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Monday, April 22, 2013
Josh Thomson returns to the UFC with a TKO of Nate Diaz at UFC on Fox 7
Josh Thomson's return to the UFC after years in Strikeforce was a memorable win at UFC on Fox 7. He controlled Nate Diaz with kicks in the first round, and then finished him with a head kick followed by ground work for a TKO at 3:44 o the second round.
The kick was damaging, as seen in this shot, and sent Diaz to the ground.
Thomson's strikes after the headkick were so damaging that Diaz's corner threw a towel into the cage as referee Mike Beltran stopped the bout.
Though Diaz has lost decisions n his UFC career, this is the first time he was stopped since 2006. It's his second loss in a row, as he dropped a title fight to Benson Henderson in December. Diaz talked about moving back to welterweight from lightweight after this bout, which appears to be a viable move.
Before this fight, Thomson's last bout was a loss to Strikeforce champ Gilbert Melendez. Thomson has struggled with injuries, but when he's healthy, he can do things like knock out Diaz.
In earlier action, Matt Brown continued an impressive run by withstanding Jordan Mein's attacks and scoring a TKO in the second round. Brown is on a five-fight win streak, with four of those wins coming by knockout or technical knockout.
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Big crowds, black ribbons for Boston at London Marathon
By Estelle Shirbon and Dasha Afanasieva
LONDON (Reuters) - Undaunted by the Boston Marathon bombings, big crowds lined the route of London's mass road race on Sunday to cheer on around 36,000 runners, many of whom wore black ribbons to honor the dead and wounded.
Hundreds of extra police were deployed to secure the first race in the World Marathon Majors series since two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday killed three people and wounded 176.
"The best ever! A lot of emotion because of the Boston marathon," said Nathan Comer, 38, catching his breath just after finishing his third London Marathon.
"The silence before the marathon was beautiful ... it just felt as if everyone was together," he said, referring to a 30-second silence held in honor of the Boston victims just before the start of the race.
One spectator held up a placard that read "Come on London, do it for Boston!" while some runners had the name of the U.S. city emblazoned on their vests, but despite these somber reminders the mood was overwhelmingly one of celebration.
Small children reached out to high-five runners as they went past, spectators cheered elite and anonymous runners with equal enthusiasm, and a brass band near the starting line jokingly complained the boisterous crowds were drowning out their music.
"It was incredible, the amount of support, people coming out from everywhere, just cheering the whole way. Unbelievable," said a breathless Mo Farah, Britain's 5,000 and 10,000-metre Olympic champion, after running the first half of the course.
Farah ran half the route to prepare for competing next year.
The 26-mile course starts in leafy Greenwich, crosses Tower Bridge, snakes through the Canary Wharf business district before heading to Big Ben and finally Buckingham Palace.
Prince Harry, grandson of Queen Elizabeth, waited at the finish line to hand out medals to the winners.
"It's fantastic, it's typically British," he told the BBC, referring to the large turnout along the marathon route.
"People have been saying they haven't seen crowds like this for eight years around the route, which is remarkable to see ... The way that Boston has dealt with it has been absolutely remarkable. It's never going to get anyone down here."
London's Metropolitan Police Service said it increased the number of officers on the streets by 40 percent to reassure the public and not in response to any specific threat. Sniffer dogs were out in force and bins had been removed from the course.
"The enhancement to policing, which will see several hundred additional officers on the streets, is intended to provide visible reassurance to the participants and spectators alike," the police said on their website.
SILENT TRIBUTE
Before the start of the men's elite and mass races, official commentator Geoff Wightman led the crowd in a tribute to Boston.
"This week the world marathon family was shocked and saddened by the events at the Boston Marathon," he said over loudspeakers.
"In a few moments a whistle will sound and we will join together in silence to remember our friends and colleagues for whom a day of joy turned into a day of sadness."
The packed ranks of competitors bowed their heads and stood silently for 30 seconds, then clapped and cheered when a second whistle marked the end of the tribute.
Moments later, the world's elite runners led off the race. Behind them came thousands of competitors chasing personal goals or raising money for charity, many running in fancy dress.
Unusual outfits included a two-person camel costume, a giant beer bottle, a rhino, two male brides and Admiral Lord Nelson.
There were emotional scenes at the finish line as participants thought of Boston, but also in some cases of the sad reasons behind their involvement.
"It's been emotional and the atmosphere is brilliant," said cancer sufferer Hayley Kalinins, whose husband and brother were running for her and for a cancer charity.
After an unusually long and harsh winter, the weather came through for the London Marathon which began under bright sunshine and a cloudless sky.
