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Tim McCarver to step down from Fox after season
FILE - In this July 21, 2012, file photo, Tim McCarver greets the crowd before accepting the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting as part of the Baseball Hall of Fame Induction ceremonies at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, N.Y. McCarver says he will step down from his position at Fox after this season. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth, File)
FILE - In this July 21, 2012, file photo, Tim McCarver greets the crowd before accepting the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting as part of the Baseball Hall of Fame Induction ceremonies at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, N.Y. McCarver says he will step down from his position at Fox after this season. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Tim McCarver will make his 55th straight season of Major League Baseball his last.
The two-time champion catcher will call the World Series this year and then retire from his analyst job at Fox.
"I wanted to step down while I know I can still do the job and proud of the job I've done," the 71-year-old McCarver said during a conference call Wednesday.
His health is good, McCarver said. So are his passion and energy for the game.
It was just time.
"It's not a tough call," he said. "It's not a sad thing for me."
McCarver had been thinking about moving on for a couple of years. This winter, Fox executives visited him at his home in Florida to discuss extending his contract, which expires after the 2013 season.
They never even started negotiations. McCarver had already made up his mind.
McCarver has seen other people in various businesses stay at their jobs until their health eventually forced them out, and their quality of life was often not very good after they retired. McCarver didn't want that for himself.
A wine aficionado with a second home in California's Napa Valley, he'd love to travel to Italy for cooking classes.
"I plan on living a very long life, believe me," McCarver said. "I hope Mother Nature cooperates."
McCarver could still appear on Fox or its new cable network, Fox Sports 1, in a different role in the future. But until he tests out retirement, he can't predict whether he'll still want to do a little broadcasting.
McCarver will call a full schedule of games for Fox this season. There was no discussion Wednesday of who might replace him in the booth for 2014.
McCarver has worked 28 consecutive MLB postseasons on network television, providing analysis for a record 23 World Series.
Fox Sports Chairman David Hill recalled how he and then-President Ed Goren "would sit in the truck and look at each other when Tim would say, 'This is going to happen,' and it did."
"We knew it wasn't guessing," Hill said, "because to use the term 'guessing' there's an element of doubt. Tim would know."
McCarver got his start in broadcasting in 1980 with the Philadelphia Phillies and NBC's "Game of the Week." He has also called local games for the New York Mets and Yankees and the San Francisco Giants.
McCarver later worked for ABC and CBS before joining Fox in 1996. Last year, he was honored by baseball's Hall of Fame with the Ford C. Frick Award for major contributions to baseball broadcasting.
"You've always been a great symbol of class," Commissioner Bud Selig told McCarver on the conference call.
McCarver spent 21 seasons in the majors between 1959 and 1980, mostly with the Cardinals and Phillies. He was a two-time All-Star and won the World Series in 1964 and 1967 with St. Louis. A career .271 hitter, McCarver had 97 home runs and 645 RBIs.
He missed the start of the 2011 AL championship series because of a minor heart-related procedure, but the test result that necessitated that medical work turned out to be a false positive.
McCarver worked with announcer Jack Buck on CBS from 1990-91, then became broadcast partners with Buck's son, Joe, at Fox in 1996.
"I've learned more from him than anybody I've ever been around in this business," Joe Buck said, "including my father."
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15 minutes of fame? Study finds true fame isn't fleeting
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WASHINGTON, DC, March 25, 2013 True fame isn't fleeting. That's what a team of researchers led by McGill University's Eran Shor and Stony Brook University's Arnout van de Rijt conclude in a new study that appears in the April issue of the American Sociological Review.
The researchers studied the names mentioned in English-language newspapers over a period of several decades. What they found was that, contrary to popular belief, the people who become truly famous, stay famous for decades, and that this is the case whatever field they're in, including sports, politics, and other domains.
This is even true of entertainment, where it might appear that fame is likely to be most ephemeral. For example, in a random sample of 100,000 names that appeared in the entertainment sections of more than 2,000 newspapers between 2004-2009, the 10 names that showed up most frequently were Jamie Foxx, Bill Murray, Natalie Portman, Tommy Lee Jones, Naomi Watts, Howard Hughes, Phil Spector, John Malkovich, Adrien Brody, and Steve Buscemi. All have been celebrated for at least a decade and all are still much talked about today.
The finding that true fame isn't fleeting goes against most of the scholarly research until now. "There is almost a consensus among scholars in the field of the sociology of fame, that most fame is ephemeral," said Shor, an assistant professor in McGill's department of sociology. "What we've shown here that is truly revolutionary is that the people who you and I would consider famous, even the Kim Kardashians of this world, stay famous for a long time. It doesn't come and go."
Indeed, the annual turnover in the group of famous names is very low. Ninety-six percent of those whose names were mentioned over 100 times in the newspapers in a given year were already in the news at least three years before. The authors point out that this can be explained by the fact that both media and audiences are trapped in a self-reinforcing equilibrium where they must continue to devote attention, airtime, and newspaper space to the same old characters because everyone else does so as well. Talent, resources, or chance events may propel an individual into the spotlight. But, once someone becomes truly famous, they tend to stay that way. Temporary celebrity is highly unusual and is to be found primarily in the bottom tiers of the fame hierarchy, such as when people like whistle blowers become famous for a limited time for participating in particular events.
