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The LG Vu Plus upgrades from it’s original model design by adding a 4 row full slide-out QWERTY keyboard to the 3″ touchscreen.  Other key features include support for FLO TV, 7.2 HSPA 3G connectivity, and a 3MP camera with video capture.

Our solar system is pretty neat and orderly. Yeah, it has some issues, but in general we can make some broad statements about it: the planets all orbit the Sun in the same direction, for one thing, and they also orbit pretty much in the same plane. If you look at the system from the side, the orbits would all look flat, like a DVD seen from the side.

That’s left over from the formation of the solar system itself, which happened when a cloud of dust and gas collapsed into a disk. The planets formed from that disk, so they all orbit in roughly the same plane. We see other systems forming in the same way, so we assume that when we look at those planets, they’ll also have all their planets in a plane.

Oops. Maybe not so much. Astronomers have just announced that they’ve confirmed a system where the planets are not all aligned this way, and in fact the planets are titled relative to each other by as much as 30°!

Ironically, the parent star is Upsilon Andromedae — that made me chuckle, because it was one of the very first stars found to have planets orbiting it, back in 1996. It’s actually a binary star, two stars orbiting each other; one is a star slightly more massive and hotter than the Sun, and the other a dinky red dwarf orbiting pretty far out (well outside the frame of that illustration of the system above). Three planets (called Upsilon Andromedae b, c, and d) at least are known to orbit the primary star. The planets were initially detected by their gravitational pull on the star; as they orbit they move the star in a mutual tug-of-war. We can’t (usually) see that motion directly, but it can be detected as a Doppler shift in the star’s light.

Due to the physics of the situation, that method only gives us a minimum mass for a planet. The actual mass might be much higher. It also doesn’t tell us the tilt of the orbit of the planet, or of any of the other planets in the system.

What’s new here is that astronomers used telescopes on Hubble called the Fine Guidance Sensors, which are incredibly accurate and highly precise. The FGSs are so accurate that they could see the physical motion of the star on the sky, the wobbling as the planets tugged on it this way and that. Think of it like a harried parent at a mall with two little kids holding her hand. As the kids see one store or another they want to visit, they pull on her in different directions as she walks with them, so her path down the mall corridor shifts left and right.

Combining the new Hubble data with the older Doppler data has revealed a wealth of information about the planets in that system. For one thing, it nailed the masses. Instead of lower limits, we now have accurate masses for planets: Ups And c is 14 times the mass of Jupiter, and Ups And d is 10 times Jupiter’s mass^*. Mind you, Jupiter is a bit of a bruiser, so these are hefty planets. These masses are far larger than thought before, so the new observations really changed our thinking here.

But the amazing thing is that it looks like Ups And c and d are in wildly different orbits: instead of being almost exactly in the same plane as expected, they are tilted relative to one another by 30°! The illustration on the right compared those orbits with those of planets in our own solar system, and you can see how weird this is.

But does this mean astronomers are wrong about how planets form?

Probably not. We’re pretty sure we understand how planets form, at least in general terms. What this does mean is that something happened to the planets after they formed, something that tossed one or both of these planets into different orbits than the ones they were born in.

This isn’t a huge surprise. Pluto may or may not be a planet by your definition, but it orbits the Sun at an angle of 17° with respect to the Earth. Sedna, an object about the same size as Pluto in the outer solar system, also has a large tilt. We know there is some mechanism that can change the orbits of big objects in the solar system, so why not in other systems, too?

In the case of Upsilon Andromedae, we have some culprits. The data hint that there may be a fourth planet orbiting the star. It’s not clear if it’s there or not, but if it has an elliptical orbit it could gravitationally affect the inner planets. There’s also the red dwarf star orbiting farther out. Far more massive than a planet, its gravity may have some effect on the system as well. It’s also certainly possible that there are other influences we haven’t seen or thought of yet. [Update: I just got off the phone with the team who did this research, and Rory Barnes told me that a strong possibility as well is that there were more planets in the system initially. They would have interacted via gravity, and affected each others’ orbits. A likely scenario is that a planet with about ten times the mass of Jupiter could have messed up the orbits of the other two, then been ejected out of the system. This is a common outcome when you have lots of massive objects in one system.]

