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Globalization has been the beat behind Capcom?s war drum over the past five years. With the Japanese developer relegating the majority of its internal Japanese studios to handheld projects like the PSP and Nintendo 3DS Monster Hunter games, the majority of its home console games were farmed out to North American and European houses like DmC studio Ninja Theory, Dead Rising 2?s Blue Castle, and Bionic Commando?s GRIN. In light of the past two years of earnings declines and high profile failures like Resident Evil 6?whose sprawling 600 person development staff spanned three countries?Capcom is hunkering down, refocusing on Japanese development and killing off projects in the process.
When Digital Trends reached out to Capcom earlier this month to illuminate just what games in development were getting axed, the company was predictably reticent to give us details. While it didn?t go into too many specifics during its Wednesday presentation to investors, it did explain how those cancelled games fit into its immediate future.
?There were a few titles scheduled for the current fiscal year, but most of the cancellations were for releases planned in the fiscal year ending March 2015 and subsequent fiscal years,? said Capcom, ?No titles that had already been announced were canceled.??
That means that games on the immediate horizon like French studio Dontnod?s promising Remember Me weren?t included in the corporate dust up at Capcom. However, this means that any Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games Capcom had in reserve past March 2014 are likely dead in the water. This also means that Capcom is reassessing those games it had planned for the first full year of the PlayStation 4 and Next Xbox.?
Just because Capcom is re-strategizing, though, that doesn?t mean the company is abandoning the console space. Far from it.
?We believe that sales in the console and online category (downloadable content and other products) will continue to increase even if home video game packaged software sales decline,? said Capcom, ?Developing content for the home video game market will remain the core element of our strategy.?
For old fans that were disheartened by Capcom?s increased investment in mobile gaming, take heart: the company?s mobile work is slowing down ? but only for the moment while the smartphone market is still volatile.
?In Japan, growth of card battle-type social games has stagnated in the market. Overseas as well, the market is leveling off because of the ongoing diversification in users. However, smartphone sales are increasing repidly and so are areas of the world where these phones can be used. Therefore, we believe this market has enormous potential.?
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ? U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Sunday the United States and Israel see "exactly the same" threat from Iran, but differ on when it may reach the point of requiring U.S. or Israeli military action.
Hagel used his first visit to Israel as Pentagon chief to highlight his view that Israel must decide for itself whether and when to pre-emptively attack its neighbor.
"Israel will make the decision that Israel must make to protect itself, to defend itself," Hagel told reporters before arriving here on Sunday to begin a weeklong tour of the Middle East.
Hagel acknowledged that while Israel and the U.S. share a commitment to ensuring that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon, there "may well be some differences" between the two allies on the question of when Iran's leaders might decide to go for a bomb.
He said there is "no daylight at all" between Israel and the U.S. on the central goal of preventing a nuclear-armed Iran.
But he added, "When you back down into the specifics of the timing of when and if Iran decides to pursue a nuclear weapon, there may well be some differences."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tends to see more urgency, reflecting in part the fact that certain Iranian technological advances toward a nuclear weapon could put the program beyond the ability of the Israeli military to destroy it with airstrikes. U.S. forces have greater reach.
The first thing Hagel did upon arrival in Jerusalem was take a guided tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust history museum, participate in a ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance and write an inscription in the guest book at a memorial for the 1.5 million Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust.
"There is no more poignant, more touching, more effective way to tell the story than this reality, as painful as it is, but it is a reality," he said after completing his visit. "It did happen, and we must prepare our future generations ... for a clear understanding that we must never allow this to happen again."
In an interview on an overnight flight from Washington, Hagel repeatedly emphasized Israel's right of self-defense and stressed that military force ? by implication, Israeli or American ? remains an option of last resort.
"In dealing with Iran, every option must be on the table," he said.
Hagel, 66, came under intense fire from Republican critics, prior to his February Senate confirmation hearing, for some of his past statements on Israel. His critics painted him as insufficiently supportive of the Jewish state.
In choosing to make Israel one of his first overseas stops, Hagel sought to put that controversy behind him ? with serious words and a touch of humor. The February confirmation hearing, which Republicans used to hammer him on Israel and other subjects, "was years ago," he deadpanned.
During his two-day visit to Israel, Hagel is expected to put the final touches on a U.S. arms deal that would provide Israel with missiles for its fighter aircraft, plus KC-135 refueling planes that could be used in a long-range strike on a country like Iran, as well as V-22 Osprey transport planes. He called the proposed sale a "very clear signal" to Iran.
