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Friday, June 28, 2013
Forget an Android gaming console, Google can make a killer ...
Finally, my dream of a Google smartwatch is looking more like a reality!?News hit the rounds on Thursday that Google is taking its next steps into becoming a hardware maker as the Wall Street Journal reported plans for an Android gaming console, media streaming device and a smartwatch.
I?m not too excited about a gaming console: There are already enough gaming devices available and as far as media sharing hardware, Google has already attempted this with its ill-fated Nexus Q last year.?But a smartwatch? Now that sounds exciting for a few reasons.
So it?s not surprising to me that some recent smartwatches have quickly gained a following or raised millions of dollars in crowd-sourced funding. Think of the Pebble or, more recently, the Kreyos Meteor, for example. Sony is also participating here, having just announced a newly updated SmartWatch 2 that arrives in September. Various other companies too are all taking a crack at being on your wrist: MetaWatch, WIMM, I?m Watch?. and the list goes on.
I?ve tried a number of these wearables in the past, but time and again, I keep returning to the Motorola MotoACTV smartwatch. It continues to impress me because unlike most of the other smartwatches, it?s not a simple second screen for your smartphone. Yes, it can show incoming messages, calls or social networking status updates when paired with a phone but it provides plenty of standalone functionality as well: GPS exercise tracking, a virtual caddie and scorekeeper on the golf course, a step tracker and an MP3 player with its built-in music player and 8 or 16 GB of flash storage.
What does that have to do with Google? A lot, since Google owns Motorola. Yes, it runs Motorola as a completely separate division, but it would nonsensical for Google not to take a good hard look at the MotoACTV for the basis of a new smartwatch. To be honest, most of what Google needs is already present and accounted for in the MotoACTV, even though the device is two years old.
It already runs on Android ? something the WSJ reported a new Google smart watch would do as well ? and has nearly every type of connectivity option available: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. Sure, the components need an upgrade from 2011 standards, but the basis of a great smart watch is already there.
There?s more, however, that Google has in its arsenal of tools to make a great watch, even if it isn?t based solely on the MotoACTV: Google Now and Google Glass.
Google Now provides personal, contextual information on phones and tablets today based on your email, calendar and web searches. Look up an address on the web and Google Now will?provide directions and an estimated time of arrival based on traffic without having to be asked. If you have to travel for an appointment on your calendar, Google Now notifies you when it?s time to leave. Nearby events, stock prices, sports scores for your favorite teams are part of Google Now as well. And collectively, these are exactly the bite-sized type of bits that are perfectly suited for a small screen on the wrist.
The card-based look of Google Now could easily work on a small screen. We already know that because Google took a similar approach with the Google Glass user interface. It?s simple to navigate through Glass with a finger swipe on the glasses and the screen don?t inundate with information. Again, that?s perfect for a wristwatch. And the look of Google Glass, which Google designed, isn?t too bad for the type of product that it is.
While I have no knowledge of Google?s detailed plans for a smart watch, I can see that the company has all of the ingredients of a potentially successful recipe. With just a small bit of hardware tweaking to the existing MotoACTV in a more fashionable design, combined with the basics of Google Now and the ability to run small but useful standalone Android apps, I?d stand in line for a Google smart watch. Would you?
Source: http://gigaom.com/2013/06/28/forget-an-android-gaming-console-google-can-make-a-killer-smartwatch/
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Samsung launches 55-inch 'flawless' curved OLED TV in Korea
Just as the rumors foretold, Samsung has announced Korean availability of a 55-inch curved OLED HDTV. Priced at 15 million Korean won (around $13,000) Samsung claims its "Timeless Arena" design eliminates potential for defective OLED pixels. It also reiterates the claim LG made when it launched its own curved OLED model earlier this year that keeping all parts of the screen an equal distance from the viewer makes for a better viewing experience. It also supports features found in other Samsung TVs like multi-view that lets two people watch different things at the same time thanks to 3D glasses, and the Evolution Kit CPU upgrade. There's no word on US availability or its flat OLED HDTVs, but the company also launched its new 65- and 55-inch 4K TVs at the same event.
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Google Working on Game Console to Compete with Future Apple ...
According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Google has an Android-based video game console and smart watch in the works in order to compete with products the company expects Apple to produce in the future. A MOGA Gaming Controller
It is not unexpected that Google is planning for a gaming solution of its own to compete with a potential Apple offering, as the Mountain View-based company began work on a smart watch around the same time that Apple was developing a watch of its own. News of Apple's upcoming smart watch dubbed "iWatch" surfaced in December, and hints that Google would develop a competing product surfaced in March, though the company filed for a patent on the technology at an earlier date.
Google is also continuing development on the Nexus Q, a media console that it announced last year but did not release. The Nexus Q was designed to stream music, video, and YouTube content to home entertainment systems, similar to the Apple TV.
With the watch and game console, Google is hoping to combat similar devices that Apple Inc. may release in the future, the people said.This is not the first time it has been suggested that Apple could use the Apple TV to make a serious foray into the console gaming market. Tech sites have speculated for years that gaming on the Apple TV might be in Apple's future, and earlier this year, Xbox founding engineer Nat Brown said that Apple could "destroy" console gaming with third party apps on the Apple TV.The people briefed on the matter said Google is reacting in part to expectations that rival Apple will launch a videogame console as part of its next Apple TV product release.
In February, TechCrunch's MG Siegler confirmed that Apple has something television related in the pipeline, which might be a television set or a revised box. Siegler suggested that gaming could be the major focal point of the new television product.
While Apple has referred to its Apple TV as a hobby project, the company has seen sales continue to rise over the years. With the second generation Apple TV and the introduction of AirPlay Mirroring for iOS devices with iOS 5, gaming on the set-top box became possible for the first time.
Clever developers have already begun using that technology to turn the Apple TV into a gaming console, with several implementing second screen capabilities that turn the iPhone or iPad into a controller. A game released earlier today goes even further, morphing the iPhone into a motion controller that serves as a tennis racket.
Now Apple has revealed that it has established partnerships with Logitech and MOGA to develop third party MFi certified gaming controllers, which would better facilitate television-based gaming, suggesting that the company may indeed be turning its focus to serious gameplay. It should also be noted that 21 of the top 25 all time best selling App Store apps are games.
