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Friday, May 31, 2013
Tesla details Supercharger expansion, NYC to LA road trips possible by year's end
Tesla's perpetually free Supercharger station has already enabled the driving of about a million miles, totally free, to owners of the Model S sedan. However, availability of that network has been very limited. Unless you live in very specific areas of NY or CA, you've been out of luck. That's beginning to change. Following up on Elon Musk's D11 appearance, Tesla has announced that by the end of next month it will triple the size of the Supercharger network, covering crucial routes like Vancouver to Portland (with Seattle in between) and Dallas to Austin. New connection points will open in Illinois, Colorado, New York and, yes, California.
But wait, there's more. Within six months the network will spread further and, before the end of the year, Tesla promises you'll be able to drive from New York to Los Angeles in your Model S -- so long as you don't mind stopping for 20-minute recharges every couple-hundred miles. Finally, by mid-2014, Tesla promises its network will "stretch across the continent" and cover "almost the entire population of US and Canada." (Sorry, Hawaii.) PR and video featuring more details after the break.
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New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees, Boyz II Men.
Boy band crushes are a rite of passage for many teens; there's a whole generation who grew up in the late 1980s and early 1990s who swooned for classic groups like New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men. With "The Package Tour," all three bands are hitting the road together this summer -- and on Friday they visited Rockefeller Plaza and TODAY to thrill grown fans and impress a whole new generation.
The groups aren't just close not just as musicians -- they're friends as well. As New Kids singer Donnie Wahlberg noted, Boyz II Men canceled a photo shoot to be able to join the New Kids in Boston for last night's Boston Strong concert at Boston's TD Garden.
"It's a mutual respect, a love for each other," said Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men. "It's no egos."
And the Boston Strong concert? "It was unlike anything we've ever done in our careers," said Wahlberg. "It was just overwhelming."
So what about trying to get into the act again after so long? For 98 Degrees' Nick Lachey, it's like riding a bike. "We definitely have grown up a little bit over the last 12 years, but when you get back together and you start singing together again it all falls back into place," he said.
And speaking of falling into place, all three bands got their time on the TODAY concert stage, with New Kids (Wahlberg, Danny Wood, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre) kicking things off. Clad in white jackets, T-shirts and black pants (coordinated, like their dance moves), they did a medley of two of their biggest hits -- "Step By Step" from 1990 and "You Got It (The Right Stuff)" from 1988.
Later, 98 Degrees (Lachey, Justin Jeffre, Jeff Timmons, Drew Lachey) took the stage dressed like casual lounge singers, bow ties loose and collars open, and sang "The Hardest Thing," their No. 5 hit from 1999 -- a tune so catchy even TODAY's Natalie Morales could be spotted in the crowd singing along.
Boyz II Men (Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris, Stockman) wrapped up the initial sets -- also in matching outfits, but mainly in white shirts with rolled-up sleeves -- and launched into "Motownphilly," their No. 3 hit from 1991, the song that regularly checks the band's name. They got the crowd to sing along -- even some of the New Kids could be spotted getting funky with the tune.
Later on, the New Kids returned for another tune, "Hangin' Tough," their breakthrough hit from 1988. Quite a morning for fans of all ages!
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
AP Exclusive: Soldier to admit Afghan massacre
FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2011, file photo provided by the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales participates in an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Bales, charged with slaughtering 16 villagers during one of the worst atrocities of the Afghanistan war, has agreed to plead guilty in a deal to avoid the death penalty, his attorney told The Associated Press on Wednesday May 29, 2013. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2011, file photo provided by the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales participates in an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Bales, charged with slaughtering 16 villagers during one of the worst atrocities of the Afghanistan war, has agreed to plead guilty in a deal to avoid the death penalty, his attorney told The Associated Press on Wednesday May 29, 2013. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)
SEATTLE (AP) ? The Army staff sergeant charged with slaughtering 16 villagers in one of the worst atrocities of the Afghanistan war will plead guilty to avoid the death penalty in a deal that requires him to recount the horrific attack for the first time, his attorney told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was "crazed" and "broken" when he slipped away from his remote southern Afghanistan outpost and attacked mud-walled compounds in two slumbering villages nearby, lawyer John Henry Browne said.
But his client's mental state didn't rise to the level of a legal insanity defense, Browne said, and Bales will plead guilty next week.
The outcome of the case carries high stakes. The Army had been trying to have Bales executed, and Afghan villagers have demanded it. In interviews with the AP in Kandahar last month, relatives of the victims became outraged at the notion Bales might escape the death penalty.
"For this one thing, we would kill 100 American soldiers," vowed Mohammed Wazir, who had 11 family members killed that night, including his mother and 2-year-old daughter.
"A prison sentence doesn't mean anything," said Said Jan, whose wife and three other relatives died. "I know we have no power now. But I will become stronger, and if he does not hang, I will have my revenge."
Any plea deal must be approved by the judge as well as the commanding general at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, where Bales is being held. A plea hearing is set for June 5, said Lt. Col. Gary Dangerfield, an Army spokesman. He said he could not immediately provide other details.
"The judge will be asking questions of Sgt. Bales about what he did, what he remembers and his state of mind," said Browne, who told the AP the commanding general has already approved the deal. "The deal that has been worked out ... is they take the death penalty off the table, and he pleads as charged, pretty much."
A sentencing-phase trial set for September will determine whether Bales is sentenced to life in prison with or without the possibility of parole.
