Friday, March 29, 2013

China's Michelle Obama? First Lady Peng Liyuan inspires fashion frenzy

As President Xi Jinping and his wife tour Africa, China?s fashion world is scrutinizing Peng Liyuan's wardrobe - and Chinese stock markets are keeping a close eye, too.

By Peter Ford,?Staff Writer / March 27, 2013

If you want to make a killing on the stock market, here?s an unusual tip: Identify the fashion house behind the clothes that Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan is wearing at her next public appearance and buy shares in that company, fast.

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Ms. Peng, currently touring Africa with her husband, the new Chinese President Xi Jinping, is proving a smash hit back home and inspiring fashionistas to replicate her look.?

So when a news story on Tuesday identified the pearl earrings that Peng was wearing as coming from the city of Zhuji, the stock price of all the pearl producers in Zhuji rose on the news. One company?s stock rose so far so fast that market regulators capped its price rise on Wednesday.

Peng has captured the Chinese imagination as a stylish and modern face for her country, most of whose first ladies have ranged recently from dowdy to invisible. And the state-controlled press is playing the story for all it is worth, with front page photos and breathless coverage.

?Peng Liyuan Opens the Door for Chinese Fashion and Confidence? read the enthusiastic headline of an editorial in Wednesday?s edition of Global Times, a tabloid published by the ruling Communist Party.

In a world where China is more often seen as a threatening potential enemy than as a friend, according to a number of recent international opinion polls, Peng is a more useful weapon for Beijing?s image-makers than an aircraft carrier.

She was already massively popular before her husband became president earlier this month; indeed, as a nationally famous singer of patriotic and military songs, she was better known than Mr. Xi until he was tapped five years as next in line for the top job. And then she dropped out of sight.

Recently she has quietly begun doing first lady-like things, such as becoming a World Health Organization ambassador in the fight against HIV-Aids. She is ?widely viewed as a tremendous element of China?s soft power,? wrote leading foreign policy pundit Shen Dingli in an opinion piece for the ?Global Times? earlier this week. ?Now ? it is time to present such soft power on the world stage.?

Peng has not opened her mouth in public yet, but has used her fashion sense to project China?s soft power. Everything she wears is Chinese made and designed, and sometimes clearly designed in the oriental style. That is a marked contrast with the sense of style that prevails among most wealthy Chinese women, which tends towards well known Western brands.

Such brands are bad news in China at the moment, too closely identified with corrupt officials and their wives at a time when Xi has promised a crackdown on corruption.

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Gucci Mane And Waka Flocka Will 'Never' Do Music Again

'I greet fans; he punches fans. It's a difference,' Waka Focka tells 'RapFix Live' in response to his fallout with Gucci Mane.
By Rob Markman, with reporting by Sway Calloway


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Don't call it OUYA: hands-on with PlayJam's GameStick (video)

Don't call it OUYA handson with PlayJam's GameStick DNP

The GameStick is the second of two Kickstarter-backed Android-powered game consoles announced in the past 12 months, and its arguably the less visible of the two (the other being OUYA, of course). It's a bit different than the OUYA as well, in terms of both form factor and specs: the GameStick is roughly the size of a USB thumb drive and runs a dual-core Amlogic processor, rather than the Tegra 3 found in the OUYA. Similar to the OUYA, the GameStick also comes with a proprietary wireless controller -- the standard four button layout, two analog sticks, two shoulder buttons, and a d-pad make up its inputs -- though the GameStick's controller is actually the bulk of the hardware. The GameStick itself actually nestles into the back of the controller, making the whole bundle rather portable.

But perhaps you already know all of this? We have been hearing about the GameStick for some time now. Should that be the case, you'll wanna know how the thing actually feels, and we can deliver that just beyond the break, as we've just put GameStick and its controller through the paces.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Amanda Knox book, interview go on as planned

SEATTLE (AP) ? Amanda Knox's memoir and interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer will go on as planned, despite an Italian court overturning her 2011 murder acquittal.

Italy's highest criminal court ordered a new trial for Knox and former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito on Tuesday, overturning their acquittals in the gruesome slaying of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher.

Spokesman David Ford says an ABC News Primetime Special scheduled to air April 30 is moving forward as planned. It will be the first in-depth interview Knox has given since returning to Seattle.

Knox also has a memoir, "Waiting to Be Heard," due out on the same day as her television interview. Based on pre-orders, the book's ranking on Amazon.com moved from just above 2,400 Tuesday morning to 470 Tuesday afternoon.

HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis says the book plans have not changed.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/amanda-knox-book-interview-planned-193517954.html

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Looks Like Those 1M Mystery BlackBerry 10 Devices Went To A Verizon Distributor

blackberry logoBlackBerry delivered one of the world's most mysterious press releases a short time ago when it revealed that it had sold a cool 1 million BB10 devices to an unnamed partner, but now it looks like some sleuthing has turned up the real client. AllThingsD and Detwiler Fenton both report that the likely source of the order was Brightstar, an international distribution company that counts Verizon, along with carriers around the world as its partners.

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Sunday, March 24, 2013

A Game of Thrones Android app guides you through the world of Westeros and beyond

Game of Thrones Android app guides you through the televised world of Westeros and beyond

Perhaps the second screen experience for HBO megahit show A Game of Thrones provided through Xbox 360's SmartGlass functionality and HBO Go's iPad app isn't enough for you? And maybe you want a bit more of a George R. R. Martin touch to your Game of Thrones book companions? This week's release of "A Game of Ice and Fire" for Android -- the previously iOS-only Game of Thrones app that acts as an "official guide" to the series and its myriad characters / relationships / political struggles / etc. -- is clearly for you. And yes, it goes beyond what just the show covers; it can even be customized for spoilers based around how far you are.

