China Mobile's four new TD-LTE phones: Huawei Ascend D2, HTC One, LG Optimus Vu II Plus and ZTE U9810

We already knew that LG's now jumped on the TD-LTE bandwagon with the demo of a modified Optimus G, but it turns out that China Mobile also announced several devices that are destined for its 4G market, including the 5-inch 1080p Huawei Ascend D2 (D2-TL), the 4.7-inch 1080p HTC One (TD101), the 5-inch XGA LG Optimus Vu II Plus and the mysterious 5-inch 1080p ZTE U9810. Interestingly, our brethren over at Engadget Chinese also spotted a TD-LTE-ready Samsung Galaxy S III at China Mobile's MWC booth (note the "China Mobile 4G" logo on the back of the phone, pictured above), but it wasn't mentioned at the Global TD-LTE Initiative summit at MWC. Obviously, let's not forget ZTE's Grand Era LTE that's compatible with both modes of LTE.

Knowing how fresh some of these devices are, it seems like TD-LTE service will be available to the Chinese public well within this year, which will match what China Mobile announced back in January.Also announced alongside the aforementioned phones were four TD-LTE mobile hotspots, including Huawei's E5375, ZTE's MF91S+, China Mobile-badged CM510 plus CM512. These all feature battery lives between six to eight hours, and can handle up to 10 devices simultaneously. Some even support the more common FDD LTE, with Huawei's already capable of Category 4 LTE at up to 150Mbps.

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Pick a Bundle Lets You Choose 10 Mac Apps for $49.99

OS X: This is a great idea for software bundles?build it yourself. Pick a Bundle gives you 30 Mac apps to choose from. Add any ten to your cart and buy them all for $49.99 (so, $5 each). Music and system utilities, web development tools, games, and other types of apps are featured here.

Although the selection isn't loaded with the most popular Mac apps, there are many useful and well-regarded apps available, such as volume-boosting Boom (normally $6.99), musical alarm clock and timer Awaken (normally $6.99), and desktop personal finance tool MoneyWell (normally $49.99). If you're a web developer/designer, you can grab visual design tool Flux for a fraction of its $144.99 retail price or Rapidweaver, also heavily discounted from $79.99.

Head over to the sale to check out the full list. Note that the promotion ends on March 18th.

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Call For $30 Smartphones To Connect The Next Wave Of Mobile Users From Emerging Markets

Smartphones have been getting more affordable but to connect the ?next billions? of users they need to get more affordable still. Speaking at Mobile World Congress today Manoj Kohli, CEO of carrier Bharti Airtel ? which operates in India and Africa -- said the price of smartphones needs to come down to $30, and mobile data dongles to $10, to break down the affordability barrier.

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Amsterdam to raise legal age for prostitutes

AMSTERDAM (AP) ? Amsterdam plans to raise the minimum age for prostitutes from 18 to 21 and force brothels to close during early morning hours.

At a press conference Tuesday, mayor Eberhard van der Laan said the moves came from a decision to crack down on crime in the city's famed Red Light District and protect sex workers ? mostly women ? from abuse.

Amsterdam is home to about 8,000 professional sex workers, the city estimates, half of them who operate behind windows with red velvet curtains and red lights. Van der Laan said under the new regime, all windows would be closed from 4 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Prostitution was legalized in the Netherlands in 2000. It has been tolerated in Amsterdam since the 1600s, when the spice trade made it one of the world's wealthiest port cities. But the city has been tightening its rules since 2006 and shuttered a third of its brothel windows from 2007 to 2009.

Van der Laan said the city intends to introduce the new measures by July.

"We think the situation is so grave that we have to act," he told reporters.

He said young prostitutes were particularly vulnerable because they were often groomed by pimps who force them into service when they turn 18. He said the city's first priority was to keep women from being pushed into prostitution and its second was to help those who wish to exit the profession.

Other measures he plans to introduce include forcing all brothel owners to submit a business plan.

The Dutch tolerance of prostitution has always been a subject of debate, and after it was legalized, city officials realized that move had not served to reduce abuses. A proposed new national law would create a database of registered prostitutes, but it has never been passed by Parliament.

Dutch officials are now studying Sweden's prostitution laws as a possible model. Swedish law criminalizes only visiting prostitutes and does not punish the prostitutes themselves.

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Panel questions value of calcium, vitamin D pills

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Popping calcium and vitamin D pills in hopes of strong bones? Healthy older women shouldn't bother with relatively low-dose dietary supplements, say new recommendations from a government advisory group.

Both nutrients are crucial for healthy bones and specialists advise getting as much as possible from a good diet. The body also makes vitamin D from sunshine. If an older person has a vitamin deficiency or bone-thinning osteoporosis, doctors often prescribe higher-than-normal doses.

But for otherwise healthy postmenopausal women, adding modest supplements to their diet ? about 400 international units of D and 1,000 milligrams of calcium ? don't prevent broken bones but can increase the risk of kidney stones, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said Monday.

It isn't clear if those doses offer bone protection if taken before menopause, or if they help men's bones, the guidelines said.

What about higher-dose supplements that have become more common recently? There's not enough evidence to tell if they would prevent fractures, either, in an otherwise healthy person, the panel concluded. It urged more research to settle the issue.

It's a confusing message considering that for years, calcium and vitamin D supplements have been widely considered an insurance policy against osteoporosis, with little down side to taking them.

"Regrettably, we don't have as much information as we would like to have about a substance that has been around a long time and we used to think we understood," said Dr. Virginia Moyer of the Baylor College of Medicine, who heads the task force. "Turns out, there's a lot more to learn."

