CSN: Jays jump on Giants early, hang on to win

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TORONTO ? Barry Zito gave up the most hits by a Giants starting pitcher in almost five years Tuesday night. He got battered for six runs in the first inning alone. He wore a facial expression in the dugout that was a mix of ?anger,? ?disappointment? and ?Leafs fan.?

If you told him he was pulled an out away from an official quality start, it probably wouldn?t have made him feel better.

There was nothing quality about the Giants? performance in a 10-6 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. They committed two errors and countless more miscues, some of them in the outfield where their erratic defense is becoming more than just a casual concern.

The entire team played glazed over ? even catcher Buster Posey, who made the embarrassing mistake of starting an around-the-horn to third base after Colby Rasmus took a called second strike in the seventh inning.

The Giants set a season high by striking out 15 times against R.A. Dickey and Co., too. Brandon Crawford became the first Giant to fit himself for the four-strikeout Golden Sombrero since Ryan Theriot last June.

It took Pablo Sandoval?s three-run home run in the ninth inning just to make the score a little prettier.

But the Blue Jays didn?t blow every bit of a lead that stood at eight runs through seven innings. Toronto teams are only allowed one epic collapse every 48 hours.

Starting pitching report
The last time a Giants pitcher gave up a dozen hits, it was Kevin Correia on July 23, 2008 ? and they still managed to beat the Washington Nationals.

Here?s guessing they played a bit crisper on that day.

Zito (3-2) was not sharp at all, leaving blobs outside at the belt that the Blue Jays? right-handed hitters kept stinging to right field. But he received little defensive support as the Giants looked bewildered, whether it was by the synthetic surface, the harsh indoor lighting or the fact they have $2 coins here.

Three of the six runs Zito allowed in the first inning were unearned. His day began when Sandoval, the third baseman, fielded Melky Cabrera?s grounder to his left and rushed an off-balance throw for a two-base error.

The Blue Jays sent 10 more batters to the plate before Zito got to acquaint himself with the dugout bench again. Mixed amid the six singles and a walk were a bobble in center field by Angel Pagan, a wild throw from right fielder Hunter Pence and a potential double-play ball that stuck in the glove of second baseman Nick Noonan as he lost his footing on the bag.

You could summarize the inning this way: Baserunner Edwin Encarnacion hit the dirt while avoiding getting hit by a line drive off the bat of cleanup hitter (you?re reading this right) Mark DeRosa, then he scored anyway when Pagan flubbed it in center field.

By the fifth inning, eight of the Blue Jays? nine starting position players had a hit.

But Zito did well to recover and at least prevent the Giants bullpen from getting run through ? a helpful service, considering the club begins a four-game series at Coors Field on Thursday.

Amazingly, Zito finished one out away from the minimum standards of a quality start ? at least six innings, no more than three earned runs. He was pulled with two outs and two runners aboard in the sixth.

Those runners scored when the defense had another letdown. Encarnacion hit a hard line drive to right field, Pence appeared to take a tentative route, and the ball soared beyond his reach for a double.

Adam Lind followed with a grounder that took a high bounce off the mound and shortstop Brandon Crawford couldn?t barehand it, bringing in another run.

Bullpen report
Kontos was charged with two runs and Jose Mijares threw a scoreless inning as the Giants managed to save all their frontline relievers.

At the plate
Dickey won the Lowest Average Fastball Velocity Bowl, and it wasn?t even close. The struggling 2012 Cy Young Award winner had one of his better starts while keeping enough of a lid on the Giants through his six innings.

Brandon Belt hit a solo home run and an RBI double, making him 7 for 15 with six RBIs over his past five games.

Marco Scutaro stayed hot as well, hitting three singles to extend his hitting streak to 13 games. He has a .491 average during the streak. He owns multiple hits in seven consecutive games, too.

But the heart of the order, Sandoval and Buster Posey, were 0 for 8 before the Panda went deep in the ninth.

In field
In addition to the calamities already described, there was Maicer Izturis? double off Gregor Blanco?s glove in left field in the fifth inning.

At least Nick Noonan made a full-extension dive to take a hit away from Henry Blanco in the sixth. It made little difference in the outcome, but it made a big difference to? Blue Jays? Blanco was the only starter who didn?t have a hit.

Attendance
The Blue Jays delighted a crowd of 31,753 by holding onto an eight-run lead.

Up next
The Giants and Blue Jays complete this little two-game series Wednesday night at the House Formerly Known as SkyDome. Ryan Vogelsong (1-3, 7.78 ERA) takes the mound against right-hander Ramon Ortiz (0-1. 3.24). The Blue Jays decided to push back right-hander Brandon Morrow, who is dealing with recurring upper back spasms.

Source: http://www.csnbayarea.com/blog/andrew-baggarly/instant-replay-six-run-first-dooms-giants

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Cydia, The Alternative App Store For Jailbroken Apple Devices, Now Runs On Android

Cydia, a platform commonly thought of as the alternative app store for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, has just today arrived on Android?of all places. Though Android is by its nature more open and customizable than Apple's locked-down iOS, it now has a growing collection of apps designed for power users who root their devices - a process that's similar in spirit to the iOS jailbreak. Cydia for Android could soon become home to some of those same tweaks in time - or at least allow developers to port them to the Android ecosystem, whether or not they're housed in Cydia directly.

