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FTC's ability to thwart online deception extremely limited: report
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The Federal Trade Commission, established almost a century ago to investigate unfair and deceptive business practices, appears to be rather poorly suited for policing the vast and changeable online world, suggests a report from ProPublica. The FTC is secretive about its methods, but a cursory examination by the non-profit, investigative news organization shows that the agency's capabilities are limited in fundamental ways.
Despite the FTC?employing nearly 1,200 employees, the relatively new department established to cover the ?mobile sector of commerce comprises just six people?? three of whom are from the legal department.?Furthermore, the people who ostensibly oversee commerce involving the hundreds of millions of phones in this country ? along with apps, services and carriers?? are restricted in both the hardware and software they use.
BlackBerry phones?are used at the FTC and other government agencies?for security reasons, but iPhone or Android devices and the apps they run are kept in a basement lab, which very likely makes real use of them impossible. Several employees interviewed admitted to using personal devices to do their work. The FTC itself doesn't seem to see the necessity of providing its employees with the means to do their job:
The interview with [Mobile Technology Unit director Patricia] Poss was conducted in an office on the third floor of the FTC?s headquarters, with an FTC spokeswoman on hand. When Poss was asked whether it wouldn?t make sense for the director of the Mobile Technology Unit to have a government-issued iPhone or Android, the spokeswoman, Claudia Farrell, interceded.
?He?s trying to get you to bitch, Patti. Don?t do it.?
The Internet inside the agency, too, is restricted. Many sites, including Apple's App Store, simply cannot be accessed from the government's network. The report's writer compares it to telling cops they can't go to high-crime neighborhoods.
So it comes as no surprise that?when Internet-based companies are found to be deceiving or mistreating their customers, it's usually a young security wonk or other non-public entity that makes the discovery. Or, as?in a recent case where Google was found to have collected an enormous amount of private data using its Street View cars, the mistreatment was only discovered after another government took the matter in its own hands (Germany, in this case), and the indictment had global effects.
That's not to say they don't know they could be doing more, as the agency's chief technologist, Edward Felten, tells ProPublica:
We could for sure do more if we had more people ...?There are a lot of opportunities that we have to let go by because we don?t have the people to seize them ? opportunities to measure and evaluate what?s happening every day in people?s computers and phones.
When the FTC does find itself in a position to regulate Internet and mobile companies,?the process is often so slow compared to fast-moving tech industry, that by the time the case is made and any punishment doled out, the offense (or even the offender)?is already?long forgotten.?For instance, the ProPublica report says, the FTC began legal proceedings against Myspace in 2009 ??when that social network was in decline ? and only wrapped it up and fined the company in May of this year.
The agency is simply outgunned, but it refuses to gear up, says ProPublica. Despite being outmaneuvered on both sides?? on one by large companies dancing around regulations, on the other by private or individual investigators doing their job for them?? they are not requesting more money or manpower, or?claiming very reasonably that they are more necessary than ever.
But as ProPublica points out, those who ask do not always receive:
FTC officials are reluctant to talk about their lack of funding, partly because public whining, especially during hard economic times, is infrequently rewarded. It?s also politically unwise. A vocal portion of the electorate believes the government and its regulatory arms have too much money and power as it is. Additionally, the FTC is trying to keep the tech industry honest by hinting that the feds are watching everything. It does not help if Silicon Valley realizes the FTC possesses just a handful of iPhones and Androids that are kept under lock and key in the basement.
The tech industry may not have great reason to fear the FTC at the moment, but it is still under careful surveillance by independent organizations like the EFF and other?privacy and business watchdogs. They may not have the ability to bring the weight of the federal government to bear on offending companies, but they can at least provoke the no less serious threat of public scrutiny.
The full report by ProPublica can be read here.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.
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Eight screeners at Newark Airport in New Jersey were fired Wednesday morning after they were caught on video sleeping on the job or failing to follow standard operating procedures for screening checked bags, authorities said.
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Blast hits Damascus, Turkey sends troops to border
BEIRUT/ISKENDERUN, Turkey (Reuters) - Rebel forces attacked Syria's main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad.
A loud explosion echoed through the streets and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a "terrorist" blast.
Dozens of wrecked and burning cars were strewn over a car park used by lawyers and judges. The state news agency SANA said three people had been wounded by a bomb hidden in one of the cars.
The fighting coincided with a Turkish military buildup on its border with Syria and a growing sense of urgency in Western- and Arab-backed diplomatic efforts to promote the idea of a unity government to end 16 months of bloodshed.
But Assad himself dismissed the idea of any outside solution to Syria's crisis.
"We will not accept any non-Syrian, non-national model, whether it comes from big countries or friendly countries. No one knows how to solve Syria's problems as well as we do," Assad told the state television channel of Syria's ally Iran.
He said Turkey's official stance belied the Turkish people's "positive view" of Syria.
A first substantial convoy of about 30 Turkish military vehicles, including trucks loaded with anti-aircraft missile batteries dispatched from the coastal town of Iskenderun, headed towards the Syrian border 50 km (30 miles) away.
A Turkish official who declined to be named said he did not know how many troops or vehicles were being moved but they were being stationed in the Yayladagi, Altinozu and Reyhanli border areas.
