Solar storm expected to hit Earth Tuesday

A medium-size solar flare erupted from the sun this weekend, hurling a cloud of plasma and charged particles toward Earth on a cosmic path that is expected to deliver a glancing blow to our planet on Tuesday, according to space weather forecasters.

The M6-class solar flare exploded from the sun on Saturday, unleashing a wave of plasma and charged particles, called a coronal mass ejection (CME), into space. The CME is expected to reach Earth tomorrow, and could deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field at around 11 a.m. EDT, according to the website Spaceweather.com, which regularly monitors space weather events.

"This is a slow-moving CME," astronomer Tony Phillips wrote on Spaceweather.com. "The cloud's low speed (382 km/s estimated) combined with its glancing trajectory suggests a weak impact is in the offing. Nevertheless, polar geomagnetic storms are possible when the cloud arrives."

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Powerful, fast-moving CMEs that hit Earth directly can trigger strong geomagnetic storms that cause radio blackouts and disrupt power grids and other communications infrastructure. These clouds of charged particles can also knock out satellites as they travel through space.

A more benign effect of solar storms, however, is supercharged northern and southern lights, which can be sparked when the CME's charged particles hit Earth's magnetic field. Solar storm forecasts are often accompanied by alerts for auroras at high- and mid-latitudes, though particularly strong geomagnetic storms can generate auroras at lower-than-normal latitudes.

Saturday's M6-class solar flare erupted from the active sunspot AR1532, which is slowly rotating across the solar disk. X-class solar flares are the strongest type of solar eruptions, with M-class flares ranking as medium-strength, and C-class flares representing the weakest type. [Video: Strong Sun Flare Erupts Towards Earth]

While Earth may be safe from being hit head-on by the CME, Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, will not be as lucky.

"The CME will also hit Mercury, probably with greater force," Phillips wrote on Spaceweather.com. "Mercury's planetary magnetic field is only ~10 percent as strong as Earth's, so Mercury is not well protected from CMEs. When the clouds hit, they can actually scour atoms off Mercury's surface, adding material to Mercury's super-thin atmosphere and comet-like tail."

The sun's activity waxes and wanes on a roughly 11-year cycle. The sun's current cycle, called Solar Cycle 24, began in 2008. The sun's activity is expected to ramp up toward a solar maximum in 2013.

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Indian power failure puts 370M in dark for hours

NEW DELHI (AP) ? A power grid failure blacked out northern India for hours Monday, halting trains, forcing hospitals and airports onto backup power and providing a dark, sweltering reminder of the nation's inability to meet its energy needs as it strives to be an economic power.

While the midsummer outage was unique in its reach ? it hit 370 million people, more than the population of the United States and Canada combined ? its impact was softened by Indians' familiarity with almost daily blackouts of varying duration. Hospitals and major businesses have backup generators that seamlessly kick in during power cuts, and upscale homes are hooked to backup systems powered by truck batteries.

Nonetheless, some small businesses were forced to shut for the day. Buildings were without water because the pumps weren't working, and the vaunted New Delhi Metro, with 1.8 million daily riders, was paralyzed during the morning commute.

"This will obviously get worse," said Subhash Chawla, a 65-year-old retiree who took the Metro once power was restored. "Unless the Metro has a separate power supply, it will be chaos in the future."

The grid that failed feeds the nation's breadbasket in Punjab, the war-wracked region of Kashmir, the burgeoning capital of New Delhi, the Dalai Lama's Himalayan headquarters in Dharmsala, and the world's most populous state, poverty-stricken Uttar Pradesh.

Most affected areas had power back by late morning, less than nine hours after the outage started. By evening, 15 hours after the outage began, officials said full power had been restored.

Many chafed at the inconvenience.

Amit Naik, a toy maker in New Delhi, was forced to close his workshop for the day.

"There was no water, so my machine couldn't run. Other people had the same difficulties," he said.

The Confederation of Indian Industry said the outage was a reminder of the urgent need for the government to fix the power sector, ensure a steady supply of coal for power plants and reform the electricity utilities.

Transmission and distribution losses in some states are as much as 50 percent because of theft and corruption by employees in the power industry. India's Central Electricity Authority reported power deficits of about 8 percent in recent months.

Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde deflected criticism, pointing out that the United States and Brazil also had huge power failures in recent years.

"I ask you to look at the power situation in other countries as well," he said.

The blackout, the worst to hit India in a decade, began about 2:30 a.m. when the grid covering eight northern states crashed. Officials in Uttar Pradesh, where the problem was believed to have begun, said the grid could not keep up with the huge demand for power in the hot summer.

But Shinde said he was not sure exactly what caused the collapse and had formed a committee to investigate.

The outage left millions sweltering in the summer heat. Muslim families were forced to eat their pre-dawn meals by candlelight before beginning their daytime Ramadan fast. "It was really difficult," said farmer Mohammed Zaman.

As officials struggled to get the grid back on line, they drew power from the neighboring eastern and western grids as well as hydroelectric power from the small neighboring mountain kingdom of Bhutan.

New Delhi residents were roused from sleep when their fans and air conditioners stopped, and came out of their homes in the heat as the entire city turned dark. Temperatures in the city were in the mid-30s C (90s F) with 89 percent humidity.

Some trains across the northern region were stranded when their electric engines failed. Others were delayed by hours as they were hooked to diesel engines.

The failure was the first time since 2001 that the northern grid had collapsed. But India's demand for electricity has soared since then as its population and economy have grown sharply.

But any connection to the grid remains a luxury for many. One-third of India's households do not even have electricity to power a light bulb, according to last year's census.

The power deficit was worsened by a weak monsoon that lowered hydroelectric generation and kept temperatures higher, further increasing electricity usage as people seek to cool off. Shivpal Singh Yadav, the power minister in Uttar Pradesh, home to 200 million people, said that while demand during peak hours hits 11,000 megawatts, the state can only provide 9,000 megawatts.

Uttar Pradesh Power Corp. chief Avnish Awasthi blamed the grid collapse on states drawing more than their allotted power to meet the summer demand.

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Associated Press writer Biswajeet Banerjee in Lucknow and Aijaz Hussain in Srinagar contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/indian-power-failure-puts-370m-dark-hours-170036698--finance.html

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Thermaltake cures clamminess with $80 Cyclone Edition gaming mouse

Just when we needed a modern-day equivalent of sailing down the Nile while being fanned by Assyrian slaves, Thermaltake gives us this: the Black Element Cyclone Edition gaming mouse, which has a 6,000 rpm rotor directed right at the point where slick skin meets plastic. Pictures of the device have been floating around the web for a while, but we've just heard it'll be available in US stores any day now (or officially, "in August") priced at $80. The patent pending design promises to keep noise down to a sub-environmental 21.7dB, while delivering an airflow of 2.6 cubic feet per minute -- which, if you're lucky, should be enough to not only keep your digits dry but also reach your palm. The fan can alternatively be removed, in which case you'll be left with a 6,500 dpi laser sensor, an adjustable weight of up to 22.5 grams, "military-grade" grip coating and an abundance of natural oils.

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15 magical pieces of tech that need to stop

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They were supposed to make everything better. And maybe they did, a little. But it's time for them to go away now. Sorry, QR codes. It's been real.?

?1. QR Codes

Imagine a hyperlink, except instead of actual readable text that you can type in, it's some weird ziggurat that gives no hint of where it's going. Also, instead of clicking on it, you have to take a picture of it with your camera, and you're probably going to have to take that picture three or four times before it works, and a lot of the time it's going to send you to either a non-mobile site or a dead link. If they all disappeared tomorrow, not one person in the entire world would care, not at all.

2. Routers

For some reason, they all look like they were made in 1995 and most of them act that way too. Everything they do would be much better in a scaled down, Airport-Express-style dongle. Time to burn this one down and start again.

3. Browser plugins

Flash is pulling out of the mobile world (after years of trying to break in) and Silverlight is ruining lives on a daily basis. Soon HTML5 will replace them entirely ? browser plugins don't exist on the iPhone or iPad and they won't exist on Windows 8 RT ?? but in the meantime there are a lot of websites with gaping holes in them, like a newspaper attacked by old lady clipping coupons.

