Rush Limbaugh says same-sex marriage will be legal

By Martyn Herman LONDON, March 28 (Reuters) - Whether by design, necessity, self-interest or because of all three, nurturing youngsters has become fashionable for England's elite with no expense spared in the hunt for the new Wayne Rooney or Steven Gerrard. The length and breadth of the country, scouts from top clubs are hoovering up promising footballers barely old enough to tie their bootlaces in a bid to unearth the 30 million pounds ($45.40 million) treasures of the future. ...

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Announcing TechCrunch's 2013 Meetups + Pitch-Off: Austin, Seattle, San Diego, And Boston

After the amazing success of our New York Pitch-Off in February, we thought it would be fun to bring the energy and excitement of a mini-Disrupt to more cities across the country. We're pleased to announced the 2013 Meetups + Pitch-Offs will begin in Austin on May 30 at Stage On Sixth in downtown Austin. Then, throughout the year, we're holding meetups with pitch-offs in Seattle, San Diego, and Boston.

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Analysis: Knox case could pit extradition treaty vs. Constitution

By Terry Baynes

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The possibility that American Amanda Knox could be convicted of murder and extradited to Italy for punishment could force U.S. courts to enter legal territory that is largely uncharted, legal experts said.

Italy's top court on Tuesday ordered the retrial of Knox, 25, for the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

The move potentially pits a U.S. constitutional ban on double jeopardy, or being tried twice for the same offense after an acquittal, against international extradition agreements, experts said.

The issue hinges on whether a lower court decision overturning her conviction amounted to an acquittal, they said.

If Knox is retried after she was acquitted, that would violate her constitutional rights, said Christopher Blakesley, a law professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas who specializes in international criminal law. On the other hand, the United States entered into an extradition treaty and, in doing so, accepted Italy's criminal justice system, he added.

"If Knox is found guilty, there's still a whole lot of room for battle before she would ever be extradited," Blakesley said.

Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were accused of killing 21-year-old Meredith Kercher during a drug-fuelled sexual encounter in Perugia, Italy. The two were found guilty in 2009 and sentenced to 26 and 25 years in prison respectively.

In 2011, an appeals court, comprised of a panel of judges and lay jurors, overturned the convictions of Knox and Sollecito after forensic experts challenged evidence from the original trial. Knox and Sollecito were released after four years in prison, and Knox returned to her family home near Seattle.

Prosecutors and Kercher family lawyers appealed to Italy's high court, the Court of Cassation, calling the prior ruling "contradictory and illogical."

On Tuesday, the Court of Cassation agreed to overturn the appeals court's acquittals. The high court has not yet provided a full reasoning for its decision, and a date has not yet been set for the new trial, which will be held before a different court of appeals in Florence.

Knox's Italian lawyer, Carlo Dalla Vedova, said via email that the new trial would likely occur in late 2013 or early 2014. Knox does not intend to return to Italy for the proceeding, he said, and the court of appeals can retry the case in absentia.

The Italian government could ask for extradition once the Italian courts have reached a final decision, Dalla Vedova said. If it does, the U.S. Department of State would then have to decide whether to act on the request. If the State Department chooses to comply, it would then deploy the U.S. Attorney's Office to a U.S. court to seek Knox's extradition.

What is unpredictable is how such a case would play out in front of a U.S. judge who would have to weigh the U.S. constitutional protection against double jeopardy with the 1984 bilateral extradition treaty between the United States and Italy. The treaty contains a provision that attempts to protect against double jeopardy, but it is not clear whether that provision would bar extradition in Knox's case.

The legal question would be whether Knox was acquitted, as U.S. courts would define the term, or whether the case was merely reversed and still open for further appeal, said criminal lawyer and Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz.

"It's very complicated, and there's no clear answer. It's in the range of unpredictable," Dershowitz said.

Much of the complication stems from the differences between the Italian and U.S. legal systems. In the United States, if a defendant is acquitted, the case cannot be retried.

In Italy, prosecutors and lawyers for interested parties, such as Kercher's family, can file an appeal. Unlike American courts of appeal, which only consider legal errors in the courts below, Italian courts of appeal, which are comprised of both judges and jurors, can reconsider the facts of a case.

Depending on the Italian high court's reason for overturning Knox's acquittal, it is possible that the court of appeals could consider new evidence that's introduced, said Dalla Vedova. As a result, a defendant can effectively be retried in the course of one case in Italy.

Dalla Vedova said the high court's decision does not raise a double jeopardy problem because the retrial would not be a new case but rather a continuation of the same case on appeal.

Other defendants who have been acquitted in other countries and then convicted on appeal have attempted to raise the double jeopardy principle to avoid extradition, without much success, said Mary Fan, a law professor at the University of Washington who specializes in cross-border criminal law.

The text of the treaty prevents extradition if the person has already been convicted or acquitted of the same offense by the "requested" country, which would be the United States in Knox's case because Italy would be requesting extradition from the United States. Because Knox was never prosecuted or acquitted for homicide in the United States, the treaty's double-jeopardy provision would not prevent Knox's extradition, said Fan.

While the issue is rare in the United States, several courts have rejected the double jeopardy argument in similar cases. In 2010, a federal court in California found that a man who was acquitted of murder in Mexico and later convicted after prosecutors appealed the acquittal, could not claim double jeopardy to avoid extradition to Mexico. That court cited a 1974 decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, that reached the same conclusion with respect to Canadian law, which also allows the government to appeal an acquittal.

When asked about the potential extradition of Knox at a press briefing on Tuesday, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department said the question was hypothetical and declined to comment.

(Reporting By Terry Baynes; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/knox-case-could-pit-extradition-treaty-against-u-002108339.html

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In snub to Assad, opposition takes Syria's Arab summit seat

By Sami Aboudi and Yara Bayoumy

DOHA (Reuters) - To applause from Arab heads of state, a foe of Bashar al-Assad took Syria's vacant seat at an Arab summit on Tuesday, deepening the president's diplomatic isolation and diverting attention from rifts among his opponents.

Speaking at an annual gathering of Arab leaders in the Gulf state of Qatar, Moaz Alkhatib said he had asked U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for American forces to help defend rebel-controlled northern parts of Syria with Patriot surface-to-air missiles now based in Turkey. NATO swiftly rebuffed the idea.

"It was a historic meeting," said Syrian opposition spokesman Yaser Tabbara. "It's a first step towards acquiring full legal legitimacy."

The 22-nation League lent its support to giving military aid to Syrian rebels. A summit communique offered some of its toughest language yet against Assad, affirming member states had a right to offer assistance "including military, to support the steadfastness of the Syrian people and the Free Army".

Alkhatib said the United States, which has given non-military aid to Syrian rebels, should play a bigger role in helping end the two-year-old conflict in Syria, blaming Assad's government for what he called its refusal to solve the crisis.