Last Friday Syria shot down a Turkish warplane over the Mediterranean. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan responded by ordering his troops to treat any Syrian military element approaching the border as a military target.
This could cover Syrian forces pursuing rebels towards the border, or patrolling helicopters or warplanes. Syria said at the weekend that it had killed several "terrorists" infiltrating from Turkey.
TURKISH CONVOYS
A Reuters reporter near the town of Antakya saw the Turkish convoy moving out of the hills and through small towns on a narrow highway escorted by police.
Another convoy left a base at Gaziantep and headed for Kilis province, the site of a large camp for Syrian refugees. Video from the DHA agency showed the group of about 12 trucks and transporters filing through the gates of the base.
David Hartwell, Middle East analyst at IHS Jane's, called the Turkish action a pragmatic response to the downing of the Turkish aircraft, which Syria says was flying low and fast in Syrian airspace. "Damascus has been warned once. I doubt there will be a second warning."
Turkey, in the front line of Western efforts to press Assad to step down, hosts 33,000 Syrian refugees near its southern border as well as units of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA).
Members of the FSA, talking close to the border, told Reuters they did not believe the Turkish deployments were on a large scale or aimed at any crossborder intervention.
"The Turks know that any large-scale military action would need international support," said a senior FSA commander who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Turkey has in the past spoken of opening a humanitarian corridor on Syrian soil if the refugee flow grew unmanageable or if the violence and killing became intolerable.
Wary of igniting a regional sectarian war, it insists this would be possible only with U.N. backing. Western- and Arab-backed efforts to forge a joint diplomatic approach with Russia have so far failed.
Thursday's attack in Damascus follows weeks of growing FSA pressure. Rebels stormed a pro-Assad television channel on Wednesday, and have also targeted police and security barracks.
Syria denies there has been a mass popular uprising against Assad and says that the rebels who have now largely taken over from months of unarmed anti-government protests are foreign-backed Islamist terrorists, including members of al Qaeda.
Assad told Iranian television that his government had a duty to eliminate these to protect its people, and that Washington was content for al Qaeda to attack countries it did not like.
"When you eliminate a terrorist, it's possible that you are saving the lives of tens, hundreds, or even thousands," he said.
NEW ANNAN PLAN
Diplomats at the United Nations say international mediator Kofi Annan will seek backing from the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and key Middle East players on Saturday for a plan for a political transition in Syria.
They say the proposal does not stipulate that Assad must step down but does call for a unity government that would exclude figures who jeopardize stability - a condition that many not be enough to convince opposition groups to participate.
"The proposal is still murky to us but I can tell you that if it does not clearly state that Assad must step down, it will be unacceptable to us," said Samir Nashar, an executive member of the international Syrian National Council.
Rebel fighters said there was no part of the plan they could accept, and that they had lost patience with Annan's efforts.
"This is just a new labyrinth. It is new silliness for us to get lost in, and haggle over who can participate and who can't," said Ahmed, an FSA fighter in Homs, epicenter of the revolt against four decades of Assad family rule in which more than 10,000 people have been killed, by a U.N. count.
An FSA member in Damascus added: "The FSA is doing its work, and it is not looking to the outside world. We don't want a transitional government unless it is the one formed by rebel military councils. The world is conspiring against the Syrian revolution."
In April, Annan tried to implement a ceasefire to quell violence before embarking on peace talks, but the truce failed to take hold. Diplomatic sources at the United Nations said the plan he will pitch on Saturday aims to start the political process without waiting for a ceasefire.
Efforts on Thursday to evacuate civilians and wounded from Homs failed when an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) rescue team said it could not enter the area because the conditions of an agreed truce had not been met.
The ICRC declined to elaborate or apportion blame after being forced to turn back from Homs for the second time in a week. The Syrian Foreign Ministry blamed "armed terrorist groups". There was no immediate rebel comment.
(Additional reporting by Jonathon Burch and Jon Hemming in Ankara, Marcus George, Yeganeh Torbati and Zahra Hosseinian in Dubai; Writing by Ralph Boulton; Editing by Janet McBride and Kevin Liffey)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rebels-storm-pro-assad-syrian-tv-channel-035901952.html
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Your Health And Fitness Facts And Myths Revealed | Alternative ...
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Of course there are truths about health and fitness, but not all lies are actually untrue. Exercise and each person?s body has different reactions. It is not always true for all people. Everyone should deal with information and question truths on a case by case basis. You never know what may be uncovered by doing some research, so ideally you should take the time to research and learn. Here is some solidly researched information about health and fitness, and what is true and maybe less than true.
You?ve probably heard that swimming is good for losing weight. We are here to burst that bubble, it?s not the truth. Although swimming does provide many health benefits, it?s important to realize that losing pounds is not one of these benefits. The buoyancy of the water supporting your body is the reason this is true, your body isn?t working hard enough to benefit weight loss.
When it comes to stress and exercising, the latter can help relieve you of the feelings of the former. Some people say that working out or exercising are stressful. After your exercise routine you may not feel so relaxed because you are sweating, but as soon as you take a shower you should feel the effects of it. The relaxation your body produces helps you body and mind to become distracted from any stress you may be feeling. To create a natural feeling of euphoria you need to get yourself to a point where endorphins can be released.