"The bottom line is, Iran is a threat ? a real threat," he said, not only for its nuclear ambitions and its stated goal of destroying Israel but also for its alleged sponsoring of terrorism.
Hagel said U.S. and international economic sanctions are "hurting Iran significantly," but he said they do not guarantee that Iranian leaders will be persuaded to stop what the West sees as their ambition to become a nuclear power. Iran asserts that its nuclear program is designed entirely for non-military purposes.
Hagel suggested he holds hope that Iran's presidential election in June might change the trajectory of its nuclear drive.
He asserted that there is still time for diplomacy and international sanctions to resolve the Iran problem.
"These other tracks do have some time to continue to try to influence the outcome in Iran," he said.
In the interview en route to Tel Aviv, Hagel was asked whether the Obama administration has determined whether the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against opposition rebels. He said intelligences analysts are still assessing the evidence and have not reached a conclusion.
After his talks in Israel, Hagel is scheduled to visit Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Each of those four is an important American ally in the Middle East, and each is worried by Syria's civil war.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are part of a $10 billion proposed US arms sale that includes Israel. The UAE would get about 26 F-16 fighters and it and Saudi Arabia would get advanced air-launched missiles.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is also in the region. He is working to mend the strained relationship between Turkey and Israel and on Sunday he announced the White House is doubling its non-lethal assistance to the Syrian opposition to $250 million.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hagel-israel-us-see-exactly-same-iran-threat-084103356--politics.html
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By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) - American International Group Inc won a legal victory over where a mortgage fraud lawsuit it brought against Bank of America Corp
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday agreed with AIG that the case belongs in state court, not federal court as Bank of America preferred.
It threw out an October 2011 lower court ruling that had denied AIG's bid to move the case back to the New York state court where it had begun two months earlier.
Writing for a three-judge appeals court panel, U.S. Circuit Judge Pierre Leval rejected Bank of America's argument that the case belonged in federal court under the Edge Act, a 1919 law governing international banking.
"Removal from state to federal court was not authorized by the statute," he wrote.
AIG had sued Bank of America for $10 billion.
It accused the bank and its Countrywide and Merrill Lynch units of engineering a "massive" fraud by misrepresenting the quality of more than $28 billion of residential mortgage-backed securities in 349 trusts it bought, and lying to credit rating agencies about the underlying loans.
Shares of Bank of America plunged 20.3 percent on the day the lawsuit was announced. The case is part of AIG's effort to recover from activities that it says helped trigger its near collapse in 2008, leading to $182.3 billion of federal bailouts.
It is unclear how Friday's decision affects the part of AIG's case relating to Countrywide, which has been moved to the court of U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer in Los Angeles.
Bank of America spokesman Lawrence Grayson called Friday's decision "a narrow procedural ruling." AIG spokesman Jon Diat said the insurer was pleased with the decision.
But the venue issue may not be over, because the 2nd Circuit said Bank of America may pursue an alternative argument to keep the case in federal court. Venue disputes often arise when parties expect more favorable results in particular courts.
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The Edge Act was adopted to help federally chartered banks compete more effectively in offshore banking. To help free those banks from extra burdens from state regulators, it lets federal courts hear lawsuits against U.S. companies over banking transactions that are international or in a U.S. territory.
In keeping the case in federal court, U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones in October 2011 recognized that a handful of the underlying home loans concerned properties in Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
But AIG countered that the securities it bought were created and sold entirely in the United States. It also said that of the 1.7 million home loans underlying the trusts, just 27 involved property in U.S. territories.
Leval accepted AIG's argument, and called Bank of America's broader interpretation of the admittedly ungrammatical Edge Act statute "arbitrary and illogical."
He did not address the merits of AIG's damages claims.
Jones has left the federal bench, and U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan now oversees the case in Manhattan federal court.
Pfaelzer oversees a variety of litigation over the former Countrywide Financial Corp, which Bank of America bought in July 2008. Her approval is required for the bank's record $500 million settlement, announced on Wednesday, with investors who claimed Countrywide misled them into buying risky mortgage debt.
The case is American International Group Inc et al v. Bank of America Corp et al, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 12-1640.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; editing by John Wallace, Gerald E. McCormick, Leslie Gevirtz and Phil Berlowitz)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/aig-wins-bid-transfer-bank-america-mortgage-lawsuit-133151293--sector.html
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ? Taiwanese companies have long viewed tech giant Samsung as a major threat and the battle has recently appeared to tilt in favor of the South Korean rival as Taiwan's smartphone, memory chip and display panel makers suffered sagging exports.
