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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
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.
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(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
Vote for your favorite user-submitted video in our HTC One developer phone giveaway
The One where you help us pick the winner of the HTC One developer edition
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.
Part 1 of the contest is over, so it's time to begin the next phase -- the one where you fine folks pick the winner.
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