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Sunday, March 31, 2013
L.A. police ID suspect in girl's abduction case
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Police said Saturday they are looking for a transient in the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl who was snatched from her San Fernando Valley home before dawn last week and abandoned hours later in front of a hospital.
Investigators identified 30-year-old Tobias Dustin Summers as a suspect in the case but couldn't elaborate on the motive or what led them to him. Police don't know if the girl was targeted but said they don't believe Summers had a connection to the family.
"We have no information that the family knew this individual or that the individual knew any members of the family," Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said.
Police initially said they were looking for two suspects in the abduction but are now focusing their efforts on locating Summers. "This is the only person we are looking for right now," Albanese said Saturday.
About 40 detectives have been working around the clock looking for clues since the girl was abducted from her home Wednesday. She was found hours later, wandering near a Starbucks several miles away.
The girl was barefoot, had bruises and scratches and wasn't wearing the same clothes she had on when she vanished. She told the police two men she didn't recognize had taken her from her home.
Investigators have said they believe the girl was driven around the San Fernando Valley in a couple of cars and taken to at least two locations, including a storage facility, before she was released.
A passer-by who recognized her picture from media reports saw her outside the Starbucks and called police. The girl had wandered there from the hospital where she had been dropped.
Summers, who has a distinctive tattoo of a ghoulish face on his right arm, has arrests dating back to 2002, police said. Among them are robbery, grand theft auto, possession of explosives and kidnapping, authorities said.
Police said they had no details on the prior kidnapping case.
Summers was released from prison in July on a petty theft conviction as part of a state law designed to ease crowding in state prisons. He also spent six days behind bars in January on a probation violation.
Summers last checked in with his probation officer at some point earlier this month and had been complying with his release terms, police said. He is known to frequent the area where the kidnapping took place.
The Los Angeles Times reported that law enforcement sources said the girl was sexually assaulted. The Associated Press does not identify victims of sexual assault. Summers isn't a registered sex offender, police said.
Albanese said Summers had been arrested four years ago for investigation of battery that involved child annoying, but no other details were provided.
Summers has family in Southern California, according to police, and the FBI said it will obtain a warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution if authorities determine he has fled the state.
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What?s Up With Amanda Bynes?
As of late, Amanda Bynes has not only been posting increasingly odd and inappropriate tweets, but has been displaying a lot of odd behavior as well. The 26 year old actress was pictured walking through New York?s Times Square, which wouldn?t be that weird? if she wasn?t pretending to be a ghost while holding a blue shirt over her head. Maybe she was trying to conceal her identity and got a little carried away? I mean, I get people like to play pretend every once and a while, but this is just taking it a little too far. The star was also pictured leaving McDonalds where she ordered a soft drink and a coffee and was said to have consumed them at the same time. Earlier this week Bynes also tweeted a picture of herself with the caption ?Looking pudgy and I broke my nail.? I really don?t know who that girl sees in the mirror if she thinks she?s ?pudgy? I don?t think people can get any thinner. Bynes has been running into some legal trouble as of late as well with two hit and run cases. To top it off, her behavior is becoming increasingly spastic and bizarre [...]
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Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon-turned-conservative-pundit, has accumulated legions of right-leaning fans since he stumped at the National Prayer Breakfast in February and, later, began appearing on Fox News Channel. But after delivering widely condemned comments regarding gay people?on Fox this week, a group of students at Johns Hopkins, where Carson has worked since 1977, has successfully stopped Carson from speaking?at the May commencement ceremony?of the university's medical school. ...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Fly Or Die: Albumatic
In a land where entrepreneurs are struggling desperately to integrate location into the worldwide photo-sharing phenomenon, Albumatic may have swooped in just in time. Ventures like Color and others have tried and failed, and not for lack of funding, to let users enjoy location-based events by sharing photos with each other around that specific event. However, it turns out that sharing photos with strangers, whether you find yourself in the same location or not, doesn't attract users as much as you'd think.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/5Kxa4frNfRk/
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New urgency in battle against 'bound legs' disease
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Konzo's harm goes beyond its devastating physical effects
The harm done by konzo a disease overshadowed by the war and drought it tends to accompany goes beyond its devastating physical effects to impair children's memory, problem solving and other cognitive functions.
Even children without physical symptoms of konzo appear to lose cognitive ability when exposed to the toxin that causes the disease, researchers report in the journal Pediatrics.
"That's what's especially alarming," said lead author Michael Boivin, a Michigan State University associate professor of psychiatry and of neurology and ophthalmology. "We found subtle effects that haven't been picked up before. These kids aren't out of the woods, even if they don't have the disease."
Konzo means "bound legs" in the African Yaka language, a reference to how its victims walk with feet bent inward after the disease strips away motor control in their lower limbs. Its onset is rapid, and the damage is permanent.
People contract konzo by consuming poorly processed bitter cassava, a drought-resistant staple food in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Typically, the plant's tuber is soaked for a few days, then dried in the sun and ground into flour a process that degrades naturally occurring cyanide.
