From puffy sleeves to high-waisted denim, the fashion trends of the '80s definitely seemed cool at the time. But now? Not so much. In fact, when we look back at photos of us in the '80s (in all their hairspray-soaked glory), we sometimes wish we could destroy the evidence. But that's not such an easy task for people who were mega-stars during the decade!
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May 30, 2013 ? Barefoot running has been making headlines ever since 1960, when a shoeless Abebe Bikila set a new world-record marathon time at the Rome Olympics. Even manufacturers have muscled in on the trend over the years, with most now offering their own version of 'barefoot' or 'minimalist' shoes.
Supporters of barefoot running make a variety of claims about its virtues -- but what does the scientific evidence actually say?
Benno Nigg and Henrik Enders from the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Calgary investigated. Their paper, published in the journal Footwear Science, examines the known research into barefoot running's effects on foot motion, training, running economy and injury.
They started with the barefoot boosters' claims that running without shoes encourages a 'forefoot' rather than a 'heel' landing, making runners less prone to injury. Nigg and Enders dispute this, saying that not only does the available research not prove any reduced injury risk, other factors like the running surface, shoe choice, speed and individual preferences play too large a role to make such generalisations possible. Likewise, the researchers found no difference between shod and barefoot movements in their ability to strengthen certain muscles.
The additional weight of a shoe (up to about 300g) didn't seem to have much effect on performance, either. What seemed to make more of a difference was what Nigg and Enders call the 'preferred movement pattern': the combination of chosen footwear and a runner's preferred strike pattern.
Nigg and Enders also debunk the main claim of barefoot supporters: that running without shoes leads to fewer injuries. They point to problems with the research on which the original claims were based and note that while existing articles address the different injuries caused by different landing styles, they know of 'no publication that provides hard evidence that people running barefoot have fewer injuries than people running in running shoes'. They conclude, quite simply, that 'it is not known whether people running barefoot have more, equal, or fewer injuries than people running in conventional running shoes.'
The current discussion on the benefits of barefoot versus shod running tends to be focused on 'which is better'. Nigg and Enders' work suggests that perhaps this isn't the right question to ask. What's more important, at least in terms of performance and injury, appears to be individual preference and running style. 'Subjective preferences' should play a bigger role in the discussion, whatever shoe manufacturers, coaches or other athletes might say: in the end, runners run best when they're comfortable -- whatever they're wearing (or not) on their feet. This paper is an important contribution to a debate that for now, seems certain to run and run.
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Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) and Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) are together again on "The Killing."
Detectives Linden and Holder are back from the dead! Well, in a way. AMC's "The Killing" was canceled in July after its second season ended, only to earn an unexpected reprieve in January, much to fans' delight.
When the show picks up again, a year will have passed since the conclusion of the Rosie Larsen homicide case, and Linden (Mireille Enos) has stepped away from detective work. But when Holder (Joel Kinnaman) is handed a new assignment that has ties to one of Linden?s former cases, he realizes he?s only got one option available to him: He?s got to drag his former partner back into the fray.
In an exclusive clip AMC is sharing with TODAY.com, the former partners come face to face. Check it out:
Given how things were left between them, you can imagine her excitement.
"The Killing" returns with a two-hour premiere on Sunday, June 2 at 8 p.m. on AMC.
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May 29, 2013 ? People lie about their health related behaviors. It's a problem that has long bedeviled health research on issues ranging from diet to exercise to smoking. And it's not just that we have faulty memories. Many of us stretch the truth to make ourselves seem more virtuous in the eyes of the person in the white coat. That makes drawing conclusions about behaviors that affect health from self-reported records tricky.
Kusum Ailawadi, the Charles Jordan 1911 TU'12 Professor of Marketing at Tuck, has found a way around this problem -- at least with regard to diet. Ailawadi and her colleagues examined data on several years of household food purchases from a marketing database that tracks what people buy at the store by having them scan their groceries with a device at home.
Paired with information on the same consumers' health status and other demographics and data on the nutritional content of groceries, the researchers were able to track the link between factors such as income, food price, self-control, and health knowledge and the nutritional quality of their food purchases. "We know that recall is not accurate and we know people, especially obese people, are hesitant to admit to unhealthy eating," says Ailawadi. "We were interested in actual purchasing behavior."
The researchers were also able to study how food-buying patterns changed in the household following one member's diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, a chronic disease strongly linked with obesity. The latter point is of particular interest to Ailawadi given the expanding obesity epidemic and the ensuing scrutiny of processed food companies' marketing practices.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of Americans with diabetes has more than tripled in the last 30 years to 20.9 million. As many as 95 percent of the cases are Type 2 diabetes and tens of millions more Americans are considered pre-diabetic, a situation that has helped lead to bans on trans fats and large servings of sugary drinks in New York City.
Some of the researchers' findings were expected. In families where the head of household is highly educated and interested in nutrition, purchases of fatty and sugary foods were lower than in others. But price had the greatest effect by far on the healthfulness of peoples' food purchases. In families where there was a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis, total purchases of sugary foods declined. Other results were more surprising. The study examined the performance of people with "high self-control," as defined by healthy practices such as regular exercise and infrequent consumption of fast food or late-night snacks. As expected, the self-controllers bought less junk food like sugary cola and potato chips. Yet they offset this benefit with greater quantity of "healthy foods" like yogurt and cereal, leading to greater overall consumption of calories and sugar. This paradox of consuming more because of a perception of healthy attributes is known as a "health halo bias."
"They're putting more of the healthy foods in their mouths," says Ailawadi. "They focus on quality and not on quantity: Is a food healthy or unhealthy? Once they categorize it as healthy they don't focus on how much of it they're eating."
