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Monday, August 5, 2013

Buoy 10 sportfishing opens with decent catches; should heat up in ...

ASTORIA -- Not many boats ventured onto the lower Columbia River estuary Thursday for the opening of the popular Buoy 10 salmon season.

It's early, after all, and the Pacific Ocean outside the river's mouth has plenty of salmon still stuffing themselves before wandering inshore and upriver in the next few weeks.

Still, dozens who trolled the entrance to Youngs Bay found willing biters. Many were the highly prized, fat-laden, select-area bright chinook, released from pens to return as commercial prizes.

They're missing left ventral fins, if you're wondering how to tell.

That's important, because this is also the first year of significant returns from another type of hatchery-raised chinook, the tule, also now being released in the bay. They have almost no fat, are nearly ready to spawn when they hit freshwater and are barely marketable. But the hatchery releases were moved away from Big Creek, a small local tributary, to reduce straying onto wild tule chinook spawning beds.

This is likely the last season anglers will get this kind of shot at the select area brights. Legislation recently signed into law by Gov. John Kitzhaber will create a no-sportfishing buffer off Youngs Bay by the 2014 fishing season. The intent is to reduce angler interception of the far more valuable fish in partial exchange for shifting commercial gill-nets off the mainstem Columbia.

BUOY 10 Caution! Don't forget the new barbless-hook rules apply to the Buoy 10 fishery as well as the rest of the Columbia and lower Willamette rivers.

Law enforcement boats spent most of the morning Thursday checking the fleet of anglers outside the bay.

Regulations also allow only one chinook per day inside the estuary (but two-salmon/steelhead overall) and no jacks west of Tongue Point. Coho, but not chinook, must be missing an adipose fin.

Duck/goose seasons set: Duck seasons will look just about like last year, but goose hunters are getting some significant expansions this fall.

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission set fall bird seasons Friday at their monthly meeting in Eugene.

For the first time since restrictive goose regulations began in northwest Oregon, hunters on Sauvie Island's public hunting area will be allowed to take snow geese on certain hunt days. All northwest goose zone permit rules will be in effect and a northwest zone permit will be required. Snow goose hunting will close if a single dusky Canada goose is shot. Officers will watch closely for anyone accidentally shooting a swan.

There will be no more "dark goose" designation. Instead there will be seasons for Canada geese and white-fronted geese, which will get their own category and bag limit (six per day in most areas).

The September goose daily limit has been increased to five in eastern Oregon and the white goose limit in Malheur County will double to 20 per day.

The major changes to duck hunting are a reduction in scaup, with a shorter season (starts Nov. 2 in zone 1) and bag limit (three daily), and an increase in canvasback bag limits to two per day instead of one.

All other duck hunting will mirror last fall.

The Oregon bird-hunting synopsis will be published sometime in the next few weeks and available at all outlets.

Sturgeon retention in 2014: The commission also set 2014 angling regulations Friday.

Highlights include the statewide shift to catch and release fishing only for sturgeon...EXCEPT: Beginning next year, sturgeon can be kept in the Willamette River above (south of) Willamette Falls. Limit is one per day, two per season, between 38 and 54 inches fork length. There are pockets of sturgeon up there, mostly holdovers from years past when baby sturgeon were planted. ?

The commission also approved extension of the no-fishing sanctuary on the Willamette all the way down to the railroad bridge between Milwaukie and Lake Oswego. That means no sturgeon fishing at all, even catch and release, from May 1 to Aug. 31.

Halibut hearings: Anglers are asked to attend public meetings beginning next week to voice their opinions about 2014 halibut fishing seasons and 2015-16 groundfish seasons.

Meetings all begin at 7 p.m. and are set for: Tuesday, Tillamook office of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife; Wednesday, Holiday Inn Express, Newport; Monday, Aug. 12, Best Western Beachfront Inn, Brookings; Tuesday, Aug. 13, North Bend Public Library.

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/bill_monroe/index.ssf/2013/08/post_86.html

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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Bizarre crystals reveal underground magma 'highway'

The deadly 1963-1965 eruption of Iraz? contained lava that pushed through the earth's 20-mile thick crust in about a year, reveal crystals from deep below the Earth's surface. Conventional wisdom says magma needs hundreds or thousands of years to make the trip.

By Liz Fuller-Wright,?Correspondent / August 1, 2013

A lake occupies one of the summit craters of Iraz?, one of Costa Rica's most active volcanoes. Iraz? rises to 11260 feet (3432 m) near the capital city of San Jos? and is the country's highest volcano. This crater lake, seen in 1996 from the southern crater rim, has been the source of many historical eruptions.

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Not all volcanoes are created equal. Sometimes magma screams upward ? in the kimberlite tubes that bring diamonds to the surface, magma flies upward at over 800 miles per hour ? but that's very unusual, and limited to small volcanoes. Most magma, especially in big volcanoes, is slow and steady ? more tortoise than hare. Right?

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Not necessarily, says Philipp Ruprecht, a volcanologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York. "We like to call it the highway from hell," said his co-author Terry Plank, a geochemist at Lamont-Doherty, in a press release.

In an article published in today's Nature, Drs. Ruprecht and Plank describe fast-moving magmas not just in tiny volcanoes or kimberlite tubes, where it might be expected, but in a huge, long-lived volcano in Costa Rica.

"That's the interesting story, really, that such a fast transport mechanism exists even in these long-lasting, large stratovolcanic systems that are thought to operate on much longer time scales," says Ruprecht.

They examined Iraz?, a massive volcano in Costa Rica. Reaching over 11,000 feet tall and spreading across 200 square miles, Iraz? is the tallest volcano in Costa Rica, and one of the most active. It has erupted two dozen times in the past 300 years, most famously emerging from a 23-year dormant period to shower ash over President John F. Kennedy's visit to Costa Rica in March 1963.

"Typically, magma moves upward, usually by cracking the rocks above it and creating a space for the magma to go into," explains Ruprecht, "taking steady steps toward the magma chamber. In this study, it was a much more rapid ascent."

In other words, sometimes it skips the long trip up the stairs in favor of the express elevator to the penthouse.