The myth we hear most is I don?t have time to exercise. All it takes really is 45 minutes to an hour a week. Then, a thirty minute workout can be fit in on the weekend, perhaps. That minimal amount is vastly better than nothing at all. Think about what times you have at work or with the kids? Ten minutes with a jump rope or a brisk walk can improve your times.
Three ten minute slots in our schedules is easy for anyone to find. It?s more important than ever to sort out the truths of health and fitness, especially if you?re totally new to working out. This is because you are in the beginning stages of forming your fitness habit. You will be setting yourself up for a painful re-education if you cultivate the wrong habits now. You need good habits to succeed and to stick with your fitness routine.
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Debilitating eyesight problems are on the decline for older Americans
CHICAGO --- Today's senior citizens are reporting fewer visual impairment problems than their counterparts from a generation ago, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. Improved techniques for cataract surgery and a reduction in the prevalence of macular degeneration may be the driving forces behind this change, the researchers said.
"From 1984 until 2010, the decrease in visual impairment in those 65 and older was highly statistically significant," said Angelo P. Tanna, M.D., first author of the study. "There was little change in visual impairments in adults under the age of 65."
The study, published in the journal Ophthalmology, shows that in 1984, 23 percent of elderly adults had difficulty reading or seeing newspaper print because of poor eyesight. By 2010, there was an age-adjusted 58 percent decrease in this kind of visual impairment, with only 9.7 percent of elderly reporting the problem.
There was also a substantial decline in eyesight problems that limited elderly Americans from taking part in daily activities, such as bathing, dressing or getting around inside or outside of the home, according to the study.
"The findings are exciting, because they suggest that currently used diagnostic and screening tools and therapeutic interventions for various ophthalmic diseases are helping to prolong the vision of elderly Americans," Tanna said.
Tanna is the vice chairman of ophthalmology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Stephen Kaye, of the Institute for Health & Aging and Disability Statistics Center, University of California, is the second author of the study.
The study used self-reported data collected from 1984 to 2010 through two major population-based surveys, the National Health Interview Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
Survey questions revealed how vision problems can impact the daily activities and quality of life of Americans and helped researchers analyze trends in the prevalence of visual impairment of adults in the United States.
While this study didn't identify any of the causes of the change in the prevalence of visual impairment, Tanna said there are three likely reasons for the decline:
- Improved techniques and outcomes for cataract surgery
- Less smoking, resulting in a drop in the prevalence of macular degeneration
- Treatments for diabetic eye diseases are more readily available and improved, despite the fact that the prevalence of diabetes has increased
Future studies should identify which treatment strategies help prevent vision in older adults and then make those treatments available to as many people as possible, Tanna said.
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Debilitating eyesight problems are on the decline for older Americans
CHICAGO --- Today's senior citizens are reporting fewer visual impairment problems than their counterparts from a generation ago, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. Improved techniques for cataract surgery and a reduction in the prevalence of macular degeneration may be the driving forces behind this change, the researchers said.
"From 1984 until 2010, the decrease in visual impairment in those 65 and older was highly statistically significant," said Angelo P. Tanna, M.D., first author of the study. "There was little change in visual impairments in adults under the age of 65."
The study, published in the journal Ophthalmology, shows that in 1984, 23 percent of elderly adults had difficulty reading or seeing newspaper print because of poor eyesight. By 2010, there was an age-adjusted 58 percent decrease in this kind of visual impairment, with only 9.7 percent of elderly reporting the problem.
There was also a substantial decline in eyesight problems that limited elderly Americans from taking part in daily activities, such as bathing, dressing or getting around inside or outside of the home, according to the study.
"The findings are exciting, because they suggest that currently used diagnostic and screening tools and therapeutic interventions for various ophthalmic diseases are helping to prolong the vision of elderly Americans," Tanna said.
Tanna is the vice chairman of ophthalmology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Stephen Kaye, of the Institute for Health & Aging and Disability Statistics Center, University of California, is the second author of the study.
The study used self-reported data collected from 1984 to 2010 through two major population-based surveys, the National Health Interview Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
Survey questions revealed how vision problems can impact the daily activities and quality of life of Americans and helped researchers analyze trends in the prevalence of visual impairment of adults in the United States.
While this study didn't identify any of the causes of the change in the prevalence of visual impairment, Tanna said there are three likely reasons for the decline:
- Improved techniques and outcomes for cataract surgery
- Less smoking, resulting in a drop in the prevalence of macular degeneration
- Treatments for diabetic eye diseases are more readily available and improved, despite the fact that the prevalence of diabetes has increased
Future studies should identify which treatment strategies help prevent vision in older adults and then make those treatments available to as many people as possible, Tanna said.
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Q: Why can?t I purchase a home in Las Vegas right now over a cash investor? I have over half down, excellent credit and pre-approval. The offer doesn?t even get acknowledged. I recently sold my home to downsize. I?ve been looking for over 6 months now. Only cash is getting any attention. There are no traditional sales it appears only those investing cash to flip later. Wrong on so many levels for our city??