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Frisky business? LinkedIn evicts little-known 'red-light district' - NBC ...

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Helen A.S. Popkin NBC News

23 hours ago

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LinkedIn profile established by "courtesan" Sonja Bandolik, who practices legal prostitution. Bandolik is currently the madam of the Alien Cathouse in Carson City, Nev.

A run-of-the-mill LinkedIn user agreement update has revealed that the professional networking site has been an unwilling host to the world?s oldest profession.

On Monday ? as part of what a LinkedIn representative described as a standard simplification to its policies ? the site added this eye-catching clause to the section titled ?Don?t undertake the following?:

Even if it is legal where you are located, create profiles or provide content that promotes escort services or prostitution.

Prostitution, legal or not, has never been allowed on LinkedIn, Hani Durzy, LinkedIn?s director of corporate communications, told NBC News. Describing the salacious attention brought by the staid social network?s terms revision as ?a baffling non-story,? Durzy emphasized that nothing at LinkedIn has changed. ?We took the opportunity to make it clear that local laws are not relevant to what we will or won?t allow.?

Attention leads to curiosity, however. And whether or not it?s permitted by law or by LinkedIn user agreement, promotions for prostitution and escort services are indeed visible on LinkedIn. At least they were before Tuesday?s media onslaught.

NBC News used obvious keywords to quickly find dozens of listings for escort services in the United States and United Kingdom, along with plenty of questionable entries for ?sensual massage? and sex-themed ?independent entertainment professionals.? Not all the listings were even thinly veiled, either. We also found ?courtesans? and ?working girls? proclaiming their employment at legal brothels operating in the U.S.

For example, Sonja Bandolik described herself on LinkedIn as a "courtesan at Dovetail Ranch Brothel," which she told NBC News is a bit out-of-date. (She's currently madam at the Alien Cathouse near "Area 51.") "There's no place for judgment in my bedroom," reads her profile, which offers a link to her "sex menu" at an outside website.

As LinkedIn?s rules now clarify, even legal prostitution violates the user agreement.

This is news to Dennis Hof, owner of several legal Nevada brothels, including the infamous Moonlite Bunny Ranch, and LinkedIn member since 2012. ?What?s the problem? We have a license to do this,? said Hof, whose employees also have LinkedIn accounts. ?Our business is as legal as theirs. We?re the good guys. We have no reason to be knocked off.?

Hof, who says he?s the highest taxpayer in Lyon County, relies on social media ? and publicity ? to spread the word about his business, since advertising prostitution in Nevada is illegal, even where prostitution is not.

?LinkedIn needs to realize they don?t need to filter out legal businesses in America,? he said. ?These are businesswomen, and some of them are making mid-six-figure incomes.? Hof hopes LinkedIn doesn't try to remove his account, or the accounts of his employees.

?If it?s OK to do that, is it OK to drop Dairy Queen too because it serves too much fat and calories? Is LinkedIn going to be the moral arbiter, and drop Coca-Cola or anybody who works for a cigarette company? Where do you stop with that??

LinkedIn

Listings for "people also viewed" on Nevada brothel empresario Dennis Hof's LinkedIn page include "working girls," "courtesans" and "escorts." Sonja Bandolik's name is used with her permission.

Exactly how LinkedIn identifies and deals with users who violate LinkedIn?s terms of service ? and whether the terms update would be followed by an active purge ? isn?t something Durzy was willing to share with NBC News.

?We have 225 million members, and we get billions of page views every quarter. There?s lots of activity happening on the site. Like most social networks and platforms, we rely on our community bringing things to our attention,? he said, adding that employees also comb the site for egregious activity.

?I?m not saying we?re going to do a purge, though we very well may,? he said. ?In a nutshell, as we become aware of profiles that violate our policies we will take the appropriate actions. Does that mean shutting them down on day one? Or giving our members the benefit of the doubt, and telling them that?s a violation and you?ve got change it? There is no hard and fast rule. We take the appropriate action as necessary.?

When NBC News did a spot check later in the day, we observed that LinkedIn may have begun a process of making self-proclaimed prostitutes harder to find, or even removing them from the site altogether.

"In the last 12 hours, we?ve been made aware through the news cycle of various profiles and some actions may have been taken against profiles that violate our policies," Durzy said when NBC News asked about the missing profiles, but he wouldn't specify how many profiles had been removed. "That?s policy in action."

Helen A.S. Popkin is Deputy Technology & Science editor for NBCNews.com and TODAY. Follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/frisky-business-linkedin-evicts-little-known-red-light-district-1C9911883

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Windows "Blue" Is Officially Called Windows 8.1 and Free

Microsoft just announced on a call with shareholders that the Windows Blue update will officially be called Windows 8.1, which will be a free update. It'll be available for both Windows 8 and Windows RT.

