Volunteers register families to receive free food and school supplies at Destiny House Assembly of God?s Community Day on Saturday. This year the program gave away 500 backpacks filled with supplies and 14 tons of food from Second Harvest Food Bank. (Photo by Devin Bezeredi)
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In this image take from a security camera, pedestrians scatter as a car drives through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. At least a dozen people were injured, two of them critically, according to police. (AP Photo/Snapchat)
In this image take from a security camera, pedestrians scatter as a car drives through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. At least a dozen people were injured, two of them critically, according to police. (AP Photo/Snapchat)
In this image take from a security camera, pedestrians scatter as a car drives through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. At least a dozen people were injured, two of them critically, according to police. (AP Photo/Snapchat)
Pedestrians gather as police and fire officials respond after a car drove through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. At least a dozen people were injured, two of them critically, according to police. (AP Photo/Maarten Smitskamp)
An unidentified man looks at a car that came to rest against the entrance of a public restroom after being driven through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. At least a dozen people were injured, two of them critically, according to police. (AP Photo/Maarten Smitskamp)
Police and fire officials assist an injured pedestrian at the scene where a car drove through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. At least a dozen people were injured, two of them critically, according to police. (AP Photo/Venice311.org, Alex Thompson)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A rapidly accelerating car driven by a young man screeched across a sidewalk and straight into a crowd enjoying one of Southern California's most popular boardwalks, killing one person, injuring 11 and leaving the promenade in chaos as he sped out of sight.
The victim died at a hospital a few hours after the Saturday evening crash at the Venice Beach boardwalk, Los Angeles police Lt. Andy Neiman said.
Security video shows the man parking his black car alongside the seaside boardwalk as the sun sank, surveying the idyllic scene for several minutes before getting back into the car and speeding into the crowd. It shows hundreds of people walking lazily or sitting at cafes before the black car suddenly appears and sends them scrambling wildly.
Witnesses reported a horrifying aftermath.
"There was people kind of stumbling around, blood dripping down their legs looking confused not knowing what had happened, people screaming," said 35-year-old Louisa Hodge, who was out enjoying the day on the Venice Beach boardwalk with a friend visiting from San Diego. "It was blocks and blocks of people just strewn across the sidewalk."
Firefighters combed the chaotic crowd, finding 12 people wounded and taking 10 of them to the hospital where one later died, fire and police officials said.
Another victim was in critical condition, two more were in serious condition, and the remaining eight had minor injuries, city fire spokesman Brian Humphrey said.
The driver fled the scene and about an hour later, just as police were circulating word that they were seeking a black Dodge with a driver in his 20s, a man walked into a police station in neighboring Santa Monica, told officers he was involved in the boardwalk incident, Neiman said.
Police then found a car nearby that they believe belonged to the man, Neiman said.
Hours later detectives were questioning the man, calling him a person of interest and attempting to determine whether he was the driver, Neiman said.
Neiman would give no details on the identity of the person who died or the person of interest.
The site isn't from the Santa Monica Farmer's Market where a 2003 crash left 10 dead and 63 hurt, after an 87-year-old man's car accidentally roared through the market.
According to the security video and witness accounts, the man with a baseball cap, gray shirt and white pants parked next to the Cadillac Hotel, twice walking out to the boardwalk before getting into the Dodge Avenger and accelerating, swerving around yellow poles meant to prevent cars from getting into the pedestrian-only area and onto the boardwalk.
"I heard a big 'boom, boom,' like the sound of someone going up and down the curb, it was super loud," said Alex Hagan, 22, who was working the desk at the Cadillac Hotel and watched the scene unfold from the start.
The man knocked over two mannequins then started hitting people, swerving from side to side and often running straight into them.
The crowd of hundreds of couples, families and children who had been sitting at cafes, shopping and walking lazily along in shorts and sandals were sent on a mad scramble to get themselves and others out of the way and to rush to help those who were hit.
The car hit at least three vendors who were sitting at their sales booths, video showed.
It hit two women who appeared to be in their 60s, Hagan said.
Many ran after the car, screaming and cursing as it sped away, he said.
Hodge said she and her friend, 31-year-old Ashley Taylor, had made note of the numbers walking along the seaside.
"It was a really nice day, there were tons of people out, in fact, we were talking about how packed it was, because we were having a hard time getting through all the people," said Hodge.
She and her friend stepped into a store to buy a couple of hats, a move that may have saved their lives, and stepped out to see the aftermath, as emergency crews arrived and started putting victims on tarps.
Hodge saw one man and woman lying next to each other, wearing head braces and barely able to move.
"They were just laying next to each other and grasping hands," Hodge said, "just a man and a woman holding hands."
Hours later police were surveying the same stretch of ground for evidence.
The Venice boardwalk is a cultural hub in a part of Los Angeles known for its circus-meets-gritty-city eccentricities.
The 1.5-mile ribbon of asphalt that runs along the sand a few hundred yards from the ocean is home to galleries, restaurants, tattoo shops, skateboard parks and the famous outdoor weight room known as Muscle Beach.
It can draw as many as 150,000 people on summer weekends.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? The Eagles say Riley Cooper told them about threatening messages he received after a video of him making a racial slur became public.
Cooper, a fourth-year wide receiver, was fined by the Eagles, and then left the team to seek counseling. A video of him using a racial slur at a Kenny Chesney concert in June surfaced on Wednesday.