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A: Dear Buyer, This is a very difficult market in the distressed arena. It?s not unusual that you might have problems bidding against all cash investors. Normally there are regular sale homes you can investigate, however, I can only speak for my area and city on that. My advice is to continue working with your Buyer Agent. I?m sure your Realtor is putting in many hours trying to find you the perfect home. By the way, my last two sales did take 6 months each to close!
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PLX's XWave Sport gives brainwave interfaces a casual look, triggers '80s flashbacks
Brainwave-guided interfaces are common. Most of the time, though, they're not what we'd call subtle. PLX Devices hopes to have that licked through the XWave Sport, a brain interface that disguises all its sensors through a fuzzy, exercise-friendly headband. Underneath the incredibly 1980s-retro (but washable!) look, you'll get about six hours per charge of tracking for concentration, relaxation and other noggin-related data that can transmit over Bluetooth to apps for Android, iOS or old-fashioned PCs. An SDK is available now, but pre-orders for the $100 XWave Sport won't ship until September 20th. That should give us enough time to perfect our Flashdance reenactments.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Google I/O 2012 conference app updated as opening day nears
Right now at this very second there is ton of Android fans from everywhere (Hey! That's us!) are headed to San Francisco's Moscone West to partake in Google I/O 2012 and to help make some of the magic happen, Google has now updated the official I/O 2012 conference app with a slew of new features for attendees and wannabe attendees alike. So what's been updated since it was originally released? Here's the official changelog
- Receive push updates to announcements and the conference schedule from the Google I/O team
- View full conference agenda
- Watch I/O Live streams on Google TV
- Fixes a crash on small screen devices
- Fixes several synchronization and Google Calendar integration issues
- Fixes missing logo images for developer sandbox companies
- Improves spacetime decompression algorithms; 29 total hours per day are now available to Google I/O attendees within Moscone West
Word has it the last addition is Phil's favorite. If you haven't already grabbed the update, go ahead and do so right now. We'll be there bringing you all the best content from Moscone West in San Francisco Be sure to call in sick from work and follow along with us, we've got plenty of expectations that will hopefully be fulfilled.
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With a boost in the number of people who are getting fit and active, sports massage in Santa Rosa, CA has become more popular than ever. Sports massage isn?t just for professional athletes, it?s beneficial to anyone who has a dynamic life-style, regardless of what it really is. Sports massage is normally used before, during, and after athletic events, but could also be used to take care of exercise related injuries from excessive use or overexertion of muscles and soft tissue .
The main intent behind Sports Massage in Santa Rosa CA is to condition and prepare a player for peak performance. It will help to reduce fatigue, relieve muscle tension and swelling, increase flexibility, and prevent future injuries. Depending on the type of activity you take part in, the sports massage is modified to concentrate on the muscle groups you employ the most, helping to decrease the probability of a far more severe damage.
When muscle soreness and tension remains untreated, it can result in stress on the joints, ligaments, tendons, and even the muscles themselves. Undiagnosed, this may cause pain, muscle tension, decreased flexibility, and affect performance - ultimately causing an increased risk of harm.
Research indicates that individuals who obtain massage therapy are generally less exhausted and recover faster from minimal injuries. In addition they reported a decrease in anxiety and an enhanced mood. All this relates to the fact that sports massage could reduce your heart rate and hypertension, enhance blood flow, and helps your body to clear itself of excess lactic acid, which accumulates within the muscles through the course of exercise.
One popular type of sports massage in Santa Rosa CA is called Active Release Therapy (ART). It had been produced by Dr. P. Michael Leahy and uses patented soft tissue system based strategies to deal with injuries related to scar tissue and adhesion within the muscles. This may also assist in relieving head aches, carpal tunnel, back pain, medial stress syndrome and a lot more.
No matter what type of athlete you?re, a casual jogger, or maybe a professional, sports massage in Santa Rosa, CA can help you stay in good shape, and help lessen muscle soreness, increase the flow of blood, and increase your mood. Regular massages will also help you steer clear of more severe injuries and keep you in the game. Don?t wait any more to include it within your exercise or sports routine, contact a local massage therapist right now and schedule regular visits.
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Microsoft says it will start selling the Surface, a new tablet computer which will come in two versions, later this year. Click though the photo gallery to see how its features compare with Apple's market-leading iPad.
Microsoft has jumped directly into the battle to take on Apple's tablet market dominating iPad with the Surface.
While some key questions, including price, remain unanswered, it is clear that Microsoft thinks it has a serious contender. Especially in light of the fact that it appears willing to alienate retail and PC partners by going it alone.
Some have argued since the unveiling that comparing the iPad and Surface is foolish, since Microsoft doesn't have the app store ecosystem behind its tablet that Apple and its army of independent software developers have.
Others will continue to prefer Amazon.com's Kindle Fire or Barnes & Noble's Nook, which in the end are more like tablet extensions of their online stores.
And there are the other Android tablets, such an Samsung's Galaxy Tab, that have tried to topple the iPad but have barely made a dent in its market.
But Microsoft is clearly measuring itself against the iPad with the Surface, so we have assembled a slideshow that compares the key features of both.