"I have asked Mr. Kerry to extend the umbrella of the Patriot missiles to cover the Syrian north and he promised to study the subject," he said, referring to NATO Patriot missile batteries sent to Turkey last year to protect Turkish airspace.

"We are still waiting for a decision from NATO to protect people's lives, not to fight but to protect lives," he added, addressing a body that barred Assad's government in late 2011.

Responding to Alkhatib's remarks, an official of the Western military alliance at its headquarters in Brussels said: "NATO has no intention to intervene militarily in Syria."

Turkey, which reported a mortar landing harmlessly on its border on Tuesday, said it was up to the rest of NATO to decide if members wanted to expand the remit of the Patriot batteries.

Michael Stephens, a researcher based in Qatar for Britain's Royal United Services Institute, said acceding to Alkhatib's request would effectively put NATO at war with Damascus.

DEFENSIVE DEPLOYMENT

NATO's current deployment of three Patriot missile batteries in southern Turkey is intended to be purely defensive. The Patriots are designed to shoot down hostile missiles in mid-air.

Alkhatib, a Sunni Muslim cleric, took Syria's seat at the summit for the first time despite announcing on Sunday that he would step down as leader of the Syrian National Coalition.

Behind him sat Ghassan Hitto, the prime minister of a provisional opposition government that plans to run rebel-held area, and fellow senior opposition official George Sabra.

Alkhatib made a blunt call on other Arab leaders to "fear God in dealing with your people" and free political prisoners - a departure from anodyne tradition at the League.

But he also criticized what he called Western failure to bring an end to the conflict, and said an influx of foreign Islamist fighters should not be used by the West as a pretext to deny Syrians meaningful help. He denounced the presence in Syria of Iranians and Russians he said were backing the government.

Speaking at a news conference at the end of the summit: Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani defended the summit's support for arming the rebels, saying that while it was not a "preferable" policy there appeared little alternative.

"We have done all we could to find a peaceful solution," he said. "Unfortunately this solution did not come because ... the regime was betting on a solution by force."

But Kofi Annan, the former U.N. chief who tried to mediate an end to the fighting, said he expected little outside military intervention. He told an audience in Geneva: "We left it too late." He added: "The Syrian people ... are waiting for the killing to stop ... As late as it is, we have to find a way of pouring water on the fire, rather than the other way around."

He described as a "gross underestimate" the United Nations figure of 70,000 killed in a conflict that began with anti-Assad protests and turned into a sectarian-tinged armed insurrection.

The war in Syria has divided world powers, paralyzing action at the U.N. Security Council. The Arab world is also split, with Saudi Arabia and Qatar the most fervent foes of Assad, and Iraq, Algeria and Lebanon the most resistant to calls for his removal.

The conflict echoes strains between Sunni Muslims, notably in the Gulf, and Shi'ites, in Iraq, Lebanon and non-Arab Iran, whose faith is related to that of Assad's Alawite minority.

Syrian rebels again fired mortar rounds into central Damascus on Tuesday. State television said several people had been wounded by "terrorist" mortar bombs that landed in the Syrian Arab News Agency SANA compound in the Baramkeh district.

State television said a suicide car bomber killed and wounded several people in northeastern Damascus, although opposition activists said the blast could have been a mortar.

Syrian state TV did not cover the Arab League meeting in Qatar, airing a program on makeup for women instead.

A group of pro-Assad hackers signing themselves the Syrian Electronic Army claimed an attack on an Arab League website that directed readers to a picture of Assad and derided the League's Egyptian secretary-general for his "loyalty to the sheikhs".

INTERNAL DISARRAY

Alkhatib's decision to quit, which he blamed on the world's failure to back the armed revolt against Assad also appeared to be motivated by internal disputes in the alliance. It undermined the alliance's claim to provide a coherent alternative to Assad.

Liberals saw it as a protest against what they view as the rising influence of hardline Islamists in the Qatari-backed umbrella group set up in Doha in November.

Jane Kinninmont, of Britain's Chatham House think-tank, said Qatar and the other Gulf states had been frustrated that the United States in particular and also European powers had not done more to help the Syrian opposition.

"The Gulf countries contrast this to the Iraq war which many of them were quite dubious about," she said. "And they see a U.S. that's far less interventionist today, even though there's a much greater case for and immediate humanitarian need."

(Additional reporting by Mirna Sleiman and William Maclean, Omar Fahmy in Cairo, Oliver Holmes and Erika Solomon in Beirut, Gulsen Solaker in Ankara, Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva and Adrian Croft in Brussels; Writing by Alistair Lyon; Editing by Alastair Macdonald and Jon Hemming)

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North Korea says it will cut key military hotline

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? North Korea said Wednesday that it had cut off a key military hotline with South Korea that allows cross border travel to a jointly run industrial complex in the North, a move that ratchets up already high tension and possibly jeopardizes the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.

North Korea recently cut a Red Cross hotline with South Korean and another with the U.S.-led U.N. command at the border between the Koreas, but there's still a hotline linking aviation authorities in the North and South.

North Korea's chief delegate to inter-Korean military made the announcement Wednesday in a statement sent to his South Korean counterpart. The hotline is important because the Koreas use it to communicate as hundreds of workers travel back and forth to the Kaesong industrial complex.

South Korean officials say more than 900 South Korean workers were in Kaesong on Wednesday. There was no immediate word about how cutting the communications link would affect their travel back to South Korea.

North Korea, angry over routine U.S.-South Korean drills and recent U.N. sanctions punishing it for its Feb. 12 nuclear test, has unleashed a torrent of threats recently, including vows to launch a nuclear strike against the United States. It has also repeated its nearly two-decade-old threat to reduce Seoul to a "sea of fire."

Despite the rhetoric, outside weapons analysts have seen no proof that North Korea has mastered the technology needed to build a warhead small enough to mount on a missile.

Still, the cutting of the hotline could be more significant if it affects travel by the workers at Kaesong.

Kaesong is operated in North Korea with South Korean money and know-how and a mostly North Korean workforce. It provides a badly needed flow of hard currency to a country where many face food shortages.

The complex is the only remaining operational symbol of joint inter-Korean cooperation.

In March 2009, North Korea cut off the military hotline with South Korea and kept 80 South Korean workers stranded in Kaesong for a day. The cross-border travel resumed after North Korean authorities approved it through a South Korean office in Kaesong. The military hotline remained cut off for more than a week and was reconnected following the end of annual South Korean-U.S. military drills.

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U.S. businessman sentenced to 15 years in Dubai prison for embezzlement scheme

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Zack Shahin was sentenced to 15 years in a Dubai prison for a vast embezzlement scheme.

By Mahmoud Habboush, Reuters

DUBAI -- A U.S. businessman who jumped bail in the United Arab Emirates only to be sent back for trial has been convicted of multi-million dollar embezzlement and sentenced to 15 years' jail, court documents showed on Tuesday.