4. Traffic cameras

The?rule was, if a cop caught you speeding, you got a ticket. It was a great system, both for the Smokey-and-the-Bandit factor and because, if you were only a little bit over the line, the officer would usually let it slide. Mailing tickets to people just because they got from point A to point B a little ahead of the curve is cheating, and it moves us towards a creepy automotive panopticon where the force of law is both intangible and omnipresent. But mostly, it's just lame.

5. Inductive charging?

Another idea that's been kicking around for a while without ever taking off. If it's not built into the phone, like the Palm Pre, it's not any easier than plugging it in.

6. Bluetooth audio

This started out as a good idea ? especially the speakers ? but it took 15 years to produce a decent product. Time to call it a day. We're better off with speaker wire.

7. The remote control

True story: I recently visited a friend who was housesitting, and it took us 10 minutes to figure out how to turn on the TV. There were three remotes, and each one had 40 buttons on it, except for the Apple TV remote, which didn't have a power button. Just put it in an app.

8. The cable box?

Speaking of which, here's a strange box that requires another remote control. Destroy! Or get it over with and shove it inside of an?Xbox or Apple TV already.

9. Software license keys?

Hard to enter, easy to crack. Authentication shouldn't be this difficult.

10. Cables For everything

Too many cables. Toomanycables. Too many, cables. Too.?Many cables.

11. The printer/scanner/fax

A surprising number of people still get one of these when they buy a computer, even though there's no reason to do any of these three things, and if you ever run out of ink or toner you will suffer the tortures of the damned. The sooner we stop expecting paper copies of things, the better.

12. Blu-Ray?

A lot of loose copies of Transformers 3 were handed out trying to make this one happen. And the movie looked great! Unfortunately, nobody you know owns a Blu-Ray player, and nobody wants to make a computer that deals with them. You're better off streaming.

13. The power brick

It's enough to make you wish we'd stuck with direct current.

14. Facebook comments

Designed to bring civility to web comments by attaching real people's names to them. Because if you know Richard Morris here is the person saying crazy things, he won't say them, right? Wrong. It continues to be a bottomless will of spiritual death and plain-old web-design misery.

15. Standalone anti-virus software?

It's crazy that this still exists. Just bake it into the OS already.

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PFT: Hasselbeck, Locker alternating reps at camp

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Fans are naturally more interested in players and coaches than front-office employees.

But in Arizona, the intrigue over the firing of a salary cap administrator creates questions about the direction of the franchise and its leadership.

On its face, getting rid of Justin Casey is a line of agate type, the kind of transaction no one notices. But inside Cardinal headquarters, it has apparently created a bit of a divide.

Kent Somers of the Arizona Republic reports the move was ?deeply felt inside the team?s headquarters in Tempe,? and could hint at a split between General Manager Rod Graves and coach Ken Whisenhunt.

Somers said it would be ?hard to find a Cardinals employee more well-liked by his co-workers? than Casey, and there was no previous sense he was bad at his job.?But he was also close with Whisenhunt, as the two occasionally played golf together.

Was that the reason he was fired, as a power play by Graves?

?That?s ridiculous,? Graves told Somers, when asked about the speculation. ?Ken and I have a wonderful working relationship, and we?re on the same page in respect to improving as an organization, improving as a team and working together.?

Casey himself declined comment to Somers, and Graves didn?t elaborate on why he was replaced. There were other moves made in the front office as well, so perhaps it was part of a larger organizational shift.

Casey was replaced by Sean Castle, a CPA with no NFL experience.

?Our focus is on being a championship organization and becoming a championship team,? Graves said. ?Every year in that quest, I?m evaluating where we are, from a personnel standpoint, and assessing new talent out there.

?What I have been able to do in assessing candidates is really get a feel for the skill sets people have and realize what services they can provide us that we don?t have. And sometimes at the end of that evaluation, you come to the conclusion that you?re better off making changes.?

That?s all well and good, and there could easily be a reason for all this. But when moves like this are made without full explanation, the vacuum quickly fills with conspiracy theories. Whether there?s a Graves-Whisenhunt split or not, the impression does no good for the organization, and barring evidence to the contrary, folks will begin to believe it whether it?s true or not.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/29/hasselbeck-locker-alternating-reps-at-titans-camp/related/

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Ark. man sentenced to death for killing officer

PARAGOULD, Ark. (AP) ? An Arkansas man who shot a police officer during a traffic stop last year, then coldly shot him again in the face while he was pleading for his life, was sentenced to death on Saturday.

