British police arrest 5 at Murdoch's Sun newspaper (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? British police on Saturday arrested five senior members of staff at News Corporation's flagship newspaper The Sun, the company said, as part of investigations into alleged payments to police by journalists for information.

The payments investigation, dubbed Operation Elveden, is part of a wider probe into illegal news gathering practices that have rocked Britain's political, media and police establishments and last year prompted the closure of News Corp's Sunday paper, The News of the World.

"I'm as shocked as anyone by today's arrests but am determined to lead The Sun through these difficult times. I have a brilliant staff and we have a duty to serve our readers and will continue to do that. Our focus is on putting out Monday's newspaper," Sun editor Dominic Mohan said in a statement.

A source said the arrests included the deputy editor, a picture editor and three other senior staff. Police said a serving police officer, and the source said a defense ministry employee, were among the eight people in total police arrested on Saturday.

The Ministry of Defence declined to comment.

The latest arrests at The Sun, Britain's best selling daily newspaper, come after the arrest of four current and former staff at the newspaper last month, raising questions about the publication's viability.

Saturday's arrests were the result of information from News Corp's Management and Standards Committee (MSC), a fact-finding group the firm set up in a bid to rescue its ravaged reputation.

"The MSC provided the information to the Elveden investigation which led to today's arrests ... News Corporation remains committed to ensuring that unacceptable news gathering practices by individuals in the past will not be repeated," New Corp said in a statement.

The MSC's work could lead to further damaging revelations about journalists bribing police that could prompt calls for the Sun's demise.

The once hugely popular News of the World was closed last year by Murdoch after accusations that its reporters hacked the mobile phone messages of celebrities and victims of crime caused a public outcry.

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"This is huge. It will raise some very serious questions about the viability of The Sun .... You then start to ask questions about the extent to which News Corp and Murdoch in particular, may want to start getting out of newspapers all together," said Steven Barnett, professor of communications at Westminster University, London.

Barnett said Saturday's arrests were particularly damaging because they included current staff and were not related to historical actions by former employees, and also because they come after arrests and office raids at The Sun last month.

Murdoch also owns The Times broadsheet newspaper, which this year admitted that one of its former reporters had hacked a phone, and the Wall Street Journal U.S. financial newspaper.

Meanwhile, U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by Murdoch media employees of a U.S. law banning corrupt payments to foreign officials such as police, law enforcement and corporate sources.

Police said 40 people had been arrested in connection with three police investigations into illegal news gathering practices, but that no one had yet been charged.

Allegations of phone hacking at the News of the World prompted Britain's parliament to summon Murdoch and his executive son James to explain themselves last year.

Many inside and outside parliament have long accused Murdoch of wielding too much political influence through his newspapers.

The scandal's most high profile scalps so far include two top police officials, who resigned over the handling of initial investigations into media malpractice; Rebekah Brooks, a former chief executive of Murdoch's London papers; and Andy Coulson, a former Murdoch editor who became Prime Minister David Cameron's media adviser.

(Additional reporting by Kate Holton; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

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Putting the squeeze on planets outside our solar system

Friday, February 10, 2012

Just as graphite can transform into diamond under high pressure, liquid magmas may similarly undergo major transformations at the pressures and temperatures that exist deep inside Earth-like planets.

Using high-powered lasers, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and collaborators discovered that molten magnesium silicate undergoes a phase change in the liquid state, abruptly transforming to a more dense liquid with increasing pressure. The research provides insight into planet formation.

"Phase changes between different types of melts have not been taken into account in planetary evolution models," said lead scientist Dylan Spaulding, a UC Berkeley graduate student who conducted most of his thesis work at the Laboratory's Jupiter Laser Facility. "But they could have played an important role during Earth's formation and may indicate that extra-solar 'Super-Earth' planets are structured differently from Earth."

Melts play a key role in planetary evolution. The team said that pressure-induced liquid-liquid phase separation in silicate magmas may represent an important mechanism for global-scale chemical differentiation and also may influence the thermal transport and convective processes that govern the formation of a mantle and core early in planetary history. Liquid-liquid phase separation is similar to the difference between oil and vinegar ? they want to separate because they have different densities. In the new research, however, the researchers noticed a sudden change between liquid states of silicate magma that displayed different physical properties even though they both have the same composition when high pressure and temperatures were applied.

The team used LLNL's Janus laser and OMEGA at the University of Rochester to conduct the experiments to achieve the extreme temperatures and pressures that exist in the interiors of exoplanets -- those objects outside our solar system.

In each experiment, a powerful laser pulse generated a shock wave while it traveled through the sample. By looking for changes in the velocity of the shock and the temperature of the sample, the team was able to identify discontinuities that signaled a phase change in the material.

"In this case, the decay in shock-velocity and thermal emission both reverse themselves during the same brief time interval," Spaulding said.