It is not unexpected that Google is planning for a gaming solution of its own to compete with a potential Apple offering, as the Mountain View-based company began work on a smart watch around the same time that Apple was developing a watch of its own. News of Apple's upcoming smart watch dubbed "iWatch" surfaced in December, and hints that Google would develop a competing product surfaced in March, though the company filed for a patent on the technology at an earlier date.
Wearable computers and fitness tracking devices such as the Pebble Smart Watch, the Jawbone UP, and the Nike FuelBand have soared in popularity in recent months and in addition to Apple and Google, other companies like Samsung and Microsoft are said to be developing wearable computing devices. Google already has experience in the market with Google Glass, which it plans to release to the public next year.
According to the WSJ, Google hopes to design and market its devices in house, releasing at least one product this fall. There are no hints on when Apple could potentially launch a revamped Apple TV or a smart watch, but its gaming controllers are expected in the fall alongside the iPhone 5S and iOS 7.
Tim Cook has also suggested that the company has "amazing new hardware, software, and services" coming later in the year and throughout 2014.
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Climate Change May Radically Transform Desert Bacteria
Climate change may transform the community of microbes that forms the crucial top layer of soil, known as a biocrust, in deserts throughout the United States, new research suggests.
The study, published today (June 27) in the journal Science, found that one type of bacteria dominates in warm climates, whereas another is more prevalent in cooler areas. Combined with climate models, the findings suggest that the cold-loving bacteria could completely disappear from their current habitats as the climate warms.
That disappearance, in turn, could have unpredictable ripple effects across the entire desert ecosystem, study researchers said, as the biocrusts are important resources for desert plants and help mitigate dust storms. [Photos: Mysterious World of Cryptobiotic Soils]
"For the first time, we have shown that the distribution of microbes is also prone to changes due to global warming," said study co-author Ferran Garcia-Pichel, a microbial ecologist at Arizona State University. "We simply don't know the consequences of this."
Ubiquitous organisms
Throughout the arid regions of the western United States, desert soil is permeated by a cryptic collection of photosynthetic organisms, including microbes, lichens and mosses. These mostly bacterial biocrusts anchor the soil, preventing sandstorms and erosion. They also play a critical role in cycling carbon and providing nitrogen in the soil, which feeds the growth of desert plants.
Yet these soils remained virtually unstudied by researchers.
To get a better picture of these cryptic species, Garcia-Pichel and his colleagues conducted a thorough survey of the microbial constituents in biocrusts at 23 sites throughout the western United States. They found that two species ? Microcoleus vaginatus and M. steenstrupii ? each dominated in different regions.
Hot and cold
M. vaginatus predominated in cooler deserts near the California-Oregon border and in Utah, whereas M. steenstrupii was the main bacteria in the scorching deserts of Arizona, New Mexico and California. The researchers looked at several potential causes for the difference in distribution, such as rainfall and soil composition, but found that temperature was the best predictor of which microbe thrived in each region.
To help confirm that this was the major driver behind the distribution, the team then took the bacteria back to the lab and cultured them at different temperatures. Sure enough, M. steenstrupii flourished in warmer conditions and was more tolerant to extreme heat, while the opposite was true for M. vaginatus.
Next, they looked at global warming models, which predicted that the desert regions in the United States would increase in temperature over the next 50 years. With this projected warming, M. vaginatus could completely disappear from the arid regions of the western United States, the researchers said.
The team realized "this is enough temperature to push one of them out of our map,'" Garcia-Pichel told LiveScience.
Unknown consequences
Unfortunately, so little is known about the mysterious M. steenstrupii that no one is sure how this change will impact desert ecosystems, said Jayne Belnap, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Moab, Utah, who was not involved in the study.
"These are the only game in town to prevent dust storms and erosion, so they're really, really critical parts of this ecosystem," Belnap told LiveScience. "Yet we've never asked the question, 'who's really in there, and what's going to happen there as things shift?'"
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Western Digital buys Stec to build solid-state business
By Chandni Doulatramani
(Reuters) - Hard drive maker Western Digital Corp will buy troubled Stec Inc to become one of the top players in the high-growth solid-state drive (SSD) industry that has flourished despite high prices of the storage devices.
Stec is one of the oldest makers of solid state drives, which are much faster than traditional hard drives, but it has lost market share to the likes of Western Digital, Seagate Technology PLC and market leader Fusion-io Inc.
The deal to sell Stec for $340 million follows an insider trading scandal that forced out its co-founder and CEO last year. Stec shares have halved in value this year.
Western Digital and other companies that make personal hard drives and traditional PC hard drives are looking to switch to the newer drives that are more reliable and energy efficient.
Western Digital offer of $6.85 per share represents a 91 percent premium to Stec's closing share price on Friday.
Stec shares jumped 87 percent to $6.74 in morning trading on the Nasdaq. Western Digital shares were down 1.5 percent.
"I think Stec was looking at a long series of losses, and their current management team may have been impeding their ability to get business with certain original-equipment manufacturer customers," said Craig-Hallum Capital analyst Richard Shannon.
The deal comes about six months after the Stec's biggest shareholder, Balch Hill Capital, started pushing the money-losing company to consider a sale after the scandal.
Stec has looked at other suitors including Seagate and is unlikely to get higher offers, Benchmark analyst Gary Mobley said in a research note to clients.
Mobley downgraded the stock to "sell" from "hold".
Seagate told Reuters last year that it was looking to buy smaller rivals that have a significant share of the enterprise market.
Stec specializes in hard drives used in servers and data centers.
Stec's co-founder, Manouch Moshayedi, resigned as chief executive in September over insider trading charges. His brother, Mark Moshayedi, took over as the interim CEO.
Stec's revenue has been declining since 2011 and halved in the first quarter this year from a year earlier.
The company's stock trades at 1.3 times forward 12-month sales, mostly in line with the sector average, according to Thomson Reuters data.
The sale is expected to close in the third or fourth quarter of 2013.
Wells Fargo Securities LLC is the financial adviser to Western Digital while BofA Merrill Lynch advises Stec.
