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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Your Puny Statue has Nothing on the $130 Million Maltese Falcon Speed Yacht [Video]
Somali pirates to be sentenced to life in prison (AP)
NORFOLK, Va. ? The last of 11 men who have pleaded guilty to piracy for hijacking an American yacht off the coast of Africa are set to be sentenced to life in prison.
Somalis Said Abdi Fooley and Abdi Jama Aqid each have sentencing hearings in federal court in Norfolk, Va., on Friday. Piracy carries a mandatory life sentence.
They are among 14 men who boarded the Quest in February several hundred miles south of Oman to be charged in the case. All four Americans on board the 58-foot yacht were shot and killed several days later when negotiations with the U.S. Navy broke down.
Three men who prosecutors say are the ones who fired on the Americans are facing murder and other charges that could carry the death penalty.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Ark. Organ Donor to be Honored at Rose Parade
VOL. 126 | NO. 244 | Thursday, December 15, 2011
By Aisling Maki
Updated 3:18PMVerna Harris is able to work 40 hours a week. She goes to church on Sundays and enjoys taking in a movie now and then.
She still has to make sure she gets adequate rest, but her quality of life has improved tremendously since she underwent a kidney transplant at Methodist University Hospital in April 2010.
?My life is normal now,? Harris said. ?Before I had my transplant, I felt weak all the time. I think I felt good maybe one week out of a month, but now I feel good. I just want to do things and say, ?Wow, I?m living now.? I didn?t feel that before.?
Harris is one of several people who received a new lease on life thanks to organ donor Michael ?Rudy? Gilmore of West Helena, Ark. Gilmore is one of 72 organ donors from the U.S., Canada, Japan and Taiwan being honored with a florograph portrait ? a portrait made entirely of organic plant materials ? on the 2012 Donate Life Rose Parade float in the 2012 Rose Parade Jan. 2 in Pasadena, Calif.
Gilmore was shot to death in April 2010, just months before he would?ve graduated from Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. The 24-year-old?s diploma was awarded posthumously, received by his mother.
More than 1,500 people showed up at Gilmore?s funeral to remember a young man described as friendly, fun-loving and dedicated to helping others.
A journal entry discovered after his death reads, ?The meaning of my life is to help others. ? I was put here to help people some way or somehow.?
Gilmore had registered as an organ donor when he received his driver?s license.
Since the donation, his family has met Harris, as well as Sammy Robinson, the Hughes, Ark., man who received Gilmore?s heart.
Gilmore received his associate?s degree from Phillips County Community College, where his family has started a scholarship fund in his honor.
Friends, family members and transplant recipients gathered Tuesday, Dec. 13, at the college to complete the florograph portrait, which will be shipped to California for the parade.
?It?s a great honor, and although he?s not here with us, he?s here in spirit,? Harris said. ?From what I hear, he was such a nice person. He tried to help people, he was smart in school and he was a hard worker. I hate that this happened to him, but his legacy will always live on.?
The float is sponsored by Mid-South Transplant Foundation Inc., a federally designated organ-procurement organization serving West Tennessee, Eastern Arkansas and North Mississippi.
In addition to the florographs, the float will carry thousands of roses with personal dedications of love and remembrance from around the world in a unique dedication garden.
?The float itself is the nation?s most visible public celebration of organ and tissue donation,? said Randa Lipman, manager of community outreach at Mid-South Transplant Foundation. ?It?s a great chance for us to promote the benefits because there will be 26 recipients who ride on the float and another 72 donors who will be represented as florographs. It?s a great opportunity for us to promote organ donation in such a positive way.?
Mid-South Transplant Foundation will fly Gilmore?s mother, Jerlene, brother DeMarcus and sister Kaneisha to Pasadena for the event.
Gilmore?s killer has not been caught, and Jerlene Gilmore said the holidays are the most emotionally challenging time for her and her family. But she hopes the trip to California ? the family?s first time leaving the Mid-South ? in honor of her son will help heal their broken hearts.
?It?s overwhelming, and it?s a bittersweet situation,? she said. ?Out of all the people they could?ve honored, they chose him and our family, and it?s a high honor for us.?
The 2012 Rose Parade will air on local televisions stations.
Source: http://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2011/dec/15/ark-organ-donor-to-be-honored-at-rose-parade/
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Make Your Own Personalized Cookie Cutters from a Simple Foil Pan [Kitchen Hacks]
Carolyn, author of the blog Juggling Frogs, explained that she wanted a set of camel cookie cutters, but couldn't find them anywhere in stores. Instead, she printed out the clip art of the camels, used some pipe cleaners to measure the length of foil she needed to make the silhouette, and then cut up the pan to make the materials for her cookie cutter.