The main caution: These recommendations aren't for people at high risk of weak bones, including older adults who have previously broken a bone and are at risk for doing so again, said Dr. Sundeep Khosla of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. Those people should consult a doctor, said Khosla, a bone specialist at the Mayo Clinic who wasn't part of the panel's deliberations.

Calcium and vitamin D work together, and you need a lifetime of both to build and maintain strong bones. Vitamin D also is being studied for possibly preventing cancer and certain other diseases, something that Monday's guidelines don't address and that other health groups have cautioned isn't yet proven.

For now, national standards advise the average adult to get about 1,000 mg of calcium, 1,300 for postmenopausal women, every day. For vitamin D, the goal is 600 IUs of vitamin D every day, moving to 800 after age 70, according to the Institute of Medicine, which set those levels in 2010. The nutrients can come from various foods, including orange juice fortified with calcium and D; dairy foods such as milk, yogurt and cheese; certain fish including salmon; and fortified breakfast cereals. Harder to measure is how much vitamin D the body also produces from sunshine.

Most people should get enough calcium from food, said Mayo's Khosla. But while he cautions against too high doses, he frequently tells his patients to take a multivitamin because it's harder to get vitamin D from food and during the winter.

While supplement science gets sorted out, the task force's Moyer advises healthy seniors to exercise ? proven to shore up bones and good for the rest of the body, too.

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Jeopardy! Hosts 'A Binder Full of Women' Category

I'll take "A Binder Full of Women" for $600, Alex.

That was the actual category on the Jeopardy! board on Monday evening as the game show resurrected one of the most memorable meme's of the 2012 election cycle: Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney's comment made during the presidential debate against President Barack Obama at Hofstra University.

Romney's inadvertently funny description came in response to a question from the audience in the townhall style debate at Hofstra about pay equity for women.

The candidate was explaining that as the governor of Massachusetts searching for qualified women to fill cabinet posts, women's groups brought him "binders full of women" who were good candidates.

"And I said, 'Well, gosh, can't we - can't we find some - some women that are also qualified?" Romney said. "I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find folks,' and they brought us whole binders full of women."

The Internet went crazy for the term, which took on a life of it's own. Read more about that HERE.

This week Jeopardy displayed a graphic of a binder full of women as a topic choice.

Check Out Some Of The 'Binders Full of Women' Memes Here

Jeopardy's "A Binder Full of Women" category included Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and 1976 Summer Olympics gold medalist, Nadia Comaneci among others.

Other categories on Monday's show included: "Hugo Awards For Science Fiction", "1990's Music", "World Place Names, "A Bunch of Stuff" and fittingly, "Funny Things People Say".

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Shazam conjures iPad and Android tablet versions, zips past 300 million users

If you've finally caught up on tech with a new tablet and now want to get up to speed on the latest tunes or TV programs, Shazam now has a slate-friendly flavor of its media-discovery software for iPad and Android. New touches include a refreshed home page, improved tag result layout, a new way to browse your friends' tagging and interactive mapping that shows users' taste in cities around the world. The outfit says it's optimized the interface for the slate environment and that it just passed 300 million users worldwide -- making it a little easier to admit you might be out of touch. It'll arrive for free at the App Store and Google Play in a few weeks, according to Shazam -- hit the PR after the break for more.

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Connecting the (quantum) dots: First viable high-speed quantum computer moves closer

Feb. 26, 2013 ? Recent research offers a new spin on using nanoscale semiconductor structures to build faster computers and electronics. Literally.

University of Pittsburgh and Delft University of Technology researchers reveal in the Feb. 17 online issue of Nature Nanotechnology a new method that better preserves the units necessary to power lightning-fast electronics, known as qubits (pronounced CUE-bits). Hole spins, rather than electron spins, can keep quantum bits in the same physical state up to 10 times longer than before, the report finds.

"Previously, our group and others have used electron spins, but the problem was that they interacted with spins of nuclei, and therefore it was difficult to preserve the alignment and control of electron spins," said Sergey Frolov, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy within Pitt's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, who did the work as a postdoctoral fellow at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Whereas normal computing bits hold mathematical values of zero or one, quantum bits live in a hazy superposition of both states. It is this quality, said Frolov, which allows them to perform multiple calculations at once, offering exponential speed over classical computers. However, maintaining the qubit's state long enough to perform computation remains a long-standing challenge for physicists.

"To create a viable quantum computer, the demonstration of long-lived quantum bits, or qubits, is necessary," said Frolov. "With our work, we have gotten one step closer."

The holes within hole spins, Frolov explained, are literally empty spaces left when electrons are taken out. Using extremely thin filaments called InSb (indium antimonide) nanowires, the researchers created a transistor-like device that could transform the electrons into holes. They then precisely placed one hole in a nanoscale box called "a quantum dot" and controlled the spin of that hole using electric fields. This approach -- featuring nanoscale size and a higher density of devices on an electronic chip -- is far more advantageous than magnetic control, which has been typically employed until now, said Frolov.

"Our research shows that holes, or empty spaces, can make better spin qubits than electrons for future quantum computers."

"Spins are the smallest magnets in our universe. Our vision for a quantum computer is to connect thousands of spins, and now we know how to control a single spin," said Frolov. "In the future, we'd like to scale up this concept to include multiple qubits."

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Warming climate could cut labor capacity by 10 percent, study finds

US scientists warned that heat stress-related labor capacity losses will double globally by 2050 if the Earth's temperature rises?by another 1.8 degrees F.

By Deborah Zabarenko,?Reuters / February 25, 2013

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Earth's increasingly hot, wet climate has cut the amount of work people can do in the worst heat by about 10 percent in the past six decades, and that loss in labor capacity could double by mid-century, U.S. government scientists reported on Sunday.