Kenya's Priscah Jeptoo won the women's race by a long distance while Ethiopia's Tsegaye Kebede snatched victory from Kenyan rival Emmanuel Mutai in the final kilometer, to huge cheers from Londoners packed along the majestic tree-lined Mall.
The organizers will donate 2 pounds per finisher to The One Fund Boston, set up to raise money for the victims. They estimate around 35,500 people will cross the line, meaning they are likely to raise at least 70,000 pounds ($107,000).
In the German city of Hamburg, which was staging its own marathon on Sunday, runners also wore ribbons and held a minute of silence for victims of the Boston bombings.
($1 = 0.6554 British pounds)
(Additional reporting by Jan C. Schwartz in Hamburg; Editing by Sophie Hares)
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Boy Scouts gay ban: Leaders propose lifting gay ban for youth
Boy Scouts of America's executive committee, after surveying it's million-member community, drafted a resolution proposing to remove the ban on gay youth while keeping it for all adult leaders.
At the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Dallas Feb. 4, 2013, James Oliver, left, hugged his brother and fellow Eagle Scout, Will Oliver, who is gay. Will and other supporters delivered four boxes filled with a petition to end the ban on gay scouts and leaders.
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The Scouts announced today that the proposal would be submitted to the roughly 1,400 voting members of its National Council at a meeting in Texas the week of May 20.
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Gay-rights groups have demanded a complete lifting of the ban, while some churches and conservative groups want it maintained in its entirety, raising the likelihood that the new proposal will draw continued criticism from both sides.
Indeed, the BSA, in making its announcement, estimated that easing the ban on gay adults could cause widespread defections that cost the organization 100,000 to 350,000 members.
In January, the BSA said it was considering a plan to give local Scout units the option of admitting gays as both youth members and adult leaders or continuing to exclude them.
On Friday, the BSA said it changed course in part because of surveys sent out starting in February to about 1 million members of the Scouting community.
The review, said a BSA statement, "created an outpouring of feedback" from 200,000 respondents, some supporting the exclusion policy and others favoring a change.
"While perspectives and opinions vary significantly, parents, adults in the Scouting community and teens alike tend to agree that youth should not be denied the benefits of Scouting," the statement said.
As a result, the BSA's executive committee drafted a resolution proposing to remove the ban on gay youth while keeping it for all adult leaders.
"The proposed resolution also reinforces that Scouting is a youth program, and any sexual conduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Scouting age is contrary to the virtues of Scouting," the statement said.
The BSA described its survey as "the most comprehensive listening exercise in its history."
In a summary of the findings, it said respondents supported the BSA's current policy of excluding gays by a margin of 61 percent to 34 percent, while a majority of younger parents and teens opposed the policy.
It said overwhelming majorities of parents, teens and members of the Scouting community felt it would be unacceptable to deny an openly gay Scout an Eagle Scout Award solely because of his sexual orientation.
Included in the survey were dozens of churches and other religious organizations that sponsor a majority of Scout units.
The BSA said many of the religious organizations expressed concern over having gay adult leaders and were less concerned about gay youth members.
Many Scout units are sponsored by relatively conservative religious denominations that have supported the ban on gays in the past ? notably the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Southern Baptist churches.
The survey tried to gauge the proposal's impact on financial support. Local Scout councils said 51 percent of their major donors opposed easing the ban, while a majority of Fortune 500 companies supported a change.
Since January, the Scouts have come under intense pressure from activists and advocacy groups on both sides of the membership debate.
In Indiana, for example, there's an ongoing campaign demanding that the United Way withhold funding from the Scouts until the ban is lifted. In California, the state Senate is considering a bill aimed at pressuring the BSA to lift the ban by making the organization ineligible for nonprofit tax breaks.
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On the other side, the conservative Family Research Council has been circulating an online petition urging the BSA to keep the ban. And in Utah, the Boy?Scouts' Great Salt Lake Council ? one of the largest in the country with 73,400 youth members ? said a survey showed that more than 80 percent of its leaders opposed lifting the ban.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
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Last week we started up a contest with an awesome prize -- a 64GB HTC One developer edition. It wasn't an ordinary contest (this isn't an ordinary phone) where you drop your name in a hat and Mr. Random Number Generator grabs one. Instead we decided to make it fun and all of you involved and engaged by submitting a short video of yourselves and your old phone.
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Glasses Hangers, iPad Gestures, and Kindle Translation
Readers offer their best tips for storing your spectacles, using gestures on the iPad, and translating words from the Kindle smartphone and tablet app.
Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons?maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in?the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments, email it to tips at lifehacker.com, or share it over at our user-run blog, Hackerspace.
Store Glasses with a Adhesive Hook
Yanstaria finds a better way to keep glasses easily accessible:
I wear contact lenses by day, and glasses by night, so I use to leave my glasses on the bathroom counter. This usually meant that they'd end up splattered with water droplets, or gets knocked around by toothpaste. I put a 3M Command adhesive hook on the tile wall, and they hold my glasses there very nicely. This keeps my glasses out of harms way and leaves more room on my bathroom counter.
Replace Your Broken iPad Button with Gestures
Peter discovers another trick for iPads with broken buttons:
I read your guide on what to do when your phone's buttons stop working, but it didn't address tablets. My iPad's button is broken and I use the four- or five-finger pinch to go back to the home screen, and the four- or five-finger swipe up to reveal the multitasking drawer (and the same gesture downwards to hide it). You can also four- or five-finger swipe horizontally to switch between apps.
We've mentioned these a few times when they first came out in iOS 5, but this is a good reason to try them out if you haven't already. Unfortunately, they only work on the iPad 2 and above. Check out the video above from our sister site, Gizmodo, to see them in action.
Quickly Translate Words from the Kindle App
Piotr Kowalczyk shares a handy tip for Kindle on iOS, Android, and other platforms:
If English is not your primary language, but if you want to read in it as much as you can, you will find this simple tip useful. The trick is really fast and is using the feature to look up reference in Google web search. You can translate words in Kindle app (iOS, Android, other platforms, too), but also in other e-reading applications that offer Google lookup. . .
When you find a word you want to translate, highlight it, and at the bottom of the explanation window, tap on the Google link. . . In the search box add two words that tell Google to find a translation. The phrase is ?to Polish?, or ?to Italian?, or ?to Portuguese?, etc. Please note that it should be stated in English, not in your mother tongue. The other phrase that also does the job is ?in Polish?, ?in Italian?, etc. . . Tap on Search button and you?ll see a translation.
Check out Piotr's full blog post explaining the process.
Turn Beer Boxes Into Trash Cans for Easy Party Cleanup
Artem Mischenko shares a tip for the party animals out there:
Having a party? But don't want to spend the whole next day cleaning!
Set up garbage/recycling cans all over your house (the more people the more cans). Don't have extra garbage cans..no problem. Use Empty the Beer Boxes with a Grocery Bag as a Liner (most fit perfectly). This trick also works great for garbage cans that are hidden throughout your house, like in your bathroom vanities and under desks.
Check out Artem's full blog post here.
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
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Dramatic changes in bacteria following male circumcision
Apr. 16, 2013 ? Male circumcision reduces the abundance of bacteria living on the penis and might help explain why circumcision offers men some protection against HIV, according to a study led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).
Removing the foreskin caused a significant shift in the bacterial community or microbiome of the penis, according to a study published by the online journal mBio.
This international collaboration focused on 156 men in Rakai, Uganda -- part of the world's largest randomized-controlled trial on male circumcision. Researchers showed that men who were circumcised as part of the study had 33.3 percent less bacteria on their penis than those who remained uncircumcised one year after the study began.
Researchers further showed that the decrease was primarily found in 12 types of bacteria, most of which were intolerant to oxygen.
Past studies have shown that circumcision reduces female-to-male HIV transmission, among other benefits. This study suggests a possible mechanism for HIV protection -- the shift in the number and type of bacteria living on the penis. Further studies will have to be done to demonstrate that a change in the penis microbiome can help reduce the risk of HIV transmission, according to the authors.
At the same time, understanding the mechanisms that underlie the benefits of male circumcision could help to identify new intervention strategies for decreasing HIV transmission, especially for populations with high HIV prevalence and in places where male circumcision is culturally less acceptable, the study says.
"We know that male circumcision can prevent HIV and other diseases in heterosexual men, but it is important to know why," said Dr. Lance Price, the Director of TGen Center for Microbiomics and Human Health and the study's senior author.
"We think that these dramatic changes in the penis microbiome may explain, at least in part, why male circumcision is protective, " said Dr. Price, who is also a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health in the School of Public Health and Health Services at the George Washington University.
In heterosexual transmission of HIV, the virus on the foreskin needs to reach its target cells, the CD4+ T-cells, which reside primarily in blood or the lymph nodes.
Researchers hypothesize that penis bacteria may facilitate this process in two ways: by both recruiting more HIV target cells to the foreskin and by triggering another set of immune cells, the Langerhans cells, to deliver the virus to susceptible T-cells. Without this trigger, the Langerhans cells will simply destroy the virus.
