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Researchers calculate size of particles in Martian clouds of CO2 snow</h1>
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Researchers have determined the size of CO2 snow particles on Mars, depicted in this artist's rendering as a mist or fog that eventually settles to the surface as carbon dioxide snow.<br /><span class="credit">Photo - Image: NASA, Christine Daniloff/MIT News</span></div>
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Mars’ carbon dioxide ‘snowflakes’ are about the size of red blood cells.</div>
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In the dead of a Martian winter, clouds of snow blanket the Red Planet’s poles — but unlike our water-based snow, the particles on Mars are frozen crystals of carbon dioxide. Most of the Martian atmosphere is composed of carbon dioxide, and in the winter, the poles get so cold — cold enough to freeze alcohol — that the gas condenses, forming tiny particles of snow.<br /><br />Now researchers at MIT have calculated the size of snow particles in clouds at both Martian poles from data gathered by orbiting spacecraft. From their calculations, the group found snow particles in the south are slightly smaller than snow in the north — but particles at both poles are about the size of a red blood cell.<br /><br />“These are very fine particles, not big flakes,” says Kerri Cahoy, the Boeing Career Development Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. If the carbon dioxide particles were eventually to fall and settle on the Martian surface, “you would probably see it as a fog, because they’re so small.”<br /><br />Cahoy and graduate student Renyu Hu worked with Maria Zuber, the E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at MIT, to analyze vast libraries of data gathered from instruments onboard the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). From the data, they determined the size of carbon dioxide snow particles in clouds, using measurements of the maximum buildup of surface snow at both poles. The buildup is about 50 percent larger at Mars’ south pole than its north pole.<br /><br />Over the course of a Martian year (a protracted 687 days, versus Earth’s 365), the researchers observed that as it gets colder and darker from fall to winter, snow clouds expand from the planet’s poles toward its equator. The snow reaches halfway to the equator before shrinking back toward the poles as winter turns to spring, much like on Earth.<br /><br />“For the first time, using only spacecraft data, we really revealed this phenomenon on Mars,” says Hu, lead author of a paper published in the <i>Journal of Geophysical Research</i>, which details the group’s results.<br /><br /><strong>Diving through data</strong><br /><br />To get an accurate picture of carbon dioxide condensation on Mars, Hu analyzed an immense amount of data, including temperature and pressure profiles taken by the MRO every 30 seconds over the course of five Martian years (more than nine years on Earth). The researchers looked through the data to see where and when conditions would allow carbon dioxide cloud particles to form.<br /><br />The team also sifted through measurements from the MGS’ laser altimeter, which measured the topography of the planet by sending laser pulses to the surface, then timing how long it took for the beams to bounce back. Every once in a while, the instrument picked up a strange signal when the beam bounced back faster than anticipated, reflecting off an anomalously high point above the planet’s surface. Scientists figured these laser beams had encountered clouds in the atmosphere.<br /><br />Hu analyzed these cloud returns, looking for additional evidence to confirm carbon dioxide condensation. He looked at every case where a cloud was detected, then tried to match the laser altimeter data with concurrent data on local temperature and pressure. In 11 instances, the laser altimeter detected clouds when temperature and pressure conditions were ripe for carbon dioxide to condense. Hu then analyzed the opacity of each cloud — the amount of light reflected — and through calculations, determined the density of carbon dioxide in each cloud.<br /><br />To estimate the total mass of carbon dioxide snow deposited at both poles, Hu used earlier measurements of seasonal variations in the Martian gravitational field done by Zuber’s group: As snow piles up at Mars’ poles each winter, the planet’s gravitational field changes by a tiny amount. By analyzing the gravitational difference through the seasons, the researchers determined the total mass of snow at the north and south poles. Using the total mass, Hu figured out the number of snow particles in a given volume of snow cover, and from that, determined the size of the particles. In the north, molecules of condensed carbon dioxide ranged from 8 to 22 microns, while particles in the south were a smaller 4 to 13 microns.<br /><br />“It’s neat to think that we’ve had spacecraft on or around Mars for over 10 years, and we have all these great datasets,” Cahoy says. “If you put different pieces of them together, you can learn something new just from the data.”<br /><br /><strong>What can the size of snow tell us?</strong><br /><br />Hu says knowing the size of carbon dioxide snow cloud particles on Mars may help researchers understand the properties and behavior of dust in the planet’s atmosphere. For snow to form, carbon dioxide requires something around which to condense — for instance, a small silicate or dust particle. “What kinds of dust do you need to have this kind of condensation?” Hu asks. “Do you need tiny dust particles? Do you need a water coating around that dust to facilitate cloud formation?”<br /><br />Just as snow on Earth affects the way heat is distributed around the planet, Hu says snow particles on Mars may have a similar effect, reflecting sunlight in various ways, depending on the size of each particle. “They could be completely different in their contribution to the energy budget of the planet,” Hu says. “These datasets could be used to study many problems.”<br /><br />This research was funded by the Radio Science Gravity investigation of the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style article_bottom_share">
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Science Fiction author Ray Bradbury dies</h1>
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Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury transformed his inner child in to notable works of science fiction that have been recognized with awards and citations for lifetime achievement.<br />
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Austrian actor Oskar Werner portrayed the fireman Guy Montag in the 1966 Truffaut film adaptation of Bradbury's novel <i>Fahrenheit 451</i>.<br />
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U.S. <span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/science_fiction" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:science fiction">science fiction</a></span> writer Ray Bradbury, who was 91, died in <span class="interwiki-link-local"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a></span> on Tuesday, according to his daughter.</div>
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Bradbury's most famous novels are <i><span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:The Martian Chronicles">The Martian Chronicles</a></span></i> (1950) and <i><span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Fahrenheit 451">Fahrenheit 451</a></span></i> (1953), and a collection of short stories <i><span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:The Illustrated Man">The Illustrated Man</a></span></i> (1951), but he was also known for helping write the script for <span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Huston" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:John Huston">John Huston</a></span>'s film adaptation of <i><span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_(1956_film)" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Moby Dick (1956 film)">Moby Dick</a></span></i> (1956), his works for the televised anthologies <i><span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:The Twilight Zone">The Twilight Zone</a></span></i> and <i><span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock_Presents" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Alfred Hitchcock Presents">Alfred Hitchcock Presents</a></span></i> and hosting a similar TV show later, <i><span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ray_Bradbury_Theater" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:The Ray Bradbury Theater">The Ray Bradbury Theater</a></span></i>, which included episodes based on his work.</div>
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In an interview, Bradbury said that he was "that special freak, the man with the child inside who remembers all."</div>
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He started as a <span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/short_story" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:short story">short story</a></span> writer for <span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazine" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Pulp magazine">pulp magazines</a></span> like many science fiction and fantasy writers in this period, and eventually compiled his first book: <i><span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Carnival_(book)" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Dark Carnival (book)">Dark Carnival</a></span></i> (1947), a short story collection. He wrote his two most famous novels at the beginning of the 1950s. A book editor suggested he use his stories about Martians to create a unified work in book form, and Bradbury turned the idea into his <i>Martian Chronicles</i>. He said he churned out<i>Fahrenheit 451</i> on a typewriter that he rented at the library for a dime every half hour at a total cost of US $9.80, which meant that it would have taken him exactly 49 hours to write the classic.</div>
