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BEIRUT - Fighters from an al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebel group beheaded an allied commander whom they mistook for a pro-government fighter, activists said on Saturday.
It was the latest excess attributed to the aggressive and radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. While allegations of ISIL attacks on civilians and infighting with more moderate rebels are commonplace, this time it appears to have killed a member of another hard-line group, Ahrar al-Sham. While that groups isn't as radical as ISIL, it's still considered to be among the more hard-line organizations fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad.
It's unclear whether the incident will cause a falling out between the groups, who have co-operated together in the past. A militant website reported that the ISIL acknowledged the incident and asked for calm, saying that mistakes occur in wartime.
The incident happened in the northern city of Aleppo, where two fighters were videotaped displaying the severed head to a crowd on Wednesday. The men claimed the head belonged to an Iraqi Shiite fighter allied to the government of Bashar Assad, but residents later recognized it as belonging to a rebel commander.
Activists said the ISIL fighters found the wounded rebel in a hospital after a battle with government forces on Wednesday. As he emerged from anesthesia, he called out the names of saints recognized by Shiites, an Islamic sect whose members have largely sided with Assad, one of the activists said.
Assad is an Alawite, a member of a Shiite offshoot sect, and Shiite militiamen from Lebanon and Iraq have fought alongside his forces against largely Sunni rebels.
The incident underscores the sectarian nature of Syria's war and the chaos among rebel groups battling Assad's forces in their quest to overthrow the government.
"The medics knew he wasn't a Shiite, but they were too scared to stop them," said one of the activists.
The next day, two young ISIL rebels were videotaped brandishing a man's head.
"This is an Iraqi Shiite who fights for the army of Bashar (Assad)," one man shouted, holding the man's head in one hand, and a knife in the other.
But residents recognized the head as belonging to Ahrar al-Sham leader Mohammed Marrouche, known by his nom de guerre Abu Abdullah al-Halaby, one activist said.
The Aleppo-based activists asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution by ISIL. One activist said he spoke to medical workers in the hospital to confirm the information. They confirmed the authenticity of the video.
The account was given by two Aleppo-based activists and Rami Abdurrahman of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Observatory obtains its information from a network of activists on the ground.
The next day, some residents held a demonstration outside ISIL's Aleppo headquarters, demanding a halt to beheadings, one activist said.
Furious Ahrar al-Sham partisans posted a video calling ISIL fighters "idiots" and noted that rebel fighter Marrouche had longish hair and a full bushy beard typical of conservative Sunni Muslims. "The Shiites do not do this," they sarcastically noted. Others posted a video showing Marrouche calling for his group and ISIL to work together.
On Saturday, a pro-rebel website published a poster attributed to Ahrar al-Sham that showed a close up of the two ISIL rebels, with the word "wanted" emblazoned across their faces. "Two killers wanted for judgment in the Islamic court," read the poster.
It was not possible to confirm the authenticity of the poster, nor to contact either Ahrar al-Sham or ISIL fighters for comment.
An Islamic scholar, Omar al-Qahtani, identified as an ISIL member, later issued an explanation of the incident that stopped short of an apology. It was quoted on a website that frequently carries al-Qaida statements.
Syria's three-year-old uprising began as demonstrations but evolved into an armed rebellion after government forces attacked demonstrators.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a recent addition to the rebel movement, has a reputation for attracting foreign fighters and for aggressiveness that goes beyond even the other hard-line groups.
The group has taken the lead in battles against Assad loyalists, but has also cowed activists and other rebel groups who they see as opposing their plans to implement their extreme version of Islamic law in rebel-held areas.


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(SEOUL, South Korea) -- President Obama heads to South Korea this weekend for a whirlwind visit aimed at bolstering alliances with Asian power players and forging an international plan to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists.
Obama, who arrives Sunday morning, local time, in Seoul, will make the demilitarized zone (DMZ) along the border between South and North Korea his first stop. He will visit U.S. troops there; Americans have monitored the DMZ on a peacekeeping mission that has lasted half a century.
"I think it reflects the commitment to our South Korean allies, to the security of South Korea," White House press secretary Jay Carney said of the visit. "It reflects the President's appreciation for the U.S. troops who are stationed in Korea."
Obama then starts a flurry of meetings with his international peers, including outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao, and a formal state banquet in his honor, hosted by South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak.
Obama will address students at Hankuk University in Seoul on Monday, when he will outline his goals for global nuclear security and nonproliferation, officials said.
Obama's key mission, according to the White House, is a nuclear security summit Tuesday, where world leaders will hone their plans to protect nuclear materials from falling into the hands of terrorists or rogue regimes.
Obama, who has said that "loose nukes" keep him awake at night, will reportedly urge his international partners to fulfill commitments they made on nuclear security at the first summit two years ago.
Countries will be giving national progress reports on what senior administration officials say is an 80 percent completion rate on previous pledges to impose new safeguards.