Zack Shahin, former chief executive of Deyaar, one of Dubai's biggest property developers, and three other men were fined 28.5 million dirhams ($8 million) in the latest conviction since the emirate stepped up its fight against corruption after a 2009 financial crisis.

Arrested in 2008, Shahin went on hunger strike in jail last May and was released on $1.4 million bail in July after Washington expressed concern about his health. He fled to Yemen, where he was arrested in August and deported back to the UAE.

According to the verdict obtained by Reuters on Tuesday, Shahin was convicted on Monday of "intentionally damaging the interest of Deyaar" and embezzling 30 million dirhams along with the three other men, all foreigners.

The three others were sentenced to 10 years each, the court document said. One was a Briton who had fled the UAE and remains on the run, it said. The identities of the others were not disclosed.

Shahin still faces at least one other charge, of embezzling 237 million dirhams along with eight other suspects. The court referred that case to a committee of financial and accounting experts for their opinion.

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Saliva testing predicts aggression in boys

Mar. 26, 2013 ? A new study indicates that a simple saliva test could be an effective tool in predicting violent behavior.

The pilot study, led by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and published this week online in the journal Psychiatric Quarterly, suggests a link between salivary concentrations of certain hormones and aggression.

Researchers, led by Drew Barzman, MD, a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist at Cincinnati Children's, collected saliva samples from 17 boys ages 7-9 admitted to the hospital for psychiatric care to identify which children were most likely to show aggression and violence. The samples, collected three times in one day shortly after admission, were tested for levels of three hormones: testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and cortisol. The severity and frequency of aggression correlated with the levels of these hormones.

Barzman's team focused on rapid, real-time assessment of violence among child and adolescent inpatients, a common problem in psychiatric units. But he believes a fast and accurate saliva test could eventually have several other applications.

"We believe salivary hormone testing has the potential to help doctors monitor which treatments are working best for their patients," said Barzman. "And because mental health professionals are far more likely to be assaulted on the job than the average worker, it could offer a quick way to anticipate violent behavior in child psychiatric units. Eventually, we hope this testing might also provide a tool to help improve safety in schools."

For this study, the saliva test was used in combination with other aggressive behavior tools, including the Brief Rating of Aggression by Children and Adolescents (BRACHA) questionnaire, an assessment tool also developed by Barzman's team to predict aggression and violence in the hospital.

"This study sample, while small, gives us the data we need to move forward," added Barzman. "We have more studies planned before we can reach a definitive conclusion, but developing a new tool to help us anticipate violent behavior is our ultimate goal."

Barzman's team included Douglas Mossman, MD, a psychiatrist at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and an internationally recognized authority on violence prediction; Michael Sorter, MD, Director, Division of Psychiatry at Cincinnati Children's; David Klein, PhD, MD, an endocrinologist at Cincinnati Children's; Thomas Geracioti , MD, an expert in the endocrinology of mental disorders based at the Veterans Administration Medical Center and Kacey Appel, a PhD candidate in epidemiology at UC.

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Brave pilot recognised for rescuing troops

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HUMBLED: Flight Lieutenant Christopher Gordon

A HELICOPTER pilot, who rescued troops despite coming under heavy fire that caused two engines to be disabled in Afghanistan, has been honoured for his heroics.

Flight Lieutenant Christopher Gordon was given the Distinguished Flying Cross for transporting 30 British and Afghan troops in a Chinook helicopter while being fired at by Taliban soldiers in August 2012.

The 29-year-old from Manchester was the captain of two Chinook helicopters that were taking troops to Helmand Pronvince.

However, as they approached the region, they came under heavy fire and were forced to retreat to Camp Bastion.

The gunfire damaged two of the Chinook?s engines, leaving only one of them still functioning.

This meant that Gordon had to quickly calculate whether the helicopter could take off in addition to the extra weight of the 30 troops.

He was then forced to land three miles away at a height of 15ft, which is a lot lower to that of the usual 50ft flying height.

After receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross, which is the joint-third highest military decoration attainable, he said: "It was very humbling to receive it. It shows all the effort that the aircrew and our engineers work extremely hard to make sure we can get airborne."

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Google Keep

Google Keep (free) is a new Google Web program for making, saving, and syncing notes. Its primary value comes from the fact that it's part of the Google ecosystem, an ever-changing world of services for creating documents, managing photos, communicating by email, voice, and video, and so on and so forth. Sign into your Google account, and hopefully, you'll never need to leave. That's the message, loud and clear. In this sense, Google Keep is most similar to Microsoft OneNote, which is tightly integrated into SkyDrive, Microsoft's online version of Office, which somewhat mirrors Google Drive, which somewhat mirrors the traditional version of Office offline? is the snake eating its own tail here?

Google Keep at present looks like a fawn taking its first steps. It's a fully formed babe, but doesn't have its metaphorical legs yet. It has basic note-taking functionality and good search (duh, it's Google), but limitations abound. Compare it with more mature services, particularly Evernote (free to $45 per year, 4.5 stars), and Google Keep gets dusted. For example, Evernote is available virtually everywhere: as a Web app, in the form of a downloadable program for Windows and Mac, as a mobile app for practically every mobile OS on the market. Google Keep, meanwhile, lives inside Google Drive and on Android devices only. No iPhone or iPad apps. No offline desktop programs. You needn't bother to ask if it's available for BlackBerry and Windows Phone users. Evernote adds tags and notebooks for a rich experience in organization and sorting. Google Keep has neither. ??

It does give you the ability to add photos to a note (so do OneNote and Evernote), and in Android (but not in the Web app) you can add a note by voice. You can dictate a note by saying, "Note to self," and have that little reminder saved straight into Keep, where it syncs with all your other Google stuff and becomes accessible online, or available for other apps and widgets on your phone to utilize if you want to, say, have that note appear on your locked screen.

The Web app invokes Google's Spartan design philosophy. Whitespace (or rather very light gray space) creates airiness and a feeling of simplicity. Rectangular notes, centered into either a list view or grid view, are sure to look well organized. Your only instructions appear at the top of the app, "Type note," which is simply how you start a new note.?

Toggling between grid view and list view changes not only the layout of the note previews, but also whether those previews display your checkboxes in to-do notes. For example, in grid view, the check boxes disappear, while in list view you can fully see them.

How to Get Google Keep
Google users can sign into their accounts, swing into the Drive tab, and... it seems from there you have to type "/keep" at the end of the URL. There isn't a button or tab to take you there. No set up is required beyond finding the section. You can start banging out your notes right away.

In the Web app, you can type notes and upload photos as notes, although there aren't any tools for rotating a photo once it's in Keep, which I found annoying when I uploaded a sideways shot of a whiteboard with meeting notes (see the slideshow). Notes can be free form text or to-do lists with check boxes.