The sales erosion has been driven by competition, some of it from South Korea, and a weak global economy but has also spawned fears on this export-reliant island of 23 million that Samsung has deliberately targeted Taiwanese firms as part of a campaign to undermine their competitiveness in markets around the world.
Business Today, Taiwan's top business magazine, gave voice to those fears last month with an extensive cover story accusing Samsung Electronics of launching a "Kill Taiwan" effort and targeting some of the island's leading high-tech companies including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract chip maker.
Adding fuel to the fire, Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission recently launched an investigation into allegations that Samsung planted unflattering comments about Taiwanese consumer electronics on the Internet as a way of undermining their appeal to customers.
While Taiwanese companies are facing a challenge from Samsung, industry analysts such as John Brebeck, a Taipei-based adviser with technology development firm Quantum International Corp., says perceptions here that the South Korean company is setting out to crush Taiwan's lucrative technology industry miss the point.
Samsung is trying to make inroads in specific areas where it sees a big profit potential and these areas are also where Taiwanese companies have a major stake, he said. "It's not Taiwan as much as it's industry sectors that's motivating Samsung."
Samsung Electronics spokeswoman Jee Hae-Ryoung said business strategies like "Kill Taiwan" do not exist at Samsung.
That's all little comfort for Taiwan's technology industry, which knows it must remain nimble and innovative to avoid the downward spiral of famous Japanese companies such as Sony Corp. which were outrun by competitors including Samsung. Taiwan's high tech exports totaled $98 billion last year, accounting for about 20 percent of the island's GDP.
Fearing they will lose more ground, a number of Taiwanese manufacturers are carving out alliances with high-tech companies in Japan and the United States that are also facing off against Samsung, in an effort to safeguard market share and give a boost to Taiwan's economy. A noted and longtime Taiwanese collaborator is Apple Inc., which was replaced last year by Samsung as the top smartphone maker in the world.
For its part, the Taiwan government is pressing the island's tech companies to work more closely with local component suppliers in an effort to achieve the kind of business integration that has helped to make Samsung such a formidable rival.
"We hope the tech companies can work together with their suppliers during the early product developing process, rather than wait till the new components are developed," said Stephen Su, a marketing analyst with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute, a state-funded institute that develops cutting-edge technologies and transfers them to the private sector.
Su said a major pilot project in the integration effort involves smartphone maker HTC Corp., which is trying to use processors made by local chip designers in its new handsets.
Until last year, HTC was a top global smartphone maker, cashing in on its status as the first company to make handsets using Google's Android operation system. Now, however, it is struggling as Samsung and Apple smartphones dominate.
Aside from smartphones, another emerging battlefield in the Taiwan-Samsung rivalry is the semiconductor industry, long a Taiwanese stronghold.
With its seemingly unlimited supply of capital, Samsung has deftly moved from making memory chips that store data to more profitable logic chips that run as the brain of computers.
It is also ramping up its expansion into the foundry business that fabricates chips, posing a direct challenge to TSMC, which provides application chips to companies such as Apple and Qualcomm Inc.
TSMC founder Morris Chang has called Samsung a "formidable rival" but says his company is well prepared to meet the challenge.
In the past year, TSMC has significantly increased its capital spending to move more aggressively into the cutting-edge technologies of 20 and 16 nanometers that can make smaller chips which run faster at lower power.
The new technologies will enable TSMC to make the application processors that will run new iPhones and iPads. Apple currently gets such chips from its smartphone and tablet rival Samsung. But analysts say that Apple's transition will be complicated, because Samsung is involved in part of the processors' design, in addition to fabricating the wafers that foundries normally handle.
"Apple has been waiting until TSMC is ready and able to catch up," said Brebeck. "They are willing to wait because they want to get away from Samsung. TSMC understands it and is clearly moving rapidly in this direction."
Apart from the new processors, TSMC has ? as of now ? a clear edge in its foundry business with a well-established customer base.
Nicholas Chen, an attorney who advises many Taiwanese tech firms, said global companies such as Apple may not trust Samsung as a chip supplier for fear the Korean giant could steal their designs when making its own products.
TSMC's advantage, he said, is that it is a pure foundry that does not make chips under its own brand and is known to be "proactively disciplined on protecting trade secrets."
"If somebody is committed to this in this industry, they are clearly the example," Chen said.
Aside from TSMC, another Taiwanese tech company under serious threat from Samsung is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., also known as Foxconn, which makes gadgets for global clients, including Apple iPhones and iPads, at its massive plants on mainland China.
One of Hon Hai's problems involves its acquisition of Chimei Innolux Corp., a display panel maker. Since the deal was completed three years ago, Chimei has suffered large losses. A major factor has been its inability to compete with Samsung's substantial capital spending, and produce at a profit the energy saving Amoled advanced display panel, known for its superior picture quality.
