Canada sees G20 talks pressuring Europe, U.S

OTTAWA (Reuters) - This weekend's meetings of the Group of 20 leading nations are likely to keep pushing Europe and the United States to confront their debt troubles, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Tuesday.

The Mexico City meetings of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors follow talks in Tokyo more than two weeks ago, which endorsed a checklist of policy reforms aimed at pressuring Europe and the United States to tackle their debt troubles.

"I hope we will continue the discussions that we had in Tokyo to encourage our European colleagues to get on with the structural reform that needs to be accomplished in Europe, including the banking union in Europe," he told reporters.

"I think we'll continue to push on that front," he said, acknowledging some progress in Europe since the Tokyo talks.

He also highlighted acute concern over the so-called fiscal cliff in the United States of huge automatic spending cuts and tax rises set to occur on January 1 if Congress fails to act before then.

"I'm not even sure which American officials are going to be in Mexico City on the weekend, but we want to encourage our American friends to get on the issue of the fiscal cliff as soon as possible after the U.S. election," he said.

In separate parliamentary testimony, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney highlighted Europe's debt crisis as the biggest external risk facing Canada, but the central bank assumes it will be contained.

"The next (risk), in the near term, is the potential resolution or not of the so-called fiscal cliff in the United States," he said.

"If the fiscal cliff were not to be resolved and all the measures were to come into force on the books in the United States, the U.S. would almost certainly be in recession next year with a knock-on effect obviously for Canadian exporters, business investment, etc. We're not predicting that but it is a possibility."

(Reporting by Randall Palmer; Editing by James Dalgleish)

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Sports stars sell memories, beat tax increase

FILE - In this June 28, 2012, file photo, New York Yankees great Don Larsen reacts during a news conference announcing the auction of his 1956 perfect game uniform in New York. Larsen is auctioning off the Yankee pinstripes he wore in 1956 when he pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, and will use the proceeds to pay college tuition for his grandchildren, one in college and the other a high school freshman. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

FILE - In this June 28, 2012, file photo, New York Yankees great Don Larsen reacts during a news conference announcing the auction of his 1956 perfect game uniform in New York. Larsen is auctioning off the Yankee pinstripes he wore in 1956 when he pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, and will use the proceeds to pay college tuition for his grandchildren, one in college and the other a high school freshman. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

FILE - This Sept. 14, 2011 file photo shows Bob Knight during a speech at Butler University in Indianapolis. Knight is selling his NCAA championship rings and other mementos to fund education in his family. "I have two grandsons," the Hall of Fame basketball coach said, "and my wife has a niece and nephew, who would get good use out of this." (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Rather than leave a 56-year-old uniform hanging in a closet at his Idaho home, Don Larsen decided it should be used for education.

He's auctioning off the Yankee pinstripes he wore in 1956 when he pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, and will use the proceeds to pay college tuition for his grandchildren, one in college and the other a high school freshman.

"I'm not getting any younger and I want to see them get an education before I leave," the 83-year-old Larsen said. "They'll be appreciative later, more so than now, I'm sure."

Similarly, Bob Knight is selling his NCAA championship rings and other mementos to fund education in his family. "I have two grandsons," the Hall of Fame basketball coach said, "and my wife has a niece and nephew, who would get good use out of this."

In fact, a slew of sports memorabilia is on the market, coincidentally or not, just ahead of possible tax increases that could eat up some of the proceeds.

Also up for auction in coming weeks are baseball star Ozzie Smith's Gold Gloves, Evander Holyfield's boxing championship belts and an original of the agreement Pete Rose signed when he was banned from baseball for life in 1989.

"Sounds like a bunch of guys with full expectations that the Bush tax cuts are going to expire by year's end and not be back for next year," said Steve Gill, associate professor of accounting at San Diego State's Lamden School of Accountancy.

And starting Jan. 1, there will be a new Medicare tax on income from investments for higher-earning people. The IRS hasn't issued rules yet, so money from the sale of collectibles may be subject to the new levy.

"The 3.8 percent Medicare tax would probably be the thing that immediately popped into my mind in terms of what folks may be thinking about," said David Boyle, Americas director of personal financial services for the accounting firm Ernst & Young.

Some athletes used to give away the shirts off their backs or leave them in the clubhouse at season's end. Not anymore.

"If I knew then what I know now, I would have saved all my uniforms," baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra said.

These days, polyester double-knit has replaced wool flannel uniforms, and the 10,000-plus outfits sent to the 30 big-league clubs by Majestic Athletic are highly desired by fans. But it is gear from decades ago that is more prized.

"It's just a more honest period of time. Things were clearer. Things were simpler," said Brandon Steiner, whose Steiner Sports Memorabilia is auctioning the Larsen jersey and Knight collection in an online sale that will end Dec. 5.