"As long as they do that, the food's pretty safe," said Boivin, who began studying konzo in 1990 as a Fulbright researcher in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "But in times of war, famine, displacement and hardship, people take shortcuts. If they're subsisting on poorly processed cassava and they don't have other sources of protein, it can cause permanent damage to the nervous system.
"Konzo doesn't make many headlines because it usually follows other geopolitical aspects of human suffering," he added. "Still, there are potentially tens of millions of kids at risk throughout central and western Africa. The public health scope is huge."
To find out if the disease affects cognitive function, Boivin and colleagues from Oregon Health and Science University turned to the war-torn Congo. They randomly selected 123 children with konzo and 87 neighboring children who showed no signs of the disease but whose blood and urine samples indicated elevated levels of the toxin.
Using cognitive tests, the researchers found that children with konzo had a much harder time using working memory to solve problems and organize visual and spatial information.
They also found that konzo and non-konzo children from the outbreak area showed poor working memory and impaired fine-motor skills when compared to a reference group of children from a part of the region unaffected by the disease.
Konzo's subtler impacts might seem minor compared to its striking physical symptoms, but Boivin noted that the cognitive damage is similar to that caused by chronic low-grade exposures to other toxic substances such as lead.
Scientists eventually may be able to prevent such damage by creating nontoxic cassava varieties and introducing other resilient crops to affected regions, Boivin said. Meanwhile, public health education programs are under way to help stop outbreaks.
"For now," he said, "if we could just avoid the worst of it the full-blown konzo disease that has such devastating effects for children and families that's a good start."
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Konzo's harm goes beyond its devastating physical effects
The harm done by konzo a disease overshadowed by the war and drought it tends to accompany goes beyond its devastating physical effects to impair children's memory, problem solving and other cognitive functions.
Even children without physical symptoms of konzo appear to lose cognitive ability when exposed to the toxin that causes the disease, researchers report in the journal Pediatrics.
"That's what's especially alarming," said lead author Michael Boivin, a Michigan State University associate professor of psychiatry and of neurology and ophthalmology. "We found subtle effects that haven't been picked up before. These kids aren't out of the woods, even if they don't have the disease."
Konzo means "bound legs" in the African Yaka language, a reference to how its victims walk with feet bent inward after the disease strips away motor control in their lower limbs. Its onset is rapid, and the damage is permanent.
People contract konzo by consuming poorly processed bitter cassava, a drought-resistant staple food in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Typically, the plant's tuber is soaked for a few days, then dried in the sun and ground into flour a process that degrades naturally occurring cyanide.
"As long as they do that, the food's pretty safe," said Boivin, who began studying konzo in 1990 as a Fulbright researcher in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "But in times of war, famine, displacement and hardship, people take shortcuts. If they're subsisting on poorly processed cassava and they don't have other sources of protein, it can cause permanent damage to the nervous system.
"Konzo doesn't make many headlines because it usually follows other geopolitical aspects of human suffering," he added. "Still, there are potentially tens of millions of kids at risk throughout central and western Africa. The public health scope is huge."
To find out if the disease affects cognitive function, Boivin and colleagues from Oregon Health and Science University turned to the war-torn Congo. They randomly selected 123 children with konzo and 87 neighboring children who showed no signs of the disease but whose blood and urine samples indicated elevated levels of the toxin.
Using cognitive tests, the researchers found that children with konzo had a much harder time using working memory to solve problems and organize visual and spatial information.
They also found that konzo and non-konzo children from the outbreak area showed poor working memory and impaired fine-motor skills when compared to a reference group of children from a part of the region unaffected by the disease.
Konzo's subtler impacts might seem minor compared to its striking physical symptoms, but Boivin noted that the cognitive damage is similar to that caused by chronic low-grade exposures to other toxic substances such as lead.
Scientists eventually may be able to prevent such damage by creating nontoxic cassava varieties and introducing other resilient crops to affected regions, Boivin said. Meanwhile, public health education programs are under way to help stop outbreaks.
"For now," he said, "if we could just avoid the worst of it the full-blown konzo disease that has such devastating effects for children and families that's a good start."
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The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Michigan State University has been working to advance the common good in uncommon ways for more than 150 years. One of the top research universities in the world, MSU focuses its vast resources on creating solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges, while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.
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Monday, March 25, 2013
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Reunited with family, homeless man who returned ring says he's 'got it all'
There were rumors that he was dead, but former homeless man Billy Ray Harris, 55, showed his family he was very much alive and thrilled to see them in a reunion Sunday on TODAY.
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"I never would've thought this," Harris said as his family gathered around him. "This was a total shock."
Harris hadn't seen his family in 16 years, but his sister recognized him after his story of returning an engagement ring went viral earlier in March. Harris, who had been holding out his cup on the street for donations in Kansas City, Mo., didn't know that passersby Sarah Darling had accidentally dropped her engagement ring in his cup until he packed up for the day.
