Fisher goes first to Chiefs

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The Steelers added a young outside linebacker to bolster their pass rush and help replace the departed James Harrison, selecting Georgia?s Jarvis Jones No. 17 overall on Thursday night.

Jones (6-2, 245) notched 14.5 sacks in 2012 for the Bulldogs. If Jones is to push for a starting role as a rookie, it would likely be at the expense of veteran Jason Worilds.

That said, the Steelers generally don?t rush their rookies into the lineup. They have to earn their way onto the field. Maurkice Pouncey played in his rookie season of 2010 because he was too good to sit, and guard David DeCastro looked poised to be a Week One starter before a knee injury last summer.

?Quite honestly, I don?t envision anyone coming in and being an impact in Year One,? Steelers GM Kevin Colbert said this week, according to the club. ?I never do because I think there is always a growing process that has to occur.?

It can take time for Steelers? outside linebackers to master Dick LeBeau?s defense. LaMarr Woodley, it should be noted, did not start as a rookie in 2007. If Jones can at least be a solid situational rusher (a la Woodley as a rookie) and pick up the defense, he will have done well, considering how other rookies have fared with this veteran-laden club.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/25/chiefs-make-it-official-select-eric-fisher-with-first-pick-in-draft/related/

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Independence Party hosts forum on early childhood education ...

A forum on early childhood education, sponsored by the Independence Party of Minnesota, will be held Monday at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School.

It runs from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Humphrey School's Wilkins Room.

Speakers will be:

• Nicholas Banovetz, deputy director of MinnCAN and executive committee member of MinneMinds;?
• Amanda Lodemeier, elementary education program manager at Way to Grow;
• Amanda Varley, early childhood education specialist at the Minnesota Department of Education.

This is one in the series of nonpartisan forums on key state issues sponsored by the Independence Party.

Source: http://www.minnpost.com/political-agenda/2013/04/independence-party-hosts-forum-early-childhood-education

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Yahoo snags exclusive rights to Saturday Night Live's archives (update: clips only) starting September 1st

Yahoo may have failed in its bid to acquire Hulu last year, but CEO Marissa Mayer announced it's snagged rights to show something the streaming site has been known for: Saturday Night Live. The deal with Broadway Video will give Yahoo exclusive online access to archived SNL content from 1975 through 2013 including show clips, "select" musical performances, behind the scenes and dress rehearsal clips. Yahoo will also have non-exclusive access to show current season Saturday Night Live clips in the US and a license to distribute library show clips internationally. Beginning September 1st, those archived clips will be pulled from other internet video platforms (presumably Hulu and Netflix -- update, see below) for one year. The press release (included after the break) indicates Broadway and Yahoo will celebrate the partnership at Yahoo!'s Digital Content NewFront event on the 29th. We'll see if there's more to learn about Yahoo's ever-evolving media strategy then.

Update: The devil is in the details, and it appears that while Yahoo does have exclusive access to the SNL "clips" archive, that is not the same as full episodes. While that may seem arbitrary to the layman, what it means in effect is that later this year you'll still be able to stream full episodes of SNL on other online services -- just not clips.

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This Is the Camera That Found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Law enforcement didn't pull any punches during its manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers, going so far as to lock down an entire metropolis while they searched. Even when officers thought they had the second suspect cornered in Watertown boat, they confirmed their suspicions with a camera that can spot people from up to 10 miles away. Just to be sure. More »

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Google Adds Google+ Profile Pictures, One-Click Chat And Anonymous Animals To Drive

Google keeps integrating Google+ deeper into all of its products and today it’s Drive’s turn. When you open a file in Drive, you will now see the Google+ profile pictures of other viewers at the top of the document. Hovering over them brings up their Google+ card with their cover image and which Google+ circle you currently have them in. This, Google says, will make it easier to see who you are collaborating with on any given Drive document. Google is also making it a bit easier to start group chats in Drive. You can now simply select the new chat button at the top right of the page and start chatting away. In the previous version, you first had to open up a drop-down menu to see who else was looking at a document and then start a chat from there. Anonymous Chupacabra In case there is an anonymous user who is looking at your document (which could happen if you decide to share your file through a link or with somebody who doesn’t have a Google account), Google will now identify them as an “anonymous [animal name].” There seem to be quite a few of those, as Google Operating System’s Alex Chitu noted last week when Google first started testing this feature publicly, ranging from “Anonymous Anteater” to “Anonymous Dinosaur,” with a few kraken and chupacabras thrown in for good measure. Google says these new features will roll out over the next few days. It also looks as if these new features won’t appear for all file types just yet. Google specifically highlights Google Sheets as a tool that will get these features later than other file types on Drive.

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PFT: Team-by-team NFL draft needs

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As this year?s crop of incoming players, especially those taken in the first two rounds, celebrate their new circumstances, they need to keep one thing in mind.

Several months from now, there?s a chance they will think those circumstances stink.

Rams running back Isaiah Pead fell right into that category last season, despite being the 50th overall pick in the 2012 draft.? Presumed to be the heir apparent to Steven Jackson, Pead became largely forgotten last year, sliding behind seventh-rounder Daryl Richardson.

