Iraqi Catholics celebrate Easter

A worshipper reaches to touch a crucifix during Easter mass at Virgin Mary Chaldean Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 31, 2013. The Chaldean Church is an Eastern Rite church affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

A worshipper reaches to touch a crucifix during Easter mass at Virgin Mary Chaldean Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 31, 2013. The Chaldean Church is an Eastern Rite church affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

A policeman searches a man outside the Virgin Mary Chaldean Church before Easter mass at Virgin Mary Chaldean Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 31, 2013. The Chaldean Church is an Eastern Rite church affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi Christians light candles before Easter mass at Virgin Mary Chaldean Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 31, 2013. The Chaldean Church is an Eastern Rite church affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraq's Catholic Christians flocked to churches to celebrate Easter Sunday, praying, singing and rejoicing in the resurrection of Christ behind high blast walls and tight security cordons.

It was the first Easter since the election of Pope Francis in Rome, and worshipers said they hoped their new spiritual leader would help strengthen their tiny community that has shrunk under the joint pressures of militant attacks and economic hardships.

At the St. Joseph Chaldean Church in Baghdad, some 200 worshipers stood and sat during parts of the Easter mass led by Father Saad Sirop.

"We pray for love and peace to spread through the world," said worshiper Fatin Yousef, 49. Like most worshippers she arrived have dressed immaculately for mass, her hair tumbling in salon-created curls, wearing a tidy black skirt, low-heeled pumps and a striped shirt. "We hope Pope Francis will help make it better for Christians in Iraq."

There are an estimated 400,000 to 600,000 Christians in Iraq, with most belonging to ancient eastern churches. There has been no census in Iraq for 16 years, making precise figures difficult to obtain.

An estimated two-thirds of Iraq's Christians are Catholics of the Chaldean church and the smaller Assyrian Catholic church. Worshipers of both churches chant in versions of ancient Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke, although the dialects would be mutually unintelligible.

Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, Iraqi Christians have suffered repeated attacks by Islamic militants. Hundreds of thousands have left the country, with church officials estimating their communities have at least halved. The worst attack was at Baghdad's soaring Our Lady of Salvation church in October 2010. It killed more than 50 worshipers and wounded scores more.

More broadly, decades of immigration have shrunken the size of Christian communities throughout the Middle East, with most leaving for better opportunities and to join families abroad.

Other Christians in the region no longer feel comfortable among majority-Muslim communities that many believe have become more outwardly pious and politically Islamist over the decades.

They included Iraqi Christian worshiper Yousef's son, who moved to live with relatives in Arizona last year. Yousef said she was arranging for her other daughter and son to immigrate.

"There's still fear here, and there's no stability in this country," she said.

Iraqi officials have made efforts to secure churches since the violence of 2010.

High blast walls topped with netting and barbed wire surrounded the St. Joseph Church in Baghdad in the middle-class district of Karradeh. Blue-khaki clad Iraqi police guarded roads surrounding the church and checked papers of passers-by as worshipers filtered inside.

Four Iraqi Christian volunteers, two men and two women, stood at the church entrance to double-check who was coming in.

White-robed church volunteers marched down the church aisle behind Father Sirop, who chanted and waved thickly-scented incense that wafted through the building. The white-painted interior was adorned with three ornate chandeliers and a series of simple paintings illustrating the life of Christ.

Worshipers stood for lengthy passages of Sirop's mass, at one point bursting into applause when he told them, "Celebrate! You are Christians!"

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Barack Obama Is Looking Relaxed At The NCAA ... - Business Insider

President Barack Obama was in attendance at Saturday's regional final of the NCAA tournament in Washington D.C. between Syracuse and Marquette.

He looked relaxed wearing his Under Armour jacket and with his leg up on the wall. He was seated with NCAA president Mark Emmert (far left) and the president's personal aide, Reggie Love (left). The CBS commentators identified the man on the right as? the president's brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, head coach of the Oregon State men's basketball team. But it is not clear if that is him ...

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Mapping The Microbes That Flourish On Fruits And Veggies

You call it salad. The bacteria call it home.

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You call it salad. The bacteria call it home.

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Deadly microbes like salmonella and E. coli can lurk on the surface of spinach, lettuce and other fresh foods. But many more benign microbes also flourish there, living lives of quiet obscurity, much like the tiny Whos in Dr. Seuss' Whoville. Until now.

Scientists at the University of Colorado have taken what may be the first broad inventory of the microbes that live on strawberries, lettuce, tomatoes and eight other popular fresh foods.

It turns out the invisible communities living on our food vary greatly, depending on the type and whether it's conventional or organic.

Mung bean sprouts, for one, harbor very different bacteria than alfalfa sprouts. Grapes, apples and peaches house a greater variety of bacteria than veggies. And mushrooms are living in a microbial room of their own, sharing very few bacteria with the other foods tested.

That's quite different from strawberries, tomatoes and spinach. They had similar surface bacteria, with most coming from one family, the Enterobacteriaceae. That family includes E. coli but many, many other harmless and perhaps beneficial bacteria, too. Enterobacteriaceae was also the most common family, accounting for about one-third of all the microbes overall.

The good news: Most of the bacterial horde is benign.

Still, the sprouts "had a pretty high number of different types of bacteria associated with them, especially alfalfa sprouts," according to Jonathan Leff, an associate scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, who led the study.

Dangerous bacteria on sprouts have caused numerous outbreaks, including one in Germany that killed at least 31 people.

Organic-labeled produce had different microbial communities than the conventionally grown food, with the organic microbes generally more diverse and the conventionally grown having more Enterobacteriaceae.

Is that good? We don't know. And we also don't know why they're different. "We can't say that this is attributable to the farming practice itself," Leff told The Salt. "It could be transport and storage."

Also on the don't-know list is how the differences in fruit and vegetable microbiomes affect human health. "We can't say how we should act in terms of our daily purchases or how we eat," Leff says.

But understanding the microbiomes of fruits and vegetables, he says, may ultimately make it possible to figure out ways to delay spoilage in fresh produce, or to learn how the food bacteria interact with each other and with the millions of bacteria in the human gut.

The researchers published their results in the online journal PLoS One.