After discovering the ring, Billy Ray took it to a local jeweler, who offered him $4,000 on the spot. He considered taking the money but held onto the ring and waited for Darling to return. A couple days later, she did.
The story hit headlines across the globe and Harris was soon back in touch with his family. They had planned a family reunion for the summer, but TODAY didn't want them to have to wait that long.
"It means the world," said Harris' sister, Robin Harris Williams, of having her big brother back in her life.
She was the first to get in touch, after seeing his face in the news. "I knew it was my brother as soon as I saw the picture, and automatically I just started yelling," Williams said. She lived 490 miles away, in Texas, but eventually tracked him down and called to alert the rest of the family. The rest of the family joined in on the reunion, including brother Edwin Harris and sisters Elsie ?EJ? Johnson and Nellie E. Vaughn.
Vaughn told TODAY's Erica Hill that she knew her sister had been looking for him all this time.
"It's good, It's really good news," Vaughn said.
Harris said he never stopped thinking about his family, though he had assumed he wouldn?t see them again. ?I'd been worried sick about my family since the last time I saw them,? he told TODAY.com. ?I totally lost contact with them back in the 90's?I was kind of down in the dumps, and on the verge of giving up.?
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As for the woman whose ring he returned, Darling says she and her husband Bill Krejci have become close to Harris, and hope to stay in touch with him in the long run. In addition, they set up a donation fund to help Harris.
"I was hoping for $4,000, because that's what he was offered," Darling said of the fundraising goals, which was set up after an overwhelming response from strangers asked how they could help. The money poured in, with over 8,000 people donating more than $183,000 so far.
Homeless man who returned ring gets over $175k in donations
Harris now has a part-time job, new friends and a warm bed. "I got an air mattress now, it's like living like a king compared to where I was," Harris told TODAY.
And there's more ? Harris has nieces and nephews waiting to meet him.
"Got it all right here now," Harris said, as he sat with his arm around his little sister.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Diverse high court families mirror country
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2005 file photo, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, left, stands with his family, wife Jane, daughter Josie, right, and son Jack, in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. With their Ivy League pedigrees and East Coast addresses, Supreme Court justices often are rightly described as unrepresentative of the nation. But in one area, the justices look a lot like the rest of America. Members of the court have first-hand experience with divorce and adoption, as well as making it alone without ever getting married. Just five of the nine justices have been married once and have had biological children with their spouses. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2005 file photo, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, left, stands with his family, wife Jane, daughter Josie, right, and son Jack, in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. With their Ivy League pedigrees and East Coast addresses, Supreme Court justices often are rightly described as unrepresentative of the nation. But in one area, the justices look a lot like the rest of America. Members of the court have first-hand experience with divorce and adoption, as well as making it alone without ever getting married. Just five of the nine justices have been married once and have had biological children with their spouses. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2007 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife Virginia Thomas in Washington. With their Ivy League pedigrees and East Coast addresses, Supreme Court justices often are rightly described as unrepresentative of the nation. But in one area, the justices look a lot like the rest of America. Members of the court have first-hand experience with divorce and adoption, as well as making it alone without ever getting married. Just five of the nine justices have been married once and have had biological children with their spouses. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2009 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor throws out the ceremonial first pitch before the New York Yankees play the Boston Red Sox in a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York. With their Ivy League pedigrees and East Coast addresses, Supreme Court justices often are rightly described as unrepresentative of the nation. But in one area, the justices look a lot like the rest of America. Members of the court have first-hand experience with divorce and adoption, as well as making it alone without ever getting married. Just five of the nine justices have been married once and have had biological children with their spouses. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2012 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan lights a menorah before speaking at the 6th & I Historic Synagogue in Washington. With their Ivy League pedigrees and East Coast addresses, Supreme Court justices often are rightly described as unrepresentative of the nation. But in one area, the justices look a lot like the rest of America. Members of the court have first-hand experience with divorce and adoption, as well as making it alone without ever getting married. Just five of the nine justices have been married once and have had biological children with their spouses. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? With their Ivy League pedigrees and East Coast addresses, Supreme Court justices often are rightly described as unrepresentative of the nation. But in one area, the justices look a lot like the rest of America.
Members of the court have firsthand experience with divorce and adoption, as well as making it alone without ever getting married. Just five of the nine justices have been married once and have had biological children with their spouses.
"The diversity of the family lives of the justices mirrors the diversity of American families overall," said Andrew Cherlin, a Johns Hopkins University sociologist who studies families and public policy.
These varied family portraits of the justices are somewhat at odds with the arguments of gay marriage opponents who stress the unique ability of heterosexual couples to have babies as a reason to uphold bans on same-sex marriage.
The briefs defending California's Proposition 8 gay-marriage ban and a federal law denying benefits to legally married gay couples are sprinkled with references to the ideal family as having a mother, a father and biological children.
"Proposition 8 thus plainly bears a close and direct relationship to society's interest in increasing the likelihood that children will be born to and raised by the mothers and fathers who brought them into the world in stable and enduring family units," the provision's supporters say.