On the sidelines of the summit, Obama will meet privately with Pakistani Prime Minister Yusef Raza Gilani in an attempt to reset relations between the two nations after American airstrikes along the Afghan-Pakistan border mistakenly killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers late last year.
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There used to be one reason alone for companies to stick a wind turbine in the car park or a solar panel on the roof, and that was a photo opp for marketing and the annual report. It looked good to be green but added to costs rather than lowered them. But as more businesses are choosing to invest in on-site renewable energy than ever before, the reasons appear to be changing.
A recent report found that on-site generation by UK businesses increased by 53% in 2012 alone, with almost 90% of that coming from solar and wind. And the motivation now is one of energy security.
According to the latest DECC figures, the annual average price of gas and electricity (including the climate change levy) has increased by 121% and 93% respectively since 2002 for non-domestic customers. Meanwhile costs of renewable technologies have gone down, performance has improved, plus incentives and funding structures such as feed in tariffs (FITs), Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs) and Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) have come in.
"When we were making the original decision, one of the big things for us was energy security," says Graham Chadwick, environment and CDM functional manager at Bentley Motors. In April it installed the largest roof mounted solar panel system in the UK, over 20,000 solar panels with a capacity of 5MW fixed to its factory in Crewe.
At peak performance it can produce 40% of the site's energy needs, with an expected average of 15% across the year. "We see solar as the first of a portfolio of renewables for us," continues Chadwick. "We are seriously looking at both biomass and geothermal... Certainly the biomass would be on site, and there's a very good chance that the geothermal will be on site or within a mile of the site."
The Carbon Trust's associate director of business advice, Dominic Burbridge, describes the current popularity of on-site renewables as "predominantly driven by a change in the business case... more organisations have been investing in energy efficiency, they've gained the returns of being more efficient and are [now] asking 'where else can I make investments to cut costs and be greener?'"
He has also noticed "aggressive sales" for solar in particular. "Lots of companies now will go to an organisation with a large land or roof asset and say 'you don't even need to put any cash in, we can give you fixed-price energy basically for free, but we will take all the revenue that comes from the FITs and any electricity exported to the grid'"
In fact, very few companies own their on-site renewable assets. Bentley's is a joint venture with Lightsource Renewable Energy Limited, which leases the roof space. Toyota, whose 4.1MW array of 16,800 solar panels at its Burnaston site was previously the biggest in the country, is in partnership with British Gas. The benefit of such arrangements is that the company does not take on the risk or the up-front costs.
One such third-party partner is SmartestEnergy. Its business development manager James Graham explains that there are "a lot more developers out there now who are trying to actively engage with customers that might have land, planning permission and grid connections which allow them to get something in the ground a lot quicker for a lot lower cost... If you're going to build these projects yourself you've got to be very committed, and there are businesses that do that ... but increasingly with the growing number of developers there's other ways for other companies to get involved without the additional capital expenditure."
Such co-ownership arrangements may only be a short-term trend, however. Burbridge argues that five- to seven-year payback periods for solar and warranties for 25 years on panels already offer "a good rate of return" and "owning on-site renewables means you get all the benefit". "The trend I think will be that organisations... will start doing more of this themselves and using their own cash to finance it", he says.
Many of the world's largest companies are going even further. Since the first solar panel appeared on a Walmart store in 2007, it now produces about 4% of the electricity it uses in the US and aims for 20% by 2020. BMW's Leipzig plant in Germany installed four 2.5MW wind turbines this spring and Apple gets 16% of its electricity from solar and biogas.
The next trend is to move beyond on-site generation toward purchasing green energy direct from source – or even owning the source. Microsoft recently announced a 20-year agreement to purchase all the electricity generated from a 110-megawatt (MW) Texan wind farm. Google has announced a deal to buy 240MW of electricity from a wind farm, also in Texas. Ikea now owns 137 wind turbines having recently added a 7.65MW Irish wind farm to an already impressive portfolio in its goal to become totally energy independent by 2020.
"We mustn't forget that the whole point of on-site energy generation is that you have fixed-price energy", says Burbridge. "That's what Ikea's renewable strategy is. They want to generate as much renewable energy to meet their needs, to decouple themselves from the risks of escalating fuel prices and price volatility."
This, not the the token photo opportunity, is the driver now. It may be propped up by FITs, ROCs, and a current glut of third-party developers. Take those away overnight and "the price indicators wouldn't be there", as Graham puts it. But those fixed energy costs are becoming more and more attractive. And as the technology rapidly improves, the market for on-site renewables could become self-sufficient soon enough.


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NYTimes Monica Davey Sobs Over 'Collegial Moderate' Sen. Richard Lugar's 'Sad' Exit After 'Mean' Campaign
Times reporter Monica Davey was in Indianapolis to cover the Tea Party toppling of the moderate, establishment Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana: "G.O.P. Voters Topple Lugar After 6 Terms." Davey barely concealed her regretful tone:
Richard G. Lugar, one of the Senate's longest-serving members, a collegial moderate who personified a gentler political era, was turned out of office on Tuesday, ending a career that had spanned the terms of half a dozen presidents.