"Riley Cooper made us aware of the tweets when the video became public," the team says in a statement released Sunday. "He told us that he did not know about the video. He informed us he blocked the tweets because he did not know the person nor understand the context of what that person was threatening. We promptly alerted NFL Security. This information potentially speaks to a legal issue that is a matter between Riley and the authorities. Our focus has been on Riley's words and actions."
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Exactly how many phone records of Americans does the National Security Agency collect in its massive surveillance program?
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, tucked a provision into the 2014 fiscal year defense spending bill that would require the NSA to report to Congress ? within 90 days after the legislation becomes law ? on the precise number of phone records collected, the total reviewed by NSA employees and all bulk collection activities, including how much they cost and when they began.
The NSA also would have to provide Congress with a list of potential terrorist attacks that have been thwarted due to the information obtained through the sweeping data collection program.
The Senate Appropriations Committee backed the report request on Thursday in voting for the overall bill. It first Senate effort aimed at the program since revelations two months ago that the NSA was collecting hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records as part of an effort to combat terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The disclosure has revived the debate ? in the nation and Congress ? over whether secret national security programs encroach on Americans' privacy rights. Skeptics wary of the program are pressing for changes though wholesale revisions are unlikely as surveillance efforts have the strong support of the Republican and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate.
The NSA has said that its two surveillance programs ? the other sweeps up Internet usage data ? have stopped at least 50 terror plots across 20 countries.
"We're talking about some changes in the program, some disclosure in the program that would still keep it in some form as a tool to fight terrorism but would also assure the American people about the limits of its use," Durbin said in a telephone interview on Friday.
The senator was one of several lawmakers ? proponents and critics ? who met with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday to discuss the surveillance programs.
Durbin said the purpose of his measure is to obtain basic information about the program, which has largely emerged piecemeal.
"Just this last week, we did get some information from the NSA about the number of queries in a given year, which you can draw some conclusions about just how active is this effort, how many telephone numbers are being followed to find out if they have connections and what we do in the bill is to try to make this a more complete disclosure of the volume of collected information," said Durbin, chairman of the Appropriations defense subcommittee and a member of the Judiciary Committee.
"There is a lot of misunderstanding about what's collected, why it's collected and how much is being used," Durbin said.
Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Friday that "almost everybody except for a few" understand that the NSA program is vital. The task in the coming weeks is to make Americans understand that constitutional rights aren't being trampled.
"What we have to do is educate the public and we have to make some changes to show that so that we can be more open but not give the information to the enemy," Ruppersberger told reporters in a brief interview.
The House Intelligence Committee likely will incorporate some changes in its authorization bill in late September or early October, he said. The counterpart Senate panel and House and Senate Judiciary committees also are likely to act this fall.
In a letter to Ruppersberger, Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., pressed the committee to include several proposals circulating in Congress while insisting that "the government be more transparent in how these programs ensure national security and protect Americans' civil liberties."
Among them is requiring that the secret federal court that oversees the program publically disclose specific opinions and that the Senate confirm judges appointed to the court.
Last week, the House narrowly rejected a challenge to the program. Libertarian-leaning conservatives and liberal Democrats had joined forces on a measure that would have canceled the statutory authority for the NSA program, ending the agency's ability to collect phone records and metadata under the USA Patriot Act unless it identified an individual under investigation.
"The vote in the House was amazing," Durbin said. "Within seven votes of basically putting an end to an intelligence program or changing it dramatically and that is unheard of."
He said it was a "call to action for those who want to maintain program to be more open about it and also to be open to changes that will make it more trustworthy."
Among potential changes are who should do the basic metadata collection, how they'll do it and how it will be used, Durbin said. Another possible change is an effort to demystify the secret court, creating greater opening without compromising national security.
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Associated Press writer Richard Lardner contributed to this report.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium-based cancer testing company MDxHealth said on Monday it had signed a partnership with Bostwick Laboratories Inc to market prostate cancer test ConfirmMDx in the United States.
MDxHealth said the partnership would grant it access to one of the largest urology networks in the country, where the test has been available since May 2012.
Bostwick provides laboratory services specializing in the monitoring and diagnosis of cancer.
(This story was corrected in second paragraph to remove reference to company securing U.S. approval earlier this month; adds test available since May 2012.)
(Reporting By Philip Blenkinsop; editing by Robin Emmott)
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PARIS (Reuters) - Sanofi
"We are not really aware of the purpose of the visit, we are working with them," Chief Executive Chris Viehbacher told reporters during a conference call on Thursday.
He added that the French group's head office in Shanghai had not been contacted by Chinese authorities.
(Reporting by Elena Berton; Editing by James Regan)
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Burpple, the memorably-named mobile app for food lovers that we profiled in December, has launched an updated version that makes it easier for gourmands to share pictures and recommendations.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/kHla4pvqK08/
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MOVIE REVIEW with NEBAT MBEWE
TITLE: Peeples
STARRING: Craig Robinson, Kerry Washington, David Alan Grier
DIRECTED by: Tina Gordon Chism
PRODUCED by: Stephanie Allain, Ozzie Areu, Paul Hall, Matt Moore, Tyler Perry
GENRES: Romance, Comedy
The frequency at which Tyler Perry churns out movies is incredible, but it also raises the question whether each new production is significantly different from the previous ones to make it enjoyable.
Perry has directed, produced and acted in some incredibly good movies since the hit Madea?s Family Reunion in 2006, but surely even he doesn?t expect public interest to be sustained in high numbers if movies flow out too fast.
True, some of his movies leave you fully satisfied and craving for more, but there must be some breathing space for full digestion before another production is released.
