Saturday, June 30, 2012

Hillshire to begin trading on NYSE

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Amnesty warns against Syria 'get-out-of-jail-free card'

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Court won't hear 'wardrobe malfunction' appeal

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2004 file photo, singers Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson are seen during their performance prior to a wardrobe malfunction during the half time performance at Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston. The Supreme Court decided Friday not to consider reinstating the government's $550,000 fine on CBS for Janet Jackson's infamous breast-bearing "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl. (AP Photo/David Phillip, file)

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2004 file photo, singers Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson are seen during their performance prior to a wardrobe malfunction during the half time performance at Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston. The Supreme Court decided Friday not to consider reinstating the government's $550,000 fine on CBS for Janet Jackson's infamous breast-bearing "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl. (AP Photo/David Phillip, file)

(AP) ? The Supreme Court decided Friday not to consider reinstating the government's $550,000 fine on CBS for Janet Jackson's infamous breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl.

The high court refused to hear an appeal from the Federal Communications Commission over the penalty.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals twice had thrown out the fine. The second time came after the Supreme Court upheld the FCC's policy threatening fines against even one-time uses of curse words on live television.

The appeals court said FCC's policy of excusing fleeting instances of indecent words and images appeared to change without notice in March 2004, a month after Jackson's halftime act. The judges said that made the agency's action against CBS "arbitrary and capricious."

But now, the FCC clearly has abandoned its exception for fleeting expletives, Chief Justice John Roberts said.

"It is now clear that the brevity of an indecent broadcast ? be it word or image ? cannot immunize it from FCC censure," he said. "Any future 'wardrobe malfunctions' will not be protected on the ground relied on by the court below."

In addition, Roberts said that calling it a "wardrobe malfunction" when Justin Timberlake ripped away part of Jackson's bustier "strained the credulity of the public."

Associated Press

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Shuttle takes quiet nettops down the Cedar Trail, intros XS35V3 and XS35GTA V3

Shuttle takes quiet nettops down the Cedar Trail, intros XS35V3 and XS35GTA V3

Nettops have slipped a bit out of vogue, but Shuttle is keeping the flame alive for those who like their desktops tiny and hushed. The XS35V3 and XS35GTA V3 have moved on to more contemporary Cedar Trail-era, 2.13GHz Atom D2700 processors that keep the power draw to a fanless 27W, even when everything is churning at full bore. That limit might get tested with the GTA variant, which brings in Radeon HD 7410M graphics for a lift to 3D performance, but neither mini desktop will exactly make the power company beg for mercy. Either is a barebones kit with the laptop-sized hard drive, optical drive and OS left to the buyer -- if you don't get them at the same time, you'll have only the HDMI, VGA, USB and card reader to keep you company. Europeans are currently the only ones getting a crack, where it costs €172 pre-tax ($214) for the XS35V3 and €233 ($290) to get its faster GTA cousin.

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Think about when you visit your favourite restaurant and how much you enjoy being there; the smell of the food, the cool music in the background, the taste of your wine and the chic decor surrounding you. Creating this perfect atmosphere can be tricky but here are some simple solutions to improve the look and feel of your very own bistro.SeatingThe last thing any customer wants is to be sitting on an uncomfortable seat. Remember that the comfier your seats are the longer your customers will want to stay and therefore the more likely they are to buy additional items off the menu. The best seats for comfort will be either sprung base seats or platform seats. Booth seating is great for restaurants as it allows customers privacy without ruining the social atmosphere and also looks stylish. It is important to note that design is as important as comfort ? if someone walking pasts likes the look of your comfy, modern bench seats this could be what encourages them to come into your restaurant. Bench seating is a great solution when you need to have a lot of seats in a smaller space and there are some really luxurious styles on the market.Wall DecorA customer?s wait for their food can sometimes seem like a lifetime, a great way to solve this is to distract them with fantastic wall decor. If you think about places you personally like to eat, their wall decorations are always interesting. To create this yourself choose one or a mixture of the following: textured wallpaper, photographs, paintings, a feature wall, innovative wall lights, documents of the buildings history and mirrors. Having out of the ordinary displays and objects to look at will really add to your customers experience at your restaurant.LightingLighting is so important in setting the mood of your establishment. In the day natural light will be all you will need the majority of the time, however come the evening, soft lighting tends to work best. The perfect lighting can be achieved by hanging lights or chandeliers that diffuse the light rather than blast it across the room. Candles on tables or small lights around tables are a great idea for allowing customers to see everything they need in a good light whilst still maintaining the soft lighting.Overall, take into account three things: seating, decor and lighting as a first step to improving your restaurant. Remember the interior design needs to be comfortable but also stylish.