The initial cost to download is nothing and comes with several characters as well as a companion for the first book, but for books two through five you'll need to grab the upgrades: $1 apiece, or $5 for those four plus an additional "InfoPack" which would otherwise cost $2 by itself. Those $2 "InfoPacks" include, "new characters and places and additional data and background info" (whatever that means), and more are expected in the future. The third season of A Game of Thrones kicks off on March 31st, and wouldn't you know it, this app is perfectly timed to accompany it. That's what we call synergy. Head to the Google Play link in the source link and grab it for free, or risk *paying the iron price.

*Thankfully, in this case, that price is just potentially looking ignorant about A Game of Thrones. So ... not that big of a thing, actually.

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Transparent Ad Platform Human Demand Closes $900K Series A

HumanDemandHuman Demand, a mobile ad startup which launched last summer targeting the long tail of app developers, has since expanded its focus to brands, and is today announcing having raised an additional $900,000 in new funding. Some of that new investment is founder money, while the others leading the round include the DEV fund and ARC Angel Fund.

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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Watch These Real-Life Supermen Wingsuit Dive Into Their Metropolis

When you go sky-diving, there's that all-important business of making sure you don't slam into the ground, but you also have to make sure you don't slam into anything protruding out of it. This pair of urban wingsuit daredevils who dove into Rio de Janeiro came damn close to the latter when they zipped through a small gap between to skyscrapers. More »


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Saturday, March 16, 2013

'Nuisance' data lead to surprising star-birth discovery

Thursday, March 14, 2013

When a batch of bright cosmic objects first appeared in maps in 2008 made with data from the South Pole Telescope, astronomers at the University of Chicago's Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics regarded it only as an unavoidable nuisance.

The light sources interfered with efforts to measure more precisely the cosmic microwave background?the afterglow of the big bang. But the astronomers soon realized that they had made a rare find in South Pole Telescope's large survey of the sky. The spectra of some of the bright objects, which is the rainbow of light they emit, were inconsistent with what astronomers expected from the well-known population of radio galaxies.

Instead they looked like dust-enshrouded, star-forming galaxies. Such galaxies should be easily identified in infrared sky surveys, but there were no known counterparts for what the South Pole Telescope had found. They had to be extremely distant to avoid infrared detection, and therefore extremely luminous. Intrigued, the astronomers performed detailed follow-up imaging of the sources with the new Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile's Atacama Desert. These observations show the dust-filled galaxies were bursting with stars much earlier in cosmic history than previously thought.

Joaquin Vieira, now a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology, leads a team that will report the discovery in the March 14 issue of the journal Nature and in two other papers that will appear in the Astrophysical Journal.

"We have been eagerly waiting for ALMA to be ready so we could conduct these observations," said Vieira, MS'05, PhD'09, who based his doctoral research at UChicago on the discovery of the extragalactic sources. "The sources we discovered with [the South Pole Telescope] were so far in the southern sky that no telescopes in the Northern Hemisphere could observe them. We are very privileged to be among the first astronomers to use ALMA."

Vieira has supported the South Pole Telescope from the beginning, helping to build the telescope and its camera, said John Carlstrom, S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics at UChicago. "He's been involved from the ground up, or the ice up, if you will," said Carlstrom, who leads the SPT collaboration and is a co-author of the Nature paper.

Prodigious star production

The starburst galaxies produce stars at a prodigious rate, creating the equivalent of a thousand new suns annually. Vieira and his colleagues have found starbursts that were churning out stars when the universe was just a billion years old. Previously astronomers were unsure whether galaxies could form new stars so quickly at this very early point in the history of the universe.

Shining with the energy of a trillion suns or more, these newly discovered galaxies are observed as they were nearly 12 billion years ago, showing us a representative baby picture of the most massive galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood today. "The more distant the galaxy, the further back in time one is looking, so by measuring their distances, we can piece together a timeline of how vigorously the universe was making new stars at different stages of its 13.7-billion-year history," Vieira said.

The astronomers found dozens of these galaxies with the South Pole Telescope, a 10-meter dish in Antarctica that surveys the sky in millimeter-wavelength light (situated between radio and the infrared on the electromagnetic spectrum). The team then took a more detailed look using ALMA in Chile. "These aren't normal galaxies," Vieira said. "They're forming stars at an extraordinary rate when the universe was very young?we were very surprised to find galaxies like this so early in the history of the universe."

The new observations represent some of ALMA's most significant scientific results yet, Vieira said. "We couldn't have done this without the combination of [the South Pole Telescope] and ALMA," he added. "ALMA is so sensitive, it is going to change our view of the universe in many different ways."

The astronomers used only 16 of 66 dishes that will eventually come online for ALMA, which is the most powerful telescope observing in millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths. ALMA began observing last year.

ALMA data analysis

Analysis of the ALMA data showed that more than 30 percent of the new galaxies existed just a billion years after the big bang. Only nine such galaxies were known previously. The number of such galaxies now has nearly doubled, providing valuable data that will help other researchers constrain and refine computer models of star and galaxy formation in the early universe.

Vieira's team directly determines the distance of these dusty starburst galaxies from emission from their gas and dust itself. Astronomers previously had to rely on a cumbersome combination of indirect optical and radio observations using multiple telescopes to study the galaxies. But ALMA's unprecedented sensitivity and ability to measure spectra enabled the astronomers to make their observations and analyze them directly in one step. As a result, the new distances are more reliable and represent the best sample yet of this population of early galaxies.