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OUYA ships early backer consoles, staggers delivery over the weeks ahead

OUYA is true to its word: the company has confirmed to us that it's shipping the first units of its namesake game console to the many, many people who crowdfunded at a tier high enough to set aside a production system. If you've received a tracking notice, you should expect to have the cuboid at your door in five to ten days, depending on just which corner of the world you live in. Don't be surprised if your inbox remains empty for now, however. OUYA notes that it's spreading delivery over the "coming weeks," which by necessity will leave a few of us twiddling our (currently gamepad-free) thumbs.

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Engadget Mobile Podcast 175 - 03.28.13

This week saw the dawn of a new era. Was it T-Mobile's new twist on cell plans? Sure, that was interesting. But, we were more thinking John Legere's colorful presentation style. Way to get our attention! Most of all, thanks for the bulk of this week's mobile podcast. Enjoy.

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Producer: James Trew

Music: Tycho - Coastal Brake (Ghostly International)

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Can you live on one income?

If you?re in a dual-income household, could you make ends meet if one of you simply deposited your entire paycheck into savings and investments for the future?

By Trent Hamm,?Guest blogger / March 28, 2013

If your ?income? is just the amount coming home from one wage earner, then your lifestyle will shrink to fit it, Hamm writes.

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For the last few years, Sarah and I have established a very simple goal.?We live entirely on the larger of our two incomes and sock the?entirety?of the other salary into savings.?So far, we?ve basically been able to pull this off.

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Why do this? There are three big reasons.

First,?it establishes a?very?clear baseline for our savings for the future.?We know that one of our income streams is going entirely to savings, which means we can essentially exclude that from our living budget. There?s no questions about how much we should save and how big of an element it should be in our budget. Instead, our budget involves a very tiny amount for savings (mostly just growing our emergency fund).

Second,?it means we?re saving a?lot?for the future.?We decided long ago that we were going to strive to ?retire? as early as possible, which essentially meant that we would follow some life goals that didn?t revolve around earning income.

We want to spend quite a few years doing volunteer work while we?re still physically able and mentally sharp. I?d like to spend some significant time focusing on fiction writing, which isn?t a real lucrative path if you?re needing a strong income stream. Our savings plan enables us to work toward this goal very effectively.?

What if: Women's coaches weigh in on 1-on-1 games

Baylor coach Kim Mulkey laughed at the idea. Then, after giving it a little thought, declared herself the winner of a mythical NCAA women's tournament in which coaches played 1-on-1 to determine the winner of each round.

Like her Lady Bears, who are four games away from winning a second straight national championship, Mulkey feels she'd be a heavy favorite to win a coach versus coach tourney as well.

She might have a tougher time than Baylor, as there would be some really stiff competition from LSU's Nikki Caldwell and South Carolina's Dawn Staley, who had stellar playing careers. For once, Geno Auriemma (UConn) and Tara VanDerveer (Stanford) might not be the favorites to make the Final Four.

In fact, it might be tough for them to even make it out of the first round.

"Bring me the biggest, slowest, tallest, whichever one you want, I'd make them have to guard me outside the paint," Mulkey said. "And then defending the biggest, tallest, strongest, I'd take charges on them all day. I wouldn't let them back me down there."

The Associated Press threw out the scenario of a 1-on-1 hoops tournament to coaches from around the country ? essentially forcing them to rate each other as players.

Many paused for a minute from their game preparations to entertain the notion. Always analytical, they tried to come up with reasons to pick their favorites. Mulkey, Staley and Caldwell were the overwhelming top choices, while Auriemma and VanDerveer didn't get much support.

"I'm going to be competitive and I'm going to do whatever I can. I was that type of player and probably still am if I was out there," Caldwell said. "Just coming from a program, where I went to Tennessee, if you're coming to the dance, let's dance. So if there's a 1-on-1 tournament, let's go."

Gender didn't even factor in coming up with favorites.

"You don't even need to mention the male coaches. None of them had any careers," Mulkey said laughing. "Name me one male coach that was any good in college basketball. Can you think of any?"

Maybe Mulkey is lucky that Gonzaga coach Kelly Graves wasn't on her side of the bracket. The 6-foot-5 Graves played college basketball at New Mexico.

"I'd figure out a way to compete," she said. "I'd be the one getting on their last nerve."

Auriemma, who played in high school and junior college, might have to employ the same strategy.

"I would really like to know what kind of player Coach A was," said former UConn star and current broadcaster Rebecca Lobo. "On occasion, he would grab the ball and demonstrate what he wanted the guards to do and he looked a bit silly when dribbling. My guess is that he wouldn't stay on the court too long. ... His mouth would get him T'd and tossed pretty quickly."

Unlike Auriemma, Mulkey had quite the playing career at Louisiana Tech, helping guide the team to the first NCAA championship in 1982.

Mulkey's own players differ on how their fiery coach would do. Brittney Griner agrees with her coach thinking she'd win the title. Point guard Odyssey Sims had a different view.

"I don't think coach Mulkey is going to make it very far," Sims said laughing. "She doesn't play any defense, so I'm going to say ? I'll give her one or two, then she's going home. If you can do all the scoring and you're playing no defense, then it defeats the purpose."

Prairie View A&M coach Toyelle Wilson liked her chances against Mulkey in the opening round. Her team lost by 42 to Baylor to start the NCAAs. It was easy for her to come up with a strategy against Mulkey, since she wouldn't have to worry about facing Griner.

"I'd be digging on her and pressuring her and hopefully forcing her to take some fadeaway shots, kind of like how Brittney (Griner) makes people take those type of shots," Wilson said.

Wilson doesn't believe Mulkey's claim that she can't "shoot a lick."

"I think that's some sort of trickery that she's putting up and making me stay off her so she can take some set shots," said Wilson who played at Manhattan College. "I would start out pressuring her, just like she teaches her players."

Staley was a star at Virginia before going on to the ABL and WNBA. She also helped the U.S. win three Olympic gold medals, including one in 1996 under VanDerveer.

VanDerveer admitted that the format wouldn't be the best for her. But always the competitor, she'd be ready if it ever did happen.

"I'm not a 1-on-1 player," she said. "Even with the piano, I like duets."