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Because warmer air can hold more moisture than cooler air, there's more absolute humidity in the atmosphere now than there used to be. And as anyone who has sweltered through a hot, muggy summer knows, it's more stressful to work through hot months when the humidity is high.

To figure out the stress of working in hotter, wetter conditions, experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration looked at military and industrial guidelines already in place for heat stress, and set those guidelines against climate projections for how hot and humid it's likely to get over the next century.

Their findings were stark: "We project that heat stress-related labor capacity losses will double globally by 2050 with a warming climate," said lead author John Dunne of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton.

Work capability is already down to 90 percent during the most hot and humid periods, Dunne and his co-authors wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change. Using a middle-of-the-road projection of future temperature and humidity, they estimate that could drop to 80 percent by 2050.

A more extreme scenario of future global warming, which estimated a temperature rise of 10.8 degrees F (6 degrees C), would make it difficult to work in the hottest months in many parts of the world, Dunne said at a telephone briefing.

Labor capacity would be all but eliminated in the lower Mississippi Valley and most of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains would be exposed to heat stress "beyond anything experienced in the world today," he said.

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Under this scenario, heat stress in New York City would exceed that of present-day Bahrain, while in Bahrain, the heat and humidity could cause hyperthermia - potentially dangerous overheating - even in sleeping people who were not working at all.

Humans are endothermic creatures, which means they give off heat. If they can't get rid of it faster than they create it, they go into hyperthermia. Typically, humans cool off by doing less heat-producing activity, but it may get so hot and humid that even a sleeping person wouldn't be able to dissipate heat fast enough.

"This planet will start experiencing heat stress that's unlike anything experienced today," said Ronald Stouffer, a co-author of the study.

The only way to retain labor capacity, Dunne said, is to limit global warming to less than 5 degrees F (3 degrees C).

Global average temperature has risen by about 1.2 degrees F (0.7 degree C) compared to pre-industrial times. It is likely to rise another 1.8 degrees F (1 degree C) by mid-century, Dunne said.

The way some workers already adapt to heat stress - taking a siesta during the hottest hours of the day, working outdoor jobs like construction at night when temperatures drop or ceasing work entirely during periods of peak heat and humidity - could migrate to places where heat stress is increasing.

The U.S. West Coast and Northern Europe are likely to be two of the regions that will be affected last by the trend toward more hot and humid climate, the scientists said.

Part of the issue is how well-adapted certain regions are to extreme heat stress, Dunne said.

As an example, he noted that some 70,000 people were killed during a disastrous 2003 heat wave in Europe, where heat stress was highly unusual. However, the same kind of stress was normal for a place like India, where a similar heat wave killed 3,000.

"It's very regionally dependent and highly determined by adaptation," Dunne said.

(Reporting by Deborah Zabarenko; Editing by Eric Walsh)

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Slumdogs, Millionaires

Slum houses and luxury apartments in Mumbai, India

Courtesy of Daniel Brook

India?s tallest buildings, the missile-shaped Imperial Towers, rise up through the smoggy haze of the nation?s financial capital, Mumbai, like a shimmering vision of Oz. The most dramatic view of the towers comes from gazing at them down Falkland Road, a diagonal avenue that cuts through the heart of the island metropolis and dead ends right before the buildings. But the luxury high-rises? promotional photographs never show this view because, to Mumbaikars, Falkland Road is synonymous with prostitution and is best known for the infamous cages that display the human merchandise. On Falkland Road, rates for services begin at $1; just up the street, in Imperial Towers, the penthouses go for $20 million. The economic vertigo is even more intense than the actual vertigo one gets staring down at Falkland Road from the penthouse balcony.

Mumbai has long been famous for the cheek-by-jowl existence of some of the world?s richest and poorest people. In the decades since India?s independence, impoverished squatters have been filling in any unused space in the megacity, and courts and politicians have generally protected their right to stay. But in the last decade, a new generation of luxury developments has been built atop transformed slums like the shantytown that once sat on the site where Imperial Towers now rises. They are the products of a land policy reform that allows real estate developers to build market-rate projects atop former slums provided they rehouse the slum dwellers on site; though it is easy to miss, next to the tall, flamboyant Imperial Towers sits a cluster of midrise slabs. The results are often surreal, but Mumbai?s slum redevelopment program may have repercussions far beyond India. The city is providing a real-world test of Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto?s theory that the best way to fight poverty in the developing world is to give slum dwellers legal title to their property. But not everyone sees it as a solution to the multifaceted problem of developing world poverty.

The Mumbai slum redevelopment policy is the brainchild of local starchitect Hafeez Contractor, who is not coincidentally the designer of Imperial Towers. ?I used to always say something should be done about the slums. And I always used to say that the best way of [dealing with] slums was that you give them free houses, keep the land, and build on it and make money,? Contractor told me when we met in his office near the Mumbai stock exchange. ?When I first told them in 1982 ? everybody said I am crazy. Today, they are implementing it.?

In 1995, with the backing of the populist local power broker, Balasaheb Thackeray, Contractor?s plan was approved. ?Whatever you might say, Balasaheb had balls of steel,? Contractor said of the controversial figure, an open admirer of Hitler, who died last year. ?All credit should be given to him.?

With the policy framework in place, as the Mumbai economy has boomed in the new century, the slum-dotted landscape has been transformed. Increasingly, slums in prime locations, like the one near the Mumbai international airport chronicled in Katherine Boo?s Behind the Beautiful Forevers, have become the site of negotiations between residents and developers. The law specifies that if 70 percent of a slum?s residents approve, the land can be redeveloped in exchange for each family being given an on-site apartment of 270 square feet. (Rumors that developers trade cash bribes for votes are rampant in the city.)