?Honestly, I would call it miserable,? Pead said of his rookie season, via the University of Cincinnati official website. ?Miserable life.? Miserable four-five months.?

When the season finally ended, Pead packed up and left.

?I took off and I didn?t come back until it was time to,? Pead said.? ?I just wanted to stay out of this area, I came back for a couple days to pack up then all the memories and walking back into my house by myself, had a couple days by myself, I just needed to get out of that area.?

Pead is partially responsible for his misery.? He didn?t deal well with being demoted behind a guy taken 202 spots later, showing up late for a pair of meetings.

?I was literally fed up with football,? Pead said.? ?Not a quitter, not quitting, I was just tired of football.? Tired of practice for the day and I would just lay there play video games and whatnot because it was so miserable, so stressful.?

With a fresh opportunity coming from the departure of Jackson, Pead is ready to turn the page.

?Whole new era, whole new attitude, whole new team, whole new Pead,? Pead said. ??I?m not going to sit and linger on something, but I am one to not forget about a situation.? I am moving on from last year, last year is last year, but I have not forgot about last year.? I wouldn?t call it revenge, but the chip that I put on my shoulder is just a little bigger.?

He needs to perform more than a little better to erase the head start that Richardson earned in 2012.? While Pead finished with 10 carries for 54 yards, Richardson had 98 carries for 475 yards.

Pead also needs to hope the Rams don?t use one of their high draft picks on a rookie who?ll get a chance to in 2013 that which Pead couldn?t in 2012.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/09/team-by-team-draft-needs-2/related/

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Early Earth's chlorine blown away by giant impacts

Element has long puzzled scientists because modern levels are so low

By Erin Wayman

Web edition: April 24, 2013

Earthlings may owe a debt of gratitude to the enormous miniplanets that smashed into the planet it its youth. Such collisions might have knocked away much of the supply of chlorine concentrated on the planet?s surface, geochemists propose. Had that loss not occurred, the world?s oceans would have been too salty for complex life to thrive, they suggest.

The scenario may explain why Mars, which suffered fewer large impacts, may have more than twice as much chlorine as Earth does, the researchers report April 16 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

?The story seems to hang together pretty well,? says James Brenan, a geologist at the University of Toronto who wasn?t involved in the study. ?Life, probably over a fairly long time, might have been able to adapt to this environment, though certainly things would be different than today.?

One snag is that the idea is ?a very difficult thing to test,? says geochemist Ray Burgess of the University of Manchester in England.

The composition of ancient meteorites, which are remnants of the raw material that built the planets, indicates that Earth should have 10 times as much chlorine as it does. The missing chlorine has perplexed scientists for decades. In 1995, geochemist William McDonough suggested that chlorine was dragged to Earth?s center by iron, nickel and other metals that formed the planet?s core.

Normally, chlorine and other elements known as halogens don?t readily dissolve in metals or often combine with other elements to form minerals found in rocks. But perhaps under the intense heat and pressure of the core, chlorine might have become more willing to mix with metal. ?I wasn?t happy with putting it in the core,? says McDonough, of the University of Maryland in College Park. But he didn?t know what else to do with it. ?I was scratching my head,? he says.

The new work suggests that, in fact, the core is not where chlorine went. In lab tests, Zachary Sharp of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and David Draper of the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston approximated the conditions of the core and observed chlorine?s behavior. They added iron metal, rocks typical of the mantle and a chlorine compound to a capsule heated to 1900? Celsius under pressures about 80,000 times higher than Earth?s atmospheric pressure. The result: Chlorine still didn?t dissolve in iron. That means chlorine probably isn?t hiding out in the core, Sharp says.

So he and Draper looked elsewhere for a solution. After ruling out the possibility that Earth never accumulated chlorine in the first place, the pair concluded that the incipient Earth rammed into giant planetary bodies more than 4 billion years ago and the repeated impacts blew the element away.

The explanation hinges on the peculiarity of chlorine. Unlike elements that mostly end up in rocks and metals, most of Earth?s chlorine is in salt deposits and brines or dissolved in the ocean. Because the element is concentrated on the surface, giant impacts in the past would have stripped away a good chunk of Earth?s chlorine supply, Sharp and Draper say.

Had the early impacts not happened, Sharp says, ?the Earth would have been a halogen-poisoned planet.? The oceans would be as salty as the Dead Sea, and high salinity would reduce precipitation. With less rain, there would be less erosion on land and fewer nutrients washing into the sea. In such a world, he says, ?it would be much more difficult for [complex] life to evolve.?

McDonough acknowledges that the new work disproves the idea that chlorine is trapped in the core. However, he?s not yet convinced that cosmic crashes removed the element. Even with the massive collision that created the moon, the pull of gravity returned to Earth most of the material that had been kicked into space, he says. ?But I don?t have a better idea.?

To strengthen the argument, planetary geochemist Mikhail Zolotov of Arizona State University in Tempe suggests that the team develop simulations to assess how impacts could have affected elements in the young Earth?s atmosphere, oceans and crust. The team could also investigate whether other elements preferentially found on the surface are also lower than expected. ?

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349930/title/Early_Earths_chlorine_blown_away_by_giant_impacts

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