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LG's 'VR Panorama' puts Photosphere on the Optimus G Pro

VR Panorama on the LG Optimus Pro

LG Photosphere from the Nexus 4 and improves it on its newest device

Android Central at Mobile World Congress

It's no secret that I'm a pretty big fan of the 360-degree Photospheres you can shoot with the Nexus 4. Fire up the camera app, spin around a few times and you get a really cool shot that can be panned and zoomed, and shared on Google+, or embedded with Google Maps. It's a novelty, yeah. But I'm enjoying the hell out of it, and there are some great Photospheres being published every day from remarkable locations.

But so far the only phones with that feature have been Google's Nexus 4 and Galaxy Nexus. Until now.

LG, which also manufactured the Nexus 4, has a new version of Photosphere built into the camera application on its Optimus G Pro, which the company is showing off here in Barcelona, Spain, at Mobile World Congress. (The phone actually is available already in Korea.) And we recently took it for a spin in Plaça de Catalunya to see how it works.

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Snooki Sells Customized Cadillac Escalade For $77,000 On Ebay

Snooki Sells Customized Cadillac Escalade For $77,000 On Ebay

Snooki sells her "boss lady" Cadillac Escalade“Jersey Shore” star Nicole Polizzi aka “Snooki” sold her customized Cadillac Escalade for a whopping $77,000 on Ebay after receiving over 80 bids. Snooki had auctioned off her girly pink-trimmed “boss lady” Cadillac Escalade on the eBay auctioning site for a nice chunk of change. The description of Snooki’s car stated, “This 2011 Cadillac Escalade ...

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Barnes & Noble chief to buy the stores, not Nook

Barnes & Noble Inc. Chairman Leonard Riggio has told the board he plans to buy the retail assets of the company including Barnes & Noble Booksellers Inc and barnesandnoble.com, but excluding the Nook Media business, sending the company's shares up as much as 26 percent before the bell on Monday.

Barnes & Noble shares closed at $13.51 on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, valuing the company at about $809 million.

Barnes & Noble's retail business has struggled in recent years as book buyers switched to digital formats, underscored by a 10.9 percent fall in sales at its bookstores and websites in the critical year-end holiday period.

"Riggio loves the (retail) business too much to let it go," Morningstar analyst Peter Wahlstrom said, adding that the business was attractive because it was slow-growing and did not need capital to keep going.

The company said in January last year that it might spin off its digital and e-reader business and in October it created a separate unit for its Nook and college bookstore chains called Nook Media, which Riggio said he would not buy.

The combined college book and Nook business, which includes the e-reader, digital content and accessories, contributed about 50 percent of total sales of $1.88 billion in the second quarter ended October 27.

Barnes & Noble launched the Nook in 2009 to compete with Amazon.com Inc's market-leading Kindle, and early growth attracted a big investment from Microsoft Corp last year.

The company has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the unit, but a disappointing holiday season has raised questions about its value.

The purchase price for the retail assets is expected to comprise mainly cash and include the assumption of certain debt, Riggio, who owns nearly 30 percent of Barnes & Noble, said in a regulatory filing on Monday. (http://link.reuters.com/byc36t))

Riggio, who pioneered the book superstore format in the 1980s and 1990s, said he would provide the equity financing and arrange any debt financing for the deal.

Barnes & Noble said it has set up a committee of three independent directors to evaluate Reggio's proposal.

Evercore Partners will serve as financial adviser to the company and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP will be legal advisers, the company said.

The Wall Street Journal reported the proposed deal on Sunday.

Barnes & Noble is scheduled to report third-quarter results on Thursday.

Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/barnes-noble-chairman-wants-buy-stores-not-nook-1C8531714

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Indian Rocket Launches Asteroid-Hunting Satellite, Tiny Space Telescopes

A rocket carrying seven new satellites, including the first spacecraft designed to hunt huge asteroids and two of the world's smallest space telescopes, launched into space Monday (Feb. 25) from an Indian spaceport.

The Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off at 7:31 a.m. EST (1231 GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on a mission to deliver its muti-national payloads into Earth orbit.

Monday's rocket flight primarily aimed to launch the new ocean-monitoring SARAL satellite into orbit for the Indian Space Research Organisation and French Space Agency. The satellite is the first in a series of satellites created by ISRO to image the Earth, conduct space science, and carry out oceanic and atmospheric studies, ISRO officials said.

Several other payloads rode piggyback on the PSLV rocket, including the $25 million?Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat), a small spacecraft designed to seek out large asteroids in orbits that may stray near the Earth.

The suitcase-size satellite cannot track small space rocks like asteroid 2012 DA14, the? 130-foot (40 meters) object that buzzed the Earth on Feb. 15, but scientists working with NEOSSat will use it to search for a specific types of asteroids that are at least 31 million miles (50 million kilometers) from Earth, mission scientist said. [See how NEOSSat tracks asteroids (Video)]

"NEOSSat will probably reduce the impact hazard from unknown large NEO?s [near-Earth objects] by a few percent over its lifetime, but is not designed to discover small asteroids near the Earth that may be on collision courses," NEOSSat co-principal investigator Alan Hildebrand of the University of Calgary wrote in a statement.

Two smaller nanosatellites developed in Canada also hitched a ride into orbit alongside SARAL and NEOSSat in what their builders have billed as the world's smallest space telescope mission. The twin satellites make up the BRIght Target Explorer (BRITE) mission, which includes two tiny cubes, each just 8 inches (20 centimeters) across and weighing less than 15.5 pounds (7 kilograms). The satellites are expected to study the brightest stars in the night sky by measuring how their brightest changes over time.