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Friday, June 29, 2012

FBI takes Peter Madoff into custody in NYC

FILE - In this April 3, 2009 file photo, Peter Madoff, brother of Bernard Madoff, attends his court hearing before judge Stephen Bucaria at Mineola State Supreme Court, in Mineola, N.Y. Madoff will plead guilty on Friday, June 29, 2012, to conspiracy and falsifying records, admitting his role in the multibillion-dollar fraud that destroyed the savings of thousands of investors, prosecutors told a judge on Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, Pool, File)

FILE - In this April 3, 2009 file photo, Peter Madoff, brother of Bernard Madoff, attends his court hearing before judge Stephen Bucaria at Mineola State Supreme Court, in Mineola, N.Y. Madoff will plead guilty on Friday, June 29, 2012, to conspiracy and falsifying records, admitting his role in the multibillion-dollar fraud that destroyed the savings of thousands of investors, prosecutors told a judge on Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, Pool, File)

FILE- In this April 3, 2009 file photo, Peter Madoff exits State Supreme Court in Mineola, N.Y. The brother of Ponzi scheme king Bernard Madoff will plead guilty on Friday, June 29, 2012, to conspiracy and falsifying records, admitting his role in the multibillion-dollar fraud that destroyed the savings of thousands of investors, prosecutors told a judge on Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)

(AP) ? The younger brother of Bernard Madoff, who became an icon for financial crime after the economy collapsed in 2008, is poised to plead guilty to criminal charges and take his place in history alongside the sibling with whom he shared an office for decades.

Peter Madoff, 66, was taken into custody at his lawyer's Manhattan office around 7 a.m. EDT Friday, according to FBI spokesman J. Peter Donald. The procedure was a prelude to a court appearance scheduled a few hours later.

The plea was to take place at same Manhattan courthouse where his now 74-year-old brother was taken away in handcuffs after he was condemned to 150 years in prison in 2009 for cheating thousands of people of billions of dollars. They are the only Madoff family members to face criminal charges.

The proceeding in which Madoff is agreeing to serve 10 years in prison and surrender his assets will let investigators show what they have learned about the largest Ponzi scheme ever prosecuted in U.S. history since Bernard Madoff revealed in December 2008 that his investment business was a sham.

The government has used the cooperation of six former employees and associates of the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC to learn what went on inside the secretive business that caused close to $20 billion to vanish, leaving only a few hundred million dollars where bogus financial statements claimed there was $65 billion.

The plea by Peter Madoff to conspiracy and falsifying records charges links him again to his notorious brother, reviving a relationship in which he kept firmly behind the scenes as Bernard Madoff provided the face of the investment firm that attracted rich and famous clients with too-good-to-be-true returns.

In his 2009 guilty plea, the elder Madoff maintained that his brother had nothing to do with it ? and for more than three years, his brother stuck to the script.

"Peter Madoff is not Bernard Madoff" is how Peter Madoff's lawyers put it when defending him against harsh accusations leveled by a trustee appointed to recover stolen assets.

Details of how the multimillionaire decided to agree to a plea deal haven't been made public. His lawyer hasn't commented on it.

The FBI had been suspicious from the start about a man who had worked side by side with his scheming brother for more than 40 years.

Friends and business associates had described the brothers as very close. Their offices at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC in midtown Manhattan were a few feet apart. Their families vacationed together.

A graduate of Fordham Law School, Peter Madoff was the firm's top technocrat.

He was credited with creating a computer trading system for the firm in the late 1970s and early 1980s that was considered groundbreaking at the time. He ran the daily trading operation while his brother focused on the more secretive investment advisory arm.

He made a good enough living to own a $1.7 million home in Old Westbury, on Long Island, and a Palm Beach, Fla., vacation house that recently sold for $5.5 million.

When Bernard Madoff was arrested, Peter Madoff broke the news to Madoff Securities employees. And he was a co-signer on a $10 million bond that won his brother's release.

Through attorneys, he denied any wrongdoing.

But the denial didn't stop federal authorities from moving to freeze Peter Madoff's assets. He agreed not to dispose of his substantial fortune and promised to curtail his personal spending as the investigation moved forward. His living expenses were capped at $10,000 a month.

The court-appointed trustee also went on the attack, accusing Peter Madoff of financing his high-end lifestyle through the fraud.

A complaint filed in bankruptcy court alleged that the Madoff investment business had transferred more than $77 million to Peter Madoff. It said that between 1993 and 2008, he was paid a total of $36 million in salary and bonuses. And it identified other income for Peter Madoff as memberships to country clubs, including Glen Oaks Club in New York and one of Donald Trump's country clubs.

Given Peter Madoff's "level of financial experience and sophistication," the trustee alleged that he either knew or should have known that he reaped gains "derived from purported transactions grounded in fraud and deception."

The trustee also took aim at his daughter Shana, who once worked as an in-house lawyer at the firm and has denied involvement in the scheme.

"Had Peter, as the Chief Compliance Officer, or Shana, as Compliance Counsel, done their jobs properly, the fraud might have been revealed years earlier," the complaint said. "Either they failed completely to carry out their required supervisory/compliance roles, or they knew about the fraud but covered it up."

