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Thursday, February 28, 2013
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Films to bring art exhibits to cinemas worldwide
LONDON (AP) ? Art exhibitions abroad are coming to a cinema near you.
Art lovers who can't travel to London to see Edouard Manet's portraits at the Royal Academy of Arts will now be able to watch a film about the show at movie theaters from Argentina to India.
Arts documentary maker Phil Grabsky, who made the film, said Wednesday the initiative will let global audiences experience art from some of the world's best galleries.
The movies will show the paintings and be narrated by experts who guide audiences through the exhibitions.
The film on the Manet show will be shown from April in almost 450 cinemas in the U.S. It will be followed by films on an Oslo show on Edvard Munch, and a London show on Johannes Vermeer.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/films-bring-art-exhibits-cinemas-worldwide-213019388.html
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Arias prosecutor chips away at numerous stories
PHOENIX (AP) ? A prosecutor on Wednesday meticulously chipped away at Jodi Arias' numerous stories in the death penalty case against her, noting apparent contradictions in her testimony about the nature of her sexual relationship with the victim, weapons used in the killing and her various versions of events leading her to the man's home on the day of his death.
After three days of intense cross-examination by prosecutor Juan Martinez in a Phoenix courtroom, testimony ended just as he began to ask about the day of the June 2008 killing of Travis Alexander.
She claims she killed him in self-defense when he became enraged after a day of raunchy sex, while authorities say she planned the attack on Alexander in a jealous rage, then worked to cover her tracks.
Martinez is prodding Arias about her testimony under questioning by her attorneys, during which she recalled minute details of her life dating back to what she called an abusive childhood, yet her recollection of events leading up to the killing has grown hazy under cross-examination.
Martinez repeatedly refers to her "litany of lies." Arias initially told authorities she knew know nothing about the killing, then later blamed it on intruders, providing descriptions of the attack by two masked people in several media interviews. She eventually settled on self-defense. She says she was too ashamed and frightened to be truthful sooner.
However, Martinez noted that her story changed as she spoke to various media organizations.
"I couldn't keep my stories straight," Arias acknowledged.
She has repeatedly described a raunchy sexual relationship with Alexander, testifying she just wanted to fulfill his fantasies even as some of them made her feel like a prostitute. Yet phone recordings played for jurors and text messages shown in court indicate that she enjoyed participating, and even instigated some of the salacious encounters.
"So when you tell us you felt like a prostitute it seems to be contradictory?" Martinez noted. "You were actually into it as much as he was, right?"
"Yes," Arias said.
Martinez then read for jurors text messages between Arias and Alexander. In one message, Arias describes how she wanted to be treated "like a dirty little schoolgirl."
She has testified that was one of Alexander's sexual fantasies that made her uncomfortable.
"It was a consensual mutual relationship sexually speaking, wasn't it?" Martinez asked.
"Yes, always," Arias said.
"No indication that you were offended?" the prosecutor continued.
"Correct," Arias replied.
As he continued picking apart her stories, Martinez asked about several 5-gallon gas cans Arias said she borrowed as she began her intended road trip from Northern California to Utah in the days before Alexander's death.
Arias testified under questioning by her attorneys that she brought along the cans to fill up out of state because gas was so expensive in California, yet Martinez displayed receipts showing she actually filled up in California.
Martinez later played for jurors a recording of a telephone conversation Arias had with the lead detective on the case a day after Alexander's body was found. She testified previously she called police to throw off suspicion.
"Was there, like, any kind of weapons used? Was there a gun?" she asked the detective on the tape.
He responded with his own question.
"Do you know of him (Alexander) having any weapons at all in his house?" the detective asked.
"His two fists," Arias replied.
Arias says on the day of the killing, Alexander flew into a rage, body-slammed her and chased her around his home, forcing her to fight for her life.
She said she grabbed a gun from his closet, and fired it as they tussled. She remembers putting a knife in the dishwasher and disposing of the gun in the desert as she drove from Arizona to see a man in Utah. Alexander's body was found about five days later. He had been shot in the head, and suffered 27 stab and slash wounds and a slit throat.
Martinez then questioned her about that phone call to the detective during which she said Alexander didn't own a gun.
"So you're saying you lied to him again?" Martinez asked.
"Yes," Arias said.
Arias' grandparents reported a .25 caliber handgun stolen from their Northern California house about a week before the killing ? the same caliber used to shoot Alexander ? but Arias says she knows nothing about the burglary. She was staying with them at the time.
Part of the prosecution's case aimed at securing a death penalty hinges on premeditation.
As testimony neared an end Wednesday, Martinez turned to Arias' contention that Alexander had a knife in his bedroom that he had used to cut rope to tie Arias to his bed for sexual antics. She claims the rope was too long, so Alexander made it shorter. But Martinez noted that the rope was merely a prop and not really restraining her to the bed, to which she agreed.
"Why would you even need to cut this rope," he asked. "There would be no need for a knife at that point, would there?"
"No, I guess not," Arias replied.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/arias-prosecutor-chips-away-numerous-stories-001552671.html
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Arkansas lawmakers override governor's abortion bill veto
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ? The Arkansas House voted 53-28 Wednesday to override Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of a bill that would outlaw most abortions starting in the 20th week of pregnancy, hours after a state Senate committee approved a package of even tighter abortion restrictions.