And so hot on the heels of Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (March 29) comes Tyler Perry Presents Peeples.
The May 10 release makes its debut in Zambia today at Fresh View Cinemas, Levy Junction.
For many of his 13 previous movies, Perry combines directing, producing, writing and acting.? In Peeples, his singular role is that of producing.
His hand is evident. The flow of the plot is simple, somewhat infectious but at times also predictable, especially if you have seen some of his other productions.
This romantic comedy is built around a seemingly ordinary man Wade Walker (Graig Robinson) and his girlfriend Grace Peeples (Kerry Washington), who find themselves at the holiday home of her fairly financially comfortable family.
The Peeples? family holiday takes a sharp turn when Walker asks the family for Grace?s hand in marriage.
Ordinarily, this would be a straight-forward joyful matter but not with the Peeples.? Walker faces the challenge of proving, especially to Grace?s father, that he would be a worthy in-law.
The comfortably-paced movie unfolds fairly good comical romantic scenes and quips, but not that dramatically unusual.
Some critics have given the movie very low marks.? There is nothing unusual about this too.? Some of Perry?s previous movies similarly got poor grades but they eventually silenced the critics with handsome box office retains.
It, however, may take a major turn for the better for Peeples to score big.? The movie made $9,177,065 in its opening week, the lowest ever for a Tyler Perry production.
Whatever the turn of events at the box office, Perry is not stopping here.? On the cards is
A Madea Christmas due in December.? In May next year, he will release Single Moms? Club.
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Another belated entry on the local screens is the February sci-fi horror Dark Skies, which is showing at Fresh View Cinemas, Levy Junction.
The movie is a psychological thriller about a suburban couple whose lives become a nightmare when a terrifying alien enters their home each night to hound their children.
With no-one believing them, they decide to do something for themselves to end the nightmare.
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Microbiologists are trying to work out whether the agricultural use of antibiotics is fueling the human epidemic of drug-resistant bacteria
Pigs carrying methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus were found on US farms for the first time in 2007. Image: DANIEL ACKER/BLOOMBERG/GETTY
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The sight of just one boot coming through the doorway cues the clatter of tiny hoofs as 500 piglets scramble away from Mike Male. ?That's the sound of healthy pigs,? shouts Male, a veterinarian who has been working on pig farms for more than 30 years. On a hot June afternoon, he walks down the central aisle of a nursery in eastern Iowa, scoops up a piglet and dangles her by her hind legs. A newborn piglet's navel is an easy entry point for bacterial infections, he explains. If this pig were infected, she would have an abscess, a lump of inflamed tissue, just below the navel. ?In human terms, she'd be an outie instead of an innie,? he says, rubbing the pig's healthy, pink belly button.
Nearly six years ago, an outbreak of 'outies' at this nursery marked the first known infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in pigs in the United States. MRSA has troubled hospitals around the world for more than four decades and has been infecting people outside of health-care settings since at least 1995 (see Nature 482, 23?25; 2012). It causes around 94,000 infections and 18,000 deaths annually in the United States. In the European Union, more than 150,000 people are estimated to contract MRSA each year. Its first appearance on a US farm signalled the expansion of what many believe is a dangerous source of human infection.
Male investigated the infections with Tara Smith, an epidemiologist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, who has since launched one of the most comprehensive investigations yet of where MRSA lives and how it spreads into and out of agricultural settings. She has surveyed farms and grocery stores as well as people's homes, noses and pets. Her findings could help to end a raging debate about whether farms' use of antibiotics is contributing to the rise of drug-resistant bacterial infections in humans.
Scientists and health experts fear that it is, and that drug-resistant bacteria from farms are escaping via farmworkers or meat. Last year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended more restraint in the use of antibiotics in livestock, following the lead of regulatory authorities in other countries (see Nature 481, 125; 2012).
But the meat and agricultural industries are fighting those restrictions. They claim that MRSA and other drug-resistant bacteria that cause human infections arise in hospitals, and that meat production includes safety measures, such as sanitation rules in slaughterhouses, that prevent resistant bacteria from spreading to and infecting people. ?There's a long way between the farm and the table,? says Ron Phillips, a representative for the Animal Health Institute, a trade organization based in Washington DC that represents veterinary-medicine companies.
The major problem has been lack of data. Many farmers are reluctant to allow scientists access to their facilities, and farmworkers ? many of whom, in the United States, are undocumented immigrants ? are wary of anyone who might want to sample them. But Smith and a small group of researchers are starting to fill the void. They have ?really shaped the state of knowledge in the United States?, says Christopher Heaney, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Smith's current research, says Heaney, could allow officials to ?truly say where these bacteria in people's noses are coming from?.
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At a concentrated animal-feeding operation (CAFO) about an hour's drive west from Ames, Iowa, the usual din of the nursery is punctuated by the sound of piglets sneezing, thanks to an outbreak of H1N2 influenza. Craig Rowles, a veterinarian and the farm's manager, surveys his charges, some of which have mucus dripping from their snouts. ?It's just like when you bring kids to a day-care centre,? he says. ?After a while, they're going to come home with a snotty nose.?
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Marlins hitting coach resigns over abusive behavior
Earlier Sunday sources said team owner Jeffrey Loria, who made the decision to hire Martinez, had nixed the idea of accepting Martinez's resignation, at least for now.
According to two sources, the agent for rookie second baseman Derek Dietrich, who was demoted last week to the minors, contacted team officials about the alleged incident, which occurred several months ago.