(Writing by Sayantani Ghosh in Bangalore; Editing by Don Sebastian)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/western-digital-buys-stec-build-solid-state-business-144838531.html
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Missing red panda from National Zoo found in DC
This undated handout photo provided by the National Zoo shows a red panda that has gone missing from its enclosure at the zoo in Washington. National Zoo spokeswoman Pamela Baker-Masson says animal keepers discovered the male red panda named Rusty was missing on Monday morning. Red pandas are in a separate family from giant pandas and are listed as vulnerable in the wild. They are highly territorial, so Baker-Masson says it?s unlikely that Rusty traveled far from his home. He is likely hiding high in a tree branch. (AP Photo/Smithsonian?s National Zoo, Abby Wood)
This undated handout photo provided by the National Zoo shows a red panda that has gone missing from its enclosure at the zoo in Washington. National Zoo spokeswoman Pamela Baker-Masson says animal keepers discovered the male red panda named Rusty was missing on Monday morning. Red pandas are in a separate family from giant pandas and are listed as vulnerable in the wild. They are highly territorial, so Baker-Masson says it?s unlikely that Rusty traveled far from his home. He is likely hiding high in a tree branch. (AP Photo/Smithsonian?s National Zoo, Abby Wood)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Animal keepers from the National Zoo have captured a red panda in a Washington neighborhood after it went missing from its enclosure at the zoo.
National Zoo spokeswoman Pamela Baker-Masson says the male named Rusty was captured Monday afternoon in a bush in the Adams Morgan neighborhood.
The red panda is being taken to the zoo's animal hospital for a checkup.
Unlike giant pandas, red pandas are not members of the bear family. Red pandas are slightly bigger than a domestic cat and look similar to a raccoon. They are listed as vulnerable in the wild.
Rusty arrived at the zoo in April from the zoo in Lincoln, Neb., and was in quarantine for several weeks until he went on exhibit in early June.
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Zookeepers are searching for a red panda that has gone missing from its enclosure in Washington.
National Zoo spokeswoman Pamela Baker-Masson says animal keepers discovered the male named Rusty was missing Monday morning. They began searching the zoo at 8 a.m.
Unlike giant pandas, red pandas are not members of the bear family. Red pandas are slightly bigger than a domestic cat and look similar to a raccoon. They are listed as vulnerable in the wild.
Red pandas are highly territorial, so Baker-Masson says it's unlikely that Rusty traveled far. He is likely hiding high in a tree branch to hide in the tree canopy.
"Everybody continues to look for him," Baker-Masson said. "As the day heats up, he will likely sleep and hide."
Animal keepers last saw him Sunday evening about 6 p.m. when he was fed and appeared healthy. They believe he may stay in hiding during the day. They are also looking at the possibility that Rusty is sick or that someone took him.
Rusty arrived at the zoo in April from the zoo in Lincoln, Neb., and was in quarantine for several weeks until he went on exhibit in early June. Rusty is vaccinated and is not aggressive, but he is a wild animal and could bite if he became cornered and scared, Baker-Masson said.
The zoo began sending out messages about his disappearance Monday morning on Twitter in case someone sees him at the zoo.
"Unless he was very motivated, he would not wander far from his habitat," Baker-Masson said. "This red panda is not down on the (National) Mall."
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
Top diplomat Kerry battles to deliver on big ideas
WASHINGTON (AP) ? In four months as secretary of state, John Kerry has certainly promised great things. Now he has to deliver.
In the Middle East, he has raised hopes his solo diplomatic effort can produce a historic breakthrough ending six decades of Arab-Israeli conflict.
He has pledged to bring Syrian President Bashar Assad's government to heel and to work with Russia to end Syria's civil war.
He has suggested rolling back U.S. missile defense in the Pacific if China can help rid North Korea of nuclear weapons. He has hinted at possible one-on-one talks between the U.S. and the reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Un if it would help.
Since succeeding Hillary Rodham Clinton as America's top diplomat, Kerry has issued several as yet undelivered ? and perhaps undeliverable ? pledges to allies and rivals alike, proving a source of concern for Obama's policy team. It is trying to rein in Kerry somewhat, according to officials, which is difficult considering Kerry has spent almost half his tenure so far in the air or on the road, from where his most dissonant policy statements have come.
The White House quickly distanced itself from both Kerry's North Korea remarks and has now, since President Barack Obama's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Northern Ireland this past week, seen up close the strength of Moscow's resistance to Kerry's Syria strategy.
All the officials interviewed for this story spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to evaluate Kerry's performance publicly.
Reporting for work at the State Department in February, the former Democratic senator from Massachusetts quickly outlined his ambitions.
Clinton still harbored thoughts of a second potential presidential run when she arrived at the department. But aides say Kerry, a 69-year-old Vietnam veteran, is giving himself completely to a job that in many ways is the climax of his political career and the realization of a lifelong dream after years as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Now he wants to tackle head-on the world's thorniest foreign policy conundrums.
Kerry, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, "believes this difficult moment in the world requires a willingness to address complicated issues. He believes the risk of high-stakes, personal diplomacy are far less than the risk of leaving difficult situations to fester or spiral out of control. That's why he has invigorated our efforts in critical areas ? such as North Korea, Syria and the Middle East peace process ? and has personally invested time and effort to move the ball forward."
No challenge may now be bigger than Syria, where a two-year civil war has killed at least 93,000 people.
Signaling a shift from the cautious approach of Obama's first term, Kerry announced his first trip abroad would focus on changing Assad's belief that he could prevail militarily and on pushing him into eventually relinquishing power. Since then, however, the fighting has only gotten worse. Thousands more have died as Assad firmed his grip over much of the country and the U.S. hasn't even delivered all the nonlethal aid Kerry promised Syria's rebels, let alone any of the weapons or ammunition that Obama recently authorized.
Having failed to reshape the war, Kerry changed strategy by going to Moscow to re-launch a peace process for Syria that Clinton engineered in June 2012 but had been all but forgotten in the months since. In Moscow, Kerry boasted that the former Cold War foes just accomplished "great things when the world needs it" by deciding to convene an international conference, perhaps by the end of May, that would include Syria's government and opposition.