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His book <i>Fahrenheit 451</i> cut to the heart of book banning and burning in the twentieth century as it imagined a future in which books were outlawed and minds were controlled by the state through a TV-and-Internet-like technology. <span class="interwiki-link-local"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/France" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="France">French director</a></span> <span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Truffaut" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:François Truffaut">François Truffaut</a></span> adapted <i>Fahrenheit 451</i> into a <span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(1966_film)" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film)">1966 New Wave film of the same name</a></span> and in English, which starred <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/Austria" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Austria">Austrian</a> actor <span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Werner" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Oskar Werner">Oskar Werner</a></span> as the fireman Guy Montag and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="United Kingdom">British</a> actress<span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Christie" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Julie Christie">Julie Christie</a></span> as Clarisse. The <span class="interwiki-link-local"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/BBC" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="BBC">BBC</a></span> dramatized the same book in 1982. <i>Fahrenheit 451</i> was even adapted to an off-Broadway play. Bradbury said he did not like the similarity of <span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moore" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Michael Moore">Michael Moore</a></span>'s title for the documentary<i><span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_9/11" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Fahrenheit 9/11">Fahrenheit 9/11</a></span></i>, a film critical of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> administration, to his novel about book burning.</div>
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<i>The Martian Chronicles</i>, <i>Fahrenheit 451</i> and <i>The Illustrated Man</i> have been a staple of reading in <span class="interwiki-link-foreign"><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States" style="color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="w:Education in the United States">U.S. education</a></span>. In an interview with Fox News in 2004, Bradbury talked about changes in reading that occurred in education since his generation of science fiction started their careers: "When I started writing that book [<i>The Martian Chronicles</i>] 53 years ago, science fiction was not being taught in the schools. Now every school in the country has a course in science fiction. So we have more power, more influence, more imagination than ever before. Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, <i>The Martian Chronicles</i>."</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Original Clinical Report Found - Lincoln Assassination</span></b><br />
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News Release<br />
191-12 CONTACT:<br />
June 5, 2012 Daniel Stowell, Springfield, (217) 785-9131<br />
Helena Iles Papaioannou, Washington<br />
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br />
“Is there a surgeon in the house?!”<br />
Papers of Abraham Lincoln researcher discovers report of<br />
Dr. Charles A. Leale, first physician to reach Lincoln at<br />
Ford’s Theatre<br />
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WASHINGTON, DC – When someone in the Ford’s Theatre audience screamed, “Is there<br />
a surgeon in the house?!” the night of April 14, 1865, Dr. Charles A. Leale was the first to reach<br />
the stricken President. Now, 147 years later, a researcher with the Papers of Abraham Lincoln<br />
has discovered a copy of Dr. Leale’s original, clinical report of the night the 16<br />
the President of the United States was shot.<br />
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“What is remarkable about this newly discovered report is its immediacy and poignancy. <br />
You can sense the helplessness Leale and the other doctors felt that night, but it does not have<br />
the sentimentality or added layers of later accounts. It is truly a first draft of history,” said<br />
Daniel W. Stowell, director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, the group conducting a<br />
monumental search for documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln.<br />
Papers of Abraham Lincoln researcher Helena Iles Papaioannou came across something<br />
unexpected while searching the records of the Surgeon General in the National Archives in<br />
Washington, DC. Papaioannou discovered a copy of a twenty-one-page report by Dr. Charles A.<br />
Leale, the army surgeon who was the first to reach the presidential box to care for a wounded<br />
Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14, 1865. Leale wrote out his story just hours after the<br />
President died the next morning, but the text of that first report had remained undiscovered, until<br />
now. The newly discovered report is not in Leale’s hand, but is a “true copy” written in the<br />
neat and legible hand of a clerk. For nearly a century and a half, it has been tucked away in one of hundreds of boxes of incoming correspondence to the Surgeon General, until Papaioannou<br />
discovered it.<br />
Leale’s report details his actions on that fateful night---arriving at Ford’s Theatre around<br />
8:15 p.m.; finding his seat in the dress circle, about forty feet from the President’s box; seeing<br />
the President and his party arrive a few minutes later; hearing the shot; seeing John Wilkes Booth<br />
leap to the stage; the ensuing confusion; getting to the Presidential box; Mary Lincoln’s pleas for<br />
help; examining the unconscious President and finding his wound; removing a blood clot from<br />
the head wound which eased Lincoln’s breathing; conferring with other doctors who had arrived;<br />
moving the President to the Petersen house across the street; and remaining there until Lincoln<br />
died the following morning at 7:22 a.m.<br />
Charles A. Leale was 23 years old in April 1865, and he had received his medical license<br />
from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York only six weeks earlier. Despite his<br />
youth, Leale was in charge of the Wounded Commissioned Officers’ Ward at the United States<br />
Army General Hospital in Armory Square in Washington. Leale had been present outside the<br />
Executive Mansion a few nights earlier, not far from John Wilkes Booth, when President Lincoln<br />
delivered what became his final speech to a crowd celebrating the surrender of General Robert E.<br />
Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia.<br />
Although a central participant in the drama of Lincoln’s final hours, Leale rarely<br />
discussed his role. In July 1867, he sent a version of his report to Benjamin Butler’s<br />
Assassination Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the cover letter, Leale told<br />
Butler that his account “is principally copied from (a never published) one written by me a few<br />
hours after leaving his death bed….” Not until 1909, the centennial of Lincoln’s birth, did Leale<br />
give a public, and somewhat embellished, account of his actions. In a speech to the New York<br />
Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Leale described<br />
that night 44 years earlier. The account was published and has become the standard text of<br />
Leale’s actions and role.<br />
Leale’s report may be viewed among other recent finds on the Papers of Abraham<br />
Lincoln website, http://www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org/New_Documents.htm.<br />
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a long-term documentary editing project dedicated to<br />
identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing all documents written by or to<br />
Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime (1809-1865). The project is administered through the<br />
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (www.presidentlincoln.org), and is<br />
cosponsored by the Center for State Policy and Leadership at the University of Illinois<br />
Springfield and by the Abraham Lincoln Association.<br />
An exact transcript of Dr. Leale’s report is included below.Report of Dr. Charles A. Leale<br />
April 15, 1865 <br />
Having been the first of our profession who arrived to the assistance of our late President,<br />
and having been requested by Mrs. Lincoln to do what I could for him I assumed the charge until<br />
the Surgeon General and Dr. Stone his family physician arrived, which was about 20 minutes<br />
after we had placed him in bed in the house of Mr. Peterson opposite the theatre, and as I<br />
remained with him until his death, I humbly submit the following brief account.<br />
I arrived at Ford’s Theatre about 8¼ P.M. April 14/65 and procured a seat in the dress<br />
circle about 40 feet from the President’s Box. The play was then progressing and in a few<br />
minutes I saw the President, Mrs Lincoln, Major Rathbone and Miss Harris enter; while<br />
proceeding to the Box they were seen by the audience who cheered which was reciprocated by<br />
the President and Mrs Lincoln by a smile and bow.<br />
The party was preceded by an attendant who after opening the door of the box and<br />
closing it after they had all entered, took a seat nearby for himself.<br />
The theatre was well filled and the play of “Our American Cousin” progressed very<br />
pleasantly until about half past ten, when the report of a pistol was distinctly heard and about a<br />
minute after a man of low stature with black hair and eyes was seen leaping to the stage beneath,<br />
holding in his hand a drawn dagger.<br />
While descending his heel got entangled in the American flag, which was hung in front of<br />
the box, causing him to stumble when he struck the stage, but with a single bound he regained<br />
the use of his limbs and ran to the opposite side of the stage, flourishing in his hand a drawn<br />
dagger and disappearing behind the scene.<br />
I then heard cries that the “President had been murdered,” which were followed by those<br />
of “Kill the murderer” “Shoot him” etc. which came from different parts of the audience.<br />
I immediately ran to the Presidents box and as soon as the door was opened was admitted<br />
and introduced to Mrs. Lincoln when she exclaimed several times, “O Doctor, do what you can<br />
for him, do what you can!” I told her we would do all that we possibly could.<br />
When I entered the box the ladies were very much excited. Mr. Lincoln was seated in a<br />
high backed arm-chair with his head leaning towards his right side supported by Mrs. Lincoln<br />
who was weeping bitterly. Miss Harris was near her left and behind the President.<br />
While approaching the President I sent a gentleman for brandy and another for water.<br />
When I reached the President he was in a state of general paralysis, his eyes were closed<br />
and he was in a profoundly comatose condition, while his breathing was intermittent and<br />
exceedingly stertorous. I placed my finger on his right radial pulse but could perceive no<br />
movement of the artery. As two gentlemen now arrived, I requested them to assist me to place him in a recumbent position, and as I held his head and shoulders, while doing this my hand<br />
came in contact with a clot of blood near his left shoulder.<br />