This could have important implications for volcano prediction, which is still more art than science. If magma is rising through the crust less than a year before the eruption, that means that tracking the movement could help scientists warn of an imminent eruption.

Unfortunately, the earthquakes caused by magma tend to be very small, only magnitude 1 or 2, and very, very deep ? miles below the surface. The global earthquake system is better at catching big, shallow earthquakes, around magnitude 3 or higher, says Ruprecht. It's a princess-and-the-pea problem: tiny, deep earthquakes can only be felt by very, very sensitive equipment located on the flanks of the volcano itself.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/science/~3/Uo2_t6CW6lE/Bizarre-crystals-reveal-underground-magma-highway

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Zimbabwe's MDC considers protests against Mugabe landslide

By Ed Cropley

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Friday it could take to the streets to challenge President Robert Mugabe's victory in an election it rejects as a farce and which faces skepticism from the West.

No results of the presidential vote on July 31 have been announced. But Mugabe's ZANU-PF has already claimed a resounding win and interim tallies of the parliamentary count suggest a massive victory for the 89-year-old, Africa's oldest president, who has ruled since independence from Britain in 1980.

While the African Union's monitoring mission chief has called Wednesday's peaceful polls generally "free and fair" - Western observers were kept out by Harare - domestic monitors have described them as "seriously compromised" by registration flaws that may have disenfranchised up to a million people.

Observers from the Southern African Development Community, a regional grouping, described the elections as "free and peaceful" and called on MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai to accept the result.

Tsvangirai, who faces political annihilation in his third attempt to oust Mugabe at the ballot box, has already denounced the election as a "huge farce" marked by polling day irregularities and intimidation by ZANU-PF.

Western rejection of the regional African verdict on the Zimbabwean election could stir tensions with the continent, while acceptance of Mugabe's victory will be slammed in countries where he is derided as a ruthless despot responsible for rights abuses and trashing the economy.

The mood on the streets of the capital Harare was subdued on Friday as the MDC's top leadership met at its headquarters to chart their next move, with everything from a legal challenge to street protests on the table.

"Demonstrations and mass action are options," party spokesman Douglas Mwonzora said.

"DAYLIGHT ROBBERY"

Some disappointed voters expressed disbelief at the election outcome. "This is daylight robbery, but I think the MDC should have realized that, without violence, ZANU-PF would still do something to cheat," said McDonald Sibanda, a 34-year old insurance salesman.

"I'm disgusted by all this."

An MDC protest campaign against the results could elicit a fierce response from security forces and pro-Mugabe militias, who were accused of killing 200 MDC supporters after Mugabe lost the first round of the last election in 2008.

"We didn't expect this to happen," one senior MDC official who lost his seat told Reuters. "We're gutted."

Zimbabwe's former colonial ruler Britain, a sharp critic of Mugabe in the past, said it was concerned that Zimbabwe had not enacted important electoral reforms before the vote and by reports that large numbers of voters had been turned away.

The U.S. government, which maintains sanctions in place against Mugabe, said "a peaceful and orderly election day does not by itself guarantee a free and fair outcome".

"Now the critical test is whether voting tabulation is conducted in a credible and transparent manner, and whether the outcome truly reflects the will of the people of Zimbabwe," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said in Washington.

Europe and the United States now face the awkward decision of what to do with the sanctions they have in place against Mugabe and his inner circle.

WHAT WILL WEST DO?

The Western skepticism contrasted with the assessment made by the AU election observer team leader, former Nigerian military leader and civilian president Olusegun Obasanjo, who while acknowledging "minor incidents" surrounding the July 31 poll said they were not enough to affect the overall result.

Obasanjo, whose own re-election in Nigeria in 2003 was marked by violence and widespread fraud allegations, broadly declared Zimbabwe's elections 'free and fair' on Wednesday within half an hour of the polls closing. He repeated that line after a meeting with Mugabe on Thursday.

Tsvangirai has emphatically called the election "not credible" and appealed to the AU to investigate.

But Obasanjo declined to comment on his assertion, calling him "an interested party".

The AU verdict, echoed by President Jacob Zuma of Zimbabwe's powerful neighbor South Africa, suggest the MDC's appeals for external pressure on Mugabe may be falling on deaf ears

Zuma, main guarantor of the unity government in Zimbabwe brokered after the 2008 unrest, focused on the orderly conduct of the poll. He ignored Mugabe's refusal to heed calls from the MDC and international observers to reform bias in the state media and security forces, conditions specifically stipulated in the unity administration deal.

"Something good has happened in Zimbabwe. The elections were so peaceful," he told the SABC state broadcaster.

But a Mugabe victory would pose problems for the West.

"This leaves the EU and U.S. in an extremely difficult situation," said Piers Pigou, director of the southern Africa project of International Crisis Group in Johannesburg.

The European Union, which relaxed some sanctions early this year after a new constitution was approved in a referendum, said it was too early to assess the election's fairness.

Given the sanctions, the view from the West is key to the future of Zimbabwe's economy, which is still struggling with the aftermath of a decade-long slump and hyperinflation that ended in 2009 when the worthless Zimbabwe dollar was scrapped.

(Additional reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa and Cris Chinaka in Harare, Jon Herskovitz and Pascal Fletcher in Johannesburg; Editing by Pascal Fletcher and Giles Elgood)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zimbabwes-mdc-considers-protests-against-mugabe-landslide-111310644.html

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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Remembering Mahmoud: Iran?s Ahmadinejad Rides Into a Nuclear Sunset

Shortly after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office as Iran?s president eight memorable years ago, a walk-up window appeared in the face of a building just off a leafy square in eastern Tehran. ?President?s Public Relations Office,? the sign read but the window functioned more as a kind of post office. Five days a week, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. the clerk stationed there accepted letters from ordinary Iranians who traveled for hours, sometimes days, to deposit their requests to the first Iranian president who bore a resemblance to themselves.

This is not as scary as it might sound. Iranian political culture had been the playground of Persia?s elites for more than a millennium, and for all the egalitarian slogans of the 1979 Revolution, remained so in the Islamic Republic; a chapter title in one of the better books about modern Iran was telling: ?The Mullah Wore Beautiful Shoes.? So was the shorthand for a businessman with connections: ?the son of a cleric.? In that context, it becomes easier to grasp the profound early populist appeal of the banty pol who leaves office on Saturday.