That conference has been delayed until at least July, and maybe August, and it might never come off at all given the opposition's refusal to negotiate while it is losing land to Assad and getting so little help from the United States and other Western powers. That failure falls directly on Kerry, who as part of the U.S.-Russian approach was tasked with delivering the opposition to the bargaining table.
Russia may have lived up to its end of the bargain by guaranteeing the Assad government's attendance at any future peace conference. But Putin and the Kremlin also have been undermining peace efforts by sending more weapons to help the Syrian government's counteroffensive.
Kerry's one-man diplomacy in Syria is in some ways emblematic of his tenure.
Officials say he opted to revive the U.S.-Russian strategy for a Syrian transitional government during his walk in the backyard of a Moscow guesthouse with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, informing aides only after of his decision. Afterward, he insisted he wasn't simply rewinding the clock by a year because the U.S. and Russia were now going to find ways to put the plan in place.
More than two months later, there has been no progress.
On Middle East peace, too, Kerry has put his credibility on the line.
Refusing to avoid one of the world's most difficult conflicts, as Obama and Clinton largely did over the second two years of the first administration, Kerry has made four trips to the region to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and senior government members from both sides. Kerry will visit the region again this coming week to try to push the two sides back into talks, despite little to show so far for his efforts.
Kerry insists his quiet diplomacy is making headway, a claim that only he, Netanyahu and Abbas truly can substantiate because most of the discussions are one-on-one. Several senior Israeli and Palestinian officials have suggested otherwise in highly critical comments to local and international media. Few American officials, however, seem to know what is going on because they say Kerry rarely briefs even the most experienced U.S. negotiators in that part of the world on his talks.
At times, the process has seemed ad hoc.
In Jordan last month, Kerry announced a sketchy $4 billion economic revitalization strategy for the West Bank that would accompany his peace plan. No details were provided, and U.S. officials even sent reporters to aides of U.N. peace mediator Tony Blair for more information. Blair's staff wouldn't provide information or even confirm that the outline of an economic plan exists. Officials say Kerry's friend, investor Tim Collins, is handling the portfolio, though it's unclear if any money has been secured.
On Mideast peace, Kerry is largely fighting the battle alone. Since Obama's visit to Israel in March, Kerry has gotten almost no public displays of support from the president, with the White House appearing reluctant to stake political capital in an endeavor that so often has proved a disappointment.
Some U.S. officials have scoffed at the notion that Kerry is getting anywhere, though they allow that the White House has given him until roughly September to produce a resumption of negotiations.
Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, praised Kerry's efforts thus far.
"None of these are issues that you can solve in a few months," Rhodes said. "The fact that he is taking these on with the energy he has is a great asset to the administration. These are the toughest challenges we have."
Kerry's individualist approach to foreign policy is partly a matter of circumstances and partly intentional.
With few Senate-confirmed senior officials in place at the State Department, Kerry has been short of aides at the highest level who might act as envoys to drive forward his agenda in his absence. Among others, Clinton had George Mitchell to push Mideast peace and Richard Holbrooke in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Kerry lacks any such high-profile figures at his side.
Those who've worked closely with Kerry say the approach also reflects the great stock he puts in his personal diplomacy and the belief, perhaps more widely shared in the rarified air of the Senate, that leaning on his close relationships with foreign leaders and dignitaries can deliver more results than delegating authority to capable bureaucrats.
That has left Kerry doing much of the work himself, from ordering up policy papers to envisioning new initiatives, while traveling the world or publicly regaling foreign ministers in Washington with stories of their past encounters or meals in exotic capitals.
Kerry makes it a point to stress the long-standing friendships he maintains all over the world. And his network of contacts may have played a role in the only tangible concession he has gained so far in the Middle East: a decision by Arab countries to sweeten their comprehensive offer to Israel for peace with the Palestinians.
The Arab League's proposal now allows Israel to keep some of the land it conquered in the 1967 Mideast war on condition that Israel agrees to cede territory on its side to a future Palestine. Kerry hasn't been able to announce any commensurate move from Netanyahu, who brushed the Arab terms aside.
Some U.S. officials wince at another legacy of Kerry's Senate years: his penchant for loose or inaccurate talk.
On his very first day as secretary, he recounted his childhood bike rides in postwar Berlin past Adolf Hitler's tomb. Hitler had no tomb. On more substantial issues of policy, he has made questionable claims over everything from U.S. drone policy to climate change.
At other times officials have questioned his restraint, such as when he lauded America's emerging "special relationship" with communist China. For one of the United States' principal geopolitical foes, Kerry was using a diplomatic term generally reserved for ironclad U.S. allies such as Britain and Israel.
He also seemingly ad-libbed unauthorized offers of a softened military posture to China and engagement to North Korea in a bid to calm tensions, which aides believe his engagement helped achieve.
On a trip to Turkey, he irritated advocates of Israel by appearing to compare the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing with the Turks killed in a 2010 Israeli commando operation on a ship trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza. Days later, in Brussels, he raised eyebrows by suggesting that one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects became radicalized while on a trip to Russia, something investigators had not concluded.
For all his idiosyncratic style, Kerry has not dodged any diplomatic fight. He has even spoken privately of taking on Cyprus' four-decade deadlock between ethnic Greeks in the south and Turkish Cypriots in the north. He sought to re-engage the U.S. with post-Hugo Chavez Venezuela on a trip to Guatemala this month, helping secure the release of an American filmmaker jailed for alleged espionage.
Officials say other governments Washington has long seen as rogues ? from Cuba to Zimbabwe ? could get a fresh look.
With no election around the corner and few worries about his image, Kerry has shown a willingness to think big.
Soon, however, he'll have to produce.
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Plane with wing walker crashes at Ohio show; 2 die
This photo provided provided WHIO TV shows a plane after it crashed Saturday, June 22, 2013, at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton, Ohio. There was no immediate word on the fate of the pilot, wing walker or anyone else aboard the plane. No one on the ground was hurt. (AP Photo/WHIO-TV)
This photo provided provided WHIO TV shows a plane after it crashed Saturday, June 22, 2013, at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton, Ohio. There was no immediate word on the fate of the pilot, wing walker or anyone else aboard the plane. No one on the ground was hurt. (AP Photo/WHIO-TV)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) ? A plane carrying a wing walker crashed Saturday at an air show and exploded into flames, killing the pilot and stunt walker instantly, authorities said.