Defense lawyers responded by branding the complaint "a sensationalistic attempt to lump together members of the Madoff family and create liability by association." Their court papers claimed the scandal has "left Peter Madoff mired in litigation, and has devastated his family emotionally and financially."

Associated Press

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Bidding Farewell to Lonesome George

Lonesome George, the only living member of a subspecies of giant tortoise, died last weekend at his home in the Galapagos Islands. Linda Cayot, tortoise conservationist and scientific advisor to the Galapagos Conservancy, discusses the life of Lonesome George and how he fit in to the larger picture of biodiversity in the Galapagos.

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2 Muslim converts arrested in London on suspicion of terrorism

?We?re not like the Christians; if you slap us on the left cheek, we?ll slap you back,? he tells an unseen audience. ?This is so true, brother. We?re Muslims. We defend ourselves, brother.?

Islam has great appeal to the mentally ill.

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Dave Johnson: Here Is Why Our Elites Are Not Fixing The Economy

When we had democracy, We, the People made the rules and we ran our country and our economy for our benefit. Now that we are a plutocracy things are different. The reason our elites are not doing anything to fix the economy is because from their viewpoint, things are just fine.

Merriam-Webster: plu?toc?ra?cy noun \pl?-?t?-kr?-s?\

1: government by the wealthy

2: a controlling class of the wealthy

Our political leaders dance with the ones that bring them. Increasingly they are dancing with the billionaires and their giant corporations.

Our politicians are doing and saying increasingly incomprehensible things. The separation from regular people is unbelievable. But in politics you "dance with the one that brung ya," and these things become comprehensible and believable when you look at who is bringing them to the dance.

Our Benefit

In a democracy a successful business is the result of our investment in infrastructure, education, and a system that enables our businesses to thrive. A business can't deliver products except over the roads or ports or the Internet our government built. Our police and firefighters protect our businesses. Our schools and universities train and educate the inventors and managers and line workers. Our scientific research brings about the innovation that leads to new technologies and products.

"Entitlements" are the things We, the People are entitled to as citizens of a democracy. Those who do well as a result of our investment in our system pay back through taxes, good jobs and great products. When we were a democracy we were entitled to a minimal level of retirement, and health care, education, protection if we lost our jobs, protection of our environment, protection from corporate fraud, and other things that are now disappearing.

Now that democracy is gone, a wealthy few are living off our past investment, and cutting back on the things we used to do for each other.

Why All the Cuts, No Jobs?

Here is the reason that our leaders are cutting back on the things our country does for We, the People, and are not working very hard to do anything about the high unemployment and economic troubles most of us are feeling:

2010: Corporate Profits Were the Highest on Record Last Quarter

2011: Corporate Profits At All-Time High As Recovery Stumbles

2012: Corporate Profits Just Hit An All-Time High, Wages Just Hit An All-Time Low

2012: Bank CEO pay rises. Corporate profit margins rise. Worker wages, not so much.

2012: Richest 1 Percent Account For Nearly All Of U.S. Recovery's Gains: Report

The billionaires and their giant corporations are doing just fine, thank you.

The reason our leaders are not doing anything to fix the economy is because, from the viewpoint of our real leaders, the economy is working just fine.

Golden Oldie

A golden oldie (updated a bit): Democracy Or Plutocracy? A Chart

DEMOCRACYPLUTOCRACY
We, the PeopleWealthy Few
One Person One VoteOne Dollar One Vote
MajoritiesMarkets
GovernmentLimited Government
MajoritySupermajority
BudgetsBudget Cuts
Taxes on the WealthyTax Cuts for the Wealthy
InformationPropaganda
Public SchoolsPrivate Schools
EducationTraining
Studying the arts, literature, history, philosophy, etc.Mocking people for studying the arts, literature, history, philosophy, etc.
Jobs programsBank Bailouts
WelfareWarfare
Express Lanes for 2 or More PeopleExpress Lanes for 2 or More Dollars
Security Lines at AirportsSpecial First-Class Security Lanes at Airports
Public InvestmentPrivate Investment
Public TransportationPrivate Jets
AccountabilityImpunity
Rule Of LawAbove The Law
JusticeJust Us
TransparencySecrecy
Sustainable growthPolluter Growth
Medicare-For-AllHealthcare For Profit
Clean ElectionsRigged Elections
Savings AccountsOffshore Accounts
Credit Card DebtCredit Default Swaps
Union membersSerfs
LayoffsPayoffs
HomiesCronies
GrassrootsAstroturf
Pensions401Ks
Honest BrokersSelf-Interest
Free WillAt Will
CitizenConsumer
CitizenEmployee
Participant Observer
ActorActed On
DoerDone To
Healthy CommunitiesGated Communities
Bedford FallsPottersville
George BailyHenry F. Potter
SavingsDebt
America the BeautifulAmerica the Profitable
The ManyThe Rich
PeopleCogs
HumanityEfficiency

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Future-predicting system cuts app loading time

DOES your favourite app seem to be taking longer to load than it used to? That may be due to ever-richer graphics and overloaded cellphone networks, which take their toll on smartphone apps and increase the time they take to boot and retrieve information from the network on, say, train times or the weather.