"Our findings are interesting from two perspectives. From a public health standpoint, we were finally able to detail the bacterial changes associated with male circumcision," said Dr. Cindy Liu, Adjunct Professor at the Pathogen Genomics Division at TGen, and the study's lead author.
"From an ecological perspective, our study shows how phenomena from the macro-world actually scale to the micro level. When you change a macro environment, such as clear cutting a forest, you affect the animals that live there. That's intuitive. Here we show that changing the penis environment affects the microbes that live there as well." said Dr. Liu, who also is a member of the Department of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
"Even though disturbances of the microbiome are usually portrayed as negative, such as in colitis and yeast infection after antibiotic use," said Dr. Price, "this may be one place where dramatic changes can be protective."
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Crowdsourced Shopping Site The Hunt Raises Additional $700K From Ashton Kutcher, Other High-Profile Investors
The Hunt, a site that helps you find items to buy from photos posted on Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, and elsewhere, is today announcing $700,000 in additional funding, on top of the $2 million it had previously raised from Javelin Venture Partners?and others. The new round involves several high-profile investors including Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary's (Madonna's manager) A-Grade Investments, marketing and branding expert?Rohan Oza, Desi Hits CEO Anjula Acharia Bath, and media investor Michael Banks.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/cgwZnZ3tXSQ/
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Major upcoming sports events will examine security
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu, left, of South Korea, walks by a police officer during batting practice before their baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Monday, April 15, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu, left, of South Korea, walks by a police officer during batting practice before their baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Monday, April 15, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Dallas police detective Warren Breedlove stands outside American Airlines Center before an NBA basketball game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Memphis Grizzlies, Monday, April 15, 2013, in Dallas. Breedlove said that regular security officers were moved from their posts inside to keep watch outside the building following explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday. (AP Photo/Sharon Ellman)
Police patrol the area in front of the Barclays Center basketball arena in New York, Monday, April 15, 2013, before a Brooklyn Nets game in the wake of the two explosions at the Boston Marathon. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Boston police officers stand on Boylston Street near empty buses meant to transport runners who were instead diverted from the course following an explosion at the finish line, Monday, April 15, 2013, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
A Los Angeles Sheriffs Counter Terrorism Unit deputy patrols Union Station before the start of Los Angeles Dodgers game in Los Angeles Monday, April 15, 2013. The city increased security following bomb explosions in Boston that killed two people and injured more than 80 near the crowded finish line of the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, more toughened measures are expected as security is calibrated for major upcoming sports events that draw big crowds, such as next month's Kentucky Derby and Indianapolis 500.
And, only a few days away, the London Marathon.
That event's chief executive, Nick Bitel, said officials in charge of Sunday's 26.2-mile race contacted the police to discuss security plans "as soon as we heard the news" about Boston. He expressed shock and sadness about what happened in Boston, saying "it is a very sad day for athletics and for our friends in marathon running."
The postponement of Monday night's NHL game between the Bruins and Ottawa Senators, and the cancellation of Tuesday's NBA game between the Celtics and Indiana Pacers ? both events to be held in Boston ? were the most tangible reactions by sports officials to the explosions at the marathon finish line that killed at least three people and injured more than 140 others.
Still, other effects of Monday's explosions could be seen quickly, such as bomb-sniffing dogs sweeping the arena before the doors opened for an NHL game in Nashville between the Predators and Canucks that night, and armed police officers posted in front of each dugout at the Padres-Dodgers baseball game in Los Angeles.
A police officer with a German shepherd patrolled near an entrance to the baseball stadium where Miami hosted Washington on Monday evening ? an unusual sight at Marlins Park. Inside, on the field, two Marlins officials gave a security supervisor a briefing about the ballpark's layout.
"We are taking additional precautions and have intensified our security efforts in and around the ballpark to ensure everyone's safety," Marlins spokesman P.J. Loyello said.
Fans heading into the NBA game between the Washington Wizards and Brooklyn Nets in New York waited in long lines as arena security used wands to check people and thoroughly checked bags. A short video clip about what happened in Boston aired on the arena's video screen and a moment of silence was held.
"I got a memo ... from one of our security guys. ... 'Hey you know we're a major event in a big building in a big city. So keep your eyes and your ears open. If you see something let us know,'" Nets interim coach P.J. Carlesimo said.
"Without a question, you're thinking we're also" a possible target, Carlesimo added.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway spokesman Doug Boles said Monday's attack will be a part of future meetings to review what precautions should be taken at the auto race.