When I visited the Imperial Towers site with a group of U.K.-based architects, a family of four welcomed us into their tiny two-room apartment?one room for sitting and sleeping and the other, a kitchen-cum-bathroom, for everything else. The mustachioed man of the house, who wore a white undershirt that clung to his burgeoning potbelly, showed the place off with pride, though each room was not much bigger than the parking spaces in the multistory lot reserved for the millionaires next door.

The architects were less impressed. The group was universally shocked that these filthy buildings, with their dark and dirty hallways and water stains beneath the windows from drying laundry, had been built so recently. In both style and upkeep, they resembled the crumbling 50-year-old slabs that ring former East Bloc cities like Bucharest, Romania, and Ljubljana, Slovenia. In theory, one of the benefits of legalizing and formalizing the slum is to get slum dwellers to pay for the electricity they were formerly stealing from the city and connect them to the municipal water system. But because the policy calls for rehousing the poor without doing anything to raise their incomes, many end up unable to pay for utilities or contribute to the upkeep of the buildings through residents? association dues. And the authorities lack leverage to get residents to pay their dues even when they can; this is a system that couldn?t evict the tenants when they were brazen squatters.

Rehousing apartments and luxury high-rises in Mumbai

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As we toured the lone snippet of shantytown that had yet to be transformed into rehousing slabs, one architect noted that for all the poverty of its conditions, with only makeshift electricity connections and no running water, the village-like settlement that clung to the hillside reflected the organic urbanism humans built for centuries before being upended by the high modernist dream of housing people more ?efficiently? in boxes. As I chatted with him, careful to avoid stepping into the development?s open sewer, this sounded like a sentimentalization of poverty. But when I later spoke with Mumbai urbanist and author Naresh Fernandes, he noted, ?We?re just beginning to stack up the poor in high-rises while Chicago?s just demolished all of its high-rise projects.?

As for de Soto?s larger theory about the benefits of giving the poor title to the land on which they?ve previously squatted, the test results have yet to come back, as the slum redevelopment regulations don?t permit rehoused slum dwellers to sell their apartments until they?ve lived in them for 10 years. At that point, residents will face a choice of whether to part with their centrally located apartment and purchase a larger one farther from the center of the city or perhaps use the apartment as collateral to take out a small business loan. Even if the program ultimately vindicates de Soto, there is a limited universe of cities in India or elsewhere in the developing world where such projects could be built. The program is predicated upon the fact that Mumbai is a global financial and entertainment hub built on an island where, for all its poverty and problems, the land is worth billions. For the numbers to add up, the high-end developments need to be high-end enough to pay for the low-end rehousing apartments. This approach wouldn?t work in second-tier Indian cities like Nagpur or in cities in less economically dynamic developing countries like, say, Managua, Nicaragua.

At the Atria Mall, a slum redevelopment where the developer has opted to build upscale retail, twin dealerships for Rolls Royce sedans and Ducati motorbikes greet entering shoppers. Inside, stores for global brands including Swatch and Samsonite share air-conditioned space with local boutiques, among them a jewelry shop called Bling. Behind the building, a high wall plastered with billboards for upscale watches and other luxury goods obscures the telltale water-stained high-rises. I slipped through a gateway to find piles of garbage swarming with flies and lying against the backside of the wall; despite the city?s far-reaching slum redevelopment policy, it has yet to build a comprehensive sanitation system. The sewage stench called into question the quality of the municipal wastewater system to which the city aspires to connect its reconstituted slums.

Does the slum redevelopment program actually solve the city?s problems, or does it just hide them behind walls plastered with ads for luxury goods? When I told one of the city?s leading urbanists that I was heading to the Atria Mall, which she knew well from shopping, she looked puzzled. ?Atria?s a slum redevelopment? I had no idea.?

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Infrared NASA data shows Cyclone Haruna being blown away

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Ex-cyclone Haruna is expected to dissipate in the Southern Indian Ocean under increasing wind shear in the next day or two. Infrared imagery from a NASA satellite shows that Haruna is being blown apart several hundred miles away from La Reunion Island.

Wind shear has been a problem for Haruna for days. A night-time image from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite taken on Feb. 21 at 22:23 UTC showed the eye of Cyclone Haruna had elongated from northwest to southeast as a result of wind shear. For more information about the Suomi NPP satellite, visit: www.nasa.gov/npp.

On Sunday, Feb. 24, Haruna was centered near 27.2 south and 54.1 east, about 370 nautical miles (425.8 miles/682.5 km) south-southwest of La Reunion Island. Haruna's maximum sustained winds were near 40 knots (46 mph/74 kph) and the storm was moving to the east-southeast at 16 knots (18.4 mph/29.6 kph). An infrared image of Haruna captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite showed the bulk of the clouds and rainfall were pushed south of the center. The storm was being battered by wind shear and that was pushing the main precipitation away from the center and elongating the storm.

On Feb. 24 at 2141 (4:41 p.m. EST), an infrared image from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite showed former Cyclone Haruna blowing apart several hundred miles south of La Reunion Island. AIRS showed that cloud top temperatures had warmed, indicating that cloud heights had dropped and the storm no longer had the strength in uplift that it previously had. For more information about AIRS, visit: http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/.

