Rodman tells Kim Jong Un he has 'friend for life'

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series. (AP Photo/VICE Media, Jason Mojica)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series. (AP Photo/VICE Media, Jason Mojica)

Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman is surrounded by journalists upon arrival at Pyongyang Airport, North Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. The American known as "The Worm" arrived in Pyongyang, becoming an unlikely ambassador for sports diplomacy at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)

Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman, fifth from right, poses with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, in red jerseys, and a production crew for the media upon arrival at Pyongyang Airport, North Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Rodman known as "The Worm" arrived in Pyongyang, becoming an unlikely ambassador for sports diplomacy at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman hung out Thursday with North Korea's Kim Jong Un on the third day of his improbable journey with VICE to Pyongyang, watching the Harlem Globetrotters with the leader and later dining on sushi and drinking with him at his palace.

"You have a friend for life," Rodman told Kim before a crowd of thousands at a gymnasium where they sat side by side, chatting as they watched players from North Korea and the U.S. play, Alex Detrick, a spokesman for the New York-based VICE media company, told The Associated Press.

Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the professional Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, VICE correspondent Ryan Duffy and a production crew to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series.

The unlikely encounter makes Rodman the most high-profile American to meet Kim since the young North Korean leader took power in December 2011, and takes place against a backdrop of tension between Washington and Pyongyang. North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test just two weeks ago, making clear the provocative act was a warning to the United States to drop what it considers a "hostile" policy toward the North.

Kim, a diehard basketball fan, told the former Chicago Bulls star he hoped the visit would break the ice between the United States and North Korea, VICE founder Shane Smith said.

Dressed in a blue Mao suit, Kim laughed and slapped his hands on the table before him during the game as he sat nearly knee to knee with Rodman. Rodman, the man who once turned up in a wedding dress to promote his autobiography, wore a dark suit and dark sunglasses, but still had on his nose rings and other piercings. A can of Coca-Cola sat on the table before him in photos shared with AP by VICE.

"The crowd was really engaged, laughed at all of the Globetrotters antics, and actually got super loud towards the end as the score got close," said Duffy, who suited up for the game in a blue uniform emblazoned with "United States of America. "Most fun I've had in a while."

Kim and Rodman chatted in English, but Kim primarily spoke in Korean through a translator, Smith said after speaking to the VICE crew in Pyongyang.

"They bonded during the game," Smith said by telephone from New York after speaking to the crew. "They were both enjoying the crazy shots, and the Harlem Globetrotters were putting on quite a show."

The surprise visit by the flamboyant Hall of Famer known as "The Worm" makes him an unlikely ambassador at a time when North Koreans are girding for battle with the U.S. Just last week, Kim guided frontline troops in military exercises.

North Korea and the U.S. fought on opposite sides of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953. The foes never signed a peace treaty, and do not have diplomatic relations.

Thursday's game ended in a 110-110 draw, with two Americans playing on each team alongside North Koreans, Detrick said. The Xinhua News Agency first reported on the game, citing witnesses who attended.

After the game, Rodman addressed Kim in a speech before a crowd of tens of thousands of North Koreans, telling him, "You have a friend for life," Detrick said.

At a lavish dinner at Kim's palace, the leader plied the group with food and drinks as the group made round after round of toasts.

"Dinner was an epic feast. Felt like about 10 courses in total," Duffy said in an email to AP. "I'd say the winners were the smoked turkey and sushi, though we had the Pyongyang cold noodles earlier in the trip and that's been the runaway favorite so far."

Duffy said he invited Kim to visit the United States, a proposal met with hearty laughter from the North Korean leader.

"Um ... so Kim Jong Un just got the (hash)VICEonHBO crew wasted ... no really, that happened," VICE producer Jason Mojica wrote on Twitter.

Rodman's trip is the second attention-grabbing U.S. visit this year to North Korea. Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, made a four-day trip in January to Pyongyang, but did not meet the North Korean leader.

Extending an invitation to a man known as much for his piercings, tattoos and bad behavior as for his basketball may seem inexplicable. But Kim is known to love the NBA, and has promoted sports since becoming leader.

"We knew that he's a big lover of basketball, especially the Bulls, and it was our intention going in that we would have a good-will mission of something that's fun," Smith said. "A lot of times, things just are serious and everybody's so concerned with geopolitics that we forget just to be human beings."

Rodman's agent, Darren Prince, said Rodman wasn't concerned about criticism about making a visit to an enemy nation.

"Dennis called me last night and said it's been a great experience and he made this trip out of the love of the USA ," he said. "It's all about peace and love."

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Associated Press NBA writer Brian Mahoney contributed to this report from New York. Follow AP's Korea bureau chief Jean Lee at twitter.com/newsjean.

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Magma once covered Mercury, study finds

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Scientists use images from NASA's Messenger spacecraft to create these global views of Mercury, the most complete maps ever. These images were released on Feb. 22.

By Clara Moskowitz
Space.com

The rocky, mostly dry surface of the planet Mercury may once have been roiling with hot magma, a new study based on observations by NASA's Messenger spacecraft suggests.