Will this be a revival of the old PC vs. Mac rivalry, or another swing and miss by Microsoft as it tries to expand beyond its software core market?
These and many other questions remain concerning the new Surface vs. iPad rivalry. But click through the photo gallery accompanying this story to see what we know about how they stack up, so far.
Cromwell Schubarth is Multimedia/Research Editor at the Business Journal. His phone number is 408.299.1823.
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Dale Hodges would rather not see a day when residents have to walk around an oil or gas well in the middle of Olympic Plaza.
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It may sound like a long shot, but the Calgary alderman believes it could happen without an urban drilling policy in place.
?We?re trying to get the province?s attention on actually having some policies ? which they don?t ? on urban areas,? Hodges said.
?I?m not holding my breath, but hopefully the province will decide there should be some rules.?
City council will discuss how it can best accomplish that Monday, but on Sunday there will be a rally for what Lowe called the start to the conversation.
The Rocky Ridge Royal Oak Community Association (RRROCA) is hosting the rally to stop drilling that is being proposed north of Royal Oak, west of 85 St. N.W.
Lowe said the pitch to drill is going to happen again and again.
?The entire City of Calgary sits on a huge methane bed, which means that sooner or later somebody will want to extract that,? he said.
?The issue and dealing with the issue really falls in the hands of the province ? it?s their legislation and their boards that are regulating this at the moment.?
Ward Sutherland, an RRROCA spokesman, called the prospect of a drill site 400 metres from homes and a major watershed ?alarming,? one his group has been opposed to since the beginning.
The Energy Resources Conservation Board approved the application despite an official letter of objection provided by the city. The association and some aldermen share concerns of transportation of raw crude along city roads.
But after recent conversations and a tour of the area with Alberta Energy Minister Ken Hughes and Calgary-West MLA Sandra Jansen, Sutherland is optimistic the ball will get rolling in their favour.
?It was a complete (180 degrees) from the previous minister,? Sutherland said of his discussions with Hughes.
?He was very open.
?He said he would get back and guarantee some commitments and I?m confident that Sandra will be making an announcement (Sunday).?
Neither Hughes nor Jansen could be reached for comment. Sunday?s rally runs from noon to 2 p.m. at the Royal Oak Centre.
damien.wood@sunmedia.ca?
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Sea level to rise higher in California due to global warming, geology
As the world continues to warm from climate change, most of California ? including San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay ? will see a greater rise in sea level than other parts of the planet, according to a prominent national study released Friday.
The report, from the National Academy of Sciences, found that the impacts of melting ice and warming, expanding oceans will hit California harder because most of the state's coast line is slowly sinking due to geological forces.
Ocean levels south of Humboldt County will rise up to 1 foot in the next 20 years, 2 feet by 2050, and up to 5 feet by 2100, the study showed.
San Francisco Bay already has risen roughly 7 inches in the past 100 years, as measured by the tidal gauge at Fort Point, under the Golden Gate Bridge.
"We shouldn't be debating this any more," said Gary Griggs, a coastal geologist at UC Santa Cruz who served on the committee that issued the 274-page report. "Let's start thinking realistically about the future, and plan so we minimize our losses."
At risk over the next generation: low-lying areas such as San Francisco and Oakland airports, Treasure Island, Alviso in San Jose and low-lying communities such as Foster City and Redwood Shores, particularly during winter storms at high tide.
Already around Northern California, increasing rates of coastal erosion and sea level rise are posing challenges. In Monterey County, preservationists abandoned plans to try to save Stilwell Hall on
Fort Ord, an officer's club at risk of falling into the ocean. Apartments and homes have been abandoned or have fallen into the sea in Pacifica, Capitola and other communities in the past 20 years. San Francisco is deciding whether to armor Ocean Beach to stop rising waves from threatening the adjacent highway and a wastewater plant.The estimates in Friday's report were largely in line with other estimates from scientists in recent years at the U.S. Geological Survey, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other research bodies.
But Friday's report was the most high-profile study yet to conclude that California faces unique challenges because of its geology, largely the slow movement of tectonic plates that generate earthquakes and have shaped much of the state's landscape over millennia.
As the world warmed over the 20th century, oceans rose at a rate of 1.7 millimeters a year, or about 7 inches over the century. But since 1993, they have been rising at a faster rate, of 3.1 millimeters a year, or 12 inches a century.
Most of the world's climate scientists, coastal geologists and oceanographers see that rate increasing in the decades ahead.
The report concluded that on average across the globe, oceans will rise up to 8 inches in the next 20 years, 19 inches by 2050, and up to 4 feet by 2100, causing increasing threats from flooding.
"There's no indication greenhouses gases are diminishing," said Griggs. "Things aren't turning around. Most politicians are in office for a few years, and these are multi-decade problems."
The slow, but steady ocean rise won't cause immediate disasters, Griggs said. But during large winter storms and high tides, they increase the risk of flooding in low-lying areas, such as the 1983 El Ni?o winter, when Alviso flooded under six feet of water.
Already, the coast erodes at a rate of 6 inches a year or more in many California areas, due to sandstone and other soft rocks being battered by waves. That will increase, not only on cliffs, but on beaches, sand dunes and other coastal features, researchers said Friday.
