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10 Do's And Dont's For Successful Writers | Content for Reprint

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1. Writing is the most fun thing to do once you sit by the computer and start spilling out those words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, chapters and before you know it, you end up with a whole book in your hand that communicates to other. Writing is like painting with words; it's like taking a scene from a movie, describing anything you see as if you were inside that scene; colors, scenery, emotions, gestures, feelings, thoughts and let's not forget the most important part that makes the scene lively--communication; dialogues. The more dialogues the livelier the scene the more you tell about the characters. Benefit of writing is that you can describe smells and tastes in addition to that. The more the reader experiences these sensations, the more he enjoy the read.

2. Love your characters. Feel for them. BE them. Put yourself in their shoes and from that point communicate to your readers what they think, or what they would say in their own words. Hate them and relay that emotion fully. Make your reader love those you love and hate those you hate.

3. Don't start thinking what would other think about your writing; don't' stop writing by criticizing yourself. Flow with what comes out, don't bother with rules and supposed-to's you hear from "experts". There are no experts. All you want to care about is that you want the readers to feel what you feel, join with you to a journey you created.

4. Write what comes your way, then, think of the frame. The beginning and the end are very important. Once you have the major chapters on the table, then you can start thinking of the appetizers and the desserts. Make sure that there's a thread weaving throughout the book. If you have a message or messages you want to share, repeat them in various ways.

5. Make your characters real, with their weaknesses and strengths regardless if you love them or not.

6. Keep your own voice and your own style. No need to try and write like so-and-so. Believe in your own voice and your own style.

7. Please don't use BIG words just to impress somebody, or show that you have a wide range of vocabulary. If you want to express an exact thought and there's only one word that can express it, then go for it and use it, but the clearer you express your thoughts, the easier it is on the reader. When I flip through book pages and see that the author is too verbose, I just close the book and put it down.

8. When I write, I make an appointment with myself; which means that I can't be bothered by any phone call or visit. I am in the scene all by myself, getting through whatever emotions I go through as I write. I can laugh my heart out, or cry, or even sob. Hey, I'm creating my own movie after all, right?

9. Let people who like what you write flow you power and strengthen you. And try to ignore the rest. Probably what you wrote is not really for them. Or there are other reasons why they don't like it. Who cares! Just don't consult with them. If you feel you need advice on certain things, call those you know will be gentle with you. Listen to their suggestions but always remember that YOU have the last call and if what they suggest don't seem right to you, then ignore it.

10. Write, write, write. And keep on writing. The more you write the better writer you will become. It is like going to the gym. You work those muscle, man! It maybe hard at first, but as you keep doing it and keep reading other works it will get easier and easier and before you know it, words will flow out of you with such a torrent that there will be no problem at all for you to write anything you wish to write and express.

Ruti Yudovich recently released her first novel I Hate to Say Goodbye, based on her early years in Israel. She is also the author of a two-part self-teaching educational book entitled "The Joy of Hebrew." nn Additional information on her works can be found at http://www.ihatetosaygoodbye.com and FB: http://www.facebook.com/ihtsgb?ref=hl

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Native Ohioans' speaking patterns help scientists decipher famous moon landing quote

May 30, 2013 ? When Neil Armstrong took his first step on the Moon, he claimed he said, "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" -- but many listeners think he left out the "a." A team of speech scientists and psychologists from Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing and The Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus is taking a novel approach to deciphering Armstrong's quote by studying how speakers from his native central Ohio pronounce "for" and "for a."

Their results suggest that it is entirely possible that Armstrong said what he claimed, though evidence indicates that people are statistically more likely to hear "for man" instead of "for a man" on the recording.

The team will present its work at the 21st International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2013), held June 2-7 in Montreal.

Armstrong was raised in central Ohio, where there is typically a lot of blending between words such as "for" and "a." "Prior acoustic analyses of Neil Armstrong's recording have established well that if the word 'a' was spoken, it was very short and was fully blended acoustically with the preceding word," says co-presenter Laura Dilley of Michigan State University. If Armstrong actually did say "a," she continues, it sounded something like "frrr(uh)." His blending of the two words, compounded with the poor sound quality of the transmission, has made it difficult for people to corroborate his claim that the "a" is there.

Dilley and her colleagues, who include MSU linguist Melissa Baese-Berk and OSU psychologist Mark Pitt, thought they might be able to figure out what Armstrong said with a statistical analysis of the duration of the "r" sound as spoken by native central Ohioans saying "for" and "for a" in natural conversation. They used a collection of recordings of conservational speech from 40 people raised in Columbus, Ohio, near Armstrong's native town of Wapakoneta. Within this body of recordings, they found 191 cases of "for a." They matched each of these to an instance of "for" as said by the same speaker and compared the relative duration. They also examined the duration of Armstrong's "for (a") from the lunar transmission.