The conservative, public-interest Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., puts it this way: "Reserving marriage to a man and a woman thus reflects the inherent distinction between those pairs capable of engaging in the act which can produce human offspring, and those pairs which cannot."
The two justices who have adopted children are considered likely votes against gay marriage. Chief Justice John Roberts is the father of two children, Jack and Josie, both 12. They were adopted four months apart as babies in 2000, after Roberts and his wife, Jane, then 45, spent several years trying to adopt. The Roberts family discussed the adoption for a biography of the chief justice that was aimed at young readers and published in 2006.
Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia, took custody of Thomas's grandnephew, Mark, when he was 6, in 1998. Soon after they were married in 1987, the Thomases decided they would not have children of their own, author Ken Foskett wrote in his biography, "Judging Thomas." Mark's father had been in and out of legal trouble and his mother was raising three other children on her own. Thomas also has a biological child from his first marriage, which ended in divorce.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor also is divorced, while Justice Elena Kagan has never married. Neither has children.
The justices' personal lives may not often play a role in the way the court decides cases, but they cannot completely set aside their own experiences and circumstances. Both Sotomayor and Thomas were beneficiaries of affirmative action programs that were intended to boost minority enrollment in higher education. On the court, Thomas has voted to get rid of the use of race in admissions and other areas. Sotomayor has yet to cast a vote on the topic, but she has spoken much more positively about affirmative action than has Thomas.
The justices also are not immune to considering how they might be affected by the course one side or the other is advocating in a dispute before them. Last year's case involving the placement of a GPS device on a car seemed to take a turn against the government when a Justice Department lawyer asserted that federal agents could track the justices' movements the same as any other person's, without obtaining a judge's approval.
"So, your answer is yes, you could tomorrow decide that you put a GPS device on every one of our cars, follow us for a month; no problem under the Constitution?" Roberts said during the argument in U.S. v. Jones.
Cherlin, who does not follow the high court especially closely, wondered whether the gay marriage cases might take on a similar dynamic. "If justices consider their own family lives in these cases, it may change the way they rule," he said.
Gay marriage opponents said they are not worried about the votes of Roberts and Thomas.
"You're looking at what is the best course societywide to get you the optimal result in the widest variety of cases. That often is not open to people in individual cases. Certainly adoption in families headed, like Chief Roberts' family is, by a heterosexual couple, is by far the second-best option," said John Eastman, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage. Eastman also teaches law at Chapman University law school in Orange, Calif.
Thomas has dissented from two major decisions in favor of gay rights in 1996 and 2003. The latter case, Lawrence v. Texas, concerned the state's anti-gay sex law. In a short, separate opinion, Thomas described his view of the difference between a judge and a legislator.
He called the law "uncommonly silly" and said he would vote to repeal it if he were a Texas lawmaker. But as a federal judge, he said, he was compelled to vote to uphold it.
Both sides in the current cases have spilled a lot of ink about the relevance of another high-profile Supreme Court ruling, the unanimous decision in 1967 that held states could not prohibit interracial marriages. Gay marriage supporters point to Loving v. Virginia as an important precedent in their favor. Opponents say the case is not of much help to the court because race never had a central role in the definition of marriage.
Whether or not Thomas finds any important legal connection between that decision and the gay marriage cases, the personal connection is undeniable. Thomas, who is black, and his wife, who is white, live in Virginia.
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Europe gets 1st fix from its own satnav system
BERLIN (AP) ? The European Space Agency says it has received the first location fix from its own satellite navigation system.
The Galileo system is seen as Europe's rival to the American-built Global Positioning System.
ESA says technicians at a control center in the Dutch city of Noordwijk received a longitude, latitude and altitude reading early Tuesday from the four satellites already in orbit.
The readings were still very rough, with an accuracy of between 10 to 15 meters (33 to 49 feet).
Europe hopes to start providing an alternative to GPS and Russia's GLONASS system by the end of 2014.
Galileo is named after 17th-century Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who was persecuted for heresy by the Catholic Church for claiming the Earth revolves around the sun.
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What the wealthy collected while markets slept
Collectors say they collect out of passion, not for money. But given the run-ups in prices for various collectible markets in recent years, it's hard not to think of art, wine and other collectibles as investments.
Some investments have done much better than others. According Knight Frank's Wealth Report, an index of the nine main collectibles markets grew by 175 percent over the past 10 years ? a far better record than U.S. stocks. All nine categories tracked by Knight Frank increased in value except collectible furniture.
Classic cars were the top-performing collectible. Car prices surged 23 percent in the 12 months ending in the third quarter of 2012, the report said, and racked up gains of 11 percent over five years and 395 percent over 10 years.
(Read more: Vintage Cars Fetch $53 Million in a Weekend)
The big surprise was the number two collectible: coins. They don't get as much press as art or cars, but coins have racked up even better gains over the past year (25 percent) and 248-percent gains over 10 years.
