Monday, October 31, 2011

Climate scientist sparks protest

MINNEAPOLIS ? The annual meeting of the Geological Society of America isn't the type of affair one might associate with outrage among the citizenry ? or anyone, really.

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At the recent four-day meeting, scientists of all ages, nationalities and sartorial sensibilities sat in darkened conference rooms, laughed at bewildering jokes, presented research and bonded in the permanent, interminable line at the single place in the airport-sized convention center that sold coffee.

Save for some particularly nerdy jokes shouted at a local pub, the people of Minneapolis might never have noticed the 6,000 or so scientists suddenly in their midst.

Yet on the final day of the conference, a knot of protestors gathered outside the convention center, chanting and pumping signs in the air. Only nine protestors, but still ? what had sparked their ire? [ 10 Historically Significant Political Protests ]

One man. In fact, one Michael E. Mann, the protestors said, as a cool afternoon drizzle wilted signs that read, "Erik the Red and thousands of Vikings can't be wrong," and "What happened to the medieval warming period?"

Warming history
The signs were taped to hockey sticks ? mostly child-sized hockey sticks ? a symbol of grand significance among those who dispute that anthropogenic climate change is real, and one that, given the locale, is likely plentiful.

The signs referenced a time about 800 to 1,000 years ago when, scientific research indicates, a combination of natural forces appear to have brought on a period of planetary warmth comparable to the toasty mid-20th century, but cooler than global temperatures today. Evidence of the warm period has become a rallying point for those who don't think human activity is affecting the global climate.

"We heard he was coming, and we are interested in scientific integrity," said Kim Crockett, an elegantly dressed woman with a silvery bob hairstyle who was in charge of the protest. "We feel he has not practiced that with his hockey stick graph."

What is now known as the hockey stick graph was published in a 1999 paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, and represents temperature in the Northern Hemisphere between the years 1000 and 2000 A.D. The line is vaguely flat until the early 20th century, when it begins a precipitous climb, similar to the shape of a hockey stick.

Mann, a climate researcher and director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center, was one of the lead authors of that paper. The overall findings ? that the rapidly increasing temperatures glimpsed in the latter half of the 20th century are anomalous and historically significant ? have been backed up again and again by subsequent research.

Mann was also one of the scientists involved in the now infamous "Climategate" incident, which involved stolen emails that allegedly, according to some climate change skeptics, revealed a degree of data fiddling. Several independent investigations found no scientific malfeasance was afoot.

Science in public
While the protestors walked in a tight circle on a traffic median, Mann was inside the convention center delivering a talk entitled, "Climate Scientists in the Public Arena: Who's Got Our Backs?"

Several hours earlier, long before the protestors appeared, Mann sat down with a cup of coffee in the sundrenched lobby of a nearby hotel to offer a brief preview of his talk. Mann said he'd been giving some version of it for the last couple of years.

"I've been asked to, and frankly, I think it's incumbent upon me to speak out ? first of all about the strength of the underlying science, and the efforts to attack the messenger because the message is inconvenient," Mann said. [Read: Climate Change Debunked? Not So Fast ]

When asked why he thinks the attacks have persisted, and if there was a precedent for the present embattled position of climate scientists, Mann looked to the not-so-distant past.

"I think we're seeing in the area of climate change what we saw with tobacco, with pharmaceuticals, any area of science where there are powerful, vested interests who may feel threatened by the findings of science," Mann said. "And in the past we have seen those special interests do all they can to manufacture false controversy and to try to distort the public discourse ? to confuse the public about the reality of these problems."

Mann said the reality of the problem is clear.

In fact, just recently a physicist and skeptic of global warming, Richard Muller, reportedly now agrees the phenomenon is real. His conclusion comes after two years of study to figure out if climate scientists were wrong, according to an Associated Press article.

"To debate whether or not humans are warming the planet is, frankly, silly," he said. "No serious scientist will try to argue that with a straight face in front of fellow scientists. To argue how much future warming we might expect, depending on future fossil fuel burning, there are some uncertainties there," Mann said.

Some of the biggest uncertainties that climate scientists have uncovered in recent years, Mann said, are in the polar regions, where the speed and magnitude of the changes have been unprecedented.

Arctic sea ice has disappeared faster than many models predicted; the ice sheets, glaciers and ice shelves in Antarctica and Greenland appear to be at the mercy of forces scientists don't entirely understand.

"There's reason to believe there are processes that are not represented in the models that have caused us to be overly conservative in the projections we've made," Mann said.