Supposing that he had been stabbed there I asked a gentleman to cut his coat and shirt off<br />
from that part, to enable me if possible to check the hemorrhage which I supposed took place<br />
from the subclavian artery or some of its branches.<br />
Before they had proceeded as far as the elbow I commenced to examine his head (as no<br />
wound near the shoulder was found) and soon passed my fingers over a large firm clot of blood<br />
situated about one inch below the superior curved line of the occipital bone.<br />
The coagula I easily removed and passed the little finger of my left hand through the<br />
perfectly smooth opening made by the ball, and found that it had entered the encephalon.<br />
As soon as I removed my finger a slight oozing of blood followed and his breathing<br />
became more regular and less stertorous. The brandy and water now arrived and a small quantity<br />
was placed in his mouth, which passed into his stomach where it was retained.<br />
Dr. C. F. Taft and Dr. A. F. A. King now arrived and after a moments consultation we<br />
agreed to have him removed to the nearest house, which we immediately did, the above named<br />
with others assisting.<br />
When we arrived at the door of the box, the passage was found to be densly crowded by<br />
those who were rushing towards that part of the theatre. I called out twice “Guards clear the<br />
passage,” which was so soon done that we proceeded without a moments delay with the<br />
President and were not in the slightest interrupted until he was placed in bed in the house of Mr.<br />
Peterson, opposite the theatre, in less than 20 minutes from the time he was assassinated.<br />
The street in front of the theatre before we had left it was filled with the excited populace,<br />
a large number of whom followed us into the house.<br />
As soon as we arrived in the room offered to us, we placed the President in bed in a<br />
diagonal position; as the bed was too short, a part of the foot was removed to enable us to place<br />
him in a comfortable position.<br />
The windows were opened and at my request a Captain present made all leave the room<br />
except the medical gentlemen and friends.<br />
As soon as we placed him in bed we removed his clothes and covered him with blankets. <br />
While covering him I found his lower extremities very cold from his feet to a distance several<br />
inches above his knees.<br />
I then sent for bottles of hot water, and hot blankets, which were applied to his lower<br />
extremities and abdomen.Several other Physicians and Surgeons about this time arrived among whom was Dr. R.<br />
K. Stone who had been the President’s Physician since the arrival of his family in the city.<br />
After having been introduced to Dr. Stone I asked him if he would assume charge (telling<br />
him at the time all that had been done and describing the wound) he said that he would and<br />
approved of the treatment.<br />
The Surgeon General and Surgeon Crane in a few minutes arrived and made an<br />
examination of the wound.<br />
When the President was first laid in bed a slight ecchymosis was noticed on his left eyelid<br />
and the pupil of that eye was slightly dilated, while the pupil of the right eye was contracted.<br />
About 11. P.M. the right eye began to protrude which was rapidly followed by an<br />
increase of the ecchymosis until it encircled the orbit extending above the supra orbital ridge and<br />
below the infra orbital foramen.<br />
The wound was kept open by the Surgeon General by means of a silver probe, and as the<br />
President was placed diagonally on the bed his head was supported in its position by Surgeon<br />
Crane and Dr. Taft relieving each other.<br />
About 2 A.M. the Hospital Steward who had been sent for a Nelatons probe, arrived and<br />
examination was made by the Surgeon General, who introduced it to a distance of about 2½<br />
inches, when it came in contact with a foreign substance, which laid across the track of the ball.<br />
This being easily passed the probe was introduced several inches further, when it again<br />
touched a hard substance, which was at first supposed to be the ball, but as the bulb of the probe<br />
on its withdrawal did not indicate the mark of lead, it was generally thought to be another piece<br />
of loose bone.<br />
The probe was introduced a second time and the ball was supposed to be distinctly felt by<br />
the Surgeon General, Surgeon Crane and Dr Stone.<br />
After this second exploration nothing further was done with the wound except to keep the<br />
opening free from coagula, which if allowed to form and remain for a very short time, would<br />
produce signs of increased compression: the breathing becoming profoundly stertorous and<br />
intermittent and the pulse to be more feeble and irregular.<br />
His pulse which was several times counted by Dr. Ford and noted by Dr King, ranged<br />
until 12 P.M. from between 40 to 64 beats per minute, and his respiration about 24 per minute,<br />
were loud and stertorous.<br />
At 1 A.M. his pulse suddenly increasing in frequency to 100 per minute, but soon<br />
diminished gradually becoming less feeble until 2.54 A.M. when it was 48 and hardly<br />
perceptible.At 6.40 A.M. his pulse could not be counted, it being very intermittent, two or three<br />
pulsations being felt and followed by an intermission, when not the slightest movement of the<br />
artery could be felt.<br />
The inspirations now became very short, and the expirations very prolonged and labored<br />
accompanied by a gutteral sound.<br />
6.50 A.M. The respirations cease for some time and all eagerly look at their watches<br />
until the profound silence is disturbed by a prolonged inspiration, which was soon followed by a<br />
sonorous expiration.<br />
The Surgeon General now held his finger to the carotid artery. Col. Crane held his head,<br />
Dr Stone who was sitting on the bed, held his left pulse, and his right pulse was held by myself.<br />
At 7.20 A.M. he breathed his last and “the spirit fled to God who gave it.”<br />
During the night the room was visited by many of his friends. Mrs Lincoln with Mrs.<br />
Senator Dixon came into the room three or four times during the night.<br />
The Presidents son Capt<br />
n<br />
R. Lincoln, remained with his father during the greater part of<br />
the night.<br />
Immediately after death had taken place, we all bowed and the Rev. Dr. Gurley<br />
supplicated to God in behalf of the bereaved family and our afflicted country.<br />
True copy.<br />
(signed) Charles A. Leale M. D.<br />
[File Note:]<br />
L. 262. S. G. O. 1865<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having been the first of our profession who arrived to the assistance of our late President, and having been requested by Mrs. Lincoln to do what I could for him I assumed the charge until the Surgeon General and Dr. Stone his family physician arrived, which was about 20 minutes after we had placed him in bed in the house of Mrs. Peterson opposite the theatre, and as I remained with him until his death, I humbly submit the following brief account.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Report of Dr. Charles A. Leale on Assassination, April 15, 1865</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Record Group 112: Office of the Surgeon General (War), 1775-1959, Entry 12, Letters Received, 1818-1889, National Archives Building, Washington, DC</span><br />
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NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.<br /><br />The Milky Way is destined to get a major makeover during the encounter, which is predicted to happen four billion years from now. It is likely the sun will be flung into a new region of our galaxy, but our Earth and solar system are in no danger of being destroyed.<br /><br /><b><i><span style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/654242main_p1220b3k.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #004d93; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="illustration of how Andromeda and the Milky Way might look in Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years"><img align="Bottom" alt="illustration of how Andromeda and the Milky Way might look in Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years" border="0" height="379" src="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/654241main1_p1220b3k-673.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px 5px 0px 1px;" title="illustration of how Andromeda and the Milky Way might look in Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years" width="673" /></a>This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view and begins to distort the Milky Way with tidal pull. (Credit: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger)<br /><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/654242main_p1220b3k.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #004d93; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">› Larger image</a> </span></i></b><br /><br />"Our findings are statistically consistent with a head-on collision between the Andromeda galaxy and our Milky Way galaxy," said Roeland van der Marel of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore.<br /><br />The solution came through painstaking NASA Hubble Space Telescope measurements of the motion of Andromeda, which also is known as M31. The galaxy is now 2.5 million light-years away, but it is inexorably falling toward the Milky Way under the mutual pull of gravity between the two galaxies and the invisible dark matter that surrounds them both.<br /><br /><div align="center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<br />"After nearly a century of speculation about the future destiny of Andromeda and our Milky Way, we at last have a clear picture of how events will unfold over the coming billions of years," said Sangmo Tony Sohn of STScI.<br /><br />The scenario is like a baseball batter watching an oncoming fastball. Although Andromeda is approaching us more than 2,000 times faster, it will take 4 billion years before the strike.<br /><br />Computer simulations derived from Hubble's data show that it will take an additional two billion years after the encounter for the interacting galaxies to completely merge under the tug of gravity and reshape into a single elliptical galaxy similar to the kind commonly seen in the local universe.<br /><br />Although the galaxies will plow into each other, stars inside each galaxy are so far apart that they will not collide with other stars during the encounter. However, the stars will be thrown into different orbits around the new galactic center. Simulations show that our solar system will probably be tossed much farther from the galactic core than it is today.<br /><br />To make matters more complicated, M31's small companion, the Triangulum galaxy, M33, will join in the collision and perhaps later merge with the M31/Milky Way pair. There is a small chance that M33 will hit the Milky Way first.