Mozilla CEO Kovacs Pleads For Fragmentation; Says Fate Of Our Mobile World Can?t Depend On Just Two Companies

Gary Kovacs, the CEO of Mozilla, today took aim at Apple and Google -- or possibly Apple and Samsung; you can take your pick about how you parse mobile dominance -- and made a impassioned call for the mobile world to remain competitive. At a keynote during the Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona, he said companies needed to resist consolidation when it comes to offering mobile services to the four billion consumers that are expected to be mobile users in the next several years.

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Lab instruments inside Curiosity eat Mars rock powder

Feb. 25, 2013 ? Two compact laboratories inside NASA's Mars rover Curiosity have ingested portions of the first sample of rock powder ever collected from the interior of a rock on Mars.

Curiosity science team members will use the laboratories to analyze the rock powder in the coming days and weeks.

The rover's Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) and Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instruments received portions of the sample on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 22 and 23, respectively, and began inspecting the powder.

"Data from the instruments have confirmed the deliveries," said Curiosity Mission Manager Jennifer Trosper of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

The powder comes from Curiosity drilling into rock target "John Klein" on Feb. 8. One or more additional portions from the same initial sample may be delivered to the instruments as analysis proceeds.

During a two-year prime mission, researchers are using Curiosity's 10 science instruments to assess whether the study area in Gale Crater on Mars ever has offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.

More information about Curiosity is online at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl , http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ .

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Sony Mobile has 'an ambition' to launch Firefox OS device in 2014

Sony Mobile and Telef?nica reinforce partnership with multi-year commercial and technical collaboration

Telefonica to range Sony Mobile's 2013 Xperia portfolio including Xperia? Z and Xperia? Tablet Z
Telef?nica establishes technical partnership with Sony Mobile to leverage opportunities with the new Firefox OS open source platform

25th February 2013, Barcelona, Spain - Telef?nica and Sony Mobile Communications ("Sony Mobile") today reinforced the strength of their commercial partnership in a multi-year agreement that confirms the operator's ranging support for Sony Mobile's 2013 Xperia? Android device portfolio, as well as laying out a joint technical collaboration to explore the development of a handset running Mozilla's Firefox OS open source mobile platform.

Sony Mobile and Telef?nica are long-term partners and Sony Mobile has in the past year steadily grown its portfolio of premium Android-based smartphones available on the Telef?nica network, including the Xperia? T - aka 'The Bond phone' and now the acclaimed Xperia? Z smartphone and Xperia? Tablet Z. Under the terms of the agreement, Telef?nica and Sony Mobile will further strengthen their partnership and investigate emerging technologies such as the Firefox OS platform to extend Sony's premium product portfolio to a wider customer base.

"At Sony Mobile we continue to evaluate innovative technologies that can help deliver the premium user experiences that Sony's consumers expect," said Bob Ishida, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Head of Products Business Group, Sony Mobile Communications. "Our engineers are now working with Firefox OS Mobile and HTML5, evolving technologies which show great potential. In addition, we continue to work with our operator partners, including Telef?nica, on a development project with an ambition to bring a product to market in 2014."

"Sony's Xperia Z and Xperia Tablet Z are stunning devices that really raise the bar when it comes to the premium smartphone and tablet segment- and we're delighted to be partnering to bring these to market across a number of our global channels," commented Marieta del Rivero, Group Devices Director, Telef?nica. "As well as the great opportunity we have in 2013, our further collaboration around a possible device on the Firefox OS mobile platform will create the opportunity to reach new segments of the market, allowing us to provide an even wider choice of premium Sony device offerings for our customers."

Firefox OS marks a significant milestone for the industry, enabling for the first time devices to be manufactured to totally open web standards. It will provide customers with a rich, open and dynamic smartphone experience.

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How Million-Dollar Frauds Turned Photo Conservation Into a Mature Science

It's a bit reductionist to say that it's just because they're 'snobs'....the way it was explained to me by my art teacher is thus:

There are artists, and there are artisans...artists create art, artisans create craft...the yardstick used [in the art world] to differentiate the two is the ability to reproduce the work given the same skills, equipment and environment.

Take for example, two metal workers...both with the same training, equipment, environment and requirements...likely it will be difficult to spot

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BP Spill Settlement Reportedly Being Considered By U.S. Justice, Gulf States

In this June 3, 2010 file photo, a bird is seen on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast after being drenched in oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal government's point man on the disaster, said Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, BP's well "is effectively dead." A permanent cement plug sealed BP's well nearly 2.5 miles below the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico, five agonizing months after an explosion sank a drilling rig and led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. (Charlie Riedel, AP)

This May 28, 2010 image taken from a BP live video feed shows fluid escaping from a fractured pipe which has been spouting oil for 36 days on the seabed off the Louisiana coast following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform. The United States filed suit on December 15, 2010 against BP and eight other companies for damages stemming from this year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst in US history. The complaint was filed by the Justice Department with a federal court in New Orleans, where thousands of individuals and small businesses have already sued the oil giant. (AFP / Getty Images)

In this April 21, 2010 file photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen burning. A BP scientist identified a previously unreported deposit of flammable gas that could have played a role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but the oil giant failed to divulge the finding to government investigators for as long as a year, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press. (Gerald Herbert, AP)

Massive Oil Slick Threatens U.S. Gulf Coast

GULF OF MEXICO- MAY 5: Gathered concentrated oil burns during a controlled oil fire May 5, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. Coast Guard oversaw the oil burn after the sinking and subsequent massive oil leak because of the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform off the coast of Louisiana. (Photo by Justin E. Stumberg/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)