Mr. Lugar, a six-term senator from Indiana who had won most of his recent elections with more than 60 percent of the vote, lost a hard-fought Republican primary to Richard E. Mourdock, the state treasurer. Mr. Mourdock's campaign was fueled by Tea Party groups and national conservative organizations that deemed Mr. Lugar too willing to compromise and poured millions of dollars into the campaign to defeat him.
Mr. Lugar, 80, had not faced a challenge from within his own party since his first election to the Senate in 1976, and his defeat seemed to serve as a caution to moderates on both sides of the aisle.
In February, Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, a moderate Republican, decided not to run for re-election, citing polarization in Washington. Senators Kent Conrad of North Dakota, a Democratic fiscal centrist, and Jim Webb of Virginia, a moderate Democrat, are retiring. Two other moderate Democrats, Senators Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Jon Tester of Montana, face tough re-election races.
The American Conservative Union, which compiles ideological ratings for congressmen, would disagree that the Democrats mentioned by Davey are "moderates" or "centrists." While Sen. Snowe is a legitimate centrist based on her rating of 49 (I'm rounding up the ACU's figures to the nearest digit), Conrad's 18 is certainly not "centrist," and neither is McCaskill's lifetime rating of 15. Tester and Webb are no more centrist, with ratings of 16 and 14 respectively. (To be fair, only six of the 100 U.S. senators had complied ACU ratings between 30 and 70, an indication of today's polarized climate.)
Tea Party organizers and conservative leaders held the Indiana outcome as evidence of a broader national demand for Republicans with unshakable stances on fiscal reform and conservative values, as well as proof of the continuing power of the Tea Party movement.
"Richard Mourdock's victory truly sends a message to the liberals in the Republican Party," said Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth. "Voters are rejecting the policies that led to record debt and diminished economic freedom."
For a number of Mr. Lugar's supporters, the results were a sorry arc -- not just for a man who has served for 35 years in Washington and as mayor of Indianapolis before that, but for a larger notion of trying to work across party lines in Washington.
Almost immediately, Democrats began emphasizing Mr. Mourdock's conservative views. "Hoosiers deserve real leadership that will reach across the aisle in Richard Lugar's successor, not Richard Mourdock's Tea Party extremism," said Dan Parker, the chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party.
For months, the campaign here had been intense, expensive and, by Indiana standards, mean. National groups including the Club for Growth, the National Rifle Association and FreedomWorks, which helped build the Tea Party movement, had viewed Mr. Lugar as a ripe and overdue target, and they poured millions of dollars into the state.
"Everybody's time comes," said Ed Budd, who described himself as a Tea Party supporter and handed out Mourdock leaflets outside a polling place in Fairland on Tuesday when Mr. Lugar walked up looking, in Mr. Budd's words, "diminished some" from the familiar image he had seen on television for so many years.
Throughout the day, voters for and against Mr. Lugar confided quietly that they felt sadness and discomfort as they witnessed the unfolding scene.
By contrast, the Times shed no tears when another "moderate," Sen. Joe Lieberman, was beaten by Ned Lamont in the August 2006 Democratic primary over Lieberman's support for the Iraq War.
Jennifer Steinhauer's mostly fair profile of Mourdock Wednesday appeared under this sour headlinke: "Many Pursuits, but Bipartisanship Isn't One of Them."


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Friday, May 17, 2013
"Deep Harmony" – a new, limited Hibiki
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- wataru said...
Kameya has been dribbling out six bottles at a time on their online service. I got a bottle on the second try, though it sold out right away. First impressions are very positive, though the taste is a little overwhelming if you try to drink it straight. The aroma and finish are especially remarkable.
- June 22, 2013 at 2:31 PM
- Stefan Van Eycken said...
Thanks for your comment. I noticed, too, that Kameya has been selling the Deep Harmony Hibiki. It's all a bit confusing: it was supposed to be a bar-trade only bottling, but they're everywhere online (albeit in small quantities) and on auction sites, too. Glad to hear you like it, though!
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Rose Ruiz collects $8 an hour cooking, cleaning, checking the oxygen tanks and changing the diapers for a 67-year-old diabetic confined to a studio apartment on the south side of Austin, Texas.
Ruiz, a home health aide to Medicaid patients, has no medical insurance herself. Her best shot at getting access to doctors and medicines for her own needs was through President Barack Obama's expansion of the federal-state Medicaid programs.
That hope was scuttled for Ruiz and thousands of other health-care workers across Texas when the state opted out of the Medicaid expansion earlier this month. Texas has the highest rate of uninsured people in the U.S.
"The politicians don't know where I'm coming from, they don't walk in my shoes," said Shantelle Williams, a home aide who makes the U.S. minimum wage of $7.25 an hour tending to patients just south of Dallas. "That decision was for them, it wasn't for me."
Expansion of Medicaid eligibility was intended to provide coverage for the working poor, those with incomes barely exceeding the poverty line yet low enough that they would struggle to make premium payments on insurance bought through the new exchanges set to open Oct. 1. Though last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling upheld Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act, it also let states choose not to expand Medicaid.