Ahmadinejad lived in the modest townhouse he grew up in, right around the corner from the walk-up window. He wore a zippered jacket to work. Everything about him ? including the taunts of moneyed North Tehran swells that he needed a bath ? suggested that this was a man who understood the concerns of workaday citizens, who were nonetheless gratified when he asked them to write down their specific needs and bring them by in person.

Seven out of ten, according to the man in the window, asked for money.

Mind you this was back when Iran was still flush, years before the sanctions on oil sales and international banking transactions crippled the economy and sent the rial reeling. But even when it was still awash in petrodollars, the Islamic Republic had been a fiscal basket case, a command economy (80 percent of which is directly controlled by the state) dependent on petroleum sales for the hard currency it then used to import gasoline. Every Iranian knew that Turkey, the next door neighbor with the same number of people and a fraction of the natural blessings, had become an economic titan during the 30 years Iran ran in place. What Iran led the world in, according to UN figures, was opium addiction. ?When Tehran wanted to raise the quality of life, it began providing hot lunches to civil servants, who dutifully wrapped up the plates of rice and carried them home to the family as dinner.

Nuclear power, Israel? all the preoccupations that formed the West?s views on Ahmadinejad barely registered as controversies inside Iran. By the time the new president put out his call for epistle, he had already called the Holocaust a myth and been quoted saying Israel should be ?wiped off the map.? He might not have actually uttered the phrase ? it?s entirely possible it was a mis-translation of a less vivid saying (that Israel will disappear amid ?the the sands of time?) ? but the point is he never denied the quote, so pleased was he by the uproar that surrounded him like a force field. He was comfortable standing at the center of controversy, smiling his smug smile.

So it was that Ahmadinejad returned Iran to the role many Americans, at least, found familiar and even comfortable: Arch-villain. After his 2005 election, there was a flurry of reports that Iran?s new president had been among the students who took over the US embassy in 1979, precipitating the hostage crisis that still defines the relationship three decades later. The reports were not true, but the newcomer?s abrupt arrival on the international scene ? out of nowhere ? was embraced as helpful and clarifying by those not entirely sure what to make of his predecessor, the librarian Mohammed Khatami, a reformist president who spoke not of the Great Satan but of a ?dialogue between civilizations.?? Where?s the fun in that?

Politically, Ahmadinejad truly was a product of the fringe. I first saw him at Friday prayers on the campus of Tehran University, campaigning in the center of a small cluster of the Basij, a nationalist irregular militia, and other regime loyalists who show up there each week. He had been mayor of Tehran for two years yet registered so feebly in the presidential electoral reckoning that a week before election day the leading reformist daily did not even include him in its candidate roundup. But he was catching fire below the radar, his campaign posters done in austere black and white, and prime time campaign video a truly moving portrait of a man who savored contact with common people.

?I saw him on television,? a shopkeeper named Jafar Shalde told me later, in a Caspian Sea town called Shaft. ?I just looked at him and saw he was just like us. So I told everybody I knew ? for example, my kids ? I told them to vote for him.?

He didn?t travel very well, though. When Ahmadinejad came to New York each autumn for the UN General Assembly, US journalists lined up to engage him in interviews. Most came away befuddled, unable to square his supremely confident manner with a frame of reference so far from their own reality. Iranians know that regime hard-liners talk mostly to each other, reinforcing their own peculiar world view, which outsiders can take or leave. But as Iran?s nuclear program became one of the world?s major preoccupations, his insistence on his own reality aggravated the situation.

It was always true that, as president, Ahmadinejad had almost no power over the nuclear program, which remains under the direct control of? Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the unelected cleric who holds ultimate power in Iran. But Ahmadinejad was entirely appropriate as its ?spokesman. His was the face of Iran?s lurch to the right. The jackboot suppression of the Green Movement four years ago was carried out in his behalf, to assure the re-election of a candidate ? a veteran of both the Basij and the Revolutionary Guard Corps, a man of the people who visited a different province every second week, always setting out oversized boxes to collect all those letters (200,000 poured in at the poorest province of them all) ? Khamenei must have thought almost too good to be true.

Turns out he was. In his second term, Ahmadinejad broke with the Leader, challenging the dominance of conservative clerics while building a cadre of his own. The infighting went on for years, and if it was at times entertaining ? at one point involving allegations of sorcery ? it was because it was playing out on the far-right fringe of the political spectrum where Iranian politics had been allowed to drift.

By then, the US-led sanctions were in place, and with its banking system frozen Iran was bartering tea from India in exchange for oil. The economy that Ahmadinejad had promised to make responsive to working women and men ? ?to put oil money on the sofre ? or dining cloth ? was a shambles. And guess who got the blame? The June election was won in a single round by the candidate who most emphasized the need to end Iran?s isolation, and on Saturday, Ahmadinejad will attend the inauguration of Hassan Rouhani, a man who is everything the departing incumbent is not: a cleric, worldly, educated abroad, fluent in English, and long a fixture of Iran?s ruling elite.

Rouhani tweets: ?Talking impudently against the enemy is not the solution.? ?And: ?The country is now encountered with a 42% inflation as well as unemployment. #Rouhani? Who has time for a letter any more?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/remembering-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-rides-nuclear-sunset-163856056.html

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Cat Attacks Birds On TV Every Single Time (VIDEO)

Look, we say this a lot, but this time we mean it. This is our new favorite cat. See, the key here is consistency. When the opening notes of this television show's theme song play, you can count on this cat to stop whatever it might be doing ? sleeping, hanging out in the cat tree ? and attack these birds each...

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Mediacom Upgrades Broadband Service in 22 MN Counties ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]GRAND RAPIDS, MN ? July 31, 2013 ? Mediacom Communications announced today it has given a speed boost to 73 communities in rural Minnesota where the company now provides download speeds of 105 ... The higher-speed Internet service, Ultra 105, uses the technology known as DOCSIS 3.0 to provide Internet users with download speeds of up to 105 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 10 Mbps. Mediacom officials describe recent network improvements as ...