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued their final advisory on the cyclone on Feb. 24. By Feb. 25 at 0000 UTC (7 p.m. EST/U.S. on Feb. 24) Tropical Cyclone Haruna had maximum sustained winds near 35 knots (40.2 mph/64.8 kph). It was centered near 27.0 south latitude and 57.5 east longitude, about 360 nautical miles south-southwest of La Reunion Island and was moving to the east-northeast at 15 knots (17.2 mph/27.7 kph). Haruna is being battered by wind shear and is expected to dissipate over the next couple of days.

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Ex-cyclone Haruna is expected to dissipate in the Southern Indian Ocean under increasing wind shear in the next day or two. Infrared imagery from a NASA satellite shows that Haruna is being blown apart several hundred miles away from La Reunion Island.

Wind shear has been a problem for Haruna for days. A night-time image from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite taken on Feb. 21 at 22:23 UTC showed the eye of Cyclone Haruna had elongated from northwest to southeast as a result of wind shear. For more information about the Suomi NPP satellite, visit: www.nasa.gov/npp.

On Sunday, Feb. 24, Haruna was centered near 27.2 south and 54.1 east, about 370 nautical miles (425.8 miles/682.5 km) south-southwest of La Reunion Island. Haruna's maximum sustained winds were near 40 knots (46 mph/74 kph) and the storm was moving to the east-southeast at 16 knots (18.4 mph/29.6 kph). An infrared image of Haruna captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite showed the bulk of the clouds and rainfall were pushed south of the center. The storm was being battered by wind shear and that was pushing the main precipitation away from the center and elongating the storm.

On Feb. 24 at 2141 (4:41 p.m. EST), an infrared image from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite showed former Cyclone Haruna blowing apart several hundred miles south of La Reunion Island. AIRS showed that cloud top temperatures had warmed, indicating that cloud heights had dropped and the storm no longer had the strength in uplift that it previously had. For more information about AIRS, visit: http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/.

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued their final advisory on the cyclone on Feb. 24. By Feb. 25 at 0000 UTC (7 p.m. EST/U.S. on Feb. 24) Tropical Cyclone Haruna had maximum sustained winds near 35 knots (40.2 mph/64.8 kph). It was centered near 27.0 south latitude and 57.5 east longitude, about 360 nautical miles south-southwest of La Reunion Island and was moving to the east-northeast at 15 knots (17.2 mph/27.7 kph). Haruna is being battered by wind shear and is expected to dissipate over the next couple of days.

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DC 'Reviewing' Firefighters' Appearance With Obama

The District of Columbia's Fire and Emergency Medical Services says there are no plans to punish first responders for their participation in an economic speech by President Obama, but are still reviewing the event.

Earlier this week, Obama surrounded himself with police and other first responders during remarks regarding the real world impact of the across-the-board package of federal spending cuts known as sequestration, looming in March should Congress fail to reach a deficit reduction agreement. But Washington's fire and EMS chief told a local TV station the appearance of three firefighters at the event may have violated department regulations.

"I didn't know about it, the deputy mayor didn't know about it, the mayor didn't know about it," Chief Kenneth Ellerbe said. "There should be protocol followed anytime one of our employees representing the District of Columbia appears at a public event."

Ellerbe told WRC-TV the employees had been ordered to file special testimonies on how they became guests of the White House event and who authorized it. The news report prompted a statement from the city government Friday.

"Contrary to reports in local media, the DC Fire and EMS Department is not considering any disciplinary action against uniformed personnel for appearing alongside President Obama," reads the Friday-night release, adding "DC FEMS is simply reviewing its internal protocols for such appearances to ensure that both the Department and its employees are fully informed."

"We fully support the efforts of President to highlight the essential and life saving work that our first-responders do every single day, and welcome his invitation for our members to participate," the statement said. "We're exceedingly proud of the men and women that wear the DC FEMS uniform, and thank the President for his support."

An after-hours inquiry to the department was unanswered as of press time.

Capt. Ed Smith, president of the DC Firefighters Association Local 36, said said it is not likely the department will actively discipline the members who participated in the Obama event, but he remains cautious over the broader implications of the review. The association president told ABC News the officers involved were off duty and that firefighters had routinely attended similar public events in the past without incident. The invitation came from the White House through Local 36's parent organization, the International Association of Firefighters.

"If it led to discipline later it would be taken as retaliatory," he said, adding he knew of no protocol breached by appearing in-uniform. "There is a pattern of retaliation with the chief and the department and that is a concern of mine."

Smith said he has seen such measures first-hand. In October an independent arbitrator ruled in favor of the captain's claim that he was involuntarily transferred due to his union activities.

The emergency services of the nation's capital have historically gone to good lengths attempting to appear neutral to the national politics embedded there. For example, the police and fire departments generally refuse to divulge crowd counts for the city's many protests and demonstrations. Any estimate given would likely be targeted as politically motivated.

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Mike McDaniel is the Washington Redskins' new wide receivers coach.

He replaces Ike Hilliard, who left Washington after two seasons to work for the Buffalo Bills.

McDaniel has been an offensive assistant with the Redskins the last two seasons. He worked for the Houston Texans from 2006-08.

The Redskins announced McDaniel's new job Saturday.

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Medical copter crashes in Okla., kills 2, hurts 1

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? The company that operates a medical helicopter that crash-landed outside an Oklahoma City nursing home early Friday, killing two people onboard and critically injuring a third, had just recently undergone an exhaustive accreditation process, officials said.

Wichita, Kan.-based EagleMed LLC just received its three-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Services in October, said Eileen Frazer, the commission's executive director.

The company's review included an analysis of maintenance records of all its aircraft and crew, including pilots.

A three-man crew was onboard the helicopter when it crashed while headed from Oklahoma City to Watonga, 70 miles away, to pick up a patient, said Fire Department Battalion Chief Marc Woodard. No one on the ground was seriously injured or killed.