In an apparent effort to address the problem, Hon Hai Chairman Terry Gou last year negotiated to acquire a 10 percent stake in Japan's struggling Sharp Corp., the only major competitor to Samsung in display panels.
Apple was widely believed to be behind the Hon Hai move, reflecting its eagerness to find an alternative panel supplier to Samsung for iPhones, iPads and the future iTVs.
But the Hon Hai deal has been put on hold, apparently over Sharp's refusal to involve Gou in its management, and in the meanwhile it sold 3 percent of the company to Samsung.
"Hon Hai is the biggest contract manufacturer, the most cost-efficient and successful," said Brebeck. "If you take down that giant, you hit a bunch of Taiwanese firms, and you hit Apple too."
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The scientists found that the galaxy has a mass of stars nearly 40 billion times the mass of the Sun, and gas and dust totalling more than 100 billion times the mass of the Sun, all surrounded by enough mysterious dark matter to eventually build an entire cluster of galaxies.
"This galaxy is proof that very intense bursts of star formation existed only 880 million years after the Big Bang," Riechers said. "We've gotten a valuable look at a very important epoch in the development of the first galaxies," he added. The Universe currently is about 13.7 billion years old.
"Key information about the massive amount of gas in this galaxy came from the VLA observations of radio emission from Carbon Monoxide," said Chris Carilli, Chief Scientist of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, who was not part of the research team. "The techniques used by this team, along with improved technical capabilities available now and coming in the future, will allow the study of more such galaxies, and provide a much better understanding of how the first galaxies formed during the Universe's youth," Carilli added.
"We anticipate learning more about such galaxies using both the VLA and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)," Riechers said. "The VLA can give us information about the cold gas and radio emission in these galaxies, while ALMA can tell us about the warmer gas and dust," he added.
In addition to the VLA, the astronomers used the Herschel Space Observatory, the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy, the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, the Plateau de Bure Interferometer, the Submillimeter Array, the IRAM 30-meter Telescope, the William Herschel Telescope and Gran Telescopio Canarias, the Keck Observatory, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The large research team included astronomers from Europe, Japan, and the U.S. The scientists reported their findings in the journal Nature.
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MIAMI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A violent weekend clash between guards and prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and the release of harrowing accounts by inmates of force-feeding of hunger strikers threw a harsh spotlight on President Barack Obama's failure to close the camp.
Sharpening the focus further on the plight of inmates, the majority of an independent task force will recommend on Tuesday that Obama shut the prison by the end of 2014 and either try the remaining 166 prisoners, repatriate them to home countries or transfer them to U.S. jails, a commission member told Reuters.
David Gushee, an ethics expert on the panel created by The Constitution Project think tank in Washington, said the task force would unanimously condemn force-feeding as prisoner abuse.
Many terrorism suspects captured abroad after the September 11, 2001, attacks have been held in legal limbo - without charge or trial - for over a decade and some despair of ever leaving.
"Instead of a swift execution, we are being subjected to a cruel, slow and cold-blooded death," Musa'ab al Madhwani, a Yemeni hunger striker wrote in a recent court affidavit dictated to his defense lawyer.
"Gitmo is killing me" was the headline of a New York Times op-ed on Monday written by another Yemeni man, who described in dramatic detail being strapped down and force-fed intravenously.
The hunger strike to protest against indefinite detentions at Guantanamo escalated into violence between guards and prisoners during a weekend raid aimed at halting it.
Guards swept through communal cells and forcibly moved prisoners into individual cells, firing off four rounds of small, rubber pellets against those who resisted or fought back with makeshift weapons.
The White House defended the raid, which highlighted weeks of mounting tensions with prisoners at the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. But it pointed the finger at Congress for blocking Obama's efforts to close down the prison, which has become an enduring symbol of widely criticized Bush-era counterterrorism practices.
"We've been monitoring of course the situation at Guantanamo closely," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters when asked about the weekend raid. He said the prisoners were moved to "ensure their health and security."
Carney said Obama, who originally promised to close the prison within a year of taking office in 2009, remained committed to shutting it. But the president has offered no new path to doing so in his second term. "Obstacles have been raised by Congress and that remains a reality," Carney said.
Obama has approved military tribunals to try some of the most dangerous suspects. But only nine of the current prisoners have been charged or convicted of crimes.
U.S. lawmakers have blocked Obama from bringing Guantanamo prisoners to American jails, saying they would pose a security risk, and made it difficult to repatriate others.