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That has left people like Ruiz, Williams and 4.4 million others in the 19 states that have opted out of Medicaid expansion in a bind. They would need pay raises potentially triple their current wages or more, depending on the size of their families, to reach enough income to qualify for government subsidies for private insurance.
The irony for these workers is that the wages companies pay for home health aides are guided by Medicaid, averaging just less than $10 an hour nationally, said William A. Dombi, vice president for law at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice. That precludes their employers from paying much beyond minimum wage.
"It's one of these things that I'm sure nobody thought about when they were putting this together," Dombi said in a telephone interview.
The expansion of Medicaid programs for the poor was one of two pillars of Obama's plan to help provide medical coverage to most of the nation's 50 million uninsured people. Since the Supreme Court ruling last summer, Texas Governor Rick Perry and others have taken up the decision as a rallying cry against the law. The result according to Obama administration officials is that many will go without coverage in states that have opted out.
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"We are very concerned that in some states there will be people who are not at 100 percent of poverty so they will not, absent Medicaid expansion, qualify for any financial assistance for health insurance," Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. health secretary, said yesterday in a briefing for reporters.
"There will be a huge gap between what they can afford and what is available," she said.
Texas' decision to forgo expanding Medicaid also complicates business for Ruiz's employer, Helping the Aging, Needy and Disabled Inc., an Austin nonprofit, which under Affordable Care Act rules must offer insurance to its health aides to avoid paying fines. Expanding Medicaid, Dombi said, is an easy way to cover the workers and relieve their employers of the threat of fines of as much as $3,000 per employee.
"It would be devastating to us to have to pay any penalties," said Amy Temperley, the executive director of the Austin nonprofit that employs Ruiz. "We don't have reserves like a private company."
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Anyone earning 138 percent of the poverty level or less, or about $32,500 for a family of four, will be eligible for Medicaid in states that choose to expand the program. In states that don't, eligibility for federal subsidies to buy private coverage starts at $23,550 for the same size family.
Those earning below those levels can't get assistance with their insurance premiums. Low-income people are also rendered ineligible for subsidies if they have an offer of insurance deemed "affordable" under the law, meaning that it costs no more than 9.5 percent of their incomes.
That sets up a tricky calculation for any business that employs low-income people, said Steve Wojcik, vice president for public policy at the National Business Group on Health in Washington, a lobbying group for large companies offering health insurance including Boeing Co., Kroger Co. and Apple Inc.
"By offering coverage they likely disqualify the employee and dependents from qualifying for federal subsidies," he said in a phone interview. Yet the coverage may be too much for the employee to afford. "Lots of employers are really agonizing with the decision leading up to 2014."
Perry's spokeswoman, Lucy Nashed, said the Texas governor seeks "common sense" changes to the existing program rather than expanding Medicaid benefits.
"Medicaid is a broken, unsustainable system," she said.
For Ruiz and the 6.1 million Texans who lack health insurance, about a quarter of the state's population, such concerns are academic. She works 22.5 hours spread over five weekday mornings, at the east Austin home of Marisela Lopez, 34, who hasn't walked since birth. Lopez spends her day in a scooter in the family's living room, which is filled with family photos, small prayer candles, a television and her bed.
Wearing a burnt orange University of Texas Longhorn t- shirt, she praised Ruiz for her companionship as they watch professional wrestling, movies and day-time talk shows. To help Lopez bathe and dress, Ruiz lifts her from her scooter in the bathroom.
Ruiz also spends 17 hours on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with Kathleen Borm, 67, a diabetic confined to her bed in her south Austin apartment. At Borm's home, Ruiz cooks a lunch of sausage covered by a sprinkling of melted cheddar cheese. While Ruiz doesn't have any medical licenses and can't administer medicine, she cleans the apartment, changes Borm's diaper and checks her oxygen equipment, including a sleep apnea machine.
Her friends think the work of home health aides is "wiping butts for a living," Ruiz said. "But I look at it as taking care of people who need help more than anyone else."
For her efforts, Ruiz takes home $540 every two weeks, not enough, she says, to afford to buy her own health insurance. Her husband, Jose, 42, is disabled and unemployed, and the couple has seven children from their current and previous relationships.
Nationally, about 37 percent of home health workers were uninsured in 2009, according to the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, a nonprofit group in New York that supports home health aides. That figure climbed to 45 percent in four western- southern states including Texas, the institute said.
The percentage of uninsured in Texas has inched up from 22 percent in 1990s with Latinos making up more than half of those lacking coverage, said Juan Flores, executive director of La Fe Policy Research and Education Center, a San Antonio nonprofit that advocates for low-income people. "Any improvements have been incremental and we really haven't dealt with this uninsured problem," he said in a telephone interview.
Texas legislators have shown some support for home-health aides serving Medicaid patients, voting to raise their minimum wage from $7.25 an hour, the national minimum, to $7.50 an hour starting on Sept. 1 and $7.86 an hour in 2015, said Rachel Hammon, executive director of the Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice in Austin.
