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Saturday, December 31, 2011
NASA probes to arrive at the moon over New Year's (AP)
LOS ANGELES ? The New Year's countdown to the moon has begun.
NASA said Wednesday that its twin spacecraft were on course to arrive back-to-back at the moon after a 3 1/2-month journey.
"We're on our way there," said project manager David Lehman of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the $496 million mission.
The Grail probes ? short for Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory ? won't land on the lunar surface. Instead, they were poised to slip into orbit to study the uneven lunar gravity field.
Grail-A was scheduled to arrive on New Year's Eve, followed by Grail-B on New Year's Day.
Lehman said team members won't celebrate until both probes are safely in orbit.
It's been a long voyage for the near-identical Grail spacecraft, which traveled more than 2.5 million miles since launching in September. Though the moon is relatively close at about 250,000 miles away, Grail took a roundabout way to save on costs by launching on a small rocket.
Once at the moon, the probes will spend the next two months tweaking their positions before they start collecting data in March. The pair will fly in formation at an altitude of 34 miles above the surface, with an average separation of 124 miles.
The mission's chief scientist, Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said many aspects of the moon remain a mystery despite being well studied.
"We actually know more about Mars ... than we do about our own moon," Zuber said.
One puzzle scientists hope to solve is why the moon's far side is more hilly than the side that always faces Earth. Research published earlier this year suggested that Earth once had dual moons that collided and formed the moon that people gaze at today.
Despite the wealth of new knowledge expected from the mission, NASA has no near-term plans to send astronauts back to the moon. The Obama administration last year nixed the idea in favor of landing astronauts on an asteroid and eventually Mars.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Microsoft Milking The Patent Cow Up To $32 Stock Price
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Microsoft has entered patent licensing deals with almost every major Android device manufacturer, including Samsung, Quanta, HTC and others.
Motorola is one of the few Android manufacturers that has not yet licensed patents related to Android from Microsoft, which is likely due to the fact that Google recently acquired them.
Motorola may be forced to enter a patent licensing deal with Microsoft soon.
Microsoft had filed a lawsuit against Motorola alleging patent infringement, and it recently won an initial ruling by the International Trade Commission, which stated that Motorola did infringe on one of Microsoft?s patents. [1]
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Microsoft Could Score $1 billion dollars in patent licensing revenue from Android
Google?s Android is now the most popular smartphone platform globally. Andy Rubin, the division head of Android, recently announced that more than 700,000 new Android devices were being activated every day by users around the world. [2]
Each Android device sold by manufacturers who have licensed patents from Microsoft generates close to $5?$10 in licensing revenue for Microsoft.
We expect Android patent licensing to generate more than a billion dollars in revenue for Microsoft in 2012, but it will have only a marginal impact on Microsoft?s $32 Trefis price estimate, which stands nearly 20% above its current market price.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Cricket-South Africa v Sri Lanka - second test scoreboard
DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Scoreboard at the close on the third day of the second test between South Africa and Sri Lanka at Kingsmead on Wednesday. Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first. Sri Lanka first innings 338 (Thilan Samaraweera 102, Dinesh Chandimal 58; Marchant de Lange 7-81) South Africa first innings 168 (Hashim Amla 54; Chanaka Welegedara five for 52, Rangana Herath four for 49). Sri Lanka second innings (overnight 7-1) T. Paranavitana c Prince b Morkel 9 T. Dilshan c Smith b Steyn 4 K. Sangakkara c Smith b Imran Tahir 108 M. Jayawardene lbw b De Lange 14 T. Samaraweera b Imran Tahir 43 A. Mathews c Boucher b Steyn 3 D. Chandimal c Boucher b Steyn 54 T. Perera not out 6 R. Herath not out 5 Extras (w-1, b-5, lb-2, nb-2) 10 Total (seven wickets, 70.3 overs) 256 Fall of wickets: 1-4 2-20 3-44 4-138 5-141 6-245 7-245 Still to bat: C. Welegedara, D. Fernando. Bowling (to date): Morkel 15-4-43-1, Steyn 16-3-54-3, De Lange 12.3-1-45-1 (w-1, nb-1), Kallis 11-1-43-0, Tahir 16-1-64-2 (nb-1).
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Romney looks beyond GOP presidential primary
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LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) ? Republicans have yet to cast a single vote but Mitt Romney is starting to sound like he's already won his party's presidential nomination.The former Massachusetts governor ignored his GOP rivals while speaking to New Hampshire voters Tuesday. With Iowa Republicans set to begin voting in exactly one week, Romney focused instead on President Barack Obama.
"What this president is doing is trying to turn us into an entitlement nation," Romney said inside the packed dining room of the Coach Stop restaurant, hours before he was to head to Iowa to spend the next several days campaigning across that state by bus. "That's a deadening approach to a nation that has always been powered by the pursuit of happiness."
Even when asked about his GOP opponents, Romney avoided any direct criticism and pivoted to the broad issues likely to win over independents, a voting bloc expected to play a critical role in next fall's general election.
"I'm not exactly sure how all this is going to work, but I think I'm going to get the nomination if we do our job right," he said, while promising to reach across the aisle to Democrats if elected. "I'm not going to spend my time bashing the Democrats and attacking them day in and day out, because that makes it impossible to sit down and work together."
In a nod toward the country's surging Latino population, Romney added that he's open to expanding legal immigration.
"It is a great source of vitality," he said. "And to protect legal immigration, and potentially make it larger, we want to stop illegal immigration."
Romney also teased a hypothetical general election sales pitch against Obama in which he'd ask voters, "Do you think you're better off than you were four years ago?"
"We know the answer to that one," he said with a smile.
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Stock futures mixed on return from holiday (AP)
NEW YORK ? Stock futures are mixed and nearly flat after four straight days of gains.
In the first day of trading following the holiday weekend, futures for the Dow Jones industrial average are up 3 to 12,220. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 is down 1 at 1,259. And the Nasdaq composite is up 4.25 at 2,283.
A run of strong data from the U.S. ahead of the long holiday weekend had buoyed investors around the world but particularly on Wall Street. The Dow Jones index closed last Friday at a five-month high.
European shares eked out modest gains Tuesday despite an earlier retreat in Asia.
