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Friday, September 7, 2012
Canada cuts ties with Iran, closes embassy, orders diplomats home
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird delivered a diplomatic bolt from the blue Friday, abruptly and unexpectedly severing ties with Iran, shuttering Canada's embassy there and giving Iranian diplomats in Ottawa five days to get out of the country.
Baird rattled off a litany of long-standing grievances with Iran during a hastily organized news conference in the Russian city of Vladivostok, where he and Prime Minister Stephen Harper are participating in this weekend's meeting of Asia Pacific Co-operation leaders.
"The Iranian regime has shown blatant disregard for the Vienna Convention and its guarantee of protection for diplomatic personnel," Baird said.
"Under the circumstances, Canada can no longer maintain a diplomatic presence in Iran. Our diplomats serve Canada as civilians, and their safety is our No. 1 priority."
The move came as a surprise, one Baird justified with complaints that Canada and others around the world have been making for months, if not years.
Baird cited an eight-month-old attack on Britain's embassy in Tehran as evidence that Canada's own diplomats there are in danger.
He also accused Iran of providing military assistance to the Assad regime in war-riven Syria, failing to comply with UN resolutions regarding its nuclear program, and "materially" supporting terrorist groups.
And, for good measure, he accused Iran of "routinely" threatening the existence of Israel, engaging in racist anti-Semitic rhetoric and incitement to genocide, and called the country "among the world?s worst violators of human rights."
"Canada," he said, "views the government of Iran as the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today."
He said the Canadian embassy in Tehran has been closed, while Iranian diplomats in Canada have been given five days to leave. Ordinary Canadians were also warned to avoid any travel to Iran.
So sudden was the news, Baird later felt it necessary to quell conjecture about possible military action. "Unequivocally, we have no information about a military strike on Iran," he said through a spokesman.
People seeking Canadian consular services in Iran are being directed to the embassy in Turkey.
Canada's relations with Iran have been iffy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. After Canadians spirited American diplomats out of Tehran in 1980 during the post-revolution hostage crisis, the Canadian embassy was closed for eight years.
The two countries slowly moved back to normal diplomatic relations with an exchange of ambassadors in 1996.
But the relationship chilled in 2003 after Zahra Kazemi, a freelance photographer with dual Canadian-Iranian citizenship, was killed in custody in Iran in what Canada described as a state-sanctioned murder. Canada recalled its ambassador.
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Quicam Uploads Photos To Facebook And Twitter As Fast As You Can Take Them
Snap? Upload.
When I first saw the PR blurb for the Quicam app, I thought ?What could possibly go wrong?? After all, who could ever foresee a problem with an app that lets you snap photos and immediately send them to Twitter and Facebook, automatically and without a single extra button press.
Really, what could possibly go wrong?
Quicam will spirit your photos off to both Twitter and Facebook, separately or simultaneously, captioned with pre-chosen text. It will do this as soon as you snap a picture, making it both ultra-convenient and super-dangerous.
Of course, you will avoid taking drunken photos with this app, instead launching another, safer photo app. That?s easy ? if you?re sober. You see where I?m going here?
On the other hand, this could be gold if you?re taking pictures at a political rally or other venue where the cops (and the rent-a-cops) try to shut you and your iPhone camera down. ?Erase those pictures? they may demand, while you chuckle and avoid their nightsticks.
Either way, Quicam is available now for just one dollar. And it?s from the folks at Appvetica, so you know it?ll be nicely polished.
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Charlie Sorrel?sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about ?various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via?@mistercharlie(sorry, you need Javascript to see this e-mail address)| Read more posts by Charlie Sorrel.
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Huawei calls for cybersecurity cooperation
BEIJING (AP) ? Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies Ltd. has issued a report on cybersecurity that includes a pledge never to cooperate with spying in a fresh effort to allay concerns in the United States and elsewhere that threaten to hamper its expansion.
The report, written by a Huawei executive who is a former British official, calls for global efforts to create legal and technical security standards. It makes no recommendations for what standards to adopt but says current laws are inconsistent or fail to address important threats.
Huawei, founded by a former Chinese military engineer in 1987, has grown to become the world's second-largest supplier of telecoms network gear after Sweden's LM Ericsson. Suspicions that Huawei might be controlled by China's Communist Party or military have slowed its expansion in the United States and it was barred from bidding to take part in an Australian broadband project.
The company denies it is a security threat.
"We have never damaged any nation or had the intent to steal any national intelligence, enterprise secrets or breach personal privacy and we will never support or tolerate such activities, nor will we support any entity from any country who may wish us to undertake an activity that would be deemed illegal in any country," the report says.
The 25-page report was written by John Suffolk, a former British government chief information officer who became Huawei's global cyber security officer last year.
A Huawei spokesman said the report was not intended as a direct response to security concerns about the company in the United States, Australia and elsewhere.
"You could say that the information in the paper could be helpful in those countries where we've had challenges," said the spokesman, Scott Sykes. "It's not a specific response to those situations, but does it apply to those? Yes."
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei issued a similar appeal for security cooperation in June in a rare public appearance at a Russian business conference. Ren made no mention of suspicions about Huawei but called on the global industry to "join hands" and warned security threats would continue to grow.
Huawei, based in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, says its equipment is used by 45 of the world's 50 biggest phone companies. It has more than 110,000 employees and reported profit of 11.6 billion yuan ($1.8 billion) last year on sales of 209.9 billion yuan ($32.4 billion).