Two men in the helicopter, including the pilot, were killed, Nursing home workers were able to pull the lone survivor from the wreckage, and he was taken to a hospital, Woodard said.

Officials at Integris-Baptist Medical Center, where the helicopter was based, identified those killed as pilot Mark Montgomery and flight nurse Chris Denning. Paramedic Billy Wynn was in critical condition Friday evening at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center, Integris President Bruce Lawrence said in an email to employees.

A spokesman for EagleMed did not return telephone messages on Friday.

The crash occurred between the St. Ann Retirement Center and the St. Ann Nursing Home, which are operated by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. Witnesses said there were two explosions.

"I was awake and I heard this boom and it shook my bed," said Betty Steel, who lives in a retirement village adjacent to the nursing home.

Rachel Njafuh said when she arrived for work at the nursing home, flames and smoke were pouring from the wreckage.

"My colleagues pulled a man from the (helicopter) just before a second explosion," she said.

Oklahoma City received a dusting of snow from a large storm system that has been moving eastward through the nation's midsection this week. Woodard said the skies were clear Friday morning when the helicopter crash-landed in the northwest of the city.

"I think the pilot did a miraculous job landing it where he did," Woodard said. "It's 65 feet from a nursing home on one side and 150 feet from a retirement village on the other."

Federal Aviation Administration investigators were at the scene within hours, combing through the helicopter's charred remains. An investigator from the National Transportation Safety Board was en route late Friday afternoon, an NTSB spokesman said.

One person on the ground suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene, said Lara O'Leary, a spokeswoman with Emergency Medical Services Authority.

In July 2010, an EagleMed helicopter crashed in a field in Kingfisher, about 50 miles northwest of Oklahoma. The helicopter's pilot and a nurse onboard the aircraft were killed in the crash.

On that flight, the EagleMed helicopter was headed from Oklahoma City to pick up a patient at a hospital 90 miles away. The National Transportation Safety Board has not yet released a probable-cause report from the 2010 crash.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/medical-copter-crashes-okla-kills-2-hurts-1-162109249.html

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Small groups of brain cells store concepts for memory formation -- from Luke Skywalker to your grandmother

Feb. 22, 2013 ? Concepts in our minds -- from Luke Skywalker to our grandmother -- are represented by their own distinct group of neurons, according to new research involving a University of Leicester neuroscientist.

The research, by University of Leicester neuroscientist Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga together with Professor Itzhak Fried, of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, and Professor Christof Koch, of the California Institute of Technology and Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, is featured in a recent article in the magazine Scientific American.

Recent experiments during brain surgeries have shown that small groups of brain cells are responsible for encoding memories of specific people or objects.

These neurons may also represent different variations of one thing -- from the name of a person to their appearance from many different viewpoints.

The researchers believe that single concepts may be held in as little as thousands of neurons or less -- a tiny fraction of the billion or so neurons contained in the medial temporal lobe, which is a memory related structure within the brain.

The group were able to monitor the brain activity of consenting patients undergoing surgery to treat epilepsy. This allowed the team to monitor the activity of single neurons in conscious patients while they looked at images on laptop screens, creating and recalling memories.

In previous experiments, they had found that single neurons would 'fire' for specific concepts -- such as Luke Skywalker -- even when they were viewing images of him from different angles or simply hearing or reading his name.

They have also found that single neurons can also fire to related people and objects -- for instance, the neuron that responded to Luke Skywalker also fired to Yoda, another Jedi from Star Wars.

They argue that relatively small groups of neurons hold concepts like Luke Skywalker and that related concepts such as Yoda are held by some but not all of the same neurons. At the same time, a completely separate set of neurons would hold an unrelated concept like Jennifer Aniston.

The group believes this partially overlapping representation of related concepts are the neural underpinnings of encoding associations, a key memory function.

Professor Quian Quiroga said: "After the first thrill when finding neurons in the human hippocampus with such remarkable firing characteristics, converging evidence from experiments we have been carrying out in the last years suggests that we may be hitting one of the key mechanisms of memory formation and recall.

"The abstract representation of concepts provided by these neurons is indeed ideal for representing the meaning of the sensory stimuli around us, the internal representation we use to form and retrieve memories. These concepts cells, we believe, are the building blocks of memory functions."

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Panetta: Cybersecurity focus of next NATO meeting

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, left, talks with Britain's Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammond, during a two-day NATO defense ministers meeting to discuss Syria and Afghanistan, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. The head of NATO urged member countries Thursday to stop cutting their defense budgets in response to tough economic times, saying continued reductions will compromise the safety of all of the military alliance?s 28 members. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, left, talks with Britain's Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammond, during a two-day NATO defense ministers meeting to discuss Syria and Afghanistan, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. The head of NATO urged member countries Thursday to stop cutting their defense budgets in response to tough economic times, saying continued reductions will compromise the safety of all of the military alliance?s 28 members. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

BRUSSELS (AP) ? With cyberthreats escalating, the next meeting of NATO defense ministers will include a major focus on cybersecurity, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said.

Panetta said he called on NATO to address the issue, as the cyberthreat from other nations and hackers continues to grow.

"We are seeing continuing attacks in the cyber arena, on the private sector, on the public sector, in the defense arena," Panetta told reporters as the two-day NATO ministerial here wrapped up. "This is without question the battlefield of the future and a scenario that NATO needs to pay attention to."

His comments come in the wake of a new report by a private cybersecurity firm that concluded that a special unit of China's military is responsible for sustained cyberespionage against U.S. companies and government agencies. China has denied involvement in the attacks in which massive amounts of data and corporate trade secrets, likely worth hundreds of millions of dollars, were stolen.

