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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Chanel counterfeiters beware: US federal court orders domain names seized and de-indexed
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Missing: NYC parrot; 'loves to sing opera'
NEW YORK (AP) ? A heartbroken New York City man is desperately searching for his opera-singing parrot.
Captain, a 25-year-old green and yellow Amazon parrot, flew off Allen Kirson's shoulder as they went biking in Brooklyn on the day after Thanksgiving.
The New York Post (http://nyp.st/t8DUOT) says the talented bird who "loves to sing opera" has performed at senior citizen homes and children's hospitals.
Kirson says Captain also dances, and has a big vocabulary.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
The NYT on legal education again ? Truth on the Market
Posted by Larry Ribstein on November 26, 2011
Last week the NYT?s David Segal attacked modern legal education in what many bloggers have criticized as an overwrought and inaccurate article. I joined the chorus. Referring to my article Practicing Theory, I noted that Segal had made the often-repeated mistake of blaming legal educators for teaching too much theory and not enough practice when nobody knows what the future of practice will be: ???
Practicing Theory suggests that law schools should teach law students how to be architects and designers rather than mechanics.? The lawyers of the future will focus, more than today?s lawyers, on the building blocks of law. Computers and non-lawyers will handle the mechanical tasks. Training lawyers demands the sort of theoretical perspective that Segal disdains.?* * * The real problem * * * is not that law professors are teaching theory rather than the way to the courthouse, but that their choices of which theories to teach pay insufficient attention to the skills and knowledge today?s and tomorrow?s market demands.
Today?s NYT has an editorial that tracks many of Segal?s criticisms. Leiter has already subjected the editorial to a thorough fisking. I agree with many of Leiter?s criticisms ? and particularly regarding the editorial?s confused attempt to relate the problems of legal education.?
But I note with interest that the editorial seems to pick up on some of the points I made in my blog post and article:
- The editorial notes the need to ?teach to what legal practice now entails.?
- Just as I said future lawyers will be ?architects and designers? the NYT says they will be ?negotiators and deal-shapers, and problem-solvers.?
- Tracking my basic point, the editorial says ?the choice is not between teaching legal theory or practice.??
- Both the editorial and my article criticized legal education?s Langdellian heritage. (Leiter correctly observes that the NYT?s criticism is misguided; the point in my article wasn?t so much that Langdell was wrong, but that his influence marked the divide between legal education and the market for lawyers).?
So maybe it?s not too much of a stretch to think the Grey Lady is stooping to the blogs, even if not getting her hands too dirty with them.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Lithuania to dismantle troubled bank (AP)
VILNIUS, Lithuania ? Lithuania's central bank said it would dismantle a bank controlled by a Russian businessman after regulators discovered large sums of money missing.
Lithuanian prosecutors said Friday that Raimondas Baranauskas, minority owner of Snoras Bank, has been detained in London after they had issued a European arrest warrant on Wednesday.
Prosecutors could not say whether Russian citizen Vladimir Antonov, the bank's majority owner, was also detained. Antonov is the owner of the Portsmouth football club.
The Bank of Lithuania said late Thursday that the dismantling of Snoras was the best solution for the Baltic state's financial system and economy, which have been jolted after the bank was nationalized and its operations halted.
Bank chief Vitas Vasiliauskas said should not waste taxpayers' money trying to help "a plane that won't fly."
"There is no other way to solve this situation," he said.
Hundreds of millions of euros (dollars) are believed to have been siphoned off from Snoras and Latvijas Krajbanka, a subsidiary bank in neighboring Latvia.
Janis Brazovskis, an official with Latvia's Finance and Capital Markets Commission who was appointed to oversee Latvijas Krajbanka, said Wednesday that Antonov's failed attempt to acquire the troubled Swedish automaker Saab might have triggered the downfall of the two Baltic banks.
He said that approximately 100 million lats ($200 million) were siphoned from the bank to increase its charter capital and finance Antonov's investment projects ? including the unsuccessful takeover of Saab.
Deposit holders in both countries are now forced to wait in long lines to withdraw money from cash machines, while companies and municipalities have seen the working capital virtually disappear.
Still, authorities in both Lithuania and Latvia say the two banks' collapse does not pose a systemic risk since they are mid-sized and the two states have ample reserves to guarantee deposits.