Jerry Lard was convicted Thursday of capital murder, and a Greene County judge agreed with the jury that the 38-year-old should die for killing Trumann police officer Jonathan Schmidt in April 2011.

Schmidt's father, Donald Schmidt Sr., welcomed the decision, saying the youngest of his son's three children, who turns 3 years old in October, will grow up not knowing his father.

"It's given me an overwhelming sense of relief," Schmidt said. "For some of the family members who lost their husband ? the children, they'll never get to see their father again. Only time will heal their wounds."

Lard's attorney, Katherine Streett, said the case will be automatically appealed and that she doesn't comment on ongoing cases.

Prosecutor Scott Ellington, in a statement, said seeking the death sentence always involves a lot of thought and prayer, but that he saw no other option in the case of Lard, who also fired on but missed Schmidt's partner, Sgt. Corey Overstreet, during the confrontation.

"The jury echoed the commitment of the community to protect those who protect us. I am very proud of their courage and fortitude. I know it wasn't an easy decision, but it is one that had to be made," Ellington said.

Lard's attorneys didn't deny that he killed Schmidt, but they say Lard was mentally ill or deficient and should be spared execution.

Overstreet testified that he showed up as backup last year after Schmidt pulled over a car in which Lard was a passenger.

At one point, Schmidt asked Lard his name and birthday and radioed the information back. Schmidt walked to Lard's side of the car.

"When he opened the door, a hand reached out and started shooting Jonathan," Overstreet said.

Overstreet went to reach for his gun, but he said Lard pointed his weapon at him, so he scrambled between the vehicles. He heard gunshots.

Video taken the night of the shooting from dashboard cameras in the police cars showed Schmidt helping Overstreet back onto his feet after he fell, The Jonesboro Sun reported.

Lard swore and shot at Schmidt, who said, "Please, don't shoot me again."

A medical examiner told the jury Schmidt was shot four times, in the chin, neck, right wrist and chest, though a protective vest blocked that shot.

The trial was moved from Poinsett County to Greene County at the request of the defense.

Lard becomes the 38th death row inmate in Arkansas, although the state currently can't carry out executions since the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down its lethal injection law earlier this year.

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Man calling himself 'a joker' threatened shooting

This undated handout photo provided by the Prince George's, Md. County Police shows weapons found in the possession of a suspect who they say was plotting a shooting in his workplace. Police in Maryland say a man who called himself "a joker" and threatened to shoot up his workplace was in the process of being fired. Police say the 28-year-old man was taken into custody Friday morning. Investigators said he was wearing a T-shirt that said "Guns don't kill people. I do." He was taken into custody for an emergency mental health evaluation and charges are pending. (AP Photo/Prince George's County Police)

This undated handout photo provided by the Prince George's, Md. County Police shows weapons found in the possession of a suspect who they say was plotting a shooting in his workplace. Police in Maryland say a man who called himself "a joker" and threatened to shoot up his workplace was in the process of being fired. Police say the 28-year-old man was taken into custody Friday morning. Investigators said he was wearing a T-shirt that said "Guns don't kill people. I do." He was taken into custody for an emergency mental health evaluation and charges are pending. (AP Photo/Prince George's County Police)