"I guess this will bring a new topic or dialogue to those discussions, to see if there's anything more we need to do to prepare with respect to what's happened in Boston," Boles said. "And we will learn more about that over the next couple of days, as the folks in Boston do, and we will be prepared for that."
At the Kentucky Derby, which pulls in crowds approaching 250,000 each year at Churchill Downs Racetrack, security was beefed up recently following the death of Osama bin Laden.
"We are always in close contact at this time of year with the dozens of federal, state and local law enforcement and public safety partners who work with us every year on safety and security concerns for our major events," Churchill Downs spokesman John Asher wrote in an email. "We will be in close and frequent contact with them and rely heavily on their expertise, as we always do, in the hours and days to come."
In Brazil, organizers of the 2016 Rio Olympics said they consider security a top priority and are working closely with the local government on safety issues.
Back in Boston, Bruins President Cam Neely, a former player, said the decision to postpone the hockey game was made after consulting city, state and league officials. He said authorities are still gathering information and "it is vital they have all resources available for their investigation."
Another local team, the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer, posted on Facebook that the father-in-law of goalie Matt Reis was injured at the marathon.
Fans arriving early for the Bruins' game were met by police who were in the area to secure the arena and a nearby federal building. One officer outside the players' parking lot was telling spectators, "The game is canceled. We need you to exit the city safely and quickly."
Moments later, Bruins captain Zdeno Chara drove out of the lot, and not long after that the Senators' team bus left down a side ramp.
Police were searching all bags and people entering the train station below the Bruins' arena.
The Red Sox game had been over for about an hour when the explosions could be heard at Fenway Park, about a mile from where the bombs went off at the finish line.
"The safety of everyone that comes to our ballparks is always our top priority and we will continue to do everything to ensure a safe environment for our fans," Major League Baseball spokesman Pat Courtney said.
President Barack Obama's news conference Monday evening was shown on the video board during batting practice before the Cincinnati Reds hosted the Philadelphia Phillies. There was a moment of silence for the Boston victims at that ballpark and at other arenas with pro games Monday.
Phillies center fielder Ben Revere stuck a piece of white athletic tape to the back of his glove before Philadelphia's 4-2 loss in Cincinnati and wrote on it in black marker: "PRAY for Boston."
"I think everyone was thinking about it," Revere said about the bombings. "It hurts to see something like that happen."
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AP Sports Writers Ronald Blum, Doug Feinberg, Antonio Gonzalez, David Ginsburg, Gary Graves, Beth Harris, Gregory Katz, Joe Kay, Michael Marot, Charles Odum, Ira Podell, Steve Reed, Tim Reynolds, Ralph Russo, Steven Wine and Tom Withers, and freelancer Jim Diamond, contributed to this report.
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NY judge OKs $405M payout to some Madoff victims
NEW YORK (AP) ? A federal judge has cleared the way for investors who lost $1.2 billion to Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme to receive $405 million in payouts.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says the judge rejected Madoff trustee Irving Picard's challenge to the settlement his office arranged last year with J. Ezra Merkin. Merkin ran a "feeder fund" that channeled money from four investment companies to Madoff.
Hundreds of investors had put their money into Ariel Fund Ltd., Gabriel Capital L.P., Ascot Fund Ltd. and Ascot Partners L.P.
Merkin will also pay New York state $5 million for the expense of recovering the money. Many eligible investors will be entitled to get more than 40 percent of their cash losses.
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Monday, April 15, 2013
Looking for logic in North Korea's threats
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? To the outside world, the talk often appears to border on the lunatic, with the poor, hungry and electricity-starved nation threatening to lay waste to America's cities in an atomic firestorm, or to overrun South Korea in a lightning attack.
Enemy capitals, North Korea said, will be turned "into a sea of fire." North Korea's first strikes will be "a signal flare marking the start of a holy war." Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal is "mounted on launch pads, aimed at the windpipe of our enemies."
And it's not all talk. The profoundly isolated, totalitarian nation has launched two rockets over the past year. A February nuclear test resulted in still more U.N. sanctions. Another missile test may be in the planning stages.
But there is also a logic behind North Korea's behavior, a logic steeped in internal politics, one family's fear of losing control and the ways that a weak, poverty-wracked nation can extract concessions from some of the world's most fearsome military powers.
It's also steeped in another important fact: It works.
At various points over the past two decades, North Korea's cycles of threats and belligerence have pressured the international community into providing billions of dollars in aid and, for a time, helped push South Korea's government into improving ties.