Stamps came in a close third, with nine percent gains last year and 216-percent gains over 10 years. One of the kings of philately (stamp collecting) is Bill Gross, the bond king who put together one of the top collections in the world and has sold off some of his collection in recent years.
As Knight Frank says, however, "performance doesn't go hand in hand with popularity." Sometimes the most beloved collectibles are no good as investments.
Art remains the most widely collected collectible among the wealthy. The world's millionaires are predicted to increase their spending by 13 percent on art this year.
The second most popular collectible, led by Asian collectors, is watches. That was followed by fine wine, jewelry and cars.
With all collectibles, however, buyers should beware. "People often think these types of investments are more transparent and less complicated than traditional investments," said Greg Davies of Barclays Wealth and Investment Management.
"In reality, they are generally less regulated and can be illiquid, expensive to trade and sometimes actually more difficult to understand unless you have a high level of expertise or inside knowledge."
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
US institute: All quiet at NKorea test sites
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Recent satellite imagery shows no sign that North Korea is readying another long-range rocket launch within the next month or another nuclear test, a U.S. research institute said Tuesday.
North Korea has said it would conduct more rocket launches and has also hinted at a follow-up to its Feb. 12 atomic test.
In recent days, the North has threatened a nuclear strike on the U.S. and said it was scuttling the cease-fire on the Korean Peninsula. James Clapper, the director of U.S. intelligence, said Tuesday the North posed a serious threat to the U.S. and East Asia and that it could attack South Korea.
But at least at the North's two rocket test facilities, things appear quiet.
Very little is going on at the Sohae site on the west coast from where a satellite was launched in December, according to an analysis written for 38 North, the website of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. There has been recent activity at the older Tonghae launch site on its northeast coast, although it's unclear to what end.
Joel Wit, the 38 North editor and a former State Department official, said that as of end February, aerial photos also showed no indications of another nuclear test ? although preparations for such an underground blast are more tricky to detect.
"While inter-Korean rhetoric is heating up," Wit said, "Pyongyang is unlikely to do anything provocative in the near-term" at least in terms of testing its weapons of mass destruction.
North Korea already has missiles that could hit South Korea and Japan but is still believed to be a ways from deploying a missile that could be wedded to a nuclear warhead and target the U.S.
It appears to be progressing toward that goal, however, and Clapper told the Senate Intelligence Committee that North Korea has also taken initial steps toward fielding what appears to be a road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile. He said it hasn't yet tested the missile, the KN-08, which was displayed at a military parade last April. At the time, some experts questioned whether it was just a mock-up.
North Korea's next steps are being closed watched. Tensions have ratcheted up after the U.N. Security Council tightened sanctions last week, raising the prospect the North could conduct another weapons' test or lash out against rival South Korea.
South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok told reporters Tuesday there were no signs that North Korea could conduct additional nuclear and missile tests anytime soon, or launch some other provocation.
Past experience suggests North could take its time to react. It faced international condemnation for rocket and nuclear tests in 2009, and 10 months later was implicated in the sinking of a South Korean navy ship that killed 46 seamen.
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Associated Press writer Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul contributed to this report.
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China appoints head of top political advisory body
BEIJING (AP) ? China took another step toward completing its leadership handover Monday with the appointment of an official best known for his communist pedigree to head a top government advisory body.
Yu Zhengsheng was selected by a vote of 2,188 to 4 to head the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a companion body to the country's rubber-stamp legislature. There was no other candidate in the CPPCC vote.
Yu's selection is the latest step in China's once-a-decade political transition and kicks off a week of formal government leadership changes that were foreshadowed by promotions at the Communist Party's congress in November. In China, the party is the pre-eminent political power and top government posts are held by its leaders.
Yu was among seven leaders who ascended to the party's top inner circle at the November conclave which also anointed Xi Jinping as general secretary. Yu is ranked fourth in the party.
The governor of the People's Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, was named one of the vice chairmen of the advisory body, suggesting that he might be preparing to leave the central bank after 11 years at the helm.
This week, the largely ceremonial legislature known as the National People's Congress will finalize the transition and approve appointments to top government posts: Xi is certain to succeed Hu Jintao as president while Li Keqiang, the party's No. 2, is to be named premier, in charge of the Cabinet.
When fully installed into government posts, Xi's administration will confront domestic challenges that include public anger over official corruption that pervades all levels of society, and the degradation of the country's water, air and soil that has resulted from decades of rapid economic growth. A rising middle class, empowered by social networking technology, is increasingly vocal about its demands for change and willing to organize demonstrations to that effect.
Yu, 67, was Communist Party chief in the financial hub of Shanghai until shortly after his latest party promotion. He held the post of construction minister in the 1990s, when China suffered a series of building collapses that prompted the party to launch a campaign to improve construction safety.
A missile engineer by training, Yu is best known for his status as a "princeling" ? the label assigned to the politically influential sons and daughters of leaders who struggled alongside Mao Zedong in the early years of the communist state. Yu's father was the ex-husband of a woman who later married Mao.