Browne previously indicated Bales remembered little from the night of the massacre, and he said that was true in the early days after the attack. But as further details and records emerged, Bales began to remember what he did, the lawyer said, and he will admit to "very specific facts" about the shootings.
Browne would not elaborate on what his client will tell the judge.
Bales, an Ohio native and father of two from Lake Tapps, Wash., had been drinking contraband alcohol, snorting Valium that was provided to him by another soldier, and had been taking steroids before the attack.
Testimony at a hearing last fall established that Bales returned to his base between attacking the villages, woke up a fellow soldier and confessed. The soldier didn't believe him and went back to sleep, and Bales left again to continue the slaughter.
Most of the victims were women and children, and some of the bodies were piled and burned. The slayings drew such angry protests that the U.S. temporarily halted combat operations in Afghanistan. It was three weeks before American investigators could reach the crime scenes.
Browne said his client, who was on his fourth combat deployment, was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury. He continued to blame the Army for sending him back to war in the first place.
"He's broken, and we broke him," Browne said.
The massacre raised questions about the toll multiple deployments were taking on American troops. For that reason, many legal experts believed it that it was unlikely that he would receive the death penalty, as Army prosecutors were seeking. The military justice system hasn't executed anyone since 1961.
The defense team, including military lawyers assigned to Bales as well as Browne's co-counsel, Emma Scanlan, eventually determined after having Bales examined by psychiatrists that he would not be able to prove any claim of insanity or diminished capacity at the time of the attack, Browne said.
"His mental state does not rise to the level of a legal insanity defense," Browne said. "But his state of mind will be very important at the trial in September. We'll talk about his mental capacities or lack thereof, and other factors that were important to his state of mind."
Browne acknowledged the plea deal could inflame tensions in Afghanistan and said he was disappointed the case has not done more to focus public opinion on the war.
"It's a very delicate situation. I am concerned there could be a backlash," he said. "My personal goal is to save Bob from the death penalty. Getting the public to pay more attention to the war is secondary to what I have to do."
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AP's special regional correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kathy Gannon, contributed from Kandahar.
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By TOM HAYS and RAPHAEL SATTER
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NEW YORK (AP) - Calling it perhaps the biggest money laundering scheme in U.S. history, federal prosecutors charged seven people Tuesday with running what amounted to an online, underworld bank that handled $6 billion for drug dealers, child pornographers, identity thieves and other criminals around the globe.
The case was aimed at Liberty Reserve, a currency transfer and payment processing company based in Costa Rica that authorities say allowed customers to move money anonymously from one account to another via the Internet with almost no questions asked.
U.S. officials said the enterprise was staggering in scope: Over roughly seven years, Liberty Reserve processed 55 million illicit transactions worldwide for 1 million users, including 200,000 in the U.S.
The network "became the bank of choice for the criminal underworld," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in announcing the unsealing of an indictment against the defendants, including Liberty Revenue founder Arthur Budovsky, an American who renounced his U.S. citizenship after deciding to set up in Costa Rica.
Liberty Reserve allowed users to open accounts using fictitious names, including "Russian Hacker" and "Hacker Account." An undercover investigator was able to register using the name "Joe Bogus" and the address "123 Fake Main Street" in "Completely Made Up City, New York," and then conduct transactions he recorded as "ATM skimming network" and "for the cocaine."
"The coin of the realm was anonymity," Bharara said. "It was the opposite of a know-your-customer policy."
The network charged a 1 percent fee on transactions through middlemen known as exchangers, who converted real currency into virtual funds and then back into cash.
In the indictment, prosecutors called the network "one of the principal means by which cyber criminals around the world distribute, store and launder proceeds of their illegal activity ... including credit card fraud, identity theft, investment fraud, computer hacking, child pornography and narcotics trafficking."
Bharara said it was possibly "the largest international money laundering case ever brought by the United States."
Budovsky and another defendant, identified as Azzeddine el Amine, were arrested Friday at a Madrid airport while trying to return to Costa Rica, according to a Spanish court official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because court policy forbids him from speaking on the record. They were ordered jailed while they await a hearing on extradition to the U.S.
Two other men, including Liberty Reserve co-founder Vladimir Kats, were arrested last week in New York City. There was no public record of their arraignments on Friday night, and there was no immediate response to phone messages left Tuesday with their attorneys.
Of the three remaining defendants, one was in custody in Costa Rica and the others were at large there.
A notice pasted across Liberty Reserve's website Tuesday morning said the domain "has been seized by the United States Global Illicit Financial Team." Attempts to reach Liberty Reserve by phone and email were unsuccessful.
Budovsky and Kats have previous convictions on state charges related to an unlicensed money transmitting business, according to court papers. After that case, they decided to move their operation to Costa Rica, the papers said.
In an online chat captured by law enforcement, Kats admitted Liberty Reserve was illegal and noted that authorities in the United States knew it was "a money-laundering operation that hackers use."
While authorities described Liberty Reserve as being rife with criminals, the site's ease of use, low fees and irreversible transactions that deterred fraud also attracted legitimate users.
Mitchell Rossetti, whose Houston-based ePayCards.com was one of several mainstream merchants that accepted Liberty Reserve's online-only currency, said his business still had about $28,000 tied up in Liberty Reserve accounts.
"The irony of this is I went to them because of the security," Rossetti said. "All sales were final."
He acknowledged that the currency was being used by scammers but said Liberty Reserve funds were just like any other currency: "The U.S. dollar can be donated to a church or it can pay a prostitute."
