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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
News Analysis: Research institutions say China's economic rebalancing to have ...
By Tan Shih Ming
SINGAPORE, July 29 (Xinhua) -- As the biggest trading partner of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China's economic rebalancing and policy re-orientation will have an adverse effect upon ASEAN economies in the short term but will benefit the region in the long term, research institutions have said.
The latest figures from China's State Council Information Office showed China is now the ASEAN's biggest trade partner, with trade volume valued at 210 billion U.S. dollars in the first half of 2013, which is nearly four times more than that in 2002.
ASEAN is also China's fourth most important destination of foreign direct investment, worth 30 billion dollars.
As China's economy has slowed in nine of the past 10 quarters and the government said it will tolerate slower growth to push reform aimed at reducing its reliance on the massive investment in favor of more services- and consumption-led growth, there are concerns about the impact of China's slowdown upon ASEAN economies.
Nomura Global Markets Research said under the "China slowdown" scenario, the impact on ASEAN equity markets overall will likely be smaller than in the rest of the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan.
The impact on direct earnings in Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia is likely to be limited as over 90 percent of revenues for listed companies of these three markets are derived domestically.
On the other hand, the impact on equity markets of Malaysia and Singapore may be more visible, with the chemicals, energy and gaming sectors likely to be affected in Malaysia, and tourism and, in particular, property sectors most vulnerable in Singapore.
On foreign exchange front, the performance would vary greatly among ASEAN economies from a rapid slowdown in China's economy.
Nomura Global Markets Research believed that open economies such as Singapore are most at risk from a slowdown in trade and potential capital outflows.
Depreciation risks also exist in Malaysian currency, as the country has the high level of foreign bond positioning and is susceptible to the risk of capital outflows.
While Thai baht's underperformance is unlikely to be as severe as the currencies of Singapore and Malaysia, its vulnerability has grown given its increased dependence on China through trade channels.
In contrast, the currency performance of Indonesia and the Philippines should prove to be more resilient to China's slowdown, since recent Bank of Indonesia's tightening stance should help to stabilize rupiah, and the strength of the Philippines'economy driven primarily by domestic demand and a structurally strong current account surplus should make its peso to become a relative out-performer in the region. CIMB Research said given the importance of vertical supply chain links with China, ASEAN trade performance will be hurt if China's exports slow. Among ASEAN economies, Malaysia's export share to China is the largest at 12.6 percent, followed by the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore at 11.8 percent, 11.7 percent, 11.4 percent and 10.8 percent respectively. The sectors and products in ASEAN region that will be hit by slower Chinese demand due to economic slowdown are the suppliers of resource-based raw materials. These include chemicals and chemical products, palm oil and rubber for Malaysia, mineral fuels, oils and animal or vegetables fats and oils for Indonesia, organic chemicals, plastics, rubber and electrical machinery and equipment for Thailand; and Singapore's major export items to China liked petrochemicals, processed foods and electronics and electrical products.
However, CIMB Research also pointed out over time, the rebalancing in the China economy towards stronger domestic consumption will offer larger as well as more long-lasting benefits to its ASEAN trading partners, if they are able to successfully expand their direct and indirect access to the Chinese consumer goods markets.
In addition, given the large offering of investment prospects in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, China's commitment towards long-term investment in ASEAN will continue even though direct investment flows from Chinese companies into Asia may be dampened in the short term due to slowdown.
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Local child with kidney cancer gets to meet Mickey Mouse
A six-year-old from Lompoc is one step closer to getting his biggest wish granted.
A special Wish Presentation Party was held Saturday in Lompoc for Nathan Mendoza.
Nathan has a Wilm's Tumor, which is a type of kidney cancer that mostly occurs in children.
To make things a little easier for him and his family, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Tri-Counties is sending him to Disneyland.
"He loves Mickey Mouse. He loves every single character. He's been wanting to go for a while now, but we just haven't been able to," said Naomi Cordero, Nathan's mom.
Nathan and his family head to Disneyland on Monday.
Another Wish Granting party is set Sunday for a local teenager with leukemia.
If you'd like to donate to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Tri-Counties, click here.
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
This Solar Sanitizer Will Bring Safer Surgery to the Developing World
Modern medical techniques, specifically stringent sterilization practices, have led to a dramatic drop in the number of post-op infections?assuming the facility has the necessary electricity and equipment to do so. However, in the remote regions of developing countries like India, neither of those is guaranteed. But that's where Rice University's new solar steamer comes in. This ingenious device cheaply and easily captures the Sun's rays to sterilize anything from scalpels to human excrement. Huzzah, no more infections from backwoods surgeries! And?bonus?your shit no longer stinks.
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Osieck unhappy as Australia beaten by Japan
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Uranium scare forces evacuation at South Florida airport
Updated 4:33 p.m. ET
A section of Opa-locka Executive Airport was temporarily sealed off Thursday after reports of a uranium spill in a 55-gallon drum, CBS Miami reports.
"We always have to assume the worst in these types of situations. We don't know the quantity, the level of radiation released," said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue spokesman Lt. Arnold Piedrahita.
A Miami-Dade Fire Rescue hazardous materials team checked out the material inside the drum which was sitting by a fence in a section of the airport used for planes that are being scrapped.
Inside the drum, the hazmat workers found plane parts laced with depleted uranium.
"Aircraft counterbalances, this is common material used to produce these parts. However they're supposed to be disposed of in a certain manner, they're not just supposed to be discarded in some sort of parts yard," said Piedrahita.
Airport officials said parts came from a DC-10 plane from now defunct Arrow Cargo which was being dismantled. A contractor working to take the jet apart opened the drum not realizing what was inside.