The home care group joined associations representing Texas doctors, hospitals and chambers of commerce to lobby for expanding Medicaid. Many home-health aides would have qualified for Medicaid, said Jennie Baird, the president of the trade group who also runs the for-profit company Angels at Home Inc.
"It is shameful," said Baird who added she often supports Perry's efforts to limit state spending. "With a business with low-income workers like pizza delivery or fast food restaurants, they can pass on their higher rates to customers. But we can't do that because our rates are set by the federal and state government."
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So it is 6:14 on a Monday morning - though, for me, it was really an hour earlier still because I am heading into Hamburg, Germany, to record for the final episode of the BBC Radio 4 series 'Who's the Pest?'. I am tired; the problem for me with getting up early is that - paradoxically - I don't sleep well due to worrying that I will oversleep.
So I had some coffee ... but I was sure that none of that had to do with the general slightly crazy mood I was in. Instead I am sure that it had everything to do with the prospect of being suspended from the ceiling by technology that mimics fly feet! And it is to that end, that I am sitting on a very smooth and quiet train, looking out at the snow, and heading to meet Professor Stanislav Gorb, the inventor of the most amazing pieces of biomimicry.
Biomimicry is the study and application of biological organisms and adapting their effects for our own uses. We see a lot of natural mimics - to appear more dangerous to predators than they actually are, hoverflies use protective mimicry to look like bees and wasps, while spiders mimic ants to enable them predate on them (aggressive mimicry).
As a species we have long been interested in mimicry and have been trying to copy the natural world for our own benefit for thousands of years. We study and adapt insect gait in our robots (oh how we can learn from the mighty cockroach for this); we mimic the pheromones of moths to lure pests to traps and we copy their egg-laying abilities to make better hypodermic needles (needles that are so small as to not cause any reaction and ones that can actually bend out of the way of objects so as not to damage any of our vital organs) - all very funky stuff.
Protective mimicry in action (taken from wikipedia): 'Two wasp species and four imperfect and palatable mimics. (A) Dolichovespula media; (B) Polistes spec.; (C) Eupeodes spec.; (D) Syrphus spec; (E) Helophilus pendulus; (F) Clytus arietes (all species European).
Of note, species C–F have no clear resemblance to any wasp species [THIS IS WHAT WIKI SAYS!]. The three hoverfly species differ in the shape of their wings and body, length of antennae, flight behaviour, and striping pattern from European wasps. One fly species (E) even has longitudinal stripes, which wasps typically don't. The harmless wasp beetle does not normally display wings, and its legs do not resemble those of any wasps.'
... But, right now, I want to talk about why I had been suspended from a ceiling in Germany like a one-armed orang-utan.
So we were ushered into a very high-ceilinged office and introduced to Stanislav and made to feel welcome. Gorb has three main interests when it comes to insects: plant-animal interactions; functional morphology and biomechanics; and biological attachment. It is this final area of research we will concentrate on today.
We have been using adhesives for an awfully long time. Archaeologists have discovered pots that have been held together by sap that are 4,000 years old. Scotch tape, as it is known comercially, was invented by Richard Drew in 1930 and we have been relying on it - and its relatives - ever since. But eventually it ceases to work; the glue dries out or it rots away, leaving a residue when you unpeel it from the binding surface.
Stanislav has been pondering these very problems for over 10 years - but through an entomologist's insight. And a novel solution came from a slightly sensitive situation that a male beetle often finds himself in. Examine this photograph of some very down-and-dirty beetle porn.
Steamy beetle action
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I once worked on the heather beetle, Lochmaea suturalis, at the then Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, ITE, (now the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, CEH) in Dorset. It was an amazing time and I had quite a collection of beetle porn (although I was more fascinated when a beetle was parasitised by the Tachinid fly, Medina collaris, and I used to spend my lunch times eating sandwiches and watching maggots crawling out of their bums only for them to decide to crawl back in again ...).
What a beautiful fly... Medina collaris
Used with permission, © Hakon Haraldseide
I digress … throughout the mating process, the male beetles have to cling on with utter tenacity while the female carries on her daily business. Not much will put a woman off her food … even in this situation! So how does he mange to do this? We know of many animals that have an amazing ability to climb up walls, with geckos being the obvious ones. But Stanislav looked at what was happening on the beetles' feet (or tarsal segments) as they are known.
Here is a leg of a beetle:
Now, their tarsal segments can be hairy – really, really hairy.
This is an image from one of Stanislav's papers on the subject. Check out the mass of setae (the hair-like projections).
At the end of the setae are structures that range in shape from spatula shapes to mushrooms. So from the naturally occurring shapes Gorb, with the help of a development company, constructed some synthetic tape (called PVS in the image below). Here is a lovely piece on him explaining how the tape works.
(a) Scanning electron micrographs showing the mushroom-shaped setae in an attachment pad of a male beetle, Gastrophysa viridula, (b) biologically inspired mushroom-shaped microstructured PVS sample, (c) and the surface of the control PVS sample.