A way to make them boot faster, developed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, could mean your app might one day be ready and waiting for you the moment before you need it.

Tingxin Yan and colleagues have borrowed a trick from computer science to achieve speedier loading. Called predictive caching, it involves guessing which software routines are most likely to be needed for the next stage of a computerised process - so that the right app is primed to run when called on, without booting from scratch. The system uses the phone's location and motion sensors to learn when the user typically runs the app, Yan will tell the MobiSys conference in Windermere, UK, which starts on 25 June.

Imagine that, as you walk to a railway station each day, you normally get to a certain street corner and open a train times app to see if the trains are running to schedule. The software checks the time you usually do this, senses that you are walking and preloads the app, with the current train info retrieved by the time you arrive at the corner on which you normally request it.

In tests, the software cut 6 seconds from the average 20-second boot-up time for apps on Windows phones - although it gobbled 2 per cent of the battery per day while doing so.

App author Peter Bentley at University College London sees issues. "This works great if the things being cached are entirely predictable. But what happens in an emergency when you need to use a rarely used but essential app and the phone has preloaded lots of massive apps which then have to be cleared first?"

It would be better, he says, if coders designed apps to boot faster in the first place. It also depends on the type of app. "I would see this technology better suited to those apps that are designed to be used for 30 seconds or less and which need to go online and download/upload new data."

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Both sides claim victory in Arizona immigration ruling

Opponents of Arizona's immigration law react to the Supreme Court ruling (Ross D. Franklin/AP)

President Barack Obama and some of his top Democratic allies in Congress claimed victory Monday after the Supreme Court struck down key parts of a controversial Arizona law aimed at curbing undocumented immigration. But the justices' 5-3 ruling gave Republicans something to cheer by letting stand?for now?a core provision that allows police to check the immigration status of someone they stop. After the ruling, both sides touted the decision as a win.

[Join national affairs reporter Liz Goodwin at 4 p.m. ET for a Facebook discussion of why the court allowed parts of the Arizona law to stand.]

"I am pleased that the Supreme Court has struck down key provisions of Arizona's immigration law," Obama said in a statement.?"What this decision makes unmistakably clear is that Congress must act on comprehensive immigration reform. A patchwork?of state laws is not a solution to our broken immigration system?it's part of the problem."

Meanwhile, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer immediately applauded the court's ruling as "a victory for the rule of law" and a "loss" for opponents of her state's approach. Brewer said police engaged in racial profiling would be punished.

"I am confident our officers are prepared to carry out this law responsibly and lawfully. Nothing less is acceptable," she said, noting that foes of the measure are sure to challenge it in court again if it is enforced unfairly.

The president said he was "concerned about the practical impact" of what critics have dubbed the "papers, please" provision. "We must ensure that Arizona law enforcement officials do not enforce this law in a manner that undermines the civil rights of Americans," he said.

Polls show immigration far behind the sputtering economy on the list of worries most pressing on voters' minds. But Obama has highlighted his approach to the issue as he steps up his efforts to win over and energize Latinos, a critical part of the coalition that powered his historic 2008 campaign. The president is expected to crush Mitt Romney among Latino voters, who could decide the outcome in a handful of critical battleground states.

Romney, who was due to attend a fundraiser in Arizona, said in a statement that the ruling highlighted the need for "a national immigration strategy" and accused Obama of having "failed to provide any leadership on immigration."

"I believe that each state has the duty?and the right?to secure our borders and preserve the rule of law, particularly when the federal government has failed to meet its responsibilities," Romney said, essentially contradicting the high court's findings. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing in the majority opinion, declared that the federal government's "power to determine immigration policy is well settled." He went on: "Arizona may have under?standable frustrations with the problems caused by illegal?immigration while that process continues, but the State?may not pursue policies that undermine federal law."

Later, Romney said in Phoenix that "given the failure of the immigration policy in this country," he "would have preferred to see the Supreme Court give more latitude to the states not less."

"It's become a muddle. But it didn't have to be this way," Romney said, according to a pool report of his remarks, charging that Obama had "failed to lead" on the issue and that states and local government had tried to fill the resulting vacuum.

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hailed the court's decision, calling the Arizona law "not just ill-advised but also unconstitutional," and blamed Republicans for stalling efforts to overhaul what all sides agree is a broken immigration system. Reid also took a big whack at Romney.