NASA's?Messenger, the first Mercury orbiter, has made its home around the closest planet to the sun since March 2011. From its close-up perch, the probe identified two distinct types of rocks that compose the planet's surface, which scientists were at a loss to explain.

Now, experiments in a lab at MIT suggest Mercury's puzzling surface makeup is most likely explained by a huge ocean of magma that existed shortly after the planet formed about 4.5 billion years ago.?

"The thing that's really amazing on Mercury is, this didn't happen yesterday," Timothy Grove, a professor of geology at MIT, said in a statement. "The crust is probably more than 4 billion years old, so this magma ocean is a really ancient feature."

Messenger identified the two rock types using its X-ray spectrometer, which was able to distinguish the chemical composition of materials on the planet's surface. [Latest Photos of Mercury from NASA's?Messenger]

Scientists made synthetic rocks in the lab to simulate the two types of material, using finely powdered chemicals to piece together the closest possible matches to what was seen on the planet.

"We just mix these together in the right proportions and we've got a synthetic copy of what's on the surface of Mercury," Grove said.

The researchers then subjected these samples to high temperatures and pressures to re-create the conditions they might have experienced throughout Mercury's evolution.

The analysis pointed to only one possible origin for the two rock types, the researchers said. An early ocean of magma created two layers of crystals, which eventually solidified and then re-melted into magma that was spread onto the surface of Mercury through volcanic eruptions.

The findings help piece together a more complete history for the solar system's tiniest planet.

"We're gradually filling in more blanks, and the story may well change, but this work sets up a framework for thinking about new data," said Larry Nittler, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Nittler led the team that originally identified the two rock types on Mercury, but was not involved in the MIT laboratory study. "It's a very important first step toward going from exciting data to real understanding."

The scientists detailed their findings in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

NASA's Messenger spacecraft?(the name is short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) launched in 2004 on a $446 million mission to study Mercury like never before. The spacecraft completed its primary mission in 2011 and is nearing the end of its first one-year mission extension.?

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Leap Motion unveils contents of its own app store

Paul Marks, chief technology correspondent

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The Next Big Thing now has the next big app store. The Leap, the forthcoming 3D gestural control device that could by all accounts replace the mouse, the joystick and even the keyboard, will launch on 13 May alongside a fully stocked app store called Airspace.

The $80 gadget's maker, Leap Motion of San Francisco, numbers at least two senior Apple executives among its staff - Steve Jobs's former mobile ad expert Andy Miller and interactive marketeer Michael Zagorsek - so it is perhaps little surprise that the app store model has been harnessed by the ambitious start-up.

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Quite how the Leap manages its extraordinary resolution - it can track a 10-micrometre movement of your fingers at rates of up to 290 times per second - is still wrapped up in patents and a heavy dose of the company's own secret sauce. But with Leap - and Microsoft's lower-resolution Kinect system before it - having demonstrated the potential in this (volumetric) space, other firms not known for 3D work are now waking up to the possibilities.

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Advanced breast cancer edges up in younger women

In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 photo, Dr. Rebecca Johnson, a cancer specialist at Seattle Children's Hospital, poses in an exam room at the hospital in Seattle. Johnson is the lead author of a new study that shows that advanced breast cancer cases have increased slightly among young women, a 34-year analysis suggests, raising many questions about possible reasons even as the disease remains uncommon in women younger than 40. Johnson herself was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer at age 27, 17 years ago. Unlike women in the study, Johnson?s cancer was caught early. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 photo, Dr. Rebecca Johnson, a cancer specialist at Seattle Children's Hospital, poses in an exam room at the hospital in Seattle. Johnson is the lead author of a new study that shows that advanced breast cancer cases have increased slightly among young women, a 34-year analysis suggests, raising many questions about possible reasons even as the disease remains uncommon in women younger than 40. Johnson herself was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer at age 27, 17 years ago. Unlike women in the study, Johnson?s cancer was caught early. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 photo, Dr. Rebecca Johnson, a cancer specialist at Seattle Children's Hospital, poses in her office in Seattle. Johnson is the lead author of a new study that shows that advanced breast cancer cases have increased slightly among young women, a 34-year analysis suggests, raising many questions about possible reasons even as the disease remains uncommon in women younger than 40. Johnson herself was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer at age 27, 17 years ago. Unlike women in the study, Johnson?s cancer was caught early. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 photo, Dr. Rebecca Johnson, a cancer specialist at Seattle Children's Hospital, poses in her office in Seattle. Johnson is the lead author of a new study that shows that advanced breast cancer cases have increased slightly among young women, a 34-year analysis suggests, raising many questions about possible reasons even as the disease remains uncommon in women younger than 40. Johnson herself was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer at age 27, 17 years ago. Unlike women in the study, Johnson?s cancer was caught early. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

CHICAGO (AP) ? Advanced breast cancer has increased slightly among young women, a 34-year analysis suggests. The disease is still uncommon among women younger than 40, and the small change has experts scratching their heads about possible reasons.