<br /><br /><b><i><span style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/654284main_i1220bw.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #004d93; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="illustration depicting the collision paths of Triangulum, Andromeda and Milky Way"><img align="Bottom" alt="illustration depicting the collision paths of Triangulum, Andromeda and Milky Way" border="0" height="448" src="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/654283main1_i1220bw-673.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px 5px 0px 1px;" title="illustration depicting the collision paths of Triangulum, Andromeda and Milky Way" width="673" /></a>This illustration shows the collision paths of our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. The galaxies are moving toward each other under the inexorable pull of gravity between them. Also shown is a smaller galaxy, Triangulum, which may be part of the smashup. (Credit: NASA; ESA; A. Feild and R. van der Marel, STScI)<br /><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/654284main_i1220bw.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #004d93; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">› Larger image</a> </span></i></b><br /><br />The universe is expanding and accelerating, and collisions between galaxies in close proximity to each other still happen because they are bound by the gravity of the dark matter surrounding them. The Hubble Space Telescope's deep views of the universe show such encounters between galaxies were more common in the past when the universe was smaller.<br /><br />A century ago astronomers did not realize that M31 was a separate galaxy far beyond the stars of the Milky Way. Edwin Hubble measured its vast distance by uncovering a variable star that served as a "milepost marker."<br /><br />Hubble went on to discover the expanding universe where galaxies are rushing away from us, but it has long been known that M31 is moving toward the Milky Way at about 250,000 miles per hour. That is fast enough to travel from here to the moon in one hour. The measurement was made using the Doppler effect, which is a change in frequency and wavelength of waves produced by a moving source relative to an observer, to measure how starlight in the galaxy has been compressed by Andromeda's motion toward us.<br /><br />Previously, it was unknown whether the far-future encounter will be a miss, glancing blow, or head-on smashup. This depends on M31’s tangential motion. Until now, astronomers had not been able to measure M31's sideways motion in the sky, despite attempts dating back more than a century. The Hubble Space Telescope team, led by van der Marel, conducted extraordinarily precise observations of the sideways motion of M31 that remove any doubt that it is destined to collide and merge with the Milky Way.<br /><br />"This was accomplished by repeatedly observing select regions of the galaxy over a five- to seven-year period," said Jay Anderson of STScI.<br /><br />"In the worst-case-scenario simulation, M31 slams into the Milky Way head-on and the stars are all scattered into different orbits," said Gurtina Besla of Columbia University in New York, N.Y. "The stellar populations of both galaxies are jostled, and the Milky Way loses its flattened pancake shape with most of the stars on nearly circular orbits. The galaxies' cores merge, and the stars settle into randomized orbits to create an elliptical-shaped galaxy."<br /><br /><b><i><span style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/654291main_p1220bk.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #004d93; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="illustration sequence depicting the collision of the Milky Way (right) and Andromeda galaxies"><img align="Bottom" alt="illustration sequence depicting the collision of the Milky Way (right) and Andromeda galaxies" border="0" height="764" src="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/654290main1_p1220bk-673.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px 5px 0px 1px;" title="illustration sequence depicting the collision of the Milky Way (right) and Andromeda galaxies" width="673" /></a>This series of photo illustrations shows the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.<br /><ul style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 1em 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First Row, Left: Present day.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First Row, Right: In 2 billion years the disk of the approaching Andromeda galaxy is noticeably larger.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Second Row, Left: In 3.75 billion years Andromeda fills the field of view.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Second Row, Right: In 3.85 billion years the sky is ablaze with new star formation.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Third Row, Left: In 3.9 billion years, star formation continues.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Third Row, Right: In 4 billion years Andromeda is tidally stretched and the Milky Way becomes warped.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fourth Row, Left: In 5.1 billion years the cores of the Milky Way and Andromeda appear as a pair of bright lobes.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fourth Row, Right: In 7 billion years the merged galaxies form a huge elliptical galaxy, its bright core dominating the nighttime sky.</li>
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(Credit: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas, and A. Mellinger)<br /><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/654291main_p1220bk.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #004d93; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">› Larger image</a> </span></i></b><br /><br />The space shuttle servicing missions to Hubble upgraded it with ever more-powerful cameras, which have given astronomers a long-enough time baseline to make the critical measurements needed to nail down M31's motion. The Hubble observations and the consequences of the merger are reported in three papers that will appear in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal.<br /><br /><b><i>For more images, video and information about M31's collision with the Milky Way, visit:<a href="http://hubblesite.org/news/2012/20" style="border: 0px; color: #004d93; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://hubblesite.org/news/2012/20</a></i></b></div>
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<pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">June 4, 2012
J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
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Megan Watzke
Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">GIANT BLACK HOLE KICKED OUT OF HOME GALAXY</span>
WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have found strong evidence that a massive
black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of
several million miles per hour. New observations from NASA's Chandra
X-ray Observatory suggest that the black hole collided and merged
with another black hole and received a powerful recoil kick from
gravitational wave radiation.
"It's hard to believe that a supermassive black hole weighing millions
of times the mass of the sun could be moved at all, let alone kicked
out of a galaxy at enormous speed," said Francesca Civano of the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), who led the new
study. "But these new data support the idea that gravitational waves
-- ripples in the fabric of space first predicted by Albert Einstein
but never detected directly -- can exert an extremely powerful
force."
Although the ejection of a supermassive black hole from a galaxy by
recoil because more gravitational waves are being emitted in one
direction than another is likely to be rare, it nevertheless could
mean that there are many giant black holes roaming undetected out in
the vast spaces between galaxies.
"These black holes would be invisible to us," said co-author Laura
Blecha, also of CfA, "because they have consumed all of the gas
surrounding them after being thrown out of their home galaxy."
Civano and her group have been studying a system known as CID-42,
located in the middle of a galaxy about 4 billion light years away.
They had previously spotted two distinct, compact sources of optical
light in CID-42, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
More optical data from the ground-based Magellan and Very Large
Telescopes in Chile supplied a spectrum (that is, the distribution of
optical light with energy) that suggested the two sources in CID-42
are moving apart at a speed of at least 3 million miles per hour.
Previous Chandra observations detected a bright X-ray source likely
caused by super-heated material around one or more supermassive black
holes. However, they could not distinguish whether the X-rays came
from one or both of the optical sources because Chandra was not
pointed directly at CID-42, giving an X-ray source that was less
sharp than usual.
"The previous data told us that there was something special going on,
but we couldn't tell if there were two black holes or just one," said
another co-author Martin Elvis, also of CfA. "We needed new X-ray
data to separate the sources."
When Chandra's sharp High Resolution Camera was pointed directly at
CID-42, the resulting data showed that X-rays were coming only from
one of the sources. The team thinks that when two galaxies collided,
the supermassive black holes in the center of each galaxy also
collided. The two black holes then merged to form a single black hole
that recoiled from gravitational waves produced by the collision,
which gave the newly merged black hole a sufficiently large kick for
it to eventually escape from the galaxy.
The other optical source is thought to be the bright star cluster that
was left behind. This picture is consistent with recent computer
simulations of merging black holes, which show that merged black
holes can receive powerful kicks from the emission of gravitational
waves.
There are two other possible explanations for what is happening in
CID-42. One would involve an encounter between three supermassive
black holes, resulting in the lightest one being ejected. Another
idea is that CID-42 contains two supermassive black holes spiraling
toward one another, rather than one moving quickly away.
Both of these alternate explanations would require at least one of the
supermassive black holes to be very obscured, since only one bright
X-ray source is observed. Thus the Chandra data support the idea of a
black hole recoiling because of gravitational waves.
These results will appear in the June 10 issue of The Astrophysical
Journal.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the
Chandra Program for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in
Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge,
Mass., controls Chandra's science and flight operations.