"It's a radioactive substance no one wants to be exposed to, radiation it's not something you want to be exposed to, it can affect your bodily functions," said Piedrahita.
People can be exposed to radiation from depleted uranium by eating, drinking, and breathing it or through contact with the skin.
Readings for possible uranium contamination were also taken from other airplane parts in the surrounding area. In the end, it turned out to be 'not hazardous'.
"The radiation being excreted by these uranium parts was at same level of radiation you receive from a normal environment," said Piedrahita.
None the less, the Environmental Protection Agency has been contacted.
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Twitter (for Windows Phone)
The Windows Phone OS has built-in twitter support: its People app lets you connect to your social microblogging account and see updates and contacts. But for app richer experience?and the experience designed by the service's creator, the official Twitter app is hard to beat. The only other Twitter app in the Windows Phone store worthy of comparison is Rowi, which does offer full functionality and maybe even more control than the official Twitter app, but it's not free without ads, and its design isn't as polished as the from-the-source microblogging app, though that may be a matter of taste. Let's take a look at using the excellent official app.
Install
I tested the app on a Samsung ATIV Odyssey. You can get the Twitter app from the Windows Store, remotely install it from the Web, or have a text message sent to the phone with an installation link. On first run, you'll be asked to sign in to an existing account or you can create a new one from a link at the bottom of this page.
Before you can first view your tweet feed, you have to decide whether to allow the app to see your location. Then you'll have to make a similar decision about notifications. It probably makes sense to OK both of these options, to get the full mobile experience.
You can connect the Windows Phone Twitter app to multiple accounts, just as you can with other platform versions and apps. Switching between accounts is a simple matter of tapping-and-holding on your user name at the top, or a choice from the ? menu on your Profile tab.
Interface
The Twitter for Windows Phone app bears a strong resemblance to the official mobile clients for other platforms?Android and iOS. Four big clear buttons grace the top: Home, @, #, and Profile ?You can swipe through these four "modes" rather than having to tap the buttons, just as you can in Rowi. The buttons show dots below if new messages are awaiting, and in yet another nice interface touch, the button for the mode you're currently in lights up blue.
One advantage of the official twitter app over Rowi is that it lets you watch Vine videos right inside the app, without going out to a Web browser the way Rowi needs to do. Another trick Rowi can't match is the Twitter app's ability to translate foreign-language tweets on the fly. I followed a Spanish-speaking user, and when I tapped on a tweet to view it full-screen, the English translation appeared below the original tweet without my having to do anything. Rowi does offer to translate with Bing, too, but it's a deeper ? menu choice.
Another option that you may want to set up is to let Twitter show status on your phone's lock screen. A button link from the Settings page takes you to Windows Phone settings where you can add Twitter as a "quick status" source. For some reason, though, after I did this, I didn't see the notifications on my phone's lock screen. Nor did I see the number of waiting tweets on the app's tile. I'll attribute this to OS version, the app is officially for WP7, but I'm running on WP8. I've contacted support and will update this review based on the response.
Tweeting, Retweeting, and More
Just as with the Web version, you can reply, retweet, and favorite any tweet after you tap into the tweet details. The ? menu offers copy tweet, copy link to tweet, mail tweet, text tweet, and reply with message. I liked that the details view of a tweet shows the whole conversations, before and after the tweet you're viewing, as well as any photo included in the tweet.
When you tap the compose tweet button at the bottom of any of the app's four main pages, you'll get a familiar question, like "What's happening?" or "What's on your mind?" You'll also be able to take a picture with the camera's phone or add one from your camera roll. I couldn't, however, shoot a video for inclusion in my tweet. Happily, the app also let me delete a tweet I regretted.
From either app, I could change my profile images, but a subtle difference showed up: The official Twitter app showed my profile picture and background image with the same layout you see online, while Rowi showed the profile picture at the left?a minor difference, but one that illustrates the more standard design of the official app. In its favor, Rowi does offer more fine-grain options, such as text size, tile color order of tweets, and how many tweets to load how often. But for most users, the official client's settings are all that's needed.
Direct messaging is also well-handled by the Twitter app: When you start typing a recipient's name, matching contacts drop down from the text box. You can see your list of previous conversations. As an aside, I don't really understand why Twitter has to limit this messaging to 140 characters, unlike any other messaging system on the planet: It makes sense for tweets that would fill up followers' feeds, but not for one-on-one messaging.
The Meat of the Tweet
As probably makes sense, the official Twitter client for Windows Phone lets you engage in the social microblogging network in just about every way you'd want to. It may lack some customizability and settings of Rowi, but, for most Tweeps, the standard app is the best choice. Its ability to show more in the tweet details view trumps Rowi's other advantages, as does its ad-free view in the free version. Hence, Twitter for Windows Phone is our Editors' Choice among Windows Phone Twitter apps.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
New ESPN sports docs include 'Tonya and Nancy'
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? The knee whack heard 'round the world will be revisited near the 20th anniversary of the rivalry between Olympic figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, as one of six new documentaries on ESPN's "30 for 30" series.
The series' second season begins Oct. 1 with "Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau," about the big wave surfer and lifeguard.
It wraps up Nov. 5 with "Tonya and Nancy," a look back at the Jan. 6, 1994, incident in which Kerrigan was clubbed on the knee after practice for the U.S. championships in a plot masterminded by Harding's ex-husband. The film includes new interviews with Harding and people close to Kerrigan.
ESPN Films Vice President Connor Schell said Wednesday that they're still trying to persuade Kerrigan to do an interview. She has mostly shunned the spotlight to focus on raising her family.
"Several people close to her have done interviews," he told the Television Critics Association summer meeting. "We're still working to get Nancy and hope by November that we do."
