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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Scientists Figured Out Where That Russian Meteor Came From
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Microsoft's IE 10 browser coming to Windows 7 PCs
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Microsoft is escalating its efforts to bring the latest version of Internet Explorer to more than 700 million personal computers in an attempt to re-establish the software maker's browser as the best way to surf the Web.
Tuesday's release of Internet Explorer 10 is aimed at PCs running on Windows 7, the most used version of Microsoft Corp.'s flagship operating system for PCs. A preview version of Internet Explorer 10 has been available for Windows 7 machines since mid-November. The final version of Internet Explorer 10 will be automatically sent to all Windows 7 computers set up to get updates.
Internet Explorer 10 is primarily designed for tablet computers and other devices responsive to touch, including a new breed of PCs. Even though relatively few Windows 7 PCs can be controlled with fingers on a display screen, Microsoft is confident Internet Explorer 10 will still have widespread appeal because it loads websites 20 percent faster than its predecessor, said Ryan Gavin, Microsoft's general manager for the browser.
"Tens of millions" of people downloaded the preview mode on Windows 7, Gavin said.
About 90 percent of Windows PCs have been programmed to get the automatic updates, Gavin said. It could take several weeks before the Internet Explorer 10 updates are sent to all those computers. Internet 10 doesn't work on XP, Vista or other older versions of Windows. Internet Explorer 10 already comes with machines running Windows 8, a dramatic makeover of the operating system that came out four months ago.
More than 670 million PCs rely on Windows 7. In addition, more than 60 million PCs and other devices have licensed Windows 8.
Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., is counting on Internet Explorer 10 to reverse recent trends in the Web browser market. By some estimates, Google Inc.'s Chrome browser has supplanted Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser. Other research firms still assert that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used, although all measures show it has been losing market share to Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox and Apple Inc.'s Safari.
The new Web browser is the latest in a procession of products that Microsoft has unveiled in the past four months. Besides Windows 8, Microsoft has released a tablet computer called Surface, an update to its Office suite of programs and an overhaul of its Web mail service, which is now called Outlook.com.
Microsoft believes the barrage of new products will prove it remains on the cutting edge of the latest technology trends, 38 years after the company's founding. The push hasn't swayed Microsoft's stock, which is hovering around the same price as when Windows 8 came out in late October.
Microsoft's stock gained 18 cents to $27.55 in morning trading Tuesday.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Dwayne Johnson Couldn't Handle 'Identity Thief' At Weekend Box Office
FROM MTV NEWS A big night in Hollywood for the Oscars meant a pretty light weekend everywhere else at the box office. The Melissa McCarthy holdover "Identity Thief" reclaimed its top spot on the charts in its third week in release and beat Dwayne Johnson's latest action effort "Snitch." The comedy took in a modest [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2013/02/25/identity-thief-box-office-2/
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NY assemblyman apologizes for blackface costume
FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2012 file photo, Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, speaks to the media outside a courtroom at Brooklyn State Supreme Court in New York. Hikind is apologizing for wearing a blackface and a basketball jersey to his costume party and says he never meant to hurt or offend anyone. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2012 file photo, Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, speaks to the media outside a courtroom at Brooklyn State Supreme Court in New York. Hikind is apologizing for wearing a blackface and a basketball jersey to his costume party and says he never meant to hurt or offend anyone. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? A New York assemblyman who at first vigorously defended wearing blackface, an Afro wig and a basketball jersey to a costume party apologized Monday, saying he didn't mean to hurt anyone.
Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind wore the basketball garb at his own party in his home to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim, for which costumes are commonly part of the celebration. For hours on Monday, Hikind was assailed by criticism that he initially dismissed as "political correctness to the absurd."
At a news conference outside his Brooklyn home, however, Hikind pledged to be "a little more careful, a little more sensitive." He added: "I repeat, it was not meant to in any way hurt anyone. And those that were? I'm sorry. That was not my intention."
Assemblyman Karim Camara of the state Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus had called Hikind's actions at the party "callous and repugnant."
"It brings back the memories of African-Americans being reduced to buffoonery just to gain access to the entertainment industry," said Camara, who is also a Brooklyn Democrat and a black leader in the New York state Legislature.
The powerful leader of the Democrat-led Assembly, Speaker Sheldon Silver, weighed in shortly after Hikind's news conference, calling Hikind's actions "inappropriate and offensive." No action against Hikind was announced.
Earlier this month, Hikind criticized the fashion designer John Galliano, who was recently photographed in New York City dressing as a Hasid with a long jacket and curly sidelocks. Two years ago, Galliano was fired from Christian Dior after his anti-Semitic rant was caught on video.
Hikind demanded an explanation from Galliano for his costume.
"If it was just anyone else, I wouldn't know what to say. But considering who this guy is, considering his background and what he's said in the past, let him explain it to all of us: Are you mocking us?" Hikind told the New York Post.
On Jan. 31, Hikind asked the president of Brooklyn College to resign for failing to stop an event he said had a racist agenda. He wrote on his blog at the time that the "BDS Movement Against Israel" event called for a unilateral boycott against Israel and Israeli businesses.
In Albany, Hikind has championed some conservative and religion-based issues. In 2009, he opposed an early vote to legalize same-sex marriage
"It is about what I believe God wants," Hikind said then. "God doesn't flip-flop on an issue."