Liberty Reserve appears to have played an important role in laundering proceeds from the recent theft of some $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks, according to documents made public by U.S. authorities earlier this month. In that scheme, thieves stole debit card information and then used it to drain cash from thousands of ATMs around the world in a matter of hours.
As part of the Liberty Reserve investigation, authorities raided 14 places in Panama, Switzerland, the U.S., Sweden and Costa Rica. In Costa Rica, investigators recovered five luxury cars, including three Rolls-Royces. Bharara said authorities also seized Liberty's computer servers in Costa Rica and Switzerland.
The businesses that were raided in Costa Rica on Friday as part of the investigation into Liberty Reserve are dedicated to Web hosting services, website development and Internet business consulting.
In Costa Rica, all online businesses are legal and there aren't any laws regulating them, so the country has been attracting entrepreneurs setting up Internet-based companies that do everything from e-commerce to gambling banned in other countries.
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Satter reported from London. Alan Clendenning and Jorge Sainz in Madrid and Javier Cordoba in San Jose, Costa Rica, contributed to this report.
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Me in better times. I had been brought in by the 85 year old Patriarch, Bill (Bull) Doggit, founder of the Smithfield Pork Belly Fortune, to assist Gen 3, his grandaughters,? Jennie and Josie.? The fate of the fortune, I was told, rested upon my ability to protect these?charming heirs from predators and creditors while helping build their Three Capitals: Personal Virtue, Intellectual Acumen, and Social Graces. An outside auditor had concluded the girls were neither morally bankrupt nor treasure houses of Virtue, but modestly in the black, more or less empty vessels. As their mentor, I would increase their Virtue and decrease their Vices, to net out to a positive. In this way, Bull Doggit told me the family fortune would persist for another generation. "Only if these females grow their virtues," he said, "can we grow the family assets, rooted in my own virtues." Well, push soon came to shove, under a full moon.?Bull almost killed me out behind the boathouse swinging an anchor. I escaped out to sea by clinging to an overturned canoe. That was my last real morals mentoring gig.??Live and learn.? Next time I want?.5 percent of the family fortune annually with a five year guarantee.? For that kind of money I could learn to control my own impulsivity.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The Story of Joe Brown, Buckeye Turned Soldier | Eleven Warriors
There are changes in attitudes and shifts in how athletes approach their sport with every generation. We?re presently immersed in the Me Generation with an endless fountain of prima donnas. From Chad Johnson to Floyd Mayweather to Tiger Woods, one doesn?t need to look for to find the anti-role model.
There?s long been a debate about the merits of athletes. Should they be considered viable heroes and idols for children? Charles Barkley said no, but plenty of others have differing opinions. It?s not to say sports figures are bad people; they often prove to be upstanding citizens. It?s tough to match them up against service members and first responders, though.
Already in the five months of 2013, tragedies have been a theme of the year. And with each dose of heartache, those charged with protecting us have risen to the occasion. It was never more apparent than in the streets of Boston when police officers ran toward bomb blasts with terror surrounding them.
Former Ohio State football player Joe Brown is the definition of selfless. From undrafted free agent to an NFL career, Brown knows what hard work is. In 2003, as he was set to enter his third season in the league, Brown, a defensive lineman, abruptly left the Seattle Seahawks to pursue another career ? defending the country.
The son of a brigadier general in the Air Force and grandson of a POW who died in Korea, Brown's bloodlines run thick with the armed forces. During his career at Ohio State, from 1996-2001, joining the ROTC was a goal, but then-head coach John Cooper nixed that idea.?
?I?m not going to question that at all,? said Brown, remembering the decision. ?I just kind of shelved it and moved on.?
But not totally. There was still a void. Then 9/11 happened.
?There were times I?d be at practice playing football in the NFL and I?d be sitting there thinking about joining the service and how I would do it,? Brown said. ?And I?d think, ?you?re crazy.??
However, a bout of Valley fever put in motion that very plan. When Brown came down with the fungal disease prior to training camp in 2003, he opted to join the Army as a special operations solider.
Just a year earlier, Pat Tillman abandoned an All-Pro career to join the elite group of special forces known as the Army Rangers. The Seahawks organization was supportive of Brown?s decision with head coach Mike Holmgren and defensive line coach Larry Brooks ? ?great guys? in Brown?s words ? offering unwavering encouragement. But his agent disagreed with the career choice and the two have never spoken since.
?A lot went into that decision,? said Brown, who received his wife's blessing. ?It was really just put on my heart. I felt as though the lord was leading me to go serve the country. We were in the Global War on Terrorism at the time and I was playing football. I thought I needed to put football on hold and go serve the country. If football is still available when I?m done, great. If it?s not, great. It was just a decision I couldn?t ignore.?
Brown had a successful first deployment to Iraq in 2005. It looked like the dream of returning to football would come true until another deployment in 2007 put a halt to those plans. A few months later, he was in southeast Baghdad calling in an airstrike when he fell 30 feet down a stairway shaft, shredding his calf and striking his head.
When Brown woke up in Germany, an intense reality hit him. Years later, he still gets goose bumps reciting the story. Severe bleeding in his brain left Brown unable to speak and ended his football and combat career all at once. Contributing to the troubles was having a wife back home that already gave birth to one child and was pregnant with another.
?Special ops soldiers, those aren?t soldiers, those are athletes that play the ultimate game. But it?s not a game, it?s life and death.?
?I had an incredible amount of anxiety,? he said. ?You go from combat to waking up in a hospital room. I couldn?t speak and I knew I couldn?t speak. The speech came quickly, but I had real fragmented speech. Being inundated with information and being told you?re going to be there for two years did not sit well with me. I had a family to take care of. Getting though your treatments and figuring out where you?re going next, there?s a lot to that.?