Due later Tuesday are reports on home prices on October home prices at 9 a.m. ET and consumer sentiment at 10 a.m. ET.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Monday, December 26, 2011
ACC All Access: Virginia coach Mike London's $225,000 contribution to indoor facility construction makes several statements
Virginia coach Mike London might have made a statement about his intentions to hang around Charlottesville for a while by pledging $225,000 to the construction of U.Va.'s indoor practice facility, a project that will cost a total of $13 million to complete and has already had $9.5 million committed to it from all contributors.
London's contribution is significant. His pledge adds up to more than coach Hugh Freeze made this season ($202,160) at Sun Belt champion Arkansas State (Freeze recently accepted the job at Mississippi, where he stands to make much more next season).
Of course, a chunk of change like the one London dropped on the indoor facility is a little more manageable when you're earning almost $1.8 million like London did this season, but it still sends a massive monetary message.
Perhaps as part of London's contract extension negotiations (of which there should be an announcement regarding said extension in the coming days or weeks) he worked this personalized $225,000 contribution into the framework of the deal, but that's pure speculation. Either way, it says something about where London ranks the importance of the 78,000 square foot facility, which U.Va. hopes to have ready for spring practice in 2013.
?The construction of the indoor practice facility is an important part of the effort to make our football program consistently successful,? said London in a statement released by U.Va.'s athletic department. ?That's why I want to show my personal support for the fundraising effort by making this pledge.
?The indoor facility will be a tremendous benefit for our team?s in-season preparation and out-of-season conditioning. It will allow us the opportunity to attract the types of student-athletes to Virginia who will play an important role in the building of the program. I can?t think of a better way to express my commitment to the University and to the football program than to personally make a gift to this important project.?
Maybe some will perceive an element of apples and oranges to this next point, but I don't think so. I guess I'm a little confused about the differences between this contribution and the supplements to the income of Georgia football employees made recently by Georgia coach Mark Richt that got him in hot water with the NCAA.
London's contributions will help himself, his coaching staff, his players and his university. Richt was slapped by the NCAA for committing a secondary violation after he gave more than $25,000 in out-of-pocket payments over the last two years to three assistant coaches that Richt believed were under-compensated by the university.
He'll only get a nasty letter from the NCAA added to his permanent record, and a required refresher course in arcane NCAA rules, but it all seems kind of silly when you think about the fact Richt's actions served to provide some of the same program-building morale as London's contributions.
It's hard to see how any harm was caused by either contribution. There's no personal statement being made here about what people should do with their money (to be honest, I don't see a problem with the contributions of either coach - it's their money, it's their programs and it's not going in the pockets of recruits or their families). Yet, London's own money is good in the eyes of the NCAA, while Richt's cash is a no-no. Weird.
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From Dear Leader to Marilyn Monroe, defector mocks Kim (Reuters)
SEOUL (Reuters) ? Above the ballooning dress of Marilyn Monroe is the face of the late North Korean despot Kim Jong-il. A pigeon flies overhead and a feather lies nearby on the ground.
North Korean artist Song Byeok once proudly drew the "Dear Leader" in propaganda paintings. But he was sent to labor in one of the reclusive state's notorious prisons after hunger forced him to try to flee.
Now a defector living in the South Korean capital, Seoul, Song has turned to mocking a ruler who led his country into famine, isolation and economic ruin.
"The day I finished this, he passed away," Song said of his painting and the death of Kim on December 17.
"He's not an eternal creature but the same as the feather of a pigeon," said Song, using the feather to symbolize something inconsequential.
"I thought it would've been better if he made North Koreans better off and forget hunger before he died."
Kim, who was 69 when he died, was a patron of the arts in his hermit kingdom and at times went to extreme means to promote the arts.
He once kidnapped a film director and forced him to make movies for him. Kim amassed a big hoard of South Korean movies on DVD and commissioned works of art.
Song never had a sitting with Kim, the second member of a dynasty that has ruled North Korea since its birth in 1948.
Every morning, he was handed a sketch of whatever piece of propaganda the state wanted illustrated that day.
"How could I, just a commoner, meet Kim Jong-il? He is the sun," the 42-year-old painter and sculptor recalled.
STARVATION, ESCAPE
Song, like most other North Koreans, practically worshipped Kim and before that, his father, Kim Il-sung.
But starvation, a result of chronic mismanagement and natural disasters, changed that. After floods in the late 1990s, conditions deteriorated to the point of desperation.
In August 2000, Song and his father, driven by hunger, tried to swim across the Tumen river to China in the hope of getting food from relatives there.
But his father was swept away in the swollen river and Song was caught and sent to a labor camp, the North Korean equivalent of the Soviet-era gulags where the human rights group Amnesty International says 200,000 citizens are forced to work with little food and under threat of execution.
In the freezing Korean winter, Song recalls he was as lightly dressed as when he was arrested in summer.
A finger on his right hand became infected and eventually, he says he was so close to death that his captors could get no work out of him and released him.
But Song was determined to try to get out and in 2002, leaving his mother and sister behind, he made it and ended up in Seoul. After his mother died in 2005, he brought his sister and her family out in 2007 with the help of a broker in China.
"If we had had enough to eat, I would have not come," Song said.
Despite losing his finger, Song took up his brush again. Some of his paintings now show hollow-eyed North Korean girls and smiling, homeless children, known in the North as "fluttering swallows," surrounding Kim.
As for Kim Jong-un, the twenty something son of Kim Jong-il, who will become the third member of the Kim dynasty to rule North Korea, Song says for now, he has no plan to paint him.
"He's too young and I don't want to say yet," said Song.
(Editing by Robert Birsel)
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
High-frequency oil trader fined for runaway trades (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? CME Group Inc (CME.O) fined a trader $50,000 for running a rapid-fire trading strategy that malfunctioned last year, sending thousands of erroneous orders to the New York Mercantile Exchange and sparking a $1 surge in oil prices.
The trader, Neil Brookes, was live-testing a computer-based trading strategy for Chicago-based Infinium Capital Management on February 3, 2010, when an error in the computer file caused it to enter 6,767 one-lot orders for crude futures contracts in just three seconds.
The error generated a million-dollar loss for Infinium, which earlier this year was fined a total of $850,000 for the 2010 error as well as two other computer-trading malfunctions in 2009.
Brookes had relied on an Infinium order control safety system to shut down any uncontrolled orders, but the system did not function properly, the CME's business conduct committee found.
"Although Brookes had no responsibility for creating, maintaining, or supervising that safetysystem, he was responsible for entering the trades in question," CME said.
Brookes, who did not admit or deny the rule violation, was barred from trading on any CME exchange through January 30.