In general, big names follow career-type patterns of growth, sustenance, and gradual decay over the course of decades. "As with all sociological regularities, our claim is not absolute," said Van de Rijt, an assistant professor in Stony Brook's department of sociology. "We can all think of examples of both types, fleeting and long-term fame. Leonard Cohen is still well known today, over 40 years after he first became famous. But, Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who received instant fame after safely landing a disabled plane on the Hudson, is a name that will likely be forgotten pretty quickly. What we have shown is that Leonard Cohen is the rule and Chesley Sullenberger the exception."
The researchers, who also include Charles Ward, a software engineer at Google, and Steven Skiena, a distinguished teaching professor of computer science at Stony Brook, acknowledge that there is further work to be done with data from blogs, television, and video sharing sites like YouTube to see whether the same patterns hold true there.
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WASHINGTON, DC, March 25, 2013 True fame isn't fleeting. That's what a team of researchers led by McGill University's Eran Shor and Stony Brook University's Arnout van de Rijt conclude in a new study that appears in the April issue of the American Sociological Review.
The researchers studied the names mentioned in English-language newspapers over a period of several decades. What they found was that, contrary to popular belief, the people who become truly famous, stay famous for decades, and that this is the case whatever field they're in, including sports, politics, and other domains.
This is even true of entertainment, where it might appear that fame is likely to be most ephemeral. For example, in a random sample of 100,000 names that appeared in the entertainment sections of more than 2,000 newspapers between 2004-2009, the 10 names that showed up most frequently were Jamie Foxx, Bill Murray, Natalie Portman, Tommy Lee Jones, Naomi Watts, Howard Hughes, Phil Spector, John Malkovich, Adrien Brody, and Steve Buscemi. All have been celebrated for at least a decade and all are still much talked about today.
The finding that true fame isn't fleeting goes against most of the scholarly research until now. "There is almost a consensus among scholars in the field of the sociology of fame, that most fame is ephemeral," said Shor, an assistant professor in McGill's department of sociology. "What we've shown here that is truly revolutionary is that the people who you and I would consider famous, even the Kim Kardashians of this world, stay famous for a long time. It doesn't come and go."
Indeed, the annual turnover in the group of famous names is very low. Ninety-six percent of those whose names were mentioned over 100 times in the newspapers in a given year were already in the news at least three years before. The authors point out that this can be explained by the fact that both media and audiences are trapped in a self-reinforcing equilibrium where they must continue to devote attention, airtime, and newspaper space to the same old characters because everyone else does so as well. Talent, resources, or chance events may propel an individual into the spotlight. But, once someone becomes truly famous, they tend to stay that way. Temporary celebrity is highly unusual and is to be found primarily in the bottom tiers of the fame hierarchy, such as when people like whistle blowers become famous for a limited time for participating in particular events.
In general, big names follow career-type patterns of growth, sustenance, and gradual decay over the course of decades. "As with all sociological regularities, our claim is not absolute," said Van de Rijt, an assistant professor in Stony Brook's department of sociology. "We can all think of examples of both types, fleeting and long-term fame. Leonard Cohen is still well known today, over 40 years after he first became famous. But, Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who received instant fame after safely landing a disabled plane on the Hudson, is a name that will likely be forgotten pretty quickly. What we have shown is that Leonard Cohen is the rule and Chesley Sullenberger the exception."
The researchers, who also include Charles Ward, a software engineer at Google, and Steven Skiena, a distinguished teaching professor of computer science at Stony Brook, acknowledge that there is further work to be done with data from blogs, television, and video sharing sites like YouTube to see whether the same patterns hold true there.
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About the American Sociological Association and the American Sociological Review
The American Sociological Association (http://www.asanet.org), founded in 1905, is a non-profit membership association dedicated to serving sociologists in their work, advancing sociology as a science and profession, and promoting the contributions to and use of sociology by society. The American Sociological Review is the ASA's flagship journal.
The research article described above is available by request for members of the media. For a copy of the full study, contact Daniel Fowler, ASA's Media Relations and Public Affairs Officer, at (202) 527-7885 or pubinfo@asanet.org.
For more information about the study, members of the media can also contact Katherine Gombay, McGill University, at (514) 398-2189 or katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca.
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Not All States On Board With Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Certain groups of people would rather not associate with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Bodega owners who don?t want to hide their cigarettes from view; movie-theater proprietors who like to charge an arm and a leg for enormous sodas; and, apparently, all the mayors in Alaska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
Since 2006, when Bloomberg birthed the idea for the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition out of New York's Gracie Manor, the group has actively sought out new members to help fight gun violence. It made news this past week when it?announced?a $12 million ad campaign to push gun-control efforts and to target senators who are wavering on the issue. To date, nearly 1,000 mayors from across the country have signed the coalition's?statement of principles, but those five states remain holdouts.
?There are a couple of factors,? Mark Glaze, the coalition?s director, said in an interview. ?First, it?s [that] there are just more mayors in a couple states than others. But, of course, ideology plays a role. In Western states there is a higher percentage of gun ownership and lower percentage of gun crime, so it can be a tougher sell.?
But if the coalition is trying to get membership from all 50 states, there is still hope. Glaze notes that already about 100 Republican mayors have signed on, and that plenty of rural Republican states are represented. For states like Utah, Idaho, West Virginia, and North Dakota, one is better than none.?
?I think there is a real fear of being associated with it, and that you might be thrown out of office if you sign up,? said Dana Williams, the only mayor in the entire state of Utah to join. ?Even if it?s illegal weapons, it?s such a political hot potato, plenty of people would rather not participate in the discussion.?