His family history has been problematic, however: His brother, an official in the Ministry of State Security, China's secret police, defected to the United States in the mid-1980s. Yu's connections to patriarch Deng Xiaoping's family are believed to have kept him in the running for promotion to the apex of power.
Yu now heads a 2,200-plus advisory body made up of carefully selected entrepreneurs, intellectuals, religious clerics and celebrities. The group has no real power but in recent years has become more important as representatives have used the platform to advocate for hot-button issues of public concern such as food safety, pollution and land seizures.
In one of the session's more interesting vote counts, scandal-tainted politician Ling Jihua, formerly a top aide of President Hu's, was among a few who received more than just a handful of opposing votes. Ninety ballots were cast against his appointment as one of the vice chairmen, though he got through anyway with more than 2,000 votes in his favor.
The votes against Ling could be a sign of damage to his reputation caused by reports of a lurid scandal involving his son, who apparently died after crashing in a speeding Ferrari while playing some kind of high-speed sex game a year ago in Beijing.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-appoints-head-top-political-advisory-body-090118589.html
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Comet posing beside crescent moon in cool photo op
In this Sunday, March 10, 2013 photo taken with a 600-millimeter telephoto lens, comet Pan-STARRS appears between the clouds low in the western sky as seen from Harrells, N.C. The comet, which was closest to the sun on Sunday, is expected to become more easily visible to observers in the Northern Hemisphere during the coming week. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Johnny Horne)
In this Sunday, March 10, 2013 photo taken with a 600-millimeter telephoto lens, comet Pan-STARRS appears between the clouds low in the western sky as seen from Harrells, N.C. The comet, which was closest to the sun on Sunday, is expected to become more easily visible to observers in the Northern Hemisphere during the coming week. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Johnny Horne)
This image provided by NASA shoaws the comet PANSTARRS as seen from Mount Dale, Western Australia on March 5, 2013. According to NASA on March 10, it will make its closest approach to the sun about 28 million miles (45 million kilometers) away. As it continues its nightly trek across the sky, the comet may get lost in the sun's glare but should return and be visible to the naked eye by March 12. (AP Photo/NASA)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ? Now's your chance to see the comet that passed within 100 million miles of Earth last week.
Twilight on Tuesday will provide the best photo op for the comet called Pan-STARRS. It will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere just above the western horizon ? right next to a crescent moon.
California astronomer Tony Phillips said the glare of the setting sun may make it difficult to see the comet with the naked eye. But he encourages casual sky gazers to give it a shot. The moon will provide an easy point of reference.
"All by itself, the slender moon will be super-beautiful. If you can see a comet right beside it ... what a bonus!" he wrote in an email from his home and observatory in the Sierra Nevada.
Remember your binoculars, but be certain not to point them at the setting sun, he warned.
Next week, the comet should be easier to spot. It will be higher in the western sky and therefore visible for longer once the sun sets. The surrounding darkness, versus twilight, will make it stand out if the sky is clear.
"Not a great comet, but still a pretty good one," Phillips noted.
Pan-STARRS was visible for weeks from the Southern Hemisphere before popping up on the upper half of the globe in recent days.
Although billions of year old, Pan-STARRS is making its first-ever cruise through the inner solar system. The ice ball passed within 28 million miles of the sun Sunday, its closest approach to our star and within the orbit of Mercury.
Phillips said the comet did not appear to decay during its brush with the sun, even though it encountered 10 times more intense solar rays than what we're used to here on Earth.
Last Tuesday, Pan-STARRS made its closest approach ever of Earth.
The comet's name is actually an acronym for the telescope in Hawaii used to discover it two years ago: the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System.
Astronomers believe Pan-STARRS somehow got kicked out of the Oort Cloud that is full of icy bodies beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto, and propelled into the inner solar system.
It will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere for weeks to come.
Have no fear: Pan-STARRS poses no threat to Earth. Neither does comet ISON, which promises to outdo Pan-STARRS.
Astronomers believe ISON will rival the moon in brightness, come November.
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Osbourne confirms seizure, tweets hospital photo
Osbourne confirms seizure, tweets hospital photo
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FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 file photo, TV personality Kelly Osbourne arrives at the 85th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Osbourne has been hospitalized after fainting on the set of E!?s ?Fashion Police.? A spokeswoman for Osbourne told the cable network Thursday, March 7, 2013, that the 28-year-old TV personality is awake, alert and in stable condition, and she will be staying overnight for observation as a precautionary measure. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 file photo, TV personality Kelly Osbourne arrives at the 85th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Osbourne has been hospitalized after fainting on the set of E!?s ?Fashion Police.? A spokeswoman for Osbourne told the cable network Thursday, March 7, 2013, that the 28-year-old TV personality is awake, alert and in stable condition, and she will be staying overnight for observation as a precautionary measure. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 file photo, TV personality Kelly Osbourne arrives at the 85th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Osbourne has been hospitalized after fainting on the set of E!?s ?Fashion Police.? A spokeswoman for Osbourne told the cable network Thursday, March 7, 2013, that the 28-year-old TV personality is awake, alert and in stable condition, and she will be staying overnight for observation as a precautionary measure. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Kelly Osbourne says she had a seizure and doctors are trying to figure out why.