Retired athletes and auction houses took notice in May when a circa-1920 Babe Ruth jersey was sold by SCP Auctions for $4.4 million to Lelands.com, which had a buyer lined up.

"Now not everybody is going to have a $4.4 million piece of memorabilia, but they might have something that is worth between $25,000 and $250,000," said Ken Goldin of Goldin Auctions, which is selling the Rose agreement. "So different deals are being cut with the auction houses to bring that particular memorabilia to market while the players perceive it to be a good time to do so."

Larsen threw his last big-league pitch in 1967? when the average major league salary was $19,000. That would cover only a small slice of the price of top memorabilia these days.

In the same auction as the Ruth jersey, a 1934 Ruth Yankees cap that was owned by pitcher David Wells sold for $537,278, about $507,000 more than Wells paid for it.

The baseball that rolled through the legs of Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series sold in May for $418,250. Two years ago, the bat Kirk Gibson used for his game-winning home run for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first game of the 1988 World Series sold for $575,912.

Those were bargains compared with a rare 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card that sold for $2.35 million in 2007, then resold six months later for $2.8 million to Arizona Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick, who allowed baseball's Hall of Fame to display it.

"Sports people are nuts," Knight said. "Look at how much they would pay for Babe Ruth's cap or Honus Wagner's card. I guess these are people who want to own things, things that are the results of what someone else did in sports."

Wealthy sports junkies view a 1952 Mickey Mantle card the same way others look at their 401(k).

"While the stock market is up and down, and while real estate is up and down, the memorabilia market has really gained a lot of steam over the last couple years," said Goldin, whose Rose auction runs through Nov. 17.

Instead of being auctioned online, Holyfield's collection will be sold Nov. 30 at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, Calif., which also sells rock 'n' roll and Hollywood memorabilia.

"People look at these items not just as fans. They look at them as an investment. It's a way to diversify their portfolio," owner Darren Julien said. "We're very popular in Asia and Russia, and that's where a lot of the money is coming from. Items that used to sell for $8,000 to $10,000 can bring $200,000 to $300,000 now."

Holyfield, like Larsen, said he didn't consider the tax implications of selling items now rather than after the first of the year.

"This is something new to me," the former heavyweight champion said.

But the auction houses say the tax issues come up in the planning.

"As players get older, they certainly don't know what's going to happen with an estate tax, and I guess they figure they'd rather have it sold now than after they're passed and lose an unknown percentage," Goldin said.

And it extends beyond the sports sales.

"We've had other people, not just athletes, but we've had other celebrity personalities talk to us about that because it is an issue," Julien said.

In Gill's calculation, tax changes next year could push the rate on proceeds from these sales from 28 percent to 33 percent. In addition to the Medicare tax and the possibility of higher tax brackets, there could be a limitation on itemized deductions for higher-income people.

"I might just hurry up and sell it right now," Gill said. "Anything you would be selling in the near term, hurry up and sell in December."

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AP Basketball Writer Jim O'Connell and AP Sports Writer Tom Canavan contributed to this report.

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South African in toenail campaign to clip rhino deaths

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African film production designer armed with a nail cutter is trying to help stamp out rhino poaching by sending toenail clippings to the Chinese embassy in Pretoria.

Mark Wilby said he wants to make the point that rhino horn, which sells for prices higher than gold as a traditional Chinese medicine, is made up of keratin - a protein which is a component in human nails and hair.

"I felt that we have moved beyond the time of politeness. I am not doing it out of disrespect to the Chinese authorities, but how else do you get their attention," Wilby told Reuters on Wednesday.

Wilby has produced a video released on YouTube, calling on others to clip their nails and send them by post to the embassy.

Chinese embassy officials were not immediately available for comment. Officials from China and South Africa have been working together to reduce poaching.

Rhino poaching deaths in South Africa, home to almost all the rhinos in Africa, hit a record annual high in October, driven by the use of horns in Chinese medicine and a spreading belief in Southeast Asia, unfounded in science, that they may cure cancer.

The number of rhinoceroses dying unnatural deaths in South Africa, either through illegal poaching or legal hunts, has now reached a level likely to lead to population decline, according to an expert study.

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Meteorite Found! Fragment of California Fireball Hit House

A meteorite from a fireball that lit up the night sky over Northern California last week hit the roof of a Novato house and landed in the backyard, scientists say.

Homeowner Lisa Webber, a nurse at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, found the space rock Saturday (Oct. 20), after reading an article about?the dazzling Oct. 17 fireball?in the San Francisco Chronicle. She recalled hearing a sound on her roof the night the meteor was reported and went searching behind her house, where she found a 2.2 ounce (63 grams) stone.