The unique properties of these objects also enabled the measurements. First, the observed galaxies happened to be gravitationally lensed?a phenomenon predicted by Einstein in which another galaxy in the foreground bends the light from the background galaxy like a magnifying glass. This lensing effect makes the background galaxies appear brighter, cutting the amount of telescope time needed to observe them by 100 times.

Second, the astronomers took advantage of a fortuitous feature of these galaxies' spectra. Normally, more distant galaxies appear dimmer. But it turns out that the expanding universe shifts the emitted spectra in such a way that the light we receive at millimeter wavelengths is not diminished for sources that are more distant from us. Consequently, the galaxies appear just as bright in these wavelengths no matter their distance.

The new results represent approximately a quarter of the total number of sources that Vieira and his colleagues discovered with the South Pole Telescope. They anticipate finding more of the dusty starburst galaxies and expect some to be from even earlier times in the universe as they continue analyzing their data.

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Friday, March 15, 2013

TommieMedia - St. Thomas doesn't plan on prioritizing bandwidth ...

Recent limits on bandwidth usage at South Dakota State University have St. Thomas students wondering if they?ll be cut off next.

While St. Thomas had to double its Internet capacity this fall, SDSU was forced to prioritize its bandwidth use on a nightly basis, limiting access to sites, like Netflix, Pandora and YouTube, that stream video and use up much of the school?s bandwidth.

Sam Levy, vice president of Information Resources and Technology and chief information officer at St. Thomas, explained that the school would not make a move like SDSU as a ?knee-jerk? reaction to high bandwidth use.

Senior Rob White enjoys St. Thomas' bandwidth access in the Murray-Herrick Center. St. Thomas students hoped their bandwidth access would not become prioritized like South Dakota State University's. (Trevor Walstrom/TommieMedia)

Senior Rob White enjoys St. Thomas' bandwidth access in the Murray-Herrick Center. St. Thomas students hoped their bandwidth access would not become prioritized like South Dakota State University's. (Trevor Walstrom/TommieMedia)

?As a first move, we wouldn?t go to what SDSU did,? Levy said. ?What we would do is start an educational campaign.?

SDSU?s student-run news website, The Collegian, reported that the university had to prioritize its bandwidth because students using streaming services were causing the university to come close to meeting or exceeding its 800 megabytes per second of bandwidth. Students trying to access online course materials experienced a dramatic slowdown.

Prioritizing means that from 7-10 p.m. every night, SDSU students will experience very slow or nearly impossible access to some of their favorite streaming sites, so that web-based course materials are easily accessible.

St. Thomas increased its bandwidth from 500 MB per second to 1,000 MB per second in September 2012.

?Since we raised the bandwidth, we haven?t had any serious issues,? Levy said. ?Although occasionally, you will get a spike.?

Along with doubling its bandwidth, St. Thomas also bought what Levy referred to as ?an Internet insurance policy.? This insurance policy is a second, fail-safe service, that gives users an alternate path to the Internet in the case the main connection goes down.

?The system will be tested in about a month,? Levy said.

Levy said students need to do simple things to counteract the problem like exiting out of their browsers and shutting down their streaming devices when not in use.

This will allow everyone to have the same access to the high speeds that their tuition helps pay for.

?We?re paying for it, so we should get unrestricted access,? junior Brandon Yapel said.

Even though students pay for their Internet access and disagree with having to abide by a bandwidth priority, senior Rob White said SDSU had to make decision to solve the problem.

?They can do what they want. It?s a business,? White said.

While St. Thomas hasn?t made any plans yet, students living on campus would not be excited about having a bandwidth prioritization happen here.

?I would not be too happy because I love my Netflix,? sophomore Alaina Wenning said. ?Literally between 7-10 p.m., I?m on Netflix. It?s probably me using all the bandwidth.?

St. Thomas? bandwidth upgrade was beneficial, but with so many students using bandwidth-sucking streaming websites, there remains a noticeable decrease in Internet speed during peak streaming hours, which are usually at night.

Levy explained that bandwidth rationing is no longer unheard of and that St. Thomas students are lucky to have nearly unrestricted bandwidth access. Levy also said further changes are on the horizon for St. Thomas? cyber infrastructure.

St. Thomas recently received permission to complete a major network upgrade, which began in 2007. This upgrade includes new wiring, new electronic devices and new core services.

?We will be at 10 GB per second campus wide by the end of fiscal year 2014,? Levy said. ?That?s another major upgrade to make sure that we stay current.?

St. Thomas? currently has a one gigabit-per-second connection to the Internet, but the next upgrade to 10 MB per second will be to the backbone, or main data channel for the Internet.

White said that staying current is just what St. Thomas needs to keep doing, otherwise bandwidth access won?t be their only problem.

?I don?t think (prioritizing bandwidth) is a good idea,? White said. ?I?m pretty sure (St. Thomas students) would hate it.?

Trevor Walstrom can be reached at wals0505@stthomas.edu.

Source: http://www.tommiemedia.com/news/st-thomas-doesnt-plan-on-prioritizing-bandwidth-soon/

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

French Expatriates: "Morocco is our Paradise" | Morocco World News

By Youssef El Kaidi

Morocco World News

Fez, March 11, 2013

Morocco obtained its political independence from France in 1956 after a set of political and armed struggles. The departure of the colonizer was followed by waves of immigration from Morocco to France to cover the shortage in men power in the booming French economy, especially in the sectors of industry and agriculture.