Prince George's County, Md. Police Chief Mark Magaw answers questions at the Prince George's County Police Headquarters in Palmer Park, Md., Friday, July 27, 2012, after a news conference to discuss a suspect who police say was plotting a shooting in his workplace. A Maryland man calling himself "a joker" is accused of threatening to shoot up the business from which he was about to be fired and was wearing a T-shirt that read "Guns don't kill people. I do," when he first talked to officers who arrested him, police said Friday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Prince George's County, Md. Police Chief Mark Magaw speaks at a news conference at the Prince George's County Police Headquarters in Palmer Park, Md., Friday, July 27, 2012, to discuss a suspect who police say was plotting a shooting in his workplace. A Maryland man calling himself "a joker" is accused of threatening to shoot up the business from which he was about to be fired and was wearing a T-shirt that read "Guns don't kill people. I do," when he first talked to officers who arrested him, police said Friday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Prince George's County Police Chief Mark Magaw listens at left as Deputy Chief Henry Stawinski, with the Bureau of Forensic Science and Intelligence, speaks at a news conference at the Prince George's County Police Headquarters in Palmer Park, Md., Friday, July 27, 2012, to discuss a suspect who they say was plotting a shooting in his workplace. Police in Maryland say a man who called himself "a joker" and threatened to shoot up his workplace was in the process of being fired. Police say the 28-year-old man was taken into custody Friday morning. Investigators said he was wearing a T-shirt that said "Guns don't kill people. I do." He was taken into custody for an emergency mental health evaluation and charges are pending. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Prince George's County Police Chief Mark Magaw listens at left as Ashan Benedict, Assistant Special Agent In Charge with the Baltimore ATF, speaks at a news conference at the Prince George's County, Md. Police Headquarters in Palmer Park, Md., Friday, July 27, 2012, to discuss a suspect who they say was plotting a shooting in his workplace. Police in Maryland say a man who called himself "a joker" and threatened to shoot up his workplace was in the process of being fired. Police say the 28-year-old man was taken into custody Friday morning. Investigators said he was wearing a T-shirt that said "Guns don't kill people. I do." He was taken into custody for an emergency mental health evaluation and charges are pending. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

PALMER PARK, Md. (AP) ? Calling himself "a joker," a Maryland man with an arsenal of guns threatened to shoot up a business he was being fired from, and was wearing a T-shirt that said "Guns don't kill people. I do" when police confronted him, authorities said Friday.

The 28-year-old man, identified in a search warrant as Neil E. Prescott, told a supervisor at software and mailroom supplier Pitney Bowes that he wanted to see his boss' "brain splatter all over the sidewalk," according to a search warrant.

"I'm a joker and I'm gonna load my guns and blow everybody up," Prescott said, according to the warrant.

The threats were made repeatedly in two separate phone calls this week, and investigators who searched Prescott's apartment Friday morning found several thousand rounds of ammunition and about two dozen semi-automatic rifles and pistols. The weapons so far appear to have been purchased legally but are still being examined, said Mike Campbell, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Prescott was taken into custody at his apartment Friday and was receiving a psychiatric evaluation at a hospital. He was not expected to be charged Friday, the Prince George's County police department said on Twitter.

"We can't measure what was prevented here, but what was going on over the last 36 hours was a significant incident in the county. And we think a violent episode was avoided," said county police Chief Mark Magaw.

The workplace Prescott is accused of threatening to shoot up is located just outside Washington.

It wasn't immediately clear when the threat was to be carried out or how seriously it was, but last week's mass shooting at a Colorado theater during the latest Batman movie ? coupled with the "Joker" reference ? put police on edge and gave the comments extra urgency, officials said.

"We take all threats seriously. And if you're going to make a threat, we will take action," Magaw said.

Though there's no other indication of a link to the Colorado shooting, police believe the joker comments were a "clear reference" to the killings, the warrant said. The man accused in those shootings, James Holmes, had his hair dyed reddish-orange, and called himself the Joker, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has said.

It was not immediately clear if Prescott had a lawyer. His record in Maryland appeared to include only a 2007 speeding ticket.

A search for Neil Prescott on a website that tracks users' online activities led to a profile that appears to be him on mdshooters.com, a website for gun enthusiasts. On it, Prescott, who used an online tag of slog403 and identified himself as from Crofton, traded advice with other users about obtaining firearms.

During a conversation last week about acquiring a 30-round magazine, he indicated he would "never violate MD laws as I respect this site and state." But in a July 18 post, he also said he wished to "unleash 30 rounds of hell" and added a smiley face emoticon. It wasn't clear what he was referring to.

He was taken into custody Friday morning at his apartment in Crofton, near Annapolis, after a supervisor reported the threat to the police. Police on Thursday made an initial visit to Prescott's home, where he appeared groggy and was wearing the T-shirt with the reference to guns.

"The multiple threats and the nature of the threats and that action, together, led us to a place where we could get an emergency petition" for a psychiatric evaluation, said Deputy Police Chief Henry Stawinski.

