Monday, December 31, 2012

2nd brig commander taking stand in WikiLeaks case | Reduction

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2nd brig commander taking stand in WikiLeaks case

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County music star Blake Shelton entertains Fort Meade by Fort Meade
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Nov. 28, 2012: Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, center, steps out of a security vehicle as he is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md. , for a pretrial hearing. AP FORT MEADE, Md. –  Testimony in the WikiLeaks case resumes with the second of two Marine Corps brig commanders who ordered strict pretrial confinement of an Army private charged with sending classified information to the anti-secrecy website. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Denise Barnes is the only witness scheduled Friday. It is the ninth day of Pfc. Bradley Manning's pretrial hearing at Fort Meade. He claims the nine months he spent at the base in Quantico, Va. , were so punishing that his case should be dismissed. When Barnes assumed command in January 2011, Manning had been there six months.

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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Dec. 06, 2010 | Reduction

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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Dec. 06, 2010

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The Kepler project team successfully completed another science data download Nov. 22-23, 2010. This download of science data from the Kepler spacecraft marked the completion of Quarter 7, Month 2 data collection. All spacecraft commanding was accomplished without incident, as operations have been nominal for several months. As the operation concluded, the team turned its attention to prepare for the upcoming quarterly roll of the spacecraft for the winter season. This operation is planned for Dec. 21-23, 2010, and will be accompanied by another download of science data from Quarter 7, Month 3. The 2010 ground-based observing season is completed for the Kepler Mission. Next year’s ground-based observing season will begin in spring 2011. The Kepler Follow-up Observation Team is now devoting its energy to examining planetary candidates to eliminate false positives and refine the candidate list based on currently available data.

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Feds Aim to Double Habitat for Spotted Owl | Essentials

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Feds Aim to Double Habitat for Spotted Owl

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The last building block of the Obama administration's strategy unveiled Wednesday to keep the northern spotted owl from extinction nearly doubles the amount of Northwest national forest land dedicated to protecting the bird by the Bush administration four years ago. Still, conservation groups that went to court to force the overhaul said key gaps remain, such as an exemption for private forest lands and most state forests. The full critical habitat plan will not be published until next week, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that 9 million acres of federal forests in Oregon, Washington and Northern California will come under its provisions. The amount is down from nearly 14 million acres proposed last February but still exceeds the 5. 3 million acres proposed in 2008.

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Grail probes readied for crash into moon | Essentials

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Grail probes readied for crash into moon

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NASA / JPL-Caltech This graphic highlights locations on the moon NASA considers "lunar heritage sites" and the path NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory spacecraft will take on their final flight. The image was released Thursday.

Grail probes readied for crash into moon

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Trayvon Martin Shooter to Seek Expense Money | Redux

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Trayvon Martin Shooter to Seek Expense Money

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Attorney Mark O'Mara said an existing fund has raised $140,000 since last May, but the money it is running a bit low. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and claims the shooting was self-defense under the state's "stand your ground" law. A trial is set for June, but a "stand your ground hearing" could be held by April.

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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Elephant can speak Korean | Synopsis

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Elephant can speak Korean

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Nov. 1, 2012: An Asian elephant named Koshik can imitate human speech, speaking words in Korean that can be readily understood by those who know the language. The elephant accomplishes this in a most unusual way: he vocalizes with his trunk in his mouth. Current Biology, Stoeger et al. An Asian elephant male named Koshik can imitate human speech, speaking words in Korean that others who know the language can understand. The elephant's vocabulary at present consists of five words: annyong (hello), anja (sit down), aniya (no), nuo (lie down), and choah (good).

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0.268562"Some of the words were commands that Koshik learned to perform, such as 'lie down' and 'sit down,' or were given as feedback, and we have every reason to believe he understands the meaning of these words," said Tecumseh Fitch, ...
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0.282952Stoeger-Horwath said, "He mainly seems to be using these vocalizations as a way of bonding with people, rather than for true communication and for their meaning."
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6.1 magnitude quake strikes Chile | Synopsis

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6.1 magnitude quake strikes Chile

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The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake's epicenter was 34 miles (54 kilometers) south-west of San Antonio and struck Wednesday at 4:36 p.m. local time. The quake shook Chile's capital of Santiago, causing office buildings to sway.

6.1 magnitude quake strikes Chile

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Astronauts begin spacewalk to fix space station cooling system | Synopsis

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Astronauts begin spacewalk to fix space station cooling system

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Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide is pictured during a spacewalk on Sept. 5, 2012. During the six-hour, 28-minute spacewalk, Hoshide and NASA astronaut Sunita Williams (out of frame) fixed a critical station power unit and installed a camera oNASA This NASA graphic shows the two astronauts who will perform a 6. 5-hour spacewalk on Nov. 1, 2012. They are: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, and Akihiko Hoshide, an astronaut with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). NASA Two astronauts are floating outside the International Space Station today (Nov. 1) in an effort to isolate and repair an ammonia leak in part of the orbiting lab's cooling system. NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese spaceflyer Akihiko Hoshide officially begun the spacewalk — also known as an extra-vehicular activity, or EVA — this morning at 8:29 a.m. EDT (1229 GMT).

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Hubble and Webb Telescope Exhibit Comes to Portland, Oregon, Museum | Synopsis

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Hubble and Webb Telescope Exhibit Comes to Portland, Oregon, Museum

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James Webb Space Telescope Night at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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› Larger image GREENBELT, Md. – A NASA interactive exhibit featuring the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA's Hubble Telescope is coming to Portland, Oregon. Visitors will be able to experience how the Webb telescope will work, through computer games, videos and displays. The Webb telescope exhibit is part of the "New Views of the Universe: Hubble Space Telescope" traveling exhibit. The traveling NASA exhibit opens at the Washington County Museum at 17677 NW Springville Road in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, Nov. 17 and will be there through May 31, 2013. "Technology and innovation are the backbone of Washington County’s Silicon Forest," said Sam Shogren, executive director of the Washington County Museum.

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0"The Webb telescope's increased sensitivity will allow scientists to see back to when the first galaxies formed just after the Big Bang," said Eric Smith, Webb program scientist at NASA Headquarters, Washington. "The larger telescope will have advantages for all aspects of astronomy and will revolutionize studies of how stars and planetary systems form and evolve."
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0.174289"Technology and innovation are the backbone of Washington County’s Silicon Forest," said Sam Shogren, executive director of the Washington County Museum. "We saw a natural fit with the Hubble Space Telescope, a masterpiece of engineering, and the historically deep tech roots right here in Washington County."
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