In this aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, an oil slick is seen as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns. (Gerald Herbert, AP)

In this May 5, 2010 file photo, shrimp boats are used to collect oil with booms in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, La. (Eric Gay, AP)

BP CEO Tony Hayward (C) answers questions from the media on an oil-stained beach on May 24, 2010 at Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Hayward said that BP is doing everything possible to clean up the massive oil spill still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Officials now say, however, that it may be impossible to clean the hundreds of miles of coastal wetlands and islands affected. (John Moore, Getty Images)

In this June 5, 2010, file photo Plaquemines Parish coastal zone director P.J. Hahn lifts his boot out of thick beached oil at Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La. After three long months, the bleeding from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has been finally, mercifully stanched. But in so many ways, the prognosis remains uncertain. (Gerald Herbert, AP)

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A brown pelican covered with oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, swims at Sandy Point in the Gulf of Mexico, near Venice, Louisiana, June 15, 2010, prior to being captured by team of biologists from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Birds are caught and then cleaned at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Gulf Coast Battles Continued Spread Of Oil In Its Waters And Coastline

GULFPORT, MS - JULY 1: An Oil cleanup worker uses a shovel to remove thick oil that washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on July 1, 2010 in Gulfport, Mississippi. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion on the drilling platform. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

In this June 3, 2010 file photo, a brown pelican is mired in heavy oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal government's point man on the disaster, said Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, BP's well "is effectively dead." A permanent cement plug sealed BP's well nearly 2.5 miles below the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico, five agonizing months after an explosion sank a drilling rig and led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. (Charlie Riedel, AP)

Massive Oil Slick Reaches Louisiana Gulf Coast

VENICE, LA - MAY 02: Oil spill workers head out to their boats as they prepare to help with the cleanup of the massive oil spill created in the aftermath of the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig May 2, 2010 in Venice, Louisiana. High winds and rough water have slowed the cleanup effort. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

A man cleans a beach May 4, 2010 in Bilo

A man cleans a beach May 4, 2010 in Biloxi, Mississippi, as the gulf coast is still being threatened by the oil spill from the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster. AFP PHOTO/Stan Honda (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. President Barack Obama picks up balls of tar while touring the beach May 28, 2010 in Port Fourchon, Louisiana. The oil spill resulting from the Deepwater Horizon disaster now officially ranks as the worst in U.S. history. (Win McNamee, Getty Images)

Hermit crabs struggle to cross a patch of oil from the the Deepwater Horizon spill on a barrier island near East Grand Terre Island, La, Sunday, June 6, 2010. (Charlie Riedel, AP)

Mississippi River water (L) meets sea wa

Mississippi River water (L) meets sea water and an oil slick that has passsed inside of the protective barrier formed by the Chandeleur Islands, as cleanup operations continue for the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster off Louisiana, on May 7, 2010. The Gulf of Mexico oil slick threatens disaster for the fragile US coast, causing clean-up efforts to focus on the best of a bad set of options: fight it there before it arrives here. An army of workers hired by British Petroleum, along with the US Coast Guard and local officials in Louisiana, have rushed to set out protective booms, spread dispersants and burn the oil when they can as it moves toward the shore. The strategy is to deal with the growing slick as much as possible before it laps into wetlands on Louisiana's coast, where its effects could be catastrophic and cleaning it is infinitely more difficult if not impossible. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

Workers put the finishing touches on the

Workers put the finishing touches on the Pollution Control Dome at the Martin Terminal worksite in Port Fourchon, as BP rushes to cap the source of the oil slick from the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster in Louisiana, on May 4, 2010. BP delayed until May 5 the deployment of a giant 'dome' to try to contain the main leak spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The British energy giant now plans to load the 98-ton structure onto a boat at 'noon tomorrow' before shipping it out to the leak site. The dome, which is to be guided onto the largest of three oil leaks by remote-controlled submarines a mile down on the seabed, should be 'operational within six days,' Suttles said. Two weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, the full impact of the disaster is being realized as a massive slick looms off the US Gulf coast, threatening to wipe out the livelihoods of shoreline communities. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

A dead fish is seen on the beach May 5,

A dead fish is seen on the beach May 5, 2010 in Pass Christian, Mississippi as the gulf coast is still threatened by the oil spill from the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster. Emergency crews rushed to protect fragile shorelines and islands as the Gulf of Mexico oil slick expanded, prompting a mobilization of more national guard troops and alerts as far as the Florida Keys. With oil still gushing Wednesday from the ruptured offshore well, volunteers and others descended on the region to help stave off a looming environmental crisis from the huge oil patch. AFP PHOTO/Stan Honda (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

Seagulls and other birds fly past oil booms that were placed in preparation of the looming oil spill from last week's collapse and spill of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, Saturday, May 1, 2010, along the North Shore south of Venice, Louisiana. Wildlife in the region is vulnerable to the looming oil spill from last week's collapse and spill of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. (Eric Gay, AP)

Bayou Candlelight Vigil Marks 100 Days Since BP Oil Spill

GRAND ISLE, LA - JULY 29: Local residents gather near an oil processing area on the beach to commemorate 100 days of the BP oil spill on July 29, 2010 in Grand Isle, Louisiana. Eleven lives were lost and three to five million barrels of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico since the BP Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