In the end, he said, how global climate change will manifest itself isn't well defined. There's a wide spread of possible outcomes, including more extreme weather in some areas.

"It may be that the upper-end models are right, and it may be that the lower-end models are right. We typically go with the middle," Mann said, referring to a spectrum of warming scenarios predicted from computer models. "But what if one of these extremes is right?"

Mann said that means it's important for humans to take decisive action to control the forces that drive climate change, as a kind of insurance policy for the planet against future catastrophe.

"The worst-case scenarios may be unlikely, but they're not negligibly unlikely, and we have to take measures to hedge against the possibility that the changes will be at the upper end of the distribution," Mann said. "So we could be having that worthy discussion about real uncertainty, and how it translates into risk assessment and vulnerability, but instead we're still stuck ? at least in the public discourse ? in this silly debate about the reality of the problem."

Signs of the time
That afternoon, back at the convention center, as Mann delivered his talk, scientists milled around in the main entryway, while the protestors marched in a circle.

One young scientist in a T-shirt stopped short, looking confused, and asked, in heavily accented English, "What is this about? Are they against us?"

Scientists took pictures of the protestors, while the protestors took pictures of themselves.

Mostly everyone smiled puzzled smiles, or shook their heads, and some stopped to talk to the marchers, who happily obliged.

"The main objection is that Michael Mann created the hockey stick chart, which is kind of the basis for the global warming theory," said a mustachioed and bearded protestor."We don't believe in the theory of global warming, in general ? anthropogenic global warming," he said.

Protest leader Crockett spoke up.

"Even if you grant the theory of anthropogenic global warming, I reject the so-called solutions that people are proposing, because I think that they are immoral," she said. "If you took the money that people are talking about, and applied it to other significant human suffering throughout the world, it would be much, much better spent ? things like mosquito nets to stop malaria."

She also pointed to programs in Minnesota designed to make roads more user-friendly for pedestrians, cyclists, the elderly, and public transportation (called Complete Streets), and legislation that requires 25 percent of the state's energy come from renewable sources by the year 2025 (Renewable Portfolio Standards), both of which were signed into law by former governor Tim Pawlenty. "They're a very bad idea," she said.

As for Mann ? they'd come out just for him?

"It's a great opportunity to just welcome him to Minnesota, and say, 'We're paying attention,'" she said.

Added the bearded protestor, "We're not all drinking the Kool-Aid."

You can follow staff writer Andrea Mustain on Twitter: @andreamustain. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter@livescienceand on Facebook.

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Kan. officials give update on fatal grain accident

A Kansas State Trooper walks from his vehicle at the Bartlett Grain Co. elevator in Atchison, Kan., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. The explosion injured at least two people. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

A Kansas State Trooper walks from his vehicle at the Bartlett Grain Co. elevator in Atchison, Kan., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. The explosion injured at least two people. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

A Kansas State Trooper stands his post near the Bartlett Grain Co. elevator in Atchison, Kan., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. An explosion at the grain elevator injured at least two people. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Atchison city manager Trey Cocking talks with reporters near the Bartlett Grain Co. elevator in Atchison, Kan., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. An explosion at the grain elevator injured at least two people. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Officials meet near the Bartlett Grain Co. elevator in Atchison, Kan., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. An explosion at the grain elevator injured at least two people. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Smoke leaks from the top of the Bartlett Grain Co. elevator in Atchison, Kan., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. An explosion at the grain elevator injured at least two people. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) ? Officials in the northeast Kansas town of Atchison are preparing to update the media on a grain elevator explosion that killed at least three workers.

With smoke continuing to billow from the top of the grain elevator Sunday morning, police were keeping people at least a quarter-mile away from the facility. City Manager Trey Cocking was scheduled to give a briefing to the media at 8:30 a.m. CDT at the entrance of the site.

Besides the three workers confirmed dead, three other people were reported missing following the Saturday night explosion that shot a fireball so high it could be seen in neighboring Missouri. Two victims were admitted to the hospital with severe burns, but it wasn't immediately clear if they were among the dead.

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Somali militants post tape of 'US suicide bomber' (AP)

MOGADISHU, Somalia ? An al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group on Sunday posted a tape allegedly made by an American citizen who blew himself up during an attack on an African Union base in Somalia's capital that left at least 10 people dead.

The young man, who would be at least the fourth American to become a suicide bomber in Somalia, urges other young people not to "just chill all day" and instead fight nonbelievers around the world.