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Hillsdale College President Under Fire for Race Comments

The president of Hillsdale College is under fire for saying Michigan state officials once visited the campus to determine if enough "dark ones" were enrolled.

Larry Arnn, the president of the private college ? ranked a top conservative school by the Young America's Foundation ? made the remark Wednesday during a subcommittee hearing on state standards, the Detroit Free Press reported.

Arnn told lawmakers several weeks before he became president of the school in 2000, the state of Michigan sent a group of people to his campus with clipboards to "look at the colors of people?s faces and write down what they saw."

Arnn said his college doesn?t keep those kinds of records, and added: "What were they looking for besides dark ones?"

Lawmakers quickly jumped on the comments.

"You?re the president of a college. I would expect better out of you," Democratic state Rep. David Knezek charged, later calling on Arnn to apologize.

The college later issued a statement clarifying Arnn's intentions.

"No offense was intended by the use of that term except to the offending bureaucrats, and Dr. Arnn is sorry if such offense was honestly taken," the Free Press reported. "But the greater concern, he believes, is the state-endorsed racism the story illustrates."

College officials said they believe federal and state officials are forcing Hillsdale to count its students by race.

Jan Ellis, spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Education, denied the department ever sent anyone to Hillsdale to identify students by race, the Free Press reported.

Former Michigan Parent Teacher Association president Shaton Berry told the Free Press she was "completely flabbergasted."

"I?m disappointed that in this day and age, we still have people using references like that," said Berry, who was at the meeting. "But I?m not shocked."

But Arnn also found some support amid the furor.

"I think this was Dr. Arnn's way to indicate that he was offended with what they were doing in taking clipboards and walking around campus to record the color of students' skin," one Hillsdale alum told Mlive.com.

The conservative college, founded in 1844, rejects all federal and state funding to help guarantee its independence.

It also was the first college in America whose charter prohibited discrimination.

Source: http://www.newsmax.com/US/hillsdale-college-president-dark/2013/08/01/id/518326

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Friday, August 2, 2013

UFC? 166: VELASQUEZ vs. DOS SANTOS 3 Open Workout

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UFC hits Toyota Center for an open workout for Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos to Promote their fight on October 19,2013.

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Internet Business Tips ? Best Practice Email Marketing Rule #5 ...

How many emails are too many? Exactly how often should you deliver them? There is no conclusive best practice email marketing standard for this and a lot of discussion still goes on about it. This is because the number and regularity could depend upon a few different factors. Here are some thoughts that might help.

What do your subscribers expect?

The one thing they do not expect is to have their inboxes flooded with your emails. If you are promoting a free 7-day weight loss plan and your subscribers need to take particular actions each day, it is reasonable for them to hear from you every day to check on their progress. In fact, this would be good follow-up, as it would show you are interested in helping them.

On the other hand, if your customers have signed up for a weekly newsletter, they would not expect to hear from you every day. This appears to be overkill and looks like you are trying too hard to market your services or product. If you are writing to clients regularly and there is a blend of free information and marketing material, daily emails are probably too much. There is a likelihood that ultimately they will tire of it and unsubscribe.

One successful marketer recommends your need to stay in touch with your customers on a weekly basis, although I notice when he is promoting a particular product he will write daily or every second day. Another marketer is running an Internet training workshop and the emails arrive daily. While you do not need to open them every single day, as the videos are accessible later, I find it irritating. It is good content, but it is simply too much too often.

Test and analyze

The best marketers test and analyze, so they know what is the optimal number of emails to send to get the most clickthroughs. To get the best results, we should all do this. Other than trial and error, this is the only real way we can know how to get the best results. Trial and error can work but it can also waste a lot of valuable time and result in too many lost sales.

Conventional wisdom claims the bigger the listing; the more often you can send out emails. But, based on studies done by marketing companies, this can work against you, since the more you send over a longer time period the fewer responses you get. The risk is subscribers can go from not replying to deleting the emails without even opening them. Then you have lost them.

Just how many emails are too many? You will have to test this for yourself, however I think this is one case where less is more. I want the receivers to open up more of them and read them, and I prefer to build a lasting relationship. I do not want them to press the delete or spam button.

Best practice email marketing means most of your emails get opened, which means more clickthroughs and more sales. You will find more money-making online web marketing tips when you visit http://www.marketingontheinternetnow.info William Burnell has several years experience as an Internet marketer and knows how challenging it can be.

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Guided growth of nanowires leads to self-integrated circuits

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Annual Utah outdoor show features lighter gear

John Evans, a marketing director for Petzl, looks on during set up at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Salt Lake City. The Outdoor Retailer Summer Market opens for a four-day run Wednesday. More than 1,300 manufacturers and suppliers are packing every square inch of the floor of a Salt Lake City convention hall. Utah has become a cottage industry for innovators and established brands including Petzl, best known for its headlamps and climbing gear.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Ryan Perry, products manager, Brunton of Boulder, Colo., displays a Primus easy light lantern during set up at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Salt Lake City. The Outdoor Retailer Summer Market opens for a four-day run Wednesday. More than 1,300 manufacturers and suppliers are packing every square inch of the floor of a Salt Lake City convention hall. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Tania Bjornlie, from Patagonia, holds one of the new Patagonia day packs a during set up at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Salt Lake City. The Outdoor Retailer Summer Market opens for a four-day run Wednesday. More than 1,300 manufacturers and suppliers are packing every square inch of the floor of a Salt Lake City convention hall. ?The industry is doing well. Patagonia has weathered the storm,? said Bjornlie, a trade-show manager for the Ventura, Calif.-based industry giant long known for its sleek outdoor clothing. Patagonia is now showing off a new line of day packs. ?Everything at the show is getting more technical, lighter, faster,? Bjornlie said. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Brent Merriam, vice president of sales, NEMO Equipment Inc., Dover, N.H., lays in the Tango Duo Slim sleeping bag with Slipcover 2P 20R during set up at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Salt Lake City. The Outdoor Retailer Summer Market opens for a four-day run Wednesday. More than 1,300 manufacturers and suppliers are packing every square inch of the floor of a Salt Lake City convention hall. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Walter Kaihatu, vice president of sales and marketing, Brunton of Boulder, Colo., holds a hydrogen battery pack as it charges a cell phone during set up at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Salt Lake City. The Outdoor Retailer Summer Market opens for a four-day run Wednesday. More than 1,300 manufacturers and suppliers are packing every square inch of the floor of a Salt Lake City convention hall. Brunton says the battery takes hydrogen out of water and mixes ambient oxygen when it?s time to charge a cell phone. ?It?s the lightest, toughest, most portable hydrogen reactor,? said Kaihatu. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? It's a showcase of technology for everything from socks that can take a beating to water bottles equipped with battery-powered ultraviolet purifiers.