The researchers found a large overlap between the relative duration of the "r" sound in "for" and "for a" using the Ohio speech data. The duration of the "frrr(uh)" in Armstrong's recording was 0.127 seconds, which falls into the middle of this overlap, though it is a slightly better match for an "a"-less "for." In other words, the researchers conclude, the lunar landing quote is highly compatible with either possible interpretation, though it is probably slightly more likely to be perceived as "for" regardless of what Armstrong actually said. Dilley says there may have been a "perfect storm of conditions" for the word "a" to have been spoken but not heard.

"We've bolstered Neil Armstrong's side of the story," she continues. "We feel we've partially vindicated him. But we'll most likely never know for sure exactly what he said based on the acoustic information."

Beyond shedding light on the famous quote, the work has implications for understanding how people perceive meaning in spoken language. "Every time we listen to speech and think we understand a sentence, we are performing a miraculous task, which is to take what is actually a continuous acoustic signal, break up that signal into somewhat arbitrary parts, and map those parts to our memories of all the words that we know in the language," Dilley says. "We need only look at computer speech recognition and how it succeeds and how it largely often fails to see how very difficult that problem is."

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The dangerous aristocrats of finance | Edward Hadas - Reuters

In many ways, the financial world has changed remarkably little in the five years since the 2008 financial crisis. Yes, banks, brokers and other intermediaries are neither as profitable nor as popular as in the pre-crisis years. However, the industry is still arrogant, isolated and ridiculously lucrative. Leading financiers look more like pre-revolutionary aristocrats than normal businessmen.

Pay is the most obvious sign of this privileged social position. Consider JPMorgan, a fairly typical financial firm in terms of remuneration. Last year, the annual compensation per employee was $192,000.

That already seems high, but the measure includes the majority of employees whose pay is bunched around the $45,000 average for non-supervisory U.S. workers in finance. Assume that two-thirds of Morgan?s employees were in that group. For the rest, the people at the top and upper middle of the company, that leaves an average pretax reward of $485,000 ? more than 10 times the norm of the lower orders.

Few senior hedge fund managers, successful inter-broker dealers or other high earners in finance see themselves as seriously overpaid. They are wrong.

The rewards for financiers are excessive by three standards. First, professionals with comparable skills earn much less. Second, financiers are paid far more than is merited by their contributions to the common good. It is telling that the most richly rewarded financial activities ? trading, advanced financial engineering and sales ? are more likely to subtract than to add economic value. Finally, there is the matter of justice. Penance was in order after the industry?s foolish behaviour in the years leading up to the crisis. But instead of sackcloth and ashes, or bread and water, there are designer clothes and helicopter skiing, caviar and champagne.

The excessive pay can be interpreted as a sign of unfair or inefficient markets. It is that, but I think the deeper cause is not so much economic as sociological. Financiers have persuaded the broader society that they are modern aristocrats. Pampered lives are part of the package. They go along with an unthinking sense of entitlement and a mix of self-righteousness and self-centredness, with just a hint of condescending tolerance for limited criticism.

Of course, today?s financial aristocracy is different from traditional nobility. The contemporary titles (partner, managing director) and privileges (first-rate education, political influence) are not exactly hereditary, and long hours on the job have replaced a life of leisure. But I believe the commonalities are more significant.

Old aristocrats believed they protected social stability and dismissed radical critics as ignorant and disruptive. Similarly, most financial aristocrats are certain that the world would be much worse off without them and that their exalted position is good for everybody.

Ask an articulate trader about the social value of playing the yield curve to the detriment of clients, and the response will have the same unthinking certainty as a French count asked about the justice of the corv?e. The trader dismisses radical critics as well-intentioned but ignorant about the importance of high (and highly paid) finance.

In my view, the sociological analysis provides more insight into the industry?s condition than the more common argument about ?heads I win, tails you lose? incentives. I rarely meet financiers who would admit to being reckless or wasteful. What I observe is sublime and blind self-confidence.

Living largely with other members of their caste, they rarely have doubts. To them, more finance is always better than less and higher margins always better than lower. They welcome the development of more complicated financial products; they don?t worry much about the effect of these products on the rest of the economy.

Why has the financial aristocracy been able to hold on to so many of its privileges, despite its colossal failure in 2008? Again, look to sociology. There has been no revolution because there is no social force comparable to the rising French urban bourgeoisie, which exposed the uselessness of the old rural aristocracy, and eventually replaced them.

Right now, almost all power groups seem to be in thrall to the money men. Central bankers, who have good reason to complain, are either financiers themselves or unable to resist their pleas for special treatment. Politicians, who have even more grounds for discontent ? the majority of voters who borrow and suffer in the financiers? credit-intensive economy ? pay them court. Regulators, who should be shocked and appalled, are easily bamboozled or bought off with promises of joining the aristocracy later. Even borrowers are often grateful for their expensive loans.

Still, a revolution may come, even if the disempowered 99 percent don?t rebel. China is in a good position to play the leading role. Its trade surpluses, recycled into financial markets, help make the industry highly profitable. Whenever that money disappears, the current system could fall apart, and its leaders might finally learn something like humility.