The results are potentially worrisome because young women's tumors tend to be more aggressive than older women's, and they're much less likely to get routine screening for the disease.

Still, that doesn't explain why there'd be an increase in advanced cases and the researchers and other experts say more work is needed to find answers.

It's likely that the increase has more than one cause, said Dr. Rebecca Johnson, the study's lead author and medical director of a teen and young adult cancer program at Seattle Children's Hospital.

"The change might be due to some sort of modifiable risk factor, like a lifestyle change" or exposure to some sort of cancer-linked substance, she said.

Johnson said the results translate to about 250 advanced cases diagnosed in women younger than 40 in the mid-1970s versus more than 800 in 2009. During those years, the number of women nationwide in that age range went from about 22 million to closer to 30 million ? an increase that explains part of the study trend "but definitely not all of it," Johnson said.

Other experts said women delaying pregnancy might be a factor, partly because getting pregnant at an older age might cause an already growing tumor to spread more quickly in response to pregnancy hormones.

Obesity and having at least a drink or two daily have both been linked with breast cancer but research is inconclusive on other possible risk factors, including tobacco and chemicals in the environment. Whether any of these explains the slight increase in advanced disease in young women is unknown.

There was no increase in cancer at other stages in young women. There also was no increase in advanced disease among women older than 40.

Overall U.S. breast cancer rates have mostly fallen in more recent years, although there are signs they may have plateaued.

Some 17 years ago, Johnson was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer at age 27, and that influenced her career choice to focus on the disease in younger women.

"Young women and their doctors need to understand that it can happen in young women," and get checked if symptoms appear, said Johnson, now 44. "People shouldn't just watch and wait."

The authors reviewed a U.S. government database of cancer cases from 1976 to 2009. They found that among women aged 25 to 39, breast cancer that has spread to distant parts of the body ? advanced disease ? increased from between 1 and 2 cases per 100,000 women to about 3 cases per 100,000 during that time span.

The study was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

About one in 8 women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime, but only 1 in 173 will develop it by age 40. Risks increase with age and certain gene variations can raise the odds.

Routine screening with mammograms is recommended for older women but not those younger than 40.

Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, the American Cancer Society's deputy chief medical officer, said the results support anecdotal reports but that there's no reason to start screening all younger women since breast cancer is still so uncommon for them.

He said the study "is solid and interesting and certainly does raise questions as to why this is being observed." One of the most likely reasons is probably related to changes in childbearing practices, he said, adding that the trend "is clearly something to be followed."

Dr. Ann Partridge, chair of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's advisory committee on breast cancer in young women, agreed but said it's also possible that doctors look harder for advanced disease in younger women than in older patients. More research is needed to make sure the phenomenon is real, said Partridge, director of the breast cancer center at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

The study shouldn't cause alarm, she said. Still, Partridge said young women should be familiar with their breasts and see the doctor if they notice any lumps or other changes.

Software engineer Stephanie Carson discovered a large breast tumor that had already spread to her lungs; that diagnosis in 2003 was a huge shock.

"I was so clueless," she said. "I was just 29 and that was the last thing on my mind."

Carson, who lives near St. Louis, had a mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments and she frequently has to try new drugs to keep the cancer at bay.

Because most breast cancer is diagnosed in early stages, there's a misconception that women are treated, and then get on with their lives, Carson said. She and her husband had to abandon hopes of having children, and she's on medical leave from her job.

"It changed the complete course of my life," she said. "But it's still a good life."

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CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/index.htm

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Jack Nicholson, 75, flirts with Jennifer Lawrence

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By Cody Delistraty, TODAY contributor

Even though Jennifer Lawrence fell on her way up to accept her best actress Oscar for ?Silver Linings Playbook,? perhaps the most embarrassing moment for the 22-year-old came after the show.

While ABC?s George Stephanopoulous was interviewing Lawrence in a post-show wrap-up, three-time Oscar winner Jack Nicholson, 75, came up behind her and said, ?You did such a beautiful job,? before adding ?I would love to interview you.?

Nicholson, who had earlier co-presented the best picture award with Michelle Obama, added to the flirting when he told Lawrence, ?You look like an old girlfriend? to which the actress gamely quipped ?Oh really, do I look like a new girlfriend??

Nicholson didn?t miss a beat. ?I?ve thought about it," he said.

With a smile, the surprised actress exclaimed ?Oh my God!? and buried her head in her hands.?

She really shouldn't have been surprised. On a night where she pulled in the best actress award, flipped off the press room, and nearly fell on her face, getting hit on by someone old enough to be her grandfather was just par for the course.

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Hummingbird flight: Two vortex trails with one stroke

Feb. 25, 2013 ? As of today (February 25), the Wikipedia entry for the hummingbird explains that the bird's flight generates in its wake a single trail of vortices that helps the bird hover. But after conducting experiments with hummingbirds in the lab, researchers at the University of California, Riverside propose that the hovering hummingbird instead produces two trails of vortices -- one under each wing per stroke -- that help generate the aerodynamic forces required for the bird to power and control its flight.

