“We’ve been very active in reminding other countries in Africa of their responsibilities … to apprehend and to hand over to Libya or the ICC any of those people who go on to their territory,” Hague said in Tripoli.”We will continue to assist in looking for them.”Hague did not say what form the help would take. British air power helped prevent Gaddafi crushing the uprising against him and rebels have said British special forces have been on the ground. Britain does not comment on their whereabouts.”We’ve made representations to the governments of Niger and Burkina Faso in particular but we don’t know where Gaddafi is, so we can’t solve that one at the moment,” Hague told Reuters en route to his next stop in Morocco.Hague, in Libya for the appointment of a new British ambassador, also said he had raised the issue of the alleged mistreatment of prisoners by Libya’s new interim rulers, who captured Tripoli in August ending Gaddafi’s 42-year rule.”They say there have been some cases of that, they are determined to act very strongly about it,” Hague told Reuters.The new government believes Gadddafi is in hiding somewhere in Libya’s vast desert, but some close relatives and senior allies have crossed into neighbouring Chad and Algeria.National Transitional Council (NTC) forces are still battling two pockets of pro-Gaddafi resistance in the towns of Sirte and Bani Walid, which are holding up the country’s return to something approaching normality.Hague said he did not think there was any undue delay in the fighting: “The important thing is that progress is being made.”“Of course we do want to see the various militias all brought under one central system and central control and I think that will happen when a transitional government is formed. But I think they are all working together now, and so there is no immediate cause for alarm about that,” he said later.Britain was helping to destroy hundreds of so-called manpads, shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, stockpiled by Gaddafi’s forces which Western governments fear could fall into the hands of Middle East militants, Hague said.London would also soon send the final shipment of millions of dollars worth of Libyan banknotes that had been printed in Britain before the conflict but not delivered due to sanctions.”We will discuss with them the unfreezing of further assets as they need them and as they are ready to use them. They are actually not ready to make use of them yet,” Hague said.He said there were around 10 billion pounds of assets still frozen in Britain.

“We’ve been very active in reminding other countries in Africa of their responsibilities … to apprehend and to hand over to Libya or the ICC any of those people who go on to their territory,” Hague said in Tripoli.”We will continue to assist in looking for them.”Hague did not say what form the help would take. British air power helped prevent Gaddafi crushing the uprising against him and rebels have said British special forces have been on the ground. Britain does not comment on their whereabouts.”We’ve made representations to the governments of Niger and Burkina Faso in particular but we don’t know where Gaddafi is, so we can’t solve that one at the moment,” Hague told Reuters en route to his next stop in Morocco.Hague, in Libya for the appointment of a new British ambassador, also said he had raised the issue of the alleged mistreatment of prisoners by Libya’s new interim rulers, who captured Tripoli in August ending Gaddafi’s 42-year rule.”They say there have been some cases of that, they are determined to act very strongly about it,” Hague told Reuters.The new government believes Gadddafi is in hiding somewhere in Libya’s vast desert, but some close relatives and senior allies have crossed into neighbouring Chad and Algeria.National Transitional Council (NTC) forces are still battling two pockets of pro-Gaddafi resistance in the towns of Sirte and Bani Walid, which are holding up the country’s return to something approaching normality.Hague said he did not think there was any undue delay in the fighting: “The important thing is that progress is being made.”“Of course we do want to see the various militias all brought under one central system and central control and I think that will happen when a transitional government is formed. But I think they are all working together now, and so there is no immediate cause for alarm about that,” he said later.Britain was helping to destroy hundreds of so-called manpads, shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, stockpiled by Gaddafi’s forces which Western governments fear could fall into the hands of Middle East militants, Hague said.London would also soon send the final shipment of millions of dollars worth of Libyan banknotes that had been printed in Britain before the conflict but not delivered due to sanctions.”We will discuss with them the unfreezing of further assets as they need them and as they are ready to use them. They are actually not ready to make use of them yet,” Hague said.He said there were around 10 billion pounds of assets still frozen in Britain.