Webber contacted Peter Jenniskens, head of the CAMS (Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance) project, which is jointly run by NASA and the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute. The CAMS project put out a public call for information on possible meteorite sightings soon after the fireball last week.

"I wasn't sure at first," Jenniskens said in a statement on the CAMS website. "The meteorite looks very unusual, because much of the fusion crust had come off." [Photos of the Oct. 17 Fireball and Meteorite]

However, Jenniskens ultimately identified the rock as?a meteorite. The stone, he reports, is dense and responds to a magnet, although scientists recommend not bringing magnets near suspected meteorites to avoid disrupting their natural magnetic fields.

Jenniskens and Webber's neighbors Luis Rivera and Leigh Blair?inspected the house's roof and found a small dent consistent with the rock having hit it from a southwest direction.

The stone, which is a mixture of light and dark material, appears to be breccia, a composite made of mineral and rock fragments bound together.

The meteorite's discovery helps scientists define the trajectory along which the meteor fragments fell. The path began east of San Rafael and continued over west Novato, toward Sonoma, Jenniskens said. He hopes the find will help the CAMS team uncover more meteorites from the same fireball soon.

"The significance of this find is that we can now hope to use our fireball trajectory to trace this type of meteorite back to its origins in the asteroid belt," Jenniskens said.

The fireball was seen at 7:44:29 p.m. PDT (10:44 p.m. EDT) by many people in the San Francisco Bay Area, with numerous observers catching the blaze on cell phone cameras and videos. The fireball also created a loud sonic boom that was also reported by witnesses. It occured just days before the peak of the annual Orionid meteor shower over the weekend.

The CAMS team "obtained two views of the fireball track, one by our regular 20-camera station, the other by the single-camera station at San Mateo College," the scientists wrote.

"We propose the name Novato meteorite, pending approval by the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee," they added.

Editor's Note: If you snapped a photo of Wednesday night's dazzling meteor and would like to share it with SPACE.com, please send images, comments and your location info to managing Editor Tariq Malik at:?tmalik@space.com.

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'Cloud Atlas' could be English's future

In the futuristic sections of the novel "Cloud Atlas," by author David Mitchell, there are a few clues to tell readers that those parts aren't set in our own times. There are those perfectly human clones, for example. In the movie based on the novel, which comes out Oct. 26, there's a flying snowmobile that shoots lasers. But one of the central, if less flashy, ways that the novel takes its readers through time is through changes in the English language.

With the movie coming out this week, TechNewsDaily wanted to know whether the future language changes Mitchell predicts are possible. They're probably very inaccurate, said Anthony Kroch, chair of the linguistics department at the University of Pennsylvania. But that's okay, he added. "Holding the author to the standard of, 'Well, this is an unlikely change' isn't reasonable," he said.?

"I actually thought that the author didn't do too bad a job," he said. "I think what he did was he picked up on some fairly obvious things and he invented some things that might happen and that would attract the reader's attention."

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The depiction of future language in "Cloud Atlas" illustrates some interesting points about language's evolution over time. The depiction also reveals how Mitchell created a futuristic, exotic atmosphere while keeping things understandable for those of us following the action at home. [SEE ALSO: Languages Lose Vocab to Science and Spell-Check]

Fancier words for past, simpler words for ?future
In the novel's far future, most human knowledge has been destroyed or forgotten. Few people are literate. Zachry, one of the book's main characters, opens the section with a story about meeting the devil. "So gimme some mutton an' I'll tell you 'bout our first meetin'," he says. "A fat joocesome slice, nay, none o' your burnt wafery off'rin's ?"

Zachry's speech looks strange to readers, but it's not as strange as the future English language really might be. A postapocalyptic English would likely be unintelligible to people today, Kroch said. After all, even without an apocalypse, English has changed so much over the last 400 years that modern people find Shakespeare hard to follow, he said.

Yet authors can't make their books too difficult for readers to understand, so they need to write in a way that appears futuristic and exotic, but actually hews closely to language today. ?"You can only use things that are currently available in the language. Otherwise, people wouldn't understand you," Kroch said.

One way Mitchell does this is by using highbrow language in the earlier sections of book, but simpler-sounding language in later sections of the book, Kroch said. "We have this intuition that fancy words are old-fashioned and common, short words are lower-class and contemporary," he said. "There is an idea that in the past, people spoke in a more elevated way than they do now."

That's not actually true, but people get that impression because the only samples of language that survive from previous eras are well-preserved written pieces, Kroch said. Political treaties, noblemen's letters and literature for the upper classes naturally have more sophisticated language. Shakespeare's plays still live on, but recordings of ordinary people chatting in the streets of Elizabethan England don't exist.

