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I want to show them how many people think driving 4 hours to Canada (or being lesbian, for that matter) isn?t ?stupid and foolish?
And that long-distance relationships aren?t ?destructive?
This person has just over 1 week everyone help out now or else!
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Some have already speculated that the Retina iPad Mini will cost 30% more than the original non-Retina Mini.? While it is fairly obvious that the inclusion of a higher resolution display will cost Apple more to make the upcoming iPad Mini, one has to wonder how much Apple is willing to shave off the Retina iPad Mini?s price tag to keep it at a ?budget conscious? level.
Currently, Apple has its iPad Mini without Retina retailing at $329 (16GB), a $130 markup from the original factory?s manufacturing cost.? The Mini?s profit margin is quite large, so there?s a lot of wiggle room for Apple to keep the prices of its Retina iPad Mini close to that of the original iPad Mini.? Still, Apple has always been known as a "premium" brand, so we won't be surprised if Apple decides to keep prices of the original Minis the same and sell the Mini with Retina as its own line with higher price tags.
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Feb. 19, 2013 ? Species facing widespread and rapid environmental changes can sometimes evolve quickly enough to dodge the extinction bullet. Populations of disease-causing bacteria evolve, for example, as doctors flood their "environment," the human body, with antibiotics. Insects, animals and plants can make evolutionary adaptations in response to pesticides, heavy metals and overfishing.
Previous studies have shown that the more gradual the change, the better the chances for "evolutionary rescue" -- the process of mutations occurring fast enough to allow a population to avoid extinction in changing environments. One obvious reason is that more individuals remain alive when change is gradual or moderate, meaning there are more opportunities for a winning mutation to emerge.
Now University of Washington biologists using populations of microorganisms have shed light for the first time on a second reason. They found that the mutation that wins the race in the harshest environment is often dependent on a "relay team" of other mutations that came before, mutations that emerge only as conditions worsen at gradual and moderate rates.
Without the winners from those first "legs" of the survival race, it's unlikely there will even be a runner in the anchor position when conditions become extreme.
"That's a problem given the number of factors on the planet being changed with unprecedented rapidity under the banner of climate change and other human-caused changes," said Benjamin Kerr, UW assistant professor of biology.
Kerr is corresponding author of a paper in the advance online edition of Nature the week of Feb. 9.
Unless a species can relocate or its members already have a bit of flexibility to alter their behavior or physiology, the only option is to evolve or die in the face of challenging environmental conditions, said lead author Haley Lindsey of Seattle, a former lab member. Other co-authors are Jenna Gallie, now with ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Susan Taylor of Seattle.
The species studied was Escherichia coli, or E. coli, a bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine and harmless except for certain strains that cause food-poisoning sickness and death in humans. The UW researchers evolved hundreds of populations of E.coli under environments made ever more stressful by the addition of an antibiotic that cripples and kills the bacterium. The antibiotic was ramped up at gradual, moderate and rapid rates.
Mutations at known genes confer protection to the drug. Researchers examined these genes in surviving populations from gradual- and moderate-rate environments, and found multiple mutations.
Using genetic engineering, the scientists pulled out each mutation to see what protectiveness it provided on its own. They found some were only advantageous at the lower concentration of the drug and unable to save the population at the highest concentrations. But those mutations "predispose the lineage to gain other mutations that allow it to escape extinction at high stress," the authors wrote.
"That two-step path leading to the double mutant is not available if a population is immersed abruptly into the high-concentration environment," Kerr said. For populations in that situation, there were only single mutations that gave protection against the antibiotic.
"The rate of environmental deterioration can qualitatively affect evolutionary trajectories," the authors wrote. "In our system, we find that rapid environmental change closes off paths that are accessible under gradual change."
The work was funded by the National Science Foundation, including money through the consortium known as the Beacon Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, and UW Royalty Research Funds.
The findings have implications for those concerned about antibiotic-resistant organisms as well as those considering the effects of climate and global change, Kerr said. For instance, antibiotics found at very low concentrations in industrial and agricultural waste run-off might be evolutionarily priming bacterial populations to become drug resistant even at high doses.
As for populations threatened by human-caused climate change, "our study does suggest that there is genuine reason to worry about unusually high rates of environmental change," the authors wrote. "As the rate of environmental deterioration increases, there can be pronounced increases in the rate of extinction."
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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem February 17, 2013. Netanyahu appealed on Sunday for Israel's secret services to be spared public scrutiny, in an apparent bid to douse speculation that an Australian immigrant's 2010 jailhouse suicide was espionage-related and covered up.