The U.S. government will not send some back to their homelands because of instability or concerns over mistreatment, and most countries are reluctant to accept them for resettlement when the United States itself will not take any.
Some legal experts say Obama could take action to close Guantanamo using his executive powers. If he were to do so, he would face opposition from both sides of the political aisle.
The situation at Guantanamo, which was opened by Obama's Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, to hold foreign terrorism suspects after the September 11, 2001, attacks, will again be cast in a critical spotlight on Tuesday with the release of the task force's report in Washington.
But the panel - co-chaired by former Republican undersecretary of homeland security Asa Hutchinson and former Democratic congressman James Jones - will also underscore divisions among Americans on what to do about Guantanamo.
Gushee, a professor at Mercer University in Atlanta, said most of the panel's 11 members opposed indefinite detention at Guantanamo and would recommend the closing of the camp by the end of 2014.
They will propose a combination of civilian and military trials to deal with as many of the inmates as possible. Those who cannot be tried or transferred to their homelands would be moved to jails on the U.S. mainland, he said.
These goals would be hard to achieve because of legal and political hurdles, and Gushee said some of task force members will even call for maintaining the status quo at Guantanamo.
Obama's original promise to shutter Guantanamo was part of an effort to turn the page on the Bush era, when the invasion of Iraq and the harsh treatment of mostly Muslim terrorism suspects damaged America's image in the Islamic world.
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The prisoners' accounts of their treatment and those of their captors have always been at odds. Prisoners and their lawyers say more than 100 men are taking part in the hunger strike, which began two months ago.
But the military counts only 43 prisoners as being on a hunger strike. It says about a dozen have lost enough weight that they are being force-fed via tubes inserted in their noses and down into their stomachs - a method that human rights advocates strongly oppose as a violation of personal dignity.
But U.S. military officials have said repeatedly that they have a duty to safeguard prisoners in their custody and that "No detainee will be allowed to harm himself or to endanger his health."
The military doctors say the process is done gently, that the feeding tubes are lubricated before insertion - one said he used olive oil - and that the prisoners can choose which flavor of Ensure liquid meals they want.
The military has acknowledged that prisoners are sometimes strapped into restraint chairs, with their head and limbs immobilized to keep them from removing the tubes.
"It's a problem in terms of medical ethics," Gushee said. "It's very invasive."
Yemeni hunger striker Samir Najal al Hasan Moqbel gave a harrowing account of his force-feeding in the New York Times.
Moqbel said he had lost about 30 pounds (14 kg) since joining the hunger strike on February 10. He said that in March, the Extreme Reaction Force, Guantanamo's version of a SWAT team in riot gear, burst into his cell, took him to the camp hospital and tied his hands and feet to the bed.
"They forcibly inserted an IV into my hand. I spent 26 hours in this state, tied to the bed. During this time I was not permitted to go to the toilet. They inserted a catheter, which was painful, degrading and unnecessary. I was not even permitted to pray."
Madhwani said he had lost so much weight since joining the hunger strike that he had to use a rubber band to keep his pants from falling down. He said guards had tried to break the hunger strike by denying prisoners access to drinkable water, and by cranking up the air conditioning so high they shivered.
Navy Captain Robert Durand, a spokesman for the detention camp, called those allegations "absolutely false."
Moqbel and Madhwani have both been held at Guantanamo for more than 11 years but said they had no affiliation with al Qaeda and had done nothing wrong. They were sent to Guantanamo from Afghanistan and surrounding nations where they were swept up in counterterrorism operations.
Moqbel said the U.S. military had initially accused him of being a guard for Osama bin Laden but that, "They don't even seem to believe it anymore. But they don't seem to care how long I sit here, either."
Eighty-six prisoners have been cleared for release but are among the 166 men still held at Guantanamo. Most are Yemenis and the United States halted repatriations to that country in 2009 after a Yemeni-trained al Qaeda operative tried to set off a bomb concealed in his underwear aboard a U.S.-bound plane.
(Reporting by Jane Sutton and Matt Spetalnick; Additional reporting by David Ingram; Editing by Alistair Bell and Eric Beech)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-guantanamo-policy-hit-violence-force-feeding-003214010.html
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Apr. 12, 2013 ? For scientists studying summer sea ice in the Arctic, it's not a question of "if" there will be nearly ice-free summers, but "when." And two scientists say that "when" is sooner than many thought -- before 2050 and possibly within the next decade or two.
James Overland of NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and Muyin Wang of the NOAA Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean at the University of Washington, looked at three methods of predicting when the Arctic will be nearly ice free in the summer. The work was published recently online in the American Geophysical Union publication Geophysical Research Letters.