Williams, a guitar-playing California transplant, is the mayor of Park City, known as the home of the Sundance Film Festival and the most liberal city in the state. It?s definitely an outlier. And while many of his constituents are on board, the life of an outlier mayor does not come without harassment. He sent National Journal a number of e-mails to prove this point. Here?s one:
The fact that YOU are the only Mayor in Utah on this anti-gun list makes me sick! Are you taking money from Bloomberg? Do your finances need to be investigated? Do the people in ParkCity know you support this DICTATOR? Get OFF his list and prove you are a Patriot for the Constitution!
For Mayor Nancy Chaney, the one mayor from Idaho on board, all the nasty e-mails in the world can?t make her regret signing up last winter. And yet, the decision to sign up was not an easy one for Chaney, whose town of Moscow is home to the University of Idaho.
Her city is one of the most liberal in the state, but it is still part of northern Idaho. For geographical context, her hometown is just two hours south of the proposed site of The Citadel, a planned community for survivalists with plans for its own automatic-gun factory.
In 2007, shortly after Chaney took office, the mayors coalition approached her about joining up. She declined, telling them she felt like a more credible mayor of a north Idaho community without adding her name to the list.
But during her tenure, Chaney has witnessed enough gun violence in her sleepy little town to change her mind. In 2007, a sniper killed three victims and himself, and in 2011 a university professor shot one of his grad students (who was also a former lover) 11 times.
?Those things shouldn?t happen in communities like this,? Chaney?said. ?I decided it was important to articulate my stance on this?. And a person who has access to lethal force ought not to win every argument.?
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Miami moves to Sweet 16 with 63-59 win over Illini
Miami's Shane Larkin (0) and Trey McKinney Jones (4) chat during a break in the second half of a third-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament against the Illinois Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Miami's Shane Larkin (0) and Trey McKinney Jones (4) chat during a break in the second half of a third-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament against the Illinois Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Miami's Shane Larkin knocks the ball away from Illinois' Nnanna Egwu (32) during the second half of a third-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Illinois' Tracy Abrams dunks during the second half of a third-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament against the Miami Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Miami's Kenny Kadji (35) and Illinois' Sam McLaurin go after a loose ball during the second half of a third-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Miami head coach Jim Larranaga reacts during the second half of a third-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament against the Illinois Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? There was no question about Shane Larkin's go-ahead 3-pointer for Miami.
The ball that appeared to ricochet off the hands of Miami's Kenny Kadji seconds later but went to the Hurricanes ? well, look at the replay.
Regardless, there is no overturning the fact that the Hurricanes are going to the NCAA round of 16 for only the second time in school history.
The Hurricanes got Larkin's big shot and the close call, holding on for a 63-59 victory over Illinois on Sunday night in the East Regional.
"I mean, I don't know. It was so many hands, you know. I don't know who touched it last," Kadji said while seemingly trying to suppress a smile. "Everybody was getting out there and there was a couple of hands. So I really don't know."
After Larkin's first field goal in about 9 1/2 minutes, D.J. Richardson missed a 3-pointer. In the fight for the rebound was the ball that looked like it hit Kadji's extended hand. But the Hurricanes kept the ball, and Durand Scott made two free throws after that.
"You saw the same video I did," first-year Illinois coach John Groce said. He added, "hard game to officiate ... 50-50 calls are hard sometimes."
In postgame news conference, Groce cut off any questions about the play to his players.
Miami (29-6), the No. 2 seed, advanced to play Marquette (25-8) in Washington D.C. on Thursday night.
Larkin, the only non-senior starter for Miami and the ACC player of the year, finished with 17 points.
On the late 3, Larkin had other ideas against a suffocating Illinois defense. He was cut off when he tried to drive to the basket.
"I just stepped back and shot the 3, and it went in," Larkin said.
Rion Brown had 21 with five 3s for the Hurricanes. Kadji added 10 points and eight rebounds.
Brandon Paul had 18 points for No. 7 seed Illinois (23-13). Nnanna Egwu and Tyler Griffin had 12 points each, the later on four 3s.
Second-year Miami coach Jim Larranaga had said he planned to have more fun than any other coach in the NCAA tournament, and wanted his team to do the same.
They are, but they had to fight to the end ? and get what looked like a huge break ? to finish off the Illini.
"After the game was over, I was still kind of stunned," said Larranaga, who danced it up in the locker room when it was over, a video sure to go viral among 'Canes fanes. "When I shook hands with John Groce, I was speechless."
Brown and Larkin both had two free throws in the final 16 seconds, between a tip-in by Egwu
Before Larkin's go-ahead 3, he hadn't scored since 10:29 was left in the game. He put Miami up 38-37 when he drove to the basket, cradled the ball to his side with his arm while getting fouled and then made the shot. He missed the free throw, but the Hurricanes got the rebound and Scott drove for a one-handed dunk.
Less than 2 minutes later, the lead was 46-39 after Brown's 3 from the right corner in front of the Miami bench that sent his teammates and the Hurricanes fans nearby in a frenzy.
Just before that Miami spurt, the Illini had grabbed their first lead since midway through the first half when Tracy Abrams drove for a one-handed slam after a wild sequence that started when he missed a 3-pointer.
After the long-range miss that led to a long rebound, D.J. Richardson couldn't get the ball while several Miami players chased it as well. But one of the Hurricanes swiped the ball right to Richardson, who got the ball to Abrams, who drove through an open gap for the emphatic basket that put Illinois up 35-34 with 12 1/2 minutes left.