Now, the largest concentration of Moroccans outside Morocco is in France. However, during the last two decades, French diaspora in Morocco has been growing remarkably by virtue of immigration in the opposite direction or what can be ironically termed ?the season of immigration into the south!? So, what magic spell does Morocco cast on the French? And what does entice them to set out southwards?

Most commentators agree on the fact that Morocco occupies a very strategic geographical location which makes of it ?a tree whose roots go deep in Africa and whose branches reach out for Europe,? to use the metaphor of the late Hassan II. This geographic location makes Morocco a perfect site for investors and business men who seek to expand their markets and activities northwards and southwards.

Also, in terms of its climate, Morocco is described by the famous quote as ?a?cold country?with a hot?sun.? It is seen by the French as pleasantly warm and usually sunny unlike their own country. Another reason for the French preference of Morocco is the social and political stability which reins over the country despite the neighboring turmoil and upheavals.

According to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs there were about 41,129 French citizens registered as permanent residents in Morocco at the end of 2010, the number marks an increase of about 5 % compared to 2009. Now, the number of French residents in Morocco is assumed to be more than 44?000. Some reports say there are more than 55?000 if we count those who do not wish to declare themselves to the consular services for personal reasons. According to the same source, besides Europe and the North America, Morocco is the second destination for French citizens after Israel.

The French channel France 2 touched upon the issue of French expatriates in Morocco last February and featured a French woman living and working in Casablanca since 1989. Anne Torterat created her own business and now works as an investment counselor. She tells her story and says: ?At first I worked in investment consulting cabinets but later on I decided to create my own cabinet to help Moroccan investors??

?In Morocco, woman can assert themselves very easily nowadays. There were some problems in the past but now it?s the complete opposite,? she said.

Anne describes Casablanca and Morocco in the most refined terms.

?Morocco is really the paradise of children. Our children adore Morocco in general?They spend their life with their friends. We lead a peaceful life; we know that our children are monitored and protected,? she said.

This is happiness. They can also do a number of activities in open air because the weather is always nice and warm. Indeed, it?s the paradise of children,? she added.

Claude Cadeau, another French expatriate in Casablanca almost expresses the same fascination with the city in an interview with Jobtrotter.

?Despite the fact that Casablanca is not the most beautiful city in Morocco, it is saturated with history. The presence of the ocean guarantees a mild and sunny climate all year round,? he said.

?Moroccans also have a great joie de vivre. As soon as you leave the big cities you find a real authenticity and great hospitality. And to be honest, I could not have in France the quality and the standard of living that I have in Morocco,? he added.

Morocco continues to fascinate French people of all walks of life. For the French retired, Morocco seems to be the new Eldorado as approximately 4000 retirees have already crossed the Mediterranean to settle mainly in Marrakech, Agadir and Saouira where they spend their old days enjoying the weather, the people and the authenticity of an enduring culture.

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Sunday, March 10, 2013

No. 13 Oklahoma State edges No. 9 K-State 76-70

Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart (33) dunks in front of Kansas State guard Angel Rodriguez (13) and forward Nino Williams (11) and Oklahoma State's Le'Bryan Nash (2) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, March 9, 2013. Oklahoma State won 76-70. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart (33) dunks in front of Kansas State guard Angel Rodriguez (13) and forward Nino Williams (11) and Oklahoma State's Le'Bryan Nash (2) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, March 9, 2013. Oklahoma State won 76-70. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Oklahoma State forward Philip Jurick, left, fouls Kansas State forward Nino Williams as he shoots in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, March 9, 2013. Oklahoma State won 76-70. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber, center, talks to his team during a time out in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, March 9, 2013. Oklahoma State won 76-70. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart (33), Michael Cobbins (20), Markel Brown (22), Brian Williams (4) and Kansas State's Angel Rodriguez watch as Oklahoma State's Phil Forte (13) takes a free throw in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, March 9, 2013. Oklahoma State won 76-70. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Kansas State forward Thomas Gipson (42), guard Angel Rodriguez (13) and Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart (33) watch a loose ball in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, March 9, 2013. Oklahoma State won 76-70. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) ? Coach Travis Ford can't be certain whether NBA prospect Marcus Smart has played his last home game at Oklahoma State.

If he did, he went out with one of his typical beyond-the-box-score plays, changing the game and the Big 12 championship picture.

Smart scored 21 points, but perhaps none of his plays were as big as the charging foul he drew that turned the momentum as the 13th-ranked Cowboys beat No. 9 Kansas State 76-70 on Saturday.

After officials had stopped the game to review a Smart jump shot and rule that it was not a 3-pointer but a 2, he got between Angel Rodriguez and the sideline and drew the foul as Rodriguez tried to catch an inbound pass.

Smart ended up with six points ? plus drawing Rodriguez's foul ? during the decisive 14-1 run for the Cowboys (23-7, 13-5 Big 12).

"The momentum changed for us, and we opened the game up," Smart said.

Smart's heady play came as no surprise to Ford, who has seen his freshman point guard develop into a Big 12 player of the year candidate without needing to be his team's leading scorer.

"He is going to be in the middle of the action and more times than not, he's going to make a positive play. ... That's just his game," Ford said. "That's just his nature. That's the way he plays."

Le'Bryan Nash contributed 24 points and Markel Brown scored 16, including seven free throws in the final 2 minutes for Oklahoma State.

The Wildcats (25-6, 14-4) came into the day tied with rival Kansas for the conference lead, but were left needing the Jayhawks to lose on the road at Baylor later Saturday to come away with their first regular-season conference title since 1977 in the Big Eight.

K-State led by as much as nine in the second half and was up 61-57 following Rodney McGruder's three-point play with 4:45 remaining. The Cowboys didn't allow another field goal for more than 4 minutes and hit 13 straight free throws during crunch time to come away with the win.