The Republican-controlled state Senate, which overwhelmingly backed the 20-week near-ban on abortions before Beebe, a Democrat, vetoed it, was expected to discuss whether to vote to override the veto Thursday. Like the GOP-led House, only a simple majority in the Senate is needed to override a veto.
The House-sponsored measure is based on the disputed argument that a fetus can feel pain by the 20th week of pregnancy, and thus deserves protection from abortion. Beebe vetoed the bill Tuesday, saying it contradicts the U.S. Supreme Court's 1976 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion until a fetus can viably survive outside of the womb, which is typically at 22 to 24 weeks.
"This is not just any regular bill. It's one that has an eternal impact on each of us and to those children," Republican Rep. Andy Mayberry told House members as he urged them to override.
Two of the House's 48 Democrats joined with all 51 GOP members to support overriding Beebe's veto. Eighteen Democrats and the chamber's only Green Party member did not vote on the override, which has the same effect as voting against it. Republicans hold 21 of the 35 seats in the Senate, which approved the bill on a 25-7 vote last week.
Before the House vote, the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee voted 5-2 to advance a bill that would ban most abortions starting in the 12th week of pregnancy, sending it to the full Senate. The Senate passed an earlier version of the bill that would have outlawed abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, but amended it to push back the restriction and to add more exemptions.
Beebe declined to say Wednesday whether he also would veto the Senate's proposed 12-week ban, but he said he thinks it's on even shakier legal ground than the House's 20-week version.
"I'm pretty sure I know what I'm going to do on a bill that's even more problematic than the one I already vetoed, but I won't tell you officially until that time," Beebe said Tuesday.
Seven states have enacted similar 20-week restrictions based on the fetal pain argument, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which tracks laws affecting women's health. A similar law in Arizona has been blocked while a federal appeals court reviews a lawsuit challenging it.
The Arkansas bill is based on research Mayberry and other abortion opponents cite that fetuses can feel pain at 20 weeks. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, however, says it knows of no legitimate scientific information supporting the idea that a fetus experiences pain.
John DiPippa, dean emeritus of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's law school, said he agrees with Beebe that the ban is unconstitutional and likely will be decided by the courts. He said he thinks the fetal pain argument will lose in the lower courts but that it's unclear how it might fare if it were to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
"The core holding of Roe is that a state cannot place an obstacle in the way of a woman who wants to abort before viability," DiPippa said. "If you apply that standard, then these bills that draw the line at 20 weeks ? which by all medical estimates is prior to viability ? would clearly set up a substantial obstacle to a woman's ability to before that age."
GOP Sen. Jason Rapert said he hopes Beebe lets it stand but said he was confident the 12-week ban would have enough support to override a veto.
"The governor has his own conscience," Rapert, R-Conway, told reporters. "I think probably the best route would be that he just simply not sign the bill and let it become law, if that's what he decides to do. If he doesn't, then we'll override the veto and it'll become law in the state of Arkansas."
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Associated Press writer Michael Stratford contributed to this report.
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Andrew DeMillo can be reached at www.twitter.com/ademillo
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ark-house-overrides-veto-abortion-restrictions-214013377--politics.html
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Ship noise makes crabs get crabby
Feb. 26, 2013 ? A new study published in Biology Letters found that ship noise affects crab metabolism, with largest crabs faring worst, and found little evidence that crabs acclimatise to noise over time.
The team from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter found that crabs exposed to recordings of ship noise showed an increase in metabolic rate, indicating elevated stress. In the real world this could have implications for growth and, if the metabolic cost of noise causes crabs to spend more time foraging to compensate, could also increase the risk of predation.
Researcher Matt Wale from Bristol's School of Biological Sciences describes the study: "We used controlled experiments to consider how shore crabs of different sizes respond to both single and repeated exposure to playback of ship noise. Ship noise is the most common source of noise in the aquatic environment."
Explains Dr Andy Radford, Reader in Behavioural Ecology at Bristol: "We found that the metabolic rate of crabs exposed to ship noise was higher than those experiencing ambient harbour noise, and that larger individuals were affected most strongly. This is the first indication that there might be different responses to noise depending on the size of an individual."
If commercially important crabs and lobsters are affected by noise, these findings have implications for fisheries in busy shipping areas where large individuals may be losing out. Conversely, if reducing noise reduces metabolic costs, then quietening aquaculture facilities may lead to higher yields.
Dr Steve Simpson from the University of Exeter warned: "Since larger crabs are affected more strongly by noise this could have implications for fisheries in noisy areas. Also, many crustacean species, particularly prawns, are grown in aquaculture, so if acoustic disturbance has a metabolic cost then operational noise in farms may impact on growth, and quieter farms may be more profitable."
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Sex, power scandals to loom over Vatican pre-vote talks
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The sex and power scandals haunting the Catholic Church look set to play a big role in meetings before next month's papal election after two senior cardinals called on Tuesday for more internal debate about them.
A leading support group for victims of clerical sexual abuse also made what it called a "last-ditch plea" to Pope Benedict to use his authority before resigning on Thursday to discipline bishops who have protected predatory priests in their dioceses.