Dietrich's agent, David Meter, would neither confirm nor deny that the incident took place.
"I'd rather not address it," Meter said. "I think it's a team issue."
"I'm sure if there is an issue, it will be addressed," said Marlins spokesman P.J. Loyello.
The Major League Baseball Players' Association was notified of the alleged incident, as well as others involving Martinez, and the union then contacted the commisioner's office. That office was expected to contact the Marlins on Tuesday.
Martinez and manager Mike Redmond weren't on the field at the start of batting practice before Friday's game. Instead, two sources said they were meeting privately with Marlins front office executives to discuss the allegation.
One Marlins player, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, said Martinez has been verbally abusive to players on a number of occasions since the start of spring training in February. A few players have complained to Redmond about Martinez's behavior.
"It's all shocked everybody," the player said. "He uses intimidation. It's been a problem since day one."
According to sources who have witnessed Martinez's profanity-laced eruptions, other players who have been attacked verbally by Martinez include outfielder Justin Ruggiano, infielder Chris Valaika and minor-league infielder Matt Downs. Another source said the list of players is much larger than that.
Martinez, 45, is a 16-year major league veteran and two-time All-Star who amassed 1,925 hits, mostly with the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners.
Though he had never coached before at the professional level until this season, he was Loria's hand-picked selection to take over as the Marlins' hitting coach. The Boston Red Sox also had interest in hiring Martinez before the season.
The Marlins are the lowest scoring team in the majors this season.
Injuries and a lack of experience in the lineup have been singled out as the two biggest reasons for the team's lack of offense. But one player said that the rift between hitters and Martinez has also had an effect.
"I think it's definitely had an effect," the player said. Injuries and a lack of experience in the lineup have been singled out as the two biggest reasons for the team's lack of offense. But one player said that the rift between hitters and Martinez has also had an effect.
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HONOLULU (AP) ? Weather officials say Tropical Storm Flossie is weakening as it slowly moves westward across the Pacific toward Hawaii, but is still expected to bring heavy rains and winds up to 60 mph when it reaches the state late Sunday night or early Monday morning.
The National Weather Service said Sunday that Flossie could bring flash flooding, mudslides, tornadoes and waterspouts.
The service issued a tropical storm warning for Oahu, Hawaii's most populous island with the city of Honolulu, to go along with previous warnings for the Big Island, Maui, Molokai and Lanai. The warning means the storm represents a threat to life and property.
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed an emergency proclamation in anticipation of the storm, allowing the state to use its disaster fund to pay for staff overtime, supplies and other resources. The proclamation also allows the state to call Hawaii National Guard members to duty, if necessary.
"The purpose of signing this proclamation is to ensure that state agencies have full powers necessary to best protect and serve the people of Hawaii," Abercrombie said.
Michael Cantin, a warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Honolulu, said Sunday that the tropical storm warnings were expanded because the storm strengthened overnight Saturday, before it began weakening Sunday.
Cantin said heavy rains are likely with winds a growing possibility, including gusts able to knock down power poles and blow away loose objects.
"These winds will be strong enough to pick up debris and throw things around," Cantin said.
The service also issued a tropical storm watch for Kauai and Niihau, a less severe notice, asking people to make a plan and pay attention to see if things get worse.
Officials warned people to cancel beach trips, finish necessary storm preparations and evacuate if asked by local officials.
Mike McCartney, chief executive of the Hawaii Tourism Authority, said Sunday afternoon that some airlines have begun to adjust flights.
"Visitors should contact their airlines and hotels to confirm their travel plans," he said.
State officials on Saturday closed trails and campgrounds on the Big Island, and warned people to avoid forest areas until Flossie clears.
"Hikers, campers or hunters should avoid trails, streams and back-country areas under these conditions," said William Aila Jr., chairman of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
It's not immediately clear which island faces the most danger, though the Big Island ? the easternmost island in the archipelago ? is likely the first in Flossie's path. Flossie's center was expected to pass near the Big Island and Maui on Monday morning and then south of Oahu several hours later on Monday evening into Tuesday morning.
Cantin said Flossie could stray from its currently projected path up to 60 miles north or south as it crosses the Hawaiian islands and end up some 100 miles away from where forecasters project it to be by the time it passes.
Cantin said the storm is likely to shift south if it gets weaker and north if it gets stronger.
The storm could drop up to 15 inches of rain to windward areas of Maui and Hawaii counties, and 6 to 10 inches in other areas, forecasters said. Up to a foot of rain could fall on windward Oahu and 4 to 8 inches in central and leeward areas. Kauai may see 2 to 4 inches of rain, with up to 6 inches on windward slopes.
Waves of 12 to 18 feet are expected for the Big Island and Maui, with surf of 10 to 15 feet on other islands.
Despite the system weakening, the current forecast keeps Flossie as a tropical storm through Wednesday.
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Oskar Garcia can be reached on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oskargarcia
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Associated Press writer Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced Friday that all refugees arriving by boat will be sent to Papua New Guinea ? a hardline stance he hopes will win votes.?
Australia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd speaks to the media following a leadership ballot for the Labour Party at parliament in Canberra, Australia, June 26. Rudd announced Friday that all asylum seekers arriving in the country by boat will be sent to Papua New Guinea.
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But no sooner had he made his announcement, news broke of a major riot on the remote Pacific island of Nauru where more than 150 asylum seekers have been protesting for weeks over delays in having their applications for refugee status in Australian assessed.