Search, Archiving, and Other Features
As is the case in most of Google's services, "archiving" an old note is the alternative to deleting it. The Google mindset says keep everything because you never know when you'll need it. An ever-present search bar at the top further rings true to the Google way.

Search works well enough. Type a word or two, and any notes with that word appear below. If the search term appears as text in the note, it's highlighted, although when the word is part of the note title, it's not. The main page search bar doesn't look at archived notes. You have to go to the archive notes section (via an Archived Notes link at the bottom of the page) to search them.

Without any tags, folders, or notebooks to organize your notes, it's difficult to imagine how you'll find anything in Keep after a few weeks of heavy use. Evernote is the king of organization among note-taking apps, with enough options included to accommodate different kinds of users and how they look for information.

Color-coding is Keep's only such attempt at classification, but it too isn't mature. When you choose to add color to a note, that color doesn't appear on the note while it's being edited. You can only see the color added after you save the note.

One bug I found in testing the new Keep: In a to-do note, you'll sometimes see two blank entries where you can write a new to-do, and writing in the wrong one causes new empty slots to appear, cluttering up your note (see the slideshow).

It's seem ludicrous that Google Keep doesn't have any sharing options baked into the Web version, especially because of all the sharing and collaborating you can do in Google Drive. The Android app (reviewed separately) can share notes, but doesn't allow for collaboration. In fact, why isn't "note" just a type of document you can make in Google Drive? That way, it would have all the other features it's currently missing: tags, notebooks/folders for organiztion, more stability, sharing features, rich collaboration options, etc., etc., etc.

A Keeper?
As a longtime Evernote user for all my note-taking needs, I'll stick with that more mature app for now and give Google Keep a pass. Both Evernote and Google services tend to play nice with other apps, meaning you can sync information not only to all your devices, but also to other apps (for example, I sync my Evernote account with another task-management app called AwesomeNote?which also supports syncing with Google Drive). But until Google Keep adds a wider range of supported platforms and boatloads more organizational features, it's not going to add anything to my Google Drive experience.

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EMC Security Customers- Security Company Scammers are in your ...

Recently, several customers of EMC Security have contacted us to report a salesman going door-to-door in their neighborhood claiming to represent EMC Security.? The most recent customer reported that the salesman represented himself as EMC Security personnel and was there to offer an upgrade to her system.? This person also claimed that Vivint Security was working with EMC Security on upgrading customers? security systems.? This is not true in any way.??? These claims are classic scammer tactics made by other security companies who are misleading and swindling customers into unknowingly signing a contract for their services.? These individuals are usually well dressed and claim that they are offering to upgrade their security system on behalf of their current security company.? They then offer to perform the ?upgrade?? for free.? They will ask the homeowner to sign an authorization to complete the installation, but what the homeowner is actually signing is a 60 month (5 year) non-cancellable contract for monitoring at $45 or more per month.?? The customer will then be locked into paying the high monthly payment for the entire length of the contract with no recourse, or face severe penalty fees to get out of the contract and risk being sued by the alarm company that scammed them.

EMC Security will NEVER send anyone to a customer?s home without their prior knowledge.? Please contact EMC Security if you are approached by these scammers and call 911.? Here are some additional tips on what to do if you are approached by one of these scammers.

1. Always think safety first. If you?re home alone and don?t recognize the person, don?t open the door. If they are a legitimate company, they will leave a brochure or business card.
2. Be aware that because you have a security sign or other type of sign in your yard, you could be a target for this type of unethical selling practices.
3. Always, always check with your own security company, or other company, first. You can also ask the sales representative to wait outside while you do. If they are telling the truth, why would they mind waiting?? EMC Security will never send anyone to a customers home without their prior knowledge.
4. Scare tactics may not work on everyone but they can on our senior citizens and others who have no one to turn to for advice. If you believe this type of business practice is happening in your neighborhood, please call the police and let them know. At least there will be a record on file.
5. Finally, if there will be any offers or changes to your service you will be contacted by EMC Security. You won?t hear this information from someone who knocks at your door, and especially someone who tries to scare you.

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Karl Rove predicts next GOP president could be pro-gay marriage

The next Republican presidential candidate could very well be in favor of same-sex marriage, said GOP strategist Karl Rove, during an interview on ABC.

Mr. Rove was responding to a question from ?This Week? host George Stephanopoulos: ?Can you imagine the next presidential campaign a Republican candidate saying flat out, ?I am for gay marriage?? ?

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Mr. Rove: ?I could,? he said.

Top Republican contenders for 2016 include Sen. Rand Paul ? who just won The Washington Times-CPAC straw poll ? and Sen. Marco Rubio.

During an interview with Fox News, Mr. Paul said over the weekend that gay marriage was ?really a complicated issue? that ?the states have the right to decide.? He also added: ?I do believe in traditional marriage. Kentucky?s decided it, and I don?t think the federal government should tell us otherwise. There are states that have decided in the opposite direction, and I don?t think the federal government should tell anybody or any state government how they should decide this.?

USA Today quoted Mr. Rubio?s staffers in June 2012 as saying the senator ?believes that the union of one man and one woman is the ideal setting to raise a strong family and why our laws should recognized the institution of marriage as a union of one man and one woman.? The story also quoted Mr. Rubio in previous interviews as calling characterizing the gay marriage debate ?about what society should tolerate, and what society should allow our laws to be.?

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Google partners local media in Ghana to produce more online content

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Google Ghana is committed to assisting the Ghanaian media to make their online presence more relevant and generate additional revenue, Estelle Akofio-Sowah, Country Manager of Google has said.

?The media and journalists in particular are the main producers of content online and that is where our (Google) engagement is with the media, Mrs Akofio-Sowah said in a chat with executive members of the Network of Communication Reporters, Ghana, (NCR Ghana) in Accra.

She said the online department or unit within media houses in Ghana was still new that needed all the support from its management because of the potential it had to propel high the organisation?s image and ways of raising extra funds.

For us at Google, Mrs Akofio-Sowah said, our Sub Saharan goal is to build an internet ecosystem and make it relevant and useful for people. ?We want to give Africans the reason to come on the internet everyday and make it part of their life,? she added.

Google has supported a number of local media houses such as Citi FM, YFM and Multimedia Group (Joy FM) helping them to build their internet infrastructure. This kind support, Mrs Akofio-Sowah noted would be extended to many more media institutions in the coming months and years but that would be based on a particular institution?s arrangement with Google Ghana.

To enable Google achieve its global mission of making information universally accessible, Mrs Akofio-Sowah said Google focuses on increasing access to the Internet and making it more relevant to users across the world, which also make the media an important partner.

Google Ghana, according to her, aims to regularly meet with media houses management, especially the online department in order to understand their priorities and needs and how they could use the vast internet-based Google applications to enhance their objectives and make their work more relevant and beneficial to their stakeholders.