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Qatar poet remains in prison for 'offensive' verse
DOHA, Qatar (AP) ? A poet jailed for a verse considered offensive to Qatar's ruler harshly denounced the Gulf nation's legal proceedings on Monday after an appeals court reduced his life sentence but still kept a 15-year prison term.
The rant in court ? rare in the tightly controlled Gulf Arab states ? underscored the free speech battles across the region as Western-backed authorities take strict measures against perceived political dissident in the wake of the Arab Spring.
From Kuwait to Oman, dozens of people have been arrested in the past year for social media posts deemed insulting to leaders or calling for political forms.
"Unjust," shouted poet Muhammad ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami in the heavily guarded courtroom in Qatar's capita, Doha, after his appeal to drop the conviction was denied. The court, however, cut the life sentence handed down in November and imposed a 15-year term.
Al-Ajami faced specific charges from a poem posted online in 2010 that discussed the traits needed for a good leader ? which apparently was seen by authorities as a challenge to Qatar's emir and the ruling family.
But he also was more widely known for an Internet video of him reciting "Tunisian Jasmine," a poem lauding that country's popular uprising, which touched off the Arab Spring rebellions across the Middle East. In the poem, he said, "we are all Tunisia in the face of repressive" authorities and criticized Arab governments that restrict freedoms, calling them "thieves."
Al-Ajami still can appeal to a higher court.
"This sentence will not stand," said his brother Hasan. "When you strip away everything, this is just a case about power and pressure."
Earlier this month, a Kuwait court sentenced three former opposition lawmakers to three years hard labor for insulting the country's ruler during speeches made at political rallies. In January, a Kuwait blogger and online journalists received two-year sentences in back-to-back convictions for posts deemed "insulting" to the emir.
In November, the United Arab Emirates set stricter Internet monitoring and enforcement codes. They include giving authorities wider leeway to arrest Web activists for offenses such as mocking the country's leadership or calling for demonstrations.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/qatar-poet-remains-prison-offensive-verse-072500475.html
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Investing Lessons from the Masters- Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett is probably the pin up boy for value investing. And he?s become fabulously wealthy in the process . But what can you learn from Buffett?s style of investing??
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Who is Buffett?
Aside from being one of the top 3 or 4 wealthiest people in the world, Buffett is one of the founders of Berkshire Hathaway a listed investment company on the NYSE. He is famous for turning an initial stake of $105,000 into a $30B + fortune.
How does he invest?
Buffett is a classic contrarian investor focussed on extracting value from companies with strong competitive advantages that are out of favor with investors. He focusses on the best businesses, whether or not they pay dividends, that he plans to hold forever. In fact, Buffett is famous is famous for saying that in his view, the best time to sell is never.
Buffett?s approach to investing is focussed on first identifying a durable competitive advantage typically created by the production of a unique product or service with high barriers to entry. This is best illustrated in the case of an investment like the Coca Cola (KO). Coca Cola ?has been selling a variety of soft drink beverages for years. It has strongly protected, unique Intellectual Property. Coca Cola has produced sustained consistent earnings growth over many years.
Buffett loves to buy on bad news. He is famous for moving in on companies that have strong competitive advantages that went through some tough times that made them out of favor with the general markets. Businesses fall out of favor with the stock market for a variety of reasons including stock market corrections, recession, individual business problems or unforseen black swan events such as war, natural disasters, acts of terrorism etc.
Classic Warren Buffett Plays
Geico. In an effort to boost profitability, Geico decided to ensure any and all comers at one point, including those that were more accident prone. As a result of a relaxation in insurance underwriting provisions, Geico had started to experience an increase in insurance losses which placed in a tough spot at one point in the mid 1970?s. Sensing an opportunity, Buffett made an investment in the business which returned 40x before he subsequently bought out the company in full in the 1990?s
American Express ? American Express was involved in an insurance scandal, known as the ?salad oil scandal? in the 1960?s where they ?verified? the existence of salad oil in a oil tanker. Unfortunately for American Express, this salad oil did not exist in fact. American Express was on the hook for this loss to the tine of $60M, which sent investors running away from the stock. Of course, the existence of the loss had nothing to do with the underlying strengths of the company and so Buffet made his move with an investment that has substantially appreciated over time.
Goldman Sachs ? During the crisis of 2008-2009, investors were fleeing the banks in the fear that every one of them was carrying some sort of toxic asset on their books. Goldman Sachs, was similarly affected by a lack of investor confidence in the fear that it may have been holding some toxic credit derivative assets in its portfolio. As investors sold down the stock, Buffett again moved in with a $5B investment of preferred stock and warrants that allowed him to purchase stock in the company should the price rise above a certain level. The investment paid Buffett an annual dividend of $500M a year. It was so successful for Buffett that Goldman Sachs actually repurchased the preferred shares in 2011.
Buffett had similar plays in effect with Bank of America and General Electric at various times during the financial crisis
What does he hold now?
Buffet still has holdings in a variety of companies with strong competitive advantages. His holdings include companies such as Coca Cola, American Express, Wells Fargo, IBM, GE, Walmart, Visa, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson and Moody?s.
What can you learn from Buffett?
Invest in strong businesses ? Buffett gravitates toward strong business with sustainable competitive advantages. He doesn?t look to buy junk, even if its on sale.
Don?t fear negative circumstances ? Buffet welcomes bad news. whether its general bad news in the economy or company specific bad news. Rather than running away from it, some of Buffett?s best performing investments came during bad times in the economy or for a stock.