Dayton International Airport spokeswoman Linda Hughes and Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Anne Ralston confirmed the deaths to The Associated Press.
The crash happened at around 12:45 p.m. at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton. No spectators were injured.
The show has been canceled for the remainder of the day. The names of those killed weren't immediately released, but a video posted on WHIO-TV showing the flight and crash identified the performer as wing walker Jane Wicker. A schedule posted on the event's website also had Wicker scheduled to perform.
The video shows the plane turn upside-down as Wicker sits on top of the wing. The plane then tilts and crashes to the ground, exploding into flames as spectators scream.
"All of a sudden I heard screaming and looked up and there was a fireball," spectator Stan Thayer of Wilmington, Ohio, told WHIO.
Another spectator, Shawn Warwick of New Knoxville, told the Dayton Daily News that he was watching the flight through binoculars.
"I noticed it was upside-down really close to the ground. She was sitting on the bottom of the plane," he said. "I saw it just go right into the ground and explode."
Wicker's website says she responded to a classified ad from the Flying Circus Airshow in Bealeton, Va., in 1990, for a wing-walking position, thinking it would be fun. Her full-time job was as a budget analyst for the Federal Aviation Administration, according to her website.
She told WDTN-TV in an interview this week that her signature move was hanging underneath the plane's wing by her feet and sitting on the bottom of the airplane while it's upside-down.
"I'm never nervous or scared because I know if I do everything as I usually do, everything's going to be just fine," she told the station.
Wicker wrote on her website that she had never had any close calls.
"What you see us do out there is after an enormous amount of practice and fine tuning, not to mention the airplane goes through microscopic care. It is a managed risk and that is what keeps us alive," she wrote.
In 2007, veteran stunt pilot Jim LeRoy was killed at the Dayton show when his biplane crashed and burned.
Organizers were presenting a trimmed-down show and expected smaller crowds at Dayton after the Air Force Thunderbirds and other military participants pulled out this year because of federal budget cuts.
The air show, one of the country's oldest, usually draws around 70,000 people and has a $3.2 million impact on the local economy. Without military aircraft and support, the show expected attendance to be off 30 percent or more.
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99% Mud
All Critics (147) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (145) | Rotten (2)
For at least three-quarters of the way, this is a fine film, and one that kids and parents could see together.
There is an enchanted-fairy-tale aspect to Mud, but its bright, calm surface only barely disguises a strong, churning undercurrent.
A modern fairy tale, steeped in the sleepy Mississippi lore of Twain and similar American writers, and with a heart as big as the river is wide.
Nichols has a strong feeling for the tactility of natural elements-water, wood, terrain, weather.
Nichols takes his time with the story, dwelling on how the boy is shaped by the killer's tragic sense of romance, yet the suspense holds.
"Mud" isn't just a movie. It's the firm confirmation of a career.
Mud is a moving exploration into the nature of manhood, with superb performances, striking location and engrossing story creating a mesmerising and heartfelt coming of age drama.
A stripped back approach to tracking the process of growing up, but lacks the faith to see the plan executed to the end
Nichols takes his time unravelling Mud and Ellis's entwined fates, but his characters are so rich that it's well worth being in their company.
In its energy and nuance, Mud seems like the kind of film Hollywood would've made in the Seventies, and would've continued to do if not for the advent of market-conscious filmmaking.
More than a mere tribute to Twain and Dickens: this has all the makings of a modern classic.
An extremely sophisticated and progressive examination on how adolescent masculinity is defined by often-contradictory cultural attitudes towards femininity.
Mud is as beautiful to watch as it is to listen to, and feel kinship to, whether you're from the South or just Southern at heart.
In Jeff Nichols, America has a champion of the religious and working class. With the schism between the right and left in the U.S. growing ever larger... his ascent couldn't have come at a better time.
This is a film with a great naturalistic style and captivating performances and which does just about everything right.
Jeff Nichols writes characters with depth, nurtures strong performances form his cast and allows the screenplay's backwater setting to effectively create tone and texture.
This is American cinema at its very best as Huckleberry Finn meets Stand By Me.The two boys are terrific and McConaughey is sensational as Mud, dazzlingly frazzled as the hunted and haunted man on the run.
Up till just past the three-quarter mark, Mud is one heck of a nifty psychological fable.
The Southern-fried drama "Mud" is an electrifying example of what happens when you merge a crackerjack yarn with a very specific setting, and then pour on the heat with riveting performances.
McConaughey and Sheridan 's acting skills, as well as those of the entire supporting cast, make this movie better than it ought to be.
It gets under our skin because Nichols gives us time to come to know Mud's island like the places we knew as children.
As Mud might say, it's a hell of a thing.
The boys are so skillfully played that Mud also plays like cinema verite. Nichols' fluid camerawork suggests a documentary-style approach. That helps these young lads transform into flesh-and-blood characters who get our attention and support.
Sheridan, who played the Terrence Malick surrogate in The Tree Of Life, is terrific at conveying adolescent confusion with tiny squints and frowns, and McConaughey plays off him masterfully.
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Why Bill O'Reilly now supports immigration reform
Bill O'Reilly announced his support for the immigration reform bill on his Fox News show Thursday night, in light of a border-security compromise that has been struck.
This Oct. 13, 2012 file photo shows Fox News commentator and author Bill O'Reilly at the Comedy Central "Night Of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together For Autism Programs" at the Beacon Theatre in New York.
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?It is time for the USA to pass immigration reform,? Mr. O?Reilly said on his show, "The O?Reilly Factor," Thursday night. ?For years I?ve called for a more secure Southern border, you know that. And now it looks like the secure border is in reach, at least somewhat. So I hope this bill does become law.?
O?Reilly and other conservative pundits have been getting an earful from Sen. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida, among other conservative immigration reform proponents in Congress, in an attempt to win over the television and radio personalities who play a pivotal role in conservative politics.