“We’ve been very active in reminding other countries in Africa of their responsibilities … to apprehend and to hand over to Libya or the ICC any of those people who go on to their territory,” Hague said in Tripoli.”We will continue to assist in looking for them.”Hague did not say what form the help would take. British air power helped prevent Gaddafi crushing the uprising against him and rebels have said British special forces have been on the ground. Britain does not comment on their whereabouts.”We’ve made representations to the governments of Niger and Burkina Faso in particular but we don’t know where Gaddafi is, so we can’t solve that one at the moment,” Hague told Reuters en route to his next stop in Morocco.Hague, in Libya for the appointment of a new British ambassador, also said he had raised the issue of the alleged mistreatment of prisoners by Libya’s new interim rulers, who captured Tripoli in August ending Gaddafi’s 42-year rule.”They say there have been some cases of that, they are determined to act very strongly about it,” Hague told Reuters.The new government believes Gadddafi is in hiding somewhere in Libya’s vast desert, but some close relatives and senior allies have crossed into neighbouring Chad and Algeria.National Transitional Council (NTC) forces are still battling two pockets of pro-Gaddafi resistance in the towns of Sirte and Bani Walid, which are holding up the country’s return to something approaching normality.Hague said he did not think there was any undue delay in the fighting: “The important thing is that progress is being made.”“Of course we do want to see the various militias all brought under one central system and central control and I think that will happen when a transitional government is formed. But I think they are all working together now, and so there is no immediate cause for alarm about that,” he said later.Britain was helping to destroy hundreds of so-called manpads, shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, stockpiled by Gaddafi’s forces which Western governments fear could fall into the hands of Middle East militants, Hague said.London would also soon send the final shipment of millions of dollars worth of Libyan banknotes that had been printed in Britain before the conflict but not delivered due to sanctions.”We will discuss with them the unfreezing of further assets as they need them and as they are ready to use them. They are actually not ready to make use of them yet,” Hague said.He said there were around 10 billion pounds of assets still frozen in Britain.

Using three-dimensional laser scans and computer modeling, British and U.S. scientists “weighed” five T. rex specimens, including the Chicago Field Museum’s “Sue,” the largest and most complete T. rex skeleton known.They concluded that Sue, who roamed the Great Plains of North America 67 million years ago, would have tipped the scales at more than 9 tons, or some 30 percent more than expected.Intriguingly, the smallest and youngest specimen weighed less than thought, shedding new light on the animals’ biology and indicating that T. rex grew more than twice as fast between 10 and 15 years of age as suggested in a study five years ago.”At their fastest, in their teenage years, they were putting on 11 pounds or 5 kilograms a day,” John Hutchinson of the Royal Veterinary College in London told Reuters.”Just think how much meat that is. That’s a hell of a lot of cheeseburgers … it’s a whole lot of duck-billed dinosaurs they needed to be chowing down on.”Hadrosaurs or duck-billed dinosaurs were common plant-eaters that lived alongside T. rex, making them an obvious meal for the giant meat-eaters.A huge appetite means T. rex would have needed extensive territory and they were probably relatively rare. Their rapid teenage growth spurt also suggests they must have had a high metabolic rate, fuelling the idea they were warm-blooded.A large body mass would have come at the expense of agility and the lower-leg muscles of T. rex were not as proportionately large as those of modern birds, indicating a top speed of about 10-25 miles per hour. “It’s not super-fast but they were no slouches,” Hutchinson said.The latest research, published online in the journal PLoS ONE, adds to the body of evidence that has made T. rex among the most intensively studied of all dinosaurs.The researchers, led by Hutchinson and Peter Makovicky of the Field Museum, used scans of skeletons to build digital models and then added flesh using the structure of soft tissues in birds and crocodiles as a guide.

“Apple plans to hold an invitation-only memorial service for Jobs apart from an employee event. Samsung’s president Lee Jae-yong plans to attend the service to offer condolence to Jobs,” the source said.Lee is the only son of and heir apparent to Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee.Media reported that Lee would have a separate meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook after the memorial service and discuss bilateral cooperation, but the source did not confirm the report.Apple Inc co-founder and technology visionary Jobs will be memorialized at a private service at Stanford University on Sunday, a source with knowledge of the event told Reuters on Friday.A Dutch court on Friday turned down Samsung’s request for an injunction against all of Apple’s mobile products that use 3G telecommunications technology, denying it revenge over a similar move by Apple.