Source: http://blogs.reuters.com/edward-hadas/2013/05/29/the-dangerous-aristocrats-of-finance/

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DOJ report shows spike in reservation crime cases

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) ? American Indian leaders who criticized the federal government for years over the way authorities handled major crimes on reservations will soon mark progress with the release of newly tracked statistics from the U.S. Justice Department.

Federal prosecutions of cases from Indian Country increased by 54 percent between fiscal years 2009 and 2012, according to a DOJ report obtained by The Associated Press.

"They've taken their responsibility much more seriously than before," said Brent Leonhard, an attorney with Umatilla tribe in Oregon.

The report scheduled for release later Thursday marks the first look at government investigations and prosecutions on tribal lands. It comes as a result of the 2010 Tribal Law and Order Act, which requires the Justice Department to publicly release such figures.

Justice officials acknowledge that their work is far from done, but they say the numbers demonstrate the government's commitment to combating violent crime on reservations where rates are higher than the national average.

The report also shows that nearly 6,000 Indian reservation cases were referred to the federal government between calendar years 2011 and 2012. Arizona, home to the nation's largest American Indian reservation, had the highest number with more than 2,000, followed by South Dakota with nearly 1,000 and Montana with more than 500.

Of the 5,985 cases referred from reservations across the country over the two years, about two-thirds led to convictions, while about one-third were declined for prosecution.

"It shows that we're walking the talk at the Department of Justice," said Tim Purdon, U.S. attorney in North Dakota.

Purdon leads a subcommittee that reports to Attorney General Eric Holder on American Indian issues. He said federal officials "want to improve public safety" and added that they are working to "remove those most dangerous predators, the most dangerous criminals from Indian Country."

The federal government and tribes have concurrent jurisdiction in crimes where the suspect and victim are both American Indian, but federal prosecutions carry much stiffer penalties. Among recent U.S. government prosecutions:

? A man was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenager he met while working as a counselor at a summer camp on the Rocky Boy's reservation in Montana. He was sentenced to more than three years in prison.

? A woman on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota was convicted of beating her 4-year-old son with a plastic clothes hanger. She was sentenced to seven years in prison.

? A man was sent to prison for 10 years for kicking the woman who was pregnant with his child on the Navajo Nation in Arizona. The unborn child died after suffering a skull fracture and other injuries.

Federal authorities have "really stepped up trying to improve criminal justice in Indian Country and ensure public safety," said Leonhard of the Umatilla Tribe's Office of Legal Counsel.

Still, nearly 2,000 cases were declined for prosecution, a matter for which the DOJ has been criticized in the past.

"There are cases that are legitimately declined, and that is appropriate and expected," said Leonhard.

The DOJ's report shows that the matters declined in 2011 and 2012 were mostly because of insufficient evidence. Rates for individual states varied widely ? from Montana, where 52 percent of cases were turned down, to Arizona, where 20 percent were declined over the two years.

Federal prosecutors, however, don't measure their performance in Indian Country by declination statistics. Instead, they point to the relationships they've built with tribal police, investigators, prosecutors and community members.

Federal prosecutors also have ventured out to Indian Country more often to discuss ways to combat crime, training police officers to become federally certified and bringing on state-bar certified tribal prosecutors as special assistant U.S. attorneys.

"If anything we get way too caught up in looking at the numbers," said Patrick Schneider, tribal liaison for the U.S. attorney's office in Arizona. "Declinations is not a really good number to look at to find out whether we're doing a good job or not."

Grant Walker, tribal prosecutor on the Standing Rock Reservation in North and South Dakota since 2009, said he doesn't put a lot of stock into declination rates because he talks to federal prosecutors on a regular basis.

The DOJ's declination rate includes cases referred to and prosecuted in tribal courts, where sentences can go beyond the traditional maximum penalty of one year in jail if certain provisions are met under federal law.

"Declinations aren't really a big deal anymore to us because we know what the case is, and if the federal government declines we've already had a chance to prosecute that case too," Walker said. "So it's not like the ball is hidden, and the prosecution's office doesn't know about it."

Purdon cited a drug trafficking case on the Standing Rock Reservation dubbed "Operation Prairie Thunder," in which 12 people were indicted in federal and five in Standing Rock tribal court. Purdon said that while the tribal cases were subtracted from their prosecution record, it showed unprecedented cooperation and could lead to long-term success.

Former Standing Rock Tribal Judge Bill Zuger, who stepped down last year after six years on the bench, said that case was the product of federal prosecutors showing interest and building up trust with tribal law enforcement. Until recently, Zuger said he never had seen a U.S. attorney on the reservation.

"The people down there, anecdotally, feel that things are getting better," Zuger said. "Keep in mind it took 125 years to screw it up. It takes a while to fix it. It's going to take more than four or five years to really straighten out the mess."

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Kolpack reported from Fargo, N.D.

Associated Press

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Can Humans Really Feel Hot and Cold?

If you compare the feeling of touching a piece of metal versus a piece of paper, the metal will always seem cooler, even if both objects are actually the same temperature. So what gives? It turns out that what we're really feeling as cold when we touch something is actually an object's increased ability to conduct thermal energy away from our skin.