Infinium, run by Chief Executive Charles Whitman, is a household name in Chicago's trading community and a member of the Futures Industry Association's Principal Traders Group, a lobby group for high-frequency traders.
Neither Whitman nor Brookes could be reached for immediate comment.
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Foggy windows blamed for two-car crash in Esquimalt
A motorist learned an expensive lesson after he allegedly ran a red light and crashed into another car at an Esquimalt intersection Wednesday night.
Victoria police say the driver didn't take time to defog the windows of his vehicle and allegedly ran a red light at the corner of Esquimalt Road and Lampson Street at 9:24 p.m.. It collided with a second vehicle that had just entered the intersection after the traffic light changed to green.
"The investigation determined that the second vehicle had run the red light on Esquimalt Road," Victoria police Deputy Chief John Ducker wrote on the department's operations blog. "This occurred in part because the windshield of the second? vehicle was ?fogged up, obscuring the driver?s view of the lights and the road ahead."
The motorist with the foggy windows was slapped with a ticket for running a red light. Police say alcohol was not a factor. Only minor injuries were reported.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
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NBA reduces suspensions for Bynum, Villanueva
NEW YORK (AP) -- The NBA has reduced suspensions for the Lakers' Andrew Bynum and the Pistons' Charlie Villanueva by one game because of the shortened season.
The league on Friday trimmed one game off the five-game ban Bynum was given for knocking the Mavericks' J.J. Barea to the court in the second round of last season's playoffs. The center will now miss the first four games and be eligible to return Dec. 31 against Denver.
Villanueva was originally suspended five games for instigating an altercation with Cleveland's Ryan Hollins and attempting to escalate it by entering the Cavaliers' locker room. He served a game of it last season and will have to miss the first three of this season, and is also eligible to play to New Year's Eve against Indiana.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Joe Giudice Indicted on Fraud Charges, Remains a Moron
Stop us if you've heard this before: Joe Giudice is in major trouble with the law.
The husband of Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member Teresa Giudice was indicted today on one charge of wrongfully using identifying information of another and one charge of impersonation.
The crimes allegedly took place when Joe used his brother's marriage license and birth certificate to obtain a driver’s license in June 2010. Combined, these counts could land Joe in jail for over 10 years.
Teresa's 40-year old squeeze has also been arrested for DUI and accused of hiding assets from the court after filing for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy in 2009. At one time, his cumulative debt totaled $11 million.
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Irsay says healthy Manning will stay with Colts
By MICHAEL MAROT
updated 8:27 p.m. ET Dec. 22, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS - It doesn't look as if Peyton Manning will go anywhere next season -- unless he's not healthy.
On Thursday, Colts owner Jim Irsay told NFL Network he couldn't foresee a scenario in which Manning would play anywhere but Indianapolis unless he can't play at all.
Manning his missed the entire season and has not participated in full team practices since having the third and most invasive surgery on his neck Sept. 8.
"I think the situation is if he's back and he's healthy, I see him coming back and playing here," Irsay said in a 10-minute interview before the game with Houston began. "I think the hope is that his health is in the position where he could return again. That remains uncertain and that's something that's first and foremost on my mind."
The signs are encouraging.
On Dec. 1, surgeon Dr. Robert Watkins issued a statement saying the fusion between two vertebrae had healed firmly and that Manning could increase the intensity of his workouts.
Last Wednesday, for the first time since having the surgery, Manning put on pads and a helmet and threw with teammates. He took snaps from center Jeff Saturday and worked with running back Joseph Addai, receiver Anthony Gonzalez and an unnamed receiver from the practice squad.
Colts vice chairman Bill Polian and coach Jim Caldwell both watched the session. Polian and Addai have given Manning good reviews.
Manning was inactive Thursday night and has already been ruled out of next week's season-finale at Jacksonville. Caldwell also said this week that Manning would continue to do individual work but would not participate in team work the rest of the season.
The only four-time MVP in league history also is due a $28 million bonus in early March -- a prospect that had some thinking Thursday night could be the final time Manning would be on the home team's sideline at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Irsay said that's not the case.
"I don't see that being an issue," Irsay said. "I paid him $26 million this season and he didn't play and I knew it was an iffy situation. If he's healthy and he can play, he'll be back here."
Irsay also said the Colts would take a quarterback, Manning's successor, if the right one is available in April's draft. The Colts (1-13) are the front-runners for the No. 1 overall pick, a slot that most analysts believe will be filled by Stanford's Andrew Luck. Another possible candidate, Southern California's Matt Barkley said Thursday that he would return to school for his senior season.
And when the season ends, Irsay acknowledged there would be plenty to evaluate -- from the top down.
"I'm concerned we came out and lost 13 games," Irsay said. "We certainly were looking to do better. In terms of evaluating things, I think you have to look at the Texans. Last year, their coach was under great fire, Bob McNair stuck with him and now he's very popular in Houston. So when the season ends, I will evaluate everything. You know I love continuity."
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
US gray wolves rebound but face uncertain future
In this February 2008 photo gray wolves howl at an exhibit area at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn. After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving gray wolves, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf recovery business and leave it to individual states _ and the wolves themselves _ to determine their future. The Obama administration says it will decide by year's end whether to lift restrictions in the upper Great Lakes and 29 Eastern states. (AP Photo/John Flesher)
In this February 2008 photo gray wolves howl at an exhibit area at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn. After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving gray wolves, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf recovery business and leave it to individual states _ and the wolves themselves _ to determine their future. The Obama administration says it will decide by year's end whether to lift restrictions in the upper Great Lakes and 29 Eastern states. (AP Photo/John Flesher)
In this February 2008 a gray wolf in an exhibit area at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn. After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving gray wolves, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf recovery business and leave it to individual states _ and the wolves themselves _ to determine their future. The Obama administration says it will decide by year's end whether to lift restrictions in the upper Great Lakes and 29 Eastern states. (AP Photo/John Flesher)
ATLANTA, Mich. (AP) ? After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving the gray wolf, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf-protection business, leaving it to individual states ? and the wolves themselves ? to determine the future of the legendary predator.
The Obama administration Wednesday declared more than 4,000 wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin have recovered from widespread extermination and will be removed from the endangered species list.
Coupled with an earlier move that lifted protections in five western states, the decision puts the gray wolf at a historical crossroads ? one that could test both its reputation for resilience and the tolerance of ranchers and hunters who bemoan its attacks on livestock and big game.