The point here is that in general, our theories of how planets form is pretty good. As we study more of these systems, we’ll get more and more data under our belts that will help us catalog and understand where these systems follow our theories, and where they seem to diverge. That’s all good news! Theories only go so far in explaining everything, and as we observe more we modify those ideas, add to them, so they better represent the Universe around us. That’s how science works, and that’s how we learn.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)

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One of the highlights in this week’s update into Nintendo’s online stores is a game based on the enigmatic murderer, Jack the Ripper, where you’ll be in Scotland Yard to try and bring him in. Then there’s

Following in Al Gore’s footsteps, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is looking to cash-in on cleantech opportunities and as has signed-on as a senior adviser with Khosla Ventures, one of silicon Valley’s most ambitious green venture capital fund. On his appointment the former British Prime Minister said:

I’m neither a tech expert nor a financial expert, but I find the conversation I had to contemplate the vast expanses of my own ignorance. The answers to climate change and energy security lies in the technological innovations. I am thrilled to play whatever small part I can.

Al Gore has been a trail blaizer in translating his climate change advocacy into serious dollars. In 2007 he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner. He’s also helped launched Generation Investment Management, a London-based, green-focused asset management firm. Last year at a hearing Gore passionately defended his business practice, saying he saw nothing wrong in investing in ways that are consistent with his beliefs — see this video.

So what will Blair and his self-processed lack of technology and financial experience do? He’ll likely open doors, be a deluxe flack that ensures that the right people and opportunities connect. In short monetize the contracts he’s accumulated while at 10 Downing Street.

Shortly after leaving office, almost two years ago, Blair signed on a part-time senior adviser with New York investment bank JP Morgan Chase, a gig that reportedly pays him more than $987,000.

It’s unclear how much Blair will pocket at Khosla. On the appointment Khosla founder, Vinod Khosla said the fund would rely on Blair’s deep policy expertise to grow its cleantech investment portfolio. “What has surprised me is the diversity of the technology. That’s why we need people like Tony. The effects of policy on innovation and innovation on policy is invaluable,” Khosla said, as reported by Earth2Tech.

We’ve reached out to Khosla Ventures and will post any updates.

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After some good-natured tangling with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, the site’s founder Michael Arrington laid into MySpace (NYSE: NWS) co-presidents Jason Hirschorn and Mike Jones. After (pretending?) to check a call on his cell phone, Arrington began his inquiry by asking pointedly, “So how come you’ve 25 million users since you started your reign?”

The co-presidents dodged that one fairly well. Mike Jones explained that one-third of the News Corp. social net’s users come from mobile, which doesn’t show up in the comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) numbers.

Arrington then dug the knife in a bit deeper: “Your music business is losing $10 million per month—is that working for you?” Again, Hirschorn and Jones continued amiably, explaining that they’re driving revenues and music sales from their free streaming. Asked if how long they can keep that service running without charging users, Jones said that the company has no plans to slap a subscription fee on music listening across MySpace. But ultimately, that depends on the labels. “We’re constantly talking to the record labels,” Jones said. “And so that could change. Right now, we’re a valuable music discovery service for them.”

The MySpace duo was also took the opportunity to take aim some rumors surrounding the unit’s plans. Hirschorn told Arrington that “We didn’t hire [Quincy Smith’s] Code Advisors,” adding that they only have informal discussions on what MySpace should look at in terms of acquisition targets.

In the end, Arrington admitted that he was a little tough on Hirschorn and Jones, offering a group hug—but only off-stage.

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While LG is still producing Windows Mobile 6 devices, they’re also gearing up for the release of Windows Phone 7 by sending the LG Panther (GW910) to developers.  Innovative Singapore received two of the phones and have been putting them through the paces ever since.  Overall, they say that while the device is feature-complete and very responsive, everything is still very much in the prototype stage, including the packaging.  New builds of the OS on the phone are being sent out almost every other night, Innovative Singapore says, so it sounds like things are progressing nicely for Windows Phone 7.  Are you looking forward to picking up a WP7 device when it launches later this year?  Share your opinion with us!

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The Silvereye of Australia. Photo courtesy MichelDignand via FlickrLONDON—A key U.N. report on biodiversity will recommend
massive economic changes like company fines to help save species and protect
the natural world, the Guardian reports.

The study, which
is due for publication in the summer, will argue that the economic case for
global action to protect biodiversity is even more powerful than the argument
for tackling climate change, according to the newspaper.

The report,
entitled “The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity” (TEEB), was
launched by Brussels in 2007 with the support of the U.N. Environment Program,
after G8 and major emerging economies called for a global study.

If nature is not
factored into the global economic system, then the environment will become more
fragile and exposed to external shocks, placing human lives and the world
economy in jeopardy, it will argue.

The TEEB report
will also recommend that companies are fined and taxed for over-exploitation of
the natural world, with strict limits imposed on what they can take from the
environment, according to the paper.