By Dan Williams and Allyn Fisher, Reuters
JERUSALEM - Israeli lawmakers announced plans on Sunday to investigate the 2010 jailhouse death of a reported Australian immigrant recruit to the Mossad spy agency.
The statement by Parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee followed calls by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting to dim a growing media spotlight on the affair he saw as at risk of jeopardizing national security.
The case kept under wraps for two years then publicized by Australian television last Tuesday involves a 34-year-old immigrant, Ben Zygier, said to be a Mossad operative held on suspicion of security offences, who died of what has been labeled an apparent suicide behind bars.
In a terse communique, the legislative panel's subcommittee on intelligence said it has "decided to conduct an intensive examination of all aspects of the incident involving the prisoner found dead in his (prison) cell in December 2010."
While unlikely to have any immediate political consequences the investigation may lead to a wider inquiry with potentially broader repercussions.
Netanyahu's government has restricted reporting in Israel on the case, now overshadowing his victory in a national election held last month, using court gag orders, military censorship and direct requests to news editors.
Such steps have done little to douse demands for the authorities to come clean about the circumstances of Zygier's imprisonment and how he was able to kill himself in a highly-supervised isolation cell.
Without citing the case specifically, Netanyahu said on Sunday he "absolutely trusts" Israel's security services and what he described as the independent legal monitoring system under which they operated.
"We are an exemplary democracy," Netanyahu said in remarks aired by Israeli broadcasters.
"But we are also more threatened, more challenged, and therefore we have to ensure the proper operation of our security branches," Netanyahu also said.
"Therefore I ask over everyone: Let the security services continue working quietly so that we can continue to live in safety and tranquility in the State of Israel."
The few Israeli officials who have spoken of Zygier's case have not denied that he was linked to Mossad, which in early 2010 was accused by Dubai of using Australian passport-holders to assassinate a Palestinian arms procurer in the Gulf emirate.
BETRAYED MOSSAD MISSIONS?
Media reports have speculated that Israel suspected the Melbourne-born Jew of betraying or threatening to divulge Mossad missions, perhaps to Australia's security services, as they probed passport fraud.
Civil liberties groups and some Israeli lawmakers have demanded to know whether Zygier's rights were violated by his months of incarceration under alias.
In an apparent reversal from previous statements, Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said on Thursday his ministry had known about Zygier's jailing as early as February 2010. On Wednesday he said Australian diplomats in Israel only found out about the detention after his death in custody later that year.
Avigdor Feldman, an Israeli lawyer with whom Zygier consulted in Ayalon prison, said last week that that meeting was arranged by a "Mossad liaison" and that his client had denied "grave charges" for which he awaited trial.
Feldman also said that Zygier's family, which has declined all comment on the affair, knew about his detention. The incarceration was approved by several Israeli courts.
Two senior cabinet members, Intelligence Minister Dan Meridor and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Yaalon, told Israeli media on Saturday the case was rare but lawful.
"There are extreme situations...to do with our security and even the need to preserve human life, when we need to take an extreme step such as this," Yaalon told Channel Two television.
Meridor said that publishing the prisoner's identity would have risked "serious harm to security." He did not elaborate.
Tzachi Hanegbi, a lawmaker from Netanyahu's conservative Likud party said he had never been informed of Zygier's arrest as chairman of the parliamentary defence panel at the time.
"This requires explanation," Hanegbi said. "Usually, every significant subject, whether it is impressive achievements or embarrassing failures, is laid out before the subcommittee."
Former Mossad director Danny Yatom told Reuters the agency was under no legal obligation to brief oversight lawmakers in such circumstances.
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February 16, 2013
At Federal Way
Team scores -- 1, Archbishop Murphy 267; 2, Sehome 237; 3, Anacortes 197. Also: 5, Hockinson 156; 19, Mark Morris 38; 27, Woodland 11.
State champions, plus locals
200 medley relay -- 1, Sehome 1:41.91; 3, Hockinson (Cullyn Newman, Jonah Rodewald, Dylan Osborne, Dylan Butler) 1:42.60.
200 freestyle -- 1, Ian Schleh (Anacortes) 1:45.07.
200 individual medley -- 1, Stephen Boden (Archbishop Murphy) 1:56.38; 2, Jonah Rodewald (Hockinson) 2:04.94; 5, William Morris (Hockinson) 2:10.43.