U.S. government officials have said that nations around the world must work together in order to tackle the growing cyberthreats. To date there are no broadly accepted rules that describe what constitutes a cyberact of war or the parameters of the battlefield in cyberspace. Nations also have widely disparate laws governing Internet crime.

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HP lifts Wall Street but S&P posts year's first down week

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Friday as Dow component Hewlett-Packard surged on strong results and Ben Bernanke's reported comments eased fears the Fed would curtail stimulus measures.

The Dow Jones industrial average shot up 119.95 points, or 0.86 percent, to end unofficially at 14,000.57. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index advanced 13.18 points, or 0.88 percent, to finish unofficially at 1,515.60. The Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 30.33 points, or 0.97 percent, to close unofficially at 3,161.82.

But for the week, stocks ended mixed: The Dow edged up 0.1 percent, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.3 percent and the Nasdaq lost nearly 1 percent.

(Reporting by Angela Moon; Editing by Jan Paschal)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hp-lifts-wall-street-p-posts-years-first-211622122--finance.html

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Jimmy Fallon gets first PS4 hands-on, plays some Killzone: Shadow Fall (video)

First things first: We still haven't seen the PlayStation 4. That said, if you'd like to see someone other than a Sony rep or developer putting their hands all over that DualShock 4 with touchpad and share button -- we asked, but apparently network TV still trumps internet -- then say no more. Managing Director of Guerilla Games Hermen Hulst came by the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show with a prototype unit (not shown) loaded up with the Killzone: Shadow Fall demo we saw at the press conference. Jimmy and guest Anthony Anderson played a bit, with varying degrees of success and were predictably impressed by the new system, due to release by the end of this year. Unfortunately, there's no new information to be had, unless you wanted to know what the ceilings in the game look like (clearly, Anderson prefers to play shooters inverted). Watch the video embedded after the break, we're going to doublecheck ?uestlove's Instagram to see if he got any backstage or setup shots of the system behind the curtain.

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Kepler spacecraft helps astronomers find tiny planet beyond our solar system

Thursday, February 21, 2013

An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet outside our solar system that's smaller than Mercury, the smallest planet orbiting our sun.

The planet is about the size of the Earth's moon. It is one of three planets orbiting a star designated Kepler-37 in the Cygnus-Lyra region of the Milky Way.

The findings are published were published online on Feb. 20 by the journal Nature. The lead authors are Thomas Barclay of the NASA Ames Research Center in California and the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute and Jason Rowe of NASA Ames and the SETI Institute in California.

Steve Kawaler, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astronomy, was part of a team of researchers who studied the oscillations of Kepler-37 to determine its size. "That's basically listening to the star by measuring sound waves," Kawaler said. "The bigger the star, the lower the frequency, or 'pitch' of its song."

The team determined Kepler-37's mass is about 80 percent the mass of our sun. That's the lowest mass star astronomers have been able to measure using oscillation data for an ordinary star.

Those measurements also allowed the main research team to more accurately measure the three planets orbiting Kepler-37, including the tiny Kepler-37b.

"Owing to its extremely small size, similar to that of the Earth's moon, and highly irradiated surface, Kepler-37b is very likely a rocky planet with no atmosphere or water, similar to Mercury," the astronomers wrote in a summary of their findings. "The detection of such a small planet shows for the first time that stellar systems host planets much smaller as well as much larger than anything we see in our own Solar System."

Kawaler said the discovery is exciting because of what it says about the Kepler Mission's capabilities to discover new planetary systems around other stars.

Kepler launched March 6, 2009, from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The spacecraft is orbiting the sun carrying a photometer, or light meter, to measure changes in the brightness of thousands of stars. Its primary job is to detect tiny variations in the brightness of the stars within its view to indicate planets passing in front of the star. Astronomers with the Kepler team are looking for earth-like planets that might be able to support life.

The Kepler Asteroseismic Investigation is also using data from that photometer to study stars. The investigation is led by a four-member steering committee: Kawaler, Chair Ron Gilliland of the Space Telescope Science Institute based in Baltimore, Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard and Hans Kjeldsen, both of Aarhus University in Denmark.

Kawaler said Kepler is sending astronomers photometry data that's "probably the best we'll see in our lifetimes." This latest discovery shows astronomers "we have a proven technology for finding small planets around other stars."

That could have implications for some big-picture discoveries: "While a sample of only one planet is too small to use for determination of occurrence rates," the astronomers write in the Nature paper, "it does lend weight to the belief that planet occurrence increases exponentially with decreasing planet size."

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Windows PowerShell Vs. SharePoint PowerShell for Deployments

The SharePoint 2010 Management Shell is an instance of PowerShell that already has the SharePoint PSSnapIn loaded. You can use either to deploy SharePoint .wsp solution packages.

Prefacing your script with:

if ((Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null)  {     Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" } 

will ensure that it will run from either shell instance.

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Microsoft patent application would automatically disinfect grimy touchscreens (update: related tech)

We've all seen that touchscreen device in the store that's covered with fingerprints (and possibly contagions) from curious shoppers. While it's unlikely that we'll get sick from all that touching, Microsoft is trying for a patent that would set our minds at ease. The method would send ultraviolet light bouncing through a film on or inside a touchscreen, disinfecting fingertips and contact areas without blasting the person directly. Processing inside the gadget could also dictate just when and for how long the UV blast would run. It could kick in only after a user was done, for example, and last just long enough to kill common germs. There's no clues that Microsoft is about to use the technology in real-world products. Still, we wouldn't mind touching an extra-sanitary Windows phone or tablet -- or rather, someone else's.

