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If this is your first time visiting, the quick and dirty about Write at the Merge is that we?re a creative writing prompt that provides you with two prompt ideas. Write a response ? up to 500 words ? using either or both of the ideas. The link will be open until 11:59 p.m. PST on Thursday night.
This week we?re honoring the genius of Dr. Suess, who was born on March 2, 1904.? Our two Seussical offerings are an image and a line from one of his books. Happy writing!
?I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.?
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And because a birthday celebration should include everyone, if you don?t find either of these offerings inspiring, use your favorite Dr. Seuss quote or story as inspiration ? just leave us a note letting us know what you chose!
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, assaulting two priests, the official LANA news agency quoted the foreign ministry as saying on Sunday.
The foreign ministry said it "strongly condemned Thursday's attack on the Egyptian church ... and the aggression towards Father Paul Isaac and his assistant by the irresponsible armed men," LANA quoted a foreign ministry statement as saying.
It did not elaborate on the attacks but said an inquiry committee involving the interior, defense and justice ministries had been formed and had "taken the necessary measures to secure the church and its occupants".
It expressed "deep concern" over the attack, saying it was "contrary to the rules" of Islam and international human rights laws.
Libya's small Christian community has expressed fears over Islamist extremism as the government struggles to impose its authority over armed groups which have refused to lay down their weapons since the 2011 war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.
In December, an explosion at a building belonging to a Coptic church in Dafniya, close to the western city of Misrata, killed two Egyptian men and wounded two others.
Last month, four foreigners were arrested in Benghazi on suspicion of being Christian missionaries and printing books about Christianity.
Hussein Bin Hmeid, a spokesman for the government-affiliated security apparatus called the Preventative Security which made the arrests, said the missionaries had since been transferred to Tripoli.
He said the four - an Egyptian, a South African, a Korean and a Swede who was travelling on a U.S. passport - were now in the hands of the Interior Ministry and had been visited by representatives from their countries.
(Reporting by Ali Shuaib; additional reporting by Ghaith Shennib in Benghazi; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Jason Webb)
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The Plantronics Voyager Legend UC ($199.95 direct) Bluetooth headset?is a deluxe version of the standard Voyager Legend, which is one of our favorite models. But in addition to working over Bluetooth, the UC version comes with a tiny USB-compatible receiver for hooking up to a PC or Mac for use with Skype, Avaya, IBM, and other UC standard VoIP clients. It's a good choice if you make a lot of VoIP and cellular calls from your desk, and prefer a wireless, mono headset to something like the Plantronics Blackwire 720, which offers a more traditional stereo headset fit and a wired USB connector. That said, the Voyager Legend UC's?price gives us pause, the same way the two-year-old Voyager Pro UC did; the included accessories, while useful, shouldn't double the price.
Note that there's also a separate B235-M version of this product; that one is Microsoft-certified and optimized for use with Microsoft Lync 2010 and Microsoft OCS 2007 only. This review focuses on the standard Voyager Legend UC. In this short review, I'll just focus on the differences with the UC model; for more on how the headset itself fits, works, and sounds, read our full review of the original Voyager Legend. With both models, the headset itself is the same.
The UC version of the Voyager Legend comes with a bunch of accessories. The biggest news is the tiny USB UC receiver, which plugs into a free port on your PC or Mac and lets you make calls with VoIP clients like Skype. Also of note is the small desktop dock, which also plugs in via USB and keeps the Voyager Legend charged, thanks to its nifty magnetic power connector not unlike the one on a MacBook Pro. (The original Voyager Legend also has this connector.)
Plantronics also includes a hard plastic carrying case with a smoked, translucent lid. The case holds the headset and the USB receiver. There's a micro USB port on the side, so you can charge the Voyager Legend while it's inside the case, which is a nice touch.
Otherwise, the Voyager Legend UC works and sounds just like the original, Bluetooth-only Voyager Legend we liked so much. Sound quality is exemplary in both directions, using both Skype and over Bluetooth. I tested the Voyager Legend when paired with an Apple iPhone 5. As with the regular version, the Voyager Legend UC is a little more susceptible to office fans and outside wind noise, thanks to its long boom mic which can "catch" the breeze and shift around a bit. Plantronics' noise-cancelling circuitry is also still a small step behind what Jawbone has accomplished with the Era Bluetooth headset.