The website Somalimemo.net, often used by the al-Shabab militia, said Somali-American bomber Abdisalan Taqabalahullaah had emigrated to the U.S. when he was 2 years old.

It was not possible to verify the claims and the U.S. Embassy was not able to comment. U.S. authorities estimate that at least 20 American passport holders have joined the insurgents in Somalia. At least three of them became suicide bombers.

The young man had an American accent and mixed Muslim terminology with American slang as he urged Muslims to carry out attacks against non-Muslims around the world.

"My brothers and sisters, do jihad in America, do jihad in Canada, do jihad in England, anywhere in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, in China, in Australia," the voice said. "Anywhere you find (unbelievers), fight them and be firm against them.

"Today jihad is what is most important thing for the Muslim ummah," he said, using a word for the Islamic community. "It is not important that you, you know, you you become a doctor or you become, you know, uh, some sort of engineer."

"We have to believe in Allah and die as Muslims ... Brainstorm," the youth said. "Don't, don't just sit around and, you know, be, be be a couch potato and you know, you know, just like, you know, just chill all day, you know. It doesn't, it doesn't, it will not benefit you, it will not benefit yourself, or the Muslims."

On Saturday, two suicide bombers blew themselves up in an attack on an African Union base that killed at least 10 people. The AU has not released official casualty figures but al-Shabab says dozens died.

About 9,000 AU peacekeepers supporting Somali government troops have almost pushed al-Shabab from the capital of Mogadishu. Earlier this month, Kenya opened a second front, sending hundreds of soldiers across the border into southern Somalia.

The insurgency is outgunned by both forces and has been weakened by a famine in its strongholds. But it still maintains the ability to carry off spectacular attacks, like a truck bomb that killed more than 100 people earlier this month, or Saturday's two-hour attack on the AU base.

Somalia has not had a functioning government in more than 20 years.

___

Houreld contributed to this report from Nairobi, Kenya.

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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Samsung Galaxy Note review

Remember the display on your first mobile phone? If you've been chatting on the go for as long as we have, it was probably barely big enough to fit a complete telephone number -- let alone a contact name or text message. And your first smartphone? Even displaying scaled-down, WAP versions of web pages was asking a lot. Now, those mobile devices we couldn't live without have screens that are much, much larger. Sometimes, though, we secretly wish they were even bigger still.

Samsung's new GT-N7000 Galaxy Note is the handset those dreams are made of -- if you happen to share that dream about obnoxiously large smartphones, that is. It's as thin as a Galaxy S II, lightning fast and its 5.3-inch HD Super AMOLED display is as gorgeous as it is enormous; the 1280 x 800 pixels you once could only get with a full-size laptop (or in the Galaxy Tab 10.1) can now slide comfortably into your front pocket. Its jumbo display makes it the perfect candidate for a notepad replacement and, with the included S Pen stylus, you'll have no problem jotting notes on the fly, marking up screenshots or signing documents electronically. But, is that massive display too much of a good thing? You'll need to jump past the break to find out.

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Top Cain aide has checkered past

Presidental candidate Herman Cain speaks during the Washington County Republican Committee's annual Lincoln Day Dinner on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in Springdale, Ark. (AP Photo/Beth Hall)

Presidental candidate Herman Cain speaks during the Washington County Republican Committee's annual Lincoln Day Dinner on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in Springdale, Ark. (AP Photo/Beth Hall)

(AP) ? He is the man with the mustache who takes a rebellious drag on a cigarette in the Herman Cain Internet ad gone viral.

"We've run a campaign like nobody's ever seen," he says before taking a puff. "But then America's never seen a candidate like Herman Cain."

Meet Mark Block, Cain's unorthodox campaign manager. Perhaps no one is more responsible for the Georgia businessman's meteoric rise in the presidential polls than Block, a Republican strategist and tea party leader who's left a trail of questionable campaign work behind him.

Block has been accused of voter suppression and was banned from running Wisconsin political campaigns for three years to settle accusations he coordinated a judge's re-election campaign with a special interest group.

Records show Block has faced foreclosure on his home, a tax warrant by the Internal Revenue Service and a lawsuit for an unpaid bill. He also acknowledges he was arrested twice for drunken driving.

On the presidential trail, some former Cain staffers say Block broke promises. Traditional GOP strategists have been scratching their heads at his renegade tactics to win the White House, all but ignoring some early states in favor of a book tour and swings through states without early primaries.