Mitchell gets around that problem by making the older chapters in "Cloud Atlas" excerpts from the letters and diaries of well-educated people.

A dialect for the eye
Another way Mitchell made future language in "Cloud Atlas" look more exotic is by changing capitalization rules, eliminating the spaces between certain words, and otherwise changing how words look on the page. The language is basically the same, however, and might not even be noticeably different if read aloud. [SEE ALSO: 'Hunger Games' Exposes Myth of Technological Progress]

In Mitchell's post-apocalyptic far future, for example, the characters talk about "huntin'n'shootin'." While that's not how modern English speakers would write "hunting and shooting," it's not much different from how they might say the phrase aloud. "In ordinary, everyday language, we routinely run words together and that's not some kind of laziness or special, extreme way of using language, but it is absolutely the ordinary way of using language," Kroch said.?

Linguists call such changes "eye dialect," Kroch explained. Eye dialect uses spelling and other writing tricks to suggest a dialect, but doesn't always accurately match the dialect it's trying to mimic. American readers may be familiar with eye dialect from the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris, or from Mark Twain's books.?

Real possible changes
It's difficult to predict future changes in the English language, Kroch said. Historically, some words have changed dramatically over time, while others have drifted, only to return to their original form. "You can't be at all confident that [a change] will spread or be reversed," he said.?

There are several changes Kroch thinks could happen in a post-apocalyptic world if the English language lost many of its books and illiteracy is rampant. Without writing to remind people of a standard, the mispronunciations of childhood could get ingrained in a language, Kroch said. While "Cloud Atlas" has people say "mem'ryin'" for "remembering," Kroch thinks a more likely change is the use of "member" for "remember," a common toddler mistake. The people of the future could drop other prefixes, too, Kroch said. "Treme" might replace "extreme"; "tend" might overtake "pretend."?

Grammar could remain as complex or even gain complexity, Kroch said, but without dictionaries to remind people of the hundreds of thousands of words in standard English, the language is likely to lose much of its vocabulary. English vocabulary has been partially shaped by writing, which allowed it to grow beyond any human's capability to remember.?

The rarity of books and of reading in Mitchell's far future is a sure sign of just how bad things have gotten, Kroch said. "It's a very interesting question. What would happen to English if it were disconnected from its literary tradition?" he said. "It would take an unbelievable catastrophe."?

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Beetles dance on poop balls to keep cool

Dung beetles can use balls of poo much like air-conditioning units to cool themselves, researchers say.

Dung beetles roll up nutritious balls of excrement up to 50 times heavier than their own bodies to feed their young. They roll the balls walking backward, with their heads near the ground. The ancient Egyptians envisioned that the sun was rolled around the sky in much the same way, making the dung (or scarab) beetle an important symbol in ancient Egyptian religion.

Past research showed these insects routinely dance in circles on top of their feasts of dung to help navigate away from rival beetles as quickly as possible. As scientists looked for this dancing, they noticed the beetles climbed onto the excrement balls most often during the midday heat.

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Now researchers find that dung beetles might also use excrement to keep themselves cool.

"Dung beetles are the first example of an insect using a mobile, thermal refuge to move across hot soil," researcher Jochen Smolka, a neuroethologist at Lund University in Sweden, told LiveScience. "Insects, once thought to be at the mercy of environmental temperatures, use sophisticated behavioral strategies to regulate their body temperature[s]."

Scientists used thermal vision cameras to watch the Scarabaeus (Kheper) lamarcki dung beetle in its natural habitat in the South African savanna, where ground temperatures at noon can exceed a searing 140 degrees F (60 degrees C). The scientists prepared two sandy, circular arenas 10 feet wide. They kept one shaded in the morning so that it only reached a relatively cool 124.3 degrees F (51.3 degrees C), and left the other exposed to full sunlight so it heated up to about 135 degrees F (57.2 degrees C).

The researchers discovered that beetles on hot soil climbed onto their excrement balls seven times more often than when on cooler ground. When the researchers painted rubbery boots made of silicone onto the legs of the insects to protect them from the heat, "beetles with boots on climbed their balls less often," Smolka said. The scientists think the insects get on top of dung when it gets hot to give themselves a respite from scorching sands and help protect their brains from overheating. The researchers found the front legs of the beetles cooled by about 12 degrees F (7 degrees C) on average within 10 seconds of climbing on their excrement balls. [ Video and Photos of Dancing Dung Beetles ]

"Like an air-conditioning unit, the moist ball is cooled by evaporative cooling," Smolka said.

Once on top of the balls, the insects were often seen "wiping their faces," preening gestures the investigators think spread regurgitated liquid onto their legs and heads, behavior never seen at other times of day.