According to the warrant, Prescott made the threat during a phone call on Monday morning when a supervisor contacted him on a work-related matter, then made similar statements in a separate conversation about 15 minutes later. During the call, Prescott acknowledged it was "kind of foolish of me" to say this over the phone, the supervisor told authorities.

The supervisor did not want to talk to a reporter, his son said.

Pitney Bowes spokeswoman Carol Wallace said in a statement that Prescott was an employee of a subcontractor to the company and had not been on any Pitney Bowes property in at least four months.

Wilbert Brinson, who lives in a building across from Prescott's but did not know him, said he was alarmed by the alleged threats.

"It's an awakening, you know, after hearing what happened in Colorado," he said.

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Associated Press writers Jessica Gresko and Brian Witte and AP researcher Judith Ausuebel contributed to this report. Zongker reported from Washington.

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July 27, 2012 // Franchising.com // Easton, Md. - Decorating Den Interiors (www.decoratingden.com), North America?s largest home furnishings and interior design franchise company, has selected Marina Colella, owner of Decorating Den Interiors of White Plains, N.Y. (www.decdens.com/marinacolella), to manage and expand the number of franchises in Westchester County.

Ms. Colella has owned her Decorating Den Interiors franchise since 2005. ?Her record of success has led to her being awarded a master license to expand in the county,? says James S. Bugg, Jr., chief executive officer of the 43-year-old company. ?We are confident that our low-overhead in-home service business model presents a great opportunity for new franchise owners in this attractive market.?

?We are experiencing significant growth in the U.S. and Canada both in our retail sales and in awarding of new franchises,? says Bugg, ?and, we were recently named a Retail Star by Home Accents Today, a leading national home furnishings publication. With about a million people in Westchester County, it is an attractive market for home furnishings and design.?

?The ideal candidate for our franchise is someone who loves to decorate and has a desire to have their own independent career and business doing something they really enjoy,? Colella says. ?We provide comprehensive design and business training.?

While Ms. Colella points out that many owners have come from other career backgrounds, in her case engineering, the company also attracts people who have previous interior design or home furnishings experience.

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Established in 1969, DDI is the largest home furnishings franchise business in North America. Each interior decorator has access to thousands of samples of designer window, wall and floor coverings, furniture and accessory products, all brought directly to the each client?s home or office. Decorating Den?s experts are featured in interior decorating magazines, journals and books, such as ?Decorating?the Professional Touch,? by Decorating Den?s Director of Design, Carol Donayre Bugg, ASID, DDCD.

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Kenyan witnesses in ICC cases threatened: official

Prosecution witnesses in the trial of four Kenyans set to appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC) are under increasing threat and intimidation, a top ICC official said Thursday.

"There are indications of people who are intimidating witnesses," said Phakiso Mochochoko, head of jurisdiction at The Hague based court.

"We want the government of Kenya to ensure that the people intimidating witnesses are brought to book," Mochochoko told reporters in the Kenyan capital.

The international war crimes court in The Hague ruled earlier this year that four Kenyans will be tried in April on charges of fomenting deadly post-poll violence in 2007-08, in which over 1,100 people were killed.

In one case, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, 50, and ex-civil service chief Francis Muthaura, 65, face five charges of crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, persecution, deportation and other inhumane acts.

In the other case, former agriculture minister William Ruto, 45, and radio presenter Joshua Arap Sang, 36, who were opposition supporters in 2007, each face three crimes against humanity charges.

Both Kenyatta and Ruto plan to run in presidential elections due in March.

Mochochoko said that while key prosecution witnesses are outside Kenya, "this does not mean some people cannot find out where they are."

He said that the threats were also targeted "to family members of those perceived, correctly or incorrectly, to be witnesses."

"The threats continue, and maybe there will be more threats as we approach the trial date - these threats must stop," he said, adding that some threats were carried out via social media on the Internet.

"The numbers are good enough to warrant an investigation... as soon as we collect enough evidence, we will make the charges," he said.

The ICC says the outcome of the upcoming Kenyan vote will have no effect on the process, due to start a month later.

"The case against the suspects will not go away, irrespective of the outcome of the elections," he said.