So now we have the tape ... how does this relate to me? Well this is how, with very little dignity, I am able to dangle from the ceiling - much to the amusement of everyone else in the room:
First time up, I fell off the ceiling! But this was because there was a screw loose, so the tape did not bind evenly. With the screw sorted, I was back up there again, holding onto a handle attached to a piece of tape that had just been shoved on to the suspended glass square. One-handed! Nearly wrenched my socket out but amazingly the tape held.
Just for the amusement of my producer I then repeated this several more times so she could record the right level of grunting! It's not all glamour you know! However, it was amazing to see the application of taking a really small natural structure and using it for our benefit. We can use this tape for many different things, including mechanised arms that move around very delicate and clean surfaces such as those of mobile phones. No more smudges. And what is also fantastic about this tape is that it can be reused! Marvellous.
And I now have a small piece and am amusing myself in my flat sticking various objects to the wall ...


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Mr. Alveirinho is known throughout the industry as an innovator and visionary and is a highly sought after speaker at conferences and higher education institutions across Europe. Working with Mr. Alveirinho on the development of PT's next-generation mobile packet core has been a privilege and a pleasure.
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Was in San Francisco a week or so ago, and as is my wont poked my head into various used bookstores along the way.
Found a paperbound titled "Les Ainous", which appears to be a very well done catalogue of a major Ainu exhibit in France - and other parts of Europe? - apparently in the mid eighties.
Cut to the chase.
On page 75 there is a picture and description of a model of a traditional Ainu seagoing boat, collected in 1899. My French is lousy, but....
The boat is planked. A three plank plus keel construction, planks fastened together with twisted rope of vegetable fibers. Most amazing, instead of paddles, there are two oar seats, with oars and oarlocks, and a seat for the steersman with a steering paddle/oar at the port side of the stern. The paddle has an amazing resemblance to the Tlingit/Haida paddle of the American Northwest, as do many other items pictured elsewhere in the catalog. Included in the model are a gaff and a bailing box/bucket made of wood.
Apparently this style of craft was built up to 15 m. long.
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Last Friday, six friends met at Casa de Bandito in Old Town for dinner at the popular Mexican cantina. Each of the six ordered a different appetizer, one picking Flautas, and a different entree from the menu. The six were seated around a rectangular table, with one person at the head directly opposite another at the foot, and with the other four sitting two to each side of the table directly opposite each other. Given the clues below, can you find each Casa de Bandito diner's full name (one surname is Berger), the appetizer and entree he or she enjoyed, and the seating arrangement clockwise starting with the head of the table.
The six were seated alternately man-woman around the table.
Jeff sat directly opposite the person who ordered Cheese Quesadilla for an appetizer.
Lisa was seated directly opposite the person whose entree was Chili Colorado.
The person who had Steak Picado as an entree didn't have Queso Fundido as an appetizer.
Ms. Hanson isn't the diner who enjoyed Casa de Bandito's famous Tortilla Soup as an appetizer.
Chad sat to the immediate left of the person who had Chicken Fajitas as an entree; the person who ate Chicken Fajitas was to the immediate left of the one who ordered the Stuffed Jalapenos appetizer.
Jeff and Stover both say Mexican is their food favorite.
The person who picked Steak Picado sat to Ms. Cabrillo's immediate right.
The one who enjoyed the spicy heat of Mexican Meatball Soup as an appetizer sat directly opposite Alicia at the table.
Ms. Vincent sat directly opposite Mr. Stover at dinner.
The one who ordered Stuffed Jalapenos sat directly opposite the person who had a Beef Burrito for an entree; the latter isn't Chad.
The diner who had Fish Tacos for an entree sat directly opposite the friend who started with Queso Fundido.
The entree choice of one of the men was a Chimichanga.
Ben and Mr. Fox paid for the dinner in celebration of recent bonuses at work.
Tanya wasn't seated in the chair at the foot of the table.
Ms. Vincent did not have the Beef Burrito.
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I have to admit one thing. When it comes down to being a blogger, I am a lousy one. Sorry for lack of posts recently. Being busy should not be a legit reason. I always think and check more than twice before posting any opinion because I want to make sure I say something it's worthy to read, otherwise I will just delete it.
One thing I remain pretty consistently is trying post positive somethings about my New York Yankees. Few Yankees(Kennedy, Andy, Mussina, Farnsworth and Hakwins) all have a rough week for sure, but I am not going to go through that. Even more Yankees fans complain about Yankees' 3-3 record and slow offense start. Well, I actually think We will be fine if we get a split with Rays when we win first series with Blue Jays. It's not easy to win a four-games series against any team and it's normal to split them.
I think Kennedy, Andy and Mussina all will be fine for different obvious reasons. As a whole, I like what I saw from our pitching staff. As long as they all stay healthy the whole season, our pitching staff will be better than 2007 for sure. I haven't gotten the point to worry about our offense for sure.