"We'd really like to continue looking at the preening behavior," Smolka said. "Do the beetles actually regurgitate liquid in order to cool their heads?"

The scientists detailed their findings in the Oct. 23 issue of the journal Current Biology.

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Computer Law and Security ? the christian computer and media user

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Law

Data Protection Act 1998

The Data Protection Act 1998 came into being, to update a previous act. This was to comply with the European Rights Convention, Article 8 ? giving people the right of privacy. If any size company collects information about people, in particularly personnel information such as credit card number, address, name, telephone number etc, you must follow the data protection guidelines.

• You must say what the data is for and why you collect it (this you must stick to and not use the data for any other purpose).
• You must register your data collection system with the information commission.
• Personnel data about people must be lawfully obtained
• Data held must be must be accurate.
• You must show information stored about a person to the subject of that data and delete it, if told to by the subject of the data.
• You should not give the information about people to anyone else without permission, except to police only if they need it prevent a crime or to catch a suspect or if they have a warrant.
• You must prevent unauthorised access and processing of data (using appropriate security methods).
• You must not allow personnel data to be accidentally lost, damaged or altered, (using appropriate security methods).

Penalties

As from April 2010 any company that breaks the act can be fined up to ?500,000 dependant on the seriousness of the breach.

Computer Misuse Act 1990

The computer misuse act was started to stop a loop hole in the law, after two people broke into the British Telecom?s Prestel computer system and Prince Philip?s message box in 1985.

This Act states you should not:-

• Access computers which you are unauthorised to access.
• Access computers which you are unauthorised to access, to cause damage or perform other crimes with the information you obtained illegally.
• Modify computers or data you, do not have the right to access.

Penalties

• Access computers which you are Unauthorized Access, is called a summary offence and penalties are limited to 6 months imprisonment and/or a maximum fine of ?5000.
• Access computers which you are unauthorized to access, to cause damage or perform other crimes with information obtained illegally is a serious crime and carries jail terms of up to 5 years and unlimited fines.
• Modify computers or data you, do not have the right to access is again a serious crime and carries a jail terms of up to 5 years and unlimited fines.

Computer and Data security

You must protect your computer against things that can damage it and the data on it

How can we protect computer systems?

• Not making passwords too easy to guess.
• Backing up data on computer systems.
• Using Antivirus/Malware/Spyware checkers (Make sure the spyware /malware/ antivirus software is not fake, to be on safe side use a known one like Kaspersky, Norton, MacAfee (paid), Microsoft Essentials (free) MalwareBytes (good Professional checker).
• Use firewalls, this blocks unauthorized access to your computer.
• When you move away from Computer/workstations Lock it (ctrl-alt-del, Lock Computer)
• Using a Uninterruptible Power Supply (ups)(battery backup that prevents computer being damage due to power cuts).
• Using surge protection.
• Erasing Data on Hard Drives before disposing.

cases where data has been found on hard drives

?A study conducted by Kessler International, a world leader specializing in computer forensics, determined that over 40% of the hard drives listed for sale on eBay still contain personal, private, and sensitive information otherwise thought to be erased.? Kessler International.

?Sensitive information for shooting down intercontinental missiles as well as bank details and NHS records was found on old computers, researchers say?. BBC News.

?Medical records, confidential letters and X-rays of patients in Lanarkshire have been found on second-hand computer hard drives?. BBC News.

Laptops and Security

One of the worst areas for data getting out is data on laptops, below is a list of things to do to secure your business laptop

• Not Leaving your Password with your Laptop Case.
• Be careful what Data you put on your Laptop.
• Encrypt your laptop.
• use screen shield (prevents the laptop screen being view from side).
• Use Laptop desk lock when one is available (device you can use to lock the laptop to a desk).
• Don?t leave the laptop lying Around .

Further Reading

• (2009) Data Protection (3rd Edition) Peter Carey, Oxford University Press.
• (2008) Introduction to information Technology Law (6th Edition) David I. Bainbridge, Pearson Longman.
• (2002) Information Security Best Practices: 205 Basic Rules By George L. Stefanek, Butterworth Heinemann.
• (1990) Computers Under Attack By Peter J. Denning (editor), Published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.

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Britain nixes extradition of NASA hacker Gary McKinnon to US

Gary McKinnon, a British citizen, is accused of breaking into nearly 100 US military and NASA computers, looking for photos of UFOs.

By Arthur Bright,?Staff writer / October 16, 2012

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The British government today announced that Gary McKinnon, a British hacker with a condition that has been diagnosed as Asperger's syndrome, will not be extradited to the United States. But while the decision is nominally about his human rights, it may also be a byproduct of a longstanding debate over the US-Britain extradition treaty, which British critics say is weighted too much in favor of US interests.