The abuse issue took on new urgency after Scotland's Cardinal Keith O'Brien, accused of improper behavior with young priests, quit as Edinburgh archbishop on Monday and pulled out of the Sistine Chapel conclave to elect a new pope.
A Scottish Catholic Media Office spokesman has said O'Brien was taking legal advice and contested the "anonymous and non specific" allegations against him.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, now the only British prelate due to attend pre-conclave talks among cardinals at the Vatican next week, said in London the sexual abuse of children was the most serious scandal in the Church.
"That will be one of the main things the cardinals will be discussing," said Murphy-O'Connor, who cannot vote because he is over 80 years old but can join the cardinal electors in their closed-door discussions about the challenges for the next pope.
French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran said in a newspaper interview that the cardinal electors, who number 115 after O'Brien stepped down, should also be informed about a secret report on Vatican corruption prepared for Pope Benedict.
The retiring pontiff has decided to reserve the report for his successor, but the three cardinals over 80 years old who drew it up will be allowed to inform the cardinal electors about some of its findings during next week's consultations.
ASKING TO NAME NAMES
"The cardinal electors cannot decide to choose this or that name to vote for if they don't know the contents of this dossier," Tauran told La Repubblica newspaper.
"If it's necessary, I don't see why they should not ask for names," said Tauran, a former Vatican foreign minister who now heads its department for interreligious dialogue.
Italian newspapers have been speculating for days about conspiracies and alleged sexual scandals inside the Vatican that may have influenced Benedict to become the first pope in some six centuries to step down rather than die in office.
The Vatican has accused these newspapers of spreading "false and damaging" rumors in an attempt to influence the cardinals who are starting to arrive in Rome for the pope's farewell meeting with them on Thursday.
Two directors of the United States-based abuse victims' network SNAP arrived in Rome on Tuesday to draw attention to their demands for tougher Church policies.
"We're here to make a last ditch plea to Pope Benedict to use the remaining hours of his papacy to take decisive action to protect kids," said David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
He acknowledged that Benedict had met some abuse victims and made some strong statements condemning the molestation of minors by priests, but said he only acted under public pressure.
"We long for the day when Church officials announce that this cardinal or this bishop is being demoted because Church officials have found proof of wrongdoing and Church officials want to clean things up," he told journalists.
SNAP saw no papal candidates ready to fire bishops for shielding wrongdoers, he said, but added: "It's hard to believe there aren't some cardinals who are grabbing their colleagues by the lapels and saying 'We simply have to do better'."
CATHOLICS CRITICAL OF ABUSE HANDLING
Spanish Cardinal Julian Herranz, one of the three who drew up the secret report for Benedict, echoed the Vatican attack on the media in an interview on Monday with the daily El Pais.
"This wanting to see snake pits, warring mafias, internal hatreds - all this is absolutely false," he said.
Because conclaves are such secretive events, it is hard to see what effect the heightened public pressure over the abuse issue might have on the cardinals who will elect the next leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics around the globe.
Italian newspapers, which dedicate several pages a day to the papal story, have begun mentioning Cardinal Sean O'Malley as a possible "clean hands" candidate because he was sent to Boston to deal with abuse scandals that erupted there in 2002.
But other factors could lead them to choose a man whose main strengths lie elsewhere, such as an aptitude to promote its "new evangelization" drive, aimed at rekindling the faith in Europe and boost it in other regions.
Recent polls in two important national churches, in the United States and Germany, show that Catholics give their leaders low marks for their handling of the abuse crisis.
A Pew Forum poll last week showed U.S. Catholics have become increasingly critical, with those saying Benedict has done a poor job rising from 40 percent in 2008 to 63 percent now.
A survey in January for the weekly Die Zeit showed that only 28 percent of German Catholics polled believed the Church really wanted to clean up the mess the scandals have caused.
(Reporting By Tom Heneghan; Editing by Will Waterman)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sex-power-scandals-loom-over-vatican-pre-vote-174102534.html
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Bada to be retired, will see its best features absorbed by Tizen
It's been over a year since rumors and statements suggested Samsung's Bada OS was due to be terminated, but that some form of it would live on within the open-source Tizen OS. Now, Samsung exec Won-Pyo Hong has confirmed as such with Korean news agency Yonhap. Rather than a complete fusion of the two, Tizen will select only the best qualities of the featurephone-friendly Bada for assimilation. Samsung's Tizen 2.0-based handsets arriving in 2013 will put the final nail in Bada's coffin, but out of respect for its fallen comrade, Tizen will obligingly run apps designed for the retired OS. Like some kind of mobile software Highlander, Tizen is now drawing power from several perished peers, and has even set its sights on the mighty Android. There can be only one.
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Via: The Verge
Source: Yonhap
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/25/bada-integrated-into-tizen/
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How A Teacher Turned To Technology To Solve A Thorny Problem And Raised $100K
The clincher, the thing that made Quick Key go viral, was a poorly-lit video of an excitable guy holding his iPhone up to a Scantron page, one of those test pages you used to fill out in school. He thumbs through page after page, making comments on students' performance as the app scans the page and instantly reports a grade. The video was amazingly compelling. The creator, Walter O. Duncan IV, can barely contain his excitement. His app looked great, it worked seamlessly, and the video struck a nerve with students and teachers, pocketing 260,000 views on YouTube and popping up on the front page of Reddit.