Alongside
financial results, businesses and governments should also be asked to provide
accounts for their use of natural and human resources.

And communities
should be paid to preserve natural environments rather than deplete them.

The Guardian‘s
report, published on the U.N.‘s International Day for Biological Diversity,
added that the U.N. will also recommend reforming state subsidies for certain
industries, like energy, farming, fishing, and transport.

The TEEB study
will also warn that one-third of the world’s natural habitats have been damaged
by humans.

The total value
of “natural goods and services” like pollination, medicines, fertile
soil, clean air, and water will be around 10 and 100 times the cost of saving
the species and natural habitats which provide them.

“We need a
sea change in human thinking and attitudes towards nature,” said Indian
economist and report author Pavan Sukhdev, cited by the Guardian.

Sukhdev, head of the U.N. Environment Program’s green economy
initiative, also appealed for nature to be regarded “not as something to
be vanquished, conquered, but rather something to be cherished and lived
within.”

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South Carolina State Rep. Nikki Haley denies the claim of a blogger that they had engaged in an affair several years ago. Haley stated, “I have been 100 percent faithful to my husband throughout our 13 years of marriage. This claim against me is categorically and totally false.”

The accusation made by the blogger was seen as an act to ruin her rapidly-rising campaign for governor. Haley stated that it was less than a week after a poll showed that she was leading the field in a June 8 primary that the issue was brought up which makes it dubious. Other candidates, aside from Haley, running to replace Sanford in the June 8 primary are Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, Rep. Gresham Barrett and State Attorney General HenryMcMaster. Haley had been receiving endorsements from the former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Will Folks wrote on his blog, “I refuse to play that game. I refuse to have someone hols the political equivalent of a switch-blade in front of my face and just sit there and watch as they cut me to pieces. The truth in this case is what it is. Several years ago, prior to my marriage, I had an inappropriate physical relationship with Nikki. That’s it… This network of operatives has made it abundantly clear that in the process of ‘taking down’ Rep. Haley, they will also stop at nothing to humiliate me, destroy my family and take a sizable chunk out of the credibility this website has managed to amass for itself.” The president of the blog, Nancy Mace, stated that “circumstances beyond his control compelled our founding editor, Will Folks, to address a personal matter Monday morning on FITSNews.com”

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Lost ended its glorious run last night. While I stopped watching the show about two years ago, I fully recognize that my fellow Americans absolutely love the show. In fact, they love the show so much that they’ve been tweeting about it non-stop. Come, let’s explore how the Twitterverse responded to this great TV moment!

Here we go!

I think that sums of pulse of America (well, there entire world, what with that Venezuela tweet in there). There’s approximately 80 zillion tweets dedicated to Lost in the past 24 hours, so this represents a fraction of a fraction of a fraction…

One question: Should I pick up the show again? I stopped with the season that ended in Spring, 2008.

Once again, I’d like to thank everyone who has purchased items at Amazon via of the links from my website! I really appreciate it and it does cover the web server costs of the site.

And I wanted to remind everyone else that you can support my blog by clicking on any Amazon.com link from the website and as long as you don’t navigate away from Amazon before you buy something, I will get a percentage.

Thank you very much!

P.S. Some of you have written me nutrition questions and I’m a bit behind but hope get to them all soon.

Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., stressed Monday that he continues to strongly support the candidacy of Attorney General Richard Blumenthal for U.S. Senate, the Courant’s Ken Gosselin reports.

The comments came in a press conference in Hartford following a controversy last week over Blumenthal’s past statement on his military service during the Vietnam War.

“He has apologized for these misstatements along the way,” Dodd said. “His record of service to our state certainly outweighs the misstatements that he has acknowledged and apologized for. What ought to be important to people come November is to elect a United States senator to protect our state, stand up for it, fight for it. I’m confident Dick Blumenthal is the best individual to do that for our state.”

He added: “I can’t think of a better legacy I could have than to have Dick Blumenthal follow me in that job.”

Politico.com offered today a “hold the phone” moment in the Illinois Senate race between Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk.

According to Politico: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who did not endorse anyone in the Democratic primary, is flirting with the idea of backing Republican nominee Mark Kirk in the general election.

“I like Alexi Giannoulias, but I have great respect for Mark Kirk and his service to the people of Illinois,” Jackson told POLITICO.

Jackson and Kirk work together on the House Appropriations Committee, on which both are senior members of the subcommittee that provides foreign aid.

