Settlers move into part of east Jerusalem home

Israeli settlers began moving into part of a home in east Jerusalem on Sunday, as police officers enforced a court order requiring the Palestinian family living there to vacate part of it.

The process is the culmination of a years-long battle over the home in the Ras al-Amud neighbourhood, which pitted a Palestinian family against Irving Moskowitz, a millionaire backer of Israeli settlement in the east of the city.

Moskowitz argued that he legally bought the property from Jewish organisations that owned the land before the establishment of Israel in 1948.

But the Palestinian family living in the building, the Hamdallahs, have been there since 1952, and argued that they maintained their rights to the home and surrounding land.

In 2005, an Israeli court ruled that the family could stay in parts of the house constructed before 1989, but handed one room in the building and the land surrounding it to Moskowitz.

Khaled Hamdallah, a member of the family, told AFP that a court had upheld that decision last week.

"There was a court decision last week that said we had to move out of the room and that they could take it over. The police are here and are letting them take it," he said.

An AFP photographer on the scene saw several Israelis accompanied by police take possession of the room, installing corrugated metal over the windows of the room, effectively a semi-detached flat with garden around it.

"There are 12 of us who'll have to live in what's left of the house. They do what they want," Hamdallah said.

The house is surrounded by the Israeli settlement neighbourhood of Maaleh HaZeitim, where Israeli press reports say 100 apartments have already been constructed.

Israel regards all of Jerusalem, including the eastern part it captured in 1967, as its "eternal and indivisible" capital. It regards construction in any part of the city as legitimate and rejects its description as settlement activity.

But the Palestinians want east Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state. The international community has never recognised Israel's annexation of the eastern sector and considers Israeli building there as settlement construction.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/settlers-move-part-east-jerusalem-home-143548751.html

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John Dvorak's Second Opinion: Microsoft?s unhealthy relationships

By John C. Dvorak

Microsoft?s Surface tablet computer will change the way the company does business.

BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) ? Microsoft Corp. is getting heat from vendors, such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc., over its branded Surface tablet computer.

This will result in demands by vendors of Windows computers and tablets to get a better deal on the OS shipped with their products.

Microsoft needs to put its foot down. It needs to make it clear that there is no alternative for these folks besides Linux. And nobody is betting the farm on Linux.

Except for the proprietary Mac, everyone wants a Windows machine.

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And most of all, Microsoft needs to convince all the original equipment manufacturers that by Microsoft /quotes/zigman/20493/quotes/nls/msft MSFT +1.65% ?selling a branded product is in the best interests of the industry. This is because at least Microsoft is still promoting Windows products. I see very little mass market advertising from Dell /quotes/zigman/27952/quotes/nls/dell DELL -0.84% ?, HP /quotes/zigman/229301/quotes/nls/hpq HPQ +0.60% ?, Acer or Lenovo /quotes/zigman/21902 HK:992 -0.63% ?.

If sales of PC?s are falling it is because advertising budgets have been cut, not because everyone is suddenly using a tablet.

Microsoft saw the writing on the wall a few years back when it began its retail store initiative. The players in the Windows PC game had dropped the ball on moving product. ?Dude you got a Dell? disappeared from the face of the earth and Dell has repositioned itself as a services company. HP did pretty much the same thing.

That leaves the Chinese vendors, none of which believe much in advertising. So the market languishes and Microsoft is supposed to stand in the corner and watch things deteriorate?

Microsoft may not be getting things right, but it is doing something. And it must be aggressive about it.

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And the complainers must first realize that Microsoft is modeling itself after Apple when Apple was licensing its OS for a short while. Apple made the high-end product and everyone else made clones that were priced to undercut Apple.

While this did not work out well the way Apple saw it, it?s exactly what Microsoft would love to see because it will revitalize the business by increasing competitive motivation.

And as an aside, let me say this to all PC vendors: You allowed Microsoft to create this virtual monopoly for an OS, what did you expect would happen eventually?