The results of the study could find wide application in aerospace technology and the development of unmanned vehicles for medical surveillance after natural disasters.

The researchers used high-speed image sequences -- 500 frames per second -- of hummingbirds hover-feeding within a white plume (emitted by the heating of dry ice) to study the vortex wake from multiple perspectives. They also used particle image velocimetry (PIV), a flow-measuring method used in fluid mechanics, to quantitatively analyze the flow around the hummingbirds. PIV allowed the researchers to record the particles surrounding the birds and extract velocity fields.

The films and velocity fields showed two distinct jets of downwards airflow -- one under each wing of the hummingbird. They also revealed that vortex loops around each jet are shed during each upstroke and downstroke.

The researchers therefore propose in their paper published online last month in the journal Experiments in Fluids that the hummingbird's two wings form bilateral vortex loops during each wing stroke, which is advantageous for maneuverability.

"Previous studies have indicated that slow-flying bats and faster flying birds produced different structures in their wakes," said Douglas Altshuler, formerly an assistant professor of biology at UC Riverside, whose lab led the research. "We have been investigating the wake structure of hovering hummingbirds because this allows us to decouple the effects of different types of wings -- bat versus bird -- from different forward flight speeds.

Hummingbirds each weigh 2-20 grams. Because they can hover with high precision, they are able to drink nectar from flowers without any jiggling movement to their bodies. Besides using upstrokes and downstrokes, hummingbirds can rotate their wings. They can even flap their wings from front to back with a 180-degree amplitude.

"We began this study to investigate how the hummingbird used its tail while hovering," said Marko Princevac, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and a coauthor of the research paper. "After all, many insects also hover, but they have no tail. Instead, however, our research showed something interesting about the hummingbird's wings: the bilateral vortex structure. Hummingbirds hovering should cost a lot of energy but these birds are able to hover for long periods of time. Ideally, unmanned vehicles need to be operated with a very limited energy supply, which is why understanding how the hummingbird maximizes its use of energy is tremendously beneficial."

Sam Pournazeri, a former Ph.D. graduate student in Princevac's lab and a co-author on the paper, explained that in a downstroke, the air pressure difference developed as a result of wing movement creates flow from the bottom to the top of the wing. The result is a circular movement or vortex.

"Based on theories in fluid mechanics, this vortex should close either on the wing/body or create a loop around it," he said. "It's these loops that provide circulation around the wings and cause the hummingbird to overcome its weight. Hovering requires the bird to create a lift that cancels its body weight. Although the two-vortex structure we observed increases the hummingbird's energy consumption, it provides the bird a big advantage: a lot more maneuverability."

Next, the research team plans to study the hummingbird in a wind tunnel to closely observe how the bird transitions from hovering to forward motion, and vice versa.

"Current technology is not successfully mimicking how living things fly," Princevac said. "Drones don't hover, and must rely on forward motion. Research done using hummingbirds, like ours, can inform the development of the next generation of drones."

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Facebook urged to remove fake Newtown pages

Gerry Shih , Reuters ? ? ? 3 hrs.

Three Connecticut lawmakers on Monday urged Facebook to remove fraudulent and abusive tribute pages related to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

In the months since 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 26 students and teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, the world's No. 1 social network has been host to an outpouring of genuine online tributes ? as well as a hotbed of fraud. In December, a New York City woman was arrested for allegedly posing as the relative of a shooting victim on Facebook and swindling donors.

U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, as well as Rep. Elizabeth Esty, wrote to Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg in a joint letter, pressed the company to stamp out pages that "violate the privacy of families as they grieve, or seek financial gain through soliciting donations under false pretenses, or generating Facebook 'likes' for marketing purposes."

Facebook, in a statement, said it had devised a new process with dedicated staff to respond to user complaints related to Sandy Hook, in the wake of the December shooting.

"For the past few months, our rapid response team has acted swiftly to remove inappropriate materials flagged by the foundation and the families," Facebook said. "We will continue to be vigilant."

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'Jaws' music cuts off chatty Oscar winners

By Kurt Schlosser, TODAY

Academy Award winners who went on a little too long in their acceptance speeches Sunday night received an ominous warning from the orchestra at the Dolby Theater ? the theme music from "Jaws" started playing.

Da nuh. Da nuh. Da nuh ...

Anyone familiar with movies should recognize the music, by composer John Williams, used to signal a coming shark attack in?Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic about a very hungry great white. The?haunting bass tones struck us as a?little jarring compared to the gentle string orchestras usually used to urge people to leave the?stage.

Da nuh. Da nuh. Da nuh ...

The music was used Sunday when "Life of Pi"?won the Oscar for best visual effects and again when "Searching for Sugar Man" won for best documentary feature. Actress Nicole Kidman?was even caught on camera mouthing "poor thing" to her husband Keith Urban as the music got louder to drown out winning "Sugar Man" director Malik Bendjelloul as he rambled on.