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In its new television commercial for the 2011 Porsche Cayenne, Porsche proudly promotes the middle letter in SUV, that “U” that stands for “Utility.” Because that’s why you’d buy a Cayenne, right – utility? Regardless of genuine or ersatz purchasing reasons, the commercial makes the new Cayenne look just and sound just as good as it does in real life, although the script is a bit staid, if we’re being honest.

Follow the jump to see the spot, and if you want to do a little dreaming yourself, you can always head over to the Cayenne configurator, now up and fulfilling (almost) all of your virtual wishes.

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A study conducted by Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski shows that Oregon will not be bailed out by a rebounding economy, assuming of course the economy rebounds at all.

Please consider New report says Oregon faces decade of budget deficits

Oregon risks 10 years of crushing, multibillion-dollar budget shortfalls unless it immediately puts the brakes on spending and starts offering fewer services, cautions a new report released Thursday.

This is no attack by anti-tax or anti-government factions. The warning comes from Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s “reset Cabinet,” a group of trusted advisers he appointed to assess the state’s long-term fiscal outlook and suggest changes.

“We find that Oregon faces a decade of deficits, during which we cannot expect to be bailed out by a rebounding economy or a more generous federal government,” the report, says. If state spending is allowed to grow at its current rate, it goes on to say, “lawmakers and voters will find themselves again and again between the rock and the hard place of cutting services or raising taxes.”

Why Oregon Must Reset State Government

Inquiring minds are investigating an Update from the Governor’s Reset Cabinet

We conclude that the state will face a decade of deficits if it tries to sustain the type and scope of services it now provides. Business-as-usual budgets will no longer suffice. Current services, as currently structured, will be unsustainable.

We must rethink and refocus our priorities, move from short-term budgeting to long-term planning and develop smarter ways to meet our responsibilities in the challenging years ahead.

In that process, we must reaffirm our common goals and judge what we are doing now and what we propose to change by well defined measures of success. In the end, we must be willing to adopt new ways to organize and deliver services, control costs and get the best value for our tax dollars.

Revenue growth is expected to resume as the economy recovers and should make up for the loss of one-time funds that sustain the current budget. The most likely scenario is that Oregon will have approximately the same level of general fund resources to work with in the next biennium (2011-13) as it has in the current biennium.

But increasing costs, needs and demands will drive the expenditure side of the budget far beyond its resources. When compared to the cost of maintaining the current level of services, the state faces a shortfall of more than two billion dollars, or 13 percent of its next budget – a shortfall that persists at that

two billion dollar level in budget projections through 2019.

As a result, we find that Oregon faces a decade of deficits, during which we cannot expect to be bailed out by a rebounding economy or a more generous federal government. In fact, trends in both categories could make our fiscal future even more challenging. It is important to recognize that Oregon is not alone. Most states face similar challenges. Some are beginning to talk about “reset initiatives” of their own.

Oregon Overestimates the Recovery, Underestimates What Needs to be Done

My sense is that states are all overestimating what the recovery will do. That aside, Oregon is a step ahead of others in realizing the recovery alone will not fix the problem.

The report made no recommendations even though it is crystal clear what needs to happen. For starters, the state needs to kill defined benefit plans for new hires. Next, the state needs to outsource everything possible with the goal of getting rid of all public unions.

Anything else is just pecking at the fringes of the problem.

Proposed Pay Freeze in Illinois

Please consider this editorial opinion in the Rockford Register. Our View: State’s fiscal fix needs to start with real pay freezes

If Illinois’ elected officials truly are serious about creating a responsible budget, they would freeze the wages of all government employees.

No raises. No steps or lanes. No cost of living increases. Nothing.

Instead, the budget that Gov. Pat Quinn has proposed calls for $1.5 billion more in spending with $350 million of that money dedicated to increasing wages for government union employees.

Some of those raises range from 7 percent to 20 percent — unheard-of amounts in the private sector where most of the taxpayers work.

The taxpayers in the private sector have been getting their wages cut, their benefits slashed and have seen pensions go the way of the dodo bird.

Government union workers seem oblivious to the struggles of their private-sector counterparts. Illinois’ unemployment rate is 11.2 percent, higher than the national 9.5 percent.

Union workers stage rallies that ask for tax increases that would further drain the wallets of taxpayers while providing enough money to keep their jobs and benefits safe.

Unions have refused to have their contracts renegotiated. They’ve resisted efforts to pay more for health costs. They’ve sued the state to avoid layoffs that would have helped the state save money. They seem to think the tax well is bottomless. …

Jonathan who lives in Rockford says …

Mish,

I live in Rockford, IL. Check out the Rockford Register Star editorial on a proposed wage freeze for state workers.