There were several moves until Brown finally settled in at Brooke Army Medical Hospital in San Antonio, where he spent nearly a year rehabbing. Brown believes he had an advantage over most soldiers because of his past as an athlete. Being an elite solider only gave him more time to learn his body and its limits.
An awareness of the strengths and weaknesses allowed Brown to return to civilian life quicker than expected. A scar from the night vision goggles that were smashed into his face and occasional headaches are reminders of what occurred half a world away. Brown is thankful, though, that he was able to pick up the pieces and return to a life with a wife and two kids.
?Every soldier that?s injured probably can speak differently to it,? he said of the rehab process. ?Special ops soldiers, those aren?t soldiers, those are athletes that play the ultimate game. But it?s not a game, it?s life and death.
?We have to figure out a plan and work toward that every day. Every solider goes through a period where they sit there and suck their thumb, but you have to get past that. You owe it to the veterans and the solders that didn?t make it back and have an opportunity to rehab and to get back with their wives and their kids. Everything that I had power over, I did the best possible job I could do.?
No soldier enlists with thoughts of being injured in combat on their mind. Regardless, Brown has zero regrets. Had he not fulfilled that chapter he believes there would be a sense of what if. The entire experience, both good and bad, shaped his life for the better.
?Joining the Army was an absolute blessing on my life,? Brown said. ?There were some unbelievably tough moments, tough times, tough periods that defined me as a man, as a father and as a husband that are unshakeable. It was just a fantastic experience. To say it was easy would be an injustice.?
The next thing that molded Brown was his return to everyday normal life. It started in Jonesboro, Ark., at Arkansas State University. Being injured closed several doors while opening others at the same time. Brown enrolled in graduate school and began coaching college football.
The former Buckeye had an affinity for the sport and became a natural. He fell in love with a new aspect of football ? giving back. But the demands of the profession didn?t mesh with what he envisioned for his post-military life. Brown had just spent years away from his family and now he had to spend all his time at a football facility.
Brown (far left) receives a scholarship for wounded and disabled veterans at Arkansas State in 2009.
?It was an absolute dream,? Brown said. ?I loved it. Giving back to those kids every day, it was great. But at the same time, I had two young kids and a wife and I really enjoy them, and we just felt like coaching wasn?t compatible.?
When Brown looked elsewhere he discovered parks and recreation through a friend. Nearly five years later, he?s still knee deep in the profession. Selflessly serving communities has been a goal of Brown?s since his return from Iraq and he accomplishes that every day when he goes to work.?
In Texas, the passion for parks and recreation led Brown to developing programs for wounded veterans and people with disabilities. He established an adaptive sports program for those residing in the Fort Hood area that grew to 250 participants.
Wheelchair basketball, hand cycling and sitting volleyball are all part of the docket. Chasing down a quarterback used to be what brought a smile to Brown?s face, then keeping his fellow soldiers safe on the battlefield became his purpose. Now Brown is just trying to better the lives of those who receive the least attention and resources.
?When I look at parks and recreation, I look at building community,? he said. ?We tend to make programs for kids, adults and our seniors. But what about people in our communities with physical, visual or intellectual disabilities? What do those people do? And that?s where this whole vision and passion came from. We need to make sure our veterans and people that are disabled have an opportunity to participate in sport and recreational activities.
?Sport is so powerful. People just want the opportunity to be able to participate. That is something that we need to take very serious in our communities and understand that through building those programs and leagues that we are building community spirit.?
Brown harkens back to the halcyon days of his youth in Tucson, Ariz., when life lessons were learned in little league baseball. There was no traveling around the state year round or parents interfering in the lives of their kids. Having fun was a staple of yesteryear whereas today it?s building the next great athlete.
Brown has brought his philosophy with him to Reynoldsburg. He?s in charge of the growing the Columbus suburb?s parks and recreations program and brought along the same passion and excitement that sparked Central Texas in such a positive manner. Parents have also taken a liking to his initiative.?
?Lovie Smith came up and asked, ?Is Ohio State recruiting you?? I said no, and he said, ?We are now.??
This part of the state is familiar to Brown, having been born here and then spending his formative college years in Columbus at Ohio State. He may have grown up in Arizona, but the Buckeyes were never far from Brown?s mind. His parents graduated from the university, beginning a love affair with the football program that exists to this day.
Not many kids in Arizona dream of attending Ohio State, but Brown did so every day in his driveway and front yard. Games of basketball and football came with the fantasy of playing for the Buckeyes. That make-believe life began coming into focus when the 6-foot-6 brute started receiving recruiting letters. A trip to Ohio State?s football camp changed everything.
?Lovie Smith came up and asked, ?Is Ohio State recruiting you?? I said no, and he said, ?We are now.?
?It was outstanding. To play for Ohio State, there is no better place in college football. I definitely showed up as a kid and had a lot of growing to do when I left. It was an outstanding experience for me across for the board.?
He looks back with a different perspective, knowing that those abroad in harms way allow us to live the life we covet. Trips to the supermarket and restaurant don?t come with worries about roadside bombs and suicide attacks. Ohio Stadium sits full on football Saturdays with sounds of joy, optimism and euphoria.
Brown knows whom to thank for his peaceful life on this side of the world. Memorial Day is a special time for the third-generation soldier, but he cautions that it?s not celebratory. Too many men and women have been lost.