The study also finds that households with high levels of education, nutrition interest, and self-control were no better at responding to a diabetes diagnosis than others, although high income spurred improved responses. Also, households where a woman was diagnosed with diabetes or where the patient was younger made healthier changes than households where a man or an older person was diagnosed.
In addition, consumption of fatty foods like processed meats and salty snacks increased in households following a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis -- even though doctors advise diabetics to cut both sugar and fat in their diets. As for sugar reduction, it came mainly from high-sugar colas and juices where low-sugar alternatives are easily available. Consumption of treats like cookies and ice cream did not decline following a diabetes diagnosis. "They taste good, they make you feel good," says Ailawadi. "The human palate loves the combination of fat and sugar so they are hard to resist. And it doesn't help that less unhealthy versions of these products are sold at a substantial price premium over the high fat/high sugar versions."
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Drones aren't just for war, creating airborne logos or patrolling Aussie beaches. If German railway operators have their way, they'd be used to capture graffiti artists, too. Motivated by the high cost of property damage incurred by spray-painting vandals (around 7.6 million euros / $10 million a year), the Deutsche Bahn will soon begin testing miniature helicopter-style drones in the hopes of identifying those responsible. Each remote-controlled chopper is equipped with an infrared sensor capable of thermal imaging and producing high-resolution photos that would be useful to authorities. The tiny aircraft can also fly up to 150 meters (500 feet) and as fast as 33 mph and would cost about 60,000 euros ($77,550) each. The Bahn assured the public that the mini drones will be restricted to highly targeted areas, which should help allay those privacy concerns.
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NEW YORK ? A rally that that brought the stock market to record highs this year came back to life after U.S. home prices rose the most in seven years and consumer confidence reached a five-year high.
The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as 218 points during morning trading Tuesday, bouncing back from a loss the week before. The Dow gave back about half of the gain by early afternoon, and was up 101 points shortly before 2 p.m.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.11 percent, its highest level since April 2012, as investors moved money out of safe assets and into riskier ones like stocks.
The jump in home prices reinforced a theme that has been a major factor behind the surge in stocks this year: a strong recovery in the housing market.
"They say the stock market tends to lead the economy. Now we're starting to see the improvement on the economic front, so there's some justification for this rally," said Ryan Detrick, a senior technical strategist at Schaeffer's investment research.
The market is coming off a rare loss last week, when both the Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500 index had their first losing weeks in a month. Investors worried that the Federal Reserve might slow its extraordinary economic stimulus measures, which have also supported the stock market's advance.
Home builder stocks rose Tuesday after the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller survey, which was released before stock trading opened, found that U.S. home prices rose 10.9 percent in March, the most since April 2006. A growing number of buyers are bidding on a tight supply of homes. Beazer Homes jumped 63 cents, or 3 percent, to $21.96.
Stocks extended their gains after the Conference Board reported at 10 a.m. that its measure of consumer confidence rose in May to its highest level since February 2008.
The Dow was up 101 points, or 0.7 percent, to 15,405 as of 1:57 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. If the Dow finishes the day higher it will end have closed higher for 20 straight Tuesdays, according to Schaeffer's investment research.
The S&P 500 index rose nine points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,658. The Nasdaq composite index climbed 25 points, or 0.7 percent, to 3,483.
The gains were broad. Eight of the 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 index rose, led by financial stocks. The only ones that fell were utilities and telecommunication stocks, which investors tend to buy when they're seeking stable, safe stocks that pay high dividends. All but three of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average rose.
The Dow has advanced 17.8 percent this year and the S&P 500 index in 16.5 percent higher as investors have piled into stocks.
Unlike the first three months of the year, when the biggest gains were in large, stable companies like consumer staple makers that pay big dividends, in recent weeks investors have been bidding up the stocks of companies that have more to gain if the economy strengths. That shift out of lower-risk stocks and into more "cyclical" stocks, like banks and industrial companies, means investors are becoming more aggressive in seeking returns and more comfortable taking on risk.
Another bullish signal for the market is the strong growth in small-company stocks. Those stocks have a greater potential for growth but also tend to carry greater risk than large, diversified companies. The preference for small stocks was on display again Tuesday as the Russell 2000 index of small-company stocks rose 1.2 percent, more than other market indexes, to 995 points, a gain of 11 points. Its year-to-date increase of 17.2 percent is one percentage point greater than that of the S&P 500.
Bond prices fell and their yields rose. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.11 percent from 2.01 percent late Friday. Markets were closed Monday for Memorial Day.
The longer-term outlook for bonds is bleak as rising inflation will eventually lead to higher interest rates, said Tim Courtney, chief investment officer at Exencial Wealth Advisors. Despite climbing this year, the yield on the 10-year note is still close to the record low of 1.39 percent that it reached in July, 2012, when demand for Treasuries surged as the European debt crisis intensified.
"The only way that bonds can make money from here is if we go a prolonged period of time with very, very low inflation and rates just don't move up a whole lot at all," said Courtney. "Under any other scenario they lose."
Among other stocks making big moves:
-Tiffany rose $3.23, or 4.2 percent, to $79.44 after the high-end jewelry seller said its first quarter net income rose 3 percent as sales improved across all regions. The results beat the forecasts of Wall Street analysts.
-Tesla Motors jumped $7.23, or 7.5 percent, to $104.30. Last week the electric car market raised almost $1 billion from a bond and stock offering and paid off a government loan nine years early. The company is also set to announce this week that it's adding to a network of car charging stations.
-Electricity company FirstEnergy dropped 7.5 percent, or $3.19, to $39.45 after Credit Suisse stripped the company of its 'outperform' rating, saying that a glut of energy would push down prices the company is able to charge.
Traders were encouraged by gains in overseas markets. Japan's benchmark Nikkei rose 1.2 percent. The index had plunged 7.3 percent Thursday on concerns about Japan's massive economic stimulus program. European markets also rose. Britain's FTSE 100 jumped 1.6 percent and Germany's DAX gained climbed 1.2 percent.