Wednesday's announcement could open the door to hunting for wolves in the Great Lakes. However, no seasons have been set and federal officials say they will continue monitoring the population for five years. Similar actions are planned for most remaining Western states and the Great Plains.
The legal shield that made it a federal crime to gun down the wolves is being lifted in many areas even though wolves have returned only to isolated pockets of the territory they once occupied, and increasing numbers are dying at the hands of hunters, wildlife agents and ranchers protecting livestock.
Since being added to the federal endangered species list in 1974, the American wolf population has grown fivefold ? to about 6,200 animals wandering parts of 10 states outside Alaska.
Wolves "are in the best position they've been in for the past 100 years," said David Mech, a senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey in St. Paul, Minn., and a leading wolf expert. The animals' long-term survival will "depend on how much wild land remains available, because wolves are not compatible with areas that are agricultural and have a lot of humans. There's just too much conflict."
Also Wednesday, the Obama administration put off a decision on protections in 29 Eastern states that presently have no wolves. The Interior Department said it still was reconsidering its prior claim that wolves in those states historically were a separate species, which effectively would cancel out protections now in place.
Since 1991, the federal government has spent $92.6 million on gray wolf recovery programs, and state agencies have chipped in $13.9 million, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
"We are ready to declare success in those areas where wolves are now secure, turn over management responsibility to the states and begin to focus our limited resources on other species that are in trouble," said Gary Frazer, assistant director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's endangered species program.
The government still plans to nurture a fledgling Mexican gray wolf population in the desert Southwest. It's also weighing whether to expand protections for small numbers of the animals that have slipped into the Pacific Northwest from Canada.
However, there are no plans to promote their return elsewhere. Federal officials say it's not the government's job to return wolves to their previous range as long as the population is stable.
In Montana and Idaho, where wolves can now be legally hunted and trapped, officials are seeking to sharply drive down wolf numbers this winter to curb attacks on farm animals and elk herds.
Some scientists and advocates say the hunts offer a preview of what will happen when the federal safeguards are lifted elsewhere. The government, they say, is giving up the recovery effort too soon, before packs can take hold in new areas. Vast, wild territories in the southern Rockies and Northeast are ripe for wolves but unoccupied.
"The habitat is there. The prey is there. Why not give them the chance?" said Chris Amato, New York's assistant commissioner for natural resources.
But federal officials are grappling with tight budgets and political pressure to expand hunting and prevent wolves from invading new turf. They insist the animals best known for their eerie howl, graceful lope and ruthless efficiency in slaughtering prey will get by on their own with help from state agencies.
North America was once home to as many as a couple of million gray wolves, which are prolific breeders. But by the 1930s, fur traders, bounty hunters and government agents had poisoned, trapped and shot almost all wolves outside Canada and Alaska.
The surviving 1,200 were clustered in northern Minnesota in the 1970s. After the species was added to the endangered list, their numbers rocketed to nearly 3,000 in the state ? and they gradually spread elsewhere.
Today, Wisconsin has about 782 wolves, Michigan 687 ? far above what biologists said were sustainable populations.
The success story is hardly surprising in woodlands teeming with deer, said John Vucetich, a biologist at Michigan Tech University. But even in such an ideal setting, the wolves were able to return only when killing them became illegal.
"What do wolves need to survive?" Vucetich said. "They need forest cover, and they need prey. And they need not to be shot."
Shooting already is happening ? legally or not ? as adventurous wolves range into new regions such as Michigan's Lower Peninsula and the plains of eastern Montana.
Those sightings are unsettling to farmers because packs have killed thousands of livestock nationwide during their comeback.
If marauding wolves begin taking out livestock, people may quietly take matters into their own hands ? "shoot, shovel and shut up," said Jim Baker, who raises 60 beef cattle near the village of Atlanta, Mich.
Wolves "could wipe me out in a couple of nights if they wanted," Baker said.
Since the late 1980s, more than 5,000 wolves have been killed legally, according to an AP review of state and federal records. Hundreds more have been killed illegally over the past two decades in the Northern Rockies alone.
Ranchers in some areas are allowed under federal law to shoot wolves to defend their livestock. In the northern Rockies, government wildlife agents have routinely shot wolves from aircraft in response to such attacks. Often that involves trapping a single wolf, fitting it with a radio collar and tracking it back to its den so the entire pack can be killed.
Biologists are confident that neither legal hunts nor poaching are likely to push wolves back to the brink of extinction.
Idaho has been the most aggressive in reducing wolf numbers, offering a 10-month hunting season that sets no limits. State officials say they intend to reduce the population from 750 to as few as 150 ? the minimum the federal government says is needed in each Northern Rockies state to keep the animal off the endangered list.
Studies indicate plentiful habitat remains in other regions, including upstate New York, northern New England and the southern Rockies of Colorado and Utah. But experts say the Fish and Wildlife Service's plan would mean that any wolves wandering into those states could be shot on sight unless protected by state laws.
"Wolves, next to people, are one of the most adaptable animals in the world," said Ed Bangs, a former Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who led the effort to return wolves to the northern Rockies. "The key with wolves is, it's all about human tolerance."
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Brown reported from Billings, Mont.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Eldorado Gold to buy European Goldfields for $2.4B (AP)
Gold and iron producer Eldorado Gold Corp. says it will buy European Goldfields Ltd. in a deal worth about $2.4 billion, increasing its ability to produce gold.
The Vancouver, Canada, company says European Goldfields stockholders will receive 0.85 Eldorado share and a fraction of a Canadian cent for each European Goldfields share. That values each European Goldfields at 13.08 Canadian dollars ($12.59), based on Eldorado's closing stock price on the Toronto Stock Exchange Friday.
European Goldfields operates a mine in Greece and is developing projects in both Greece and Romania. Eldorado operates in China, Turkey, Brazil and Greece.
Eldorado says the deal will create a company with a market capitalization of about $10.59 billion and help diversify production. The deal requires approval from both Eldorado and European Goldfields shareholders.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
PFT picks: Can Tebow beat Patriots?
Getty ImagesWell, I?m finally gaining some ground.
Not much, but some.
A stellar 14-2 weekend could have been 15-1, but for that late collapse by the Cowboys.? In that moment, a three-game win over Rosenthal slid to a one-game edge.
I?m nine back with three weeks to go. ?For the season, he?s 142-66.? I?m 133-75.