Eric Melerine sheds tears as he talks about possibly losing his fishing business, that has been in the family for genertions, if he can't continue to work because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on May 1, 2010 in Delacroix, Louisiana. As oil-polluted waters approach the Louisiana coast, fishermen don't want to take chances selling possibly contaminated crabs so they are pulling their traps and dumping their catches. Oil is still leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead at a estimated rate of 1,000-5,000 barrels a day. (Joe Raedle, Getty Images)

Massive Oil Spill's Damage To Gulf Environment And Economy Increases

WAVELAND, MS - JULY 09: An oil coated containment boom is seen close to the shore after it was moved out of place during the high winds and waves in the past days which brought oil ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico July 9, 2010 in Waveland, Mississippi. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion on the drilling platform. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Massive Oil Spill's Damage To Gulf Environment And Economy Increases

WAVELAND, MS - JULY 09: A worker uses a shovel to pick up oily globs that washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico July 9, 2010 in Waveland, Mississippi. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion on the drilling platform. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

One of the New harbor Islands is protected by two oil booms against the oil slick that has passsed inside of the protective barrier formed by the Chandeleur Islands, as cleanup operations continue for the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster off Louisiana, on May 10, 2010. Days after failing to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill with a giant dome, BP said it will make a second attempt this week using a smaller version dubbed the "top hat." A four-story, 100-ton box was lowered Friday to the seabed to try to capture most of the oil and allow it to be funneled up to a ship on the surface, but it was rendered useless on Sunday when ice crystals formed in its domed roof. BP experts believe the smaller "top hat" containment box would not suffer the same problem as it would not hold so much freezing cold seawater, and they are preparing to drop it into the inky depths to carry out a similar fix to what is unfolding as one the worst oil spills in US history. (Mark Ralston, AFP / Getty Images)

Gulf Coast Battles Continued Spread Of Oil In Its Waters And Coastline

PORT FOURCHON, LA - JULY 03: Workers clear off some of the oil washing on to Fourchon Beach from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on July 3, 2010 in Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion on the drilling platform. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Gulf Coast Battles Continued Spread Of Oil In Its Waters And Coastline

GULFPORT, MS - JULY 1: Thick oil is seen washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on July 1, 2010 in Gulfport, Mississippi. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion on the drilling platform. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Gulf Coast Battles Continued Spread Of Oil In Its Waters And Coastline

ORANGE BEACH, AL - JUNE 27: Workers place absorbent material on to the beach as oil residue washes ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on June 27, 2010 in Orange Beach, Alabama. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion on the drilling platform. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Massive Oil Spill's Damage To Gulf Environment And Economy Increases

WAVELAND, MS- JULY 09: Workers clean up oily globs that washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico July 9, 2010 in Waveland, Mississippi. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion on the drilling platform. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Gulf Coast Battles Continued Spread Of Oil In Its Waters And Coastline

ORANGE BEACH, AL- JUNE 27: Pete Duchock holds his daughter, Maddie Duchock, as they stand near oil residue that has stained the beach after washing ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on June 27, 2010 in Orange Beach, Alabama. Pete Duchock said his daughter cried after seeing the oil washing ashore when they arrived for their vacation. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion on the drilling platform. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Gulf Coast Battles Continued Spread Of Oil In Its Waters And Coastline

ORANGE BEACH, AL - JUNE 26: A beach goer walks on the beach where oil is seen in the water as it washes ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on June 26, 2010 in Orange Beach, Alabama. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion on the drilling platform. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

BP CEO Tony Hayward Testifies Before House Hearing On Oil Spill

WASHINGTON - JUNE 17: BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward is sworn in before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for a hearing on the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill June 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. BP agreed yesterday to place $20 billion into an escrow account managed by a third party to pay out claims resulting from the oil spill and also said it will not pay out additional dividends to shareholders for the remainder of the year. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Congress Holds Hearings On BP Oil Spill

WASHINGTON - JUNE 17: A protester is escorted from the hearing room after disrupting the hearing of BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward (R) on the Gulf Coast oil spill on Capitol Hill June 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Members of AnimaNaturalis with their bodies covered with black paint protest against the oil spill of BP's drilling well in the Gulf of Mexico, on July 22, 2010 in Mexico city. Demostrators aim to alert people about the animals dying because of the oil spill and call to use less petrol. AFP PHOTO/ Omar TORRES (Photo credit should read OMAR TORRES/AFP/Getty Images)

Bayou Candlelight Vigil Marks 100 Days Since BP Oil Spill

GRAND ISLE, LA - JULY 29: Cacinda Voisin (C) holds a balloon to comemorate the eleven lives lost and 100 days of the BP oil spill on July 29, 2010 in Grand Isle, Louisiana. Three to five million barrels of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico since the BP Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

Crosses with descriptions of fish, wildl

Crosses with descriptions of fish, wildlife and summer pastimes are displayed in a front yard of a home in Grand Isle, Louisiana, June 14, 2010, of things potentially lost to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

A support ship related to the collection

A support ship related to the collection of oil from over the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil well transitions through a sheen of oil as workers try to stem the flow of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, June 12, 2010. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Thick oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon

Thick oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill floats on the surface of the water and coats the marsh wetlands in Bay Jimmy near Port Sulphur, Louisiana, June 11, 2010. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Oil covered brown pelicans found off the

Oil covered brown pelicans found off the Louisiana coast and affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico wait in a holding pen for cleaning at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana, June 11, 2010. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

The glove-covered hands of Dan Howells,

The glove-covered hands of Dan Howells, deputy campaign director with Greenpeace, are coated with a layer of oil after he dipped them in oil floating on the surface in the Gulf of Mexico following the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill near Grand Isle, Louisiana, June 10, 2010. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

An American flag lays in a slick of oil that washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on July 4, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The oil spill may have a huge negative economic impact on gulf coast businesses during what should be a busy 4th of July. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion on the drilling platform. (Joe Raedle, Getty Images)

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Medal for cyber troops draws jibes, dismay

By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor

Zingers about the Distinguished Warfare Medal, fired with the same deadly accuracy as drone strikes unleashed from computer screens, mock the U.S. military?s latest ribbon as ?The Purple Buttocks? and ?The Chairborne.?