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Hello Moto X

Surprising no one, Motorola chief Dennis Woodside revealed at D11 that Motorola is tooling a new flagship Android device. This device, cleverly named Moto X, will be widely distributed and most likely the device that slipped through the FCC’s test labs last week. The phone is going to be made, at least in part, in the United States. Surprise surprise. Look for the Moto X along with several other high-end Android phones this fall. As Ryan detailed yesterday, Woodside revealed little else about the Moto X at his talk yesterday. He mentioned that the phone will be “contextually aware” meaning that the phone will know when it’s inside a pocket and when it’s taken out, when it’s inside a car and when it’s on a desk. Clever but hopefully Motorola has more tricks in the works too. The Android scene is expecting big things from Motorola. The American company is the only one most feel can stand up to the boring industrial machine that Samsung is quickly turning becoming. HTC is dying, LG doesn’t support its phones, and Google still can’t figure out how to get people its phones. What the Android world needs is a phone as exciting as the original RAZR with the magic of a StarTAC. Motorola’s upcoming phone has been playing well on fansites and blogs for weeks now. The phone is hyped on the back of blue-sky expectations. Android fans want it to be something special. Motorola has had its share of Android hits. The Droid line kicked the Android movement into high-gear and Motorola was responsible for the majority of Verizon’s early Android hits. The rebirth of the RAZR brought big screens and big battery’s to Android. Yet with these successes, Motorola never achieved the same sort of success as Samsung. Hopefully with Google’s tutelage, the Moto X and its stable mates, will be the big hit Motorola has yet to see. Hopefully Motorola and Google took notes on Samsung’s single brand strategy and will only release a small product line of quality devices. Hopefully Motorola won’t over advertise that this phone will be made in the USA. It’s clear that high-tech manufacturing is coming back to the United States. For the longest time, Motorola, and Apple for that matter, built their wares in U.S. factories. Cheap labor and improved supply chain management drove these companies overseas. Motorola will need to carefully walk the

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'Low sodium diet' key to old age for stars: New observations create major headache for stellar theories

May 29, 2013 ? Astronomers expect that stars like the Sun will blow off much of their atmospheres into space near the ends of their lives. But new observations of a huge star cluster made using ESO's Very Large Telescope have shown -- against all expectations -- that a majority of the stars studied simply did not get to this stage in their lives at all. The international team found that the amount of sodium in the stars was a very strong predictor of how they ended their lives.

The way in which stars evolve and end their lives was for many years considered to be well understood. Detailed computer models predicted that stars of a similar mass to the Sun would have a period towards the ends of their lives -- called the asymptotic giant branch, or AGB [1] -- when they undergo a final burst of nuclear burning and puff off a lot of their mass in the form of gas and dust.

This expelled material [2] goes on to form the next generations of stars and this cycle of mass loss and rebirth is vital to explain the evolving chemistry of the Universe. This process is also what provides the material required for the formation of planets -- and indeed even the ingredients for organic life.

But when Australian stellar theory expert Simon Campbell of the Monash University Centre for Astrophysics, Melbourne, scoured old papers he found tantalising suggestions that some stars may somehow not follow the rules and might skip the AGB phase entirely. He takes up the story:

"For a stellar modelling scientist this suggestion was crazy! All stars go through the AGB phase according to our models. I double-checked all the old studies but found that this had not been properly investigated. I decided to investigate myself, despite having little observational experience."

Campbell and his team used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to very carefully study the light coming from stars in the globular star cluster NGC 6752 in the southern constellation of Pavo (The Peacock). This vast ball of ancient stars contains both a first generation of stars and a second that formed somewhat later [3]. The two generations can be distinguished by the amount of sodium they contain -- something that the very high-quality VLT data can be used to measure.

"FLAMES, the multi-object high-resolution spectrograph on the VLT, was the only instrument that could allow us to get really high-quality data for 130 stars at a time. And it allowed us to observe a large part of the globular cluster in one go," adds Campbell.

The results were a surprise -- all of the AGB stars in the study were first generation stars with low levels of sodium and none of the higher-sodium second generation stars had become AGB stars at all. As many as 70% of the stars were not undergoing the final nuclear burning and mass-loss phase [4] [5].

"It seems stars need to have a low-sodium "diet" to reach the AGB phase in their old age. This observation is important for several reasons. These stars are the brightest stars in globular clusters -- so there will be 70% fewer of the brightest stars than theory predicts. It also means our computer models of stars are incomplete and must be fixed!" concludes Campbell.

The team expects that similar results will be found for other star clusters and further observations are planned.

Notes:

[1] AGB stars get their odd name because of their position on the Hertzsprung Russell diagram, a plot of the brightnesses of stars against their colours.

[2] For a short period of time this ejected material is lit up by the strong ultraviolet radiation from the star and creates a planetary nebula.

[3] Although the stars in a globular cluster all formed at about the same time, it is now well established that these systems are not as simple as they once thought to be. They usually contain two or more populations of stars with different amounts of light chemical elements such as carbon, nitrogen and -- crucially for this new study -- sodium.