The compact satellites were designed at the Space Flight Laboratory at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. One of the satellites was built at the laboratory while the other was assembled by a partner team in Austria, university officials said.

"As their name suggests, the BRITE satellites will focus on the brightest stars in the sky including those that make up prominent constellations like Orion the Hunter," university officials explained in a statement. "These stars are the same ones visible to the naked eye, even from city centers. Because very large telescopes mostly observe very faint objects, the brightest stars are also some of the most poorly studied stars."

The two BRITE nanosatellites are part of a planned constellation that is expected to eventually number six satellites in all once complete.

The other satellites launched on India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Monday were a mixed bag of spacecraft and missions. They included:

SAPPHIRE:?Canada's first military satellite, a small spacecraft designed to monitor space debris and satellites within an orbit 3,728 to 24,855 miles (6,000 to 40,000 kilometers) above Earth. The satellite is expected to augment the U.S. military's existing Space Surveillance System.

AAUSAT3:?A small science satellite developed in Denmark and built by students from Aalborg University.

STRaND-1:?The first smartphone-powered satellite ever launched into space. ?The Android phone that functions as the satellite's brain will run four apps that will take photos from the satellite, test the Earth's magnetic field, monitor the health of the satellite, and allow people around the world to upload videos that will play in space on the phone.

Monday's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C20 mission is India's first rocket launch of 2013.

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How human language could have evolved from birdsong

Friday, February 22, 2013

"The sounds uttered by birds offer in several respects the nearest analogy to language," Charles Darwin wrote in "The Descent of Man" (1871), while contemplating how humans learned to speak. Language, he speculated, might have had its origins in singing, which "might have given rise to words expressive of various complex emotions."

Now researchers from MIT, along with a scholar from the University of Tokyo, say that Darwin was on the right path. The balance of evidence, they believe, suggests that human language is a grafting of two communication forms found elsewhere in the animal kingdom: first, the elaborate songs of birds, and second, the more utilitarian, information-bearing types of expression seen in a diversity of other animals.

"It's this adventitious combination that triggered human language," says Shigeru Miyagawa, a professor of linguistics in MIT's Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, and co-author of a new paper published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.

The idea builds upon Miyagawa's conclusion, detailed in his previous work, that there are two "layers" in all human languages: an "expression" layer, which involves the changeable organization of sentences, and a "lexical" layer, which relates to the core content of a sentence. His conclusion is based on earlier work by linguists including Noam Chomsky, Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser.

Based on an analysis of animal communication, and using Miyagawa's framework, the authors say that birdsong closely resembles the expression layer of human sentences ? whereas the communicative waggles of bees, or the short, audible messages of primates, are more like the lexical layer. At some point, between 50,000 and 80,000 years ago, humans may have merged these two types of expression into a uniquely sophisticated form of language.

"There were these two pre-existing systems," Miyagawa says, "like apples and oranges that just happened to be put together."

These kinds of adaptations of existing structures are common in natural history, notes Robert Berwick, a professor of computational linguistics at MIT who is also an author of the paper.

"When something new evolves, it is often built out of old parts," Berwick says. "We see this over and over again in evolution. Old structures can change just a little bit, and acquire radically new functions."

A new chapter in the songbook

The new paper, "The Emergence of Hierarchical Structure in Human Language," was co-written by Miyagawa, Berwick and Kazuo Okanoya, a biopsychologist at the University of Tokyo who is an expert on animal communication.

To consider the difference between the expression layer and the lexical layer, take a simple sentence: "Todd saw a condor." We can easily create variations of this, such as, "When did Todd see a condor?" This rearranging of elements takes place in the expression layer and allows us to add complexity and ask questions. But the lexical layer remains the same, since it involves the same core elements: the subject, "Todd," the verb, "to see," and the object, "condor."

Birdsong lacks a lexical structure. Instead, birds sing learned melodies with what Berwick calls a "holistic" structure; the entire song has one meaning, whether about mating, territory or other things. The Bengalese finch, as the authors note, can loop back to parts of previous melodies, allowing for greater variation and communication of more things; a nightingale may be able to recite from 100 to 200 different melodies.

By contrast, other types of animals have bare-bones modes of expression without the same melodic capacity. Bees communicate visually, using precise waggles to indicate sources of foods to their peers; other primates can make a range of sounds, comprising warnings about predators and other messages.

Humans, according to Miyagawa, Berwick and Okanoya, fruitfully combined these systems. We can communicate essential information, like bees or primates ? but like birds, we also have a melodic capacity and an ability to recombine parts of our uttered language. For this reason, our finite vocabularies can generate a seemingly infinite string of words. Indeed, the researchers suggest that humans first had the ability to sing, as Darwin conjectured, and then managed to integrate specific lexical elements into those songs.

"It's not a very long step to say that what got joined together was the ability to construct these complex patterns, like a song, but with words," Berwick says.

As they note in the paper, some of the "striking parallels" between language acquisition in birds and humans include the phase of life when each is best at picking up languages, and the part of the brain used for language. Another similarity, Berwick notes, relates to an insight of celebrated MIT professor emeritus of linguistics Morris Halle, who, as Berwick puts it, observed that "all human languages have a finite number of stress patterns, a certain number of beat patterns. Well, in birdsong, there is also this limited number of beat patterns."

Birds, bees ? and dolphins?

The researchers acknowledge that further empirical studies on the subject would be desirable.

"It's just a hypothesis," Berwick says. "But it's a way to make explicit what Darwin was talking about very vaguely, because we know more about language now."