Most importantly to Pyongyang, it has helped the Kim family remain in power decades after the fall of its patron, the Soviet Union, and long after North Korea had become an international pariah. Now the third generation of Kims, the baby-faced Kim Jong Un, is warning the world that it may soon face the wrath of Pyongyang. If the virulence of Kim Jong Un's threats have come as a surprise, he appears largely to be following in his father's diplomatic footsteps.
"You keep playing the game as long as it works," said Christopher Voss, a longtime FBI hostage negotiator and now the CEO of the Black Swan Group, a strategic advisory firm focusing on negotiation. "From their perspective, why should they evolve out of this? If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Like hostage-takers, the North Koreans find themselves backed into a corner of their own creation, surrounded by heavily armed foes and driven by beliefs that seem completely illogical to everyone else. "From the outside, it makes no sense," said Voss. "From the inside it makes all the sense in the world."
But the North Koreans also have repeatedly and purposefully backed themselves into those corners, terrifying the world with missile launches and nuclear tests that often end with North Korea getting more international assistance.
Take the early 1990s, when Pyongyang backed away from a nuclear weapons program in exchange for promises of $5 billion in fuel and two nuclear reactors. Or the late 1990s, when North Korea launched a suspected missile over Japan and dispatched a submarine into South Korean waters. But by 2000 the leaders of both Koreas were sitting down for a historic summit in Pyongyang. Then, in 2006, North Korea terrified the world with a nuclear weapons test, but a year later ratcheted back its nuclear program in exchange for aid and political concessions.
The predictability of the pattern is an important sign to scholars that at least part of what is going on has been carefully considered, and that Pyongyang has clear goals in mind.
In other words: No matter how irrational the situation looks, North Korea's leadership is not crazy.
Instead, many observers believe, North Korea simply wants the world to believe it is crazy, leveraging the international community's fear of unpredictability to magnify its power.
The result is obvious.
"How many countries have been overrun since the end of the Cold War? How many dictators have been deposed?" asked Rodger Baker, an analyst for Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence firm. "And where is North Korea? It's still there."
The North Korean leadership also retains, as far as is known, the support of its people. Their lives are often miserable, hunger is widespread and indoor toilets are a luxury to many. But other than a few whispered rumors of minor military rebellions, there has been no sign of revolt.
To many North Korean exiles, the recent round of threats are really about retaining that internal support
"Kim Jong Un is so young," said Nam-su Han, who fled North Korea as a young man after his father, a military officer, was executed, and who now runs a Seoul-based activist group. "He needs to gather the support of his citizens ... and he's using this (belligerence) to make the people come together."
Fear of outsiders, and pride in their own resilience, has long helped unify the people of North Korea. The country was pulverized during the Korean War, when more than 1 million North Koreans are believed to have died. In the mid-1990s, hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have died as famine swept the country.
Through it all, North Koreans have been fed an unrelenting stream of propaganda that the Kims are watching over them as parents, and are bravely standing up to the aggressive foreign powers ? South Korea and the United States ? who are said to be preparing to attack.
Now it is Kim Jong Un ? "the great, brilliant commander ... leading the world's most powerful country" ? who is standing up to the aggressors.
Kim is under immense pressure, not just because he is a new ruler, but because a new generation of North Korean military and civilian leaders will rise to prominence in coming years, anxious to live in a more developed nation, said Peter Hayes, head of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, an Asia-focused think tank. More exposed to the outside world than their predecessors, Hayes believes they will be far more likely to turn on their ruler if he doesn't come through.
"If he doesn't deliver an economy worth living in, he's toast," Hayes said.
Kim Jong Un has to try to cement his popular support, ensure the backing of this key elite, and negotiate his way through the complex waters of international diplomacy, a juggling trick that may explain why the threats, and the volume of those threats, are more bellicose than normal.
"Maybe he's more risk-taking. Maybe he's trying to create his own brand," Hayes said. "But he's playing many different games at many different levels at the same time."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/looking-logic-north-koreas-threats-062434091.html
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
Ask Engadget: best touchscreen monitor?
We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from Icy, who wants to embrace their metro (geddit?) side. If you're looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
"As Windows 8 is bringing touch to the desktop, I'm curious what touchscreen monitor I should buy. Any suggestions? Thanks!"
Short and sweet, Icy, just the way we like it. We'll return the favor by pointing you in the direction of options from Viewsonic, Samsung and LG. Then we'll bow out and let the massed ranks of the Engadgetarti oblige you with their worldly wisdom.
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California case another three-part tragedy of rape, cyber bulling and suicide
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Audrie Pott in an undated photo provided by her family.