A preview will be available to the public after the Microsoft Build conference. Windows 8.1 is expected to fix a lot of the biggest concerns users had with the Metro interface, without completely abandoning the concept.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/windows-blue-is-officially-called-windows-8-1-505582364

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Builders bulldoze big Mayan pyramid in Belize

BELIZE CITY (AP) ? A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday.

The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial center dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.

"It's a feeling of Incredible disbelief because of the ignorance and the insensitivity ... they were using this for road fill," Awe said. "It's like being punched in the stomach, it's just so horrendous."

Nohmul sat in the middle of a privately owned sugar cane field, and lacked the even stone sides frequently seen in reconstructed or better-preserved pyramids. But Awe said the builders could not possibly have mistaken the pyramid mound, which is about 100 feet tall, for a natural hill because the ruins were well-known and the landscape there is naturally flat.

"These guys knew that this was an ancient structure. It's just bloody laziness", Awe said.

Photos from the scene showed backhoes clawing away at the pyramid's sloping sides, leaving an isolated core of limestone cobbles at the center, with what appears to be a narrow Mayan chamber dangling above one clawed-out section.

"Just to realize that the ancient Maya acquired all this building material to erect these buildings, using nothing more than stone tools and quarried the stone, and carried this material on their heads, using tump lines," said Awe. "To think that today we have modern equipment, that you can go and excavate in a quarry anywhere, but that this company would completely disregard that and completely destroyed this building. Why can't these people just go and quarry somewhere that has no cultural significance? It's mind-boggling."

Belizean police said they are conducting an investigation and criminal charges are possible. The Nohmul complex sits on private land, but Belizean law says that any pre-Hispanic ruins are under government protection.

The Belize community-action group Citizens Organized for Liberty Through Action called the destruction of the archaeological site "an obscene example of disrespect for the environment and history."

It is not the first time it's happened in Belize, a country of about 350,000 people that is largely covered in jungle and dotted with hundreds of Mayan ruin sites, though few as large as Nohmul.

Norman Hammond, an emeritus professor of archaeology at Boston University who worked in Belizean research projects in the 1980s, wrote in an email that "bulldozing Maya mounds for road fill is an endemic problem in Belize (the whole of the San Estevan center has gone, both of the major pyramids at Louisville, other structures at Nohmul, many smaller sites), but this sounds like the biggest yet."

Arlen Chase, chairman of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida, said, "Archaeologists are disturbed when such things occur, but there is only a very limited infrastructure in Belize that can be applied to cultural heritage management."

"Unfortunately, they (destruction of sites) are all too common, but not usually in the center of a large Maya site," Chase wrote.

He said there had probably still been much to learn from the site. "A great deal of archaeology was undertaken at Nohmul in the '70s and '80s, but this only sampled a small part of this large center."

Belize isn't the only place where the handiwork of the far-flung and enormously prolific Maya builders is being destroyed. The ancient Mayas spread across southeastern Mexico and through Guatemala, Honduras and Belize.

"I don't think I am exaggerating if I say that every day a Maya mound is being destroyed for construction in one of the countries where the Maya lived," wrote Francisco Estrada-Belli, a professor at Tulane University's Anthropology Department.

"Unfortunately, this destruction of our heritage is irreversible but many don't take it seriously," he added. "The only way to stop it is by showing that it is a major crime and people can and will go to jail for it."

Robert Rosenswig, an archaeologist at the State University of New York at Albany, described the difficult and heartbreaking work of trying to salvage information at the nearby site of San Estevan following similar destruction around 2005.

"Bulldozing damage at San Estevan is extensive and the site is littered with Classic period potsherds," he wrote in an academic paper describing the scene. "We spent a number of days at the beginning of the 2005 season trying to figure out the extent of the damage .... after scratching our heads for many days, a bulldozer showed up and we realized that what appear to be mounds, when overgrown with chest-high vegetation, are actually recently bulldozed garbage piles."

However small the compensation, bulldozing pyramids is one very brutal way of revealing the inner cores of the structures, which were often built up in periodic stages of construction.

"The one advantage of this massive destruction, to the core site, is that the remains of early domestic activity are now visible on the surface," Rosenswig wrote.

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Associated Press writer Patrick E. Jones reported this story in Belize and Mark Stevenson reported from Mexico City.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/builders-bulldoze-big-mayan-pyramid-belize-225012836.html

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Monster radiation burst from Sun

14 May 2013 Last updated at 07:55 ET

The Sun has unleashed its most powerful eruption of 2013 so far.

The solar flare - a sudden release of radiation - peaked at 1705 BST on Monday, and was associated with a huge eruption of matter.

When these eruptions reach Earth, they can interfere with electronic systems in satellites and those on the ground.

Nasa said this solar explosion - known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) - was not directed at Earth, but it could pass several US spacecraft.

The event on Monday was classified as an "X-class" flare - the most intense type - with a designation of X2.8 (higher numbers denote a stronger flare). It surpassed an X1.7-class flare that occurred 14 hours earlier.

