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Fox wins ratings nights as "Idol," still number-one, slips (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? "American Idol" continued to slip Thursday night after dropping with its season premiere Wednesday night, while NBC's new drama "The Firm" continued its slide, according to preliminary numbers.

Fox's "American Idol," which Wednesday night premiered to a 24 percent decline versus last season's premiere, dropped off another 19 percent with Thursday's installment, clocking a 5.7/15 in the adults 18-49 demographic and receiving 14 million total viewers. That was similar to the percentage dip that the show experienced between last season's first and second night.

"Idol" was still the night's top-rated program, and pushed Fox to a ratings win with an average 3.9/10. It also boosted "The Finder" at 9 p.m., which grew 29 percent from last week's premiere with a 2.2/5 and 6.7 million total viewers.

CBS took the second-highest ratings of the week with "The Big Bang Theory" at 8, which scored a 5.2/14 and 15.7 million total viewers. "Rob" at 8:30 dropped 12 percent from its strong premiere last week, hitting a 3.6/9 and drawing 11.7 million total viewers. "Person of Interest" at 9 received a 3.3/8 and 14.3 million total viewers, while "The Mentalist" the following hour drew a 2.9/8 and 14 million total viewers. The network took most-watched status for the night with an average 14 million total viewers.

At NBC, "30 Rock" at 8 fell 11 percent from last week's season premiere to a series low of 1.6/4 and 4 million total viewers. "Parks & Recreation" at 8:30 increased slightly for a 2.0/5 and 4.3 million total viewers, while "The Office" ran flat with last week for a 2.9/7 and 5.9 million total viewers. "Up All Night" followed at 9:30, posting a 1.9/5 and 4 million total viewers. The night closed with "The Firm" at 10, which fell 10 percent from last week to 0.9/2 and 3.4 million total viewers.

ABC's night began on a down note, with "Wipeout" at 8 dropping 18 percent for a 1.8/5 and 5.8 million total viewers. "Grey's Anatomy" the following hour was also down, slipping 11 percent for a 3.4/8 and 9.3 million total viewers. "Private Practice" ended the evening with a 2.1/5 and 6 million total viewers.

(Editing by Chris Michaud)

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Witness in 'Rockefeller' case found bloodstains

FILE - In this July 8 2011 file photo, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a German man who masqueraded as a member of the famous Rockefeller family, appears in an Alhambra, Calif. court. Gerhartsreiter faces a preliminary hearing Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 in the cold case murder of John Sohus, 27, who disappeared from San Marino, Calif. in 1985. (AP Photo/Sarah Reingewirtz, Pool, File)

FILE - In this July 8 2011 file photo, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a German man who masqueraded as a member of the famous Rockefeller family, appears in an Alhambra, Calif. court. Gerhartsreiter faces a preliminary hearing Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 in the cold case murder of John Sohus, 27, who disappeared from San Marino, Calif. in 1985. (AP Photo/Sarah Reingewirtz, Pool, File)

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, center, a German immigrant who masqueraded as a member of the famous Rockefeller family, appears during a preliminary court hearing in Alhambra, Calif. Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. Gerhartsreiter a convicted kidnapper faces a charge of murdering the son of his former landlady a quarter century ago, when he lived in California under one of his many pseudonyms. (AP Photo/Pasadena Star News, Walt Mancini, Pool)

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant who masqueraded as a member of the famous Rockefeller family, appears as he in handcuffed during a preliminary court hearing in Alhambra, Calif. Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. Gerhartsreiter a convicted kidnapper facing a charge of murdering the son of his former landlady a quarter century ago, when he lived in California under one of his many pseudonyms. (AP Photo/Pasadena Star News, Walt Mancini, Pool)

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant who masqueraded as a member of the famous Rockefeller family, walks into to a preliminary court hearing in Alhambra, Calif. Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. Gerhartsreiter a convicted kidnapper facing a charge of murdering the son of his former landlady a quarter century ago, when he lived in California under one of his many pseudonyms, is faced with the murder of John Sohus, 27, who disappeared from San Marino, Calif. in 1985. (AP Photo/Walt Mancini, Pool)

ALHAMBRA, Calif. (AP) ? A forensic scientist testifying Friday in the murder case against a man who posed as an heir to the Rockefeller fortune said she found four bloodstains in the Southern California guesthouse where the suspect lived.