?We want to encourage the media to create more content online and how they can make money through their products,? Mrs Akofio-Sowah repeated.

She said through Google Ad Sense product, a media house could become an Ad Sense Partner and begin to make some money when an advertisement appeared on their websites. ?Once you become an Ad Sense Partner, you can share revenues with Google by allowing it (Google) to advertise on your websites. The more people click to open the ads on the website, the more money you make?, she explained.

In order to help reduce the cost internet and barriers to access, Mrs Akofio-Sowah said Google had invested a lot in infrastructure in many countries across the globe. ?We have invested in the fibre optic cables, satellite and transmission??

In addition, she said in Ghana, ?We (Google Ghana) have put in Google Cash Service and every time someone uploads video to YouTube he gets cash locally. It also helps operators to save money locally.?

In the education sector, the Country Director of the largest search engine in the world, said Google had introduced the Google Apps Supporting Programme (ABSP), which is an enterprise version of its gmail to support tertiary institutions to improve on their internet infrastructure in order to benefit fully from Google apps.

?For the universities we give them grants to help them to build up their internet infrastructure. The University of Ghana and Central University have so far received their grants from Google Ghana.?

?We have worked with schools and institutions to bring cost of internet down?Google Apps Education edition offers all the tools necessary for schools to control IT costs, while improving productivity,? she noted.

Google Ghana has targeted 11 universities so far for the support which would be delivered depending on the infrastructure need of particular university.

Mrs Akofio-Sowah said under Google?s ?Africa, Get Your Business Online? project, about 9,000 businesses in Ghana had so far been engaged and all today were making good use of the internet as their businesses can now be felt online. ?About 99 per cent of them are Ghanaian businesses,? she said.

NCR Ghana is a registered body and an affiliate of the Ghana Journalists Association, consists of seasoned journalists drawn from all the major media houses in Ghana (both print and electronic).

The Network exists to serve as the main interface between the public and the telecoms/ICT industry, through comprehensive and veritable reportage from the perspective of both consumers and industry players.

Source: GNA

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College Free Agents to Watch (Part 2)

Its that time of year. The NCAA hockey season has come to a close and conference tournaments are in full swing. NHL teams are now salivating at the chance to sign the top undrafted college free agents as their teams play their final games of the season.

These prospects don?t always have an impact at the NHL level, but the chances of finding a diamond in the rough ala players like Matt Read, Chris Kunitz, Andy McDonald, Dustin Penner, Tyler Bozak, Matt Gilroy, Cory Conacher, Jason Garrison, Ben Scrivens, and others who have been uncovered in recent years is always a chance that NHL teams seem willing to take. At worst they give out an Entry Level contract, pay a player to play for their minor league club for a couple years, and then let them go. At best they get a player who can contribute at the NHL level, for a relatively low cap hit, without using a draft pick, or trading other assets. These players are low risk/big reward and so the competition to sign them will be fierce.

Last week, I took a look at my seven top college free agents available.? You can find that report by clicking here.?? Due to popular demand, and questions posted in our comments, and asked of me on twitter and various message boards, I?ve decided to do a follow up piece.? The next six top college free agents available.? I?ve listed them in alphabetical order by last name for ease of reference.

Greg Carey, Junior, Left Wing, St. Lawrence University, (5?11, 195 lbs):
The Hamilton, Ontario native has been a consistent point producer for three straight years at St. Lawrence University.? He had 40 points in 40 games as a freshman.? 37 points in 36 games in his sophomore season.? And now with 28 goals and 51 points in his junior season, has become one of the leading scorers in all of NCAA Hockey.? He is a skilled sniper with a great wrist shot, and tremendous release that often sees the puck in the back of the net before a goaltender can react.? He also has a knack for finding open space on the ice and unleashing a fantastic one timer.? Carey also brings a lunch bucket mentality to the game as he is willing to get his nose dirty in front of the net, and his low centre of gravity makes him very good in battles along the boards.? He could use some work in the defensive end of the ice at the AHL level, but his natural offensive instincts can not be taught, as such look for him to produce points immediately in the AHL, and he has a good chance of one day cracking an NHL roster.? A worthy project.

Austin Czarnik, Sophomore, Centre/Right Wing, Miami (Ohio) University (5?9?, 160 lbs):
With 37 points in 40 games as a Freshman, and 38 points in 40 games as a Sophomore, all while playing for Miami in the competitive CCHA conference, there is little doubt that Czarnik has offensive skills. However, generously listed at 5?9? and 160 lbs, size has always been a concern for him, and is the main reason he has gone undrafted, as his offensive skills were apparent with both the US National Team Development Program, and the the Green Bay Gamblers in the USHL during his junior career. Czarnik has the skating ability, the hands, and the shooting ability to put up points. However what really sets him apart is his outstanding playmaking ability and vision. With another undersized college free agent in Cory Conacher lighting things up in Tampa Bay, there may be a team willing to give Czarnik a chance to see if his big time talent can overcome his lack of size at the AHL level to start (and possibly the NHL level down the road).

Eric Hartzell, Senior, Goaltender, Quinnipac University (6?4?, 188 lbs):
Hartzell is this year?s top goaltending prospect.? He has great size, and is part of the new breed of big goaltender that NHL teams seem to love in recent years.? He plays the traditional butterfly style, and his long legs and quick movements take away the bottom of the net from shooters.? He has great mobility in the net, tracking the puck well, and moving from side to side effortlessly.?? He is also very quick to come out and does a great job of cutting down angles, while also being able to back up quickly and stop a shooter who may try to deke around him.? His technique is advanced and rebound control good at the college level.?? He should be an intriguing prospect and is ready to jump right in to the AHL, where he will need a little more seasoning before being a big league goalie.

Alex Krushelnyski, Junior, Left Wing, Colorado College (5?11?, 170 lbs):
The son of former NHLer Mike Krushelnyski, Alex is a chip off the old block. He is a hard working, grinding winger, who gets his nose dirty, wins board battles and is not afraid of physical play. He is a good two way player, who understands his defensive responsibilities and takes them to heart. With 43 points in 42 games for Colorado College this year, he?s also shown off his offensive skill set in what has been a breakthrough campaign fro Krushelnyski. He doesn?t score the prettiest of goals, but gets his points from going to the front of the net, and persistent hard work. One thing I will say about Krushelnyski is that he seems to be improving all the time, playing better on each subsequent viewing I had of him. The skill set here screams potential third line grinder, with a little bit of scoring potential at the NHL level, again following in his father?s footsteps.