Although O?Reilly denied claims he had already given his assurances privately to GOP senators that he would back the bill (a claim made in a recent piece in The New Yorker), it is the border-security compromise ? worked out by Sens. Bob Corker (R) of Tennessee and John Hoeven (R) of North Dakota with a handful of the Senate bill?s authors, known as the ?Gang of Eight? ? that finally paved the way for his support.
That compromise, still being finalized as of Friday afternoon, would do the following before any of the nation?s estimated 11 million undocumented people can obtain permanent legal status:
- Offer a ?border surge? of some 20,000 new border patrol agents along the US-Mexico divide (doubling the number of agents there).
- Order up a slew of technological and infrastructure improvements.
- Require 700 miles of border fencing to be completed.
Those requirements come in addition to two other ?triggers? that must be met before illegal immigrants can become permanent residents: Entry- and exit-tracking procedures have to be improved at all seaports and airports, and a nationwide system of employment verification known as E-Verify must be in place.
Senator Corker said he hopes the compromise, which also extends to a handful of non-border-security issues key to winning the support of other GOP senators, will produce more than a dozen conservative votes for the legislation. Two Senate Republicans ? Dean Heller of Nevada and Mark Kirk of Illinois ? said on Thursday they would almost certainly support the bill with the Corker-Hoeven amendments.
O?Reilly said he ?supports immigration reform, even though I well understand the new law will be somewhat chaotic and will be a magnet for even more people to come here illegally, which is why we need stepped-up security along the border.?
While noting the immigration issue was a difficult one for conservative Americans ?because reform would reward bad behavior ? illegal entry into the USA,? he contended that the federal government and businesses that profited from cheap labor had played a key role in attracting illegal migrants.
Yet the political stakes are also high, O?Reilly said.
?The Republican Party has a lot to lose here. If it doesn?t compromise, many Hispanic voters will reject the GOP entirely, pretty much dooming the party in the future,? he said. ?That?s the reality.?
The amendments, which will probably come up for a vote next week as the Senate moves to pass the overall bill before the Fourth of July recess, aren?t winning over all pundits on the right, however.
The Corker-Hoeven package ?may give political cover to Republican senators who want to vote for this bill anyway and are looking for something to be able to say when they go back home ? ?we really toughened up that border security,? ? said William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, on Fox News Thursday.
?I don?t believe there?s a lot of policy analysis behind this. I missed all the hearings and the documents that show why we need 20,000 more border-security agents as opposed to 5,000," he said. "I don?t think it should change anyone?s fundamental attitude toward the bill as a matter of public policy, as it?s not a serious public-policy proposal.?
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
Embattled Paula Deen a no-show on Friday's 'Today'
NEW YORK (AP) ? Celebrity cook Paula Deen was a no-show Friday at the "Today" show, where she was scheduled to appear to answer questions about past use of racial slurs.
"Today" host Matt Lauer told viewers he had spoken with Deen the day before to arrange what NBC had promoted as an exclusive, live appearance.
But shortly before the show went on the air Friday, Lauer said he was told by a Deen representative that she was pulling out.
Phone calls from The Associated Press to a representative for Deen weren't immediately returned.
While questioned last month in a discrimination lawsuit, the 66-year-old Food Network star admitted to having used racial slurs in the past, but insisted she and her family do not tolerate prejudice.
The Food Network said Thursday it doesn't tolerate any form of discrimination and is looking into the situation.
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Bulgaria back in line with EU on Hezbollah bomb link: diplomats
By Tsvetelia Tsolova
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria will not impede a push to put Hezbollah's armed wing on the European Union's terrorism blacklist because the new government, after wavering on the issue, has now decided to fall into line with its fellow EU members, diplomats said.
A Black Sea state of 7 million people, Bulgaria was thrust to the front of Middle Eastern diplomacy when the previous government blamed Hezbollah for a bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a driver in a Bulgarian resort last year.
The accusation played a central part in a Western diplomatic push to blacklist the Lebanon-based group, an effort which has acquired new urgency since its fighters started helping government forces in Syria's civil war.
Bulgaria alarmed many of its EU partners this month when Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin, from the new Socialist government, backed away from that stance and questioned whether there was enough proof of Hezbollah's role.
However, since then Bulgaria has been lobbied by other EU states and has decided to change direction again, according to two Western diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"It seems that the new government has been testing its limits and has tried to see how far it may go, but once they got a reaction they quickly stepped back," one diplomat said.
The second diplomat said: "Vigenin has now stated publicly that the position of Bulgaria is unchanged. I believe the government will stick to this position."
Hezbollah has denied any involvement in the bus bombing.
FINE BALANCE
Blacklisting the group - a step that would freeze its assets in Europe and prevent it from raising funds there - would mark an about-turn for the EU, which has long resisted pressure from Washington and Israel to do so.
The debate within the bloc is finely balanced, with some members concerned about the risk of further fuelling tensions in the Middle East. Diplomats say a majority of the 27 states back a British push to put Hezbollah on the list, but unanimity is needed for a decision.
At a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, Britain failed to win over skeptical delegates, and may now escalate the issue to a higher level, diplomats said.
Officials in the Bulgarian government have rejected suggestions that they made any U-turns over Hezbollah. The foreign ministry said the minister would not speak to Reuters about the issue.
In a statement sent to Reuters on Wednesday, the ministry said: "Bulgaria is ready to join a consensus decision of the European Union. The responsibility to present a solid foundation for it is a collective one."
The Socialist government, while broadly pro-Western, is traditionally sympathetic towards Russia, and this could have played a part, said a former official with the previous, center-right government.
"The new government do not want to irritate the Russians by showing an active position on Hezbollah," said the source, who did not want to be identified.
Moscow, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has blocked international moves to condemn Hezbollah for getting involved in Syria.
Diplomats say there is no evidence the Kremlin directly influenced the Socialist government's policy on Hezbollah, but Russia is a consideration for all Bulgarian leaders.
Bulgaria imports most of its gas from Russia's Gazprom. Moscow is seeking compensation of about 900 million euros from Bulgaria after it cancelled a new nuclear plant that Russian state firm Atomstroyexport had been contracted to build.