For Chandra images, multimedia and related materials, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/chandra
For an additional interactive image, podcast, and video on the
finding, visit:
http://chandra.si.edu
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Madrid,Spain--Act faster. Government lost access to some markets. Borrowing costs very high. Spain doesn't have markets door open to government. Trying to continue reform drive. g7 continent not moving fast enough. Spain has urgent funding needs. Spain is Europe's fourth largest economy. Banking sector needs. Institutions in Europe need to start moving for solutions. Bail out funds has stipulations. Funds cannot bypass governments and go straight to the market. Absence of credit has caused Spain's economy to contract. Economy is still souring. Activity is shrinking. Some signs show some pick up in future. There are 27 EU leaders. Merkel of Germany has specific ideas. Not all agree. There are troubled member states. Some banks are ailing.<br />
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I’ve always been fascinated by famous historic and cultural sites from around the world. When I was a child, flipping through encyclopedias while researching for school projects, the thought of exploring these sites was a distant dream. With the new Google <a href="http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders" style="color: #1c52ba;">World Wonders Project</a>, that dream is now a little closer for students and others around the globe.<br /><br />The World Wonders Project enables you to discover 132 historic sites from 18 countries, including <a href="http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/stonehenge" style="color: #1c52ba;">Stonehenge</a>, the archaeological areas of <a href="http://google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/pompei" style="color: #1c52ba;">Pompeii</a> and the ancient<a href="http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/nishi-honganji-temple" style="color: #1c52ba;">Kyoto temples</a>. In addition to man-made sites, you can explore natural places: wander the sandy dunes of Australia’s <a href="http://google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/shark-bay/index.html" style="color: #1c52ba;">Shark Bay</a> or gaze up at the rock domes of <a href="http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/yosemite/" style="color: #1c52ba;">Yosemite National Park</a> in California.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wZg8FTi5_Os?wmode=opaque" width="540"></iframe><br /><br />World Wonders uses Street View technology to take you on a virtual trip to each iconic site. Most could not be filmed by car, so we used camera-carrying trikes to pedal our way close enough. The site also includes 3D models and YouTube videos of the historical places, so you can dig in and get more information and a broader view of each site. We also partnered with several prestigious organizations, including<a href="http://whc.unesco.org/" style="color: #1c52ba;">UNESCO</a>, the <a href="http://www.wmf.org/" style="color: #1c52ba;">World Monuments Fund</a>, <a href="http://gettyimages.com/" style="color: #1c52ba;">Getty Images</a> and <a href="http://ourplaceworldheritage.com/" style="color: #1c52ba;">Ourplace</a>, who provided official information and photographs for many of the sites.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">
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<br />We hope World Wonders will prove to be a valuable educational resource for students and scholars. A selection of educational packages are available to download for classroom use; you can also share the site content with friends.<br /><br />World Wonders is part of our commitment to preserving culture online and making it accessible to everyone. Under the auspices of the <a href="http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/" style="color: #1c52ba;">Google Cultural Institute</a>, we’re publishing high resolution images of the <a href="http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/" style="color: #1c52ba;">Dead Sea Scrolls</a>, digitizing the archives of famous figures such as <a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/" style="color: #1c52ba;">Nelson Mandela</a> and presenting thousands of artworks through the <a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/" style="color: #1c52ba;">Art Project</a>.<br /><br />Find out more about the project on the World Wonders <a href="http://www.youtube.com/worldwonders" style="color: #1c52ba;">YouTube channel</a>, and start exploring at <a href="http://www.google.com/worldwonders" style="color: #1c52ba;">www.google.com/worldwonders</a>.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Melanie Blaschke, Product Marketing Manager, World Wonders Project</span></div>
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In 2016, it’s estimated that almost half of the world’s population will be online, yet<a href="http://www.verisigninc.com/assets/domain-name-brief-march2012.pdf" style="color: #1c52ba;">nearly 50 percent</a> of the websites we visit are found in the .com <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain" style="color: #1c52ba;">top-level domain</a>(TLD), which was among the first TLDs created in 1984. Despite the great opportunities the web has enabled for people around the world, there is still a lingering question about the diversity of the domain space (given that the number of generic TLDs has only increased by 14 in the last 28 years).<br /><br />In 2008, ICANN announced a program to expand the number of generic TLDs (think .com, .org, .edu), developed through its bottom-up, multi-stakeholder process, in which we participate. Given this expansion process, we decided to submit applications for new TLDs, which generally fall into four categories:<br /><ul style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;">
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Our trademarks, like .google</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Domains related to our core business, like .docs</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Domains that will improve user experience, such as .youtube, which can increase the ease with which YouTube channels and genres can be identified</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Domains we think have interesting and creative potential, such as .lol</li>
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<br />We want to make the introduction of new generic TLDs a good experience for web users and site owners. So we will:<br /><ul style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;">
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Make security and abuse prevention a high priority</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Work with all ICANN-accredited registrars</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Work with brand owners to develop sensible rights protection mechanisms that build upon ICANN’s requirements</li>
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<br />We’re just beginning to explore this potential source of innovation on the web, and we are curious to see how these proposed new TLDs will fare in the existing TLD environment. By opening up more choices for Internet domain names, we hope people will find options for more diverse—and perhaps shorter—signposts in cyberspace.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist</span></div>
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In celebration of new search experience, Bing launches the Bing Summer of Doing with DoSomething.org.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">REDMOND, Wash. — June 1, 2012 — </span>Do you ever feel like you’re spending too much time searching and not enough time doing? If so, you’re not alone. According to a recent survey conducted by Bing and Impulse Research, nearly 75 percent of people spend more time than they would like searching for information online. Time wasted searching is a thing of the past with the new <a href="http://www.bing.com/" style="color: #0060a6;">Bing</a> design, which brings together information from the Web, experts and enthusiasts, and your friends to help you do more — available today at <a href="http://www.bing.com/" style="color: #0060a6;">http://www.bing.com</a>.</div>
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Only Bing brings together the best search with people from social networks, including Facebook and Twitter. In celebration of this new search experience, Bing is joining forces with<a href="http://www.dosomething.org/" style="color: #0060a6;">DoSomething.org</a> to launch the Bing Summer of Doing, designed to inspire people to do amazing things, including giving back to their communities.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">New Bing Helps Search Go Social</span></div>
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Most things in life are better with people you trust; in fact, more than 90 percent of survey respondents reported they are likely to seek the opinions or advice of friends and family as part of their decision-making process around events, purchases, travel and more, and more than 90 percent will even delay a decision to first get input from family and friends. The new social features in Bing make it easy to exchange ideas, share opinions and take action, giving searchers the same confidence they get from bouncing an idea off a friend. With Bing, it’s easier than ever to get that input and go from searching to doing.</div>
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Whether it’s making a purchase, choosing a restaurant or deciding what movie to see, the new Bing design focuses on unique ways to bring friends and experts right into the search experience. These social results, found in the right column and called sidebar, complement the standard search results without compromising them, offering searchers the chance to start a conversation and get advice from friends, experts and enthusiasts right within the search experience. Bing shows which friends have liked or might know about content related to the query and will identify experts and enthusiasts that can provide recommendations on the topic of interest. In addition, you can post a question and get help from your Facebook friends while you search, friends can easily see and reply to your questions on Facebook or Bing, and you can follow the activity feed to see your friends’ queries and posts in real time, never missing a beat.</div>
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Bing also makes it easy to get things done in one place with the new center column, called snapshot, which will roll out in the next few weeks. It includes information, such as maps and reviews, and quick ways to take action, so booking a restaurant reservation or checking hotel rates are now quicker and easier. The new Bing offers restaurant reservations, hotel reviews, movie trailers and show times, maps, and more right within the search experience, giving you everything you need to take action in one place and eliminating the need to visit multiple sites to complete tasks.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bing Summer of Doing Designed to Inspire</span></div>
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To celebrate the new search experience and inspire people to take action in their communities, Bing is launching a summer-long campaign called the Bing Summer of Doing. As part of this campaign, Bing is joining forces with DoSomething.org, the largest U.S. organization for teens and social change, to inspire people to give back to their communities. The alliance kicks off today in Los Angeles at Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), with additional community volunteer events planned throughout the summer in various cities across the nation, including Atlanta, New York and Chicago.</div>
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Today at HOLA, which provides thousands of underserved and at-risk youth with exceptional free after-school programs in academics, arts and athletics, Bing will work alongside celebrities and volunteers to beautify and renovate the community center through various projects. The day of service will conclude with a surprise unveiling for HOLA students and a celebratory pizza party and surprise performance by Cody Simpson in the Lafayette Park Recreation Center.</div>