Miyagawa, for his part, asserts it is a viable idea in part because it could be subject to more scrutiny, as the communication patterns of other species are examined in further detail. "If this is right, then human language has a precursor in nature, in evolution, that we can actually test today," he says, adding that bees, birds and other primates could all be sources of further research insight.

MIT-based research in linguistics has largely been characterized by the search for universal aspects of all human languages. With this paper, Miyagawa, Berwick and Okanoya hope to spur others to think of the universality of language in evolutionary terms. It is not just a random cultural construct, they say, but based in part on capacities humans share with other species. At the same time, Miyagawa notes, human language is unique, in that two independent systems in nature merged, in our species, to allow us to generate unbounded linguistic possibilities, albeit within a constrained system.

"Human language is not just freeform, but it is rule-based," Miyagawa says. "If we are right, human language has a very heavy constraint on what it can and cannot do, based on its antecedents in nature."

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Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche make weight as all UFC 157 fights are official

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- For the first time, women stood on the scales to weigh in for a UFC bout. Bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey and challenger Liz Carmouche both made weight in an uneventful weigh-in on Friday afternoon at the Honda Center.

Michael Chiesa came in slightly over weight but the athletic commission let the small overage slide. Nah-Shon Burrell was significantly overweight and will forfeit 20 percent of his purse to his opponent. Here are complete weigh-in results, thanks to MMA Junkie.

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)
? Champ Ronda Rousey (134.6) vs. Liz Carmouche (133.6) - for women's bantamweight title
? Dan Henderson (205) vs. Lyoto Machida (202)
? Urijah Faber (136) vs. Ivan Menjivar (135.6)
? Court McGee (170) vs. Josh Neer (171)
? Josh Koscheck (171) vs. Robbie Lawler (171)
PRELIMINARY CARD (FX, 8 p.m. ET)
? Lavar Johnson (255) vs. Brendan Schaub (243)
? Mike Chiesa (156.2) vs. Anton Kuivanen (156)
? Dennis Bermudez (145) vs. Matt Grice (145)
? Caros Fodor (155) vs. Sam Stout (155)
PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook, 6:30 p.m. ET)
? Brock Jardine (170) vs. Kenny Robertson (170)
? Neil Magny (171) vs. Jon Manley (171)
? Nah-Shon Burrell (175.8) vs. Yuri Villefort (170)

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/ronda-rousey-liz-carmouche-weight-ufc-157-fights-021835462--mma.html

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South Dakota college tests fingerprint purchasing technology

Rapid City, S.D. ? Futurists have long proclaimed the coming of a cashless society, where dollar bills and plastic cards are replaced by fingerprint and retina scanners smart enough to distinguish a living, breathing account holder from an identity thief.

What they probably didn't see coming was that one such technology would make its debut not in Silicon Valley or MIT but at a small state college in remote western South Dakota, 25 miles from Mount Rushmore.

Two shops on the School of Mines and Technology campus are performing one of the world's first experiments in Biocryptology ? a mix of biometrics (using physical traits for identification) and cryptology (the study of encoding private information). Students at the Rapid City school can buy a bag of potato chips with a machine that non-intrusively detects their hemoglobin to make sure the transaction is legitimate.

Researchers figure their technology would provide a critical safeguard against a morbid scenario sometimes found in spy movies in which a thief removes someone else's finger to fool the scanner.

On a recent Friday, mechanical engineering major Bernard Keeler handed a Red Bull to a cashier in the Miner's Shack campus shop, typed his birthdate into a pay pad and swiped his finger. Within seconds, the machine had identified his print and checked that blood was pulsing beneath it, allowing him to make the buy. Afterward, Keeler proudly showed off the receipt he was sent via email on his smartphone.

Fingerprint technology isn't new, nor is the general concept of using biometrics as a way to pay for goods. But it's the extra layer of protection ? that deeper check to ensure the finger has a pulse ? that researchers say sets this technology apart from already-existing digital fingerprint scans, which are used mostly for criminal background checks.

Al Maas, president of Nexus USA ? a subsidiary of Spanish-based Hanscan Indentity Management, which patented the technology ? acknowledged South Dakota might seem an unlikely locale to test it, but to him, it was a perfect fit.

"I said, if it flies here in the conservative Midwest, it's going to go anywhere," Maas said.

Maas grew up near Madison, S.D., and wanted his home state to be the technology's guinea pig. He convinced Hanscan owner Klaas Zwart that the 2,400-student Mines campus should be used as the starter location.

The students all major in mechanical engineering or hard sciences, which means they're naturally technologically inclined, said Joseph Wright, the school's associate vice president for research-economic development.

"South Dakota is a place where people take risks. We're very entrepreneurial," Wright said.

After Maas and Zwart introduced the idea to students this winter, about 50 stepped forward to take part in the pilot.

"I really wanted to be part of what's new and see if I could help improve what they already have," said Phillip Clemen, 19, a mechanical engineering student.

Robert Siciliano, a security expert with McAfee, Inc., minimized potential privacy concerns.

"We are hell bent on privacy issues here in the U.S. We get all up in arms when someone talks about scanning us or recording our information, but then we'll throw up everything about us on Facebook and give up all of our personal information for 10 percent off at a shoe store for instant credit," he said.

Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union, said fingerprint technology on its own raises security issues, but he called "liveness detection" a step in the right direction.

"Any security measure can be defeated; it's a question of making it harder," he said.

The key to keeping biometric identification from becoming Big Brother-like is to make it voluntary and ensure that the information scanned is used exactly as promised, Stanley said.