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British Home Secretary Theresa May today told the House of Commons that she had withdrawn the extradition order against Mr. McKinnon after determining that extraditing him would violate his human rights, BBC News reports.

Mr McKinnon is accused of serious crimes. But there is also no doubt that he is seriously ill. He has Asperger's syndrome, and suffers from depressive illness. The legal question before me is now whether the extent of that illness is sufficient to preclude extradition.

After careful consideration of all of the relevant material, I have concluded that Mr McKinnon's extradition would give rise to such a high risk of him ending his life that a decision to extradite would be incompatible with Mr McKinnon's human rights.

Ms. May said that it would now be up to the director of public prosecutions to determine whether McKinnon would face charges in Britain.

McKinnon is accused of breaking into nearly 100 NASA and US military computers between 2001 and 2002, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, and is charged in Virginia and New Jersey on eight counts of computer fraud. Lawyers for McKinnon said that he was merely looking for evidence of UFOs and did not have any criminal intent. The Daily Telegraph reported in 2009 that McKinnon's supporters say he is being made a scapegoat for US failures to secure its computers, which McKinnon has called "ridiculously easy" to hack.

US lawyer David Rivkin, an adviser to the Reagan and Bush administrations, told the BBC that the decision to deny extradition for McKinnon?on health grounds was "laughable" and that "under that logic, anybody who claims some kind of physical or mental problem can commit crimes with impunity and get away with it." British solicitor Edward Fitzgerald told The Guardian that he felt McKinnon's case turned on his alleged high suicide risk.

While May said in her statement that the "sole issue" before her was McKinnon's human rights, her decision not to extradite McKinnon comes amid public debate in Britain over the country's extradition responsibilities, particularly those in its treaty with the US.

Critics say that the US-Britain treaty, enacted in 2003, favors US interests over British ones. The Guardian's Owen Bowcott points out that between January 2004 and October 2012, 92 people have been extradited from Britain to the US, while only 43 have made the opposite trip. He also notes, however, that between January 2004 and December 2011, Britain made 57 requests for extradition and 40 extraditions took place, while the US made 134 requests during that same period, and only 75 extraditions occurred.

In announcing her decision on McKinnon, May called the US-Britain treaty "broadly sound," reports The Guardian.? But May added that she would introduce a new "forum bar" to the extradition process, which would allow a court to deny extradition if it deemed a British trial more fair to the accused than a trial overseas, reports The Guardian. May also said that she planned to end the home secretary's ability to deny extradition on human rights grounds ? the very grounds she used to bar McKinnon's extradition ? arguing that such discretion would be better placed in the courts than in the government's hands.?

May's proposed reforms to the US extradition process are just part of a broader overhaul by the British government to its approach to international justice. The Washington Post reports that May also announced that Britain would be?opting out of more than 100 criminal justice measures?with the European Union and reinstating selected measures. The Post writes that the move "appeared aimed at satisfying Conservative lawmakers who have grown increasingly skeptical of the E.U.?s reach in British affairs."

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Voice software helps study of rare Yosemite owls

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) ? In the bird world, they make endangered condors seem almost commonplace.

The unique Great Gray Owls of Yosemite, left to evolve after glacial ice separated them from their plentiful Canadian brethren 30 millennia ago, are both a mystery and concern to the scientists charged with protecting them.

With fewer than 200 in existence in this small pocket of the Sierra Nevada, the slightest disturbances by humans can drive the extremely shy birds from their nests, disrupting sporadic mating cycles that ebb and flow annually depending upon food availability.

So this summer, researchers found a way to abandon their traditional heavy-handed trapping, banding and the blasting of owl calls in favor of the kind of discrete, sophisticated technology used by spies and forensic scientists.

They hope to lessen human influence on this subspecies of owls prized for the potential insights their survival offers into habitat-specific evolution.

"Even if it takes only 15 minutes to trap a bird, it's traumatic for them in the long term," said Joe Medley, a PhD candidate in ecology at UC Davis who perfected computer voice recognition software to track the largest of North America's owls. "With a population this small, we want to err on the side of caution in terms of the methods we use to get data."

Medley placed 40 data-compression digital audio recorders around the mid-elevation meadows typically favored by the owl known as Strix nebulosa Yosemitensis, hoping to identify them by their mating, feeding and territorial calls.

He ended up with 50 terabytes of owl calls mixed with airplanes flying overhead, frogs croaking, coyotes yipping, bears growling and even the occasional crunch of fangs on pricy microphones ? so much data it would have taken seven years to play back.

He then designed algorithms for an existing computer program that would search for the specific frequency and time intervals of the Great Gray Owls' low-pitched hoot "whooo-ooo-ooo-ooo." The program could discern males and females from juveniles, and even identify nesting females calling for food to help determine reproduction success. The results are still being analyzed.