(Additional reporting by Justyna Pawlak; Editing by Christian Lowe and Mark Trevelyan)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bulgaria-back-line-eu-hezbollah-bomb-diplomats-132329596.html
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Sony chief says time needed to study proposal
TOKYO (AP) ? Sony Corp. needs more time to study a key proposal from a U.S. hedge fund to spin off a part of its entertainment unit as a way to propel its fledgling revival, the chief executive told shareholders Thursday.
Sony Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai was speaking to a Tokyo hall packed with thousands of investors for an annual general shareholders' meeting, where the proposal from Third Point hedge fund, led by activist investor and billionaire Daniel Loeb, was high on people's minds. It was the first question from the floor.
Hirai reiterated his position that Sony takes the proposal seriously, and it will be discussed by the company board. But he ruled out a quick decision.
"This is an important proposal that will influence the future of Sony," he said. "This will take time, and we are not going to come to a conclusion for the sake of coming to a conclusion."
Loeb has proposed selling up to a 20 percent stake in Sony's relatively healthy movie, TV and music business.
Third Point, one of Sony's top shareholders, said this week it has raised its stake to 6.9 percent from the 6.5 percent Loeb had said the fund owned, when it first made the proposal last month.
Loeb is best known for instigating a mass shake-up at Yahoo Inc.
He is proposing the money raised from selling a part of Sony's entertainment division be used to strengthen its troubled electronics operations.
His proposal was not up for a vote at the nearly two-hour shareholders' meeting, which approved new board members and a proposal on stock options. Sony said more than 10,000 people took part in the meeting.
Some analysts have been advocating changes at Sony, similar to what Loeb has suggested.
Takao Miyake, a retired shareholder who had attended the meeting, agreed.
"I think Sony is caught up in their own ways," he said. "Working with the hedge fund is the only way to survive."
Others were unsure. Takeshi Kawamata, 56, a businessman who owns 100 Sony shares, hadn't heard about the hedge fund proposal before.
"How should we know if we can trust the hedge fund or not?" he said.
Tokyo-based Sony has run into hard times in recent years despite a glorious nearly seven-decade history of having pioneered products, such as the Walkman portable player.
Sony, which also makes the PlayStation 3 game machine and Bravia flat-panel TVs, has fallen behind rivals such as Apple Inc. of the U.S. and South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co.
It was also battered by natural disasters in Japan in 2011, as well as an unfavorable currency rate, although that disadvantage has lessened with the yen cheapening in recent months.
The company barely turned a profit for the fiscal year ended March 31, its first in five years.
Hirai, who took office last year, promised a revival at Sony, focusing on smartphones, digital imaging and games, as well as turning around its money-losing TV operations. Sony is also trying to move into new fields such as medical equipment, having set up a joint venture with Olympus Corp.
He said Sony has undergone drastic restructuring under his helm over the last year, an effort that he called unprecedented in company history. He said he was talking frequently with Sony engineers to prevent any brain drain and boost morale. He said he was determined to make sure all products were "fitting of putting S-O-N-Y on them."
"We want people to say that a world without Sony would be no fun at all," he said.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sony-chief-says-time-needed-study-proposal-024639342.html
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Wearable Tech : Batteries are Game Changers - Jims Chacko Blog ...
?Longer-lasting batteries square measure crucial for a brand new crop of wearable computers whose rise could upend Apple and Google's dominance of mobile devices, pioneers of the field's say.
Wearable devices - from bracelets that monitor physical activity and sleeping patterns to consumer goods with integral sensors and Web-ready glasses - could mark future massive technology shift, even as smartphones evolved from personal computers.
That transition has place the unglamourous battery in an exceedingly prime role.
All this wearable stuff is strained by battery technology. it is not a computing downside, Hosain Rahman, CEO of Jawbone, told the Reuters international Technology Summit.
While battery technology has not dilated at constant clip as miniaturization and displays as an example, some wearable pioneers square measure eager for a breakthrough in returning years.
There square measure alternative things that may return up 5 years down the road like remote charging that may cause an enormous next leap as a result of it breaks this dependence on the battery. However right away the most important challenge is that the battery that is sufficiently small in sizez that are manufractured and serves for the better functionality.
Itani likened wearable computing's current stage of evolution to smartphones throughout the mid-2000s.
It's at the Palm stage, Associate in Nursingd you wish an iPhone to return out,Itani aforementioned, bearing on Palm Pilots that predated the 2007 iPhone that won sturdy reviews however was rendered defunct when Apple's seminal device was launched.
Asked what convenience they might be most keen on victimisation, twenty nine per cent of participants cited a tool that clips on to consumer goods.
Devices that attach to the articulatio radiocarpea were shut behind with interest from twenty eight per cent, whereas glasses trailed alternative choices, garnering interest from twelve per cent of the participants.
Google search engine is setting up a test of $1,500 version on a stamp-sized electronic screen mounted on a try of lense frames. Apple and Samsung physical science square measure aforementioned to be functioning on alternative kinds of wearable technology.
Apple chief govt Tim Cook has known as wearable computers a region ripe for exploration. However throughout his speech at the ATD conference last month, he stopped wanting confirming reports the corporate was developing a smart-watch.
Google and Apple, that have the 2 preferred smartphone operational systems, have the heft to spice up the aborning market and probably management it, because of a massive variety of users and therefore the many thousands of apps that run on their computer code.
Some suppose the marketplace for wearable computers will not come out till Apple enters the fray, providing the type of clever style and promoting blitz that helped rework smartphones into essential client item.
If Apple enters the market that might be a fast breakthrough, Apple could be a market maker. Any Apple device will sell tens of voluminous units.
Source: http://jimschacko.blogspot.com/2013/06/wearable-tech-batteries-are-game.html
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
California lawmakers pass budget, set aside rainy day funds
By Sharon Bernstein
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California lawmakers passed a $96.3 billion budget on Friday that would spend more on education, health care and other services while setting aside $1.1 billion from the first surplus in years for a rainy day fund.
The spending plan makes changes to the way the state funds education, increasing the base amount spent on all students while funneling more money to districts with children who live in poverty or who do not speak fluent English.
It also restores funds that had been cut from dental programs for the poor in the most populous U.S. state, and for mental health services and assistance for veterans.
The $1.1 billion reserve was part of a deal negotiated with Governor Jerry Brown, who pressed fiscal restraint on the Democratic legislature. It marks a dramatic turnaround from four years ago, when the state was in the red by $16 billion.