The process is a bit lengthy, but it's easy, cheap, and the only materials you need are the shape you want cookies in, the pipe cleaners, the foil pan, and scissors. When you're finished, you'll have a cookie cutter that's the right shape and is safe enough for kids to use in the kitchen. Do you have another way to make your own cookie cutters? Share your DIY tips in the comments below.
Make Your Own Cookie Cutter from Clip Art and a Foil Pan | Juggling Frogs
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Elusive Higgs boson particle running out of hiding places
Today's announcement was highly anticipated by both the physics community and the public, with speculation running rampant in the days leading up to it that the elusive particle may have finally been found.
This story was updated at 9:55 a.m. EST.
Skip to next paragraphPhysicists are closer than ever to hunting down the elusive Higgs boson particle, the missing piece of the governing theory of the universe's tiniest building blocks.
Scientists at the world's largest particle accelerator, the?Large Hadron Collider?at the European Organization for Nuclear Research?(CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, announced today (Dec. 13) that they'd narrowed down the list of possible hiding spots for the Higgs, (sometimes called the God particle) and even see some indications that they're hot on its trail.
"I think we are getting very close," said Vivek Sharma, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, and the leader of the Higgs search at LHC's CMS experiment. "We may be getting the first tantalizing hints, but it's a whiff, it's a smell, it's not quite the whole thing."
Today's announcement was highly anticipated by both the physics community and the public, with?speculation running rampant?in the days leading up to it that the elusive particle may have finally been found. Though the news is not the final answer some were hoping for, the progress is a significant, exciting step, physicists say. [Top 5 Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson]
"It's something really extraordinary and I think we can be all proud of this," said CERN physicist Fabiola Gianotti, spokesperson for the LHC's ATLAS experiment, during a public seminar announcing the results today.
Experts outside the LHC collaborations agreed.
"These are really tough experiments, and it's just really impressive what they're doing," Harvard University theoretical physicist Lisa Randall told LiveScience.
Origin of mass
The?Higgs boson?is thought to be tied to a field (the Higgs field) that is responsible for giving all other particles their mass. Ironically, physicists don't have a specific prediction for the mass of?the Higgs boson?itself, so they must search a wide range of possible masses for signs of the particle.
Based on data collected at LHC's CMS and ATLAS experiments, researchers said they are now able to narrow down the Higgs' mass to a small range, and exclude a wide swath of possibilities.
"With the data from this year we've ruled out a lot of masses, and now we're just left with this tiny window, in this region that is probably the most interesting," said Jonas Strandberg, a researcher at CERN working on the ATLAS experiment.
The researchers have now cornered the Higgs mass in the range between 115 and 130 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).For comparison, a proton weighs 1 GeV. Outside that range, the scientists are more than 95 percent confident that the Higgs cannot exist.
Within that range, the ATLAS findings show some indications of a possible signal from the Higgs boson around 125 GeV, though the data are not strong enough for scientists to make a claim with the level of confidence they require for a true?discovery.
The CMS experiment also showed preliminary indications of a signal around that spot.
"The excess is most compatible with a Standard Model Higgs in the vicinity of 124 GeV and below, but the statistical significance is not large enough to say anything conclusive," CMS experiment spokesperson Guido Tonelli said in a statement. "As of today what we see is consistent either with a background fluctuation or with the presence of the boson. Refined analyses and additional data delivered in 2012 by this magnificent machine will definitely give an answer."
Proceed with caution
Ultimately, scientists said they were excited by the LHC's findings so far, but that it's too soon to celebrate.
"Please be prudent," said CERN director general Rolf-Dieter Heuer. "We have not found it yet, we have not excluded it yet. Stay tuned."
The fact that the independent studies conducted by ATLAS and CMS appear to be pointing in the same direction is particularly promising, experts said.
"Based on the predicted size of the signal, the experiments may have their first glimpse of a positive signal," University of Chicago physicist Jim Pilcher wrote in an email to LiveScience. "It is especially important to compare the results of two independent experiments to help reduce statistical fluctuations and experimental biases."
But it shouldn't be much longer before scientists can be sure?if the Higgs exists, and if so, how much mass it has.
"We know we must be getting close," Strandberg told LiveScience. "All we need is a little bit more data. I think the data we take in 2012 should be able to really give a definitive answer if the Higgs boson exists."