This week, we disagree on four games.? This is my last chance to make a push.
Hopefully, God likes me better than him.
Jaguars at Falcons
Florio?s take:? If the Falcons can?t beat the Jaguars, the Falcons have no shot at winning at New Orleans on December 26.? And if the Falcons can?t win at New Orleans on December 26, the Falcons won?t have to worry about another one-and-done performance in the playoffs.
Florio?s pick:? Falcons 31, Jaguars 16.
Rosenthal?s take: The Jaguars are back in prime time! Atlanta is a 10-point favorite, which seems crazy until you look at the state of the Jags. An undrafted rookie and journeyman will cover Roddy White and Julio Jones.? At wideout for Jacksonville: Chastin West and Jarrett Dillard. Interim coach Mel Tucker isn?t playing with a stacked deck.
Rosenthal?s pick: Falcons 28, Jaguars 13.
Cowboys at Buccaneers
Florio?s take:? The best way for Dallas to avoid blowing a close game late in the fourth quarter is to never allow it to be close in the fourth quarter.? If this one gets too out of hand, Tampa coach Raheem Morris could be the fourth coach to go before Christmas.
Florio?s pick:? Cowboys 34, Buccaneers 17.
Rosenthal?s take: The Bucs are slump busters. The Panthers defense couldn?t stop anyone, but they could stop the Bucs. Jacksonville?s offense couldn?t score on anyone, but they could score on Tampa. This game is exactly what Jason Garrett and the ?Boys need.
Rosenthal?s pick: Cowboys 40, Buccaneers 27.
Dolphins at Bills
Florio?s take:? Nothing takes the steam out of a team that is playing hard down the stretch to try to save its coach?s job than the coach losing his job.? The Bills end a six-game losing streak with their sixth, and likely last, win of the season.
Florio?s pick:? Bills 28, Dolphins 21.
Rosenthal?s take: It?s weird and a little sad that J.P. Losman?s status decides my pick. If Matt Moore is out, I like Buffalo. Bills fans will happily tell you not to bet on J.P. Losman in Buffalo. (Especially with Jake Long out.) If Matt Moore starts, I like the Dolphins. (Can we make conditional picks, Florio?)
Rosenthal?s pick: Dolphins 20, Bills 17.
Seahawks at Bears
Florio?s take:? If the Bears had Jay Cutler and Matt Forte, they?d be the clear pick to win.? But they don?t, and if they can?t beat the Chiefs at home without these key players, they?ll have a rough time handling an underrated Seahawks team.? The bell continues to toll for the Bears, whose only remaining hope will be to do to the Packers on December 25 what the Dolphins did to the Bears in 1985.
Florio?s pick:? Seahawks 14, Bears 7.
Rosenthal?s take: Bears fans swore Chicago could go 4-2 or 3-3 at worst with Caleb Hanie to close the season. They haven?t won a game yet. Seattle, meanwhile, has won four of five because of a physical defense and running game. After this game, the Seahawks will have a better chance to make the playoffs.
Rosenthal?s pick: Seattle 16, Bears 13.
Panthers at Texans
Florio?s take:? The Texans keep losing key components.? And the Texans just keep winning.? This one won?t be easy without defensive coordinator Wade Phillips, but the Texans simply continue to find a way.
Florio?s pick:? Texans 34, Panthers 24.
Rosenthal?s take: If Cam Newton and T.J. Yates faced off last year, Yates? team would not be favored by a touchdown. Things change quickly. The Texans are a defense tough enough to withstand the loss of their best pass rusher. They can survive losing their playcaller for a week or two.
Rosenthal?s pick: Texans 21, Panthers 17.
Titans at Colts
Florio?s take:? It?s time.? Call it a gut feeling.? Call it a hunch.? Call it clinical insanity.? But it?s time for the Colts to win a game.? Especially since this very well could be their last chance to avoid going 0-16 and getting everyone not named Jim Irsay fired.
Florio?s pick:? Colts 19, Titans 17.
Rosenthal?s take: The Colts look likely to face three straight rookie quarterbacks. Unfortunately, Jake Locker isn?t a huge downgrade from Matt Hasselbeck. The Titans offense is different with Locker, but not necessarily worse. The Titans are just mediocre enough to let the Colts make this interesting.
Rosenthal?s pick: Titans 24, Colts 21.
Packers at Chiefs
Florio?s take:? Interim coach Romeo Crennel could go a long way toward securing the permanent job by winning his first game.? He likely wishes Todd Haley had lasted one more week.
Florio?s pick:? Packers 35, Chiefs 10.
Rosenthal?s take: The Chiefs have enough secondary talent to give the Packers offense some issues. Kansas City certainly upgrades this week at quarterback with Kyle Orton. And that ends the portion of this preview where I try to convince myself this game will stay interesting.
Rosenthal?s pick: Packers 31, Chiefs 14.
Saints at Vikings
Florio?s take:? From epic NFC title game to overhyped season opener to Cornell-Hofstra slaughter.? Les Steckel gets closer and closer to getting off the hook.
Florio?s pick:? Saints 34, Vikings 14.
Rosenthal?s take: Drew Brees is peaking at the right time. The Vikings are peeking at the No. 2 overall pick in the draft.? This is the game where Brees makes sure he wins the yardage crown for the season.
Rosenthal?s pick: Saints 33, Vikings 17.
Redskins at Giants
Florio?s take:? After the Redskins beat the Giants in Week One, safety Antrell Rolle said that Washington would win five out of 100 games between the two teams.? More recently, Rolle dropped that number to one.? Though we?re not ready to agree with a 99-percent success rate, we?re comfortable with 50.
Florio?s pick:? Giants 28, Redskins 14.
Rosenthal?s take: A Giants? loss Sunday could make next week?s Jets-Giants game almost inconsequential. A win against the Redskins would guarantee Big Blue a ?win and in? scenario in Week 17 against Dallas. Washington is feisty, but they are one-win-in-seven-games feisty. Rex Grossman is just good enough to get you beat.
Rosenthal?s pick: Giants 33, Redskins 28.
Bengals at Rams
Florio?s take:? It won?t be easy to keep a young Bengals team focused and motivated after losing a heartbreaker to the Texans.? But the Bengals are playing the Rams.? The Rams.? Yes, the Rams.
Florio?s pick:? Bengals 34, Rams 14.