A website about war-zone burn pits offers a photoshopped version of the medal as a glossy, gold Xbox controller.?At Stars and Stripes, one writer quipped the fresh decoration ? announced Feb. 13 by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta?to honor troops who direct cyberattacks and drone strikes ? has ignited ?an avalanche of Whiskey Tango Foxtrots.? And at an online store run by current and ex-military members, retailers joke that any recipients will have earned the award from ?the safety of some air conditioned box while sipping on their mocha-frapachino [sic] that they picked up on the way in to work that day, and waiting for Papa John?s to show up with lunch.?

Boom.?

The shrapnel-packed jabs seem to be fueled as much by the non-combat medal's mere existence as by the decoration's rank: the Distinguished Warfare Medal is slotted by military brass slightly above the Bronze Star, long the fourth-highest combat award granted for heroism and/or?meritorious service in battle.

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Many of the so-called "Distant Warfare Medal" critics ? and cutups ? fully acknowledge the strategic value of cyber experts within the U.S. armed forces, especially as President?President Barack Obama on Friday deployed American service members and drone aircraft to the African country of Niger, where they could be used to support a French counterterrorism mission in neighboring Mali.

Still, some can't help but smirk at the thought of a keyboard clicker eventually being pinned with a ribbon. And there are those in the service who thought the first mentions they read about the medal were a just a dash of military satire. After all, for men and women in uniform, sarcasm and dark humor are as common as camo and Hesco (a protective barrier).?

"I thought it was a joke at first," said Marine Sgt. Jeremy Lattimer, 26, who earned a Bronze Star for his actions in Afghanistan's Helmand Province where, in one three-hour stretch on Nov. 22, 2009, he led his squad as they maneuvered through enemy machine gun fire then helped another squad escape an ambush.

"When I saw that this has a higher rating than the Bronze Star, it seemed a little bit extreme," added Lattimer, reached by phone at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he's receiving treatment for a traumatic brain injury sustained in combat. "Whenever you start getting into (awarding) valor for someone in a box?behind a computer in who knows where, I think that's a point where it starts rubbing people the wrong way."

Meanwhile, some military families are so disturbed by the new medal that punchlines seem out of line.?

Courtesy of Veronica Ortiz-Rivera

Marine Staff Sgt. Javier Ortiz-Rivera was heavily decorated in life. After dying in action, he was awarded the Bronze Star. In 2009, he and his wife, Veronica (left), attended the Marine Corps Ball.

Near Camp Lejeune, N.C., where Marine Staff Sgt. Javier Ortiz-Rivera was based before his 2010 IED-blast death in Afghanistan, his wife, Veronica, speaks softly and somberly about the value of the Bronze Star that the Marine earned posthumously.?

"To know that somebody sitting at a computer who never risked their life is going to get something that?s worth more, it almost puts less of a value on what my husband did and what so many other men have done," Ortiz-Rivera said. "To take that new medal and give it a higher classification than the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart is disrespectful. Maybe I?m just biased because my husband was killed in combat.

"It feels like it almost strips away a little of his heroism, honestly, although he is and always will be a hero to us," she added. "I'm not at a point where I can joke about" this new medal.

And for Army veteran Andrew O'Brien, who served in Afghanistan in 2008 and 2009, any humorous takes about any medals ? no matter how they are earned ? simply feels wrong, he said.?

"We are all on the same team," O'Brien said. "I believe they (drone operators) deserve medals just as much as anyone else and recognition for the things they do. I also feel (the humor) is an attack on them for what they do. To mimic a video game as an award? We are all part of the same fight."

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The dirt came mainly from the plains

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The Mississippi River carries roughly 500 million tons of sediment into the Gulf of Mexico each year.

By Becky Oskin
LiveScience

The dirt in Spain ? and the rest of the planet ? comes mainly from the plain.

Most of the world is flat, and more than 90 percent of the world's sediment comes from these gentle, low-lying slopes, a new study finds. The discovery overturns accepted geologic wisdom, which holds that steep mountain rivers create most of the sediment carried to the world?s oceans. These sediments from relatively flat areas also take the prize for trapping the most carbon in dirt.?

"I learned (sediment) all came from the mountains," said?Jane Willenbring, a geologist at the University of Pennsylvania and lead author of the study. "The result is quite unexpected."

Whether its sand, mud or clay, knowing the dirt on the planet's sediment is key to understanding how surface changes affect climate. Erosion draws carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, trapping it in soils and rocks. "Most people, if they're geologists, thought mountains, and the uplift of mountains, were a really good way of sequestering (carbon dioxide) over a really long time scale," Willenbring said. "But, in fact, where carbon sequestration happens is in these lowland rivers and places that are gently sloping," she told OurAmazingPlanet.

One of the ways carbon ends up in dirt is through chemical weathering, which occurs when rock turns into sediment. Carbon dioxide molecules and rain combine to dissolve rock, and the weathering products include sand, clay and other types of sediment. Physical weathering, such as from wind or glaciers, can also grind down rocks into dirt.