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In addition, a national daily challenge called “The Hunt, 11 Days of Doing,” which is designed to drive action, will be hosted online by DoSomething.org later this summer. The Hunt will inspire teens to participate in 11 days of challenges to create positive community impact. Beginning July 10, teens will be presented with a new series of challenges each day, focused on a specific cause. Teams will work together to complete the challenges and report back to show how they were able to create measurable impact in their community, all while collecting points to win prizes.</div>
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To get involved in your own community, visit <a href="http://www.bing.com/doing" style="color: #0060a6;">http://www.bing.com/doing</a> to search for local projects and use the new Bing to get inspiration from your friends on how to give back this summer.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">About the Survey</span></div>
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The survey was conducted online with a random sample of 1,009 men and women, aged 18–34, who use the Internet for information on a regular basis. All respondents are members of the Impulse Research Corp. proprietary online panel. The Impulse Research proprietary online panel has been carefully selected to closely match U.S. population demographics, and the respondents are representative of American men and women aged 18–34.</div>
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Research was conducted in May 2012. The overall sampling error rate for this survey is +/- 3 percent at a 95 percent level of confidence.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">About Bing</span></div>
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Bing is the search engine from Microsoft, designed for people who do. For people like you who are always doing more and don’t have time to sit still. Now, only Bing brings together the best search and the best people from your social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, to help you spend less time searching and more time doing. So whether you’re on your PC or on your phone, Bing is designed not just to connect you to the information you are looking for, but also to help you get things done right on Bing.com.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">About DoSomething.org</span></div>
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We love teens. They are creative, active, wired … and frustrated that our world is so messed up. DoSomething.org harnesses that awesome energy and unleashes it on causes teens care about. Almost every week, we launch a new national campaign. The call to action is always something that has a real impact and doesn’t require money, an adult, or a car. With a goal of 5 million active members by 2015, DoSomething.org is one of the largest organizations in the US for teens and social change. Join us at <a href="http://www.dosomething.org/" style="color: #0060a6;">www.DoSomething.org</a>.</div>
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Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.</div>
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Record March Quarter Sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs<br /><br />Net Profit Increases 94% Year-over-Year</h2>
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CUPERTINO, California—April 24, 2012—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 second quarter ended March 31, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $39.2 billion and quarterly net profit of $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $24.7 billion and net profit of $6.0 billion, or $6.40 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 47.4 percent compared to 41.4 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 64 percent of the quarter’s revenue.<br /><br />The Company sold 35.1 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 88 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 11.8 million iPads during the quarter, a 151 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4 million Macs during the quarter, a 7 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.7 million iPods, a 15 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.<br /><br />“We’re thrilled with sales of over 35 million iPhones and almost 12 million iPads in the March quarter,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “The new iPad is off to a great start, and across the year you’re going to see a lot more of the kind of innovation that only Apple can deliver.”<br /><br />“Our record March quarter results drove $14 billion in cash flow from operations,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the third fiscal quarter, we expect revenue of about $34 billion and diluted earnings per share of about $8.68.”<br /><br />Apple will provide live streaming of its Q2 2012 financial results conference call beginning at 2:00 p.m. PDT on April 24, 2012 at <a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq212" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq212</a>. This webcast will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter.<br /><br />This press release contains forward-looking statements including without limitation those about the Company’s estimated revenue and diluted earnings per share. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ. Risks and uncertainties include without limitation the effect of competitive and economic factors, and the Company’s reaction to those factors, on consumer and business buying decisions with respect to the Company’s products; continued competitive pressures in the marketplace; the ability of the Company to deliver to the marketplace and stimulate customer demand for new programs, products, and technological innovations on a timely basis; the effect that product introductions and transitions, changes in product pricing or mix, and/or increases in component costs could have on the Company’s gross margin; the inventory risk associated with the Company’s need to order or commit to order product components in advance of customer orders; the continued availability on acceptable terms, or at all, of certain components and services essential to the Company’s business currently obtained by the Company from sole or limited sources; the effect that the Company’s dependency on manufacturing and logistics services provided by third parties may have on the quality, quantity or cost of products manufactured or services rendered; risks associated with the Company’s international operations; the Company’s reliance on third-party intellectual property and digital content; the potential impact of a finding that the Company has infringed on the intellectual property rights of others; the Company’s dependency on the performance of distributors, carriers and other resellers of the Company’s products; the effect that product and service quality problems could have on the Company’s sales and operating profits; the continued service and availability of key executives and employees; war, terrorism, public health issues, natural disasters, and other circumstances that could disrupt supply, delivery, or demand of products; and unfavorable results of other legal proceedings. 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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to Kick Off June 11 at Moscone West in San Francisco</h1>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">CUPERTINO, California—April 25, 2012—Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 11 through June 15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. At this year’s five-day conference, developers will learn about the future of iOS and OS X®, allowing them to build incredible new apps. WWDC will also feature more than 100 technical sessions presented by Apple engineers as well as the popular Apple Design Awards, a showcase of the most outstanding apps from the past year. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">“We have a great WWDC planned this year and can’t wait to share the latest news about iOS and OS X Mountain Lion with developers,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “The iOS platform has created an entirely new industry with fantastic opportunities for developers across the country and around the world.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Developers will be able to explore the latest innovations, features and capabilities of iOS and OS X Mountain Lion and learn how to greatly enhance the functionality, performance, quality and design of their apps. Developers can even bring their code to the labs and work with Apple engineers, applying development techniques and best-practices to enhance their apps.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Activities at Apple’s WWDC 2012 include:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style: square outside; margin: 0px 0px 18px 2em; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">more than 100 technical sessions presented by Apple engineers on a wide range of technology-specific topics for developing, deploying and integrating the latest iOS and OS X technologies;</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">100 hands-on labs staffed by more than 1,000 Apple engineers providing developers with code-level assistance, insight into optimal development techniques and guidance on how they can make the most of iOS and OS X technologies in their apps;</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the opportunity to connect with thousands of fellow iOS and OS X developers from around the world—last year more than 60 countries were represented;</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">engaging and inspirational lunchtime sessions with leading minds and influencers from the worlds of technology, science and entertainment; and</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Apple Design Awards which recognize iPhone®, iPad® and Mac® apps that demonstrate technical excellence, innovation and outstanding design.</li>
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Profit By Search India’s #1 SEO Company Announces SEO Plan that ensures Speedy Recovery from Panda & Penguin Updates, Following is a full proof plan for recovering from Panda & Penguin Penalties. Profit By Search has already helped many websites recover from this penalty.<br />
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PARIS, <span class="xn-chron">June 4, 2012</span> /PRNewswire/ --</div>
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The legendary art dealer and collector, <span class="xn-person">Michael Werner</span> has made a major gift of 130 works from his collection to the Musée d'Art Moderne de la <span class="xn-person">Ville de Paris</span>. To mark this exceptional gift, an exhibition of works from the collection will go on show at the museum from <u><b><span class="xn-chron">5 October 2012</span> - <span class="xn-chron">3 March 2013</span>.</b></u></div>
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<span class="xn-person">Michael Werner's</span> donation includes works by Marcel Broodthaers, <span class="xn-person">James Lee Byars</span>, Gaston Chaissac, André Derain, <span class="xn-person">Otto Freundlich</span>, Étienne-Martin, Robert Filliou, Antonius Höckelmann, Jörg Immendorff, <span class="xn-person">Per Kirkeby</span>, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck, Bernard Réquichot, Niele Toroni and <span class="xn-person">Don Van Vliet</span>.</div>
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The gift consists of a number of works by the artists <span class="xn-person">Michael Werner</span> has represented through the years, as well as a group of modern works by artists such as Lehmbruck, Freundlich, Derain and others. The selection for the donation was, for the most part, made by the museum's director, <span class="xn-person">Fabrice Hergott</span> who made a list of the artists and pieces he felt were crucial to the museum.</div>