Brian Wiles, a Miles mechanical engineering major, said it's exciting to be beta testing technology that could soon be worldwide.

"There was some hesitation, but the fact that it's the first in the world ? that's the whole point of this school," said Wiles, 22. "We're innovators."

Source: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130222/TECHNOLOGY/302220388/1001/rss21

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Twin bombings kill 13, wound more in south India

An Indian investigative official takes photographs of the debris at one of the two bomb blast sites, in Hyderabad, India, early Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. A pair of bombs exploded Thursday evening in a crowded shopping area in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing at least 12 people and wounding scores of others in the worst bombing in the country in more than a year, officials said. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

An Indian investigative official takes photographs of the debris at one of the two bomb blast sites, in Hyderabad, India, early Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. A pair of bombs exploded Thursday evening in a crowded shopping area in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing at least 12 people and wounding scores of others in the worst bombing in the country in more than a year, officials said. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

An official of India's National Investigation Agency collects evidence from the debris at one of the two bomb blast sites, in Hyderabad, India, early Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. A pair of bombs exploded Thursday evening in a crowded shopping area in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing at least 12 people and wounding scores of others in the worst bombing in the country in more than a year, officials said. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

An Indian woman Sujatha, wails after seeing her husband Venkateshwarulu's body, unseen, killed in bomb blast, at a mortuary at Government hospital in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. A pair of bombs exploded Thursday evening in a crowded shopping area in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing several people and wounding many in the worst bombing in the country in more than a year, officials said. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Damaged two wheelers lie near the site of a bomb blast in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. A pair of bombs exploded Thursday evening in a crowded shopping area in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing several people and wounding many in the worst bombing in the country in more than a year, officials said. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

People and police officers stand at the spot after a bomb blast in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. A pair of bombs exploded Thursday evening in a crowded shopping area in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing several people and wounding many in the worst bombing in the country in more than a year, officials said. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

HYDERABAD, India (AP) ? A pair of bombs exploded in a crowded shopping area in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing at least 13 people and wounding scores of others in the worst bombing in the country in more than a year, officials said.

The blasts occurred about two minutes apart at around 7 p.m. Thursday outside a movie theater and a bus station, police said. Storefronts were shattered, motorcycles covered in debris, and food and plates from a roadside restaurant were scattered on the ground near a tangle of dead bodies. Passersby rushed the wounded out of the area.

"This is a dastardly attack, the guilty will not go unpunished," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. He appealed to the public to remain calm.

The bombs were attached to two bicycles about 150 meters (500 feet) apart in Dilsukh Nagar district, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters in New Delhi. The district is a usually crowded shopping area near a residential neighborhood.

When asked if the government had any suspects, Shinde responded: "We have to investigate."

Andhra Pradesh state Home Minister P. Sabita Reddy said 11 people died on the spot in the two blasts and another two succumbed to their injuries in hospital on Thursday night.

She said another 78 people were injured and hospitalized in the city.

Top state police officer V. Dinesh Reddy said improvised explosive devices with nitrogen compound were used in Thursday's blasts.

Mahesh Kumar, a 21-year-old student, was heading home from a tutoring class when a bomb went off.

"I heard a huge sound and something hit me, I fell down, and somebody brought me to the hospital," said Kumar, who suffered shrapnel wounds.

Hyderabad, a city of 10 million in the state of Andhra Pradesh, is a hub of India's information technology industry and has a mixed population of Muslims and Hindus.

"This (attack) is to disturb the peaceful living of all communities in Andhra Pradesh," said Kiran Kumar Reddy, the state's chief minister.

The explosions were the first major bomb attack to hit India since a September 2011 blast outside the High Court in New Delhi killed 13 people. The government has been heavily criticized for its failure to arrest the masterminds behind previous bombings.

Officials from the National Investigation Agency and commandos of the National Security Guards arrived from New Delhi to Hyderabad to help with the investigation.

The United States, whose Secretary of State John Kerry was meeting Thursday in Washington with Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai, condemned the attack.

"The United States stands with India in combating the scourge of terrorism and we also prepared to offer any and all assistance Indian authorities may need," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told a news briefing.

Rana Banerji, a former security official, said India remains vulnerable to such attacks because there is poor coordination between the national government and the states. Police reforms are also moving very slowly and the quality of intelligence gathering is poor, he said.

"The concept of homeland security should be made effective, on a war footing," he said.

Rajnath Singh, the president of main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, demanded a thorough probe into the blasts. His party called for a general strike in the state on Friday.

India has been in a state of alert since Mohammed Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri, was hanged in a New Delhi jail nearly two weeks ago. Guru had been convicted of involvement in a 2001 attack on India's Parliament that killed 14 people, including five gunmen.

Many in Indian-ruled Kashmir believe Guru did not receive a fair trial, and the secrecy with which the execution was carried out fueled anger in a region where anti-India sentiment runs deep.

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Associated Press writers Ashok Sharma in New Delhi and Matthew Pennington in Washington contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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TORONTO, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Canada's Rebecca Marino, a rising star in women's tennis, stepped away from the sport in search of a normal life on Wednesday, weary of battling depression and cyber-bullies. Ranked number 38 in the world two years ago, the 22-year-old admitted she had long suffered from depression and was no longer willing to make the sacrifices necessary to reach the top. "After thinking long and hard, I do not have the passion or enjoyment to drive myself to the level I would like to be at in professional tennis," Marino explained in a conference call. ...

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T.J. Warren?s Monster Game Leads North Carolina State Past Florida State

Rob Kinnan-USA Today Sports

The importance of North Carolina State freshman T.J. Warren has been known for some time.