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Adele, 'Jaws' And 'Boob Song': Oscars Top Musical Moments
MTV News rounds up the many musical highlights from Sunday's Academy Awards.
By Jocelyn Vena
Adele performs at the 2013 Oscars
Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Hiring A Corporate Meeting Room In Melbourne
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Trial by Jury, Gay Adoption, Legal Awards Season ? The Human ...
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular booster shot of human rights news. The full list of links can be found?here. You can also find our table of human rights cases?here?and previous roundups?here.
Unsurprisingly, Theresa May?s views on the role of immigration judges sparked much debate this week ? yet haven?t stopped the judges making findings that Immigration Rules are unlawful.? The consequences of the dismissal of the Pryce jury are still playing out, while the Strasbourg Court has made an important ruling on discrimination based on sexual orientation.? Keep an eye out on some new events advertised this week, and various updates in the legal blogging world.
In the news
Blogs and Awards
Sad news for the world of online legal journalism with the?announcement?that?Guardian Law?is to abolish its position of editor and become ?semi-automated?.? The pill, however, is sweetened with the news that our very own UKHRB has been?nominated?for the Legal Journalism Award at this year?s Halsbury Legal Awards.? Nominations are also open for the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year, for which information can be found?here.
Theresa May v Immigration Judges & Other Immigration News
Following Adam?s UKHRB post last week, the key news item has been the fallout from Theresa May?s public attack on immigration judges in last week?s Mail on Sunday.? T
ObiterJ notes?the ?major inaccuracies? in Mrs May?s article, particularly that in fact no immigration judge actually considers Article 8 (right to respect for family life) to be an absolute and unqualified right.? The blogger also makes very clear that the Immigration Rules, although voted upon by one chamber in Parliament, do not constitute primary legislation, and accordingly will not be treated by judges as such.
The Free Movement blog raises the possibility that Parliament may, in light of this incident, modify the Human Rights Act, and questions with caution that if foreign criminals become a first exception, who might follow?? The Spectator also nods in the direction of repealing or amending the Human Rights Act, though sets Mrs May?s comments in the current political context of the Eastleigh by-election, ?where immigration may play as an issue?.
The Upper Tribunal was, however, seemingly not put off by Theresa May?s views, as displayed by a two-part post on the Ogundimu case relating to the new rules pertaining to Nigeria.? The first?points to the UT?s finding that the First Tier Tribunal made a ?serious error of law? by finding that ?Article 8 was not even engaged.?? The second?goes on to explain the Tribunal?s finding that deportation was not a proportionate response to the legitimate aim of preventing crime, given the appellant?s family circumstances.? The Court of Appeal has also found?the country guidance for Burma to be flawed, a finding which has essentially reopened all Burmese asylum cases.
Sexual Orientation and Reform at the ECtHR
Paul Johnson briefly summarises the decision of the ECtHR in X and Others v Austria on the ECHRSO blog, before turning his eye to deeper analysis on the ECHR blog.? The Court found that Austrian domestic law did discriminate against same-sex couples when it comes to ?second parent [step-parent] adoptions?, breaching Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8 of the ECHR.? Johnson?s view is that the Court?s conclusion and method are consistent with an established line of case law, but he criticises the continued view of the Court that gives states a wide ?margin of appreciation? under Article 12 to maintain a ?heteronormative? view of marriage.
In a busy week for the ECHR Blog, it also points to?the Council of Europe?s new webpage that brings together all the relevant material associated with reform of the ECtHR.? For a digestible background piece, see the Council of Europe?s page?on the history of the reforms.? The blog also provides a useful collation of commentary of the Court?s earlier decision in El-Masri.
The Pryce of Trial by Jury
Expect some more on this next week, but the fallout from the dismissal of the jury in the Vicki Pryce case is starting to animate the pens of legal commentators.? Mark Elliott provides?some useful background to many of the relevant issues at play, including his own suggestion that perhaps juries ought to be expected to give reasons for their decisions.? Richard Moorhead, however, suggests?that we are asking the wrong questions: it is not a matter of whether trial by jury is an appropriate method of dispensing justice, but rather we should focus on how judges direct said jurors. Meanwhile, Joshua Rozenberg and David Allen Green discuss the issue in a joint piece in today?s Observer.
Also in the News
Just a quick blitz through some other items making this week?s headlines, starting with a couple of pieces on children and the law.? David Burrows questions?whether those who provide information on alleged abuse ought to be entitled to public interest immunity, with the Supreme Court finding that the right to a fair trial overrides the concomitant right to privacy.? Meanwhile, Family Lore outlines?the recent judgments of the Supreme Court in L and B and in J, with links to case summaries.