"It is disturbing that Mitt Romney called the unconstitutional Arizona law a 'model' for immigration reform," he said, referring to the Republican candidate's comments in a Feb. 22 debate. "Laws that legalize discrimination are not compatible with our nation's ideals and traditions of equal rights, and the idea that such an unconstitutional law should serve as a 'model' for national reform is far outside the American mainstream."

(Asked in that debate about Arizona's tough approach, Romney had pledged to drop federal lawsuits against states that take similar approaches. But aides said that his description of the state as a "model" referred to its use of E-Verify, a federal database employers can use to check work eligibility.)

Arizona's Republican senators, John McCain and Jon Kyl, said in a joint statement that they would "fully review" the ruling but vowed to keep fighting "to secure our southern border" and accused Obama of enforcing immigration rules "based on a political agenda, not the laws as written by Congress."

"We believe Arizonans are better served when state and federal officials work as partners to protect our citizens rather than as litigants in a courtroom," the senators said.

"I will work with anyone in Congress who's willing to make progress on comprehensive immigration reform that addresses our economic needs and security needs, and upholds our tradition as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants," Obama said. "And in the meantime, we will continue to use every federal resource to protect the safety and civil rights of all Americans, and treat all our people with dignity and respect."

Romney has struggled with immigration on the campaign trail: He said he would veto the DREAM Act if it passed when he was president. In a speech last week to Latino officials, he said he would offer a long-term solution that would "replace and supersede" Obama's decision to halt deportations of some 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to U.S. soil as children. But details of his plan remained vague.

The Republican base is fiercely anti-undocumented immigration. The Obama administration has carried out a record number of deportations?but conservatives accuse him of lax enforcement of the country's immigration laws.

Rick Santorum, who challenged Romney from the right, said in a statement on the court's ruling that "it's time for the federal government to step up to its constitutional responsibility to secure our borders, enforce our immigration laws fairly, and to partner with states rather than sue them to accomplish this important objective."

Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said the Supreme Court had delivered "a stern warning" to Arizona regarding the implementation of that provision.

And "this decision tells us that states cannot take the law into their own hands," he said in a statement. "The only real solution to immigration reform is a comprehensive federal law."

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Seven summer books for smarties

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Can summer reading make you smarter? Definitely!

By Alan Boyle

Just because it's summer doesn't mean you have to turn your brain off. And just because it's a science book doesn't mean it has to be boring. If you're trying to beat the heat, here are seven recently published or soon-to-be-published books that will keep your brain purring along even when you're at the beach?? or inside your air-conditioned heat-wave hideaway.

"2312": This is the only fictional work on the list, but it's a doozy. This 576-page novel from Kim Stanley Robinson (who's best-known for his Mars Trilogy) is a crime-and-politics thriller set in an era when humans have colonized most of the solar system. There's even an asteroid-mining angle, which fits well with the recent revelations about Planetary Resources' plan to build a trillion-dollar industry. Some reviewers say the book meanders too much, but isn't that part of the appeal of a summer read? "2312" is one of the books on NPR's list of summer sci-fi recommendations.?

"Before the Lights Go Out": BoingBoing's Maggie Koerth-Baker focuses on two big questions in her book about the looming energy crisis. "Why should I care about energy?" and "Now that I care, what do I do?" She teases apart what's happening to the electricity grid and other elements of the world's infrastructure, then delves into the strategies that are being developed to change energy policy as well as personal lifestyles. The subject matter is serious fare, but Koerth-Baker takes you on a readable ride ??and there's no better time than a heat wave to get smarter about global warming.

"Darwin's Ghosts": The way some people talk, you'd think the theory of evolution was born full-grown from Charles Darwin's head, like Athena springing from Zeus' brow. Novelist Rebecca Stott tells the stories of the thinkers who blazed the trail for Darwin to follow, from Aristotle, to the 9th-century Islamic scholar al-Jahiz, to Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin's lesser-known contemporary. If you're looking for a historical grand tour with a biological bent, this one's for you.

"The Ocean of Life": A sea tale always makes for great beach reading, but this one has a salty bite to it. Callum Roberts, a marine scientist at the University of York, traces how the world's oceans have changed over the decades?? and why we don't seem to notice the degradation. "Roberts is that precious pearl: a practising scientist who not only knows his field inside out, but also understands how to write compelling, persuasive non-fiction," The Guardian's Leo Hickman says. Roberts sets forth his case for a "New Deal" that could stem the tide and save the oceans.?

"Trinity": My?book list for last year's holiday season?included a graphic book about the bongo-playing pioneer of quantum physics, "Feynman." This summer's graphic recommendation is "Trinity," Jonathan Fetter-Vorm's illustrated saga about the creation of the first atom bombs and their use at the end of World War II. The thin volume covers the science of radioactivity as well as the political and moral dimensions of the Manhattan Project. Fetter-Vorm tells the tale in complex shades of gray ? literally and figuratively.