Said Brown: ?I think about all the relationships and buddies that I met and served with. I think about the guys that lost a limb and didn?t get to play wheelchair basketball. I think about the guys that didn?t make it home. I think long and hard about those individuals that fought the fight for the best team in the world, America, and didn?t get to come home. It?s a weekend of being thankful that I get to be a husband and get to be a dad.?
Source: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2013/05/22351/ohio-state-buckeyes-football-joe-brown-soldier
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Syria says will attend Geneva talks 'in principle'
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Syria's government will "in principle" attend multilateral talks planned for June in Geneva and believes the conference will be an opportunity to resolve the country's conflict, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Sunday.
Russia and the United States are sponsoring a proposed peace conference planned for next month on the war, which has killed 80,000 people and risks spilling over its borders and stirring regional sectarian violence.
"Syria will, in principle, participate in the international conference planned for June in Geneva," Moualem told reporters after talks with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad. "We believe the meeting presents a good opportunity to resolve the Syrian crisis."
"No power on earth can decide on the future of Syria. Only the Syrian people have the right to do so," he added.
Washington is pushing opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to unite before the conference, but the fractious group has been hampered by power struggles during talks in Istanbul over their leadership during the past few days.
Senior opposition leaders say their coalition is likely to attend the peace conference, but they doubt the meeting will result in their key demand, which is an agreement for Assad to leave office.
(Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed and Suadad al-Salhy; Writing by Patrick Markey; Editing by Alison Williams)
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Monday, May 27, 2013
Lakeside takes fourth place in 1A softball - The Spokesman-Review
Montesano pulled away late and topped Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) 11-3 in the State 1A softball consolation final Saturday in?Richland.
The Eagles (23-6) took fourth place ? marking the fifth time in the past nine years Lakeside has finished in the top?five.
Taylor Sheldon hit a line-drive, three-run home run in the sixth to bring the Eagles to within 7-3, but the Bulldogs (17-10) responded with four runs in the bottom of the?inning.
Woodland (25-2) topped Lakeside 5-1 in a semifinal game earlier in the day. The Beavers scored four runs over the fifth and sixth?innings.
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Montesano pulled away late and topped Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) 11-3 in the State 1A softball consolation final Saturday in?Richland.
The Eagles (23-6) took fourth place ? marking the fifth time in the past nine years Lakeside has finished in the top?five.
Taylor Sheldon hit a line-drive, three-run home run in the sixth to bring the Eagles to within 7-3, but the Bulldogs (17-10) responded with four runs in the bottom of the?inning.
Woodland (25-2) topped Lakeside 5-1 in a semifinal game earlier in the day. The Beavers scored four runs over the fifth and sixth?innings.
The Eagles advanced to the consolation final by whipping Elman 15-5. Sheldon and Nikki Tiffany drove in three runs apiece and Madi Naccarato, Kirsten Kyllo and Mary Spencer all had two RBIs?each.
2A: Colville was ousted after falling 11-0 to Othello at Carlon Park in Selah. Colville finished?24-3.
2B: Northwest Christian won two games to advance to the semifinals at Gateway Sports Complex in?Yakima.
The Crusaders (22-5) opened the tournament with a 12-2 win over Liberty Bell and then went on to beat DeSales 5-0 in the?quarterfinals.
Hannah Hustad pitched all seven innings in the first game. She had 12 strikeouts and gave up two runs and two?hits.
She was even better in the next game. Against DeSales, Hustad gave up three hits and no runs while striking out seven. She also had a two-run single in the third and an RBI single in the?fifth.
The Crusaders will play La Conner in the semifinals?today.
Colfax (17-9) won its opener 12-3 against Kittitas, but was sent to the consolation bracket after a 6-0 loss to Morton-White?Pass.
The Bulldogs were stymied by Morton-White Pass starter Taylor Brooks, who gave up two hits and no?runs.
Colfax will play Napavine in an elimination game?today.
1B: Colton (21-6) and Almira/Coulee-Hartline (17-5) won twice at Gateway Sports Complex in Yakima and will play today in the title?game.
Colton opened with a 9-2 win over Klickitat and then walloped Selkirk 18-0 in the?semifinals.
Almira/Coulee-Hartline beat Quilcene 10-6 in the first round and Touchet 11-10 in the?quarterfinals.
Baseball
W.F. West got its offense going late and cruised past Clarkston 8-2 in the semifinals of the 2A playoffs at County Stadium in?Yakima.
The Bantams will play Archbishop Murphy today for third and fourth?places.
Tennis
Federal Way?s Mitch Stewart, one of the highest-rated high school players in the country, won his second straight boys 4A singles title, beating Gonzaga Prep?s Alex Marcinkowski 6-2, 6-1 in?Richland.
Marcinkowski, who took fourth place at state last year, advanced to the finals after beating Skyline?s Aman Manji 6-1,?6-1.
Stewart lost only two games in three matches prior to his match against?Marcinkowksi.
In doubles, Lewis and Clark?s Luke Brittan and Jordan Strandness lost both of their matches and took sixth?place.
The duo lost 6-0, 6-4 to Newport?s David An and Alex Namba in the semifinals and were swept by Richland?s Travis Zuroske and Zach Fisher in the third/sixth-place?match.
2A: Pullman?s Joseph Chung and Jamison Simanson settled for seventh place after a 6-4, 6-3 loss to Sehome?s Nick Smith and Brady Anderson at the Nordstrom Tennis Center in?Seattle.
Clarkson?s Ryan Adams fought his way through the consolation bracket and claimed eighth?place.