There were conflicting reports as to whether Mr. Rudd?s announcement triggered the riot. Quoted by local media, guards at the processing center where asylum seekers are held, said 300 of the 500 detainees had escaped and that parts of the complex were on fire. There were reports that at least 15 guards have been injured and that a number of interpreters and medical staff were held hostage for an hour before being released.?
With local police overwhelmed by the scale of the disturbance, one Nauruan politician went on television calling for any able-bodied volunteers to head for the processing center.
Australians have grown used to seeing riots at detention centers for asylum seekers such as the those on Nauru and the Australian territory of Christmas Island, the main disembarkation point for boat people sailing from Indonesia. The debate over how to stop the arrivals has polarized the electorate.
Refugee advocates see the latest riot on Nauru as a taste of things to come, now that Australia will be sending asylum seekers to the small island of Manus, off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea, for processing. Those found to be genuine refugees will be settled in that country. Those rejected will be sent home or to a third country.
?If Papua New Guinea wants to see into the future, it should look at what is what is happening on Nauru right now,? says Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition.
Mr. Rintoul says the prime minister?s announcement today that Australia was closing the door for good on asylum seekers was a sign that ?he would do absolutely anything to gain electoral advantage over the opposition." Rudd is expected to call an election?on Sunday, using?his new hardline approach to dealing with boat arrivals as one of his signature policies.
Under pressure from refugee advocacy groups, Australia?s immigration department earlier this month agreed to remove women and children from the detention facility on Manus Island because it was deemed to be "too remote" and under-resourced. Now the facility on Manus will be expanded from its current capacity of 600 to 3,000 people under a deal reached between Rudd and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill this week.
But if today?s riot on Nauru is any indication, such a policy is fraught with danger. Papua New Guinea suffers from entrenched poverty, high levels of crime, rampant corruption, and poor standards of healthcare. Burdening the country with the added problem of resettling thousands of refugees is likely to harm the host country as well as those whose desperation led them to flee their homelands in the first place.
The gamble may pay off for Rudd by securing him a second term as prime minister, but it could come at a high cost for Australian foreign relations in years to come.?
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7:30 PM: Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer will not rejoin the team in Seattle as he will spend the series at home with his newborn twin daughters, who were born five weeks premature.
7:15 PM: Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has joined Twitter and presents this first tweet: "Hello Twitter. Expect no BS from me. Just straight fire!"
7:00 PM: Florida Gators football coach Will Muschamp has received a $250,000 raise, but is still only the 7th highest paid coach in the SEC.
6:45 PM: An Atlanta AAU basketball team at a national tournament in Las Vegas has been wearing "I Am Trayvon" shirts before & after games in honor of Trayvon Martin.
6:30 PM: In an interview with Fortune magazine, former FBI director Louis Freeh said there was criticism but "not one disputed fact" about his report on the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
6:15 PM: Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville has been signed to a three-year contract extension through the 2016-17 season.
6:00 PM: Receiver Braylon Edwards, who recently re-signed with the New York Jets, said about watching last year's team: "Nobody sells mouthwash that could wash the taste of that out of my mouth."
5:45 PM: Former Miami Dolphins player Donald Bessillieu was arrested in Columbus, Georgia on Thursday on charges of drug possession & driving without a license. Bessillieu had previously been arrested on drug charges last February after he was caught flagging down a known prostitute.
5:30 PM: Former NBA player Kenny Anderson said about finally revealing that he was sexually abused as a child: "This is therapy for me, and maybe people who follow me or are fans of mine, they went through this. More people will talk and let more people know what's going on in their lives, catch it early."
5:15 PM: USC athletic director Pat Haden posted an online video Thursday saying that football coach Lane Kiffin is not on the hot seat: "I'm behind Lane Kiffin 100 percent. I have great confidence in him .... He knows USC and he knows what it takes to be successful here."
5:00 PM: A Milwaukee Brewers fan said Miller Park security threatened to eject her because she was wearing a Ryan Braun shirt that was modified to read "Fraud". The Brewers offered an apology to the fan & a free ticket to a future game.
4:45 PM: Southwestern Oklahoma State University shares a photo of their new football helmet that features autumn tree designs.
4:30 PM: The Windy Knoll Golf Club in Springfield, Ohio has received two new hovercraft golf carts and will have them available for public use this weekend.
4:15 PM: EA Sports released cover images of their NBA 14 video game featuring Kyrie Irving. The game is set to be released this fall.
4:00 PM: Packers QB Aaron Rodgers said he was "shocked" by friend & Brewers player Ryan Braun admitting to violating MLB's PED policy: "It doesn't feel great being lied to like that and I'm disappointed in the way it all went down."
Source: http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/sbblive?eid=54431
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By Mike Clark mclark@suntimes.com July 24, 2013 10:08PM
St. Rita second baseman Matt Murawski throws out a runner at first against Libertyville. | Jon Langham~For Sun-Times Media
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Hitting Mike Costanzo is a tough assignment for any team.
But a club with four left-handed batters in the lineup faces an even more difficult task as Libertyville discovered Wednesday night.
The St. Rita lefty struck out 13 after spotting the Wildcats an early run as the Mustangs won 4-1 in the semifinals of the Phil Lawler Summer Classic at Benedictine University in Lisle.
St. Rita (16-5) will go for its first summer title since 2009 and third since 2005 when it plays Lyons (26-6) at 7 p.m. Thursday at Benedictine.