The company has tried to reassure foreign officials with steps that include setting up a testing center in Britain where government technicians can examine its equipment. But it has released few details about who controls Huawei, which has fueled suspicions abroad.
The company said it is working on security issues with groups such as the International Telecommunication Union; 3GPP, a global mobile standards body, and FIRST, a computer security group.
Huawei was barred from bidding to work on a planned Australian high-speed Internet network due to concerns about cyberattacks traced to China. The company had to unwind its purchase of a U.S. computer company, 3Leaf Systems, last year after it failed to win approval from a government security panel.
A U.S. congressional panel has said it will investigate whether allowing Huawei, rival ZTE Corp. and other Chinese makers of telecoms gear to expand in the United States might aid spying by Beijing.
Asked whether the Chinese government had asked Huawei to help spy abroad, Sykes said, "No, we deny that."
This week's report rejects as "inherently discriminatory" what it said is the notion that some technology suppliers can be trusted more than others based on their national origin. It noted that suppliers such as Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent have extensive operations in China that serve foreign customers.
Huawei has long supplied mobile handsets to global phone carriers and is trying to develop its own a consumer brand, competing with Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. by marketing smart phones and other products under its own name.
This week, U.S. retailer RadioShack Corp. announced it will sell two Huawei phones as part of a new wireless venture.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/huawei-calls-cybersecurity-cooperation-041632430--finance.html
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Home Improvement Blog: Finding a Professional Tulsa Plumbing ...
We know it can be difficult in these tough economic times when you find out that you?ve got a plumbing problem.? For a homeowner, it can feel like the end of the world to know that you will need to repair or replace major plumbing fixtures in your home.? Here are a few simple rules you can use to find a professional plumbing company fast, without having to pay through the nose.
First, talk to your friends and family about plumbers they have used in the past.? It may sound like a no-brainer, but many people are embarrassed to mention to family and friends that they have a plumbing problem.? By talking to people you trust, you can find out about good and bad plumbers.? Many family and friends will share stories with you about plumbing experiences they have been involved in and you can learn a lot from them.
Now, search through the Better Business Bureau (BBB) for the short list of plumbers you have been researching.? If the plumbing company isn?t listed on the BBB, you might consider avoiding that plumber until you can find out more information.? The Bureau is a good place to find out if there have been any complaints about the plumber in the past and you can review the plumber?s responses as well.
Finally, call the Tulsa plumbing company and ask to speak to a plumber about your problem.? Even though you might not be a plumbing expert, you can at learn a tremendous amount just by speaking to a plumbing professional over the phone.? If you don?t feel comfortable with the plumber after speaking to him or her over the phone, you can cross them off the list and move on to the next company to contact.Following these simple guidelines will help you find a professional plumber who you can trust.?
Source: http://homeimprovementland.blogspot.com/2012/09/finding-professional-tulsa-plumbing.html
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Natasha Bryant-Raible Wins Our Disrupt Remix Contest With Top Track Out Of 445 Entries
Whoa! That was quite a response. TechCrunch got 445 entries to our Disrupt Remix Contest. Check them all out inside the post. After many hours of music screening, our busy Event Director Joey Hinson has chosen a winner. It was a difficult pick because so many were so good. But, now we are proud to announce the winner. Drumroll please. It's Natasha Bryant-Raible, with her "TechTechRastaCrunch" remix. She gets 2 free tickets to attend Disrupt SF next week and a free Pro SoundCloud account.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ffkSLpVY1Bs/
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
For the rooster, size matters
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
A lone rooster sees a lot of all the hens in the flock, but the hen with the largest comb gets a bigger dose of sperm - and thus more chicks. This sounds natural, but behind all this is humanity's hunger for eggs.
For thousands of years, people have tinkered with the development of domestic chickens. Through selective breeding for a few characteristics such as large muscle mass and increased egg-laying, we have at the same time caused numerous other radical changes in appearance and behaviour. A research group at Link?ping University in Sweden has now shown how the size of a hen's comb is bound up with the ability to lay more eggs. The results have been presented in the scientific journal PLOS Genetics.
Compared with the original wild jungle hen, domestic hens have larger combs as well as denser bones. This influences egg-laying, as the hen's bone tissues provide calcium for the eggshells. The greater the bone mass, the more eggs she can lay.
After having spotted a clear correlation between comb size and bone mass in chickens from a cross between red junglefowl and domestic chicken, the research group ? under the leadership of evolutionary geneticist Dominic Wright ? set up a study where such chickens were crossed for several generations. In this way the genome was split up into smaller and smaller regions, which allowed the "mapping" of the functions of individual genes.
In the eighth generation, the researchers found an area that had a strong effect on the weight of the comb ? but also on bone mass and fertility.
The genetic variation has gradually decreased over the course of domestication. In domestic chickens there are now some 40 known small regions with stable genes that potentially govern their typical "domestic" characteristics. LiU researchers have now discovered two "pleiotropic" genes: two genes connected to each other that influence several characteristics simultaneously. By regulating the production of cartilage, they influence combs (which consist of cartilage throughout) as well as bone growth (where cartilage is the base material) and, ultimately, egg production.
"The original hens have smaller combs, thinner legs, and lay fewer eggs. When people bred for the characteristic of laying many eggs, the comb grew automatically," Dominic Wright says.
In nature, the comb is an example of a sexual ornament. Individuals ? often males ? with the most impressive ornaments are favoured by females, thereby obtaining more numerous offspring than their competitors. In domesticated animals, sexual selection ? like natural selection ? has lost its role, as it was humans who determine breeding.
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