[4] It is thought that stars which skip the AGB phase will evolve directly into helium white dwarf stars and gradually cool down over many billions of years.

[5] It is not thought that the sodium itself is the cause of the different behaviour, but must be strongly linked to the underlying cause -- which remains mysterious.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/bAxCUTkp1qM/130529133246.htm

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Obama, China's Xi to discuss cyber security in June meeting

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will discuss cyber security with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in California next week, as Washington becomes increasingly worried about Chinese hacking of U.S. military networks.

"Cyber security is a key priority of this administration. It is a key concern that we have," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Air Force One as Obama flew to New Jersey.

"It is an issue that we raise at every level in our meetings with our Chinese counterparts, and I'm sure it will be a topic of discussion when the president meets with President Xi in California in early June," he said.

The Pentagon underscored its concerns in a report to Congress earlier this month, accusing China of using cyber espionage to modernize its military. It said the U.S. government has been the target of hacking that appeared to be "attributable directly to the Chinese government and military."

But Pentagon spokesman George Little and other defense officials downplayed as outdated and overstated a report in Tuesday's Washington Post, which cited a Defense Science Board (DSB) report as saying that Chinese hackers have gained access to designs of more than two dozen major U.S. weapons systems.

The newspaper said the compromised U.S. designs included those for combat aircraft and ships, as well as missile defenses vital for Europe, Asia and the Gulf. But Little said it was wrong to suggest that U.S. capabilities had been eroded.

"We maintain full confidence in our weapons platforms," Little said in a statement. "Suggestions that cyber intrusions have somehow led to the erosion of our capabilities or technological edge are incorrect."

Little said the department was taking steps to strengthen the military's cyber capabilities, improve security of government networks and get more insight into threats faced by U.S. defense companies.

A Defense Department spokesman said some findings of the Defense Science Board report were dated because much of its research was completed two years ago, but it had highlighted some security issues that needed attention.

"Despite significant gains to better posture the department against cyber threats, the DSB report outlines several areas of concern that we will address promptly to ensure the viability of our cyber capabilities and defenses," the spokesman said.

"The findings of the DSB report make it clear that much work remains as we establish the right balance of integrated cyber defenses, capabilities and forces."

Among the weapons listed as compromised were the advanced Patriot missile system, the Navy's Aegis ballistic missile defense systems, the F/A-18 fighter jet, the V-22 Osprey, the Black Hawk helicopter and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

The report did not specify the extent or time of the cyber-thefts or indicate if they involved computer networks of the U.S. government, contractors or subcontractors.

But the espionage would give China knowledge that could be exploited in a conflict, such as the ability to knock out communications and corrupting data, the Post said. It also could speed China's development of its defense technology.

China dismissed as groundless the Pentagon's report to Congress earlier this month.

China also dismissed as without foundation a February report by the U.S. computer security company Mandiant, which said a secretive Chinese military unit was probably behind a series of hacking attacks targeting the United States that had stolen data from 100 companies.

AUSTRALIAN "SECURITY BLUNDER"

In Australia, a news report by Australia's ABC Television said hackers linked to China stole the floor plans of a A$630 million headquarters for the Australia Security Intelligence Organization, the country's domestic spy agency.

The attack through the computers of a construction contractor exposed not only building layouts, but also the location of communication and computer networks, it said.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei, asked about the report, said China disapproved of hacking.

"China pays high attention to the cyber security issue and is firmly opposed to all forms of hacker attacks," Hong said at a daily briefing. "Since it is very difficult to find out the origin of hacker attacks, it is very difficult to find out who carried out such attacks."

"I don't know what the evidence is for media to make such kinds of reports," Hong added.

Repeating China's position that every country is susceptible to cyber attacks, Hong said nations should make joint efforts toward a secure and open Internet.

The building is to be part of an electronic intelligence gathering network that includes the United States and Britain. Its construction has been plagued by delays and cost over-runs, with some builders blaming late design changes on cyber attacks.

The influential Greens party said the hacking was a "security blunder of epic proportions" and called for an inquiry, but the government did not confirm the breach.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the reports were "inaccurate", but declined to say how.

Despite being one of Beijing's major trade partners, Australia is seen by China as the southern fulcrum of a U.S. military pivot to the Asia-Pacific. In 2011, it agreed to host thousands of U.S. Marines in near-permanent rotation.

(Reporting by Jeff Mason, Andrea Shalal-Esa, and Bill Trott in Washington,; Terril Yue Jones in Beijing; and Rob Taylor in Canberra; Editing by Alistair Bell and Philip Barbara)

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Beer-pouring robot programmed to anticipate human actions

May 28, 2013 ? A robot in Cornell's Personal Robotics Lab has learned to foresee human action in order to step in and offer a helping hand, or more accurately, roll in and offer a helping claw.

Understanding when and where to pour a beer or knowing when to offer assistance opening a refrigerator door can be difficult for a robot because of the many variables it encounters while assessing the situation. A team from Cornell has created a solution.