The Illini missed six 3s in a row in the second half. But, as usual, they kept shooting them and Paul got them out of that slump with consecutive long-range makes.
His 3 from the right wing with 6 1/2 minutes left got the Illinois within 48-45, then after Kadji's short hook for Miami, Paul made another 3-pointer.
They went ahead when Paul drove for a dunk that broke a 52-all tie with 3:23 left. Scott made a layup with just under 2 minutes for Miami, before Abrams made the first of two free throw attempts for a 55-54 lead that was gone on Larkin's step-back 3.
"We battled. I asked them to play with courage. They played with a high level of courage," Groce said. "Their poise was tremendous. They were resilient."
Larranaga, who took mid-major George Mason to the 2006 NCAA Final Four, won 20 games in his first season at Miami. That wasn't enough to get the Hurricanes in the NCAA tournament.
They left no doubt this year after winning the ACC regular-season and tournament championships. And they already have five wins more than ever before.
When the latest one was over, Miami was the third team from the state of Florida going to the round of 16. Florida won on the same floor earlier Sunday, and No. 15 seed Florida Gulf Coast ? which beat the Hurricanes earlier this season ? won over San Diego State in another South Regional game to advance.
"People gave us grief for that (loss to Gulf Coast). But now it's just showing that they're a great team," Larkin said. "It just proves that Florida has great basketball teams just like everybody else in the country."
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John Kerry asks Iraq to stop arms to Syria
By Arshad Mohammed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Sunday and said he told Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of his concern about Iranian flights over Iraq carrying arms to Syria.
Washington believes such flights and overland transfers take place nearly every day and help Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his efforts to crush a two-year-old revolt against his rule, said a U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Kerry said he had told Maliki the Iranian flights through Iraqi airspace were "problematic".
"Anything that supports President Assad is problematic," Kerry told reporters. "I made it very clear to the prime minister that the overflights from Iran ... are in fact helping to sustain President Assad and his regime."
Speaking before the meeting, the U.S. official said the Iraqi government had inspected only two flights since last July and that Kerry would argue Iraq did not deserve a role in talks about neighboring Syria's future unless it tried to stop the suspected arms flow.
Iraqi officials denied allowing the transfer of weapons from Iran to Syria through Iraqi airspace. Abbas al-Bayati, a member of the Security and Defence parliamentary committee, said: "We have done our duty by randomly inspecting a number of Iranian flights and we did not find any leaked or smuggled weapons."
"If the U.S. is keen to push us to do more they have to give us the information that they have relating to this," he said.
More than a decade after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraq still struggles with insurgents, sectarian friction and political feuds among Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish factions who share power in the government of Shi'ite premier Maliki.
Sunni Islamist insurgents linked to al Qaeda and invigorated by the war next door in Syria - where Sunni rebels are battling Assad, an ally of Shi'ite Iran - are regaining ground in Iraq and have stepped up attacks on Shi'ite targets in recent months in an attempt to provoke a wider sectarian confrontation.
Kerry held talks with representatives of all three communities, including Osama al-Nujaifi, the Sunni speaker of parliament.
He also spoke by telephone to Massoud Barzani, president of Iraq's Kurdish region, whose regional government is pressing ahead with plans to build an oil pipeline to Turkey that Washington fears could lead to the break-up of Iraq.
According to reporters at a picture-taking session at the start of Kerry's talks with Maliki, the U.S. diplomat appeared to joke that Hillary Clinton, his predecessor, had said Iraq would do whatever Washington asked.
"The Secretary told me that you're going to do everything that I say," Kerry said, according to the reporters.
"We won't do it," Maliki, also joking, replied, the reporters said.
SUICIDE BLASTS
In his talks with Maliki, Kerry also asked the Iraqi prime minister and his cabinet to reconsider a decision to postpone local elections in two Sunni-majority provinces, Anbar and Nineveh, the U.S. official said.
The Iraqi cabinet last week postponed the votes, which were due on April 20, for up to six months because of threats to electoral workers and violence there - a step Washington believes will only increase tensions.
While violence has fallen from the height of the sectarian slaughter that killed tens of thousands in 2006-2007, insurgents have carried out at least one major attack a month since U.S. forces left. Bombings and killings still happen daily, often aimed at Shi'ite areas and local security forces.
More than a dozen car bombs and suicide blasts tore through Shi'ite Muslim districts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and other areas on Tuesday, killing nearly 60 people on the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam.
Further complicating security, thousands of Sunni protesters have rallied in Anbar against Maliki, whose Shi'ite-led government they accuse of marginalizing their minority sect since the fall of Sunni strongman Saddam.
(Reporting by Arshad Mohammed; Additional reporting by Suadad al-Salhy; Editing by Jason Webb)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/secretary-state-kerry-makes-unannounced-iraq-visit-082208787.html
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'Oz The Great And Powerful' Sequel: What We Know So Far
Who's coming back? Who won't return? MTV News looks foward to the follow-up to the weekend's box-office hit.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
James Franco and Bill Cobbs in "Oz The Great And Powerful"
Photo: Walt Disney Pictures
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Venezuela's Capriles joins race, tussles with Chavez heir
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition leader vowed on Sunday to fight late Hugo Chavez's preferred successor for the presidency next month and the pair quickly locked horns in an angry war of words.