"This was the first year in many that we weren't negotiating how deep to cut and what to cut," Darrell Steinberg, president pro tem of the state senate, said in an interview. "Instead, we were negotiating about restorations, and I think the biggest debate was how fast and how much."
After some arm-twisting from fellow Democrat Brown, including a threat to veto excessive spending measures, the lawmakers refrained from spending all of the money that the improved economy and a voter-approved tax increase provided.
Under the budget, due to take effect on July 1, California will spend $55.3 billion in state money on education, and repay $2.3 billion in debt. The state will also hand out about $1 million in so-called middle class scholarships for students in its public universities.
The budget increases general fund expenditures for the state by more than $10 billion over the 2011-2012 fiscal year, and about $5 billion over the amount initially allocated for 2012-2013.
The budget, passed along party lines, must still be signed by Brown, and a spokesman said he might exercise his line-item veto on some provisions.
REPUBLICAN COMPLAINTS
The 2013-2014 budget wrangling marked the first time in years that one party - the Democrats - held a two-thirds majority in both houses, along with the governorship. California Republicans complained that their voices had not been given sufficient weight as the budget was crafted.
"To not even be involved in the process of the budget, to not even know what's in it ? I have a problem with that," said Republican state Assemblyman Rocky Chavez, who represents the Southern California community of Carlsbad.
Republican state Senator Jim Nielsen, who represents a mostly rural district in the northern part of the state, said Democrats spent too much despite efforts at restraint.
"We have not gotten control of the out-of-control agencies and their spending," he said during debate on the measure.
California political scientist Raphael Sonenshein said the Democrats - aware that their hold on power could be swept away if they overreach - were deliberately moderating their spending.
"There is a really strong feeling of not wanting to blow it," said Sonenshein, who heads the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles.
Democratic assembly member Nancy Skinner, who represents Berkeley and other communities to the eastern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, said Brown pushed hard to hold down spending - to the frustration of some in his own party.
"Many of us felt in the legislature a little more spending on a couple of areas that really had devastating cuts might have been justified," Skinner said.
In the end, Brown agreed to an additional $200 million in spending over an earlier proposal, Skinner said, which the legislature allocated to mental health, veteran services, the middle class scholarships, dental care and a few other areas.
The budget's biggest impact will be on public schools. Under a new formula backed by Brown and education reform advocates, the state will pay school districts extra money to educate children who live in poverty or do not speak English fluently.
In a compromise, Brown backed off on a version that would have provided some school districts less money than they would have received under the state's old system for allocating funds.
The new system would also transfer control over the money to local school districts - a change strongly supported by some school reform advocates.
(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein; Editing by Dan Grebler and Eric Walsh)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/california-lawmakers-pass-96-3-billion-budget-214222423.html
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iOS 7 Eliminates MAC Address As Tracking Option, Signaling Final Push Towards Apple's Own Ad Identifier Technology
Apple has now taken another step to push app publishers to use its preferred?ad tracking option, the Identifier for Advertisers?(IDFA), with the debut of the iOS 7 beta. Confirming what many have suspected, Apple is eliminating an alternative option involving tracking by MAC addresses. This method had sprung up following a change to Apple's Developer Documentation in 2011, announcing its intention to end developers' reliance on the unique identifier known as the UDID.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/1-eVjjDtyLs/
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Scientists conclude that what causes menopause is -- wait for it -- men
June 14, 2013 ? After decades of laboring under other theories that never seemed to add up, a team led by biologist Rama Singh has concluded that what causes menopause in women is men.
Singh, an evolutionary geneticist, backed by computer models developed by colleagues Jonathan Stone and Richard Morton, has determined that menopause is actually an unintended outcome of natural selection -- the result of its effects having become relaxed in older women.
Over time, human males have shown a preference for younger women in selecting mates, stacking the Darwinian deck against continued fertility in older women, the researchers have found.
"In a sense it is like aging, but it is different because it is an all-or-nothing process that has been accelerated because of preferential mating," says Singh, a professor in McMaster's Department of Biology whose research specialties include the evolution of human diversity.
Stone is an associate professor in the Department of Biology and associate director of McMaster's Origins Institute, whose themes include the origins of humanity, while Morton is a professor emeritus in Biology.
While conventional thinking has held that menopause prevents older women from continuing to reproduce, in fact, the researchers' new theory says it is the lack of reproduction that has given rise to menopause.
Their work appears in the online, open-access journal PLOS Computational Biology.
Menopause is believed to be unique to humans, but no one had yet been able to offer a satisfactory explanation for why it occurs, Singh says.
The prevailing "grandmother theory" holds that women have evolved to become infertile after a certain age to allow them to assist with rearing grandchildren, thus improving the survival of kin. Singh says that does not add up from an evolutionary perspective.
"How do you evolve infertility? It is contrary to the whole notion of natural selection. Natural selection selects for fertility, for reproduction -- not for stopping it," he says.
The new theory holds that, over time, competition among men of all ages for younger mates has left older females with much less chance of reproducing. The forces of natural selection, Singh says, are concerned only with the survival of the species through individual fitness, so they protect fertility in women while they are most likely to reproduce.
After that period, natural selection ceases to quell the genetic mutations that ultimately bring on menopause, leaving women not only infertile, but also vulnerable to a host of health problems.
"This theory says that natural selection doesn't have to do anything," Singh says. "If women were reproducing all along, and there were no preference against older women, women would be reproducing like men are for their whole lives."
The development of menopause, then, was not a change that improved the survival of the species, but one that merely recognized that fertility did not serve any ongoing purpose beyond a certain age.
For the vast majority of other animals, fertility continues until death, Singh explains, but women continue to live past their fertility because men remain fertile throughout their lives, and longevity is not inherited by gender.
Singh points out that if women had historically been the ones to select younger mates, the situation would have been reversed, with men losing fertility.
The consequence of menopause, however, is not only lost fertility for women, but an increased risk of illness and death that arises with hormonal changes that occur with menopause. Singh says a benefit of the new research could be to suggest that if menopause developed over time, that ultimately it could also be reversed.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/7ooD0b3pJAA/130614082653.htm
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
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