It was 61-59 when Smart drew the charge, then got fouled by Thomas Gipson on a 3-point attempt and hit two free throws to tie it. Nash followed with a driving layup to put the Cowboys ahead to stay at 63-61 with 2:47 remaining.

Kansas State coach Bruce Weber called Rodriguez's charge the "big, changing play" of the game.

"I bet if you went and watched it, it wasn't an offensive foul. So, that changed the game, the momentum a lot," Weber said. "But then they made plays and we didn't."

McGruder led the Wildcats with 22 points. He had a big game when the teams met in the Big 12 opener, scoring 28 points and making all five of his 3-point attempts to lead K-State to a victory. He couldn't match that this time, connecting on only six of his 15 shots.

Thomas Gipson chipped in 15 points and Angel Rodriguez scored 10, but also struggled to a 3-for-16 outing.

"They've got some pretty good athletes that can guard and defend, and they made their focus ? there's no doubt ? to make sure that Rod and Angel were jammed up as much as possible," Weber said.

The Wildcats allowed Oklahoma State to shoot 57 percent while making just 39 percent of their own shots, but still managed to hang in until the final minutes for a chance to stretch their winning streak to seven and ? more importantly ? win an elusive conference title.

"We had an opportunity to be regular-season conference champs," McGruder said, "and we let that opportunity slip."

After McGruder's three-point play and Rodriguez's charge, Kansas State missed eight straight attempts. Smart said there had been some build-up to the call, with referees warning both Smart and Rodriguez to stop pushing off.

"At that moment in time, he gave me a little nudge that was enough for the referee to blow his whistle," Smart said. "Actually, I wasn't trying to fall. I actually slipped and it just looked like I fell, like I tried to make it a flop. But I actually slipped. It was a nudge but it wasn't enough to make me fall."

The Wildcats will be the No. 2 seed in next week's Big 12 tournament. Oklahoma State will be the third seed and face Baylor in the opening round.

Shane Southwell and Martavious Irving hit 3-pointers to get the Wildcats going after trailing 36-30 at halftime, and soon they put together a 14-1 blitz to charge into the lead. Rodriguez had two baskets and two free throws during the run, and Nino Williams made a jumper along the left baseline to put K-State up 50-41 with 13:12 left.

The Cowboys responded by pushing the pace in transition, and Nash had a two-handed slam and a pair of layups during an 11-0 comeback. Smart's three-point play off a driving runner along the right side of the lane put OSU back up 56-53 with 6:21 remaining ? and fans chanted "One more year!" to the NBA prospect as he hit the free throw.

Smart said he has tried to block out that kind of chatter all year long.

"If I was them, I want him to come back. No question," Ford said. "But I've seen him in a different perspective probably a little bit. I want what's best for him. I've read, and everybody thinks he's gone for sure. He might. I don't know. It has not been discussed. I wouldn't be surprised either way."

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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Egyptian protester dies in clashes with police

An injured security official is carried from a police officers club in the upscale neighborhood of Zamalek, after protesters set fires following a court verdict in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 9, 2013. Fans of Cairo?s Al-Ahly club have stormed Egypt?s soccer federation headquarters and a nearby police club, and set them ablaze after a court acquitted seven of nine police official on trial for their alleged part in deadly stadium melee. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad )

An injured security official is carried from a police officers club in the upscale neighborhood of Zamalek, after protesters set fires following a court verdict in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 9, 2013. Fans of Cairo?s Al-Ahly club have stormed Egypt?s soccer federation headquarters and a nearby police club, and set them ablaze after a court acquitted seven of nine police official on trial for their alleged part in deadly stadium melee. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad )

Egyptian soccer fans of the Al-Ahly club celebrate in front of their club in Cairo, Egypt, after an Egyptian court confirmed death sentences against 21 people for their role in a deadly 2012 soccer riot that killed more than 70 people in the city of Port Said, Saturday, March 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

An Egyptian man walks on the grounds of a police officer's club as a fire set by protesters burns in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 9, 2013. An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed the death sentences against 21 people for taking part in a deadly soccer riot but acquitted seven police officials for their alleged role in the violence, touching off furious protests in Cairo that torched the soccer federation headquarters and a nearby police club.(AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

Smoke rises from the Police Officers Club, left, and the Egyptian Soccer Federation, right, as a police helicopter surveys the scene after protesters set fire following a court verdict in Saturday, March 9, 2013. Fans of Cairo?s Al-Ahly club have stormed Egypt?s soccer federation headquarters, set it ablaze after a court acquitted seven of nine police official on trial for their alleged part in deadly stadium melee. A fire also broke out Saturday in a nearby police club, but it was not immediately known whether Al-Ahly fans started the blaze there too. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Several protesters set fire to tires on the city's dock in an attempt to prevent ships from coming in to the strategic city of Port Said at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal, in Egypt, Saturday, March 9, 2013. An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed the death sentences against 21 people for taking part in a deadly 2012 soccer riot but acquitted seven police officials for their alleged role in a trial that has been the source of some of the worst unrest to hit Egypt in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ramadan)

CAIRO (AP) ? An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed the death sentences against 21 people for taking part in a deadly soccer riot but acquitted seven police officers for their alleged role in the violence. The verdict enraged fans in Cairo, prompting them to torch the soccer federation headquarters and a police club in protest.

The trial over the melee that killed 74 people after a soccer game in the city of Port Said in early 2012 has been the source of some of the worst unrest to hit Egypt in recent weeks. While the violence has largely involved fans of rival soccer teams, the case has taken on political undercurrents because many blame the police for standing by during the violence last year.