Latvijas Krajbanka was Latvia's 10th largest bank by assets after it was taken over by regulators on Monday.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
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HuffPost Says Thanks: What We're Grateful For This Year
I'm grateful my daughters, Christina and Isabella, are home from college for the holidays. I'm grateful my move to New York has brought me a great new neighborhood filled with surprises around every corner. And I'm very grateful to our great HuffPost team for rising to the challenge of adding 24 new sections since March, and making this year one of the most exciting and rewarding of my life. Also, I'm grateful that the UC Davis police are not in charge of security at our offices. I'm grateful that Herman Cain doesn't oversee HR here, I'm grateful that the supercommittee isn't responsible for determining our editorial budget, and I'm grateful that Mayor Bloomberg hasn't paid a visit to our nap rooms (he might find them a "health and fire safety hazard.") --Arianna Huffington, President and Editor-in-Chief, AOL Huffington Post Media Group
I'm grateful my daughters, Christina and Isabella, are home from college for the holidays. I'm grateful my move to New York has brought me a great new neighborhood filled with surprises around every corner. And I'm very grateful to our great HuffPost team for rising to the challenge of adding 24 new sections since March, and making this year one of the most exciting and rewarding of my life.Also, I'm grateful that the UC Davis police are not in charge of security at our offices. I'm grateful that Herman Cain doesn't oversee HR here, I'm grateful that the supercommittee isn't responsible for determining our editorial budget, and I'm grateful that Mayor Bloomberg hasn't paid a visit to our nap rooms (he might find them a "health and fire safety hazard.")
--Arianna Huffington, President and Editor-in-Chief, AOL Huffington Post Media Group
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/24/huff-post-thanks_n_1111411.html
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Science magazine honors web site that makes physics come alive
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Simplifying online tools brings interactive computer-based modeling to students at many levels
Physics professor Wolfgang Christian learned about the wonder of science when he was very young. Among the toys Christian's engineer father introduced to his son were electric trains, magnets, and lenses.
"A lot of my interest in science came about through interactive engagement at home," says Christian.
This early education no doubt started Christian on a path toward becoming not only a scientist, but also someone who has played a central role in bringing interactive computer modeling to physics students of all levels. His Open Source Physics Web site, a valuable tool in physics education developed with colleagues Francisco Esquembre and Lyle Barbato, has been selected to win a Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE).
Science magazine developed the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) to promote the best online materials in science education. The acronym SPORE suggests a reproductive element adapted to develop, often in adverse conditions, into something new. Similarly, these winning projects can be seen as the seeds of progress in science education, despite considerable challenges to educational innovation. Each month, Science publishes an article by a recipient of the award, which explains the winning project. The article about Open Source Physics (OSP) will be published on November 25.
"We're trying to advance science education," says Bruce Alberts, editor-in-chief of Science. "This competition provides much-needed recognition to innovators in the field whose efforts promise significant benefits for students and for science literacy in general. The publication in Science of an article on each Web site will help guide educators around the globe to valuable free resources that might otherwise be missed."
In 1979, not long after Christian earned his PhD from North Carolina State University and began his teaching career, he became a microcomputer enthusiast, joining a club that bought teletype machines at ham radio events and experimented with data acquisition. By 1986, Christian had established the first Ethernet network on the campus of Davidson College, where he still teaches, introducing microcomputer-based laboratories into the physics department. By 1991 Christian had begun working on employing computers throughout the curriculum and was using the Web to deliver curriculum materials to others. He says that during the first years of the Internet, if someone searched Davidson College, that search would lead directly to the physics department server.
"We were really early in adopting the Internet in 1992," Christian says.
The next big step toward the OSP project occurred when Christian stumbled on Java as a way to bring Internet-based interactive physics problems to upper-level students. He says he knew he "had a winner" in his use of Java, and he began showing how it worked at meetings of the American Association of Physics Teachers, of which he is president-elect of the North Carolina Section, and the American Physical Society, of which he is a fellow and a past Forum on Education chair.