Henrique Capriles, a 40-year-old state governor, will face election favorite and acting President Nicolas Maduro. The pair must register their candidacies for the April 14 vote on Monday.
The election will decide whether Chavez's self-styled socialist and nationalist revolution will live on in the country with the world's largest proven oil reserves.
"I am going to fight," Capriles said at a news conference. "Nicolas, I am not going to give you a free pass. You will have to beat me with votes."
Former Vice President Maduro, 50, a husky one-time bus driver and union leader turned politician who echoes Chavez's anti-imperialist rhetoric, is expected to win comfortably, according to two recent polls.
Maduro pushed for a snap election to cash in on a wave of empathy triggered by Chavez's death Tuesday at age 58 after a two-year battle with cancer. He was sworn in as acting president on Friday to the fury of Capriles.
"You have used the body of the president for political campaigning," Capriles said of Maduro on Saturday, triggering an angry rebuke.
Maduro accused Capriles of sowing hate.
"You wretched loser!" Maduro said of Capriles in a televised speech. "You have shown your true face - that of a fascist."
Capriles, the centrist Miranda state governor who often wears a baseball cap and tennis shoes, lost to Chavez in October. But he won 44 percent of the vote - the strongest showing by the opposition against Chavez.
Capriles has accused the government and Supreme Court of fraud for letting Maduro campaign without stepping down.
Opposition supporters were trying to raise their spirits despite the odds.
"There's no reason to think that the opposition is condemned to defeat," Teodoro Petkoff, an anti-government newspaper editor, said on his Sunday talk show.
MADURO RAILS AGAINST CAPRILES, IMPERIALISM
Maduro has vowed to carry on where Chavez left off and ratify his policy platform. He acknowledged he has big shoes to fill.
"I am not Chavez - speaking strictly in terms of the intelligence, charisma, historical force, leadership capacity and spiritual grandeur of our comandante," he told a crowd on Saturday.
Chavez was immensely popular among Venezuela's poor for funneling vast oil wealth into social programs and handouts.
The heavy government spending and currency devaluations have contributed to annual inflation of more than 20 percent, hurting consumers.
"Maduro's success will depend on if he can fix the economy and its distortions," said a former high-level official in the Chavez government who declined to be named. "If he does that, he could emerge as a strong leader instead of one who is an heir."
Maduro's first official meeting on Saturday was with officials from China, whom Chavez courted to provide an alternative to investment that traditionally came from the United States.
He has adopted his mentor's touch for the theatrical, accusing imperialists, often a Chavez euphemism for the United States, of killing the charismatic but divisive leader by infecting him with cancer.
Emotional tributes were paid at a religious service at the military academy housing Chavez's casket on Sunday. Several million people have visited his coffin so far and his remains will be moved on Friday to a museum where a tomb is being built to show his embalmed corpse.
He may be moved later to another site next to the remains of his hero: 19th century liberator Simon Bolivar.
Chavez scared investors with nationalizations and railed against the wealthy. In heavily polarized Venezuela some well-to-do citizens toasted his death with champagne.
If elected, Capriles says he would copy Brazil's "modern left" model of economic and social policies.
Given the state resources at Maduro's disposal and the limited time for campaigning, Capriles faces an uphill battle.
"If the opposition runs, they'll lose. If they don't run, they lose even more!" tweeted Andres Izarra, who served as information minister under Chavez.
The opposition rank-and-file is heavily demoralized after losing last year's presidential race and getting hammered in gubernatorial elections in December, stoking internal party divisions.
"There's no doubt that it's an uphill race for Capriles," local political analyst Luis Vicente Leon said. "The trouble is that given the race is so close to Chavez's death, emotions get inflamed and the candidate probably continues to be Chavez rather than Maduro."
(With reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez, Simon Gardner, Terry Wade, Pablo Garibian, Deisy Buitrago, Mario Naranjo and Enrique Andres Pretel; Editing by Stacey Joyce and Cynthia Osterman)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-opposition-leader-joins-presidential-race-004657986.html
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Saturday, March 9, 2013
Indonesian volcano spews ash into sky; no one hurt
Volcanic smoke spews from the crater of Tangkuban Perahu volcano in Subang, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, March 7, 2013. Indonesian authorities are closely monitoring the smoking volcano popular with tourists on Java island and are urging everyone to stay off the mountain's slope after it spewed smoke and ash nearly 500 meters (1,640 feet) into the air since Monday. Scientists have put it on the second-highest alert level. (AP Photo/Kusumadireza)
Volcanic smoke spews from the crater of Tangkuban Perahu volcano in Subang, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, March 7, 2013. Indonesian authorities are closely monitoring the smoking volcano popular with tourists on Java island and are urging everyone to stay off the mountain's slope after it spewed smoke and ash nearly 500 meters (1,640 feet) into the air since Monday. Scientists have put it on the second-highest alert level. (AP Photo/Kusumadireza)
Indonesian officials examine the crater of Tangkuban Perahu volcano in Subang, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, March 7, 2013. Indonesian authorities are closely monitoring the smoking volcano popular with tourists on Java island and are urging everyone to stay off the mountain's slope after it spewed smoke and ash nearly 500 meters (1,640 feet) into the air since Monday. Scientists have put it on the second-highest alert level. (AP Photo/Kusumadireza)
Motorists stop to take a look at volcanic ash spewed from Tangkuban Perahu volcano in Subang, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, March 7, 2013. Indonesian authorities are closely monitoring the smoking volcano popular with tourists on Java island and are urging everyone to stay off the mountain's slope after it spewed smoke and ash nearly 500 meters (1,640 feet) into the air since Monday. Scientists have put it on the second-highest alert level. (AP Photo/Kusumadireza)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ? Indonesia scientists say they are closely monitoring a smoking volcano on Java island, urging villagers and tourists to stay off the mountain's slope.