Long story short, when Warren is clicking on the offensive end, the Wolfpack are that much more dangerous, especially with March nearing its arrival.

On Tuesday night, Warren shone for a career-high 31 points. In addition, he grabbed 13 rebounds, which also marked a season-high. In turn, it was the first double-double of Warren?s young career.

As the disappointments continue to pile up for Florida State, the Wolfpack got exactly what they needed on Tuesday night: a convincing win. North Carolina State will find themselves jostling for position and seeding, not only for the upcoming ACC Tournament, but also in the NCAA Tournament.

A three-game losing skid earlier this month has quickly been countered by three consecutive wins, so head coach Mark Gottfried knows that his team has the capability of getting hot down the stretch. The Wolfpack are not currently ranked within the AP Top 25, but N.C. State certainly has the potential to make a run within the Big Dance, there is no doubt about that.

Moving forward, it?s clear that Warren?s importance and overall production will be counted upon more and more. It?s unlikely that Warren will have games like he did on Tuesday night, but that potential can certainly derail opponents. His contributions to the team will be just another worry for teams that N.C. State matches up with in the final weeks.

A true road test at North Carolina is on the docket for this weekend.

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Source: http://www.rantsports.com/ncaa-basketball/2013/02/19/t-j-warrens-monster-game-leads-north-carolina-state-past-florida-state/

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4 arrested in Libya for trying to spread Christianity

By Reuters

Four foreigners have been arrested in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on suspicion of being Christian missionaries and printing books about Christianity, a security official said on Saturday.

"They were arrested on Tuesday at a publishing house where they were printing thousands of books that called for conversion to Christianity," security official Hussein Bin Hmeid said.

"Proselytizing is forbidden in Libya. We are a 100 percent Muslim country and this kind of action affects our national security."

Hmeid said the government-affiliated security apparatus called the Preventative Security, for which he is a spokesman, had arrested an Egyptian, a South African, a Korean and a Swede who was travelling on a U.S. passport.

"We are still holding interrogations and will hand them over to the Libyan intelligence authorities in a couple of days," Hmeid said, without giving further details.

The Preventative Security apparatus is a parallel security body created during the 2011 war that ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi and made up of several rebel brigades that fought in the conflict.

Libya's central government has yet to impose its authority on a myriad of armed groups that have yet to lay down their arms, and with skeletal national security forces, often relies on them for security.

Reporting by Hadeel Al-Shalchi; Editing by Alison Williams

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Enlightened, Season 2

Luke Wilson as Levi Callow and Laura Dern as Amy Jellicoe.

Luke Wilson as Levi Callow and Laura Dern as Amy Jellicoe.

Photo by Lacey Terrell/HBO

Every week, Jeffrey Bloomer will have an IM conversation with a different fan of Enlightened. This week, he rehashes episode 2.6 with Miriam Krule, a Slate copy editor.

Jeff: So do you have a new boyfriend or what, Miriam?

Miriam: I really can?t talk about this with you, Jeff. Seriously though, I hope Amy doesn?t, because I'm a Levi fan and was so glad to see him come back from rehab. This episode had such a different tone than the rest of the season?even series?and I was trying to put my finger on why. Then I realized it was because, for the first time, everything seems to be going well for Amy. But, like, genuinely great?everything she wants, everything she wanted, is happening. It's not just in her head anymore.

Jeff: I was so happy Helen cut through the shit and just asked Amy what was going on with her. But you're absolutely right: Amy is closing in on nirvana. Levi returns, wants Amy back, and even offers to try to heal her biggest scar, her miscarriage. She finally sleeps with Jeff, because that needed to happen. And she is about to slay her corporate monsters.

At the same time, we've never seen her more vulnerable. Naturally, now that her fantasies are beginning to become real, she has no idea what to do. The panic attack she has in front of Helen continued the show's recent tradition of making me ball my eyes out.

Miriam: I have to confess that I'm not a big Enlightened crier, but that moment in her room with her mother was probably the closest I?ve come to tears. People talk about the discomfort they get from watching the show, but this felt like the one true, authentic release of emotions we?ve seen from Amy. ?

That said, the high-five Dougie gave Amy was a bit much for me, though?like some kind of calm before the storm? I think Jeff and his article are going to be the source of her necessary downfall. It would be fitting for the thing that might save Amy to be the thing that drags her down deeper.

Jeff: Why is her downfall necessary? I think one of the secret keys to Enlightened is realizing Amy is kind of right about everything, she just works overtime to make it seem like she's a kook.

And not that this is exactly a love triangle, but do you think Levi is really Amy?s salvation? Do you think he's "fixed," as he says? Or do you think Jeff's quasi-revolutionary posturing is too seductive?

Miriam: The oversimplified version, in my mind, is that Levi is who she wants to be with, whereas Jeff is the person she wants to want to be with. But then Levi comes back seeming pretty excellent. She doesn't know about what went down in rehab until now because he never sent that letter. When he told Amy ?life is beautiful" and then threw that baseball with perfect form, I swooned.?

Back to your question about the downfall being necessary: For me, that's part of the point. The struggle is what Amy wants, what she needs. The hardships are her motivation, and when she seems to be getting everything, she's so overwhelmed?and not by happiness.

Jeff: Yes, Levi, swoon. You?re right about Amy being so consumed and motivated by the struggle that she doesn't know what to do without one. But I hope the diagnosis isn't chronic. Maybe we're just seeing growing pains while learns how to be happy again. It could happen!