Da nuh. Da nuh. Da nuh ...

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HP's Going Android With $169 Slate 7 Tablet

The HP Slate 7 is beyond fashionably late to the Android tablet party, but it tries to make up for its tardiness with a very low price. When the device arrives in April, HP's first Google-powered tablet just announced at this year's Mobile World Congress will cost just $169. That's $30 less than the the Nexus 7 and Amazon Kindle Fire HD. So how does this value-priced device stand out? HP is playing up the Slate 7?s Beats Audio sound and wireless printing capabilities. More »

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Mobile Nations podcasting update: What's new for 2013!

 

Hey everyone! It's time for a mighty Mobile Nations podcast network update, and a peak at some really cool stuff we have planned for 2013! First of all, we have all-new album art for the shows. The original concept was created by superstar designer Marc Edwards of Bjango to be crisp, clean, and modern. It's tough to make a whole catalog of shows consistent yet retain all their individual personalities. With Marc's help, I think we've nailed it. And by popular demand, we've even added a small TV logo to the bottom of all the video podcast album art so you can distinguish them from their audio counterparts at a glance. We absolutely love them, and we hope you do too. (And yes, we'll be making all of them available as HiDPI/Retina wallpaper for your phones and tablets later this week!)

If you haven't recently, please make sure you leave a review and rating for your favorite Mobile Nations shows, where ever and when ever you can. It encourages services (like iTunes) to feature us, that helps us get more great listeners and viewers like you, and we appreciate it a lot!

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The Simple Sequestration Rule

House Speaker John Boehner focuses on the monster, not the Big Thing, on Feb. 13.

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We are headed into the peak week of sequestration insanity. The across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration are set to take effect on March 1. Here's a simple rule for getting through the next few days: If you're talking about sequestration, you're doing it wrong. Sequestration was created to focus minds on the Big Thing. So if you?re talking obsessively about the sequestration, it means you aren?t thinking about the thing that you were supposed to be focused on.?

First, the Big Thing. The two parties need to come to an agreement on how to spur economic growth to spread prosperity and reduce the budget deficit. The president believes growth comes from a balance of tax increases, investment, and spending reductions. Republicans believe growth comes through lower taxes and spending reductions, which in turn will spur companies to hire and invest. The president believes that taxes should increase as a matter of fairness because the system is tilted in favor of the wealthy and well-connected. Republicans believe that the federal government is already taking an unfair amount of taxes from everyone.

Even if this is obvious, it?s very hard?to get people to focus on the Big Thing, so lawmakers tried to come up with a mechanism to center people?s thinking. They placed a big hairy monster outside the door to keep everyone focused on the Big Thing, and they named this monster Sequestration. ?

Right now, the political world is engaged in a debate about the monster, not the Big Thing. That means that right now the public debate is irrelevant. Even worse, the public debate has become a glittery multiweek jamboree dedicated to displaying the madness that puts us in our current budgetary predicament. It is as if faced with a drinking problem, we decided to engage in all of the behavior that led to the binges, hangovers, and blackouts in the first place.

There are two examples of this dispiriting distraction: the long and tedious debate over?who came up with the sequester idea and the new debate over whether tax increases were supposed to be a part of it.

The president and his aides at first tried to deny that they invented sequestration (mostly false!), but it is clear that the president and his team proposed the idea. Instead of trying to?weasel?out and blame the idea on the Republicans, the president should own it: Yes, it was my idea to create a monster to force all of us to focus on the Big Thing, and the fact that you still won?t focus is the proof that it was necessary to create it. But President Obama won't do this because the monster is ready to break through the door, and the president doesn't want to be blamed for the wreckage.?

But if it's obvious the president came up with the idea, it's also obvious that it doesn't matter who came up with it. First, the Big Thing matters. Remember: focus. Second, a majority of Republicans voted for sequestration. Once everyone agrees to order the monster from Acme and take off his chains, it doesn?t matter who suggested it first. Everyone agreed.

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Firefox phones coming this summer

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? Mozilla, the non-profit foundation behind the popular Firefox Web browser, is getting into phones. But it's not stopping at Web browsers ? it's launching an entire phone operating system.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based foundation said Sunday that phones running Firefox OS will appear this summer, starting in Brazil, Colombia, Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Venezuela.

The Firefox OS will land in a crowded environment, where many small operating systems are trying to become the "third eco-system," alongside Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Together, those two account for 91 percent of smartphone sales, according to research firm IDC.

Mozilla Foundation has an ally in phone companies, who are interested in seeing an alternative to Apple and Google, particularly one coming from a non-profit foundation. Thirteen phone companies around the world have committed to supporting Firefox phones, Mozilla said, including Sprint Nextel in the U.S., though it gave no time frame for a release. Other supporters include Telecom Italia, America Movil of Mexico and Deutsche Telekom of Germany. DT is the parent of T-Mobile USA, but plans to sell Firefox phones first in Poland.

Phone makers that plan to make Firefox phones include Huawei and ZTE of China and LG of Korea. The first devices will be inexpensive touchscreen smartphones.