While attracting the interest of major publishers who tied their physics textbooks to Christian's online materials, he stuck to a course that would make interactive computer modeling of physics available to students at earlier stages of their education, a direction that was greatly aided by Esquembre, who had developed Easy Java Simulations (ESJ). ESJ provided an intuitive tool for students who were not expert in Java. Without writing much code, physics students could manipulate the elements of a model, experiment with the effects of those manipulations, and learn firsthand about physics and its laws.
Christian is currently working toward involving K-12 students, such as his wife's middle-school students, who as seventh graders are learning about concepts such as temperature. Christian was able to adapt a college-level molecular dynamics simulation for them to explore changes in the phases of matter.
"The students could heat and cool the system, and then we could ask them questions like, 'At what temperature does it melt?'" Christian says. "They got visual feedback from the simulation and had to make decisions about the basic concepts."
The OSP Web site was designed by Barbato, who is the technical director of the ComPADRE Digital Library, which provides an infrastructure for the online dissemination of OSP materials. The Web site contains ready-to-run simulations and tools such as EJS and a video analysis program called Tracker. Although the site's ready-to-run simulations can be used to provide a deeper understanding of physics concepts, they are distributed with their source code and are intended to be modified by students and teachers. All are based on research-grade algorithms and can be adjusted and reconfigured easily using the free OSP code library and the EJS modeling tool.
"These ready-to-run simulations and tools for developing new simulations help students visualize situations and better understand abstract concepts," says Melissa McCartney, editorial fellow at Science. "That is not always possible when learning physics through static pictures."
Christian explains how OSP allows students and teachers to adapt existing simulations and develop their own simulations as follows:
"You're running a simulation, and you want to change it, so you can just right-click," he says. "This action copies the code from within the running program into EJS, where you can change the packaged narrative, the internal parameters, and the algorithm to suit your teaching method and your student's abilities.
"We've essentially made programming accessible at a very early stage."
With about 20 percent of physics teachers aware of OSP, the Web site last year hosted about 500,000 page views and 50,000 downloads of simulations. Christians hopes that the SPORE award and the essay in Science will confer on OSP an additional layer of prestige, which will then bring in more users. "Once your signal gets above the noise," he says, "it tends to amplify itself."
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To visit Open Source Physics, go to http://www.compadre.org/osp/.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science (http://www.sciencemag.org) as well as Science Translational Medicine (http://www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org) and Science Signaling (http://www.sciencesignaling.org). AAAS was founded in 1848, and includes some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million. The non-profit AAAS (http://www.aaas.org) is open to all and fulfills its mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!, http://www.eurekalert.org, the premier science-news Web site, a service of AAAS.
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202-326-7088
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Simplifying online tools brings interactive computer-based modeling to students at many levels
Physics professor Wolfgang Christian learned about the wonder of science when he was very young. Among the toys Christian's engineer father introduced to his son were electric trains, magnets, and lenses.
"A lot of my interest in science came about through interactive engagement at home," says Christian.
This early education no doubt started Christian on a path toward becoming not only a scientist, but also someone who has played a central role in bringing interactive computer modeling to physics students of all levels. His Open Source Physics Web site, a valuable tool in physics education developed with colleagues Francisco Esquembre and Lyle Barbato, has been selected to win a Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE).
Science magazine developed the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) to promote the best online materials in science education. The acronym SPORE suggests a reproductive element adapted to develop, often in adverse conditions, into something new. Similarly, these winning projects can be seen as the seeds of progress in science education, despite considerable challenges to educational innovation. Each month, Science publishes an article by a recipient of the award, which explains the winning project. The article about Open Source Physics (OSP) will be published on November 25.
"We're trying to advance science education," says Bruce Alberts, editor-in-chief of Science. "This competition provides much-needed recognition to innovators in the field whose efforts promise significant benefits for students and for science literacy in general. The publication in Science of an article on each Web site will help guide educators around the globe to valuable free resources that might otherwise be missed."
In 1979, not long after Christian earned his PhD from North Carolina State University and began his teaching career, he became a microcomputer enthusiast, joining a club that bought teletype machines at ham radio events and experimented with data acquisition. By 1986, Christian had established the first Ethernet network on the campus of Davidson College, where he still teaches, introducing microcomputer-based laboratories into the physics department. By 1991 Christian had begun working on employing computers throughout the curriculum and was using the Web to deliver curriculum materials to others. He says that during the first years of the Internet, if someone searched Davidson College, that search would lead directly to the physics department server.