Willenbring and her colleagues examined erosion rates and topography around the world with a relatively new technique that looks at what is called cosmogenic nuclides. They analyzed the movement of sediment with radioactive isotopes of the element beryllium produced by cosmic rays (high-energy particles that rain down on Earth from space). Isotopes are created when beryllium in rocks exposed at the surface are bombarded by cosmic rays, producing varieties of the element that have differing numbers of neutrons. The concentration of isotopes is linked to the erosion rate.

Low-lying areas, such as those dominated by rivers, far outpaced the planet's tiny fraction of steep, mountainous slopes when it comes to making dirt, the study found.

"It turns out that we shouldn't expect mountain erosion?to impact global climate much, and that the flatlands are very important instead," Willenbring said. "We've been looking at the problem in a wrong way."

The study will appear in the March 2013 issue of the journal Geology.

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Vibrant Headdress Editorials - ELLE Bulgaria 'Rhytms of Africa' Stars Models Gloria P. and Dzhu Pi (TrendHunter.com)

The ELLE Bulgaria 'Rhytms of Africa' editorial finds no better inspiration for women's spring and summer wardrobes. Since the heat is undeniable on that particular continent, it is only natural that outfits there would be suitable for summers in other parts of the world. Not to mention that African women's use of vibrant fabrics and exotic patterns would liven up any ensemble, be it for a day at the office or a Saturday stroll shopping.

Shot by photographer Zlatimir Arakliev, the ELLE Bulgaria 'Rhytms of Africa' editorial is set to appear in the March 2013 issue of the magazine. It stars models Gloria P. and Dzhu Pi. They were both styled by Antonia Yordanova with finishing touches by hairstylist Kristina Topalova and makeup artist Slav.

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Residents return as last Jersey Shore town reopens after Sandy

MANTOLOKING, New Jersey (Reuters) - Coming home to the last Jersey Shore community to reopen after Superstorm Sandy, Sandra Witkowski stood in her dining room on Friday to revisit that old familiar coastal view only to see her neighbor's house in the middle of Barnegat Bay.

The storm that slammed into New Jersey on Oct 29, ravaged the coastline and damaged all of the 521 houses in the narrow barrier island community, said Doug Popaca of the local emergency management office.

About 100 homes were damaged beyond repair and another 40 washed away, said Chris Nelson, a lawyer helping with the community's recovery.

One swept about 100 yards out into the bay, salt water lapping at its windows, was owned by Witkowki's neighbor.

"I love it here, but it's a lot scarier than it used to be," said Witkowski, 69, a 12-year resident of the barrier island that stands between the Atlantic Ocean and the rest of New Jersey.

Sandy caused nearly $30 billion in damages in the state. When Jersey Shore residents were evacuated, most expected they would return after a few days and were stunned when the devastation turned out to be so extreme that it would be months before they could go home.

Mantoloking, an affluent community of 296 fulltime residents that expands in summer to 4,000 beachgoers, is the last of the shore communities to allow residents to move home. Officials declared Friday "repopulation" day and welcomed home residents - at least those who still had homes to come back to.

Under overcast skies, they made their way across three bridges - the only way onto the island. Cresting the bridge into Mantoloking, residents saw empty coastline where once sat a solid line of million-dollar waterfront homes side-by-side.

"You are almost in a state of shock when you see the devastation," said Popaca, 66, who has lived in Mantoloking for 32 years. "We know several people whose houses are gone, they don't exist anymore," Popaca said.

Ordered by police to leave his home as the storm approached, Popaca moved back after the structure was treated for mold and had its insulation replaced.

Witkowski, a retired secretary who has been living with her daughter's family in nearby Point Pleasant since the storm hit, said repair work was still underway to fix the damage.

"It's a little frightening, but it's home, and we're coming back," Witkowski said.

(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Leslie Gevirtz)

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Painting asteroids could nudge them away from Earth

To protect Earth from space rock threat, a scientist recommended spray painting an asteroid to alter the amount of sunlight reflected by it, thereby changing its trajectory.

By Mike Wall,?space.com / February 22, 2013

An artist's illustration of an asteroid flying near Earth.

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The dramatic space rock events of last week highlighted the need in many people's minds for a viable asteroid-deflection strategy, and one scientist thinks he has a good candidate ? paint.

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There is research that is off the wall, some off the charts and some off the planet, such as what a Texas A&M University aerospace and physics professor is exploring. It's a plan to deflect a killer asteroid by using paint, and the science behind it is absolutely rock solid, so to speak, so much so that NASA is getting involved and wants to know much more.

On Friday (Feb. 15), the 130-foot (40 meters)?asteroid 2012 DA14?gave Earth a historically close shave, missing the planet by just 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers). Hours earlier, a 55-foot (17 m) object exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, damaging thousands of buildings and injuring 1,200 people.

The?asteroid?encounters served as a reminder that Earth sits in the middle of a cosmic shooting gallery, scientists say, and that destructive impacts are inevitable in the future unless humanity takes action.

One form of action could involve dusting a threatening asteroid with a thin coat of paint. The paint would change the amount of sunlight reflected by the space rock, potentially nudging it away from Earth through the accumulated push provided by many thermal photons as they radiate from the asteroid's surface. (This force is called the Yarkovsky effect, after the Russian engineer who first described it around the turn of the 20th century.) [Photos: Asteroids in Deep Space]

The scheme would use powdered paint, which the sun's rays would then cure into a smooth coating. The paint would probably have to be applied long before any potential impact ? years or decades, perhaps ? to give the Yarkovsky effect enough time to make a difference.