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Represented by galleries in <span class="xn-location">Berlin</span>, <span class="xn-location">Cologne</span>, <span class="xn-location">New York</span>, and also in <span class="xn-location">London</span> in the autumn,<span class="xn-person">Michael Werner</span> is one of the most influential gallerists in the world and has worked with some of the leading artists of the 20th century. Through his support for artists such as Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz, Jörg Immendorff and <span class="xn-person">Sigmar Polke</span>, he has helped to bring international acclaim to German post-war art. Developed since the 60s, his collection documents his activities over a period of 50 years.</div>
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A self-described "conservative anarchist," <span class="xn-person">Michael Werner</span> opened his first gallery, Werner and Katz, in <span class="xn-location">Berlin</span> in 1963 with the first exhibition of paintings by Georg Baselitz. He opened his gallery in <span class="xn-location">Cologne</span> in 1967 and in <span class="xn-location">New York</span> in 1990. Werner discovered and has nurtured some of the most significant post-war artists throughout their careers including Georg Baselitz, Marcel Broodthaers, <span class="xn-person">James Lee Byars</span>, Jörg Immendorff, Markus Lüpertz, <span class="xn-person">Per Kirkeby A.R</span>. Penck, and <span class="xn-person">Sigmar Polke</span>. -</div>
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His single minded vision of continuously championing the same artists over fifty years sets him apart from his contemporaries and makes him a unique figure in the art world. Werner's uniqueness is furthered by the breadth of his art historical interests which extend well beyond the artists whose careers he started to include <span class="xn-person">Jean Arp</span>, Jean Fautrier, <span class="xn-person">Ernst Ludwig Kirchner</span>, <span class="xn-person">Yves Klein</span>, Piero Manzoni, Francis Picabia, <span class="xn-person">Kurt Schwitters</span>, all of whose work he has shown at the gallery. - In addition to his already diverse interests as a gallerist, as a collector Werner's collection includes African tribal art, eighteenth century German and French furniture, Khmer Art, and old Master Drawings.</div>
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Talking about his donation, <span class="xn-person">Michael Werner</span> has said: ""It is basically a sentimental choice. It was a visit to this museum very early on in my career that profoundly changed my understanding of and relationship to art. In 1962 Georg Baselitz and I travelled to Paris to see an exhibition of Jean Fautrier at the museum and it had a serious emotional impact on me. The exhibition was full of strange and extraordinary paintings and the atmosphere of the show was all encompassing and I was very moved. -Although I had been working in a gallery for a few years at that point, I had not really been touched by art in a profound sense. The effect of this exhibition constituted my real entrance into the art world and it defined my way. I am not a religious man but it was like a religious conversion."</div>
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<span class="xn-person">Fabrice Hergott</span>, Director of Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville, said: "<span class="xn-person">Michael Werner's</span> Gift represents the most significant enrichment of the Museum's collection since the bequest made by Dr <span class="xn-person">Maurice Girardin</span> in 1953, which led to the creation of the Institution".</div>
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<span class="xn-person">Michael Werner</span> will open a new gallery in <span class="xn-location">London</span> in <span class="xn-chron">October 2012</span> with new work by <span class="xn-person">Peter Doig</span></div>
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Buddy Media, the world's leading social media marketing platform, enables the world's top brands and advertisers, including Ford, Hewlett Packard, L'Oreal and Mattel, to connect with more than a billion customers on Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and more<br /><br />Combining market leaders Salesforce Radian6 and Buddy Media, the Salesforce Marketing Cloud immediately will become the platform of choice for brands to listen, engage, gain insight, publish, advertise and measure social marketing programs</h2>
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<span class="xn-location">SAN FRANCISCO</span>, <span class="xn-chron">June 4, 2012</span> /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing (<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salesforce.com%2Fcloudcomputing%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG3ALENBtV802rwceZea3CgWXXJ2w" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">http</a><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salesforce.com%2Fcloudcomputing%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG3ALENBtV802rwceZea3CgWXXJ2w" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">://</a><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salesforce.com%2Fcloudcomputing%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG3ALENBtV802rwceZea3CgWXXJ2w" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">www</a><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salesforce.com%2Fcloudcomputing%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG3ALENBtV802rwceZea3CgWXXJ2w" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">.</a><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salesforce.com%2Fcloudcomputing%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG3ALENBtV802rwceZea3CgWXXJ2w" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">salesforce</a><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salesforce.com%2Fcloudcomputing%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG3ALENBtV802rwceZea3CgWXXJ2w" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">.</a><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salesforce.com%2Fcloudcomputing%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG3ALENBtV802rwceZea3CgWXXJ2w" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">com</a><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salesforce.com%2Fcloudcomputing%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG3ALENBtV802rwceZea3CgWXXJ2w" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">/</a><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salesforce.com%2Fcloudcomputing%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG3ALENBtV802rwceZea3CgWXXJ2w" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">cloudcomputing</a><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salesforce.com%2Fcloudcomputing%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG3ALENBtV802rwceZea3CgWXXJ2w" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">/</a>) company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Buddy Media, the world's leading social media marketing platform, for approximately<span class="xn-money">$689 million</span> payable in cash and salesforce.com equity. The transaction is expected to be completed during salesforce.com's fiscal third quarter ending <span class="xn-chron">October 31, 2012</span>, and is subject to customary closing conditions.</div>
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<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;">"Salesforce.com now has the number one players in social listening and marketing – Radian6 and Buddy Media," said <span class="xn-person">Marc Benioff</span>, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. "With CMOs<b></b>surpassing CIOs in spend on technology within the next five years, our Marketing Cloud leadership will allow us to capitalize on this massive opportunity."</li>
<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;">"Social media has caused the biggest transformation in marketing since the Mad Men era, causing CMOs to completely re-think their strategies," said <span class="xn-person">Marcel LeBrun</span>, SVP of Salesforce Radian6. "By bringing together market leaders Radian6 and Buddy Media, we are doubling down on the Salesforce Marketing Cloud to provide CMOs with the ability to manage the entire social marketing lifecycle."</li>
<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;">"Buddy Media's mission is to eliminate the current state of anarchy in social marketing," said <span class="xn-person">Michael Lazerow</span>, co-founder and CEO, <span class="xn-person">Buddy Media</span>. "With the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, marketers will be able to unify their efforts to better organize their teams, optimize their social programs and deliver real business results."</li>
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<b>Buddy Media – The World's Leading Social Media Marketing Platform</b></div>
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Founded in 2007, Buddy Media started as an idea to empower chief marketing officers (CMOs) and agencies to organize their teams and optimize their social media marketing programs. The Buddy Media platform allows customers to publish content, place and optimize social advertising and measure the effectiveness of social media marketing programs. As a result, customers can determine which content is driving the most engagement, test different strategies and understand which campaigns are delivering the greatest return on investment. Leveraging Buddy Media's award-winning social media marketing platform, companies can connect and engage with more than a billion customers across Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and more.</div>
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With 8 of the top 10 advertisers as clients, Buddy Media is the clear leader in social media marketing. The company currently has nearly 1,000 customers, including major global brands like Ford, Hewlett Packard, L'Oreal, Mattel and the world's largest marketing agency groups such as IPG (Interpublic Group), Omnicom, Publicis and WPP. Buddy Media is the only company to be named a charter Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer, Google Engagement Solutions partner and LinkedIn Certified Developer.</div>
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<b>The Salesforce Marketing Cloud – Transforming </b><b>Marketing for the Social Era</b></div>
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The marketing industry is undergoing the biggest transformation it's seen in 60 years, and it's all being driven by the unprecedented growth of social networks. Today's leading brands are looking to completely transform their traditional marketing strategies for the social era. Industry analysts predict that CMOs will surpass CIOs in spend on technology within the next five years(1) and that social advertising will be the largest growth area of online advertising by 2013(2).</div>
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By combining Buddy Media, the world's leading social media marketing platform, with Salesforce Radian6, the world's leading social media listening platform, salesforce.com will deliver the first comprehensive Marketing Cloud that will allow customers to listen, engage, gain insight, publish, advertise and measure social marketing programs. With the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, CMOs will be empowered to manage the entire social marketing lifecycle.</div>
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<b>Financial Details of Proposed Buddy Media Acquisition</b></div>
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Salesforce.com will acquire Buddy Media for approximately <span class="xn-money">$467 million</span> in cash and <span class="xn-money">$184 million</span> in salesforce.com common stock, and <span class="xn-money">$38 million</span> in vested salesforce.com options and restricted stock units. All of Buddy Media's vested and unvested options, restricted stock and restricted stock units held by continuing employees will be assumed and converted into options, restricted stock and restricted stock units of salesforce.com. The acquisition has been approved by Buddy Media's board of directors and stockholders and is expected to close during the third quarter of salesforce.com's fiscal 2013, ending<span class="xn-chron">October 31, 2012</span>, subject to customary closing conditions, including the expiration or early termination of the waiting period under the Hart–Scott–Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended.</div>