Plantronics also makes available Spokes, a free PC download that makes controlling calls from multiple sources easier. It installs a battery meter for the Voyager Legend UC in your PC's icon tray, and updates your UC presence status whether you're on a mobile call or a PC call?useful stuff to have on your PC.
All told, it's tough to go wrong with the Voyager Legend to begin with. This latest UC version makes it that much tougher to resist, although I think it should cost $150, not $200. Working professionals looking for more range should have a look at the Plantronics Savi 440, which can travel four to five times as far from its source as the Voyager Legend.
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Mar. 3, 2013 ? Researchers at the University of Rochester and the University of Ottawa have applied a recently developed technique to directly measure for the first time the polarization states of light. Their work both overcomes some important challenges of Heisenberg's famous Uncertainty Principle and also is applicable to qubits, the building blocks of quantum information theory.
They report their results in a paper published this week in Nature Photonics.
The direct measurement technique was first developed in 2011 by scientists at the National Research Council, Canada, to measure the wavefunction -- a way of determining the state of a quantum system.
Such direct measurements of the wavefunction had long seemed impossible because of a key tenet of the uncertainty principle -- the idea that certain properties of a quantum system could be known only poorly if certain other related properties were known with precision. The ability to make these measurements directly challenges the idea that full understanding of a quantum system could never come from direct observation.
The Rochester/Ottawa researchers, led by Robert Boyd, who has appointments at both universities, measured the polarization states of light -- the directions in which the electric and magnetic fields of the light oscillate. Their key result, like that of the team that pioneered direct measurement, is that it is possible to measure key related variables, known as "conjugate" variables, of a quantum particle or state directly. The polarization states of light can be used to encode information, which is why they can be the basis of qubits in quantum information applications.
"The ability to perform direct measurement of the quantum wavefunction has important future implications for quantum information science," explained Boyd, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa and Professor of Optics and Physics at the University of Rochester. "Ongoing work in our group involves applying this technique to other systems, for example, measuring the form of a "mixed" (as opposed to a pure) quantum state."
Previously, a technique called quantum tomography has allowed researchers to measure the information contained in these quantum states, but only indirectly. Quantum tomography requires intensive post-processing of the data, and this is a time-consuming process that is not required in the direct measurement technique. Thus, in principle, the new technique provides the same information as quantum tomography but in significantly less time.
"The key to characterizing any quantum system is gathering information about conjugate variables," said co-author Jonathan Leach, who is now a lecturer at Heriot-Watt University, UK. "The reason it wasn't thought possible to measure two conjugate variables directly was because measuring one would destroy the wavefunction before the other one could be measured."
The direct measurement technique employs a "trick" to measure the first property in such a way that the system is not disturbed significantly and information about the second property can still be obtained. This careful measurement relies on the "weak measurement" of the first property followed by a "strong measurement" of the second property.
First described 25 years ago, weak measurement requires that the coupling between the system and what is used to measure it be, as its name suggests, "weak," which means that the system is barely disturbed in the measurement process. The downside of this type of measurement is that a single measurement only provides a small amount of information, and to get an accurate readout, the process has to be repeated multiple times and the average taken.
Boyd and his colleagues used the position and momentum of the light as the indicator of the polarization state. To couple the polarization to the spatial degree of freedom they used birefringent crystals: when light goes through such a crystal, there is a spatial separation introduced for different polarizations. For example, if light is made of a combination of horizontally and vertically polarized component, the positions of the individual components will spread out when it goes through the crystal according to its polarization. The thickness of the crystal can control the strength of the measurement, weak or strong, and determine the degree of separation, correspondingly small or large.
In this experiment, Boyd and his colleagues passed polarized light through two crystals of differing thicknesses: the first, a very thin crystal that "weakly" measures the horizontal and vertical polarization state; the second, a much thicker crystal that "strongly" measures the diagonal and anti-diagonal polarization state. As the first measurement was performed weakly, the system is not significantly disturbed, and therefore, information gained from the second measurement was still valid. This process is repeated several times to build up accurate statistics. Putting all of this together gives a full, direct characterization of the polarization states of the light.
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>> americans are vetting frustration with the $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts. white house correspondent peter alexander reports.