Criminalist Lynne Herold gave the testimony in a preliminary hearing to determine whether Christian Gerhartsreiter should stand trial for the death of John Sohus, whose remains were found at his former home in San Marino in 1994, nearly 10 years after he and his wife vanished.

Herold and her colleagues from the Los Angeles County coroner's office used a chemical reaction at the time to find the stains in the Sohuses' guesthouse, where Gerhartsreiter was a tenant known as Christopher Chichester when the couple disappeared, according to the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/yLd5Yp ).

Herold said three of the four stains showed patterns indicating they had been wiped or something like a body had been dragged through them.

She said she did not take a blood sample because in 1994 such a stain could not be tested for DNA analysis, and it may never be known whose blood it was.

Herold testified that she remembers the investigation despite the passing of so many years, because it was among the most memorable of her career.

"It has from Day One sort of been stuck in my head, and it probably always will be one of those cases that you just never forget," she said.

Many of the witnesses in the preliminary hearing have had difficulty remembering details because so many years have passed.

The couple disappeared in 1985. Gerhartsreiter left town soon afterward.

He is charged only with killing 27-year-old John Sohus; no sign of Linda Sohus has been found.

Gerhartsreiter has previously been exposed as a veteran impostor. On the East Coast, he claimed to be "Clark Rockefeller," a member of the famous family, and married a woman with whom he had a daughter. She divorced him when she found out he had duped her.

Last year, Gerhartsreiter was convicted of kidnapping his daughter in Boston during a custody dispute. He is serving a four- to five-year prison sentence for that crime. He would be eligible for parole this year if he was not facing the California charge, which could bring him 26 years to life in prison if he's convicted.

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Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com

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Joe Moreno: My Vote on the NATO/G-8 Ordinance

I voted yes on the NATO/G-8 Ordinance, proposed by Mayor Emanuel, today.

Almost everyone agrees that having these two summits in our city is a great opportunity to solidify our rightful place as a world city. While my original position was to vote against this ordinance, my opinion changed over the last two days, because of the concessions and changes made to the original proposal.

The ordinance itself is not as extreme as many, with their own agendas, have made it seem. The administration rolled back a number of the pieces of the ordinance, which were of most concern (most notably the steep fine increases). There is definitely a reality gap between the perception and reality of this ordinance.

I'm very surprised by the mishandling of this whole thing. I checked my email on Tuesday morning and there were over 2,000 emails from people urging me to vote no.

But, in the end, I don't believe that the particulars of this ordinance significantly curtail 1st Amendment rights enough to justify a no vote.

I have organized and participated in many protests in our city. One of my favorite books is All the Power: Revolution Without Illusion by Mark Anderson and I'm currently reading Radical Disciple -- a book about Father Pfleger. I was involved in the anti-death penalty movement for ten years before I became an alderman. The day that this useless and racist punishment was abolished in Illinois was one my favorite days. In 2003, I helped organize the Chicago rally against the Iraq War, which saw thousands of people take to our streets. I was arrested in front of ICE last February for protesting our insane anti-immigrant laws.

I believe in the power of protesting. But, even more importantly, I believe in the right to protest. The 1st Amendment is one of the major things, which makes our country special and instead of seeking ways to give 1st Amendment rights to corporations; government needs to be focused on expanding these rights to individuals as much as possible.

I still have concerns with the ordinance; specifically the ability to deputize officers from other states, which the administration has agreed to better clarify.

Today, I voted in favor of this ordinance because as a member of the City Council, public safety is my most important responsibility and if people are violent (like in Seattle in 1999) they must be swiftly arrested and the violence put to an end.

I have a lot of faith in the Chicago Police Department, who are well aware of their history of "dealing" with protests. The way they handled the Occupy protests in Grant Park late last year was infinitely superior to their fellow police officers around the country (especially the NYPD and Oakland PD, who in many instances made themselves look like idiots). I believe that the CPD will not abuse these new tools and will handle NATO and G-8 with a high degree of professionalism and respect.

It would have been easy for me to vote no on this ordinance. I know that I disappointed many of my supporters today. But, I don't want to be someone who refuses to compromise and doesn't give any ground. I'm not interested in beating my chest and becoming someone who can't get anything of substance done for my constituents.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-moreno/emanuel-g-8-legislation_b_1211038.html

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Power generation is blowing in the wind

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

By looking at the stability of the atmosphere, wind farm operators could gain greater insight into the amount of power generated at any given time.

Power generated by a wind turbine largely depends on the wind speed. In a wind farm in which the turbines experience the same wind speeds but different shapes (such as turbulence) to the wind profile, a turbine will produce different amounts of power.