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Additional details and information about the terms and conditions of the acquisition will be available in a current report on Form 8-K to be filed by salesforce.com with the Securities and Exchange Commission.</div>
<b>Financial Impact of Proposed Buddy Media Acquisition </b>Q2 FY13: Given an expected fiscal third quarter close date, this transaction is not expected to have any material impact to salesforce.com's fiscal second quarter FY13 revenue or EPS results, previously guided on <span class="xn-chron">May 17, 2012</span>.<div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2em; padding-bottom: 10px;">
Q3 FY13: Salesforce.com expects to provide revenue and EPS guidance for its fiscal third quarter FY13, including the effects of this transaction, when it announces results for its second fiscal quarter, ended <span class="xn-chron">July 31</span>, 2012. </div>
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FY13: The acquisition is expected to increase revenues by approximately <span class="xn-money">$20 million to $25 million</span>, and to reduce non-GAAP EPS by approximately <span class="xn-money">$0.14 to $0.15</span> in the second half of the year ending <span class="xn-chron">January 31, 2013</span> depending on the final acquisition date. To reflect the impact of this acquisition, the company is updating the full-year guidance it provided on<span class="xn-chron">May 17, 2012</span>. Specifically, the company now expects FY13 revenue in the range of approximately <span class="xn-money">$2.990 billion to $3.025 billion</span>, and FY13 non-GAAP EPS in the range of approximately <span class="xn-money">$1.45 to $1.49</span>. </div>
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Non-GAAP EPS excludes the impact of the following non-cash items: stock-based compensation, amortization of purchased intangibles from acquisitions, and the amortization of debt discount on the company's convertible senior notes, as well as the tax consequences associated with these items. The financial impact of the acquisition on a GAAP basis cannot be estimated until the allocation of the purchase price is completed following the closing of the acquisition. However, salesforce.com currently expects that the dilutive impact of the acquisition to EPS will be significantly greater on a GAAP basis than a non-GAAP basis.</div>
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<b>Management Conference Call</b></div>
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Salesforce.com will host a conference call with investors to discuss this transaction at<span class="xn-chron">8:30 a.m. (ET)</span> / <span class="xn-chron">5:30 a.m. (PT)</span> on <span class="xn-chron">June 4, 2012</span>. A live dial-in is available domestically at 866-901-SFDC or 866-901-7332 and internationally at +1 706-902-1764, passcode salesforce.com or <b>87397859</b>. A live audiocast of the event will be available on the salesforce.com Investor Relations website at <u><a href="http://www.salesforce.com/investor" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">http://www.salesforce.com/investor</a></u>. A replay will be available at 800-585-8367 or +1 855-859-2056, passcode <b>87397859,</b> until midnight (ET) <span class="xn-chron">July 4, 2012</span>.</div>
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<b>About Buddy Media</b></div>
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Buddy Media is the social enterprise technology of choice for eight of the world's top ten global advertisers, empowering them to build and maintain relationships with their consumers in a connections-based world.</div>
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The Buddy Media social marketing suite helps brands build powerful connections globally with its scalable, secure architecture and data-driven customer insights from initial point of contact through point of purchase. Buddy Media is one of the most award winning social enterprise software companies, winning the prestigious TechCrunch "Crunchie" Award for Best Enterprise application, named to the Advertising Age 2011 "Digital A-list," and CEO and Founder Mr. <span class="xn-person">Buddy Media</span> was selected as 2011 New York Entrepreneur of the Year® by Ernst and Young.</div>
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Buddy Media is the only company to be named a charter Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer, LinkedIn Certified Developer and Google Engagement Solutions partner. For more information, visit <u><a href="http://www.buddymedia.com/" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">http://www.BuddyMedia.com</a></u></div>
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CODE Advisors acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Buddy Media.</div>
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<b>About Salesforce.com</b></div>
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With more than 100,000 customers, salesforce.com is the enterprise <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">cloud computing</a>company that is leading the shift to the <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/solutions/" style="color: #993399; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">social enterprise</a>. Social enterprises leverage social, mobile and open cloud technologies to put customers at the heart of their business. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multitenant architecture, the company's platform and application services allow customers to:</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">108 Brutally Killed in Houla Uprising - 49 Children - 34 Women</span><br />
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<b>Beirut</b> - Uprising against president. Some killed by shelling. Shot in homes also. Some eyes gauged out. Some had throats slit. Neighbors killed neighbors. Extraordinary hatred. World looks on. Demonstrations held against the government. "Let the world know we die with a smile on our faces." 9 soldiers killed. Intense shelling. Chaos. Sinister development. Shooting went on for one hour. Shot everyone they found. Some pretended to be dead. Children were shot. Women stabbed in the face. Shot ear to ear. Gruesome scene. Dead taken in cars and trucks. Aftermath was filmed. Piles of dead children. 49 children dead. 34 women. Syria's government blamed. People ran for there lives. A line was crossed. US military option is possible.<br />
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Hundreds there. 1973 was day of coronation. Raining. Wet people. School children singing. What was the fuss? Duchess of Cambridge was with her. Four day celebration. Everyone gets a four day weekend!<br />
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<span class="zoomMe" style="font-size: 17px;">Paralyzed rats learned to walk again after a combination of electro-chemical stimulation to their injured spines and intensive rehabilitation therapy.<br /><br />Researchers say the treatment “woke up” dormant or sleeping neurons in their spinal cords, and formed new connections to the brain. Scientists hope the treatment might someday help paralyzed humans.<br /><br />Researchers at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, injected a mixture of chemicals to stimulate the rats' spinal nerve cells, which communicate with the brain. Ten minutes later, they used electrodes just below the cord injury to "wake up" the otherwise healthy nerve cells involved in walking, but which had became inactive following the injury to the spine. <br /><br />The rats were also placed in a robotic device that looks like a little vest, to support their weight. The device, which helped with the rehabilitation, kept the animals upright, and was activated only when the rats started to lose their balance.<br /><br />During the first few weeks after the treatment, lead researcher Grégoire Courtine at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne says the rats did not move their legs. But after three weeks, the rodents took one or two steps and, with the vest, supported themselves on their weakened legs.<br /><br />At the end of six to seven weeks, Courtine says, the rats were able to sprint up stairs, achieving what he calls 100 percent recuperation of voluntary movement. <br /><br />“We really observed a reorganization of neuronal connections," Courtine said. "And it was really fascinating because it was not predicted when we started the experiments.”<br />Investigators used chocolate as a reward to induce the rats to walk, encouraging what<br /><br />Courtine calls willpower-based training that led to neuronal plasticity, or nerve regrowth, throughout the rats' nervous systems. There was a four-fold increase in nerve fibers, not only in the rats' spines, but also throughout their brains. The newly formed fibers bypassed the spinal injuries, so signals from the brain could reach the reawakened neurons.<br /><br />But the robotic vest will always be necessary to keep the rats upright when they walk.<br />Courtine says scientists have proven the enormous potential of neuroplasticity, which previously had been thought to occur only on a limited basis in patients with brain and spinal cord injuries. But he cautions that this approach might not be able to bring about the same degree of movement in paralyzed humans.<br /><br />“We may be able to improve the functional recovery in humans," Courtine said. "But this is really too early to say anything.”</span></div>
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<span class="zoomMe" style="font-size: 17px;">The planet Venus will make a rare transit across the face of the Sun on June 5. The phenomenon will not occur again for more than a century. The U.S. space agency, NASA, plans to use the Venus transit to fine-tune some of its deep-space planet-hunting techniques.<br /> <br />Venus will appear as a small, black dot as it crosses in front of the Sun. The six and a half hour long passage will begin at 2209 Universal time on June 5, and most of the world - except much of South America and western Africa - will be able to see it. Experts warn to never look directly at the Sun.<br /><br />NASA's Harley Thronson says transits of Venus in the 18th and 19th centuries provided the measurements that allowed astronomers to calculate the key distance between the Earth and the Sun. However, he admits that many people will observe the 2012 phenomenon just for fun.<br /><br />“It is primarily a gee-whiz factor. Its scientific importance is now historical. It was scientifically critical in the 1700’s and 1800’s,” Thronson said.<br /><br />Thronson says knowing the Earth-to-Sun distance - 150 million kilometers -- allowed astronomers to determine the size of the solar system for the first time - and ultimately, the sizes and distances of everything in the cosmos.<br /><br />Scientists look for distant planets by detecting the slight dimming of a star’s brightness that occurs when an orbiting object passes between it and the telescope making the observation. It is known as the “transit method.” <br /><br />Thronson says this year's close-to-home Venus transit will give NASA the chance to make refinements to the delicate instruments - like those aboard the Hubble space telescope - that it uses to search the universe for relatively small, rocky, Earth-like worlds.<br /><br />“Some astronomers are going to treat the transit of Venus similar to a hypothetical Earth-like world passing in front of its central star - and that very, very slight dimming of the star,” Thronson said. <br /><br />Transits of Venus always occur in pairs, eight years apart, with more than a century separating each pair. One-hundred-thirty years passed between the transits of 1874 and 2004.<br /><br />After Tuesday, the wonder of watching the tiny silhouette of Venus glide across the face of the Sun will belong to future generations of astronomers and sky-watchers in the year 2117.</span></div>
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