Much of the fuss, according to Digitimes and elsewhere, comes from the new Windows RT Surface tablet. This is the one version of Windows based on the non-Intel chip and is incompatible with most Wintel software.

The RT Surface might be compelling coming out at a $199 price point and the companies think this will undercut them. This assumes that people would prefer this tablet to a cheap Nexus 7 tablet or any other device.

This is carping about nothing, as most of the Windows licensees were committing to all sorts of alternatives for their tablets already. If Microsoft had not done the Surface tablets, it?s likely nobody would have done them.

Microsoft should immediately begin strategizing a plan to ditch these vendors and develop a line of branded computers. When it still allows OEM licenses (unlike Apple) then maybe the complainers will be appreciative.

In the meantime, Microsoft is going to change the way it does business because it has to. This means it will be all-in on the Microsoft stores selling Microsoft-branded gear.

And as a kicker to this strategy it?s obvious that it will have not just a branded computer, but a branded phone too. This means Nokia begins to put the Microsoft name on its phones soon.

Where that leads will be interesting. Consider Nokia a buyout candidate.

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Health fund in Ohio set up in Armstrong's memory

CINCINNATI (AP) ? Former astronauts, political and business leaders, and family and friends have gathered in suburban Cincinnati to mourn and celebrate the life of Neil Armstrong.

The service at a private club was closed, but a program stated that it included a Navy ceremonial guard, and comments by Armstrong's two sons and Sen. Rob Portman.

A flyover by Navy fighter planes was planned at the end of the service, in tribute to Armstrong's Navy pilot service that included combat missions in Korea.

The first man to walk on the moon died last Saturday at age 82. A national memorial service in Washington is expected within two weeks.

No guest list was released but among some 10 former astronauts was space pioneer John Glenn and Armstrong's fellow Apollo astronauts, including James Lovell, Eugene Cernan and William Anders.

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Apple's Running Out of 27-Inch iMacs, So Get Ready for a Refresh [Apple]

Apple Stores are apparently running low on 27-inch iMacs, fueling the rumor that an update is coming soon. More »

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Man dies in NFL stadium escalator fall

Authorities have identified a 25-year-old Houston man who fell to his death while horsing around on an escalator at Reliant Stadium while attending the Texans preseason finale Thursday.

The man allegedly was trying to slide down the outside of the handrail on the escalator at the Coca-Cola Gate near the northeast side of the stadium at about 8:10 p.m. when he fell three stories, landing on the pavement. He was identified as Jonathan Kelly by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.

Kelly was attending the game with some friends, said a coworker who was not at the event and asked that his name not be published.

The coworker said Kelly had worked for about three months as a plant operator at a private water and wastewater utility company.

Reliant Park issued a statement confirming an escalator accident involving a fan. The victim was taken to a hospital.

The man was on the escalator on a northeast side of the stadium descending from level five to level three when he fell about 60 feet, Mark Miller, General Manager SMG Reliant Park, said during news conference Friday morning.

Miller said he didn't have details about what the man was doing before he fell because the investigation into the incident is ongoing.

Miller said staff is posted on each landing at escalators and signs on the equipment encourage safety.

The stadium staff will review safety procedures and the escalators will be inspected to make sure they are working properly and are safe, Miller said. He said the northeast escalators will be shut down while they are inspected. They won't be operating during a high school football game scheduled for Friday night, he added.

Miller expressed sympathy for the man and his family.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family at this moment," he said.

Jamey Rootes, president of the Houston Texans, echoed Miller's sympathy for the family.

The organization, he said, expresses "our deep sadness at this tragic accident."

Houston Fire Department officials said the man was taken by a private ambulance to the hospital.

Houston police said that according to initial information they received, the victim died at the hospital.