>> reporter: with the real impact of drastic budget cuts waiting to be felt, a chorus of frustration across the country. from national parks --
>> we're cutting travel, we're cutting training, we're reducing overtime --
>> reporter: to the u.s. mexico border.
>> cutting down the security of our nation. i don't believe is the way to go at it. the agents that are truly put thirg lives on the line, those are the people that are going to take the hit.
>> which one is the longest?
>> reporter: 70,000 children could be kicked out of child care .
>> it's excellent program. i would hate to see anything happen to it.
>> reporter: military community may be among those hit the hardest, like the red stone arsenal in huntsville, alabama. where employees face a 20% pay cut.
>> the sequestration will definitely affect my family.
>> reporter: the sting of sequester under way. the navy's " uss truman " is no longer going to the persian gulf . the aerial accident on ba acrobats, the thunderbirds are grounded, and hundreds of illegal immigrations have been released. we heard your outrage. the executive and congress are failures and should be replaced. all of them. i'm angry. annier still that our so-called representatives aren't representing us at all. and another tweeted, seriously, these guys need to get it together. why should americans suffer for their stubbornness. even "saturday night live" had a field day .
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Yahoo, wh??h ?? now officially a technology companionship, ???t announced a Google-??k? spring cleaning campaign. J??t ??k? Larry Page ?t?rt?? shutting down a number ?f under-performing Google properties wh?n h? took over fr?m Eric Schmidt, Yahoo?s n?w CEO Marissa Mayer ?? ???? ?b??t t? shut down a number ?f smaller Yahoo properties. According t? now?s announcement, Yahoo w??? shut down ?t? BlackBerry app, Avatars, App Search, Sports IQ ?n? ?t? Message Boards website ?n April 1st. In addendum, ?t?s ending support f?r th? Yahoo Updates API ?n April 16th.
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Virtually ??? ?f th? ?th?r products Yahoo ?? shutting down w?r? similarly underused, ?? chances ?r? th?r? won?t b? a major outcry over now?s closures.
A? Yahoo EVP ?f Platforms Jay Rossiter notes ?n th? announcement, th? companionship ?? m?k?n? th??? changes ? ?n ?n effort t? sharpen ??r focus. B? continuing t? home ?n ?n ??r core products ?n? experiences, w??ll b? ?b?? t? m?k? ??r existing products th? very best th?? ??n b?.?
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Effective April 1, 2013, w? w??? n? longer support Yahoo! Avatars ??r??? ??r properties. If ??? ??k? ???r existing avatar ?n? want t? keep ?t, please ?? t? th? Avatars download page, pick a picture size ?n? format, ?n? click th? appropriate download button. Similarly, ?f ??? want t? edit ???r avatar, ??? ??n download th? image ?n? th?n ??? a photo control service ?f ???r preference. If ??? want t? continue using ???r avatar w?th ??r products, ?? t?Yahoo! Profile ?n? upload th? avatar ??? downloaded. F?r more details, please click here. Additionally effective April 1, w? w??? n? longer support th? Avatars YQL desk.Yahoo! app f?r BlackBerry
Effective April 1, 2013, th? Yahoo! app f?r BlackBerry w??? n? longer b? available f?r download. F?r those ?f ??? wh? h??? b? now downloaded th? app, ??? ??n continue t? ??? ?t b?t ?t w??? n? longer b? actively supported.Yahoo! Clues (beta)
Effective April 1, 2013, Yahoo! Clues (beta) w??? shut down.Yahoo! App Search
Effective April 1, 2013, Yahoo! App Search w??? shut down.Yahoo! Sports IQ
Effective April 1, 2013, Yahoo! Sports IQ w??? shut down. Y??r final lifetime Sports IQ score ?n? rank w??? b? automatically transferred t? ?n? preserved within ???r Yahoo! Fantasy Profile.Yahoo! Message Boards website
Effective April 1, 2013, th? Yahoo! Message Boards website w??? shut down. O?r message boards ?n individual properties (??k? Yahoo! Finance ?n? Yahoo! Fantasy Sports) w??? remain active. W? ???? encourage ??? t? q???t??n ?n? ?n?w?r q???t??n? ?n Yahoo! An?w?r?, ?n? discuss issues ?n th? comments section ?n Yahoo! News.Yahoo! Updates API
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