?I didn?t have it, obviously, early on, but just found a way to work with it,? said Costanzo, who has committed to Austin Peay. ?Had the defense behind me, trusted my ability with what I had (Wednesday night).?
?You never want to feel good going into a game but when you have him on the mound, it?s hard not to feel good,? St. Rita coach Mike Zunica said.
?We really felt the whole way, two or three runs were going to be enough with the stuff he had. ... We thought he had electric stuff from the bullpen all the way up to the first inning, even though the first inning didn?t go very well.?
Libertyville (18-5) opened the bottom of the first by putting the first two runners on base as Jimmy Govern had an infield hit and Costanzo hit Matt Reed with a pitch. Costanzo?s error moved the runners up and Mitch Townsend?s groundout scored Govern to give the Wildcats a 1-0 lead.
Then Costanzo, who walked five and allowed four hits, settled in and Libertyville didn?t get another runner past second until the seventh inning.
St. Rita, meanwhile, edged ahead with the help of some defensive lapses by Libertyville.
The Mustangs went up 2-1 with two unearned runs in the third, scoring on Tyler Halas? sacrifice fly and a bases-loaded walk to A.J. Fuller. The Wildcats had two errors in the inning.
Another error helped the Mustangs make it 3-1 in the fourth, when Nate Soria drove in a run with a forceout. Soria?s sacrifice fly in the sixth drove in the game?s only earned run.
Andrew Plunkett took the loss, going six innings and allowing eight hits and four runs (one earned). He walked four and struck out three.
Anthony Faron was 3-for-4 for St. Rita and Shane Peisker went 2-for-2 with a double.
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Is it true that after I sell my laptop, that license dies and I cannot use it on another laptop if I format the current laptop? ie. it is not transferable?
a post from a user on Anandtech forums:
Microsoft's standing definition is that the computer is the motherboard. It is the heart of the computer and the part you're least likely to replace on its own. As such OEM licenses are tied to the motherboard, with this lifted in the case where a motherboard replacement is necessary for a computer repair.
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Now, the Multinational Companies or MNCS will have to pay more taxes if they wish to trade in G20 nations as the group has endorsed the plan designed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The 20 finance ministers from the G20 took a bold move the last Friday in Moscow. Traders need to understand that this will be crucial in driving the forex market.The measure is meant to crack down tax-avoidance wherein they route the money through tax heavens. According to the OECD, ?It is a turning point in the history of international co-operation on tax.? It will also tackle ?global tax chaos? which is being caused by MNCS such as Starbucks and Google which are being blamed for shifting profits to tax heavens.
Rewriting the Existing Rules and Regulations
Though it is a moot question whether the G20 countries will be able to impose higher taxes on the MNCs evading them, the effort on the part of earlier seems in right direction as the ambitious action plan will rewrite the existing international rules/laws that will prevent the MNCs evade taxes where they operate.
A recent case of Vodafone in India?s Supreme Court received a lot of attention from the media as the government of India accused the company for evading taxes routing the money through tax heavens. Vodafone bought Hutch, a telecom company in India but registered outside, the company did not pay taxes on the transaction as the archaic tax law does not impose such tax. The case is not isolated one as there are several other cases that have been registered recently where MNCs evaded taxes dodging the tax laws.
Even Advocates of No Taxes Mulling a Plan for Tax Imposition There are tax heavens that flourish on the maxim that no taxes attract more businesses; however, OECD is not of any such opinion as according to it MNCs must pay taxes where they operate. Many of the national laws in some of these countries are archaic and unable to cope with the latest changes in the international trade and commerce.
The OECD release says, ?National tax laws have not kept pace with the globalization of corporations and the digital economy, leaving gaps that can be exploited by multinational corporations to artificially reduce their taxes.?
The organization further says that in the era of digital economy and a borderless world of products and services that too often do not fall within the tax regime of any specific country, leaving loopholes that allow profits to go untaxed; however, this has to be changed and new tax laws have to be passed to bring MNCs under taxation.
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A new method for producing electricity from carbon dioxide could be the start of a classic trash-to-treasure story for the troublesome greenhouse gas, scientists are reporting. Described in an article in ACS' newly launched journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters, the method uses CO2 from electric power plant and other smokestacks as the raw material for making electricity.
Bert Hamelers, Ph.D., and colleagues explain that electric power-generating stations worldwide release about 12 billion tons of CO2 annually from combustion of coal, oil and natural gas. Home and commercial heating produces another 11 billion tons. Smokestack gas from a typical coal-fired plant contains about 10 percent CO2, which not only goes to waste, but is a key contributor to global warming. Hamelers' team sought a way to change that trash into a treasure.
They describe technology that would react the CO2 with water or other liquids and, with further processing, produce a flow of electrons that make up electric current. It could produce about 1,570 billion kilowatts of additional electricity annually if used to harvest CO2 from power plants, industry and residences. That's about 400 times the annual electrical output of the Hoover Dam. Like that dam and other hydroelectric power facilities, that massive additional amount of electricity would be produced without adding more CO2 to the atmosphere, Hamelers pointed out.
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The authors acknowledge funding from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the European Regional Development Fund, the Province of Frysln, the City of Leeuwarden, the EZ/Kompas program of the "Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland" and the European Union Seventh Framework Programme.
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American Chemical Society
A new method for producing electricity from carbon dioxide could be the start of a classic trash-to-treasure story for the troublesome greenhouse gas, scientists are reporting. Described in an article in ACS' newly launched journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters, the method uses CO2 from electric power plant and other smokestacks as the raw material for making electricity.