You make money from bear markets, you realize the returns in bull markets ? Many of the Buffett plays discussed above were made during bear markets, either market specific or stock specific. While Buffett?s play was made during bear markets, he realized the value of this play several years later when opinion turned in favor of a specific stock or in the economy (and when companies like GE, Goldman Sachs tried to repurchase his loans!).
There are many books that have been written on Buffett and his investment methodology. One of my favorites is The New Buffetology by Mary Buffett if you are interested in reading more.
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Source: http://www.financiallyintegrated.com/investing/investing-lessons-from-the-masters-warren-buffett/
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
PowerbyProxi debuts wireless charging solution, aims to fully integrate it into future smartphones (video)
The pathway to innovation is paved with failed attempts to produce wireless charging solutions that a) actually work and b) people genuinely want to use, but we've got yet another upstart here at Mobile World Congress willing to give it a go. PowerbyProxi's solution looks pretty similar to renditions we've seen from Fulton Innovation, but it's quick to point out the differences. The loosely-coupled method uses a bantam receiver that's "efficient enough to be integrated into the processor board of a smartphone without causing over-heating."
While previous industry designs have resulted in longer charging times than if the device were plugged into a wall socket, PowerbyProxi's solution reportedly "provides charging at the same speed as wired charging." In fact, it claims to offer the only system that can rejuvenate up to three devices at the same time at full power. If you're wondering what working group these guys are going to side with, that much is still up in the air -- it's remaining "agnostic towards the selection of an ultimate standard" for now.
We spoke with the company here at Mobile World Congress, and it confirmed to us that it's working with the top five major battery manufacturers, and we should see wireless AA and AAA cells "within 12 months." It wouldn't confirm how soon we'd see it in phones, tablets or laptops (yeah, it'll work in all of 'em), but it's clearly working with some of the top OEMs and hoping for the best. In the demo we witnessed, specially equipped Galaxy S III handsets charged alongside one another, even when barely clinging to the charging pad. Despite a bunch of metallic objects being heaped on the pad, it was intelligent enough to only send power to the phones, keeping gum boxes and coins cool, calm and collected. Head on past the break for quick video tour as well as a press release.
Dana Murph contributed to this report.
Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals, Mobile
Source: PowerbyProxi
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/24/powerbyproxi-wireless-charging-solution-demo-mwc-2013-video/
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Can escape clause save voting rights provision?
FILE - This July 27, 2006 file photo shows President George W. Bush signing legislation for a 25 year extension of the Voting Rights Act on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court by pointing reformed state, county and local governments to an escape hatch from the law's most onerous aspects. Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case, which is among the term's most important. From left are Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
FILE - This July 27, 2006 file photo shows President George W. Bush signing legislation for a 25 year extension of the Voting Rights Act on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court by pointing reformed state, county and local governments to an escape hatch from the law's most onerous aspects. Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case, which is among the term's most important. From left are Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
FILE ? In this Oct. 1, 2012, file photo people wait in line to enter the Supreme Court in Washington at the start of the new term. The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court by pointing reformed state, county and local governments to an escape hatch from the law's most onerous aspects. Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, the court will hear arguments in the case, which is among the term's most important, in a challenge from Shelby County, Ala. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key section of the landmark voting rights law at the Supreme Court by pointing reformed state, county and local governments to an escape hatch from the law's strictest provision.
The Voting Rights Act effectively attacked persistent discrimination at the polls by keeping close watch, when it comes to holding elections, on those places with a history of preventing minorities from voting. Any changes, from moving a polling place to redrawing electoral districts, can't take effect without approval from the Justice Department or federal judges in Washington.
But the Voting Right Act allows governments that have changed their ways to get out from under this humbling need to get permission through a "bailout provision." Nearly 250 counties and local jurisdictions have done so; thousands more could be eligible based on the absence of recent discriminatory efforts in voting.
The viability of the bailout option could play an outsized role in the Supreme Court's consideration of the voting rights law's prior approval provision, although four years ago, conservative Justice Clarence Thomas said the prospect of bailing out had been "no more than a mirage."
The court will hear arguments Wednesday in the case, which is among the term's most important, in a challenge from Shelby County, Ala.
Opponents of the law say they no longer should be forced to live under oversight from Washington because the country has made enormous racial progress, demonstrated most recently by the re-election of President Barack Obama. They object in particular to the 40-year-old formula by which some jurisdictions, most in the Deep South, are swept under the law and others remain outside it.
The administration and its allies acknowledge that there has been progress. But they say minority voters still need the protection the law affords from efforts to reduce their influence at the polls. Last year, federal judges in two separate cases blocked Texas from putting in place a voter identification law and congressional redistricting plan because they discriminated against black and Hispanic residents.
Obama himself talked about the case in a radio interview last week. He told SiriusXM host Joe Madison that if the law were stripped of its advance approval provision, "it would be hard for us to catch those things up front to make sure that elections are done in an equitable way."
Also, the law's defenders say places that have changed their ways can win release from having to get Washington's blessing for election changes. Governments seeking to exit have to show that they and the smaller jurisdictions within their borders have had a clean record, no evidence of discrimination in voting, for the past 10 years.
Shelby County has never asked to be freed from the law, but would seem to be ineligible because one city in the county, Calera, defied the voting rights law and prompted intervention by the Bush Justice Department.