Shortly after the verdict was announced Saturday, fans of Cairo's Al-Ahly club who had gathered in the thousands outside the team's headquarters in the center of the Egyptian capital went on a rampage, torching a police club nearby and storming Egypt's soccer federation headquarters before setting it ablaze. The twin fires sent plumes of thick black smoke billowing out over the Cairo skyline. Two army helicopters were used to extinguish the fires.

At least five people were injured in the protests, a Health Ministry official told the MENA state news agency.

The court's decision upheld the death sentences issued in late January to 21 people, most Port Said fans. The original verdict touched off violent riots in the Suez Canal city of Port Said that left some 40 people dead, most shot by police.

On Saturday, the court announced its verdict for the other 52 defendants in the case, sentencing 45 of them to prison, including two senior police officers who got 15 years terms each. Twenty-eight people were acquitted, including seven police officials.

The acquittal of the police officers prompted a wave of anger and raised tensions already high over political turmoil, a worsening economy and growing opposition to the rule of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The country has faced repeated bouts of chaos in the more than two years since a revolution that ousted autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak.

In unrelated violence, at least two protesters were killed on Saturday in clashes between riot police and stone-throwing demonstrators on a Nile-side street in central Cairo, according to national ambulance service chief Mohammed Sultan. Nineteen others were injured in the clashes near two luxury hotels and the U.S. and British embassies.

In anticipation of more violence, authorities beefed up security near the Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the police force, with riot police deploying in the streets around the complex in central Cairo.

The president of the international soccer governing body FIFA appealed for calm.

"I call on football fans in Egypt to remain peaceful. Violence is never a solution and is contrary to the spirit of sport," Sepp Blatter tweeted.

Earlier at the courthouse across town, Judge Sobhi Abdel-Maguid read out the verdict live on TV, sentencing five defendants to life in prison and nine others to 15 years in jail. Six defendants received 10-year jail terms, two more got five years and a single defendant received a 12-month sentence.

The court's decision on the nine Port Said security officers on trial was among the most highly anticipated ? and potentially explosive ? verdicts. In the end, the judges sentenced the city's former security chief, Maj. Gen. Essam Samak, and a colonel both to 15 years in prison, while the others were acquitted.

Al-Ahly's fans accuse the police of collusion in the killing of their fellow supporters, arguing that they had advance knowledge of plans by supporters of Port Said's Al-Masry to attack them. They also accuse them of standing by as the Al-Masry fans set upon the visiting Al-Ahly supporters.

The court rulings can be appealed.

Many residents of Port Said, which is located on the Mediterranean at the northern tip of the vital Suez Canal, say the trial is unjust and politicized, and soccer fans in the city have felt that authorities have been biased in favor of Al-Ahly, Egypt's most powerful club.

The Feb. 1, 2012 riot followed a league match between Al-Masry and Cairo's Al-Ahly club, with Port Said supporters setting upon the visiting fans after the final whistle. The deadly melee is Egypt's worst soccer disaster.

In Port Said, a city that for weeks has been in open rebellion against the Islamist president, several hundred people, many of them relatives of the defendants, gathered outside the local government offices to vent their anger. They chanted slogans against Morsi's government and the verdicts.

Some people in a cafe watching the verdict live on TV hit their heads in frustration, while others broke down and wept. Some said they can live with the verdict because an appeal leaves room for hope.

"There's still an appeal process. God willing, our rights will be restored," said Islam Ezzeddin, a local soccer fan. "We are not thugs. I hope to God when there's an appeal, that we feel we live in a country of law and justice."

Several protesters in Port Said sought to disrupt shipping in the vital waterway by releasing small speedboats into the traffic lanes, although the effort failed to disrupt shipping. Others set fire to tires on the city's dock to prevent ships from coming in, but that again was quickly abandoned.

A spokesman for the Suez Canal Authority, Tareq Hasanein, told Egypt's official MENA news agency that shipping in the international waterway was proceeding normally, with 41 vessels transiting the canal on Saturday.

However, the national railways chief, Hussein Zakaria, ordered trains headed to Port Said to terminate their services at Ismailiya, another Suez Canal city south of Port Said. He said the measure was taken out of fear for the safety of passengers.

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Batrawy reported from Port Said. Associated Press writer Mariam Rizk contributed to this report from Cairo.

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Friday, March 8, 2013

Reconstruction of Earth climate history shows significance of recent temperature rise

Mar. 7, 2013 ? Using data from 73 sites around the world, scientists have been able to reconstruct Earth's temperature history back to the end of the last Ice Age, revealing that the planet today is warmer than it has been during 70 to 80 percent of the time over the last 11,300 years.

Of even more concern are projections of global temperature for the year 2100, when virtually every climate model evaluated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows that temperatures will exceed the warmest temperatures during that 11,300-year period known as the Holocene -- under all plausible greenhouse gas emission scenarios.

Results of the study, by researchers at Oregon State University and Harvard University, were published this week in the journal Science. It was funded by the National Science Foundation's Paleoclimate Program.

Lead author Shaun Marcott, a post-doctoral researcher in Oregon State's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, noted that previous research on past global temperature change has largely focused on the last 2,000 years. Extending the reconstruction of global temperatures back to the end of the last Ice Age puts today's climate into a larger context.

"We already knew that on a global scale, Earth is warmer today than it was over much of the past 2,000 years," Marcott said. "Now we know that it is warmer than most of the past 11,300 years. This is of particular interest because the Holocene spans the entire period of human civilization."