“Many people think that careers should follow an upward trajectory. In reality, the majority of jobs moves don’t involve a promotion.Most successful careers involve a mix of lateral and upward movement. People who stay in one function or one industry may move up quickly in the beginning of their careers but often reach a ceiling later when they become too specialized.Don’t be overly focused on a promotion as your next career move. It’s easy to be distracted by a better title, more direct reports, or other trappings, but focus on the long-term.Ask yourself whether a promotion will give you the skills and experience you need and whether a move to a different part of the organization may serve you better.”- Today’s management tip was adapted from the book “Harvard Business Review on Advancing Your Career.”(For the full post, see: here)

Chances look good the Democratic-controlled Senate will soon pass a currency bill with support from Republicans, less than one year after it killed a similar measure that had passed the House of Representatives on a 348-79 vote.At a time when Congress is deeply unpopular with the American public, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has embraced a get-tough-with-Beijing stance as part his jobs agenda even if it is not on President Barack Obama’s, promising a swift vote to pressure China to let its yuan currency rise in value.”The first major jobs bill we’re going to have is (to) send a message to the Chinese, where we’ve lost 2.8 million jobs during the last eight years, and that is we’re going to do something about Chinese currency. And we’re going to do that quickly,” Reid said on Tuesday.Lawmakers in both parties have complained for years that China’s currency is significantly undervalued against the dollar, making it hard for many U.S. companies to compete against cheaper Chinese products.Long-time proponents of legislation that would allow the U.S. Commerce Department to slap duties on goods from countries with “undervalued” currencies are cautiously optimistic both chambers will pass a bill this time around.That would force Obama, who has yet to take a stance on the issue, to decide whether or not to sign the measure. He has already been accused by at least one Republican presidential candidate — Mitt Romney — of failing to act aggressively to level the trade playing field with Beijing.Bill supporters are hopeful even though control of the House has shifted from Democrats to Republicans, whose leaders are closer to business groups opposed to the legislation.”I think the chance of Congress passing legislation are very good,” said Lloyd Wood, a spokesman for the Fair Currency Coalition, which includes labor, textile and steel groups.”At the end of the day, a substantial majority of House Republicans are going to want this legislation to pass. And when you’ve got a large portion of your caucus that wants something, it ends up getting done,” he said.But a House Republican at the center of the action has shown little eagerness to jump on the Senate’s fast-moving bandwagon.”Let them do their thing. I plan to have a hearing on a number of issues involving China this fall. I think that’s the direction we’re going to take,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp told reporters last week.TRADE DEALS ADD TO PRESSUREAfter a relatively quiet start to the year, pressure for action on a currency bill has been building for months because of the White House push to win approval of free-trade pacts with South Korea, Panama and Colombia.Many Democrats are worried those free-trade deals could lead to U.S. job losses.The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute estimated in a report this week that the huge U.S. trade gap with China has cost the United States 2.8 million jobs over the past decade.The U.S.-China Business Council, which represents American companies that do business with China, said the report was based “on the faulty assumption that every product imported from China would have been made in the U.S. otherwise.”But Republican Representative Tim Murphy said it showed that Congress and the White House had a responsibility to act to keep U.S. factories open.”Americans aren’t losing their jobs because the Chinese are smarter or more productive. We’re losing because the Chinese won’t engage in fair and free competition,” Murphy said.REVIVED HOUSE BILL GATHERING SUPPORTIn December, the Senate killed the broadly bipartisan House bill by declining to bring it up for a vote.Senate aides said a crowded legislative schedule prevented Reid from scheduling action on the bill, but they also acknowledge the White House quietly pressed Senate leaders not to act.The House bill’s chief sponsor, Representative Sander Levin, a Democrat, has reintroduced the bill and it currently has 145 Democratic and 56 Republican co-sponsors. That is just 17 short of the 218 votes needed for House passage.When House Republicans were in the minority last year, 99 voted for the legislation, 74 voted against and 5 abstained.Two weeks ago, Romney — one of the leading Republican presidential contenders — promised to sign an executive order on his first day in office that would threaten China with trade tariffs if it did not quickly revalue the yuan.Statements like that, the growing number of Republican co-sponsors to the Levin bill, and the looming 2012 election give proponents hope that the House will eventually act.If the Senate passes its currency bill as expected in October, advocates will have more than a year to win approval in the House before the current Congress ends.”We believe frustration with the currency approach of the administration has risen to the point that House Republicans don’t want to be seen as blocking action on the effort,” said Gary Hubbard, a spokesman for the United Steelworkers Union.