Cal Poly coach Faith Mimnaugh was a great player for Loyola of Chicago in the early '80s. She still is in the NCAA top 10 in assists for a single season.

Mimnaugh picked Caldwell to advance from her region and if Caldwell were to meet Mulkey, who beat Mimnaugh out for the point guard spot on the 1984 Olympic team, she'd pick the LSU coach.

"Kim Mulkey was a great player, but if she had to go against Nikki, Nikki would throw all of her stuff," Mimnaugh said, waving her arm like she was ready to block a shot.

Seeding the bracket would be a new challenge for the selection committee.

"We'd need footage of people playing to accurately seed," selection committee member Kathy Meehan said laughing. "It would certainly spice up the brackets. I'd like to see that.

"Some of our student-athletes would love to see it. They'll see how much the coach's demeanor as a player carries over to the way they coach."

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AP Sports Writers Schuyler Dixon and Stephen Hawkins in Waco, Texas, Brett Martel in Baton Rouge, La. and Janie McCauley in Stanford, Calif. contributed to this report.

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Family of ex-Marine detained in Iran pleads for his release

By Yeganeh Torbati

DUBAI (Reuters) - The family of a former U.S. Marine detained in Iran for 19 months is calling for his release, saying he has suffered in solitary confinement and his cancer-stricken father needs him.

Iranian-American Amir Hekmati, 29, was arrested in August 2011, his family says, and convicted of spying for the CIA, a charge his relatives and the United States deny. His family says he was detained while visiting his grandmother in Tehran.

He was sentenced to death but a higher court "nullified" the penalty in March 2012 and sent the case to another court. He remains in jail with little access to a lawyer or family visits, his sister Sarah Hekmati told Reuters by telephone this week.

"Now, a year later ... there is silence on their end and we really need help understanding where his case is going," she said.

The family was told in February Hekmati had been placed in solitary confinement for 16 months and had begun a hunger strike that left him unconscious, said his brother-in-law, Ramy Kurdi.

They want him freed before the Iranian New Year later this month, an occasion when the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, often pardons non-violent prisoners.

"We understand there is mercy shown to prisoners and they're often released," Kurdi said. "That's our plea as well ... we're worried about his mental, physical and emotional wellbeing."

Iran's judiciary has said Hekmati admitted to having links with the CIA, but denied any intention of harming Iran.

The family has struggled to pursue the case because Iran and the United States have no direct diplomatic relations. Ties were cut in 1980 after Iranian students took 52 U.S. diplomats hostage in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Hekmati has been granted few visits with his lawyer and with his mother, grandmothers and uncle in Tehran, his family said. The Swiss embassy in Iran, which handles U.S. interests, has not been given access to Hekmati, his sister Sarah said.

In 2009, three U.S. citizens were arrested near Iran's border with Iraq and accused of spying for the U.S. government. The trio said they were on a hiking holiday but were jailed and freed after diplomatic efforts by Oman, Iraq and Switzerland.

"NOT A PROBLEM"

Hekmati's sister described him as a careful person, saying that before visiting Iran for the first time, he had informed Iran's interests section in Washington, D.C. of his military past, aware that it might arouse suspicion. But staff there said it "wasn't a problem" and processed his paperwork routinely.

He had served as an infantryman, language and cultural adviser and Arabic and Persian linguist in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2001-2005, doing some of his service in Iraq.

But after two weeks in Tehran, Hekmati went missing one evening in August 2011 when he was supposed to join a family gathering, Sarah Hekmati said.

Relatives went to the house where he was staying and found he was gone, along with his laptop, camera, mobile phone, and passport, she said. The door appeared to have been broken open.

"It was very apparent that he was taken by force," she said.

At first the family sought to resolve the issue locally and received encouraging messages from authorities. Relatives in Iran who had spoken to Hekmati advised against resorting to the media. But they have gone public because the cancer diagnosis of Hekmati's father has injected a new urgency into the situation.

"We felt enough is enough, we can only wait so long given our dad's health," Sarah Hekmati said. "He needs to be here with his dad, his dad needs him."

(Reporting By Yeganeh Torbati; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

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Google's top Android exec unexpectedly steps down

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Andy Rubin has stepped down as the executive in charge of Google's Android operating system for smartphones and tablet computers, ending a seven-year reign that reshaped the technology industry.

The unexpected change announced Wednesday may raise new questions about the Android's direction as Google duels with Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and a long list of other companies in the increasingly important mobile computing market.

Google is replacing Rubin with Sundar Pichai, an executive in charge of the company's Chrome Web browser and operating system for lightweight laptop computers. That move may heighten recurring speculation that the Chrome operating system eventually will supplant Android. Google executives haven't ruled out the possibility of the two operating systems eventually merging together, although they have stressed there are no immediate plans to do so within the next couple years.

In a Wednesday blog post, Google CEO Larry Page said Rubin, 50, has reached a stage in his career where he wants to try something different after devoting so much time and energy to Android. Rubin, a longtime gadget lover who once worked at Apple, hatched Android at a startup that Google bought in 2005, when accessing the Internet from a mobile phone was still an exercise in frustration.

"Having exceeded even the crazy ambitious goals we dreamed of for Android ? and with a really strong leadership team in place ? Andy's decided it's time to hand over the reins and start a new chapter at Google," Page wrote. The company declined to disclose what Rubin's new role will be.

Google Inc.'s stock dipped $2.30 Wednesday to close at $825.31.

Although he isn't well-known outside the technology industry, Rubin ranked among the most influential figures in the early stages of the smartphone's development. Most viewed his team's work on Android as revolutionary, although the late Steve Jobs blasted the software as a shameless rip-off of the breakthroughs that Apple made with the 2007 introduction of the iPhone. The first phones running on Android came out more than a year after the iPhone's debut.

While Android's features mirror many of those on the iPhone, the way it's distributed is much different.

Rubin and his team built Android as a piece of "open-source" software that could be easily modified by other developers. That contrasts with the iPhone, whose software is tightly controlled by Apple. But Rubin also created the Nexus smartphone and tablet line as a showcase for the software.

