Dell Inspiron 15z (I15Z-4801SLV)

The Dell Inspiron 15z (I15Z-4801SLV) ($829.99) is a more traditional interpretation of the ultrabook, with some of the new technology that is becoming almost mandatory for new PCs in 2013. It's got a high end Core i7 ultrabook processor, touch screen, and caching SSD for speed, but it's also somewhat thicker than cutting-edge ultrabooks. This is due to its extra I/O ports, optical drive, and large, 15-inch screen. It's a good mix of the traditional and the new, and should be considered by those who are willing to carry a bit more around with them in return for a little more performance and more features.

Design and Features
In outward appearange, the Inspiron 15z (I15Z-4801SLV) looks very much like the Dell Inspiron 15z-5523 ($1093). The I15Z-4801SLV is a pretty-standard looking clamshell ultrabook, measuring 0.9 by 15 by 10 inches (HWD) and weighing 5.23 pounds. It has a monotone brushed dark silver metallic lid and keyboard deck. It's a little thick compared with other ultrabooks, on account of its optical drive and 15.6-inch touch screen. The system's screen has a 1,366-by-768 resolution, good enough for 720p HD videos and for day-to-day computing. More expensive laptops will have a 1080p (1,920 by 1080 resolution) screen, but at this price point 720p is a decent tradeoff. Besides, if your eyesight is weaker than 20/20, the larger text and graphics will be welcome.

The I15Z-4801SLV comes with a backlit keyboard that is comfortable to use. The multi-touch trackpad supports all the usual Windows 8 gestures and two-finger swipes, but the star of the show is the 10-point touch screen. Since Windows 8 is designed to leverage touch, the screen makes total sense for midrange and enthusiast users. You can open programs, navigate the Web, and even draw and create art on the touch screen easily. Since the system is a clamshell notebook, the touch screen is meant to be used only part of the time. It'll be more comfortable to use a slate Windows 8 tablet PC like the Microsoft Surface Windows 8 Pro ($999) as a full-time touch screen, but the I15Z-4801SLV is quite livable as a part-time touch PC.

The I15Z-4801SLV comes with a 500GB hard drive with 32GB caching solid-state drive, 8GB of memory, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, and other features that qualify it for ultrabook status. One thing that's somewhat rare for ultrabooks is the tray-loading DVD burner. Most ultrabooks eschew an optical drive to save thickness and weight. This is good news for people who still need to install older software or like the listen to music and watch videos on older media. Nope, the optical drive isn't quite dead yet.

Like most ultrabooks, the I15Z-4801SLV comes with a non-removable battery, which can be inconvenient if you're used to keeping a spare battery charged for use on flights or other situations where you're away from power for extended periods of time. The I15Z-4801SLV has just about five hours of battery life, so this may or may not be an issue for you.

The I15Z-4801SLV has full-size Ethernet and HDMI ports, a luxury afforded by the thickness of the chassis. There are four USB 3.0 ports, which is a lot better than thinner ultrabooks that may only have one or two. The USB 3.0 ports are colored black instead of the more traditional blue, but this is okay on the I15Z-4801SLV, since it only has USB 3.0 ports. If a competing system like the Toshiba Satellite U845t-S4165 ($799.99) had all black ports, it could be a problem, since the Toshiba has both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports. (Thankfully the Toshiba's single USB 3.0 port is blue.) The I15Z-4801SLV has a pair of Skullcandy-branded speakers on the system's underside. They provide good volume and should be able to satisfy most users.

The I15Z-4801SLV comes with a few pre-loaded applications and utilities. Some are useful out of the gate, like the Dell Support utilities and the one called "Getting Started with Windows 8" that can teach you the nuances of the new operating system. Other programs like Kindle and Skype are useful if you already use the services. Other tiles take you to shopping sites like Amazon and eBay, but on the whole they are essentially ads for these services. The I15Z-4801SLV comes with a one-year warranty.

Performance
The I15Z-4801SLV is more powerful than some rivals due to its Intel Core i7-3537U processor. The i7-3537U is a dual-core processor with HyperThreading, which lets the CPU process four streams of data at once. The processor also can overclock itself from 2.0 up to 3.1GHz when needed, which also helps performance. The I15Z-4801SLV made quick work of the PCMark7 benchmark test, which measures day-to-day performance. The system was quicker than the Sony VAIO T15 Touch (SVT15112CXS) ($949.99) and our current touch-screen ultrabook Editors' Choice, the Asus VivoBook S400CA-UH51 ($699) on the day-to-day tests. However, the Toshiba U845t-S4165 was fastest overall, thanks to its SSD-only configuration. The I15Z-4801SLV has more storage space, but the SSD-only configuration is speedy.

The I15Z-4801SLV showed that it was faster than the Core i5-powered Toshiba U845t-S4165 and Asus S400CA-UH51 on the multimedia benchmark tests like Handbrake and Photoshop. Basically, if you have a need for more multimedia processing power to edit videos and photos, a Core i7-powered system like the I15Z-4801SLV is a better bet.

The I15Z-4801SLV had a passable 4 hours 49 minutes on our battery rundown test. This means that you should be able to get most of a day's work out of the system before you have to recharge. You could theoretically make it through an afternoon of college classes with this system before you need a recharge. The I15Z-4801SLV splits the difference between short-lived battery life on systems like the Acer Aspire V5-571PG-9814 ($999.99) (3:37) and the long lasting Toshiba U845t-S4165 (6:17). Just over six hours seems to be the current upper limit for midrange ultrabooks and ultraportable laptops.

The Dell Inspiron 15z (I15Z-4801SLV) will appeal to mainstream users who need Core i7 multimedia prowess in their day-to-day lives. This might mean the world to a budding Spielberg or Ansel Adams, who will want to work on their latest masterpiece, and then share it via DVD or by displaying it on a HDTV via HDMI. For most mainstream users, however, the Editors' Choice remains the Asus VivoBook S400CA-UH51 as it's a better option for mainstream PC users at a better price point.

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School database loses backers as parents balk over privacy

By Stephanie Simon

(Reuters) - A $100 million database set up to store extensive records on millions of public school students has stumbled badly since its launch this spring, with officials in several states backing away from the project amid protests from irate parents.