"It's capable of searching a week's worth of data in an hour. What I was left with was owls and a host of other things that fell in the same bandwidth," Medley said.

Most of the world's Great Gray Owls make their homes in northern hemisphere boreal forests, though a few live as far south as Oregon and Idaho. The giants with piercing yellow eyes and 5-foot wingspans have adapted so well to snow that they can dive face-first through up to a foot of it to catch the voles they hear creeping underneath. Their dish-shaped faces work to amplify sound.

During the last ice age 30,000 years ago, a small population in and around what would become the glacially carved landscape of Yosemite was cut off from the others to evolve on their own in a warmer, less snowy climate.

Those owls, now numbering just a couple of hundred, are on California's endangered species list. The giant condors, once nearly extinct, number around 400 in California and the Southwest, and are on the federal endangered list.

"These (owls) exist nowhere else in the world, and where they do occur is a pretty amazing location," said Joshua Hull, a researcher with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and adjunct professor at the University of California, Davis. "These are going in a different evolutionary direction than the others, and we don't know where that is right now."

Scientists from Yosemite, the U.S. Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife, with funding from the Yosemite Conservancy, are working to gain a greater understanding of what those differences mean. So far, DNA studies have noted distinct genetic variations between the separated groups in addition to the different food sources and nesting patterns the southern birds have adapted. The birds have very subtle differences in color.

"That's important to know because if it's genetically different, we should try to keep it that way," Hull said. "You wouldn't want to bring in individuals from Oregon to supplement a unique population."

The major threats to their continued survival are the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus ? and humans. A female believed to be the cohort's most reliable breeder was struck and killed by a car in the park in August, prompting slower speed limit warnings to protect the low-flying raptors that rarely lift more than 20 feet above ground.

Because of their rarity, they are highly sought out by birdwatchers whose presence in meadows can deter mating and food foraging, the researchers say. That's why no one will reveal exactly where in the park they are.

"They will abandon their nests if disturbed," said Steve Thompson, Yosemite's branch chief of wildlife management. "It's an extremely low population very vulnerable to natural- and human-caused events. They don't have the ability to rebound the way more abundant species do. We're very protective of them."

So protective that the owls will no longer be trapped to draw blood for studies. Instead researchers are collecting molted feathers to extract and amplify DNA to track lineage, mating patterns, population size, survival rates and even genetic mutations that might occur as the climate changes yet again.

"Genetic mutations occur randomly. It's just chance whether those mutations are advantageous or deleterious to the population," Thompson said. "And all of this is happening over tens of thousands of years, so to me as a biologist it's really exciting to have this demonstration of how evolution occurs."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/voice-software-helps-study-rare-yosemite-owls-205526943.html

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US aircraft carrier cruises disputed Asian seas

ON BOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (AP) ? A U.S. aircraft carrier group cruised through the disputed South China Sea on Saturday in a show of American power in waters that are fast becoming a focal point of Washington's strategic rivalry with Beijing.

Vietnamese security and government officials were flown onto the nuclear-powered USS George Washington ship, underlining the burgeoning military relationship between the former enemies. A small number of journalists were also invited to witness the display of maritime might in the oil-rich waters, which are home to islands disputed between China and the other smaller Asian nations facing the sea.

The visit will likely reassure Vietnam and the Philippines of American support but could annoy China, whose growing economic and naval strength is leading to a greater assertiveness in pressing its claims there. The United States is building closer economic and military alliances with Vietnam and other nations in the region as part of a "pivot" away from the Middle East to Asia, a shift in large part meant to counter rising Chinese influence.

The Vietnamese officials took photos of F-18 fighter jets taking off and landing on the ship's 1,000-foot- (305-meter-) long flight deck, met the captain and toured the hulking ship, which has more than 5,000 sailors on board.

The mission came a day after Beijing staged military exercises near islands in the nearby East China Sea it disputes with U.S ally Japan. Those tensions have flared in recent days.

China claims nearly all of the South China Sea, where the U.S. says it has a national interest in ensuring freedom of navigation in an area crossed by vital shipping lanes. Vietnam, the Philippines and several other Asian nations also claim parts of the sea. The disputes attracted little international interest until the late 1990s, when surveys indicated possible large oil reserves. American rivalry with China has given the disputes an extra dimension in recent years.

The U.S. Navy regularly patrols the Asia-Pacific region, conducting joint exercises with its allies and training in the strategic region. The trip by the George Washington off the coast of Vietnam is its third in as many years. A second aircraft carrier, the USS John C. Stennis, has also conducting operations in the western Pacific region recently, according to the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

Capt. Gregory Fenton said the mission was aimed in part at improving relations with Vietnam and ensuring the U.S. had free passage in the South China Sea.