1B/2B/1A: Riverside?s Jaime Aragon took second place after falling to University Prep?s Bayard Blair in the state title match at the Yakima Tennis?Center.
Blair won 6-4,?6-4.
Aragon advanced to the finals with a 6-3, 6-1 semifinal win over Charles Wright?s Austin?Kelley.
In the doubles consolation finals, St. George?s Nathan Furbeyre and Peter Worrall topped Chewelah?s Collin Kirk-Petterson and Mason Miller 5-7, 6-2,?6-2.
Lind-Ritzville/Sprague?s Tracy Melville took seventh place after falling 6-0, 6-2 to Chelan?s Megan?Robinson.
Source: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/may/26/lakeside-takes-fourth-place-in-1a-softball/
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NYPD investigating actress Bynes allegations
NEW YORK (AP) ? Internal Affairs officers on Saturday were looking into allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was charged with heaving a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.
The 27-year-old former child star first alleged during her arraignment on Friday that police illegally entered her apartment after being called to her midtown building. But in a Twitter message believed to be from the troubled actress posted Saturday, Bynes alleged that her arresting officer also sexually assaulted her.
"As it would with any such allegation, regardless of its credibility, IAB is investigating it," said the NYPD's chief spokesman, Paul Browne, referring to the internal affairs bureau.
The Twitter handle used to make the sexual assault allegations Saturday does not appear to be verified by the social network? but Bynes' friend, former Hollywood publicist Jonathan Jaxson, said Saturday the tweet was made from Bynes' account. Twitter did not immediately return a request for comment.
In court on Friday, the former "Hairspray" star made no mention of the sexual assault allegations, though she did complain of illegal entry to her apartment. She's been charged with reckless endangerment, attempted tampering with evidence and unlawful possession of marijuana.
A law enforcement official who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because of an ongoing investigation said the building manager was with officers at Bynes' apartment when they arrived Thursday night. The official said officers were kept waiting approximately five minutes before she opened the door to them. The same official said the building manager told internal affair investigators nothing untoward happened.
Bynes was released by Chief New York County Judge Neil Ross on her own recognizance because, Ross said, he did not believe her to be a flight risk. But in releasing her, Ross also issued a stern warning to Bynes, telling her not to get rearrested or miss any court dates. She's due back in court on July 9.
Attempts to reach Bynes' arraignment lawyer were unsuccessful Saturday evening.
Bynes rose to fame starring in Nickelodeon's "All That" and has also starred in several films, including 2010's "Easy A." But she has been in the news more recently because of several scrapes with the law and bizarre public behavior.
Bynes was arrested Thursday night after building officials called police to complain she was rolling a joint and smoking pot in the lobby. The officers went to her apartment where they saw heavy smoke and a bong sitting on the kitchen counter. They said she tossed the bong out the window in front of them, prosecutors said Friday.
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Associated Press writer Colleen Long contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nypd-investigating-actress-bynes-allegations-235059915.html
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How can Chuck Hagel fix military sexual assault epidemic?
On consecutive days, President Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel have told the next generation of military leaders that sexual assault is threatening the dignity and effectiveness of the force.
Though the war in Afghanistan continues, the Obama administration has, in many ways, already begun to turn the Pentagon toward a new set of challenges. Mr. Obama's address to the National Defense University Thursday spoke to the strategic parts of that shift ? from stricter rules for drone strikes to new rules for the detention facility at Guant?namo Bay.
But the president's speech the next day to graduates of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., stressed that stamping out an epidemic of sexual assault within the military must also be a primary goal. Secretary Hagel made the same point Saturday in a speech to graduates at the US Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.
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But what can be done?
There is ample evidence to suggest that no solution will be easy or quick. A survey released earlier this month suggests that 26,000 people in the military were sexually assaulted in the previous year ? a rate of 70 a day. Moreover, only 3,400 incidents were reported, suggesting a widespread lack of confidence in the military justice system on the issue.
Due to a lack of research, the trend line is unclear. The current number is up from the previous year (19,000) but down from 2006 (34,000).
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Meanwhile, recent weeks have brought a flood of troubling allegations. This month, two members of military sexual-assault prevention units ? one for the Air Force and one at the Army's Fort Hood in Texas ? have been accused of sexual assault. And last week, a sergeant at West Point was charged with secretly videotaping female cadets in the shower.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) of Missouri has introduced a bill to ensure that ?never again will a victim have to salute an assaulter," according to NBC News. It would require a member of the military who has been found guilty of sexual assault to be dismissed or dishonorably discharged. While it would also prohibit a commander from nullifying or changing a sexual-assault conviction, it would not remove sexual-assault cases from the chain of command entirely.
That has been a point of contention for critics, who note that commanders often reduce or eliminate punishments resulting from sexual-assault investigations. To address this, a competing bill by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) of New York would create a separate procedure for dealing with sexual-assault cases.
But Pentagon officials strongly resist the idea of taking control out of the hands of commanders, saying such a move would undermine unit cohesiveness and discipline. Hagel, too, has said he is against removing sex-assault cases from the chain of command.
Yet experts say it is crucial to change the way the Pentagon looks at sexual assault. Currently, the military treats sexual assault as a women's issue, retired Maj. Gen. Robert Shadley tells The Washington Post. Instead, it should treat the charges as a "force protection issue."
?This is not a women?s rights issue, it?s an abuse of power," says General Shadley, who presided over the Army's Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland during a sex-assault scandal in the 1990s. "We should have the same person who?s worried about protecting soldiers from enemy attack in charge of protecting soldiers from sexual predators. Until you make prevention of sexual assault a part of everyday life of the organization, it?s going to be considered a secondary thing.?