They are the first X-class events to occur this year.

When intense enough, a flare can disturb the Earth's atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.

This disrupts the radio signals for as long as the flare is ongoing - the radio blackout associated with this flare has since subsided.

CMEs can be even more disruptive because they can send billions of tonnes of solar particles into space. In those cases when very strong eruptions do reach Earth, the charged matter can blow out transformers in power grids.

The so-called Carrington Event of 1-2 September 1859 shorted telegraph wires, starting fires in North America and Europe, and caused bright aurorae (northern and southern lights) to be seen in Cuba and Hawaii.

The CME associated with this flare may pass the Stereo-B and Spitzer spacecraft. The operators of those science missions can choose to put their spacecraft into a "safe mode" to protect the electronics in onboard instruments from being tripped.

Increased numbers of flares are expected at the moment because the Sun's normal 11-year activity cycle is approaching a "high" of activity - known as a solar maximum.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22525233#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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Obama welcomes UK PM Cameron to White House

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron opened wide-ranging talks at the White House Monday on Syria and trade, though brewing domestic controversies were competing for the White House's attention.

Cameron arrived at the White House Monday morning for an Oval Office meeting with Obama. The two leaders were then to hold a joint news conference in the East Room.

The agenda for the meeting of allies was expected to include the protracted Syrian civil war, the Mideast peace process, trade and preparations for a coming summit of the world's leading industrial nations in Northern Ireland.

At the same time, the White House was seeking to contain potential setbacks involving the ongoing investigation into Benghazi attacks and new revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative political groups.

On Syria, both the U.S. and Britain are urging Russia to ramp up its pressure on Syrian leader Bashar Assad. The U.S. and Russia agreed last week to arrange an international conference to bring representatives of Assad's government and the opposition to the negotiating table. There is no date yet, but such talks would focus on setting up a transitional government.

Cameron said after a meeting last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin that they both agreed that "we must help drive this process." The British leader also said Britain, the U.S., Russia and other countries should take part in setting up a transitional government.

Separately last week, the Obama administration announced it will provide $100 million in new aid to Syria, strictly for humanitarian relief for Syrian refugees and not linked to any possible decision on arming the rebels who seek to topple Assad from power.

Total U.S. humanitarian assistance in the war, now in its third year, will surpass $500 million.

The Obama administration has said it is considering providing weapons to vetted units in the armed opposition, among other military options, following the recent revelation of a U.S. intelligence assessment that suggested chemical weapons use by the Assad regime.

Obama has said use of such weapons would cross a "red line."

The president and Cameron were also reviewing priorities for the Group of Eight summit. Cameron will preside over the June 17-18 gathering in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland. The White House said Friday that Obama would stop in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, before joining the summit.

The visit will be Obama's first to Northern Ireland.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-welcomes-uk-pm-cameron-white-house-143201447.html

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OJ hoping for new trial in return to Vegas court

LAS VEGAS (AP) ? The last time O.J. Simpson was in a Las Vegas courtroom, he stood next to defense attorney Yale Galanter before being handcuffed and hauled off to prison for up to 33 years.

On Monday, the former football hero returns to Clark County District Court with a different set of lawyers hoping to convince a judge that Galanter shouldn't have been handling his armed robbery-kidnapping case ? that the lawyer who was paid nearly $700,000 for Simpson's defense had a personal interest in preventing himself from being identified as a witness to the crimes and so misled Simpson that the former football star deserves a new trial.

"To me, the claims are solid. I don't know how the court can't grant relief," said Patricia Palm, the Simpson appeals lawyer who produced a 94-page petition dissecting Galanter's promises, payments and performance as Simpson's lawyer in the trial that ended with a jury finding Simpson and a co-defendant guilty of 12 felonies.

Galanter declined to comment ahead of his is scheduled testimony.

Of the 22 allegations of conflict-of-interest and ineffective counsel that Palm raised, Clark County District Court Judge Linda Marie Bell has agreed to hear 19.

The proceedings, technically neither a trial nor appeal, are expected to take all week before Bell decides whether Simpson deserves a new trial. It's not clear whether she'll rule immediately.

Some who've watched the Simpson saga say he might have a chance.

"I think there's a lot to this," said John Momot, a lawyer nearing 40 years of criminal defense in Las Vegas who played himself in the 1995 movie "Casino" and provided expert cable TV commentary during Simpson's monthlong trial in September 2008.

"I don't think O.J. Simpson could ever get a fair trial, period, based on his reputation from California," Momot said. "But based on these allegations, if you took Joe Jones from the street and put him in the same situation, I think it would be possible he'd get a new trial."

Ozzie Fumo, a veteran Las Vegas trial lawyer now representing Simpson, said it took two years of convincing by jailhouse lawyers at Nevada's Lovelock Correctional Center before Simpson broke with Galanter.

Simpson now says that Galanter not only knew ahead of time about his plan to retrieve what he thought were personal mementoes but met with Simpson in Las Vegas to discuss the plan the night before Simpson and five other men confronted two sports memorabilia dealers and a middleman in a cramped casino hotel room in September 2007.