The database, funded mostly by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is intended to track students from kindergarten through high school by storing myriad data points: test scores, learning disabilities, discipline records - even teacher assessments of a child's character. The idea is that consolidated records make it easier for teachers to use software that mines data to identify academic weaknesses. Games, videos or lesson plans would then be precisely targeted to engage specific children or promote specific skills.

The system is set up to identify millions of children by name, race, economic status and other metrics and is constructed in a way that makes it easy for school districts to share some or all of that information with private companies developing education software.

The nonprofit organization that runs the database, inBloom Inc, introduced the project in March with a presentation at an education technology conference, complete with a list of nine states that it said were committed partners.

Parents and civil liberties groups concerned about potential privacy breaches quickly began to sound the alarm and rallied opposition in social media.

In response to an outcry in his state, Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White withdrew student data from inBloom in April. He's planning to hold public hearings on data storage and security this summer but said in an interview that he is no longer sure there's a need for inBloom.

Kentucky, Georgia and Delaware - all initially listed as partners on the inBloom website - told Reuters that they never made a commitment and have no intention of participating. Georgia specifically asked for its name to be removed.

Officials in two other states on the list, Massachusetts and North Carolina, said they are still evaluating the project and may never upload student data.

"The single biggest issue is, Can we satisfy not only ourselves but everyone that the data is as secure stored there as it would be anywhere?" said Jeff Wulfson, deputy commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Education. "From our perspective, this is still in the research and development phase."

InBloom spokesman Adam Gaber said the initial list of partner states was "confusing" and has been corrected on the website. Massachusetts and North Carolina "were more committed originally" but are still considered partners because they are discussing possible participation, he said.

That leaves just New York, Illinois and Colorado as active participants.

Former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise, who sits on the inBloom board of directors, said he was confident the project was still viable and valuable.

School districts already store student data and often share it with private vendors hired for jobs such as tracking reading scores. InBloom simply consolidates in one secure, cloud-hosted database the reams of student information now scattered among an array of computer servers, teacher grade books and file cabinets, Wise said. The districts retain complete control over which data to store in inBloom and whether to let third-party vendors use it.

The Gates Foundation is also confident about inBloom's future, saying early adopters will provide a "blueprint for the future" and "assuage the concerns that have been raised."

InBloom is now free but will start charging participating states or school districts annual fees of $2 to $5 per student in 2015, bringing in millions of dollars that officials at the nonprofit say will cover expenses for developing and maintaining the database.

New York plans to upload data on nearly all its 2.6 million students statewide. Illinois is testing inBloom in two districts and plans to expand to 35 districts serving half a million students, officials said.

Colorado's test district, suburban Jefferson County, has commissioned software that draws on the database to create digital "dashboards" that let teachers identify at a glance precisely which students are having trouble with which skills. InBloom also centralizes all the computer apps teachers normally use with their students, so they no longer have to log in to different screens for each program.

When teachers got a sneak peek, "by far the most common question was, 'Could we get this in my classroom tomorrow?'" said Greg Mortimer, the chief information officer for the 85,000-student district. He added that the project should save the district money because software developers will be able to hook their programs cleanly into the inBloom infrastructure. The way things now stand, he said, the district has to spend heavily to integrate each app into the county's cumbersome and overlapping data systems.

Mortimer said he has no doubt privacy would be protected: "InBloom has the resources to secure this data better than any single school district in the country."

Despite such an endorsement, inBloom is continuing to lose momentum.

An early backer of inBloom, the Council of Chief State School Officers, is now big on only a second phase of the project, which involves creating an online library of lesson plans, quiz questions and other teaching resources.

The library, which won't require student data, is "the valuable part of this project," said Chris Minnich, executive director of the council, which represents state superintendents of education. On the database itself, Minnich noted that the council urges each state to analyze the costs and benefits of participating.

Some states had been interested in accessing inBloom's teaching resources without participating in the database, but ended up banding together to create their own online library. Bob Swiggum, the chief information officer for the Georgia Department of Education, said he's glad his state went that route. National opposition to the database has been so intense, he said, "I don't know how inBloom will survive."

Officials at inBloom say they have done a poor job articulating the need for the database and vow to do better. Yet they have not addressed all of the concerns raised by parents.

The nonprofit recently announced that it would no longer let school districts use student social security numbers to label individual files in the database. Instead, districts must assign each student a random numerical ID. But spokesman Adam Gaber refused to say whether social security numbers might be included elsewhere - not as a label but as a basic data point, along with ethnicity, address, parents' names and other personal information routinely collected by public schools.

That is unlikely to assuage Karen Sprowal, the mother of a 10-year-old in a New York City public school. She's terrified to think that records of her son's medical treatments will be stored on the cloud indefinitely, along with so many other intimate details, she said. "It feels like such a violation."

(Reporting by Stephanie Simon; Editing by Arlene Getz and Prudence Crowther)

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Cancer: 'Chemotherapy may not offer full recovery' - Vanguard News

A recent study has shown that people receiving treatment for serious cancers may harbour false hopes for a full recovery.

The researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found that, about 81 percent of people with advanced colorectal cancer, and 69 percent of people with advanced lung cancer believe chemotherapy treatment can cure them.

But after surveying more than 1,200 people with end-stage cancer, study authors found only a small number of people who didn?t subscribe to the myth of chemotherapy as a cure-all.

What can chemo do?

Chemotherapy can give a person with advanced cancer a few more weeks or months of life and may offer them some pain relief. But, the likelihood of long-term survival-let alone a cure-in the later stages of these diseases is exceedingly rare. According to figures from the American Cancer Society, only about six percent of people with late-stage colon or rectal cancer live for at least five more years. For lung cancer, that number is about four percent.

According to experts, Chemotherapy is not always ineffective-it can be an extremely helpful treatment. When a person?s cancer is caught in the earlier stages, chemotherapy often succeeds in sending the disease into remission.

Other cancer treatment options

Optimism can be a valuable tool for coping with a difficult diagnosis, but misplaced faith in the power of medical intervention may prevent people from choosing the treatment path that?s best for them.

Chemotherapy is just one of several different types of cancer treatment. Other options include: surgery to remove malignant organs and tissues, radiation therapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, hyperthermia and alternative therapies.? Those with terminal cancer may also decide to forgo additional treatment for their condition, and elect to only receive palliative or hospice care.

In an editorial accompanying the Dana Farber study, Thomas Smith, Professor of Oncology and Director of Palliative Medicine at Johns Hopkins, expressed concerns that doctors often shy away from discussions about end-of-life planning and palliative care because doing so could steal a patient?s hope.