Drew Leblanc, Senior, Centre, St. Cloud State (6?0?, 185 lbs):
After a broken leg cost Leblanc much of his junior season (limiting him to just 10 games), he came back strong in his senior campaign with 13 goals and 50 points in 39 games.? Leblanc has great hands, and excellent stick handling, and puck protection skills.? He extends plays with his quick feints giving his teammates time to get open and then he hits them with an excellent pass to create scoring opportunities.? Blessed with great hockey sense, Leblanc almost always seems to make the smart play, and to be in the right place in the offensive zone.? Leblanc also has a very good wrist shot, however he doesn?t use it enough.? He does need some work on his skating, as this is the one area that holds him back from being a sure fire NHLer.? Some AHL time will be needed, but if he can become slightly quicker on his feet, he could be a top 6 centre in the NHL in time.

Nate Schmidt, Junior, Defence, University of Minnesota (6?0? 195 lbs):
Last season, as a sophomore, Schmidt?s offensive production exploded, with 41 points in 43 games, and helping the Golden Gophers to a final four appearance. This season, his overall production was a little down, but he still has 31 points in 39 games. However he has improved in two key areas. His slapshot and one timer are much more effective leading to him scoring 8 goals instead of 5 in 2011-12. Meanwhile, his defensive game has improved by leaps and bounds, as he is now much more effective in his own end of the ice, blocking shots, taking his man out of the play, and learning when to throw a big hit without taking himself out of the play. Oh yes, Schmidt brings a big time physical presence and forwards must be careful if they come down his end of the rink with their heads down. Schmidt is an extremely good skater, and his mobility allows him to join the play offensively, while his great vision and playmaking skill makes him a natural powerplay quarterback, and helps him to start the rush with a great first pass. The big decision here is whether or not Schmidt will leave Minnesota and forgo his senior season. If he does, he?ll be highly sought after.

And so there you have it.? My top 13 available college free agents (done in two parts).? Thanks for reading and as always feel free to comment below.

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Snowstorm takes aim at Plains, Midwest

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? An early spring snowstorm forced the cancellation of more than 100 flights at Denver International Airport and closed several roads Saturday as it moved eastward, dumping more than a foot of snow in some places.

The snow started falling around midnight in northeast Colorado and then moved into northwest Kansas and southwest Nebraska.

Ten to 15 inches of snow had fallen by Saturday afternoon north of Interstate 70 in northwest Kansas and northeast Colorado, with another 1 to 2 inches expected in the area, said Ryan Husted, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Goodland, Kan., where 15 inches of snow had fallen.

The storm also dropped up to 7 inches of snow in southwestern Nebraska before tapering off Saturday afternoon, said David Pearson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service near Omaha, Neb.

"But the wind is really blowing, so visibility in those areas is still going to be pretty low," Pearson said.

Husted said winds gusting at speeds of up to 45 mph were creating snow drifts of 2 to 3 feet in parts of Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska.

I-70 had been shut down Saturday from Denver to Colby, Kan., because of poor visibility. The northbound lanes of Interstate 25 also were closed south of Fort Collins, Colo., because of multiple accidents.

"It's a mess here," said Jerry Killingsworth, a National Weather Service meteorologist also based in Goodland, Kan. "Heavy, wet snow, tree limbs down."

At the Goodland 24/7 truck stop, truckers milled around. With roads in the area closed, they are "just waiting," said Samantha Lamb, the truck stop's assistant manager.

"Our hotel across the street from us is pretty full," Lamb said. "Our parking lot has a good 35, 40 trucks in it."

As the system moved eastward, it threatened to inconvenience fans attending the NCAA men's college basketball tournament in Kansas City.

Scott Blair, a meteorologist in Pleasant Hill, Mo., said light showers and drizzle began switching over to snow Saturday afternoon in Kansas City and western Missouri. The heaviest snowfall was expected overnight, with up to 6 inches forecast for the Kansas City metropolitan area.

"If people don't need to be out driving tomorrow that would certainly be recommended," he said.

Dan Gavitt, vice president of the NCAA men's basketball championships, said teams and officials already are onsite and that no game delays are anticipated.

"This region routinely has winter snow and has the appropriate equipment and procedures to manage these winter conditions," Gavitt said in a written statement. "We encourage fans planning to attend games to pay attention to the weather, use good judgment and follow any directions from local authorities regarding travel and weather."

North Carolina coach Roy Williams was nonplussed.

"It's no distraction, unless the roof goes off, we'll still be able to play and the whole bit like that," Williams said.

Elsewhere, some churches and other organizations were calling off events. Among them, the final game of the Emporia State baseball series with Southwest Baptist was canceled.

Denver International Airport spokesman Heath Montgomery said about 106 flights have been canceled, many of which involved commuter jets headed to nearby destinations or to mountain towns.

The Colorado Avalanche Information Center said up to a foot of new snow in the mountains could create dangerous avalanche conditions.

Colorado State Patrol troopers also spent part of Saturday working a crash near Johnstown involving a tractor-trailer that burst into flames. An estimated 20 to 50 vehicles, including four tractor-trailers, crashed or slid off the roadway in the area. The patrol said several people were hospitalized, but no fatalities have been reported.

The system will move into Illinois and Indiana overnight and into Sunday.

Meteorologist Dan Smith with the National Weather Service in Lincoln, Ill., said snowstorms aren't uncommon in early spring. The latest the area has seen snow, he said, was April 23, in 1910.

"One good thing about (the snowstorms) is it doesn't matter how much you get, it usually doesn't stick around too long because temperatures start to warm up pretty good," he said.

Farther south, tornadoes were possible in Louisiana and Mississippi, while strong winds and low humidity could lead to forest fires and wildfires in parts of New Mexico and West Texas.

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Associated Press writers Jason Keyser in Chicago, Thomas Peipert in Denver, David Skretta in Kansas City, Mo., and Margery A. Beck in Omaha, Neb., contributed to this report.

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In Moscow, new Chinese leader warns against meddling

By Vladimir Soldatkin

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against foreign interference in the affairs of other nations during a speech in Moscow on Saturday, sending a signal to the West and echoing a message often repeated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Permanent U.N. Security Council members with veto power, Russia and China have frequently teamed up diplomatically to blunt the influence of the United States and its NATO allies and have blocked three draft resolutions on Syria.

"We must respect the right of each country in the world to independently choose its path of development and oppose interference in the internal affairs of other countries," Xi told students at an international relations school.

He spoke a day after meeting Putin on his first foreign trip since becoming president, a choice both said underscored a "strategic partnership" between Russia and China.

In the Kremlin, he told Putin: "you and I are good friends."

Xi told Russian students on Saturday: "Strong Chinese-Russian relations ... not only answer to our interests but also serve as an important, reliable guarantee of an international strategic balance and peace."

Putin, who began a six-year term last May, has often criticized foreign interference in sovereign states.

Russia and China have resisted Western calls to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over the two-year-old civil conflict that has killed more than 70,000 people in Syria.