Simpson maintains the plan was to take back what he expected would be family photos and personal belongings stolen from him after his 1995 "trial of the century" acquittal in the slayings of his wife and her friend in Los Angeles.

Galanter blessed the plan as within the law, as long as no one trespassed and no force was used, Simpson said.

During trial, Simpson contends Galanter "vigorously discouraged" him not to testify, and never told him that prosecutors were willing to let him plead guilty to charges that would have gotten him a minimum of two years in prison.

"He consistently told me the state could not prove its case because I acted within my rights in retaking my own property," Simpson said in a sworn statement outlining what he plans to say when he testifies this week.

Simpson's lawyers also say that while continuing to represent Simpson through oral arguments in a failed 2010 appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court, Galanter kept a lid on his own behind-the-scenes involvement. That nearly extinguished any chance Simpson had to claim ineffective representation in state or federal courts.

Simpson still says he had no idea two of the men with him brought guns to the hotel room. Palm and Fumo noted that the possibility of diminished perception wasn't raised at trial.

On Monday, Dr. Norman Roitman, a Las Vegas psychiatrist, is expected to testify that Simpson's perception of what took place in the Palace Station hotel room might have been hampered by football brain injuries and the effects of several vodka and cranberry juice cocktails he consumed before the confrontation.

H. Leon Simon, the chief deputy district attorney representing the state, is scheduled to call another psychiatrist later in the week for another opinion.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/oj-hoping-trial-return-vegas-court-080715843.html

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Cooling ocean temperature could buy more time for coral reefs

Public release date: 14-May-2013
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Limiting the amount of warming experienced by the world's oceans in the future could buy some time for tropical coral reefs, say researchers from the University of Bristol.

The study, published by the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used computer models to investigate how shallow-water tropical coral reef habitats may respond to climate change over the coming decades. Elena Couce and colleagues found that restricting greenhouse warming to three watts per square metre (equivalent to just 50-100 parts per million carbon dioxide, or approximately half again the increase since the Industrial Revolution) is needed in order to avoid large-scale reductions in reef habitat occurring in the future. Shallow-water tropical coral reefs are amongst the most productive and diverse ecosystems on the planet. They are currently in decline due to increasing frequency of bleaching events, linked to rising temperatures and fossil fuel emissions.

Elena Couce said: "If sea surface temperatures continue to rise, our models predict a large habitat collapse in the tropical western Pacific which would affect some of the most biodiverse coral reefs in the world. To protect shallow-water tropical coral reefs, the warming experienced by the world's oceans needs to be limited."

The researchers modelled whether artificial means of limiting global temperatures known as solar radiation 'geoengineering' could help. Their results suggest that if geoengineering could be successfully deployed then the decline of suitable habitats for tropical coral reefs could be slowed. They found, however, that over-engineering the climate could actually be detrimental as tropical corals do not favour overly-cool conditions. Solar radiation geoengineering also leaves unchecked a carbon dioxide problem known as 'ocean acidification'.

Elena Couce said: "The use of geoengineering technologies cannot safeguard coral habitat long term because ocean acidification will continue unabated. Decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the only way to address reef decline caused by ocean acidification."

Dr Erica Hendy, one of the co-authors, added: "This is the first attempt to model the consequences of using solar radiation geoengineering on a marine ecosystem. There are many dangers associated with deliberate human interventions in the climate system and a lot more work is needed to fully appreciate the consequences of intervening in this way."

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Notes to editors

Photos

Two photos of coral reefs in the Red Sea (copyright Elena Couce) can be downloaded from here: https://fluff.bris.ac.uk/fluff/u2/inpaw/lEGYXJVny6Xb2Oq_bii0HAFga/

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'Tropical coral reef habitat in a geoengineered, high-CO2 world' by E. Couce, P.J. Irvine, L. J. Gregorie, A. Ridgwell and E.J. Hendy in Geophysical Research Letters

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Contact: Philippa Walker
philippa.walker@bristol.ac.uk
44-117-928-7777
University of Bristol

Limiting the amount of warming experienced by the world's oceans in the future could buy some time for tropical coral reefs, say researchers from the University of Bristol.

The study, published by the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used computer models to investigate how shallow-water tropical coral reef habitats may respond to climate change over the coming decades. Elena Couce and colleagues found that restricting greenhouse warming to three watts per square metre (equivalent to just 50-100 parts per million carbon dioxide, or approximately half again the increase since the Industrial Revolution) is needed in order to avoid large-scale reductions in reef habitat occurring in the future. Shallow-water tropical coral reefs are amongst the most productive and diverse ecosystems on the planet. They are currently in decline due to increasing frequency of bleaching events, linked to rising temperatures and fossil fuel emissions.

Elena Couce said: "If sea surface temperatures continue to rise, our models predict a large habitat collapse in the tropical western Pacific which would affect some of the most biodiverse coral reefs in the world. To protect shallow-water tropical coral reefs, the warming experienced by the world's oceans needs to be limited."