?What they don?t realise is that hope is impossible to extinguish,? he says. Smith feels that, no matter what the prognosis is, ?Palliative care discussions can help patients focus on better quality of life.?

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Memorial Day warning: Americans too distant from those they send to war

The number of Americans who serve in the US military?? especially those sent to combat?? has gone down dramatically in recent years. Critics say civilians need to assume more responsibility for the moral burden of war as well as for the other costs of fighting.

By Brad Knickerbocker,?Staff writer / May 27, 2013

President Obama greets Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran Eilene Henderson in the Arlington National Cemetery during his Memorial Day visit there Monday.

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At Arlington National Cemetary today, President Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns, calling upon the nation to keep in mind those fighting in Afghanistan and elsewhere, especially as nearly 12 years of war winds down.

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?Regardless of reason, this truth cannot be ignored that today most Americans are not directly touched by war,? Mr. Obama told a crowd of dignitaries and military families gathered to mark Memorial Day. ?As a consequence, not all Americans may always see or fully grasp the depths of sacrifice, the profound costs that are made in our name, right now, as we speak, everyday.?

?Made in our name? may be the most relevant phrase here ? especially as the percentage of Americans serving in uniform declines in the decades following the end of the Vietnam War and an end to military conscription.

?Fewer Americans are making the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan and that?s progress for which we are profoundly grateful,? Obama said. ?This time next year, we will mark the final Memorial Day of our war in Afghanistan.?

Still, he noted, more than 60,000 GI?s still serve far from home in Afghanistan.

?They?re still going out on patrol, still living in spartan forward operating bases, still risking their lives to carry out their mission,? he said. ?And when they give their lives, they are still being laid to rest in cemeteries in the quiet corners across our country.?

For better or for worse, ?their mission? is really ?our mission,? at least in terms of national policy crafted and carried out in a democracy with elected leaders. This was Obama?s implied message, not only on Memorial Day but in his commencement speech Friday at the US Naval Academy and a day earlier in his comprehensive address at the National Defense University outlining continuing (and new) efforts in fighting terrorism.

In a piece headlined ?Veterans need to share the moral burden of war? in the Washington Post last Friday, war correspondent, author, and documentary filmmaker Sebastian Junger argues that the entire nation shares that burden.

?Soldiers face myriad challenges when they return home, but one of the most destructive is the sense that their country doesn?t quite realize that it ? and not just the soldiers ? went to war,? Mr. Junger writes. ?The country approved, financed and justified war ? and sent the soldiers to fight it.?

?This is important because it returns the moral burden of war to its rightful place: with the entire nation,? he goes on. ?If a soldier inadvertently kills a civilian in Baghdad, we all helped kill that civilian. If a soldier loses his arm in Afghanistan, we all lost something.?

?When soldiers come home spiritually polluted by the killing that they committed, or even just witnessed, many hope that their country will share the moral responsibility of such a grave event,? Junger writes.

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Judge limits texts, photos in Trayvon Martin case

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? Attorneys won't be able to mention Trayvon Martin's drug use, suspension from school and past fighting during opening statements in the trial for the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot the teen, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Circuit Judge Debra Nelson also refused to allow jurors to travel to the shooting scene during trial, and rejected a defense request to delay the trial set to begin June 10.

The judge called the request to let jurors see the crime scene "a logistical nightmare."

George Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the 17-year-old's killing and has pleaded not guilty, saying he acted in self-defense. He did not attend Tuesday's hearing.

The judge also ruled that some of the Martin's texts and other social media statements won't be allowed in opening statements, though some of the teen's personal history could be allowed later with a ruling from the judge depending on how the case progresses.

Zimmerman's attorney, Mark O'Mara, told the judge that Martin's marijuana use and past fighting was central to the argument that Zimmerman used self-defense when he confronted Martin last year at a gated community in Sanford, Fla.

"We have a lot of evidence that marijuana use had something to do with the event," O'Mara said. "It could have affected his behavior."

An attorney for Martin's family, Benjamin Crump, said the teen's parents were pleased with the judge's rulings.

"Trayvon Martin is not on trial," Crump said.

The judge ruled against a defense request that the pool of jury candidates be sequestered during jury selection. She said jurors will be referred to by their jury numbers and prohibited their faces from being photographed. Nelson denied a prosecution request for a gag order that would prohibit attorneys from talking about the case.

O'Mara said he is concerned potential jurors could be affected by publicity the case is receiving.

The defense attorney had asked to push back the trial date because he said prosecutors had delayed turning over evidence as required. O'Mara is seeking sanctions against prosecutors, but a hearing on those sanctions was delayed until next week.

Before the judge decided to postpone the hearing on sanctions, a former prosecutor who used to work in the same office as the attorneys prosecuting Zimmerman testified he had told O'Mara about photos and text messages from Martin's cell phone that hadn't yet been turned over to the defense. Former Assistant State Attorney Wesley White resigned last year from the State Attorney's Office that covers northeast Florida.

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Online Success With The Best MLM Business Opportunity ? Hot ...

If you are seriously considering splashing out your precious cash to start a new network marketing business you should take the time to comprehensively analyze the assorted options available to figure out, for yourself, what?s the best MLM business opportunity for you and your future team.

Direct selling organizations and network marketing opportunities aren?t all of the identical, and you?ll locate that those that have thoroughly investigated opportunities offered, will probably be those will build successful businesses ? in the event you make a mistake at this stage, you are going to shed your money, but if you discover issues at a later stage, you may have lost an awful lot of time. You will find number of issues set out below which you should consider prior to forking over the buy-in fee.

How long has the company been in business? Are they privately held or in public traded. Who is the management team and what real world experience to they have in operating and growing an International business? Where are they open for business and can the services instantaneously be shipped into different countries without custom issues?

It is a harsh fact that new MLM businesses have little chance of surviving longer than five years. And that?s not just some of them. It is most. So it may sound tempting to get in to a network marketing business on the ground floor, or during prelaunch stage, but you have to recognize the probabilities of that organization failing and consequently your own business going belly up with it.

Take a lengthy appear at the products and services that the business is providing. You should question if a regular person on the street would buy that product or service in the cost, if an MLM opportunity was not attached to it. In the event you discover your self in doubt, do not join that opportunity.