In commodities trading, the price of oil rose $1.18, or 1.2 percent, to $95.35. Gold fell $7.70, or 0.6 percent, to $1,378.90 an ounce. The dollar gained against the euro and the Japanese yen.
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Antivirus protection and a firewall are the core of any security suite, and most suites add a standard set of features including spam filtering and parental control. Encryption and access control can also be useful, especially in a business setting, but these features are less common. TrustPort Total Protection 2013 ($69.95 direct; $89.95 for three licenses) offers the same suite components as TrustPort's basic suite and adds a range of encryption and access control features that will please the tech-savvy user. Yes, you pay more for the mega-suite, but you get your money's worth.
Just looking at this product, you'd be hard pressed to distinguish it from TrustPort Internet Security 2013. The main window is the same, the color scheme is the same. The only visible difference is the product name in the title bar. Under the hood, though, there's a lot more.
TrustPort Total Security 2013 shares quite a lot of features with TrustPort Internet Security 2013 and TrustPort Antivirus 2013. You'll want to read those reviews for full details. I'll summarize here, and then dig into the features specific to the mega-suite.
Shared Antivirus
I had next to no trouble installing TrustPort on my 12 malware-infested test systems. I did need to generate a bootable Windows PE antivirus CD on a clean system to get past problems with two of the 12, but it did the job easily.
TrustPort's low score of 4.7 for malware removal reflects the fact that it didn't effectively clean up the malware samples it found. It left behind quite a few executables, many of them still running. Among products tested with this same set of samples, only G Data TotalSecurity 2014 scored lower, with 4.3 points. At 6.0 points, Kaspersky PURE 3.0 Total Security did the best in this group. For details about how I test malware removal, see How We Test Malware Removal.
TrustPort tied with Ad-Aware Pro Security 10.5 for best detection rate (94 percent) in my malware blocking test, and tied with G Data TotalSecurity 2014 for second-best malware blocking score overall, 9.0 points. Looking at products tested with my previous malware collection, Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete 2013 led the pack with 9.9 points. To learn how I run the malware blocking test, see How We Test Malware Blocking.
The independent testing labs mostly ignore TrustPort, unfortunately. West Cost Labs does certify TrustPort's technology for virus detection and removal, and TrustPort got VB100 certification in eight of the last ten tests by Virus Bulletin. The chart below summarizes recent lab results; for more about these tests, see How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests.
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We wanted to let you know that after a very successful run, Chef Trent Pierce has decided to close Wafu to debut a new casual seafood concept. Behind the success of Roe and coupled with a desire to continue his family lineage, Trent introduces?BLOCK&TACKLE, a casual seafood restaurant as counterpoint to his high end eatery Roe which will continue service discreetly in the backroom.
The menu is still being planned but look for ? Fresh Oysters, raw preparations, Seafood Charcuterie, and new twists on american classics like chowders, fish & chips and seafood cocktails. ?Fresh and simple is the key at a price point that is accessible. We?re also planning a new Oyster bar just in time for summer.
Wafu?s last service will be?June 2nd. ?Roe will continue service throughout the transition.
We wanted to thank all of our customers for their support ? we are so grateful and we hope that you will love our new seafood restaurant as much as you love Wafu.See you soon!
The Wafu and Roe Team
"I have a wide-range of food experience - working in the restaurant industry on both sides of the house, later in the wine industry, and finally traveling/tasting my way around the world. Whether you agree or disagree, you can always count on my unbiased opinion. I don't take free meals, and the restaurants don't know when, or if, I am coming."
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ? The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and survivors of the bloody conflicts that ripped through the Balkans in the 1990s looked back on two decades of trials and tribulations as the court marked the 20th anniversary Monday of its establishment by the U.N. Security Council.
Court officials hailed the tribunal's legacy of putting on trial war crimes suspects ranging from heads of state to low-ranking soldiers. Activists and survivors also praised the court, but lamented how slow it has been to mete out justice.
The court's complex and lengthy trials meant that it failed to reach a verdict in the case of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian president widely seen as the driving force behind the violent breakup of Yugoslavia who died in his cell in 2006 before the end of his four-year trial.
"If there is something to be held against the tribunal, then it is its efficiency," Bosnian war crimes investigator Mirsad Tokaca said in a recent interview. "It is impermissible that the trials should last so long, absolutely impermissible."
The court's president, Judge Theodor Meron, acknowledged the problem, but said it was unavoidable as the court carved out a new international legal order and tackled massive and complex crimes often committed over months or years and allowed suspects like Milosevic to defend themselves ? a process that led to lengthy political grandstanding and dragged out his case.
"I wish we could have gone faster, but I do believe that we have such special problems that if you focus on our cases you see that our progress has been quite reasonable," Meron said.
The court has proved that ? with patience and help from the international community and local authorities ? war crimes tribunals can get their hands on suspects, even if they don't have their own police force.
The tribunal indicted 161 suspects, from Milosevic to a young Serb soldier who was part of a firing squad responsible for massacring Muslims in Srebrenica, and all who survived long enough have faced justice either in The Hague or local courts.
"One of the achievements is for sure that there are no fugitives at large any more," said the court's chief prosecutor, Serge Brammertz.
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic and his wartime military, chief Gen. Ratko Mladic, avoided capture for years before they were finally arrested in Serbia. Both are now standing trial in The Hague, though their cases were adjourned Monday as new Dutch King Willem-Alexander joined other dignitaries for a ceremony in the tribunal's lobby.
The arrests of the likes of Karadzic and Mladic give hope to the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, the International Criminal Court, based in a former telecom company office on the other side of The Hague, which is struggling to get custody of some of its most senior indicted suspects, including Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and a Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, a son of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Meron said that one of the tribunal's key achievements was demonstrating that an international court could deliver justice impartially.