They have both criticized the NATO bombing that helped rebels overthrow Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and stood together in the Security Council in votes on the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs.

In a symbolic show of trust, Xi became the first foreign leader to visit the Russian military command center in Moscow on Saturday, Russian news agencies reported.

Xi and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the countries share concerns about U.S. global missile-defense deployments, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said.

Both China and Russia have also bristled at U.S. and European criticism of their human rights records.

FRIENDSHIP AND FEAR

Putin said in a foreign policy decree issued at the start of his new term Russia would counter attempts to use human rights as a pretext for interference, and his government has cracked down on foreign-funded non-governmental organizations.

Xi told Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev his visit had "surpassed my expectations" and said he had chosen Russia as his first foreign destination as president to "show the special importance of our relations."

But economic deals between the world's biggest energy producer, Russia, and its biggest consumer, China, have been harder to come by than diplomatic solidarity. Warm words hide Russian concerns that its far more populous, faster-growing Asian neighbor could pose a threat.

Xi's visit produced an agreement for Russian state giant Rosneft to gradually treble oil supplies to China, but the sides are still short of a deal on the supply of pipeline gas to China, thwarted for years over prices.

Viktor Yaskov, a student who attended Xi's address, said the Chinese leader made "a good impression," but expressed fears about Russia's neighbor. "We're worried about Chinese economic expansion," he said.

Xi arrived in Moscow with glamorous first lady Peng Liyuan, prompting speculation about whether Putin's wife Lyudmila, last seen at a state event last May, would make an appearance.

That did not happen, and Peng kept a low profile after her first steps off the plane caused an Internet sensation in China.

After Russia, Xi will visit Tanzania, the Republic of Congo and South Africa, where he and Putin are expected to meet again at a summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies next week.

(Additional reporting by Megan Davies; Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Robin Pomeroy and Todd Eastham)

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Ravens open on road because of Orioles conflict

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco speaks with reporters in Baltimore, Monday, March 11, 2013, before a screening of a new film released on DVD that chronicles the team's NFL championship football season. The Ravens were Super Bowl XLVII champions after defeating the San Francisco 49ers 34-31. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Consider this a rare example of the NFL not getting its way.

Instead of celebrating their Super Bowl title with a game at their home stadium, the Baltimore Ravens will start the 2013 regular season on the road, because Major League Baseball and the Baltimore Orioles wouldn't budge.

The NFL likes to have its reigning champion open a season at home and wanted to have the Ravens play in Baltimore at night on Thursday, Sept. 5. But with the Orioles already set to host the Chicago White Sox next door at 7:05 p.m. on that date, and the leagues and teams unable to reach a compromise, the NFL announced Friday the Ravens will have to play somewhere else.

The Ravens and Orioles play at adjacent stadiums and share a parking lot, so they avoid playing at the same time because of traffic problems.

"While we are disappointed for the fans in Baltimore," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello wrote in an emailed statement, "we appreciate the efforts of the Ravens, Orioles, and Major League Baseball and fully understand the logistical problems in trying to schedule the teams on the same day. The Ravens will open the season on the road."

He added that the league would like to set up some sort of Super Bowl celebration in Baltimore that night, perhaps including a pregame concert, even if the Ravens aren't there.

The Ravens' Week 1 opponent hasn't been announced yet.

"The Ravens and Orioles explored options, but ultimately decided the two games could not be played in Baltimore on the same day," the NFL club posted on its Twitter feed.

Major League Baseball declined to comment, referring reporters to a statement issued by the Orioles, who said they had been working "over the past several weeks" to try to accommodate the Ravens.

"Given the limited options available to reschedule the game at that late date in the season, the parties jointly determined that even an earlier start time would still create such enormous logistical difficulties that it would greatly diminish the fan experience for both events, which all parties realized would not be in the interest of their fans or the city," the Orioles said.

Complicating matters were the rules in baseball's collective bargaining agreement that govern rescheduling games ? and the fact that both the Orioles (at the Cleveland Indians) and the White Sox (at the New York Yankees) have night games in other cities on Sept. 4, making a day game on Sept. 5 problematic.

The NFL began opening its regular season on a Thursday in 2002. Last season, though, the league chose to play a game on a Wednesday for the first time in more than 60 years, kicking things off on that day instead of Thursday to avoid conflicting with President Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The NFL decided a Wednesday start wasn't an option this time because the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah falls on Sept. 4.

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(NaturalNews) Amazing new research suggests that human beings have devolved emotionally during the last 100 years.

If the sad emotional decline continues, we'll be left with nothing but a bunch of automaton droids running around without a feeling sense.

Researchers at the University of Bristol have done an impressive analysis of literature published during the last 100 years. The data shows a very strong decline in emotionality overall, and highlights a distinct rise in fear since in the 1970's.

Here is a summary of the research:

? Database of over five million digital books analyzed for emotional content

? Mood words were divided into six categories: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise

? Adjustments made for new content fields

? Since 1900, a massive decline in literary expression of emotions

? Fear declined overall, but is on the upswing since the 1970's

? Happiness at its peak during the 1920's and 1960's

? Sadness rising during the 1930's and at its peak during World War II, with another sadness rise during the 1970's

? The emotion of "disgust" showed the lowest final score

? British English has become even less emotionally expressive than American English

What is causing the decline in expressed emotions?

First of all, we could question whether or not the data applies to the general populace. Just because authors are less expressive, does it mean that people in general are less emotionally aware?

This is a good question. There is logical reason to believe a culture's literature accurately reflects the culture, however, especially when it corresponds so well with other events, like WW II and the Great Depression.

Does the rise of chemicals have anything to do with the emotional malaise? Additives in our foods, mass pharmaceuticals, environmental toxicity; what do all of these have to do with it? Is fluoride in the water really melting our brains and inhibiting a deeper expression of our humanity?

Of course! How can emotional energy flow though a medium clogged with such gunk? Energy might flow, but with less vibe.

Do you wish you could numb yourself?

Are we in a trend of emotional numbing and is this what people want? Are people less and less able to manage their own emotions and therefore turning to chemical solutions that turn off their emotional brain?

It's ironic that we are in the midst of an explosion in personal development tools and emotional management techniques. Everywhere you turn, someone has a new solution. Emotional freedom techniques, visualizations and meditations, quantum cures and law of attraction promises...are they working on the whole?

Or, are we looking at an emotional epidemic similar to the obesity epidemic? With more weight loss strategies available than at any other time in history, we are fatter than ever.

Now, what? Write your feelings! Learn to manage them. Understand how you sabotage yourself and set yourself up to feel bad over and over, so you can stop doing this without the need to numb your mind.

Emotions are the lifeblood of the soul. If they are on the decline, so is humanity.

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The information in this video has been called the missing link in mental health and personal development. In a world full of shallow, quick-fix techniques, second rate psychology and pharmaceutical takeovers, real solutions have become nearly impossible to find. This presentation will turn your world upside down.