Finally, some interesting takes on matters of public law: Brodies LLP have undertaken research?into judicial review in Scotland, noting in particular the low success rate of applications and relatively steady rate of applications.? Andrew Le Sueur on the UK Constitutional Law Blog observes?that the Wikipedia article on the UK constitution is broadly written by non-experts, and invites fellow experts to make contributions as a method of public education.? The UKSC blog provides a useful outline of a speech given by Lord Reed on an ?insider?s? view of the Supreme Court, with some fascinating insights into the mechanisms of the Court.? Finally, in light of the government?s decision not to implement aspects of the Equality Act, and to repeal others, Sir Bob Hepple QC indicates?the vital role to be played by the Equality and Human Rights Commission with its remaining resources.
In the Courts
X and Others v Austria?(Application no. 19010/07) Austrian domestic law preventing same-sex couples carrying out ?second parent? adoptions breaches Articles 14 and 8.
Durani v Secretary of State for Home Department [2013] EWHC 284 (Admin)?21 day immigration detention of minor unlawful due to obviously flawed local authority age assessment, rules High Court
Horncastle and Others v United Kingdom (Application no. 4184/10)?Horncastle case returns to the ECtHR for questions to parties
Upcoming Events
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- Human Rights Law in Practice: Policy, Politics and Potential Saturday 9th March, 09:30 ? 17:00,?Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- The Economics of Killing Tuesday 5th March 2013, 18:00 ? 20:00, Warwick University
- Public Law Project Wales Conference 2013 Thursday 11th April 2013, 09:30 ? 17.30. Venue: Cardiff University
- International Graduate Legal Research Conference King?s College London, April 8-9, 2013 (including 2 human rights panels and one on environmental law).
- Justice and Security Bill ? Closed hearings in civil cases ? ALBA 05 March 2013, Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP and Shami Chakrabarti, chaired by Lord Justice Lloyd Jones ? ALBA members only, booking required
- The Power of Literature and Human Rights Saturday 2 March 2013, 11am-12.30pm Venue: LSE Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
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Dell XPS 10
If you think you need to carry all of your digital files (especially videos and multimedia) with you at all times, stop reading this and go read a review for a more power user-oriented system. Still here? Okay, the Dell XPS 10 ($679.99 bundled with keyboard dock) has one of the longest battery life test results we've seen. You can use this convertible tablet on the longest flight in the world, and still have battery power left over to check your email when you land. An even better use would be for a busy student or business corridor nomad who rarely has a chance to plug in: 20+ hours of battery life means that you can stay connected all day and well into the night. If "Office and the Internet" are your primary needs on a computer, then our new (and first) Editors' Choice winner for Windows RT tablets is the everyday computer you can carry everywhere.
Design and Features
The XPS 10 follows the now familiar hybrid tablet format. Primarily, it's a slate tablet, measuring a slim 0.36 by 11 by 7 inches (HWD) and weighing 1.36 pounds. Connected to its keyboard dock, the system grows to just under an inch thick (0.94 inch) while keeping its other dimensions, and the combo weighs in at 2.63 pounds.
Like other tablets, the XPS 10 is constructed from magnesium alloy and has a soft touch finish. The screen is covered by seamless Asahi Dragontail glass, and has a five-point touch capability. (Asahi Dragontail glass is a strengthened glass competitor to Corning's Gorilla Glass.) The tablet latches to the keyboard dock easily, and can be removed just as easily by pushing a sliding tab on the keyboard dock hinge. When the two are connected, the XPS 10 looks and acts like a small laptop, with a comfortable keyboard and one-piece multitouch trackpad.
Around the edges of the XPS 10 are the tablet's docking/charging connector, a micro-USB port (with included full sized USB port dongle), volume control, micro-SD card slot, and headset jack. The keyboard dock has a pair of USB 2.0 ports, a mini-HDMI port (with included mini-HDMI to full HDMI dongle), and charging port. You can plug the AC adapter into the dock or the tablet's docking connector for charging, one AC adapter is included with the tablet, and one with the keyboard dock ($180). Since you have both chargers, you can leave one at home and carry the other with you in your travel bag. If you're in a pinch, you can use a standard micro-USB cable and USB charger to recharge or power the XPS 10, albeit at a slow trickle rate.
One nicety we found during testing are the keyboard dock's built-in speakers. When the tablet is used alone, the sound is fine for Web surfing and alert sounds. When you connect the keyboard dock, the speakers in the dock work in concert with the speakers in the tablet to give you a louder, richer audio experience. The combo won't replace an external soundbar for critical viewing/listening, but with this combo you won't have to turn on closed captioning to understand what's going on (in dialogue-heavy movies), especially if you're sharing the screen with a friend.
The XPS 10's IPS screen measures 10.1 inches (diagonally), which matches the screen size of its other hybrid docking tablet rival, the Asus VivoTab RT. Both screens are physically smaller than the 10.6-inch screen on the Microsoft Surface with Windows RT, even though all three screens sport a 1,366-by-768 resolution. The XPS 10's IPS screen is easily viewable from many angles, and its resolution supports 720p HD video. Any 1080p HD video can be downscaled for viewing on the system's screen, but it's a better viewing experience to watch 720p videos natively instead.
Accelerometers make sure the screen is always pointing "up" whether you are holding the system in portrait or landscape mode. Taps and swipes on the screen were responsive, as were the controls on the physical keyboard dock and trackpad. The responsive trackpad is an improvement over the VivoTab RT and even some ultrabooks like the Vizio 14-Inch Thin + Light (CT14-A4) .