"I have to admit the concept does sound strange, but the odds are very high that such a plan would be successful and would be relatively inexpensive," Dave Hyland, of Texas A&M?University, said in a statement. "The science behind the theory is sound. We need to test it in space."

NASA is interested in Hyland's idea and has approached the researcher to discuss developing such a space test, Texas A&M officials said.

Hyland is not the only scientist who thinks paint could save Earth from a cataclysmic impact. Last year, an MIT graduate?student?proposed launching a spacecraft that would?bombard a threatening asteroid with paint-filled pellets. The idea won the 2012 Move an Asteroid Technical Paper Competition, which was sponsored by the United Nations' Space Generation Advisory Council.

Whatever?deflection strategies?researchers devise, the first step toward safeguarding the Earth is to detect and map the orbits of potentially hazardous objects, Hyland said. One million or more asteroids are thought to lurk in near-Earth space, but just 9,600 of them have been discovered to date.

"The smaller ones like DA14 are not discovered as soon as others, and they could still cause a lot of damage should they hit Earth," Hyland said. "It is really important for our long-term survival that we concentrate much more effort discovering and tracking them, and developing as many useful?technologies?as possible for deflecting them."

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EEOC goes to bat for drunken steelworkers; strikes out (Powerlineblog)

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Google Looks to Launch Spotify-Style Music Streaming Service?

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Mark Strong Talks 'Beautiful, Epic' 'Day Of The Falcon'

by Ryan Rigley Mark Strong is a man of many talents; chief among those talents being his uncanny ability to portray larger than life movie villains. He's already played dozens of memorable antagonists (in such films as "Green Lantern," "Sherlock Holmes," "Kick-Ass" and "Body of Lies") but never before has the British-born actor taken on [...]

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Corrieri named McDaniel soccer coach

From 2002 to 2006, Stephen Corrieri led the Susquehannock Warriors to four consecutive York-Adams division titles (three at Division I and the last at Division II), a pair of league tournament championships and an appearance in the PIAA quarterfinals in 2006.

Twice he was named the York-Adams Coach of the Year.

Wanting a challenge at a higher level, Corrieri joined head coach Mark Ludwig and his York College men's program as an assistant in 2007. Six years later, with the itch to be a head coach, Corrieri was ready to push himself again.

"Initially I wanted to be Mark's assistant," Corrieri said by phone Thursday night. "But once you've been a head coach you get a feel that ... no matter what it is, you'd like to be the one making the decisions."

McDaniel College, located in nearby Westminster, Md., announced Wednesday that Corrieri will be the next head coach for its men's soccer program in 2013.

"My wife teaches around here so I didn't really want to move," said Corrieri, who resides in Manchester Township with his wife and their two children.

"It (McDaniel) is about 45 to 50 minutes away from where I live," he said. "When I was looking around (at coaching openings), McDaniel is certainly one of them. I wasn't looking to go to Philadelphia or Washington."

Corrieri, 35, is originally from England, growing up in Carlisle and later graduating from Wolverhampton University in Birmingham, United Kingdom, in 2000 with a bachelor of arts in marketing management in the sports industry.

He came to the United States that year and now resides in the U.S. permanently on a green card. In addition to coaching, he also works for Heritage Hills Athletic Club as the director of soccer.

Corrieri takes over an NCAA Division III McDaniel program that went just 6-10-1 last year and hasn't had a winning season since 2005. But he's been in a similar situation before.

In his first year at Susquehannock in 2002, the Warriors finished in second place in Division I with 9-4-1 league record. It marked the most league wins for the program since 1995 (11-0).

Plus, Corrieri has been able to learn a ton the last six seasons at York College, which Ludwig has transformed into a regular Top-25 Division III program. The Spartans advanced to the NCAA tournament in all of Corrieri's six years there, winning the Capital Athletic Conference three times.

"Working with Mark Ludwig you're on a quick learning curve with the coaches and the players you're around. He brings in some of the best players in the country," Corrieri said.

"I've just been watching how he (Ludwig) has done on and off the field and been a sponge for six years."

-- Reach John Walk at jwalk@yorkdispatch.com.

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Wiz And Amber's Baby Bling: A Wish List For Sebastian

Sebastian 'The Bash' Taylor Thomaz is bound to be a stylish baby, so MTV News found some of Hollywood's most chic baby products.
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Analysis: As cyberthreat looms, here's what matters

By Michael Leiter, Security Analyst, NBC News

The past several weeks have seen an explosion of news about United States cybersecurity. First, stories about Chinese cyberattacks. Next, the president?s historic reference to cybersecurity in the State of the Union address. Finally, more stories about Chinese cyberespionage. If one is in the business of national security, these and other stories represent identifiable parts of a larger, cohesive story. But for the lay reader, discerning that larger story is more challenging. What is old news? What is new? And what lies ahead?

The old news: the scale, types, and sources of the attacks

According to a recent Washington Post article, a new U.S. government intelligence assessment describes the massive scale of cyberattacks by nation states (most notably, by China), criminal organizations, and individuals. Although it is fair to say that the scale, scope, and sophistication of such attacks have increased over the past several years, the basics have largely remained the same. The U.S. government and affected commercial sectors have been well aware of these threats. All too many industries ? information technology, defense, energy, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, law, non-governmental organizations, and the media, to name a few ? have been attacked, and in the most sophisticated cases the perpetrators have been traced back to China. Even the most technologically able of companies, such as Google and defense contractors, have found Chinese cyberattackers resident in their networks. Intruders have been able to steal enormous amounts of sensitive and valuable information. The combined result of this U.S.-to-China illicit exfiltration is what one official has called ?the greatest transfer of wealth in history.??