And this variable power can be predicted by looking at atmospheric stability, according to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist Sonia Wharton and colleague Julie Lundquist of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

In a paper appearing in the Jan. 12 edition of the journal, Environmental Research Letters, Wharton and Lundquist examined turbine-generated power data, segregated by atmospheric stability, to figure out the power performance at a West Coast wind farm.

"The dependence of power on stability is clear, regardless of whether time periods are segregated by three-dimensional turbulence, turbulence intensity or wind shear," Wharton said.

The team found that power generated at a set wind speed is higher under stable conditions and lower under strongly unsteady conditions at that location. The average wind power output difference is as high as 15 percent less wind power generation when the atmosphere is unstable.

While turbulence is a relatively well-known term in assessing turbine efficiency, wind shear -- which is a difference in wind speed and direction over a relatively short distance in the atmosphere -- also plays an important role when assessing how much power a turbine generates over certain time scales.

Wharton and Lundquist said that wind farm operators could better estimate how much power is generated if the wind forecasts included atmospheric stability impact measurements.

Though earlier research looked at atmospheric stability effects on power output, few studies have analyzed power output from modern turbines with hub heights of more than 60 meters.

In the new research, Wharton and Lundquist gathered a year of power data from upwind modern turbines (80 meters high) at a multi-megawatt wind farm on the West Coast. They considered turbine power information as well as meteorological data from an 80-meter tall tower and a Sonic Detection and Ranging (SODAR), which provided wind profiles up to 200 meters above the surface, to look at turbulence and wind shear. Looking at upwind turbines removed any influence that turbine wakes may have on power performance.

The team found that wind speed and power production varied by season as well as from night to day. Wind speeds were higher at night (more power) than during the day (less power) and higher during the warm season (more power) than in the cool season (less power). For example, average power production was 43 percent of maximum generation capacity on summer days and peaked at 67 percent on summer nights.

"We found that wind turbines experienced stable, near-neutral and unstable conditions during the spring and summer," Wharton said. "But daytime hours were almost always unstable or neutral while nights were strongly stable."

"This work highlights the benefit of observing complete profiles of wind speed and turbulence across the turbine rotor disk, often available only with remote sensing technology like SODAR or LIDAR (Laser Detection and Ranging,)" Lundquist said. "Wind energy resource assessment and power forecasting would profit from this increased accuracy."

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Nominate your favorite gadgets for the 2011 Engadget Awards!

Welcome to the 2011 Engadget Awards! This year we've got 15 categories up for grabs, with 30 total awards to be decided. All finalists for Engadget Awards are reader-nominated, and the editors of Engadget will then select the best of those nominations (usually somewhere between 4-6 devices) as finalists. There are two awards per category: Readers' Choice (voted on by you!), and Editors' Choice (selected by us). The vote will take place in a few weeks once the nominees are picked, and winners will be announced shortly thereafter.

Submit your favorite devices for consideration using the form just past the break, and feel free to elaborate in the comments. You don't need to fill in every field, but you are required to answer at least one question in order for your form to be processed. You've got until 11:59PM ET on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 to get your entries in. Now, go nominate!

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Boa Constrictors Listen To Loosen

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Boa constrictors kept tightening their grip on dead rats with faked heartbeats for 20 minutes, but let go when the pulse stopped. Christopher Intagliata reports

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True to their name, boa constrictors squeeze the life out of their prey. But how does a boa know it's snuffed out a rat? The snake listens for a heartbeat. When it stops, that's the cue to let go, according to a study in the journal Biology Letters. [Scott M. Boback et al., "Snake modulates constriction in response to prey?s heartbeat"]

Researchers outfitted rat cadavers with artificial beating hearts. They used dead rats to control for other signs of passing, like muscle spasms. Then they warmed up the rats, set the hearts pumping, and dangled them in front of hungry boas.

The snakes attacked. And as long as that rat heart kept thumping, the boas kept tightening their coils and applying bursts of pressure, sometimes for more than 20 minutes. But as soon as scientists killed the heartbeat, the boas loosened up.

Even captive-born boas who'd never hunted live prey paid attention to the pulse?suggesting the behavior is innate. And for good reason. The authors say constriction takes a lot of energy. And it can be dangerous, say, if an enemy strikes while the snake's coiled around its quarry. But by following the telltale heart, boas can keep the pressure on just long enough. Before a relaxing meal.

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