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By Craig Giammona, NBC News
Three boys accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old California girl who took her own life after pictures of the attack were posted online are due in court this week, as authorities ramp up their investigation into the latest case involving rape and cyber bullying.
NBC Bay Area reported that three 16-year-olds from Saratoga, a town about 30,000 that is 13 miles west of San Jose, were arrested last week in connection with the September, 2012, sexual assault of Audrie Pott.
Pott, 15, hanged herself eight days after the alleged assault, apparently despondent after photos of the attack were posted online and shared amongst classmates at Saratoga High School.
Pott's parents have said they did even not know about the attack until after their daughter's death. The parents have been in seclusion since the the three boys were arrested, but plan to speak publicly about the case at a news conference scheduled for Monday, according to NBC Bay Area.
"We're talking about, other than murdering someone, the highest degree of a crime you could possibly do, which is to violate them in the worst of ways ... and then to effectively rub her face in it afterwards," Robert Allard, the attorney representing the girl's mother, father and step-mother, told the Associated Press on Friday.
Allard said Pott was intoxicated and unconscious when the assault occurred, and that "there were multiple boys in the room with her."
Lawyers for the boys, whose names have not been released because they are minors, released a statement on Friday asking for the public to withhold judgement until their clients can tell their side of the story, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
"Much of what has been reported over the last several days is inaccurate. Most disturbing is the attempt to link (Audrie's) suicide to the specific actions of these three boys," the statement from San Jose attorneys Eric Geffon, Alan Lagod and Benjamin Williams reads. "We are hopeful that everyone understands that these boys, none of whom have ever been in trouble with the law, are to be regarded as innocent."
The boys are currently in a juvenile hall, although no charges have been formally filed, and are expected to appear in court on Tuesday, according to NBC Bay Area.
The incident occurred over Labor Day weekend last year in a prosperous Silicon Valley suburb on the west side of the Santa Clara Valley? that is known for its wineries and high-end boutiques.
The AP said Pott was at a sleepover at a friend's house when the unaccompanied teens got into liquor.
At some point, Pott went upstairs to sleep and "woke up to the worst nightmare possible," Allard told the AP.
The attorney said Pott soon "found an abundance of material online about that night, including pictures and emails." She also determined that the alleged attackers were boys she had considered friends. Pott then wrote on Facebook that the whole school? knew what happened and that her life was ruined, Allard said.
Members of the Pott family recently accused the alleged attackers of destroying evidence in the case, writing on Facebook that the "the boys who we believe responsible for Audrie's death took deliberate steps to destroy evidence and interfere with the police investigation." The family asked students with information about the case to come forward.
Santa Clara Country Sheriff Laurie Smith confirmed to NBC Bay Area that her department believes they're missing a key piece of evidence, which she described as a "critical electronic device" that has not been turned over.
The arrests of the three boys Thursday pushed the Saratoga case into the national spotlight, coming on the heels of the rape trial in Steubenville, Ohio, and the news that authorities in Canada are reopening their investigation in the case of 17-year-old suicide victim Rehtaeh Parsons.
Parsons, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was photographed during a sexual assault in November, 2011, then allegedly bullied online. Parson was taken off life support Sunday, April 7 ? three days after hanging herself.
The Audrie Pott Foundation announced on Saturday it would hold a candlelight vigil at Saratago High School next Friday night.
The Associated Press contributed to this story
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Verizon confirms 12-month Device Payment Plan for phones is launching April 21st
Look: we know many on Verizon aren't happy that the carrier has revealed plans to lengthen its upgrade intervals right as smartphone update season is hitting full stride. However, there may be a consolation prize. As of April 21st, "some devices" in its smartphone range, not just the existing tablets, will qualify for a Device Payment Plan that spreads out the full costs over the course of a year, letting those who crave the latest mobile hardware (presumably, you) upgrade without either having to sign a contract or pay everything up front. Sounds like a very UnCarrier thing to do, doesn't it? Not quite, unfortunately. The carrier tells us that these payments sit on top of existing service plans, not inside them -- the base service rate won't go down in year two. T-Mobile will remain the better bargain for anyone constantly replacing handsets, then, but those on Verizon will at least have a degree of freedom.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/12/verizon-confirms-device-payment-plan-coming-april-21st/
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CA-BUSINESS Summary
TSX falls sharply as gold leads broad selloff
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index fell more than 1 percent on Friday, as weak U.S. economic data dulled hopes for the Canada's export sector, while a sharp drop in gold prices pulled mining stocks to multi-year lows. The mining-heavy TSX materials sector dropped 4.21 percent to its lowest level since 2009, fueled by a 4 percent drop in gold prices and sliding copper, while weak oil prices yanked energy stocks down by 1.95 percent.