At the world's largest trade show for outdoor gear, one trend this year is lighter or more powerful equipment. The makers of a pint-sized hydrogen battery say it can give a cellphone five complete charges before it needs a recharge itself. Others are showcasing solar cells that roll up for easy packing.

Also on display was a $2,000 kayak from Wenonah Canoe that weighs only 32 pounds. "The hard part about making it light is making it strong," said Michael Looman of the Winona, Minn.-based company.

The Outdoor Retailer Summer Market opens for a four-day run Wednesday. More than 1,300 manufacturers and suppliers are packing the floor of a Salt Lake City convention hall, plus three outdoor canopy tents. The summer and winter trade shows have been a mainstay in Utah since 1996, drawing consistently larger crowds, although attendance leveled off this year.

More than 25,000 people are expected at the trade show this week, many of them retailers, who are placing bulk orders for specialty outdoor shops around the world. Exhibitors were unpacking crates Tuesday, displaying a merchandise bazaar that would make a consumer drool ? except the public isn't allowed inside.

"This show has morphed into a mecca for the outdoor action-sports world," says Peter Kray, publisher of the Gear Institute of Santa Fe, N.M., a network of outdoor gear testers and experts who try out and promote the best gear.

A number of magazines and websites, including gearjunkie.com, also rate the gear and fashions to come out of the Salt Lake show before the new products hit the mainstream. Kray's picks include Smith Chroma Pop lenses ? "awesome color" ? and an improvement on Easton tent poles that nearly doubles their strength and flexibility in heavy winds.

Kray also is celebrating a hydration bladder not for water, but whisky or tequila ? "perfect," he says.

Even socks have come a long way, with more than 100 companies in a foot race to stich the finest wool blends. A pair can cost $25, but makers say they last practically a lifetime. Cabot Hosiery Mills Inc. says its Darn Tough Vermont socks can withstand 30,000 machine rubs before wearing thin.

The trade show brought out a dozen sock makers. At an exhibit for SmartWool, product manager Robert Thomas showed off his most expensive socks, $27 a pair. "These will outlast your hiking shoes," he said.

The jam-packed expo underscores a thriving corner of the economy. Outdoor-gear sales have grown at 5 percent or more annually through recent years of recession, analysts said.

"The industry is doing well. Patagonia has weathered the storm," said Tania Bjornlie, a trade-show manager for the Ventura, Calif.-based industry giant long known for its sleek outdoor clothing.

Patagonia is showing off a new line of day packs. "Everything at the show is getting more technical, lighter, faster," Bjornlie said.

Utah has become a cottage industry for innovators and established brands including Petzl, best known for its headlamps and climbing gear. Petzl says business is growing steadily: It's opening a new factory in a Salt Lake City suburb.

Outdoor sports "is a passion for a lot of people," said John Evans, a Petzl marketing director. "Even if the economy is not running at full steam, people still pursue their passions."

A hydrogen battery pack the size of a deck of cards can be found at an exhibit for Brunton, a subsidiary of Stockholm-based Fenix Outdoor AB., which specializes in navigation, optics and now, "portable power."

At $150, Brunton's hydrogen battery pack can be recharged at retail shops for $8 a pop. Brunton says the battery takes hydrogen out of water and mixes ambient oxygen when it's time to charge a cellphone or other electronic device.

"It's the lightest, toughest, most portable hydrogen reactor," said Walter Kaihatu, vice president for sales and marketing at Boulder, Colo.-based Brunton. "It has really high capacity. It can charge a cellphone five times from dead, and works in a range of temperatures."

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Full body illusion is associated with a drop in skin temperature

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers used virtual reality technology with a specialized robotic system to test what happens when the mind is tricked into identifying with another body.

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JP Morgan to pay $410 Million for manipulating California energy market

WASHINGTON, D.C.
July 30, 2013 11:43am

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JP Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation, a unit of the giant New York banking company JP Morgan Chase & Co., has agreed to pay a fine and refund ?unjust? profits totaling $410 million, the federal government says.

That, says the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, will settle its complaint that the Morgan unit manipulated the California and Michigan electric markets from September 2010 through November 2012.

FERC investigators determined that JP Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation engaged in 12 manipulative bidding strategies designed to make profits from older power plants that were usually out of the money in the marketplace because they were inefficient.

FERC investigators further determined that JPMVEC knew that the California Independent System Operator and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator received no benefit from making inflated payments to the company, thereby defrauding the ISOs by obtaining payments for benefits that the company did not deliver beyond the routine provision of energy.

FERC investigators also determined that JPMVEC?s bids displaced other generation and altered day ahead and real-time prices from the prices that would have resulted had the company not submitted the bids.

Under the agreement, JPMVEC will pay a civil penalty of $285 million to the U.S. Treasury and disgorge $125 million in unjust profits. The first $124 million of the disgorged profits will go to ratepayers in the California Independent System Operator, which operates the California electricity market. The other $1 million will go to ratepayers in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator.

JP Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation admits the facts set forth in the agreement, but neither admits nor denies the violations, says FERC. The company did, however, agree to waive claims for additional payments from the California ISO relating to two of the strategies under investigation.

JP Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation also will conduct a comprehensive assessment by outside counsel of its policies and practices in the power business.

The case stems from multiple referrals to FERC from the California ISO and MISO market monitors in 2011 and 2012 regarding JP Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation?s bidding practices. These practices were the subject of four emergency tariff filings by the California ISO and MISO, each of which was approved by the Commission.