Gazing intently with a Microsoft Kinect 3-D camera and using a database of 3D videos, the Cornell robot identifies the activities it sees, considers what uses are possible with the objects in the scene and determines how those uses fit with the activities. It then generates a set of possible continuations into the future -- such as eating, drinking, cleaning, putting away -- and finally chooses the most probable. As the action continues, the robot constantly updates and refines its predictions.

"We extract the general principles of how people behave," said Ashutosh Saxena, Cornell professor of computer science and co-author of a new study tied to the research. "Drinking coffee is a big activity, but there are several parts to it." The robot builds a "vocabulary" of such small parts that it can put together in various ways to recognize a variety of big activities, he explained.

Saxena will join Cornell graduate student Hema S. Koppula as they present their research at the International Conference of Machine Learning, June 18-21 in Atlanta, and the Robotics: Science and Systems conference June 24-28 in Berlin, Germany.

In tests, the robot made correct predictions 82 percent of the time when looking one second into the future, 71 percent correct for three seconds and 57 percent correct for 10 seconds.

"Even though humans are predictable, they are only predictable part of the time," Saxena said. "The future would be to figure out how the robot plans its action. Right now we are almost hard-coding the responses, but there should be a way for the robot to learn how to respond."

The research was supported by the U.S. Army Research Office, the Alfred E. Sloan Foundation and Microsoft.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Verizon Galaxy S 4 to support AWS-based LTE through software update

While we already knew that Verizon slipped support for AWS-based LTE into its edition of the Galaxy S 4, it didn't say how those extra frequencies would come alive. The carrier's Mike Haberman has just cleared the air(waves): he tells Bloomberg that Samsung's flagship will get a software update to support AWS bands. Haberman hasn't said when the patch will arrive, although it's contingent on the higher-capacity 4G network rolling out in the next few months. The GS4 isn't likely to be alone, whatever the timing. The Nokia Lumia 928 also supports AWS, and we've reached out to learn if and when the higher-tiered Windows Phone will get an upgrade to reach its full potential.

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Reviewed: Victoria Fu at Flashpoint Gallery - Arts Desk

Victoria Fu, a San Diego-based video artist, is one of two artists currently showing in D.C. whose works explore the odd disjointedness and layering seen in today?s ubiquitous electronic devices. But unlike Matthew Mann, whose Hamiltonian Gallery show draws upon a wide range of painterly influences dating back centuries, Fu?s video works pay homage to the non-narrative, experimental filmmaking of Stan Brakhage.

In "Lorem ipsum I" and "Lorem ipsum II," Fu documents, in near-silence, a cryptic young woman in a pleasant-looking house and garden whose face is usually tantalizingly out of reach. (?Lorem ipsum? refers to the dummy text used to show font sizes and styles in graphic-design layouts.)

Some of her box-within-box video tricks are drawn straight from the 24 and CSI: Miami bag of tricks, though the grainy, watery quality of the film suggests Super-8 more than high-def, high-concept television. Fu?s careful layering of image upon image offers a convincing Windows-style look, and the works? visual movements suggest the experience of multitasking.

At one point, Fu uses layered multiple exposures to suggest an Escheresque infinite staircase. But the most unexpectedly satisfying portions of the nearly 12- and six-minute loops are the interstitial color fields which, whether intentionally or by accident, provide a range of dreamy, undulating hues.

On view to June 22 at Flashpoint Gallery, 916 G St NW. (202) 315-1305. Tuesdays to Saturdays noon to 6 p.m.

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Ugly plants worse for allergy patients

May 28, 2013 ? As allergy season continues for Middle Tennessee and much of the nation, a largely unknown adage rings true: the uglier a flower or weed, the more allergy-inducing its pollen tends to be.

Ragweed, mugwort, plantain and pigweed have more than just their unappealing appearance in common -- they're some of the worst offenders to allergy sufferers, said Robert Valet, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine and an allergist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Asthma, Sinus and Allergy Program (ASAP) clinic.

Ragweed can produce up to 1 billion pollen grains per plant throughout a pollen season, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Of those allergic to pollen-producing plants, 75 percent are allergic to ragweed.

"The relationship between allergy-causing pollens and their flowers is something like a beauty pageant," Valet said. "A general rule of thumb is that flowers that smell or look pretty attract insect pollenators, so they are not generally important allergens, because their pollen is not airborne. However, those that are very ugly or plain are meant to disperse pollen in the wind, which is the route most important for allergy."

Valet says allergy season -- divided into spring, summer and fall -- runs from March to October and doesn't end until the first hard frost.

Early spring is typically tree season, with common tree allergens including oak, maple, walnut, pecan and hickory. Valet notes that many people are concerned about fragrant and flowering trees like the Bradford pear and Crabapple, but they are not typically allergens as they rely on insects instead of the wind to carry their pollen.

In late spring and early summer, grasses start to pick up their pollen production. Of special note to allergy sufferers are Northern grasses including Timothy-grass, ryegrass and Kentucky bluegrass, and Southern grasses including Bermuda grass and Johnson grass.