The researchers modelled whether artificial means of limiting global temperatures known as solar radiation 'geoengineering' could help. Their results suggest that if geoengineering could be successfully deployed then the decline of suitable habitats for tropical coral reefs could be slowed. They found, however, that over-engineering the climate could actually be detrimental as tropical corals do not favour overly-cool conditions. Solar radiation geoengineering also leaves unchecked a carbon dioxide problem known as 'ocean acidification'.

Elena Couce said: "The use of geoengineering technologies cannot safeguard coral habitat long term because ocean acidification will continue unabated. Decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the only way to address reef decline caused by ocean acidification."

Dr Erica Hendy, one of the co-authors, added: "This is the first attempt to model the consequences of using solar radiation geoengineering on a marine ecosystem. There are many dangers associated with deliberate human interventions in the climate system and a lot more work is needed to fully appreciate the consequences of intervening in this way."

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Notes to editors

Photos

Two photos of coral reefs in the Red Sea (copyright Elena Couce) can be downloaded from here: https://fluff.bris.ac.uk/fluff/u2/inpaw/lEGYXJVny6Xb2Oq_bii0HAFga/

Paper

'Tropical coral reef habitat in a geoengineered, high-CO2 world' by E. Couce, P.J. Irvine, L. J. Gregorie, A. Ridgwell and E.J. Hendy in Geophysical Research Letters

The Cabot Institute

The Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol carries out fundamental and responsive research on risks and uncertainties in a changing environment. Our interests include natural hazards, food and energy security, resilience and governance, and human impacts on the environment. Our research fuses rigorous statistical and numerical modelling with a deep understanding of interconnected social, environmental and engineered systems past, present and future. We seek to engage wider society listening to, exploring with, and challenging our stakeholders to develop a shared response to twenty-first century challenges.

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London's Unruly snaps up viral video firm Shareifyoulike

LONDON (Reuters) - Unruly, one of London's hottest tech companies, has made its first acquisition, buying Germany's Shareifyoulike to gain the leading position in viral video marketing in the country.

Unruly and Shareifyoulike work with advertisers and their agencies to create viral campaigns, whereby ads are viewed, shared and talked about on social networks, creating millions of pounds worth of marketing for brand owners.

"Germany is a key market for us, it's the largest advertising economy in Europe," Unruly co-founder Sarah Wood told Reuters in an interview.

"It's also a really important market for social video in particular, there's a real appetite for social video in the German market."

German brands, such as carmaker Volkswagen, an existing Unruly customer, have been at the forefront in social media marketing, she said.

Volkswagen's 'The Force' commercial is still the most successful viral campaign, she said. The ad, which features a boy trying to animate objects using 'The Force" from the Star Wars movies, has been viewed more than 57 million times on YouTube.

Wood declined to give the value of the acquisition, as both companies are private. "But it's a big deal in terms of strategic importance," she said.

Unruly Media, based in London's East End, secured $25 million of funding last year, which it said was the largest ever investment in the social video sector.

(Reporting by Paul Sandle; Editing by David Cowell)

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Admissions at IIITM-K : Apply by May 22 - career on your finger tips

Applications can be submitted online athttp://www.iiitmk.ac.in/admission/till?22nd May, 2013, for admission to the various M.Sc Programmes, M Phil Programmes and a Post Graduate Diploma Programme for 2013-14, at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITMK), Trivandrum an autonomous Post Graduate Institution established by the Government of Kerala.

The Programmes offered include, MSc Programmes in (i) Information Technology (ii) Computer Science and Information Security (iii) Computational Sciences (iv) Geo-informatics and Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Programmes in (i) Computer Science (ii) Ecological Informatics. There is also a Post Graduate Diploma in e-Governance offered by the IIITMK.

The eligibility for admission to the various Programmes are as under. M.Sc in Information Technology: Applicant should hold a Bachelor's Degree in any branch of Engineering/Technology or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Computer Applications/Information Technology or Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics/ Physics/ Chemistry/ Statistics with Mathematics as a subject of study.
M.Sc in Computer Science and Information Security:Applicant should hold a Bachelor's Degree in any branch of Engineering/Technology or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Computer Applications/Information Technology or Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics/ Physics/ Chemistry/ Statistics with Mathematics as a subject of study.
M.Sc in Computational Sciences:Applicant should have a Bachelor's Degree in Science/ Engineering/ Technology with Mathematics as subject of study.
M.Sc in Geo-informatics: Applicant should hold a Bachelor?s Degree in Science/ Engineering/ Technology with Mathematics/Geology/Geography as one of the Subjects in Graduation.
Master of Philosophy in Computer Science: Applicant should have M. Sc/M C A/
M.Tech in Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Electronics/ Computational Sciences/Geo-informatics or equivalent having minimum of three papers in CS/IT in the qualifying examination.Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) in Ecological Informatics: Applicant should have a M.Sc. in Natural (Botany, Zoology, Environmental Science, Plant Science) or Physical Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics).