There are two major drawbacks with Windows RT: compatibility and the closed ecosystem. Since the XPS 10 and other RT-based systems run a version of Windows over an ARM processor (the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4), older programs are not compatible with RT. The only source for programs is the Windows Store in the system's Start screen. You can't download and install your favorite browser, you can't buy programs from a third party site (like Steam or Origin), and you can't install many browser plug-ins either. The one plus on the program side is that the system comes with Microsoft Office 2013 RT (Home and Student) pre-loaded, and that the system is somewhat protected from viruses (through Windows Defender and the fact that x86 code won't run on it).
The system is bloatware free, since the only pre-loaded programs are Office, Skype, Dell Shop (physical products from Dell), Getting Started with Windows RT (a help program), and Dell dock settings. Getting Started with Windows RT is a good set of videos and documentation to help new users learn how to use Windows RT and the new user interface. When we pulled the XPS 10 out of its box, we noticed that it only has 15.9GB free out of a 23.8GB indicated. This means that you better view most of videos from online, as you won't have too much local storage unless you pop a microSD card into the XPS 10. Still, 16 GB should be enough for Office files like Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. You can also use Microsoft's SkyDrive for cloud storage.
When connected to the Web, the XPS 10 is an excellent tool. Internet Explorer starts up quickly, and websites load quickly as well. Programs like Netflix and Hulu+ work as you'd expect. However, as stated above, the number of Windows RT compatible apps is still severely limited compared with those for Android Tablets and iPads. About the only thing that RT tablets have over the other mobile platforms are the fully compatible copy of Office and the fact that the OS on RT tablets acts like a typical Windows OS. The XPS 10 comes with a one-year warranty standard with options for extending that warranty through Dell's ProSupport service.
Performance
Because of its ARM-based processor, the Dell XPS doesn't run our Windows benchmark tests like 3DMark 11 or PCMark 7. The test that we can run is one of the most important: battery life. The XPS 10 lasts a staggering 11 hours and 34 minutes alone, and tops 20-and-a-half hours (20:36) when connected to its fully charged keyboard dock. This is a phenomenal amount of battery life. It's certainly enough to last the whole flight between virtually any two nonstop points on the planet (currently the Newark to Singapore flight SQ21, at 18 hours, 50 minutes). This means the XPS 10 and dock last a lot longer than the Asus VivoTab RT with its dock (16:03) or alone (9:37). The XPS 10 also outlasted the Microsoft Surface RT (7:45). While all of the RT tablets outlast laptops and tablets with ultrabook-class processors like the Microsoft Surface Pro (4:58), Atom-powered tablets can give you full Windows 8 compatibility and long battery life like the Dell Latitude 10 (19:38 with extended battery).
Essentially, it comes down to what you need out of your tablet. If you need the ultimate in portability and don't care at all about compatibility with Windows, then grab an iPad or Google Nexus 7. If you absolutely, positively need legacy program support or Windows 8 Pro compatibility, then a full-blown Windows 8 tablet like the Editors' Choice Dell Latitude 10 or Microsoft Surface Pro is worth the added expense. However, if you need insanely long battery life and your critical "Windows compatibility" needs are limited to Office documents, then you can get a Windows RT tablet like the Dell XPS 10. It's one of the better RT tablets we've seen so far, and our new Editors' Choice for Windows RT tablets.
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Meet Carl, the Other Pistorius Facing Murder Charges
The Pistorius family are going to be court room regulars before the year is through. Besides little brother Oscar's murder case, another Pistorius sibling is facing murder charges in South Africa. Oscar's big brother Carl is being charged with culpable homicide, too.?
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The South African eNCA's Karyn Maughan confirmed with Pistorius attorney Kenny Oldwage, the same one representing Oscar, that the elder Carl is facing culpable homicide charges related to a 2010 incident that resulted in a woman's death. Carl was supposed to appear in court on Thursday, the day before Oscar was granted bail, but his case was postponed until next month.
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Now, you might be asking, why is he being charged for this now? In 2010, Pistorius was allegedly driving when his car struck a woman on a motorcycle, resulting in her death. Oldwage contends Pistorius was tested by police and proven to be sober at the time of the incident, and he believes that should ultimately lead to his innocence. The charges were originally withdrawn by the State prosecutors, but then reinstated later.?
RELATED: Oscar Pistorius Is Granted Bail
This isn't the first time the other Pistorius has made headlines this month, either. Carl's?Twitter account got hacked on Saturday. The alleged hackers said Oscar would be granting interviews, but alas, that's not the case. That incident led to the entire Pistorius family shutting down their Twitter accounts.?
RELATED: Report: Steroids Found at Home of Oscar Pistorius
At least it will be easy for the brothers to find a carpool buddy??
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Benchmarks Are In: Nvidia's Tegra 4 Really Cooks
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
How to simplify the tax code in 2013
Making the tax code less complicated and more efficient may not achieve the rate-cutting, base-broadening reform many want, Gleckman writes,?but it can have important consequences for real people.
IRS employees exit the US Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. Congress can get a lot done on the tax code without getting into theological battles over whether we are taxed too much or not enough, Gleckman writes.