Underground explosions
The Large Hadron Collider is a 17-mile (27-kilometer) loop buried underneath France and Switzerland, run by CERN, based in Geneva.
Inside this loop, protons traveling near the speed of light collide head-on, and release huge amounts of energy in powerful explosions.
This energy then coalesces into new particles, some of which are exotic, hard-to-find species like the Higgs. The Higgs quickly decays into other particle products, which are then sensed by the detectors inside ATLAS and CMS. [6 Exotic Particles Explained]
The new results are based on data accumulated over 500 trillion proton-proton collisions inside the LHC.
Big payoff
The Higgs boson and its related Higgs field were predicted in 1964 by physicist Peter Higgs and his colleagues. Though the Higgs mechanism is the best explanation for why particles have mass, it can't be trusted until its major prediction ? the Higgs boson ? is found. [Infographic: The Higgs Boson]
"It would be a major discovery, absolutely," said Randall, who is the author of a recent book covering the Higgs and other particle mysteries called "Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World" (Ecco, 2011). "We've known about the Higgs mechanism for years, but we don't know if it's right."
The discovery of the Higgs would offer final credence to the idea and its originators.
"If it is found there are several people who are going to get a?Nobel prize," said Vivek Sharma, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, and the leader of the Higgs search at LHC's CMS experiment.
You can follow LiveScience senior writer Clara Moskowitz on Twitter @ClaraMoskowitz. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter?@livescience?and on?Facebook.
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Google+ Comes In At No. 2 On Google?s Own List Of Fastest-Growing Searches Of 2011
Well, this is convenient. Google published its 2011 Zeitgeist list of the fastest-growing search terms of the year. The No. 2 term on the list, right behind No. 1 "Rebecca Black," is its own product, "Google+". Since nobody ever heard of Google+ until this year, and it received loads of news coverage as Google's strongest attempt yet to take on Facebook, searches for the term rose more than 10,000 percent. Remember, Google's Zeitgeist is a curated list based on the fastest-growing search terms of the past year, not the ones with the most absolute volume. This focus produces a more interesting list of trending topics for the year. Overall, the list this year is Apple-heavy with "iPhone 5" (No. 6), "Steve Jobs" (No. 9), and "iPad2" (No. 10) all showing up. The Japanese word for Fukushima, "?? ??" (No. 8), also made it, as did "Battlefield 3" (No. 3) and "Casey Anthony" (No. 4).Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/0iaPVa4iAOI/
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Poland lowers growth forecast in 2012 budget (AP)
WARSAW, Poland ? Polish leaders unveiled a 2012 budget on Tuesday that lowers earlier predictions of economic growth ? an acknowledgment that Europe's debt crisis is impacting the country.
The budget, which also aims to lower the country's deficit, assumes 2.5 percent growth. A plan announced in September had assumed 4 percent growth and was criticized by some economists as overly optimistic.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski announced the budget at a news conference in Warsaw after the center-right Cabinet approved it. It foresees expenditures of nearly 329 billion zlotys ($99 billion) and revenue of 294 billion zloty ($88 billion). The deficit would be 35 billion zlotys ($10.5 billion; euro7.8 billion).
Tusk called it an "extremely responsible" budget lacking any radical features.
"A crisis isn't a good time for revolution," Tusk said. "A crisis is a time for responsible activity that will help people survive the crisis."
Poland, the largest of the European Union's eastern members, has shown remarkable resilience to the global financial turmoil. It was the only EU state to avoid recession during the downturn of 2008-2009, and its economy is on pace to grow 4 percent this year.
Even through September growth has been impressive.
Third quarter growth was 4.2 percent year-on-year, according to government data announced last week. That was slightly slower than the 4.3 percent registered the previous quarter, but was still better than some economists had expected.
The economy has been buoyed by strong private consumption, a boom in investment by companies and a weakening of the currency ? the zloty ? which has made Polish exports cheaper in foreign markets.
However, economists warn that the country will eventually be impacted by the current crisis in the eurozone as its exports to neighbors are hurt, and because foreign investors are losing confidence in many emerging markets, including Poland's.
As its struggles not to become another nation with a debt crisis, Warsaw is aiming to reduce its budget deficit to the EU's limit of 3 percent of GDP. It was nearly 8 percent last year and is projected at nearly 5.6 percent this year.
To that end, Tusk announced a far-reaching set of austerity measures last month that include some tax increases and an eventual rise in the retirement age to 67 for men and women. Currently men can retire at 65 and women at 60.
The budget plan must still go to parliament, where it will likely be amended.
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