All the phones will run on chips supplied by San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc., whose CEO Paul Jacobs appeared at Mozilla's press event Sunday in Barcelona, Spain, on the eve of the world's largest cellphone trade show.

The industry has seen various attempts to launch "open" smartphone operating systems, with little success. Jay Sullivan, vice president of products at Mozilla, said these failed because they were designed "by committee," with too many constituents to please. While developing and supporting the Firefox browser, Mozilla has learned to develop large-scale "open" projects effectively, he said.

He also said that putting quality third-party applications on Firefox phones will be easy, because they're based on HTML 5, an emerging standard for Web applications.

"Firefox OS has achieved something that no device software platform has previously managed - translating an industry talking shop into a huge commitment from both carriers and hardware vendors at its commercial launch," said Tony Cripps an analyst at research firm Ovum. "Neither Android nor Symbian ? the closest benchmarks in terms of broad industry sponsorship that we've previously seen ? have rallied the level of support that Firefox OS has achieved so early in its development."

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COLLEGES: Brockton?s Naomi Woodcock headed back to NCAA swimming championships

In the first meet of her college swimming career, Naomi Woodcock was part of two winning relay teams.

The Brockton resident was a freshman at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, N.Y., on Oct. 17, 2009 when she helped the Golden Knights win the 300 and 850 races at the Hartwick Relays.

That performance marked the start of a successful career put together by Woodcock, now a senior who will conclude her run by competing at the NCAA Div. 2 Championships for a second consecutive year.

Woodcock, a 2009 Brockton High School graduate, was a consistent point producer and a record-setting swimmer at Saint Rose, and now she is wrapping it all up at the national meet.

?I think it?ll be bittersweet,?? said Woodcock as the end of her days as a competitive swimmer nears. ?I had just a great career, so I can walk away satisfied and happy.

?But I?ll be sad, too, because it was such a big part of my life. It?s not going to be there anymore.??

Woodcock will be taking part in the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke races at the NCAA Championships, to be held in Birmingham, Ala., March 6-9, after winning both of those events at the Northeast-10 Conference Championships.

She is ranked 10th in the nation in the 100 with a school-record time of 1:04.17 and 24th in the country in the 200 (2:21.32).

A year ago, Woodcock traveled to Mansfield, Texas, where she placed 17th in the 100 (in what was a school record 1:04.79) and 27th in the 200 (2:24.67). Woodcock was just the second female swimmer at Saint Rose to qualify for the NCAAs.

?When I was there, I was overwhelmed at first, but I didn?t let it get to my head because I knew I belonged there,?? said Woodcock. ?But when I originally walked in there, I was like, ?Wow, this is really amazing.?

?It?s such a great experience. I got to do it last year and I want to finish strong. One last time (is going) to be great.??

Woodcock arrived at Saint Rose following four solid seasons at Brockton High where she set the 100 breaststroke record and competed in the state championships.

As a college freshman, Woodcock was in the top five 15 times and won three events, then had 18 top-five finishes and five victories as a sophomore.

Woodcock made significant improvement in her junior year, getting 10 wins and 23 top-five finishes, and was second in the 100 and 200 at the NE-10 meet.

?Every year she?s improved to above and beyond what I thought she could do,?? said Golden Knights coach Keith Murray. ?At the time she came here, she was a decent swimmer. She was going to be one of the top point scorers.

?I knew she?d be one of our best swimmers, but I didn?t think she?d bring it to the next level like that. She had some experience with swimming, but not a lot like the others who swim for years and years in clubs. She was still fresh to the sport.??

Woodcock, who began swimming at the age of 9 at the Brockton YMCA, kept improving this season, finishing first or second in breaststroke events 11 times.

?I definitely wasn?t expecting be a national swimmer,?? she said. ?I?ve dropped so much time. I really wasn?t expecting it. I put my time in, worked really hard and it paid off.??

Said Murray: ?After her first two years, you could see something was there. Athletes have this certain drive when it comes to racing and competition and there?s nothing I can do as a coach to teach that. Some people just have that innate will to race, to win. Naomi, by far, has that. She loves to race.??

In addition to her success in the pool, Woodcock is a top student majoring in biology. She begins a three-year stay at Sage College in Troy, N.Y., in May to pursue a postgraduate degree in physical therapy.

?It can be demanding, but you need time management and keeping calm about it, not getting crazy about it,?? she said of combining academics and athletics. ?Everything in balance can work out.??

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Letters to the Editor: Lake Apopka aquarium, Presidents Day worth parade, teen drivers

Lake Apopka aquarium?

The Sentinel article "Tourists for Lake Apopka's Future?" on Feb. 8, describing the more than $180 million expenditure by state and local government to resurrect Lake Apopka, has Orange County Commissioner Fred Brummer asking, "How do we make these improvements on Lake Apopka work for us?"

The answer: an aquarium.

In the 1940s, the city of San Diego launched a long-term dredging project to turn a salt-water marsh and refuse dump (an embarrasment to the city) into a splashy aquatic playground. Waterways encircled islands with beaches and marinas for deep-sea excursions.