Kelly's death comes just more than a year after 39-year-old Shannon Stone fell to his death during a Texas Rangers baseball game in Arlington in July 2011. Stone had grabbed a baseball tossed by an outfielder toward the stands and toppled over the railing, falling about 20 feet to concrete below.

Anna-Megan Raley and Carol Christian contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.sfgate.com/news/houston-texas/article/Authorities-ID-man-killed-in-Reliant-escalator-3829474.php

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Fracking could be combined with carbon capture plans

Talk about a win-win situation. Compressed carbon dioxide may be more suitable than water for fracturing methane-rich rock ? a finding that could help the growing hydraulic fracturing industry extract more natural gas from spent fields. And because the carbon dioxide is then trapped below ground, the discovery could also spur the development of large-scale carbon sequestration.

Natural gas production has soared worldwide in recent years as a result of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking ? a process of injecting pressurised water into shale formations to fracture the rock and release massive amounts of natural gas trapped inside.

The more extensive the network of fractures created in the shale, the more pathways are available for the gas inside it to escape. Tsuyoshi Ishida at Kyoto University, Japan, and his colleagues have now found a way to greatly extend that network of fractures by replacing pressurised water with liquid or supercritical CO₂.

On a broad scale, the pattern of fractures created in rock by conventional hydraulic fracturing is two-dimensional ? the fractures tend to occur along a plane. Ishida's team found, through experiments involving cubes of granite, that compressed CO₂ yielded a fracture pattern that was three-dimensional. Ishida expects the compressed CO₂ would produce a similar 3D pattern of fracturing in shale too.

It's unclear exactly why pressurised CO₂ yields a different fracture pattern from water, but Ishida's team suggest it might be connected to the fact that compressed CO₂ is around 10 times less viscous than water.

Viability of CO₂

Shahab Mohaghegh, a petroleum and natural gas engineer at West Virginia University in Morgantown, says the study may hasten the development of large-scale carbon sequestration. Mohaghegh is studying the technical and economic viability of using CO₂ to remove methane from shale, but from a different perspective.

He says that shale has a greater affinity for CO₂ than methane. When CO₂ is injected into a depleted shale formation ? even one that has previously been fracked ? the rock will release more methane because pockets of the gas chemically trapped within the shale will be released in favour of the more chemically attractive CO₂.

"Shale is an incredible storage source and carbon sequestration can help us release more methane," he says. "If you can also use carbon dioxide to fracture the rock, that would add a third dimension that could be more significant than sequestration or enhanced recovery."

A 2006 study by the US Department of Energy assessed geologic sequestration options in the US Midwest. It found that saline aquifers offer by far the greatest potential carbon storage capacity ? around 470 gigatonnes ? but shale beds that have been fractured for methane production came in second, with the potential to hold 45 gigatonnes.

Mark Zoback, a geophysicist at Stanford University, California, says fractured shale beds may be a safer place to sequester carbon dioxide than saline aquifers where the injection of the waste gas into an already highly pressurised environment could trigger small earthquakes.

A study earlier this year also pointed out that fracking might unintentionally reduce the suitability of some saline aquifers for CO₂ storage because it is often shale that forms an impermeable seal above the aquifer, preventing the gas from escaping back to the surface. Fracking the shale compromises the quality of the seal by opening up fractures.

Journal reference: Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052788

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AUBURN, Ind. ? A military museum in northeastern Indiana will remain open under an agreement to end a bank's foreclosure lawsuit.

The deal announced Thursday by the Dean V. Kruse Foundation calls for it to sell the unused building on which it owes $2.9 million to Farmers State Bank of LaGrange. The foundation built it to house the memorabilia of auto racing icon Andy Granatelli who changed his mind about using the Auburn location.

The Star of Auburn and The Journal Gazette report that a DeKalb County judge had ordered the sale of the Kruse Foundation museums site, which includes the National Military History Center.

The Granatelli building will be auctioned off Sunday and some military museum items will be sold in November to help pay off the loan.

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