The rest of the series is: "Free Spirits" about the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team airing Oct. 8; "No Mas" about the rivalry between boxers Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran on Oct. 15; "Big Shot" about John Spano's scam to buy the New York Islanders on Oct. 22; and "This is What They Want" on Jimmy Connors' run to the semifinals of the 1991 U.S. Open on Oct. 29.
Former "Entourage" star and lifelong Islanders fan Kevin Connolly directs and narrates "Big Shot." It features the only interview Spano has given about being allowed to purchase the NHL team in 1996 even though he had far less resources than he led then-owner John Pickett and the league to believe.
"John Spano wasn't driven as much by greed and money as he wanted to be able to walk into a room and have people go nuts and want his autograph," Connolly said. "He wanted to be a star."
Connolly had to persuade a reluctant Spano to tell his story and at the same time walk a fine line between being a fan of the team and directing the film.
"He knew there were going to be some unpleasant things that were discussed," said Connolly, who was born and raised on New York's Long Island.
He rejected Spano's request to leave certain things out of the film.
"I wouldn't be doing my job," Connolly said. "It would be borderline unethical."
Spano saw the film in April when it premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival. Connolly said that Spano "denied a couple of things" but didn't ask the director to edit anything out of the finished product.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/espn-sports-docs-tonya-nancy-231935010.html
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Video: Talking X's & O's with Nick Saban (College Football Live)
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The hosts should have had him talk more to the plays and have him describe what he was talking about, they missed an opportunity to teach some football :)
Also, Jesse is trying to sell us that most people don't know CNS helps with the secondary, did that really just come outta his mouth. Idiot, I don't know how many times I've heard the schmucks at ESPN tell us that over the years.
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See Haunting Images Of Costa Concordia Shipwreck On Google Maps
For more than a year, the wreck of the Costa Concordia has been a tragic fixture on Tuscany?s Isola del Giglio coastline. The crumbling remains have been there for so long it has subsequently been snapped by Google Maps. Check out these amazing images to pay your respects.
The Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground in January 2012 after hitting a reef and capsizing. The accident caused the deaths of 32 passengers and left the cruise ship an unsalvageable wreck. There are plans for the ship to be towed away later this year, but until then you can view the remains on Google Maps.
In the below image, you can just make out the hulk of the Costa Concordia which we have circled in red:
Zoom in closer, and the mystery shape becomes more apparent:
You can check out the wreck for yourself by heading to Google Maps and typing in the relevant co-ordinates.
See also: A Quadcopter?s-Eye View Of The Costa Concordia Shipwreck | 30 Beautifully Haunting Shipwrecks From Around The World | The View Inside The Costa Concordia
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Exclusive: See Tina Turner's Star-Studded Wedding Party!
Tina Turner was joined by a group of famous friends for a huge wedding party in Zurich, Switzerland, on Sunday. While Tina officially tied the knot with her longtime beau and German producer, Erwin Bach, last week, she waited until the weekend to open up her home for a big blowout. The bride wore a black and green gown while she danced and mingled with friends, including Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King. People magazine reported that other celebrity partygoers included David Bowie, Giorgio Armani, and Sade. This is Erwin's first marriage and Tina's second, as she was famously married to Ike Turner from 1962 to 1976. Tina and Erwin have been living together for the past 27 years but haven't revealed why they decided to tie the knot after such a long courtship.
Source: http://www.popsugar.com/Tina-Turner-Wedding-Pictures-31022771
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Monday, July 22, 2013
'Autobahn to Bayreuth' - English soprano sings for Wagner's 200th
By Michael Roddy
LONDON (Reuters) - It's happened very fast for soprano Catherine Foster, who was a midwife before she became a singer and this week will be the first Englishwoman to sing Brunnhilde for Wagner's "Ring" cycle at the Bayreuth Festival, in the composer's 200th birthday year.
Foster, a native of the mid-England city of Nottingham who made a drastic career switch in the mid-1990s, plays the warrior goddess who lets the gods burn but saves humanity in a new production by radical Berlin theatre director Frank Castorf.
Given that she came to singing late and will now perform a star turn at the Bavarian opera house that Richard Wagner built, in his bicentenary birthday year no less, Foster has only one way to describe her career path.
"I've come straight down the autobahn to Brunnhilde, and not on many side roads," she told Reuters in a telephone interview from Bayreuth, where she is rehearsing.
Castorf's staging, combined with Wagner's scenario, has something for every taste: squabbles over oil and gold, lust, incest, treachery, love potions and, of course, a bonfire of the gods at the end. "For me it (the 'Ring' cycle) is a trip towards the gold of our time - crude oil," Castorf told German newspaper Die Welt in one of his rare public comments on the production.
Among the major roles, Canadian heldentenor Lance Ryan sings Siegfried, German bass-baritone Wolfgang Koch is Wotan, German-born Italian soprano Anja Kempe sings Sieglinde, and South African tenor Johan Botha is Siegmund. Russian conductor Kirill Petrenko makes his Bayreuth "Ring" debut conducting in the Festival Hall's famous sunken and covered orchestra pit.
All this at prices often above 200 euros ($260) per ticket, more in the after market, in a sweltering, 1,925-seat non-air-conditioned 19th-century opera house. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her opera-loving husband, theoretical chemist Joachim Sauer, always attend what is seen as the German social event of the year, and the waiting list for tickets can be a decade long.
It is almost possible to imagine Wagner, who died in 1883 and is buried in an unmarked marble grave beside his Bayreuth mansion, smiling at the wry and improbable plot twists that have brought Foster to sing Brunnhilde at Festival Hall, the timber structure Wagner built on the "Green Hill" at the edge of Bayreuth.
Foster began appearing six years ago as Brunnhilde, a role British sopranos Gwyneth Jones from Wales and Anne Evans, born in London of Welsh descent, had sung at Bayreuth before her. The summons to Bayreuth came after soprano Angela Denoke withdrew.