For your personal individual security and peace of mind you must appear at these facts. Also understand that the majority of the people who get into network marketing actually recruit much less than 3 men and women throughout their whole time within the business. All that translates to is that people either want to acquire the product wholesale, or they?re basically too lazy to work on their organizations. If new recruits fail swiftly, they?ll soon revert to getting a item that possibly price less and they will cancel or quit. The dropout rate in network marketing is infamous ? it can be as high as 80%. If the attrition rate within the organization you?re seeking at is higher than 20%, it?s still going to be difficult to build a profitable business.

So obviously not only the product is important, but the cost of the product is also critical simply because if someone is paying $20 a month for vitamins, and they are now asked to pay $30 for a comparable product, at some point they will understand that if they can?t create a business, they will fail.

One of the most important factors about trying to sell any item certainly is marketing; do you?ve a marketing strategy in place? You may need a spending budget plus a marketing strategy in order to get the product out into the marketplace to ensure that you?ll be able to make money initially, and then develop a team. So what?s your strategy? Marketing is one of the most crucial aspects of becoming successful in network marketing, so this is the very first factor you need to implement following obtaining the best company with the correct product.

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New gene discovery for babies born with hole in the heart

May 27, 2013 ? New gene discovery for babies born with hole in the heart A new gene associated with a form of congenital heart disease in newborn babies -- known as "a hole in the heart" has been discovered by researchers. British Heart Foundation (BHF) Professor Bernard Keavney, from The University of Manchester and Newcastle University, led the research which saw investigators from Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford and Leicester universities in the UK, together with colleagues in Europe, Australia and Canada pool resources.

The discovery, published in Nature Genetics today, will help lead to better understanding of why some patients are born with the disorder. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common form of congenital malformation, occurring in seven in 1000 babies born and is one of the major causes of childhood death and illness. Most patients born with CHD now survive to adulthood, so identifying the responsible genes is important as experts attempt to provide individual-specific genetic counselling for these people.

In about 20% of cases, a predisposing cause can be identified, for example Down's Syndrome, but in the remainder of patients, although genes are recognised to be important, scientists do not know the identity of these genes. The study, funded by the BHF and the Wellcome Trust, looked at over 2,000 CHD patients and measured over 500,000 genetic markers which vary in the general population. The genetic markers in the patients were compared to the markers of over 5,600 people in good health who acted as a control group.

The researchers found a relationship between a particular region of the human genome and risk of atrial septal defect (ASD) -- a "hole" between the heart's blood-collecting chambers, which they went on to confirm in additional cases of atrial septal defect and healthy controls. BHF Professor Keavney, Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences at The University of Manchester, said identifying a gene associated with one type of CHD was an important step forward. "We found that a common genetic variation near a gene called Msx1 was strongly associated with the risk of a particular type of CHD called atrial septal defect or hole in the heart," he said. "ASD is one of the most common forms of congenital heart disease, and it carries a risk of heart failure and stroke. We estimated that around 10% of ASDs may be due to the gene we found. We can now work to find out how Msx1 and/or its neighbour genes affect the risk of ASD."

Researchers looked at all the major types of congenial heart disease (CHD), but they did not find a genetic marker common in all types of CHD. Professor Keavney added: "Our work also suggests that if we conduct larger studies we will be able to find genes that cause other types of CHD. Although we are not there yet, further studies may enable us to give better genetic counselling to high risk families. Also, when we identify genes important in the development of the heart because they have gone wrong, it helps us understand normal development better. Such an understanding is fundamental to any attempt to treat people with heart disease at any age -- for example those suffering from heart failure -- using regenerative medicine." Dr Shannon Amoils, Senior Research Advisor at the BHF, which part-funded the study, said: "We've made great strides in treating congenital heart disease; most babies born with a heart defect have a much brighter future now than they would have had in the 1960s when the BHF was founded. But we still need to fund much more research like this, to better understand the fundamental causes of congenital heart defects. "These important results show how large collaborative studies are incredibly useful for uncovering the influence of our genes on congenital heart disease.

As researchers continue to identify other associated genes, we will be able to better predict the chances of children being born with heart problems, and will also learn more about the underlying processes that can go wrong in the developing heart."

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Wanted Ugandan general says he is hiding in London

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ? A wanted Ugandan general who questioned the president's succession plan has requested the protection of British police and won't return home anytime soon, his lawyer said Sunday.

Gen. David Sejusa is now hiding from Ugandan undercover agents allegedly sent to track him down in London, where he is traveling, said Ugandan lawyer Joseph Luzige.

"Sejusa told me there is a team of people who have been sent to London to hunt him down," the attorney said. "He said these people's intentions are not good at all."

Luzige said Sejusa, a spy chief who sits on Uganda's military high command, believes his life is in danger and is now "very cautious."

Judith Nabakooba, the spokeswoman for Ugandan police, said she couldn't comment on this matter. "I've not been briefed," she said.

Sejusa, who directs Uganda's domestic and foreign spy agencies, recently wrote a letter to the internal security service urging an investigation into reports that those opposed to the rise of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's son risk assassination. Details of the letter were published in a Kampala daily whose premises have since been occupied by police looking for evidence against Sejusa.

Sejusa cited himself, Uganda's prime minister, and a since-fired army boss among those at risk of being killed in an allegedly secret plan for Museveni's son to succeed his father as president. The general's concerns have stirred controversy in Uganda, where divisions among the military elite are rarely revealed in public. Uganda's army leadership has accused Sejusa of breaking the country's military laws, while a government minister who speaks for Museveni said the general has "clear presidential ambitions."

The operations of Uganda's Daily Monitor newspaper have since been shut down by police who want its journalists to reveal how they obtained a copy of Sejusa's letter. The journalists have resisted these efforts, saying they go against freedom of the press. In a statement Friday, Amnesty International urged Ugandan authorities to stop what it called "an attack on freedom of expression."

Museveni, who has held power in Uganda for nearly three decades, has never said he sees his son as his political heir. But the son, a senior army official named Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has been rapidly promoted in the army over the years, leading many here to believe he is being groomed for high office. Last year he was promoted to the rank of brigadier in changes that saw him take full charge of the country's special forces, an elite unit within the military that protects the president and guards national assets such as oil fields. In this position Kainerugaba answers directly to his father.