"Rapid Arctic sea ice loss is probably the most visible indicator of global climate change; it leads to shifts in ecosystems and economic access, and potentially impacts weather throughout the northern hemisphere," said Overland. "Increased physical understanding of rapid Arctic climate shifts and improved models are needed that give a more detailed picture and timing of what to expect so we can better prepare and adapt to such changes. Early loss of Arctic sea ice gives immediacy to the issue of climate change."
"There is no one perfect way to predict summer sea ice loss in the Arctic," said Wang. "So we looked at three approaches that result in widely different dates, but all three suggest nearly sea ice-free summers in the Arctic before the middle of this century."
Overland and Wang emphasized that the term "nearly" ice free is important as some sea ice is expected to remain north of the Canadian Archipelago and Greenland.
"Some people may interpret this to mean that models are not useful. Quite the opposite," said Overland. "Models are based on chemical and physical climate processes and we need better models for the Arctic as the importance of that region continues to grow."
Taken together, the range among the multiple approaches still suggests that it is very likely that the timing for future sea ice loss will be within the first half of the 21st century, with a possibility of major loss within a decade or two.
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Investigators blame decades of thefts on a man found living alone in Maine woods. WCSH's Chris Rose reports.
By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News
After spending 27 years alone in the woods of Maine, the man dubbed the North Pond Hermit is adjusting well to his less solitary new home ? a jail cell.
?He?s perfect,? Capt. Marsha Alexander of the Kennebec County Jail said of Christopher Knight, whose remarkable story has made him a lockup celebrity.
?He?s extremely polite, very articulate, very well-behaved, quiet and hygienic. I would never have guessed he?s lived in the woods for 27 years. He does look a bit weathered, though.?
Knight, 47, ended up in jail after he was caught breaking into a camp in Rome, Maine, last week, police said.
He told police he had been living in the forest since he left home in 1986 and had committed more than 1,000 burglaries for supplies, they said.
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Christopher Knight, believed to be the North Pond Hermit, in a booking photo after his arrest last week. Police say he's been living in the woods for 27 years.
State police said they have no reason to doubt Knight?s tale of living in total isolation, through rough Maine winters, for nearly three decades.
Now he?s sharing a unit with six other prisoners. He hasn?t had any visitors.
?He?s willing to see some of his family members, but he wants to know which ones first,? Alexander said Thursday.
Police have said Knight?s family did not report him missing when he vanished from the small farming community of Albion in 1986, two years after graduating from high school.
A family friend said Knight?s relatives believed he had gone to New York City. His mother, who still lives in the area, could not be reached for comment.
A high-school classmate, real estate agent Larry Stewart, said he couldn?t believe his eyes when he saw Knight?s photo during a TV news broadcast about a hermit.
?I said to my wife, ?Geez, I know that guy,?? Stewart said.
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The camp in Rome, Maine, where authorities believe Christopher Knight lived like a hermit for decades.
He recalled Knight as ?very quiet, reserved, always in the background,? he said.
Knight was part of an ?outdoor adventure? program where students did rope courses and climbed walls, and he wondered if those skills helped him in the wild.
Police say Knight lived in a tent, steeling himself against the cold with multiple sleeping bags. He stole his food, clothing and supplies from dozens of camps in the area.
He gave up on fishing because it was too much work and he didn?t hunt. Most of his time was spent reading stolen books or meditating, police said.
Officers said he was up on current events because he listened to news on a portable radio, but he?s not interested in talking to the media now.
?He?s denied all requests,? Alexander said.
But for a man who shunned human contact for so long, Knight is surprisingly sociable.
?I spoke to him yesterday, to ask if he needed some private time,? she said. ?He said, ?I?m all set. I?m fine. Thank you, ma?am.??
Knight has not given police an explanation of why he retreated into the woods. And they are stunned that no one stumbled on his makeshift campsite, which was littered with propane tanks and batteries and had clothing hanging from a line.
"This is not a remote, desolate site," Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland said. "He was within a mile of a traveled highway."
Knight is charged with one burglary but police said that his confession could lead to more.
While break-in victims have spoken of the frustration of being targeted, others feel sympathy and a measure of awe for Knight.
?He?s got this kind of Robin Hood aura about him,? said Stewart, noting that police said Knight only took what he needed to survive and was contrite when caught.
He said his high-school classmates want to help find him a lawyer and maybe a place to live when he gets out of jail.
?I?d like to make up for the fact that I didn?t get to know him that well back in school,? Stewart said.