Yet places with a long, well-known history of discrimination probably could find their way out from under federal monitoring, according to a prominent voting rights lawyer who used to work for the Justice Department.
"Birmingham, Ala., where they used to use fire hoses on people, may well be eligible to bail out," said the lawyer, Gerry Hebert. Birmingham officials said they've never considered asking.
The Supreme Court made clear its skepticism about the ongoing need for the law when it heard a similar case in 2009. "Past success alone, however, is not adequate justification to retain the preclearance requirements," Chief Justice John Roberts said for the court. That ruling sidestepped the constitutional issue and instead expanded the ability of states, counties and local governments to exit the advance approval process.
At that point, so few governments had tried to free themselves from the advance approval requirement that, in 2009, Thomas said the "promise of a bailout opportunity has, in the great majority of cases, turned out to be no more than a mirage."
At the time, Thomas said, only a handful of the 12,000 state, county and local governments covered by the law had successfully bailed out.
The overall numbers remain low, but the Obama administration argues that "the rate of successful bailouts has rapidly increased" since the high court last took up the Voting Rights Act nearly four years ago.
In the past 12 months, 110 local governments have been freed from the requirement to show in advance that their proposed election changes are not discriminatory. Places that have won their release from coverage include Prince William County, Va., with more than 400,000 residents, and Merced County, Calif., and its 84 municipalities.
Shelby County says that even with the recent jump in bailouts, "only a tiny percentage" of governments have found their way out of oversight from Washington.
The advance approval was adopted in the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to give federal officials a potent tool to defeat persistent efforts to keep blacks from voting.
The provision was a huge success, and Congress periodically has renewed it over the years. The most recent time was in 2006, when a Republican-led Congress overwhelmingly approved and President George W. Bush signed a 25-year extension.
The requirement currently applies to the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. It also covers certain counties in California, Florida, New York, North Carolina and South Dakota, and some local jurisdictions in Michigan and New Hampshire. Coverage has been triggered by past discrimination not only against blacks, but also against American Indians, Asian-Americans, Alaskan Natives and Hispanics.
The 10 covered towns in New Hampshire are poised to become the next places to win their release from the law. An agreement between the Justice Department and the state is awaiting approval from a federal court in Washington.
Critics of the law contend the Justice Department is highlighting the escape hatch and agreeing to allow places such as the New Hampshire towns to exit to try to make the entire law look more palatable to the court.
Alaska Attorney General Michael Geraghty says in his court filing in support of Shelby County that the Justice Department "commonly agrees to bailouts for jurisdictions that are not legally entitled to receive them."
But supporters of the law argue in response that the federal government's willingness to agree to free places from the need to get permission shows that the voting rights act is flexible and helps focus attention on potentially discriminatory voting schemes.
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Online:
Voting Rights Act: http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/about.php
Supreme Court: http://tinyurl.com/a4kmqsd
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Daytona put to work again after accident at track
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) ? Daytona International Speedway President Joie Chitwood says "We'll be ready to go racing" and is confident the track will be repaired in time Sunday for the Daytona 500.
At least 28 NASCAR fans were injured Saturday when large chunks of debris, including a tire, sailed into the grandstands when a car flew into the fence on a frightening last-lap accident in the second-tier Nationwide Series race.
Chitwood says he doesn't anticipate moving any fans from those affected seats for Sunday's race. He says the fence that separates the track from the seats will be repaired. The grandstands where fans were injured are about 200 feet from the start-finish line.
This will be the third time in four years the track has needed major repairs on Daytona 500 weekend. The 2010 race was interrupted for more than two hours because of a pothole on the track. Juan Pablo Montoya slammed into a jet dryer in last year's race that caused a raging inferno that stopped the event for two hours.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/daytona-put-again-accident-track-001743456--spt.html
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Original Iwo Jima monument unsold at NYC auction
NEW YORK (AP) ? A long-forgotten World War II statue of the famous flag-raising at Iwo Jima that had been expected to sell for as much as $1.8 million was passed on by bidders in an auction on Friday.
Bidding for the 12 1/2-foot-tall sculpture of the 1945 flag-raising reached as high as $950,000, below the undisclosed minimum sales price, Bonhams auction house said.
"We're a little disappointed with what happened with the sculpture," Bonhams Maritime Art Department sales specialist Gregg K. Dietrich said.
Three potential buyers placed competing bids for four or five minutes, Dietrich said.
The sculpture's owner, military historian and collector Rodney Hilton Brown, did not wish to discuss the results of the auction.
Dietrich said prospective buyers could purchase the sculpture through Bonhams, which will negotiate a price on the seller's behalf.
History buffs have fawned over the sculpture, a miniature of the familiar 32-foot-tall bronze Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va. That sculpture, designed by Felix de Weldon, was patterned after a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press image of the Feb. 23, 1945, flag-raising by Marines and a Navy Corpsman on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi.
The smaller sculpture was largely forgotten about for more than four decades after de Walden placed it in the back of his studio, covering it with a tarp. That's where Brown found it in 1990 while researching a book on de Weldon. It was in desperate need of restoration.
Brown bought the 5-ton monument, paying for it with cash and two peculiar collectors' items: a Stradivarius violin and a silver Newport yachting trophy from the 1920s.
In 1995, Brown presented a restored version of the statute to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Brown said earlier this month he wanted to sell the sculpture because "it doesn't fit in my living room."