She says fate put her on a career path she had foreseen in something she wrote at age 10, recently unearthed by her mother.
"My mum found a book about 18 months ago in the loft, and when I was 10 I had to write in the book 'What would you like to do when you get older?' And interestingly I wrote: 'Since I was three years old I have known that I would be a nurse and a singer, and that is what I will do.' And I drew a picture of a singer with a microphone and a picture of a nurse. That's it."
"How do you put that into words, knowing what my fate is going to be? That's why I am a very strong believer in fate."
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If it is not magic potions, it is usually fate that plays a decisive role in Wagner's operas. The composer revolutionized the stage and sonic world of late 19th-century Europe, and his works - and outsized personality - cast a huge shadow, for good and ill, into the 20th century and beyond.
Partly because of the powerful, emotional language of his music, and the Germanic, nationalistic themes of his works, but also because of his virulent anti-Semitism, Wagner was Adolf Hitler's favorite composer. Bayreuth was one of Hitler's regular stopping-off places, before and during the war.
Under the stewardship of Wagner's widow Cosima, who lived to age 92, and her children and their spouses, Bayreuth became the cultural nexus of the Third Reich. Jewish musicians, singers and directors who had played a vital role in Bayreuth productions before the war were at best banned or went into exile, at worst were sent to concentration camps where they perished.
When Bayreuth reopened in 1951, productions associated with Nazi times were scrapped, and new directors were enlisted to give the stagings a modern, European flavor. State and public bodies provided support, but criticism of productions and family feuding led to a foundation being created in 1973 to run it.
The de-Nazification was so complete, German Wagner specialist and author Joachim Kohler said, that Bayreuth is no more threatening than the shrine to pop singer Elvis Presley.
"Bayreuth is the Wagnerians' Graceland," Kohler said in a telephone interview. "It is like the place the pilgrims go to inhale the holy atmosphere of Wagnerism."
That is not a view shared by British music critic Norman Lebrecht, who says Wagner, in his writings and pronouncements, created cultural anti-Semitism in Germany before the term had been coined.
The continued involvement at Bayreuth of the Wagner family, represented by the composer's great grand-daughters Eva and Katharina, the festival's co-managers, assures that Bayreuth has never fully come clean, Lebrecht said.
"The problem with Wagner is that Bayreuth is a hereditary monarchy; it continues to hold on to his legacy," he said.
"It bears the stench of history - the man's appalling anti-Semitism, which effectively gave cultural legitimization to Nazi policies, and the continuing cover-up of the involvement of the Wagner family with the Hitler regime, or the post-war reality that Bayreuth was essentially a summer camp for ex-Nazis and their widows."
French musicologist Pierre-Rene Serna, author of a pamphlet whose title translated into English is roughly "Anti-Wagnerism Made Easy", thinks even the music is partly to blame.
"It is not innocent; it inspires fanaticism," he said.
But for soprano Kempe, singing the role of Sieglinde, who falls in love with her brother Siegmund and has a child by him who grows up to be the hero Siegfried, the music carries an entirely different message.
"I know this music very well, and I have done it many times, but when I come to certain points I get goosebumps," she said by phone from Bayreuth.
"There must be something very deep inside which captures the soul."
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(Additional reporting by Marzanne Van Den Berg in Berlin; Editing by Will Waterman)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/autobahn-bayreuth-english-soprano-sings-wagners-200th-153058000.html
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Gleason's Sporting World: Some sports phrases should be outlawed
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I have deep, dark problems with mindless redundancies, like the reference to basketball players "scoring the basketball.'' That's fine and dandy, but can he score the volleyball? Bet he can't score the beach ball.
Football seems to have a patent on inane phrases. "Defensive secondary'' raises the hair on the back of my neck. Conversely, I've heard more than one announcer describe the signal-caller as the "offensive quarterback,'' convincing me that TV folks are paid by the word.
Giving "110 percent'' is physically impossible. "Running downhill'' is just plain unnecessary.
New to my list, and just in time for the British Open, is when analysts describe players as "excellent ball strikers.''
Or, "He's an excellent striker of the ball.''
You mean he hits the golf ball well? Is that what you are saying?
But, heck, I would hazard a guess that all PGA players strike the ball well. That's why they are on the tour.
Some of them encounter problems when they don't strike it accurately enough or far enough or short enough, and strike it with just the right touch, also known as putting, to make it into the hole after reaching the green.
You know who isn't an excellent "striker of the ball?'' Me. There's a decent chance that when I hit a golf ball, it will discover an unreachable section of the woods, or sand, or a neighbor's living-room window.
But until I see a batch of pros spend the front nine hitting worm-burners off the tee, I'm categorizing them as excellent "ball strikers'' ? every last one of them.
So the nitwit ran onto the field during the All-Star Game as part of a "Twitter dare.'' Turns out he reached his 1,000 necessary responses to make a spectacle of himself, get body-slammed by a passionate security employee, pay a $1,000 fine and face up to a year in jail.
To which I wonder, on behalf of all relatively clear-thinking individuals, I hope it was worth it.
Baby boomers had Truth or Dare. This generation has Twitter Dare.
People used to run onto the field for bail money. Now they do it for "followers."
But the ones who do it now would seem to be especially unbalanced given the post-9/11 era of security concerns and terroristic threats. Who can blame stadium security for taking down trespassers the way the Twitter dare-devil was body-slammed? Morganna "The Kissing Bandit,'' once affectionately known for running onto ballfields and courts to smooch players and coaches, probably would get her bell rung if she tried it these days.
Morganna, by the way, hasn't done interviews in more than a decade, and as far as I know doesn't have a Twitter account.