In late summer and fall, the weeds make their presence known. Common weed allergens include ragweed, lamb's quarter, pigweed, English plantain and mugwort.

This year the pollen count is proving to be high in Nashville, according to Valet.

"The pollen count may change from day to day, due to an event like rain -- which decreases the pollen in the air temporarily -- but once allergy season is underway, anything between a moderate and very high pollen count will aggravate allergy sufferers," Valet said. "This season started later than last year's, but since it has begun, the pollen counts have been high."

Valet recommends that people with pollen allergies first try over-the-counter allergy medications before talking with their doctor about prescription medications and nose sprays.

"For people with known pollen allergies, everyday solutions can include taking an antihistamine before doing yard work and showering once back inside, and choosing the air conditioner over an open window when cooling their home," Valet said.

If these measures do not relieve the symptoms, he suggests going to see an allergist to be tested for specific allergies and treated accordingly, with options including counseling about allergen avoidance, medications and allergy shots.

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Gunmen kill soldiers on Lebanese military checkpoint near Syrian border: report

Gunmen fired on a Lebanese government checkpoint near the Syrian border on Tuesday, killing three soldiers, the state-run National News Agency said. The attack comes amid escalating tensions in Lebanon linked to Syria?s conflict, in which rival Lebanese groups have taken sides.

The fighting in the volatile Lebanon-Syria border region also comes just hours after the European Union decided not to extend an arms embargo on Syria, enabling member states to send weapons to help Syria?s outgunned rebels and step up the pressure on the government of President Bashar Assad to seek a negotiated settlement to the 26-month-old conflict.

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Lebanon?s official news service said the pre-dawn shooting was at a roadblock near the predominantly Sunni town of Arsal, in hills about 12 kilometres (seven miles) from the border. The army said in a statement it?s investigating the attack and its troops have launched a massive search for the gunmen.

The Lebanese are divided over Syria?s civil war, with Shiite militant group Hezbollah fighting alongside Assad?s troops while large numbers of Sunnis back the opposition. Clashes between factions backing the opposing sides in the Syrian conflict have been raging in Lebanon?s northern city of Tripoli for days, raising fears that the Syrian violence spilling over into Lebanon will re-ignite the sectarian war that devastated the country before it ended in 1990.

In Brussels, EU member states decided late Monday to allow an arms embargo on Syria expire on Saturday. While none of the block?s 27 members have any immediate plans to send arms to the rebels, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the decision ?sends a very strong message from Europe to the Assad regime.?

The move is aimed at forcing Damascus to participate in good faith at the prospective ?Geneva II? talks next month. The meeting is part of a joint U.S.-Russia initiative.

Hague spoke after an all-day meeting of foreign ministers Monday that laid bare EU hesitation on feeding arms into a civil war that has spread to neighbouring countries and threatens to become a regional war if the opposing sides ? Assad?s regime and the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition ? remain unwilling to compromise.

Also on Monday, Sen. John McCain, a proponent of arming Syrian rebels and a fierce critic of Obama administration policy in Syria, crossed into Syrian territory on Monday to meet with anti-government fighters.

Washington and many of its European allies have been reluctant to provide rebels with more sophisticated weapons for fear they might end up in the hands of the radical Islamic factions, including the al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, a group that has been the most effective fighting force on the opposition side.

Syrian crisis began in March 2011 as peaceful protests against Assad, whose family has ruled the country for more than 40 years. The uprising turned into a civil war after some opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent.

More than 70,000 people have been killed and more than five million Syrians fled their homes, seeking shelter in neighbouring countries or in other parts of Syria.

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Colombia, FARC rebels make peace progress with land deal

The Colombian government and FARC peace negotiators announced an agreement on land reform this weekend, just days before the rebel group's 49th anniversary. Land issues are at the root of the conflict.

By Sibylla Brodzinsky,?Correspondent / May 28, 2013

Humberto de la Calle (r.) head of Colombia's government peace negotiation team, speaks to reporters during the peace talks with members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Havana, Cuba, Sunday.

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Six months after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government first sat down to try and negotiate an end to the country's half-century-long conflict, many citizens felt their hopes deflate. The talks were beginning to appear to be just another failed attempt at peace, and critics' voices were growing louder.

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Some Colombians gushed with enthusiasm and hyperbole at the news. "What just happened in Havana is the most important thing that has happened in the last 100 years in the country," said Senator Armando Benedetti, a member of the government coalition. ?"The issue of land is 60 percent of a peace agreement."

But critics continued to question the peace process. "Terrorist Farc kills our soldiers and policemen and the Santos government rewards them with a land agreement," tweeted former president Alvaro Uribe, a fierce critic of President Juan Manuel Santos. In another tweet he wrote: "It's unacceptable that the Santos government negotiate the model of the Colombian countryside with narco-terrorists."

Lead government negotiator Humberto de la Calle said criticism was welcome. "We know that these negotiations generate controversy and that's fine," he said. "But we ask for the debate to be sensible."