Rosenthal?s take: Despite winning seven games last year, the Rams are on pace to have the worst five-year run of any team in NFL history. Steve Spagnuolo coached the worst NFL team in 2009 and the second worst team this year. It may not be fair, but it?s hard to imagine any coach surviving that combination.
Rosenthal?s pick: Bengals 23, Rams 13.
Lions at Raiders
Florio?s take:? The Lions have struggled lately, but the Raiders have struggled more.? Neither team may make it to the postseason after promising starts, but the Lions have at least shown a recent ability to find a way to win.? Plus, while he?s not as dominant as he was in 2010, the return of Ndamukong Suh should help.? The ongoing absence of Darren McFadden doesn?t.
Florio?s pick:? Lions 24, Raiders 20.
Rosenthal?s take: These are two desperate teams that peaked too early. At least the Lions are getting players back: Ndamukong Suh, Kevin Smith, and cornerback Chris Houston all look likely to return for Detroit. The Raiders might get Denarius Moore back. The Lions win that trade.
Rosenthal?s pick: Lions 27, Raiders 24.
Browns at Cardinals
Florio?s take:? Though a little too late, the Cardinals have found their groove, regardless of whether Kevin Kolb or John Skelton is playing quarterback.? With a couple more wins, they?ll be one of the teams we?re all picking to make the playoffs in 2012.? The Browns, on the other hand, continue to be the Browns.
Florio?s pick:? Cardinals 30, Browns 17.
Rosenthal?s take: Skeltonmania is sweeping the nation. The Cardinals are 4-1 in the former Fordham quarterback?s games, winning insane, inexplicable games late in the fourth quarter. They are 2-5 without him. Skelton fever could last into the playoffs. I?d bet on a 9-7 team making the playoffs and the Cardinals should be 7-7 after this one.
Rosenthal?s pick: Cardinals 22, Browns 13.
Patriots at Broncos
Florio?s take:? The list of ?thou shalt nots? now includes a line regarding picking against Tim Tebow.? New England?s defense stinks, and Denver?s defense is good enough to keep it close.? If the Broncos keep it close, the guy who says God has spoken to him will overcome the once little-known sixth-round pick who possibly struck a deal with the devil.
Florio?s pick:? Broncos 24, Patriots 23.
Rosenthal?s take: The Patriots defense can barely slow down Grossmania, so Tim Tebow should have a big day. Tom Brady should be even better. There are weak spots in this Broncos? secondary that Brady can exploit, especially at safety. This result will test Florio?s Tebow man-crush.
Rosenthal?s pick: Patriots 31, Broncos 27.
Jets at Eagles
Florio?s take:? The Dream Team is waking up too late, but not late enough to crush the dreams of Team Rex.? And that will make next week?s Giants-Jets game even more intriguing.
Florio?s pick:? Eagles 27, Jets 23.
Rosenthal?s take: The Eagles won last week, but Michael Vick looked very rusty. The offensive line got pushed around. The Jets are not a defense you want to face when your passing game is out of synch and your line is not recognizing blitzes. The Dream should finally die for good, to the delight of many Eagles fans.
Rosenthal?s pick: Jets 22, Eagles 10.
Ravens at Chargers
Florio?s take:? The Ravens finally realize the connection between beating inferior foes and hosting home playoff games.? Chargers fans finally realize that they could have a new coach and G.M. in 2012.? Both could be very happy after Sunday night.
Florio?s pick:? Ravens 24, Chargers 17.
Rosenthal?s take: This is Norv?s last stand, and he has a shot to win. Philip Rivers? pinpoint accuracy returned the last two weeks. So did his pass protection. This is a dangerous game for the Ravens, but it?s hard to imagine Rivers? rag-tag linemen holding up against the Baltimore pass rush.
Rosenthal?s pick: Ravens 27, Chargers 24.
Steelers at 49ers
Florio?s take:? When the Steelers enter the red zone at Heinz Field, giant ketchup bottles unleash their contents onto the scoreboard.? When the 49ers get into the red zone on Monday night, the Steelers will be putting ketchup on Frank Gore?s legs and Alex Smith?s arm.
Florio?s pick:? Steelers 20, 49ers 13.
Rosenthal?s take: The Cowboys? 3-4 defense gave the 49ers problems. Baltimore?s 3-4 defense ate up the 49ers line. Arizona?s defense ? coordinated by former Steelers coach Ray Horton ? allowed two first downs to the 49ers in the second half last week. You see where I?m going with this one.
Rosenthal?s pick: Steelers 13, 49ers 10.
Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/12/15/pfts-week-15-picks-2/related/
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Thursday's 'critical' Iowa debate: 4 predictions (The Week)
New York ? The GOP gang is getting together Thursday night for one last hurrah in 2011 ? the final chance to make their pitch before the voting starts
Thursday night's Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa, "will be the final episode in one of the most popular reality television series of 2011," say Peter Hamby and Paul Steinhauser in CNN, and "the stakes could not be higher for all involved." After this face-off between the remaining seven GOP presidential contenders, most voters will tune out until Jan. 3, when the Iowa caucuses launch the actual vote-counting phase of what's already been a long and grueling campaign. What can we expect from this "critical" Fox News/Iowa GOP debate?
1. This will be the last debate for some of the candidates
"If first impressions matter in politics ? and they do ? so too does the last thing voters see before casting a vote," GOP strategist Doug Heye tells CNN. At least half of Iowa caucus-goers are still undecided, giving everyone a strong incentive to shine. That's especially critical for the low-polling candidates ? Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and to a lesser extent Rick Perry ? who have staked their campaigns on a strong finish in Iowa. When the next debate rolls around Jan. 7, "the GOP field will undoubtedly be smaller," says Catalina Camia in USA Today. This debate will help determine "who stays and who goes."
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2. Romney will try to knock Gingrich out
"Expect Mitt Romney, in his elegant way, to slice Newt Gingrich to pieces," Republican strategist Alex Castellanos tells CNN. Romney doesn't have to win Iowa, but if he can keep Gingrich from coming out on top, "his last serious opponent will be dead and stored in a freezer." As the acknowledged and self-proclaimed frontrunner, Gingrich "has the most at stake when the bantering begins tonight," says Bret Hayworth in the Sioux City Journal, but "Romney has the most to gain."