Sejusa, a decorated hero of the bush war that brought Museveni to power in 1986, has a history of standing up to the president. In the 1990s he tried and failed to quit the army after accusing its leadership of incompetence in battles against the fugitive warlord Joseph Kony. Analysts say he is one of an older generation of army officers who are disgruntled over the first son's growing influence in the military.

Just over two weeks since details of Sejusa's letter became public, Museveni on Friday announced changes in the military that saw the ouster of army chief Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, who had been cited in Sejusa's letter as among those opposed to the rise to Museveni's son. Nyakairima now has a new role as interior minister, a civilian post that effectively cuts off his links to the army's chain of command.

It remains unclear if Museveni, who was re-elected in 2011, will run again when his term expires in 2016. But he faces growing pressure within his party to retire, with rival centers of power emerging as his power fades. Some say Sejusa may be positioning himself to become the leader of those within the military who want to discourage Museveni from hanging onto power or propping up his son as a future leader.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wanted-ugandan-general-says-hiding-london-173307876.html

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Peter Molyneux's Curiosity cube is now open, contents still a mystery (update: prize revealed!)

After seven months of cooperative tapping, Peter Molyneux's Curiosity experiment is finally over: the cube is open. As Molyneux's studio, 22Cans, teased the game's last layer over Twitter, players descended upon it, chipping away the last million cubelets in a matter of minutes. "We have a winner," the game's creator wrote on the social network. "They should get a message now." 22Cans is currently trying to validate the player who tapped away the final block. After the final block disappeared, so did the cube, presumably to be opened privately by the winner. So, what was inside the box? We may never know -- but if you just happened to win, fill us in, would you?

Update: The winner asked Molyneux to share the winner video with the community. Their prize? Godhood, according to 22Cans. The winner will be featured as a deity in the company's next game, Goddess, and will able to "decide on the rules that the game is played by." The winner will get a share of the revenue generated by the title. Check out the full video for yourself after the break.

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Counter Terrorism Training's Impact On U.S. Counter Terrorism Efforts

Since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 2001, the focus of the intelligence, defense, and law enforcement communities has been on countering terrorism and strengthening American resilience to terrorist attacks, both at home and abroad. In the pursuit of such, these agencies have revamped their counter terrorism training curricula to train their personnel to support their missions that now require a more robust counter terrorism capability. For example, within the Intelligence Community (IC), counter terrorism training curricula underwent revision to train analysts on the use of new automated tools such as the Terrorist Identity Datamart Environment (TIDE), WISE, and M3, to provide all-source strategic and operational intelligence on terror threats. Within the defense community, there was a revision of counter terrorism training not only from a force protection perspective, to protect service members traveling overseas, but also to focus the efforts of military planners and commanders towards preparing their forces for counter terrorism operations. Lastly, law enforcement agencies developed their own counter terrorism training curricula not only to raise awareness to the threat, but also to train their officers on how to collect and share information on terrorist threats and to conduct domestic counter terrorism operations.

The cumulative training efforts of the intelligence, defense, and law enforcement communities from September 11, 2001, to October 17, 2012 have resulted in thwarting fifty-three terrorist plots. Such plots have ranged from attempts to detonate a "dirty bomb" in a U.S. city, explosive in U.S. subways, and a bomb at the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan.

Despite the successes, the United States is not yet safe from the threat of terrorism as evidenced by the terrorist bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon. The counter terrorism training curricula of the intelligence, defense, and law enforcement communities have been instrumental in developing a more robust counter terrorism capability with their existing workforces. However, they still have the need to recruit personnel, not only to expand their current workforce to counter the threat of terrorism, but to replace personnel lost through retirement and other means of attrition.

The need for new personnel trained in counter terrorism within the intelligence, defense, and law enforcement communities has created opportunities for individuals with counter terrorism degrees. A counter terrorism degree makes an individual far more competitive in the hiring process.

There are many ways an individual can obtain a counter terrorism degree, one of which is online. A counter terrorism degree online from an accredited college or university demonstrates that a person has the foundational knowledge to contribute to an agency's counter terrorism mission. A person in pursuit of a counter terrorism degree online can do so at a place and pace that fits around their work schedule and family and work commitments. In addition, a person may be able to fund their education from an accredited college or university that offers a counter terrorism degree online through a variety of means, such as the Post 9-11 GI Bill or an employer's tuition assistance program.

Dan Sommer works for Henley-Putnam University, a leading educational institution in the field of Strategic Security. For more info on Henley-Putnam University, counter terrorism training, counter terrorism degree online, call 888-852-8746 or visit us online at http://www.Henley-Putnam.edu

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Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa trip

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) ? Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan.

Kerry, attending the African Union's 50th anniversary, backed the Nigerian government's efforts to root out Boko Haram, an al-Qaida-linked radical sect. But he said there is no excuse for abuses by armed forces in Nigeria's long-neglected north, where President Goodluck Jonathan has declared emergency rule.

"We defend the right completely of the government of Nigeria to defend itself and to fight back against terrorists," Kerry said. He added, however, that he has raised his concerns with Nigerian officials to insist on the military "adhering to the highest standards and not itself engaging in atrocities."

"One person's atrocities do not excuse another's," said Kerry, who later made his case directly to Jonathan over lunch. "Revenge is not the motive. It's good governance, it's ridding yourself of a terrorist organization so that you can establish a standard of law that people can respect."

Amnesty International says Nigeria's military has committed "grave human rights violations" over the last three years, including executions and kidnappings. It is reporting continued wrongdoing, while Human Rights Watch says satellite images showed "massive destruction of civilian property" in a military raid last week.

Speaking to reporters alongside Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Kerry also blamed Sudan's government for much of the tension along its volatile border with South Sudan. He says residents in the contested areas of Blue Nile and South Kordofan don't want to be subjected to strict Islamist rules.

Both areas border the new nation of South Sudan, which gained independence in 2011 under an agreement that ended decades of civil war. Many residents are sympathetic to the South, and both areas have experienced regular violence in recent years.

"There are very significant border challenges, but they're bigger than that," Kerry said. "You have people who for a long time have felt that they want their secular governance and their identity respected."

"They don't want independence; they are not trying to break away from Sudan," he said. But he said the response from Sudan's government has been to "press on them through authoritarian means and violence an adherence to a standard that they simply don't want to accept with respect to Islamism."

"That's the fundamental clash," Kerry said.

He acknowledged, however, the North's concerns that the South is fueling rebels in the areas and said the U.S. would try to work with Ethiopia and other international partners to ease tensions. He said he'd soon appoint a new American envoy to both countries.

