.
Factory output, the largest component of industrial production, rose a solid 0.5 percent, the fourth straight monthly gain. Production of business equipment rose 1 percent, its sixth straight monthly increase. Electrical equipment, appliances and transportation equipment all climbed more than 2 percent. Autos and parts surged 3.1 percent.
Industrial production has increased 13.4 percent since its trough in June 2009. It remains 5.3 percent below its pre-recession peak, reached in September 2007.
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