"As the sea level gets higher we would expect the retreat of dunes and rates of erosion to increase," said Robert Dalrymple, chairman of the committee that issued the report, and a professor of civil engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
California officials welcomed the report.
"Our coast and ocean largely define California. Because of that, we must be keenly aware of and plan for sea level rise," said California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird, who added that the study "will help policy makers and planners prepare for the next century."
Last year, the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, a state agency, passed the first regulations to require developers to consider sea level rise on projects along San Francisco Bay's shoreline.
Some areas, like San Francisco or Oakland airports, will be protected with levees. In other places, over the coming decades, buildings may have to be moved, or torn down, experts say.
Friday's report noted that Oregon and Washington will see less rising than California because its plate system is a subduction zone, where the Juan de Fuca Plate is pushing under the North American plate, slowly raising the land.
The report also looked at future projections as ranges, which will depend on how much more carbon dioxide humans emit, how fast countries expand renewable energy and other variables, such as how fast large sections of Greenland or Antarctica melt.
For California, the sea level rise ranged from 2 inches to 12 inches by 2030; and from 5 inches to 24 inches by 2050; and from 16 inches to 67 inches by 2100.
Environmentalists said the study showed the need for faster action.
"Today's warning, coming from our country's leading scientific advisers, sends an urgent message to our president and other policy makers: We need strong action, right now, to avert climate catastrophe," said Shaye Wolf, climate science director at the Center for Biological Diversity.
Carbon dioxide, from the burning of fossil fuels, traps the sun's heat, warming the earth. Concentrations of carbon dioxide ? from coal, gasoline and other fuels ? have increased steadily in the past 125 years ? up 37 percent since 1880.
Nine of the 10 warmest years in modern history, back to 1880, when modern meteorological methods were first developed, have all occurred since the year 2000, according to NASA. The 10th was in 1998.
Even with a cooling effect last year from La Ni?a conditions, the average global surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists.
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Saturday, June 23, 2012
Last chance to register at Mayor's Expo
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?Walk Down the Aisle with Barack? contest - Le?gal In?sur?rec?tion
The sickest thing about it is that when you read the headline, it didn?t surprise you in the least.? Such is the state of the Obama campaign.
With everyone talking about the bizarre Obama?Event Registry, wherein people are?asked to have wedding guests donate to Obama in lieu of the?betrothed couple, anything is possible.
Brides who?give up their wedding gifts to Obama will be entered in?a?contest to win a special Barack Bouquet so that Barack can walk you down the aisle.? (No, not really, but?allow your imagination to?roam in the age of Obama.)
He wants to be with you the whole way, because he cares that much.
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Sprinters Tyson Gay and Allyson Felix fight for tickets to London
Tyson Gay will be running the 100-meter against Michael Rodgers, Walter Dix, Justin Gatlin, and Darvis Patton. Allyson Felix has opted to run the? 100-200 double.
Sprinter Tyson Gay reacts after winning the men's 100-meter race at the Diamond League New York Grand Prix athletics meet June 9, 2012.
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Over the next 10 days in Eugene, two of the best-known American sprinters will try to qualify for a trip to the London Games. But while Felix heads into Olympic trials in good form, Gay has been struggling with injuries for months.
"Thirty," said Gay, who turns 30 in August, when asked how he's feeling.
IN PICTURES: Team USA hopefuls for London Olympics
He has spent most of the past year dealing with a hip injury. His first race back was in New York earlier this month, where he ran 10.00 seconds into a headwind and said he felt good. The men's 100-meter race, however, might be the most competitive event at Olympic trials, where three spots are available in each event and there are no concessions made for injuries, false starts or anything else.
Among those Gay will have to beat are 2009 national champion Michael Rodgers, Olympic bronze medalist Walter Dix, 2004 Olympic gold medalist Justin Gatlin and two-time Olympian Darvis Patton. And if Gay somehow gets through that gauntlet, Jamaicans Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake should be waiting in London.
"If I make the team, it would be good," Gay said. "Part of me just says, 'These guys are not going to sit down and let me come back after a year and give it to me easy.'"
Gay's first race is Saturday, while Felix takes to the track Friday.
Felix, a three-time world champion at 200 meters, is still trying to win her first Olympic gold at that distance. She tried the 200-400 last year at the world championships at Daegu, South Korea, but finished second in the 400, then followed with a fatigued third-place finish in the 200.
"Daegu helped me see for myself how doing the 400 first, then coming back trying to sprint, how that worked," Felix said.
Not well, as it turned out. So this time, she opted for the 100-200 double.
"I said from the beginning that what's most important for me is what's going to help me run my best 200," Felix said. "Bobby (Kersee, Felix's coach) felt running the 100 helps my 200, and for me, that's what it's all about."
But while she was making her decision, Sanya Richards-Ross was quietly going about setting up her own chance at the double that Felix opted not to try. Richards-Ross, whose specialty is in the 400, holds the world's fastest time in both the 200 and 400 this year and will try to qualify for both. Like Felix, Richards-Ross has unfinished business: She was a favorite in the 400 in Beijing but slowed at the end. She finished third, a result that left her crying under the stands at the Bird's Nest stadium.