3. Everyone else will be gunning for Gingrich, too
"Frankly, Romney would be more than happy to see Reps. Ron Paul (Texas) or Bachmann (Minn.) have a good night," says Jennifer Rubin in The Washington Post. Paul especially, since he has a real shot at winning Iowa, and Romney wants him to. But "the more votes Gingrich loses, the better for everyone else," so with all his rivals "trying to provoke and skewer him," Gingrich had better turn in "a steady and uneventful performance." He "can't afford to lose his cool," agrees CNN's Castellanos. "If Newt does his 'angry badger' impression, he will be finished."
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4. Someone will have an "oops" moment
"Expect to see at least one candidate make a significant mistake," says the Sioux City Journal's Hayworth, something like Romney's $10,000 bet or Perry's brain freeze. "But don't expect to learn much more about where the candidates stand on the issues." The format of the debate is definitely skewed toward forcing "an oops moment," says Iowa State political science professor Steffen Schmidt. "That's been the biggest news from almost all these debates ? who is gonna slip on the banana peel." Everyone will be waiting for, or trying to cause, those pratfalls.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Targeted Radiation for Breast Cancer May Be Overused: Study (HealthDay)
FRIDAY, Dec. 16 (HealthDay News) -- The number of women with breast cancer who receive targeted radiation to the breast after a lumpectomy has jumped dramatically over the last decade.
However, only about a third of these women were considered "suitable" for the treatment, according to criteria used in a new study published in the Dec. 16 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
But guidelines on which women should or should not receive this type of radiation treatment, known as brachytherapy, are only newly published and it's unclear what the findings might mean to current breast cancer patients.
Use of "accelerated partial breast irradiation using brachytherapy" has risen steadily since about 2002, said study author Dr. Jona Hattangadi, a radiation oncologist with Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program in Boston.
Although brachytherapy is vastly more convenient (taking place over the course of a week rather than six weeks), the worry is that directed radiation isn't comprehensive enough to find and kill all cancer cells lingering in the breast as compared with the current standard, whole breast radiation (WBI).
So, in 2009, the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued the first guidelines for the use of brachytherapy, which identified patients as either "suitable," "cautionary" (suitability unclear) or "unsuitable" for the treatment, depending on a number of factors including age as well as various tumor characteristics.
These authors rounded up data on 138,815 U.S. women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer from 2000 to 2007 and who had either undergone brachytherapy or whole breast irradiation after a lumpectomy.
Some 2.6 percent of women underwent brachytherapy, two thirds of whom were either deemed "cautionary" (29.6 percent) or "unsuitable" (36.2 percent) according to ASTRO criteria.
Only about a third (32 percent) of patients would have been considered suitable under ASTRO's recommendations, the study authors said.
Use of brachytherapy rose from less than 1 percent in 2000 to almost 7 percent in 2007, but this varied greatly between geographical regions, the researchers noted.
For instance, women in urban areas were more likely to get brachytherapy than women in rural areas, which is surprising given that rural women would have the most to benefit from the convenience.
And white women were more likely to get brachytherapy than black women if they were considered "cautionary" or "unsuitable."
It's unclear what accounts for the variation or for the rise in numbers, although the authors did postulate that reimbursement patterns may play a role. Medicare started reimbursing for brachytherapy in 2004.
The main drawback of this study, the authors acknowledged, is that the data was gathered before the ASTRO guidelines were published.
Dr. Eric Horwitz, M.D., chair of radiation oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, agreed that brachytherapy is "not for everybody" but that "it's an excellent technique if used on the right patients."
But who is the right patient? Generally people with smaller, localized tumors, he said.
Still, in the absence of long-term data, Hattangadi recommends that women getting treatment for early-stage breast cancer have a "thorough discussion with their physicians on the pros and cons of the approach."
The findings come just a week after presenters at a national conference found that women who had brachytherapy had double the rate of mastectomy later on compared with women who got whole breast irradiation. That study was led by Dr. Benjamin Smith of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
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TC Gadgets Weekly Webcast: The iPad Mini, CES, And A Coffeemaker
This week the lads and I talk about the iPad Mini, our huge booth at CES, and my new favorite coffeemaker. We also discuss how much it's going to cost us to interview 50 Cent at CES this year, which is pretty darn wild.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Sony stands by PS3 sales target for 2011/12 (Reuters)
TOKYO (Reuters) ? Sony Corp said it was keeping to its target to sell 15 million PlayStation 3 game machines in the year to end-March, even as a long-running debt crisis grips Europe, one of the Japanese electronics group's most important markets.
Welsh-born Andrew House, who took over as head of Sony Computer Entertainment, the group's video games business, less than four months ago, told reporters on Thursday that PS3 sales were, if anything, slightly ahead of target.
He declined to give a unit sales estimate for the PlayStation Vita, the new handheld games device, which launches in Japan on Saturday and reaches U.S. stores in late-February.
The Vita has sold out in advance bookings in Japan, but is likely to face a tougher challenge in the United States and Europe, partly due to the overall sense of economic gloom.
The challenge from smartphones and tablets such as Apple Inc's iPhone and iPad is adding to existing competition from domestic rival Nintendo Co Ltd, which aims to sell 16 million of its 3DS handheld games gadgets by March.
Sony Computer Entertainment made its first profit in five years in the 12 months to March 2011, as it managed to squeeze PS3 production costs, boosting profits for the whole company.
House said the speed at which Sony could turn Vita hardware sales profitable would depend on currency rates. Sony has been hard hit by the yen's rise against the euro.
The PS Vita's predecessor, the PS Portable, sold 73 million units since its launch in December 2004 - less than half the number of the rival Nintendo DS.
(Reporting by Isabel Reynolds; Editing by Joseph Radford and Ian Geoghegan)
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Grand Theft Auto III Lands In The App Store, Android Market
If stealing cars, running people over, and being an all-around gangster is your idea of fun, I come bearing good tidings of great joy this holiday season. Grand Theft Auto III: 10th Anniversary Edition has made its way to your phone courtesy of Rockstar Games. Launched back in 2001, Grand Theft Auto III has been one of the most popular games of the last decade.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ZZ5xQy71VwE/
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
UBC scientists key contributors to 'super-cool camera, built to reveal early life of stars
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University of British Columbia scientists have helped build the world's largest astronomy camera with an internal temperature colder than anything else in the Universe.
The 4.5-tonne SCUBA-2 (Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array) camera, unveiled today as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, will survey wavelengths invisible to optical cameras and capture unprecedented information about the formation of stars.