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Google's Schmidt tells Myanmar a free Internet can anchor reform

By Aung Hla Tun

YANGON (Reuters) - The Internet has the power to prevent Myanmar's leaders from backsliding on the country's rapid transformation that has taken place since the military government stepped aside two years ago, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Friday.

Speaking to an audience of young entrepreneurs and students in the main city of Yangon, he said the Internet can empower Myanmar's people.

"Your government had made an incredibly important political decision. Open up the country to foreign ideas, to the Internet, to your own communications, to your own newspapers," he said.

Schmidt, who raised eyebrows with a trip to North Korea in January, is visiting the former Burma as part of a trip to Asia that also took in India. He is due to meet Myanmar's president, Thein Sein, later on Friday.

The president has overseen a rapid transformation of the political and economic landscape since he took office in March 2011 after the military stepped aside following almost five decades in power.

"The Internet will make it impossible to go back," Schmidt said.

Asked for his advice on developing the sector, he said, to loud applause: "Well, first, try to keep the government out of regulating the Internet."

Newspapers and the Internet were subject to strict censorship under the military but the state has relaxed its control under Thein Sein and will allow private daily newspapers from next month.

Myanmar is Asia's newest frontier market for foreign investors. Its telecoms sector is untapped with mobile penetration among the 60 million population estimated at a meager 5-10 percent.

A planned modernization of telecoms infrastructure and an expected boom in mobile phone usage will pave the way for the entry of companies such as Google.

Google launched a version of its homepage for Myanmar, www.google.com.mm, on Thursday.

"In the next few years the most profitable business in Myanmar will be the telecommunications industry," Schmidt said.

NEW FRONTIER

A U.S. business delegation, which included Google, visited Myanmar last month to explore opportunities. The delegation, led by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), looked into projects to boost access to the Internet, strengthen transparent government and expand digital literacy, USAID said.

Despite Myanmar's liberalization, human rights issues remain a dark spot on its record.

Ethnic and religious conflicts continue to fester. In the latest incident, up to 10 people died and buildings were set ablaze in the town of Meikhtila in sectarian clashes between Buddhists and Muslims.

Schmidt told his youthful audience companies like Google were a force for good. "Technology empowers individuals. One mobile phone in one village can record injustices."

(Writing by Paul Carsten; Editing by Alan Raybould and Neil Fullick)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/googles-schmidt-tells-myanmar-free-internet-anchor-reform-114352946--sector.html

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How will climate change affect the Himalayas? Scientists trek to find out.

Almost half of the world gets its water from the Himalayas and other high mountains, but little is known about how global warming will affect these sources. A team of scientists ventured to the roof of the world to investigate.?

By Tanya Lewis,?LiveScience / March 22, 2013

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Almost half the world's population gets its water from glacier melt and rainfall in the Himalayas and other lofty peaks, yet little is understood about how climate change will affect these water sources. Now, using sophisticated technology and old-fashioned fieldwork, scientists are looking into the past to solve this mystery.

"We're trying to understand the relationships between climate and glaciers and Earth's water resources from the perspective of Earth's paleoclimate," geologist Aaron Putnam of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory said in a talk at the Columbic Club in New York on March 12. He described his recent expeditions along the Silk Road, from the Tien Shan Mountains to the Taklamakan Desert to the Bhutanese Himalayas.

Tien Shan Mountains

Putnam and colleagues set out in 2010 to the Tarim Basin in Northwest China, right in the center of Asia. Within the Tien Shan Mountains, a range that extends some 1,740 miles (2,800 kilometers), the scientists studied masses of soil and rock debris built up by glaciers, called moraines, which held clues to the past climate. [Stunning Scenes: From the Himalayas to the Taklamakan Desert]

To determine the ages of the moraines, the researchers used a technique known as beryllium-10 exposure dating. Cosmic radiation constantly bombards the Earth's surface, changing the form of some of the elements, like beryllium, in rocks. Based on these changes, the scientists could determine how long the moraines had been there, which allowed researchers to reconstruct the glaciers' past positions. "We can see what the ice looked like and know exactly when the ice was there," Putnam said.

Deep in the desert

Next, Putnam and colleagues ventured to the Taklamakan Desert. New roads have made the desert accessible, "so we were able to access lands people had died trying to visit even a decade ago," Putnam said. He described the area as a parched, desolate landscape with endless expanses of sand dunes.

As the researchers trekked through the desert, they noticed silts, mud cracks, remnants of trees, even shells ? all telltale signs of water. To find out when this wet period took place, the scientists used radiocarbon dating, a technique that measures the ratio of different forms of carbon to find an object's age. The scientists also used dendrochronology, a method of determining trees' ages based on their growth rings. The results suggested the wet period occurred from the mid-1100s to the late 1800s.

Putnam and his team then traveled to the easternmost part of the desert to an enormous dry lakebed called Lop Nor. They did radiocarbon dating of shells on the lake's shoreline, finding the shells' ages matched those of the other samples from formerly wet areas. That span of time, from the 12th century to the 19th century, was a cold period in North Atlantic regions. "When it got cold in the North Atlantic, it got wet in the mid-latitude desert regions," Putnam said.

The onset of wet conditions in the Taklamakan Desert corresponds with the rise of Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous land empire in history. The Mongols relied heavily on horses, which would have needed lots of grass to eat. Putnam and his team think the wetting of the desert allowed grasslands to expand, enabling the Mongols to spread throughout Asia. [10 Surprising Ways Weather Changed History]

Atop the Himalayas

Next, Putnam and his colleagues headed south to the Himalayas of Bhutan, an area swept by the monsoon. "We don't know how the monsoon will affect glacier behavior in the Himalayas," Putnam said, adding, "We just needed to go there and use good old-fashioned fieldwork to figure it out." The team made a six-day trek to their study site, a glacier-laden plateau.

The journey wasn't easy; it took 25 horses and mules to carry all of the supplies from the deep jungles up to the icy peaks. The team hiked over 15,400-foot-high (4,700 meters) mountain passes, home to creatures like the Himalayan blue sheep, or bharal.

Finally, the team crested Bhutan's Rinchen Zoe plateau. They ventured out onto the glaciers and took ice sample to measure the amount of melt. The scientists used the same beryllium dating method as before to determine the age of the glacial deposits, work that is currently in progress. The team had to leave before the snows came with the approaching winter.

Though the scientists haven't finished their analysis yet, it's clear that the glaciers have substantially receded over the last century, Putnam said, and this will have an impact on the many people who depend on the mountains for water.

With the current global warming trend, Putnam expects to see a northward expansion of the deserts. The insights gained on these expeditions were only possible through fieldwork, Putnam said. "In my opinion, there's no substitute for collecting fundamental data from the natural world," he said.

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