The reason she's trying for the 200-400 while Felix chose not to is that Richards-Ross' key event is the 400 ? the one that comes first on the schedule at both the Olympics and at trials.
"Whatever happens in the 200 will be extra, a lot of fun," she said. "If it were flipped, I'm almost sure Coach (Clyde) Hart wouldn't want me to" attempt the double.
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Friday, June 22, 2012
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Liverpool fan given 4-year ban for racial abuse
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) -A Liverpool fan has been banned from football for four years after being found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United captain Patrice Evra.
Phillip Gannon was seen on live television making a racially offensive monkey gesture during the FA Cup fourth-round match between the sides.
The normally heated atmosphere was even more volatile because it was the first match between the clubs since Liverpool forward Luis Suarez was banned for eight matches for racially abusing Evra.
On Friday, Liverpool Magistrates' court banned the 58-year-old Gannon from all Liverpool and England games and ordered him to pay a fine of 180 pounds ($280) as well as 300 pounds ($467) in prosecution costs.
Gannon is also banned from Liverpool city center for four hours before and after a match.
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Provocative 'have it all' essay echoes '80s summer hit
"Hey, lady. You, lady. Cursing at your life."? Charlene, "I've Never Been to Me"
Charlene's ancient AM-radio lyric sounded unexpectedly in my head as I savored "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," Anne-Marie Slaughter's charming and tautological cover story in this month's The Atlantic.
I like pieces like Slaughter's. Truism after truism. Good June beach reading: no surprises. But there was that early-'80s melody again.
In the article, Slaughter?a hardworking professor with a bruising speaking schedule who didn't quit working to hang out with her teenage sons but sort of thought about it?reflects on how other women bug her. She admits that she can't be in Washington, D.C., and Princeton, N.J., at the same time (the laws of physics bind her, too). And then she says some sensible-sounding stuff about technology and society.
The article appears to weigh in on the warring spheres that middlebrow women's magazines typically refer to as "work" (cubicles) and "family" (child care). But The Atlantic is not Redbook?and these up-for-grabs words mean something different here. I'd say Slaughter's version of "work" is more widely known as "glamour" (cocktails with Michelle Obama) and her "life" is better described as "deluxe domesticity" (waffles in Princeton, N.J.).
How can you have the fantasies of both Vogue and Elle D?cor?! This turns out to be an urgent question for well-heeled female consumers of our time.
"Hey lady, you lady," Slaughter implores, to the many women around her whose "irksome" small-talk about kids and jobs (you're a feminist-antifeminist-go-to-work-stay-home!) evidently inspires "blind fury" in her. Do as I say, she tells them, not as I do.
That's generous of Slaughter, to give advice. A larger-than-life superstar at the summit of American career success with what sounds like an awesome fun family, Slaughter admits to having spent her life as "the woman smiling the faintly superior smile" at other women.
Slaughter acted smug in the sisterhood: That's a good-enough confession, not quite a #humblebrag. At the same time, who can blame her? Slaughter, who is preceded everywhere she goes by her reputation as a top-caliber Ivy League academic, friend of Hillary and left-wing policymaker of the first rank, is objectively superior to everyone I've ever met. I'm not kidding. If she ever smiled superiorly at me, I'd be grateful even for the condescension.
But now she's penitent.
Slaughter, it seems, has been to paradise. She held a "foreign-policy dream job that traces its origins back to George Kennan." A snapshot of that dream: "President and Mrs. Obama hosted a glamorous reception at the American Museum of Natural History. I sipped champagne, greeted foreign dignitaries, and mingled."
But mingling, too, in the heady evening, were stray thoughts of Slaughter's teenage son in Princeton, who wasn't doing so well in math class. Was she letting him down by partying with presidents in Manhattan? Moreover, what did Slaughter want out of her one wild and precious life?
This last part hit Slaughter hard. In an interview that appears on The Atlantic site, she tells Hanna Rosin how hard it was for her to think?and write!?about her true desires. It seems she had "never been to me," as Charlene put it. And she needed that kind of groovy female awakening-to-desire as much as anything else.
I know this sounds far-fetched, but to my mind, that extraordinarily unsettling and ingenious Motown hit from 1982 really does set up the structure for Slaughter's piece. A woman of a certain age warns girls against the pursuit of worldliness that she believes left her estranged from domesticity and true female fulfillment.
Slaughter's article unfurls the indisputable fact in its "Women Still Can't Have It All" headline?infinite acquisition and possession of all things by one woman is impossible?over many, many pages of magazine prose. That dilation is dumbfounding. That fact about not-having-it-all is binding on all mortals, is it not? But Slaughter is a distinguished professor of law at Princeton University; she knows from sophistry and Socratic argumentation.
That's how I divined that her article is about something else. I'm going to summarize it this way, in Charlene's blunt internally rhyming lyric: "I spent my life exploring/ the subtle whoring/ that costs too much to be free."