I also have my own theory why Jeff might not work out: I think he's Amy dressed up in big-city-intellectual clothes. The "tyranny is over!? line is kind of a giveaway. He certainly talks the talk better than Amy ever could, but I'm not sure that his rallying cry against the faceless corporate menace is any more sophisticated than Amy's.

Miriam: Well, he?s successful Amy, which is a huge difference. He's who Amy thinks she wants to be. But isn?t he exactly who every liberal-minded college sophomore wants to be? And is that so bad?

Jeff: I suppose not. I shouldn't roll my eyes so quickly. Perhaps it's another case of Amy (or in this case, Jeff) being in the right, just in the most annoying, self-serving way possible. I mean, "It's like the Wikileaks of Abaddon! You're Julian Assange!" Shut up, Jeff.

Miriam: Exactly. The only real voice of reason is Tyler, whose vindictive side is perhaps more entertaining, though less endearing, than his I-love-Molly Shannon side.

Jeff: Yes, I agree. I'm sad his unhinged inner demon hasn?t manifested on anyone else. Molly Shannon melts another heart. That said, can he please stop second-guessing this thing already, FFS? Yeah, he kind of used Eileen in the beginning, but he needs to just deal with it. Let's hope the show never sees reason to have Eileen figure out the origins of their relationship. I see no point in going down that path.

Miriam: Wait, are you saying you don't want to unhinged Eileen join forces with unhinged Tyler? The second I saw Molly Shannon I got excited for an epic breakdown to rival Amy's.

Jeff: Do I want to see that? For sure. But she's so well adjusted! She is like the anti-Amy in a way, pure of soul and intention but not a self-absorbed jerk.

Miriam: It's true. As much as I love Wet Hot American Summer, it's nice to see she's moved on. Which seems to be the general gist of this episode: a more adult and responsible group of people. Levi, Dougie, Amy, even Tyler in a way.

Jeff: Ha, well, Dougie did belt out "Kiss my black ass!" at one point. Some things don't change, nor should they. I think it's time to go wipe my misty eyes and go prepare for the coming storm.??

Miriam: OK, I?m just gonna hang here and catch the sunset.

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Charl Schwartzel Is the True Hottest Player in Golf Right Now

With all the publicity surrounding Brandt Snedeker?s hot start to the 2013 PGA Tour season, many have overlooked the true hottest golfer on the planet right now: Charl Schwartzel.

From Snedeker?s win at the 2012 Tour Championship through his win last week at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Snedeker has compiled two wins and five top-10 finishes.

Pfft, that?s nothing.

Schwarztel, winner of the 2011 Masters, has finished within the top five at each of his last six events, including two wins and two second-place finishes.

And not only has Shwartzel won two out of his last six events, but he also has been utterly dominating the fields.

Schwartzel won the Thailand Golf Championship by 11 strokes late last year. The very next week, he went out and won the Alfred Dunhill Championship in Scotland by 12 strokes.

When was the last time you saw any player win back-to-back professional events by 11 and 12 strokes?

Last week, Schwartzel finished second at the Joburg open, and this week he is tied for sixth through 36 holes at the Northern Trust Open, just three strokes off the lead currently held by Sang-Moon Bae and Fredrik Jacobson.

The last time Schwartzel failed to break 70 in a round was back in early December 2012.

?Lucky,? a smiling Schwartzel said yesterday afternoon when asked to explain his recent success on the golf course.

He then elaborated by saying, via ASAP Sports:?

There's a whole bunch of things.? I fixed up my swing after the injury.? I've got no more pain when I swing the club.? That got me back to the consistency that I had going back just about the Masters time.? I obviously played some courses back down south which I'm familiar with and that always helps.? You know, so with the swing changes, that's worked, or the improvements, I should say; some consistency has come and some confidence.? So that was probably key.

Schwartzel may or may not win this week?s Northern Trust Open; we are only 26 holes into the 72-hole event. But another top 10 is likely in the cards for Schwartzel this week, and he would have to be considered one of the favorites, if not the favorite, heading into next weeks WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.

Schwartzel, like Snedeker, is currently in the midst of an incredible hot streak. Whether or not each player can ride his streak into the 2013 Masters, which is still two months away, is the big question. ??

Winning majors is all about getting hot at the right time. If Schwartzel happened to stumble upon a bottle, and a genie popped out and granted him three wishes, you can be assured that Schwartzel's first wish would be to move the Masters from April 11-14, 2013 up to February 21-24, 2013 because golfers know all too well how quickly their games can come and go from week to week and month to month. ? ?

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Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1531722-charl-schwartzel-is-the-true-hottest-player-in-golf-right-now

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President of Conway's Hendrix College to resign

CONWAY, Ark. (AP) - The president of Hendrix College in Conway has announced his immediate resignation - saying nearly 12 years "is a reasonable time" to lead the private college.

Timothy Cloyd announced his resignation Friday during a Board of Trustees meeting. He says he plans to take a sabbatical then return to Hendrix as a professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and to work in consulting.

Cloyd became Hendrix president in October 2001 after serving five years as the college's vice president for college relations and development.

Board of Trustees Chairman David Knight praised Cloyd as an innovator and leader in liberal arts education.

Hendrix executive vice president W. Ellis Arnold III was named acting president.

(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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Alcohol consumption linked to 1 in 30 cancer deaths: study | The ...

By Samantha Kimmey
Friday, February 15, 2013 17:42 EST

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A new study has found that alcohol is a culprit for 1 in 30 cancer deaths, reported HealthDay News ? or roughly 20,000 deaths.

In the case of breast cancer, 15 percent of deaths are linked to alcohol.