Also in the ?old news? category is that not all attacks are about stealing. In less common but more immediately disruptive cases, state-sponsored cyberattackers ? most notably from Iran ? have caused significant harm to computer networks. Specifically, last fall attackers disrupted U.S. financial institutions? networks, making some websites temporarily inaccessible. Even more destructively, Iranian cyberattackers rendered inoperable 30,000 computers at the world?s largest oil company, Saudi Aramco. These attacks illustrate what cyber professionals have long known: cyberattacks ? especially against critical infrastructure ? can easily turn from silent burgling to serious disruptions or destruction.?

The new news: exactly who is attacking us, and presidential action

The past several weeks have also highlighted new developments in cyberwarfare, most significantly exactly who the attackers are and more forceful executive branch efforts to combat cyberattacks.? ???

On the first, a report this week by the network security company Mandiant concluded that a significant number of sophisticated attacks originated not just from China, but likely were perpetrated by the Chinese military. Although this may not be new to many ?on the inside,? the public attribution to the People?s Liberation Army (PLA) with a highly detailed description of their modus operandi as well as individuals involved is something we have not seen publicly before. There are real risks to this disclosure, as it will undoubtedly drive the PLA to pursue new tactics to avoid detection, but Mandiant (and many others) clearly believe that those risks are outweighed by the value of highlighting China?s efforts.

On the second point, there has indeed been a flurry of presidential activity over the past two weeks. Most significantly, the president?s executive order sought to maximize what federal departments could do absent legislation. The executive order specifically seeks to improve classified and unclassified information-sharing between the government and private sector, prioritize the protection of critical infrastructure (e.g., our electrical grid), and develop voluntary private sector standards for cyberdefense. The administration has also announced a government-wide effort to combat the theft of trade secrets from U.S. companies. This is significant in that it is the first high-profile and consolidated public statement ? quite clearly focused on China ? that contemplates more forceful legal and trade action against China should it not alter its behavior.

What lies ahead: legislation, confrontation, destruction?

Where then does this leave us? I expect major developments on at least three fronts.?

First, legislation. Although the executive order is a first step, most recognize that legislation is necessary to enhance our cyberdefenses. Specifically, only legislation can provide companies immunity for providing cybersecurity-related information to the government. In addition, only legislation can clarify who in the government ? the Departments of Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, and Intelligence Community, among others ? should or must have access to the private sector information that is provided to officials. There are, of course, difficult questions embedded in these high-level issues: Will such information sharing affect the privacy of ordinary citizens? How will the federal bureaucracy (and federal workforce) keep pace with rapid technological change? More broadly, will the focus on information-sharing provide enough defense against a smart, determined adversary for whom economic espionage is a national imperative?

Second, confrontation. Assuming ? and I think it is a very solid assumption ? that cyberdefense can never do enough to protect networks, to what degree will the U.S. (and other nations) confront China (and other large-scale cyberattackers) to convince them to limit their use of cybertheft? Although the new administration strategy suggests greater forcefulness, the proof will be in the pudding. Neither the United States nor other nations can afford to view China through a singular cyberlens given our deep economic ties and reliance on their support for global hotspots like North Korea. In addition, to what degree will private companies who look to China as a massive emerging market be willing to proclaim publicly that their secrets have been stolen by China or others? I expect to see continued confrontation with China over these matters, but I?m less sanguine that we will be able to seriously alter its current cybercalculus.

Third, destruction. While the present focus has been largely on economic loss, we must not lose sight of the very real risk of destructive cyberattacks. As already noted, Iranian-sponsored cyberattacks effectively destroyed computers in Saudi Arabia, as well as computers at RasGas in Qatar. Using cybertools, determined adversaries can disrupt industrial control systems that govern our critical infrastructure, to include electrical, water, telecommunications, and air traffic control systems. In an armed conflict with a country like Iran, we will have to be prepared for such attacks; if Iran is willing to disrupt U.S. banking institutions today, then we would be foolish to think they would not be willing to do more in the midst of a hot war. And although Iran may not possess sufficiently skilled cyberwarriors to cause serious harm, we must remember that other, non-state actors might well be willing to assist in the fight if the price is right. Warning of a ?cyber Pearl Harbor? is in my view a bit too alarmist, but we must nevertheless recognize ? and mitigate ? what is a clear, nationwide vulnerability today.?

Michael Leiter was director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, serving from 2007 through 2011. He is a counterterrorism, cybersecurity and national security analyst for NBC News.

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Police want charges for Eisenhower basketball coach Steve Johnson

SAN BERNARDINO - Police have filed a case with the District Attorney's Office seeking criminal charges against an Eisenhower High School basketball coach.

Steve Johnson, 47, of Yucaipa was shot several times in his upper torso after stopping at Seccombe Lake Park on Fifth Street in San Bernardino shortly before 8 p.m. Jan. 21.

Johnson, a popular boys basketball coach at the Rialto school, said he stopped to use the bathroom on his way to get gasoline, San Bernardino police said.

According to police, Johnson has given conflicting reports of what transpired that night.

In a previous statement, San Bernardino Police Chief Robert Handy said there is reason to believe that Johnson withheld some information in

his statement of what happened that night and that his failure to be completely honest hindered the investigation.

Police want Johnson to be charged with obstruction of justice.