50 freestyle -- 1, Alec Barnard (Archbishop Murphy) 21.45; 10, Dylan Osborne (Hockinson) 23.25; 13, Dylan Butler (Hockinson) 23.46.
Diving -- 1, Rylan Korby (Squalicum) 374.65.
100 butterfly -- 1, Alec Barnard (Archbishop Murphy) 50.24; 3, Cullyn Newman (Hockinson) 56.00; 12, Josh Risley (Woodland) 1:00.22.
100 freestyle -- 1, Benjaim Scott (Steilacoom) 48.25; 11, Dylan Butler (Hockinson) 51.47.
500 freestyle -- 1, Stephen Boden (Archbishop Murphy) 4:36.26; 10, William Morris (Hockinson) 5:15.57.
200 free relay -- 1, Archbishop Murphy 1:28.50.
100 backstroke -- 1, Benjamin Scott (Steilacoom) 51.46; 7, Jonah Rodewald (Hockinson) 57.26; 9, Cullyn Newman (Hockinson) 59.36;
100 breaststroke -- Not available
400 free relay -- 1, Archbishop Murphy 3:14.26; 3, Hockinson (Dylan Osborne, Dylan Butler, Cullyn Newman, Jonah Rodewald) 3:22.63.
Source: http://www.columbian.com/weblogs/highschoolsports/2013/feb/16/2a-state-swimming-finals-results/
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's super political action committee on Friday endorsed former state Rep. Robin Kelly of Matteson in the special Democratic primary that is likely to decide the successor to former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
Independence USA has spent almost $1.4 million on the contest, primarily to attack another candidate, former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson of Crete, for her previous National Rifle Association support.
The super PAC said it will spend even more money on broadcast and cable TV to air its newest ad. The spot endorses Kelly but also criticizes Halvorson and, for the first time, another top contender, state Sen. Toi Hutchinson of Olympia Fields. Hutchinson also has had NRA support in past campaigns.
In the ad, an announcer says fighting gun violence is "the big issue" in the race and Halvorson and Hutchinson "can't be trusted." The announcer notes that Kelly backs hometown President Barack Obama's push for a ban on military-style assault weapons and universal background checks and calls her "a champion in the fight against gun violence."
The new ad blitz could provide a significant boost for Kelly in the 16-candidate Democratic field for the Feb. 26 special primary in the South Side and south suburban 2nd Congressional District.
Campaign disclosure reports filed by the leading candidates show Kelly has raised more than $303,725 since the start of the short campaign through Feb. 6. Campaign aides to Kelly, who formerly was a top aide to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, said she has raised $417,727 for the campaign cycle through Wednesday.
Among Kelly's major donors is John Rogers, the head of Ariel Investments, who contributed the maximum $2,600 allowed for the primary and chipped in another $2,400 for the April 9 general election. Kelly also has received $6,854 in donations through ActBlue, a conduit for small Democratic fundraising amounts.
As of Feb. 6, Kelly trailed Hutchinson in cash available to spend. Kelly reported $88,820 available while Hutchinson had more than double at $199,901. Hutchinson's campaign has engaged in a significant direct-mail campaign since that time. For the entire campaign, through Feb. 6, Hutchinson reported raising $281,106. She has been endorsed by Preckwinkle, who gave her $1,000.
Hutchinson, a state lawmaker since 2009, has received contributions from several major Springfield lobbyists including Victor Reyes, the top lobbyist for former Mayor Richard Daley, and the McGuireWoods law firm, which donated catering for fundraising events for her in Springfield and in northwest Indiana.
Halvorson, who unsuccessfully ran against Jackson in last year's March primary, reported raising $97,802 for the contest and had $48,241 in cash available as of Feb. 6. Her campaign has countered that her name recognition from taking on Jackson does not require the large amounts of money other candidates need to spend for name ID.
Another candidate, Chicago Ald. Anthony Beale, 9th, reported raising $150,000 for the overall campaign but had only $33,758 available to spend as of the end of the Feb. 6 reporting period.
Among Beale's donors since the first of the year were Federico and Jackie d'Escoto of Aurora, who gave a combined $4,500. This week, Miguel d'Escoto, who was senior vice president of operations for the United Neighborhood Organization, resigned after the Sun-Times disclosed that the charter school operator paid state grant money to companies owned by two of his brothers, including Federico d'Escoto.
"No, we're not going to return the money because that was a state issue and had nothing to do with Anthony Beale or the city of Chicago," Beale spokeswoman Delmarie Cobb said. "The company is a long-established company that has been in the community for 39 years."
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