"We showed that it is possible to have international prosecutions and international trials of people accused of the gravest offenses against international law and do it in accordance with the entire panoply of principles of fairness and due process," he said.
Many Serbs disagree, saying the tribunal unfairly targets Serbs, who form the majority of its suspects.
"Serbs do not recognize The Hague tribunal at all. They are trying only the Serbs and all others have been released or will be released," said Bosnian Serb Jovo Gavrilovic.
One former leader with up-close knowledge of the tribunal's work, former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, praised the court that initially convicted him of war crimes and later acquitted him after a retrial.
"This is the only institution or arbiter that went (through) with it, so if the question is, is it worth that we have it or it would have been better not to have something like that? I must say it was worthy to have it," he said in an interview in Kosovo.
Now, as the tribunal prepares to close in coming years, its archives could underpin more prosecutions in domestic courts in the Balkans and provide a legacy that will ensure the crimes are never forgotten.
"I personally and many other victims believe that not a single war criminal would have been arrested and sentenced had there been no Hague tribunal," said Bakira Hasecic, herself a victim of war-time rape during Bosnia's 1992-95 conflict.
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AP senior producer Amer Cohadzic in Sarajevo and writer Nebi Qena in Pristina contributed to this story.
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By Dominic Evans
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two rockets hit a Shi'ite Muslim district of Beirut on Sunday, driving home the risk of spillover from Syria's civil war, after the head of Lebanese Shi'ite movement Hezbollah said it would keep fighting on the Syrian government's side until victory.
It was the first attack to apparently target Hezbollah's stronghold in the south of the Lebanese capital since the outbreak of the two-year conflict in neighboring Syria, which has sharply heightened Lebanon's own sectarian tensions.
The United States and Russia have proposed an international peace conference to douse a civil war that has killed more than 80,000 people, driven 1.5 million Syrians as refugees abroad and raised the specter of sectarian bloodshed in the wider region.
Syria's government will "in principle" attend the talks tentatively set for June in Geneva and believes it will be an opportunity to resolve the crisis, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said during a visit to Baghdad on Sunday.
But in an apparent rebuff of Western calls for President Bashar al-Assad to cede power as part of any deal on transition, Moualem said: "No power on earth can decide on the future of Syria. Only the Syrian people have the right to do so."
The U.S. and Russian foreign ministers, striving to refloat a plan for a political transition in Syria, were due to meet in Paris on Monday to work out the details.
Whether the exiled Syrian civilian opposition will take part in the envisaged peace talks - and be able to negotiate effectively, given their internal divisions and shaky rapport with rebels inside Syria - remains in doubt.
The United States has been prodding Assad's opponents to unite before the conference. But the Islamist-dominated coalition has been hamstrung by power struggles during talks going on in Istanbul aimed at broadening its representation and electing a cohesive leadership.
The talks stalled on Sunday in a factional dispute over proposals to dilute Qatar's influence on rebel forces, with Saudi Arabia angling to play a greater role now that Iranian-backed Hezbollah was openly fighting for Assad.
Some observers have viewed the commitment by Hezbollah to Assad's cause as indicating the Lebanese movement does not see the United States weighing in against it. Asked whether the militia's role might alter Washington's reluctance to arm the rebels, a spokesman for President Barack Obama said on Sunday:
"The calculus that the president is making is something that is regularly reviewed and updated ... Our involvement and our assistance to the opposition there has steadily increased."
European Union foreign ministers meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss British and French calls for them to ease an arms embargo in order to help the rebels obtain weapons. Some other EU states oppose the move, at least until after any peace talks.
CONFLICT AFFLICTING LEBANON
Syria's conflagration has polarized Lebanon, a country of four million, in whose 15-year civil war to 1990 Syria was a major player and where Syrian troops remained until 2005.
Lebanese Sunni Muslims support the mainly Sunni insurgency against Assad, and Shi'ite Hezbollah stands by the president, whose minority Alawite sect derives from Shi'ite Islam.
In Sunday's attack, one rocket landed in a car sales yard next to a busy road junction in south Beirut's Chiah neighborhood, and the other struck an apartment several hundred meters away, wounding five people, residents said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Brigadier Selim Idris, head of Syria's Western-backed rebel military command, told Al-Arabiya Television that his forces had not carried out the attack.
He urged rebels to keep their conflict inside Syria.
But another Syrian rebel, Ammar al-Wawi, told Lebanon's LBC Television the attack was a warning to authorities in Beirut to restrain Hezbollah. "In coming days we will do more than this. This is a warning to Hezbollah and the Lebanese government to keep Hezbollah's hands off Syria," he said.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah had declared on Saturday night that his thousands of fighters were committed to the conflict against what he called radical Sunni Islamist rebels in Syria, whatever the cost.
"We will continue to the end of the road. We accept this responsibility and will accept all sacrifices and expected consequences of this position," he said in a televised speech on Saturday evening. "We will be the ones who bring victory."
Though numbering only in the thousands compared to the tens of thousands of troops and many more irregular Syrian militiamen that Assad can draw on, Hezbollah's fighters, seasoned in urban warfare against Israel as recently as 2006, are a potent force.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius condemned the violent spillover into Lebanon. "The war in Syria must not become the war in Lebanon," he told reporters in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
Until recently, Nasrallah insisted that Hezbollah had not sent guerrillas to fight alongside Assad's forces.
Syrian government forces reinforced by Hezbollah launched an onslaught last week on Qusair, a rebel-controlled town close to the Lebanese border that rebels have used as a crucial supply corridor for weapons coming into the country.
For Assad, taking Qusair would help keep Damascus, the capital, connected to the Alawite coastal heartland and also hinder links between the rebel-held north and south of Syria.