Think there's any pressure on Jason Kidd to go from a great player to a great coach overnight? He had the job for about five minutes when owner Mikhail Prokhorov said that he has done "what I can'' to build a championship contender, and that, "Now I think it's high time for the team to do this.''
Good for Prokhorov giving fans a lot to be excited about.
Not necessarily good for Kidd, who has only proven what it takes to be a championship guard.
Travis Hafner's first name should be Dave, so his initials would be DH.
I can say this after seeing the Home Run Derby and All-Star Game in person for the first time: It's about 50 times more interesting than watching it on television.
Some sporting events are riveting whether you watch from your Barcalounger or box seat. The derby and All-Star Game are centerpieces to an orchestra of special sounds ? ovations afforded Matt Harvey and Mariano Rivera, for example ? and smiles of a kindlier, gentler, kid-friendly crowd focusing on individual performances and not team results.
Of course, that didn't stop the Citi Field masses from booing Neil Diamond on his way to the front of the mound for a creaky version of "Sweet Caroline.''
All in all, the derby and ASG are one of those multi-day events of which I would gladly bring my children, but probably watch only sparingly on TV.
The legendary coach of quarterbacks, Rex Ryan, says he likes the Jets' quarterback scenario more than during the team's 2009 season when they reached the conference title game.
I'm just wondering where Ryan discovered the evidence to make such a statement without the benefit of seeing his quarterbacks endure training camp.
And what part of the scenario does Ryan prefer? Mark Sanchez coming off a horrific season?
I hope it is Geno Smith who has caught Ryan's eye. Because there is nothing Sanchez could have done in OTAs to restore anybody's faith in him.
Or maybe ? probably ? Rex is being his usual ultra-optimistic self who sometimes dips into a reservoir of delusion.
The latest from Metta World Peace ? aka Ron Artest, aka That Wacky NBA Player ? has him posting on Twitter his upcoming comedy tour, which he says will be hosted by ... Ron Artest.
Oh, I get it.
Actually I don't get it.
In fact, there's a decent chance that nobody gets it.
But that's just the point. Artest reminds me of another pro athlete, actually a former pro athlete, whose serial attention seeking included an odd name change.
Chad Johnson ? aka Ochocinco, aka That Wacky (Former) NFL Player.
In fact, if Metta ? still unsure if the second reference is "Metta" or "World Peace" or "Peace" ? changes his name back to Artest, the comparison to Johnson will be eerily similar with him apparently going back to Johnson sometime last year, though I admit to missing this specific ground-breaking moment.
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I have deep, dark problems with mindless redundancies, like the reference to basketball players "scoring the basketball.'' That's fine and dandy, but can he score the volleyball? Bet he can't score the beach ball.
Football seems to have a patent on inane phrases. "Defensive secondary'' raises the hair on the back of my neck. Conversely, I've heard more than one announcer describe the signal-caller as the "offensive quarterback,'' convincing me that TV folks are paid by the word.
Giving "110 percent'' is physically impossible. "Running downhill'' is just plain unnecessary.
New to my list, and just in time for the British Open, is when analysts describe players as "excellent ball strikers.''
Or, "He's an excellent striker of the ball.''
You mean he hits the golf ball well? Is that what you are saying?
But, heck, I would hazard a guess that all PGA players strike the ball well. That's why they are on the tour.
Some of them encounter problems when they don't strike it accurately enough or far enough or short enough, and strike it with just the right touch, also known as putting, to make it into the hole after reaching the green.
You know who isn't an excellent "striker of the ball?'' Me. There's a decent chance that when I hit a golf ball, it will discover an unreachable section of the woods, or sand, or a neighbor's living-room window.
But until I see a batch of pros spend the front nine hitting worm-burners off the tee, I'm categorizing them as excellent "ball strikers'' ? every last one of them.
So the nitwit ran onto the field during the All-Star Game as part of a "Twitter dare.'' Turns out he reached his 1,000 necessary responses to make a spectacle of himself, get body-slammed by a passionate security employee, pay a $1,000 fine and face up to a year in jail.
To which I wonder, on behalf of all relatively clear-thinking individuals, I hope it was worth it.
Baby boomers had Truth or Dare. This generation has Twitter Dare.
People used to run onto the field for bail money. Now they do it for "followers."
But the ones who do it now would seem to be especially unbalanced given the post-9/11 era of security concerns and terroristic threats. Who can blame stadium security for taking down trespassers the way the Twitter dare-devil was body-slammed? Morganna "The Kissing Bandit,'' once affectionately known for running onto ballfields and courts to smooch players and coaches, probably would get her bell rung if she tried it these days.
Morganna, by the way, hasn't done interviews in more than a decade, and as far as I know doesn't have a Twitter account.
Think there's any pressure on Jason Kidd to go from a great player to a great coach overnight? He had the job for about five minutes when owner Mikhail Prokhorov said that he has done "what I can'' to build a championship contender, and that, "Now I think it's high time for the team to do this.''
Good for Prokhorov giving fans a lot to be excited about.
Not necessarily good for Kidd, who has only proven what it takes to be a championship guard.
Travis Hafner's first name should be Dave, so his initials would be DH.
I can say this after seeing the Home Run Derby and All-Star Game in person for the first time: It's about 50 times more interesting than watching it on television.
Some sporting events are riveting whether you watch from your Barcalounger or box seat. The derby and All-Star Game are centerpieces to an orchestra of special sounds ? ovations afforded Matt Harvey and Mariano Rivera, for example ? and smiles of a kindlier, gentler, kid-friendly crowd focusing on individual performances and not team results.
Of course, that didn't stop the Citi Field masses from booing Neil Diamond on his way to the front of the mound for a creaky version of "Sweet Caroline.''