?As expected, people who are higher alcohol users were at higher risk, but there was really no safe level of alcohol use,? said the author of the study, Dr. David Nelson, who is also director of the US National Cancer Institute?s Cancer Prevention Fellowship program.

The study found that 30 percent of cancer deaths linked to alcohol resulted from 1.5 drinks or less daily.

Some studies have found benefits to moderate alcohol consumption. One recent study ? which was funded by a beer company ? found that a chemical component in hops, which gives beer its bitterness, could curb some viruses. Another study found that moderate alcohol consumption after a person?s first heart attack reduced deaths from heart disease, reported The Independent.

But Dr. Nelson told HealthDay that ?alcohol causes 10 times as many deaths as it prevents.?

While it is difficult to know exactly why alcohol is linked to cancer, the American Cancer Society website says that alcohol may cause damage to body tissues, help other damaging chemicals harm cells, prevent some nutrient absorption, and affect estrogen as well as body weight.

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Chemists develop single molecule sieves to separate complex molecular mixtures

Chemists develop single molecule sieves to separate complex molecular mixtures [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 15-Feb-2013
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Chemists at the University of Liverpool have created a new technique that could be used in industry to separate complex organic chemical mixtures.

Chemical feedstocks containing benzene are used extensively in industry to create modern materials and polymers. Their use relies heavily on distillation techniques which separate complex mixtures into more simple molecules used as building blocks to develop drugs, plastics and new materials. These distillation techniques can be expensive and involve large amounts of energy for hard-to-separate mixtures.

A team of researchers at the University's Department of Chemistry, led by Professor Andrew Cooper, have created organic molecular crystals that are able to separate important organic aromatic molecules by their molecular shape.

Professor Cooper said: "We were able to demonstrate this new molecule separation technique by synthesising porous organic cage molecules that are highly similar in shape to the molecules that need to be separated.

"The holes in these cage molecules act like a shape-selective molecular sieve, rather like a children's wooden shape puzzle. Using computer simulations we revealed how the porous cages separate the aromatic feedstocks and show that, unlike a wooden shape puzzle, the mechanism actually involves flexibility and motion in the cage sieves. "

The ability to separate complex molecules using less energy will be important in the future for current petrochemical and chemical industries and for producing any next-generation sustainable bio-derived chemicals.

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The findings are part of a five-year research programme in new materials discovery, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and are published in Nature Chemistry.



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Chemists develop single molecule sieves to separate complex molecular mixtures [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 15-Feb-2013
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Contact: Sarah Stamper
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01-517-943-044
University of Liverpool

Chemists at the University of Liverpool have created a new technique that could be used in industry to separate complex organic chemical mixtures.

Chemical feedstocks containing benzene are used extensively in industry to create modern materials and polymers. Their use relies heavily on distillation techniques which separate complex mixtures into more simple molecules used as building blocks to develop drugs, plastics and new materials. These distillation techniques can be expensive and involve large amounts of energy for hard-to-separate mixtures.

A team of researchers at the University's Department of Chemistry, led by Professor Andrew Cooper, have created organic molecular crystals that are able to separate important organic aromatic molecules by their molecular shape.

Professor Cooper said: "We were able to demonstrate this new molecule separation technique by synthesising porous organic cage molecules that are highly similar in shape to the molecules that need to be separated.

"The holes in these cage molecules act like a shape-selective molecular sieve, rather like a children's wooden shape puzzle. Using computer simulations we revealed how the porous cages separate the aromatic feedstocks and show that, unlike a wooden shape puzzle, the mechanism actually involves flexibility and motion in the cage sieves. "

The ability to separate complex molecules using less energy will be important in the future for current petrochemical and chemical industries and for producing any next-generation sustainable bio-derived chemicals.

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The findings are part of a five-year research programme in new materials discovery, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and are published in Nature Chemistry.



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California legislator wants condoms on porn actors

California legislator wants condoms on porn actors

Feb. 14, 2013, 8:15 PM EST

By JOHN ROGERS , Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Just in time for Valentine's Day, a state assemblyman is proposing a special gift for porn actors ? condoms for every adult film made in California.

Standing next to a table covered in prophylactics, each wrapped in bright holiday covers and bearing names like "Love" and "Icon," Assemblyman Isadore Hall, D-Compton, said it's time for California to share the love with those involved in one of its most lucrative industries.

Lawmakers can do that, he added, by making sure porn actors are covered, so to speak, with safety protections, just as the state mandates measures for people who work in dangerous professions such as construction.

"The adult film industry, given the type of work required, disproportionately exposes actors to a range of health and safety risks," Hall said.

His bill, patterned after a law adopted by Los Angeles County voters last year, calls for producers of adult films to require the use of condoms whenever scenes involving intercourse are filmed.

It doesn't spell out a penalty for violations but calls on the state Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to address that issue.

Although he chose Valentine's Day to promote his proposal ? "This is the only day I was available," Hall joked with a wide grin ? the assemblyman said protection of porn actors is a deadly serious business.

He announced his sponsorship of the bill at a news conference staged by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a group that pushed for the Los Angeles County condom law.

Although an estimated 90 percent of adult movies filmed in the United States are believed to be made in Los Angeles County, Michael Weinstein, the foundation's president, said Hall's bill addresses threats by the industry to move its operations to other parts of California if the local ordinance survives court challenges.

"We'll be on their trail," he said.

The county ban hasn't been enforced yet, and one of the industry's largest filmmakers, Vivid Entertainment, sued last month to overturn it as an infringement on freedom of expression.

Hall acknowledged that getting a statewide law passed by the Legislature is likely to be a daunting task.