Lebanese authorities, haunted by Lebanon's own civil war and torn by the same kind of sectarian rifts as Syria, have pursued a policy of "dissociation" from the Syrian turmoil.
But Hezbollah is arguably a stronger force than Beirut's government, which has been unable to stem the flow into Syria of Sunni gunmen who support the rebels or of Hezbollah fighters who back Assad. It has also struggled to absorb nearly half a million refugees coming the other way to escape the fighting.
At least 25 people have been killed in Tripoli in the north of Lebanon over the last week in Sunni-Alawite street fighting triggered in part by the battle for Qusair across the frontier.
In Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, residents said three rockets landed on Sunday close to the mainly Shi'ite border town of Hermel, without causing injuries. Rebels have targeted Hermel from inside Syria several times in recent weeks.
Nasrallah's speech was condemned by former prime minister Saad al-Hariri, a Sunni who said that Hezbollah, set up by Iran in the 1980s to fight Israeli occupation forces in south Lebanon, had abandoned anti-Israeli "resistance" in favor of sectarian conflict in Syria.
"The resistance is ending by your hand and your will," Hariri said in a statement. "The resistance announced its political and military suicide in Qusair."
Hariri is backed by Saudi Arabia, which along with other Sunni Muslim Gulf Arab monarchies has strongly supported the uprising against the Iranian-backed Assad.
The extent to which Hezbollah's support for Assad has alienated Sunni Arabs who admired its battles against Israel was demonstrated on Sunday when the foreign minister of Sunni-ruled Bahrain used unusually strong language to call Nasrallah a "terrorist" and said it was a "religious duty" to stop him.
(Additional reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis in Istanbul, Laila Bassam and Erika Solomon in Beirut, Ahmed Rasheed and Suadad al-Salhy in Baghdad and John Irish in Abu Dhabi; Writing by Mark Heinrich; Editing by Will Waterman and Alastair Macdonald)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rockets-hit-south-beirut-hezbollah-vows-syria-victory-000621219.html
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Every week, a new and interesting human being tackles our decidedly geeky take on the Proustian Q&A. This is the Engadget Questionnaire.
Steve Wozniak pioneered the personal computing industry with the Apple I and II. In a throwback to our 31st issue of Distro, we'll take a very thorough look at the mind and habits of the Woz. Spoiler alert: he has a thing for the bitten fruit.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Obese mothers tend to have kids who become obese. Now provocative research suggests weight-loss surgery may help break that unhealthy cycle in an unexpected way ? by affecting how their children's genes behave.
In a first-of-a-kind study, Canadian researchers tested children born to obese women, plus their brothers and sisters who were conceived after the mother had obesity surgery. Youngsters born after mom lost lots of weight were slimmer than their siblings. They also had fewer risk factors for diabetes or heart disease later in life.
More intriguing, the researchers discovered that numerous genes linked to obesity-related health problems worked differently in the younger siblings than in their older brothers and sisters.
Clearly diet and exercise play a huge role in how fit the younger siblings will continue to be, and it's a small study. But the findings suggest the children born after mom's surgery might have an advantage.
"The impact on the genes, you will see the impact for the rest of your life," predicted Dr. Marie-Claude Vohl of Laval University in Quebec City. She helped lead the work reported Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Why would there be a difference? It's not that mom passed on different genes, but how those genes operate in her child's body. The idea: Factors inside the womb seem to affect the dimmer switches that develop on a fetus' genes ? chemical changes that make genes speed up or slow down or switch on and off. That in turn can greatly influence health.
The sibling study is "a very clever way of looking at this," said Dr. Susan Murphy of Duke University. She wasn't involved in the Canadian research but studies uterine effects on later health. She says it makes biological sense that the earliest nutritional environment could affect a developing metabolism, although she cautions that healthier family habits after mom's surgery may play a role, too.
It's the latest evidence that the environment ? in this case the womb ? can alter how our genes work.
And the research has implications far beyond the relatively few women who take the drastic step of gastric bypass surgery before having a baby. Increasingly, scientists are hunting other ways to tackle obesity before or during pregnancy in hopes of a lasting benefit for both mother and baby.
What's clear is that obesity is "not just impacting your life, it's impacting your child," Duke's Murphy said.
More than half of pregnant women are overweight or obese, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. But it's not just a matter of how much moms weigh when they conceive ? doctors also are trying to stamp out the idea of eating for two. Gaining too much weight during pregnancy increases the child's risk of eventually developing obesity and diabetes, too.
What's too much? Women who are normal weight at the start of pregnancy are supposed to gain 25 to 35 pounds. Those who already are obese should gain no more than 11 to 20 pounds. Overweight mothers-to-be fall in the middle.
Sticking to those guidelines can be tough. The National Institutes of Health just began a five-year, $30 million project to help overweight or obese pregnant women do so, and track how their babies fare in the first year of life.
Called the LIFE-Moms Consortium, researchers are recruiting about 2,000 expectant mothers for seven studies around the country that are testing different approaches to a healthy weight gain and better nutritional quality. They range from putting pregnant women on meal plans and exercise programs, to weekly monitoring, to peer pressure from fellow parents trained to bring nutrition advice into the homes of low-income mothers-to-be.
It's best to get to a healthy weight before conceiving, noted Dr. Mary Evans of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, who oversees the project.
Just how much mom has to lose for a healthier baby is "obviously a research gap," she said.
Monday's research findings from Canada may shed some new light. Consider: Overweight mothers have higher levels of sugar and fat in the bloodstream, which in turn makes it to the womb.
Fetuses are "marinated, and they're differently marinated" depending on mom's weight and health, said Dr. John Kral of New York's SUNY Downstate Medical Center, who co-authored the Canadian study.