Source: http://www.findata.co.nz/News/22826052/JP_Morgan_to_pay_410_Million_for_manipulating_California_energy_market.htm

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Monday, July 29, 2013

Scientists from Mainz and Antananarivo describe Lavasoa Dwarf Lemur as new primate species

Public release date: 29-Jul-2013
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Diversity of dwarf lemur species previously underestimated

The island of Madagascar harbors a unique biodiversity that evolved due to its long-lasting isolation from other land masses. Numerous plant and animal species are found solely on Madagascar. Lemurs, a subgroup of primates, are among the most prominent representatives of the island's unique fauna. They are found almost exclusively on Madagascar. The only exceptions are two species of the genus Eulemur that also live on the Comoros Islands, where they probably have been introduced by humans. Thanks to extensive field research over the past decades, numerous previously unknown lemur species have been discovered. Dwarf lemurs in turn received relatively little attention to date and the diversity within this genus is still not well known. Researchers of the universities of Mainz and Antananarivo have investigated lemur populations in southern Madagascar. Based on fieldwork and laboratory analyses, they now identified a previously unknown species of dwarf lemur. The findings of the research project have recently been published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

"Together with Malagasy scientists, we have been studying the diversity of lemurs for several years now," said Dr. Andreas Hapke of the Institute of Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). "It is only now that we were able to determine that some of the animals examined represent a previously unknown species." The newly described Lavasoa Dwarf Lemur (Cheirogaleus lavasoensis) inhabits three isolated forest fragments in the extreme south of Madagascar. According to current knowledge, it does not occur outside this area. The exact population size is unknown. Preliminary estimates indicate that there are less than 50 individuals remaining. The Lavasoa Dwarf Lemur is thus rare and extremely endangered.

The lifestyle of dwarf lemurs makes them extremely difficult to study as these nocturnal forest dwellers often remain in the upper parts of the forest canopy. Moreover, they hibernate for several months during the austral winter. Their main period of activity is the rainy season, when many of the forests they inhabit are virtually inaccessible to scientists. Nevertheless, the researchers were able to carefully capture a total of 51 dwarf lemurs in live traps at nine locations for this study and to take minute tissue samples before releasing the animals back into their natural habitat.

The tissue samples were subjected to molecular-genetic analyses at the Institute of Anthropology at Mainz University. The data generated through the process were then compared with data already published by other research groups. "The new data from southern Madagascar enabled us to significantly enlarge existing datasets," explained Dana Thiele of the JGU Institute of Anthropology. "We then used extensive data analyses to examine the genetic diversity in two closely related lemur genera, the mouse lemurs (Microcebus) and the dwarf lemurs (Cheirogaleus). The comparison showed that the species diversity of dwarf lemurs is greater than previously thought."

Andreas Hapke and Refaly Ernest, working as a local field assistant for the project, had discovered the first individuals of the Lavasoa Dwarf Lemur during a field study in Madagascar in 2001. Few genetic data from other parts of the island were available for comparison at that time. The animals were thus initially assigned to an already known species, Cheirogaleus crossleyi. Only now it was possible to ascertain that the Lavasoa Dwarf Lemur is a distinct species.

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TripAdvisor Beats Earnings Estimates in Q2

TripAdvisor Inc. (TRIP) reported adjusted second quarter 2013 earnings of 47 cents per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 41 cents on higher revenues. The adjusted earnings per share exclude one-time items but include stock-based compensation expense.

Revenues

TripAdvisor reported revenues of $246.9 million in the second quarter, up 25.3% from the year-ago period. The increase was driven by continued strong hotel shopper growth and strength across product suite. Related-party revenues from Expedia Inc. (EXPE) totaled $54.3 million, down 2.5% year over year.

Revenues by Product

Revenues from Click-based advertising were $182.8 million, up 21% from the year-ago quarter and represented 74% of total revenue. Revenues from Display-based advertising were $31.4 million, up 18% year over year, and comprised 13% of total revenue. Subscription, transaction and other revenues totaled $32.7 million, up 68% year over year, and represented 13% of total revenue.

Revenues by Geography

Geographically, on a year-over-year basis, Americas (North America and Latin America) totaled $143.5 million, representing 59.0% of revenues. Revenues from the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region were $73.4 million, constituting 30% of total revenue, while revenues from the Asia-Pacific region totaled $30.0 million, representing 12.0% of total revenue.

Operating Results

TripAdvisor reported operating expenses of $140.1 million, up 34.6% from $104.1 million incurred in the year-ago quarter. General & administrative, selling & marketing expense, and technology & content expenses, all were up as a percentage of sales from the year-ago quarter. The net result was a GAAP operating margin of 38.1% compared with 42.5% in the year-ago quarter.

Reported pre-tax income was $89.9 million, up from $76.7 million in the year-ago quarter. Pre-tax margin decreased 250 basis points year over year to 36.4%.

On a GAAP basis, TripAdvisor recorded a net profit of $67.0 million or 46 cents per share compared with $53.0 million or 37 cents per share in the year-ago quarter.

TripAdvisor generated adjusted net profit of $68.2 million compared with $54.2 million in the year-ago quarter. Pro forma earnings per share came in at 47 cents compared with 38 cents in the last quarter.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow

TripAdvisor exited the second quarter with cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of approximately $396.1 million versus $406.2 million in the prior quarter. Accounts receivables were $138.0 million, up from $113.3 million in the prior quarter.

Cash flow from operations was $89.6 million versus $61.8 million in the year-ago quarter. Capex was $14.3 million versus $5.9 million in the year-ago quarter. Free cash flow increased 34.9% year over year to $75.3 million.

Our Take

Tripadvisor, Inc. is an online travel research company, which continues to witness robust top-line growth in every quarter. The company delivered a decent second quarter, with both earnings and revenues above the prior-year figures, helped by a stronger travel market all over the world.

Though we are encouraged by the company?s strong fundamentals and improvement in traffic and hotel shoppers in the quarter, management states that the new investment in a brand marketing campaign will likely impact revenue and EBITDA growth in the near term.