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EnlargeAs regular readers of?Tax Vox?know, I don?t believe there is?much chance?President Obama and Congress will agree on individual broad-based tax reform in 2013. Without a deal?on how much this new tax system should raise, talking about a?big rewrite?is futile. However, Obama and Congress still have an opportunity to do something very useful: Clean up the law so it is simpler and smarter.
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Making the code less complicated and more efficient may not achieve the?rate-cutting, base-broadening reform many want. And it surely is not the cosmic shift to a consumption tax favored by others. But it can have important consequences for real people.
Until now, Democrats and Republicans have been like a couple that has been living in the same house since 1986. For decades, they?ve been having the same argument: She wants to put on a big addition. He wants to move. While they?ve bickered, the house has deteriorated.
But they have an alternative: Call a cease fire and upgrade what they have: Put in energy-efficient appliances, update that pink-tiled bathroom, and give the place a fresh paintjob. Neither spouse may be??fully satisfied, but they?ve made the house a lot more pleasant to live in.
Justin Timberlake to do double duty on "Saturday Night Live" in April
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - No word on whether he'll wear a suit and tie for the occasion, but Justin Timberlake is coming back to "Saturday Night Live."
Timberlake will return to NBC's sketch-comedy institution on March 9, pulling double duty as the episode's host and musical guest.
The "Sexy Back" singer is no stranger to the show, having made 16 appearances in the past, including four hosting stints. (He last hosted the show in May 2011, with Lady Gaga as musical guest.)
Timberlake's latest album, "The 20/20 Experience," is out March 19, with the first single, "Suit & Tie," already released.
For the return of "SNL" on March 2, actor Kevin Hart will perform hosting duties, with "Thrift Shop" musicians Macklemore & Ryan Lewis as musical guests.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/justin-timberlake-double-duty-saturday-night-live-april-234901688.html
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6 leaking tanks are Hanford nuke site's latest woe
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) ? Federal and state officials say six underground tanks holding toxic and radioactive wastes are leaking at the country's most contaminated nuclear site in south-central Washington, raising concerns about delays for emptying the aging tanks.
The leaking materials at Hanford Nuclear Reservation pose no immediate risk to public safety or the environment because it would take perhaps years for the chemicals to reach groundwater, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday.
But the news has renewed discussion over delays for emptying the tanks, which were installed decades ago and are long past their intended 20-year life span.
"None of these tanks would be acceptable for use today. They are all beyond their design life. None of them should be in service," said Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge, a Hanford watchdog group. "And yet, they're holding two-thirds of the nation's high-level nuclear waste."
Just last week, state officials announced that one of Hanford's 177 tanks was leaking 150 to 300 gallons a year, posing a risk to groundwater and rivers. So far, nearby monitoring wells haven't detected higher radioactivity levels.
Inslee then traveled to Washington, D.C., to discuss the problem with federal officials, learning in meetings Friday that six tanks are leaking.
The declining waste levels in the six tanks were missed because only a narrow band of measurements was evaluated, rather than a wider band that would have shown the levels changing over time, Inslee said.
"It's like if you're trying to determine if climate change is happening, only looking at the data for today," he said. "Perhaps human error, the protocol did not call for it. But that's not the most important thing at the moment. The important thing now is to find and address the leakers."
Department of Energy spokeswoman Lindsey Geisler said there was no immediate health risk and that federal officials would work with Washington state to address the matter.
Regardless, Sen. Ron Wyden, the new chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, will ask the Government Accountability Office to investigate Hanford's tank monitoring and maintenance program, said his spokesman, Tom Towslee.
The federal government built the Hanford facility at the height of World War II as part of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. The remote site produced plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, and continued supporting the nation's nuclear weapons arsenal for years.
Today, it is the most contaminated nuclear site in the country, still surrounded by sagebrush but with Washington's Tri-Cities of Richland, Kennewick and Pasco several miles downriver.
Several years ago, workers at Hanford completed two of three projects deemed urgent risks to the public and the environment, removing all weapons-grade plutonium from the site and emptying leaky pools that held spent nuclear fuel just 400 yards from the river.
But successes at the site often are overshadowed by delays, budget overruns and technological challenges. Nowhere have those challenges been more apparent than in Hanford's central plateau, home to the site's third most urgent project: emptying the tanks.
Hanford's tanks hold some 53 million gallons of highly radioactive waste ? enough to fill dozens of Olympic-size swimming pools ? and many of those tanks are known to have leaked in the past. An estimated 1 million gallons of radioactive liquid has already leaked there.
The cornerstone of emptying the tanks is a treatment plant that will convert the waste into glasslike logs for safe, secure storage. The plant, last estimated to cost more than $12.3 billion, is billions of dollars over budget and behind schedule. It isn't expected to being operating until at least 2019.
Washington state is imposing a "zero-tolerance" policy on radioactive waste leaking into the soil, Inslee said. So given those delays and the apparent deterioration of some of the tanks, the federal government will have to show that there is adequate storage for the waste in the meantime, he said.
"We are not convinced of this," he said. "There will be a robust exchange of information in the coming weeks to get to the bottom of this."
Inslee and Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, both Democrats, have championed building additional tanks to ensure safe storage of the waste until the plant is completed.