Kerry met Sudan's foreign minister later Saturday.

In Ethiopia's capital, Kerry also spoke with the U.N. and African Union chiefs and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, whom he urged to make further economic reforms so that Congress can approve more U.S. aid to Egypt.

Kerry departs Sunday to Jordan, where he'll attend a business conference and outline plans to help revitalize the Palestinian economy. He travels Monday to Paris for discussions about Syria with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, before returning to Washington after eight days overseas.

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Friday Fun Fact: The First Movie On TV Was In Theaters At The Time

Only about half a dozen people in the Los Angeles area owned a TV in 1933. But those handful of early adopting TV geeks were in for a special treat on March 10th of that year when the movie The Crooked Circle was broadcast in its entirety.

That day the campy detective flick became the first feature film ever broadcast on TV when experimental Los Angeles station W6XAO-TV beamed it out from the corner of 7th and Bixel Streets in downtown. The really surprising part? It was still playing in local theaters at the time.

In the early 1930s, TV was the promise of the future. It may have been an experimental toy to many, but a select few saw its potential as a revolutionary new medium. This new medium was hungry for content, and one place to draw from was the movie business.

Astonishingly to those of us here in the year 2013, the movie production company that put out The Crooked Circle (the short-lived Sono-Art World Wide Pictures) heartily encouraged the broadcast. From their perspective, it was great advertising. And creating a little buzz in a community of early adopters during the Great Depression ? a time when movies were a popular and affordable form of escapism ? couldn't hurt.

In the early 1930s you couldn't pop on down to the shop and buy a TV set. They were pretty much the exclusive domain of tinkerers, radio professionals and hobbyists. But it's amazing to think what that must have felt like to receive a picture ? a motion picture! ? through the air and into your home while the movie was still playing at the theater just down the street.

Today, movie studios and TV stations alike are battling for eyeballs as the amount of video content available over broadcast and the internet is seemingly endless. But today, just as it was at the dawn of television, it seems the experimenters are the ones most likely to thrive.

You can watch The Crooked Circle in its entirety over at the Internet Archive.

(Image: September 1926 issue of Radio-Craft magazine)

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Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys

Boy Scout Pascal Tessier receives a hug from Greg Bourke, a scout leader from Louisville, Ky, after hearing of the announcement by Boy Scouts of America passing a resolution allowing scouts that are openly gay into their ranks. Mr. Tessier was in the command post for the group, Scouts for Equality at Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, Texas on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Tessier is a life scout who was unable to finish his eagle scout unless the resolution passed. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Brad Loper)

Boy Scout Pascal Tessier receives a hug from Greg Bourke, a scout leader from Louisville, Ky, after hearing of the announcement by Boy Scouts of America passing a resolution allowing scouts that are openly gay into their ranks. Mr. Tessier was in the command post for the group, Scouts for Equality at Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, Texas on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Tessier is a life scout who was unable to finish his eagle scout unless the resolution passed. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Brad Loper)

Former Cub Scouts den leader Jennifer Tyrrell, who was ousted from Scouting because she is openly gay, wears a button on her uniform shirt that reads "We Support All Boy Scouts" as she responds to a reporters question Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas. Local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization ? one of the most dramatic moves the organization has made in a century. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

John Stemberger, an Eagle Scout and Orlando, Fla. based attorney speaks out during a news conference against the Boy Scouts of American decision allowing openly gay scouts to participate in scouting Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas. Local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization ? one of the most dramatic moves the organization has made in a century. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Former Cub Scouts den leader Jennifer Tyrrell, who was ousted from Scouting because she is openly gay, becomes emotional as she responds to a reporters question Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas. Local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization ? one of the most dramatic moves the organization has made in a century. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Former Cub Scouts den leader Jennifer Tyrrell, who was ousted from Scouting because she is openly gay, responds to a reporters question Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas. Local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization ? one of the most dramatic moves the organization has made in a century. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) ? After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA's controversies are far from over.

The Scouts' longstanding ban on gay adults remains in force, and many liberal Scout leaders ? as well as gay-rights groups ? plan to continue pressing for an end to that exclusion even though the BSA's top officials aren't ready for that step.

Meanwhile, many conservatives within the Scouts are distraught at the outcome of the vote and some are threatening to defect. A meeting is planned for next month to discuss formation of a new organization for boys.

The vote was conducted by secret ballot Thursday during the National Council's annual meeting at conference center not far from Boy Scout headquarters in suburban Dallas. Of the roughly 1,400 voting members of the council who cast ballots, 61 percent supported the proposal drafted by the governing Executive Committee. The policy change takes effect Jan. 1.

"This has been a challenging chapter in our history," the BSA chief executive, Wayne Brock, said after the vote. "While people have differing opinions on this policy, kids are better off when they're in Scouting."

However, the outcome will not end the membership policy debate, as was evident in the reactions of leaders of some of the conservative religious denominations that sponsor Scout units.

"We are deeply saddened," said Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's executive committee. "Homosexual behavior is incompatible with the principles enshrined in the Scout oath and Scout law."

The Assemblies of God said the policy change "will lead to a mass exodus from the Boy Scout program." It also warned that the change would make the BSA vulnerable to lawsuits seeking to end the ban on gay adults.

John Stembeger, a conservative activist and former Scout from Florida, founded a group called OnMyHonor.net to oppose the policy change. He assailed the BSA executive committee for its role in gaining a "Yes" vote.

"What kind of a message are we sending to young people about being brave when its top adult leaders don't even have the courage to stand up to the pressure of a militant lobby when the bullies in Washington D.C., Hollywood or even some of their own renegade councils start pressuring and harassing them?" he asked.

He said OnMyHonor.Net and other like-minded organizations and individuals would meet in Louisville, Ky., next month to discuss the creation of "a new character development organization for boys."

Texas Gov. Rick Perry also expressed dismay.

"While I will always cherish my time as a Scout and the life lessons I learned, I am greatly disappointed with this decision," he said.

The result was welcomed by many liberal members of the Scouting community and by gay-rights activists, though most of the praise was coupled with calls for ending the ban on gay adults.

"I'm so proud of how far we've come, but until there's a place for everyone in Scouting, my work will continue," said Jennifer Tyrrell, whose ouster as a Cub Scout den leader in Ohio because she is lesbian launched a national protest movement.

Tyrrell recalled having to tell her son she had been forced out as den mother.