Those who know Block say he's long been a maverick who isn't afraid to reset boundaries.

"Mark doesn't go to the how-to-run a campaign guidebook when deciding how to do things," said Jared Thomas, who was a state director for the anti-tax group Americans for Prosperity Georgia when Block led the Wisconsin chapter. "He's all about advancing conservative ideals and conservative goals, and he really doesn't mind stepping on toes in the process."

In an interview with The Associated Press at Cain's campaign headquarters south of Atlanta, Block acknowledged ruffling some feathers because he ? and the Cain campaign ? don't "fit the mold."

"Can you imagine Karl Rove doing what I did with that cigarette?" he said with a laugh, referring to George W. Bush's straight-laced political guru.

"It's a joke around here, 'Let Block be Block," he says. He had been doing just that moments earlier, smoking his now signature cigarette on an office balcony overlooking a golf course.

The Web video has now been spoofed on just about every comedy show imaginable. And he seems both pleased and appalled at the attention it's received.

"This country is going to hell in a handbasket and that is what we're talking about?" he says.

Block's entry into politics came early. In 1974, he became the first 18-year-old elected to office in Wisconsin, capturing a seat on the Winnebago County Board of Supervisors.

But Block's reputation was marred when he was accused of illegally coordinating state Supreme Court Justice Jon Wilcox's 1997 re-election campaign with a special interest group that favored school vouchers. In 2001, he agreed to pay $15,000 and was banned from running Wisconsin political campaigns for three years to settle the case. Block made no admission of wrongdoing in the settlement. Block told the AP that he had not coordinated with the group and called the charges "ridiculous."

Unable to make a living in politics, Block paid the bills stocking shelves at a Target. He has the "Mark" nametag mounted on his desk at Cain headquarters.

Block said it was during those tough times that his home went into foreclosure and his personal life unraveled, resulting in two arrests for drinking and driving.

"That's why I don't drink anymore," he said.

But Block engineered a comeback when he was hired in 2005 as the Wisconsin director of Americans for Prosperity, the group founded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch. He also helped organize the tea party in Wisconsin and in that role met Cain, the former Godfather's Pizza chief executive who'd come aboard as a speaker after a failed U.S. Senate campaign in Georgia.

In Cain's new memoir, he writes that he and Block bonded when they were paired in a car for a whirlwind eight-stop, day-and-a half tour to launch new Americans for Prosperity chapters.

Still, it wasn't long before Block's campaign work again was being questioned.

In 2007, a local prosecutor investigated the group's robo-calls against a proposed $119 million school building referendum that would have raised property taxes. The prosecutor concluded that although the calls were misleading and distorted the impact of the referendum on taxpayers, the case was not strong enough to bring charges.

In 2010, a liberal group, One Wisconsin Now, said it had obtained an audio recording of a tea party meeting that indicated Block was involved in an effort to try to prevent legal voters from casting ballots in Democratic-leaning neighborhoods. A tea party organizer says on the audio that Americans for Prosperity had agreed to pay for sending a mailer to mostly Democratic-leaning minority and student voters and then use any of them returned as undeliverable to support their challenges at the polls on Election Day. One Wisconsin Now called it a notorious voter suppression scheme known as "caging," but law enforcement officials did not investigate.

Block also denied any wrongdoing in those instances, calling them baseless claims made by liberals who disagreed with his political views.

Working for Cain, Block has been accused by former Iowa staffer Kevin Hall of trying to cover up Cain's employment of Scott D. Toomey. Toomey was at the center of a financial scandal when he was part of a gay pride group in Madison, Wis., but later became a top adviser to Cain. Hall said Block told him to tell supporters that Toomey was not involved in the campaign and that they simply had Toomey continue working as an outside consultant, not a paid staffer.

Hall also complained that Block told him Cain would not spend as much time and money competing in the Iowa straw poll in August as Hall was promised when he was hired.

"There's a reason some people are former staffers," Block observes dryly.

In "This is Herman Cain!" the GOP presidential candidate writes that Block thinks outside the box.

"In my case, thinking way out of the box. And that's one of the reasons we have a great relationship," Cain wrote.

___

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Passing 1 Million Downloads, Discovr Raises $1.1 Million; Launches On Mac App Store

142720v2-max-250x250Today, Discovr, the awesome tool that allows users to discover new apps for iOS (by way of interactive graphs) is announcing that it has passed the one million downloads milestone and has closed a $1.1M seed round led by Australia's leading VC firm Yuuwa Capital. Of course, there's no better way to celebrate these achievements than launch a new version of your app for Apple desktops, right? Today, the startup is also announcing the release of its Discovr Music app, which is available for $5 now on those Mac App Stores near you. Discovr Music, put simply, makes it easy to discover new music from the comfort of your laptops and desktops.