"We were really early in adopting the Internet in 1992," Christian says.
The next big step toward the OSP project occurred when Christian stumbled on Java as a way to bring Internet-based interactive physics problems to upper-level students. He says he knew he "had a winner" in his use of Java, and he began showing how it worked at meetings of the American Association of Physics Teachers, of which he is president-elect of the North Carolina Section, and the American Physical Society, of which he is a fellow and a past Forum on Education chair.
While attracting the interest of major publishers who tied their physics textbooks to Christian's online materials, he stuck to a course that would make interactive computer modeling of physics available to students at earlier stages of their education, a direction that was greatly aided by Esquembre, who had developed Easy Java Simulations (ESJ). ESJ provided an intuitive tool for students who were not expert in Java. Without writing much code, physics students could manipulate the elements of a model, experiment with the effects of those manipulations, and learn firsthand about physics and its laws.
Christian is currently working toward involving K-12 students, such as his wife's middle-school students, who as seventh graders are learning about concepts such as temperature. Christian was able to adapt a college-level molecular dynamics simulation for them to explore changes in the phases of matter.
"The students could heat and cool the system, and then we could ask them questions like, 'At what temperature does it melt?'" Christian says. "They got visual feedback from the simulation and had to make decisions about the basic concepts."
The OSP Web site was designed by Barbato, who is the technical director of the ComPADRE Digital Library, which provides an infrastructure for the online dissemination of OSP materials. The Web site contains ready-to-run simulations and tools such as EJS and a video analysis program called Tracker. Although the site's ready-to-run simulations can be used to provide a deeper understanding of physics concepts, they are distributed with their source code and are intended to be modified by students and teachers. All are based on research-grade algorithms and can be adjusted and reconfigured easily using the free OSP code library and the EJS modeling tool.
"These ready-to-run simulations and tools for developing new simulations help students visualize situations and better understand abstract concepts," says Melissa McCartney, editorial fellow at Science. "That is not always possible when learning physics through static pictures."
Christian explains how OSP allows students and teachers to adapt existing simulations and develop their own simulations as follows:
"You're running a simulation, and you want to change it, so you can just right-click," he says. "This action copies the code from within the running program into EJS, where you can change the packaged narrative, the internal parameters, and the algorithm to suit your teaching method and your student's abilities.
"We've essentially made programming accessible at a very early stage."
With about 20 percent of physics teachers aware of OSP, the Web site last year hosted about 500,000 page views and 50,000 downloads of simulations. Christians hopes that the SPORE award and the essay in Science will confer on OSP an additional layer of prestige, which will then bring in more users. "Once your signal gets above the noise," he says, "it tends to amplify itself."
###
To visit Open Source Physics, go to http://www.compadre.org/osp/.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science (http://www.sciencemag.org) as well as Science Translational Medicine (http://www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org) and Science Signaling (http://www.sciencesignaling.org). AAAS was founded in 1848, and includes some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million. The non-profit AAAS (http://www.aaas.org) is open to all and fulfills its mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!, http://www.eurekalert.org, the premier science-news Web site, a service of AAAS.
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Climate Change: South Africa has much to lose
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? Imagine the savannas of South Africa's flagship Kruger Park so choked with brush, viewing what game is left is nearly impossible. The Cape of Good Hope without penguins. The Karoo desert's seasonal symphony of wildflowers silenced.
Climate change could mean unthinkable loss for South Africa, which hosts talks on global warming that will bring government negotiators, scientists and lobbyists from around the world to the coastal city of Durban next week.
Guy Midgley, the top climate change researcher at the South African National Biodiversity Institute, said evidence gleaned from decades of recording weather data, observing flora and fauna and conducting experiments makes it possible for scientists to "weave a tapestry of change."
Change is, of course, part of the natural world. But the implications of so much change happening at once pose enormous questions, said Midgley, who has contributed to the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
In the Karoo, for example, where plants found nowhere else in the world have adapted to long, dry summers and winter rainfall, the weather pattern is changing.