"I want to find it a good home," he said, "so we can pass the flag onto somebody else."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/original-iwo-jima-monument-unsold-nyc-auction-231154329.html
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Spanish monarchy's popularity hits new low
MADRID (AP) ? When King Juan Carlos appeared at a recent basketball game in front of thousands of subjects, he was greeted by persistent heckling and whistling. It was an unprecedented spectacle in a nearly four-decade reign over which the monarch has basked in the nation's love and respect.
What happened? The immediate cause is a corruption scandal engulfing Juan Carlos' son-in-law, Inaki Urdangarin, which has angered Spaniards in a time of crushing austerity. But the aging Juan Carlos himself has seemed increasingly out of touch with the people as they try to keep afloat in the economic storm.
Urdangarin, married to the 75-year-old king's second daughter, Princess Cristina, is accused of using his position to embezzle several million dollars in public contracts assigned to a nonprofit foundation he set up. The businessman, who denies any wrongdoing, faces questioning along with his wife's personal secretary. He gives closed-door testimony Saturday before an investigating magistrate.
Juan Carlos, whose health has been declining along with his reputation, and the Spanish monarchy are facing one of their biggest crises ever.
"There is no deep-seated admiration for the monarchy as an institution as you'll find in the U.K. or in Holland," said Tom Burns Maranon, who has written several books about Juan Carlos. "The whole thing is almost a personal loyalty to the king. If the king's standing and reputation comes shooting down, then you're in a very sticky position."
The charismatic Juan Carlos, who took the throne in 1975 two days after the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco, is widely credited with helping the country usher in democracy ? and saving it by staring down a military coup in 1981.
The stories of greed emerging from the Urdangarin case have deepened the sense that the royals are living large at the expense of a suffering nation. Juan Carlos was vilified last year after going on a luxurious African safari to hunt elephants, while his subjects were being battered by economic woes and sky-high unemployment.
There is no major movement in Spain to eliminate the monarchy and restore a republican form of government. So far, only the leader of the regional Catalan Socialist Party has called openly for Juan Carlos to abdicate and allow his son, Crown Prince Felipe, to take the throne and bring the monarchy more in line with the 21st century.
But the sense of the king's popularity propping up the monarchy ? a phenomenon known as "juancarlismo" ? appears to be fading. A January poll showed about half of Spaniards approved of the king, an impressive rating ? but sharply down from the three-quarters support he enjoyed a year before.
The king's health, meanwhile, has been a subject for concern over the past two years. He has had operations on both hips, a knee and for a benign lung tumor. On March 3, he will undergo back surgery, the royal palace said Thursday.
When Dutch Queen Beatrix, also 75, announced in January that she would abdicate and pass the crown to her eldest son, some wanted the same thing to happen in Spain.
But experts say the monarchies in the two countries are completely different. The Netherlands has a history of abdications for reasons of age, while in Spain it has been extremely rare. Juan Carlos still garners some respect for heading the transition from a dictatorship to democracy, and for his role in quelling the 1981 coup.
Urdangarin is a former professional and Olympic handball medalist and the deals he landed were for things such as organizing seminars on using sports as a lure for tourism. Once presented to his countrymen as the perfect husband, Urdangarin has become Spain's public enemy No. 1.
A year after he first gave testimony, Urdangarin, 45, will return to a tribunal in Palma de Mallorca to answer more questions from investigating magistrate Jose Castro. Urdangarin hasn't been formally charged, but all indications point to a long and drawn-out trial that will keep suspicions of royal extravagance swirling in public.
The royal family has responded by barring him from official functions, and his profile was pulled from the monarchy's website. When both Urdangarin and Prince Felipe attended the final of the world handball championship, which Spain hosted and won, they didn't even look at each other.
"He's been ostracized and separated from the royal family," said Burns Maranon. He said it will be a blow for the royal family if he's jailed, but "even worse if he got off scot-free."
Meanwhile, the case is getting closer and closer to Princess Cristina, with her personal secretary, Carlos Garcia Revenga, set to make statements before the magistrate Saturday.
Garcia Revenga hasn't been formally accused. The royal family has used this as an argument to keep him in his post as it waits for justice to take its course. But the question that arises at the moment is whether or not Princess Cristina knew about her husband's alleged activities.
"I don't see why Princess Cristina would be accused of anything," said Urdangarin's lawyer, Pascual Vives. "Her situation is radically different from those facing accusations."
Ironically, Urdangarin and his wife have the title Duke and Duchess of Palma, the same city investigating the case. Responding to popular revulsion, city hall said it removed the street name "Duques de Palma" ? one of the municipality's most central thoroughfares ? because of the "less than exemplary behavior toward the title."
It's only a symbol, but it reflects the loss of reputation the monarchy is suffering at an especially difficult time for Spaniards.
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Associated Press writer Harold Heckle contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/spanish-monarchys-popularity-hits-low-084333292.html
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Snow in Arizona delays resumption of Match Play
The pin flag on the 18th green blows in the falling snow during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Play was suspended for the rest of the day. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
The pin flag on the 18th green blows in the falling snow during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Play was suspended for the rest of the day. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Rickie Fowler throws snowballs at fellow players in the parking lot after a snow storm suspended the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Play was suspended for the day. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
A volunteer walks along the practice green as snow falls during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Play was suspended. (AP Photo/Ross Franklin)
Tournament volunteers walk along the golf course after a snow storm suspended play for the day during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Play was suspended for the day. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Golf fans make their way off the course as snow falls during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Play was suspended for the day. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
MARANA, Ariz. (AP) ? Bundled in a winter jacket in a chilly tent near the snow-covered driving range, Mark Russell was asked where the opening day of the Match Play Championship ranked among his bizarre weather experiences.