This story was originally published on Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:55 AM EDT
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This guest post was written by Jason Bushey. Jason runs the day to day operations at Creditnet.com, an online authority on comparing credit cards.
As a 25-year-old lucky enough to write for a personal finance website, I?m privy to a lot of helpful finance tips and information I would have otherwise never considered. Now and again, I drop these helpful hints on my friends and they either look at me cross-eyed, or ask me why I?d kept that advice to myself for so long.
Well, consider the following list me no longer keeping this stuff to myself. Here are some savvy credit card tips for people like my friends and I that are in our 20?s and frankly could use all the financial advice we can get. First, let?s talk about transferring your balance?
-???? 0% balance transfers
What are they? This is when you transfer an existing credit card balance that you?re paying interest on and transfer it to a new card with 0 percent interest applied to balance transfers.
How can they help me? 0 percent interest credit cards can save you a small fortune if you?re paying interest on your credit card bill each month. And odds are if you?re my age, the first credit card you have (and are probably still carrying) has sky-high interest and very few rewards. It?s time to upgrade, people.
Find a credit card that offers no interest for 6-to-18 months applied to balance transfers. Apply for and receive your card, and initiate the balance transfer with your new credit card company immediately (they make it real simple) to take advantage of the full introductory period. From there, start paying down your debt interest-free and watch your balance dwindle down to nothing. That?s the idea, anyway?
Most balance transfers do require a one-time fee, often 3 percent of the total balance you?re hoping to transfer. However, that?s a worthwhile price to pay for saving each month on interest.
-?? $100 cash back credit cards
What are they? These are credit cards that offer new cardholders a $100 cash back bonus when they spend a specific amount in a given period of time. It?s by no means the industry standard, but many cards offering a $100 cash back bonus require $500 in purchases within the first three months as a cardholder.
How can they help me? You like free money, right? Let?s say you?ve saved up for a big-ticket item, something that costs $500 or more. An easy way to save $100 on this item is to apply for and receive a credit card with such an offer, then use it to make the purchase you?ve been saving up for. Pay your balance back immediately and voila, you just saved $100 without spending a cent on interest.
The only catch with these cards is that they require good-to-excellent credit to get approved. So unfortunately if these credit savvy tips for your 20?s are coming a little too late, this offer may not be on the table for you. But if it is, this is an easy way to save money on your upcoming big-ticket purchase.
-???? Keep your credit card balance low or non-existent
OK, we knew that: This might go without saying, but it?s always worth a reminder; keeping your credit card balance low will increase your credit score over time while saving you a ton of money on interest.
How low we talkin?? Here?s the deal ? a full third of your credit score is made up of the amounts you owe relative to your total available credit. It?s especially important that you keep the amount of credit card debt you owe under 30 percent of your total available credit, but it?s ideal for that ratio to be under 10 percent and especially zero.
Despite what you may have heard or read, there?s no benefit to carrying a balance each month. Seriously ? none. No balance means no interest, no debt and no worries ? at least when it comes to your credit card.
Make paying down your debt a priority; you?ll have more cash to spend (or save), and your future interest rates will be lower thanks to the excellent credit score you acquired in your 20?s.
Source: http://20smoney.com/2013/04/10/savvy-credit-card-tips-consumers-20s/
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JERUSALEM (AP) ? The rabbi of Judaism's holiest prayer site on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to establish a section where men and women can worship together, a groundbreaking motion that could end a decades-old fight against an Orthodox monopoly of the area.
The fight over the Western Wall has reached a fever pitch in recent months, after police arrested female worshippers who prayed at the site wearing religious garments and leading prayers ? acts that Orthodox Judaism permits for men only.
The arrests caused an uproar in Israel and among liberal Jewish leaders in the United States, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to instruct the semi-governmental Jewish Agency to devise a plan that would permit non-Orthodox forms of worship at the holy site.
The Western Wall's rabbi, Shmuel Rabinovich, told Army Radio Wednesday that while he dislikes non-Orthodox prayer, he would tolerate it in a separate section in order to end intra-Jewish fighting at the site.
"I want everyone to pray according to Orthodox Jewish religious law, but I don't interfere," said Rabinovich, who is Orthodox. "If these things can be done at the Western Wall without hurting others, and this can bring about compromise and serenity, I don't object."
The Western Wall is Judaism's most revered prayer site because it is a remnant of the biblical Jewish temple compound. Worship at the site is administered according to Orthodox Jewish religious custom: the men's section and smaller women's section are separated by a divider, and women are not allowed to lead prayer groups or wear prayer shawls, skullcaps or phylacteries ? small boxes strapped to the head and arms during prayer.