FAA sees lessons from Boeing 787 battery woes
NEW YORK/COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are discussing whether the batteries that burned on Boeing Co's
Exclusive: G20 to consider cutting debt to well below 90 percent/GDP: document
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Financial leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies will consider next week in Washington a proposal to cut their public debt over the longer term to well below 90 percent of gross domestic product, a document prepared for the meeting showed. The proposal, prepared by the co-chairs of the G20 Working Group on the Framework for Growth, follows agreement of the leaders of G20 countries in June last year to set ambitious debt reduction targets beyond 2016, when, under an earlier agreement from Toronto in 2010, debt was to stop growing.
Troika concludes Greek bailout review, next aid tranche soon: source
DUBLIN/ATHENS (Reuters) - An inspection team of international lenders has finished its review of Greece's austerity program, paving the way for another 10 billion euros aid payment, a source with knowledge of the talks said on Saturday. The deal reached on Friday, concludes the first review by the so-called "troika" of the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank since they unlocked fresh aid in December, staving off a chaotic bankruptcy.
Analysis: JPMorgan's lukewarm results put Dimon under more pressure
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Greek PM says deposits are safe, banks shielded: paper
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek bank deposits are safe and the country's lenders are protected due to a recapitalization scheme which will be completed by the end of April, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Saturday. In an interview with Imerisia, Samaras ruled out a tax on deposits over 100,000 euros ($131,000) allaying fears of austerity-hit Greeks that their savings may be at risk after a raid on Cyprus depositors as part of the island's bailout.
Italy's Salini eyes foreign growth after Impregilo merger: report
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian builder Salini, taking over larger rival Impregilo
Austria defies mounting pressure to end bank secrecy
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Austria defied growing pressure to follow Luxembourg in ending bank secrecy, after a group led by Europe's six biggest countries pledged to work together to tackle tax havens. Late on Friday, the finance ministers of Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Spain and Poland announced their desire to jointly push for more bank transparency, a message they will take to the meeting of the Group of 20 top global economies in Washington next week.
Canada says April "optimal" for naming next Bank of Canada chief
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's government would ideally like to name a new Bank of Canada governor this month to replace Mark Carney, who will step down on June 1 to take the helm at the Bank of England, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday. "Part of the process is my interviews of the short-listed candidates," Flaherty told reporters on a conference call during an official visit to Bermuda.
Wells Fargo profit beats, but mortgage business slows
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ca-business-summary-034500857--finance.html
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Two million-year-old creature had mix of ape, human traits
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A 2 million-year-old ancestor of man had a mixture of ape and human-like features that allowed it to hike vast distances on two legs with as much ease as it could scurry up trees, according to research published on Friday.
Discovered in cave near Johannesburg in 2008, the fossils of a species named "Australopithecus sediba" have given researchers clues about the evolution of man and which traits in our ancestors fell by the wayside.
Standing about 1.3 meters (4 ft) tall, sediba had a narrow rib cage similar to apes but a flexible spine more similar to that of a human. Its long arms and powerful torso helped in climbing, according to the research published in the journal Science.
Sediba's small heel resembled a chimpanzee's and it walked with an inward rotation of the knee and hip on slightly twisted feet with a flat-footed gait that would have helped it cover ground, the researchers said.
"It is the perfect compromise of something that has the need to walk on the ground efficiently for long distances. At the same time, it is a very capable climber," said Lee Berger, project leader at the Wits Evolutionary Studies Institute in South Africa.
The researchers plan further studies to see how these fossils of early human relatives known as hominin compare to other remains, to help put together the pieces of evolution.
"We have more complete specimens of fossils than for any other early hominin species that has ever been discovered. What this means is that we can make assessments of the anatomy and behavior of this species with a great deal of confidence," Berger told Reuters.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/two-million-old-creature-had-mix-ape-human-175749033.html
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Euro zone to give Portugal, Ireland more time to repay loans: Dijsselbloem
CORK, Ireland (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers will probably agree on Friday to give Ireland and Portugal seven more years to repay loans from the European Union, a senior official said on Thursday.
"The intention is very positive," Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the chairman of the euro zone finance ministers, told a news conference. "I hope that we will be able to finalize that tomorrow," referring to the meeting of finance ministers on Friday in Dublin.
The extensions aim to ease the return to full market financing.
(Reporting by Conor Humphries; writing by Robin Emmott)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/euro-zone-portugal-ireland-more-time-repay-loans-130414303--business.html
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Friday, April 12, 2013
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