"It's right there," said Russell, the PGA Tour's vice president of competition.
And Russell has been on the job for more than 30 years.
First-round play in the World Golf Championships event was suspended Wednesday when rain that came down sideways quickly gave way to snow from a winter storm that dumped close to 2 inches on Dove Mountain in about an hour. The temperature plunged to 33 degrees at the cactus-lined layout 2,800 feet above sea level.
"I've seen snow on the course when I was a kid, but nothing like that on any of the tours. It was crazy," said top-ranked Rory McIlroy, one of 20 players in the 64-man field who never even made it to the first tee at the Ritz-Carlton Club.
Tiger Woods also was in one of the 10 matches that didn't start. He will open against Charles Howell III, while McIlroy will face Shane Lowry.
After more snow during the night and morning temperatures around freezing, the course remained coated Thursday morning, further delaying play. The field is cut in half after each round and, with sunshine in the forecast the rest of the week, so it shouldn't be difficult to get caught up.
"We've got a lot of possibilities with this small field," Russell said.
Sergio Garcia, in the leadoff match, had just holed a 10-foot par putt to win the 15th hole and go 2 up over Thongchai Jaidee when play was suspended.
Ian Poulter's only other tournament this year was on Maui for the Tournament of Champions, where it took four days just to get started because of high wind.
"I can't believe it. When have we ever seen that?" he said, taking off his rain gear in front of his locker. "The two events I've attempted to play this year have been three days of 50 mph wind and 2 inches of snow in an hour. It's absolutely, flippin' unbelievable."
What does that say for the rest of the year?
"Can't get worse," he said. "Just incredible. Bizarre. Have you ever seen it? Especially where we are."
Maybe he should consider himself lucky. At least he didn't play Torrey Pines, where fog wiped out an entire round Saturday and Woods had to wait until Monday to polish off his 75th career victory. There were frost delays in the opening rounds at Phoenix.
But snow?
"I remember one year in Vegas in a collegiate tournament it was sleeting," said Webb Simpson, who played one shot. "We all charged toboggans to our coach in the pro shop and he wasn't too happy about it. This is crazy weather. But we've got a great forecast for the weekend, so hopefully, it will melt tonight."
Poulter was cold from the start, rubbing his hands together and jumping in place to keep warm in the morning chill.
The Englishman had a 3-up lead over Stephen Gallacher through 12 holes, then left the course plotting revenge after European Ryder Cup teammate Peter Hanson hit him with a snowball.
"I'm like an elephant," Poulter said. "I will not forget."
In only 3? hours of golf, there was some impressive play.
Bo Van Pelt, who took three shots to get out of a bunker early against John Senden, won six straight holes ? only two of them with birdies ? to build a 5-up lead through 12. Jason Day was 6 up through 10 holes against Zach Johnson, Matt Kuchar was 3 up over Hiroyuki Fujita through 14, and defending champion Hunter Mahan was 4 up at the turn against Matteo Manassero.
"It's hard to keep your hands warm," Mahan said. "You're feeling of everything just isn't quite there. By the last three shots we hit, it was unbelievable, crazy."
The best competition might have come after play ended.
Rickie Fowler wound up and fired snowballs from the parking lots. The caddies spent an hour having a snowball fight, though most of the players stayed inside.
That included Carl Pettersson, a guy who tries to see the glass half-full.
"This is one time I have the advantage of being fat," Pettersson said.
With delays like this, he might have company.
"It seems like every rain delay ? or snow delay ? that we have, you just seem to sit there and eat dessert," Day said. "And there's a bunch of yummy chocolates in there."
This was the second time in three years that wintry weather interrupted the Match Play Championship. Light snow covered everything but tee boxes and greens the morning of Luke Donald's victory over Martin Kaymer in the 2011 championship match. It cleared before the match, but there was a brief delay because of sleet that turned greens white.
DIVOTS: The last time the opening round wasn't finished was in 2005, when it never got started because of rain that put just about every hole at La Costa under water. ... The first-round losers will receive $46,000.
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Prensa Latina News Agency - Egyptian Military Command ...
21 de febrero de 2013, 11:28Cairo, Feb 21 (Prensa Latina) The Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces (SCEAF) is concerned about the continuation of the political crisis in the country, affirmed an official source today that referred to informal meetings of that high military authority.
The armed forces have repeatedly declared their neutrality in the conflict, deriving from allegations of the FSN that the president favors the interests of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and intends to Islamize Egyptian society, which contains significant secular sectors.
Weeks ago, President Morsi instructed the Army to maintain order in three northern cities, following the imposition of a 30 day curfew, which the population is disobeying, but the military has refrained from using force for compliance.
Another cause of friction arose days ago with the spreading of rumors on the alleged decision of Morsi to relieve the Defense Minister General Abdel Fattah El Sissi, who is described as close to the Brotherhood.