All in all, the derby and ASG are one of those multi-day events of which I would gladly bring my children, but probably watch only sparingly on TV.
The legendary coach of quarterbacks, Rex Ryan, says he likes the Jets' quarterback scenario more than during the team's 2009 season when they reached the conference title game.
I'm just wondering where Ryan discovered the evidence to make such a statement without the benefit of seeing his quarterbacks endure training camp.
And what part of the scenario does Ryan prefer? Mark Sanchez coming off a horrific season?
I hope it is Geno Smith who has caught Ryan's eye. Because there is nothing Sanchez could have done in OTAs to restore anybody's faith in him.
Or maybe ? probably ? Rex is being his usual ultra-optimistic self who sometimes dips into a reservoir of delusion.
The latest from Metta World Peace ? aka Ron Artest, aka That Wacky NBA Player ? has him posting on Twitter his upcoming comedy tour, which he says will be hosted by ... Ron Artest.
Oh, I get it.
Actually I don't get it.
In fact, there's a decent chance that nobody gets it.
But that's just the point. Artest reminds me of another pro athlete, actually a former pro athlete, whose serial attention seeking included an odd name change.
Chad Johnson ? aka Ochocinco, aka That Wacky (Former) NFL Player.
In fact, if Metta ? still unsure if the second reference is "Metta" or "World Peace" or "Peace" ? changes his name back to Artest, the comparison to Johnson will be eerily similar with him apparently going back to Johnson sometime last year, though I admit to missing this specific ground-breaking moment.
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California wildfire 49% contained, evacuation orders remain
From Christine Theodorou, CNN
updated 12:32 AM EDT, Sun July 21, 2013
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- A wildfire burning near Idyllwild has burned more than 27,200 acres
- The fire is 49% contained, according to fire officials
- The blaze continues to threaten homes, with evacuations ordered for Pine Cove
(CNN) -- Firefighters worked Saturday to get the upper hand on a mountain wildfire in Southern California that forced the evacuation of thousands and destroyed a number of homes and vehicles.
The wildfire, burning near Idyllwild and Fern Valley, has burned more than 27,200 acres since it began Monday, fire officials said. The blaze was 49% contained, they said.
With forecasters predicting scattered mountain showers, fire officials hoped to further corral the blaze in the San Jacinto Mountains that has destroyed at least six homes and damaged a handful of others.
"Firefighter safety is a major concern as rain can also bring flooding and create slick and dangerous working conditions," the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Saturday.
At the height of the wildfire, evacuation orders were ordered for more than 6,000 people. More than 4,000 homes south of Palm Springs also were threatened.
Evacuation orders remained in effect Saturday for Idyllwild and Fern Valley. Authorities also announced an evacuation warning of the mountain community of Pine Cove, fire officials said, indicating that that area could be evacuated soon.
Evacuation orders were lifted in three communities -- Trails End, Morris Ranch, and Camp Joe Scherman -- on Saturday.
More than 3,400 fire personnel have been dispatched to battle the mountain fire.
Meanwhile, in southwest Oregon, fire crews were working to put out a 500-acre Pacifica Fire burning near the town of Williams.
More than 200 firefighters were working to put out the fire that has destroyed at least one house and was threatening up to 150 buildings as well as an undetermined number of vehicles, fire officials told CNN affiliate KTVL.
CNN's Jennifer Moore contributed to this report.
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
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Son Of Disgraced Penn State Coach Jerry Sandusky Wants New Name
The Hartford Courant
11:42 a.m. EDT, July 19, 2013
Matt Sandusky, the adopted son of former Penn State assistant football coach and convicted child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky, wants a new name.
Matt Sandusky, 33, has filed for a name change, a spokeswoman for the court clerk's office in Centre County, Pennsylvania, said on Thursday.
The new name he wanted to be known by was not made public. Though the clerk's office would reveal Sandusky wanted to change his name, the file was sealed and unavailable to the public, the spokeswoman said. A judge was expected to set a hearing date on the motion.
Jerry Sandusky is serving a state prison sentence of 30 to 60 years on his conviction for 45 counts of sexual abuse of children.
His case rocked the world of college football, and led to the firing of renowned Penn State University Head Coach Joe Paterno, as well as the then-president of the university, Graham Spanier.
Matt Sandusky, then known as Matt Heichel, was taken into foster care in 1996 and subsequently was adopted by Jerry Sandusky and his wife, Dottie.
In June 2011, about the same time as Jerry Sandusky's trial, Matt Sandusky said through his lawyer that he, too, had been a molestation victim of Jerry Sandusky.
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Beach 'roly polies' vanishing in Southern California, study says
Two tiny crustaceans whose burrows in the sand were once familiar sights to beachgoers are on their way to being extirpated from Southern California, according to a new study.
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara found that two species closely related to the roly poly have vanished from more than 60% of beaches from Point Conception to the U.S.-Mexico border, where they were recorded a century ago.
?We were really surprised at how strong the pattern of loss is,? said Jenny Dugan, a biologist at the university's Marine Science Institute. ?They?re not going to last long in Southern California the way things are going.?
The trend is alarming, the researchers said, because the critters are considered indicator species whose steady decline over decades bodes ill for other creatures such as grunions and snowy plovers, which also need wide stretches of undisturbed sand to survive.
The nocturnal crustaceans, known as isopods, spend their daylight hours in burrows several feet below the sand and serve as an important source of food for shorebirds. The critters only emerge from the sand to feed on kelp at night, which helps explain why they are not as well known to Californians as their garden-variety cousin, the roly poly.
The coast-dwelling crustaceans could be wiped out entirely unless more sandy beaches are set aside for conservation, the researchers said. But their fate could already be sealed by climate change.