Google also has always given away Android to device makers, content to make money from the advertising that it sells on the Google services built into the software. Making the software free has spawned an array of smartphones that are more affordable than the iPhone.

"The iPhone kind of showed the way for smartphones and then Android turned them into something that could be for everyone," said Gartner Inc. analyst Carolina Milanesi.

To herald Rubin's accomplishments, Page provided an update to Android's ubiquity Wednesday. He said the software is now running on more than 750 million smartphones and tablets throughout the world, making it the world's most widely used mobile operating system. Through December, Apple had sold about 440 million iPhones and iPads since those devices were released.

Android could get another boost Thursday with Samsung Electronics Co.'s expected release of the latest smartphone in its popular Galaxy line. Galaxy phones run on Android.

Relinquishing control of Android also has been a source of frustration for Google as device makers created different permutations of the operating system to suit their own goals. That has made it more difficult to ensure Android users have a consistent experience on the software and, in some cases, complicated Google's efforts to make money off its services in the mobile market.

Now that Android is firmly established, Milanesi predicted Google will focus on figuring out more ways to increase mobile advertising revenue.

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United Arab Emirates : Chevrolet | West Asia Review

The following report was published by AME Info, November 2011 :

Chevrolet celebrates 100th anniversary with sponsorship of the Emirates Classic Car Festival

To celebrate it?s 100th anniversary, Chevrolet is sponsoring the fourth Emirates Classic Car Festival to be held in Downtown Dubai from December 1-3, 2011. Chevrolet was founded by racing pioneer Louis Chevrolet 100 years ago and commemorated its centennial on November 3, 2011. The Chevrolet sponsorship of the Emirate Classic Car Festival is a fitting tribute to mark a century of iconic Chevrolet designs.

As part of Chevrolet?s sponsorship, there will also be a special Centennial Award for the Best Chevrolet on Show at the Emirates Classic Car Festival.

The Festival will showcase a wide array of classic cars and motorcycles, including a number of vintage Chevrolets, and will be visited by thousands of classic car enthusiasts from the UAE and across the Middle East.

To be held on Emaar Boulevard in Downtown Dubai and overlooking Burj Khalifa, the world?s tallest building, this year?s Emirates Classic Car Festival is set to be a special event as it falls on the same weekend as the 40th UAE National Day.

?Chevrolet has played an influential role in the region?s automotive history ever since the first Chevrolet vehicles were introduced to the Middle East in the early 20th Century. So we are delighted to sponsor the Emirates Classic Car Festival, which celebrates the rich automotive heritage in the region and is a natural fit to honor the legacy of Louis Chevrolet,? said John Stadwick, President and Managing Director of General Motors Middle East.

The Emirates Classic Car Festival is organized by Emaar Properties in association with the Automobile & Touring Club of the United Arab Emirates (ATCUAE) , the UAE Ministry of Culture, Youth and Community Development; and under the patronage of the ?F?d?ration Internationale des V?hicules Anciens? ? the world-wide authority for historic vehicles.

Ahmad Al Matrooshi, Managing Director, Emaar Properties, said, ?The Emirates Classic Car Festival is one of the popular lifestyle events that attract thousands of spectators from all over the region to Downtown Dubai, described today as ?The Centre of Now.? Bring a carnival-like ambience to Emaar Boulevard, the event complements the wide array of UAE National Day activities to be hosted by Emaar in Downtown Dubai. We are honoured to partner with the leading names in the industry for the event, which underlines the strong appeal of Emirates Classic Car Festival.?

Over the last century Chevrolet has helped to blaze a trail across the Middle East by revolutionizing transport, shortening travel times and opening up vast areas of previously inaccessible desert interior. Stadwick added, ?Chevrolet?s success was built on the cornerstones of value, reliability, performance and expressive design. Today, Chevrolet continues to represent these same qualities and more.?

The Emirates Classic Car Festival will serve as a rare opportunity to witness elegantly designed automobiles that have weathered the test of time and chart the evolution of the automotive industry. The colourful parades that are a must-see attraction of the Emirates Classic Car Festival draw in festive crowds. The festival will open on December 1 at The Palace ? The Old Town Roundabout on Emaar Boulevard at 3 pm. The classic cars and motor-bikes will be displayed at the venue.

At 7.30 pm, the venue will witness the flagging off the 33rd Dubai International Rally, the final round of the 2011 FIA Middle East Rally Championship. On December 2, the UAE National Day, the closing ceremony of the Emirates Classic Car Festival will be held at 4 pm, with prizes to be distributed to various winners.

The display of classic cars and motorbikes will continue through December 3, adding to the pageantry of the Downtown Dubai Parade to mark the UAE National Day. The parade, at 4 pm, will have four themed floats that represent the traditional culture and heritage of the UAE; the country?s achievements and its iconic monuments; the cultural diversity of the country; and a tribute to the country?s progress.

Emaar Boulevard will also host the closing ceremony of the Dubai International Rally at 5 pm. The classic cars taking part in the Emirates Classic Car Festival will later be displayed at The Armani Pavilion, to coincide with the Gala Reception at 8.30 pm.

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Ed Asner of 'Lou Grant' released from hospital

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Ed Asner's publicist says the 83-year-old actor is out of a Chicago-area hospital after being diagnosed with exhaustion.

Publicist Charles Sherman says Asner was released Thursday and plans to fly home to Los Angeles. He likely will postpone some performances of his touring one-man stage show.

On Tuesday night, Asner was taken off the stage in Gary, Ind., and went by ambulance to the unidentified hospital.

Asner just completed filming several episodes of the TV series "The Glades" in Florida. He's been on a national tour portraying President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the play "FDR" for more than three years.

Asner is best known for his roles in TV's "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff, "Lou Grant."

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China pushes for Arctic foothold, from a thousand miles away

As global warming pushes back the Arctic Sea ice, uncovering new natural-resource deposits, China is looking to establish its presence in the north.

By Mike Eckel,?Contributor / March 7, 2013

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Way up above 66th parallel north, the jousting and jostling for the mother lode of oil, gas, mineral, fish, and other resources being exposed by the rapidly receding Arctic sea ice is well under way.