Government volcanologist Hendra Gunawan said Thursday that Mount Tangkuban Perahu in West Java province shot up smoke and ash nearly 500 meters (1,640 feet) into the air since Monday, and was placed at the second-highest alert level.
It does not send debris or lava far down its slopes and nearby towns and villages were in no danger, but authorities warned tourists off limit its danger zone of 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) from the crater, citing a build up of poison gas inside the peaks.
The 2,084 meter (6,837 feet)-high mountain is one of Java's most popular tourist attractions where people can hike to the edge of the crater to view boiling mud up close. It last erupted in 1983.
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BP's ex-boss Tony Hayward lands new energy role
Hayward, who was in charge of BP during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, said Oxfordshire-based CompactGTL was a ?game-changing? firm, turning gas into oil.
The ex-BP boss is also chief executive of oil producer Genel.
?With international oil prices set to stay high but regional and local gas prices heading in the opposite direction this is a very good time to be pursuing this technology,? he said.
Source: http://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/382725/BP-s-ex-boss-Tony-Hayward-lands-new-energy-role
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Biologists produce rainbow-colored algae
Mar. 7, 2013 ? What can green algae do for science if they weren't, well, green?
That's the question biologists at UC San Diego sought to answer when they engineered a green alga used commonly in laboratories, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, into a rainbow of different colors by producing six different colored fluorescent proteins in the algae cells.
While fluorescent green, red, blue and yellow may be all the rage this year for running shoes and other kinds of sporting gear, fluorescent algae hasn't been a style trend yet in scientific laboratories. But in announcing their achievement in the current issue of The Plant Journal, the UC San Diego biologists said tagging algae with different kinds of fluorescent proteins would provide an important laboratory tool for algae researchers. It could be used to sort different kinds of cells, allow scientists to view cellular structures like the cytoskeleton and flagella, or even to create "fusion proteins," allowing scientists to follow a protein around the cell.
Although rainbow colored algae are not likely to end up in a store near you any time soon, the scientists say they are powerful tools that will allow biologists working on algae to make biotechnology developments more rapidly, ultimately leading to the production of lower-cost biofuels and cheaper human and animal therapeutics. Several months ago, biologists in the same UC San Diego laboratory reported genetically engineering Chlamydomonas algae to produce a complex and expensive human therapeutic drug used to treat cancer.
The rainbow-colored algae were developed by a collaboration that included scientists from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Beth Rasala, a postdoctoral fellow in Mayfield's laboratory, is the lead author of The Plant Journal paper. The research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission.
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
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Government lets public pension funds raise stakes in infrastructure
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government has made it easier for local authority pension schemes to invest in infrastructure by doubling the amount they can invest to up to 30 percent of their assets, paving the way potentially for billions of pounds of investment to be made in projects such as new roads and railways.
The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) said on Wednesday that from April local government pension funds will be able to raise the amount they can invest in key infrastructure projects from 15 percent to 30 percent of their assets under new rules set by the government's Department for Communities and Local Government.
Britain's local authority pension schemes had been lobbying the government for more leeway to invest in infrastructure, arguing that current rules were hampering their investment in the sector.
"Many local authority pension funds have told us that they are prevented from making the best decision on investments because of outdated rules which place limits on the amount that can be invested in infrastructure," Darren Philp, policy director at the NAPF, said in a statement.
A new Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PIP) has been launched as a way for pension funds to invest in capital projects with the backing of six large pension schemes, including the London Pension Fund Authority (LPFA), West Midlands Pension Fund and Strathclyde Pension Fund.
Volatile equity markets and rock-bottom interest rates have already caused a surge in new pension fund money going into transport and other major facility projects.
(Editing by Greg Mahlich)
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
NKorea: Cold War history with US justifies nukes
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? The Cold War still rages in North Korea, and enemy No. 1 is the United States, which Pyongyang blames for making its much-condemned drive to develop nuclear weapons necessary.
A rich vein of propaganda fueled by decades-old American threats holds that North Korea remains at risk of an unprovoked nuclear attack, though Washington and others say brinksmanship is the North's true motive.
North Korea's latest nuclear test in February ? its third ? has led even China, its only major ally, to support another round of punishing U.N. Security Council sanctions. Washington and Beijing have approved a draft resolution that is expected to be circulated this week.
North Korea's neighbors and the West condemn the North's efforts to develop nuclear missiles capable of hitting America as a serious threat to Northeast Asia's delicate security and a drain on the precious resources that could go to North Korea's largely destitute people.
But in Pyongyang, the propaganda spotlight shines on a long list of perceived wrongs from Washington and, in particular, on high-level American nuclear threats from the 1950s to the 1970s.
The United States removed its atomic bombs from South Korea in 1991 and has repeatedly rejected North Korea's claims of U.S. invasion plans. U.S. nuclear submarines ply the region's waters, however, and Washington makes clear that its so-called nuclear "umbrella" over South Korea is meant to deter an attack on its ally by North Korea, whose 1950 invasion ignited the three-year Korean War.