The project was completed in 1961 and Mission Bay Aquatic Park emerged. Entrepeneur George Millay thought this would be the perfect location for his new aquarium, SeaWorld, and the rest is tourism history.

An aquarium showcasing fish and aquatic animals native to the lakes, rivers and streams of Florida would attract tourists and locals alike, and its educational value would be priceless, since Lake Apopka is a perfect example of how human encroachment can affect Florida's delicate ecosystem.

If the TV show "River Monsters" can generate revenue, just think what an aquarium displaying lunker bass, giant softshell turtles and the formidable gar could do. And all of these lake monsters call Central Florida home.

Greg May Orlando

Presidents Day worth at least a parade

I would like to know why Presidents Day isn't more celebrated.

There were five parades in Central Florida celebrating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and I have no problem with that. He was a great man.

It's bad enough that two of our most famous presidents' holidays have been lumped into one day, as Russell Troutman so ably explained in Monday's My Word column, "Washington, Lincoln deserve own holidays."

But it's sad and despicable that the first president of our fine country, who led troops through two wars and brought our country out of its infancy into a world power, isn't honored more openly.

And neither is Abraham Lincoln, who led America through its own civil war, in which hundreds of thousands died to end slavery. He, like King, died because of his beliefs.

Two presidents, two heroes, who are chiseled into rock and whose faces are put onto our money because they were so great.

No parades, no honorary programs. Just another day off for government workers and some schools and discounts at local retailers.

Why aren't these men honored?

David Tonger Apopka

Shock teen drivers into watching roads

Teens and driving distractions cause a lot of accidents and, many times, death. Not only drivers, but innocent victims get hurt or lose their lives.

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RELEASE: Collateral Damage: How the Defense of Marriage Act Harms the Troops and Undermines the U.S. Military

February 21, 2013

Contact: Christina DiPasquale
Phone: 202.481.8181
Email: cdipasquale@americanprogress.org

Read the full report here.
Watch the video profiling Marine Corps Capt. Matthew Phelps here.

Washington, D.C. ? Following Defense Secretary Leon Panetta?s recent announcement that the Department of Defense would extend some benefits to same-sex couples, advocates quickly turned to another stumbling block?the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on its constitutionality this summer. Today the Center for American Progress and OutServe-SLDN released a report, ?Collateral Damage: How the Defense of Marriage Act Harms the Troops and Undermines the U.S. Military,? which details exactly how DOMA negatively affects gay service members and their families, even with Secretary Panetta?s reforms, and how it will continue to undermine our military unless the law is struck down.

?The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted before same-sex marriage was legal anywhere in the United States,? said Katie Miller, author of the report. ?Now that nine states have broken down that barrier, it is time that the integrity of all marriages is defended by federal law. No man or woman who dedicates their life to the protection of our country should have to worry about their families being cared for in their absence. Creating two classes of service members is no way to treat our troops and no way to run our military.?

While the Pentagon was able to extend a number of benefits independent of DOMA?s repeal, it is Congress that grants the most important and financially robust benefits to service members and relies on the definition of marriage set forth in DOMA that excludes same-sex married couples. Nearly 100 of the statutory benefits conferred on our troops depend on this definition of marital status and are denied same-sex military spouses and their children?including housing and moving benefits, health insurance, and employment assistance. In fact, DOMA would deny legal spouses immediate emergency notification if their husband or wife was killed, wounded, or missing in action and deny them the right to be laid to rest beside them in a military cemetery.

Capt. Matthew Phelps, an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, who made headlines when he became the first gay man to propose marriage to his partner at the White House expects to receive orders for Okinawa, Japan, at the end of summer. As long as DOMA remains in effect and the cost of his moving is taken into consideration, Capt. Phelps may expect to receive about $20,000 less in benefits and allowances than the other married servicemen that he serves beside.

?As much as military leaders at all levels may wish to treat the troops under their command with equity, they are forced by federal law to discriminate,? said Allyson D. Robinson, Executive Director of OutServe-SLDN. ?As a result, gay and lesbian service members are denied access to critical benefits and meaningful support programs the services provides to help families face the unique challenges of military life. This denial weakens the force itself.?

Read the full report here.
Watch the video profiling Marine Corps Capt. Matthew Phelps here.

To speak with Katie Miller, please contact Christina DiPasquale at 202.481.8181 or cdipasquale@americanprogress.org. To speak with Allyson D. Robinson, please contact Zeke Stokes at 202.621.5406 or zeke@outserve-sldn.org.

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OutServe-SLDN is the association of actively serving LGBT military personnel with more than fifty chapters and 6000 members around the world It works to support a professional network of LGBT military personnel and create an environment of respect in the military with regard to sexual orientation and gender identity. It is a non-partisan, non-profit, legal services and policy organization dedicated to bringing about full LGBT equality to America?s military and ending all forms of discrimination and harassment of military personnel on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. OS-SLDN provides free and direct legal assistance to service members and veterans affected by the repealed ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell? law and the prior regulatory ban on open service, as well as those currently serving who may experience harassment or discrimination. For more information, visit?www.outserve-sldn.org.