The most impressive thing I got during the first week of 2008 season is the ability to push the right button and recognize his players from Joe Girardi. For example, He put Matsui on the 8th hole on the opening day because of his bad stats against Roy Halladay, but move him behind A-Rod last night after seeing few good swings from him. He also left Wang in the 7th inning on the Opening day, but quickly made a pitching change last night when he recognized Wang was tired in the 7th last night.
We are going to have a good season behind Joe Girardi. I can feel that.
Monday, April 7, 2008
lousy blogger with her lousy Yanks and team?
Posted by: Jessica Lee at 10:01 PM
3 comments:
- Todd Drew said...
You are a great blogger, Jessica. I really appreciate and depend on your point of view.
Wang was outstanding yesterday. He really came through for us when we needed a win.
- April 8, 2008 at 3:01 AM
- yanks26 said...
Wang was an ace yesterday. Joba and Mo were Joba and Mo. You have a good insight into Joe G., that he will be pushing the right buttons this year.
- April 8, 2008 at 7:06 AM
- Jessica Lee said...
ACE or not, I really don't care so much actually. I am just glad to see Wang stop our 2-games losing streak. I just like what I see from Wang how he pitch to 6 left-handers hitters Rays put on against him.
- April 8, 2008 at 3:52 PM
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There's some irony in the notion that the next big new thing for Apple isn't a long-rumored smart television or long-awaited touchscreen Macs or even lower-price iPhones or iPads. It's a business deal
Investors polled by Morgan Stanley said that Apple getting the go-ahead to sell iPhones through China Mobile, the world's largest operator, with almost 700 million subscribers, is the number one catalyst for the stock to reach the mythical $1,000 price set before it.
Apple already sells the iPhone in China through its 2009 agreement with China Unicom and its pact earlier this year with China Telecom. But with about 230 million and 150 million subscribers, respectively, China Unicom and China Telecom are dwarfed by China Mobile, which is hoping to move its subscribers en masse to faster 3G and LTE networks next year.
A deal with China Mobile would expand Apple's reach there just as demand for smartphones is starting to get serious. China is expected to be the world's top smartphone market by the end of the year, surpassing the U.S. Only one out of ten Chinese who own a mobile have a smartphone. In the U.S. that proportion is already half and half.
China has become Apple's second-largest market after the U.S., thanks to insatiable demand from a growing and brand-conscious middle class. Sales in China jumped 78% to $23.8 billion and accounted for some 15% of Apple's revenue in the fiscal year ended in September. That's up from $13 billion in 2011 and a mere $3 billion the year before.
The analyst who ran the study, Katy Huberty, thinks the deal with China Mobile could happen in the second half of 2013. If it does and Apple comes through with lower-priced iPhones and iPads, she sees the shares reaching $980, or 14 times estimated earnings per share of $70. Amit Daryanani, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, says Apple could win over 13% of China Mobile's 3G customers, grabbing sales of 10 million to 16 million iPhones in the first year alone. There are already between 15 million and 20 million China Mobile customers using full-price iPhones on the carrier's slower 2G network.
"We continue to see it as an extremely exciting market with more and more people wanting Apple products," Apple CEO Tim Cook said in October. His China stores–there are now seven–saw riots after the iPhone 4S went on sale last January. Hours after the iPhone 5 debuted in the U.S. in September, it was being smuggled into China to feed a thriving black market.
Apple faces challenges, especially against low-cost Android models that make up about 90% of the Chinese smartphone market. Apple's iOS operating system has 12% or less of the market, depending on whose numbers you look at. And the China Mobile deal isn't a slam dunk, with technical issues to resolve, such as whether the Qualcomm chipset in the new iPhone 5 will work on China Mobile's proprietary network. Jefferies & Co.'s Peter Misek doesn't think a deal can be done in 2013.
Apple shares are now in bear market territory, pushed down by sellers looking to avoid a tax hit on capital gains next year. If the bulls don't get their China Mobile deal, they can take solace in a sales bump from the other two big carriers, as well as a completely refreshed line of tablets, iPods and laptops. Apple doesn't have to conquer China for the stock to rebound. Just a few more points of market share will be enough for it to earn its outsize portion of smartphone profits.
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This resource encourages both spouses to become active partners in improving their relationship and healing the fissures that ADHD can cause. Also included are worksheets and various methods for difficult conversations.


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One of the most interesting things to see in the south of Egypt is the site of Abu Simbel. It is about 60km north of the Sudan border.
You get there by water by means of a cruise ship, by air making use of Aswan airport or by road on a taxi, mini van or touring bus. The cheapest option is the latter and takes 3 hours from the town of Aswan. There is a tourist convoy thru the desert with pretty high speeds. Two stints a day I believe. The first stint arrives as 7am (leaves Aswan at 4am).
If you feel fit at that time, you can take a sprint around the mountain and take the first picture of the day at an empty AS. :)
Small video here!
Wikipedia on Abu Simbel.
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tola_ch2004 (549) 2009-11-15 12:53
Woaw, fabulous view.
I wonder what's this place call? Egypt people is very lucky that their ancestors build such wonderful work for them.
Thank for sharing picture.