M.Sc Programmes are of two years duration while the M Phil Programmes are of one year duration. All the Master?s Degree Programmes are affiliated to the Cochin University of Science and Technology

For all the M.Sc and M.Phil Programmes, applicant should have a minimum of 60 % marks or minimum CGPA of 6.5 in 10 points scale in the qualifying examination. However, SC/ST applicants need only pass marks in the qualifying examination. Those who are awaiting the results of their final year course qualifying for can also apply.

Post Graduate Diploma in e-Governance (One year):Applicant should hold a Bachelor?s Degree in any discipline and should have working knowledge of computer systems. Diploma / Certification in computer application will be an added advantage. Preference will be given to B.Tech / MBA / MCA Degree holders. Fifteen seats are reserved for Government employees for Post Graduate Diploma in e-Governance. The Post Graduate Diploma Course is approved by the Directorate of Technical Education, Government of Kerala.
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here will be an admission test to be conducted on an all India basis as part of the selection process. The Test of one hour duration will have 60 objective type questions to test reasoning abilities, mental aptitude and communication skills as well the general awareness in mathematics, engineering and science. A separate module for each course will also be there.

The online test will be held at Bhubaneswar, Calicut, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Imphal, Patna, Srinagar and Trivandrum on 2nd June, 2013. If sufficient candidates are not available at a centre, the candidate will be required to take the test at nearest centre to be allotted by IIITM-K.

Applicants having valid GATE score are exempted from the Entrance Test. Those with NET, applying for M.Phil admissions are also exempted from the Entrance Test. However, all such applicants also have to apply online and pay the application fee specified and appear for the interview.

Application fee is Rs.250/- for General candidates Rs.100/- for SC/ST applicants, which may be paid by way of a Demand Draft drawn in favour of ?Director, IIITMK?, payable at any nationalized bank at Trivandrum.

Application has to be submitted online at?www.iiitmk.ac.in/admission, latest by 22nd May, 2013. Prospectus can also be downloaded from this site.After submitting the application online, the applicant must take a printout of the same. This printout along with the DD towards application fee and passport size photos should reach ?IITM-Kerala, Techno park Campus, Trivandrum, Kerala 695 581?, latest by 31.5.2013. NRI & Foreign National students are required to submit the application online and forward print copy along with payment of US $ 100 or Rs.5000/- in addition to the application fee.

Those selected have to report at the institute for admission on July 3, 2013, with all necessary documents.

The course fee is Rs.2,00,000/- for the M.Sc Programme. It is Rs.1,00,000/- for the M.Phil Programme and Rs.75000/- for the PGD Programme. Fee can be remitted in instalments, the details of which are given in the Prospectus. Students having a minimum of 65% (7.0 CGPA) in the qualifying examination and joining the M.Sc/M.Philcourses will get Government Scholarships worth Rs.8000/- per month, under the Special Post-Graduate Education Expansion Drive in IT (SPEED-IT). Government Scholarships are also available to all SC/ST students admitted to Masters and M.Phil Programs. Details are given in the Prospectus and website.

The admission results will be announced by the Institute on the date of personal interview.Those candidates who get selected in the interview should pay the first instalment of admission fee for an amount of Rs.25,000/- (non-refundable) on the same date either by cash or by DD in favour of ?The Director, IIITMK?, payable at Trivandrum.

Second instalment of fees for the first semester, amounting to Rs.37800/- inclusive of Tuition fee of Rs.25,000/-,Caution deposit of Rs.5,000/-, Medical coverage fee of Rs.1,000/-, PTA fee of Rs.1,000/-, CUSAT University fee of Rs.5800/-), should be remitted on or before30thSeptember, 2013

More details about the Institution and the Programmes are available in the Prospectus and at the website?www.iiitmk.ac.in/

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Mad Genius' Motion Capture System brings Sony's break-apart controller idea to life, and then some

Remember that break-apart DualShock 3 idea for motion control Sony had five years ago? A new company named Mad Genius Controllers has surfaced with a working prototype that shows such a contraption working in spades. The setup uses a splittable controller and a processing unit to enable seamless motion control and spacial tracking on any title and system. Because Mad Genius doesn't use any accelerometers or cameras like the current consoles, its creator notes that accuracy of up to 1/100th of an inch is possible

In a video demo with an Xbox 360 version of Skyrim and a modified Xbox gamepad, certain gestures and movements even automate menu selections like a macro. One instance shows the controller being split and held like bow and arrow, highlighting that both sides are tracked in relation to each other -- not to mention that the in-game character's weapon automatically changes without any menu-digging by the user. The current version is merely a wired proof-of-concept, but Mad Genius plans to eventually make it wireless and hit Kickstarter for funding. In the meantime, you can build up anticipation for yourself by checking out the nearly 10-minute long video demo after the break. All that's left is the inevitable Oculus Rift tie-in (like we've just done with this post).

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Project aims to track big city carbon footprints

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward.

Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep a pulse on emissions from smokestacks and automobile tailpipes. And there is talk of outfitting Sao Paulo, Brazil, with sensors that sniff the byproducts of burning fossil fuels.

It's part of a budding effort to track the carbon footprints of megacities, urban hubs with over 10 million people that are increasingly responsible for human-caused global warming.

For years, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse pollutants have been closely monitored around the planet by stations on the ground and in space. Last week, worldwide levels of carbon dioxide reached 400 parts per million at a Hawaii station that sets the global benchmark ? a concentration not seen in millions of years.

Now, some scientists are eyeing large cities ? with LA and Paris as guinea pigs ? and aiming to observe emissions in the atmosphere as a first step toward independently verifying whether local ? and often lofty ? climate goals are being met.

For the past year, a high-tech sensor poking out from a converted shipping container has stared at the Los Angeles basin from its mile-high perch on Mount Wilson, a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains that's home to a famous observatory and communication towers.

Like a satellite gazing down on Earth, it scans more than two dozen points from the inland desert to the coast. Every few minutes, it rumbles to life as it automatically sweeps the horizon, measuring sunlight bouncing off the surface for the unique fingerprint of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

In a storage room next door, commercially available instruments that typically monitor air quality double as climate sniffers. And in nearby Pasadena, a refurbished vintage solar telescope on the roof of a laboratory on the California Institute of Technology campus captures sunlight and sends it down a shaft 60 feet below where a prism-like instrument separates out carbon dioxide molecules.

On a recent April afternoon atop Mount Wilson, a brown haze hung over the city, the accumulation of dust and smoke particles in the atmosphere.

"There are some days where we can see 150 miles way out to the Channel Islands and there are some days where we have trouble even seeing what's down here in the foreground," said Stanley Sander, a senior research scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

What Sander and others are after are the pretty much invisible greenhouse gases spewing from factories and freeways below.

There are plans to expand the network. This summer, technicians will install commercial gas analyzers at a dozen more rooftops around the greater LA region. Scientists also plan to drive around the city in a Prius outfitted with a portable emission-measuring device and fly a research aircraft to pinpoint methane hotspots from the sky (A well-known natural source is the La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of LA where underground bacteria burp bubbles of methane gas to the surface.)

Six years ago, elected officials vowed to reduce emissions to 35 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 by shifting to renewable energy and weaning the city's dependence on out-of-state coal-fired plants, greening the twin port complex and airports and retrofitting city buildings.

It's impractical to blanket the city with instruments so scientists rely on a handful of sensors and use computer models to work backward to determine the sources of the emissions and whether they're increasing. They won't be able to zero in on an offending street or a landfill, but they hope to be able to tell whether switching buses from diesel to alternative fuel has made a dent.

Project manager Riley Duren of JPL said it'll take several years of monitoring to know whether LA is on track to reach its goal.

Scientists not involved with the project say it makes sense to dissect emissions on a city level to confirm whether certain strategies to curb greenhouse gases are working. But they're divided about the focus.

Allen Robinson, an air quality expert at Carnegie Mellon University, said he prefers more attention paid to measuring a city's methane emissions since scientists know less about them than carbon dioxide release.

Nearly 58 percent of California's carbon dioxide emissions in 2010 came from gasoline-powered vehicles, according to the U.S. Energy Department's latest figures.

In much of the country, coal ?usually as fuel for electric power ? is a major source of carbon dioxide pollution. But in California, it's responsible for a tad more than 1 percent of the state's carbon dioxide emissions. Natural gas, considered a cleaner fuel, spews one third of the state's carbon dioxide.

Overall, California in 2010 released about 408 million tons of carbon dioxide into the air. The state's carbon dioxide pollution is greater than all but 20 countries and is just ahead of Spain's emissions. In 2010, California put nearly 11 tons of carbon dioxide into the air for every person, which is lower than the national average of 20 tons per person.

Gregg Marland, an Appalachian State University professor who has tracked worldwide emissions for the Energy Department, said there's value in learning about a city's emissions and testing techniques.

"I don't think we need to try this in many places, but we have to try some to see what works and what we can do," he said.

Launching the monitoring project came with the usual growing pains. In Paris, a carbon sniffer originally tucked away in the Eiffel Tower's observation deck had to be moved to a higher floor that's off-limits to the public after tourists' exhaling interfered with the data.

So far, $3 million have been spent on the U.S. effort with funding from federal, state and private groups. The French, backed by different sponsors, have spent roughly the same.

Scientists hope to strengthen their ground measurements with upcoming launches of Earth satellites designed to track carbon dioxide from orbit. The field experiment does not yet extend to China, by far the world's biggest carbon dioxide polluter. But it's a start, experts say.

With the focus on megacities, others have worked to decipher the carbon footprint of smaller places like Indianapolis, Boston and Oakland, where University of California, Berkeley researchers have taken a different tack and blanketed school rooftops with relatively inexpensive sensors.

"We are at a very early stage of knowing the best strategy, and need to learn the pros and cons of different approaches," said Inez Fung, a professor of atmospheric science at Berkeley who has no role in the various projects.

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