Bert Hamelers, Ph.D., and colleagues explain that electric power-generating stations worldwide release about 12 billion tons of CO2 annually from combustion of coal, oil and natural gas. Home and commercial heating produces another 11 billion tons. Smokestack gas from a typical coal-fired plant contains about 10 percent CO2, which not only goes to waste, but is a key contributor to global warming. Hamelers' team sought a way to change that trash into a treasure.
They describe technology that would react the CO2 with water or other liquids and, with further processing, produce a flow of electrons that make up electric current. It could produce about 1,570 billion kilowatts of additional electricity annually if used to harvest CO2 from power plants, industry and residences. That's about 400 times the annual electrical output of the Hoover Dam. Like that dam and other hydroelectric power facilities, that massive additional amount of electricity would be produced without adding more CO2 to the atmosphere, Hamelers pointed out.
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Copies of the paper, with a detailed account of the research, are available from the ACS news media contacts above.
The authors acknowledge funding from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the European Regional Development Fund, the Province of Frysln, the City of Leeuwarden, the EZ/Kompas program of the "Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland" and the European Union Seventh Framework Programme.
The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 163,000 members, ACS is the world's largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
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NVIDIA has just announced an insane new GPU. Designed for (wealthy) graphic professionals, the Kepler-based Quadro K6000 is, apparently, "the fastest and most capable GPU ever built".
Source: http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-fastest-gpu-ever-made-892491394
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Russia is nearing the end of stagnation, and the Ministry of Economic Development anticipates the economy will expand more rapidly in the next two quarters, fueled by investment.
In the second quarter, Russia?s economy grew by 1.9 percent, an improvement from the 1.6 percent growth it posted in the first quarter, but still well below the best case scenario of 3 percent growth. In 2012 the economy grew 4.7 percent.
The growth figures are from RosStat, Russia?s federal service of state statistics. Though higher than forecast, Russia?s economic performance in Q1 was the worst quarter since 2009.
The Ministry of Economic Development expects the economy to jump start in July, propelled by rising exports and a boost in investment in the second half of the year.
Trade promises strong growth. In June exports rose 0.4 percent to $41.6 billion, and imports rose by 5.7 percent to $27.9 billion, according to the Ministry of Economic Development.
Russian academics say the country has entered a technical recession, as its basic industries contracted for 6 months in a row.
Investment is the bigger challenge and a highly sensitive ingredient to Russia?s growth. In Q1 investment fell 30 percent, and the pessimistic trend is slated to roll over into July. High inflation has weakened the ruble?s exchange rate, which the government plans to loosen.
In June, the World Bank cut its growth forecast for Russia to less than 2.2 percent in 2013 and 3 percent in 2014, after revising the January forecast the economy would grow by 3.6 percent in and 3.9 percent in 2014.
Bloomberg has projected growth of 2.5 percent.
?We are taking a conservative path, and in some cases even lower,? Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrey Klepac said, as GDP in June only grew by 1.5 percent.
According to Klepac, almost a third of investment is accrued in November and December, which will contribute to reviving Russia?s sluggish economy.
Russia's economy has been hit by weaker investment and exports, but is expected to pick up later in the year thanks to stronger budget spending. The government expects growth to slow to 2.4 percent this year, from 3.4 percent in 2012.
Renaissance Capital, a leading investment bank in Russia, doesn?t foresee the economy growing faster than 2 percent in the coming year.
"We anticipate that there will be a turning point in negative trends in the second quarter and that economic growth will surpass 3% in the second half of the year," Andery Belousov, head of the Ministry of Economic Development, said in June.
Recent signs of slowdown have prompted government officials to prepare Russia for recession by inflating the real economy.
The new Central Bank chief Elvira Nabiullina hasn?t budged on changing interest rates, but, under pressure from the Kremlin to increase the credit line to the economy, will hold its first auction for secured against non-market assets and guarantees on July 29.
The monetary easing policy will offer a floating interest rate set at 5.75 per one-year loan. With $15.3 billion (500 billion rubles) on offer.?
The new ?anti-crisis tool? has been praised by economists. Rosbank?s Vladimir Kolychev lauded Nabiullina for ?rolling out the big bazooka?.
The sell-off will hopefully provide more long-term funding for banks, as well as make the ruble more liquid.
Moody?s rating service downgraded the long-term senior debt and deposit ratings of Russia?s key state lender Sberbank (to Baa1 from A3), Bank VTB and VTB24 (to Baa2 from Baa1) and Russian Agricultural Bank (to Baa3 from Baa1). The outlook for these ratings is stable.
"Recession is not expected. I think that the growth in the second half [of this year] will be higher than in the first [half]," the country's economy minister and former central bank deputy chairman, Alexey Ulyukayev, told Prime news agency Tuesday.
Source: http://rt.com/business/rock-bottom-russian-economy-407/
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Another home sous vide machine is about to enter the market. UK-made Codlo just passed its Kickstarter goal, with only five days to spare. Sous vide is a French method of cooking food sealed in airtight bags in a water bath. The idea is to immerse them in a regulated temperature that isn't as hot as boiling water, with the intention of cooking them evenly throughout.?The original Sous Vide Supreme machine starts at $429, and the professional model costs $749?and that's before you add in all the vacuum bags and so on.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/_Jemp92uBXc/
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Public release date: 23-Jul-2013 Share ] Contact: Mike Watson
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University of Leicester
Scientists led by the University of Leicester have set a new record for cosmic X-ray sources ever sighted creating an unprecedented cosmic X-ray catalogue that will provide a valuable resource allowing astronomers to explore the extreme Universe.