"No pun intended, this is not a sexy bill," he said. "It holds accountable a $14 billion a year industry, and a lot of people don't want to address that."

The industry says it's annual revenue is closer to a $7 billion.

Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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Pope celebrates last public Mass as pontiff, says he?s resigning for ?good of the church?

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Pope celebrates last public Mass as pontiff, says he?s resigning for ?good of the church?
(AP, February 13, 2013)

Vatican City ? Starting his public farewell to his flock, a weary Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his final public Mass as pontiff, presiding over Ash Wednesday services hours after a bittersweet audience that produced the extraordinary scene of the pope explaining his decision to step down directly to the faithful.

The mood inside St. Peter?s Basilica was somber during the Mass, as if the weight of Benedict?s decision and the finality of his pontificate had finally registered with the thousands of faithful present. But the basilica erupted in a rousing, minutes-long standing ovation as Benedict exited for the last time as pope, bringing tears to the eyes of some of his closest collaborators.

?We wouldn?t be sincere, Your Holiness, if we didn?t tell you that there?s a veil of sadness on our hearts this evening,? Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Benedict?s longtime deputy, told the pope at the end of the service, his voice breaking.

?Thank you for having given us the luminous example of the simple and humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord,? Bertone said, quoting Benedict?s own words when he first appeared on the loggia overlooking St. Peter?s Square after he was elected pope.

?Viva il papa!? the crowd yelled as Benedict stepped off the altar.

Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, the most solemn season on the church?s liturgical calendar that ends with Holy Week, when the faithful commemorate the death of Christ and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. By this Easter, on March 31, the church will likely have a new pope.

The scene was festive earlier in the day, when Benedict took the extraordinary step of speaking directly to his flock about why he had broken with 600 years of tradition and decided to retire on Feb. 28.

?As you know, I have decided to renounce the ministry that the Lord gave to me on April 19, 2005,? Benedict said, to warm applause. ?I did this in full liberty for the good of the church.?

He thanked the faithful for their prayers and love, which he said he had ?physically felt in these days that haven?t been easy for me.? And he asked them to ?to continue to pray for me, the church, and the future pope.?

Benedict looked tired but serene as he basked in a standing ovation when he entered the packed hall for his traditional Wednesday catechism lesson. His speech was interrupted repeatedly by applause, and many in the audience of thousands had tears in their eyes.

A huge banner reading ?Grazie Santita? (Thank you Your Holiness) was strung up at the back of the room and a chorus of Italian schoolchildren serenaded him with one of his favorite hymns in German ? a gesture that won over the pope, who thanked them for singing a piece ?particularly dear to me.?

He appeared wan and spoke very softly, but his eyes twinkled at the flock?s welcome ? warm and heartfelt if somewhat bittersweet.

?He gave us eight wonderful years of his words,? said Ileana Sviben, an Italian from the northern city of Trieste who couldn?t hide her sadness. ?He was a wonderful theologian and pastor.?

?He gave us eight wonderful years of his words,? said Ileana Sviben, an Italian from the northern city of Trieste. ?He was a wonderful theologian and pastor.?

The Rev. Reinaldo Braga Jr., a Brazilian priest studying theology in Rome, said he, too, was saddened when he first heard the news.

?The atmosphere was funereal but nobody had died,? he said. ?But then I realized it was a wise act for the entire church. He taught the church and the world that the papacy is not about power, but about service.?

It was a sentiment the retiring Benedict himself emphasized Wednesday, saying the ?path of power is not the road of God.?

Benedict ?s decision has placed the Vatican in uncharted waters: No one knows what he?ll be called or even what he?ll wear after Feb. 28.

The Vatican revealed some details of that final day, saying Benedict would attend a morning farewell ceremony with his cardinals and then fly by helicopter at 5 p.m. to the papal summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo.

That means Benedict will be far from the Vatican when he ceases being pope at 8 p.m. ? a deadline decided by the pope himself because that?s when his normal workday ends.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said no formal or symbolic act was needed to make his resignation official, because Benedict has already done all that was required to resign by affirming publicly he had taken the decision freely.

Benedict?s final official acts as pope will include audiences with the Romanian and Guatemalan presidents this week and the Italian president on Feb. 23.

To assure the transition goes smoothly, Benedict made an important appointment Wednesday, naming the No. 2 administrator of the Vatican city state, Monsignor Giuseppe Sciacca, as a legal adviser to the camerlengo.

The camerlengo, or chamberlain, helps administer the Vatican bureaucracy in the period between Benedict?s resignation and the election of a new pope. The current camerlengo is Bertone, the Vatican secretary of state.

He and the dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, will have a major role in organizing the conclave, during which the 117 or so cardinals under the age of 80 will vote on who should succeed Benedict.

The Vatican has made clear that Benedict will play no role in the election of his successor, and once retired, he will live a life of prayer in a converted monastery on the far northern edge of the Vatican gardens.

His continued presence within the Vatican walls has raised questions about how removed he really will be from the life of the church. Lombardi acknowledged that Benedict would still be able to see friends and colleagues.

?I think the successor and also the cardinals will be very happy to have very nearby a person that best of all can understand what the spiritual needs of the church are,? Lombardi said.

Benedict is expected, however, to keep a low public profile.

As a result, Benedict?s final public appearances ? his last general audience will be Feb. 27 ? are expected to draw large crowds for what may well be some of the last speeches by a man who has spent his life ? as a priest, a cardinal and a pope ? teaching and preaching.

And they will also give the faithful a way to say farewell under happier circumstances than when his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, died in 2005.


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