Peter Clark, an OSU paleoclimatologist and co-author on the Science article, said many previous temperature reconstructions were regional in nature and were not placed in a global context. Marcott led the effort to combine data from 73 sites around the world, providing a much broader perspective.

"When you just look at one part of the world, the temperature history can be affected by regional climate processes like El Ni?o or monsoon variations," noted Clark. "But when you combine the data from sites all around the world, you can average out those regional anomalies and get a clear sense of the Earth's global temperature history."

What that history shows, the researchers say, is that over the past 5,000 years, Earth on average cooled about 1.3 degrees (Fahrenheit) -- until the past 100 years, when it warmed ? 1.3 degrees (F). The largest changes were in the northern hemisphere, where there are more land masses and greater human populations.

Climate models project that global temperature will rise another 2.0 to 11.5 degrees (F) by the end of this century, largely dependent on the magnitude of carbon emissions. "What is most troubling," Clark said, "is that this warming will be significantly greater than at any time during the past 11,300 years."

Marcott said that one of the natural factors affecting global temperatures over the past 11,300 years is gradual change in the distribution of solar insolation associated with Earth's position relative to the sun.

"During the warmest period of the Holocene, the Earth was positioned such that Northern Hemisphere summers warmed more," Marcott said. "As the Earth's orientation changed, Northern Hemisphere summers became cooler, and we should now be near the bottom of this long-term cooling trend -- but obviously, we are not."

Clark said that other studies, including those outlined in past IPCC reports, have attributed the warming of the planet over the past 50 years to anthropogenic, or human-caused activities -- and not solar variability or other natural causes.

"The last century stands out as the anomaly in this record of global temperature since the end of the last ice age," said Candace Major, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which co-funded the research with NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. "This research shows that we've experienced almost the same range of temperature change since the beginning of the industrial revolution as over the previous 11,000 years of Earth history -- but this change happened a lot more quickly."

The research team, which included Jeremy Shakun of Harvard University and Alan Mix of Oregon State, primarily used fossils from ocean sediment cores and terrestrial archives to reconstruct the temperature history. The chemical and physical characteristics of the fossils -- including the species as well as their chemical composition and isotopic ratios -- provide reliable proxy records for past temperatures by calibrating them to modern temperature records.

Using data from 73 sites around the world allows a global picture of Earth's history and provides new context for climate change analysis.

"The Earth's climate is complex and responds to multiple forcings, including CO2 and solar insolation," Marcott said. "Both of those changed very slowly over the past 11,000 years. But in the last 100 years, the increase in CO2 through increased emissions from human activities has been significant. It is the only variable that can best explain the rapid increase in global temperatures."

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Measuring the universe more accurately than ever before

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Astronomers survey the scale of the Universe by first measuring the distances to close-by objects and then using them as standard candles to pin down distances further and further out into the cosmos. But this chain is only as accurate as its weakest link. Up to now finding an accurate distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way, has proved elusive. As stars in this galaxy are used to fix the distance scale for more remote galaxies, it is crucially important.

But careful observations of a rare class of double star have now allowed a team of astronomers to deduce a much more precise value for the LMC distance: 163 000 light-years.

"I am very excited because astronomers have been trying for a hundred years to accurately measure the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, and it has proved to be extremely difficult," says Wolfgang Gieren (Universidad de Concepci?n, Chile) and one of the leaders of the team. "Now we have solved this problem by demonstrably having a result accurate to 2%."

The improvement in the measurement of the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud also gives better distances for many Cepheid variable stars. These bright pulsating stars are used as standard candles to measure distances out to more remote galaxies and to determine the expansion rate of the Universe ? the Hubble Constant. This in turn is the basis for surveying the Universe out to the most distant galaxies that can be seen with current telescopes. So the more accurate distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud immediately reduces the inaccuracy in current measurements of cosmological distances.

The astronomers worked out the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud by observing rare close pairs of stars, known as eclipsing binaries. As these stars orbit each other they pass in front of each other. When this happens, as seen from Earth, the total brightness drops, both when one star passes in front of the other and, by a different amount, when it passes behind.

By tracking these changes in brightness very carefully, and also measuring the stars' orbital speeds, it is possible to work out how big the stars are, their masses and other information about their orbits. When this is combined with careful measurements of the total brightness and colours of the stars remarkably accurate distances can be found.

This method has been used before, but with hot stars. However, certain assumptions have to be made in this case and such distances are not as accurate as is desirable. But now, for the first time, eight extremely rare eclipsing binaries where both stars are cooler red giant stars have been identified. These stars have been studied very carefully and yield much more accurate distance values ? accurate to about 2%.

"ESO provided the perfect suite of telescopes and instruments for the observations needed for this project: HARPS for extremely accurate radial velocities of relatively faint stars, and SOFI for precise measurements of how bright the stars appeared in the infrared," adds Grzegorz Pietrzy?ski (Universidad de Concepci?n, Chile and Warsaw University Observatory, Poland), lead author of the new paper in Nature.

"We are working to improve our method still further and hope to have a 1% LMC distance in a very few years from now. This has far-reaching consequences not only for cosmology, but for many fields of astrophysics," concludes Dariusz Graczyk, the second author on the new Nature paper.

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This research was presented in a paper "An eclipsing binary distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud accurate to 2 per cent", by G. Pietrzy?ski et al., to appear in the 7 March 2013 issue of the journal Nature.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Exclusive: Goldman finds new way to do buyouts in face of Volcker

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc is trying to find ways to keep investing in the profitable, albeit risky, business of buying and selling companies without crossing a rule that will restrict private equity investing, three sources familiar with the new business said over the past week.