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Russia is building a new class of nuclear icebreakers. Norway is charting fish-migration patterns for potential new fisheries. Canada is setting up a new Arctic training base and constructing a fleet of new patrol ships. US oil giants are angling to drill exploratory oil and gas wells. And China is sending its flagship icebreaker along the Northern Route.

Wait. China?

Not surprisingly, the eight nations that ring the planet?s northern cap ? the United States, Canada, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and Denmark ? are the ones who have largely driven the discussion about access in the Arctic. With the exception of periodic saber-rattling or polar tub-thumping (Exhibit A: Russia?s 2007 ocean-floor flag-planting stunt), the discussions have been amicable. That?s due in large part to the 17-year-old intergovernmental agency known as the Arctic Council, which has helped soften the edges of growing competition.

?The lure of riches in the Arctic draws ever more companies and nations,? said William Moomaw, a professor of international environmental law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Mass. ?And so far it?s been relatively amicable jousting and jostling there.?

The quickening decline of Arctic Sea ice has its own alarming implications for the globe. As Prof. Moomaw put it at the Tufts University Energy Conference Sunday: ?the trend line looks like a failing stock market or the collapse of a fishery ? it just keeps going down and down, and then keeps going down further.?

That aside, with the wealth of resources being unlocked by global warming, it?s not surprising that other, non-Arctic nations are increasing looking to get in on the action. The US Geological Survey estimates more than a fifth of the world?s undiscovered, recoverable oil and gas lie under the harsh, frigid, and remote conditions above the 66th parallel.

Enter China, whose northern most point in Manchuria, along the Amur River, is at least 1,000 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

Beijing last year sent the icebreaker Snow Dragon (MV Xue Long) from Shanghai to Iceland along the Northern Route, which parallels the Russian Arctic coastline and has the potential to be a shorter, cheaper route to get goods from East Asia to Europe. They?ve applied for observer status at the Arctic Council. And, according to Malte Humpert, executive director of The Arctic Institute, China has also built a swanky new, $250 million embassy in Reykjavik, Iceland, of all places.

So what's behind this push?

It?s easy to see that China would clearly like access to oil, gas, and other resources. But a more persuasive argument is that Beijing clearly wants alternate shipping routes to the Strait of Malacca. That?s the crowded 1-1/2 mile bottleneck between Indonesia and Malaysia that 60,000 ships pass through every year, according to Mr. Humpert: Sixty percent are China-bound, and 80 percent are carrying the fuels that are propelling its economic dynamo. China?s leadership is concerned enough this is a strategic vulnerability that they call the situation the ?Malacca Dilemma.?

But those aren?t wholly convincing in Humpert?s estimation. The most plausible argument is that, as with many of its policies these days, the Chinese are in it for the long haul: a long-term strategy as a global emerging power.

China ?is extending its reach in Africa, southwest Pacific; the Arctic is just the latest region with geopolitical significance. They can make minimal investments today and can secure strong influence in 20, 30 years,? he told a energy conference panel discussion dubbed ?Arctic Anxiety.?

?China wants to have a seat at the table. They want to be part of the Arctic Council. They?re an emerging power,? he said. ?They know that Arctic may be one of the hot spots of the 21st century.?

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Ube WiFi Smart Dimmer to recieve customized multitouch gesture control

Here's a cool little addition to the increasingly competitive world of home automation. Ube's got a WiFi Smart Dimmer that utilizes multitouch functionality to control the the lights in your house -- use one finger to turn off a single light, or use two to turn off a set. The company picked SXSW as the venue to announce the forthcoming launch of customized gestures for other smart devices -- in the example given to us by CEO Utz Baldwin, a user can input a "W" to turn on the sprinklers -- or an "A" plus up swipe to turn on an alarm and an "A" plus a down swipe to disable it.

Sadly, the functionality won't be available for the launch of the first generation, though it's likely to come in time for the second generation, along with a software update for early adopters. Interested parties can support the company via Kickstarter right now -- Ube's a bit over halfway to its goal of $280,000, with 24 days to go. You can also watch Baldwin discuss the product and today's news in a video after the break.

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Kenya: Jubilation for Kenyatta with slim majority

Supporters of Kenyan presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta celebrate what they perceive is an election win for him in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, March 9, 2013. Kenya's election commission posted complete results early Saturday showing that Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta prevailed in the country's presidential elections by the slimmest of margins, winning 50.03 percent of the vote.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Supporters of Kenyan presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta celebrate what they perceive is an election win for him in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, March 9, 2013. Kenya's election commission posted complete results early Saturday showing that Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta prevailed in the country's presidential elections by the slimmest of margins, winning 50.03 percent of the vote.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Supporters of Kenyan presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta celebrate in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, March 9, 2013. Kenya's election commission posted complete results early Saturday showing that Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta prevailed in the country's presidential elections by the slimmest of margins, winning 50.03 percent of the vote.(AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

Supporters of Kenyan presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta celebrate what they perceive is an election win for him in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, March 9, 2013. Kenya's election commission posted complete results early Saturday showing that Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta prevailed in the country's presidential elections by the slimmest of margins, winning 50.03 percent of the vote.(AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

Supporters of Kenyan presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta celebrate what they perceive is an election win for him in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, March 9, 2013. Kenya's election commission posted complete results early Saturday showing that Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta prevailed in the country's presidential elections by the slimmest of margins, winning 50.03 percent of the vote.(AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

A supporter of Kenyan presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta celebrates what he perceive is an election win for him in Kikuyu town near Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, March 9, 2013. Kenya's election commission posted complete results early Saturday showing that Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta prevailed in the country's presidential elections by the slimmest of margins, winning 50.03 percent of the vote.(AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta appears to have won the presidential election in the first round with the slimmest of majorities, as Kenya's electoral commission prepared Saturday to announce the final results of the nation's presidential election.

Final numbers showed Kenyatta with 50.03 percent of the vote. He needs more than 50 percent to win outright and avoid a runoff with Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who had 43.3 percent.

Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding president, is indicted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court and if he becomes president, problems with Western allies are expected.

This did not worry Kenyatta's supporters who are jubilant, though there appeared to be at least an outside possibility that the election commission could announce revised figures that would put Kenyatta back under 50 percent.