That may do more than overstimulate fetal growth. Scientists know that certain molecules regulate gene activity, attaching like chemical tags. That's what Laval University lead researcher Dr. Frederic Guenard was looking for in blood tests. He took samples from children born to 20 women before and after complex surgery that shrank their stomachs and rerouted digestion so they absorb less fat and calories. On average, they lost about 100 pounds.
Guenard compared differences in those chemical tags in more than 5,600 genes between the younger and older siblings. He found significant differences in the activity of certain genes clustered in pathways known to affect blood sugar metabolism and heart disease risk.
Only time will tell if these youngsters born after mom's surgery really get lasting benefits, whatever the reason. Meanwhile, specialists urge women planning a pregnancy to talk with their doctors about their weight ahead of time. Besides having potential long-term consequences, extra pounds can lead to a variety of immediate complications such as an increased risk of premature birth and cesarean sections.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/moms-obesity-surgery-may-help-break-cycle-kids-192322482.html
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Getty ImagesAs Browns owner Jimmy Haslam periodically opts to talk confidently about the legal issues embroiling the truck-stop company he runs, the prosecutors assigned to the case have remained eerily silent.
Eventually, they?ll speak via indictments and, ultimately, evidence introduced at trial.? Haslam?s tightrope routine, balancing his company?s business interests against his personal legal predicament, has created the impression that, yes, something happened but that, no, he?s not responsible for it.
Whatever happened, David Lewen and Francis ?Trey? Hamilton are working to get to the bottom of it.? As explained by John Caniglia of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the pair of young, aggressive prosecutors quietly are leading the investigation.
?They?re excellent prosecutors, very knowledgeable and very diligent,? said Hugh Ward, a defense lawyer who previously worked with both men in the Knoxville U.S. Attorney?s office.? ?Both are good people, personally.? They?re top of the line.?
Lewen, 37, has prosecuted drug crimes involving complex hierarchies.? Hamilton, 41, prosecutes white-collar crime, like the ones that eventually could be alleged against multiple employees of Pilot Flying J.
John Sammon, a former IRS agent and retired federal prosecutor, explained the key similarity between complex drug crimes and white-collar prosecutions:? ?You work from the bottom to the top.?
With one Pilot Flying J employee already quoted in an affidavit as saying Haslam knew about the alleged rebate/discount scam, the prosecutors could be searching for and/or piecing together evidence that would prove conclusively that Haslam or other key employees at the precipice of the Pilot Flying J pyramid either condoned the alleged fraud or ordered it.
And that possibility should send a chill from the bottom to the top of Haslam?s spine.
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Romao, Jabour, Flores and Aranburu triumphant in Round 3 of Quiksilver Saquarema Prime
Brazil?s Simao Romao, Hawaii?s Kiron Jabour, France?s Jeremy Flores and Basque Country?s Aritz Aranburu claimed success in their respective Round 3 (no-elimination Round of 24) heats of the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) 2013 Quiksilver Saquarema Prime, which continued at Itauna beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Friday, May 24, 2013.
The four surfers advanced through into the fifth round (Round of 16) following their Round 3 success.
After surviving the challenging conditions on the first and second day of competition, the surfers were given a bit a bit of a breather by nature, as high-performance four-to-six foot waves graced the main event site on the latest day.
The battle for a direct spot in the fifth round without having to go through the relegation round (Round 4) continued between the surfing talent from around the globe.
Romao found himself pitted against Peru?s Gabriel Villaran and Brazil?s Gabriel Medina in the fifth heat.
Despite Medina being considered the favourite to walk away victorious, it turned out to be the other Brazilian who managed to clinch the win.
Romao looked impressive from the moment he paddled into the sea and locked his first wave. Scoring a couple of points in the seven-point range off his best waves, he finished with a heat-total of 14.93 points.
With Villaran and Medina finishing with a heat-total of 9.53 and 9.10 points respectively, Romao ended up earning a convincing win to advance straight to the fifth round.
The sixth heat saw Jabour take on his compatriot Sebastian Zietz and Ireland?s Glenn Hall in a three-man battle for the Round 5 spot.
The Hawaiian surfer earned a 7.70 off his first business-wave and went on to back it up with a 6.50-point ride, thus registering a heat-total of 14.20 points. The score remained unbeatable until the end to seal the fate of the heat in his favour.
Hall finished with a heat-total of 12.40 points, while Zietz finished third after registering a two-wave total of 11.07 points. Both the surfers were consequently relegated to the fourth round (Round of 24).
Flores, currently in contention for ASP World Championship Title, put on the performance of the day as he took on his fellow countryperson Joan Duru and South Africa?s Dale Staples in the seventh heat.
The French surfer earned a near-perfect 9.80 off his first business-wave and backed it up with an 8.50-point ride, thus finishing with an impressive heat-total of 18.30 points.
?The conditions have completely changed since yesterday,? commented Flores. ?I?m happy to be doing well in the last couple of contests and I feel confident for the next heats.?
Duru and Staples were forced to take a trip to the relegation round after finishing with a heat-total of 14.00 and 11.37 points respectively.
The final heat of Round 3 was won by Aranburu, as he put on an impressive performance to eventually finish with a heat-total of 14.76 points, thus sending America?s Damien Hobgood and France?s Marc Lacomare, who finishing with a two-wave total of 11.27 and 10.80 points respectively, into the relegation round.
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By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition talks aimed at presenting a coherent front at an international peace conference to end the civil war faced the prospect of collapse after President Bashar al-Assad's foes failed to cut an internal deal, opposition sources said on Friday.
The failure of the Syrian National Coalition to alter its Islamist-dominated membership as demanded by its international backers and replace a leadership undermined by power struggles is playing into the hands of Assad, whose forces are attacking a key town as his ally Russia said he would send representatives to the conference, coalition insiders said.