Pyongyang uses Cold War history with the U.S. to justify nuclear weapons as a necessity for a small, proud country wedged among global powers competing for regional economic, military and political supremacy.
"No nation has directly been exposed to the U.S. nuclear threat for such a long time in the world," a recent ? and representative ? commentary from the North's official Korean Central News Agency said.
Faced with Washington's "ceaseless nuclear blackmail and sanctions racket," the commentary said, North Korea made "the strategic resolution to react to nuclear weapons with nuclear weapons."
This is widely dismissed by outsiders as a rationalization. U.S. officials say North Korea orchestrated a systematic, often secret drive to build bombs even while making nuclear disarmament pledges to Washington and others in return for aid and other concessions.
"North Korea uses these nuclear weapons every day. They haven't launched them, but they use them regularly," said Bruce Bennett, a defense analyst at the RAND Corporation, a U.S.-based think tank. Among the uses, he said: to "blackmail" and intimidate Washington and others for money and supplies; to agitate for a peace treaty to end the still technically ongoing Korean War; to deter possible attacks; to generate scapegoats meant to obscure government failures; and to allow the ruling Kim family to demonstrate power and stability to the world and to their citizens.
Pyongyang excoriates international sanctions as expressions of U.S. hostility, as it does joint U.S.-South Korean military drills, the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea and the tens of thousands based in nearby Japan.
"There are good reasons for North Korea to fear the United States," said Cheong Seong-chang, a South Korean analyst at the private Sejong Institute think tank. "There's a sense of crisis that persists among North Koreans toward Washington, which deploys satellites around the clock to keep a watch on Pyongyang."
Those fears stretch back to the Korean War and the nuclear gamesmanship of the Cold War.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the U.N. forces commander, and his successor, Gen. Matthew Ridgway, both asked for authority to use atomic bombs against the North. After his 1953 inauguration, President Dwight Eisenhower "began dropping hints that the United States would use the atom bomb if the deadlock persisted in the negotiations to conclude an armistice ending the war," former Washington Post reporter Don Oberdorfer writes in his history "The Two Koreas."
The first openly deployed U.S. nuclear weapons appeared in South Korea in 1958, according to Peter Hayes, who heads the Nautilus Institute, an Asia-focused think tank, and North Korea responded by digging underground tunnels and fortifying the border.
A crucial moment came in August 1976, after North Korean soldiers killed two Americans with axes. An angry Washington looked to send a message, and nuclear-capable B-52 bombers flew toward the demilitarized zone separating the Koreas, "veering off at the last moment," Hayes wrote in his book "Pacific Powderkeg."
The U.S. response to the ax murders, according to Hayes, convinced North Korea that the American nuclear threat was real, and the psychological impression it made continues even now.
Recent North Korean propaganda has also focused on the George W. Bush and Obama administrations. In 2002, Bush lumped North Korea into an "an axis of evil" with Iran and Iraq. The U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, and the Bush administration advocated "regime change" in Iran and, reportedly, in Pyongyang.
North Korea has also studied the fate of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who gave up his nuclear programs in 2003 under U.S. economic pressure and was killed in 2011 in an uprising backed by NATO airstrikes.
Pyongyang's state media recently wrote of the "tragic consequences" of countries that "abandoned halfway their nuclear programs" because of U.S. pressure, adding that North Korea "was very far-sighted" when it decided to continue building nuclear arms.
North Korean fears of nuclear attack may seem ridiculous to Americans who see U.S. intentions as obviously defensive, according to Hayes, but the view is different in North Korea.
"Isolated from world opinion, subject to the vagaries of centralized, bureaucratic policy formation and the whim of extraordinarily concentrated political power, Pyongyang is the one place that probably does not see the world the same way as 'everyone' else," Hayes wrote.
Even if deadlocked nuclear disarmament negotiations resume, analysts see no easy solution to stopping North Korea's nuclear weapons drive.
Washington says North Korea must prove its sincerity before any serious disarmament deal can be reached. The Obama administration is focused on the North's own more recent history, which it considers to be rife with broken disarmament promises.