"He doesn't deserve to be told that we're not good enough," she said. "We're not going to stop until this is over."

Pascal Tessier, an openly gay 16-year-old Boy Scout from Maryland, had mixed emotions after the vote.

"I was thinking that today could be my last day as a Boy Scout," he said. "Obviously, for gay Scouts like me, this vote is life-changing."

Tessier is on track to receive his Eagle Scout award ? he only needs to complete his final project ? but said he is troubled that on his 18th birthday he could transform from someone holding Scouting's highest rank to someone unfit to be a part of the organization.

"That one couple hours (between 17 and 18) will make me not a good person," he said.

Tessier has been an exception ? an openly gay Scout whose presence was quietly accepted by local Scout leaders. In general, the Scouts' policy has been to avoid any questioning of would-be Scouts as to their sexual orientation, but to dismiss boys who did speak openly about being gay.

For example, Scout officials refused to grant the Eagle Scout rank to Ryan Andresen, an 18-year-old Californian, after he came out as gay last year.

The vote followed what the BSA described as "the most comprehensive listening exercise in Scouting's history" to gauge opinions, including a survey sent out starting in February to members of the Scouting community.

Of the more than 200,000 leaders, parents and youth members who responded, 61 percent supported the current policy of excluding gays, while 34 percent opposed it. Most parents of young Scouts, as well as youth members themselves, opposed the ban.

The proposal approved Thursday was seen as a compromise, and the Scouts stressed that they would not condone sexual conduct by any Scout ? gay or straight.

"The Boy Scouts of America will not sacrifice its mission, or the youth served by the movement, by allowing the organization to be consumed by a single, divisive and unresolved societal issue," the BSA said in a statement.

Among those voting for the proposal to accept openly gay youth was Thomas Roberts, of Dawsonville, Ga., who serves on the board of a Scout council in northeast Georgia.

"It was a very hard decision for this organization," he said. "I think ultimately it will be viewed as the right thing."

The BSA's overall "traditional youth membership" ? Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Venturers ? is now about 2.6 million, compared with more than 4 million in peak years of the past. It also has about 1 million adult leaders and volunteers.

Of the more than 100,000 Scouting units in the U.S., 70 percent are chartered by religious institutions.

Those include liberal churches opposed to any ban on gays, but some of the largest sponsors are relatively conservative denominations that have previously supported the broad ban ? notably the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Southern Baptist churches.

While the Southern Baptists were clearly upset by the vote to accept openly gay youth, the Utah-based Mormon church ? which has more Scouting troops than any other religious denomination ? reacted positively.

"We trust that BSA will implement and administer the approved policy in an appropriate and effective manner," an LDS statement said.

Utah's largest Boy Scout councils supported the change.

"This is a win for youth and a win for the community," said John Gailey, spokesman for the Utah National Parks Council, which covers central and southern Utah. "It gives all youth the opportunity to take advantage of the values instilled by Scouting."

The National Catholic Committee on Scouting responded cautiously, saying it would assess the possible impact of the change on Catholic-sponsored Scout units

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Crary reported from New York. Associated Press writer Brady McCombs also contributed to this report from Salt Lake City.

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Ugandan shilling seen sliding ahead of June budget reading

KAMPALA (Reuters) - The Ugandan shilling was little changed against the dollar on Friday, but traders see the local currency weakening ahead of the 2013/2014 budget reading in early June.

At 1034 GMT commercial banks quoted the currency of east Africa's third-largest economy at 2,590/2,600, barely moving from Thursday's close of 2,595/2,605.

The local currency has been under elevated pressure this week after an upsurge in dollar demand by commercial banks, offshore investors and importers.

Stephen Kaboyo, managing director of Alpha Capital Partners said the shilling's outlook was bearish.

"As we count down to the budget statement, we could see a sentiment driven rate as indications arising out of the budget framework paper suggest fiscal pressures in the new financial year," Kaboyo said.

Hit by a cut in western aid, the government says it plans to hike taxes over next financial year.

Money market analysts say such tax rises could undermine the shilling by dampening inflows of foreign investment.

"Shilling outlook is weak but end-month conversions from charities might give some cushion the depreciation risk," said Ali Abbas, trader at Crane Bank.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ugandan-shilling-seen-sliding-ahead-june-budget-reading-131542774.html

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Samsung GT-i8800 smartphone makes an appearance running Tizen 2.1

Samsung's relationship with Google seems solid enough for now, but the company is still hedging its bets with Tizen should things turn sour. Several devices running the alternative Linux-based OS are due to launch this year, and the GT-i8800 looks like it might be one of them. If this image from Tizen Greek Community is to be believed, then what you're looking at above is codenamed "Redwood". The phone runs Tizen 2.1 (an update on the version we last played with), packs S-Voice and sounds a lot like the the GT-i8805 we found out about yesterday. With over 900 million Android devices now in the wild, Samsung will not have an easy time trying to peddle its new OS, but we're curious to see where this goes. Click the source for more shots of the phone in action.

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Amazon brings the Kindle Fire HD to more than 170 countries, expands Appstore to nearly 200 countries

For two days John McCain and Ted Cruz have been fighting on the Senate floor over the rules for negotiating a budget, but, like so many fights, it's also about so much more. Cruz is being annoying about the budget, but worse, he just doesn't?get the Senate.?

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Chrome 28 beta for Android brings translation bar, fullscreen on tablets

Internationally savvy Chrome desktop users are well acquainted with the translation bar's ability to quickly make sense of sites using foreign languages. Courtesy of the new Chrome 28 beta for Android, they can take that linguistic power on the road: the translation bar now shows up on mobile when visiting pages in non-native text. The test release also gives tablets the same fullscreen mode that phones have in the stable build, and everyone can see graphs illustrating the data usage savings they get from compression. Those who want to better understand their mobile world just have to swing by the source links to get the latest beta.

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CSN: A's Straily outduels Darvish in 1-0 win

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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Rookie right-hander Dan Straily pitched seven scoreless innings and Yoenis Cespedes homered as the Oakland Athletics won their fifth straight game, 1-0 over the Texas Rangers and Yu Darvish on Tuesday night.

Straily (2-2) gave up only two singles while facing 22 batters, just one over the minimum for his seven innings. He struck out five.

Even with consecutive wins to start the three-game series, Oakland still trails the Rangers by 4 1/2 games in the AL West.