The Volcker rule - named for former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law - is expected to limit bank investments in private equity funds, but not necessarily private equity-style investments outside of a formal fund structure. The rule's main goal is to prevent federally insured banks from gambling in the markets or taking on too much risk with hedge funds and private-equity funds.

In a bid to pool money for deals without raising a private equity fund, the Wall Street bank has been lining up clients who are willing to put money into accounts set up to invest in private equity-style deals, the sources said. Goldman would also set aside some of its own money and partner capital into separate accounts for the same purpose, they said.

Under the new plan, Goldman would then make investments in a syndicate fashion, contributing investor money, along with its own capital and partner dollars, the sources said.

That would be different from a traditional private equity fund, where money from various investors has already been pooled together in a formal fund structure.

"It is the same pitch as before, 'We are putting a lot of our own money in this,'" said a person familiar with Goldman's marketing of the new business. "They are saying, 'We are still in this business.'"

The details of the new structure, including whether Goldman would still get fees for managing client money and how profits would be taxed, could not be learned.

Goldman spokeswoman Andrea Raphael said on Monday that the firm is merely taking a strategy used in other investment businesses and applying it to private equity.

"We believe these investments will continue to be important to our clients and the economy, more broadly," Raphael said. "We will, of course, comply with all aspects of the Volcker rule as it is finalized."

At a conference last year, Goldman President and Chief Operating Officer Gary Cohn said the bank has been managing its existing private-equity investments to comply with Volcker, and "will continue to source and pursue attractive investments on behalf of our clients."

VOLCKER RULE

The Volcker rule aims to limit banks' exposure to these kinds of investments. The rule, which has not been implemented yet, will allow firms to place up to 3 percent of their Tier 1 capital into private equity funds. It will also prevent them from contributing more than 3 percent of any new private equity funds they raise.

A draft version of the rule appears to allow banks to continue making private equity investments, as long as the investments do not reside in a fund structure.

"It's not a model of statute writing," said Dwight Smith, an attorney at Morrison & Foerster who focuses on bank regulation. "In terms of merchant banking and direct investments in portfolio companies as opposed to investing in funds, those are fine and not subject to Volcker at all."

Some major banks such as Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc have been pulling back from private equity investments ahead of the rule. But others, including Goldman and Wells Fargo & Co, are betting that workarounds will help them retain at least some lines of business.

Returns from private equity investments can be high. But they are also risky. The largest leveraged buyout, the $45 billion takeover of Texas utility TXU in 2007, has turned into one of the most spectacular failures of the last decade's buyout boom. Goldman was part of the private equity consortium that took TXU private. The company is now known as Energy Future Holdings.

Since the financial reform law passed in 2010, Goldman has shut down its proprietary trading desks and outlined plans to gradually wind down its stakes in hedge funds each quarter to prepare for Volcker rule.

But it also gathered a team of lawyers, lobbyists and strategists to devise arguments that would protect as much of its proprietary investing business as possible, sources said.

The central argument that emerged from their effort was that activities like merchant banking and debt investing through credit funds should be exempt from the rule - or parts of it - because they are akin to making loans, the sources said.

PARTNER MONEY

Goldman has a long history of successfully raising private equity funds that mix its own capital with money from employees and clients. GS Capital Partners VI, the largest such fund Goldman raised, closed in 2007 with $20.3 billion in assets, 45 percent of which came from the firm and its partners.

Goldman's private equity assets represented 19 percent of its Tier 1 capital at year-end, though it is not clear how much of those assets are tied up in funds.

Goldman partner capital is also invested in other types of investment vehicles, such as credit funds, and the firm has been trying to make sure they are exempt from Volcker restrictions as well.

In a February 2012 meeting with the Federal Reserve, for example, Goldman executives argued that credit funds should not be subject to Volcker restrictions because investors typically require a 5 percent "skin in the game" from sponsors.

Goldman's private equity and merchant banking businesses are large and lucrative, and hold a sizable portion of the personal wealth of senior Goldman executives, including Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein, one of the sources said.

Goldman is betting that its investments not tied up in funds will be protected from Volcker rule.

Members of Goldman's regulatory reform group - overseen by Harvey Schwartz, who is now chief financial officer, and John Rogers, who is chief of staff - have given presentations to regulators about potential pitfalls of Volcker, and tried to educate the Fed and other regulators on the best way to write the rule, sources have said.

One source who attended meetings with regulators said that officials seemed receptive to Goldman's arguments, but cautioned that they worried about banks becoming overexposed to risks in private equity investing.

NEW PRIVATE EQUITY

It is unclear when the final Volcker rule, which had been scheduled for July 2012, will be unveiled. It may not be fully implemented for years to come.

In the meantime, a group of Goldman bankers, in the merchant banking division headed by Richard Friedman, have been pitching clients on the new way of co-investing in private equity deals with the firm.

Tanya Barnes, a newly minted managing director, is one person working on the project, sources said. Barnes has a background in distressed debt investments and previously worked in Goldman's Special Situations Group.

The firm has been upping its marketing game to persuade clients that the deals are worth their time, even though they are not in a traditional fund, one of the sources said.

Smith, the attorney, said banks may still be required to reduce exposure to the merchant banking business.

"The Federal Reserve has this inherent authority to tell banks not to do things even though it's technically legal for them to do so," he said. "The Fed could look at a bank's array of merchant banking activities and just say, 'Look, that's too much, even though you haven't triggered the Tier 1 capital limitation.'"

(Reporting By Lauren Tara LaCapra and Jessica Toonkel; Editing by Paritosh Bansal, David Gregorio and Tim Dobbyn)

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