"This case is pending review," said district attorney's spokesman Christopher Lee. "Until a decision has been made, we cannot comment any further."

Johnson initially told police he stopped at the park to urinate and that when he was done three black men attempted to rob him.

Handy has said police had no reason to doubt that Johnson was the victim of a robbery followed by a shooting at the park.

The gunman demanded Johnson's wallet. When he said he didn't have it, the gunman opened fire, police said.

Since the shooting, Johnson has changed his story multiple times, prompting the filing of the case with prosecutors, police said.

A witness reportedly came forward but Handy said in a phone interview Friday that he would not confirm or comment on the matter.

Johnson was at home recovering but under heavy medication, according to his brother, Phil Johnson.

Officials with the Rialto Unified School District said they continue to support Johnson as he recovers.

"We wish Coach Johnson, who indeed was the victim of a violent crime, a speedy recovery, and the district will continue to work with law enforcement during their investigation," district spokeswoman Syeda Jafri has said.

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Gunmen attack military aircraft in Indonesian Papua

TIMIKA, Indonesia, Feb 22, 2013 (AFP) - Gunmen opened fire Friday on a military helicopter in Indonesia's restive Papua region as it tried to retrieve the bodies of soldiers killed in an earlier attack, a military official said.

"A Puma SA-330 military helicopter was shot by gunmen at 08:15am local time (2315 GMT Thursday) as it landed in Sinak," Jayapura city military airbase chief Diah Yudhanardi told AFP.

The helicopter was forced to return to Jayapura without picking up the seven soldiers shot dead in Sinak on Thursday, he added.

"A technician on board suffered a light shrapnel wound to his left hand, while the two others, pilot and co-pilot were all fine," Yudhanardi said.

"We're still trying to arrange another helicopter to fly back later today to Sinak to transport the seven bodies," he added.

The seven were killed when armed attackers opened fire at nine soldiers walking to an airport in Sinak at around 10:30am (0130 GMT) on Thursday.

The attack came an hour after an armed group shot at a military post in Tingginambut village some 60 kilometres (37 miles) away, killing one soldier.

His body was successfully flown to Jayapura on Friday morning.

National police spokesman Agus Riyanto said four civilians had also been killed in the Sinak attack, raising the total death toll to 12.

Officials suspect the shootings in the mountainous district of Puncak Jaya, a known hideout for armed separatists, were carried out by the separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM).

Defence Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said he and other officials planned to meet the president Friday to discuss security in the region.

Violence occasionally erupts in Papua -- the western half of New Guinea island in Indonesia's extreme east -- where poorly-armed separatists have for decades fought a low-level insurgency on behalf of the mostly ethnic Melanesian population.

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Facebook pictures of baby manatee lead to arrest

A tourist faces jail time after playing with an endangered baby manatee. State and federal laws make it a crime to disturb wild marine mammals, including manatees.

By Live Science / February 21, 2013

A man was arrested after posting photos on Facebook that showed him picking up a manatee.

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A man has been arrested in Florida after posting pictures on Facebook that showed him harassing a baby manatee, authorities announced this week.

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The incriminating images show Ryan William Waterman, 21, and his two children petting a manatee calf at Taylor Creek in Fort Pierce last month, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). In one shot, Waterman is holding the calf partially out of the shallow water, and in another image, one of his young children is sitting on top of the animal as if riding it.

While the family's actions might look playful, biologists said such contact could be deadly for a manatee calf.

"This was a young manatee, which was likely still dependent on its mother for food and protection. Separating the two could have severe consequences for the calf," FWC manatee biologist Thomas Reinert said in a statement.?

"The calf also appeared to be experiencing manatee cold-stress syndrome, a condition that can lead to death in extreme cases," Reinert added. "Taking the calf out of the water may have worsened its situation."

Waterman faces charges under the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act, which makes it illegal to molest, harass or disturb manatees, classified as an endangered species in the state. His offense also violates the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, which makes it illegal to hunt or get up close to manatees as well as all other marine mammals, such as whales, seals and walruses.

These laws, however, have not prevented some recent close encounters in Florida, perhaps due to a lack of awareness. (Waterman, in fact, told local television station WPEC-TV that he meant no harm and didn't know it was illegal to touch a manatee.)

In December, a woman snapped pictures at Pompano Beach, on Florida's Atlantic coast, of swimmers who might have been trying to ride a sickly sperm whale. The 35-foot (10.6-meter)-long creature was reported to be flapping its tail at the time of the incident and eventually washed ashore dead.

And last October, a woman turned herself in after photos surfaced showing her riding a manatee at Florida's Fort DeSoto Park near Tampa. At the time, reports suggested she could have faced up to 60 days in jail and a possible fine of $500 for her crime.

There are estimated to be just 3,800 manatees in Florida, and each year, about 87 are killed by humans, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, most of them dying in boat collisions. Coastal development, which has altered and destroyed manatee habitat, also threatens the species.

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Microsoft joins list of companies recently hacked

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) ? Microsoft has joined the list of prominent technology companies confirming they have been hit by a recent computer hacking attack.

In a blog posting Friday, Microsoft said it had found no evidence that any customer data had been heisted.

Microsoft Corp. gave few other details about the break-in, except to say that was it similar to a hacking attack that online social networking leader Facebook Inc. disclosed last week. Facebook had said its investigation had discovered other companies had been hacked, but didn't identify the other victims.

Like Facebook, Microsoft says it is still investigating how malicious software was planted on what it said were a small number of its computers.

Online messaging service Twitter also recently disclosed that hackers may have stolen information about 250,000 of its users.

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