Wyden, D-Ore., toured the site earlier this week. He said he shares the governors' concerns about the integrity of the tanks but he wants more scientific information to determine it's the correct way to spend scarce money.
Wyden noted the nation's most contaminated nuclear site ? and the challenges associated with ridding it of its toxic legacy ? will be a subject of upcoming hearings and a higher priority in Washington, D.C.
The federal government already spends $2 billion each year on Hanford cleanup ? one-third of its entire budget for nuclear cleanup nationally. The Energy Department has said it expects funding levels to remain the same for the foreseeable future, but a new Energy Department report released this week calls for annual budgets of as much as $3.5 billion during some years of the cleanup effort.
There are legal, moral and ethical considerations to cleaning up the Hanford site at the national level, Inslee said, adding that he will continue to insist that the Energy Department completely clean up the site.
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Associated Press writer Dina Cappiello in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.
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Toronto-based SaaS Enterprise Safety Company Field ID Acquired By Security Hardware Maker Master Lock
Master Lock has acquired Toronto-based software-as-a-service enterprise security solution provider Field ID in a deal the terms of which weren't disclosed. We've heard the deal involving the five year-old startup was in the tens of millions, however, and that the company's angel investors were very pleased with the arrangement. The purchase nets Master Lock an entry into the software market, something it's been looking for according to Field ID CEO Somen Mondal.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/j4j-iRCj97g/
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Burmese pythons prove elusive prey in Florida challenge
BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE, Fla. ? Strapped to Billy Bullard's hip was a machete he'd bought at a yard sale. In his fist were 4-foot-long metal snake tongs. Attached to the tongs was a high-resolution waterproof camera he called a "snake-cam."
All he had to do now was find a Burmese python.
Bullard had been invited, along with just about anyone else willing to pay a $25 fee, to plunge into swampland and kill the fat, generally docile snakes that have been threatening the Everglades' ecosystem. The Python Challenge, sponsored by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, offered cash prizes: $1,000 for the longest Burmese python and $1,500 for the most pythons captured and killed.
Alas, estimates of the Burmese python population of South Florida range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. The point of the first-time contest was not to kill every last python but to raise public awareness of the need to eliminate them. They are an invasive, fast-breeding species that crushes and eats all manner of native birds and other animals, including alligators, bobcats, deer, raccoons and possums.
Most of the tan-and-brown-mottled Burmese pythons have been released into the wild since the 1980s by owners weary of caring for pets that can grow up to 26 feet long and as thick as a telephone pole. Other pythons escaped when Hurricane Andrew destroyed pet-breeding facilities in 1992. The snakes kill by constriction and are usually not a threat to humans.
Bullard, 40, knows Burmese pythons. He's caught more than 30 of them in the two years he's run an animal removal service ? the biggest one 13 feet. He doesn't kill the ones he removes; he bags them and donates them to reptile centers. His business motto, "Saving wildlife and people," is printed on his pickup along with an alligator logo and a "Got Ammo?" bumper sticker.
During the contest's second weekend last month, Bullard bagged two pythons in the Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area. They were small ? about 3 feet long.
"I didn't find them. They found me," he said. They had slithered toward him on a dirt path.
Bullard held them down with his tongs and, with two quick thwacks of his machete, hacked off their heads.
(The contest website recommends a gun or a captive bolt, the sinister cow-killing weapon brandished by the psycho killer in "No Country for Old Men." Decapitation is OK too, according to the rules, as long as it "results in immediate loss of consciousness and destruction of the brain.")
Bullard recorded the GPS position of his python kills and photographed them, as required. He delivered the heads and bodies to an approved drop-off station. He declined the contest's offer to return the python hides to him. Too small to bother with, he said.
On the challenge's final weekend, he set off to find something more substantial. It was late afternoon on a warm, steamy day when Bullard drove back to the Taylor reserve.
There, Bullard ran into competition ? four men who had been combing the reserve for two days, hunting knives at the ready, sleeping in their cars and surviving on sandwiches and cereal. They offered a dismal status report: They hadn't seen a single python.
"We've seen gators and birds and all kinds of snakes, but no pythons," said Paul Hobbs, 27.
Even so, they intended to keep hunting for another day or two, until Hobbs' dad, Tom Hobbs, 61, had to drive back home to Tennessee.
Why were they so determined to catch a python? "We've been catching snakes all our lives, but never a python," said Paul's brother-in-law, Austin Park, 22.
Bullard listened impassively, but brightened when Park mentioned that they'd walked past a huge, white alligator skull. Bullard loves animals ? alive or dead ? and collects all kinds of critter stuff.
Awhile back, he retrieved a 4-foot savannah monitor lizard as a pet for his 8-year-old son, Tyler, who named the creature Max. But Max got loose and fell in the pool and drowned while Bullard was away on his first Python Challenge hunt. He and Tyler buried Max in the backyard.
"My son cried for a week," he said.
After hearing about the apparent dearth of Burmese pythons in the Taylor reserve, Bullard decided to drive to nearby Big Cypress National Preserve. The area was off-limits to most competitors in the challenge, but Bullard could hunt there because he has a year-round Florida python harvesting license.
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