His proposed solution is to put sexual-assault prevention in the hands of each unit's chief operations officer. At the moment, these efforts are handled by specialized units, which has the effect of marginalizing the issue, he says. "This has got to be an operational issue.?
Others suggest that the prohibition against women in combat also has a corrosive effect. For one, in an organization built on the premise of warfighting, those who are barred from serving in combat zones are seen as second-class citizens and lose a degree of respect.
"That reinforced the traditional notion [among men in uniform] that there are differences between men and women: 'Women are not our equals,' " David Segal, a military sociologist at the University of Maryland in College Park, tells USA Today. " 'They're not allowed to be 100 percent soldiers. They're not part of our culture.' "
But the ban on women in combat might also have another effect. Without being able to serve in combat, women in the military face a glass ceiling. Obama could appoint more women to Pentagon posts, but women's ability to rise through the ranks in the military itself is affected by the ban.
?Quite frankly, we need to have people like [Obama adviser] Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama in the room,? Ana Cruz, a Democratic strategist, told Politico. ?You can?t have a bunch of men sitting around a table talking about this issue when it clearly goes to the heart of violating women?s rights.?
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As global poverty lessens and aid increases: Did famed UN development goals matter?
Days before Sept. 11, 2001, a set of eight 'Millennium Development Goals' were declared to improve health, education, and welfare across the planet. As the goals expire on 2015, a sympathetic look at how they fared.?
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In 1994, just 12 percent of Ethiopian children completed primary school. Today the figure is nearly 70 percent.
In fact, around the world, the numbers of those living in extreme poverty are less than half of what they were in 1990, according to global indicators.
The reasons for such improvement in areas as diverse as global education, health, and nutrition range from economic booms to settling of political disputes to enlightened leadership.?Yet all indicate progress toward what has been a serious set of eight aims called the?Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), ushered forth in 2001. The effect of the goals has changed a larger discussion about development, moved a significant amount of aid around, and helped with basic living standards for millions.
?I am in dozens of countries every year, and it?s amazing to me how much these goals animate public discussion, newspaper columns, and government leaders? rhetoric,? Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, told a small audience at the Overseas Development Institute in London in December.?
A new World Bank study of MDG's last month?showed steady progress in a range of nations, though not all goals were met.?
Clear readings on how much has really been achieved since 2001, and how much of the social impact can be attributed to the MDG ? is not easy to gauge. There is also a question about whether setting high-profile and ambitious goals has any effect in actually improving difficult world conditions.
Yet with the MDG deadline set to expire in 2015, a consensus among figures like Mr. Sachs and other like-minded broad thinkers is ?yes? ? setting goals does matter.
?The MDGs have been surprising, and surprisingly useful,? Sachs adds in a recent interview. ?It has been good to have global goals around development objectives. This was not obvious a dozen years ago ? in fact, I would say, not obvious at all.?
As it happens, the MDG unveiling by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan took place only five days before the Sept. 11, 2001 attack. The name of Al Qaeda was hardly known among Americans when the UN chief announced eight highly ambitious goals to reach by 2015. These included halving the number of people living in extreme poverty, to reducing child mortality by two-thirds, to reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS.?
At the time, it was not clear the MDGs would stick. International aid had been in decline after the cold war, and many nations were turning inward.
But for some reason, the MDGs struck a chord.
?For whatever reason, and perhaps it was that climate of hope at the time, [the MDGs] got traction ? countries built them into their national development strategies, measured progress against them,? says Helen Clark, administrator of the UN Development Program.??The ? partners rallied ? and focused a lot of their support around achieving the goals as well,? Ms Clark adds.?
And while it is difficult to ascribe direct causal powers to the millennium goals, there is some feeling and some evidence that the intent and impulse of the goals has had at least a marginal effect ? not to be taken lightly since that impact touches millions of lives.
"When you?re talking about marginal differences at the global level, you?re talking about thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of kids, who are alive today who would otherwise be dead,? says Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Global Development. ?If you look at rates of progress before and after 2000 on a number of the MDG indicators, in some cases you see slightly faster progress after 2000.?
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
Mailbox, Forecast.io, and More
The long weekend is finally here. And what's better than spending a holiday enjoying the warm weather with family and friends? Well, how about having a few iPad apps that help you stay connected and ready for whatever Mother Gaia has to throw at you?just in case. Lucky for you, we've got them right here.
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Feds look for temporary fix after I-5 collapse
A collapsed section of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River is seen in an aerial view Friday, May 24, 2013. Part of the bridge collapsed Thursday evening, sending cars and people into the water when a an oversized truck hit the span, the Washington State Patrol chief said. Three people were rescued from the water. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday declared a state of emergency in three counties around the bridge, saying that the bridge collapse has caused extensive disruption, impacting the citizens and economy in Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom Counties. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Mike Siegel)
A collapsed section of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River is seen in an aerial view Friday, May 24, 2013. Part of the bridge collapsed Thursday evening, sending cars and people into the water when a an oversized truck hit the span, the Washington State Patrol chief said. Three people were rescued from the water. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday declared a state of emergency in three counties around the bridge, saying that the bridge collapse has caused extensive disruption, impacting the citizens and economy in Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom Counties. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Mike Siegel)
A dented upper right corner and a scrape along the upper side are visible on the "oversize load" equipment casing being hauled a truck parked southbound on Interstate 5 south of the collapsed portion of the highway bridge at the Skagit River Friday, May 24, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. The truck struck the four-lane bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada Thursday evening, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries. At an overnight news conference, Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste blamed the collapse on the tractor-trailer carrying a tall load that hit an upper part of the span. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, a man is seen sitting atop a car that fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge there minutes earlier Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Francisco Rodriguez)
In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, rescue workers form a human chain as they begin to remove a woman who reaches out from a smashed pickup truck that fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridgeThursday, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Francisco Rodriguez)
The collapsed Interstate-5 bridge is seen at dusk submerged after collapsing into the Skagit River, dumping vehicles and people into the water, in Mount Vernon, Wash., Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) ? Federal officials were searching the country for a possible temporary replacement for a bridge that collapsed along the crucial Interstate 5 corridor, but Washington Gov. Jay Inslee cautioned Friday that major disruptions will last for weeks, if not months.