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Multiple malaria vaccine offers protection to people most at risk

ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2011) ? A new malaria vaccine has been created to target different forms of the disease and help those most at risk.

The parasites that cause malaria come in many different forms. This new vaccine works by triggering a range of antibodies to fight the different malaria parasites.

Many existing vaccines target only a limited part of the parasite population, making them less effective.

Combined protection

Scientists at the University created the vaccine by combining multiple types of a key protein found in many different parasite types.

During infection the production of antibodies is triggered by this protein. Mixing multiple proteins induces antibodies against a wide range of malaria parasites.

Tests have shown that antibodies targeting this key protein offer improved protection against the disease. It has also been shown to be effective in animals.

Helping those at risk

Owing to the many different types of parasites, the only way to gain natural immunity to all these forms is to catch multiple strains of the illness.

A vaccine that overcomes this would be most useful to children and other vulnerable populations.

"Our approach is novel because it combines multiple antibody targets from different parasite types, giving broader protection. This could prove to be a useful vaccine," said the study's corresponding author, Dr. David Cavanagh of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences.

Widespread infection

Malaria is spread by mosquito bites and affects people and animals. According to the World Health Organisation the disease affected 225 million people in 2009 and caused an estimated 781 000 deaths. Those affected were mostly children in sub-Saharan Africa.

The study, published by PLoS ONE, was supported by the European Commission.

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Norway's Telenor says Q3 profit rose by 52 percent (AP)

OSLO, Norway ? Telenor's third-quarter net profit rose by 52 percent amid higher revenues, trimmed costs and a lower tax rate, the Norwegian telecommunications group said Wednesday.

The company's report showed third-quarter net profit rose to 2.6 billion kroner ($470 million) from 1.7 billion in the same period a year ago.

Revenue for the quarter increased by 2.2 percent to 24.6 billion kroner from 24.1 billion in the third quarter 2010.

The company raised its outlook for full-year organic revenue growth to 6-7 percent from its previous 5 percent forecast, but reiterated its expectation for operating margin before other income and expenses to be around 31 percent.

The result beat analysts' expectations and Telenor shares climbed 1.7 percent to 134.5 kroner ($24.3) in early trading on the Oslo stock exchange.

"I am pleased to see that in a world of slowing growth and rising risks, Telenor's financial performance continues to improve," Telenor CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas said.

"Despite global macro economic turbulence and floods in Asia, our operations have so far remained resilient. We adjust our guidance for 2011 based on solid performance the first nine months and expectations for the rest of the year," Baksaas said.

Telenor said the effective tax rate for the third quarter decreased compared to 2010, due to the tax expense provision concerning a claim from Norwegian tax authorities in the third quarter of 2010.

The number of total mobile subscriptions increased by 31,000 during the quarter due to strong growth in mobile broadband and voice subscriptions following the launch of a new consumer mobile product portfolio, Telenor said. At the end of the quarter, the company's mobile subscription base was 1 percent higher than last year.

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US envoy: Progress in N. Korea talks

The U.S. envoy leading talks with North Korea on Pyongyang's nuclear program says two days of meetings in Geneva have narrowed differences between the two sides.

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But Stephen Bosworth said Tuesday that no agreement was reached on formally resuming negotiations, either bilaterally or in the so-called six-party format that also includes China, Japan, Russia and South Korea.

"It has been a very useful meeting,'' Bosworth told reporters outside the U.S. mission in Geneva. "The tone was positive and generally constructive."

"I am confident that with continued effort on both sides we can reach a reasonable basis of departure for formal negotiations for a return to the six-party process.''

Bosworth says the two sides will remain in touch through North Korea's mission to the United Nations in New York.

U.S. diplomats want North Korea to adhere to a 2005 agreement it reneged on that required verifiable denuclearization in exchange for better relations with its Asian neighbors.