That?s because the undeveloped, ungroomed sandy beaches they still populate are some of the same stretches of coastline at risk from sea level rise. Those natural beaches are often ringed by bluffs, homes or parking lots, leaving them nowhere to go as the sea swells inland.
Scientists discovered the decline using data going back more than a century, including a Smithsonian monograph that documented their presence along Santa Barbara in 1905 and beach surveys conducted in the wake of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill.
The findings were published online this week in the journal Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science.
tony.barboza@latimes.com
Twitter: @tonybarboza
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
Physicists unveil results helping explain universe
GENEVA (AP) ? Two scientific teams have for the first time precisely recorded an extremely rare event in physics that adds certainty to how we think the universe began, leaders at the world's top particle physics lab said Friday.
Two of the teams at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, say they measured a particle called "Bs" decaying into a pair of muons, a fundamental particle.
Pierluigi Campana, who leads one of the two teams involved in the research, called the results an important development that helps confirm the so-called standard model of particle physics.
Campana said the standard model is "coming through with flying colors," though it describes only 5 percent of the universe.
The results are being formally unveiled at a major physics conference in Stockholm later Friday.
Only a few Bs particles per billion decay into pairs of muons, the new research shows, and the experimental results are in line with what was predicted under the standard model.
Researchers have been looking for this particular rare decay for long time. It was observed as part of the reams of data coming from CERN's $10 billion Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest atom smasher, on the Swiss-French border near Geneva.
"This is a process that particle physicists have been trying to find for 25 years," said Joe Incandela, leader of the second team involved in the research.
He called it a "rare process involving a particle with a mass that is roughly 1,000 times smaller than the masses of the heaviest particles we are searching for now."
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Sony reportedly close to releasing a high-end camera attachment for smartphones
According to Sony Alpha Rumors, Sony is planning a "lens camera" accessory for mobile devices. The lens camera features the same 1-Inch 20.2-megapixel Exmor R sensor and f/1.8 Carl Zeiss lens as the Sony RX100 II. Sony Alpha Rumors cites "two trusted sources" confirming the lens-camera-hybrid will have a built-in battery, NFC, and Wi-Fi. It'll be able to pair with (and mount onto) a number of smartphones, which will then act as a "live view" screen for the camera.
As incredibly unlikely as it seems, Sony Alpha Rumors is adamant that this is a real product that will be released soon. The site says the rumor has a "6" level of certainty ? its rumor scale usually tops out at 5. The lens camera detailed above will apparently be part of a range of screenless cameras ? a future product will feature a smaller sensor and larger zoom.
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Save the Movie!
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If you?ve gone to the movies recently, you may have felt a strangely familiar feeling: You?ve seen this movie before. Not this exact movie, but some of these exact story beats: the hero dressed down by his mentor in the first 15 minutes (Star Trek Into Darkness, Battleship); the villain who gets caught on purpose (The Dark Knight, The Avengers, Skyfall, Star Trek Into Darkness); the moment of hopelessness and disarray a half-hour before the movie ends (Olympus Has Fallen, Oblivion, 21 Jump Street, Fast & Furious 6).
It?s not d?j? vu. Summer movies are often described as formulaic. But what few people know is that there is actually a formula?one that lays out, on a page-by-page basis, exactly what should happen when in a screenplay. It?s as if a mad scientist has discovered a secret process for making a perfect, or at least perfectly conventional, summer blockbuster.
The formula didn?t come from a mad scientist. Instead it came from a screenplay guidebook, Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You?ll Ever Need. In the book, author Blake Snyder, a successful spec screenwriter who became an influential screenplay guru, preaches a variant on the basic three-act structure that has dominated blockbuster filmmaking since the late 1970s.
When Snyder published his book in 2005, it was as if an explosion ripped through Hollywood. The book offered something previous screenplay guru tomes didn?t. Instead of a broad overview of how a screen story fits together, his book broke down the three-act structure into a detailed ?beat sheet?: 15 key story ?beats??pivotal events that have to happen?and then gave each of those beats a name and a screenplay page number. Given that each page of a screenplay is expected to equal a minute of film, this makes Snyder?s guide essentially a minute-to-minute movie formula.
Snyder, who died in 2009, would almost certainly dispute this characterization. In Save the Cat!, he stresses that his beat sheet is a structure, not a formula, one based in time-tested screen-story principles. It?s a way of making a product that?s likely to work?not a fill-in-the-blanks method of screenwriting.
Maybe that?s what Snyder intended. But that?s not how it turned out. In practice, Snyder?s beat sheet has taken over Hollywood screenwriting. Movies big and small stick closely to his beats and page counts. Intentionally or not, it?s become a formula?a formula that threatens the world of original screenwriting as we know it.
Screenplay gurus like Syd Field and Robert McKee touted the essential virtues of three-act structure for decades. For Field and McKee, three-act structure is more of an organizing principle?a way of understanding the shape of a story. Field?s Story Paradigm, for example, has just a handful of general elements attached to broad page ranges.
Field and McKee offered the screenwriter?s equivalent of cooking tips from your grandmother?general tips and tricks to guide your process. Snyder, on the other hand, offers a detailed recipe with step-by-step instructions.
Each of the 15 beats is attached to a specific page number or set of pages. And Snyder makes it clear that each of these moments is a must-have in a well-structured screenplay. The page counts don?t need to be followed strictly, Snyder says, but it?s important to get the proportions fairly close. You can see the complete beat sheet, with page numbers and a summary of each beat, in a sidebar here.