Kelvin Mwangi, a taxi conductor, was one of several Kenyatta supporters who huddled around a taxi in discussion of their candidate's win. There were many more similar groups in the distance, and around Nairobi, and they were more likely to be Kikuyus jubilating ? as well as Luos coming to terms with Odinga's loss.

"I feel great because we have won this election," said Mwangi, who like Kenyatta is an ethnic Kikuyu. "Uhuru sold his policies to young people while Raila was busy criticizing him."

The election commission said it would make a formal announcement of the winner. The scheduled announcement was more than an hour late as of midday Saturday in Kenya.

Eliud Owalo, Odinga's chief campaign manager, said the prime minister would not concede defeat "because the process was fraudulent." He did not elaborate.

Though Kenyatta appears to have just barely squeaked by the 50 percent hurdle, he solidly beat Odinga, one of eight candidates. That fact may help prevent the violence that exploded in Kenya after its last presidential vote, in 2007, when more than 1,000 people were killed.

The final provisional figures showed Kenyatta finishing with 6,173,433 votes out of 12,338,667 cast. Odinga had 5,340,546 votes.

A win by Kenyatta could greatly affect Kenya's relations with the West. Kenyatta faces charges at the International Criminal Court for his alleged role in directing some of Kenya's 2007 postelection violence. His running mate, William Ruto, faces similar charges.

Francis Eshitemi, an Odinga supporter Nairobi's largest slum, Kibera, said it was clear his candidate had lost in a free and fair election and that he expected him to concede.

"The problem is that Raila doesn't have the numbers. There were a few irregularities, but the gap between Raila and Uhuru is big," he said.

Isaac Khayiya, another Odinga supporter, said: "This time we want post-election peace, not war. We will be the ones to suffer if there is violence. For them ? Uhuru, Ruto, Odinga ? they have security and they are rich."

The United States has warned of "consequences" if Kenyatta wins, as have several European countries. Britain, which ruled Kenya until the early 1960s, has said they would have only essential contact with the Kenyan government if Kenyatta is president.

Odinga's camp has indicated legal challenges could be filed. Monday's presidential vote proceeded mostly peacefully, but the counting process has been stymied by a myriad of break-downs and errors.

That the winner was quietly revealed overnight ? at about 2:35 a.m. local time ? came as somewhat of a surprise. At about midnight the electoral commission said it would give a formal announcement of the winner at 11 a.m. Kenya time (3 a.m. EST) Saturday. Observers believed that the decision was made in part not reveal a winner overnight, something that could stir suspicions and put security forces at a disadvantage if rioting broke out.

In order to win outright, Kenyatta must not only get more than 50 percent of the vote but also must garner at least 25 percent of the vote in 24 out of Kenya's 47 provinces. Because of the way the election commission announced results, it was difficult to immediately determine if Kenyatta passed that bar.

Diplomats said they believed Odinga was not likely to protest the vote in a manner that would increase the chances of violence, but rather honor his pledge to respect the result and petition the courts with any grievances. Odinga scheduled a news conference for later Saturday morning.

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Are There Too Many Ph.D.s And Not Enough Jobs?

Our country needs more people with science, math and engineering degrees ? at least, that's the common refrain among politicians and educators.

American students lag behind the rest of the world when it comes to math and science test scores, and the president and others have called for a change in immigration laws that would make it easier for people who come to the U.S. to get technical degrees to stay in the country permanently.

The number of PhD students who had a job by graduation has been going down, while the numbers of those who didn't or those who were continuing with studies is going up.

But job numbers released by the National Science Foundation show that people with doctoral degrees in those technical fields are struggling to find work in their industries.

Jordan Weissmann, an editor at The Atlantic, analyzed the latest NSF figures. Upon graduation, he says, "Ph.D.s in general have a less than 50 percent chance of having a full-time job, and that percentage has been decreasing for about 20 years."

Worse yet, as of 2011, approximately one-third of people graduating with a doctoral degree in science, technology, math or engineering had no job or post-doctoral offer of any kind.

These figures are not surprising to many young scientists and engineers who feel the employment squeeze.

John Choiniere, who lives in Seattle, earned a doctorate in analytical chemistry in December. Now, he's unemployed.

"I really want to be able to support my family, and I thought getting a Ph.D. in chemistry would be a great way to do that, but so far, not a lot of luck with that," he says.

But, Weissmann says, there is a silver lining: Those who earn doctoral degrees in technical fields are not likely to face chronic, long-term unemployment.

"I think you look at the science and engineering fields in general, and across all age groups they tend to have extremely low unemployment. You know, maybe 3 percent or so," he says. "I think the question isn't necessarily unemployment, but underemployment certainly is a very live issue in these fields."

Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/03/10/173953052/are-there-too-many-phds-and-not-enough-jobs?ft=1&f=1007

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TOP TEN REASONS TO HAVE STUDENTS BLOG ABOUT THEIR ...

About a year and a half ago, a few of my colleagues and I had our students begin blogging about their independent reading. Some students finished four posts a year. Some students finished ten. Some more. Below are my top ten takeaways from our students? blogging experience.

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Students rarely write for an audience other than the teacher or themselves (social media excluded). Not to say that writing for a teacher contains no value, it does, but when a student writes for an audience of 100 or 1,000, neat things start to happen. The ownership they feel over their words increases. The precision of their diction sharpens. Their text becomes immediately meaningful and relevant to them. Students tend to err on the side of caution when writing for an online audience, which is a valuable experience (I know that I am more careful in composing an email to the entire staff as opposed to a single teacher in my department). As teachers, we always try to emphasize the importance and the power of words, and by students actively crafting their ideas in an open forum, they begin to understand the authority of their opinions. They become empowered.

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Thanks to the influx of the YA genre, reading among teenagers is cooler now than ever. By having students blog, you are giving them a place to share their love of reading. Students are free to read each other?s blogs, comment on each other?s posts, and create a dialogue that may not have happened inside the traditional classroom. Here is an example from one of my students when I asked them about their blogging experience and interacting with other student bloggers:

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?I like the community aspect of it. I can comment on others? [blogs], and they can comment on my blogs. I love sharing my writing and speaking about what I feel is important. I feel heard.? ? Lauren

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If I can do something to make a student feel heard, I?ll do it.