The 28-year-old TV personality posted a photo on Twitter late Thursday of an IV in her tattooed left arm. She thanked her fans for their "beautiful well wishes."
Osbourne was hospitalized Thursday after collapsing on the set of E! network's "Fashion Police," where she serves as a panelist alongside Joan Rivers, Giuliana Rancic and George Kotsiopoulos.
Osbourne is the daughter of rocker Ozzy Osbourne and "The Talk" co-host Sharon Osbourne. She was profiled with her family on the MTV reality series "The Osbournes" and has appeared as a contestant on "Dancing with the Stars."
Representatives for E! and Kelly Osbourne didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Dick Cheney unconcerned with critics in new documentary
The former vice president got straight to the point in R.J. Cutler's latest documentary "The World According to Dick Cheney," telling the filmmaker he doesn't care what his critics think.
"I don't lay awake at night thinking 'gee, what are they going to say about me now?'" Cheney remarks in the upcoming film.
In an interview forABC's "This Week," Cutler responded "He does say a lot that he's not interested in what people think about him, but it's hard to imagine that he's not invested in what his legacy is. He is a significant figure of American history."
The documentary, which premieres March 15 on Showtime, features an extensive interview with the retired politician and offers a rare glimpse into Cheney's life since leaving Washington.
Cutler said he was strategic in approaching Cheney about appearing on the big screen.
"I was advised early on that the best path to getting him to participate would be patience," Cutler said. "And indeed it took seven months between the time that I first reached out to him and the time that he invited me to have lunch with him to discuss what my plans were for the film."
The director, whose previous documentaries include "The War Room" and "A Perfect Candidate," said he was driven by a desire to find out more about the polarizing political figure.
"Making a film like 'The World According to Dick Cheney,' you need to enter most of all with curiosity," Cutler said. "Not with expectations, not with preconceived notions, but with questions."
After many lengthy interviews with Cheney, and even accompanying him on a fishing excursion, Cutler gained unique insight into the former vice president's political strategy.
"He does not feel there is room for compromise," Cutler said. "I think it raises the question, when total conviction serves a democracy and when it can be problematic for democracy. And that's a question that, to me, is worth considering not only in the specific analysis of the George W. Bush presidency and his relationship with Vice President Cheney and Vice President Cheney's career, but in thinking about democracy from a larger view. And so, this was a major reason why we wanted to make this film and something that I was really excited about exploring.."
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Redhawk Track and Field Starts Outdoor Season - Seattle University ...
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Under sunny skies at the Pacific Lutheran Track and Field Facility, members of the Seattle University track and field team got a jump on the start of the outdoor season, competing in the PLU Invitational Saturday.
Devon Walker (Ventura, Calif.) set a new school record in the men's discus throw, finishing third in the event with a toss of 42.03 meters (137' 11"). Walker also finished ninth in the hammer throw with a mark of 37.91 meters (124' 4") and 12th in the shot put with a top effort of 12.00 meters (39' 4.5"). Chris Scaffa (Lake Oswego, Ore.) also competed in two of the throwing events, finishing seventh in the hammer throw at 41.55 meters (136' 4") and 10th in the discus throw at 36.34 meters (119' 3").
For the women, Sara Blakely (Spokane, Wash.) finished in fifth place in the discus throw with a top effort of 34.67 meters (113' 9"). Renate Wescott (Puyallup, Wash.) competed in the hammer throw, finishing 10th in the event with a best toss of 36.04 meters (118' 3").
On the track, Rosalyn DiLillo (Santa Rosa, Calif.) finished fourth in the 800 meter run with a time of 2:25.32, and Amy Tolentino (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) finished ninth in the 1500 meter run after crossing the finish line with a time of 5:07.42.
The Seattle University track and field team will be fully represented at the Oregon Preview at historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., next Saturday, March 16, starting at 12:30 p.m.
Source: http://www.goseattleu.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=18200&ATCLID=206698662
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Germany: Fire at apartment building kills 8
BERLIN (AP) ? An early-morning fire Sunday at an apartment building in southwestern Germany left eight people dead, seven of them children, police said.
Three other people were injured in the fire in Backnang, a town near Stuttgart, and taken to hospitals. Police said the victims were of Turkish origin, news agency dpa reported; Turkey's ambassador to Germany planned to travel to the scene.
Authorities were alerted to the blaze at 4:30 a.m. (0330 GMT). Police said they believe the fire broke out in a second-floor apartment, and said in a statement that their investigation is focusing on a heater in the apartment.
The building is part of a former leather factory that was converted into a row of three-story apartment blocks. Police spokesman Klaus Hinderer told dpa that 13 people are registered as living in the two apartments worst affected by the fire, though it wasn't clear how many were there when the fire broke out.