"The Violinist's Thumb": Sam Kean's tribute to the periodic table, "The Disappearing Spoon," was heaped with praise a couple of years ago, and a similar reception awaits his book about genetics and its effects on our past, present and future. Kean throws in lots of historical tales with genetic twists ? for example, why Niccolo Paganini was naturally suited to play the violin, and?why JFK's skin was perennially tan.?"Our whole history is packed into DNA, back to the proverbial soup; think of it as a really long bedtime story, and then be sure to put 'The Violinist's Thumb' by your bed," Library Journal's Barbara Hoffert writes. Due out in July.

"Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?" If you're hankering to learn more about the human body's naughty bits, psychologist Jesse Bering's book should be right up your alley. Even if you're not obsessed with the shape of sex organs or the evolution of body fluids, you'll find lots of facts to fascinate you, or maybe infuriate you, in this compilation of essays from the "Bering in Mind" blog on Scientific American's website. If this is the kind of thing you're into, be sure to check msnbc.com's Body Odd blog as well. Bering's book is due out in July.

What's on your reading list for this summer? Share your faves in a comment below, or on the Cosmic Log Facebook page. And for still more book suggestions, check out the Cosmic Log backlist:


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Monday, June 25, 2012

MLS roundup: Revolution rallies for draw

By The Associated Press

Associated Press Sports

updated 1:07 a.m. ET June 24, 2012

TORONTO (AP) - Chris Tierney scored in second-half stoppage time to complete New England's comeback and lift the Revolution to a 2-2 draw with Toronto FC on Saturday.

With the Revolution (5-7-3) trailing 2-0, Blake Brettschneider cut the deficit in half in the 71st minute as he knocked in a rebound past Toronto goalie Milos Kocic.

Danny Koevermans put Toronto (1-10-2) ahead in the 4th minute and Ryan Johnson doubled the lead in the 42nd, before it gave up a two-goal lead for the second straight game. Houston scored two late goals to pull to a 3-3 draw against Toronto on Wednesday.

Both Toronto goals came from headers inside the 18-yard box on pinpoint crosses from the left side by defender and Canadian international Ashtone Morgan.

UNION 4, SPORTING KC 0

CHESTER, Pa. (AP) - Jack McInerney scored twice and Philadelphia snapped a six-game winless skid.

Lionard Pajoy converted a penalty kick in the 81st minute after Antoine Hoppenot was fouled in the box and Hoppenot also had a goal in the 87th minute for the Union (3-8-2). Philadelphia, 0-5-1 in its previous six, won for the first time since beating Chivas USA 1-0 on April 21.

Philadelphia entered the game having scored a league-low eight goals. However, McInerney got the Union on the board early with a goal in the second minute. He added his second in the 43rd minute.

Kansas City (9-4-2) snapped its four-game unbeaten streak.

IMPACT 4, DYNAMO 2

MONTREAL (AP) - Hassoun Camara got his first MLS goal and Patrice Bernier scored on a penalty kick in the second half, lifting Montreal past Houston.

Sanna Nyassi and Davy Arnaud also scored for Montreal (5-8-3).

Will Bruin got his ninth goal and Brad Davis also scored for Houston (5-5-5). Former Impact forward Brian Ching had an assist.

Houston's Adam Moffat received a red card after bringing Montreal's Felipe Martins down hard in the 73rd minute.

The Impact took the lead when Arnaud flicked Martins' corner kick to Camara, who scored with a header at the far post in the 60th minute. After Felipe went down in the penalty area following a light shove from Geoff Cameron eight minutes later, Bernier converted the penalty kick.

FIRE 2, CREW 1

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (AP) - Marco Pappa and Dominic Oduro scored in the first 26 minutes to lead Chicago.

The victory moved the Fire (7-5-3) within three points of third-place New York in the Eastern Conference. Columbus, dominated from the start by the Fire, had entered the game with a six-match unbeaten streak (3-0-3).

The Crew's last loss was on April 28, 1-0 to Vancouver.

Pappa maneuvered to the edge of the penalty area, and using a screen, ripped a right-footed shot off the hands of diving goalkeeper Andy Gruenbaum in the second minute.

EARTHQUAKES 2, REAL SALT LAKE 1

SANDY, Utah (AP) - Reserve forward Alan Gordon scored a goal and assisted on another from Chris Wondolowski to lift San Jose past Real Salt Lake.

The victory allowed San Jose (10-3-3) to move into first place in the Western Conference. Javier Morales scored for RSL (10-5-2), which suffered its second straight home loss in MLS action and third consecutive setback at Rio Tinto Stadium overall.

The Earthquakes opened the scoring in the 76th minute when Ramiro Corrales played a long ball down to Gordon inside the box. Gordon headed the ball over Rimando before he could get to it. The ball bounced across the goal line and into the net to give San Jose a 1-0 lead.