Sure, "whoring" is not a Princeton word. It's Motown. But aren't Slaughter and Charlene (whose song was written by a man and originally in the voice of a bum warning a young man against hard living) telling the same story? They whirled around while they were younger?both women have champagne and "foreign dignitaries" in their stories?and now they're spent. They're hoping that the humbler pleasures of home and hearth haven't forsaken them while they've sewn oats in international careers. Totally understandable.
While she sipped champagne at the U.N. with those dignitaries, Slaughter worried about her son's "skipping homework, disrupting classes." Charlene's speaker, for her part, took her champagne on yachts with kings. At the same time, she mourned "the unborn children that might have made me complete."
For its sideswiping of abortion rights and sappiness about home life, "Never Been to Me" was considered a backlash against feminism. Thirty years later, Anne-Marie Slaughter's pals hint that she too is insufficiently feminist when she decides not to re-up her White House job that required her to see her family on weekends, but merely to return (as planned) to her wickedly demanding career as a chaired academic and author.
But then comes the crux of Slaughter's article, truisms swelling as they do in any good Polonian magazine-piece ending. "I didn't just need to go home. Deep down, I wanted to go home. I wanted to be able to spend time with my children ... irreplaceable years for me to enjoy the simple pleasures of parenting?baseball games, piano recitals, waffle breakfasts, family trips, and goofy rituals."
Compare that major-chord finale with Charlene's?spoken, as Slaughter's certainly could be, over an extended bridge in a slightly hysterical but sweet soprano:
"Hey, you know what paradise is? It's a lie?a fantasy we created about people and places as we like them to be. But you know what truth is? It's that little baby you're holding and it's that man you fought with this morning the same one you are gonna make love to tonight."
"That's truth, that's love!" cries Charlene. And I'm with her.
I guess I'm with Slaughter, too. But that's the thing about clich?s. They just hang around until someone puts them to music, gets a Motown producer?or an editor in D.C. and some cover art?and manages a breakout summer hit.
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
BCS commissioners settle on plan for playoff
CHICAGO (AP) ? The BCS commissioners are backing a playoff plan with the sites for the national semifinals rotating among the major bowl games and a selection committee picking the teams.
The plan will be presented to university presidents next week for approval.
Once the presidents sign off ? and that seems likely ? major college football's champion will be decided by a playoff for the first time starting in 2014.
"We are excited to be on the threshold of creating a new postseason structure for college football that builds on the great popularity of our sport," Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said Wednesday.
All 11 commissioners stood shoulder-to-shoulder behind Swarbrick, who read the BCS statement from a podium set up in a hotel conference room.
The commissioners have been working on reshaping college football's postseason since January. The meeting Wednesday was the sixth formal get-together of the year. They met for four hours and emerged with a commitment to stand behind a plan.
"I think we're very unified," Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said.
The commissioners refrained from providing specifics of the plan in their announcement.
Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott did say the two semifinals would be worked into the existing major bowls and the site of the national championship game will be bid out to any city that wants it, the way the NFL does with the Super Bowl.
People with firsthand knowledge of the decision tell The Associated Press the semifinals of the proposed plan would rotate among the major bowls and not be tied to traditional conference relationships.
They also said that under the plan a selection committee would choose the schools that play for the national title.
The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the commissioners did not want to reveal many details before talking to their bosses.
"I am delighted," said SEC Commissioner Mike Slive, who has supported a four-team playoff for years and whose league has won the last six BCS titles. "I am pleased with the progress we have made. There are some differences, but we will work them out. We're trying to do what is in the best interest of the game."
There was some debate about whether to have semifinal sites rotate between the current BCS bowls ? the Orange, Sugar, Rose and Fiesta ? or link the sites of the games to traditional conference affiliations. By linking sites to leagues Southeastern Conference teams could host games at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans and Pac-12 and Big Ten teams could host games at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.
But the logistical issues that come with not having the sites for the semifinals set in advance were too big a problem. Now it will be possible for Ohio State and Oregon to play a semifinal in Miami, the site of the Orange Bowl.
How the teams will be selected has also been hotly debated; the current Bowl Championship Series uses a combination of polls and computer rankings.
There are still major details to be worked out, such as who exactly makes up the selection committee, but college football will take a page from college basketball, which uses a committee of athletic directors and commissioners to pick the teams for its championship tournament.
Scott has pushed for conference champions to be given preference for the playoff, but said he was comfortable that a committee would emphasize that and strength of schedule. He stopped short of saying the committee was part of the proposed plan.
"My position has evolved on that," Scott said about the selection committee. "There's a positive impression about the role that the basketball committee has played for basketball, and I think there's been a consensus that the current (football) system is pretty flawed in a lot of ways."
The 12-member BCS Presidential Oversight Committee meets Tuesday in Washington. The commissioners and Swarbrick all stressed that ultimately the decision lies with the presidents. And that they will have more than just one model to talk about at their meeting.
The Big Ten and Pac-12 presidents have both expressed support for the so-called plus-one model, which gives the BCS a new look by selecting the championship game participants after the bowls are played instead of creating a pair of national semifinals.
"I'm comfortable both of those will still be discussed at the president's meeting," Delany said.
Discussed, yes. But unless something unexpected happens in Washington, a playoff will take another step to becoming a reality.
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