Scientists have noted large die-offs linked to the stress of drought among one iconic Karoo denizen, the flowering quiver tree, a giant aloe that often is the only large plant visible across large stretches of desert. Quiver trees attract tourists, and insects, birds and mammals eat their flowers.
"Any change in climate is going to affect the flowers," said Wendy Foden, a southern African plant specialist with the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Barend Erasmus, an ecologist at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand, worked on some of the first efforts to model how Africa might be affected by climate change. He led a 2001 study that raised the possibility that up to two-thirds of the species studied might disappear from Kruger National Park.
Research done since has made Erasmus less fearful for Kruger's animal population. But he predicts profound effects should a changing climate encourage the growth of thick shrubs, squeezing out zebra, antelope and cheetah.
Already, he said, zebra and wildebeest numbers are declining in Kruger as their grazing areas disappear. The question is how much of the cause is due to high concentrations of carbon dioxide, and how much depends on other factors, including man's encroachment.
Offshore, penguin expert Rob Crawford has looked at changes in the breeding grounds of African penguins and other seabirds, noting South Africa's northernmost penguin colony went extinct in 2006. Crawford and his colleagues wrote in a 2008 paper that the movements "suggest the influence of environmental change, perhaps forced by climate."
The African penguin, also known as the jackass penguin because of its braying call, is found only in southern Africa. A colony near Cape Town has long been a tourist draw.
One penguin parent stays behind to nest and care for offspring, while the other seeks food for the family. If the hunting partner is away too long, the nesting parent has to abandon the chick ? or starve. Species like sardines, on which the penguins depend, have been displaced.
"If they don't have sardines, they can't feed their chicks," Erasmus said. "And eventually the colonies just disappear."
The numbers of African penguins have plummeted from up to 4 million in the early 1900s to 60,000 in 2010, according to the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds. Researchers blame humans, who collected penguin eggs for food until the 1960s. More recently, a new threat came with oil spills and commercial fishing's competition for anchovies and sardines.
Erasmus said more research needs to be done, including studies on how plants and animals react to extreme conditions.
A colleague at his university, Duncan Mitchell, has taken up the challenge by tracking and studying antelope living in one of the hottest and driest corners of South Africa.
"We're hoping to find that they have a capacity to deal with water shortage that they're not having to use at the moment," Mitchell said.
"Climate change is going to happen," Mitchell said, adding it's already too late to influence temperatures and water levels over the next four decades. "What needs to be researched is coping with unmitigated climate change."
Coping might involve moving vulnerable animals to cooler habitats ? or ensuring they're not so hemmed in by human settlements that they cannot migrate on their own. Park rangers may have to work harder to remove trees to protect savannas. The South African government has called for expanding gene banks to conserve vulnerable species.
Sarshen Marais, a policy expert for Conservation International, says the work her organization is doing to eradicate foreign plants and help farmers better manage their land and water has gained importance.
Climate change experts fear water could become even scarcer in the future, but farmers can take steps that will help cash crops as well as wildlife. Conservation International has encouraged local communities to cut down thirsty foreign plants and sell the debris for fuel, allowing impoverished South Africans to earn while they save native species that are losing in the competition for water.
Researcher Erasmus acknowledges that in a developing country like South Africa, it can be hard to prioritize the plight of plants and animals. But he said an economic argument can be made, including the impact on people living in savannas who supplement their diets with small birds, other animals and wild greens, and who make money selling native fruits.
Tourism also is a consideration.
"Kruger is a cash cow for the whole of SANParks," he said, referring to the national parks department.
Foden, the plant specialist, said that when she thinks of her native South Africa, she thinks of wide spaces filled with a stunning diversity of plants and animals.
"If we were to lose that," she said, "we would lose so much of our identity."
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Ex-Windows Phone manager Joe Marini finds himself at home with Google
Check out who got a new set of Google business cards: Joe Marini, the extroverted Windows Phone manager at Microsoft who got into some hot water tweeting about the then-unannounced Nokia Lumia 800. It turns out that he's pushing out 140-character messages in a big way again, but this time he's doing so as a "Google Dev Advocate." It appears that the job description involves Developer Relations, API platforms and HTML5 apps, amongst other duties. But what about the inside scoop on what happened in Redmond? Joe says he's setting up a blog to address the question, and we're on pins and needles over here.
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