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3.????? Students find their voices

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This pairs with #1, authentic audience. When students write deeply, about ideas they care about (in this case, books and reading), their voices organically begin to take shape. Their words start to sound like them and represent them as readers, but more importantly, as people. The focus is not on impressing the teacher by sounding ?smart? but rather on communicating honest and meaningful thoughts to dozens of people who value what they think. Writing about and reviewing literature requires as much voice as creating literature. The more they can write about their reading experiences, the more they understand what they really sound like.

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4.????? Students read more

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Helping students find reading they are interested in is no small feat. It can easily turn into a back-and-forth because, hey, what does the teacher know about what teenagers like? A recommendation from me is often received with a reluctant grin. A recommendation from one student to another, however, is internalized. Word of mouth (or in a blogger?s case, word of word?) is so influential, and I want to encourage that discovery for my readers. I can?t tell you how many blogs start out with, ?My friend told me about this book, and . . .? The transition from one book to the next is fluid. They even create a reading queue, something that took me 27 years to do.

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If a student knows that she will be writing on her reading experience, her focus now is not only on enjoying the text but on finding things to write about: how this book compares to others she has read, how she feels about the main characters, the author?s word choice, tone, if she would recommend it, etc. She is becoming a closer reader.

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Thanks to the wonderful world of social media, students have a closer connection than ever to their literary celebrities. Many authors are on Twitter, including almost every YA author. Knowing that social media is a fantastic way to establish and build a fan base, authors are more than willing to communicate with their readers and check out reviews on blogs. John Green, Ellen Hopkins, and Simone Elkeles are among the authors who have responded to my students? blogs. Having a teacher say, ?Your blog is great!? is one thing. Having THE AUTHOR say, ?Your blog is great!? is in another world all together. For a student, what is more validating than that?

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Once I lay the foundation for my students, they go in directions I couldn?t have imagined. They make me a better writer and a better reader. The connections they make, the technology they include, the books they read, the way they organize their ideas, I have no problem admitting that they ?school me? on a weekly basis. Because of student blogs that I?ve seen, I know how cool it is to include a Spotify playlist in a post, so the reader has music to listen to that sets the mood during his/her reading of the blog. I know that including a book trailer from YouTube is neat, but creating your own non-text element (through Animoto, Xtranormal, or another storytelling website) is more impressive and leads to . . .

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Online writing is a 21^st-century skill. Whatever digital footprint our students leave (and they are leaving them as we speak), we want it to be positive. We want future employers to be able to find all the creative and insightful products our students can produce. We want all our students to be ?Googled Well.? When they graduate, we want them to have the skills necessary to be successful, to use technology to their advantage, and not just as a way to post pictures of themselves.

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?It was nice seeing friends who didn?t seem very passionate about reading post passionate blogs.? ? Eric

?I think that writing a blog is a lot better and fun than writing an essay. I like it because I could be myself.? ? Sarah

?It?s cool to be able to talk about books with other book lovers. That?s something very lacking. Reading is great, but having someone to talk to about books is better than reading alone.? ? Ellen

?I?m actually looking forward to the next topic I want to write about on the blog.? ? Courtney

?I found that I really like just being able to write about whatever I?ve been reading without it being an essay.? ? Katherine

?I really like blogging because it?s a really open-ended way to talk about books you?ve read or current events. I think blogging is better than the traditional ?book report? or speech because you can focus on whatever parts stood out to you.? ? Jenna

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10. Oh the thinks you can think . . .

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Eventually, blogging in class can lead to blogging outside of it. They may not make their blog during the school year or the year after they leave your class (although I have seen this happen). It might be much later, when they develop a love for the culinary arts and want to blog about their recipes. Or when they don?t have the physical excellence to play organized sports anymore but stay involved by writing about it. Or take a three-week backpacking trip through Europe and record every detail of their visit. There are innumerable topics that people can and will write about, and hopefully they will have the benefit of this positive experience to encourage them.

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Ultimately, when all is said and done, my main goal as an English teacher is to develop lifelong readers and writers. Many of our students are already unofficial members of the Nerdy Book Club. Hopefully one day soon, they will make it official.

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Russ Anderson is a high school English and Reading teacher in the suburbs of Chicago. He blogs about his teaching journey at http://imteachingenglish.wordpress.com. He is incredibly proud of his students who blog at http://fremdeng.ning.com. You can find him on Twitter as @RAndersonFHS.

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T-Mobile USA to start BlackBerry Z10 business sales on March 11

NEW YORK (Reuters) - T-Mobile USA, the fourth biggest U.S. mobile service provider, said on Friday that it would start selling the highly anticipated and much delayed BlackBerry Z10 touchscreen smartphone to its business customers on March 11.

The U.S. unit of Deutsche Telekom said business customers could get delivery of the device by the end of next week. It declined to give a date for the consumer launch except to say that it would be before the end of March.

BlackBerry, formerly known as Research In Motion, already sells the device in more than 20 countries but its reception in the United States, its former stronghold market, is seen as a key step. However, U.S. consumers have had to wait much longer for the device than other countries like Britain.

Bigger rivals Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc declined to reveal their Z10 launch dates on Friday and Canada's BlackBerry declined comment.

BlackBerry, a one-time smartphone pioneer, has bled market share to the likes of Apple's iPhone, as well as Samsung's Galaxy product line and other devices powered by Google Inc's market-leading Android operating system.

In a make-or-break move to regain market share and return to profit, BlackBerry introduced the new smartphone to much fanfare in January. A more traditional BlackBerry with a physical keyboard will go on sale next month.

(Reporting By Sinead Carew; Editing by Nick Zieminski)

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Google nears $7 million settlement with U.S. states over Wifi incident: source

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc is nearing a $7 million settlement with some 30 U.S. states over a 2010 incident in which its Street View mapping cars collected passwords and other personal data from home wireless networks, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The announcement of the settlement is expected to be made by the states early next week, according to the person, though some of the final details of the deal were still being hammered out on Friday. Google has said the incident was a mistake.

A group of states, led by then-Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, began the investigation into Google in 2010 after the company revealed that its fleet of Street View cars had inadvertently collected the data from unsecured wireless networks.