After two days of meetings in Istanbul, senior coalition players were in discussions late into the night after veteran liberal opposition figure Michel Kilo rejected a deal by Syrian businessman Mustafa al-Sabbagh, who is the coalition's secretary-general, to admit some members of Kilo's bloc to the coalition, the sources said.
Kilo has said that his group wants significant representation in the opposition coalition before it will join.
"There is a last-minute attempt to revive a kitchen-room deal. The coalition risks undermining itself to the point that its backers may have to look quickly for an alternative with enough credibility on the ground to go to Geneva," a senior opposition source at the talks said.
While the opposition remained wracked by differences, a major assault by Assad's forces and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies on a Sunni town held by rebels near the border with Lebanon over the past week was shaping into a pivotal battle.
The intervention of Shi'ite Hezbollah is justifying fears that a war that has killed 80,000 people would cross borders at the heart of the Middle East.
"It is ironic that Lebanon's civil strife is playing itself out in Syria. The opposition remains without coherence and the regime is intent on taking back anything it promises with violence," said one diplomat.
The diplomat was referring to a deepening sectarian divide between Shi'ites and Sunni Muslims in Lebanon, where Syrian troops were present for 29 years, including for most of the civil war that ended in 1990.
Assad belongs to Syria's minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ism that has controlled Syria since the 1960s.
He has vowed to defeat what he calls terrorists and foreign agents behind the uprising, which began with months of peaceful protests and evolved into an armed revolt after months of military repression.
Washington and Moscow have been compelled to revive diplomacy by developments in recent months, which include the rise of al Qaeda-linked fighters among rebels and reports of atrocities and accusations that chemical weapons are being used.
The United States, which suspects Assad's forces of using the banned weapons, is also concerned they could eventually fall into the hands of jihadists now fighting Assad.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet privately in Paris on Monday to discuss their efforts to bring Syria's warring parties together, U.S. and Russian officials said.
Russia said the Syrian government had agreed in principle to attend the planned peace conference, which could take part in Geneva in the coming weeks.
Senior opposition figures said the coalition was likely to attend the conference, but doubted it would produce any immediate deal for Assad to leave power - their central demand.
"We are faced with a situation where everyone thinks there will be a marriage when the bride is refusing. The regime has to show a minimum of will that it is ready to stop the bloodshed," said Haitham al-Maleh, an elder statesman of the coalition.
There was more heavy fighting on Friday in Qusair, a town controlling access to the coast that Assad's forces and Hezbollah allies have tried to take in a battle that could prove an important test of Assad's ability to withstand the revolt.
Assad wants to secure the coastal region, which is the homeland of his Alawite minority sect. He is backed by Shi'ite Iran and Hezbollah against mainly Sunni rebels supported by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
COALITION STRUGGLES TO AGREE
Much to the frustration of its backers, the coalition has struggled to agree on a leader since the resignation in March of respected cleric Moaz Alkhatib, who had floated two initiatives for Assad to leave power peacefully.
Alkhatib's latest proposal - a 16-point plan that sees Assad handing power to his deputy or prime minister and then going abroad with 500 members of his entourage - won little support in Istanbul, highlighting the obstacles to wider negotiations.
"He has the right to submit papers to the meeting like any other member, but his paper is heading directly to the dustbin of history. It is a repeat of his previous initiative, which went nowhere," a senior coalition official said.
Washington threatened on Wednesday to increase support for the rebels if Assad refused to discuss a political end to the violence, a sentiment echoed on Friday by British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who has been pressing the European Union to amend a weapons embargo to allow arming the rebels.
Concerned by the rising influence of Islamists in the rebel ranks, Washington has pressured the opposition coalition to resolve its divisions and to expand to include more liberals.
"The international community is walking a little faster than the opposition. It wants to see a complete list of participants from the Syrian side for Geneva and this means that the coalition has to sort its affairs," a European diplomat said.
(Additional reporting by Oliver Holmes in Beirut, Thomas Grove and Alissa de Carbonnel in Moscow, Arshad Mohammed in Amman, Crispian Balmer in Jerusalem; Editing by Nick Tattersall, Peter Graff and Peter Cooney)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syria-opposition-unity-face-specter-collapse-021041916.html
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President Obama is renewing his stalled effort to close the military detention center at Guant?namo Bay, Cuba. It was a promise he made when he first ran for president, but one he couldn?t keep when Congress began blocking funds for releasing or transferring hundreds of prisoners captured as part of the war on terror.
In a speech at the National Defense University in Washington Thursday, Mr. Obama said ?Gitmo,? as it?s known, ?has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law.?
In addition to asking Congress to lift the restrictions on detainee transfers, the president listed several other steps he intends to take.
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?I have asked the Department of Defense to designate a site in the United States where we can hold military commissions,? he said. ?I am appointing a new, senior envoy at the State Department and Defense Department whose sole responsibility will be to achieve the transfer of detainees to third countries.
"I am lifting the moratorium on detainee transfers to Yemen, so we can review them on a case-by-case basis," Obama continued. "To the greatest extent possible, we will transfer detainees who have been cleared to go to other countries. Where appropriate, we will bring terrorists to justice in our courts and military justice system. And we will insist that judicial review be available for every detainee.?
To buttress his argument for closing Gitmo, Obama noted that former President Bush had transferred some 530 detainees with Congress?s support and also pointed out that Sen. John McCain (R) had agreed with Obama?s position when the two ran against each other in 2008.
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There were about 245 prisoners at Guant?namo when Obama took office in 2009, and that has dropped to 166. But releases have slowed to a trickle under the congressional restrictions, including a ban on any of them being brought to the US. No prisoners have left Guant?namo this year. Among the 166 current inmates, nine have been charged with crimes or convicted, 24 are considered eligible for possible prosecution, 47 are considered too dangerous for release but are not facing prosecution, and 86 ? more than half ? have been cleared for transfer or release, Reuters reports.