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Allow the Radisson Seattle Airport Hotel to place you closer to all of Seattle's sprawling neighborhoods! Signature touring destinations include: The Space Needle, Seattle Opera House, Pacific Science Center, Experience Music Project, Seattle Waterfront and Landing, and the Seattle Aquarium. Seattle is also home to prominent major league sports teams. Sports fans: be sure to make a trip to the SafeCo and Century-Link fields – home to the Mariners, Seahawks and Sounders.
For a taste of local life, saunter through Pike Place Market, and be sure to make a stop at the original Starbucks coffee shop to grab a latte before checking out Seattle's famous fish market. For those interested in Seattle history, an Underground Tour reveals the story of a metropolis built vertically from old to new. The city has a reputation for being laid back, and Seattle's 'good vibes' can be felt with a visit to the Fremont and Wallingford district for a taste of bohemian culture and street art. The world's your oyster at this scenic port city on the west coast!


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One of the sexist hardware hacking projects in the recent past has been the effort to open up Microsoft's Kinect sensor bar to allow its control via USB from your personal computer. On November 7, a hacker claimed the USD $2,000 bounty for an open-sourced driver. It's all standard (albeit cool) stuff. Microsoft's reactions to the hacks and the community's reaction to Microsoft's reactions to the hacks where what caught my real attention. Shortly after the driver was announced, Microsoft made the following terse statement to CNET:
"Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products. With Kinect, Microsoft built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering. Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant."
On every site I frequent for my technology news, the bias against Microsoft for this statement ran toward loud scoffing. Because, obviously, the software giant was making noise about the horse bolting after the fact. There were winks, nudges, grins (of the smug and shit-eating varieties), outright smirks, sly smiles, laughter, chuckles, mocker, derision, insults, and some spots of outright abuse. I at least hope to think that I took Microsoft's initial hard stance a little more seriously, and I want to play devil's advocate for a few minutes while I relate what I perceive as their reasons:
Every single piece of hardware that you purchase today has one of the below statements either stickered on the back or boldly noted in the accompanying documentation:
No user serviceable parts within.
Warranty void if tampered.
Caution! Risk of electrical shock!
Why? It isn't just the cost of replacing user-destroyed hardware that might otherwise arise. No, it is Little Johnny Hacker who takes his brand-new Kinect home from the store, pops it open to see what is inside; in the process of applying solder to wires he somehow, tragically electrocutes himself. The headlines are going to read nothing but, "Microsoft's Kinect killed poor Johnny Hacker!" The publicity stinks, but Microsoft can very fairly say that it wasn't their responsibility.
Intellectual Property.
Maybe the more pressing reason. Microsoft has created custom hardware and software that, shocker, remains the property of Microsoft. When hackers crack open their Kinect they are potentially stealing this property and disseminating it. Yes, you can be prosecuted and yes, you can go to jail or be massively fined, jurisdiction dependent. At a really-guys-we-are-serious-about-this level, Microsoft doesn't care all that much if people pirate Office or Windows 7 because it keeps them within the Microsoft ecosystem. If, however, they started trafficking in the source code for these products, Microsoft's very own trade secrets are being opened up for all the world. People could conceivably use this to create a competitor product or (worse) open up Microsoft to liability from within and without.
Creative control.
This is the reason I most personally associate with, as a content (photography) producer myself: When you do Other Things to your Kinect, you aren't receiving the full and intended Kinect experience. This is hugely important. To offer you a living example:
I have found my Creative Commons-licensed images pop up in many strange and uniqe places, places that include in one example an fundamentalist Islamic prayer group. They were, thankfully, fundamentalist in the sense that they wanted to return to Muhammad's original message, instead of blowing up the infidels. However, for a very long while before I received an authoritative clarification, I was honestly uncomfortable with my image being used on their website because:
I'm irreligious; I don't want to appear to be tacitly endorsing any faith.
They are possibly militantly extremist; what might befall me if they should come to light in a negative manner?
Microsoft's fears are parallel to what mine were: If people begin to modify their Kinect hardware, it could potentially be embarrassing for the company as a whole. Home-made, three-dimensional, motion-captured porn, coming soon to a torrent near you courtesy of Kinect. It isn't the end of the would, but it could be a true egg-on-your-face moment.
It isn't all bad. On Friday ( November 19), a second statement from Microsoft's Kinect developers demonstrated a remarkable change in outlook:
"Kinect was not actually hacked. Hacking would mean that someone got to our algorithms that sit inside of the Xbox and was able to actually use them. Which hasn't happened. Or, it means that you put a device between the sensor and the Xbox for means of cheating, which also has not happened. That's what we call hacking, and that's what we put a ton of work and effort in to make sure doesn't actually occur.
"What has happened is someone wrote a open source driver for PCs, which essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn't protect by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor."
My guess is that between the first and second statements Microsoft very intensively looked at what their liability might be, and what the intellectual property loss might be, in relation to the Kinect hacks.
So, there you go. Five minutes of devil's advocacy on the hacks.


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