The $7 million payment will be shared among the many states that participated in the investigation.

Google declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the Connecticut Attorney General's office said that the investigation is "active and ongoing."

Google's Street View cars, which are well known for crisscrossing the globe and taking panoramic pictures of streets, accidentally collected data from unsecured wireless networks in more than 30 countries, Google disclosed in 2010. The company has said it "segregated" the data after it became aware it collected it.

Google was fined $25,000 by the FCC for impeding its investigation into the matter. But the FCC said it would not take any enforcement action against Google for the incidents, which Google has called a mistake. The agency said it wasn't clear that Google violated federal wiretap laws by collecting unencrypted personal data that people transmitted over their wireless home (WiFi) networks.

(Reporting By Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

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PFT: Lions could be close to deal with Delmas

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Darrelle Revis and Richard Sherman recently squabbled regarding the question of which of them is the best cornerback in football.

Nobody checked with Joe Haden.

Haden, Browns cornerback and top-five pick in 2010, shared his assessment on Friday?s Pro Football Talk.

?I would say honestly and this is just me being real 100%, I would say Darrelle Revis,? Haden said.? ?I studied tape on guys and I try to look and see what I can do to get my game to be on their levels [and] I feel like I?m honestly the number two cornerback in the league, that?s just my opinion personally.

?I studied all the good guys, all the great guys that are in the league now but Darrelle Revis he just stands out cause he?s just complete.? He tackles, he can play off, he can play press, and he?s just very, very, very patient and he?s just hard to deal with off the line.? His footwork on the line is amazing and that?s just the one thing I feel like I need to get to his level is just press so I feel that?s why he?s the No. 1 cornerback now.?

Haden also made a case for leaving Sherman out of the top two.

?Not to take anything away from him, I mean he?s a really good player on a talented team,? Haden said.? ?They get seen a lot, their defense is, their secondary is amazing with him,? Earl [Thomas], you got [Kam] Chancellor, I mean their other corner too they have just their whole secondary, they get recognition, their team wins, they get seen a lot more but he?s a really, really good player but it would be Revis and then myself.?

So, basically, Haden very politely said to Sherman the stuff Sherman said to Skip Bayless.

Let?s see what Sherman has to say in response.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/08/lions-bringing-louis-delmas-in-today-for-a-physical/related/

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The Dos and Don?ts of Live-Tweeting at an Academic Conference: An Update

March 05, 2013

The Dos and Don?ts of Live-Tweeting at an Academic Conference: An Update

By Vanessa Varin

A few weeks ago, I asked our readers to help me tackle an issue raised at the annual meeting?the lack of etiquette for live-tweeting. The response to our working draft was overwhelming, but also intriguing (you can read the conversation in totality here). Many of the topics raised by readers intersect with our own Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct, including issues of privacy, attribution, and professional conduct.

Although we can agree that social media is transforming the way historians interact, debate, and ultimately generate scholarship, the current debate over live-tweeting suggests that academics still want a traditional form of professional standards to guide new media and? ensure a healthy and mutually beneficial form of scholarly debate.

Below is a revised list, including new additions supplied by our AHA Today readers. Although this list is by no means a formal set of guidelines, I hope historians can use it as a bridge as we continue the discussion of ethics in social media practices.

Do:

• Ask permission. Before the panel begins (preferably a few weeks in advance), ask panelists whether they agree to be tweeted. Contributed by Claire Potter on AHA Today.
• Clearly identify speakers. Although live-tweeting demands rapid fire tweets, all tweets should clearly identify the speaker quoted in each tweet. Contributed by Caleb McDaniel on AHA Today.
• Collect Twitter handles. Before the presentation, ask panelists for a Twitter handle. If they have one, you can reference the scholar, which allows them to track the conversation and even contribute. Contributed by @HistoryGrad and @Teffinina.
• Listen carefully. If you are going to live-tweet a scholar?s presentation, it is only fair to quote his or her words correctly. Of course, the difficulty is that people talk quickly, especially if they are nervous, but if you are making the decision to put their work on an international platform like Twitter, it is only fair that you make an effort to methodically take notes and get their words right.
• Use #hashtags. If you plan to live-tweet, create and promote an accompanying hashtag. This way your tweets will carry the same tag and users can follow the hashtag as its own distinct conversation, uninterrupted by other unrelated tweets.
• Try Storify. Along the same lines of the hashtag, be sure to Storify any conversation related to the hashtag. Storify allows users to create a timeline of social media interactions (in this case a Twitter conversation). This platform is particularly helpful for adding context to tweets, and organizing them into a single, common thread for users to read. For an example, we Storified the conversation surrounding this topic into a social media story titled ?Live-Tweeting Etiquette? that I encourage you to read.
• Link to the paper/session. If the panelist has made the work they are presenting available online, post a link. Contributed by Michelle Davison on Facebook.

Don?t:

• Insult a panelist or participant. Twitter is a distinct but important form of academic discussion, and in this vein, live tweeters should follow the same code of conduct that governs professional conduct. Recognizing the unique format of social media, in late 2012 the AHA publications department produced ?Policies on Letters to the Editor and Comments on the AHA Website and Social Media? to help guide debate on our social media platforms.

Eschewing personal attacks proved popular among respondents. Elain Treharne, commenting on AHA Today, cautioned Twitterstorians to avoid commenting ?on the way the speaker looks or what her personality traits might be according to her hairstyle.?


• Indulge in snark. Claire Potter offered sage advice on AHA Today: ?So ask yourself before Tweeting: is this something I would say in a department meeting? Then take it a step further: is this something I would put on the right-hand page of the New York Times under my own name?? @ProfessMoravec offered similar advice, tweeting, ?do tweet constructive criticism do resist the urge to show how clever you are.?
• Manipulate the record. One of the many invaluable aspects of Twitter is its ability to document and archive discussions. Thus, Twitterstorians must be fair and balanced in how they cover a panel and portray a panelist?s argument, regardless of how they feel about the argument being made.

Source: http://blog.historians.org/news/1978/the-dos-and-donts-of-live-tweeting-at-an-academic-conference-an-update

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