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Source: http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1134491&Itemid=1
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For Colorectal Cancer Prevention, Resistant Starch Should Be On The Menu
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As the name suggests, you can't digest resistant starch so it ends up in the bowel in pretty much the same form it entered your mouth. As unlovely as that seems, once in the bowel this resistant starch does some important things, including decreasing bowel pH and transit time, and increasing the production of short-chain fatty acids. These effects promote the growth of good bugs while keeping bad bugs at bay. A University of Colorado Cancer Center review published in this month's issue of the journal Current Opinion in Gastroenterology* shows that resistant starch also helps the body resist colorectal cancer through mechanisms including killing pre-cancerous cells and reducing inflammation that can otherwise promote cancer.
Visit our colorectal cancer section for the latest news on this subject. * Current Opinion in Gastroenterology
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As the name suggests, you can't digest resistant starch so it ends up in the bowel in pretty much the same form it entered your mouth. As unlovely as that seems, once in the bowel this resistant starch does some important things, including decreasing bowel pH and transit time, and increasing the production of short-chain fatty acids. These effects promote the growth of good bugs while keeping bad bugs at bay. A University of Colorado Cancer Center review published in this month's issue of the journal Current Opinion in Gastroenterology* shows that resistant starch also helps the body resist colorectal cancer through mechanisms including killing pre-cancerous cells and reducing inflammation that can otherwise promote cancer.
"Resistant starch is found in peas, beans and other legumes, green bananas, and also in cooked and cooled starchy products like sushi rice and pasta salad. You have to consume it at room temperate or below - as soon as you heat it, the resistant starch is gone. But consumed correctly, it appears to kill pre-cancerous cells in the bowel," says Janine Higgins, PhD, CU Cancer Center investigator and associate professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Higgins describes studies showing that rats fed resistant starch show decreased numbers and sizes of lesions due to colorectal cancer, and an increased number of cells that express the protein IL-10, which acts to regulate the body's inflammatory response.
"Resistant starch may also have implications for the prevention of breast cancer," Higgins says. "For example, if you let rats get obese, get them to lose the weight, and then feed half of the rats a diet high in resistant starch - these rats don't gain back the weight as fast as rats fed a regular, digestible starch diet. This effect on obesity may help to reduce breast cancer risk as well as having implications for the treatment of colorectal cancer."
"There are a lot of things that feed into the same model of resistant starch as a cancer-protective agent," Higgins says. "Much of this information currently comes from rodent models and small clinical trials but the evidence is encouraging." On the table now is a menu of benefits and while it's just now being studied which benefits, exactly, will pan out as mechanisms of cancer prevention, one thing is clear: resistant starch should be on the menu.
Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release. Click 'references' tab above for source.Visit our colorectal cancer section for the latest news on this subject. * Current Opinion in Gastroenterology
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Pittsfield fire union pushes for chief from civil service list
Wednesday February 20, 2013
PITTSFIELD -- City firefighters plan to push Mayor Daniel L. Bianchi toward choosing a fire chief from the state civil service list -- something that hasn?t occurred for nearly a decade.
Pittsfield Firefighter?s Local 2647 is mounting legal action that could require Bianchi to pick a chief from among the top three candidates who passed the civil service exam almost a year ago, according to the union president, Tim Bartini. The test was administered shortly after Bianchi took office Jan. 2, 2012.
"We are in the process of filing arbitration to get the mayor to hire one of the three," Bartini said Tuesday night before the Pittsfield Charter Review Study Committee.
"We?ve also filed a complaint with civil service," he added.
Bianchi, who wasn?t at the meeting, told The Eagle he will respond to the firefighter?s complaint and is aware the union wants a state arbiter to help settle the matter.
Whether Pittsfield?s fire and police chiefs should remain a civil service job is one of the last major topics for the committee to tackle before possibly wrapping its work in two months. The 11-member ad-hoc panel hopes to make proposed changes to the charter in April and pass them along to the City Council, mayor and state Legislature for review in time for submission to voters in November.
The council last fall charged the committee to do a thorough review of the charter, Pittsfield?s
governing document, which has been virtually unchanged for nearly 80 years.The committee plans to discuss if the chiefs should be appointed through civil service and other charter issues at its next meeting at 5 p.m. March 7 in City Hall. Union officials were invited to weigh in at the gathering on whether the police chief should also be a civil service position.
Pittsfield?s current fire chief, Robert Czerwinski, is the third mayoral appointment to serve as an acting chief in the last 10 years -- two of them by former Mayor James M. Ruberto -- in order to bypass Civil Service.
Ruberto, Bianchi?s predecessor, also appointed Michael Winn as the current acting police chief, over the objections of the city?s police officers union.
The firefighters union feels a fire chief chosen through civil service keeps it from being a political appointment.
"One hundred percent of our guys in the department want the chief to stay civil service," Bartini said.
"I think civil service is very limiting and archaic," Bianchi responded in a phone interview with an Eagle reporter. "Taking a test is one element to picking a chief."
The committee Tuesday night did take several consensus votes on potential key changes to the city charter.
The panel initially supports extending the terms of the mayor and City Clerk from two years to four years, and eliminating the need for special acts of the state Legislature to consolidate city departments and grant "compensation" to six of the seven School Committee members. The mayoral is the seventh member by virtue of his position.
The committee didn?t specify how the committee members -- the only elected city officials who are unpaid -- would be compensated.