We believe the opportunity in the Asia-Pacific region is significant and is likely to remain one of the strongest drivers of the company?s business over the next few quarters, since online penetration in many Asia-Pacific markets remains relatively low.

However, lack of visibility and macro uncertainty may keep the share price range bound in the near term. Over the long term, TripAdvisor is well positioned for growth, given its expanding user base, improving margins and increasing monetization of social and mobile platforms.

Currently, TripAdvisor has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). Investors can also consider some other stocks with positive Zacks Rank and expected surprise prediction or ESP (Read: Zacks Earnings ESP: A Better Method).

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Gartner Inc. (IT), Earnings ESP of +1.96% and a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy)

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tripadvisor-beats-earnings-estimates-q2-124001541.html

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The Mayor Of Crack Calls Weiner ?Good Democrat,? Unloads On Geraldo: ?Stop The Bullsh*t? On My Past

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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Sports briefs: Pondexter hosting hoops camp ... San Joaquin Valley Match Play ... Jim Otto at Raiders booster event

Pondexter, Griffins hosting hoops camp Saturday morning

Memphis Grizzlies shooting guard Quincy Pondexter and the Fresno Griffins will host a free basketball camp Saturday for boys and girls ages 7-17.

The camp will take place from 8 a.m. to noon at Romain Park, 745 N. First St.

Pondexter, a former prep star at Memorial High, coached the Griffins on Friday in an ABA exhibition game against the Central Valley Titans (Exeter).?

Paniccia/Stieler top-seed team for match play

Danny Paniccia and Mike Stieler shot 9-under 63 Friday in stroke play to lead the field in stroke play at the San Joaquin Valley 4-Ball Match Play Championship at Riverside Golf Course

Paniccia and Stieler, winners of the 47th annual NCGA Four-Ball Championship in May at Pebble Beach, will be the top seed for Saturday's quarterfinal and semifinal rounds.

The 36-hole championship is scheduled for Sunday.

Tulare/Kings Raiders boosters hosting Jim Otto

Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Raiders great Jim Otto is the scheduled special guest for the Oakland Raiders Boosters of Tulare and Kings counties? kick-off barbecue scheduled for noon to 5 p.m. today at Visalia Plaza Park Arbor No. 1.

Details: Eliseo Zepeda at (559) 901-7406.

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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Brazil Crop Numbers Good News For Florida

Published: Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 11:39 p.m.

Last Modified: Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 11:39 p.m.

WINTER HAVEN | While Florida citrus growers nervously watch their groves for the impact of citrus greening disease on the young 2013-14 crop, they can take heart that early signs point to a good year for farm prices.

This season's orange crop in Sao Paulo state, Brazil's primary growing area for juice oranges, is projected to decline to 290 million boxes, a 26 percent drop from the 2012-13 season, according to a recently released report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service office in that country.

The Brazilian harvest generally runs from July to January, so its 2013-14 season has begun. The Florida citrus harvest begins in October and ends in June. A smaller Brazilian crop should put upward pressure on farm prices for Florida oranges once the new harvest begins in October, said Matt Salois, an economist and director of economic and market research at the Florida Department of Citrus.

"It's a good thing having a lower crop as the Brazilians are; it will support Florida growers and processors," Salois said. "In general, things are looking up for a strong OJ market again next season."

Because orange juice is a global market, what happens in Brazil, which supplies more than half of the world's OJ, affects Florida citrus economics, Salois and Spreen agreed.

Every year, Florida juice processors buy about 95 percent of the state's orange crop, and they account for more than 30 percent of global OJ and more than 80 percent of the orange juice sold in the U.S. Brazil exports 98 percent of its OJ, most of it to Europe, but also accounts for about half of this country's imported orange juice.

Tom Spreen, emeritus professor in agricultural economics at the University of Florida and an authority on the state's citrus industry, offered a less bullish forecast of the declining Brazilian crop.

Last year's Brazilian crop had little effect on Florida prices, Spreen said, because that country's three large OJ processors were determined to keep global OJ supplies down to support higher prices.

"I think basically they're going to play the same hand they played last year, and that was pretty neutral in Florida," he said.

The three Brazilian processors ? CitroSuco Paulista S.A., Sucocitrico Cutrale Ltd. and Louis Dreyfus Citrus Inc. ? account for virtually all of the country's OJ exports. They also own Florida processing plants in Lake Wales, Auburndale and Winter Garden, respectively, that account for about half of Florida's OJ production.

Salois and Spreen agreed that one factor could bollix their forecasts: what the Brazilian processors do with the burgeoning OJ inventories they've accumulated in recent years as a result of a government price-support program.

Brazilian processors currently hold an inventory of about 1 billion gallons, equal to the entire OJ output from a single Florida citrus season, the economists said.

If they decide to significantly draw down that inventory by increasing exports, it would depress retail OJ prices, and thus farm prices for oranges.

"I think there will be a strong upward push on (farm) prices, mitigated by what the Brazilians do with their inventory," Salois said.

But Salois and Spreen agreed Brazilian processors have little incentive to flood the world market with orange juice because it would hurt their own economic position.

"I think what they have in mind is to control the world market and control price," Spreen said. "They would draw down inventory only if consumer demand picks up."

Consumer demand has declined in the U.S. and Europe for most of the last decade, and neither economist predicted that trend would reverse in 2013-14.

Polk County leads the state's citrus-producing counties with 82,572 grove acres and 9.9 million trees in 2012, according to the most recent USDA data. It led the state in citrus production in the 2011-12 season with 31.2 million boxes.

[ Kevin Bouffard can be reached at kevin.bouffard@theledger.com or at 863-401-6980. Read more on Florida citrus on his Facebook page, Florida Citrus Witness, http://bit.ly/baxWuU. ]

Source: http://www.theledger.com/article/20130725/newschief/130729518

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Scott: NCAA changes can come without confrontation

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ? Larry Scott of the Pac-12 joined the chorus of commissioners calling for sweeping change in the NCAA, and said it can happen without confrontation and with the five most powerful football conferences still competing on the field with the other five.

Scott was the last of the leaders of the big five conferences to make a public push for NCAA reforms that will allow the schools with the most resources to have more freedom to determine how they use them.

