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Adam Smith and Jack McEnaney Atmospheric science students
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2011
Wednesday Fifty percent chance of showers and thunderstorms during the day then clearing up in the evening.
Thursday
HI: 70 Sunny and clear with winds 10 to
LO: 45 20 mph out of the NW
Half the time, it will rain all the time
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Friday Sunny and clear winds out of the NW 5 to 10mph
HI: 70
L0: 45
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Saturday
HI: 76
Sunny and clear. Winds out of
LO: 60
the S 5 to 10mph
Wait, this feels familiar.
Six degrees warmer. Such a scorcher.
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NEWS AROUND THE WORLD
MONTREAL
Canada's conservative government moved Tuesday to prevent a strike Thursday by Air Canada flight attendants by sending the matter to the Canada Industrial Relations Board for review.
Labor Minister Lisa Raitt said that referring the matter to the labor board will prevent nearly 7,000 flight attendants at Canada's largest airline from going on strike Thursday.
Her comments come after members of the union rejected a second tentative agreement supported by union leaders.
The referral buys the government time as it looks to pass back-to-work legislation. Parliament resumes sitting next week.
Earlier Tuesday afternoon, the union announced that its negotiators were prepared to resume talks and called on Air Canada to address more of the issues that have upset the airline's flight attendants over the past decade.
About 3,800 Air Canada a customer sales and service representatives held a three-day strike in June, but Raitt introduced back-to-work legislation two days into it.
The flight attendants' union has been negotiation with the Montreal-based airline for months, Union leaders had predicted the revamped offer would be approved. They said they had managed to get about 80 percent of what the membership had demanded in the areas of wages, pensions, crew rest, working conditions and work rules.
PARIS
Their early courtship was hardly discreet: President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Brun visited Disneyland Paris together, then jetted off to Jordan with cameras in tow. Weeks later, they were married.
Bruni-Sarkozy is poised to become the first first lady in modern France to give birth. Sarkozy, who has long cast himself a mold-breaker, is the first French leader to divorce — and remary — while in office. They wed in early 2008, three-and-a-half months after he divorced the now-former Cecilia Sarkozy.
Now, Bruni-Sarkozy is about to have a baby, and the pending birth has taken on the air of a state secret — revealing the caution within Sarkozy's political team as the unpopular president eves a possible re-election bid.
The expectant mother, 43, said in recent media interviews that she didn't know the baby's gender and will make no photos of the baby public.
The hush-hush atmosphere over the upcoming birth says a lot about France.
France's media establishment has a reputation for cushy ties to political powers-that-be, whose personal lives have mostly been off-limits. And conventional wisdom holds that the French public, in almost conscious contrast to what is considered Anglo-Saxon fascination with politicians' private lives, doesn't care much anyway.
MONROVIA. LIBERIA
Voters camped out overnight and formed lines that were dozens of people deep. Their faces were wet from the early morning downpour, yet they patiently waited their turn, huddled in groups of twos and threes under candy-colored umbrellas for a chance to either re-elect Sirleaf, or choose from one of the 15 opposition candidates who claim they'll do a better job than her.
Even as she basks in praise from abroad after sharing the Nobel Peace Prize, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is facing an election at home that she may lose. She's credited with stabilizing Liberia after civil war but most of the people voting in Tuesday's election have not been able to find a job since she took office nearly six years ago.
The 72-year-old, Harvard-educated Sirleaf is credited with luring donors and helping restructure the country's debt. The United States alone has poured in more than $600 million since Africa's first democratically elected female leader took office, encouraged by her track record as a former World Bank economist.
And under her watch, an estimated $5 billion of the country's external debt was wiped clean, allowing Liberia to re-establish a sovereign credit rating, a pre-requisite for issuing its own bonds.
She has succeeded in lifting timber and diamond embargos, and her government negotiated contracts with oil exploration firms in the hopes that Liberia could soon start pumping its own oil.
China on Tuesday accused overseas followers of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama of inciting a recent string of self-immolations among Tibetans.
BEIJING
Five Tibetan men have set themselves on fire in the past two weeks in Aba, a traditionally Tibetan region of western China.
In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said members of the "Dalai clique" not only failed to condemn the incidents, but publicized them to inspire further such acts.
While few details are known, the self-immolations are seen as a protest against Communist restrictions on Tibetan Buddhism and Beijing's hostility toward the exiled Dalai Lama.
"They publicly played it up, spread rumors and incited more people to follow suit," Liu told reporters at a daily news briefing.
"That runs against human conscience and morality but also Buddhist doctrine," he said.
In expressing concern about the self-immolations, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on Tuesday called on the Chinese government to respect the rights of Tibetans.
Liu said the self-immolations were part of a plan to violently overthrow Chinese rule in Tibet.
STATE
Topeka strikes down law against domestic violence
Leaders in Kansas' capital city have repealed a local law against domestic violence under a controversial plan sparked by budget concerns.
Topeka's city council and mayor approved the reallate late Tuesday, saying such cases are better handled by county or state courts.
The vote comes less than a month after the prosecutor in Shawnee County decided to stop pursuing domestic battery cases and other misdemeanings, citing deep cuts to his budget.
"It's playing a game of chicken with people's lives," said Rita Smith, executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. "I can guarantee that people who are abusing are using this as a way to say, 'See, I told you'
City and county officials had hoped to strike a deal to end the budget dispute.
Advocates for domestic abuse victims were outraged, saying the plans amounted to austerity run amok. But the city's interim manager says Topeka is now in a better position to negotiate
that nobody cares."
"We never wanted this to happen," he said. "I never thought we'd be at this point."
Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor says he knew his decision would upset people but contends his hand was forced by the 10 percent cut in his budget for 2012, which he says will force him to lay off staff. He said he considered employee furloughs and "every angle" before making his announcement in early September.
Topeka has had at least 35 reported incidents of domestic battery or assault since early September. Those cases are not being pursued, and as of last Friday, 18 people jailed have been released without facing charges. Topeka police say. Prosecutors and police have refused to discuss details of the cases out of concern for victims' privacy, making it difficult to assess in what situations suspects aren't being prosecuted.
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"It can't continue like this. They have to be prosecuted," said County Commissioner Ted Enley, a Democrat. "Supposing they're changed and they're not prosecuted and it ends up they go back and cause a death of a woman or a child."
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Taylor's decision has prompted furious reactions nationally, and county commissioners say they've received hundreds of emails in the past few days from people upset by Taylor's move and the city's response. It doesn't help that the possible repeal of the ordinance comes during National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
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"Every single child was enthralled with the iPad. Children that typically didn't look at people, didn't respond
CAMPUS
Researchers make new find using iPads to treat disorder
A University study on iPads has shown a promising lead in the treatment of children living with cortical visual impairment, a disorder that severely affects the interpretation of visual information.
Researchers at the KU Life Span Institute have recorded high responsiveness in children living with CVI when using the Apple iPad.
Muriel Saunders, an assistant research professor at the Life Span Institute, said in a press release that the researchers tested 15 children and were shocked by the results.
While visual therapy for children who have CVI has been conducted traditionally using light boxes, the high-power high-contrast screen of the iPad has presented new opportunities for researchers in terms of interactivity and the potential therapy applications that come with it. Previous research has indicated that therapy aids children with CVI in developing damaged parts of the brain, and researchers are hoping that the addition of interactive therapy applications will further stimulate the growth of brain cells in affected areas.
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with objects or responded in a very repetitive fashion, were absolutely glued to the iPad. It was an amazing experience," Saunders said.
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