Update: Microsoft applied for a UV cleaning approach before, but that depended on coupling UV with the backlight; this newer patent would give Microsoft considerably more flexibility.

Filed under: Cellphones, Displays, Tablets, Microsoft

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Hamishwillee - Still supposed to be in draft?

Let me know when this is ready to be reviewed by removing the "Draft" category

hamishwillee 02:39, 7 December 2012 (EET)

Vinayppatil -

Yeah. Will be done today. Will let you know.

Regards,

Vinay

vinayppatil 05:48, 7 December 2012 (EET)

Vinayppatil - Done with wiki

Hi Hamish,

I am done with creating this wiki page. Removed draft category as well. It is open for review now.

Regards,

Vinay

vinayppatil 06:25, 7 December 2012 (EET)

Hamishwillee - Thanks, hope to review tomorrow

Thanks, I hope to review tomorrow

Note, matchedOpernad is probably typo - matchedOperand

I've been thinking about this and I think the single digit calculator is pretty straightforward. The hard bit will be handling larger numbers like 134545 - since presumably you need to define all the possible <ListenFor> {number1} {operator} {number2} </ListenFor>

{number1}{number2}{number3}{number4} {operator} {number5}{number6} etc and all possible variants for the different number of numbers that might be specified.

You might be better off for this case using voice commands only to trigger off a speach to text session, then manually parse the output. A bit annoying you can't get the contents of a wildcard, as that would make this simpler.

Cheerio

H

hamishwillee 08:32, 12 December 2012 (EET)

Hamishwillee - Subedit/Review

HI Vinay

OK, I have given this a basic subedit for Wiki style and English. The main change is to the structure - I've more clearly separated the "basic calculator" and voice control stuff. I know it is tempting to have the "main selling point first" but it doesn't work too well, if you then go on talking about the other bits. I've also fixed typographic errors. Please check you're still happy

I don't really like the "Voice Commands Overview" because it isn't very clear. Not sure best way to improve it (I tidied a little bit).

I propose renaming, because its useful to include the platform (WP) in the name. Something like "Talking Calculator for Windows Phone" or "Speech enabled Calculator for Windows Phone"

In terms of implemenation, do you need to define both number1 and number2 in the phrase list - can't you just do:

<ListenFor> {number} {operator} {number} </ListenFor>  

If so this is good.

In terms of suggestions, I think that the best thing you could do is not leave "support for bigger numbers" to the user to implement, since this is the "hard" technical problem. I have no idea of the best way to do this - even just adding support for two numbers is hard, and the below assumes that people have to enter eleven as one one.

{number} {operator} {number} {number}  {number} {operator} {number} {number} {operator} {number} {number} {number} {number} {operator} {number} {number} 

Otherwise thanks, well written. Regards

H

hamishwillee 06:20, 13 December 2012 (EET)

Vinayppatil - Thanks

Hi Hamish,

Thanks for reviewing the code. I am very happy with the changes you made. And thanks for suggesting names for this wiki page. Even i was not too happy with the name. I will change it soon.

<ListenFor> {number} {operator} {number} </ListenFor>

If we do this it will be difficult to fetch parameters from the query string.

Also regarding "support for bigger numbers", yes it is complex in terms of implementation that's why i had included it in "TODO" section. But i will see if i can include it here. I am also adding speech recognition support in this wiki.

Regards,

Vinay

vinayppatil 08:34, 13 December 2012 (EET)

Hamishwillee - Thanks!

>If we do this it will be difficult to fetch parameters from the query string. 

Of course, makes perfect sense. It might be worth adding a Note explaining this (completely up to you)

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with! A solution to the support for bigger numbers problem would certainly set this article apart.

Regards

Hamish

hamishwillee 01:41, 14 December 2012 (EET)

Vinayppatil - Wiki modified

Hi Hamish,

I modified the whole logic. As per your suggestions now voice commands can only invoke the app and speech input is taken using Speech Recognition instead of Voice Commands.

And RegExp helped me solve problem with bigger numbers. Have a look at Parsing_Matched_Commands

It will be of great help if you can review the added content as i did it in very short time.

Regards,

Vinay

vinayppatil 10:43, 14 December 2012 (EET)

Vinayppatil - Changed title

Hi Hamish,

Also i moved "Taking Calculator" to "Speech Enabled Calculator For Windows Phone 8". Kindly change it in competition entries section.

Regards,

Vinay

vinayppatil 12:12, 14 December 2012 (EET)

Hamishwillee - I don't have time to subedit sorry

However I have reviewed, and I like your improvements.

If I had to make one suggestion, it would be describing how your article works - ie uses both recognition and voice commands (and why) as part of the introduction or of the introduction to section - because the reasons you did this are interesting and important. Something for you to think about - not part of the competition.

Regards

Hamish

hamishwillee 06:12, 19 December 2012 (EET)

Hamishwillee - or to clarify ...

We know that the voice commands only allow you to create a very inflexible calculator. This is worth stating, so that people understand why you've just used them to start the app. You don't say this anywhere.

hamishwillee 06:16, 19 December 2012 (EET)

Hi,

I have no idea how but i missed your comments made on 19 dec and reading them now. Will make the changes ASAP.

Regards,

Vinay

vinayppatil 08:15, 21 December 2012 (EET)

Vinayppatil - Included changes

Hi Hamish, Included the changes in [Introduction] and [Why Use Speech Recognition] sections.

Regards,

Vinay

vinayppatil 10:56, 21 December 2012 (EET)

Aakash95 - what a great wiki

excellent stuff here once again.

Aakash95 04:49, 20 February 2013 (EET)

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