A truck hauling an oversized load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder Thursday night, sending a section of the highway into the river below. The truck driver watched helplessly as the structure collapsed in his rearview mirror. Two other vehicles plunged into the Skagit River, but all three occupants escaped with only minor injuries.
At a news conference, Inslee said federal officials were looking for a pre-fabricated structure to replace the 160-foot section that fell into the river. If one is found, a temporary fix could be in place in weeks. If one can't be quickly secured, the governor said it could be months before a replacement can be built.
"You cannot overstate the importance of this corridor to Washington state," Inslee said. Traffic on the interstate and surrounding roads was backed up for miles throughout the area, a situation that the governor said would continue indefinitely.
"There will be substantial delays," he said.
Cynthia Scott, the wife of truck driver William Scott, said Friday from the couple's home near Spruce Grove, Alberta, that her husband saw the collapse.
"He looked in the mirrors and it just dropped out of sight," Cynthia Scott said. "I spoke to him seconds after it happened. He was just horrified."
The spectacular scene unfolded about 7 p.m. on the north section of the four-lane Interstate 5 bridge near Mount Vernon, about 60 miles north of Seattle and 40 miles south of the Canada border.
The Washington State Patrol said the truck driver works for Mullen Trucking in Alberta. The tractor-trailer was hauling a housing for drilling equipment southbound when the top right front corner of the load struck several trusses on the north end of the bridge, the patrol said.
Scott voluntarily gave a blood sample for an alcohol test and was not arrested. A top company official said the driver was amazed by what he saw happen.
"He's a little bit bewildered," Ed Scherbinski, vice president of Mullen Trucking, said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Initially, it wasn't clear if the bridge just gave way on its own. But at an overnight news conference, Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste blamed it on the too-tall load. The vertical clearance from the roadway to the beam is 14.6 feet.
The truck made it off the bridge and Scott remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators. Two other vehicles went into the water about 25 feet below as the structure crumbled. Three people were rescued and were recovering Friday.
The trucking company said it received a state permit to carry its oversized load across the bridge. Scherbinski said the state Department of Transportation had approved of the company's plan to drive the equipment along I-5 to Vancouver, Wash.
He also said the company hired a local escort to help navigate the route. The driver was well-experienced with handling oversized loads, he said.
"This is what we do for a living. We pride ourselves in doing things the proper way," Scherbinski said.
Mike Allende, a state DOT spokesman, confirmed the truck had its permit.
"We're still trying to figure out why it hit the bridge," he said. "It's ultimately up to the trucking company to figure out whether it can get through. It's their responsibility to make sure the load they have can travel on that route."
Dave Chesson, a state DOT spokesman, said there were no signs leading up to the bridge warning about its clearance height.
Inslee ? who issued an emergency proclamation for surrounding Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom counties ? said it will cost $15 million to repair the bridge. The federal government has already promised the state $1 million in emergency funding.
Inslee talked to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Friday morning. LaHood is promising his full support to get Washington's main north-south roadway repaired as quickly as possible.
Traffic could be affected for some time. The bridge is used by an average of 71,000 vehicles a day, so the roadblock will cause a major disruption in trade and tourism between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Washington Transportation Department has set up detours. The closest bridge nearby is mostly used for local traffic between Mount Vernon and Burlington. The department also is recommending detours using state Routes 20 and 9 that add tens of miles to a trip. Drivers are urged to avoid the area if possible, especially over the Memorial Day weekend.
Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup on I-5 heading to a camping trip when he said the bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust."
"I hit the brakes and we went off," Sligh told reporters from a hospital, adding he "saw the water approaching ... you hold on as tight as you can."
The bridge was inspected twice last year and repairs were made, Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson said.
"It's an older bridge that needs a lot of work just like a good number of bridges around the state," she said.
The bridge was not classified as structurally deficient, but a Federal Highway Administration database lists it as being "functionally obsolete" ? a category meaning that the design is outdated, such as having narrow shoulders and low clearance underneath.
The bridge was 1,112 feet long and 180 feet wide, with two lanes in each direction, state DOT spokesman Noel Brady said. There are four spans, or sections, over the water supported by piers. The span on the north side is the one that collapsed. It's a steel truss bridge, meaning it has a boxy steel frame.
The mishap was reminiscent of the August 2007 collapse of an I-35W bridge in Minneapolis that killed 13 people and injured another 145 when it buckled and fell into the Mississippi River during rush-hour.
Sligh was thankful.
"You're kind of pinching yourself and realize you're lucky to be alive."
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Baker reported from Olympia, Wash. Associated Press writers Donna Gordon Blankinship and Gene Johnson in Seattle, and Terry Tang in Phoenix also contributed to this report.
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