The team concluded that a liquid-liquid phase transition in a silicate composition similar to what would be found in terrestrial planetary mantles could help explain the thermal-chemical evolution of exoplanet interiors.

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The research appears in the Feb. 10 edition of the journal, Physical Review Letters.

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: http://www.llnl.gov

Thanks to DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for this article.

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Salt Gate: Movie Review: What Would Jesus Buy?

Synopsis: A year in the life of performance artists Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping. Backstage, on the road, in shopping malls and ending with their invasion of Disneyland, Rev. Billy takes his message directly to the people. Along the way consumer-culture is critiqued and skewered, consciousnesses are raised, corporate interests irritated.Wonderful and absolutely hilarious! I enjoyed this from beginning to end. We need Rev. Billy in our lives. My favorite scene was the teenage girls looking up the facts concerning who makes their clothes and their horrified reactions. ?Another great moment in this film is when Rev Billy and his church confront the Infamous Westborough Baptist church while they are staging their one of their anti-gay rallies. TCOSS get right up in the Westborough crowd?s grill and harass them until they leave! Now that?s genius. And that choir! If you only got this disc to listen to them it would be well worth it. ?They sound great. The ?spirituals? they sing are both very funny and infectious. My only question: Where does the church get its money? Hmmm...?

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Jeff Riger: What's the 'Mr. I' Philosophy? ? CBS Detroit

Mike and Marian Ilitch (credit: Getty Images)

Thursday afternoon, the NHL?s worst-kept secret was revealed at the Comerica Park Tiger Club. The secret, which comes as a shock to nobody, is that the Detroit Red Wings will face the Toronto Maple Leafs at Michigan Stadium on New Year?s Day 2013 in the annual Winter Classic. In addition to the big game at the Big House, there will also be an alumni, college and minor league hockey games at Comerica Park along with various other hockey, fan friendly events in downtown Detroit leading up to the Winter Classic. After the official announcement was made, I was able to catch up with Wings and Tigers owner Mike Ilitch who spent about seven minutes with the media addressing various topics.

Ilitch discussed whether he was?willing to fight to have the actual game at Comerica, what he thinks he means to the legacy of Red Wings hockey and the No. 1 thing?he has learned about sports throughout his years being an owner.

Watch the video below and be on the lookout for the ?Mr. I philosophy.?You will know it when you hear it! When I heard it, I was reminded why Ilitch is truly one of the best owners in sports.

Source: http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/02/10/jeff-riger-mike-ilitch-talks-about-the-winter-classic/

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7 Ways to Protect Yourself From a Home Invasion

Statistically rare but devastating, home invasions are the kind of low-probability, high-consequence nightmare that is difficult to guard against without seeming and feeling like a hopelessly paranoid person. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be prepared. New Jersey?based Gun For Hire, which provides tactical training for law enforcement and civilians, teaches that the best way to stop a home invasion is one step at a time. (And check out video of our day of handgun training with Gun For Hire.)

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Does Copyright stifle or strangle innovation with it's laws?

Record companies giving artists a disproportionate amount of money for their work isn't really a part of copyright law. A musician's work is copyrighted by them creating an original piece, not by being signed to a record company. However, it is often true that to get any sort of 'fame' musicians need to be signed. This is because such thinfs as advertising are very expensive, and record companies have the financial clout to help artists gain the recognition needed to increase their fan base to a size that makes music a viable career. Knowing this, record companies 'get away' with offering crappy contracts because artists don't have another choice if they're serious about what they do.

What copyright does do is protect those people who create original material from having their work stolen. Be it a song, a novel, a computer program, copyright laws ensure that the original creator continues to take the credit for their work. This does not always mean they get paid for their work. For example, open source software is covered by copyright but is often free. The GPL dictates that, while software can be redistributed and edited (for a fee, if you so choose), credit must still be given to all who contributed to its creation.

Problems arise when governments start introducing laws, such as SOPA, in the name of copyright that actually affect a broader area. Such ideas as 'fair usage' mean that copyrighted material can be used for things like YouTube videos without needing to apply for usage licences and the like. This limits the rigidity of copyright laws to an extent, as you only need to credit the original creator to use their work, and actually helps create innovation.

So, to answer your question... Does Copyright stifle or strangle innovation with its laws? It does neither. It protects those who innovate, and through specific aspects of its laws enables certain levels of creativity and innovation. I don't really need to mention things like SOPA to answer the question, as that isn't really copyright law, it's more about policing copyright infringement.

And in regards to your comment that copyright laws weren't always around, that might well be true, but nowadays it's so much easier to take someone's work and claim it as your own, or provide it free of charge, than it was in, say, the 18th or 19th century when music was only played live and to recreate it you'd need a full orchestra. Or, when the printing press was first developed and it cost a fortune to print books.

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