CHIVAS USA 0, FC DALLAS 0

FRISCO, Texas (AP) - Dan Kennedy finished with three saves to help Chivas USA tie FC Dallas.

With the tie, FC Dallas (3-9-5) extended its winless streak to 11 games to set a new club record. The previous record of 10 games without a win was from July 2 to Sept. 10, 2005. FC Dallas is 0-7-4 during its winless streak and has been shutout four times during that span.

Chivas USA (5-7-4) salvaged a tie despite only managing a season-low two shots. FC Dallas finished with 13 shots.

GALAXY 3, WHITECAPS 0

CARSON, Calif. (AP) - Mike Magee, Robbie Keane and Landon Donovan scored first-half goals and Los Angeles earned its third consecutive victory.

The Galaxy opened the scoring in the 16th minute when Magee capitalized on a scramble in the box to send home his third goal of the season past Whitecaps goalkeeper Joe Cannon.

Making his first appearance for the Galaxy (6-8-2) since returning from Euro 2012 duty with Ireland, Keane went through the Whitecaps defense and doubled the Galaxy's lead in the 30th minute. On his ensuing celebration, Keane paid tribute to James Nolan, an Irish fan that died in Poland during the tournament.

Keane helped create the third goal in the 40th minute as well when he fired a shot in the box into the hand of Jay Demerit setting up a penalty kick that was converted by Donovan.

Vancouver fell to 7-4-5 on the season.

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Militants cross into Israel from Egypt, 1 killed

Israeli security forces secure the area after an attack, near the southern Israeli city of Beersheva, Monday, June 18, 2012. Unidentified militants crossed from Egypt's turbulent Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel on Monday, opening light arms and anti-tank fire on civilians building a security fence meant to fortify the porous border, defense officials said. One of the Israeli workers was killed, and two militants were gunned down by troops responding to the attack, the officials said. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israeli security forces secure the area after an attack, near the southern Israeli city of Beersheva, Monday, June 18, 2012. Unidentified militants crossed from Egypt's turbulent Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel on Monday, opening light arms and anti-tank fire on civilians building a security fence meant to fortify the porous border, defense officials said. One of the Israeli workers was killed, and two militants were gunned down by troops responding to the attack, the officials said. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Palestinians bring a wounded man to the treatment room of Al Najar Hospital following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, June 18, 2012. Palestinian medics said five Palestinians were wounded during the airstrike on a metal workshop. The Israeli military said a weapon manufacturing facility was targeted during the airstrike. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)

(AP) ? Militants crossed from Egypt's turbulent Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel on Monday and opened fire on civilians building a border security fence, defense officials said. One of the Israeli workers was killed, and two assailants died in a gunbattle with Israeli troops responding to the attack.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack, which underscored the growing lawlessness in the Sinai desert since longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was toppled by a popular uprising last year.

Military spokeswoman Lt. Col Avital Leibovich said the assailants have not been identified but acknowledged that defense officials suspected Palestinian militants in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, which also borders the Sinai desert in that same area, might have been involved.

Several hours after the attack, an Israeli airstrike killed two men riding a motorcycle in the northern Gaza Strip near the Israeli border. The Islamic Jihad militant group said the men were members on a "reconnaissance" mission and vowed revenge. Military officials said the incident was not connected to the earlier infiltration from Egypt.

Israeli security officials have grown increasingly anxious about the security situation in the Sinai since Mubarak's ouster. Continued political turmoil in Egypt, weak policing in the Sinai and tough terrain have all encouraged Islamic militant activity in the area. The mountainous desert now harbors an array of militant groups, including Palestinian extremists and al-Qaida-inspired jihadists, Egyptian and Israeli security officials say. The tumultuous situation surrounding Egyptian elections, in which Islamic groups made a strong showing, has added to Israeli unease.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Army Radio that there has been "a worrisome deterioration of Egyptian control" over the Sinai. Barak said he expected the winner of this week's presidential elections in Egypt to honor the country's international obligations ? an apparent reference to Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel. The Muslim Brotherhood has said it would respect the historic peace accord but that it would also seek modifications.

Vice Premier Shaul Mofaz, a former defense minister and military chief, said he hoped Israel could conduct a security dialogue with the Egyptians and demand more forceful policing in the Sinai.

"No doubt Sinai has become a security problem," Mofaz told Army Radio. "Today's incident ratchets it up a notch."

There was no immediate comment from Egypt on the attack.

Following Mubarak's ouster, Israel stepped up construction of a security fence across the 230-kilometer (150-mile) border with Egypt in a bid to keep out both militants and illegal migrants from Africa. The government has said it expects the fence to be completed by the end of the year.

In Monday's attack, two civilian vehicles carrying construction workers were driving toward the security fence when militants activated a roadside bomb and opened light arms and anti-tank fire at them, said Leibovich, the military spokeswoman.