The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre, led by a team from the University of Leicester's Department of Physics and Astronomy, used the University's 'ALICE' supercomputer to help them produce a new X-ray catalogue, dubbed "3XMM".
This new catalogue contains over half a million X-ray source detections, representing a 50% increase over previous catalogues and is the largest catalogue of X-ray sources ever produced. This vast inventory is also home to some of the rarest and most extreme phenomena in the Universe, such as tidal disruption events - when a black hole swallows another star, producing prodigious outbursts of X-ray emission.
Professor Mike Watson of the University of Leicester, who leads the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre, said: "The catalogue contains more than half a million sources, all of which are provided to a better quality than ever before.
"Using the University's 2.2m High Performance Computer meant we could process the data up to a hundred times faster than before. This was key for testing and implementing advanced new processing strategies."
"The catalogue provides enormous scope for new discoveries as well as in-depth studies of large samples. XMM-Newton is pre-eminent amongst current X-ray missions in its ability to perform `survey' science, with a chance to find previously undetected objects and then explore their properties."
The catalogue provides an exceptional dataset for generating large, well-defined samples of objects such as active galactic nuclei, clusters of galaxies, interacting compact binaries, and active stellar coronae.
The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre is one of the teams behind the European Space Agency's (ESA) X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton). Since Earth's atmosphere blocks out all X-rays, only a telescope in space can detect and study celestial X-ray sources. The XMM-Newton mission is helping scientists to solve a number of cosmic mysteries, ranging from the enigmatic black holes to the origins of the Universe itself.
The sources in the 3XMM catalogue are identified and isolated from serendipitous data recorded by XMM-Newton's EPIC X-ray cameras, built by a team also led by the University. In each of the 600-700 observations made each year, around 70 extra sources are captured in addition to the target object which usually only takes up a small fraction of the field of view. Covering observations between February 2000 and December 2012, the catalogue contains some 531 261 X-ray source detections relating to 372 728 unique X-ray sources.
Professor Watson, who is Head of X-ray and Observational Astronomy in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, adds: "The third XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue shows how much added value can be gained from the observations. I'd like to pay tribute to the efforts of the whole team which were crucial to completing this major undertaking.
"3XMM is the largest catalogue of X-ray sources ever produced. As such it offers an unparalleled resource for exploring cosmic X-ray populations, in particular in studying Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) - those galaxies such as quasars which harbour a super-massive black hole at their centres. Such active galaxies dominate the detections in the 3XMM catalogue, meaning that 3XMM is the key to unlocking a storehouse of several hundred thousand AGN."
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University of Leicester
Scientists led by the University of Leicester have set a new record for cosmic X-ray sources ever sighted creating an unprecedented cosmic X-ray catalogue that will provide a valuable resource allowing astronomers to explore the extreme Universe.
The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre, led by a team from the University of Leicester's Department of Physics and Astronomy, used the University's 'ALICE' supercomputer to help them produce a new X-ray catalogue, dubbed "3XMM".
This new catalogue contains over half a million X-ray source detections, representing a 50% increase over previous catalogues and is the largest catalogue of X-ray sources ever produced. This vast inventory is also home to some of the rarest and most extreme phenomena in the Universe, such as tidal disruption events - when a black hole swallows another star, producing prodigious outbursts of X-ray emission.
Professor Mike Watson of the University of Leicester, who leads the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre, said: "The catalogue contains more than half a million sources, all of which are provided to a better quality than ever before.
"Using the University's 2.2m High Performance Computer meant we could process the data up to a hundred times faster than before. This was key for testing and implementing advanced new processing strategies."
"The catalogue provides enormous scope for new discoveries as well as in-depth studies of large samples. XMM-Newton is pre-eminent amongst current X-ray missions in its ability to perform `survey' science, with a chance to find previously undetected objects and then explore their properties."
The catalogue provides an exceptional dataset for generating large, well-defined samples of objects such as active galactic nuclei, clusters of galaxies, interacting compact binaries, and active stellar coronae.
The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre is one of the teams behind the European Space Agency's (ESA) X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton). Since Earth's atmosphere blocks out all X-rays, only a telescope in space can detect and study celestial X-ray sources. The XMM-Newton mission is helping scientists to solve a number of cosmic mysteries, ranging from the enigmatic black holes to the origins of the Universe itself.
The sources in the 3XMM catalogue are identified and isolated from serendipitous data recorded by XMM-Newton's EPIC X-ray cameras, built by a team also led by the University. In each of the 600-700 observations made each year, around 70 extra sources are captured in addition to the target object which usually only takes up a small fraction of the field of view. Covering observations between February 2000 and December 2012, the catalogue contains some 531 261 X-ray source detections relating to 372 728 unique X-ray sources.
Professor Watson, who is Head of X-ray and Observational Astronomy in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, adds: "The third XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue shows how much added value can be gained from the observations. I'd like to pay tribute to the efforts of the whole team which were crucial to completing this major undertaking.
"3XMM is the largest catalogue of X-ray sources ever produced. As such it offers an unparalleled resource for exploring cosmic X-ray populations, in particular in studying Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) - those galaxies such as quasars which harbour a super-massive black hole at their centres. Such active galaxies dominate the detections in the 3XMM catalogue, meaning that 3XMM is the key to unlocking a storehouse of several hundred thousand AGN."
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