"We're used to thinking about astronomy in terms of images made using optical light," says Douglas Scott, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UBC and part of an international team of scientists and engineers that built the camera. "But technology has evolved to allow us to unearth vastly more information using other wavelengths of light and paint a much more revealing picture about the birth of stars."
Led by the U.K.-based Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), SCUBA-2 was built in collaboration with Canadian, U.S. and Dutch scientists. The UBC team, which also includes Cosmology Prof. Mark Halpern, postdoctoral research associate Ed Chapin, software engineer Andy Gibb, electronics engineer Mandana Amiri and graduate students Todd Mackenzie and Viktoria Asboth, custom-designed and constructed the electronics, enabling acquisition of data from the detectors and authored the software that translates the data into pictures.
Stars form when dust and gas clouds collapse under the weight of their own gravity. The dust in the area then absorbs all visible light, making it impossible for astronomers to capture the process using optical instruments.
Effectively, the stars hide themselves in the nurseries where they are born. But SCUBA-2 is designed to detect longer wavelengths of light - known as submillimetre wavelengths - which are re-radiated by the dust and measured in microns, or millionths of a metre, says Halpern. This allows scientists to peer inside the darkest parts of the Universe, where stars are forming in the midst of cold dust clouds they made themselves.
But in order to detect light in this range, the heart of the camera must be cooled to 0.1 degree above absolute zero (or -273.05 degrees Celsius), making the inside of SCUBA-2 colder than anything else in the Universe.
Significantly more powerful than its predecessor SCUBA, which began operation in 1997, SCUBA-2 can map areas of the sky hundreds of times faster, and is more sensitive and powerful.
"With SCUBA, it typically took 20 nights to image an area about the size of the full Moon," says Prof. Wayne Holland, SCUBA-2 Project Scientist from STFC's UK Astronomy Technology Centre. "SCUBA-2 will be able to cover the same area in a couple of hours and go much deeper, allowing us to detect faint objects that have never been seen before."
SCUBA-2 will be used to map sites of star formation within our own Milky Way galaxy, and planet formation around nearby stars. It will also be used to look deep into space and sample the youngest galaxies in the Universe, helping researchers understand how galaxies have evolved since the Big Bang. This information will help Scott and Halpern better understand the origin and evolution of galaxies throughout all of cosmic time and in particular, provide unique insights into the earliest dusty phases.
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Partners on the SCUBA-2 project include the University of Edinburgh, Cardiff University, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, UBC, the University of Waterloo and the Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC). The project was funded by the STFC, the JAC, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
Example images, including the galaxy M51, part of the Milky Way, the Moon and the moons of Jupiter are available at: http://www.astro.ubc.ca/scuba2
SCUBA-2 Facts
- Size: 3m (height), 2.4m (width), 2.6m (depth)
- Weight: 4.5 tonnes
- Temperature of detectors: 0.1K = -272.9C
- Submillimetre camera with 5,120 pixels (4 sub arrays at 1,280 pixels each) at each wavelength band
- Provides a unique wide-field submillimetre imaging capability at 450 and 850 microns (0.45 and 0.85 mm)
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University of British Columbia scientists have helped build the world's largest astronomy camera with an internal temperature colder than anything else in the Universe.
The 4.5-tonne SCUBA-2 (Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array) camera, unveiled today as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, will survey wavelengths invisible to optical cameras and capture unprecedented information about the formation of stars.
"We're used to thinking about astronomy in terms of images made using optical light," says Douglas Scott, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UBC and part of an international team of scientists and engineers that built the camera. "But technology has evolved to allow us to unearth vastly more information using other wavelengths of light and paint a much more revealing picture about the birth of stars."
Led by the U.K.-based Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), SCUBA-2 was built in collaboration with Canadian, U.S. and Dutch scientists. The UBC team, which also includes Cosmology Prof. Mark Halpern, postdoctoral research associate Ed Chapin, software engineer Andy Gibb, electronics engineer Mandana Amiri and graduate students Todd Mackenzie and Viktoria Asboth, custom-designed and constructed the electronics, enabling acquisition of data from the detectors and authored the software that translates the data into pictures.
Stars form when dust and gas clouds collapse under the weight of their own gravity. The dust in the area then absorbs all visible light, making it impossible for astronomers to capture the process using optical instruments.
Effectively, the stars hide themselves in the nurseries where they are born. But SCUBA-2 is designed to detect longer wavelengths of light - known as submillimetre wavelengths - which are re-radiated by the dust and measured in microns, or millionths of a metre, says Halpern. This allows scientists to peer inside the darkest parts of the Universe, where stars are forming in the midst of cold dust clouds they made themselves.
But in order to detect light in this range, the heart of the camera must be cooled to 0.1 degree above absolute zero (or -273.05 degrees Celsius), making the inside of SCUBA-2 colder than anything else in the Universe.
Significantly more powerful than its predecessor SCUBA, which began operation in 1997, SCUBA-2 can map areas of the sky hundreds of times faster, and is more sensitive and powerful.
"With SCUBA, it typically took 20 nights to image an area about the size of the full Moon," says Prof. Wayne Holland, SCUBA-2 Project Scientist from STFC's UK Astronomy Technology Centre. "SCUBA-2 will be able to cover the same area in a couple of hours and go much deeper, allowing us to detect faint objects that have never been seen before."
SCUBA-2 will be used to map sites of star formation within our own Milky Way galaxy, and planet formation around nearby stars. It will also be used to look deep into space and sample the youngest galaxies in the Universe, helping researchers understand how galaxies have evolved since the Big Bang. This information will help Scott and Halpern better understand the origin and evolution of galaxies throughout all of cosmic time and in particular, provide unique insights into the earliest dusty phases.
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Partners on the SCUBA-2 project include the University of Edinburgh, Cardiff University, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, UBC, the University of Waterloo and the Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC). The project was funded by the STFC, the JAC, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
Example images, including the galaxy M51, part of the Milky Way, the Moon and the moons of Jupiter are available at: http://www.astro.ubc.ca/scuba2
SCUBA-2 Facts
- Size: 3m (height), 2.4m (width), 2.6m (depth)
- Weight: 4.5 tonnes
- Temperature of detectors: 0.1K = -272.9C
- Submillimetre camera with 5,120 pixels (4 sub arrays at 1,280 pixels each) at each wavelength band
- Provides a unique wide-field submillimetre imaging capability at 450 and 850 microns (0.45 and 0.85 mm)
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-12/uobc-usk120511.php
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