One of the vehicles was struck and turned over into a nearby ditch, killing one worker, she said. Israeli troops rushed to the area and engaged in a gunbattle with the militants. One militant, who was carrying a large explosive device, blew up, she said. Another militant, and possibly two others, also died, but other gunmen may have escaped back into Egypt, she said.

The militants were carrying camouflage uniforms, flak jackets, helmets and assault rifles, she said. There was no word on their identities or membership in any of a wide range of armed groups.

Leibovich said Israelis living in five small communities in the area were instructed to lock themselves inside their homes, and two major southern roads were closed to civilian traffic while troops scoured the area for other militants. The military later concluded no other gunmen were in the area.

Israel had been bracing for the possibility of more attacks from the Sinai after two rockets believed fired from there struck southern Israel over the weekend, though Leibovich said it was unclear whether the two events were related.

The magnitude of the growing threat from Sinai was driven home last August, when gunmen from Sinai infiltrated Israel and ambushed vehicles on a desert highway, killing eight Israelis. Six Egyptians were killed in Israel's subsequent hunt for the militants, causing a diplomatic crisis between the two neighbors that ended with an Israeli apology.

The deadly August attack shattered decades of calm along the frontier area, prompting officials on both sides of the border to examine security arrangements and pushing Israel to speed up construction of the border fence.

As part of its landmark first peace treaty with an Arab state, Israel agreed in 1979 to return the Sinai, captured in the 1967 Mideast war, to Egypt, but insisted the vast desert triangle separating Asia from Africa be significantly demilitarized. As the frontier area grew more volatile following Mubarak's ouster, Israel allowed thousands more Egyptian troops to police the area and has beefed up its own military deployment along the border.

The reinforced security deployment has not quieted the Sinai, however, and democratic elections for parliament and president did not resolve the instability in Egypt, which has Israel worried about the future of the 1979 peace accord.

The ruling Egyptian military dissolved the newly elected parliament and assumed sweeping powers subordinating the president and ensuring their hold on the state. The Muslim Brotherhood, which declared early Monday that its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, won this week's presidential election, has challenged the military's power grab, raising the prospect of a power struggle between Egypt's two strongest forces.

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John Lundberg: Should Students Be Memorizing Poetry?

How much value is there in memorizing poetry? Britain's education secretary, Michael Gove, apparently thinks there's a pretty significant amount. He's requiring all of the UK's grammar school children to memorize and recite poems as part of a new, more rigorous national curriculum.

The Guardian summarized some of Gove's plans:


From Year 1, at the age of five, children will be read poems by their teacher as well as starting to learn simple poems by heart and practise recitals.

The programme of study for Year 2 will state that pupils should continue "to build up a repertoire of poems learnt by heart and recite some of these, with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear".

I don't believe that memorization is common practice in the American education system. At least, I don't remember ever being asked to memorize a poem in school. I think it's significant, though, that the only strong memory I have of studying poetry before college is having to engage with a poem: to reorder some of T.S. Eliot's lines to create a "new" poem. I remember wrestling with what Eliot's images meant before I could do anything with them. I also remember becoming vividly aware, for the first time, of poetry's music, and feeling a little thrill from getting the chance to manipulate it. It was power. Something like giving a boy (admittedly, kind of a geeky boy) a real bow and arrow.

Memorization, I think, has a similar effect. In a Poetry Foundation podcast on the pleasures of memorizing verse, poet Dan Beachy-Quick eloquently described how memorization "inscribes" a poem in one's mind more than a simple reading ever could:

Memorizing a poem, in a strange sort of way, gives that poem access to you more than you're giving yourself access to it. Which is to say that putting the poem in oneself -- in one's memory and mind -- and going through this rote activity until every line of it, every syllable... is present in me, leaves the poem in me. And it's as if it creates a new channel of intelligence in me that isn't mine at all.

Beachy-Quick had just memorized William Bronk's poem "The World," which is kind of an easy one (just four beautiful and melancholy lines). You can feel the "drift of the world" pulling the poem apart as you read it:

I thought that you were an anchor in the drift of the world;
but no: there isn't an anchor anywhere.
There isn't an anchor in the drift of the world. Oh no.
I thought you were. Oh no. The drift of the world.

Reading Bronk's poem reminded me why I memorize poems today. A poem can be a sort of anchor in the drift of the world. Whether it serves as a bit of wisdom that helps keep you centered, or, in my case, as a feeling, a moment of beauty and power that helps keep my other feelings in perspective.

The poet and critic Clive James feels even more strongly than I do. He wrote in his book Cultural Amnesia that "the future of the humanities as a common possession depends on the restoration of a simple, single ideal: getting poetry by heart."

Do you agree? Or do you think forcing a kid to memorize a Shakespeare sonnet is no more useful than forcing him to eat a brussels sprout? Share your thoughts below. And let me know if you had to memorize any poems in school -- and if you still remember them!

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