The cost of keeping prisoners at Guant?namo, as well as any threat that they might return to the battlefield, has been debated since the island prison began housing detainees viewed as enemy combatants.
An investigative report by The Miami Herald termed Guant?namo ?the most expensive prison on earth.?
The total annual cost of housing a single prisoner there per year, according to this report, is $800,000 ? far more than the average annual cost per individual in the federal prison system ? $28,284 ? or the $38,091 per year in the ?supermax? prison in Colorado.
This week, the Pentagon asked Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading Guant?namo.
Other reports dispute the warning by some that large numbers of released prisoners would again take up the fight against the US. (Congressional Republicans claim that the recidivism rate is 28 percent.)
A report this month by the New America Foundation finds that of the 603 detainees released or transferred abroad by the Bush and Obama administrations, 53 ? 8.8 percent ? ?are either confirmed to be or suspected of engaging in militant activities against either the US or non-US targets.?
Of those, according to this report, 38 are confirmed or suspected to be engaging in militant activities against US targets.
In addition to opposition from congressional Republicans and some Democrats, Obama faces a majority public opinion that wants to keep the Guant?namo prison open.
A Fox News poll Wednesday asks, ?Would you rather the United States continue to hold terrorist suspects in the military prison at Guant?namo Bay and put more terrorist suspects there, or is it time to move them to federal prisons in the United States and close Gitmo??
This poll finds 63 percent of voters want to keep the detention facility open, while 28 percent say it should be closed and the terrorist suspects moved to federal prisons in the US.
Earlier this month, a HuffPost/YouGov poll finds that 54 percent of those surveyed said the US should continue to operate Guant?namo, while 27 percent said it should be shut down.
?At the same time, 63 percent said the US should hold trials for the detainees held there, while only 20 percent said they are opposed to trials,? according to The Huffington Post report on the poll. ?Given the choice, more respondents said these should be conducted before military tribunals (52 percent) than held in US courts (28 percent).?
Obama?s hour-long address Thursday covered a wide range of policy and philosophical issues related to the ?The Future of Our Fight Against Terrorism,? as his speech was titled.
Guant?namo Bay came near the end, and it was the one segment interrupted by applause and by a woman in the audience ? later identified as Medea Benjamin of the group Code Pink ? shouting out her criticisms of Obama?s actions in regard to the controversial detention facility.
Although Obama has reengaged on Guant?namo and wants to close the facility, critics aren?t wholly satisfied.
?We are encouraged by his pledge to take concrete steps towards closing the prison at Guant?namo Bay,? said Virginia Sloan, president of The Constitution Project, a nonpartisan watchdog group, in a statement. ?But actions speak louder than words.... If the president is truly serious about fulfilling his promise, he needs to immediately use the authority he currently has to begin transferring cleared detainees out of Guant?namo.?
Obama took flak from the right as well.
?The President?s speech today will be viewed by terrorists as a victory,? said Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R) of Georgia in a statement. ?We knew five years ago that closing Guantanamo was a bad idea and would not work. Yet, today?s speech sends the message to Guantanamo detainees that if they harass the dedicated military personnel there enough, we will give in and send them home ....?
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WASHINGTON ? Microsoft won a round in a complex patent war on Thursday when the International Trade Commission said the company's popular Xbox entertainment system did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility.
If the ITC had found that Microsoft infringed, it could have barred the Xbox from being imported into the United States.
The fight over the Xbox is related to a larger smartphone patent war between Apple, Microsoft and the mobile phone makers who use Google's Android software, including Motorola Mobility.
Motorola Mobility originally accused Microsoft of infringing upon five patents when it filed its complaint in 2010. Four were dropped in ensuing months, leaving just one ? a patent which allows devices to communicate wirelessly over short distances.
"This is a win for Xbox customers and confirms our view that Google had no grounds to block our products," David Howard, a Microsoft deputy general counsel, said in a statement.
Motorola was "disappointed with this decision" and is evaluating its options, a company spokesman said in a statement.
Technology companies have spent billions of dollars to buy patent portfolios, and still more money litigating patent cases around the world.
The Xbox case has seen many twists and turns since it was filed in late 2010.
In April 2012, ITC Judge David Shaw said in a preliminary decision that Microsoft infringed four patents and did not infringe on a fifth. But instead of deciding the case, as is usual, in June 2012, the trade panel sent the case back to the judge for reconsideration.
In January, following an antitrust settlement with federal regulators, Google asked a trade panel to drop two patents from the complaint because they were essential to a standard. These types of patents ensure interoperability and get special treatment.
Google had promised the Federal Trade Commission that it would no longer request sales bans based on the infringement of standard essential patents.
By that time, just one patent remained. In March, an ITC judge said that Microsoft did not infringe that technology and recommended that the case be terminated. The full ITC followed that recommendation on Thursday.
The case is at the International Trade Commission, No. 337-752.
Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.
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Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), based in Mountain View, Calif., is also drawing scrutiny for its tax practices.
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook may have been singled out on the hot seat this week over the tech giant?s tax practices, but Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) and other corporate heavy-hitters are skirting the system as well, Bloomberg reports.
For example, Google funnels profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda to cut its income tax bill by about $2 billion annually, according to the report. Forest Laboratories Inc. (NYSE: FRX), which makes the antidepressant drug Lexapro, software company Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) and fellow tech player Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) have also drawn scrutiny over similar practices.
Such shifting of profits by multinational companies costs the United States and Europe some $100 billion annually in lost tax revenue, Reed University economics professor Kimberly Clausing told Bloomberg.
Cook acknowledged at a congressional hearing Tuesday that using an offshore subsidiary is part of Apple?s tax strategy. But he maintains the company has done nothing wrong and, earlier this week, he suggested changes to the U.S. tax system that would increase the amount of income tax Apple pays.
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