In addition, a committee consensus vote backed an overhaul of the budget process. The proposed changes include establishing a five-year plan for capital projects, to be updated annually, and a joint meeting of the City Council and school board prior to the mayor?s unveiling of the next fiscal year?s proposed budget. Pittsfield?s chief executive has traditionally presented the council with his budget book the week before Memorial Day in May. The council has until July 1, the start of the fiscal year, to adopt a new budget.
During the joint meeting, the mayor would review the city?s financial status and projections for local and state revenue to help pay for the new spending plan, according to Stephen McGoldrick, the city?s charter review consultant.
"This puts the onus on the mayor where it should be ... to provide more information to both at the same time," said McGoldrick.
To reach Dick Lindsay:
rlindsay@berkshireeagle.com,
or (413) 496-6233.
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Diplomats: Iran starts upgrade of nuclear site
Diplomats: Iran starts upgrade of nuclear site
By GEORGE JAHNBy GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press?
?In this photo released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, waves to the crowd at the conclusion of his speech in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Iran's Supreme Leader said Saturday that his country is not seeking nuclear weapons, but that no world power could stop Tehran's access to an atomic bomb if it intended to build one. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)
In this photo released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, waves to the crowd at the conclusion of his speech in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Iran's Supreme Leader said Saturday that his country is not seeking nuclear weapons, but that no world power could stop Tehran's access to an atomic bomb if it intended to build one. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)
In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Iranian well wishers attending the speech of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hold up his picture at a mosque inside the leader's housing compound in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Khamenei said Saturday that his country is not seeking nuclear weapons, but that no world power could stop Tehran's access to an atomic bomb if it intended to build one. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)
In this photo released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, waves to the crowd at the conclusion of his speech in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Iran's Supreme Leader said Saturday that his country is not seeking nuclear weapons, but that no world power could stop Tehran's access to an atomic bomb if it intended to build one. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)
In this photo released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaks to the crowd in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Iran's Supreme Leader said Saturday that his country is not seeking nuclear weapons, but that no world power could stop Tehran's access to an atomic bomb if it intended to build one. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)
VIENNA (AP) ? Western diplomats say Iran has started installing high-tech machines at its main uranium enrichment site that are capable of accelerating activity that can produce reactor fuel and ? with further upgrading ? the core of a nuclear warhead.
Iran already said last week that it had begun installation, but diplomats said at the time that the announcement was premature, with the enriching centrifuges on site but not yet being put into place
Three diplomats speaking to The Associated Press on Wednesday said, however, that installation was now well on its way, with 100 or more machines mounted. They demanded anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge confidential information.
Iran denies any interest in nuclear weapons and says it is enriching only for nuclear power, science and medical purposes.
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Futurity.org ? 'Dr. Google' can ease cancer confusion
In a survey of nearly 2,000 US adults, researchers found that those who sought health information on the Internet were more likely to have positive beliefs about cancer prevention. (Credit: "computer mouse" via Shutterstock)
CORNELL / U. PENNSYLVANIA (US) ? When it comes to cancer, the Internet can actually clarify misinformation rather than fuel fatalistic fears, a new study finds.
Inundated with reports about cancer causes and prevalence, many people adopt fatalistic attitudes about its prevention, believing that getting cancer is a matter of fate or luck, previous research has shown. But a new study suggests that the Internet can be used as a tool to help clarify cancer confusion and promote prevention practices.
?We were surprised. In the age of WebMD and ?Dr. Google,? we were concerned about the potential for the internet to widen gaps in knowledge and behaviors to prevent cancer,? says Jeff Niederdeppe, assistant professor of communication at Cornell University who co-authored the report with Derek Freres, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and Chul-joo Lee, assistant professor of communication at the University of Illinois.
?Some websites contain inaccurate and incomplete information, posted without editorial review, which could add to levels of confusion and a sense that everything causes cancer,? Niederdeppe says. ?We were also concerned that the ability to jump quickly from one snippet of information to another via links could lead to information overload.?
But, as reported in the Journal of Communication, the team found that such interlinked, integrated information can actually promote learning. In a survey of nearly 2,000 US adults, aged 40 to 70, they found that those who sought health information on the Internet were more likely to have positive beliefs about cancer prevention.
Moreover, the effect was strongest for those with low levels of formal education, suggesting that the internet has potential to be a powerful tool to reduce inequalities in cancer knowledge and prevention behaviors.
This is important because those with positive outlooks are more likely to engage in healthy behaviors that could help prevent cancer, such as eating fruits and vegetables and getting screened for cancer, Niederdeppe says.
?Reducing cancer fatalism, especially among people with low socioeconomic status, is arguably one of the most important public health goals in the nation,? Lee says.
In previous studies, Niederdeppe and Lee showed that frequent exposure to short reports about cancer in the media, particularly via local television, can increase cancer fatalism over time. Another recent study showed that newspaper coverage that includes information about how to avert the threats can help reduce feelings of information overload. But there is much left to learn, Niederdeppe says.
?There are still large gaps in cancer-related knowledge between socioeconomically advantaged and disadvantaged populations. Access and use of the internet aren?t magic bullets that are going solve these issues, but there is considerable potential to use the web to reduce harmful beliefs about cancer?s causes and prevention,?
Researchers from the University of Illinois contributed to the study that was supported by the National Cancer Institute.
Source: Cornell University
Source: http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/dr-google-can-ease-cancer-confusion/
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