The pluralistic Reform and Conservative movements, which allow mixed prayer and female rabbis, have long campaigned for recognition in Israel. The two groups however are largely marginalized in the Jewish state despite being popular overseas, especially in the United States. The emerging plan could represent a significant accomplishment by these liberal streams of Judaism.
Under the plan, unveiled by the Jewish Agency announced on Tuesday, Israel would create a permanent area for mixed-gender and women-led prayer next to a section of the Western Wall that mainly serves as an archaeological site. Currently, liberal Jewish worship is permitted in the area only during limited hours. Under the proposed plan, a platform would be erected to expand the area and allow liberal prayer there 24 hours a day, like the Orthodox section of the site.
The two Jewish prayer sections would be separated by the large wooden ramp that leads to the Muslim Al Aqsa Mosque compound, a site also revered by Jews as the Temple Mount ? another reminder of the sensitive, inextricable mesh of religious claims to the area.
Natan Sharansky, the chairman of the Jewish Agency, said he had presented the proposal to Israeli lawmakers and Jewish leaders in Israel and the United States, and hoped it would be accepted.
"One Western Wall for one Jewish people," said Sharansky, a one-time political prisoner in the former Soviet Union. He expressed his hope that the site "will once again be a symbol of unity among the Jewish people, and not one of discord and strife."
The plan will be presented to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and must be approved by Israel's government before it is implemented. Netanyahu's office had no immediate comment.
Women of the Wall, a liberal Jewish women's group whose members have been arrested in controversial monthly prayer sessions in the current female-only section of the site, cautiously welcomed the proposal.
"The principle is the most important issue here," said Peggy Cidor, a board member of Women of the Wall. "The most important thing for us is that someone has at last understood that this cannot continue."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/support-grows-liberal-area-israel-holy-132731265.html
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Over the weakened rumors ran rampant that popular cross-platform messaging service WhatsApp was in Google's cross-hairs, and that a buyout might be imminent. Not so, says WhatsApp's head of business development, Neeraj Arora. According to Liz Gannes of AllThingsD:
[WhatsApp] is not holding sales talks with Google.
Google has bought, and in some cases killed, popular services before, and likely will again. WhatsApp has been the subject of buyout rumors before, including by Facebook (who ultimately bought their competitor, Beluga), and likely will again. In an increasingly connected world, a cross-platform communication service is valuable, and Whatsapp becoming to GTalk what Sparrow became to Gmail or Snapseed became to whatever Google finally does with photos, certainly isn't inconceivable.
Mega corporations, including Apple, buying independent software and services companies, sometimes for talent or technology rather than current products, sometimes just to reduce competitive pressures, is why we can't always have and keep nice internet things.
Of course, a relatively low-level denial means almost nothing in a world where CEO's tell us they're not doing something right up until the moment they do it. So keep your rumor drawer ever-so-slightly ajar for the next few weeks. And in the meantime, let me know -- do you care if Google, or someone else, buys WhatsApp?
Source: AllThingsD
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We have a feeling 4K is going to be a major theme at this year's NAB, which also means we'll be seeing a good deal of hardware that can actually handle such high-res content. Mostly, we're talking pro cameras and the like, but at least one company will be showing off some professional-grade hard drives -- after all, you're gonna need a solid storage solution to process those supersize files, right? G-Technology just introduced the "Evolution" family of products, the centerpiece of which is the G-Dock ev, a mini-tower with two hard drive modules and dual Thunderbolt connections. What you put in those hard drive slots is up to you: the company is offering both a 9.5mm 7,200RPM drive (rated for 136 MB/s transfers) and a beefier 15mm cartridge promising 250 MB/s. Once you choose your drives, you can arrange them in a RAID 1 configuration if redundancy is important, or RAID 0 for maximum speed.
What's more, each of the drives has a USB 3.0 socket on board, so if you needed to you could hand it to someone else in your office and let them grab whatever data they needed off the HDD. In any case, the dock will come standard with two 1TB, 9.5mm drives -- look for it next month, priced at $750 for the bundle. If you later need some additional cartridges, the 9.3mm G-Drive ev will cost either $150 or $200, depending on whether you want 500 gigs or a full terabyte. The bigger 15mm G-Drive ev Plus will go for $350 (it'll be sold with 1TB only). Lastly, G-Technology also announced the G-Drive Pro with a Thunderbolt port and claimed transfer speeds of 480 MB/s. That'll ship this summer for either $700 or $850, depending on whether you want 2TB or 4GB of storage. All that's in the PR after the break, along with an endorsement from Vincent Laforet himself. Must be good, right?
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