"The ICC process is a judicial process, not a political one. Whether you are a king or a prime minister you will face the same plight as anyone else."

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ScienceDaily (July 25, 2012) ? Two recent studies in the July issues of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) looked at surgical site infections and hyperglycemia, the technical term for high blood glucose, or high blood sugar.

According to the first study "Relationship of Hyperglycemia and Surgical-Site Infection in Orthopaedic Surgery," high blood sugar is a concern during the post-traumatic and post-operative period and it may help to preoperatively identify a population of patients with musculoskeletal injuries who are at significant risk for infectious complications.

Nearly, one-third of patients who are admitted to the hospital without a history of diabetes have hyperglycemia, which is associated with a longer hospital stay, higher rates of admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), and increased mortality.

Study authors reviewed data on patients 18 years or older who had isolated orthopaedic injuries requiring acute operative intervention. Patients diagnosed with diabetes or who were in the ICU were not included in the study.

Of 790 patients, there were 268 open fractures (if the bone breaks in such a way that bone fragments stick out through the skin, or a wound penetrates down to the broken bone), and 21 surgical-site infections (SSIs) at 30-day follow-up. Age, race, comorbidities, injury severity, and blood transfusion were not associated with SSI at 30 days.

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SSIs developed in 13 of 294 patients (4.4 percent) who had more than one glucose value greater than or equal to 200 mg/dL and 8 of 496 patients (1.6 percent) without more than one glucose value greater than or equal to 200 mg/dL. The authors concluded that hyperglycemia was an independent risk factor for thirty-day SSI in orthopaedic trauma patients without a history of diabetes.

This study suggests that recognition of the relationship between hyperglycemia and infectious complications may substantially influence post-operative care of orthopaedic patients. Large, prospective, randomized studies are necessary to further delineate this relationship.

A second study featured in the July 18 issue of JBJS, found that diabetes and morbid obesity increased the risk of infection following hip and knee replacement. Authors of "Obesity, Diabetes, and Preoperative Hyperglycemia as Predictors of Periprosthetic Joint Infection" analyzed 7,181 hip and knee replacements and found that 52 post-operative joint infections occurred within the first year, and that the infection rate increased from a .37 percent in patients with a normal body index to 4.66 percent in the morbidly obese group. Normal BMI was defined as a body mass index (BMI) of less than 25, while morbid obesity was defined as more than 40. (BMI is a calculation that is determined using height and weight).

Diabetes more than doubled the risk of a post-operative joint infection independent of obesity. The infection rate was the highest in morbidly obese, diabetic patients.

For patients without a diagnosis of diabetes at the time of surgery, there was a trend toward a higher infection rate in association with a pre-operative glucose level of more than 124 mg/dL.

The authors suggest that identifying and/or treating hyperglycemic patients preoperatively, especially if they are obese, would help patients achieve a better outcome by avoiding complications caused by infection. In addition, identifying patients with undiagnosed diabetes would be important for their overall long-term prognosis. Authors further conclude that the benefits of joint replacement should be carefully weighed against the incidence of postoperative infection, especially among the morbidly obese patients.

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LONDON (AP) ? Financial markets recovered Wednesday but a run of disappointing economic data in Europe and worse-than-expected earnings from Apple kept the recovery in check.

Markets have been recently rattled by fears that Spain, the eurozone's fourth-largest economy, will need a bailout along the lines of Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

Following three days of market losses, investors bought some beaten-up stocks.

Helping sentiment were comments from European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny, who raised the prospect that the European Stability Mechanism, the eurozone's planned permanent bailout fund, could be given a banking license. That would give it the ability to borrow money from the ECB, increasing its financial resources.

"These comments are unlikely to lead to anything in the near term but the fact it is being considered has lifted the markets,"said Craig Erlam, market analyst at Alpari.

The main advance was seen in Spain, where the main IBEX 35 index was trading 1.9 percent higher. The country's borrowing rates also eased after hefty increases of the past few days. The 10-year yield was around 7.5 percent, still way above the 7 percent rate considered to be unsustainable in the long-run.