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Conlon extends LA Opera contract through 2017-18

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? James Conlon has extended his contract as music director of the Los Angeles Opera through the 2017-18 season.

The 62-year-old's new deal was announced Wednesday. He was hired in 2004 to start with the 2006-07 season, and he extended previously in 2007 and 2010. His current agreement ran through the 2012-13 season.

Conlon has conducted 18 company premieres, 33 different operas at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and 190 main stage performances with the LA Opera.

He also has been music director of the Ravinia Festival outside Chicago since 2005 and of the Cincinnati May Festival since 1979.

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UTSA to travel to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Friday

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9:00 PM: Carolina Panthers QB Cam Newton went on a Charlotte radio station to help a U.S. Air Force member stationed in New Mexico propose to his girlfriend over the phone.

8:45 PM: John Ireland of 710 ESPN LA reports KCAL-TV will be showing live coverage of Thursday's memorial service for Lakers owner Jerry Buss.

8:30 PM: NFL Network analyst Deion Sanders tweeted on Wednesday: "Okay yall im just getting out of court today ex fighting My PRENUP like (Manny) Pacquiao. Whats all this talk about who's the best corner n the game"

8:15 PM: Tampa Bay Rays pitcher David Price said he wouldn't want to play for the New York Yankees because of the team's rules against facial hair: "I wouldn't sign a long-term deal there. Those rules, that's old-school baseball. I was born in '85. That's not for me. That's not something I want to be a part of."

8:00 PM: Vancouver Canucks forward Jannik Hansen has been suspended one game by the NHL for a hit to the back of the head of Chicago Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa during Tuesday's game.

7:45 PM: Boise State plans to name its new football complex after former athletic director Gene Bleymaier, who served the school for 29 years. Bleymeier has the famous blue turf installed at Bronco Stadium, but was fired in August 2011 due to NCAA violations.

7:30 PM: Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith has received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA, charging him with "failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance" during his time coaching the Miami Hurricanes.

7:15 PM: Josh Level, a 17-year-old basketball player for New Garden Friends School in North Carolina, died after collapsing during a game Tuesday night.

7:00 PM: The agent for Cincinnati Reds pitcher Johnny Cueto says team won't allow Cueto to play in the World Baseball Classic for the Dominican Republic. Meanwhile, Reds first baseman Joey Votto has been named to Canada's WBC roster, although that doesn't mean he'll definitely play.

6:45 PM: Former Indianapolis Colts linebacker Dwight Freeney admitted that he was "a little disappointed" the team didn't try to re-sign him: "I figured they would offer me something low and I would just accept it, go the last few years and retire a Colt and that would be it. That didn't happen."

6:30 PM: New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was sentenced to 12 months parole & 50 hours community service after pleading no contest to DUI charges from his arrest in Tampa last August. Pineda was also fined $500 and has his driver's license revoked for six months.

6:15 PM: TMZ reports that WWE wrestler Jack Swagger was arrested on DUI & pot possession charges following a "Smackdown" taping in Biloxi, Mississippi Tuesday night.

6:00 PM: Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman & New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis got into a Twitter fight on Wednesday. Sherman claimed he's a better CB than Revis, with Revis responding: "I never seen a man before run his mouth so much like (a) girl."

5:45 PM: 29-year-old amateur boxer Jerimiah Moen died Wednesday morning after collapsing during a bout in East Grand Forks, Minnesota on Saturday.

5:30 PM: ESPN president John Skipper says his network is "comfortable" with Ray Lewis' history after hiring the former Baltimore Ravens linebacker as an NFL analyst.

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Art Levinson, Chairman of the Board at Apple, talks about life at Apple after Steve Jobs

The chairman of Apple?s board, Art Levinson, spoke to Stanford?s Graduate School of Business on Tuesday, about a wide range of topics, including life at Apple after the death of Steve Jobs, and the role of Apple?s board in developing products. Levinson joined Apple?s board in 2000 and was said to be a close friend of Jobs, taking over the role of Chairman of the Board in November 2011, following the passing of Jobs the previous October. He said that Jobs? absence is still felt more than a year after his death. Levinson spoke about his long-time friend, with CNNMoney quoting him as saying:

"I'm still not to the point where I walk into that boardroom and don't miss Steve," said Levinson, who finally started but has so far failed to finish reading Jobs's biography. "He was a one of a kind guy ... The Steve Jobs that was in the public eye was not, for the most part, the Steve Jobs that I knew."

On the subject about the board?s role in product development, Levinson said that the board plays a very minimal role, perferring to stay out of Apple?s way, though new products are presented to the board between 6 and 18 months before launch. Levinson indicated that board input is considered if they are shown something far enough in advance. However, the board, according to Levinson, mostly exists as a resource, emphasising that Apple?s board does not wish to interfere with how Apple makes products.

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