Let?s take a journey through this year?s blockbusters and blockbuster wannabes and see the big trailer-ready ways in which Snyder?s beat sheet pops up over and over again. Look at January?s Gangster Squad. After an opening image that sets up the conflict between Josh Brolin?s hard-charging cop, Sgt. John O?Mara, and the criminal forces of mob boss Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), O?Mara is called in to see his gruff police superior. ?We got rules around here, smartass,? the chief growls. ?Do yourself a favor. Learn ?em.? That?s Snyder?s second beat, theme stated. And it?s right at the seven-minute mark, almost exactly when it?s supposed to happen in a 110-minute movie. The rest of the Snyder playbook is there, too: a story-starting catalyst midway through the first act, a shootout at the midpoint that ups the ante, an all-is-lost moment?including a death?between the 75- and 80-minute mark, and a concluding final act in which the baddies are dispatched in ranking order, just as Snyder instructs.
Or look at March?s Jack the Giant Slayer. There?s an opening image that sets up each of the young protagonists? problems and states the theme at the five-minute mark, a catalyst at the 12-minute mark, an act break between the 25- and 30-minute mark when Jack climbs the beanstalk, and a false victory 90 minutes in, when it looks as if the evil giants have been definitively defeated.
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Play the Slate News Quiz
It's been almost a month since Slate last ran its Friday news quiz, and I've received a lot of anxious feedback from readers wondering about the disappearance. Well, there was a simple explanation for the hiatus: It was all my fault, for going on vacation. But it's time to start paying attention to current events again, my friends. The Slate News Quiz is back.
Question 1 of 12
After Oakland's KTVU-TV announced four implausible faux-Asian puns as the names of the pilots in the Asiana crash, who did the station blame for the racially offensive names?
Question 2 of 12
Last week, the North Carolina State House passed controversial abortion restrictions by attaching them to a unanimously popular bill on what subject?
The title of SB 353 is now 140 words long, with just 17 words describing motorcycle safety and 123 referencing abortion.
Question 3 of 12
Since J.K. Rowling was revealed as the pseudonymous author of the recent crime novel The Cuckoo's Calling, the book's Amazon sales have risen how much?
Question 4 of 12
A former winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was sworn in Sunday as the new vice president of what nation?
Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, supported the military coup against Mohamed Morsi's government.
Question 5 of 12
According to his brother Robert, what newsmaker believes his life to be in danger from people who "want to take justice into their own hands"?
Zimmerman will continue to carry the gun that killed Trayvon Martin when in public, says attorney Mark O'Mara.
Question 6 of 12
What new record-holder, open this month after three years of construction, measures 1.7 million square meters in area, roughly the same size as the country of Monaco?
The New Century Global Center in Chengdu, the world's new largest building, could hold 20 Sydney Opera Houses. Amenities include offices, two hotels, a university, an artificial beach, and even a 24-hour artificial sun.
Question 7 of 12
Rolling Stone magazine stoked a controversy this week by putting Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover. Which of these killers has previously been featured on the cover of the Rolling Stone?
Question 8 of 12
Investigators say that DNA evidence from a water bottle at a construction site has, for the first time, conclusively proven what?
The DNA sample, collected from DeSalvo's nephew Tim, is a 99.99 percent match for the killer of Mary Sullivan, the last "Strangler" victim in 1964.
Question 9 of 12
On Tuesday, Panamanian officials announced that they had uncovered what contraband being smuggled through the Panama Canal beneath 250,000 bags of sugar?
Cuba has admitted that it sent the Soviet-era equipment to North Korea?"for repair," apparently.
Question 10 of 12
Pope Francis announced on Wednesday that, later this month, Catholics may lessen their time in purgatory by doing what?
Catholics will receive "indulgences" for participating in the church's upcoming World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro?even on social media, if they can't make it in person.
Question 11 of 12
Last week, the Associated Press reported that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 attacks, was allowed to design a new type of what while in CIA custody?
Detainees are often allowed to pursue interests to keep their mental condition stable after they face extreme interrogation techniques.
Question 12 of 12
Following a series of embarrassing incidents and YouTube videos, who may be required to undergo random drug and alcohol testing for the first time?
You got 8 out of 12 answers correct in 20 minutes 30 seconds.
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Thomas Massie Introduces Amendments To Block Unauthorized U.S. Military Involvement In Syria And Egypt
?The Constitution prohibits the President from unilaterally spending American taxpayer dollars on military operations without congressional approval?
WASHINGTON?? Representative Massie offered two amendments to the House Defense Appropriations Act (H.R. 2397) requiring congressional authorization to use taxpayer funds for military or paramilitary purposes in Syria and Egypt.
?Since our national security interests in Syria and Egypt are unclear, we risk giving money and military assistance to our enemies,? said Rep. Massie. ?The Constitution prohibits the President from unilaterally spending American taxpayer dollars on military operations without congressional approval. The American people deserve an open debate and an up-or-down vote by their elected officials on these important issues.?
The?bipartisan amendment, cosponsored by Reps Schrader (D-OR), Amash (R-MI), Yoho (R-FL), would block unauthorized funding of military or paramilitary operations in Syria. Massie?s?second amendment, cosponsored by Reps Amash and Yoho, would block unauthorized funding of military or paramilitary operations in Egypt.
Rep. Amash said, ?Congress has not authorized force against Syria or Egypt, which the Constitution requires before military action. Once again, the administration is considering unilaterally intervening in foreign wars that the American people want nothing to do with.?
Previously, Rep. Massie introduced the?War Powers Protection Act of 2013?(H.R. 2507), a stand-alone bill to block U.S. military aid to Syria without congressional authorization. The bill currently has 13 co-sponsors. His recent bipartisan amendment is part of a legislative strategy to allow debate and a vote on restricting military aid to Syrian rebels in the context of the Defense Appropriations Act. The House is expected to vote on H.R. 2397 before the August recess, but the rules committee has yet to decide whether debate on either of the Massie amendments will be allowed.
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