Many victims of the FARC remain skeptical that a peace deal is possible. "I doubt it. This is the same as the last time there were negotiations" which ended in 2002, says Sandra S?nchez, who was displaced by guerrillas in 2007 from her home in Vichada province after her son and daughter deserted from the rebel ranks. "They talk and talk and then the negotiations break off and we?re left with more war."

Doubts are understandable ? The FARC marked their anniversary by torching two trucks on a highway in the southern Cauca province ? and there are still many thorny issues to work out before a peace deal is a sure thing. But there may be reason for cautious hope, too: Never before has the FARC and government come so far on agreeing on anything, much less a very root cause of the conflict.?

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PFT: Flacco likes Ravens' continuity on O-line

With coach Rob Chudzinski and offensive coordinator Norv Turner installing a new system in Cleveland, Browns receiver Josh Gordon is excited.

Gordon, a speedy receiver who averaged 16.1 yards a catch as a rookie, says he expects to make even more big plays in his second season because the Browns? offense will be perfectly suited for his talents.

?Defenses will be shocked to say the least with how much we?re running down field,? Gordon told the Akron Beacon Journal. ?I?ve never ran this much as a wide receiver ever in my life, and that?s a good thing. And not just me, everyone from the slot guys to running backs, everyone?s got passing plays in the system.?

Last year Gordon didn?t have much time to get ready for the NFL after arriving in July in the supplemental draft, but he still managed to play in all 16 games, starting 13, and catch 50 passes while leading the Browns with 805 receiving yards and five touchdown catches. This year, being with the team from Day One and participating in Organized Team Activities, Gordon believes he?s going to be even better.

?You?re a head up on the game,? he said. ?For guys, veterans and rookies, to have all this leading up until [the fall], I was way behind the 8-ball coming into last year. Now it?s a huge advantage for me to learn the offense, get in shape, get in more of a rhythm with whatever you?re doing out there, so you don?t feel as stressed or as new to everything. It?s definitely slowed down a lot.?

Last year, Gordon had a good year despite missing most of the offseason and playing in a bad offense that wasn?t well suited to his skills. This year, Gordon has every reason to believe he?ll be even better.

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10 Things to Know for Tuesday

George Merenick, commander of Veteran?s of Foreign Wars Post 2010 Freeland, salutes as the National Anthem is being sung during a Memorial Day ceremony on Monday, May 27, 2013, in Freeland near Hazleton, Pa. (AP Photo/Hazleton Standard-Speaker, Ellen F. O'Connell)

The fire-damaged exterior of Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship is seen while docked in Freeport, Grand Bahama island, Monday, May 27, 2013. Royal Caribbean said the fire occurred early Monday while on route from Baltimore to the Bahamas on the mooring area of deck 3 and was quickly extinguished. All 2,224 guests and 796 crew were safe and accounted for. (AP Photo/The Freeport News, Jenneva Russell)

This photo released by the Government of Neuquen, Monday, May 27, 2013, shows a plume of ash and smoke rise from the Copahue volcano, as seen from Caviahue, in the Argentine province of Neuquen, Friday, May 24, 2013. Chile has issued a red alert for the Copahue volcano on the border with Argentina that has become increasingly active. The nearly 10,000-foot (2,965-meter) volcano sits in the Andes cordillera, straddling the border with Argentina's Neuquen province. (AP Photo/Government of Neuquen, Tony Huglich)

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday:

1. EU LIFTS ARMS EMBARGO

The decision ramps up the possibility of weapons shipments to the Syrian rebels and "sends a very strong message from Europe to the Assad regime," says Britain's foreign secretary.

2. PRESIDENT MAKES MEMORIAL DAY APPEAL

"Let us not forget as we gather here today that our nation is still at war," Obama says at Arlington as combat in Afghanistan approaches 12 years.

3. FIRE BREAKS OUT ON CRUISE SHIP

Authorities are working to find the cause of a blaze that forced the cancellation of a Royal Caribbean voyage.

4. WHERE ALL EYES ARE WATCHING A VOLCANO

Officials issue a red alert for the increasingly active Copahue volcano bordering Chile and Argentina and order about 3,000 people to evacuate.

5. OBAMA GOING BACK TO JERSEY SHORE

With Christie at his side, the president will take a post-Hurricane Sandy tour of the coastline on Tuesday.

6. GE PLACES A BIG BET ON FRACKING

The corporate giant is investing billions in the new boom in oil and gas drilling.

7. SECURITY DETERIORATING IN IRAQ

The latest sign of disorder: A wave of car bombings that kills dozens in Baghdad.

8. WHAT'S SURPRISING OBESITY RESEARCHERS

A study suggests that obese mothers who undergo weight-loss surgery give birth to slimmer offspring less prone to diabetes or heart disease.

9. POT AND KIDS: A NEW DANGER

Medical marijuana items include yummy-looking gummy candies, cookies and other treats that may entice and sicken young children.

10. WHO SET A RECORD DURING THE WEEKEND

U.S. moviegoers shelled out $316 million, the most money ever left at the box office during the Memorial Day holiday. The big attraction: "Fast & Furious 6."

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