China's military buildup, including the launch of its own carrier last year and rapid development of ballistic missiles and cyber warfare capabilities, could potentially crimp the U.S. forces' freedom to operate in the waters. The United States doesn't publicly take sides in the territorial disputes among China and its neighbors.

"It is our goal to see the region's nations figure out these tensions ... on their own, our role of that to date is to conduct freedom of navigation exercises within international waters," Fenton said in an interview on the bridge.

Although claimant countries have pledged to settle the territorial rifts peacefully, the disputes have erupted in violence in the past, including in 1988 when China and Vietnam clashed in the Spratly Islands in a confrontation that killed 64 Vietnamese soldiers. Many fear the disputes could become Asia's next flash point for armed conflict.

Vietnam is pleased to accept help from its one-time foe America as a hedge against its giant neighbor China, with which it also tries to maintain good relations.

Still, the Hanoi government reacted angrily to recent moves by Beijing to establish a garrison on one of the Paracel islands, which Vietnam claims. The United States also criticized the move by Beijing, earning it a rebuke from the government there.

"China will take this (cruise) as another expression by the United States of its desire to maintain regional domination," said Denny Roy, a senior fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii. "The U.S also wants to send a message to the region that it is here for the long haul ... and that it wants to back up international law."

While most analysts believe military confrontation in the waters is highly unlikely anytime soon, they say tensions are likely to increase as China continues pressing its claims and building its navy.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-aircraft-carrier-cruises-disputed-asian-seas-121558251.html

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Napa Residential Land For Sale 10/19/2012 ? Northern California ...

Thinking of building a new home or vacation getaway in the Napa Valley?? It?s not all vineyards, wineries, tasting rooms, restaurants and art galleries.? There are residential lots now on the market in the City of Napa that may be perfect for building your new dream home or rental property.

Here are this week?s Napa residential lots and land for sale as of October 19, 2012.? Drop me a line for more information and to schedule a site visit. (john@jsrealproperty.com ) To view the MLS listing for a property, click on Wine Country MLS Search and enter the address.

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Price	Location	Acres
$6,500	Country Club Ln	0.23
$18,000	152-Lot # Sorrell Ct	0.23
$19,500	315-Lot # Circle Oaks Dr	0.25
$25,000	Circle Oaks Dr	0.24
$25,000	lot 78 Circle Oaks Dr	0.24
$26,000	Sunny Hill Ln	0.24
$29,000	Black Oak Ln	0.27
$29,100	155-Lot # Sorrell Ct	0.24
$30,000	Sunnyhill Ln #89	0.23
$30,000	Circle Oaks Dr	0.22
$30,000	Circle Oaks Dr	0.22
$30,000	Zinnia St	0.22
$35,000	Poplar Ct	0.24
$35,000	47 Country Club Lot # 47 Ln	0.24
$45,000	Black Oak Ln	0.27
$48,500	292 Ridgecrest Dr	0.23
$99,000	Blue Ridge Dr	0.16
$150,000	2019 Adrian St	0.15
$150,000	19 Glory Ct	0.215
$150,000	23 Glory Ct	0.246
$160,000	Pope Canyon Rd	40.2
$175,000	1186 La Homa Dr	0.3
$175,000	Putah Creek Dr	0.25
$195,000	Browns Valley Lot# 31 Rd	0.207
$195,000	4044 Browns Valley Rd	0.138
$220,000	2 Autumn Creek Ct	0.36
$235,000	1103 Westview Dr	1
$250,000	By Way East Dr	0.5
$250,000	Deerfield Ct	0.22
$250,000	3416 Deerfield Ct	0.23
$299,000	1568 Milton Rd	0.14
$299,000	6094 Dry Creek Rd	10.99
$325,000	Rimrock Rd	61.13
$436,000	8 Longhorn Rdg	95.2
$475,000	2012 Imola Ave	1.87
$495,000	Lot 2 Monte Vista Ct	1.014
$535,000	Lot 1 Monte Vista Ct	1.002
$535,000	Lot 6 Monte Vista Ct	1.008
$549,000	2 Old Coach Rd	1.04
$635,000	Lot 3 Monte Vista Ct	1.668
$635,000	Lot 4 Monte Vista Ct	0.956
$635,000	Lot 5 Monte Vista Ct	0.978
$649,000	Golden gate Dr	0.86
$650,000	1141 Stonybrook Ct	5.5
$875,000	1698 D St	1.34
$1,495,000	3400 Atlas Peak Rd	28.71
$3,000,000	2097 Big Ranch Rd	2.95
$3,500,000	1121 Orchard Ave	7.28

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