Check back for more details on this developing story. Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Elizabeth Warren takes credit for Occupy Wall Street: Smart move? (The Week)

New York ? Vying to defeat Sen. Scott Brown, the liberal hero says she's not just an OWS supporter, but one of its intellectual founders. Republicans pounce

While many Democratic politicians, and even a few Republicans, have tepidly embraced Occupy Wall Street, progressive icon Elizabeth Warren has gone further, taking some credit for inspiring the protest movement. "I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do," Warren, who's running to challenge Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) next year, tells Newsweek's Samuel Jacobs. And "Warren's boast isn't bluster," Jacobs notes, citing her decades of academic research on consumer debt and bankruptcy, along with the Wall Street?battling work she did setting up President Obama's consumer protection bureau. But is aligning herself with Occupy Wall Street really a winning electoral strategy for Warren?

Warren's claim will alienate voters:?Warren is "probably right" in claiming that she laid the groundwork for Occupy Wall Street, says Tina Korbe in?Hot Air. But that's hardly something to brag about.?"Republicans have already begun to point out that, by tying herself to the Occupy Wall Street protests, Warren risks backlash from ordinary voters who decry the impolite manners and more extreme tactics of the protesters." As the Occupiers veer deeper into rowdy class warfare, those risks only grow.
"Elizabeth Warren: I provided the intellectual foundation for Occupy Wall Street"

This is a winning argument for Warren:?Republicans plan to bring Warren down by painting her as one of the "99 percent," says David Dayen at?Firedoglake. Well, "good luck with that!" Most Americans are fed up after 30 years of being "brutalized" by predatory banks, and Warren really was a pioneer in seeing that and explaining what went wrong. I doubt the GOP's normal "loony left"?blue collar "culture war game" will work this time, especially "in, er, Massachusetts."
"Republicans attack Elizabeth Warren for favoring Occupy Wall Street..."

Smart or not, this battle has just begun: "Wow, this is going to be good," says Greg Sargent at?The Washington Post. The early tussling over OWS in the country's highest-profile Senate race is just a preview of what's to come. "National Republicans are placing their bet" that cultural populism will beat Warren's economic populism among key working-class and independent voters ? and Warren is "making the opposite bet." Who's right? Time will tell.
"It?s on: Republicans slam Elizabeth Warren for embracing Occupy Wall Street"

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Another Day, Another Mac Trojan on the Loose [Apple]

The ESNET security company is reporting that the Tsunami Trojan originally developed for Linux systems has been ported to OSX. The Trojan is designed to hijack an infected system and use its network connection in DDoS attacks or to automatically download more malware. More details are available at MacWorld. More »


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Nokia announces its Drive navigation, Mix Radio, and ESPN Sports Hub cloud services for WP7

Fancy some turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation, cloud based music or sports highlights on your brand new Nokia smartphone? You don't need an app for that: the Lumia 800 is now the only Windows Phone with full navigation built-in. Nokia announced its Drive navigation, which has a look and feel that should be comfortable with users of its former Ovi Maps suite. It also looks to have similar functionality, enabling the download of maps so that you can find our ways into offline areas (see gallery, below).

There's also exclusive Music and ESPN Sports Hub apps. The former features Mix Radio, a service that streams "locally relevant music" across hundreds of channels. The latter, meanwhile, allows sports fans to check up on stats, scores and news, and to pin their favorite teams or leagues to the start screen. All told, the company is promising a "uniquely Nokia" experience -- guess their slick hardware won't be the only way they break out of the WP7 pack. Check out a video demo of the navigation embedded after the break.

Amar Toor and James Trew contributed to this report.

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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,481 (AP)

As of Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, at least 4,481 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

The figure includes nine military civilians killed in action.

At least 3,525 military personnel died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

The AP count is three fewer than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Tuesday at 10 a.m. EDT.

Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 32,219 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.

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The latest identifications reported by the military:

? Pfc. Steven F. Shapiro, 29, of Hidden Valley Lake, Calif., died Oct. 21 in Tallil, Iraq; assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

_Staff Sgt. James R. Leep Jr., 44, of Richmond, Va., died Oct. 17 in Babil province, Iraq; assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 183rd Cavalry Regiment, 116th Brigade Combat Team, Portsmouth, Va.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

How The Gadget Show built its FPS simulator (video)

Remember The Gadget Show's FPS simulator that we showed you last week? Armed with naught but a pre-release level of Battlefield 3 and £500,000 ($650,000), it transformed a Birmingham studio into the sort of game room only multi-billionaires can dream of (as long as the dreams involved getting shot back, the sim comes packing paintball markers). The episode, which shows how this slice of gaming greatness came to be, has just finished airing here in the UK, where streaming and catch-up services aren't available to those outside the country. Fortunately for you lot, our friends at the show have uploaded the feature for you to watch in all it's glory after the break.

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