Obviously, their solution is tepid, but this is a VERY liberal newspaper.

If even they are writing things like this about the public employee unions, what you and others are doing is starting to sink in. Keep up the good work.

Jonathan

Thanks Jonathan. Union wages and benefits are the number one fiscal issue with states and scores of cities.

I am doing what I can to inform people what is happening.

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Click for video: A graphic shows the star Upsilon Andromedae with lines tracing the orbits of three planets. Two of the outer planets have orbits that appear to be inclined about 30 degrees with respect to each other, astronomers say. Click on the image to watch an animation.

For decades, Pluto has been seen as an oddball in the planetary tribe – in part because its orbit was so much more eccentric and tipped than those of the big planets. But in recent years, more off-kilter worlds have been discovered in our own solar system. And today, astronomers are reporting that they’ve detected planets much bigger than Jupiter that are way more out of whack than Pluto.

Maybe Pluto, which was discovered by former Kansas farmboy Clyde Tombaugh 80 years ago, isn’t so weird after all.

“We’re not in Kansas any more as far as solar systems go,” Barbara McDonald, an astronomer at the University of Texas’ McDonald Observatory, said at a news briefing today.

It’s not just in the Senate Armed Services committee’s mark-up of next fiscal year’s defense bill. While opponents of the military’s ban on open gay service target six senators — five Democrats and one Republican — to insert an amendment abolishing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” this week, over in the House, they’ve got an ally ready to go. Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Penn.), a former Army captain and Iraq veteran, plans to introduce his own amendment to the Defense bill when it gets a floor vote later this week.

If you go to Murphy’s website, you’ll see an open letter from 15 mostly-senior retired officers from across the services arguing for a repeal of the 15-year old law. He comments alongside it, “To remove honorable, talented and patriotic troops from serving contradicts the American values our military fights for and our nation holds dear.”

Murphy’s position is commensurate with comments from February from Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who came out forcefully for repeal. Mullen’s boss, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, wants Congress to wait until the end of the year to move on overturning “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (when a Pentagon working group, one Gates empaneled to canvas the services on constructive ways to incorporate open military service, delivers its report).

But anti-”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” activists argue that this week’s legislative push isn’t in conflict with the working group. “If the law is not repealed this year, when the implementation study comes down, [the Pentagon will] not able to carry it out,” said Michael Cole, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, a group urging repeal. That’s similar to the position taken by retired Gen. John Shalikashvili, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and one of the first to implement the ban on open gay military service.

“[A]cting now to remove the constraints imposed by that law is the most faithful response that Congress can offer to the working group’s efforts to engage service members and their families,” Shalikashvili wrote in The Washington Post over the weekend, “to fully assess the impact of ending the policy, and to develop comprehensive recommendations for how to make the change.”

Update: Geoff Morrell, spokesman for Gates, says in an email that the Pentagon is taking a look at whatever’s developing legislatively for next steps on the repeal. “Given that Congress insists on addressing this issue this week, we are trying to gain a better understanding of the legislative proposals they will be considering,” Morrell said. (And sure enough, I see that the Post’s Ed O’Keefe also has that comment, along with suspicion that a compromise may actually be adopted…)

It’s widely known that China tries to widely censor political dissent online, but modern technology makes it possible to communicate widely not just on the internet. And, so, it appears that China is also looking to plug the “analog hole” in its Great Firewall — at least in Tibet. The gov’t is so concerned about photocopier machines, that printing and copy shops in Tibet will be required to take down detailed identifying information from everyone who uses the shops.

The authorities in Tibet apparently see printing and photocopying shops as potential channels through which unrest can spread. One Chinese print shop operator in Lhasa, who is of the majority Han ethnicity rather than Tibetan, said that her husband had been summoned to a meeting last week on the new requirements.

“You know sometimes people print documents in the Tibetan language, which we don’t understand,” said the woman, who gave her last name as Wu. “These might be illegal pamphlets.”

While some suggest that China’s censorship efforts are working well, when you get down to the level of trying to prevent people from making photocopies, it makes you wonder just how desperate the government is getting in trying to prevent any kind of speech it doesn’t want… and reinforces just how impossible a task it is to censor people in this manner.

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Great news, TwiHards: Rob, Kristen and Taylor will debut an exclusive clip from the eagerly-anticipated flick Eclipse — the third installment of The Twilight Saga — during the 2010 MTV Movie Awards next month.

Aziz Ansari host this year’s MTV Movie Awards, airing LIVE from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, CA on Sunday, June 6 @ 9PM/8PM.