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Sam Kim contributed to this report from Seoul. Follow Klug on Twitter: (at)APklug
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Playboy magazine launches Hebrew language edition
A model dressed as a Playboy bunny poses with the first Hebrew language edition of the popular men's magazine in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Israelis can now read Playboy "for the articles." A U.S. emigre, Daniel Pomerantz, on Tuesday launched the first Hebrew language edition of the popular men's magazine. Playboy has been widely available in Israel for years, but this marks the first local edition of the magazine. It features Israeli models and articles by Israeli writers. It's not clear how well the magazine will be received in the Holy Land, where religious sensitivities simmer under the surface and observant Jews and Muslims live by strict modesty rules. Adult magazines and videos are freely available, but not with local models and not in Hebrew. Playboy was launched in 1953 with the iconic Marilyn Monroe centerfold. It peaked in popularity in the 1970's. Circulation has declined since the rise of adult Internet sites. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A model dressed as a Playboy bunny poses with the first Hebrew language edition of the popular men's magazine in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Israelis can now read Playboy "for the articles." A U.S. emigre, Daniel Pomerantz, on Tuesday launched the first Hebrew language edition of the popular men's magazine. Playboy has been widely available in Israel for years, but this marks the first local edition of the magazine. It features Israeli models and articles by Israeli writers. It's not clear how well the magazine will be received in the Holy Land, where religious sensitivities simmer under the surface and observant Jews and Muslims live by strict modesty rules. Adult magazines and videos are freely available, but not with local models and not in Hebrew. Playboy was launched in 1953 with the iconic Marilyn Monroe centerfold. It peaked in popularity in the 1970's. Circulation has declined since the rise of adult Internet sites. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A model dressed as a Playboy bunny poses during the lunch of the first Hebrew language edition of the popular men's magazine in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Israelis can now read Playboy "for the articles." A U.S. emigre, Daniel Pomerantz, on Tuesday launched the first Hebrew language edition of the popular men's magazine. Playboy has been widely available in Israel for years, but this marks the first local edition of the magazine. It features Israeli models and articles by Israeli writers. It's not clear how well the magazine will be received in the Holy Land, where religious sensitivities simmer under the surface and observant Jews and Muslims live by strict modesty rules. Adult magazines and videos are freely available, but not with local models and not in Hebrew. Playboy was launched in 1953 with the iconic Marilyn Monroe centerfold. It peaked in popularity in the 1970's. Circulation has declined since the rise of adult Internet sites. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A model dressed as a Playboy bunny poses with the first Hebrew language edition of the popular men's magazine in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Israelis can now read Playboy "for the articles." A U.S. emigre, Daniel Pomerantz, on Tuesday launched the first Hebrew language edition of the popular men's magazine. Playboy has been widely available in Israel for years, but this marks the first local edition of the magazine. It features Israeli models and articles by Israeli writers. It's not clear how well the magazine will be received in the Holy Land, where religious sensitivities simmer under the surface and observant Jews and Muslims live by strict modesty rules. Adult magazines and videos are freely available, but not with local models and not in Hebrew. Playboy was launched in 1953 with the iconic Marilyn Monroe centerfold. It peaked in popularity in the 1970's. Circulation has declined since the rise of adult Internet sites. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israelis can now read Playboy 'for the articles' as a Hebrew language edition came to the holy land Tuesday.
Playboy has been widely available in Israel for years but this marks the first local edition of the magazine. It features Israeli models and articles by Israeli writers.
Owner and publisher Daniel Pomerantz launched Playboy Israel in Tel Aviv on Tuesday at a press conference, standing next to a tall model wearing the trademark ears and tail of a Playboy bunny.
"Our target is men who want a taste of the good life and also women who are curious about the tastes of the men in their lives," Pomerantz said. "I believe that the special formula that has brought Playboy to a rare level of success throughout the world will continue to succeed in my new home Israel."
Cover girl Nataly Dadon posed next to a big cut-out of the magazine featuring her on the cover topless in lacy underwear. She said she was happy and excited to be in the first edition of Playboy Israel.
It's not clear how well the magazine will be received in the holy land where religious sensitivities are always simmering under the surface and observant Jews and Muslims live by strict modesty rules. Religious zealots have frequently burned down bus stops with ads of fully dressed women and have prompted major advertisers not to use female models regardless of how modestly they are covered up.
Erotica is freely available but not with local talent in Hebrew. The Israeli edition of Penthouse, the traditional and more daring rival of Playboy, flopped when it debuted here in 1989.
Pomerantz said he got the idea for the Hebrew Playboy while working as a lawyer in Chicago where the magazine's headquarters used to be and where he became friends with Playboy lawyers. At the same time he was making visits to Israel where he decided he wanted to live. It was during a trip to Israel that he noticed the country was lacking a Hebrew edition and so the adventure began.
Pomerantz is confident the magazine will succeed. "Israel is a very complicated country with tradition and modernity and also with serious things and fun fashionable things and that is exactly the character of Playboy. It is a complicated and beautiful magazine for a complicated and beautiful country," he said.
"People will see just from the words Playboy Israel that we are a normal country, fashionable, modern, people who work every day with a passion and if you read Playboy magazine you see that it's not just beauty and fashion but it's also depth and politics and issues, people who care and think about the world they live in," he said.
Even in the online age, Playboy's appeal has outlasted many competitors and imitators, selling a lifestyle along with gorgeous models and influential writers.
An interview with Israel's former internal security service chief, Avi Dichter, appears in this month's edition.
Hugh Hefner launched Playboy in 1953 with the iconic Marilyn Monroe as its first centerfold.
It is hailed by some as playing a big role in the sexual liberation movement of the 1960's and advancing women's rights while detractors charge it objectifies women.
It peaked in popularity in the 1970's. Circulation has declined since the rise of adult Internet sites.
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
Bobby Rogers, co-founder of the Miracles, dies at 73
(Reuters) - Bobby Rogers, a founding member of the Miracles singing group with Smokey Robinson, died on Sunday at his home in suburban Detroit after a lengthy illness, the Detroit Free Press newspaper said.
Rogers, 73, a member of the Motown group that was formed in the mid-1950s with Robinson, Ronnie White and Pete Moore, was a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
"He had a sparkling personality that was loved by everyone," Claudette Robinson, Rogers' first cousin, told the newspaper. "People always commented on the tall one with the glasses."
Rogers died at his home in Southfield, Michigan.
The Miracles had a string of hits including "The Tears of a Clown," "Going to a Go-Go," "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" and "Tracks of My Tears."
Ronnie White died in 1995.
Funeral arrangements for Rogers have not been set, according to the newspaper.
(Reporting by Patricia Reaney in New York; Editing by Eric Beech)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bobby-rogers-co-founder-miracles-dies-73-234653179.html
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