Elsewhere in Europe, Germany's DAX rose 0.5 percent to 6,421 while the CAC-40 in France was 0.7 percent higher at 3,097. Britain's FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was 0.2 percent higher at 5,510 even though official figures showed the country's economy shrank by a greater-than-anticipated quarterly rate of 0.7 percent in the second quarter.

The euro was faring better than in recent days, trading 0.8 percent higher at $1.2161. On Tuesday, it fell to a two-year low of $1.2052.

Wall Street is also poised to make gains at the open despite underwhelming earnings overnight from Apple. Both Dow futures and the S&P 500 futures were up 0.2 percent.

However, the main focus remains on Europe's debt crisis and in particular Spain and Greece.

The cost of bailing out Spain would potentially be twice the size of aid for Greece, Portugal and Ireland combined. This factor has raised questions over how long Europe's stronger economies will continue rescuing the weaker ones.

Germany's Ifo survey of business sentiment fell for a third consecutive month in July, adding to concerns over the state of Europe's largest economy. This follows Moody's announcement earlier this week that the country's credit rating was under pressure by the crisis enveloping Europe.

Some officials in Berlin have called for allowing Greece to leave the euro to keep it from hurting Germany. Investors think such an exit could happen soon if Greece's international debt inspectors conclude that little progress has been made in reforming the country's economy.

"It does appear though that we're approaching the endgame for Greece and that European officials will soon have no alternative but to make some very tough decisions regarding whether or not they provide more money and time or whether they restructure now and also whether Greece should stay in the eurozone," said Gary Jenkins, managing director of Swordfish Research.

Another worry in the markets heading into August, when liquidity levels are low, is that price movements could be exaggerated, in much the same way as they were last year. That could make matters worse in Europe crisis resolution effort.

"If liquidity dries up moving into August, prices are open to being driven by much less than in normal conditions, compounding fears of volatility," said David White, a trader at Spreadex.

Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average closed down 1.4 percent at 8,365.90 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 0.1 percent to 18,877.33. The Shanghai Composite slipped 0.5 percent to 2,136.15.

Oil prices were steady with benchmark crude for September delivery up 24 cents at $88.74 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

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For anybody who wants to have a fabulous vacation, Johannesburg will be an excellent option. As a matter of fact, cheap airfares are also available to this wonderful city. There are many things to do and several places to visit in the beautiful city.

A great place to visit in this stunning city is the South African museum of military history. The place stands as a representation of the brave soldiers in South Africa and offers a lot of information about erstwhile times to the tourists. It has records of the all the large scale wars and fights in which South Africa has been ever engaged. It is a delightful place to learn about history and that too in an interesting way. Tourists can check the airline prices and book tickets according to their own convenience.

The Pyramid Spa is another popular attraction to go and have a fabulous time. It is a truly rewarding experience, and the spa is well renowned. It has even been awarded for its excellent services. The ambiance, fragrance and environment of the spa are truly mesmerizing. The staff consists of well trained professionals. Anybody who goes there will be happy to relax and unwind. Flights to Johannesburg can let tourists enjoy these amazing services.

The botanical gardens and the Emmarentia dam are also popular venues to visit. The botanical gardens have the most spectacular rose gardens that are more than perfect for a picnic with your family or just with your partner. The water around the dam is enchanting. A visit to this dam and the gardens can be enjoyed by people of any age group. People, who are planning to take a break in this beautiful place, can check for several cheap airfares to Johannesburg and save a lot of money.

The place is rich in terms of culture and history, and the Apartheid Museum is an apt example. The beautiful museum attracts both the natives and tourists in large numbers. The place has impressive architecture and is the most innovative way of retelling South Africa's history. It takes visitors from all part of the world back into the past and highlights all significant aspects of the city, be it political, social or economic.

Cheap tickets to Johannesburg can be purchased online as it offers several options. It is easy to buy affordable tickets. A trip to the wonder cave is a brilliant idea when vacationing in this city. The cave offers a lot of interesting aspects about the erstwhile era and visitors will get to experience the natural wonder in the closest way possible. The cave is beautiful, mysterious and, a tour to this place with an excellent guide will be particularly informative.

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William Scarlet is an associate editor with Farebuzz.com. The website offers exclusive information related to international airline.We also provide online reservation for cheap international ,Business flights, Cheap hotels and Car Rental.

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