Darvish (7-2) had won all five of his previous starts this season when pitching after a Texas loss.

The Japanese right-hander struck out five, but walked three and hit a batter while giving up five hits in six innings. With the help of a couple of defensive plays, the only run he allowed came when Cespedes homered to straightaway center in the third.

Cespedes' ninth homer went just beyond the reach of Craig Gentry's outstretched glove. Darvish had turned and watched after the slugger took a big swing and connected.

Grant Balfour pitched a perfect ninth for his ninth save in as many chances this season, and his 27th in a row since April 2012, to close out Oakland's third shutout of the season. Sean Doolittle pitched a scoreless eighth for the A's.

Texas was held scoreless for the third time this season.

It was only the 13th 1-0 game ever at Rangers Ballpark, which opened in 1994.

A.J. Pierzynski, the Rangers catcher activated from the disabled list earlier Tuesday, had a one-out single in the third. Jurickson Profar had a single in the sixth, but the rookie was caught stealing when he took off toward second base before Straily threw his pitch.

After winning his season debut April 5 with 11 strikeouts at Houston, Straily was optioned to Triple-A the next day when Bartolo Colon was reinstated from the suspended list. Straily returned in late April, and was 0-2 with an 8.84 ERA in four starts since until dominating the AL West-leading Rangers.

Darvish, who raised his majors-best strikeout total to 91 in 66 2-3 innings, came out after 101 pitches. He had averaged 121 pitches his last three starts, including a career-high 130 five nights earlier against Detroit in a 10-4 victory.

Elvis Andrus made a nifty play to end the fourth, when the shortstop was fully extended when he made a diving stab to catch the ball and then scrambled to his feet and threw out Chris Young at first. Darvish smiled and nodded at Andrus as they made their way to the dugout.

An inning later, after Darvish fielded a bunt by Adam Rosales, the pitcher turned and made a quick throw that went to the left-field side of second base. Andrus caught the ball while stepping on the base, then falling away from the base made a sidearm sling to get Rosales out at first - with a fully extended stretch by second baseman Profar covering the bag.

Notes: Rangers reliever Neal Cotts got three outs on six pitches in his first major league appearance since May 25, 2009. Texas purchased his contract from Triple-A Round Rock earlier Tuesday. The 33-year-old left-hander had ligament replacement surgery in 2009. ... Oakland DH Jed Lowrie left the game with a bruise after fouling a pitch off his right foot. ... 1B Daric Barton, designated for assignment Saturday when A's outfielder Chris Young came off the disabled list, cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A Sacramento. ... Right-hander Chris Resop also cleared waivers and was outrighted to Sacramento.

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Does the World Really Need a Farrah Abraham "Docu-Soap"?

As if we needed further proof that the wrong people get their own reality show... 

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Why Does Hollywood Hate The Future?

A few weeks ago, Chris Dixon tweeted something thought-provoking: "What were the last Hollywood movies you saw about technology & the future that were optimistic? They seem to be systematically dystopian." I happened to be sitting in a movie theater waiting for Iron Man 3 to start, so I tried to come up with a good counter-example. It?s a lot harder than I thought it would be. Then the pre-movie trailers starting playing. The new Will Smith (and son) flick, After Earth: dystopia. The new Guillermo del Toro flick, Pacific Rim: dystopia. Even the new Superman flick, Man of Steel, could be classified as a technological dystopia (more below).

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IMF calls on Britain to do more for growth

LONDON (AP) ? The International Monetary Fund has called on Britain to do more to support the economic recovery, urging the government Wednesday to speed up investment in infrastructure and come up with a plan to privatize its bailed out banks.

In a review of Britain's policies, which had been hotly anticipated after the IMF last month criticized the government's focus on budget austerity, the IMF applauded the greater "flexibility" shown by Treasury chief George Osborne.

But it warned that more needed to be done for the economy, saying the government "should capitalize on the nascent signs of momentum to bolster growth."

Infrastructure projects ? such as building social housing ? could create jobs and stimulate economic activity. But that alone is not enough, given that the economic downturn has been one of the most prolonged since the Great Depression.

"Our view is there is no single silver bullet," said David Lipton, the IMF's first deputy managing director and previously a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama.

The IMF also urged the government to develop a clear strategy for two banks which received government funding to stay afloat ? even if it requires another capital infusion. The government plans to return the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds to private ownership ? but when and how remains unclear.

"Any strategy should seek to return the banks to private hands in a way that maximizes the value for taxpayers, strengthens confidence and competition in the sector, and minimizes outward spillovers," the IMF said in its statement. "In this context, if a sovereign backstop is required to meet a capital shortfall, it should be provided."

The IMF made headlines in Britain last month when it criticized Osborne's plans to reduce debt quickly, at the expense of economic growth.

The government's spending cuts and tax increases in recent years have damped growth as companies and consumers were unable to plug the gap left by the retrenching state. That contributed to pushing the economy into recession twice since 2008.

While the Washington-based IMF on Wednesday called for the government to do more, the tone of its report was decidedly less heated than some had predicted.

The assessment came just hours after minutes to the Bank of England's last meeting in May showed policymakers remain reluctant to offer more monetary stimulus to the economy.

The minutes showed the nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee unanimously approved keeping the base interest rate at 0.5 percent but disagreed on pumping more money into the economy. Since 2009, the bank has injected 375 billion pounds ($579 billion) into Britain's economy in a program known as quantitative easing.

Under the program, the bank buys government bonds from financial institutions, hoping they will lend to businesses and individuals. Governor Mervyn King and two other members pushed for an increase of 25 billion pounds, but were outvoted.

The continued fragility of the economy was made clear in new figures on retail sales, released Wednesday, which showed a sharp 1.3 percent drop in April compared with March. That was much worse than the 0.1 percent rise analysts were expecting.

Samuel Tombs, an economist with Capital Economics in London, noted that the Bank of England's minutes showed a greater concern about the impact that stimulus could have on inflation expectations.

The IMF noted in its report that inflation was easing, which should allow the Bank of England's policies ? which it described as "vigorous and appropriate" ? to remain accommodative for the time being.

It acknowledged, however, that the impact of such easy monetary policy is being hindered by the fact that the banks are still cautious about lending. To address that issue, banks should be made to improve their balance sheets, which would reduce risk and encourage them to lend more.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/imf-calls-britain-more-growth-153135002.html

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