Police said a German-Turkish cultural association has an office on the building's ground floor. They said there was no indication that the fire might have been set deliberately or have been a racist attack.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/germany-fire-apartment-building-kills-8-124759634.html
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Sunday, March 10, 2013
Luxury cars going green at Geneva Motor Show
If your idea of a hybrid looks a lot like the Toyota Prius, something more fuel-efficient than fun-to-drive, you may need an attitude readjustment after getting a look at the new LaFerrari, the long-awaited replacement for the Italian automaker?s former flagship, the Ferrari Enzo, making its debut at this month?s Geneva Motor Show.
This is definitely not your typical gas-electric drivetrain, though the maker insists it will substantially reduce emissions and fuel consumption compared to a conventional gasoline engine. It also can churn out nearly 1,000 horsepower, launch from 0 to 60 in under three seconds and nudge 220 mph.
Meanwhile, if your image of a pure battery-electric vehicle, or BEV, is something akin to the sedate little Nissan Leaf, you might want to visit the Mercedes-Benz stand, a quick walk from Ferrari, where the German automaker is showing off the production version of its SLS AMG Electric Drive. With its 1200-pound lithium-ion battery pack, the gull-winged supercar is just a wee bit slower than La Ferrari, taking 3.6 seconds to hit 60, with its top speed ?just? 155 mph.
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In fact, if you visit virtually any upscale brand on display at this year?s Geneva Motor Show, you?ll either find a hybrid, plug-in or electric vehicle on display ? or find out that the manufacturer is working on one or more. Luxury cars, it seems, are going green.
True, there are a number of battery-based models from mainstream manufacturers at Geneva?s PALExpo convention center. Hybrids are a big part of the Toyota display, the maker expecting them to generate 18% of its European sales this year, up from 13% in 2012. And then there?s Volkswagen AG which used the annual auto show to unveil its new XL1, a pint-sized two-seater that will deliver an astonishing 261 miles per gallon.
But there?s not the sort of high-voltage surge of interest in mainstream battery power one might have felt at the Geneva show in recent years, perhaps reflecting the relatively slow ramp-up of sales for products like the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt.
There are a number of reasons behind this slow adoption, lamented Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of Nissan and its French alliance partner Renault. They include the limited range of today?s batteries, the lack of a public charging infrastructure and high cost.
?People want environmentally friendly cars but they don?t want to pay for them,? Ghosn said, during a Geneva roundtable.
The lack of range is a factor that all manufacturers, mainstream or luxury, have to consider, said Heinz Hollerweger, the technical development chief at Audi AG. And it?s why the maker decided to scrub a program to produce a pure battery version of its own 2-seat supercar, the R8.
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But luxury buyers are, by nature, less worried about the price premium of battery technology, noted the executive. And there are other factors that may encourage them to spend the money for electrified offerings such as the new Audi A3 e-Tron, a plug-in hybrid also making its debut at the 2013 Motor Show ? Hollerweger adding that, ?We plan to add one more (plug-in) per year? to the Audi model mix.
Even luxury buyers are showing an interest in reducing emissions and improving fuel economy, industry planners note. And high-line vehicles such as the planned Bentley sport-utility vehicle due out in 2015 will have a tougher time meeting stricter mandates being passed in all key markets, from Berlin to Boston to Beijing.
There?s yet another reason to move ahead with the plug-in hybrid drivetrain Bentley confirmed this week that it is developing for its new sport-ute. Officials in a number of cities around the world are considering severe restrictions on conventionally powered vehicles, even outright bans in dense urban centers.
Based on the EXP 9F concept vehicle shown at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, the Bentley plug-in will be able to switch to pure battery mode, if necessary, in the city. But unlike a pure BEV, it will offer the advantage of being able to switch back to gas or conventional hybrid modes for longer commutes or weekend journeys.
But for some high-end buyers, the biggest advantage for battery power is underscored by the LaFerrari and by the McLaren P1 supercar on display at the other end of the Geneva convention center. The two makers are fierce rivals both on the street and on the track, where they run traditional dominant Formula One teams.
Their new supercars borrow an F1 racing technology known as HY-KERS, or hybrid kinetic energy recovery systems. At its heart, the technology has a surprising amount in common with the Hybrid Synergy Drive in a Prius, recapturing energy normally lost during braking or coasting. And that can be used to reduce power demands during normal driving, boosting fuel economy and reducing emissions.
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But HY-KERS also can pour out tremendous bursts of power, combining with LaFerrari?s already impressive 800-horsepower V-12 gasoline engine to boost the vehicle?s overall output to 963 hp.
Better yet, noted Audi?s Hollerweger, electric motors reach maximum tire-spinning torque the moment they start to spin, even as a conventional gasoline engine is revving up.
So, for any and all of those reasons, expect to see more and more luxury automakers adopt various forms of green technology as they seek to boost performance, deliver better mileage, reduce emissions and maintain the right to drive anywhere they please.
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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/luxury-cars-going-green-geneva-motor-show-1C8752834
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