"I don't think of it as much of an us vs. them situation as maybe is the impression out there," Scott said Thursday as the Pac-12 wrapped up a mini-media days on the East Coast that included their football coaches appearing on ESPN. "I'm certainly aligned with what you heard from my colleagues this week in terms of the need for transformative change, but I think it can be evolutionary and not revolutionary.

"I don't think it will be as confrontational and controversial a process as some of the reports I have heard this week."

NCAA President Mark Emmert told The Indianapolis Star on Thursday that he agrees with Scott and his fellow commissioners, and vowed significant changes to the way rules and policies are made.

"There's one thing that virtually everybody in Division I has in common right now, and that is they don't like the governance model," Emmert told the Star. "Now, there's not agreement on what the new model should be. But there's very little support for continuing things in the governing process the way they are today."

Emmert told the Star he will call for a Division I summit in January to discuss revamping how Division I is run.

Scott, Mike Slive of the Southeastern Conference, John Swofford of the Atlantic Coast Conference, Bob Bowlsby of the Big 12 and Jim Delany of the Big Ten have taken turns at football media days around the country over the past week calling for changes to the way the NCAA passes legislation since .

The most notable issue has been a $2,000 stipend that would be added to the athletic scholarship to cover the full-cost of college attendance. The big five conferences want to be able to give the stipend to all scholarship athletes.

"Schools that have resources and want to be able to do more for student-athletes are frustrated, concerned that we're being held back from doing more for the student-athletes in terms of the stipend," Scott said.

The stipend was shot down by some of the less wealthy NCAA Division I schools that might not be able to afford it. There are 349 schools in Division I, 125 at the highest level of college football called FBS.

"The idea that there is an even playing field in terms for resources is a fanciful and quaint notion," Scott said.

Scott compared the stipend being stymied to the delays in bringing instant replay to college football in 2000s.

"Instant replay took longer than it needed to get into college football because not everyone could do it," he said. "There are still some schools out there whose conferences can't afford instant replay. It doesn't strike me that the world's fallen in or that it's created some crisis just because everyone can't have instant replay."

Scott said university presidents that make up the NCAA board of directors will talk about reform when they meet next month. Proposals could come later this year.

Scott said he still wants FBS to have a "so-called big tent," with more than just the top five conferences being included.

"That's why the reports of a possible breakaway and things like that are overcooked," he said. "That's not anyone's agenda."

He said the move toward more nine-game conference schedules and an emphasis on strength of schedule in the upcoming College Football Playoff will naturally lead to fewer games between the big five conferences and the other five FBS leagues (Mountain West Conference, American Athletic Conference, Sun Belt, Mid-American Conference and Conference USA). But there will still be competition between the two groups.

What is likely to decrease are games between FBS and FCS teams and so-called guarantee games, when a school from a power conference pays hundreds of thousands of dollars to a school from a lesser conference to play a road game.

Some FCS and lower-level FBS programs, especially those in the Sun Belt and MAC, rely on those guarantee game payouts to fund their athletic programs and losing them could be a problem.

"I'm not very sympathetic. I just don't think the concept of buy games is a healthy thing for college football or for fans," Scott said. "It's been a quirk in the system that they've benefited from and good for them. I certainly don't feel like it's an entitlement or right they have. To me that's not a higher priority than creating higher quality college football matchups.

"There is plenty of socialized revenue distribution through the NCAA."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/scott-ncaa-changes-come-without-confrontation-192803758.html

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Friday, July 26, 2013

Indie Craft Parade adds more makers

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5 charged in 'largest hacking and data breach scheme' bust in US

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Four Russian nationals and a Ukrainian have been charged with running a sophisticated hacking organization that over seven years penetrated computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations, stealing and selling at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers, resulting in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Indictments were announced Thursday in Newark, where U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman called the case the largest hacking and data breach scheme ever prosecuted in the United States.

The victims in a scheme that allegedly ran from 2005 until last year included the electronic stock exchange Nasdaq; 7-Eleven Inc.; JCPenney Co.; the New England supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers Co.; JetBlue; Heartland Payment Systems Inc., one of the world's largest credit and debit processing companies, French retailer Carrefour S.A., and the Belgium bank Dexia Bank Belgium.

The indictment says the suspects sent each other instant messages as they took control of the corporate data, telling each other, for instance: "NASDAQ is owned." At least one man told others that he used Google news alerts to learn whether his hacks had been discovered, according to the court filing.

The defendants were identified as Russians Vladimir Drinkman, Aleksander Kalinin, Roman Kotov and Dmitriy Smilianets, and Ukrainian Mikhail Rytikov. Authorities say one suspect is in the Netherlands and another is due to appear in U.S. District Court in New Jersey next week. The whereabouts of the three others were not immediately clear.

The prosecution builds on a case that resulted in a 20-year prison sentence in 2010 for Albert Gonzalez of Miami, who often used the screen name "soupnazi" and is identified in the new complaint as an unindicted co-conspirator. Other unindicted co-conspirators were also named.

Prosecutors identified Drinkman and Kalinin as "sophisticated" hackers who specialized in penetrating the computer networks of multinational corporations, financial institutions and payment processors.

Kotov's specialty was harvesting data from the networks after they had been penetrated, and Rytikov provided anonymous web-hosting services that were used to hack into computer networks and covertly remove data, the indictment said.

Smilianets was the information salesman, the government said.

All five are charged with taking part in a computer hacking conspiracy and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The four Russian nationals are also charged with multiple counts of unauthorized computer access and wire fraud.

The individuals who purchased the credit and debit card numbers and associated data from the hacking organization resold them through online forums or directly to others known as "cashers," the indictment said. According to the indictment, U.S. credit card numbers sold for about $10 each; Canadian numbers were $15 and European ones $50.

The data was stored on computer servers all over the world, including in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Latvia, the Netherlands, Bahamas, Ukraine, Panama and Germany.

The cashers would encode the information onto the magnetic strips of blank plastic cards and cash out the value, by either withdrawing money from ATMs in the case of debit cards, or running up charges and purchasing goods in the case of credit cards.

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